Jon Ronson - Gonzo Journalist

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🗓️ 26 May 2013

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Gonzo Journalist Jon Ronson and author of "The Men Who Stare At Goats" and "The Psychopath Test" drops by to talk about his latest screenwriting project "Frank" starring Michael Fassbender, how he squatted in an Islington flat in London when he was 18, and the advice he would give to the 20 year old Jon Ronson.

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0:37.0	I'm back in this city, so if you see any bankers or brokers around,
0:41.0	don't worry, they don't bite bite and I've dealt with them before. This week on the show we have John
0:46.8	Ronson. He's a gonzo journalist who's written such books as the men who stare at goats.
0:53.5	Yes, the same book that was made into a movie
0:56.4	with Ewen McGregor and George Clooney
0:59.2	and the psychopath test, which is a book
1:02.4	he wrote a couple years about a couple years ago
1:04.8	about how he went in to try to figure out who was a psychopath and ended up
1:09.6	finding that he thought everybody was a psychopath.
1:13.0	John rolled into the studio.
1:15.0	He's like the coolest, nicest, straight up guy.
1:18.0	He's Welsh, although he's moved to New York City.
1:21.0	And he came in and told us quite humbly what it was like to kind of
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