Jon Ronson: Jon Ronson Vs Jon_Ronson
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
When Jon Ronson discovers a twitter account pretending to be him, he sets off to find it's creators. Jon Ronson is a British nonfiction author, documentary maker and screenwriter. His books, Them: Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare At Goats, The Psychopath Test, and Lost At Sea, have all been international bestsellers. He's a regular contributor to the PRI show This American Life, and has appeared at TED, and on The Daily Show. His new book, “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” is available now.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 0:07.0 | I felt. |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well. |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:31.9 | This week's story is from John Ronson. It was recorded in May 2014 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm going to tell a short story, which starts, like a few of my stories actually start, with me accidentally typing my name into Google. |
| 0:59.5 | And I discovered that another John Ronson had started tweeting. |
| 1:08.8 | And its avatar was an avatar of my face and its name was John underscore Ronson |
| 1:16.7 | and as I stared in surprise at its timeline a tweet came up which said going home got to get the recipe for a huge plate of garana and muscle in a |
| 1:34.4 | bap with mayonnaise, hashtag yummy. |
| 1:43.4 | So, I wrote, who are you? |
| 1:50.4 | And he tweeted, |
| 1:54.5 | Watching Seinfeld, I would love a big plate of salariac grouper and sour cream kebab with lemongrass. |
| 2:03.2 | Hashtag foodie. |
| 2:07.6 | So I didn't know what to do. |
| 2:10.9 | So the next morning, I checked his Twitter feed before I checked my own. |
| 2:18.1 | And in the night he tweeted, dreaming, dreaming, or is it, dreaming about something about time and cock. |
| 2:29.8 | Dreaming about time and cock. |
| 2:32.6 | That's what he tweeted in the night. |
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