Roger Nygard - The Truth About Marriage

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Connor Beaton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Why is marriage so difficult? Should you even bother? This week I sat down with acclaimed documentarian Roger Nygard. Using his latest film, The Truth About Marriage as our focal point, we explore partnership in all its forms, biology vs. culture, and the origins of monogamy. Roger Nygard is perhaps best known for his acclaimed documentary Trekkies, about the most obsessive fans in the Universe. Nygard’s previous documentary, The Nature of Existence, addressed the impossible subject of the world’s philosophies, religions, and belief systems. Nygard has also directed television series such as “The Office” and “The Bernie Mac Show.” His work as a film editor includes “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The League,” and Emmy-nominated episodes of “Who Is America?” and “VEEP” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Nygard has made several other award-winning films, including the car-salesman cult-film, Suckers, and a profile of UFO fanatics, Six Days in Roswell, and now the documentary The Truth About Marriage, accompanied by The Truth About Marriage companion book. Most recently he co-produced and edited The Comedy Store, a documentary about the comedians who came through this world-famous LA club, as well as editing scenes from Borat 2 (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm). Next up: Curb Your Enthusiasm season 11. Are you looking to find your purpose, navigate transition or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Did you enjoy the podcast? If so please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Connor Beaton, and joining me today is Roger Nygaard, who is perhaps best known for his
0:17.5	acclaimed documentary Turekies about the most obsessive fans in the universe.
0:23.3	Roger's previous documentary, The Nature of Existence, which some of you may seem because it was
0:28.0	quite popular, addressed the impossible subject of the world's philosophies, religions, and
0:34.1	belief systems. Roger has also directed television series such as The Office,
0:39.8	The Bernie Mac Show, and his work as a film editor includes Gray's Anatomy, The League,
0:45.3	and Emmy-nominated episodes of Who Is America, Veep, and Curbier Enthusiasm. He has also
0:53.7	made several other award-winning films, including the car
0:57.4	salesman cult film suckers and a profile of UFO fanatics six days in Roswell. And now the documentary,
1:07.1	which we talk about on this show, The Truth About Marriage. So Roger and I dive into his documentary and some of the research that came out of
1:17.4	this documentary, The Truth About Marriage.
1:19.8	And it's really a deep dive look into the many different facets of intimate relationships
1:26.5	of marriage, the role that plays within our society,
1:29.8	whether it's still possible, you know, considering that roughly half of North Americans at
1:35.4	some point will experience divorce, why that is, what the other options are, some of the
1:41.4	data that has been produced from the research over the last few decades.
1:46.5	And in the movie, The Truth About Marriage, Roger actually has the pleasure of speaking
1:52.6	with some of the leading experts within relationship research. And I think he has the Gottman's, the Dr. John Gottman on here,
2:05.5	Jeffrey Bernstein. There's a ton of incredible people that get interviewed throughout the
2:13.0	documentary. So it's a really interesting documentary to watch. But we're going to summarize
2:17.3	some of it here in this podcast episode.
2:20.4	So you are going to learn a good amount about marriage and a little bit about Roger's
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