Rutger Bregman - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #190
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode one hundred and NINETY of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Ten away from two hundred… I’m sure you could have done the math on that yourselves. Still, that’s huge! And as we approach the big numbers, what better time to approach some big topics with none other than author and historian RUTGER BREGMAN!
An absolutely massive episode covering - as said - some big topics and issues, which are immensely interesting and made a lot easier to understand with Rutger’s able guidance and explanation. His book ‘Utopia For Realists And How We Can Get There’ is available now (published by Bloomsbury), and this should be a good idea of what you can expect - Rutger tackles the issues of universal basic income, strikes, borders, how great art can be achieved by not having basic financial worries, how we need a return to utopian thinking, new ideas beginning at the fringes of society, how the US isn’t the beating heart of the entire world (as the news may have you believe), the ‘circle of bullshit’, and how we are working with “21st Century hardware on 19th Century software” - all of these are expounded on a great deal so this is a good one to really sit and take some time with. There is a kind of ‘Freakanomics’ approach to some of the points, which is fascinating - like the eventual financial cost of one element of one’s life, and the knock-on effects of doing one thing in particular and how it leads to what’s down the road. Just so much to enjoy, and all very positive too - certainly not a world of doom and gloom in this one, no way. Enlighten yourself and enjoy!
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This episode's links:
• RUTGER in DE CORRESPONDENT for the Dutch speakers!
• RUTGER'S 'UTOPIA FOR REALISTS'!
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on FACEBOOK
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on INSTAGRAM
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, this is the Distraction Pieces Podcast episode 190. |
| 0:05.3 | Thank you for tuning in guys. I've got a really exciting episode today. |
| 0:10.5 | I only recorded it last week and I've rushed it forward because I'm really into it. |
| 0:15.6 | I was sent a book called A Utopia for Realists and How We Get There by Rookka Breggman. |
| 0:21.7 | And I get sent a lot of books for potential guests and it's a tough one because I'm not someone |
| 0:28.4 | that wants to have a guest on. A lot of podcasts do but I don't want to have a guest on where I've read |
| 0:33.2 | a chapter and I don't really know what the book's about. I kind of like having people on that I know |
| 0:38.6 | about and I'm excited to talk to. So but for each podcast it's not easy to read a whole book and |
| 0:46.3 | so I've got to send this book and I said to the all-fers-look, if I get a chance I'll read it and I'll |
| 0:52.4 | let you know if it's a fit for the podcast and I read the first three chapters I think on the |
| 0:59.1 | bounce and emailed them immediately saying I definitely want to talk to Rookka and I'll definitely |
| 1:05.3 | have finished the book by the podcast and yeah I loved it. It's it's a great a great conversation. |
| 1:13.6 | I need to pre-warn you. I was quite excited so I think I think this is one of the best podcasts |
| 1:20.8 | I've done but not because of me. I think I'm a little bit rambly and disjointed in it and the |
| 1:26.0 | reason for that is as I was reading the book I was taking these extensive notes and I'm looking at |
| 1:32.1 | my notes now and there's pages and pages of notes just because I was so excited about the stuff that |
| 1:37.4 | he says in the book and normally on the podcast I just have bullet points so I just was kept getting |
| 1:45.2 | flustered of trying to go through these extensive not bullet-pointed notes and getting it all wrong |
| 1:52.4 | and confused but Rookka was amazing and it's an absolutely fascinating conversation so that's a |
| 1:58.2 | good thing. We go overloads of really interesting stuff but what I like about it is we kind of only |
| 2:06.1 | touch upon it and you need to read the book to get the full information and I'll tell you why I think |
| 2:12.8 | that's important. I've been podcasting for three years over three years. I'm kind of an |
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