Sam Bowman

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Former Executive Director of the Adam Smith Institute, Sam Bowman (@s8mb) discusses neoliberalism, libertarianism, communism, Nazism, Jeremy Corbyn, Donald Trump, Theresa May, Brexit, austerity, the housing crisis, technology, scarcity, drug decriminalisation and a lot more with the guys at TRIGGERnometry. Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0	Hello and this is a show for you.
0:09.0	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry.
0:11.0	I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kissin. And this is a show for you if you're bored of people arguing on the
0:17.0	internet over subjects they know nothing about. At trigonometry we
0:20.9	don't pretend to be the experts.
0:22.8	We ask the experts.
0:25.3	Our brilliant expert guest this week is the former executive director of the Adam Smith
0:29.5	Institute, Sam Bowman.
0:31.4	Welcome to Trigonometry.
0:32.4	Thanks very much for having me.
0:34.0	It's great to have you on and thank you for coming in.
0:36.0	Let's just get right into it.
0:37.0	We always ask our guests, first of all, what's been your journey to the place that you're in now,
0:41.0	how have you got to where you are?
0:42.0	District line or no?
0:44.0	Well I call myself a neoliberal.
0:47.0	I spent a lot of my 20s I guess calling myself a Libertarian
0:51.0	from the age of about 12 when I read on liberty by John Stewart Mill
0:56.0	I kind of thought yeah this is the one for me I am a liberal of some kind.
0:59.0	Can I just interrupt you at 12? Well I was interested in that kind of thing from quite a young age
1:04.9	Wow okay I mean I probably didn't understand I probably don't still don't
1:09.2	understand it very well but yeah so for most of my kind of teenage years and 20s, I thought of myself as being a liberal or a libertarian.
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