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Ep. 510: On Nature and Suffering with Werner Herzog

2024/1/8
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Steven Rinella) talks with filmmaker and writer, Werner Herzog).

Topics discussed: Werner Herzog’s) latest memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All); writing text in your native tongue; “The nets were set the night before”; mattresses stuffed with fern; when the first time you ate an egg was a feast; having no tolerance for the culture of complaint; the value of food as something to be honored; determining how you live but not telling others how to live; taking self responsibility for getting your own food; grabbing trout out of the creek with your bare hands; the people who seem miserable but are happy and dignified in Herzog’s) film Happy People); how Timothy Treadwell was undoubtedly a very good outdoorsman; the Disney-ization of nature; how the story behind Grizzly Man) stumbled into Werner); the need to protect the privacy of death; surviving a plane crash from 15,000 feet and then knowing how to get by in the jungle; how the birds scream in agony; loving all of your films; when you use a phone for the first time at the age of 17; the afterlife; acting in The Mandalorian)* *and playing a character on The Simpsons); and more. 

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