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Sep 23, 2026
Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia (with Anna Gat)
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Russ RobertsHOST
Tell our listeners, what is it? Why'd you start it? What, what does it try to do?
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2:01Anna GatGUEST
I do remember your, uh, episode that Bronwyn Williams hosted, who is a South African economist, um, and you came on to talk about your book Wild Problems that came out in 2022, which I greatly enjoyed.
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2:14Anna GatGUEST
Um, and yeah, I do still recommend it to people, and if somebody seems especially troubled in my life, I can offer it to them for Christmas with a little, you know, wink-wink, "Just read this." Um, (laughs) you know, I started Interintellect altogether in 2014, so 11 years ago.
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2:32Anna GatGUEST
Um, I was studying theater for my third master's degree because, you know, I make weird life choices, um, in London.
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2:39Anna GatGUEST
And you know what, I mean, I started, um, doing academic level classics when I was 19 in, in 2002, and had always been in these special programs, um, at high school as well, so you know, I always lived amongst the great philosophers.
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2:56Anna GatGUEST
And you know, having grown up in a show business family where people wrote screenplays and plays, it was very interesting to get the kind of Greek or Enlightenment German, Enlightenment French perspectives and then later the Romantic perspectives on how to write drama.
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