EP.218 - WERNER HERZOG
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
Adam Buxton
4.8 • 20.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Adam talks with legendary German filmmaker, writer and actor Werner Herzog about AI poetry, email etiquette, why LA is like ancient Rome, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle believing the 2nd World War was still happening for 29 years, the value of therapy and whether trauma and conflict are best dealt with or buried, what his problem is with David Blaine and why someone needs to send Werner into orbit.
This conversation was recorded remotely on 8th December 2023
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and conversation editing.
Podcast artwork by Helen Green
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by the Woodland Trust's Plant More Trees Climate Change campaign. |
| 0:04.4 | Yes, it's me, the wise old tree, I stood here for a century. |
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| 0:22.5 | Plants are wise, but I'm more wisest. |
| 0:24.5 | But can I ask you a favour, please? |
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| 0:28.0 | More trees, more trees, more trees, |
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| 0:57.0 | I added one more podcast to the Giant Podcast |
| 1:02.0 | bin. |
| 1:03.0 | Now you have plucked that podcast out and started listening. |
| 1:07.0 | I took my microphone and found some human folk. |
| 1:11.0 | Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke. My name is Adam Buckston. I'm a |
| 1:20.0 | man. I want you to enjoy this that's the plan. |
| 1:28.0 | Hey how you doing podcats this is Adam Buxton here. Reporting to you from a windy hill in Norfolk |
| 1:38.2 | County. I hope things are going okay in your corner of the world. My best dog friend Rosie just |
| 1:46.0 | scampered past me. She is doing very well let me tell you. She had a rough |
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