Rory Sutherland on the Logic Trap, Humour & Free Speech

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Rory Sutherland, Executive Creative Director of OgilvyOne advertising agency and renowned public speaker, discusses empirical thinking vs. logic, the importance of humour, the role of comedy, free speech and much, much 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 and notorious comedians.

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0:18.0	Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus. Hello and welcome to trigonometry I'm Francis Foster I'm
0:33.6	Constantine Kitten and this is the show for you if you're bored of people arguing
0:37.4	on the internet over subjects they know nothing about at trigonometry we
0:41.4	don't pretend to be the experts.
0:43.0	We're here at the world famous Angel Comedy Club
0:47.0	and our amazing expert guest this week is the columnist for the spectator,
0:51.0	vice chairman of the Ogilvyie advertising group and one of the most
0:55.3	amazing creative counterintuitive thinkers in the world today Rory Sutherland
1:00.5	welcome to Trigonometry it's a joy to be here.
1:03.0	Right, okay, so we always start with the question regardless of the guest.
1:08.0	How did you come to be sitting at this particular seat?
1:12.0	Warren... If I look for the sort of proximate reason, I met Constantine at Kilkonomics, which I'm very, very happy to plug.
1:18.8	I have no financial interest in it.
1:21.0	It's a festival in Ireland every November, and it's a festival of economics and comedy.
1:27.0	And it's an absolutely brilliant and inspired idea not only is it in Kilkenny which is worth visiting at any time of year
1:35.8	but it's this idea of combining kind of economic commentary with comedic cynicism
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