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#2 Rob Twigger on zen slackerism, South Korean TV, and partner appraisal strategies
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#2 Rob Twigger on zen slackerism, South Korean TV, and partner appraisal strategies

Rob and I, clansbrothers, kilted up for ceilidh at Wigtown Book Festival

Rob Twigger is a UK-based author of 16 books, many of which are travel. He and I discuss:

A book Rob admires: The Colossus of Maroussi

A travel book Ken admires: Big Dead Place

  • Rob’s philosophical movements: Micromastery and Zenslackerism

  • The Refusal of Work by David Frayne

  • American listeners get a primer on what Guy Fawkes is.

  • We make 2024 US presidential election predictions. (One of us is wrong, the other feels too inept to predict.)

  • Rewilding Britain, yea or nay?

  • Banter about toilets (Ken thinks British toilets are terrible; Rob questions very existence of toilets).   

  • Rob is addicted to South Korean TV dramas.

South Korean drama: My Liberation Notes—available on UK Netflix, and maybe US?
  • How neither of us like that noodle-slurping sound.

  • Yet more chatter on South Korean fertility rates. The lowest in the world!

  • Suits, the TV Show, may have things to teach us about humanity.

  • We discuss appraising prospective wives by watching how they get over a barbed-wire fence.

  • Relationship expert, Dr. John Gottman, and his theory of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

  • Gear recommendations: Rob likes Rovince’s anti-tick trousers. Ken likes super durable trash bags to keep backpacking gear dry inside backpack.

For more on Rob: his website and Substack page.

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