Danny Robins
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404 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Danny Robins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I love that you're bringing science into it now as well.
Yeah, I think it's how we understand our world now, isn't it?
We understand our world for emotions.
We've invented a visual language of emotions, emojis that we...
You know, now we send each other messages which don't feature words, they just feature emotions, you know, little icons that say how you feel.
And, you know, I think there's a really good book, A Natural History of Ghosts by Roger Clark, which I would really recommend.
advise people to read that if they're interested in studying the history of the paranormal.
But he talks in that about how each age has its version of how it interprets hauntings.
In the 18th century, ghosts were very much about coming back to deliver information.
It was about where the money was buried, essentially, where the codicil on the will was, because that was very important to people at that time.
In the wake of the American Civil War and the
You know, the First World War, people were obsessed with trying to make sense of that mass grief, you know, that they wanted to kind of process that and have that sense that they could make contact with their loved ones.
But also, you know, it was very much a science, you know, it was this era of discovery and the idea of communicating with the dead was something that respectable scientists would...
uh consider worthwhile it was a sort of another way of kind of trying to master your universe that the victorians wanted to have everything in a glass cabinet or kind of pinned to a board didn't they they want to make sense of their world you know now you know we're so dominated by emotions about articulating our emotions we've never been more in touch with our emotions so that idea of emotions resonating down the ages and a ghost being an emotion if you like a ghost being a scream you know or a kind of uh
you know, a last gasp of love, you know, I think that really makes sense to us now, I think.
And, you know, there are theories to do with poltergeist activity, for instance, about it coming from within us, you know, this idea that it's an emotion that bursts out of you, you know, and, you know, anyone who's seen the film Matilda or read the book Matilda by Roald Dahl will know that idea of, you know, these kind of pent up things within her that make objects move around her.
We kind of understand that.
It makes sense to us.
Timelines are not crossing strangely here.
Well, this is very interesting.
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