Neil McRobert
speaker
8,757 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 14 Aug
Neil McRobert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 17 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 7.
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Hello and welcome to Talking Scared Off Book.
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I'm your host, Neil McRobber, and let's start the weekend right by discussing how the world could end.
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This episode is a conversation with Ben Bradford, the creator of the hit new podcast Are We Doomed?
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It's already my favourite weekly half-hour of existential risk.
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I'm fascinated by the scale and the concept of how all that we know could be carried away.
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So I invited Ben onto Talking Scare to talk about nuclear bombs and rogue AIs, climate change and social upheaval, plus all the dooms that never came to pass.
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The weird thing is that despite Are We Doom.
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assumed being an apocalyptically minded show.
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Each episode makes me feel a little more hopeful about the future, and I'm hoping this conversation will do the same for you.
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I intended to put it out as a palliative aftercare to the Annie Jacobson Biological War episode, but timing got a little in the way.
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Still,
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It's only a week later than I wanted, so I hope it still does the job.
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If you enjoy what you hear, then do go listen to Are We Doomed, and for more from me you can become a Patreon subscriber.
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You access all the exclusive stuff I put out, including reviews of books and movies, deep dive lists of stuff I love, and some Patreon only conversations.
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Plus you get all the pesky ads cut out of your main episodes.
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Go to patreon.com
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slash talking scared pod and support the show.
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But now grab your bug out bag, let's find a well stocked bunker and wait for this to all blow over.
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Let's talk a different kind of scared.
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Hi Ben.
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