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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One, we became increasingly safe.
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You know, the whole post-Cold War peace dividend, uh, democracy s growing around the world, people being fed more than ever before.
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So we had a a sense, relatively speaking, of of of safety and comfort and complacency.
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But that came hand in hand with this incredibly hyperconnected, complex world where we'd lost the blank spaces on the map.
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We lost the Heart of Darkness.
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We'd lost the American frontier.
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Yep.
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And there was nowhere left to play out a power fantasy that wasn't curtailed by social structures.
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And I think we had such a glut of eighties, nineties apocalypse, because yeah, we dealt with the Cold War.
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And now we were like, Okay, let let's clear the board basically.
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You know, we want to tell a story, so fuck it, kick the toys over.
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And let's clear the board.
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What's interesting is
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I don't think that actually applies anymore because in the last
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ten, five years maybe, it feels increasingly like
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We are living we are writing from within the apocalypse and it feels much more real and no longer a power fantasy.
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Now it feels like panic when people write these stories.
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I mean that is a good point.
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Superhero, I hadn't factored that in.
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They are that is a very good point that 'cause I mean superheroes are basically everyone always says they are like our version of myth mythological figures.
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