Neil McRobert
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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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I think they're more simple power fantasies of of a of somebody who can again ride roughshod over petty human concerns and just fly and solve the problem.
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Um but that's dying as we as we get more cynical.
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Um so I don't know what's coming next.
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I think I wouldn't be surprised if we don't get more
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insula, ponderous.
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Existential.
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cr uh crisis movies, you know, the Roland Emmerich of it all and the glamour of apocalypse, I think we are moving away from because how do you glamorize something that's actually happening down the street, you know, to your neighbours?
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I mean, yeah, I mean horror's always been a reflection of of prevailing anxieties.
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You know, you pick a a decade, I can I can decode the horror films and and so can a million people.
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I'm not special.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, I think the current crop of horror movies are all about that.
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It's about exactly what you said insularity, disenfranchisement, disenchantment.
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Where apocalypse goes though, I I don't know.
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I d I just feel like we've moved into a realm where more and more and more I'm reading books about crisis that are not larger than life.
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They are
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small and mundane and awful.
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They're more like something like threads, you know, from the eighties.
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Um, which was a very that was an outlier, you know, in what it was.
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I'm seeing a lot more of that.
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