Ep. 510: On Nature and Suffering with Werner Herzog

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Steven Rinella talks with filmmaker and writer, Werner Herzog . Topics discussed: Werner Herzog’s latest memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All ; writing text in your native tongue; “The nets were set the night before”; mattresses stuffed with fern; when the first time you ate an egg was a feast; having no tolerance for the culture of complaint; the value of food as something to be honored; determining how you live but not telling others how to live; taking self responsibility for getting your own food; grabbing trout out of the creek with your bare hands; the people who seem miserable but are happy and dignified in Herzog’s film Happy People ; how Timothy Treadwell was…