#179 The Pursuit of Happiness w/ Ravi Patel
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Ravi Patel has been a lot of things– an investment banker, an actor, the co-founder of an organization that benefits undernourished children– but in recent years, he's set out to find the answers to life's big questions and to share what he finds with others. In this episode, Ravi joins Bob and Ben for a conversation about family, friends and what he discovered from traveling the world for his new series Ravi Patel's Pursuit of Happiness, which premieres August 24th on HBO MAX.
Ravi Patel has appeared as an actor in several hit television shows, including Scrubs, Master of None and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and received multiple awards for his documentary, Meet The Patels, which he co-directed with his sister, Geeta. In 2013, he co-founded This Saves Lives w/ fellow actors Kirsten Bell, Ryan Devlin & Todd Grinnell to help alleviate child malnutrition around the world. And did we mention that his new show Ravi Patel's Pursuit of Happiness premieres August 24th on HBO MAX (seriously, it's fantastic- we hope you'll watch it!).
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This episode was edited by Aaron Weber.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Road to Now episode number 179. |
| 0:09.5 | It's a conversation with Ravi Patel. |
| 0:12.2 | Ravi is an actor, a comic, a producer, an entrepreneur, I think is the best way to describe him. |
| 0:18.6 | And he is about to release his new show, Ravi Patel's Pursuit of Happiness, on HBO Max. It's coming out August 27th. And Bob and I were lucky enough to get a hold of the episodes in advance. And as you'll hear from this conversation, we love them. I'm really busy right now. I don't know about you guys, but the semester's about to start back. |
| 0:38.3 | In fact, the day this launches will be the first day of classes in the new semester, but I watched |
| 0:43.4 | all four of the episodes that they sent us because they were so good, just really getting to travel |
| 0:48.2 | and cultural difference and just kind of what family means and what we pursue and how it shapes us and what is actually |
| 0:56.2 | happiness. It really lives up to the title. So we hope you enjoy this conversation and that you |
| 1:01.6 | check out the show on HBO Max on August 27th. Before we get there, though, I just wanted to announce |
| 1:08.0 | that we have rekindled our relationship with the audiobook company, Libro.fm, and we're really happy about it. |
| 1:16.6 | For those of you guys who are familiar with Libro, you know they're a great company. |
| 1:20.6 | For those of you aren't, it works like this. |
| 1:22.8 | Libro is an audiobook company that allows you to get your audio books through an independent bookstore. |
| 1:28.8 | And so when you get your audio books, you're actually keeping your independent local bookstore |
| 1:33.6 | in business. We all know that local businesses are struggling right now, small businesses. |
| 1:39.5 | And one of the things that I've always hated about listening to books, even though I love |
| 1:43.7 | the process, is that I feel like I should be buying the books and paper from a local shop. |
| 1:49.9 | And Libro is a company that really solved that problem because you sign up and when you sign |
| 1:55.0 | up for an account, you pick a local bookstore. |
| 1:57.6 | So you can pick your neighborhood bookstore. |
| 1:59.7 | You can pick the one of the road. |
| 2:00.9 | You can pick one in a city that you just visited one time. And every month in your $15 a month |
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