403: The Office, Art, Idiocy, and Other Tales. With Actor, Writer, Producer, Rainn Wilson
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4.9 • 31.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 273 minutes
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Summary
RAINN WILSON is a NY Times Bestselling author and three-time Emmy nominated actor best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office. Besides his many other comedic and dramatic roles on stage and screen, he is the co-founder of the media company SoulPancake and host of the docuseries “Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss” on Peacock. Rainn is the author of the NY Time Bestseller Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy, as well as the coauthor of SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions, a New York Times bestseller. He lives in California with a lot of animals, his wife and son.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jocco podcast number 403 with echo Charles and me Jocco willing good evening echo good evening |
| 0:09.2 | I had the biggest fatdest head of any baby that was ever born into the human species |
| 0:14.6 | My head was and remains a combination of the head from the alien and alien and a prize-winning |
| 0:21.3 | albino cassaba melon from the Iowa state fair I |
| 0:25.4 | Feel truly sorry for my parents Patricia Shea Whitman and Robert Bob Wilson when I imagine them |
| 0:32.3 | Cradling my doughy giganticness in the rain soaked winter of 1966 on their houseboat in Seattle |
| 0:39.8 | I was one of those tauts that you see |
| 0:42.6 | And gasp under your breath and quizzical horror. I wasn't one of those babies that made it easy for viewers to hide their surprised |
| 0:50.2 | revulsion |
| 0:51.4 | I'm sure no one knew that I'm sure no one knew what to say when they saw my white |
| 0:56.4 | bloated Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade head loathing about on my snowy damp potato sack body |
| 1:04.9 | I was like some kind of larva. I was the color of grub worms that have never seen the sun |
| 1:11.0 | Picture an ash in manatee with a tiny human face |
| 1:15.0 | Now picture this creature screaming to have its diaper changed you get the idea |
| 1:20.1 | No, you don't. I need to keep going. I'm not sure if you fully understand the large-headed pale horror of baby rain |
| 1:28.4 | If there were a maggot with vaguely human features wrapped in swaddling clothes, that would have been me |
| 1:35.3 | The University of Washington Hospital probably bleached the entire pediatric ward after I left due to my resemblance of a life-size |
| 1:43.4 | blood white blood |
| 1:46.2 | I was like Louie Anderson with the head of ET |
| 1:49.7 | If the nurse at the hospital had swapped me with a big-eyed albino hippo baby that would have explained everything |
| 1:57.8 | Instead my parents were handed a lumpy job of the hut like infant that made sounds like a calf being scrambled by an octopus |
| 2:09.2 | me |
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