#69: This Episode Belongs to Lionel Ritchie: Barry Ferns and the Age of Transrationalism

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

"It made me laugh. So I did it."

Stand up comedian, writer, director, and trained physiotherapist, Barry Ferns has written for the BBC, C4, Radio and has won awards for both stand up and directing short films. His films have been selected for The LA Comedy Film festival, Raindance, North by Northwest and he has won the Malcom Hardee Award for Comedy, as well as the Mervyn Stutter Spirit of the Fringe award and has been nominated as one of the 4 best MC’s in the entire country.

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0:32.1	This is a global player original podcast.
0:36.7	Warning! The following episode contains strong language, bizarre theories. Global Player Original podcast. Warning.
0:41.5	The following episode contains strong language, bizarre theories,
0:43.1	unexplainable experiences,
0:45.1	and an acid-sipping guru.
0:48.4	It may not be suitable for younger weirdos.
0:53.2	I think there is an arrogance of the human brain to think that the human brain is limited to the episode of We Can Be Weirdos. My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm coming to you today from my home at Roughway by sea for what is, for now, the last episode of We Can Be Weirdos.
1:33.3	We're taking a quick break. This is the end of the first era of We Can Be Weirdos. We're going to go away for a month.
1:40.3	We're going to tinker around with a few things, take stock of all the chats that we've
1:45.3	had so far, and come back with a newly branded We Can Be Weirdos. So we will be gone for a while,
1:51.9	but not too long, because we're going to be back Thursday, October 31st, with a Halloween special
1:57.5	to kick off the new era of We Can Be Weirdos. And that's going to be a live show
2:02.3	that we are recording at the Underbelly Boulevard in Soho on the 21st of October. So the 21st of this
2:09.8	month. So Monday, 7 p.m. And it is going to be our Halloween special. So if you want to have
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