979. Ken Baumann

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Ken Baumann is the author of the novella The Christian: A Comedy. Baumann is the author of seven novels and three works of nonfiction. After working as an actor in film and TV, running the publishing company Sator Press, studying canonical texts at St. John's College, and playing competitive Magic: The Gathering, he now lives and works as a writer and coach in Santa Fe, New Mexico. *** ⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, etc. Subscribe to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is an ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠affiliate partner of Bookshop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, welcome to the program.
0:09.4	This is the other people podcast, a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
0:16.3	I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles.
0:19.0	Thank you for being here.
0:20.2	I appreciate it. Hope everything's okay. Thank you for being here. I appreciate it.
0:21.6	Hope everything's okay, wherever you happen to be. Don't forget to subscribe to this show.
0:26.8	Wherever you listen, you can also subscribe on YouTube, and you can follow me on Blue Sky and Instagram.
0:35.8	Today I'm going to be talking with my old friend, Ken Bauman.
0:39.5	He has a new novella out called The Christian, a comedy.
0:44.6	And it's one of these books that needed to be written.
0:49.5	It's about a guy who tries to live like Jesus in contemporary America.
0:56.5	He tries to actually embody the very radical teachings of Jesus Christ in this country, as presently constituted.
1:06.2	And I think I say as much to Ken in the interview where I'm like, yeah, why didn't I think of that?
1:11.5	It's one of these thought experiments that needed to be undertaken and Ken Bauman did it.
1:16.6	It's a very interesting and affecting book.
1:22.1	And the conversation that we had was kind of epic.
1:26.6	It was wonderful.
1:27.3	We talk about faith and loss of faith and. The conversation that we had was kind of epic. It was wonderful.
1:35.6	We talk about faith and loss of faith and like crises of the spirit, not only personally,
1:37.3	but maybe on a broader scale too.
1:45.6	Talk about depression and like how that can affect a human life and what it means to come out on the other side of it and how you get changed by the most difficult experiences in your life.
1:51.6	It's a really heartfelt and meaningful conversation, kind of perfect for a Sunday episode.
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