In Defense of Crying (Robert Wright & Benjamin Perry)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
Nonzero
4.7 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
0:00 The watershed moment that led Ben to write his new book, "Cry, Baby"10:55 Does meditation make you less emotional?16:37 How different socio-cultural groups feel about crying23:18 Why do we cry anyway?36:42 Transformative and performative weeping42:29 Putting Joel Osteen’s tears under a microscope54:50 How does the nature of crying change over a lifetime?1:03:33 Overtime preview: Bob’s most embarrassing adult crying experience, psychedelics and crying, and more!1:06:03 Ben delivers a benediction on crying
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Benjamin Perry (Middle Church, "Cry, Baby"). Recorded May 22, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:33.3 | Hi, Ben. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi, Bob. |
| 0:36.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:37.5 | Doing good today. How are you doing? Doing good today. |
| 0:38.7 | How are you doing? |
| 0:40.0 | I'm doing very well. |
| 0:41.5 | Let me introduce this. |
| 0:42.1 | I'm Robert Wright, publisher, Non-Zero Newsletter. |
| 0:44.6 | This is the Non-Zero podcast. |
| 0:46.8 | You are Benjamin Perry, author of a book we're going to talk about called Cry Baby. |
| 0:52.7 | That's Cry, comma, baby. baby subtitle is why our tears matter |
| 0:58.0 | you're a minister at the middle church in manhattan i think um and uh you've written for the |
| 1:07.1 | washington post late uh soners, and so on. |
| 1:12.9 | I should say, and the Atlantic. |
| 1:15.7 | Now, now the Atlantic, because what, an excerpt from the book or something? |
| 1:19.2 | Or an adapted essay? |
| 1:20.5 | They printed an adapted essay for the first chapter. |
| 1:23.8 | Hey, congratulations. |
| 1:25.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:26.3 | So this is a step down after that, right? |
| 1:28.1 | I mean, this is merely Bob's podcast, and you've been on the Atlantic. |
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