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Absolutely Mental

Introducing Absolutely Mental

Absolutely Mental

Ricky Gervais & Sam Harris

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

All 11 episodes available at AbsolutelyMental.com

In this new podcast series, the Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning actor, director, and writer Ricky Gervais phones his favorite smart friend, the neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, to ask some very important questions...and some not-so-important ones.

Gervais and Harris contemplate the wonders of science and the chaos of modern life while having many good laughs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello. Ricky. How's it going? Good. Yeah, good. So, question. Let me make sure both feed

0:10.9

her on the floor. What are dreams for? What noise is a monster, mate? When does a baby

0:17.5

start thinking? Why doesn't we fear death? If there's no afterlife, morality, what's the

0:23.9

point? Sam, what's the point? I think this is the start of your midlife crisis. All of

0:30.8

those questions have scientific answers to understand how we got here. That's where many scientists

0:37.0

seem to stop and they're thinking about morality. Are you saying you think that there might

0:41.8

be other than nothingness in terms of experience? I can't believe you think that. I certainly don't

0:47.1

remember the 14 billion years prior to my birth. But why do we fear not existing again? Because we

0:56.4

won't know about it. You're certainly not going to embarrass yourself holding that opinion in a

1:00.6

scientific context. Would you rather wake up with the head of a dog for your body? At least I'll

1:06.9

keep my hair. You'll never go forward. I'm very flattered that you've done an autopsy on my

1:12.7

psychologist. I never thought about that before. What I was holding back was even better.

1:17.6

It's lovely ending, but we're none the wiser. No, is anyone else. Absolutely mental, a new podcast

1:26.6

series that finds Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning comedian Ricky Jervais and his favorite smart friend,

1:32.3

neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, debating some very important questions along with some

1:37.6

not-so-important ones. So full series, absolutely mental, is now available at absolutelymental.com.

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