Patton Oswalt on the meaning of life today, mushroom stories at Bonnaroo, his best advice, and much more
Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast
Andy Frasco
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Patton Oswalt joins Nick & Andy for a really great interview that ranges from silly to profound.
- The meaning of life today
- Did Trump perform fellacio on Bubba?
- Todd Glass stories
- Grief and getting back on stage
- Living in a hallucination
- Eating mushrooms at Bonnaroo
- Patton's best advice
- Biggest mistakes
- Backlash to Patton's IG photo with Dave Chappelle
- Neal joins to ask Patton about roller coasters
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| 0:00.0 | In January of 1994, I did a weekend in Seattle, and it was one of the best weekends I'd ever had up to that point. |
| 0:07.3 | Like, everything I did clicked. |
| 0:09.9 | It was explosive. |
| 0:11.4 | In my mind, I felt like I have broken through. |
| 0:14.2 | It's Lenny Bruce and George Carlin and Bill Hicks. |
| 0:16.9 | And I think maybe me now. |
| 0:18.5 | I think it might be me. |
| 0:19.9 | I think I'm on Mount Rosin I'm was really, and then I was so in my head |
| 0:24.1 | about that and so in my, so high on that weekend that every set from that point on, because I was so |
| 0:31.1 | in my head and I was so, I am bringing the truth to the people. That from January until April of 1994, |
| 0:39.1 | and I remember this so clearly, |
| 0:40.4 | I could not buy a fucking laugh on stage |
| 0:43.9 | that my energy was so off |
| 0:46.5 | and the audience could tell |
| 0:48.3 | I am thinking of a, |
| 0:50.1 | I'm so self-conscious up there |
| 0:51.8 | of this is now part of my legacy. |
| 0:54.8 | Nothing ruins you quicker than legacy and cool and reputation. |
| 0:59.4 | Those things will fucking destroy you. All right. And we're live. Andy Frasco's World Saving podcast. I'm Andy Frasco. How's your heads? |
| 1:28.1 | How's your minds? |
| 1:29.8 | How is your love life? |
| 1:32.0 | We are having a special dating show tonight |
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