Petey USA Finds God In The Gray

Soul Boom

Rainn Wilson

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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0:00.0	I've always thought about God or whatever.
0:03.0	It's just a label.
0:05.0	It's something to direct my existential questions towards.
0:08.0	It's the questions that I think of that I'm not asking other people.
0:11.0	It's something to talk to and to bounce things off of that is just sort of like transcends human connection.
0:20.0	I call it God in my songs because I was raised Christian,
0:24.3	and that's the only thing I know how to reference.
0:25.9	But it's not a Christian God.
0:28.1	It's just, it just is what it is.
0:31.2	You know what I mean?
0:32.3	And I don't even know what I'm talking about
0:35.5	when I say the divine, or I don't know what I'm talking about when I say higher power or anything.
0:41.5	I just know how I feel.
0:44.0	So I've found God in the gray.
0:47.3	Fucking a.
0:48.9	I'm fucking A.
0:50.1	I don't need any help today. Hey there. Hey there, it's me, Rain Wilson, and I want to dig into the human experience.
1:08.0	I want to have conversations about a spiritual revolution. Let's get
1:12.2	deep with our favorite thinkers, friends, and entertainers about life, meaning, and idiocy. Welcome to the
1:19.6	Soul Boom podcast. Peter, United States of America.
1:28.0	That's it.
1:29.0	Yeah, that's my full name.
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