Rainn Wilson on a Star Trek future, Shrute Bucks, and a creating kinder society

Forward

Humanity Forward Productions

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this wide-ranging conversation, actor, comedian, and author Rainn Wilson sits down with Andrew Yang to talk about how our future can look more like Star Trek, the decline of religion and the need for spirituality, human-centered capitalism, incentivizing kindness, saner elections, and much more. Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qvA6s0PjYmI Get Soul Boom - https://soulboom.com Follow Rainn Wilson: https://twitter.com/rainnwilson | https://soulboom.com | https://linktr.ee/rainnwilson Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://twitter.com/andrewyang Get 50% off Factor at https://factormeals.com/yang50 Get an extra 3 months free at https://expressvpn.com/yang Get 20% off + 2 free pillows at https://helixsleep.com/yang code helixpartner20 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on forward.
0:04.0	We can use spiritual concepts, precepts, ancient faith-based wisdom to help humanity mature and move forward on a species level.
0:16.3	Yeah.
0:17.3	On a societal level.
0:18.3	We can have a spiritual revolution.
0:20.0	Let's say you had this trillion dollar foundation and it said, okay, anyone who's doing any of these things,
0:24.0	paint a mural, teach art to the kids, we're going to give you soul boom bucks.
0:28.0	First they wouldn't believe it.
0:29.0	But then they would say, wait a minute, I can actually make soul boom bucks.
0:32.0	You're realizing there's going to be a lot of jokes at this point in the
0:34.4	podcast about shrew bucks bring back shrew bucks yeah It is my distinct pleasure and privilege to welcome to the podcast, best-selling author of Soul
0:56.8	Boom, why we need a spiritual revolution, which we'll talk about.
1:00.0	You probably know him from the office, but he's also the host of the geography of bliss now on Peacock and also of the upcoming soul boom podcast.
1:09.4	The one and only Rain Wilson, welcome Rain.
1:13.0	Andrew Yang.
1:15.0	Yes.
1:16.0	We finally made it happen.
1:18.0	Here we are together at last, making podcast history.
1:21.0	Yes, the most unlikely duo like if you can imagine
1:25.8	two random Americans sitting on couches it would be Andrew Yang and
1:29.6	Rain Wilson. Yes the Convo you didn't know you needed, is finally here.
1:34.0	I'm so glad to have this Convo with you because I enjoyed your book immensely.
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