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Soul Boom

Rick Glassman: Is God Not Cool in Comedy?

Soul Boom

Rainn Wilson

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

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Rainn sits down with comedian Rick Glassman (Take Your Shoes Off podcast, ABC's Not Dead Yet) to talk about God and spirituality’s place in comedy. Rick also shares how the revelation of his adult diagnosis of autism shed light on his unique approach to communication, both on and offstage. They also talk about mental health, human connection, the art of comedy, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

But you know, but the audience was like, oh,

0:02.6

and they were really disturbed and people were like,

0:04.7

those jokes were really upsetting.

0:05.9

Like, did you try and kill yourself?

0:07.8

Like it was, could we talk about this for a little bit?

0:10.4

Yeah, okay.

0:11.2

We can talk about anything.

0:14.2

I'm not trying to move, Pat, I have a weird thing.

0:16.1

I need a right hand.

0:18.1

I want if I do this, I need the right.

0:19.3

And we're gonna get to that.

0:29.6

Hey there, it's me, Rain Wilson, and I want to dig into the human experience.

0:32.7

I want to have conversations about a spiritual revolution.

0:39.6

Let's get deep with our favorite thinkers, friends, and entertainers about life, meaning, and idiocy.

0:42.3

Welcome to the Soul Boom podcast.

1:12.6

When you decided to put a picture of yourself on the back, did you say I'm going to go for author, or did you already have this picture and it worked out? Because this is an, I have a book picture. I'm cupping cradling my tiny face and enormous forehead. But one thing is if it were for, if you knew you were doing it for a book, a lot of times if you have glasses, there would be something. Yeah, that is always good. Yeah. I don't know. It's just a fun little thing we could clip and talk about.

1:17.2

The main reason that you're here is that Kartik saw you perform a set.

1:22.6

And he was really moved by and touched by a joke that you made, my producer.

1:28.3

And that was you were riffing and you just kind of offhand said,

1:32.7

by the way, if I said to you right now that I believed in God, I would lose half the audience.

1:36.8

And it's way kind of cooler and edgier to be,

1:40.0

I'm paraphrasing off of what he said,

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