Rick Mercer: Proud of Absolutely Everybody

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rick Mercer didn’t exactly know he was allowed to be proud. As a teenager, he was barely making it through high school and traveling the island province of Newfoundland, Canada, as the sidekick to a kindly clown. But being an outsider gave him a unique perspective. His razor wit, biting political commentary, and celebration of small town dreams would make him one of Canada’s most beloved voices. Together, Kate and Rick talk about: Their shared love of being Canadian (and why the Meech Lake Accord was so funny) The rather unhelpful suggestions people offer one another Why it feels so good to be proud of people doing what they love This episode is sure to make you laugh (even if the Canadian references go over your head) and feel proud to be where you’re from—no matter how obscure. CW: spicy language, negative perceptions of coming out *** Find me on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Be sure to subscribe to my weekly email for bits of wisdom, prayers, free downloads, and more. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available wherever books are sold. Order your copy, today. Join us for Lent. Receive a free lenten reflection guide, here. Introducing, GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Pre-order your copy, here. 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	I'm Kate Boehler and this is Everything Happens.
0:07.9	There's a feeling we can get when life has been too small for too long.
0:12.3	It's not depression exactly, or even hopelessness, or anxiety or fear, but a certain form of
0:18.7	exhaustedness.
0:21.0	My wonderful friend Adam Grant and former podcast guest, you will love that episode if you
0:25.1	haven't heard it.
0:26.1	But Adam wrote a lovely piece for The New York Times about this feeling, and he called it
0:30.2	by a wonderfully precise name, languishing.
0:35.0	languishing, he wrote, is a sense of stagnation and emptiness.
0:39.7	A feeling like you're looking at your life through a foggy windshield.
0:44.1	So if mental health runs on a spectrum from depression on one side to flourishing on
0:48.4	the other, languishing is that dull blah that we sometimes overlook because it's not
0:54.9	the worst.
0:55.9	It's just not joy.
0:59.5	And it can be hard to dream new dreams, or find that ease or that momentum.
1:05.9	L languishing is one of the great challenges of this moment.
1:09.1	As we try to live with the full spectrum of possibilities and emotions and dreams, as
1:14.1	much as we can, even now.
1:17.1	So do I have a treat for you?
1:20.1	I've had evenings and weekends open lately, so I spent it building a time machine and went
1:24.5	back to 1969 to ensure today's guest was born on the island province of Newfoundland.
1:29.8	Then I created a reasonable set of obstacles for him to navigate and watched him become
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