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Absolutely Mental

Ricky Gervais & Sam Harris

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actor, director, and writer Ricky Gervais and his favorite smart friend, neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, are back at it and this season Absolutely Mental is going deeper.

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0:00.0	Hey, Ricky, how's it going?
0:05.0	I'm Harris. How are you?
0:06.3	All systems go.
0:07.3	I've got lots of questions from listeners.
0:10.0	What is anxiety?
0:11.5	If a relatively friendly alien were to visit Earth?
0:14.0	Is mental illness a modern disease?
0:17.0	What is a thought?
0:19.0	I'm still stuck on the qualifier relatively.
0:22.0	More consequential.
0:23.5	The difference that makes all the difference.
0:25.0	Less ridiculous.
0:26.5	I try and outweigh chaos.
0:29.0	You sound like a f***ing bastard case.
0:32.0	But still ridiculous.
0:34.0	This season, absolutely mental is going deeper.
0:37.0	The caring part is different from the sensing part.
0:40.0	The pain is a chain reaction, and it's just starting halfway along.
0:45.0	Our capacity is for surprise over the fact of death seems, you know, patently insane.
0:50.0	I had a panic attack, and I thought, oh my, oh, that maybe there is a god.
0:55.0	You can feel extraordinary pain, but simply not care about it.
0:59.0	Is that part of your scientific background or more of your mumbo jumbo background?
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