John Safran
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891 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jun
John Safran’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So, yeah, it didn't really work.
But I feel like with my upcoming projects, God willing, God willing that I can still get work or whatever, is, yeah, I'm feeling like I need to –
lean in a bit more to religion again.
I feel like it's once again sort of being dodged around when discussing things and it's like, who better than me?
And also the other cool thing about religion as a storyteller is it's real shorthand to an audience that, oh, this is something that should be treated very delicately.
So I remember someone saying to me, she goes, John,
When I watch your shows and she goes, at the start of a story where there's the wide shot and it's like some temple, religious temple, and there's this little you walking along.
She goes, oh, God, oh, God.
And just that throws her off because it's such shorthand for like, yeah, you just should not be –
And I think I learned a bit of that from when I was young.
My dad used to watch these Marx Brothers films on TV and I used to watch with him.
And I noticed that at the start, it never started off with just –
they'd just been clowns or whatever.
They'd always start off setting up this very earnest or pompous or something kind of situation like either like a posh garden party or the opera or something like that and they'd kind of like build this sort of serious world a little bit to be serious world building that then when the Marx Brothers kind of came in on it, you kind of go, oh, my God, but they're at the opera or whatever.
So I think I absorbed a bit of that as well.
I just love...
which is kind of a bit, I think it can be confusing, which I'm not having a go at anyone or whatever, but I like kind of tapping into the universe, even when it comes to things like politics or whatever, like this unease, and then sort of telling an adjacent story that's sort of, but it's different to like, oh, this is my op-ed about, you know,
And so I really trust stories.
And also for younger listeners, like there's different eras where just things are perceived differently.
Like I reckon I was so influenced that basically from whatever, year seven or something, right until like university, I was just really into like reading, all these countercultural things.
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