Rainn Wilson
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3,063 appearances
12 recordings
7 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 7 Jul
Rainn Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In rural Pennsylvania, Lancaster County.
Um, I think that people can follow me over at soul boom at soul boom.
We're trying to build a community of, uh, people having deep, meaningful conversations and connections and, uh, and check out, uh, code three and in a select number of theaters on September 12th, but then in a few weeks, in another two or three weeks, it'll be, you know, you can, you can buy it and stream it.
Amazing.
Okay.
It looks great, babe.
Lucy...
Yes.
Warum würde ich oder jemand anderes denken, dass du jetzt heiß bist? Ich kann dich nicht impregnen, und das ist die Führung zwischen männlicher und männlicher Attraktion.
Äh, du warst am meisten attraktiv, als du 24 warst, mit einer kleinen, gradualen Vergrößerung. Und eine steile Ausstrahlung, als du das erste Mal verheiratet wurdest. Graduelle Rückkehr, und äh, naja, jetzt, offensichtlich, bist du auf einem allzeit hohen Niveau.
You think Jim's lying? That's so cute. I know he's lying.
Done. I never touch a pregnant woman.
Know Thyself · E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution · 21 Jan 2025
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Comedy, it's healing because you cannot laugh and cry at the same time. Some of my most unhappy times in my life was while I was shooting The Office. Comparison and envy and ambition. What do you do when you're desperately unhappy, off track, questioning everything? That's what forced me to turn toward a spiritual path. The greatest issue facing humanity right now
is this kind of almost universal belief that things can't get better. There is a way out. We need a spiritual revolution because the ways that human beings have done things for eons are not sustainable. So how can we distinguish the dogma from the beautiful truth of what these spiritual teachers brought?
As a Baha'i, all of these are incorporated into one spiritual canon of truth, of beauty, and of wisdom.
You know, it's interesting how time works, isn't it? And memory, because I shared a lot about this when I was promoting the book Soul Boom about a year ago or so. There was some of my most unhappy times in my life. was while I was shooting The Office, which is crazy.
Maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration, but I went through some rough times, some ups and downs, a lot of what I would call, like, chronic, anxious dissatisfaction while on the TV show because, you know, we're wired as human beings to just want more, and it's kind of like, hey, I'm now a TV star after struggling for, you know, 15 years as an actor. Why can't I be a movie star?
And why can't I make more money? And why can't I get this kind of, he got that kind of deal, why can't I get that kind of deal? comparison and envy and ambition, it's never enough. And it's so funny now, sitting 10 years after The Office has ended, and looking back on it, and like, Rain, it was enough. It was everything you could have ever wanted. It was your dream come true.
I mean, to spend nine years, 200 episodes, playing a really memorable comic character. You've kind of trained and groomed your entire life to play memorable comic characters and from theater school and from being a nerdy teenager and onwards. And, you know, getting paid well, you can pay off your student loans, even buy a house, travel, meeting new people, getting new work opportunities.
Like, this is it. That's it, you know? And... So it's interesting being in it and being dissatisfied and being past it and looking back on it and being so grateful for the experience. Because that's all I feel right now is like, we're really tight, the whole office family, we text all the time, joke around all the time.
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