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Rainn Wilson

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

steps along the path before mortality, you know, rears its ugly, interesting head. One thing I'm very excited about is with my old business partner from SoulPancake, Shabnam Muggarabi.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

steps along the path before mortality, you know, rears its ugly, interesting head. One thing I'm very excited about is with my old business partner from SoulPancake, Shabnam Muggarabi.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

steps along the path before mortality, you know, rears its ugly, interesting head. One thing I'm very excited about is with my old business partner from SoulPancake, Shabnam Muggarabi.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

Almost. We're going to do a documentary on God. called The Notorious G.O.D. based on the chapter from Soul Boom, an exploration of what God might look like in the modern world. I'd love to interview you for it. Are you open? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Okay, great. And, you know, projects like that to me are really exciting. I pitched it as a TV show all around town, and it got turned down everywhere.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

Almost. We're going to do a documentary on God. called The Notorious G.O.D. based on the chapter from Soul Boom, an exploration of what God might look like in the modern world. I'd love to interview you for it. Are you open? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Okay, great. And, you know, projects like that to me are really exciting. I pitched it as a TV show all around town, and it got turned down everywhere.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

Almost. We're going to do a documentary on God. called The Notorious G.O.D. based on the chapter from Soul Boom, an exploration of what God might look like in the modern world. I'd love to interview you for it. Are you open? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Okay, great. And, you know, projects like that to me are really exciting. I pitched it as a TV show all around town, and it got turned down everywhere.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

In fact, when I went into Netflix with it, they said it was too controversial. which is hysterical to me that you can have like dating shows where everyone hooks up with everyone, no problem. But if you want to do a documentary on God, it's too controversial. So that's the kind of the world that we live in right now. So... those are my main struggles.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

In fact, when I went into Netflix with it, they said it was too controversial. which is hysterical to me that you can have like dating shows where everyone hooks up with everyone, no problem. But if you want to do a documentary on God, it's too controversial. So that's the kind of the world that we live in right now. So... those are my main struggles.

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

In fact, when I went into Netflix with it, they said it was too controversial. which is hysterical to me that you can have like dating shows where everyone hooks up with everyone, no problem. But if you want to do a documentary on God, it's too controversial. So that's the kind of the world that we live in right now. So... those are my main struggles.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And to find, you know, what's the best way for me to leverage what I've learned, what I know, and the stories I want to tell to help a very wounded world right now. There's parts of me that gets very angry and very engaged in the immediate stuff. You know, Trump, as we speak, Trump has just won this election. I see that there's a lot of

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And to find, you know, what's the best way for me to leverage what I've learned, what I know, and the stories I want to tell to help a very wounded world right now. There's parts of me that gets very angry and very engaged in the immediate stuff. You know, Trump, as we speak, Trump has just won this election. I see that there's a lot of

Know Thyself
E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

And to find, you know, what's the best way for me to leverage what I've learned, what I know, and the stories I want to tell to help a very wounded world right now. There's parts of me that gets very angry and very engaged in the immediate stuff. You know, Trump, as we speak, Trump has just won this election. I see that there's a lot of

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

injustice going on in the world and I want to scream about it, right? But I also want to have a larger view of where we're headed as a species on this planet and address that beyond the partisan ups and downs of legislation and headlines and doom scrolling and, you know, outrage clicks on the internet. So, in fact, there's a story from the Baha'i Faith

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

injustice going on in the world and I want to scream about it, right? But I also want to have a larger view of where we're headed as a species on this planet and address that beyond the partisan ups and downs of legislation and headlines and doom scrolling and, you know, outrage clicks on the internet. So, in fact, there's a story from the Baha'i Faith

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

injustice going on in the world and I want to scream about it, right? But I also want to have a larger view of where we're headed as a species on this planet and address that beyond the partisan ups and downs of legislation and headlines and doom scrolling and, you know, outrage clicks on the internet. So, in fact, there's a story from the Baha'i Faith

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

This woman named Rahia Kanum had this dream about this great spiritual teacher from the Baha'i faith named Abdu'l-Baha. And there was a big, a dam had broken and there was a big flood and the water was washing everyone's homes away. And everyone was down trying to rescue people and pull them out of the water. And Abdu'l-Baha was up on top of this hill crying. doing something up there.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

This woman named Rahia Kanum had this dream about this great spiritual teacher from the Baha'i faith named Abdu'l-Baha. And there was a big, a dam had broken and there was a big flood and the water was washing everyone's homes away. And everyone was down trying to rescue people and pull them out of the water. And Abdu'l-Baha was up on top of this hill crying. doing something up there.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

This woman named Rahia Kanum had this dream about this great spiritual teacher from the Baha'i faith named Abdu'l-Baha. And there was a big, a dam had broken and there was a big flood and the water was washing everyone's homes away. And everyone was down trying to rescue people and pull them out of the water. And Abdu'l-Baha was up on top of this hill crying. doing something up there.

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

She couldn't quite see what it was. And she was like, what's Abdu'l-Waha doing up on top of that hill? You know, we need him down here helping everyone out of the flood. And then someone said to her in the dream, someone said, oh, he's building a machine to stop the flooding in the future. So...

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E131 - Rainn Wilson: Comedy, God & Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

She couldn't quite see what it was. And she was like, what's Abdu'l-Waha doing up on top of that hill? You know, we need him down here helping everyone out of the flood. And then someone said to her in the dream, someone said, oh, he's building a machine to stop the flooding in the future. So...