Hello
Hello Mr. Brand
Are you broken down or something?
yes my vans broken down right here in your driveway
wow, I think they'd call that serendipity
the entomology of the word serendipity is a
carpet of fine cloth upon which we can walk to our destiny
I didn't understand a word you just said
well, you know, typically..
I mean if you could find some other occupation for the old facial orifice
would you like to come in at the back my van for my talk show
metaphysical milkshake. It's me, Rainn Wilson
now I'm interested
You're not going to kill me, are you?
We'll see
Take a sip from your soul
On a metaphysical milkshake
Hi Russell Brand
Hello
Welcome to my van
Thank you for having me in your van
As you may or may not know
this van is a transcendent van
it can travel anywhere you'd like to go
Where would you like to go? Anywhere in the multiverse, Russell Brand
It can go forwards and backwards in time?
Anything anything. I can do the whole plot of to back to the future if i feel like it
and then if I wanted, I could sort've just say, like, where I'll be in about an hour.
That would be like the most prosaic use
of time travel. It's just to sort of see stuff you'd know in an hour anyways.
I'd like to see what's gonna be happening in a half an hour.
let's check that out hmm
Worth waiting for. Yeah.
What are you doing these days?
I'm going on a world tour
What are you gonna do, are you gonna do comedy?
Yeah, I'm doing a stand up comedy tour about
Che Guevara, Malcolm X, Ghandi, and Jesus
them as icons, how they've been posthumously appropriated
what's amazing about them, what's flawed about them
how they're useful for us in this nihilistic landscape
where there are no icons in this perennial prison
where we're asked to believe one day in one vacuous full
where food lacks nutrition, where our government's lack principles
what is it about greatness that we can cling to and how inconvenient
it is that even great figures, when you look at them closely
the things that make them say "Oh, don't do that Ghandi"
My son, who is a second grader, had to do a report
on a famous person and he chose Gandhi. He said something in his report that
Gandhi forgave his shooter. "You bastard! I forgive you!"
he said that I forgive you I forgive you
I love you and I forgive you. The man who had just shot him.
That's a good turnaround, isn't it?
to get shot by someone and then immediately forgive them.
Could you do that?
I'd still be very much involved in crying
Forgive you! Let's pause for some refreshment. Would you like some tea?
What type of tea did you get me?
Earl Grey. It's piping isn't it? Yeah. Crumpet?
These are vegan
Now tell me about your vegan-ism. What's up with that?
Well it's lapsed. You're a lapsed vegan? Because it's very hard to not eat an egg
all the time. I mean, I can mostly not eat an egg, I can mostly
not eat milk sometime, and what about honey? honey
because the bee's oil. You can't have honey when you're vegan? It's hardcore.
its bee saliva. Is that all it is? It is, it's bee spit.
it's like the bees throw up in a hive and they're like eeegh
well they're the al Qaeda
of the dietary world, but I support and endorse veganism in others and I'm really
trying, it's just I'm not there yet.
what they find hard in vegan cooking is to make things congealed
stuff don't want to congeal right. without around eggs and butter and what
What are you gonna congeal it with? Sputum.
Can you use animal sputum in vegan cooking?
What I say is because it's a very absolute
ideology there's no room for well, what if a monkey
willingly gives up its alluvia, can you use that in cooking?
there's no there's no contingency for that
Where are you going to travel on your world tour?
I'm going, check this out, I'm coming around America, around Canada, around my country England.
around Scotland, Ireland, Wales, all of them countries.
Europe. I'm interested, I'm going to Istanbul.
I'm going to palestine, going to Israel. I'm going to Folsom Prison.
I'm going to, like, a women's prison.
Are you gonna do a Live at Folsom Prison comedy album? It's gonna be difficult to match up
to Johnny Cash
and his seminal work, but I'm gonna try. Because, like, Johnny Cash is reaching right into their souls.
with lots of growling, leathery
masculinity out I gotta come out like "Right then fellas!"
Here's my favorite yoga pose!
That was my Russell Brand imitation. It was terrible.
It was a racist hate crime. What's the most profound spiritual experience
you've ever had?
There was this Swami, and he told me the story and i felt weird feeling. In his Temple
in bombay
a little girl came to, she's about ten years old. She was much looking forward to the birth
for her mother's second child
who was to be her younger sister when a child is born, paraplegic really really
deformed, disabled, etc.
and this little girl said to the Swami
I feel very frustrated and angry with God and angry with my mom and with my sister and
annoyed it wasn't my expectations were not met
with this sister is not the sister that I wanted but this ten-year-old girl goes
on to say
but then I realized the only thing my sister understands is love
you can shout at her, she doesn't understand. You get frustrated with her, she doesn't understand it.
anything else, she doesn't understand
but if you're loving towards her, she smiles, and while he's saying that
I was looking at him and the trees
and I felt sort've a frightening sense that "Oh my god"
that I needed to hold on to something you know that the realization
that this is only a very temporary thing
that the only thing that matters to any of us is love. all the underscoring
of everything is love.
if it's a biological, anatomical human condition the idea of acquisition and
survival of the species than that two percent
distinguishes us from there gray type somewhere within that is that divine
spark that
philosophers have always espoused upon written about the somewhere within that
that's the truth that we're trying to head towards
he conveyed very well to me in that story know this because it's been told
by Swami from the perspective of a child
I mean how much more joy to magnify the signifies
-laughter-
let's do some "Life's Big Questions" with Russell Brand
What does happiness smell and taste like?
the primal urge is the one that comes first to mind
Are you selfish? Yeah. How?
because I have to really negotiate with myself to not to be selfish
That's my tendency
It's like a revelation
it's a relentless epiphany that there are other people. I'll give you an example
of selfishness. when you said that your son had a school project to pick a hero, I was like
"it was me" like before you said "Ghandi"
I was like "That's not as good" -laughter-
that's where my mind goes to and is. So I have to work quite hard
to not get so lost narcissism. I try not to behave selfishly because I know it's
very very unfulfilling way to behave
down for high spiritual teacher have the Bihar when asked
what Satan wants responded by saying
the insistent self has your insistence sounds
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what you worship when I am meditation up rain
I i say the infinite creative force that brings into being
a all phenomena and guides
own life I say can you move through me I can ask to generate
got you don't have to generate a had Duer tranquil aaaa
sir thank God energy flows through you kinda fun without putting aside the
insistent self
to be able to hoof reach
out reason I to be able to overcome that these are to come because there are
biological imperatives
to compete fast before you feat someone else to fuck or 98 percent monkeys so
self-preservation and
propagating the species comforts all these things certainly we want to take
care and do not necessarily bad things
their bad things when carried to an extreme back in extremis
in moderation bsx there for cake
some offense I like in extreme fuckin a kind
okay I could fuck yeah it's the same
national chains I kind of want to commute from
flat-tax I if
what emotions are you afraid of nah of class and
well because 19 points you love someone quite vast
var mi Nene a slight gain your kidneys and liver and everything
and putting onto this try I got
just would you mind I'm gonna be doing other stuff well you
as Mike Gillis money back to process your in
a kind of strange is no problem I'm love strangers and I like love humanity
ubiquitously in about problems by any individual
of time management intimacy really I might
I think so cuz it said it's a different kind of love
isn't partnership CRT
upon yeppers in an
I suppose I this is degree of trust quiet enough
as can be quite challenging I decided with my wife
we we still fight sometimes in its with any other twenty-two years
and I just decided like you know what unconditional love asking lover
I just gonna like put aside all that stuff is going to be just like a
work in Niagara Falls a lot of course hell at some
do has a guy its I just decided not to net on the phone away here
just going to die at home even throughout the last 30 days fighting
like
I gotta stricture for actually I'm gonna try it is not oppose
love I could be equally dangerous
I guess self in a barrel Russell Brand talked about
his most terrifying emotion being love so you tubers
so pancake urs lovers all what emotion
terrifies you above all others
this is a chance for you to spill your guts to open up
your heart and kidneys in internal organs and lay them before
this YouTube audience in a new way that you've never
invulnerable before what he say to that Russell
yeah I think it's a good thing to make people do that is casually watching sank
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