Rick Glassman On The Paul Rudd Incident, Podcasting and Ricky Gervais

In this episode of The Romesh Ranganathan Show, Romesh is joined by comedian and podcaster Rick Glassman to talk about stand-up, podcasting and the art of saying exactly what you're thinking.

Rick discusses the success of Take Your Shoes Off, and reveals that Ricky Gervais would be one of his dream guests, which leads to the pair composing a carefully crafted text message invite. Will he respond? Plus, Rick addresses the catastrophic Paul Rudd incident on his podcast.

Elsewhere, Rick opens up about his autism diagnosis, dealing with criticism, and the pros and cons of working with his parents.

Plus, they discuss Rick's basketball prowess, play Misquoted, and Rick makes a very poorly timed call to his Mum.

A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform Media.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

01:00 Rick ghosted Ben

04:01 Rick’s thoughts on Edinburgh

05:48 Gift-giving

08:41 On stand-up

13:51 Take Your Shoes Off & podcasting

15:27 Rick’s autism diagnosis

19:00 The podcast got big

20:42 Paul Rudd’s podcast accident

26:22 Rick wants Ricky Gervais on the pod

27:20 A sales lesson from Rick

28:22 Rom & Rick text Ricky Gervais

31:19 A question from Shanthi

32:55 Rick calls his Mum

36:00 Working with your parents

44:46 Shanthi’s story

44:00 Parents being famous

47:14 Misquoted

48:24 Basketball & I Am Phenomenal

51:14 Criticism and ego

53:19 Misquoted continued

54:29 Rick’s take on modern dating

56:30 An exclusive

59:21 Outro

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