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

**Romesh Ranganathan** (0:00)
There's an elephant in the room.
And the elephant in the room is, before I even intro you, there is somebody in this room, Ben, who I think, I genuinely think might be one of your top five fans in the world in terms of how invested he is in your career and what you do. He think, it's a big deal for him that you're here.

**Rick Glassman** (0:24)
This is crazy, that, I don't even know that anybody knows, do you wanna switch seats?

**Romesh Ranganathan** (0:29)
I mean, he'd love us to.

**Rick Glassman** (0:30)
Well, that way it would be easier for I-Line.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:33)
What do you mean?

**Rick Glassman** (0:34)
So I could like, every now and then, like I could be like, how's your family?

**Romesh Ranganathan** (0:37)
Yeah.

**Rick Glassman** (0:38)
But also I've got, I don't want to, I'm turning away so much.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:41)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:42)
We've got a camera here, so it's quite nice that turn could be great.

**Rick Glassman** (0:46)
He doesn't get it.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:47)
Okay, sorry.

**Romesh Ranganathan** (0:48)
It's okay. That's, that's, that's. it already.

**Rick Glassman** (0:51)
It's okay, it's really nice to see you.

**Romesh Ranganathan** (0:57)
But anyway, he's a mega fan. Do you want to, do you want to get it out? Do you want to say what?

**SPEAKER_4** (1:01)
I've got nothing. It's not like I'm, I've got nothing.

**Romesh Ranganathan** (1:03)
But you, but look, you've been talking, you talk about Rick a lot.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:05)
There was a moment. Hold on.

**Romesh Ranganathan** (1:08)
Okay.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:09)
Thanks. And we got. Let's go.
This is quite intense. And there was a bit where Rom introduced me to the group chat. Do you remember?

**SPEAKER_3** (1:25)
Yeah, do I remember?

**SPEAKER_4** (1:26)
Yeah.

**Romesh Ranganathan** (1:28)
Yeah, I know.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:32)
And I was, I have two children and what I was meant to be putting to the bed, to bed, and this is going so badly.

**Rick Glassman** (1:45)
I really think it would be bad. Can we just see how the story goes if we switch seats for a second?

**Romesh Ranganathan** (1:49)
Okay, fine.

**Rick Glassman** (1:52)
It's really, it's bigger on camera.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:53)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:58)
We have, I've got two kids and basically I got incredibly excited when I was part of that group.
To the point where they go, I said, I'm talking to Rick Glassman. And then we're like, daddy, daddy, who's your new friend, Rick Glassman? I, we don't like Rick Glassman because you're too excited and I didn't put them to bed.

**Rick Glassman** (2:17)
Well, there's one thing I want to say.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:22)
There's one more thing.

**Rick Glassman** (2:29)
I feel like the audience is going to feel like your kids now. I mean, like, who is this annoying American with a huge wiener that comes on their show and just changes everything?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:36)
Yeah.
You then didn't reply. I'm not crying.

**Rick Glassman** (2:44)
Hi, my name is Rick Glassman, and I'm on the Romesh Ranganathan Show. And I am excited to say that, you know what? Why don't we just let you tune in to find out? Find out, find out, find out, and you fade to black. We're out. Brilliant. It goes to black right before I say we're out. But under the black, we hear me say we're out.
That we keep it on me, then we split screen, or at least cut to his brilliant.
Send it to me. I'll give you notes.

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**SPEAKER_3** (3:27)
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**Romesh Ranganathan** (4:06)
Oh, shut up, Romesh. Okay. We ready?

**Rick Glassman** (4:10)
Have we not been going?

**Romesh Ranganathan** (4:11)
Yeah, we are going, but I'm going to do like a formal introduction. But we are going. This is all going in. Okay. Not all of it, obviously, there'll be a bit of snaps.
My guest today is an American comedian, writer, actor and podcaster. He starred in shows, including As We See It and Not Dead Yet, and is the host of the hugely successful podcast Take Your Shoes Off. He's currently on tour with his uniquely brilliant stand-up. We are genuinely so excited to chat to him today and honored, it's Rick Glassman.