The Funniest Conversation You'll Ever Hear About Achieving Inner Peace | Pete Holmes

This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody. I have to be diplomatic with what I'm about to say, because I love all of our episodes, but some episodes are extra special, and this is one of them.

This is genuinely one of my favorite interviews that I've done in a long time. I came into this conversation with high expectations and those expectations were exceeded. Let me say what I mean by that. I knew that my guest, uh the comedian Pete Holmes, would be hilarious. What I did not expect was how wise and useful he would also be.

Some of you probably know Pete Holmes as the creator and star of Crashing on HBO or the Pete Holmes show on TBS. You may also know him from his many, many stand-up specials on HBO, Netflix, Comedy Central, etc., etc. Or you may be aware that he's the host of a big podcast called You Made It Weird, or that he wrote a book called Comedy Sex Gun. Long way of saying this is a dude who's done a lot in the world, and that's why we wanted to have him on. In this conversation, we talk about how his upbringing in an evangelical household shaped his early ideas about fear and morality and God.

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