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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Pete Gets Spiritual with Richard Rohr | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-11. Transcript available.

Pete Gets Spiritual with Richard Rohr | You Made It Weird

You made it weird, yes you did, you made it weird, yeah.
You made it weird, with Pete Holmes.
Yes you did, you made it weird, yeah.
What's happening weirdos?
I am thrilled.
If you listen to this podcast, you know that the episodes that I love the most
are when
I get to sit down with someone like this, with Richard Rohr.
Father Richard Rohr, who's written books that have absolutely changed my life
and millions
and millions of other people's lives, absolutely unbelievable person, I call
him my spiritual
father, I'm so glad you're here, he has a new book, I'm holding it up right now
if you're
watching this on the YouTube, The Tears of Things, his new book, Prophetic Wisdom
for
an Age of Outrage, it is timely, I'm so glad he wrote it, I'm so glad that he's
not done,
there's so much for him to say about these times we're living in, so check it
out, I got
it on audio as well, which is wonderful, so check out The Tears of Things and
everything
that Richard does.
I start my day by reading Just This, which is a very short chaptered book that
is a wonderful
way to start your mornings and I also love The Universal Christ very, very much,
these are
incredible books and everything he has on YouTube, everything he has on iTunes,
I just, I love
this man so, so much and I'm so glad you're here, you're gonna hear how loving
and generous and warm
he is and it's just gonna hopefully for what it did for me, do for you, we'll
do for you what it did
for me, that's what I meant to say, meaning make your day better and brighter,
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let's get into Richard Rohr, the Tears of Things, so glad you're here, get into
it.
I, you know, this is the third time you've been on this podcast and this
podcast is sort
of, no it's not sort of, it is how we met in Laguna Beach that one time in
person, and
what a, what a life-changing encounter that was for me and for so many of our
listeners,
and I'll never pass on an opportunity to say what a gift you are, specifically
your teaching,
which I think is your love language, that you, you aren't the special boy
necessarily, but
you're, I think you are, but your work has transformed and helped so many
people, and
specifically people on this comedy podcast, come out of the woodwork to tell me
how much
you've shaped how they, oh that makes me happy. Yes, how they look at reality,
what's better
than that? You know, what's better than reality? And we are, I want to talk
about the book,
but if it's okay, I had a very specific thing come up that I wanted to ask you
about.
Is that alright? Oh yeah, sure. Well it's sort of also, I'm just going to have
to
try not to just love on you the whole time, but when I've... I always do.
When I've, when I've spent time with you, the thing that I always tell people
is just what
the seer of people you are, an appreciator of people you are, and that when we
would just
be going into a hotel or something, you would greet somebody in the lobby and
just really
reflect their dignity and their reality and see them. Like you took a moment to
see them.
I hope so. Yes. I mean, that is what I was so moved by. I'm sure you've heard
the "I didn't
come to learn from my master, I came to watch him tie his shoes" thing.
I haven't heard that long. Oh, that's a Zen thing. Beautiful.
Yeah. I came to watch my master tie his shoes. Wow.
And the times I've spent with you, watching you tie your shoes, I wasn't
grading you. I
was just so touched to see... Here's my question. I'd love to hear your
reflection on this. When
it comes to kindness, Richard, you've lived this life, and kindness and seeing
everyone
as a brother or sister or God's child or the very same essence that we all are,
I'm curious,
what role has conversion played in your kindness? Are you kind out of an effort,
like a good Kansas boy,
out of being polite, out of wanting to be loving because it feels good? And how
much of it, this is
a very heady question and maybe it's not a good one, but how much of it is
recognizing the sacred moment
that right now we're talking to ourself, that you and I are the same. We're
branches on the same vine.
And when I can be converted and have a God encounter, when I see you, I'm not
being kind to you.
I'm recognizing our shared essence. You're answering your own question.
Welcome to the show. I can't stop doing it. I want to hear your thoughts,
though.
It's both. It's both. I'd be lying if I said I approach every person with that
God image glaring at me. Many times it's a hard choice. People who irritate you
or
whatever, so it's unhealthy fours. But it's coming much easier as I get older.
Yeah. I don't let the eccentricities of people irritate me. Really?
As much. Do you think that faded away naturally? Yes. Because obviously, I
think a lot of us confuse
conversion or enlightenment or self-realization with being nice and being happy
and being calm.
That's such a sellout. I always say the word nice is never in the New Testament.
Yes, yes. You know, Victorian politeness is not gospel love.
Yes. Yeah, I agree. But isn't it interesting that let's say we went to watch
our master tie his shoes
and he did get mad about something like he lost his temper. Like we don't know
what to do with that.
We don't we don't know how to like it's much easier for me to include other
people. But when it's my own
rage or disgust or whatever, pick your thing, it's really hard for me to go. I,
too, am a lawful expression
of the one. Suddenly, I'm a wicked little boy on the outside.
Very good. Have you heard? As a good Catholic boy, I've got to say it. Have you
heard the motto of Pope Leo?
No. I'll translate it for you in Latin. In illa una, in the one, unum. In illa
una, unum. In the one, we are one.
Yes. Wow. I think any of the world religions can respect that.
Yes. It hasn't received a lot of publicity yet. Well, I'm overjoyed with him.
Yes. Is that right? Oh, yes. Oh, good. I never met him before, but I sure like
what I'm seeing.
Oh, that's wonderful. Of course, I thought of you. You're my closest person
that would have a real vested interest in the new Pope. So I'm glad to hear
this. And wait,
did he say the enuno unum thing? It was in the press. Oh. It wasn't from his
voice,
but you have to choose a motto. So it's somewhere in the Vatican, I guess. Oh.
I didn't know you
choose the motto. How fun. You have to have a motto. And that's a very non-dual
motto.
Yeah. And very universal religious. And very universal religious. Yeah.
But I mean, would you talk a little bit about, I've become much more non-dual
in the years that I've known
you. And I've had some authentic encounters at the intimacy and the impersonality.
It's impersonal
and it's intimate. Meaning it's all these paradoxes. It's nothing. It's
everything.
It's everybody asking God yes or no questions makes no sense to it. You make
that quote,
there's one thing that God can't do, which is add or subtract. Do you remember
that poem?
Yes. Yes.
So when we talk about oneness, it gets really tricky to talk about. It's
probably why it's so unpopular,
right? It's not very special. If we're all in, if we're all one, we lose our
shininess and we lose
the fun of being included. Isn't that right? I like what you said right at the
beginning. It's both
impersonal and intimate. That shows you have to have experienced it to give
such precise words. That's
excellent. You didn't learn that from me. Well, I have had, I'm very fortunate
to have had that
experience. And there's a sort of, I know, you know, this there's a, there's a,
like a weeping or a
laughing. There's a real, you have that comparison of trying to please God is
like our children
bringing us these crude crayon drawings and God puts them on the fridge. I
think I've told you this
before. I asked this non-dual, this oneness, if it loved or knew Pete, because
you know, there's this
idea that complete perfect oneness couldn't even really know about Richard or
Pete. It's, it's perfect.
It can't know