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

The Romesh Ranganathan Show

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Monday, 31 August 2026 - 1 hour 3 minutes

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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