Listen Again: Rob Delaney—A Heart that Works is a Heart that Hurts
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
Everything Happens Studios
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Comedians have the ability to be unsparingly honest in ways that buck all cultural norms. It’s a truth-telling that so many of us crave.
Cue Rob Delaney.
Rob is a comedian, actor, writer, and director. His memoir, A Heart That Works is an unsparing account of the death of his beautiful son, Henry. Rob lives in London with his family where Kate visited him for this honest and hilarious conversation.
Kate and Rob discuss:
- The importance of finding people who really understand what you’re feeling
- What not to say to people whose kids have died
- How tragic loss exiles you to a planet where only those who understand grief live
- The ways we hope grief metabolizes in us and transforms us into empathetic, heart-open kinds of people
Rob wants us all to understand that if the unthinkable happens, our hearts still beat so strong in truth and love.
CW: hard-earned explicit language of a bereaved parent, death of parent, Suicide, death of a child
Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here or visiting katebowler.com/podcasts.
Follow Kate on Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter)—@katecbowler. Links to social pages and more available at linktr.ee/katecbowler.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode of Everything Happens is presented by the KOLA-GAR test, a non-invasive, effective, and affordable prescription-based |
| 0:08.0 | use-at-home colon cancer screening test. So if you're 45 or older and at average risk, ask your health |
| 0:16.0 | care provider about a screening for colon cancer with the COLA-Gard test. |
| 0:20.0 | You can also request a COLA- prescription today at COLAGard.com |
| 0:25.0 | slash podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | This show is sponsored by Better Help. |
| 0:29.0 | You all know how much I appreciate therapy. |
| 0:31.0 | As much as I feel like getting to do this show is my therapy it is not there's |
| 0:35.4 | actual therapy in store for people like me where once a week I get to talk to a |
| 0:39.7 | professional and it's often exactly what we all need to get clarity about what we're looking for. |
| 0:45.0 | Never Skip Therapy Day with better help. |
| 0:48.0 | Visit better Help.com slash everything happens today to get 10% off your first month. |
| 0:54.0 | That's Better Help. H-E-L-P.com slash Everything happens. |
| 0:58.0 | Hi, I'm Kate Bowler and this is everything happens. |
| 1:03.0 | Okay, confession. |
| 1:05.0 | Some of my very favorite humans in the world |
| 1:11.0 | have one job and their job is comedian. |
| 1:16.4 | There is just something about their ability |
| 1:19.8 | to be unsparingly, sometimes painfully honest, that just destroys the cultural |
| 1:27.3 | scripts we get about what nice or polite looks like. And it's the kind of truth truth telling that I think that so many of us crave, like we don't |
| 1:36.8 | want the niceties, we don't want the platitudes, we want honesty, and maybe a second to laugh about how ridiculous our lives have become. |
| 1:48.0 | We want the kind of truth from people who have the eyes to see, you know, like they get it. They get the joy, they get the |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -220 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Everything Happens Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Everything Happens Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.