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BIG NEWS! SoulPancake co-founder, Rainn Wilson, closes out the final chapter of SoulPancake as he takes us on a journey through our past in the Metaphysical Milkshake van and introduces what’s next for us together at Participant…See you later, SoulPancake! 
Learn more about Participant here: https://participant.com/
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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[Music]
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hey guys
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[Music]
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it’s me rain
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remember this the old soul pancake
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metaphysical milkshake van oh man we had
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some memories in the back of that van
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listen guys you may have noticed that
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there have been a lot less videos being
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posted on soul pancake things seem to be
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changing over there and indeed they are
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there is an enormous transition coming
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do you know how a tadpole crawls into a
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chrysalis and thereby becoming a
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beautiful butterfly one chapter of soul
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pancake is closing and a new chapter is
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opening with our friends at participant
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but rather than me just telling you
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about it we’re going to go on a journey
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[Music]
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people would often ask me rain why did
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you start soul pancake well to chew on
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life’s biggest questions that was our
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mission from the beginning to really
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explore what it means to be a human
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being ready in fact we even wrote a book
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about it a new york times bestseller i
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didn’t realize it was gonna be get in
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the van griffin so what we’re gonna do
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today is tool around hollywood ask some
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people some life’s biggest possible
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questions okay here we go
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uh excuse me want to answer life’s big
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question
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what does art
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have to do with the soul why is it so
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awkward talking about god your soul is
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experiencing my soul through expression
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i do believe in god i honestly feel this
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weird pressure to like not bring it up
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ever what do you hope happens to you
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when you die i hope i get to be all of
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my dogs again that is fantastic
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slam dunk look at what you’ve won no way
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yes
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way thank you for watching thank you
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thanks for stopping by can i ask you a
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life’s big question yeah
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hi
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oh my god no way shabnam magarabi the
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co-founder of soul pancake get in the
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van shop nam i’ve got places to take you
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yeah you’re gonna not right this doesn’t
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feel staged at all no
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how many videos did we make more than
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seven thousand we got over a billion
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video views it’s really incredible what
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we did with a little moxie and you were
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the best co-founder we could ask for
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well that is true
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oh i’ve got a great idea of where to
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take us okay what do you have in mind
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okay here we are this is where it all
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began no it’s been a minute do you think
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they’ll mind if we go in who works here
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in it i don’t know i don’t know the
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original soul pancake offices do you
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remember in that conference room right
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over there we were talking about it
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we’ve been making a lot of great content
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but we need more joy we just kept saying
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more joy more joy and then a week later
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yeah we saw the first kid president
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video i think the world needs a pep talk
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30 million views and a pep talk later we
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were on our way so many great shows we
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made in here science of happiness my
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last days tell my story
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that great video about parents thinking
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step parents this is where it all
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started i wanted to revisit here i
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wanted to take the take the viewers
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there’s no one really here
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hello
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that’s so creepy you know what we need
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to go back out on the streets because
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this is where so much
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of our content originated it’s true
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those first few years all we did were
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street stunts
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that giant ball pit a couple of dance
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parties that street walk where we turned
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it into a dance walk do you remember the
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heart explosion on venice the giant
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megaphone all about giving street
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compliments oh my god yes we got to do
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that again i love the street compliments
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okay oh you have a megaphone hey buddy i
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love your little bike
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that’s so cool looking good i like the
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turquoise mask hey buddy how you doing
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you’re a very handsome man good luck
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wherever you’re going you seem like a
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nice guy i like the plaid shirt
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okay thank you
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that was awesome that was great see
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that’s what people need oh you know the
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other one that i loved was giving random
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people hugs on the street yeah that was
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really that was good right yeah hey
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there’s a guy right there go give him a
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random hug come on i’m gonna film it
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it’s gonna be awesome a random hug it’s
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gonna be great all right it’s gonna be
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great
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[Music]
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she’ll grab an uber or something she’s a
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survivor i love shop nom
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but um
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this next part
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i gotta do a loan
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listen let’s get real here for a second
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folks
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dozens of us worked our butts off on
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soul pancake for over 12 years we
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uplifted we inspired and a whole lot
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more but a really exciting transition is
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taking place
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soul pancake is merging with our friends
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and participants which is an incredible
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company that makes some of the best
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films you’ve ever seen in your life that
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seek to address some of the largest
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issues humanity is facing and so pancake
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gets to be a part of that
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it’s fantastic
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so long so pancake i’ll miss you
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in your current iteration but truly
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thrilled to see
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what awaits
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olivia brade oh my god so good to see
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you thanks for coming out of participant
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to talk to me a little bit yes of course
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olivia missouri social media manager for
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seoul pancake now participant yes what’s
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happening up in the offices much like
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seoul pancake participant believes that
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a good story well told can change the
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world because there’s a social activism
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aspect to what we’re doing at
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participant right yeah it’s the perfect
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union of artists and activists that are
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creating films that not only inspire but
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inspire you to take real world action
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and want to make meaningful change the
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world you convinced me
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hold that thought just wait right there
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i’m
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holding i love it the times there are
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changing
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olivia
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it’s all yours is it manual or automatic
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i don’t know you you’ll figure it out
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take good care of her
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godspeed
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thank you for coming on this journey
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[Music]
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you
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