Mike Birbiglia Returns

24:02Ye-boo, Ye-boo, it's lots of fun to do. If you like it, holler yay, and if you don't, you holler boo. Could you give context to people who didn't hear that originally? Yeah, okay, Will, it was my grandfather had some old, like 45s in the attic and we found one and it was this singer in like the 50s singing a song called Yay Boo, Yay Boo. And I remembered once, it's, I can do it now on the podcast and it feels like it's in place. There was one night on the late night show when I'm out there and I'm really just, at this point I've done like 35 ,000 hours of television, but I'm in, I'm doing the monologue in the late night show for NBC.

24:43And I said something and the audience mock went, and then I said, of course, so-and-so's in the news. And the audience went, boo. And I went, yay, boo, yay, boo. It's lots of fun to do. If you like it, holla yay. And if you don't, holla boo. And I remembered my producer, my, everyone was like, what the fuck was that? But that goes back to what you're saying of like people come up to you and they go like, I want to do what you do. And people say that to me as a standup all the time. I'm like, you got to do it so many hours, like you're saying, that you don't even notice you're doing it after a while.

25:14Well, that happens that, yeah, you probably get this. You'll be talking to somebody and they'll think, oh, that's weird. You're the same person that I saw do the show. Yeah. Meaning they assume that you become a different person. Yes. You'll do bits for people endlessly in like an airport or like a Taco Bell. People will be like, why is he doing that? Why are you this serious, quiet man in your regular life? And I'm imagining Scott Ian from Anthrax never wanting to speak to you. Oh, yeah. He was trying to get away from me. Wait, so are you – so that was my whole thing with my mom when I was like – I recently – I guest-hosted for Kimmel when he had COVID.

25:55And so they were like – Or when he said he had COVID. Yeah, when he said he had Kimmel. And wanted a little downtime. And so they were like, you should interview your mom on video chat. So I interviewed my mom. And I go, Mom, what was I like as a kid? And she goes, you were not funny. You were so serious. And then she goes, you comedians are so serious. And I was like, how many comedians do you know? Are you texting Ronnie Chang? Yeah. Turns out she knows a lot. Are you on an email thread with Roy Wood Jr.? Like, what's going on here, Mom? What don't I know? I do really want to talk about you.

26:35You have amassed this really cool body of work. You're a terrific storyteller and a terrific, you make these one man shows that are beautifully constructed. Oh, thanks. And you are not, so I want to take a second here and acknowledge what you've done, which is you are not, I have so much respect for standup, but what you do, it feels like you've carved out really something quite unique for yourself. And I think that's my highest compliment to musicians and comedians is when I say, no, this person found something, they worked hard in the dark alone, they figured it out, and they came out with something that's truly them.

27:22And I think you've done that. Like people, you have this huge following, which is people want to want to hear mike barbiglia tell stories that are very personal to him no i appreciate it it's i'm lucky i just you know i'm doing a new tour called please stop the ride it's like a whole new hour and it's uh and it yeah it seems like people still want to see the next show you know it's weird every time i always talk about this with my friend jack antonoff who's from bleachers he's a great musician and we've been friends for like 20 years we're both touring acts and like when you put a tour on sale you find out if anyone still cares yeah you know what i mean yes and it's like and so it's exciting that i've made these yeah like you're saying like i made these things that and it's kind of by accident that i made it specific it's really just because i'm like i'm really interested in plays and i'm really interested in movies and drama and then also i'm really interested in stand-up and along the way i started working with a theater director or Seth Barish.

28:23And I just, I started working with theater producers and at a certain point, it just became a thing. Like it wasn't an overnight thing. It just, and at a certain point, like probably my biggest break was like in 2008, Nathan Lane agreed to present my show off Broadway, Sleepwalk With Me, which is the first one of these. And that was helpful because it like sort of put me, made people show up and think it's a piece of theater as opposed to just writing it off as stand-up. To have Nathan Lane's... It's true, though. No, but to have Nathan Lane's imprint, I mean, he is... He's a gold standard. He's a gold standard.

29:02And so for Nathan Lane to say, you all need to pay attention to Mike Biglia, I mean, to give yourself credit, you've also had a very interesting life. You've had a lot of health issues, and you've been really honest about them, and they're quite dramatic, and the stories you tell are riveting. I mean, they're really like, the highest compliment I can pay to someone, this sounds terrible, but Los Angeles is a very specific place and theater in LA, to get to theater in LA, you need to, it's not like New York, where you say, I want to go check out that show. I'm going to walk 15 blocks this way and go see the show.

29:39I heard that you were doing your show and Greg Daniels and I were talking about it and we decided let's go down and see Mike Birbiglia do his show. So we drove to downtown Los Angeles to see your show. And I remember thinking, as I'm driving into downtown LA, this is commitment. Because it's like a 40-minute odyssey. And you feel like it's like Lord of the Rings. Like there's different tests along the way. And we lost the ring for a while, but we got it back. And we crossed the river. And then finally, we ended up at this wonderful theater. and we saw you and you were worth it. Definitely worth the trip.

30:18Oh, thanks. It's weird how, yeah, it's weird how you end up where you are. And then also like you were talking about the Nathan Lane thing. It's a little bit like with Lorne, Michaels with you. Yeah. With Late Night. Yeah. Because like, I remember when that happened in the 90s when they were like, and the new host is a writer who you do not know. Who's replacing. Also, to put it in context, I used to, I did this bit once on Charles Grodin's show, but he was like, now what was it like when he replaced Letterman. And I was like, what is it? What was it like? I said, imagine. I can't imagine. I said, imagine that, because, you know, Letterman, 1993, and this is back when there were very few comedy gods, you know, it's a very different landscape now, but he's this, he's the biggest icon in comedy and Carson's retired.

31:07And so it's like, it's Letterman in my world. And then imagine them saying, in baseball. You know, Joe DiMaggio is now retiring today, ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen. He is leaving the field forever, forever, forever, forever. Goodbye, Joe DiMaggio. Greatest legend in Yankee history, history, history, history. But don't worry, ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen. Here comes his replacement. 19-year-old Chip Whitley. And like a bat boy comes running out. It's like, hi, everybody. I'm going to disappoint you for a while, while, while. But don't worry, worry, worry. If you stick with me, with me, with me.

31:48After about four or five years, years, years, you'll grow to love me, love me, love me. And that's what it felt like. And that's exactly what it was. It was fucking crazy. Yay boo, yay boo. It's lots of fun to do. If you like it, holler yay. And if you don't, but yeah. Holler boo. But it was absolute madness, but it's so funny that you remember that, but people that are into our stuff now or like the podcast, whatever, and people in their 20s, they have no idea. They just think, oh, you're like Mickey Mouse. You were just always around. I'm like, no, no, no. There was a time when it was really rough.

32:35Yeah, and I feel like the thing that's happened, this show's called The Old Man in the Pool, and by the time people, yeah, I'll say, it's on netflix now it's called the old man in the pool because it will because it's out right now it's out right now and i want i had a fear about it which was i was like the vision was i want to do a show that's uh that's 90 minutes of jokes and stories about death because i feel like if we you know face the thing that we're more scared most scared of in my case death um that there's a catharsis for that for everybody potentially and i did have a fear of like oh I'm going to go out with this.

33:11And then some people are going to be, if they're going through, you know, sorrow or dealing with deaths of people close to them are going to have a bad, it's going to have a bad effect. And it was the opposite. Like literally the people who would come up to me, like when I was doing it in LA, like I remember like this woman came up to me over the show and she was like, I recently lost some people in my life and I lost my dad and a bunch of people. And, and tonight when I was in the audience, like I felt like I was laughing with my dad and it was like, and genuinely, like, I feel like that's the thing about being in my forties that I did not expect.

33:48First of all, I didn't expect to be doing comedy in my forties, or somehow like in my twenties and thirties, even didn't anticipate that it would continue somehow. But I feel like the thing that I've, I've started to realize is like, oh, it really is about them. It's about the audience. It's about their experience. And it's like if you can get people to that point, that's why I'm excited that it's on Netflix now, because it's like, oh, well, maybe it'll have that effect with, you know, hundreds of millions of people who are able to get to Netflix. It's funny because and this is a compliment again, hard to categorize you because you are very funny and you are a comedian and you are doing stand-up comedy, but it's also not stand-up comedy because you're telling stories.

34:31And we've talked about this somewhat. And you mentioned your mom. I know your mom was a major influence on you. Because like my parents, she comes from this Irish storytelling tradition. And I just knew that I grew up in a similar kind of situation where telling stories and being able to make something that happened to you funny was sort of just a way of life. It's how you grew up. It wasn't even thought of as a possible profession, right? Yeah, it's like, it's definitely not. I mean, I grew up, I was out of Worcester. I didn't even grow up. I was out of Boston. Like, people don't even understand when I explain where I live.

35:10Like, central Massachusetts, they're like, why would anyone live there in the middle? Yep. In the middle. In Chesbury, Massachusetts, which I love. And I just went back there easily. I love it. But it's also like no one in the town thought show business wasn't a job that anyone even had. I mean, it was an outrageous thought. But, yeah, I feel like even when I go home now, it's like my mom's a great storyteller. And my siblings, my two sisters, Gina and Patty, my brother Joe, they're a riot. And like the most fun is my wife always comments on this is, is that when I'm home, it's not the dinner, the Christmas dinner.

35:54That's funny. It's like the 11, 12 at night, 1 a.m. sitting around the kitchen aisle. Kitchen. Yeah. Kitchen. And just telling stories about kids you grew up with and what's going on with everybody and what's this person up to. And like, and that's like, I'm getting choked up even saying it's like, weirdly, that's my favorite thing to do. Yeah. Well, it's also you love and just tell stories about things. Right. But I think you've been done a really good job of replicating that, that there's an alchemy that happens specifically around the kitchen island. Or for us, I can I I I still see it when I go home.

36:35And my parents are still with us. It's so funny, Mulaney, I was, last time I was talking to him and I mentioned that my dad is 94 and he said, I think it's, I forget how he said it because his diction is so perfect, his word choice, but he just said, I think it's like something unseemly or silly that a man your age still has his father.

37:01And I was like, no, but it was, I could kind of see like, Oh, come on, Conan. Yeah. That's so funny. You're ancient and you're saying, I just saw my dad? That's ridiculous. But I kind of knew what he was saying, but - I think he said, was he like, it's not dignified. It's almost not dignified. Like, oh, stop that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, oh, stop that, Conan. That's ridiculous. But I go back and see my folks in the same house I grew up in, in Brookline, and there's that round table that's still there, and I'm sitting at that same table and all that stuff comes back, which is, oh, this is where I really cut my teeth.

37:39This is where I, everything else has been a refinement of that. You're just refining and adjusting. But the basic concept of how it all works happens around your kitchen table. That's when it happens, or it happens around that island. And you're right, it happens at 11 o 'clock at night when people are letting their guard down a little bit and telling stories. And you've been able to translate that. I mean, I don't want to give anything away from your show, and you can tell me if this is cool to talk about or not, but you start your show, this one, with a very personal story about something that happened to you like six years ago.

38:15You mean the doctor's appointment? Yes. Yeah, yeah. So I went for my annual checkup and the doctor asked me to do the pulmonary test, which is you blow into the tube and there's a ball in it, simulate blowing out a candle, which is the joke, which is why I call it the birthday cake test. It tells you how many birthday cakes you have left and so i basically basically i did it and then the doctor's just like looking at the screen attached he goes go ahead and do it you know i was like i did it you know and then basically like they were like you have to do cardio five days a week i was like nobody does cardio five days a week they're like a lot of people do i'm like i don't think professional athletes do cardio five days a week we're like professional athletes definitely do cardio five days a week we talk about this for about 45 minutes we agree to disagree and uh but it was it you know it really did it it led me down this rabbit hole of of of different doctor's appointments and it's a little bit whack-a-mole where like you you fix one thing and then you're drinking too much juice and then your blood sugar goes up i got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and it's like kind of a yeah it's a roller coaster things and it's like yeah so the the yeah the show really deals with like mortality and this idea of like you there's a certain point where you're like, oh, I'm like, I always heard that, that phrase growing up like over the hill, that would always be at the Spencer gifts, like, you know, giving people greeting cards, you're over the hill.

39:38I didn't even know what it meant. Right. So I get on till I got on the hill. And I'm like, oh, oh, there's natural causes. They're not close, but they're coming. But it's like, yeah, I would I mean, I how's your experience with that been like aging where you just go like, oh, wow. Have you had that? It was a shocking view. Well, you know, yeah, I had my, we talked about it on the podcast a bunch, but I turned 60 in April. And it's just funny because I, you know, knock wood, I feel great. I think I take care of myself and everything, but you do start to, that's a number and not in a bad way, but you start to think, oh, there's a finite amount of this.

40:21And we spend so much of our lives and you can probably relate to this too, which is I had such a big part of my career where I just felt like I was the new guy. Yes. And then it turned so quickly into - Oh my gosh. Into, you did a great job, old man. Yes. And people on the street are like, they're super nice to me, but they act like, I've been around as long as they've been alive doing foolishness. And so it felt like it flipped very quickly into good job, old man. And I'm thinking, wait a minute, the part where I was the young guy trying to prove myself seemed to go on forever. And then it turns very quickly.

41:07And I know you've talked about a similar thing. I had it with Taylor Tomlinson, who we just found out is going to be the next late night host after Colbert. Yeah. Yeah. She's hilarious. And she came on my podcast. She goes, I used to watch you in middle school. Isn't that funny? Middle school, you say. Isn't that hilarious? And where was that? Yeah. Yeah. When was this middle school? When does that take place? But no, there are routinely people that work for me and I'm like, when were you born? And they're like, you know, 1998. I'm like, what? How are you allowed to be out away from home? How can you be allowed to leave your house?

41:56How are you allowed to leave your house? Do your parents know where you are? They're like 1998 Conan? Fucking wake up. Someone dial 911. This child has wandered, you know, are we employing you illegally?

42:15Let me get this straight. You were born while Clinton was president. Yeah. And you're allowed to walk around in workplaces. But I mean, it's so wrong, but yes. And by the way, just shout out to Taylor Tomlinson, who I adore. She is hilarious and fearless. Oh, yeah. fearless uh and uh i got to tour with her a bunch of years ago and she was i mean i think she must she was very young when she was on this tour i remember the first night she walked out and it's a big venue and everything and she just had absolutely she had that thousand yard stare of yep i'm gonna go do this now and kill i was like good lord yeah remind me to uh buy stock in taylor Tomlinson.

43:01So you and I had similar Irish Catholic Massachusetts upbringing. Did your parents say I love you? Because I talk in the special a lot about we weren't like an I love you. And we all love each other. There's no confusion, but we don't say I love you. We say take care. I know and it's not the same. Take care of oneself. It's not even yourself. Take care of oneself. Take care of one. Wait, one who? Someone. Well, I'm going to say, I'm going to double down for our listeners. And we've probably mentioned this before, but you say you come from Worcester, Shrewsbury. That's where my entire family comes from.

43:43And then my parents, when I was, just before I was born, they migrate to the Boston area from central Massachusetts. But really, all my DNA and my whole history is Worcester, Massachusetts. and that's where all my relatives live. That's where I went when I was a kid. We went there on Christmas's Thanksgiving. So you and I are made up of exactly the same stuff. You might have even gone to what I talk about in the special, which is the YMCA pool in Worcester. That's where I, that's because I did not go there. No, my doctor recommended I go to the YMCA pool. And I say, when I was a kid, my mom took me to the YMCA pool and I hated everything about it.

44:26It was wet, sweaty. I go, it smelled like, you know, when you're a kid and someone breaks their cast and they let you smell under the cast. It's like if that smell became a building and then someone just sprayed it down with over chlorinated water. I love that you said you let someone smell under your cast. Get lined. Line up now. No pushing, no shoving. That's right. Only$10 a pot. Line them up, kids. Hey, is she here? Amber Bigley is letting us smell underneath his gas. What? Jesus, fuck, get out of the way. No, I know exactly what we're talking about. We had a place in Brookline, which we all called The Tank and it was a giant, it was a bunch of swimming pools.

45:14And man, there's a distinctive body odor mixed with a powerful chlorine that's probably no longer legal. Yeah. That removes your skin after three swims. Yes. And I remember that quite well. So I had that and my daughter broke her foot this summer, beginning of the summer. And I didn't realize when your daughter breaks your foot, it's like your whole family breaks their foot. Didn't do a lot of foot based activities this summer. But she was we were at this place called Urban Air, which is like one of these places where there's like 100 trampolines in like a warehouse. and then you walk in and they make you sign a release form that's about you know you know you have 40 pages long and it's just like and your daughter will break her foot and you're like mike verbiglia you know and uh there will be many injuries sustained mike verbiglia you know you may not make it out alive mike verbiglia you know and and then we go in and then sure enough you know breaks her foot and it's uh it's and i'm not and of course now you know she broke she did the thing that it seems obvious.

46:22Someone's going to get hurt. This is crazy. Right. But now I can't sue, but I can talk about it comedically on podcasts. Yes, which is in a way the better revenge. Like, for example, I don't know if Urban Air should be a business. That's a joke, of course. I don't. Of course they should be a business. That's the, you know. It's Urban Air is dangerous for all participants, which is a joke I'm working on. Of course it should be safe for all participants. I'm sure it is. Hey, we're doing an ad today for Urban Air. This has been it for the last 15 minutes. That was our ad for Urban Air. Urban Air, are you tired of a body that's free of injury?

47:18Let's do mid-episode vibe check. How are we doing with the episode? I'm having a great time. I'm loving it. I think the person we have to ask is the guru. He sits in the back, sort of like George Steinbrenner. He's just sitting back there. He owns us all. Adam Sachs. He looks exactly like George Steinbrenner. Yeah. If George Steinbrenner had a child with Michael Cera. But it was all Michael Cera. And no George Steinbrenner. It's the second day in a row you've called me Michael Cera. So it's, yeah, I don't know what I've done. It might be my haircut. You know what it is? I'm rewatching with my son.

47:55We rewatch and rewatch and rewatch Arrested Development because I want my, I always wanted my son to watch the very best comedic stuff. And we, he started watching Arrested Development and we always watch it over and over and over again. And we do it and we've been doing it a lot lately. And I've been looking at Michael Cera in that show and thinking, oh my God, it's Adam Sacks. I can't wait for the Daily Beast article. that's like, and that's when he said, I look like Michael Cera again. And that's when he said, I look like George Steinbrenner. You don't look like George Steinbrenner. You have the, sometimes in the back, I know that like one frown from you and I know that I'm gone.

48:37So yeah, he controls us all. How's it going? It's going great. This is like, this is exactly what the podcast should be. Yeah. This is. Not always is, but should be and could be. This is what the podcast should be and often is, but not always is. Does anyone have any notes so far? Well, you do. You came in with 50 notes. My only note is that you said mid-episode check-in. We are actually at wrap time. I know. But not that we have to. I'm just saying. No, no. We can just keep going. That's how much fun it is. This will be one of those long ones. It's zipping along. Yeah. We can just lose the ads because I don't think they're paying us anyway.

49:13once they listen to them. So the Netflix special, it's out. How long does it take you to work on this? On the next show. Yeah, so I'm about to hear into the next show. You need some stuff to happen to you, right? Do you need me to like shoot you in the shoulder? Do you need me to shoot you in the shoulder? No, but I mean, can you imagine? That's when Conan said to me, do you need me to shoot you in the shoulder? And sure, Conan is funny sometimes, but this was a time where it didn't seem like he was making a joke. I would use a 22. I would use a lower caliber. You would kill him. You're like, you're a marksman, but you don't shoot.

49:53Oh, come on. You go shooting, you're going to kill him. Oh, 50-50 chance he gets killed. You get a ton of material. And then I come on at the end of the show and we hug. That's a big show. By the way, that's another handoff that I think that we could pull off in 2024 is If you end up, because you were talking about going out and doing a whole bunch of live dates, maybe even stand up. Right. If you do that, I want to pop into some of those shows. I would love to have you do that. I would love it. Well, you're saying that now. It'd be my dream. Would it? Conan, all the jokes aside. Oh, no. You have to deal with this all the time.

50:34This is the bane of your existence. There's a generation of us comedians who view you as the Buddha of comedy. Oh, wow. Okay. All right. Well. You're old. And apparently fat. I'm apparently fat and old. I'm sorry. I ruined it. No, you actually. I'm sorry. I ruined it. No, Sona. Sona, that was exactly what I needed. Paula Davis on my way in gave me a compliment. And because I've known Paula forever since your late night days. I was with me 30 years. Yeah, and she gave me a compliment, and I basically said, you know, if you stick around long enough and show business, eventually they let you just stay.

51:15And she goes, you and Conan are the best at batting away compliments. Yeah. But you are. You're the, you know. Well, thank you very much. So, yeah, that would be the, that would be. I don't, it doesn't process. I don't take it for granted. Like, seeing you last night, and Jimmy, and Jesus Christ, Marty Short, who is funny in a way that always makes me question, like, how can anybody be that funny in so many ways? Yeah. So, like, run into you guys and just be joking around. And then on the ride home, realize that I get to be around all these very funny people who are really creative. And it's nice.

51:52What a fucking joy. This is how much I idolize Martin Short to work at dinner. And I don't eat onions or tomatoes. Mm-hmm. And you went to an Italian restaurant. And I get mocked. I get mocked by my family, including my daughter and eight-year-old daughter because she eats more stuff than I do. But with Marty Short, I'm like, I'm just going full onions, tomatoes. You know what I mean? I'm just, I can't, I can't be that person. Well, also, there is a moment where you realize you've made a mistake around Martin Short. because he is, you know, when you walk, if you're in a museum or something and you're in a room alone and you're really still and then you move slightly, a little red light goes up, those motion sensors.

52:38And the red light's just going to register movement and they can pick up the slightest movement. Marty Short is one of those for someone making a mistake. There's a few people like that, Bill Hader's like that, where you have to be aware that whatever you're saying or doing is being clocked with a deep sensitivity. He does an impression of me that's so cruel that my wife, Jenny, loves, which is the whole impression. He goes, but it was my car.

53:15That's the whole impression. It's nothing that I say. it's nothing I've said in any joke but it was my car Bill is just beyond he's on another planet of funny but also just knowing that you're around these people who have a superpower that they'll notice something the slightest the slightest I misspoke slightly or I had this little tick and they're like ah Ah, delicious. You're like that. Yeah, you are like that. Not at all. Anyway, moving on. Not at all. Not at all, and I love you both. No, but I value that too. Like, I feel so lucky. Like, my first taste of that, in addition to, like, my own family, like you're saying, was when I got to college, and I was like, is there a sketch comedy group?

54:08Because I wanted to write comedy, like, on late night. And they said there isn't, but there's an improv group. I don't know what that is. And I auditioned. I got in. And when I got in, I was like, oh, these are 10 people who are like that, who are just like, we're going to make fun of everything. We're going to do impressions of everything. We're going to be very annoying, but also kind of amazing. And those are like some of my closest friends to this day. I've always thought, and this goes for everybody here, like, isn't, I always tell my kids that the journey is finding your people. You set off into the world and then it's just collecting people that, you know, inspire you, whatever, charge you in some way.

54:48And then at the end, it is like one of those movies, those travelogue movies where the person heads out in the beginning and at the end, they've got like this, this group of people that have different powers, but they've befriended them along the way. I don't know. It brings me to my final point, which is that Conan and I have finally found each other. And Co-Pods is going to be a huge success. I love it. I don't know. I don't know. No, these are. What do you mean? You don't know. I just crank out these pods, man. One bag of dust. Yeah, I hear it. Their cost to ratio. I mean, it's incredible. Huge in Brazil.

55:24These are huge in Brazil. Look, I'm fine with him taking a dive on that. I feel like I don't want you. That's a joint venture. Yeah. Joint venture meeting. You put up most of the cash. I put up 90 % of the money. Oh, no. And incur most of the risk. Yeah. Yeah. No, I say no. Don't. All right. Well, Buddha's not taking a risk over here. Buddha's sitting on his fat ass. I'm going to start using that. I'm Buddha! That's not something Buddha would say. So, wait. Okay. So, if you were at the end now, so then what's the thing you'd say after I would exit because now we're friendly we go oh that was fun that was good okay so we're going to pretend you're not here yep for seven okay pretend that Mike just left and we take we're going to leave him on but we take these off I have to go to the bathroom so do I you always have to go to the bathroom that's what we would first say okay but then let's say it's after that and we're just sitting here okay get a quick snack yes you guys get snacks I'm trying to get us past that to the part where we talk about Mike Birbiglia okay Okay.

56:27Oh, wow. What did you guys think? Well, I really liked him because he had a team stone in a mug and he had questions for us. That's why I really liked it because of that. He had me at the beginning. Yeah. Well, I already was a huge fan, but being in a room with the person, he's so smiley and that makes you feel so good. Yeah. I loved him. Yeah. You loved him. I loved him. And I'll say, I don't say take care. I'm saying I loved him. Oh, that's nice. I'm a big fan and I really admire his body of work. Yeah. And I think he's a true comedic artist. However, he read personal texts between me and him without my permission.

57:04And that felt like a violation. That felt like, and now I'm supposed to text him again and trust him when I'm in Brooklyn? How am I supposed to trust him now that he doesn't then go on Stern or some other? Hey guys, what's going on? I'm back. You fucking killed it. Oh, thank you so much. I thought it was fun. Hey, loved it. loved it and the text thing was fantastic did you like that? because I was going to maybe ask you before but I thought it would be more spontaneous in the moment no you don't need to ask alright thanks you guys so anyway remove the text part because I come off like cranking out the pause it's just like a prick sorry I left my notes hey how are you?

57:43you said that you didn't like the text part no no no I said I wish I wish there was more and I said double it have it play twice in one podcast Yeah, so no, kill her. All right, thanks so much you guys. But you're going for sure now, right? Do you mind if I walk you out and then lock the door? Yeah, no, absolutely. I'm just gonna shut the door, here we go, and then eeeh, and then I'm locking it and double bolting it. Now I wanna change my opinion, he's a little pushy. He's pushy and he keeps coming back in. Wait a minute, someone got a hydraulic drill?

58:17Hey guys, Jesus! I left my glasses! You weren't even wearing glasses! I know, but I just thought I should start. That's a$35 ,000 door, asshole. Oh, now I know how you really feel, Buddha. You demanded I call you Buddha in the interview. That's the part I left out. I told you if you could mention in that I'm a comedy Buddha and that you all feel that way, I'd really appreciate it and you'd get$500 worth of coffee pots. Well, they never showed up. Thanks for nothing, assholes. Ladies and gentlemen, you just heard real improvisation. None of this was planned and yet it happened. Not a fan. Not a fan of you.

59:05Don't like you. Don't like Sona. I'm okay on Adam. We're getting you a team Adam mug. By the way. He's okay on you. We're getting. Let's get a mug. Let's get a mug. Not mentioned. Let's get one mug made that says Matt Gourley and Mike Brabiglia are okay with Adam Sachs. What about that? That's going to sell. That's going to be our biggest seller. Yeah, fill it full of Co-pods.

59:39Co-Brabig-pods. So seriously, I'm going to make this. Rolls off your tongue. I'm making this for real. Can you for real? Do you or do you not want to purchase Cobra Biggs pods? Do not. Do not. But let me ask you again. Do not. Let me phrase it. Let me give you the shout. How did you get back in here? One bean. One bag of dust. Leave the room. Cobra Biggs security. There's no security here. Cobra Biggs pod. You're big. There's no security. Get him out. Are you putting the door back on or are you taking it off? He came through the ceiling. Oh my God. He came through the ceiling with Rip Taylor energy.

1:00:22I came through the ceiling. He's got confetti.

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