YouSaid · the spoken record

Mike Birbiglia

lines on the record: 103
first: 2016-07-27
most recent: 2016-07-27
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“Thanks. And as a disclaimer to anybody who's listening to this and going, but I don't even like Mike Berbigley's comedy. Why am I listening to him talk about it? Just know on a lot of days, I don't like it either. No, I might be wrong about everything I've just said, but I'm just trying my best like anybody else.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, just that follow the movie at Don't Think Movie on Twitter or Follow Me AdverBigs on Twitter. And trust me that the movie's really good. And I think you'll laugh and I think you might cry, which is for, you know, take someone on a date, take a few of your friends. Yeah, there's a lot of love that went into making something that a lot of people so far have liked. And so yeah, it would just mean a lot to me. Yeah, and it also.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The first book, which is how I was introduced to it your work is. Because I have a completely different outlook on vacation now. The way that you talk about how essentially we're working these 80-hour weeks, let's say, for this pie in the sky idea of retirement at the end of our lives, that God knows what the hell that even is anyway. Live that retirement in fits and spurts in the middle of your life so you understand the perspective of what that even is. And because of that, my wife and I took a vacation to Laguna Beach where I shut off my computer for five days at the beginning of June. It's literally because of your book.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll tell you, this is going to sound like I'm kissing up, but my wife urged me to wedge this in somehow, which is if the people just listen to the podcast and they don't have your book get your work for our work week, I believe your first book.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would say spend $15 on a yoga class. I started doing yoga two years ago, and I think that if I hadn't started, I feel like my body would have broken down completely and I'd be in a sling. My wife's going to convince me to do yoga after years of telling me that I should do yoga, which is, you know, it's hilarious if you people don't have the visual picture of me, but like the or they might, but you wouldn't think of me as someone who does yoga and I certainly don't do it well, but it is, if you can find a good place for beginners, oh my god, I find it to be completely very helpful for being productive and being.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a Norman Lear documentary. There's so many great independent films. And what I urge people to do is go to the theaters, go to your local cinema and see small films that read a few reviews, go to the ones that you think might work for you. But it really does help for there to be more of them. Like no one's getting rich on an independent film. But if the movie makes a few million dollars, I'll get to make another movie and I'll put my heart and soul into it. And so that's what I would ask.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a site called Don't Think TwiceMovie.com at the Twitter handle at don't think. My Twitter handle is at VerBigs, B-I-R-B-I-G-S. And you can see that I'm traveling around the country to like 30 cities. It's gonna whiff people's help don't think twice we'll get into three to five hundred theaters across the country and maybe more. But it's entirely contingent on the people listening to this. And I would just, I'm at Nantucket Film Festival right now and there's great movies. There's this documentary called Tickle that's phenomenal. There's this movie called Other People that Chris Kelly made. Captain Fantastic, which I was telling you about.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going to IO in Chicago and UCB and New York and the Torch Theater in Phoenix and the Planet Ant Theater in Detroit, which is where Keegan Michael Key started. And we're doing these free workshops just as an act of goodwill because basically we thought like, well, why don't we instead of like buying a ton of TV ads and this and that, all the traditional marketing, why don't we spend that money just having me be a walking billboard for the movie and go town to town and spread goodwill say, hey, we're going to do free improv workshops. We're going to give out free tickets to local improv theaters and we're going to do Q&As. So anyway, sort of to get back to what you're saying in a business sense, I would say steal the ideas that corporations use that work and then fill in the rest yourself.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the movie didn't make money. And it doesn't, I mean, I'm trying not to curse. It doesn't fucking make sense. It doesn't make sense at all. And so this time around, I was like, all right, well, I'm going to cut out all the people who charged the movie, so to speak, and became like a line item in the budget for the marketing and the distribution of the movie. And I'm just going to do it myself. So like don't think twice is essentially self-distributed in cooperation with this company, the film arcade, which is like a small distribution company that I basically told my story to and were like, well, let's build this from scratch. I'll go from town to town. I'll go to 30 cities and I'll hand deliver this movie. And so like this summer, my whole summer has been me going town of town showing sneak previews of the movie and then doing a free improv workshop for improv theaters in that town.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and so another example, like my last movie, Sleepwalk with me, I won't sort of name the names involved, but like it didn't. It didn't technically make money, even though it did like two and a quarter at the box office, which is a lot for a small film that was made for a million dollars. And then it did probably a million whatever, maybe more digitally on Netflix and iTunes and all these things. And so it quote unquote made like three, somewhere between $3 to $5 million.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“After the fact, because the show, even though it was like this big success and it ran for eight months, the show technically, this is a very common thing in Hollywood. It lost money, technically. Like it wasn't, I guess the most famous story of this is the Simpsons. Like the Simpsons franchise. I don't know if this is true still, but a few years ago it was like it was not in profit. Have you ever heard that story”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think my advice is just to try to figure out what the what they do well in this kind of the system, the studio system, the network system, and just pull it out and replicate the parts that you think work and then do the rest yourself. So like in other words, my first off Broadway show was Sleepwalk with me and it was very much like by the book and it was produced in this way that it was the off Broadway like system. Like it was, you know, it had a general manager, general management company that took such and such a fee and it had this many people who were on the payroll and all this kind of stuff. And my agent and I.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The networks in the studios, all they care about is whether or not my movie or my TV show or whatever it would be would make them money. So why would I try to please those people? The people I'm trying to please is my audience. They're the people who buy my albums or buy, you know, who go by movie tickets. Those are the people I care about. Those are people I'm making the movies for. So I would say, so my billboard is these companies don't care about you.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is which harkens back to the thing I was saying about gatekeepers, which is like, you know, people always say to me like, hey, I have a very much of a niche career. I have a career where if people know my work more often than not, they're like, oh, that's great. I'm a huge fan. This is great. What you do? But most people don't know who I am. The definition of niche. I don't get stopped in the street. almost ever, which is great. It's phenomenal. And so in relation to that is I do things that are self-produced. I'm a producer in my movies. I'm a producer on my one-man shows. I produce my tours. It's all in-house. And I try not to kind of bow to the gatekeepers of show business because they don't care about me. I mean, they really don't.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I think that's one of the things that I feel like I've learned over the years, which is that we've come to trust corporations in a certain sense and we forget the fact that they actually have no vested interest in us other than our money.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, no. I think it's a cuisine loophole. I think that it's, I think it's a great secret in cuisine, which is that to order the kind of inexpensive pedestrian item on a really expensive fancy menu is more often than not amazing. Like to go to a town to go to a fancy restaurant, like if you're in a fancy restaurant and for whatever reason, there's peanut butter and jelly on the menu, order the peanut butter and jelly because those people aren't fucking around.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that some combination of, I love great macaroni and cheese. I love going to the fanciest restaurant you can imagine and just ordering macaroni and cheese or like ordering the hamburger. I always find that like if you go to some place that some 50 bucks a plate or something like that Sure, you can order the chicken or the steak or whatever, but man can they make a hamburger”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then someone comes up to you right at that moment and is like, hey, I'm a big fan. I'm like, this is a really strange thing to say. I'm in a lot of pain right now.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I hope, by the way, I'm fearing as I'm saying this, that someone's listening to this going, well, I met Mike Berbigli and he's an asshole. It's also I have that with Q&As a lot of times with touring with don't think twice that we'll do Q&As and I'll be like 20 minutes into it and it'll hit me like a ton of bricks like what if the people in the audience didn't like the movie now they're listening to someone babble on about how they made the thing that they don't even like Can you imagine a worse fate than listening to someone talk about a thing that you don't even like?”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that's from my mother. My mother is a very generous person. She's a nurse for her whole career and then she was a school nurse for a while elementary school. She's very Catholic, which is not something that I've followed in her footsteps with, but yeah, she's just very sweet to everyone. And so I try to be, I mean, I don't know if it's true. It's nice to hear that someone says that. About me, but I try, yeah, I try to be nice to everyone. I meet, I think it's the right thing to do. I think that, you know, I think that peace on earth is achieved in a micro sense. I think peace is achieved through every person who you meet in your day is an opportunity to contribute to peace. Everywhere, right? I mean, maybe that's naive, but that's how I think of it.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Money, you know, because walking away going, oh, that was funny. It's, I don't know, there's something about it that feels like it's a missed opportunity.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ultimately, we had to figure out not how is this show, how is this story about me, but how is it about the audience? And the way that we discovered it was about the audience is that it's about the catharsis you can experience by sharing something that you're very embarrassed about, in my case having this life-threatening sleep disorder that I was embarrassed about. I thought people would think I'm crazy. It's about the catharsis of opening up and telling people that and how that can make us feel closer to one another. And so in that sense, this is a roundabout way of saying, I'm always trying to think about how does how can what I'm doing be helpful to the audience? How can they go away feeling empowered in their life as opposed to, oh, that was fun.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How is this story that I'm telling about, let's say, sleepwalk with me? It's a story about how I jumped out of second story window while sleepwalking. It nearly killed me. I got cut up. I ended up in an emergency room. I jumped through a window in the glass, missed my femoral artery.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is kind of irksome, which is that people feel like they're, like, I read it recently in the New York Times where someone said, I'm forgetting her name who wrote this, but she said if I had advice for college students, it would be don't ask, what do I want to be when I grow up? Ask, how can I help or how can I change the world or how can I be of service to other people? And I think that the kind of like just kind of be whatever you want to be is perhaps to be reconsidered by how can I be of service when I'm on the earth for such a short amount of time. Because when I do my shows, like it's when I do my one-man shows, for example, Seth Barish and I, we were always talking about what”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's all about getting your dream, pursuing your dream. I feel like there's something, I don't know what the exact advice is that drives me crazy, but I think that there's a cultural thing right now that”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Gosh, there's so many. I mean, the upright citizens Brigade Theater in New York City feels like home because I've been on that stage a lot and the comedy seller in New York feels similarly. I think that in terms of like a pound for pound venue, I think the Chicago theater is probably your best concert venue in America. Chicago Theater seats about 3,000 people, and yet as a performer, you feel like you're talking to people in your living room. And as an audience member, it feels like you're just, you know, you're just watching someone not in your living room, but sort of, you know, it feels intimate.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's just like a lot of times if I'm not focused, I will kind of wander. And, you know, until I have coffee, forget about it, I'm a heavy coffee drinker. And if I'm on a pro, basically, if I'm on a project, if I'm shooting a movie, I have a complete and exact plan for the next day. And if I'm writing a movie, like I said, I put notes next to my bed, Mike, wake up, go to the coffee shop and write. I think that when I don't have a routine, I'm a mess and I'm not productive and it's not helpful. So that's what I'd say. It's inconsistent. And the other thing is I travel. I mean, thank God for jokes show, I toured 100 cities in a year. And so it's very hard to have rituals when you're going to 100 cities in a year.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so that's what we're looking into. And then I try to write in my journal. And then honestly, the biggest thing is getting off of social media. It's getting off of Twitter and Facebook. I think in relationship to what we were talking about earlier of like, I was saying the thing about Oliver Stone that he joined the army and that's how he became self-reliant and how ultimately like everything in your life that you do leads to who you are and what you're able to accomplish. I think that social media is weirdly the exception to that. I think that social media is like this weird kind of looking in the mirror all the time thing that is it's it's not helpful for being productive or learning. I don't know if that's true, but that's been my feeling lately.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he has this really uncanny skill of talking in circles and slow and circling back to the first topic. And then the next topic. And then another thing and then a digression. And the next thing you know, you're asleep. I mean, it's pretty fascinating what he does.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Try to do, there's actually a good podcast called, not to be mistaken with sleepwalk with me, there's a good podcast called Sleep with Me.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For my sleep, yeah, yeah. I mean, I like the steps thing. I like trying to get to 10,000 steps a day. That's helpful. But for the sleep, I mean, because you got to remember, like, I've slept over at hospitals, you know, countless times for sleep studies because I have REM behavior disorder. And it's like $3,000 per visit to, I mean, obviously, you know, some of its insurance, but some of it I have to pay. And this thing basically does a sleep study and it costs $100.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know it's true, it's true. I mean, it tells me, not only tell, I don't know if you know about this, it not only tells you how long you slept, but it tells you the quality of sleep during, you know, in other words, like it tells you you slept technically for eight hours, but you were awake for an hour of that. So it's actually quite helpful.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is so. This sounds so stupid and like current. And speaking of things not enduring, who knows what this will even be, but I find the Fitbit was helpful for me. Because it tracks my sleep.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's precisely that. I mean, seeing Doug Stanhope live, it's Bill Burr actually to the extreme. I mean, to the point where I can't, it's like watching, it's like magic trick. I mean, it's like watching Andy Kaufman doing his bit where he does his latka character speaking gibberish to the audience and bombing and people not realizing it's a character and then going into a perfect pitch perfect elvis impersonation having it's like you know and people go crazy it's it's it's this thing where you can't believe that he lands the show after how terrible Native, and it's fascinating. And Bill Burrs is saying, yeah, Bill Burr is incredible too. I mean, Bill Burr would maybe be very close to that list as well.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think there's one called No Refunds that's on Netflix, and it is, I mean, because all of his stuff is meant to make people leave. So all of the names of his albums are things that imply that you can't get your money back essentially.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I just think what she does is uncanny. I mean, she drops into these voices that are just like these completely vivid, pitch perfect impressions of people in her life. And it's uncanny. And so I would say those three, that's a great question, by the way. I've never gotten that question.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so it would go something like this. It would go, Mitch Hadberg, I'm writing this down on a pad. Mitch Hadberg Doug Stanhope Maria Bamford. So Mitch Hedberg, I think, is the greatest joke writer of our time. I think Doug Stanhope is the most honest comedian of our time. And I think Maria Bamford is the most vocally and physically versatile.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love terms of endearment and broadcast news are two James L. Brooks films that I can just watch over and over and over again. And those are really the, you know, I may don't think twice when I make sleepwalk with me when I make hopefully the next eight or nine movies, I strive for to make movies like those where you're laughing and you're crying. Because to me, that's what That's what all of it is for. It's to experience the range of emotions within an hour and a half or two hours.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Get this book. And second of all, the basic takeaway for starters is an hour or two before bed, turn off your phone, turn off your computer and I forget what the third one is. But yeah, that's the biggest thing is think of sleep as something that you don't crash into, but that you ease into like that you're parking the car as opposed to crashing the car.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Familiar with that. It is the David Byrne concert film with the talking heads that Jonathan Demi directed, I think, in the early 80s. And it's just a really innovative, strange concert film that's very much worth watching and taking in a creative sense because it's so unorthodox. I mean, it's called Stop Making Sense. And musically, it pays off, I think. And I think visually it pays off because it's very abstract. So that's the one thing I give. The other thing is just I give this book called People ask me about my sleepwalking all the time because I have obviously a very serious sleep disorder where it almost killed me. And so I give this book called The Promise of Sleep and it was written by Dr. William C. Dement, who is the father of sleep medicine in this decade or even century. And makes a cameo in my movie sleepwalk with me as himself. But it's a wonderful book. And people often say to me because of my sleep disorder, what should I do? I have insomnia, blah, blah, blah. I always say, well, first of all,”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's right. Oh my God, if that's the qualification for the next reading series, that will get so many people in the door I had a joke on my first album, which is pizzas like sex when it's good, it's good, when it's bad, it gets on your shirt. It's honestly the dumbest joke, but I still enjoy saying it.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, wow, that is fascinating. The standard thing that Captain Fantastic has this piece of advice in it, which I think is smart, where the father says to the son, when you make love to a woman, be gentle. And I think he says be gentle and listen. And I think that's wise. I think that's good advice. I think you should have sex, assuming that your wife or girlfriend wants this, more than you think”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He complimented his own advice. But I'm telling you, the best thing to do is you got to give people questions they don't, well, you're doing it right now. You got to give people questions they're not expecting. And then my non-political answer, people hate Obama, I get it, whatever. You're Republican. I don't care. That's your issue, but would be Bob Dylan, would be sort of the, I think Bob Dylan is the great artist of our time because unlike the Rolling Stones or the Beatles obviously broke up, but some of them died. But he continues to grow and learn and produce and to change. And so I think that for that, it's like time out of mind is a top five album, Bob Dylan album, of all time. And he made it, you know, in his 60s, you know, it's like, it's unbelievable.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For affirmation, I was like, absolutely, Mr. President, adult poo does indeed smell terrible. Thank you for inviting me to the Pooh Summit 2015. And so, and he goes, and when you bring them home, he goes, baby's crave structure, and they're eating and they're sleeping. And he goes, and if it doesn't, you know, in the breastfeeding, doesn't always work out right away. It can be a little bit wonky. Don't freak out. And if it doesn't work out with the sleeping right away, don't freak out. And he paused and he thought about it and he goes, that's actually some pretty good advice.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he couldn't help the president of the United States couldn't help to be like, well, am I the first to know? And my wife says, yes, she goes, do you have any parenting and advice? And he goes, we'll get some sleep. And we were like, ha ha ha ha ha, because he's the president. It wasn't that funny comedically, but he's like, your boss times a million. And then he goes, but he got better because he goes, no, actually, I got something. He goes, when you bring him home, he goes, when you bring them home, the poo, the president said, poo. And the moment he said poo, I thought, this is the greatest day of my life. Like, I could die right now and I'd be fine. He goes, when you bring them home, the poo doesn't smell. It doesn't smell like adult poo. Adult poo smells bad. And then he looked at me.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Be like, I love Kiwi. You know, like just talk to people about a thing they didn't think they were going to talk about. And then next thing you know, you're talking to Jimmy Fallon about Kiwi, and then you'll have that for your life. So my thing, our thing with Obama was let's tell him, because my wife is four months pregnant, but we hadn't told anybody yet, is why don't we tell him that you're pregnant? And so when we get to the front, I go, Mr. President, this is my wife Jen. She's newly pregnant, but don't tell anyone.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Make one person billions of dollars. And he chose to be work in service as a country. That being said, and I met him at the 75th anniversary of the USO last month, which is really cool. But then I met him two years ago when my wife was pregnant. And we asked him, our whole thing was whenever we meet someone who we know doesn't care about meeting us, we always try, my wife and I always try and come up with like a trick question that throws them off and like they kind of have to answer or have to think about it. I give this advice to people. It's like if you ever see Jimmy Fallon on the street, don't be like, I love the tonight show. Just be like, what do you think of Kiwi? You know what I mean? You won't be able to not.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll say a political and non political answer because if people dislike this person, then it kind of goes one in ear out the other. Barack Obama. Barack Obama to me is very inspiring. He came from nothing. He came and he didn't, he became president of the United States. doesn't have to this is i feel like lost on culture a lot of times he doesn't have to be like he he doesn't have to be the president he could be like an extremely wealthy anything like he could be on wall street he could be a corporate lawyer he could be anything that he could be in silicon valley he could do anything that would”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like a lot of people are smart and a lot of people are clever, but not a lot of people give you their soul when they perform.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not about, and also it's not about being good, it's about being great. Because what I find the older I get is like a lot of people are good.”
2016-07-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #176: Mike Birbiglia, The Sleepwalking Comedy Giant · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT