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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

106. Joe Birbiglia Returns: You Think I Give a Care About Christmas Parmesan?

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Joe “Joey Bag O’ Donuts” Birbiglia returns to the podcast. Last time, Mike and Joe broke down what it’s like to work together as brothers. Now, in honor of Mike’s upcoming Christmas shows in Boston, they share their favorite Christmas and Boston memories—from the time Joe broke the news about Santa to Mike to their time as busboys in high school when Joe came up with the idea for The Busboy Olympics™. Plus, America’s Guest breaks the news to Mike that they’re going skiing in March while Mike does shows in Colorado. Please consider donating to: https://www.gbfb.org/

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0:00.0

I was bus boy with this other guy who was a he was a that toughs and I remember saying to him

0:06.8

We should have bus boy Olympics

0:10.4

You know the bus boy Olympics and we carry like trays and like glasses full of water and

0:17.8

He was just like, uh-huh, uh-huh and then

0:21.8

A couple days later. We're talking with someone and everyone's ripping into me and the guy goes

0:25.8

Yeah, and this guy thinks we should have bus boy on

0:27.9

Olympics, it's like it's like this guy sold me out. Oh my god

0:32.2

I don't know bus boy Olympics. He laid low. I know

0:37.8

That is the voice of Joe Bribiglia. Joseph Bribiglia. Joey bag of donuts. He's back

0:43.7

This is a very special episode. Joe

0:46.4

You might remember was on the show about a year ago

0:49.1

It was a huge success

0:51.8

People have talked about it for a year. So now he's back and we're gonna talk a lot about box

0:57.9

Justin and Christmas because I'm going to Boston for Christmas

1:03.1

I'm gonna be at the Wilbur theater, but we just added a fifth and sixth performance of the Wilbur

1:07.3

We call the shows Christmas Parmesan because I've a joke from the old man of the pool about how the theme of Christmas around our house growing up wasn't really

1:15.6

Religion or Jesus if anything it was I think just sort of chicken Parmesan

1:20.2

So we're having Christmas Parmesan at the Wilbur. We're super excited about it

1:24.0

So we talk that's that's where Joe and I grew up sort of outside Boston probably an hour away in Shrewsbury

1:30.7

And so we talk a lot about Boston we tell stories about growing up

1:36.3

We talk a lot about chicken Parmesan and all things Christmas

1:41.3

Next I'm going to London to the Windham's theater, which is a gorgeous theater in London

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