164. Andrew Schulz: Give Him 10 Seconds

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week Andrew Schulz comes on the podcast and Mike and Andrew break apart why the two of them are unlikely work friends. They discuss Andrew having Donald Trump on his podcast, Andrew’s new deeply personal Netflix special, “Life,” and the politics of free speech in comedy. Plus, Andrew reveals the guest he regrets having on his podcast, “Flagrant.”

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0:00.0	I'm not telling you anything that you don't know,
0:01.9	but I think stories are our earliest form of digesting information.
0:05.3	Agreed.
0:06.0	It's like a floppy disk, but before we had floppy disk.
0:09.4	It's writing before writing.
0:10.6	Yeah.
0:11.3	Giving us little anecdotes or facts,
0:14.9	they'll just leave us immediately.
0:16.7	Yeah.
0:17.1	But I think our brains are built to remember story.
0:21.1	And I also think that when somebody walks in a room and they go,
0:25.1	hey guys, this crazy thing, we give them 10 seconds.
0:28.5	Right?
0:30.0	So smart.
0:36.5	That is the voice of the great Andrew Scholes.
0:39.4	There have been a few guests on this podcast over the years.
0:43.9	People, probably listeners of the show, did not expect me to have even known them.
0:48.6	And Andrew's definitely that.
0:49.6	He, you know, he does roast comedy.
0:52.5	He does really provocative comedy.
0:55.7	He interviewed Donald Trump.
0:57.3	There's a lot of things that are very different about us.
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