18. Jon Favreau & Tommy Vietor: Pod Save Birbiglia

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Mike chats with two of the co-hosts of “Pod Save America” about voting, working in the White House, getting high at Water Country, and “unf—ing the supreme court with small-d democracy.” What happens when a comedian talks candidly with President Obama’s speechwriter and one of the members of his national security team? Find out. It’s a good one. And vote! Please consider donating to: Vote Save America: https://votesaveamerica.com/donate/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we're back with another episode of Working It Out.
0:11.1	I am so excited for this episode.
0:14.8	A couple of quick live updates.
0:16.8	I'm performing two outdoor shows, safely distanced tomorrow evening in Connecticut, 530 and
0:23.8	730, a few tickets left.
0:26.5	And then if you're nowhere near Connecticut, I'm doing three virtual stand-up shows in
0:32.4	two weeks from now, all different material from the last virtual show, which is sort of
0:38.1	mind-boggling and intimidating.
0:39.6	But I think it's going to be fun.
0:41.4	The last one was great.
0:43.2	Get tickets for any of these things on yourbigs.com, sign up for my mailing list.
0:47.8	I couldn't be more excited for today's episode.
0:51.0	I wanted to do something special for the election.
0:53.6	I took a big swing.
0:54.9	I asked the guys from PodSaveAmerica who have a voting initiative called a voteSaveAmerica.
1:01.4	To join us, I was shocked.
1:03.4	They said yes.
1:04.6	I have fooled them.
1:06.6	They are their former members of the Obama administration, which leads to discussions
1:12.6	of government and speech writing in relation to comedy writing, as well as voting and life.
1:19.3	And even a whole bunch of new jokes I wrote just for this episode.
1:23.6	I hope you enjoy my chat with Tommy Vittor and John Fevero.
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