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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

190. J. Hope Stein: Eavesdropping on the Eavesdropper

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

Mygirlfriendsboyfriend, Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Sleepwalkwithme, Iraglass, Comedy, Thankgodforjokes, Thenewone, Mikebirbiglia, Dontthinktwice, Birbiglia

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0

When I die, how long before you marry someone else?

0:03.0

Stop it. I hate that question so much.

0:07.3

It's the worst question.

0:08.8

I'm never going to get married again.

0:10.7

Boom.

0:11.5

This interview is over.

0:12.8

We don't have to worry because we're never going to die.

0:19.2

That is the voice of the great J. Hope Stein. That is my wife, the great Jay Hope Stein.

0:22.3

That is my wife, the poet, the author.

0:26.0

She wrote a book a few years ago called Little Astronaut that is available everywhere.

0:30.3

She is the co-author of a book that we did together called The New One, Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad with Poems by Jay Hoekstein.

0:37.9

I think a lot of you are probably familiar with her work.

0:40.3

She was, you know, she has poems that I read in my special, The New One, from Broadway.

0:46.1

She's back on the podcast today with some new poems that I love.

0:50.3

We've been doing some shows together called Jokes and Poems here in New York City.

0:55.8

Over at Joe's Pub, we did one last month.

0:58.2

We're doing one in a couple weeks from now.

1:01.3

And they're intimate shows.

1:02.8

It's at Joe's Pub.

1:03.7

It's probably about 160 seats.

1:05.7

And so it usually sells out really quickly.

1:08.1

If you want to be the first to know about those shows, sign up for my

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