25. Ira Glass: The Highly Anticipated Return

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Since Ira Glass was Working It Out’s inaugural guest in June 2020, listeners have frequently requested his return. This week the podcast has its first return guest and its first *second draft*. We also learn what it takes to get a story on “This American Life” and whether Mike’s new story about learning he had cancer at age 19 has what it takes. Ira gives genius notes and spares no feelings. Story nerds, gather round. It’s a must listen. Please consider donating to: https://elpasoansfightinghunger.org/

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0:00.0	Okay, check one, two. This is the return of Ira Glass episode. He got me on
0:08.7	speakerphone last time and I'm gonna bust him on speakerphone because he it's
0:19.6	501 and we're supposed to talk at five o'clock.
0:23.6	Okay, when?
0:30.6	Bye. Alright, so that was a failed attempt. He did pick up, however, he immediately
0:41.5	said I will call you back. To be clear, I said when he hung up and that is our
0:50.2	friendship in the nutshell.
1:05.4	Hello. You big Z's? Hey man, how's it going? Going good. How's it going? You
1:12.7	following into my trap once again, you're on speakerphone. But now that you know
1:17.1	that I'm in my studio and I'm recording my voice from my studio, you can take
1:22.5	me off speakerphone so that way you can get my voice at full fidelity from my
1:27.5	recording. You know what I have to say to that Ira? What? Tell me something I
1:34.6	don't know. You've learned so much, Janjana. You know, it's been so long. You
1:46.4	know, you did the first episode in June and since then I don't know if you're
1:49.6	following the progress. We've won a Pulitzer. The workout podcast is won a Pulitzer.
1:56.2	Did you did you ever win one of those? What was it? Was it your first couple of
2:03.2	years or was it like after like a long time? And which episode won you the
2:10.7	Pulitzer? Oh, I don't remember. I mean, I think it was just sort of like great
2:15.0	work. I think it was like the Pulitzer for great work all around podcasts, humor,
2:21.3	category, I think. Well, that's obviously a very coveted category that
2:27.3	not everybody can win. We also won the Peabody. Did you ever win them?
2:39.0	We're only eight months in Ira. So like think about what we could do. We've won the
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