27. Rachel Bloom: The Inception of the “Please Stop The Ride” Musical

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The award-winning co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Rachel Bloom joins Mike as the two of them crack into a format never explored in this podcast—the musical! Mike leaves his prepared material behind and pitches a concept for a musical. In turn Rachel pitches Mike her first comedy special—an idea she has never discussed publicly. They also discuss Rachel’s hilarious new book and Rachel delivers some of the best slow round answers of all time. https://feedingamerica.org

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0:00.0	Okay.
0:01.0	Rachel's back.
0:02.0	Bing, bang, boom.
0:03.0	Already ready.
0:04.0	Okay, so I was going to play you this, Rachel, because I just thought this was...this is not
0:13.6	a thing that I went out of my way to do, but I was reading the book last night and then
0:21.4	my daughter Una, who's five, came in and then I'll play you what she said.
0:25.2	So, is book that I'm reading?
0:30.2	What can you read me the name of it?
0:32.2	It's called I want to be where the normal people are and the office by Rachel Blings.
0:45.2	That's right.
0:46.2	That's a really good book.
0:50.2	It's the book that's reading.
0:53.2	Good job.
0:54.2	I mean, interviewing her for the radio show.
0:57.2	Okay, I'm good.
1:01.2	Everybody, it's Mike.
1:06.0	We are back with a new episode, our first new episode of 2021.
1:12.3	Working it out.
1:13.3	Thanks for joining us.
1:14.7	We are joined today in moments by the great Rachel Bloom, the book that my daughter Una and
1:21.7	my were referencing is her hilarious book that just came out called I Want to Be Where
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