3. Jon Laster: Lessons from Black Lives Matter. Also, Honey Buns.

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Mike discusses Black Lives Matter and turning tragedy into comedy with Jon Laster.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Mike Burbiglia here for the third episode of working it out that we're
0:06.3	dropping today.
0:09.3	This episode was based on my friend John Laster's Instagram post the other day.
0:15.4	If you go to his Instagram page, which is at he was funny, or if you go on mine, I'm at
0:20.9	Burbig's, I reposted his.
0:22.9	The photo is of a burning building in Minnesota and the text next to it reads like this.
0:31.9	This is what I felt like on the inside.
0:34.4	The first time cops put a gun to my head over, what are you doing over here?
0:39.6	Made me lay in an oil stain when I begged them to let me lay on the sidewalk.
0:44.4	I suppressed it and went home and cried.
0:47.9	This is what I felt like on the inside when I almost got shot by cops in a parking lot
0:52.7	because they routinely stopped us and their flashlights made a seat belt light up.
0:57.9	I was terrified when home suppressed it and cried.
1:03.0	This is what I felt like on the inside when they recently put their guns in my face and
1:06.7	through my bag in a sprinkler puddle and my ID on the ground through a fence at Pratt.
1:13.3	I had to go on campus to get my ID back.
1:17.9	Suppressed it and cried on my walk home feeling humiliated.
1:21.8	This is what I felt like on the inside when I spent the night in jail after following
1:25.8	three white girls in between a train car.
1:29.3	Cops singled me out as the white girl screamed at him for it and then they proceeded to their
1:34.6	party as I spent the night in jail, missing my first meeting with a comedy hero of mine,
1:41.1	Kenan ivory winds.
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