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🗓️ 4 December 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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And his heartbreaking, raw, and, yes, funny book, A Heart That Works
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. I have a very different one today, which by definition means for a change. |
0:12.6 | My guest is Rob Delaney. Rob is best known as the co-creator, co-writer, and co-star of Catastrophe, |
0:20.3 | the extremely popular and critically acclaimed Amazon sitcom. as the co-creator, co-writer, and co-star of Catastrophe, |
0:25.2 | the extremely popular and critically acclaimed Amazon sitcom, |
0:28.3 | now seen in 130 countries. |
0:32.0 | They did four brilliant seasons, and a number of years back, |
0:36.4 | Rob was recognized at the Comedy Central Comedy Awards as the funniest person on Twitter, which is no mean feat because there are, I would imagine, literally thousands of people on Twitter. |
0:52.1 | But as tweets were like, sometimes I put dog poop in the toilet at work. |
0:58.9 | So the guys don't think I only went in there to cry. |
1:03.7 | And after he won that coveted award, Rob wrote a book, |
1:07.1 | mother, wife, sister, human warrior falcon, yardstick, turban, cabbage. |
1:15.7 | That was both very funny, but also very dark and frank about his struggles with alcoholism and |
1:23.4 | depression. Now, my daughter gave me that book, mainly because she really liked it, and I loved it. |
1:30.6 | And at the time, I was, I was depressed. I was, this was not long after I left the Senate, and I did not know Rob, and I still really don't know him. |
1:39.7 | But at one point there, I got his email and I can't recall how. |
1:46.0 | But I emailed him to see if we could talk. |
1:49.9 | And he wrote back that he couldn't really do that and it wasn't a good time for him. |
1:55.1 | And I learned not long after that his two-year-old son, Henry, was dying from a brain tumor. |
2:03.2 | And I felt stupid that I had contacted him. |
2:08.2 | Then about six months ago, I learned that he had written the book that we're discussing on this podcast, |
2:14.9 | The Heart That Works, about Henry being diagnosed shortly after his first |
2:20.4 | birthday and the next 18 months of his life and of his family's life. |
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