53. Pete Holmes Returns: Paperback Pete and His Soft Body

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mike welcomes back one of our most beloved guests, Pete Holmes, to celebrate the paperback release of The New One. Pete has a lot to say about hardcovers, hardbodies, and how his father asks him questions just he so can answer them himself. Mike calls this "an expert's edition" of Working It Out because the slow round and the new material all swirl into one singular soft serve ice cream comedy cone. https://cac.org/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Mike.
0:02.0	It is Paperback Week for the new one,
0:05.0	Painfully True Stories from a reluctant dad,
0:07.0	with poems by Jay Hope Stein, my wife,
0:09.0	The Poet, who is here with me today.
0:13.0	Hello, Mike.
0:14.0	She never called me Mike, which is why it's so funny.
0:18.0	You call me Mao?
0:19.0	Yeah, I just thought I would be more formal for the podcast.
0:23.0	This is a very serious podcast, as you know.
0:25.0	Michael, when you look back on writing a book with me,
0:30.0	what are your regrets?
0:32.0	My regrets are none.
0:34.0	I have no regrets, I'm actually really happy about it.
0:36.0	It came out in June 2020,
0:38.0	and it comes down to Paperback this week,
0:41.0	and my favorite part about the book is the moments where
0:44.0	there's a synchronicity between my point of view,
0:48.0	comedically, and your point of view,
0:50.0	poetically, which when we were putting the book together,
0:53.0	was real happenstance sometimes,
0:56.0	where it actually fit together in this really lovely way.
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