64. Mo Amer: The Creative Savings Account

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Mo Amer started doing stand-up when he was 14, and now he's being introduced by The Rock in his latest Netflix special, Mohammed in Texas. Mike talks with Mo about that journey, growing up Palestinian in Houston and later performing in college lunchrooms. They discuss why immigrants love Nescafe, the lengths to which Mo will go to get access to a bidet, and why it's important for writers to store ideas in a "creative savings account." Please consider donating to: https://www.angelbynature.com/reliefgang

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0:00.0	I think that it's an odd inflection point
0:03.7	with our country right now where you have a lot of people
0:07.1	like the redneck scots that you talk about
0:09.0	in your specials, your neighbor, who would say,
0:13.1	if we were talking to them about politics or whatever it is,
0:15.6	they go, I'm not racist, I'm friends with Mo.
0:18.6	You know what I mean, right?
0:20.9	But then what you'd say is, does that guy believe
0:26.4	in systemic racism?
0:28.6	Maybe not.
0:30.1	So then it's like, how do you teach
0:31.8	or try to convince redneck scot
0:34.5	that systemic racism is something that is everywhere
0:37.7	in our country and needs to be addressed?
0:41.1	Yeah, I've avoided all those conversations for sure.
0:43.6	Ah!
0:48.2	Welcome back to a new episode of working it out.
0:51.9	So glad you're joining us here.
0:54.5	We are well into our 60s of episodes
0:58.3	at this point.
0:59.2	This is wild.
1:00.0	Can't believe it.
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