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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

81. J. Hope Stein: Jokes and Poems

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mike welcomes his wife, the poet J. Hope Stein, a.k.a. Jen, a.k.a. Clo, on the release day of her new book of poems "Little Astronaut.” Mo and Clo have a deeply candid chat about poetry, creativity, and what it’s like when two artists are married to each other. The couple offer a sampling of their live “Jokes and Poems” show, discuss why Jen kept her poetry secret for years, and Jen gives tips for dating a comedian. (Spoiler: don’t.) Plus, Jen’s side of Mike’s “Who did?” story, and the truth about Mike’s household chores record.

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0:00.0

This is a unique episode. I just want to say that I've been following you and I

0:05.2

really admire what you do around the house. What about the podcast? Love the

0:10.2

podcast. But has anybody told you lately that I appreciate when I leave the

0:15.7

refrigerator door open? Yeah. And it starts to beep and you get up and close it.

0:22.7

That is the voice of the great J. Hope Stein. That's my wife. That is if you

0:34.2

follow what I do, you might follow Jen's poetry. It is phenomenal. You can

0:39.9

follow her on Instagram at J. Hope Stein. She and I wrote a book together. It's

0:46.8

called The New One Painful True Stories from Relecting Dad with poems by J. Hope

0:50.9

Stein and she has her own book called Little Astronaut. It comes out tomorrow at

0:56.1

your local bookstore. It is so good. It is such a great book to gift a new parent

1:04.5

or anyone who loves poetry. I obviously am biased. I get it. But Janet is my

1:12.0

favorite poet. I find her work to be breathtaking. That's going to be coming

1:18.0

out tomorrow and maybe it's already out based on when you're listening to this.

1:23.2

And I have a big announcement tomorrow too. I will be on the tonight show announcing

1:28.8

the old man in the pool coming to New York City. What I can say is it's going to be a

1:34.8

run of shows in New York City in October and November and maybe beyond. Beyond you

1:41.1

say beyond who knows. Stay tuned. This is a show which will be

1:48.3

Fallon tomorrow night in the meantime before then I will be in Pittsburgh and

1:52.7

Cleveland and Toronto and Detroit and Columbus and Nashville and Cincinnati

1:58.5

and Atlanta. A few of those we had to reschedule to a little bit earlier because

2:04.2

of the New York run. I apologize. I'm just trying to sort of balance this all out.

2:08.3

Salt Lake City and Mesa Arizona we had to take off the schedule for now again

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