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On with Kara Swisher

Aging, Death and other Uplifting Topics with Mike Birbiglia

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.22.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re re-airing one of Blakeney Schick’s favorite episodes: an interview with her former yoga student, comedian and writer, Mike Birbiglia. Aging, parenting by mortality and dying alone or kinless: these are just some of the uplifting topics Kara and Nayeema tackle before the interview. When we originally published this episode, Mike was deep in his latest Broadway show, “The Old Man and the Pool.” (The show completed its Broadway run in January, and will open for a limited run in London next month.) In it, Birbiglia doesn’t shy away from such heavy topics either. Birbiglia and Kara discuss mortality, parenthood, their last words and finding comedy in all of life — even the sad bits. Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram. We’re @karaswisher and @nayeemaraza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:39.0

Hi, it's Neima. Today, we want to play you an episode with comedian Mike Probiglia.

0:43.9

Blakeney Schick produced this interview and you will have heard about her on Monday's episode.

0:47.6

If you haven't, please go back and listen to that. Blakeney actually went to see

0:51.8

Probiglia's show, The Old Man in the Pool, before Cara and I did. Kind of like an advanced team.

0:57.3

She took a long Raphael Asiwirt, a producer that she had managed, and they both loved the show

1:01.9

and so did Cara and I. Only after we taped the interview to Blakeney mentioned something to me.

1:07.8

She'd actually been one of Mike's yoga instructors back in the day. It was quintessentially

1:12.4

Blakeney to be humble and understated. So before we play you the interview, we wanted to play

1:17.3

you a brief remembrance of Blakeney from Mike Probiglia. Hey, it's Mike Probiglia. I'm the guest

1:23.5

today on the show and I knew the producer Blakeney pretty well. I mean, she was actually,

1:33.1

she was my yoga teacher. That's how I met her originally and I saw her when I was on Leonard

1:37.2

Lopez show. I would see her. She was just a person who I would see a lot and I actually remember

1:45.2

in Brooklyn one day, I didn't know Blakeney that well, but I was in one of her yoga classes

1:52.0

and then it was like, I ran into her at a cafe and then I ran into her at lunch and then I like,

1:57.3

I ran into her on the street somewhere and usually in life when you run into someone too many times,

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