How to Survive This Absurd Life with Samantha Irby (Best Of)

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

1. Sam’s life-changing strategies for (reluctantly) interacting with humans. 2. How we use humor to hide the lava of rage churning beneath our surface. 3. Sam’s friendship theory and why she doesn’t need a deep soul connection with every “lowercase f friend.” 4. Sam’s embrace of JOMO (Joy of Missing Out)–and why she genuinely believes no one else is having a better time (except maybe Abby). 5. The behind-the-scenes story of the “Fat Babe Pool Party” Shrill show–and why that episode was one of the most important things she’s ever written. About Samantha: Samantha Irby writes the "Bitches Gotta Eat" blog, and is the author of WOW, NO THANK YOU; WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE; and MEATY. She has been a writer and/or co-producer for TV shows including And Just Like That, Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuca & Bertie. IG: ⁠@bitchesgottaeat

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0:00.0	Hello, sweet world. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. I think today we'll call this
0:15.5	We Can Do Funny Things because we have one of the funniest people in the universe here.
0:23.7	The three of us love to high heavens.
0:27.4	Yeah.
0:28.1	So first of all, I'll just tell you, we have Sam Irby here.
0:33.2	I know.
0:35.3	Laugh out loud, author.
0:37.7	All right. Samantha Irby loud, author. All right.
0:38.3	Samantha Irby writes,
0:39.7	The Bitsch's Gotta Eat Blog and is the author of,
0:42.6	Wow, no thank you.
0:44.4	We are never meeting in real life and needy.
0:48.8	She has been a writer and or co-producer for TV shows,
0:52.6	including And Just Like That, Work in Progress, Shrill, and Tuka and Bertie.
1:01.3	Sam Irby, welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.
1:05.1	Thank you for having me on your incredible show.
1:10.1	I am very intimidated. I'm going to do my best to sound like
1:14.2	cool and relaxed, but I'm nervous. Okay, so well, let's get the cool out of the way right away
1:22.2	because what I want to start with, Sam, is our friendship origin story, which is my favorite story in the world.
1:31.8	Okay, so Sam and I did an event together.
1:35.4	At the end of the event, I loved her so much, I sent her my phone number and email.
1:41.9	Months and months later, low so many months later, I am sitting in France at the World Cup, okay?
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