Mike Birbiglia
Don't Ask Tig
American Public Media
4.8 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Need to perform a DIY exorcism to rid an inheritance of bad energy? Did someone from your past write an unflattering song about you in their first EP? Tig and comedian/actor Mike Birbiglia have some answers to navigate these situations and more. Mike also explains why “maybe quit” is a part of his advice to creatives aspiring to make it in Hollywood.
This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp Online Counseling (www.betterhelp.com/Tig), the “Happier with Gretchen Rubin” podcast (listen wherever you get podcasts), and Bambee (www.bambee.com/tig).
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Slack. With Slack, you can bring all your people and |
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| 0:20.9 | inside and outside of your company. Slack, where the future works. Get started at |
| 0:26.9 | Slack.com slash DHQ. Hello, Don't Ask TIG listeners. TIG here. Before I get started |
| 0:34.4 | with my guest, I just wanted to share something that happened when I was traveling from New |
| 0:41.9 | York to Los Angeles. I was at the airport and they were calling the, you know, it's first |
| 0:49.0 | class and then comfort plus and then coach. And I got in line for my boarding group. And |
| 0:56.3 | then there is this suspicious guy that appeared to my right that was trying to, in the chaos |
| 1:07.0 | of boarding, wedge himself in right before me. And I just, I was like, excuse, I mean, |
| 1:17.4 | I didn't say anything because I really didn't want to have a conversation about this. But |
| 1:22.7 | I, I definitely gave him a glance that said, excuse me, but he kept trying to inch his |
| 1:32.0 | way in and like somehow get ahead of me. And I know in the grand scheme of things, it's |
| 1:40.4 | like, okay, he gets on right before me. No big deal. But it's annoying. It's so annoying. |
| 1:49.2 | And if you're out there doing that or that was you and maybe it was you, hope and I would |
| 1:54.4 | talk about it on my podcast, well, guess what? Year wish came true because it was annoying |
| 2:02.8 | and I'm talking about it on my podcast. Should I have said something to him or should |
| 2:07.9 | I just give him that look of like you, gosh. And then just inch up in front of him. Now |
| 2:15.8 | you know, that it's so stupid. But he wasn't there. He wasn't in line with the rest of |
| 2:21.9 | us. And he was acting like he was, yeah, he's looking at his phone. He's moving his suitcase. |
| 2:27.0 | He doesn't know what's going on. He's just just jumping in the front of the line. He's |
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