Mike Reads His New York Times Essay, Plus Best of: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

At the top of this Best of WIO episode featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mike reads a new piece that he wrote for The New York Times.(Recorded October 2024) In celebration of his album, Warriors, Lin-Manuel Miranda sits down with Mike for a wide ranging talk about writing musicals, riding the subway, and taking big creative risks. Lin explains why you need so many ideas to write a musical, and he shares the important lessons he learns from writing and performing in school plays as a student. Plus, Lin recalls the origins of Hamilton and some of the more chaotic performances in the show’s run.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. It is Mike Barbiglia. We are back on working it out. The special is out. The Good Life is out. It is the special that I've been working on with you on this podcast. For the last two years, it is on
0:23.7	Netflix all over the world, everywhere where you can find Netflix. Thank you for the outpouring
0:30.1	of people who have shared it with friends, people on the email list who forwarded it to their
0:35.4	friends. People have shared it on Instagram. And I just can't thank you enough. And all your personal notes, it means the world
0:42.9	to me that the show is connected to you. Thanks again to everybody. If you're just listening
0:47.2	to the podcast for the first time because you found me from seeing the Good Life on Netflix,
0:51.7	welcome to this podcast. It is a podcast where I work out jokes and ideas with other creatives, comedians, directors,
1:00.9	all kinds of creative folk.
1:02.2	And we have 170 episodes that are available wherever you get podcasts all for free.
1:09.7	We've recently had Stephen Colbert and Nikki Glazer and Roy Wood Jr.
1:15.2	And just like so many people, Hassan Minaj, who I just did his podcast today.
1:21.8	He and I have had some of my favorite episodes that we've ever recorded.
1:25.8	And they're all in the feed.
1:28.8	They're free over 170 episodes.
1:30.9	So if you're new, welcome and just dig in on all the episodes.
1:36.1	And so today, I've actually been sort of traveling all over the place doing interviews
1:41.5	on other people's podcasts.
1:42.9	So you might have heard me on Tom Papa's podcast or script notes or The Town or This American
1:50.1	Life.
1:50.9	So this week, we are re-airing one of my favorite episodes of all time that we've ever done
1:55.8	with Lynn Manuel Miranda from the fall.
1:58.3	And then I was also going to read a piece that I wrote for the New York
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