Mo Amer: The Creative Savings Account

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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(Recorded January 2022) Mo Amer started doing stand-up when he was 14, and now he's being introduced by The Rock in his latest Netflix special, Mohammed in Texas. Mike talks with Mo about that journey, growing up Palestinian in Houston and later performing in college lunchrooms. They discuss why immigrants love Nescafe, the lengths to which Mo will go to get access to a bidet, and why it's important for writers to store ideas in a "creative savings account."

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0:00.0	I think that it's an odd inflection point with our country right now where you have a
0:06.5	lot of people like the redneck scots that you talk about in your specials, your neighbor,
0:11.2	who would say if we were talking to them about politics or whatever it is, they go, I'm
0:16.8	not racist, I'm friends with Mo.
0:19.5	You know what I mean, right?
0:21.1	But then what you'd say is does that guy believe in systemic racism?
0:29.2	Why not?
0:30.2	Is it then it's like how do you teach or try to convince redneck scot that systemic racism
0:35.8	is something that is everywhere in our country and needs to be addressed?
0:40.5	Yeah, I have avoided all those conversations for sure.
0:48.5	That is the voice of Mo Amor.
0:50.5	We are, we're so excited for Mo.
0:53.2	Here in the working out podcast, we're re-earing our episode from earlier this year with Mo.
0:59.0	When he was recording the episode, he was working on his Netflix series and it's out now.
1:04.9	It's a huge hit, it's a critical success.
1:08.1	I mean, people love it.
1:10.5	It's called Mo.
1:11.8	You can watch it on Netflix in October.
1:14.6	You can see him in the superhero movie, Black Adam starring the rock.
1:21.2	That's right, the rock.
1:23.8	It's a great comic.
1:29.4	We talk about Houston, Texas.
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