Hey, everybody, it's Mike Barbiglia.

This is Working It Out.

A special episode this week.

I went on Instagram, and I asked you for questions just about the good life and any other projects I've worked on or my specials or my movies

or creative process or really anything. We like to do this every now and again. If you haven't

seen the good life, it is currently on Netflix. I can't thank you enough to all the folks out

there who have seen it and posted about it and recommended it to people,

it means the world to me is a big labor of love that I worked on for a couple years,

often on here on the podcast.

And I just can't thank you enough for supporting it.

So we asked for some audio questions, and I'm going to play them.

I'll play right here.

Hey, Mike.

This is Lex. I'm always impressed with them. I'll play right here. Hey, Mike. This is Lex.

I'm always impressed with how, like, productive the conversation is when you're working it out on your podcast.

My question is, do you ever just tell someone, no?

That doesn't work.

That's awful.

I've never heard it happen on the podcast. I know in general, that's a bad idea. But are there like times where you like have really just like wanted to

stop someone and in like very certain terms just be like, please don't do that joke. It's bad. It's just, please, I love you.

Stop. No. I'm just curious. Thank you for all you do. You're my favorite podcast.

Oh, so sweet. That's a great question. I, you know, I always think there's potential in anything. Like, I think that that's sort of like what my improv training taught me. Like, you know, if you listen to the Liz Allen episode, which is all about improv, like, I took improv workshops from Liz Allen when I was in college, and I was part of a college improv troupe

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