Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - Mike Birbiglia Returns

Episode Date: November 27, 2023

Comedian Mike Birbiglia feels ambitious about being Conan O’Brien’s friend. Mike sits down with Conan once again to discuss their casual run-ins with each other, storytelling as cultural tradition, and confronting mortality in his latest special The Old Man and the Pool. For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com.Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: [phone].

Hi, I'm Mike Bourbiglia. And I feel ambitious about being Conan O'Brien's friend. As if we're not already friendly people. I'm looking to take it to the next level. Oh. Oh. Fall is moving out, back to school, ring the bell, Hey there! Welcome to Conan O'Brien needs a friend joined by my compadres compatriots. Sonah, obsession. There you go. Took a second and then mad goryly. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? I'm doing all right. I think I'm doing fine. Yeah, you know, are you so?

Okay, just okay. Yeah, is it my good? No, it's not. Your like isn't on. You just do that on purpose. I didn't do anything. It's okay It's okay. Wait. I. Wait, Eduardo messed up. Eduardo, what happened there? At one time I go drink some water. I drink some water. I drink some water. I was like, oh, I forgot her mic was that, where we recorded it.

Where we recorded it. We are recording. We were recording. We are recording. You know, this is why you lost your job as an air traffic controller. You know, you keep turning their mics your job as an air traffic controller. Because he kept turning their mics off. I'm sorry, Sonia.

It was just the professional organization and Eduardo here. Who I admire, who built this studio? I know. You gave me a gift because I don't think he has anything to harp on you about. And now you now you didn't turn my I do have something good to talk about. The other night, some friends of my wife and I were having dinner at like kind of a fancy restaurant and it was in Beverly Hills, which we never go into that part of town.

Like I'm not a guy that goes to restaurants in Beverly Hills. We're not a BH guy. I'm not. And so we go there and we have this really nice meal with our friends and I'm like, oh, this is great, this place is terrific. And then we're about to leave and this gentleman comes up to me who I nice meal with our friends. I'm like, oh, this is great, this place is terrific. And then we're about to leave and this gentleman comes up to me

who I think works with the restaurant. And he says, Mr. Brian, I'm here to walk you past the paparazzi. And I said, what? Because like, what are you talking about, paparazzi? That's not, you know, and he's like, I'm here to make sure that you get through the paparazzi, okay? You know, I'll walk you back to your car.

And I'm like, with my wife, like, what? That's weird, okay. I'm like outside. Nobody. I mean, not just no paparazzi, no people. It was like they were shooting Omega Man, you know, like a post-apocalyptic. And I was, and then, and then,

so another, I have the added thing of like, disguise with me and he's kind of acting like, right this way, Just keep moving. Like what are you talking about? And he is me. I don't have, I'm not someone who's like, why don't they leave me alone? But it was so funny and this guy never acknowledged, lever, well he never acknowledged that oh, I thought there was or I just assumed because you're a known person that there would be.

And I was assuming that he knew that. Oh no. And so, but he'd still, he never let on. He was just like, keep, he right this way. Which one's your car? And he committed the whole way. The whole way. It was just, I thought it was so, it was so perfect.

It was so me like, Mr. Brian, I made it help you to the paparazzi. Huh? Well, if you say so, doors fly open. Www. Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed went by with a long lens camera, but not aimed at me.

It was really funny. For you to birthday, we should get you paparazzi. I think that'd be nice. That would be, yeah. Real paparazzi? No, no, no, no. Or just fake people would. No, because real paparazzi wouldn't come.

Yeah, I wouldn't. That would be because people would pay with like a press thing in their hat. Yeah. I did do a thing that was really funny. There was a period in my life when sometimes there would be, you know, people around and I wanted to normalize that for my kids. So what I would do is when my kids were little,

I told them, I taught them this bit, but we would walk out and there'd be, it'd be at some restaurant, where there aren't anybody, there's nobody, there's nobody there, there's no paparazzi. But we would walk out and my kids who were little, it's just like my daughter was like maybe seven and my son was five.

They would both fan out and say, back up, back up, blame the lot and there was nobody there. And they it was it was fun because it it was a making fun of me. Yeah. About no one gives a shit about our dad and then but I just love to see little kids going, please he's a person. Give him room. But I don't know. I don't know where this guy got it in his head. Maybe he just assumed like, well, we've had other famous people here and it's going, please, he's a person. Get him room. But I don't know where this guy got in his head. Maybe he just assumed like, well, we've had other famous people here. And it's a mob scene out. You know, we just had, you know, whatever Travis,

if I would feel embarrassed that there wasn't a crowd but also embarrassing that you're making this guy work for nothing. I didn't. Well, I tipped this gentleman because I felt like he got, he's just walked back. That's why he's doing it. I know, but I just felt bad. I just, I didn't know to. Yeah. I tipped this gentleman because I felt like he got a he's just walked. That's why he's doing it. I know, but I just felt bad.

I just I didn't know what to think. I thought this is this is a please I'm here to help you. It's a mom's you know, we just president. Yeah. Yeah. We just had we just had Taylor Swift and Travis were here and you know, we know how it can be. So we're going to walk you to your car.

What did it, car, car. I always, I was in those moments, when things are really quiet, I always, I always want a bird to go by car. You're like a mocking bird. What, it'd have been worse if there was just like one person there and they, cause I've been with you when paparazzi and they,

because there's nothing about your life that's exciting. I'm always doing. So they're like, hey, what do you think about, you know, someone buying a horse? Yeah, they always have to try and think of something and they don't have a question ready to go for me. Yeah. So they're always, you know, um, stop, Mark.

It's just, what did you buy at the CBS? you know, um, stock market. Interest. What did you buy at the CBS? Oh, I got those caps that you put on a toothbrush that sort of keep other things from brushing up against them. And then you just know, teams, he's like, coon sucks bang. Right this way, Mr. Brian, we got you back. Oh, horse goes by.

Hey, it's Coney no more. It used to be on the television. And then the pop-rotte goes, wow, a talking horse. They start taking pictures of him. All right, let's get into it. Yeah. My guest today is a hilarious comedian. He truly is.

And he's not just a comedian. He's a writer. He's a director. He's an actor. He's a great admirer of this gentleman. His latest one man show The Old Man and the Pool is now available to stream on Netflix. You have to watch it.

You really do. I'm excited, he's with us today. This is Mike Breglia, welcome. Here's what happened last time. I'm gonna bring the listeners up to speed. I challenged you on the idea of the concept of the show that you want to be friends. And I said, I don't have your contact information.

You said it, and then you bleeped it. But then we were in touch. I just want to read a text chain that we had because I'm in addition to being a second time guest on the show, I'm a avid listener. I loved the Stephen Wright episode. Oh, thank you so good. Yeah, he was wonderful.

It's wonderful. It's a text to Conan. And I said, Stephen writes the. Oh, thank you so good. Yeah, he was wonderful. It was wonderful. He texted Conan and I said, Stephen Wright's the reason I got in the comedy. It was the best interview I've ever heard of Stephen Wright because he laughed. I'd never heard him laugh before. And I've been a fan of him because I feel like I've seen every interview.

So you killed him and then I wrote this to you and you wrote, I'm actually in New York right now, cranking out pods, taking meetings, I'm in Mid New York right now, cranking out pods, taking meetings. I'm in Midtown. My daughter shows up today, but leaves Monday. If there's a chance to grab coffee, it'd be nice to catch up. So that was like a friendship move. We had never had coffee. I tried to take it to the next level. Do you really say cranking out pods? I'm cranking out pods, but that didn't mean podcasts. I'm cranking out pods. I'm cranking out pods, but that didn't mean pod caps.

No. Did you know that? Did you guys know that I manufacture instant coffee pods? And so I make a decaf pod, it's quite popular. That's the best version of what I was imagining. Yeah. You don't know what? Copads?

Copads are huge. Our massive and Brazil. And guess what? Starbucks is about to carry them. No, actually in Brazil, they drink copods that are manufactured here. Yes. Byconing out of the house. Yeah, it coffee that's grown naturally

in Brooklyn, Massachusetts. I have a coffee plantation in Brooklyn, mass. Coupods are 90% dust. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're going to get that up to 94% dust. The profit margin on co-pods is extraordinary. You've never seen anything like it.

Because Brooklyn, Massachusetts, and I also have a plantation in Newton, these are not good places to grow coffee, so I get very few beans. So that's why we need to supplement with dust. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, it's a long story. The one that their slogan is, for every bean, will give you a bag of dust.

Yes. Beat that slogan. I've challenged Madison Avenue to beat that slogan and they can't do it. They get their best people on it. Okay, there's more to the text. There's more to the text. Okay.

By the way, I'm team Sonia today. Yeah, team Sonia. Yeah, team Sonia. Yeah, team Sonia. Hey. I'm also team Matt. Oh, thanks. Those mugs really, they don't went missing.

I think you're missing the point though, that he's team Sonia and team Matt. And I don't see a team Matt mug. I've never seen one. Okay. So, so you go, I'm here, I'm here, you know, I'm here, podcast thing. And then you wrote, text me when you're back and I'll ghost you. Yes.

And then I wrote, I've been ghosted by much bigger celebrities than you. Yep. It bounces off of me and you wrote, it'll sting, you'll see. And then, that I'm killing myself. And then you said, I'll be back mid-June because I was trying to get you to come back on working it out, my podcast, which I'm still gonna try to get you to come back on.

And then when you were back, you ghosted me. And it did sting. So today, what I wanna do is engage, try to get you back on my podcast and also for pods. Okay, coffee, coffee, pods. Listen, so you were waiting for me to reach out to you when I came back in June. No, I texted you then. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And what did you say?

How did you know I was in town? Because you had written mid-June around the 13th. I wrote, okay, perfect, can't wait. Yeah, so then. But when I hear can't wait, that, don't put this back on me. No, no, no, listen, when I hear can't wait, that's, that just, it's too irresistible.

When someone says, I can't wait, that makes me think, oh, you're gonna fucking wait. You know what I mean? Brighly, yeah. Right? Yes, this is the real me. You want the real me? Brighly, yeah. Rule. Yes, Cr... Oh, this is the real me. You want the real me?

That's why. This is my son is so hard on you. Yes, that is exactly why. Son, you know me, the minute I saw, can't wait. There was part of me that was like, there's certain things you just hate that really like. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you a bug you.

One of the things you wrote is, let's try to make that work. All I ask is that I feature prominently in your next one-man show. Yes! That's good. This is, don't you think this is better than meeting up with me in person?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is better. These are classic quips. And I wrote, yes, you're the second man. Top billing, you'll have to audition. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Um, ha, ha, ha. I, ha, ha. You know what, I am gonna be,

well, this is the problem. I'm gonna be coming to, but I don't know when this airs, but after we've gotten back, after we've gotten back. So I will be in Brooklyn. They said cranking out pods. Cranking out pods. At the Brooklyn Academy of Music with my team here, team Sona and team Gourley.

But that's like a quick turnaround. That's two days and then gone. Do you ever get over to Brooklyn? That's where I live. Oh, I told you. I knew that. I knew that. I was just trying to grind it in.

I made it so clear because I was going to take you for a nice dinner at Lucali, Pizzeria, and the neighborhood. He's got the days free. He's got the days free. Oh, he has the days free. Yeah, let's do the days. Yeah, let's do the days. Do you want to do the days?

Yeah, I do want to do the days. So by the time people, listen, know, it's great. By the time people hear this, yeah, I will have been to Brooklyn and ghosted you again. And it will, and it will have stung. Oh, this goes sting so much because you'll, you'll see me as I'm ghosting you. You'll see me in the glass in the pizzeria. And you'll be outside. It'll be, be shivering cold because it's November. I had a son of question. I know that I'm coming in with questions and that's awkward.

I love it. I'm holding up a little note card. I'm loving this so far. Oh, this is delightful. My son of question is with Conan, you go so hard on him, what is too far? Have you ever said something that's too mean? And then it's like, what?

Like, we gotta cut that out, it's too mean. I don't think we've, I have to say, you guys could tell me, I don't think we've ever cut out anything that you got, when you guys go after me, I don't think we've ever cut out anything. And we've never cut out anything. When you don't act like you don't come after us. Oh, yeah.

There's no limit. There's no limit. My record is clear. It's all in the history books. Do you know what I mean? There's no, it's, there's like, it's like World War Two footage. We've all seen it. Yes, I go, it's like, there's no limit.

There's no limit. Yes. It's not like World War Two footage. It is. Yeah. It's, you've completely misunderstood World War II. Really? And footage. I thought World War II was a lot of passive aggressive bickering between Harry Durant Stalin, Hitler and Churchill. No. No.

Well, not Conan. How did you miss this? You read history. Wasn't it a feud between podcasts? Well, I know I have to go back and look at these again. Back then it was radio. It was pass of aggression between radio hosts. Yeah. Orson Wells was involved. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know to answer your question. Well, Sona, I mean, Matt, you would know because you had this thing. I don't think I have ever cut anything you said to him. I think I've cut one or two exchanges with you and me and not because they were like bad. It was more like they just, for whatever reason, took the air out or didn't land or something like that. That would be your fault.

It would have been. Yeah. If anything, there have been moments where I was like, I should have gone harder on that. Well, there's more I should have said. The one that was listening to the other day, I admire this. I do ads in my podcast.

I have to say what's in the ad. I don't know what the hell you guys are doing. You know, like you're doing an ad for like Conan TV or something, and at the end of it, Zona had made fun of it so much. I was like, does this even exist? We didn't add. So I was like, no one wants to watch that Conan.

You know what we did? We didn't add. We didn't add the other day to watch that Conan, you know, we did we didn't add We didn't add the other day Mike, this is true. We didn't add the other day and it's you know I read the I sometimes I'm reading these cold and we get this They slide this piece of paper in front of me like what's this one? And I just start going and I say like you know If you want to monitor your your cats if you want to monitor your your cats health this device uses cats. If you want to monitor your your your cat's health, this device uses lasers and ultra light sound to measure the quantity, quality and size of your cats. Poops basically. And then gives

you up to date analysis of what your cat's health could be in the future. And then I went on a long rant about the fall of Western civilization. Yeah, fair enough. I don't know on this show where the ads begin or end. No, and I've always thought my one has been advertised. You know, I don't know what the call to act my ads. My ads are a dare to advertise. I'm gonna buy me to a friend. It's like, if you can handle this advertise. I think what's happening is rival companies

are paying for the other companies' ads so that you will be too damaged to their business. Yes, yes, yes, it's an enemy, it's an enemy move. It's not a move. It's like World War II, in that way, actually. Yes, it is just like World War II. He learned it from World War II tactics. When Churchill paid for ads that were pushing,

what Hitler wanted, it is so funny. The idea of of Toyota desperately plotting to have me do a Ford ad. It's really no. Oh, this will get them. It's like this will really cripple Ford. It's like what they wanted was 30 seconds of of an advertisement and what they get is five minutes of nothing. I have more questions. Okay, more questions. Keep going. So last night I ran into Conan out to dinner. Yep.

It was like a curbing enthusiasm. I mean, curbing, curbing enthusiasm is all these scenarios where you run into celebrities in Hollywood. And I witnessed it last night. It was with Jimmy Kimmel. Martin Short. Yep. We run into Conan with Phil Rosenthal,

yep, Scott Ian from Anthrax. Scott Ian from Anthrax and his lovely wife, and it was Pat Nausewald and his wife Meredith. And your wife, yeah, and my wife, Liza, I'm on an, I'm getting on an airplane. I was in Chicago to interview the Nirvana fellas, Novicellic and Grol, and then I'm getting on an airplane. I was in Chicago to interview the the Nirvana fellas Nova Selic and Grol and then I'm flying back and I'm getting on the plane and this gentleman with a fascinating beard gets on sits opposite me and I'm like, oh, I know who this is and he says to me, hi,

Conan, yes, got Ian anthrax. I play the new show and I went, oh, cool. So we chat the entire way about the metal, but also going back to punk, Ramones, his childhood. It would have been almost a great podcast, just chatting with him across the aisle. And then he said, Hey, I'm good friends with Patton. And I'm like, Yeah, I know I'm texting with Patton all the time. I've known Patton on his world forever. The next thing I know, there's one of those text chains where it's like a dinner is happening. And I keep thinking, is this ever gonna happen? And then finally the day arrives, November 1st,

we're gonna go out to this dinner. So we go out where they were having a really good time. And then the next thing I know, these figures are looming over us at our table. And it's you, Mr. Kimmel and Mr. Short, Marty Short, and then we all get up, and then we're all standing in the middle of the restaurant, pretty much doing bits.

It's time, yeah. Yeah. Well, Conan leaned into me, and he goes, you're coming on the podcast tomorrow, just remember, it's about me. Mm-hmm. Yeah. No.

No. Oh, I'm sure. I get it. Yeah, and. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I did. Yeah, true story. Yeah. And then he shows up. And then he shows up with questions. I know. I know that he's done homework.

This is preparing. Oh, this is my big question. So when we do our podcast, when we have the interview, and then the moment the person leaves, after we're like, that was great. That was going gonna be wonderful. And then they leave and they go, what do you think? So my question is, this time or last time, that I was on, what's gonna be the thing you say when I leave? What's gonna be the real dirt? And I want to know the real thing. Okay, well first of all, we have to get to the end before we know that. Yeah. Because can we circle back to it? Yeah. Of course.

Okay. I'm already on board because he has my mug. So I think this is a great interview. Thanks, Tony. Well, also, I'm going to say something. I love it when a guest comes in. I'm a huge fan of yours. You know that. Thanks. And a big admirer of what you've accomplished and what you've been able to carve out for yourself. But I also love that you came in and you're so proactive that you're you're stirring it up. You're asking us questions. That to me makes for a better podcast. I love that. So already ambitious, ambitious, come in with an agenda. Yeah. Yeah. Is it because it makes it more about you? Is that what you mean? Yeah. Yeah. I think so. I think that makes me happy. And also in advance,

I followed Matt and Sonah on Instagram also. Oh, and God bless one of them may have followed me back. I'm going to do it now. I'm not sure that you remember last time that you popped back on the zoom. Yeah. That's that's why you bring this up. No. Okay. Yeah. Because you we recorded over zoom last time that you popped back on the zoom. Yeah, that's that's why you bring this up. No, okay Yeah, cuz you we recorded over zoom last time and you pop back in the zoom. Yeah, while we are doing our download So that I like this. This is great. I wasn't on and you got kept talking no, we will We'll give you a full assessment after we'll be honest. Okay Okay, great. I have to say, and it's one of the reasons I really love doing the podcast, over the years of doing a late night show, and I'm just going to remind viewers that Mr. Purglia, when you were a young lad, started out as an intern on our show in the 90s.

And he was an intern on the program. And then all these years, when we were at Rock Thrower Center or the old show, and then it's kind of cool to contrast. That was a show where I would talk to multiple people in night and you had, so it was a volume business. And there in the post-mortem, we really would sometimes get into it about,

oh my God, can you believe what that guest did? Can you say any of them? I don't like to hurt people. I really don't, I really don't like that. He was feeling it. What? We've been doing to us for years now. Well, this is familiarity breeds contempt.

So I know you guys. I see you every day, so I familiarity breeds contempt. So I know you guys. I see you every day, so I have no fear. But it was funny is about my, my interning on your show is a part of the reason that I became a stand of comedian is because of interning on your show. So like, for example, I would ask Mike Sweeney and Brian Stack and all these writers for the show,

how would one become a writer for like, I was Conan O'Brien? Because that's what I want to do. That's my dream. And they, and their answers were, I did stand up. I did improv. I went back to college. It's stand up and improv. And I did stand up. I was like, all right, this is going pretty well. That's right. It went better than pretty well. I think it went spectacularly well. Didn't go well for a while. I mean, it went okay.

Now it's good. No, I was always surprised by the number of people that would come up to me and say, I'm really interested in doing what you're doing. And I would say, oh, you know, well, what are you doing? Like are you writing comedy? Are you, are you in an improv troupe? Are you doing stand-up? What are you doing? They'd be like, oh, no, I well, what are you doing? Like are you writing comedy? Are you, are you in an improv troop? Are you doing standup? What are you doing in the,

oh, no, I'm not doing any of that. I just want to do, give it to me. Yeah, I would like that when you're, when you're done with it. And, but, but I would say the podcast, it is, I mean, I'm hard pressed to think of a podcast where I haven't enjoyed talking to the people because we don't make nearly as many of them. And if there's someone I don't want to talk to, I just don't talk to them.

And so it feels like a really nice, I don't think it's, I mean, I'm hard pressed to think of a time when someone's left here and I've thought, boy, I really disliked talking to that person. I usually feel like I learned something. And it also like, I feel like it lets you do goofball things without it feeling out of place because it's much longer. Right.

Then like a five minute interview. Like, the hardest, one of the hardest I've ever left of this podcast. I don't remember which ever is the Yeboo episode. Oh, Yeboo. Yeboo, Yeboo, it's lots of fun to do. If you like it, holla, yeah, and if you don't, you're a holla boo. Yeah, boo. Yeah, boo. It's lots of fun to do. If you like it, holler. Yeah. And if you don't, you'll holler.

Boo. You give context. People who didn't hear that originally. Yeah. Okay. Well, it was my grandfather had some old like 45s in the attic. And we found one. And it was this singer. In like the 50s singing a song called, yeah, boo, yeah, boo. And I remembered once. It's I can do it now on yay boo. And I remembered once it's I can do it now on the podcast and it feels like it's in place. There was one night on the on the late night show when I'm out there. And I'm really just at this point I've done like 35,000 hours of television. But I'm in doing the monologue in the late night show for NBC and I said something and the audience mock went and then I said of course

Someone says in the news the audience went boo And I went yeah Boo yeah boo, it's not so fun to do if you like it hot yeah And if you don't have a boo and I remember my producer my right everyone was like what the fuck Was that but that goes back to what you're saying of like people come up to you and they go like, I wanna do what you do. And people say that to me as a standup all the time. I'm like, you gotta do it so many hours. Like you're saying that you don't even know

that you're doing it after a while. Well, that happens that, yeah, you probably get this. You'll be talking to somebody and they'll think, oh, that's weird. You're the same person that I saw do the show. Yeah. Meaning they assume that you become a different person. Yes.

You'll do bits for people endlessly and like an airport or like a taco bell. People will be like, what is he doing? Why are you this like serious quiet man in your regular life? And then they beating Scottie in from anthrax, never wanting to speak to me. Oh yeah, he was trying to get away from me.

Wait, so are you, so that was my whole thing with my mom when I was like, I recently, I guest hosted for Kimmel when he had COVID. And so they were like, why don't you when he said he had COVID. Yeah, when he said he had COVID. And I'm on in a little downtime. And so, and so they were like, you should interview your mom on video chat. So I interviewed

my mom. And I go, mom, what was I like as a kid? And she goes, you were not funny. You're so serious. And then she goes, she goes, you comedians are so serious. I was like, how many comedians do you know? You're texting Ronnie Chang? Yeah, turns out she knows a lot. Are you on an email, email, email thread with Roy Wood Jr. Like, what's going on here, Momma? What don't I know? I do really want to talk about you. You have a mass, this really cool body of work.

You're a terrific storyteller. And a terrific, you make these one-man shows that are beautifully constructed. And you are not, so I wanna take a second here and acknowledge what you've done, which is you are not, I have so much respect for standup, but what you do, it feels like you've carved out a really something quite unique for yourself. And I think that's, that's my highest compliment to musicians and comedians is when I say, no, this person found something they worked, they, they worked hard in the dark alone,

they figured it out and they came out with something that's truly them. And I think you've done that. Like people, you have this huge following, which is people wanna hear Mike Bregley that tell stories that are very personal to him. No, I appreciate it. It's, I'm lucky. I just, you know, I'm doing a new tour called Police Out the Ride.

It's like a whole new hour. And it's, and it, yeah, it seems like people still want to see the next show, you know. It's weird. Every time I always talk about this with my friend, Jack Antinoff, who's from Bleachers, who's a great musician, and we've been friends for like 20 years

or both touring acts. And like, when you put a tour on sale, you find out if anyone still cares. Yeah. You know what I mean? And it's like, and so it's exciting that I've made these, yeah, like you're saying, I made these things that,

and it's kind of my accident that I made it specific. It's really just because I'm like, I'm really interested in plays and I'm really interested in movies and drama and then also I'm really interested in standup and along the way, I started working with a theater director, Seth Barish and I just, I started working with theater producers and all at a certain point it just became a thing. Like it wasn't an overnight

thing. It just, and at a certain point, like, my, probably my biggest break was like in 2008, Nathan Lane agreed to be present my show off Broadway, Sleepwalk with me, which is the first one of these. And that was helpful because it like sort of put me, it made people show up and think it's a piece of theater as opposed to just writing it off as standard. To have, it's true. No, but, but like to have Nathan Lane's imprint, I mean, he is, he's a gold standard. He's a gold standard. And so for Nathan Lane to say, you all need to pay attention to Mike Biglia. I mean, to give yourself credit, you've also had, you've had a very interesting life. You've had a lot of health issues.

And you've been really honest about them. And they're quite dramatic. And the stories you tell are riveting. I mean, they're really like the highest compliment I can pay to someone that sounds terrible, but Los Angeles is a very specific place and theater in LA, to get to theater in LA, you need to, it's not like New York, where you say, I wanna go check out that show,

I'm gonna walk 15 blocks this way and go see the show. I heard that you were doing your show and Greg Daniels and I were talking about it and we decided, let's go down and see Mike see Mike Breglia do his to his show. So we we drove down to unless Angeles to see your show. And I remember thinking as I'm driving into downtown LA, this is commitment. It's like a 40 minutes. It's far. Odyssey. And you feel like it's like, lower to the rings. Like, there's different tests along the way. And we lost the ring for a while,

but we got it back and we crossed the river. And we, you know, and then finally, we ended up at this wonderful theater. And we saw you and you were worth it. Definitely worth the trip. Oh, thanks. It's weird how, yeah, it's weird how you end up where you are.

And then also like, we're talking with the Nathan Lane thing. It's a little bit like with Lauren Michaels with you. Yeah with late night. Yeah, cuz like I remember when that happened in the 90s When they were like and the new host is a writer who you do not know Who's replacing also to put it in context? I always I used to I did this bit once on Charles Grinchow But he was like, no, what was it like when you replaced Letterman? And I was like, what was it? What was it like? I said, imagine, again, I said, imagine,

imagine that because, you know, Letterman 1993, and this is back when there are very few comedy gods, you know, that it's a very different landscape now, but he's this, he's the biggest icon in comedy and Carson's retired and so it's like it's Letterman in in my world and then Imagine them saying in In baseball, you know Joe Demagio is now retiring today ladies and gentlemen gentlemen Gentlemen, he is leaving the field forever forever forever, forever, forever. Goodbye, Joe, to Magio. Greatest legend in Yanky history, history, history, history. But don't worry, ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, here comes his replacement.

19-year-old shipwitley. And like a bat, a batboy comes running out and it's like, hi, everybody. I'm in a disappoint you for a while while while but don't worry worry worry if you stick with me with me After about four four or five years years years you'll grow to love me love me love me And that's what it felt like and that's exactly what it was it was fucking crazy Yeah Yeah, boo yeah, a lot of fun to do if you like a holiday and if you don't. But yeah,

but it was, it was absolute madness, but it's so funny that you remember that, but fans like people that are into our stuff now are like the podcast, whatever, and people in their 20s, they have no idea. Yeah, they just think, oh, you're, you're like Mickey Mouse. You were just always around like no, oh, you're, you're like Mickey Mouse. You were just always around like, no, no, no, no. There was a, there was a time when it was really rough. Yeah.

Like, and I feel like the thing that's happened, this shows, co the old man in the pool. And by the time people, yeah, I'll say, it's on Netflix now. let's go the old man in the pool. Because it's out right now, it's out right now. And I had a fear about it, which was, I was like, the vision was, I wanna do a show that's 90 minutes of jokes and stories about death, because I feel like if we, you know, face the thing that we're more scared of, in my case, death, that there's a catharsis for that, for everybody potentially.

And I did have a fear of like, oh, I'm gonna go out with this. And then some people are gonna be, if they're going through, you know, sorrow or dealing with deaths of people closer, are gonna have a bad, it's gonna have a bad effect. And it was the opposite. Like literally the people who would come up to me, like when I was doing in LA,

like I remember like, it's when we came up to have a show and she was like, I recently lost some people in my life, I lost my dad and a bunch of people. And tonight when I was in the audience, like I felt like I was laughing with my dad. And it was like, and genuinely, like I feel like that's the thing about being in my 40s

that I did not expect. First of all, I didn't expect to be doing comedy in my 40s. It's somehow, like, in my 20s and 30s, even didn't anticipate that it would continue somehow. But I feel like the thing that I've, I've started to realize is like, oh, it really is about them. It's about the audience. It's about their experience. And it's like, if you can get people to that point, that's why I'm excited that it's on Netflix now because it's like, oh, well, maybe it'll have that effect with, you know, hundreds and millions of people

who are able to get an Netflix. It's funny because, and this is a compliment again, hard to categorize you because you are very funny and you are a comedian and you are doing stand-up comedy, but it's also not stand-up comedy because you're telling stories. And we've talked about this somewhat. I know you and you mentioned your mom. I know your mom was a major influence on you. Yeah. Because like my parents, she comes from this Irish storytelling tradition. And I just knew that I grew up in a similar kind of situation where telling stories and being able to make something

that happened to you funny was sort of just a way of life. It's how you grew up. It wasn't even thought of as a possible profession, right? Yeah, it's like, it's definitely not. I mean, I grew up as I was at a Worcester, I didn't even grow up, I was at a Boston. Like people don't even understand when I explain where I live.

And like central massachusetts, they're like, why would anyone live there? In the middle. Yep. It's a middle. And Schoesberry massachusetts, which I love, and I just went back to the East, but I love it. But it's also like, no one in the town

thought show business was a job that anyone even had. Right, it was outrageous thought. But yeah, I feel like even when I go home now, it's like, my mom's a great storyteller. And my siblings, my two sisters, Jean and Paddy, my brother, Joe, they're a riot. And like the most fun is, my two sisters, Jean and Paddy, my brother, Joe, there were riot and like the most fun is, my wife always comments on this is that when I'm home, it's not the dinner, Christmas dinner that's funny, it's like the 11, 12 at night, 1 a.m. sitting around

the kitchen aisle kitchen. Yeah, kitchen. And just telling stories about kids you grew up with and what's going on with everybody and what's this person up to. And like, and that's like, I'm getting choked up even saying. It's like, weirdly, that's my favorite thing to do. Yeah, well, it's also people you love and just tell stories about things. Right, but I think you've been done a really good job

of replicating that, that there's an alchemy that happens specifically around the kitchen island. Or for us, I can, I still see it when I go home. And my parents are still with us. It's so funny, Malaney. I was last time I was talking to him, and I mentioned that my dad is 94 and he said I think it's I forget how he said it because his diction is so perfect his word choice

But he just said I think it's like something unseemly or silly that a man your age still has his father Nobody it was I could kind of see like, oh, come on, Conan. Yeah. You're ancient and you're saying, I just saw my dad. That's ridiculous. But I kind of knew what he was saying. But I think he said was like, it's not dignified. It's almost not dignified.

Like stop. Oh, stop that. Yeah. Yeah. Like, stop that oh, stop that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, oh, stop that, Conan. How ridiculous. But I go back and see my folks and the same house I grew up in in Brookline and there's that round table that's still there and I'm sitting at that same table and all that stuff comes back, which is, oh, this is where I really cut my teeth. This is where I, everything else has been a refinement of that.

You're just refining and adjusting. But the basic concept of how it all works happens around your kitchen table. That's when it happens, or it happens around that island, and you're right. It happens at 11 o'clock at night when people are letting their guard down a little bit and telling stories. You've been able to translate that. I mean, I don't want to give anything away from but you, and you can tell me if this is cool to talk about or not, but you start your show,

this one with a very personal story about something that happened to you like six years ago. You mean the doctors appointment? Yes. Yeah, yeah, so I went to the, for my annual checkup and the doctor asked me to do the pulmonary test, which is you blow into the tube and there's a ball in it. Simulate blowing pulmonary test, which is you blow into the tube, and there's a ball in it, simulate blowing out of candle,

which is the joke is what, which is why I call it the birthday cake test to tell you how many birthday cakes you have left. Oh, yeah. And so I basically, I did it, and then the doctor's just like looking at the screen attached, she goes, go ahead and do it.

You know, I was like, I did it. You know, and then basically like they were like, you have to do cardio five days a week. I was like, nobody does cardio five days a week. They're like a lot of people do. I'm like, I don't think professional athletes do cardio five days a week. But like professional athletes definitely do cardio five days a week. We talk about this for about 45 minutes.

We agree to disagree. And, but it was, you know, it really did, it led me down this rabbit hole of different doctors appointments. And it's a little bit whack-a-mall where you fix one thing and then you're drinking too much juice and then your blood sugar goes up. I got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It's like kind of a roll, yeah, it's a roller coaster thing.

And it's like, yeah, so the show really deals with mortality and this idea of like, there's a certain point where you're like, oh, I'm, I was like, I always heard that, that phrase growing up like over the hill, that would always be at the Spencer Gifts, like, you know, giving people creating cards, you're over the hill, I didn't even know what it meant.

Right, so I get, so I got on the hill. And I'm like, oh, oh, there's natural causes. They're not close, but they're coming. You know what I mean? But it's like, yeah, I would, I mean, how's your experience with that band like aging where you just go like, oh wow, have you had that? It was a shocking view.

Well, you know, yeah, I had my, we talked about it on the podcast a bunch, but I turned 60 in April. And it's just funny because I, you know, knock wood. I feel great. I think I take care of myself and everything. But you do start to, that's a number and not in a bad way, but you start to think, oh, there's a finite amount of this.

And we spend so much of our lives. And you can probably relate to this too, which is I had, I had like such a big part of my career where I just felt like I was the new guy. Yes. And then it turned so quickly into, into, you did a great job, old man.

Yes. And people on the street are like, you know, they're super nice to me, but they act like I've been around as long as they've been alive doing foolishness. And so it felt like it flipped very quickly into good job, old man. And I'm thinking, wait a minute, the part where I was the young guy trying to prove myself seemed to go on forever. Yes. And then it turns very quickly. And I know you've talked about a similar thing.

I had it with Taylor Thomas and who we just found out is going to be the next late night host after Colbert. Yeah. She's hilarious. And she came on my podcast. she goes, I used to watch you in middle school. Oh, it's not funny. It's not. Oh, it's a middle school, you say. It's not hilarious. Where was that? Yeah, yeah.

When was this middle school? When does that take place? But no, there are, there are routinely people that work for me and they'll be like, when were you born? And they're like, you know, 1998, I'm like, what? How are you allowed to be out away from home?

How can you be allowed to leave your house? How are you allowed to leave your house? Are you parents know where you are? You're like 1998, coming? Fucking wake up. Someone dial 911. This child has wandered, you know, are we employing you illegally?

Let me get this straight. You were born, well, Clinton was president. Yeah. And you're allowed to walk around in workplaces. But I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's so wrong, but yes. And by the way, just shout out to Taylor Tomlinson, who I adore. She is hilarious and fearless. Oh yeah.

Fearless. And I got to tour with her a bunch of years ago. And she was, I mean, I think she must think she was very young when she was on this tour. I remember the first night she walked out and it's a big venue and everything and she just had absolutely, she had that thousand yard stair up. Yep, I'm going to go do this now and kill. I say, good lord. Remind me to buy stock in Taylor Thompson. So you and I had similar Irish Catholic like Massachusetts upbringing.

Did your parents say I love you? Because I talk in the special a lot about, we weren't like, and I love you, and we all love each other. And there's no confusion, but we don't say I love you. We say take care. Oh, I know. Oh.

And it's not the same. Take care of oneself. It's not even yourself. Take care of oneself. It's not even yourself. Take care of oneself. Take care of one. Wait, one who? Well, I'm going to say, I'm going to double down for our listeners. And we've probably mentioned this before, but you say you come from Worcester,

Shrewsbury, that's where my entire family comes from. And then my parents, just before I was born, they migrate to the Boston area from central Massachusetts. But really, all my DNA and my whole history is Worcester, Massachusetts. And that's where all my relatives live. That's where I went when I was a kid. We went there on Christmases Thanksgiving.

So you and I are made up of exactly the same stuff. You might have even gone to what I talk about in the special, which is the YMCA pool and Worcester. That's what I, that's because I did not, I did not go there now. My doctor recommended I go to the YMCA pool and I say when I was a kid, my mom took me to the YMCA pool and I hated everything about it. It was wet, sweaty. I go, it smelled like, you know, in your, you know, I'm going to go to the YMCA pool and I say when I was a kid, my mom took me to the YMCA pool and I hated everything about it. It was wet, sweaty. I go, it smelled like, you know, when you're a kid and someone breaks their cast and they let you smell under the cast, it's like if that smell became

a building. And then someone just sprayed it down with over-cordinated water. I love that you said you let someone smell under your cast Line up now no pushing no shoving That's right only ten dollars a pot line them up kids Hey, Jehia but bigly is letting us smell underneath this guy Jesus fuck get out of the way. Um, no, I know exactly what we're talking about. We had a place in Brooklyn, which, which we all called the tank. And it was a giant, it was, it was a bunch of swimming pools.

And man, there's a distinctive body odor mixed with a powerful chlorine that's probably no longer legal. Yeah. That removes your skin after three swims. Yes. And I remember that quite well. So I had that, and my daughter broke her foot this summer, beginning of the summer, and I didn't realize

when your daughter breaks your foot, it's like your whole family breaks their foot. Didn't do a lot of foot-based activities this summer. But she was, we were at this place called Urban Air, which is like one of these places where there's like a hundred trampolines in like a warehouse. And then you walk in and they make you sign a release form that's about, you know, you have 40 pages long and it's just like, and your daughter will break her foot and you're like Mike Breglia. You know, and there daughter will break her foot and you're like, Mike

Bribiglia. And there will be many injuries sustained, Mike Bribiglia. You may not make it out alive, Mike Bribiglia. And then we go in and ensure enough, you know, breaks your foot. And I'm not. And of course now, you know, she broke, she did the thing that you didn't, it seems obvious. Someone's going to get hurt. This is crazy.

But now I can't sue, but I can talk about it comedically on podcasts. Yes, which is in a way, the better revenge. Like, for example, I don't know if Urban Air should be a business. That's a joke, of course. I know. Of course, it should be a business.

That's the, you know, it's urban airs dangerous for all participants, which is a joke I'm working on. Of course, of course, it should be a safe for all participants. I'm sure it is. Hey, we're doing an ad today for urban air. This has been it for the last 15 minutes. That was ad for Urban Air. Urban air.

Are you tired of a body that's free of injury? Let's do mid episode five check. How are we doing with the episode? I'm having a great time. I'm, I'm loving it. I think the person we have to ask is the guru. He sits in the back sort of like George Steinbrenner. He's just sitting back there. He owns his all Adam Sacks. He looks, he looks exactly like George Steinbrenner. Yeah. If George Steinbrenner had a child with Michael Sarah. But it was, but it was all Michael Sarah. No, George timebrake.

The second day in a row, you've called him Michael Sarah. So it's, yeah, I don't know what I've done. You know what I know what it is. I'm rewatching with my son. We rewatch and rewatch and rewatch a rest in development. Because I want my, I always wanted my son to watch the very best comedic stuff. And we, he started watching a rest of the album

and we always watch it over and over and over again. And we do it. And we've been doing it a lot lately. And I've been looking at Michael Sarah in that show and thinking, oh my God, it's Adam Seth. This is, I can't wait for the daily Beast article. That's like, and that's when he said, I look like Michael Sarah again.

And that's when he said, I look like George Steinbretter. You don't look like George Steinbretter. You have the, sometimes in the back, I know that like one frown from you and I know that I'm gone. So yeah, he's he's control is going. How's it going? It's gone great. Okay. This is like, this is exactly what the podcast should be. Yeah. This is not always is, but this should be. is exactly what the podcast should be. Yeah. This is this is not always is, but this should be. This is what the podcast should be and often is, but not always. Does anyone have any notes so far? Well, you do. You came in with, you came in with 50 notes. I only know it is that you said mid episode check and we are actually at wrap time.

I know. Not that we have to. We can just say it. No, no, we can, we can just keep going. That's how much fun it is. This will be one of those long ones. It's sipping along. Yeah, we can just lose the ads. Because I don't think they're paying us anyway. Once they listen to them, so the Netflix special, it's out.

How long does it take you to work on this? On the next show, first of all, you need some stuff to happen to you, right? Do you need me to like shoot you in the shoulder, which we get? Do you need me to shoot you in the shoulder? Can you imagine that? That's when Conan said to me,

do you need me to shoot you in the shoulder? And sure Conan is funny sometimes, but this was a time where it didn't seem like he was making a joke. I would use a 22. I would use a low-key. I would use a low-key. I would use a low a joke. I would use a 22. I would use a low-caliber. You would kill him. You're a marksman, but you don't shoot.

Oh, come on. You're going to kill him. What's wrong? Oh, 50-50 chance he gets killed. You get a ton of material. Okay, so, Dan, I see you come on at the end of the show and we hug. That's a big show. By the way, that's another, that's another handoff that I think that we could pull off in 2024s. If you end up, because you were talking about going out and doing a whole bunch of live

dates, maybe even stand up, right? If you do that, I want to pop into some of those shows. I would love to have you do that. I would love it. Well, you're saying that now my dream. What is? Conan all the jokes aside. Oh, no You have to deal with this all the time. This is the bane of your existence. There's a generation of us comedians who view you as the Buddha of Comedy. Oh wow, Okay. All right. Well, you're old. That is really fat. I'm a barely fat.

Yeah. An old. I'm sorry I ruined it. No, you actually, I ruined it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Give me a compliment. And because I've known Paula forever. Sure. She gave me a compliment. And I basically said, you know, if you stick around long enough and show business, eventually they let you just stay. And she goes, you and Conan are the best at batting away compliments.

But you are. You're the, you know, you're, thank you very much. So yeah, that would be the, that would be, I don't, it doesn't process. I don't take it for granted. Like seeing you last night in Jimmy and Jesus Christ, Marty Short, who is, is funny in a way that always makes me question, like,

how can anybody be that funny in so many ways? So like, run into you guys and just be joking around. And then on the ride home realize that I get to be around all these very funny people who are really creative. And it's nice. What a what a fucking joy. This is how much I idolize Martin Shard to wear it at dinner. And I don't eat onions or tomatoes.

And you went to an Italian restaurant. And I get mocked. I get mocked by my family, including my daughter and your old daughter, because she eats more stuff than I do. But with Marty Short, I'm like, I'm just going full on against tomatoes. You know what I mean? I'm just, I can't, I can't be that person. Well, also, there is a moment where you realize you've made a mistake around Martin Short. Because he is, you know, when you walk it, if you're in a museum or something and you're in a room alone and you're really still and then you move slightly, a little red light goes up, those motion sensors.

And the red lights just going to register movement and they can pick up the slightest movement. Marty Short is one of those for someone making a mistake. There's a few people like that, Bill Haters like that, where you have to be aware that whatever you're saying or doing is being clocked with a deep sensitivity. He doesn't impression of me. That's so cruel that my wife Jenny loves, which is the whole impression. He goes, but it was my car.

That's the whole impression. It's nothing that I say. It's nothing I've said in any joke, but it was my car. Bill is just beyond. He's on another planet. Yeah, funny. But also just knowing that you're around these people who have a superpower that they'll notice something, the slightest.

Yeah. something the slightest, the slight, I spoke slightly or I had this little tick and they're like, ah, delicious. Yeah. You're like that. Yeah, you are like that. Not at all. Anyway, moving on. Not at all.

Not at all. And I love you. But I value that too. Like I feel so lucky. Like I, my first taste of that in addition to like my own family, like you're saying, was when I got to college and I was like is there a sketch comedy group because I wanted to write comedy like on late night and they said there isn't but there's an improv group I don't know what that is and I audition

I got in and when I got in I was like oh these are 10 people who are like that who are just like we're gonna make fun of everything. We're going to do impressions of everything. We're going to be very annoying, but also kind of amazing. And those are like, so my closest friends of this day. I've always thought, and this goes for everybody here, like, isn't, I always tell my kids that the journey is finding near people. You set off into the world, and then it's just collecting people

that inspire you, whatever charge you in some way, and then at the end, it is like one of those movies, those travel log movies where the person heads out in the beginning and at the end, they've got like this. This group of people that have different powers, but they've befriended them along the way. I don't know, I've, it brings me to my final point, which is that Conan and I have finally found each other. Oh. And Copods is going to be a huge success.

Got a lot of no, I don't know. No, these are, what do you mean you don't know? I just crank out these pods, man. One bag of dust. Yeah. I hear it. Cost to ratio. I mean, it's incredible. Huge in Brazil. These are huge in Brazil. Look, I'm fine with him taking a dive on that. I feel like I don't want you. That's a joint venture. Yeah, joint venture means you put up most of the cash. I put up 90% of the money.

No. And incur most of the risk. Yeah, no, no. No, you think, don't. All right. Well, boot is not taking a risk over here. Who's sitting on his fat ass.

I'm gonna start using that. Wait, Buddha! That's not something Buddha would say. What, so wait, okay, so if you were at the end now, so then what's the thing you'd say after I would exit? Cause now we're friendly, we go, oh, that was fun. That was good. So we're going to pretend you're not here. Yep, for a second.

Okay, pretend that Mike just laughed and we take, we're going to leave him on, but we take these off. I have to go to the bathroom. So do I. Yeah, that's what we would first say. Okay, but then let's say it's after that and we're just sitting here.

Okay. Get a quick snack. Yes, you guys get snacks. I'm trying to get us past that. Okay. The part where we talk about Mike Breglia. Okay. Okay. Oh, wow. What do you guys think? Well, I really liked him because he had a team stone amug and he had questions for us. That's why I really liked it because of that. He had me at the beginning. Yeah. Well, I already was a huge fan, but being in room with the person, he's so smiley

and that makes you feel so good. Yeah. I love him. Yeah. I loved him. I loved him and I'll say, I don't say take care. I'm saying I loved him. Oh, that's nice. I'm a big fan and I really admire his body of work.

And I think he's a true comedic artist. However, he read personal texts between me and him without my permission and that felt like a violation That felt like and now I'm supposed to text him again and trust him when I'm in Brooklyn How am I how am I supposed to trust him now that he doesn't then go on stern or some other Daily You fucking killed it. Oh thank you. You know It was fun. Hey, I loved it. Love the text thing was fantastic.

Did you like that? Because I was going to maybe ask you before, but I know it'd be more spontaneous in the moment. No, you don't need to cast. All right, thanks. Thanks you guys. All right, good. So anyway, remove the text part.

Because I come off like cranking out the pause. It's just like a pretty. Sorry, I left my notes. Hey. Hey, how are you? Did you just say that you didn't like the text? No, no, no, I said I wish or it was. I wish there was more and I said double it, have it play twice in one podcast.

Yeah. So no killer. All right. Thanks so much. But you're going for sure now, right? Do you mind if I lock you out and then lock the door? Yeah, no, absolutely. I'm just going to shut the door.

Here we go. And then and then I'm locking it and double bolting it. Now I and then ee-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e You weren't even wearing glasses. I know, I just thought I should start. That's a $35,000 dollar door. Asshole. Oh, now I know how you really feel. Boota, you demanded I call you Boota in the interview. That's the part I left out. I told you, if you could mention in that I'm a comedy Boota, and that you all feel that way, I'd really appreciate it and you'd get $500 worth of coffee pods.

Well, they never showed up. Thanks for nothing, assholes. Ladies and gentlemen, you just heard real improvisation. None of this was planned and yet it happened. Not a fan. Not a fan of you. Don't like you. Don't like Sona. I'm okay on Adam. We're getting you a team Adam mug. By the way, he's okay on you. We're getting... Let's get one mug made that says Maggorelli and Mike Bribiglia are okay with Adam Sacks. What about that?

That's that's gonna sell That's gonna be our biggest seller. Yeah, filipola co-pods Cobra big Spuds. So seriously, uh, I'm gonna make this. I think in this part, can you for real? Do you or do you not want to purchase Cobra Big Spuds? Do not. Do not. But let me ask you again. Let me phrase it. Let me give you this. Okay, back in here. One being one big security. There's no security here. Cover big security. Get him up.

Are you putting the door back on? Or are you taking it off? I came through the ceiling. Oh my god. He came through the ceiling with ripped Taylor energy. I came through the ceiling. He's got confetti! Oh! Mike, particularly, thank you for, man, this was a gift.

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