I was Kathy Lee. What's her name? Kathy Bates. It's Kathy Bates. To Wanda. My favorite line in that whole movie is when she hits the young people take her parking space and she just smashes into them over again. I don't worry about aging alone because you've surrounded yourself. You're basically what is called in Silicon Valley a proto natalist. The right lens to save the population. There's a guy in my grad school class who's doing this and he's like, if I have 11 children and they each have 11 children, over time will overpower the human race. Yeah, growing old together.
Today, we’re re-airing one of Blakeney Schick’s favorite episodes: an interview with her former yoga student, comedian and writer, Mike Birbiglia. Aging, parenting by mortality and dying alone or kinless: these are just some of the uplifting topics Kara and Nayeema tackle before the interview.
When we originally published this episode, Mike was deep in his latest Broadway show, “The Old Man and the Pool.” (The show completed its Broadway run in January, and will open for a limited run in London next month.) In it, Birbiglia doesn’t shy away from such heavy topics either. Birbiglia and Kara discuss mortality, parenthood, their last words and finding comedy in all of life — even the sad bits.
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