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100. Ira Glass Part 3: The Best Advice

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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The Importance of Being Discouraged

"I was high with my mom, which is not the first time that I've been high with my mother," Ricketts says. "For those few days, I thought I was going to die." He has a physical reminder of how lucky he is: A blood-spattered test report from his bladder in the 90s.

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