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100. Ira Glass Part 3: The Best Advice

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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How to Dance to the Unlived Lives of Your Parents

When you think of your dad as a kid, was your dad funny? Like my mom was funny and my dad is like funny yes, but definitely like my dad is very dry. And my mom is a great storyteller. Put those together. Yeah. Similarly, your dad worked in radio-ish. But he stopped before I was born, in part because I was born. Because like, you know, having two kids and when it's public accounting, I didn't know him as a radio person. It just made me, Joe and we were talking about the idea of like, are we able to do just what are essentially what our parents wanted to do, but absolutely couldn

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