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-I want to talk about your podcast.
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Is that okay? -I'd love it.
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So, it's a podcast called "Working It Out,"
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and it's -- Because I can't tour,
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I'm, like, working out my new hour material
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on a podcast every week for a year.
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Like, my tour's rescheduled for a year from now.
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-Really? -So every week --
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So I had John Mulaney, Hannah Gadsby, David Sedaris,
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like, all these people, and, like, we work out material.
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And then I sometimes do these prompts,
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which are kind of like writing prompts that I do for myself,
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and then I ask the guest. So, like, I'll ask you --
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Can I ask you one? -Yeah, sure.
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-Do you remember a smell from your childhood?
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-Oh, so many.
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Play-Doh I think is a big smell for a lot of --
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-Play-Doh's huge. That's a good one.
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-That's a popular one, right?
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-No, but no one's said that yet.
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But I think about Play-Doh, the smell, all the time.
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-Oh, and it makes you want to eat it.
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Smells so good. -You just want to eat it.
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-Yeah. -Jimmy, why wouldn't you eat it?
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-Yeah. I don't know.
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You should -- -I still eat it!
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I'm a grown man! I eat Play-Doh!
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-No, you don't eat Play-- You shouldn't eat Play-Doh at all.
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-You know what I have is, when I was growing up,
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my parents had air conditioning in their bedroom.
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And it was the only one in the house.
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And it was Massachusetts. And whenever it would get
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really, really hot in the summer,
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me and my brother would knock on their door,
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like 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. We're boiling hot.
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We have, like, our blankets and pillows,
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and we're like, "Let us in!"
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And when your children show up at your bedroom door
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with blankets and pillows, nothing you can do about it.
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And so they'd let us in, and we'd lie on the floor.
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And this is the smell memory --
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the smell of carpet
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and combined with the smell of air conditioning,
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which, I don't even know what it is,
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but I don't think it's that healthy.
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And -- But it's a very fond memory,
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because it just makes me think of, like --
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I think all I wanted in life was just to be around my parents
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but for them not to talk.
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-[ Laughs ]
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-And I think that's what they wanted from me, too.
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And I think in some ways, that's what we all want.
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We just want to be around the people we love,
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but nobody talks.
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-I like that. Dude, this --
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But what -- This is called, like, "The Slow Round?"
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-This is "The Slow Round."
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Another Slow Round question is called, "On a Loop."
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And it's like, do you have a memory from your childhood
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where it's on a loop, but it's not even a story.
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It's just, like, a thing that you keep remembering.
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-Oh, gosh.
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-So, I had one that was, like, first day of kindergarten,
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at Paton School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
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The older kids, which was second graders,
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which, it seemed like they were 10 feet tall.
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These two second graders took us to the bathroom
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to show us where it was.
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And we walked in,
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and then I didn't have to use the restroom,
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and so I just walked out. But I was the only person.
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And this one second grader,
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he goes, "Get in there!"
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And then I just, like, scurried back into the bathroom.
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And I remember it to this day, just, like, "Get in there!"
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I can't forget it.
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-Wow! That -- No, I know what you're kind of talking about,
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like, that weird thing where you're like,
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it's not a real memory. It's nothing.
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It just happened in your life.
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-Yeah, it's just a random thing that I can't get out of my head.
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-I just thought of another smell.
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-What's that?
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-Do you remember when someone vomited in your school?
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-Oh, my God. They bring in the thing?
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[ Laughs ] -Like sawdust or something?
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[ Both laugh ]
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[ Laughing ] The combination of throw-up smell and sawdust?
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-[ Cackles ]
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Yes! What was that? I just thought of it now.
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I've never heard of -- What -- Is the company out of business?
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Are they okay? We don't know.
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-We don't know.
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-Oh, we got to find out who makes that stuff.
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But this is fantastic.
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-Isn't it great?
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-I love that idea. That's a great idea.
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Dude, I need stuff to listen to,
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so I'm so psyched about this podcast.
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-I'm so proud of it.
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You know, like, I've always wanted to do a show
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where I can invite people on, but, like, I'm always on tour.
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And this has been an opportunity to try this totally new thing.
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-As soon as we're done talking,
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I want to listen to you talk more.
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-That makes me so happy.
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-[ Laughs ] And I'm going to --
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I'm going to Kindle your book.
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-Paperwhite the book.
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Kindle the book.
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-Be the book. Look at that. That's it.
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That's the next cover.
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Mike Birbiglia, you're one of my faves, bud.
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Stay safe, pal, okay?
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-You, too. You, too. -Thank you, buddy.