Mike Birbiglia
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192 appearances
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2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 18 Jun
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And this is the part that I remember vividly where I'm running, and I'm slowly realizing I'm on the front lawn of La Quinta Inn in Walla Walla, Washington, in my underwear, bleeding.
bleeding yeah and i'm like oh no and in that and but then i realized it and at that moment i was relieved that i hadn't been hit by the missile right yeah yeah you're like oh fuck it's like your shit yeah yeah high action yeah uh which is great by the way your show is fantastic and you're I'm sure you probably hear this a lot. He's a great actor, too. He is. Thanks, man.
He is.
That's the part I didn't know. I always thought you were funny. I didn't know you could act and play nine parts.
Good job, Tom. So, yeah. So, I jumped through the window and lived to tell it. And then that show became a whole thing.
So here's what's crazy. There we go. There we go. There's a plaque that we sent them to put up on the wall, and it's there still.
awesome yeah you know it's funny there's a great follow-up to this which is uh yeah in this room january 26 2005 comedian mike verbiglia sleepwalked out the window uh that story became based the basis for a book and feature film sleepwalk with me seriously google it yeah yeah and so this winter on like the 20th year anniversary yeah that's that's i took those photos the night i jumped through the window
That's like the real serrated glass.
In a while. That's crazy. And so the 20-year anniversary, we took a camera crew back to Walla Walla, and I went to the hotel, talked to the guy from the front desk. Also, by the way... I interviewed the guy from the front desk. He's still there?
travel oh i know this is like no what we do completely shit oh 15 years yeah yeah so so so i went so i went back in january interviewed the guy from the front desk and i go did it is it how is it how you remember when i tell the story on this american life whatever is that how you remember it and he goes you weren't in your underwear that was it that's it yeah yeah
Because you weren't in your underwear. But it's funny how memory works. He goes, you were wearing a robe. I absolutely was not wearing a robe. I don't own a robe. There was not a robe at the hotel. Not at the La Quinta. It's not the Waldorf. But it's funny how memory works. But I interviewed all the people. I interviewed the doctor who put stitches in my legs.
at the hospital and uh i interviewed like there were people there were cops who were on the radio that night who were like oh yeah yeah they i this was on the radio they took they said there's an incident and this guy's at the hospital now Yeah.
How did you start to treat it? So for a period of time, I was taking, I still take Klonopin. I know. I don't love it. That's a knockout. I don't love it. I've been weaning myself off of it slowly, but it's a lot. And then for a long time, it sounds like a bit, but I slept in a sleeping bag and I wore mittens so I couldn't open the sleeping bag. That was something the doctor told me.
Yeah. Well, keeping you alive. Put mittens on.
Yeah.
Oh, 100%. So for a long time, I wouldn't stay on the second floor. That's the college I performed at that day. I performed at two colleges that day. It was, like, Whitman College and maybe, like, Cascadia College. I was on, like, this was, like, a period in my life where I had done NACA conferences, which are, like, these college booking conferences.
And I was doing like, I was doing, I don't know, 50, 100 colleges a year. So I'm like driving around and I'm like, you know, barely making enough money to get by. And like, and it was, and I was so sleep deprived.
So a lot of it was sleep deprivation. So like a big thing in my life now is like, get the sleep. Yeah.
Oh yeah.
No, It was a national one. It was a Pacific Northwest. That was from Pacific Northwest. So yeah, so that was how I started telling stories. So then you found you had a lane, kind of, right?
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