Mike Birbiglia

you know my dad like we had a stilted relationship for like i would say most of my life and it's weirdly only now like in his final phase of life where like i'm starting like i said like it has calmed him down the stroke it has like he used to shout so much it wouldn't be every day but it would be enough that you'd be like on edge like is it gonna happen today yeah

you know my dad like we had a stilted relationship for like i would say most of my life and it's weirdly only now like in his final phase of life where like i'm starting like i said like it has calmed him down the stroke it has like he used to shout so much it wouldn't be every day but it would be enough that you'd be like on edge like is it gonna happen today yeah

you know my dad like we had a stilted relationship for like i would say most of my life and it's weirdly only now like in his final phase of life where like i'm starting like i said like it has calmed him down the stroke it has like he used to shout so much it wouldn't be every day but it would be enough that you'd be like on edge like is it gonna happen today yeah

you know the joke i say in the show that he'd be like where are my goddamn keys and we'd all be like we gotta find dad's keys like i spent my whole life looking for those keys i go i jumped through a window to find those keys and uh but like that was my you know that was a lot of it and then and then i was you know now that my dad is dying like in the final phase of life like

you know the joke i say in the show that he'd be like where are my goddamn keys and we'd all be like we gotta find dad's keys like i spent my whole life looking for those keys i go i jumped through a window to find those keys and uh but like that was my you know that was a lot of it and then and then i was you know now that my dad is dying like in the final phase of life like

you know the joke i say in the show that he'd be like where are my goddamn keys and we'd all be like we gotta find dad's keys like i spent my whole life looking for those keys i go i jumped through a window to find those keys and uh but like that was my you know that was a lot of it and then and then i was you know now that my dad is dying like in the final phase of life like

you really do realize he's just a person, and he was probably doing his best, and we're all doing our best, you know what I mean? It is like seeing your parent in that stage puts us so much in perspective.

you really do realize he's just a person, and he was probably doing his best, and we're all doing our best, you know what I mean? It is like seeing your parent in that stage puts us so much in perspective.

you really do realize he's just a person, and he was probably doing his best, and we're all doing our best, you know what I mean? It is like seeing your parent in that stage puts us so much in perspective.

Good looking folks. I'll see my dad like picking up like a cup or something and like, and I'll just be like, that's sort of like me. Like you just see, you go, Oh yeah, he's a human struggling with this thing. And that kind of reminds me of my own physicality. Even is he close to you now? Like, does he live in New York also? No, he lives in Rhode Island.

Good looking folks. I'll see my dad like picking up like a cup or something and like, and I'll just be like, that's sort of like me. Like you just see, you go, Oh yeah, he's a human struggling with this thing. And that kind of reminds me of my own physicality. Even is he close to you now? Like, does he live in New York also? No, he lives in Rhode Island.

Good looking folks. I'll see my dad like picking up like a cup or something and like, and I'll just be like, that's sort of like me. Like you just see, you go, Oh yeah, he's a human struggling with this thing. And that kind of reminds me of my own physicality. Even is he close to you now? Like, does he live in New York also? No, he lives in Rhode Island.

So I'm going home like every few weeks on a train. And, uh, That's where my brother and sister live. Oh, they live there? Yeah, which is hard for them. It's hard for my mom. It's just hard. The way America deals, the healthcare system deals with end-of-life stuff is not good. There's this book Atel Gwande wrote called Being Mortal. You ever read that? It's really good, but it's all about...

So I'm going home like every few weeks on a train. And, uh, That's where my brother and sister live. Oh, they live there? Yeah, which is hard for them. It's hard for my mom. It's just hard. The way America deals, the healthcare system deals with end-of-life stuff is not good. There's this book Atel Gwande wrote called Being Mortal. You ever read that? It's really good, but it's all about...

So I'm going home like every few weeks on a train. And, uh, That's where my brother and sister live. Oh, they live there? Yeah, which is hard for them. It's hard for my mom. It's just hard. The way America deals, the healthcare system deals with end-of-life stuff is not good. There's this book Atel Gwande wrote called Being Mortal. You ever read that? It's really good, but it's all about...

how he kind of opens by saying like, in like India gets a lot of things wrong in medicine, but like the thing they get right is like end of life. Cause they treat it like it's special. And like, essentially you're like letting someone go. And like in America, we're like,

how he kind of opens by saying like, in like India gets a lot of things wrong in medicine, but like the thing they get right is like end of life. Cause they treat it like it's special. And like, essentially you're like letting someone go. And like in America, we're like,

how he kind of opens by saying like, in like India gets a lot of things wrong in medicine, but like the thing they get right is like end of life. Cause they treat it like it's special. And like, essentially you're like letting someone go. And like in America, we're like,

we need to prop him up and put him on stilts and shock his body and all this shit just to keep someone alive but like barely alive and so much of their body doesn't work you can't walk you can't stand it's like so many things that are brutal doesn't remember what happened in the last year it's a really hard thing so hard yeah

we need to prop him up and put him on stilts and shock his body and all this shit just to keep someone alive but like barely alive and so much of their body doesn't work you can't walk you can't stand it's like so many things that are brutal doesn't remember what happened in the last year it's a really hard thing so hard yeah