Mike Birbiglia's fourth Netflix special adapted his Broadway hit show, The New One, charting his evolution from happily childless single man to dutiful husband and father. For his fifth Netflix special, Birbiglia finds himself staring into the deep end at his own end, wondering if he'll befall the same fate as his grandfather and father before him. Death and anxiety, but make it funny! If it were anyone else, we might be suspicious. But Birbigs has a solid track record for making his medical maladies merry, so we're here for it.
laura: is the waffle house known for having a lot of cash on hand? think of a place, to rob, the waffle house loose change? i m going to climb into the ceiling like tom cruise and lower myself into the office. laura: usually those k-mart drop ceilings, you know you can hide stuff up there. they just drop down. it s not actually a ceiling. this is ridiculous. quickly, a 69-year-old man, a dutchman, is trying to he s suing the government because he wants to identify as a 49-year-old man. his name is and he feels he s being discriminated against on these dating aps because when he puts he s 69 they don t swipe back but if he put he were 49 he might be a whole new man. listen. i feel i suffer with my age.
if i m 49 again, i would have a baby again. i ll buy a new car again. if i am that age, i have hope, new again, the whole future is there for me again. he s saying they are f discriminating against him, laura. laura: it s called age-ism. if they can redefine their gender, he s saying i want to identify as a different age, he says he s trapped in an old a man s body but he s got the body of a 25-year-old and the skirt of a b 49-year-old. laura: why couldn t i say like iay want to be, you know, a gazelle in botswana. w outrun the lions. height, race, sex, these are things, not only is it important to define you, state knees these thingsor so they can serve you. otherwise, i want to identify as a 70-year-old because i want those social security benefits. bring them now. mike: i love that. actually, i m imagining myself