"Comedian Mike Birbiglia, on how he became a contributor to This American Life: ""So then [This American Life producer] Julie Snyder got in touch with me about maybe putting [my  sleepwalking bit] on the show. And I didn't want them to put the live  version of the piece [on the show] because I thought 'If they play the  live version, when I release Sleepwalk with Me as a live CD, no one's going to want it because they already had the podcast of it.' So  I said 'Can we just do it in the studio?' and Julie said 'No, we really  want the live one' and then finally I get a phone call from Ira [Glass]  one day, who I'd never met and he's like 'Hi Mike, it's Ira Glass. I'm  calling to convince you to let us use the live version of your show for  our show.' And I was like 'Sure. Great.' Instantly sold. The power of a  celebrity voice — and [since] then all of my pieces on the show have  been live pieces."""
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