# Nathan Lane: The Safest Thing You Can Do Is Take a Risk Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/mike-birbiglia-s-working-it-out-495078/nathan-lane-the-safest-thing-you-can-do-is-take-a-risk Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/mike-birbiglia-s-working-it-out-495078/nathan-lane-the-safest-thing-you-can-do-is-take-a-risk.md Podcast: [Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mike-birbiglia-s-working-it-out-495078) Published: 2026-03-23T15:44:10+00:00 Episode link: https://www.birbigs.com/ Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/afp-222748-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/32ea5a12-6e17-42a1-8b7f-3cd5287077bd/episodes/35181360-cb62-4dc3-b96a-b489fe88db29/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=32ea5a12-6e17-42a1-8b7f-3cd5287077bd&awEpisodeId=35181360-cb62-4dc3-b96a-b489fe88db29&feed=MTW0B2El Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mike-birbiglia-s-working-it-out-495078/episodes/nathan-lane-the-safest-thing-you-can-do-is-take-a-risk Duration seconds: 3645 ## Resource (Recorded February 2025) Nathan Lane sits down with Mike and recounts moments from his legendary career β€” discussing what it was like to work with Mike Nichols, Elaine May, and Robin Williams. He shares what he likes most in a director, who he’s jealous of, and what he remembers of twenty-something year old Mike. Plus, an incredible story about working with Joaquin Phoenix on the film Beau is Afraid. Please consider donating to Broadway Cares ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mike-birbiglia-s-working-it-out-495078/episodes/nathan-lane-the-safest-thing-you-can-do-is-take-a-risk/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/mike-birbiglia-s-working-it-out-495078/nathan-lane-the-safest-thing-you-can-do-is-take-a-risk.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.