This film or show by Christopher Guest came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: BJ Miller. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Dr. Gabor Maté and Dr. BJ Miller — The Tim Ferriss Show
“I have a real soft spot for waiting for guffman not that it has this great meaning per se but by speaking of absurdity I just think it's hilarious”— BJ Miller
The guest here is Dr. Gabor Mate and Dr. BJ Miller: Two featured guests: Dr. Gabor Mate, addiction and trauma expert and bestselling author (In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, When the Body Says No, The Myth of Normal); and Dr. BJ Miller, hospice and palliative care physician, triple amputee, and speaker whose TED Talk on end-of-life has 17M+ views. A Tim Ferriss anniversary super-combo pairing trauma expert Dr. Gabor Mate with hospice physician Dr. BJ Miller on healing, addiction, and dying well.
