Brandi Carlile
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146 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 May
Brandi Carlile’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like I've been able to pull them aside for a couple of conversations and the things that they're thinking about and the things that they're saying are so heartening and so beautiful and so exciting that I just, you guys got to talk to them.
Well, is there any other way?
Yeah, I was sitting with Shania and she looked at me and she goes, I trust her. Me too.
The phone rings and you might answer.
Do you want to take that one, baby?
I love hearing you have to say that. Yeah. So Catherine, when she was in London, like people would come to her door and knock on her door and she would not come downstairs and answer the door. Well,
Yeah. And I'm just like, my favorite song growing up was Car Wheels on a Gravel Road because I just wanted to hear people approaching me. I just wanted to hear that there was constantly going to be someone in my space every day. And I have always really kind of doubled down on community or, you know, I've been accused of being extremely codependent by mystery people. LAUGHTER
And I have dealt with the reality of that probably most of my life. And it's a bit of a controversial thing. I think a lot about Joni's lyrics in that Hegira album about these pilgrimages and to flee with honor and to go and find yourself. And I get all that.
And it may be a controversial take on things, but I just really fundamentally don't believe, correct me, fix me later, but I don't believe people are meant to be alone. It doesn't mean you have to be in a relationship. It doesn't mean you have to be with your dysfunctional family if that's toxic for you. It just means you cannot become isolated and disenfranchised.
You have to find your people so that you have support and spiritual alignment with your fellow human beings, because it helps you. It reflects who you are back onto you. And I don't know how to live without as many people as I can get my hands on.
You know, that's so beautiful. And you are... I'm going to put you on the spot in a moment and I'm going to go on about you two and community too in a second. But I want to say one thing about people that are exhausted by community. Thank you.
Yeah. And me sometimes. Yeah. And it's not like a... it's not friction, it's not an inability to be with other people or acquiesce or be flexible. It's feeling too many people's feelings, taking on all that responsibility and wondering how you could possibly conserve any energy when there are so many people in the room that you really just wanna lean into.
You don't get a warning, it just... No, I think it's just that, like... And the kids know this, and Catherine knows this, and this is probably the biggest criticism that I've learned to sustain about it. It's like, Brandy's gonna Brandy.
And it's like, from the time I was a kid, if somebody would come to my house, I would answer the door with a Nintendo controller in one hand and flip the person off with the other hand and go, there's an onion in the fridge, fuck off, I'm gonna take a shower. And, like, not even, not be present. Just do whatever I was going to do anyway.
And that's my, that's how I get through days like this, is just deciding on my own whether or not to wear makeup or get out of my pajamas. And I'm just going to, like, turn up and be however I am. Sorry. And that, you know, hasn't always... been great, but that's how I don't get tired is I know I'm just going to, I don't know how to not just be exactly how I am at all times.
And that could mean totally ignoring someone or everyone while they're in my home.
No, I don't know. It's like a social problem I have. Yeah, that's good. It does give me a lot of stamina because I'm not really rising to the occasion.
Exactly. Exactly. I'm tired. Welcome. Give me something. Give me energy or a new thing or a goss. Like, let's... Yeah, let's talk shit. I definitely am always open to whatever I can get from another person. And now, Catherine, I would say you're like that. You don't have a choice, because Americans, they just... They just what? They just grab you. We don't let you go. Well, I grab them too.
You're our Mary Poppins. You know.
But I'm gone. I'm gone at that point. Then I'm in a piano and I'm just not there, you know? This is good news.
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