Tig Notaro

It might be my favorite conversation I've ever had, not even just podcasting, but like ever.

You're about to hear the conversation that we had with Andrea Gibson.

The origin of this conversation is that my therapist told me to find Andrea's work and I started reading it and it

saved me, Abby sent Andrea a DM saying, thank you for what you've done for my wife.

Andrea wrote back and that was the very day that they had received the news from their doctor that they were not going to recover, that their cancer was incurable that day.

I believe that day, maybe a

Andrea said to us that what they were most worried about on the day they learned that their cancer was incurable was how to tell the news to their community because their community of people who followed their work is still such an open-hearted, tender, loving group of people who live very close to the marrow of life and

Andrea knew how hard this news was going to be for them.

That's who Andrea was.

That's what they were thinking about the day they got that news.

And so they asked us, Abby and I, if they could come on this podcast and share the news with their community from here.

So that all happened in one day.

A few days later, we sat down in front of our little situation here and Andrea came on the screen.

We had this conversation that you're about to hear and we've never been the same.

The second thing you need to know is that when Tig contacted Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave, who are the directors and producers of Come See Me in the Good Light, which is the film about Andrew and Meg, they had been looking for some funny material.

They wanted to do a documentary that was funny and Tig called them and said, okay, I've got to pitch

It's about a queer non-binary poet who is dying of cancer.

Understandably, Ryan and Jessica's reaction was, well, that should be a home run.

That's really an easy pitch for a streamer.

That is going to be a toughie.