00:00Give me the light years. I want the dark ones too. Grief is the singer in my band. She's a passenger van and a shortstop way through the truth.
00:24Learn from the nightshades. They grow in the darkest places. And we've not been stung so many times would we ever have struck at this heaven on earth that I don't want to waste.
00:40Pick a lucky penny up and I'll marry you for your money, love. So keep the novocaine out of my wisdom teeth.
00:52Want to feel it all, salt and sour then sweet. Want to kiss you and write love's name on my crumbling walls. Lay them at your feet with the rest of me.
01:09Salt then sour then sweet.
01:19Hi.
01:20Well, thank you for that.
01:22Oh my gosh. You guys made me so nervous I screwed up the words.
01:26I definitely said the word shortstop in that and that's not in the song.
01:32So, thanks for making me fuck up.
01:38If shortstop isn't in the song, what was meant to be in the song?
01:42Shortcut.
01:43Okay, that makes more sense.
01:44And a shortcut straight to the truth. Grief is the singer in my band. She's a passenger van and a shortcut straight to the truth.
01:52It's an incredible lyric. Andrea wrote it. I said shortstop.
01:56You've still got baseball on the mind, don't you? LA, Dodgers, you know.
02:02Come on!
02:04Well, Come See Me in the Good Light is a documentary about Andrea Gibson and their terminal cancer diagnosis.
02:13I gather you were a long time fan of Andrea's poetry, her poetry slam performances.
02:19How did you get involved in this project?
02:21Interestingly enough, I came to Andrea's poetry, oh my gosh.
02:27Maybe only about a year before I got to meet them and got invited into the world of this film, which has been truly a life changing experience.
02:39I got introduced to Andrea through just Instagram videos and, you know, they did have a cancer, an incurable cancer diagnosis and came to Instagram with just an incredible amount of transparency and vulnerability and humor and light.
02:56And just an amazing way of holding this very dark matter with tremendous care and grace.
03:03And I was also, I am someone who struggles deeply with mental health, depression, anxiety, and Andrea felt like medicine for me.
03:12Lexapro also feels like medicine and so I highly recommend that as well.
03:17But that, it was only about a year I hadn't been introduced to Andrea's work and then, you know, I, yeah.
03:25And you got to catch a show, I gather, and then bumped into some friends who happened to be involved in this and it went from there and obviously these are Andrea's words that you're using for the song.
03:39It was one of the most synergistic experiences of my life.
03:42I happened to be in Colorado during the performance that is featured in the film.
03:49And I ran into, as you do, Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach, just, you know, casually.
03:55But we saw each other at the show and I had been a guest on their podcast and so we were friendly and we connected and reconnected.
04:03And then I got an email not long after and asked me to join this very elite kind of tiny crew of Andrea devotees who wanted to help tell this story in a really intimate way.
04:19So I came on as executive producer and joined the team and got to do this incredible collaboration with Brandy Carlyle and Andrea Gibson.
04:26Yeah, as we say, Andrea's words, but you and Brandy wrote this.
04:30Talk about that.
04:31How was that collaboration?
04:32How did it sort of work?
04:34So after I watched the film for the first time, it's no longer the final scene in the movie, but it used to end on this wind chime.
04:44And so I started writing music in the key of the wind chime so it would be seamless.
04:52I'm no dummy.
04:53I'm no dummy, guys.
04:56And Andrea and Ryan White, the director, had talked a lot about wanting an original poem at the end of the film.
05:04So Brandy and I were given these pages of couplets and snatches of ideas and sort of an unfinished poem, a love poem essentially to Meg, Andrea's partner.
05:18And it really was about what Andrea wanted people to leave the theater feeling, which was just love soaked.
05:27And I think when you see this movie, when you see this film, you will feel soaked in love.
05:33It is just made of love.
05:35And in the film, it's a duet with you and Brandy.
05:39Is that right?
05:40Yeah.
05:41So you take a verse each and then...
05:43We take a verse.
05:44We do a little tradesies.
05:45We do a little harmony.
05:46Oh, it is sweet.
05:48Did you know Brandy before?
05:49Was this your first time?
05:50Yeah.
05:51No, I know Brandy.
05:52Yeah.
05:53It sounds incredibly sad.
05:54We're talking about someone who had terminal cancer, but this is a sort of film about hope.
06:00It is the most life affirming.
06:02I mean, Ryan says this a lot.
06:04The director says this a lot when he's talking about the film.
06:06He's like, you hear poetry and cancer and you're like, that sounds like a must miss list.
06:12You know, it is the most life affirming, hilarious, beautiful, poignant, brilliant film.
06:20I was blown away the first time I watched it.
06:24I have never felt more excited to be alive than watching this film.
06:29It is truly spectacular.
06:31And we are pleased that you could come and share that with us.
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