[encore] Phoebe Bridgers

Don't Ask Tig

American Public Media

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired April 20, 2022.

Indie pop rock sensation and Grammy nominee Phoebe Bridgers talks about life as the child of a standup comedian, the origins of her ghoul-inspired style and the worst advice she recently gave a friend. Then Phoebe and Tig help a listener who feels guilty about a past romantic affair and counsel a father who doesn’t like to punish his young daughter who can’t seem to stop misbehaving.

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0:00.0	Hey Danas and Becky's, what you're about to hear is an on-core presentation of one of our favorite
0:06.9	episodes from the Don't Ask TIG archives. Please enjoy.
0:11.7	Welcome back, Dan's and Becky's.
0:14.8	Gosh, it has been a few weeks,
0:17.4	took some time off, and unexpectedly,
0:21.3	my stepfather passed away. My stepfather Rick, who maybe you knew as the character Bill on my TV series One Mississippi.
0:32.0	He raised me since I was two. We had quite the relationship. You know,
0:39.2	when my mother passed away ten years ago, it cracked him open in a way. The circumstances, life, and just kind of having to step up to parenting me and my brother, even though we were adults and my biological father had passed away soon after my mother so
0:59.1	Rick was our parent and very sadly that was my last parent and we really over the past 10
1:08.7	years grew together and so much of it had to do with his love for my children, Max and Finn.
1:19.3	He absolutely lived for them and it's been very very painful to say the least. I didn't
1:27.3	think I was going to lose him. Like I said it was unexpected. He developed pneumonia after he had choked on some food that went into his
1:38.5	lung and that caused pneumonia and very eerily, after taking antibiotics,
1:47.2	he developed C-DF, the disease that I had 10 years ago,
1:52.4	and that is what killed him. It also landed on the 10 year
1:58.0	anniversary of the day I took my mother off life support and I took Rick off of life support.
2:06.0	It's just been very surreal, so heavy, so hard, and I want to acknowledge everyone that's reached out, friends, family that have been there.
2:18.0	Strangers I don't even know that have written in, people that have come to shows, being on stage, the first time back on stage was in
2:26.9	Denver and then Salt Lake City the night after, and it was just almost an hour and a half of like being able to think about something else for a second and actually enjoy myself.
2:42.0	So I appreciate it more than you might ever know. And yes, this is a
2:49.8	comedy podcast and if this is your first time tuning in this is not how they
2:55.4	normally start off but I just wanted to touch base because this episode you're
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