You know what it is?

It's like everybody knows Andrea is a phenomenal poet.

But to me, Andrea is also just a phenomenal laugh hang.

And seeing how hard and deep Andrea is laughing.

And I love the lines on Andrea's face. And when they smile and

laugh and those lines get lifted up, I'm like, I can feel that Andrea is still here somehow.

This week's guest is an award-winning comedian.

When she's on anywhere, I record it.

I watch it multiple times.

I still laugh out loud at her last appearance on the Colbert show.

She's also an accomplished actress who steals the morning show season three.

If you know, you know.

The reason she's here today,

though, is because she's now an Academy nominated, Oscar-nominated, documentarian. She's made the most exquisite film about someone I followed for a long time before the film was ever made. Poet

Laureate of Colorado, Andrea Gibson. Without any further ado, Tignitaro is this

week's guest on the Best People podcast. Thank you so much for being here. It is my absolute

pleasure to be here. You're a very big, my family is all very big fans of

years. I'll have you know. Yes. That's too much. That's too nice. That's too nice.

You've thrown me now. I was going to tell you how I came to read all of Andrea's poetry. I am a big,

we can do hard things fan. I use it in my political

commentary like, come on, guys, we can defeat authoritarianism. We can do hard things. Yeah, yeah.

And I saw Abby talk about the way that Andrea's poetry changed Glennon's life. And I thought,

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