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Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Busy Philipps is weird. She knows it, and actually, she considers it her superpower — a superpower she used in her early acting days to wield revenge against the people who told her she'd never make it. But then, a weird thing happens: Busy does find success. She builds a family! But none of it feels the way she thought it would. Stars. They really are just like us, with their own struggles and problems that look just like ours. Support our independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Alright guys, we have some big news. The Bad Vibes only tour continues this spring. I promised you we would do more shows and you know what?

0:09.8

I kept this promise. We are starting out Friday March 3rd in my new hometown of Phoenix, Arizona and then we are heading to Austin, Atlanta, Durham, Milwaukee,

0:19.2

St. Louis, Lawrence and Boulder tickets. Go on sale Friday January 13th at ttfa.org. We'll also have a link in our shoutouts.

0:26.9

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0:36.5

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0:45.1

Join us next time for more good news, hopefully.

0:48.2

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1:02.2

It was the first time that I had ever heard someone articulate the thing that they responded to in me that I was like, oh my god, that's right. I am, I have a weird energy. I'm a weird person.

1:15.2

There's a thing in tabloid magazines. I can't remember which one, frankly, too lazy to Google it that shows pictures of famous people doing regular people things. It'll be Julia Roberts tying her shoe or Ben Affleck with Starbucks sometimes Duncan and the headline will be extarser just like us. They have shoelays as can you believe it? Holy crap, they have sweat glands, fingernails. Can you imagine they too wear pants?

1:41.2

By the way, I love this part of the magazine. Fully understand the novelty. When someone exists mostly on your TV or a movie screen or in the little rectangle in your pocket, it feels like they live on another plane of existence altogether. Sing a famous person just be a person. It is a turn of the kaleidoscope. I once saw Kim Ketrol on a Delta flight. Blue my mind. Blue my mind.

2:04.2

The voice you heard at the top of this episode, that weird person. That was the actor Busy Phillips, the author Busy Phillips, the host producer, writer Busy Phillips, the Instagram star Busy Phillips, the multi-multi-hyphenate Busy Phillips whose weirdness is what has always made her one of those stars that does feel like us.

2:24.2

As a kid, I was weird. A lot of times too loud, a lot of times like ostracized from my friends and kind of missing the thing when I was like a little kid.

2:36.2

But in spite of that, I was just very confident in myself and my abilities. And I guess confident in my weirdness is really trying to make sense of everything.

2:50.2

I was really trying to figure out the confusion that I felt in my home. I was really trying to figure out why school was so hard for me, why I couldn't pay attention, why my friends kick me out of their little circles.

3:11.2

Tell me about a moment when you're growing up or when you're little, when you know what it is that you want to do with your life.

3:20.2

I mean, I don't know sort of like romantically in retrospect. I always felt that I was born for the stage.

3:30.2

And then I felt when I started doing the school plays and then summer programs and theater stuff, I felt like, oh, this is actually where being too much is, this is the perfect application.

3:45.2

This is a bunch of weirdos, you know, like me and we all are too much or too annoying and too loud and we, you know, are singing like an amazing grace to, you know, like at the top of our lungs for attention or whatever.

4:03.2

And that's where I felt always like I could exist.

4:09.2

Even when you find your place where you can be exactly yourself, you don't get to exist solely in that space.

4:25.2

Busy found her calling when she was young, but she also, like pretty much everyone else, had to go to middle school and high school, which stinks.

4:37.2

You start off and you have no access to anyone except for like a very select little pool of humans and you're just, you know, at the mercy of whoever they are and their parents are and whatever.

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