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Our Oscar-Nominated Andrea Gibson Film: Meg Falley and Sara Bareilles

February 24, 2026·1 hr 10 min·6 clips
Andrea Gibson saw their cancer treatment as a chance to let someone else turn their life into beautiful art.
Megan is on the Q side, with Abby, Glennon, and Sarah beside her. She is half laughing at the oddness of hosting and fully taking in the sweetness of being trusted with the mic. The film is Oscar nominated now, which is huge, but the room keeps circling back to something more intimate: they made it together, stayed friends, laughed hard, and got through the parts that were ridiculously hard. The episode is tender, loose, and very much alive. One story hangs around a soft wooden tree, a questionable letter, and the strange task of sewing into something that should not behave like fabric. Andrea feels present in all of it. The group imagines her enjoying the whole mess, maybe even stirring it up as a demanding little ghost who would have loved the chaos. Then Abby names the surprise that keeps catching her off guard. After years of being recognized for soccer, then for the podcast, people now stop her to talk about the film. She says she will stop for twenty minutes, even when she is late, because those conversations feel like a gift from Andrea. The scale of it gets funny fast. In Italy, in airports and layovers, even at the Olympics, people want to talk about poetry and Come See Me in the Good Light instead of Abby the Olympian. By the end, gratitude takes over. Megan thanks them for the project, for their care, and for becoming part of what makes her possible. Everyone says love out loud. The last joke, about what the podcast would sound like with a completely regulated nervous system hosting, pulls the room from tears back to laughter.

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Four friends reflect on the Oscar-nominated film they built around a poet's final year.

Megan Fowley flips the usual setup here, interviewing her friends Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Sarah Bareilles about "Come See Me in the Good Light," the Oscar-nominated documentary built around the last year Megan shared with her partner, poet Andrea Gibson.

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