Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best

It's me, your friend Busy Philipps! My creative partner Caissie St. Onge & I love making things that we believe people need & will love & we’ve had so many plans. We had plans to do a TV show that would shake up late night! And we think it kinda did! For six months. We adored our genius, scrappy creative team at “Busy Tonight” as much as we loved our audience, so when we broke the news that we’d been canceled, we vowed to get back up & make even bigger plans to invent a whole new way of doing things in the entertainment biz, to reunite our beautiful staff & change the game for everyone! An entertainment Utopia! And we were so close, then...the world changed. Now those plans are, at the very least, on hold. So, we've shifted gears, like everyone has had to, & with our friends, we're just doing our best, taking it slow & talking to fascinating friends about how *they* are doing *their* best. They’ll tell us all about those times in their lives when a setback actually led to the right thing. Maybe it was a job that didn't pan out, but opened the door to an even more perfect one, or maybe it's how they studied for years to do the thing they thought was their calling, only to fall into something else that felt like kismet. The thing is, we want to share those moments because right now EVERYBODY is having one of those moments. Maybe we'll all learn something life-changing or maybe we'll just have a conversation where we break down in tears, then laugh at ourselves for crying. Whatever happens, we can assure you, Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best!

Society & Culture
Comedy
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Jessamyn Stanley
Author, yoga teacher, entrepreneur and advocate, Jessamyn Stanley talks about her experience as a fat, Black, queer woman who is bringing yoga to every body.
193 min
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Artist, Author, Tarot & Oracle Creator, Marcell...
Busy’s packing and moving AGAIN, while also trying to juggle some semblance of a social life with being a mom. Caissie is experiencing a menopause symptom she had never heard of in her life.
170 min
103
Samantha Irby
Author and hilarious person Samantha Irby stops by to talk about her new bestseller “Quietly Hostile."
202 min
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Christa Miller
Christa Miller pops in to talk about working not only as an actor on Scrubs, Cougar Town and now Shrinking on Apple+.
156 min
105
Ellie Kemper
Ellie Kemper drops by to discuss some memories from The Office, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and to talk about her new gig, The Great American Baking Show on Roku.
153 min
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Sofia Black D’Elia
Sofia Black D’Elia joins the pod to talk about what it was like being a teen actor on shows like All My Children and Skins, plus what it was like working with Busy on Season 2 of Single Drunk Female.
160 min
107
Only This Beautiful Moment with Abdi Nazemian
TV and film writer and author Abdi Nazemian joins to discuss the writers’ strike, his pivot from screenwriting to novels, and what it’s like to have landed on some banned book lists.
144 min
108
A Blank Page
This week, Busy is making big breakthroughs and someone in Caissie’s house had a mental health emergency and it wasn’t a person for once.
124 min
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Patience is a Virtue
After a two-week break, Busy and Caissie are back. Find out what Busy did for the first time ever in her career and why Caissie is cussing out these new eye drops!
87 min
110
When We Hit Pause
Busy is on-set working and the podcast was supposed to be recorded in two parts, both on Monday. But when she and Caissie hit pause on Part 1, they learned about yet another school shooting
150 min
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BFF MICHELLE WILLIAMS!!!
This week, Busy is headed back to work on Girls5Eva…this time for NETFLIX!
148 min
112
This Is All a Trolley Problem
Busy gives us an update on Birdie’s medical scare and talks about how her own ENT once saved her from a potentially brain-eating infection.
133 min
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You Don’t Have to Get Over It…
Busy is shooting her dream role in “Mean Girls: The Musical” movie, but she has just as much drama going on off-camera and she’s letting it all out. Literally.
122 min
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It’s a Whale Watch, Not a Whale Show
Busy and Caissie have returned from their mini-tour and are back in their respective homes.
167 min
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Eugene Mirman, Lou Barlow & Will Dailey
Busy and Caissie are visiting Boston, dressed in their finest interpretations of “J Lo Goes to Dunkin Donuts” and chatting with their friend, comedian and star of Bob’s Burgers, Eugene Mirman
155 min
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Phoebe Robinson & Ted Leo - live in NJ!
Busy and Caissie are live in beautiful Newark, New Jersey talking to their friend, the great Phoebe Robinson!
145 min
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BPIDHB LIVE! From San Francisco
Busy and Caissie are doing the podcast live from the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco!
148 min
118
Adam Pally
Busy and Caissie are mourning the death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of police and share why they believe policing must change now.
218 min
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What’s One Thing You Want to Celebrate This Week?
Busy is celebrating the Oscar nomination of her BFF Michelle Williams and trying to figure out why she keeps puking.
145 min
120
Harvey Guillén
Busy accompanied BFF Michelle Williams to the Critics’ Choice Awards and she shares what went on behind the scenes amongst the stars.
170 min
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Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath
Busy and Caissie are ready to put their grief aside to talk about Prince Harry’s new book, and some huge news out of Massachusetts where Ben Affleck and J. Lo were spotted at two local Dunkin’ Donutses.
200 min
122
You’re An Orphan, Caissie
This episode was pre-recorded on New Year’s Eve, 2022. Caissie talks about the sudden unexpected loss of her mother days before Christmas and Busy talks about other losses, also unexpected and sometimes sudden. There’s crying, duh, but also some laughs.
132 min
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Ship Happens
Caissie confesses a strange addiction, while Busy details her misadventures in Christmas present shipping.
186 min
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Lake Bell
Busy talks about consuming the entirety of White Lotus season 2 in one sitting.
193 min
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Michael Ausiello and Atsuko Okatsuka
Busy and Caissie share what they got each other for Christmas!
212 min