and these are the Top Eight Memorable Moments of my career.

After I graduated high school late 2013 or early 2014,

my grandfather paid me to play a family reunion

but not my own.

And then Gordon Gano was playing, weirdly.

Like a couple of years later,

I ended up opening for Violent Femmes.

(bell chimes)

I think it was 2014, I was being cast in a movie

about a fictional girl band,

and the male producer told me that I was (silence).

He told me that I was girl next door style attractive

and that's why I was so castable

because anybody could (silence) me,

and then I called my mom laughing hysterically

and didn't feel bad about ghosting them.

Late 2014, I got a message on music Facebook

from a guy called Marshall Vore

and my mom was reading my Facebook

and responded to him and said that,

"Yes, I would open for his band,"

even though I didn't tell her she could do that

and now we're best friends

and we write all my songs together

and play music all day long.

In 2016, I met Julien Baker who took me on tour.

I was going upstairs and she was coming downstairs

and we said,

"Dude!"

"Dude!"

"Dude!"

"Dude!"

Then we did a whole tour.

Then we started a band.

We got to play the Ryman in 2018 as our first show

as Boygenius, our band, with Lucy Dacus.

That was fun.

In 2016, I got asked to play

like a secret show at the Bootleg

and I got an email, like a group email, from Conor Oberst

about how he didn't wanna check a microphone

cause he doesn't believe in microphones.

Then we met, became fast friends,

and started a band together also,

called Better Oblivion Community Center

that we toured in 2019.

In 2018, I finished a really, really grueling tour in the US

and went directly to London to open for Bon Iver

and when I was sound checking Sean and Justin came on stage

and played a bunch of my songs with me

that they knew by heart.

That was pretty awesome.

In November 2019, I got really sick

right before this giant show in London

and had to get a steroid shot into my butt cheek.

It was like not strep throat, throat,

but that's what it felt like

and I completely lost my voice.

A doctor shot steroids into my butt cheek

and then that night I was like (fist slaps),

"Don't know what the (silence) I was talking about.

Like I feel (silence) awesome!"

And then I woke up the next day

with like my face melting off

so its like one of those things that really like,

you are like, "Man I love my job," you know?

In 2020, Phoebe Waller-Bridge started emailing me

because we have the same name

and then we were like gonna get drinks in London.

It was gonna be super fun.

Cut to March 2020 and then we decided to make a music video

in the middle of nowhere.

So I was gonna be like the lead of this lovely music video

and then she got me on the phone

and was like I've replaced you with a leading lady

and then she had texted me a picture

of a long haired blond Chihuahua so.

She's the funniest person I've ever met by far.

Be nice but take no shit and pee after sex.

(upbeat music)