Pod Insights Handsome Pretty Little Episode #21 About this episode Tig and Fortune talk fashion faux pas and tap dancing at the Oscars on a fabulously fun Pretty Little Episode!
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2:03 Speaker 03 This is a HeadGum Podcast.
2:19 Tig Notaro? Hello.
2:20 Fortune Feimster? Hello.
2:21 Tig Notaro? Welcome to this pretty little episode with these pretty little ladies. What are you laughing at?
2:26 Fortune Feimster? I'm laughing at you just because you're like, hello.
2:29 Tig Notaro? Hello.
2:30 Fortune Feimster? We're here.
2:30 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
2:33 Tig Notaro? How's your plant doing?
2:34 Fortune Feimster? What, my plant? My fake plant is amazing.
2:37 Tig Notaro? Yeah, yeah.
2:38 Fortune Feimster? Would you know that's a fake plant?
2:40 Tig Notaro? No, no.
2:41 Fortune Feimster? See, that's why I love fake plants.
2:44 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm.
2:44 Fortune Feimster? I've not had to water it once.
2:47 Tig Notaro? Yeah, you shouldn't. Our, our assistant was watering.
2:53 Fortune Feimster? A fake plant?
2:55 Tig Notaro? Plants on our back patio. And I saw her do it one day and I was like, oh, it's like those, those don't need to be watered.
3:04 Fortune Feimster? I would be confused if they were on the patio, though.
3:07 Tig Notaro? Yeah, I mean, she had every reason to think they were real.
3:10 Fortune Feimster? Yeah.
3:10 Tig Notaro? But, um.
3:11 Fortune Feimster? You're like, why is this puddle, why is there a puddle of water under here constantly?
3:17 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
3:18 Fortune Feimster? I do not have a green thumb, so this is the best it's gonna get for me.
3:22 Tig Notaro? Yeah, I wish I was a little more, um, green.
3:27 Fortune Feimster? Botanical.
3:28 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
3:28 Fortune Feimster? I admire those people that have those just like lush gardens and.
3:33 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm.
3:34 Fortune Feimster? They're growing all this fresh food.
3:36 Tig Notaro? Yeah, I would love to be one of those little old ladies, little, little pretty old ladies that's just hunched over in their garden and then, you know, they always have little clippers in their hands and, and then a hat that's covering like their entire body. And then you walk by and you're like, hi, Mrs. Notaro.
3:56 Fortune Feimster? I see that for you.
3:57 Tig Notaro? And then I look up, I'm like, oh, hi. Oh, you've gotten so big, you know, have those.
4:04 Fortune Feimster? I think that's in your future down the road.
4:06 Tig Notaro? Do you really?
4:07 Fortune Feimster? Yeah.
4:08 Tig Notaro? And I'm not joking, like, that is my fantasy. Like, if somebody told me that I could get that going on immediately, I would be thrilled to have like a garden where things come up.
4:19 Fortune Feimster? Yeah.
4:20 Tig Notaro? High enough to where when you're hunched over and you're gardening, somebody just sees that little hat.
4:25 Fortune Feimster? Yeah.
4:26 Tig Notaro? You think I've got that in my future?
4:27 Fortune Feimster? I think you've got it in you.
4:29 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm.
4:30 Fortune Feimster? Tenfold, you've got that. It's so in your body. I don't know, I would just see you with your little clippers and your sun hat.
4:41 Fortune Feimster? You can start now. A lot of people do the raised beds.
4:45 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm. Yeah.
4:47 Fortune Feimster? They start with like one of those. Start with one of those.
4:50 Tig Notaro? Yeah. I wonder if there's gardening college or school somewhere?
4:54 Fortune Feimster? I don't think you need a college for it.
4:56 Tig Notaro? I do. I think I need a four year degree.
5:00 Fortune Feimster? On agriculture?
5:02 Tig Notaro? Yeah, and fashion, you know?
5:04 Fortune Feimster? And fashion, yeah.
5:06 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
5:06 Fortune Feimster? I think if you watched one YouTube video, you could start a garden.
5:11 Tig Notaro? I could immediately hunch over and start picking weeds.
5:15 Fortune Feimster? Come to my garden. Rest here for a while. What's that from?
5:24 Tig Notaro? Um.
5:26 Fortune Feimster? Listeners, who knows this answer?
5:29 Tig Notaro? Thomas almost looks like he does. No? I don't know.
5:33 Fortune Feimster? You guys don't know it neither. All right. I'm gonna tell you.
5:37 Tig Notaro? What?
5:38 Fortune Feimster? Garden is in the title.
5:40 Speaker 04 Garden State?
5:41 Fortune Feimster? Nope.
5:42 Tig Notaro? Gray. Gray Gardens, the musical.
5:48 Tig Notaro? Let's make it.
5:51 Fortune Feimster? It is the secret garden.
5:53 Tig Notaro? Okay, well, people kept it a secret.
5:56 Fortune Feimster? About that.
6:01 Fortune Feimster? My grandmother was a gardener. I am not, but I, I don't actually mind the thought of when I'm older, also having that situation.
6:11 Tig Notaro? Okay, truth comes out. I didn't know. I thought, I thought, I thought you were just like, that's not my world, no interest.
6:20 Fortune Feimster? No. You know what would be, I think a cool way to retire, I would have maybe two places, because I would get bored.
6:27 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm.
6:28 Fortune Feimster? One in a city, like in L, like somewhere in LA.
6:31 Tig Notaro? Sure.
6:32 Fortune Feimster? But a house in like a, like a Napa Valley.
6:35 Tig Notaro? Oh, yeah.
6:36 Fortune Feimster? It's a lot of farm to table situations up there.
6:39 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm.
6:39 Fortune Feimster? Where people are growing stuff and they're eating good food and fresh food. I wouldn't mind a little, little cottage in Napa or Sonoma.
6:50 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm.
6:50 Fortune Feimster? And get my gardening on and just drink wine all day.
6:57 Fortune Feimster? That sounds delightful.
6:59 Tig Notaro? And then how interested would Jax be in the gardening? Not at all?
7:03 Fortune Feimster? Or? She'd be interested in the wine for sure. And the charcuterie that's gonna accompany that.
7:10 Tig Notaro? Uh huh.
7:11 Fortune Feimster? She would be very into the vegetables, the fresh veggies.
7:15 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm.
7:16 Fortune Feimster? I think I could learn how to be butch and grow our food.
7:21 Tig Notaro? So it takes butchy, because I've seen little old pretty ladies that aren't terribly butchy.
7:27 Fortune Feimster? Do they?
7:28 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
7:29 Fortune Feimster? Phil's butch to me. Getting dirty.
7:32 Tig Notaro? Get dirty. I'm so glitchy.
7:37 Tig Notaro? Look at me.
7:38 Fortune Feimster? My hands in the dirt.
7:40 Tig Notaro? But you have seen the women that are like 80 that are not butchy, that their gardens are really growing. Here's my other problem is I don't feel like I make a good Mrs. Notaro. You know, I feel like I'm only Mrs. Notaro when I check into hotels.
7:57 Fortune Feimster? Yeah.
7:58 Tig Notaro? Or like on a flight, Mrs. Notaro.
8:01 Fortune Feimster? I just got called sir last night.
8:03 Tig Notaro? Oh, anyone you know?
8:05 Fortune Feimster? No, the valet. He goes, have a good night, sir. I said, thank you.
8:12 Fortune Feimster? I always try to make my voice higher. Thank you.
8:17 Tig Notaro? I always say, oh, I'm female. And then I get in my car.
8:20 Fortune Feimster? You do.
8:24 Tig Notaro? I had this one Uber driver that kept calling me sir and buddy. And I kept saying, oh, I'm female. Oh, I'm female.
8:35 Fortune Feimster? And he didn't care.
8:36 Tig Notaro? He did not, he didn't hear anything I said because he was looking at me going, whatever I was saying was not.
8:44 Fortune Feimster? Did not track for him.
8:46 Tig Notaro? No, he was like, why is he saying I'm female?
8:49 Fortune Feimster? Yeah.
8:50 Tig Notaro? You know? Um, but yeah, that's, that's my, um, that's my favorite thing to say, of course, to cause some awkwardness.
8:58 Fortune Feimster? You love a good awkward moment.
9:00 Tig Notaro? I do. I love an awkward moment.
9:02 Fortune Feimster? Yeah, I just go with it.
9:04 Tig Notaro? Thank you.
9:07 Tig Notaro? That's not going with it.
9:08 Fortune Feimster? Thank you.
9:12 Tig Notaro? How often do you get called sir? Cause I don't feel like you've got a sir look.
9:17 Fortune Feimster? I do more than you think. I think it's that people, if they're not really paying attention, they just see a large presence. Like, um, and, and so I'm not dainty like a pretty little lady.
9:32 Fortune Feimster? So they just see like the broad shoulders and they just assume.
9:35 Tig Notaro? Oh man, that dude treads water. Look at those shoulders.
9:39 Fortune Feimster? Once every couple of weeks, maybe?
9:41 Tig Notaro? Okay, see mine's every few days.
9:44 Fortune Feimster? Oh, really?
9:45 Tig Notaro? Oh, yes.
9:45 Fortune Feimster? Probably your short hair.
9:47 Tig Notaro? For sure.
9:48 Fortune Feimster? I have these long locks.
9:52 Fortune Feimster? Look how feminine I am right now.
9:56 Tig Notaro? I mean, Fortune's got her hair flung to one side. She's twirling. I would say you're even making eyes at me.
10:06 Tig Notaro? Fortune, what would it take you? And I know we've already talked about this in many different ways, but really, what would it take for you to hook up with me?
10:13 Fortune Feimster? Oh my God.
10:18 Tig Notaro? Well, you can't start twirling your hair and making eyes at me and it's not, oh, it's not gonna cross my mind.
10:25 Fortune Feimster? You and I would start giggling the whole time. There's no way.
10:32 Tig Notaro? But what is it like a money amount? Like what is, what, what is it gonna take?
10:37 Fortune Feimster? You don't have to pay me. Come on. That's a delight right there.
10:44 Fortune Feimster? Delightful hookup.
10:47 Tig Notaro? Jax and Stephanie walk in and they're like, oh God, what are you two doing?
10:51 Fortune Feimster? They're like, these two.
10:53 Tig Notaro? Yeah, let's go have a, a hot chocolate by the fire.
10:56 Fortune Feimster? That's right. A little vino.
10:59 Tig Notaro? So you won't put out a, a number?
11:01 Fortune Feimster? I mean, I wouldn't have, you wouldn't have to pay me.
11:03 Tig Notaro? You would just do it.
11:05 Fortune Feimster? Heck yeah. What a fun time.
11:10 Tig Notaro? What if we liked it a little too much? We had to sit down and explain.
11:15 Fortune Feimster? It could ruin handsome.
11:17 Tig Notaro? We're like, Jax, Stephanie, I know it was surprising, but funny to catch us, but we actually.
11:25 Fortune Feimster? We have very intense feelings for each other now.
11:32 Tig Notaro? Please let that happen. Okay. I feel like Thomas is ready to give us our first question. He's like, we gotta break this tension and move on.
11:44 Speaker 04 It's too hot.
11:45 Fortune Feimster? It's too hot in here.
11:46 Tig Notaro? Oh, Thomas, did you hear all that?
11:49 Speaker 04 I did, yeah.
11:49 Fortune Feimster? Was somebody else in the room?
11:51 Speaker 04 I tried to block it out.
11:52 Fortune Feimster? You thought we were alone?
11:55 Tig Notaro? Okay, give us a question.
11:57 Speaker 05 Hello, Fortune, May and Tig. My name is Simon and I'm from Canada. And I want to know, did you ever have a style era that you look back on and think, what was I doing? Um, just a moment in time when you tried something different? Maybe you did, you know, a crazier haircut or you went into a certain genre of fashion that you never really tried before. It was an experimental phase and you look back and you just think, that was wild.
12:36 Fortune Feimster? Oh, man, I've had some, I've had some real bad moments and they're all, you know, documented because I was on TV. I was in press photos. I mean, some of the things I would, I can't believe I showed up to half the things I showed up to, wearing the things I wore.
12:55 Fortune Feimster? Lot of sweater vests, lot of, lot of vests.
12:58 Tig Notaro? What's wrong with a sweater vest? What is wrong with a vest?
13:01 Fortune Feimster? But my shirts like underneath were like either too long or too short, like raggedy jeans. I don't know.
13:09 Tig Notaro? Ratty jeans?
13:10 Fortune Feimster? Ratty jeans. My hair wasn't like, not that my hair is not always insane, but Jax's, um, helps me keep, not right now. I did it myself, but she scrunches my curls.
13:21 Tig Notaro? I know she does.
13:22 Fortune Feimster? She scrunches my curls. She's the best.
13:25 Tig Notaro? I'm just looking for someone who'll scrunch my curls.
13:28 Fortune Feimster? I found my person. She scrunches my curls.
13:37 Fortune Feimster? But man, I have, even even Jack's laughs now, she's like, oh my God, these outfits. And I'm like, I know. Ill fitting. I think that was it. It was a lot of ill fitting stuff.
13:51 Tig Notaro? Hmm.
13:52 Fortune Feimster? I didn't know how to get things tailored yet. Or they were like a little too tight or a little too long or a little whatever crazy shoulders.
14:02 Tig Notaro? Crazy shoulders.
14:04 Fortune Feimster? You know, like I like a men's blazer, but the shoulders like look like a football. You gotta get that fixed.
14:13 Fortune Feimster? I look like a football player.
14:15 Tig Notaro? Oh, that's so funny.
14:17 Fortune Feimster? What was yours?
14:18 Tig Notaro? Well, I mean, I think the first time that I went rogue with fashion was in elementary school. And I went through a period of time where I wore a cowboy hat and cowboy boots and shorts.
14:37 Fortune Feimster? Nice.
14:38 Tig Notaro? And, uh, and it was those like safari shorts because I liked having a lot of pockets. And then it had like a, a keychain hook on it, on the safari shorts.
14:49 Fortune Feimster? Yeah.
14:49 Tig Notaro? I mean, not like I'm embarrassed of that, but that was the first time where I remember when I would go over to my neighbor's house to play, it was like, oh, Tig has a new fashion.
15:04 Fortune Feimster? Yeah.
15:05 Tig Notaro? You know, and.
15:07 Fortune Feimster? There's so many pockets.
15:08 Tig Notaro? Yeah, yeah. I'm sure I kept cigarettes and stuff in there.
15:12 Fortune Feimster? Yeah.
15:13 Tig Notaro? I used to also wear little earrings.
15:15 Fortune Feimster? Uh huh.
15:16 Tig Notaro? And I started dating this woman, like, I don't even know when. And, uh, she was like, why do you have those earrings in? And I was like, I don't know. And she said, you look like a little girl baby. You look like a little baby whose parents are trying to signal to everyone that you're a little girl.
15:36 Fortune Feimster? That pierced their little baby ears. Oh, little babies with pierced ears. I'm like, oh no.
15:43 Tig Notaro? You do like them or you don't?
15:44 Fortune Feimster? I do not like them, no.
15:46 Tig Notaro? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
15:48 Fortune Feimster? I think the baby doesn't, that hurts. They don't want that.
15:53 Tig Notaro? Yeah, there's no real reason you need to signal to everyone that the baby is a girl or boy.
16:00 Fortune Feimster? Got a bow in their hair.
16:02 Tig Notaro? And it made me laugh so hard when she said that I looked like my parents were trying to signal that I was a girl.
16:10 Fortune Feimster? I wear little earrings.
16:11 Tig Notaro? Yeah, I took them out.
16:13 Fortune Feimster? Yeah, you don't wear any earrings now, yeah?
16:16 Tig Notaro? No, not since her, because I was like, God, that is funny, because I said, you know, now that you're saying that, I think, I think that is what I was trying to do, was signal that I'm a girl.
16:29 Tig Notaro? And then, and then I was just like, yeah, I, I took my earrings out and I-
16:34 Fortune Feimster? Who needs them?
16:35 Tig Notaro? Who needs them? And now, you know, everyone wears two earrings, you know, guys do, and so you're not really signaling anything. There you are, Simon. What about you?
16:44 Speaker 05 Um, for me, I think all of my fashion choices have been completely justifiable. It's amazing, so.
16:54 Fortune Feimster? All right.
16:55 Speaker 05 Yeah, especially the skirt over jeans when I was a little kid. That was probably the best. Comment to your answer. Bye.
17:02 Fortune Feimster? Nice. My hair hasn't changed in like 20 years, though.
17:07 Tig Notaro? What was it before 20 years ago?
17:09 Fortune Feimster? I didn't know about, um, layering.
17:12 Tig Notaro? Oh, layering?
17:13 Fortune Feimster? And brushing.
17:19 Fortune Feimster? That.
17:20 Tig Notaro? It hadn't, it hadn't reached you yet.
17:23 Fortune Feimster? You're like, curl cream?
17:26 Tig Notaro? I don't even know about curl cream. I just found out when you said curl cream.
17:30 Fortune Feimster? I didn't know that you could layer hair and curve it inward. So it was just a triangle.
17:40 Tig Notaro? Nobody mentioned.
17:41 Fortune Feimster? Gilda Radner, that character.
17:44 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
17:44 Fortune Feimster? Is a triangle.
17:45 Tig Notaro? Yeah, I I've been wondering if I should um just see what I look like dying my hair.
17:52 Fortune Feimster? What color?
17:53 Tig Notaro? Well, brown.
17:54 Fortune Feimster? Oh.
17:55 Tig Notaro? I don't mind the gray, but I'm curious what I would look like if I didn't have gray.
18:00 Fortune Feimster? Yeah.
18:00 Tig Notaro? With my face aging, you know what I mean?
18:03 Fortune Feimster? Mm hmm.
18:04 Tig Notaro? Cause I of course know what I look like with brown hair from years ago, but now I'm like, you know, I've got little gray patches by my ears and stuff.
18:13 Fortune Feimster? I'm gonna look like an old cherub.
18:21 Fortune Feimster? Fat cheeks.
18:22 Tig Notaro? A little old cherub.
18:24 Fortune Feimster? Rosie fat cheeks, wrinkles.
18:27 Tig Notaro? That's great.
18:28 Fortune Feimster? Who also kind of looks young, but is old.
18:31 Tig Notaro? Do cherubs never get older, huh?
18:34 Fortune Feimster? I'm gonna be the first one.
18:36 Tig Notaro? Wow, look at you. You're gonna live so long from treading.
18:41 Fortune Feimster? That's right.
18:41 Tig Notaro? Look at that old cherub. That's gonna be one of your specials down the road is old cherub.
18:51 Fortune Feimster? You heard it here first.
18:52 Tig Notaro? You sure did.
18:53 Fortune Feimster? I love it. All right, what's next?
18:56 Speaker 03 Hi, handsome pod. This is Hannah from Berlin. And my question is, what is something you've never done or tried that you think you would actually love? And what's stopping you?
19:10 Tig Notaro? Oh, good question. Also Hannah from Berlin does not sound like.
19:14 Fortune Feimster? Does not sound German.
19:15 Tig Notaro? Hannah is from Berlin. It feels like Hannah. Forgot to mention where Hannah was from before she got to Berlin.
19:23 Fortune Feimster? She's like, oh, I meant Berlin, Minnesota.
19:29 Tig Notaro? I guess I'm Tig from Toronto, huh?
19:32 Fortune Feimster? Mm hmm.
19:33 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
19:33 Fortune Feimster? Something that you've never done, but that you think you could be good at, and why haven't you done it?
19:38 Tig Notaro? I've got something.
19:40 Fortune Feimster? Okay.
19:40 Tig Notaro? I've always wanted to do this. And fine, get ready to laugh at me, but I'm about to share a dream.
19:46 Fortune Feimster? I can't wait.
19:48 Tig Notaro? I have always want, and I don't even know if I'd be good at it, but God, I hope I am, because I want to do this one day. I want to tap dance.
19:58 Fortune Feimster? Tig.
19:59 Tig Notaro? What?
19:59 Fortune Feimster? This is also my dream.
20:01 Tig Notaro? No, Fortune.
20:03 Fortune Feimster? Tig.
20:03 Tig Notaro? Let's take tap dancing lessons.
20:09 Fortune Feimster? I swear to God, as soon as you said that, I'm like, that's mine. Yes.
20:14 Tig Notaro? I have, I think tap dancing is the coolest thing.
20:17 Fortune Feimster? Right?
20:18 Tig Notaro? Yes. Thomas is laughing at us, but just, you know, let's mute his face. I think it is the coolest thing. I want to tap dance. And how many lessons do we need? Because I can do fake tap dancing really well.
20:33 Fortune Feimster? Here's what we should do. We should take lessons together and then host the Oscars.
20:38 Tig Notaro? Yes.
20:39 Fortune Feimster? Like Billy Crystal.
20:40 Tig Notaro? Oh, right. You can't host the Oscars without knowing how to tap dance.
20:45 Fortune Feimster? Didn't he used to tap dance in his opening moments or like Hugh Jackman or something? We should do it.
20:51 Tig Notaro? Oh, my God. We have to. We have to find a tap dance instructor and then just take like, what, a week of tap dance lessons?
20:59 Fortune Feimster? I think we need more than a week. It's not easy.
21:02 Tig Notaro? Oh, okay.
21:03 Fortune Feimster? But they do have tap lessons in Hollywood for like beginners and maybe we can convince May to do it too.
21:09 Tig Notaro? Wait a minute. Or we can find tap dance lessons on YouTube. We can film ourselves teaching ourselves through YouTube tutorials.
21:21 Fortune Feimster? I really want to learn to tap dance. And I don't know why I've, I've said this for like 20 years.
21:28 Tig Notaro? Me too, kid. Me too. And I'm like, why am I, why are we not reaching our potential here? All I want to do in life is garden and tap dance.
21:40 Fortune Feimster? Whenever I see like videos of people tapping, I'm just like, that looks amazing.
21:45 Tig Notaro? Oh my God.
21:46 Fortune Feimster? I've just always wanted to be a part of like, an opening monologue. It doesn't, if, if the Oscars don't want us, then like, do they still have the TV land awards?
21:57 Tig Notaro? They're just waiting for us to learn how to tap dance. They want us. They want us.
22:04 Fortune Feimster? I've just always pictured like a tuxedo, just tapping, like our life depends on it.
22:11 Tig Notaro? Okay, wait, here's a great idea. May is doing the monologue and you and I are just tap dancing our faces off while May is giving the monologue. And we're like, you know.
22:21 Fortune Feimster? May's all cool and we're just like, with a top hat.
22:25 Tig Notaro? And May's like, guys, can you keep it down? I have, you know, they're trying to do their monologue and we're like, clickety clackety clackety click.
22:33 Fortune Feimster? I'm trying to introduce Angelina Jolie. We're like, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.
22:40 Fortune Feimster? I think this needs to happen. We have to find a class that's not just us and a bunch of like eight year olds. It needs to be like, that's to be like an adult beginner class.
22:51 Tig Notaro? Oh my God. I, okay, fine.
22:54 Fortune Feimster? If we have to do it with eight year olds, fine. Just, they need to know that we're there to host the Oscars.
23:00 Tig Notaro? Right. We have to, and then that should be the very beginning of the, you know, there's probably a bunch of things we have to learn.
23:11 Fortune Feimster? We should document it.
23:12 Tig Notaro? Yeah, like we're, we're trying to prepare for the Oscars.
23:15 Fortune Feimster? And we show it in their Oscar.
23:17 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
23:18 Fortune Feimster? Roll out.
23:19 Tig Notaro? Opening. And, and we, but we, there's other things that we probably have to learn. And I don't know what they are, but there's things Oscar hosts do.
23:29 Fortune Feimster? Yeah.
23:30 Tig Notaro? That, um.
23:31 Fortune Feimster? There's a right jokes and stuff.
23:33 Tig Notaro? Yeah, we, and we probably need to show us getting our, getting fitted for our gowns and things.
23:39 Fortune Feimster? Oh, we're gonna work.
23:42 Tig Notaro? Yeah, we're gonna tap dance in gowns.
23:46 Tig Notaro? But they're not gonna, they're gonna be short gowns, you know, to show off our gowns.
23:53 Tig Notaro? May's in the tux.
23:55 Fortune Feimster? Okay. Why don't you be in the gown and I'm in the tux?
24:00 Tig Notaro? Because people will be like, what's that dude doing in that gown?
24:03 Fortune Feimster? Oh my gosh, this, I mean, if the Oscars don't tap, tap us.
24:11 Fortune Feimster? To do this.
24:12 Tig Notaro? They of course are.
24:14 Fortune Feimster? They're gonna have, at least they could, let's start the conversations now, Oscars. So we have a year to.
24:23 Tig Notaro? And you think we should for sure start with beginners lessons and not?
24:27 Fortune Feimster? Well, considering we've never tapped in our life, yes.
24:32 Tig Notaro? Okay, okay, it's a good plan.
24:33 Fortune Feimster? Well, we should tell the instructor, hey, just, you know, we're hoping to host the Oscars.
24:39 Tig Notaro? Not hoping, we are preparing.
24:41 Fortune Feimster? Preparing to host the Oscars. So you need to, we need to get this going.
24:47 Tig Notaro? Oh, my God, Fortune, it'd be such a funny video because if we said that we are preparing to host the Oscars, they would assume we have been tapped.
24:58 Fortune Feimster? No one has asked us.
25:01 Tig Notaro? But we are no fools. So we are preparing for this and we are showing up ready.
25:11 Fortune Feimster? This is so exciting.
25:13 Tig Notaro? It's so exciting.
25:15 Fortune Feimster? I'm so pumped for this.
25:16 Tig Notaro? Okay.
25:17 Fortune Feimster? Yeah, what's Hannah's answer?
25:19 Tig Notaro? Yeah, let's hear from Hannah. It's tap dancing.
25:22 Speaker 03 For me, it's Dungeons and Dragons because I love puzzles, board games, fantasy novels, fantasy series, all of that. So I think I would love it. I just have no idea how to break into that world.
25:39 Speaker 03 Also, I do fear it would become my entire personality and I would annoy all of my loved ones. But anyways, I really love the pod. Thank you so much for all of the laughs. Bye.
25:52 Fortune Feimster? Oh, thanks. Well, thank you for dredging up. Our secret love of tap dancing and
25:57 Tig Notaro? Yes.
25:59 Fortune Feimster? Well, thank you when we host the Oscars.
26:02 Tig Notaro? Yeah, for sure. Thanks to Hannah in Berlin.
26:06 Fortune Feimster? Berlin. Texas.
26:13 Fortune Feimster? I also would like to learn how to play the banjo. To me, the banjo sounds really fun. And every time Steve Martin does it, I'm like, that's so cool.
26:21 Tig Notaro? Yes, I would love to play the banjo.
26:24 Fortune Feimster? Well, what a treat.
26:25 Tig Notaro? What a treat. Endless treat. Submit your questions if you want to be a part of this, this treat. Uh, you can submit those at speakpipe.com/hansampod.
26:39 Fortune Feimster? Give us your questions, because, boy, do we have answers.
26:42 Tig Notaro? Yeah, we really have answers and we are the go to for any questions anybody might have. Also, share this show. Subscribe to YouTube, subscribe to the audio podcasts, wherever you're getting it. Tell your friends and until next time, I mean, shucks.
27:01 Fortune Feimster? Keep it.
27:03 Tig Notaro? Pretty handsome.
27:06 Mae Martin? Handsome is hosted by me, Mae Martin, Tig Notaro, and Fortune Feimster. The show is produced, recorded, and edited by Thomas Willett. Email us at [email protected] and please follow us on social media at HandsomePod.
27:22 Fortune Feimster? What a podcast. What a podcast.
27:28 Fortune Feimster? That was a HeadGum Podcast.
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