Brenda Song asks about personal misconceptions

Brenda Song co-stars in an upcoming movie with Fortune, and today she's asking Handsome to share what people get wrong about them! Plus Tig makes a list of her own, smoking banana peels, and the return of the Hocus Pocus dream/fantasy! NEW MERCH at handsomepod.com http://handsomepod.com! Handsome is hosted by Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, and Fortune FeimsterFollow us on social media @handsomepodMerch at handsomepod.com http://handsomepod.com/Watch Handsome on YouTube http://youtube.com/@handsomepod and Hulu https://www.hulu.com/series/b583d0bc-eeb0-4560-8b2b-5c8ae0248a19?play=false&utm_source=shared_linkThis is a Headgum https://headgum.com/ podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter https://x.com/headgum, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/headgum/, and Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@headgum. Advertise on Handsome https://gumball.fm/shows/handsome via Gumball.fm http://gumball.fm/. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:00Fortune Feimster?

  Handsome folks, just a quick heads up, we have new merch.

• 0:03Mae Martin?

  Go to handsomepod.com. We've got stuff for the holidays, question cards, a GamCam t-shirt. There's no ass in a scent, uh, Christmas ornaments.

• 0:12Fortune Feimster?

  Yep. Check it out. I'm very excited about it. You're gonna love the new merch. We hope you'll, uh, get it. Uh, the holidays are coming.

• 0:22Speaker 02

  This is a HeadGum Podcast.

• 0:26Tig Notaro?

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• 1:05Mae Martin?

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• 1:40Tig Notaro?

  Checking Allstate first could save you hundreds on car insurance. Not checking whether I've got some spare pages in my notebook before going out on a walk? Darn it. I never know when inspiration is going to strike, but I need some room on the page if I'm going to record it for posterity.

• 1:58Mae Martin?

  Yeah, checking first is handsome. So check Allstate first for an auto quote. It could save you hundreds. You're in good hands with Allstate. Potential savings vary, subject to terms, conditions, and availability. Allstate North American Insurance Company and affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois.

• 2:12Fortune Feimster?

  Handsome Pod. Chat with friends on the Handsome Pod. Chat with friends on the Handsome Pod. Cheers.

• 2:23Tig Notaro?

  Hi, welcome to the Handsome Pod. I'm Tig Notaro.

• 2:28Mae Martin?

  I'm Mae Martin.

• 2:29Fortune Feimster?

  I'm Fortune Feimster.

• 2:38Mae Martin?

  I just burped.

• 2:39Tig Notaro?

  Oh, I feel, I love how curled up you are here on the sofa. I think I'm just still wanting a sleepover with you guys, or wellness weekend.

• 2:52Mae Martin?

  Wellness weekend. Don't tease me.

• 2:53Tig Notaro?

  Here's what I, I want to present.

• 2:55Mae Martin?

  Okay.

• 2:56Tig Notaro?

  If we make it to April.

• 2:58Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 2:59Tig Notaro?

  Ooh, fingers crossed. Do you think we, how long do you think this podcast will run? Cause I've started to think that it has, unless you guys behind my back are like, we're getting out, but like, it starts to, like, I started to think, like, I could see this running a while.

• 3:15Mae Martin?

  Yeah. Yeah. You think it has legs? It's like The Simpsons.

• 3:18Fortune Feimster?

  She's got legs.

• 3:20Tig Notaro?

  Oh, ZZ.

• 3:22Fortune Feimster?

  She knows how to use them.

• 3:25Tig Notaro?

  But if we make it to April.

• 3:26Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 3:27Tig Notaro?

  Uh huh. Maybe we should do a celebratory wellness weekend.

• 3:31Mae Martin?

  Sign me up. I mean, I'm there.

• 3:33Tig Notaro?

  You're signed up. I have signed up. I'm trying to get Fortune signed in.

• 3:37Fortune Feimster?

  I will.

• 3:39Tig Notaro?

  Drive by.

• 3:42Mae Martin?

  Yeah, maybe you could pop in. Or what if you're on Zoom? It's just taking on. No, you gotta come. What do you think? Just one night?

• 3:50Tig Notaro?

  I think it, yeah, I, but like, like, one night, but two full days.

• 3:55Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 3:56Tig Notaro?

  Of, of, of, uh, activities and, um, reflection and.

• 4:01Mae Martin?

  Arts and crafts.

• 4:02Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 4:03Fortune Feimster?

  I will do it. I will do this with you guys.

• 4:04Tig Notaro?

  I think it'll be so much fun.

• 4:06Fortune Feimster?

  It will be a nice bonding experience.

• 4:08Tig Notaro?

  And let me tell you about bonding experience. Um, the other episode we did recently.

• 4:15Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 4:17Tig Notaro?

  We talked about, like, having your own little tribe, your group. And I was saying, yes, that is great. I have that.

• 4:26Mae Martin?

  Yep.

• 4:26Tig Notaro?

  Got my family, I've got my very close friends, but I've also been wanting to like, have just little interactions outside of that and, and do other things to stimulate myself outside of my little, um, world. And this isn't necessarily, this is still within my little world, but guess what is about to take place?

• 4:48Mae Martin?

  What?

• 4:48Tig Notaro?

  In my life.

• 4:49Mae Martin?

  What?

• 4:52Tig Notaro?

  Stephanie put together 30 of her favorite films of all time. And we are gonna start watching a movie a week of, of her favorites and some of the greats.

• 5:07Mae Martin?

  Okay. Do you have the list? Has she made the list?

• 5:09Tig Notaro?

  She did.

• 5:10Mae Martin?

  Do you have it on your phone?

• 5:11Tig Notaro?

  I do.

• 5:11Mae Martin?

  Oh my god.

• 5:12Tig Notaro?

  I don't have my phone on me. It's all the way over there. I don't know how I could possibly get my phone.

• 5:17Mae Martin?

  I wonder if there'd be any, uh, Thomas.

• 5:19Tig Notaro?

  Mr. Thomas.

• 5:21Mae Martin?

  And he.

• 5:21Tig Notaro?

  Oh, look at Linus sleeping.

• 5:23Mae Martin?

  My faves will be on them.

• 5:24Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, cute.

• 5:25Tig Notaro?

  You don't like it.

• 5:27Mae Martin?

  How dare you?

• 5:28Fortune Feimster?

  That was a sincere, "Oh, cute."

• 5:30Tig Notaro?

  Okay, so.

• 5:31Mae Martin?

  Can I say some and then see if they're on there?

• 5:33Tig Notaro?

  Okay, sure.

• 5:35Fortune Feimster?

  I've, now, these are Stephanie's top 30 movies of all time.

• 5:39Tig Notaro?

  Not necessarily her top 30, but she put this list together in a very thoughtful way.

• 5:44Fortune Feimster?

  But is the point of it so that, that you're experiencing Stephanie's, some of her favorites, or things she thinks you would like?

• 5:51Tig Notaro?

  It's everything. And to like, start conversations together, like to just, um.

• 5:56Mae Martin?

  Really up your pop culture knowledge, like to fill in some of these voids.

• 6:00Fortune Feimster?

  Bridesmaids.

• 6:01Tig Notaro?

  You know what might surprise you?

• 6:03Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 6:04Tig Notaro?

  I actually know more now about pop culture and Hollywood stuff.

• 6:11Mae Martin?

  Uh huh.

• 6:12Tig Notaro?

  Than I did when I first moved to LA 30 years ago.

• 6:15Mae Martin?

  Oh, that makes sense.

• 6:16Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, you've been around.

• 6:17Tig Notaro?

  I know, but people, you know, it is, it, my, it is real, this part of me.

• 6:22Mae Martin?

  Yeah. But you know more than.

• 6:24Tig Notaro?

  I know, so, like, if you could have met me when I first got to this town.

• 6:29Mae Martin?

  Got off that bus.

• 6:31Tig Notaro?

  Like, even down to fashion, like, I don't think I'd ever heard of Gucci.

• 6:36Mae Martin?

  Right.

• 6:37Tig Notaro?

  It just was not, like, certain things.

• 6:40Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 6:40Tig Notaro?

  Were not on my radar. And I know it's so hard for people to understand that.

• 6:46Fortune Feimster?

  You just come from the mountains of Colorado.

• 6:48Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, I had a beard up in the mountains. And then like, uh.

• 6:51Mae Martin?

  With your mountain goats and your.

• 6:53Tig Notaro?

  But I wish.

• 6:53Fortune Feimster?

  Riding your bike everywhere.

• 6:54Tig Notaro?

  People, yeah, I rode, I had a mountain bike where I was just cycling around town.

• 6:59Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 6:59Tig Notaro?

  With hairy legs.

• 7:01Fortune Feimster?

  Hairy legs.

• 7:02Mae Martin?

  Okay, I'm gonna guess, you said bridesmaids. I'm gonna say, um, uh, that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is on there.

• 7:11Tig Notaro?

  May is correct.

• 7:12Fortune Feimster?

  Yes.

• 7:12Mae Martin?

  I'm not me.

• 7:13Tig Notaro?

  Bridesmaids is, uh, one that she loves.

• 7:16Mae Martin?

  Okay.

• 7:16Tig Notaro?

  But, um, it's not on here. I think she kind of went away from most comedies, cause I'm not crazy about, um.

• 7:24Mae Martin?

  Really?

• 7:24Tig Notaro?

  Comedy.

• 7:26Fortune Feimster?

  Wow.

• 7:27Tig Notaro?

  Taxi Driver.

• 7:28Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 7:29Tig Notaro?

  The Last Picture Show. Cardinal Knowledge.

• 7:32Mae Martin?

  Cardinal Knowledge.

• 7:33Tig Notaro?

  Dog Day Afternoon.

• 7:34Mae Martin?

  Oh, yeah.

• 7:35Fortune Feimster?

  What? I don't know half these.

• 7:38Mae Martin?

  Dog Day Afternoon's incredible.

• 7:39Fortune Feimster?

  Really?

• 7:40Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 7:40Tig Notaro?

  She loves the 70s. I'm from the 70s and I happen to love the 70s. And I feel like that was when I, I feel like that's when I kind of dropped out of, um.

• 7:51Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 7:52Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 7:53Tig Notaro?

  When things got a little too bubblegummy.

• 7:55Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 7:56Tig Notaro?

  Um, in ways.

• 7:57Mae Martin?

  There's a documentary on.

• 7:58Tig Notaro?

  Grit.

• 7:59Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, that's an era I'm just not as familiar with in media.

• 8:03Tig Notaro?

  The 70s?

• 8:04Mae Martin?

  A documentary on Netflix about cinema in the 70s. It's so good. Yes, it's about sort of, yeah, the cultural context is really good. Yeah.

• 8:13Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, I, I just love it. It feels very, I feel like music.

• 8:19Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 8:19Tig Notaro?

  Sitcoms, movies.

• 8:22Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 8:22Tig Notaro?

  Were just sweet spots.

• 8:24Mae Martin?

  What happened? Was it like cocaine came around in the 80s and?

• 8:28Tig Notaro?

  I don't know.

• 8:29Fortune Feimster?

  It was addictive back then.

• 8:30Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, leg warmers.

• 8:32Fortune Feimster?

  I, I was talking to an actress who said, like, back in, back when it first kind of came on the scene, it was everywhere.

• 8:38Tig Notaro?

  Was that Meryl Streep?

• 8:39Fortune Feimster?

  Not Meryl, but she just said, like, no one knew how addicting it was, but like, everyone was doing it.

• 8:46Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 8:47Fortune Feimster?

  Such a, such a wild thought.

• 8:48Tig Notaro?

  Was she sniffing when she was telling you? We, we just, you know, we didn't, we didn't know.

• 8:53Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, but then, but then like came the fallout eventually.

• 8:57Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 8:57Fortune Feimster?

  Of like it really messing up people's lives.

• 9:01Tig Notaro?

  Is it still very popular?

• 9:03Mae Martin?

  Well, it's now, it's so much.

• 9:04Fortune Feimster?

  You gotta worry about fentanyl.

• 9:05Mae Martin?

  Yeah, that's the big problem. So it's, it's so not worth even taking the risk doing a.

• 9:10Fortune Feimster?

  There, there are people who do like one bump.

• 9:13Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 9:14Fortune Feimster?

  And can die.

• 9:15Mae Martin?

  Yeah, there's so much fentanyl.

• 9:17Tig Notaro?

  Because fentanyl.

• 9:18Fortune Feimster?

  I've never done coke, but just, I just know it's an issue right now with fentanyl.

• 9:23Tig Notaro?

  And so why would drug people put fentanyl in coke?

• 9:28Mae Martin?

  This is my big, I don't understa, I need to Google this.

• 9:31Fortune Feimster?

  Cheaper, right?

• 9:31Mae Martin?

  But it doesn't have at all the same effect of, it's a sedative.

• 9:34Tig Notaro?

  Also, aren't you losing your customer?

• 9:37Mae Martin?

  Exactly. That's what I don't understand.

• 9:39Tig Notaro?

  They're gonna die.

• 9:40Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I don't get that.

• 9:41Fortune Feimster?

  Cause they're cut, they're cutting it so much and putting other stuff in it.

• 9:45Mae Martin?

  But wouldn't you cut it with someone that wouldn't kill people? So they.

• 9:47Fortune Feimster?

  I don't understand, I don't understand why they're cutting it with that.

• 9:52Mae Martin?

  I will say I once bought, and I maybe was 15 and bought coke and, uh, it was for sure, this kid had just put a packet of Sweet'n Low sweetener into a little bag. I remember tasting it and being like, this is sugar.

• 10:09Tig Notaro?

  What did you pay for Sweet'n Low?

• 10:11Mae Martin?

  Oh god, probably 80 bucks or something.

• 10:13Tig Notaro?

  Oh man. And where does a child go to buy drugs?

• 10:17Mae Martin?

  Comedy clubs. That's where, no, I actually, what happened was, there was a friend of mine who was a really sweet kid and he.

• 10:27Mae Martin?

  His friend's uncle was in the Hells Angels and was like, leaving town and was like, basically like, I can't come back, there's people after me, but left his nephew, said, go clean out my apartment, and I left something for you under the sink. This is in my life, what happened. First, I'd found it with older men, comedians, who I did it with, and then this close friend of mine, under the sink, they, him and his friend, found just like a brick of probably a hundred thousand dollars worth of coke, and that was the gift from the uncle to the son. And it just ruined my friend's life, because they were like, great, we can be coke dealers, and then got mixed up in all kinds of stuff, but that, I was so close to him that I was like, can I have a huge amount of it, and I'll pay you back? And then, that was the beginning.

• 11:11Tig Notaro?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 11:12Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 11:13Fortune Feimster?

  Well, that's unfortunate, that uncle did that.

• 11:17Mae Martin?

  I know, I know, yeah.

• 11:18Fortune Feimster?

  Because that like, derailed a number of people.

• 11:21Mae Martin?

  But I, I mean, I'm so grateful that I didn't encounter, like, I dodged, well, I am lucky, I think.

• 11:31Fortune Feimster?

  Well, I think it's more of today's times, right, than back then?

• 11:34Tig Notaro?

  Like, like, the world today needs fentanyl, like, with everything, AI, and the politics, the wars, the

• 11:44Mae Martin?

  I know.

• 11:45Tig Notaro?

  Racism, the, throw in fentanyl.

• 11:48Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 11:49Fortune Feimster?

  It's crazy.

• 11:51Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 11:52Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, I've known some friends that, you know, cousin or a family member, they weren't like, drug people, they like, you know, did it recreationally at like, a party.

• 12:02Mae Martin?

  It is not worth that.

• 12:03Fortune Feimster?

  That's it.

• 12:04Mae Martin?

  Yeah. How did we get on to this?

• 12:06Tig Notaro?

  I don't know, I don't know. I will say that, and maybe I've said it before, but when I was in high school, they had, do you know who the Gatlin Brothers are?

• 12:17Mae Martin?

  No.

• 12:18Tig Notaro?

  The country singer, country group?

• 12:20Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 12:21Tig Notaro?

  Larry Gatlin, who was one of the Gatlin Brothers, he had a drug addiction, I think he was a coke addict, and he came to our school and talked about his history with drugs, and how he's now sober, and how you can turn it around, and I remember as a kid, sitting there thinking, this is not the way to go. You need to parade people on stage who cannot kick this.

• 12:52Mae Martin?

  Oh, that's interesting.

• 12:53Tig Notaro?

  You know, like, like

• 12:55Mae Martin?

  Like, he was too aspirational, almost.

• 12:57Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, it's like, you look at this and you go, oh, if I do drugs, I can turn it around.

• 13:02Mae Martin?

  Right, that's interesting, yeah.

• 13:03Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 13:04Mae Martin?

  Remember, did you ever smoke banana peels? You know, that was a thing when you're

• 13:08Tig Notaro?

  Let's go to commercial.

• 13:09Mae Martin?

  But you know, when you're, when, that was a thing in middle school, people were like, if you dry out banana peels and smoked them, yeah, yeah.

• 13:16Fortune Feimster?

  I was very sheltered from all that kind of stuff.

• 13:20Tig Notaro?

  Nerd alert.

• 13:21Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 13:22Tig Notaro?

  You were doing announcements.

• 13:23Fortune Feimster?

  I was in this tiny little town.

• 13:25Mae Martin?

  Hey, y'all, we're made it out.

• 13:26Fortune Feimster?

  Hey, y'all, we got a made it out of the chest, bro.

• 13:28Tig Notaro?

  Well, you can smoke banana peels in a tiny town. I mean, that's where a lot of that weird stuff happens.

• 13:33Fortune Feimster?

  That's true.

• 13:34Tig Notaro?

  Like, what else should we do? How about we smoke banana peels?

• 13:36Fortune Feimster?

  Alcohol was more of a thing, yeah. Drugs really, when I was growing up, only the kids at the private school could afford that kind of stuff.

• 13:45Mae Martin?

  Right.

• 13:46Fortune Feimster?

  It really, like, there was only, like, people were smoking some weed, and it was mainly alcohol.

• 13:50Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 13:51Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 13:52Mae Martin?

  Well, that was the disaster, was that, I, like, no teenager should have disposable income like that, and I was doing comedy, so I had cash on, yeah, but, yeah.

• 13:59Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 14:00Fortune Feimster?

  You were rich.

• 14:01Tig Notaro?

  I feel like when I was a We all deal with what ifs. What if I get my times mixed up for when we're supposed to record an episode? What if my mic isn't plugged in? What if I don't have an answer to the guest's question? For millions of people, those intrusive thoughts are not just anxiety, they're OCD, and most of them have no idea.

• 14:27Mae Martin?

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• 14:50Tig Notaro?

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• 15:22Mae Martin?

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• 16:44Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, checking first is handsome, so check Allstate first for an auto quote. It could save you hundreds. You're in good hands with Allstate. Potential savings vary, subject to terms, conditions, and availability. Allstate North American Insurance Company and affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois. I feel like when I was a kid, where, whatever grade, people start smoking pot, they were just, they were known as like, the stoners, and like, kind of not cool.

• 17:13Fortune Feimster?

  Right. Yeah, there was a couple guys, everyone was like, they're the pot smokers.

• 17:17Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, it was almost like a loser vibe.

• 17:20Fortune Feimster?

  Right.

• 17:21Tig Notaro?

  And then, somewhere, it snuck into everything, and then it was just like, everybody smokes pot, and it's cool, and it's fine, and, and I can't quite figure out when that

• 17:33Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 17:34Tig Notaro?

  kind of bled into, but maybe it was just the area I lived in, and just smoking pot was cool and great. But I was also in the era of, say no to drugs, or dared to just say no.

• 17:46Fortune Feimster?

  Just say no. That was a Nancy Reagan thing.

• 17:48Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 17:49Mae Martin?

  But I wonder what the, what Gen Z and Gen A, I guess, like, now that it's legal, it's not a counterculture.

• 17:57Fortune Feimster?

  But no, they're not drinking.

• 17:58Mae Martin?

  They're not drinking, and, and weed is not a counterculture thing anymore. It's like, yeah, so I wonder what they're

• 18:03Tig Notaro?

  That's what I mean, is it's just

• 18:05Mae Martin?

  I hope their thing is going off-grid. I hope that that's their form of rebellion, it's like, I don't want to be controlled by these devices. That would be so cool.

• 18:14Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, who knows?

• 18:15Tig Notaro?

  I think there's signs of that.

• 18:17Mae Martin?

  Really?

• 18:18Tig Notaro?

  In, I mean, not big enough signs, but there are definitely

• 18:22Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 18:23Fortune Feimster?

  I saw something, I don't know if this is true, but I saw several people commenting on this, because someone was talking about the different, you know, millennial versus Gen Z. Gen Z is the first group to not test above the generation before them.

• 18:43Mae Martin?

  IQ-wise?

• 18:44Fortune Feimster?

  IQ-wise.

• 18:45Tig Notaro?

  But isn't IQ what you're born with?

• 18:50Fortune Feimster?

  No.

• 18:51Tig Notaro?

  I don't know, whatever, whatever the, there's got to be a fact out there that

• 18:55Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I think I've heard, it's ringing a bell.

• 18:57Fortune Feimster?

  But it's something like, some study in some sort said they didn't test, it's the first generation that hasn't somehow scored beyond the one in front of them.

• 19:08Tig Notaro?

  And when you say Gen A, is that Gen Alpha?

• 19:11Mae Martin?

  Yeah, like, which I guess, Max and Finn are Gen A. But I remember being on like, the subway or the bus, and everyone's reading a book, and, or like, journaling, or just sitting and thinking, and, and it even used to be like, get your nose out of that book, and like, these bookworms, and now, I'm like, I would give anything, or I'm in awe of people who can read a full book.

• 19:30Tig Notaro?

  Get your nose in a book.

• 19:31Fortune Feimster?

  I know, I love it.

• 19:32Mae Martin?

  It's been so long since I read a book.

• 19:33Tig Notaro?

  That's Mr. Thomas. What, you read one a week or more?

• 19:37Mae Martin?

  Yeah, Thomas is doing these book recommendations.

• 19:38Tig Notaro?

  Oh, are you still doing those, Thomas?

• 19:40Speaker 04

  I think I'm gonna do it again, yeah.

• 19:42Mae Martin?

  That's awesome.

• 19:43Tig Notaro?

  Great.

• 19:44Mae Martin?

  I want to go back and read the books that inspired me as a teenager and stuff, that, yeah.

• 19:49Tig Notaro?

  What inspired you?

• 19:50Mae Martin?

  Dostoevsky, it was all him. It was like, and I guess a bit of Thomas Hardy and stuff, like the, yeah, but

• 19:57Fortune Feimster?

  Mine was Mary Higgins Clarke.

• 19:59Mae Martin?

  Who's that?

• 20:01Fortune Feimster?

  She writes like, you know, crime novels, like romance and crime novels, like with Fabio on the cover.

• 20:11Tig Notaro?

  What is her name?

• 20:12Fortune Feimster?

  Mary Higgins Clark.

• 20:14Tig Notaro?

  Wait, is that?

• 20:15Fortune Feimster?

  Kind of fluff pieces.

• 20:16Mae Martin?

  It's funny that she went with, I'm gonna put the Higgins in as well.

• 20:20Fortune Feimster?

  I'm gonna see what her daughter was.

• 20:22Tig Notaro?

  I think, was her granddaughter Elizabeth?

• 20:27Fortune Feimster?

  I have no idea.

• 20:28Tig Notaro?

  I think her granddaughter.

• 20:29Fortune Feimster?

  Suspense novels, that's what hers was.

• 20:31Tig Notaro?

  I think.

• 20:32Fortune Feimster?

  She wrote fifty-one bestsellers.

• 20:35Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, I'm friends with her granddaughter.

• 20:36Fortune Feimster?

  Each of, oh, really?

• 20:38Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, she's married to my friend Lauren. They're a couple of lesbians.

• 20:41Fortune Feimster?

  She was, when I was growing up, everyone, not like my friends, it was the moms.

• 20:46Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 20:47Fortune Feimster?

  Were reading them, but it says each of her fifty-one books was a bestseller in the US.

• 20:52Mae Martin?

  Whoa, yeah, listen.

• 20:54Fortune Feimster?

  Don't be messing with Mary Higgins Clark, she knows what's up.

• 20:56Mae Martin?

  And if it's gonna get me back into reading, like, maybe I gotta start with page turners like that, just to,

• 21:02Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, you need to spend.

• 21:03Mae Martin?

  I need to break the seal, I need to get back into it.

• 21:05Tig Notaro?

  Well, yeah, I do know her granddaughter, as I mentioned.

• 21:08Mae Martin?

  Wait, so is this real?

• 21:09Tig Notaro?

  It is real.

• 21:10Mae Martin?

  Oh, cool.

• 21:10Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 21:11Fortune Feimster?

  Good for you.

• 21:12Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, Elizabeth and Lauren. Just you wait, Henry Higgins, just you wait.

• 21:16Mae Martin?

  You know that?

• 21:17Tig Notaro?

  No.

• 21:18Mae Martin?

  No? Are you serious?

• 21:19Tig Notaro?

  Two against.

• 21:20Mae Martin?

  No, I'm, My Fair Lady, she's like, when you yell, you're gonna drown, I'll get dressed and go to town.

• 21:27Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, you know, I haven't watched My Fair Lady in so long.

• 21:30Mae Martin?

  Oh, it's so good, because it's Audrey Hepburn, but they dubbed over her singing voice with Julie Andrews.

• 21:35Fortune Feimster?

  Oh.

• 21:36Mae Martin?

  Because they thought she couldn't carry the songs.

• 21:38Tig Notaro?

  Well, that's not nice. That's rude.

• 21:41Mae Martin?

  It's one that's got, the rain in Spain falls mainly on the.

• 21:45Fortune Feimster?

  I have heard, I have heard that. For whatever reason, that's one of the few musicals I don't, I'm not as familiar with.

• 21:50Mae Martin?

  My grandpa toured with it, he played someone in it, and he toured for years with it.

• 21:56Tig Notaro?

  So your grandfather was touring in this musical, your grandmother was the agent.

• 22:02Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 22:02Tig Notaro?

  Your dad makes puppets.

• 22:04Fortune Feimster?

  Very creative family.

• 22:05Mae Martin?

  Super creative, yeah. Lucky, my uncle's a painter.

• 22:08Tig Notaro?

  Wow, look at you.

• 22:11Fortune Feimster?

  You guys, Halloween's coming.

• 22:12Mae Martin?

  Oh, my god, girl.

• 22:14Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, it is.

• 22:15Mae Martin?

  Burped.

• 22:16Tig Notaro?

  You burped in your transition in the conversation.

• 22:19Mae Martin?

  I liked it.

• 22:22Fortune Feimster?

  Cheers, man, it's Halloween, a couple of days.

• 22:25Mae Martin?

  Yeah, soon.

• 22:26Fortune Feimster?

  Soon.

• 22:27Tig Notaro?

  October thirty-first is what it is.

• 22:29Fortune Feimster?

  What is today?

• 22:30Mae Martin?

  Twenty-seventh.

• 22:31Fortune Feimster?

  The twenty-seventh. Twenty-eight.

• 22:34Mae Martin?

  Twenty-seventh.

• 22:35Fortune Feimster?

  The twenty-seventh today?

• 22:37Tig Notaro?

  And it's not any earlier than that. It is for sure the twenty-seventh.

• 22:42Fortune Feimster?

  What are you guys doing, do you know?

• 22:44Mae Martin?

  Are you gonna take the boys out? I just wanna get all the kids I know, and I wanna just watch them trick or treat, is that weird? Or just be, oh, I kinda am at the age where I wanna just hand out candy. Yeah, fun, yeah.

• 22:55Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, yeah, my, my sons are so into Halloween.

• 23:00Mae Martin?

  Yeah. Will you watch Hocus Pocus? That's like an annual Halloween movie, yeah.

• 23:05Tig Notaro?

  I haven't seen it.

• 23:06Mae Martin?

  Oh, that is, that holds up.

• 23:09Fortune Feimster?

  Make it thirty-one movies.

• 23:10Tig Notaro?

  Don't tell me what to do.

• 23:12Fortune Feimster?

  I'm just telling you, it's the time to watch a movie like that.

• 23:16Tig Notaro?

  Would I, like, really knowing me, would I like Hocus Pocus?

• 23:20Mae Martin?

  Genuinely, yes.

• 23:20Fortune Feimster?

  You think, you think Tig?

• 23:22Mae Martin?

  Bette Midler, Kathy Najimi.

• 23:23Tig Notaro?

  I don't care who's in it, like, I love all of those people.

• 23:26Fortune Feimster?

  I don't know if Tig would be into it.

• 23:28Tig Notaro?

  I get very angry very quickly.

• 23:31Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, because this one's not whimsical like you.

• 23:34Mae Martin?

  But it's legitimately funny.

• 23:37Fortune Feimster?

  Tig hates comedies.

• 23:38Mae Martin?

  Yeah, true, I don't know, but it's one you could watch with, with the boys.

• 23:42Tig Notaro?

  I think Tig's not gonna like it.

• 23:45Fortune Feimster?

  I see why you like it.

• 23:47Mae Martin?

  It's perfect.

• 23:48Fortune Feimster?

  I don't know that you would like it, but maybe you should watch to see.

• 23:51Tig Notaro?

  Just keep in mind, some of my favorites are, um.

• 23:55Mae Martin?

  Like Bridge Over the River, quiet stuff.

• 23:58Tig Notaro?

  What is the Bjork movie?

• 24:01Mae Martin?

  Oh, yeah, Dancer in the Dark.

• 24:02Tig Notaro?

  Dancer in the Dark.

• 24:03Mae Martin?

  You're not gonna like Hocus Pocus, yeah.

• 24:05Tig Notaro?

  I mean, it's one of my favorites.

• 24:07Mae Martin?

  Oh, my god, you're not gonna like Hocus Pocus.

• 24:10Tig Notaro?

  And Boys Don't Cry.

• 24:11Mae Martin?

  Oh, fuck, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 24:13Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, that's, that's so good.

• 24:15Mae Martin?

  I can't, it bums me out.

• 24:17Tig Notaro?

  Boys, well, of course, but it's so, it's so extraordinary.

• 24:23Mae Martin?

  Um, Hocus Pocus, that is, I had my first sex dream, just during at you, which I swear.

• 24:29Fortune Feimster?

  If you saw these characters.

• 24:31Mae Martin?

  I was kidnapped by the three witch, and I must have been six or seven, I had this dream, and I didn't know what it meant, and I didn't know yet to be embarrassed about it. And it was that they kidnapped me, I was, and they were gonna eat me for dinner, and that they, they, I was, I remember that I was naked on a table, and that they sliced my ass like a meatloaf, like with a, isn't this hot?

• 24:51Tig Notaro?

  Have you seen Tom Petty's music video for Don't Come Around Here No More?

• 24:55Mae Martin?

  No, what's the link?

• 24:57Fortune Feimster?

  Was that with the, his little?

• 24:59Tig Notaro?

  They're cutting into Snow White.

• 25:02Mae Martin?

  Oh, yeah.

• 25:02Tig Notaro?

  Uh, as a cake, that's right.

• 25:04Mae Martin?

  Whoa.

• 25:05Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 25:05Mae Martin?

  Well, I.

• 25:06Tig Notaro?

  I love that song.

• 25:07Mae Martin?

  I woke up in the morning, I was like, I need to have that dream again, I, something about that dream that I, I didn't know yet to be embarrassed, so I would say to my family, I'd be like, Guys, I gotta go to bed, I'm gonna try to have that dream where those witches eat my ass, like, I didn't know that it was.

• 25:21Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, these witches that eat my ass.

• 25:23Tig Notaro?

  So they were, they were all three just chowing down on your ass?

• 25:26Mae Martin?

  Well, it was, I just remember, yeah, they, I remember that I was naked, which was wild, and that I was in their, like, witch's cabin, and they were gonna.

• 25:37Tig Notaro?

  I never thought I would hear.

• 25:38Mae Martin?

  You like what you like. I like what I like.

• 25:40Tig Notaro?

  I never thought I would hear you say, I was naked, so that was wild.

• 25:45Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, because you don't mind being naked.

• 25:47Mae Martin?

  I don't mind being naked, now.

• 25:49Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 25:50Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 25:50Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 25:51Fortune Feimster?

  Good for you. This is a lights-off, buddy, over here.

• 25:55Mae Martin?

  You always say that.

• 25:56Fortune Feimster?

  Lights-off, baby.

• 25:57Mae Martin?

  No way.

• 25:58Tig Notaro?

  I turn all the lights on bright, and I'm like, I'm taking my clothes off in here.

• 26:05Tig Notaro?

  I was gonna tell you all.

• 26:07Fortune Feimster?

  Tell us.

• 26:08Mae Martin?

  Tell us, please.

• 26:09Fortune Feimster?

  Tig, tell us.

• 26:10Tig Notaro?

  No, never mind.

• 26:11Fortune Feimster?

  No, we want it.

• 26:12Tig Notaro?

  No, never mind.

• 26:13Fortune Feimster?

  No, we want it.

• 26:17Tig Notaro?

  I really can't remember, but that is a fun, yeah.

• 26:21Mae Martin?

  Let's just keep doing that.

• 26:22Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna.

• 26:24Fortune Feimster?

  Tig, Tig.

• 26:25Tig Notaro?

  Well, let me think about it.

• 26:26Fortune Feimster?

  Okay.

• 26:27Tig Notaro?

  Well, no, you're supposed to still.

• 26:28Fortune Feimster?

  Please.

• 26:32Fortune Feimster?

  Give us a story where someone ate your ass.

• 26:36Mae Martin?

  Wait, so what are you gonna do for Halloween? Are you gonna hand out candy?

• 26:39Tig Notaro?

  No, no, no, no, there's so much that goes on, they have, um, they have, you know, friends have yearly parties, and, and then there's also this situation where one kid lives on a street that gets shut down, and then they can freely run from house to house.

• 26:57Mae Martin?

  That's the dream.

• 26:58Tig Notaro?

  And then we give them walkie-talkies.

• 27:01Mae Martin?

  That's great.

• 27:02Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, so.

• 27:03Fortune Feimster?

  Ten-four.

• 27:04Mae Martin?

  With each other, or with you?

• 27:05Tig Notaro?

  Uh, with, with us.

• 27:07Mae Martin?

  Oh, great.

• 27:08Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 27:09Mae Martin?

  Because they don't have phones, right?

• 27:10Tig Notaro?

  We're rounding the corner. No, they don't have phones.

• 27:12Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 27:12Tig Notaro?

  Oh, my gosh, I, they're, they're ten, and, um.

• 27:17Fortune Feimster?

  Try to prolong that as long as possible.

• 27:19Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 27:20Mae Martin?

  I bet kids in their class already do.

• 27:22Tig Notaro?

  Who?

• 27:22Mae Martin?

  I bet some kids in their class already are.

• 27:24Tig Notaro?

  No.

• 27:24Mae Martin?

  Oh, that's good.

• 27:25Tig Notaro?

  No, I think that, um, you know, what people have talked about with those kind of situations is, it's important for parents to all get on the same page within the same grade and class.

• 27:39Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 27:39Tig Notaro?

  So that, um, nobody's kind of doing.

• 27:43Mae Martin?

  Left out, or.

• 27:44Tig Notaro?

  Or nobody's doing anything outside of.

• 27:47Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 27:48Tig Notaro?

  What the, the group is doing.

• 27:50Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 27:51Tig Notaro?

  So there can't be like, but they have one, or that, you know.

• 27:53Mae Martin?

  Parv's daughter has a thing called a tin can phone.

• 27:56Tig Notaro?

  Oh, yeah.

• 27:57Mae Martin?

  Yeah, like a landline, but it's disabled after eight PM, I think, and you, but, yeah, it's so, it's so great.

• 28:03Tig Notaro?

  And there's just like select people that she can contact that can contact her.

• 28:08Mae Martin?

  Exactly, just a couple pals, yeah.

• 28:10Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, we've talked about getting that.

• 28:12Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 28:13Tig Notaro?

  Um, in Colorado, a lot of kids, um, their age and even younger will have iPhone, or iWatch, or Apple Watches, um, that, where they can only text or call their parents.

• 28:28Mae Martin?

  That's dope.

• 28:28Tig Notaro?

  And their parents can track where they are, and that's, and you see these little kids going, I'll be home in like ten minutes, and then, so they're not on their phones.

• 28:38Mae Martin?

  That's good.

• 28:39Tig Notaro?

  Or watches, or whatever it is.

• 28:40Mae Martin?

  Do you remember being on your landline, and your parents being like, get off the phone?

• 28:44Tig Notaro?

  Oh, yeah, like picking up.

• 28:45Mae Martin?

  Yes, yeah, and then I always, sometimes I would like hear breathing, and be like, I think my parents are listening.

• 28:51Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, you, you never know if like your sibling or your parents are on there, but also the fear of having to call someone else's house and ask their parents to talk to your friend.

• 29:01Mae Martin?

  Can I talk to Sarah, please? And like.

• 29:04Fortune Feimster?

  You have no idea in this generation.

• 29:07Tig Notaro?

  And also the mystery of picking up a phone.

• 29:10Fortune Feimster?

  Like, who it's gonna be?

• 29:11Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 29:12Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 29:13Mae Martin?

  Um, I used to call my friend Gabby all the time, and her mom would always pick up, and I'd go, uh, hi, Rona, how are you? Can, can I talk to Gabby, please? And she wouldn't say hello or anything, she'd just go, Gabrielle, like that, every time, same tone, Gabrielle.

• 29:28Tig Notaro?

  There, it's, it is so interesting how now it's, well, I mean, I guess there's some mystery sometimes when somebody gets your phone number, or.

• 29:35Mae Martin?

  It's like an unknown number, whatever, but we're just the same with spam.

• 29:38Tig Notaro?

  It's so, and it's like, oh, hi.

• 29:41Mae Martin?

  But the, the mystery of not, no, and then also, like, if you're, or my parents would go out for dinner, and they'd leave the phone number, the restaurant, like, call that, yeah.

• 29:50Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 29:52Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 29:52Tig Notaro?

  Mine didn't do that.

• 29:54Fortune Feimster?

  No, mine neither.

• 29:56Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 29:56Fortune Feimster?

  My senior year of high school, we got caller ID, who was like one of the first, we were one of the first ones to have it. And then I realized one of my friends is calling like thirty times.

• 30:07Tig Notaro?

  Really? Praying calling you?

• 30:08Fortune Feimster?

  No, like, like kinda stalkerish. And I was like, holy cow. But they didn't know we, you know, cause no one had caller ID back then. Somehow we got it. And, uh, and so that you, you could just call, call, call someone and you'd never know who it was.

• 30:24Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 30:25Fortune Feimster?

  I was like, oh, I think my friend's a stalker.

• 30:27Tig Notaro?

  Were, were they just like breathing down the line? Or they just would keep?

• 30:30Fortune Feimster?

  They didn't leave a voicemail.

• 30:31Tig Notaro?

  Were they like in love with you?

• 30:32Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, what? I don't know. In hindsight, maybe.

• 30:35Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 30:36Fortune Feimster?

  Um, but they, they didn't leave a voicemail. So, so, but it was just like a constant calling to see if I was home.

• 30:42Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. Or you could do star six, seven to hide your number when you call.

• 30:46Fortune Feimster?

  They didn't know about that, yeah.

• 30:47Tig Notaro?

  Or star six, nine to see who just called.

• 30:48Fortune Feimster?

  My mom was just like, good lord.

• 30:50Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 30:51Fortune Feimster?

  What's going on here? I was like, I don't know.

• 30:53Tig Notaro?

  Before I was aware of star sixty-nine and stuff like that, my mother and my stepfather had moved back to this area. We lived briefly when I was young. And when I went to visit them, I was, of course, thinking about who I had gone to school with and my old neighbors. And I remembered that, um, in our family phone book, we had still, it was just in the pages, the phone book to our old school.

• 31:27Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, oh, no way.

• 31:29Tig Notaro?

  My family just kept it in there forever.

• 31:31Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 31:32Tig Notaro?

  And, um, and there was somebody that, from back then.

• 31:38Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 31:39Tig Notaro?

  Where I was like, oh, I decided to, uh,

• 31:43Fortune Feimster?

  Call their family home?

• 31:44Tig Notaro?

  Call. And just see, like, I asked if he was there. And he said, this is. And I hung up.

• 31:52Fortune Feimster?

  No way.

• 31:53Tig Notaro?

  And, uh, and then my phone rang.

• 31:55Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, my God. Cause he's star sixty-nine?

• 31:57Tig Notaro?

  And I didn't know that existed.

• 31:59Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, God.

• 32:00Tig Notaro?

  And so I'm like, hello? And, uh, he was like, who is this? And I said, Tig. He goes, Tig Notaro?

• 32:09Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, my God.

• 32:10Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. And then he said who he was. My mind exploded. Cause I didn't understand how he got, I, I was like,

• 32:21Fortune Feimster?

  How old were you at this point?

• 32:22Tig Notaro?

  I was like nineteen or something. Anyway, it was, it was, it was, it was my big learning curve with that. Cause I was, I, I, I did not understand what on earth was happening.

• 32:36Fortune Feimster?

  Witchcraft.

• 32:37Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 32:41Fortune Feimster?

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• 33:48Tig Notaro?

  Or do you remember leaving like a funny voicemail recording for yourself? Like, like, you know, like George Costanza did a song?

• 33:55Fortune Feimster?

  Uh-huh. Like what? I never left a voicemail for myself.

• 33:59Tig Notaro?

  My friend Nicole, her, her answering machine for a while, when, when we all first got cell phones, was she got her teacher, Mr. Tlang, to record it. And he didn't really know what he was doing. And I remember, so her voicemail was always, hi Nicole, this is Mr. Tlang speaking. Uh, have a nice weekend, but do your homework at, at home, okay? Use some time to study. I'll remember it the whole of my life.

• 34:20Fortune Feimster?

  And that was her outgoing message?

• 34:21Tig Notaro?

  That was, yeah, yeah.

• 34:22Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, my God.

• 34:23Tig Notaro?

  That's what you'd hear. I used to have an outgoing message where I would say, hi, this is Tig. Leave a message at the beep if, beep, if this is an emergency, uh, hang up now and call nine-one-one. Yeah, that's great. Yeah.

• 34:36Fortune Feimster?

  Very practical of you. Well, should we get to our question?

• 34:40Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, let's do it. Yeah.

• 34:41Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do it.

• 34:42Tig Notaro?

  Today's question asker has appeared in movies like The Social Network and Zootopia Two.

• 34:47Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 34:48Tig Notaro?

  As well as shows like Scandal, New Girl, and Running Point. Brenda Song is asking today's question.

• 34:53Fortune Feimster?

  Ooh.

• 34:55Speaker 02

  Hi, Handsome Podcast. It's Brenda Song. My question is, what is the thing that you feel people misunderstand or misconceive about you?

• 35:04Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, by the way, Brenda and I just filmed a movie together.

• 35:08Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 35:09Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 35:10Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 35:10Fortune Feimster?

  Wait, what, what, what? It's a movie with me, Brenda Song, Nikki Glaser, and Kim Kardashian.

• 35:16Tig Notaro?

  Oh, oh, okay. When does that come out?

• 35:18Fortune Feimster?

  Sometime next year. I'm, I, I don't know. We, we shot a couple of things recently. Um, but Brenda's so fun. Uh,

• 35:27Tig Notaro?

  That's a great question.

• 35:28Fortune Feimster?

  She's been working forever.

• 35:29Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, totally.

• 35:30Fortune Feimster?

  She's been working since she was a kid, uh, married to Macaulay Culkin, have a beautiful family, but she's so lovely. And I've been really enjoying it and beginning to be friends with her.

• 35:39Tig Notaro?

  Oh, that's nice.

• 35:40Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 35:41Tig Notaro?

  And I really liked that question.

• 35:43Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. What is something people misconceive about you?

• 35:47Tig Notaro?

  Mm-hmm. I feel like a whole big part of why I do this job is like a desire to be understood, like, and to not have assumptions made about me. Like, I think that's probably a big part of it. But, okay.

• 36:02Fortune Feimster?

  You can tell your own story.

• 36:04Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. And, yeah.

• 36:06Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, that makes sense. Did you just burp again?

• 36:08Tig Notaro?

  I did.

• 36:08Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, my.

• 36:09Tig Notaro?

  I don't know.

• 36:10Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, it's the sparkling water.

• 36:11Tig Notaro?

  I don't know. I don't drink a lot of sparkling water.

• 36:13Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. There's silent burps. But Tig is right here looking at my mouth.

• 36:20Tig Notaro?

  How come people don't do that in movies more?

• 36:22Fortune Feimster?

  I see a little bit of a kickback. What's that?

• 36:24Tig Notaro?

  People should do that more in movies. It's such a human thing to burp on a transition. Well, did I tell you when I was filming One Mississippi, there was an extra that had the hiccup? No, this is great. And she was so embarrassed, cause she was like, oh my God.

• 36:38Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, my God.

• 36:39Tig Notaro?

  Like, so, and it was making me laugh. And she was like, I'm so sorry. And I go, I actually would love to just have this happening.

• 36:47Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 36:47Tig Notaro?

  We of course didn't, but yeah, it was so funny to me. Cause this poor woman was so stressed out that she was holding up the production, but it couldn't have made me happier.

• 36:59Fortune Feimster?

  Cause you can't stop it. It's hard to stop those.

• 37:01Tig Notaro?

  You know, when a hiccup hits you and you're unprepared and your mouth is open or something, it's like, oh, like it's so loud?

• 37:07Fortune Feimster?

  I know.

• 37:07Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, okay.

• 37:11Tig Notaro?

  One thing people misunderstand about me, I think, I always get the feedback that I'm, I'm so vulnerable, or like I appear very vulnerable. And I,

• 37:19Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 37:19Tig Notaro?

  I feel like, I think I'm, I'm doing okay.

• 37:23Fortune Feimster?

  You don't think you're vulnerable?

• 37:24Tig Notaro?

  I think I am.

• 37:25Fortune Feimster?

  But do they mean that in the terms of you're being willing to share about yourself? What do you, what do you mean by vulnerable?

• 37:33Tig Notaro?

  It's people being like, hey, little guy, you're, you're okay, you know? Or like, and I'm like, no, I know.

• 37:39Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, yeah. Gotcha.

• 37:41Tig Notaro?

  You know what I mean? Like, I think, I mean, I definitely am open about flaws and stuff, but, but I think I'm like,

• 37:49Fortune Feimster?

  You're stronger than people.

• 37:51Tig Notaro?

  I'm not fragile.

• 37:52Fortune Feimster?

  Right. You're not fragile.

• 37:53Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 37:54Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 37:54Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. I can see people worrying about that with you. Yes. Yeah. It's a little infantilizing sometimes. Yeah. But you don't, I get that. But I don't, you don't seem like somebody that can't take it or deal with, or, um, but I mean, really, like, um, I think it's, it's a nice mix of like, yes, you have vulnerabilities, but I mean, who doesn't? Energy, but I'm,

• 38:17Fortune Feimster?

  You're not like some meek person.

• 38:20Tig Notaro?

  No, and I'm not gonna like crumble if I get heckled or if, you know what I mean? Yeah.

• 38:25Fortune Feimster?

  Teased.

• 38:26Tig Notaro?

  Teased.

• 38:26Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. Yeah, I can see that. People having that thought of you. Cause I've had, Some people every like once in a blue moon be like, tell me to

• 38:38Fortune Feimster?

  Whatever in life like I'm like, mate's fine.

• 38:45Tig Notaro?

  You know what it is, is so many people, especially listening to a show and you get so Thinking you know people, you know, performers and you project. So many people project their own stuff, their own thing that like, oh my gosh, I'm vulnerable too. And this would make me uncomfortable or this would hurt my feelings.

• 39:07Mae Martin?

  And I guess also I don't often talk about like times where I've been a dick or where I've like Hurt someone by accident or something, you know what I mean?

• 39:17Tig Notaro?

  Or on purpose.

• 39:18Mae Martin?

  Or on purpose, all those times that I've, yeah.

• 39:21Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, it is, it's, it's, it's so.

• 39:25Tig Notaro?

  Whether it's people listening to a show or watching a, a, a public figure doing their thing. People do project onto them and make so many assumptions. And, and it's, um, I mean, I, it's, it, you can't help it. It's like you, you, I know for myself, there are people that I've Followed or been familiar with and then I meet them and I'm like, wow, they are nothing. Like what I thought they would be like. Or they're, they're more fun than I thought they'd be, or they're so boring.

• 40:04Mae Martin?

  I think we, we are pretty close to who we are in this, I mean, on this podcast. I think it's evolved too. I feel like we're all really authentically ourselves on this podcast now, which is so nice. What do people misunderstand about you guys?

• 40:20Fortune Feimster?

  I mean, people definitely think I'm a stoner.

• 40:22Tig Notaro?

  Really?

• 40:23Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, I get that a lot. When I post videos, they'll be like, you must be high.

• 40:30Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, they're like, what, what did you smoke before this?

• 40:33Tig Notaro?

  That's hilarious.

• 40:34Mae Martin?

  Is it the southern drawl?

• 40:35Fortune Feimster?

  Honestly, it's the southern drawl. I have squinty eyes and it's my sense of humor. I have a like silly.

• 40:44Fortune Feimster?

  Sense of humor and I say things that one might say if they were high.

• 40:49Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, it's like a cartoony.

• 40:51Fortune Feimster?

  Like I'm just like a little absurd sometimes. So I, but to be told, I don't like, I have enough vices with food and sugar. Drugs are not, I've never done any hard drugs. Uh, I have smoked weed, you know.

• 41:07Tig Notaro?

  Every day of my life.

• 41:07Fortune Feimster?

  Once in a blue moon, but it is not a, even a monthly part of my life.

• 41:13Mae Martin?

  But people smoke weed to get to where you guys already are.

• 41:18Fortune Feimster?

  And I don't need, I'm so calm already. I mean, every now and then I get wound up about stuff, but mainly, I'm not ever needing to come down really. I'm already pretty chill. Uh, so yeah, that's definitely something that is not me. Um. I don't, I, well, I was gonna say sometimes people don't take me seriously, but I do feel like the pod has shown This, the, the silly side of me, but I think I also show A more vulnerable side as well.

• 41:48Mae Martin?

  Also, your nickname's LLC or like

• 41:53Mae Martin?

  Like you're goofy, but you're very tapped in and tuned into and in control of your world and your life.

• 41:58Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, I think that, yeah, maybe that would surprise people. I'm definitely more business minded than one might assume. Being as silly as I am, I take, uh, work very seriously and And saving money and being responsible and being, uh, smart with that stuff I, I take very seriously. Kind of, that stems from just trying to not make the mistakes that my family made.

• 42:26Fortune Feimster?

  So I think that's why it becomes very important to me. Uh, so yeah, they probably, that probably would surprise people.

• 42:33Fortune Feimster?

  LLC, I forgot.

• 42:38Tig Notaro?

  Oh yeah, an easy TIG.

• 42:43Fortune Feimster?

  Trying to think if there's anything else that.

• 42:45Tig Notaro?

  I'm sure there's so many things that would surprise people about each of us.

• 42:51Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I'm sure, yeah.

• 42:52Tig Notaro?

  Like a list of things. Because of the projection, because of the assumptions.

• 42:58Mae Martin?

  Well, people always think to me of you as so dry and And maybe if they've just seen some of a standup special or something and don't listen to the pod maybe, but I'm like, you're, you're a very emotionally available person. That's been a, yeah.

• 43:15Tig Notaro?

  I, I'm a

• 43:17Mae Martin?

  Softy.

• 43:18Tig Notaro?

  I, I am. I am very much a softie. And, um, I, uh, You know, I, I for sure have a side of me that is protective and I've gone into this before and I've, uh, I've come a long way. Even to find myself at a place where people would think I'm not. But I am, I am, I am. And, uh, I guess that would surprise people.

• 43:48Mae Martin?

  Some people, maybe not, but I feel like, like this podcast wouldn't work if we all didn't feel safe to be, to Throw random shit in and be silly and you, you gotta know that, yeah.

• 44:01Fortune Feimster?

  Now let me, I'm curious about this. Do you get your, you don't strike me as someone who gets your feelings hurt easily.

• 44:08Tig Notaro?

  It depends on the situation. Like if it's, if it's something, if somebody

• 44:16Tig Notaro?

  Doesn't like my comedy or doesn't like, or thinks I'm not good at something or whatever, I'm always like.

• 44:25Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, I'm, I'm fine with that or they don't like how I do something. I, I don't, I don't, I don't take that stuff personally.

• 44:33Mae Martin?

  I get annoyed when people feel the need to articulate that. I'm like.

• 44:37Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, I get, I mean, I always, behind all of that kind of stuff, I do always feel like, well, then I'm not for you. This isn't for you. But I just, that stuff doesn't bother me. That's not to say, and I think I've talked about this too. That I don't want to do a good job or have people like what I do, but if they don't.

• 45:00Fortune Feimster?

  You're not caught up on that.

• 45:01Tig Notaro?

  No, because there's so many people. There are people where I'm like, that is the nicest, smartest person I know. I don't like what they do. Creatively and, um, but man, do I dig them as a person.

• 45:17Mae Martin?

  Yeah, a hundred percent.

• 45:20Tig Notaro?

  So thinking about it for myself, I, um, I, I actually would love to sit down with people critiquing me.

• 45:31Mae Martin?

  I just said I'm not fragile, but I'm like, I don't know.

• 45:34Tig Notaro?

  Well, I just, I would, I find it curious and interesting and not because I want to change their mind, but like I'm so interested, why do you think I'm not funny? Not because I think everyone should. Or why do you think that was guarded of me or, or rude or whatever it is that people think. Because I just, it, it wouldn't offend me at all. I would just have an open conversation of like, oh, well, it's like when I've had shows where somebody brought somebody With them to, and they're not familiar with me and I can tell, front row. They cannot stand me. And then, and I say like, I feel like I, you're, I'm not for you. And they're like, yeah, like.

• 46:17Mae Martin?

  You'll say that?

• 46:18Tig Notaro?

  And then I'll be like, that's, I'm, you know, I'm not for everybody and that's fine. And I'm, and I'll also say like, I'm happy to, uh, refund you your ticket. And then I'm like, I'm not offended. I'm curious, like, who do you like and, and what does speak to you?

• 46:32Mae Martin?

  Do, what do they say?

• 46:33Tig Notaro?

  You know, they'll, they'll just be like, well, you know, I just, I like, I guess I like more political stuff or I like people with more energy.

• 46:43Tig Notaro?

  I just think it's interesting. And I don't take it personally, but if somebody really close to me Hurts my feelings, it's really painful.

• 46:57Tig Notaro?

  And, um, and that's where it's.

• 47:00Mae Martin?

  Yeah, you feel things deeply in that area.

• 47:03Tig Notaro?

  Feel it.

• 47:03Fortune Feimster?

  Someone you're invested in.

• 47:05Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, but of course, and I don't want to sound like I, like if I put out a TV show or movie or standup and people just panned it, that I would be like, Yeah, who cares? It would be like, well, that's a bummer. But it wouldn't take me down.

• 47:21Mae Martin?

  You can't, you have to, cause otherwise you would just be trying to make calm, like something to please everyone. And we're already with AI and stuff. We have to make sure we don't become the machine, which is just trying to

• 47:35Tig Notaro?

  It's like you have got to have your point of view. You have to do what really interests you and, and, um, and, and explore creatively and

• 47:47Mae Martin?

  And weird specificity and like.

• 47:49Tig Notaro?

  And take a risk to be terrible. You know, um, because yeah, when it gets to that like generic algorithm. It's, that's why it's so exciting when you see a comedian or musician that pops up and you're like, Oh my gosh, this is, what are you doing?

• 48:08Fortune Feimster?

  When they're like thinking outside of the box.

• 48:10Tig Notaro?

  It's so exciting. I always go back to Maria Bamford.

• 48:14Mae Martin?

  Maria Bamford, I was just watching a clip of, uh, Julio Torres. Yeah, and loving, he was talking about, um, people get mad at him for not answering emails. And he was like, I think of Emails like a river. And so if I'm there at the riverside and an email floats by, sure, I'll, I'm interested. I'll pick it up, but if it's already gone, like I'm not.

• 48:39Tig Notaro?

  But yeah, why wouldn't you want some little weirdo in the world like him?

• 48:42Mae Martin?

  Yes, totally.

• 48:43Tig Notaro?

  And then also. Comedians or performers or again, I don't get it.

• 48:49Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 48:50Tig Notaro?

  I'm all for them.

• 48:51Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 48:52Tig Notaro?

  Watch something else, listen to something else, buy a different album.

• 48:56Mae Martin?

  Mm hmm.

• 48:56Tig Notaro?

  And move on.

• 48:58Mae Martin?

  I enjoy like. Misunderstanding about you though, maybe a little that people or.

• 49:02Tig Notaro?

  Or that like.

• 49:05Fortune Feimster?

  Your stoicism. Like not like nothing really penetrates. I think maybe is like.

• 49:10Mae Martin?

  But actually.

• 49:11Tig Notaro?

  Some things do.

• 49:12Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 49:13Tig Notaro?

  If it's on a very personal, close level.

• 49:16Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 49:16Tig Notaro?

  You, you could really hurt my feelings.

• 49:18Mae Martin?

  Yeah. Okay.

• 49:20Tig Notaro?

  But like if somebody walked out saying you suck.

• 49:25Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 49:25Tig Notaro?

  I hated your show and you should never work again.

• 49:28Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 49:28Tig Notaro?

  I would not fight that person.

• 49:30Mae Martin?

  No, that's a you problem.

• 49:31Tig Notaro?

  I would just be like.

• 49:32Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 49:33Tig Notaro?

  That for sure. So many people would think that. And, um, and that's fine, but whatever people misunderstand, you kind of can't get too hung up on it.

• 49:46Fortune Feimster?

  Right. Yeah.

• 49:47Tig Notaro?

  Um.

• 49:48Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 49:48Tig Notaro?

  Or trying to prove yourself or.

• 49:50Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 49:51Tig Notaro?

  Um, yeah.

• 49:53Fortune Feimster?

  But I would say, I, I mean, I don't think there's a lot of misconceptions about me personally. Maybe you guys feel the same way about yourself. I kind of feel like what I'm putting out there.

• 50:05Tig Notaro?

  Mm hmm.

• 50:06Fortune Feimster?

  Pretty close to who I am.

• 50:07Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 50:08Fortune Feimster?

  I don't, I don't, you know, like, so there's some performers that are like a completely different person.

• 50:12Mae Martin?

  No, there's not a huge gap.

• 50:14Fortune Feimster?

  There's not a big like.

• 50:15Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 50:16Fortune Feimster?

  I'm, I could be a little quieter sometimes than maybe people would assume. I think sometimes everyone kind of assumes I'm the life of the party always.

• 50:24Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 50:25Fortune Feimster?

  Um, and that's definitely not the case. We've talked about it before. Um, you know, with cheese in my pocket.

• 50:31Tig Notaro?

  Sure.

• 50:31Fortune Feimster?

  Uh, at a, at a party by the snack table.

• 50:35Tig Notaro?

  I think also to go back to, and I know you've dealt with this is like the butchiness.

• 50:39Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 50:40Tig Notaro?

  Like, like, yes, there's no mistaking that I am a gay person. But oh my gosh, am I not butchy in so many ways. My, my ex, maybe I've mentioned this. She was telling Stephanie, she goes, when I first started dating Tig, I was like, awesome. I am with a butch. She's going to carry everything. And she goes, and I was the sherpa.

• 51:06Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 51:07Tig Notaro?

  Lugging our suitcases around.

• 51:10Mae Martin?

  I mean, that's so true.

• 51:11Fortune Feimster?

  I don't, I don't go quite that far.

• 51:14Tig Notaro?

  Well, to be fair, that girlfriend was like six feet tall.

• 51:16Fortune Feimster?

  Okay. Well, then she should be carrying stuff. I mean, I'll still do like things like open the door for, you know, like.

• 51:22Tig Notaro?

  I will too, but I'll do that for anybody.

• 51:25Fortune Feimster?

  I, I will kill them if I have to, but it's not my favorite.

• 51:28Tig Notaro?

  Kill what?

• 51:29Fortune Feimster?

  Spiders.

• 51:30Tig Notaro?

  Oh, see, I grab them on my little shaky paw and throw it out.

• 51:33Mae Martin?

  But see, that is but.

• 51:34Fortune Feimster?

  I'm not building things.

• 51:36Mae Martin?

  What is all this even mean?

• 51:37Fortune Feimster?

  Fixing sinks, I'm not building things.

• 51:39Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 51:40Fortune Feimster?

  I mean, I'll go to like Home Depot and stuff and, you know, I can do some things. I can paint walls and patch holes and things like that.

• 51:49Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 51:49Fortune Feimster?

  But I'm not like, I'm not like one of those, yeah, those real butch lesbians that are tinkering with trucks and stuff.

• 51:58Tig Notaro?

  No.

• 51:58Fortune Feimster?

  Cause they need like some elbow room.

• 52:00Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, right.

• 52:00Fortune Feimster?

  Excuse me, I'm coming in here.

• 52:01Tig Notaro?

  I'm not, yeah.

• 52:02Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. I mean, I, I use the, the, the.

• 52:06Tig Notaro?

  The puffer?

• 52:07Fortune Feimster?

  The saw you gave the.

• 52:08Mae Martin?

  Oh, the hedge trimmer.

• 52:10Fortune Feimster?

  The like electric hedge trimmer.

• 52:12Tig Notaro?

  Are you used to that?

• 52:13Fortune Feimster?

  I did. I, I trimmed my.

• 52:15Tig Notaro?

  Your what?

• 52:16Fortune Feimster?

  My bushes.

• 52:18Fortune Feimster?

  I trimmed my bush with it.

• 52:19Tig Notaro?

  Sure, sure.

• 52:20Fortune Feimster?

  I had to charge it for a while.

• 52:22Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 52:22Fortune Feimster?

  Um, yeah, I trimmed my ficus with it. Why are you staring at me like that?

• 52:30Mae Martin?

  But didn't we have a joke about ficus?

• 52:32Tig Notaro?

  No, but we should.

• 52:34Mae Martin?

  We should, but though.

• 52:34Fortune Feimster?

  What, what ficus joke you got?

• 52:37Tig Notaro?

  Ficus humor.

• 52:38Fortune Feimster?

  That was kind of, I mean, that's not not butch.

• 52:40Mae Martin?

  But all those things like.

• 52:41Fortune Feimster?

  In a salt, what do you call those things?

• 52:43Tig Notaro?

  Hedge trimmer.

• 52:45Fortune Feimster?

  Hedge trimmer.

• 52:45Tig Notaro?

  You're too much of a little lady to know what you're.

• 52:48Fortune Feimster?

  That's something.

• 52:49Mae Martin?

  Yeah. I always get, well, yeah, no one thinks I'm bi and so I always.

• 52:54Tig Notaro?

  I'm sitting here talking about how I'm not butch with my mustache on. Anyway, go ahead.

• 52:59Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 52:59Fortune Feimster?

  I mean, I do think that surprises people when they find out you are bi.

• 53:03Mae Martin?

  They don't even believe it.

• 53:05Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 53:05Mae Martin?

  But I, so I always feel the need to wave that banner pretty heavily. Cause it's like, yeah, there, there's so many bi people who you don't think are bi.

• 53:14Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. I listen, I love a bi person. I love everybody.

• 53:18Mae Martin?

  Should we get to Brenda's answer?

• 53:21Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, let's hear what Brenda has to say.

• 53:23Mae Martin?

  Yeah, let's hear what she's got to say.

• 53:25Speaker 02

  I feel like people always think that I'm a super girly girl, which I am. I love shopping and all the things, but I'm like a real tomboy. I love cars. I love sports. Go Rams. Um, and I also feel like people always think that I am taller than I am. I'm five, one, five, two on a good day, depending on how big my hair is.

• 53:43Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, she's tiny. Brenda's tiny.

• 53:45Tig Notaro?

  So she's butchier than we are.

• 53:47Fortune Feimster?

  Brenda is butchier than us. Like loves, loves, loves sports. Did the like, uh, call, like was on a, for the, is a huge Rams fan. And was doing like the game day calling of the, the game. I don't know what you call, like play by plays and stuff.

• 54:04Tig Notaro?

  Oh, cool. I don't know girlfriend.

• 54:06Fortune Feimster?

  I don't know girlfriend. See like this five, five, one gal.

• 54:10Mae Martin?

  That is.

• 54:11Fortune Feimster?

  She does, cause she does present very feminine with the nails and the, and always is very put together.

• 54:17Tig Notaro?

  And with the husband.

• 54:18Fortune Feimster?

  Uh, yeah. Drives this big ass car. Like, yeah, it's just, it's so funny.

• 54:24Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. I really liked, um, swimming in that conversation of, um, presumptions.

• 54:32Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 54:32Tig Notaro?

  And it's, it's, it's just, there's so much, especially if you like pinpoint it specifically to this podcast. It would be interesting to hear what our, um, listeners assume about us.

• 54:48Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 54:48Fortune Feimster?

  Maybe they can post.

• 54:49Mae Martin?

  Or maybe what they.

• 54:50Fortune Feimster?

  Post in the comments.

• 54:51Mae Martin?

  Assumed in the beginning that they now don't.

• 54:54Tig Notaro?

  Right.

• 54:54Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 54:55Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. Because even still with listening to a podcast or following a band or an actor or whatever it is.

• 55:03Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 55:03Tig Notaro?

  Um, you still don't know them.

• 55:07Mae Martin?

  Yeah, totally.

• 55:07Tig Notaro?

  Exactly.

• 55:08Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 55:08Tig Notaro?

  So that would be an interesting thing to, um, to, if we spent like an episode of like questions like that. Or, or like, oh, I thought this about May, or if somebody wrote in said, actually, yeah, May's vulnerable, but I think May can.

• 55:26Mae Martin?

  Can handle themselves.

• 55:27Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I never saw May that way. I actually thought this.

• 55:31Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 55:31Tig Notaro?

  Um.

• 55:32Mae Martin?

  Let us know.

• 55:33Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. Yeah. It's really fascinating.

• 55:36Mae Martin?

  Just like even walking around, we don't know what's going on with anyone. Like.

• 55:40Tig Notaro?

  Anyone.

• 55:41Mae Martin?

  Try to approach everyone as if they're having the worst day of their life. Like, and just with that amount of empathy, cause you just don't know what people are going through.

• 55:47Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 55:47Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 55:49Fortune Feimster?

  Wow, we got deep again, you guys.

• 55:51Mae Martin?

  We can't help ourselves.

• 55:52Tig Notaro?

  We can't help it.

• 55:53Fortune Feimster?

  We can't help it.

• 55:53Mae Martin?

  We're the philosopher kings.

• 55:55Fortune Feimster?

  And may I point out, I didn't get that dirty.

• 55:58Tig Notaro?

  No, you've been.

• 55:59Fortune Feimster?

  I'm gonna throw anything in.

• 56:00Mae Martin?

  Throw something in.

• 56:01Fortune Feimster?

  I tried to make a bush joke, but it didn't feel too that dirty.

• 56:04Tig Notaro?

  But give it a few more other, what is this made out of?

• 56:07Fortune Feimster?

  I don't know. Thunder armor.

• 56:10Tig Notaro?

  I thought you said thunder armors.

• 56:13Fortune Feimster?

  It's my under armor shirt.

• 56:15Mae Martin?

  Throw in some cooters or some dongs.

• 56:17Fortune Feimster?

  That's the thing. I love saying the word cooter, as we all know. I love, uh, saying sexual things, but I'm not a dirt, like necessarily a dirty person.

• 56:26Tig Notaro?

  That's another perfect example.

• 56:28Fortune Feimster?

  Exactly. But I like to do it cause it gets Tig worked up.

• 56:32Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 56:32Fortune Feimster?

  And so I say it more for the reaction than I do because I'm a dirty person.

• 56:38Tig Notaro?

  But also that is part of the humor and connection of like the different roles and, um, yeah, it's like if somebody heard you saying cooter all the time, they were like, Fortune's just filthy all the time.

• 56:53Fortune Feimster?

  And I'm not.

• 56:54Tig Notaro?

  That is not the, it's, it's, it's bits, it's jokes.

• 56:58Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 56:59Tig Notaro?

  It's dynamics.

• 57:00Mae Martin?

  Didn't you go on Hot Wings and say cooter like 25 times?

• 57:03Fortune Feimster?

  So many times. They knew they would totally cut a lot of it. And they kept them like all in.

• 57:09Tig Notaro?

  They were like, can we get more cooters?

• 57:11Fortune Feimster?

  And I watched with my mom and she kept going, really? That is part of the reason why I'm not that dirty. My mom hates it when I like cuss or say like get too in that world. But I do it for comedic effect because it, the reaction makes me laugh.

• 57:28Mae Martin?

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 57:29Fortune Feimster?

  But yeah, I'm not like a, necessarily a dirty person as far as like, I'm not cussing all the time or making.

• 57:36Tig Notaro?

  Okay.

• 57:36Fortune Feimster?

  Off color jokes.

• 57:37Tig Notaro?

  Here's something.

• 57:38Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 57:38Tig Notaro?

  If you're talking about like things that you do to be funny and whatever, I'll do this, not just on the podcast, but like I've done this at people's parties or whatever. I'll walk up and I'll be like, I'm bored. You know, like I'll, I, whereas I'm not.

• 57:56Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 57:56Tig Notaro?

  I just, um.

• 57:58Fortune Feimster?

  You like to see, you like to get people's reactions as well.

• 58:01Mae Martin?

  It's one of your Tig bits. Yeah. It's one of your Tig bits.

• 58:04Tig Notaro?

  It's a Tig bit. It's a Tig bit. And it's just like, to me, it's, I like to see.

• 58:09Mae Martin?

  I like the idea of going to a party and going, excuse me, I'm, I'm really bored. Is there something?

• 58:13Tig Notaro?

  At your party.

• 58:14Fortune Feimster?

  I'm bored.

• 58:14Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 58:15Fortune Feimster?

  And the way you say it is funny. I'm, I'm bored. You like to sit in the silence too.

• 58:20Tig Notaro?

  You're.

• 58:21Fortune Feimster?

  You're very good at that.

• 58:22Tig Notaro?

  An awkward squirm.

• 58:23Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 58:24Tig Notaro?

  I enjoy it.

• 58:25Fortune Feimster?

  What do you guys have coming up?

• 58:27Tig Notaro?

  Well, it's funny you should ask. I am going to be in Olympia, Washington, Fresno, Napa, Wilmington, Delaware, Tarrytown, New York, New London, Connecticut, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Steamboat Springs, and Basalt, and always at Largo and Dynasty Typewriter doing my circus shows with no animals.

• 58:51Fortune Feimster?

  Um, I'm, uh, in Athens, Georgia, uh, coming up. And then my big LA show at the United Theater is November 7th. So I'd love for folks to come to that. Uh, Palm Springs, uh, Denver, Colorado, where I will be shooting my special mid-November. And then I'm ending my whole tour at the Ryman, where we have done our Handsome Pod, uh, in Nashville.

• 59:16Tig Notaro?

  Is that where you always perform in Nashville?

• 59:18Fortune Feimster?

  Uh, this is my second time, uh, on my, doing it. Yeah. I love that venue. I am November 12th at Largo, doing a special music show with some stand-up too, but, uh, mainly music and musical guests. So come to that. That's right. And then, uh, on December 12th is our annual, is this fourth? No, how many have we done?

• 59:41Tig Notaro?

  I don't know.

• 59:42Fortune Feimster?

  We're not sure.

• 59:42Tig Notaro?

  All I know is I will be fresh out of eye surgery. And you have to get your tickets now.

• 59:48Fortune Feimster?

  That's right.

• 59:48Tig Notaro?

  To see my black eyes and my stitches.

• 59:52Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 59:52Tig Notaro?

  That's worth it, right there. Blood pouring down my face.

• 59:55Fortune Feimster?

  It's our Handsome Hollybob Show from Dynasty Typewriter. Uh, and you can buy a ticket, uh, or livestream ticket. We, I'm kinda hoping, because we did it so far in advance this year as far as, um, announcing.

• 1:00:09Tig Notaro?

  The rollout.

• 1:00:09Fortune Feimster?

  That people might have some handsome holiday parties.

• 1:00:13Tig Notaro?

  Yes, please.

• 1:00:14Fortune Feimster?

  Hollybob parties. And it doesn't have to be on the day. The link will be available for purchase and to view it, um, until, uh, the end of December. Um, so yeah, get those livestream tickets. Yeah. Rate, subscribe, tell your friends.

• 1:00:30Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. And we're on Hulu a day early. Okay? You can catch us a day early on Hulu. Share episodes with your friends. And I know, I, I, look, stop what you're doing. Rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast, to our YouTube page. We have social media. Also, handsomepod.com. Merch out of the wazoo, I'll say it. Out of the cooter.

• 1:00:55Fortune Feimster?

  Some holiday, yeah. We might have some new ones.

• 1:00:57Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. Get your Christmas and hollybob and Hanukkah shopping done now.

• 1:01:03Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. Love it. And until next time. Keep it handsome.

• 1:01:11Tig Notaro?

  Handsome is hosted by me, Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, and Fortune Themester. The show is produced, recorded, and edited by Thomas Willett. Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on social media, @handsomepod.

• 1:01:29Tig Notaro?

  What a podcast. What a podcast.

• 1:01:35Tig Notaro?

  That was a HeadGum Podcast. Checking Allstate first could save you hundreds on car insurance. Not checking that I've got something to offer before making the rounds at the petting zoo? I feel like a donkey. Turns out, these animals aren't giving out pets for free. They want some carrots and oats in exchange for their friendship. I'm feeling a bit left out.

• 1:01:56Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, checking first is handsome. So check Allstate first for an auto quote. It could save you hundreds. You're in good hands with Allstate. Potential savings vary subject to terms, conditions, and availability. Allstate, North American Insurance Company and Affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois.

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