G Flip asks about childhood career goals

G Flip is an incredible musician from Down Under, and now she's asking today's Handsome question about what the hosts wanted to be when they grew up! Plus knock knock jokes, a Mae Fact about dung beetles, and more! 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/@handsomepodThis 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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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 0:04Mae Martin?

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• 1:48Mae Martin?

  Cheers.

• 1:50Tig Notaro?

  Welcome to the Handsome Pod. It's me, your friend and host, Tig Notaro, sitting here with...

• 1:58Fortune Feimster?

  Fortune Feimster, me.

• 2:00Mae Martin?

  And me, Mae Martin.

• 2:04Fortune Feimster?

  And Biggie, he's here too.

• 2:06Tig Notaro?

  Is he?

• 2:07Mae Martin?

  And Thomas, there he is.

• 2:09Tig Notaro?

  There he is. Oh!

• 2:11Mae Martin?

  Oh, hi, Biggie.

• 2:12Tig Notaro?

  Biggie flying on in on his bed.

• 2:17Fortune Feimster?

  You don't sleep now.

• 2:19Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 2:20Fortune Feimster?

  Good to see you guys.

• 2:21Mae Martin?

  Good to see you too.

• 2:23Tig Notaro?

  Oh yeah, good to see you.

• 2:24Mae Martin?

  We were supposed to be in person today and I'm, I'm sick, so.

• 2:29Fortune Feimster?

  You're a little sicky poo.

• 2:30Mae Martin?

  Yeah, man, I'm sick. It's so boring and no one cares.

• 2:35Fortune Feimster?

  We care. We want you to be okay, but we do appreciate you not getting us sick.

• 2:40Mae Martin?

  Right? Well, yeah, that's what I'm always thinking about.

• 2:43Tig Notaro?

  Tell us about your sickness.

• 2:44Mae Martin?

  Well, thanks. It's riveting. It's, we're talking a classic cold. I'm drinking a hot beverage out of, actually out of a mug that a handsome listener gave us at a live show.

• 2:56Tig Notaro?

  Oh.

• 2:57Mae Martin?

  Says, says a pineapple apart and there you go.

• 3:01Tig Notaro?

  Oh, that is a nice mug.

• 3:03Mae Martin?

  Isn't it? It's my style of mug because it's like.

• 3:05Fortune Feimster?

  It's big.

• 3:06Mae Martin?

  It's big. It's earthy. It's like, you know.

• 3:10Tig Notaro?

  That's good. That is really good. Think of all of the things that our listeners have made and haven't been able to give to us.

• 3:19Fortune Feimster?

  Hmm.

• 3:20Tig Notaro?

  You know, because we get things sent to us, handed to us. Remember that woman tracked me down, ran down the airport in Austin to give me the Biggie Dead Eyes.

• 3:32Fortune Feimster?

  That's right.

• 3:33Tig Notaro?

  T-shirts.

• 3:34Mae Martin?

  Right.

• 3:35Fortune Feimster?

  We had things crocheted for us.

• 3:38Mae Martin?

  Yeah, somebody knitted, yeah, crocheted a guacamole and avocado bear.

• 3:43Fortune Feimster?

  That and then the, what are the things called when it's like in a wooden circle?

• 3:48Mae Martin?

  Oh, like needlepoint.

• 3:49Fortune Feimster?

  Needlepoint.

• 3:50Tig Notaro?

  We've had that.

• 3:52Fortune Feimster?

  You are very.

• 3:53Tig Notaro?

  What are those things called?

• 3:55Fortune Feimster?

  I don't know.

• 3:56Tig Notaro?

  In a wooden circle.

• 3:57Fortune Feimster?

  Very crafty.

• 3:58Tig Notaro?

  I never would have guessed needlepoint.

• 4:00Fortune Feimster?

  Really?

• 4:01Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, you would have held me hostage for life trying to guess. I would have guessed wooden nickel.

• 4:07Fortune Feimster?

  Wooden nickel for sure.

• 4:09Tig Notaro?

  That'd be my, my guess.

• 4:12Fortune Feimster?

  What was that thing you guessed on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune?

• 4:15Tig Notaro?

  How dare you? How dare you?

• 4:18Mae Martin?

  It was.

• 4:18Fortune Feimster?

  What was it? One of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life.

• 4:22Tig Notaro?

  It was the what?

• 4:23Fortune Feimster?

  One of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life.

• 4:25Tig Notaro?

  Uh, it was not meant to be funny, Fortune Marie.

• 4:27Fortune Feimster?

  It was so funny. What was the thing?

• 4:30Tig Notaro?

  Do not embarrass me like this in front of our listeners.

• 4:33Fortune Feimster?

  I'm just about to exercise.

• 4:34Tig Notaro?

  Yes, yes, yes. Well.

• 4:36Mae Martin?

  What was it?

• 4:39Fortune Feimster?

  May, you have to Google it. It's the greatest.

• 4:42Tig Notaro?

  May don't Google it.

• 4:43Fortune Feimster?

  So obvious what it was, but what did you say it was? It was like riding an exercise bike or something.

• 4:50Tig Notaro?

  Okay, you know, you have to.

• 4:54Fortune Feimster?

  I suck at Celebrity Jeopardy, so I can laugh.

• 4:57Tig Notaro?

  Well, you know, they give you just bits and pieces of the sentence or phrase and I chose crash.

• 5:06Fortune Feimster?

  Crashing.

• 5:07Tig Notaro?

  Crash.

• 5:10Tig Notaro?

  Crashing my exorcist bike.

• 5:15Fortune Feimster?

  That was.

• 5:16Tig Notaro?

  Fortune Marie.

• 5:19Fortune Feimster?

  I cried laughing at that.

• 5:24Tig Notaro?

  I had to stand by what I said.

• 5:28Fortune Feimster?

  And you did.

• 5:29Tig Notaro?

  I did. I stood firm right there with Thomas Lennon and Nikki Glaser laughing at me.

• 5:37Fortune Feimster?

  That was one of the best TV moments in a while.

• 5:43Tig Notaro?

  Crashing my exorcist bike. That was my delivery. As it was coming out of my mouth, I was like, this cannot possibly be the answer, but I didn't know what else could be the answer. And as soon as I realized it was exercise and not exorcist.

• 6:01Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 6:01Tig Notaro?

  It still made no sense.

• 6:05Tig Notaro?

  But made more sense than my exorcist bike.

• 6:08Fortune Feimster?

  So, so funny. That, that brought me a good tickle. Thank you.

• 6:12Tig Notaro?

  You are the worst fortune.

• 6:14Fortune Feimster?

  No.

• 6:15Mae Martin?

  How good is it that that moment is immortalized? Like, most people's embarrassing moments just live in their memories, but that is forever. That will forever exist.

• 6:25Tig Notaro?

  How do you know it was embarrassing?

• 6:28Tig Notaro?

  I was proud. I was a proud moment. Oh my gosh, crashing my exorcist bike.

• 6:34Fortune Feimster?

  I'll never play on Celebrity Jeopardy again. I'll tell you that.

• 6:38Tig Notaro?

  Why?

• 6:39Mae Martin?

  Like, are you banned?

• 6:40Fortune Feimster?

  No, no, I just was not great.

• 6:44Tig Notaro?

  I had a hard time with the buzzer. And I answered some just dumb ass things.

• 6:51Tig Notaro?

  And the worst thing is we're playing for charity.

• 6:55Mae Martin?

  Oh, God.

• 6:55Tig Notaro?

  And so like you want to help people, you want to raise money, you want to do what's right. And then it's like, oh, my gosh, I'm a buffoon representing your organization and my sincerest apologies. I felt like such a failure chiming in with, you know, crashing my exorcist bike? What the hell did I just say?

• 7:19Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 7:19Fortune Feimster?

  But you want to, you want to money regardless.

• 7:22Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 7:23Fortune Feimster?

  It's all for a good cause.

• 7:24Tig Notaro?

  Could have gotten them more.

• 7:26Fortune Feimster?

  That's all right.

• 7:27Tig Notaro?

  Oh, thanks.

• 7:27Fortune Feimster?

  Next time.

• 7:28Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, I don't think there will be a next time.

• 7:31Mae Martin?

  I want you to go back on and then it's a similar clue and you're like, this time I'm not going to fuck up. And so you're like, exercise bike. And like, it was actually exorcist bike.

• 7:42Tig Notaro?

  Damn it. You got me. What else? What's shaking? Um, how's your mother fortune?

• 7:49Fortune Feimster?

  Um, she's doing, doing all right. I just went to go visit her. Um, so we had some nice chats. We found a bench, you know, I love sitting on a bench. And, uh,

• 8:01Mae Martin?

  You're easy to, you're easy to please.

• 8:03Fortune Feimster?

  Really, honestly, I am. I just, uh, I was in my hometown and it's such a cute little area. And we just went to the park and sat and chatted for a while. She, um, went to Emory in Atlanta and met with a, a specialist to, you know, gave her, gave her some hope, which she was really happy about.

• 8:24Tig Notaro?

  That's amazing.

• 8:25Fortune Feimster?

  Um, everybody else she had talked to kind of was, has been a little doom and gloom. And he basically said, you know, like, you gotta do three months of chemo.

• 8:36Tig Notaro?

  Uh huh.

• 8:36Fortune Feimster?

  Uh, before we can even begin to come up with a plan. Uh, because we need to see how your body responds to it. And everybody's body is different in its response. So once you do that, you'll come back. And then, you know, there's a lot of things, a lot of trials and a lot of, you know, whatever. And don't think about lifespan and numbers and. Um, just let's, you know, start this journey and, and see how it unfolds.

• 9:05Tig Notaro?

  Well, that's the epitome of a great bedside manner.

• 9:09Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 9:09Tig Notaro?

  You know?

• 9:10Fortune Feimster?

  Just like one day at a time.

• 9:12Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. Yeah. And just having that openness and um, I, I think it, it's really something that positivity that you get around you and that you feel and that it's all telling your body a message.

• 9:26Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 9:28Tig Notaro?

  And um, yeah, I, I think that's really, really great.

• 9:33Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. So she had like a pep in her step when she called.

• 9:37Mae Martin?

  Great, great.

• 9:38Tig Notaro?

  Um. That's amazing.

• 9:40Fortune Feimster?

  And I, yeah, she said she was very happy she went and now she's gonna start this chemo journey.

• 9:47Tig Notaro?

  It's, it's a road, but man, I'm glad that she found what sounds like one of the best places to go for what she has. And then having a doctor with that kind of vibe and

• 9:59Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 9:59Tig Notaro?

  that news and

• 10:01Fortune Feimster?

  And he was like, you know, listen, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. It's a, you, you have, this is a tough, what you have is not great, you know, like this is a tough road. Um, but we'll just, we're just gonna do it, like you said, day by day, take it and um, see what, what all we can do.

• 10:20Tig Notaro?

  You know, sometimes it is, like you said, he didn't sugarcoat it. And I think that's, I mean, the vibe, obviously I didn't meet this guy, but the vibe sounds just, just really good because of not sugarcoating it and because he's not doom and gloom. And leaving that openness for reality and that reality being a medical reality, but also an emotional reality, like to leave that space open for you to kind of bounce between the two because it's gonna be an ongoing roller coaster. It's not great, but here's what's positive about it.

• 11:05Fortune Feimster?

  Mm hmm.

• 11:06Mae Martin?

  And, and letting it be unwritten, the future, you know?

• 11:10Fortune Feimster?

  Right.

• 11:10Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 11:11Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. And apparently that's kind of the vibe of the, this Emory Winship, the whole program is, um, a lot of people approach it, approach it, everything from a, a positive.

• 11:25Fortune Feimster?

  Position of like, um, attitude, you know, just a very good demeanor and attitude. So she's definitely in a good place. So happy, happy about that and happy she feels, feels the, the oomph to fight and get through this.

• 11:44Mae Martin?

  She's, I feel like she's gonna be, she's gonna be really popular in the chemo space. Like she's gonna, all the, like the nurses are gonna love her.

• 11:53Tig Notaro?

  Oh, yeah.

• 11:53Mae Martin?

  She's gonna make friends.

• 11:54Fortune Feimster?

  Uh huh. She will make the most, she will make the most of this terrible situation for sure.

• 12:00Mae Martin?

  A hundred percent. Yeah. Well, thanks. Thanks for sharing it with us.

• 12:04Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, thanks for asking.

• 12:06Mae Martin?

  So when'd you get, when'd you get back?

• 12:08Fortune Feimster?

  Um, like two days ago.

• 12:09Mae Martin?

  Okay, cool.

• 12:10Fortune Feimster?

  Um, I'll be kind of popping in and out of North Carolina a lot more, you know, just even if it's for a short visit, just why not?

• 12:20Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 12:20Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 12:21Fortune Feimster?

  How about you guys? What's up with y'all?

• 12:23Mae Martin?

  Well, I just got, I told Tig on a mini episode, but I went to the desert. And then I guess like this is the Lord punishing me for going to the desert. I got a cold. Um, and then.

• 12:34Tig Notaro?

  Is that what people usually leave the desert with is a cold?

• 12:38Mae Martin?

  That doesn't seem right.

• 12:40Tig Notaro?

  Did you make out with strangers in the desert? Is that why you got a cold?

• 12:43Mae Martin?

  With a lizard and a strange ghost I met in Joshua Tree National Park.

• 12:49Tig Notaro?

  A strange ghost, not a normal one.

• 12:53Mae Martin?

  You know what I found out? Um, dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way as their navigation system and they're the only animal that does that.

• 13:02Tig Notaro?

  Mae fact, may fact.

• 13:03Fortune Feimster?

  Mae fact. And not the Milky Way candy bar.

• 13:08Mae Martin?

  Fortune.

• 13:10Tig Notaro?

  I'm gonna sit this out for a second.

• 13:14Fortune Feimster?

  You guys can't stop, won't stop.

• 13:19Tig Notaro?

  You can't stop that?

• 13:21Fortune Feimster?

  I could, but do you want me to?

• 13:24Tig Notaro?

  Ken, so it's can stop, won't stop.

• 13:26Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't stop, don't want to stop.

• 13:30Fortune Feimster?

  That's right.

• 13:31Mae Martin?

  What about you Tig? What's up?

• 13:33Tig Notaro?

  Oh, what is up?

• 13:37Tig Notaro?

  Gosh.

• 13:39Mae Martin?

  Anyway, should we go to our question?

• 13:40Tig Notaro?

  Yes. Go. Question.

• 13:47Tig Notaro?

  If I'm honest, I had a bit of a weird day today, but it's, yeah, it's good. Stephanie and I go on a walk every morning.

• 13:54Mae Martin?

  Oh.

• 13:55Tig Notaro?

  And we, we drop Max and Finn off and then we go on a walk and I don't know, I, you know how just something from your life sneaks up on you and then just wrestles you to the ground?

• 14:13Mae Martin?

  Really?

• 14:14Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 14:14Mae Martin?

  Like from your past?

• 14:16Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, um, just, I mean, not to fully go in, um, uh, neck deep into anything, but I think it's just, the, the gist of it is loving our kids so much. And it spun into a conversation of knowing that my father loved me and my brother so much. And he just wasn't really, so many factors in life made him not available or around and whatever. And it tripped me up when we were talking about it and I got so emotional.

• 14:59Tig Notaro?

  And, and I was saying, I've never been mad at my father. I've always just been sad or missed him or confused, you know, through my childhood. And, um, but it's also through the eyes of being a parent that I know he meant well. And I know he loved me and I understand his life. I understand his trajectory. I get what happened, you know, for the most part. And, and then it just came back around to me, understanding myself more.

• 15:40Tig Notaro?

  And, um, and just hoping that in whatever ways that I fumble in life, that, that my kids will.

• 15:50Tig Notaro?

  Feel that way. Not that I, this is born out of like some huge fumble of mine, but it's just, that's, like I said, I'm not trying to get neck deep into it, but it was so fascinating because it's a topic that typically does not trip me up.

• 16:05Mae Martin?

  Right.

• 16:06Tig Notaro?

  Man, not only did it trip me, it got me on the walk and I went home and I started writing like crazy.

• 16:16Mae Martin?

  Really?

• 16:17Tig Notaro?

  I mean, I started writing about my father. I started writing about my stepfather. I started just, I got into so much stuff because even though I was like tremendously emotional, I was saying certain things that was making, I was making jokes and Stephanie would start laughing so hard where she was like, oh my God, like just the, that juxtaposition of

• 16:40Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 16:41Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. The joke on what I was talking about.

• 16:44Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 16:44Tig Notaro?

  Um, and I was like, I just have to go home and like really get into this. And it was fascinating because it's been my whole day of, and then Stephanie went and did something, came home and I was filling her in on it and then I got emotional all over again.

• 16:59Mae Martin?

  Oh, wow.

• 17:00Tig Notaro?

  It's just, yeah, so, but I'm, I'm, I'm good. Um, and it's, but it's been really, really fascinating.

• 17:08Mae Martin?

  Yeah. It sounds like something was unplugged unexpectedly. And then the fact that you, it's flowing out of you to write is, that's great.

• 17:16Tig Notaro?

  Well, and again, it was so born out of love for Max and Finn. And then, you know, I was telling Stephanie about this moment in my childhood that my father came to visit us at my grandparent, my, my grandmother's house and he was kneeling on one knee and we were like eight and nine and he had his arm around both of us and he was just sobbing, saying, I love you guys so much. And, and it was so, and Stephanie was like, wow. So he, he emoted like that. I was like, oh yeah. He had no problem.

• 17:50Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 17:51Tig Notaro?

  With crying about any of that stuff. And this is a guy that walked around with a knife and a pistol in his cowboy boots. And that's not to say that's, uh, how everyone should be gearing up for the day. But, um, yeah, it was just, it was, I just never, never doubted his love.

• 18:15Fortune Feimster?

  Because not to get too into the weeds, but he just wasn't around much in your childhood?

• 18:23Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, I mean, my parents divorced when I was six months. And he was the guy that my grandmother, my mother's mother, didn't approve of. And when they split, he was, you know, they were young partiers.

• 18:43Fortune Feimster?

  Right.

• 18:44Tig Notaro?

  You know, two babies are born and they were in their twenties and, you know, in the seventies, people weren't consciously uncoupling. It was, it was very severed and, and not terribly open and it, a lot of complications in life.

• 19:03Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 19:04Mae Martin?

  Your, your mom had full custody?

• 19:05Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, yeah. But we would see him every now and then and, and it, there's, there is a lot, there was a lot, a lot, a lot. But I think losing my mother and then my stepfather and there's kind of backed up emotions, I think, in, in processing somebody else, another parent who wasn't directly always in my life, you know? And I kind of feel like I hit it today.

• 19:37Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 19:38Tig Notaro?

  I mean, I've been sad before and, and stuff, but like, this was just like, not just sadness, it was like a real awakening and my, like I said, my love for my kids, like cracked it open and, and really got, made me get in touch with his love for, for us, you know?

• 19:58Mae Martin?

  It's funny, like we're, we have so much fluency now around like mental health and I feel like we have so much empathy for our parents' generation and our grandparents.

• 20:09Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 20:10Mae Martin?

  So it's, it's tough, sometimes multiple feelings are existing at once because you so clearly see this like wounded person, but then also, you know, how it's affected you and it's a tough thing to balance.

• 20:22Tig Notaro?

  Oh, yeah, it's, it's really interesting. Like, I feel like I did, I feel like I did like some sort of drug trip where I was like, I love everything and everyone and I get it. You know what I mean?

• 20:37Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 20:37Tig Notaro?

  I forgive and I hope you forgive me and I, you know, all of those things just hitting at once and it, you know, any sadness also felt just

• 20:50Tig Notaro?

  good, too.

• 20:51Mae Martin?

  Think about like, like the generosity that you were, that showing him and, and your mom and everything and the love and, you know, in this circumstance, like, there's no doubt that your kids, for your, any minor fumble are gonna have the same perspective, you know?

• 21:09Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 21:09Mae Martin?

  You're a three-dimensional human being, for sure, they will, yeah.

• 21:13Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 21:14Mae Martin?

  Oh, my God.

• 21:15Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, I've been, I've been having that, like, thing going through different things in my life right now where it's made me understand what my parents were dealing with when they were my age and I thought they were like so old when all their, you know, fractures were happening and

• 21:35Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 21:36Fortune Feimster?

  Um, and they were, I'm like, I would, we were the same age, that's crazy to me.

• 21:42Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 21:43Tig Notaro?

  You're the exact same age, right?

• 21:45Fortune Feimster?

  The exact, yeah, my parents divorced at this, at the age I am right now.

• 21:50Tig Notaro?

  Wow.

• 21:51Fortune Feimster?

  And it just made me, when I realized that, I was just like, oh, my God. Not that I was like, I never really held on to their divorce in that kind of like victim-y way, but it definitely just made me see them as like, oh, they just were doing the best they could.

• 22:11Mae Martin?

  Right.

• 22:11Tig Notaro?

  For sure.

• 22:12Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 22:13Tig Notaro?

  And that was, was that in the eighties?

• 22:15Fortune Feimster?

  That would have been ninety-two.

• 22:18Tig Notaro?

  Oh, okay.

• 22:20Mae Martin?

  You guys are having deep thoughts today, I like it. You know, I gotta say, this cold is making me think about all, all colds, really.

• 22:32Fortune Feimster?

  I wasn't having that thought today, but Tig's journey made me think of that that has been on my mind. Just, just seeing, seeing your parents in, in, in that more vulnerable way of like, you know,

• 22:45Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 22:46Fortune Feimster?

  I don't, I don't know what I would have done in their position had I been three kids deep, no money. You know, like you make the decisions you make and

• 22:54Tig Notaro?

  Hmm.

• 22:55Fortune Feimster?

  Try to not mess people up too much.

• 22:58Mae Martin?

  Oh, man. Yeah. I've recently been encouraging my parents to drink water. And then I was like, when did that, when did that happen that I uh?

• 23:07Fortune Feimster?

  Like parenting?

• 23:08Mae Martin?

  Yeah, like that, yeah, like as a kid, it never crosses your mind that your parents need to drink more water.

• 23:13Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. And are they doing it?

• 23:17Mae Martin?

  Uh, I don't know. I'll check in next. I'll let you know.

• 23:21Fortune Feimster?

  Their skin's glowing next time you see them.

• 23:24Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 23:25Fortune Feimster?

  They're like, it never occurred to us to drink water until you said something.

• 23:32Fortune Feimster?

  Well, I think that's good for you. I think it's good to have these like releases too, you know?

• 23:37Tig Notaro?

  Well, yeah, it's just, it's crazy when they, I mean, I am never walking down the sidewalk boo hooing. You know, um, it's not really the place where, and I'm, I'm not like a hard cry.

• 23:53Fortune Feimster?

  Hmm.

• 23:54Tig Notaro?

  I definitely, and that's what Stephanie was pointing out. She was like, wow. So your brother, your mother and your dad and yourself, you're all

• 24:04Mae Martin?

  Criers.

• 24:05Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, fully.

• 24:08Mae Martin?

  Is Stephanie not, Stephanie not a crier?

• 24:11Tig Notaro?

  Not really. I mean, she does for sure, but I, I beat her to it every time.

• 24:17Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 24:18Tig Notaro?

  Every single time.

• 24:20Fortune Feimster?

  I cry. I try to be stoic, but it just, it comes. The cancer in me is just like emoting right away.

• 24:28Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. Yeah. And again, it's like when it hits you from behind and, and I was like, oh, I'm about to cry, which is what I said on the walk. And Stephanie was like, oh, and I was like, wow, I'm a little surprised right now, you know?

• 24:44Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 24:45Tig Notaro?

  And, uh, but it was such a good release.

• 24:48Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 24:49Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. Like I said, to sit down and just write. And I told Stephanie, I was like, I don't know if this is for me or for the rest of the world or what, but I wrote about my father, I wrote about my stepfather, I wrote about, yeah, everything that came to my mind and all serious and jokes, everything.

• 25:06Fortune Feimster?

  That's your sweet spot though.

• 25:07Mae Martin?

  Yeah. And the best thing is to write it just for you as if no one's ever gonna hear it and then decide once it's written.

• 25:14Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 25:15Mae Martin?

  Then you get the real juice out.

• 25:18Tig Notaro?

  Do you ever find yourself writing for the audience or, uh, and then back up? Or, or are you always like, this is for me and I hope you come along?

• 25:29Mae Martin?

  Sometimes, sometimes I feel like there's pressure to have a clear point of view on things for an audience when I, when I might not know how I feel about anything. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.

• 25:43Fortune Feimster?

  I haven't read, at my standup, I haven't dug crazy deep emotionally. There are clearly some things happening in my life right now that are going to require that.

• 25:56Tig Notaro?

  Mm hmm.

• 25:56Fortune Feimster?

  And I haven't begun that process and I will be interested to see what that looks like.

• 26:02Tig Notaro?

  Hmm. Yeah. So you are open to that?

• 26:07Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. I think there's some stuff I'll, you know, I'm not going to get crazy personal, but there will be things to share.

• 26:13Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 26:14Fortune Feimster?

  But I don't know what that, I'm not going to force it.

• 26:18Tig Notaro?

  Right.

• 26:19Fortune Feimster?

  I'm just gonna see that as my life unfolds and evolves, what that looks like in terms of what I do talk about.

• 26:27Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 26:28Tig Notaro?

  Well, and that ties into you're doing it for yourself and you can't do it for the audience. Like even if the audience is like, give us all the details.

• 26:39Tig Notaro?

  Some aren't for them.

• 26:41Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, for sure. And they won't be.

• 26:43Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 26:44Fortune Feimster?

  Um, but yeah.

• 26:45Tig Notaro?

  And maybe all of them.

• 26:47Fortune Feimster?

  Mm hmm.

• 26:47Tig Notaro?

  Maybe all isn't for them.

• 26:48Fortune Feimster?

  Right, yeah.

• 26:49Tig Notaro?

  It just goes back to what you're most comfortable with.

• 26:51Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. But I think like, the reflection of big changes in life and headed into a new direction is of something to discuss at some point.

• 27:04Mae Martin?

  Very relatable, I think, to so many people.

• 27:07Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, no doubt.

• 27:10Fortune Feimster?

  Good times.

• 27:14Tig Notaro?

  Well.

• 27:15Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, so I won't just be making just cooter jokes around here. Don't you worry.

• 27:21Tig Notaro?

  What about charcootery jokes?

• 27:23Fortune Feimster?

  I'll still make cooter jokes, for sure.

• 27:25Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I get it.

• 27:26Fortune Feimster?

  It's not, they're not just going away.

• 27:28Tig Notaro?

  No. You mean cooters or jokes?

• 27:30Fortune Feimster?

  Hopefully cooters are here to stay.

• 27:34Tig Notaro?

  Oh, Fortune Marie. Should we move on to our guest?

• 27:38Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, we could. Um, well, today's question asker is an awesome musician from Meben.

• 27:46Mae Martin?

  Oh, boy.

• 27:47Tig Notaro?

  Wait, Meben?

• 27:48Fortune Feimster?

  Melbourne?

• 27:50Mae Martin?

  But they say.

• 27:51Tig Notaro?

  They don't say Meben.

• 27:52Fortune Feimster?

  Meben.

• 27:53Tig Notaro?

  They don't say Meben, do they?

• 27:55Mae Martin?

  They say Melbourne.

• 27:57Tig Notaro?

  Melbourne.

• 27:58Fortune Feimster?

  Um, but I don't want to impress you guys with my Australian accent, like, once again.

• 28:03Tig Notaro?

  Ooh, I have something for you, Fortune.

• 28:05Fortune Feimster?

  Please.

• 28:06Tig Notaro?

  Try this. You as well, May. Rise up lights.

• 28:11Mae Martin?

  Oh, my God.

• 28:13Fortune Feimster?

  Rise up lines.

• 28:15Tig Notaro?

  Rise up lines.

• 28:17Mae Martin?

  Oh, my God. Wait, I'm gonna, I just want to Google sentences to practice Australian accent.

• 28:24Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, what a keyboard is.

• 28:27Tig Notaro?

  A fast.

• 28:28Fortune Feimster?

  Quite with us.

• 28:30Mae Martin?

  So was it really loud?

• 28:32Tig Notaro?

  Clickety, clackety, clickety, clackety.

• 28:35Mae Martin?

  Are you serious?

• 28:36Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 28:36Mae Martin?

  We are a typewriter.

• 28:37Tig Notaro?

  We are dead serious, May.

• 28:39Mae Martin?

  I couldn't hear it. Okay, they're just gonna.

• 28:41Fortune Feimster?

  Rise up lines. Jennifer Lopez. That's a good one. Jennifer Lopez and her lip taint.

• 28:51Mae Martin?

  Yeah, they're they're just giving me examples of like, put a shrimp on the Barbie and stuff.

• 28:56Fortune Feimster?

  Put another shrimp on the Barbie, mate. I can't, my accent just got worse.

• 29:00Tig Notaro?

  Let's introduce our question asker.

• 29:03Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. We'll, we'll, we'll continue, but we're not cutting that out.

• 29:08Tig Notaro?

  Okay, of course not.

• 29:15Fortune Feimster?

  I'll go back and repeat myself, so we can give our friend a proper introduction. Our question asker for today is from Melbourne, Australia, whose platinum charting singles include Killing My Time and Drinking Too Much. Their album drummer won the 2023 Jay Award for Australian Album of the Year.

• 29:35Tig Notaro?

  Wow.

• 29:35Fortune Feimster?

  Uh, G Flip is asking today's question.

• 29:41Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 29:42Fortune Feimster?

  G Flip's so cool. I'm actually gonna be in a, I don't know if it's a secret, but I'm in a music video of G Flip's.

• 29:51Mae Martin?

  Seriously?

• 29:52Tig Notaro?

  Secret is out. You heard it here first on Hairspray.

• 29:55Fortune Feimster?

  G Flip's like an amazing drummer, but also sings and plays guitar and is just super rad and, and nice. And we met last summer at a Pride event and, um, yeah, just a rad, cool person.

• 30:09Mae Martin?

  What are you gonna do in the music video? The thing that pops into my mind was, um, do you remember that Enrique Iglesias music video for Hero that had, it was, I like the ones that are a big epic plot.

• 30:23Mae Martin?

  It was like Jennifer Love Hewitt.

• 30:26Fortune Feimster?

  I'm not naked in it.

• 30:28Mae Martin?

  Okay.

• 30:28Tig Notaro?

  Oh, well, then I'm not watching.

• 30:30Fortune Feimster?

  Um, I know.

• 30:32Tig Notaro?

  I love that song Hero by Enrique.

• 30:35Fortune Feimster?

  You do?

• 30:36Tig Notaro?

  I love it.

• 30:37Fortune Feimster?

  Wow. Yeah, I'm, um, I'm the comedic relief. All the other gay people in the video are the sexy people with, um, you know,

• 30:47Fortune Feimster?

  tank tops on and then I come and I, I fuss at everyone and, and then we dance.

• 30:52Tig Notaro?

  We are all sexy to someone and we were all, we are also all terribly unsexy to others.

• 30:59Mae Martin?

  That's so true. That's so true.

• 31:02Fortune Feimster?

  I will, cause you know, G Flip's, are they married? Um, Chrishell is G Flip's partner, um, from, um, Selling Sunset.

• 31:10Mae Martin?

  Sunset.

• 31:11Fortune Feimster?

  They're a very good looking couple. Oh my God.

• 31:13Speaker 04

  They are married.

• 31:15Fortune Feimster?

  They are married. Yeah. And, um, so Chrishell was there watching. And I was like, I gotta bring the sexy because the two of them are very good looking. So I did my best to like, do the like smolder, you know?

• 31:28Tig Notaro?

  Well, yeah, we've seen that.

• 31:31Mae Martin?

  Wait, with the eyes wide, it's a little scary. That was really scary.

• 31:37Tig Notaro?

  What sort of message are you sending?

• 31:40Mae Martin?

  The eyes wide really.

• 31:42Fortune Feimster?

  How about this?

• 31:44Mae Martin?

  That's pretty good. So you've already filmed it?

• 31:47Fortune Feimster?

  I did. I bet it's coming out Pride Month. It's probably already out.

• 31:53Fortune Feimster?

  Because we are in Pride Month, almost at the end of it.

• 31:57Mae Martin?

  Have we heard their question yet?

• 31:58Fortune Feimster?

  No, we haven't. Because we have things to talk about.

• 32:01Mae Martin?

  Sorry, sorry, sorry.

• 32:04Tig Notaro?

  With attention spans like ours, we had things to get to.

• 32:09Speaker 05

  What's up handsome podcast? It's G Flip here. Huge fans of all of you. Tig may fortune. Love what you all do. Um, and my little question is, when you were all younger, what did you want to be when you were older? Um, and this is like before maybe we wanted to be in the entertainment industry, like when we're three, four, five years old. Um, keeping it wholesome. So yeah, that's my little question and love all three of yours work. You're awesome.

• 32:42Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, I feel like I sound just like G Flip when I talk.

• 32:46Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 32:47Mae Martin?

  When you're Australian?

• 32:49Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 32:50Tig Notaro?

  Do it again?

• 32:51Fortune Feimster?

  Hello handsome.

• 32:55Fortune Feimster?

  Hello, hello handsome. I'm a fan of all of yous.

• 32:59Tig Notaro?

  I mean, how come we rarely get anybody from Ireland or?

• 33:04Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, we should get an Irish person to say, hello handsome. I have a question for you at the top of the morning.

• 33:12Mae Martin?

  That was not bad.

• 33:14Fortune Feimster?

  It was better than my Australian accent for sure.

• 33:17Tig Notaro?

  But I feel like every other guest is Australian.

• 33:20Fortune Feimster?

  I'm here at the, in the Ireland, looking at the pretty grass and the rainbows and the pots of gold and I'd really like to ask you a question.

• 33:29Tig Notaro?

  Where did Fortune go?

• 33:31Mae Martin?

  Alienate ourselves from every country.

• 33:36Tig Notaro?

  I know, we're gonna see the numbers drop off.

• 33:38Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 33:39Tig Notaro?

  Is there an Irish, who could we ask? Colin Farrell?

• 33:42Mae Martin?

  Jamie Dornan, Colin Farrell, um.

• 33:46Tig Notaro?

  Colin, give us a ring-a-ding.

• 33:48Fortune Feimster?

  All of us.

• 33:48Mae Martin?

  Colin, Colin, Colin. Hey, do you like that?

• 33:53Fortune Feimster?

  Barry Keegan.

• 33:54Tig Notaro?

  Colin, Colin.

• 33:56Fortune Feimster?

  Don't you worry, we'll get some Irish blood up in here.

• 33:59Mae Martin?

  Knock, knock.

• 34:00Fortune Feimster?

  Who's there?

• 34:01Tig Notaro?

  Come in.

• 34:02Mae Martin?

  Interrupting Irish.

• 34:04Fortune Feimster?

  Interrupting Irish, who?

• 34:05Mae Martin?

  Puff of the morning to you.

• 34:06Tig Notaro?

  Thank you.

• 34:08Fortune Feimster?

  I think you came in a second too late.

• 34:11Mae Martin?

  Really?

• 34:14Mae Martin?

  Wait, was there a delay?

• 34:15Fortune Feimster?

  I thought I would. Yeah, I think there was a delay. I had finished and then you said it.

• 34:20Tig Notaro?

  Well, this fight is getting nasty.

• 34:25Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, God, we have a good time.

• 34:28Mae Martin?

  You know, we have a laugh.

• 34:30Fortune Feimster?

  We have a laugh, don't we?

• 34:31Tig Notaro?

  We have a laugh, we have a cough, we have a cry. We're handsome.

• 34:35Mae Martin?

  Cry.

• 34:36Fortune Feimster?

  So when y'all were young.

• 34:37Tig Notaro?

  Mm hmm.

• 34:38Fortune Feimster?

  Do you remember, um, what you wanted to be?

• 34:41Tig Notaro?

  Do you? Do you remember?

• 34:44Mae Martin?

  I wanted to be a boy.

• 34:47Tig Notaro?

  If I was a boy, even just for a day.

• 34:52Mae Martin?

  That would have been my theme song. Um, no, I think I, then the weird thing is, I think from like a really young age, my mom told me I was gonna be.

• 35:02Tig Notaro?

  A boy?

• 35:03Mae Martin?

  An actor or a comedian.

• 35:05Fortune Feimster?

  You're going to be a boy.

• 35:07Mae Martin?

  You're a boy, nay. They're Irish? Yeah, I think I, oh, like outside of the entertainment industry, I don't know. I think I always, because my dad would talk about being an actor when he was young and like, so I was always kind of.

• 35:21Mae Martin?

  It's like the opposite of most people. Like, my parents were like, that's a legit job. You should do that. Um, what about you guys? Because the ones people always say are like vets, astronauts.

• 35:32Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, for sure. An astronaut was, was the go-to at my school.

• 35:37Mae Martin?

  Really?

• 35:38Fortune Feimster?

  Fireman for the boys.

• 35:40Mae Martin?

  Really?

• 35:41Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. All those, uh, blue collar jobs and then an astronaut.

• 35:49Fortune Feimster?

  Uh, yeah, or it would be like a

• 35:51Tig Notaro?

  A teacher.

• 35:51Fortune Feimster?

  Teacher, yeah.

• 35:52Mae Martin?

  Teacher, yeah.

• 35:53Tig Notaro?

  Doctor.

• 35:54Mae Martin?

  Like, kids always want to be vets, but I think the reality of it, they would find quite depressing.

• 36:00Fortune Feimster?

  That would be a hard job, for sure. But if you loved, if you loved them animals.

• 36:05Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 36:06Tig Notaro?

  I wanted to be a vet. I mean, I wanted to be several different things, but um, I had this white terry cloth jacket.

• 36:15Fortune Feimster?

  Mm hmm.

• 36:15Tig Notaro?

  And whenever one of our cats or our dog needed ointment or something, I would put that terry cloth jacket on and I would apply the ointment. Or if a goldfish died, I would put the jacket on. It looked like a

• 36:32Fortune Feimster?

  A vet.

• 36:33Tig Notaro?

  Vet jacket. And I would, you know, flush the goldfish. I don't know that that's the appropriate thing to do, but um.

• 36:41Fortune Feimster?

  That is what people would do.

• 36:43Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 36:44Fortune Feimster?

  I don't know.

• 36:45Mae Martin?

  Do you think a vet would do that?

• 36:46Tig Notaro?

  I don't. I don't think the vet was going back there and just flushing goldfish, but maybe, I don't know.

• 36:52Fortune Feimster?

  Depends on the plumbing.

• 36:54Tig Notaro?

  I also was um, interested in an architect, being an architect.

• 36:59Mae Martin?

  Really?

• 37:00Tig Notaro?

  Yes.

• 37:01Mae Martin?

  Like you were doing Lego and stuff and?

• 37:03Tig Notaro?

  No, drawing plans out.

• 37:05Mae Martin?

  Whoa.

• 37:06Fortune Feimster?

  Wow.

• 37:07Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying they were good or, you know.

• 37:10Fortune Feimster?

  You were building a log cabin house?

• 37:13Mae Martin?

  Were you like designing your dream home or like tree houses and stuff and?

• 37:18Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, I, I also think I was very, um, and this might tie back to my childhood and a lot going on. But I think I was drawing floor plans of uh, where I'm gonna live, like, gotta move out of here.

• 37:35Fortune Feimster?

  I'm blowing this popsicle.

• 37:37Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, yeah. So I was always drawing floor plans. Um, I was like, yeah, maybe I'll be an architect.

• 37:43Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 37:43Fortune Feimster?

  Mm hmm.

• 37:44Mae Martin?

  If they let kids actually design a city, like and be the architects and do all the, it would, it would be, there'd be slides in every house. And like those poles that you slide down.

• 37:55Fortune Feimster?

  Like Barbie, Barbie's dream house.

• 37:58Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 37:58Fortune Feimster?

  Oh man, was that a dream.

• 38:00Mae Martin?

  What did you want to do, Fortune?

• 38:02Fortune Feimster?

  I'm trying to remember. I um, I feel like I didn't have any goals when I was really young. I just wanted to be footloose and fancy free. Is that the fancy?

• 38:15Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 38:16Fortune Feimster?

  The saying?

• 38:16Tig Notaro?

  When was your most footloose and fancy free time of your life?

• 38:19Fortune Feimster?

  Probably like those young, young days.

• 38:21Tig Notaro?

  Mm hmm.

• 38:22Fortune Feimster?

  Kindergarten.

• 38:23Tig Notaro?

  So you had already hit your dream?

• 38:25Fortune Feimster?

  Oh yeah, I peaked. I was the most gorgeous I've ever been at five years old. My curls were popping.

• 38:32Tig Notaro?

  Oh, yeah.

• 38:33Fortune Feimster?

  I have a picture of me in kindergarten with these luscious locks. Um, and I was in my soccer cleats. I had a muscle tee on.

• 38:44Tig Notaro?

  Of course.

• 38:44Fortune Feimster?

  And our kindergarten teacher, as a activity for the class, had us um, uh, hammering nails.

• 38:53Mae Martin?

  What?

• 38:54Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 38:55Mae Martin?

  What do you mean?

• 38:56Fortune Feimster?

  Into a block. We were hammering nails at five years old.

• 39:00Tig Notaro?

  With actual metal hammers?

• 39:02Fortune Feimster?

  Actual giant hammers.

• 39:04Mae Martin?

  Was this a qualified teacher?

• 39:06Fortune Feimster?

  It was amazing. Uh, this teacher, he was a man. It was a, it was a man. He was in a closeted gay man. We didn't know, but um, he came out a few years later. Good for him.

• 39:19Tig Notaro?

  He came out at school? Like, did he?

• 39:20Fortune Feimster?

  He, he stopped teaching, I think, and then he came out and then unfortunately passed away.

• 39:27Tig Notaro?

  Hmm.

• 39:27Fortune Feimster?

  He was incredible. Everyone wanted him as a teacher and um, yeah, I don't remember much, but I do remember that and uh, so clearly at five, I wanted to be a construction worker. Um, that was my dream. I wanted to be butch. I wanted to, uh, you know, take, make sure the house was uh, was repaired and standing. Um, I think I would have, I did like to draw a lot too. I, my um, I learned how to draw an apple. And

• 39:58Tig Notaro?

  Good for you.

• 39:59Mae Martin?

  Congrats.

• 39:59Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 40:00Tig Notaro?

  Thank you.

• 40:01Fortune Feimster?

  I also drew Bart Simpson.

• 40:03Mae Martin?

  Okay.

• 40:04Fortune Feimster?

  And, uh, and an S with the, you know how you do three lines and then the diamond S?

• 40:11Mae Martin?

  Nothing more satisfying. Tig, you know.

• 40:13Fortune Feimster?

  May knows this kind of, may knows this kind of S.

• 40:16Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 40:17Fortune Feimster?

  So I thought, I thought I was gonna be, I, I wasn't thinking about architect as much, but I thought I was gonna be a real artiste. Like, you're gonna see my paintings.

• 40:26Tig Notaro?

  Do you still have that first apple you drew?

• 40:29Fortune Feimster?

  I don't. See, there it is.

• 40:30Tig Notaro?

  Oh, whoops.

• 40:31Fortune Feimster?

  There it is. It could also be an eight.

• 40:35Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 40:35Fortune Feimster?

  Um, but I thought I was learning how to do that. I was like, art is for me.

• 40:42Tig Notaro?

  I remember this, um, neighbor of mine telling me when I was like in seventh grade. She said, my mom thinks you're gonna be a comedian.

• 40:54Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, wow.

• 40:55Mae Martin?

  No way.

• 40:56Tig Notaro?

  Oh, it was so exhilarating.

• 40:59Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 40:59Tig Notaro?

  I, I, I felt seen.

• 41:02Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 41:02Tig Notaro?

  In a way I had not ever felt. I was like, whoa. Your mother thinks I'm gonna be a comedian?

• 41:09Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 41:09Mae Martin?

  How old were you?

• 41:10Tig Notaro?

  I was in seventh grade and, and you know, it's a crazy twist to this story is, um, years later, um, my neighbor and her mother came to my show in Austin. And they told me that, cause there were four kids in their family and my friend was the oldest. And she had a brother, I think her brother was the youngest of the four, like he was probably two or three when, you know what I mean? Like, anyway, um.

• 41:48Tig Notaro?

  And when they came to my show, they told me that he was in the car with his mother as like a teenager or college age, something like that. And they were listening to This American Life. And I came on, I think this is right, that I came on or I came on either This American Life or like local radio show playing comedy clips or whatever. And he said, oh, man, I love Tig Notaro. And she said, well, you know, she was your neighbor. And he was like, no, he had no idea. Cause like, yeah, cause like, I moved away, people grew up, like, we didn't, we weren't close over the years. And he never knew that I

• 42:32Tig Notaro?

  lived four houses down from him.

• 42:34Fortune Feimster?

  Funny. That's a trip.

• 42:36Tig Notaro?

  And he had said that to his mother who said, yeah, that I should be a comedian or something like that.

• 42:42Mae Martin?

  So you must have been, you must have been funny around this mom.

• 42:46Tig Notaro?

  I, I was, I think.

• 42:47Fortune Feimster?

  Were you hitting on the mom?

• 42:49Tig Notaro?

  Probably, you know?

• 42:51Fortune Feimster?

  What's up, Susan?

• 42:53Tig Notaro?

  Also, whenever I would hear the Billy Joel song, um, what is it where he says, got a call from an old friend. We used to be real close. Something like, uh, now he's, uh, now he's giving standup routine in LA. What is that Billy Joel song? Every time I heard that line, I was like, it was electrifying.

• 43:15Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 43:16Tig Notaro?

  Because I secretly wanted to be a comedian, but I also didn't understand the path of ending up on stage. But, oh, the Bill, the Billy Joel song is my life.

• 43:25Fortune Feimster?

  Hmm.

• 43:25Tig Notaro?

  Um, and there's a line that, that his friend moved out to the West Coast and is now giving standup routine in LA.

• 43:33Mae Martin?

  That must be one of the only songs that references standup comedy.

• 43:38Tig Notaro?

  I know.

• 43:39Mae Martin?

  I can't think of any other ones.

• 43:41Fortune Feimster?

  Well, it doesn't rhyme with anything.

• 43:42Mae Martin?

  Comedy. Vomity. Yeah.

• 43:48Tig Notaro?

  Drama.

• 43:49Mae Martin?

  Drama.

• 43:49Fortune Feimster?

  Drama.

• 43:50Tig Notaro?

  There you go.

• 43:51Mae Martin?

  Vomity.

• 43:52Tig Notaro?

  Vomity.

• 43:53Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, it did.

• 43:54Tig Notaro?

  The vomity, when you don't do well in comedy.

• 43:57Fortune Feimster?

  That's right. Standup and comedy were not on my radar for till.

• 44:04Fortune Feimster?

  I think college, maybe, or maybe late high school.

• 44:08Tig Notaro?

  Meaning you didn't follow it until then?

• 44:09Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, I didn't, you know, like, people now will be like, what, what stand-up albums do you listen to growing up? And I was like, I mean, I love like Saturday Night Live, but I didn't listen to like stand-up albums. So stand-up was not on my radar.

• 44:22Mae Martin?

  Did people tell you you were funny, though?

• 44:24Fortune Feimster?

  In flashes.

• 44:26Mae Martin?

  In flashes?

• 44:27Fortune Feimster?

  I would, well, I would have like peeks of it.

• 44:31Fortune Feimster?

  I was pretty shy. And then I would have moments of like coming out of my shell. And in those moments, people would tell me I was funny.

• 44:38Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 44:39Fortune Feimster?

  So those were the flashes. But I don't think, I don't think you would have, if you would ask anyone I grew up with, that they were like, maybe, maybe college people. But in younger days, I don't think they were like, oh yeah, she's going to be a comedian.

• 44:51Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 44:52Tig Notaro?

  I remember, and maybe I've mentioned this before, but in my documentary, the, the documentary made about me, I, the director is talking to my stepfather and he's talking about how he did not know that I was funny.

• 45:12Fortune Feimster?

  You didn't, you didn't share that side of yourself with him?

• 45:15Mae Martin?

  You forgot to tell him that?

• 45:16Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, I guess, I guess I didn't, I didn't let him know. But I thought that was so funny and incredible. And he's like, yeah, I, I didn't realize Tig was funny. But.

• 45:29Fortune Feimster?

  Didn't you say, once you got to like high school, you were like more thinking your path was going to be like mu, in the music business?

• 45:36Tig Notaro?

  Well, I got into the music business. I mean, I also wanted to be the fifth Beatle. When I used to listen to the Beatles when I was little.

• 45:46Tig Notaro?

  I, even though they had broken up and John Lennon had died, when I had their record on, I was like, man, that is my goal in life. I'm going to be the fifth Beatle. And it was just not going to happen. I still don't think it's going to happen. But yeah, I think, I think, I think, yeah, rock star, architect, or vet.

• 46:09Mae Martin?

  I kind of thought I was going to be like. Just hitchhiking around, writing poems and like ma- having girlfriends and like I I just wanted to be like a an itinerant poet.

• 46:23Fortune Feimster?

  But like when you were really, really young, you thought about girls in that way?

• 46:28Mae Martin?

  No, I guess when I was really young, no, I I it was more about like, I definitely fantasized a lot about being alone when I was a kid, like about living in a treehouse and just having animals as friends and

• 46:42Tig Notaro?

  Me too.

• 46:43Mae Martin?

  Yeah, and being on my own and in control of my own choices and stuff, which is weird because I'm not that good on my own now. Like, I always have a friend staying with me. I'm always, I like being around people, but yeah.

• 46:54Tig Notaro?

  But you still have critters all in your yard, right?

• 46:57Mae Martin?

  Do I ever have a minority of pals?

• 46:59Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. I know. Whenever I would see TV shows or movies where like a kid lived alone in the woods or had a treehouse or was living off the land and best friends with raccoons, I was like, where do I sign?

• 47:13Mae Martin?

  Yes, exactly.

• 47:15Tig Notaro?

  This is the life for me. Like, I'm going to live off of berries, which is what I'm doing now. But even like when it trees, like trees really speak to me. And I was always up in one, always climbing trees. And we were leaving Max and Finn's baseball game the other day, and there was just this extraordinary tree. And I was like, man, Max, look at that. He was like, I'm gonna climb it. And I was like, please do.

• 47:43Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 47:43Tig Notaro?

  And so it was, oh, yeah, and with his cleats on and everything. And it was, I was a little jealous.

• 47:51Fortune Feimster?

  I used to love to get lost in the woods.

• 47:53Tig Notaro?

  Yes.

• 47:55Mae Martin?

  But you know that moment where like you're you're blissed out, you're on your own in the woods, like heart pounding and stuff. But then there's a moment where you're like, oh, I'm I'm too far like, and you can't hear anyone anymore. And then you and then you run back, you sprint back.

• 48:09Tig Notaro?

  No.

• 48:10Mae Martin?

  No?

• 48:11Tig Notaro?

  No. In fact, I remember my stepfather, there was this creek that was near our house. And I, oh, my gosh, I.

• 48:23Tig Notaro?

  I used to go out into the woods with a clipboard and paper and I would take notes. I don't know what my job was that I was imagining. I was in like fourth grade and I would be taking notes and I'd be drawing pictures of different animal tracks I was seeing and all that kind of stuff. And um, my stepfather, I remember put on rubber boots, rubber steel tip boots to like walk down that creek looking for me.

• 48:50Fortune Feimster?

  Really?

• 48:51Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, because I was like so far gone. Yeah, Huckleberry Tig was nowhere to be found.

• 48:58Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 48:58Mae Martin?

  You had to write, you had to make your report.

• 49:00Tig Notaro?

  Yes, I don't know. I remember one time I was in a sewage ditch and I had leeches oof on my legs and I didn't know what they were.

• 49:12Mae Martin?

  Pierce's Stand By Me.

• 49:14Tig Notaro?

  What's that?

• 49:15Mae Martin?

  Like that movie Stand By Me.

• 49:17Tig Notaro?

  Oh, yeah, I didn't see that, but I, I had leeches on my legs.

• 49:24Fortune Feimster?

  It was before we worried about uh, ticks and stuff.

• 49:27Tig Notaro?

  Anything.

• 49:28Fortune Feimster?

  Or Lyme disease. We didn't care about anything back then. No sunscreen.

• 49:34Tig Notaro?

  I was smoking, you know?

• 49:37Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 49:38Mae Martin?

  To grow up by a creek, oh man.

• 49:41Tig Notaro?

  Did you?

• 49:42Mae Martin?

  You know, it was very urban always, like I.

• 49:44Fortune Feimster?

  It was in the city, right?

• 49:46Mae Martin?

  Yeah, but I could walk to the cemetery and at Mount Pleasant Cemetery was this big, it was, it was really big, like you could drive around it and it was kind of the closest thing to nature near me. And um, so I would always go there with a, I'd go to the 7-Eleven and buy a gallon of chocolate milk and uh, me and my friend Nicole would go and sit um, by the graves and drink that, drink the shit out of that chocolate milk.

• 50:12Fortune Feimster?

  Imagine the things these graves see.

• 50:14Tig Notaro?

  Or don't see.

• 50:16Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 50:17Tig Notaro?

  I remember one time I was in a graveyard, I was on tour and I passed this graveyard and I was like, I'm gonna wander around. And I went into the graveyard and I saw this tombstone that had birthday decorations all around it and just like this celebratory vibe.

• 50:39Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 50:39Tig Notaro?

  And it was so, stopped me in my tracks, stopped me in my tracks.

• 50:47Mae Martin?

  What about those big mausoleums? Like, imagine you die and you have a big Gothic, like, mausoleum built, a big little.

• 50:57Fortune Feimster?

  I don't think I'd wanna be in one of those.

• 50:59Mae Martin?

  No?

• 51:00Fortune Feimster?

  I don't think so. I'd feel claustrophobic.

• 51:04Tig Notaro?

  You think you're claustrophobic?

• 51:06Mae Martin?

  Guys, I keep making jokes that suck and then, and then I.

• 51:09Tig Notaro?

  Let's hear it again. There's nothing better than a repeated joke.

• 51:12Fortune Feimster?

  I missed it.

• 51:13Mae Martin?

  Okay, you said, I don't think I wanna be in one of those. And I said, what about a wasp?

• 51:21Tig Notaro?

  Wait.

• 51:22Mae Martin?

  Okay, okay, okay.

• 51:23Tig Notaro?

  I don't get it.

• 51:25Mae Martin?

  I don't think I want a bee.

• 51:28Tig Notaro?

  Oh.

• 51:30Mae Martin?

  I don't think I want a bee.

• 51:32Tig Notaro?

  Okay.

• 51:33Mae Martin?

  I don't think I wanna be in one of those. What about a wasp?

• 51:36Tig Notaro?

  Oh my gosh, May, you are on fire.

• 51:39Fortune Feimster?

  It is better now that you've told us.

• 51:41Mae Martin?

  I'm telling you, I have always been destined to be a comedian.

• 51:46Tig Notaro?

  You have to write that down.

• 51:47Fortune Feimster?

  Put your, you should put the, insert that into something.

• 51:52Tig Notaro?

  I have to, this isn't from my childhood, but I did this as an adult and I felt like a child and it was so freeing and I cannot encourage people enough to do this. When I lived in Austin, my first girlfriend and I, she's an incredible musician. I play a little drums, a little guitar, sure.

• 52:14Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, you do. Rock star.

• 52:17Tig Notaro?

  I told her that I had always had a fantasy of.

• 52:23Tig Notaro?

  Taking my drum set in the middle of the night and setting it up in the middle of a golf course and just playing and people not knowing where the drums are coming from. Cause who's gonna be on a golf course in the middle of the night?

• 52:39Mae Martin?

  Right.

• 52:40Tig Notaro?

  No one. So we drive the drum set out there, set it, I mean, like haul-

• 52:45Mae Martin?

  Wait, you did this?

• 52:46Tig Notaro?

  We did it. We did it.

• 52:47Mae Martin?

  What?

• 52:48Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. We haul the drum set out into, you know, piece by piece out to the middle of the, the golf course. She brings her French horn, which she jammed on and we, I played drums, she played French horn and we just went nuts. We were like so free. We were laughing. We knew nobody was gonna catch us. Nobody knew where it was coming from and it was, I felt like a child.

• 53:15Mae Martin?

  That's incredible.

• 53:16Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 53:16Mae Martin?

  Also, what would you do, like if you did catch two people doing that?

• 53:21Tig Notaro?

  I don't think we'd get in a lot of trouble.

• 53:23Fortune Feimster?

  You get out of here with those drums.

• 53:24Tig Notaro?

  It was, it was a public golf course. Um, I can't remember the name of it in Austin, but it's right there in the middle of, I don't know, maybe near Hyde Park, whatever neighborhood that is. If you're a listener in Austin. Um, yeah, my girlfriend and I went and set up in the middle of the night and just rocked it.

• 53:43Fortune Feimster?

  So spontaneous.

• 53:44Mae Martin?

  I bet someone listening to this is gonna be like, oh my God, that's what that was. Like they heard-

• 53:49Tig Notaro?

  I heard this noise one night.

• 53:51Mae Martin?

  I heard this French horn and no-

• 53:54Fortune Feimster?

  I love that she has a French horn. What a specific instrument.

• 53:58Tig Notaro?

  Oh my God. She played the tuba. She played the zither, banjo, piano, drums, guitar.

• 54:05Fortune Feimster?

  Whoa.

• 54:06Tig Notaro?

  I mean-

• 54:07Mae Martin?

  Dick Van Dyke, if you know what I mean.

• 54:09Tig Notaro?

  Everything. We, I don't know.

• 54:12Fortune Feimster?

  Mae Marie.

• 54:14Tig Notaro?

  Can you explain it again?

• 54:15Mae Martin?

  Oh my God.

• 54:17Tig Notaro?

  Please?

• 54:20Mae Martin?

  Dick Van Dyke is like my main fan, right? One more joke. Dick Van Dyke is, he's always, you know, he wears-

• 54:26Tig Notaro?

  Oh, and Chitty Chitty Bank or Mae, Mary Papa. Oh, okay.

• 54:30Mae Martin?

  He's got a drum. He's got a horn. He's got a-

• 54:32Tig Notaro?

  No, that's another good one.

• 54:34Mae Martin?

  And-

• 54:34Tig Notaro?

  Write this down.

• 54:39Tig Notaro?

  No, that's, that's a good reference.

• 54:41Mae Martin?

  So Dick Van Dyke, I've got wannabe.

• 54:44Tig Notaro?

  Oh, my God. Also, also, my ex that I did that with.

• 54:49Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 54:50Tig Notaro?

  Posted a video online of her one man band. She, she did the whole clanky, clanky, strum, strum, accord. She plays accordion, harmonica, everything.

• 55:01Fortune Feimster?

  Joke was a real winner.

• 55:03Mae Martin?

  It was on point.

• 55:07Tig Notaro?

  Should we get to our answer here?

• 55:09Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I just want to say that that Spice Girls song wannabe should have, I could do wannawasp. Anyways, let's hear G flips.

• 55:17Tig Notaro?

  No, no, no, explain that.

• 55:19Fortune Feimster?

  Let's stop for a minute.

• 55:23Fortune Feimster?

  Think about this.

• 55:25Fortune Feimster?

  I would like to learn how to play the banjo.

• 55:27Mae Martin?

  That's really hard. The banjo is harder than the guitar.

• 55:29Tig Notaro?

  Oh.

• 55:31Mae Martin?

  Biggie.

• 55:33Tig Notaro?

  Biggie's up from his nap.

• 55:34Fortune Feimster?

  He just want to say hi.

• 55:36Tig Notaro?

  Hi, Biggie. Let me see that face.

• 55:39Fortune Feimster?

  Okay. There he is.

• 55:41Mae Martin?

  There he is.

• 55:41Tig Notaro?

  Every time, I can't believe that is a real face. And the tongue?

• 55:46Fortune Feimster?

  He got a little haircut.

• 55:47Mae Martin?

  The tongue hanging out. What a guy.

• 55:51Tig Notaro?

  Don't show us his privates this time, though, okay?

• 55:55Fortune Feimster?

  Are we, do we look alike?

• 55:58Mae Martin?

  Yeah, kind of.

• 55:58Tig Notaro?

  Put your tongue out. There we are. Look at that. Yeah, twins.

• 56:05Fortune Feimster?

  He just wanted to say hi to his handsome friends.

• 56:07Tig Notaro?

  My God, that, that is, that is insane that that face exists on this planet.

• 56:15Fortune Feimster?

  I feel like I, I like, I don't want to overdo him and make people get tired of him, but I feel like his face makes people happy and they should see him, you know?

• 56:24Tig Notaro?

  He's gonna get sick of that face.

• 56:26Fortune Feimster?

  That's what I thought. Thank you for letting me.

• 56:28Tig Notaro?

  If, if they are, serial killer. That's a serial killer.

• 56:33Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 56:33Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. All right. Should we hear the answer?

• 56:41Speaker 05

  And my answer to that question of mine is I was dead set on being a taxi driver.

• 56:49Fortune Feimster?

  Whoa.

• 56:50Speaker 05

  I love, love cars, still love cars. And I just wanted to drive people around and just chat to random folks every day. And yeah, was real keen on being a taxi driver. Um, which I guess if the music fails, I can always go back to, to my, my early dreams.

• 57:12Fortune Feimster?

  You know what would have been a good kind of taxi cab driver? That, remember that show Taxi Cab Confessions?

• 57:19Mae Martin?

  Oh, yeah.

• 57:20Fortune Feimster?

  If that made anyone want to be a taxi driver.

• 57:24Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 57:24Fortune Feimster?

  I believe it because the, the go, the hot goss that was happening in those taxis was pretty exciting.

• 57:33Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 57:34Tig Notaro?

  Also, that's really interesting to love cars and the go-to is taxi cab driver. Like, why not car salesperson?

• 57:44Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 57:45Tig Notaro?

  Or a race car driver?

• 57:47Fortune Feimster?

  Cause they wanted a mechanic, yeah. People, I guess.

• 57:49Mae Martin?

  Yeah, they love to chat. Yeah.

• 57:51Tig Notaro?

  I guess.

• 57:52Fortune Feimster?

  Born to chat, just like you Tig.

• 57:54Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, born to chat, girl.

• 57:56Mae Martin?

  I have, you know, I have an ex with a tattoo, BTC, born to chat.

• 58:00Tig Notaro?

  Really?

• 58:01Mae Martin?

  Thanks for the amazing question.

• 58:03Tig Notaro?

  Yes.

• 58:03Fortune Feimster?

  SG Flip, we appreciate it.

• 58:05Tig Notaro?

  To reminisce about, you know, childhood and I think it tied in nicely with that big parental intro.

• 58:14Mae Martin?

  Yes, absolutely. I really, I hope I get to meet G Flip and Kreshel soon.

• 58:19Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, I'm sure you will.

• 58:21Tig Notaro?

  All in good time.

• 58:22Mae Martin?

  All in good time.

• 58:24Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. Anybody have anything going on? I feel like Fortune isn't doing anything.

• 58:29Fortune Feimster?

  I sure do have some things going on. I'm on tour, you guys.

• 58:33Tig Notaro?

  I'll be at the. Care about it.

• 58:34Fortune Feimster?

  Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, California on June 27th. And then, uh, taking a little time off in July, which is nice. And I'll be in Edmonton with Mateo Lane in July. And then San Antonio, Houston, Norfolk, Virginia, Richmond, DC, Portland, Maine, and Boston, among many other, uh, dates that are coming.

• 58:54Tig Notaro?

  Can I tell you something really ridiculous?

• 58:59Fortune Feimster?

  Please.

• 59:00Tig Notaro?

  Every time, and you know, obviously, Thomas edits things nicely, so it sounds all clean and like we're chiming in right away and people don't realize that I am always slowly mentioning my tour dates.

• 59:19Mae Martin?

  Yeah, you're Googling them.

• 59:20Tig Notaro?

  Well, I have been doing that by pulling up my calendar.

• 59:27Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 59:28Tig Notaro?

  And going through each month and looking for shows that I have. And it just dawned on me the other day that I could pull up my tour dates on my website. And this is the first time I'll be doing this. So anytime you've heard me rattle off dates, it has been an ordeal for me and I don't appreciate that nobody has helped me with that and you just let me struggle.

• 59:53Mae Martin?

  That's great. Oh, and people check out season two of Foo Bar that's streaming on Netflix right now. I play a CD.

• 1:00:00Tig Notaro?

  How dare you interrupt me.

• 1:00:02Mae Martin?

  I'm sorry.

• 1:00:03Tig Notaro?

  Pew pew. Pew pew pew pew. I will be live and also in concert, August 17th in West Hampton Beach, New York, and then August 23rd in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Two shows, first one is sold out and I have not checked on the second one in weeks. So for your sake, I hope there's some tickets left for the second show. Also, go to tignotaro.com for any Largo or Dynasty Typewriter shows in Los Angeles. I think that's it. What about you, May?

• 1:00:43Mae Martin?

  I think I don't have much going on. I think, check out my Instagram, I've always got shows in LA at Largo and Dynasty Typewriter, but I think I'm just chilling out.

• 1:00:55Tig Notaro?

  Nothing wrong with that.

• 1:00:57Mae Martin?

  Yeah, check out Feel Good on Netflix, or if you listen to music, you might like to listen to some of mine on Spotify.

• 1:01:05Tig Notaro?

  Heck yeah, some great tunes that May's got going on.

• 1:01:08Mae Martin?

  Thanks.

• 1:01:09Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, every now and Then something will pop up on Instagram. I'm like, that's a good tune.

• 1:01:14Mae Martin?

  Thank you.

• 1:01:15Tig Notaro?

  That is a good tune.

• 1:01:17Mae Martin?

  Oh, I love that.

• 1:01:18Tig Notaro?

  Yeah, me too. Nothing wrong with hearing a good tune. And May, you say you're not up to much, but pack up a drum set and go out into the middle of a golf course and

• 1:01:26Mae Martin?

  Yes.

• 1:01:27Tig Notaro?

  Hit it. How fun does that sound?

• 1:01:29Mae Martin?

  That sounds perfect to me. Yeah.

• 1:01:31Tig Notaro?

  Yeah. All right. Well, um, please subscribe to the podcast, uh, the audio version and YouTube. And also send your favorite episodes to friends and loved ones and help us build this very handsome community. Until next time, what do you say? Let's

• 1:01:49Mae Martin?

  Keep it handsome. Handsome.

• 1:01:53Tig Notaro?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:54Mae Martin?

  Handsome. 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.

• 1:02:10Mae Martin?

  What a podcast.

• 1:02:15Speaker 00

  That was a HeadGum Podcast.

• 1:02:18Speaker 06

  What's going on? It's Lamorne Morris.

• 1:02:20Speaker 07

  And Hannah Simone.

• 1:02:21Speaker 06

  And we host The Mess Around, a New Girl rewatch podcast on HeadGum. Now, here's the thing. Every single week, we chat about an episode of New Girl and we really get into it. Like, we get up in there. We get up in there. You know, we reminisce about our times on set. We share behind the scenes tea. We react to rewatching episodes that we haven't seen in years. We talk about how Jake Johnson is dog.

• 1:02:42Speaker 07

  That's not true. We talk about so many memories we have of working with the biggest stars on the planet. I'm talking Prince, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo.

• 1:02:55Speaker 06

  We're just two BFFs having a good old time, okay? Sometimes we even talk to other co-stars like Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, and Damon Wayans Jr. And your dad. We talk to your dad on this show as well.

• 1:03:06Speaker 07

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