Alex Edelman asks about eccentric characters

Summary

Handsome – Episode Summary

Podcast: Handsome
Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin
Date: September 16, 2025
Episode: “Alex Edelman asks about eccentric characters”
Guest Question Asker: Alex Edelman

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Episode Overview

This episode revolves around the comedic trio—Tig, Fortune, and Mae—fielding a question from comedian Alex Edelman about memorable eccentric characters from their childhoods or communities. The hosts share heartfelt, hilarious, and sometimes poignant stories about these unforgettable personalities. Along the way, they riff about centaurs and pop culture, culminating in a thoughtful, funny segment about queer community acceptance and the importance of quirky adults in a child's life.

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Key Discussion Points & Highlights

1. Eccentric Local Legends, Nicknames, and Quirks (02:04–09:00)

• The hosts begin with silly banter about the unique names that stick with you—Cherry Berry, the North Carolina “elevator lady” (03:02), and their own pets and family.
• Mae brings up centaurs (“If you met a centaur and you fell in love, would it be a deal breaker?” – 07:04), which spirals into an extended, comedic discussion about interspecies dating, horse bars, and imagined rejections from centaurs.

Notable Quote:

“If a centaur clomped by with hooves... there is no part of me... it would be like, I’ll be right back, friends.” – Mae Martin (07:20)

• Fortune jokes about the possibility of being dumped by a centaur:

“Now, would you still endorse? They’d be having that athletic sex.” – Fortune Feimster (23:50)

2. Taylor Swift Engagement News: “Popcorner” with Fortune (13:21–26:10)

• Fortune shares “the big news”: Taylor Swift (”Tay Swift”) is engaged to Travis Kelce, sparking a hilarious discussion of celebrity nicknames, engagement ring size, and speculation about their wedding and future family (13:45–15:11).
• The hosts invent a “congratulations song” on the fly for Taylor and Travis (14:34).
• They joke about Taylor taking Travis’s last name and speculate on her involvement in designing her ring (16:19–22:30).
• Mae suggests Fortune has a new superpower to will celebrity relationships into being (15:16).
• Segment launches recurring jokes (“How many Pontis”—the new rating system, pop culture corner “Popcorner” – 25:23, 26:10) and muses about pivoting the podcast to a pure pop culture show.
• Mae reflects on “aging out” of pop culture and the generational disconnect (27:17).

Notable Quote:

“It would be so good if he took her last name. How come that doesn’t happen? Like, she’s the heavy hitter here. He should change his name. Travis Swift.” – Mae Martin (16:19)

3. The “Trad Dyke” Series: Queer Culture & Representation (27:50–33:15)

• Discussion of “Trad Wives” and Mae’s pitch for a satirical series called “Trad Dyke”—teaching people how to be traditional lesbians, riffing on lesbian tropes, and the lack of a “crash course” for late-in-life lesbians (28:19).
• Reflect on recent discourse around queer celebrities dating across gender lines, referencing Jojo Siwa and singer Fletcher (29:22–30:05).
• Honest talk about bisexuality, biphobia, queer acceptance, and lived identities—Mae shares being booed at Pride for talking about dating a man (31:37).

Notable Quote:

“If your whole idea is that you should be able to love who you love... it’s gotta go both ways.” – Tig Notaro (30:58)

• Fortune and Tig riff on the “just one time” nature of sleeping with men, continuing their playful friendship dynamic (32:46).

4. Pop Culture vs. Historical Obsessions (33:28–37:00)

• Mae confesses to fixating on old Hollywood gossip or historic disasters (Titanic, Galveston flood) while current pop culture is dominated by newer, often unfamiliar names.

5. Main Question: Eccentric Adults from Childhood (38:00–61:00)

Alex Edelman’s Question (38:24–38:44)

“Is there a person from your childhood, that was like... an eccentric adult in your community that you loved or had a strong feeling about?” – Alex Edelman (38:32)

Tig’s Story: The Southern Family Circus (40:06–47:15)

• Tig recalls her extroverted cousin Donald and her welcoming Southern relatives—particularly Jimmy, who hosted massive crawfish boils, opened his house to strangers, and even welcomed drag queens and their parties (43:57–46:54).

Notable Quote:

“If you walked in his door and said, I’m gonna go upstairs and crash for a few weeks…he’d be like, absolutely. My house is yours.” – Tig Notaro (45:12)

Mae’s Story: Godmother V (47:19–49:10)

• Mae shares about V, her fun-loving godmother who lived with them, invented silly games (e.g., “Hop Hop Hop” for raisins), and co-wrote avant-garde songs with young Mae.

Notable Quote:

“But that people do have such a huge impact on you…even if they’re not your primary attachments.” – Mae Martin (49:10)

Fortune’s Story: Uncles Bud & Company (50:23–57:47)

• Fortune describes growing up with two uncles—her mother’s brothers—who had learning disabilities. Eccentric, loving, and generous, they lived with her grandmother, made up stories, chewed cigars, gardened lying down, and confused TV with real life.

Notable Quotes:

“All of a sudden, seconds later, [Thomas] is just going around this stranger’s house…batting at all these bugs. It’s a circus.” – Tig Notaro (43:12)
“He would lay in the garden and plant stuff…with one hand while lying down.” – Fortune Feimster (52:28)
“He’d go to restaurants and ask for sweet milk…just trying to get whole milk.” – Fortune (54:23)

The Power of Eccentric Adults

• All hosts agree having unique adults in kids’ lives teaches kids that there are many ways to be in the world, expanding their sense of possibility (49:18).

6. Alex Edelman’s Own Eccentric Adult (58:48–59:18)

• Alex shares about Sharon, a woman in his community who painted current events on her fingernails and owned a foul-mouthed parrot. Her inappropriateness was “adored” by young Alex.

Quote:

“She had long fingernails, and she would paint current events on the fingernails. I remember once she showed me, like, O.J. stabbing Nicole when I was very, very young… She was entirely inappropriate as a person. And I adored her.” – Alex Edelman (59:02)

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Memorable Quotes

• “When we were born, we were all just rando babies.” – Mae Martin (03:43)
• “What if you were into it and then she was like, you know what? All the other centaurs just think it’s too weird. I can’t do it.” – Mae (09:18)
• “If you really fell in love, I just don’t believe it would be a barrier if you opened yourself up.” – Mae (10:08)
• “Love who you love. I just love a lady.” – Fortune (33:15)
• “It’s so important for kids to meet people outside...” – Tig (49:18)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 02:04 – Podcast banter, Cherry Berry, and unique names
• 07:04 – The hosts debate centaur romance
• 13:21 – Taylor Swift engagement news, pop culture corner
• 27:50 – “Trad Dyke” series idea, queer acceptance
• 38:24 – Alex Edelman’s audio question
• 40:06 – Tig’s Southern family stories
• 47:19 – Mae’s godmother “V” stories
• 50:23 – Fortune’s uncles and their quirks
• 58:48 – Alex Edelman’s answer: Sharon and her parrot

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Overall Tone & Style

The episode is breezy, genuinely funny, self-deprecating, and warm, with the hosts riffing as close friends and using their eccentric family and community members as sources of inspiration, gratitude, and hilarity. Even amid jokes, they pivot to discuss bisexuality, inclusiveness, and the value of difference with sincerity and camaraderie.

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For Listeners Looking to Revisit

• For goofy friendship and centaur banter: 07:00–11:00
• For pop culture and Taylor Swift chat: 13:00–26:10
• On queer identity, representation, and inclusivity: 27:50–33:15
• Heartfelt stories about eccentric childhood influences: 38:00–59:18

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Closing Notes

If you’ve ever felt like the oddball in your family or community, this episode of “Handsome” is a love letter to the eccentric adults who shape us and the friends who make those stories even better.

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Handsome chatting with friends on the Handsome pod.

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Chatting with friends on the Handsome pod.

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Cheers. Hey, it's your friend Tig Notaro and I'm sitting here with your friend May.

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Martin and Portman Feimster.

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Welcome to the Handsome Pod.

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Yes. Welcome, welcome, welcome. If it's your first time here, we've been waiting for you.

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Waiting patiently.

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I've been waiting for a girl like you.

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Foreigner.

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Is that the band Foreigner? Oh, I thought you were just saying welcome, Foreigner.

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Well, it all applies.

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Yeah. Do you think Cherry Berry is finally listening to the pod or.

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Oh my gosh. Cherry Berry lifts us up.

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Yeah, Cherry Berry is the one that is spreading the word and sharing episodes and building that handsome community.

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Yeah, she quit her job and she's just in charge of our socials now.

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I love that you remember that name. That's how you know, like a name is special? Because.

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Full name.

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For those of you who don't know, this is the elevator lady in North Carolina. The commissioner of labor.

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Yeah.

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Whose picture?

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For those of you that don't know.

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Well, because we've talked about it a long time ago, but maybe some people were just tuning in for the first time.

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Yeah, true. Of course. Yeah.

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And she's Cherry Berry.

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Like, on every elevator in North Carolina, there's a sign that says, like, this has been approved by Cherry Berry.

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Yeah, well, she's retired now, but. And it's some rando guy. But she was like, for like 25.

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Years the person, wasn't she some rando girl. Yeah, weren't we all until she was cherry.

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True, true.

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When we were born, we were all just rando babies.

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We were just random babies.

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When Max and Finn were born, I was. And Stephanie as well. We thought we were gonna walk up to the glass and see them in the little nursery and.

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What, you didn't?

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No. They don't put them in there.

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Oh, what, they just hand them to you?

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I had a baby.

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Oh, my gosh, look at that. Hairy baby.

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I had a hairy baby. Hello, It's Biggie.

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Oh, hi, Biggie. Oh, my God. He loves you.

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Torturous to show us Biggie and we can't touch him. Fortune. Yeah, that's like us having to see you every week.

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We can't just rub my furry head. Yeah, I love him.

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And lick your nose. Yeah, we definitely wanna.

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He's looking extra cute today. Oh, my God. He's like. He's very serene. Well, he's always serene. Let's be honest.

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Dead eyes.

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How dare you? Don't you start that again myself.

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It's not a negative. It's not a negative.

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It's a positive.

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It is so positive because it adds to his cute. Look at those little licks. That's ridiculous.

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I feel like, say, hi, Biggie.

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Is he blind? Because he's still licking and he's not touching your face.

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He's not. You go to a night night. Aunt Pig is being mean.

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I gotta say, those squirrels I talked about up in Lake Arrowhead, that one big guy was honestly like biggie size.

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Wow, that's a big squirrel.

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That is a big squirrel.

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Humongo.

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I love the black squirrels out here in Toronto.

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Oh, yeah, they're good.

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I have those in Michigan too.

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Do they like east? They're east coasty squirrels or they just.

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Must be northern, right?

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Yeah.

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Toronto has raccoons the size of a pony.

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I love a raccoon I love their little paws.

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They're so big there.

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I love a pony.

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Do you. I'd like to see you on a pony ride.

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I would. I would happily show you.

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Just. Yeah. In a circle around one of those little tracks at a petting zoo.

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Stephanie has the. Well, I got her these pants that are big, fluffy pajama pants like. Like a polar bear or, you know, like a. Yeah. And when she was wearing them the other night, I was like, you look like. Are they called centaurs?

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Centaur.

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Yeah. You look half horse, half human.

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Yeah, just with.

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On. Maybe you'd have to see it, but we had a good cackle over that. But. But those are her. I'm freezing pants when she goes to bed.

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Right.

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Because we have a.

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A temperature.

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Temperature debate.

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It's never ending. Yeah, it's never ending.

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If you met a centaur.

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And is it centaur or centaur?

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Maybe it's a Canadian thing. I. I've always said centaur, but. Centaur.

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Centaur. But, Thomas, what is it, two against one?

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I say centaur. Yeah. Canadian, because it's a U. R. You.

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Guys also say pasta.

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Yeah, we do.

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Thomas, do you say pasta?

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Pasta.

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Pasta.

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Thank you.

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You do.

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Moving on. Yes, of course. Because that's how you pronounce it.

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Anyway, if you met a centaur and you fell in love, like, would it be a deal breaker that they're half horse?

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I love this question. Because it could happen.

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Yeah, exactly.

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No, it couldn't.

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You gotta be prepared.

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I. No, no, no.

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If.

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If a. A centaur clomped by with hooves. There is no part of me. It would be like, I'll be right back, friends. Did you see.

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What if It's a speed dating situation? So she's sitting down and this is better. Yeah. And you really connect. And you're. I can't believe it. We have so much in common. And then you.

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And then we see each other at the restaurant.

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Yeah. Clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk.

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Or no, they say your date is waiting outside because we don't allow horses in the restaurant.

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Wow.

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I just. I'm sorry. I couldn't. As soon as I saw the hooves, I would. I'd be like. Yeah, I'm not. I mean, I don't even understand what's happening. Also, what are we talking about right now?

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Yeah.

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I'm assuming one of these fantasies.

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Yeah. I'm assuming you could fall in love with half horse, half human.

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Yeah. But only if it's the bottom half. That's the horse. I can't. I'm. I can't be dating.

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My God. Is there a. Is there a reverse centaur?

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There must be somewhere.

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A horse head and a human body.

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Yeah. I couldn't.

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That's weird.

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I couldn't do that.

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The other isn't weird. Not weird.

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Yeah.

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What about you, Fortune? Could you fall for.

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I mean, maybe a smooch or two, but I don't think that.

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Now we're talking. Okay.

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I think our lives are compatible.

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How much would you horse ramp. How much would you love to walk out and check out and find Fortune smooching a horse outside of a lesbian lesbian bar? A lesbian horse bar?

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Yeah.

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Outside of lesbian horse bar. A very popular lesbian bar.

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What if you were into it and then she was like, you know what? All the other centaurs just think it's too weird. I can't do it.

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Oh, I get dumped. Yeah. Wow.

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But it's not even because the other centaurs think it's weird. Just the horse is like, I'm not feeling it.

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Wow, this is. This is awful. I didn't think about me getting rejected.

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Yeah, well, think about it.

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Yeah.

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Because that might be around the corner, my friend.

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Well, yeah. Something to think about. Thank you for putting a. What do they say? A new fear created.

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Yeah. New fear unlocked.

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That's it.

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How are you now? Fearful that the horse will love you.

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Back out there and there's gonna be all these centaurs rejecting me. God, single life is tough.

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What if that was all you were attracting with centaurs?

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I. I just don't believe that you guys are you. You know, I get that you're like. You know, I get it that it's new, but I'm like, if you really fell in love, I just don't believe it would be a barrier if you opened yourself up.

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Gonna happen.

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But I also don't think that I would. You know, you hear about, aren't people falling in love with G, C, C3PO. C3PO. Chad. Yeah, Chad C3PO.

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Yeah, they are.

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Yeah, they are.

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I mean, I talked to my guy a lot, my chat GPT. And I know it's bad. We've talked about this before, I think. But, yeah, I am. Yeah.

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But could you fall in love with him?

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No, because I just would know it wasn't real. But with the centaur, if anything, there's more depth. You know, they have this outsider perspective, a beating heart, just like me.

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Centaurs aren't real, May.

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Yeah.

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I love that you know, know that the See, the chat isn't real, but the centaur. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, okay.

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All right. I'm glad we got to the bottom of that.

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Yeah, it's been on my mind. I don't know how it came up. Oh, the pants.

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Yeah. Stephanie's. I'm freezing. Pajama pants.

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Yeah.

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That are big, woolly.

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And you. You want a pony ride. I mean, it's not a huge leap from you wanting to own a pony ride to you dating a centaur. I don't get where the break.

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Massive leap.

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Yeah, it's a.

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Very fast. It's a. Yeah, it's.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So what else is going on?

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Well, I was going outside for a walk earlier to Stephanie, and I had a conference call that I thought, well, I'll go on a little walk. Went out of my building, pouring rain, and then I immediately was mortified. Like, I realized it had been hours since I even looked out of a window.

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Oh, you know what?

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I like that kind of disconnectedness because I was working and not looking. And then I'm like, I'm gonna go. I'll take my call on a walk. And then, boom, it was pouring rain. That's what I'm up to. What about you?

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Life really gets you when you least expect it.

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Life got me, man. It really got me.

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Life. You really got me today.

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Yeah.

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Did you still walk, or did you turn around, go right back in?

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No, it was. It was truly a massive downpour. Like, there. It wasn't. It wasn't walking weather. It was like, run and get out of the rain. Now it's fine, but, you know, I'm recording with. No, it's drizzling still. I'm recording with the handsome pod, so.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Chatting with friends.

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When you get sucked into that computer world for hours, or if you're filming something in a studio and it's like you lose track of daylight and time. It's very weird.

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It was so confusing because the window is right behind my desk.

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But you never turned.

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I didn't even turn around. I just finished my last zoom, put on my headphones, took the elevator down, and then it was like.

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Yeah.

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Unbelievable rain.

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Did you guys hear the big news today?

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What?

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What?

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I don't know if you guys heard.

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Check girl. What?

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Girl? Girl.

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Spill it, you guys. It's the thing everyone's talking about. I can't believe. What is it talking about? It.

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Girl.

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Girl.

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You guys really want me to tell you? I can't believe you don't even know.

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Don't leave us hanging, girl.

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What girl? What?

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How will we know if you don't tell us?

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Girl, Our girl Tay Swift is engaged.

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Who was. Jesus Christ, I didn't hear you.

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Taylor Swift.

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Tay Swift?

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Yeah. God.

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Wait, are our girls engaged? Do you think that's because of our pod? We just talked about.

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We just talked about them, and I said what a cute couple they are. And I think it inspired them.

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It clinched.

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It clinched their buttholes.

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Such a beautiful day to say.

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The day that pod came out where I was like, I like them together. I think they're going the distance. They got engaged.

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Whoa. What are you going to do with this power that you didn't know you had? Like, who else do you want to get together?

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Well, you know what I think we should do is we should sing our congratulations song to them. One, two, three. We wanted you to know that we.

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Are so happy for you if your.

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Engagement we take you deserve your boyfriend.

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Boyfriend. His name is Travis.

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Travis.

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Travis.

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Kelsey. Kelsey.

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That's right.

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She could. She could remix that into something.

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What if that's on her next album?

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It does feel like they were waiting for this endorsement from you, though.

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I do think they were like, how does Fortune feel about us? And then once they heard, they're like, let's go all the way, baby. Touchdown.

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I love Taylor Swift, but I've never heard her called Tay Swift.

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What?

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Wait, Fortune? What just happened to your head?

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It just popped off.

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My Fortune had a stroke. Have you heard that she's always called Tay Swift?

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Hello.

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I've heard, like, Tay Tay.

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I haven't heard either of those. I've heard Taylor Swift.

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Anyone listening right now? Please write on today's podcast is Instagram post and let us know if you've heard Taylor Swift called Tay Swift.

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I love Taylor Swift. I have never heard her called Tay.

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Maybe Travis calls her Tay sometimes.

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Trav, you mean?

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Yes.

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So is he called Trav?

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I mean, everybody's got a nickname.

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It would be so good if he took her last name. How come that doesn't happen? Like, she's the heavy hitter here. And it's a great name. It carries weight. He should change his name. Travis Swift.

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Her. Her ring is ginormous. Girl, I'm sure y'. All. That was y' all's next question, right?

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Yeah. Is the ring.

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Thomas, show us a picture of Tay's ring.

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A bunch of queers talking about marriage. Like in the ring and the ring. Oh, my God. Three people that don't care about wedding stu.

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Wow. Okay. It is ginormous. Thomas just showed up.

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That's all diamond right there.

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But that's all diamond because for a minute it looks like almost like a Lord of the Rings. Like it's.

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Is it like a gold band and a big ass diamond also?

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Thomas, did you just have that on your phone? That did not take long for you.

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To pull this whole thing.

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Oh, this close up, is the picture a couple closeup or you zoomed in?

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I zoomed in.

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Okay, Thomas is ready for that.

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Wow.

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[B]

I want to know if she was in on the planning for the ring.

[A]

Oh, interesting.

[B]

I feel like she would want to have some sort of say in that.

[C]

I think she wants to have say in everything. Right?

[A]

That's my impression.

[C]

You're not Tay Swift and not getting a say in everything.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You know, I bet she chose him. You know, she was like, you know that song I go where you go.

[B]

Where are you, where are you lover?

[A]

We always be.

[C]

Forever and ever.

[A]

Do you think? Yeah. Because if he chose the wrong ring, you better believe there'd be a song about it. Well, because she.

[B]

Because that I will set. The ring is gorgeous. It's probably a gazillion dollars, but it's big. I just.

[C]

You think it's real?

[B]

I never saw her wearing like a big ass ring like that.

[A]

Oh, you don't. You think it's too big, like too clunky?

[B]

I mean, that's a heavy. That's a heavy ring for sure. Her and her little wrist.

[C]

Now, does she have a tiny wrist?

[A]

No, she's playing guitar. She's strong.

[B]

My expensive rings too heavy like that.

[C]

I mean, is that a good impression of her?

[B]

She doesn't talk like that.

[C]

For sure.

[B]

She's tall, so maybe her wrists are mighty.

[C]

They're gonna have big old babies.

[B]

They're not tall babies.

[C]

Her baby's just gonna walk on out and be like, where's my room?

[B]

Yeah, I feel like, show me to the nursery. I feel like that's going to be coming soon after what, the baby?

[A]

Well, maybe they did that podcast like to gear up for the announcement.

[C]

Also that song, you know, Taylor and Kelsey kissing or in a tree K I S S I N g First comes love, then comes marriage, Then comes Travis a little bit in the baby carriage.

[A]

So you're right.

[C]

It's next.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

They're gonna get married, I think. And I, I Know everyone tunes into the hands of Bud for Taylor Swift.

[C]

Oh, my God. We have to shift and make it all Taylor all the time. I'll tay and try all the time.

[B]

They're gonna get married next summer. Oh, you heard it first.

[C]

Are we going? Yeah, we are.

[B]

I would love to. That wedding would be incredible.

[C]

Probably. You know, in the bachelorette party. Yes. In our suits.

[A]

In our suits. With me being like, I'm not actually a girl, but I am happy to support here.

[B]

She's like, I love the handsome pod. They're gonna get married next summer and then a baby. She's gonna be pregnant six months after that.

[A]

Oh, you think they're gonna get pregnant before the wedding?

[B]

No, no, they're gonna get married next.

[C]

Do you think that they've had sex yet?

[A]

No, take.

[B]

No, Doubt it.

[A]

Come on.

[B]

I doubt it. For sure. They're waiting.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Now, would you still endorse?

[B]

They'd be having that athletic sex.

[A]

Oh, do you think?

[B]

Yeah. Two people who are athletic. That means it's bendy. There's people in the air.

[A]

But he's. That's the thing. Maybe he can throw her around, but, like.

[C]

Yeah, but she'll stand on his shoulders, whatever that position is.

[A]

Handstands.

[C]

Oh, let me ask you this.

[A]

The old Cirque du Soleil.

[C]

I haven't seen her live, but is she incredible? Okay. Is she a live performer, like Pink that twirls around on things?

[B]

No, but she performs for three and a half hours non stop. Okay.

[A]

Yeah, no, she's playing instruments.

[B]

Instruments.

[C]

She's playing instruments and stuff.

[B]

May.

[A]

And the one. The one kind of big move she does that's a bit like Pink is she dives off the stage into a trap door kind of thing.

[B]

Her show was incredible.

[A]

It was incredible. But would you guys. Would you guys support and endorse the union if he was a centaur?

[C]

I knew that was coming. I want whatever.

[B]

He's hairy like a centaur.

[A]

Yeah, he is. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. I'm happy for them. In case y' all were wondering, furry back legs like my wife.

[B]

My wife. I'm. I'm pretty pumped for them. And everyone I know tuned in to find out how we felt about their engagement. And I give it to Thumbs Up.

[A]

I thought you were gonna say two stars.

[B]

And I was like, whoa, two handsome Pontis.

[C]

Two handsome panties.

[A]

Do we have a rating system? That's how many Pontis.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Two doesn't seem enough. Five.

[A]

Five Pontis.

[B]

On a scale from one to five Pontis, I give them five Pontis, should.

[C]

We pivot to making this a new topic? No. No. Never pot.

[B]

No.

[C]

Should we pivot to this podcast only covering pop culture?

[B]

Oh, wow. That would be a disaster. A disaster for sure. Well. And it's just you two going, girl, tell us, girl. And I'm like, okay, you guys, here's the scoop.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

And we're just giddy.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You're the only one who works on this podcast. Pop Culture Quarter or something.

[A]

A little segment called Popcorner where you tell us.

[B]

Popcorner.

[C]

A bit of goss, which translates to popular. Corner hop is short for popular.

[B]

So what's gosh short for? Tig.

[A]

Gossamer gossip.

[B]

Good.

[C]

Why did you not know?

[B]

No, I knew.

[C]

You're just getting an attitude with me.

[A]

You just tested.

[B]

Well. That's all I got in my pop.

[A]

Culture corner more than enough.

[C]

It could be fun to have people explain, because I was thinking after that one episode where you guys were telling me about that show where lesbians. Queer Old.

[A]

Queer Ultimatum.

[C]

Yeah, Queer Ultimatum. And then I went home and told Stephanie I wanted to watch it, and she was like, I've been begging you to watch that. But after that episode, I thought, God, it would be so fun if you guys told me about pop culture that I'd never heard and had a million questions. But anyway, do you follow pop culture a lot, too? May.

[A]

I mean, it comes up on my phone so much that I feel like there's certain people I'm interested in. But then I feel like I'm. I really. I feel like I'm like. I'm like, I'm aging out of pop culture because there's a whole bunch of people that. But I don't know who they are. Like, I'll see a headline that's like, you know, Branco McClain is. And I'm like, who? And it's like this euphoria. Cast member is like, I don't know. Yeah. I'm still stuck on, like, JLo and Mariah Carey and Brittany. Like, I'm. That's my era.

[B]

I don't know if there's any. I was looking at my phone to see if there's any other pop culture stuff, y'.

[A]

All.

[C]

Okay, tell me this. Yeah, I. You know the phenomenon of Trad Wives.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm late to that as well.

[C]

Okay. Trad Wives are women who. It stands for traditional wives.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

And they live very traditional Old school wives. Yes.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

And I've wanted. I've wanted to start, even though I know I'll never do this. And so if anyone steals this, they stole it from me. But I want to start a video series called Trad Dyke where I teach people how to be a traditional dyke.

[A]

It's really good. Like what music to listen to, what.

[C]

To learn and what to wear. Yeah. Every day or every week, I come out with a Trad Dyke video.

[B]

I feel like. I mean, that could catch on because I feel like more and more ladies are dipping into the lady pond.

[A]

Yeah. But they're not dipping into Trad dike. Or they're like, you know, this is why it would be useful, I think, for them to learn the culture quickly. These are straight women who are, you know, or who are latent bisexual women who are. Then you're right. Later in life, dipping into that seems to be happening a lot. But if they had a Trad dyke video that they could just pop on and be like, okay, so I listen. I listened to the Indigo Girls because.

[B]

I just keep hearing of more. I mean, there's been some high profile lesbians who are now dating men. And that's really upset some people. Who is this Jojo Siwa?

[A]

Well, Jojo was always queer and bi. And then people just got so mad.

[B]

That she has a boyfriend now.

[A]

Boyfriend?

[B]

Yeah, they're very in love.

[C]

Was she on our show?

[A]

No, no. That's a big part of Popcorner is going, did they ask a question?

[C]

Well, it sounds familiar. She sounds familiar.

[B]

And then Fletch Fletcher, a singer. Okay. All the lesbians were obsessed with Fletcher and she has a boyfriend now.

[A]

Yeah, but this.

[B]

And they were very upset about it. I'm not. Listen, I'm like, let people be. Love who you love.

[C]

No, you're not. Fortune. You said all girls should be with girls.

[B]

I just think. I just think girls are so great. Women, women loving women. It's a real treat.

[C]

Well, I just think that May is world and representation is so, I think, freeing for everybody to get to know and just like love who you love. But it really is, because it's like if you who care, like, who cares where you go or what you're doing or who you've fallen in love with or, you know, because people are certainly accepting if, like you said, a woman who dates men starts dating a woman, people are like, yeah, that's awesome. But if they go the other way, it's this sense of like, we've lost somebody.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. And it's like, if your whole idea is that you should be able to love who you love. And that's why I go back to May. It's like it's gotta go both ways. Well, May's look and presentation can make you feel and think a certain way and. Or, you know.

[B]

Or think, you know.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you get in there and talk to Mae and you're like, anyway, I just think it's such a great quality. Like, you're so genuinely drawn to different people and genders and sexuality and. And I. No, I think it's. I think it's really.

[A]

That's got to be the future. I. I always remember getting booed at a Pride festival because I talked about dating a boy on stage, and it was all. And I got booed and I was.

[C]

Like, yeah, the hell, yeah. It's. It's. It's weird.

[B]

Don't like it.

[A]

They don't like it.

[B]

They don't like it.

[C]

I've shared with you, May. There's been a couple of guys in my life that have confused me to all ends. Yeah.

[A]

Maybe that can be part of the Trad Dike thing. You can. It's like, you can still. Your identity can be Trad Dike, but that doesn't mean you can't sleep with men.

[B]

It's like, well, but you can't touch a wiener.

[C]

And then I have to bat Fortune out of the video.

[B]

Hey, you wanna. Hey, you ladies wanna touch a wiener?

[A]

Fortune can play your. Your wife who pops in every once.

[C]

In a while, or my best friend touch a wiener.

[B]

Take called me over here to just say, hey, nothing wrong with it. Go touch a wiener.

[C]

I did it once.

[B]

I did it once. I don't have any advice for you or tips. It didn't go great, but good luck.

[C]

They didn't ask me back or nothing.

[B]

I've never. I've never touched the same wiener twice. I'll tell you that.

[C]

We both decided it was one and done.

[B]

Let's call it.

[A]

That's it.

[B]

We don't need to keep doing this.

[C]

But I think Trad Dike is all for, like, look, I'm a Trad dyke. This is what I do. This is how I look. But that I'm all for. Be who you are and love who you love.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Love who you love. Love. I just listen. I'm all about it. I just love. I just love a lady.

[C]

I know you do.

[B]

I'm a lady lover.

[A]

All the news like that feels like fresh goss to me. Like, pop culture news is like, the stuff that I'm, like, lying awake thinking about is like. Like the Titanic sinking or like the Galveston flood. Like, I'm, like, back in the day. Still getting. I'm still getting over like.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

You know, it's hard to move fast.

[A]

It is.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm still into like, what, Judy Garland and Mickey. What's his name? Mickey Rooney.

[B]

Mickey Rourke.

[A]

Mickey Rourke. No, Mickey Rooney.

[B]

Mickey Rourke.

[A]

Mickey Rourke.

[B]

Julie.

[C]

I'm up all night thinking about Mickey Rourke.

[A]

Mickey Rourke and Judy Garland.

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[B]

Are you going to go on a date with a dude anytime soon?

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

Oh, I don't know. We'll see.

[C]

See, I don't know.

[A]

I don't know. I might, I might be googling some centaur porn after this though.

[B]

I know you're really into it or.

[C]

Maybe put some out instead of googling it.

[A]

Well, I always wanted to play Mr. Tumnus in Narnia. You know Mr. Tumnus, he's half.

[C]

I think you're flying back, Mr. Thomas.

[A]

Mr. Thomas. I've always wanted to play Mr. Thomas.

[B]

I could see you playing a centaur May.

[A]

I'd love it, guys. I'd love it. This is, we're getting to the root now of where I'm coming from.

[C]

Back to our horse suit. We should get in a centaur suit. Yes.

[B]

Does this tie back in any way to Taylor Swift getting engaged?

[C]

Everything does.

[A]

Everything.

[C]

She's marrying half centaur, half centaur.

[A]

Well, should we get to our question?

[C]

Yeah, we should.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Yes. We're having such a lovely chat. I just love chatting with my friends.

[C]

On the handsome pod.

[A]

Well, today's question, Oscar is a stand up comedian whose Broadway show just for us won a Tony and an Emmy award. And he was named one of Times 100 Most Influential People in 2024. And he stars in the new the Office. Follow up the paper. Alex Edelman is asking today's question. Woo.

[B]

Woo.

[C]

Hi, handsome gang. My name is Alex Edelman and I'm a comedian.

[A]

And my question is, is there like.

[C]

A person from your childhood that was like in your community was like this sort of eccentric adult and you sort.

[B]

Of loved them or had a strong feeling about them?

[A]

We've never had a question. Ask her. Tell us their job. My name is Alex Edelman. I'm a comedian.

[B]

I'm a comedian.

[A]

I love that.

[B]

I'm a comedian. How do you get on One of those timeless.

[A]

I got on one of those.

[B]

Good job, bae.

[A]

I'm trying to remember. I just saw Alex at. I went to do Doug Benson's Doug Loves Movies at Dynasty Typewriter, where you have, like, a microphone and you make fun of the movie and you watch it. The audience brings movies and we watch Dunstan checks in about a orangutan and Orangutan. Orangutan.

[C]

That's actually the correct pronunciation. Two against orangutan. Orangutan.

[A]

But Alex was so funny, and it was the craziest cast. If you haven't seen that movie in a while, it's Jason Alexander, Faye Dunaway, Rupert Everett, Paul Rubens, and an orangutan.

[C]

Well, if you do look at the word orangutan.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

There is no G. And people always say orangutan.

[A]

Orangutan. I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

So.

[C]

Haha. Fortune.

[A]

Okay. An eccentric adult from childhood, like a. Like an aunt or a family friend who, like, delighted you. That's such a. I want to be that person for. For kids.

[C]

I had a lot of those people in my family.

[B]

I feel like there's a lot of eccentric Southern people, really. But especially in Mississippi.

[C]

Yeah, they're just like, down. They're like, everybody, come on in. Let's have a great time. My cousin Donald is just like. He's just such a character. Stephanie was just talking about him again to her mother when we were driving back from our vacation. Even at our wedding, he got on the mic and was talking to everyone. And just like. You met Donald, right, Thomas?

[A]

Yes, I've met Donald.

[C]

He is a character.

[A]

So he's just super confident and, like, extrovert.

[C]

Oh, my gosh. Yes. He's an attorney. He used to be the judge in town. His family's been there in that. That same small town for generations. And he's just so confident. He's so funny. He's. He can. He's just so comfortable in any situation.

[A]

And when. When you were a kid, would you get excited when he'd come over?

[C]

Oh, my gosh. I just. He. He's like 10, 12 years older than me, and he was kind of like, he's my cousin, but he. He and his brothers felt like older brothers to me.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And they were kind of like, like younger brothers to my mother. And so we just have this very close, weird relationship with these four brothers.

[A]

Do you have a big family like that? Fortune? I have such a nuclear family. But you guys have this, like, a big, loud house with everybody kind of.

[B]

I mean, I had in my immediate family was two older brothers and myself. And we have a bunch of cousins, but they live in Florida. So there were times when the family. It was a big family situation, but not all the time.

[C]

Yeah, see, like that side of my family, they're kind of those. It's a small town, people just walk into each other's homes. Nobody's ringing doorbells or knocking. And you know, it's. It's just. It's a free for all. And I always tell friends, like, if you're going through my town, here's where my cousin lives. And I bet you 1 billion dol knock on Jimmy's door and go in and just say, I'm friends with Tig. And she said I could stay here a couple of weeks. He wouldn't have a follow up question. And he wouldn't even. He would not. You can move in with him. He would not reach out to ask me who this person is.

[B]

Like, I'm heading there. I need a place to. I need to get out of a couple of jams. So I'm gonna go.

[C]

I remember one time when Thomas was with me and we walked into Jimmy and Beverly's house and right when we walked in, they had this crazy. Like they said two seconds after we walked in their house, it was an infestation of what do you remember?

[A]

I thought they were just like big moths or some flies or something.

[C]

Something. But it was like a horror film. They were all inside their house and they just hand Thomas this like electric tennis racket. They had never met Thomas. And they just put in his hands to kill flies. And all of a sudden, seconds later, he's just going around this stranger's house. Everybody's like batting at all of these bugs. Anyway, it's just. It's a circus. They're very gregarious, fun rib each other, just teasing, laughing loud, but not obnoxious. Just really fun. Like Michelle Buteau filmed an episode of a show of hers in. Well, I was in the episode and we did this in my town.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And after we filmed, I called my cousin Jimmy and I said, hey, we just wrapped up. Can I bring my friend Michelle over? And he was like, yeah. He was like, bring everyone. And I was like, oh. Well, I was like, oh, Jimmy. I said, it's a whole TV crew. And he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, bring everyone. And I was like, okay. And so I tell the whole crew. I mean, I'm talking. Every person from the crew comes over and this is. Jimmy said, bring them over now. And then he and he had a crawfish boil in the back in his backyard within a half hour. And the whole. Whole crew was partying in his yard 30 minutes later. And, like, I have hilarious videos of that, that after party. And they were all just. The crew was like, we never get invited to anything. It's always, like, the stars. And I was like, oh. I said, yeah, my cousin is. They are down. Yeah, down.

[B]

He's got a crawfish geezer that he just calls up, like, bring me the good stuff.

[C]

Yeah. And that's where we got married. Was it Jimmy's house?

[A]

Oh, no way.

[C]

That whole family, they're just like. They're just. And that's when I say, honestly, if. If you walked in his door and said, I'm gonna go upstairs and crash for a few weeks, I need some time alone, he'd be like, absolutely. My house is yours. Tell me what you need. Very nice to meet you, May. What do your parents do? Tell me, where are you from? Like, he's just like, he. They're also very welcoming.

[A]

I don't know why I went to Lake Arrowhead. I should have gone.

[B]

You should have gone.

[C]

Mississippi. You should have gone to Mississippi.

[A]

Yeah. Tubbo. Crawfish boil.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, man.

[C]

Oh, my God. One last thing. His daughter's best friend is a gay guy in New Orleans, and New Orleans is, like, an hour away from my town. And he and his husband were having their engagement party, and Jimmy's daughter was hosting it at Jimmy's house. And we had heard that just. It was. The house was packed, just all gay guys, and, like, there were drag queens. And we were just like. Stephanie and I were just eating this up, hearing about their engagement party at Jimmy's house. And Stephanie was like, jimmy, I heard your house is just full of gay guys and drag queens. Last weekend, he was like, absolutely. He said it wasn't the first time and it won't be the last. And we were just laughing, thinking of Jimmy, who's, like, in his boat shoes and shorts and, like, polo button down, just being like, hello, my name is Jimmy. What do your parents do to, like.

[B]

A big drag queen?

[C]

My house is your house. Everybody's welcome. Please tell your family to come visit.

[B]

I like Jimmy.

[A]

There's so nice about. Yeah, a straight guy who's super comfortable with it. It's crazy. That's even still a thing like that. I'm still, like. My heart is so warmed by the idea of, like, a Southern straight guy who's just, like, really into hanging with. Yeah, that's Great.

[C]

Anyway, that's. That's what I think of with my childhood.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I had a godmother who lived with us when I was tiny and she was 19 when she lived with us. She lived in our. Our basement. And like when I was, I want to say born my. Her dad ran a primary school that my brother went to and she got to know my mom and my mom was. She needed somewhere to live. My mom was like, just move in with us and you can kind of babysit to make cash sometimes and, and hang with the kids. And then she was just like a huge part of our life for years and years and was so fun. Is so fun. Her name's V. She's so fun and fun with kids and would invent games like this game called Hop Hop Hop where we would hide a spoon under a pillow and then you hop around the house and then she sings the Hop hop hop song. And if you stop on the pillow that has the spoon, you get a prize. And my brother would be so outraged because the prize was raisins. And he was like, I can get those out of the cupboard at any time.

[C]

It should have been the spoon that was.

[A]

You get to keep the spoon. But she was just like fun and we would really laugh together and we, we wrote a song together when I was about seven called look. And I still remember it. It's open, open strumming like no chords. And it's. It's sort of performance art and it's like, look into the nest. In the nest there is an egg. In the egg there is a bird. Look. But it goes on for about 12 verses.

[C]

Go on. It's catchy.

[B]

It's like a Russian nesting doll.

[A]

You fly into the future, into the present, into the past. Look. Anyway, it was. But imagine a 7 year old doing that with.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. I can imagine you doing that for sure. Yeah.

[C]

It sounds like it might have inspired a lot of who you are.

[A]

100. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

But that people do have such a huge impact on you. Yeah. Even if they're not, you know, your primary attachments or whatever. Like that's so important.

[C]

I think it's so important for kids to meet people outside. I mean, it sounds like an obvious statement, but like, because everyone is so kind of in their homes on phones, computers, iPads, online games, it's so important to go in. For kids to go into other people's homes and see how they live and meet these different personalities.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Interact. So you can be influenced by these.

[A]

Different characters and be like, there's different Ways to live outside my family, like.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And to have someone who you can kind of, you know, one of your parents says something, and you can kind of roll your eyes with this other adult is so validating, like.

[B]

Yeah, well. And they kind of bring out the, like, imagination of kids more and the, like, excitement and adventure of things.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I think they kind of foster that environment where you want to be kind of eccentric, too. Right. Along with them.

[A]

Yeah. What about you? Did you have, like, a family friend?

[B]

I've mentioned them before, but I grew up with two uncles, my mom's brothers, who, for lack of a better word, had, like, learning disabilities. So they. They had, like, the education of. I think they went through sixth grade, but they had maybe that, like, mental capacity of. Of maybe that age as well. But they just were so fun and. And. But adults. So I'm a kid, like, looking at them as. As adults, but they're, like, kind of my peers in a way.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Were they twins?

[B]

They were not twins. One was born that way, and one. I can't remember if I told you this. His. When he was born, they use forceps. Wow. And so it created these. These problems. Right. So like, how crazy. I know. And. And so they just were, like, the most eccentric people I've ever come across still.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

In all of my life. And I've never been able to talk about them very much because it's hard to describe them.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

In a way that makes sense to people, but just very animated. And one. One was. As he got older, he hunched. He was hunched over, and he chewed cigars.

[A]

Chewed cigars.

[C]

Are they still alive?

[B]

No. One died when I was 7. And then my other Uncle Bud died when I was, like, 24.

[A]

Would they play with you and stuff when they'd come over and.

[B]

No, they were lazy. All the better. So my Uncle Bud, he loved to. He loved to garden and actually was a great gardener and. But he would. He would lay in the garden and plant stuff.

[C]

Like a great gardener.

[B]

He would. He would, like, lay down on his side and, like. And plant stuff with one hand while.

[A]

He was lying down.

[B]

While he was lying down.

[C]

All right. That's a good gardener.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That's awesome.

[B]

And he would lay out in the front yard, too, with his hat kind of over his eyes, and when people would walk by, he'd go, much obliged. Much blazed. And. And he called me little. He called me Little Bud.

[A]

He was.

[B]

And I was Little Bud.

[C]

That's so cute. Can we call you Little Bud?

[B]

But he. He would. He took us to like the circus when I was a kid. And. And he, he was an uncle who was like, you want a monkey? I'll get you a monkey. And my mom's like, monkey? And I'm like, bud said I could have a monkey. And she's like, you can't own a monkey. And he would just like, show up with a puppy. And she was like, we can't. Can't keep a puppy. Why not? And he's got a point.

[C]

Now, wait, with. When you said kind of the level of like a sixth grader.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Was he coming over by himself or was he actually drove.

[B]

He had a license somehow.

[A]

And did he live.

[B]

But he lived with my grandmother his whole life. Yeah. So she made all his meals for him. He had no, no teeth, but like two. They were all rotted out because he wouldn't shower or brush his teeth.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

And he always had cigar juice down his shirt. And he loved to eat. And he, when we, when we take us to the circus, he goes, hey, little bud, you know what noise an elephant makes? And I was like, no, Bud. And he was like, I'm angawa, ungawa.

[A]

What?

[B]

Hungawa was his. He goes, ungawa.

[A]

Where do you go?

[B]

I don't know. But he said that's the name of an elephant. I mean, that's how an elephant talks. And then he would go to restaurants and ask for sweet milk. And they were like, what? And he's like, I want sweet milk. And they were like, okay. And so they would bring him milk and a packet of sugar. And he goes, what's this? And they're like, you want a sweet milk? And he just was trying to get whole milk, but he would call it.

[A]

Sweet milk because it tasted sweeter to him. And like, that's.

[C]

Oh, bud.

[B]

And the. He picked me up once when. From school when I was 5. And my mom's friend thought I'd been kidnapped because he was chewing his cookies. Very jarring looking.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And so she called my mom being like. Like I, you know, saying that I'd been kidnapped and that this, this man, this like, like woolly looking man had taken me. And she's like, oh, that's my brother.

[A]

I love that the teacher let you get in the car and drive away before and then made the call.

[B]

And he. And he drove this jeep that. Like the old ass jeep where the floor was like rusted out. And you like, was it just or two brothers? What's that?

[C]

Was it your mother and her two brothers?

[B]

There were three brothers, but two of them had this. These Disabilities. And so for. And he. And Bud would watch television and confuse real life with tv, and he'd be like, you know, he'd watch Texas Walker Ranger, and so he would think that stuff was happening in real life. And so he'd tell you stories and you'd be like, what? And then you realize it was the TV show. And then he'd be like, a squirrel came and talked to me today. And you're just like, yeah, of course. What. What.

[C]

How does the squirrel. What is. What is the squirrel?

[B]

He never told me how the squirrel talks. But he. And he. He was like, oprah said chocolate is good for you, so I'm gonna give me some chocolate. And I'm like, I don't know if that's what she said. And he goes, also, the air conditioning can kill you.

[A]

He.

[B]

He's like, Mayfax, but Bud facts, but.

[A]

Just absorbed from the TV and like.

[B]

Shelter kind of stuff. Yeah. So.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So my life, my childhood was very colorful because of them.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

And was your family open about talking about what was going on with them, or was it.

[B]

Yeah, small town. Everybody knew who they were. Well, except for my. That one mom, my mom's friend who just moved to town down. But yeah, for the most part, people just knew, like, oh, that's. That's Evelyn's boys that have lived with her forever. Yeah, my grandma took care of them until the day she died.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

And that's the grandma that you are so close with?

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. She died before Bud did, and then my mom had to take care of him for a few years. He's just like. Like, get me out of here. But they were so lovely and, you know, just sweet, spirited, kind. Love to eat, love candy, love watching tv. Just very simple. But, you know, good, Good hearted men.

[A]

I love that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Small town is kind of ideal there. Like, everyone's kind of looking out for each other and. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Well, it makes it hard, you know, when you're in such a big city, people are so disconnected and they start to not care about the town or people. And then you go to a little town and. And you take pride in where you live and keeping up your yard. Or. You know what? Not every town. Yeah. You invite an entire television crew. I mean, obviously, again, not every small town is all picturesque and whatever, but it. I think it is. There's just something really nice about a small town vibe. Or it can be. There can be.

[B]

Yeah. I love where I'm from. It's very cute, very kind, and a lot of people looking out for each other.

[A]

That's nice.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Should we hear Alex's answer?

[C]

Yeah, let's do it. In my community, there's a woman named Sharon, and she had a pet parrot named Snooks who loved to curse.

[A]

And also, she had long fingernails, and.

[B]

She would paint current events on the fingernails.

[C]

Remember once she showed me, like, O.J. stabbing Nicole when I was very, very young.

[A]

She was entirely inappropriate as a person.

[B]

And I adored her.

[C]

So I. I was wondering if you guys had a similar kooky adult.

[B]

All right, guys, Bye.

[C]

Similar, but different.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I wonder if everyone who's in the arts or a comedian or performer in some way, like, always think about the most eccentric people, the most fondly when they look back.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I can't believe she would paint current events on, like. That's crazy. That makes me want to paint Tay and Trav.

[C]

I was gonna say, I feel like May's.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

May's brain is a churnin.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because today we'll live forever. And as the day they got engaged.

[C]

August 26th, we are all over the place with when we record episodes.

[A]

But I always love it. It's always a slice and a treat.

[B]

I wish I could kiss you guys right now.

[C]

I wish I could lick your nose.

[A]

Your eyes close like that. That. I've gotten in trouble before for keeping my eyes open when I kiss.

[B]

Oh, yeah, that's not good. Don't do that.

[A]

I know it's creepy. I just sometimes forget to close them.

[C]

Well, sometimes you want to see the person that you're so excited and happy to be kissing.

[B]

Right?

[A]

Exactly.

[B]

You gotta. You gotta get in there like this.

[C]

Well, Fortune.

[A]

Fortune's.

[C]

Fortune's become very sexual. We're just trying to podcast and Fortune's French kissing. Our. Our podcast.

[B]

You want to see who's up to being sexual? Look at that guy.

[A]

I can't even tell what part of his body is wearing there. He's just a white flesh.

[C]

Does anyone have anything coming up tomorrow night?

[A]

I'm at Largo in LA on September 17th, and I got wayward coming out September 25th. Get ready. Plan a watch party. Let me know what you think. I hope you like it. It. And what about you guys?

[B]

I've got shows in, like, Houston, D.C. atlanta, Boston. Did I say that already? Chicago, San Jose. Yeah, my website.

[C]

I mean, talk about Mississippi. I'm gonna be down with all of my gregarious cousins. September 27, Biloxi, Mississippi. If you live in Mississippi or. Or anywhere nearby, I'll be there. So come on out. And also check tignotaro.com for all of my Los Angeles and Toronto dates. And also please subscribe to the podcast and subscribe to YouTube. Share your favorite episode with a loved one so you can have them join this handsome community and you can chat about this nonsense that goes on on the show.

[A]

Well, send it to the person who was the eccentric adult in your life.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

Oh, good idea.

[A]

Send it to your eccentric adult.

[C]

Also, go to handsomepod.com for merchandise.

[B]

A bunch of our Handsome fans weighed in on what kind of merch they want to see next, so we'll be drumming up some fun new stuff too. That's always exciting.

[C]

I saw some really interesting slash weird.

[B]

Suggestions, but there were some interesting ones. What people want the word handsome on is quite all over the place.

[A]

Yeah, well, I guess all that remains is to remind everyone to keep it handsome. Handsome is hosted by me, May Martin, Tig Notaro, and Fortune Feimster. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willette. Email [e-mail] and please follow us on social media at. Handsome Podcast that was a Headgum podcast.

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We got something to tell you. Oh, yeah, we definitely do. Yes. It's a brand new podcast on Headgum.

[C]

That's right.

[B]

And it's called what's Our Podcast?

[A]

Yep. And that's because we don't have a single idea what our podcast should be about.

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Yeah, we don't.

[C]

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And they tell us what they think.

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