Cyndi Lauper asks about cookbooks

Summary

Handsome Podcast Summary: Episode “Cyndi Lauper Asks About Cookbooks”

Podcast Information

• Title: Handsome
• Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin
• Episode: Cyndi Lauper asks about cookbooks
• Release Date: July 1, 2025
• Description: "Handsome" is a podcast from comedians Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin. Every week, the handsome hosts field a question from a friend and attempt to answer it together, covering every subject you could think of. Along the way, Tig, Fortune, and Mae tell plenty of stories and just generally have a ridiculous time.

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1. Celebrating a Decade of Handsome (00:51 – 01:35)

The episode kicks off with the hosts celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the Handsome podcast. Fortune Feimster remarks, “I know every episode we've ever done” at [01:07], highlighting her attention to their decade-long journey. Tig Notaro adds, “Ten years in order,” emphasizing their commitment and consistency.

2. Personal Updates and Life Challenges (01:35 – 35:00)

Fortune Feimster’s Personal Journey: Fortune shares significant personal updates, including her divorce from Jax and her mother’s battle with cancer. At [26:54], Fortune opens up about these life changes:

“I’m focusing on the victory of 10 years. That was a really successful relationship.”

She reflects on the amicable end of her marriage, stating:

“Sometimes these things just don’t go the distance. It wasn’t something I could really talk about yet.”

Fortune emphasizes her positive outlook despite the hardships, declaring at [33:16]:

“I feel very positive about things. I'm coming into a new era with it all and just feeling very good.”

Mae Martin’s Tour Experiences: Mae recounts her recent tour experiences, particularly memorable meet and greets. A standout story involves a fan who discovered a hidden note with Mae’s handwriting behind a painting at the Silver Lake Hotel ([05:01]):

“I collapsed.”

Mae describes the fan's dedication and the emotional connection it fostered, highlighting the joy of meaningful fan interactions.

Tig Notaro’s Adventures: Tig shares humorous anecdotes about her daily life, including taking her dogs to the park and her plans to get a haircut due to her “thick” hair ([02:06]). She also discusses her approach to meet and greets, such as enforcing a no-touching rule in Eureka Springs, Arkansas ([14:56]).

3. Heartfelt Birthday Celebration (25:00 – 35:00)

The hosts take a moment to celebrate Fortune Feimster’s 45th birthday. At [25:05], Fortune humorously downplays her plans:

“I have no plans whatsoever.”

She opens up about the emotional impact of her divorce and her mother's illness, expressing gratitude for the support from friends and listeners. At [34:07], Fortune shares:

“People have shown up for me in these incredible ways, and so many people have reached out... it shows you, you know, these other valuable people in your life and connections.”

Mae and Tig offer words of encouragement, affirming Fortune’s resilience and positive outlook.

4. Responding to Cyndi Lauper’s Question: Have You Ever Considered Writing a Cookbook? (42:40 – 66:55)

Introduction to the Question: Cyndi Lauper poses a question to the hosts: “Have you ever considered writing a cookbook?” The hosts enthusiastically engage with this prompt, blending humor and personal insights.

Mae Martin’s Vision: Mae suggests creating a cookbook centered around immersive dinner party experiences. She envisions recipes that integrate games and interactive elements, such as hiding clues in pies or incorporating escape room elements into meals.

Tig Notaro’s Perspective: Tig considers a cookbook focused on plant-based transitions, drawing from her own experience of shifting to a vegan diet. She emphasizes the importance of having a clear purpose ("North Star") and sustainability in dietary changes. At [47:52], Tig shares:

“Have that reason. And the other is to make sure that you've done the research to know how to sustain yourself while you're making that transition.”

Fortune Feimster’s Take: Fortune humorously admits her limited cooking skills but contributes ideas related to appetizers and charcuterie. She jokes about creating an "app app" for appetizer recipes and suggests a focus on simple, crowd-pleasing finger foods.

Collaborative Brainstorming: The trio engages in playful banter, imagining whimsical cookbook titles and concepts. Notable moments include discussions about:

• Humorous Recipe Names: Tig jokes about her cookbook being titled "It's Okay If It Jiggles" ([52:13]), blending humor with culinary advice.

• Family Influences: Mae reminisces about her father’s “Seducers Cookbook,” adding a humorous twist to traditional recipes.

Key Quotes:

• Mae Martin at [63:05]: “There is something nice about intergenerational recipe transmission.”
• Tig Notaro at [49:42]: “There are so many staples that are vegan. I guess that is my point.”
• Fortune Feimster at [55:27]: “I can make breakfast tacos.”

5. Humorous Anecdotes and Banter (35:00 – 42:40)

The hosts share lighthearted stories and jokes, particularly revolving around personal quirks and past relationships. A recurring theme is the humorous mention of bras and "jugs," with Tig recounting wearing her ex-girlfriend's mother’s bra for years ([59:42]):

“She brought over my mother's bra one day, and she's like, here, just wear my mother's.”

Fortune and Mae follow suit with their own playful comments, maintaining the show's comedic tone.

6. Looking Ahead: Upcoming Shows and Community Engagement (66:03 – End)

In the concluding segment, the hosts briefly mention their upcoming performances and encourage listeners to support live shows. They highlight the importance of community support in sustaining live comedy and performance.

Final Words: Mae expresses gratitude towards listeners, emphasizing the strength of the Handsome community. Tig wraps up by encouraging listeners to subscribe and share the podcast, affirming the show's mission to keep connections “Handsome.”

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Fortune Feimster [01:07]: “I know every episode we've ever done.”
• Mae Martin [05:01]: “I collapsed.”
• Fortune Feimster [33:16]: “I feel very positive about things. I'm coming into a new era with it all and just feeling very good.”
• Tig Notaro [47:52]: “Have that reason. And the other is to make sure that you've done the research to know how to sustain yourself while you're making that transition.”
• Tig Notaro [52:13]: “It's okay if it jiggles.”
• Fortune Feimster [55:27]: “I can make breakfast tacos.”

Conclusion: This episode of Handsome successfully blends humor with heartfelt personal stories, all centered around the engaging question posed by Cyndi Lauper. The hosts' candid conversations about life changes, coupled with their comedic chemistry, provide listeners with both entertainment and a sense of connection. Whether discussing the challenges of meet and greets, the intricacies of personal growth, or the whimsical idea of writing cookbooks, Tig, Fortune, and Mae deliver an episode that is both rich in content and deeply relatable.

Transcript

[Fortune Feimster]

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[Tig Notaro]

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[Tig Notaro]

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[Mae Martin]

Handsome Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod. Chatting with friends on the Handsome po.

[Fortune Feimster]

Cheers. Cheers. Welcome to the Handsome Pod. It's Fortune Themster, and I'm May, and.

[Tig Notaro]

I am your very dear friend, Tig Notaro, also a host on this wonderful podcast called Handsome.

[Mae Martin]

It's amazing that we haven't got more slick at those starts. How many years now? And every time I panic.

[Fortune Feimster]

10 years now.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, 10 years. We're celebrating 10 years. Fortune has been keeping good track of time.

[Fortune Feimster]

I know every episode we've ever done.

[Tig Notaro]

Ten years in order.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. You could list them in order.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, that would be great.

[Tig Notaro]

Let's not do it right now.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. I don't want to bore everybody with history.

[Mae Martin]

Guys, how are you guys?

[Fortune Feimster]

We're together again.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm doing all right. I'm. I'm very. My eyesight's terrible, and I'm looking at myself on the screen. My hair is a little wild. I just got back from taking Max and Finn to the park, and I had fantasies of showering before, and that just was not in the cards because I didn't get out. Yeah, it was a real fantasy. We didn't get out of the park in time. And that looks good, though.

[Mae Martin]

It looks thick and solid and healthy.

[Tig Notaro]

It's thick.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm getting a haircut this week. It is so thick. It's so long. Yeah. So that's my boring story. Anybody?

[Mae Martin]

I just got back from tour, so I'm. I feel pretty wrecked, but I feel also so invigorated from the Handsome listeners that I feel like I don't even really know where to start. I have so much to tell you both.

[Tig Notaro]

Just jump in. Tell us everything. Even if none of it makes sense, just jump in.

[Mae Martin]

Because it's all kind of scrambled in my brain. Like, I was. I was doing, like, a real.

[Tig Notaro]

It felt like I'm picturing one of those, like, cartoon dust balls with legs and arms coming out. Yeah. Yeah. Well, no, that's, like, what I pictured when you said it was crazy. So go ahead, let's hear about it.

[Mae Martin]

It was like I got the immersive experience of, like, being a touring musician. Like, I was in a dirty van with two boys, like, and I don't drive, so I was just sort of stretched out on the seat.

[Tig Notaro]

Wait, you never got your license?

[Fortune Feimster]

No, no.

[Mae Martin]

Don't you think that would have been the biggest news of life?

[Fortune Feimster]

May's been putting this off since, like.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

But we started this podcast 10 years ago.

[Tig Notaro]

My memory comes and goes, and so I thought maybe. Maybe. You got it?

[Mae Martin]

No.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Mae Martin]

I still. I'm writing my learner's permit test on Thursday to. Because it expired. So I'm. I'm on it. And then I'll be back in the lessons and.

[Tig Notaro]

Sounds like it.

[Mae Martin]

But also, I would not be brave enough to drive this huge van. This, like that. It's kind of falling apart. These guys have been in a touring band for like 15 years, so they're kind of pros. Jason and west, who I tour with. But man, guys, these audiences of handsome fans, first of all, they know me intimately. Like, I forget the stuff that we say on this podcast. Like, after shows, people are like, I mean, the amount of love for your mom Fortune, or like your documentary Tig. And people just being like, they know us so well.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Which blows my mind. Like, they've been following all of our life events for years. They're bringing us weird gifts. They're bringing. Well, really weird. Let's be like, really pretty strange.

[Tig Notaro]

Like, like what? Like what did you get a horse costume? Did you?

[Mae Martin]

I wish.

[Tig Notaro]

That fits four that we can shove Thomas in as well. What are we talking? Weird?

[Mae Martin]

Well, I'm gonna bring them all in tomorrow to go through with you, I think. But.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Mae Martin]

It really did make me think about, like, what am I putting out there, you know, Because I was getting, like, a small vial of antique marbles, a small rubber hand with rolled up scrolls that had, like, puzzles written on them and interesting facts or like, a lot of crystals. A lot of people are like, can you put this by the cat statue in your home on the altar? I'm like, yeah. Like, they, they know me. Like, they, they know what I like. But okay, so I've distilled well, because.

[Fortune Feimster]

I will say real quick, I'm also on tour and I'm not getting those. Really?

[Mae Martin]

Well, I got a bunch of stuff for you guys.

[Tig Notaro]

You're not getting tiny scrolls Fortune?

[Fortune Feimster]

No, just, just, just people wearing a lot of our merch.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, a lot of good merch.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. I would have pegged you Fortune for A real tiny scroll kind of gal.

[Mae Martin]

I mean I'm getting like poems and riddles and strange things. But I've distilled of the like fan interactions or listener interactions. I've distilled them down to just a handful that I tell you guys. And we. I can drip feed them. But like the. The one that really blew my mind was so people did like a meet and greet after. And so this person, this tall woman comes and she's really nervous, I can tell because she's got something really important to say. And she just holds out her hand. She can barely speak with anticipation. And in her hand is this rolled up piece of paper. And I look at it and I see my own handwriting. Guys, it's the note from the Silver Lake Hotel. Behind the painting. Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

No, I know.

[Mae Martin]

I collapsed.

[Tig Notaro]

How did you keep this from us? How did you keep this from us?

[Mae Martin]

I'm so glad that you're having this reaction because I felt I honestly fell to the ground.

[Fortune Feimster]

She rent the room or just go like I left something in there and I have to go in there.

[Mae Martin]

This is the best. So she's been listening to the pod she lives at either it was Portland or Vancouver.

[Tig Notaro]

What if she hadn't been listening to the pod and she found that note behind. What was it behind?

[Mae Martin]

A painting. And so apparently so she usually she stays at that hotel a lot. And then she was there and listened to the pod and apparently I said the wrong room number at first and then self corrected so she'd booked the wrong room.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh no.

[Mae Martin]

And then she looked in the behind the paintings. It's not there. So she re listens and like later I corrected. Thank God. Her friend goes and knocks on the door. The stranger opens the door and she goes, hi, there's this podcast and this is going to sound crazy, but I.

[Tig Notaro]

Think slam the door and call the police.

[Fortune Feimster]

You're about to rob me. There's no way you're coming in this room.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. She goes, I just need to get behind that painting real quick. Just won't be long.

[Tig Notaro]

And then that person's like, you're the 12th person that has come knocking at my door about this painting.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, but we really had a moment and yeah, I was just as excited as her. And it made me think I got to do things like this more often because the treasure hunty joy of someone finding it.

[Fortune Feimster]

I really did not think that was going to happen.

[Mae Martin]

I thought it was. I thought it was gone in the wind.

[Tig Notaro]

Can we give me a little bit of credit that I told you to do it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I just need a little bit of credit here, but also, what was this person like? Please describe.

[Mae Martin]

I mean, honestly, like, everyone I met, just very kind, and people were really making friends with each other in the crowd. And yeah, she was with her friend, and she. She was. To be honest, I don't remember it. I was so blindsided by this Right. Reveal that I don't remember, like, her job or anything, but she was really funny. Like, people were funny. Like, this person gave me their phone number laminated, and. And they go, I laminated it in case you fall in a pool. And it said on the back, like, phone number for new friendship or something. And I really got, like, a friend vibe from this person. They made me laugh real hard during the meet and greet, and I was like, I should just text this person, honestly.

[Tig Notaro]

And did you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Connections.

[Mae Martin]

I didn't. I feel like if. If I start going down that route.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wait, and where. And where were you?

[Mae Martin]

So I was in San Francisco and drove 10 hours to Portland, which I'd never. I'd never really done that. We pulled over and, like, swam in a stream. It was really nice. And then. So then I was in Portland. I'd never been to Portland. And then. Oh, man, it's cool. And I went to, like, the house where Elliot Smith wrote Roman Candle. And, like, I did the touristy Elliot Smith things. And I wore a tank top on stage. That was like, it doesn't sound like a big deal, but it was a big deal to me.

[Tig Notaro]

I bet it was a massive deal for your audience.

[Fortune Feimster]

But. But you don't normally. You're not normally in tank tops.

[Mae Martin]

I have never worn a tank top on stage in 25 years of performing. And also, I have never worn a sweater on stage to do stand up because I feel like I got to show my arms to be vulnerable. So it's a big thing in my brain. But I loved it.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay, and so now is it, like, try to stop you from wearing a tank top? Is it that kind of.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Changed my whole personality. Like, I was.

[Tig Notaro]

Tell us.

[Mae Martin]

Okay. Like, I don't know how to dance. Right. Like, I. And with stand up, I'm totally stationary playing the guitar. I'm totally stationary. But something about. I put the tank top on. I'm suddenly. I'm grooving, I'm grinding.

[Fortune Feimster]

All right.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. I'm, like, moving around. I don't know.

[Tig Notaro]

I mean, I'm sorry, are you saying you started moving and grooving?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, I started moving and grooving Shaking.

[Fortune Feimster]

I love this.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Shake it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Don't think there's gonna. Yeah. Have to be more tank tops in your future.

[Mae Martin]

I think so, too. I have two more. I don't want to monopolize the time, but I have two more things I have to tell you.

[Tig Notaro]

Please monopolize.

[Mae Martin]

Okay. Because I've been saving them up. Okay, again, meet and greet. This person had made sure they were the last person in the line. So that's always interesting because you're like, okay. They want to have maybe a longer interaction or like. So I see this couple, they're at the end of the line, and I. It's. Yeah. I hug the guy. I hug. I hug this woman, and she pulls up. I'm in my tank top.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Hugging, picture.

[Mae Martin]

Grooving, grinding. And I shake her hand. And I hear, oh, yeah. I go, what? I look down. I pull my hand away. It is covered in thick white paste.

[Fortune Feimster]

No.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm out.

[Mae Martin]

I'm horrified.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm like, I'm out.

[Mae Martin]

My mouth is agape. I'm aghast.

[Tig Notaro]

Why are you telling us this?

[Fortune Feimster]

Wait, what do you mean?

[Mae Martin]

Because you know you're going to hate it.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, I already do, but go on.

[Mae Martin]

So I go, what is happening? Is this mayonnaise? And. And she says, no, it's lotion. And she's kind of weirded out that I'm weirded out. She goes, it's hand lotion. And I'm like, what? And she goes, you said on the podcast. Thomas is nodding. I have no memory of this. You do.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my God.

[Fortune Feimster]

I was like, I feel like I've. My grandmother used to bum rush me with lotion.

[Mae Martin]

Bum rush.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like, just out of nowhere, she would, like, like, slyly put lotion on my hands.

[Tig Notaro]

Didn't she also bum rush your bum with a suppository.

[Mae Martin]

Suppository.

[Fortune Feimster]

She did do that, too, but she was. My hands were dry as a kid, and she. I didn't like to put on lotion. So she would, like, trick. She would, like, grab my hand without me knowing lotion was in it, and then rub it in, lather up my hands. So I was like, did I talk about this? But I guess you said something.

[Tig Notaro]

And did you tell your grandmother, you need to hydrate from the inside?

[Fortune Feimster]

You know, I didn't know that at the time.

[Mae Martin]

Well, I was like, what is happening? And. And she was massaging it into my hands. I was a little alarmed and. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And what did you say on the pod?

[Tig Notaro]

I wouldn't have handled this well.

[Mae Martin]

No, you could not. You would have been.

[Fortune Feimster]

Someone could not do this to you.

[Tig Notaro]

No, no, no, ma' am. No, ma' am.

[Mae Martin]

Well, she said that I said it would be so funny if someone pranked me with hand lotion. And then her boyfriend goes, that's not what you said. You said that you could wear lotion on your hand and shake a fan's hand and like. But it feels like I invited, basically.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, you did.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. So I couldn't be enraged. I was definitely taken aback. But, yeah, they. They were very charming, I guess. But then what I didn't tell her what I. I didn't have the heart to tell her because I didn't want to.

[Tig Notaro]

That she's knowing now that she definitely is hearing now. Yeah, she.

[Mae Martin]

She will hear it now. But the hand lotion was coconut hand lotion.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, no. And you're allergic.

[Mae Martin]

I'm allergic. And so my hand, they, I. They get all sort of red, and it's well up.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's like, ting. Your hands ting.

[Tig Notaro]

Please tell me you got big old Mickey Mouse hands trying to play the guitar.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Anyway, so that was a weird one.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wow. I liked her spirit in that. Like, she was just like, may.

[Mae Martin]

She's like, hilarious. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And may ask for this. And what a. What a treat. I mean, it did leave an impression. You'll never forget that.

[Mae Martin]

I will never forget it. I'm checking every hand before I shake it. Now. Yeah, from now on.

[Fortune Feimster]

But that would be jarring to grab someone's hand and it be wet.

[Mae Martin]

Well, you just don't expect to hear a squelch.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, you know, isn't this the beauty of we're all different people. We're all different hosts that would react differently. And there's all different sorts of people at the meet and greet. And that's why I did a meet and greet in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a couple of nights ago. And it was like, the one rule was no touching. And so everyone just stands their hands behind their back, smiling, and then we move it along.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, they. They can't, like, put their arm around you or anything?

[Tig Notaro]

Just no touching.

[Fortune Feimster]

I. I literally hug everybody that comes through my meet and greet.

[Tig Notaro]

And that's why we're all different, you know? We are all different.

[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mae Martin]

And you know what's interesting? T is like I'm. Because I'm hugging everyone and. But then there were a couple of people who I went to hug them and they were like, no thanks, like, and I forget that like, people have, you know, Covid mass on and they're like, you know, the climate's a little different with those things and people have their different levels. So.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, I should send those people to you.

[Fortune Feimster]

You can kind of tell when someone doesn't want to hug. They keep their hands to their side and totally, they're not going.

[Tig Notaro]

I've also had moments where when I've taken pictures, there have been, like, some weird little touches here or there where I'm like, I don't want that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like, what kind of. But what do you mean by weird touches?

[Tig Notaro]

Just their hand lands in a weird spot and I'm like. I mean, maybe a little above it, a little too close to it.

[Mae Martin]

Right, right.

[Tig Notaro]

You know, just something where I'm like, I. I just. I'm like, let's take a picture. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Or.

[Tig Notaro]

Or it's continuing to move the hand. Yeah. I don't know. I just. Not always. I. I just. There have been enough to where I don't do a lot of meet and greets, but I did one, and like I said, in Eureka Springs, everybody was wonderful. They kept the line moving. Totally wonderful people. Unbelievable amount of handsome listeners. And, yeah, we just didn't really touch, but we snuggled in and smiled big and moved it along.

[Fortune Feimster]

There you go.

[Tig Notaro]

Said nice things to each other.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, man, that's. That's so nice. And I will say, like, with everything going on in LA with ice, and then just globally as well, and I felt. I feel like we're all collectively just, like, horrified and in shock with the level of, like, dehumanization everywhere. So to gather in groups feels really special. And especially, like, music is so emotional and people. It felt really nice. And that there's this real handsome community of people who are, like, really connecting with each other. And I just was like, we're so lucky to do this.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

And, you know, if lotion or no lotion. It was weird, though. There was one more thing. Can I say one more?

[Fortune Feimster]

Let's hear it.

[Tig Notaro]

That's what we're here for.

[Mae Martin]

Okay. I'll keep it brief and then.

[Fortune Feimster]

I love the enthusiasm.

[Tig Notaro]

Thomas Clock. May. May said they were going to keep it brief.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Mae Martin]

I. Yeah, I am. But can you tell I'm, like, energized.

[Fortune Feimster]

I love it. Yeah, it's great.

[Mae Martin]

I am.

[Tig Notaro]

You seem like you're in love. I'll be honest.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, I'm in love with the world again.

[Tig Notaro]

The life.

[Mae Martin]

I mean.

[Tig Notaro]

That's great.

[Fortune Feimster]

Good. We want that for you.

[Mae Martin]

Okay. So this woman Comes up with her friend and. And the. The friends in a Covid mask. And so she says to me, I wasn't going to come tonight because I'm not aware of your work. But then something happened that made me need to come. And so I'm. Obviously, I'm in. I'm hooked. So I'm like, what happened?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

And she says, I had a past life regression, and the psychic past life person told me. And she's. She says this with total certainty and conviction. She said, in the 1600s, I ran a brothel. I was the owner of a brothel.

[Fortune Feimster]

You were. This.

[Mae Martin]

This person was.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. And she says an infant was left at the doorstep. An orphan.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Mae Martin]

And that infant was Brett Goldstein. And she. And she says. She says, I raised him for seven years, and then he ended up going off to fight in the war. But she's like, I loved him, and I raised him. And I'm like, wow. I said, were you a fan of Bratz before this? And she's like, no. She's as freaked out as me. She goes, I knew him. Like, I'd seen Ted Lasso, but I didn't have strong feelings about him. Then I had this hypnosis, and this came up, and, like, I need you to tell him. And so I was like, is she straight? She seems.

[Tig Notaro]

Because this feels a little roundabout. Can I. Can you hook me up with Brett? And I've come up with an elaborate.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's either it's a wild story, or.

[Tig Notaro]

Can you get him my home address and phone number and a picture of me?

[Mae Martin]

But what if it's the psychic who's trying to get to Brett by telling everyone that in past lives, this.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wouldn't you be bummed out if you went to a psychic trying to, like, learn some stuff about you? And they're like, no, no, no. Let's talk about Brett Goldstein.

[Mae Martin]

They're like, you know that actor from Ted Lasso? You raised him. Anyway, so. But I obviously called Brett right after.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, obviously.

[Mae Martin]

I was like, I got news. I got big news. And he was like, what? Are you pregnant? Like, what? Like, are you pregnant?

[Tig Notaro]

That would not be my first question either. Please let Mae Martin be pregnant. I would love to see you on your rock and roll tour in your tank top. Just pregnant as the day is long.

[Mae Martin]

Months pregnant.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, that is what I'm gonna say anytime somebody says, I have big news for you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Are you pregnant?

[Tig Notaro]

Is May Martin pregnant? Not, are you pregnant? Is May Martin pregnant?

[Mae Martin]

We know it's coming. Yeah, but I told him. I said, so you know, this woman raised you in a brothel in the 1600s. And he truly was like, this checks out. He was like, there's something. Something rings true about this. So if that happens.

[Fortune Feimster]

And went to war, apparently, yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Napoleonic Wars, I guess.

[Fortune Feimster]

Dang. Okay.

[Mae Martin]

Anyway, so that was the. That was the tour, I mean.

[Fortune Feimster]

And you're just like, hey, whatever it takes to sell a ticket.

[Mae Martin]

What do you mean?

[Fortune Feimster]

She said she wasn't gonna come.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But then had to tell you this. Fine. Thanks for buying the ticket.

[Mae Martin]

I really thought she was gonna say that she and I in a past life were connected.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, it felt like it. That's the road it should go down. I couldn't miss your show because I had to tell you this thing about you. But, yeah, everything goes back to Brett Goldstein.

[Mae Martin]

To Brett Goldstein.

[Tig Notaro]

Hey. To Brett Goldstein. And not just to Brett Goldstein. I have some. Some news I'd like to share. And it's not. No, it's May. You're not pregnant.

[Fortune Feimster]

But to you. To me.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes. Happy birthday.

[Fortune Feimster]

God, is so slow. Jesus.

[Tig Notaro]

Happy birthday, dear fortune.

[Mae Martin]

Happy birthday.

[Fortune Feimster]

To.

[Mae Martin]

Me.

[Tig Notaro]

God, that's fun.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wow.

[Tig Notaro]

That was slow.

[Fortune Feimster]

So slow.

[Mae Martin]

Jeez.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, I think I'm a year older.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think I've turned another year old.

[Tig Notaro]

That's what I'm saying. Well, then let's start again.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, no, no.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

A. Thanks, guys. It's my BIR day.

[Tig Notaro]

It sure is. How old are you? 45.

[Fortune Feimster]

45.

[Mae Martin]

45.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, I don't look a day over 41.

[Tig Notaro]

You are looking good.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's these creams I'm putting on my face.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, is that JLO creams?

[Fortune Feimster]

It's my JLO beauty cream. Yeah. It's my birthday. I can't believe it. Another one.

[Tig Notaro]

What are you gonna do?

[Fortune Feimster]

I have no plans whatsoever.

[Mae Martin]

What?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I'll figure something out.

[Mae Martin]

I mean, to.

[Fortune Feimster]

I mean, to.

[Mae Martin]

To feel.

[Fortune Feimster]

So, audience knows we're taping this a few days before, so this is not my birthday, and I'm alone, so don't worry.

[Tig Notaro]

You're just. Yeah. You're just saying you haven't planned anything two weeks in advance? Because I was just thinking.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Our audience is going to be deeply bummed with everything that's been going on in your life, to think that you have absolutely no plans on your birthday.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes. This is a weird year for me.

[Tig Notaro]

It is. Weird is a light way of putting it.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's true. That's true.

[Tig Notaro]

And how are you doing?

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm okay. I'm. You know, it's. It's a. We haven't talked about it on the pod, but Jax and I are getting a divorce, so this is my first birthday in 10 years as a non married person or whatever it is. Yeah, it's. It's different. I mean, but I'm. I'm okay. It's. It's. I mean, we haven't talked about it at all, but I guess. Yeah, I don't. I'm not gonna talk about anything about what happened other than, like, it just. Unfortunately, these things happened.

[Mae Martin]

And more commonly than not, yeah, we.

[Fortune Feimster]

Love each other a lot and it's amicable and we had awesome years and. And many good times, and there's a lot of love there, and sometimes these things just don't go the distance. And unfortunately it didn't. And yeah, I've. It's not. It's. We've been separated for a bit, but it wasn't something I could, you know, really talk about yet. And this. And then the stuff that happened first, and then this, my mom got cancer. It was a pretty big doozy of a time because those happened around the same times. But the stuff with Jax was first, so it didn't. The stuff with my mom was independent of that.

[Mae Martin]

I feel like these things are never linear in terms of your feelings about it, but we're with you. Like, I'm sure it'll be a process of, like, feeling super positive and proactive about, like, change. And then also there's grief, of course, and like.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. In our lives, guys were so intertwined for so long, and I've obviously talked about Jax a lot and stand up and life and, you know, just. So it's a bit of a change to, like, suddenly not be talking about us and not be talking about any of it, but it just wasn't the time to delve into it. We were figuring things out for a long time. And. Yeah, so it's. So it's. Going into 45 is interesting with a divorce and my mom's sick, and the one thing I think it is doing for me is just, like, just making me realize life is short and I just want to, like, be happy and not sweat things too much and just live life. And, like, my goal for this time is to find the light. That's my. Where I'm at right now is just, where's the positive? Where's the light? Yeah, this. The first half this year was rough, but.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, yeah, I was gonna say when all of this started to kind of shake loose and shift in your life, which, of course, it's been a beat now, several months, and the roller coaster that you have been on and where you're landing right now, even though it's not completely solid ground, it's a whole new foundation that I think is going to be a really sturdy place to build from.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And. And to embrace whatever it is coming and the light that you're welcoming and. But, yeah, I just. I'm very impressed by you and.

[Mae Martin]

Me, too.

[Tig Notaro]

And how you have stayed generous and.

[Mae Martin]

Warm with people and, like, just kept your. Yeah. And I feel like whenever. I mean, Tig, you're no stranger to this and. Well, I mean, too, like, when. When everything is stripped away like that, it's. It's like, maybe. Maybe you have to be a bit further through it, but it's reassuring to know that they're like, you do have yourself and your self. Like, what am I trying to say? Like. Like, you're not empty and bereft. There is a. You have. You have to rely on yourself, and you have to show up for yourself and take care of yourself. And there's something really affirming about doing that kind of. And being like, oh, I can do that for myself, and I value my. My self in that way. You know what I mean?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, for sure.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. This is not how I thought life would unfold. I mean, but that's life. And, you know, I enjoyed being in a relationship, in a committed relationship. I liked being married. I like the peace that came with that. And so it wasn't, you know, where I expected things to go, but I don't know. I'm kind of focusing on the, like, victory of 10 years. Like, dude, you know, that. Yeah, that was a really successful relationship.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And not focusing as much on the ending of it, and. Because at first I. It felt like a failure, and then I just had to kind of shift my perspective in that. No, it was. That was very successful and what we both needed at that time in our lives. And it worked for a really long time. And that is awesome. And that's where I'm gonna keep those memories of that relationship and of her. And. Yeah, it's just a tough time to sort of enter into this new phase, but I'm actually feeling very positive about things. And.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

A new chapter. I am.

[Tig Notaro]

I can feel it in you. I mean, it's so palpable. In fact, I would like to declare July 1, 2025, as Fortune Marie Feimster's Rebirth Day. Rebirth Day. Okay. Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's right. And I feel that. I feel. I feel very. Despite the things I feel positivity. I feel goodness going into a new chapter. I'm not dwelling on the negative. I'm gonna, you know, live life and work and have fun and connect with friends and focus on my mom and just. Yeah. I don't want to. I don't want to sit in the. The ick. I sat in that for a long time.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Dealing with everything and. And I'm coming into a new era with it all and just feeling very good.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. You deserve to enjoy and celebrate the life that you've made every day. Like, you know, and I know.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. There's a lot of positive things that have come of it, too.

[Mae Martin]

I've.

[Fortune Feimster]

You know, it's. My friends have been amazing, and people have shown up for me in these incredible ways, and so many people have reached out, both about the divorce and about my mom. And, you know, it just makes you feel like, God, I must be doing something right to have people care like this. So it reaffirms, you know, even though one thing's ending, it shows you, you know, these other valuable people in your life and connections and. And. And that I'm really grateful for.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

So. Yeah, it's weird to have another podcast where I'm, like, this big thing, too.

[Tig Notaro]

I know.

[Mae Martin]

I feel like people. People have been picking up on it, and it's. It's. Yeah, it's. It's nice to. That you're sharing it, and I think everybody's just desperate to show you the love.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. People for months have been like, you seem sad, and I'm like, I'm fine. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, it's.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, you just kind of have to bite your lip, and the people around you have to bite their lip, and just you. You talk about it when and if you want, and.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, and I want. You know, I want to respect Jax's privacy. She's, you know, doesn't. Well, she didn't. She's not a public figure in this way and doesn't want her, you know, business out there, and I. I get that. And she's had to be more public than she would want because of me, so I'm gonna, you know, honor that and. And not just share, you know, stuff that's just for us.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Yeah, that sounds. That makes sense.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, for sure. But thanks, guys.

[Mae Martin]

It's my birthday.

[Tig Notaro]

It's your rebirthday.

[Fortune Feimster]

Is that why the song was so slow?

[Tig Notaro]

Right. Yeah. We had to spread joy, but also kind of, you know.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

We sung it. Keep it down a bit like an ancient hymn.

[Fortune Feimster]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Tig Notaro]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mae Martin]

You. We're heading into hot, hot boy summer. Like, it's beautiful weather.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my gosh. Fortune, can you make some sort of picture of yourself or video or something?

[Fortune Feimster]

Me in a tank top?

[Tig Notaro]

Just you in your hot boy summer.

[Fortune Feimster]

I. Me and a tank top does not quite look as.

[Tig Notaro]

Excuse me. You've been showing off your gams and your guns, and I saw. I mean, seriously, Fortune.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. You were showing off your guns on Instagram.

[Tig Notaro]

Guns and gams. That's your next special.

[Mae Martin]

Listen.

[Fortune Feimster]

Treading water, trying not to eat as much crap on the road. I'm doing my best. Last tour, I just got so out of control. So.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, dude. It's so hard, though. Like, I. There was a day where I ate McDonald's twice in a day, like, in the van, because you're just, like, traveling and there's not much around and. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And what does that. I haven't had McDonald's, you know, in a beat, and I was just wondering, like, does it. It feel like it would destroy my insides?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And because you eat dairy and meat and stuff, does it like. Well, does it just feel like you ate a meal and you move on? Are you like, oh, boy, I had McDonald's.

[Mae Martin]

And for the record, I'm not. I'm not, like, this is not. I'm not advocating for McDonald's in any way. I'm sure they're. I know they're the most problematic. May's loving it, but I do love an egg McMuffin muffin. And I had. So I had, like, that for breakfast, which is actually pretty. And then. But then I had 20 chicken nuggets, and that was what me.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, 20. That's a lot of nuggets.

[Mae Martin]

But to be honest, the thing that really messed me up was one day I thought, I'll have Subway sandwiches because that's healthier than McDonald's. I don't know, man. I don't think that's real.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh.

[Fortune Feimster]

Because it's all, like, processed.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, my. Inside, it was a.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, like, McDonald's is.

[Fortune Feimster]

You know, those fresh nugs at McDonald's.

[Tig Notaro]

It'S like a. Just a chicken walk through the store.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like a bunch of parts that are fried.

[Tig Notaro]

So. But it is. It's like, you feel it. That's what I'm always curious because, like, I would. I would truly be on a gurney.

[Mae Martin]

I do feel It. Yeah, but wait. Fortune. Because also a lot of people were commenting after the shows. Nice. Guns and Fortune's got the games. Like, like Calendar and then my Drummers and Games.

[Tig Notaro]

That would be their name of our sexy calendar.

[Fortune Feimster]

Guns and Games.

[Tig Notaro]

O God, we have to do it. Go ahead, May.

[Mae Martin]

Wait, but what would be your Fortune, Guns, Gams, and then take. What do you.

[Tig Notaro]

What I have Guns and Gams. Thank you.

[Mae Martin]

Sorry.

[Tig Notaro]

Thank you very much.

[Mae Martin]

I know, but Fortune and Tig, what we.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay, I'll just be the titless Wonder.

[Mae Martin]

Guns, Gams and the Tit.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wonder Guns, Gams and Tits.

[Tig Notaro]

Guns, Gams and Jugs.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, my God. So funny.

[Tig Notaro]

I have a surprising amount of Guns and Gams, but I just don't, you know, flaunt those on my rock and roll tour.

[Fortune Feimster]

Right. I do love the word jugs.

[Mae Martin]

Jugs, Gum milkers.

[Fortune Feimster]

We gotta get this calendar done. Times are ticking.

[Mae Martin]

We really do.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Well, what a treat.

[Tig Notaro]

Let's get at it. All right, let's get to our Question Asker.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Really?

[Fortune Feimster]

It's a legend here.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. One of my favorite concerts I've ever been to. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it till the day I am no longer with us. Today's Question Asker is an Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning singer who has sold over 50 million records. That is a lot of records. Not as many as you have sold, May, but very close. She was the first female artist to have four top five hits on the Billboard top 100. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame this year. Cindy Loer is asking today's question.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, man. Have you ever considered writing a cookbook?

[Fortune Feimster]

Cindy just gets right to the point. This is my question.

[Mae Martin]

Right to it, Cindy.

[Tig Notaro]

Most people usually say hi to us, but she doesn't have time.

[Mae Martin]

Can we acknowledge that Cyndi Lauper just has one of the greatest speaking voices of all time?

[Tig Notaro]

Like, absolutely.

[Mae Martin]

That accent. And she's so charismatic and just. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Have you seen her live?

[Mae Martin]

Never.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah. She's so.

[Tig Notaro]

You've seen her live for.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I mean, I mean, this woman, and I say it all the time. Like if. If you see that she's going to be in concert, get front row center to watch her. I mean, she's just a powerhouse and she's like running all over the stage. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

She wrote. She wrote Kinky Boots too. The music on that, that was a.

[Mae Martin]

She did.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes. She's no joke.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. And I. I feel like I'd be shocked by the number of Hits that I forget that she has. Like, if I saw her live, I'd be like, oh, I know all these songs.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, that's the fun part about seeing her live is everyone's, like, belting out the songs.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, it's a Greatest Hit kids concert, no doubt. So, yeah. How do you choose what. I guess Girls Just Want to have Fun would be.

[Fortune Feimster]

That would be Mine.

[Mae Martin]

That's my To Be True Colors.

[Tig Notaro]

I love Money Changes Everything.

[Fortune Feimster]

You know that song Rock Lobster?

[Tig Notaro]

Such a good Rock Lobster.

[Fortune Feimster]

What's the name of it?

[Tig Notaro]

That's B52s.

[Mae Martin]

Who's Rock Lobster?

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, yeah, that's a song by the V52. Portia's like, oh, and Start me Up.

[Fortune Feimster]

Did she sing about lobsters at all?

[Tig Notaro]

I'm sure she's been around for a beat. You know, she sold 50 million records.

[Fortune Feimster]

Why did I make.

[Tig Notaro]

Probably some sort of crustacean that she's mentioned or sung.

[Fortune Feimster]

I do like the B52s as well.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay, well, that's a whole other day.

[Mae Martin]

I. But I love Shack.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's a good song.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes. Fortune. But those are. These. Those are Georgia folk. This is a New Yorker. All right.

[Fortune Feimster]

A New Yorker.

[Tig Notaro]

New Yorker.

[Mae Martin]

And I. I need to say that Cyndi Lauper sung the Peewee. The Peewees Playhouse theme under a pseudonym of Ellen Shaw. But she. She. And I think I've sung it on the pod before.

[Fortune Feimster]

Maybe I was thinking about Shebop. True. Time After Time.

[Mae Martin]

Also a good one, Time After Time.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. And the Sadness at the end.

[Fortune Feimster]

So far, I don't see any songs about Lobster Time.

[Mae Martin]

Okay. And she's asking us about cookbooks. About.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay. But I really want to emphasize how great Money Changes Everything is. Okay.

[Mae Martin]

I'll put it on my list.

[Fortune Feimster]

Can you sing it?

[Tig Notaro]

Have you not ever heard it may. Because you sounded excited when I mentioned it. You're like, oh, money changes ever. Or were you just like, yeah, in general? Money does change everything.

[Fortune Feimster]

I would just agree that they also like Rock Lobster.

[Mae Martin]

I know. I think when you said it, I was thinking of money. Money, money.

[Fortune Feimster]

Must be funny in a rich man's world. Abba, right?

[Mae Martin]

Abba. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Another great song.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay. But not Cyndi Lauper's. Money Changes Everything. Anyway, what her question is, have you ever thought about writing a cookbook?

[Mae Martin]

Yes. I feel like of the three of us, you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. You would be the first to actually do one.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes, I have considered. In fact, I kind of went a little wide with my. Not wide, but like, with Stephanie's family and our immediate family. Because Stephanie's sister is a phenomenal cook and she bakes and. And then we've had to, you know, becoming vegan, we had to learn how to feed ourselves and started digging into cookbooks in a way that I hadn't in my life before, as soon as my. Our diets changed. And so, yeah, it definitely interests me.

[Mae Martin]

If you were to make a cookbook, would it be funny as well? Like, would you write a little. Oh, deadly serious.

[Fortune Feimster]

Cooking is serious.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm sure there would be some humor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I would. I just, you know, I did this. I don't know if I talked about it, but I did the climate summit in Los Angeles. Yes, Hollywood climate summit. And what I was talking about was, you know, if you do make a switch to eating plant based, it's really important to have the thing that's making you make the shift so you like anything else so you don't lose your North Star. And that's why, like, with my health, I don't ever lose that. Because when people are like, is it hard for you to, to be around these yummy things? Or. And I'm like, no, like, you eat what you want, I'm gonna eat what I want. And here's my reason why I do what I do. And so in order to keep going towards my North Star, I needed to make sure I knew how to sustain myself. And so those are the two things. Big pieces of my advice is to have that reason. The purpose that you're. You're eating the way you are. And the other is to make sure that you've done the research to know how to sustain yourself while you're making that transition, even if it's as basic as a peanut butter and banana sandwich, you know?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

So anyway, I just. It does interest me, for sure.

[Mae Martin]

I'd buy it.

[Tig Notaro]

I'd give you one. I'd give you a copy. Little cowboy. Yeah, unfortune.

[Fortune Feimster]

You too.

[Tig Notaro]

I'd give you one, Thomas. You as well. You don't know how to make a peanut butter and banana sandwich.

[Fortune Feimster]

I just gave you the secret. I do love peanut butter.

[Mae Martin]

I don't know that I need that in a cookbook, but I. Yeah, that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Is one thing I feel like we could just know how to do.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, but people forget that there are so many staples that are vegan. I guess is my point.

[Mae Martin]

That's actually a good thing to remind people of because you think, oh, well, I don't love falafel or whatever, but like, there are so many things, even Oreos are vegan.

[Tig Notaro]

Would you. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Include your recipe for dike dust?

[Tig Notaro]

No.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, that's gonna always be a secret.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Tig Notaro]

I mean, look, it's not that much of a secret if you look closely at it.

[Mae Martin]

All right. If you inspect it, you can.

[Tig Notaro]

What I have moved on from is my steel cut oatmeal. Oh, you're over it. I have moved on to a smoothie that incorporates so many high nutrient elements.

[Fortune Feimster]

I might need that recipe from you. I should start drinking smoothies. Okay.

[Tig Notaro]

This smoothie, you can really, if you have this, go about your day knowing that you've gotten a lot of really good stuff into your diet. And I've told you that fortune that if you. You've asked me about it before and I. I would. Would gladly make it or show you how to do it, but only if people are genuinely interested.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I'm genuinely interested. I just don't put berries in smoothies. The blueberry blueberries I can do, but not strawberries or any of those.

[Tig Notaro]

Blueberries are perfect. They're one of the best things you can eat as a human being on this.

[Fortune Feimster]

Because I need to start getting more nutrients in my body.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, me too. Me too. But isn't it crazy that in that, like, I have such vivid memories of my grandma, who was an amazing cook, having these old cookbooks, like, thick volumes that had all notes in the margins and, like, stuff stuck in. And, like, now we just Google things. But those cookbooks were, like. I don't. They were so important to my grandma.

[Fortune Feimster]

We have some of my grandma's cookbooks that, like, she hand wrote in a bunch of them. That's. I, again, don't really know how to cook, so I don't have them, but someone in my family does, and I know it's a treasure.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, that's. That would be a good thing to have, like, just the staples, like, to be able to whip up, like, a white sauce for a thing or, like a. Or a red sauce. I'm only thinking of colored sauce.

[Fortune Feimster]

So many greens and sauce.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

One of my favorite things that I still tease Stephanie about and it's just become part of our life, is I was. I was looking through one of the cookbooks and that she had made a note by one of one of the things that said, it's okay if it jiggles. And.

[Fortune Feimster]

To this day, them jugs.

[Tig Notaro]

No matter if it's a human body, if it's anything out in the world, or if it's a piece of food that's in the oven, whatever it Is we love turning to each other and saying. And remember it's okay if it jiggles or, you know, it's okay if it. Maybe that would be the name of my cookbook is it's okay if it jiggles Vegan.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, that would be funny. You should actually do this.

[Tig Notaro]

I would like to. I would like to.

[Fortune Feimster]

And because you did all that studying on nutrition and everything too, you probably have all this information.

[Mae Martin]

Guys. My dad wrote a cookbook, you know, and when his in his twenties called the Seducers Cookbook in the family. I. I think I've talked about it on the pod because it is really strange. It was a. He was in his 20s and it's a cookbook about how to.

[Fortune Feimster]

How to, I don't know, like, seduce people.

[Mae Martin]

Kind of how to impress a date basically with.

[Tig Notaro]

That's such a great idea.

[Mae Martin]

It's kind of tongue in cheek and ironic a little bit. But also flipping through it, some of these recipes are like sardines and like, they're not date friendly recipes. But it is a really strange part of his history that he's written this.

[Tig Notaro]

This is published or is it just for the family?

[Mae Martin]

No, it's published.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wow.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. And it's.

[Tig Notaro]

What would your, what would your cookbook be?

[Mae Martin]

I would do rather than a cookbook, it would be about the dinner party. Like a, A cookbook for how to make a immersive party experience. Like, it would be the. Sure, sure. The recipe, like a pie or something. But then what games do you place around the pie? How do you incorporate? Like.

[Tig Notaro]

And it is okay if it jiggles?

[Fortune Feimster]

Of course.

[Tig Notaro]

Of course it is.

[Fortune Feimster]

There's an escape room element to it.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. You're hiding a clue in the pie and people are digging out the clue and. Yeah. What about you, Fortune?

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, I wouldn't write a cookbook because. No, everyone knows I can't cook. I have stay a few staples, but if I. What are your staples that I do know how to cook?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, let's.

[Fortune Feimster]

Let's think about it.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, we don't want to rattle off a list of what you can't cook, right?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, that's right. I can cook. I'm learning how to cook steaks.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's hard to figure that out on the grill, like the temperature. But I'm learning. I can make tacos. Breakfast tacos.

[Tig Notaro]

All right.

[Fortune Feimster]

I can make salmon. I can make pumpkin pancakes because it's a Trader Joe's, a mix that's just super easy to follow.

[Tig Notaro]

So you can open a bag, I.

[Fortune Feimster]

Can open a Bag and add an egg and water and all this stuff to it. I can make rice. I can make.

[Tig Notaro]

Rice is hard to make sweet potatoes.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like a breakfast hash or burgers.

[Tig Notaro]

That's a cookbook.

[Mae Martin]

I'm buying it.

[Fortune Feimster]

I mean, I can do. I can do some staples, for sure, but if you told me to, like, make something fancy, I couldn't do that. But if I had to write a cookbook because someone's like, we're giving you a bunch of money. We need a cookbook, I would. It would be something about finger foods.

[Mae Martin]

You love apps.

[Tig Notaro]

Charcuterie apps.

[Mae Martin]

Yes. You can have charcuterie without cooter.

[Fortune Feimster]

The word.

[Mae Martin]

Actually, that would be a good sort of title for your book is charcuterie. But C O O T E. Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

Something with the word cooter for sure.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But yeah, it would be just all these apps, and even if I don't cook them well, I would to just give you the recipe so you could cook them better than me.

[Tig Notaro]

I. I have a great idea for you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Tig Notaro]

Fortune. You gotta make an app for apps. An app.

[Fortune Feimster]

An app app.

[Tig Notaro]

An app app. And it's an app.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

That has appetizer recipes.

[Fortune Feimster]

Look at that. Yes.

[Mae Martin]

And you're going to a potluck dinner. People say, can you bring an app? You go, actually, yeah. And you go right to it. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

You can do all. There's so many different kind of. But dips. I love dips. I love jalapeno poppers.

[Tig Notaro]

Your voice. Dips.

[Fortune Feimster]

When you all talk about crab rangoons.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Pigs in the blanket. Oh, stuff. I love an app.

[Tig Notaro]

One time when I was home sleeping and I had, like, a bunch of comedian roommates, years ago, Henry Phillips called looking for me, and Chris Fairbanks told him I was still asleep, and he said, oh, yeah, it's a. What do you call that? A tig in a blanket.

[Mae Martin]

That's really good.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's nice.

[Mae Martin]

God, that's good.

[Fortune Feimster]

Taking a blanket.

[Tig Notaro]

Meanwhile, I had no idea this hilarious joke was happening while I was. I was in a blanket, still sleeping.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't know why I've never thought of that.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I hadn't either. And just to hear Henry Phillips voice just. Yeah, what is it? A ticket.

[Mae Martin]

The image of you wrapped up in a little blanket is pretty adorable.

[Tig Notaro]

I mean, I am so cute.

[Mae Martin]

You are.

[Tig Notaro]

I am. I'm so cute.

[Fortune Feimster]

So cute. We're all pretty cute.

[Tig Notaro]

We're all very cute. We have a little something to offer everyone. We have such different guns and gams and faces and personalities and everything.

[Mae Martin]

No jugs that's why I'm the one.

[Fortune Feimster]

Over here selling bras.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, slinging bras.

[Fortune Feimster]

Slinging bras to the public in my spare time. I'm slinging bras.

[Tig Notaro]

Are. Are they flying off the shelves when.

[Fortune Feimster]

You'Re flying off the shelf? They're like, if fortune's wearing those, we're in. That's why people come to the handsome pod, because there's a little something for everybody.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my God. I was so lazy about buying bras forever. And I dated this woman years ago, and she brought her mom's old bra over, and I wore her mother's bra and fell apart part because I just. I'm somebody that will wear my underwear until, as Paula Poundstone says, until it turns into a dream catcher. And I wore my ex girlfriend's mother's bra for at least five years. Why? I just. I'm not a shopaholic. I'll be honest with you why I'm wearing. I'm wearing a Nashville comedy festival. That's. I don't shop much. But she. She was like, oh, I think you and my mom have the same size jugs. And before mine were tossed.

[Fortune Feimster]

City committee.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. How dare you.

[Fortune Feimster]

I assume they weren't big before.

[Tig Notaro]

They were not. Look, you knew me when I had them.

[Fortune Feimster]

I know.

[Tig Notaro]

No, they were not big, but they're okay if they jiggle. But. But yeah. She was like, you need a new bra. And then she just brought over my. Her mother's bra one day, and she's like, here, just wear my mother's.

[Mae Martin]

But that wasn't a turn off for me.

[Fortune Feimster]

She just grabbed one bra.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

That's all I needed. And I wore it for five years.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think I might still have it. I'll.

[Tig Notaro]

I'll sign it.

[Fortune Feimster]

I washed it.

[Tig Notaro]

We can all sign my ex girlfriend's. Mother's.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, my God. Sell that on.

[Tig Notaro]

That's probably why I got breast cancer, because I was wearing a dirty bra for years.

[Mae Martin]

Beige from the 1950s bra.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's like two size too big for you.

[Mae Martin]

It's like from. It's got asbestos in it because it's from.

[Fortune Feimster]

The wires have disintegrated.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my God. The wires had come out of the side.

[Fortune Feimster]

This thing gave me breast cancer. Oh, my God.

[Tig Notaro]

It did. It started out radiating white, and then it just was like a sweaty, tattered, sweaty, tattered babe. Anyway, should we hear what Cindy has at what may?

[Mae Martin]

Like, if a charity got in touch with you and was like, do you have something to auction? And you were like, yes, I have. Have My ex. Girlfriend, mother's that I think gave me cancer.

[Fortune Feimster]

May cause cancer.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, God. Okay, let's hear what Cindy has to say.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. You know, I have, but it depends.

[Tig Notaro]

In this one particular period of time in my life, I was a little.

[Mae Martin]

Pissed off, so I decided I was.

[Tig Notaro]

Gonna write the Ajita Cookbook. It's not a cookbook you want to serve to everybody, but, you know, it's like, when you're really pissed off, you know, things that shouldn't go together, you.

[Mae Martin]

Know, to give people you don't really like. But all kidding aside, I have written.

[Tig Notaro]

Recipes down from my grandmother or somebody else's grandmother or their mother.

[Mae Martin]

And I.

[Tig Notaro]

Was my mother's sous chef. So, yes, I do know regular recipes.

[Mae Martin]

But I just think the Ajita Cookbook could be. It could be big. It gets.

[Tig Notaro]

It's funny.

[Mae Martin]

Come on.

[Tig Notaro]

I like it.

[Fortune Feimster]

I like it.

[Tig Notaro]

And I also thought she, when she answered, was just gonna say, yes, I have.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And then that would be the end.

[Fortune Feimster]

That was it.

[Tig Notaro]

You know, when she was just talking, I was thinking, can you imagine if she ever, ever in her life tried to prank call someone? They would just be like, hey, Cindy.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You know, even if you didn't, even if you don't know her personally and she just randomly called you, it'd be.

[Mae Martin]

Like, oh, my God, Cindy's on the phone.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Cindy Lauper's prank calling me.

[Mae Martin]

It's an incredible voice, and there's like a. The, like, musicality of it. It just lends itself to comedic deliver.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, like, I know she should be, like, 247 booked as a voiceover actor. Maybe she is. I have no idea.

[Mae Martin]

But a time in my life wasn't like that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Pissed off.

[Mae Martin]

Pissed off. Yeah. That was incredible. I would. But. But I. She's right that, like, there is something nice about intergenerational recipe transmission. Like, that's really nice. And I should make. I should look for those cookbooks of my grandmother.

[Tig Notaro]

Place intergenerational cookbooks that cause anxiety, stress, or aggravation.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, that was a real treat to have Cyndi Lauper on the handsome pond. She's keeping it handsome, Is she not very handsome. Yeah. She's a pretty little lady.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

I want to know what you guys are have coming up. And I will say, so many people on the tour said, this is the trifecta. I've seen all three of you live. And I want to say that is such a quantifiable and tangible way to support, like, live comedy or performance. And it's really so we can't do it without people showing up. And it's so nice that people like travel and come to shows. It's just like the best way to show some support. So thank you.

[Tig Notaro]

Absolutely. Gosh, people show us so much support. It's kind of embarrassing how much.

[Mae Martin]

Just like your ex girlfriend's mother's bra.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, I'm going to tell you right here and now where I'm going to be where you can show me support with your ex's mom's dirty old bra. June 21, I'm going to be a dynasty typewriter and I have been writing my face off with new materials. So come on down. August 17th, Westampton Beach Performing Arts center in Westampton Beach, New York. That is going to be a grand old time. And then August 23rd, I'll be in in Provincetown, Massachusetts. So come on out. Go to tignotaro.com for ticket information, show information, and I'll see you there.

[Fortune Feimster]

July 20th, I'm in Edmonton, out in Canada with Mateo Lane. And then still in Canada. July 26, I'm doing a gala in Montreal. Then I'm doing it too. Oh yeah, I'm doing your.

[Mae Martin]

I'm doing your gala in Montreal.

[Tig Notaro]

Amazing.

[Fortune Feimster]

Very cool. And then starting in September, a ton of dates. San Antonio, Houston, Norfolk, Virginia and Richmond, Virginia, DC, Portland, Maine, Boston, Burlington, Mobile, New Orleans, tons of stuff. Atlanta, Cincinnati, Chicago, Salt Lake City. You can go to my website, FortuneFeetcher.com for tickets.

[Mae Martin]

I'm not doing a ton. I'm traveling a bunch. But I'm in Montreal for just for laughs on July 25th doing a May Martin and Friends comedy show and doing Fortune some gala. So see you in Montreal.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, please, if you enjoyed a cackle or if you let it jiggle this episode, please share this episode with a friend that you would like to join this handsome community. Subscribe to our podcast and also we have a YouTube page and until next time, keep it handsome. Happy Birthday Fortune Handsome is hosted by.

[Mae Martin]

Me, Mae 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 Handsomepod.

[Fortune Feimster]

What a podcast.

[Mae Martin]

What a podcast. That was a hit gum podcast.

[Tig Notaro]

Some people just know they could save hundreds on car insurance by checking Allstate first.

[Fortune Feimster]

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[Tig Notaro]

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[Fortune Feimster]

Recently, when I was having a moment of gratitude for my group chat, I.

[Tig Notaro]

Thought, I wish everyone could have these geniuses at their fingertips like I do. Well, now you do.

[Mae Martin]

Hi.

[Fortune Feimster]

Hi, it's Hope.

[Mae Martin]

Hey, babe, it's Jamie.

[Tig Notaro]

Welcome to our podcast Landlines, where we share our life sustaining and shame extinguishing friendship.

[Fortune Feimster]

We have known each other and we've been friends for a very long time.

[Mae Martin]

Hope was my first best friend, but it wasn't mutual. I mean, I asked, I distinctly remember, I feel so calling her on the phone and asking if she'd sit next to me on the bus and she said maybe.

[Tig Notaro]

She didn't say no. She wasn't like, discerning.

[Fortune Feimster]

When I was pregnant, I started this.

[Tig Notaro]

Group chat to prepare and crowdsource and it's been such a delight to troubleshoot.

[Fortune Feimster]

With our friend group. And we just had this thought, should we invite other people into our group chat?

[Mae Martin]

I'm a therapist.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm a trained early childhood educator and I'm, well, you know, whatever I am.

[Fortune Feimster]

I guess someone who has the vibe.

[Tig Notaro]

Of having it all together and still the three of us find it hard.

[Fortune Feimster]

To be moms, partners, friends, family members.

[Tig Notaro]

Professional women, and just, you know, adults.

[Mae Martin]

The stuff we're talking about, whatever the recent fight was with our partner or the parenting concern we have or a funny thing with our kids, or it's like, what's going on with my body? I feel like I have like a family of squirrels living in my lower abdomen. Like, I feel affirmed. I feel normalized. I feel like I'm not going fucking crazy.

[Tig Notaro]

And I had to talk it out with you guys with different perspectives and different identities that you're juggling totally. Lifelong friendship has been our lifeline.

[Fortune Feimster]

We sincerely hope our conversation makes you feel less alone in whatever you're going through.

[Tig Notaro]

So subscribe to Landlines on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes are out now on Hudgem. Love you.