Jillian Bell asks about songs in space

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Handsome" Episode - "Jillian Bell Asks About Songs in Space"

Podcast Information:

• Title: Handsome
• Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin
• Guest: Jillian Bell
• Release Date: May 6, 2025
• Episode Theme: Exploring the concept of choosing a song to play in the final moments aboard a spaceship before an inevitable explosion.

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1. Warm-Up and Personal Banter

The episode kicks off with the hosts engaging in their characteristic light-hearted banter, setting a relaxed and humorous tone for the discussion.

• Mae Martin ([02:05]): "Your dear friend Fortune Meme. And Biggie. Sorry, I just woke him up for that."

• Tig Notaro ([02:22]): "He can fall asleep in seconds. He'll be asleep again in two minutes. Don't worry."

This early segment showcases their camaraderie and playful interactions, establishing a comfortable listening environment.

2. Personal Anecdotes and Lifestyle Talks

The hosts delve into personal topics such as sleep challenges and relaxation techniques, sharing relatable experiences and tips.

• Mae Martin ([03:38]): "Yeah. I mean, I was listening to Horrific True Crime podcast right up till I got. Yeah, so that was part of it."

• Fortune Feimster ([03:20]): "And then hold three seconds. So it's like. This..."

They discuss various methods to combat insomnia, including deep breathing exercises and the use of relaxation gadgets, highlighting their openness and honesty.

3. Travel Tales and Security Measures

Transitioning to travel stories, the hosts recount past adventures and mishaps, particularly focusing on Fortune's experience in Paris.

• Fortune Feimster ([10:16]): "I was cycling in Paris... And this guy picked me up and put my bike in the back of his car."

• Tig Notaro ([10:21]): "My only guess is that they. I played sports my whole life..."

Mae shares her experience hiking to Griffith Park Observatory, emphasizing moments of serenity and personal reflection.

4. Comedy, Past Experiences, and Future Plans

The conversation shifts to comedic anecdotes and the hosts' aspirations, including ideas like taking tap dancing classes together.

• May Martin ([22:24]): "Say the word."

• Fortune Feimster ([23:18]): "Guys, I already have a dance instructor ready to teach us here in LA."

Their enthusiasm for new ventures and shared activities underscores the supportive dynamic among the hosts.

5. Introducing the Guest: Jillian Bell

The hosts warmly introduce Jillian Bell, detailing their longstanding friendship and collaborative hopes.

• Tig Notaro ([39:38]): "Our question asker today is a comedian, director and writer. She's starred in so many things like Brittany Runs a Marathon, Rough Night, 22 Jump Street..."

• Fortune Feimster ([42:28]): "Well, listen, no matter how big or small the project, go ahead and throw me in there too, okay?"

This segment highlights their mutual respect and excitement about Jillian's contributions to the episode.

6. Main Discussion: Songs in Space

Jillian Bell poses the central question of the episode: If aboard a spaceship that's about to explode in three to four minutes, what song would each host choose to play as a final comfort?

Host Responses:

• Mae Martin ([43:00]): "You're in space on a spaceship, and you've been told that the spaceship is going to explode. The only thing they can do to comfort you is blast... whatever song you want to go out with a bang on."

• Fortune Feimster ([49:16]): "Mine's 'Kermit the Frog' singing. Yeah, I might want to hear Kermit as I go out."

• Tig Notaro ([51:04]): "I was thinking I was going dramatic for a second, like a Whitney Houston, 'I Will Always Love You'."

The hosts exchange humorous suggestions and reflections on their musical choices, blending sincere sentiments with comedic elements.

• Fortune Feimster ([52:02]): "Mine's epic, too, I think."

• Tig Notaro ([56:04]): "And this is my answer. Nice."

Their discussion incorporates nostalgic references and playful banter, making the topic both heartfelt and entertaining.

7. Closing Remarks and Future Plans

As the episode nears its end, the hosts share updates on their personal projects and upcoming events, maintaining the friendly and engaging atmosphere.

• Fortune Feimster ([58:50]): "I want to just mention right out of the gate here that I have a gig... with Emily Saliers from the Indigo Girls."

• May Martin ([60:41]): "I am very excited because I'm doing three more big music shows where I'm playing my entire album with a band..."

They also briefly touch upon their producer and wrap up with affectionate exchanges, leaving listeners with a sense of warmth and anticipation for future episodes.

• Fortune Feimster ([63:35]): "Extraordinarians."

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Notable Quotes:

• Mae Martin ([03:38]): "I was listening to Horrific True Crime podcast right up till I got. Yeah, so that was part of it."

• Tig Notaro ([06:07]): "Lesbians. We need y'all to continue buying beauty products now."

• Fortune Feimster ([10:21]): "I was cycling in Paris... And this guy picked me up and put my bike in the back of his car."

• Fortune Feimster ([42:43]): "Hello, it's Jillian Bell."

• Tig Notaro ([51:04]): "I was thinking I was going dramatic for a second, like a Whitney Houston, 'I Will Always Love You'."

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Conclusion: This episode of "Handsome" masterfully blends personal stories, humor, and thoughtful discussions, all while addressing Jillian Bell's intriguing question about songs in space. The hosts' chemistry and genuine interactions provide an engaging experience for both new listeners and longtime fans.

Transcript

[Tig Notaro]

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[Mavis Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mavis Martin]

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[Tig Notaro]

Cheers. Cheers.

[Fortune Feimster]

Welcome to the Handsome pod. It is your dear friend Tig Notaro.

[Mavis Martin]

And your dear friend Mavis Martin and.

[Tig Notaro]

Your dear friend Fortune Meme. And Biggie. Sorry, I just woke him up for that.

[Fortune Feimster]

He's like Biggie. Wait, he was asleep and you pulled him?

[Tig Notaro]

I mean, he. He was asleep for like a minute.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I'm the villain for calling him what he is.

[Tig Notaro]

He. He. He can fall asleep in seconds. He'll be asleep again in two minutes. Don't worry.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, to be Biggie. I mean, I can fall asleep quickly, but I cannot stay that way.

[Tig Notaro]

I'll. I'll wake him up again in a little bit later in the pod to see. We'll check in on him.

[Fortune Feimster]

All right, good to know.

[Mavis Martin]

I could not sleep last night and I tried your. Oh, vaguely in my memory, Tig, you said all you do is, like, six deep breaths or something like that. I do three sounds so easy.

[Fortune Feimster]

Three.

[Mavis Martin]

And that's it?

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, it's not just three deep breaths. It's. And I don't know if this is right or wrong for breathing techniques, but this is one I was taught. And I do it as soon as I'm ready to fall asleep. I. I do a deep inhale through my nose, and then I pause and then continue the deep inhale. So. And. And then hold three seconds. So it's like. This.

[Mavis Martin]

Takes counting.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then exhale very slowly. Like you are really, really slowly exhaling as slowly as possible.

[Mavis Martin]

Okay, I'm gonna try that next time.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. So you're having trouble sleeping?

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah. I mean, I was listening to Horrific True Crime podcast right up till I got. Yeah, so that was part of it.

[Tig Notaro]

That's probably not.

[Mavis Martin]

And then I tried the breathing, and then.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's a good idea.

[Mavis Martin]

I don't know if you remember Fortune talking about the De Puffer. This is not an ad. This is, fortunately the De Puffer. And I was like, I'm getting it. I got it as soon as we got. You got yours. And so this is like. It's like a facial influenced 100 influence. This is like a facial.

[Tig Notaro]

Used it yet?

[Mavis Martin]

Yes, I did it last night in bed.

[Tig Notaro]

What do you think?

[Mavis Martin]

I did it on the hot setting. This is like a facial massaging wand, not a vibrator.

[Fortune Feimster]

Boy, is this a two against one.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Look at this. I think you go hot first and then cold.

[Mavis Martin]

I just wanted to relax.

[Fortune Feimster]

You just described my personality to a T. Okay, so Fortune and May are a real YouTube dream right now. A real YouTube dream. They are claiming these are not.

[Tig Notaro]

These really. It's really not a sponsored ad. It's just.

[Fortune Feimster]

But you're also claiming it's not a vibrator.

[Tig Notaro]

It's also not a vibrator, but it very much looks like one. Right?

[Fortune Feimster]

Biggie.

[Tig Notaro]

But it is deposited.

[Mavis Martin]

It doesn't vibrate. It just gets hot and cold.

[Tig Notaro]

But, like, immediately.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, it's incredible.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm a beauty influencer, y'all.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, I know.

[Tig Notaro]

I should put on. Guys, did I put on this before? What is that from a. You know, we had JLO sponsor us at one point.

[Mavis Martin]

Oh, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I feel like I've seen it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wait, did she drop out of.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't know.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Why did she drop out? It wasn't believable.

[Tig Notaro]

There were enough lesbians buying.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wait, Thomas, why did JLO drop out?

[Tig Notaro]

There were not enough lesbians buying Jo's beauty products.

[Fortune Feimster]

Also.

[Tig Notaro]

We got a lifetime of memories.

[Fortune Feimster]

Did we?

[Tig Notaro]

And I have Name one.

[Fortune Feimster]

Name one memory, though.

[Mavis Martin]

This is one. Look, if y'all think that we don't.

[Tig Notaro]

Stand by some of our products.

[Fortune Feimster]

My only memory now. My only memory now of JLo is that she dropped out of sponsoring our gay faces.

[Tig Notaro]

As long as the bra companies stick with us. Come on, y'all. Yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

Don't leave us.

[Fortune Feimster]

We got your bras, we got your makeup.

[Tig Notaro]

Lesbians. We need y'all to continue buying beauty products now.

[Fortune Feimster]

Or at least start.

[Mavis Martin]

You're drinking. I can see what looks like an iced coffee, but I'm going to presume this is decaf.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes. Yeah, it is. An iced decaf Americano.

[Tig Notaro]

You know what I'm doing for myself today?

[Mavis Martin]

What's yourself.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm gonna go get myself a nice coffee drink and I'm gonna take Biggie and we're gonna sit on a bench somewhere and we're just gonna be.

[Fortune Feimster]

I say, hell yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You ever do that? Just sit up? Sometimes I just go sit on the bench somewhere and I just. I don't. We're always listening to music at different places around.

[Fortune Feimster]

Is this one of those things or. You know, it feels very much like a. Like a after school type movie that you would see where it's like, well, I haven't seen Fortune. Where is she? Well, you know, she's probably sitting on her bench.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then they go find you there and you're having some deep thoughts.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm like, people really think I'm crazy. I will go find a bench in random places and just sit and be have.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, that is the least crazy. That is. That's what you should be doing. Is there grass by your bench? Can you take benches?

[Tig Notaro]

I don't have a bench.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, right.

[Mavis Martin]

So it's not a bench that you bring with you that you wheel around?

[Tig Notaro]

There's.

[Fortune Feimster]

There's several.

[Tig Notaro]

One. There's some ones in parks. There's ones at like one of those outdoor.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, I know where benches are. I wondered where your after sometimes a special bench was.

[Tig Notaro]

No, I don't do a bus bench. But.

[Mavis Martin]

But that's like. What's crazy is that we feel the need to, like, document every second of our lives. Like, it's so nice to just go be and not have to post a picture of you on your bench.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

Not to have to be.

[Fortune Feimster]

Can you post a picture?

[Tig Notaro]

I'm just being.

[Mavis Martin]

Hey, just being. Hashtag being.

[Fortune Feimster]

Here's what I think this Is really great. I think we can all agree Fortune could. Could use some bench time with Biggie. And here is really what I'm going to suggest. You go to your bench that's got grass. You take your little hooves off and you put your little toes in the grass. Oh, I like that. And you ground yourself.

[Tig Notaro]

I like that. That feels. The idea of that feels nice.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

It's like comedian Fortune Feimster falls on hard times barefoot at a bench. Friends concern.

[Tig Notaro]

Like it's self care leave alone.

[Mavis Martin]

I went on a. On. On Easter Sunday, I went on a hike up to like Griffith Park Observatory.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

I found a nice bench there looking out over the thing and up there there was like someone had made like a circle of stones. Like a meditation. It was like a.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's probably Fortune.

[Mavis Martin]

It was probably for.

[Tig Notaro]

Did you make a spiral bench visit?

[Fortune Feimster]

That's her bench.

[Tig Notaro]

And she benches on those hikes. I've done those.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah. In the middle of this spiral of stones, people had left like little offerings, like a marble, a crystal. This is my kind of vibe.

[Tig Notaro]

Right.

[Mavis Martin]

So I left a penny that I found and then I left a little note with a poem on it and I hid it under a rock.

[Tig Notaro]

Aw.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, I love that there's a spiral because quite possibly people that are in spirals are going there to spend time to clear their minds.

[Mavis Martin]

Exactly. And the spiral is a powerful presence in the world. Snails shells. This pattern's in nature. Or you see these whales that are just making spiral patterns with their air bubbles in the ocean and they're like perfect spirals. Like. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Anyway, if my memory serves me, which it typically doesn't, that is the layout of Paris. Right. Is like a shell. A snail shell.

[Mavis Martin]

Really?

[Fortune Feimster]

I think so. Thomas, are you looking it up?

[Tig Notaro]

You know where I need to go sit on a bench is in Paris.

[Mavis Martin]

Oh, man.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

Can we come?

[Tig Notaro]

Put it on the list. I would love to go to Paris.

[Fortune Feimster]

Have you been?

[Tig Notaro]

Many times. But I would love to go back. Maybe I'll go this summer.

[Mavis Martin]

The 20 irondismants are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral often linked to a snail shell. Starting from the middle of the city of Paris with the first on the right bank in brackets, north bank of the Seine.

[Fortune Feimster]

Look at these. Tig fact.

[Mavis Martin]

Tig love that.

[Fortune Feimster]

I was cycling in Paris. I used to do long distance cycling and I was training for a five day trip where I was doing 50 to 100 miles a day. So I went to France to train and flew into Paris. And my first night there, I went on A bike ride. And I got completely lost. And I kept telling myself, just keep the Eiffel Tower in sight. But that didn't help at all. I could see the Eiffel Tower, but I didn't know where the hell I was or where I was going. And this was before there were cell phones and GPS and all that. Maybe there were cell phones, but, you know, only billionaires had them. And so I got lost, and this guy picked me up and put my bike in the back of his car. And he didn't really speak English at all, but he somehow got me back to where I was staying. And what he explained to me was this whole snail thing of the layout of Paris.

[Tig Notaro]

Wow.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

And those were the days. No maps, no Google Maps, and you just throw in your bike in the.

[Fortune Feimster]

Back of some guy's truck and hope nobody kills you.

[Tig Notaro]

I know.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

When I lived in Europe in, oh, two, I would sleep in these chamber rooms and hostels with complete strangers.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I mean, me and this man shared a room in Germany. And I'm like, I don't know this guy that could. I could be murdered. But you just did it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, you can be murdered in your own home, but let's not go into that.

[Tig Notaro]

That is a hard, cold fact.

[Fortune Feimster]

Thank you, sir.

[Tig Notaro]

Reminding me.

[Mavis Martin]

I actually just got a bunch of security cameras. I've been living fast and loose. Like, I had. I. My gate was broken. I had no security cameras. I kept losing my key, and then now I've got a baseball bat under my bed and I got security. Well, everyone said I should.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, why not?

[Fortune Feimster]

Are you inviting a lot of strangers back to your house?

[Mavis Martin]

Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

I think we have bear spray somewhere.

[Mavis Martin]

Do you really? No. I'm going to spray, like, a wooden baseball bat. And then they said, oh, you should put a sock over it. So if you get.

[Fortune Feimster]

The person tries to grab it.

[Mavis Martin]

Oh, I already said this.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay, well, I didn't know that you were really gearing up for a massive attack, but I do remember you mentioning putting a sock over a baseball bat. And that's a really good idea.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Safety first. Safety first.

[Fortune Feimster]

But now everybody knows when they break.

[Tig Notaro]

In your house, they're like, I know not to grab that baseball bat.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I want to remind people my really good defense of, like, getting on your back and just kicking wildly, like, if anybody's coming at you. And I do think that comes from my childhood when my brother would attack me, I would just get on my back.

[Tig Notaro]

And I took one semester of karate in college because I think I had to have a credit in something. And I did learn some pretty good skills. I did learn how to break a guy's kneecap if needed.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, how, how, how?

[Tig Notaro]

You have to kick down, kick out and down.

[Fortune Feimster]

But I don't know what that means. What do you mean?

[Tig Notaro]

I'd have to show you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, stand up. Come on. This is life. Come on, Fortune.

[Tig Notaro]

I. I don't have the room.

[Fortune Feimster]

You don't have pants on.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't have pants on.

[Mavis Martin]

Out and down. Okay. Yeah, I can picture that. So you're hitting it from the top on an angle.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Our next live record. I'll show you how to do it.

[Mavis Martin]

Next live record. You break Tigs. Kneecaps.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I know.

[Tig Notaro]

Broke. I broke a wooden thing with my foot as well.

[Fortune Feimster]

Would you just call it maybe wood?

[Mavis Martin]

You know what?

[Tig Notaro]

It was big.

[Fortune Feimster]

I broke a piece of wood.

[Tig Notaro]

A block of wood.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Mavis Martin]

With your forehead would be really badass.

[Tig Notaro]

No, I know, but it was with my foot. You know how strong my gams are.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Oh, boy, do we. How did you get those gams, by the way?

[Tig Notaro]

My only guess is that they. I played sports my whole life, so I grew up playing soccer, softball, basketball and tennis.

[Fortune Feimster]

But I don't feel like Abby even has calves like that.

[Tig Notaro]

I played collegiate tennis all four years and collegiate soccer my senior year, so I ran all the time. But I don't know. I think part of it's genetics.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah. Do you remember the. In. In sort of like college age, guys were really into crushing cans on their head. Like, you. You finish the can and then you crush the can on their head. Is that still. Do you think people still do that?

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't run around in that circle. Yeah. I really don't. I'm in bed by nine, but.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, I've never done it either.

[Tig Notaro]

Me neither.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

You ever done a keg stand?

[Tig Notaro]

No.

[Fortune Feimster]

Do you not. Do you really not know?

[Mavis Martin]

Oh, you haven't?

[Fortune Feimster]

No.

[Mavis Martin]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

Thomas, should I answer this? Yeah, I've done the keg stand.

[Tig Notaro]

Thomas Marie, honestly, Tig, we don't know. Like, in your past, there are some wild things you did do.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, my gosh. I did wild things, but not alcohol or drug wild.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, okay. I don't think we knew that.

[Mavis Martin]

You're, like, you walked on train tracks or you robbed a guy or you.

[Fortune Feimster]

So, wait, you're saying you don't know that I didn't have, like.

[Tig Notaro]

Like in your younger. In your dyke days, when you had the. Remember the. Your. Okay. Dyke picture?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. You're saying I Could have been jacked up on drugs and alcohol.

[Mavis Martin]

I didn't.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't think you were jacked up on anything, but I didn't know how much you dabbled. Mm.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think I was just jacked up on gayness, but I am.

[Tig Notaro]

I. Yeah, you were pretty gay.

[Fortune Feimster]

I didn't. I didn't really drink alcohol until maybe till I was 30. I mean, of course, I had had a drink here and there, but I didn't casually drink alcohol till I was 30. I think it was mainly because I was dating somebody that drank more than casually. She drank way more than casually.

[Tig Notaro]

So you had to be in charge.

[Fortune Feimster]

Not just in charge. It was more. So I was drinking to make our relationship make sense.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And. And then after that. Yeah, whatever. Who cares? But no, I don't have any. I think, like, once a year, and I really don't even. Really even drink a drink even anymore. But maybe we've seen you have the.

[Mavis Martin]

Sip of whiskey here and there, you know.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. You had a margarita in the past, like, six months. I would say it's. I. I've stopped.

[Mavis Martin]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

Even. Even a little sip of whiskey or a margarita or something, but I feel like it's.

[Mavis Martin]

Probably so many comedians have done this joke that it's hacked, but it did happen to me. So I will say that on Easter, I had ordered food delivery, and so I got a notification on my phone from Uber Eats that said, jesus is on the way. Yeah, that was pretty.

[Fortune Feimster]

And it was on Easter.

[Mavis Martin]

It was on Easter.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah. And the driver was called Jesus risen.

[Fortune Feimster]

I thought you were going to say the joke that I made, which I. I'm sure I'm not the first, but we were going to an Easter egg hunt with Max and Finn, and. And somebody said something about the. Easy. The egg hunt. What time. What time is the egg hunt start? And I said, well, hasn't that been our entire last year? Huh? Hunting for eggs. Hello. What? Yeah, eggs are hard to come by because, you know. Have you not heard about this?

[Tig Notaro]

They're expensive. And the bird flu.

[Mavis Martin]

Oh, I thought you were talking about, like, a fertility thing.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wow.

[Mavis Martin]

Wow. We go. You're trying to freeze.

[Tig Notaro]

To be fair, may it great jokes. No. No offense, Fortune.

[Fortune Feimster]

You think that was a good joke that we've all been hunting for eggs?

[Mavis Martin]

I have not been hunting for. They're on the shelves.

[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mavis Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mavis Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mavis Martin]

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[Mavis Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mavis Martin]

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[Tig Notaro]

They're coming back. But there was a. There was a moment there where they were very hard to find.

[Fortune Feimster]

I mean, I'm not hunting for him. Thank you. So my joke was stellar.

[Mavis Martin]

It would be funny if. If you and Stephanie got a babysitter for Max and Finn so that you guys could go to an Easter egg hunt. That'd be funny.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Easter is so much more fun when you have a child.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, it's really not a thing if you don't.

[Tig Notaro]

When you don't have a child, you're like. I mean, I don't celebrate Jesus. You celebrate Jesus and all that stuff for sure.

[Fortune Feimster]

I disagree with the fun thing because my friend Beth, it is her favorite holiday. And before we had Max and Finn as adult. And. And Beth and I are like friends from way back. We, we, we, we times. And she organizes and used to organize adult egg hunts. Oh, we had so much fun.

[Tig Notaro]

So.

[Fortune Feimster]

How dare you say it's only fun with a kid? We would have. We would have a whole brunch and we would all get a basket and. Oh, I love that. Yeah, it. Max and Finn came along, and now we just transferred it over to them.

[Tig Notaro]

And I need to start organizing more social things.

[Fortune Feimster]

Let's do the word.

[Mavis Martin]

Say the word.

[Tig Notaro]

And I'll. I'll get into my social phase this summer.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes, you will.

[Mavis Martin]

Activities, though, like, activities are where it's at for me. That's what'll get me out.

[Tig Notaro]

We're going to be social butterflies this summer.

[Mavis Martin]

Dinners down, you know.

[Tig Notaro]

You know what? Also, I want to do, since the love tap dancing has. Has come to the forefront even more. Yeah, I want to go. I want to take a. Like a tap class for real. But I feel like they only do it for children, so I wanted to. I wanted.

[Fortune Feimster]

Guys, I already have a dance instructor ready to teach us here in la.

[Tig Notaro]

That's true. But I also want to go to a kid's tap dancing class.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay, my kids, let's talk about this.

[Tig Notaro]

Weird, because then I. We'll all be learning at the same pace.

[Mavis Martin]

Well, my suggestion is that. Because that amazing dance teacher from our live show want to teach us.

[Tig Notaro]

Buffoons.

[Mavis Martin]

Well, she. She's been like, DM me some suggestions of classes. What if we all pay her an exorbitant amount of money to do a private class, just the three of us. It's a big.

[Fortune Feimster]

She lives in Austin, and also she's a major choreographer.

[Mavis Martin]

I know.

[Tig Notaro]

And, you know, we're. We test patience.

[Fortune Feimster]

But I need to go Back to Fortune saying, we would all learn at the same level. Even if you're not a small child.

[Tig Notaro]

Your small child is learning the basics.

[Fortune Feimster]

So are we.

[Tig Notaro]

And I think we need that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay. But we are, too. So we're still learning at that same level. It's. But we can get a private.

[Tig Notaro]

Are there adult classes that teach at that level? I feel like I need to join the seven year olds.

[Fortune Feimster]

Fortune, Marie, listen to me. We. I have an instructor.

[Tig Notaro]

Although, wouldn't that be funny?

[Fortune Feimster]

And we could have dance recitals. Okay. But fortunately, I need a child. I have a dance and instructor that will teach us a private lesson, the three of us.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

And so we can have our own recital. And we will do that.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay. Invite our friends.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes.

[Mavis Martin]

Oh, my God, yes. Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

Do it.

[Fortune Feimster]

I love that it is so hard, Thomas.

[Mavis Martin]

Even scheduled, I feel like we will make the time if this is like, I will do that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes.

[Mavis Martin]

By the way, I have a friend who told me that her parents love Easter and love the aesthetic. And they're always like, like their Internet password, Easter Bunny and stuff like that. And then her and her siblings were sitting around and they were like, wait, we're all born in January? That means we were all conceived around Easter time. And they brought this to the parents, and they were like, yeah, well, your father worked a lot, and that was the one day off was Easter. And they're like, what? So this whole time, like, the Internet password is Easter Bunny, and this is all a reference to how you guys bone every Easter.

[Tig Notaro]

Doing it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like bunnies.

[Mavis Martin]

I know.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Look at that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like bunnies.

[Tig Notaro]

That's a real. That is a real love of Easter.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And the Lord.

[Tig Notaro]

And the Lord bless you and keep you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Thank you, Fortune.

[Tig Notaro]

The Lord make his face to shine upon you. To shine upon you. Okay, sorry.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, no, don't be sorry.

[Mavis Martin]

Don't be sorry.

[Fortune Feimster]

I mean, I was thinking of getting the show moving along, but then one of my favorite things in the world.

[Tig Notaro]

Is to hear is a hymn.

[Mavis Martin]

Fervor, especially. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Just because you're gracious unto you.

[Mavis Martin]

What does it mean when they talk about countenance divine? And, like, is your countenance your face?

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't know.

[Mavis Martin]

Countenance divide, like, I think it's a real. Like a religious term for your. Your face.

[Tig Notaro]

Let's find out.

[Fortune Feimster]

Speaking of religious faces, the Pope checked out.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, I know, I know. Aren't you glad you know? Yeah, it is. Countenance is a person's face or facial expression.

[Mavis Martin]

Well, you have a beautiful countenance.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes, you do.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah. Tig, it's nice that you got to go and meet the. Who knows what the next Pope will be like? It could be a scary Pope. So it's good that you. I'm. I've seen online people calling me a conspiracy theorist and saying I'm gullible, but I will say that there is a prophecy of the Popes that said that this Pope would be the last before the end of the world. And so when he passed, I got a little nervous.

[Fortune Feimster]

And so what makes you nervous about the end of the world?

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, good point, actually, when you put it that way.

[Fortune Feimster]

Because if we're all gone.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah. I'm ready to see what's happening.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't want it to happen. But I was just wondering what your nerves are about.

[Mavis Martin]

Well, yeah. Isn't it kind of dark that I feel more comfortable at the end of the world? Because I wouldn't be missing out on anything and everybody would be dead. Like I'm. I'm less scared of that than my own death. No. I don't know. But they just. They just found the most, like, the most. They found evidence of life on another planet.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah, I saw that.

[Mavis Martin]

Yes. Recently.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's not confirmed, is it not.

[Tig Notaro]

It.

[Mavis Martin]

It was. It's like 124 light years away or something. And it's. It's all. It's it's the. The gases that creatures emit.

[Tig Notaro]

Creatures.

[Fortune Feimster]

Fortune. Please let the scientists speak.

[Tig Notaro]

Can you tell me more about the creatures?

[Fortune Feimster]

I. It was my. I think. Unless I read something else. I think they have a lot of reason to believe this is what's going on, but it's not fully one hundo.

[Mavis Martin]

Sorry. Fortunately, shown as a creature.

[Fortune Feimster]

Fortunately it's attention. Because we were right in the middle of getting some very updated information. From a scientist.

[Mavis Martin]

Dignitary.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, from you. I'm calling you the scientist. You were saying gases and stuff, but.

[Mavis Martin]

Then you were following it up with equally well researched.

[Tig Notaro]

Was it of Mayfact that you were sharing that someone felt it was a conspiracy theory? Was that what you were saying?

[Mavis Martin]

I made the mistake of dipping in to a little Reddit thread about. And. And it was like, oh, May's so gullible. And this is.

[Tig Notaro]

I see.

[Mavis Martin]

But listen, I just like a little joy in my life and I like to entertain the possibility that all these things are true.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Mavis Martin]

Does it cause me stress? Yes. Am I overwhelmed? Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

And did take. And I know at any moment what you're talking about.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, no, no. But you try the deep breathing.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

See if it helps buy the tinfoil hat. And by the way, real quick when we. We should move into our question, but does anybody have any feelings about all of the ladies that went off into space?

[Mavis Martin]

Well, I feel like fortune's kinder than me. I. I love it when the Internet kind of unites sense of humor wise and finds the same thing funny. Yeah. It makes me feel like the human population has the same sense of humor. And so I am enjoying the content of like the ridiculousness of Katy Perry singing up there. And, you know, it was funny. It was fun.

[Fortune Feimster]

Here's my, here's my question.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Is let's say. Because I, I understand what you're saying. My concern is I don't like pylons.

[Mavis Martin]

Right.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Because I know.

[Tig Notaro]

And it's, you know, they're just going, going to space.

[Fortune Feimster]

And look, you can be like, absolutely, you, you. It wasn't great for the environment. Absolutely. There was some over the top reactions to what they were doing. And yes, money could have been spent in different ways, but. Okay. And then, and then it's like.

[Mavis Martin]

It just felt kind of tone deaf, I guess is what people are feeling. But. Yeah, you're right. I guess. I guess. But it was pretty.

[Tig Notaro]

I mean, I love Gail.

[Mavis Martin]

I love Gail.

[Tig Notaro]

I like running into Gail. She's like, hey, Fortune. She's always so nice. I don't want to. To support my Gail.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah, sure, sure. Gail's. Gail's great. And look, there's no. I'm just curious because of course there's like funny things. But then I go, o. But these are actual people.

[Mavis Martin]

I know, I know, I know. It's easy.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't like the pylons either.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't like pylons.

[Tig Notaro]

Just I'm like, oh, gosh, right. I don't like yucking people's yum.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, that's a good expression.

[Tig Notaro]

They had, they had a. They. It was special to them.

[Mavis Martin]

It was powerful for them. Yeah. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You know. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But yes. Yes. There's. There was tone deaf moments. There was easy targets and not great for the planet and money.

[Mavis Martin]

I just, I kind of. It passed me by and then. So I only heard about it or was aware of it, like when it happened. I didn't really know it was happening. And.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

I think it just felt just. Some things feel surreal. It just felt like we're. It was just slightly surreal.

[Tig Notaro]

It was like.

[Mavis Martin]

I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about this.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

Cool.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I was just curious. I. I didn't follow it too Much.

[Tig Notaro]

It.

[Fortune Feimster]

It. Somebody. Well, Stephanie sent me a random person sent me something about it, and I was like, I totally get it, but I'm just like, man, it stresses me out when there's a pile on. On people.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, but haven't groups of men gone to space? And was it this big of a deal?

[Mavis Martin]

Well, that was. The thing is they were like, women power and you and unite. And it just.

[Fortune Feimster]

It felt like it probably wasn't a lot. It probably wasn't eight men holding hands and singing. You know, like, I love when ladies.

[Tig Notaro]

Hold hands and sing. I love for it. That's my favorite part of any lady hanging.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm all for it, and I'm all for spending money in the best way possible and doing all the right things. But let's say somebody. There was a glitch.

[Mavis Martin]

And this is a constant debate in my family, too, because I. I love space and I care about space and space travel.

[Fortune Feimster]

Now you sound like Katy Perry.

[Tig Notaro]

Did she say that up there?

[Fortune Feimster]

No.

[Mavis Martin]

And that must have taken a lot of restraint, which I respect.

[Tig Notaro]

Me song if you're gonna one.

[Mavis Martin]

I know.

[Fortune Feimster]

And can I tell you, Stephanie, I love Katy Perry, and she got me tickets to her concert years ago. Maybe. I've talked about this.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I did.

[Mavis Martin]

Hilarious. There were lots picturing you pop into.

[Tig Notaro]

Katy Perry and sharks dancing in the background.

[Fortune Feimster]

I did not know that she appeals to kids. I was like, what the hell?

[Tig Notaro]

She's like, appeals to kids now.

[Mavis Martin]

What if we showed up to our live podcast and the whole audience was kids, and we were like, oh, we didn't know this was our demographic.

[Tig Notaro]

I guess probably our friends from the tap dancing class.

[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mavis Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mavis Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mavis Martin]

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[Tig Notaro]

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[Mavis Martin]

But this is a big debate in my house between my mom and I because, yeah, we care a lot about space travel, but also, like, the money that's spent. And. And it would be so easy to solve, you know, world hunger.

[Tig Notaro]

That part would be nice for sure.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah. And. And also now that space travel seems all connected to these billionaires and sort of eccentric, it would be nice for.

[Tig Notaro]

All the money that Jeff Bezos spends. Like when he spends a big chunk of money on something, he also donates a big chunk of money to something else. That would be nice.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Because he has the means to do that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes, he does.

[Tig Notaro]

Tenfold.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

So maybe.

[Fortune Feimster]

You hear us, Jeff?

[Tig Notaro]

You hear us? Oh, Bezos.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm sure Stephanie did a commercial with him and nobody on set could call him Jeff Bezos. They could only call him Big Bird.

[Mavis Martin]

Wait, he requested that?

[Fortune Feimster]

I guess because of, like, kidnapping. Like, oh, my God, Big Bird is in the building. Yes, Big Bird. And it's like, why not come up with something like Carl or something? Because Big Bird, you know, Big Bird's not there.

[Mavis Martin]

You know, that's ostentatious.

[Fortune Feimster]

People would be like, why? What? Big Bird. Wait, I gotta go see that bird.

[Tig Notaro]

They're like, that's not a real person. Let's look into that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

Like, you know how when people. Celebrities check into hotels and they'll use names like Big Bird or like Al Capone?

[Fortune Feimster]

Nobody uses Big Bird when they check into a hotel, man.

[Mavis Martin]

But if I was a stalker and I wanted to find someone, I'd go to the front desk and go, hey, is there any. Is there anyone staying here with an insane name?

[Tig Notaro]

Like, is there like, Big Bird? Yeah, that's.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Connect me to Big Bird's room, please. All right, should we get to our question?

[Tig Notaro]

We go, Bird's name. Big.

[Fortune Feimster]

Hello, Ms. Bird, I'm sorry to bother you, but there is somebody at the front desk. Okay, I can't read anymore. So if somebody could introduce.

[Tig Notaro]

Because Jillian is one of my best friends.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wow.

[Mavis Martin]

Are you serious?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

I didn't know that.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. I will tell you who this is and then tell you how we're best friends.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Tig Notaro]

Our question asker today is a comedian, director and writer. She's starred in so many things like Brittany Runs a marathon, rough night, 22 Jump Street. She doesn't workaholics. And she just co wrote and directed this new movie called Summer of 69 that's going to be streaming on Hulu May 9th. She is amazing. She's one of my best friends. Jillian Bell is today's question asker. And yeah, we go back from. We met at the groundlings 15 years ago. 16 years ago. We were neighbors in two different neighborhoods for years. Her sister Brianna is one of my dear friends bestie too. And I love her so much. We have been trying to get a movie made together for a while and it is my dream that that happens.

[Mavis Martin]

That would be a great pairing because.

[Tig Notaro]

She'S one of the funniest people ever.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'd like to be in it as well. I have a lot to say about her.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

As you know, I don't follow a lot of pop culture, TV and film. Stephanie and I, we were like, let's go see a movie. This was years ago whenever the Britney runs a Marathon came out and she suggested we go to that. And I was like, had no idea what this movie was. Honestly wasn't. I don't think I was familiar with Gillian. And we went to that movie and I was like, this is so good. This person is so funny.

[Mavis Martin]

I need to watch it.

[Fortune Feimster]

And it just opened my whole world to this person. And I think work, working in comedy, you know, you can get kind of run down with it and, and not easily amused. And she is so deeply funny. And I know everybody already knows this, but I, yeah, I'm very impressed.

[Mavis Martin]

As soon as you met her, did you know this is someone with funny.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my God. When. If you watch Jillian at the Growlings back in the day, she's so unique. Her point of view is like no one else's. And you were like, who is this person? And she, she wrote all those sketches herself. So her point of view was like, how does she come up with that? Where does that, how does her brain work like that? It. She's just so like, I am dying for us to get to do something big together. We've been writing the script we. For years. It's just been. We always are like, we have to, we have to like have something together because. But she's just such a great person. She's like just There when you need her. A good person, kind heart.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, listen, no matter how big or small the project, go ahead and throw me in there too, okay? Because big fan right here of Jillian Bell.

[Mavis Martin]

Let's hear a question.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, hello, it's Jillian Bell.

[Mavis Martin]

Oh, I'm so excited to be talking to the most handsome people on earth. Speaking of Earth, here's my question.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay. You're in space on a spaceship, and.

[Mavis Martin]

You'Ve been told that the spaceship is going to explode.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yikes.

[Tig Notaro]

In three to four minutes. Wow.

[Mavis Martin]

The only thing they can do to comfort you.

[Fortune Feimster]

This seems very.

[Tig Notaro]

Julian.

[Mavis Martin]

Blast. Whatever song you want to. To go out with a bang on.

[Fortune Feimster]

What are you gonna play?

[Tig Notaro]

And follow up question. Would you ever go to space? Interesting. Can you believe that we were just talking about that?

[Fortune Feimster]

I can.

[Tig Notaro]

So now it's the handsome. Now it's the handsome shuttle. Hopefully there's no. What does it matter if this expedition gets backlash? Because apparently we're dying.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, yeah. It'll be like the. What was it? Didn't Buddy Holly and a bunch of people die in a plane crash?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes, yes, yes. That was. The music died.

[Mavis Martin]

That was the day the music. Yeah, that wouldn't be a bad choice of song.

[Fortune Feimster]

And you know what I. The Big Bopper was on that. Yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

Richie Val.

[Fortune Feimster]

Richie Valens. And what a name. And then Buddy Holly. And I remember, you know, Buddy Holly has that famous song.

[Mavis Martin]

Every day.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, what is it?

[Mavis Martin]

Love like yours will surely come my way.

[Fortune Feimster]

There's that. And then also. Oh, wow. I've completely spaced it. Anyway, I'll come back out. I'll come back to it. That'll be the day when you say. Yeah. That'll be the day when you say goodbye. That'll be the day. Yeah. And when you say goodbye. Something about when I die. And then boom, he died.

[Mavis Martin]

Well, would you go to space?

[Fortune Feimster]

I would not.

[Mavis Martin]

I would not go in a shuttle, but I would go in a hot air balloon through the ozone layer. Because that is what Joe Kittinger did. He was the first person to see the earth from space. And you can. In a hot air balloon with like a breathing mask and a spacesuit, but exposed and then jumped off and free fell and parachuted. And same with that Red Bull guy did it.

[Tig Notaro]

Nothing.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, guy jacked up on Red Bull.

[Mavis Martin]

Jumped out of a Red Bull promotional thing.

[Tig Notaro]

Red Bull.

[Fortune Feimster]

He was full of Red Bull and vodka and just jumped out of the hot air balloon.

[Mavis Martin]

I'm an astronaut cuz I'm stressed about the mechanics and the machinery and the. And the pollution and stuff. But a hot air balloon, I feel like, is simple, it's going to be fine, and then I can jump and parachute. So I would do that, but I don't think I would go in a spaceship.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't even know if I'd go in a hot air balloon.

[Mavis Martin]

Really?

[Fortune Feimster]

No.

[Mavis Martin]

Well, even if you weren't going to space, no.

[Fortune Feimster]

I didn't know hot air balloons went to space.

[Tig Notaro]

How weird. I didn't know. Possible.

[Fortune Feimster]

And a hot air balloon passes you.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, that was like actually a big faux pas.

[Mavis Martin]

Well, it's probably a special hot air balloon. Hot air balloon community. It's a big faux pas.

[Tig Notaro]

You're going way too high. That's a big faux pas.

[Mavis Martin]

That's a big faux pas.

[Tig Notaro]

We don't do that in this air. Hot air balloon community.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wait, would you go to space? Fortune?

[Tig Notaro]

I like space in that, like, I like to look into telescopes and learn about planets and things like that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Sure.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't want to go to space just because it's like there's a rocket attached to you and it's, you know.

[Fortune Feimster]

Lots of fuel, could blow up.

[Tig Notaro]

Many times.

[Mavis Martin]

Many times.

[Tig Notaro]

I just, Yeah, I don't know. I, I, the reward of it is not big enough for the risk for me.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. I feel like, what do I need up there?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, to float. I mean, like a sense of twist.

[Fortune Feimster]

We tread water.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, we tread water. What do we need to float for in space?

[Mavis Martin]

Katy Perry came back with all this kind of perspective on love and unity, but William Shatner went to space and he came back and had a very different take, which he was like, it is hostile up there. We should not be there.

[Tig Notaro]

For real.

[Mavis Martin]

A cold and hot, desolate, hostile environment.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay, well, yeah, I mean, I was just thinking, I'm from the Star Trek world. You, yeah, exactly.

[Tig Notaro]

You don't even want to go.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't want to go at all. I just, I just want to wander around my neighborhood and I, I understand.

[Tig Notaro]

Why people do it, obviously. It's just not anything I've ever aspired to do.

[Mavis Martin]

And so. Okay, you get the message. This poor person is tasked with telling you, okay, you got four minutes and it's gonna explode.

[Tig Notaro]

And we're uploading your Spotify playlist.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Also the person that's telling you. Oh, oh, it's if, oh, you're, you're saying the person from, like, Earth is contacting you.

[Mavis Martin]

Okay, Houston.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, Houston.

[Tig Notaro]

I mean, maybe the Katy Perry's fireworks song also is good for this.

[Fortune Feimster]

I might want something like the Rainbow Connection, some oh, Kermit the Frog. Yeah. I might want to hear Kermit as I go out.

[Mavis Martin]

Something really soothing and kind of your inner child. Yeah, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I. Here's Kermit's on My Mind, because I was. Do you know who the singer. This is a stretch, but do you know who Lucas Nelson is? Willie Nelson's son. He is so cool.

[Tig Notaro]

So cool.

[Fortune Feimster]

He's so cute, so talented. And he did this post on Instagram about how he got sober, he got in shape, pulled his life together, and. And did something he had always been scared of, but wanted to do. He's scared to fly, and so he got his pilot license, and he was just, like, making this announcement of, like, basically somebody that really turned their life around and did something that scared them. And I just found it inspiring and. And it made me look at his dad's page, you know, went to Willy's page, and then I'm like, who does Willie follow? Guess who one of the accounts Willie follows?

[Tig Notaro]

Who?

[Fortune Feimster]

Kermit the Frog.

[Mavis Martin]

That's perfect. That is so perfect that they're friends.

[Fortune Feimster]

Not only does he follow, I was like, wait a minute. Willie Nelson follows Kermit the Frog? Then I go to Kermit the Frog's page, and then I'm like, who follows Kermit? I have, like, 60 friends that follow Kermit the Frog.

[Mavis Martin]

I think I probably do. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't think I do, but I. I filmed with Kermit. I got to film with Kermit and Fozzie Bear.

[Fortune Feimster]

And did he go by Big Bird?

[Tig Notaro]

He did not. It was one of the coolest things. I couldn't. I was like, I can't believe I'm filming with the freaking Muppets.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's awesome.

[Mavis Martin]

That's incredible. Yeah, I would love it.

[Tig Notaro]

Watching those guys in action was. Was unbelievable. I mean. Yeah, it was such an interesting world. They have so, like. They have people that their whole job is to keep up with facts about the Muppets so that you never. There's never any sort of, like, different story. Like, once they establish something about the Muppets, that's it forever. And they have to keep up with it. You can't improvise stuff about them. It's really interesting. And you can film them when they're down.

[Mavis Martin]

Of course.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, that. I mean, shouldn't that be the rule for anyone? You don't want to be filmed when you're down.

[Tig Notaro]

You have to always be alive and alert. So kids always see them in their. Their adult alive position.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't Want to see Kermit passed out and trashed?

[Tig Notaro]

It is. And those guys are, like, rolling around, and there's three of them, and they're. Oh, my God.

[Mavis Martin]

I don't want to know. I don't want to break the magic.

[Tig Notaro]

Unbelievable.

[Mavis Martin]

Tig, it's breaking my heart imagining that song coming through the speakers and you looking out the window. Rainbow Connection, Fortune. What about you?

[Tig Notaro]

I was thinking I was going dramatic for a second, like a Whitney Houston, I will always love you. Where, you know, it starts with the.

[Mavis Martin]

If I should stay.

[Tig Notaro]

You know, the acapella.

[Fortune Feimster]

It blows up, right? Then I'm just like, boom. Where do you want the explosion in the song? Oh, it should be that moment in Whitney's version where it goes quiet and then.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Excuse me.

[Tig Notaro]

That's pretty good.

[Mavis Martin]

That's good. That's really good.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wait, better than Kermit singing?

[Tig Notaro]

It's just a different vibe. It depends. Are we being filmed for documentary?

[Fortune Feimster]

Mine's down.

[Tig Notaro]

Mine's great for a documentary.

[Mavis Martin]

Yours is one tier.

[Tig Notaro]

One tier going down.

[Fortune Feimster]

Mine's epic, too, I think.

[Mavis Martin]

So far. Not that it's a competition, but. Tig, yours would make me cry more. Fortune would be more celebratory.

[Tig Notaro]

I guess you'd be inspired, but wouldn't mind. Also, for all the loved ones we're gonna leave behind, we're telling them we'll always love them.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, that's nice.

[Fortune Feimster]

And as sad as mine might be, wouldn't mine also be hilarious? Like when you had some. Some space, some distance from it, and you laugh and you go, oh, my God. Tig went out on Rainbow Connection with Kermit singing.

[Tig Notaro]

Mine's like a more Armageddon movie.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Armageddon theme song would be pretty good. I could stay awake. Okay, my option.

[Fortune Feimster]

What about Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leaving?

[Tig Notaro]

Just act. We're acting like the end is not near.

[Mavis Martin]

I would play the handsome theme. No, I would. I mean, my first thought was ground control to Major Tom, but that's really dark and sad. So I think. I mean, I'd love to pre record before I went up, just in case. Like, an original song about my life or something. Like, hey, kid, you did good. Here we are again.

[Fortune Feimster]

Are you tap dancing, I assume.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And three of us together, we're just having to listen to each other's songs.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's on our playlist, our Armageddon play.

[Tig Notaro]

We're like, now your turn.

[Fortune Feimster]

Now your turn. Yeah, it's like Russian roulette, like, but you don't know who's what? What you're gonna die on.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mavis Martin]

I think I'd go great. Gig in the sky. Pink Floyd, a little bit. That vocal solo. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Give us a. Give us a taste.

[Mavis Martin]

Oh.

[Tig Notaro]

Wait. And Tig and I have to listen to that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Connection. Lovers. The dreamer.

[Mavis Martin]

And I don't think we're taking the.

[Tig Notaro]

End of our life seriously.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, boy.

[Mavis Martin]

I mean, Fortune. A hymn would be nice.

[Tig Notaro]

Can you imagine the people at Ground control going up there? They don't seem. They don't seem stressed at all. In fact, they're singing along.

[Mavis Martin]

I mean, you would kind of have to just resign yourself to it if you knew.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. What are you gonna do?

[Mavis Martin]

I know. Like, I wouldn't want to go out stressed. I think I would accept it. Well, I think I've talked about this, but, you know. You know, Tom Cruise is filming in space. He's gonna be the first actor to film in space.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my.

[Fortune Feimster]

Classic tc.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, Classic tc.

[Tig Notaro]

Every time I watch these shows where they're in the elements and it's crazy, I'm like, we're actors. What's happening?

[Mavis Martin]

Right?

[Tig Notaro]

You know, like, the last of us. They're shooting in Alberta, Canada. They're all, like, having hypothermia.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like, what.

[Tig Notaro]

What are we doing?

[Fortune Feimster]

I know. If I ever have to do a rain scene in the cold, I'm like, oh, God. Or even just the cold. If it's, like slightly chilly and I have to act like it's summertime.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm like, God, what? I can't imagine.

[Tig Notaro]

I filmed a night in Toronto in July where it was frigid. And I was like, this is too hard. And I'm like, same. Alberta, Canada, in a blizzard.

[Mavis Martin]

But I'm like a glutton for punishment or something. Or like that sort of 12 year old in me is like, oh, yeah, just punch me for real in the scene. Or like, oh, yeah, let me in there. Let me just. I'll take my shirt off and get in the lake. Like, no, what are you doing?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Pretend.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm like, fire me. Replace me.

[Mavis Martin]

Please.

[Tig Notaro]

Pay me enough for this.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, should we hear what Jillian has to say?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And this is my answer. Nice.

[Mavis Martin]

Whoa. Telephone line yellow.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

A little electric light orchestra.

[Tig Notaro]

So good.

[Mavis Martin]

Whoa.

[Tig Notaro]

But I would never go to space.

[Fortune Feimster]

Me and you both.

[Mavis Martin]

I. I don't know that song.

[Fortune Feimster]

Do you know Elo?

[Mavis Martin]

No, but that sounded like Young dudes. That was amazing. I'm going to listen to it right now.

[Fortune Feimster]

All right.

[Mavis Martin]

Telephone line.

[Tig Notaro]

She's like, would I never go?

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, that was a. A very fun episode, I have to say.

[Mavis Martin]

Yeah, I got to say it, too.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. I was not expecting the fun that we had and the joy that we experienced, but we did it again on Handsome.

[Mavis Martin]

Do you want it off again?

[Tig Notaro]

Do you need to check in?

[Fortune Feimster]

Of course. Oh, I just saw Biggie's private part.

[Mavis Martin]

Oh, also, when you lifted him up, he did a little squeak when you lifted him up.

[Tig Notaro]

Of course he does, because he was laying down.

[Fortune Feimster]

He's like, God, he's relentlessly adorable.

[Tig Notaro]

I didn't get to see him for a few weeks, and now I'm so happy to see him again.

[Fortune Feimster]

Fortune, you are relentlessly adorable, too.

[Mavis Martin]

You really are. Your countenance is divine.

[Fortune Feimster]

Hold on a minute. Did everyone see our producer blow a kiss?

[Tig Notaro]

Did you get Thomas?

[Mavis Martin]

Did you just blow a kiss to Fortune and Biggie? Yeah, I just blew them a little kiss.

[Fortune Feimster]

No.

[Tig Notaro]

Let me give you a finger with that kiss for.

[Fortune Feimster]

For Thomas.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm gonna do a finger kiss back. Thank you, Fortune.

[Fortune Feimster]

Thomas, who are you kissing? It was just aimed in the general direction of Fortune and Biggie.

[Tig Notaro]

And Biggie.

[Fortune Feimster]

Was it really? Or did somebody walk by? No, no, it was.

[Mavis Martin]

No, there's no one back there.

[Fortune Feimster]

You were blowing kisses.

[Mavis Martin]

That is so sweet.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I really.

[Mavis Martin]

I get it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like, also get you a producer that blows kisses.

[Tig Notaro]

Like, and look how adorable we are. It's hard not to blow us a kiss.

[Mavis Martin]

What if. What if Thomas wants an episode? One of us gets you a kiss, and it's like a reward for being relentlessly adorable, and we never know who's gonna get it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wait, we get a kiss?

[Mavis Martin]

Like, he'll blow us.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay. Because I was like. I didn't know. Jump into that relationship with.

[Mavis Martin]

No, just. Just, you know, a reward for.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I can do that. Okay. Thank you.

[Mavis Martin]

When we least expect it, like, who.

[Fortune Feimster]

Did the best on the show? Each episode, it's always going to be Biggie.

[Mavis Martin]

It's always going to be Biggie.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, look how happy Biggie is.

[Mavis Martin]

Guys, it was a joy to see you.

[Tig Notaro]

What a joy. Always some nice giggles with you.

[Fortune Feimster]

I want to just mention right out of the gate here that I have a gig. That is very exciting. Coming up, I'm doing a benefit, a charity event in ojai, California, on May 17 with Emily Saliers from the Indigo Girls. I mean, we talk about them a lot, right?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Closer to Fine would be a good song, too. On a spaceship.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, my God. I mean, that's a good song. Any. Anytime, Galileo. But yeah. To blow up to Closer to Fine get your tickets for the Ojai Playwrights conference fundraiser for May 17. It is in a tiny venue. I mean, it is microscopic, so tickets aren't cheap. But it is a very intimate evening with a cocktail party, I believe, and meet and greet, all sorts of things. But it's a great cause. Also, June 14th, I will be in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and then you can catch me two shows August 23rd in P Town or at P Town or around P Town. I don't know how to say it. And then also go to my dear pal Andrea Gibson's website to find out when our documentary Come See Me in the Good Light is screening, because there are numerous dates around the country and the world. And this, this documentary, I can't say it enough. It's so beautiful and inspiring and funny and touching and it's just killing it at festivals. So get a ticket.

[Mavis Martin]

I am very excited because I'm doing three more big music shows where I'm playing my entire album with a band and I'm so pumped. And these are cities I've never played music in before. So June 10th, I'm in San Francisco. June 12th I'm in Portland, Oregon. Never even been to Portland, Oregon. And June 13th in Vancouver at the Vogue Theater, which is massive and I really want to sell it out. And please listen to the album and then you'll know the songs. And I'm going to play some covers and some new songs and meet people after and sign merch and stuff and it'll be great. So go to maymartinmusic.com My tour continues.

[Tig Notaro]

May 16th in Grand Rapids, Minneapolis. Then I go to St. Louis, Kansas City, Mulvane, Kansas, Vegas, Lexington, Knoxville, Asheville, and a ton more dates just got added like Chicago and all those good Boston, all those places. Get your tickets.

[Fortune Feimster]

FortuneFindster.com also I will be at Dynasty typewriter May 10, I believe. Go to tignotaro.com I have live dates that are in LA coming up, so check those out and I don't know until next time, why don't you keep it handsome?

[Mavis Martin]

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. Ansomepod.

[Tig Notaro]

What a podcast.

[Mavis Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

Like, you know, to check that everyone agrees on a movie before scheduling a movie night with friends. If you give it enough time, a consensus is sure to emerge.

[Mavis Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

Hey, I'm Tony Hale. I'm Matt Oberg. And I'm Kristen Schall. And we're going to be hosting the new podcast, the Extraordinarians, where we are going to be interviewing extraordinary people during.

[Tig Notaro]

Doing extraordinary things, things that we have.

[Fortune Feimster]

Never and probably will never do. We talked to people who have broken records on slack lines, suspended by hot air balloons.

[Tig Notaro]

We're talking to people who have done multiple flips on trampolines.

[Fortune Feimster]

You'll have to tune in to find out how many flips they did. Subscribe to Extraordinarians on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Cast, or wherever you get your podcast. And watch. Watch me.

[Tig Notaro]

God.

[Mavis Martin]

Watch it on the YouTube.

[Fortune Feimster]

There's new episodes that we release it every Wednesday. We do.

[Mavis Martin]

I've never seen you cry before.

[Fortune Feimster]

I know.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't know how I feel about.

[Mavis Martin]

This is upsetting for all of us.

[Fortune Feimster]

They don't let us break for lunch.

[Mavis Martin]

They do.

[Fortune Feimster]

The podcast is so competitive. They make you just talk and talk. Guys, we're watching a spin out. Please subscribe.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, man.

[Fortune Feimster]

Extraordinarians.