Maria Shriver asks about interview questions

Summary

Handsome – "Maria Shriver Asks About Interview Questions"

Podcast: Handsome
Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin
Episode Date: May 19, 2026
Guest: Maria Shriver

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Episode Overview

This episode of Handsome centers around the insightful and thought-provoking question submitted by acclaimed journalist Maria Shriver: "If you could interview anyone, dead or alive, and ask one question, who would you interview and what would you ask?" The hosts—Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin—delve into personal memories, funny tangents, and the deeper meaning of connection both on and off the internet. Along the way, they discuss everything from wardrobe choices and wellness routines to the nature of social media addiction and building real-world community.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. In-Person Vibes and Recap of Their Live Show

• The hosts celebrate recording together in person again, reflecting on the chemistry and intimacy it brings to their conversations.
• They reminisce about their recent live show at the Netflix is a Joke Festival, discussing nerves, audience size, and hilarious moments backstage.
  • Mae: "I was doing, like, physical comedy that I've never done." (02:31)
  • Tig: "It usually creates the greatest comedy in the world" when things go wrong. (03:28)
• Special guests Malin Åkerman and Brittany Snow were noted for their style (showing up in suits to match the hosts’ branding) and the dynamic they brought to the show.

2. Clothes, Gender, and Comfort

• The group jokes about their varied approach to "dressing up," sharing stories about the last time they wore dresses or gowns—often only for roles or major red-carpet events.
  • Tig: "The last time I wore a dress was when I played Joan Jett's mother in The Runaways." (06:29)
  • Fortune: "Last time I wore a dress for real was when I was a journalist and I covered the Oscars." (08:05)
  • Mae reflects on the discomfort and vulnerability around such attire and the effort to make it a “non-thing” during filming of Feel Good.
• Amusing confessions surface about mistaken sayings (like "nip it in the butt" vs. "bud"), adding to the light-hearted tone.

3. Fan Encounters and Fainting Stories

• Fortune tells a funny story about fainting in the middle of a Paris gay bar—crucially cushioned by "greased up gays" in Speedos (11:06) and the resulting laughter and crepe run.
  • "My knees buckled and I just passed out... all these gays kind of broke my fall." (11:46)
• Conversation touches on "fan mania," contrasting bygone eras with today's more desensitized audience.

4. The Social Media Spiral & Quest for Presence

• Tig shares her decision to step away from Instagram, spurred by an accidental deep-dive into the Met Gala’s politics and pressure.
  • "I felt like a tool... I walked right into what Instagram was wanting from me." (17:34)
• The ensuing discussion is vulnerable and candid, with all three expressing ambivalence and even addiction to social platforms.
  • Mae: "I want to get rid of Instagram... My assistant, for my birthday, got me a brick that blocks your phone from all these things." (20:03)
  • Tig: "I'm interested in this feeling... It's just something I want to follow and see how it feels." (19:10)
• They debate the limits of digital connection, referencing tech-enabled but shallow relationships among young people.
  • Fortune: "It gives them a false sense of community... but they're not hanging out with each other outside of school." (24:25)
• The group hatches the idea of a “Wellness Weekend”—going offline, journaling, meditating, and eating together—while laughing about who would break first for coffee, cheese, or a sneaky cigarette.

5. Building and Maintaining Real Life Community

• The hosts reflect on seeking routine and meaningful in-person connections as their lives and careers evolve.
  • Tig: "I want to clear out the complications that are not bringing me joy." (31:18)
  • Mae: "I'm definitely craving routine... Like a weekly dinner with the same five people." (32:18)
  • Fortune: "What is my community now? Because my life has changed so significantly in the last year…" (33:07)

6. Maria Shriver’s Interview Question (40:23)

Question: If you could interview anyone, dead or alive, and ask just one question, who would it be and what would you ask?

• The hosts are excited and a bit daunted by Maria’s thoughtful challenge.
  • Tig: "She’s the real deal... you know where she stands, but she’s also a reasonable human being." (41:32)

The Hosts' Answers:

• Mae Martin: Her paternal grandfather, who she never met. Mae ponders the mysteries of family and the legacies we inherit, as well as historical figures like Napoleon—but notes he "loved stinky people," so maybe not.
  • "I think I'm going with my paternal grandfather, who I never met... to know what my dad was like and just chat to him." (42:46)
  • “Napoleon? I have a lot of questions.” (45:15)
• Fortune Feimster: Her grandfather (never met, died when Fortune's mom was 17), her great-grandmother (an early female treasurer), and—most memorably—Jesus, to clarify biblical intent and all the conflict surrounding religion.
  • "It would be kind of interesting to get to talk to Jesus... What about what in the Bible has been, like, misinterpreted?" (48:51)
• Tig Notaro: Her mother (died unexpectedly), and possibly her father, though he tended to embellish stories. She also mentions being in awe of songwriter Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls.
  • "My personal one... my mother. My mother died so unexpectedly." (51:38)
  • On Emily Saliers: “I am endlessly blown away by the mind of Emily Saliers... I could never understand what she does or how she does it.” (54:24)
• Maria Shriver (returns with her own answer): The Virgin Mary—"I have so many questions for her, from the very beginning, all the way to the very end." (57:09)

7. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Tig: "It never ever isn't a delight to do this in person." (58:15)
• Mae (on self-improvement): "I know the things that would make me feel better... but it's just so hard to enact them." (38:07)
• Fortune: "I eat a lot of turkey corn dogs from the frozen food section... Now that I'm living alone, I don't need a cook sit down meal." (38:41)
• On Wellness Weekend:
  • Mae: "I'm so gung ho. Name the day..." (28:00)
  • Tig: "My plan right now is to clear out the complications that are not bringing me joy, so that the priority..." (31:18)
  • Fortune: "As long as you're okay with me eating a brick of cheese." (29:01)
• Fortune humorously referencing the “guy that looked like Jesus” in LA named Kevin, and his passing:
  • "Kevin's in Heaven—my ex girlfriend wrote a song called that." (50:24)
• Uncanny tangent on puns, showering, and the Indigo Girls.

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 01:40 — Hosts reflect on performing together at a big live show
• 06:29 — Last time Tig wore a dress, Fortune’s and Mae’s "dress" stories
• 11:00 — Fortune’s Paris gay bar fainting story
• 15:44 — Tig talks about quitting Instagram, spirals into digital wellness debate
• 22:00–32:00 — In-depth discussion on social media's impact, Wellness Weekend plans, and seeking real-life connection
• 40:23 — Maria Shriver’s voice message and the main interview question revealed
• 42:46–56:00 — The hosts’ reflective, funny, and heartfelt answers to Maria's “who would you interview” question
• 57:07 — Maria Shriver returns with her own answer (Virgin Mary)
• 58:15 — Closing reflections and in-person camaraderie

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Tone and Style

The episode is a classic Handsome blend: sincere, meandering, and irreverently funny. The hosts are open about their vulnerabilities, habits, and the oddities of their lives, making serious themes like family loss, social media addiction, and existential curiosity feel approachable and relatable.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode stands out as a heartfelt meditation on presence, connection, legacy, and curiosity. Maria Shriver’s incisive question prompts thoughtful, personal stories blending humor and emotional resonance. The conversation threads together issues of digital fatigue, old-fashioned community, and the fantasy of asking just one clarifying question of the people—famous or familial—who shape us most.

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Listen for:

• Gut-level honesty about social and digital life
• Banter that flips from deep to goofy in seconds
• Thoughtful approaches to big questions about meaning, legacy, and who we'd invite to dinner
• Classic “Handsome” charm: open, witty, and unmistakably human

Transcript

[Mae Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Fortune Feimster]

Cheers. Welcome to the handsome pod. You guys, I'm Fortunate Feemster.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm Tig Notaro.

[Mae Martin]

I'm Mae Martin.

[Fortune Feimster]

And we're together in person.

[Tig Notaro]

We are for the second time this week.

[Fortune Feimster]

This is incredible.

[Tig Notaro]

This is wild, right?

[Fortune Feimster]

It feels like we are all just so, like, I don't know, simpatico right now.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Go to YouTube or Hulu and see what Fortune just did with her hands.

[Fortune Feimster]

I did this.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, you are doing it.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't know why.

[Mae Martin]

That's a perfect representation.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, that's what's happening.

[Fortune Feimster]

We're very connected at the moment.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. It never fails to be uber connecting in person.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's right. That's why we held hands.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Just to feel it.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Just to feel your pheromones again is electric.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, we saw each other this week because we had our live show in LA for the Netflix is a joke festival. And that was awesome.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes. And when we say this week, we mean two weeks ago. Two days ago.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

When this comes out. But in real life.

[Fortune Feimster]

Was wild.

[Mae Martin]

I think that might have been. I was thinking, like, the biggest show I've ever done.

[Tig Notaro]

What do you mean?

[Mae Martin]

Numbers wise? How many people are in that place?

[Fortune Feimster]

It would. That was about. Was it 1800? 1900. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You've done.

[Mae Martin]

I told.

[Fortune Feimster]

I've done way bigger. No, I think maybe 2000. I don't know.

[Mae Martin]

I. I've been telling everyone it was. The show was bigger.

[Tig Notaro]

I think that was 3,000.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, okay. I take it all back.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, we have 3000. 1800.

[Mae Martin]

1800.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay, never mind.

[Tig Notaro]

That was just a baby.

[Mae Martin]

But it never felt big. It felt big. And I'm always. You guys are cool as cucumbers. You're like to go out with nothing and just chat. I'm in awe. I became like a clown. I was doing, like, physical comedy that I've never done.

[Tig Notaro]

I didn't even pick up on it. What were you doing?

[Fortune Feimster]

I did the worm on the carpet.

[Mae Martin]

I Did a magic mike dance. I was manic, I feel like.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then half the carpet got on my shirt.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes. Yes. I honestly feel like I would feel the same if we were walking out in front of a stadium.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, funny. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't think it would.

[Mae Martin]

It wouldn't affect your.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't think so. I really don't. And I don't. And, you know, a lot of people like to say that it means that you don't care, and that's not true. That's not true at all.

[Mae Martin]

No. You're like, I'm home.

[Tig Notaro]

I just. I have faith. I know that. I've lived through everything so far in my life.

[Mae Martin]

Like, what's the worst that could happen?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. And it's like, even when things go terribly wrong in comedy, it usually creates the greatest comedy in the world.

[Mae Martin]

It's pretty delightful when something.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Why do the three of us always find things to talk about somehow?

[Mae Martin]

I know, I know. It always goes off in some direction,

[Fortune Feimster]

a direction we could never anticipate.

[Mae Martin]

Well.

[Tig Notaro]

And it was so nice also having our guests really reiterate, like, well, first of all, they were really great guests.

[Fortune Feimster]

They were small Ackerman and Brittany Snow from the Hunting Wives.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. And then they were also pointing out, like, gosh, you guys are just so perfectly different, you know, and just bring such a different vibe and energy to the show. And I think I just have faith that will bring it. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

It was fun. We talked to them for a long time.

[Mae Martin]

They were delightful and funny and so cool.

[Tig Notaro]

They were so up.

[Mae Martin]

So up. Yeah, they were so.

[Fortune Feimster]

They wore handsome outfits.

[Mae Martin]

They were both wearing suits.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my gosh. Yeah. They both showed up in suits.

[Mae Martin]

They looked stunning.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then I thought, oh, that does makes sense, because, you know, our picture is us in suits.

[Tig Notaro]

And then I showed up, and Fortune pointed out a few times that I dialed it in.

[Fortune Feimster]

You were in your most casual outfit.

[Mae Martin]

It was the most casual I've ever seen you.

[Fortune Feimster]

I was your most casual outfit.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm a pretty casual person.

[Fortune Feimster]

I was pretty casual.

[Mae Martin]

Like, these shoes are super smart.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Those. See the.

[Mae Martin]

Where were these?

[Tig Notaro]

Okay, well, I had a day today, but, yeah. Anyway, I'll wear a suit or a dress next time.

[Fortune Feimster]

A dress, please.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, we should do a dress night.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, my God.

[Tig Notaro]

And have K D. Lang on. Who started in that? Kind of. Remember Katie's early days of wearing dresses?

[Fortune Feimster]

Would she wear dresses?

[Tig Notaro]

Yes.

[Mae Martin]

I've only ever seen her post dress phase.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, no, she used to. It was such an obvious rebellion, I assumed, to her look and vibe. So she'd wear like cute little dress, like cowboy dresses and western dresses.

[Fortune Feimster]

When was the last time Dresses?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. When was the first show?

[Fortune Feimster]

Would be wild.

[Mae Martin]

I don't know if I could speak.

[Fortune Feimster]

Would you do it in a. Maybe not a live show, but like here.

[Mae Martin]

I mean, for a laugh. I'd do it, but I'd be.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't.

[Tig Notaro]

For a.

[Fortune Feimster]

What a loft.

[Mae Martin]

A laugh.

[Fortune Feimster]

A laugh.

[Tig Notaro]

Is that a laugh? Are you joking?

[Mae Martin]

I said that weird on purpose.

[Tig Notaro]

I wasn't sure if.

[Mae Martin]

I think that's an Alanna Johnstonism for a laugh, but.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, okay.

[Mae Martin]

I don't know if I could. I think I. I'd enjoy it. And then like after five minutes.

[Tig Notaro]

That's okay.

[Mae Martin]

Change. But do you remember that photo shoot?

[Tig Notaro]

Rip it off.

[Fortune Feimster]

Rip it off. You could rip it against it.

[Mae Martin]

Do you remember. You probably won't specifically remember this the way I do, but that when Brad Pitt did a photo shoot in a dress, when Fight Club came out, it was the hottest. It was like this little dress and. Yeah. So maybe I could do it like that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Absolutely.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Do whatever you want.

[Mae Martin]

When was the last time you guys threw on a gown?

[Tig Notaro]

Ah, the last time I wore a dress was when I played Joan Jett's mother in the Runaways. And I told you the.

[Mae Martin]

You got cut?

[Tig Notaro]

Well, yeah, I got cut. But more incredibly, when I was. When they knocked on my trailer to bring me to set and I showed up at the door of my trailer, the woman that was taking me in the van, she goes, no, she laughed in your van. And I go. And she was like, sorry, I'm just really familiar with you. So this is a lot to process because I had a wig on too.

[Mae Martin]

Wow.

[Tig Notaro]

And a dress. Maybe I'll dig up that picture. I have a picture of me with Kristen Stewart and Joan Jett.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, you gotta get that pic out.

[Fortune Feimster]

I would love to see that.

[Tig Notaro]

You will not. And I have boobs at the time.

[Fortune Feimster]

Whoa.

[Tig Notaro]

Like, it was actual tig boobs. Tiggy tits.

[Fortune Feimster]

Tiggy tits.

[Mae Martin]

What about you?

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, you know, I do my character Brenda, where I'm in a one piece bathing suit. That is. It doesn't count. But it's very girly.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But when I'm in character, it feels very natural.

[Mae Martin]

Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

But a dress itself might have been.

[Mae Martin]

I'm picturing it and I like it.

[Fortune Feimster]

I filmed something in Austin. I want to say 2016. And they had me wear a long dress and big dangly earrings.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, my God.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, wait, no, I take that back. In fubar, they made me Wear. I think they made me wear something girly. Oh, my God.

[Tig Notaro]

Something girly or a dress.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's always. Well, now that I think about it, it was a girly pants suit. It wasn't a dress.

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[Tig Notaro]

Not the same.

[Fortune Feimster]

I know it's not, but if I do any dress, it's usually a character type thing. Last time I wore a dress for real was when I was a journalist and I covered the Oscars.

[Mae Martin]

And you wore a gown.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, my gams were showing. I have a picture of that fortune.

[Tig Notaro]

Marie, you get that?

[Fortune Feimster]

I'll have posted on socials.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my God.

[Fortune Feimster]

My gams were gammon.

[Tig Notaro]

And did you know you were a homosexual?

[Fortune Feimster]

I did. I had, but I was. I was only out at that point. Maybe to your dress. Like a year or two.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I look cute.

[Mae Martin]

I think. I don't doubt as a character in my teens, like, that was the last time for real. And then in. In Feel Good, my character had to put one on. Had to. I wrote it, but I hate it. I was so stressed. And then the director, I. I found out, luckily in time that she was gonna have the whole crew wear dresses to make me feel more comfortable. And I was like, oh, that's gonna make it way worse. I was, I. I nipped that in the bud.

[Fortune Feimster]

You just. Because you just wanted it to just be like a non thing.

[Mae Martin]

Yes, but I was freaking out about it. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Speaking of nipping things in the bud.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I years ago thought it was nipping it in the butt. Like if a dog bit.

[Fortune Feimster]

I could totally see that, though.

[Mae Martin]

That makes more sense.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Nip it in the butt.

[Mae Martin]

Did you know, because Malin Ackerman grew up in Toronto. And so then I posted the pictures from the live show and then my friend messaged me and went. She went to North Toronto High School. That's where I went. No, I went for six months to North Toronto High School.

[Fortune Feimster]

I didn't even get to talk about them.

[Tig Notaro]

Are you the same age?

[Mae Martin]

No, she was older, but she was in my friend's sister's year, which is wild.

[Fortune Feimster]

So, yeah, I want to say Mullins are maybe around my age, I think.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, Yeah. I got. I wanted to have little. I kept trying to have little side combos and forgetting I know 1800 people there.

[Fortune Feimster]

Especially once you found out Malin was from Toronto, you're like, really?

[Mae Martin]

I really?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mae Martin]

It's getting lost in her eyes.

[Fortune Feimster]

We had a. A number of their hunting wise fans came to the show, which they were rabid fans. We showed up to the show. And there was like eight girls outside. And I was like, man, people are really excited for this show. This was like a side gate or something.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, like 20 alley by the alley.

[Fortune Feimster]

And we're real fast at the same time. And they could. Could not have cared less about me. And I.

[Tig Notaro]

They were like, yeah, excuse me, could you get out of the way?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. And then I was like, oh, they're here for them. Okay.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

So it was very funny.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Yeah. Really put you in your place.

[Mae Martin]

It really does.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Yeah. That was fun.

[Mae Martin]

I loved it.

[Tig Notaro]

Meanwhile, then when I arrived, all eight of those girls went nuts.

[Mae Martin]

Screaming, fainting.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Have you ever fainted from excitement?

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, I don't know that this would be excitement, but I did faint in the middle of a gay bar in Paris.

[Tig Notaro]

That sounds like excitement.

[Fortune Feimster]

I was like. I was living in Spain at the time. Went to go visit my friend Brian in Paris. He took me to a gay bar, but it was like, in a. Kind of in a basement. It was really hot. Yeah, it was packed. And it was like they had, like, a Mr. Paris competition. So dudes and Speedos and stuff. Hell, which I don't. I don't mind a guy in a Speedo.

[Tig Notaro]

Like, I don't mind a guy out of a Speedo.

[Fortune Feimster]

Right. They're beautiful. Some beautiful bags out there.

[Mae Martin]

I love it.

[Fortune Feimster]

And we're just like, watching the. Watching the competition, and next thing I know, I'm like, on the ground.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, my God.

[Fortune Feimster]

He said that my knees buckled and that I just passed out.

[Mae Martin]

Not heard this story.

[Fortune Feimster]

I thought about it forever, but I guess it was so packed that, like, my fall was, like, kind of gently, like by these greased up, all these gays just kind of broke my fall. And then I came to and my friends laughed, laughing hysterically. And I realized what happened. And he. He got me up really quick. And we run out of the bar and just are crying, laughing, walking out of this bar. And we went and got a crepe after. So, I mean.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, you fainted from all these Speedos,

[Fortune Feimster]

I guess I was so excited about these Speedos. It was. Yeah. Like a Paris Magic Mike situation.

[Mae Martin]

I feel like people used to faint. Oh. Like Beetle Mania. Like that. It used to be more of a thing. I want to do it on the pod at some point in this episode. I'm gonna.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, I bet that was the case because back then they just weren't exposed to much.

[Mae Martin]

Do you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. You know, excitement.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

So your. But their bodies may have just been in such shock that even like scary movies and stuff.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, the Exorcist people are puking and freaking out and.

[Fortune Feimster]

But we're so desensitized now.

[Mae Martin]

Or like when Elvis moved his hips for the first time, everybody just fainted.

[Tig Notaro]

Not to bring up what's his name? The movie I saw recently, Forrest Gump.

[Mae Martin]

Oh yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

That's how Elvis learned how to dance.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, funny.

[Tig Notaro]

It was from Forrest Gump.

[Mae Martin]

Oh yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Do you remember that? I forgot.

[Mae Martin]

You've just seen it for the first time.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I forgot. So this is my only reference point now.

[Fortune Feimster]

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[Tig Notaro]

I have some really interesting news.

[Fortune Feimster]

Give it to us.

[Tig Notaro]

Got rid of Instagram.

[Fortune Feimster]

You did?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

What made that happen?

[Tig Notaro]

Well, I went to the. Well, just to back up. I was. Believe it or not, I have never. The Met. The Met Galilee has never been on my radar.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm not familiar.

[Fortune Feimster]

I assumed as much.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay, but you didn't.

[Mae Martin]

Did you know it existed or you hadn't really.

[Tig Notaro]

It sounds familiar, but it's something that. It's just like. But there's so much political with the Amazon and the rumblings around this one, so there's so much that I was seeing and I became very familiar with the Met situation and the polit. I was like, what is this event? What is. What is the meaning of it? What is the. What are the politics going on? Then I'm looking at people and I'm like, well, why is this person. And then I started to feel like.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, like sucked you in?

[Tig Notaro]

Well, yeah, I was like, why am I even looking at this?

[Fortune Feimster]

You know what?

[Tig Notaro]

I. This is not something that is my genuine interest.

[Fortune Feimster]

And you didn't seek it out?

[Tig Notaro]

Did not seek it out. It was served up to me. And I. And I. I felt like a tool.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Because now you're having a physiological response of like, ugh.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. And I'm like. And I'm like having these conflicted ideas about these people and this idea, like, you know, and that's not to take away from any sort of politics around it or any point of view somebody might have. All for it. All for the discussion.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

But I didn't like, what a tool. I felt like.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Because I walked right into what Instagram was wanting from me. So that happened.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Then I went to this festival where I was talking about the documentary and before that happened, I was talking to a very well known news correspondent person who shared with me how deeply, deeply into social media her child was.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, I think that's a big thing.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. They're starting to make laws. Not in America, but elsewhere. They're making laws about ages and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And there was something in our conversation and something in the look in her eyes that I really felt so, like, ugh.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And I left there and I just went, goodbye. And it started this chain reaction of thinking about relationships that I only have on social media, how much I've enjoyed looking at cute animals, but what's even better than going to an animal rescue?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, true.

[Tig Notaro]

You know, and so it started me on this whole spiral and as I said to Stephanie, I go, maybe I'll be back on, and I'll be promoting myself like crazy in a couple of days. But right now, I really am interested in what this is. Awakening.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay. But it started from the gala. This is very cool. What is that? Connecting with. For you?

[Mae Martin]

Just the.

[Tig Notaro]

Also, if I can say.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, please.

[Tig Notaro]

I was on a panel talking about the documentary, which is. Look, I had my own wake up in 2012.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And you hope those things stay with you.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And then here I am working on a film around somebody who's having an awakening.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. And then about being present in the world.

[Tig Notaro]

About being present. And then I'm, like, on a press tour talking about it. And then I'm like, am I. Have I really learned the lesson?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You know, and so. And I'm not saying I have haven't that I have this figured out. It's just something I want to follow and see how it feels. And I want to challenge myself.

[Mae Martin]

Please challenge me to what's connecting for me. What's coming up for me is I'm really in awe because I'm like, I want to be vegan. I want to get rid of Instagram. I say these things all the time. My assistant, for my birthday, got me a brick that blocks your phone from all these things. Because. Because apparently I'm saying so much. God, I'm addicted. My sleep's bad. It's so miserable. It's so dark on there. And I know it's bad for me, but then.

[Fortune Feimster]

Wait, what's a brick?

[Mae Martin]

Oh, it's like a. I actually don't know. I haven't learned yet. But you put it on your phone, and I think it disables it for a certain amount of time or something like that. It's like a thing you can put, like, on your fridge, and it's like you almost, like, tap your phone with it, and then it will, like, disable your phone for a certain amount of time.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, so you can lock your phone. I did not know that was a

[Tig Notaro]

thing, because I didn't either.

[Mae Martin]

My problem is, like, I. Then I'm like, well, I'm in a shame spiral about it, and then that's not doing me any good. So then I try to let go of the, you know, regret about it and just do it in moderation, because I do really. I. I actually like staying in touch with people that I don't normally or like. And I. And for work. It's so, like, being on tour and stuff. It's so. There is, like, A sense of community sometimes. But, yeah. All those things you're saying, I deeply connect with. And I. I know I'm so addicted.

[Tig Notaro]

And look, I might find I. I get halfway down this road.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Of exploring what this woke up in me.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And be like, oh, this isn't manageable.

[Mae Martin]

Or there's like a way to do it that's bad because, like, you also

[Fortune Feimster]

need it for career stuff at times.

[Tig Notaro]

But I was also thinking, like, okay, I have projects and it's fun to announce them, but it's like, I also don't need to. You know what I mean? Like, it's not. I was really trying to get in touch with. Do I really need. Like, if I need to share something with somebody.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

You call them now.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. But I mean, really, like. But also people will see me in the TV show or the movie or. You know what I mean? And I don't know. I don't know. It's just something I'm exploring.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's a new journey.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm exploring it. I'm interested in this feeling. And I've had certain signs that have bubbled up before this where it just. Something didn't feel right or congruent. And I just thought especially. It hit me like a ton of bricks.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And then I just thought, I'm just gonna do it. I'll live through this too, you know?

[Mae Martin]

Well, he post posted. Cause I can't.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, no, he posted via tag Y.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I'll let you know.

[Mae Martin]

Because the thing about the Met Gal is super interesting. Cause I feel the same where I'm suddenly like, all these people I love and now I have weird feelings about it, and I kind of wish I didn't even see it.

[Tig Notaro]

But it also leads into the thought of. Sure, you can have conflicted ideas of these choices, but also, I'm not living a perfect life.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Everything I'm doing is not lined up and congruent with my thoughts and feelings and political beliefs. And so that's part of the wake up of People are complicated. You want to do good. People are complicated. And where is the gray?

[Mae Martin]

Cause you said before or we've talked about, like, it's. Yeah. With social media, when that becomes the metric of how political someone is. But you don't know what they're doing in there. But it's like, oh, who? That person didn't post that thing or didn't share that thing. And that doesn't actually reflect what they're doing.

[Tig Notaro]

You could be doing something. Boots on the ground, donating Cash and giving back in other ways. And that's just one way to get your voice out there is through social media. And of course it's massive. But it also becomes a junkyard. That part of what the person I was talking to was saying, you don't remember what you've seen, what you've read. It's in your brain and it translates to other parts of. Of your life where you're not fully clocking because of your.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. I mean it is designed to be de. Wildly addictive. Like it's.

[Fortune Feimster]

And especially to like kids whose brains are not developed yet. Even more addictive. And what I've noticed with the young people that they've. They said that it gives them a false sense of community.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

So that they think they are connected.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But they're not hanging out with each other outside of school. And so not. Not of course, every kid.

[Allstate Ad Voice]

Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

Sometimes there's a number of kids who think they're being in touch with their friends because they talk to them on these game headsets or on the social media.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

They are having conversations, but it's all through tech. Yeah. They are not hanging out in person.

[Tig Notaro]

Well. And part of it is that you're not seeing an in person facial response that is connecting you human to human.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

That I think is really interesting because you're seeing it just on a flat

[Mae Martin]

screen and you think you're saying where I. I'm like, oh, that's part of how I stay informed. Because I do learn about world events on. On Instagram. But that's. Sure. But then how can I trust what I'm seeing? Like I should be informed in other ways. I should be reading.

[Tig Notaro]

But that's the other thing is how do you trust what's popping up?

[Fortune Feimster]

I was about to say that is that's becoming harder and harder. There are so many art tools popping up where I'm like, really? That happened?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then I go to the comments and they're like, AI, AI. And I'm like, oh my God.

[Tig Notaro]

Like, and is it really AI or is it people just saying that's AI? And so it becomes so confusing. And I think I've said like part of this crack in me.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Like I think I've said on the podcast where I go to post something and I'm like, who am I talking to? Like, what am I doing?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Like, what am I? I'm like, hi, look at me.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

Sometimes you are real cute and funny on there sometimes. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You really are. But I'm also. It reminds Me of like, one time, when my first comedy special came out years ago, friends of mine had a party for me and I was talking to my friend during the premiere of my special and she shushed me. She goes, shh, shh. And I was like, but I'm here right now. Like, I filmed that months ago.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Anyway, I like it because it makes. Even having the conversation. I think it's good because it makes you be honest with yourself about like. Yeah. What am I actually getting from it? Like, when I go to look at people's pages, am I looking at my best friend's pages or am I looking at someone I had an argument with a year ago because I'm curious what they're up to in a kind of high school way. You know what I mean?

[Tig Notaro]

For sure.

[Mae Martin]

It feeds a weird part of you because it's designed to do that. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And again, I might be back full throttle. Like, no one's ever seen me tomorrow

[Fortune Feimster]

posting TikTok by the time this comes out.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, might be. But I'm just. I'm curious about this road.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, that's cool.

[Fortune Feimster]

You're going with your. How you're feeling right now, so feels.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Anyway, I thought I would share that.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's an interesting turn of events.

[Mae Martin]

I think I just. My first step is gonna be to. I just don't need to. I wish phones had a thing that would detect when you're scrolling.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think they do have a thing on there where you can limit your. In the settings where you can limit your usage.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

And it informs you like you. You set how much you want to see.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

In a day. And when you've reached that limit, it tells you.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Now whether or not then that's up to you to then be like, okay, I reached my limit. Phones down. But it does at least. Least make you aware.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

So you could look into that. It's in the same.

[Tig Notaro]

Maybe we could have Wellness Weekend.

[Mae Martin]

Yes. This is it. I'm so gung ho. I'm like, name the day and because. Yeah. Put our.

[Tig Notaro]

Are you really? Yes. Like, for how many days would you have a wellness weekend? How long is it as long as a weekend.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Is what two days?

[Tig Notaro]

Is it a long weekend?

[Mae Martin]

Friday night till Sunday evening.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, okay.

[Mae Martin]

I'll do that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Sunday evening.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm free all of August and Fortune. Where are you on the interest level?

[Mae Martin]

Because we'll put our phones away.

[Fortune Feimster]

I mean, I'll try my best, but

[Tig Notaro]

would you actually show up to Wellness Weekend?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. If you guys were serious about it. And it was a plan.

[Mae Martin]

What if we promise that we'll do content for the pod there and we'll get predictions.

[Tig Notaro]

I'll post it on my new account.

[Mae Martin]

Your secret account.

[Fortune Feimster]

I mean, I. The only. The only thing I would want is to maybe like, you're vegan. Yeah, but I would probably want cheese. A shark. I don't need. I don't need the meat part of a charcuterie board. Just a cheese blade. As long as you're. Love that.

[Tig Notaro]

It's like, can I get a wheel of cheese?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, as long as you're okay with me eating a brick of cheese.

[Tig Notaro]

And would you be open to trying to meditate and journal and watch the sun come up journaling and share your feelings?

[Podcast Announcer/Host]

Oh, I would share.

[Tig Notaro]

Don't touch me.

[Fortune Feimster]

I would share feelings. Easy. I have no problem sharing feelings.

[Tig Notaro]

Great.

[Fortune Feimster]

And what if I just don't love pen to paper?

[Mae Martin]

Oh, you don't.

[Fortune Feimster]

My hand gets tight.

[Tig Notaro]

But guys, do you know what's oddly the most fun thought to me?

[Mae Martin]

What?

[Tig Notaro]

Is really waking up to watch the sunrise.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Tig Notaro]

Fortune stunned, we'd stay in our sweat.

[Fortune Feimster]

Lately I've been waking up much earlier, so that is not too far off.

[Mae Martin]

What if you catch us at sneaking out? I wake up and I sneak out.

[Fortune Feimster]

Going to the coffee shop. Can I still drink coffee? Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Can I decaf?

[Mae Martin]

What about a sneaky cigarette?

[Fortune Feimster]

A cigarette. You can have a cigarette on wellness weekend.

[Tig Notaro]

I know that this is terribly, terribly. It's gone sideways already.

[Fortune Feimster]

I eat a salad.

[Tig Notaro]

Fortune's gonna come and journal and eat

[Fortune Feimster]

a salad and a smoothie. As long as there's not berries in it.

[Mae Martin]

Well, we could do b. Potatoes. We could barbecue. Wait, baked potatoes?

[Tig Notaro]

Absolutely. May I? Promise. We can barbecue a baked potato.

[Fortune Feimster]

Love it.

[Tig Notaro]

No problem.

[Fortune Feimster]

But I would want sour cream on it. I know that's not vegan.

[Tig Notaro]

No, listen, listen.

[Mae Martin]

It would be a real gesture of like. Because I know we're all so busy.

[Tig Notaro]

So here. Here's the other thing. We could each orchestrate our wellness weekends. No, our different wellness.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like what we want and then like. Like decide as a group what it will entail.

[Tig Notaro]

No. We could have three different wellness weekends.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, my God.

[Tig Notaro]

I have to eat sausages and cheese wheels.

[Fortune Feimster]

I would never make you go and smoke a cigarette. I would never. Veganism.

[Tig Notaro]

I wouldn't.

[Fortune Feimster]

I know you wouldn't. But yeah, I mean, listen, I would

[Mae Martin]

make you guys do play game. Like maybe do an escape room or like.

[Tig Notaro]

And you know I hate a game.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

But I would do It.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. We would all try something new.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my God.

[Fortune Feimster]

For each other.

[Tig Notaro]

This kind of thing is what gets me going.

[Mae Martin]

Me too. Because I like an agenda. I like working together.

[Tig Notaro]

Here's the other thing that I just want to say really fast that I was talking to Stephanie about today as far as, like, social media, taking on things, taking in things that you're not wanting and seeking yourself. And then I was realizing also, in the bigger picture of life that I'm trying to cram and wedge in places, I actually find real joy in life around the stuff that isn't bringing me joy. And so if you. My plan right now is to clear out the complications that are not bringing me joy. So that the priority. And I know this is. It's like a dream world, but for whatever I have control over to make conscious decisions of, I do wanna. Like, our son goes and takes an art class in Koreatown on the weekends. And whenever I go, he has so much joy. And I was like, man, I would love to take an art class here too, you know, not. Cause I'm an artist.

[Mae Martin]

I'm definitely craving routine like that. Like. Yeah. Like a weekly dinner with the same five people or bi weekly or whatever. Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

You're kind of creating, like, community for yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I've been thinking about that consciously.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. I had lunch with two of my, like, oldest friends from LA in that we've been friends for 20 years.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I'm like, I want more of this, you know, Like.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

We just sat there for, like, almost two hours.

[Tig Notaro]

And don't you feel like you're trying to cram the good into.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, the.

[Tig Notaro]

The stuff that doesn't feel as good as.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. And I'm just like, God, why don't we do this? Like, more. We just sat there outside the.

[Tig Notaro]

That's amazing.

[Fortune Feimster]

The restaurant and just chatted and. Yeah, it was.

[Mae Martin]

It was great.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then I made me realize, like, God, I'm always traveling. Always.

[Mae Martin]

I know. Working.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm like, what is my community now? Because my life has changed so significantly in the last year. It's like, what does this look like going forward?

[Tig Notaro]

And you have.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm still building it.

[Tig Notaro]

You. You have, like, a whole new map to create.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

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[Mae Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mae Martin]

Fortune. That sounds dreamy well, you know, I

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I don't know, is it weird to

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[Mae Martin]

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[Mae Martin]

Okay, well, I can't wait to hear how the trip goes. Have a blast. And if you're listening, check out Airbnb and go have an adventure. I feel like I'm still in the mindset of, like, saying yes to everything and. But. Yeah, and. And I'm so grateful and lucky and that. But then, yeah, I'm. I'm feeling it. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. You're seeking something. And it's obvious, because you've brought it up a lot on the podcast. Not too much.

[Mae Martin]

Have I?

[Tig Notaro]

No, I'm just saying you have brought it up.

[Fortune Feimster]

Just that you're seeking.

[Maria Shriver]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You're seeking nature and routine. Yeah, you've mentioned that.

[Mae Martin]

Have I?

[Tig Notaro]

Okay. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

This is what therapy is. It's people going, oh, you said that before. And you go, oh, did I?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, it just means it's clearly in you as a desire.

[Tig Notaro]

And that's where I'm going back and connecting these dots that I noticed where I was saying things like, I don't want to post, like, I don't even know who I'm talking to.

[Mae Martin]

Right.

[Tig Notaro]

You know, it started to feel confusing.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Anyway, it just was something that I wanted to share that I thought, I love it. You might be interested in.

[Mae Martin]

I love it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Like, I have this. It's so embarrassing that I know. No, it's not embarrassing. These things are designed to be addictive. We're just little people flopping around.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

But it. Like that. I know the things that would make me feel like drinking more water, sleeping eight hours a night, not be on my phone as much. Like, I. I know the things, but it's just so hard to enact them. But I found I. When I lived with the child, I did. I. My lifestyle was a lot Slower. Time moved slower. It was really nice. So I know that's something I want because it does force you to be present or even just living with a partner. Like. Yeah, I'm left to my own devices. I will, I'll watch a lot of Survivor. I'll watch a lot of reality tv.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I eat a lot of turkey corn dogs from the frozen food section.

[Mae Martin]

Oh my God. My friend.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's what you do currently. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Turkey corn dogs are good though.

[Fortune Feimster]

Now that I'm living alone. Yeah, you're just kind of like, I don't need a cook sit down meal. I'm just gonna grab a turkey corn dog and put it in the air fryer.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm not great at a sit down meal.

[Mae Martin]

Really.

[Tig Notaro]

No, I'm eating on the fly.

[Mae Martin]

Ye.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, that's something I'd love to do differently.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, we have, you know, things to think about, y'.

[Tig Notaro]

All.

[Mae Martin]

Well, this is all gonna come up in Wellness Weekend. Like we're gonna be journaling about our, our dreams and aspirations.

[Tig Notaro]

I. I can't tell you how much I would really love to do it.

[Mae Martin]

Well, I was thinking about getting that place in Arrowhead again. It's so beautiful.

[Tig Notaro]

We can also use my office.

[Fortune Feimster]

I couldn't wait to get out of that. You like got there and we're already planning to go home and come back. I had to come back and then

[Mae Martin]

ordered like, I ordered a lot of stuff.

[Fortune Feimster]

$500 of Amazon stuff.

[Mae Martin]

That was really cool.

[Tig Notaro]

Which brings us back to the Met.

[Mae Martin]

I know. Oh my God.

[Fortune Feimster]

Full circle on that one.

[Tig Notaro]

Should we get to our guests?

[Fortune Feimster]

We should.

[Tig Notaro]

It's a good one.

[Fortune Feimster]

It is.

[Mae Martin]

Today's Question is brought to you by AT&T.

[Tig Notaro]

Today's Question Asker is a writer and journalist and the former first lady of California. She anchored the NBC Nightly News and won a Peabody for her reporting. She won two Emmys for producing the Alzheimer's project. Her award winning digital publication is Maria Shriver's Sunday paper. Maria Shriver is asking today's question.

[Fortune Feimster]

Woo hoo.

[Tig Notaro]

Hi.

[Maria Shriver]

Hey handsome. Hey handsome. It's Maria Shriver. Hey handsome. I like saying that. I actually say that to my boys. Hey handsome. Anyway, okay. Hey handsome. I digress. So thank you for having me on. Thank you for asking me to think of a question for you. So before I get to a question, because I have so many questions, I ask questions for a living. I ask questions of myself every day. So like, for me to have one question for you, you know, it's kind of almost impossible. So Lauren, who I Work with. She gave me some of these question ideas. If you could interview someone dead or alive, and then ask them one question, who would you interview, and what would you ask them? Wow, that's really good. Who would I interview, dead or alive?

[Fortune Feimster]

She looks great.

[Tig Notaro]

She does. She looks good.

[Fortune Feimster]

She's looking handsome.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. That's a charismatic person.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Wow. Wow.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, you can, you know, tell that she is a pro at asking questions. As she said, She's.

[Tig Notaro]

She's the real deal.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Seriously.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And I think she's also, you know, where she stands on most things, I would say. But she's also a reasonable human being is what I find her to be.

[Mae Martin]

Isn't the bar so low that we're like. And she's a reasonable human being?

[Fortune Feimster]

Because you never know.

[Tig Notaro]

I know a lot of people are not, but it's just. I really love a reasonable human being.

[Mae Martin]

Like, someone who. Who's open to amending their ideas or just who's like.

[Fortune Feimster]

Or at least hearing someone else. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Curious about people and. Yeah, that's cool.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Getting to the bottom of things.

[Mae Martin]

It's a really. It's like a. A classic question almost, but I don't think we've had it. But it's such a. I know.

[Tig Notaro]

I thought the same thing.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. But it's very good.

[Fortune Feimster]

If you could interview anyone, was it Dead or Alive, who would you talk to?

[Tig Notaro]

What, the band Dead or Alive? Is that who you. No, that's not the band Dead or Alive.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's Bon Jovi.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, I know. And that was really good, the way you went up with Alive.

[Fortune Feimster]

Thank you.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, that was great.

[Tig Notaro]

Now Mae's trying to compete.

[Mae Martin]

That was good.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, what about this?

[Mae Martin]

I think I know my answer.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Mae Martin]

And I'm surprised by my answer because I. I'm such a, like, fan of pop culture and, like, idolize all these people, but I think I'm going with my paternal grandfather, who I never met was my dad's dad, because I feel like my parents are still kind of mysteries to me in a lot of ways, like all of ours are, because you don't know what their childhood was like. And I've heard such great things about him, and he was an actor and really funny. And.

[Tig Notaro]

Was he related to your grandmother who's an agent?

[Mae Martin]

He was her wife.

[Tig Notaro]

He was her.

[Maria Shriver]

He said.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, wait, he went through that. Right.

[Mae Martin]

He was her husband.

[Tig Notaro]

I know. We're really open and flexible here on sexuality and gender.

[Mae Martin]

He was her husband.

[Tig Notaro]

Sorry.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. My dad's dad.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

So, yeah. Yeah. The agent's husband and he, he was. He had these like big bushy eyebrows

[Fortune Feimster]

and he's love it already.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

And he was like a character actor. He'd pop up, have like little parts and things like, like. And whenever I see him in something, there's like four clips that I have. And he's. His comic timing is so good. He's like Peter Sellersy, you know, like Alec Guinness. Like that old.

[Tig Notaro]

What a shame if you had those eyebrows and had terrible delivery with your comedy.

[Fortune Feimster]

I know.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

What do you do?

[Tig Notaro]

You go pluck them, I guess.

[Mae Martin]

I guess you. Yeah, you shave them off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think, I think him. Because my mom, when she met my dad was. Well, she was Canadian. She came over to England and she was really self conscious, like all these kind of British people and they all went to good universities and we're all kind of verbose and like, look. Sort of look down their noses at like the commonwealth a little bit or just like, you know. But apparently he was so kind and just like anyone who walked in the room, he'd make them feel really comfortable and love it. Yeah. And I. I want to know what my dad was like and just. Yeah, chat to him. I know he was a very heavy drinker.

[Fortune Feimster]

So.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, I'd sit maybe with a scotch and.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, Eyebrows was a heavy drinker.

[Mae Martin]

Eyebrows was a very heavy drinker. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You'd have to be in those days. You gotta. Well, and also the cartoon face and to carry.

[Fortune Feimster]

To carry those eyebrows.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, you gotta sit down with a drink.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You know.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

If they even. They might have made him drink, you know, that might have been what pushed him to drink the brows. Yeah, he might have been like, this is a lot.

[Fortune Feimster]

Is there cultural or historical person you would want to interview?

[Mae Martin]

Napoleon? I have a lot of questions.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, yeah, I love to see Mace. Can you imagine Napoleon?

[Fortune Feimster]

Napoleon, he would speak French, but y' all would have a translator, maybe.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure he would. Would never speak English. He hated the Brits so much.

[Fortune Feimster]

Right. Well, that would be a cool person for you to interview, little translator.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, the visual is pretty good. Yeah, me and. Me and old Napoleon. But he didn't like when people showered. He loved stinky people. So I'd have to.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Don't shower.

[Mae Martin]

That doesn't. It's not gonna fly with me because

[Tig Notaro]

you shower twice a day.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Kate Micucci.

[Mae Martin]

Does she.

[Tig Notaro]

She showers. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

My cooch is. I did go to the coochie doctor this morning. Yeah. All is Good. She said my. My cooch was great.

[Tig Notaro]

I went to the doctor today too.

[Fortune Feimster]

You did not for the cooch?

[Tig Notaro]

No, no.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah. I mean, listen, it wasn't something I was looking forward to, but it went fine. And when she, when she, she was down there and gave me a thumbs up. No, she didn't. Hey, it's looking good down here. But I was pretty happy, like, feeling good about what?

[Tig Notaro]

Clean as a whistle.

[Fortune Feimster]

Clean as a whistle.

[Mae Martin]

Can I change my answer and say I'd interview your gynecologist.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my God.

[Mae Martin]

Now who would you interview? Fortune.

[Fortune Feimster]

I. So on a purse. I have personal and then historical. I would want to interview my grandfather because I never met him. He died unexpectedly when my mom was 17. And he was a very prominent. A contractor. And he built a lot of things around North Carolina, like schools and churches and houses that were really beautiful. And he built the house my grandmother lived in. And so I just have a lot of questions because I don't know him or that.

[Mae Martin]

And you'd fill in stuff about your mom and like, what do you know about his personality?

[Fortune Feimster]

No, I don't know a lot about him.

[Tig Notaro]

Anything about his eyebrows?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I don't know that either. I think he was very charismatic, very, very successful. And he and my grandmother were very philanthropic and.

[Mae Martin]

But then didn't you say. Now it's coming back to me that then after he passed, then there was no money, but there was a nice house or something.

[Fortune Feimster]

There was like. Yeah, well, he left them a lot of money. But things happened over the years, you know.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Shopping sprees.

[Fortune Feimster]

So many shopping sprees. And then I would be curious to interview my grandmother's mom because she was the treasurer of Rutherford county in North Carolina, which was very unusual for a woman in those times. She was a widow and she, when she was campaigning, she had put her kids, my grandmother being one of them, in a donkey cart and would go around handing out flower flyers for her campaign. And the men around town were like pissed about it because they felt like she was trying to use her being a widow and her kids to make people feel sorry for her. But she kept, she kept getting reelected and kept the position for, you know, know, for a long time. And I just thought that was so cool that a woman in those days, because this is my grandmother's mother, that

[Mae Martin]

would be like 19.

[Tig Notaro]

So it's your great grandmother.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes. Putting that together. But that was a long ass time.

[Tig Notaro]

I know it is. You need to yell at me about.

[Fortune Feimster]

Didn't happen with women and I think that's so badass.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's questions for her. And to know more about my grandmother as a kid.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then historically, I mean, it would be kind of interesting to get to talk to Jesus.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Just because think of all the conflict that has surrounded the Bible.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Religion. I know this is news to you, but I would want to be like, what do you think about all this?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. And like, what did you actually say? What were your direct words?

[Fortune Feimster]

What do you mean by this? What happened in this scenario?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

What about what in the Bible has been, like, misinterpreted or. Or, you know, it was also like a game of telephone. The Bible. Of course, it's 400 years after he died. Right. So I think that would be a pretty good interview. That would be a good get.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my God. If we could get Jesus on Handsome haw.

[Fortune Feimster]

Jesus, we need to interview you because

[Podcast Announcer/Host]

we have some questions.

[Tig Notaro]

Have you seen that guy that looks like Jesus in Los Angeles and Hollywood?

[Fortune Feimster]

He's. Well, he's. He's dead now. He's been dead for a while.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, know.

[Mae Martin]

Wait, but there's so many guys that.

[Tig Notaro]

Look, there was a guy, a very

[Fortune Feimster]

prominent one for many, many years.

[Tig Notaro]

He wore a robe, had long hair and all.

[Fortune Feimster]

His name was Kevin.

[Tig Notaro]

And what would he do?

[Mae Martin]

Just walk around?

[Tig Notaro]

He wasn't crucified.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, it wasn't actually. I would have made the news. But he did die this. And it was a couple years ago.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, that's sad.

[Fortune Feimster]

But he used to go to the Comedy Store a lot.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, no, he was. He was just like a cool guy. I assumed I hadn't seen him because I got married and had kids and never saw anyone again.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, rest in peace, Kevin. Kevin's in Heaven. My ex girlfriend wrote a song called that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Kevin's in Heaven.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

About someone she knew. No way.

[Tig Notaro]

About her friend's friend named Kevin who passed away and she wrote Kevin's in Heaven. Oh, nice Kevin's in Heaven song that runs so far.

[Mae Martin]

We got grandparents Napoleon and Jesus. Napoleon actually is second only to Jesus in the amount of books that have been written about him because he's such a divisive, complex figure. Huh. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

We would have a lot of questions for them. Yeah. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

But I'd probably go blank and be like, how are you?

[Fortune Feimster]

But I don't. Do you think Jesus would want to be on camera? Or he would be like, this is off the record.

[Mae Martin]

I think Jesus liked a bit of attention. I mean, he must. He was giving speeches and, you know, like, he Was. He was out there.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

I think he would have been, like, great. Get the message.

[Fortune Feimster]

I would want to ask him about gays.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I would be curious.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

To see what his thoughts were. He. He, you know, he could be like, no, thanks. Or he could be like, love is love.

[Mae Martin]

I feel like it'd be that. That was his whole message. Right. I mean.

[Fortune Feimster]

I mean, that's what I believe.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

He was friends.

[Fortune Feimster]

He was all. He was friends with all the outliers. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah. A rebel.

[Fortune Feimster]

So I think that'd be a good get.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

How about you put them on the handsome pod?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Podcast Announcer/Host]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

What you got?

[Tig Notaro]

Well, I mean, my. The. My personal one. I mean, my mother. Yeah. My mother. My mother died so unexpectedly, and. And I, you know.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

You didn't have time to ask all those questions.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, it's. It's that sad story of, like, God, I thought. I thought, you know.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

How old was she when that happened?

[Tig Notaro]

65.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Man, that's tough.

[Tig Notaro]

And so. Yeah, I have. So especially as I get older and now that I'm married and I'm a parent, it like, really came in big time for me, I'm sure.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Really came in big time.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You know, I'd be curious to talk to my father, but my father was a little bit of a big talker.

[Mae Martin]

Right. And like, he'd get off on one. Like, he'd start talking and he'd be like, okay, we don't have a lot of time for this interview.

[Tig Notaro]

No, no.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like, I think up talking things.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, gosh.

[Mae Martin]

Like, do you think he.

[Tig Notaro]

I had a character in my TV show, One Mississippi, that was my father, and in that he was a part of the Mississippi Mafia, which my father claimed to be. Remember I told you he carried a pistol and a knife in his cowboy boots?

[Mae Martin]

Yes, Pasquale.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, Pasquale Notaro. But sometimes I wasn't quite sure where it was, like, if that was the case. He liked to really, I think, embellish. Like, I think there were some real parts of his stories, but I think there were also. He liked to seem kind of like he was involved in some stuff.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And he had some stuff going on. And he can't talk about this, but I remember just sitting. He surprised me at a show in Virginia, and we went out to ihop, I told you. And he was telling me all these stories and there's something there, but it was also a little, like.

[Mae Martin]

A little.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, just like, just kind of something where I'm like, okay, what is real and what are you embellishing to make a really great story here. But I think more so than anything, my mother, because of everything marriage and children and family has brought up. And then, I mean, gosh, how great to sit down with Maria Shriver and just pick her break. You can do that, right? Right. I could do that. But, you know, actually, who really pops up for me is I am endlessly blown away by the mind of Emily Saliers.

[Fortune Feimster]

I just had lunch with her.

[Tig Notaro]

I know.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's so funny.

[Tig Notaro]

As a songwriter, what she does, I think is extraordinary. I think it is extraordinary, and I just would love to. I could never understand what she does or how she does it, because it is that gift. But I'm truly in awe. I'm truly in awe.

[Mae Martin]

I bet she'd feel the same about stand up like musicians.

[Tig Notaro]

She said that before. She's like, well, how do you do what you do? Yeah, I'm in awe of what you do.

[Fortune Feimster]

Have a lunch where you guys.

[Tig Notaro]

I like, I don't, I don't want to talk about me. I truly just want to be like Emily.

[Fortune Feimster]

Ask her a bunch of questions.

[Tig Notaro]

I have. But she's, like, reflected.

[Fortune Feimster]

She's very humble.

[Tig Notaro]

Very humble.

[Mae Martin]

And she's like, commit to, like, having to answer.

[Fortune Feimster]

Tooting her horn a little bit. She's like, no, no, no.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Right.

[Tig Notaro]

But like, I, I don't like. It's so, so many people you can write and look, I love a love song.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

But so much about the world and life and experiences, thoughts, feelings that aren't typical. Obvious themes she'll write about and make it rhyme.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And make it catchy. And I'm just. I mean, obviously Amy Ray, the other part of the Indigo Girls, brings the entire other half of this, but I'm just talking from, like a. Yeah. The poetic side of Emily.

[Mae Martin]

Isn't it funny?

[Tig Notaro]

Relentlessly blows my mind.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

It makes me laugh. Like, what suckers we are for rhyming as human beings. Like, you put a, put a sentiment but make it rhyme. Then people are getting tattooed. It's like just, it stays with you. If it rhymes, it's like it burns it into you. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

But also, sometimes she doesn't rhyme. Yeah, whatever.

[Fortune Feimster]

And we're like, no, thanks.

[Mae Martin]

I mean, Alanis Morissa is up there for me just because of. I, I, I'd want to ask her about spirituality and. Yeah. Songwriting and just what the, what her 90s was like and. Yeah. Yeah, that would be up there for me.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, I think we're gonna see Emily moving into even more writing because you know, she shared. Yeah, she and Amy shared on social media.

[Tig Notaro]

Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

About Emily's having some health complications that's affecting her voice. And so they're figuring that out. But, yeah, I can see a world in which she really leans into writing even more, which will be. See what she comes out with.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm here for anything this woman writes.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's right.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I am. Whether. Yeah, I'm all in. Should we see what Maria has to say? Yes.

[Maria Shriver]

Well, I'd probably interview Mary.

[Mae Martin]

I really thought she was gonna do it.

[Maria Shriver]

The Virgin Mary?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes.

[Maria Shriver]

I have so many questions for her. Yes, I have a lot of questions for Mary from the very beginning, all the way to the very end. I mean, I have so many. You must have some questions for Mary. I don't even know if I can get into all the questions I have for her. Bye, handsome.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, Mary would be a good one, too. Oh, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Mary and Jesus.

[Fortune Feimster]

There's a lot of mystery around that. Come on.

[Tig Notaro]

That could be your regular weekly dinner. Oh, Mary and Jesus are coming over for spaghetti.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Dig into things a little bit more each week. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

We give him. He turns the water to wine. We got him a little touchy.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at that.

[Mae Martin]

He'd be a cheap date. You just need one fish, right?

[Fortune Feimster]

He would.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

He doesn't seem like he would eat much.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, yeah. And you fish. You can bring the fish.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's right. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I used to fish anyway. Well, I have to say, complete delight.

[Allstate Ad Voice]

Delight.

[Mae Martin]

Absolute delight.

[Tig Notaro]

It never ever isn't a delight to do this in person.

[Mae Martin]

I know in a perfect world, it would always be in person. It is so. It is so nice.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm gonna kiss your actual hand.

[Tig Notaro]

Fortune kissed my hand.

[Fortune Feimster]

Did you just m Me? I've never done. No, no, no. I'm sorry.

[Mae Martin]

It's just gonna. Please, Please. Thank you, Portia.

[Fortune Feimster]

I gotta. Well, because my hand was tried, I thought.

[Mae Martin]

And I thought you probably don't.

[Podcast Announcer/Host]

Oh, I have to reach

[Mae Martin]

because you

[Fortune Feimster]

thought, oh, now I gotta kiss you.

[Tig Notaro]

Got it from May. And then I didn't actually kiss your hand. I kissed mine. So you didn't get.

[Fortune Feimster]

I didn't get much of anything from this.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Next time.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, you always got your corn dogs waiting for you.

[Fortune Feimster]

You have a turkey corn dog and

[Tig Notaro]

your tits out tub.

[Fortune Feimster]

Tits out tub.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, that was. That was a real delight.

[Fortune Feimster]

It was.

[Mae Martin]

And I wish we all lived together in a big house with a fireman's pole. And we slide down in the morning.

[Tig Notaro]

We can do that on wellness Weekend.

[Fortune Feimster]

You sure can.

[Tig Notaro]

I can put a wellness. A wellness pole, a poll at my office. If we, if we stay there for wellness weekend.

[Mae Martin]

I think if we're doing it, we should go to nature. That's my feeling. If we're in la, we're gonna be tempted.

[Tig Notaro]

You've seen the backyard of my office.

[Mae Martin]

It is pretty beautiful. Yeah, that's true.

[Tig Notaro]

Anyway, either way, I would love a

[Fortune Feimster]

Palm Springs Wellness Weekend.

[Mae Martin]

I'd do that. Or Joshua Tree.

[Tig Notaro]

It's a little hot now. All of my tour dates you can [e-mail] Please go there and check it out.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm gonna be in Europe soon with Berlin, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, London and Dublin. My mom will be a few of those. And then back in the States, Rochester, Minnesota. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Detroit and somewhere else. Omaha. Huh?

[Mae Martin]

Nice. Yeah, I am. What I know is June 10th, I'm at Largo in LA and then I'm doing two music festivals this summer. I've never done a music festival.

[Tig Notaro]

That's so exciting.

[Mae Martin]

And one of them's in Yellow Knife and it's going to be.

[Fortune Feimster]

Where's Yellow Knife going?

[Tig Notaro]

Swan.

[Mae Martin]

Like the Northwest Territories, I think in Canada.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay, that's.

[Mae Martin]

But it's like.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh yeah, that's in our country.

[Mae Martin]

Daylight, 24 hours. It's one of those. Yeah, it's going to be surreal. And then the other one, Yellow Night.

[Fortune Feimster]

Now I know where that is.

[Mae Martin]

Yellow Knife in July. And also I'm going to play in Guelph, Ontario. I'm doing another music festival in.

[Fortune Feimster]

I've been to Guelph. You've been to Guelph? I filmed there.

[Mae Martin]

A lot of my friends went to university there. It's really nice.

[Tig Notaro]

I want to go to.

[Mae Martin]

You'd like it.

[Tig Notaro]

I've never heard of it, but what a great name.

[Fortune Feimster]

I know I kept pronouncing it wrong,

[Mae Martin]

but what were you saying? Gulf.

[Fortune Feimster]

Gulf.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And yeah, we've filmed in a little cute. There's a cute little downtown.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, really nice. I've never done a music festival. So if you're near Yellow Nun Knife or Guelph, like the nightmare is you're playing outside and there's 20 people. Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

So please don't do that to me.

[Mae Martin]

Don't do that to me.

[Fortune Feimster]

Don't do that to me in Europe either. I need our European handsome folks.

[Tig Notaro]

How do people get sleep? They just wear eye masks.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Or. Or blackout curtains.

[Mae Martin]

Blackout curtains, I guess. Yeah. It's gonna be wild.

[Tig Notaro]

And that's year round in Guelph.

[Mae Martin]

Well, winter it's dark all the time.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh. Oh, okay.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. I mean, Iceland's the same, right?

[Tig Notaro]

I don't know.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I'll get there.

[Tig Notaro]

Bjork on the horn.

[Fortune Feimster]

It went. It got dark in Iceland around 10pm when I. When I was there.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, that's when you head in for the night, anyway.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. What a podcast.

[Tig Notaro]

Share episodes with your friends if. If you love this one, which I think you did.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Share it. Help build our community and rate review.

[Mae Martin]

And don't forget, you can now watch us on Hulu a day earlier than YouTube if you're. If you're fiending.

[Podcast Announcer/Host]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And you are.

[Fortune Feimster]

We'll see you there. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And until next time, keep it handsome.

[Podcast Announcer/Host]

Handsome is hosted by me, Fortune Feimster,

[Fortune Feimster]

Tig Notaro, and May Martin. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Ouelette.

[Podcast Announcer/Host]

Email [e-mail] and follow us on social media at Handsomepod.

[Fortune Feimster]

What a podcast.

[Mae Martin]

What a podcast. That was a Headgum podcast.

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[Tig Notaro]

Didn't see that coming.

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[Podcast Announcer/Host]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Tig Notaro]

Hi, I am Mandy Moore.

[Fortune Feimster]

Sterling K. Brown. And I'm Chris Sullivan. And we host the podcast that Was Us now on Headgum.

[Tig Notaro]

Each episode, we're gonna go into a deep dive from our show. This is Us.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's right.

[Tig Notaro]

We're gonna go episode by episode. We're also gonna pepper in episodes with different guest stars and writers and casting directors.

[Fortune Feimster]

Are we gonna cry? Yes, a little bit. Are we gonna laugh a lot?

[Podcast Announcer/Host]

A whole lot.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's what I'm hoping. Man. Listen to that was Us on your favorite podcast app. Or watch full video episodes on YouTube or Spotify. New episodes every Tuesday.