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Tig Notaro
This is a Headgum podcast. Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod Pretty little episode. Hello.
Fortune Feimster
Hello.
Tig Notaro
Welcome to this pretty little episode with these pretty little ladies. What are you laughing at?
Fortune Feimster
I'm laughing at you. Just so you're like, hello. Hello, we're here.
Simon
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Hello. How's your plant doing?
Fortune Feimster
What? My plant? My fake plant is amazing.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Would you know that's a fake plant?
Tig Notaro
No. No.
Fortune Feimster
See, that's why I love fake plants. I've not had to water it once.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, you shouldn't. Our assistant was watering a fake plant. Fake plants on our back patio, and I saw her do it one day, and I was like, oh, it's like those. Those don't need to be watered.
Fortune Feimster
I would be confused if they were on the patio, though.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I mean, she had every reason to think they were real.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
But you're like, why is this.
Fortune Feimster
Why is there a puddle of water under here constantly?
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
I do not have a green thumb, so this is the best it's going to get for me.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I wish I was a little more green botanical. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
I admire those people that have those just, like, lush gardens and they're growing all this fresh food.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I would love to be one of those little old ladies. Little old. Little pretty old ladies that's just hunched over in their garden and then, you know, they always have little clippers in their hands and then a hat that's covering, like, their entire body. And then you walk by and you're like, hi, Mrs. Notaro.
Fortune Feimster
I see that for you.
Tig Notaro
And then I look up, I'm like, oh, hi. Oh, you've gotten so big. You know, have those.
Fortune Feimster
I think that's in your future down.
Tig Notaro
Do you really?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
And I'm not joking. Like, that is my fantasy. Like, if somebody told me that I could get that going on immediately, I would be thrilled to have, like, a garden where things come up.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
High enough to. Where when you're hunched over and you're gardening, somebody just sees that little hat.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
You think I've got that in my Face.
Fortune Feimster
I think you've got it in you tenfold. You've got that. It's so in your body. I don't know, just see you with your little clippers and your sun hat. You can start now. A lot of people do the raised beds.
Tig Notaro
Mm. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
They start with, like, one of those. Start with one of those.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I wonder if there's gardening college or school somewhere.
Fortune Feimster
I think you need a college for. I do.
Tig Notaro
I think I need a four year degree on agriculture. Yeah. And fashion. You know.
Fortune Feimster
And fashion. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
I think if you watched one YouTube video, you could start a garden.
Tig Notaro
I could immediately hunch over and start picking weeds.
Fortune Feimster
Come to my garden. Rest here for a while. What's that from listeners who knows this answer?
Tig Notaro
Thomas almost looks like he does. No, I don't.
Fortune Feimster
You guys don't know it neither. All right, I'm gonna tell you what garden is in the title.
Tig Notaro
Garden State.
Fortune Feimster
Nope.
Tig Notaro
Gray. Gray Gardens. The musical. Let's make it.
Fortune Feimster
It is the secret garden.
Tig Notaro
Okay, well, people kept secret.
Fortune Feimster
Pumped about that. My grandmother was a gardener. I am not. But I. I don't actually mind the thought of when I'm older also having that situation.
Tig Notaro
Okay. Truth comes out. I didn't know. I thought. I thought. I thought you were just like, that's not my world. No interest.
Fortune Feimster
No. You know what would be, I think, a cool way to retire. I would have maybe two places because I would get bored.
Tig Notaro
Mm.
Fortune Feimster
One in a city, like in like, somewhere in la.
Tig Notaro
Sure.
Fortune Feimster
But a house in like a. Like a Napa Valley.
Tig Notaro
Oh, yeah.
Fortune Feimster
It's a lot of farm to table situations up there where people are growing stuff and they're eating good food and fresh food. I wouldn't mind a little cottage in Napa or Sonoma and get my gardening on and just drink wine all day. That sounds delightful.
Tig Notaro
And then how interested would Jax be in the gardening? Not at all.
Fortune Feimster
Or she'd be interested in the wine for sure. And the charcuterie that's gonna accompany that. She would be very into the vegetables, the fresh veggies. I think I could learn how to be butch and grow our food.
Tig Notaro
So it takes butchy. Cause I've seen little old pretty ladies that aren't terribly butchy. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Feels butch to me. Getting dirty.
Tig Notaro
Getting dirty. I'm so glitchy. Look at me.
Fortune Feimster
I gotta get my hands in the dirt.
Tig Notaro
But you have seen the women that are like 80 that are not butchy, that their gardens are really growing. Here's my other problem is I don't feel like I make a good Mrs. Notaro. You know, I feel like I'm only Mrs. Notaro when I check into hotels.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Or like, on a flight. Mrs. Notaro.
Fortune Feimster
I just got called sir last night.
Tig Notaro
Oh. Anyone you know?
Fortune Feimster
No. The valet. He goes, have a good night, sir. I said, thank you. I always try to make my voice higher. Thank you.
Tig Notaro
I always say, oh, I'm female. And then I get in my car.
Fortune Feimster
You too?
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I had this one Uber driver that kept calling me sir and buddy and I kept saying, oh, I'm female. Oh, I'm female. He did not. He didn't hear anything I said because he was looking at me going. Whatever I was saying was not.
Fortune Feimster
Did not track for him.
Tig Notaro
No. He was like, why is he saying I'm female?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
You know, but. Yeah, that's my favorite thing to say, of course. To cause some awkwardness.
Fortune Feimster
You love a good awkward moment.
Tig Notaro
I do. I love an awkward moment.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. I just go with it. Thank you.
Tig Notaro
That's not going with it.
Fortune Feimster
Thank you.
Tig Notaro
How often do you get called sir? Because I don't feel like you've got a sir.
Fortune Feimster
Look, I could do more than you think. I think it's that people, if they're not really paying attention, they just see a large presence, like. And. And so I'm not dainty like a pretty little lady. So they just see, like, the broad shoulders, and they just assume.
Tig Notaro
Oh, man, that dude treads water. Look at those shoulders.
Fortune Feimster
Once every couple weeks, maybe.
Tig Notaro
Okay, once. He mines every few days.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, really?
Tig Notaro
Oh, yes.
Fortune Feimster
Probably your short hair, for sure. I have these long locks. Look how feminine I am right now.
Tig Notaro
I mean, Fortune's got her hair flung to one side. She's twirling. I would say you're even making eyes at me. Fortune, what would it take you and I know we've already talked about this in many different ways, but really, what would it take for you to hook up with me?
Fortune Feimster
Oh, my God.
Tig Notaro
Why do you keep asking me? Well, you can't start twirling your hair and making eyes at me, and it's not. Oh, it's not gonna cross my mind.
Fortune Feimster
You and I would start giggling the whole time. There's no way.
Tig Notaro
But what is it, like a money amount? Like, what is. What.
Fortune Feimster
What is it gonna take to pay me?
Come on.
That's a delight right there.
Tig Notaro
A delight.
Fortune Feimster
Delight. Delightful hookup.
Tig Notaro
Jax and Stephanie walk in, and they're like, oh, God, what are you two doing?
Fortune Feimster
I like these two.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, let's go have a hot chocolate by the fire.
Fortune Feimster
That's Right. Well, vino.
Tig Notaro
So you won't put out a number?
Fortune Feimster
I mean, I wouldn't have. You wouldn't have to pay me.
Tig Notaro
You would just do it.
Fortune Feimster
Heck, yeah. What a fun time.
Tig Notaro
What if we liked it a little too much? We had to sit down and explain Lane.
Fortune Feimster
It could ruin handsome.
Tig Notaro
We're like Jack, Stephanie. I know it was surprising, but funny to catch us, but we actually.
Fortune Feimster
We have very intense feelings for each other now.
Tig Notaro
Oh, please let that happen. Okay, I feel like Thomas is ready to give us our first question. He's like, we got to break this tension and move on. It's too hot.
Fortune Feimster
It's too hot in here.
Tig Notaro
Oh, Thomas. Did you hear all that? I did, yeah. Was somebody else in the room? I tried to block it out.
Fortune Feimster
He thought we were alone.
Tig Notaro
Okay, give us a question.
Simon
Hello, Fortune, May and Tig. My name is Simon, and I'm from Canada. And I want to know, did you ever have a style era that you look back on and think, what was I doing? Just a moment in time when you tried something different. Maybe you did, you know, a crazier haircut or you went into a certain genre of fashion that you never really tried before. It was an experimental phase, and you look back and you just think, that was wild.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, man. I've had some. I've had some real bad moments, and they're all, you know, documented, because I was on tv, I was in press photos. I mean, some of the things I would. I can't believe I showed up to half the things. I showed up to wearing the things. I wore a lot of sweater vests. A lot of. A lot of.
Tig Notaro
What's wrong with a sweater? What is wrong with a vest?
Fortune Feimster
But my shirts, like, underneath were, like, either too long or too short.
Tig Notaro
Like, why can't you get it just right?
Fortune Feimster
I don't know.
Tig Notaro
Ratty jeans.
Fortune Feimster
Ratty jeans. My hair wasn't like. Not that my hair is not always insane, but Jax's helps me keep. Not right now. I did it myself. But she scrunches my curls.
Tig Notaro
I know she does.
Fortune Feimster
She scrunches my girl. She's the best.
Tig Notaro
I'm just looking for someone who will scrunch my curls.
Fortune Feimster
I found my person. She scrunches my curls.
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But, man, I have even. Even Jack's laughs now. She's like, oh, my God, these outfits. And I'm like, I know. Ill fitting. I think that was it. It was a lot of ill fitting stuff. I didn't know how to get things tailored yet, or they were, like, a little too tight or a little too long or a little. Whatever. Crazy shoulders.
Tig Notaro
Crazy shoulders.
Fortune Feimster
You know, like, I. Like a men's blazer, but the shoulders, like, look like a football. You gotta get that fixed. I look like a football player.
Tig Notaro
Oh, that's so funny.
Fortune Feimster
What was yours?
Tig Notaro
Well, I mean, I think the first time that I went rogue with fashion was in elementary school, and I went through a period of time where I wore a cowboy hat and cowboy boots and shorts.
Fortune Feimster
Nice.
Tig Notaro
And. And it was those, like, safari shorts because I liked having a lot of pockets. And then it had, like, a. A keychain hook on. On the safari shorts.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
I mean, not like I'm embarrassed of that, but that was the first time where I remember when I would go over to my neighbor's house to play. It was like, oh, Tig has a new fashion.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
You know, and there's so many pockets. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure I kept cigarettes and stuff in there.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
I used to also wear little earrings. And I started dating this woman, like, I don't even know when. And she was like, why do you have those earrings in? And I was like, I don't know. And she said, you look like a little girl baby. You look like a little baby whose parents are trying to signal to everyone that you're a little girl.
Fortune Feimster
The pierce their little baby ears. All babies with pierced ears.
Tig Notaro
I'm like, oh, no, you do like them or you don't.
Fortune Feimster
I do not like them. No.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fortune Feimster
I think the baby doesn't. That hurts. They don't want that.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. There's no real reason. You need to signal to everyone that the baby is girl or boy bow in their hair. And it made me laugh so hard when she said that I looked like my parents were trying to signal that I was a girl.
Fortune Feimster
I wear little earrings. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
I took them out.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. You don't wear any earrings now? Yeah.
Tig Notaro
No, not since her. Because I was like, God, that is funny, because I said. You know, now that you're saying that, I think. I think that is what I was trying to do, is signal that I. Girl. And then. And then I was just like, yeah, I. I took my earrings out and I.
Fortune Feimster
Who needs them?
Tig Notaro
Who needs them? And now, you know, everyone wears two earrings. You know, guys do. And so you're not really signaling anything. There you are. Simon, what about you?
Simon
For me, I think all of my fashion choices have been completely justifiable and amazing. So.
Fortune Feimster
All right. Yeah.
Simon
Especially the skirt over jeans when I was a little kid. That was probably the best. Can't wait to hear your answer.
Tig Notaro
Bye.
Fortune Feimster
Nice. My hair hasn't changed in, like, 20 years, though.
Tig Notaro
What was it before 20 years ago?
Fortune Feimster
I didn't know about layering.
Tig Notaro
Oh, layering and brushing. That it hadn't. Hadn't reached you yet.
Fortune Feimster
You're like curl cream.
Tig Notaro
I don't even know about curl cream. I just found out. When you said curl cream, I didn't.
Fortune Feimster
Know that you could layer hair and curve it inward so it was just a triangle. So nobody mentioned Gilda Radner? Like character.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
This is a triangle.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I. I've been wondering if I should just see what I look like dyeing my hair.
Fortune Feimster
What color?
Tig Notaro
Well, brown. I don't mind the gray, but I'm curious what I would look like if I didn't have gray.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
With my face aging. You know what I mean? Because I, of course, know what I look like with brown hair from years ago, but now I'm like, you know, I've got little gray patches in my ears and stuff.
Fortune Feimster
I'm going to look like a little old cherub. Fat cheeks.
Tig Notaro
A little old cherub.
Fortune Feimster
Rosy fat cheeks with wrinkles.
Tig Notaro
That's great.
Fortune Feimster
Who also kind of looks young, but is old.
Tig Notaro
Do cherubs never get older? Huh?
Fortune Feimster
I'm gonna be the first one.
Tig Notaro
Wow, look at you. You're gonna live so long from treading.
Fortune Feimster
That's right.
Tig Notaro
Look at that old cherub. That's gonna be one of your specials down the road is old cherub.
Fortune Feimster
You heard it here first.
Tig Notaro
You sure did.
Fortune Feimster
I love it. All right, what's next?
Hannah
Hi, handsome. Pod, this is Hannah from Berlin. And my question is, what is something you've never done or tried that you think you would actually love? And what's stopping you?
Tig Notaro
Oh, good question. Also, Hannah from Berlin does not sound.
Fortune Feimster
Like Hannah is from Berlin.
Tig Notaro
It feels like Hannah Berlin forgot to mention where Hannah was from before she got to Berlin.
Fortune Feimster
She's like, oh, I meant Berlin, Minnesota.
Tig Notaro
I guess I'm Tig from Toronto. Huh? Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Something that you've never done, but that you think you could be good at. And why haven't you done it?
Tig Notaro
I've got something.
Fortune Feimster
Okay.
Tig Notaro
I've always wanted to do this. And fine, get ready to laugh at me, But I'm about to share a dream.
Fortune Feimster
I can't wait.
Tig Notaro
I have always want. And I don't even know if I'd be good at it, but, God, I hope I am, because I want to do this one day. I want to tap dance.
Fortune Feimster
Tig.
Tig Notaro
What?
Fortune Feimster
This is also my dream.
Tig Notaro
No fortune. Tig, let's take tap dancing lessons.
Fortune Feimster
I swear to God, as soon as you said that. That's mine.
Tig Notaro
Kathleen. I have. I think tap dancing is the coolest.
Fortune Feimster
So great, right?
Tig Notaro
Yes. Thomas is laughing at us, but just, you know, let's mute his face. I think it is the coolest thing. I want to tap dance. And how many lessons do we need? Because I can do fake tap dancing really well.
Fortune Feimster
Here's what we should do. We should take lessons together and then host the Oscars.
Tig Notaro
Yes.
Fortune Feimster
Like Billy Crystal.
Tig Notaro
Oh, right. You can't host the Oscars without knowing how to tap dance. I had to tap dance.
Fortune Feimster
He used to tap dance in his opening monologues. They're like Hugh Jackman or something. We should do it.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God. We have to. We have to find a tap dance instructor and then just take, like, what, a week of tap dance lessons?
Fortune Feimster
I think we need more than a week. It's not easy.
Tig Notaro
Oh, okay.
Fortune Feimster
But they do have tap lessons in Hollywood for, like, beginners. And maybe we can convince May to do it, too.
Tig Notaro
Wait a minute. Or we can find tap dance lessons on YouTube. We can film ourselves teaching ourselves through YouTube tutorials.
Fortune Feimster
I really want to learn to tap dance. And I don't know why. I've. I've said this for, like, 20 years.
Tig Notaro
Me, too, kid. Me too. And I'm like, why am I. Yeah. Why are we not reaching our potential here? All I want to do in life is garden and tap dance.
Fortune Feimster
Whenever I see, like, videos of people tapping, I'm just like, that looks amazing.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God.
Fortune Feimster
I've just always wanted to be a part of, like, an opening monologue. It doesn't. If. If the Oscars don't want us, then, like, they still have the TV Land.
Tig Notaro
Award waiting for us to learn how to tap dance. They want us. They want us.
Fortune Feimster
I'm just always picturing, like, a tuxedo, just tapping like our life depends on it.
Tig Notaro
Okay, wait. Here's a great idea. May is doing the monologue, and you and I are just tap dancing. Our faces off while May is giving the monologue. And we're like, you know, May's all.
Fortune Feimster
Cool and we're just like with a top hat.
Tig Notaro
And May's like, guys, can you keep it down? I have. You know, they're trying to do their monologue and we're like, clickety clackity, clackety click.
Fortune Feimster
They're trying to introduce Angelina to Jolie. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. I think this needs to happen. We have to find a class that it's not just us and a bunch of like 8 year olds. It needs to be like that to be like an adult beginner.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God. I. Okay, fine.
Fortune Feimster
Well, if we have to do it with 8 year olds, fine. Just they need to know that we're there to host the Oscars.
Tig Notaro
Right. We. We have to. And then that should be the very begin of, you know, there's probably a bunch of things we have to learn.
Fortune Feimster
We should document it.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. Like, we're trying to prepare for the Oscars and we show it in their Oscar rollout opening. And we. But there's other things that we probably have to learn. And I don't know what they are, but there's things Oscar hosts do that those are. Right.
Fortune Feimster
Jokes and stuff.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. And we probably need to show us getting our. Getting fitted for our gowns and things.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, we're gonna wear.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, we're gonna tap dance and gowns. But they're not gonna. They're gonna be short gowns, you know, to show off our gowns. I wanted a T maze in the tux.
Fortune Feimster
Okay. Why don't you be in the gown and I'm in the tux?
Tig Notaro
Because people be like, what's that dude doing in that gown?
Fortune Feimster
You know, Gosh, this. I mean, if the Oscars don't tap.
Tig Notaro
Tap us to do this, they of course are.
Fortune Feimster
They're gonna. At least they could. Let's start the conversations now. Oscars. So we have a year to. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
And you think we should for sure start with beginners lessons and not.
Fortune Feimster
Well, considering we've never tapped in our life.
Tig Notaro
Right. Yes. Okay. Okay. It's a good plan.
Fortune Feimster
But we should tell the instructor, hey, just, you know, we're hoping to host the Oscars, so we're not hoping.
Tig Notaro
We are preparing.
Fortune Feimster
Preparing to host Oscars.
Tig Notaro
To host the Oscars.
Fortune Feimster
So you need to. We need to get this going.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God. Fortune. It'd be such a funny video. Because if we said that we are preparing to host the Oscars, they would assume we have been tapped.
Fortune Feimster
No one has asked us.
Tig Notaro
No one has asked us, but we are no fools. So we are preparing for this and we are showing up. Ready.
Fortune Feimster
This is so exciting.
Tig Notaro
It's so exciting.
Fortune Feimster
I'm so pumped for this.
Tig Notaro
Okay.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. What's Hannah's answer?
Tig Notaro
Yeah, let's hear from Hannah. It's tap dancing.
Hannah
For me, it's Dungeons and Dragons because I love puzzles, board games, fantasy novels, fantasy series, all of that. So I think I would love it. I just have no idea how to break into that world. Also, I do fear it would become my entire personality and I would annoy all of my loved ones. But anyways, I really love the pod. Thank you so much for all of the laughs. Bye.
Fortune Feimster
Well, thank you for dredging up our secret love of tap dancing. And yes, well, thank you when we host the Oscars.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, for sure. Thanks to Hannah in Berlin.
Fortune Feimster
Berlin, Texas. I would like to learn how to play the banjo. To me, the banjo sounds really fun and every time Steve Martin does it, I'm like, that's so cool.
Tig Notaro
Yes, I would love to play the banjo.
Fortune Feimster
Well, what a treat.
Tig Notaro
What a treat. Endless treat. Submit your questions if you want to be a part of this treat, you can submit those@speakpipe.com HandsomePod give us your.
Fortune Feimster
Questions because boy, do we have answers.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, we really have answers and we are the go to for any questions anybody might have. Also Share this Show subscribe to YouTube subscribe to the audio podcast wherever you're getting it. Tell your friends. And until next time, I mean, shucks, keep it.
Simon
Keep it pretty.
Fortune Feimster
Handsome Handsome is hosted by me, Mae Martin, Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willette. Email us@handomepodmail.com and please follow us on social media. ANSOMEPOD.
Tig Notaro
What a podcast. What a podcast that was a hit.
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Podcast Summary: Handsome – Pretty Little Episode #21
Release Date: January 10, 2025
Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin
Produced by: Headgum
Timestamp: 00:48 – 03:38
The episode kicks off with a light-hearted conversation about gardening. Fortune Feimster shares her love for fake plants, humorously revealing that her assistant once watered one, unaware it wasn't real. This leads to a deeper discussion about the allure of lush gardens and the desire to cultivate one in retirement.
Fortune Feimster (02:03): "I admire those people that have those just, like, lush gardens and they're growing all this fresh food."
Tig Notaro (02:23): "I would love to be one of those little old ladies... hunched over in their garden... with a hat that's covering their entire body."
The hosts humorously speculate about their future gardening selves, envisioning Tig as a gardeners' icon with a perpetual sun hat and clippers.
Timestamp: 05:26 – 08:23
Transitioning from gardening, Tig and Fortune delve into personal experiences of being misgendered. Fortune shares a recent encounter where a valet mistook her for a "sir," prompting a humorous exchange about handling such awkward moments.
Fortune Feimster (06:28): "I just got called sir last night."
Tig Notaro (07:12): "I always say, oh, I'm female... causing some awkwardness."
Fortune reflects on how her strong presence often leads to these misunderstandings, while Tig pokes fun at her own interactions with Uber drivers.
Timestamp: 10:25 – 16:37
Simon from Canada poses a question about past style eras the hosts might look back on with amusement or embarrassment.
Fortune Feimster admits to regretting some fashion choices, particularly ill-fitting sweater vests and jeans, which were often highlighted in her media appearances.
Tig Notaro reminisces about her elementary school phase, complete with cowboy hats and boots, and humorous stories about her ex-girlfriend critiquing her earrings.
The segment is filled with laughter as the hosts share relatable fashion missteps from their past.
Timestamp: 17:50 – 25:19
Hannah from Berlin asks the hosts about activities they've never tried but would love to, and what's holding them back.
Both Tig and Fortune reveal a shared dream of learning tap dancing. Their enthusiasm leads to a playful brainstorming session about taking lessons and even hosting the Oscars with their newfound skills.
Tig Notaro (18:40): "I want to tap dance."
Fortune Feimster (19:03): "I really want to learn to tap dance."
They fantasize about tap dancing in tuxedos and gowns, imagining humorous scenarios where they might accidentally disrupt an Oscars ceremony with their clattering taps.
In addition to tap dancing, Fortune expresses a desire to learn the banjo, inspired by Steve Martin's performances.
As the episode nears its end, the hosts reiterate their shared aspirations and encourage listeners to engage with the podcast by submitting their questions. They wrap up with cheerful goodbyes, leaving listeners entertained and inspired by their candid and comedic exchanges.
Notable Quotes:
Fortune Feimster (02:03): "I admire those people that have those just, like, lush gardens and they're growing all this fresh food."
Tig Notaro (07:12): "I always say, oh, I'm female... causing some awkwardness."
Tig Notaro (13:12): "I wore cowboy hats and cowboy boots and shorts... little earrings."
Fortune Feimster (19:03): "I really want to learn to tap dance."
Fortune Feimster (25:00): "I would like to learn how to play the banjo. Every time Steve Martin does it, I'm like, that's so cool."
Conclusion:
In this episode of Handsome, Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin engage in an entertaining and heartfelt discussion, touching on personal aspirations, past fashions, and the joys of embracing new experiences. Their chemistry and humor make for a captivating listen, offering both laughter and relatable insights for fans and newcomers alike.