Rebel Wilson asks about good investments

Summary

Podcast Title: Handsome
Episode: Rebel Wilson Asks About Good Investments
Host/Authors: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, May Martin
Release Date: April 15, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of Handsome, hosted by Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and May Martin, Rebel Wilson poses an intriguing question about personal investments. The trio navigates through their diverse experiences with money management, investment strategies, and the challenges stemming from their familial financial backgrounds. This summary delves into their candid conversations, insightful anecdotes, and collective wisdom on building and managing wealth.

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Rebel Wilson's Question: What Are You Investing In?

The episode pivots around Rebel Wilson's query regarding the types of investments the hosts engage in to grow their hard-earned money. Rebel, known for her roles in Bridesmaids, Isn't It Romantic?, The Hustle, and Jojo Rabbit, seeks advice on effective investment strategies.

Rebel Wilson (29:04):

"What are you investing? So what kind of, like, investments are you into? To, like, you know, build up your money that you work so hard to get."

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Hosts' Responses and Personal Insights

Tig Notaro's Reflection on Family and Financial Growth

Tig opens up about her strained relationship with her stepfather and the subsequent lessons on financial responsibility.

Tig Notaro (33:00):

"He apologized for not being supportive... realizing that it's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who their child is."

She recounts her stepfather's gesture of establishing college funds for her children, emphasizing the importance of supporting one's children's diverse aspirations beyond traditional paths.

Tig Notaro (35:05):

"Every year, Stephanie and I continue to contribute to that."

Fortune Feimster's Journey Towards Financial Literacy

Fortune shares her upbringing amidst financial instability and her determination to avoid her family's mistakes. Her narrative underscores the significance of financial education and conservative investing.

Fortune Feimster (39:34):

"That's why I really try to be smart with, you know, I have... I'm lucky to have a nice life."

She discusses her cautious approach to investing, expressing her apprehensions about the stock market and the necessity of trusting financial advisors.

Fortune Feimster (43:28):

"I do have knowledge of that, the stock market... it scares me."

Fortune highlights her success in real estate, having purchased her first home not as an investment but as a personal sanctuary, which inadvertently became profitable upon selling.

Fortune Feimster (54:26):

"I bought a first house... it was this cute house, 1600 square feet. And I love that house."

May Martin's Financial Practices and Challenges

May discusses her personal financial habits, influenced by her family's laissez-faire approach to money. She admits to a scarcity mentality and her struggle with investing, juxtaposed with her recent efforts to purchase property.

May Martin (44:04):

"I have scarcity mentality, though, so I like to see my money in my account. I got to get over that."

She relates her experience of attempting to invest in a British retirement fund, expressing frustration over its inaccessibility and her fears of forgetting about the investment.

May Martin (48:42):

"I put some money in there, and now I'm so mad about it because it's just in some British retirement fund and I'm scared I'm going to forget about it."

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Overcoming Financial Anxiety and Embracing Investments

The hosts collectively address the anxiety surrounding investments, emphasizing the necessity of moving beyond fear to secure financial stability. They advocate for conservative investment strategies like money market accounts and Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) to ensure funds grow without the volatility of the stock market.

Fortune Feimster (43:52):

"Every cent that came in went right back out... But if you have a little something, if you can try to have that money making interest..."

Tig Notaro (50:49):

"You wanna invest in yourself and your health and your brain. All of it."

May adds a philosophical touch, highlighting investments in personal well-being as equally crucial as financial investments.

May Martin (50:36):

"I think investing in our health is the best thing we can do."

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Addressing Modern Financial Challenges

The hosts touch upon the increasing difficulties younger generations face in accumulating wealth, particularly in the context of soaring living costs and housing market challenges. They juxtapose their personal investment journeys with broader societal trends, acknowledging the systemic hurdles that impede financial growth for many.

May Martin (55:16):

"It's got gotten very difficult to buy a home."

Fortune Feimster (42:54):

"But you can buy a stamp. And if you learned one thing from this podcast, invest in Princess Diana coins. Yes."

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Conclusion and Key Takeaways

The episode culminates with the hosts reinforcing the importance of finding a balance between enjoying life and being financially prudent. They encourage listeners to educate themselves about investments, seek professional advice, and prioritize personal well-being alongside financial growth.

Fortune Feimster (57:44):

"Absolutely. And everyone, if you can be smart with your money and make the choices because it can go away, but also enjoy your life."

Tig Notaro (57:53):

"Yeah. You gotta find the happy medium."

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Notable Quotes

1. Tig Notaro (33:00):

   "He realized that it's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who their child is."

2. Fortune Feimster (43:28):

   "I do have knowledge of that, the stock market... it scares me."

3. May Martin (50:36):

   "I think investing in our health is the best thing we can do."

4. Fortune Feimster (57:44):

   "If you can be smart with your money and make the choices because it can go away, but also enjoy your life."

5. Tig Notaro (57:53):

   "You gotta find the happy medium."

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Final Thoughts

This episode of Handsome offers a heartfelt exploration of personal finance through the lenses of three comedians navigating their unique financial landscapes. By intertwining humor with earnest discussions, Tig, Fortune, and May provide listeners with relatable insights and practical advice on making informed investment decisions. Whether you're a novice investor or someone seeking to reassess your financial strategies, this episode delivers valuable lessons on the interplay between money management and personal fulfillment.

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Transcript

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[Tig Notaro]

Cheers. It is your friend Tig Notaro, one of three hosts of the Handsome podcast.

[May Martin]

I am also one of the three hosts of this podcast. You know me as May Martin, and I'm joined by the third.

[Fortune Feimster]

The third Handsome Pod host, Fortune Teamster.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, yeah. I set us up for an awkward intro, but what is new?

[May Martin]

I actually really liked that one.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, okay.

[May Martin]

I felt like you did something a little different with it.

[Tig Notaro]

I did. And I thought I really threw things off. It turns out I just nailed it again.

[May Martin]

Yeah. A little jolt in the morning. Nailed it again.

[Fortune Feimster]

I still sound sexy this episode.

[Tig Notaro]

You sure do.

[May Martin]

Yeah. You really do.

[Tig Notaro]

And you're drinking your tea, which clearly doesn't work.

[Fortune Feimster]

No whiskey.

[May Martin]

Oh, yeah. I think this is. It would cross over into me being worried if it's. It's 8:45 in the morning.

[Fortune Feimster]

If you had whiskey, it is morning time. So part of it is that I have morning voice, huh?

[May Martin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

My voice is down here. My voice is down.

[May Martin]

Crazy that boys wake up with boners. Like that's insane. I don't think we talk enough about that on this pod.

[Tig Notaro]

No, we don't. We really need to dive into that more. But you know what's really funny is I just sang my voice is up here and our housekeeper is cleaning our bedroom and doesn't know I'm recording. And so I'm just in this room singing a high pitch. My voice is up here. Any hoodles? That's true, yes. Now tell me this. Were you both up this early and going and would this normally be when you're up and going or did you have to set an Alarm for this 8:45am Handsome recording?

[May Martin]

As you know, I logged on at 8:49. I got out of bed at 8:36. I got into the shower fast.

[Tig Notaro]

Whoa.

[May Martin]

Like just a rinse?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yep.

[May Martin]

And then I jumped on.

[Fortune Feimster]

Tell us more about it, about the shower.

[Tig Notaro]

Go into more detail.

[Fortune Feimster]

What else? Did you have a loofah?

[May Martin]

I, I didn't loofah. You know, I just used my macho body wash. Lathered up the abs first. Just washed the abs.

[Tig Notaro]

Do your macho body wash. Is it like that kind of cologne smelling body wash?

[May Martin]

Yeah, I've graduated. I used to use like Irish Spring, like teen boy kind of smell and now I'm using a hinoki and sesame. I think it's Le Labo, but it is like basically cologne smell.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, I do like the smell of La Labo.

[May Martin]

It's so good, isn't it? Yeah, but when you go in that's. They're too much when you go in there.

[Tig Notaro]

I find it fascinating that men wear a masculine smelling scent and that women wear like flowery smelling scent because you're essentially. You would think it would be the opposite to like lure a woman somewhere would be to smell like flowers.

[May Martin]

Interesting.

[Fortune Feimster]

You know what I'm saying?

[May Martin]

Yeah, interesting.

[Tig Notaro]

That's something I think about all the time, my friends. So my feeling is men should have the flowery scent on them and not that obviously it just depends on what you're gender and sexuality is. And that makes sense for the mix. But I'm talking about just the straightforward typical male female relationship of. Right.

[May Martin]

Heterosexual men should be wearing feminine sense.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

To attract the butterflies.

[May Martin]

Interesting, Interesting.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't wear, I. When I wear cologne, I have this, I have a little travel Size thing.

[Tig Notaro]

I take adorable.

[May Martin]

That is stroking it on your cheek.

[Tig Notaro]

Do you wear men's cologne? Fortune?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. It's the more masculine smell.

[May Martin]

Yeah. Mont Blanc. I. I know.

[Fortune Feimster]

I like smells good.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't wear anything.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Tig, you're very sensitive to smells.

[May Martin]

Famously.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes, famously. I mean, that's what I'm most known for is my sensitive sniffer.

[Fortune Feimster]

You get a headache.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes, But I also just want to, like, get out of a car if somebody has especially strong perfume. I. I. Or if people are burning incense or something. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm not an incense gal.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. You don't strike me as one.

[Fortune Feimster]

No. I don't like those old lady perfumes.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't mind them on an old lady.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's true.

[May Martin]

Like, it fits.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Do you remember in the 90s, I feel like every kind of vintage clothing store was burning Nag Champa. This incense. Like. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Record stores, too.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't know if I'm familiar with it. I'm familiar with the record stores. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, my brother used to light incense all the time, and I was like, this is disgusting.

[May Martin]

Was he trying to mask weed smell, do you think? Or cigarettes?

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't know. I think it was during that era of, you know, Nirvana and. Yeah, he was.

[Tig Notaro]

Was Nirvana incense?

[Fortune Feimster]

No, it was just, like, in that. It was just in that world of, like, grunge and hippie.

[May Martin]

Yeah. You know that unplugged Nirvana thing, concert they did with, like, candles burning everywhere at MTV or something.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't like that album, but go ahead.

[Fortune Feimster]

Whoa.

[Tig Notaro]

We have some talking to do.

[May Martin]

Yeah. Okay. I feel like that was very incensey. Did you guys notice my sweater? I. So my new thing is, I've decided I'm only gonna wear Phantom of the Opera merch from specifically, ideally, 1996 or 86 Pantages Theater in Toronto.

[Tig Notaro]

So right before and right after the grunge era.

[May Martin]

Yeah, exactly. Sandwiching the grunge.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

This is every day.

[May Martin]

Yeah. This is like a new kind of fixation. I found all these cool vintage T shirts with Phantom of the Opera imagery and. And then this sweater, if you're on YouTube, is. I wore one in and feel good, too. And I. I just really. I think if I can find some pants, some Phantom of the Opera pants, I'm good to go.

[Tig Notaro]

Maybe you could find some Phantom pants.

[Fortune Feimster]

They definitely need your support.

[May Martin]

Yeah. Especially the 1986 production.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes. Now, I don't get it. Why. Why do they need this?

[Fortune Feimster]

Because they went away. They're. They're gone. Why we got to bring them back? Well, it was 1986.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh. Oh, okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't know if Phantom currently is on Broadway.

[May Martin]

Isn't it sort of permanently on?

[Fortune Feimster]

The Phantom of the Opera is here. Did you guys ever go to the May?

[Tig Notaro]

Please let her finish.

[Fortune Feimster]

Everyone.

[May Martin]

Silence, please.

[Tig Notaro]

She sings like a bird.

[Fortune Feimster]

I was just seeing how low I could go with this current voice.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, it's pretty low.

[May Martin]

Insane.

[Tig Notaro]

Phantom of the Opera is here.

[Fortune Feimster]

Pretty good.

[May Martin]

You know the. How the chandelier falls in it? That. That's. Yeah. Like, that's the big thing everyone's pumped about is, like, at the end of the first half, it looks like the chandelier falls over the audience and everyone clutches their pear pearls.

[Tig Notaro]

I never saw.

[Fortune Feimster]

Are you into Broadway music?

[May Martin]

I know we've talked on the POD about Tig having the opportunity to maybe be in Chicago with Pamela Anderson.

[Tig Notaro]

Did you say the opera Tunity.

[Fortune Feimster]

I love Broad. I love Broadway musicals, so I love.

[May Martin]

Chicago, and I love Greece and. But there's a lot that I don't love.

[Fortune Feimster]

I love so many. So many of them, really.

[Tig Notaro]

The sun will come out again.

[May Martin]

Oh, yeah. You're. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I used to. When I went to New York, I used to go see multiple shows. I don't do it as much anymore because Jax isn't. She does not like Broadway musicals.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Wait, did you say when you were in New York or when you lived there?

[Fortune Feimster]

When I. I never lived there, but when I would visit.

[Tig Notaro]

Would you ever live there?

[Fortune Feimster]

Like, for a short. In short chunks, like for a project. But I don't want to live there. Live there?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. You don't strike me as.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's too crazy. It's, like, too fast paced.

[Tig Notaro]

Move it, buddy.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Thank you.

[May Martin]

That took me there. Yeah. I. I feel the same. I.

[Fortune Feimster]

Would you guys live there?

[May Martin]

I couldn't. I'm the same. I. Which is crazy. I just feel like it's too overwhelming.

[Tig Notaro]

I lived there one time where I was in Brooklyn. I rented. I rented my friend's apartment for a couple of months, and I didn't realize at the time that I was doing that to get away from a relationship I was in.

[May Martin]

Really? Why am I in another city that.

[Fortune Feimster]

You were currently in?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. And I was just. I. Like, I didn't know how to get out of the relationship, and so it took me a while. I think somebody pointed it out to me. They were like, why'd you do that?

[Fortune Feimster]

Feels like you're running from something.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. And then that ended when I got back, and then I Worked on a TV show.

[May Martin]

Did you see shows while you were there? Did you see Broadway shows?

[Tig Notaro]

No, I was just doing stand up. And then when I was working on a TV show, I was just working. And.

[May Martin]

Yeah. You know, I love at the intermission when you get a little ice cream and you look at your program and you're so sad if there's an understudy. Oh, my God.

[Tig Notaro]

You're like, yeah.

[May Martin]

Oh, for sake.

[Tig Notaro]

And then poor understudies.

[May Martin]

I know, right? Did I talk about this in London? I went to see a play with Cate Blanchett in the lead because my. My friend was in it and got me a ticket, and it was incredible. And then, like, to see Cate Blanchett on stage being so Cate Blanchett. I mean, she was being a character, but, yeah, she's Blanchett. And then I had a little ice cream at the intermission, and it was as the lights were going down again, I thought, I guess it's pretty good, this ice cream. I don't know, it's kind of weird. It was coconut, vegan. It was vegan ice cream, so it tasted like vanilla. And as you know, I'm allergic to coconut. So as the lights are going down, I'm like. And it's a really intense play. There's no good moment to get up and shuffle out. And I was not well in my stomach. Oh, my God. So I couldn't go to the stage door and see my talented friend. I had to run back to my hotel.

[Tig Notaro]

And what happens? Do you have toilet time?

[May Martin]

Yeah, it's not pretty. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I went and saw Sarah Paulson in her play on Broadway. Oh, my God, last year.

[May Martin]

I bet she's amazing.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, she's incredible in everything she does. But what was really wild was Woody Allen and what's her name, Soon Yi Sun Yi were there. Yeah. And what was even crazier was I was meeting, you know the comedian Gary Goleman? Yeah. I was meeting him there to go see it, and he texted me that. That they're there. And it was so crazy because the play references incest and molestation. What? Yeah.

[May Martin]

Why did they go?

[Tig Notaro]

I don't. I don't know. Maybe because he's like, it's his passion. Or he's just like, firmly, I didn't do it, so why would that bother me? You know what I mean? Or maybe he didn't know it was in the. Maybe he didn't know that was part of the story. I don't know. But it was already like, whoa, Woody Allen is here.

[May Martin]

Did everyone turn and look at him?

[Tig Notaro]

I don't know. I didn't see him. And I'm assuming Gary wasn't lying to me because he's a pretty straightforward guy.

[May Martin]

Yeah. And that would be a really toxic lie. Really weird.

[Tig Notaro]

Be a real quick curve fall with Gary. But. And. But then we were, like, nudging each other as all those different references happen through the play. We're like, oh, my gosh.

[May Martin]

Wow.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, it was. It was really.

[May Martin]

It's weird when you see a celebrity watching a movie or a play. Like, it's just weird to see them consuming.

[Tig Notaro]

Have you seen it before?

[May Martin]

Actually. Actually, Helena Bottom Carter was at the Cate Blanchett play. I saw her, like, wacky hair, and I thought, that's nice.

[Tig Notaro]

I saw it before I knew Amanda Kloots.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

She was at this taping that was just, like. It was this huge celebration of Paul Simon. Like, Stevie Wonder was there and all sorts of people. But Amanda was there with. And I'm forgetting his name, but he's from. I'm forgetting the TV show.

[May Martin]

Oh, my God.

[Tig Notaro]

He did the New Jersey movie.

[May Martin]

Pete Davidson.

[Tig Notaro]

No, Pete Davidson there with Pete Davidson. I don't know. I can't remember. The guy from Scrubs.

[May Martin]

Oh.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, Zach Braff.

[Tig Notaro]

Zach Braff.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think she good buddies.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, they're good friends. And they were sitting, like, a row in front of me off to the left, and I was like, oh, there's that woman, Amanda Kloots. And then that guy from the Jersey movie. But I was watching them just bounce.

[Fortune Feimster]

Around and go nuts listening to the concert.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And you are not bouncing around like them.

[Tig Notaro]

I am not a bouncer. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

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Well, you know, after everything that she went through in 2020, I was always very. I followed her story very closely and I was so intrigued by her and the process that she went through and just specific to her. And then I just naturally met her.

[Fortune Feimster]

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[Tig Notaro]

Anyway, so I. But it was. I. When I saw her, it was nice to see her having a great night out. I was like oh, my gosh, there she is. And she's enjoying herself. And it was such a. A nice feeling to see her happy and.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And jamming out to Paul Simon.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's the best. When you're at a concert and you just, like, love the music and the singer and you just are in the zone having the best time. Yeah.

[May Martin]

Have you ever gone by yourself to a concert and. And. And danced?

[Fortune Feimster]

I have gone to concerts by myself.

[Tig Notaro]

I went by myself. I went and saw the Indigo Girls in Houston.

[May Martin]

It's nice to be on your own.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, I. I only went because none of my friends at the time knew who the Indigo Girls were.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, blasphemous.

[Tig Notaro]

I know. I saw that.

[Fortune Feimster]

You didn't have one lesbian friend in Houston.

[Tig Notaro]

I didn't even know I was a lesbian friend.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, gotcha.

[Tig Notaro]

I had just. I had seen them on. What was that show on MTV? 120 minutes. That's also where I saw it.

[May Martin]

I went to Third Eye Blind by myself, and I ended up hugging this stranger, and he was telling me his life story. And then we, like, had our arms around each other saying, I wish you would step out from that ledge, my friend. It was really nice.

[Fortune Feimster]

That was, like, the ultimate teen song.

[May Martin]

Oh, yeah. So good. Speaking of which, my friend, one of my, like, best oldest friends from when I was 13, she, I always thought had deleted and taped over. We had hours of, like, camcorder footage of us at 13, 14.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, amazing.

[May Martin]

Yeah. Like, jumping in fountains in malls and, like, being really conscious. Yeah. Being friends. And then she. She found it, and she just sent me some of the clips yesterday. And I am insufferable. I'm, like, always smoking a cigarette and thinking, it's so cool. And I keep. Yeah, like, they're. These videos are, like, 13 to 16, probably, and so I'm dark in some of them. And I'm really. I'm, like, talking about smoking the whole time, like, being like, I love cigarettes. It's so crazy. But I have some good lines. Like, at one point, I go. And I'm not trying to be funny. I'm trying to be, like, poetic and dark, of course, filming myself in the dark, smoking. And I go, well, I'm from Toronto, born and raised. I'm 13, I got from. I go from Toronto, born and raised, which is what they say about cattle before they kill it. That's what I said. And I could tell. I thought I stumbled on some real poetry.

[Tig Notaro]

And Were you a vegetarian or anything? No, no, just. Just thinking and feeling deeply.

[May Martin]

Feeling deeply. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

In the deep darkness. And. Yeah, we're getting a visitor here on camera.

[May Martin]

Oh, yes. Here we go.

[Fortune Feimster]

He's being squirrely because I think Jacks must be making breakfast.

[Tig Notaro]

He has his arm up around Fortune's neck.

[Fortune Feimster]

He got a haircut.

[Tig Notaro]

It looks gorgeous.

[Fortune Feimster]

Little teddy bear.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

He heard me talking and said, is that my friend?

[May Martin]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

What are you?

[Tig Notaro]

Looking good, Biggie. And what does Biggie have for breakfast? Just like French toast, marshmallow.

[Fortune Feimster]

He has a sensitive stomach kibble. And we top it. We have a little chicken flavored topper that goes on it.

[Tig Notaro]

He has sensitive stomach kibble.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, because he has a sensitive stomach.

[Tig Notaro]

I figured.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then we put a probiotic in the morning in there. And then look at his face while.

[Tig Notaro]

She'S explaining all this. That is the best. Go on. Just really look at his face.

[Fortune Feimster]

Every couple weeks or so, we'll open a can of, like, sardines or mackerel. And that is, like, the greatest thing of his life.

[May Martin]

You gotta see him right now.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my God. Drop what you're doing and head on over to the yt. Oh, my Lord.

[May Martin]

Yeah, he has his haircut. I like the look.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, it's really good. Who does his hair?

[Fortune Feimster]

It's called a teddy bear cut.

[Tig Notaro]

Fluff has the teddy bear cut right now. I call her fluffy bear right now.

[Fortune Feimster]

He must smell eggs because he's a sucker for eggs.

[May Martin]

Oh, he likes eggs.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. If we make some, we'll sprinkle a little on his food sometimes.

[May Martin]

How does he like his eggs in the morning?

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay, what is this song?

[May Martin]

Wait, what are you talking about?

[Fortune Feimster]

2.

[May Martin]

Come on. I'm freaking out. How do you like your eggs in the morning?

[Tig Notaro]

We heard you the first time.

[Fortune Feimster]

Then what's the rest of the song?

[May Martin]

Are you serious?

[Fortune Feimster]

You're like. Let me sing the part one more time.

[Tig Notaro]

Sing it one more time, then maybe it'll sound familiar.

[May Martin]

You. Guess what the next line is? It's famous. Thomas, I bet, knows this. How do you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Nope.

[May Martin]

Thomas is shaking his head. What is happening?

[Tig Notaro]

Sing it again maybe.

[May Martin]

How do you like your eggs in the morning?

[Tig Notaro]

Yep.

[May Martin]

Okay, next line. I like mine with a kiss.

[Fortune Feimster]

Who sings this?

[May Martin]

Are you kidding? Nobody knows this.

[Tig Notaro]

We. If we were kidding.

[May Martin]

They're fried.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm so fried.

[May Martin]

As long as I get my kids are.

[Fortune Feimster]

You don't know this song?

[May Martin]

Am I being pranked right now?

[Fortune Feimster]

And I actually know a lot of songs.

[Tig Notaro]

I do, too.

[May Martin]

I thought this was like an old standard.

[Fortune Feimster]

Who sings it?

[May Martin]

I have no idea, but.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, now we've got it.

[May Martin]

Dean, Martin.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, to be told.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't know a lot of Dean Martin songs.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Thank you for being honest about that Fortune. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I didn't want to be dishonest, but.

[Tig Notaro]

May, if you could sing it one more time.

[Fortune Feimster]

How do you like your lyrics?

[Tig Notaro]

In the morning again.

[Fortune Feimster]

My fried and put in my mouth. I'm hungry.

[May Martin]

Well, that's. Yeah. So you do know it.

[Tig Notaro]

Classic crooner.

[May Martin]

Wow. That's crazy to me. That, to me is like not knowing New York. New York.

[Fortune Feimster]

Really? I don't think they're the same.

[May Martin]

Really? I thought it was like, New York.

[Fortune Feimster]

New York's pretty famous.

[May Martin]

I wonder if I can't remember if it's a duet. The Dean Martin one. Like, if the girl answers. I like my eggs really nice.

[Fortune Feimster]

I like my eggs scrambled. And I'm probably making them because it's the 50s and this is my job.

[Tig Notaro]

But it's also a romantic song about somebody's gonna be spending the night.

[May Martin]

Yes, that's true.

[Fortune Feimster]

There was a lot of innuendos.

[Tig Notaro]

You didn't realize that May, all those times you sang it.

[May Martin]

No, I guess you're right. I guess in my mind, he's singing it in the morning, but you're right.

[Fortune Feimster]

It'S harder that he's singing it at night in advance.

[May Martin]

He's going. He's saying to his sister, how do.

[Fortune Feimster]

You like your eggs in the morning?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I like my eggs scrambled around.

[May Martin]

Oh, my God. Wait.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm gonna have sex with you tonight. And tomorrow you're gonna make me eggs?

[May Martin]

Yeah. Or tomorrow my wife will make you eggs.

[Fortune Feimster]

What a. What a time to be alive. In the 50s.

[Tig Notaro]

I know.

[May Martin]

Well, that was around the same time as.

[Fortune Feimster]

Or the 60s.

[May Martin]

I really can't stand.

[Tig Notaro]

Or even now.

[May Martin]

Bab side.

[Tig Notaro]

Similar vibe to that song.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Kind of creepy.

[Tig Notaro]

I really can't stay. I have to make eggs in the morning.

[Fortune Feimster]

Cold outside. Did you ever use that excuse with someone? It's too cold. You shouldn't go in la. Yeah, it's so cold outside. You probably should stay.

[May Martin]

It's sweater weather, babe.

[Tig Notaro]

And you're just patting the other side of your bed. Yeah, it's too cold.

[May Martin]

Dean Martin, he was in a movie with Marilyn Monroe and they hated each other. I forget what it was called.

[Fortune Feimster]

Anyway, what a tidbit.

[May Martin]

Just. Sorry. The. The ghost of Marilyn Monroe just whispered in my ear. Make sure you say the thing about how I hated him.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, yeah. Wasn't that on an episode where she beamed in an orb?

[May Martin]

Yes, she beamed in as an. We said. Yeah, that was. I Don't know what we were saying.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't know. But she did beam in.

[May Martin]

Yeah, she's my number one. I like my. Yeah, she's my number one.

[Fortune Feimster]

Number one said that.

[Tig Notaro]

So, seriously, would you sing to her? How would you like your eggs in the morning?

[May Martin]

Yeah. And she'd be like, happy birthday.

[Tig Notaro]

That's all she sings.

[May Martin]

That's all.

[Tig Notaro]

That's her response to everything. Is she your type? Like, would you date Marilyn Monroe?

[May Martin]

She's like, curvaceous. She's like twinkle in the eye. As we discussed on the Bon Iver episode. I like a twinkle in the eye.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. So that's why I care about intelligence.

[May Martin]

Bon Iver and Marilyn Monroe. Two bees in a pod.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes.

[May Martin]

No, I care about intelligence. That's where the twinkle comes from. Partly.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, okay.

[May Martin]

Marilyn was very clever.

[Tig Notaro]

Was she?

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Well, she went. I think so.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't know.

[May Martin]

She went back to drama school. Before she died, she was, like, gonna be. I mean, she was. The movie she did before she died, the Misfits. She's incredible in that movie. And you just see she was gonna be amazing. And she was breaking out of the image that she created and that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Happy birthday.

[May Martin]

Yeah. And then that's what we.

[Fortune Feimster]

Marilyn. Yes, it is.

[Tig Notaro]

Happy birthday.

I'm closing my eyes.

[Fortune Feimster]

Is this the ghost of Marilyn?

[Tig Notaro]

It's Marilyn's orb. Happy birthday.

[May Martin]

I'm closing my eyes. And it sounds kind of like Cartman from South Park.

[Fortune Feimster]

Should we.

[Tig Notaro]

Should we get our Question asker?

[May Martin]

Let's do it.

[Tig Notaro]

Let's do it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Today's Question Asker is an Australian actress, comedian, and producer who achieved worldwide renown with her appearance in Bridesmaids. Then she went on to star in films like Isn't It Romantic? The Hustle and Jojo Rabbit. She stars in the upcoming action comedy film Bride Hard. And you can't forget her from all the Pitch Perfect movies. Her real big, big breakout role. Rebel Wilson is asking today's question.

[Rebel Wilson]

Hi, handsomes. It's Rebel Wilson here. So, I mean, what can I ask you? There's lots. Like, if we were sitting down right now, I would just love to just, like, chat about so many things about the business, but fortunately, instead, like to ask one question. So, I mean. I mean, the political side of me wants to ask, like, what's your stance on guns in America? But no, that's probably not a fun conversation. Okay, I'm going to ask you something very random because you're all very similar.

[May Martin]

Successful.

[Rebel Wilson]

What are you investing? So what kind of, like, investments are you into? To, like, you know, build up your money that you work so hard to get. I'm just. I'm curious about that.

[May Martin]

Oh, I'm glad she didn't ask about guns in America, because I know we all have very different stances. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

We could really.

[May Martin]

Everyone should have them. Just kidding.

[Fortune Feimster]

Do you think that my Australian accent sounds like rebels?

[May Martin]

You know what? It wasn't far off.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, today's question is good.

[Tig Notaro]

And I don't know how it is that every episode we have an Australian.

[Fortune Feimster]

Do you think our Australian listeners are pissed with us?

[Tig Notaro]

I mean, but how is it that every episode.

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't know. Ti.

[May Martin]

I know.

[Rebel Wilson]

It's insane.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think when you're able to do a very good Australian exit, that's what happens. Oh, man.

[Tig Notaro]

I do wonder if we've upset people. Do they enjoy it or.

[Fortune Feimster]

Hopefully they appreciate the effort, and that's a slippery slope.

[May Martin]

Once you start wondering if we've upset people, then you're like, oh, God, what about.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then everyone. We're all upset.

[Tig Notaro]

We're all. We were upset about this, and I don't like that.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Apologies for all of the things you don't like or that upset you.

[Fortune Feimster]

We'll change every single thing.

[Tig Notaro]

We're gonna make every adjustment to make everybody else.

[Fortune Feimster]

We're not gonna stop until every single.

[May Martin]

Listener is set 100% on this one.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

We're gonna re.

[May Martin]

Record, go back.

[Fortune Feimster]

Everyone has to agree on everything that we say or do.

[May Martin]

We.

[Tig Notaro]

We all.

[May Martin]

Three.

[Tig Notaro]

Three. Well, first of all, even if we're two against one, like it or not, we still agree with each other. Yeah. But. Yeah, it's hard to make everybody happy. But I certainly hope that people have a sense of humor about Rise Up Lights.

[Fortune Feimster]

Rise Up Lights.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Yeah. And everything else, because all of it is for a good old time.

[Fortune Feimster]

Silly times.

[Tig Notaro]

It's just silly times.

[May Martin]

What do you think would happen if we went into ChatGPT or one of those things and said, write an episode of the Handsome Podcast? Oh, like, because they. They analyze.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Every episode and do it in our voice, I think.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then will they record for us the next episode in an Australian.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, then we'll read. And then we'll read our lines.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

We'll do an AI episode.

[May Martin]

Oh, yeah. Like, I'm curious what.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my gosh. That would be insane.

[May Martin]

Investments.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. I. You know, what first came to mind was I'm. I'm sure whether it's been on this show or others, I've shared about how my stepfather was not terribly supportive of Me. He didn't quite get me. And then after my mother died, when we left her funeral, he said this thing, which I thought was incredible. He's. He apologized for not being supportive. And he said, wow, I realize now that because he wanted me to go into business or. Or something, you know, he. He just did not get what I was doing. And he said, you know, I'm realizing that it's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who their child is.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And he said, and I didn't do that, and I'm sorry. And it was so touching that he came to that himself. And then what was even more touching was years later when I had my own children. He and I were. My mother had died, and. And he and I were driving somewhere when I was visiting him in Texas, and. And he said, tig, I wanted to ask you something and see if you approved. And I said, okay. And he said, I wanted to start college funds for Max and Finn. And I said, yeah. And I said, oh. I said, yeah, I'm okay with that. And he said, but I wanted to let you know that I looked into different types of college funds, and I chose the one that they wouldn't have to use for a four year college. They could use it for that, but they could also use it if they wanted to become a Mason or they wanted to go to art school.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, no.

[Tig Notaro]

And so he was so nice. Yeah. He was acknowledging that not everybody is taking the path that he believes they should take.

[Fortune Feimster]

Right.

[Tig Notaro]

And it was so touching to me.

[May Martin]

That's really beautiful.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. And so before he died, he started these college funds. And so every year, Stephanie and I continue to contribute to that.

[May Martin]

And so nice.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. That's really cool.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. So that's. That's something.

[May Martin]

That's beautiful.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

When I was heavily involved with a woman and her small person, I had just opened a college fund for that small person when I. When I got dumped. So the college fund's going to me. I'm sending myself to college.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, really? I don't know how that works. So that you can just, like, turn that.

[May Martin]

I just closed it. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Huh.

[May Martin]

Yeah, I'd opened like a. Anyway, well, maybe cut that out. I'll leave it in.

[Rebel Wilson]

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[Tig Notaro]

Blissey's got so many benefits, so bear with me as I blaze through a bunch of the basics. Blissey's great for your hair and skin. Its anti aging properties reduce fine lines and wrinkles over time. Plus, on the hair side of things, silk eliminates frizz and preserves your hairstyle. Silk is antibacterial and hypoallergenic, so you're much more likely to sleep through the night on that naturally cooling and breathable Blissey pillowcase. I've been using mine for years and I could never go back to a regular cotton pillowcase. So try Blissey because it's the real deal.

[Rebel Wilson]

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[Tig Notaro]

Hacks is back for Season four and so is the Official Hacks Podcast. The new season follows Deborah Vance making a move from her Vegas residency to Hollywood showbiz. Tensions rise as Deborah and Ava try to get their late night show off the ground and make history while doing it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh man, this show is so funny. I mean every character is amazing. Jean Smart playing Deborah Vance is a dream like one of her best roles.

[Rebel Wilson]

And she comes from Designing Women and you know I love that show.

[Fortune Feimster]

So this one is just one of the best comedies out there right now.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Rebel Wilson]

So if you love Hacks or have been meaning to check it out, you're gonna also love the Official Hacks Podcast host Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber will speak with the creators, cast and crew members to unpack the Emmy winning comedy series. You can hear stories from the set, get a peek into the writer's room and break down the complicated dynamic between Deborah and Ava.

[Tig Notaro]

Watch Hacks streaming exclusively on Max and listen to the Official Hacks podcast on Max or wherever you get your podcasts.

[May Martin]

You know that feeling when you need.

[Tig Notaro]

On the go food, but your gut.

[May Martin]

Is literally telling you not to get fast food yet again. This is why I love Thrive Market my go to online grocery store for getting all my healthy essential essentials delivered and I don't even have to leave my couch.

[Tig Notaro]

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[May Martin]

Go to thrivemarket.com handsome for 30% off your first order plus a free $60 gift. That's T H R I V market.com handsome thrive market.com handsome yeah I my.

[Fortune Feimster]

Grandmother wanted to do things like that. Like she would give us like bonds and stuff and you know when you're a kid you're like what's this? I can't. Yeah, I can't use this now.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Bummed me out. And she would like give us like stamps that to collect and coins that.

[May Martin]

Stamp collecting used to be like a legitimate way to save money.

[Tig Notaro]

Right.

[Fortune Feimster]

Like and I have the same birthday as Princess Diana so she would give me all this congrats.

[May Martin]

Wow, that makes a lot of sense. That explains a lot.

[Fortune Feimster]

And so I have all these random Princess Diana memorabilia. My grandmother just always thought like all this stuff you need to collect and one day it'll be worth money. I mean maybe that would be now but do you still have it? Probably some of it's back at my mom's place and Lord knows she, who knows where it is there. Uh huh. So she like believed in all that stuff but with that being said she was pretty. She was not great with money and as. And my. I would say my mom didn't pick up on being great with it either. It was just a lot of my, my family used to have money long long time ago. My grandfather was a very well to do contractor and he built houses and buildings and schools all over North Carolina. Very successful. Died unexpectedly in at like age 50 or something like that. And my grandmother had to take over everything and just didn't it all just went shopping. She just made it just made bad decisions.

[May Martin]

Oh damn.

[Fortune Feimster]

And like they had a hardware business that she didn't like. She should have filed bankruptcy and she tried to pay all the debt. It was like she was, it came from a place of good hearted helping people.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Sending people to college and then by the time I got here the there was no money. Everything was gone. Yeah. So I grew up with people who knew what it was like to have money at one point and had no money.

[May Martin]

That's so frustrating as a kid to have people constantly like we used to have a lot of money.

[Tig Notaro]

And here is your bond and your stamp. Happy birthday.

[Fortune Feimster]

So it was very important to me as I, as I got older that I did not make those same mistakes. So I didn't know what to do. I've. I've had to learn as I've gone, but I am really proud. That's probably one of the things I'm most proud of in my career is having gotten so much more knowledgeable about business and money and how to save it and how to make money. Make money. And I never thought being a comedian that that would be required of me as well. And it's been tricky also learning it because I hate math. But, you know, I just don't want to make the mistakes that were made prior because I saw how it can go away and, you know, you don't think it will and how could it. And it can. So I really try to be smart with, you know, I, I have, obviously I'm lucky to have a nice life. Part of that is because I don't have kids.

[Tig Notaro]

Wait, I'm having a nice life over here.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, but I, I can say I can spend a little bit more on lug, like, you know, trips and stuff, you know, and things that parents I find do a little, a little bit more sparingly and just. Yeah, try to invest in things. But it is scary though. Like I, the stock market is so, this is scary to me.

[Tig Notaro]

Do you have knowledge of that, the, the stock market?

[Fortune Feimster]

I do. I will say that part of the business I am, I, I have to trust someone else with my money. And that is nerve wracking to me.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Because for many years I did not invest and I was like, I don't want to be one of those people that gets screwed over by a business person or a investment person. I was so nervous. I still get nervous.

[May Martin]

Yeah, but you're so, you're, you're in, in this.

[Fortune Feimster]

I mean. Yeah, I'm invested.

[May Martin]

Like it doesn't, I, it doesn't make.

[Tig Notaro]

Sense to me and it scares me.

[May Martin]

It feels so.

[Fortune Feimster]

It is very scary.

[May Martin]

Yeah. And then, and then it could crash.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I invest pretty conservatively though.

[May Martin]

Yeah. That's what people say to do.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And you invest. You don't invest? Me? No, no.

[May Martin]

I'm too, I'm, I'm. My. I guess my family also not great with money. Like just like always rented. My parents never bought a house till their 50s, I think, and my grandma, actually. But that was a wake up call. Like when I moved to England My grandma got sick.

[Tig Notaro]

The agent.

[May Martin]

The agent, yeah. And she was with the problem area.

[Tig Notaro]

I forgot it was your grandmother who had quite the problem area.

[Fortune Feimster]

That was from early days, the first ever episode.

[May Martin]

Oh, yeah, yeah. She. Seeing her at the end of her life, and she lived a great, wild, fun life, and she never owned property, and she made a lot of money as an agent, but she. She just lived a luxurious lifestyle. And then near the end of her life, that was scary because she, you know, she's. She got sick. She had to go and, you know, into a home that was expensive, like, she was renting. She had to move into a. Yeah. Like, she just was panicked all the time about money. And so I was like, okay, I don't want. I don't want that. But I haven't done anything about it, but a lot. Buying the house was a big deal.

[Tig Notaro]

That's quite an investment.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes, you did investment.

[May Martin]

I have scarcity mentality, though, so I like to see my money in my account. I got to get over that. I got to.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, if you talk to any business person, they will say you shouldn't have just a. Of, like, money just sitting there doing nothing. That. That's like your basic business thing.

[May Martin]

I have a saving, like a high interest savings.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. If you. If. I was about to say if you. If you don't want to go to Star Mart, I mean, as. As far as investing in the things that go up and down, do like a money market at the very least.

[May Martin]

What's that?

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my God. I'm picturing you as somebody managing my money, and you're like. As far as the things that go up and down, the technical. The.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's the money.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Your money's in there for, like, a certain amount of time, and you can't get it out. And it gets some interest over time. It's not as high of a return as, like, in the stock market, but it's not volatile, like, going up and down.

[May Martin]

Yeah. I mean, some people are, like, day trading at home. Right? Like, they're just sort of become.

[Tig Notaro]

Bless you.

[May Martin]

Oh, my God. Biggie just sneezed.

[Tig Notaro]

Blessings to.

[May Martin]

Sorry, blessings.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Can we please isolate that sound, Thomas, and crank the volume and just play it back. That was the cutest sound I've ever heard.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Pepper it through the whole episode.

[May Martin]

Yeah. Oh, man.

[Tig Notaro]

From there on out, I'm going to.

[Fortune Feimster]

Text Jax that he needs to.

[Tig Notaro]

He needs a tissue. He sneezes and that means he has to.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, he's just being squirrely that, you.

[May Martin]

Know, but you Gotta text Jax. Like, he won't go out by himself.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, I'm upstairs.

[May Martin]

Oh, is him.

[Tig Notaro]

I pictured you downstairs all of these years.

[Fortune Feimster]

Did you really? I can't open this door. And then he can't go down the stairs. But then he can't open the next door.

[Tig Notaro]

Wait, he can't go down the stairs by himself?

[Fortune Feimster]

No, he can't. I was like, okay to go outside.

[Tig Notaro]

That he would wait to be carried up and down the stairs. Stairs.

[Fortune Feimster]

We do carry him up and down a lot.

[Tig Notaro]

I have Stephanie carry me up and down the stairs.

[May Martin]

Do you really?

[Tig Notaro]

No.

[May Martin]

Oh, I would love to see that.

[Fortune Feimster]

But, yeah, I. For years, I didn't do anything. And listen, when my. When I was coming up, my parents did not have the luxury of investing a dime. Every. Every cent that came in went right back out. And we were actually in a lot of debt. My childhood was with creditors calling it 8. 8 in the morning every day.

[Tig Notaro]

Rise and shine.

[Fortune Feimster]

But if. If you have a little something, if you can try to have that money making interest, otherwise it literally loses its value sitting there doing nothing.

[Tig Notaro]

You gonna do anything about that, May? Well, you'll come around to it. You came around to, you know, saving your money and getting a house.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I ask about a money marketer or something like that, something that's like, low, low, low, low, low, low risk. You can't touch. Sometimes some of them are like, you can't touch it for a year and, And. But you'll get. But you'll make something off of it. So it's not.

[May Martin]

What kind of percentage are we talking?

[Fortune Feimster]

I mean, it's not a high percentage, but it's. But it's more making money versus losing value.

[May Martin]

Yeah. When I was in England, someone convinced me to invest in, like, a retirement fund that I can't touch till I'm, I don't know, 60. I guess I should know, but I don't know. So I put some.

[Tig Notaro]

Almost my age.

[May Martin]

Right. I put some money in there, and now I'm so mad about it because it's just in some British retirement fund and I'm scared I'm going to forget about it. Like, how do I know what if.

[Tig Notaro]

You're not going to forget, really, I.

[Fortune Feimster]

Will say if you are going to invest more. More. What's the word? Not aggressively, but more. Whatever that word is. The. Your retirement is what usually is the thing that people invest more boldly. Because the idea is you don't want to touch a retirement like a sepi. You know about an ira? Sep. Ira. Things like that.

[May Martin]

Mm, no.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay. So when you make money, there's a chunk of it that you can put in an IRA or a sep. Ira. Depends on how much money you've made in the year. And that money is. You're not taxed on. It goes into this account, but you can't touch it for like 20 years or something.

[May Martin]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

But.

[May Martin]

Yeah, yeah, that's like what I did in England.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And. And you can invest that more aggressively because for 20 years the market is going to go up and down. Right. But you just. The whole point, you have to ride the wave. Ride the waves.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But you wanna. You wanna invest in these things. You wanna put money into these things because you're not paying taxes on them.

[May Martin]

Yeah. Okay, we gotta go for dinner. I would like Fortune to be my business manager.

[Fortune Feimster]

I mean, listen, I. There's so much I don't know. And there could be a business person right now being like, that's right. But to, you know, there could be parts of it I have a little off. But that's the idea, to interpret the.

[May Martin]

Question more broadly even. I think investing in our health is the best thing we. We can do. And that is another thing I learned.

[Fortune Feimster]

That I need to invest in.

[May Martin]

Yeah. Like with my grandma, too. I learned that lesson too. I was like. I mean, not that. I mean, she was pretty healthy.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, you know what they say. You don't want to be the richest person in the graveyard.

[May Martin]

Hey, I love that.

[Tig Notaro]

I mean, but truly, it's like. Yeah. You want to invest in your. In yourself and your. Your health and.

[May Martin]

Yeah. And your brain.

[Tig Notaro]

All of it.

[May Martin]

Yeah. Well, now that I got the sauna, I'm going to live forever. I just. It's heating up right now. That's a good investment. Right. Because I'll take it to another. If I ever move, I'll take it with me. It's like a couple grand.

[Fortune Feimster]

Did you have to have like a specific. Like a plug or something or something put out there to run?

[Tig Notaro]

Good question.

[May Martin]

I had a guy install it. Yeah, it's like. It's electrical, so they ran a line from.

[Tig Notaro]

So what is. What is the heat coming from? You don't have like a pile of coals in there or anything.

[May Martin]

It's like a radiator with some coals on it.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, okay. So you do.

[May Martin]

Yeah, and it's a. It's cedar wood and it smells like nice wood and it's like it gets hot so quick and. And it's on a timer, so it won't stay on by accident. And yeah, I. I think I'm gonna go. Right. It's heating up right now.

[Tig Notaro]

Nice. So you're gonna do. You haven't done one this morning because you were taking a. You were sleeping and then you took your little shower and then I took my shower.

[May Martin]

And then I'm gonna, after this, get in the sauna, then cold shower.

[Tig Notaro]

Are you gonna wear your Phantom of the Opera shirt in the. What do you wear in the sauna? Are you just full blown naked?

[Fortune Feimster]

Good question.

[Tig Notaro]

Thank you. Thank you, Fortune.

[May Martin]

I wear boxers usually, or a bathing su suit.

[Tig Notaro]

But yeah, I could go in the nude.

[May Martin]

I mean, it's my vineyard.

[Tig Notaro]

In the nude.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm gonna go the nude.

[Tig Notaro]

Do you wear a banana hammock?

[May Martin]

Oh, my God. I should wear a Speedo.

[Tig Notaro]

Start wearing a Speedo in there. Should we hear Rebel's answer?

[May Martin]

Yes, please.

[Rebel Wilson]

I, I think I've been quite smart with my money coming up as a comedian and actress in Australia and in America, and I bought properties around the world and done quite well in selling them after a certain amount of time. And then only more recently have I gotten into the stock market and listened to podcasts and I learn about stocks and just like basic stuff like the simple S and P 500. And I'm learning. I'm. I'm still like a novice, but. Yeah. Hope everyone's being financially smart out there. This might be the dumbest question ever, but. Yeah, just.

[Tig Notaro]

No, I liked that. I like that question and I feel like it took us in such a different direction.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

But yeah, it sounds like she's kind of doing what you're doing. Fortune is, is. Is trying to learn the, the money ropes. Do you listen to podcasts?

[Fortune Feimster]

Podcast about it?

[Tig Notaro]

About it?

[Fortune Feimster]

No. I mean, there's so much I don't know that I. But I don't also really want to. I'm not trying to be like a businessman, you know, person. I just know it's not something people talk to us about.

[May Martin]

That's true. That's true.

[Fortune Feimster]

And it's not something that is exp. Is expected for us to know. And I just think it's so important because even just the basic knowledge of it, the, the, the, the minimum things that you can do to just help build money. Even starting with, you know, when I moved to LA, I had $25 in my pocket. So it's not like I'm coming from a place of like, oh, I just invested my family's, you know, million dollars they gave me. No, it's like I started from $25 here. And, you know.

[Tig Notaro]

And you have how much now?

[Fortune Feimster]

So much now. But like, my first house, I bought, like, May. Like, May. I bought a first house. I did not buy it as an investment. I bought it because I wanted my own home. I wanted, like, a place to call mine. It was this cute house, 1600 square feet. And I love that house. Loved it. I lived there for over 10 years and ended up selling it and doing very well on it. But that was never my intention. But stuff like that, if, you know, you buy something and that you love and put time and in it and, you know, sometimes that can pay off too.

[Tig Notaro]

It's true. Yes. May.

[May Martin]

Well, I was gonna say we should acknowledge, like, how hard it is for this younger generation like that with the cost of living is going crazy and like our. Our parents, you know, just. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's for sure gotten very difficult to buy a home.

[May Martin]

But you can buy a stamp. And if you learned one thing from.

[Tig Notaro]

This podcast, invest in Princess Diana coins. Yes.

[May Martin]

I can't believe that you have a birthday with Princess Diana.

[Tig Notaro]

And now the stamps. Before we wrap up here, the stamps that your grandmother got you of Princess Diana, are they the ones that you buy off of tv?

[Fortune Feimster]

Probably.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

My grandmother, again, not the smartest with money, would. Do you remember the Publisher's Clearinghouse thing?

[Tig Notaro]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

She would buy all these cassette tapes because it would help you, like, get a. Draw your name in a raffle to try to win money. And for that, she was always buying stuff like that.

[Tig Notaro]

I see.

[Fortune Feimster]

Now you're just wasting money.

[May Martin]

Actually, have you guys ever been into the lottery? Do you buy lottery tickets?

[Tig Notaro]

I don't.

[Fortune Feimster]

I will, like, once in a blue moon. But it does just feel like I'm burning money every time I do it.

[May Martin]

Right. Right.

[Tig Notaro]

Burning $3 until. How much are they?

[Fortune Feimster]

Anywhere from a dollar each to $20.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, I see.

[Fortune Feimster]

Depending on what you buy.

[Tig Notaro]

I. I've been with friends where they're like, let's buy lottery. T. Like, yeah, sure. But it never crossed off.

[Fortune Feimster]

Ones are fun.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't like the. I don't like using a coin to scrape that weird metal stuff. Like, I hate that. Like, I don't think I really realized it until this moment. I hate that.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Gray metallic stuff. You scrap.

[May Martin]

I actually didn't realize either till you said it. No, I'm like, thank you for saying that.

[Tig Notaro]

Absolutely. I find Thomas is nodding fortune. Are you on board?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. I hate that gray stuff. But I do like to win. The worst is people. People will give those as presents.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And you do hear those stories every now and then where they gave it as a present and won like $2 million. One of the things won $2 million. And now the people are fighting over who gets it because they're like, we bought it. They're like, you gave it and it's a whole mess. So I'm.

[May Martin]

There should be a rule about the other. Yeah. What is the legality of that?

[Tig Notaro]

Because if you give it away, you give it away.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's not yours anymore.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Right, right, right.

[Tig Notaro]

That is silly.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

All right. Well, that was fun and different and interesting. Thank you to Rebel Wilson for that question.

[May Martin]

Thank you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Absolutely. And everyone, if you can be smart with your money and make the choices because it can go away, but also enjoy your life.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. You gotta find the happy medium.

[Fortune Feimster]

The happy medium is where it's at. For sure.

[Tig Notaro]

For sure.

[May Martin]

What do you guys got coming up?

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, I'm on the road like a crazy person now. I am in my new Taking Care of Biscuits tour. All new material. So if you saw my last special, this is brand new. This weekend I'll be in. Or tomorrow I'll be in Rockford, Illinois and Columbus, Ohio.

[Tig Notaro]

Rockford, Illinois is where Natasha Leggero is from.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, really? I didn't know that.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I'm gonna be at the Hard Rock Nice on Wednesday night. Columbus, Ohio, Greensboro, North Carolina, Roanoke, Baltimore, Grand Rapids, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City and Vegas are coming up and tons more cities just got added.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, I also want to mention that the documentary that I produced, Come See Me in the Good Light about Andrea Gibson and Meg Fowley, two incredible poets. It's going to be hitting the. And has already started hitting the festival circuit and so really check that out because this movie is not to be missed. It will be available further down the line this year on a streamer. But I'll announce that later. But for sure, go see this in a theater if you can. It is so powerful. And as far as stand up, I'm going to be June 14th, I'll be in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, August 23rd, P Town and then go to tignotaro.com for my all of my dates and local shows in Los Angeles and Largo and Dynasty Typewriter. Come on out.

[May Martin]

I am April 25th at Largo in LA and I think announcing some new music shows coming up. So check out maymartinmusic.com and there's cool. I've got very cool merch on there as well. And you can, you can buy my vinyl album which really helps. Nice or listen to it on Spotify. The album's called I'm a tv. And that's it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Great. Can I ask real quick, how did you come up with I am a tv?

[May Martin]

Well, my friend recently asked me, does it stand for I'm a transvestite? And I was like, nope. But who asked you that, my friend?

[Tig Notaro]

I don't know. I don't know.

It's a lyric in one of the songs.

[May Martin]

And it's like. I guess in my head it was about, like, how we all are so full of, like, other people's projections and static electricity and all the noise of our culture. And if you. Anyway, whatever. Titles are hard.

[Fortune Feimster]

And that's why you wear your hat now with the.

[May Martin]

The tinfoil hat.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, you're no fool. You need to get a tinfoil Phantom of the Opera face, too.

[May Martin]

There's a lot I gotta get.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Okay, Fortune, we have your headshot and resume. We will be in touch.

[Fortune Feimster]

Let me know if I get the part.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

Happy birthday to you. I can also be Marilyn Monroe in the Phantom.

[Tig Notaro]

You're gonna get May going?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, please share this episode or an episode that you like with your friends and loved ones and help us build the Handsome community. You guys are awesome. Thank you for listening.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, and thank you to everyone who came to our live shows.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes. Off the charts.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, my God. Incredible.

[Tig Notaro]

Off the charts.

[Fortune Feimster]

That was such a cool thing to get to do.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes. Hopefully we'll have some more of those live shows coming up and some streamers and.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, and I believe that the link for the Austin show is still up right now. You can see still get it until this. It's available until this weekend. So if you missed our live show in Austin. So fun. So funny. Buy the link.

[Tig Notaro]

Talk about a good investment.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, it lasts a week. You can go to our Instagram page or our. And it'll have the link to. To get that and you'll have it through the weekend.

[Tig Notaro]

All right.

[May Martin]

So that remains.

[Fortune Feimster]

Keep it Handsome.

[May Martin]

Handsome is hosted by me, May Martin.

[Tig Notaro]

Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster.

[May Martin]

The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willette.

[Tig Notaro]

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

[May Martin]

Ansomepod.

[Rebel Wilson]

What a podcast.

[May Martin]

What a podcast. That was a Headgum podcast. That was a Headgum podcast.

[Tig Notaro]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Rebel Wilson]

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[Tig Notaro]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[May Martin]

A lot of money.

[Fortune Feimster]

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[May Martin]

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[Tig Notaro]

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