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May Martin
Northbrook, Illinois in partnership with Airbnb let's talk a little bit about travel Tig. As you know, I'm about to go on my first big tour around the
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United States, and while I'm traveling in
May Martin
a bus, I want to make sure I get a couple nights in a nice comfy bed that's not on wheels.
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May Martin
nights stay on Airbnb.
Tig Notaro
That sounds like a plan, May.
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May Martin
Well, I'm going to be in Florida, which I'm very excited about, and I'd love to find somewhere with a hot tub or a sauna that I can relax in. Maybe some nice nature nearby, like a big park or something. I love finding a home on Airbnb because I know I can get the place all to myself and I can read tons of reviews and make sure it's a great place. Airbnb also has guest favorites badges that
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May Martin
loved homes and I've just never gone wrong booking one of those.
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May Martin
I hadn't thought about that, but if I'm near the ocean, then who knows, maybe I will. On the other hand, if I find a really nice place on Airbnb, I may just never want to leave.
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Fortune Feimster
Handsome.
May Martin
Chatting with friends on the handsome pod. Chatting with friends on the hand the.
Fortune Feimster
Cheers. Cheers.
Tig Notaro
It's your friend Tig Notaro sitting here with my co host May Martin here
Fortune Feimster
unfortun fer on the handsome pod.
May Martin
You know it. You love it.
Fortune Feimster
You know it. I love it.
Tig Notaro
You do. And maybe you don't know it and you don't know if you love it yet, but welcome. Because you're about to know it and
Sponsor Voice
you're about to about to love it.
Fortune Feimster
That's right.
May Martin
Yeah.
Sponsor Voice
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
So welcome.
Tig Notaro
So welcome.
May Martin
Don't you think that when people, when babies are born, there should be like a song that we all sing to them? Like all the doctors go, welcome, you're here.
Tig Notaro
Like this.
Fortune Feimster
Happy birthday. Not count.
May Martin
Well, when you said, like, yeah.
Tig Notaro
Do you sing that to a mother's crotch?
May Martin
To a mother's crotch.
Tig Notaro
Baby's being born. Happy birthday.
May Martin
I think there should be like a welcome song instead of it. You know, all the bright lights and the.
Tig Notaro
Well, let's hear it. Two, three. And you just arrived and you're going to learn.
May Martin
Sometimes it's good and sometimes.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, it's hard.
May Martin
It's hard. But now you are here and we are also queer. Queer. Something that's just like, you know, a nice way in.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. And memorable.
May Martin
Yeah. Like.
Tig Notaro
Like that one.
Announcer
We just.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. Like on your first day on planet Earth, it's. You're going to always remember world.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
You should have the whole we are the World crew singing to you.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
As you arrive. Planet Earth.
May Martin
Yeah. Bob Dylan, just furious to be there, mumbling. How are you guys?
Fortune Feimster
Good.
Tig Notaro
I just wrapped Star Trek.
May Martin
Oh, my God. Congrats.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, you did?
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
All right.
May Martin
Did you have a rap party?
Tig Notaro
They're having a wrap party. I flew home because I have a few days off before I go back on tour and I'm catching up on, you know, sporting events that my kids are doing and all sorts of. All sorts of fun things. Stephanie and I are going for a very belated Valentine's Day dinner.
Fortune Feimster
Oh. Tonight.
Tig Notaro
Tonight we're going.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, sexy.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
May Martin
Do you think you might have a few sips of her wine? Isn't that. Don't you always. She orders wine and then you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tig Notaro
And then I, I just take a couple of sips.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
But no, we. Neither of us have been sipping hooch and it's. It's been huge.
May Martin
Yeah, I'm gonna take. I'm not gonna drink while I'm on tour, I think.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, really?
May Martin
I don't really. I don't drink a lot anyway, but.
Tig Notaro
How was your party last night?
Fortune Feimster
Well, I am.
May Martin
I am hungover today. Yeah, I am. And I. I've got a turmeric latte, a black Americano and a ginger tea all gone at once.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, did you go hard last night?
May Martin
You know, not really. I just. I was hosting hard enough and I started at 4pm I invited everyone over, which was a mist. I thought, great, then it'll be done by nine. But of course people stay.
Fortune Feimster
Well, we have. We talked about that in the one episode. Having it in time.
May Martin
Yeah, I should have put an end. Time.
Fortune Feimster
Should have put it in time.
Tig Notaro
What time did it end?
May Martin
At one or something.
Fortune Feimster
Okay, that is a long. That's a long hang.
May Martin
It's a long hang.
Tig Notaro
And.
Sponsor Voice
And when you get hungover, what are your symptoms?
May Martin
I feel like I'm in a kind of swampy soup. And it depends if I'm really hungover. Then I wake up and I think, oh my God, why didn't I realize the world's ending and everyone hates me and. But right now I feel okay.
Tig Notaro
That's your hangover?
May Martin
I get hangxiety. Do you get anxiety?
Tig Notaro
Hangxiety?
May Martin
Yeah, hangs.
Tig Notaro
I never heard of that.
May Martin
It's just the effects of alcohol. You wake up and think, what did I say? Oh, was that weird? Was. You know.
Tig Notaro
So you don't have a memory of what happened last night?
May Martin
No, I do. I don't have hang anxiety today.
Sponsor Voice
Oh.
May Martin
Yeah, I feel like it's manageable. I just feel like I'm. I feel like I'm getting older, you know?
Sponsor Voice
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
You can't throw down like you used to.
May Martin
No. Like I could go back to bed.
Tig Notaro
Did you have any bed visitors?
May Martin
You know what? I did not actually. And there was a moment where it could have gone either way for the night. For many of us girls, let me tell you, I thought to myself, it's either going to become a games night with the remaining people.
Tig Notaro
Right, right.
May Martin
Or it's going to veer into bad visitor territory.
Fortune Feimster
How do you. And what. What do you think sets it in one direction or the other?
Tig Notaro
Good question for. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah.
May Martin
I think it's a choice. I was like, I know. I was like, I want to play games.
Fortune Feimster
You get to make this. It's either we're either having game night or gay night, which.
Tig Notaro
So you got all of these broads pawn you.
May Martin
No, not at all.
Tig Notaro
And you're like, you know what? You know, take out the monopoly board and.
May Martin
No, it's more like my. My buddies are. Are around mixed in with everyone. And yeah, if it was going to become a sexy evening, then I don't really want my close old pals hanging around. And then last night I thought, really, I want to be playing mafia with everyone.
Tig Notaro
Do you ever play Parcheesi?
Fortune Feimster
Never.
May Martin
What's that?
Tig Notaro
I don't know. It just came to my head.
May Martin
Pary.
Tig Notaro
I don't play.
Fortune Feimster
I've heard of it, but I don't know how it goes either.
Tig Notaro
I was on a flight. That's why I couldn't go to your party. I was on a. I was flying into Los Angeles after rapping Star Trek, you know, from Toronto. Uhhuh. And well, that's where we film.
May Martin
Yes.
Tig Notaro
Know this. What a useless comment to say from Beijing. We've. We filmed the last few days of Star Trek in Beijing. Yeah. So you were already. You had tied a few on by the time I was landing.
May Martin
Tied a few on his drinking. Yeah, yeah, I had tied a few on and I was playing a lot of foosball, but I'd say I threw out my neck playing foosball, which is so embarrassing.
Tig Notaro
What a night. Meanwhile, I was just having my little tofu meal as I'm like pulling into Los Angeles. Do you.
Fortune Feimster
Do you think pulling your neck also contributed to doing game night versus gay night?
May Martin
I think it's. It made me feel very fragile. I actually threw it out a couple days ago.
Fortune Feimster
Playing foosball and an orgy would not help.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, the doctor is not going to prescribe that.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
For your neck.
Fortune Feimster
I couldn't go to your party because I went to the LAFC soccer open opening match.
May Martin
Is that the.
Fortune Feimster
My buddy Will Ferrell.
May Martin
Oh my God. Tell me, how was it?
Fortune Feimster
It was so fun. It was their season opener so they did it at USC. It was like 75, 000 people were there.
May Martin
Oh my God.
Fortune Feimster
And it was. It was great.
Tig Notaro
Is that a larger number than it normally is or.
Fortune Feimster
Normally it's at their regular stadium, which is I think more like 25,000mm. Oh, this was like a big like thing to. To kick it off the season.
Tig Notaro
Nice.
May Martin
So fun. And I remember when we were on set and we were playing robbers with these like stockings over our faces, squishing our faces, and you were saying the will kind of Jokingly, like, why. Why don't you ever let me sit with you at soccer games and invite me to these games? And he was like, I'll let you, but you have to wear that stocking on your face. Did you. So did you.
Fortune Feimster
Did you do that? No. He has actually invited me to quite a few games now, and that was the first one I was able to go with him to. He's invited me to Lakers and Kings, and I love sporting events. So I told him, you know, please keep asking me because I love it. And he's a huge sports person. So. Yeah, I was glad we got to do that. To finally get to do that.
May Martin
That's really fun.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. But I. Yeah, otherwise I would have been at your party and who knows if it could have gone the other direction if you'd been. No, no, I would have.
Tig Notaro
Fortune. Marie. I could.
Fortune Feimster
I. I told you, I can't do that. This is a lights off body. This is not a. Or listen, whether it's lights off or
Tig Notaro
on, you'd be willing to hook up with the little cowboy?
Fortune Feimster
No, I can't hook up with a little cowboy.
May Martin
No, we'd be like.
Fortune Feimster
We'd be like.
May Martin
We'd be like, bro's f bumping in
Fortune Feimster
the middle of it.
May Martin
We'd be like checking in with each other. You having fun, bud? Yep. Great.
Fortune Feimster
I could never do any of that. I'm too square.
Tig Notaro
Did you say bud or bub? Like,
Fortune Feimster
hey, bubba.
May Martin
No, it was a very nerdy, fun party. It was like games. Yeah, it was really good. I'm going away. I'm not gonna see everyone for so long. So. Yeah, I'm getting anxious about it, about the tour.
Fortune Feimster
My way.
May Martin
All my bags are packed.
Fortune Feimster
I always think about you singing in the breezeway at college.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
So kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you wait for me hold me like you'll never let me go. I mean. Cause I'm a leaving.
Tig Notaro
I'm leaving hot.
Fortune Feimster
I don't know when I'll be back again. I mean, who wouldn't want to hear that in a breezeway?
May Martin
You know what I would do with you at a party, Fortune, if you were up for it.
Fortune Feimster
And.
May Martin
But I did last night, and it was my favorite part of the party was Lisa Gilroy. Always I become like a 12 year old and we're like 12 year old siblings, kind of. That's the vibe. And halfway through the party, we were talking about Hanson, and she was like, oh, my God, can we go into your office and close the door and you play Hanson, Bob. And we harmonize in our best voices. And we weren't even laughing. We went into my office and we sang Hanson with, like, beautiful harmonies. And it was like we had the party. Yeah. And it was just a moment of,
Fortune Feimster
like,
May Martin
we weren't even laughing. We're like, great. Thanks for that.
Fortune Feimster
Are you gonna release it on Spotify?
May Martin
Oh, I'd love to.
Tig Notaro
Do you know what I just realized is Today is St. Patty's Day. Yes. It is such fashion today. And also, I'm also. I'm just remembering because today is Tuesday. Two days ago was the Oscars.
May Martin
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. So people are going to be.
Fortune Feimster
Well, we are typing this right before. So we don't know yet.
Tig Notaro
We.
Fortune Feimster
That's what I'm bringing up as of this recording. We don't know yet what.
Tig Notaro
That's. What's such a funny vibe is like, I just left the Oscars.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
My future self.
Tig Notaro
And I don't know if I won or lost. The reason I remembered is because I just saw my Oscar certificate.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, yeah.
May Martin
So you get a certificate.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
May Martin
Oh, you got a friend because you
Fortune Feimster
went to, like, the lunch. You get that at the luncheon?
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Tig Notaro
How do you know this?
Fortune Feimster
I was a journalist. My little riot.
May Martin
Wow, look at that. You know that Harvard scientists are saying that the past, the present, and the future are happening at the same time, and that things that you do in the present can affect both your past and the future. So that means that if we now act like you won, it could affect the future.
Tig Notaro
Congratulations.
Sponsor Voice
We won.
Fortune Feimster
We won.
Sponsor Voice
You did it.
Tig Notaro
You won too, May.
Announcer
Oh, yeah.
Fortune Feimster
We won.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I can't believe we won because we were up against the Perfect Neighbor, which is one of the biggest documentaries with the most streaming views of all time.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, really?
Tig Notaro
Still?
Fortune Feimster
Yes.
Tig Notaro
That's our competition.
Fortune Feimster
It.
Tig Notaro
The Perfect Neighbor became one of the biggest documentaries of all time.
Fortune Feimster
I do have a question about the producer stuff. Yeah. There was four names on there. Right. And how is it decided? What four names? Because there was a list of producers longer than that in the movie.
Tig Notaro
No, no, there's a list of executive producers. And it's interesting because in tv, film and documentary, there's different titles and that mean different things. And the reason these four names are the producers. Ryan White directed the movie.
Fortune Feimster
Yep.
Tig Notaro
He's also a producer.
Fortune Feimster
Got it.
Tig Notaro
His producing partner, Jess Hargrave, she is the lead producer on all of his projects.
Fortune Feimster
Yes.
Tig Notaro
And Steph Willen, who is the old friend of mine and Andrea's. It was her original idea. She brought it up to me on our call.
Fortune Feimster
Okay.
Tig Notaro
And I brought the project to Jess and Ryan.
Fortune Feimster
Got it.
Tig Notaro
So that makes us the four core producers. And they also have to be very, very scaled down. Like, you have to prove to the Academy.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, really? Why?
Tig Notaro
Each producer is necessary, and so they. They just want to make sure that it is bare bones. These are the producers. You can't have like 10 people on stage and just throw titles at them. So everybody gets a producer credit. You have to, like, submit why you were crucial and key to the development of this.
Fortune Feimster
So you, like, you write like a thing saying, this is what I did.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. You have to cite so much, and a lot of times they reject it and they need more information. That's so insane.
May Martin
I get it, though.
Sponsor Voice
Oh, for sure.
Tig Notaro
But, like, as far as executive producer, those are the people that kicked down cash and, you know, did other things that were very crucial to the project, but they couldn't be listed as an actual producer.
May Martin
Jess Hargrave. I just want to say I had a roommate called Jess and we lived on Hargrave.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my gosh. That's why we won the Oscars. Oh, my gosh. I cannot believe. Where am I gonna it put? Put it.
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May Martin
You know how the. Who's it, the Grammys or the Emmys has a podcast category now? I think the Grammys. Best podcast.
Sponsor Voice
Oh, really?
Fortune Feimster
No, the Golden Globes.
May Martin
Golden Globes, Yeah. Which is wild.
Announcer
And.
May Martin
But do you think the Oscars ever would.
Tig Notaro
No, but I think the Grammys should.
May Martin
The Grammys?
Tig Notaro
It's like they do audiobooks. Yes.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, I can see the Grammys for sure.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
That feels like, like a very odd decision that they haven't come around to,
Sponsor Voice
considering how massive podcasting is because of our podcast.
Fortune Feimster
Well, podcasting is now getting way more numbers than, like, all of these, like, late night shows and morning shows. And so the medium has changed significantly. Oh, yeah. You did Kimmel. How was that?
May Martin
My Jimmy Kimmel hat? Yeah, I did Kimmel if it was so fun and I. If I felt like I, I. It felt like a big deal to me. I was really pumped. Yeah, it is.
Fortune Feimster
It's cool.
May Martin
Like, I guess I've done Colbert, but I, I was. He was so nice. He was really warm. And yeah, I had a really fun time. And. And the. The producers asked me if I. I don't know, I must have said in the pre interview that I'm practicing telepathy, like mind reading cards, but I don't know how to do it. Like, I. Like, I never get it right.
Tig Notaro
Oh, yeah, I watched that clip. That was funny.
May Martin
You did?
Tig Notaro
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
May Martin
I think they thought that it was going to be like a magic trick that I could do, but it was
Tig Notaro
so great that it led to nothing.
May Martin
Nothing? Nothing.
Tig Notaro
Like, I was jealous, actually, when I saw you do that, I was like, ugh.
Fortune Feimster
Tig loves things that lead to nothing.
May Martin
Yeah, Yeah.
Tig Notaro
I was truly like, God, that'd be so fun to do.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
May Martin
You know what it was, I guess it was the first time I've been, like, relaxed enough to kind of do a bit like. Or at least like, try to be funny and not just be like. Yes, thank you. And thank you for having me. Yes, I do.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, I thought. Yeah, I thought it was really funny. Yes, well done, kid.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, well done, you.
May Martin
But I always fudge up my outfit. Like, right before I was going on, I thought, I'm going to tuck this T shirt right into these pants. And then.
Sponsor Voice
God, did you.
May Martin
I tucked it, the whole T shirt. And it was like, like riding up and kind of bunched up. It's just like, why do I always. In the last second. I think, you know what? I know better than all these stylists and makeup people. I'm throw on some lip taint and tuck in my shirt.
Tig Notaro
I always do that with my hair. Like a moment before I go on, I. I do like a quick thing.
Fortune Feimster
Then I'm like, oh, no, no.
Tig Notaro
I just lost control of my hair.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, no.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Well, those seats are always weird and they're turned weird. So it's always like an awkward clothes situation. When you're on late night. I don't know why.
May Martin
Yeah, yeah. And your ankles show and.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, specifically Fortune's ankles.
May Martin
Yeah, ankles.
Tig Notaro
One of the issues of late night,
Fortune Feimster
I always have a button up and a blazer usually. So then the button up always widens. You know, when, you know, when you sit down, it widens. And I'm always like, God dang it.
May Martin
Dang it.
Fortune Feimster
And then you just see a little belly. There's a little peak of the belly.
Tig Notaro
That's what we're tuning in for.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
You know who has a little belly right now?
Fortune Feimster
Who?
Sponsor Voice
Little fluff.
Tig Notaro
A doodle doo has a belly. Yeah, a little pot belly. Her her steroids are creating a little pot belly. It's one of those, like, cute and sad things where you're like, oh, that's
May Martin
because that's from medication.
Fortune Feimster
But we love it. She's doing okay.
Tig Notaro
She's doing great. She's really responding to the steroids. And then she'll start chemo soon, which is also cute and sad.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
But anyway, little pot.
May Martin
There's nothing like a little fuzzy belly.
Tig Notaro
Just a little pot belly.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
How dare she show up with that thing. And how's Ginger?
Fortune Feimster
She's good.
Sponsor Voice
She's.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. I wore a phone call today, but she. Yeah, she's doing. She has more energy now that she's, like, not on chemo at the moment. She's just on the immunotherapy, so she's a bit. Got a bit more pep in her step.
Tig Notaro
Nice.
May Martin
That's good.
Tig Notaro
Glad to hear it.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Fortune. What have you been up to? What are you doing? What's going on?
Fortune Feimster
I'm just working, filming this movie. We have just three weeks left. Well, as of. As of this. As of. To this filming right now, we have three, like, three weeks left. When everyone hears this podcast, I will be wrapping it up. Yes.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
But, yeah, it went by super fast.
Tig Notaro
And you're having a good time?
Fortune Feimster
I'm having a great time. It's been such a whirlwind.
May Martin
The.
Fortune Feimster
The days are long and we. I've never been in a movie where I'm in every scene, so it is, like. It's almost hard to, like, sit and take it all in because you're just, like, constantly prepping a scene or in a scene. But the four girls doing it, we're all just, like, very in it. And we have. We're having a good time and.
Sponsor Voice
Great.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. And then I. I will say Eva Longoria is our director and she is impressive.
May Martin
I didn't know she was directing.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. She's so cool. A lot of people don't know she's been directing TV and stuff for, like, 20 years.
Tig Notaro
I've heard she is so prepared.
Fortune Feimster
She's so prepared. She's incredible. I would. I would die to work with her on any project she's directing because, you know, so much of acting is just sitting around and waiting. She is so prepared. We are rarely sitting more than 20 minutes. 15, 20 minutes. She is so on it.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
She comes so, so prepared. We are never sitting, wondering what's happening next.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And she's just got a real eye for things. Say this, don't do that. She comes and Fixes clothes, hair. Like, she's very hands on.
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Fortune Feimster
Like, she knows exactly what she wants, what she wants it to look like.
Tig Notaro
That's awesome. I don't like that color.
Fortune Feimster
Let's move this. Yeah, she's. I've been super impressed by her skills.
Tig Notaro
That's kind of like Stephanie. Like, she's so. She has got a thought, opinion, and vision for every moment of everything.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
And I'm like, wow.
Fortune Feimster
Do you think she'll try to direct more?
Tig Notaro
Well, yeah, we have. We have projects that. In different stages of development and. And yeah, she. But there's also ones where she's like, you know what? I could hand that off to someone or, you know.
May Martin
Right.
Tig Notaro
But, yeah, she's really good. She's. She's. And just confident. Just has that vision and talent.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
May Martin
Is there gonna be a blooper reel? All I want is I miss, like, after the credits.
Fortune Feimster
I love a blooper reel.
May Martin
I love blue.
Fortune Feimster
I like seeing people laugh and giggle and mess up and.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
When it's real, right?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, when it's real.
May Martin
There's nothing worse than a fake blooper.
Tig Notaro
Well, when people are, like, trying to get into a blooper reel or like.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, that's for the bloopers.
May Martin
That's one for the bloopers. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. It's like, ugly.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if they will do that or not, but it would definitely be fun. It's a big crazy. Like, this movie's crazy.
May Martin
Really?
Fortune Feimster
I can't do it. There's lots of shenanigans. It's definitely rated R. Really? Yeah.
May Martin
I can't wait. I can't wait.
Tig Notaro
When does it come out?
Fortune Feimster
I don't know. I don't know. Movies take a bit longer.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Than the old TV stuff, but they
Tig Notaro
don't have like a. Oh. And we're, you know, hoping for it to go here.
Sponsor Voice
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, it's a Netflix movie.
Tig Notaro
Oh, okay. Yeah, got it.
Fortune Feimster
So I would imagine next sometime next year if I could guess.
May Martin
I'm pumped. All I've been watching is the America's Next Top Model.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, I watched that too. The documentary Wild. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
It's crazy.
May Martin
I just can't believe that, like, we weren't at the time, like. I mean, I know people were like, this is. This is pretty crazy. But at the times were so different that we were like, yeah, that's cool that they're. I mean, it was insane, the challenges they were doing and. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. Did you ever watch that show, Tig? I know you love. Love modeling. I know you love a catwalk.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
I have never seen it, but I did have an idea years ago, cuz Sarah Silverman used to watch it. I think is where I would hear bits and pieces about it and I was like, oh my gosh, I would love to do like a Funny or Die series where I'm in and I'm like walking the boardwalk or catwalk with board shorts on and like a tank top.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
And like, is that where they judge you when you. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Tig Notaro
But also I was going to say when your movie comes out, girl, we gotta have a watch party. We have to like and like a. One of the. When people watch like an online watch party.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
You know, so you know, because it all the handsome.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, that would be cool.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, yeah. Have everybody watch it and be like, girl. Because it feels very primed for like, girl watch party.
Fortune Feimster
I know. I have been trying to get in period jokes.
May Martin
You've been trying to shoehorn in.
Tig Notaro
They're like fortunate enough of wedging in the period jokes.
Fortune Feimster
We'll see. We'll see what makes it in.
May Martin
Yeah, we want your. We want to watch it with you. So we get the commentary throughout of like, oh, on this day, this happened.
Fortune Feimster
And.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Well, I just like. I like. I mean, who knows how, you know, so much has to come together in the editing and everything for the. For the final thing. But you know, what we are shooting is just very wild and crazy. I like seeing female comedians do the things that the guys get to do. Yeah. You know.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
So that's what I enjoy about this. So we'll see.
May Martin
What if they cut you out?
Fortune Feimster
The movie I don't think could exist if I was cut out. I'm a. A pretty pivotal part of the movie. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
It feels like probably you all need to be in it.
Fortune Feimster
All four of us. The movie could not exist.
Tig Notaro
Have you been cut out of anything? I have.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, yeah. For sure.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Cut out of a couple things.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And I've been. I've been cut down pretty significantly too, to the point where like, I could have been an extra. Why did you leave me in at all? I think I would almost rather be cut out completely.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Then like show up in a scene and never appear again. That was like, why? What were you doing there?
May Martin
Yeah,
Fortune Feimster
yeah, yeah. It's sometimes there's just like too much going on to service your character or
Tig Notaro
sometimes you do a terrible job. And like, we gotta.
Fortune Feimster
I got cut out of that movie. The happiest season movie. Remember that one? The Christmas movie.
May Martin
You. You got cut out.
Fortune Feimster
I got cut out of that one and filmed a scene with Kristen and the other actress. I can't. The other main actress. I can't remember the name. And my. I was. My character was insane. I rent them a car and for them to drive home and they ended up cutting it because they were like, we just need to get to them going home.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And I totally understood. But I was being like my. I was a crazy, like rental car salesperson.
Tig Notaro
Sure.
Fortune Feimster
Who was. I kept making Kristen Stewart break the whole time. And then I watched the movie and I saw that the next scene was them in the car together, but basically just explaining the plot to each other.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And I'm like, well, how do. I could have done that in the rental car. Right. Scene. And it been goofier. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Tig Notaro
That's so funny. I was cut out of a Kristen Stewart movie.
May Martin
No way.
Tig Notaro
Yes.
May Martin
Yes.
Tig Notaro
I was. In the runaway ways. I played Joan jets
Fortune Feimster
and I'm wearing
Tig Notaro
a. I'm wearing heels and like a long skirt.
May Martin
Oh, my God.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my gosh. I should put the. I have a picture of me, Kristen and Joan Jett and I should. And I'm in a dress.
May Martin
You need to send us that girl.
Tig Notaro
And it's when I had boobs. Like, I'm like full on top secret.
Fortune Feimster
Just big old tit. Big old tiggies.
Tig Notaro
Take old bitties. But yeah, man, Kristen's ruthless. She's like, out you go. Get out of my movies.
Fortune Feimster
I think. I think she would have wanted to keep it in. She was laughing a lot. She was fun.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
May Martin
I need to get cast in something of hers so she can come.
Fortune Feimster
You gotta get cut out of one of her movies.
May Martin
You're no one until you've been cut out of a Christmas Thomas.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. You're not handsome until you've been cut out of a Christmas tree.
Fortune Feimster
Stewart movie.
Tig Notaro
What a funny connection there.
May Martin
We got to get. We. We got to get a question from her.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, ask her why we got cut
May Martin
out of her room. Yeah. We send her a question.
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Tig Notaro
Her mother used to be the script supervisor on Sarah Silverman.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, really?
Tig Notaro
The Sarah Silverman program? Yeah. And Kristen is on the Sarah Silverman.
May Martin
No way.
Fortune Feimster
I did not realize that.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. When she was obviously a wee one.
Fortune Feimster
A we. But a wee child.
Tig Notaro
Yes, a wee child we child here.
May Martin
Script supervisor is such a crucial role.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my gosh.
May Martin
You have to be so focused, and you're just sitting there, never like, yeah. And there. There was this woman, Susie, who was the script supervisor on.
Tig Notaro
Oh, Susie Wayward.
May Martin
She's thriving. And we were like. I walked by and they were. And she was having a conversation with someone about dreams. Like, do you remember your dreams? And she. This was so out of. Out of keeping with her. What I knew of Susie, which was like, just this very focused, quite sweet. And she goes, well, you know, most nights I dream about horrific violence and where I'm. Where I'm breaking people's bones. I'm pounding people into the dirt. It's like, whoa. Anyway, just.
Tig Notaro
That doesn't fit the name Susie. I'll be honest. That was my mother's name.
Fortune Feimster
Really?
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Tig Notaro
Well, her name was Mattel, just like mine was, but my mother went by Susie just like I go by Tig.
Sponsor Voice
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Tig Notaro
makes no sense. Should we get to our question?
Fortune Feimster
Let's do it.
May Martin
Today's question Asker is an actor and activist who starred in shows like One Tree Hill and Chicago pd she's also
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She hosts the podcast Work in Progress. Sophia Bush is asking today's question.
Tig Notaro
Eyes.
Sophia Bush
Well, hello, you, handsome three. Sophia Bush here. I am very curious. If you could stop time for a day or, I don't know, a weekend, the whole world would just pause and you could continue, have a real break. What would you do? Would you go somewhere? Would you sleep? Like, what would you do, let's say, with a spare weekend.
May Martin
I know what I'm doing.
Fortune Feimster
We know that may stop in time. Three of us stop the world.
May Martin
I want to hang with my girls. I want to take you guys to Disney.
Tig Notaro
To Disney.
Fortune Feimster
I don't remember who asked. That was early on. We had something about spending time together, and they chose us.
Tig Notaro
We could freeze time, and we awkwardly stopped talking.
Fortune Feimster
That's what a superpower would be. It means I want to freeze time. So we can hang out together.
May Martin
You guys are like, right. Like, it's great.
Fortune Feimster
We were just like, really? That's the super
Tig Notaro
stop time and hang out with my podcast hosts.
May Martin
Well, it's because I. I told you guys more than a lot of my other people in my life.
Fortune Feimster
True, true.
May Martin
You know, we talk for hours on the pod, but I would like to have we gigs. I want to have some new. New experiences with you guys. Like, I want to see you in a different context, like on Space Mountain.
Fortune Feimster
Like a space mountain or in Joshua Tree. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
It's not mutual.
Fortune Feimster
That's not true. If you get freeze time for. She. She said a weekend.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Okay.
May Martin
Yeah. Oh, it's so boring to say sleeping, but I do fantasize about that feeling that you have when you're a teenager and for whatever reason, your parents are leaving you alone and you get to just not get out of bed, you know, you can and just keep going for, like, 13 hours.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
I mean, it sounds amazing to sleep, but I. I don't think I'd want to do that with my time. Did I tell you I got rid of my CPAP machine?
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, yeah. I don't. Maybe, but I don't remember.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, you block out everything I say. Fortune. Yeah, I got rid of that, so. Sorry, no more videos.
Fortune Feimster
I forgot why, though. It wasn't. You didn't feel like it was doing anything.
Tig Notaro
I felt like I was struggling it. Struggling with it more than actually sleeping.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
And so I've just been.
May Martin
But it's so sexy.
Tig Notaro
I know. It's really sexy. But I don't know. I've actually. I've been feeling good about my sleep. There's still a little bit more of a bridge to connect there, but I've been very, very good with it, and I'm happy with my progress, so I think that creates less anxiety than putting that contraption on my head and face.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
And then I also don't have Stephanie in the middle of the night tapping me and being like, I think your tube fell off of your face. Because then it's like, oh, yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Loud noise.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
May Martin
So you wouldn't choose sleep?
Tig Notaro
No, I wouldn't choose sleep. I think that I naturally. Which I'm not gonna do, and you can't really do in life, but I think when I start to feel overwhelmed by the world and politics and injustice and all of that kind of stuff, I start to imagine just living off the grid and just. Homesteader.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
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Tig Notaro
Like, just a total trad dike.
May Martin
Like growing food.
Tig Notaro
Growing food and running through the pasture with the kids with our. With no shoes on. But I, I also. Which is something I actually would like to do with you both, which we've talked about. No, no. But I'd love to have like, with you two specifically. I want to use you as like, my little experimental wellness weekend.
May Martin
Yes.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
May Martin
So.
Tig Notaro
And yeah, I just think that'd be so fun and interesting if we forced ourselves to do that. Like early rising and meditation and all organic vegan kind of food and talking about any sort of feelings that come
May Martin
up in the meditation and. Yeah, and journaling.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, journaling, swimming, art, cooking together art.
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Tig Notaro
Listening to vinyl Fortunes.
May Martin
I mean, I'm getting realized.
Fortune Feimster
Glazing over.
May Martin
Yes.
Fortune Feimster
I'll do it for you too.
May Martin
I love structure.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. Yeah. And what a fun pod that would follow.
Tig Notaro
I just think it would be so funny if we forced ourselves to get up to watch the sunrise and meditated and like, really had an unusual weekend together like that.
May Martin
I know. And I'm like, would it take away from the magic if someone documented it? Because I would. I would like to have a visual memory of us all on the dock at 5am watching the sunrise.
Tig Notaro
We could do is. We could do our first trial run of wellness weekend, and then we could do one where we have somebody document our wellness weekend.
May Martin
I. I love structure. I love being told what to do. Like, and I, I can get quite bossy as well, like with my parties. And I'm forcing people to play games and stuff. Like, so the idea of someone going, this is the schedule and we're sticking to it. Oh, I love that.
Tig Notaro
So you throw parties and then you just ruin them.
May Martin
Yeah, pretty much.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
May Martin
But you know what? People, A lot of people appreciate it. There's no awkward.
Tig Notaro
Like, that's what you've told yourself?
May Martin
Yeah, no. Like, I have a telepathy table that's set up.
Tig Notaro
Okay.
May Martin
So if you just met someone and you, you want an icebreaker, you go sit at a telepathy table and you.
Tig Notaro
Okay.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Well, that's what I would do. I would have a wellness weekend or I'd go barefoot. It's kind of the same thing of just kind of disconnecting and not having any sort of knowledge of what's going on in the world.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
My first girlfriend, actually, when Bill Clinton was in office, when he won the pre. The first time, the presidency, she was like, I'm not reading the news. And she did this game where she wanted to see how long she could go without finding out who won the presidency that year.
May Martin
That's funny. That's really funny.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. She was like, don't tell me. Don't tell it. Don't tell me who won. And, yeah, I think it went on for a couple weeks.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, wow.
Tig Notaro
Well, that was before social media. Right.
May Martin
You know, for smartphones. Yeah. You would just have to not read a newspaper and not.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
May Martin
Talk to, like, a taxi driver or anything.
Fortune Feimster
Right.
May Martin
Yeah, I fantasize about that, too. And about. Yeah, yeah.
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May Martin
I might go on a hike after this. Yeah. What about you, Fortune?
Fortune Feimster
I mean, it's funny, when I think about freezing time, I think of the past. Right. And I don't know if that's part of this equation, but I would, you know, if. If it were. Since we can make it up to be anything we want.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I don't think Sophia is going to hunt us down and correct answers.
Fortune Feimster
I would want to go back in time to when my grandmother was alive and have a weekend and freeze time there, because I think freezing time for me just symbolizes, like, getting more time with somebody you don't get to have time with.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
So that's why I went wellness weekend with you, too.
Fortune Feimster
That's right. But I think I would want it when I was in high school, before my grandmother got sick, to just be able to, like, have a conversation with her, knowing what I know now would be pretty cool. And just to kind of take her in a bit more in a way that was like, paying attention to the details more. The, you know, you don't really think about when you're a teenager.
Tig Notaro
And what is the particular knowledge you have now that you think would make it all that much better?
Fortune Feimster
Well, I mean, I was. You know, she died when I was right after I turned 18, so I. I remember I appreciated her as much as you could for being a teenage leisure.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
I think, you know, I knew how special she was even then, and I, like, would pick her up and take her to, like, you know, we would go to this Chinese restaurant we love. So I had a lot of quality time with her, so I don't have regrets in that way. I feel like I did as much as I could with her for being a silly teenager, but I think as an adult, you know, I can look back and think about her in a way that's, like, all the sacrifices she made for me and the. The unconditional love part that you don't really think about at that age.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
The significance of that and just I would have liked to, like, I have bits and pieces of her in my memory of like her hum. Like she was more of a straight lace lady, but like seeing bits of her humor. I would like to take that in a bit more.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Seeing her talk about trees and birds and flowers and the little things like that too. Like, I would like to be able to go back and remember like more instead of having like pieces of her memory. Like having full conversations.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Things like that. Yeah, yeah.
May Martin
And even. And to record some of it and to like listen in a different way.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
May Martin
You know. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
I actually found a DVD that I was worried I had lost. That I had taken a bunch of tapes back in the day and made into a DVD that were of her.
May Martin
No way.
Fortune Feimster
That I haven't watched in like, probably 20 years. So I'd like to get a DVD player. Yeah, you have.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. And then if it were to freeze time now, I guess I'm in a similar situation of like, my mom's getting older and is sick, so maybe freezing time. There were we. But we've had some really good quality experiences lately. Especially that. That cruise I took her on.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
I think that was a significant memory for the both of us as of recent times.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Where she mothered everyone on the ship.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. She mothered all the gay guys. And we just spent, you know, I was going through a really hard time in my life with my marriage falling apart and to. To like go. To leave that situation and go to your mom for five days. What. The timing of that was pretty significant as well.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Because even as an adult, you're like, oh, I still, you know, you still need your. Or want your mom.
May Martin
I feel like you guys really know each other as adults. Like you. You are very yourselves with each other and know each other. It's a rare good thing for sure.
Fortune Feimster
So, yeah. I don't know some of that stuff.
May Martin
I'm scared that.
Fortune Feimster
And then sleep.
May Martin
Oh, sleep. Yeah. And I'm scared that I'd be like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna freeze time so I can read all those books I've been planning on reading or catch up on sleep. And then I'd freeze the time and then I wouldn't be able to do it and I'd see the time slipping away. I'd be like, I can only freeze it for one weekend and I haven't read a single book. I'm still.
Tig Notaro
So you just pan. You'd freeze time and just be in
May Martin
a full pan for the whole week.
Tig Notaro
I can't do anything.
Fortune Feimster
It's like a black Mirror episode.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
If you froze time, for one thing, it would affect another thing. Yeah.
May Martin
I am glad. I. I. When I was in my early 20s, I wrote a letter to my grandma asking her about the Second World War. So weird. She was. She was like, what? Where did this come from? But she never spoke about it. But I just was like, I knew she was in London during the Blitz, and I knew my grandfather was in the army and stuff, so I just was like, I want to know. And then she wrote me back this handwritten letter.
Tig Notaro
This is your agent grandmother.
May Martin
Yeah. Yeah. And so I'm glad I. I'm glad I asked.
Tig Notaro
God, you know what? Hasn't come up much in my life.
Fortune Feimster
Second World War is the Blitz.
May Martin
Oh, the Blitz.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. It just rarely comes up, really, Because
May Martin
I think about it all the time.
Tig Notaro
Well, I don't doubt that, but I just. It just is. Hasn't been a huge part of my life.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
But, you know, it is a picture of me, and you may just flash through my. My electronic frame.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
We were talking to Eddie Izzard.
May Martin
Oh, my God. That was the first night we met.
Fortune Feimster
Stand up. That stand up. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
That's kind of what accidentally caused this. POD was connecting with you and enjoying talking to you. And then I think I had run into Fortune and.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
In Vegas, and I just kind of was like, oh, yeah, I like running into them chatting, and it's pleasant. And anyway, that picture just ran right past me.
Fortune Feimster
Look at that. Memories lying the corner of my mind.
Tig Notaro
Well, should we see what Sophia has to say?
May Martin
Yeah, let's do it. Oh, wait. Can I just.
Fortune Feimster
Where that came from?
May Martin
Can I say also this? I love Sophia Bush and know her a little bit and wish I could hang out with her more and freeze time, but the one time that I went to her house and we were hanging out, and then her partner, Ashlyn Harris, FaceTimed her and was just like, hey, what are you up to? And they're like, the tiny glimpse I got into their relationship dynamic and their vibes. I was like, that's the goal. It was just such a sweet, flirty, funny combo. And I was like, so nice, so beautiful. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I. I did Sophia's podcast years ago, and I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know how polit. I didn't know she was politically active for as long as she has been.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
You know, and I think because she's kind of thrust more into my sight that I kind of assumed, like, oh, maybe because she's now in a gay relationship, it's made her more political, but it's just fascinating to know how long she's been so political. And it's just. It's a really nice layer to. To getting to know her.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
May Martin
Amen.
Tig Notaro
Amen.
Fortune Feimster
Amen.
Tig Notaro
Amen.
Fortune Feimster
Let's.
Tig Notaro
Let's hear what she has to say.
Sophia Bush
I'm realizing that, for me, I have two different answers, and they're based on place. I think if I were at home in Los Angeles, I would lay in my backyard and read a book that I've been desperate to read but haven't cracked open yet. I think if I were home in New York and I had a weekend, I think I'd want to go walk around the city and just look at all the people, you know, frozen in time. I don't know if I'd really want to go into anything, but I think I'd want to walk around and then, yeah, I'd probably read. I think really what this means is that I should start making my way through more of the books that I order.
Tig Notaro
That's really interesting that she needs to
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May Martin
Well, maybe she gets recognized a bunch. Maybe it would mean she wouldn't get. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Doesn't want to interact with anybody. She's like. To walk around.
Tig Notaro
Everybody stay in your home, your apartment.
Fortune Feimster
I'm gonna take a walk around while you guys are frozen.
May Martin
Yeah, I forgot. Everyone else would be frozen like that. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Well, yeah, it's like the. The simple things in life. It sounds like that's what we're all interested in.
May Martin
Isn't that interesting?
Tig Notaro
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
May Martin
None of us are.
Fortune Feimster
Like, we can do. I know.
Tig Notaro
We can do all of these things. We can walk around.
May Martin
We can read books. We can go to nature.
Fortune Feimster
I can go see my mom.
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Tig Notaro
You guys can come over for the weekend and meditate with me.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
So I don't have to do this alone anymore.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
May Martin
None of us were. Like, I'd. I'd walk into the bank and what, Rob the bank? I don't know. Because everyone would be frozen.
Tig Notaro
That's true.
May Martin
No, we all just kind of want to be alone and.
Tig Notaro
Well, Sophia might. She might. That'd be one of her stops on her walk. She'd walk right into the bank.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
And take it all.
Fortune Feimster
I love the phrase crack open a book.
May Martin
You can almost smell the new book. Smell there.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I was going to launch into just a few little mentions of my tour. If anybody cares. I'll be always doing Dynasty typewriter and Largo in Los Angeles. And then I'll also be in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Portland, Maine. I'll be in Red Bank, New Jersey, Brooks, California. Albany, New York, Peekskill, New York.
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Tig Notaro
June 5th, I'll I go to tignotaro.com Also, let's hear it again for the big Oscar win for Come See Me in the Good. It's so exciting to get this news and to be able to share it that we we did in fact
Fortune Feimster
win,
Tig Notaro
even though we did record this a month in advance.
May Martin
Anyway, I am tonight in Minneapolis. Tomorrow I'm in Madison, Wisconsin. Then on the 19th in Milwaukee, then Chicago, then Detroit, then Columbus, then Cleveland, then Pittsburgh, then New York, then Philadelphia, and then I have a little break. But if you're in any of those cities, please come and see me. I bet you I'm having a blast.
Tig Notaro
Yes.
Fortune Feimster
Having a blast. Yes.
Tig Notaro
What's up with you? Fortune, Fame, stir.
Fortune Feimster
Well, starting April 2nd, I'm in Oklahoma City. Then Fayetteville, Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, San Antonio, Dallas, Des Moines. That's all in April. Toronto, Rochester, Minnesota, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Portland, Maine, Omaha, Detroit. And then we as a group are at the Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 4. There is a Handsome Live as part of the Netflix is a joke festival. And we'll be chatting and getting some questions and answers from the hunting wives, Malin Ackerman and Brittany Snow.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, it's gonna be a good one. And also if you enjoy the podcast, send your friends your favorite episodes. Help us build this community. Subscribe Rate Review we're also on YouTube.
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May Martin
Yeah. Also Thomas sends us his favorite review of the week. So when we really enjoy reading the reviews. So yeah, please tell us what you
Tig Notaro
what you give us a good one so we can open it in our email and go that's so nice. Who said that?
Fortune Feimster
It's Jenny of the week week. It's the review of the week. It is the review of the week of the century.
Tig Notaro
And until next time, keep it Handsome.
Fortune Feimster
Keep it Handsome. Handsome is hosted by me, Fortune Feimster, Tig Notaro and Mae Martin. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Wuellette. It email us at handsomepod Gmail.com and follow us on social media @HANDSOME POD. What a podcast.
May Martin
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Date: March 17, 2026
Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin
Special Guest: Sophia Bush (Question asker)
In this delightfully meandering and heartfelt episode, comedians Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin answer a question from actor and activist Sophia Bush: "If you could stop time for a day or a weekend, what would you do?" The trio explores nostalgia, the value of rest, cherished relationships, the allure of wellness retreats, and simple joys. Along the way, listeners are treated to stories of friendship, career tales, and the hosts’ signature banter—peppered with laughter, self-deprecation, and memorable reflections. The conversation exemplifies the podcast’s blend of humor, sincerity, and ridiculousness.
“If you could stop time for a day or, I don’t know, a weekend, the whole world would just pause and you could continue, have a real break—what would you do?”
This episode is a perfect encapsulation of Handsome: equal parts ridiculous and real, balancing industry tales with sincere introspection. It’s a warm group hang with three beloved comedians contemplating the fantasy of extra time and, ultimately, revealing how much they value friendship, healing, and the small, sweet moments of life.
Key Takeaway:
When asked what they’d do if they could freeze time, Tig, Fortune, and Mae—all in their own hilarious way—dream of more connection, laughter, healing, and presence, not grandeur. It’s the people and peace that matter most—plus maybe a little meditation, Disney, or a well-worn “telepathy table.”