Sophia Bush asks about freezing time

Summary

Handsome Podcast: "Sophia Bush Asks About Freezing Time"

Date: March 17, 2026
Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin
Special Guest: Sophia Bush (Question asker)

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Episode Overview

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.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Casual Catch-Up & Warm-Up (03:38–12:15)

• Opening Vibes: The hosts riff on the idea of welcoming songs for newborns, joking about singing to "a mother’s crotch" (03:37, Tig Notaro).
• Personal Updates:
  • Tig just wrapped filming Star Trek and is excited for a belated Valentine’s dinner with her wife, Stephanie.
  • Mae is hungover after hosting a party, leading to discussion of “hangxiety”:
    “You wake up and think, what did I say? Was that weird?” (07:11, Mae)
  • Party talk turns to choosing “game night vs. gay night,” with Mae preferring games over potential romantic entanglements.

Party Stories and Celebrity Interactions (12:15–18:00)

• Fortune shares about attending LAFC’s season opener with Will Ferrell.
• Discussion of being invited to high-profile games and the odd rituals that come with celebrity friendships:
  “He was like, I’ll let you but you have to wear that stocking on your face.” (10:49, Mae retelling Will Ferrell's joke)

(Optional Lighthearted Tangent) Oscars & Awards Chatter (14:00–18:24)

• The hosts imagine having just won an Oscar, cite the convoluted process for producer credits, and reflect on the duplicity of titles in TV and film production (16:06–17:33).

Late-Night TV Experiences and Wardrobe Mishaps (21:15–25:02)

• Mae recounts a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, where an intended telepathy magic trick “led to nothing”—which Tig particularly loves:
  “Tig loves things that lead to nothing.” (22:50, Fortune, all laughing)
• All hosts share stories of last-minute wardrobe decisions and the quirks of late-night show seating.
• A detour into pet updates: Tig’s dog is on steroids, creating a “cute and sad” pot belly, while Fortune’s dog Ginger regains energy after chemo.

Work-Movie Updates & Eva Longoria’s Directing Chops (25:34–29:33)

• Fortune is filming a new Netflix movie, directed by Eva Longoria:
  “She is so prepared. We are rarely sitting more than 20 minutes!” (26:45, Fortune)
• Praise for Longoria’s skills and the rarity of seeing female comedians in “wild and crazy” R-rated movies.

Recurring Themes: Being Cut from Movies, Nostalgic Connections (31:09–35:00)

• Tig and Fortune swap stories about being cut from movies, especially “Kristen Stewart movies,” confirming it as a weird badge of honor:
  “You’re not handsome until you’ve been cut out of a Kristen Stewart movie.” (34:54, Tig)
• The conversation playfully lands on the importance of friendship and connection in the entertainment world.

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Listener Question: "If You Could Stop Time..." (40:13–58:16)

Sophia Bush’s Question (40:13)

“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?”

The Hosts’ Answers:

• Mae Martin:
  • Would take her co-hosts to Disney or Joshua Tree to make new memories together (41:03).
  • Fantasizes about “just not getting out of bed” for 13 hours, nostalgic for teenage lazy days (42:16).
  • Loves the idea of a structured “wellness weekend” with meditation, journaling, vegan food, and watching the sunrise together.
    • “I love structure. I love being told what to do.” (46:11)
  • Also sets up icebreaking “telepathy tables” at her parties for fun.
• Tig Notaro:
  • Imagines “living off the grid,” being a “trad dyke”—homesteading, growing food, disconnecting from the world’s chaos (44:23).
  • Would host a wellness retreat for herself and the others, with early mornings, meditation, cooking, journaling, swimming, art, and vinyl (45:14–45:21).
  • Shares that using a CPAP machine was giving her more anxiety than rest, so she ditched it (43:06).
• Fortune Feimster:
  • Looks to the past, wishing to visit her grandmother before she got sick to “just have a conversation with her, knowing what I know now” (48:08).
  • Values “getting more time with somebody you don’t get to have time with.”
  • Also cherishes recent moments with her aging mother, especially a cruise during a tough personal time.
    • “Even as an adult, you still need or want your mom.” (51:43)
  • Touchingly notes she found a long-lost DVD of her grandmother she hopes to watch soon (50:44).

Additional Notable Moments:

• The hosts reflect on the beauty of recording or documenting memories with loved ones.
• Mae: “I’m scared I’d freeze time just to catch up on sleep and books, but then panic that I’m wasting it.” (52:06)
• Fortune: “It’s like a Black Mirror episode—if you froze time for one thing, it would affect another.” (52:33)

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Sophia Bush’s Answer & Reactions (56:03–57:13)

• Sophia:
  • Would either “lay in my backyard and read a book” in LA, or “walk around the city and look at all the people, frozen in time” in New York.
  • Realizes her wish to make time for reading books she buys.
• The hosts reflect that none of them pick wild or criminal escapades like robbing a bank; all long for simple pleasures, connection, nature, or peace (57:16).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Party Dynamics:
  • “It’s either we’re having game night or gay night.” (08:17, Fortune)
• On Wellness:
  • “Just running through the pasture with the kids with no shoes on. Just a total trad dike.” (44:21, Tig)
• On Regret and Nostalgia:
  • “Freezing time for me just symbolizes getting more time with someone you don’t get to have time with.” (48:03, Fortune)
• On Simple Joys:
  • “The simple things in life. It sounds like that’s what we’re all interested in.” (57:16, Tig)
• On Friendship:
  • “You’re not handsome until you’ve been cut out of a Kristen Stewart movie.” (34:54, Tig)
• On Sophia’s Relationship:
  • “That’s the goal. It was just such a sweet, flirty, funny combo.” (54:32, Mae, on Sophia and Ashlyn)

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Important Timestamps

• Welcome & Banter (03:38–04:47)
• Hangovers, Parties & "Game Night vs. Gay Night" (05:59–08:27)
• LAFC Opener & Will Ferrell (10:19–11:12)
• Oscars Producer Credits Explained (16:06–17:33)
• Kimmel Appearance Story (22:03–23:11)
• Dog and Pet Updates (24:31–25:32)
• Career Update—Eva Longoria as Director (26:05–27:35)
• Being Cut from Movies (Kristen Stewart Stories) (32:09–34:54)
• listener question: Freezing Time (40:13–58:16)
• Sophia Bush’s Answer (56:03–57:13)
• Reflecting on Simplicity (57:16–57:43)

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Tone and Style

• Warm, irreverent, vulnerable, and playful.
• The episode moves smoothly from roasting each other and telling embarrassing stories to heartfelt admissions about family, longing, and the desire for meaningful pauses in life.
• Frequently self-aware, undercutting any sentimentality with quick humor.

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For New Listeners

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.

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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.”

Transcript

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[May Martin]

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[May Martin]

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[Tig Notaro]

That sounds like a plan, May.

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[May Martin]

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[May Martin]

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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]

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[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?

[Sponsor Voice]

Yeah.

[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.

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[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]

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[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]

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[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.

[Sponsor Voice]

I don't like that.

[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]

Is it for streaming?

[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.

[Sponsor Voice]

So.

[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?

[Sponsor Voice]

Yes.

[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]

Anyway,

[Tig Notaro]

makes no sense. Should we get to our question?

[Fortune Feimster]

Let's do it.

[May Martin]

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[Announcer]

known for her advocacy of environmental causes

[May Martin]

and women's rights, including as a founding member of the Time's up movement.

[Announcer]

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.

[Sponsor Voice]

Yeah. Trad dyke.

[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.

[Sponsor Voice]

You know.

[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.

[Sponsor Voice]

All of it.

[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.

[Announcer]

Just nature.

[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

[Sponsor Voice]

freeze time to walk around.

[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.

[Sponsor Voice]

Yeah.

[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.

[Sponsor Voice]

Head on out to Peekskill, New York.

[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.

[Sponsor Voice]

You can see our handsome, handsome faces there.

[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]

That was a headgum podcast.

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[May Martin]

Yeah.

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