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May Martin
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Tig Notaro
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Fortune Feimster
Handsome.
May Martin
Chatting with friends on the handsome pot. Chatting with friends on the handsome pot. Cheers.
Tig Notaro
Welcome to the Handsome Podcast. My name is Tig Notaro and I'm sitting here with.
May Martin
My name is May Martin, a fortune feamster.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. Looking really, really like a pretty little lady.
Fortune Feimster
That's what you're.
Tig Notaro
Yes, you are.
Fortune Feimster
It's because I have on some makeup.
Tig Notaro
Huh?
May Martin
Your eyes are popping.
Fortune Feimster
Are they?
Tig Notaro
You gu.
Fortune Feimster
They were like, do you want to take your makeup off? And I went, no, never doing handsome. And I want to be handsome and.
Tig Notaro
I want to be pretty.
Fortune Feimster
So I have my. I don't have any lip taint on at the moment, but the eyes are still popping.
Tig Notaro
I thought maybe you had invisible lip taint on.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, no, just invisible mascara.
Tig Notaro
Okay. And so you started filming your movie today. Today was your first day at work.
Fortune Feimster
First day at work. Everybody's really nice. And it's funny to go from, like, the golf show with Will. It's a lot of dudes.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And a sporty world to, like, a lady. A lady comedy.
May Martin
A lady led comedy.
Fortune Feimster
A lady led comedy. So it's such a. Both great vibes, but just very different.
May Martin
Were you actually pretty little lady.
Fortune Feimster
Pretty little lady vibes. Yeah. We. Today was the filming.
May Martin
Oh, my God. That's scary because you're like, are people gonna like how I'm doing it?
Fortune Feimster
I know. I was like, I don't know how. Because it's a big, broad comedy. And I was saying, I don't know how broad to go with my character. You, like, want to be funny, but not, like, annoyingly over the top.
May Martin
I say go big. Go big.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. They can always reel me in, I guess.
May Martin
Yeah. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
But it was good. I think everybody's got nice chemistry. We're feeling comfortable, more comfortable around each other and getting to know each other. So.
Tig Notaro
Great.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. I drove Kim Kardashian in a truck.
May Martin
I mean, what is your life? You drove Kim Kardashian in a truck?
Tig Notaro
Oh, in a scene.
Fortune Feimster
In a scene, yes.
Tig Notaro
Okay.
Fortune Feimster
All right. Wow.
Tig Notaro
Because if you're doing that in real life, then that's like, what is your life?
Fortune Feimster
That's true. Yeah.
May Martin
But were you, Were you driving for real or were you. Was the car on the back of.
Fortune Feimster
One of those Driving for real? Whoa. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
See, I'm guessing it wasn't me.
May Martin
I'm still just impressed by driving, period. That's.
Fortune Feimster
Well, I've driven. When I did Office Christmas Party, I, I. The car stood still, sat there. I didn't drive it, but I did drive Jennifer Garner in the ambulance. That was nerve wracking.
May Martin
They keep getting you to drive and these.
Fortune Feimster
I know the ambulance is big and it had all the camera people in the back of it, so that made me nervous.
Tig Notaro
Well, fortune seems capable. That's why you throw her in. You know, do the driving.
Fortune Feimster
And then in Will's movie, you're cordially invited. I drove a speedboat.
Thomas Ouelette
Yeah.
May Martin
You're always driving.
Fortune Feimster
Especially I didn't even know how to drive a boat.
Tig Notaro
I was gonna say, I mean, that's my sweet spot. I know how to drive a boat.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
I have a motorcycle.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. And they let me rip it, too. In the water.
May Martin
Circles like that.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. You're always driving it.
May Martin
Beautiful women in cars.
Tig Notaro
Here's what. Did you park the boat?
Fortune Feimster
I'm trying to think. I. I brought it up to the dock and then they, they like, kind of took it over from there, but. Yeah, I know with the throttle and stuff, you gotta push it back a little bit.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, it can be a little tricky.
May Martin
This is the butchest episode of our podcast yet. We're talking throttles and parking. Throttles.
Fortune Feimster
B.
May Martin
When you were in the truck with Kim, did she smell good? Were you chatting between takes? What's the vibe?
Fortune Feimster
She's lovely, really. Just been very nice, very professional, very collaborative. She's not being like, you know, us and her, you know, we're here and she's over there. Like, it's. Yeah, she was. We chatted between takes and. Yeah, she's got a good sense of humor, so she was laughing about. I was being silly.
May Martin
And she's really funny. I. I mean, I watched. I've watched her many times. I've watched her and Keeping up with the Kardashians. She's very witty. They all are. Pretty witty. Pretty witty.
Fortune Feimster
Well, they have a lot of people around them a lot. She's had, like, a group of friends she's been friends with for. Since, like, kindergarten.
May Martin
Yeah. Well, this is a long shoot. By the end, you're gonna be tight. You're gonna be gossiping with the gals just like you were on Will, though.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. And then because, you know, we had rehearsals the day after Nikki Glazer hosted the Golden Globe, so everyone just kind of went. I had three weeks off between shows.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
So, I mean, between filming the last show and this. So it's been a shot. Like, we're all been shot out of a cannon. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Busy times. Yeah.
May Martin
How are you, Tag? What's going on? I haven't seen you in a while. I did a mini sode with Fortune, so. We've been. We were cheating.
Fortune Feimster
Talking.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. Cheating on you.
Fortune Feimster
We were cheating on you.
Tig Notaro
I. I started my period. My period. Finally. Congrats, dude. Thank you.
May Martin
Oh, my God.
Tig Notaro
I'm hoping to get 300 tampons delivered to my house because we do work.
Fortune Feimster
In space just for the next cycle.
Tig Notaro
I'm. I started my. The beginning of my minor. My. My Minor Market Tour.
May Martin
Minor Market Tour? Is that what you've called it? Or that's.
Tig Notaro
Well, yeah, I'm just. I'm I'm just hitting the places that are not like, Chicago, New York, that kind of stuff.
May Martin
Right. You're hitting the smaller guys.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, I'm hitting the Fort Lauderdales and the Omahas and what have you.
Thomas Ouelette
So.
Tig Notaro
So I'm just hitting those kind of shows for a while and going out for long weekends. But it's been Busy as well because I had to overlap my Star Trek premiered. And then I think I told you. Yeah. That the documentary is in contention for the Oscar nomination. And so it's just been pure insanity. Like, pure insanity. Like the events and promotion and schmoozing. Yeah, it's not really my scene, I'll be honest.
Fortune Feimster
Really?
Tig Notaro
Your vibe. No, but I, you know, I want to do everything I can for the movie, but it is. It's a hard nomination to get because they typically. It's typically just like global documentaries that, that, that make it to the nominations.
May Martin
You know, like political situations.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, very political, very global. And. But, you know, we still have to. Had to give it all we had and hope for the best. And even if not, we have really fun projects that we're continuing to develop and work on around Andrea and Meg and with Meg, Andrea's wife. And so it's just this kind of fun creative bubble of people that really, really connected on a project and want to continue to work together because it was just. It was so special. It was just a. Yeah, it was a really special experience that we all feel very lucky that we all. It all lined up the way it did. And on our zoom today, I was talking about how. Because they announced tomorrow morning.
May Martin
Oh, they do? Okay. I'm setting, I'm setting my alarm and I'm checking.
Fortune Feimster
You get up at 5:00am yeah, that's.
Tig Notaro
When it's 5:30 in the morning. Where they read off the nominees.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, my gosh.
May Martin
Why do they do it that early?
Fortune Feimster
I don't know. I think it's for the east coast press, like morning shows and stuff.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. But that's what I've been up to is I'm still filming Star Trek. It premiered, finished the promotion on that dual crazy run of promotion and doing my tour. And I'm touring with Amy Berkman, who's an incredible speed artist and our first.
May Martin
Oh, yes, of course. Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. She's an ovarian cancer survivor. She paints a portrait within under 10 minutes and then we auction it off at the show to raise money for charity. And. Yeah, we raised like $15,000 a show.
May Martin
What?
Fortune Feimster
Oh, that's awesome.
Tig Notaro
And 100% of the proceeds went to the charity. And. And we're very aligned on She's a. And so we're doing cancer charities, animal charities, and environmental charities. And it just feels. It feels good. And it was my fantasy when Andrea was alive to tour with Andrea and Amy. And then when Andrea died, I was like, man, I gotta make this right. And so I reached out to Amy and it just was a really good vibe. And she's really talented, so it feels good. Feels really good.
May Martin
So who's she doing the portraits of in the.
Tig Notaro
Well, like, we were in Fort Lauderdale the first night, and she did one of a manatee.
Fortune Feimster
Whoa.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
May Martin
And does the audience kind of weigh in on what they want?
Tig Notaro
No, she. She dances to music while she's painting frantically. And. And the. And the. And the. The canvas, she flips it right side up at the end. She's painted upside down the whole time. She flips it in the end, and then you're like, oh, my God, it's a manatee. Or you're like, oh, my God, it's Andrea Gibson's face. You know, that must be, like.
May Martin
Something must work differently in her brain to be able to paint upside down like that. That's like a really. That's cool.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, she. She. She had very aggressive ovarian cancer, and when she lived through it, she was like, I'm gonna devote my life to doing good with my art.
Thomas Ouelette
So.
Tig Notaro
So. And she loves that. She. Yeah, she's really incredible. So that's what I've been doing. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
What about you, May?
May Martin
I've been working on my Frau Tropia biopic.
Tig Notaro
Got to.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. Dance till you die.
May Martin
It's a three and a half hour biopic based on no factual information.
Tig Notaro
Don't die during the research. Okay, May, what do you mean, voucher?
Fortune Feimster
Fear?
Tig Notaro
Well, you're writing the movie, you said. Yeah, yeah. I just, you know, you have to research for a film and.
May Martin
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Tig Notaro
I don't want you to dance till you die. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you not know the story?
May Martin
Oh, no, I know that there. I know the bullet points, and that's all I got, so. Taking a lot of artistic license on her life. No, I'm not actually doing that, but I would like to. I am. I. Well, one thing I haven't talked about on the POD is I did this. I think you guys will find this funny. I did a show with Lisa Gilroy, friend of the POD at Largo, and the premise was that we surprise each other. So it's like we each have to plan two surprises. It's really anxiety inducing because you're like, am I gonna go too far with a prank? Like, is. Is this funny?
Tig Notaro
And, yeah.
May Martin
Last time, a year ago, I got the number of her or the phone number of her husband, who I've only met once.
Tig Notaro
Okay.
May Martin
And I secretly texted him and I took him to Universal Studios. And we. We went on all the rides and a whole.
Fortune Feimster
I did.
Tig Notaro
It was so good.
May Martin
So on stage with Lisa, I said, you know, I. I've only met Steve once, but we do have a relationship. And it's. It's not sexual, but it is romantic. And then I had this whole slideshow of us, like, spending the whole day together. And she was flabbergasted. And she went through this, like, whole range of emotions of, like.
Tig Notaro
That is so funny.
May Martin
Yeah. Like, at first, she, I think, was feeling protective of him. Like, is he. You know, and then was, like, so touched that two people she loves independently hung out.
Fortune Feimster
And then she's like, and what did you guys do together?
Thomas Ouelette
Yeah.
May Martin
Then she's like. Then she's like, did you kiss? Like, she got really anxious.
Fortune Feimster
Did you kiss?
Tig Notaro
Did you touch my love?
May Martin
Yeah. So then I've been. I don't know how to. I didn't know how to top that. And I've been really nervous, and I. I kind of was drawing a blank, and I was nervous for how she would kind of retaliate. And so she. At the beginning of the show, she's like, my surprises were pretty. Were pretty lame. They were. I was. I painted a portrait of her, and I had Alanna Johnston pretend to be Alanis Morissette. But at the beginning of the show, Lisa's like, oh, I have this new necklace. Yeah, my admirer got it for me. And I was like, oh, no, what is this going to be? And she's like, it's okay. I'll talk about it later. And then she kept being like, oh, God, I love this necklace my admirer gave me. And then she starts playing a video, and she goes, oh, baby, are you there? It's on. Zoom. My father appears in the video. She. She has gone onto Instagram, DM'd my dad, and unbeknownst to me, they filmed this whole sketch where.
Tig Notaro
Hilarious.
May Martin
She's like, did they kiss on zip? I want to, like, just play you guys a little.
Tig Notaro
Is that your dad's given name as Baby?
May Martin
Yeah, it's Baby.
Tig Notaro
Baby Martin.
Fortune Feimster
Baby Martin.
May Martin
I think you're going to laugh at that because he's. He really went for it. Like, he is really goofy in it. And. Yeah, I went through the same acting.
Fortune Feimster
Debut on your show.
May Martin
Yeah, he was up for it.
Tig Notaro
Guys, can we do a quick check in with my eye? Is it open?
Fortune Feimster
Oh, let's see. Well, right now you're squinting. Is that on purpose?
Tig Notaro
Well, I have trouble seeing, so I'm always squinting these days.
Fortune Feimster
You Gotta do this. Do this.
May Martin
Definitely.
Tig Notaro
A little closed, this one.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. Okay.
Fortune Feimster
Have you gotten it fixed yet?
Tig Notaro
No, I can't till March.
May Martin
Fortune. You can't tell?
Fortune Feimster
Well, I was asking in case they got it fixed and it was a bus.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And she's like, yeah.
Thomas Ouelette
I went.
Fortune Feimster
I went. Got it fixed. Yeah, it's working.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. All right. Sorry, May, go on.
May Martin
Okay, Ready?
Tig Notaro
Yeah, we're ready.
May Martin
I think the audio will be funny, but I'm going to show the video, and maybe I can post a little clip of the video if my dad agrees. But I'm going to show you guys. Okay? Ready?
Fortune Feimster
Baby, you're late.
May Martin
I'm sorry, darling. I missed you, baby. I've missed you, too. My.
Fortune Feimster
Everything. I'm wearing the necklace you got me.
Tig Notaro
It looks adorable.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, baby, look, I know you're taking.
May Martin
Me to Paris next weekend. My baby loves her croissant. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. God, you're so cute.
Fortune Feimster
Lisa, I love you so much. James, I would literally die for you.
May Martin
It goes on for a long time.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God.
Fortune Feimster
I would love if. What if your mom walked in? I was like, what are you doing?
May Martin
I mean, I. I was freaking out. I don't know. It was so weird seeing my world.
Tig Notaro
She's done it with your mom.
May Martin
She's so shy. She wouldn't. Yeah, but.
Fortune Feimster
Hello, darling. Hello, darling Lisa.
May Martin
Yeah, hello, my darling. And then she showed me their email thread, her and my dad, and she'd been like, okay, James, I'll. I'll send you a Zoom. L. He wrote, okay, baby.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, my God. And now they're having an affair.
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May Martin
But it really, it was still. You know when someone it's like when someone makes fun of you really specifically. It's like so touching almost.
Tig Notaro
But yeah, it's the best.
May Martin
It was thrilling. So that's my. That's my big news. Other than that, I just been driving around the town. I bought a new body wash, you know?
Tig Notaro
I know. I saw this. I saw this car going down the road. Just slamming into cars and light posts. Yeah. Just pinballing down the street. I was like, look at May.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Look at me go.
Fortune Feimster
Are you getting more comfortable?
May Martin
Yeah, I love it. I'm way better now, guys. And I'm glad you didn't get in my car when I first got it.
Fortune Feimster
It, because so are we.
Tig Notaro
I have no plans to ever get in a car with you.
Fortune Feimster
I will at some point, but I will practice.
May Martin
Look, Kim Kardashian around. I gotta drive you guys.
Fortune Feimster
I've been driving since I was 12.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God. Why'd you wait so late? I was, like, smoking and driving since I was born.
May Martin
I have my first make out of my car.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
May Martin
Because I've always been the passenger, princess.
Fortune Feimster
I think I know who you made out with. Nobody.
Tig Notaro
Was it you?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, it was me.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
No, wait. Why would you know who. What is happening? Two against one. I don't like it.
May Martin
Well, when. When we filmed our minisode.
Tig Notaro
Okay.
May Martin
Off mic. I was updating fortune on my various.
Tig Notaro
Okay, we'll bleep it out.
Fortune Feimster
Who was it?
May Martin
Well, I'm scared.
Fortune Feimster
I know. May.
Tig Notaro
Scared. Was it your dad?
Fortune Feimster
Mae's scared it would somehow get in here. Yeah, we'll tell you at the end of the pod.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God. I.
Fortune Feimster
Because we can't accidentally let it slip through.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, but, you know, it's more set.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, that would be amazing.
May Martin
But it felt good because usually I'm the passenger and someone's dropping me off, and then.
Tig Notaro
I'm not listening to anything now.
Fortune Feimster
All right?
Thomas Ouelette
Okay.
May Martin
Okay.
Fortune Feimster
I don't.
Tig Notaro
I don't care about anything unless I have this information.
May Martin
Okay, well, should we. Thomas, we're bleeping this.
Fortune Feimster
Yes.
May Martin
Okay.
Fortune Feimster
And you're definitely bleeping it. I promise to bleep it.
May Martin
I mean, not even bleeping it. Like, take the whole chunk.
Tig Notaro
Who the hell is this? And all of this is staying in until this. Okay. Oh, my God.
Fortune Feimster
Who the hell is this?
Tig Notaro
Yeah, who the hell is this?
May Martin
Well, it wasn't who you think. It is actually fortunate, but it was.
Tig Notaro
Oh, okay.
Fortune Feimster
That's not exciting to you?
May Martin
That's not thrilling?
Tig Notaro
No.
May Martin
You're not into her?
Tig Notaro
God, no, I'm not. No. It's nothing against. I'm like, great. Whatever. I thought you were giving me, like, Scandalous information.
Fortune Feimster
No, no, not scandalous. Just, like, pretty.
May Martin
What a twist, though. Yeah. Okay. Cut that whole chunk out.
Fortune Feimster
Well, some of it. Keep in some of the teasing.
May Martin
Okay, yeah, but you can listen.
Fortune Feimster
You can listen to the edit.
Tig Notaro
Teasing and then also keeping my disappointment.
May Martin
No. Okay, we'll come back.
Tig Notaro
I was like, who was your first kiss that cannot go anywhere. Oh, my God.
Fortune Feimster
That was a bit of a bus. Tig's not impressed.
Tig Notaro
No, there was. Well, there was more to the story, but anyway. Oh, my God.
May Martin
We thought it was juicy gossip. Me, unfortunately.
Fortune Feimster
Juicy? Yeah. I thought it was some hot goss.
May Martin
But, yeah, Tig is unimpressed.
Fortune Feimster
Well, Tig's like, yeah, of course that that person would make out with you.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. And. But, like, I thought if this was someone. Your first kiss, and, like, who they must be now that you're so protective.
May Martin
Wait, my first.
Fortune Feimster
You with this person?
May Martin
Oh, for. Okay. Okay.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fortune Feimster
So I think misinterpreted it, thinking that it was something scandalous. It's not scandalous.
Tig Notaro
It was just.
May Martin
Okay, so who would have got, like, the biggest reaction for you that you would have been, like, what? I guess someone, like, married and famous.
Tig Notaro
Is that Justin Trudeau?
Fortune Feimster
Amen. Tig wanted a scandal.
Tig Notaro
Okay.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, no scandal.
Tig Notaro
You know me, girl. I always want to scandal.
Fortune Feimster
You love a scandal.
Tig Notaro
I love a scandal.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
May Martin
Yeah, you do.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. I don't know who would be exciting for you to make out. Oh, and Angelina Jolie. Would you have such a crush on her?
Tig Notaro
That's always the answer, right?
Fortune Feimster
That would be pretty exciting.
May Martin
I mean, it would be crazy.
Tig Notaro
Anyone that kisses her, that's, like, a big deal.
May Martin
It's a big deal in. In their life forever. And I don't. And if they're. If they say it's not, they're lying. Like, anyone who just, like, at a party.
Fortune Feimster
I don't want to kiss her, but I want you to kiss her.
Tig Notaro
Why don't you want to kiss her?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, I'm more. I'm more of a Jen Aniston gal. I think you have to be on one team or the other, right?
Thomas Ouelette
Still or.
Fortune Feimster
No?
Tig Notaro
Well, like, removing any teams. It's like you're at a party. Angelina's coming in for the smooch. And are you, like.
May Martin
Are you like, I'm a gin.
Fortune Feimster
I have cheese in my pocket. My pocket.
Tig Notaro
I have cheese in my mouth.
Fortune Feimster
I'm pointing at my mouth, saying, pocket, cheese in my pocket.
Tig Notaro
That's how nervous you would be if Angelina was coming in and you have.
Fortune Feimster
Cheese in my pocket. I Have checked.
Tig Notaro
Can I have cheese in my pocket?
Fortune Feimster
I have cheese in my pocket.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God. That is now the. The let down line.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
That is what you say when you turn someone down and you give no.
Fortune Feimster
Information in your mouth and say, I have cheese.
Tig Notaro
I got cheese in my pocket, and then walk away.
May Martin
I got cheese in my pocket.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my gosh.
Fortune Feimster
I'm sorry to. I hope I let her down easy.
Tig Notaro
Well, you did. You told her you had cheese in your pocket.
May Martin
She's walking away.
Fortune Feimster
Cheese in my pocket.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God.
May Martin
She's walking away confused.
Fortune Feimster
Confused. And I don't want to kiss her now. Anyway.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, don't ever let me forget I have cheese in my pocket. We forget everything.
Fortune Feimster
I know.
Tig Notaro
People come up like, hey, speedboat through the desert. And they're like, wait, what happened?
Fortune Feimster
We only remember if it becomes a merch item.
May Martin
If someone else tell. Okay, I just wrote it down. I have cheese in my pocket.
Thomas Ouelette
It.
Tig Notaro
It's there, Thomas. We put that on the list just so we remember to not turn down Angelina with that line.
Fortune Feimster
Turned on anybody with that line.
May Martin
I have cheese in my pocket.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, you have to point to your mouth, though.
May Martin
I have cheese in my pocket.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God, I love it so much. And please sneak that in when it makes sense in any possible moment when you have to. Like, if I say, do you want to go get coffee and say, I have cheese now.
Fortune Feimster
Are you making out with her if she comes up to you at the cheese table?
Tig Notaro
I have cheese in my pocket.
Fortune Feimster
You're eating vegan cheese.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, I'm. Well, yeah. And I'm. I'm married, so.
May Martin
Yeah, but in a scenario where you're not and you're at the party.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, no, I'm not. I'm not a party kisser.
May Martin
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. What?
Fortune Feimster
That's the other excuse.
May Martin
I'm not a party kisser. I can't believe both of you are saying you're rejecting Angelina Jolie. This is such garbage.
Fortune Feimster
Bitch.
Tig Notaro
Here's the thing, is, I'm pretty sure she would reject us. She's got way more cheese in her.
Fortune Feimster
Pocket, by the way.
Tig Notaro
In these scenarios, we're just letting her.
Fortune Feimster
Down before she lets us down. That's how it works psychologically.
May Martin
Okay, what if you're out and you're introduced to her and you're chatting, getting along, and then. And you're like, oh, my God, Angelina's so nice. And then at the end of the conversation, as she walks away, she goes, by the way, I have cheese in my pocket. And you realize that she listened to the pod.
Fortune Feimster
Listen. I feel like fools.
May Martin
Be more.
Tig Notaro
Would you kiss her fortune for listening to the podcast?
Fortune Feimster
I would close her hand.
May Martin
We kiss everyone who listens to the podcast.
Tig Notaro
Well, speak for yourself.
Fortune Feimster
I would do the tig kiss. Kiss my own hand.
Tig Notaro
What if we were at a party, totally eating chips and cattle? I like this.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
You turn and totally see me in a corner just making out with some girl.
May Martin
I.
Fortune Feimster
Wait, this is a scenario where you're not married, right?
Tig Notaro
Oh, whatever, whatever. You're just.
Fortune Feimster
And you're suddenly a party kisser.
Tig Notaro
I'm suddenly a part. That's march right there. Party kisser.
Fortune Feimster
Party kisser.
Tig Notaro
And you walk in the door.
Fortune Feimster
That is a fun shirt.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God.
Fortune Feimster
We have more shirts.
Tig Notaro
So many shirts. We need to open a store.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Party kisser is good.
Tig Notaro
That's really good.
Fortune Feimster
I feel like a lot of people would wear that.
Thomas Ouelette
For sure.
Fortune Feimster
If you were making out at a party. That would be wild fortune. You don't even like to touch people. I've had so many people come through my meet and greet lines going, may's coming here in, you know, whatever month. I'm going there. And then whenever Tick comes. But we know she. She's not gonna do meet and greets because she doesn't like to touch anybody.
Tig Notaro
She won't touch us.
May Martin
We don't want to meet anyone we can't touch.
Tig Notaro
Now, is it merch for. Also, I got cheese in my pocket.
Fortune Feimster
I don't know. Well, let's see how our listeners take to it.
Tig Notaro
Okay. You have one shirt, like, on the front, party kisser. And then on the back, it says, I got cheese in my pocket.
May Martin
I like that. Or. Or a little like. Like a stick. And you can do either. Either one. So if you're at a party and someone's propositioning you, you can either hold up, I have cheese in my pocket. Or a party kiss.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, we're just spitballing here.
Tig Notaro
We should probably spitball our merch another time.
May Martin
One time, I had a party, and afterwards, my. I said to my friend, did you have fun tonight? And he goes, yeah, I. I made out with. And then he said, this person.
Tig Notaro
Angelina Jolie.
May Martin
Yeah. I made out with so and so in the bathroom. And I went, me, too. And this woman had. Had made out with.
Fortune Feimster
She's a party kisser.
Tig Notaro
Did she have on the shirt?
Fortune Feimster
She.
May Martin
She was such a party kisser. Yeah. And I really.
Tig Notaro
I. Wow.
May Martin
I really respected it.
Fortune Feimster
I do enjoy hearing about a party kisser who is just kissing. Kissing everybody.
Tig Notaro
Oh, My God.
Fortune Feimster
Male and female and they pretty little ladies. And ladies and everything.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Are you not. Are you a party kisser? Fortune. I know. May is.
Fortune Feimster
No, no. Yeah, yeah. May's definitely. That's how why May used to throw parties, was to be a party kisser.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
May Martin
No.
Tig Notaro
Thomas, are you a party kisser?
Fortune Feimster
Back in the day, I was, but not anymore. Yeah, no one was kissing me at parties because I was by the cheese table, So I didn't even. Yeah, I wasn't being very open to that.
Tig Notaro
Huh.
May Martin
Yeah, you were sending off.
Fortune Feimster
That was too into the cheese. I really love a charcuterie board.
Tig Notaro
We know. Yeah. You know why?
Fortune Feimster
Because it has the word cooter in it.
Tig Notaro
That is exactly why. That's so funny, guys. How is it that we do it every single week? We deliver the goods every time on time.
Fortune Feimster
You and Stephanie never made out at a party.
May Martin
In the early days would be like.
Tig Notaro
I mean, our first kiss was in public at La Pobel in Hollywood.
Fortune Feimster
That sounds sexy.
Tig Notaro
That was when our photo was Cat. You know, our first kiss was captured in a picture.
May Martin
No.
Fortune Feimster
Wait, you don't think I really. I don't think I realized that wasn't a picture.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
May Martin
Wait, so like a paparazzi picture?
Tig Notaro
No, no.
Fortune Feimster
The paps for the paps getting you.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. They're like, oh, my God. Here's two unknowns. Let's grab this.
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Tig Notaro
I was writing my book and it was like 11 o' clock at night and we had a texting relationship for months and I was thinking do I have a crush on this person? And then she it was the first time. It was like six months into Texting that. She was like, oh, I'm out with my friends. Do you want to come join us? And I was like, oh, sure. And then I was like, oh, my God, I've been writing my book all day. I haven't showered. And then I was like, oh, she doesn't date women. It doesn't matter what I look like. So I just went down there all filthy, and I had this big Canadian wool sweater on with an eagle on the back. And I walk into La Pobelle, and she's sitting at this huge table with friends. They had just done improv next door at ucb. And she was wearing a huge Canadian sweater with an eagle. And hers was dark blue. Mine was. Mine was off white. And we were like, this is insane. And so we switch sweaters and. Do you know Armin Weitzman?
May Martin
No.
Fortune Feimster
Oh.
Tig Notaro
Anyway, he's part of that whole UCB world of long ago. And he was like, oh, my gosh. You two get together, I'll take your picture. And as soon as we touched each other, we started making out.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, my God.
May Martin
As in, like, as a joke?
Tig Notaro
No, like, we were. Yeah. And we immediately started kissing. And our first kiss is captured. And then we went to my car and made out all night. And then the next day is when she wrote me the 50, 000 page email saying, I'm not gay. I can't date you. And then I wrote, okay, dyke. And then.
May Martin
Oh, my.
Tig Notaro
The rest is.
Fortune Feimster
Gosh. Wait, but wait.
May Martin
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, so you started kissing in front of your friends? In front of the person?
Tig Notaro
In front of her friends.
May Martin
Oh, my God. And I wonder if before you arrived that night, if Stephanie had said to them, like, I don't know if I have a crush on this person.
Tig Notaro
No, no, she's not the kind of person. Wait, did she.
Fortune Feimster
Did one go in for the kiss?
Thomas Ouelette
Y.
Tig Notaro
Both.
Fortune Feimster
Wow.
Tig Notaro
And we are not those types of people. And we were just immediately like, party kissers. We did not have any cheese in our pockets. So that's.
Fortune Feimster
That's pretty sexy. That's hot. Yeah.
May Martin
And it wasn't like you were doing a bit for the photo. And then it got.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God. There was no bit. I was like, full blown crush on this person. Here, let me show you the. Can I show you the.
May Martin
Please.
Tig Notaro
The picture of our very first kiss. It's so insane. I can't even believe that we have this.
Fortune Feimster
That is pretty. That is pretty crazy.
Tig Notaro
It's so crazy. Okay, prepare yourselves. And here it comes.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, my. Look at all the hair you had.
Tig Notaro
That is, for a minute, I wasn't.
May Martin
Sure which one you were. And I.
Fortune Feimster
That you've never looked more Crane.
May Martin
You never look more Tom Cruise. There's something very Tom Cruise about the hair.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. Yeah. Wow.
May Martin
That is very romantic.
Tig Notaro
Okay, are you ready? This is the final thing to blow your mind. Okay.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And then you wanted to say, blow your cooters and pooters off.
Tig Notaro
I actually don't want to say that at all.
Fortune Feimster
Okay.
May Martin
I've never.
Tig Notaro
And. And you both. Wait. Yeah. Is that a saying?
Fortune Feimster
It is now.
Tig Notaro
Put on the merch list.
May Martin
Throw it on the list.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God.
Fortune Feimster
We need to start.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, we need to start a new list of we're gonna blow your cooters and cooters. Oh, my God. What is this episode?
Fortune Feimster
I don't know.
Tig Notaro
What are we doing with our time? My family is at basketball practice and they have dinner, and this is what I'm doing to make a living. But. So when I tell you this final part, you're gonna go, oh, come on. You knew. She knew. No.
Fortune Feimster
Okay.
Tig Notaro
I was just back in town. I had been in New York, I had been touring. I was back in town. And because I was in town, she said, come meet me. Not. She didn't say, come meet me. She was like, hey, I'm out with friends at La Puebelle and we're hanging out. Come meet us. It was Valentine's Day. No. Cute. Our anniversary is Valentine's Day.
Fortune Feimster
She was looking for the smooch.
Tig Notaro
No, she wasn't.
Fortune Feimster
She was. Yeah. She didn't realize it, but deep down, she was looking for a yes.
Tig Notaro
She's not a bar kisser, but on.
Fortune Feimster
Valentine's that night, after months of texting you, she wanted a smooch.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
She got it.
May Martin
I have a really specific question, but.
Tig Notaro
And now I lie down next to her with a CPAP machine on. But anyway, go ahead.
May Martin
So in your friendship before then, had you ever had any prolonged eye contact with a little twinkle in your eye? Because that's my favorite thing.
Tig Notaro
No. I think more than anything, anytime we went out to eat, we would just have so much fun. Talk forever, laugh, stay at the restaurant till for, like. Like, three or four hours. Then we'd go out into the parking lot, the sun would come up, that kind of stuff. And I would leave going, oh, my God, I think I have a crush on her.
Fortune Feimster
Well, yeah, that's a lot.
Tig Notaro
But I did. I didn't think she did. So I just went about my life and party. Kissed other people.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Until she married.
Fortune Feimster
Well, you Got a party kiss until she's ready to only party kiss you.
Tig Notaro
Yep, that's where we are.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. And look at you now.
May Martin
And now you're rejecting Angelina because you got cheese.
Fortune Feimster
You're real full of yourself.
Tig Notaro
I got a pocket full of cheese.
Fortune Feimster
Well, that was a fun treat. Thank you for sharing.
Tig Notaro
Thank you for listening. I'm happy to always tell the story.
Fortune Feimster
And yes, may, we should get to our question.
May Martin
Yeah, let's do it.
Fortune Feimster
Today's question asker is one of my dear friends. He's a comedian, an actor and radio.
Thomas Ouelette
Host who co host the Sirius XM show. What a joke with Papa and Fortune. That's right. He's my radio co host. His latest stand up special, Home Free is available to watch on Netflix. Tom Papa is asking today's question.
Tom Papa
Hey, handsome. Handsome. It's me, Tom Papa, your friend. Friend to all of you. Wish I could see your faces right now, but all I see is my face. I have a question for you. Have you ever at any point in your life, at any age, stolen something and then given that as a gift to someone else and you never told them that you stole it? Oh, you were stolen something. I don't know what your motivation is. I don't know what the situation is, but you needed a gift and you stole something and then you gave it to them and then you never, you never told them that it was stolen and they just enjoyed it and have it and hold it and you never said.
Tig Notaro
That'S the end. I love Tom.
May Martin
What a nice energy he has as a person. Yeah. How did you guys start working together? Fortune?
Fortune Feimster
I had met him through Aaron Foley, very funny comic here in LA who has been dear friends with Tom forever. And, and then he, Netflix wanted us, wanted him to do a radio show and he was like, you want to do this with me? And I didn't really know him, but I was like, yeah, let's do it. And so we're in our sixth, sixth year together.
May Martin
Wow.
Fortune Feimster
Doing this radio show. It's every Monday through Thursday, two hours a day.
Tig Notaro
Good Lord. I know.
Fortune Feimster
It's a lot of chatting. Wow. On channel 93 on SiriusXM if anybody wants to check it out.
May Martin
And does Ginger still listen?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, she still.
May Martin
That's so nice.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, she loves Tom. And he is a bread baker as well. I didn't mention that in his bio, but he's a fantastic bread maker.
May Martin
Really?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. He even just came out with his own line of bread baking products that have been doing really well for nambe.
Tig Notaro
Wow.
May Martin
I'm trying to think of a pun on papa somehow.
Fortune Feimster
And papa and breaking bread with papa says podcast.
May Martin
Oh, nice. Okay.
Fortune Feimster
Stealing anything? Well, I can tell you, I. I never stole again after my mom caught me when I was five stealing a piece of gum. And she made me go back in and be like, I'm so sorry. I said, it's good. I'll never do it again.
May Martin
And were they nice about it in the store or.
Fortune Feimster
They said, yeah, yeah, they were nice about it. But, you know, she wanted me to learn my lesson, and I did. So I didn't steal this, but I definitely was trying to take credit for something. I was riding my bike around the neighborhood when I was in elementary school, and somebody had thrown out a bunch of stuff on the side of the road. And one of the things they threw out was, like, crocheted, like, you know, bless his home or whatever kind of thing. And I was like, oh, my mom's birthday's coming up.
Tig Notaro
No way.
Fortune Feimster
And it even had, like, a little, like, you know, it had gotten some dings being in the trash.
Tig Notaro
And I was just like, bless this heart.
Fortune Feimster
Bless this home.
Thomas Ouelette
Is.
Fortune Feimster
This is gonna be a pretty sweet birthday present. So I took it from out of the trash and gave it to my mom, and I'm sure she was like, thanks, because you could tell that was used.
Tig Notaro
And abused.
May Martin
Did you give it a watch, a wash, or. No, Just.
Fortune Feimster
No.
Tig Notaro
Excellent question. May. Excellent question.
Fortune Feimster
I did not give it a wash. I was just like, this is. Here you go. Enjoy this. Yeah, I never. And I never asked her about that. I should ask her if she, you know, knew.
Tig Notaro
Did you see it around the house or did it go back in the trash?
Fortune Feimster
I think it went right back in the trash. Yeah. But I got credit for giving her a present.
Tig Notaro
I wonder if some other kid found it in your trash and was like, bless his home.
Fortune Feimster
My mom's going to love this. The traveling knitted or crocheted blesses home.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, I have a similar one to that that someone made me. Hold on one second.
May Martin
Oh, off she goes.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, there she goes.
Thomas Ouelette
Put that.
Tig Notaro
Huh? Oh, it's right there. What does that say?
Fortune Feimster
A handsome listener crochet. Is this crochet Fortune Marie?
May Martin
Nice.
Fortune Feimster
Backwards. But it looked just like this. It was a circ.
Tig Notaro
Oh, that's not backwards.
May Martin
For us, it's not backwards.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, for me it is. But a handsome listener made me this. And. But this is what the bless this home looked like. It was one of these circle things.
Tig Notaro
Oh, Thomas said it's cross stitch.
May Martin
What do we say? What Are we calling nerd? Said crochet.
Fortune Feimster
I said crochet. I don't know.
Thomas Ouelette
Cross stitch.
Tig Notaro
Are you calling Thomas a nerd?
Fortune Feimster
Not Thomas. Just knowing anything about anything.
May Martin
Is cross stitch like you put it on your wall. It's.
Thomas Ouelette
It's.
Fortune Feimster
It's just.
May Martin
It's not like a tea cozy or like a coaster or something?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, this is just like a.
Tig Notaro
So, wait, where do you have it hanging on your wall?
Fortune Feimster
I have it on my shelf when I decorate my home.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
This office. I hope to eventually have a bunch of, like, a shelf or something in here where I can put fun trinkets on it. Someone also gave me an alf. A stuffed Alf thing. Someone gave me a CRO. This was crocheted. An owl. A crocheted Hooters owl.
Tig Notaro
How do you know it was crochet?
Fortune Feimster
Adult.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, I knew that.
Fortune Feimster
I don't know.
Tig Notaro
And also, dream big. Look at you. Hoping one day you'll have a shelf. I know. Right here. Oh, my gosh.
Fortune Feimster
My fortune. Marie on a shelf. So, yeah, not stolen, but I feel like that's adjacent.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God. Then during Christmas, you can have ALF on a shelf.
May Martin
Oh, God, that's good.
Fortune Feimster
I love that.
May Martin
That's strong.
Fortune Feimster
I still got it on a shelf.
May Martin
Still got it.
Tig Notaro
Alpha on a shelf.
Fortune Feimster
That's pretty funny.
Tig Notaro
It's good.
Fortune Feimster
It's really, really good.
Tig Notaro
I gotta be honest.
Fortune Feimster
We might have to. At our next Holly Bobs. We might have to do that.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Alpha shelf.
Tig Notaro
And it also might be merch, where we can get. Are we gonna get an owl put.
Fortune Feimster
In a Santa suit?
May Martin
Gosh, Tig, have you ever regifted something or, like. Yeah. Or picked it out of the trash?
Tig Notaro
I was. I mean, I was at a. Some sort of industry, like, entertainment party long ago, and I was there with a comedian that has since gotten into trouble and not discussed much anymore. Anyway, we were. We were at this party having a ridiculous time, and then he. He dared me to go up to the bar and just, like, not hide, just walk up because they had all of the alcohol out, and he. He wanted, like, a bottle of scotch or something. And he was like, will you just casually walk up and just grab that bottle and then bring it over to me? And I was like, sure. Oh, my God. I went over and nobody saw me. And I just picked it up, walked over and handed it to him and we had a good laugh.
May Martin
This. You love a dare. I wanna.
Fortune Feimster
You wanna. You wanna see what you can make.
May Martin
Tig do I want to see what we can. Yeah. What we can Get.
Tig Notaro
Well, there has to be. You know, it's like a certain thing where, like, if I got caught, I wouldn't be scared to get caught because it's so ridiculous. Like, the jug of whiskey or whatever I took was like. And the fact that I didn't run off like that, I. The dare was go up and just casually pick that up, just bring it over to me. And so I guess that's stealing and giving something as a present.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, that's exactly what that is.
Fortune Feimster
Exactly it. Yes.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. He gifted it to himself.
Fortune Feimster
That's right. I probably drank it all, huh?
Tig Notaro
Yeah, he probably did that night. Yeah. Right then.
Fortune Feimster
That was a good one. What about you may.
May Martin
I can't think of. I can't think of a time I've stolen and gifted. But I have had a gift given to me that I later found out was stolen by. In grade seven, Ian Peach. Infamous. I was so excited because he came after school and it was snowing, and he gave me this necklace and he said specifically that it was from Tiffany's. Grade 7, 13 year old.
Thomas Ouelette
Right.
May Martin
But I'm like, he's his, you know, he's. His family's loaded. Like, he lived in this nice area. So I'm like, maybe he went to Tiffany's and got me a. I would.
Tig Notaro
Never have known what Tiffany's was grade.
May Martin
I told everyone in my class. I. I was so, like, I was just so deeply moved by it. And then the next time I was with him and all of his friends were there, I was like, Ian got me this. And like. And I was bragging about it and they all started laughing and they said he stole it from the mall from a little stand, like one of those crappy carts. Little carts, yeah.
Fortune Feimster
It wasn't from Tiffany's.
May Martin
No. And he stole it. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
That yen. Yeah.
May Martin
And I mean, if you could have seen the necklace, it was clearly not Tiffany.
Thomas Ouelette
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
It was like a diamond missing.
May Martin
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
One time I was at the Grove here in Los Angeles and it was right when the Grove opened and some friends and it was like, oh, my gosh, the Grove and these friends of mine were eating. But I mean, true. It was like, oh, my gosh, the Grove is finally open. And this group of friends of mine were eating at a restaurant there and they just told me the name of the restaurant. I had never been at the Grove. Like I said, it just opened. So I was running around in a panic. I was little late for dinner and. And I. There's this woman working at like a sunglasses cart or something. At the Grove. And I. And I just said, excuse me, do you know where whatever restaurant is? And she was so rude to me. And she goes, no, I don't hang out at the Grove. And I was like, oh, I'm sorry, but you work at a cart at the Grove. Like, I don't understand. Understand where the snobbery is. But it was. It made me laugh so hard because I did. I felt like a loser.
Fortune Feimster
I don't hang out at the Grove.
Tig Notaro
Sorry. I don't hang out at the Grove. I don't know where that is.
Fortune Feimster
I hang out of the Grove. Sometimes. I go to the Cheesecake Factory.
Tig Notaro
We know you do, girl.
Fortune Feimster
You know it. Adam's peanut butter fudge cheesecake.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. Anyway, I just. I always really. I think about that woman every time I see one of those cards. Like, she just made me feel like the biggest loser that I had. Lunch plans.
May Martin
It's so funny how, like, one interaction with a stranger in one sentence, they said, you'll. It'll stay with you your whole life.
Tig Notaro
Like, yeah.
May Martin
You'll think about her. Yeah. Once a month or something.
Tig Notaro
But I loved it.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, I loved it.
May Martin
It's like when I. When I saw that woman running for the. The subway, and she. She just about made it on, and she sort of bumped into this other woman. And then the woman goes, jesus, I've thought about it every day. Jesus. Jesus.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, I feel like that to have asked this question. Yeah. That Tom must have had something on the top of his dome.
May Martin
I know.
Tig Notaro
What? A few things.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, I'm the thief. That's what we're gonna find out. Oh, I did find a ring once. That.
Tig Notaro
Do you put quotes around find?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, I found it, and it clearly was like costume jewelry. But I was like, my mom's never gonna know that this is not real, these trash gifts. And I gave my mom another trash gift. I was like, man, I'm a great daughter. Look at all these gifts I'm giving my mom.
May Martin
Doesn't La Poo Belle mean the garbage? Does it, Thomas?
Tig Notaro
Did I have a garbage makeout? La Fubel means garbage.
Fortune Feimster
I thought it meant the cooter.
May Martin
No.
Tig Notaro
Gosh.
May Martin
And weird.
Fortune Feimster
I was at La Poo Bell Sounds like a vagina.
May Martin
Yeah. Poo bells.
Tig Notaro
Fortune.
Fortune Feimster
Are you talking to me?
May Martin
I'm gonna blow your cooters and poo bells off. Are you talking to me?
Tig Notaro
How on earth is that what you've come up with? I wouldn't have even come up with garbage.
Fortune Feimster
Poo bell doesn't sound like a vagina.
Tig Notaro
No, no. Okay, how does that sound? Like one.
Fortune Feimster
Like a poo poussay fridge. It's French.
May Martin
Jesus.
Fortune Feimster
Clearly you guys don't speak the language of love.
Tig Notaro
Clearly.
Fortune Feimster
I would like to touch la poo bill.
May Martin
I'm glad I was right about that. But we've had a. We've had a garbage theme, then trash gifts.
Tig Notaro
La poo belle garbage vagina.
May Martin
But imagine if someone cheese in your. Someone found your dumpster tits and tried to re gift them.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, yeah? Do you think so? Repurpose your dumpster.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
A couple of rodents.
Tig Notaro
Students. Drag them over to the house. They look familiar.
Fortune Feimster
There's those little nips.
May Martin
Or you see a rat with massive tits.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, good times. Everything about this episode made complete sense.
Tig Notaro
Wait, has Tom told us.
May Martin
No.
Tig Notaro
Okay, okay. Hit us, Tom.
Tom Papa
Well, my answer is no, of course. I never steal. I'm not a monster.
Fortune Feimster
Set us up.
Tom Papa
Yeah, I stole and now I'm lying. So now I'm not only a lying monster, I'm a stealing monster and a lying monster. A monster.
Fortune Feimster
I was little.
Tom Papa
I was small. And I was. I needed a gift from my grandmother. And my friend and I went down to town on our bikes and we went into a gift shop and I was looking around and I was like, like, ooh, that little, that little cup looks, looks quaint. And that looks grandmothery.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Tom Papa
And the guy, the shopkeeper, was kind of following us around. We were probably 10 and maybe 11, and we were looking around and then I saw this cup. And the, the owner was like, he knew we were up to no good because kids don't have money. Why are you in a gift shop? And I found, I, I, I, my friend distracted him and I stuck it in my shirt and I stole it.
Fortune Feimster
Wow.
Tom Papa
Yeah. And got on my bike and went home. And then I gave it to my grandmother. I gave it to my grandmother. And it's. She liked it. It was just a little thing. She liked it. And put it up on her shelf on her little grandma. You know, one of those little corner shelves. Grandma.
May Martin
It's pronounced Shallotsky looking.
Fortune Feimster
Things.
Tom Papa
Things with things. And that little mug sat on that shelf. And I would come over and visit even like later, like in college and stuff. And it was always there. And she would always point it out and I would just sit there and think, I stole that. But it made her happy.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Tom Papa
So was I wrong? I don't know. That's a whole nother question.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, my God.
Tom Papa
Guess what? This is it. That's the mug.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God. It was worth it.
Fortune Feimster
He stole it from his grandma, but.
Tig Notaro
I still have it.
Fortune Feimster
Wow.
Tom Papa
How much could it even have cost? I'm a monster.
Tig Notaro
He is. He's a terrible person.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
But it actually reminded me of another I. I did. I lit in a similar story like I did. I stole something. I'm just remembering. And gave it to my friend. There was a pet store that I used to go into to look at animals, just to, like, you know, just to see the cute little things.
May Martin
Oh, when you said that, I could just smell it. I could smell the sawdust and the aquariums and the poop and.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, yeah, I see this little kitten in a cage.
May Martin
Oh, no, guys.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, wait. You stole a kitten?
Tig Notaro
I opened the cage, put the kitten in my shirt, got on my bike and rode over to my friend's house. Oh, and gave her the kitten.
Thomas Ouelette
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
And it was the same color as her bed spread. And she named her kitten Bedspread and she kept it. Yeah. Yeah.
May Martin
Oh, my God. Bedspread lucked out.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Wow.
Thomas Ouelette
You stole a whole ass kitten.
Tig Notaro
Well, it was just. It was in a cage and it was just a little poof ball. Like, imagine if you saw. I didn't. You know, I couldn't. I. I knew I couldn't bring this kitten home. I don't know why I decided Kristen's mother would let her have it, but I was right. And then Bedspread's name became shortened to bs. Yeah.
May Martin
You stole an entire creature.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
Put it in my. My shirt and just.
Fortune Feimster
Kitty city.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Well, look at you, everybody.
Tig Notaro
I'm a monster, too. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
I'm a monster.
May Martin
I've called the police on all of you.
Fortune Feimster
All right, well, I just took stuff out of the trash.
May Martin
That's true.
Fortune Feimster
I'm just trash.
May Martin
I called Oscar the Grouch.
Tig Notaro
But you took something at a store. Gum.
Fortune Feimster
I did. When I was five.
May Martin
Well, let me just. To clarify, to clarify, I have stolen things. I just gifted them them.
Tig Notaro
You're what?
Fortune Feimster
My boob was itching.
Tig Notaro
Sorry, Fortune. Marie. Okay. Go to YouTube.
Fortune Feimster
I don't mean to rub that in your face.
Tig Notaro
Your boob. Please don't go to YouTube. Fortune.
Fortune Feimster
Just. I'm not scratching it now.
Tig Notaro
Okay, but you can rewind it. Okay. Or whatever you do, you go back for you. Go to YouTube. You can see Fortune scratching her.
Fortune Feimster
My dumpster. Tit.
Tig Notaro
Her dumpsters.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, you guys, look at us.
Tig Notaro
Look at us doing it.
Fortune Feimster
Look at us.
Tig Notaro
Yes, Yes.
Fortune Feimster
I have a snow globe here.
Tig Notaro
We're trying to wrap up the episode.
Fortune Feimster
Just showing you what I got.
Tig Notaro
All right, well, I'll tell you what I got.
Fortune Feimster
What do you got?
Tig Notaro
I am going to be in Tucson on February 26th. Santa Fe, February 27th. Ventura, California, February 28th. It just goes on and on and on. Largo, March 6th. Go to tignotaro.com and all show information will be on there. And sometimes dates do change, so apologies. And that's usually due to Star Trek shifting shooting dates. So my deep apologies if that does happen.
Fortune Feimster
That just happened with me. I had to reschedule. Yeah, and I deeply apologize for that as well. Yes, I would love people to spend Valentine's Day with me if they live in New York City.
Tig Notaro
If you're a bar kisser, come to.
Fortune Feimster
The show February 14th at the Beacon Theater. That's my big show coming up. Up. And then I'll have San Diego in early March. All the rescheduled dates are on my website. They have new dates in the spring into early summer. I'm coming to a lot of fun places, so check it out.
May Martin
I am my. Well, it's, it's coming. My tour is happening so soon. Starting in Oklahoma City, February 26 and then Houston on February 27 and Dallas on February 28. Then New Orleans, March 1 and go to MayMartin.net for all the rest of the shows.
Tig Notaro
There's.
May Martin
I'm going to 37 cities. A lot of them are selling out, which I'm so grateful. But some of them are not. So come to those ones, please. And I love everyone.
Fortune Feimster
Thank you.
Tig Notaro
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Fortune Feimster
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Tig Notaro
Isn't it Froucher Fowey?
Fortune Feimster
I don't know.
Tig Notaro
You don't know? Whatever. Dance till you die.
Fortune Feimster
Dance to die.
Thomas Ouelette
Frau Chifowie.
Tig Notaro
Until next time, keep it handsome.
Fortune Feimster
Handsome is hosted by me, Fortune Feimster Tignataro and May Martin. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Ouelette.
Thomas Ouelette
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Fortune Feimster
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May Martin
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Tom Papa
That was a headgum podcast.
Tig Notaro
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Thomas Ouelette
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Thomas Ouelette
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Tig Notaro
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Thomas Ouelette
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Original Air Date: February 3, 2026
Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin
Guest Question-Asker: Tom Papa
Episode Theme: Have you ever stolen something and given it as a gift (without telling the recipient)?
This episode of "Handsome" revolves around a mischievous query from comedian Tom Papa: Have you ever stolen something and gifted it to someone without their knowledge? Tig, Fortune, and Mae take this as their jumping-off point, swapping stories about questionable gifts, childhood mischief, fake jewelry, and the ethics of gifting something with a shady backstory. Along the way, they connect over hilarious tales and more than a few tangents about party behavior, driving mishaps, and famous crushes.
Come for the outright silliness; stay for the surprising moments of warmth, honesty, and relatable stories about human foibles and unexpected acts of affection—even if they sometimes involve minor larceny, cheese in unexpected places, or the mystery of a trash-picked gift.