"Weird Al" Yankovic asks about memorable movie moments

Summary

Handsome Podcast Episode Summary: "Weird Al" Yankovic Asks About Memorable Movie Moments

Release Date: February 4, 2025
Hosted by: Mae Martin, Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Produced by Thomas Willet

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1. Introduction and Recent Events

The episode opens with heartfelt discussions about the recent wildfires devastating parts of Los Angeles, including Altadena, Pasadena, Malibu, and the Palisades. The hosts share their personal experiences and the emotional toll these events have taken.

• Thomas Willet recounts the anxiety of watching the fire approach his home:

  "I was watching the planes come in one after another after another and drop water. And you could see it over hours going down, down, down." [02:37]

• Mae Martin highlights the suddenness and devastation:

  "Having friends who get, you know, you get the evacuation Notice. And then three hours later, your whole house is gone." [02:56]

• Tig Notaro shares her tough decision to return home from Toronto to support her family:

  "The second I walked in the door, the hugs that I got from my family. And that trip home, I think, was one of my greatest time spent with my family." [09:36]

2. Coping Mechanisms and Community Support

The hosts discuss how they've coped with the crisis, emphasizing the importance of community support and personal preparedness.

• Mae Martin describes her temporary relocation to Palm Springs to help a friend and engage in normal life amidst chaos:

  "It was nice being around kids and her dog, and they were all in, like, one hotel room." [11:34]

• Tig Notaro underscores the value of having an emergency plan:

  "Make an emergency bag too." [25:56]

• Thomas Willet talks about the resilience of the Los Angeles community:

  "The city was so amazing. All these friends were texting and looking out for each other." [05:59]

3. Mental Health and Preparedness

The conversation shifts to the psychological impacts of natural disasters and the necessity for mental health support.

• Mae Martin emphasizes the strain on therapists and the community:

  "We all need to reach out therapists right now." [15:48]

• Tig Notaro shares her decision to disconnect from social media to protect her mental health:

  "I do appreciate people reaching out and... I was a little more MIA because I had to kind of protect my sanity." [20:43]

4. Interactive Segment: "Weird Al" Yankovic's Question

The episode's highlight is a thoughtful and engaging Q&A session prompted by a question from the iconic musician and comedian, "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Question from "Weird Al" Yankovic:

"Is there one particular scene in a movie that you had a severe physical reaction to? I'm talking about a movie that made you laugh or cry or throw up or soil your underwear. Something that made you flip out. So what is the one movie scene that made you do that?" [30:23]

Personal Responses:

• Mae Martin reminisces about "Rocky Horror Picture Show," sharing a vivid childhood memory:

  "Frank N. Furter throws that cape off and... I was five when my parents showed it to me." [46:45]

• Thomas Willet discusses the lasting impact of "Carrie," recalling an intense reaction as a teenager:

  "I literally jumped out of my seat. I was out of my chair and yelling at the screen." [55:57]

• Tig Notaro humorously admits to not having seen some classic films:

  "I've never seen Pretty Woman." [38:57]

5. Reflections on Classic and Modern Cinema

The hosts delve deeper into how certain films have left indelible marks on them, both emotionally and psychologically.

• Thomas Willet connects his reaction to "Carrie" with personal experiences involving family:

  "Anytime I watch a movie where a mother or a grandmother or any older woman dies of cancer, that it kills me." [45:05]

• Mae Martin shares her aversion to men breaking down in movies, triggered by performances in films like "Interstellar" and "Terms of Endearment":

  "I cry when men break down in movies like, like Matthew McConaughey and Interstellar." [45:34]

6. Humorous Banter and Lighthearted Moments

Despite the heavy topics, the hosts maintain a light and humorous atmosphere through playful interactions and jokes.

• Mae Martin introduces the concept of "apocalypse sex," eliciting laughter and camaraderie:

  "Oh, my God, I was gonna say, I mean, John Travolta, you know, he. He ignited my fire as a kid." [25:00]

• Tig Notaro and Thomas Willet engage in funny exchanges about mooning and awkward moments, showcasing their chemistry:

  "People don't moon anymore." [53:01]

7. Upcoming Projects and Events

The episode concludes with hosts sharing their upcoming projects, tours, and encouraging listeners to attend their live shows.

• Tig Notaro announces live podcast events:

  "We have the handsome pod live in Nashville on April 6th, and then we will be also Handsome Pod Live in Austin, Texas on April 12th." [58:16]

• Mae Martin discusses her music album release and tour dates:

  "My music album is coming out... I'm doing four big music tour shows." [58:26]

Notable Quotes

• Mae Martin: "Apocalypse sex." [10:35]
• Tig Notaro: "You gotta get that little baby in there." [16:56]
• Thomas Willet: "I'm going to look at apocalyptic situations very differently now." [25:04]

Conclusion

This episode of the "Handsome" podcast masterfully balances serious discussions about natural disasters and personal resilience with lighthearted banter and interactive segments. The heartfelt storytelling coupled with humor provides listeners with an engaging and relatable experience, while the question from "Weird Al" Yankovic adds a unique and entertaining twist.

For those who haven't tuned in, this episode offers a compelling mix of personal anecdotes, community insights, and entertaining interactions that encapsulate the essence of the "Handsome" podcast.

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Transcript

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[Tig Notaro]

Cheers.

[Mae Martin]

Welcome to the Handsome Pod. I went. I. I came in strong. I'm one of your hosts, Mae Martin. What a true honor to be joined by. By the two amigos. Tig. Oh, I. I almost said your name.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, it's true. That is my name.

[Thomas Willet]

You just tell us. Tell people who we are.

[Mae Martin]

Tig Notaro and Fortune Fer. And of course, Thomas.

[Tig Notaro]

Thomas on the knobs.

[Thomas Willet]

Welcome to the Hands pod. Is that okay to say?

[Tig Notaro]

Thomas on the knobs.

[Mae Martin]

Thomas on the knobs.

[Thomas]

Sure.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Mae Martin]

How are you guys? Oh, man.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, it's been a. It's been a. It's been a.

[Thomas Willet]

It's been a. It's been a year so far. We have been dealing with a lot already in 2025, and many people have, especially in our Los Angeles area.

[Mae Martin]

I know. And the three of us haven't been together since the fires. We've been keeping in touch, checking in, but. But how are you holding up?

[Thomas Willet]

We're good. You know, I think that. God, that the fires, as of when we're taping right now, not as of when this is airing, are not fully put out yet, but much more contained. But there was a good. Gosh, how long has it been? Two. A week and a half?

[Tig Notaro]

It's been 10, 11 days.

[Thomas Willet]

11 days of just pure anxiety and tension and fear and devastation for all the people who've lost their homes in Altadena and Pasadena, Malibu, Palisades, I mean, been heartbreaking.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. The speed that it happened and having friends who get, you know, you get the evacuation Notice. And then three hours later, your whole house is gone. It's like the. It's really frightening, and it's been absolutely wild. And it got pretty close to your house, right. Fortune. Like, you could see it raging.

[Thomas Willet]

Yeah. There were two nights that were. I mean, listen, we're totally fine and lucky. There were two nights. It was really dicey. I started getting notifications from this app, watch duty, that everyone's been glued to and saying, like, it was coming towards the. The 405. And I went to get gas in our car, and when I came home, I saw a lot of red in the sky. So I ran up to our balcony, and just on the mountain right here, there was fire everywhere. And I was like, if that comes over this ridge, we're done. Yeah, we're done. This whole area is done. And so, Jackson, I started packing, and I just kept watching it. Watching it. But what happened on the original nights of the. The main fire is that the winds were like 100 miles an hour. It was unprecedented winds that you can't control anything. Luckily, on this night, the winds were not like that. So I watched the. The planes come in one after another after another and drop water. And you could see it over hours going down, down, down. They weren't able to have that aerial help those original nights, and that is what makes the difference. So thank God for our firefighters and all these people that are fighting the fire.

[Tig Notaro]

They.

[Thomas Willet]

I watched it in real time. Them save, like, the entire valley from. So that those efforts.

[Tig Notaro]

I can't even. I mean, I. I can imagine. I mean, I saw your picture, but seeing.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, man.

[Tig Notaro]

Fire on the ridge like that, the.

[Mae Martin]

Smoke in the air and the heat and. Yeah. Are you good in a crisis? Like, did you learn, like, that adrenaline when you're like. Like, how it's so rare that you're in that situation? How does your.

[Thomas Willet]

I was more calm than I thought I would be. It was just a matter of staying on top of it. The. The hardest thing for a lot of the people that lost their homes and some people didn't make it out is, you know, like you said, they had minutes to evacuate because everyone's like, oh, why didn't you, you know, do this? Or why don't you do that? I mean, these people are literally minutes getting in a car, getting out of there. So I was just trying to watch the fire on the app, watching on the ridge, just being aware.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

And having, like, a plan. And so many people were like, the city was so amazing. Every. All these friends were texting and looking out for each other and, yeah, what do you need? And are you good? And like, you know, LA gets a bad rap for no one caring. And, man, people kept showing up for everybody.

[Mae Martin]

That first night with the winds. And I was about to do an improv show with Stephanie in Atlanta, so we were like, let's all get. Meet up before the show. We'll meet at this restaurant. And we got there and there's a power outage. And I just had not been aware of the Santa Ana winds as a thing. I just didn't know about them. And. And there was this power outage and the waitress was like, I'm sure it'll come back in a minute. And it was like. But, like, the vibe was weird. And then, like, then we look outside and there's a. An electricity pole just, like swaying in the wind. Like it could fall at any minute on the buildings. And there's a kind of sense of panic. And Stephanie's like, huh, I'm just texting with Tig. And then she's like, a tree fell on our house and our, like, on our. And I was like, what? And then it just like the. We were like, we're all going to go our separate ways and go home and.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, well, we were on the phone on her way to meet up with you in Atlanta, and it was just a normal conversation. Like, let me call you from the car. And. And we're talking. And then my next call from her is, oh, my God, there was a powder out, a power outage, and there are light posts about to crush the comedy venue. Yeah, yeah. And then we get a text that. That tree, I mean, it's so massive, this eucalyptus tree, it is so massive. And yeah, that was just the very beginning of it. And. And the tree's still there, and all the traffic lights, the least of anybody's concerns right now. Is it down as a tree is down?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah. And then, so. So you were in Toronto and that must have felt some. So helpless and.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes, terrifying. It was. And you know, I was aware and I was watching the fires from Toronto and I understood the distance from our house, so. But I was watching. And then, yeah, the sunset fire started, which was roughly three miles from our house. And then my kids were having some anxiety, and then Stephanie's there having to wrangle three cats. It's not like a dog where you snap your finger and the dog comes. You know, the cat is. We have three scurrying around the house, doing whatever they want, whenever they want. And so it Was very emotional for me. I called the production and just said, I. There's no world I can be in another country on the other side of, you know, on the east coast, in another country while there's a fire a couple of miles away from our house with my kid. It was after their bedtime. They were so disoriented and confused and.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And. And just to go back to production, they were so, so compassionate. The executive producer said, tig, I can hear your soul and your voice. Give me five minutes and we'll get this confirmed for you to go home. And I was. It was so emotional and touching, and I flew home. And, man, the second I walked in the door, the hugs that I got from my family. And that trip home, I think, was one of my greatest time spent with my family. It was so special. But we drove Max and Finn to show them, you know, where the fire was, to give them perspective. So they. Because they were like, is our house gonna burn down? And.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And, you know, even as an adult, you feel that even if you're watching the news, you're like, are we burn?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And then, you know, then think about a child who has no perspective about where these fires are, what is going to happen. But, yeah, we gutted our house like crazy. I mean, with bedding and clothing and toys and stuffed animals, food and did our deliveries and distribution. I think that was also good for Max and Finn, too, to be a part of trying to help.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. You know, and all those cliches are true about making you realize what's important and, you know, feel grateful for the people and, you know, oh, my gosh, I ended up in. Well, I had, like, you know, you call up your ex, you have apocalypse sex, then you go. Then I got out of town. Yes, you must.

[Tig Notaro]

You gotta think fortune.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. You gotta think it's all. It's all going down.

[Tig Notaro]

Wait, you do.

[Thomas Willet]

Okay, let me write this down.

[Tig Notaro]

Apocalypse sex.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

But some of you, step one, step one, apocalypse.

[Tig Notaro]

And what does that look like? Is it.

[Thomas Willet]

Is it happy? Is it sad? Is it intense?

[Mae Martin]

It's sort of all three. It's like. It's like, you know, if this is our last day on Earth.

[Thomas Willet]

But it does make it count.

[Mae Martin]

I mean, that's just an extension, though, of, like, realizing who's important to you and what you want. So. And then I got out of town to Palm Springs with my friend Sabrina and her family, and it was so nice being around kids and her dog, and they were all in, like, one hotel room. And, you know, on Night one, the baby got a fever and the. And the five year old got an ear infection. They together. I'm just like, I. It was nice to be there for them and, and help them out and babysitting.

[Thomas Willet]

Oh, I thought you were going to say it was so nice to have my own room.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah. You know, I always thought I wanted a family and then. But then it's such a weird, surreal thing because all this craziness is going on and then. But also daily life continues and, and you know, we're. We're not that far from la. We're in Palm Springs. And then we, we took the. At the hotel. There was a drag brunch on the, like a few days into this excursion and so we took these like 6 year olds to this drag brunch and it was, it was incredible seeing like the joy of these drag queens who are so funny and we're like making the kids laugh and seeing the kids, you know, just the kids were like rivet. It was, I've never seen. It was like they'd seen God. Like their eyes were so big and. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Gaudy God.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Yeah. So.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, and Thomas, you were, you were hunkered down with a newborn.

[Mae Martin]

Oh my God.

[Thomas]

Our friends had a baby the Monday, so the day before the fires.

[Tig Notaro]

Holy.

[Thomas]

Their baby was born and so they were very fast to get a Airbnb and then they had some extra space, so my wife and I joined them there. So it was, it was very surreal being with this like newborn baby I got to hold and then watching like my city burn, you know, and just the contrast was crazy. But there was a lot of joy because of the baby. So it was, it was nice.

[Mae Martin]

Their first kid.

[Thomas]

Yeah, their first kid. Both the grandmas were there.

[Tig Notaro]

One of the grandmas is staying with you too?

[Thomas]

Yeah, staying.

[Tig Notaro]

That is incredible. That's incredible.

[Thomas]

One of their moms is like a birthing nurse, so she just knew everything about the baby. So like they felt secure to be away from their doctor and stuff because she was there.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Thomas]

And yeah, just getting to hold a newborn baby is like so special, but.

[Mae Martin]

It also like it similar to the pandemic. It's so confusing sorting through the information about what's safe and what's not and like the air quality and what's. And. And there's also so much just kind of personal choice about like, what do you feel comfortable with? Like, it. And it's so confusing to know what to do and. Yeah, I feel, I feel for people, pregnant people, people with newborns.

[Thomas Willet]

It's like, it's an interesting vibe in the city right now because there's a resilience there of like, what do people need? I'm going to do this, show up for people. And there's also a sadness.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

That I've. That I've seen in the last two weeks of just like, people. There's this look in their eyes of kind of like this. Just a forlornness, for lack of a better word.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Thomas Willet]

And, you know, luckily there's a lot of places in LA that are helping and people are dropping stuff off, but it's going to take a long time for a lot of these people to get on their feet. So, yeah, it was mentioning helping. Also helping places that are helping the animals. There are a lot of animals that were displaced in this and a lot of people that have animals who can't care for them right now or.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

They have to find an apartment or hotel room. They can't have their pets. And it affects so many things. It just trickles down.

[Tig Notaro]

So many different needs. So many different needs. I was saying before we started recording that of course I care about people and animals and. But there was something about seeing this animal hospital that had taken in an owl and a turtle and, you know, all these different. It's not just the family dog and cat with, you know, there's so many different. And when I saw that little turtle in its hospital nook in his gown, in his little turtle gown, I was like, when I get home, I'm going to the animal hospitals, you know?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Now I want to do a painting of a turtle in a hospital gown. I'm still on my animal paintings and. Yeah, that's got to be one. I haven't done a turtle yet.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

We all need to reach out therapists right now.

[Thomas Willet]

What'd you say?

[Mae Martin]

We all need. I feel all the therapists working overtime right now in la, like, just with everybody. And then the therapists are trying to sort it all out.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my gosh.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. What were you gonna say? Sorry, Stephanie.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh. Oh. Stephanie reached out to me the other day saying, you know, one of our friends who has a newborn baby, they didn't lose their house, but they were evacuated and they can't get back in for at least three months.

[Mae Martin]

And so I didn't even think about that.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Because it's toxic. Oh, my God.

[Tig Notaro]

And they have a dog, a cat, a newborn. And so they are moving into our office.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, nice.

[Tig Notaro]

But when Stephanie called and was like, hey, this is going on, I'm like, yeah, we gotta get that little baby in, in there. We, you know, I mean, of course I like offered the place to fortune or whoever needs it, but there's something about like, yeah, we gotta get that little baby in there.

[Mae Martin]

Baby safe and warm.

[Tig Notaro]

We gotta get that baby in there.

[Thomas Willet]

Well, you know, we definitely send love to everybody.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

Been affected and in one way or another.

[Mae Martin]

Just also so many people on our social media. So sweet being like, as soon as I heard about the fires, I thought about the handsome pot because I was.

[Thomas Willet]

Posting here and there, but you guys don't post as much. And so people will be like, what about Tig and May?

[Mae Martin]

It's so sweet.

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[Thomas]

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[Thomas Willet]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

When the fires hit, even though I'm not somebody that posts all the time, I felt a little depressed. Like I don't scroll too much on Instagram, but I did look at things and it was so depressing. I just needed to like, remove myself a bit because there was. And not to block it out and ignore it because we're donating. We are, you know, we're doing housing a family. We're doing anything and everything we can. But I just couldn't continue to look at the things on social media.

[Mae Martin]

Like in the old days, you'd have to watch that. You'd watch the news and then you.

[Tig Notaro]

At 5:00.

[Mae Martin]

Yes. And then you'd turn it off and you know, and now it's, it, it is constant and.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Yeah. But I, I, So I've been a little more MIA because I had to kind of protect my sanity. Yeah. Anyway, but I do appreciate people reaching out and.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, thank you. And we'll keep sharing, like places to.

[Thomas Willet]

Donate and, and huge shout out to again. Firefighters.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Thomas Willet]

Any of those pilots, any of the first responders, those people that.

[Mae Martin]

The incarcerated firefighters.

[Thomas Willet]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

I, I didn't know that that was a thing. And these incarcerated young men who are, you know, getting paid a dollar a day and they're risking their lives. I, we got to support them.

[Tig Notaro]

Well. And also, just a side note, that blows my mind about firefighters, police, even therapists. Your meaning there, day to day is getting up and walking towards devastation and negativity. And that's what they get up and do every. I mean, of course there's the charming day when they get a kitty out of the tree and whatever. But like their hard work, I mean, like getting up, you turn your alarm off and you go towards the negative.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

It's just, it's so intense and it's like it takes a very particular person that can, yeah. That can go do that.

[Thomas Willet]

It's crazy. But there's a, there's a foundation called the California Fire foundation, the Wildfire and Disaster Relief Fund. You can Google it. And that's a good place to support a lot of the disaster reliefs and the actual firefighters and their families. And there's many, many places to donate pet. You know, the Pasadena Humane Society, the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society. There's many place. Many personal GoFundMes. There's. There's so many things. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Also, I think you've said this tig about, like, world issues and things like, it again, brings home, like, without fighting climate change, like, none of the other things matter. Nothing else matters. This is like we. Like, this is so urgent. Yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You can have all of these political differences and anything, anything on the planet that's going on in personal lives, in politics, and it's like, yes, it's all important. However, if the planet is not intact, it doesn't matter at all. All.

[Mae Martin]

And all of those other issues are going to be exacerbated by natural disasters and things. So. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, like, who are we? I. I always feel like I don't know what I'm talking about and how are, you know, in 20 minutes, how are we going to, like, talk about the California fires? But I guess we just have our own experiences and, And I don't know, it's. It's nice talking to people and connecting.

[Tig Notaro]

I think it's. Yeah, I think people listening can connect. And people that don't live in LA have been watching it, just every second of it and, and feeling it. And.

[Mae Martin]

I mean, my mom was more scared that I went and had apocalypse sex than she was about the fire.

[Thomas Willet]

Oh, you told your mom?

[Mae Martin]

Well, I said, I'm going to. I'm going to, you know, my ex's house. You went, oh, my God. Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

She goes, I. I know your to do list and apocalypse, and that's number one. So I know what you're up to.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. I will say it wasn't like I was, you know, I went there to, to be safe with someone, with a car. I don't have a car. And, you know, it was, it was really nice to be.

[Tig Notaro]

To have a car.

[Mae Martin]

To have a.

[Thomas Willet]

For your car.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. She's like, I feel like you're using me for my car. You're like, damn straight. Wow.

[Thomas Willet]

I'm going to look at apocalyptic situations very differently now.

[Mae Martin]

Well, there's got to be some silver lining.

[Tig Notaro]

You know what I realized in all of this, too? When I was in Toronto and Stephanie was, like, trying to pack things that are important and maybe this is already a known thing. I was telling Stephanie when I went home, I bet it's good, because what I did was I went around our house. And I made a list of what is important to me. And I took a picture of the things and where they're located in our house. And then just to give her in case something happened when I left. But everything seems to be under control. It feels still like if you haven't done this or haven't thought to do it seems like it's a good idea to make a list, take those pictures, but also put the things in one place.

[Mae Martin]

Make an emergency bag too.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, and if there's an emergency that you have a closet in your garage or in your basement or in your hallway where you're like, okay, the left side of the closet is go stuff, you know, and if there's ever anything that happens, we know, we just open this closet and pack all that stuff and we're out the door. So you're not scrambling around going, oh, gosh, what's important? Where's my birth certificate? Where are the photo albums? You know, whatever it is.

[Thomas Willet]

We got this little pouch a couple years ago that's supposedly fireproof. I don't know where I keep all my, like important just documents.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

All that stuff is together in one of those pouches.

[Mae Martin]

My crystals. Okay, strap on.

[Thomas Willet]

Whoa.

[Mae Martin]

I'm just trying to keep it light. No, I'm joking. There's more.

[Tig Notaro]

No, you're not. No, you are not on that one. It's like, whoa.

[Thomas Willet]

Whoa. Are those. Is that it? Just crystals and.

[Mae Martin]

No. I'd have some astronaut ice cream. You know what else you want to talk about?

[Tig Notaro]

A prepared person. May Martin.

[Thomas Willet]

You know what Mae's doing in the apocalypse.

[Tig Notaro]

And then having some ice cream.

[Mae Martin]

You know, we, we. We joke and we laugh. But I did think if it was my last day on earth and I would want to. I would want to be having sex. It's like the most human thing. I don't know.

[Thomas Willet]

And having wanted to eat a cheeseburger.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, that too, for sure. Yeah, you just, you know. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Probably have some kale.

[Mae Martin]

Some kale.

[Tig Notaro]

I'd go out in a bang.

[Mae Martin]

You'd stroke a turtle and have some kale? Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

It takes probably stroking a turtle and having some last supper kale.

[Thomas Willet]

You're stroking a turtle and May's stroking something else.

[Tig Notaro]

Follow Mae to the ex girlfriend's car.

[Thomas Willet]

Wow.

[Tig Notaro]

And you will also get. Did you say outer space ice cream?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, I was just thinking about. I don't know why I said that about non perishable foods. And I thought astronauts have that freeze dried ice cream, you know, astronaut ice cream. So tasty. Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

You Think so, yeah.

[Mae Martin]

I remember getting it at the Science center in Toronto, and I liked it. You don't like it?

[Thomas Willet]

Not really.

[Mae Martin]

It's kind of a weird.

[Thomas Willet]

Weird dried ice cream.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Guys, good talk.

[Mae Martin]

Good talk.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, should we get to our questioner today?

[Thomas Willet]

Yes.

[Mae Martin]

Can I say this is. I mean, like, a foundational comedian for me. Like, I'm buzzing that this person sent a question. Today's questioner is a musician, a comedian, an actor, best known for his hilarious parody songs ranging from Amish paradise to Smells Like Nirvana to Yoda, and he has sold over 12 million albums, winning five Grammy awards along the way. I saw him. I saw him live in, like, an arena tour when I was about 12, and it was like seeing a comedian be a rock star. Like, people were acting like. Like, when he was singing, like, you know, a Michael Jackson song or whatever, it was like, the actual artist was. People were losing their minds, and I was like, yeah, he's always been a true hero of pure inane silliness. Weird Al Yankovic is asking today's question.

[Tig Notaro]

Or as I like to call him, Weird Albert.

[Mae Martin]

Where do you know him personally?

[Tig Notaro]

I do. That's how we got it.

[Mae Martin]

Stop.

[Tig Notaro]

I get a Christmas card from him every year.

[Mae Martin]

Stop it.

[Thomas Willet]

But how? He knows everybody.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, my God. This whole podcast is just me going, oh, my God. They. They know why you exist. And you guys being like, yeah, just text them today. Holy.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I don't know if his name's Albert, but I love elongating people's names.

[Mae Martin]

You know, can you tell him my detail?

[Tig Notaro]

He'll hear this.

[Mae Martin]

Okay. Okay. Okay, great.

[Tig Notaro]

We'll see to it.

[Thomas Willet]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Let's hear it.

[Weird Al Yankovic]

Hey, handsome pod, how you doing? It's your close personal friend Al Yankovic, and I have a question to posit to you. You can answer it individually and or collectively, but I really want to know. I really want to know. Is there one particular scene in a movie that you had a severe physical reaction to? I'm not talking about a movie that touched you deeply or made you think or changed your life. I'm talking about a movie that, you know, made you laugh or cry or throw up or soil your underwear. Something that made you flip out. So what is the one movie scene that made you do that?

[Mae Martin]

What a great question.

[Thomas Willet]

Wow.

[Tig Notaro]

It's not. It's not an easy one.

[Mae Martin]

No, it's not an easy one. And I. I will say, just to, like, gush about him more, I. I watched UHF a lot as a kid. The Weird Al movie, which I guess is in the 80s or early 90s. But my brother and I knew every line to that movie.

[Tig Notaro]

Let's hear some oh, gotcha, gotcha. And Al is listening.

[Mae Martin]

O we knew every line to that.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay, all right, fair enough.

[Mae Martin]

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[Mae Martin]

Cannot recommend highly enough if you're a Weird Al fan. The the biopic that he made with Daniel Radcliffe playing Weird Al. I don't know what I was expecting, but it was not what I was expecting in the best way it was so funny that they play it completely earnestly like that. This is a biopic of the greatest artist of our time. And it was incredible. And Dan Radcliffe was amazing.

[Thomas Willet]

I haven't seen it. I'll have to watch that.

[Mae Martin]

So funny. Conan O'Brien's in it. It's just ridiculous.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I feel like Al is one of those people. It's like across the board. So he has so much respect from so many people. And it's so cool to see with such a silly person.

[Mae Martin]

I know.

[Tig Notaro]

Like, the silliness is so overboard.

[Mae Martin]

It doesn't age because it's just pure silliness. It's. I feel the same way sometimes about Adam Sandler. Like his new stuff he's doing. I'm like, I know I'm gonna love it because it's just silly and Conan and like it's. It's relaxing because you're.

[Tig Notaro]

But there's also like a Mr. Rogers thing. Vibe about the love that people have or people like, I love Weird Al. Oh my God. You know, you see grown men and you see children and people are like, I love him.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

And he's just the nicest guy.

[Mae Martin]

Is he?

[Tig Notaro]

You know. Oh, yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Well, when I went to see him at that arena show, I always remember he came out into the audience and he's like sprinting up the aisle in this big arena and this like 10 year old boy is there and just gets. Stands up and steps in front of Al, like into the aisle. So Al's like running up and. And just stops and this boy just stands there and they just have eye contact and stare. Have a like staring cont. Like he just stares at him and they just both stand there staring for so long and it was so funny. And then the kid just goes and sits down and he was great. Yeah. Classic. Oh man. Okay. Visceral reaction. Cuz in the old days when people hadn't seen movies much, you know, and then you hear about people seeing the Exorcist and like Jaws. Yes.

[Thomas Willet]

And like, oh God, Jaws. People didn't go in the ocean for like a while.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. I mean, Jaws, like, was.

[Mae Martin]

Was that visceral for you or you like.

[Tig Notaro]

I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, was it not for you?

[Thomas Willet]

Yeah, it scared me, but not in a way where I was like, I'm never going to the ocean again.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, how old were you when you saw it?

[Thomas Willet]

Let me see. When it came out.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't remember it when it came because I don't think you were alive when it came out.

[Thomas Willet]

Maybe not. Oh yeah, 1975. I was not born yet.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

Jaws too is 78.

[Mae Martin]

So you, you saw it when it came out, Tig. And were you like, this is the most unsettling, primal.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, maybe if it came out now, that original version came out now, I'd be like, oh, this is. You know, you kind of can see behind the curtain a bit with no, but the score. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

And the. It is primal. Something like a threat that you can't really see in the depths of the unknown. And you're so vulnerable. You're like.

[Thomas Willet]

Damn it. Damn it. And it gets faster and louder.

[Mae Martin]

I wish the score was Fortune's version. Can we make. Can we dub over.

[Tig Notaro]

And we cut to her?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Every time the music kicks in, we cut to Fortune making that face. But yeah, it definitely. It was hard for me to even swim in a pool. I thought for sure when I had my back turned, somebody threw a great white shark in there.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Never did worse. Nobody.

[Thomas Willet]

That happens.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

And the. Wasn't the sequel called Just when you thought it was safe to get in the water? That was the tagline.

[Tig Notaro]

I have a great title. It's just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water, but it's not because the sharks are still there.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Part two.

[Thomas Willet]

I had movies that made me want to do things.

[Mae Martin]

Like what?

[Thomas Willet]

A League of their own. Made me want to be on a woman's baseball team.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

And in a house with a bunch of ladies.

[Mae Martin]

Right.

[Thomas Willet]

Pretty Woman made me want to be a high end escort in Beverly Hills.

[Mae Martin]

Really did it.

[Thomas Willet]

Big mistake. Huge.

[Tig Notaro]

But wait, did it make you want to?

[Thomas Willet]

No.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, come on. I don't know.

[Mae Martin]

Cuz the le and the jewelry scene.

[Thomas Willet]

That was iconic where she goes to reach for the necklace and he shuts the thing and she's like, I think.

[Mae Martin]

Guys, I have on the pod. We've.

[Tig Notaro]

I have really bad news.

[Thomas Willet]

What? What?

[Tig Notaro]

I've never seen Pretty Woman.

[Thomas Willet]

Oh my God.

[Mae Martin]

I have bad news too.

[Thomas Willet]

You haven't either.

[Mae Martin]

I don't think I have either.

[Tig Notaro]

Two against one. Two against one.

[Thomas Willet]

Guys, come on.

[Mae Martin]

A lot of these are like things that you see as a kid that really mess you up. And I was taken to see Jurassic park and in cinemas when I was like. I think I was four or something. I was way too little. And just at the moment where the footprints, like the footsteps come and the water's shaking and I. And I ran out of the movie theater and I remember standing by myself in the movie and that my dad took Quite a while to come out after me, but I was, I think I was four. What year did it come out?

[Tig Notaro]

That came out in like 1993, I would guess.

[Thomas Willet]

That was scary because it was, was that 93?

[Mae Martin]

Was it? Let's see. Jurassic Park. Yeah, 93.

[Thomas Willet]

It was like silent and then it's.

[Tig Notaro]

Like, yeah, well, that made a massive impact on me too. And I, I talked about it in my, my animated special. But I worked with children like at a daycare center at one point years ago, and this woman that I worked with that was maybe a little annoying and I didn't pay close attention to things when she talked to me. I was. I mean, if you think I'm out.

[Mae Martin]

Of like the pop culture loop.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, the pop culture loop you should have seen me in when I was 22.

[Thomas Willet]

Really.

[Tig Notaro]

So I'm sweeping up the room and the woman that I work with is talking non stop about these dinosaurs that, you know, scientists have brought back from extinction and now they're loose, running around killing people. I missed that. It was a movie. And I was like, wait, what? And she was like, yeah, you haven't heard about this? And I was like, no. And she was like, oh, it's called Jurassic Park. And I was like. And so there are actual dinosaurs? And she was like, yeah, this scientist.

[Mae Martin]

Found this amber and what she explained it made sense.

[Tig Notaro]

And I was like, what the hell are we doing just at this daycare center? We gotta get the hell outta here. But I went and saw it after that because I was so fascinated by the story she told me. And it terrified me. Absolutely terrified me.

[Mae Martin]

It's like a flawless movie too. This isn't a movie, but in Twin Peaks and the great David lynch just passed away, and there's a couple of David lynch moments that will stay with me. But Twin Peaks, when you see Bob in the Flash. Have you, do you. Have you seen it?

[Tig Notaro]

I haven't.

[Mae Martin]

Two against one. It's, it's. That's one of the most affecting and scary and amazing shows. But the mom of the murdered girl is remembering going into the girl's room and she's hugging someone and she's. We kind of go into her mind and she's remembering going into her daughter's room when her daughter was missing. And suddenly in her memory she sees this man crouched at the end of the bed with long hair and it's Bob. And he starts sort of crawling and she just starts screaming and I, I still can't. Like my whole body even now is like goosebumpy. Like, I hate Bob. And it's. Bob is so scary. And he was just a guy who worked on set. I think he was a janitor. And David lynch saw. And he had this long, greasy hair and cast him as the main villain who doesn't really speak much, but he appears and. Oh, my God, that is visceral. Like, if I'm home alone. And also at the very end of the final scene of that show. No spoilers. But it's someone who you love spoilers decades later. Yeah, but Agent Cooper, he's, like, looking in the mirror and then he starts going, where's Annie? Where's Annie? Like, and you go, oh, my God, he's bad, too. Bob got him, too. Anyway, whatever things like that.

[Tig Notaro]

Are he still alive?

[Mae Martin]

That's a great question.

[Tig Notaro]

Thank you.

[Mae Martin]

He's alive in me. And my.

[Tig Notaro]

What if he's a listener?

[Mae Martin]

Oh, my God. I don't want to invoke Bob. I don't want to. But the Shining as well, that is the idea of someone that you love trying to kill you and. And changing like that. That really was so scared. Those. Those hallways, those corridors.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I didn't see the Shining either.

[Mae Martin]

Don't. It's. I mean, it's amazing, but that's one of the.

[Tig Notaro]

Did you see it? Fortune?

[Thomas Willet]

I did, yeah. It's good.

[Tig Notaro]

Did it spook you?

[Thomas Willet]

I watched it much later in life. If I had watched it younger.

[Tig Notaro]

Huh.

[Thomas Willet]

I would think it would.

[Tig Notaro]

Didn't spook you as an adult.

[Thomas Willet]

No. Those older scary movies in these days, watching them don't really.

[Tig Notaro]

I watched some Albert Hitchcock movie. What is it, the Window or something?

[Mae Martin]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Is that what it's called?

[Mae Martin]

Rear Window.

[Tig Notaro]

Rear Window. I was doing it for you. I wasn't. I wasn't scared.

[Mae Martin]

Well, sometimes when you watch things that other things have been so derivative of that original thing, but then you watch the original thing and subsequent things have done it scarier now.

[Tig Notaro]

So. Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

When we're just in different times, we've been exposed to so much, but. Yeah, back then that stuff was so transformative. I remember watching the movie riding in cars with boys in college, and that one got me good.

[Mae Martin]

I'm putting it on my list. I've never seen it because.

[Thomas Willet]

Yeah, I was having some. I've talked about it before. My mom and I used to have a difficult relationship. And as I got older and moved away, it got a lot better. Now we're very close, but in college it was pretty fractured. And that. That movie got me. Got me good.

[Mae Martin]

Why? What's it about what's. What is it about a mother, Daughter.

[Thomas Willet]

About a mother with just kind of finding a mother, finding herself.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

And sometimes, you know, that took priority.

[Mae Martin]

Mm. Mm. So that hit you in the gut?

[Thomas Willet]

Hit me. I also get really. Anytime I watch a movie where a mother or a grandmother or any older woman dies of cancer, that it kills me. And I think that goes back to my grandmother. So I will. I will sob like. Like a baby. And it doesn't matter what movie it is if. If it's a woman of a certain age dying of cancer.

[Mae Martin]

I just. I cry when men break down in movies like, like Matthew McConaughey and Interstellar, when he cries or like Tom Cruise. Anytime he cries, it gets me.

[Tig Notaro]

In Terms of Endearment, when Deborah Winger is crying on her deathbed and saying to her son, who is this, like, probably 12 year old kid? And he's like, yeah, no, I know. I don't care. You know, that kind of vibe.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And she's just crying and she's like, listen to me. I know you love me. And when I die, don't beat yourself up. I know you love me.

[Mae Martin]

You know, oh, my God, I'm crying. And he's like, oh, but you can tell he cares.

[Tig Notaro]

He cares and he can't express it because he's got such a chip on his shoulder.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And her performance, I mean, it gives me goosebumps. She's so great.

[Mae Martin]

Can you remember the first movie that, like, gave you a boner? Like, Like, I like. That's a visceral.

[Thomas Willet]

Apocalyptic movie. What?

[Mae Martin]

That's a visceral physical reaction. And for me, it was Rock your Picture Show. I was five when my parents showed it to me, I was five. And I've talked about this before, but, yeah, it was the moment that Frank N. Furter throws that cape off and it's. And Tim. And he's in that corset and fishnets and starts striding down the hall and his hips moving and these high heels and I. I don't. I've never been the same. I've never been the same. I like. And then there's one particular moment where Rocky, the creature he's created, is. He's singing something. And then Frank N. Furter, like, runs his finger down Rocky's stomach, like. And Rocky has two belly buttons and runs it down to, like, the edge of his underwear. And I was like, well, I'll think about that tonight. I don't know why, but I'll store that moment.

[Thomas Willet]

And it was a visceral that tonight and forever.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

But I don't know why.

[Thomas Willet]

Good night.

[Mae Martin]

I follow the actor that played Good night.

[Thomas Willet]

Bette Midler.

[Mae Martin]

Rocky. Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah. The actor that played Rocky and Rocky Horror. I follow him on. On Instagram, Peter Hinwood. And he's. I love that he's still so passionate about Rocky Road Picture Show. We post pictures all the time of Tim Curry and, like, throwbacks, and he just seems like a cool God.

[Tig Notaro]

What if I was like that about Instant Family?

[Mae Martin]

What's Instant?

[Tig Notaro]

It's a movie I did with Mark Wahlberg and Rose Verne and Octavia Spencer. And I'm just constantly posting. I'm like, here I am with Rose and the craft table.

[Mae Martin]

Okay. I need to watch Instant Family because that is a foursome I didn't know I needed.

[Tig Notaro]

Heartwarming movie.

[Mae Martin]

Mark Wahlberg, Roseburn, you and Octavia Spencer.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

That. What a quad.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

And the. And you did another romcom with the Reese and Ashton. Yeah, that's right.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. But it. It feels more random to do Instant Family because it's not like a. A classic rom com, you know, it's like the adoption family story.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. There was some other thing that was. Oh, I was gonna say, I mean, John Travolta, you know, he. He ignited my fire as a kid.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, yeah, for sure.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Star wars, when he uses his lightsaber to cut open the belly of the tauntaun.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes. Yes. And it was like shrimp.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

Falling out.

[Mae Martin]

Who. What production designer made that choice that the insides look like big maggots? Oh, my Christ.

[Tig Notaro]

I thought it looked like raw shrimp. Jumbo shrimp.

[Mae Martin]

Yes, it did.

[Tig Notaro]

Just pouring out. Thomas, will you look up what came out of the tauntaun?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. And how they. And how they did it, because maybe I'm.

[Tig Notaro]

How they did it.

[Mae Martin]

Yes, please.

[Tig Notaro]

Could you look up how the special effects did that scene?

[Mae Martin]

That's Han Solo that crawls in there. I want to know how. How Harrison felt about crawling into that raw shrimp.

[Thomas Willet]

I don't know any Star wars trivia.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I was a Star wars nut.

[Thomas Willet]

Not this gal.

[Mae Martin]

Should the three of us go to Disney together?

[Tig Notaro]

Probably, yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

Why not?

[Mae Martin]

Are you. Do you like rides?

[Tig Notaro]

No.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. How are you guys on ride?

[Tig Notaro]

I like a ride like Space Mountain I'm good with. Or like, like a little roller coaster that is kind of fast. And whoop, here comes a hill.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

But not like, will we be alive.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

At the end, will our vertebrae from a heart.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

Like a heart attack.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. I'm kind of the Same.

[Thomas Willet]

Yeah. I'm not a roller coaster person at all. But for Chris Cole, for his birthday, he did the thing where you can go to Six Flags and ride all the roller coasters you want all day. And I just wanted to be a good friend, but I hate roller coasters. But for, like, a whole afternoon, I'm, like, literally passing out green.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, my God. I know what we can do. And Thomas, put this on the list. We can go to Disneyland and just get, like, little, you know, Disney hats and eat cotton candy and just walk around.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, just hang out.

[Thomas Willet]

Soak up the box. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Carry a balloon.

[Mae Martin]

I kind of do want to go with you guys. Just for the photos. Yeah, I want the photos of us with Mickey and, like.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. And Minnie with her feet shoved into those high heels. Thomas, do you have an answer about what was in the Tauntaun?

[Thomas]

There is no definitive answer. Online people speculate that it could be kind of long balloons that are filled with goo or pig intestines.

[Tig Notaro]

No. Raw jumbo shrimp.

[Mae Martin]

No one's saying jumbo shrimp.

[Tig Notaro]

Wow, wow, wow.

[Mae Martin]

We stumbled upon the messy magic.

[Thomas Willet]

What a podcast.

[Tig Notaro]

What a podcast.

[Thomas Willet]

Really learned a lot about each other.

[Mae Martin]

There is a. Is his name Emo Philip?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, there is in.

[Mae Martin]

In uhf, in the. In Weird Al's uhf, there's a section where Emo Phillips keeps getting fingers and limbs cut off. And the blood is just in that way, that comedy blood that we don't see anymore. Just the comedy blood spurting from all of us. And he's trying to, I think, still do it, still present a TV show while he's spurting everywhere.

[Tig Notaro]

That was so you could paint comedy blood splurts.

[Mae Martin]

That's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You should make a painting of all the things that we don't see anymore. And one of the things that I bring up often is mooning. Nobody moons anymore.

[Thomas Willet]

I was just talking about this yesterday.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Mooning quicksand.

[Thomas Willet]

Because I was. I'm writing a new act, and in one of my stories, that's not. I don't talk about it, but my friend moon someone in the car ride home. And my other friend said, yeah, people don't really moon anymore.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, people don't moon.

[Mae Martin]

I feel like we've talked about it. And then on social media, people were like, well, because that's sexual assault. And I was like, oh, come on. Yeah, we're talking about mooning.

[Thomas Willet]

Back in the 80s, it was just a good time. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

In the 70s, it was a grand old time. But. But, yes, we've lived and we've learned. But we still could use a painting of. You know, I always picture mooning out of a school bus window because that was the first time I saw it. Yeah, 70s people would just like the bus would peel out of the school parking lot and you'd see moons.

[Thomas Willet]

Moons.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

I love it.

[Tig Notaro]

I am firmly against sexual assault and harassment.

[Thomas Willet]

For sure.

[Mae Martin]

Me too.

[Tig Notaro]

I, I do love a moon.

[Mae Martin]

A comedy moon. Like, like I think I've said when I was super down this summer and going through, you know, tough times and my friend was like being so earnestly helpful and then she went to the bathroom and she came back completely naked. Oh, yeah, it was the best joke. It made me laugh so hard. It was so unexpected. Just she sprinted around the kitchen.

[Tig Notaro]

You know, I, I was just realizing, I love a moon, but it's not as fun when you see an ass crack.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, wait, that's such a crucial part of the moon.

[Tig Notaro]

No, I know, but I'm saying, like, if somebody's pants are hanging down low.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, I see what you mean. By accident. Oh, no, that's not as fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And look, I've been guilty of that before in my life as well. But I'm just saying a full moon is, is what I'm looking for out of a school bus.

[Mae Martin]

Sorted back in the 90s with low, low rise jeans. Low rise skinny jeans. There were a lot of butt cracks. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And the songs peeking out.

[Thomas Willet]

Oh, yeah.

[Mae Martin]

We haven't heard Al's answer.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh my gosh, that's right. What is Al's answer?

[Weird Al Yankovic]

Okay, I'll tell you mine. I'll tell you mine. I have to say it's the 1976 movie Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma. I was a teenager going to the movie theater with my friends. And I mean, at the end of the movie, the scene in the graveyard, that's been duplicated and parodied so many times. In fact, I did a parody of it in my biopic. But the first time I saw it, it was, it kind of freaked me out. In fact, I remember the scene, of course, is one the other. Carrie's friend is placing a flower on Carrie's grave and Carrie's hand reaches up out of the grave and grabs her friend. And I remember at the time I literally jumped out of my seat. I was out of my chair and yelling at the screen, which is something that I've never done since that apparently as a 16 year old Alfred Yankovic, that really freaked me out. So thank you for listening and keep in touch.

[Mae Martin]

I will. Al of course.

[Tig Notaro]

It's Alfred Yankovic.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Look at me calling him Albert. I don't deserve his Christmas cards.

[Thomas Willet]

Oh, my God. Yeah. Those scary movies leave a mark.

[Mae Martin]

Jumping out of your seat is such a. What a compliment to the filmmakers that, like, boy, like to be so electrified that you're just.

[Tig Notaro]

I forgot to mention, Thomas is also a massive Al fan.

[Mae Martin]

Are you, Thomas?

[Thomas]

Oh, yeah. I had all the tapes.

[Mae Martin]

Me too.

[Thomas]

Yeah. Just grew up thinking that was a fun. His American Pie parody. I had that memorized.

[Mae Martin]

Me too. Me too. And. And also. Yeah, just that era, I guess we were similar ages when. When Star Wars Episode 1 came out and. And that song came and it was like anyone singing those songs at school kind of got the cred of. As if they'd written those Weird Al songs. Like, you were. It was. You were the funny, cool.

[Thomas]

Matthew Burdick knew all the songs and it made him so cool.

[Mae Martin]

Yes. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, what a treat. It was so great to reconnect with you all after the. Enduring the fires and to have a great question from Al. Weird Al.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Always uplifting to talk to you guys. And a pledge.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. And does anybody have anything coming up?

[Thomas Willet]

I'm working on my new hour, so if anyone lives in Ontario, California, or Oxnard, California, Irvine, California, or Huntsville, Alabama, I'm doing a bunch of club dates, very intimate shows. So there will be new material, crowd work, all that good stuff. And then my tour starts after that in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, and a lot more other dates on my website.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, I'll say right now that we have the handsome pod live in Nashville on April 6th, and then we will be also Handsome Pod Live in Austin, Texas on April 12th.

[Thomas Willet]

And those are both like 90 sold, so.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. So you better get on it. Get on.

[Thomas Willet]

These are big theaters, too. This is gonna be really cool.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Thomas Willet]

Awesome. One's like 2800 cedar.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm also going to be in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, June 14th.

[Mae Martin]

It feels so weird that it's finally happening, but my music album is coming out. I think when this airs, the single will be out, maybe even two singles. So it's always helpful if you stream those on Spotify, if you like them. And then I'm doing four big music tour shows, which is so bizarre for me because I'm not a musician and I'm really nervous and they're big venues, so please come.

[Thomas Willet]

Nice.

[Mae Martin]

February 26th in LA, and I'm going to play the whole album with a band and I'm going to play a couple covers as well. So March first in Toronto at Danforth Music Hall, March 4th in New York, and then March 9th in London. I haven't been back to England in so long. So please come out to those shows. There's maybe a special guest or two and you'll see me like muddling through, playing live for the first time.

[Tig Notaro]

And will you be getting a haircut from Debbie?

[Mae Martin]

Oh my God, yes. Oh my God. It didn't even occur to me, but yes. I simply must.

[Tig Notaro]

You simply must.

[Mae Martin]

I'm gonna get her to come to the show too.

[Thomas Willet]

Get a little video.

[Tig Notaro]

We could post a video of you getting a haircut from Debbie.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Tig Notaro]

Tell her hello. Yeah, and I guess until next time, keep it handsome.

[Mae Martin]

Handsome Handsome is hosted by me, Mae Martin, Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willet. Email [e-mail] and please follow us on social media at Handsome Pod.

[Thomas Willet]

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