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Hello there, handsome little ladies. It is your friend Tig Notaro. I wanted to let you know that there are a few final tickets available for my Peekskill New York show March 8th and a handful of tickets left for the Waterville, Maine show on March 10th. See you there.
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Welcome to Handsome. Here we are on a rainy evening, all of us in the same room. I am your dear friend, Mae Martin. I'm joined, of course, by my dear friends. Well, it's me, your great, great, great, great, great, great, wonderful grandfather, Tig Motaro. Hello.
And I'm Fortune Feimster. Great to be here with you, Grandpa Tig. What a joy. Guys, it's just me. Grandpa. Oh, my God. Tell me about the good old days. Oh, you judded it. That sure did. You judded it, girl. I judded it up for you. What's your favorite jud song? The one I just sang. Okay. I love... Are you going to hold my hand? Yeah, yeah, I was. Okay. Love will be...
build a bridge. Two, three. Tween. Tween. You know this song? No, and I didn't know. Oh, two against one. When you said Judded Up, I was like, Judd Apatow. Judd Apatow. That's his hit song. Of course. If you wouldn't know the Judds, you would think, what is Judded Up mean? Do you think if we did karaoke together, there would always be one person just sitting like,
Yeah. Put it on the list. 1,000%. We should do one of those karaoke rooms. Yes. Oh, my God. What is that? You can go to Koreatown, and you can just rent a room, and it's your own private room for you and up to, I don't know, 12 friends. Why don't you just stay home?
Oh yeah, you get the machine, they bring you drinks. Yeah, it's a whole thing. Make some drinks at home. I know you're right. We got a disco light up here at the office. But you don't have a big selection of songs probably. Love can. Oh, is it can build a bridge? I think I sang will build a bridge. No, it's love can. Can, okay. But it is tween. It is tween. No, I think it is between. Between.
- They're kind of silent. - I mean, if you said tween, nobody's gonna scratch the record. - I think the B's a little silent. And you just hear tween. - Wait, can I hear you say between with the most silent B you can do where you still hear the B. So it's like just the slightest touch of a B.
tween i didn't hear it no there's a little pop i i heard it but do you know um why not me no no grandpa that's my favorite jed song okay yeah there you go well and real quick oh on why not me yeah the way that they sing why not me i always sing just to amuse myself why know me
Which is Wynonna and Naomi. Wow. Who are the Jets. Okay. So I sing, Wynonna and Naomi.
Anyway. May's like, what are y'all talking about? I like getting an insight into. Into what? I don't know. Your culture. Our southern side coming out. Are the Judds sisters? I can picture one of them red hair. Mother, daughter. Naomi was the mom. Yeah. And Winona is the daughter. And then their other family.
member Ashley who there I can get on board there you go because I'm thinking her and Morgan Freeman yeah ring of like crime thriller yeah that's where you lost me really what those were great so good I'm not saying they're bad I just you didn't watch them ever double jeopardy do you not remember you're talking to two against one great movie right I don't watch a lot of TV or film that's true I listen to a lot of music right Ashley Judd was the like crime
movie gal of our childhood. How come she never branched out of that, really? You know what I mean? She was great. Double Jeopardy, I felt like when I watched it, I was like, I understand the legal system and how to get away with murder. It did make me realize that you can't be tried for the same crime twice. That's a huge loophole in the system. The only loophole.
Yeah. Yeah. And then we're good. So what else did you learn on these crime shows or.
Okay, I learned that you always want to be friends with the Morgan Freeman. Yes. Well, it's basically if any mysterious handsome stranger comes into your life. Hello. This guy turns up. Obviously don't trust him. Right. And usually, Ashley Judd, there would come up. Oh, what I learned is there comes a point like a kind of rock bottom breaking point where you go.
I'm not taking any more of this shit. That's right. You go, you know what? I can play this game. And then you put like a fake dead body and then the killer thinks he's got you and really you're behind him. Fuck.
Yeah, because you've reached your breaking point. You've reached your breaking point and you've become... It happens a lot in J-Lo movie. J-Lo's action thrillers as well. But no, the one where she's like, enough. Are you thinking of enough? I thought you were just saying... No, enough. The movie Enough. She's like, I'm not gonna... You're never gonna touch me again. Yeah. And then she learns kickboxing and... This is Judd? No. J-Lo. Oh, okay. Yeah.
Can we go back to the judge? This is one of our more random starts to the podcast. And we get pretty random. I disagree. Guys, I went to on a date. Yeah, I went on a date. You're in a relationship. Yeah, with, you know, it was with the woman that you're heavily involved with. I took her out on a date and we went to this thing. I googled it. It was called the Museum of Love. Immersive experience. You've been there?
No, but is this by love? Do you mean like sex?
I was hoping, but no. And it's... These people are running a racket. And I will say I had a great time and you should check it out. You love a racket. I love a racket. I love... And they are running one. Hey, this is a racket. Let me preface this by... Let me preface this by... I had a great time. I had an absolutely wonderful time. Got completely bamboozled. Chin out of chin. I love to throw money at something that is very cheaply organized. Yeah, it was like you go in and then... You basically are walking through and then...
doing little activities with your partner and like answering questions and stuff. And so all these couples are moving through it and it's supposed to bring you closer and make you like think about your relation stuff. And so the couple in front of us, we're kind of like getting a little bored and all these stations are very similar. But we're noticing that like, so they'd go into a little hut where one thing was you had to stare into each other's eyes for four whole minutes. That is a long time. It's a long time. And they measure your pulse.
to see your heart rate and your heart rate syncs up with each other. Anyway, but we go in everything after this couple in front of us and we're like, they smell like a deep fryer, this couple. They smell like chips. Like, they smell like French fries. Like French fries. What are you talking? French fries? Yeah, we're talking French fries.
Okay, we're talking french fries. Maybe chicken nuggets, whatever. Chips for all our English listeners. Yeah, chips. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For those of you at home listening. Yeah. Thanks, grandma. Chips off a potato. Absolutely. Great grandmother. So we go into like the little huts and every time we're like, man. And also we're interested in their dynamic because they're not really having fun. Oh, yeah. These two. Like they're doing the things, but they're not really laughing. Yeah. And then we're in the final episode.
room and the activity is you go in and and you talk about if you were stranded on an island what items would you bring and you're supposed to kind of debate it and then the couple before you has left you a note that has like relationship advice on it on how to handle conflicts we're like oh shit this chippy couple is gonna leave us a note it's gonna have grease on the note yeah so we open it up and it's very strange and it says
Hey, it's two people's different handwriting. And the first person's like, hey, just agree with whatever your partner says. Just say yes to whatever. And then the second person's like,
Yeah, just, you know, like compromise and things like that. And then it's signed, two board, this is the mystery of my life, two board ex-Panda Express employees. Oh, they smell like orange chicken. They smell like orange chicken. So maybe they had just come from work or they had just- Wait, you know exactly the meal? I love Panda Express. Do you really? I love Panda Express. Yes, yes.
I'm alive, aren't I? Duh. What else am I going to eat? Aren't chickens their signature dish? But yeah, they did. And we were like, okay, so did they come directly from quitting Panda Express? Like they quit and like, yeah, we're in a relationship. And this is the biggest mystery of your life. Yes.
So even looking at my face right now, how could they possibly be bored? I know. Anyway, I just keep thinking about them and being like, it sounds to me like they weren't taking this museum of love seriously. I mean, they spent close to two hours in there wandering, doing each station. And what does this cost? It was about 60 bucks each. Wow. I know, not cheap. And
-For two hours? -These grubby little cards that you're going through, but it was great. I will say, sorry, just to clarify again, it was great and I really support them. -No snacks or anything included?
They had a kettle that you could plug in yourself and make a tea and they had some tea bags there. Wow. Delicious. Yeah. Oh my God. All for $60? Not one bowl of cheeses. Not one bowl of cheeses. And then at the end, there was like a photo booth. And so I go to...
the woman I'm heavily involved with, I was like, oh, we got to take a picture. And she goes, oh, we already have a photo booth pictures. Let's get out of here. And I go very quiet all the way to the car. You were bummed out to not get that pic. Yeah. I was like, you get more than one photo booth. Yeah. And like, I've always, I've already been captured on film before. Get in the car. I know. It's like I paid $60 for this experience. I want to come over. I want my freaking photo booth picture. But then, so in the car, I was like, oh,
You didn't want the picture because my hair is very puffy today. That's where I thought, is my hair puffy today? You were taking it personal. And she was like, oh man, I'm just so hungry. I want to get to the restaurant. She's like, that Panda Express got me wanting some of that orange chicken, baby. Are you a Panda Express fan? Yeah, I do like, I like cheap Chinese food. It's pretty tasty. It's like candied Chinese food. It's sweet. It's candied pre-diarrhea. I hate it.
How dare you? Well, that's all I think about with places like that. I mean, you wouldn't like it for sure. No. But to clarify, it's great. I love it.
I used to watch like friends and TV shows like that in Canada. This is who kept it on the air. Yeah. And in Canada, you never got those like cardboard Chinese food things. Oh, yeah. And I always seem out of the little the little things that fold up. Yeah. So American. So cool. That's American. Yeah. Like they don't have that in Canada. Oh, really? How do you package Chinese?
food i know as we're saying styrofoam yeah styrofoam but i'm suddenly like are we gonna get a bunch of people commenting and they do wait a minute it's solely yeah maybe i've seen them in england but definitely not canada canada wake up do you know that in canada milk comes in bags
What? Are you trying to make us throw up? I have been to a Whole Foods in Canada Yeah yeah give me a large bag of milk That's what it is So instead of getting like a carton of milk It's plastic bags And you can freeze them And then you put one in like your plastic jug Why bother? Yeah I know
That's still, but they also have the curtains. Now they do. Oh, but back in the day it was not so much. Well, sure. I mean, we can be like, am I remembering my childhood correctly? We could be like, we only get milk in a bottle and it gets delivered to our door. And it's like, still, well, no, but that did happen once. Can you imagine those days of getting milk delivered? Doesn't that seem wild? My grandma got it. When I would go to England, she would still get milk and, and yeah.
There's a company that delivers fresh almond milk. Oh, I would like that. Okay, girl. I'll have to get the deets.
And what they show up with like a little jug. That's correct. Whoa. In a plastic bag. Yeah. No. No, it's in a glass bottle. Because that, the like freshly made stuff doesn't last as long, right? So you got to buy it more frequently. Yeah, because there's not like preservatives and all the chemicals and stuff. Yeah. How are they making milk from nuts then?
They juice them nuts. Juice them nuts. Juice them nuts, mate.
who don't know about juicing them nuts oh i don't know how to juice my i know how to juice nuts no hey if anyone knows how to juice nuts this guy on this podcast knows how to juice nuts i have never i never known what to do with i've made cashew milk before and it takes forever in a day cashew milk it takes a long you're talking about milking to make milk alternatives
May is talking about how they don't know what to do with testicles. I did throw that in there. Oh, I didn't catch that jump. Well, I know. I was right here in the middle. And this here was catching how to make a milk alternative. And this here was like, I don't know what to do with testicles. I didn't know that we had gone to testicles. Well, we didn't. What do you do with testicles? What did you do to those testicles? I don't. What seems weird to me is like.
It seems to me like every man has very different feelings about his testicles and what he wants done with. Some people like love it and other people are like, don't go near them or touch them. So it's very like. They're sensitive, right? Yes. I haven't touched testicles. Yeah. Are you asking for a friend? Yeah. I'm doing some personal research for a friend. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Actually, Jacqueline Novak in her special has a great bit about how when you're growing up, people tell you, and play with the balls. And she's like, play with the balls? What does that mean? It's such a broad thing. But yeah, no, I've never known. I guess you've got to just communicate. You've got to say, hey, do you want me to? Let's pretend these are the balls. Yeah. Okay. And this is the wiener. Fortune! Guys! Yes!
So you're just like, look at her playing. She's like a little kitten. I know. I would be like, it would be like a cat toy. Like me. Wait now, fortune. I have a question. And are you doing that? Would you? Yeah. That's my idea of playing with them. It's kind of knocking them. You know, like that game where you knock the ball and then they hit each other. Yeah. That's what I think of.
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would you be playing with the balls in that sweater?
Would that sweater have lured the guy? So for those of you not watching our YouTube channel right now. How dare you, first of all. How dare you. I'm in a lovely puffy cardigan. Playing? A little masculine. Probably a man's not going to be asking me to play with his balls in this cardigan. Not only do you have this cardigan on, but you also have a little hanger. Please tell me.
Please tell me what I'm looking like. Are you actually making fun of how fortune looks? I have little hanger bumps. I have hanger bumps on my shoulders. And I'm picturing you playing with these testicles. With these two pointy. And this guy's going, how did I get in this situation?
And I'm over here swapping at it like a cat toy. No claws. Yeah, I have not seen my way around a wiener. Fortune. I'm just saying. Fortune Marie. That's not my middle name. I don't care. What is your middle name? Fortune is my middle name. Oh, of course. Yeah. And your first name? Emily. Emily.
Emily Fortune. I almost cried just then. Really? Because I'm not really an Emily. No, but there's a party that is an Emily. The one that grew up in North Carolina. Yeah. Nobody called me Emily though growing up. They always called me by my last name. Oh, really? Feimster? Yeah. What's up, Feimster? What's up, Feimster? What up, Feimmy?
Emily's the pretty little lady in me. Yeah. And also one of the pretty little ladies that's asking a question today. That's right. Yeah. That is right. That's a little teaser. Yeah, that is a teaser. We're talking about the Indigo Girls, by the way. I guess. I mean,
That's the quintessential Group you think of when you think of lesbians Right yeah that's true There used to be a or there still is sort of An annual gathering called fake new years In Toronto with like the queer scene It was at my friend's house and it was Usually a lot of sort of
a slightly older generation than me, queer women, and always at midnight, there would be a big indigo girls sing along and people hugging and crying. And I'd be like, it's sort of my crowd and sort of I feel. Oh, that's my crowd. That's your crowd. Yeah. Great.
Great, great, wonderful grandpa loves that crowd. There's some songs that I know Emily wrote that I have often wondered like, oh, I wonder if that was her figuring out her sexual... Well, of course, I'm sure. Because I think Amy came out first when she came out into the world. I mean, yeah, when Amy came out of the womb. But Emily, I think, came out later. But I could...
be wrong I don't want to I've never known you to be wrong I don't want to rewrite the indigo girls history herstory that you know all that are you friends with them
Yeah, I know Emily a little bit, but Tig's friends with them. I am friendly with them. I am a huge fan. Yeah, same. I'm a big fan too. I have met Amy and chatted. They did my podcast and they were in your special. Yeah, I'm on my podcast. But Emily and I will text sometimes and she's just one of the nicest humans. Just one of those people. That's so nice to hear. I love when people are nice. She'll just write like,
I'm so glad you're in the world. And you're like, you're the nicest freaking person. I was just like, like, I want to, she's like, I just want to like, she's not saying this, but she's like, I'm going to just say something meaningful to you. I'm going to start doing that to both of you. And I want to say on the record, I'm really grateful. You're both in the world. Oh, great. Yeah.
But yeah, they're so cool. I mean, they just were so like such pioneers, you know? I mean, but you know, people talk about taking drugs and going on a trip or journey and whatever. Yeah. That when they are on drugs,
That is my feeling. May. The couch farted, not May. That was the couch, not me. That was... Not very handsome. The couch does sound like it's farting. What journey were you talking about? No, I'm just saying, like, that's how I feel when I'm listening to their vocals and their lyrics. I'm like...
Yeah. I can't even don't talk to me. Don't like don't expect me to listen to your conversation. If their song comes on and I'm and we're in a social situation, I'm like, oh, my God. And then I'm like, I'm in it. You know, I'm such a fan. Is it hard when you try and get your kids into music that you love and they're just like, cool.
I haven't experienced that, honestly. Our kids, they love everything that we listen to. Oh, that's cool. They're so hilariously into like the Indigo Group. Yeah. And like Edie Raquel and Simon and Garfunkel. Oh, that's wicked. And they know specifically, oh, Paul Simon. Oh, my God. And...
Bob Dylan. Wow. Yeah. I just introduced the five-year-old who I live with, who's the child of the woman I'm heavily involved with. I just introduced her to the Backstreet Boys. Oh, wow. Very similar. Very similar to that level of artistic merit. It's hard to talk to someone when that's on, right? Yeah, exactly. I just get so swept up. Backstreet. Back. All right.
But I was doing the dance moves and stuff. And then we were listening in the car to Shania Twain, Man, I Feel Like a Woman. I do like Shania Twain too. Yeah. And then so later on... Yeah, so then I go to the kids. Let's go, girls. Yes. Later on, I said that. I go, let's go, girls. And she goes...
yeah it sounds better in mommy's voice well then uh she goes your voice is more backstreet boy and i was like okay what if i say like this and then i said close your eyes and then i went let's i did my best let's go girls yeah let's hear it okay everyone close your eyes okay i'm gonna close my eyebrows okay let's go girls
That sold me. Wait, close your eyes. Let's hear your best one. Let's go, girls. I feel like my mustache got in the way. I wonder if Shania ever said that. I guess I should go? Let's go, girls. You dumb bitches. Fortune! Fortune!
I love Shania Twain. She has some bangers. Yeah, she's got some good tunes. Yeah. Real good tunes. Man, I feel like a woman. Man, I feel like a lesbian. That's not very catchy. No, but it feels like
When you first start doing comedy, I'm speaking for myself, and you start doing comedy songs and you're like, I got gold here. I'm going to change the lyrics to Shania Twain. Oh, my gosh. By the way, speaking of changing lyrics. Yes. I have something to say that is going to be confusing and sound like a joke. OK. It is true.
I heard a song. Do you know the band Fall Boy? Yeah, Fall Boy. Okay. Are you a fan or familiar? Is that the, I'm going down, down, and I'm wearing a mask. I think so, yeah. Baby, we're going down swinging. Okay. So that was my wife's and maybe your time of, you know, punk, pop, alt, rock. Sure. And they were never on my radar. Yeah. I heard them on the radio yesterday. They redid...
Billy Joel's song We Didn't Start the Fire. I've heard their cover. I've heard that. I had never heard it. I was floored. It's great, right? It is incredible.
And here's the twist. It made me tear up. No way. Yes. We didn't start the fire. Yeah. Do you know Billy Joel's song? Yeah, of course I know the Billy Joel version. Okay, well, they redid it with more like modern. They completely rewrote it. Really? And I was like, it wasn't like I was driving and sobbing. Guys, relax. But it made me teary because it was just kind of this.
you know you get so caught up in the world and and the way things are and you get like oh things are bad and then it's just this reminder that as the song says we didn't start the fire yeah it was always burning since the world's been turning they've changed the actual lyrics of the stuff going on in the world that he rattles off yeah and it was comforting in some weird way where i was like oh
Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's only life after all. I love that. That's Indigo Girls. Don't. Oh, I didn't get that. Yeah. I thought you were being really poetic. No, no. Blame it on Emily. Anyway, I was just like, whoa, I can't believe this is affecting me like this. And that's obvious. And it's Fallout Boy. We got to get a question from Fallout Boy. Oh, my God. I'm like, what can I say?
Yeah, they took a break for a while, didn't they? Maybe they're back. I was big into pop punk for a second for the band Good Charlotte. Oh, yeah. And there's a photo of me at a Good Charlotte concert with this guy I had a crush on called Brett Morris. Hey, Brett. You really do love to say the first and last name. Yeah, you're right. Full name Brett Morris. And he...
Actually, he played young Magneto in the first X-Men movie. And he was in my improv class. I was 13. And his dad dropped us off at the concert. And we'd go in. And then we waited after to meet good Charlotte. Did he have a crush on you? For a second. He wrote in my scrapbook. I think he wrote, like, you're a weird girl. Oh, yeah. He loved you. But no, that never happened. He really had his eye on you. Wait, you're a weird girl? I don't know.
I smell bad. I couldn't shake this guy off of me. I didn't know you were being sarcastic until that. I was like, yeah, no, obviously. Because at the time I was like, oh boy, I'm in with a chance. You're weird and you smell. The photograph is like the guys from Good Charlotte, Brett. And then I'm just like braces, long, greasy hair. And we...
weirdly my boobs look like massive, like bigger than they ever were in my life. And I'm wearing like a pink t-shirt and it's, and my face is like kind of trying to be Jim Carrey or Chandler Bing. My face is like, anyway, and then on the t-shirt it says, it's always the quiet ones. Oh,
I remember thinking it was so cool. And that guy was just like hot. He was probably like this freak. Get this kid away from me. It's always the weird ones. But I used to always make my friends watch the X-Men movies because I had a crush on him at sleepovers. I'd be like, you want to watch X-Men? Because he had the scene in the beginning. This guy used to have the hots for me. Let's just say he thought I was pretty weird. Yeah.
Should we hear? I'm excited to hear this. I am very excited. All right, let's hear it. Okay. The Indigo Girls are a Grammy award winning duo with multiple platinum records. They have a new movie called Glitter and Doom that I am in. That's a fantastical romance set to their hit songs. And let me just tell you,
Their songs are, as we've already discussed, I fully believe masterpieces. Masterpieces. This movie, Glitter and Doom, it has reimagined versions of already masterpieces. I can't believe what they did with their songs. Oh, that's cool. If somebody would have told me beforehand, I would be like, eh.
Oh, because you wouldn't want to mess with a good thing. Yeah, just be like, we're good. Oh, man, I'm excited. And what they did, man, like, unbelievable. Is it the movie where at the end there are people singing their song or something? Well, it's all through the mid-
But no, like they asked me to do something where I don't know if it was that I thought I don't know if it was that project or a different one where people were at the end like in the credits different people were singing their songs but I was filming Fubar and I couldn't do it. Possibly. Yeah, they asked me to. Yeah.
But the movie really stuck out to me because it's a gay guy couple and they're the writer and director of this film. Oh, cool. And it's their love story. And they fell in love to the Indigo Girls music. And so when I heard that, obviously...
you would expect, oh, it's going to be a love story between two gay women. And the fact that it's these two men falling in love to the Indigo Girls, I was like, yes, please. Yes, please. And it's so great. That's awesome. Except for me. Really? Well,
Wait, you think he's thinking of? That was the movie that the thing that they asked me to do. Oh, because they said Tig's terrible enough. No, no, no. Not at all. They said you were doing something for it. My role is very small, but I was supposed to have a French accent. Oh, my God. Well, you know how good I am with accents. Well.
Okay, but you weren't, well, you were captured on film. But look, I did my best. Oh my God. And it is like, but the film is so great. And then you see me for a minute that's doing a terrible accent. Well, at any point did you say, does this character need to be French? Well, we're in France. Oh, it is in France. It takes place in France.
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No. Do you do your shoulders like that? But it's, you know, I identify as a stand-up comedian. Right, right. And, you know, my ongoing joke, which is true, whenever a director walks up to me, I always stop them and say, before you give me a note, just know I have no range. Now, what were you going to say? All right.
So you lay all your cards out there. I do. I do my best. I do my best. Let's hear what their question is. Hey, y'all. It's Emily from Indigo Girls. If you could pick any artist or band and be at the recording sessions from start to finish for any one of their albums, which artist or band would you pick and which album?
You just get to sit there in the control room or whatever, listen to it all go down from start to finish. Okay. Wow. I have my answer. Oh, wow. That was quick. And it was, well, look, I already went on about how much I love the Indigo Girls. Yeah. I would love to be in any of those recording sessions. That's a given. So you can yell, closer I am to find. And ruin everything. Like in the Barbie movie? Yes.
Oh, my God. How great was it? That was pretty cool that they got... Oh, my God. ...resurgence with the Barbie movie. And there's a documentary about them out also. Yeah. But anyway... Crushing it. And maybe look at my special called Happy to Be Here. But anyway, I would have to say, and I'm all over the board with the music that I enjoy, but, you know, I'm part metalhead. Really? What? I would not have guessed that. I was not expecting that. I mean, I...
That doesn't shock me, but just I can't wait to hear what album. Well, and when I say metalhead, I'm not talking about like, you know, white zombie. Yeah. You're thinking like Black Sabbath type. Well, yeah, like I was more in that, you know, Van Halen. No, no, no, no. That's grunge. I knew that. No, like, yeah, Van Halen, Black Sabbath. I would love to.
to have been there for the first, I think it was in 1978, Van Halen's first album. I would love. And what's on that? I don't know anything about the members of, whoa, Eddie Van Halen. No, yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Eddie Van Halen, incredible guitarist. Alex Van Halen, his brother, was the drummer. Okay. I mean, if I could truly, and I mean this, you could play a clip
Alex playing drums and I would be able to point out that's Alex really in the same way that you can I mean I can tell when it's Eddie Van Halen I feel like I can tell when it's Emily playing guitar right you know people have such distinct styles and I always call it a brain stamp yeah I like that because it's like you hear it's the same like when Willie Nelson plays his guitar and
there's a brain stamp like whatever's going on they they can't not be that yeah yeah and David Lee Roth the lead singer you're not familiar with him yeah I am now that you say the name this is hilarious Michael Anthony the bassist yeah yeah okay I gotta listen to this album on the way I wish they could be that was his solo that's David Lee Roth solo but but yeah but you know similarly to the Indigo Girls but different but
harmonies. And did they get along? Like what was, would the atmosphere be like partying? Well, I think they were very, I know they were very famously partiers. Okay. Like all those guys. Yeah. But then I think sobered up. Okay. And, uh, and then they broke up, right? Yeah. And then sadly Eddie died a few years ago. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was about to do a talk show and stuff or my brother texted me. Eddie Van Halen died. And I was like, Oh,
And I was like introduced on stage. I was devastated. Like, I know you're not a massive partier, but if you're in that environment, you're somehow magically like in the studio with them. And you're like, are you, are you doing what they're doing to be on the level or you just want to sit back and watch? I just would want to watch. Okay. Okay. I would just want to watch. Yeah. That's a cool answer. Yeah. It's true. Fortune. I guess I won't say Shania Twain. Why?
I'm just kidding. Gosh, I don't know. I had never thought about this before because albums seem now like such a thing in the past. So I'm trying to think of like whose album I listened to a lot from start to finish. I did love... The Judds? I did love The Judds for sure. I knew a lot of Garth Brooks songs. Love me some Garth. Love me some Garth. So I knew a lot of that. And to go back to Billy Joel, he wrote Shameless.
You know that Garth Brooks song? Oh, Billy Joel wrote that? That's a Billy Joel song. I'm shameless. Yeah. I don't know that. But like if we're, I feel like it's got to be somebody cool and interesting. You don't want to just like one, you know, guy playing the guitar and singing like, blaming all of my roots. I showed up in boots. You don't want that? Ruining your black tie fair. Like you want the atmosphere. Yeah, you need the vibe around that.
Well, that's a real dig against Garth. No, love Garth. But I'm saying it would be more of a just like, hey, man, good job. That song's going to crush. If you want like the mystique, the vibe, like this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to watch this go down, probably be like Prince's Purple Rain. Oh, yeah. Because you know he got weird. I'm sure it was a weird.
Gotta go to Minneapolis. When was he not getting weird? Yeah, exactly. Gotta go to Minneapolis, you know, make that trek out there, even in the winter. That's a real curveball for me that he's from Minneapolis. He is? Loved it. That's where his, what's the name of it? Why can't I think of it? Something, Park. Yeah, Paisley Park. Yeah, I was like, that's where he lived. Oh, no way. And he had the place downtown on, what was that called? One, no.
The Alive said one. First Avenue. Also, technically a one. We
Would you be able to stop yourself from singing along and ruining takes? I wouldn't want him to be mad at me. Yeah. Oh, you don't want him. What are you doing? Yeah. I'm sorry, Prince. You're not going to be known for your Prince impression. No, definitely not. But I just think... And he was known for being so musical. Yeah. And he wrote a lot of songs. Yeah, yeah. And I just would love to have just seen...
him create yeah and also you know some crazy shit was going down that's what i want stuff people were probably coming through there like yeah famous people do you think he would have turned around and been like yeah what are you doing here and i was like hey prince would you have taught him the uh joe the button song absolutely yeah yeah he'd be like i know that song
I love it. I would tower over him. Oh, he's tiny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a tiny guy. That's a good answer. Yeah. What was your favorite song on Purple Rain? Purple Rain. I know...
that doesn't like that song. Oh, crazy. That makes that like, I don't. That's crazy. That's and they're not just being contrary. They genuinely are like, I don't like it. Yeah. And there's some good covers of that song too. Stephanie. It's Stephanie. Stephanie. Deal breaker. It is the way I'm like, what are you talking about? Yeah. You don't like Purple Rain. And then you go Purple Rain, Purple Rain. That reminds me of, I know I've talked about John Doron here before, but
his joke about when when somebody says they like a song or whatever and then somebody else is like yeah I don't like it he's like you don't like it and then they like sing it and read it he's like yeah like that's not you're not making me like this I just destroyed his bit but um you know yeah no matter how many times you sing it or repeat it like I've heard it I'm not a fan um
But yeah, I don't, I don't, that's the one thing about Stephanie I don't understand. Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me. Yeah. It's perfection. It really is. Like the, and the way it's produced and everything. Even as a movie.
And all the best songs have a movie. I was watching that movie like two days before he died. Oh, fuck. We just randomly watched it. And I just was watching it going, man, I got it. Because he was starting to do a bunch of shows again. And he was doing like four-hour concerts. He had just done one in LA and I missed it. And I remember being like, I got to see him live. And then like two days later he died.
I was at the Sydney Comedy Festival in Australia when Bowie died and then spontaneously hundreds of people went to the park and then they were blasting his music and people were just weeping and like that was pretty awesome.
Okay, I picked my albums. Yeah. But there's the answer I would say like to be cool and I think it would be super interesting. Wait, albums? You're picking several? Just two. You can only do one. Okay, okay. I know my one answer but I'll say also the one that I almost said. Professor Tigg over here is a real stickler. I...
Like my runner up is Johnny Cash in Folsom Prison. Okay. Like just the raw energy. Oh, he'd be drunk as shit. He'd be wasted. But the energy in there, like that is a moment in history, I think. And that would be really cool. Did you need me to sing that song? Yeah. Would you mind? I hear a train a coming, rolling down the bend. I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when. Yeah. Pretty good. That was crowded, man. Just to watch him die.
But I guess it's a boring answer I think but it's Sgt. Pepper I think. Oh I mean that's right. Somebody had to say it. Somebody had to. And I think of all the Beatles albums it's like they were the most in sync with each other and they were the most inspired maybe I don't know it feels like
the most whimsical and like you got George Martin producing and they're bringing in these big orchestras and like to be there when they did day in the life with a big orchestra and fuck day in the life used to scare me when I was a kid it's scary it's because it gets all dissonant like when it that builds I I used to get I was such a Beatles fan yeah as a
small child loved him loved the song but it's still it was like watching a scary movie it's yeah I couldn't deal with it and then but then the relief when that breaks oh man yeah yeah yeah two against one I would do what you don't like I don't really like all the Beatles you don't like the Beatles oh unfortunately get out oh my what do you not like about the Beatles guys
Of course we are. Of course we're furious. This is a safe space. I don't know. This is not a safe space. I recognize that they're like one of the best bands that's ever lived. Yes. And that they're adored internationally forever and always. It doesn't do a lot for me. Have you ever...
Play the songs for me. Maybe I'll change my mind. Wait, is there one song that you are like, okay, I'll give them that? Twist and Shout?
I mean, that's always a classic. I'm like, that's palatable if you don't like their general vibe. Oh, I was almost saying a Beach Boys song. What is... Give me one. Give me a Beatles song. I can't think of one. That was not bad. Did you like John or Paul or Ringo or George solo?
Not wings. Not really. Didn't really do much for me. Band on the run. That's another one. Band on the run. I would like to be in them. Oh, I'm not saying I hate them. Let's get this clear. I think you pretty much. Well, you made your feelings clear. I don't. Oh.
You're a regular old everyday Stephanie Allen. Yeah. Like in purple rain. Exactly. So, but I understand that people are obsessed. So I can see why you would say Sergeant Pepper. That's their most famous album, right? Yeah. The white album. There's a lot of famous Beatles albums. I get it. They're famous. I would say like Sergeant Pepper like changed music. Yeah. I understand.
And I know that they influence music heavily too. I get that. So I appreciate all that they've done. For sure. But like people, people geek out, you know, meeting Paul McCartney and stuff now. Yeah. I was like, what's up bun? Yeah. Buns. What's up buns? There's like a solo John Lennon album, rock and roll. That's all covers. And it was Phil Spector produced it. And I,
it just seems like chaos. Like Phil Spector was so out of his mind. He had to, he was firing off a gun in the studio and that would be interesting to. I wouldn't have wanted to been. No, you're right. As I'm saying, I don't like getting out of there. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I was in high school and George Harrison died.
that day and then my English teacher just was like I don't like the Beatles and then and me and my friend were like stoners deeply like we thought we'd discovered the Beatles basically and we were the only ones that like got them and then he was like yeah George Harrison was an asshole and we were we were like just can you not like on the day that he died and he kept digging and digging in front of the whole class and then I like stood up like as if I was gonna go shut up but I didn't say anything I just was like
And then I went to the bathroom. I need to go to the water closet. The water closet? What's a water closet? Oh, wait. That's what they call it. Oh, you were in Canada. I was thinking England. No, I don't think they say it in England. No. Water closet? Don't they? Not water closet. I've never heard. Why have we heard of water closet? I don't know. Because we don't use it in America. No. We only use it in England. We use it in England. Why are we saying water closet in England? I don't know.
It has WC written on the door. You've never heard of water closet? What do you mean? You live in London and you're literally English. Wash chamber? Wash chamber, isn't it? I thought it was water closet. I've only heard water closet. I have never heard water closet. Oh my god. This is insane. Am I crazy? Yes. I googled it. Thomas is googling. What does WC stand for? It stands for water closet. What?
And you thought it was a wash chamber. How come now that seems insane? Will you Google wash chamber? It says the phrase water closet arose in England in the 1870s. Yes, yes, that's where we use it. Over time it has simply become WC. I've never heard that. I love that the two people who've never lived in England. And the people that have. There's a British man here. There is a British man in the room saying, nope, never heard of it.
You're like, what is a water closet? How in the hell of the two southern gals? I think because it was so weird. Like, we're like, water closet? Why do they call it that? Yeah, but how are we seeing it and they're not? I don't know. I am so sick of this. See, the Beatles are tearing us apart. Oh my gosh.
I would have been in that album recording and be like, oh, like kind of bopping my head. Like, this is cool. In Sgt. Pepper? Yeah. This isn't gonna sell. And then I would be like...
I'm gonna do a coffee run oh my god can I get you ready something I would have done acid with them I think just really yeah and then uh what do you think of course you would have but I sound like such a but the Beatles are sitting around like hey you wanna trip with us no let me think about it I sound like such a lame stoner though yeah I would have done acid with the Beatles man but uh
The story that Paul McCartney tells about, and if you're like listening at home, you should put this song on and just listen to the beginning. Paul, if you're listening. Paul, if you're listening. He tells a story about being at home and then Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys came over and Paul was like, oh, what were you up to today? And he's like, oh, I just recorded this song. You want to hear it? And puts on good vibrations. And if you're, and Paul was like,
just being the first person to hear that song and being like oh that's insane I sound like I'm gonna cry but if you're listening at home just listen to that are you about to cry? I'm on the edge listen to the beginning of Good Vibrations it's like oh I love the color of the sea oh come on I mean now you understand how I felt with Fall Out Boy yeah
Very similar. Very similar. Yeah, no, I think similarly to mention the Indigo Girls or the Beatles, but I was like, well, that's obvious. And then I was like, oh, would it be Willie Nelson, Ray Charles? I mean, Gladys Knight. Are you a Gladys Knight fan? Yeah, I love her so much.
L.A. Not? I don't know her enough. Too much for the man. Okay. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He couldn't make it, so he's living the life he's come to know. He said he's going, going back. Come on, y'all. I used to say, is he leaving on a midnight train to Georgia? Leaving on a midnight train. Said he's going back.
Going back to fire. Similar life, you have to know. I don't know this one. I get to.
I know you will And what's perfect The pips are amazing In this song What's perfect is Midnight Train to Georgia Yeah Indigo Girls Are from Georgia From Georgia What a time What a podcast What a podcast What about Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill That would be cool That would be cool Just seeing her belt it out And Taylor Hawkins Was her drummer Oh shit yes Yeah
Should we hear what... I'm always interested in what musicians say. Like, yeah. Okay. This first answer is going to be from Emily Saliers. I would pick Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder. Interesting. Okay. Got right to the point. Yeah. In and out. I think that the second one is from Amy. Amy Ray. What are you, crunching numbers over there again? Yeah. Let me guess.
I was going to guess that Amy would say Big Star or the Pixies or Pretenders. Okay. Hi, my name's Amy Ray. I'm part of Indigo Girls. And well, first of all, hi. Hi, kid. Hi, Fortune. Hi, Mae. Hi.
I have been listening to the Handsome podcast on my road trip across the United States for a solo tour. Nice. And it's been super entertaining and fun. So thank you for that. Oh, my gosh. Thank you. I see that Emily asked the question about what artists would we want to be hanging out in the studio with while they're recording an album. You know, I have to riff on that a bit because I'm obsessed right now with, like,
live records recorded in the 60s especially and one of my very favorite artists is Nina Simone of all time and I've just been I spend probably as much time listening to her live records as I do to her studio albums and there's a live record from Carnegie Hall with the song Mississippi God Damn on it that's such an important song and I would give anything to be able to go back in time and
and sit there and listen and watch and then figure out what the recording equipment is and what the microphone is she's using and everything and just be in the presence of the very amazing, compelling, profound recording of that song that was done at Carnegie Hall. Because I think that the art of recording live music was really at its peak in the 60s and early 70s.
So that's what I would say. I hope that's okay that it's not a studio album. But then I get the double pleasure of being at a Nina Simone concert, which I never got to do, and also studying how a record is made. All right. Hope you guys have a good day. Keep it up.
Love it. Bye. That's so cool. She said my name. Yeah, she said all of our names. Yeah, sorry. Amy's voice is like that kind of is so distinct. You hear it when she talks to them, when she sings. They're like so synonymous. Yeah. I was really off when I got... Because I'm very aware of like, you know, she was very into the whole punk...
scene yeah and so yeah i was really hoping i was gonna score there and like blow everyone's mind you know the indigo girls so well that was a great they were great answers absolutely yeah and great people yeah thank you thousand percent i love them so much they're they're i think coming in they
They're coming to LA in like the fall, like September or something. Joni Mitchell's playing in the fall. Did you see that? I know, the Hollywood Bowl was sold out. They added a second show. I met Joni. I told you I met Joni. You met Joni Mitchell. I met Joni Mitchell. That was a freaking dream. I said, I hate to be this person, but I will kick myself forever if I don't ask you for a picture. And we got a picture together. She was so cool. Her friend was like, here, give me your camera. I'll take it. I want to see the picture. Yeah. That's amazing. She was rad. I was like...
sitting across from her for like two hours then chatting uh actually like can you leave yeah no i was across from the room i chatted with her for a second but she was sitting with a goldie hawn um and i was like i and so i like i think you told me this oh yeah
I can't say. Yeah, but then at the end, I waited till the end when she was leaving and I didn't want to bug her, but she was so cool about it. Yeah. Because she, you know, Brandi Carlile's had a lot to do with bringing her back to singing again and being on stage. So I imagine, I would think Brandi would be part of that concert. I'm not sure. And I would think Brandi would need to do a question for us. Brandi should definitely do a question. Yeah, we should reach out to her. Yeah.
Well, that was fun. Joni Mitchell should do a question. Yeah. That was super fun. Yeah. Yeah. Fortune text Joni. I don't have Joni's phone number. That would be awesome if you were just texting with Joni. What's up, Joni? That's your web series, texting with Joni. Texting with Joni. Yeah. I just read our texts from each other. Well, um...
Thank you to the Indigo Girls for submitting that question. Thank you, Tig, for having us here in your beautiful office. Did you guys like being with each other? Sorry? Together in the room? All of us. How did you feel? How did you guys feel having all of us together? I like it. I thought you meant, like, did we enjoy being on the sofa? I thought you were feeling alienated. Well, I imagine the sofa was pretty cool. I've loved being on the sofa with you. I love it. It reminds me of when I was in the movie...
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Oh, when you played the Grandpa Joe who worked at the Button Factory. For our audio listeners, you did not know this, but Tig... But you'll have to look at YouTube. Yeah, I'm not going to tell you what's on Tig's face. It's so weird how quickly it became normalized and you're just talking. There's a little... There is something that you'll have to say.
On YouTube. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Yeah. At HandsomePod, right? Yeah. We got incredible merchandise out there that we listened to you. You told us what you wanted. And we had it made. And we delivered. Yeah. And you guys are...
buying it up. I'm wearing my little cowboy hat a lot. Oh my god. Looks good. I gotta get my pretty little lady sweatshirt. I wanna be rocking that. You have to. I gotta get one too. Someone said we should get a pretty little lady sweatshirt.
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Debate stuff. Yeah. Say funny stuff. Yeah. But definitely subscribe to the podcast and YouTube. And yeah, I'm at Largo later in the month with special guests. So come check that out. And I just post all my shows on Instagram and do an improv and things like that. I don't know the dates at the moment. It happens very last minute. I'm kind of a rebel.
You really are. I, on the other hand, am not a rebel. I have booked shows ahead of time. And March 8th, I will be in Peekskill, New York. March 10th, Waterville, Maine.
And then March 18th, I'll be at Largo. Go to tignotaro.com for all ticket and show information. I'm doing a bunch of shows at Largo and Dynasty Typewriter around LA trying to work out some new material. You know, sometimes it goes well and sometimes it doesn't.
Fortune, what's going on with you? I'm on the last leg of my tour. Coming up, I have Durham and Wilmington, North Carolina. I've got Los Angeles and New York City. I have Toronto. I have Palm Springs, Seattle. And then new shows, Albany, New York, Hartford, Connecticut, San Luis Obispo, and Bakersfield, California.
- Nice. - Fortunefemester.com for tickets, baby. Come on out, we're having a good time. And then I'm gonna film my special in Seattle. - Awesome. - That's so exciting. - I'll be very ready. It's been a good tour, but it has been a long tour. - Oh, I forgot to also mention that my special comes out on Amazon March 26th. - Oh my God. - Hello Again. - Nice. - Yes, Hello Again is coming out March 26th. So check it out.
And until then, keep it handsome. Handsome is hosted by me, Mae Martin, Tig Notaro, and Fortune Feimster. The show is produced, recorded, and edited by Thomas Ouellette. Email us at handsomepod at gmail.com. And please follow us on social media at handsomepod. What a podcast! What a podcast! What a podcast!
Hey, handsomes. Are you still listening? Well, guess what? The Indigo Girls have a new song coming out that they wrote just for their new movie. The single is called What We Wanna Be. And here is a little sneak preview. It's a beauty mystery.
