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Cheers! Welcome to another episode of the Handsome Pod. I am Mae Martin, of course, and I'm joined by the beautifully handsome... Oh, that's me. Tig Notaro. And Fortune Feimster. Tig, you're lit in the sort of dappled evening sunlight. Hmm.

Yes, I am. I'm in my apartment in Toronto and I have kind of limited options of where I can sit and record.

And, um, and so this is what happens, especially after three o'clock in the afternoon. Then I get sunlight on my face. That's good. Cause you don't want to film in front of your Ponties. In front of my Ponties. What do you mean? Like, are they probably just strewn about? Just out of frame. Everywhere is covered with Ponties. Yeah. I mean, would you imagine that my apartment's a mess? No, I imagine you're very tidy. No, just a lot of Ponties.

I'm pretty tidy. I'm pretty tidy. Just like your whiteys, tidy whiteys. I do have a few pile up areas in my life and in my house and stuff where I'm like, I got to get through this. Yeah. Stephanie's on a major minimalist tear. Oh, really? She's just like donating things and throwing things away. I mean, she is just like...

went through her books was like so attached to them. And then now she's like, do I need all of my books? Am I going to go back and read these? Am I going to, you know, so she's at a bit of a fork in the road right now. Um, but this is, I'm really enjoying this new side of her where she's just on this tear. I'm excited for the phase where she's running around to charity shops, trying to get her stuff back. Yeah.

I miss that book. And then it's in May's bookshelf. What about the two of you? Are you tidy? Are you? I'm a mess, man. But I'm not, I'm not dirty. Like I don't leave plates and food around, but clothes everywhere. And cause I'm like filming and then I run back home and I,

sleep for five hours and go film again. So I just throw stuff around. You too, Fortune? I'm not like messy, messy. I'm not as clean as like Jax, but I'll have like a little bit of stuff start to pile up and then I...

I'm like, okay, I got to get everything in its place. So I'm not crazy. But I'm also not the one scrubbing things down. I got a lot of weights around right now. I keep impulsively buying bigger and bigger weights that I can't lift yet. And these poor Amazon delivery guys are lugging these weights to my house. And then I don't know what I'm going to do when I have to leave Toronto. I'm just going to...

I don't know, donate the weights, I guess. Well, you could bring them home in a suitcase as long as they're not over 50 pounds, right? Yeah. What do you buy? What's the highest amount you have? 50, actually. Oh, 50. Oh, perfect. One suitcase. Yeah, two 50s, yeah. All week I've been filming this one fight sequence where, do you know the comedian Mark McKinney?

From Kids in the Hall? Oh, yeah, yeah. I cast him. I used to babysit for him when I was 13. And it's this weird full circle moment where we have this vicious fight and he tases me over and over. This is spoilers, but whatever. It was so embarrassing acting like you're being tased when you're not. I had to really... And you have to stop yourself making a sound effect like that. Yeah.

Right. I guess that would be really a huge challenge. Yeah, for me. And so can you give us a little bit of a look of what you tased without making the noise would look like? Okay, because I watched videos online of what people look like. I'm going to tase you right now. Okay, ready? One, two, three. Zzzz.

Oh, look at that facial expression. Yeah, I almost shit myself. Just now? No, like we were doing it all day, just tensing and tensing. Have you ever been tased? No, but did you know in LA at some haunted houses, you sign a release form and they're allowed to tase you? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What, just in a spooky way? Yeah. Sounds like in a real way. In a real way, like...

there's the, like to scare you or why are you signing a release to be tased? It's a great question. Thank you. There's a place called like horror hotel or something. That's all these escape rooms. And at Halloween, they open all the doors, they turn off all the lights and you go in there and you, you have to sign a form of whether you are, you can get tased and there's monsters come going around. And if they catch you, they can tase you. No, why would it be?

who will pay for this crazy stuff. And you sign a release saying, sure, tase me? Well, in LA, I've never done it, but in LA, yeah, some of these like horror, you know, Halloween events, you can, it must be like a low charge tase or something because that feels so good. it can't be like a hardcore one. Yeah. Because that could be, that could like,

F somebody up. It could F someone right up. Haunted houses, I'll do them if my friends are all going and I don't want to be left out, but they scare me. And how often are all of your friends going to a haunted house? I mean, Halloween time is around the corner. All this stuff will be appearing right around now. Do you get yourself a spooky pumpkin latte or anything? I like that. I like a latte. Okay.

That's my kind of Halloween. Yeah. I don't do the pumpkin spice as much, but I don't mind a sip of coffee by a fire pit. Would you like a haunted house? Do you enjoy jump scares? No. No. Absolutely not. And, you know, I scare Stephanie all day long.

accidentally in our home. Oh, because you're quiet and she's like, put bells on your feet. Yeah, she's just, you know, and then the, and I don't know if I told you, but she, well, she feels like I shuffle too much.

quietly on purpose. I don't know if I told you this, but she accused me of, oh, I said that at the live show. Is that right? I think you said on one pod that she wanted to put bells on your feet or something like that. I don't know what, but she, but she, did I tell you she's accused me of doing it on purpose? No, I don't know if I knew that. That's another. Yeah. Yeah. She was like, I feel like you have decided to, um,

to scare me. Like, this is something you are doing. And I was like, I am a busy 53-year-old person. Yeah. I'm not a psychopath walking around trying to scare people.

people in my own house or anywhere really yeah I don't know I would love to work in a haunted house and be the one scaring that would be really fun I think well sure you're in a haunted house that's the world but like just out in life or

Or in your own home, like a grown human being, like, like I'm not trying to do that to her. I do like to do that on purpose sometimes. And you do too, Fortune? Mm-mm.

No, you don't? Mm-mm. Mm-mm. I'm not a prank gal. I remember at school, the big prank was they would put cellophane over the toilet seat. So then, yeah, and then when you pee, well, you can imagine. You can imagine. I can imagine. What happens? So, Fortune, you don't like to do pranks, and you don't like pranks done to you. Exactly. I made a new friend the other day, and we were talking about pranks. Yeah, and he...

that... So he has a long-term friend and he went over to her house and he wore fake eyelashes. And...

And she was like, what is, you look different. He was like, no, what are you talking about? And he, he gaslit her so hard that she was like almost crying. She was like, you're something is different. And he was like, I don't know what's wrong with you. And then finally he was like, she was almost crying. Yeah. And so fortune, if I showed up to the live show and I had fake eyelashes on, um,

Well, that's a prank that doesn't, like, that's whatever. That's just you doing something to yourself. Well, no, I'd be doing it to other people, too. To get in your head, fortunately. Yeah, but I would, if you were like, no, I would just be like, okay. Right.

And so what is... It's not that deep for me. What's the depth where you're like, hard pass, weirdo, step back? Like, if I had been part of like this show Punk'd or something, I would not have enjoyed that. Right, because those used to get extreme. It would be like they would like smash someone's car. Yeah, I'm not into that.

Yeah, you're not. Okay. Filming you in your most vulnerable time, making you believe something awful just happened. Yeah. Well, what about, you know, when I did that thing where I sang at a party Adele song when Adele was at the party? I mean, that would be funny to me. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Have you guys talked about this on a mini-sode or something? No, on Tig Special, the end of Tig Special. Oh, my God. Tell it again quickly. Yeah, Tig Quickly. I was at a party that was littered with a lot of celebrities. And throughout the night, there were different singers and musicians getting on stage because there was a full, like,

There were instruments, grand piano, microphones, everything on stage. So people could just get up and sing a few songs and then get down. Somebody else would get up. Yeah. The whole night you saw the biggest names of forever. That would be cool.

And Adele was at the party and the whole vibe, the whole night, no matter who was singing or playing, everybody was like, here comes Adele. I think Adele's going to perform next. Here she comes. Oh my God. There's Adele. Oh my God. It was truly like a vibe all about Adele. And I'm talking every massive star was there performing.

And then she never sang. And, and so that would be a bummer. So I turned and it was just a casual night of people getting up and singing. And yeah, and then I said to Stephanie, I was like, and I mean, like Oprah Winfrey was everybody was there. Okay. And I said, I'll

I said to Stephanie, I was like, I'll go sing. And then I can't sing. And so I got,

Pink was there and I asked Pink, I said, will you go tell the DJ to, cause she, oh, Pink had just sang songs. And when she got down, I said, Hey, can you go ask the DJ to play Adele's Hello? Oh my God. And she was like, yeah. Cause I was like, I'm going to sing. And she was like, Pink was all excited. And, um, and then, um, so she went over, asked the DJ, um,

Adele's Hello and I sat at the grand piano and I sang along to Adele's Hello like at the top of my lungs the best I could and it was the worst rendition of Adele's Hello and so that was um

I guess that would be a prank, right? Yeah, that counts. It's funny to me. Did Adele laugh? Well, that's the thing is it was, I don't know where Adele was in that exact moment because there were a lot of people there, but I'll tell you what, everybody else was there and saw that.

She's outside smoking a cig. Like, what is this madness? I love that. It's way funnier and better that you tried your best. Like you really belted it out. I really did. I did. Like I was in my car by myself just singing. And I know my voice goes off the rails like crazy. And so I was just like, I'm going to go for it. And I don't care. Fuck.

Did you look up and see if any big celebrity was there watching? Well, it was like a stage with lighting. It wasn't just somebody's living room. But I have footage of Pink doubled over choking to get into the house. As long as Pink enjoyed it, that's all I care about. Yeah, it was really fun. I would like to make Pink laugh. Yeah, she seems fucking cool. Yeah, she's awesome. Her voice is...

It's so good. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Oh, when she and Kelly Clarkson sang together on Kelly Clarkson's show, they did like a 10 minute medley of pink songs, but acoustically. I think I've listened to that a thousand times. I'll have to check that out. Oh, it's so good. They just did snippets of like five songs. Oh,

Did each song like meld into the next one kind of like? No, they would do like a one for like two minutes and then stop and then do another one. But like,

as you know, Kelly Clarkson's voice is one of my favorites of all time. And then Pink's voice is amazing. And then they're harmonizing together. It was like my brain was exploding. I love a good harmony. Oh, I love a good harmony. Yeah. I love a good harmony. Yeah. I love a terrible harmony. Yeah. That's enjoyable in a whole other way. Yeah. Yeah.

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But just those two, because they're the type of singers that could sing anyone's song amazingly and do. You know what I love? Brother-sister harmony. Like Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright singing One Man Guy, which is their dad's song. You know what I'm talking about? Absolutely, I do. Yes, the best. Absolutely. That whole family is so off the charts. Yes.

Yeah. So Martha Wainwright is the biggest rock star in the world. I mean, her voice is... It's crazy. Her vibe, her everything. I've seen her live so many times. Whenever she's playing and I'm nearby, I make sure I go. And I learned to kind of... I was like, I think I got to go by myself because I want to just focus. And I went on a date once somewhere.

someone I was dating flew to England to visit me and I took her to the Martha Wainwright concert. And then she started feeling nauseous, like food poisoning. And I should have ruined this. I should have taken her home. She, I stayed and she went back to the hotel. Martha Wainwright was singing, right? I've never seen Martha Wainwright. You got to look up Martha Wainwright. Martha Wainwright is just,

a rock star. That is all I can say about this woman. Oh, right. Bloody motherfucking asshole. Oh. Okay. Unreal. Yeah. Unreal. I don't know this. Everyone drop what you're doing. Drop what you're doing. And become the biggest fan of Martha Wainwright. I actually just listened to her audio book. She wrote an autobiography. It was electric. You know how I had my moment with Justin Trudeau where I said,

your legacy will be great. I had that moment with Martha Wayne, right? A similar thing where she was just playing an intimate show in LA and I, I'm, I was having to be friends with the guy drumming for her. And so I was like, this is my end. And afterwards I'm kind of standing with him having a cigarette outside or something. And she's there. And I think she asked for a cigarette or something. And then I go, you're at the top of your game.

I go, I just got to say you are at the top of your game. She was like, okay. Did she say, what about my legacy? Your legacy will also be great. To blow your mind, I'm friends with Martha Wainwright. Can you tell her I love her? Yes. How funny that you love this person so much and take turns with them. This happens a lot though. Lucy Lawless.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, you guys know people, you know? Yeah. You know people. And they're...

they're random. Yeah. Yeah. And specific. They're very random. Like, yes, I'm friends with Lucy Lawless and Martha Wainwright. Martha Wainwright. But that, for some reason, it's my niche obsessions too. I know, right? Yeah. Yeah. I just love that you started this with, I love a brother-sister duo. Oh, I was trying to think of other brother-sister singers. I literally, I can't think of a single one. Well, and within the,

Wainwright family. There's just numerous brother-sister duos just rounding out. I mean, and their sister Lucy. There's more than just the two of them. Oh, I mean, Rufus? I know Rufus, obviously. They should have like a reality show. Can you imagine? It would be really...

sort of poetic, I think. Like it wouldn't be like the Kardashians. It would be like, you know. No, it wouldn't be like the Kardashians. Someone's having a glass of red wine. You know what's so funny is I just laughed so hard saying, no, it would not be like the Kardashians. I've never seen the Kardashians. What? I have never seen that show.

Are you serious? No, but I can... I mean, yes, I'm serious, but I can gather what the show is. What it would be? Yes. Let me tell you, you're missing out. Yeah, like whatever you think it is, I will tell you it's better because they are so compelling and very funny and...

yeah this is weird that was like the first i know there must have been there was the osborne the osborne's were first yeah yeah but what do you mean they were the osborne's were first as far as like this this trend of families on reality television yeah where like all of america just felt like they knew that family and like you just you want to keep up with 20 years now on tv or something are they still going

Yeah, but now they're on Hulu. There's just so many of them. You don't run out of storylines. Yeah. But I also, I want to go back and clarify, just so I'm not lying to anybody. Martha Wainwright is not a close friend of mine. For sure. But if you saw each other, you'd go, hey. Yes, I'm close with Rufus and his husband, Jorn. Another fun name.

Yes. Yorn. With Martha, you're like, we're friends, but like... Well, like, I see her at Rufus things, and I'm just, I'm very beside myself always. Like, oh my God, that is the biggest rock star I've ever met.

live. I gotta watch her stuff. Really? Go look at videos, go buy her stuff, go see her lives. Yeah. All of them, all of those Wainwrights. I mean, it's, it's, uh, how did this turn into the Wainwright show? But they're, they're all freakishly talented. Oh, we talked about this because of brother sisters, because the carpenters weren't brother sisters, were they? Yes, they were. Oh, there you go. All right.

And you got then the Bee Gees. There must be some, I mean brothers, but there must be something in like when you share DNA, your voices just meld. Billie Eilish and Phineas. Oh, yeah. True. They're making incredible music together. Incredible. They're really cool to watch behind the scenes, how they create their songs and stuff. He's like such a genius producer. And then she has this like,

such a specific vision of what she wants the song to be. It's really cool to see two people and at their age just doing this like prolific songwriting. And then meanwhile, their mom, Maggie, is like from the groundlings. Really? Yeah, she comes from the comedy world.

And she saw improv for years. That's crazy. And Phoebe Bridger's mom does stand up too. She does? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. So who knows, maybe one day we'll have kids who are amazing musicians. Well, my sons, they started their own little band together. Stop it. Didn't I tell you that Max wrote a new song? No. Oh, wait. Wait.

Yeah. Didn't, didn't you say there was a song that we couldn't, you didn't want to play it on the pod, but. Oh, you're fortunate. You're thinking of the song that came up during, you were watching a sports game. Right, right, right. Max wrote a new song called, uh, what is it? Something about down by the, um, shoreline walk with me down by the shoreline. And, um, and, um,

A friend of ours asked him if he had heard of Morrissey or the Smiths. And he said no. And she played Morrissey and the Smiths for him. He went back and revisited his song and sang it just like Morrissey. Oh, my God. Just like Morrissey. Please, please, please. Walk with me down by the shoreline. Down by the shoreline.

Oh my God. Down by the shoreline. I mean, I couldn't believe it. That's incredible. I could not believe it. It's such a hit song. May I have to send it to you? Please do. It is such a number one hit song. And just so you know, I am still working on the cover of the original. I don't believe you. I'm telling you, I've laid down the instrumentals. I just got to do the vocals. It's a work in progress. Well, I think you're going to jump ahead to Down by the Shoreline. Yeah, you got to get this on iTunes. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. That it's, it is a true, like his first song, he's written many songs, but the, the one during the Superbowl, um, we don't know how this world works. Yeah. That, that's his first song. Um, his new one, uh, sun rises West. The sun goes down East. We don't know how the world works. We don't know how the world began. Um,

Beginned. Beginned. Beginned. We Can't Feel the World was the line that really blew my mind. And now there's just down by the shoreline. It's so good. Okay, we can move on. Y'all are way cooler than me with music. I never listened to Morrissey either. Well, I didn't know Jimmy Buffett, so...

I mean, I didn't know Joe, the button maker. I mean, we're all teaching each other something. Yeah. Speaking of Joe, just to quickly touch back on in a previous episode, I mentioned the bear video. I read a poem. Um,

I have now watched the bear video. Did you, and did you make it through all the videos? Wait, what is the bear video? Remember when Mae was so nervous about watching their driver's video? Oh, right, yes, yes, yes. To recap, yeah, I had this driver at work. He says, yeah, I got this video of 12 men wrestling a bear in a bar. So anyway, it grew in my head like a weed. I've become obsessed with like, why is this coming to my life? I'm scared to watch it. Once I see it, I can't unsee it. Like,

To the point where you wrote a giant poem. I wrote a poem about it. Poem. Poem.

I go into my trailer one day and the TV in my trailer is on and just a blue screen. And there's like an old VCR plugged into it. And Joe has set up for me and he's got the VHS there. It says Caesar, the wrestling bear. Yeah, man. And I'm, I'm like, okay, this is the moment. Like I got to watch it. And I watched it. I don't, I don't even know really where to start. Like it was like,

it was incredible. Yeah. I'm worried about the bear for sure, but the bear seemed, it was this 900 pound bear in a bar in 1993. All the, everyone has a mullet in the bar and they're all, even the bear, even the bear shaved, except for a mullet. And one by one, they're getting up to, and they're very respectful to the bear. They kind of pet it first and then they, they wrestle it. And I'm sorry if you have a bear in a bar. Oh,

Oh, it's not good. You've already not been respectful to... Of course. I think the bear was... For anyone listening, listen, I'm with you. Like, don't have a bear in a bar wrestling people. But they'd rescued it as a cub from a circus or something. Anyway, it has all its teeth and claws. Like, it is a full... Don't worry. We'll get you out of this circus. We'll bring you to a bar. So do you. We're going to save you. But I'm like, what was I meant to learn from the bear video? Because what struck me was the bear...

not to hurt people. It was, they were like flies to it. Like it would just swat them with one paw and then pin them on the ground and then it would start licking them like a puppy. It was like playing. And meanwhile, they're, yeah. And guy after guy trying their best and, and it was pretty incredible. And, and my question going into it was like, am I the kept bear? Like, am I, is this meant to be showing me? And, and maybe, maybe,

maybe it is maybe i don't know my own power you know what i mean anyway so none of us do none of us know my power none of us know our own power i know and then so afterwards um joe got another job and just sort of vanishes it's like he came into my life he's no longer just to show me this video you know and this mystical video but it feels like there was a lot of build-up for the bear a

Build a bear, if you will. It did not disappoint. Build a bear? Very good. And then it just kind of was like, oh, okay. No, no, no. No, sorry. Then I've told it wrong. Okay. It was not, oh, okay. It was, this is one of the most insane and incredible things I've ever seen in my life and bizarre and emotional. And afterwards I said, Joe, I don't know what to say. And he said, oh, so I'm going to see, isn't it?

I said, yeah, it is. Yeah, it is something to see. I will say that since I watched the bear video, my life fell apart. So I may be cursed by the bear video, but we'll see. Things come apart. They come back together. The life, you know. Yeah, the beautiful, rich history. A lot of corners around this life we're living. Some bad things have to happen for good things to happen. Like that one episode you talked about.

Oh, about the farmer and the horses. Yeah. Big time. But anyway, the bear video, I have closure on the bear video and I'm glad I saw it. And thank you to Joe. Thank you, Joe. Namaste. Namaste. Should we check in and see what our question or who our questioner is? What our question is? Yes. Can I introduce it because I'm so excited? Yes, please. Please. That's not to say we're not excited. We're so excited. You just...

barreled right in i am a huge fan of this person the fact that she might know that i exist is huge um today's questioner is an actress and comedian known for her seven years on snl as well as tv shows like 30 rock and movies like wine country she was nominated for a tony award for her role in the broadway play potus rachel dratch is asking today's question nice

Hello, handsome. It's Rachel Dratch here. I'm going to blurt this out because this is like my 85th take of trying to do this. I know it's unbelievable. But anyway, here's my question. What was your favorite thing about growing up in your hometown? How did it shape you? What did you love about it or your home state? I guess what if you didn't love it, what was your least favorite thing? But I was trying to keep it positive. So what was your favorite thing about growing up where you did?

I did it. Okay. Signing off. She don't want to be a Debbie Downer. I was just going to say that. One of my go-to YouTube things. Might be one of her greatest sketches of all time. Debbie Downer and the way it would zoom in on her face and she would be trying not to laugh. The one video where, was it Fast and Furious?

And Lindsay Lohan, they couldn't stop laughing the whole time. Oh, man. She's a silly person. She just cracks me up. Some of you just have funny bones. That whole era of SNL women just were beyond. Yes, that was your era too, right? That's what I was watching. Yeah, that would have been Polar and Tina Fey and Ana Gasteyer.

So am I leaving anyone else? Molly Shannon. Sherry O'Terry and Molly Shannon. Right behind them, I think. Belushi. Ackroyd. That's Ackroyd's big moment.

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pull off what some of the girls in my class are pulling off like I don't know how to be cool and so it was like amazing seeing how powerful it was to be silly like that to and how that's so much cooler than trying to be cool like you know yeah yeah yeah I'm also just remembering that I met Rachel Rachel Dratch has a brother who is a comedy writer and producer oh do they ever sing together I don't know that's a good question I'm forgetting his name so you've met Rachel

I have not. I don't think. I don't think I've met Rachel either. One of those people I've seen 10 billion times on TV. And then, of course, I could believe we've met, but I don't believe we've ever met. You feel like you know her. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I feel like we talk a lot about our hometowns on the show. Like I, you guys have more hometown towns because they're small towns, right? Yeah. Yeah. So my hometown is Belmont, North Carolina. Belmont.

It's 30 minutes outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. And we're just on the other side of the airport. So I'm actually closer to the Charlotte airport than some of Charlotte. But it's a tiny town of when I was born, it was about 8000 people.

Now it's a booming metropolis of about 12,000 people. Whoa. And every time I go home, it is exploding with new homes and new apartment buildings. And the whole town's going to implode at some point because it cannot handle the amount of people trying to move into it. Did it feel small when you were growing up? Oh, yeah. It did? Very small because...

yeah, it was tiny and everyone knew each other. Now there's more people now that I don't know, but I've also moved, been gone for so long, but, um, it was a very sleepy little town and very boring when I was growing up. Um, no fancy restaurants, no good restaurant, um, kind of drying up to be honest. And then it had this whole revitalization, um, and now it's like

one of the like uh sought out places to live in north carolina would you ever move back there um i mean i wouldn't mind i wouldn't mind it at this point in my life yeah i mean it's a really cute it's so cute when i go home now i'm like god my hometown is awesome uh and i always loved it because of the people um

Growing up, I was bored out of my mind and I couldn't wait to leave. Okay, this is what I'm interested in. Yeah. So you felt, it felt claustrophobic. Oh yeah, I felt like there's got to be more to life. This is so boring. When I was in high school, you just drove up and down this one street. Yeah.

You would like the kids would hang out in the church parking lot. There was nothing to do, nowhere to go. We weren't allowed to really hang out in Charlotte. It was too busy, too much of the big city.

And so, yeah, I just couldn't wait to peace out. But the thing I always loved about my hometown is that the people were so nice and so lovely and supportive. And I'm five generations of that hometown. So my family goes way back there. Five generations is a lot. That takes you back to like 1900 or something, right? Mm-hmm. That's crazy. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, but my mom lives there and I go visit. My dad actually just moved back. He moved away, but I love it for them because what I miss in LA is not having... I don't feel like I have a community here. I kind of feel like... I have friends and stuff, but we all live in different places, but I just...

I just feel like in my hometown, everyone's kind of looking out for each other. And my, like my mom just had knee surgery and tons of people every day were bringing her food or taking her to a physical therapy or checking on her. Like it's, it's so cool how, you know, if something happens to someone, everyone descends upon that place. So what do you need? What can I do? Like checking on people. It's just,

a very neat way of just being there for each other. I'm glad my, I'm glad my parents have that. Yeah. That is real nice. Do you have like, does the town have like inside jokes as a town?

That was a weird question. I mean, like, you know, like really specific weird traditions and stuff. I mean, the big thing, at least when I was growing up, was the Friday night football game at the high school. Like every half the town went, you know? Yeah, that was a big thing. And then everyone goes to church. That's a huge part of the South and especially a small town. Yeah.

You know that everyone's going to be at church on Sunday and they're all going to be. Well, it used to be when I was growing up, there was only so many restaurants that were decent. And so you wanted to be the first one to get out of church so you could beat the Baptist to the place. And everyone was vying for the tables. So it was that was that was how exciting it got. But, yeah, very quaint, very small town. But I a place that.

instilled manners in me and that you just kind of like I said looked out for each other it was it wasn't a very selfish place a lot of community was happening there. Tig you were a small town as well and I always think about small towns and would worry like if you mess up once or you do something wrong like you can't really escape it like you it stays with you and you're yeah I

Well, yeah, I mean, my hometown in Mississippi, generations of my family live there as well. And I have extended family still there. But we also moved to an area outside of Houston and we moved around a bit as a kid. But yeah, my town...

God, I think it's like 5,000 people maybe. Really? Jeez Louise. Yeah. It's not big. It's hard to underage drink in a town that small, right? No, it is not. They do that. Oh, it is not. It's real easy. It's like in the basement of someone's house. Yeah. Or anywhere. Like, I don't know. I just feel like that is...

not really policed too much. Fave thing? Well, I mean, I would say that I have all of these older cousins that kind of, there's four boys that are like, I don't know, 10 to somewhere in the

nine to 15 years older than me and my brother. Yeah. Nine to 15 feet tall. No, they're, um, older cousins that they were like brothers to me and my brother. And they were between us and my mother. So they were like younger brothers to my mother and then like older brothers to me and my brother. And they just were so fun to be with. And, um,

took us to do cool things all the time, whether it was just going to the beach or going, like, I remember just riding around in the back of a pickup truck, just something as simple as that, that I loved so much, where, of course, nobody

not terribly safe and I wouldn't want my kids riding around in the back of a pickup truck. Those were different times. No helmets, no seatbelts. And like drinking out of a like bottle, you know, just in the back, just sliding around in the back of a pickup truck. Going to wrestle a bear. I was always in the back of a pickup back in the day. Really? And the, yeah. And like,

boating and water skiing. I mean, I think I've told you guys we'd water ski in swamps and people are like, no way. And I would have to call my brother and be like, am I making this up? But I think that, yeah, it's that sense of community and everybody knowing each other. And anytime my town's really close to New Orleans and right over the border of Louisiana and Mississippi and

And, um, I mean, if I'm ever working in new Orleans and then I just drive in to see my family, I'll stop to get a coffee or something. And inevitably one of my cousins will call and be like,

coffee shop what are you doing in town same when I go home like every it's like it goes through the grapevine like right away immediately or like I remember you know walking with Stephanie down the beach and just honks at us and I'm like hey you

You know, just it's impossible. You can't hide there at all. But coming back with my family now, we go back all the time, two or three times a year. And I love bringing my wife and children together.

everywhere and into all the shops and everybody knows us. Everybody loves them. And it's just the greatest feeling. And that's why I love where we live in Los Angeles. It's like a small town feeling has a little, um,

you know, it has a lot of little shops and cafes and it's all walkable. And, and I love that for Max and Finn because it reminds me of my town in Mississippi because you walk into a place, they know your order, they know your name, they, you know, they haven't seen you in a while. What's going on? And where have you been? And how are you feeling? And how's, how are the kids? And I just like that. Triple shot decaf coffee. Quach.

Quad shop. Yeah. But I like, this is so nice because I feel like there's a stigma around, especially small towns in the South and the States. And it's so nice to hear that like you guys love your hometowns and go back and are so welcome there. And that's amazing. Yeah. For sure. I think it's important to remember that things are not that black and white that you, I mean, I,

It sure can be, but not everybody in the South and not everybody in small towns and not everyone where you think they're going to be this, that way or the other. It's just not always what you think. And you have to give people more credit and understand that whatever people or places don't represent everybody. For sure. Yeah.

um what about you with uh your tiny town with Toronto I I mean yeah I grew up in a big city and and uh but Toronto does have kind of a like anytime I meet someone from Toronto it's the first question is what high school did you go to and then and like it feels kind of small towny and you always have mutual friends and but I did I mean like for better or worse as a

I loved how anonymous it was. I loved being able to get on the subway and go and no one knew where the hell I was and I would run around and yeah, and I loved how busy it was. Yeah, I'm pretty...

I'm pretty like town proud. I have a tattoo of 416. That's like the Toronto area code. But then Drake got really into 416 and saying and kind of co-opted 416 as a thing. But is he from here? He's from Toronto. He went, of course, went to high school with my friend and they were in a production of Les Mis. And like everyone. Yeah. Like, yeah, there's a shared kind of vocabulary there.

I hate how cold it got in the winter. Oh, yeah. Like that visceral feeling of like the salt that people throw on the, you know, get the salt stains on your jeans and your winter boots and you'd have to bring your shoes and a backpack, you know, in the winter. Yeah, I would not like that. Oh, man, it got so cold. But summer in Canada is pretty dreamy. Lakes and, yeah. When does it start to get cold? I always forget when it starts to get cold again. It depends on global warming. In like three weeks, right? Yeah.

like like on Halloween you'd wear a winter coat over your costume you know yeah yeah yeah and your winter boots yeah it's coming for us but it never felt like overwhelming being a bigger place like that didn't that never kind of bothered you just because it was what you're used to yeah I mean I when I if I imagine my own family I I'm not I'm

I'm like a small town would be great. So I see the benefit because I definitely run ran wild and you know what I mean? But I mean, I did. I loved it. Yeah. But it is like my I'm working with a Canadian crew now and Canadian cast and we're it's there's so it's such a small like my friend Gabby came to visit set and she's we're walking around and then the woman doing hair goes, oh my God, Gabby and she used to do Gabby's hair when Gabby was 17 and like

She worked at like a salon and just every, and then like my co-star was like, oh yeah, I did the just niche things. She's like, I did square dancing at the Royal winter fair as part of Kiwanis. This combination of words is so familiar to me. I'm like, yep, I was probably there. Like that's funny. Yeah. The Royal winter fair. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there, there definitely were drawbacks of a small town, whereas it's really awesome to have that community. Um,

It was weird growing up that everyone was in everyone's business. Yeah. That part would get old sometimes. Like I remember specifically not loving that when my parents were getting a divorce. Right. Everyone was like, how are you? Yeah. Everyone was in the business and gossiping about it and talking about it. Did you hear my father? I guess this was early on. Like my parents divorced when it was pretty taboo to get divorced. Did they consciously uncouple? Yeah.

They sure did. They were friendly? No, no, no. They're very friendly now. They're very tight. But it took a while to get to a comfortable place. How old were you again when they... I was 12. So no one in your class had divorce plans? No, no. I mean, I was like, we were OG divorce family. And I felt like our family and my mother kind of had this like scarlet letter on us. Yeah. And nobody even knew you were gay yet.

No, I didn't have to deal with that yet. So my outsider was, yeah, divorced parents. Because all of my friends' parents are, to this day, a lot of them are still together that I grew up with. And so I remember, yeah, feeling bad for my mom back then that she kind of was an outsider all of a sudden in that way. And women kind of were...

You know, when they would hear a woman divorce is like another friend of ours,

their parents got divorced kind of soon after. And so my mom and, and that lady became like good friends because they were like, well, it's the two of us now against the world. It's like me with other vegans. Yeah. And, but there, there was, my mom said there was always kind of this vibe from other women that like, here come the, here come the ladies. Like they're going to, you know, they would like hold onto their husbands tighter. Like, Oh my God. Yeah.

They don't want them coming in and swooping in on their man. I'm like, my mom is not swooping in on your man. Calm down. That's hilarious. That's also like when somebody dies and then all the ladies, like if some guy is single, he's widowed, they all head over and bring some food and try and get in there on the...

Open spot. My mom had a suitor at one point who kind of did look down on her that she was a divorcee. No. Wait, but he was suiting her. I know, but he ended up breaking up. He couldn't help himself. He ended up breaking up with her to go out with a widow. Oh, that was like more acceptable. Because that was more like...

And again, he didn't even know that you were gay. I know. That would have been a big problem. It's so wild to me, but he thought that the widow needed him more. Oh, my God. It's like such an old school mentality. And obviously in today's time, there's way more –

it's way more common that's just a part of society now but back then it was like such a thing i love picturing this guy thinking he's such a catch and like oh yeah i gotta look after this poor widow i'm picturing him looking like the the guy on the monopoly game for some reason like he's like and then all of these women need his help he's like all right i've helped ginger now i'm gonna go help this widow yeah

How long did she date him? Two or three years, maybe. Oh. Three years, maybe.

Oh, wow. So a chunk of time. A chunk of time. Not just like three dates and then was like, I can't deal with this divorce. He would take her on dates like away, like kind of on the outskirts of town. Oh, no. That's so bad. No. Yes, because he didn't want his Baptist friends to know that, you know, that he was dating a divorcee. Oh, my God.

life so old school they wouldn't even like drink wine or anything at uh in restaurants in town like he would only do it if they were at the place where they he wouldn't be seen it was it was what a loser very old school um so yeah that that part of small town was like so antiquated to me you know even i was like what are we doing here this is wild i mean i've had that i mean it was

like from dating closeted people, I just, it came into my mind that one birthday, this woman who I was dating and lived with who didn't want any of her friends to know she, she was like, let's go to this. Like, uh, it was Q gardens, which is like way on the outskirts of London. And I was definitely, cause no one would bump into, cause I was like, let's go into Soho. And she's like, I'd like to go over to this garden really far away. And, uh, I had no interest in gardens. And then we got there and she was so, uh,

tired and sleepy that she rented a wheelchair from the entrance. Yeah, and I ended up just pushing her around this garden all day. I can't believe this relationship didn't work out. I know. I pushed her around the garden and then got back and had to pretend to be her buddy at home with our roommate. I was like, what do I do? As I was pushing the wheelchair, that's sort of when it all started to, I thought, I would hope so. Yeah.

Something's wrong here. Yeah, I don't know if this is quite right. The stuff you put up with, like, I was like 28 years old. I wasn't, you know, yeah, ridiculous. Well, should we see what Rachel Dratch has to say about her hometown? Yeah. Wherever that is. Does anyone know where she's from? Boston, maybe? Boston? I don't know. I'm guessing. Okay. I'm guessing Chicago. That's a guess.

Hello, I had a set and a costume change for my answer to the question. So I was thinking about this. So I grew up in Massachusetts in a town called Lexington.

And when I think about what I loved about my hometown, the first thing I think of is the natural beauty that I sort of took for granted, I think, growing up. I think of walking to school in the fall and kicking leaves the whole way to school and the smell of the leaves. Or I think of a snow day and lifting up my window shade and seeing everything covered with white with the trees looking so pretty. And it always smelled so good too.

That's what I really miss about my hometown. And then I live in New York City now, so you can see why I might miss some natural beauty. And then the other things I would say is, like, you know, I started out when I was five there, so I have friends from when I was...

five years old and I did like high school so I like going back. I feel connected to my high school classmates. And then the third thing I'd say is the Boston area has this sort of like intellectual bent with all the colleges there but then it also has kind of a sadonic wit I think is

there. So, you know, you can have your, uh, the cook at the burger joint. There's sort of, I think, um,

I think Huma is sort of valued there. And maybe it is everywhere. I don't know. But it's sort of, I don't know. I think it's sort of in the air there. Maybe that's my imagination. Maybe that shaped me. I don't know. That's just my vibe about it. So anyway, that's what I liked about my hometown, handsome.

What did you like about yours? Or what didn't you like? I'm sure I've already... Okay. Okay. That. Sorry. Cut this part. Okay. What do you like about yours?

I was thinking Boston because she and Fallon used to do those Boston characters all the time. You remember? Yes. Yeah. And would go real hard. They played like high school boyfriend, girlfriend. I remember. And would do the like accent really hard, like super hardcore Boston. I do think some Boston and like some places have our...

are funny. Like, have a cultural identity of, like, Liverpool is like that. Like, everyone's funny. Dublin. I think Boston does have that. Well, that accent, though, like, sounds so... It's funny. Cartoony. Mm-hmm. Practica. Human. Sardonic, but...

I one time was watching a roast battle at Just for Laughs and then somebody made a joke about an aorta and I just hear these two guys next to me and one of them goes, what's an aorta? And the other one goes, it's a potty of hot. A potty of hot. Oh my God, you know,

what an aorta was yeah i always remember your hat that is so great that is so funny that is that's awesome it is kind of wild that she asked about hometowns because so much of my childhood was me watching saturday night live and memorizing the sketches from

her definitely her her cast and and others and going to my like school going to school to like practice and stuff and reciting those sketches like she is a part of my hometown experience so it's amazing it's trippy

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What about you guys? November 16th, the very last show of my tour. I just added it. Santa Rosa, California. Yeah. Yeah. And I, Tig, your friend, will be in Kansas City on November 2nd and St. Louis on November 15th. And I'm also...

In Toronto, working out new material at Comedy Bar. So get your tickets. And then also, if you're in L.A., check out Largo and Dynasty Typewriter because I'm also working out new material there when I'm back in town. And every Friday, pretty little episodes. Don't forget to tune in. Yes, pretty little episodes. And send your questions and answers in for your chance to be on a pretty little episode. Mm-hmm.

Thomas said those are doing really well, that they're popular right out of the gate. I love that. Yeah. It's really, really fun. So, yep. Thanks for listening until next time. I mean, what should they do? What should we all do?

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