This is a Head Gum Podcast. In partnership with Airbnb, let's talk a little bit about travel. Tig, as you know, I'm about to go on my first big tour around the United States. And while I'm traveling in a bus, I want to make sure I get a couple nights in a nice comfy bed that's not on wheels. So I'm going to book a couple nights' stay on Airbnb. That sounds like a plan, Mae. What area are you looking? Well, I'm going to be in Florida, which I'm very excited about. I'd love to find somewhere with a hot tub or a sauna that I can relax in. Maybe some nice nature nearby, like a big park or something. I love finding a home on Airbnb because I know I can get the place all to myself and I can read tons of reviews and make sure it's a great place. Airbnb also has guest favorites badges that show me the highest rated and most loved homes. I've just never gone wrong booking one of those. You know I swam with sharks in Florida. Is that something you would ever try? I hadn't thought about that, but if I'm near the ocean, then who knows? Maybe I will. On the other hand, if I find a really nice place on Airbnb, I may just never want to leave. Hey, Handsomes. We have a very special live show coming up for the holidays on Monday, December 22nd. Join in the fun and festivities from anywhere in the world by getting your tickets at the link in our social media bio or at dynastetypewriter.com. Your ticket will allow you to stream the show anytime for a full week. It's the perfect gift for you and all the handsome folks in your life. It's going to be so fun, so go to dynastetypewriter.com or follow the link in our bio and get your ticket for our December 22nd show today. Ho, ho, ho. Handsome, chatting with friends on the Handsome Park, chatting with friends on the Handsome Park. Pretty Little Episode. Welcome to the Handsome Pod. This is a pretty little episode. Yes, it is. I'm your cool host, Mae Martin. Join by. I am not able to keep up with this level of cool, but my name is Tig Notaro. Wow, go to YouTube. Thank you. Very cool. Look, Mae. Thank you. Where did you get these? My friend Joe is staying in this room right now. I don't know if you can see, I pulled out the sofa into bed there. These must be his sunglasses I just saw. They're stunning. I think he'll agree. Why is he staying in that room on that couch? We're writing a new show. He wrote Feel Good With Me and we're writing a new show and he's here for two weeks. He flies all the way from England and every time I'm like, dude, I am all yours. While you're here, we are going to get stuff done. He arrives and I'm like, can we do an escape room? Or I'm like, I got to go to the sauna or something. He's really patient with me, but man, he's a good boy. So you guys are writing a new series together? We are. Yeah, I'm really pumped. I think it's, he's so fun to write with. It's just so rare to find someone who's totally aligned and we don't have any ego with each other. We're pretty blunt and it's just trying to make each other laugh. And so is this something where this is not a follow up to wayward? This is, are you guys are just going to, are you coming up with a script or a pitch? We're developing it with someone and we're, we've been, we got to write two scripts and like a whole series Bible. And then I guess at that point they'll tell us if they're going to make it or not. But I hope they will because. They'll make it. You're the number one star in the universe. You're only as good as your last thing, you know? What if they're like, what is this trash? Well, if you're only as good as your last thing, then you're really good. Well, I, I'm just pumped that this is a real like joke heavy comedy. I really, I miss being silly like that. How about a slip on a banana type stuff or like step on a rake and it comes up, hitch in the face. Yes, please give me all that. I want like your pants accidentally fall down. You know who could write for you? My son, Max. Oh my God, is he into that kind of slaps? Yes, indeed. Yes, I, you know what? I watched on a plane the other day for the first time. Freaky Friday, the original. See? No. What year was that with? Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis. I didn't see it. And they, they're a mom and daughter and they switch bodies and they just did a sequel, but I watched the original and I was like, I don't know if I was like high from the altitude, but I was cry laughing by myself on the plane. No, I think Stephanie's told me it's a really good movie. It's really funny. It's like it's really good. They're both just Jamie Lee Curtis is because they swap bodies is playing a teenager basically. And then Lindsay Lohan's playing her mom and they're just both great. So funny. There's also a 1976 version with Jodie Foster. No. I know it's going to say that one. Yeah, I was going to say, I think I saw. I didn't know that was Jodie Foster in there. Does she say like, Mom, this fraud is pretty freaky or something like that? Is that a good Jodie Foster? Nah. Jodie came to come see me in the Good Light screening. No way. Oh yeah, she's there. Do you know her? I mean, just I don't know her well. I know her through. I've known her wife forever. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Alex. We got to get Jodie to ask a question. Yeah. I wonder if she would. She doesn't strike me as somebody that. She's like, I have all the answers. I don't need to ask any questions. I yeah, I do. I mean, who knows? Maybe she'd be like, yeah, I'll do your circus of a show. But she's so cool. Yeah. Really nice person. You've seen the Sons of the Limbs? I haven't. Really? I mean, I promise I haven't. I believe you. I just always think about this one scene where she shows up at Buffalo Bill's house and she has no idea that he's the killer and he invites her in and the girl is in the basement and she has no idea and just slowly in the kitchen standing talking, Jodie Foster in Buffalo Bill, like she realizes it's him. He realizes that she knows it's him and it's like the tensest scene. And then it all explodes. It goes crazy. So make you a little nervous, I guess. It's making me nervous now talking about it. I remember my first girlfriend went and saw that movie and she came over. I don't know who I was house sitting for, but she came over to stay with me for the weekend and she had just seen the movie and she was freaked out. And I had no idea what the movie was about or anything. And I just remember the whole night being like, here come the lambs. Careful, here come the lambs. And I was like, careful, there's a lamb behind the door. Oh my God, I wish it was about lambs. How are you, Tigg? Oh, thank you for asking me. I'm doing well. I know you're in Toronto and behind you framed. Is that like art of an old bill, like of Canadian money? Yeah, ten, ten, ten dollars. That brings back, that's like what money was like when I was a kid and then they turned it all into these weird plastic bills, like plastic, but oh man. What, those are terrible. I'm sorry, Canada. I don't like your plastic bills. No. I understand they're not, you can't rip them and all that kind of stuff, but like. Yeah. Oh, well. I know. I got, I got some change the other day, a bunch of one dollar bills here. And then someone had written like, like Annabelle on one of the bills. And I thought, how come that seems like something I would love to do, write little messages on all the money and then because it gets circulated out back into the world. They didn't write Annabelle. Oh my Lord. And that's why they pay you the big bucks. Have done it again. Speaking of writing on bills. Uh-huh. I did a show the other night. Uh-huh. With a magician. No. Okay. You don't want to hear the story? I love magic. And was this magician fucking amazing? May. May. I'm delighted. May. Okay. So Stephanie and I are sitting backstage at my show. Yeah. And it's this charity event. There's a magician. And of course it's like, it's a real crap shoot with a magician. You never know. He's like, okay. I'm gonna hand, he's sitting on one side of the table. We're sitting on the other. He said, I'm gonna hand you. Or no, he said, pick a, you know, classic pick a card. Any card? Yeah. I pick a card. He said, okay, here is a marker, a permanent marker. Sign your name on the card. I was like, all right. And he said, now this is insane. Oh my God. He said, all right, put it back in the stack. Yeah. I was like, great. He shuffles it. He's like, all right. Now that wallet that's sitting in the middle of the table. No. I was like, yeah. And he said, you haven't touched it. Neither of you have touched it, right? I said, right. Like I didn't even notice the, I saw it, but I didn't pay any attention to it. He's like, and I didn't touch it, right? I was like, right. He's like, okay, you want to open it? So I open it. It has two snaps on it. And behind, you know where you put your license in a, where there's a plastic cover, you put your license in there. My card was in there signed. No. Yes. Yes. I was like, I am so sick and tired of your bullshit. I need you to step away from me, sir. Oh my God. I could not believe. And then he told Stephanie to pick a card. Which she did. He said, what was your card? And she was like, you know, a diamond and eight of diamonds or whatever. Yeah. And he was like, are you more partial to the diamond or the eight? Interesting. And she was like, the diamond. And he was like, okay. And then he goes, and then she said, no, the eight. I want you both, May and Thomas, to look at me when I tell you this. We were sitting on the other side of the table from him. And he said, look at your hand. Her physical hand. Yes. I have goosebumps right now. You can't, if you could see. There was with that permanent marker and eight written on the inside of her hand. What? I, it did, it was all of this all night long. Oh my God. That's why I kept yelling at him. You, I am sick and tired of your bullshit. Oh my God. May your brain would ooze out of your ears. This man, this man. But also the fact that Stephanie pivoted, she went diamond actually eight. Oh my fucking God. Also, okay. Because the card thing I'm like, did he know your signature and he'd put it there before? But how would he know what card you chose? This is too powerful and dangerous. Exactly my point. He needs to be arrested. Yeah. Holy shit. One of the best magicians I've ever seen in my life. You got to give me the name and I'm going to, I'm going to look this guy up. Magic Mike. No. Imagine how powerful you'd feel, but also the pressure if you get it slightly wrong in front of all those people. Oh, wow. Well, I can't believe it. Like you just telling me about it felt. I felt like I was being astonished by magic. He's mind blowing. I think I'm going to have him do one of my Largo shows. Yeah, you have to. Well, should we get in into our questions? He would people have to. What would you do if it was from the magician? And I wouldn't doubt it. I would not doubt it if I walked into my closet or bedroom here in Toronto and then he's there. Yeah. Well, hit us, Thomas. Who do we got? Hi, handsome. This is Clata from Brazil. And this is a question for today when May is around because it involves games. So the game I want to propose is that you tell your life story in one minute. So you've got to tell him yourselves one minute and you tell your life story. Wow. OK, I like it. Or should we do it? Sure, you go first. OK, you got a timer, Thomas. You tell me when. Oh, my God. And maybe do a countdown five for it with your fingers when it's getting to the end and then we'll have to cram in the end. Yeah. OK, I'll put it on screen so you can see it and it'll go off. OK, yeah. So tell me when you're ready, May. OK, I'm ready. Now. OK. 1987, I was born. My name is May Martin. I was born to Wendy and James in Scarborough General Hospital. I was so premature and then I grew up a very needy child, but confused. And then I went to school, dropped out of school, got loved doing drugs, then kicked out of my house and moved to England. I had got engaged once, then also got engaged a second time, but then also generally happy doing comedy. What? Never had any dogs that I owned. Happening. I got tattoos, allergic to coconut. Did a podcast called Handsome. Wait, I'm done and I got 25 seconds left. I go into a Seattle massage school, got a diploma that was back in the day. And then now I am living in the house and my friends are around and there were moments in life that were hard. Overall, things always work out for the best. And I believe in the in mother nature to see me through. Wow. What a life. I really life. That was really depressing. I only needed 40 seconds and then I was struggling to fill the last 20. Yeah, that's good, though. Think about all the moments in between that I've lost. I just nothing happened in between those moments. That was it. You've lived 40 seconds. Oh, man. God, our little personal stories. Do you want to do yours, take? Yeah. Thank you. Great. All right. One, two, three, go. On March 24th, 1971, Matt Teal, O'Callaghan, Notaro was born. Did I say Jackson, Mississippi? That's where I was born. And then my parents split up and I moved with my mother and my brother down to Paschus Jam, Mississippi, where we lived until my mother and stepfather met and got married and moved us to Texas, where I wet my pants until way too long and had a greasy bull haircut. That was still popular, though, very well liked. I was smoking the whole time and sitting in trees and what have you and skateboarding around the neighborhood. We had 12 cats and a dog and I failed every grade I ever touched. We lived in New Jersey for a couple of years. I dropped out of high school, moved to Colorado. 10 seconds left. I started a life of my own out there. Met my first girlfriend, came out of the closet and I moved to Los Angeles with my childhood friends and got into stand up, met Stephanie and had Max and Finn. Whoa. See, that was good. Also, I had cancer. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, we missed. We missed some big chunks. Read my book. It's called I'm Just a Person. That was fun. Thank you so much, Clara. Yeah, no answer from her from Brazil, right? Yeah, but I would like to hear her minute long life story. That would be good. Yeah. Why didn't she give that to us? That's a good game, though. That's like when you meet people for the first time, that's a good game to play. Yeah, that's really good. Yeah. Yeah. What else? Who else have we got? What else and who else? Yeah. Next up. Hey, handsome. Steph from Vermont. I'm curious about traditions. They could be holiday related or anything your families have traditionally done that maybe they hope to hand down through future generations. I'm big on traditions, and then my mom's always trying to scramble them up and do something different, which I also admire as a quality. But I really like your classic Christmas meal. And my mom's often like, this year we're having elk sausages and bok choy. And you're like, OK. But one tradition is we play poker and drink wine. That's always your whole family, all four of you. Yeah. Yeah. And then there's always the the tradition that my dad has of if you see the new moon through glass, then you have to go outside with a coin in your hand, bow to the moon three times, say good evening, lady moon, and turn the coin over in your head. Now, that is a very, I don't know. Pagan. No, it reminds me of Ozzy Osbourne's song, Bark at the Moon. You said, bow to the moon. Yeah. Yeah. You know, Bark at the Moon, Ozzy's song. I know that phrase, but no, I don't know. No, it's just funny to think of him singing bow to the moon. And like with his crazy Ozzy bow to the moon. Yeah. A lot of that comes my grandma had a lot of strange traditions and superstitions and stuff that my dad has passed on. What about you? We have a lot of traditions and Max and Finn love traditions. Yeah. And it helps the world make sense to kids. Yeah. And it just creates comfort and safety feelings. And there's so many. Finn is so sentimental and there's so many times that he's like, I'm going to do this with my kids. And when I'm a dad, he is a dad already. Huh? He has such dad energy already. I can't think of specific things that I mean, I know I've talked about this before, but like on Christmas Eve, we have vegan gumbo. And then we have it for the days following. And I've mentioned that Nana comes in town and we have our little tree trimming party with her where we get the tree ready and put on some tunes and have our oat nog and what have you. It's just little like your tig bits are almost traditions. It's like little turns of phrase that you say as a family. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, in my family, if you ever say like, I used to say, I'm going to go outside and my dad would say, who's Ina? Or like if I said surely not, he'd say, don't call me surely. Oh, yes, yes. Did you ever see the airplane movie? Yes, yes. So good. Yeah. I'm forgetting her name, who is so funny from the the airplane movies. And I saw her at the airport. I was in a movie with her. But before I was in a movie with her, I was like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe I'm seeing her at the airport. But of course, Oh, Julie Hagerty. Yeah, that's her name. Before I was in that movie, I was thinking, oh, my gosh, I can't believe I'm seeing her at an airport. And then I thought, but gosh, anytime she's at an airport, people can't believe they're seeing her at an airport. Yeah. And she also feels like she could play Maria Bamford's mother. Oh, really? OK, yeah. I know exactly the type then. Yes, yes. But yeah, I think I think we have just traditions, you know, even just little things like after Max and Finn's practices, you know, basketball, baseball, they like to go to this place called Burger Lounge that has a really good vegan burger. And yeah. And and that's just kind of a little thing that we do. Yeah, nice. Should we hear Steph's answer? Let's do it. Given the timing, I will share a holiday one. Around the time that I was born, we were renovating my old family farmhouse when my grandmother came upon a lump of coal without telling anyone. She wrapped it along with a bunch of other like gag gifts. And she distributed all of them to everyone on Christmas Eve at the family dinner. She set out all these rules about how many swaps you could do before you open your mystery gift. But then whoever ultimately unwrapped the coal had to do the job the following year. And, Tig, when I hear you talk about your mom, I often hear the spirit of my grandmother in your stories. Thank you so much for your joyful contributions to our world. Our families navigating some challenging stuff right now in your episodes lift me up twice a week. Something I'm really grateful for. Oh, my gosh. Oh, Steph. I love that. Yeah. That was so touching and meaningful. And yeah, I'm sorry to hear you're going through a tough spot. Yeah, glad we can brighten it up a bit. Hang in there, kid. Yeah. A holiday season's tough for a lot of people. But also you find your little bits of magic. I can't get over that. I'm going to Google that magician right away. I'll get you his name, please. He's really something. And this was lovely. And please keep submitting your questions. Go to speakpipe.com slash handsome pod. Also, don't forget, we have a live streaming Holly Bob's show this Monday, December 22nd. It's so rare. The three of us can all get together and we're going to party and have the best time. So go to the ticket link in our social media bio or dynasty typewriter dot com to get your ticket and and and be prepared to see me crunk. Yes. Oh, my girl. I am going to be crunk. Yes, I'm going to bring some like sweet liqueur, some Christmasy liqueur. Love it. And until next time, keep it pretty handsome. Handsome is hosted by me, May Martin, Tignotaro and Fortune Fiemster. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willett. Email us at handsome pod at gmail.com. And please follow us on social media at handsome pod. What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What?
