Mae's Dad asks about conversations with inanimate objects

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And I am sitting here with Mae Martin and Fortune Feimster. I get butterflies every time that we have to. Well, because I get anxious about the order of who's going to say hello. Who's going to do it? We never know, you guys. It's unplanned. It's a little adrenaline. Never do we know. That's why we're always like. But here we are. Here we are. We are all unplanned. And we're here. Is everybody having a nice day? Well, I am. I'm just still dealing with the construction going on and they've settled down. But again, it's like they know when we're about to record. They ramp it up. They make me nervous. And then they take it down a notch. And I hope it stays here because I was like, Oh, Lordy, this is going to be interesting. They're playing mind games with you. They are. And can I tell you something very fun that happened? Yeah. Yesterday. Spill. You know this, May. Stephanie and I were driving along and I happened to say, well, look at that little house. And I pointed to a house and Stephanie said, that's May's house. What? I can't believe it. And I was like, no, it's not. And she said. That's crazy. She said, I swear to God, I think that is May's house. And I was like, I took a picture because we were sitting in traffic and I was truly like, there was nothing. I just. I was like, oh, look at that little house. And not to say your house is little. I only saw it over a fence. I saw a roof and some trim. But really, one of the most random things that has happened. That is so random. I thought for sure. Once when I was like, OK, I'm going to take a picture and send that to May. And Stephanie was like, it might be like a house over. But she said, I think that's it. And so I took the picture. I sent it to May. And I said, is this your house? Yeah. You were like, Stephanie. Stephanie seems to think this is your house. Yeah, it was my house. It was May's house. I love that my house. You guys are connected. The fact that it can inspire a reaction like, oh, look at that little house. I love that. I mean, I really thought. It's because it's perched on a cliff. Yes. It's about to tumble into the street. Oh, no. Don't give me heart palpitations. Yeah. Well, I didn't want to make you nervous. I didn't want to make you nervous. But that is what I said. I said, look at that little house. And I was like, do you think that's going to stay? Because it's precariously hanging off a cliff. Yeah. And so I did not add that in because I was like, I don't want to create any sort of anxiety for you. But I was like, it's there. I was like, will that stay? And Stephanie said, that is May's house. That's insane. You know what's so funny is when May was looking at this house, May told us like, it's on a cliff. And who knows? And I was like, don't get that house. I know. And then like a week later, May's like. Sold. Sold. Yeah. I'm like, it's weirdly cheap, actually. And then I drive by, what, a year or two later. And I'm like, well, look at that little place. Do you think it'll hold? That won't be there long. Yeah. So I checked in recently to be like, because I swear when I moved in, they said, don't worry, we're dealing with that. Like the city's going to come and fix that. Because it's not only a cliff, but it's eroding inwards. Like it's. Well, I have, I have an update. They have not fixed it. Yeah, they have not. It is precariously placed on the edge of a cliff. Oh, my God. And. They're announcing 2027. They're going to fix it. They're saying. Oh, OK. Take their time. This is not OK. Do you think? So I do recall now that we, we did hear that your house is on a cliff, but actually seeing it, I was a little like, oh, my Lord. Yeah. Will we make it to next April? Wait, I'm praying for those who is in that little house up there. Whatever stranger happens to live up there, perch on this ledge. Just happens to be your podcast co-host and friend. Yeah. So let's, let's hope we make it to April. Well, the canary. Let's hope AMA makes it to April. Really, the canary in the coal mine is Matt and his wife living in my back house because that's right up against. Yes, it is. I've got a, I've got a driveway. So I'm, you know, I'll have 30 seconds longer. Yeah. We'll have a little time. OK. OK. Yeah. Your, your guest house dwellers are going to land on the top of a car and drive away in pieces. They'll make it then. Like in a cartoon, they'll land in the back of a truck. In a cartoon, the house, the guest house lands in the back. It's enough to where it really caught my attention. And I was. My God. Wait, I love that. I now know the, the truth. I think I need to start contacting the city. I think you should. Yeah. You, you probably should push for that. They're not, they're not going to just be like, oh, let's go take care of this. No. It's going to require some annoyance from you to them. OK. OK. I've got to advocate for myself. Fortune. I am going to send this. The picture. Oh my God. It should. Oh, let's see it. Yeah. Cause I haven't been there yet. But I think this is a sign that you guys got to come over before the big one hits. Do you see what. Stop. Are you serious? Oh my God. Whoa. That is. Wait. Right on it. I mean, OK, here's the good news. OK. Let's lead with the good news. The good news is the cliff is not as high of a drop as I thought. Wait a minute. You're not going to survive it. If you fell in a house. If you fell down that cliff in a house. You're just tumble, right? May is going to be fine. I'm worried about your guest house dwellers. Well, here's the thing. Your hill is definitely eroding. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And your house is right on the cliff. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So this building, the building that's right at the fence is the guest house? That's the guest house. That's correct. Yes. And then you're. That's the. That's the taller one. Taller building. I mean, speaking of precarious houses, we can hear they're trying to keep yours together. I know. Mine. I told you that we had some rotting in our deck and now it's getting repaired. But that's not as concerning as. Well, at least this part of the hill where your house is still has a lot of vegetation. So that's helpful. Is that where your house is now? Yeah. I'm looking at the. The picture I'm zooming in, but yeah, you know, the painting looks good. Uh-huh. Yeah. I just, just repainted. Yeah. The paint looks great. I love the color. Phenomenal. The color is gorgeous. Thank you. But what I'm saying is where your house is to the right of your house. Uh-huh. Where your house is not. That's where the erosion really is. No, that's where my house is. Oh. Yeah. That is the part. That's exactly the part. Because the thing about a hill is you want it to have vegetation. Why? Because it catches all the. The water and the rain. The roots and roots. The roots catch it. So when it's barren, it's tricky. That's where mudslides happen. Oh, God. I mean, I'm worried about when they fix it. They're going to have to come onto my property, I bet, and fix it from above as well. They might. Yeah. Well, a lot of the place, like across from your house, where I just learned is your house, is another, you know, very steep cliff. But they have a retaining. They have a retaining wall where they have cement and everything supporting them. so we just need to come over put this on the list thomas we need to go over and do a retaining wall and and put cement on there because we gotta save the little cowboy i don't mind at all i'm i'm home for 10 days and oh my god 10 days perfect yeah yeah and you wear your head gear your head microphone i'll make drinks for everyone yeah yeah yeah yeah okay i'll scurry around i mean i wish you know what i wish to when you were driving there because i bought one of those mini trampolines and when i jump you just see my little head you see my head bouncing up above the fence i wish you had seen that oh my god oh my gosh especially if the timing happened in the way that i said well look at that little house do you think it's gonna stay up there and then and then stephanie's like oh that's may's house and then moments later boing boing boing boing with your propeller hat on which is a little bit of a mess but it's a little bit of a mess but it's a little bit of a mess you know what i wish to when you were driving there because i bought one of those mini trampolines we haven't talked about in a while yeah you're gonna need that when you need to escape your house i'm gonna just cross myself and jump off and oh yeah oh my god um anyway very random that was such a bizarre moment i think it's a sign that i gotta have you guys over i think i think so because tig tig will occasionally have some uh revelations or is that the word some like what what did i have what i'll the one i'll remind you of one later oh i remember that one yes i remember that one yes i was right on you okay so it's time i can't ignore this it's time to call the city you really need to may it was it was um if i knew those people i and i now know i do um i yeah you would advise them yeah well i i want to have you guys over because look at i don't know if you can see thank you all i don't know if you can see i don't know if you can see i don't do you see all these boxes okay it's safe here i swear what's the boxes those are from tour those are all the things that people brought me on tour that i i had to ship here girls there are so many things for you in there you better believe my god i want to go through them all together and i have a couple little things for you guys really we need to make a little social media video of our um holiday our handsome holiday should we open it for our next holly bobs oh that's a good idea well the holly bobs is a while away but we are gonna be in person next week we could bring some of that stuff oh yeah or we come here next week and record in person i should send these guys over to your house jeez let's get them over whatever they're doing they're working hard i need some some workers they took our patio furniture of course off of our patio and put it in the backyard for them to work on this and i have been out of town and i just came in two nights ago woke up the next morning and was making breakfast for the little cubs and i look in the backyard and i just see this guy scrolling on his phone on our chair under the umbrella and i was like oh my god like i completely forgot because he had gotten there early for work and he was waiting for the other workmen and i just saw a man and i was like what a bold lunatic just relaxing and chilling yeah just scrolling away how funny anyway that's what's going on with me and may i love it fortune you're you're in the south i did uh go through atlanta and i had lunch with emily sailors from who we love from the indigo indigo girls delightful human and uh that was so lovely getting to see her and have a cute lunch night where did you guys go did you go to one of her restaurants doesn't she have one or two restaurants oh does she i don't know i didn't ask her she had well this is what a deep fan i am i know she has had the flying biscuit i knew that about that i wasn't and then she had one place called watershed okay i'll have to ask her i don't know but as we were leaving because we were talking about the pod uh at lunch and does she listen uh yeah she i don't think like all the time because she's always touring but she has and uh as we were leaving uh somebody went hey handsome hey it's always fun in the wild yes yeah i love that yeah i just found out as i as i left this last leg of the tour to come home i had the the bus driver told me jeff who we've talked about told me that he is an avid listener of the pod and i then realized he's gonna hear the episode where i talk about clogging the toilet so there you go uh there you go jeff there's your second gift from may martin oh my god it is a trip when you someone in your life tells you they listen and then you're like wait what have i talked about i cannot believe i know like my friend megan listens uh my sister-in-law i think my brother probably hears some things in and i'm like are you not tired yeah my sister-in-law who doesn't really pay attention to any of it was like are you on hulu now with your podcast i'm like yep yes indeed yeah it's nice i think people then people feel like they're like caught up with us like they i yeah i have old old high school friends and stuff who yeah then you don't have to do the small talk when you meet up because they know what's going on toilet on the bus they know they know they're like oh god hi i'm beck bennett i thought i was beck bennett no no no no i'm kyle mooney yes exactly no all good all good thanks buddy yeah and we host the show what's our podcast here on head gum this podcast is brought to you by square space square space is the all-in-one website platform designed to help you stand out and make you look like a kick-ass person online like your skateboard internet or you're like you're surfing through the web square space gives you everything you need to claim your domain showcase your offerings with a professional website grow your brand and get paid all in one place i 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this but may and i talked about on a preload episode about me possibly taking my mom to europe did i tell you i am gonna take her to europe yes okay yeah you did confirm never mind and it's well we can still get into it i just i just spent a week with my mom yeah has it been a big topic of conversation like are you guys planning the trip and we were just going back and forth because i wasn't sure like what she could handle but i went to a bunch of places and i was like oh my god i'm gonna go to this place and i'm gonna her appointments with her last week and um you know her her health you know is not bad right now i think being off the chemo she has more energy she's lost 100 pounds um and she's actually moving a bit faster than she has in a while so mobility was she's in a better place than she's been um wow and you know i just kind of thought why not let's i'll figure it out you know there will be where i have to take things really slow and you know not maybe not see as much of the city as i thought but we'll find a hop on hop off bus i'll get her up on there and we'll just ride around and that'll be that get her up on there i have to tell the bunch are like give me give me a few minutes i'm trying to get her up on there but uh you know she i want her to have these adventures um while she still isn't good enough health to do it um is there any particular things that she's excited to see she just likes to say that she's been to a country that she hasn't been to before oh it's about checking it off a list it's really about checking off a list you could just do layovers yeah yeah okay she's so she's going to copenhagen london and dublin with me at the um anyway she really wanted to go to i'm also doing berlin oslo and um stockholm and i was like i just don't think you can do this entire tour so i'm just we're she's gonna do half of it uh-huh but uh i've got i got so many messages from people after that episode aired uh of people giving me suggestions but the consensus from many of the people was that i should take her yes yes yes if she feels like she can do it. - Yeah. And there were a lot of people wanting me to also take them on the trip with me to watch her. And I was like, what? Wait, to watch her like she's a child? There were a lot of people being like, I'll go with you guys and I'll help take care of your mom. And did they say you have to buy the plane ticket? I think that is part of it, is that I would have to now pay for two people to go on tour with me. I'll go watch them watch her. I'll watch Tig watch them watch her. And you don't even have to get me up on there. Oh, yeah? Okay. You can get yourself up on the hop-on hop-off bus. Yes, indeed. So, yeah, Ginger and Fortune will be doing Europe together. I hope you guys can find a tits-out tub. I know, tits-out tub. I'm actually looking into fixing that tits-out tub. So, my dad. My tits might be in. No, please don't. Why would you do this? Why would I want to be cold in the hot tub and have my tits out? I mean, way to ruin everything for everyone. I mean, I can still call it the tits-out hot tub. But, you know, it would be nice to, like, be submerged when I go for a dip. You got to dip your nips. I got to dip my nips. Thanks, mate. Yes. Tits-out tub versus dip my nips. The dip. Dips my nips tub. Maybe we can do a social media post and have people vote. Are you tits-out or dip your nips? Dip your nips or tits-out tub. Okay. Now that we're calling it dip your nips, I'm less sad about losing tits-out tubs. Okay, good. Yeah. We just needed something that rhymed to make you feel better. Should we get to our question? Let's do it. I think we should. I think that, I think it's a perfect suggestion, considering that's our show. Today's question is brought to you by AT&T. I'm so excited about today's question, Asker. Today's Asker is a food and drink writer whose books include The Seducer's Cookbook and The Man Who Ate Toronto. His new book, Acquired Taste, The Lives and Recipes of Eight Culinary Ambassadors, which was also written by my mom and my brother. They all co-wrote it. It's available now wherever you get your books. He's also a puppet maker and a puppeteer, and he happens to be a puppet maker. to be my father james chato is asking today's question yeah hello handsome this is may's dad and i have a question for you and this this really is me talking not pongo my question is have you ever had a meaningful conversation with something that is not actually alive in its own right that's my question that's my question i just want to say we have very different fathers same same my dad would be like wait what am i supposed to do oh wait you want me to ask my daughter you're my daughter i love you what am i wait what is this okay he's pretty he's like i also have a podcast you i'm glad that you got to see the kind of puppet workshop that he has turned his his room into this like pretty magical geppetto world um pongo is a character he created who's an explorer monkey who is like discovering new species in the jungle like a half rabbit half lizard i think he found but yeah a magical guy his last name is chato yeah weirdly we all have different last names in my family really yeah my mom was like a real feminist gave me her last name so i'm may martin so she's may martin yeah yeah yeah i don't think i realized that was your mom's uh last name yeah and then um my brother like it my my dad's actual last name was sproll but uh he changed it to chato because it's more like that was what his dad went by chato and my brother was like like no my official last name is sprawl i'm gonna be sprawl so the yeah so everyone has a different last name i've never heard of that yeah but wait you and your mom do though we have the same name yeah me and my mom oh yeah we'll never learn i'll take it back yeah well may did mislead us saying everyone in my family has a different last name and then i sniffed out that that's actually not true that's true yeah half of you have the exact same last name you're right half of us have the same name yeah yeah but i think i got confused because there's three out of four of us have a different name to anyway it still adds up it still adds up to half of you this is also true it's weird math it's complicated yeah it's not yeah listen i'm not normally good at math but i crunch these numbers and i found crunch yeah yeah found a glitch so your dad wrote a your family wrote a book and it's about food this book just came out so yeah the past few years they've been working on it they just got really interested in the transmission of recipes across cultures but they've tracked down like eight specific stories where you can trace a recipe to like one person like one colorful character who like popularized i don't know like a certain type of dessert in you know korea but yeah and so it's a really if you're if you're a foodie if you're a history buff it's very very juicy and yeah all three of them wrote it it's so amazing yeah juicy i like your choice of words yeah yeah very juicy food book now did they ask you at any point to contribute no yes by promoting it on the podcast yeah that's true that's my role yeah yeah they i'm i'm not as they're they're really academic and and they're good at doing research and uh yeah and my dad's a food writer so yeah but i i did help like i took some of the photos in the book um that appear and then they would make the recipes in the kitchen and i would try them like there's the the queen mother's flourless chocolate cake and different things yeah okay yeah any vegan oh probably probably not well yeah there's a drink in there i think there's a drink in there yeah well that will fill me up well i know this isn't in the book but kudos to whoever thought about putting uh espresso on top of ice cream oh yeah that's i had that today and it's delicious is that the first time you've had it no it's one of my favorite desserts okay it's called an affogato oh i forgot about that i forgot about how we talked about that you forgot about i forgot i invented that but kudos to them cooters to them cooters to them cooter cooters to that i give this so my cooters so my dad's question is have you ever had a meaningful conversation with an inanimate object which by the way growing up that was the world that he created like yeah talking the eggs he would make me eggs in the morning and as he lowered them into the boiling water he'd make them scream and beg for their lives you'd draw faces on them our car was definitely alive my stuffed animals yeah so this is prevalent for him well right before the podcast i asked alexa the device i said uh what's what's it called when people talk to inanimate objects and alexa said it's a sign of intelligence and not weird and she used those words and not weird so stop judging yeah what's your problem may martin so have you have you uh taken into um your dad's that's not the right word have you followed your dad's footsteps in doing this as well i definitely feel things like um deep empathy for like objects i'm throwing out i'll suddenly feel like they're gonna be alone in the garbage and set like i yeah or like a lamp will take on uh yeah i and i talked to the car i guess yeah i don't i don't know that i've i talked to myself like i was playing foosball the other day you are alive though yeah yeah i'm alive i'm alive yeah you're right this house is on a dicey hill oh you know what i do if i'm with a kid and i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god and they bump their knee or they or they trip over something i'll if they're crying and hysterical i'll i'll say excuse me i need to have a word with that that object and i'll go and so that they can hear i'll be like how dare you to the stool or whatever they yeah themselves on and it's good it'll like distract them that's what i used to do as well i love doing that i mean people fully get married to inanimate objects there's okay i have a list of a couple of people who have married objects maybe you could maybe some of these will tickle your fancy are they from the comedy community oh my god imagine um okay erica eiffel can you guess who she's married to eiffel tower tower the eiffel tower Tower and she took the name. She married the Eiffel Tower in 2007 and she previously had a relationship with. I didn't know her last name was Tower. Oh yeah, you're right. And what is her first name? Erica. Erica Tower, obviously. Yeah, Erica Tower is really good. We've got Carol Santa Fe married the Santa Fe train station in 2015 which she considers a female entity named Daedra. I wish them all the happiness. I wonder if they're paying taxes. Linda Duck married a Ferris wheel that she named Bruce in 2012 after dating him for 30 years. What is dating a Ferris wheel? Yeah, talk about being afraid of commitment. So was she on a Ferris wheel by herself giggling as she went around? With Bruce? For those dates where people are on a Ferris wheel and they're like ah, yay, wee. That reminds me, I took my mom's like crazy afraid of heights and I took her on the Santa Monica Ferris wheel and she was like, I don't know if I'm gonna like this. I don't like heights. I'm like, oh, this is like nothing and she's like, okay. And then we get on the Ferris wheel and as it starts to go up, she's like, mm, mm. And then it starts to go around and it comes back down and you know, there's a long line of people. And so as it's coming down, she's like, mm, mm. And then she sees everyone and she goes and smiles really big for like 10 seconds as we pass everyone. And as it goes back up, then she goes back into mm, mm, mm, mm. And this went on for every time she would do this. It's hilarious. Oh my god. Mm, mm, mm, mm. That's how I discipline, by the way. Yeah? How? Yeah. Just if Max or Finn is out of line, I go, guys, uh-uh. Uh-uh. Oh, that's pretty. That would strike fear into my heart actually as a guest if you said that to me. It's also helpful because if things are like really bad and I go be in a beyond, hey guys, uh-uh, then they know there's like a real serious issue. You know? Yeah. Because I don't really go beyond uh-uh. Yeah. Uh-uh. That seems like it would be effective for sure. My cousin in Mississippi was like, are you kidding me? That's how, that's all you do? Is uh-uh? Uh-uh. Uh-uh, guys. Uh-uh. That's the exit. You should write a parenting book called uh-uh. Well, it's uh-uh. It's really short. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Hey, guys. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. That works for anything in life really. If anybody's doing something you're not into, you're just like, uh-uh. Hey. Uh-uh. You should go do that to the builders in your house. Hey, guys. Hey, guys. Uh-uh. Not right now. If you had to have a romantic relationship with an object, in your house, is there anyone you've been flirting with? Any chemistry with any of those? Probably my tub. Totally tub. Because we're already, you know, halfway there. Halfway there. We're already tits out. Yeah. And it's holding me. I'm in water. So I'm wet. Yeah, you feel held. Uh-uh. Hey, fortune. Uh-uh. It's big enough to fit me in it. I think I would go tub, yeah. That's really good. I think bed for me. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Just, uh, yeah, I'm in love with my bed. I don't have a lot of conversations with inanimate objects, really. I don't think that's my thing. But as I think about it, I mean, I have had that experience. The only thing I can think of is going to the cemetery. Mm-hmm. You know, in my mind, I'm talking, I'm talking to my grandmother. Mm-hmm. So my mind tells me this is a being. Mm-hmm. But I'm technically talking to a tombstone in the ground. Yes. Yeah. So, you know. Yeah, that counts a little, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, so I feel like in that case, I am just talking to the ground. Mm-hmm. Yes, her body is in there, but, you know. Yeah. It's the ground. She's all ears. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I bet there's studies, though, where, like, even, yeah, even talking to a wall would be better than talking to no one, because you're, yeah, you're speaking out loud, you're processing things. Mm-hmm. Getting it out of your system. Getting stuff out. Yeah. I mean, this is a being that's very much alive, but I talk to Biggie, when I'm with Biggie, I talk to him all the time. Sure. Very much alive. And, yeah, yeah. Even though his eyes aren't. Yeah. Yeah. Mm. Which I just posted pictures of him a few weeks ago, and everyone says his eyes are full of life. Twinkling. Full of life. Well, I, um, I talked a lot to my monkey Zip when I was little. I mean, that, aside from my cat, that was my best friend, my stuffed animal, uh, Zip. He got an ear load from me. Just, um, processing life. I was thinking, I know how Max and Finn weren't that interested in Zip when you passed him on. If you ever do feel like. Not at all. Not even just that into it. Just zero. You're like, what's this raggedy-ass. Yeah, yeah. stuffed animal? I don't, well, if you ever feel like you want him to be in a loving home where he'll get lots of, like, I will, I'll take him. You'll care for him? Really? I'll talk to him. Yeah, nobody's talked to him in years. Oh, I think Mae might need to have a visit. He could meet my bear, Malcolm, and they could chat, yeah. He could come over and, like, spend a long weekend with you. Yeah. You know, have a little, um, slumber party with Mae and, um, what's it? Malcolm? Malcolm. Yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. And I, you know, this is kind of similar, but not. I remember, you know, when my mother and stepfather passed away, like, once they were, um, no longer actually alive. I had, um, I had some, some of those moments of whewf. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I've, I've done the graveyard thing, talking, talking to a tomb, talking to tombstones and. Yeah. I've talked to the TV. Oh, really? Yeah. Sure. You don't ever talk to the TV? Go team is what I usually yell. Oh, right. Go team. What? Oh, you watching the news? No, usually that's sports. No, that's Golden Girls. I can't believe it. What? I can't believe it. But yeah, I think, I think your, your dad being a guy that has created a world of puppets, this definitely tracks for him. Oh, it tracks for who May is. I mean, I cannot even express enough, like watching that video and hearing his voice and, and just, um, it's like, you can't deny that that is your pops. I know. We look the same. I think we have the same mannerisms. I do also, I do have a lot of my mom's mannerisms as well. But, um, yeah, my, my dad always puts his finger on his mouth like this. And I noticed I do that a lot too. Yeah. But he, I mean, when he's cooking, there's a constant stream of like, it's like movie, it's like Alec Guinness quotes or like Peter Sellers or Lord of the Rings. Like, his, his mind is a radio and he, and sometimes just random things. And I think I get that a little, like, I was playing foosball yesterday with Matt and so clearly in my head, like Matt scored a goal. And in my head, I heard two can play at that game, Peter. And it was like someone else had said it. I was, but my dad will say it out loud, whereas also I'll keep it in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Should we hear his answer? Yeah. Yeah. Please. Obviously I have had many, many meaningful conversations with inanimate, well, semi-inanimate creatures. Was that your mother or you? That was me. That was you. Yeah. Yeah. And so that was it. He just said, I have. I know he didn't go into detail, but I think it's because the implication is like, is constantly. It was kind of similar to the vibe of have you ever thought of making a cookbook? Yeah. And then what was her answer? Cindy Lauper. Yeah. And then her answer was like, yes. She's like, yes. Yeah. Yes. Goodbye. Oh, my God. I think the main thing that happened in that answer was Pongo got irritated that he was referred to as inanimate. Inanimate object. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. That's got a sting. Offensive. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. Well, luckily not. No one listens to our show. show yes what a treat what a treat to see your dad and i love his cute puppets and um his accent i would do it the accent but you know you guys know how that goes no you're not using it not well no not well unless you do australian australian this is great that was pretty scottish that's scottish well anyway down on this was a wonderful episode great to see you guys and oh no no rise of blades we are trying to move some books for james so everyone join in and treat yourself to this wonderful so such an interesting book to write i must say yeah they're high quality and um they're they're wonderful for your own bookshelf or your loved ones yeah yeah coffee table oh yeah i'm not saying you have to have it on a shelf may i'm just no never yeah wherever you want to put the thing just get it you're not gonna regret it get it don't get it especially if you want like interesting trivia you can bring up in conversations that there's some very good stories oh my gosh yes all kinds of fans yeah um okay family fact what do you guys have coming up i the only thing i have is uh june 10th i'm at largo uh back in la doing a big fun show with friends but yeah what about you guys well starting may 28th i'm on my european tour berlin stockholm oslo copenhagen london and dublin and then i'm back in the states uh in mid-june in rochester minnesota cedar rapids iowa oh my god uh portland maine um and detroit i am also touring around i'm hitting all these minor markets and sometimes you know what i've been throwing an extra show in i didn't think i was going to do that this tour but i have been having a grand old time and i'm going to be in albany new york peakskill new york uh clayton new york rochester new york calispell montana it goes on and on go to tignotaro.com to get all of my show information and um yeah i don't know what else to tell you i think that sounds great i know what to tell you what review and subscribe to handsome and also um don't forget we're on hulu we're also on youtube um subscribe there share a favorite episode with a friend and help us build the community and get your um handsome merch at handsomepod.com we have tons of fun shirts and hats and all that good stuff oh yeah and there uh there's a lot of variety there really good summer stuff yeah nice sleeveless tops for summer i think yeah sleeveless bottoms too um and until next time keep it handsome handsome is hosted by me tignotaro may martin and fortune female the show is produced recorded and edited by thomas willett email us at handsomepod at gmail.com follow us on social media at handsomepod that was a head gum podcast what's going on it's lamorne morris and hannah simone and we host the mess around a new girl rewatch podcast on head gum now here's a thing every single week we chat about an episode of new girl and we really get into it like we get up in there we get up in there you know we reminisce about our times on set we share behind the scenes tea we react to re-watching episodes that we haven't seen in years we talk about how jake johnson is dog that's not true we talk about so many memories we have of working with the biggest stars on the planet i'm talking prince taylor swift olivia rodrigo we're just two bffs having a good old time okay sometimes we even talk to other co-stars like zoe day chanel jake johnson max greenfield and damon waynes jr and your dad we talk to your dad on this show as well make sure you subscribe to the mess around wherever you get your podcasts new episodes drop every single tuesday