Pretty Little Episode #95

This is a head gum podcast. Handsome child, friends on the handsome part. Child and the friends on the handsome part. Pretty little episode. Welcome to the handsome pods. I am Fortune Feamster. And I am TIG. Notaro. How are you Fortune? So good. How are you, my friend? I'm doing well. I'm just a torn around and just doing the best I can, really. That's all I can do. You're doing great. Some days, are you enjoying me back on tour? I am. I'm liking these. I really don't. I don't know if it's my age or what, but I'm just-- I'm really happy with once a month, four or five nights in a row, and it's just as nice. I would go out, I'd go hard, and fast. Whereas I'm like, I'm going to let this ride as long as it wants to. But things are good. Stephanie and I are-- we have stuff we're working on that's been really fun, and it's one of those things where you go into these projects, and they're kind of like stalled out sometimes for a while, and then-- and who knows what will ultimately happen. But we just had like a really fun run of a week of like, well, that's a really good aim. Whoa, I didn't-- Oh, nice. This came back around. And so I'm also, though, trying to-- like, I love working on that. But I'm also-- I think I'm realizing I don't know that I want to be fully producing anymore on projects. Yeah. Why? It's just too much work. It's just a lot. It's a lot. When things get really layered and complicated and stuff, I don't have the-- I find it fascinating that people will get into the business to be a producer. Because you're taking on so much. Whereas I started out as a comedian, and then got into different projects and development, and you know, oh, that'd be fun. Yeah, let's do that. And then you're like, oh, my God, I'm full on in a producing role, and just kind of pulling back the layers of getting in touch with, what do I really want? Right. What do I want for my time, my-- What are my actual interests? I don't want to get my dream confused with anybody else's dream. Yeah. I want to do what I really want to do. So yeah, it's a weird but good time. Well, that's good. Yeah. I would think that that would be a lot of like coordinating, and I don't know, a lot of being required to be organized. Well, yeah. Yeah. You know what? I don't know that I would want to do it full-time either. And I didn't mean to do it full-time, but I just started to realize, like, gosh, so much my time is like being allocated to these kind of tasks and calls and conversations and meetings. And I'm just like, is this really what I want to do? You know? I mean, that's a different kind of producer than just like, oh, this project is teed up. Everything's looking good. Your name might be helpful to have on this project. And it's like, in that case, I'm like, yes. It's not my name on there. It's not my name. And let's go. But I'm always really interested in that world of learning about myself. Yeah. I'm very interested in that, because sometimes I can become numb and just be moving forward without thought. And I can't wait to tell me this, but this is exciting. I'm doing my own wellness weekend. By yourself? I'm going to hire people. Because I was thinking, I really want to do a wellness retreat. But not that I am the most recognizable person in the world. But I do think I wouldn't feel totally relaxed if I was at a retreat, because people make recognized me. Sure. And so I started to look into other options. And then I saw like, maybe you can hire somebody to come in and do a retreat for you at your house. So it's private. I was like, well, that's cool. Or you get a hotel room. And somebody goes and meets you at the hotel and does the whole thing with you. So yeah, it's just more of that of like just-- I'm going to spend two days by myself. And I'm going to have different people that I hire to come in and-- Oh. Yeah. So I'm going to get that little experience. And then I'm going to open it up for our wellness weekend. OK, yeah, you see how it goes. See if you're into it. Then take notes and perfect it by the time we come around. I have another thing I don't want to tell May about just yet either. OK. OK. Are you pregnant? No. But I am going to go to Star Night Live on Saturday night to the taping-- Is it an answer? No, even better. Who? Paul McCartney's the musical guest. Oh my gosh. You guys are never going to get past your musical conflict. So when I'm going because Will Ferrell is hosting-- So I'm doing a show in Pennsylvania the night before. So I was like, I'll just take the train up to New York City and see Will. And I had no idea-- had no idea until today that's who the musical guest is. And they got to meet him. I might not even meet him. But the idea that I could potentially meet Paul McCartney-- May is not going to handle this well. OK, because now you might meet him. And I chose not to go to a party of this. May can't-- Yeah, it's too much for, I think, May's-- My soul. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, TBD. It might-- nothing makes me a little bit. I think you'll meet him. I think you may. I feel like it's a possibility, because I'll be hanging out with Will and his people. So I don't know. We'll see. We'll see, but it did give me a good cackle when I realized it. And when did you find that out the past couple of days? Oh, today I saw Will's promo. And he mentioned Paul McCartney. And I went, oh my god, is that the guest? Let me see the guest. And then I looked it up and it is. And I was like, oh, are you kidding me? That is so-- I cannot wait. Please let me be there when you tell me. I will, I will. OK. Yo. I'm poor little May. Well, shall we get into our questions? Let's do it. Hi, Tick. Hi, Fortune. Hi, May. This is Wendy from Toledo. My question for you is this. So you know the social movements, no shave, November, and no moe, May. Like you're not supposed to moe your lawn in May, because it helps the environment. Oh, I didn't know that. I'm wondering what social movement you would want to start. And what month you would pick. And I am excited to hear your answers. I didn't know about the moe, no moe, November. And what, no shaving your hair on your body? No interesting. Like, no koochi? You mean I can't shave mikoochi. Fortune. Marie, I'm only thinking about cave mikoochi, because I just saw her in a picture with a friend of mine. Oh my god, I did a voice over the other day. And then she popped up on the screen. She was next in line to record on the cartoon. It was such a fun surprise to see her little face. And I love how much she is a part of this show, just because of the motto. But she's also one of my dearest friends. I do love that. And I love that your dear friend's last name is mikoochi. Our question from Wendy is, what would we start if we could start anything? I thought about this. I knew you'd have an answer right away. Yes. I have thought that it would be, and maybe this is already happening, but I've always thought it would be such a great idea to have whether it's a day, a week, or a month every year that as just people on the planet in their town or city, everywhere you go, pick up something and throw it away. Just pick up trash, pick up recycling, and just make it a thing that everybody knows because that would make such a huge impact as far as just on a surface level of tidying up the area that you live in. I like that. Yeah, I like you too. I used to do that, adopt a highway thing back in high school, do you remember that? Yeah. And so we would go out and pick up trash for some part of town that some company, basically a company would sponsor it and then get people to volunteer to help them. So yeah, I like that because there's so much trash, we got to do better about that for sure. I mean, I would try to help save water. I think we should do like no shower Wednesdays and on Wednesdays, no one can shower. But everyone would participate. So if someone were a little stinky on Wednesday, you would know why, you know, that particular day, maybe just, you know, do a little more geoderant, yeah, perfume. But yes, since everyone's doing it, it wouldn't be a big faux pas. Well, we could probably save a lot of water also if may stop showering twice a day. May does enjoy a shower. A lot of showers and a lot of baths. Yeah. That could help. Um, I'm all for stinky, uh, stinky Wednesday doesn't sound right. Stinky. What? It is on a day. Well, you can't do it sounds like, because that's a date night, you know, potentially. Stinky Tuesday. Tuesday could, could work. I think it has to be a Tuesday or a Wednesday, because those are not as much as going on socially, you know, stinky Tuesday. Stinky Tuesday. Okay. Stinky Tuesday. So that's what that's today. We're going to say water and we can't pick up trash that day. Yeah. That yeah, because you don't want to get too stinky and we can't call the trash day stinky Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's a good idea. Stinky Tuesday. Okay. And then you wake up and you pick up trash on Wednesday and then you take it and then take a shower. Yeah. Yeah. Look at that. What's Wendy got for us? Wendy would be switched it up September because I just love switching things up and I think it would be fun to have all kinds of people doing, you know, getting out of their routine and doing something different just to keep it fresh and maybe to keep it a little bit silly. So I think that could be a really fun activity for people. Thanks. Love your show. Thank you, Wendy. I like that. This is another example of our listeners have great questions. They sure do. Really, really great questions. I'm always like, what is this going to be? And Wendy delivered again. Go Wendy. I love your hamburgers. Okay. Hi. Take my important. My name is Megan and I'm calling from just outside of what's your Massachusetts. And I have a question that I can't answer myself, but I'm curious to hear your answers. So I'm listening to a recent pod, Fortunes talking about her international tour coming up. And I'm curious if and how you tailor your comedy to locations. So I would assume not every country shares the same humor. And I'm wondering if you write different jokes for different places, even different cities. If you do, how that process works, I love you guys and I look forward to listening to you every week. Thanks. Well, we love you too. That's right. They made me think about how comedy and general and podcasts and general, it's for specific audiences. And because a friend of mine, her mom told me, I try to listen to hands, I just don't understand what it's about. And I said, I don't think it's for you. I think it can't be. We have people of all ages that listen to it, but if you listen to it in your first thought is, I don't know this is about, then probably you're not going to enjoy the rest of the episode. That is so funny. What is it about? What is it about? I don't understand. What would you say? It's about. It's about. I'd say it's about, it's about like nothing and everything, you know? Because it's nonsense a lot of time, but then other times we really dig into things, you know? But that's the nature of these, the questions is that it takes us in many different directions. Yeah. I guess if it interests you to hear a group of people pondering, pondering, pondering. Yeah. And then sometimes it's funny and we make people laugh and then sometimes it's earnest and sometimes it's sad and sometimes it's just chatting, you know? Yeah. It's a lot of different things. Yeah, it's a lot of different things. That's right. But for international shows, you know, I just do Europe and a handful of places in Europe and I do Australia. And then I do, I mean, Canada feels very similar to here, so yeah. But like I've never performed in some of the places I'm going, so I, you know, it will be new to me. And I do remember when I performed in Iceland last year, I was like, oh, you know, you do think like, are they going to get this reference or this fast food chain or, you know, their biscuits or something else, you know, so you just have to, you either shift it to like a fast food place that they recognize, if say, say if it's a fast food story, or like if I'm talking about a biscuit that's a Southern biscuit, I'll take a couple extra sentences to describe it. Yeah. Or if it seems like a very American story that's like, maybe not as relatable, I might just take that out completely. So yeah, I personally tailor it a little bit, but not to the point where it's a whole other act. Yeah, I remember when I first got into stand up, people would be, people would be like, you got to have your clean set, you got to have your college material, you have to have your corporate, you had, and I was like, I don't, I just, that's a lot of sets. Yeah. I mean, but those, I mean, I just did not understand, because they felt very like business comedians, you know what I mean, like, yeah, you got to have this, you got to be prepared for that, and you got to make sure, but I never did that. I was just like, here's my material. This is what inspires me to write about and talk about and perform. Yeah. Like you said, if there are moments that I, it, but it's also, you know, to talk about my tailor-dain bit, sometimes when it wouldn't work in the early days, people would say, oh, it's because, you know, people don't know who she is, or they must not know who she is. And I'm like, that doesn't matter, because I've talked about my mother, I've talked about friends of mine, and you, it's your job as a comedian, as you're saying, to give that description so that it doesn't matter who you're talking about, that it just becomes relatable, and whether you're tweaking a few words here and there, or just dropping an entire story altogether, because it's like, but I don't really add things or write things, but specific to the town. But every now and then something will happen when I'm on the way to a show, or if something outrages. But that's also coming from a real place of, oh, I wanted to talk about this. I'm not like, hey, tell me what your local specialty is, or is there anything about your town I need to know so I can like write something? I just, and maybe people wish, or are looking for that in a comedian, but I'm not, I'm not that person. I don't really do it either, occasionally, right now I'm doing like a little bit of crowdwork in the middle of the show, so sometimes I'll, you know, pop in a couple of things here and there, but I'm not like doing a whole, like, five or 10 minutes on the town. Yeah, yeah. But that's another thing I will shift for my European shows. I have learned, I mean, at least through my time doing London and Amsterdam, European crowds don't seem to be as much into crowdwork as American audiences, because they don't want to be a part of the show, they want, they're like came to see you, I had, I did a week of shows in London at the Soho, gosh, this would have been like seven or eight years ago, and a reviewer came, which I wasn't used to that eye there, being reviewed and stand up. Unless you put out a special just, you don't really get reviewed for your live shows, and she liked everything but the crowd work. He was like, I don't like enjoy, you know, the back and forth there. It wasn't that it was bad crowdwork, that he just wasn't into it. And I learned that throughout the week that people are just not, those audiences are a bit more demure, whereas Americans, you know, wanna hear themselves talk, wanna be loud, wanna be boisterous, so they're into it. So I definitely shift my set for that. Yeah. - Well, there you go. There's your answer. - There you go, Megan. - A little bit. Sometimes, maybe not, mostly, huh, uh. - Umpoko. - Send your questions in. Also, share episodes. Help us build this handsome community. Submit your questions to speakpipe.com/hansompod. Come check me out on the road, tignotaro.com. I'll be in Spokane, Washington, Eugene, Oregon. I'm doing some local shows in LA. Colorado Springs, Calgary, Iowa City, Des Moines, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Cincinnati, Charleston, West Virginia. The list goes on and on. Come on out. We'll see you soon. What about you, Fortune? - I'm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa tonight. So come on out for that. I'm in Omaha, Nebraska tomorrow night. The next weekend, Portland, Maine, and Detroit, Michigan. So I'll see you guys, hopefully, one of these fun shows if you live in the area. - Yeah, and until next time. - Cedar Rapids, pretty handsome mom. - Hansom is hosted by me, Tignotaro. May Martin and Fortune Themester. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willett. Email us at [email protected]. Follow us on social media at HansomPod.