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Cheers! Welcome to the Hansapod. I'm Fortune Feenster. I'm Mae Martin. And I am Tig Notaro. And it's Tig's birthday. Oh my gosh. Fifty five. Fifty five, baby. Double nickels. Finally finally old enough to move into A retirement community. Is this the age where you get sodas for cheaper? Is that a thing? In America. In America it is. Uh what does that mean? There's a at fast food restaurants, which I know you love. Um You know me, girl. They there's a senior drink.

No, it's a you can order a senior drink and it's cheaper and I I think age might be fifty five, but I'm not sure. Take you half to do that. My mom orders them everywhere she goes. And I'd like a senior mellow yellow.

That's so funny because I've um ever since I was like a young adult, I would say probably late teens, early twenties, um, uh, probably even beyond that, I would anywhere I would go, like if I would go to be parking my car in a parking lot and paid parking lot. I'd always ask, you know, oh and do you offer a senior discount? Or if I if I uh or if I was like, you know, buying clothes at the mall or something, I'd be like, Oh, and do you offer a senior discount? And they'd be like

Uh some people would be like, Well, you're not a senior or who is this for? Or and then most people would be like, I gotcha, that's funny and then they give me the senior discount. I'd be like Yeah, yeah. So I can't believe it now has Caught up with me. That I can actually ask for a senior soda. I'm gonna I'm gonna Google to see if there is an age for it. You really talk about it. Thomas's job to Google. He must Google our senior sodas. Now you should start asking for the kid discount.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm not seeing something speci oh, actually, oh Wendy's. I think um Senior Soda? Oh, some are some people are saying sixty, some people are saying fifty-five plus And you get a free senior beverage, which is a fifteen ounce value cup of soda or a small cup. I know. I'm really gonna be able to, you know

Live life. With all the money I'm saving on my senior soda. Suddenly you start going to fast food restaurants for the first time in your life. No, I did go until I was about nineteen. Oh really? And then that was it. You're like, no moss. Well, you know what's funny? I remember I was such a and still am, this is no secret, big indigo girls fan. Uh-huh. And I remember them saying one of them or both of them saying to you know boycott fast food and I was like we'll do

Never going again. That was Yeah, yeah. Um and I just stuck with that and then becoming vegan nearly ten years ago, obviously. That limits your options. Actually I actually have gone on the road. Um some of those places have had vegan burgers and I've stopped and gotten that. Yeah. Yeah. I I stopped for a vegan burger once in the drive through.

Of like I don't and maybe it was McDonalds or something where I there was no food around. I was like, Okay, I'm gonna do this. Yeah. It was good. Um and then like places like Chipotle, that's fast food. I go there. Oh we can't eat at Chipotle anymore. Yeah. Yeah. They're bad news. Really? Yeah, yeah. I don't know what happened. I think they're just funding all the all the bad things. But it's a shame I love Chipotle, but

But they were like when I was on the road um looking for some grub. Oh but now I have Happy Cow, which is the app that tells you where the nearest vegan food is to you. Yeah, I love that app.

I'm really struggling to eat normal food on the road. I'm here on my tour bus now and I I'm like eating in insane times, insane things. I'm I feel insane. Well let's uh first of all Give us a peek C. Of your uh bus. You're on a bus. Well, okay, um there's somebody napping in the bunk, so I can't show you. What do you mean somebody? Some well you know you know. Some rando. Do you have your own bedroom on this bus?

I do have my own bedroom which makes me feel like such an asshole. But y I I felt like I was gonna sleep really well'cause I had a I w I'm not on a bunk, I'm in a bedroom, but um my head is like right on top of the engine of the bus, so it's like rum bum bum bum bum. Yeah. Um Okay, this is a good thing. Look at this look at this fancy b Auto B. Oh go to YouTube. Go directly to YouTube.

expanded version, like it it uh it shrinks down when we drive. So we got two T Vs opposite each other there. Well hold on Fortune, it's not my favorite thing to say. It's that there are things like May flexing And uh, yeah, that ne that may as Is flexing in their tour bus? Like why would you just you want just audio of that? Okay, sorry to bother everyone. Don't go to YouTube and watch May flex on

The tour bus. I wasn't teasing you, I was uh celebrating you. And I wasn't being serious with you either. So we can drop the attitudes. What are you snacking on, f uh fortune? Um what I might have Brought beignets from set last night. And they're so they're old beignets, but I don't care.

Wait, are are you in New Orleans? No, I'm f uh we were filming nights this week, so And they just have beignets on set? We ordered a food truck for the crew. Oh, oh, oh. Um so ben we ordered beignets and coffee last night'cause we filmed till Almost five four thirty in the morning. And you're no fools. How delicious are beignets? I had one two days two days ago. I was in New Orleans. Oh, is that your first beignet?

Yeah, my first Benya and and I uh it's so crazy'cause you go to sleep on the bus and then you wake up and you're in like a completely different place, different temperature, everything different. And in in New Orleans we woke up like right by Bourbon Street, like just in the heart of everything. Went out, had a beignet. I went I had I went saw jazz. I went to the Voodoo Museum. Where'd you get your beignet? Uh I wanna say it was called the Musical Legends Park.

Mm-hmm. But it was just a little courtyard and then it had a little Yeah, why you do you do you know Nor? I went and I saw the Mississippi River. I couldn't believe it. Well that's a good one. Um my my my uh my great great grandfather was the mayor of New Orleans. Shut the front door. My mother was born in New Orleans. Wait, Dumont is the famous menu place. Have we talked about the fact that your great great grandfather was the mayor? I don't know. I don't think we have. Oh, that's crazy.

Did you ever did you ever need him? Did he used to walk around with the grenade drinks? Me? Did he did he invent those back in the day? Yeah, that's what my family's famous for. I used to spend my summers in New Orleans, um, on Saint Charles Avenue. That's where my grandmother um Yeah. What a party town. She lived next door to the uh Ponchatrain hotel and she had a Pontitrain? No, the Poncha Train, which is the

Um sound like Pont Ponty Train. No, and then there's Lake Ponty Train, which is a gigantic body of water with a huge you know, bridge that goes over it. And um but she had a standing reservation at Um the Ponch Train Hotel and that's where we would go eat every night. You got a room? Yeah. Wow. You get a table. Whatever you want. May May's like you get a room? Oh, okay. It's a cool s it's a cool city. Yeah. Oh it's so What about Magazine Street? Did you make it out to Magazine Street?

Didn't go to Magazine Street, but I went to like I saw some jazz. I mean I had such a short time, but the show, the audience was raucous and wild and fun. And then jazz. And then yeah, we went up my my tour manager had a gator. Po boy and it was crazy. And uh did you have some? I didn't have a bite actually, I was scared. I had a shrimp a shrimp po it was so good. Yummers. It's been insane. The the handsome listeners are out in full effect at these shows. The merch, the gear, the quotes.

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I mean I feel like a child just asking my parents if I'm allowed to like do fun stuff. But I'm gonna go for like three hours to Disney and run around. Oh, because you're going to Orlando? Yeah, I'm in Orlando tomorrow. Oh my god, you're driving, right. You're on the So I'm And and are you pr preferring are you glad you're doing this as opposed to flying?

Oh, it's a terrible mistake. Oh really? Sounds like hell. Yeah. I I'm like just about settling into it, but the first few days I was like, th how am I gonna do this? Like I yeah, I just can't sleep and it's so claustrophobic. A bus store's a lot, for sure. Especially for a little cowboy. And um the uh the the people at the shows have been so nice and

Uh just like you guys, I don't remember what we say on this podcast. So Like last night this woman comes up in the meet and greet and she goes she's holding a banana, she goes, I want you to fuck me with this banana. Excuse me. And then and then she was like mortified. Then she was like, Well, that's on the podcast, that was the big joke and I was like, I I don't know, I don't remember that. Oh my god. I know. People uh contact me and or walk past me and say th I don't know

what anybody is referencing. And not just with the podcast. When I do stand up or like uh anything I say like in an interview or something, I'm like, What what did I w oh, okay. I know I know that's an intense one to what's gonna say to you. Yeah. Yeah. And um But the shows are fun'cause I do like forty five minutes of stand up, then the second half is all like improv and music and yeah, it's been and also just like there's an added

emotional depth to it right now, especially in Florida and like I'm going to Kansas and Minneapolis. Like people are really happy to be in like a safe space and with Yeah, it's super nice. But strange strange things are happening, of course, you know? Like real cowboys out of sandals, yeah. Oh I mean

So many strange things are occurring. A day one I found on the floor of a taxi, I found three sapphire blue dice. Can you imagine how much this spun me out? Like, what does this mean? And then um I was wa I was waiting for you to say something crazy. I was like, Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Almost like me finding out who May made out with in the car. And then what? Okay. Last night at the show last night was Atlanta and at the show

They had all the security there and they they give you those like you went New Orleans, Atlanta, and then you're going down to Orlando? Yeah, I went New Orleans. Atlanta, now I'm in Jacksonville. It m it probably was like when the theaters were available. For sure. But I'm just uh have you looked at a map? No. Oh my May May knows nothing about geography. Okay. Well yeah, no, everything's fine. That's the perfect route to take anyway.

So I I was like, you know, they give like a security brief thing and everything and and then so during the show this woman just comes to the front of the stage and I'm kinda looking around at security. Is anyone gonna she's just kinda is in the middle of the show. And she's just kind of on the front of the stage and everyone's like, what's happening? Then she pulls out these one dollar bills and she starts slowly putting one dollar bills on the stage like this. Wait, while you're doing stand-up?

Yeah, so I stopped. I'm like, what's happening? Meanwhile, I'm like, does anyone know this woman? Like the and security security's just standing there like Then she and she puts They've seen worse. Yeah, they've seen worse. She puts the money down and and leaves and then um It was very i strange, yeah. Yeah. Then in the meet and greet like

She didn't have a meet and greet ticket, but I saw her come bud the line, no one asked her for a wristband. You know, and then she's like, Hey, I'm the woman that put the dollar bills on the stage. I'm like, I know what's Oh my god. And did you find out or or she just got whisked away? No, nobody whisked her away. I mean to her to her credit, she goes, I don't know, I just wanted attention. And I was like, All right, that's pretty honest. She's honest? Yeah. That's very honest.

I think you need to have a conversation though with your security guards. Uh that there should be some whisking away if um Somebody uh and not to say this person was uh dangerous or anything. No, she wasn't buttoning. Yeah, if people aren't following, you know, if somebody's coming up to the stage or they're like cut in line, uh, like maybe step in. A hundred percent. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Uh

But I've been pulling a an animal tarot card with the audience at the beginning of every show, like to find like the energy of the show. Oh my god. It's really funny when I do it. This is a vibe check, y'all. Such a vibe check. And when I do it, I just see some people's eyes glaze over like what have I got to

Can you imagine if I did a vibe check with tarot cards at the beginning of the place? Just wan we're gonna pull w collectively pull a tarot card to see what the energy will be tonight in this room. But then some people are like, Oh thank God I thought you'd never pull a tarot card. Like they're excited. They're waiting for it. Yeah, yeah. That's well they know that. That's what they're gonna get with little cowboy. Yeah. Yeah.

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Well it sounds like it's going well. It's super I mean what a even though you're not sleeping. Yeah. Um at this stage. Um but yeah. It's a good experience. I mean Are you are you basically gone now the whole time or will you come back to LA periodically? Like I come back for I come back for ten days and then I'm out. Pretty much till till May. It's like when do you get to have this type of experience though? Like all the weird local facts, like everyone's giving me May facts, like Oh nice.

You know, dental floss was invented in New Orleans and and seven eleven was invented in Dallas, you know. Invented? Seven eleven was invented. Like there was a mad scientist We need a store that has everything all the time. Wasn't it supposed to be like opening at seven and closing at eleven? Oh that makes so much sense. That never occurred to me. It used to be an ice store, but yeah, that makes sense. Seven eleven.

Yeah. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about seven eleven, but I I do feel like I heard that. Yeah, yeah. That sounds right. Yeah. Why not?

Tig? So Tig, what are you gonna do for your birthday today? We don't Oh, well, should we let people in on the fact that it's not actually my birthday? We're taping this a few weeks ahead. And um and I know we talked recently that She hasn't ever made it to any of my big parties. I know. Um, and those are not ever gonna happen again. Every single one of your freaking parties I was on the road. I I wanna throw you one.

Okay. Well throw me a surprise party. Okay. Um yeah. Uh you'll know everyone to call, right? Yeah. And um Your cousin. Yeah, just my one cousin. And uh but I don't know. I uh bec let's be honest, this is um twenty days ahead of my birthday that we're requesting. Yeah, yeah. I honestly don't even know if I've won or lost an Oscar. Oh, I'm going to the Oscars too. Oh you are. You are. I'm gonna I'm going with Zootopia. Oh amazing. Yes.

Oh my god. So I'll be there I'll be there rooting for you. Oh I'll be rooting for you and and us. And us, yes, all of us. But um I I would imagine I'll probably just have a a a chill dinner is is the the answer to that. Um, which has become My favorite thing is just to l to really lounge w over a leisurely meal with some good people. Yeah. Yeah, but like uh scaled down. Scaled down. Not like a dinner party.

Oh okay. Just yeah basically Stephanie and the boys. No, maybe maybe another couple. Okay. But who knows? I mean some t also I will have just had my eye surgery. Oh yes, I've already had my eyes searched. I'm doing fine. How dare you? Everything worked out great, you guys. My nose is in the back of my head. Um, yeah. Do I look any different with my eyes? You're gorgeous. Oh. So yeah, I've either won or lost an Oscar and I've had eye surgery so far.

Uh I'm four days into recovery. That was the thing about my birthday is I don't know how I'm gonna be recovering or feeling after this surgery, so I I don't have any Very clear plans unless somebody wants to um make me feel special and surprise me.

Yeah. Do you do you when you have like a a birthday dinner, do you like it if other people make a toast about you or do you want to make your birthday toast or no toast? Um gosh, I've never thought about that. Um and uh I I I like toasts. I I like um I like really earnest moments.

Me too. Um Yeah, I love'em. I I think maybe I like an earnest moment as well. You do? Yeah. I'm I'm into it. Yeah. I I you know, I maybe I've talked about it on the podcast, but like I don't mind when they're like with special moments, weddings and things, if there's uh funny stuff like hints of it, but I really think it's so special when you really commit to the earnest moment and share like I think that's this about you and I see this about you and I appreciate this about you.

And yeah, I just think it's really nice to hear. Especially as a comedian, people expect comedy from me. Um, and I like to uh show that other side and also I'm open to receiving it. Yeah. So what do you w what do you want to toast? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do I do think that's what our friendship uh was sort of cemented tig was when we had that earnest dinner that remember that was was earnest and

Well, Tiggy and I had had been around each other as comedians and f friends of friends for y a number of years, but everything was, you know, kind of surface like you are in LA when you don't really know somebody. And then we had this dinner with some mutual friends and I was had I think I had just been dumped.

By someone. Yes. Yeah. And I was just like I had this come to Jesus like, I'm sad and I want to meet somebody. And and everybody at the table was just like Ernest back with me and we just had this like real meal and conversation and a after that I think We were just like, Oh, we're we're yeah, I know you, you know me. Yeah. Yeah. And then I bumped into you on that flight. Mm-hmm. And you had found somebody right after that dinner. Yeah. Yeah. I love that.

The rest is hi her straight. That was many, many mo that was many moons ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh years and god that yeah,'cause I I met Jax a few months after that. But I do, I remember at that dinner event like No way, man. It's gonna happen like you gotta believe. That's right. Um But uh yeah, so toast me. Yeah, uh toast uh May go ahead. Go on. Oh boy Since you since you brought it up. Okay, okay, let me let me see what I can pull out of my ass. Okay. Uh

I mean even if you pulled something out of your ass, I'd take that as a birthday pool too. Especially if it was that bottle there. Yeah. But anyway. Okay. Well, we're gathered here to celebrate a dear, dear friend of ours. Ya nice. When I first um encountered Tig's work, uh it uh

I had that feeling that h that I would get along with this person. You know, I felt I I felt a connection even then, which is a rare quality for a performer to be able to reach through the the screen and connect to the people, than to have the privilege of getting to know someone who is so endlessly curious about themselves and others in the world who really values um uh personal growth and uh And wants to be a participant in life and relationships and family. Uh yeah, what a what a gift.

And um I'm eternally grateful. And uh that's all from me. Oh, that is plenty. That is thank you so much. Cheers. Clank not a laugh in sight. Not a laugh and sight. Oh no. And that would be the perfect moment for a sound effect for our clank on handsome. Mm-hmm. Fortune, you're next. Ooh. I didn't think I was so sick. No, you're at the dinner party too. Okay, okay. Um God, this is uh

This is y a lot of pressure, you know, being around all of the hilarious people at this table. Uh I don't know who's there. Who's at the end of the day? It's just the three of us. Okay. I s was I wrong? No, Thomas is there too. And he's hilarious. Might like a butler. Like how we say general distance there? Jennifer Enison is there. She is from a Greek salad. Of course. Yeah. And um

Do you w do you want uh well Stephanie's there, right? Um I'm assuming Stephanie's there. Yep, she was able to make it. Okay, okay. Stephanie's there. Sarah Paulson. like that Like that. I listen, though now we're going real wide. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's it's just my core people. Okay, your core your core. Your core horse. Um is that a saying? No, I just it rhymes. Wow. Yeah. Okay. We have to like have a a group of people that buy the core horse. Yeah, you have to buy it's a tier of uh yeah.

Well, you buy the core whore package and it and you tell us how many shirts you want, anyway. Or hats. Okay. I did not come here with anything prepared. Um,'cause it's honestly hard to put into words. How I feel about the person sitting across from me. Oh, is that where I am? Yeah, you're probably across from me. Because it's a small table, we're core horse. So I'm at the kitty table next door. Um that person that we're here to honor, yeah, celebrate is our dear friend.

Tignatoro. Mm-hmm. Someone who has faith. things in life that many of us, uh can only imagine um the amount of grit and strength that it took to overcome these challenges in life. But someone who took those challenges and dug in deeper to create a life for herself. that she could uh not have ever imagined that it could have be this good. Someone who has um had perseverance in a way none of us can understand, but who Loves and appreciates life as a result.

Uh, that every single day that Tig celebrates her life, she knows is a blessing and we are blessed to share that life with her. Our friend. Wow. Ting Nataro. Cheers. Wow, you understood the brief there. The brief was No laughs, deeply earnest. Yeah. For that speech? My goodness. I think that needs to be a tradition that we on our birthdays. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, I do too. I love that. Who's this? I have a lot more.

say but you were you know do good I I wrapped up in pretty bow, but you were ready to clank, so Well I was trying to, you know add some comedy to the um drama. No, you you were leaning away from the earnest. I know. I know. But that's all right. That's okay. We landed the plane no matter what. We did.

My most earnest friend is with me on this tour, Matt, who lives in my backhouse and it's such a Joy I'm like, this is why I brought him'cause every morning he's like, you know, buddy, we gotta be grateful. This is really a what an amazing experience. Like to wake up in the city. It's so nice to have someone just remind you.

That we're nice. Like two Canadian kids who are like Well you definitely want that as opposed to someone who's like, oh another day, another city. You definitely want someone who's finding the joy in it. You know what was nice? I saw my grade ten boyfriend yesterday in Atlanta who I hadn't seen. Walka, walka, walka. I haven't seen him since I was fifteen.

No, it was Devin Bambrick, and I haven't seen him since I was fifteen years old. And uh I met up with him. He's got a baby and a wife in Atlanta. The thing that made me feel so nice was he goes, The first thing I remember about you is that the first thing you said to me when you're fourteen and showed up at the school is that you were gonna be a comedian. I'm like I'm like, what an annoying kid, but also that's so nice. Like that Yeah.

Waka waka. Waka waka waka. Now let me ask you something. So your friend is on tour with you just to be a positive, supportive um pal? No, he's uh doing improv with me. So I do stand up. Then I do a little improv with it. Yeah, based on audience questions. But the audience is they're horn dogs. They just want to see me kiss anyone. So they're trying to get me and Matt to kiss every night. We've kissed every night.

Your particular fans are very horny for you. Let me ask you something. When you're kissing your friend, uh, is there tongue? No, it's like Oh, you can't kiss your friend with I don't know what May is up to. It's in the Fortune Marie. No ma'am. Uh uh. Does anyone kiss like that? I bet, I bet they do. There's gotta be one person that does And they do they they make the noise too? With them being so horny, are you getting hit on? Yeah, it's like a little You hate horny?

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Have you been getting hit on? Yeah. I mean people are like there's like a I uh people are are are intense, I'll say like it's I I'm flattered and people are super nice. But it is a it is sometimes like a bit of a double standard gender wise where I'm like, if you were a guy saying this to me, I would be a so alarmed, you know, and would you prefer that it not be a part of your interactions with people at all? Um, or are you like it's wild, but it's fine.

I mean, I like that there's like an excitement and that people but sometimes it's so like explicit that I'm like I and and I'm such a people pleaser that I I sometimes have like I had one regret that someone came up at the meet and greet with and we chatted and blah blah blah and then they said, Can you sign this? And I signed it kind of as I was taking in what it was and it was it looks like a legal document that said, this it entitles

the person to sleep with Mae Martin. Like May Martin's the hall pass. Like Anyone holding this can Can fuck me basically. And I was a afterwards I was like That is weird. I was like, why'd I sign that? Like that. Well, I'm surprised my document made it to you. A legal one too. Yes.

That's really getting it notarized. You bet I am. That is um that is wild. But then you don't wanna like um I never wanna be like Oh that's a bit much'cause they've driven hours to come to the show and they're so stupid. To get this legal document signed. They're excited. But that doesn't give just because they drove a long way doesn't mean that we've got a lot of people. I drove long enough to sleep with me. I've never been a piece of meat, so I don't know what this feels like. Oh please.

Yes. Yeah, you're a prime cut. I'm a pretty little lady. No, no. No, you're a signing assessment. I'm not signing any sex documents. Well May, it sounds like you're Meanwhile I'm a senior citizen. What a life. Contractually bound to have sex with all these strangers. Podcast. What a podcast. Well, should we get to our question? Yes indeed. Yes.

Today's question asker is an actor, comedian, and podcast host who wrote and starred in the HBO show Crashing. His podcast, You Made It Weird, has been running for 15 years, and his stand-up specials include Dirty Clean, I Am Not For Everyone. And his new special, silly silly fun boy, is out today. And you can watch it on YouTube. Pete Holmes is asking today's question.

Of course his special is silly silly fun boy. We we were all supposed to do his podcast together. It was it was the first time we were booked as a a trio onto his podcast and took f I think forgot about it or Would a boy and make me Yeah, I think I'll go to the doctor. That's also when you get to this age, it's a full time job to go to the doctor.

And then May and I for the first like twenty minutes of the pod are us going, I I wonder if Tig's coming So we finally like realized you were not. Yeah, my apologies. It's all right. We're all together now. Forever. Until April at least. All right, let's hear what he's gotta say. Hi, handsome people. It's it's Pete Holmes. Thanks for including me. V I love your pod. Valerie loves your pod. Look, she's wearing the little cowboy.

Oh yeah, Pete tell me that. I'm kidding. We're uh we're fans and my question is could you share something that happened that was just completely inex inexplicable? Like maybe a psychic, maybe a UFO, maybe a ghost. Yes, this is something I ask on my own podcast, but it's my favorite question and uh I'd I'd really love to hear the answer. I love it. I I mean I love a lot of what Pete's into. Like I'm similar like I I think when we did his podcast, did we test where

you have to close your eyes and then guess if someone's staring at you. Uhhuh. Yeah, you two seem like uh perfect matches. Anytime we bump into each other out and about within twenty seconds, it's like is there life after death? Conversation circus starts. Yes, yes, some of these things we've talked about on On the pod. I I'm always like

What's interesting to me about inexplicable things is like, in the future are we gonna find out that it's scientifically explicable, you know? Like the things that they would have thought were miracles a hundred years ago that now science is like, oh no, that's a thing, you know. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Like that we have a bio ilectromagnetic field. Like we have an aura I don't know what I'm talking about

Uh that feels like a conversation for you and Pete. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. Oh man, I'm trying to think if one stands out. Do you have does anyone have one off the top of their dome? Yeah. Well the the psychic who's uh Careful May. Oh my god, go to YouTube. Go to YouTube. May's earplu ear earbud flew out. Flew out. That was inexplicable. That was inexplicable.

The psychic whose face melted recently. Um that I talked about on the I talked about it on the pod and it was a psychic eye there? Yeah. Yeah. Psychic I saw in Toronto and her face shifted into a a different phase. Oh right. She she told me like this can happen and then it did. Yes. And then the one that I've also maybe talked about is when I manifested my friend David and Nepal like

wrote his name down. S he just came into my mind so clearly. I was up in the Himalayas and there was a hut where you could like send positive wishes to friends or whatever and all these travelers had stuck it on the wall and I so clearly in my head thought David Martin. I wrote it down once, then I wrote it again on the back, stuck it down. Not two days later I'm walking down the street and Kathmandu, Nepal. There he is, walking towards me. This is my my

You know, he he'd been my coke dealer in high school. I haven't seen him So a dear friend. No, he was a dear friend and then and then we like Can we call him Catman Dude? Catman dude. No longer selling Coke, right? No, he was sober. He was with his mom. He was like And we spent the night that night it just talking and talking. But yeah, that felt really like I'd magnetized him or he'd magnetized me or yeah, that was very weird. Yeah, what about you?

I've talked about it on the pod before but My mom always had the most ex inexplicable thing happen on m the way for me being born, where she I I'll tell it very briefly'cause I know you tell this all the time, except not on this show. Yeah, I've never heard this. You really? I don't know. I don't know. Well okay, then I'll tell I'll tell it and if I re this if it's a repeat that my co hosts don't remember it, so

It doesn't matter. Um my mom o w wanted a girl so bad. Uh she had two boys, but this was like back when you didn't know the sex your baby until your baby was born. And it was when you stayed in the hospital for a lot longer, give uh pre and post birth. And um when uh my mom was in the hospital uh about to have me, all the nurses were trying to guess what my sex was based on, you know, their experience. And they said based on my heartbeat. I was either gonna be um a uh a boy or a lazy girl.

Maybe you have mentioned this. So chill. And uh but my mom was like, But I knew in my heart of hearts she loves to say this. I I love it when my mom tells this story, but um she's like, I knew in my heart of hearts you were a girl.

And uh even though everybody was like, This is you're having another boy, you're having another boy and she said, as they wheeled her out to have me this this woman, uh, appeared out of nowhere. I I I say Delareese jokingly, but She describes this person in a way that's very similar to Dela Reese and Touch My Angel. Um, but th this nurse appears out of nowhere. She's never seen her and she's been there for a few days.

Uh, and she goes, I will see you and your ten pound baby after you give or baby girl. You and I'll see you and your ten pound baby girl after you give birth. And she said, I can't explain it. This nurse looked in my eyes in a way that was like She's like I knew it I knew she was right and that it felt very like otherworldly and she gave birth to me. I was a girl, I was ten pounds or ten and a half pounds, whatever it was.

And um and she was in the ho I had a few things that required me to stay in the hospital for like another like six days or five days. Laziness. Blaziness. Yeah. And she never saw the nurse again. Whoa. And she asked around about this person and they're like, she isn't here since she died twenty years ago. Here, but she left for vacation. I like to say I was ushered into the world by an angel. Yeah.

I'll see you and your 10 pound baby girl is such a big swing if you're just guessing. Like that is such a Like it feels like she knew that woman knew. And when my mom tells it, she takes pause it. She's very dramatic. It's a lot more you feel when my mom tells you the story, you're like, yes. Or Jean was ushered in by an angel. When I tell her it's not it doesn't have the same effect. My mom gets very

Dramatic into telling the story. Classic ginger. Just dramatic. Dramatic. Taking a lot of creative liberties. But yeah, she was like, she is convinced. that this was an angel of some sort. So am I. That's great. So I'm convinced. Yeah. So I that didn't happen it technically happened about me, n not to me, but um my mom's had some kind of thing. I was there, it was about me. Dela Reese brought me into the world.

Um, but I mean, you know, as far as ghosts and stuff she can take you right out of it too. Yeah. If you see her, you know you're in trouble. I've not had like I I think ghost wise, I always say like

Some people are susceptible to it and some aren't. I'm not really susceptible to it. But the only time I experienced anything that was like tangible was in the rental house I had my first season of Foobar in Toronto, I saw a shadow walk into a room as I was coming up the stairs that I thought it was Jack. And I went into the room and and I she wasn't in it. And I was like, Jackson, she was upstairs. And I was like, Were you were you just downstairs? She's like, No.

And I was like, Oh, that's so weird'cause it was like the f the the height of a person. Walking into the Like Airbnb? Yeah. No. No, but but that but later that night we were on the couch and I felt a draft go over my arms to the point I looked up to see where the air conditioner register was and there was n none near me. Wow. And then I never experienced anything again the rest of my four months there. Wow. Oh, God. Inexplicable, you guys. God. It was Delareese checking on me.

To see if I was lazy. Let's hear it again. Let's hear it again. Well just that my grandma went to a psychic um and she wanted to contact her boyfriend who'd passed away, I think, and she and it was a psychic who didn't charge money. It was like the Chelsea Psychic Society and um The psychic said, Your father's come through and she said, Wow, I d I didn't really have a relationship with my father. I he died when I was really little. I don't I I kind of am here to talk to someone else.

And the psychic said, Well, sorry, your dad is here and he wants to say he's sorry he yelled at you for brushing the fabric on his top hat. the wrong way and that she's like, that's my only memory of my father. Oh wow. Like what the hell? That's crazy. I love stuff like that. Me too. This isn't inexplicable, but What uh it's'cause I think it's just based on a soul connection, but I like when my grandmother passed, I um felt it happen.

And um I looked at my watch so I knew exactly when it happened and I called her house and my dad picked up the phone and was like, Uh, can we call you back? And he called me back a couple months later, he's like, I you're I didn't know what to say to you. Your grandmother like literally just passed and wow. But I've never had that before with I don't I think well obviously that's not something you've experienced with a bunch of people.

But yeah, I've never felt anything like that ever. Where I just like I w I was sitting in my bed at college and I was like, my grandmother just died. We're gonna find out one day like that all of this metaphysical stuff is real, like that you are connected to your loved ones and can sort of Like quantum entanglement, right? Like if if like a particle in the right, Am I right, guys? Quantum entanglement. Hey.

another particle that and and like they measured the brain waves of a mother and her daughter. And they were in separate rooms meditating and in the room with the daughter they were flashing the lights and so the daughter's brain waves were spiking and the mother's brain waves were doing the same spikes, even though they So like it's you know, you know. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. What about you, Tiglet? Don't have anything. Tigler. That's not true. Wait, but I feel like the with Andrea there's been things around around that that have felt very serendipitous and stra like that um Busker playing the song. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean so many things like that. Yeah. Yes. Um but I guess that's explicable. You're like Well, that's Andrew. Well, yeah, I can share that. Um but what I was gonna talk about uh which I probably already said, um and uh you know, going to

the hospital to get Max and Finn when I went to fill up the car. I think I've shared the car the car that was um parked in front of me filling up their tank. I put the gas. um whatever the handle in the gas tank and then went and sat in the um in the van uh waiting for it to fill up'cause it was fully on empty and um and the car that was parked right in front of me. Also filling their car up, had a sticker across across the back window that said Finn Mack

Oh wow. That is trivial. Yeah. I w I thought I was hallucinating and I was like, what? I and this was like the day they were born. And so I look it up and it's a production company, Fin. Productions. That's what it said. FinMax Productions. And I was sitting there going Uh Thomas, will you look that up and see what shows they do? But it was just outrageo I've never seen it since. I never nothing like uh never heard of this production company. And I feel like they've done really big things.

And you d you already had their names, like so Yeah, yeah. Mind blowing, that's crazy. Did anything come up with FinMax Productions? Possibly Shark Tank? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's mega. Yeah. That's huge. But I was truly like my eyeballs like a cartoon where like um so that was A really bizarre moment. I guess I thought I shared that with you, but I didn't. But that's cool. That was inexplicable. You know, my my bus driver um is called Jeff and he has an identical twin called Jay.

And he's who's also a bus driver. And I keep imagining what if they swap out or something. And I'm like, should I like maybe I should plant things with Jeff that only Jeff would know and then I can test and make sure it's still Jeff. That's the smart thing to do. Would it matter? Who's driving? Of course, Fortune. You might like his brother just as much as well. That's true.

He said that he's gonna wake me up super early, like in the middle of the night tomorrow to see the sunrise going into Orlando, apparently. No, thank you. No. I mean you're right. That's something I'm gonna let you experience. Yeah, you're right. I might have to battle. If you wake up naturally and you get to see it great. Yeah.

So fortune, you're not gonna do well when we have our uh wellness getaway weekend. No.'Cause you're gonna have to get up early, watch the sunrise, and drink green juice, meditate. You know me, I'm gonna be weeping. I'm gonna be journaling. I will be earnest. During this because I know it means a lot to the two of you. So I will participate. I will not be a I I'm not a um Buzz sport, buzz skill, yes. I I can adapt to the environment I'm in. Okay. Good to know.

But you know, it will be I uh yeah. You're still gonna find a way to ruin it. I I can I can read between the lines. I'm girl. I'm good at digging in. All right. Yeah. I truly Cannot wait and I know that you probab we probably won't find a time to do it. But it I'm throwing I'm gonna start throwing some dates out for like June, July. No you won't. I I will Don't test me'cause I will and then you're gonna be like, oh God, I have to do this now.

Oh my god. Should we see what uh Pete has to say? Yeah, yeah. Okay. My answer is I talk to a psychic. On the phone. Val knows this story. And I wanted to know about this relationship that I was in. I was kind of struggling in the relationship. didn't have anything, this is important, didn't have anything about that relationship on Facebook or Instagram or anything. It was over the phone. I also think it's important to note I wasn't like a really a public person at that time.

And we spoke and immediately uh this person intuited. She's like, You want to talk about your relationship? And I was like, Yes. And then my nickname for this. uh girlfriend was boog. As in Booger Booger, you have something? Can I talk to you for a second? Can I talk to you for a second? Um so this girl, I called her Boog, and she called me Boog. Short for Booger. Um

So she said, You want to talk about relationships? And I said, Yes. And she the first thing she said was, Who's Boog? That is just. That's w that's weird. Paradigm shifting. Everybody that I've mentioned this to is like, oh you probably put it on social. I'm not like that. I'm I've never been like that. I do not post, I don't po I don't talk about nicknames, pet names, it was completely Mind blowing. Wow.

She was probably also like, and why do you have a nickname of Booger for your girlfriend? Right? She's like, This seems like it's on the rocks for me. Maybe she hightailed it out of town looking for someone to rename her or something. You cannot have her nickname be Boog. Yeah. I would be like, time out. Yeah. I'm looking for something a little less disgusting. That's cool. I wonder I would have a follow up for Pete if he has r remained calling that psychic'cause that seems pretty

proficient uh yeah if you find you find a good one I think yeah you should stick with it. Yeah. Don't let it go. Never let it go. Don't let that psychic go, friend. Don't don't do it. Don't I I do enjoy uh uh check in with a psychic every now and then. I love it when someone tells me Ah, you gotta talk to this person. Their reading was cr like so spot on. I'm like then I'm like I wanna I wanna talk to that person. Yeah. Like the there's a guy in LA, the coffee grounds guy, he reads

coffee grinds, like a Turkish coffee and it's a really specific medium and and uh a lot a lot of people recommended him to me. I wanna go see him. He Parv saw him and he was f yeah, very accurate. Mm. Yeah. Would like to start a business where I do it and just try my best. Oh my god, that would be great.

Yeah, Tig reads um broccoli stems. There you go. Uh so you bring a broccoli stem in and then she will just tell you what is up. Right. I've also wanted to actually speak of New Orleans, I've always wanted to put up an easel And just I I got a caricatures. I got one done. Okay. Okay, well it's not unusual. You were in New Orleans, but I've wanted to um to start my own caricature business uh or even just portraits and then um just try my best.

I love it. And then people are disappointed. I'm like, I didn't say I was good. I just I'm just look at those biceps. Thank you. I'm trying to Okay, don't go to YouTube. Don't go to YouTube. Oh man. I'm trying to stay fit on the bus back. It's working. It sure is. That's good. You like that? Yeah, I really like the mustache too. Is there a mustache? Caricatures of me are so wildly offensive. They are the war anybody who okay, anyone who's ever been like I

Drew you. I'm like, no thank ya. Yeah. I don't need to it's ne it is I already have a big I know I have a big chubby cheek face, but they like take this and they run with it. What do they do with your hair is my question. It's it's usually wildly insane too. Like a bird's nest. There has not been one drawing of me or caricature or anything that has been flattering. Mm it is every time I see it, I'm like, Okay, why don't you pay me twenty dollars? How much was your caricature?

Well the crazy thing was I go how much? And he goes, I don't charge and I said Well but how much is it? I don't charge he goes I don't charge but if you want to give me a gift so then it was really confusing but I gave him twenty bucks. There you go. Okay. Well look at that. Right on the n right on the nose. So pay me twenty bucks. We can do this at uh wellness uh weekend. It's a little bit more than a little bit. You know who would be good at wellness weekend? Pete Holmes. Yes.

Let's kick fortune out. No, it's gonna produce that attitude. No, I'm not getting replaced by a boy. Yeah. With two fart he's gonna two fart on y'all the whole time. Well yeah, it is a silly, silly fun boy. And um but yeah, I I uh I want to do portraits. And caricatures on Wellness Week. I know mine's not gonna be great. I'm telling you, I've never been given Oh, I'm gonna draw you like the little angel that you are. I've never no one's ever drawn me in a way where I've been like

Like that is so flattering. Oh my god. It is like let's take the things about you we notice and times it by ten. I look like a man that has three minutes left uh before it Although I did I did really enjoy the uh remember early on in the pod someone made some of our episodes into cartoons? I enjoyed that. I just really like the when someone put our faces on the Cast of Friends. Or on on Jennifer Helps. Lisa Coudre and yeah.

Yeah. Well that was a good time. What a time. What a time a time to be alive. What a nice gr uh grounding. Check in for me while on the road to see my pals. And what a great birthday that I had. I know happy birthday. I mean, and who knows if I won or lost the Oscar. I know. Who that is so wild. Well I have a fun announcement. I just announced Are you pregnant? No. Oh. I just announced a European tour. Ooh, girl. I'm going to a bunch of a bunch of cities I haven't been before. Um

Then I'm very excited to go to like Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Oslo, Dublin. And I will be returning to London and I already did But I'm super stoked. They are going to be at the end of May into June. Um, so for our European handsome listeners I'm coming over there. And then uh in the meantime I'll also be at uh Oklahoma City, Fayetteville and Little Rock, Arkansas, San Antonio, Dallas and Des Moines and Toronto, and then headed to Europe.

Unbelievable. Oh, and I'm excited. Australia in August, so Australia dates are coming as well. Wow. Down on the I can talk to them like I sound like Tony Club. What if you get to the airport and they turn you away at customs? We appreciate you trying. Dynasty typewriter and Largo, Newtown, Connecticut, Portland, Maine, Red Bank, New Jersey, Bellingham, Washington, Brooke. Brooks, California. It just goes on and on. Go to Tignotaro.com. Also, check out Come See Me in the Good Light.

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