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Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance Company and Affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois. This is a HeadGum Podcast. Chatting with friends on the handsome pod Chatting with friends on the handsome pod Pretty little episode Good morning and welcome afternoon and hello uh welcome to a different time zones yeah we are yeah and i talked over your pretty little um intro so apologies it's always
as you know, a nail biting moment for me, the intros, it takes a lot to get me there to be, to take the plunge. Yeah. Yeah. So you're in Toronto, right? I am. And I was out. Last night at a Rufus Wainwright concert. No way. I was. Was he playing the hits or what? He was playing his folkocracy. um, album, a bunch of, uh, folk tunes. And, uh, but he also snuck in islands in the stream, which is hilarious. So yeah, I was, um,
At his concert. And then there was a, um, like a little after party gathering. That's amazing. Well, it was at this woman. She's like a. Canadian political, I'm not even quite sure who she was. A Canadian political person. Political person, yes. And so we were at her house hanging out and the people that run. the venue where Rufus was performing came up to me and they told me, we are good friends with May's parents.
What? Yeah. And I was like, really? And they're like, yeah. And I don't know. What are your parents' names? Wendy and James. They're like, do you know Wendy and James? They are the best. We love them. No way. I was like, I have not ever met Wendy and James. Oh, my God. I love that people are coming up to you saying. We know May's parents. That's so funny. I know. I was like, I don't. Yeah. But what was the venue he was playing? Okay. None of the details.
something sure yeah yeah yeah yeah royal conservatory maybe yes yes yes okay i know exactly who these people were that's great yeah yeah man he's so good rufus He is so good. And then his sister, Lucy Wainwright Roach was on stage as well. I mean, there was a whole band, but it was so fun because Lucy. I actually, my friendship with Lucy predates my friendship with Rufus. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I met Lucy years ago. She was performing. Do you know the folk trio, The Roaches?
No, it's a trio that actually Paul Simon discovered. No way. Yeah, they're sisters. And a friend of mine took me to see his friend, Lucy Roach, Lucy Wainwright Roach play. And then. she introduced her mother on stage. She said, I want to introduce my mom, Susie. And she comes out and I turned to my friend. I said, is that Susie Roach? And he was like, yeah. And I was like, Oh my God.
Like, uh, anyway, so. Suzzy Roach. Suzzy Roach. Yeah. But what a name. She was married to Loudon Wainwright. And so Rufus and Lucy are half siblings. Got it. And they just have such an extraordinarily talented family. Oh, it's wild. But anyway, then I became friends with Rufus. And it was nice to be with both of them. And now you're best friends with my parents' friends. That's right. It's a small world, isn't it? Yeah.
yeah well good for you for getting out and about in toronto like it's because you're there for so long i think you got it you got to force yourself to go out and do stuff right otherwise i fell into a real like just coming home from work and Putting on true crime, you know? Yeah, it's a weird existence. It's a really weird. Really weird existence. And I'm kind of struggling with it. Yeah.
It's hard to be away from your family and everything. Your whole life, your routine. But I do think that the way to do it is to go out with people, make plans and go for dinners and do stuff. Because the other day I was like, oh, man, I'm depressed. And then I was like, well, I have been watching. five hours of a documentary about JonBenet Ramsey. Like, no wonder I'm, no wonder I'm feeling. Doc, why am I feeling so down? Yeah, like you got to get out and about.
Yeah. I mean, I've been, you know, as you know, working on new stuff at Comedy Bar and then I'm also, you know.
I don't know, exercising and recording the podcast. Then Stephanie and I are working on projects together. But yeah, I should probably be a little more social than I am. I like to have a... a bro like as you know I often have like a straight dude just staying in my house and and it really to wake up in the morning and someone's like morning bud oh yeah I love it I'm like just stop me from going into my head you know
Like the other day, I was like, I mean, I've known these bros for so long. So my friend is staying with me now. I've known since I was like 18. And the other night we were in bed. watch because there's no tv in the living room in this airbnb so we were in bed tucked up together watching eyes wide shut
And we were eating miso eggplant. And I was like, man, sometimes you got to get in bed with your boy. You got to watch Eyes Wide Shut. You got to have miso eggplant. Yeah, yeah. I mean, listen, I love a straight man. You know, I am not a lesbian that is, you know, by dudes, but that does sound nice. I just don't have I don't have that dude out here. Yeah. And there are. I can send you a few. Yeah, if you could. I mean, I'm trying to figure out my life. I'm trying to figure out.
my friends and what's going on. It's, it's just, it's weird. It's definitely weird. Yeah. Do you mean like in LA as well? You feel like you're in a transition period or just while you're out there? I mean, it's mainly here, but it's just, you know, disconnecting to be. away from my life for six months yeah it's it's the craziest thing in the world yeah because touring I could go out for a night or a weekend or a week or
Two weeks or whatever. And I know I could just plan my life like, oh, I'm going to have this whole month off or the whole summer off or you know what I mean? Yeah. Whereas in production, they own your schedule. Very, very weird lifestyle. Yeah, it's really bizarre. But I enjoy it. I like every single person, cast and crew. I love being a part of the Star Trek world.
I'm very thankful for the job and, but I'm just trying to figure out what's going on. Yeah. Yeah. How to stay regulated. Yeah. Stay regular too. That's right. You have to. Got to. Yeah. Well, should we segue seamlessly into some listener questions? See what people want to know? Let's do that. Yeah. Hello, hello, hello, handsomest of handsomes. My name is Little Miss Hot Miss. And yes, if you can't already tell from that name, I am a drag queen.
And so my question for you is, who would you be as a drag performer? Maybe you're a drag queen or a drag king or some other drag royalty. And I'm curious what your drag name would be, how you might think about a drag persona, what you'd want to look like as you step out onto a fabulous pageant stage. That's a great question.
well i would say like early in life i would have been i would have probably been a drag king and and like had a drag king persona like skeet or no like like a zip zero or something and but what i don't know zip zero and i don't even know what you're talking about me neither what are you talking about I don't know. A drag king named Zip Zero? Maybe I'm not submerged in the culture enough. Some people just know they could save hundreds on car insurance by checking Allstate first.
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I think you're right. Everyone else listening going, Oh, yes, zip zero is the one. No, I don't think that's even like a classic drag king style name. But I think if I was a drag king, I'd be like some kind of greaser called zip zero but now maybe because i feel gender wise that i'm more i'm sitting in a more boy place i would maybe feel empowered and more comfortable to do drag queen where i would have been embarrassed before
But now I feel like, fuck, I could be like Greta von von Lincoln. Greta von Zip. Greta von Zip. Greta von Zip. Yeah. Or you could go as me. Yeah. I could go as Tig. Oh my God. Is that the proper way to say it? Go as me? That sounds like Halloween. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. What would you, who would you be? Well, you know what immediately came to mind is the drag king look that I cultivated on Handsome with Grandpa.
tig oh my god yes that's so your drag persona i i love grandpa tig so much when i saw pictures of myself i was like Hello, handsome. Yeah. Okay. So we're talking kind of gray mustache, thick mustache. Full gray. Yeah. And bushy, bushy eyebrows. Remember those? I had eyebrow taped to my eyebrows. Yeah. So. And like maybe a cardigan, a whiskey. What do you mean maybe? Of course there'd be a cardigan. And a whiskey that I don't drink.
Okay, so you're Grandpa Tig and then maybe I'm kind of perched on the arm of your chair and I'm like, morning. I'm like a kind of flapper girl from the 60s. I'm like, like twiggy stardust or something. And I'm like, hello, Zip Zing Spring or whatever your name is. I don't know why Zip Zero just rolled off. Oh, Zip Zero. Yeah.
Okay, I like that. You know, you can use that name when you check into hotel rooms. Oh, you're so right. Zip Zero. Zip Zero. And no one will ever know unless they listen to this episode. Yeah. Yeah, great. Okay, well, we could do that at a live show one day. Put it on the list, Thomas. Should we hear a little Miss Hot Mess's answer?
Yes, please. For me, you already know that my drag name is Little Miss Hot Mess and I'll just say that that's a name that I may or may not have earned in my early 20s when I was a little bit messier. Though now that I'm a little bit older and more mature, I would say that that name really helps me shine a spotlight on what a hot mess the rest of the world can be.
Thank you, Lil Miss Hot Mess. I hope we get to see Lil Miss Hot Mess at a show sometime. Should we hear another question? Let's do. Do let's. Hello, I am Emma from North London in England and I have a question about time travel. I'm a bit of a history nerd. If you could go back in history and spend an hour wandering around somewhere, where would you like to go?
You don't have to do anything massively historically significant and save civilization. Just to be a little bit of a tourist, where would you like to hang out for an hour? Thanks very much. That's interesting. It's almost unpleasant. for me, I'm thinking so hard about it. Like I, like I want to get it right. I feel like there's like the options are too, too many. Oh man. I feel like.
Where I would go is not typical like history books, history. It would be more of like, I'd love to be peek behind a tree and see dinosaurs. Hey, that counts as history. I know it does, but I think people would probably be more inclined to be like, you know, the revolution. Yeah. But. Pre-human. Civilization. Yeah. Yeah. I would love to just, I want to see. Yeah. You know, it would be so insane because they.
They'd have feathers, right? They think a lot of them had feathers. They probably wouldn't sound the way we expect them to sound. For sure. Rustling through those trees. I would even, you know, I would even love to. you know, peek in a cave during, you know, caveman time. Yeah. And like put on a little Flintstone skirt just so I kind of fit in.
Right. They wouldn't have got an eyelid. With my glasses on. Yeah. And just wandering to the cave. What's going on in here? I mean, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. All that kind of stuff is a little more interesting to me because there's not really documentation and we're just speculating so much. Yeah. Yeah. I would go, I think I've been watching a lot of stuff about.
like whether the Inca and the Aztec and stuff were communing with aliens. Like there's some, and things like that, you know, the Nazca lines and stuff. And like there's. And a lot of these sort of early art of in ancient Egypt and in Aztec art depicts like light beings who are, I don't know. I just want to know if aliens came down and taught everybody how to build pyramids. So maybe.
you know, Machu Picchu or something, but also I'd like to be at the Sermon on the Mount. I'd like to hear Jesus addressing a crowd and be like, sure, that'd be a fun day. Yeah. Like what was his deal? Jesus, man, what's your deal? What's your deal? I'm from the future and I just, I want to know what your deal is for my podcast. Yeah. Can you send us, can you give us a question? Yeah. Can I film you?
Oh my God. Can you imagine if I had this video and I was like, guys, I swear to God this happened to me. I went and everyone would be like, what a weird stunt you're trying to pull. And I'd like to go and see when Napoleon crowned himself emperor. He took the crown out of the Pope's hands and he put it on his own head instead of letting the Pope crown him. And he just is such an interesting character.
And there were dinosaurs during that time too, which is cool. All of the isles in Notre Dame were full of raptors and T-Rexes and dinosaurs. And turtles. Yeah. I'd like to hear... This person seems very, is it Emma in North London? She seems very knowledgeable about history. So I wonder if she'll have like a really esoteric response. She's just like, and my answer would be to go back to Tudor London.
And to walk along London Bridge. So that's not just walking across a bridge. It's also a place where everybody went to do their shopping and there were massive buildings and huge equivalent of high rises and just get a flavour of what Tudor London was like. That would be my answer. That's a good answer. I mean, it would be, it would stink is the problem. Everyone would smell so bad. Well, you could put a paper or a clothespin on your nose and wander around. I'm dead at that image. Wow. Yeah.
Well, yeah, well, I'll be. I'll be. Look at that. You don't say. I should probably have a necklace pin on my nose, too, when I peek into the cave. Yeah, you should. Because you know they're not. very particular about where they're going to the bathroom and stuff because you know no they just don't have much experience and oh my god you're trying to blend in with a clothespin I'm just a regular caveman from a neighboring cave. With glasses and a Flintstone skirt on. Who's asking?
Next time I go to London, I'm putting a clothespin on my nose just for Emma. Put it on the list. Put it on the list, Thomas. You have to go to London Bridge and you have to just walk along the bridge. With a clothespin on your head. Why is that the dumbest image? Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
I probably shouldn't laugh that hard at myself. I'm laughing more at you laughing at it. It's really cracking up. Your laughter made me realize how deeply ridiculous it was. It's so stupid. Why doesn't anyone do that more? It's the same person. The same person that puts a clothespin on their nose is also the kind of person that only blows up old timey bombs.
Yeah. It has the fuse. Yes, completely. It's very like Looney Tunes. Yeah. All right. All right. Well, that was a very fun episode. Yes. I had a great time. Great to hear from everybody. And also, anyone coming to live shows, feel free to show up with a clothespin on your nose, please. Oh, please. Please. I mean, you know what I'm ordering on Amazon right after this.
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