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Like they probably just strewn about just out of frame everywhere as cover your ponties. Yeah, I mean, would you imagine that my apartment's a mess? No, I'm just not a high. I'm pretty tidy. I'm pretty tidy. Just like the ladies tidy, ladies. I do have a few pile up areas in my life and in my house and stuff where I'm like I got to get through this. Yeah, Stephanie's on a major minimalist tear. Oh, she's just like donating things and throwing things away.

I mean, she is just like went through her books was like so attached to them. And then now she's like, do I need all of my books? Am I going to go back and read these? Am I going to, you know, so she's at a bit of a fork in the road right now. Oh, my God. But this is I'm really enjoying this new side of her where she's just on this tear. I'm excited for the phase where she's running around to charity shops trying to get her stuff back.

I miss that book. And then it's in May's bookshelf. What about the two of you? Are you tidy or you? I'm a mess man. But I'm not I'm not dirty. Like I don't leave plates and food around but clothes everywhere. And because I'm like filming and then I run back home and I sleep for five hours and go film against. So I just throw stuff around. You two fortune. I'm not like messy messy. I'm not as clean as like Jack's but I I'll have like a little bit of stuff start to pile up.

And then I I'm like, okay, I got to get everything in this place. So I'm not crazy. But I'm not also not the one scrubbing things down. I got a lot of weights around right now. I keep like impulsively buying bigger and bigger weights that I can't lift yet. And these poor Amazon delivery guys are like lugging these weights. I don't know what I'm going to do when I have to leave Toronto. I'm just going to I don't know donate the weights I guess.

Well, you could bring them home in a suitcase as long as they're not over 50 pounds right? What are you bought? What's the highest amount? You have 50 actually. Oh, 50. Perfect. Like one suitcase. Yeah, two 50s. Yeah. I've been trying to all week. I've been filming this one fight sequence where do you know the comedian Mark McKinney from kids in the hall? Oh, yeah, yeah.

He's I cast him. I used to babysit for him when I was 13 and it's this weird full circle moment where he's we have this vicious fight and he tases me over. Oh, this is spoilers, but whatever. It was so embarrassing acting like you're being tased when you're not. And you have to stop yourself making a sound effect like that. Right. I guess that would be really a huge challenge. Yeah. And so can you give us a little bit of a look of what you tased without making the noise?

Yes. Okay. Cause I watched videos online of what people look like. I'm gonna tase you right now. Okay, ready? One, two, three. Oh, look at that facial expression. Yeah, I almost shit myself. Just now. No, like we were doing it all day, just tensing and tensing and every day. Have you ever been tased? No, but did you know in LA, some haunted houses, you saw in a release form and there are a lot of tays you? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Just in a spooky way. Yeah, it's not like in a real way. In a real way, like, there's the, But like to scare you or why are you signing a release to be tased? That's a great question, Teg. Thank you. There's a place called like horror hotel or something that's all these escape rooms and at Halloween, they open all the doors, they turn off all the lights and you go in there and you, you have to sign a form of whether you're, you can get tased and there's monsters going around.

And if they catch you, they can taze you. No, uh, Finally, I was just crazy stuff. And you sign a release saying sure tased me? Well, in LA, I've never done it, but in LA, yeah, some of these like horror, you know, Halloween events, you can, it must be like a low charge tays or something. Because that feels so good. Yeah, I can't be like a hardcore one. Yeah, because that could be, that could like really have somebody up. It could have someone right up. I, I haunted houses.

I'll do them if like my friends are all going and I don't want to be left out, but they scare me. And how often are all of your friends going to a haunted house? There is a, I mean, howling time is around the corner. All this stuff will be appearing right around now. Do you get yourself a spooky pumpkin latte or? I like that. A lack of latte. That's my kind of Halloween. Yeah. I don't do the pumpkin spice as much, but I don't, I don't mind a, you know, a sip of coffee by a fire pit.

Take you, would you like a haunted house? Like do you enjoy being jump scares? No. No. Absolutely not. And, and, and you know, I, I scare Stephanie all day long. Yeah. Accidentally in our home. Oh, because you're quiet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, you know, and then the, and I don't know if I told you, but she, well, she feels like I, I shuffle to. Quietly on purpose. I don't know if I told you this, but she accused me of, oh, I said that at the live show. Is that right?

I think you said on one pod that she wanted to put bells on your feet or something like that. I don't know what, but, but she, but I tell you she's accused me of doing it on purpose. No, I don't know. I mean, that's another, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She was like, I feel like you have decided to try to scare me like this is something you are doing. And I was like, I am a busy 53 year old person. Yeah. I'm not a psychopath walking around trying to scare people in my own, or anywhere really.

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know how to work in a haunted house and be the one scaring, that would be really fun, I think. Well, sure. You're in a haunted house, that's the world. Yeah. But like, just out in life, or in your own home, like a grown human being, like, like, I'm not trying to do that to her. I do like to do that on purpose sometimes. And you do too, fortune? No, you don't. Mm-hmm. I'm not a prank girl.

I remember at school, the big prank was they would put cellophane over the toilet seat. So then, yeah, and then when you pee, well, you can imagine. I can imagine. I can imagine. I can imagine. What happens? So fortune, you don't like to do pranks, you don't like pranks done to you. Exactly. I made a new friend the other day, and we were talking about pranks. Yeah. And he said that, so he has a long term friend, and he went over to her house, and he wore fake eyelashes.

And she was like, what is, you look different. He was like, no, what are you talking about? And he gasped her so hard that she was like almost crying. She was like, you're something is different. He was like, I don't know what's wrong with you. And then finally, he was like, hard to imagine. She was almost crying? Yeah. And so fortune, if I showed up to the live show, and I had fake eyelashes on, what do you be like? Well, that's a prank that doesn't look that's whatever.

That's just you doing something to yourself. Well, no, I'd be doing it to other people too. I mean, to get in your head, fortune. Yeah, but I would, if you were like, no, I was just like, okay. And so what is, it's not that deep for me. What's the depth where you're like hard pass weirdo step back? Like, if I had been part of like the show punk or something, I would not have enjoyed that.

Right, because those used to get extreme, it would be like they would, yeah, they would like smash someone's car. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not into that. Yeah, you're not. Okay. Okay. You know, filming you in your most vulnerable time, making you believe something awful just happened. Yeah. Well, what about, you know, when I did that thing where I sang at a party, a del song when Adele was at the party. I mean, that would be funny to me. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Have you guys talked about this on a mini soda? No, I'm too special. The end of TIG special. Oh, my God. Tell it again quickly. Quick, take quickly. Roll the hand. I was at a party that was littered with a lot of celebrities. Yeah. And throughout the night, there were different singers and musicians getting on stage, because there was a full, like, there were instruments, grand piano, microphones, everything on stage.

So people could just get up and sing a few songs and then get down to somebody else to get up. Yeah. The whole night, you saw the biggest names of forever. Adele was at the party and the whole vibe, the whole night, no matter who was singing or playing, everybody was like, you're up to Adele. I think Adele's gonna perform next. Here she comes. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. She's not. It was truly like a vibe all about Adele.

And I'm talking every massive star was there performing. And then she never sang. And so that would be a bummer. So I turned and it was just a casual night of people getting up and singing. Yeah. And then I said to Stephanie, I was like, and I mean, like Oprah Winfrey was it that everybody was there? Oh, my God. Okay. And I said, I'll. I said to Stephanie, I was like, I'll go sing. Oh, my God. And then I can't sing. And so I got pink was there.

I said, I said, will you go tell the DJ to, oh, pink had just sang songs. And when she got down, I said, hey, can you go ask the DJ to play Adele's Hello. Oh, my God. And she was like, yeah, because I was like, I'm gonna sing. And she was like, pink was all excited. And then so she went over, ask the DJ to play Adele's Hello. And then she went out of the grand piano. And I sang along to Adele's Hello. Like at the top of my lungs, the best I could. And it was the worst rendition of Adele's Hello.

And so that was, I guess that would be a prank, right? Yeah, that's funny to me. Did Adele laugh? Well, that's the thing is it was, I don't know where Adele was in that exact moment. There were a lot of people there, but I'll tell you what, everybody else was there. And saw that. She's outside smoking a sick like, what is this madness? I love it. It's way funnier and better that you tried your best. Like you really belted it out. I really did.

I did it like I was in my car by myself, just singing. And I know my voice goes off the rails like crazy. And so I was just like, I'm going to go for it and then don't care. Fuck that. Did you look up and see if any like big celebrity was there watching like? Well, it was like a stage with lighting. You know, it wasn't just somebody's living room and stuff. But I did, I have footage of pink doubled over choking to get. As long as pink and chew it, that's all I care about.

Yeah, it was really fun. I would like to make pink laugh. She seems fucking cool. Pink. Car voice. It's so good. It's ridiculous. Oh, when she and Kelly Clarkson sang together on Kelly Clarkson's show, they did like a 10 minute medley of pink songs but acoustically. I think I've listened to that a thousand times. I'll have to check that out. Oh, it's so good. They just did snippets of like five songs. Did each song like meld into the next one kind of like?

They would do like a one for like two minutes and then stop and then do another one. But like, as you know, Kelly Clarkson's voice is one of my favorites of all time and then pink's voice is amazing and then they're harmonizing together. It was like my brain was exploding. I love a good harmony. Oh, I love a good harmony. Yeah, so. I love a good harmony. Yeah. I love a terrible harmony. Yeah, that's enjoyable in a whole other way.

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So Martha Wayne, right, is the biggest rock star in the world. I mean, her voice is... It's crazy. Her vibe. Her everything. I've seen her live so many times whenever she's playing and I'm nearby, I make sure I go. And I learned to kind of, I was like, I think I got to go by myself because I want to just focus. I went on a date once, someone I was dating flew to England to visit me and I took her to the Martha Wayne right concert and then she started feeling nauseous, like food poisoning.

And I should have known this. I should have taken her home. She, I stayed and she went back to the hotel. Martha Wayne right was singing, right? I've never seen Martha Wayne right before. You got to look up Martha Wayne right. Martha Wayne right is just a rock star. But it's all I can say about this woman. Oh right. Bloody mother fucking asshole. Oh, you got... Unreal. Unreal. Oh, no, no. Every heart dropped what you're doing and become the biggest fan of Martha Wayne right.

I actually just listened to her audiobooks. She wrote an autobiography. It was electric. Well, I actually, you know how I had my moment with Justin Trudeau where I said your legacy will be great. I had that moment with Martha Wayne right, a similar thing where she just playing an intimate show in LA and I was having to be friends with the guy drumming for her. And so I was like, this is my end. And afterwards I'm kind of standing with him having a cigarette outside or something. And she's there.

And I think she asked for a cigarette or something and then I go, you're at the top of your game. I just got to say you are at the top of your game. She was like, okay. I was like, did she say liner? What about my legacy? Well, I'm also very glad. To blow your mind. I'm friends with Martha Wayne. Can you tell her I love her? Yes. How funny that you love this person so much and takes friends with them. This happens a lot though. Lucy Lawless. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean, you guys know people, you know.

Yeah. You know people. And they're random. Yeah. Yeah, like specific. I mean, random. But yes, I'm friends with Lucy Lawless and Martha Wayne. Martha Wayne. Martha Wayne. But for some reason it's my niche. The obsession is too right. I know. Yeah. I just love that you started this with. I love a brother sister duo. I do. I was trying to think of other brother sister singers. I literally, I can't think of a single one.

Well, and within the Wayne Wright family, there's just numerous brother sister duo's just round. I mean, and there's sister Lucy. There's more than just the two of them. Oh, I mean, Rufus. I know Rufus, obviously. They should have like a reality show. Can you imagine it would be really sort of poetic, I think. Like it wouldn't be like the Kardashians. It would be like, you know, someone's having a Kardashians win.

You know what's so funny is I just laughed so hard saying, no, it would not be like the Kardashians. I've never seen the Kardashians. What? I have never seen that show. Are you serious? No, but I can, I mean, yes, I'm serious, but I can gather what the show is. What it would be. Yes. I don't know. You're missing out. Yeah. Like whatever you think it is, I will tell you it's better because they are so compelling and very funny. And yeah, I, this is weird.

That was like the first, and no, there must have been, there was the always buzzer first. Yeah, but what do you mean they were the Osborne's refers as far as like this, this trend of families on reality television. Yeah. We're like all of America just felt like they knew that family and like you just, you wanted to ask you about 20 years now on TV or something. Are they still going? Yeah, but now they're on Hulu. There's just so many of them. There's, you don't run out of storylines.

Yeah. So I want to go back and clarify just so I'm not lying to anybody. Martha Wainwright is not a close friend of mine. For sure. Of course. But if you saw each other, you got to have that. Yes, I am close with Rufus and his husband, Yorn. And so I have- Another fun name. Yes. Yorn. With Martha, you're like, we're friends, but like- Well, like I see her at Rufus things and I'm just, I'm very beside myself. I'm like, oh my god, that is the biggest rock star alive. I've got to watch her stuff.

Really, go look at videos, go buy her stuff, go see her live. Yeah. All of them, all of those Wainwrights. I mean, it's- How did this turn into the Wainwright show? I don't know. But they're all freakishly talented. Mm-hmm. Oh, we talked about this because of Brother Sisters. Brother Sisters? Yes. Yes. The Carpenters weren't Brother Sisters. Yes, they were. There you go. And you got- Then the Bee Gees.

There must be some- I mean, brothers, but there must be something in the- In like, when you share DNA, your voice is just meld. Billie Eilish and Phineas. Oh, yeah. True. They're making incredible music together. Incredible. They're really cool to watch behind the scenes, how they create their songs and stuff. He's like such a genius producer and then she has this like, such a specific vision of what she wants to song to be.

That's really cool to see two people and at their age, just doing this like prolific songwriting. And then meanwhile, their mom Maggie is like from the groundlings and she- Yeah. She comes from the comedy world and she's- And she's called improv for years. Yeah. That's crazy. And Phoebe Bridger's mom does stand up too. Yeah, stand up. She does? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. So who knows? Maybe one day we'll have kids who are amazing musicians.

Well, my sons, they started their own little band together. Yeah. Stop it. Didn't I tell you that Max wrote a new song? No. Wait. Yeah. Didn't you say there was a song that we couldn't- you didn't want to play it on the pod, but- Well, there- Oh, you're fortunate. You're thinking of the song that came up during- you were watching a sports game. Yeah, we were actually a super strong one. Right, right, right. Max wrote a new song called, what is it, something about, down by the shoreline.

Walk with me down by the shoreline. Stop it. And- And- And a friend of ours asked him if he had heard of Morrissey or the Smiths. And he said no. And she played Morrissey in the Smiths forum. He went back and revisited his song and sang it just like Morrissey. Oh, my God. Just like Morrissey. Please, please, please. Walk with me down by the shoreline. Oh, my God. Down by the shoreline. Oh, my God. Down by the shoreline. Oh, my God. Down by the shoreline. I mean, I- I couldn't believe it.

I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. It's such a hit song. May I have to send it to you? Please do. It is such a number one hit song. I'm just saying, oh, I am still working on the cover of the original. I don't know. I'm telling you, I've laid down the instrumentals. I just got through the vocals. It's a working program. Okay. Well, I think you're going to jump ahead to down by the shoreline. Yeah, you've got to get us on iTunes, staff.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It is a true, like his first song, he's written many songs, but the one during the Super Bowl, we don't know how this world works. Yeah. That's his first song. Yeah. His new one, the Sun rises west. The Sun goes down east. We don't know how the world works. We don't know how the world began. Begin. Begin. Begin. Yeah. Yeah. We can't feel the world with the line that really blew my mind. And now there's just down by the shoreline. It's so good. Okay. We can move on.

Yeah, we're way cooler than me with music. I never listened to Morsey either. I didn't know Jimmy Buffett. I mean, I didn't know Joe the button maker. We're all coming closer. We're all coming closer. Yeah. Speaking of Joe, just to quickly touch back on in a previous episode, I mentioned the Bear video. I read a poem. I have no watched the Bear video. Did you, and did you make it through all the videos? Wait, what is the Bear video?

Remember when May was so nervous about watching their drivers video? Oh, right. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, I had this driver at work. He says, yeah, I got this video of 12 men wrestling a bear in a bar. So anyway, it grew in my head like a weed. I've become obsessed with like, why is this coming to my life? I'm scared to watch it. Once I see it, I can't unsee it. Like, I'm not going anywhere. To the point where you wrote a giant poem. I wrote a poem. Poim. Poim. Poim. Poim. Poim.

I go into my trailer one day and the TV and my trailer is on. And just a blue screen and there's like an old VCR plugged into it. And Joe has set up for me. And he's got the VHS there. It says Caesar the rest of the bear. This is a whole thing. Yeah, man. And I'm, I'm like, okay, this is the moment. Like, I got to watch it. And I watched it. I don't, I don't even know really where to start. Like, it was, it was incredible. Yeah, I'm worried about the bear for sure.

But the bear seemed, it was this 900 pound bear in a bar. Oh, my God. In a bar in 1993, all the, everyone has a mullet in the bar and they're all in the bear. Even the bear shaved except for a mulled dirt. And one by one, they're getting up to and they're very respectful to the bear. They kind of pet it first and then they, they wrestle it and they're sorry. If you have a bear in a bar, it's not good. You've already not been respectful to the board. Of course.

I think the bear was, for anyone listening, listen, I'm with you. Like don't have a bear in a bar wrestling. But they'd rescued it as a cub from a circus or something. Anyway, it has, it's all its teeth and claws. Like it is a four. Don't worry. We'll get you out of this circus. We'll bring you to a bar. So do you. We're going to save you. But I'm like, what was I meant to learn from the bear video? Because what struck me was the bear knew not to hurt people. It was, they were like flies to it.

Like it would just swat them with one paw and then pin them on the ground and then it would start licking them like a puppy. It was like playing. I mean, well, they're, yeah. And guy after guy trying their best and it was pretty incredible. And my question going into it was like, am I the kept bear? Like, am I, is this meant to be showing me? And maybe, maybe it is. Maybe I don't know my own power. You know what I mean? Anyway, so. None of us do. None of us know my power.

None of us know our own power. I know. And so afterwards Joe got another job and just sort of vanishes. It's like he came into my life to, he's no longer just to show me this video, you know, as well as the cool video. But it feels like there was a lot of build up for the bear. A build a bear, if you will. It did not, it did not disappoint. They're build a bear. Very good. And then it just kind of was like, oh, okay. No, no, no, no, sorry. Then I've told it wrong.

Okay. Oh, okay, it was, this is one of the most insane and incredible things I've ever seen in my life and bizarre and like emotional and afterwards I said, Joe, I don't know what to say. Like you, you know, and he said, oh, so I'm going to see you, isn't it? I said, yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. So I'm going to see. I will say that since I watched the bear video, my life fell apart. So I may be cursed by the bear video. But we'll see.

Things come apart that come back together, that life, you know, yeah, beautiful, rich, honest, yeah, corners around this life or some some bad things have to happen for good things to happen. Like that one episode you talked about, oh, about the farmer and the horses. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, the bear video, I have closure on the bear video and I'm glad I saw it. And thank you to Joe. Thank you, Joe. No, stay. No, no, stay.

I'm going to check in and see what our question or who our questioner is, what our question is. Can I introduce it because I'm so excited? Yes, please. Please. That's what to say. We're not excited. We're just excited. You just bared right in. I am a huge fan of this person. The fact that she might know that I exist is huge. Today's questioner is an actress and comedian known for seven years on SNL as well as TV shows like 30 Rock and movies like Wine Country.

She was nominated for a Tony Award for her role in the Broadway play Potus. Rachel Dratch is asking today's question. Nice. Hello, handsome. It's Rachel Dratch here. I'm going to blurt this out because this is like my 85th take of trying to do this. I know it's unbelievable. But anyway, here's my question. What was your favorite thing about growing up in your hometown? How did it shape you? What did you love about it or your home state, I guess? What if you didn't love it?

What was your least favorite thing? But I was trying to keep it positive. So what was your favorite thing about growing up where you did? There. I did it. Okay. Signing off. She don't want to be a Debbie Downer. I was just going to say that. One of my go-to, you've made two things. Why do we want to regret a sketch of all time? Debbie Downer and the way it would zoom in on her face and she would be trying to do it.

The one I knew was if Faling and Lindsey Lohan, they couldn't self-lapping the whole time. Oh, man. She's a silly person. She just cracks me up. And some of you just have funny bones. That whole era of SNL women just were beyond. Found. Yes. That was your era too, right? For like that's what I was watching. I mean, I got it. Yes, that would have been polar and Tina Fey and Anna Gostire. Yes. Oh, yes. So am I leaving anyone else? Molly Shannon. Sheri O'Terry.

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Yeah, and for me, like in middle school, I was like, I can't pull off with some of the girls in my class or pulling up. I was like, I don't know how to be cool. And so it was like, amazing seeing how powerful it was to be silly, like to, and how that's so much cooler than trying to be cool. Like, you know, yeah. Yeah, I'm also just remembering that I met Rachel, Rachel Dratch has a brother who is a comedy writer and producer. Oh, I'm forgetting. Do they ever sing together? Do they ever know?

That's a good question. I'm forgetting his name. So you've met Rachel? I have not, I don't think, I don't think I've met Rachel either. One of those people I've seen 10 billion times on TV, and then of course I could believe we've met, but I don't believe we've met. You feel like you know her. Yeah, for sure. I feel like we talk a lot about our hometowns on the show. Like I, you guys have more hometown towns because they're small towns, right?

Yeah. Yeah. So my hometown is Belmont, North Carolina. Oh. It's, it's 30 minutes outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, and we're just on the other side of the airport. So I'm actually closer to the Charlotte airport than some of Charlotte. But it's a tiny town of, when I was born, it was about 8,000 people. Now it's a booming metropolis of about 12,000 people. And every time I go home, it is exploding with new homes and new apartment buildings.

And the whole town is going to explode at some point because it cannot handle the amount of people trying to move into it. Did it feel small when you're growing up? Oh, yeah. It did. Very small because yeah, it was tiny and everyone knew each other. Now there's more people now that I don't know it, but I've also been gone for so long. But it was a very sleepy little town and very boring when I was growing up. No fancy restaurants, no good restaurant. I'm kind of drying up to be honest.

And then it had this whole revitalization. And now it's like one of the like sought out places to live in North Carolina. Would you remove that there? I wouldn't mind it at this point in my life. Yeah, I mean, it's a really cute. It's so cute. When I go home now, I'm like, God, my hometown is awesome. And I always loved it because of the people growing up. I was bored out of my mind and I couldn't wait to leave. Okay, that's what I'm interested in. Yeah, so you felt it felt claustrophobic.

Oh, yeah. I felt like there's got to be more to life. This is so boring. When I was in high school, you just drove up and down this one street. You would like the kids would hang out in the church parking lot. There was nothing to do. I wanted to go, we weren't allowed to really hang out in Charlotte. It was too much of a big city. And so yeah, I just couldn't wait to peace out. But the thing I always loved about my hometown is that the people were so nice and so lovely and supportive.

And I'm five generations of that hometown. So my family goes way back there. Five generations is a lot. That takes you back to like 1900 or something, right? That's crazy. Yeah, but my mom lives there and I go visit my dad actually just moved back. He moved away. But I love it for them because what I miss in LA is not having, I don't feel like I have a community here. I kind of feel like I have friends and stuff, but we all live in different places.

But I just feel like in my hometown, everyone's kind of looking out for each other. And my mom just had knee surgery and tons of people every day were bringing her food or taking her to a physical therapy or checking on her. It's so cool how if something happens to someone, everyone descends upon that place. So what do you need? Can I do checking on people? It's just a very neat way of just being there for each other. I'm glad my parents have that. That is real nice.

Do you have like, does a town have like inside jokes as a town? I have some weird questions. I mean like, you know, like specific weird traditions and stuff. I mean, the big thing, at least when I was growing up was the Friday night football game at the high school. Like every half the town went, you know, yeah, that was a big thing. And then everyone goes to church, that's a huge part of the south and especially a small town.

You know that everyone's going to be at church on Sunday and they're all going to be right. Well, it used to be when I was growing up, there was only so many restaurants that were decent. And so you wanted to be the first one to get out of church. So you could beat the Baptist to the, you know, place and everyone was vying for the tables. So it was that was that was how exciting it got.

Yeah, very quaint, very small town, but I a place that instilled manners in me and that you just kind of like I said, looked out for each other. It was, it wasn't a very selfish place. A lot of community was always there. Tig, you were a small town as well. And I was think about small towns and would worry like if you mess up once or you do something wrong, like you can't really escape it. Like you stays with you and you're. That doesn't happen.

Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, I, my hometown in Mississippi generations of my family lived there as well. And I have extended families till there. But we also moved to an area outside of Houston and we moved around a bit as a kid. But yeah, my town got, I think it's like 5,000 people maybe. Really? Yeah, it's not, it's not very, it's hard to underage drink and it's on that small. I would, they do that. Oh, it's not. It's not really easy. Like in the basement of someone's house.

Yeah, or anywhere. Like, I, I don't know. I just feel like that is not really pleased too much. Okay. Fave thing. Well, I mean, I would say that I have all of these older cousins that kind of, there's four boys that are like, I don't know, 10 to somewhere in the 9 to 15 years older than me and my brother. Yeah, 9 to 15 feet tall. No, they're older cousins that they were like brothers to me and my brother. And they were between us and my mother.

So they were like younger brothers to my mother and then like older brothers to me and my brother. And they just were so fun to be with and took us to do cool things all the time. Whether it was just going to the beach or going, like I remember just riding around in the back of a pickup truck, just something as simple as that that I loved so much where of course not terribly safe. And I wouldn't want my kids riding around in the back of a pickup truck. Yeah. No health and stuff.

And like drinking out of like bottle, you know, just in the back, just sliding around in the back of a pickup truck. Corner wrestle a bear. I was always in the back of a pickup back in the day. Really? Yeah. And like boating and water skiing. I mean, I think I've told you guys we'd water ski and swamps and people are like no way. And I would have to call my brother and be like, am I making this up? But I think that yeah, it's that sense of community and everybody know each other.

And anytime, my town's really close to New Orleans and right over the border of Louisiana and Mississippi. And I mean, if I'm ever working in New Orleans and then I just drive in to see my family, I'll stop to get a coffee or something. And inevitably one of my cousins will call and be like, hey, I heard you down. Yeah. That's the same when I go to say when I go home like every, it's like it goes through the great mind like right away.

Immediately or like I remember walking with Stephanie down the beach and just honks at us. And I'm like, hey, you know, it's in pot. You can't hide there at all. But coming back with my family now, we go back all the time two or three times a year. And I love bringing my wife and children everywhere and into all the shops and everybody knows us. Everybody loves them. Oh man. It's just the greatest feeling. And that's why I love where we live in Los Angeles. It's like a small town feeling.

It has a lot of little shops and cafes and it's all walkable. And I love that for Max and Finn because it reminds me of my town in Mississippi because you walk into a place. They know your order. They know your name. They, you know, they haven't seen you in a while. What's going on? Where have you been and how are you feeling and how are the kids? And I just like that. Triple shot, decaf coffee. Quad shot.

Quad shot. Yeah. But I like this is so nice because I feel like there's a stigma around especially small towns in the south and the states. And it's so nice to hear that like you guys love your hometowns and go back and are so welcome there. That's what I was like. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's important to remember that things are not that black and white. Totally.

I mean, it's your Ken Bay, but not everybody in the south and not everybody in small towns and not everyone where you think they're going to be this that way or the other. It's just not always what you think and you have to give people more credit and understand that whatever people or places don't represent everybody. For sure. What about you with your tiny town? With Toronto. I mean, you're in a big city.

And Toronto does have kind of a, like anytime I meet someone from Toronto, it's the first question is what high school did you go to? And then it feels kind of small town. And you always have mutual friends. But I did, I mean, like for a better or worse, as a teen, I loved how anonymous it was. I loved being able to get on the subway and go and know and knew where the hell I was. And I would run around and yeah, and I loved how busy it was.

Yeah, I'm pretty, I'm pretty patriotic, like town proud. I have a tattoo of 416, that's like the Toronto area code. But then Drake got really into 416 and saying and kind of co-opted 416 as a thing. Is he from here? He's from Toronto. He went of course, went to high school with my friend and they were in a production of Les Mines. Okay. Like everyone, yeah, like, yeah, there's a shared kind of vocabulary. I hate how cold it got in the wind. Oh, yeah.

That visceral feeling of like the salt that people throw on the, you know, get the salt stains on your jeans and your winter boots and you'd have to bring your shoes in a backpack. Yeah, I would not like that. Oh man, it got so cold. But some are in Canada's pretty dreamy legs and yeah. When does it start to get cold? I always forget when it starts to get cold again. Oh, it depends on cold warming, but like on weeks, right? Like on Halloween, you'd wear a winter coat over your costume, you know?

Yeah. Yeah. And your winter boots. Yeah. It's coming for us. But it never felt like overwhelming being a bigger place like that didn't, that never kind of bother you just because it was what you were used to. Yeah. I mean, I, if I imagine my own family, I'm not, I'm like a small town would be great. So I see the benefit because I definitely run, ran wild and you know what I mean? But I mean, I did, I loved it.

Yeah. But it is like my, I'm working with a Canadian crew now and Canadian costume where it's, they're so, it's such a small, like my friend Gabby came to visit set and she's, we're walking around and then the woman doing hair goes, oh my God, Gabby. And she used to do Gabby's hair when Gabby was 17 and like, she worked at like a salon and just every, and then like my sister was like, oh yeah, I did the, just niche things.

She's like, I did square dancing at the Royal Winter Fair as part of Kiwanis. This combination of words is so familiar to me. I'm like, yep, I was probably there. Like, that's funny. Yeah. The Royal Winter Fair. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're, they're definitely were drawbacks of a small town, whereas it's really awesome to have that community. It was weird growing up that everyone was in everyone's business.

Yeah. That part would get old sometimes like, I remember specifically, I remember, I remember being not loving that when my parents were getting a divorce. Like, everyone was in the business and gossiping about it and talking about it. You hear about some of that? I guess this was early on like, my parents divorced when it was pretty taboo to get divorced. Yeah. So my mom. Did they consciously uncouple? They sure did. They were friendly. No, no, no, no. They're very friendly now.

They're very tight. But it took, it took a while to get to a comfortable place. How old were you again when they? I was 12. So no one in your class had divorced? No, no. I mean, I was like, we were OG divorce family and I felt like our family and my mother kind of had this like scarlet letter on us. Yeah. And they even knew you were gay yet. No, I didn't have to deal with that yet. So my outsider was that, yeah, divorce parents.

Because all of my friends, parents are to this day, a lot of them are still together that I grew up with. And so I remember, yeah, feeling bad for my mom back then that she kind of was an outsider all of a sudden in that way. Because they're and women kind of were the one, you know, when they would hear a woman divorce is like another friend of ours. Their parents got divorced kind of soon after. And so my mom and that lady became like good friends.

Because they were like, well, it's the two of us now against the world. It's like me with other vegans. Yeah. And but there was my mom said there was always kind of this vibe from other women that like here come the here come the ladies like they're going to, you know, they would like hold on their husbands tighter like. And like, look up. They don't like coming in. And the ginger is on their man, I'm like, my mom is not swimming in on your man. Calm down.

That's also like when somebody dies and then all the, all the ladies like some guy's single who's widowed. Yeah. They all head over and bring some food and try and get in there on the open spot. My mom had a suitor at one point who kind of did look down on her that she was a divorce say. No, but he was suiting her. So, I know, but he ended up breaking up himself. He ended up breaking up with her to go out with a widow. Oh, that was like more acceptable. Because that was more like.

And again, he didn't even know that you were gay. No, no, no, no. That one had a big problem. It's so wild to me that, but he thought that she, the widow needed her him more. And it's like such a good. School mentality. And obviously in today's time, there's way more, it's way more common. That's just a part of society now. But back then, it was like such a thing. I love picturing this guy. I think he's such a catch and like, I got to look at this poor widow.

I'm picturing him looking like the guy on the monopoly game for some reason. Like he's like, and the whole of these women need his help. He's like, you're right. I'm helped ginger. Now I'm going to go help this widow. How long did she date him? Two or three years maybe? Three years maybe? Oh, well. A chunk of time. A chunk of time. Not just like three dates. And then was like, I can deal with this divorce. He would take her on dates like a way, like kind of on the outskirts of the house.

Oh no. So bad. No. Yes. Because he was, he didn't want his bab just friends to know that, you know, that he was getting a divorcee and then like a life so old school that he wouldn't even like drink wine or anything in a restaurant in town. Like he would only do it if they were at the place where they, he wouldn't be seen. It was, it was what a loser. Barrio school. So yeah, that, that part of small town was like so antiquated to me, you know, even that I was like, what are we doing here?

This is wild. I mean, I've had that. I mean, like from dating closeted people, I just, it came into my mind that one birthday, this woman who I was dating and lived with, who didn't want any of her friends to know. She, she was like, let's go to this like, it was Q Gardens, which is like way on the outskirts of London. And I was definitely because no one would bump into it because I was like, let's go into Soho and I'm telling you, I'd like to go to this garden really far away.

And I had no interesting gardens. And then we got there and she was so sort of tired and sleepy that she rented a wheelchair from the entrance. And I ended up just pushing her around this garden all day. I mean, it was a relationship didn't work out. I know. I pushed her around the garden and then, yeah, and then got back and had to pretend to be her buddy at home with our roommate. I was like, what do I do?

It was the moment, as I was pushing the wheelchair, that's sort of when it all started to, I thought. I hope so. Yeah. It was really strong here. Yeah, I don't know if this is quite right. The stuff you put up with, like I was like 28 years old, that wasn't, yeah, ridiculous. Well, should we see what Rachel Drage has to say about her hometown? Yeah. Wherever that is, does anyone know where she's from? Boston, maybe. No, I couldn't tell you. Boston? I don't know, I'm guessing.

Okay. I'm guessing Chicago. That's a guess. I had a set and a costume change for my answer to the question. So I was thinking about this. So I grew up in Massachusetts in a town called Lexington. And when I think about what I loved about my hometown, the first thing I think of is the natural beauty that I sort of took for granted, I think, growing up. I think of walking to school in the fall and kicking leaves the whole way to school and the smell of the leaves.

Before I think of a snow day and lift up my window shade and seeing everything covered of white with the trees looking so pretty. And it always smelled so good, too. So that's what I really miss about my hometown. And then I live in New York City now so you can see why I might miss some natural beauty. And then the other things I would say is, like, you know, I started out when I was five there. So I have friends from when I was five years old. And I do like high school.

So I like going back, I feel connected to my high school classmates. And then the third thing I'd say is Boston has the Boston area has a sort of like intellectual bench with all the colleges there. But then it also has kind of a sadonic witch, I think, is valued there. So you know, you can have the cook at the burger joint. I think huma is sort of valued there. And maybe it is everywhere. I don't know. But it's sort of, I don't know. You just, I think it's sort of in the air there.

Maybe that's my imagination. Maybe that shaped me. I don't know. That's just my vibe about it. So anyway, that's what I liked about my hometown. Handsome. What did you like about yours? Or what didn't you like? I'm sure I've already, okay. Okay. I've cut this part. Okay. What do you like about yours? I was thinking Boston because she and Fallon used to do those Boston characters all the time. You remember? Yes. And would go real hard. They played like high school boyfriend girlfriend.

And remember to like accent really hard, like super hardcore Boston. I do think some Boston and like some places have are funny. Like are like have a cultural identity of like like Liverpool is like that. Like everyone's funny. Dublin. I think Boston does have that. Well, that accent. So like it sounds so funny. It's funny. Cartoonie. Back the car. You my dynamic. But I one time was watching a roast battle at just for laughs.

And then somebody made a joke about an aorta and I just hear these two guys next to me. And one of them goes, what's an aorta? And the other one goes, it's a potty of hot. Potty of hot. I didn't know what an aorta was. Yeah. I always remember. Potty of hot. It's so funny. That is so funny. That is awesome.

It is kind of wild that she asks about hometowns because so much of my childhood was me watching Silent Live and memorizing the sketches from her definitely her her cast and others and going to my like school going to school to like practice and stuff and reciting those sketches. Like she is a part of my hometown experience. So it's amazing. It's trippy. Yeah. That's so great. Yeah. Alright, well, make sure you check out our website handsome pod.com. Get your merch.

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But you can check out feel good on Netflix or my special sap on Netflix. What about you guys? November 16th. The very last show of my tour. I just added it. Santa Rosa, California. Yeah. Yeah. And I, TIG, your friend, will be in Kansas City on November 2nd. And St. Louis on November 15th. And I'm also in Toronto working out new material at Comedy Bar. So get your tickets.

And then also if you're in LA, check out Largo and Dynasty typewriter because I'm also working out new material there when I'm back in town. And every Friday, little pretty little episodes. Don't forget to tune in. Yes. TIG, little episodes and send your questions and answers in for your chance to be on a pretty little episode. So Thomas said those are doing really well that they're popular right out of the gate. I love that. Yeah. It's really, really fun. So yep, thanks for listening.

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