Pretty Little Episode #48

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Pretty little episode.

Hey, Fortune.

Hi, Tig.

How are you, girl?

So good, girl.

It is so good to see you, girl.

You too, girl.

Oh, my gosh.

You had reached out to me the other day

for a chit-chat.

I told you I was

leveled.

Yes.

Leveled with the shingles vaccine.

I love that.

You're like, I got to get to the shingles thing.

We could say, welcome to the handsome pods.

Pretty little episode.

No, no.

I was just remembering.

But yes, welcome to the handsome pod.

Pretty little episode.

But tell us this shingles debacle.

I just, anybody listening over 50 that has gotten the shingles vaccine, oh my lord.

I heard it wasn't pleasant, but I didn't know it was at the level that you're, you're saying you got left.

I couldn't get out of bed.

I couldn't move my body.

Yeah.

I could not move my body.

And it's a, it's, it's a vaccine, so you're just getting like a shot, right?

Well, I had gotten the first one.

Okay.

I think it was two months ago.

Yeah.

And they were like, you know, it affects some people, you know, people differently.

Some people, it really affects.

And it didn't affect me.

Okay.

And then, and then this, I went in for the second one.

And I said, you know, the first one didn't affect me.

And I heard that

it can, you know, really

take you down.

And she was like, you know, it can, but maybe it won't affect you.

And I was like, okay.

And she said, it usually kicks in at night or in the morning.

Okay.

Well, one in the morning, it kicked in.

Oh.

And I was lying in bed.

I had turned over and I was like, oh God, oh God.

Fortune.

I pride myself on not exaggerating.

I felt like somebody had beaten me with a bat.

Oh it was

bad.

It was so bad.

I had a fever and my whole body, I had a headache and my whole body head to toe.

I could not move.

And I'm so curious if our listeners, anyone had this same experience because it leveled me.

It was crazy.

I've never never had that kind of response from, and what was a good thing was knowing that it wasn't unusual, that I wasn't having some crazy response.

So, if anybody ever wondered if I am anti-vax,

I am not anti-vax.

Yeah.

I went in for it.

Well, I, as unpleasant as that was, I've heard getting shingles is a nightmare.

So, yes, well, that's

the vags.

Yes.

I've had numerous, when I went through this,

a friend of ours was having a dinner and I was hoping that I was going to be okay because it was like a really big celebratory dinner.

And I mean, I could tell Stephanie was like really kind of bummed, like not like upset with me, but like it was a night out that we were doing.

I was like, I can't.

I can't move.

Yeah.

But that friend and other friends have told me they were like,

I've had shingles.

Oh, really?

I guess they're unbelievably horrendous.

So I would like to avoid that.

Yes.

And I'll go through a baseball bat beating from the vaccine any old day.

Right.

Than to have what people have described shingles actually are.

Well, thank God you're on the other side of that.

Thank you, God.

I'm happy for you.

Yes, thank you.

You're welcome.

So, yeah, I just wanted to follow up with that

because I had text you being like, hey, I'm just crawling out of a shingles vaccine.

It sounds like it would be nothing.

Like, yeah, you just, and I'm, it was not.

Well, I was just calling to chat with you, girl, and I figured, hey, girl, we'll talk another time.

I know you were a girl, but I was very interested to catch up with you and chat.

But was not going to happen.

Yeah, that's all right.

We'll, we'll catch up another time.

Like right now.

We are.

We're catching up.

Original listeners.

I know.

How was your, are you finished shooting in Atlanta?

Yep.

Done with that.

And that was super fun.

And

flew to Vegas right after for a show.

And the month of June was pretty crazy busy, but July and August, I'm taking it a little easier.

So I'm happy to just like slow down for a minute.

And what does slowdown look like for you?

In July, I just have one busy busy week and that's it.

And then August,

I go to Iceland for their pride

and for one weekend and one show and that's it.

Wow.

Will you tell Iceland if they want me ever?

I would love to go to Iceland.

I'm sure they would.

Love that.

I've never been.

They reached out about performing at their Pride weekend and I was like, you betcha.

I've only done a layover in Iceland.

Yeah, I'm pumped.

I've never been, so if anyone has any recommendations, please send them my way.

My best friend, Andrea, is going with me.

Is that who we met in Nashville?

Yeah, that's who you met, yeah.

Yeah, so she's nice.

It's gonna be fun.

Yeah, I think they have 100% organic farming in Iceland.

Really?

Yeah.

Well, I can't wait.

Yes, I can't wait for you.

Well, should we hear some questions?

Yeah, let's do it.

What if they're all about the shingles vaccine?

You know what?

I also heard the shingles vaccine can help with

dementia.

And also,

okay.

Well, that's always helpful.

Prevention, obviously.

Not to get it.

That would be a bummer.

Hello, pretty little handsomes.

I'm Jessica from South Carolina.

And I'd like to know if there's anything that you were an early adopter of that you love to tell people about.

maybe it was an artist or a show or a band that you got in on the ground floor before it was really popular and you're proud of that?

Hmm.

I feel like I was an early adopter of Brandy Carlisle.

How early?

Like, like, not when she was like busking in Seattle, but like

pretty early on.

Like, I saw her in LA in like a tiny, tiny venue.

Like, what venue?

Maybe the L Rey, but.

Oh, okay, yeah.

But it's like a 500.

I mean, I didn't discover like day one, but pretty early days.

Pre-her song

being on Grey's Anatomy.

What song is on Grey's Anatomy?

The story.

Oh.

The story

is in the Andrea Gibson documentary that I produced.

Nice.

Yeah.

Brandy's also an EP on that.

That's awesome.

I also started using her Ubers pretty early days when it was only black cars.

Yeah, I remember being out with Sarah Silverman and she was like, This is so crazy.

This app, it's like a taxi, and you just and a limo pulls up, or you know, whatever.

And I was like, oh, that's weird.

Anyway, so do you want to go get a,

you know,

but here I can do it.

I'll just press this.

And then a car like pulled up and we zipped off to like get a piece of pie or something at a diner.

Yeah.

But congrats.

Thank you.

It's

yeah, I guess I have those kind of things where it's not

like I didn't discover them, but I was seeing them in clubs, you know, and that would be people like the Indigo Girls and

Edie Brickl.

I remember seeing Edie in a club in Houston.

I went.

I don't know if I went by myself.

I think I might have gone with a friend.

But I for sure went by myself to Indigo Girls to the Heights Theater in Houston.

It's a 500-seat venue.

That's where I shot my happy to be here special.

And the Indigo Girls were on that special, and that's why I did the full circle thing.

Yeah.

So, yeah, there were 500 people there.

It wasn't,

it wasn't

like nobody had heard of them.

But

I was hired to be the

well, there was this show on Netflix that got scrapped in the pandemic that I was like a host and judge for

with like up-and-coming comedians where you choose comedians that you, there were three hosts and you choose a comedian that you want to develop and help them with their comedy.

And then down the road, they could, the big prize is to win a Netflix special.

Oh, nice.

And the comedian I chose was Otsuko.

And that's how I got to become close with her.

And I directed her first special, which was crazy because out of all those comedians that were coming on that

series,

she did end up getting her own special, but just not through Netflix because Netflix scrapped the show.

So that was early.

You know, I was like,

this gal's got what it takes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Maybe Otsuko, Indigo Girls, and Edie Raquel.

Yeah.

A little bit early.

I love it.

Do you?

I sure do.

Shall we hear if our friend here had any?

Jessica.

Jessica, what did Jessica adopt early on?

What if it was children?

It might be.

I have a few.

I saw Paramore perform in a little bar when Haley was just a teenager and I was blown away by her talent.

I like to imagine that I discovered Brad Pitt when I was 11.

That one's just not true.

And I love to tell people that I have been a Tig Notaro fan forever.

I used to watch her on Comedy Central.

My first ever podcast was Professor Blastoff.

And of course, I'm a day one handsome listener.

Thank you, all three, and Thomas, for being so special and

silly and bringing joy into our lives.

It really means a lot.

Love you.

Aw, that's what I'm doing.

That's so, yeah, that's nice.

Like, you, it's nice when people

really feel it and get it.

And, um,

and, um,

yeah, that's that's really nice.

And,

God,

I was podcasting a long time ago.

Yeah, you were, you were an early adopter

of that.

Yeah, I guess that's true.

I was an early adopter of podcasting.

But even people, God, Jimmy Pardo, I feel like he's such, first of all, a great comedian and such a great podcaster.

That guy was like born podcasting.

Yeah.

So I can't even pretend like I was before him.

But, um,

but yeah.

Anyway, interesting and good question.

Thanks for

calling in.

Hello, Fortune Tig and May.

This is Grace in Minnesota.

My question for you is if you had to go right now and get a tattoo, for some reason you're being forced to do it,

what would you get and why?

Oh, man.

I'd get a hot dog in a hot dog bun on the end of my nose.

You would not.

What would you guys want dogs?

Do you have a hot dog?

Do you have a tattoo?

I don't think I've ever done that.

I think not a single one, do you?

No.

I'm not a tattoo guy.

I've never wanted one.

My skin is so like light colored that I just didn't feel like a tattoo would look good on it.

And I'm not really one for pain.

So I never wanted to inflict pain on myself on purpose.

And it just looks very painful.

Um, I mean, for acting purposes, the people that have tattoos

have to go through so much to get them covered that I don't know why they would want to deal with that.

Yeah, um, but yeah, I don't mind tattoos on other people, I just have never had one myself.

Yeah, same.

Like, I feel very much like

you do you.

Yeah, I'm gonna do me.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, you know what?

I think I've talked about this.

I do have a tattoo.

Oh, yeah.

It's just a dot.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah.

My brother threw a ballpoint pen at me and it stuck in the inside of my right knee.

And when he pulled it out, I was in sixth grade.

It's still there.

If I ever am missing, and the police ask if I had any tattoos, I did have a dot on the inside.

I have my brother's fingernail mark

right here in between my eyebrows.

You know, there was a moment when I was

in high school that I thought I might want Chrissy Hines' face on my upper arm.

What would you think about that now?

I know.

I remember I was really close with my vice principal because I was always in her office

in trouble.

But I told her, I was like, yeah, I want to get Chrissy Hines' face.

And she was like,

that you're not going to want that when you're older.

You're not going to want that on your own.

Thank God she told you that.

And I, you know, for a while, I, and I sat with it because I really respected her.

Yeah.

Not enough to, you know, go to school or not smoke at school.

But

I did.

I took it to heart what she said, and I sat on it and thought about it.

And as the years went by, it did drift away as like a good idea.

But, you know, actually, speaking of high school, I was asked to go to prom

with

a very guy that became famous in the tattoo world.

Oh, yeah.

I said no because I'd already dropped out of high school and I didn't know I was gay yet.

But I was like, I'm not going to.

I was like, I'll be at the pool hall if you want to meet me there.

Yeah.

Which he did.

He missed his

prom to come shoot pool with me.

Oh, wow.

He was known as Leopard Larry.

And I think he's in the Book of World Records, or like Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Yeah.

He had his entire body tattooed like a leopard.

Whoa.

Yeah.

Very sadly, he passed away probably four years ago or something.

But yeah, I was asked to prom

with my his name was Larry Brischke.

Yeah.

But he didn't have all, he didn't have all those tattoos when he asked you to prom, did he?

No, the way I met, I had

I had failed a grade in school and I was, and I had been befriended by the very popular girls in school, and I was sitting with them, and I enjoyed them, but then I was like, man, this isn't really my scene.

And I was like, I'm going to go sit at that table.

And it was just like a table of nerds.

Yeah.

And

two of the popular girls came with me to sit there.

And one of the guys there was Larry Brischke.

And I loved Larry so much.

And we just totally became pals.

And he was like the smartest, nerdiest guy.

And then I think as he got older, he kind of rebelled.

He became a total partier and then got his whole body tatted up as a leopard.

And

wow.

But yeah,

I just think about the pain of that, though.

Yeah.

Well, I think he maybe

probably

had some,

you know, drinks or something in his system

here and there, yeah, over the years that maybe dulled pain.

I see.

But, um, but yeah, no, he went from like big glasses nerd

to like Leopard Larry.

Leopard Larry Larry.

Yeah.

Shout out to Leopard Larry Brischke.

Can I just tell you really fast a quick Larry Brischke story?

Maybe I've told it on here.

We went out to go fishing

at this lake, Lake Conroe in Texas.

And we bought one of those inflatable alligator rafts.

You know those?

They have like handles on them.

Yeah.

We thought it would be so funny to inflate the alligator raft with our fish and take our fishing poles, sit on the alligator raft, and like push ourselves out to the middle of the lake and fish from the alligator.

Oh my God.

And as soon as the first line was cast,

we caught our alligator

and it popped.

Oh my God.

And we were in the middle of the lake, laughing so hard, having to swim back to shore with this deflated alligator raft and our fishing poles.

So weary tig.

Yeah, it was just like a stupid idea that we thought would be so funny.

And we actually did it.

I can't believe you hooked the inflatable alligator on the first go.

I feel like it was Larry that did that.

He was a really good fisherman.

Anyway, sorry, I got caught in Leopard Larry land.

Listen, shout out, Leopard Larry, and rest in peace, my friend.

Rest in peace, Leopard Larry.

Oh, we got to hear Grace's answer.

Oh, right, right.

Sorry, Grace.

I really, really went off on Leopard Larry there.

And my answer for this is that I would get a tattoo symbolizing my true love,

my cat, Sonny.

Sorry to my husband, who is probably finding out for the first time that he is not my true love.

I don't know exactly what it would be,

but some image of my sweet, sweet feline friend.

Thank you so much.

I just realized we didn't even answer what we would get.

Well, okay, so neither Tig and I have one,

but it, I, you know, I like that she,

she would have that, but I, I, it made me think I would get biggie on me somewhere, but I don't think I want biggie tattooed, like the word biggie, because then it feels like I'm calling myself.

What about his face?

Maybe his face, but I would probably get like some kind of like my friend Jillian has like cool like numbers or like birth, like her, the year she was born.

I would do like some kind of like something like a number or some sentimental thing like that.

Like my favorite number is 18, maybe that, or my birth year, something small and something that you can't really see.

Um,

why not on the bottom of your foot or like a toe on my pinky toe?

Yeah,

um,

yeah,

what would you get?

I'd probably get something sentimental that um kind of symbolized me and Stephanie and

Max and Finn and Kitty City.

We were drawing the other day, and I drew a picture of all four of us with Kitty City

in this nice little nature

scene.

And not that I'd get that.

Maybe I'd get that on my back.

On the back.

Just a giant.

Yeah.

Just that exact drawing of mine on my back.

Oh, well, there you go.

There you go.

I don't think either one of us are going to ever do that, but you never know.

I don't think we are.

Yeah.

I don't think.

Or maybe me, you, and May can all get Thomas's face

on our backs.

Or handsome.

The word handsome.

Well, Thomas's face on our back and then over it, handsome.

Handsome.

That's quite a tattoo.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love it.

Thomas seems thrilled about it.

Grace, thank you for the lovely question.

Yes, Grace, thank you.

And thank you for being patient with my Leopard Larry stories.

Let's see.

What do you have going on coming up?

Fortunately, I'm just in Edmonton, July 20th, with Mateo Lane.

If any Canadians want to come, or May and I are doing the gala in Montreal on the 26th, and a bunch of dates

coming up in the fall.

Well, I will be at the Westampton Beach Performing Arts Center in Westampton Beach, New York on August 17th.

Provincetown, Massachusetts on August 23rd.

And go to Tignotaro.com

for all my show information.

I'm working on new material that I'm very excited about and usually doing that somewhere between LA and Toronto when I go back to film.

So come check it out.

And I don't know, until next time,

keep it pretty

handsome.

Handsome is hosted by me, Fortune Feemster, Tig Notaro, and Mae Martin.

The show is produced, recorded, and edited by Thomas Woulette.

Email us at handsomepod at gmail.com and follow us on social media at HandsomePod.

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