Anjelah Johnson-Reyes asks about gratitude and "mad-itude"

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Hello, it's your friend Tignotaro on the Handsome Podcast here with my co-host, Mae Martin and Fortune Beamster.

Welcome.

Welcome.

May I take your order?

Yes, please.

Where are you right now, Fortune?

I am filming a movie in Atlanta.

Oh, nice.

Nice

with Will Farrell.

Cool.

How's it going?

I just got here last night.

So, so far, nothing's happened till my lovely call time at 5:30 tomorrow morning.

Do you know your lines?

I will tonight.

Yeah.

Is that how you do your lines?

Do you do it the night before or do you do it in the makeup chair or do you work up slowly?

Tell us your process.

Please tell us your process.

On a movie like this, where it's not like crazy big chunks of lines, I'll look like two days ahead and

see

if there's anything that I really need to dig into.

And if it's not too bad, then I'll do it the day before,

the night before, and then again in the makeup trailer.

But on Foobar, I had like really long, like

really long things.

So they would print out a thing for me for the week that I would be studying all week.

Yeah.

All your action terminology.

Straight.

Well, we got the, we got the.

Oh, I actually can't think of anything.

Yeah, we can.

We got the,

we're zooming in on the

truth be told, I can't.

tell you one line that I had this

yeah because it's all short short-term memory.

I learn it really quickly and then release it as soon as the scene's

done.

Yeah, same thing.

Are you my dream if I was working with Will Farrell would be because his bloopers are so iconic.

My dream would be to be part of a blooper, like part of an unscripted moment where I make him laugh or something.

Where do you see Will Farrell's bloopers if you haven't worked with him?

Let me tell you, it's when I'm sad, I get on YouTube and I will search literally Will Farrell bloopers.

Oh, okay.

He is so funny.

I did the his last movie with him, but my big scenes with him and Reese got cut.

Oh, man.

But it was them making it up to you.

I guess so.

And then, but we had a funny behind, they did some behind-the-scenes videos where he and I was, they were interviewing me, and then he

comes up and interrupts me and starts doing bits with me, which is like my dream.

And then Reese comes up and does bits with both of us, and I'm doing bits with Will and Reese Witherspoon.

And I don't know where this footage is.

I've not seen it anywhere.

And I'm like, I would.

Maybe it never happened.

No, I know it did.

And we were all doing bits.

I'm like, this is a dream scenario for me.

But I have no idea where that footage went.

Yeah, you need that.

Track that down.

And so is this movie, are you and

Will, are you the two stars of the movie?

No,

I am another small part in this.

It's him and Zach Efron

and Regina Hall.

They're the main ones.

And what is your character?

I play a cop.

Obviously.

Obviously.

Have you played a cop?

I'm a CIA agent in Fubar.

This might be my first cop role.

Yeah.

I'm trying to think.

Yeah.

And are you going far out of the fortune personality?

Are you got character?

It's just fortune and fortune as a cop.

yeah fortune the cop okay fortune the cop i went on set today and had my fitting for my cop outfit and uh i said i am playing a sexy cop right and they were like obviously um

and did you feel pretty gay um yeah pretty gay What just because of the uniform?

I mean, I fit in a cop uniform.

I have to say, it ramped up my homosexuality.

Oh, did it?

Yeah.

When I glanced at myself, I was like, this is pretty gay.

At first, they put that the

hat on you that's like the like folded one, cop hat, and I look so stupid.

I was like,

stupid.

And then they put like a ball cap on me.

I was like, oh, that's way better.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Can we see the picture of you in the stupid hat?

I didn't take a picture of it.

Can you put it back on your head and take a picture?

I'm imagining it really clearly.

A little, but I think in my mind, it's pretty cute.

It's like a little page boy kind of.

It was funny.

I was talking with Will and we were just chatting away and he was in his costume and

then all of a sudden I think I was a good 10 minutes into talking with him when I look down and he's in spandex and I had no clue.

And was that sexy or was it funny?

It's beyond sexy.

Okay.

Heck yeah.

How are you doing, Tig?

What's going on with you?

What is going on with me?

Speaking of sexy?

yeah speaking of sexy i feel like i've um

i feel like i've been up to something and doing things um for sure that's it riveting i mean i'm we're pretty neck deep always in baseball um at our house and um and outside of the house in baseball fields and games games a lot of practices a lot of games a lot of double headers

did you have a mother's day celebration of any sorts?

We did.

We had a Mother's Day celebration.

We went to one of our favorite vegan restaurants

and it disappointed.

No!

Scandal.

It was such a bummer.

It was the fourth or fifth time we've gone to this particular vegan restaurant that is very nice.

Yeah.

It is one of the top vegan restaurants.

Oh, wow.

Every time,

it is the worst service.

I wonder if it's the place I've been to that wouldn't accept my gift card.

I'm not going to name the place.

Okay, I'll name the place and we're going to bleep it, but it is.

Okay.

And it's in Marina Del Rey.

And

yeah, so Max and Finn, it's just a bummer because it's like you're looking forward to it.

It's your big special day.

The kids are excited to take you out.

Everyone get

huh?

Are they paying me?

They paid.

They're so much not paying that anytime money comes up, they always tell you how broke they are.

Oh, that's so

debit card.

They're like, I am stretched thin right now.

Truly, they're like, we are bills.

Bills are due.

Yeah.

Wait, Tig, if the restaurants, it's had bad service for the past four times.

Yeah.

So what were you expecting?

because the food's probably really good right the food is so good and we have such high hopes that it's just a freak experience and this time

the waiter was like at the end at the end of the day after the end of the meal when he's giving us our or when we're finally paying after we were finally able to track him down he's like hey and sorry um you know things are really busy today and it's like it's mother's day wouldn't they be on top of that that it's going to be busy, but also for the four other times we've gone,

what was the excuse there?

Yeah, they're like,

sorry, it's um, we'll bring more napkins, never came.

We'll you do this, we'll do that, and it's just it's like whatever.

There's much bigger problems in the world.

I don't think so.

Well, in the moment, we think there's not, but um,

but you know, I feel like Stephanie and I are very

we're nice to wait staff.

We tip well.

We're patient.

We're understanding.

I worked in

the restaurant world for many years.

So there's a lot of leeway.

This is

endlessly bad service.

You can't find them.

They don't refresh your drinks.

You can't find them to pay the bill.

It's just all the wrong food.

It's, it's, it's like, it's endless.

So that's how our Mother's Day was.

But

we walked around and

looked at the water and, you know, just

watched a movie and lounged around, had a relaxing day.

Max and Finn were playing catch in the backyard, which is one of my favorite.

I mean, Finn's so good at pitching and Max is so good at catching.

And to see them in the backyard, just satisfying.

It is so, it makes it so much more yin and yang,

just brothers.

Just, just, it was, yeah.

So aside from the actual brunch that we were all building up, it, you know what it actually did?

It made me feel bad for people who are taking their mothers out.

And let's say

somebody's sick or their mother's very elderly, or you, maybe that will be your last Mother's Day or something.

It's like, I don't mean to take it to a really depressing place, but like, but I did think about that.

Or somebody coming in town.

You know what I mean?

It's like, that's like a special meal.

For sure.

And I think about it as a comedian.

When I go and do a show, I don't take it for granted.

I know people get babysitters.

I know they maybe paid for an Uber to get there.

So I don't know.

That's where my head was was like,

give it your 100%.

Right.

Did I tell you about my experience at the one, a nice vegan restaurant, but with my gift card

i'll tell you really quick but it was it's one of the nice vegan places and my agents had given me like a very expensive gift card to it tell us the name and we'll bleep it out um bleep this part out too because i don't remember the name it's on

okay

um

that's the name of it yeah we'll bleep that out But I was like, I'm not a vegan, obviously.

I like vegan food, but this is like a very expensive gift card.

So I'm like, I got to

use this for a special occasion.

So I invited my friend Jillian Bell, who we know, who's been on our hands and pod.

And it was her birthday, and she loved this restaurant.

But for whatever reason, I didn't want to tell her.

Is she vegan?

She's not vegan, but she and her sister, Brianna, love this restaurant.

And I don't know why, because we've been best friends for years.

Why I didn't want to tell her I was using a gift card.

So when the bill came, Jax got up and just kind of was going to the bathroom and just handed the lady the check with the gift card and you know, kind of trying to be discreet.

And then the woman like comes over and says gift card more than anyone I've ever heard in my life.

She's like, I try to run the gift card, but the gift card won't work.

And I don't know what have you used this gift card before?

Like, how much is on the gift card?

And Jillian's looking at me like, what?

And I'm like, oh, whatever.

You know, we take you.

The funniest part is you were sitting behind me.

We ran into you guys that night.

This was really, yeah, this was like six years, five years ago, something like that.

Wow, literally

lasting impression.

You were literally right behind me.

So I was even more embarrassed to like talk about argument.

That is funny.

And so I'm just like, nope, never used this before.

Just, you know, if you'll go, just go run it.

And Jillian's like, and I'm like, I don't know.

And

she comes back again.

She's like, I'm on the phone with the gift card company, but like, it's not going through.

I don't know what's wrong with this gift card.

Like, keep saying gift card.

And I'm just like, please stop it.

And so I'm just like, here, give me the gift card.

Give me the gift card.

And we just like hand her our credit card and pay for it.

And they're like, oh, declined.

It was wild.

And then as we're leaving the restaurant, the manager stops.

So, sorry about the gift card.

I don't know what was wrong with that gift card.

We're trying to run the gift card.

And do you know, Jax went back another time and it didn't work again.

And I'm just like, this is a bamboozled gift card.

Okay, but how was the food?

Really good.

Really good.

Yeah.

I feel like bumping into Tig at a vegan restaurant is like bumping into me at an escape room.

Like it's so on brand that's almost embarrassing.

It's like, yep, of course I'm here.

And apologies for my memory loss.

Did we talk?

We talked.

Yeah, yeah, we said hi

and you guys sat down.

It was just me and Stephanie.

I can't remember.

Y'all might have been with another couple.

So, like, we just said a brief hello, hi.

It wasn't like a long

thing.

But I just remember between not wanting to tell Jillian I had a gift card and you sitting behind me, I was like, please just give me the gift card.

They get on the intercom.

They're like, table 47, your gift card is still not going through.

Fortune fame, sitter, please.

But the funny part is because we had this expensive gift card, we were like order whatever you want yeah oh my god keep it coming you want another drink have two of those apps like we were just going nuts because be glad you didn't have the gift card at the restaurant we went to on mother's day because you can't keep it coming because they won't ever come to your table i mean when you were saying like we couldn't find the waiter i was like surely that's the base you shouldn't have to find like here's the crazy thing we could find him he just wouldn't make eye contact when he was walking past our table

and so we'd be like hello

or there's the classic thing in restaurants where they're like,

You're like, hey, can I get some water?

They're like, I'm going to send over your server.

And then the server you try to order, they're like, I'm just taking the drinks.

I'm going to send over the, you know, that's what was happening.

Oh, my God.

They gave us the Mother's Day menu and then they gave us the regular menu.

So we were finding things on the regular menu.

And when we all had our orders and they finally came to the table,

they were like, oh, we only have the prefix meal on the Mother's Day.

That regular menu is just for drinks.

So then we were like, nobody told us.

So they leave, and then we have to find something to eat with small children too.

It's not easy.

So we had to go back through.

Anyway, again, bigger problems going on.

Again, I don't think so.

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I had my birthday.

That's right.

How did your birthday party go?

Yeah, we haven't all been together since then.

Thomas was there and crunk.

Crunk, I mean, making a scene.

We had to kick him out.

So it was set the scene.

It was at your house.

Okay, it was at my house.

And the mistake I made was it was like a last-minute thing.

I thought I got to do something.

And so I made an invite, and on the invite, it said, like, come for games,

intrigue, mystery, and like, what was the, and like lies or something.

Like, it was subterfuge, subterfuge.

Like, I would probably think that this is a sexy party.

No, no.

That's what I would think.

Intrigue?

I'm intrigued.

Really?

Yeah.

Well, what I wanted was like, I had big plans that I was going to do an Easter egg hunt.

I was going to do like some kind of mafia game where you have to figure out who at the party is.

But I kind of panicked.

I left it too late.

I was, I was really, I got the birthday blues in the morning.

Oh, no.

Did you start snacks?

I had some snacks.

Oh, this sounds like an awful party.

No, wait.

Wait, you woke up the next day depressed?

No,

on the day.

Oh, on the day.

Okay.

But if you're inviting people to your house, you have to to have a lot of snacks.

Oh, I had snacks.

Oh, okay, okay.

That's why I wasn't.

Did you have a lot of snacks, though?

Yeah, I had a lot of snacks.

I don't know.

I'm not sold on you.

Had a lot of snacks.

Go over the snacks.

Walk us through it.

Okay, well, I had multiple pizzas.

Oh, okay.

Chips and bowls.

I had dips.

Okay, okay.

Chips and bowls and dips.

Was there a cake or of any

dessert?

Okay, I'm just making sure.

The stressful thing was that I'd put on the invite 2 p.m.

onwards which is a weird thing to do oh I know you have to have a finite get out of my house time 2 p.m.

But then I got so like bummed and overwhelmed in the morning and like stressed trying to plan all these games I'd promise that then I texted everyone and said let's do 3 p.m.

Which is such a weirdly thing to just bump it an hour in the afternoon.

And then people come and I I couldn't like settle into a conversation because I was so aware I'd promised games.

So the only thing I really came up with was throw the tea bag in the cup from the furthest distance.

And I think it's fair to say I was manic, Thomas.

I was running between groups of people who were just having a nice time being like, guys, we're throwing a teabag into a cup.

If anyone wants to be able to do it, how many people made it to the party?

There were about 30 over the course of

the afternoon.

Okay.

You stressed yourself out.

Did I ever?

I mean, I had little bowls of paper and pens.

I was trying to write secret missions for people and everyone was like, what is this?

And then throwing the teabag in the cup, it was who can throw it from the furthest distance.

And we're taking turns.

And then, thankfully, that did get pretty electric.

And the feeling when someone finally got it in was like we'd won the World Cup.

The teabag part?

Yeah, the tea bag part.

Yeah, that was pretty good.

Yeah, but overall, did they get a prize?

Like, did you make out with them?

No, no prize.

No prize.

And is this a game?

Intrigue.

It seems like something needed to happen.

The intrigue was just, is May going to have a meltdown?

Okay.

Yeah.

Now,

is the throw a teabag in a glass or cup, is that

a party game?

Because I have to be honest, I don't know if that would lure me to a party or keep me there.

It was interesting.

I was thinking.

Are you fortunate if you knew you could throw a teabag into a cup?

You and all ass over there?

I'll try.

What I thought was there's a lot of ways you could go about it because you're trying to get it from the furthest distance.

I didn't anticipate how hard it would be to get it in at all, but there's different, you could get the teabag wet.

That would be my, I would want to get it wet.

Yeah.

And are you dangling it like this and throwing it?

Well, that's a very interesting question to dangle from the screen.

I've really hacked out on that fortune.

Or I was like, maybe if you just get high up over it, that counts as distance.

It does.

But honestly, thank God for Cleo Duval and her wife were there and they're like game game fanatics, and they love Survivor, and they were like right on board with it.

Setting the rules and everything.

Cleo turned into a director again.

She really did.

Also, she was the one that got

the teabag in the cup.

She did it.

She did it.

She did it.

And how did Mr.

Thomas do?

Thomas, did you throw the teabag in the cup?

You know, I think I was too busy playing foosball.

I was

really attached to that foosball table.

Yeah, the table was good.

I once once butt-dialed Clea Duvall out of nowhere during the middle of a romantic dinner in Santa Barbara.

You did what?

Butt-dialed.

But-dialed Clea.

That feels like the universe wanted you to connect with Clea.

But it's not like I love Clea, but I don't talk to Clea very often ever.

Just child.

And my phone just called her.

And she texted me.

She could hear what you were saying.

She could totally hear our entire conversation.

And

she texted me, like, hey, bud, just MYI.

You just called me.

And I was like, oh, my God, that is so weird.

And that was just a general butt dial.

General butt dial.

So your phone could literally call anyone at any time, just so you know.

That's true.

Guess what?

My phone did.

What?

I not only, I didn't just do a butt dial, but I think we, Fortune and I, I don't know about May, but have a mutual friend, Kim Dickens.

We do, yeah.

Okay.

I butt-FaceTimed Kim Dickens.

but FaceTimed, yeah, and I looked at my call list of recent calls looking for somebody's number one day,

and you know, Kim is a friend, but not somebody I talk to on a daily basis, and certainly someone I have never FaceTimed with.

And so, I'm scrolling through my missed calls and whatever to find, you know, a number that I needed to find, and I see

that I have FaceTimed Kim Dickens like three days before.

And I'm like, no, I didn't.

She didn't say anything.

She didn't pick up.

We've never talked about it.

I have done that before.

And I think usually people know if you don't normally FaceTime with that person

that it was like an accident.

Okay.

I'm still curious if I get a FaceTime.

I'm like, what's you gonna answer?

Yeah, yeah, but I answer.

I've ignored several FaceTimes that I know were probably accidents.

I once went to block an ex's number.

This is years ago, to prevent me from wanting to text them or whatever.

Go to block it.

And when I go to block the number, I accidentally hit FaceTime

calling.

Oh, I just wanted to inform you I'm blocking you

at the end of this call.

Yeah.

Yeah, that is the nightmare when you're not wanting them to know about that.

I've not ever blocked somebody.

They can't tell when you block them.

They could if they tried to message.

It would turn up green instead of blue.

Oh.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was just for everybody says just block the person for a couple.

Yeah.

Guys, I'm drinking this

thing that Thomas told me about.

What is it?

Prune juice.

It's fucked up.

It's Diet Coke mixed with cold brew.

Oh, wow.

That's cool.

It's Diet Coke with a splash of coffee in it.

And it's kind of later there.

It's right?

Afternoon.

Later, where?

Afternoon?

It's like 3 p.m.

Oh, I'm thinking of where I am.

It's evening time here.

Oh, yeah.

How does that taste?

And Thomas, you drink that?

Yeah, Coke Zero, because the Headgum Studios have Cold Brew on tap.

And I started having Cold Brew and Coke Zero combined just because they have those available.

And so that's an already made up

idea?

No, I invented it.

Like, it's like

Cold Brew with a splash of Coke Zero.

Wow.

And it's good?

I like it.

It's giving me a jolt, that's for sure.

I got a lot of flack the other day for, I went to the movie theater to see Sinners, that movie.

Yeah.

And, you know, I ordered a large drink and then, you know, you fill up your drink.

And so I always mix.

Like, I mixed like ginger ale and Coke Zero and iced tea and...

Phanta Lemon.

I think that was the combo.

And the person was horrified.

Mix a lot of drinks in one thing, but do you?

Well, I kind of like Thomas's theory that if things are available, you got to mix them.

Why not?

Speaking of lesbians on text, Emily Saylors from the Indigo Girls just texted me.

Do you think that was on purpose?

She's

high fortune.

I had a Zoom with her today.

She wrote, she mentioned you in here.

Yeah.

Oh, she called you Tig Ol Bitties.

That's weird.

Does she not know my story?

So May, would you say the birthday party was a success in the end?

I think people had a nice time.

I have many regrets.

I would do an evening party next time, I think, or at least a weekend day,

not a weekday.

Not at 2 p.m.

on a weekday.

Oh, it was on the weekday.

It was on a Friday, yeah.

Oh, okay.

And I would plan.

I would plan better.

And people came and then left and then came and then left.

And like, I have the same birthday as Kumail Nanjiani and him and his wife came.

Her birthday is, I think, the day before, the day after.

And they came, but everyone had just sort of left.

And I felt, I was like, guys, I swear it was fun.

You were throwing tea bags.

I promise.

And would you carry on the teabag game tradition?

Was it a success?

Was it a hit?

Were they into it?

I think

now that you say it, I'm like, yeah, I don't, from now on, it won't be a birthday unless there's a battle.

So you're going to be like, guys,

guess what's on again this year?

It's my birthday, and we're throwing tea bags.

Remember last year?

Well, it is funny.

It would be funny if you named it the annual tea bag party.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Come on.

Well, I hate that I missed it.

I was out of town.

I don't know if I would have been invited, but I hate I missed it.

I invited you both.

I sent it on the group chat.

Yeah, I sent it on the chat.

You did?

I did.

I sent it on the chat.

Oh, well, I apologize.

I totally did not see that, so my apologies for not getting back to you.

I think birthdays has got a lot going on.

Yeah, man.

Have you?

Just a wee bit.

Yeah.

Guys, should we see who our question asker is?

Absolutely.

Today's question asker is an actress, stand-up comedian, and former NFL cheerleader.

She has released, I know, right?

She has released multiple hit stand-up specials with her latest Say I Want getting over 5 million views on YouTube.

Angela Johnson Reyes is today's question asker.

Nice.

All right.

So I have a question

for my handsomes.

Okay.

What are you grateful for in life, which you've already shared a few,

but also what's your matitude?

Which we didn't get to today.

Okay.

Your matitude is your one thing that's making you mad these days, getting on your nerves.

And then your gratitude.

What are you you grateful for?

That's my

question for you guys.

All right.

So I did Angela's podcast, and I was like, you got to ask us a question for Handsome sometime.

And she's like, I'll do it right now.

I was like, oh, okay.

Yes.

And we're on.

And we're on.

So I got to be a part of Angela's

question.

I mean, I'm thinking of a million things.

Gratitude and matitude.

My matitude.

And explain matitude again.

Stuff that upsets you, right?

Yeah, these days, like what specifically these days is really getting your goat.

Yeah, getting your the fact that I don't have a goat gets my goat.

Yeah, you know what?

Is that how a goat sounds?

Bang, or is that a sheep?

What's a goat thing?

Don't answer her.

Let Barbara go about

let her go about life

thinking that's what a goat maybe sounds like.

Oh my gosh, you know what?

Speaking of animals,

when we were on Mother's Day,

we saw a seal in the marina

and sitting up.

I love his music.

Fortune Marie.

That is a solid joke, and I think you need to write that down and remind yourself to repeat it.

So this seal is hanging out right by this boat slip in the harbor.

And it's just, it, have you, does it not blow your mind how much seals are ocean dogs?

Yes, they're big dumb puppies.

Yes.

Really?

And just the

barking.

Is that how they sound?

I mean, don't tell fortunes.

Yeah, they're barking.

And when I said that, my son Max was like, well, they're both mammals.

And I was like, sure.

I don't know about that logic.

Yeah.

I mean,

they have the whiskers.

They look like dogs.

And they basically bark.

So what is the connection there?

I know this is not Angela's ask, but.

No, this is getting your goat.

Yeah.

Was this seal just by himself?

Oh, my gosh, just hanging out, sunbathing, and just like cleaning himself and just so cute.

Animals are just little freaks.

He was very nice to us.

Well, I mean, but if you were like to, you know, swim up and you need to Google seals and find out more information on your own about it.

Here's the thing: like, what could a seal really do to you if it was on land?

Slap you.

I mean, you've seen those little, yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah, it could slap you, or I guess if you were in a little kayak, it could try and overturn you.

That's right.

I know walruses are curmudgeonly assholes.

And I'll stand by that.

I'll die on that hill.

Yeah.

You've had a run-in with a mean walrus?

I know.

The walrus's sound is cuckoo-coo-choo.

That's correct.

Oh, boy.

When I was.

Oh, boy.

I can't even look at you.

Yeah, it takes face to be.

I cannot look at you.

Come on, that was really good.

No, no, that was really good.

No.

All right.

That was really good.

Deep.

That was good.

That was good.

I wish I had done that one.

When I was 13, it was the,

I was at like Second City Improv class, and the news team, the news came and filmed a bunch of us.

kids and they told us they were going to do a news segment on TVO at 8 p.m.

on Thursday or something.

And I told everyone in my class to watch it.

But I got the time wrong.

And so at 8 p.m., everyone turned on the TV and it was walruses fucking.

It was like a nature documentary.

And it was walruses with their weird penises having sex.

How weird.

When you're like 13,

then everyone the next day was like, saw you on TV.

Wow.

Well, actually, that's another thing they have in common with dogs is they have those weird little dicks.

Should we go to commercial?

Yeah.

What are you guys

grateful for?

I'm grateful for this conversation.

Yeah.

I mean, first and foremost.

Yeah.

Gratitude.

I've been very grateful for friends.

I've reconnected with friends lately and

just

some.

of my friends have been just amazing and

really good friends.

love that and i'm really grateful for that

you know you get really busy and i i've been guilty of like

getting so into my job and traveling that you know you sort of

um

i i wasn't always great at checking in and um

and just uh yeah just seeing how people show up for you uh pretty amazing

I made new friends, reconnected with old friends.

It's meant a lot to me.

Old friends kind of remind you who you are too.

Like, it's very grounding because you can reconnect with kind of old versions of yourself as well.

Like, you're like, oh, yeah, I forgot that I'm also this person.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just seeing how people,

when you need them, just freaking

are there for you.

It's like unbelievable.

People want to feel like they have a purpose or they can help in some way, you know?

And I feel like when you present that opportunity, I remember my biggest lesson with that was when Hurricane Katrina wiped out my hometown and I was raising money and collecting items to drive out to Mississippi

because I of the hurricane hit my hometown.

And I remember

we had like lamps out in the front yard.

We were collecting donations 24 hours a day.

I don't remember, it was for two or three days.

And I sat back going, wow, people are so nice.

I can't believe they're doing this for me and my town.

And then I thought, and then I realized like, this isn't for me.

Like, I'm just like the vessel.

And like removing yourself from it and realizing like, this is what people just naturally want to do is when there's a problem.

I think most people really do want to help and chip in and do whatever they can to make things right.

And then that was really, I mean, sadly,

if it is pathetic on my part, I didn't really realize that until that moment in my life where I was like, this has absolutely nothing to do with me

or where I live.

Well, yeah, it just reminds me how important people must be.

Oh, and I'm not taking away from the fact that your friends love you and care about you.

Oh, yeah, of course.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't want that to be misunderstood.

No, no, no, no, no, not at all.

Yeah, but I just, you know, they're doing that for them.

It's just been a big reminder.

And some people in my family are going through some things, and yeah, people have been showing up for them.

Just seeing like people show up for people has been, I have a lot of gratitude for that.

That's great.

How about you, too?

Gratitude-wise.

I'm feeling seal was.

Yeah, I feel very grateful for that seal, but I'm feeling really, really grateful for,

you know, I've, and I know I've talked about this on here, I've made massive shifts with my time and my career trying to find balance because I realized there was a time in my life, I would say it was right after the pandemic, where I was talking about how I was trying to find work-life balance.

And when I really thought about it, I wasn't actually,

I wasn't actually making

these steps to shift things.

And

I made a massive shift with my job on Star Trek,

where

I made a choice to take a much smaller load of episodes and with touring, a much smaller load with going on the road.

And I'm seeing and feeling a massive shift in my life.

And it feels so good.

And every day I say to Stephanie, I'm like, I am so happy to be home.

I am so happy.

It just feels good.

And I'm really grateful that I have taken this leap.

And maybe it won't be forever, but I've now been off the road for the majority for about a year and a half.

And that's huge.

That's so huge.

And it's a massive shift in the past few decades.

And so I'm not only glad I took this leap, but I'm very thankful and grateful that it's panned out in the way that I hoped it would.

And it is those little things of being at baseball practice, at pitching practice, at

Bad Mother's Day brunches, you know.

Yeah, so I'm really, really enjoying that.

And I'm very grateful for it.

And who knows, maybe in a year I'll be back up and running full throttle but maybe not i don't know but i'm i'm really good with how how this shift is

love that yeah that's awesome yeah it's important you gotta live live life and

and uh and be a human

yeah and have stuff to write about too and yeah yeah it's all about what material will you get i know i just did the same thing back to you yeah well the thing is you better be writing some notes down

i'm living my life so i can create more work and I have to leave town again.

That's kind of sometimes how I, how I do think of things.

And I got to be careful.

Like, I'll plan a fun day for myself.

I'll go to art galleries and stuff.

I'm like, God, I hope I noticed something.

I hope I'm funny.

Yes, it is.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm feeling grateful for

music these days.

Like, I'm playing a lot.

I'm like, I'm writing a lot of tunes and listening to a lot of music.

And I'm loving it.

And going on big walks and getting really into LA and Griffith Park hikes.

What's a big walk?

Like Griffith Park, like up to the observatory or like I went or around the reservoir or

I went yesterday to Santa Barbara with my friend and

found these hot springs.

It was this big hike and they were too hot to, in my mind, I was going to be bathing in them, but they were too hot.

Oh, because it was like 100 and something degrees, right?

I'm sorry, but hotter than you?

Impossible.

They were scalding hot and sulfuric, and it smelled like farts, but man, they were beautiful.

And there was a naked man standing, just standing.

Yeah.

Contemplating it all.

Was he an attractive man or was full dong out?

Fortune Marie.

Fortune Marie.

What?

We were not expecting that.

All our listeners were wondering.

You scared off half of our listeners.

Yes, here they come creeping back.

But they are the best.

Come on back, you guys.

I won't say it again.

Come on, ladies.

For now.

He was

like, I'm very like, you know, nudity positive or whatever, but it was a bit like someone.

I think he had written on a rock as you're approaching the hot springs.

You're going up the path.

And someone had written clothing optional with a marker on it.

Oh, that was a joke.

Well, I think he wrote it.

And then

he's like, nobody call the cop.

Yeah,

yeah.

Do you really think he made made the decision and was like

maybe, yeah.

That marker on the ground was a real telltale sign.

Yeah, yeah.

And the ink on his hands.

And then the thing, my matitude right now is, and I'd love to get your input on this, guys.

What you would do in this situation.

So I love to do laundry.

I love to smell of fresh laundry.

Samsi.

Yeah, it's, oh, we've talked about it.

It's the, to fold the laundry.

Yeah, I love it.

So I put a load in and then I guess I didn't you laughing at load fortune?

No, I'm putting a load in.

Never mind.

Fortune Marie.

Fortune Marie.

So it didn't fully dry and then I guess I didn't take it out in time.

So it now has this smell and I'm like, do I rewash the whole load?

Like it smells a bit like damp, you know, and now it's dry, but it smells a bit like damp.

So I got to re-wash everything?

I think you do.

Yeah, all right.

Yeah.

I'm mad about it, though, for you.

Mad about it.

That's a mad attitude.

Mad about it.

Yeah, like the shirt I'm wearing now.

Well, luckily, you have a washer-dryer, right?

This is part of your home.

This is part of my home.

Are you in your home?

Is that a one big trophy?

My eyesight is so bad.

Do you have one gigantic trophy behind you?

That's from Taskmasters.

It's a bunch of different trophies.

Yeah, and that's a Taskmaster trophy on top.

It's a guy's head.

I was hoping it was such a massive trophy that was like floor to ceiling.

That was one big trophy.

Yeah.

And then that's a day bed there.

Has anyone stayed on it?

Yeah, actually.

And it pulls out, like the bottom pulls out.

Did somebody stay on that after they threw tea bags all night?

They were so exhausted from the tea bag.

Boy, is my arm tired.

I cannot drive tonight.

Yes, a place I can lie down.

Because you have, what, two bedrooms, your place?

place?

I have two bedrooms, and then I have this back house that I'm trying to renovate, kind of, that will be a guest house.

Putting a little home.

Are you going to rent it out or are you going to just have people in town stay there?

I have a buddy,

and him and his girlfriend might come for six months or something.

Wow.

And I think they're going to pitch in for bills and stuff, but probably not.

Like,

you know,

I like having people around.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

And also, they might want to kill each other after they move in there because it's tiny.

Yeah.

But so far you're feeling like

the house was a it was it's all positive.

It was a good purchase.

Yeah, it's got good it's got good vibes.

Have your stress levels come down about making a big purchase or yeah, yeah, I think they have.

And also just being so unsettled for eight eight, nine months, I was like an Airbnb.

So yeah, it's good.

I got stuff on the walls.

Yeah.

It is nice to have a like a space that's yours that you're you're like this is my grounding place.

Yeah, seriously.

And does it feel like home?

Not yet.

Not yet.

But maybe it will.

There's a fireplace, like a working fireplace, and they checked the.

I love it.

Would you call it a flume?

Flu.

The flu.

A flu?

A flu?

They checked it, and they said it's all working, but I'm just too scared on my own to do it.

Yeah, what if a little ember comes out or something?

But you had it inspected.

Yeah.

So then if it passed, and it's good, but what do I there's no grate in front of it or anything there's what I just light some logs buy a grate, they're cheap.

You're telling me I light some logs, and I think I need to know to turn the gas on and light the is it a gas, it's a gas or no?

Oh, it's a wood.

Oh, wow.

I love a fireplace, it's one of my favorite.

I have gratitude for fireplaces.

I need to know: is it a flu or a flute?

I thought it was a flu.

Flute.

I thought it was a flu.

I thought it was a FL.

I thought it was a flu.

Flu.

Flu.

Oh, so.

I was right.

So, what's a F-L-O-O-G?

You don't know what a flute is?

So instrument.

How does it sound?

Yeah.

And then what about?

Hold on, I'm still soloing.

An instrument is F-L-U-T-E.

That's right.

I'm not.

I wasn't going to barge in on your poor spelling.

But what's a F-L-O-O-T?

Is that anything?

Oh, this is ever a fart or a toot.

In the urban episode, that's what a Fortune

is.

Marie, it's an urban.

Fortune Marie, you are dirtying up this episode.

No, left and right.

What about what's a flume?

F-L-U-M?

It's a channel for water, like a log flume.

Log flume.

We're asking each other questions.

And Taught us, what is

logical?

We're going to change this podcast to quick Google this for me.

What else can we learn?

What's your matitude right now, though, guys?

I liked Fortune when you said matitude.

Mattitude.

I feel like I already went off on my matitude about the bad service.

Yeah, that was definitely a matitude.

I mean, nothing's really like getting under my skin at the moment.

Do you get road rage?

No, not these days because people are crazy.

And

like, you know, I feel like there was a time in our lives where you could just give a fun bird to somebody.

Just a fun bird.

Just a fun bird like gay man.

Not these days.

Don't be doing that.

People are nuts.

So

I try to keep it pretty chill on the road because,

I mean, it feels like everyone, my matitude is that stress levels seem to be through the roof for everybody.

So no one has any patience.

And they, and you know, most people, their impatience is, is properly handled and they're like, but then other people go to like the extreme

and you're just like, you're going to need, y'all need to get some therapy.

Like, this is too much.

Yeah.

So yeah, impatience and stress levels.

That would be an annoyance.

I think people got to get that stuff in check.

I'm often I find myself in an Uber and then there'll be some road altercation.

Oh, yeah.

Often, I know it was the Uber driver's fault, but I will get on board with whatever rant the driver says.

He's like, Did you see that?

It's like about them.

I'm like, Oh, I can't believe that.

What's the heck I even thinking?

Even though I know that it was the Uber driver, I don't know.

I just gotta make sure you're safe, yeah, and bond and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

When I lived in Spain, I was walking down the street, and these two guys were um

both at a stop sign, and I don't know, someone pissed the other one off, and they both hopped out of their car and just started beating the crap out of each other.

Oh, man.

And just punching each other like crazy.

And everyone's just kind of like, what?

They do their thing and then both just get in their car and drive off.

Like, what else?

I was like, I mean, I guess like,

I guess that's what, like, chimpanzees do.

Like, you get your rage out and then you move on from it, but that's, that's not good.

That is wild.

What I've been trying to do to

de-stress myself,

obviously,

we know uh tig's treading water has been very helpful yeah but it somehow became your treading water that's right now it's you know that's what you're noted for um but may has one i want i i'm so intrigued by him i did a sauna in steam room the last couple of days and that was a nice stress reliever dude it is a game changer i feel very grateful that i'm like in a position where I could have splashed out and got that little sauna, but I am using it 20 minutes a day and it changes your whole cellular composition.

It feels like you just feel alive and young.

And you kind of meditate in there, right?

Because you can't bring your like, I don't think you bring your phone or anything in there because it's too hot.

I've sometimes snuck my little phone.

Oh, really?

But I put you should have it be a no-phone zone for yourself.

100% I should.

You're right.

No phone zone.

Yeah.

Instead of figuring out a way to get it in there.

I do, I'll do sprays and the towels

in there.

Like you have your, your bucket of water that you're going to splash the water on the coals, and I'll put like essential oils and some sea salt for spell power, and then I'll stir it three times, and I'll make a wish, I'll put my crystals in there, and then I'll really focus, and then I put the water on the

witchy stuff.

Yeah, this is my private, I mean, I tell my friends this, and they're like, just go to therapy.

Like, and you can cheer your world.

Just may, for the love of God, go to to therapy.

Yeah.

You don't want to go to therapy?

I actually have a consultation tomorrow morning.

Oh, there you go.

Yeah.

Can we come?

Oh, my God, please.

Keep me honest.

Well, that's what's important about therapy, which I think a lot of people get wrong, is that they start lying to the therapist.

And I'm like, that's the one person you got to come clean to.

Yeah.

Like, they want to hear what they want to hear.

You got to, yeah.

Well, they want to.

People go in there wanting someone to justify their actions, right?

Yeah, that's not going to do you any good.

You're going there to break those habits,

like whatever the habits are.

Yeah, so it is the one person you got to tell all your mess to.

Yeah.

So I highly encourage that because just going in there and being like, this person in my life did this and this person did this and I don't know why.

Like that, well, it's not going to get us anywhere.

Well, so I should stop griping about you, Fortune, and my therapist.

Yeah, it's because, you know, you're meeting someone.

You want them to like you.

Like everybody wants a person to like them.

But at the end of the day, you're literally paying them to

break these old habits and to heal these traumas.

I know.

I've had moments where I've

with my therapist where I'm like, I have something to tell you and I'm not proud about.

I'm not afraid of this.

Yeah.

That's a good place to be.

Like, I have to preface it with like,

I just want you to know I'm cringing right now.

And I have to tell you this thing that I did or thought or said or wanted or

felt.

Because I guess their instinct a lot of the time is to be like

self-love.

you know, don't be so hard on yourself.

And yeah, but sometimes their job is to try to, you you know, point out, why am I doing these things?

Why are these patterns like this?

Why do I have this insecurity?

Why am I avoidant about this?

Or whatever it is, you know.

Yeah, yeah.

Your blind spots.

That's their job to then hear what are these patterns that you're doing.

Why are you doing this?

And tell you, like, you do this because this.

So I don't know.

I'm just, I encourage you to,

I love that you're going.

Go in there and blow your mind.

Yeah, just lay in there.

No, but

your instinct will be like, I I want this person to like me.

No, but

I gotta shake that off.

Shake that off.

Just this is the time to just

tell all your secrets, tell all your shit.

Yeah.

Yeah, I love that.

Yeah.

Shall we hear what Angela answers?

Yeah, let's do it.

That's why we're here, right?

Yeah.

My matitude, I'm going to take it straight from today.

We're selling our car, okay?

And so we go to CarMax.

Manny's like, I'm going to take the car to CarMax and we're going to sell the car before we fly out.

And he gets there and then calls me and is like, Hey, the car is under your name.

You actually have to be the one to come out here.

I hadn't even showered yet.

And I have Rosie.

I gotta change her diaper.

I gotta get us both dressed, rush, get in the car.

Yeah, be over there.

They're like, okay, you're next in line.

I'm like, perfect.

They're like, it should be like maybe like an hour.

And I'm like, wait, hold on.

I thought I was next.

And then rush back home, took a shower, and I was ready like right before you walked in the door.

So that's my mattitude is like having to go waste time

to go sell a car at CarMax.

I guess my matitude.

My gratitude is

I feel like I would say this every single day of my life, but my daughter always,

I am grateful for her

love for music.

She loves music.

She loves to sing.

She loves to dance.

She has rhythm.

Like she's on beat when she claps and when she dances and even like the intro of a song it's like music music music and then it goes

and then the beat drops whatever she's full on

like she follows the beat yeah and she just i love watching her love music and that's what i'm i'm grateful for that's great we didn't even talk about angela's so funny she's a

many people know who she is but she's such an awesome stand-up uh some people know her from back in the day from the the Mad TV day.

She was one of the early people that like blew up on YouTube.

Like her nail salon video went like viral, viral, viral.

And she

is just one of the funniest stand-ups.

And she's back at YouTube, right, with her latest stand-up special.

That's awesome.

And an NFL cheerleader back in the day.

I think she was for the Raiders, I want to say.

Well, I'll tell you what, you know, who was not

me?

All three of us.

speak for yourself, huh?

Well, this has been lovely.

I mean, hasn't it, guys?

Hasn't it just loved catching up with you?

Indeed, indeed.

And

yeah, and yeah, and yeah, and yeah.

What do you have going on, friends?

Um, well, I'm on my taking care of biscuits tour, and it's uh in full swing, uh, starting on June 5th, St.

Louis.

Uh, the Kansas City, I have a 4 p.m.

show on June 7th.

I would love people to come to.

Then Mulvane, Kansas, Las Vegas, Lexington, Kentucky, Knoxville, Tennessee, Asheville, North Carolina.

And then we just added like a ton more in like Houston and D.C.

and Boston, Chicago, all those good places.

Love it.

And how's the material coming?

It's comforting.

It's feeling good.

Really good, yeah.

You know, there'll be, it'll, it'll keep evolving.

And, um,

but the, you know, I was so nervous when this tour started about like what, what am I going to talk about?

But it's, the stories have been super fun.

That's great.

What about you, little cowboy?

The things, the shows I'm really excited about and would love to sell out are in June, June 10th.

I'm in San Francisco playing my music album, June 12th in Portland.

I've never been to Portland before in my whole life.

Portland, Oregon?

Yeah.

Wow, that place was made for you.

Yeah, really?

Yes.

I can't wait.

The Northwest in general is a very beautiful area.

Yeah, I was thinking about

camping or something.

Once I say that, I'm not going to do that.

I was thinking about it, but yeah.

And then June 13th, I'm in Vancouver at the Vogue Theater, which is a beautiful big theater where I film my stand-up special, actually.

Oh, yeah.

And yeah, playing music.

So come.

I'm going to do more.

covers.

I'm going to play new tunes.

I'm going to play the whole album.

And what about you, Tay?

The documentary I produced, Come See Me in the Good Light.

Listen, it's not often that Tribeca Film Festival takes a film that already premiered at Sundance.

And you know what?

They're taking that.

That's right, they did.

Yeah, it's exciting.

It's the weekend of June 6th.

There's several screenings.

And then, let's see, I'll be at Largo June 13th.

And then I'll be in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, June 14th.

Then I'll be at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles, June 21st.

August 23rd, I'll be in P-Town.

I have two shows.

I think the first is sold out.

The second is maybe almost sold out.

But check online the documentary.

It was purchased by Apple, and it'll be premiering in the fall.

But we are hitting so many festivals right now.

And you can also get Handsome Merch at

handsomepod.com.

Oh, man, we got good stuff.

Lovely items.

Oh, yeah.

I've been seeing our new teas

out in the wild.

Some people came to

my last show with the rocker kind of teas.

Yeah, like metal.

Yeah,

it looks really cool.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I don't know.

I feel like this was solid.

And maybe until next time, we should just go ahead and

keep

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