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Speaker 1 Welcome to the handsome pod. Welcome to you.
I mean, listen, welcome, but also, May, I just got a glimpse of that profile of yours. That is good looking.

Speaker 1 I mean, I've seen it before, but I'm usually looking at you straight on on Zoom. This is my better side.
I can tell. I've seen the other one, and not pretty or handsome.
Thank you. Well, you can't.

Speaker 1 No, look that way. I just, oh, look at that.

Speaker 1 Thanks. Oh, it's looking at.
What if I look? Oh, that is a good profile, man. Well, my hair only works from that side.

Speaker 1 side it doesn't I don't know if you have this problem because it's like gent do we have the same yeah oh no yours works from both sides anyway you have more of a side flip and you have more the forward the forward my hair's more fluid than yours yeah mine's pretty rigid yeah it's pretty solid it's binary yeah it's binary hair yeah yeah yeah you both look gorgeous yeah

Speaker 1 we're we're a very attractive podcast we are also every time we're in person and then the episode comes out, someone comments, like,

Speaker 1 their chemistry's electric when they're in person. That's true.
And I love it. I feel it.
I feel it's electric right now. We

Speaker 1 sat close to each other before we even taped, and I got kisses from each of you. Well, only because you were reaching to hold my hand.
Well,

Speaker 1 yeah. Your hand's cold as ice.
Well, I'm

Speaker 1 putting in your cooter and warm it up.

Speaker 1 Fortune. Why are we starting like this?

Speaker 1 Why?

Speaker 1 Why? Putting out the side.

Speaker 1 It's the end of the day, for those of y'all who don't know, which is all of you.

Speaker 1 It's 5 p.m. It's raining outside.
It's 5 p.m. is the end of the day.

Speaker 1 What a luxurious life you have.

Speaker 1 It gets dark outside.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's dark. You gotta go home and get to bed.

Speaker 1 I gotta call it night. The sun's down.

Speaker 1 a nightgown just like you do our old neighbors um or neighbor it was just one woman and uh her name was yoko um yeah and she lived next door to us and she this is terrible she died in her house but listen she spoiler yeah she was older she was older but anyway oh she

Speaker 1 she just um she wouldn't turn any lights on she

Speaker 1 like the honest like she was going to sundown bedtime while she died.

Speaker 1 Oh, you think she turned a light on? Because she ran into something. I would only assume she was like, had a little candle.
Like a little candle, yeah.

Speaker 1 But so she was up at the crack of dawn and then bed,

Speaker 1 always, always sweeping her walkway up to her door. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Always. That thing was sparkly clean.
Yeah. Maybe it was like meditative for her.

Speaker 1 We'll never know. We'll never know.

Speaker 1 For sure, never know the answer to that. Well, it's good to be with y'all in person.

Speaker 1 I took my shoes off. I feel really cozy.
You made it very comfortable around here. I still have my shoes on.
Yeah. Me too.
Can I, I'm sorry. I just have to check.
I have to make sure that this isn't

Speaker 1 Stephanie's sick, and so I have to like make sure that there isn't anything that is needed. It feels like a prank.
It feels like when you were on Conan and you checked your phone. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Also, every time Tig puts her glasses on, I think she's going to take an eye out because it's like this flip motion, and always there's one.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's cool.

Speaker 1 And I always think they're just going to take one out. Yes.
Those glasses made me think of something that happened to me this weekend.

Speaker 1 Well, it's hero. I'm going to tell you.
I have this, there's not a lot of things that I have that are expensive. I'm not that kind of gal.

Speaker 1 But I did happen to have an expensive pair of sunglasses. Like, what are we talking about? Oliver Peoples.

Speaker 1 Don't know.

Speaker 1 I don't know. It's a type of sunglasses.

Speaker 1 Like $500.

Speaker 1 But that is unusual for me. I don't spend that kind of money on anything.

Speaker 1 But I happened to get these.

Speaker 1 And I had them.

Speaker 1 What made you go? I'm going to go ahead and drop $500. I think I got a discount on them

Speaker 1 with your Cheesecake Factory. I have a Cheesecake Factory Pair.

Speaker 1 I think I got them at like 30% off. Okay, good.
So that's helpful. Yeah, of course.
It's hard to find a pair that's perfect. And I love these because they're lightweight.

Speaker 1 They're super lightweight because I don't like the feeling of glasses on me, but my eyes are getting squintier as I'm getting older and I need to wear sunglasses.

Speaker 1 And I had them on and they were on my head.

Speaker 1 And I don't know if for whatever reason, I put them in my lap and I was scrolling through my phone and I wanted to show, I was showing somebody something and I bent over and my body crushed these glasses into like four parts.

Speaker 1 No, it just snapped

Speaker 1 like a cracker.

Speaker 1 Both lenses came out. Oh Oh, my.
They're bent. It's like one.
I'm like, they are done. Did you take a picture of what you had left

Speaker 1 and put it on your face? No, I have.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was just a frame with one of the things hanging out.

Speaker 1 Just from my big old body, just annihilated these sunglasses. You don't have sunglass insurance.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I sure don't.

Speaker 1 I sure don't. You will rethink that.
I will rethink that. Did you ever insure part of your body? Oh.

Speaker 1 You know, people you know oh oh god wait wait what i insure on this body like you because tina turner insured her legs yeah her gims yeah well that i can see because those are gorgeous gims hello you're right now that you you're right i just i guess i don't show them off like tina did in short skirts kind of do though and towels and such yeah yeah how do you do that you just call like all state and they're like hey

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Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 so wait can we get i'm just oh yeah i can't relax get to the get to the good stuff i what's the good stuff i need to hear about who you met that i i whenever i'm asked the question who would you meet who would you have at a dinner party this person's my answer just because it's like he's another species of person almost.

Speaker 1 So, can we please talk about it? I don't want to blow, I don't want to, I don't want to let you reveal.

Speaker 1 My foot is flexed, like it was, it's actually give me the good, give me the good. Give me the good.

Speaker 1 Twinkle toes over there, please.

Speaker 1 Uh, yeah, would one say this is your doppelganger? Yeah, one would,

Speaker 1 yes,

Speaker 1 TC, TC, Tom Cruise. I met Tom Cruise, you met him.
How did this happen? Well, this is what's so wild

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 1 to really think back,

Speaker 1 the reason I was at the Governor Awards, which I didn't even know what it was or where I was going. The Governor Awards.

Speaker 1 I got in the car with one of the producers of Come See Me in the Good Light, Jessica. We get in the car.
So she came for, she got me. She was in the car and the car picks me up and I get in.

Speaker 1 I was like, so where, what is this? Where are we going? And she's like, well, it's just, it's like they give these honorary Oscars to different people. It's Dolly Parton.

Speaker 1 Oh, my golly, was she there? She wasn't. She made a video

Speaker 1 and it was Debbie Allen, Tom Cruise, and then this,

Speaker 1 oh, my God. His name is Wynne Something.
He's a, what is it? When they...

Speaker 1 Magician. No.

Speaker 1 Anybody else want to guess who is this?

Speaker 1 No. Swimmer.
Olympic swimmer. Oh, gosh.
Xylophone player. Yes.
And he was,

Speaker 1 no, he's

Speaker 1 like a designer, a set designer. Oh, I would not have

Speaker 1 a lot of them. Oh, you didn't get that from them.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'll get to Tom in a second, but this man wins something. Thomas, can you look up this man's name

Speaker 1 who got this award?

Speaker 1 Of course, I haven't heard of him.

Speaker 1 It's not like household names that do this job.

Speaker 1 This was the single most precious human being I've seen in my life. He's like probably

Speaker 1 60s, maybe early 70s.

Speaker 1 How old is he, Thomas?

Speaker 1 He was his story that he shared, it was so, he was the first black man to be hired in that world. Oh, wow.
And

Speaker 1 accepted into the academy in that whole world. Yes, Thomas? Wynn Thomas.
Oh,

Speaker 1 Thomas. There he goes.
And he worked on Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, A Beautiful Mind, and Hidden Figures. Amazing.

Speaker 1 I mean, I could have listened to him talk forever.

Speaker 1 I can't encourage people enough. Just look up his face.
If there is a video of him talking, just the sweetest man alive. Oh, and oh my gosh, loved it.
Anyway,

Speaker 1 so afterward,

Speaker 1 you didn't know that Tom was going to be there. No,

Speaker 1 I knew he was going to be there. I just didn't understand what the governor awards were.
Right. Like, did you know what they were? Uh-uh.
No, yeah. And so it is every

Speaker 1 massive actor and director and everybody that's like vying for an Oscar, you know, and it's, it's, it's just a kind of a stop for that whole world. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And, you know, who knows what will happen with my documentary, but it's in that that discussion. That's amazing.
You know,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 Tom Cruise gets his award.

Speaker 1 And then, well, I didn't expect this, but he was just off of the stage and out and about

Speaker 1 in the audience. Just hanging out.

Speaker 1 He was just normal, like walking around. He was looking to do the Cupid shovel on the dance floor.

Speaker 1 Cha-cha slide. But let's be honest, hanging out meant after the awards, he appeared on the floor like everybody else at their tables and stuff.
And he was surrounded

Speaker 1 by reps and security and people wanting to talk to him and like that whole scene. Okay.
So I'm like

Speaker 1 thinking,

Speaker 1 well, this is the one and only time I'm going to be in the same room as Tom Cruise.

Speaker 1 You don't get starstruck, but you can't help but be adrenalized by the family. I wasn't even starstruck.
I was just like, there's Tom Cruise. I'm going over there and I'm going to meet that guy.

Speaker 1 And I told Jessica, the producer of the film, I was like, you follow me and you get every photo, even if I can't talk to him. You get the closest photo.
You're just shouting.

Speaker 1 Yeah, of me just trying to get in there. Yeah, yeah.
Because I was like, I'm going for it. I don't care at all.

Speaker 1 And so she was dying laughing. I would love to see some security guard pick you up.

Speaker 1 But that's what was crazy is it's not open to the public. So the security wasn't like really intense or anything.
Just people were standing around.

Speaker 1 And I know his agent, her name is actually Maha. And I saw her standing there next to him.
And I was, I mean, I was elbowing my way through

Speaker 1 the crowd.

Speaker 1 And just I pulled up the picture of me, which we'll have to post on Handsome. But I pulled up the picture of me that everybody is always like, I mean, that's more Tom Cruise than Tom Cruise.

Speaker 1 And so I pull it up.

Speaker 1 And then, and I, so I got up to Maha and I said, um, I said, hey, um, can I just show Tom this picture and just let him know that if he's looking for a lesbian sister in any sort of stunt?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And then she, she was like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Tom, comedian Tignotaro. And he turned around, he's like, hey, how's it going? And I said, good.
I said, I just wanted to show you this picture.

Speaker 1 I said, If it, I said, that's me, by the way, that's not you. And I said, So, if you ever need a lesbian sibling in any of your action films,

Speaker 1 I'm your guy.

Speaker 1 And so, he was looking at it, he was laughing so hard. Of course, they were

Speaker 1 not as hard as Jess, my

Speaker 1 producer,

Speaker 1 she was like doubled over crying because I wish you could have seen the rounds of people I had that I

Speaker 1 had no I just like I was like I'm going I'm like

Speaker 1 and you have to understand Tom Cruise is this was partly what was pushing me that's Stephanie's favorite actor she loves him and she thinks he's so handsome and I we always joke that she married the DIY

Speaker 1 lesbian version

Speaker 1 and so I was like if I can get a picture of the two loves of her life together

Speaker 1 And so she was home and I walked in. She was like, oh, how was the night? And I said, good.

Speaker 1 How's about that?

Speaker 1 And she was like, oh my God.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Okay, wait.
Did he know who you were, pretend to know who you were? No, I doubt it. Okay, but he's smiling.
He was just like, hey, how's it going?

Speaker 1 You know, and because his agent introduced us, so he was just. Because everyone says he's just magnetic and so warm.
And once he'll know that. So am I.
Yeah, that's true. That's what everyone says.

Speaker 1 Fuck, I can't believe it happened. And the picture is incredible.
You do have the same smile.

Speaker 1 So you think Maha can get him to get a ask a question?

Speaker 1 Hello, handsome pot. He's like jumping off of a

Speaker 1 jumping off of a plane, asking us a question. He's like, very good.
Listen to me. Handsome.

Speaker 1 That would be pretty epic if he would jump off a plane and ask us a question. I bet he'll get his

Speaker 1 money. With his cheeks flapping.

Speaker 1 There's always a moment in his movies where he's doing some stunt, but he has to deliver a line. And so he's yelling over like a jet engine and his voice goes really high.

Speaker 1 There's one, well, first there's red light, green light, in Mission Impossible 1. Then there's...

Speaker 1 I'm not going to lose you in Mission Impossible 3. I can think of them all, I think.
There's always a line where he goes super high. He goes high.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 they showed like, you know,

Speaker 1 a little thing of all of the highlights of his career and stuff. And I, I was truly, there's this one moment on that reel where he's holding onto a plane.
Side of a plane. And it's taking off.

Speaker 1 Dead reckoning, I think.

Speaker 1 Wow, y'all are

Speaker 1 not fans over here.

Speaker 1 I haven't yelled him. You can keep it in your pants.

Speaker 1 Here's the thing. I'm sure he's problematic in some ways, but to me, he is just one of the last movie stars like that where he, when he cries, I cry.

Speaker 1 I feel everything that he's feeling. Like, Jerry Maguire, it's insane.
He hasn't won an Oscar yet.

Speaker 1 I'm glad he got honored. Is that bad to say? Because he got

Speaker 1 an honorary Oscar. Yeah, he got like for what? Just his contract.
Well, you're just Starstrugger or no one, so it's. No, I get.

Speaker 1 Well, musicians, you get. I don't feel nervous.
Like, I'm not like, oh, my God, there's Tom Cruise.

Speaker 1 I totally appreciate him, but I don't feel,

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 You just talked about him for so long that it was a cool like well it just seemed like oh this is gonna be so yeah funny and awesome and like i i just i i don't know it's so good yeah it was fun it like

Speaker 1 we can never get jaded like because that is insane to meet tom cruise and get a picture with him it's so good to like that should be insane to everyone and and what's really funny is 10 billion people have had pictures with him but it seems so hard to come across yeah he's a harder one to me for sure.

Speaker 1 He's hard. It's like a Paul McCartney or an Obama.
Like it's that level where you're

Speaker 1 on the picture. They're not just hanging out at the in-n-L.
No, they are not.

Speaker 1 They'd like you to think they are, though. Have you seen the clip where they go, Tom, what's your favorite snack? And it's like his brain short circuits, like he's never had a snack.

Speaker 1 He's like, oh, he goes,

Speaker 1 popcorn. Popcorn's great.
Is that a small meal between the meals?

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Speaker 1 When we took a picture together, what I have to say, not only was he very friendly, but he wasn't like rushed.

Speaker 1 He took several pictures and was like,

Speaker 1 you know what I mean? So he like hung in the moment, which was nice because I there's nothing worse than feeling like you're intruding.

Speaker 1 I think I did see pictures of him on the dance floor. I saw those too.
So he was

Speaker 1 in it to have a good ass time. But for someone like him, that probably was a very big, meaningful night because he has been doing movies for so long.
Yeah, that's true. And to finally get an Oscar.

Speaker 1 He should have had a best

Speaker 1 actor for Magnetism.

Speaker 1 There's so many performances he should have known. I mean, it is wild when you're watching that reel.
Yeah. And then you and like thinking about everything that you hear about

Speaker 1 his incredible work ethic. Yeah, just everything.

Speaker 1 Like the director that was introducing him was talking about how, which, of course, I know of actors that know a script start to finish, forward, backwards.

Speaker 1 But the director was like, Tom Tom knows like

Speaker 1 everyone's lines. Not just everyone's line, but like, he's like, hey, aren't I supposed to be picking up

Speaker 1 some sort of

Speaker 1 stage direction?

Speaker 1 And he was like, you know, he said, I don't even know my movie that well. He's definitely getting sort of, I mean, he's increasingly eccentric, but

Speaker 1 his new thing is kind of being like, I don't just make movies. I am movies.
Like his thing is like,

Speaker 1 so how is he getting increasingly.

Speaker 1 Well, well? I think he's always been a bit of an oddball. And then he went through a phase of real eccentricity with Scientology where he was really like jumping on sofas and stuff.

Speaker 1 But he just keeps making amazing movies. And then he,

Speaker 1 but just recently, his angle is, I'm Mr. Movies.
And I like it. But I would love to meet the guy.
I was excited because we went to Zootopia 2 premiere. That's right.
Yes, we had the premiere.

Speaker 1 All three of us out in the wild. I know.
We

Speaker 1 all had our little hug each other by stage.

Speaker 1 Proud of you, dude.

Speaker 1 You steal the movie. You're so funny in it.

Speaker 1 So great. I texted Fortune saying Max and Finn, hearing them say to each other, hey, Bub.
Hey, Bub. Hey, Bubb.
Hey, Bub, hey, Bub.

Speaker 1 It's really

Speaker 1 the movie's so funny.

Speaker 1 But Macaulay Culkin was there, and that's huge for me because people say I look like a like child Macaulay Culkin. I didn't get to meet anyone at that premiere.

Speaker 1 They had me on the red carpet the whole time. Oh, man.

Speaker 1 And then I was like whisked back to the backstage and then

Speaker 1 off into a corner. Yeah.
And so I didn't get to like,

Speaker 1 why did they put baby in a corner? Yeah, whatever. Because

Speaker 1 they had all the voice, the voice cast together on the stage, so everyone's chatting and stuff. And then they had the four, they had the, they put us in the corners to come out from the side.

Speaker 1 So you didn't get to meet anybody. Anyone? I met

Speaker 1 you guys, and that was it.

Speaker 1 Besides, like, Kiwi Kwan and Jennifer Goodwin. Uh-huh.
I said, hey, I'm May, by the way, to Macaulay Culkin. And he went, hi, I'm Mac.

Speaker 1 And I shook his hand and I thought, I can die a little bit happier.

Speaker 1 Like, just,

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 so is it him and Alanis that are your

Speaker 1 him, Alanis, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, and David Gilmore. The Rose.
Bat Midland.

Speaker 1 Midler Streisand.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like the big ones. Well, the classic thing that happened at the premiere is

Speaker 1 the the TI moment here. Well, first of all,

Speaker 1 they were acting like on the red carpet, people were like, what was your favorite memory of making this movie? And like, I literally have five words.

Speaker 1 I have five words. And I'm like, I think my favorite memory was probably recording my line.
I was

Speaker 1 alone in a sound booth.

Speaker 1 But then we were so, well, I was so excited for the big moment.

Speaker 1 And then I could see it was coming plot-wise because I knew we were in the prison scene. And then I see Tig get up

Speaker 1 and leave with one of the boys to go to the bathroom and I thought uh-oh and then almost as soon as you see us I saw you get up and leave and I knew I thought oh that was hilarious why didn't you chase me down I think I did go Tig Tig so Tig missed her entire part

Speaker 1 going to the bathroom my son had to go to the bathroom I can't just let him roam around with all these weird cartoon characters just the timing of it it's hilarious

Speaker 1 it's classic And you got back and Stephanie was like, oh. Yes, I got back to the scene.
She was like, you missed your part.

Speaker 1 I was like, what?

Speaker 1 We were gone for like two or three minutes, max. Yeah,

Speaker 1 the exact two or three minutes. And then I walk in and it done.

Speaker 1 Y'all both disguised your voices a lot in the character. I did not.
Should we do our scene? What do you remember your line now? I just think I was like,

Speaker 1 I went, I'll see you at the lunch table.

Speaker 1 I have no idea what I was saying. I don't remember, but it was

Speaker 1 so classic when I saw that you had not been in there for your part. You know what I mean? My whole family got dressed up to the premiere.

Speaker 1 My sons, they love getting dressed up. They have their little suits on their bus.
They were so cute. I did really think watching it and with kids in the audience, like,

Speaker 1 I wanted to make something for kids because they're the perfect audience. Like, they laugh when it's funny.
They're scared when it's scary. They cry when it's sad.

Speaker 1 Like, they just are so, their emotions are so present. And it was so satisfying.
I know, I kept looking around to see, like, what different kids' reactions were to the different characters.

Speaker 1 Well, no spoilers, but there's a character who you think is good and then is bad. And I was with Parvinama and Ama was scandalized by that.
Like, afterwards, it was like, did you know he was bad?

Speaker 1 That guy? And it was like, No, that was pretty tricky. It was like, Well, he was acting really nice.

Speaker 1 Yeah, seriously, yeah. People pull a switcheroonie on it.

Speaker 1 It's such a fun movie. Yeah, yeah.
Jennifer Goodwin was laughing at me because, you know, when you tape these voiceover things, they don't give you a script. You know, you just have your scene.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so I knew I had like taped a lot for them like over like the last year and a half. Yeah.
But I didn't know. But they changed my job a lot so I would have to re-record quite a bit.

Speaker 1 So I just didn't know like what my role in the movie was.

Speaker 1 And I didn't know like anything other than like, oh, this is a cool part.

Speaker 1 And I had to go to this screen. I had to go to a screening by myself before

Speaker 1 press.

Speaker 1 And I'm like watching the film and

Speaker 1 because there's a lot of parts of the end where my character is around, but I'm not necessarily voicing it. I'm just doing like grunts or like

Speaker 1 I'm like, my character's like a main part of this movie. I had no idea.
That's amazing. And so I was just like, oh my God.

Speaker 1 This is wild. And you're like third billing or something.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 1 fourth. But like,

Speaker 1 yeah, when the title card came up and me and Key were behind Jason and Jennifer, I was like, oh my God, this is crazy. How are you still? I'm like, Mae Marsh level.
I got like tears in my eyes.

Speaker 1 Oh my goodness. I just thought it was just so cool.
Like, because I grew up on Disney movies and I never thought in a million years that I would be a beaver

Speaker 1 in a Disney movie. I saw it coming.

Speaker 1 It is a.

Speaker 1 I just watched the first one recently and I really liked the universe that they've made. And then, did you meet Jodi Benson on the red carpet, the voice of the original Ariel? She's in that movie?

Speaker 1 No, she's on the red carpet.

Speaker 1 And I got emotional meeting her because her voice is, and she's like a true Disney princess where you know that they're good. True Disney princess.

Speaker 1 She's a true Disney princess because none of those fake ones out there. Yeah, well, because instead of going, oh, nice to meet you, they go,

Speaker 1 I've been so excited to meet you.

Speaker 1 Like you're a kid. Like they go, it's you.
I can't, I've been so excited to meet you.

Speaker 1 I've watched her say it to everybody and say it to kids she'd never met and executives and everyone was like basking in her glow and she was mad at me.

Speaker 1 So even if she didn't know who you were, she was like, I've been so excited to meet you. I saw her say it to these little kids, and they were like, She was waiting for us.

Speaker 1 She was so nice. Yeah, did she? Did she do the voice and sing? Yeah, oh, wow,

Speaker 1 misfortune. I forgot to tell you.
What's up, girl? I forgot to tell you. When I was doing the red carpet,

Speaker 1 doing my little pretty pictures and doing my interviews, the guy that I was talking to, he goes,

Speaker 1 He said,

Speaker 1 and Tig, I have to say,

Speaker 1 I loved you hosting Kimmel over the summer. And I was like, did you?

Speaker 1 I said, oh, that wasn't me. And he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He said, you hosted a few episodes.

Speaker 1 And I was like, no, that's fortune. People always get us confused.

Speaker 1 We're always

Speaker 1 confused for each other. It's just like,

Speaker 1 wow, that's hilarious. One day we're going to find out what person who works on Zootopia just likes this podcast and put us in it.
Yeah, do we have any knowledge? I was the casting director.

Speaker 1 She was like, oh, really?

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 she said something like, May seems surprised.

Speaker 1 Like, May was like, Hansen's in it. And she's like, Yeah, that's by design.
Right. Yeah.
I was like, what a crazy coincidence for all of us.

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 1 It was on purpose. Yeah.
Yeah. That's so great.

Speaker 1 Well, it was a fun night. It was a fun night.
It was great to see Max and Finn in their little suits as well. Great to see.
I didn't even get to see them.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, they were, it's funny because when they were getting dressed,

Speaker 1 Finn didn't like the outfit I had pulled for him.

Speaker 1 And he took it up a notch to like a full black suit with a white button down.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I was like, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 You know, I just had him in a casual blazer and

Speaker 1 cords, but man, he was like, I don't want to wear that. Yeah.
I want to wear. Yeah, he was going to Hollywood Boulevard.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then Max is like, I think we should do more of this stuff as a family. Oh, I want to.
And I was like,

Speaker 1 you know, like, putting on the writs. Yeah.
Yeah. They had never been to a premiere.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was fun. But it was fun to see your little buck teeth, your crooked buck teeth.
um i'm sure as the character to clarify

Speaker 1 thanks for that laugh

Speaker 1 but i was just like are they doing that because you're from the south no because i'm a beaver i know but like it all like you can be a beaver not from the south oh they made the character the character being southern i mean i can't not be from the south i know in my voice i know can you try

Speaker 1 i i could try i guess to not have a southern accent can you do it without making that face? No, I can't. Your face just became like do it.
Julie Andrews.

Speaker 1 I think that they probably wanted, I mean, the marsh market is sort of like bayou. Yeah, you like it.
So I think they wanted

Speaker 1 that vibe. Well,

Speaker 1 you nailed it, kid. Oh, thanks.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 People were like, did uh

Speaker 1 How did having those beaver teeth affect your voice? And I was like, I didn't even think about it. Oh, yeah.
I just did my voice. Yeah, well, what are you going to do?

Speaker 1 I don't know if you're going to be.

Speaker 1 No way. I'll have the beaver teeth effect.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

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Speaker 2 Hi, I'm Beck Bennett. I thought I was Beck Bennett.
No, no, no, no. It's all good.
Kyle Kyle Mooney. Yes.
Sorry about that. Exactly.
No, all good. All good.
Thanks, buddy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and we host the show, What's Our Podcast here on Head Gum. But we want to make sure you heard about a very special episode with a very special guest that we just released in the feed.

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Beck, you had some amazing ideas for the website. Thanks, Mean.
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Speaker 1 Well, should we get to our question, Sean? I think so.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's do it.

Speaker 1 Today's question asker is an actor who has starred starred in shows such as Masters of Sex and Party Down, as well as movies including Mean Girls, The People We Hate at the Wedding, and the new movie, Now You See Me, Now You Don't.

Speaker 1 Lizzie Kaplan is asking today's question. Woohoo!

Speaker 1 Hi, I'm Lizzie Kaplan, and my question is, what is the worst it's a two-parter. What is the worst first impression you've ever made

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 what is the most incorrect first impression that you've gotten of somebody else from somebody else

Speaker 1 oh

Speaker 1 wow Lizzie

Speaker 1 that's a really funny good question

Speaker 1 yeah I love Lizzie doesn't she live in England now you know I don't know her whereabouts I believe I thought I think so but I could be wrong yeah she was wearing a kind of British

Speaker 1 sweater that seemed kind of British is this British is that British that's British I've got on my British coat this isn't British no way this is a smoking jacket yeah

Speaker 1 cardigan

Speaker 1 the incorrect first impressions is I mean we're probably doing that all the time projecting our own shit onto people and I was part of that therapy program I did did I Did I tell about that part where they said if you had a bad reaction to someone in the group, write it down because we were learning like that's my negative projection.

Speaker 1 Because then you all have to say to each other, they only just say to their face. Yeah, I remember that part.
Okay, so I did talk about that, right? Yeah,

Speaker 1 where people, a couple people said they didn't like you, yeah. They said I was dismissive and arrogant, which you are, to be seriously.
Yeah, no,

Speaker 1 I was flabbergasted, but you, but I guess the point of the exercise was like,

Speaker 1 we can't really control other people's experiences all the time if they're, you know,

Speaker 1 kids to have their feelings. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did anything jump into your minds about I was just thinking, I had a screening, I was at a screening for the Come See Me in the Good Light documentary, and a childhood friend of mine came and she was telling

Speaker 1 people at the

Speaker 1 like I've known her since we were kids, and she was like,

Speaker 1 My mom

Speaker 1 was so scared of TIG

Speaker 1 because like,

Speaker 1 well, just because like I was like,

Speaker 1 you know, like not doing well at school and like I carried my cigarettes in my pocket up on my shirt and drove a motorcycle.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But my friend was like,

Speaker 1 but my mother didn't realize that like that was the extent of it. Oh, that's so funny.
It's like, oh, I wonder what Tig's doing.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like there wasn't anything.
You weren't running amok. No, like I I wasn't, I was, it was really what you saw.

Speaker 1 It was the dude and the cigarettes and the t-shirt. Yeah, and like I was a class clown.
I smoked cigarettes. I drove a motorcycle.
And her mom was just like

Speaker 1 hard pass on this one.

Speaker 1 And then she was saying, and then when my book came out.

Speaker 1 It's called I'm Just a Person. It's a New York Times bestseller.

Speaker 1 But anyway, when that came out, my friend Ashley, she said, and then my mom like sends me your book for Christmas, you know, like, yeah.

Speaker 1 And she said, but, you know, as kids, we had she Ashley was saying, I had friends that were like identifying as Christians.

Speaker 1 And meanwhile, they were all doing drugs and getting trashed and sleeping with everyone. And

Speaker 1 I was just like, you're just listening to the beat.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like, is Ashley at home? You're like, she leans.

Speaker 1 So that was a bad first impression that lasted. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, I think I'm friendly. I never see Ashley's mother anymore, but I think she must be over it.
Now she's a fan. She's buying your book.
Well, she bought my book and sent it to Ashley. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But I think I had a lot of those parents that kind of were like, what's up with this little dyke? Yeah, yeah. What's up with this dyke? Yeah.
Riding in here trying to take our daughters out.

Speaker 1 Were you dating back then? No. With a greasy bull haircut? I don't know.
We saw that one photo of you.

Speaker 1 The stickers flew off the shelf. Yeah.
Oh, well, I was 19 then. Oh, what age are you talking about?

Speaker 1 I was, you know, I was, I don't know, a few years younger than that. So you hadn't come into your own yet.
I hadn't. Yeah.
I really hadn't.

Speaker 1 What about you guys? I'm sure you have a million bad impressions you've made, both of you. I had an interesting time when I lived in Spain for a year.

Speaker 1 I lived in Spain for a year after I graduated college. And during that time, I didn't know many people in Spain.
Really? One of my friends.

Speaker 1 Like making friends. Yeah, it was very hard to make friends.

Speaker 1 And my good friend from college was also in Sevilla at that same time. So we hung out a lot.
But other than that, I was alone a ton. Yeah.
And I was also traveling around Europe by myself.

Speaker 1 So I was constantly alone. And I didn't realize that it was really affecting my personality.

Speaker 1 Whereas I was like really, you know,

Speaker 1 silly. I'm similar now to what I was in college, like boisterous, silly, ridiculous.
And in Spain, I was pretty introverted, pretty quiet and shy. Like it really brought my personality super down

Speaker 1 to just being very like, yeah, I was like the wallflower.

Speaker 1 And so when I moved, I moved to LA. But you said you kind of were a wallflower when you were younger, too.
Yeah, when I was pretty young.

Speaker 1 You were just like comfortable with your own company too, where you were just in Spain

Speaker 1 by myself constantly, but I didn't realize how quiet I had become. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so when I moved to LA, that personality came with me and it made it really hard for me to meet friends in LA my first two years. People thought I was such a dork and had no personality.

Speaker 1 No one wanted

Speaker 1 me to

Speaker 1 be my friend.

Speaker 1 Imagine describing you as someone with no personality.

Speaker 1 Well, because I kind of didn't. I was still being demure and like still being quiet.
And so I was just a different person and like no one wanted to be my friend.

Speaker 1 And so I met this guy, Steve,

Speaker 1 who was working. I was working for this actress and he was working on her show.
Yeah. And he was wearing a Carolina shirt.
And I was like, oh my God, someone from North Carolina. It was like.

Speaker 1 I could breathe. Like, oh, my God, there's some comfort here.
And I desperately wanted to be his friend, but my desperation was like oozing out of me, I guess.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the desperate stank. And he thought I had a crush on him.
No, yeah, because you were like,

Speaker 1 yeah, because I was just like, really wanted to be his friend. And so he was like, whoa, like, so he did not want to be my friend and like would not hang out with me.

Speaker 1 But I knew, I was like, we're supposed to be best friends, but you can't tell people that or you're crazy.

Speaker 1 But I just knew in my gut, I was like, this is supposed to be my best friend, but I don't know how to make him know that we're supposed to be best friends. And my personality is not great right now.

Speaker 1 So I had to, I gave him. You'll tell him all of that later.
We laugh about it now.

Speaker 1 He's who became your roommate. He's became my roommate.
Yes. Yes, yes.
So,

Speaker 1 so I had the worst impression of myself.

Speaker 1 He just was not having it. Yeah.
And then,

Speaker 1 so for months went by, not friends, did not hang out. But somehow we exchanged.
Remember the AOL messenger

Speaker 1 thing? Well, you could leave, like that. It was very popular at the time, and you could leave like away messages or whatever.
And wait, what are away messages? Like, when you were like idle,

Speaker 1 not like not there, but your computer stayed on. Okay, you it would say like so-and-so's offline, but it would have like a message like, but I'll be back after I go to the bathroom, whatever.

Speaker 1 Yeah, perfect example. It'll take me about 15 minutes, I'll explain later.
Exactly. See, he would have crushed rotten chicken.
I had his AOL thing,

Speaker 1 and my roommate was moving back home, and his roommate was leaving, and he put on his messenger that he needed a roommate. And I was like, this is my end.
Oh, my God. And he's getting in the hand.

Speaker 1 And he was like,

Speaker 1 the door

Speaker 1 moved.

Speaker 1 And I'm just like, I need a roommate.

Speaker 1 But he's so nice that he didn't know what to say. So he just kind of was like, all right.
And then, of course, I moved in. But once I had a friend, my personality started to come back, yeah.

Speaker 1 And then I ended up being his most fun friend he's ever had in his entire life.

Speaker 1 Yeah, do you bring it up a lot where you're like, he thought I was lame, and he thought I was lame, and he thought I had a crush on him. That's the best.

Speaker 1 I wasn't out technically at the time, so I mean, I guess, yeah, you know, it was unclear, yeah, but uh,

Speaker 1 unqueer, but yeah, he definitely um, everyone that met me in that first, especially year in LA, thought I was the biggest.

Speaker 1 Forgettable. Yeah, like this girl is going to go pack it back up to North Carolina.
Oh, that's so funny. I'm trying to think.

Speaker 1 I mean, all through, I mean, I just, I think a lot of parents and my friends in my teens are probably rightly like, this is. such a pretentious little idiot.
And then

Speaker 1 that sounded too real when I said that.

Speaker 1 Oh, because I was like, yeah, I'm not really into new music. Like, I was like, I was literally reading Jack Kerouac.

Speaker 1 I was such a cliche and writing in my little notebook and just so tortured.

Speaker 1 But I'm thinking about that. That's all gone away.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, of course. Now I'm.
You grew out of that. I literally go home and read Jack Kerouac and write in my notebook and write sad poems.
No, I'm still in it.

Speaker 1 I'm thinking of, I don't know if I've talked about on the pod before because

Speaker 1 I sort of don't, but that my uncle married the Queen of England's niece. So,

Speaker 1 royalty, yes,

Speaker 1 I mean, were you just a

Speaker 1 lady?

Speaker 1 But it's so crazy because it says on my Wikipedia page that I'm like related to the queen, but this is, I swear I'm not a Nepo baby. Like, this was so random and so far from our family.

Speaker 1 And my uncle was an actor and a painter and then met this this woman and she goes i'm princess margaret's daughter and then and they're an amazing couple anyway oh princess margaret i went to the that one that princess

Speaker 1 so i go to the wedding royalty

Speaker 1 royalty hey look at the boots on the floor it is

Speaker 1 royal boots right there it's is he alive is he alive yeah i have an uncle and aunt and cousins and stuff and when I lived in England, I would see them. They're awesome.

Speaker 1 They're painters and they live in a normal house. But it is bizarre.

Speaker 1 Because she is in the royal family, right? Yeah, and my cousins are like in line to the throne, I guess. Oh, wow.
But I don't like to talk about it because it's

Speaker 1 so not your life. It's so not my life.

Speaker 1 Where are you in line, Philip Trump? Like, because after everyone. I would love for you to be in that royal family.
Would you still do this podcast if you're the king?

Speaker 1 The in line to the throne thing should be connected to your IMDb rating.

Speaker 1 So you're

Speaker 1 you right now with your rating. You have been number one.
I know. Do you? Yeah, you're number one.
451. I'm way down.
You have dipped.

Speaker 1 You have dipped. But Thomas, do you look up?

Speaker 1 Take chicks every week.

Speaker 1 35? 31? That is very high. No.

Speaker 1 I was one, guys. Yeah, but you don't understand.
Not a month ago. I was like 20 to like 900 like that.
No, really? Jay is on the way out. I am on the way out.

Speaker 1 Who's number one? Thomas, who's number one?

Speaker 1 Fortune! 35 is... No, I'm not.
I'm like 950 or no, I'm like 1,200 or 100. Jacob Alordi.
Jacob Alordi. Yeah, that's fair.
You were in

Speaker 1 rarefied air, you royal. Wait, anyway, the end of this dumbstone story is that I'm eight years old, and I was living in England, and we got to go to the royal wedding, which was at the palace.

Speaker 1 It was in a church, and then it was Diana's wedding. No, to my uncle's wedding.
Oh, that wedding. And we were so excited.

Speaker 1 I got so stoked. May wasn't alive when Princess Diana and Diana got married.

Speaker 1 But you were there?

Speaker 1 But, anyways, everyone. Tell us everything.
Tell us everything.

Speaker 1 I wasn't even born there.

Speaker 1 May's like, I don't like to talk about it, but I was at Princess Diana's. If you zoom in, you can see me.
I'm one of the choir boys. So they had a royal wedding? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And my grandma, this is like, imagine a British woman in your 60s at the time or whatever, and you get to go to the royal, like she was so excited.

Speaker 1 And everyone was like, May, when you meet the queen, like there'll be a lineup and you have to curtsy and you have to say your

Speaker 1 majesty. And it was all this protocol.
And I was eight and I couldn't keep it straight in my head.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 that was my worst first impression, I think, is I panicked. They said, oh, and if anyone asks you about your handbag, a little purse, they go, say it's Venetian.
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 I remember this. It's like a weird dream.
So Prince Charles comes up to me and goes, what a lovely handbag. And I went, it's Venetian.
And is this the dream?

Speaker 1 This is real. This is real.
I swear to God.

Speaker 1 What a lovely handbag. And I went, it's Venetian.
And I was so moved. Your legacy will be.

Speaker 1 It was so overwhelming, the whole thing, that my aunt had to tell me, you need to stop trying to follow me around and talk to me. I have to talk to other people because she was like a celebrity.

Speaker 1 Like a bride is always the celebrity of the wedding. And I was in all the photos, I'm literally just like hanging on to her dress.
But anyway, I met the queen and I went for a handshake.

Speaker 1 Like you're supposed to, and that's a big no-no.

Speaker 1 Do the curtsy, and I just went, Mae Martin.

Speaker 1 And what did she do?

Speaker 1 She's so nice. Did she shake your hand, though? Yeah, she was like, hello.
Oh, I guess it was a child.

Speaker 1 Everyone was so nice to me. But

Speaker 1 what would be more exciting to you, meeting the queen or Tom Cruise?

Speaker 1 I think you know the answer. TC.
It's TC every day. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, it was thrilling, though, but over-stimulating. Right.
And then

Speaker 1 I was having driving lessons recently, and my driving instructor.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'm taking every. I mean, it has been two years since you talked about getting this license.
Oh, right.

Speaker 1 When we started the pod, May was like, I got to get my license. What are you not getting? Well, I stopped for you turn the steering wheel, you push, go, and stop.
There's more than that.

Speaker 1 Ignition, parallel parking. I'm turning all the way to the left.
Still do it all the way to the left. Parallel parking is the hardest part of driving.

Speaker 1 It's everything, but then just don't parallel park for a bit. Well, my driving instructor, Robert,

Speaker 1 he taught the McConaughey kids how to drive, as well as some of the Kardashian kids. All right, all right, all right.
I know.

Speaker 1 So I was telling my friend, and they were like, of course, you have the Nepo Baby driving instructor because you have Nepo Baby energy. And I don't, I don't.
Nepo baby Energy? What is that?

Speaker 1 They're like, you don't cook. You take Ubers.

Speaker 1 I know. You do Uber Eats a lot, right?

Speaker 1 I'm turning a new leaf. I'm getting my license.
Yeah. I'm cooking.
I made this week. I made this.
When are you getting your license? December 18th, I'm doing this.

Speaker 1 You'll say that, and then it'll be years still. When this comes out, I hopefully.
You'll have your license.

Speaker 1 We'll be in the studio next time, and we just like a car slams to the wall.

Speaker 1 Like the Kool-Aids bang out their license.

Speaker 1 Anyways, but that was probably the worst first impression I made to everyone at that wedding because there's all of the royals.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and there's a photograph where I'm just lying on my back in my dress in the middle of the grass.

Speaker 1 You get a pass, I think, when you're eight, though. Yeah, you're eight, right? Yeah, yeah.
I met the corgis.

Speaker 1 Oh, the little cute. It was crazy.

Speaker 1 There were many of them, right? So many of them. Yeah.
Yeah. And I met the queen mother and Princess Diana was there briefly.

Speaker 1 And it was a magical day. Princess Diana and I have the same birthday.

Speaker 1 Really? Yeah, kindred spirit. No way.
Princess.

Speaker 1 Diana.

Speaker 1 I started stand-up

Speaker 1 with like... She was coming up at the same time? The day.

Speaker 1 Nice. Before, like, right around when she died.
Oh, really? Yeah. That was your first stand-up? Yeah.
Yeah. It was right around then.
Well, I can bring this whole episode all together. Bring it.

Speaker 1 We need that every episode. I know.

Speaker 1 I was watching The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly with my family, and then the phone rang, and my grandfather was on the phone. He said, Princess Diana's died, turn on the news.

Speaker 1 And we turned on the news, and the first thing we saw was CNN, and we have Tom Cruise on the line. And it was Tom Cruise calling into CNN saying the pavarazzi, like, this is what happened.

Speaker 1 It was just so weird. The first thing we heard was his take on it.
And he was really passionate about it. That is who we want to hear from.
And you're rational. Yeah.
Yeah. Worldly.

Speaker 1 You really did, right?

Speaker 1 I did, right? Yeah. Is any of it true? None of it.
Okay, not a word.

Speaker 1 I also want to acknowledge, like, as far as bad first impressions, after I said what mine was,

Speaker 1 I realized that

Speaker 1 I, as a child and even as an adult for a long time, was way more shut off,

Speaker 1 armor, protective,

Speaker 1 hadn't worked through a lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 And I'm certain I made a ton of terrible first impressions. Right.

Speaker 1 Where I was like, you know, the punk rock, not that I was ever punk rock, but you know, the punk rock kid, like, as long as you just say hello to them, they're like, hi. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But they, you know, it's scary. Yeah.
You know, and it's like they're punk rock usually because

Speaker 1 there's something going on. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's a little soft on the inside. It's so true.
Yeah. And so

Speaker 1 I realized, like, yeah, I think, I think, you know, when I got really sick and lost my mother and stuff, it like really cracked me open in a very different way. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Even going through all this with Andrea and Meg and the movie, and

Speaker 1 I just have a very different

Speaker 1 look. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Not look, but outlook. And

Speaker 1 so, yeah, I'm sure I made a ton of terrible first impressions.

Speaker 1 Have you ever had,

Speaker 1 when you're in a group or at a dinner party, and I've so often I'm like, this person hates me. Like, why this person is so rude to me? And then it turns out that they're just a fan or they're nervous.

Speaker 1 And they're like later on, they're like, oh, yeah, I saw that thing and I really liked it.

Speaker 1 And you're the whole night I've been going, this fucking asshole is like, I'm just, they don't even want to look at me. And I'm just trying to, you know,

Speaker 1 creating everything. Yeah, that's the thing.
Well, when I sat to go back to the governor's awards, I sat down.

Speaker 1 There's an actress next to me, and I was like, oh, I'm just going to be the one that says hi. Yeah, yeah, I didn't, I wasn't

Speaker 1 familiar with her, but I was like, hey, I'm Tig. And she was like, hi, how are you? It's so friendly.
And I was like,

Speaker 1 it's a reminder to do that. To make the effort.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, well, anyway. Well, to really bring it full circle with Tom Cruise,

Speaker 1 he is famously

Speaker 1 famously

Speaker 1 known. Is it your buck teeth? You have to know what they're finally doing the voice

Speaker 1 he have we talked about the tom cruise cake yeah yeah

Speaker 1 he remembers everyone's name it's coming up soon

Speaker 1 where people on his list will be getting this tom cruise cake do you think i'm on the list i hope to god that you are because if you are i don't I don't think it would be vegan.

Speaker 1 So I think you should give it to me. Yeah.
You guys can give it a half.

Speaker 1 Wait, coconuts. Coconut.
I can't. So, yeah, I will take it.

Speaker 1 All I want is

Speaker 1 half to Thomas.

Speaker 1 For sure. Thomas is going to have half.
I don't need a whole cake. Okay.
So, Thomas is going to have half, and I have the other half. But you do need half a cake.
And Thomas does need the other half.

Speaker 1 I do need half a cake.

Speaker 1 I mean, if I met TC, great. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But I really just want him to send me one of his cakes. You can probably buy it in a bird.
You can buy it in Woodland Hills at Dones Bakery. You know where it is.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Why haven't you built it? I have one. I've had it before.
You can buy them on Gold Belly.

Speaker 1 What is Gold Belly? You've never heard of Goldbelly? No, have you? No. You can buy it.
Two against one, Gold Belly.

Speaker 1 No, have you, Thomas? We've talked about it on the other side. You guys don't ever listen to me.

Speaker 1 It's a website where restaurants sell their like they're known for their cakes or like they're known for their lobster rolls or they're known for their whatever pizza and you can buy that restaurants or whatever company's thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know, eight-layer pies or whatever.
And yeah, the Tom Cruise cake is one of the cakes you can buy. But you want it specifically from him.

Speaker 1 I want it from him, but it also is delicious, and I will just eat it. Well, you're going to end up in a

Speaker 1 action film with him. I mean, obviously.

Speaker 1 You will.

Speaker 1 Also, I wouldn't be surprised if you

Speaker 1 did. Like, if something.
Take my end up in the first.

Speaker 1 I have to. Yes.
That is why I got into stand-ups.

Speaker 1 I got into this biz. After Princess.

Speaker 1 So, yeah,

Speaker 1 maybe, maybe you'll get a Tom Cruise cake. I'd actually be a bit freaked out if I met him once, and then ding-dong, the cake arrives.

Speaker 1 See, I'm going to be freaked out after meeting him once, and I don't get a cake. Yeah, you're going to be like, what did I do wrong? What if, oh my gosh,

Speaker 1 girl, girl, what if

Speaker 1 girl, girl, oh my god, curly toes, my toes are curled. What if

Speaker 1 he gets me the cake and it's vegan? That would be

Speaker 1 crazy, girl. Classic TC taken care of.

Speaker 1 TC is

Speaker 1 TCB in.

Speaker 1 I cannot wait for my vegan coconut cake.

Speaker 1 Should we hear Lizzie's

Speaker 1 response? Remember, we were still going to do that? Yeah.

Speaker 1 My answer is a bit of a cop-out, but also true. I feel like my first impressions are always,

Speaker 1 the ones I make are often very bad.

Speaker 1 People think that I'm

Speaker 1 that I think I'm like too cool for school. I've heard that a lot.
And

Speaker 1 bad

Speaker 1 first impressions of other people, you know, that I miscalculate every time. Everybody, everybody.

Speaker 1 Everybody.

Speaker 1 So always her and always everybody. Always everybody.

Speaker 1 Always there and always everybody. Okay.
Fair enough. Okay, I'm going to remember that a bit.
But I have to say, when I was sick, Lizzie reached out to me

Speaker 1 and she said, every Friday is TIG Day, and I'm going to email and remind you how great you are.

Speaker 1 And she did that. It'd be great if you said

Speaker 1 it. And then never heard from her again.

Speaker 1 She's like, I think TIG's fine, though.

Speaker 1 I can stop doing this.

Speaker 1 Every now and then it crosses my mind. I'm like, should I write her and be like, what happened to the emails on Fridays?

Speaker 1 That's nice, though. I mean,

Speaker 1 for someone to do it steadily for that long is unusual for sure.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 where are they?

Speaker 1 I believe she's in England. Well, email works, Lizzie.
Yes. Email works in England.
So they say. Who said that?

Speaker 1 The governor. The governor.
The royals. The governor.

Speaker 1 Well. Well.
Well,

Speaker 1 you guys. What a delightful way to spend a five.
You think my hands are cold. Feel this one.
Oh my god, are you like an ice box? Yes. Yeah, what's up with y'all? Well, I'm warm now.

Speaker 1 I'm just gonna do this. Frosty this.

Speaker 1 I've put my hands in my cooter

Speaker 1 and on that.

Speaker 1 And on a kitchen Makuchi.

Speaker 1 Oh my god. Shout out, Kate McCucci.
Kate is a real good sport. Yeah, yeah, I am.

Speaker 1 Does anyone have anything they'd like to promote? Well, first of all, I want to say my animal painting books that I made are restocked and what a great holiday gift.

Speaker 1 All 100% of the profeeds, profeeds? Profeeds, profeeds. All the profeeds.
All the pro feeds. All the profeeds.

Speaker 1 Famously. Famously profeeds.
They all go to Doctors Without Borders and

Speaker 1 go to Animal Art by May on Etsy. And there's these paintings and hats and tote bags and stuff.

Speaker 1 But also, I'm on tour starting the end of February, and I just added a bunch of extra late shows, and I would love people to come to them. You want people at your show?

Speaker 1 For once, yeah. I'm going to Austin.
I know that. I need to sell some more tickets there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, anywhere that you like. Well, I'm also going on tour.

Speaker 1 Did I cut off your tour information? Okay. And you want some people to come to yours?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I have quite a few dates here, but I was just going to mention a few few of them. One of them being January 14th in Fort Lauderdale.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Orlando.
Get your kiny out. January 15th in Orlando.
Jacksonville, Florida. What? Yeah, January 17th, I'll be there.
And then Oklahoma City, February 20th, Midland, Texas. Midland.

Speaker 1 Come on, Midland.

Speaker 1 Midlands. Nerodessa.
February. Really? February 21st.
And then I also wanted to tell you guys about Red Bank, New Jersey, April 26th, Brooks, California, May 15th. And

Speaker 1 Kalispell, Montana, June 11th. Pretty area.
Yes. Beautiful areas that I'll be in.
Beautiful. Beautiful.
And please come on out. Go to Tignotaro.com for the rest of the dates.

Speaker 1 But I just wanted to let you know it's different months and different cities and states, all sorts of stuff going on. Heck yeah.
Heck yeah. I'm also on tour.
Are you?

Speaker 1 I've got shows coming up in where I'm in Orlando, Florida, St. Petersburg.

Speaker 1 We got, what else we got? We got Norfolk, Virginia. I feel like you've been going there for a long time.

Speaker 1 Because that one got rescheduled. So that's fun.
Oh, okay. But it's definitely happening right after Christmas.
Salt Lake City.

Speaker 1 Vancouver. And then then spend New Year's Eve with me in Seattle, y'all.
That's going to be a fun one. Don't have to tell me twice.
Come on.

Speaker 1 And then right after that, Mobile, Alabama, New Orleans, and Atlanta, and a bunch more. I think Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Des Moines, a lot of places.
So yeah, get those tickets.

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And also, if you have not seen Come See Me in the Good Light, please check it out on Apple TV. It went to the number one spot on Apple.

Speaker 1 Number one movie out of all genres. That's so good.
That's crazy. It is really, really something.
Yeah, I met Megan

Speaker 1 and she immediately called me Fortune Marie. Did she? Yeah, that was real sweet.
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Speaker 1 Incredible. Incredible.

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