Handsome - Indigo Girls ask about recording sessions

Episode Date: March 5, 2024

The iconic folk duo Indigo Girls ask Handsome a delightfully musical question on this week's episode. Plus balls, French accents, the Judds, and much more! And don't forget to watch the new film featuring the music of Indigo Girls, "Glitter & Doom", out March 8!Handsome is hosted by Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, and Fortune FeimsterFollow us on social media: @handsomepodMerch: handsomepod.comWatch on youtube: youtube.com/@handsomepodEmail the show: [e-mail] Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello there, handsome little ladies. It is your friend Tig Notaro. I wanted to let you know that there are a few final tickets available for my Peekskill New York show March 8th and a handful of tickets left for the Waterville, Maine show on March 10th. See you there. Handsome Pod. Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod. Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod. Cheers. Welcome to Handsome. Here we are on a rainy evening.

All of us in the same room. I am your dear friend, Mae Martin. I'm joined, of course, by my dear friends. Well, it's me, your great, great, great, great, great, great, wonderful grandfather, Tig Motaro. And I'm Fortune Feimster. Great to be here with you, Grandpa Tig. Grandpa. Guys, it's just me grandpa oh my god

tell me about the good old days oh you jutted it that sure did you jutted it girl i jutted it up for you what's your favorite judd song the one i just sang okay i love um oh are we going to hold my hand yeah i was okay two three no and i didn't know when you said judd did it up i was the judge judd apatow i was the judge if you wouldn't know the judge you would think what is jutted it up mean do you think if we did karaoke together there would always be one person just sitting like yeah we should do one of those karaoke rooms yes a private oh my god and like you can go to like koreatown and there's, you can just rent a room and it's your own private room for you and up to like, I don't know, 12 friends.

Why don't you just stay home? Oh yeah, you get the machine, they bring you drinks. Yeah, it's a whole thing. You get a little disco ball. Make some drinks at home. I know you're right. We got a disco light up here at the office. That's true.

But you don't have a big selection of songs probably. Love can build a bridge. Oh, is it can build a bridge? light up here at the office. That's true. But you don't have a big selection of songs probably. Love can Oh, is it can build a bridge? I think I sang will build a bridge. No, it's love can. Can, okay. But it is tween. It is tween. No, I think it is

between. But they're kind of silent. I mean, if you said tween, nobody's gonna scratch the record. I think the B's a little silent. mean if you said tween nobody's gonna scratch the record i think the b's a little sub and you just hear tween wait can i hear it yeah please say between with the most silent b you can do where you still hear the b so it's like just okay lightest touch of a b tween i didn't hear it no there's a little pop i i heard it but do you know um why not me no no grandpa that's my favorite jed song okay yeah there you go well and real quick oh on why not me

yeah the way that they sing why not me i always sing just to amuse myself why know me which is Wynonna and Naomi who are the Jets so I sing why know me anyway what are y'all talking about I like

getting an insight into into what I don't know our southern side coming out. Are the Judds sisters? I can picture one of them red hair. Mother, daughter.

Naomi was the mom and Winona is the daughter. And then their other family member, Ashley. There I can get on board with you because I'm thinking her and Morgan Freeman yeah string of like crime thrillers that's where you lost me really what those were great so good I'm not saying they're bad I just you didn't watch them ever double jeopardy do you not remember you're talking to two against one great movie great I don't watch a lot of TV or film I listen to a lot of music Ashley Judd was the like crime

movie gal of our childhood how come she never branched out of that really you know what I mean she was great oh man Double Jeopardy I felt like when I watched it I was like I understand the legal system and how to get away with murder it did make me realize

that you can't be tried for the same crime twice that's a huge loophole in the system i would say the only loophole yeah yeah and then we're good so what else did you learn on these crime shows or um okay i learned that you always want to be friends with the morgan. Yes. Well, it's basically if any mysterious handsome stranger comes into your life. Hello. This guy turns up. Obviously don't trust him. Right.

And usually, Ashley Judd, there would come up. Oh, what I learned is there comes a point like a kind of rock bottom breaking point where you go, I'm not taking any more of this shit. You go, you know what? I can play this game. And then you put like a fake dead body and then the killer thinks he's got you and really you're behind him.

Yeah, because you've reached your breaking point. You've reached your breaking point and you've become... It happens a lot in J-Lo movie. J-Lo's action thrillers as well. But no, the one where she's like... Enough. Are you thinking of Enough? I thought you were just saying... No, Enough. The movie Enough. She's like, I'm not gonna to, you're never going to touch me again.

Yeah. And then she learns kickboxing and. This is Judd? No. Jay and J-Lo. Oh, okay. Can we go back to the Judds? This is one of our more random starts.

Yeah. And we get pretty random. I disagree. Guys, I went to on a date. Yeah, I went on a date. You're in a relationship. Yeah. With, you know, with it was with the woman that you're heavily involved with.

I took her out on a date and we went to this thing. I Googled it. It was called the Museum of Love. Immersive, immersive experience. You've been there? No. But is this by love? Do you mean like sex i was

hoping but no um and it's these people are running a racket and i will say i had a great time and you should check it out racket i love a racket i love they are running this is a racket let me preface this by a great time absolutely wonderful time got completely bamboozled out of chin i love to throw money at something that is very cheaply organized uh yeah it was like you go in and then you basically are walking through and then doing little activities with your partner and like answering questions and stuff and so all these couples are moving through it and it's supposed to bring you closer and make you like think about your relation stuff and uh so the couple in front of us that the we're kind of like getting a little bored and all these stations are very similar but we're noticing

that like so they'd go into a little hut where one thing was you had to stare into each other's eyes for four whole minutes that is a long time it's a long time and they measure your pulse to see your heart rate and your heart rate syncs up with each other anyway but we go in everything after this couple in front of us and we're like they smell like a deep fryer this couple they smell like chips like they smell like french fries like french fries like what are you talking french fries yeah we're talking french fries maybe chicken nuggets whatever chips for all our english listeners. Yeah, chips. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For those of you at home listening.

Yeah. Thanks, Grandpa. Chips off of potato chips. Absolutely. Great grandmother. So we go into like the little huts and every time we're like, man. And also we're interested in their dynamic because they're not really having fun. Oh, yeah.

These two. Like they're doing the things, but they're not really laughing. Yeah. these two like they're doing the things but they're not really laughing and yeah and then we're in the final room and the activity is you go in and and you talk about if you were stranded on an island what items would you bring and you're supposed to kind of debate it and then the couple before you has left you a note that has like relationship advice on it on how to handle conflicts we're like oh shit this chippy couple is gonna leave us a note it's gonna have grease on the note yeah so we open it up and it's very strange and it says hey it's two it's

two people's different handwriting and the first person's like hey just agree with whatever your partner says just just say yes to whatever and then the second person's like yeah just uh you know like compromise and things like that and then it's signed to board this is the mystery of my life to board ex panda express employees oh they smell like orange chicken they smell like orange chicken so maybe they had just come from work or they you know exactly the meal i love pandas really i love it yes yes i'm alive aren't i so duh what else am i gonna eat chickens their signature dish but yeah they did and we were like okay so did they come directly from quitting like they quit and like yeah are they working on a relationship and this is the biggest mystery of your life yes so even looking at my face right now how could they

possibly be bored i know i anyway i just keep thinking about them and being like it sounds to me like they weren't taking this museum of love seriously i mean they they spent close to two hours in there wandering, doing each station. And what does this cost? It was about 60 bucks each. Wow. I know, not cheap. For two hours? These grubby little cards that you're going through.

But it was great. I will say. Sorry, just to clarify again, it was great. And I really support them. And no snacks or anything included? They had a kettle that you could plug in yourself and make a tea. And they had some tea bags there. Wow.

Yeah. Oh, my God. All for $60? All for $60. Not one bowl of cheeses. Not one bowl of cheeses. And then at the end, there was like a photo booth. And so I go to the woman i'm

heavily involved with i was like we oh we got to take a picture and she goes oh we already have a photo booth pictures let's get out of here and i go very quiet all the way to the car you were bummed out to not get that pic yeah i was like you get more than one photo booth yeah and like i've always i've already been captured on film before exactly Exactly. Let's get in the car. I know. It's like I paid $60 for this experience. I want to commemorate it. I want my freaking photo booth picture.

But then, so in the car, I was like, you didn't want the picture because my hair is very puffy today? That's where I thought, is my hair puffy today? You were taking it personal. And she was like, oh, man, I'm just so hungry. I want to get to the restaurant. She's like, that Panda Express got me wanting some of that orange chicken baby are you a panda express fan yeah i do like i like cheap chinese food yeah okay i really do

it's like candy chinese food it's sweet it's candied pre-diarrhea how dare you well that's all I think about. With places like that. I mean, you wouldn't like it for sure. But to clarify, it's great. I love it. I used to watch like friends and TV shows like that in Canada.

This is who kept it on the air. Yeah. And in Canada, you never got those like cardboard Chinese food things. Oh, yeah. And I always seem out of the little little things that fold up. Yeah.

So American. So cool. That's American. Yeah. Like they don't have that in Canada. Oh, really? Why? How do you package Chinese food?

I know. As we're saying it. Styrofoam. Yeah. Styrofoam. But I'm suddenly like, are we going to get a bunch of people commenting? And they do. Wait a minute. It's solely. Yeah. Maybe I'm suddenly like, are we going to get a bunch of people commenting? And they do that. Wait a minute.

It's solely. Yeah, maybe I've seen them in England, but definitely not Canada. Canada. Wake up. Do you know that in Canada, milk comes in bags? What? Are you trying to make us throw up? I have been to a Whole Foods in Canada.

Yeah, yeah. Give me a large bag of milk. That's what it is. foods in canada yeah yeah give me a large bag of milk that's what it is you go so instead of getting like a carton of milk it's it's plastic bags and they're you can freeze them and then you put one in like a your plastic jug why bother you cut the little thing yeah i know that's still but they also have the cartons now they do oh but back in the day it was not so much sure i mean we can be like, am I remembering my childhood correctly? We could be like, we only get milk in a bottle and it gets delivered to our door.

And it's like, still, well, no. But that did happen once. Can you imagine those days of getting milk delivered? Doesn't that seem wild? My grandma got it. When I would go to England, she would still get milk and orange juice. Yeah. There's a company that delivers uh

fresh almond milk oh i would like that okay girl i'll have to get the deets and what they show up with like a little jug and that's correct whoa in a bat a plastic bag yeah no no it's in a glass bottle because that the like freshly made stuff doesn't last as long right so you got to buy it more frequently yeah because there's not like preservatives and all the chemicals and stuff yeah how are they making milk from nuts then um they squeeze in juice yeah juice them nuts okay juice them nuts juice them nuts mate don't know about juicing them nuts

I know how to juice nuts if anyone knows how to juice nuts if anyone on this podcast knows how to juice nuts I've never known what to do with milk I've made cashew milk before and it takes forever in a day cashew milk it takes a long time you're talking about milking to make

milk alternatives may is talking about how they don't know what to do with testicles i did throw that in there but catch that jump well i know i was right here in the middle and this year was catching how to make a milk alternative and this year was like i don't know what to do with testicles i didn't know that we had gone to testicles well we didn't what do you do what do you do with what did you do to those testicles i i don't what seems weird to me is like uh it seems to me like every man has very different feelings about his testicles and what he wants done with some people like love it and other people are like don't go near them or touch them so so it's very like they're sensitive right yes i haven't touched testicles yeah are

you asking for a friend yeah i'm doing some uh personal research for a friend yeah yeah actually a personal researcher friend. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, Jacqueline Novak in her special has a great bit about how when you're growing up, people tell you and play with the balls. And she's like, play with the ball. Like, what does that mean? It's such a broad thing,

but yeah, no, I've never, I've never known. Like, I guess you got to just communicate. You got to say, Hey,

do you want me to, let's pretend these are the balls. Yeah. Okay. And this is the wiener. Fortune! Guys! So you're just like...

Look at her playing. She's like a little kitten. It would be like a cat toy. Wait, now, Fortune. I have a question. And are you doing that? Would you? Yeah, that's my idea of playing with them is kind of knocking them.

You know, like that game where you knock the ball and they hit each other? Yeah, yeah. That's what I think of. We've been talking about it on the podcast. I've been treading water lately. Just a few minutes out of my day that I take for myself to do something that's good for me. I wake up feeling better. I have more energy. And you know, small actions like that can have big benefits. Like how taking care of your gut can support

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streaming exclusively on Max and listen to the official Hacks podcast on Max or wherever you get your podcasts. Fortune, would you be playing with the balls in that sweater? Would that sweater have lured the guy?

So for those of you not watching our YouTube channel right now. How dare you, first of all. How dare you. I'm in a lovely puffy cardigan. Playing? A little masculine. Probably a man's not going to be asking me to play with his balls. Not only do you have this cardigan on,

but you also have little hangers. Please tell me what I'm looking like. Are you actually making fun of how fortune looks? I have little hanger bumps. And I'm picturing you

playing with these testicles with these two pointy and this guy's going how to get in this situation and i'm over here swapping at it like a cat toy no no claws yeah i have not seen my way around a wiener just you know i'm just saying i'm not what is your middle name uh fortune is my middle name oh of course yeah your first name emily emily fortune i almost cried just then really because i'm not really an emily no but there's a party that is an emily the one that grew up in north carolina yeah yeah am nobody called me emily though growing up they always call me by my last name oh really feimster yeah feemy what's up

feimster feimy emily's the pretty little lady in me. Yeah. And also one of the pretty little ladies that's asking a question today. That's right. Yeah. Is that right? That is right. That's a little teaser. Yeah, that is a teaser.

We're talking about the Indigo Girls, by the way. I guess. I mean, I'm- That's the quintessential group you think of when you think of lesbians, right? Yeah, that's true. There used to be a- There still is sort of an annual gathering called Fake New Years in Toronto with like the queer scene.

It was at my friend's house and it was usually a lot of sort of a slightly older generation than me, queer women, and always at midnight, there'd be a big indigo girls sing along and people hugging and crying. And I'd be like, it's sort of my crowd and sort of I feel like oh that's my crowd that's your crowd yeah great great great great wonderful grandpa loves that crowd

there's some songs that I know Emily wrote that I have often wondered like oh I wonder if that was her figuring out her sexual well of course i'm sure because i think amy came out first when she came out into the world i mean yeah when amy amy came out of the womb yeah but emily i think came out later oh but i could be wrong i don't want to i've never known you to be wrong i don't want to rewrite the indigo girls history i love the history that you know all that are you friends with them um yeah i know emily a little bit but it takes friends with them i am friendly with them i am a huge fan yeah same i'm a big fan too i have met amy and um chatted they did my podcast and

they were in your special yeah um. But Emily and I will text sometimes and she's just one of the nicest humans. Just one of those people. That's so nice to hear. I love when people are nice. She'll just write like, I'm so glad you're in the world. And you're like,

you're the nicest freaking person. I would just like, I want to, she's like, I just want, like she's not saying this, but she's like, I'm going to just say something meaningful to you. I'm going to start doing that to both of you. And I want to say she's like, I just want, like, she's not saying this, but she's like, I'm going to just say something meaningful to you.

I'm going to start doing that to both of you. And I want to say on the record, I'm really grateful you're both in the world. Aw, see? Even your great, great, great, great, wonderful grandma. But yeah, they're so cool. I mean, they just were so, like, such pioneers, you know? I mean, but, you know know people talk about taking drugs and going on a trip or journey and whatever yeah that when they are on that is my feeling may

the couch farted not me that was not very handsome the couch does sound like it's farting what journey were you talking about no i'm just saying like that's how I feel when I'm listening to their vocals and their lyrics. I'm like, I can't even, don't talk to me. Don't like, don't expect me to listen to your conversation. If their song comes on and we're in a social situation, I'm like, oh my God. And then I'm like, I'm in it. You know, I'm and we're in a social situation I'm like oh my god and then I'm like I'm in it you know I'm such a fan is it hard when you try and get your kids into music that you love and they're just like yeah cool I haven't experienced that honestly really our kids they love everything

that we listen to oh that's cool they're so so hilariously into like the Indigo Girls. Yeah. And like Edie Raquel and Simon and Garfunkel. Oh, that's wicked. And they know specifically, oh, Paul Simon. Oh, my God. And Bob Dylan. Wow.

Yeah. I just introduced the five-year-old who I live with who's the child of the woman I'm heavily involved with I just introduced her to the Backstreet Boys and it was very similar to some level of artistic merit it's hard to talk to someone when that's on right? yeah exactly I just get so swept up Backstreet bag alright but I was doing the dance moves and stuff and then we were listening in the car to

shania twain man i feel like a woman i do like shania twain too yeah and then so later on yeah so then i go to the kids let's go girls yes later on i said that i go let's go girls and she goes yeah it sounds better in mommy's voice well then uh she goes your voice is more backstreet boy and i was like okay what if I say it like this? And then I said, close your eyes. And then I went, I did my best Let's Go Girls. Yeah, let's hear it. Okay, everyone close your eyes.

Okay, I'm going to close my eyebrows. Okay. Let's go, girls. That sold me. Wait, close your eyes. Okay, let's hear your best one let's go girls okay i feel like my mustache got in the way i wonder should i ever said that should i i guess i should go yeah let's go, girls. You dumb bitches. Fortune.

Fortune. I love Shania Twain. She has some bangers. Yeah, she's got some good tunes. Yeah. Real good tunes. Man, I feel like a woman. Man, I feel like a lesbian.

That's not very catchy. No, but it feels like when you first start doing comedy i'm speaking for myself and you start doing comedy songs and you're like i got gold here i'm gonna change the lyrics to shania twain oh my gosh by the way speaking of changing lyrics yes i have something to say that is going to be confusing and sound like a joke okay it is true i heard a do you know the band um fall boy fall boy okay are you fan or familiar i'm going down down and i'm very fine baby we're going down swinging okay so that was my wife's and maybe your time of, you know, punk pop,

alt rock. Sure. And I, they were never on my radar. Yeah. I heard them on the radio yesterday. They redid Billy Joel's song. We didn't start the fire.

I've heard their covers. I've heard that. I had never heard it. I was floored. It's great. It is incredible. And here's the twist. It made me heard it. I was floored. It's great, right? It is incredible. Yes. And here's the twist.

It made me tear up. No way. Yes. I've never heard. We didn't start the fire. Yeah. Really? Do you know Billy Joel's song?

Well, yeah, of course I know the Billy Joel version. Okay, well, they redid it with more like modern. They completely rewrote it. Really? And I was like, it wasn't like I was driving and sobbing. Guys, relax. But it made me teary because it was just kind of this, you know, you get so caught up in the world and the way things are. And you get like, oh, things are bad.

And then it's just this reminder that, as the song says, we didn't start the fire yeah it was always burning yeah the world's been turning they've changed the actual lyrics of the stuff going on in the world that he rattles off yeah and it was comforting in some weird way where I was like oh right yeah yeah it's only life after all anyway that's a indigo girls Oh, I didn't get that. I thought you were being really poetic. No, no. Blame it on Emily. Anyway, I was just like, whoa, I can't believe this is affecting me like this.

And that's obvious. And it's Fall Out Boy. We got to get a question from Fall Out Boy. Oh, my God. I'm like. Yeah, they took a break for a while, didn't they? Maybe they're back. I was big into pop punk for a second for the band Good Charlotte.

Oh, yeah. And there's a photo of me at a Good Charlotte concert with this guy I had a crush on called Brett Morris. If you're listening. Hey, Brett. You really do love to say the first and last name. I said everybody. Yeah, you're right. Full name Brett Morris.

And he actually he played young Magneto in the first X-Men movie. And he was in my improv class. I was 13. And his dad dropped us off at the concert and we go in and then we waited after to meet good Charlotte. Did he have a crush on you? For a second. He wrote in my like scrapbook. I think he wrote like, you're a weird girl. Oh, yeah. He loved you. But nothing ever happened. he really had his eye on you wait you're a weird girl i smell bad i couldn't get this i couldn't shake this guy off of me i didn't know you were being sarcastic until that because i was i was like yeah no

obviously he's flirting because at the time i was like, oh boy, I'm in with a champ. You're weird and you smell. This photograph, the photograph is like the guys from Good Charlotte, Brett, and then I'm just like braces, long greasy hair. And weirdly, my boobs look like massive, like bigger than they ever were in my life. And I'm wearing like a pink t-shirt and my face is like kind of trying to be jim carrey or chandler bing my face is like anyway and then on the t-shirt it says it's always the quiet ones i remember thinking it was so cool i didn't know and that guy was just like

hot probably like this freak get this kid away from me it's always the weird ones but i used to always make my friends watch the x-men movies i had a crush on him at sleepovers i'd be like yeah you want to watch x-men because he had the scene in the beginning this guy used to have the hots for me yeah let's just say he thought i was pretty weird should we hear i'm excited to hear this i am very excited all right let's hear it okay the indigo girls are a grammy award-winning duo with multiple platinum records they have a new movie called glitter and doom that i am in that's a fantastical romance set to their hit songs. And let me just tell you, their songs are, as we've already discussed, I fully believe, masterpieces. Masterpieces.

This movie, Glitter and Doom, it has reimagined versions of already masterpieces, I can't believe what they did with their songs. Oh, that's cool. If somebody would have told me beforehand, I would be like, eh. Oh, because you wouldn't want to mess with a good thing. Yeah, just be like, we're good. Oh, man, I'm excited. And what they did, man, like unbelievable.

Is it the movie where at the end there are people singing their songs or something but no like is it they asked me to do something where i don't know if it was that i thought i don't know it was that project or a different one where people were at the end of like in the credits different people were singing their songs but I was filming food board I couldn't do it possibly but the movie really stuck out to me because it's a gay guy couple and they're the writer and director of this film oh cool and it's their love story and they fell in love to the indigo girls music and so when I heard that obviously you would oh, it's going to be a love story between two gay women. And the fact that it's these two men falling in love to the Indigo Girls, I was like, yes, please. Yes, please. And it's so great.

That's awesome. Except for me. Except for me. Really? What do you mean? You think you stink it up? That was the movie that the thing that they asked me to do oh because they said tig's terrible they said you were doing something for it my role is very small but i was supposed to have a french accent oh my god well you know how good I am with accents. Well, okay, but you weren't, well, you were captured on film. But look, I did my best.

Oh, my God. And it is like, but the film is so great. And then you see me for a minute that's doing a terrible accent. Well, at any point, did you say, does this character need to be French? Well, we're in France. Oh, it is in France. It takes place in France. Oh, it is in France. It takes place. You're like, can there be one American friend?

Could she be from Mississippi? Can we hear your French accent real quick? Oh, no, boy. Oh, no, boy. They're like, could you say the words? I do what he wants. Oui, boy. Oh, no. They're like, could you say the words? I do what he wants. Hey, wee-wee. It is?

No. Do you do your shoulders like that? But it's, you know, I identify as a stand-up comedian. Right, right. And, you know, my ongoing joke, which is true, whenever a director walks up to me, I always stop them and say, before you give me a note, just know I have no range. Now, what were you going to say?

So you lay all your cards out there. I do. I do my best. I do my best. Let's hear what their question is. Hey, y'all. It's Emily from Indigo Girls. If you could pick any artist or band and be at the recording sessions from start to finish for any one of their albums, which artist or band would you pick and which album? You just get to sit there in the control room or whatever, listen to it all go down from start to finish. Okay. Wow. I have my answer. Oh, wow.

That was quick. And it was, well, look, I already went on about how much I love the Indigo Girls. Yeah. Yeah. I would love to be in any of those. Yeah. Recording sessions. That's a given.

So you can yell, closer I am to find. And ruin everything. Like in the Barbie movie. Yes. Oh, my God. How great great was it that was pretty cool that they got oh my god uh resurgence with the barbie movie and there's a documentary about them yeah also um but anyway crushing it and maybe look at my special called happy to be here but anyway i would have to say and i'm all over the board with the music that I enjoy, but, you know, I'm part metalhead.

Really? What? I would not have guessed that. I was not expecting that. I mean, that doesn't shock me, but just I can't wait to hear what album. Well, and when I say metalhead, I'm not talking about like, you know. White Zombie. Yeah.

You're thinking like Black Sabbath type? Well, yeah, like I was more in that, you know white zombie yeah you're thinking like black sabbath type well yeah like I was more in that you know van halen no no no that's grunge I knew that yeah no like yeah van halen uh black sabbath yeah I would love to have been there for the first, I think it was in 1978, Van Halen's first album. I would love. And what's on that? I don't know anything about the members of, whoa, Eddie Van Halen. No, yeah, okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Eddie Van Halen, incredible guitarist. Alex Van Halen, his brother, was the drummer. Okay. I mean, if I could truly, and I mean this, you could play a clip of Alex playing drums and I would be able to point out that's Alex. Really?

In the same way that you can, I mean, I can tell when it's Eddie Van Halen. I feel like I can tell when it's Emily playing guitar. Right. You know, people have such distinct styles and I always call it a brain stamp. Yeah, I like that. dials and i always call it a brain stamp yeah i like that because it's like you hear it's the same like when willie nelson plays his guitar and there's a brain stamp like yeah whatever's going on they they can't not be that yeah yeah and david lee roth the lead singer you're not familiar with him yeah i am now that you say the name this is is hilarious. Michael Anthony, the bassist. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I gotta listen to this album on the way home.

And they had really great harmonies. I wish they all could be... Well, that's David Lee Roth's solo. But, yeah. But, you know, similarly to the Indigo Girls, but different. Tremendous harmonies. And did they get along? Like, what was...

Would the atmosphere be like partying? Well, I think they were very, I know, they were very famously partiers. Like all those guys. But then I think sobered up and then they broke up, right? Yeah, and then sadly

Eddie died a few years ago. I was about to do a talk show and my or my brother texted me eddie van halen died and i was like and i was like introduced on stage i was devastated like i know you're not a massive partier but if you're in that environment you're somehow magically like in the studio with them and you're like are you are you doing what they're doing to be on the level or you just want to sit back i just would want to watch okay okay i would just want to watch yeah that's a cool answer yeah it's true fortune i guess i won't say shania twain why i'm just kidding gosh i don't know i'd never

thought about this before because albums seem now like such a thing in the past so i'm trying to think of like whose album i listened to a lot from start to finish i did love it would be the judds i did love the judds for sure um i knew a lot of garth brooks songs yeah love me some garth love me some garth so i knew a lot of that to go back to billy joel he wrote shameless you know that garth brooks oh Shameless? Oh, Billy Joel wrote that? That's a Billy Joel song. I'm shameless. Yeah. I didn't know that.

But like if we're, I feel like it's gotta be somebody cool and interesting. You don't wanna just like one, you know, guy playing the guitar and singing like, blamin' all of my roots. I showed up in boots. You don't want that? Ruin your black tie fair.

Like you want the atmosphere. Yeah, you need the vibe around. Well, that's a real dig against Garth. Love Garth, but I'm saying it would be more of a just like, hey man, good job. That song's gonna crush. If you want like the mystique, the vibe, like this is a Once in a lifetime opportunity

To watch this go down probably be like Prince's Purple Rain That album You know he got weird I'm sure It was a weird vibe When was he not getting weird Gotta go to Minneapolis you know Make that track out there even in the winter

That's a real curveball for me that He's from minneapolis he is loved it that's where is that's where is the what's the name of why can't i think of it something part yeah paisley park yeah i was like uh that's where he lived oh no way and uh and he had the place downtown uh on what was that called one no yeah i said one first avenue also technically a one would you be able to stop yourself from singing along and ruining takes i wouldn't want him to be mad at me yeah oh you don't what are you over there what are you doing yeah i'm sorry prince you're not gonna be known for your prince impression no no definitely not but i just think well and he was known for being so musical yeah and he and he

wrote a lot of songs yeah and i just would love to have just seen him create yeah and also you know some crazy shit was going down that's what i want stuff people were probably coming through there like yeah famous people do you think he would have turned around and been like yeah what are you doing here and i was like hey prince would you have taught him the uh joe the button song absolutely yeah yeah he'd be like i know that song i love it i would tower over him oh he's tiny yeah yeah tiny guy that's a good answer yeah what was your favorite song on purple Rain? Purple Rain. I know someone that doesn't

like that song. That's crazy. That makes, that, like, I don't. That's crazy. And they're not just being contrary, they genuinely are like, I don't like it. And there's some good covers of that song too. It's Stephanie. Oh, Stephanie. Deal breaker.

It is the weird, I'm like, what are you talking about? You don't like Purple Rain. And then you go, Purple Rain, Purple Rain. That reminds me of, I know I've talked about John Doron here before, but his joke about when somebody says they like a song or whatever, and then somebody else is like, yeah, I don't like it. And he's like, you don't like it. He's like, you don't like it. And then they like sing it and read it.

He's like, yeah, that's not, you're not making me like this. I, I just destroyed his bit, but, um,

you know, no matter how many times you sing it or repeat it, like I've heard it, I'm not a fan. Um, but yeah, I don't, I don't,

that's the one thing about Stephanie I don't understand. Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me. It's perfection. It really is. And the way it's produced and everything. It even has a movie. It even has all the best songs have a movie. I was watching that movie like two days before he died.

Oh, fuck. watched that movie i was watching that movie like two days before he died oh fuck going like we just randomly watched it and uh i just was watching it going man i got it because he was starting he was starting to do a bunch of shows again and he was doing like four hour concerts he had just done one in la and i missed it and i remember being like i gotta see him live yeah like two days later he died i was at the sydney comedy festival in australia when bowie died and and then spontaneously hundreds of people went to the park and then they were blasting his music and people were just weeping and like that was pretty awesome um okay i picked my albums yeah but there's the answer i would say like to be cool and and i think it would be super interesting wait albums you're picking several just two you can only do one okay okay i

know my one answer but i'll say also the one that i almost professor tig over here is a real stickler i like my runner-up is johnny cash and fulsome prison okay like just the raw drunk as shit he'd be wasted but the energy in there like that is a moment in history i think and that would be really cool you need me to sing that song yeah would you mind i hear a train coming rolling down the bend i ain't seen the sun shines i don't know where. Yeah. Pretty good. That was great. Shout out to my aunt and brother. Just to watch him die. But it's a boring answer, I think, but it's Sgt. Pepper, I think.

Oh, I mean, that's right. Somebody had to say it. Somebody had to. And I think of all the Beatles albums, it's like they were the most in sync with each other and they were the most inspired maybe. I don't know. It feels like the most whimsical and like you got george martin producing and they're bringing in these big orchestras and like to be

there when they did day in the life with a big orchestra and fuck day in the life used to scare me when it is scary it's because it gets all dissonant like when it that builds i i used to get i was such a beatles fan yeah as a small child loved him loved the song but it's still it was like watching a scary movie it's yeah i i couldn't deal with it and then but then the relief when that breaks oh man oh man yeah yeah yeah two against one i would do what you don't like i don't really like all the Beatles you don't like the Beatles get out oh my what do you not like about the Beatles guys don't be mad at me of course we are I don't know not a safe space I recognize that they're like one of the best bands ever lived that's ever lived yeah and that they're adored internationally forever and always it doesn't do a lot for me have you ever like got stoned and

play the songs for me maybe i'll change my mind okay wait is there is there one song that you are like okay i'll give them that twist and shout i mean no that's always a classic i'm like that's a palatable if you don't like their general vibe oh i was almost i almost sang a beach boy song what is give me one uh fortune give me a. I can't think of one. That was not bad. Hey, did you like John or Paul or Ringo or George solo? Not wings. That didn't really do much for me.

Band on the run. That's another one. I would like to be in them oh i'm not saying i hate them i think you pretty much you're feeling it's clear i don't you're at love them you're a regular old everyday stephanie allen yeah like in purple rain exactly so but i understand that people are obsessed so i can see why you would say Sgt. Pepper. That's their most famous album, right? Yeah.

The White Album. There's a lot of famous Beatles albums. I get it. They're famous. I would say Sgt. Pepper changed music. Yeah. And I know that they influenced music heavily, too. I get that.

So I appreciate all that they've done. For sure. But people geek out about meaning. influenced music heavily too i get that so i appreciate all that they've done for sure but like people people geek out you know about meeting paul mccartney and stuff now yeah i was like what's a bun yeah buns what's up i am with there there's like a solo john lennon album rock and roll that's all covers and it was phil specter produced it and i it just seems like chaos like phil specter was so out of his mind he had to he was firing off a gun in the studio and that would be interesting to i wouldn't have been no you're right as i'm saying i don't like getting out of there yeah yeah um i was in high school and george harrison died that day and then my english teacher

just was like i don't like the Beatles. And then, and me and my friend were like stoners deeply. Like we thought we'd discovered the Beatles basically. And we were the only ones that got them. And then he was like, yeah, George Harrison was an asshole.

And we were, we were like, just can you not? Yeah. And he kept digging and digging in front of the whole class. And then I like stood up like as if i was gonna go shut up but i didn't say anything i just was like i need to go to the water closet i did i went to the water closet what's the water closet

oh wait that's what they call it oh you were in canada i was thinking of england no i don't think they say it in england no water closet don't they not water closet i've never heard why have we heard why i don't know because we don't use it in america no we only use it in england why are we saying water closet in england it has wc written on the door you've never heard of water you're literally english wash chamber wash chamber isn door. You've never heard of water closet? You live in London and you're literally English. Wash chamber? Wash chamber, isn't it? I've only heard water closet.

I have never heard water closet. Oh my god. Am I crazy? Thomas is googling. What does WC stand for? It stands for water closet. What? And you thought it was a wash chamber?

How come now that seems insane? Will you Google wash chamber? Look, it says the phrase water closet arose in England in the 1870s. Yes, yes, that's where we use it. Over time, it has simply become WC. I've never heard that. I love that the two people who've never lived in England. And the people that have a

british man here there is a british man in the room saying nope never heard of it you're like what is a water closet how in the hell of the two southern gals i think because it was so weird like we're like water closet why do they call it that yeah but i don't understand it and they're not i don't know i'm so sick of this see the beatles are tearing us apart oh my gosh i would have been in that album recording and be like oh like kind of bopping my head like this is cool in sergeant pepper yeah this isn't gonna sell and then i would be like i'm gonna do a coffee run oh my god i would have done acid with them i think just really yeah and then uh what do you think of course you would have i sound like the beetles are sitting around like hey you want to

trip with us no no i'm okay i sound like such a lame stoner though yeah i would have done acid with the beetles man but uh the story that Paul McCartney tells about, and if you're like listening at home, you should put this song on and just listen to the beginning. Paul, if you're listening. Paul, if you're listening. He tells a story about being at home and then Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys came over

and Paul was like, oh, what were you up to today? And he's like, oh, I just recorded this song. You want to hear it? And puts on good vibrations. And Paul was like, what were you up to today and he's like oh I just recorded this song you want to hear it and puts on good vibrations and if you're and Paul was like just being the first person to hear that song and being like oh that's insane I sound like I'm gonna cry but uh if you're listening at home just argue about to cry I'm on the edge listen to the beginning of good vibrations you know it's like oh I love the color yeah oh come on I mean now you understand how I felt with Fallout Boy. Very similar. Very similar.

Yeah, no, I think similarly to mention the Indigo Girls or the Beatles, but I was like, well, that's obvious. And then I was like, oh, would it be Willie Nelson, Ray Charles? I mean, Gladys Knight. Are you a Gladys Knight fan? Yeah, I love her. I mean. L.A.

Not? I don't know her enough to say. Too much for the band. Okay. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He couldn't make it, so he'd live in a lap. He's come to know. He said he's going, going back to find.

Come on, y'all. I used to keep leaving. Leaving. On a midnight train to Georgia. Leaving on a midnight train. Said he's going back. Going back to find. It's similar life, but I have to know.

I don't know this one. I get to be there. I know you will. And what's perfect. The pimps are amazing in this song. What's perfect is Midnight Train to Georgia. Yeah. Indigo Girls are from Georgia. What a time. What a podcast.

What a podcast. What a podcast. What about Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill? That would be cool. That would be cool. Just seeing her belt it out. And Taylor Hawkins was her drummer. Oh, shit. Yes.

Yeah. Should we hear what... I'm always interested what musicians say. Yeah. Okay. This first answer is going to be from Emily Saliers. I would pick Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder. Interesting.

Okay. Got right to the point. In and out. I think that the second one is from Amy. Amy Ray? What are you crunching numbers over there again? Yeah. Let me guess. I was going to guess that Amy

would say Big Star or the Pixies or Pretenders. Okay. Hi, my name is Amy Ray. I'm part of Indigo Girls. And, well, first of all, hi. Hi, Ted. Hi, Fortune. Hi, Mae.

I have been listening to the Handsome podcast on my road trip across the United States for a solo tour. Nice. And it's been super entertaining and fun. So thank you for that. Oh, my gosh. I see that Emily asked the question about what artists would we want to be hanging out in the studio with while they're recording an album. hanging out in the studio with while they're recording an album. You know, I have to riff on that a bit because I'm obsessed right now with like live records recorded in the 60s, especially. And one of my very favorite artists is Nina Simone

of all time. And I've just been, I spend probably as much time listening to her live records as I do to her studio albums and there's a live record from Carnegie Hall with the song Mississippi God Damn on it that's such an important song and I would give anything to be able to go back in time

and sit there and listen and watch and then figure out what the recording equipment is and what the microphone is he's using and everything and just be in the presence of the very amazing compelling profound recording of that song that was done at Carnegie Hall because I think that the art of recording live music was really at its peak in the 60s and early 70s. So that's what I would say. I hope that's okay that it's not a studio album. But then I get the double pleasure of being at a Nina Simone concert, which I never got to do,

and also studying how a record is made. All right. Hope you guys have a good day. Keep it up. Love it. Bye. That's so cool. She said my name. Yeah, she said all of our names. Yeah, sorry.

Amy's voice is like that kind of is so distinct. You hear it when she talks to them, when she sings. They're like so synonymous yeah i was really off when i guess because i i i'm very aware of like you know she was very into the whole punk scene yeah and so yeah i was really hoping i was gonna score there and like blow everyone's mind that would would you know? Jake, you know the Indie Girl girls so well. That was a great, they were great answers. Yeah. Absolutely.

Yeah. And great people. Yeah. Thank you. A thousand percent. I love them so much. They're, I think coming in, they're coming to LA in like the fall, like September or something. Joni Mitchell's playing in the fall. Did you see no the Hollywood Bowl was sold out they added a second show

I met I told you I met Joni Mitchell that was a freaking dream I said I hate to be this person but I will kick myself forever if I don't ask you for a picture and we got a picture together she was so cool her friend was like here give me, give me your camera. I'll take it. I want to see the picture. Yeah. That's amazing. She was rad. I was like sitting across from her for like two hours.

And chatting? Was she like, can you leave? No, I was across from the room. I chatted with her for a second, but she was sitting with a Goldie Hawn. And I was like, i think you told me this oh yeah um i can't say but um yeah but then i at the end i waited till the end when she was leaving and i don't i didn't want to bug her but she was so cool about it yeah because she you know brandy carlisle's had a lot to do with bringing her back to bug her, but she was so cool about it. Yeah. Because she, you know, Brandi Carlile's had a lot to do

with bringing her back to singing again and being on stage. Yeah. I imagine, I would think Brandi would be part of that concert. I'm not sure. And I would think Brandi would need to do a question for us. Brandi should definitely do a question. Yeah. We should reach out to her.

Well, that was fun. Joni Mitchell should do a question. Yeah. That was super fun. Yeah. Yeah. Fortune text Joni. I don't have Joni's phone number. That would be awesome if you were just texting with Joni. What's up, Joni? That's

your web series, texting with Joni. Texting with Joni. I just read our texts from each other. Well, thank you to the Indigo Girls for submitting that question. Thank you, Tig, for having us here

in your beautiful office. Did you guys like being with each other? Sorry? Together in the room? All of us. How did you feel? How did you guys feel

having all of us together? I like it. I thought you meant, like, did we enjoy being on the sofa? I thought you were feeling alienated. Well, I imagine the sofa was pretty cool. I like it. I thought you meant like did we enjoy being on the sofa? I thought you were feeling alienated. I imagine the sofa

was pretty cool. I've loved being on the sofa with you. I love it. It reminds me of when I was in the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Oh, when you played the grandpa. Grandpa Joe who worked at the button factory. For our audio listeners, you did not know this, but TIG,

but you'll have to look at YouTube. Yeah. I'm not going to tell you what's on TIG's face. Yeah. And that's been, it's so weird how quickly it became normalized and you're just talking and there's a little, there's a little,

there is something that you'll have to say on YouTube. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Yeah, at HandsomePod, right? Yeah. We got incredible merchandise out there that we listened to you. You told us what you wanted. And we had it made.

And we delivered. And you guys are buying it up. I'm wearing my little cowboy hat a lot. Oh my God, looks good. I gotta get up my pretty little lady sweatshirt. I want to be rocking that. You have to. I got to get one, too.

Someone said we should get a pretty little lady. Oh, lady. Oh, lady. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pretty little lady. Yeah, I like that. That's really cool.

And yeah, follow us on Instagram and we read all the comments. They crack me up. I know. It is pretty cool how interactive it is. Yeah. People really, really get in there and chat and debate stuff. Yeah. Say funny stuff.

Yeah. But definitely subscribe to the podcast and YouTube. Yeah. I'm at Largo later in the month with special guests. So come check that out. And I just post all my shows on Instagram and do an improv and things like that. I don't know the dates at the moment. It happens very last minute. I'm kind of a rebel. You really are. I, on the other hand, am not a rebel. I have

booked shows ahead of time. And March 8th, I will be in Peekskill, New York. March 10th, Waterville, Maine. And then March 18th, I'll be at Largo. Go to tignotaro.com for all ticket and show information. I'm doing a bunch of shows at Largo and Dynasty Typewriter around L.A., trying to work out some new material. You know, sometimes it goes well and sometimes it doesn't. Fortune, what's going on with you? I'm on the last leg of my tour.

Coming up, I have Durham and Wilmington, North Carolina. I've got Los Angeles and New York City. I have Toronto. I have Palm Springs, Seattle. And then new shows, Albany, New York, Hartford, Connecticut, San Luis Obispo, and Bakersfield, California. Nice. Fortunefemester.com for tickets, baby.

Come on out. We're having a good time. And then I'm going to film my special in Seattle. Awesome. That's so exciting. I'll be very ready. Yeah. It's been a good tour, but it's been a long tour.

Oh, I forgot to also mention that my special comes out on Amazon March 26 hello again hello again is coming out March 26 so check it out and until then keep it handsome

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What a podcast! Hey, handsomes. Are you still listening? Well, guess what the indigo girls have a new song coming out that they wrote just for their new movie the single is called what we want to be and here is a little sneak preview That moon is just a dead end before your arm and when it's just a night. Yeah, we get to be what we want to be. When the sun in the morning is just a reason. Keep on sleeping when you're just breaking in.

Yeah, we get to be what we want to be.