Handsome - Michael Bublé asks about selfless acts

Episode Date: July 21, 2026

Canadian icon Michael Bublé graces Handsome with a question he's afraid to answer for himself! Plus Starmeter silliness, 007-inspired decor, and an update on our fave mom, Ginger.Handsome is hosted by Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, and Fortune FeimsterFollow us on social media @handsomepodMerch at handsomepod.comWatch Handsome on YouTube and HuluThis is a Headgum podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on Handsome via Gumball.fm.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Handsome pot. Chattin to Friends on the Handsome pot. Cheers. Cheers. Welcome to the handsome pod. I'm one of your handsome hoot. My voice very deep this morning. Yeah, it is. Yeah. I'm married, cowboy. Whoa. I'm joined by Fortune Feinster and Tig Notaro. Yeah, Tiggs back in her booth. I'm in my Colorado booth. Colorado booth. Yeah. I am. I'm in the mountains. And, um, I'm in the mountains. And, um, I went rafting yesterday. Oh, how was that? How was that?

Yeah. How was it? Yeah. It was really fun. It was so beautiful and just floating down the river and saw so many just those kind of crazy nests in trees where, like, big bird probably lives, you know? Whoa. Yeah. I wonder where big bird live.

Bald eagles and just unbelievably. Beautiful. Wow. I think that's, anytime you see a large animal like that in the wild, I think that's very auspicious. I'm still, never mind. Don't check in with me much today. Why?

What's going on? You're out of your mind? What's happening? Are you asleep? What's happening? Very auspicious. I was up really, I couldn't sleep. Aw.

Excited about the recording that you would see me and fortune? Yeah. I was so excited. I can't wait to get on and talk about things with my pals. I was just a hit song. Yeah, that is a good one. I was up like smoking cigarettes and doing work and like feeling very inspired. And now I've ruined my whole day today.

And wait, what kind of work were you up doing while you were smoking cigarettes? I was writing. I was painting and I was organizing. I thought you about said orgasming. I was like, okay. Fortune Marie. I thought that's what they was saying. Fortune Marie.

Sorry, Tigmarie. You know, I probably would have been in bed earlier if I was, but. I don't know. You would have rested, then knocked myself out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So do cigarettes kind of get your creative juices blowing?

No, and I have so much shame about it. I think it's more when I'm anxious. and I and I and yeah or stimulated and and so I yeah I was I don't know I couldn't sleep anyway that's all right take a little nap later today oh yeah I will go to bed right after this podcast yeah I don't when I used to smoke I feel like it um I would always well like if I was playing guitar you know I was 19 in my first apartment and just up all night smoking and I know but I'm 40 yeah Like what am I doing? You know what I mean?

But I was just curious if it made you feel creative because I felt like when I would smoke. And I don't know if I was just like recreating what I thought was a cool vibe of, you know, playing guitar and smoking. But I felt like it inspired me, you know. Like, oh, I got to have black coffee and a cigarette and get my guitar out. What was that that you just showed? It looked like burnt toast. Yeah, a slice of burnt toast. I was the same in my teens, but now I, I guess I still have that habit.

But I don't think I'm like putting it on a pedestal or thinking it's cool. It's more like I'm like, I want to go to bed, but I've got stuff to do. And then I, you know, I've been, I, the, you know, remember the fires. Of course we remember the fires. Of course. We've been following this closely. Yeah. We're worried about you.

We're following the fires and your star meter, right? Star Meter and May's house, then whether or not is still on the hill. Thomas, in fact, can you check in and see where May's Star Meter is? I should just have on my wall like a big counter, a big like, you know, and I can change the numbers. Hitting number one is pretty difficult. But not just that. Fortune May stayed there for a long time. But you were the number one star in the world.

In the world, Bay. Yeah, I need you to really take that in. You were the number one. Out of TV and film. You booked Tom Cruise. You bumped Sandy Bullock. You bought them all. Had any of us ever heard of the Star Meter before that?

I'd never heard of the Star Meter. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, because a lot of actors refer to IMDB for a lot of things. So it's kind of a, you're always like looking up. who directors are, who people are that you're working with. And that's like the biggest place to see like people's, um, resume as far as acting or directing writing.

During that time, I should have been getting phone call. Well, that's why we're bringing it up again, okay, because this is, this is a big deal. And also, can you imagine Fortune if you had just signed on to a project or you were meeting? You didn't know May yet. And you're like, oh, I'm meeting with this person, May Martin. And then you go on IMTV.

It's like, oh my God, I'm meeting with the number one star of TV and film in the whole world. Thomas, where is May landing? As of today, May is number 355. That's still massive. I don't really understand how it works is in March. In March, I was 85. And now I'm 4,000. Well, you've been slacking off.

Fortune? I really don't understand how it works. Wait until the hawk comes out. I think I cracked the mystery, which is just that the wayward was number one for a moment. And people were Googling to find out what gender I am. I think that's it. It was number one in Saudi Arabia. It was people just going, what is this?

But I didn't have anything happen in March. Wait, I didn't know you could look back and see other months. I've just seen it when I... You can go back five years. Five years. Where was May five years ago? I'd like to see the chart, like the chart. Yeah, when you go to your page, you just click on Star Meter and it shows you the line graph.

Guys, I just realized we're just about to boost both of your profiles quite a bit. And we need to make sure we have a regular check-in with Mays. Star Meter. Actually, that's really good. If we mobilize any listeners of this podcast, just to just go on IMDB and check out all three of us. But do you think it's, the Star Meter

is like people Googling us? Is that what it is? I don't really understand it. I think it's people visiting our IMDB pages. Press hits and searching. I don't really know. I don't. Thomas, do you know how may? People looking at our IMDB pages.

Trying to find out our genders. Yeah. Seriously. They're confused about all three of us. Like that's not me being humble. That is the only explanation that I can think of because there is no way. Who are these three? What are these genders?

What are I looking at? Yeah. And is there a project in May Martin's history where the gender is clearer? Still no. Still no. Oh my God. Gender. Gender alert.

I got off IMDB and got on gender alert. Gender. These people are like, we got to get to the bottom of this. So you went rafting. Oh, yes. I went rafting. I'm here. I've been here in, in Aspen, you know, with my dear, dear love.

Tony. Tony. Tony. Who you send me a picture of and has just the kindest face? Yes, because it's true. It's true. We love a kind face. Yes, he's got it.

But yeah, he went on a raft full of lesbians. He was like, this is my sweet spot. Were these lesbians you knew? Two of them, the actress Beth Malone, who I told you, I think I mentioned she was a star of Fun Helm on Broadway. Yep, that's right. She's a real talent and her wife, Shelly, and their gaggle of pals. Fortune loves a gaggle of gals.

I love a gaggle of gals. It's more than really my favorite. Yeah. Well, this was a gaggle. And they were no joke rafters. Well, really? They're on the river every day. Oh, my God.

That's a hardcore lesbian right there. I mean, seriously. And you gotta bring up the slack in the back. That was truly it. Yeah. That was really it. Did you ever see that movie with Meryl Streep and she's a whitewater rafter? The River Wild.

The River Wild with Kevin Bacon is the bad guy. And he's so hot in that movie and she's doing a lot of paddle, paddle. Yeah. Yeah. And speaking of hot, I mean, he has aged well that Mr. Bacon. Yeah, he's like, he should be. number one on star meter he should be number one all the time nobody deserves it more than you may okay we're not i you know what i have the most star power of any should we should we transition

this podcast into i mdb star meter star meter star meter talk star meter watch yeah star meter watch good morning the day is thursday june june and And checking in today on the star meter, we've got a spike. And then everyone's like, what is this? What is this number one star on our podcast? Yes. Everyone listening is like, what is the star meter? Wait, actually, Thomas, who is number one?

Who is number one right now? Yeah. Should we guess? I took my spot. Let's guess. I think it's, it should be Kevin Bacon. I think it's, I think it's like what's in the zeitgeist right now. It's what I think it is.

But how much of a heart attack and stroke could we all have if I was the number one on Star-Media? I'm going to say one of the off-campus. I'd be screaming. I'm going to say one of those off-campus stars. I'm going to go with Belmont somebody. His name's Belmont. I'm going to go with Hudson Williams from a heated rivalry. Okay.

Thomas, do you know? It's Indie Navarette from Obsession. Who? Obsession. Oh, that's the movie. Obsession. I want to see that. But I don't know.

No, Indie Everett. Yeah, well, that's the number one star in the world. I think the number, the number ones like break, like breakout people. It's the people who people are saying, huh? Is it? But not like, but not like, huh? It's like a lot of people have watched them do something. And it's in the Zygai guys.

And they're like, you know, their star has exploded. Okay, but it's also what is their gender? Yeah. that's our other What is their gender? What is their gender? What is their gender? Yeah, what is their gender?

We even take objects. We even, we'll have a whole episode. What is its gender? This can. It's just a bunch of men trying to get to the bottom of it. We've got to figure this out. I won't sleep until I know. But I've been talking.

talking about that on stage when Max and Finn were five. I was writing a bedtime story and Finn interrupted me mid-story, just a children's bedtime story, could not focus on it because he had to ask me when he was five, Mayor, are you a boy or a girl? And then I talk about how funny it is to me that, you know, he was saying to Max, like, I'm going to ask you. I got to get to the bottom of this. mystery. Like I have to know what I'm looking at.

It will not. Because I cannot concentrate on this simple bedtime story. Yeah. Really good. But yeah, I would, I'm up for what's your gender. What's your gender is this? Yeah. It's the gender reveal show. That's what it is. It's a gender reveal show. Well, we're on to something, y'all.

Yes, we are. What may? I was going to check in with Fortune. Oh, let's check in with Fortune, yeah. Okay. Oh, thank you guys for asking. I'm doing pretty good. I'm finally getting my house in order. I have furniture now.

Because you've been standing for the past few months, right? I've been standing except for this desk. I've ordered the last of it, like artwork and rugs. The last thing I have left are lamps. There's one behind you. This one probably won't stay because it's, it doesn't quite go with anything. It's just a fun yellow lamp. It's pretty yellow, but it looks like that thing, that drawing where you can see two faces in it, you know?

Yeah. I was during one of my phases where I thought big pops of color were where it was at. I love that phase of yours. My gay designers are just like. Big pops of color. My gay men designers are just like, no. This is not state. And I'm just like, okay.

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or, like, there's a cool thing they gave me at Celebrity Will of Fortune with my name on it. You know, like, little fun, fun things that someone drew a, had an artist do a really cool painting of Biggie. Things like that. Yeah. And then they gave me as my rap gift, our special effects guy on the Hawk, gave me these really amazing blown up black and white photos. Oh, I love that.

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And I'm a butt. My butt's doing good. What? What? I can't believe we'd forgotten to ask about your butt hole. My butt's good. I didn't forget. I was not going to ask because I don't need to know.

For those of you who didn't listen to last episode, I got a colonoscopy. My friend Natalie Mainz from the chicks picked me up from my colonoscopy. I'm going to mute you. And people told me, why didn't she sing wide open spaces? And I was like, that's a good one. And now, update, she's texted me and was like, I now need you to pick me up in August for something. And I'm like, I got you, girl. I like that.

That's, we're in front of your friendship. pick each other up from appointments. That's really nice. That's where you know you're aging. Yeah. Can you pick me up from my doctor's appointment? From my colonoscopy. That's where we're at.

We're picking each other up from doctor's appointments. This is wild. I want to know when your bright pops of color phase was. Yeah, me too. Good question. Thank you so much. It was pre-marriage. Oh.

I had just gotten my first house. And that was okayed by Jacks. No, I wasn't with her then. I know, but you carried it into the marriage and she approved it? No, she did not approve it. She's not a color gal. She's blacks and whites and grays. This lived in my office.

That was the one space where I could live like a college student. So we're saying that special where you had the pink suit, that wasn't during the Popsicolor phase? No. No, that was. That is a good question, May. You're right on in that assessment. It was not during my Pops of Color decor phase, but it clearly was a Pops of Color wardrobe phase. Are you still in that right now?

No, I think for my next special, I'm going to go back to regular, like, bomber jacket, pants. Yeah, or no pants. Bomber jacket, no pants. I don't think I'm going to go back to that. I don't think I'm going to go as bold. I think you do it for one and then you switch it up, you know? Sure. That makes sense.

We're waiting for the gown special. Can you imagine if I, I don't think I would be comfortable. My entire set would be me tugging at... At what? Tugging at what? Tugging at my name. Tugging it. Tugging it.

Tugging it. But I think I go through phases where I'm into pops of color. And right now everything in my house, there's not many pops of color. I never thought I would hear the phrase pops of color so many times today. I didn't anticipate it and I love it. It surprised me too. Yeah. That's what I have to contribute to the design of my house. These gay guys will be very like dialed in.

And then I go, what about a pop of color? And they ignore me. You can do a pop of color in your kitchen with lemons and oranges in a bowl. You're right. I do currently have a pop of color in my kitchen with a red kitchenade mixer. Oh, that'll do it. But here's how easily I'm in front. influenced by these gay guys.

Is that what they asked to be called? Yeah. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. It's my endearing. Yeah. Okay. These gay guys came over.

My gay. Every time I see him, I go, hear my gaggle of gay men to help me. My non-binary designers came over today. My non-binarys came over. My bisexual gardener was here today. I have a bar cart in my den because I love a bar cart. And they somehow convince me the gays, somehow convince me to buy a framed picture of Roger Moore,

the original bond, smoking a cigarette and drinking a drink. Because they were like obsessed with this picture. And I'm like, but does this weird that like me as a lesbian has Roger Moore? and I got them away from it and then they came back to it and now I have bought this photo and I'm like so now I'm going to have Roger Moore

drink cigarette with a drink and people what I love about it is that anyone that knows me is going to come into my house and be like why do you have this and I'm just going to be like the gays you know you need to change that out

with picture, a framed picture of Dudleymore. Yeah. Yeah. They did try to even it out with a very large picture in like literally the main part of the wall. It's a long framed photo of, it's a vintage photo of like six women from like the 60s in those vintage bathing suits with long, long surfboards. So that was their way of being like, here's the lesbian part.

Is that the lesbian part? Is any of this representative of your personality? No, but it's going to look cool, me. I say take all that garbage out and put your flash of color light lamp in there. No, I do have some pops of color in there. When y'all come over, you're going to see that there are parts. I have an idea for a gift for you. The end of July.

Or you're not going to be in town today. I'm not home until early September. God. Why are you doing this? Fortune, I don't want to fight on the show in front of everybody. Why are you leaving for so long? Jesus. I got things to do.

I got movies to film. I got jokes to tell. I got mountains to climb. Oh, I'm every mountain. Well, at some point, well, May will come over whenever May wants to. No, May's not going over there. May's going to come over here. Fortune, you quiet.

I think I'm going to have my mom. mom come visit at the end of July. Oh, I'll come when Ginger's there. Yeah. I'll have people over. I'm going to, this is what I want to get you. It's a big frame, but you remember that ad we do for aura photo frames where you digitally, so it's going to be like a big giant digital frame and it's live updated of whoever's number one on Star Meter. And it in every day. Tony's locked out. Tony, not Tony locked out. Tony's locked out

Knock three times on the ceiling If you won't be Twit's on the pipes Means you ain't gonna show My dad, Ch, ch, ch, means you'll meet me in the hallway Fats on the pipes

That was just a really good It's Tony Orlando, isn't it? If you were gonna have a little summation of our sort of comedic personas. It was that. It was TIG getting back on Fortune Midsong, and take just a little facial expression of what the, what is it?

What did I miss? What did I miss? And they're just giggling your shit. Giddly, giggling. I think it's Tony Orlando who sings that song. Your friend thinks Tony, and he knocked on your door. There's a lot of tyons here.

Come in a knock on my door. Come on back of my door. We've been waiting for you. Three, company, two. Oh, you guys. I'm going to get my mom out here and get her in her bikini. Poor train. Did she have a bikini?

That heck is going on between you, too. No. I can't wait to get my mom out here in her bikini. Get her in the tits out. Get her in the tits-out hot tub. You need to get a frame picture of her in your bar. I know. And that's the lesbian.

Yeah, that would be a good surprise for her too if she showed up. She would love it. Yeah. She would love a picture of herself or her or just the name, Ginger. She loves her name in places. I'm trying to do, I'm trying to not to bring it down. But I guess I am. Her last scan was not good.

Oh, I'm sorry. And there's more cancer. So I'm just trying to schedule some fun things together. Yeah. I'm sorry, fortune. It's all right. And you're going to get her out to L.A. as much as possible. Yeah, well, I mean, it won't be like all the time.

She just hasn't been here. And she wants to see my pops of color. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm going to go there this summer. a bit and she'll come here and we'll just do it up. Yep.

We're sending a lot of love. Yes, indeed. Yeah, make some special fun plans. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Well. Anyway.

Why did I do that? Why did I do that? Well, because it's part of life. Yeah. It's a, things pop in and they're not always just bright. pretty colors. Yeah. Life pups.

Life pops. Yeah. How is Ginger doing? Yeah. How was she after that skin? Yeah. I think it kind of took the wind out of herself a little bit. Yeah.

Yeah. It's weird because, um, why I brought this up. It's so stupid. It's not stupid. No, it's not. I was literally talking about. butt holes. Oh my God.

What's wrong with me? Singing one second. And I'm like, my mom's cancer's growing. Oh my God. I'm so insane. But that's what it's like. That is. Yeah. That's the reality is.

Oh, it's weird because she's lost like so much weight. She's lost like 100 pounds. So on her outside, she's, has never looked better and never looked healthier. So it was a real mind fuck. Right. Because we just got back from Europe a couple weeks ago. And she's walking better than she ever has.

She's like full of spunk because she's not on chemo. Like she has all this energy. Yeah. And so we just kind of got this like, I think false sense of like, she is kicking ass. Not that she's not kicking ass. Yeah. But we were just like, and we knew that it wasn't going away. But we just were like, okay, she's really keeping this at bay.

And we're just going to ride that wave for a long-ass time. And she got this MRI and the cancer had grown. And it's still in the bile dutch, which is positive. That's good. It hasn't spread. No, but just I think it really made us be like, fuck, this is an, It's a very aggressive cancer that it's just grown so significantly. Right.

And so he called in. He wants to do another surgery where he's going to put more radiation in there. And so, you know, we'll see. It's just a reminder of that this is not going away. And we've just got to make the most of our time and here. And hopefully it's a long time. I don't want her to listen to this and get in to think I'm like, oh, she's going to be gone tomorrow. That's not what I'm saying, but it just was like...

Well, no, it's emotional. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not about that. It's just, yeah, riding that. The roller coaster, yeah. Yeah.

But you like the doctor sounds good and on it and... Yeah, I mean, because originally they were like, we'll give you your scans in a month. And then he saw it and called... He was so urgent that he called my mom. When my mom didn't answer, he called my brother. And he's like, we have to get on this. like immediately.

And when are you, when is that being scheduled for? I think they have to prove it through insurance first and then hopefully that happens soon. That's why he was urgent with it. And then the surgery would probably be in July, early July, mid-July, something like that.

So, you know, that's, her body, she's 80, so she cannot do chemo all the time. Right. Even though she wants it, she's like, I just want to, I want to fight this cancer. Yeah.

I'm glad you're going to spend a chunk of time out there. Yeah. So, you know, it's just, I think she was really bummed out. You could hear it in her voice. Yeah. But she's pretty good at second it up and just being like, all right, let's figure out if there's anything we can do. Yeah.

One foot in front of the other. Yeah. Processing and. Anyway, how's the old buck? holes. Yeah. Well, that is, that's,

it's rough, but it's like there's no way to ride a roller coaster and not have different emotions as you go. Yeah. Unless you're a robot. It's like a maintenance thing. You'll go through this next hurdle

and then yeah i mean hopefully we'll see it just was kind of jarring to see how quickly yeah it just yeah appears and you're like good lord this is yeah yeah very aggressive yeah um so you know i'll try and think of some of some sort of weird nice things you could do for not weird but like weird surprises or something to do for her okay well we've got tips I saw a hot tub on the list right now. Well, bikini, first of all, don't forget. Bikini, tits off a hot tub. Professional photographer taking a picture.

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Well, I'll put that on my list. Okay. Thomas put that on Fortune's list. Well, thanks for a little moment. Anytime, sunshine. Yeah. Yeah, we want to ask. Yeah.

Thank you. Bye. Sharing it. Bye, Tony. Should I sing the song? for Tony. Knock three times on the ceiling if you won't. No, he can't hear you.

So we can just move on from that. What should we get to our question? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Let's cleanse this palette. Bye. Bye, Tony. Of you go.

Tony. On a bus back to Denver. I keep laughing about, well, I ate my lunch in a hole, I dug. I told Parvity about, I've told every, I know about that. That is so funny. I told Tony about it this morning over coffee and he had

a real cackle. He's just like, that is so classic Max. It's just so his personality perfectly. Yes, let's get to our question. I'm thrilled about today's question.

I've never met this man, but we're Instagram buddies and DM and there's a certain like camaraderie between. between all Canadians, I think. Today's question asker is the smoothest, handsomest, five-time Grammy-winning

Canadian singer and songwriter who has sold over 75 million records. Michael Boubley is asking today's question. Woo! Yeah, nice. Hey, handsome pod. It's Michael Boobled hiding in my laundry slash liquor cabinet thing room

so my kids don't ruin this. My question is, what is the most charitable and selfless thing that you have ever done? I've done so many. So many. What's the most selfless, charitable thing that you've done that no one will ever or has never heard about? Because you just did it because it was in your heart to do it and you really didn't want anyone to know. Can you tell us?

Thanks. Oh, finally we get a platform to tell you. Toot our own horns. All of our charitable actions. I'm like, hopefully one day someone will ask about this. Yeah. I mean, I was saying before we logged on, this could be the most insufferable. Even his speaking voice is so smooth.

I was just going to say. In tune. Can you do a Michael Bubla impersonation? Okay. And I'm feeling good. Oh, the answer is no. That was quick. My voice is deep enough to try it today.

I want to go home. What's that song? What about? Another song than some. Another something some. And time by and ma. And I want to go home. Did that, was that better take?

Let me go home. Okay, I googled some lyrics. Okay. You're a fallen star. You're a getaway car. You're the line in the sand when I go too far. Thank God you have that deep voice this morning. Yeah, good thing you're up smoking all night.

I'm kind of smoky rats. To be clear, I think I had three cigarettes. It wasn't crazy. To be queer. To be queer. We can hear it. Cigawatts. But I like the.

I'm feeling good. That's a sexy song. I mean, let's hope he didn't listen to this. Let's hope he did. We're in the business of singing with people on stage. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Put me in, coach. Give me this.

Give me this opportunity. Give me booblet. Give me booblet. Well, the tricky part of his question is something nice that you've done that you haven't told anybody about because that's rare for me. Like, you know, you're doing something nice. You want to. Yes, all the goodness.

God, I haven't done anything nice for anyone. This is tough. Yeah. This is, might be the hardest question we've ever been asked because now I have to think of something nice. Charitable thing that we've done. Charitable thing that we've ever done. I let Tony take a bus up from Denver to hang out with me.

That was pretty charitable to. Yeah, yeah. You let him stay in your apartment. Hotel. My hotel. Your hodle that had an extra room. And you didn't charge him. That was nice.

Or did you? Did you charge him? A little bit. What's the most charitable thing anyone's ever done for you? It's coming into my driveway, y'all. someone is doing something charitable for me currently because someone's in my driveway and I feel like they're about to drop something off. If it's a bomb, that's not.

Y'all. What? Girl. I'm getting someone's, I think it's my radio show just delivered me cupcakes. Why? Why? Just repeating you? Just repeat my, because it's my birthday.

It's not your birthday? Not today, but in a couple days. it's my birthday. And I'm going to be out of town for my birthday. So it looks like they just dropped off cupcakes. I thought they just deliver you morning cupcakes every day just to get you 500 pounds. That would be bigger than I am now.

Anyway, that was very nice of them. What kind of cupcakes do you like just for future reference? I like red velvet. I like chocolate with peanut butter. I like carrot. I like chocolate with. even darker chocolate little chunks in the chocolate. Oh, that sounds good.

I like a chocolate cake, cupcake with vanilla ice cream, like white, icing, icing. Wait, is this what Michael asked us? Yeah, no, okay. Most charity thing we've ever done. I mean, I always try to do nice things for people. Like, it's so weird to be like,

I did this and this, but like, yeah, like I do big charity things. But then I talk about it incessantly, like the book of animals. paintings. I did Doctors Without Borders, but, you know, I've, that's really nice. Now, can charitable be just like... Interpersonal? Just, yeah, helping a friend out. Like, I'm going to pick up Natalie from her butthole.

Doctor's appointment. I can think of in my teens, so many people that were charitable with me. Like, I had a friend, well, it was my, my girlfriend at the time, and I was living in her parents' basement. And then I think they wanted me. out. And so they paid my first and last month rent on a place. That was really nice. Because they wanted you out. I think they were like, get out of here. We've had it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. A lot of my teachers were very charitable with me with their time and energy. Yeah. Which I was always very appreciative of. They spent extra time with me when they could see, like, if things were hard at home, they would spend

extra time in the morning just checking on me. I had, you know, if I, I was not great with math, so, like, teachers would take extra time to, like, go over that with me. You see like you're good at math now. You're crunched numbers, especially. I can crunch numbers, but it's like more of the, like, algebra and geometry of it all, like that bullshit that you only need if you're, like, an architect. Yeah.

Which we're not. So, you know, and I, you know, I, you know, I, you know, I, People were charitable with me when it really, I really needed it. Like, growing up, we didn't have much money in the recreation apartment, like, got me like a scholarship to a tennis summer camp, you know, like, things like that made a big difference. Did you wear a tennis skirt? I did not. I wore shorts, but I had to wear a skirt in college.

Ugh. Was it an ugh about college? No about the tennis skirt. So I've always tried to, like, do that kind of stuff. stuff in return, like help people out if they need, you know, especially in comedy, like, with openers, like you try to give them people opportunities. If they're like a good person and they're funny and they work hard, I really, um, you know, try to do things for them in that way as far as like bringing them on the road or introducing them to people. Like I like to think of like, oh, this person's

funny. He'd be good on this show. And if he's on that show, that'll be good exposure for him for this. I try to be charitable in that way in the careers. I don't have my own show or anything like that, so I can't just employ people, but I'm always trying to put people with other people to network for them. How come you have done that for me? You don't need a much. Never let TIG open for you.

TIG does not need it, and May's number one star meter. You guys are good. May is the number one star in the world. My biggest charity case is my mother. I'm always buying my parents. I'm always buying stuff for my parents. Well, they deserve it.

I know. Yeah, yeah. I try to be generous in general. I've worked in an orphanage. So hard for us. Well, it's because there's charity stuff, but then it's like a charitable act. Yeah. Well, there's, I've been trying to.

I met this older couple. when I was on tour, I probably, maybe I talked about them who were, they were security guards at one of my shows. And then I met them, I saw them in the parking lot after late at night. It was like midnight. And they were going through the garbage. They were collecting cans. And so then they can't, well, the guy came over and they were in their 60s. And he said, I'm embarrassed. You saw me collecting cans. But like we've been working since 7 a.m. On other jobs. Then we took the job to do security at your show. we're going to trade these cans because my wife has cancer and we we are broke and we she's

beating the cancer but it's like medical bills and then um so they and then I met the wife and they really stayed with me and these two because they were borderline living in their van you know and then I got all their details and now I can't because they're not getting back to me and I want to be charitable and I'm like trying to find that like I've been emailing and being like. Maybe tell them you're the number one star in the world. Yeah, I want to, yeah, I just want them to know that. Yeah. No, but I really want to like set up a go-fund me or just help out with some cash, but I don't

know how you find people, or maybe they're like, fuck off. I don't know. You never know. Yeah. TIG? Well, you know, it's interesting because years ago, when Hurricane, you know, when Hurricane Katrina happened and it leveled my hometown in Mississippi and, you know, of course, was so destructive in New Orleans and so many other places. But I have a lot of family and friends out there and I just,

I thought, well, this is the first time I learned the power of connection through social media because I wasn't on social media and this woman I was dating put it on her social media that I was going to rent trucks to bring food and clothing and diapers and stuff to drive that out there. And people were showing up with cash

and for two days like around the clock people were in my front yard and house like folding clothes and packing things And I remember it was such an interesting moment because I was personalizing it, thinking like, God, this is so nice that people are helping me in my town and that area of the country I came from. And then it was like, oh, right, this has nothing to do with me. Right.

Me organizing this doesn't have anything to do with me. And people donating, because people, I think, just instinctually want to be helpful. And then you become this vessel to create action and help. And then once I had that real understanding of like, this is, this is this, I am, I am not in this equation. This is truly, you're setting up a way for people to be involved and to help. And it just, it was a really big learning curve for me.

That's nice. As embarrassing as it is to admit that I was initially thinking like, God, this is so nice for helping me out because of my town. And I'm like, it doesn't have a thing to do with me. You know? Yeah. Well, that is the one nice thing about having some sort of platform is like sometimes you don't exactly know how to help.

but you are sort of able to get information out to people better than others. So, like when the hurricane happened in Western North Carolina, like, you feel helpless. Like, I can't go there and do anything, but like I can post about donate to here, here. This is a good charity. This is legit. And then people start writing you and be like, you know, can you post about this? And so being the person that like sort of just gets, because like you said, people,

want to help in these crises. Yeah, you become the vessel. Yeah, they don't know where to, where to put their money or what to do. And so if there's someone facilitating that, it's really helpful. Yeah. Yeah, I'll also say so many of these charities, what they, what is so helpful to them, it's like regular monthly donations, even if it's small, because it allows them to budget and plan and change the services they offer and stuff and see where they're coming out short. So even like five bucks a month for, yeah, especially non-government funded charities. That's so jason. Something that my, in my 20s, so I would highly recommend this to any young people out there

who, for a multitude of reasons, want to help and also like bring people together like in a kind of communal way. When I was in my 20s, I lived with two roommates and none of us had much money, but we would, we had a yard so we would throw these backyard barbecues like once every like six months and we would make it a potluck where like we just bought like hamburgers and hot dogs and everybody would bring everything else and I was a journalist at the time and so I would get a lot of random things and like gift bags or like DVDs or whatever so I would accumulate all these random and it some of it was like the dumbest stuff that like you would throw away or not want but

like it's funny so I'd accumulate all this stuff. And because we lived in LA, we knew all these different talented performers and like a magician, singers, improv artist, actual artists. And at every barbecue, we would have like three or four groups of people perform one of their talents. And we would have this raffle for these dumb presents. And we would pick a random charity. And we never raised a ton of money. but a couple hundred bucks because everybody our age

just didn't have much money but we would raise like 500 bucks or something and donate it to a local charity and people had the best time in the process. We had people like meet their future partners that got married, meet people that connected at work stuff.

We just brought all these random people together that we all knew and the process raised money in a little way. It's great. Such a good way to build a community too, a little block party. It's one of my favorite memories from my 20s. So if anyone's ever looking to just sort of, you know, branch out in your area, that was a really cool way to do it.

Nice. Yeah. Well, aren't we good? You guys were so good. We're such good people. Our karma is vast in all the good ways. I mean, it's like the stories we could tell of the good we have done. I mean, luckily, you know, I think everybody, you know, hopefully finds their own way to give back in whatever way they can.

I mean, that's not always financial. Yeah, sometimes people think it has to be this huge, huge act of giving or kind of. just the tiniest thing. People also really need volunteers, like food on foot. And also with midterms coming up, like boots on the ground, people knocking on doors for small grassroots campaigns. Yeah, I thought you meant midterm exams for a second. Yeah, God, his midterms are coming up. I got to get the boots on the ground. Boots on the ground. But if we're in financial terms, big shout out from this podcast to McKinsey Scott because this art. article just came out that of last year of the $19 billion that was donated,

donated by big, the big money people, she was a third of it. Who's McKenzie Scott? The ex-wife. Oh, no way. And she just said, fuck it. She got a lot of money in their divorce and she is giving it in boatloads to various charities, but like really amazing, like to women's health, to historic black colleges, to like, she's one of those billionaires that's understanding she doesn't need all of that money.

And she's, I mean, Elon must just became a trillionaire, right? I mean, it's sickitating. It's absolutely like just nauseating. She is doing incredible stuff. It's so it's so amazing to see someone with that power and money doing it. And not flashy about it. I don't know, yeah. Yeah, she's just, it's wild.

So we need more that. We need more that spirit. It's wild what people can or could do and what people aren't and don't. Well, she's putting all them rich people to shame. She's doing incredible stuff. So shout out to her. And shout out to anybody else who's doing cool stuff for other people. Keep it up.

Should we hear what incredible stuff Michael's doing? Yeah. Let's hear it. My head on the back. I didn't realize I had to answer my question. I would have asked a way simpler question if I had to answer my question. Something like, how do you wash your bum? Anyway, so my answer to my question is I think the most selfless, maybe charitable thing that I've done

never told anybody was that I bring my kids to a toy store a lot. And we buy toys so that we can donate to the children's hospital. off. But my kids are still little, so they don't understand why we're buying toys, but none of them are for them. They're for the other kids. And even though, I mean, they're beautiful, but they, yeah, they're very disappointed in me for many of us. And I feel like that's a pretty selfless thing. Can I say that I had sent Thomas the question video that Michael had sent me, and then Thomas said, hey can you send the answer video and I'd forgotten so I quickly sent and I sent it to a different Thomas friend of mine my friend Tom Aaron just and he got this video of Michael Bubla being like

anyway guys this is what I did and he really his his response like he tried to roll with it as though he thought I sent it to him because I thought he'd enjoy it he's like wow this is great anyway so cool he's like so cool that he goes to uh toys right and I was like oh this is not for you thinks you're just like, look at what Michael Boobway did. Check out Boobbs. Like Canadian giving spirits. Yeah. I love it.

But that is great to teach that lesson to his kids at a young age too. Yeah. For sure. My brother's really good about that. They're always like his wife will have them go through their room, especially when they're little, go through toys and be like, we're going to donate this amount to charities. Yeah.

You know, anytime they got something, knew they would donate other things. I felt that was a good, a good foundation to start at a young age. When you were a kid, did you ever collect pennies? And then do you remember putting them in those little rolls to donate? Still do it. Do you? No way. I haven't seen it for any in years. He may stop making of them now. They did just mint the last penny. That was a thing. They minted the last penny. That's heartbreaking, actually. Yeah. Yeah. So now places have to like round up or down. Mm-hmm. Outrageous. Outrageous. What does this world come to? God. We were so generous giving away our pennies all those years ago.

And I'm feeling good. Birds flying high. Oh, that's a good. Oh, yeah, that's good. Son in the sky. You know how I feel, don't you know. It's a new day. Oh, wait, that is the same song. I was like, that's a great song. song too. Oh, you guys, what a podcast. I just need you to know that I'm saving for a future episode, a car incident that happened to me. I'm saving it for next time.

Okay, you're going to save it for the next one. Tune in. Don't forget it, make, because we're going to be on the edge of our seats. Tune in either next week or another week. Yeah, that would be funny if at the end of each episode we can. of a teaser. I promise you next week we're going to talk about this car incident. Next week we reveal Mays Star meter.

That's at the end of every episode. I have some tour dates if anybody cares. Yeah, we do. We care. Okay, well, I'm going to be in Rochester, New York. I am going to be in Calgary. I'll be in Iowa City, Des Moines, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Charleston, West Virginia, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Olympia, Washington, Fresno, and Napa.

And more dates are coming and bigger markets also will be added down the road. Go to tignotaro.com for all of the information that you possibly need. Yeah. Starting August 6th, I picked my tour back up again in West Hampton Beach, New York. Then the Foxwood Casino in Connecticut, Red Bank, New Jersey, Halifax, Canada, Provincetown, Mass, Greenville, South Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina. That's all in August. And then there's tons more like Boise, Portland, Oregon, Austin, Chattanooga, Dayton, Louisville,

and Madison, Durham, Oakland, Bakersfield, L.A., Palm Springs, Nashville, and then filming my special in Denver, which they have been, Denver's been crushing it with this. I'm so excited. I think we're going to end up doing three shows. Maybe Tony will show up. Tony, get on that. I'll tell you. Malcolmador.

I have in the next few days, I have warm-up shows for my special taping in Toronto at Buddies and Bad Times Theater on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. And then on the 26th, I'm taping in Montreal doing two shows. I hope they're sold out by now when this comes out. But if they haven't, please come there.

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