Handsome - Rachel Dratch asks about hometowns

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

Rachel Dratch is one of our favorites, and we're so excited for her to ask about handsome hometowns on this week's episode! Plus Mae gets tased, we sing "Down By The Shoreline," the Wainwright reality show, and more!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.

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Oh, that's me. Tig Notaro. And Fortune Veimster. Tig, you're lit in the sort of dappled evening sunlight. Yes, I am. I'm in my apartment in Toronto, and I have kind of limited options of where I can sit and record.

And so this is what happens, especially after three o'clock in the afternoon, then I get sunlight on my face. That's good. Because you don't want to film in front of your ponties. In front of my ponties, what do you mean? Like are they probably just strewn about? Just out of frame, everywhere is covered with ponties.

Yeah, I mean, would you imagine that my apartment's a mess? No, I imagine you're very tidy. No, just a lot of haunties. I'm pretty tidy. I'm pretty tidy. Just like your whiteys's, tidy whitey's. I do have a few pile up areas in my life and in my house and stuff where I'm like, I got to get through this.

Yeah. Stephanie's on a major minimalist tear. Oh really? She's just like donating things and throwing things away. I mean, she is just like went through her books, was like so attached to them. And then now she's like, do I need all of my books? Am I gonna go back and read these?

Am I gonna, you know, so she's at a bit of a fork in the road right now. Oh my God. But this is, I'm really enjoying this new side of her where she's just on this tear. I'm excited for the phase where she's running around to charity shops trying to get her stuff back. Oops.

I missed that book. And then it's in May's bookshelf. What about the two of you? Are you tidy or are you? I'm a mess, man. But I'm not dirty. I don't leave plates and food around, but clothes everywhere. Because I'm filming and then I run back home

and I sleep for five hours and go film again. So I just throw stuff around. You too, Fortune? I'm not like messy messy. I'm not as clean as like Jax, but I'll have like a little bit of stuff start to pile up and then I'm like, okay, I gotta get everything in its place.

So I'm not crazy, but I'm also not the one scrubbing things down. I got a lot of weights around right now. I keep like impulsively buying bigger and bigger weights that I can't lift yet. And these poor Amazon delivery guys are like lugging these weights to my house. And then I don't know what I'm going to do when I have to leave Toronto. I'm just going to, I don't know, donate the weights, I guess. Well, you could bring them home in a suitcase as long as they're not over 50 pounds, right?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. What are you buying? What's the highest amount you have? 50, actually. Oh, 50? Oh, perfect. One suitcase.

Yeah, two 50s, yeah. I've been trying to, all week I've been filming this one fight sequence where do you know the comedian Mark McKinney from Kids in the Hall? Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's I cast him. I used to babysit for him when I was 13. And it's this weird full circle moment where he's we have this vicious fight and he tases me over and over. This is spoilers, but whatever. It was so embarrassing acting like you're being tased when you're not. I had to really. Gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, gg, g a huge challenge. Yeah, for me. And so can you give us a little bit of a look of what you tased without making the noise

would look like? Yes. Okay, because I watched videos online of what people look like. I'm going to tase you right now. Okay, ready? One, two, three. Oh, look at that facial expression. Yeah, I almost shat myself.

Just now? No, like we were doing it all day, just tensing and tensing. Have you ever been tased? No, but did you know in LA at some haunted houses, you sign a release form and they're allowed to tase you? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Just in a spooky way? Yeah.

It sounds like in a real way. In a real way, like there's the- But like to scare you or why are you signing a release to be tased? It's a great question, Teg. Thank you. There's a place called like Horror Hotel or something that's all these escape rooms and at Halloween,

they open all the doors, they turn off all the lights and you go in there and you have to sign a form of whether you can get tased and there's monsters going around and if they catch you, they can tase you. No, why did people pay for this crazy stuff? And you sign a release saying sure, tase me? Well, in LA, I've never done it,

but in LA, yeah, some of these like horror, you know, Halloween events, you can, it must be like a low charge taze or something because that feels so strange. Yeah, it can't be like a hardcore one. Yeah. Because that could be, that could like really F somebody up.

It could F someone right up. I, haunted houses, I'll do them if like my friends are all going and I don't want to be left out, but they scare me. And how often are all of your friends going to a haunted house? They're in the, I mean, Halloween time is around the corner. All this stuff will be appearing right around now.

Do you get yourself a spooky pumpkin latte or? I like that. I like a latte. That's my kind of Halloween. Yeah. I don't do the pumpkin spice as much, but I don't mind a little sip of coffee by a fire pit. Teague, would you like a haunted house?

Like, do you enjoy being jump scares? No, no, absolutely not. And, you know, I scare Stephanie all day long, accidentally in our home. Oh, cause you're quiet And I scare Stephanie all day long, accidentally in our home. Oh, because you're quiet and she's like, the bell's on your feet. Yeah, she's just, you know, and then the, and I don't know if I told you,

but she, well, she feels like I shuffle too quietly on purpose. I don't know if I told you this, but she accused me of, oh, I said that at the live show, is that right? I think you said on one pod that she wanted to put bells on your feet or something like that. I don't know what, but she, did I tell you she's accused me of doing it on purpose?

No, I don't know if I knew that. That's another- Yeah, yeah. She was like, I feel like you have decided to try to scare me. Like this is something you are doing. And I was like, I am a busy 53 year old person. Yeah. I'm not a psychopath walking around trying to scare people in my own home or anywhere. Really?

Yeah. I don't know. I would love to work in a haunted house and be the one scaring, that would be really fun, I think. Well, sure, you're in a haunted house, that's the world. But like just out in life or in your own home, like a grown human being, like, ah! Like I'm not trying to do that to her.

I do like to do that on purpose sometimes. And you do too Fortune? Mm-mm. No you don't? Mm-mm, mm-mm. I'm not a prank gal. I remember at school the big prank was they would put cellophane over the toilet seat.

So then yeah, and then when you pee, well you can imagine. I can, I can imagine. What happens? Fortune, you don't like to do pranks and you don't like pranks done to you. Exactly. I made a new friend the other day and we were talking about pranks. Yeah.

And he said that, so he has a long-term friend and he went over to her house and he wore fake eyelashes. And she was like, what is you look different? He was like, no, what are you talking about? And he gas lit her so hard that she was like almost crying. She was like, your something is different. And he was like, I don't know what's wrong with you. And then finally he was like, she was almost crying. Yeah. And so fortune if I showed up to the live show and I had fake eyelashes on, would you be like?

Well, that's a prank that doesn't look, that's whatever. That's just you doing something to yourself. Well, no, I'd be doing it to other people too. I mean. To get in your head, Fortune. Yeah, but I wouldn't, if you were like, no, I would just like, okay. And so what is? It's not that deep for me.

What's the depth where you're like hard pass weirdo step back? Like if I had been part of like the show punked or something, I would not have enjoyed that. Right, because those used to get extreme. It would be like they would, they would like smash someone's car. Yeah, I'm not into that. Yeah, you're not?

Making you, filming you in your most vulnerable time, making you believe something awful just happened. Yeah. Well, what about when I did that thing where I sang at a party, Adele's song when Adele was at the party. I mean, that's- That would be funny to me. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Have you guys talked about this on a mini-sode or something? On TIG Special, the end of TIG Special. Oh my God, tell it again quickly. Quick yet, TIG quickly. Real quick. Okay. I was at a party that was littered with a lot of celebrities. And throughout the night, there were different singers and musicians getting on stage because

there was a full like, there were instruments, grand piano, microphones, everything on stage. So people could just get up and sing a few songs and then get down, somebody else would get up. The whole night you saw the biggest names of forever. And Adele was at the party and the whole vibe, the whole night, no matter who was singing or playing, everybody was like, here comes Adele. I think Adele's going to perform next. Here she comes. Oh my God. There's Adele. Oh my God. Oh my God. It was truly like a vibe all about Adele. And I'm talking every massive star was there performing. And then she never sang. And so I turned, and it was just a casual night of people getting up and singing. And then I said to Stephanie, I was like, and I mean like Oprah Winfrey was at the,

everybody was there. Oh my God. Okay. And I said, uh, I'll, I said to Stephanie, I was like, I'll go sing. And then, uh, I can't sing. Oh my God. And then I can't sing. And so I got, Pink was there. And I asked Pink, I said, will you go tell the DJ to,

oh, Pink had just sang songs. And when she got down, I said, hey, can you go ask the DJ to play Adele's Hello? Oh my God. And she was like, yeah, because I was like, I'm gonna sing. And she was like, Pink was all excited. And then, so she went over, asked the DJ to play Adele's Hello.

And I sat at the grand piano and I sang along to Adele's Hello, like at the top of my lungs, the best I could. And it was the worst rendition of Adele's hello, like at the top of my lungs, the best I could. And it was the worst rendition of Adele's hello. And so that was, I guess that would be a prank, right? Yeah, that counts. It's funny to me. Did Adele laugh?

Well, that's the thing is it was, I don't know where Adele was in that exact moment because there were a lot of people there, but I'll tell you what, everybody else was there and saw that. She was outside smoking a cigarette, like, what is this madness? I mean, truly. It's way funnier and better that you tried your best.

Like you really belted it out. I really did. I did, like I was in my car by myself, just singing. And I know my voice goes off the rails like crazy. And so I was just like, I'm gonna go for it and I don't care. Fuck, that's so good. Did you look up and see if any like big celebrity

was there watching like? Well, it was like a stage with lighting, you know, it wasn't just somebody's living room. And so, but I did, I have footage of Pink doubled over choking to get into that. As long as Pink enjoyed it, that's all I care about. Yeah, it was really fun. She seems cool. I would like to make Pink laugh.

Yeah, she seems fucking cool. Yeah, she's awesome. Her voice. It's so good. It's awesome. Her voice. It's so good. It's ridiculous. Oh, when she and Kelly Clarkson sang together on Kelly Clarkson's show, they did like a 10 minute medley of Pink songs,

but acoustically. I think I've listened to that a thousand times. I'll have to check that out. It's so good. They just did snippets of like five songs. Did each song like meld into the next one kind of like? No, they would do like one for like two minutes and then stop and then and then do another one.

But like, as you know, Kelly Clarkson's voice is one of my favorites of all time. And then Pink's voice is amazing. And then they're harmonizing together. It was like my brain was exploding. I love a good harmony. Oh, I love a good harmony was exploding. I love a good harmony. Oh, I love a good harmony. Yeah, I love a good harmony. Yeah.

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You know what I love? A brother-sister harmony, like Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright singing One Man Guy, which is their dad's song. You know what I'm talking about, Dirk? Absolutely, I do. about, Dirk? Yes, absolutely I do. Yes, the best.

Absolutely, that whole family is so off the charts. Yeah. So Martha Wainwright is the biggest rock star in the world. I mean, her voice is, and her vibe, her everything. I've seen her live so many times. Whenever she's playing and I'm nearby, I make sure I go. And I learned to kind of, I was like,

I think I gotta go by myself, because I wanna just focus. And I went on a date once, someone I was dating flew to England to visit me, and I took her to the Martha Wainwright concert and then she started feeling nauseous, like food poisoning. And she was like, don't ruin this. I should have taken her home.

She, I stayed and she went back to the hotel. Martha Wainwright was singing, right? I've never seen Martha Wainwright before. You gotta look up Martha Wainwright. Martha Wainwright is just a rock star. That is all I can say about this woman. That's not a bloody motherfucking asshole. No.

Okay. Unreal. Yeah, I don't know this. I don't know this too lighthearted. Everyone drop what you're doing and become the biggest fan of Martha Wainwright. I actually just listened to her audio book. She wrote an autobiography.

It was electric. But I actually, you know how I had my moment with Justin Trudeau where I said, your legacy will be great. I had that moment with Martha Wainwright, a similar thing where she was just playing an intimate show in LA. And I was having to be friends with the guy drumming for her.

And so I was like, this is my inn, and afterwards I'm kind of standing with him having a cigarette outside or something, and she's there, and I think she asked for a cigarette or something, and then I go, you're at the top of your game. I go, I just gotta say you are at the top of your game. She was like, okay. She was like, did she say, what about my legacy?

Yeah. Your legacy will also be great. To blow your mind, I'm friends with Martha Wainwright. Can you tell her I love her? Yes. How funny that you love this person so much and take turns with them. This happens a lot though, Lucy Lawless.

I mean, you guys know people, you know? You know people. And they're random. Yeah, and specific. They're very random. But yes, I'm friends with Lucy Lawless. And Martha Wainwright. Martha Wainwright.

For some reason, it's my niche obsessions too. I know, right? Yeah, yeah. I just love that you started this with, I love a brother-sister duo. I was trying to think of other brother-sister singers. I can't think of a single one. Well, and within the Wainwright family,

there's just numerous brother-sister duos just rounding out. I mean, and there's Sister Lucy. There's more than just the two of them. Oh, I mean Rufus. I know Rufus obviously. They should have like a reality show. Can you imagine? It would be really sort of poetic, I think.

Like it wouldn't be like the Kardashians. It would be like, you know. It wouldn't be like the Kardashians. Someone's having a glass of red wine. You know what's so funny is I just laughed so hard saying, no, it would not be like the Kardashians. I've never seen the Kardashians. What?

I have never seen that show. Are you serious? No, but I can, I mean, yes, I'm serious, but I can gather what the show is. What it would be? Yes. Let me tell you, you're missing out. Yeah, like whatever you think it is,

I will tell you it's better because they are so compelling and very funny and yeah, this is weird. That was like the first, no, there must have been, there was the Osborns. The Osborns were first, yeah. Yeah, but with- What do you mean they were, the Osborns were first? As far as like this trend of families on reality television. Yeah, where like all of America just felt like they knew that family and like you just

you want to keep up with them. I've been asking them about 20 years now on TV or something. Are they still going? Yeah, but now they're on Hulu. There's just so many of them. You don't run out of storylines. Yeah. But I also, I want to go back and clarify just so I'm not lying to anybody.

Martha Wainwright is not a close friend of mine. For sure. For sure. But if you saw each other, you'd go, hey. Yes, I'm close with Rufus and his husband, Yorn. And so I- Another fun name. Yes. Yorn. With Martha, you're like, weorn. And so I- Another fun name. Yes.

Yorn. With Martha, you're like, we're friends, but like- Well, like I see her at Rufus things, and I'm just, I'm very beside myself always. Like, oh my God, that is the biggest rock star alive. I gotta watch her stuff. Really, go look at videos, go buy her stuff, go see her live. Yeah. All of them,

all of those Wainwrights. I mean, it's, it's, how did this turn into the Wainwright show? But they're, they're all freakishly talented. Oh, we talked about this because of brother sisters because the carpenters weren't brother sisters. Yes, they were. They were. There you go. And you got then the Bee Gees. There they? Yes, they were. Oh, there you go. And you got then the Bee Gees. There must be some, I mean brothers, but there must be something in like, when you share DNA, your voice is just meld.

Billie Eilish and Phineas. Oh yeah. True. They're making incredible music together. Incredible. They're really cool to watch behind the scenes, how they create their songs and stuff. He's like such a genius producer.

And then she has this like such a specific vision of what she wants the song to be. It's really cool to see two people and at their age just doing this like prolific songwriting. And then meanwhile, their mom Maggie is like from the Groundlings. Really? Yeah. She comes from the comedy world. And she comes from the comedy world and she taught improv for years. Yeah. That's crazy.

And Phoebe Bridger's mom does stand up too. She does? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. So who knows maybe one day we'll have kids who are amazing musicians. Well, my sons, they started their own little band together.

Yeah. Stop it. Didn't I tell you that Max wrote a new song? No. Oh wait. Yeah, didn't you say there was a song that we couldn't, you didn't wanna play it on the pod, but that he, yeah. Fortune, you're thinking of the song that came up during, you were watching a sports game. Yeah, we were watching a sports game. Right, right, yeah. Oh, you're fortunate. You're thinking of the song that came up during you were watching a sports game.

Yeah, we were. Oh, right, right, right. Max wrote a new song called, what is it? Something about down by the shoreline. Walk with me down by the shoreline. Stop at it. And and a friend of ours asked him if he had heard of Morrissey or the Smiths. And he said no.

And she played Morrissey and the Smiths for him. He went back and revisited his song and sang it just like Morrissey. Oh my God. Just like Morrissey. Please, please, please. Walk with me down by the shoreline, down by the shoreline. Oh my God. Down by the shoreline. I mean, I couldn't believe it.

That's incredible. I could not believe it. It's such a hit song. May, I have to send it to you. Please do. It is such a number one hit song, may I have to send it to you? Please do. It is such a number one hit song. And just so you know, I am still working on the cover of the original. I'm telling you, I've laid down the instrumentals. I just got to do the vocals. It's a work in progress. I

think you're going to jump ahead to Down by the Shoreline. Yeah, you got to get this on iTunes. That. Okay. Yeah, that it's is a true, like his first song, he's written many songs, but the one during the Super Bowl, we don't know how this world works. Yeah. That's his first song. That one was deep. Yeah.

His new one. The sun rises west, the sun goes down east. We don't know how the world works. We don't know how the world began. Beginned. Beginned. Beginned. Yeah. We don't know how the world works. We don't know how the world began. Began. Began. Began. We can't feel the world was the line

that really blew my mind. And now there's just down by the shoreline. It's so good. Okay, we can move on. Y'all are way cooler than me with music. I never listened to Morrissey either. Well, I didn't know Jimmy Buffett, so. I mean, that's true.

I didn't know Joe the button maker. I mean, we're all coming clean here. We're all teaching each other something. Speaking of Joe, just to quickly touch back on, in a previous episode, I mentioned the bear video. I read a poem. I have now watched the bear video. I read a poem. I have now watched the bear video. Did you, and did you make it through all the video?

Wait, what is the bear video? Remember when May was so nervous about watching their driver's video. Yes, yes, yes. To recap, yeah, I had this driver at work. He says, yeah, I got this video of 12 men wrestling a bear in a bar. So anyway, it grew in my head like a weed.

I've become obsessed with like, why is this coming to my life? I'm scared to watch it once I see it. I can't unsee it like I'm at the point where you wrote a giant poem. I wrote a poem poem poem and poem. Poem. I go into my trailer one day and the TV in my trailer is on and just a blue screen and there's like an old VCR plugged into it and Joe has set up for me and he's got the VHS there. It says, Caesar the wrestling bear. Yeah, man. And I'm like, okay, this is the moment. Like I got to watch it

and I watched it. I don't even know really where to start. Like it was incredible. Yeah, I'm worried about the bear for sure, but the bear seemed, it was this 900 pound bear in a bar in 1993. Everyone has a mullet in the bar and they're all- Even the bear? Even the bear shaved except for a mullet. Joe Dirt. And one by one they're getting up to,

and they're very respectful to the bear. They kind of pet it first and then they wrestle it. I'm sorry, if you have a bear in a bar, you've already not been respectful to. Of course, I think the bear was, for anyone listening, listen, I'm with you, like don't have a bear in a bar wrestling people, but they rescued it as a cub from a circus or something. Anyway, it has all its teeth and claws. Like it is a full- Don't worry, we'll get you out of this circus. We'll bring you to a bar. So do you?

We're gonna save you. But I'm like, what was I meant to learn from the bear video? Because what struck me was the bear knew not to hurt people. It was, they were like flies to it. Like it would just swat them with one paw and then pin them on the ground. And then it would start licking them like a puppy.

It was like playing. And meanwhile, they're, yeah. And guy after guy trying their best. And it was pretty incredible. And my question going into it was like, am I the kept bear? Like, am I, is this meant to be showing me? And maybe it is. Maybe I don't know my own power.

You know what I mean? Anyway, so none of us do. None of us know my power. None of us know our own power. I know. And then so afterwards, Joe got another job and just sort of vanishes. It's like he came into my life. He's no longer just to show me this video, you know, as mystical video. But it feels like there was a lot of build up for the bear.

A build a bear, if you will. It did not disappoint. Build a bear, very good. And then it just kind of was like, oh, okay. No, no, no, no, sorry. Then I've told it wrong. Okay. It was not, oh, okay, it was,

this is one of the most insane and incredible things I've ever seen in my life and bizarre and like emotional. And afterwards I said, Joe, I don't know what to say. Like, you know, and he said, oh, so I'm gonna see, isn't it? I said, yeah, it is. Yeah, it is something to see. I will say that since I watched the bear video,

my life fell apart. So I may be cursed by the bear video, but we'll see. Things come apart, they come back together, that life, you know. Yeah, beautiful, rich history. Lot of corners around this life we're living. Some bad things have to happen for good things to happen. Like that one episode you talked about.

Oh, about the farmer and the horses, yeah. Mm-hmm. Big time. But anyway, the bear video, I have closure on the bear video and I'm glad I saw it. And thank you to Joe. Thank you, Joe. Namaste. Namaste. Should we check in and see what our question or who our questioner is? What our question is? Can I introduce it because I'm so excited.

Yes, please. Please. That's not to say we're not excited. We're so excited. You just barreled right in. I am a huge fan of this person. The fact that she might know that I exist is huge. Today's questioner is an actress and comedian

known for her seven years on SNL, as well as TV shows like 30 Rock and movies like Wine Country. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her role in the Broadway play POTUS. Rachel Dratch is asking today's question. Nice. Hello, handsome. It's Rachel Dratch here. I'm going to blurt this out because this is like my 85th take of trying to do this. I know it's unbelievable. But anyway, here's my question. What was your favorite thing about growing up in your hometown? How did it shape you? What did you love about it? Or your home state, I guess? What if you didn't love it? What was your least favorite

thing? But I was trying to keep it positive. So what was your favorite thing about growing up where you did? There, I did it. Okay. Signing off. She didn't want to be a Debbie Downer. I was just going to say that one of my go-to YouTube things. Might be one of her greatest sketches of all time. Debbie Downer and the way it would zoom in on her face and she would be trying not to laugh.

The one video where was it Fallon and Lindsay Lohan? They couldn't stop laughing the whole time? Oh man. She's a silly person. She just cracks me up. Some people just have funny bones. That whole era of SNL women just were beyond. Yes, that was your era too, right?

That's what I was watching. Yeah, that would have been Polar and Tina Fey and Anna Gostyer. Yes. So am I leaving anyone else? Molly Shannon. Sherry O'Tary and Molly Shannon. Right behind them, I think. Yeah.

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Yeah, and for me, like in middle school, I was like, I can't pull off what some of the girls in my class are pulling off. I was like, I don't know how to be cool. And so it was like amazing seeing how powerful it was to be silly and how that's so much cooler than trying to be cool. Like, you know what I mean?

Yeah. Yeah. I'm also just remembering that I met Rachel. Rachel Dratch has a brother who is a comedy writer and producer. Oh, cool. Do they ever sing together? Do they ever harmonize?

I don't know, that's a good question. I'm forgetting his name. So you've met Rachel? I have not, I don't think. Yeah, I don't think I've met Rachel either. One of those people I've seen 10 billion times on TV. And then of course I could believe we've met, but I'd also believe we've never met.

You feel like you know her. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I feel like we talk a lot about our hometowns on the show. Like you guys have more hometown towns because they're small towns, right? Yeah. Yeah, so my hometown is Belmont, North Carolina.

It's 30 minutes outside of Charlotte, North Carolina and we're just on the other side of the airport. So I'm actually closer to the Charlotte airport than some of Charlotte. But it's a tiny town of, when I was born, it was about 8,000 people. Now it's a booming metropolis of about 12,000 people. And every time I go home, it is exploding

with new homes and new apartment buildings. And the whole town's gonna implode at some point because it cannot handle the amount of people trying to move into it. Did it feel small when you were growing up? Or did it feel like it did? Very small because yeah, it was tiny and everyone knew each other.

Now there's more people now that I don't know, but I've also moved, been gone for so long. But it was a very sleepy little town and very boring when I was growing up. No fancy restaurants, no good restaurant, kind of drying up to be honest. And then it had this whole revitalization. And then it had this whole revitalization. And now it's like one of the like sought out places to live in North Carolina. Would you ever move back there? I mean, I wouldn't mind it at this point in my life. Yeah.

I mean, it's a really cute. It's so cute. When I go home now, I'm like, God, my hometown is awesome. And I always loved it because of the people. Growing up, I was bored out of my mind and I couldn't wait to leave. Okay, this is what I'm interested in. Yeah, like, so you felt, it felt claustrophobic.

Oh yeah, I felt like there's gotta be more to life. This is so boring. When I was in high school, you just drove up and down this one street. The kids would hang out in the church parking lot. There was nothing to do, nowhere to go. We weren't allowed to really hang out in Charlotte. It was too much of the big city. I just couldn't wait to peace out. But the thing I always loved about my hometown is that the people were so nice and so lovely and supportive. And I'm five generations of that hometown. So my family goes way back there. Five generations is a lot. That takes you back to

like 1900 or something, right? That's crazy. Yeah, but my mom lives there and I go visit, and my dad actually just moved back. He moved away, but I love it for them because what I miss in LA is not having, I don't feel like I have a community here. I kind of feel like I have friends and stuff, but we all live in different places. But I just feel like in my hometown, everyone's kind of looking out for each other. And like my mom just had knee surgery and tons of people every day were bringing her food or taking her to physical therapy or checking on her. Like it's so cool how, you know, if something happens to someone,

everyone descends upon that place. So what do you need? What can I do? Like checking on people. It's just a very neat way of just being there for each other. I'm glad my parents have that. Yeah. That is real nice.

Do you have like, does the town have like inside jokes as a town? That's a weird question. I mean, like, you know, like really specific, weird traditions and stuff. I mean, the big thing would, at least when I was growing up was the Friday night football game at the high school. Like every half the town went, you know? Yeah. That was a big thing. And then everyone goes to

church. That's a huge part of the South and especially a small town. You know that everyone's going to be at church on Sunday and they're all going to be... Well, it used to be when I was growing up, there was only so many restaurants that were decent. And so you wanted to be the first one to get out of church so you could beat the Baptist to the place. And everyone was vying for the tables. So that was how exciting it got. But yeah, very quaint, very small town, but a place that instilled manners in me

and that you just kind of, like I said, looked out for each other. It wasn't a very selfish place. A lot of community was happening there. I was, Tig, you were a small town as well, and I always think about small towns and would worry like if you mess up once or you do something wrong, like you can't really escape it. Like it stays with you and you're, you know what I mean?

That does happen. Yeah. It stays with you and you're- That does happen. Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, my hometown in Mississippi, generations of my family live there as well and I have extended families till there, but we also moved to an area outside of Houston

and we moved around a bit as a kid. But yeah, my town, God, I think it's like 5,000 people maybe. Really? Jeez Louise. Yeah, it's not big. It's hard to underage drink in a town that small, right? No, it's not.

They do it. It's real easy. It's like in the basement of someone's house or anywhere. Like, I don't know. I just feel like that is not really policed too much. Fave thing? Well, I mean, I would say that I have all of these

older cousins that kind of, there's four boys that are like, I don't know, 10 to somewhere in the 9 to 15 years older than me and my brother. Yeah, 9 to 15 feet tall. No, they're older cousins that they were like brothers to me and my brother. And they were between us and my mother. So they were like younger brothers to my mother and then like older brothers to me and my brother. And they just were so fun to be with and took us to do cool things all the time, whether it was just going to the beach or going,

like I remember just riding around in the back of a pickup truck, just something as simple as that, that I loved so much, where of course not terribly safe, and I wouldn't want my kids riding around in the back of a pickup truck. Those were different times, no helipads, no seat belts.

Drinking out of a bottle, just sliding around in the back of a pickup truck. Going to wrestle a bear. I was always in the back of a pickup back in the day. Really? Yeah, and like boating and water skiing. I mean, I think I've told you guys we'd water ski and swamps and people are like, no way. And I would have to call my brother and be like, am I making

this up? But I think that, yeah, it's that sense of community and everybody know in each other and anytime my town is really close to New Orleans and right over the border of Louisiana and Mississippi. And I mean, if I'm ever working in New Orleans, and then I just drive in to see my family, I'll stop to get a coffee or something. And inevitably, one of my cousins will call and be like, hey, I heard you're down at the coffee shop. What are you doing in town?

Same when I go home, like every day, it's like it goes through the grapevine like right away. Immediately, or like I remember, you know, walking with Stephanie down the beach and just honks at us and I'm like, hey, you know, just it's important, you can't hide there at all. But coming back with my family now, we go back all the time, two or three times a year, and I love bringing my wife and children everywhere and into all the shops and everybody knows us. Everybody loves them.

Oh, man. It's just the greatest feeling. And that is why I love where we live in Los Angeles. It's like a small town feeling has a little, you know, has a lot of little shops and cafes and it's all walkable. And and I love that for Max and Finn because it reminds me of my town of Mississippi because you walk into a place, they know your order, they know your name, they haven't seen you in a while,

what's going on and where have you been and how are you feeling and how are the kids? I just like that. Triple shot decaf coffee. Quad shot. Quad shot. Yeah. But I like, this is so nice because I feel like there's a stigma around, especially small towns in the South and the States.

And it's so nice to hear that like, you guys love your hometowns and go back and are so welcome there. And that's amazing. Yeah, for sure. I think it's important to remember that things are not that black and white that you, I mean, it sure can be,

but not everybody in the South and not everybody in small towns and not everyone where you think they're gonna be this, that way or the other, it's just not always what you think. And you have to give people more credit and understand that whatever people or places don't represent everybody. For sure.

What about you with your tiny town? With Toronto? I mean, yeah, I grew up in a big city and, but Toronto does have kind of a, like, anytime I meet someone from Toronto, the first question is what high school did you go to? And then, and like, it feels kind of small townie and you always have mutual friends. And, but, I mean, like for better or worse, as a teen, I loved how anonymous it was. I loved being able to get on the subway and go and no one knew where the hell I was and I would run around and I loved how busy it was. Yeah, I'm pretty like town proud. I have a tattoo of 416, that's like the Toronto area code. But then Drake got really into 416 and saying, and kind of co-opted 416 as a thing, but.

Is he from here? He's from Toronto. He went, of course, went to high school with my friend and they were in a production of Les Mis and. Okay. Like everyone, yeah, like, yeah, there's a shared kind of vocabulary. I hate how cold it got in the winter.

Like that visceral feeling of like the salt that people throw on the, you know, get the salt stains on your jeans and your winter boots. And you'd have to bring your shoes in a backpack, you know, in winter. Yeah, I would not like that. Oh man, it got so cold. But summer in Canada is pretty dreamy, lakes and yeah.

When does it start to get cold? I always forget when it starts to get cold again. It depends on global warming. For weeks, right? Like on Halloween, you'd wear a winter coat over your costume, you know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and your winter boots.

Yeah, it's coming for us. But it never felt like overwhelming being a bigger place. That never bothered you just because it's what you're used to. Yeah. If I imagine my own family, I'm like a small town would be great. So I see the benefit because I definitely ran wild. You know what I mean? But I loved it. But I'm working with a Canadian crew now

and Canadian cast and we're, it's, there's so much, it's such a small, like my friend Gabby came to visit set and she's, we're walking around and then the woman doing hair goes, oh my God, Gabby. And she used to do Gabby's hair when Gabby was 17 and like she worked at like a salon and just every, and then my co-star was like, oh yeah, I did the, just niche things.

She's like, I did square dancing at the Royal Winter Fair as part of Kiwanis. This combination of words is so familiar to me. I'm like, yep, I was probably there. That's funny. Yeah, the Royal Winter Fair for sure. I mean, there definitely were drawbacks of a small town, whereas it's really awesome to have that community.

It was weird growing up that everyone was in everyone's business. That part would get old sometimes. I remember specifically not loving that when my parents were getting a divorce. Right. Everyone was like, how are you? Heptal. that when my parents were getting a divorce. Like everyone was in the business and gossiping about it and talking about it. As you hear my son, I guess this was early on, like my parents divorced when it was pretty taboo to get divorced.

So they consciously uncouple. They sure did. They were friendly. No, no, no, no. They're very friendly now. They're very tight. But it took a while to get to a comfortable place. How old were you again when they...

I was 12. So no one in your class had divorced parents? No, no. I mean, I was like, we were OG, divorced family. And I felt like our family and my mother kind of had this like scarlet letter on us. Yeah. Because nobody even knew you were gay yet. No, I didn't have to deal with that yet. So my outsider was a divorced parents because all of my friends parents are to this

day, a lot of them are still together that I grew up with. And so I remember, yeah, feeling bad for my mom back then that she kind of was an outsider all of a sudden in that way. Because there, and women kind of were, you know, when they would hear a woman divorce, it's like another friend of ours, their parents got divorced kind of soon after. And so my mom and that lady became like good friends because they were like, well, it's the two of us now against the world.

It's like me with other vegans. Yeah, but there was, my mom said there was always kind of this vibe from other women that like, here come the ladies, like they're gonna, you know, they would like hold on to their husbands tighter. Oh my God. those ladies, they would hold onto their husbands tighter. Oh my God. They'd be coming in and swooping in on their man. I'm like, my mom is not swooping in on your man, calm down.

That's hilarious. That's also like when somebody dies and then all the ladies, like if some guy's single, he's widowed, they all head over and bring some food and try and get in there on the open spot. My mom had a suitor at one point who, um, who kind of did look down on her that she was a divorcee. No, wait, but he was suiting her.

So I know, but he ended up breaking up himself. He ended up breaking up with her to go out with a widow. Oh, that was like more acceptable. That was more like. And again, he didn't even know that you were gay. I know. That would have been a big problem.

It's so wild to me, but he thought that she, the widow needed him, him more. And it's like such a old school mentality. And obviously in today's time, there's way more, it's way more common. That's just a part of society now. But back then it was like such a thing. I love picturing this guy thinking he's such a catch and like, I got to look out for this poor widow.

I'm picturing him looking like the guy on the Monopoly game for some reason. Like he's like, and then all of these women need his help. He's like, all right, help Ginger. Now I'm going to go help this widow. How long did she date him? Two or three years, maybe three years, maybe. Oh, well, a chunk of time, Not just like three dates and then was like, I can't deal with this divorce.

He would take her on dates like away, like kind of on the outskirts of town. Oh no. That's so bad. No. Yes, because he didn't want his Baptist friends to know that, you know, that he was dating a divorcee.

And then like so old school, they wouldn't even like drink wine or anything at, uh, in restaurants in town. Like he would only do it if they were at the place where they, he wouldn't be seen. It was, it was very old school. Um, so yeah, that, that part of small town was like so antiquated to me, you know, even that I was like, what are we doing here? This is wild. I mean, I've had that. I mean, like from dating closeted people, I just, it came into my mind that one birthday, this woman who I was dating and lived with who didn't want any of her friends to know,

she was like, let's go to this, it was Kew Gardens, which is way on the outskirts of London. I was definitely, because no one would bump into, because I was like, let's go into Soho and have dinner. She's like, I'd like to go to this garden really far away and I had no interest in gardens. Then we got there and she was so tired and sleepy that she rented a wheelchair from the entrance. And I ended up just pushing her around this garden all day. I can't believe this relationship didn't work out.

I know. I pushed her around the garden and then yeah, and then got back and had to pretend to be her buddy at home with our roommate. I was like, what do I do? It was the moment as I was pushing the wheelchair, that's sort of when it all started to, I thought. I would hope so. Yeah.

I would really hope. Something's wrong here. Yeah, I don't know if this is quite right. The stuff you put off, I was like 28 years old. I wasn't, yeah, ridiculous. Well, should we see what Rachel Dratch has to say about her hometown? Yeah.

Wherever that is. Does anyone know where she's from? Boston? No, I couldn't tell you. Boston? I don't know. I'm guessing. Okay.

I'm guessing Chicago. That's a guess. Hello. I had a set and a costume change for my answer to the question. So I was thinking about this. So I grew up in Massachusetts in a town called Lexington. And when I think about what I loved about my hometown, the first thing I think of is the natural beauty that I sort of took for granted, I think growing up. I think of walking to school in the fall and kicking leaves the whole way to school and the smell

of the leaves or I think of a snow day and lifting up my window shade and seeing everything covered with white with the trees looking so pretty and it always smelled so good too. So that's what I really miss about my hometown. And then I live in New York City now so you can see why I might miss some natural beauty. And then the other things I would say is,

like, you know, I started out when I was five there. So I have friends from when I was five years old, and I did like high school, so I like going back. I feel connected to my high school classmates. And then the third thing I'd say is Boston has, the Boston area has a sort of like intellectual bent with all the colleges there, but then it also has a kind of a sadonic

witch I think is valued there. So you know, you have the cook at the burger joint. There's sort of, I think, I think humor is sort of valued there and maybe it is everywhere. I don't know, but it's sort of, I don't know. You just, I think it's sort of in the air there. Maybe that's my imagination. Maybe that shaped me. I don't know. That's just my vibe about it. So anyway, that's what I liked about my hometown. Handsome. What did you like about yours? Or what didn't you like? I'm sure I've already, okay. Okay. That sort of cut this part. Okay, what do you like about yours? I was thinking Boston because she and Fallon

used to do those Boston characters all the time. You remember? Yes, yeah. And would go real hard. They played like high school boyfriend, girlfriend. And would do the like accent really hard, like super hardcore Boston. I do think some Boston and like some places are funny. Like have a cultural identity of like Liverpool is like that.

Like everyone's funny. Dublin, I think Boston does have that. Well, that accent so like sounds so cartoony. Back the car. You mine. Sad, don't I quit? I one time was watching a roast battle at Just For Laughs and then somebody made a joke about an aorta

and I just hear these two guys next to me and one of them goes, what's an aorta? And the other one goes, it's a party of hot. A party of hot. I can't even know what an aorta was? Yeah, I always remember. Potty a hot. Potty a hot.

That is so great. That is so funny. That is. That's awesome. It is kind of wild that she asked about hometowns because so much of my childhood was me watching Saturday Night Live and memorizing the sketches from her, definitely her cast and others and going to school to practice and stuff

and reciting those sketches. She is a part of my hometown experience. So it's trippy. Yeah. That's so great. All right, well, make sure you check out our website, handsomepod.com, get your merch. We have some fun things in there.

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You can see me getting tased acting that out. I've got no live shows coming up. I'm still filming and stuff, but you can check out Feel Good on Netflix or my special SAP on Netflix. What about you guys? November 16th, the very last show of my tour. I just added it, Santa Rosa, California.

Yeah. Yeah, and I, Tig, your friend, will be in Kansas City on November 2nd and St. Louis on November 15th. And I'm also in Toronto working out new material at Comedy Bar, so get your tickets. And then also, if you're in LA, check out Largo and Dynasty Typewriter, because I'm also working out new material there when I'm back in town.

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