Handsome - "Weird Al" Yankovic asks about memorable movie moments

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

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I came in strong. Cheers. Welcome to the handsome pod. I came in strong. I'm one of your hosts, May Martin. What a true honor to be joined by the two amigos. Tig, oh, I almost said your name. Yeah, this is my name. You just tell people who we are. Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster, and of course, Thomas.

Thomas on the knobs. Welcome to the HansaPod. Is that okay to say, Thomas on the knobs? Thomas on the knobs. Sure. Okay. How are you guys? Oh man.

Yeah, it's been a year so far. We have been dealing with a lot already in 2025. And many people have, especially in our Los Angeles area. I know, and the three of us haven't been together since the fires. We've been keeping in touch, checking in, but how are you holding up? We're good, you know, I think that,

God, that the fires as of when we're taping right now, not as of when this is airing, are not fully put out yet, but much more contained, but there was a good, gosh, how long has it been? A week and a half? It's how long has it been? Two, a week and a half. It's been 10, 11 days. 11 days of just pure anxiety and tension and fear and devastation for all the people who've lost their homes

in Altadena and Pasadena, Malibu, Palisades. I mean, it's been heartbreaking. Yeah, the speed that it happened and having friends who get, you know, you got the evacuation notice and then three hours later, your whole house is gone. It's like, it's really frightening and it's been absolutely wild.

And it got pretty close to your house, right, Fortune? Like, you could see it raging. Yeah, there were two nights that were, I mean, listen, we're totally fine and lucky. There were two nights that was really dicey. I started getting notifications from this app, Watch Duty, that everyone's been glued to. And saying like, it was coming towards the 405 and I went to get gas in our car. And when I came home, I saw a lot of red in the sky. So I ran up to our balcony and just on the mountain right here there was fire everywhere.

And I was like if that comes over this ridge we're done. We're done. This whole area is done. And so Jackson and I started packing and I just kept watching it and watching it. But what happened on the original nights of the main fire is that the winds were like 100 miles an hour. It was unprecedented winds that you can't control anything. Luckily on this night, the winds were not like that. So I watched the planes come in one after another,

after another and drop water. And you could see it over hours going down, down, down. They weren't able to have that aerial help, those original nights. And that is what makes the difference. So thank God for our firefighters and all these people that are fighting the fire. I watched it in real time,

them save the entire valley from those efforts. I can't even, I mean, I can imagine, I mean, I saw your picture, but seeing fire on the ridge like that. The smoke and the air and the heat and yeah. Are you good in a crisis? Like did you learn like that adrenaline when you're like, it's so rare that you're in that situation.

Yeah, I actually was more calm than I thought I would be. It was just a matter of staying on top of it. The hardest thing for a lot of the people that lost their homes and some people didn't make it out is, you know, like you said, they had minutes to evacuate. Um, cause everyone's like, Oh, why didn't you, you know, do this or why didn't you do that? I mean, these people are literally minutes getting in a car, getting out of there. So I was just trying to watch the fire on the app, watch it on the ridge, just being aware and having like a plan.

And so many people were like, the city was so amazing. All these friends were texting and looking out for each other and what do you need and are you good? And like, you know, LA gets a bad rap for no one caring and man, people kept showing up for everybody. That first night with the winds and I was about to do an improv show with Stephanie in Atlanta. So we were like, let's all get meet up before the show. We'll meet at this restaurant. And we got there and there's a power outage. And I just had not been aware of the Santa Ana winds as a thing.

I just didn't know about them. And there was this power outage and the waitress was like, I'm sure it'll come back in a minute. And it was like, the vibe was weird. Then we look outside and there's an electricity pole just like swaying in the wind, like it could fall at any minute on the buildings. And there's a kind of sense of panic.

And Stephanie's like, huh, I'm just texting with Tig. And then she's like, a tree fell on our house. And I was like, what? And then it just like the, we were like, we're all gonna go our separate ways and go home. And yeah. Well, we were on the phone on her way to meet up with you and Alana.

And it was just a normal conversation. Like, let me call you from the car. And, um, and we're talking. And then my next call from her is, oh my God, there was a powder out, a power outage and there are light posts about to crush the comedy venue. Yeah. Yeah. And then we get a text that that tree, I mean, it's so massive, this eucalyptus tree, it is so

massive. And yeah, that was just the very beginning of it. And the tree is still there. And all the traffic lights. It's the least of anybody's concerns right now as a tree is down. Yeah. Yeah. And then so you were in Toronto and that must have felt so helpless and terrifying. Yes, it was. And I was aware and I was watching the fires from Toronto and I understood the distance from our house. But I was watching and then, yeah, the sunset fire started which was roughly three miles from our house and then my kids were having some anxiety and then Stephanie's there having to wrangle three cats it's not like a dog where you snap your

finger and the dog comes you know the cat is they we have three scurrying around the house doing whatever they want, whenever they want. And so it was very emotional for me. I called the production and just said, there's no world I can be in another country on the other side of, you know, on the East Coast in another country while there's a fire a couple of miles away from our house with my kid it was after their bedtime they were so disoriented and confused and yeah and and just to go back to production they were so so compassionate the executive producers

said TIG I can hear your soul in your voice. Give me five minutes and we'll get this confirmed for you to go home. And I was, it was so emotional and touching. And I flew home and man, the second I walked in the door, the hugs that I got from my family and that trip home, I think was one of my greatest times spent with my family. It was so special, but we drove Max and Finn to show them, you know, where the fire was to give them perspective. So they, cause they were like,

is our house gonna burn down? And, and you know, even as an adult,, you feel that even if you're watching the news, you're like, are we burn? Yeah. And then, you know, then think about a child who has no perspective about where these fires are, what is going to happen. Um, but yeah, we gutted our house like crazy. But yeah, we gutted our house like crazy. I mean, with bedding and clothing and toys

and stuffed animals, food, and did our deliveries and distribution. I think that was also good for Max and Finn too, to be a part of trying to help. Yeah. And all those cliches are true about making you realize what's important and, you know, feel grateful

for the people and, you know. Oh my gosh. I ended up in, well, I had, you know, you call up your ex, you have apocalypse sex, then you go, then I got out of town. Wait, you do? Yes, you must. And you got a thing.

That's fortune. Yeah, you got a thing, it's all going down. Wait, you do? Yes, you must. You gotta say- You got a fortune. Yeah, you gotta think it's all going down. Wait, you do? Okay, let me write this down. Apocalypse sex. Yeah. That's a good movie. But, you know, because some of the, you know, step one.

Step one. Apocalypse sex. Apocalypse sex. And what does that look like? Is it- Is it happy? that look like? Is it happy? Is it sad? Is it intense? It's sort of all three.

It's like, this is our last day on earth. Yeah, let's make it count. I mean, that's just an extension though of realizing who's important to you and what you want to do. Okay, yeah. And then I got out of town to Palm Springs with my friend Sabrina and her family.

And it was so nice being around kids and her dog. And they were all in like one hotel room. And on night one, the baby got a fever and the five-year-old got an ear infection. I'm just like, it was nice to be there for them and help them out and babysit. Oh, I thought you were going to say it was so nice to have my own room. Oh, yeah. It was nice to have my own room. Oh, yeah. It was nice to have my own room. Yeah.

You know, I always thought I wanted a family. But then it's such a weird, surreal thing because all this craziness is going on. But also daily life continues. And, you know, we're not that far from LA. We're in Palm Springs. And then we took the – at the hotel, there was a drag brunch on the, like a few days into this excursion. And so we took these like six-year-olds to this drag brunch and it was incredible seeing like the joy of these drag queens who are so funny and were like

making the kids laugh and seeing the kids, you know, just the kids were like riveted. I've never seen, it was like they'd seen God, like their eyes were so big and yeah. Goddy God. Yeah, yeah. Well, and Thomas, you were hunkered down with a newborn. Oh my God. Our friends had a baby the Monday.

So the day before the fires, Holy. Their baby was born. And so they were very fast to get a Airbnb and then they had some extra space. So my wife and I joined them there. So it was very surreal being with this like newborn baby. I got to hold and then watching my city burn.

And just the contrast was crazy, but there was a lot of joy because of the baby. So it was nice. Their first kid? Yeah, their first kid. Both the grandmas were there. One of the grandmas is like- Staying with you two? Yeah, staying with us. One of the grandmas is like- Oh my God, staying with you too?

Yeah, staying with us. That is incredible. That is incredible. One of their moms is like a birthing nurse. So she just knew everything about the baby. So like they felt secure to be away from their doctor and stuff because she was there. Yeah.

And yeah, just getting to hold a newborn baby is like so special. But it also like it's similar to the pandemic. It's so confusing sorting through the information about what's safe and what's not and like the air quality and what's in. And there's also so much just kind of personal choice about like, what do you feel comfortable with?

Like, and it's so confusing to know what to do. And yeah, I feel for people with pregnant people, people with newborns, it's like, it's an interesting vibe in the city right now, because there's a resilience there of like, what do people need? I'm going to do this show up for people. And there's also a sadness that I've, that I've seen in the last two weeks of just like people, there's this look in their eyes of kind of like, this just a forlornness for lack of a better word.

Yes, and luckily there's a lot of places in LA that are helping and people are dropping stuff off, but it's gonna take a long time for a lot of these people to get on their feet. So Kate was mentioning also helping places that are helping the animals. There are a lot of animals that were displaced in this and a lot of people that have animals who can't care for them right now or now that they have to find an apartment or hotel room, they can't have their pets. It affects so many things. It just trickles down in so many ways.

There's so many different needs. So many different needs. I was saying before we started recording that, of course, they care about people and animals, but there was something about seeing this animal hospital that had taken in an owl and a turtle and all these different... It's not just the family dog and cat with burnt paws. It's the ecosystems. There's so many different, and when I saw that little turtle in its hospital nook. In his gown.

In his little turtle gown, I was like, when I get home, I'm going to the animal hospitals, you know? Yeah, now I wanna do a painting of a turtle in a hospital gown. You've got to. I'm still on my animal paintings. Yeah. That's gotta be one. I haven't done a turtle yet.

Yeah. Stephanie reached out. We all need our therapist right now. What'd you say? We all need, I feel all the therapists working over time right now in LA, like just with everybody. And then the therapists are trying to sort it all out. Oh my gosh.

Yeah. What were you gonna say? Sorry, Stephanie. Oh, Stephanie reached out to me the other day saying, you know, one of our friends who has a newborn baby, they didn't lose their house, but they were evacuated and they can't get back in for at least three months. And so- I didn't even think about that. Yeah, what because it's toxic.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. So and they have a dog, a cat, a newborn. And so they they are moving into our office. Oh, no. But when Stephanie called and was like, Hey, this is going on, I'm like, yeah, we got to get that little baby in there. I mean, of course, I offered the place to Fortune or whoever needs it, but there's something about like, yeah, we got to get that little baby in there. Get that baby safe and warm. We gotta get that little baby in there. Yeah, get that baby safe and warm. We gotta get that baby in there. Well, you know, we definitely send love to everybody who's been affected in one way or another.

Just, you know. So many people on our social media, so sweet, being like, as soon as I heard about the fires, I thought about the handsome pot. Oh my God. So kind. Because I was posting here and there, but you guys don't post as much. And some people will be like, what about Ting and May?

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at things and it was so depressing. I just needed to like, remove myself a bit because there was an and not to block it out and ignore it because we're donating, we're doing housing, a family, we're doing anything and everything we can. But I just couldn't continue to look at the things on social media. Like in the old days, you'd have to watch the news. At five o'clock? Yes, and then you'd turn it off.

And now it is constant. Yeah, yeah. So I've been a little more MIA because I had to kind of protect my sanity. Yeah. Anyway, but I do appreciate people reaching out and. Yeah, thank you. And we'll keep sharing like places to donate.

And a huge shout out to again, firefighters. Yes. Any of those pilots, any of the first responders, those people that. The incarcerated firefighters. Yeah. I didn't know that that was a thing. And these incarcerated young men who are getting paid a dollar a day

and they're risking their lives, we've got to support them. Well, and also just a side note that blows my mind about firefighters, police, even therapists, your meeting there, day to day, is getting up and walking towards devastation and negativity. And that's what they get up and do every, I mean, of course, there's the charming day when they get a kitty out of the tree and whatever, but like their hard work. I mean, like getting up, you've, you've turned your alarm off and you go towards the negative. It's just, it's so intense.

And it's like, it takes a very particular person that can, that can go do that. It's crazy, but there's a, there's a foundation called the California Fire Foundation, the Wildfire and Disaster Relief Fund. You can Google it and that's a good place to support a lot of the disaster relief and the actual firefighters and their families. And there's many, many places to donate pet, you know, the Pasadena Humane Society, the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society. Uh, there's many places, many personal GoFundMe's. There's, there's so many things. Yeah. Also, I think you've said this Tig about like world issues and things like it

again brings home like without fighting climate change, like, none of the other things matter. Nothing else matters. This is like, we like. This is so urgent. Yeah, you can have all of these political differences and anything, anything on the planet that's going on in personal lives, in politics. It's like, yes, it's all important.

However, if the planet is not intact, it doesn't matter at all. And all of those other issues are gonna be exacerbated by natural disasters and things. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, who are we? I always feel like I don't know what I'm talking about and how are, you know, in, yeah, yeah. I mean, who are we? I always feel like I don't know what I'm talking about and how are, you know, in 20 minutes, how are we gonna like talk about

the California fires? But I guess we just have our own experiences and I don't know. It's nice talking to people and connecting. And I think it's, yeah, I think people listening can connect and people that don't live in LA have been watching it just every second of it and feeling it. And my mom was more scared that I went and had apocalypse sex than she was about the fire. Oh, you told your mom? Well, I said, I'm going to, you know, my ex's house.

She went, oh my God. She went, oh my God. Oh my God. She goes, I know your to-do list in Apocalypse, and that's number one, so I know what you're up to. Yeah, I will say it wasn't like I was, you know, I went there to be safe with someone with a car. I don't have a car. And you know, it was really nice to be-

To have a car. To have a car. To have a car. Going over for your car. Yeah. She's like, I feel like you're using me for my car. You're like damn straight. Well, I'm going to look at apocalyptic situations very differently now. Well, there's got to be some silver lining. You know what I realized in all of this too,

when I was in Toronto and Stephanie was like trying to pack things that are important and maybe this is already a known thing. I was telling Stephanie when I went home, I bet it's good, cause what I did was I went around our house and I made a list of what is important to me. And I took a picture of the things and where they're located in our house.

And then just to give her in case something happened when I left. But everything seems to be under control. It feels still like if you haven't done this or haven't thought to do it, seems like it's a good idea to make a list, take those pictures, but also put the things in one place. So that if there- Yeah, and make an emergency bag too. Well, and if there's an emergency that you have a closet in your garage

or in your basement or in your hallway where you're like, okay, the left side of the closet is go stuff, you know? And if there's ever anything that happens, we know we just open this closet and pack all that stuff and we're out the door. So you're not scrambling around going, Oh gosh, what's important? Where's my birth certificate? Where are the photo albums? You know, whatever it is. We got this little pouch a couple of years ago that's supposedly fireproof.

I don't know where I keep all my like important, just documents. Yeah. So there are all that stuff is together in one of those pouches. My crystals. Okay. Okay. My strap-on. Whoa. I can't even replace. I'm just trying to keep it alive.

Just so you know. No. Whoa. I'm joking. There's more in- No, you're not. No, you are not. You have the sentiment on that one.

I love the fortress. Like, whoa. Whoa. Are those, is that it? Those crystals and the strap-on. Are those strap-on? The old strap-on. I love the fort, it's like, whoa, whoa. Is that it? Does Crystal's the strap on?

No, I'd have some astronaut ice cream. What else? Now you want to talk about a prepared person? May Martin. May Martin and then Fala. You know what May's doing in the apocalypse? Fucking. And then having some ice cream. May Martin and then follow. You know what May's doing in the apocalypse? Fucking.

And then having some ice cream. We joke and we laugh, but I did think if it was my last day on earth, then I would wanna be having sex. It's like the most human thing, I don't know. And having ice cream. I'd be wanting to eat a cheeseburger. Yeah, that too for sure. Yeah, you just, you know, yeah.

I'd probably have some kale. Some kale? I'd go out and a bang. You'd stroke a turtle and have some kale. Yeah, it takes probably stroking a turtle and having some slash supper kale. You're stroking a turtle and maybe stroking something else. Follow the flow. Follow the flow.

Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow.

Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Follow the flow. Last supper kale. You're stroking a turtle and May's stroking something else. Follow May to the ex-girlfriend's car and you will also get, did you say outer space ice cream? Yeah, I was just thinking about, I don't know why I said that, about non-perishable foods and I thought astronauts have that freeze-dried ice cream.

Oh, astronaut ice cream. So tasty. Do you think so? Yeah, I remember getting it at the Science Center in Toronto and I liked it. You don't like it? Not really. It's kind of a weird texture. Yeah. Guys, good talk.

Well, should we get to our questioner today? Yes. Can I say this is, I mean, like a foundational comedian for me. Like I'm buzzing that this person sent a question. Today's questioner is a musician, a comedian, an actor, best known for his hilarious parody songs ranging from Amish Paradise to Smells Like Nirvana to Yoda. musician, a comedian, an actor best known for his hilarious parody songs, ranging from

Amish Paradise to Smells Like Nirvana to Yoda. And he has sold over 12 million albums, winning five Grammy Awards along the way. I saw him live in an arena tour when I was about 12. And it was like seeing a comedian be a rock star. People were acting like when he was singing a Michael Jackson song or whatever, like, like when he was singing like, a Michael Jackson song or whatever, it was like the actual artist was, people were losing their minds and I was like, yeah, he's always been a true hero of pure, inane silliness.

Weird Al Yankovic is asking today's question. Or as I like to call him, Weird Albert. Do you know him personally? I do, that's how we got it. Stop. I get a Christmas card from him every year. Stop it. How does- He knows everybody.

Oh my God, this whole podcast is just me going, oh my God, they know I exist. And you guys being like, yeah, I just text them today. Holy shit. Yeah, I don't know if his name's Albert, but I love elongating people's names. Can you tell him my... Do you think he'll hear this?

Okay, okay, okay. We'll see to it. Yeah, yeah. Old weird Albert. Listen to the pod. Yeah. Let's hear it. Hey, handsome pod, how you doing?

It's your close personal friend, Ali Yankovic. And I have a question to posit to you. You can answer it individually and or collectively, but I really wanna know, I really wanna know, is there one particular scene in a movie that you had a severe physical reaction to? I'm not talking about a movie that touched you deeply or made you think or changed your life.

I'm talking about a movie that made you laugh or cry or throw up or soil your underwear, something that made you flip out. So what is the one movie scene that made you do that? What a great question. Wow. It's not an easy one. No.

It's not an easy one. No. And I will say just to like gush about him more. I watched UHF a lot as a kid, the Weird Al movie, which I guess was in the eighties or early nineties, but my brother and I knew every line to that movie. Let's hear some. Oh.

Gotcha. Gotcha. And Al is listening. Okay. I said we knew every line to that movie. Okay. All right. Fair enough.

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if you're a Weird Al fan, the biopic that he made with Daniel Radcliffe playing Weird Al. I don't know what I was expecting, but it was not what I was expecting in the best way. It was so funny that they play it completely earnestly. Like that this is a biopic of the greatest artist of our time.

And it was incredible. And Dan Radcliffe was amazing. Yeah. I haven't seen it. I'll have to watch that. It's so funny. Conan O'Brien's in it. It's just ridiculous.

Yeah. I feel like Al is one of those people, it's like across the board. So he has so much respect from so many people and it's so cool to see with such a silly person. I know. Like the silliness is so overboard. It doesn't age because it's just pure silliness. I feel the same way sometimes about Adam Sandler, like his new stuff he's doing. I'm like, I know I'm gonna love it because it's just silly and Conan and like it's relaxing. Cause you're like.

There's also like a Mr. Rogers vibe about the love that people have. Or people are like, I love Weird Al. Oh my God. You know, you see grown men and you see children and people are like, I love him. Yes. And he's just the nicest guy. Is he? You know? Oh yeah.

Well, when I went to see him at that arena show, I always remember he came out into the audience and he's like sprinting up the aisle and this big arena and this like 10 year old boy is there and just gets, stands up and steps in front of Al like into the aisle. So I was like running up and just stops and this boy just stands there and steps in front of Al, like into the aisle. So Al's like running up and just stops and this boy just stands there. And they just have eye contact and have a staring contact. Like he just stares at him.

And they just both stand there staring for so long. And it was so funny. And then the kid just goes and sits down and he keeps. It was great, yeah. Classic Al. Oh man. Okay, visceral reaction. Shit. Cause in the old days when people hadn't seen movies much, Classic Al. Oh man, okay, visceral reaction, shit.

Because in the old days when people hadn't seen movies much, you know, and then you hear about people seeing The Exorcist and like passing out. Or Jaws. Yes, and like. Oh God, Jaws. People would go in the ocean for like a while. Yeah, I mean Jaws like.

Was that visceral for you or you like? I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, Jaws, like... Was that visceral for you, or are you like... I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, was it not for you? Yeah, it was. It scared me, but not in a way where I was like, I'm never going to the ocean again. How old were you when you saw it?

Let me see when it came out, I don't remember. You saw it when it came, because I don't think you were alive when it came out. I had a prob, maybe not. Oh yeah, 1975, I was not born yet. I had a prob, maybe not. Oh yeah, 1975. I was not born yet. Yeah. Jaws 2 was 78.

So you, you saw it when it came out Tig and were you like, this is the most unsettling primal? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, maybe if it came out now, that original version came out now, I'd be like, oh, this is, you know, you kind of can see behind the curtain of it with. No, but the score and the, it is primal,

something like a threat that you can't really see in the depths of the unknown. And you're so vulnerable. You're like. Da da da da da da da da. And it gets faster and louder. I wish the score was Fortune's version. Can we make, can we dub over?

And then we cut to her. Yeah. Every time the music kicks in, we cut to Fortune. Making that face. But yeah, it definitely, it was hard for me to even swim in a pool. I thought for sure when I had my back turned, somebody threw a great white shark in there. Yeah.

Never did. That's the worst one that happens. Yeah. And wasn't the sequel called Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Get in the Water? That was the tagline. Yeah. I have the tagline. I have a great title. It's Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Get Back in the Water,

but it's not because the sharks are still there. Part two. I had movies that made me want to do things. Like what? A League of Their Own made me want to be on a woman's baseball team. And in a house with a bunch of ladies. Right.

A pretty woman made me want to be a high end escort in Beverly Hills. Really? Did it? Big mistake. Huge. But wait, did it make you want to? No. Oh, come on.

I don't know. Cause the league had their own one. Oh, come on. I don't know. And the jewelry scene, that was iconic, where she goes to reach for the necklace and he shuts the thing and she's like... I think we've done that on the pod. I have really bad news. What? What? I've never seen Pretty Woman. Oh my God.

I have bad news too. You haven't either? I don't think I have either. Two against one. Two against one. What guys? Come on. A lot of these are like things that you see as a kid

that really mess you up. And I was taken to see Jurassic Park in cinemas when I was like, I think I was four or something. I was way too little. And just at the moment where the footprints, like the footsteps come and the water is shaking. And I ran out of the movie theater and I remember standing by myself in the movie

and that my dad took quite a while to come out after me. Like, I think I was four. What year did it come out? That came out in like 1993, I would guess. That was scary because it was, was it 93? Was it? Let's see, Jurassic Park. Yeah, 93.

It was like silent and then it's like, boom, boom. Yeah. Well, that made a massive impact on me too. And I talked about it in my animated special, but I worked with children, like at a daycare center at one point years ago. And this woman that I worked with that was maybe a little annoying

and I didn't pay close attention to things when she talked to me. I was, I mean, if you think I'm out of like the pop culture loop, yeah, the pop culture loop, you should have seen me in when I was 22. Okay. So I'm sweeping up the room and the woman that I work with is talking nonstop about these dinosaurs that scientists have brought back

from extinction and now they're loose, running around, killing people. I missed that it was a movie. And I was like, wait, what? And she was like, yeah, you haven't heard about this. And I was like, no. And she's like, oh, it's called Jurassic Park. And I was like.

And so there are actual dinosaurs. And she was like, yeah, this scientist found this amber. And what she explained, it made sense. And I was like, what the hell are we doing just at this daycare center? We got to get the hell out of here. But I went and saw it after that because I was so fascinated by the story she told me. And it terrified me, absolutely terrified me. It's like a flawless movie too.

This isn't a movie, but in Twin Peaks, and the great David Lynch just passed away. And there's a couple of David Lynch moments that will stay with me, but Twin Peaks, when you see Bob in the flash, have you seen it? Mm-mm. I haven't. Two against one.

It's, that's one of the most affecting and scary and amazing shows. But the mom of the murdered girl is remembering going into the girl's room and she's hugging someone and she's we kind of go into her mind and she's remembering going into her daughter's room when her daughter was missing. And suddenly in her memory she sees this man crouched at the end of the bed with long hair and it's Bob and he starts sort of crawling and she just starts screaming and I still can't like my whole body even now is like goose bumpy like I hate Bob and it's Bob is so scary and he was just a guy who worked on set I think he was a janitor and David

Lynch saw him and he had this long greasy hair and cast him as the main villain who doesn't really speak much, but he appears. And oh my God, that is visceral. Like if I'm home alone and also at the very end of like the final scene of that show, no spoilers, but it's someone who you love.

No spoilers decades later. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But Agent Cooper, he's like looking in the mirror and then he starts going, where's Annie? Where's Annie? Like, and you go, oh my God, he's bad too. Bob got him too.

Anyway, whatever, things like that. Do you think Bob's still alive? That's a great question. Thank you. He's alive in me and my. What if he's a listener? Oh my God. I don't want to invoke Bob. I don't want to. But the shining as well that is the idea of someone that you love trying to kill you and changing like that. That really was so scary. Those hallways, those corridors.

Yeah. I didn't see the shining either. Don't it's Don't. It's amazing, but that's one of the... Did you see it, Fortune? I did, yeah. It's good. Did it spook you? I watched it much later in life. I've had watched it younger. I would think it would've. It didn't spook you as an adult?

No. Those older scary movies in these days, watching them don't really... I know. I watched some Albert Hitchcock movie. What is it? The window or something? Oh yeah, yeah. Is that what it's called? Rear window. Rear window?

Didn't do it for you. I wasn't scared. Well, sometimes when you watch things that other things have been so derivative of, that original thing, but then you watch the original thing and subsequent things have done it scarier now. So like, yeah. When we're in just in different times, we've been exposed to so much, but back then that stuff was so transformative.

I remember watching the movie Riding in Cars with Boys in college, and that one got me good. I'm putting it on my list, I've never seen it. Cause yeah, I was having some, I've talked about it before, my mom and I used to have a difficult relationship and as I got older and moved away, it got a lot better.

Now we're very close, but in college, it was pretty fractured and that movie got me, got me good. Why, what's it about? What's, is it about a mother daughter? fractured and that movie got me, got me good. Why, what's it about? What's, is it about a mother daughter? About a mother with just kind of finding, a mother finding herself. Yeah. And sometimes, you know, that took priority.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. So that hit you in the guts. Hit me. I also get really, anytime I watch a movie where a Mother or a grandmother or any older woman dies of cancer that it Kills me. I think that goes back to my grandmother. So yeah, I will I will sob like like a baby and

Yeah, it doesn't matter what movie it is. If it's a woman of a certain age dying of cancer, I just... I cry when men break down in movies, like Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar, when he cries or like Tom Cruise, anytime he cries, it gets me. Cruz anytime he cries, it gets me. In terms of endearment, when Deborah Winger is crying on her death bed and saying to her son, who is this like, probably 12 year old kid, and he's like, yeah, no, I know. I don't care. You know, that kind of vibe. Yeah. Yeah. And she's just crying and she's like, listen to me. I know you love me.

And when I die, don't beat yourself up. I know you love me. Oh my God. And he's just like, Oh, but you can tell he cares. He cares and he can't express it because he's got such a chip on his shoulder. And her performance, I mean, it gives me goosebumps.

She's so great. Can you remember the first movie that gave you a boner? Like that's a visceral- Classic make. That's a visceral- It was an apocalyptic movie. That's a visceral physical reaction. And for me, it was, Rock Your Picture Show, I was five when my parents showed it to me. I was five and I've talked about this before,

but it was the moment that Frank and Fritter throws that cape off and he's in that corset and fishnets and starts striding down the hall and his hips moving and these high heels and I've never been the same. I've never been the same. And then there's one particular moment where Rocky, the creature he's created, he's singing something and then Frankenfreude runs his finger down Rocky's stomach and Rocky has two buttons, and runs it down to the edge of his underwear. And I was like, well, I'll think about that tonight. I don't know why, but I'll store that moment.

And it was a visceral. I'll think about that tonight and forever. Yeah. But I don't know why, goodnight. I followed the actor that played- Goodnight, Bette Midler. Rocky, oh yeah, Bette, I mean, yeah. The actor that played- You mean Bette Midler? Rocky, oh yeah, Bette, I mean yeah. The actor that played Rocky in Rocky Horror,

I follow him on Instagram, Peter Hinwood, and I love that he's still so passionate about Rocky Horror pictures, that we post pictures all the time of Tim Curry and like throwbacks, and he just seems like a cool guy. What if I was like that about Instant Family? What's Instant Family? It's a movie I did with Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne and Octavia Spencer and I'm just constantly

posting stuff. I'm like, here I am with Rose at the craft table. Okay, I need to watch Instant Family because that is a foursome, I didn't know I needed. It's a very heartwarming movie. Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, you and Octavia Spencer? Yeah. What a quad. Yeah, yeah. And you did another rom-com with the-

Reese and Ashton. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, but it feels more random to do Instant Family, because it's not like a classic rom-com, you know? It's like the adoption family story. Yeah, there was some other thing that was, oh, I was gonna say, I mean, John Travolta,

you know, he ignited my fire as a kid. Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah. Star Wars, for sure. Yeah. Star Wars when he uses his lightsaber to cut open the belly of the Tauntaun. Yes. And it was like shrimp falling out. Yes, oh, what production designer made that choice

that the insides look like big maggots? Oh my Christ. I thought it looked like raw shrimp, like jumbo shrimp. Yes it did. Just pouring out. Thomas, will you look up what came out of the tauntaun? Yeah, and how they did it.

Because maybe it was shrimp. Yes, and how they did it. Yes, and I'm pretty good at that. Please, could you look up how the special effects did that scene? Because we have time right? That's Han Solo that crawls in. I want to know how Harrison felt about crawling

into that raw shrimp. I don't know any Star Wars trivia. I was a Star Wars nut. Not this gal. Should the three of us go to Disney together? Probably. Yeah, why not? Are you, do you like together? Probably. Yeah, why not? Do you like rides?

No. Yeah, how are you guys on rides? I like a ride, like Space Mountain I'm good with, or like a little roller coaster that is kind of fast and whoop, here comes a hill, but not like will we be alive at the end? Not like will our vertebrae be dust? Even from a heart, like a heart attack.

Yeah, I'm kind of the same. I'm not a roller coaster person at all, but for Chris Colfer's birthday, he did the thing where you can go to Six Flags and ride all the roller coasters you want all day. And I just wanted to be a good friend, but I hate roller coasters for want all day. Uh-huh. And I just wanted to be a good friend, but I hate roller coasters with for like a whole afternoon.

I'm like literally passing out green. Oh my God. I know what we can do. And Thomas put this on the list. We can go to Disneyland and just get like little, um, you know, Disney hats and eat cotton candy and just walk around. Oh, just hang out and soak up the vibes. Yeah, just carry a balloon.

And I kind of do want to go with you guys just for the photos of, yeah, I want the photos of us with Mickey and like. Yeah, and Minnie with her feet shoved into those high heels. Thomas, do you have an answer about what was in the tauntaun? There is no definitive answer online.

People speculate that it could be kind of long balloons that are filled with goo or pig intestines. Ooh, whoa. No raw jumbo shrimp? No one's saying jumbo shrimp. I'm not saying that. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

We stumbled upon the mystery. Movie magic. What a podcast. What a podcast. We really learned a lot about each other. Mm-hmm. Through movies. There is a, is his name Emo Phillips?

Yeah. There is, in UHF, in Weird Al's UHF, there's a section where Emo Phillips keeps getting fingers and limbs cut off and the blood is just in that way that comedy blood spurts that we don't see anymore. Just the comedy blood spurting from all of us. And he's trying to I think still present a TV show while he's spurting everywhere. You could paint comedy blood splurts. That's true.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You should make a painting of all the things that we don't see anymore. And one of the things that I bring up often is mooning. Nobody moons anymore. I was just talking about this yesterday. Yeah. Mooning quicksand.

Quicksand. Because I'm writing a new act in one of my stories that's not, I don't talk about it, but my friend mooned someone in the car ride home. And my other friend said, yeah, people don't really moon anymore. Yeah, people don't moon. I feel like we've talked about it.

And then on social media, people were like, well, because that's sexual assault. And I was like, oh, come on. We're talking about mooning. Back in the 80s, it was just a good time. Yeah, in the 70s. It was a grand old time. But yes, we've lived and we've learned,

but we still could use a painting of, you know, I always picture mooning out of a school bus window because that was the first time I saw it. Yeah. Yeah. In the 70s. People would just like, the bus would peel out of the school parking lot and you'd see moons. Moons.

Yeah. I love it. I am firmly against sexual assault and harassment. For sure. Me too. I do love a moon. A comedy moon, like I think I've said when I was super down this summer

and going through tough times and my friend was being so earnestly helpful and then she went to the bathroom and she came back completely naked. Oh yeah. It was the best joke. That was a good friend. It made me laugh so hard.

It was so unexpected. Just she sprinted around the kitchen. You know, I was just realizing I love a moon, but it's not as fun when you see an ass crack. Oh, wait, that's such a crucial part of the moon. No, I know, but I'm saying like, if somebody's pants are hanging down low. Oh, I see what you mean, by accident.

Oh no, that's not as fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And look, I've been guilty mean by accident. Oh, yeah, that's not as fun. Yeah. Yeah. And look, I've been guilty of that before in my life as well. But I'm just saying a full moon is, is what I'm looking for out of a school bus. Yeah. Sort of back in the nineties with low, low rise jeans, low rise skinny jeans. There are a lot of butt cracks. Yeah. Should we hear what's peeking out? Oh yeah. We haven't heard how's the answer. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And songs peeking out. Oh yeah. We haven't heard Al's answer. Oh my gosh. That's right. What is Al's answer? Okay, I'll I'll tell you mine. I'll tell you

mine. Uh I have to say it's the 1976 movie Carrie directed by Brian Brian DePalma. I was a a teenager going to the movie theater with my friends. And I mean, the end of the movie, the scene in the graveyard, that's been duplicated and parodied so many times. In fact, I did a parody of it in my biopic. But the first time I saw it, it was, it kind of freaked me out.

In fact, I remember the scene, of course, is one the other. Carrie's friend is placing a flower on Carrie's grave and Carrie's hand reaches up out of the grave and grabs her friend. And I remember at the time, I literally jumped out of my seat. I was out of my chair and yelling at the screen,

which is something that I've never done since. That apparently as a 16 year old, Alfred Yankovic, that really freaked me out. So thank you for listening and keep in touch. I will, Al. Of course it's Alfred Yankovic. Yeah. Look at me calling him Albert.

I don't deserve his Christmas cards. Hilarious. Oh my God. Yeah, those scary movies leave a mark. Jumping out of your seat is such a, what a compliment to the filmmakers. They're like, boing, boing, boing, like to be so electrified that you're just. I forgot to mention Thomas is also a massive Al fan.

Are you Thomas? Oh yeah, I had all the tapes. Me too. Yeah, just grew up thinking that was a fun, his American Pie parody, I had that memorized. Me too, me too. And also, yeah, just that era, I guess we were similar ages

when Star Wars Episode I came out and that song came out. And it was like, anyone singing those songs at school kind of got the credit of as if they'd written those Weird Al songs, like you were the funny cool kid. Yes, Matthew Burdick knew all the songs and it made him so cool. Yes.

Well, what a treat. It was so great to reconnect with you all after the enduring the fires and to have a great question from Al. We are in Cal. Yeah, always uplifting to talk to you guys and a pledge. Yeah and does anybody have anything coming up? I'm working on my new hour so if anyone lives in Ontario, California, or Oxnard, California, Irvine, California,

or Huntsville, Alabama, I'm doing a bunch of club dates, very intimate shows. So there'll be new material, crowd work, all that good stuff. And then my tour starts after that in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina Carolina and a lot more other dates on my website. Well, I'll say right now that we have the HandsomePod live in Nashville on April 6th, and then we will be also HandsomePod live in Austin, Texas on April 12th. And those are both like 90% sold, so. Yeah, so you better get on it. Get on.

And these are big theaters too. This is gonna be really cool. Yeah. Awesome one's like 2,800 seater. I'm also gonna be in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, June 14th. It feels so weird that it's finally happening, but my music album is coming out. I think when this airs, the single will be out, maybe even two singles.

So it's always helpful if you stream those on Spotify, if you like them. And then I'm doing four big music tour shows, which is so bizarre for me, because I'm not a musician and I'm really nervous and they're big venues, so please come. Nice. February 26th in LA, I'm gonna play the whole album with a band and I'm gonna play a couple covers as well. So March 1st in Toronto at Danforth Music Hall,

March 4th in New York, and then March 9th in London. I haven't been back to England in so long, so please come out to those shows. There's maybe a special guest or two and you'll see me like modeling through playing live for the first time. Will you be getting a haircut from Debbie? Oh my God. Yes. Oh my God. You didn't even occur to me, but yes, I simply must. You simply must.

I'm going to get her to come to the show too. Get a little video. We could post a video of you getting a haircut from Debbie. Yes. Tell her hello. Yeah. And I guess until next time. Keep it handsome.

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