Handsome - Seth Meyers asks about passports

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

The hilarious Seth Meyers asks Handsome a question about international travel on a globetrotting episode of the podcast! Plus, the answers to thrilling questions, including: has anyone every told Tig she looks like Tig? Did the handsomes overlap in past lives? And most importantly, should the pod have an inside jokes segment?! 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.

Handsome Pod. Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod. Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod. Cheers. Welcome to the Handsome Pod. I'm Fortune Feimster. I'm Mae Martin. And I am Tig Notaro as always.

It's always me. It's always you. Nothing different. I always think it's funny me. It's always you, nothing different. I always think it's funny when somebody walks up and says, oh my God, is that you? I'm like, well, yeah, it's always gonna be me. Can't get away from yourself. I've had people say, are you somebody?

I go, aren't we all somebody? We're all somebody. Are you somebody is a crazy one. Somebody said to me the other day, no offense that you look like the comedian Tig Notaro. No! I've had that as well. Oh my God, that's crazy.

What did you say? I said, no offense taken, but tis I. And they're like, oh, oh, but tis I. And they're like, oh, oh, nice to meet you. Any no offense is always an offense. Something offended. Always an offense. Don't take this the wrong way, but.

My brother used to always, when we were kids say something really insulting and then go for a joke, for a joke, for a joke. I'm teasing, my bad. That's the thing when jokes don't land and only you thought it was funny, but the person you were joking with didn't. Oh God, yeah, yeah.

So, that happened to you recently? It happens. I mean, I've made jokes that people didn't get and you have to work your way out of that and explain. Well, you're very dry. Sometimes it is hard to know if you're teasing or not. Look, I don't know if I am half the time. Yeah, you're like, I might genuinely hate the person

I'm talking to, I can't tell anymore. How are you guys? It's good to see ya. Yeah, it's good to see you too. That's a weird personality that just took over. It's good to see ya, guys. Yeah, good to have you, new person. I'm lonely, this is.

Aw, because you're in Toronto, right? Yeah, and I haven't been socializing. I've just been working and I haven't seen Parv in weeks and they take her phone away when she's filming. So, I don't know. How long has it been since you've talked to her? Almost three weeks. Yeah.

Wow. Parvati films the kind of stuff that you have to put your phone away. Yeah, no, listen, I'm very secure. I'm in my action hero era. You're very hot. Are you doing action on your show? I'm a cop, so I gotta do gun stuff.

I hate guns, but yeah, no, I killed a kid the other day. Spoiler, yep, stabbed a kid. Unrelated to the show? May's on the run. I'm on the run. Go to Thailand. Yeah. Isn't it hilarious that all of us are in this like action kind of.

It's so stupid. It's so stupid. It's hilarious. Whatever this was world you would call it. Yeah, it's so funny. Takes on a spaceship flying around. You're getting dragged. I'm in the CIA and helicopters and machine guns.

And I'm a cop with a pregnant wife in a creepy town. That is wild. Are you liking how it's coming together? Yeah, yeah, I hope so. It's so hard to tell, right? Till the end. My thing right now is like, if I'm overwhelmed, I just focus on the wrong details.

Like I'm obsessed with getting the rights to this Pink Floyd song. And I'm like, if I can get this song, then the whole thing will be great. And it's like, well, think about the scripts. It is a wild feeling before something comes out after you've put your heart and soul into it. And then you don't know if everyone's going to attack you. Yeah. You're like, well, I had fun. Yeah.

Yeah. We had some laughs on set. We clearly thought it was good. That's why we all came together and worked for an entire year on it. Yeah. I'm leaving Toronto as Tig's coming and you guys will be out there together. And I just ran into Fortune at a party the other night.

Stop it. I did. I know. That was a real curve ball. I didn't know it was gonna be there. Yeah. Talk me through, you see each other across a crowded room, does your face sort of light up?

Well, we saw each other right away. I came up the stairs and there was Tigger Stephanie sitting down and we went, what? What? What? Because they didn't know I was gonna be in town. I really didn't know I was coming back to town. I got like a last minute window off.

So I was like, I'm going back home and flew in that afternoon. And then there you were. Because Jax isn't being sequestered. Right, right. Sequestered. She has access to her phone. But it's funny when I reposted something with Tig and I in it

and everyone's like, where's May? Why would you leave May out? And then you and I, May, when we went to the Atlantis concert, everyone's like, where's Tig? Why would you go without Tig? People think we're a triad and that we're always, we have to always be the three of us. For sure. So, yeah, it was fun though.

It was good to see. I hadn't seen you in person in a minute, so I don't know when I had seen you. And was it probably April? But you guys have met before we have met. No, I'm joking. I'm joking. Yeah, we've we met briefly. I was telling May that are not May Fortune.

I did, and this is not as big of a deal as it's gonna sound because I tread water, I walk every day, but I had a fantasy, cause I used to do long distance cycling, 50 to 100 miles a day. That's nuts. It's nuts. Yeah. And I nuts. Yeah.

And I miss doing that. I like long endurance. Meditative. Yeah, yeah. I really like that kind of stuff. I used to cycle without listening to music and I meditate without, or meditate, I tread water without listening to music.

And when I was in Atlanta months ago, I started to think like, gosh, I really miss doing those kind of endurance, I don't even know what it is, sports, I don't know. Pushing yourself to the brink. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, God, I can't really do that anymore because of my back and different stuff with my body.

And I thought, I feel like I'm somebody that would have been into triathlons. And I could see that. Yeah, I just not like against anybody. Like, I don't like I'm not very competitive. I don't know. That just isn't my thing. But then I thought, oh, well, I can't do a triathlon because I can't run and I can't ride my bike. And I can't do any of the three things.

Yeah, I can't do any of that. And, but then I thought, I looked up if you can do a triathlon, like in a gym, you know? And people do it. And there are different size triathlons, like a super sprint triathlon is the shortest triathlon. And it's like seven minutes of swimming, 30 minutes of cycling and 15 minutes of running.

And I can essentially run on an elliptical or like a stair master type thing. You can bike on a bike machine. On a stationary bike. Now where are you swimming? Where are you swimming today? In my pool. In your pool, right. Yeah, and so, yeah.

But are you swimming in little mini circles? Just laps. Oh, okay. So you could build up to a real triathlon though, it feels like. I could, but I've done two sprint triathlons. Oh, okay. So you could build up to a real triathlon though. I could, but I've done two sprint triathlons. Oh, great. In the past couple of weeks.

And it's been- Great, you're a champion. I feel so, and maybe that's not helping my back. But- You're like, I'm in- A lot of pain, but I did it. Well, we got trapped in that global shutdown. Yeah, you guys, if there's a way to get trapped,

it'll happen to you. Yeah, I'll find it. Yeah, you'll find it. And we rent a car and we drive home, and Max and Finn had never been in a car longer than a few hours. And I mean, we drove from Colorado back to LA and canceled half of our trip.

But when I got home, I was like, well, the rest of my vacation's done. I'm gonna go back to my little fantasy of doing a triathlon. And then I got started doing that. And I feel so proud of myself for doing it. That's amazing. You look like a triathlete. Yeah. Pretty strong. so proud of myself for doing it. That's amazing. You look like a triathlete. Yeah.

Pretty strong. Yeah. I'm not strong. I'm gonna start working on building my strength. I have endurance. Yeah. That's what I- Well, clearly, if you could do that.

A mental bike a hundred miles a day at some point, that's an endurance. Can't do it anymore. It sounds like you have good cardio and good mental fortitude. Yeah, the mental part would be tough for people. Yeah. I've been treading water this week

because I've been in LA. Yeah. And I always have to put on a podcast. Oh really? Yeah, I can't do it. If I am left to my thoughts, I just keep thinking how much longer, when does this stop? Yeah, I am wondering to my thoughts, I just keep thinking, how much longer, when does this stop?

Yeah, I'm wondering what it's doing to my brain and psyche that I'm, because I'm living alone right now and anytime that I'm, if I'm in the bathroom, making breakfast, I'm listening to horrific true crime where it's like, I'm like, what vibrations am I putting in my body? It's like terrible tales. I'm watching a series called like worst roommate ever.

And it's about like, oh, I met this, you watched that? Fortune, it's like, I met this nice guy who's gonna be my roommate and then he killed me. And it's murder. And I live to tell. Murdered the lion lady. And then I went to see Long Legs, that really scary new movie with Nicolas Cage,

that serial killer. And I was like, why do we, why am I doing this? It'ss, that really scary new movie with Nicolas Cage, the serial killer. And I was like, why do we, why am I doing this? It's so, I'm so stressed. So interesting. I had a really weird thing happen. I met my friend and I was meeting his girlfriend for the first time and she's from Taiwan. I was really excited. He talks about her so much.

He's madly in love. And so I meet them and she's kind of nervous to meet me and we're going to see this movie together. And she gives me this present. She's like, I brought it all the way from China and it's like a metal bookmark and a beautiful bracelet and stuff. And I was like, Oh, thanks so much. And I was drinking a bottle of water. And then we go to head into the movie and I went to throw the bottle of water in there recycling. But I just threw the bag with her present in the garbage. Oh no.

Take that. I didn't know I'd done it. You didn't know you did it. They were both looking at me like, what? Because it looked like I just went, oh, thanks so much, and then tossed it in the trash and walked away. And then I was like, oh my God, I had to dive into the trash and get it. You did get it.

I did get it. Yeah. That is hilarious. I fished it out. She's like, it took me 80 days to make this you're like toss Yeah, that would have been such a nice present for somebody to find in it, you know Dump he was beautiful bookmark. Yeah, like a rat crawls out and it's wearing the necklace Classic rat classic are you guys rat phobic? Why haven't we talked about this?

Why haven't we? I'm not a fan. Yeah. Love a rat. You love a rat? I don't know. I, you know, we. Thanks for taking a strong stance though.

We have, our house is covered in ivy. Okay. And the ivy covers our windows too. Oh God, that's a place for rats. Not all windows, but yeah, we have some critters that appear every now and then. And the kitties, we call it rat TV, because they all gather around and stare.

We didn't know what was happening for a while because all three would be sitting there staring at a window. And we're like, oh, there's a rodent in there. I would think ghosts for sure, but they're rats crawling up and down your walls maybe. Well, not like inside our house. I have a burn in that eye.

We have our house rodent proofed. I mean, for now, I guess they could. Don't leave the door open. That's a good idea. Yeah. Or the windows that they're playing in. They would come in through the windows for sure. Yeah, they would come in. They even rang the doorbell the other day. And I was like, I am not falling for this. They're wearing the jewelry that they found in the garbage. For retatooey.

I'm going to be gone for this. They're wearing the jewelry that they found in the garbage. For Ratatouille. Yeah. I do not like them. They really, then in Toronto, they're like dog size. They're giant. Yeah, I do not like them. Giant rats, giant raccoons out there.

Yeah, I like raccoons though, with their little hands. What? Yeah. Not me. You don't like a raccoon? No. Fortune. What, why, why?

Fortune. They're so cute. Why would I like a raccoon? Why? Why? Fortune. They're so cute. Why would I like a raccoon? You don't. Why wouldn't you? They're, they're full of diseases. Aren't they? So, so you don't like people that have diseases?

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I had a raccoon break into my apartment one time and when I was a teenager. It literally it's yeah. Oh, did it have cap or did it have burglar eye? Yeah, like a raccoon. It was a raccoon. Oh wait, did I say rat? I meant raccoon.

Yeah, raccoon. You said raccoon and I was just thinking they have those eyes that are like burglar eyes. Little burglars and they left little, like you could just follow the footprints and see exactly what it had done. And it had really just had the time of its life. Oh, did the raccoon come in there and make the bed?

What did it do? Yeah, it made the bed. Or did it mess things up? No, it went in my cupboards and yeah, left a note saying, but we love raccoons. No, fortune, it didn't make a mess. But we love this adorable raccoon, came in and wreaked havoc.

Cute! Yes. My problem is I always think there's some spiritual significance to seeing an animal. I get hippie, I'm like, oh, what does rats signify? And it's like, no, they're just everywhere. The fact that I saw a rat isn't a message from the universe. Oh my gosh, I saw the funniest clip of Mark Maron's. Tell me. He was talking, you know how

his girlfriend, this is not funny, but his girlfriend died during COVID. Do you know this? Not COVID related. I think she had a very rare blood disease. But the joke, the story, whatever he was talking about, it was essentially he was outside, and of course I'm gonna get this all wrong, but he was hanging out and like a little hummingbird showed up and he was talking about how when you're in a place of grief and stuff, you'll make anything magical and special.

And he said, so he was sitting there looking at this bird thinking like, oh my gosh, of course, that's Lynn. Lynn's come to visit me. It makes all the sense in the world. There she is. That's Lynn. And he was talking about how comforting it was. And then the next day, there were like four hummingbirds. And he was like, what?

What is this? Lynn and all of her dead friends? Who are these people? Who are? It was funny. I thought I loved it eat people. Yeah. It was funny. I thought I loved it so much. She's like, I've made friends. Yeah, these are all my dead friends. She brought three of the Beatles. Oh no, only two of them are.

Yeah. I went to see a psychic a couple of days ago that was recommended to me by Toni Collette who was in my show, the great Tony Collette. And she was like, I have this woman and I don't know. I had a crazy experience. Like some of it was so specific, the stuff that she said. Oh yeah.

That I really don't know what to make of it. Some of it was not accurate. And I was like, I don't know what that means. But then some of it was really, really specific. And anyway, the point is I bought a package of four sessions, so I'm going back and in the next thing, she wants to do past life regressions. And she's like, if there's anyone in your life who you're curious if you have a past life connection with them, we can look into three relationships. So I immediately thought, take Fortune and Thomas.

What? I really want to find out if we have any. If we have a past life connection? Yeah. Wow. Please do tell us when you find out. I did not expect my name, Fortune's name, or Thomas's name to be a part of this.

I thought you were gonna be like, this girlfriend. Yeah, person from England. Well, when it comes down to it and I'm lying there, will I change my mind and not use my three precious things? Maybe, but wouldn't it be interesting if we found out that we were all like on a pirate ship together in like 1700s? We made our way back to each other.

Yeah. I don't think about past lives ever. Really? Yeah. I don't think about past lives ever. Really? Yeah. I don't either. I would be more into the psychic part of like, what does she see? But I don't think about the past as much.

Yeah, I'm into it. I feel like my energy is lousy with like other people's experiences or like past things that I don't, I can't, I don't know what they are. But what do you mean? I don't know what they are. But what do you mean? I don't know what you mean by that, I guess. You think you have some weird past stuff with people?

Or just like, or my own past experiences. You think that your past experiences are dictating your present and future? Yes, yes. It's like I feel the remnants of like stuff that I don't understand or haven't experienced personally myself. Whether that's intergenerational family stuff

or whether I was Aladdin in another life. I could see that. Aladdin on a pirate ship maybe? Yeah, could be. Was Aladdin a real guy? May, I don't know. You're the one with the facts. He's a fact person, I don't know. You're the one with the facts. You're the fact person.

I'm not sure. Do you feel like a sense of peace or something when you go to see a psychic? Like it brings you? To be honest, no. It stirred up a lot of shock. Now I'm like, I gotta go back and talk to all these dead people.

I'm freaking out a little bit, but I think it will bring me peace. Like it is reassuring for me to think that there's, you know, stuff out there that I don't understand. I haven't been to a psychic in so long. If there was a hummingbird, like say I died and a hummingbird came around, would you be like, oh my gosh, there she is?

I don't think I would connect hummingbird to you, but if it was something else. It is my favorite bird. It is? Yes. Okay. Now that you say that, we will connect it. I don't usually connect people to animals either.

Oh really? Yeah. What are you saying? You're completely grounded, Fortune? What if? I feel like energy, you know? I'm definitely an energy person. I don't necessarily feel like my grandmother's around me in ghost form, but I feel the energy

of love. If that makes sense. We should make an agreement that like, so if I tragically die in a car accident, I will Everybody calm down. What am I going to carry this podcast alone? No, I'm going to come to you guys as a raccoon. And that's, I've said it here and I'll stand by it. You're going to come back as a raccoon?

That's the one you're picking? I'm going to come visit you guys if you see a random raccoon. Well clearly May doesn't want to see you again, Fortune. Yeah, because I'm going to shoo guys if you see a random raccoon. Well clearly May doesn't wanna see you again, Fortune. Yeah, because I'm gonna shoo you away. Yeah. You'll get. I'm gonna come back as a rat peeking in your window.

Yo, or picking the animals I don't want near my house. What would you like, a mighty stag or like a- A Pomeranian. A stallion, a Pomeranian, right, right, right. What about a hummingbird? I like hummingbirds too. The hummingbird I always appreciate. Definitely a Pomeranian, right, right, right. What about a hummingbird? I like hummingbirds too. I would, the hummingbird I always appreciate. Definitely a Pomeranian, you'd be welcomed in my house

and treated like a king and queen. I was thinking recently that I should tell Stephanie that when I die, just know that if you talk to me, I hear you and that I'm around. Even though I don't know that I believe that, I still, if she's talking. You're just like, I should tell her that. Well, cause if she's sad and she's trying to talk to me

and connect, I want her to feel like I'm hearing her. Just know. Ro, I'm always with you. I don't know if that's gonna happen. You should just pre-record a bunch of recordings of you going, mm, yes. Go on. Go on.

Oh, he did. Girl, get out of here. Girl, girl. You know, this is unrelated to what we're talking about, but I can't help but mention it. Even though my travels were interrupted, my summer break, and we got home to Los Angeles, I still hopped on a flight and went

to Mr. Thomas's wedding. We have to talk about the wedding. I need highlights. I need, we got it. If there's pictures you're comfortable sharing Thomas on the, on the socials. Thomas got married. We got sent one photo that was so stunning. He's a full blown man now. Yes. Yeah. I, it was so beautiful. Um,

and Thomas and Laura looked just exquisite and it was so touching. Everybody at the ceremony was so nice and but I do I think I told fortune when I ran into her at the party but Mae you don't know this. And I don't know if Thomas knows the extent, but. Uh oh, here we go. Oh my God, what's about to happen? Here comes some more Tig Travels. Is it a Tig Journey? Oh my God.

Tig Journey happens. We were out like two hours away from Toronto and at a lake in cabins. Of course, not a lot of vegan options, not a lot of soy milk decaf lattes or cortados. So I take the rental car and I drive 40 minutes to go get some soy and to get some food. Oh my God.

To go get some cauliflower. Yeah. Driving out there for a carrot and then, well, guess who got a flat tire? Of course. Okay. I get a flat tire 40 minutes away. Because you ran over my grandmother visiting you as a porcupine. Absolutely. Stephanie's like, oh my God, take an Uber back.

And I'm like, there are no Ubers. I can't describe where I am right now. And so the rental car company, AAA, everybody's like, we're sending someone to come pick up the car, then we're having another car being delivered. It'll be there in an hour. Wait, this is not on the day of the wedding, right? Yes, it is. Oh my gosh, take. Yes, it is.

And the clock is ticking. Oh my God, this is like a movie. Well, guess who was stuck for four hours, not an hour. Like on the side of the road? No, in like some weird strip mall. Oh, okay. I was able to drive the car with a completely flat tire at like two miles an hour to this place.

Any vegan food in that strip mall? Well, there was a Starbucks that I got out to. And so I'm sitting there, hanging out for four hours, waiting, and I'm thinking, okay, I'm gonna miss the wedding for sure. Gonna miss this wedding. And there was this app that Thomas had mentioned in an email about a local ride share.

So I had to sign up for the app and order a car, which took, this is not like a car that shows up in three minutes. I mean, it was like a 20 minute wait after, you know, like the nearest car to come to me. It's like grandmother that's just like. No, it was some guy that was so aggressive with his driving and was like riding on like people's asses,

you know, and just riding up on the bumper of the car in front of us and that car slowing down. I'm just like, oh my gosh, I have 40 minutes to go. Time is a tick in. And I'm thinking, am I going to get in a car accident? And this guy's like, I don't know what this guy's problem is. And it was so clear. He was half of this problem. And I get back to the cabin and I'm like, Oh my gosh, okay. I didn't have time to iron my clothes. I couldn't find an iron in the cabin I had rented. So I wet my clothes, throw them in the dryer to dry.

The heat on the dryer didn't work. No. Oh my God. So I just have soaking wet clothes. Freezing cold wet clothes. And I put them back on and I had like, over the bathtub washed, like rinsed my hair, cause I was sweating. It was so insane.

And then, so I, no hairdryer either. I have wet hair, soaking my clothes. And then I just know I have to get to Thomas's wedding and I decide I'm gonna run. And I know I've already said in this, I can't run, it hurts my back. I showed up to his wedding with my back in horrible pain. And then now I'm running.

And I'm like videotaping myself to send to Stephanie. I'm like, I am running to this wedding. I am gonna get there, by God. And meanwhile, in the background, my assistant was on the phone trying to navigate. I had her dealing with it because I knew that if I was gonna be at the wedding, I'm not gonna be able to get this car delivered to me.

We had to reroute the car. So I have footage that I have not shown Thomas yet. I'm at his wedding, which is so beautiful. The backdrop of water. Did I show it to you, Fortune? Yeah, it's so funny. It looks like some out of a movie. Oh my gosh.

This is all a Judd Apatow movie. Okay, I'm filming Thomas and Laura exchanging vows and in the distance there is a like a drive that goes over the the lake and you see a huge tow truck carrying my new car coming down in the background. And I don't think, I don't, Thomas, you didn't see this. And yeah, you're not a paved road. So it's like, no, it was a gravel road, kicking dirt up.

So I'm filming Thomas and I'm like all teary eyed. And then I hear this in the background and I turn around and I capture that. And then I turn back and continue filming Thomas. Oh my God. It's very funny. Oh my God, it was quite an ordeal, but the car got delivered there.

I made it to the wedding and it was so beautiful. I'm just picturing you soaking wet sprinting into a wedding and everybody's there sipping their champagne. And you're like. I mean, truly it was so, oh, and halfway in my run, the school bus is pulling up, which I remembered hearing somebody say that the shuttle for the wedding is going to be a school bus. And I see a school bus driving and I jump in front of the school

bus and I flagged them down and they, they, and I was like, can I get in there? And they're like, yeah. And that was the, the people being shuttled to the wedding. And I get on and I was like, Oh my God, everybody's sitting in the school bus. I go, oh my gosh, I'm sorry. I'm soaking wet. And they're like, I know it's so hot out. And I go, no, no, no, no, no. I don't even know where to begin to tell you. I've been stranded for four hours, 40 minutes away. I blah, blah, blah, got through my clothes in the dryer.

There was no heat in the dryer. I'm soaking wet because of the dryer and my hair. There was no hair dryer. And I've been running down a dirt road. So I wish it ended up being a school bus full of random kids. And you're like, I would have gotten on. Can I get a ride? I would have gotten you to this wedding.

In Canada, they would have definitely taken you to the wedding. For sure. It would have been like Mighty Ducks. Like they would have all got behind you. I'm telling you. Good luck at your game. Yeah. I got there minutes before. Minutes before. That is wild.

Yeah. Anyway. Thomas, I mean, was it a very happy, it would be crazy if you said no, that it wasn't a happy day, but did you, were you emotional? And was it beautiful? I was pretty emotional, yeah.

It was amazing. I mean, I'm still processing it. I was pretty emotional. Yeah, it was amazing. I mean, I'm still processing it. It was incredible. I mean, it was everything we wanted to be and so special. And to just be surrounded by so many loving people from our lives was amazing. And to have Tig there was so special. And it was such a... I have a picture of Tig in a wedding. Oh was so special. And it was such a- I have a picture of TIG in a wedding.

Oh, the short vest. Oh, so cute. TIGs in shorts and flip flops. Yeah. Wait, you wore shorts and flip flops? I had to because- Wait, wait, wait. Wait a second.

Wait a second. I absolutely, that was my choice. I had to do this- What is this fashion faux pas? Because I knew I had to run and the shoes that I had that do this. Why is this fashion faux pas? Because I knew I had to run, and the shoes that I had that I was supposed to wear were nice shoes. Yeah.

And the pants, it was so hot out. That's hilarious. But yeah, it was so beautiful, and it was such a small wedding, and I felt terrible because Stephanie and Max and Finn didn't come because of our travel disaster. I was like, I'll just go.

And it was hilarious because Max was like, we're not going. And I said, no, it's just been too crazy. You guys just need to be home. And he was like, that sucks. Delta's ruined everything. Yeah. Yeah.

Did you go swimming in the lake and stuff after? No, oh. Delta's ruined everything. Yeah, yeah. Did you go swimming in the lake and stuff after? No, no. You were like, goodnight. My back hurt. But anyway, I just had to share that. And it truly was so, so beautiful. So beautiful. Oh, I love that.

Congrats, Mr. Thomas. Congrats, congrats. Thomas. Congrats, Thomas. Thanks, guys. And then as I was leaving, Thomas, as the gentleman that he is, he was like, let me walk you to your car. And I was like, this is your wedding. You don't have to walk me to my car.

And then I said my goodbyes and I burst in hysterical tears. And anyway. Thomas was like, everything was perfect. Except for shorts. Why'd I invite Tig? Don't invite me anywhere. There's gonna be some disaster that happens. Not with the travel involved.

Yeah. I think it's just, yeah, if I invited you somewhere, I just wouldn't let you leave the location. Once you're there, it's like, don't let her think she's gonna get a carrot. Don't tell her there's carrots 40 minutes away. I should start working on shows where I'm quarantined or whatever in one spot.

I mean, can you imagine you on that show, Amazing Race, which is all about just luck of traveling. I would do well. I would do well. You figure out these crazy things, but it would be entertaining to watch you deal with all the hiccups though. Yeah, all the canceled flights.

I make it through though. You do make it. Sometimes on crutches, sometimes with broken wrists and stuff, but you know. You roll into your destination. I make it happen in shorts and flip-flops. If life was a sitcom, anytime you enter a scene, it would be like, sorry, I'm like, does this thing happen? You'd have a different cast on a different...

I just love that you were like, my original flight got canceled. I drove cross country, flew to Toronto, had to get vegan food, got a flat tire, waited four hours, got almost in a wreck, clothes wet, dryer didn't work, and May's like, you wore shorts? Fortune, I'm impressed you recalled all of that in the exact order. That was incredible. Yeah. Should we get to our guest?

Let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. Today's questioner is a comedian, writer, and TV host who hosted Weekend Update on SNL for eight seasons. And from there, he became the host of Late Night on NBC, which he's been hosting since 2014. Our questioner of today is the lovely Seth Myers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, handsome, this is Seth Meyers.

And my question is this, when was the first time you needed a passport to travel? And when you got that passport, were you of the age where you had to do it all? You had to go get a picture taken and you had to go to a proper passport office in a government building? Or were you so little

that someone else, an adult, took a little picture of you and you didn't have to do any of the waiting in line. Fill me in. I mean, if I have been asked this question once. I love him. He's so nice. It feels like a niche passion of his almost. He strikes me as someone who comes from a family who probably traveled early on. It feels like a niche passion of his almost. Yeah. So yeah. He's so handsome.

He strikes me as someone who comes from a family who probably traveled early on. What, based on what, please? I don't know, he and his brother are really tight and they do a lot of stuff together and they seem tight with their parents. They just seem like a little unit that just kind of like adventured together.

I could picture him at sort of eight years old in a suit at the airport. A se I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like,

I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like,

I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like,

I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little boy that I had like, I had a little happened. I feel like he's better at the, there was like a weather situation and the show got canceled and then we had to go back. And then I think, I can't remember, terrible story. Keep that in Thomas. Keep it in. He was the head writer of SNL

when I tested for that show twice, many moons ago. How would you not get that? Yeah. I didn't, they flew me out 2009 and 2010 and I auditioned on stage, you know, with that everyone in the background with the lights, that old Broadway kind of vibe. Mm-hmm.

And he was the head writer. And so he was involved in the decision. No, I mean, I think they weigh in, but ultimately the decision is Lauren. And my feedback at the time was that everybody wanted me and Lauren was on the fence. Oh my God. I thought Chevy Chase made all the decisions. Oh yeah. But yeah, but he was so nice during that whole crazy, very intense.

Were you nervous? Oh, so nervous. Oh, man. What did that look like? Well, because it was early on in my career. I started the comedy in 2005, stand up in 2007. So this is 2009. I'm pretty green. And I grew up watching SNL, it was like my beacon

of like comedy, of like I was obsessed with it, learned the sketches. So, and I had just signed my first manager, like two weeks before I got this audition. I thought my whole career was riding on their yes or no. And if I got a no, that was it. Pack it up and go home. So I put a lot of weight on it. Now I know it would have been cool, but it obviously does not make or break a career. You didn't know Handsome was coming. I did not know that was in my future.

No psychic had told me yet. Did you meet him then or later? That was the first time I met him, yeah. Okay, I really wanna meet him. He's one of the, like a handful of people where I'm like, I think we'd get along. But then that's probably his skill as like a late night host. Everyone feels like they're friends with him.

But he's genuinely nice. Yeah. So you would for sure get along. I feel like he always has such great political angles on his show. Yeah. Like I feel like it's always really well done. Yeah, he's got, yeah, and good vibes.

Yeah. And I like those segments he does with day drinking, he did one day drinking with Rihanna where they got really drunk in the day and the combination of their two energies was pretty electric. It was great. Passports, yeah.

He's saying like the first one ever. Yeah, I think my family traveled a lot. My dad was like a food writer. So there was, when I was three, they put all our stuff in storage and we went on like this trip because he was reviewing all these. For how long?

Hotels, six months. We were on the road. We drove all through Europe. Wait, you put all your stuff in storage, like soldier house type thing? I don't think they owned the house. So yeah, they put. Oh, oh, I see.

Yeah, we were just renting. So they put everything in storage. And then I was three, my brother was seven, and we took six months out of- Do you remember it? Yeah, but maybe that's because there's tons of pictures, but I feel like I vividly remember it. Yeah, I remember them reading Narnia to us in the car.

And I remember one time we missed a ferry, very TIG moment, missed the ferry. There was some like fluke thing. And I remember how Matt, that they weren't speaking to each other, but they were speaking to us. So they were like relaying messages to each other in a tiny car.

It was like, tell your father this. Tell your mother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She just missed a turn. Yeah, seriously. Oh my gosh. But yeah, so I think I had a passport early. You're not so young, yeah.

Yeah. I wonder, I feel like in his story, we're going to find out why this question's important to him because I'm like, is there some experience of going as an adult and lining up and getting... Well, he does, we didn't mention this in the intro, but he does have a podcast about travel, like road trips. Stephanie and I have talked about potentially when Max and Finn are in junior high, packing up and traveling with them for like a year. Whoa.

I was talking to Parv about something similar just as a fantasy, because it's like middle school is so fucking hard and those years, why not? Like you'd learn so much. Get them out of there. Like you guys wanna be in school, right? When we can teach you in Espanol.

I mean, who knows what'll be going on in our lives at that time, but it's really a fantasy of mine to pack up, travel, you know, maybe go out for a month, come home for a month, out for a month, home for a month. Cause of course we'd miss Kitty City. Oh yeah. Yeah. But, uh, and then if that went well, the dream would be two years and then

done with junior high and boom, off to high school you go. Whoa. You know, where you kind of have, I think things a little more together when you get to high school. It'd be cool to do that with a kind of a, I think, things a little more together when you get to high school. A little. It would be cool to do that with a kind of a pod, like another family or another couple of families so that they have like kids their age still, but you're still as a group.

We're their friends. Yeah, sorry, of course. Yeah, you're their best friends. At least you'll have each other. I lived in Spain for a year by myself. It didn't get lonely. Oh, God. But you went on.

You had some, you met some people. I love the Spain story so much. I met some people, but it wouldn't be the same as having a wife and kids with you, you know? Yeah. I do have, it's weird that passports, what is it, every 10 years you renew them, right? So you have these weird little like snapshots.

Oh, did you? It's so weird when a baby has a passport and then what, it lasts for 10 years till they're 10? Yeah, it's like the updated picture. Yeah. Yeah. My family did not travel. My mom traveled a lot when she was younger overseas.

My family, we did not have much money so there was no trips being taken overseas. Our big vacations were like if we drove to Florida in a minivan to go to Disney World or Myrtle Beach was a big hubbub or the beach in North Carolina. My first overseas trip was in college. I went to Mexico twice, two summers in a row

to the Yucatan to study the Mayan ruins. Whoa. I know, I was so into history. You were a historian archaeologist. I really thought at the time that there was an amazing anthropology professor at my college who did this trip. I was like, do I want to become an anthropologist? Then I was like, I don't think that there's much money in that.

Do you want to be an anthropologist? So the business side of me was like, eh, but I loved it. I went to like all these Mayan ruins and studied the culture and the language. It was very neat. We lived in a house right there in the middle of the Yucatan. But at the time, I don't know if this is still the case, you didn't have to have a passport,

you could just take your birth certificate to the airport. Oh, really? And so I didn't get a passport, I took my birth certificate both summers. So I didn't get a passport until I moved to Spain right after I graduated college. And I went to the AAA and got my picture taken. And I was so excited and I remember to the AAA and got my picture taken. And it was, I was so excited.

And I remember my goal was like, this was my first passport. I was moving to Spain. I was going to travel, travel all over Europe. I was so pumped every time I got a new stamp. Yeah. The stamps. And I would go through the passport looking at all the stamps that I was getting. I thought it was the coolest thing.

That is pretty fucking cool, yeah. I still love getting a stamp in there. God, I got a stamp. I'm 53. Sometimes they don't stamp because there are programs that are all computerized, not everywhere, but some of the places don't stamp now. And you're like, I don't want a stamp. Yeah, stamp me.

I one time, did I tell you that I one time was booking a trip for me and my girlfriend at the time? And then, so I needed her passport details to book the flights online and I opened her passport and she lied about her age by three years to me for a year. Up or down? It's always down. She said she was younger than she was, yeah.

Oh, you thought she was a teenager by accident? What did you do with that information? I eventually said, okay, I booked this trip, but also, hey. Also, you're a liar. Oh, yeah. That would be weird to find that out. Should have been a red flag early on. Like one year, maybe, I don't know, three years.

One year is even weird. It's weird either way. When I picture myself telling Stephanie that I am an age that I am not. It's strange. It's so strange, that is correct. It is strange. When my grandma died, it turned out that she'd lied.

She was still a practicing, like an agent working, and she'd lied to all her clients because they wouldn't have wanted a 90 year old agent. They all thought she was like 80. I give you a jab. That's better. To have an 80 year old agent. That I understand.

In all fairness, most people don't want a 90 year old agent, an 80 year old agent pushing it. I mean 80, yeah. Look, you could be the president of the United States. And I don't wanna like make any people feel bad, all of our 90 year old listeners. Of which there are many. So many, an 80 year old, I mean, that's our sweet spot,

the 80 to 90 year olds. Yeah, I feel like anyone pushing. Thank you for listening. Anyone pushing 80 should be retiring or long retired. Really? For your own purposes. I mean, as an agent or just a person? As a person, like they should be able to enjoy life and not be.

But what if you're enjoying life doing what you do? Yeah, what if you love it? She loved her job. I mean, she still used a typewriter. A typewriter? She had like an assistant who would transcribe and do emailing and stuff. She had an assistant that had a beeper, a pager.

A pager, yeah, yeah, yeah. So she was with the time. She was no fool. Yeah. That is so deeply funny. A 90 year old agent with a typewriter. She was really good at her job. Dear client, you have an audition.

Please write back and let me know if you will be able to make it. The carrion pigeon will bring this message to you. Can you please return via carry a pigeon by the end of the day. Before springtime. Her assistant was, I should look her up. She was this hilarious woman who, I guess when I was about six, she must've been in her forties, this woman.

And I remember going to my grandma's office and I would just hang out with Lucy who was in her 40s and we came up with this game that was like if you drink some of this said she was 40. Yeah, who knows 43. And she said, if you are we said if you drink this potion you have to do a dare that the other one gives you. And this is like we would cry laughing and I was six and she was for me. We were like best buds. And I gave her a dare and I said, go into my grandma's office where my grandma was quite buttoned up.

She's got clients in there. I'm like, get on the floor and do Swan Lake, like ballet. And she went and did it. And everyone was like, what's happening? Yeah, it was really, it was almost like a kind of jackass style prank. But as a six year old to see an adult.

What do you think your grandmother's reaction was? She laughed, yeah. I'm gonna say, you do amuse me. Oh, now that is funny. With a British accent. Let me make a note of that. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. I don't ever wanna forget.

Click, click, click, click, click, click, click. That. I don't ever wanna forget. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click. That is funny. Do you remember the first time you got a passport, Tig? I do. I remember it quite well. Really? I was 29. Whoa.

Yeah. Okay, later on. Yeah, I didn't leave the country, aside from Canada, I guess, and Mexico. And yeah, it was the days that I was an assistant at the production company that did the show, Xena. Oh, that's right. Oh my God. Yeah, and Xena is filmed in New Zealand.

Yeah. That is right. And so when the show was ending, I went out there with my friend Andy, who worked at the company and the two of us went out to Auckland for the very- To visit set? I can't even remember if we visited Set.

Maybe we did, but we traveled all over. And, but yeah, that was my first time to get a passport and I just loved New Zealand. Have you been there? Never. That's so- Queenstown might be one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

Really? Is that in the South Island? Yes. Yeah, I didn't make it to the South Island, was only in the North Island. It's like you feel like you're on another planet. That's how the whole country is. Yeah. I gotta go.

You know, there's no snakes in New Zealand. I like that. Yeah, yeah. But very steep, the steepest road on Earth is there. Oh, really? Yeah. May fact. Auckland's like kind of a city city. It's pretty, but like some of those islands

and some of the places beyond outside of the city is just like breathtaking. And it feels very safe and very clean and very it's just like breathtaking. And it feels very safe and very clean and very, it's just like magical. Yes. We need to, I can't believe that you know Lucy Lawless and like their proximity to Zena at the time. It was so huge for me. I just, we gotta make good on that.

We gotta get Lucy Lawless. We gotta make good on that. And I told you she was at my wedding in Mississippi. Yeah, that's fucking crazy. That's crazy. Zena Warrior Princess in small town Mississippi. Oh my God. And is she very tall?

She's 5'10". Yeah, yeah. That's my height. Amazonian Warrior Princess. That's how I'm often described. And they hired Renee O'Connor who played her sidekick on the show. She's very short and that was just to kind of accentuate

the size difference between them. I mean, there must be a lot of fan fiction out there about those two. Oh my gosh, yes indeed. In my brain when I was a kid. Anyways, should we hear what Seth has to say? Let's do it. Let's do it.

My answer to that question is I was hired by an American comedy theater club, Boom Chicago, in Amsterdam. I had finished college. I'd never traveled anywhere where I needed a passport. And I wish I still had it. After it was defunct, so 10 years after I got it, I lost the old one and I wish I still had it

because I would thumb through it and I would look at all those old stamps and I would think to myself, ah, the carefree days of my youth before children when I would just jet set around and look how young I looked. Look at that young man's face. Anyway, save your passports, save your passports. Travel the world.

Yeah. His voice there at the end sounded like maybe he was friends with your grandmother. Travel the world. Click, there at the end sounded like maybe he was friends with your grandmother. Travel the world. Click, click, click, click. Travel the world. Travel the world. Save your passport.

Remember your youth. I am glad I did that. I am glad I couldn't do it now. I have too many responsibilities, but I'm so happy that I took a year to just live abroad, travel, be on trains, live in hostels. I had no money. I was so broke. It was such an eye-opening, like a small town girl who had never really seen that kind of thing. It really was significant. I'm amazed that you haven't started singing Journey. I was waiting for... Just a small town girl. There we go.

There we go. Living in a España world. Oh, nice. I remember that's... España means Spain in Spanish. Oh, thank you, Fortune. You're welcome. So fluent.

Are you fluent? No. Did you say that in Spanish? No. No. I speak a little Spanish. I did all right 21 years ago when I was there. I could get by, but in Spain, that's very difficult.

They speak very fast and with their tongue, everything's like, gracias, tomo de piña. Spain, that's very difficult. They speak very fast and with their tongue, everything's like, gracias, tumble de piña. Well, slow down for a second. That was pretty expensive. I cannot understand a word you are saying. Is there a place you spent the most time? In Sevilla is where I lived.

What's your place you spent the most time? In Sevilla is where I lived. Sevilla, above them. And then I went on four different excursions where I traveled Europe for two weeks on trains. Yeah. All of Western Europe, not Eastern Europe. Were you hopping trains? Hopping trains, staying in hostels.

But without a ticket? No, I'm a rule follower. I had a ticket. I had the Eurorail pass. Oh, okay. You were trying to pay them more money as you got on. That's right. I'm a real follower, I had a ticket. I had the URL pass. Okay. You were trying to pay them more money as you got on. That's right. And I just was broke every day.

You were broke because you were just throwing your cash all around. Sleeping in a hostel with like 16 people in the room. Oh my God, and you don't like rats? That sounds like a worse nightmare to me, having 16 people in the room. Oh my God, and you don't like rats? That sounds like a worse nightmare to me, having 16 people in the room. You'd rather have 16 rats. I'd like, not one rat, I'd take a rat and a raccoon.

Over 16 people in a room? Over 16 people in a room. It's not ideal. No. I did stay in a hostel in Barcelona, and I only had a short time in the city, and I was so excited to explore. And then I got so drunk the first night with my friend that we were violently ill. And

the next day we spent the whole day in the dark in the hostel in the like shared living space with like six guys from Argentina just watching Fight Club. And you said everything that stays in Barcelona, have this in Barcelona, stay in Barcelona. Or however the saying goes. Somebody print that on a bumper sticker. Is that Vegas? What's Fight Club?

Oh, no one, that's the Vegas thing. Oh, you're trying to think of the Fight Club thing? No one talks about Fight Club. It's very catchy, Fortune. What's the Fight Club thing? No one talks about Fight Club. Anyone that fights in Barcelona stays in Vegas. I was quoting Vegas as a catchphrase.

Fight Club has a catchphrase. The first rule of Fight Club, don't talk about Fight Club. Don't talk about Fight Club, thank you, May. Yeah, it also has this part where they- I've been following the rules for years. There's a guy in the movie, I think Meat Loaf plays a character who dies in the movie called like Robert Palmer or something.

They're like, remember Robert Palmer, something like that. And then me and my friend bought a cauliflower and we were going, remember cauliflower. And we thought it was great. Anyway. We should have a segment where we share inside jokes. Do not work out. We only laugh at ourselves.

Oh my God. We're like, oh my God, when I was in seventh grade, my friend and I used to be like, pretty. Anyway, it's a long story. It's a long story. What a podcast. What a podcast. What a podcast. Well, podcast. What a podcast.

Well, thank you to Seth Meyers. Thank you. Yeah, yeah. I hope to meet you one day. Was that needy? No, it's great. I'm sure you'll do a show at some point. No, it's great.

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