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Lizzy Caplan makes an amazing first impression on Handsome

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Lizzy Caplan makes an amazing first impression on Handsome", an episode of Handsome Podcast published December 9, 2025 (1 h 7 min, about 12,698 words). It mentions 16 people, works and ideas, including Tom Cruise, Lizzy Kaplan, Win Thomas, Come See Me in the Good Light, Debbie Allen.

What this episode is about

In this piece, Lizzy Caplan wittily navigates common everyday dilemmas, such as the importance of memorable first impressions and practical tips on managing holiday preparations. Taking a light-hearted approach, she shares insights on how services like All State and Shipt can enhance efficiency during the busy season, emphasizing convenience and the joy of time spent with loved ones.

Key takeaways

  • Checking insurance quotes is smart; leaving sparkling water out is a recipe for disappointment.
  • Shipt makes holiday stress disappear, proving that convenience is more than just a luxury—it's essential!
  • Who knew a live podcast ticket could double as a perfect holiday gift? Stream joy, not just shows.
  • Want good chemistry? Sit close, just like the hosts—electricity guaranteed, awkwardness optional.
  • In the age of screens, people still believe 'good sides' exist. Hair can be binary, but friendship is fluid!

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Tom Cruise, Allstate, Albertsons, Michaels
  2. – 20:00: Win Thomas, Tom Cruise, Allstate, Honey Love
  3. – 40:00: Lizzy Kaplan, Come See Me in the Good Light
  4. – 1:06:31: Allstate, Lizzy Kaplan, Come See Me in the Good Light

Notable quotes from "Lizzy Caplan makes an amazing first impression on Handsome"

  • You know what's smart? Checking All State First for a quote that could save you hundreds on car insurance. You know what's not smart? Not checking that you put your sparkling water in the fridge.
    about Allstate · at
  • Means I have more time for the good times, keeping the holidays easier, simpler, and more joyful. So get everything you need for the season with Shipped. Download the app or order now at ship.com. That's shipp.com.
    about Shipt · at
  • She wasn't. She made a video. and it was Debbie Allen, Tom Cruz, and then this Oh my god. His name is Win something.
    about Tom Cruise · at
  • Traditional bra without that pesky underwire that makes me happy for the holidays. Treat yourself or someone special to the most comfortable and innovative bras on earth this holiday season. Save 20% off sitewide at honeylove.com/handsome.
    about Honey Love · at
  • This episode of Handsome is brought to you by Graza. Always fresh single origin olive oil. The holidays are basically here and we're here to tell you that olive oil makes the…
    about Graza · at
  • Person on my list. This year, I skipped the panic and the gift card and gave an Aura frame instead. With Aura, all you have to do is download the app and connect to Wi-Fi and…
    about Aura · at
  • Hi, I'm Lissy Kaplan and my question is, what is the worst It's a two-parter.
    about Lizzy Kaplan · at
  • And also, if you have not seen Come See Me in the Good Light, please check it out on Apple TV. it went to the number one spot on Apple, number one movie out of all genres. So good. It is.
    about Come See Me in the Good Light · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Tom Cruise — Person · Referenced celebrity / story subject · 2 mentions · first at
    Central to a long story about Tig Notaro meeting him at the Academy’s Governors Awards and discussing his movie-star persona, work ethic, and the famous 'Tom Cruise cake.'
  • Lizzy Kaplan — Person · Question asker (pre-recorded guest prompt) · 2 mentions · first at
    Introduced as the episode’s question asker; provides a two-part question about first impressions and is later praised for supportive emails to Tig during illness.
  • Win Thomas — Person · Referenced honoree (industry professional) · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a Governors Awards honoree; discussed as a pioneering Black production designer with notable film credits, framed as a standout, 'precious' speaker at the event.
    This I'll get to Tom in a second, but this man wins something. Thomas, can you look up this man's name who won who got this award?
  • Debbie Allen — Person · Referenced honoree / celebrity mention · 1 mention · first at
    Listed as a Governors Awards honoree alongside Tom Cruise and Wynn Thomas, establishing the event’s prestige and context for Tig’s story.
    She wasn't. She made a video. and it was Debbie Allen, Tom Cruz, and then this Oh my god. His name is Win something.
  • Dolly Parton — Person · Referenced honoree / celebrity mention · 1 mention · first at
    Named as one of the Governors Awards honorees (via video message) in the same context as Tom Cruise and Debbie Allen.
    Going? And she was Well, it's just it's like they give these honorary Oscars to different people. It's Dolly Parton.
  • Nina Turner — Person · Referenced celebrity example · 1 mention · first at
    Used as an example in a joke about insuring body parts ('insured her legs'), prompting discussion about insurance and celebrity lore.
    Cuz Tina Turner insured her legs.

Companies & orgs

  • Albertsons — Company · Incidental · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as one of the stores available for delivery via Shipt.
    Holiday season more joyful by helping you save time with sameday delivery on everything you need. Groceries, decor, gifts, and so much more from your favorite local and…
  • Michaels — Company · Incidental · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as one of the stores available for delivery via Shipt.
    Holiday season more joyful by helping you save time with sameday delivery on everything you need. Groceries, decor, gifts, and so much more from your favorite local and…
  • Target — Company · Incidental · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as one of the stores available for delivery via Shipt.
    Holiday season more joyful by helping you save time with sameday delivery on everything you need. Groceries, decor, gifts, and so much more from your favorite local and…
  • PetSmart — Company · Incidental · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as one of the stores available for delivery via Shipt.
    Holiday season more joyful by helping you save time with sameday delivery on everything you need. Groceries, decor, gifts, and so much more from your favorite local and…

Products & tech

Sponsors

  • Allstate — Company · Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at
    Primary sponsor of the podcast, mentioned multiple times with promotional language.
  • Shipt — Company · Sponsor · 4 mentions
    Mentioned as a service providing same-day delivery, likely a sponsor.
  • Aura — Product · Sponsor · 3 mentions
    Promoted as a digital photo frame, suggested as a thoughtful holiday gift.
  • Graza — Product · Sponsor · 3 mentions
    Promoted as a premium olive oil brand, ideal for holiday gifts.
  • Honey Love — Product · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at
    Promoted as a comfortable and innovative bra brand during the podcast.

Full transcript with timestamps

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Northbrook, Illinois. Shipped makes the holiday season more joyful by helping you save time with sameday delivery on everything you need. Groceries, decor, gifts, and so much more from your favorite local and national stores like Albertson's Michaels Target and PetSmart. Shipped is essential for the ingredients and groceries you need for the holidays. With a huge variety of products and stores available for delivery, that means more options for you. And since members get $0 delivery fees on orders over $35, Shipped keeps things convenient and affordable as well. Ship's seasons of savings runs from now to December 28th. With amazing deals on all the holiday essentials, including decor and gifts, you can add more time into your day with same day delivery, meaning more enjoyment and less time in checkout lines. This is my first holiday season in my new house.

And I want to spend as much time as I can enjoying it with my friends as well as just relaxing on my own. And Shipped means I have more time for the good times, keeping the holidays easier, simpler, and more joyful. So get everything you need for the season with Shipped. Download the app or order now at ship.com. That's shipp.com. Hey handsomes, we have a very special live show coming up for the holidays on Monday, December 22nd. Join in the fun and festivities from anywhere in the world by getting your tickets at the link in our social media bio or at dynastytypewriter.com.

Your ticket will allow you to stream the show anytime for a full week. It's the perfect gift for you and all the handsome folks in your life.

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Ho ho ho. Handsome [singing and music] friends on the handsome friends. Cheers.

Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Welcome to the handsome pod. Welcome to you. I mean, listen, welcome. But also, May, I just got a glimpse of that profile of yours. That is good looking. I mean, I've seen it before, but I'm usually looking at you straight on on Zoom.

This is my better side. I can tell. I've seen the other one and not pretty or hands on.

Thank you. Well, you No, look that way. I just Oh, look at that. Look. Oh, let's look at it. What am I looking Oh, that is a good profile, man.

Well, my hair only works from that side. It doesn't I don't know if you have this problem cuz it's like gent. Do we have the same? Yeah. Oh, no. Yours works from both sides. Anyway,

you have more of a a side flip and you have the forward. The forward flip. My hair is more fluid than yours.

Yeah, mine's pretty rigid. Yeah, it's pretty solid. It's binary. It's binary hair.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You both look gorgeous. Oh, thanks. And we're we're a very attractive podcast. We are. It is. Also, every time we're in person and then the episode comes out, someone comments like, "Oh, their chemistry is electric when they're in person." And I love it. I feel it. I feel it's electric right now.

We We uh sat close to each other before we even taped and I got kisses from each of you. Yeah.

Well, only cuz you were reaching to hold my hand while True. Yeah, your hand's cold as ice.

Well, I'm I'm cold as ice. Put it in your cer and warm it up. Fortune. Why are we starting like this?

Put it Why put it in your It's the end of the day for those of y'all who don't know, which is all of you.

It's 5:00 p.m. It's raining outside. It's 5:00 p.m. is the end of the day. What a luxurious life you have.

Well, it gets dark outside. What is there? What else? Oh, it's dark. I got to go home and get to bed.

Got to call it night. The sun's down. Put on my night gown just like you do. I our old neighbors um or neighbor, it was just one woman and uh her name was Yoko. Um Yeah. and she lived next door to us and she This is terri she died in her house but listen

she spoiler yeah she was older she was older but anyway she she just um she wouldn't turn any lights on

she like the Amish like she was going down at bedtime while she died it was turn the light on

cuz she ran to something I would assume she was like had a little candle. A little candle. Yeah. But so she was up at the crack of dawn and then bed.

Always always sweeping her walkway up to her door. Yeah. Yeah. Always sparkly clean.

Yeah. Maybe it was like meditative for her. Mhm. Um we'll never know. We'll never know. We for sure never know the answer to that.

Well, it's good to be with y'all in person. I feel I took my shoes off. I feel really cozy.

You made it very comfortable around here. I still have my shoes on. Me, too. Can I I'm sorry. I just have to check. Uh I have to make sure that this isn't um Stephanie's sick and so I have to like make sure that there isn't anything that is needed.

It feels like a prank. It feels like when you were on Conan and you checked your phone.

Yeah. Also, every time Tig puts her glasses on, I think she's going to take an eye out because it's like this flip motion

and always there's one Yeah. It's cool. And I always think we're just going to take one out. Yeah.

Yes. Those glasses made me think of something that happened to me this weekend.

Well, that's terrible. I'm going to tell you, I have this there's not a lot of things that I have that are expensive. I'm not that kind of gal.

Um, but I did happen to have an expensive pair of sunglasses. Like, what are we talking?

Oliver Peoples. Don't know. I don't know. It's a type of sunglasses like $500. But I but that is unusual for me. I don't spend that kind of money on anything. Yeah,

but I happened to get these and I had them and I like What made you go I'm going to go ahead and drop $500?

I think I got a discount on them. Uh, so I didn't pay it with your Cheesecake Factory.

My Cheesecake Factory gift card I got. I think I got them at like 30% off. Okay, good.

So, that's helpful. Yeah, of course. It's hard to find a pair that's perfect. And I love these cuz they're lightweight. They're super lightweight cuz I don't like the feeling of glasses on me. But my eyes are getting squinnier as I'm getting older and I need to wear sunglasses and I had them on and they were on my head and I don't know for whatever reason I put them on my lap and I was scrolling through my phone and I wanted to show I was showing somebody something and I bent over and my body crushed these glasses into like four parts.

No, just snapped them like a cracker. The the both lenses came out. They're bent. It's like one I'm like they are done.

Did you take a picture of what you had left on your to and put on your face? No, I have I it was Yeah, it was just a frame with one of the things hanging out these just from my big old body just annihilated these sunglasses.

Um did you you don't have uh sunglass insurance? Yeah, I sure don't. I sure don't.

You will rethink that rethink that. Would you ever insure a part of your body? Oh, you know people, you know. Oh.

Oh, God. What would I insure on this body? Like, you know, cuz Tina Turner insured her legs.

Yeah, her gams. Well, that I can see cuz those were gorgeous gams. You're right. Now that you You're right. I just I guess I don't show them off like Tina did in the short skirts.

Kind of do though. And towels and such. Yeah. Yeah. How do you do that? You just call like All State and you're like, "Hey, get a insurance quote."

And they're like, "Let me see your leg." Well, you are you are in good hands. Yeah. You check them first cuz that's smart.

You check all smart, right? Northbrook, Illinois. Yeah. Um, so wait, can we get I'm just I can't relax.

Get to the get to the good stuff. What's the good stuff? I need to hear about who you met that I I whenever I'm asked a question, who would you meet? Who would you have at a dinner party? This person's my answer just because it's like he's another species of person almost. So, can we please talk about it? I don't want to blow I don't want to I want to let you reveal one say that.

Look at your little excited foot. My foot is flexed like it was it's actually give me the give me the

twinkle toes over there. Please. Uh yeah. Hey, would one say this is your doppelganger?

Yeah, one would. Yes. TC. TC Tom Cruz. I met Tom Cruz. You met him? How did this happen?

Well, this is what's so wild is to really think back. The reason I was at the Governor Awards, which I didn't even know what it was or where I was going. I got

the Governor Award Governor Awards. Uh, I got in the car with the one of the producers of Come See Me at the In the Good Light. Um, Jessica, we get in the car. So, she came for she got me. She was in the car and the car picks me up and I get in. I was like,

"So, where what is this? Where are we going?" And she was like, "Well, it's just it's like they give these honorary Oscars to to different people." It's Dolly Parton.

Dolly, was she there? She wasn't. She made a video. Um and um and it was uh Debbie Allen, Tom Cruz, and then this

Oh my god. His name is Win something. He's a What is it when they a magician? No.

Anybody else want to guess what this lime? No. Swimmer. Olympic swimmer. Oh gosh. Xylophone player.

Yes. And he was um No, he's a like a design a set designer, I Oh, I would not have gotten that.

Oh, you didn't get that from them. Yeah. Um, this I'll get to Tom in a second, but this man wins something. Thomas, can you look up this man's name who won who got this award?

Of course, I haven't heard of him. Yeah. It's not like household names that do this job.

This was the single most precious human being I've seen in my life. He's like probably 60s, maybe early 70s. I How old is he, Thomas?

Um, he was his story that he shared, it was so he was the first black man to be hired in that world.

Oh, wow. And is accepted into the academy in that whole world? Yes. Thomas. Win Thomas.

Oh. Oh, Thomas. and he worked on Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, A Beautiful Mind, and Hidden Figures.

Amazing. I mean, I could have listened to him talk forever. I I I can't encourage people enough. Just look up his face. If there is a video of him talking, just the sweetest man alive.

A gosh. Loved it. Anyway, so afterward Oh, it's You didn't know that Tom was going to be there?

No, I knew I knew he was going to be there. I just didn't understand what the governor awards were like. Did you know what they were?

No. Yeah. And so it is every massive actor and director and everybody that's like vying for an Oscar, you know, and it's it's it's just a kind of a stop for that whole world.

And you know, who knows what will happen with my documentary, but it's in that discussion. That's amazing. And um Tom Cruz gets his award and then well I didn't expect this but he was just off of the stage and out and about in the in the audience

just hanging out just he was just normal like walking around. He was looking to do the Cupid shovel on the dance floor

slide. But let's be honest, hanging out meant after the the awards, he appeared on the floor like everybody else at their tables and stuff

and he was surrounded Yeah. by reps and security and people wanting to talk to him and like

that whole scene. Okay. So, I'm like thinking, well, this is the one and only time I'm gonna be in the same room as Tom Groove. You don't you don't get starruck, but you can't help but be adrenalized when

I wasn't even starruck. I was just like, "There's Tom Cruz. I'm going over there and I'm going to meet that guy." And I told Jessica, the producer of the film, I was like, "You follow me." And you get every photo, even if I can't talk to him, you get the closest photo.

Yeah. of me just trying to get in there. Cuz I was like, I'm going for it. I don't care at all. And so she was dying laughing.

I would love to see some security guard pick you up. But that's what was crazy is it's it's not open to the public. So I the security wasn't like really intense or anything. Just people are standing around and um

and I I know his agent. Her name is actually Maha. And I saw her standing there next to him. And I was I mean I was elbowing my way through

the crowd and just I pulled up the picture of me which we'll have to post on Handsome. But I pulled up the picture of me that everybody is always like I mean that's more Tom Cruz than Tom Cruz. And so I pull it up and then and I so I got up to Maha and I said um I said hey um can I just show Tom this picture? and just let him know that if he's looking for a lesbian uh sister uh in any sort of

a stunt double and and then she she was like, "Oh yeah, um Tom uh comedian Tigotaro." And he turned he's like, "Hey, how's it going?" And I said, "Good." I said, "I just want to show you this picture." I said, "If" I said, "That's me, by the way. That's not you." And I said, "So if you ever need a lesbian sibling in any of your action films, Right.

And so he he was looking at it. He was laughing so hard. Of course he was. Not as hard as Jess, my um my producer.

She was like doubled over crying cuz I I wish you could have seen the rounds of people I had that I had no ide.

I have so many followers. You have to understand Tom Cruz is this was partly what was pushing me.

That's Stephanie's favorite actor. She loves him and she thinks he's so handsome. And I I we always joke that she married the DIY lesbian version.

And so I was like, if I can get a picture of the two loves of her life together. And so she was home

and I walked in. She was like, "Oh, how was the night?" And I said, "Good. How's about that? And she's like, "Oh my god."

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Celebrate the season feeling confident and comfortable with Honeylove. Oh my god. Okay. Wait, did he know who you were? Pretend to know who you are.

I doubt it. Okay. But he's smiling at me. He was just like, "Hey, how's it going?" You know, and because his agent introduced us, so he was just

cuz everyone says he's just magnetic and so warm and what's he'll know your name.

So am I. You know, that's what everyone says. [ __ ] I can't believe it happened. And and the picture is incredible. You do have the same smile.

So you think Maha can get him to get a ask a question? Hello, handsome pot. He's like jumping off of a

He's jumping off of a plane asking us a question. Handsome. That would be pretty epic if he would jump off a plane and ask us a question.

I bet he I I'll get it to happen. With his cheeks flapping in the wind. There's always a moment in his movies where he's doing some stunt, but he has to deliver a line and so he's yelling over like a jet engine and his voice goes really high. There's one. Well, first there's red light, green light in Mission Impossible One. Then there's I'm not going to lose you in Mission Impossible 3. I could think of them all. I think there's always a line where he goes super high.

He goes high. Well, they did they showed like uh you know a little thing of like all of the highlights of his career and stuff. And I I was truly there's this one moment on that reel

where he's holding on to a plane side of a plane and it's taking off. Dead reckoning I think.

Wow. Y'all are ghost fans over here. I mean you can keep it in your pants. Here's the thing. I'm sure he's problematic in some ways, but to me he is just one of the last movie stars like that where he when he cries I cry. when he I feel everything that he's feeling like Jerry Maguire it's insane he hasn't won an Oscar yet

I'm glad he got honored is that bad to say because he got an an honorary Oscar like for what just his

contribution you're just starruck over no one so it's no I get I um well musicians you get

I don't feel nervous like I'm not like oh my god there's Tom Cruz like I totally appreciate him but I don't feel um

I don't know I just you just talked about him for so long that it was the cool like

well it just seemed like oh this is going to be so funny and awesome and like I I just I I don't know

so good. Yeah, it was fun. It like we can never get jaded like because that is insane to meet Tom Cruz and get a picture with him. It's so good to like that should be insane to anyone

and and what's really funny is 10 billion people have had pictures with him but it seems so hard to come across. Oh yeah, he's a harder one to meet for sure.

He's hard. It's like a Paul McCartney or an Obama. Like it's that level where you're you want the picture.

They're not just hanging out at the In-N-Out. No, they are not. And they'd like you to think they are, though. Have you seen the clip where they go, Tom, what's your favorite snack? And it's like his brain short circuits like he's never had a snack. He's like, "Oh,

I popcorn. Popcorn's great." Is that a small meal between the meals? But um when we took a picture together, what I I have to say, not only was he very friendly, but he wasn't like rushed. He was he took several pictures and was like, you know what I mean? So, he like hung in the moment, which was nice cuz I

There's nothing worse than feeling like you're intruding. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I did see pictures of him on the dance floor.

I saw those, too. So, he was dancing that night in it to have a good ass time. But for someone like him, that probably was a very big meaningful night because he has been doing movies for so long.

Yeah, that's true. And to finally get an Oscar. He should have had a best supporting actor for Mag.

There's so many performances he should have. Well, I mean, it is wild when you're watching that reel. Yeah.

And then you and like thinking about everything that you hear about his incredible

work ethic. Yeah. just everything. Like the director that [clears throat] was introducing him was talking about how which of course I know of actors that know a script

start to finish forward backwards. But the director was like, "Tom knows like everyone's lines.

Not just everyone's line, but like he's like, "Hey, aren't I supposed to be picking up a you know, like some sort of dire stage direction?" And um and he was like, you know,

he said, "I don't even know my movie that well. He's definitely getting sort of in I mean he's increasingly eccentric but he uh he's his new thing is kind of being like I don't just make movies I am movies like his his thing is like movies.

So how is he getting increasingly well I think he's always been a bit of an oddball and then and then he went through a phase of real eccentricity with with Scientology where he was really like jumping on sofas and stuff but he just keeps making amazing movies and then he uh but just recently his angle is I'm Mr. movies and I I like it. But I would love to meet the guy. I was excited because we went to Zootopia 2 premiere.

That's right. Yes, we had the premiere. All three of us out in the wild. I know. We We hung our little suit hug each other back in our suit.

Proud of you, dude. You You steal the movie. You're so funny in it. So great. I I texted Fortune saying Max and Finn hearing them say to each other, "Hey, bub. Hey, bub. Hey, bub. Hey, bub. It's really the movie's so funny. Um, but I McCaule Kulkin was there and that's huge for me because people say I look like a like child Mccau Kulkin.

I didn't get to meet anyone at that premiere. They on the red carpet the whole time.

Oh man, I like and then and then I was like whisked back to the backstage and then and then off into a corner. Yeah.

And so I didn't get to like Why did they put Baby in a corner? Yeah. What? because they had they had all the voice the voice cast together on the stage. So, everyone's chatting and stuff and then they had the four they had the they put us in the corners to come out

from the side. So, you didn't get to meet anybody you guys and that was it besides like Kiwi Quan and Jennifer Goodwin.

Uhhuh. I said, "Hey, uh I'm May by the way." to McCauley Colin and he went, "Hi, I'm Mac." And I shook his hand and I thought, "I can die a little bit happier." like just I mean

so is it him and Alanis that are your um him Atlantis Paul McCartney Robert Plant

and um David Gilmore the Rose B Midler yeah like the big ones you know well the classic thing that happened at the premiere is uh

oh yeah the TIG moment here well first of all we they were acting like on the red carpet people were like what's your what was your favorite memory of making this movie and like I literally have five words. I have five words and I'm like I think my favorite memory was probably recording my line. I was

alone in a sound booth. Yeah. But then we were so well I was so excited for the big moment and then um I could see it was coming plotwise cuz I knew we were in the prison scene and then I see Tig get up

and leave with with one of the boys to go to the bathroom and I thought uhoh. And then almost as soon as you left us, I saw you get up and leave and I knew. I thought, "Oh my god,

that was hilar Why didn't you chase me down?" I think I did go Tig. Tig. So Tig missed her entire part

going to the bathroom. My son had to go to the bathroom. I can't just let him roam around with all these weird cartoon characters.

Just the timing of it. Hilarious. Of course. Of course. It's classic. And you got back and Stephanie was like, "Uh,

yes." I got back to the scene. She was like, "You missed your part." And I was like, "What?" We were gone for like two or three minutes max.

Yeah. The exact two to three minutes and then I walk in and it done. I didn't Y'all both disguise your voices a lot in the character. I did not.

Should we do our scene? What? Do you remember your line now? I just THINK I WAS LIKE, "YEAH, you're just

I went I'll see you at the lunch table. I have no idea what I was saying. Yeah, I don't remember. But it was uh so classic when I saw that you had not been in there for your part.

You know what? My whole family got dressed up like the premiere. My sons, they love getting dressed up. They had their little suits on.

Oh, they were so cute. I I did really think watching it and with kids in the audience like I I wanted to make something for kids because they're the perfect audience. Like they laugh when it's funny. They're scared when it's scary. They cry when it's sad. Like they just are so their emotions are so present and it it was so satisfying.

I know. I kept looking around to see like what different kids reactions were to the different characters and stuff.

Well, no spoilers, but there's a character who you think is good and then is bad. And I I was with Parvinma and Amma was scandalized by that. Like afterwards it was like did you know he was bad that guy? And it was like no that was pretty tricky. It's like well he was acting really nice to that happens in real life.

Yeah. Seriously. Yeah. People pull a switcheroon on. It's such a fun movie. Yeah.

I Jennifer Goodwin was laughing at me because you know when you tape these voiceover things they don't give you a script. you know, you just have your scene.

Yeah. And so I knew I had like taped a lot for them for like over like the last year and a half.

Yeah. But I didn't know but they changed my job a lot so I would have to re-record quite a bit.

So I just didn't know like what my role in the movie was and I didn't know like uh anything other than like oh this is a cool part. Yeah.

And I had to go to this screen. I had to go to a screening by myself before uh press and I'm like watching the film and because there's a lot of parts of the end where my character is around but I'm not necessarily voicing it.

I'm just doing like grunts or like and I'm like my character is like a main part of this movie and I had no idea.

That's amazing. And so I was just like oh my god this is wild. You're like third billing or something. You're like

I I think four fourth, but like um yeah, when the title card came up and and me and Key were behind Jason and Jennifer, I was like, "Oh my god, this is crazy."

I was I'm like May Martin level. I got like tears in my eyes. I'm like I thought it was just so cool. Like cuz I grew up on Disney movies and I never thought in a million years that I would be a beaver.

Yeah. In a Disney movie. Saw it coming. It's the It is a I I just watched the first one recently and and I really like the universe and that they've made and then I did you meet Jodie Benson on the red carpet, the voice of the original Ariel and

she's in that movie. No, she's on the red carpet. And I got emotional meeting her cuz she her voice is and she's like a true Disney princess where you know that they're good.

A true Disney princess. True Disney princess because none of those fake ones out there.

Yeah. Well, because instead of going, "Oh, nice to meet you." They go, "I I've been so excited to meet you." Like they like you're a kid. Like they go, "It's you. I can't I've been so excited to meet." And I've watched her say it to everybody and say it to kids she'd never met and executives and everyone was like basking in her glow. And

she was magical. So even if she didn't know who you were, she was like, "I've been so excited to meet you."

I saw her say it to these little kids and they were like, "She was waiting for us."

So nice. Yeah. Did she Did she do the voice and sing? Yeah. Oh, wow. unfortunate.

What's up, girl? I forgot to tell you. When I was doing the red carpet Yeah. doing my little pretty pictures and doing my interviews, the guy that I was talking to, he goes, he said, um, and Tig, I have to say, I loved uh I loved uh you hosting Kimmel over the the summer. And I was like, did you? I said, "Oh, that wasn't me." And he goes, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." He said, "You you hosted a few episode a few." I was like, "No, that's fortune. People always get us confused. We're always

always confused for each other." It's just like I Wow, that's hilarious. One day we're going to find out what person who works on Zootopia just likes this podcast and like put us in it.

Yeah. Do we have any knowledge? Yeah, the casting director, she was like "Oh really? cuz uh she said something like May seems surprised like like uh May was like the handsome's in it and she's like yeah that's my design

right yeah I was like what a crazy coincidence we're all in this man it was on it was it was on purpose

that's so great it was a fun night it was a fun night it was great to see Max and Finn in their little suits as well

great to see I didn't even get to see them yeah they were um it's Funny because when they were getting dressed, um, Finn didn't like the outfit I had pulled for him.

Um, and he took it up a notch to like a full black suit with a white button down

and um, and I was like, I'm sorry. You know, I I just had him in a casual blazer and

No, you got to go all out. Cords, but man, he was like, I don't want to wear that.

Yeah, I want to wear Yeah. He was going to Hollywood Boulevard. Yeah. And then Max was like, "I think we should do more of this stuff as a family."

And I was like, you know, like putting on the red. Yeah, they had never been to a premiere.

But um that's cute. Yeah, it was fun. But it was fun to see your little buck teeth, your crooked buck teeth. Um I'm sure

that's the character to clarify. Thanks for that laugh for sure. But I was just like, are they doing that cuz you're from the south?

No, cuz I'm a beaver. But like it all like you can be a beaver not from the south.

Oh, they made the character the character being southern. I mean I can't not be from the south in my voice. I know.

Can you try? Um I I could try I guess to not have a southern Can you do it without making that face?

No, I can't. Your face just became like Julie Andrews. I think that they probably wanted I mean the Marsh Market is sort of like buy you like so I think they wanted

that vibe. Well, you nailed it, kid. Oh, thanks. People were like, "Did uh how did having those beaver teeth affect your voice?" And I was like, "I didn't even think about it."

Oh, yeah. I just did my voice. Yeah. Well, what are you going to do? I don't know if the bees like this.

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You know what's a good beaver cartoon voice is the in Winnie the Pooh there's the beaver who kind of has a whistle

and I was like I didn't even think about the teeth. No, you were you were so yourself like I and made took big swings in your vocal performance. It was really it was so funny.

Thanks. Yeah, it was great. Well done. Thank you. Thank you guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yep.

Well, should we get to our um question? I think we should. So, okay, let's do it.

Today's question asker is an actor who has starred in shows such as Masters of Sex and Party Down, as well as movies including Mean Girls, The People We Hate at the Wedding, and the new movie Now You See Me, Now You Don't. Lizzy Kaplan is asking today's question. Woohoo!

Hi, I'm Lissy Kaplan and my question is, what is the worst It's a two-parter. What is the worst first impression you've ever made? And what is the most incorrect first impression that you've gotten of somebody else from somebody else?

Oh, wow. Lizzy, that's a really funny good question. Yeah, I love Lizzy. Doesn't she live in England now?

You know, I don't know her whereabouts. I believe I thought I think so, but I could be wrong.

Yeah, she was wearing a kind of Britishy sweater that seemed kind of British. Is this British?

That is That's British. I've got on my British coat. This isn't British, by the way.

This is a smoking jacket. Yeah. Cardigan, I don't smoke. The incorrect first impressions is I mean we're probably doing that all the time, projecting our own [ __ ] onto people. And

that was part of that therapy program I did. Did I Did I tell about that part where they said you if you had a bad

reaction to someone in the group, write it down because we were learning like that's my negative projection

cuz didn't y'all have to say to each other then we had to say it to their face. Yeah.

Yeah, I remember that part. Okay. So I did talk about that, right? Yeah. People were people a couple people said they didn't like you.

Yeah. They said I was dismissive and arrogant which you are to be fair. No, I was flabbergasted. But you but I guess the point of the exercise was like

we can't really control other people's experience all the time if they're, you know. Yeah.

Get to have their feelings. Yeah. Did anything jump into your minds about I was just thinking I had a screening. I was at a screening for the uh Come See Me in the Good Light documentary and a childhood friend of mine came and she was telling people at the um like I've known her since we were kids and she was like my mom was so scared of TIG because like well just cuz like I was like you know like not doing well, at school and like I like carried my cigarettes in my pocket up on my shirt and drove a motorcycle and yeah

and but my friend was like but my mother didn't realize that like that was the extent of it like

oh that's so funny like I wonder what Tig's doing. Yeah. Like there wasn't anything.

You weren't running a muck. No. Like I I wasn't I was it was really what you saw was

it was the tude and the cigarettes and the t-shirt and I was a class clown. I smoked cigarettes. I drove a motorcycle. And her mom was just like,

"Hard pass on this one." And then she was saying, and then when my book came out, um it's called I'm just a person. It's a New York Times bestseller. Uh but anyway, um when that came out, my friend Ashley, she said, "And then my mom like sends me your book for Christmas, you know, like and she said, "But

you know, as as kids, we she Ashley was saying I had friends that were like identifying as Christians and and and meanwhile they were all doing drugs and getting trashed and sleeping with everyone and and I I was just like

you're just listening to be like, "Is Ashley home?" You're like, she leans. Um, so that was a bad first impression that lasted.

Yeah. Um, I, you know, I think I'm friendly. I I never see Ashley's mother anymore, but I think she must be over it. But

now she's a fan. She's buying your book. Well, she bought my book and sent it to Ashley. But I think I had a lot of those parents that Right.

kind of were like, "What's up with that one?" Yeah. Yeah. What's up with this dyke?

Yeah. riding in here trying to take our daughters out. Were you Were you uh dating back then?

No. With a bull greasy bull haircut? I don't know. We saw that one photo of you and [clears throat] the stickers flew off the shelf.

Oh, well I was 19 then. Oh, what age are you talking about? I was you know I was I don't know a few years younger than that.

So you hadn't come into your own yet. I hadn't. I really hadn't. What about you guys? I'm sure you have a million bad impressions you've made, both of you. I had an interesting time when I lived in Spain for a I lived in Spain for a year after I graduated college

and during that time I didn't know many people in Spain really one of my what like making friends it was very hard to make friends um and my my good friend from college was also in Sevilla at that same time so we hung out a lot but other than that I was alone a ton and I was also traveling around Europe by myself. Uh so I was constantly alone and I didn't realize that it was really affecting my personality. Um where whereas I was like really, you know, silly. I'm similar now to what I was in college, like boisterous, silly, ridiculous.

And in Spain, I was pretty introverted, pretty quiet and shy. Like it really brought my personality super down to just being very like Yeah. I was like the wallflower. Mhm.

And so when I moved I moved to LA. But you said you kind of were a wallflower when you were younger too.

Yeah. When I was pretty young, you were just like comfortable with your own company too where you were just in Spain by myself constantly. But I didn't realize how quiet I had become.

Yeah. And uh so when I moved to LA that personality came with me and it made it really hard for me to meet friends in LA. My first two years. People thought I was such a dork and had no personality. No one wanted No one wanted to be my friend.

Imagine describing you as someone with no personality. I thought I had Well, cuz I kind of didn't. I was still being demure and like still being quiet.

And so I was just a different person and like no one wanted to be my friend. Yeah.

And so I I met this guy Steve um who was working I I was working for this actress and he was working on her show and he was wearing a Carolina shirt and I was like oh my god someone from North Carolina. It was like

I could breathe like oh my god there's some comfort here and I desperately wanted to be his friend but my desperation was like oozing out of me I guess where he was like

yeah the desperate stank and he thought I had a crush on him. No. Yeah. Cuz you were like

Yeah. Cuz I was just like really wanted to be his friend. And so he was like, "Whoa." Like, so he did not want to be my friend and like would not hang out with me. But I knew I was like,

"We're supposed to be best friends." But you can't tell people that or you're crazy. But I just knew in my gut. I was like, "This is supposed to be my best friend, but I don't know how to make him know that we're supposed to be best friends. And my personality is not great right now.

So I had the I gave him Did you tell him all of that later? We laugh about it now.

Oh, he's who became your roommate? He's became my roommate. Yes. Yes. Yes. So um so I had the worst impression of myself. Um he just was not having it.

Yeah. And then so for months went by, not friends, did not hang out. Uh but somehow we exchanged remember the AOL messenger thing where you could leave like that it was very popular at the time and you could leave like away messages or whatever

and wait what are away messages like when you were like idle not like not there but your computer stayed on.

Okay. You it would say like so and so's offline but it would have like a message like

but I'll be back after I go to the bathroom. Whatever. Yeah. Perfect example. It'll take me about 15 minutes. I'll explain later. Exactly.

See what a crush rotten chicken. I had his AOL thing and my roommate was moving back home

and his roommate was leaving and he put on his messenger that he needed a roommate and I was like this is my end.

Oh my god. And he's like yeah he was like the dork and I'm just like I need a roommate. I and but he's so nice that he didn't like know what to say. So, he just kind of was like,

"All right." And then, of course, I moved in. But once I had a friend, my personality started to come back. And then I ended up being his most fun friend he's ever had in his entire life. You do bring it up a lot where you're like, you thought I was lame. And

he thought I was lame and he thought I had a crush on him, but that's the best.

I wasn't out technically at the time, so I mean I guess Yeah. you know, it it was unclear.

Yeah. But uh I was unclear. But yeah, he definitely um everyone that met me in that first especially year in LA thought I was the biggest store.

Forgetable. Yeah. Like this girl is going to go pack it back up to North Carolina.

That's so funny. I'm trying to think. I'm I mean all through I mean it just I think a lot of parents and my friends and my teens were probably rightly like this is such a pretentious little idiot and then

real pretentious. Oh cuz I was like yeah I'm not really into new music. Like I was like I was literally reading Jack Carowak like

I was such a cliche and like writing in my little notebook and just like so tortured and

a but I'm thinking about But that's all gone away. The torture. Yeah, of course. Now I'm

You grew out of that. I literally go home and read Jack Carrick and write in my notebook and write sad poems. No, I'm still in it. Uh, I'm thinking of I don't know if I've talked about on the pod before because I I'm I sort of don't, but that my uncle married the Queen of England's niece. So, and I was

loyalty. I mean, we were just the lady pickies up. But it's so crazy because it says on my Wikipedia page that I'm like related to the queen, but this is I I swear I'm not an epo baby. like this was so random and and so far from our family and my uncle uh was an actor and a painter and then met this

woman and she goes I'm Princess Margaret's daughter and then and they're an amazing couple anyway.

Oh, Princess Margaret. I went to the that one that princess fortune. So I go to the wedding.

Royalty is speaking. I swear I know. There's no way you're going to convince us.

Royalty. I mean, look at the boots on the floor. It is royal boots right there.

It's so Is he alive? Yeah. I have an an uncle and aunt and cousins and stuff. And when I lived in England, I would see them. They're awesome. They're like they just they're painters and they live in a normal house. But it is bizarre. And um

cuz is she cuz she is in the royal family right? Yeah. And my cousins are like in line to the throne, I guess.

Oh, wow. But I'm I don't like to talk about it cuz it it's cuz it's so not your life. Not my life.

Not your Yeah. Um are where are you in line for the crown? Like because after everyone

love for you to be in that royal family. Would you still do this podcast if you were

I think that the in line to the throne thing should be connected to your IMDb rating. You're

Where are you right now with your rating? You have been number one. I know. Do you? Yeah. You're

451. I'm way down. You have dipped. You have dipped. But Thomas, when you look up chicks later, we were cool.

35. 35 is very high. No, I was one, guys. Yeah, but you don't understand. Not a month ago from like 20 to like 900. Like that is on the way out.

I'm on the way out. Who's number one, Thomas? Who's number one? Uh, fortune 35 is No, I'm not. I'm like 950 or No, I'm like 1,200.

Jacoby. Jacob Lord. Yeah, that's fair. You were in rare air, rarified air, you royal.

But wait, anyway, my the end of this dumb story is that I'm 8 years old and I was living in England and we got to go to the royal wedding which was at the palace. It was in a church and then it was

Diana's wedding. The no to to my uncle's wedding. Oh, that wedding. And we were so excited. And

I got so stoked. May wasn't alive when Princess Diana got married. But you were there. But anyways, everyone

tell us everything. Tell us everything. I wasn't even born yet. May's like I don't like to talk about it, but I was at Princess Diana's.

If you zoom in, you can see me. I'm one of the choir boys. So, they had a royal wedding.

Yeah. And my grandma, this is like imagine a British woman in your 60s at the time or whatever. and you get to go to the ro like she was so excited and everyone was like May when you meet the queen like there'll be a lineup and you have to curtsy and you have to say your your majesty and it was all this protocol and I was eight and I couldn't keep it straight in my head and and uh and that was my worst first impression I think is I panicked they said oh and if anyone asks you about your handbag I had a little purse they go say it's Venetian I don't know why this I remember this like a weird dream so prince Charles comes up to me and goes, "What a lovely handbag." And I went, "It's Venetian."

Is this the dream or is this real? This is real. Lovely handbag. It's Venetian. And I was so mad.

Your legacy will be It was so overwhelming the whole thing that my aunt had to tell me, "You need to stop trying to follow me around and talk to me. I have to talk to other people." Cuz she was like a celebrity. Like a bride is always the celebrity of the wedding. And I was in all the photos, I'm literally just like hanging on to her dress. But anyway, I met the queen and I went for a handshake. Like you're supposed to and I

That's a big no no, right? I couldn't do the curtsy and I just went May Martin.

And what did she so nice? Did she shake your hand though? Yeah, she was like hello.

Oh, I guess it was a child. Everyone was so nice to me. But and then what what would be more exciting to you, meeting the queen or Tom Cruz?

I think you know the answer. TC. It's TC every day. Yeah. It's I mean it was thrilling though but over stimulating and then um I was having driving lessons recently and my driving instructor still oh I'm taking every

I mean it has been two years since you talked about getting this license. Oh right started the pod

May was like I got to get my license. What are you not getting? Well I stopped for

you turn the steering wheel you push go and stop. There's more than that to there's

the ignition parallel parking. I'm turning all the way to the right, then all the way to the left.

Parallel parking is the hardest part of driving everything, but then just don't parallel park for a bit.

Well, my driving instructor, Robert, he he taught the McConna kids how to drive as well as some of the Kardashian kids.

All right. All right. All right. I know. So, I was telling my friend and they were like, "Of course you have the Nepo baby driving instructor because you have Nepo Baby energy." And I don't I don't

You have Nepo Baby Energ. What is that? I they're like, "You don't cook. You take Ubers." Like

I know you do. Uber Eats a lot, right? I I'm turning a new leaf. I'm getting my license.

I'm cooking. I made this week. I made When are you getting your license? December. I'm doing say that and then it'll be years still.

When this comes out, I hopefully you'll have your license. We'll we'll be at the studio next time and we just like a car slams through the wall.

Like the Kool-Aid has their license. Oh, anyways, but that was probably the worst first impression I made to everyone at that wedding cuz

all of the royals. Yeah. And there's a photograph where I'm just lying on my back in my dress in the middle of the grass.

And you get a a pass, I think, when you're eight. Yeah. You're eight, right? Yeah. I met the corgis.

Oh, the cute little There were many of them right? So many of them. Yeah. Yeah. And I met the queen mother and Princess Diana was there briefly

and uh it was a magical day. Princess Diana and I have the same birthday. So, really? Yeah. Kindred Spirits.

No way. And the hair Diana. I I started standup I with She was coming up at the same time.

The day. Nice. Before like right around when she died. Oh, really? Yeah. That's was your first standup.

Yeah. Yeah, it was right around then. Well, I have I can bring this all this whole episode all together.

Bring it. We need that every episode moment. Uh that the I was watching the good, the bad, and the ugly with my family. And then the phone rang and my

grandfather was on the phone. He said, "Princess Diana has died. Turn on the news." And we turned on the news. And the first thing we saw was CNN uh and we have Tom Cruz on the line and it was Tom Cruz calling into CNN saying

the paparazzi, like this is what happened. It was just so weird. The first thing we heard was his take on it and he was really passionate about it.

That is who we want to hear from and yeah worldly. You really did. I did. Right.

Yeah. Is any of it true? None of it. Okay. [clears throat] Not a word. No. I also want to acknowledge like as far as bad first impressions after I said what mine was.

Yeah. I realized that um I as a child and even as an adult for a long time was way more shut off

armor protective. Yeah. hadn't worked through a lot of stuff and I'm certain I made

a ton of terrible first impressions where where I was like, you know, the punk rock, not that I was ever punk rock, but you know, the punk rock kid, like as long as you just say hello to them, they're like, "Hi, but they, you know, the it's scary, you know, and and it's like

they're punk rock usually because there's something going on." Yeah. It's a little soft on the inside.

That's so true. Yeah. And so, um, I realized like, yeah, I think I think, you know, when I got really sick and lost my mother and stuff, it like really cracked me open in a in a very different way.

Yeah. Even going through all this with Andrea and Meg and the movie and, um, I just have a very different

look. Yeah. Um, not look, but, uh, outlook. And um so yeah, I'm sure I made a ton of terrible first impressions.

Well, I have you ever had I when you're in a group or at a dinner party and I've so often I'm like, "This person hates me." Like why this person is so rude to me and then it turns out that they're just a fan or they're nervous and they're like later on they're like, "Oh yeah, I saw that thing and I really liked it." And the whole night I've been going, "This [ __ ] [ __ ] is like I'm just they're they don't even want to look at me and I'm just trying to you know what I mean? creating everything.

When I sat to go back to the Governor's Awards, I sat down. There's an actress next to me and I and I was like, "Oh,

I'm just going to be the one that that says hi." Yeah. Yeah. I didn't I wasn't Yeah.

familiar with her, but I was like, "Hey, I'm Tig." And she's like, "Hi, how are you?" So friendly. And I was like,

"Yeah, it's a reminder to do that, to make the effort." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, well anyway, well, to really bring it full circle with Tom Cruz. He uh is famously famous

famous famous famous famously famously known is it your buck teeth I'm finally doing the voice he have we talked about the Tom Cruz cake

yeah he remembers everyone's name it's coming up soon where people on his list will be getting this Tom Cruz cake

do you think I'm on the list I hope to God that you are cuz if you are I don't I don't think it would be vegan and so I think you should give it to me.

Yeah, you guys. Um coconut coconut. So yeah, I will take it. All I want is halfed Thomas.

I will get for sure. Thomas can have half. I don't need a whole cake. So Thomas is going to have half and I have the other half.

But you do need half a cake and Thomas does need the other half. I do need half a cake.

Um I don't I I mean if I met TC, great. Yeah. Um, but I really just want him to send me one of his cakes.

You can probably You can buy it in Woodland Hills at Don's Bakery. You know where it is?

Yes. I haven't. You got to get one. I've had it before. You can buy them on Gold Belly.

You What is Gold Belly? You've never heard of Gold Belly? No. Have you? You can like buy

two against one Gold Belly. No. Have you, Thomas? We've talked about it on the podcast. You guys don't ever listen to me. It's a It's a website where like restaurants sell their like we're they're known for their cakes or like they're known for their lobster rolls or they're known for their whatever pizza and you can buy that restaurants or whatever company's thing. Yeah.

Uh you know, eight layer pies or whatever. And yeah, the Tom Cruz cake is one of the cakes you can buy.

But you want it specifically from him. I want it from him, but it also is delicious and I will just eat it. Well, you're gonna end up in a action film with him, you know, obviously.

I mean, you will, but also I wouldn't be surprised if you did. Like, if I might end up in it first.

I have to. That's why I got into standup. That's why I got into this biz after Princess.

So, yeah, I'm maybe maybe you'll get a Tom Cruz cake. I'd actually be a bit freaked out if I met him once and then ding-dong, the cake arrives.

Yeah. See, I'm going to be freaked out after meeting him once and I don't get a cake.

Yeah. You're going to be like, "What did I do wrong?" What if Oh my gosh, girl.

Girl, what if girl? Girl, girl, girl. Oh my god. Curly toes. My toes are curled.

What if? Girl, what? He gets me the cake and it's vegan. That would be crazy girl.

Classic TC taking care of TC is TCBN. I cannot wait for my vegan coconut cake. Should we hear uh Lizz's response? Remember we were still going to do that?

Yeah. My answer is uh a bit of a copout, but also true. I feel like my first impressions are always the ones I make are often very bad.

Uh people think that I'm that I think I'm like too cool for school. I've heard that a lot. and uh bad uh first impressions of other people, you know, that I miscalculate uh every time. Everybody. Everybody.

Everybody. So, always her and and always everybody. Always everybody. Always her and always everybody.

Okay, fair enough. Okay, I'm going to remember that. But I have to say when I was sick, Lizzy reached out to me.

Uhhuh. And she said, "Every Friday is TIG day, and I'm going to email and remind you how great you are."

A and she did that. It'd be great if he said, "She never did it." And then never heard from her again.

She's like, "I think Tig's fine now. I can stop doing this, right?" I know. Every now and then I It crosses my mind. And I'm like, should I write her and be like, "What happened to the emails on Fridays?"

That's nice, though. I mean, to do it for someone to do it steadily for that long is unusual,

for sure. But, uh, where are they? Yeah, I believe she's in England. Well, email works, Lizzy.

I guess email works in England, so they say. Who said that? The governor. The governor.

The royals. The governor. Um. Well, well, well, well, you guys, what a delightful way to spend a 5.

You think my hands are cold? Feel this one. Oh my god. Are you like an ice block?

Yes. What's up with y'all? Well, I'm warm now. Got to do this. Frosty. I put my hands in Makudter.

And on that note, in Makuchi. Oh my god. Shout out Kate Makuchi. Kate is a real good sport.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Lordy. Does anyone have anything they'd like to promote? I do.

May go ahead. Well, first of all, I want to say my animal painting books that I made are restocked. And what a great holiday gift. All 100% of the pro feeds. Proceeds. Proceeds.

Proceeds. All the pro feeds. All the pro feeds. All the pro feeds. Famously, Famous Flea Pro.

They all go to Doctors Without Borders and um go to Animal Art by May on on Etsy and there's these paintings and hats and tote bags and stuff, but also I'm on tour starting the end of February and I just added a bunch of extra late shows and I would love people to come to them.

You want people at your show? I for once. Yeah, I'm going to Austin. I know that I need to sell some more tickets there. Uh yeah, anywhere that you like.

Well, I'm also going on tour. Oh, you know. Did I cut off your tour information? Okay.

And you want some people to come to yours or Yeah, I I I have quite a few dates here, but I was just going to mention a few of them. One of them being January 14th in Fort Lauderdale. [screaming]

Yeah. Orlando. Get your keeny out. January 15th in Orlando. Jacksonville, Florida.

Wow. Yeah. January 17th, I'll be there. And then Oklahoma City, February 20th. Midland Texas.

Midland. Come on. Midland. Midland near Odessa. February. Really? February 21st. And then I also wanted to tell you guys about Redbank, New Jersey, April 26th. Brooks, California, May 15th. and Callisbell, Montana, June 11th.

Pretty area. Yes. Beautiful areas that I'll be in. Beautiful. Beautiful. And please come on out. Go to tignotaro.com for the rest of the dates, but I just want to let you know it's different months and different cities and states. All sorts of stuff going on. Heck yeah.

Heck yeah. I'm also on tour. Are you girl? I've got shows coming up in where? I'm in Orlando, Florida. St. Petersburg. Uh

we got uh what else we got? We got Norfick Virginia. I feel like you've been going there for a long time.

That cuz that one got rescheduled. So that's fun. Okay. Uh but it's definitely happening right after Christmas. Salt Lake City. Uh Vancouver. And then uh spend New Year's Eve with me in Seattle, y'all. That's going to be a fun one.

Don't have to tell me twice. Come on. I'm gonna come. And then right after that, Mobile, Alabama, uh, New Orleans, and Atlanta, and a bunch more, I think, uh, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, De Mo, a lot of places. So, yeah, get those tickets.

We're easy to trip over. Yeah, we are. And also, if you have not seen Come See Me in the Good Light, please check it out on Apple TV. Um, it it it went to the number one spot on Apple, number one movie out of all genres. So good. It is really, really something.

Yeah. I met Megan and uh she immediately called me Fortune Marie. Did she? That's real sweet.

Yeah. Isn't she wonderful? It's incredible. Incredible. Um well um yeah, go to handsomepod.com, get your merch, and we got new merch.

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In this piece, Lizzy Caplan wittily navigates common everyday dilemmas, such as the importance of memorable first impressions and practical tips on managing holiday preparations. Taking a light-hearted approach, she shares insights on how services like All State and Shipt can enhance efficiency during the busy season, emphasizing convenience and the joy of time spent with loved ones.

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