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Pretty little episode.

Well, what are the answer for this is, you're pretty little episode, I'm fortune-fimster,

and I'm Tegno Taro, and we're so happy to be talking to you and each other.

I guess what I've been, I don't know if you knew this, but one of my favorite desserts

is an off-fagato.

I've forgotten about that.

Nice.

I still got it.

I mean, for those of you that don't speak Italian, no?

My puppy was a Pasquale in the tarot.

It's a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

That's it?

No.

And a shot of espresso.

And you pour the espresso on top of the ice cream and it becomes this delightful, like,

coffee, soft, coffee ice cream kind of thing.

It's so good.

And I always would get so excited when one of these would be on a menu at a, usually

an Italian restaurant.

And I went to Trader Joe's and they, you know, like mini grocery stores, they had vanilla

ice cream.

And it finally occurred to me after all these years that I could make my own.

Oh, good.

I'm in the chair if this story was going anywhere.

So I know I've been making my own off-fagato.

Oh, you have one there?

I just ate it.

Oh, well, congrats.

What a day you're having.

It's Sunday.

You have the day off, aside from hanging out with me.

That's right.

Yeah.

Fagato.

I got my girl, Atlanta's on my shirt.

Mm-hmm.

Isn't it ironic?

Now I love coffee ice cream.

Oh, it's so good.

No.

Why?

Have you had Van Luen's coffee ice cream?

I bet there's a vegan version.

I don't know.

I don't think I've had vegan coffee ice cream.

Well, Van Luen has a lot of vegan options.

I don't need to be yelled at.

You should try it, though.

They're okay.

They're one of my favorite ice cream places.

Where do I get it?

It's an actual shop.

There's a Van Luen on right by UCB.

Okay.

Oh, yeah.

It's an actual shop.

Right.

But they have tons of vegan flavors.

I'm going to head in there and demand a coffee.

Thank you.

Okay.

Well, I like that.

And I like mint chocolate chip.

Yeah.

I like chocolate.

Yeah.

Vegan chocolate is easy to make, I think, right?

Mm-hmm.

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That was so good back then and now I think that's so disgusting.

So disgusting.

Those frozen little gumballs that don't really stick together and like, oh, what are

you doing?

You're like trying to keep a gumball in one cheek and eat the ice cream and fall apart

in your mouth.

And it's just, ugh.

Why am I ruining this episode by bringing this up?

But I, yeah, it's funny when I didn't realize I could do for myself that I can now

do.

Look at you just cooking up a storm.

I also put a turkey corn dog in an air fryer and it tastes just like a, okay, stay fair.

Corn dog.

You need to get out of the house.

What is happening over there?

I'm doing like a bachelor right now.

Yeah.

Just microwaving corn dog.

Corn dog.

Corn your coffee on your ice and you're on a lump of ice cream.

I'm fine, everybody.

Every day we do me a huge favor.

Thank a picture of my meals for you.

And not just that.

But put a candle in your ice cream and make a wish and blow it out every day.

Yes.

Okay.

Oh my god.

It is, it is so funny, like living alone again.

I have gone wild on buying all these frozen food things, which I know are terrible for

me.

Uh-huh.

But, you know, I, frozen foods meeting ice cream.

No, like, um, like, you know, Trader Joe's has all those, like apps, you know, like,

little mushroom tart and jalapeno poppers and, wait, have I told you my friend Steph calls

her romantic partner, anything in the frozen department of Trader Joe's.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah.

Like, pop jalapeno pop, yeah.

Any of those names.

That's right.

Steph.

She's one of the producers on Come, Samey and the Good Life.

That's right.

Well, I was never, we never had those when I was married and now I just went buck wild

and got some, and I have to taper that off and start eating real food again.

And what are your favorite little dishes?

They have, um, the, these, like, Chris, it's almost like a crab rangoon kind of thing,

but with, I wonder if he knows.

Oh, I wonder if he knows.

He calls her girlfriend, crab rangoon.

Crab rangoon.

I love the little pastry puffs with, it's like a little cheese in it and a caramel

was onion.

Oh, feta and the caramel was, I know those are so good.

Uh-huh.

I love a pig, pig in the blanket.

Yeah.

I don't know if her girlfriend would appreciate being called that.

Hello.

What's a pig in a blanket?

I'm called TIG in a blanket, when I'm sleeping, of course.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I got to, I got to make real food like you and Stephanie.

Mm-hmm.

Are you using your dike dust lately?

I haven't been.

I've been, I'm, you know how sometimes it takes a beat.

In certain ways, I immediately come home and get back into my life and other things

when I'm away from it, I need to ease back in.

Like I haven't fully ease back into my smoothie routine and, or dike dust.

But when I get home every time, I unzip my suitcase, unpack, start doing laundry, put everything

away, put my suitcase away.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Get it right to that.

But Stephanie is the same way and we found each other on this planet.

That's funny.

I thought at first you were going to say I unzip my pants.

So we go.

All right, let's go play about play.

Yeah.

Because you were like, I unzip my, I thought you were going to unzip my pants.

No, it wasn't sexual.

I unzip my pants.

I know it was sexual.

I can tell by the way you're looking at me.

It wasn't sexual.

Yes, it was.

It wasn't sexual.

I'm cutting you off there and I'd like to get into our questions.

Fine.

Fine.

I don't need that.

I didn't have any energy because I just had an officado.

Yeah.

Well.

Did you like my officado joke?

I forgot about that.

About that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Got to.

Okay.

Hi.

Hi, my name is Amelia.

My name is Anna and we're best buddies from Portland, Oregon.

Yeah.

Amelia, who we call Mima, is our tag, and Anna, who we call Sisa, is our May, and our question,

or advice, or advice, sorry, is, what's your best advice for long-lasting friendship?

We're trying to be 78, 96, as high as we can get knitting together still.

For reference, we are now in our, what, 30s.

So get a long way to go.

Oh, did they not have a fortune?

Yeah, I know. It's sad.

You're hard to replicate, I guess.

You can't find, you know, we had a hard time finding you.

You know, when I've been waiting for a girl like you.

Is that what you used to say?

Yeah, foreigner.

Mm-hmm.

That makes good long.

I mean, I've had my totes BFF ever since.

I mean, you know, after a certain age, I don't like to use the phrase best friend.

It feels very much like elementary school playground.

Because I still have, I don't have one person.

I have a group of people

that I've been close with since I was a child.

Right.

And they are still very big in my life.

And very important to me.

And I'm so lucky that we still connect.

And I think a lot of that is, you know, we're spread out,

different places, some here, some in Texas,

some went to Washington State summer.

You know, you get the idea.

No, name all the places.

We don't have time.

This is a little episode.

I don't know where everyone is.

But I think that we, you know, we really enjoy each other.

And you know, it's, it's those kind of friendships where you just sit together

and connect the whole day and night.

And it's still not enough of talking and hanging out.

And to me, it's just the greatest feeling.

And like being able to bring up,

oh, remember that argument we had?

Or, oh, remember, when we did this or like,

people that you've had so many different experiences with

of losing loved ones together, breakups, divorces,

loaning people, money, all of that.

It's, you have to be so all in

in those kind of friendships.

And it's interesting when you think you're all in

and then there's some points that clearly are not.

And then you go, okay, well, we're not, we're not those kind of friends.

But, but when you see that in and you're like, I'm there, I'm, I'm,

it's, there's nothing better.

Yeah.

And I think also some good ribbing is good.

Yeah.

I always think it's, I always think it's really fun to,

to tease, to tease your friends.

To tease each other, you know.

Yeah.

Like we do on the hands of Pod.

That's right. A little teasing is fun.

Yeah.

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Yeah. I mean, you know, friendships go through different phases.

Like I have friends that I've known since childhood.

I have friends that I was like super close to at some point.

And then you kind of lose touch.

And then sometimes it comes back around.

Yes, sometimes it comes back around.

Sometimes you kind of grow apart.

And that thing just kind of exists in the past where it was.

And it was great for that time.

We've talked about it before.

Season, reason, lifetime with different friendships.

You know, like my friend Brian, I saw him over Christmas.

He and I have literally known each other since birth.

I think I was being born when they brought him to the hospital

for something as an infant.

Yeah.

And you know, I'm just chatting with him and his husband over Christmas.

And we will go months and months without seeing each other and then pick right up.

And yeah, friends from college that I, you know,

will catch up with and stuff like that.

I have my best friends quote unquote.

Our group of girls I've known out in L.A.

for like 15 to 20 years.

And same thing.

Like, you know, they were really there for me during my divorce.

And we have a, we have a friend going through some things right now.

And it's kind of cool to see everyone just rally around this friend.

And yeah.

Yeah, you just, I think like,

it's just kind of showing up for each other.

That's part of it.

If you want to keep this friendship going like you said

for till you're, you know,

however much old you just have to show up for each other.

It's up to two of you.

Yeah.

How long you want that friendship to last,

which means you have to water the plant every, you know,

you can't let it be neglected.

It's not to say you want a friendship where always,

if you're like one of those friendships where you're always

watering the plant, it's a, you, those get old.

Yeah.

But when it's effortlessly watered, that's nice.

But yeah, I think just having a sort of similar vibe of like,

if you like to do the same things,

if you understand each other's humor,

if you both make efforts,

that leads to a long lasting friendship.

For sure.

I mean, that's any relationship.

And it does, it's so simple to say,

you just have to show up.

But for anything, it's really true.

Yeah.

It's half of the battle is like show up,

even when it's a hard time,

even if it's a celebratory time,

even if it's just a boring old ding dong day.

Just showing up is like,

there's nothing better than that feeling.

And then whatever comes after that,

yeah, you're all set.

Yeah, for sure.

All right, no answer to that.

Let's move it along, little Dalgie.

Yeah.

Hey there, Sabrina from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Popping in with a question for you three.

I'm curious if you could be behind the scenes

of some creative endeavor as an observer.

It could be art, it could be comedy,

it could be theater, it could be music.

And if you could see the kind of behind the scenes

building of something,

who would you want to be in the room

with observing their process?

And why?

That's very interesting.

Yeah.

You know, I think I would go towards cooking.

Yeah, Stephanie and I cook at home,

but it's not like either of us are like full-blown chefs.

And I mean,

what is better than

watching anyone be incredible at what they do?

Something you thought you had no interest in.

And then you see somebody on stilts

that which I saw at our kids' school gathering.

Some woman was walking around on stilts

and I was like, oh my, like,

that would be fascinating to watch.

Somebody learned to do that kind of

talent, but I think for me,

because I, and garden, you know what?

I'm going to say gardening.

Gardening, gardening, gardening.

There is a chef

and he put out an incredible book,

his name's Timothy and his book is called Mississippi Vegan.

And just unbelievable in his talents.

And he made food for me once,

walked me through his garden.

And I was just, it's a world I'm so interested in,

but I haven't, I haven't explored it.

But I can feel that side of me where I'm like,

whoa, how do you do this?

It's, you know, people could think it's as simple as you plant

some seeds and you water it.

Like you said, watering the plant.

But there's so much to gardening.

There's so much to cooking.

So I would love to watch somebody.

I'm sure that sounds like hell to,

it's like fishing, you know,

if those channels where you can watch someone fish all day,

they still love those when I was little.

But we're watching someone paint.

Where to begin?

All of that stuff.

I love it.

Well, I would imagine there are a lot of many chefs

that gardening is a part of their work as well.

Because like when I ate at the French laundry,

that was like one of the most memorable meals I've ever had.

And they were talking about the garden

across the road that they grew all the stuff,

like all the vegetables and stuff there.

And that's like such a huge part of the restaurant.

Can we talk for one second about the French laundry?

Yeah.

Was it hard for you to get in?

Because I was gifted a meal there for two.

Yeah.

Thomas, did you work for me when I got this?

Yes, I remember this.

I have never been able to get a reservation.

Oh, really?

To eat there.

No, never.

And I have the...

Look, right here.

Oh, yeah.

Well, you have to go.

Um, I like call.

I...

Yeah, it's very hard.

It's very, very hard to get a reservation.

I happen to have someone reach out

who was a fan of my comedy who worked there.

So I was able to go, but I don't have their contact info.

Anymore, which is a bummer and that someone's contact info

I really would like to have.

So, yeah, it's very difficult.

I mean, you can't get a reservation,

but you have to be very active about

they open up at a certain time.

It's like a whole thing to it.

Maybe she's listening right now.

I lost her contact info and I was left with a reconnect.

Anyone knows anyone at French laundry?

Right here.

Well, they ended up making it a very special experience.

She doesn't work there now, but she did forever.

Yeah.

So she knows all the people,

but they made it a really incredible experience

in that they,

personalized, they brought me a hooters.

Well, it's a long story.

It made it very special.

They made a Chili's Triple Dipper

for me based on my,

their version of it,

based on my special.

That is hilarious.

And I was like, this isn't saying I can't,

and they made a hooters chick,

their version of a hooters' chicken wing.

And they put it on that they print the menu out for you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I was like, I can't believe the French laundry.

Yeah.

It's doing something for me based on my specials.

Like it just blew my mind.

Because it is incredible.

Yeah.

But it's not.

I wouldn't know.

Well, you, you all love it.

And I imagine they,

I would think they do have a vegan.

I think they have a vegan option.

I would definitely need to find out that.

Um, but it's different than what you think.

It's like the restaurant is pretty small.

And they play like rock and roll music.

You know, it's like this playlist of like modern songs

that you don't, you can't expect this stuffy.

Yeah, yeah, it's not that at all.

And then, but they do like iron the linens

and the service is incredible.

The food is incredible.

Yeah, it was, it was a special experience.

Good for you.

Well, maybe I have literally had this

for probably eight years.

Oh, yeah.

We got to figure this out.

I've had assistance like stay on it.

Like they're going to open up the phone lines.

You can get reservations this day.

You're going to, but can't get it.

Oh man.

If anyone knows anyone in French laundry,

I'm sitting here eight years in

with things they would really like to get.

I was gifted at dinner for two.

I'd love to come.

Anyway, that's not what we're talking about.

That's not what we're talking about.

But here we are.

I would like to, I think I would want to go music.

I would be very curious like how they

like rehearsed for like the musical Hamilton

and something like that.

All those amazing talented singers

coming together.

Yeah, like how Taylor Swift

decides her concert, like puts a playlist together.

And that would be a very cool thing

to like watch in on.

But then like people that are just

were always at the top of their game.

I would have liked to have seen Oprah

when she was a talk show host prep for that.

I would have said Will Ferrell at one point

to see how he works.

And I then got to shoot the show with him

and see it firsthand.

So that felt like a dream come true.

But yeah, just people that are very good at their

whatever it is that they do.

How they prepare for that.

Yeah, that's the thing is it's

anything would be so fascinating.

To watch someone so good at what they do.

All right, well, um,

does Sabrina have an answer?

For me, the answer.

There's a couple.

I would love to be in a jam session

with arcade fire because they pull out

the most random instruments.

And I think there's something so

incredible about musicians jamming.

And it also love to be

behind the scenes of the late show with Stephen Colbert.

Those are my answers.

Thanks so much.

Nice.

Amazing.

That's a good answer.

Sabrina Sabrina.

What if that's Sabrina Carpenter?

She's like, I've seen Taylor Swift prep.

Yeah.

Been on her shows.

Uh-huh.

All right, well, that was fun.

And uh, so fun.

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