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Tell me about yourself, Miss Lowell, your work, your hopes, your podcast.

Well, I work as a teacher. I also do field work and I write monographs. My hope is to discover

a new variety of furniture that has never been described or classified. I don't know what

my podcast is. Do you think it could be the same as my hope? Well, at any rate, that is

my work and my hope except for my podcast, which I'm not sure of.

Two things. I love your Elaine May. That's great. Second, what a good movie this is. You

just make me think about it again. You know who's fucking cool? Elaine May. Elaine May.

This is the shortest mini series we've ever done. So I'm really diving in deep. I asked

to reschedule this episode. We were supposed to record it two days ago and I said, can I

get like an extra two days to build up more Elaine May context and really like I want

to listen to all the Nichols and May albums and go into special features and reading different

pieces and all this sort of stuff. And I just after the last week, I just have the biggest

fucking crush on her in the world. And I mean that in every sense. I'm just like, that's

like the coolest career. You know, she's got the coolest sensibility. She's just like

a fucking awesome person. Every story about her is cool. And also you look at those early

and echo and May performance. I mean, it's kind of begging for a pasta dinner. She was

a very, a very beautiful woman and end is. But yes, absolutely. I bring this up only

because it is so funny that like here's Nichols and May and they're this comedy team that's

sort of like a massive generational shift, right? Where you're like, oh my god, these

are these comedians who are like hip. They're like witty. They're orbane. And they are

glamorous. Like Nichols and May felt glamorous and she'd in a way I would argue comedians

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