Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox. Welcome to With Friends Like These.

Tick Notaro is a comedian who's done stand-up specials for HBO, Netflix, and Showtime.

She's been the subject of a documentary, the star of a series. She has a role on Star

Trek Discovery. She's producing and directing, and she's the veteran of multiple podcasts,

recently Don't Ask Tick, an advice show with, as she notes in our interview, an easy

out if she feels she can't actually be of much help. She is also, as I learned in our conversation,

one of the most well-balanced and resilient people I've ever talked to. She didn't give

me a lot of advice directly, but I really hope I absorbed some of her ability to shrug off

self-doubt and worry and focus on experiencing life to the fullest degree possible. Though

I'm not sure I could keep up with her. Tick Notaro, coming right up.

TIG, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

There are a lot of ways I could describe you. You have two current podcasts, your stand-up

comedian, you act, you write, you direct, produce. I saw at one point you had a philosophy

podcast. Is that correct?

Oh, I mean, I guess if you want to call it that, it wasn't really. It was just me and a

couple of friends that were talking about things we didn't understand.

All right. And I also see that you will be starring in a zombie-hiced movie as a sexy helicopter

pilot. Maybe sexy to some. Likely not sexy to most, but yeah, I'll be in it.

Both of your podcasts started during the pandemic, right?

They did. The podcast TIG and Cheryl True Story, which is a documentary podcast. I had just

met with my friend Cheryl Heinz, who is my co-host right before the pandemic to start that

podcast. And then the pandemic happened. And we thought, well, isn't this perfect?

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