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Slack.com slash DHQ. I'll tell you why. He achieved success with Cougar and if you already

got through the hard part, why not just hang on to Cougar? Well, because he's a down-home

guy from Indiana and never left Indiana. I think what I remember hearing is that he

changed his name to John Cougar because his record label and his reps were like, that'll

be a cool name and he did it and then he got success and then he just thought, this isn't

me. I just want to have my family name. I want to have my real name back and so he transitioned

back into just John Melon Camp, which I respect. This is Don't Ask TIG. I'm TIG Notaro and

I'm back from a few weeks off just as unqualified as ever. Since I've been gone, I have been

nominated. I'm sure everybody knows this now because it's basically the biggest news

going but Don't Ask TIG was nominated for Best Comedy Podcast for the Ambies. What are

the Ambies? I didn't know either. Thomas, my producer, texted me that I was nominated. I

was like, what is this? I guess it is the audio version of like Emmys, Oscars, Tonys, Grammys.

Now we got the Ambies. I'm nominated and today I'm so excited to have with us actor,

author, singer, real life, mother of twins, wife of a pizza lover and actual advice columnist,

my friend Molly Ringwald. Welcome Molly. Thanks, hi TIG. Hi, it's been a while and it's

good to see your face. It's good to see you too. You look exactly the same. So do you.

And I could tell we were in different states in the country because you have a massive

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