Paul Rudd
Don't Ask Tig
American Public Media
4.8 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Tig talks with one of America's favorite leading men, Paul Rudd, star of the Ant-Man movies, the TV series The Shrink Next Door, and so much more. Paul discusses fascinating facts about real ants, and talks about owning a candy store in a small town. Paul and Tig discuss why he was named sexiest man alive and how he stacks up against CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta for the title. Together, Tig and Paul advise a listener on how to find friends in a new city, help another decide whether to fly across the country for a birthday bash, and they find a new name for a librarian whose boss wants her to change her name at work.
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| 0:00.0 | Dear listeners, remember our show from last year with the incredible S.D.A.R.P.R.L. therapist |
| 0:07.2 | and relationship expert? It's one of my favorite episodes. And clearly, I'm not the only one |
| 0:13.1 | that feels that way because, well, it just won a webby award for people's voice in the advice |
| 0:19.5 | slash how to podcast category. I am very proud of this. Thanks to everyone who voted. Your support |
| 0:26.8 | means the world. And for those of you who haven't listened to the episode yet, get on it. |
| 0:32.3 | It's award-winning. And I love S.D.A.R.P.R.L. also, Mother's Day is around the corner. So I wanted to |
| 0:40.1 | wish all the mothers and mother figures out there a very special day. Daughters, sons, husbands, |
| 0:46.7 | wives, grandchildren, nieces, mentees, shower the wonderful women in your life with the praise |
| 0:53.6 | and gratitude they deserve. And for those of you whose mother is not in their lives or no longer |
| 1:00.7 | in their lives, I am thinking of you as well. Now, on with the show. |
| 1:10.2 | What are those things where you put ants in there and they live in the... |
| 1:14.6 | Ants and in a piggy bank? Ants in the pants? Well, one of those... I don't... |
| 1:18.5 | Maybe that game ants in the pants? Or you can watch the ants build tunnels. Ant farm. Yeah, an ant farm. |
| 1:24.0 | And then before the ants... What's that? I'm like piggy bank. |
| 1:28.7 | Yeah, we put ants in the piggy bank. Yeah, how am I talking about it? |
| 1:55.3 | This is Don't Ask Tig. I'm Tig Notaro. And if you're still asking, you must be clueless. |
| 2:02.6 | Today's guest is an actor who has starred in movies like I Love You Man. This is 40 |
| 2:09.2 | Anchorman and Antman in which he plays Antman himself. Paul Rudd, welcome to Don't Ask Tig. |
| 2:16.8 | And thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Tig. It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 2:21.6 | I realize I mean a lot of movies that end with the word man. Have you never noticed that? |
| 2:27.6 | No, not really. I mean, I thought when you said in your intro, when you were talking about clueless, |
| 2:33.7 | that was the perfect segue into clueless, which was the second movie I ever did, but the first to ever |
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