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Life is Short with Justin Long

Tig Notaro 🤘

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Tig Notaro (We Have A Ghost) and Justin talk about the first time they met, how her attitude changed after experiencing tragedy and illness, and how she met and fell in love with her wife, Stephanie.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:13.3

One of the reasons I'm really looking forward to having kids is to

0:17.4

reread all of those great kids books that we we loved when we were young little tikes and

0:22.2

our parents were reading to us. I loved the way they both read. I'm sorry if my father are fathers listening to this

0:28.7

but I would prefer our mother's reading just slightly because

0:33.5

She was a very good actress and she would you know do all the characters and she just made it come to life

0:38.9

She made us love those books and really really brought those classics to life and one of our favorites was

0:44.9

Winnie the Pooh of course Pooh is just a funny word especially when you're a kid or a 44 year old

0:50.1

But I found myself really identifying with Christopher Robin and I continued to identify

0:56.7

Christopher Robin because he was human. Well, he was human but also and your imagination was someone

1:03.1

Maybe maybe but I liked the I just that he was a dreamer and that he made these animals come to life and he was kind of the

1:11.3

He had power over these animals. That's what I that's how he was the lead. Yeah, he used the star

1:15.6

That's why you identify that's the lead

1:18.5

But I remember when we were reading when my mom would read us those books and dad our mom would often

1:24.2

Identify me as Tigger as the Tigger of the story that was somebody I never really connected to I liked Tigger

1:30.7

But I've noticed that I as I became a man and started

1:35.5

Having relationships with other ladies they would reference Tigger as well when describing me and and Kate has done the same

1:43.1

She often compares me to Tigger. She calls it a like a Tigger quality that I have kind of

1:47.9

Oh

1:49.9

I think a Tigger I think of maniac like a maniac like bouncing around boom boom. Oh Tigger too

1:55.1

Well, let's unpack it and get into the show. What do you say? Okay?

2:07.3

You're listening to life is short is that Tigger I'm your host just along

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