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Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod. Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod. Pretty little episode. Well, well, well, if it isn't May Martin. Unfortunate Feemster. Welcome to the Handsome Podcast.
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That's right. It's our pretty little episode.
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It's pretty. It's little. It's an episode. Nice to see your beautiful face.
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It's so nice to see your beautiful face. What is this bedroom I've not seen you in before?
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I'm actually. This is a hot scoop. I'm in my dad's puppet world.
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It was. It was giving childhood, you know, it was giving childhood, which is crazy because
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they've only lived here, like, 10 years. But, yeah, I'm up, like, in the top of the house. He has, like, his study, and it's where he makes his puppets. And I said, do you mind me showing the world some of your puppets? And he was like, please, be my guest. So look at.
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That's where the magic happens.
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Yeah. It's a real workshop. Like, he. It's crazy.
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Oh, yeah.
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Isn't that mystical? If you're just. Just listening, we've got some very esoteric puppets. He just made this one for me.
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Whoa.
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Of a man with a mullet and
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some tattoos and nice blue eyes.
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Beautiful blue eyes. Terrified of a bear.
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Oh, I wonder what inspired that.
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The bear story. The Bear Portal. The bear video.
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I. Yeah.
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Oh, you. Oh, you were doing.
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That was. I was.
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You're such a good.
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Already made the connect connection. You're like. Well, I don't know if you remember a little thing about the bear portal. How can I forget?
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Yeah. So I want to incorporate these into my special, which I'm taping on Sunday in a couple of days, so.
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I can't believe you're already taping a special dude.
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I know.
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That's exciting.
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I'm so, like, unprepared.
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Oh, really?
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I don't know, because.
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Do you usually tape right after you've been touring? Like, it's fresh in Your mind?
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Oh yeah, I'm gonna be, I start, I pick up my tour again right around now and this early August and go and pretty hard until mid November. And then I film it. I, I, I gotta get it just done while it's been fresh and worked out and I don't want a big space between anything.
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Yeah, I'm like, I don't even remember who I was when I wrote that show. But I'm gonna, I'm gonna refresh my memory. I'm doing a few warm up shows in Toronto. Yeah, yeah.
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I like to do, I like to do shows leading up to it that, so it's just there. So by the time you film it it's just like second nature.
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Muscle memory I'm hoping. But I am filming some, I'm putting improv in it. So that's a, oh really wild card.
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I mean with it with anyone.
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Yeah, with my friend Matt because I talk about him in the show and then we were on tour together. But I think I'm going to film it in a way that if it sucks, I don't have to use it because it is.
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I think that's good. I think that's good. Like you should have your material ready to go. Have enough that you know you're covered. Yeah, but you know, but also like you can lift a story if need be and add the improv if it works.
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Yeah, I think that's what I'll do.
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Yeah.
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It's hard to film improv. You kind of lose the magic at the moment. But I don't know, I think it could work. I think.
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Well, take a look at Ben Schwartz. He does has an improv show on Netflix that he did live.
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It's so good and, but I'm like, is there a reason that there haven't been any since?
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I don't know.
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It's weird that there aren't more, you know, like improv is the best. But I'm hoping, I'm hoping it works. I think it'll be really good.
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Yeah, well you'll film it and see and it could be one of those things where like you all of the elements come together and it works and it could be that you're just like, ah, maybe not for the special but for something else.
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Yeah, totally.
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You could always take what you filmed and release it online. If it ends up not being for the special. That's, there's multiple uses of it. YouTube.
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YouTube, we love YouTube. Yeah, that's cool.
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Yeah.
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Well, I feel creatively inspired because I'm in this Weird little workshop we got a lot of pictures of. That's. This is my picture of my mom when she was like, 19.
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Oh, baba voom. Hot mom.
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I beg your pardon. And then.
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I beg your pardon.
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Beg your pardon. And I think that's my great grandfather there. That painting. That painting used to be in my grandma's house. And its eyes follow you. And I thought it was haunted, and one day it just fell off the wall.
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So.
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Yeah, it probably is.
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Yeah. I don't. I don't doubt it.
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Yeah.
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Are you around all your childhood stuff there? You're in the South.
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Yeah, I'm. My. I. My mom doesn't live where I grew up. She lives in the same hometown, but not the same house. So all the stuff I had, either I brought it to my house in LA or it's deep in a closet somewhere here.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Wait, I haven't even talked to you. I mean, I'm like, should we save this for a full ep? But how is, like, the insane press tour for the Hawk and everything? It's number one on Netflix right now.
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So fun. It's been. It was great. Like, it was. It's always fun to talk about a show that you love doing, you know, and love the cast. I did some stuff by myself and some stuff with the cast, and that was super fun. You know, it's that classic throwback Will Ferrell character that he does. And a lot of people have been reaching out, saying that they really enjoyed it and it made them laugh. And, you know, that's the goal with a comedy like that. You're not like, writing a comedy like that to, like. It's not Emmy speeches. It's like, let me. Let's be silly and make people giggle.
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Yeah.
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The joke ratio is crazy high. It's so silly and warm and positive. And you're so good in it. You're really great in it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You too. It was fun to see us try to be tough guys.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I still feel embarrassed. I feel like I am acting like I'm in the Departed and like, I forgot that I was in a comedy.
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You were taking that. That's what you need different levels. Yeah. People enjoyed you changing up with the dark hair. I think some people didn't realize it was you for a bit because I
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didn't have my golden.
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Yeah. Your. Your luscious blonde locks.
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They just. They were gonna make. Have me wear a wig. And when they put it on, it looked so insane.
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Yeah.
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That they ended up just spray painting it black. So it was just like thick black paint. But are you getting tons of messages?
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Yeah. A lot of people watching it. It's funny. A lot of I've been bopping around from, I had a bunch of New York press and then went to North Carolina and in the process of those two places a lot of people going, hey, I literally just watched you on TV last night. Like they're almost like, what are you doing here?
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Yeah, like you walked out of their TV and into their lives.
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Walk around another tv. So. Yeah, but yeah, it's fun. It's cool anytime a new show comes out that getting people's feedback from it and yeah, it's just, it hasn't been out too long so people are still finding it.
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Well, it's super juicy. I'm excited.
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Thanks.
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Binged it. I, I watched it in Yellow Knife. I, I, I was on vacation and then I did a music festival in like Guelph, Ontario and then I flew to the Northwest Territories, like truly the Arctic where it's light.
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I saw like it was so bright at midnight, so bright at midnight.
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And, and, but there's wildfire. So the smoke was so thick that I could, you couldn't really leave the hotel in the day. So I, I binged it. And I also watched the World cup final by myself screaming. Were you watching it?
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Oh yeah, for sure.
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Did you scream?
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Yeah, I was up on my feet like everybody.
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Dude, I feel like similar to how I felt when Aubrey won Survivor. I got invested as the game went on, I was like this is becoming a battle of good and evil. Like the way they were playing. Like Spain played so well and yeah,
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Argentina was pretty aggressive, pretty feisty, that team. Yeah, yeah, it got, it got crazy. But it was cool to see Spain take home the, the trophy just because Argentina won it last time. I like to see a change up.
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Yeah. And like that young 19 year old player is so great.
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And Lamina mole.
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Yeah, that's it. You're my only friend who's also into this, by the way.
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Oh, I love, I'm, I've, I've been missing it.
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I know it gave structure to our lives.
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It did. And a few, one of the few things that everyone, not everyone, but so many people were watching at the same time. You felt like connected to people.
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I know, I know. I think we should maybe get into like watching Premier League soccer like the British.
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Yeah. I just never know when it's on.
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I know, I know.
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All look into it. Well, should we get some questions?
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Let's do it.
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Okay, bud.
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Hey guys, It's Lily, I'm 13 years old from Guelph, Ontario, and I just got back from May's Hillside performance, which was so incredible. My question for you guys is, is there a TV show or movie character who you feel represents you?
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And if so, why a TV show or movie character?
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Yeah, that represents you. That's a great question. Thanks, Lily. Also, thanks for coming to Hillside Festival in Guelph. Not to be confused with Hillsong. The question.
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Christian church. Yeah, I've been to Guelph.
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Have you?
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It's funny, the word sounds like a hiccup or something.
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I know. It took me a while to figure out how to say it, but we filmed there for a couple days. Yeah, it's good.
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A lot of my friends went to university there, so my memories are of going up there and binge drinking.
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Yeah. In my teens, I just walked around the downtown. Lovely.
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Okay. A film or TV character that represents us. Okay. I know who I want it to be.
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Okay.
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Is Chris Chambers from Stand By Me, River Phoenix in that movie. He's so cool, but that's like aspirational, which is crazy to say that it's aspirational for me to be a 13 year old boy, but the vibe.
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You like the vibe.
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He's so cool in it. He's got.
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He's just.
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And he's kind of a soulful leader of his group of friends.
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I just.
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I wanted to be him so bad. But realistically, I'm probably Vern from that movie who's always like, no, I forget the secret password.
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God, I gotta watch that movie again. It's been years since I've seen it.
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You have to.
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You've referenced it a couple times. And I'm like, I need to go back and see what you're referencing because it's been too long.
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I think realistically I'm like the candlestick in Beauty and the Beast because I'm like, sort of frantic and sweating and trying to invite people to events and be like, yeah, yeah. What about you?
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Be our guests. Be our guests. Put our service to the test. Yes. That's a great song.
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God, it's good.
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Who would I be? Gosh, probably Kathy Bates's character in Fried Green Tomatoes.
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I thought you were gonna say in Misery.
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That's that. I would be her if I was straight. If I was a straight woman that had. That got married and was unsatisfied, that would be. That would. That could have easily been my life.
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I've never seen Frog Green Tomatoes.
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Frog Green Tomatoes is so good. Put it on the. Again. Aspirationally, I'd love to be Itchy Igy, but from that.
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From that movie. Okay, who's. How do you spell Iggy?
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Is it Idgy, played by Mary Stewart Masterson.
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Oh, yeah, she's cool.
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Oh, my God, she was so cool in that movie. And there was all these lesbian undertones between her and. I forgot the other character's name. Helen. I'm not sure.
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Okay, so that's who you wanted to be.
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That's who I wanted to be for sure, because she just. We had the blonde curly hair.
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Yeah.
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Going. You know, but she was just, like, so cool. And I was more like Kathy Bates pissed off at my husband. Who. Who would get invited to a party to look at vaginas in a mirror and can't see it.
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Wait, is that. That happens in that movie?
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Yes.
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What?
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I thought it was a kids movie.
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No. God, no. The movies go back. The movie flips back from old times to current times. But, like, when the movie. Current times being, like, 25 years ago. I can't remember how long.
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Oh, my God. Okay. I got to watch it.
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And Jessica Tandy is in it. I love. Do you know this generation doesn't know who Jessica Tandy is? And it pains my heart that she
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missed me pass me by somehow. Jessica Tandy.
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You don't know Jessica Tandy?
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I know.
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No.
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Oh, God.
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Killing me. Just Driving Miss Daisy.
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Oh, yeah. I recognize her cocoon. Oh, cocoon. Yeah. Okay. No, but I don't.
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I know she's. It's fine. I'm old, but, God, she was amazing.
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I also feel like I kind of relate to. I don't know if you remember in Return of the Jedi.
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Yeah.
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Jabba the Hutt has a little kind of monkey sidekick who's kind of grotesque, and it's like, on his. And it's like a little puppet on his shoulder. And I always related to that guy a bit. What's that?
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I forget all the frantic ones you relate to.
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That's my sort of internal landscape. And then outside, I want to be like Chris Chambers.
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Yeah.
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Should we hear Lily's answer? What if she says you're a character from the Hawk?
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They call him the Hog. He's a golfer. The greatest golfer in the world. It's a fun theme song.
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Really good. By the way, May, the character you're referencing from Star wars is Salacious B. Crumbling. Salacious B. Crumb.
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That's right.
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I one time bought a puppet of him to give to my brother. Salacious B. Crumb.
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What a name.
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Yeah. And you never hear that name in the movie, but that just is his name.
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I never knew that My answer would
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be Michael Scott from the American version of the Office, ignoring how culturally inappropriate he is. He's a super empathetic person who really just wants the best for everyone. Even if he has an unorthodox way of showing it. He's super awkward, but like in a headstrong, cheerful way. So yeah, that's what I think. I can't wait to hear your guys answers.
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Nice.
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Keep it handsome.
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Wait, this is like the most articulate 13 year old I've ever heard.
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I was singing that too. I was like, she sounds so mature.
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Yeah, that was great. And yeah, Michael Scott. I think we all have a Michael Scott in us. That's why that show resonates with everyone. Because that trying to get everything right and just getting everything wrong. But his heart's in the right place.
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Right. Love that. Well, let's get another question.
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Let's do it.
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Kia ora. Hello, May, Tig and fortune or whatever combination happens to be listening to this question. My name is Nadine. I'm calling from Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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Cool.
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And I'm just watching your hundredth pretty little episode. Congratulations. My question is, do you have a bucket list? And if so, what are some examples on your list?
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I. I've never written one down. Have you written one down? But I have things.
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You do.
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Oh yeah. I want to go to Antarctica.
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Oh yeah. Chelsea just went there.
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I know.
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You should ask her about it sometime
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because there's only a small window when tourists can go. Otherwise it's just scientists that live there and they get weird. There's a documentary about them where Werner Herzog went to to make a documentary about the Arctic. And then the people, the scientists there were so weird. He started making it about them and their life. So that would be cool. I'd like to go to that extreme kind of environment.
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He saved Joaquin Phoenix once from a car. Yeah, he flipped a car. Did you tell us that or did I read that?
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I think you read that.
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I must have read it. He flipped his car on one of the canyon and Joaquin did. And he woke up to Warner being like, what's up, man? And he pulled him out or something.
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He'd be like, this is an atrocity. I have to save this man. That's how he talks.
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I think he said Joaquin asked for a cigarette.
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Oh, really?
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He was like, that's not the time. I think that was part of the story or something weird like that. So, Antarctica. What else?
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I would love to spend time with bear cubs. Like, I watch a lot of videos of pandas and baby bears and stuff. I'd like to do a kids movie. Well, yeah. There's so many things. What?
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Yeah.
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What about you?
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Oh, gosh. Bucket lists.
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Bushcraft. I'd like to build a. A shelter, like a cabin, like with my bare hands or something. That would be cool.
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Okay. Oh, you've really thought these things out. I don't have a bucket list of. I feel like a lot of things that I wanted to do. I did.
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You're ready.
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I'd like to. Yeah, I'm done. I'd like to go to Japan. I've never been. That would be cool. I'd like to write a book one day.
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Oh, I would love to read your book.
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I just need to live a little bit more life, I think.
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Yeah, you got to go to Japan and then write the book.
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Go to Japan first, then write book.
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Yeah, it'd be good if your book. If you wrote the book, if it had sections that were the equivalent of you bursting into song, but they just. All of a sudden it was in capital letters, like a drove all night.
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Well, you never know. That might end up in there. It'd be fun to take my mom on another cruise. I'm hoping that could happen.
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Yeah, that would be great.
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Another gay cruise, preferably. That's her preference, too.
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Really? She was. She's never going back to.
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She loves it. She loves those gay men. They treat her like a queen.
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Yeah. As they should.
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My buckle is just. Just to enjoy life and be happy. And any adventures that come my way in that pursuit, I'm pumped. I'm gonna be pumped about.
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Yeah.
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You want to say yes to things. Yeah. I mean, travel. Travel's huge. Yeah, but you travel so much anyway.
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But I know.
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Would you ever. We've talked about. You wouldn't skydive or bungee jump, right? That's the.
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No, that is not on my bucket list. Nothing. Nothing too. Adventure seeking. I don't want that.
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I. People who. You're out of your mind. If you're doing. If you're jumping out of a plane, I can't. I can't get on board.
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I don't want any part of that.
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No.
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So, yeah, my bucket list is a bit tame some. I feel like people have these big, lofty things usually, but I'm. I'm feel like so many of my dreams have been attained that it's hard to reach for more.
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That's very nice, but you. You deserve the world.
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You deserve the world.
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You deserve the world.
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Well, I appreciate that, too. I want. Is. Is playing on Survivor on your bucket list?
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No, I. No, I would ruin it for myself. I. I'd be such a wreck. I can't do it. I would definitely like to continue to watch it, though. That's on my bucket list. I'd like to be on Go On Traders. That would be fun.
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Oh, yeah, I could see you doing that. Oh, well, obviously on our handsome bucket list is us three hosting the Oscars together.
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That truly.
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Yeah, that would be. That would be a good one.
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I mean, where do we start with our. With our list? I mean, there's a billion.
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I mean, the list is full of bucket list things. Yeah.
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But it's funny.
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We've literally made no attempt to get ahead of.
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I know we got to start small and just do one little thing. I think we're starting too lofty with the wellness weekend. I could. I feel like we need to start
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small, but, yeah, we do. Good to schedule podcasts first.
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We got to schedule some podcast recordings. That's hard.
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If we're doing a wellness weekend, we better record at least two podcasts.
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That's true. I mean, that's a good way to. To do it. Except you and I will be in a terrible mood because we haven't had any cheese.
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I'm hungry. Does Nadine. Yeah, Does Nadine have any bucket list items? I love New Zealand, by the way. New Zealand. Nar is Australia. Nar, I believe, is New Zealand. Oh, yeah, that's what I've been told, Lucy. It goes down. Oh, Nar. Nar And Australia's nar like a question. That's what a New Zealander told me. If they lied to me, I apologize. Nadine.
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I've recently started a bucket list, and some examples of mine is to take a road trip around our beautiful country Aotearoa, to watch some pandas for quite some time and to try some sweet corn ice cream. And there's also a few travel items on There as well. Yeah. That's all. Thank you so much for everything that you do. Your podcast is one of the joys in my life, so thank you so, so much, Nadine.
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That's so nice.
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I mean, so sweet.
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I feel like Nadine lost us a bit with the sweet corn ice cream,
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but to each day, I just never heard of it.
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I never heard of it, never dreamed of it.
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But if it's on Nadine's bucket list, there must be something to it.
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Yeah, I mean, I'm open to it. And how weird that we both said pandas.
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I know.
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I think we must have the same Instagram algorithm. I saw a job posting that was like, your job would be cuddling pandas.
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Oh.
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And I was like, sign me up. I'm ready to give up everything. I move to China.
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There's got to be more to it than just cuddling a panda. There's.
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It cannot be that there's some small
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cute of a job.
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Yeah.
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Must clean lots of.
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Yeah.
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Must be also 8 hours a day
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cleaning all the other animals. And then you get a little cuddle at the end.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Not too bad.
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Well, these were lovely questions. Once again, I always look forward to hearing what people are gonna bring up.
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Me too. And Lily might have been our youngest question asker. If you have any kids with questions, send them in.
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Fire away. I am in Paw Patrol coming up here in a couple weeks. So another kids movie.
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Yeah.
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What do you have coming up? Oh, and also, I'd like to remind people to keep submitting your questions and your advice requests. Go to speakpipe.com handsomepod I mean, I'm
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on tour in a ton of places, but in the next few weeks or this weekend, Foxwood Casinos in Connecticut, Red Bank, New Jersey, and then Provincetown, Massachusetts, next weekend. So any of you Cape Kate gays come out to the show?
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Oh, August 22nd. I'm at Largo in. In Los Angeles. But aside from that, I'm just. I'm making new music and hanging out, but check out social media for other show dates.
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Love it. Well, good luck with your filming of your special. It's gonna be awesome.
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Thanks, bud. Yeah, I'm nervous. I don't know what to wear.
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You'll. You're gonna nail it. I never worry about you in fashion.
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It'll be a white T shirt. Let's be honest.
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There you go.
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It works.
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Yeah.
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Well, thank you guys for listening. I hope you have an awesome rest of your week. And until next time, keep it pretty.
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Handsome Handsome is hosted by me Mae Martin, Tig Notaro, and Fortune Feimster. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willette. Email us@handsomepodmail.com and please follow us on social media at. Handsome Pod
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what a podcast.
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What a podcast.
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That was a headgum podcast.
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This episode of Handsome features Mae Martin and Fortune Feimster taking on listener questions with their usual warmth, humor, and tangential storytelling. Broadcasting from unexpected childhood-inspired locations, they reflect on creative routines, TV and film character alter-egos, career updates, and personal bucket lists. The comedic duo is joined by thoughtful and surprisingly articulate listeners, including one from New Zealand and a standout 13-year-old from Ontario. The discussion meanders through memories, pop culture, heartfelt dreams, and, of course, silly moments.
Mae's Dad’s Puppet Workshop:
Childhood Houses & Stuff:
Mae’s Upcoming Special & Tour Life:
On Filming Improv for Specials:
Fortune’s Show “The Hawk” on Netflix:
On Playing "Tough Guys":
Mae’s Northern Tour & Wildfire Experience:
Women’s World Cup Final:
Mae’s Picks:
Fortune’s Picks:
Lily’s Answer:
Mae’s List:
Fortune’s List:
Nadine’s (Listener) List:
On Social Media & Childhood:
Panda Cuddler as a Dream Job:
On Jessica Tandy:
As always, Mae and Fortune keep the podcast breezy, openly riffing and teasing one another, sharing odd stories (Dad’s puppet lair, panda cuddling), and responding to listeners with real curiosity and warmth. The episode masterfully fuses light banter with sentiments about legacy, joy, self-reflection, and pop culture, all in their signature “handsome” style.