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Fortune Feimster
This is a headgum podcast. Pretty Little Episode. Welcome to the Pretty Little Episode. I'm your host for today, Fortune Feimster.
May Martin
And I am May Martin, also hosting you today. Hosting? I guess that's where it comes from. Like host. We're hosting.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. This is a party and we're hosting.
May Martin
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fortune Feimster
But we have no snacks to offer anybody.
May Martin
Yeah, no. Loot bags.
Fortune Feimster
You call them. Wait, I do have a cookie. Okay. I do have a lot of snacks around my office.
May Martin
Was that from Milk Bar, that cookie? Okay, can we get them as a sponsor or something? They're pretty tasty. They're good. How are you, Fortune? Oh, my God. Did you hear my voice? Just. I just saw that you're wearing a bear T shirt. I went, how are you?
Fortune Feimster
I didn't even that. Honestly, I did not do that on purpose. I'm. Is this triggering it?
May Martin
Honestly, it did. My blood ran cold for a second, but then I thought, no, it's powerful and cool. It's a big old grizzly. Right?
Fortune Feimster
California, you know, because that's the. The flat on the California flag. Is this bear, right?
May Martin
What is it, like a Kodak bear or something?
Fortune Feimster
I don't know. But I really did not do it with any intentions of bringing back bad vibes.
May Martin
I know. I'm like, is that a threat that Fortune's making? How are you doing?
Fortune Feimster
I'll do this.
May Martin
Yeah. No, no, please let it be free.
Fortune Feimster
I'll clutch my pearls like this so you can't see it. But that's the thing, though, we're in a new year, new me situation.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And the bear has no power over you in that way anymore.
May Martin
You're right.
Fortune Feimster
I don't think.
May Martin
And the bear is no longer like that bear on your shirt is free. Roaming free.
Fortune Feimster
There's a seagull up here.
May Martin
Yeah. I love that.
Fortune Feimster
I imagine this is water. Love that the bear is out enjoying a nice day.
May Martin
Yes. Right?
Fortune Feimster
Not trapped.
May Martin
No.
Fortune Feimster
And you're free as a bird, too.
May Martin
I feel it. I feel it. I want good flying dreams. I've been like. So I've been trying to get all spiritual, and they're like, you gotta write down your dreams in the morning. And they're definitely messages from your subconscious. All my dreams are about celebrities these days. Which is better than just like, tormented dreams about my ex and stuff, or my exes and various, you know, my fights with my parents and stuff. But all I'm dreaming about is Angelina Jolie, Paul Mezcal. Like, we're like. People are popping in, and they're usually, like, handsome people. With Angelina, it was like, I think we were cooking together or something. Just really domestic, like, celebrity moments.
Fortune Feimster
I actually could see that happening. Me and Angie, like, cooking a dinner. I'm not saying it has to be romantic. It could be cooking both sexy, but I could see y'all cooking a dinner together.
May Martin
What do you think she cooks, though?
Fortune Feimster
I don't think she's vegan, but she could be vegetarian.
May Martin
Yeah, it could be.
Fortune Feimster
So some sort of, like, vials of vegetarian curry dish.
May Martin
Oh, my God. A vegetarian curry?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, like, with tofu.
May Martin
Wow.
Fortune Feimster
Tasty rice.
May Martin
If she cooked something with coconut in it, I would just eat it and not tell her I'm allergic.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, my God. I forgot about that.
May Martin
I would feel bad bringing up all your.
Fortune Feimster
Wait, but does all curry have Coke? Is it all coconut milk?
May Martin
No, there's definitely ones without it.
Fortune Feimster
Okay. I was like, do you dream about.
May Martin
Do you dream about celebrities ever? Where you wake up and you feel like you know them?
Fortune Feimster
I don't have a dream, but I did just have something last night that felt like a dream. And this is going to sound like bragging, but you did ask me. And so well, and not in a direct way, but no, I love it.
May Martin
If it's about a celebrity, I want to hear.
Fortune Feimster
I was at a party, and Jax and I were talking to a guy I just worked with, and Jax goes, oh, My God, that's JLo. I love JLo.
May Martin
Oh.
Fortune Feimster
And I was like. And I said out loud. I was like, I love. I love JLo. And she walked past, and I was like. And she. But she was kind of like in a train, you know, where, like, she didn't want to really make eye contact with people. So she had her hands, I think, on the back of her publicist shoulders.
May Martin
Yeah. Okay.
Fortune Feimster
And she kind of was trying not to make eye contact with people, but she looked right over to me and she went, hey, I love you. I'm a big fan. Or wait, no, she didn't say, I love you. Hey, I'm a big fan. And shook my hand.
May Martin
Fortune, dude. What did the handshake feel like?
Fortune Feimster
A firm, proper handshake.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Of course she's professional.
May Martin
She's a businesswoman. Oh, my.
Fortune Feimster
Businesswoman.
May Martin
And she. You actually had eye contact.
Fortune Feimster
Full on eye contact. Hey, hey. Like, hey, hey, I'm a. And I did add that I love you. I took that back. Hey, I want to marry you. Hey, I'm a big fan. Handshake.
May Martin
And then did you return the compliment?
Fortune Feimster
Did you say, I love you? Thank you. And she kept the train, kept moving. But her publicist did look back like, who did she say that to?
May Martin
Oh, my God, that's incredible. Of everyone there, she was like, that.
Fortune Feimster
Was a good one.
May Martin
Yeah, that's great. That's great.
Fortune Feimster
Kevin Bacon also said it too. And I. So it was a big night for me.
May Martin
I met Kevin Bacon once at a party with as Brett Goldstein's plus one. And of everyone there, he. I've never been more starstruck. He has, like, a star quality. He's just like.
Fortune Feimster
But he's old time, kind of chill. He's like, so chill. What's up? He's like, what's up? I really like your work.
May Martin
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Thanks, man. I really like yours.
May Martin
Oh, my God.
Fortune Feimster
I go, this is my wife. He goes, hey, how long you guys been married? She's like four married, 10 together. He's like, yeah, 36 over here. That's a long time.
May Martin
Sounds electric for this conversation. But he is so. He's so handsome, though, isn't he?
Fortune Feimster
He's very handsome. Just like, chill. He has no pretensions. Pretentious stuff. It's just really like, what's up?
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
So, you know, obviously my validation doesn't come through that stuff, but it is. It helps every now and then, you know, oh, man.
May Martin
You're feeling. You're feeling a little existential and low. And then JLO goes, hey, keep at it, soldier.
Fortune Feimster
That's exactly what happened. May I? Kind of. I'd been on a break for two Weeks. Hadn't been thinking about work, hadn't been thinking about anything. Just feeling a little. Vibrations are low. And she just got it like, hey, yeah, thank you. It was like a nice reminder.
May Martin
Zapped you right.
Fortune Feimster
Right in the soul. Right in the cooter.
May Martin
Zapped you right in the cooter.
Fortune Feimster
Hello.
May Martin
That's what I do this for.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, my God. I said I do it all for you, baby.
May Martin
Yeah. Oh, my God. That's amazing. Should we see what our listeners are feeling, what they're saying, what they're wanting to talk about?
Erin
Hey there, handsome pod. Fortune. May Tig. Man, I love all of you. You're so fucking great. You just make my afternoons so much better. My name's Erin. I'm from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Fortune Feimster
Hi, Erin.
Erin
My question for you. What did your childhood bedroom look like? How did you decorate it? You know, stuff like that.
Fortune Feimster
This pod, more than anything in my life has me reflecting back on childhood.
May Martin
Me too.
Fortune Feimster
In a way that I haven't in years.
May Martin
Okay, this might take me a second. So, like Thomas, if we have to cut out pause. But I'm gonna find a picture of my childhood bedroom and then send it to you, Fortune. And then maybe you could describe what you see because it's.
Fortune Feimster
I can't believe you have a picture. I don't have one.
May Martin
Oh, you don't?
Fortune Feimster
No.
May Martin
Yeah, got it.
Fortune Feimster
Okay, sending it.
May Martin
Yeah, I'm sending it to you, Fortune. And I'll send it to you as well, Thomas. Actually, I'll send it to Tig as well. Okay. I'm going to send this to Fortune, Thomas and Tig.
Fortune Feimster
Okay.
May Martin
And then. Okay, I've just sent it. So this is me. I'm probably nine, maybe ten.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, here it is.
May Martin
So maybe describe what you're seeing.
Fortune Feimster
Okay, so maybe just sent the handsome pod a picture of their childhood bed. Bedroom. Wow.
May Martin
And if you zoom in on the wall.
Fortune Feimster
So you kind of have like a Justin Bieber vibe. Oh, I'm looking personally.
May Martin
Ferris Bueller is probably what I was going brown.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, you're in a very tomboyish. The best way to describe it outfit. And around you are. Well, you have. Your comforter is a map of the world. Yeah, I remember that. Wise beyond your years already. I really wanted to discover the world.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
You have a lot of stuffed animals. There's a monkey.
May Martin
Yeah. And my hair is doing a kind of swoop. It is kind of a Bieber swoop.
Fortune Feimster
No, the beaver swoop. That might have been a Canadian thing. Maybe you have a monkey. Stuffed animal, monkey on a hanging from like.
May Martin
Like a hammock.
Fortune Feimster
A hammock?
May Martin
Yeah, you.
Fortune Feimster
A lot of monkeys. Stuffed monkeys. And then on the wall is all women.
May Martin
Well, zoom in. It's only one woman.
Fortune Feimster
Oh, it's only one woman. Bette Midler.
May Martin
It's Bette Midler. I was obsessed. And it's. They're like sexy pictures of Bette Midler. Like, it's clearly. I'm in love with her.
Fortune Feimster
I'll take just te. Oh, my Lord. What was this? Your fire orgy.
May Martin
Fire orgy. Also, you look almost the same.
Fortune Feimster
That is.
May Martin
Oh, man. So it's just the horniest picture, I think, like. Like, my vibe is so, like, what's up, ladies?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. Like, this is your Tinder profile.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Tig says, very cute, but more handsome now.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And so many monkeys. Take wrote so many monkeys.
May Martin
So many monkeys. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And I like your style, kid. That's Tig's take.
May Martin
Tig's really responsive to this photo. This is great.
Fortune Feimster
Let's get her on the pod.
May Martin
Let's get her on the pod. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
I just FaceTime her and put her into this.
Nicole Byer
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May Martin
Yeah. Like, you know, to check that you got almond milk in the fridge before pouring yourself a big bowl of your favorite cereal as a late night snack. Yeah.
Nicole Byer
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Fortune Feimster
I have to say, I loved Bette Midler as well as a kid.
May Martin
Did you really?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. And the reason why she was on my radar? Well, a. The movie Beaches, of course. One of the greatest movies ever made.
May Martin
That's incredible.
Fortune Feimster
I don't know how old I was when it came out, but I sobbed like a idiot.
May Martin
My mom showed me. Yeah. Beaches and all her other ones.
Fortune Feimster
My best friend's dad. You know, Bette's nickname was the divine Ms. M. Duvall.
May Martin
Yeah, of course. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And my first name is Emily. Fortune's my middle name.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And he would call me the divine Miss M whenever he saw me.
May Martin
Oh, I love that.
Fortune Feimster
So she was very much on my radar because of that.
May Martin
Yeah, I used to listen to her album. She was just. She's vivacious, confident, other. Risky business. No, not Risky business. Risky.
Fortune Feimster
I know what you're talking about.
May Martin
You know what I'm talking about. Fuck. What is it?
Fortune Feimster
I'm picturing her in the outfit and the big hat.
May Martin
Hocus Pocus. Of course. For me. But before that it was like Bette Midler movies.
Fortune Feimster
Now I'm gonna have to IMDb it.
May Martin
Yeah, me too. Sorry. Ruthless People. Ruthless People.
Fortune Feimster
Yes.
May Martin
I remember her episode of Seinfeld was hilarious.
Fortune Feimster
I don't think I saw that.
May Martin
Oh, my God. Kramer is in love with her. It's just hilarious. And he makes her. He makes a macaroni Midler. He makes a statue of Bette Midler out of macaroni.
Fortune Feimster
Really?
May Martin
And he brings it to her in hospital because George accidentally injures her. What was your childhood bedroom like?
Fortune Feimster
So my. When I was little, little, I didn't have a bedroom. I was having to sleep in my parents room because my parents like to collect things.
May Martin
Gotcha.
Fortune Feimster
Junk. So what would have been my bedroom was full of junk. Right. And so I didn't really have a bedroom till I was. Or maybe I was in the junk. I honestly don't remember. I'll have to ask my mom. I went to Girl Scout camp. Shout Out. You know, it always comes back to Girl Scouts. I think I was like seven.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And when I came home, my. My sibling, my brothers and my parents had taken the whole weekend to clean out that room.
May Martin
Oh, wow.
Fortune Feimster
And painted. But like, they made it the girliest room you could imagine. Oh, God.
May Martin
Pink.
Fortune Feimster
So pink walls.
May Martin
Oh, my God.
Fortune Feimster
Like an antique bed. A blue and pink comforter. A little pink love seat, couch, a dresser. Everything was pink. A pink little. Another thing to put like a little tiny TV on.
May Martin
But were you just pumped to have your own space?
Fortune Feimster
I was so pumped to just. Yeah. I didn't care that it was all pink. I was so thrilled to just like, oh, my God, I've got my own space. It's clean. I can shut the door and keep you psychos out of my room. And that mentality has stayed with me for years of just like, I've got my own space. It's. It's clean. It's mine.
May Martin
Yeah. And I'm good at it. Yeah. Yeah, that's. I like that a lot. And you can curate it and be. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. And over time, I put lots of Teeny Bopper magazine things on the walls.
May Martin
Yeah. Would you cut out, like boys that you've had a crush on or just random stuff?
Fortune Feimster
Boys. A lot of boys. New Kids on the Block was all over my wall.
May Martin
New Kids on the Block and probably.
Fortune Feimster
Like Joey Lawrence, like, you know, the Blossom Days kind of that. Blossom. Yes.
May Martin
Yeah. I think I kind of had, like, a blossom energy at some point in my life, and I really am embarrassed.
Fortune Feimster
With flowers on them. Yeah.
May Martin
Just kind of like, hey, like, kind of.
Fortune Feimster
I did butch up my room at one point when I got to high school with a drum set.
May Martin
Oh, sick. I had a drum set, but I never played it. Did you play yours?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, but mine was terrible because my. I had been talked for years about wanting to learn how to play the drums, but it was also, like, a little masculine. So I didn't. You know, I. I wrestled with that, really. And my dad, back in the day used to buy a lot of stuff from, like, pawn shops.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And he. He bought me a golf. A golf club once. And he goes, I got you a golf club, and your initials are engraved in it. I'll go, oh, wow, that's cool. And it was a used golf club, and the. The initials were just, like, the brand.
May Martin
No way.
Fortune Feimster
And I was like, oh, my God, Listen, man, I'm on to you. And he bought me a drum set from a pawn shop. Now, the bass drum worked and the cymbals worked, but, like, the snare drum was busted. It was a piece of. But I was so pumped to have a drum, so I played ish. But it's. Nothing was in tune. It was all, like, janky. It was just a bunch of noise.
May Martin
I also just want to say, like, we are the last generation that we couldn't just go on YouTube and be like, learn how to play drums. Like, you'd have to be like, is there a book on how to do this? Like, or get a teacher.
Fortune Feimster
Is there a teacher?
May Martin
It costs you money these days. Yeah, anything you need is on YouTube. You could basically build a house by being like, YouTube. How do I build a house? What do I need?
Fortune Feimster
Really good.
May Martin
Yeah, Seriously. Should we.
Fortune Feimster
I don't know if I'd want to live in if I built. I trust you guys. Not me.
May Martin
I don't trust myself. I trust Thomas to build a house.
Fortune Feimster
I would not be handy.
May Martin
Me neither. I think you and I are the, like, the princesses of the pod. Really? Like, Tig, I think, would get her hands dirty and build that house. You and me would be like, yeah, I just want to gossip.
Fortune Feimster
I love it. Let's hear what Aaron had to say.
May Martin
Yeah.
Erin
Admittedly, you know, I might not be too thrilled to say that. I had floral sheets. I had a poster of Luke Perry in my closet, pictures up. I had a little boom box that I would freaking blast, you know, cassette tapes on and sing my heart out.
May Martin
You Know, the little boombox is very. Yeah, I had. I would record songs from the radio onto my tape. Yeah. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And don't worry, May. If you're okay with it, we'll post your childhood bedroom picture when this comes out.
May Martin
It's so crazy. We have to. It's. I am the. I'm such a little boy in it. Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Love it.
Lee
Hey, handsome. Pod. This is Tyler from Philadelphia. I'm wondering what your strange food combination is that you really love or that you did love when you were a kid. And I'm not talking about, like, pineapple on pizza. That's normal stuff. People just pretend that that's weird. I'm talking about, like, a food combination that other people would frown upon or make fun of you for. What is your strange food pairing that you really love?
May Martin
Fortune. Your reaction says it all. You got one.
Fortune Feimster
This podcast is making me reveal too much.
May Martin
Are you full ashamed someone's gonna bring this combination to your shows?
Fortune Feimster
There's one person in my life who knows about this.
May Martin
Oh, my God. Where's this a real exclusive?
Fortune Feimster
This is an exclusive that I never thought I would have to share because why would you? And he's my childhood best friend. We're still friends to this day. Shout out, Brian. And he used to see me eat this, and it's so foul.
May Martin
I bet you there's going to be people listening that are like, I did that, too.
Fortune Feimster
I don't know. They're going to think it's disgusting. And let me preface this by saying I would never eat this now or in since then. In, like, there's no world in which you could even pay me to eat this.
May Martin
Okay.
Fortune Feimster
It'll sound sad when I say I'm fine. We're fine. My family, it's not like we were destitute, but we. Times were very tight. Often my mom was a school teacher. Especially after my parents split, the money was scarce, so we didn't always have, like, fresh food in the house.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
And when you don't have a lot of money, you just eat, like, shitty things because it's cheap and things with preservatives because it lasts forever. And so we rarely. There was a time when money was super tight and we didn't have often fresh milk. I'm not saying we never had milk. My mom's gonna be like, we had milk. There were times that, yeah, it was tight, so we weren't going to the grocery stor I. So we would always have, like, cereal. Cereal was easy to keep. It lasted a while. And we had frosted we love the sugary cereals. So we had Frosted Flakes. Yeah.
May Martin
Love it.
Fortune Feimster
Didn't have milk.
May Martin
Oh, my God.
Fortune Feimster
So you gotta. You gotta make do, you know, you gotta. I'm hungry. There's not a lot of food in the fridge. And one thing that also lasts forever is mustard.
May Martin
Wait a second. I did not see that coming. Wait, I thought you were going to say, like, orange juice and Frosties or like. Wait, what do you mean, mustard?
Fortune Feimster
What do you mean, mustard?
May Martin
That's not a liquid.
Fortune Feimster
It's not.
May Martin
That's not a milk substitute.
Fortune Feimster
And I would swirl it around. I have. I've always loved, like, a sweet and salty combo.
May Martin
So are we talking like, yellow French's mustard?
Fortune Feimster
Yellow French's mustard. Sugary, sweet Frosted Flakes.
May Martin
Oh, my God.
Fortune Feimster
I can't even describe what. It just tastes like. Crunchy mustard.
May Martin
You know, I'm. I'm really trying to taste it in my mouth and I think I do kind of get it. Like, it's kind of like. Like Thai sweet chili chips or something. Like the. Like, that's what I'm picturing. Like the Lays.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. I don't know how I created this other than, oh, I have this in the cabinet and this in the cabinet.
May Martin
Oh, my God.
Fortune Feimster
And I'm hungry.
May Martin
Wow.
Fortune Feimster
And so the only person I would let see me do this was my friend Brian.
May Martin
Good old Brian.
Fortune Feimster
He would always be like, what is this? And then even when we did have. I got accustomed to really loving it. So when we did have milk, I was like, I don't need it. Oh, I got my combo here. That probably stopped when I was about 15. Whoa.
May Martin
Up till 15?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, I think I did it from, like, maybe 10 to 15.
May Martin
It sounds like you got a taste for it.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
May Martin
Like, you were like, yeah, I got.
Fortune Feimster
A taste for it. It ended up being delicious to me.
May Martin
I think we. Thomas, we should put on the list trying this.
Fortune Feimster
This is gonna be so grossed out. So anyway, that's wildly embarrassing.
May Martin
No, I. It's not.
Fortune Feimster
That's how much I love the pond.
May Martin
That's incredible. And I couldn't have guessed it. I couldn't have guessed it would have been worse if it was like, mayo or something. Must. I can get behind, like, the flavor combo.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for. Thank you for being there for me.
May Martin
Well, I want to try it.
Fortune Feimster
Do you have one?
May Martin
Not combining things. No, that wasn't my arena of creativity. I was.
Fortune Feimster
You like to keep things in their place.
May Martin
Yeah.
Fortune Feimster
Keep things in their place.
May Martin
No. Maybe like celery and Cheese Whiz. But that wasn't that weird at the time.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
May Martin
In Canada, our big thing was, like, our parents didn't let us have cans of whipped cream. And so anytime they would go out for dinner and leave me and my brother, we would run to the corner store and we'd buy a whole can of Miracle Whip, and we would eat the whole thing of.
Fortune Feimster
Wait. Of whipped cream, you mean?
May Martin
Yeah. Not. Not Miracle Whip. Like, Ready Whip. Ready Whip. That's it.
Fortune Feimster
Ready Whip. Okay.
May Martin
Oh, my God. I want it now.
Fortune Feimster
Ready with an I. Yeah. And whip with no H. Yeah.
May Martin
Really?
Fortune Feimster
Really. They're really mixing their own thing.
May Martin
Yeah. Should we hear Lee's answer?
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
Lee
I actually have two answers from when I was a kid. One, I used to put sprinkles inside of slices of cheese and, like, roll them up and eat them just like that. Just sprinkles and cheese. Super good. I also used to dip. Around Philadelphia, we called them Ho Hos. They're like little chocolate Swiss rolls. I would dip those in cheese sauce. So I think, you know, the theme here is cheese. Both sound disgusting, and when I was eight, I was really convinced that they were delicious. Thanks so much. Love your pod.
May Martin
Thanks, Lee.
Fortune Feimster
Amazing.
May Martin
Yeah. Those little mini chocolate roll things and a cheese sauce.
Fortune Feimster
Wow.
May Martin
Okay. We got a lot to try.
Fortune Feimster
Yes, we do. Oh, man. Well, what a. What another fun podcast.
May Martin
What a podcast.
Fortune Feimster
I learned about your childhood bedroom. You learned about my weird eating childhood things?
May Martin
Yeah. Love it. We're always learning. Like, it's made me want a hot dog. I'm thinking about mustard and.
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, all right.
May Martin
All right. I'm off to have a hot dog. But keep sending in your questions, please. We really love them. You go to speakpipe.com handsome pod and send in your question and your answer, please.
Fortune Feimster
Absolutely. Thank you guys for listening. Check out our full episode on Tuesday, and until then, keep it pretty.
May Martin
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Podcast Summary: Handsome – Pretty Little Episode #26
Release Date: February 14, 2025
Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, May Martin
Produced by: Headgum
In Episode #26 titled "Pretty Little," hosts Fortune Feimster and May Martin delve into nostalgic reflections on their childhoods, particularly focusing on childhood bedrooms and quirky food combinations from their younger years. The episode is a heartfelt and humorous exploration of past experiences, enriched with personal anecdotes and listener interactions.
The episode kicks off with a listener named Erin from Albuquerque, New Mexico, asking about the hosts' childhood bedrooms and how they decorated them. Fortune and May eagerly dive into their memories, sharing vivid descriptions and humorous insights.
May Martin’s Childhood Bedroom:
May shares a photograph of her childhood bedroom, depicting herself around nine or ten years old. The room is adorned with:
Fortune Feimster’s Childhood Bedroom:
Fortune recounts that she didn’t have a dedicated bedroom growing up due to her parents' habit of collecting items, leading to a cluttered space. Eventually, after attending Girl Scout camp, her family revamped a room to make it "the girliest room imaginable," complete with:
Notable Quote:
"The only person I would let see me do this was my friend Brian." – Fortune Feimster [20:16]
Listener Lee from Philadelphia poses a fun and cringe-worthy question about the hosts' strange food combinations that they either loved as kids or still enjoy today.
Fortune Feimster’s Unusual Pairing:
Fortune reveals her bizarre childhood concoction:
May Martin’s Quirky Combo:
May shares her own unconventional pairing:
Additional Listener Insights:
Notable Quote:
"I've always loved, like, a sweet and salty combo." – May Martin [22:45]
"It just tastes like crunchy mustard." – Fortune Feimster [22:58]
The conversation takes a whimsical turn as Fortune shares her experiences with dreaming about celebrities and real-life encounters:
Notable Quote:
"I was like, I love JLo." – Fortune Feimster [05:17]
"She kind of was trying not to make eye contact with people, but she looked right over to me and she went, hey, I'm a big fan." – Fortune Feimster [05:32]
Fortune reflects on how this encounter was a soul-stirring moment, especially since she had been feeling low and uninspired prior to the meeting.
The hosts discuss how these childhood experiences and encounters with celebrities have shaped their perceptions and self-validation:
Notable Quote:
"She's a businesswoman. Oh, my." – May Martin [06:00]
"That was a hit Gun podcast." – Fortune Feimster [27:00]
As the episode wraps up, the hosts express their enjoyment in sharing personal stories and encourage listeners to continue sending in questions and memories. They highlight the importance of reminiscing and connecting over shared experiences, no matter how quirky or unique.
Final Remarks:
Fortune Feimster on Mustard and Cereal:
"I can't even describe what. It just tastes like. Crunchy mustard." – [22:58]
May Martin on Her Childhood Bedroom:
"I've got my own space. It's clean. I can shut the door and keep you psychos out of my room." – [15:24]
Fortune Feimster on Bette Midler’s Influence:
"I sobbed like an idiot." – [12:42]
Celebrity Encounter:
"Hey, I'm a big fan." – Jennifer Lopez to Fortune Feimster [05:32]
"Pretty Little Episode #26" of Handsome is a delightful blend of nostalgia, humor, and heartfelt storytelling. Hosts Fortune Feimster and May Martin offer a candid look into their formative years, sharing both amusing and poignant memories that resonate with listeners. Through engaging conversations and relatable anecdotes, the episode underscores the universal journey of self-discovery and the enduring impact of our childhood experiences.
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