Pretty Little Episode #40

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Handsome" – Pretty Little Episode #40

Release Date: May 23, 2025
Hosts: Mae Martin, Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster
Produced by: Headgum

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Introduction

In Episode #40 of "Handsome," titled "Pretty Little Episode," hosts Mae Martin, Tig Notaro, and Fortune Feimster engage in their signature blend of humor and heartfelt conversation. The episode features interactions with listeners' questions, personal anecdotes, and lighthearted banter about everyday topics.

Personal Lives and Anecdotes

Mae's Living Situation and Family Dynamics Mae Martin opens up about her current living arrangements in Toronto, humorously describing her relationship with her parents and their beloved Murphy bed.

• Mae Martin [01:02]: "It's me, Tig."
• Mae Martin [01:06]: "Yeah, and they have a Murphy bed and they love that Murphy bed."

The trio shares laughs over the quirks of living with parents, highlighting Mae's appreciation for home-cooked meals.

• Mae Martin [02:41]: "He really is... And I'm not making it sound good, but he really is."

Culinary Conversations: Broccoli and Beyond

A significant portion of the episode delves into a playful debate about the merits of broccoli versus broccolini and cauliflower.

• Tig Notaro [03:26]: "Common ground. Like a food."
• Mae Martin [04:03]: "Are you serious? Come on, guys, grow up."

The hosts discuss roasting vegetables, the nutritional benefits of broccoli stems, and their personal preferences, making the conversation both informative and entertaining.

• Mae Martin [05:19]: "Eat your broccoli stems."

Creative Endeavors and Inspirations

Mae shares updates on her musical projects, including upcoming songs that explore themes of breakups, while Tig humorously relates to her creative process.

• Mae Martin [05:37]: "I got two new songs coming out soon, in June."
• Tig Notaro [06:01]: "So you did write them after. It wasn't something you held on to and then later decided to release?"

The discussion segues into a whimsical exchange about songwriting and poetry, showcasing the hosts' playful creativity.

• Mae Martin [10:34]: "Here you say a line and then I'll do the rhyming couplet."
• Tig Notaro [11:25]: "That's so much better than."

Listener Interaction: Middle School Memories

Responding to listener Kamala's question, the hosts reminisce about their middle school years, sharing both positive experiences and humorous memories of questionable fashion and hairstyles.

• Kamala [12:15]: "What is something you thought was really fashionable or, like, a funny hairstyle that you now look back on and think, what was I thinking?"
• Mae Martin [17:59]: "She really was great. Like, encouraging me to do music and stuff, too."

Tig reflects on the impact of a supportive vice principal during his formative years, highlighting the importance of mentorship.

• Tig Notaro [14:07]: "And get me into high school, I'll say that my vice principal saved my life."

Mae contributes with nostalgic stories of middle school friendships and memorable classroom antics.

• Mae Martin [16:18]: "I was a wreck in middle school and... just."

Superstitions and Personal Rituals

In response to Nina from Rio de Janeiro, the hosts discuss personal superstitions and rituals that bring comfort and a sense of safety.

• Nina [20:33]: "Do you have any superstitions that you abide by rigorously?"
• Tig Notaro [21:30]: "I like it also. I think it originated from not wanting light in when I'm sleeping."

Mae shares her own quirky habits, such as performing push-ups before shows and saying a personal prayer for calmness.

• Mae Martin [23:07]: "I have to do my 10 push ups before every show. That counts."

Nina adds her unique superstition about not drinking "dream water," attributing it to her personal beliefs.

• Nina [23:46]: "If I wake up in the morning and there is still some water left from the evening before, it has to go to my plants or to my cats because it absorbed all of my dreams or nightmares from that night."

Closing Remarks

The hosts encourage listeners to submit their questions and engage with the "Handsome" community, expressing gratitude for their audience's support.

• Tig Notaro [25:14]: "We love the Handsome community and we want to build it."
• Mae Martin [25:39]: "Handsome is hosted by me, Mae Martin, Tig Notaro, and Fortune Feimster."

Notable Quotes

• Mae Martin [10:42]: "A line of poetry."
• Tig Notaro [19:02]: "Where are your boobs?"
• Mae Martin [23:29]: "It's different every time, but it's like a pretty earnest moment."

Conclusion

Episode #40 of "Handsome" offers listeners a blend of humor, personal stories, and meaningful conversations. From nostalgic school memories to quirky superstitions, Mae, Tig, and Fortune create an engaging and relatable atmosphere, inviting audiences to connect and share in their delightful exchanges.

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Transcript

[Mae Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mae Martin]

Friends on the Handsome Pod Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod Pretty little episode. Welcome to a pretty little episode of the Handsome Pod. I'm one of your hosts, Mae Martin.

[Tig Notaro]

Joined by the handsome Tig Notaro. It's me, May.

[Mae Martin]

It's me, Tig.

[Tig Notaro]

Hey.

[Mae Martin]

Hey.

[Tig Notaro]

I see you're still in Toronto.

[Mae Martin]

Yep, still here. Still here in my parents basement.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, you're at your parents?

[Mae Martin]

Not in this moment, but I sleep in their basement. Yeah, and they have a Murphy bed and they love that Murphy bed.

[Tig Notaro]

Man, I love a Murphy bed. You don't like a Murphy bed?

[Mae Martin]

No, I love it too, but not the way they love it. Like they, they are just electric. Tell me they're just like we, we unfolded the Murphy bed and you know, when you're not here, we fold it up.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, isn't that just letting you know that the Murphy bed is down or up? Is that really, truly a love affair with a Murphy bed?

[Mae Martin]

It's the look on their face that they, they are electrified.

[Tig Notaro]

Let me see the look. It's like that sparkle and is it comfortable, the Murphy bed?

[Mae Martin]

It's super comfortable and it's like a sensory deprivation chamber down there in the basement. It's like no light, no sound, and just kind of on the wall they have framed my shiatsu massage diploma. Their proudest moment.

[Tig Notaro]

I forgot about that.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Is that your choice? That you sleep in the basement on the Murphy bed? Is there another room? Is this, is this the house you grew up in?

[Mae Martin]

No, it's there, it's. They only got it like 15 years ago. And it's. It's the only. It's the only room I think I could get a hotel. But it feels. It's been nice. I've been in Toronto like once a month doing this at it and it's. It's been nice eating home cooked food and like, you know. Who's the cook at the Murphy Bed? My dad. Oh my God, he's such a good cook.

[Tig Notaro]

What's his specialty?

[Mae Martin]

British food. So roasts and. But he'll like a nice piece of fish that he'll just cook it so well. And he does like roasted broccoli. That. That is really nice. And I'm not making it sound good, but he really is.

[Tig Notaro]

Listen, I am a huge broccoli fan.

[Mae Martin]

Me too, Tig. And isn't it crazy how when you roast it. Take it.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes.

[Mae Martin]

A whole new flav Take.

[Tig Notaro]

Roasting will do that. Yeah. And then are you. Do you enjoy cauliflower or are you. Yes, yes. Okay.

[Mae Martin]

Love cauliflower.

[Tig Notaro]

We have found a common.

[Mae Martin]

A common ground.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Common ground. Like a food. Yeah. Finally we can talk. No, I just. I feel like broccoli gets such a bad rap. You know, maybe it's just for children that maybe. Maybe I'm just hanging out in the world of small children. I mean, my kids like broccoli, but I do feel like people are like, eh. You know, I. Like. I was just at a dinner a few nights ago, and part of the dinner was broccoli. And I looked around. So many people push their broccoli to the side.

[Mae Martin]

Are you serious? Come on, guys, grow up.

[Tig Notaro]

And I was gonna say, and these were adults, and I truly wanted to be like, can I have your broccoli? Like, are you really not gonna eat? To me, that is yum yum stuff.

[Mae Martin]

It's the classic veg. And. And also, I feel like now in restaurants and stuff, like, you're. You never get just a side of broccoli. It's always broccolini or like something special. I just want your standard Brock. I want, like, I. I don't have.

[Tig Notaro]

A problem with broccolini. I'll be honest with you. You have a hang up on broccolini.

[Mae Martin]

No, I like it too, but yeah, I love a hearty. A hearty head of Brock.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Do you like it raw ever?

[Mae Martin]

Sure, sure, I have it raw.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. You don't care. You just want your broccoli. Yeah, yeah.

[Mae Martin]

And then now Brussels sprouts. Very trendy in restaurants.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Roasted sprouts.

[Tig Notaro]

And have we talked about this? But the. The majority of the nutritional content is in the stem of broccoli.

[Mae Martin]

Okay, that rings a bell. But it's all. It's blown my mind again. If that's. If you've already told me that that's crazy because you'd think that the darkest green would be.

[Tig Notaro]

It's not true. It is the. Yep, it's.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's the stem there.

[Tig Notaro]

So eat your broccoli stems.

[Mae Martin]

Eat your broccoli Stems.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes. Marn and fruit. Is that what you were referencing? Is marnin. Fruit.

[Mae Martin]

Marnin and fruit.

[Tig Notaro]

I think I wrote a hit song.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, I think you did, too. I've had people come up to me after shows and sing your song about morning fruit.

[Tig Notaro]

Wow. And then speaking of hit songs, how's your music going?

[Mae Martin]

Oh, thanks. Good, thanks. Yeah, I got two new songs coming out, actually, soon, which coming out, like, in June, and it would be, like a deluxe edition of the album that I already put out. I think this is, like, the way they do it to trick you into thinking the album sales have been better. They go, oh, we put buy the album again with these two new songs. I shouldn't be saying this, but anyway, they're two more recent songs.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay, so you did write them after. It wasn't something you held on to and then later decided to release?

[Mae Martin]

No, I wrote them after. Yeah. I'm loving writing music right now.

[Tig Notaro]

And is there anything that inspired these two new songs?

[Mae Martin]

Well, they're kind of breakupy songs, but not necessarily about my breakup, just general. But then the other day.

[Tig Notaro]

I hope they're not about my breakup.

[Mae Martin]

They're about your breakup.

[Tig Notaro]

No, no.

[Mae Martin]

I was playing the piano the other day, and I thought, God, I'm. I'm really playing a beautiful song. And then I realized it was the song Beautiful by Christina Aguilera, and I was just stealing it.

[Tig Notaro]

And you were literally playing a beautiful song.

[Mae Martin]

Pretty much, yeah. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, because it's.

[Mae Martin]

Wow.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's called beautiful.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, I know. And it was.

[Tig Notaro]

That song was written by Linda Perry.

[Mae Martin]

Yes, Tig. See, we are. We are common ground today. Broccoli and Linda Perry.

[Tig Notaro]

That's right. Linda Perry lives in my neighborhood. And I shuffle. Yeah, yeah, we shuffle. Maybe she moved because her. I think she had a breakup song in her life a few years ago, so maybe. Yeah. When she and Sarah Gilbert split, I think Sarah stayed in the neighborhood and Linda hit the road. Maybe. I don't know. I'm making that up. My apologies, Linda and Sarah. If anybody's listening or if anyone knows them, I will tell you an awkward thing that happened. Stephanie recently said, I saw this very beautiful home for sale online. And she said, after we drop Max and Finn, would you have any interest in driving past it? Not like we're looking to move or anything. And she said, I think it's the most beautiful home I've ever seen. Whoa.

[Fortune Feimster]

I said, sure.

[Tig Notaro]

We drop off our little cubs. We go find the house. It is 8 in the morning, and we pull into a cul. De sac. And who is pulling out of the driveway of the most beautiful home is Sarah Gilbert. No. And. And it. I think she saw us. We saw her. And it was just this awkward feeling of like, good morning, Sarah. Yeah, you know, like we know her, but we don't know her well enough to where we've been to her home. That's so fun. Yeah, it was so. I don't know if I can quite explain the awkwardness of that early in the morning being trapped on a. On a cul de sac, just with early morning lesbians, not knowing quite why. Yeah, maybe she was like, oh, maybe Tegan and. And Stephanie are interested in my home. But that all goes back to Linda Perry. I feel like Sarah stayed in the, in the neighborhood. And Linda, now that I think about it, I probably haven't seen her in the past year.

[Mae Martin]

I would. If I left my house at 8am and I saw you and Stephanie parked in a car across the street like vultures, I would be like, well, we.

[Tig Notaro]

Weren'T parked in the car across the street. We were just looping around the cul de sac.

[Mae Martin]

Okay. Okay. Okay. Then I can. I would explain away. Tig, would you ever, like, do you ever get inspired to write poetry? Like, do, like, do you have a sort of notebook in your bag and you might write down ideas, but then also once in a while you'd write down a little couple lines of poetry.

[Tig Notaro]

I used to write poetry when I was a kid, you know, when I was a teen in my early 20s. And that whole time and boy, I've come across. I've come across those poems and I don't think that's my strength.

[Mae Martin]

Right.

[Tig Notaro]

I really don't.

[Mae Martin]

I would love if you ghost wrote a song for me, like you send me the lyrics.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, what about Morning Fruit? Would you release Marnin fruit?

[Mae Martin]

And do I have to do the accent?

[Tig Notaro]

Of course.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Yeah, of course. Would I release it? I think you could sell it to an ad company and make a billion bucks. That's like an ad for, I don't know, oranges or something.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay, anyone listening that? You need a jingle that goes a little like. Martin Fruit. Marnin fruit. Don't forget to eat your morning fruit. Go on, chime in.

[Mae Martin]

That rendition was so good.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm one of the best out there.

[Mae Martin]

One of the all time greats.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm not, not a poem writer.

[Mae Martin]

Here you say a line and then I'll do the rhyming couplet.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay? I love a couplet.

[Mae Martin]

A line of poetry.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

Sometimes I think of you.

[Mae Martin]

But then I remember the things you do.

[Tig Notaro]

Ah, see? Yeah. And is that the end?

[Mae Martin]

Yep. That's like a haiku. That's a breakup haiku.

[Tig Notaro]

I'll be honest. That is the first line of a poem of mine from my childhood that.

[Fortune Feimster]

I came across where I said, sometimes.

[Tig Notaro]

I think of you, but then again, I always do.

[Mae Martin]

Wait, that's beautiful. Why are you second guessing yourself? That's so much better than. Because there's something so nice about being like sometimes. And then the reveal is always, always.

[Tig Notaro]

You're always on my mind. As Willie Nelson once said.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Should we hear what our listeners want to know?

[Tig Notaro]

I think we should just. That will make this whole episode make sense.

[Kamala]

Hi, handsome pod. My name is Kamala. I am a middle school music teacher. And my question for you is, I'd like you to think back to your middle school years. Think like ages 11 to 14, and share one really positive thing that came out of those years. I know there's probably a lot of negative things that come to mind for obvious reasons, but speaking as someone who deals with middle schoolers all day, every day, there is actually a lot of joy and positivity in those years as well. Bonus question. What is something you thought was really fashionable or, like, a funny hairstyle that you now look back on and think, what was I thinking?

[Mae Martin]

Middle school teachers. That's doing the Lord's work.

[Tig Notaro]

Truly, though.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I mean, any teacher, whether it's like, even a daycare. Oh, elementary, junior high, high school, college, like, swim instructors. When I sit, you know, my kids learn to swim at their school.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And I cannot. I mean, all the kids talking, laughing, you know, kind of floating away and not paying attention and. And the teachers that are so patiently keeping, wrangling everyone and keep. I'm just like, how do you do what you do? How?

[Mae Martin]

I know, think about how exhausted we are after we, like, do a show and have a meeting in a day, and these people are on their feet teaching hordes of children like, it's unreal.

[Fortune Feimster]

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[Tig Notaro]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Tig Notaro]

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[Mae Martin]

Shepherding people through Puberty and. Oh, my God. Yeah. Wow. That was a very visceral time for me.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Those are the worst times of my life.

[Mae Martin]

Maybe me, too.

[Tig Notaro]

You know, if I can cheat a little bit here and just bump it up a year.

[Mae Martin]

Okay.

[Tig Notaro]

And get me into high school, I'll say that my vice principal saved my life. Really saved my life. Yeah, Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

I think you've mentioned this person who just kind of saw you and.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, yeah. And I wrote about her. I was asked to write. What is it? Richard Pryor's book. His book was reissued and his family asked me to write a little something beforehand. And somewhere in there, I talked about my vice principal because she. Yeah. As you said, saw me, took an interest, didn't just when I was in trouble or sent to the office, didn't just discipline me and then, you know.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. She could tell me what was going on.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. She just really took time and investigated what was going on with me. And. And it kind of made me realize, like, wow, there was a lot going. There's a lot going on here. And I haven't talked to her in a couple of years, but we've remained in contact here and there. I feel very, very lucky.

[Mae Martin]

I'm thinking what's coming to My mind is Mrs. Silver, my. My music and drama teacher.

[Tig Notaro]

And.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, I was a wreck in middle school and. And kind of. Kind of bullied, but just. But I had one friend called Laura. I mean, I had. I had lots of friends, but she. And I would get, like, hysterical laughter. Fits in a way that I never have since, like, where we thought we were going to die. And there was one day where, first of all, she peed herself in the snow trying to. Maybe we'll bleep out her last name. But she was laughing so hard that she. And she sat down in the snow, and I was like, we gotta go. We gotta get to class. We were crying, laughing about. Not like, about nonsense.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Mae Martin]

And she was like, I can't. And then eventually stood up and there was a yellow patch in the snow. But anyway, that. And then we took.

[Tig Notaro]

And you didn't eat that snow, did you?

[Mae Martin]

I did not eat.

[Tig Notaro]

It's a. People definitely getting the word out not to eat yellow snow.

[Mae Martin]

Yes, 1 million percent. We went to. To music class and, yeah, I was in a lot of trouble all the time. Never did my homework. Always getting kicked out or suspended. And. Yeah, so we were in music class and this hysteria took over and we could not stop. And I always remember Mrs. Silver was like, one of the Only teachers who found us funny and. And was, like, reluctantly disciplining us, but was, like, found us kind of funny.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

On that particular day, she just went. May and Laura, just go. Go in the hall and laugh until you're done laughing. Like. Like, she wasn't mad. She was just like, if you. You guys need to just go get this out or you're.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mae Martin]

We just went and sat outside the classroom and laughed, and it was just so nice. Carla Silver, she. We're. We were in touch a little bit, I think, a couple emails. But if she's listening, she really was great. Like, encouraging me to do music and stuff, too.

[Tig Notaro]

Carla.

[Mae Martin]

Carla.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, that's nice.

[Mae Martin]

Carla Silver, she was kind of a rebel in the school. Like, it was a. It was an Anglican private school, and I don't know, I could tell she was sort of misunderstood. She was a rebel.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, sure. Yeah, man, we see you rebels. And also, you know, as far as fashion, I think this might have been before your time, but. But I really don't know. I'm not the one sitting here in a flannel telling anybody about fashion. But were you at the bottom of your jeans or pants, you fold it over and then roll your pants up?

[Mae Martin]

Oh, yeah. I mean, I still do that.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, you do? Okay.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay. That was.

[Mae Martin]

You were rolling.

[Tig Notaro]

That was very popular in the 80s to, like, do that, make it tighter, and then flip it over.

[Mae Martin]

I guess my fashion thing was I had long hair in middle school for the only time in my life, and it was slicked back into a ponytail. And then I had two pieces just hanging down, framing my face, and I would put gel in them, and they were, like, crispy.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, that's a good look.

[Mae Martin]

Should we hear Kamala's answer?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, we should definitely hear that.

[Kamala]

My thing that I took out of those years that was the best was, like, I made my first, like, real friends. Like, friends that I was like, these are my people finally, like, really connected. And I think my personality comes from those friendships in middle school. And bonus. Answer. I had a beautiful, sweet granola mom who just did not tell me that I needed to be wearing a bra. So I was flopping around for way too long. Looking forward to hearing your answers.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, she came to the right to hosts about flopping around.

[Mae Martin]

I. I didn't wear a bra till I should have been wearing one. And I wore, like, a crossbody bag, so the strap would go between my pointy little boobs. They would just be, oh, God, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Where are your boobs?

[Mae Martin]

These Days, probably near the dumpster that yours are in.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay, well, because mine, you know, they hold on to. For. For tumor reasons, so.

[Mae Martin]

Do they? No, they don't.

[Tig Notaro]

Probably not my full on boobs, but, like, my tumors, like, are. Because I have to have these tests done every, you know, six months or so that can kind of tell the future if I'm going to have a cancer recurrence.

[Mae Martin]

Whoa.

[Tig Notaro]

Based on the tumor, the old tumors. So my. My. Yeah, my tits are actually not in a dumpster, like we've joked.

[Mae Martin]

They're in a fridge somewhere.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, they're definitely. They're in a tit fridge. Tit fridge is pretty good. Yeah. Do you know where yours go?

[Mae Martin]

I have no idea. I hope. I hope they burned them. I don't know. Or donated.

[Tig Notaro]

They're still smoking, you know. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

I liked what Kamala said about, like, that's sort of the first time that you really are choosing your friends. Because in elementary school, you're kind of like friends of the people in your class. You have to go to every birthday party. And.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

In middle school, you're like, more discerning.

[Tig Notaro]

Huh. Yeah. That's going to be interesting when my kids start. Because already in their school, yeah, everybody was friends with everyone, and everyone's pretty much still friends with everyone, but they're starting to really lock into. No, this is. This is my vibe. This person.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

What do we got?

[Tig Notaro]

What's next?

[Nina]

Hi, handsome. I am Nina from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And my question is, do you have any superstitions that you abide by rigorously? If so, where did it come from? And who taught you them?

[Mae Martin]

We were just talking about Rio de Janeiro. That is crazy.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes, yes, yes. Talk about superstitious. I don't know. I don't know if this is superstitious. I mean, maybe you can tell me, but Stephanie gives me such a hard time about this. But when she's always the last in bed.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And when she gets in bed, I always ask her to crack the bathroom door a little bit and crack the bedroom door a little bit. And. And there's. There's a. It's not superstitious. I. I guess I'm answering it incorrectly.

[Mae Martin]

But it's like that counts kind of. It makes you feel calm.

[Tig Notaro]

I feel. I feel safe. Like, I. I like it also. I think it originated from not wanting light in when I'm sleeping, and also so the cats can go in and out. So I like for the doors to be as closed as possible, but so Kitty city can make their rounds into the bathroom, out of the bedroom and wherever they might need to go. But with the bedroom door, I like to have a book and has a doorstop so the door doesn't, you know, open more that it just stays cracked enough for a kitty to go in and out.

[Mae Martin]

Okay.

[Tig Notaro]

And that way also, I would know if somebody had come into our room at night.

[Mae Martin]

Right.

[Tig Notaro]

Because. Yeah, if. If the. If the door is open and the book has slided back, then somebody has come in that's bigger than a kitty.

[Mae Martin]

Okay. I like that. That counts. I think that's like a sort of habitual thing that you do to feel safe and.

[Tig Notaro]

Sure.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, sure. What about, like, are you walking under ladders and stuff or what? Or you don't care?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I don't care about that stuff. I'll walk under a ladder. I'll. Yeah, I don't. I don't. You don't walk under a ladder?

[Mae Martin]

No, I'm like, of course not. I'm not gonna risk it. I'm not toasting with water either. I'm not cheersing with water. That's bad luck.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, is it?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, I didn't know that. And I. Wow. I didn't know. Why is that bad?

[Mae Martin]

I don't know. Maybe because water is so lame and boring. Tig. Oh, no, I don't know. I don't know. I think it's like. I don't know. Yeah, but also, if I see a penny, I'm picking it up, even though that's probably gross. But I have. I have to do my 10 push ups before every show. That counts. And I kind of say a prayer before every show.

[Tig Notaro]

Do you?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Can we know the prayer?

[Mae Martin]

It's different every time, but it's like a pretty earnest moment. It's not to any particular deity, but it's just like a little calm moment.

[Tig Notaro]

Uh huh.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

That's nice.

[Mae Martin]

Should we hear what Nina has to say?

[Tig Notaro]

Yes, please.

[Nina]

Mine is that I cannot drink the water that is by my bedside. So if I wake up in the morning and there is still some water left from the evening before, it has to go to my plants or to my cats because it absorbed all of my dreams or nightmares from that light. Honestly, I do not remember being taught that. I think I invented it, but it is a strict rule for me. No dream water ever dream. I love listening to you guys. Come to Brazil someday.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, we have to go to Brazil and see Nina.

[Mae Martin]

I would love to. And also that there's more and more studies about water having a memory like when being able to be a kind of conduit. Like.

[Tig Notaro]

Interesting.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. There's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like people who are freezing water.

[Tig Notaro]

Mm.

[Mae Martin]

And with a thought or an intention and then when. And then looking under a microscope and it's formed a picture of what they were thinking or talking about. I don't know. It's. Water's crazy.

[Tig Notaro]

Where'd you hear about this?

[Mae Martin]

Well, you know, word on the street. Oh, thanks, Nina.

[Tig Notaro]

Yes, Nina. And listeners, don't forget to submit your questions. If you have one, don't be shy. Submit it to speakpipe.com/handsome pod.

[Fortune Feimster]

We love hearing from you.

[Tig Notaro]

We love the Handsome community and we want to build it. So tell your friends and thanks for being such. Such a great crew. Truly. Yes. Real angels. And I don't know, until next time, what do you say we just. We should probably just keep it pretty Handsome.

[Mae Martin]

Handsome is hosted by me, Mae Martin, Tig Notaro, and Fortune Feimster. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willett. Email [e-mail] and please follow us on social media. Ansomepod.

[Tig Notaro]

What a podcast.

[Kamala]

What a podcast.

[Mae Martin]

That was a headgum podcast.

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