Pretty Little Episode #45

Summary

Podcast Summary: Handsome – "Pretty Little Episode #45"

Release Date: June 27, 2025
Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin
Episode Title: Pretty Little Episode #45

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1. Opening Conversations and Personal Updates (00:39 – 05:15)

The episode kicks off with Fortune Feimster welcoming listeners to the "Pretty Little Episode," followed by introductions from Mae Martin and Tig Notaro. The trio dives into personal updates, setting a relaxed and humorous tone for the discussion.

Mae Martin shares her recent experiences with fitness and home maintenance:

"I'm feeling good, feeling fresh. I did a workout. I did a sauna, but my air conditioning's broken. And the way to fix it is... to blast the heat all day." (01:07)

Fortune Feimster adds her own quirky updates about staying active:

"I've been reading books. We know that's not true. I'm good. I swam every day this week." (01:37)

The conversation naturally shifts to personal vices and habits, with Mae opening up about her struggles with smoking:

"I'm trying to quit smoking... I smoke like two or three cigarettes a day." (02:15)

Fortune empathetically responds, discussing the challenges of breaking habits:

"I guess it just takes time to snap out of that, right?" (02:54)

The hosts humorously explore the theme of self-soothing and the imperfections they all share:

"We're just... none of us are perfect, you guys. We're just doing the best we can." (04:41)

2. Queer Film Festival Ideas (05:19 – 14:15)

The first listener question comes from Margot in Hudson Valley, New York, inquiring about favorite queer and queer-coded movies for a hypothetical queer film festival. The hosts enthusiastically brainstorm a diverse selection of films, blending nostalgia with newer favorites.

Mae Martin reflects on queer coding in classic films:

"Hocus Pocus feels gay... It's like very, like drag queeny, like, and it's sort of horny." (05:59)

Fortune Feimster adds her preferences:

"I like the movie she did Gia back in the day. She's like throwing herself against the fence." (07:43)

The discussion highlights iconic films like "My Own Private Idaho", "The Birdcage", and "Carol", emphasizing their impact and representation of queer themes.

Mae Martin passionately describes "Foxfire":

"It's so blatantly like, a celebration of queer culture with, like, Grace Jones voguing and stuff." (08:37)

They also touch on lesser-known gems and express excitement about including documentaries and stand-up specials, ensuring a comprehensive and inclusive festival lineup.

3. Creating a Children’s Television Show (14:15 – 21:50)

The next question from Dominique in Columbus, Ohio, asks the hosts to conceptualize a children's television show. The trio engages in a creative brainstorming session, each presenting unique and imaginative ideas.

Mae Martin shares her vibrant vision:

"I want to make a kids TV show with all magical animals... telling the story and I think it's... something whimsical." (15:03)

Fortune Feimster recounts her past experience with animated content:

"I had an animated idea that got bought... We wrote the pilot and had a really talented animator draw all the main characters." (17:20)

Dominique responds with an innovative concept combining pop art and interactive elements:

"I would want it to be about pop art and music, specifically from the 80s 90s era... kids could jump into the music and ride the notes." (18:50)

The hosts emphasize the importance of creativity, imagination, and interactivity in children's programming, discussing the balance between technology and storytelling to create engaging and memorable content for young audiences.

4. Upcoming Projects and Personal Highlights (21:50 – 23:23)

As the episode progresses, the hosts shift focus to their personal projects and upcoming endeavors.

Fortune Feimster shares her travel plans and excitement for future events:

"My birthday is around the corner on July 1st... I'm gonna do Pride in Iceland." (21:54)

Mae Martin promotes her latest musical releases and acting projects:

"Check out maymartinmusic.com. I've got two new songs out right now... and Feel Good on Netflix." (22:35)

They also encourage listeners to engage with their content and send in questions, fostering a sense of community and interaction with their audience.

5. Closing Remarks and Final Advertisements (23:23 – 24:13)

In the closing segment, the hosts reiterate their appreciation for listener questions and briefly touch upon upcoming content before returning to a final advertisement segment.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Mae Martin (01:07): "I'm feeling good, feeling fresh. I did a workout. I did a sauna, but my air conditioning's broken."

• Fortune Feimster (01:37): "I've been reading books. We know that's not true. I'm good. I swam every day this week."

• Mae Martin (02:15): "I'm trying to quit smoking... I smoke like two or three cigarettes a day."

• Fortune Feimster (02:54): "I guess it just takes time to snap out of that, right?"

• Mae Martin (05:59): "Hocus Pocus feels gay... It's like very, like drag queeny, like, and it's sort of horny."

• Fortune Feimster (07:43): "I like the movie she did Gia back in the day. She's like throwing herself against the fence."

• Mae Martin (15:03): "I want to make a kids TV show with all magical animals... telling the story and I think it's... something whimsical."

• Fortune Feimster (17:20): "I had an animated idea that got bought... We wrote the pilot and had a really talented animator draw all the main characters."

• Mae Martin (18:50): "I would want it to be about pop art and music, specifically from the 80s 90s era... kids could jump into the music and ride the notes."

• Fortune Feimster (21:54): "I'm gonna do Pride in Iceland."

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Conclusion

"Pretty Little Episode #45" of the Handsome podcast offers a blend of personal anecdotes, creative brainstorming, and heartfelt discussions. From tackling personal habits and vices to celebrating queer cinema and envisioning innovative children's programming, Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin create an engaging and relatable narrative. The episode underscores the hosts' camaraderie and their ability to intertwine humor with meaningful conversations, making it a delightful listen for both regular followers and new listeners alike.

Transcript

[Fortune Feimster]

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[Tig Notaro]

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[May Martin]

Friends on the Handsome Pod Chatting with.

[Fortune Feimster]

Friends on the Handsome Pod Pretty little episode. Welcome to our pretty little episode. For the Handsome Pod, it's Fortune Feimster.

[May Martin]

And me, May Martin. I was just like, frantically pointing at, like, this is. You start. You start.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I got you. I got you. Don't you worry.

[May Martin]

Thank you.

[Fortune Feimster]

How's it going?

[May Martin]

It's going well. I'm feeling good, feeling fresh. I did a workout. I did a sauna, but my air conditioning's broken. And the way to fix it is for. Is to apparently, is to blast the heat all day.

[Fortune Feimster]

Really?

[May Martin]

Yeah, to like, melt. It's like frozen over or something. So they're.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, no.

[May Martin]

Blasting the heat of my house. And it's.

[Fortune Feimster]

Whoa. It's like a sauna in your house now.

[May Martin]

Yeah, it's. It's super intense. How are you that. You look very smart. I think I do. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I've been reading books. We know that's not true. I'm good. I swam every day this week.

[May Martin]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

I did my treading water. Although one of the days I did make cinnamon rolls and I ate those in the pool while treading.

[May Martin]

Oh, my God. That's impressive. I think.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. So I felt like the. You know, I ate some. I shouldn't, and then I treaded.

[May Martin]

Listen, who says shouldn't? You know, what did you get them, like, pre made and then you put them in the oven?

[Fortune Feimster]

You know, like one of those. I'm sure the unhealthiest of things.

[May Martin]

Yes, I. I love.

[Fortune Feimster]

They're so good. But I'm not gonna buy those again because I shouldn't be eating them. But they were there and I just.

[May Martin]

Made them about, like, not having the thing in your house that you want, like, because I'm trying to quit smoking and I, I. Yeah, I do smoke. Like, I have to admit that I smoke like two or three cigarettes a day. Yeah, I'm trying to. So I got rid of all the cigarettes in my house and then smoked a butt of A cigarette from my cigarette butt. Like a sketchy little rat.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I mean, I guess it just takes time to. To snap out of that. Right?

[May Martin]

Yeah, like to form a new habit or whatever.

[Fortune Feimster]

Have you quit before?

[May Martin]

Yeah, yeah, I quit for all of my 20s. Yeah. I just started again in the pandemic. Really. And then I quit again when I was with Parv, and then I started smoking again.

[Fortune Feimster]

Is it an anxiety thing, you think?

[May Martin]

It's. I think it's like a nihilism thing. It's just like. Ah, it. And. And I do love it. I. Yeah, it's just the worst thing for you. But I do.

[Fortune Feimster]

We're trying.

[May Martin]

I'm trying. I'm trying.

[Fortune Feimster]

Nikki Glaser said she read some book that like everyone talks about. No, that was the alcohol.

[May Martin]

I think that was alcohol, but that too. Yeah. I'm lucky. I've never really liked drinking that much. Yeah, like a stimulant, you know?

[Fortune Feimster]

Right.

[May Martin]

Yeah. But that. There is a book that everyone says you gotta read to quit smoking.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I've never smoked. I mean, you know, aside from like a drag or two in high school, which I probably didn't even. I don't even think I inhale. I was just like this.

[May Martin]

I can imagine you smoking in like improv scenes. Like mime smoking a lot. It just says a lot about a character. The minute you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Because I've never smoked, I'm always like trying to do the ash. What.

[May Martin]

What is this called when you're mime ashing it?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, mime ashing it. Because yeah, I'm like that. That'll be believable. But yeah, never. My vice is all food. I never gotten into the. To the. Smoking and alcohol has never been an issue either.

[May Martin]

It's just so funny how they are interchangeable for each other. Like, it's just like it's all the same, you know? And everybody's got their thing.

[Fortune Feimster]

We're just. None of us are perfect, you guys. We're just doing the best we can.

[May Martin]

We gotta self soothe somehow. And we're supposed to be living in little villages just hanging out with our families, not living in these big scary metropolises with information coming at us.

[Fortune Feimster]

And for you, you take a drag of a butt of a cigarette on the ground and I eat a cinnamon roll.

[May Martin]

Okay. Mine sound.

[Fortune Feimster]

Say my cinnamon roll was also on the ground.

[May Martin]

Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I picked it up.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, should we get to some questions?

[May Martin]

I would love to. I would love to.

[Margot]

Hello, pretty little handsome cowboys. My name is Margot. I'm calling from the Beautifully gay Hudson Valley in New York. And I'm wondering, if you were putting together a handsome queer film festival, what would you include? What are some of your favorite nostalgic Queer or Queer Coded movies? What are your newer favorites? Excited to hear what you have to say.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, man, I hope you know more than I do. I feel like I'm so bad about. I have not watched enough gay stuff.

[May Martin]

Oh, really? Well, yeah, mine is. I like that Margo's also said Queer Coded because there are things that just.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. What does that mean, though?

[May Martin]

Okay. Hocus Pocus feels gay.

[Fortune Feimster]

What? That's gay coded.

[May Martin]

Oh, for sure. It's like, like very, like drag queeny, like, and it's sort of horny.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, I see. Undertones.

[May Martin]

A queer undertone. Yeah. Or for me, the Witches with Angelica Houston.

[Fortune Feimster]

That is.

[May Martin]

I don't know. There's something gay about it. Like. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then actually how big you're smiling, thinking those movies. I know.

[May Martin]

Like, I'm literally buzzing because those are all. All your formative hard ons that you get.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, you would have a genre at this film festival called Gay Coded and.

[May Martin]

That these would be children's movies in a way. Like, we're sort of. Yeah, that sounds weird, but you know what I mean? Like first crushes, kind of.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[May Martin]

And then ladies and actually queer stuff. Oh, you think those Siamese cats in lady and the Tramp, they're licking each other.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[May Martin]

Have you seen Foxfire?

[Fortune Feimster]

No, what's that?

[May Martin]

Oh, my God. I think it's 90s, early 90s or late 80s even. And it's. No, it must be 90s. Angelina Jolie, Jenny Shimizu. And it's about a group of teenage girls who kind of band together to rebel. There's like a sketchy teacher and they end up living in this house together. And it's just like a moody, emo, kind of lesbianic movie. I don't think anyone even kisses. But they like, talk to each other kissing. I think maybe there is one kiss. But. But Angelina Jolie is this rebel in her leather boots and she tattoos them all and it's the hottest scene. They all get naked and she tattoos. She gives them all friendship tattoos. Anyway, so that's one.

[Fortune Feimster]

I like the movie she did Gia back in the day.

[May Martin]

Gia 100.

[Fortune Feimster]

She's like throwing herself against the fence.

[May Martin]

Yes, of course, of course that.

[Fortune Feimster]

That awoken some things in me.

[May Martin]

I'm sure that I've told this on the pod, but that I. I watched that one part of that VHS so much that just that Part was, like, fuzzy when you watch, like, it wore itself down. Also, my Own Private Idaho.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[May Martin]

Gus Vincent, River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves. Really beautiful movie. Not tons of, like, explicit gay stuff, but they're.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

They play like sex workers. And river is in love with Keanu, and it's just a beautiful movie.

[Fortune Feimster]

I gotta watch that again. I watched it a long time ago, but I want to go back to that one.

[May Martin]

Yeah, it's really great. And then. Oh, have you seen the Peewee Herman documentary?

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, no. But I heard it's really good.

[May Martin]

Were you a fan? Like, was he important?

[Fortune Feimster]

I, like. Yeah. I mean, he. It wasn't like, I. I wasn't, like, obsessed with Peewee's Playhouse, but I. It was part of my growing up, for sure.

[May Martin]

Right, right. Because that I. I was so deeply obsessed. And then I. Watching the documentary, he's talking about the. He's talking about being closeted and, like. But finding ways to sort of represent queer culture.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Covertly and whatever. But there's a Christmas special, a Pee Wee Christmas special that. Let me. I want to read you the guest list of the guests that appeared on that Christmas special.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[May Martin]

Because it's so gay. Okay. Yeah. You got Cher, you got Katie Lang, you got Little Richard. You got Grace Jones.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[May Martin]

Frankie Avalon, Oprah Winfrey. Like it. I. I don't know. It just. It was. It was so blatantly like, a celebration of queer culture with, like, Grace Jones voguing and stuff. But that's cool. Yeah. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But I'm a cheerleader. That would have to be in there.

[May Martin]

That was.

[Fortune Feimster]

That was a Early Days Gay. And that was eye opening. Shout out to Jamie Babbitt directing that.

[May Martin]

Yes, Jamie Babbitt.

[Fortune Feimster]

Debs, Remember that? That was a.

[May Martin]

No, I'm writing that down.

[Fortune Feimster]

That was Early. Early Days. Back in the day, a newer one, that Carol movie. That's got to go in there.

[May Martin]

Oh, my God. Carol's got to be on there. I love Carol.

[Fortune Feimster]

And the one with the fog. There's always fog. The one with a lot of fog. And they were like, the Irish actress.

[May Martin]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

Emma Knight. Emma.

[May Martin]

Yes. And I think SNL parodied it with a lot. Really longing glances.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. A lot of that is a lot of tension.

[May Martin]

Yes. Anything. Rachel Weiss, too. Like the favorite or.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Like, that's sort of queer.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, we'd have a documentary section. We'd put Tig's documentary in there. Tig, yes. And come see. See me in the good light.

[May Martin]

I mean, while we're at it, do we just play all Our stand up specials.

[Fortune Feimster]

All of our stand up specials. For the comedy part. That will be with. But I'm a cheerleader.

[May Martin]

Feel good One Mississippi. Everything you've ever appeared in.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yes. Yeah, I mean, I feel like this is a pretty good festival so far.

[May Martin]

Yeah, this is pretty. This is a week long festival.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then we'll have some gay guys movies too, like the Bird Cage or something.

[May Martin]

The Bird Cage. Oh my God.

[Fortune Feimster]

Hairs is burning. That will be part of the documentary.

[May Martin]

My Policeman, which was pretty good, I thought with Harry Styles and.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, that one. I like that one.

[May Martin]

It's funny, isn't it?

[Fortune Feimster]

That movie bottoms you got. Put that in there.

[May Martin]

Picture show.

[Fortune Feimster]

That would be in the comedy section.

[May Martin]

But isn't it nice that like. Well, when I was. Yeah, right at the important age of, of puberty and like realizing my feelings and stuff, the only queer content was so traumatic. It was.

[Fortune Feimster]

I know, boys don't cry. That's got to be in there. But that was.

[May Martin]

Oh my God. Monster. Like. Yeah, it was heavy. It was like, oh, God.

[Fortune Feimster]

Because so many stories were so. There was so much going on. That was heavy. You know, that was happening. It was. There's a lot of darkness for the light, you know.

[May Martin]

And still.

[Fortune Feimster]

And still.

[May Martin]

No, I might put that movie Monica in there with Trace Lisette.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah. I haven't seen it, but really beautiful. This is a good festival.

[May Martin]

I know, I know. I could go on forever. I feel like we're all the non queer people listening to this are like, all right, we get it.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, but some might check out some of these movies and they should, they.

[May Martin]

Should like, I love straight movies. They're all my favorite movies.

[Fortune Feimster]

Trans movies are great.

[May Martin]

So maybe you'll love a queer movie.

[Fortune Feimster]

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[Tig Notaro]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[May Martin]

Should we hear Margo's answer?

[Margot]

Yeah, let's do my favorites. I love watching queer films with my partner. Shout out to you, babe. And a few of our favorites are A League of Their Own, Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, Desert Hearts, Mutt, and Portrait of a lady on fire.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's when I think, how do I forget Leave Their Own and Fried Green Tomatoes. Two of my favorite movies.

[May Martin]

I've never seen Fried Green Tomatoes, but.

[Fortune Feimster]

Is more gay coded.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

The book, I think the had more. More. It was more on the nose than the movie. But man, the 10. I. I loved a movie back then about two ladies who you could tell really love each other.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But they're like fighting it.

[May Martin]

Yeah, I love it. I want to see all. I've never heard of Mutt either. I'm gonna watch.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Thanks, Margo. Should we hear another question?

[Fortune Feimster]

Let's do it.

[Dominique]

Hello, handsome Tig, Handsome Fortune and handsome May. My name is Dominique from Columbus, Ohio, a city I think you should really heavily consider for your next live show. Just wanted to throw that out.

[Fortune Feimster]

There would be a good place for.

[Dominique]

Here's my question. If you were to create a children's television show, what would your show be about?

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, May, I feel like this is your wheelhouse, dude.

[May Martin]

Both of these questions. I'm. Have you seen me light up like.

[Fortune Feimster]

No, you're beaming over there.

[May Martin]

Yeah. Cuz I actually. The past few days, every day I've said out loud to a different person, I want to make a kids TV show.

[Fortune Feimster]

And I think you should.

[May Martin]

I think I should. Yeah. Like, with all magical animals and like, so my idea of fortune and like, I'm worried by talking about it, I'm gonna suck the energy out of it.

[Fortune Feimster]

But it's like, well, don't give all of it away.

[May Martin]

Okay. Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

Broad strokes.

[May Martin]

Okay. Broad strokes in. Because I don't know the story yet, but instead of working towards my next stand up special, I'm thinking about a live kids special that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay. Oh, like how John Mulaney did the sack lunch kit bunt sack bunch lunch kids or whatever.

[May Martin]

Oh, there was kind of like a Sesame street type.

[Fortune Feimster]

It was like, you should watch it just to kind of see.

[May Martin]

I remember that this is more because.

[Fortune Feimster]

It was a good format.

[May Martin]

Yeah. So this would be filmed live in a theater, and it would be me telling one story, one epic story. But it has songs in it, like with a full band on stage. And it's got puppets. Oh, yeah, Puppets acted out. And I interact with the puppets and with the kids and I'm like telling the story and I think it's. I want to base it on this children's book that my dad wrote about. Like the stuffed animals I had growing up, like.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah.

[May Martin]

These wicked characters and.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, I love that.

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Your imagination lends itself to that kind of fanciful world. I feel like, yeah, I'm. I'm like, silly. That's where my inner child comes through. But I don't have the, you know, I'm not creating these worlds in my head. That's. That you do.

[May Martin]

I think it's a. It's like a British whimsical thing that my dad imparted on me. It was like a lot of like, Narnia. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But that's what kids love are these like worlds that are made up. My friend Chris Colfer wrote this whole series of books like that. He just created this world that of these kids books that people love. And I just can't imagine coming up with these kind of things.

[May Martin]

I want to read those and I want to one day meet Chris Colfer because. Oh, yeah, I'm a huge fan.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, I didn't know that. I'll have to get him to ask a question. He's the loveliest of people. And also, I will happily introduce you. And what.

[May Martin]

He's recently got ripped. Not to objectify him, but I want to ask him about his arm regime.

[Fortune Feimster]

All right.

[May Martin]

Yeah. Maybe we could all have dinner or something.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, I really. Yeah, I feel he would love it. He's one of the nicest people ever.

[May Martin]

He seems like it. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

So, yeah, I think we go with your idea. My idea would. I've tried to create an animated show. I actually had a animated idea that got bought that we were paid to write the pilot for. I wrote it with this really fantastic writer and they had an animator do all the characters. And I was like, so pumped about it. I thought it was some of my best work. Yes. But, you know, it came at a time where the people, the company that bought it, the. Their whole department folded, the whole channel folded. And then, you know, to try to take an idea that started doing bought and resell it is not the easiest, but it was such a cool. It was based on my life, but not like. But very broad. Also my co writer's life as well. And I was really proud of it. And it, it was such a. And seeing the animated versions of it.

[May Martin]

Oh, did you got that far to actually, like.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, we wrote, we wrote the pilot and they, they, they drew. We had a really talented animator draw all the. The main characters and made like this lookbook. That was really cool.

[May Martin]

That's amazing.

[Fortune Feimster]

So I, I think that would have been a cool thing. And you never know. Maybe it will pop back around someday.

[May Martin]

Yeah, all those things, they never go anywhere. Yeah. Let's hear Dominique's answer.

[Dominique]

For me, I would want it to be about pop art and music, specifically from the 80s 90s era. But I would want it to be in a Pee Wee's Playhouse style of way where the kids would not only see the pictures and hear the music, but actually get to be a part of it. So they could jump into the music and ride the notes to see the notes that make up the song, be a part of the music videos, bringing in images from Takashi Murakami and Andy Warhol so that they could see the brushstrokes and see every little part of the picture and really get to be a part of the art.

[Margot]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Whoa.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's very creative, huh?

[May Martin]

Very. I'm trying to visualize it so it's like a video of art being created and there's. It. There's music and the kids can kind of.

[Fortune Feimster]

She said, ride the notes. Like, ride the notes.

[May Martin]

Is it animated?

[Fortune Feimster]

It feels like it.

[May Martin]

I don't want to pin Dominique down or make her like, yeah, it sounds wildly creative and good. It feels like maybe I need to act fast because it feels like everyone's being inspired by this Pee Wee documentary.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, right.

[May Martin]

Everyone's going to pitch their own Peewees Playhouse. And I got to move quick.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, because, you know, some people just have that. That gift of just creating, like, such unique, whimsical things. And he certainly did. So. Yeah. Other people were like, wait, why? Why am I not doing that?

[May Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Mine's more reality based, but mine was set in the 90s. Though I do agree with her of that time period because I like the nostalgia.

[May Martin]

Oh, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Of that time period and. And the less tech and more imagination.

[May Martin]

100. It's hard. So storytelling with all the tech that we have now.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Now it feels cold. Or it's easier to tell a story where people don't know where you are all the time. And there's. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

The days of leaving your house and not coming back till night time and best playing and being ridiculous and silly. Those are the simpler days. I was back home recently and was driving around my little hometown, and it just made me think about me as a kid and walking home from school and just like, what an innocent time it felt like.

[May Martin]

Yeah, we've got to cultivate those times. But it takes real discipline. Like, all I do is fantasize about going for a week somewhere, leaving my phone at home with a friend, like, you know.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

It's like, I think it. You'd need, like, a real detox. And there'd be, like, real withdrawal at first.

[Fortune Feimster]

I see you doing that in, like, a Joshua Tree situation.

[May Martin]

That would be great. But I am severely addicted. Like, I need someone there holding me accountable, like, taking my phone away from me.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Well, this is a pleasure.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Fun times. I love these questions.

[May Martin]

Me, too. They're exactly what I want to talk about, actually.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

What do you have coming up? Fortune. Aside from your birthday.

[Fortune Feimster]

My birthday is around the corner on July 1st. That's exciting. I don't have any plans, and that's all good with me. Everyone's like, why do you not have any plans? I'm, like, not even worried about it. Yeah, I'm headed to Lincoln, California, actually, this evening. That's my Sacramento stop. The casino at Thunder Valley. And then July's pretty late for me. I'm just doing Edmonton in Canada with Mateo Lane, and. And then nothing till Spokane, Washington. I'm July and August. I'm kind of taking it easy. And I'm pretty stoked about that.

[May Martin]

Me, too.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, and I'm gonna do Pride in Iceland.

[May Martin]

No.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. I'm so stoked for that. In August. Early August.

[May Martin]

What? That's.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[May Martin]

Incredible.

[Fortune Feimster]

I cannot wait.

[May Martin]

Have you been?

[Fortune Feimster]

Never been.

[May Martin]

Okay, we'll talk about it another.

[Fortune Feimster]

All right.

[May Martin]

Yeah. It's the best place. Okay. Whoa. And I'm also. It's. Yeah. The summer is really light for me, so just check out maymartinmusic.com. i've got two new songs out right now, and, you know, music dates pop up, but other than that. Yeah, just check out Feel Good on Netflix or anything like that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah, my season two of fubar is out on Netflix, too.

[May Martin]

Yeah, binge that.

[Fortune Feimster]

I'm an action star, baby.

[May Martin]

Yes, you are. And also keep, keep, keep sending your questions to speakpipe.com handsomepod please. We love them.

[Fortune Feimster]

Do it. You guys are the best. Thank you for sending your questions. And all that remains is to keep it pretty Handsome. Handsome is hosted by me, Fortune Feimster, Tig Notaro, and May Martin. The show is produced, recorded, and edited by Thomas Ouelette. Email [e-mail] and follow us on social media. ANSOMEPOD. What a podcast.

[May Martin]

What a podcast. That was a Hitgum podcast.

[Tig Notaro]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Tig Notaro]

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