Pretty Little Episode #47

Summary

Podcast Summary: Handsome – Pretty Little Episode #47

Release Date: July 11, 2025
Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin
Episode Title: Pretty Little Episode #47

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Introduction

In this engaging episode of Handsome, titled "Pretty Little Episode #47," hosts Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin delve into a variety of personal anecdotes, professional updates, and listener-submitted questions. The trio's chemistry and humor shine through as they navigate topics ranging from health routines to creative endeavors.

Back Cracking and Chiropractic Care

The episode opens with Mae Martin sharing her unique relationship with her trainer, Elliot, who is the only person she trusts to crack her back.

Mae Martin [01:03]:
"I've got into kind of a toxic thing with my trainer, Elliot, who cracks my back and he's like, the only person that can do it."

This leads to a broader conversation about the safety and personal experiences with chiropractic care. Tig expresses her reservations about back cracking, highlighting the potential risks despite its popularity.

Tig Notaro [01:52]:
"I don't go to, like, chiropractors or get... because every now and then you hear a gnarly story of, like, something going awry."

Mae recounts her recent visit to a chiropractor, encountering an unsympathetic practitioner, which adds a humorous twist to the discussion.

Mae Martin [02:20]:
"He was like, nothing's wrong with you. It's just postural. And I was like, but you haven't touched me yet."

The conversation evolves into personal habits of fidgeting and the awkwardness of managing gestures while performing, especially on screen.

Tig Notaro [02:33]:
"Like, you don't know what to do with your hands."

Professional Updates: Mae’s Show and Tig’s Acting Journey

Mae transitions the discussion to her upcoming show, expressing a mix of excitement and anxiety about its release.

Mae Martin [04:07]:
"Maybe by the time this comes out... Completely sound, mixed, color-graded, and then it comes out soon after that."

They delve into the nature of her show, which Mae describes as a "weird kind of parable" set in a bizarre small town filled with quirky characters.

Mae Martin [05:03]:
"It's a thriller, but it's not like a procedural cop thriller... All the characters are bizarre."

Tig shares her enthusiasm about her role in Fubar, highlighting the unique opportunities it has provided her.

Tig Notaro [05:43]:
"I did not think someone like me would get that kind of opportunity. So it makes me feel good that I can just, you know, do something like that."

Mae and Tig also discuss the challenges and rewards of bringing new seasons to life, especially on platforms like Netflix.

Tig Notaro [07:40]:
"Once you spend months on set, it's hard to totally crap on a movie or a TV show... you have to appreciate it for what it is."

Listener Questions: Uplifting Stories and Acts of Kindness

The hosts address a thoughtful question from listener Melissa, who asks what story Tig would write if she were a successful journalist focused on uplifting news.

Melissa [08:12]:
"If you were a successful career journalist... what story would you write?"

Tig reflects on her inherent optimism, considering a piece on the "glass half full" mentality.

Tig Notaro [08:57]:
"Having that as your lens to the world, I would not mind some kind of piece on that... It's a superpower as a human."

Mae adds her perspective, recalling her time in rehab where writing provided a beacon of hope.

Mae Martin [09:56]:
"I wrote a short story... it was such a beacon of light for me at that time."

Melissa then shares her vision of compiling small acts of kindness into a heartwarming narrative.

Melissa [11:20]:
"A story of all the very tiny acts of kindness I saw in a single day... It would just be an aggregate of the tiniest stories of a day."

Tig and Mae commend the idea, emphasizing the cumulative impact of small positive actions.

Tig Notaro [12:03]:
"Small acts of kindness have a big impact."

Listener Questions: Childhood Commercial Jingles

Leslie from Maine submits a nostalgic question about memorable childhood commercial jingles.

Leslie [12:52]:
"What jingle from a commercial from your childhood lives rent free in your brain?"

Tig reminisces about a national commercial featuring a monkey and cocoa crispies, while Mae shares her memorable mattress jingle.

Tig Notaro [13:13]:
"My name is Coco and I swing from the tree... Coco Crispy."

Mae Martin [14:08]:
"Sleep country Canada. Why buy a mattress anywhere else?"

The discussion turns playful as they consider the effectiveness of jingles in branding and discuss the possibility of creating their own for the podcast.

Listener Questions: Transformers and Vehicle Transformations

Sarah from Australia poses a fun hypothetical about which vehicle the hosts would transform into if they were Transformers.

Sarah [17:01]:
"If you guys were Transformers, what vehicle would you turn into?"

Tig expresses her love for vintage, big cars like a Bronco, sharing personal stories of her early driving experiences.

Tig Notaro [19:06]:
"I started driving in the cemetery when I was 12... It was an open cemetery, so I would know if there was another car."

Mae, not a car enthusiast, humorously suggests transforming into a propeller hat for agility.

Mae Martin [19:46]:
"I would transform into one of those propeller hats and zoom away."

Leslie from Australia adds her unique choice—a Vespa—for its fun and mobility.

Leslie [21:45]:
"I would be like a fun little Vespa... as a Vespa."

The hosts laugh over the practicality of their choices in the Transformers universe, especially in combating Optimus Prime.

Upcoming Projects and Final Thoughts

As the episode wraps up, Mae and Tig share their upcoming projects. Mae mentions her plans to relax during the summer and promote her specials, while Tig outlines her busy fall schedule, including performances at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival and various cities across North America.

Mae Martin [22:38]:
"I'm just chilling this summer... I'll be back doing live shows soon."

Tig Notaro [22:59]:
"I'm in Edmonton in July for the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival with Mat Lane... It's going to be a busy fall."

They encourage listeners to submit more questions and hypotheticals, fostering a sense of community and engagement.

Mae Martin [23:40]:
"Keep sending your questions and your hypotheticals to speakpipe.com/handsomepod."

Conclusion

Pretty Little Episode #47 of Handsome is a delightful blend of humor, personal stories, and thoughtful discussions. Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin create an inviting atmosphere, making listeners feel like part of their circle of friends. Whether discussing the nuances of back cracking, reminiscing about childhood commercials, or imagining themselves as Transformers, the hosts deliver an episode rich with insights and laughter.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Mae Martin [01:03]:
  "I've got into kind of a toxic thing with my trainer, Elliot, who cracks my back and he's like, the only person that can do it."

• Tig Notaro [08:57]:
  "Having that as your lens to the world, I would not mind some kind of piece on that... It's a superpower as a human."

• Melissa [11:20]:
  "It would just be an aggregate of the tiniest stories of a day."

• Tig Notaro [13:13]:
  "My name is Coco and I swing from the tree... Coco Crispy."

• Mae Martin [14:08]:
  "Sleep country Canada. Why buy a mattress anywhere else?"

• Tig Notaro [19:06]:
  "I started driving in the cemetery when I was 12... It was an open cemetery, so I would know if there was another car."

• Mae Martin [21:45]:
  "I would transform into one of those propeller hats and zoom away."

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Transcript

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[Mae Martin]

Handsome Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod Chatting with friends on the Handsome Pod Pretty little episode hello. Welcome to a pretty little episode of the Handsome Pod. I'm Mae Martin. I'm joined by Fortune Fame Stir. We're feeling handsome today, Sanja. Are you. Yeah, yeah, me too, actually. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Why not?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, I've got into kind of a toxic thing with my trainer, Elliot, who. Because he cracks my back and he's like, the only person that can do it. And so. Yeah, I'm always like, can you crack my back? And. And it's. I don't think he likes doing it. I think it freaks him out.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I would. I don't think I would enjoy that either because I would be worried I was doing something hurtful to you.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

But you like your back cracks.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, I really do. It's like I put my arms, my hands behind my head like this.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

And then sort of pull my elbows forward and then they. The person has to be taller than me. So you. You could do it.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Mae Martin]

I know you don't. So you could.

[Tig Notaro]

I would love this.

[Mae Martin]

And then they just kind of lift up and back and. Yeah. I wonder if it's doing. Doing damage.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't know. I don't go to, like, chiropractors or get. I don't get, like, the. Because you hear these. I know a lot of people go, and it's totally fine, but every now and then you hear a gnarly story of, like, something going awry.

[Mae Martin]

I know. And it's like, if there is that risk, why. I mean, I went for, like, the first time really pretty recently, and. And the guy felt like a kind of stereotype of a rude doctor. Kind of.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, really?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. He didn't even look at me. Really?

[Tig Notaro]

He was like, oh, come on now.

[Mae Martin]

He was like, nothing's wrong with you. It's just postural. And I was like, but you haven't touched me yet. Or. Yeah, I haven't told you what the Problem is.

[Tig Notaro]

That's weird.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Are you a person that, like, cracks your knuckles and stuff?

[Mae Martin]

I do crack my knuckles. I used to crack my neck, but I don't anymore. Does it really repulse you?

[Tig Notaro]

It does not repulse me. I. I don't do it, but it does not repulse me.

[Mae Martin]

Okay.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I'm more of a, like, fidgeter. I'm always, like, kind of doing things with my fingers. I don't know how to, like. Some people call it stimming or whatever, but. Yeah, I don't know what that is.

[Mae Martin]

Did you ever get a fidget spinner when those were big? I never really got into it, but in the writer's room, when we had the writer's room, I bought all kinds of weird little toys for people to keep me focused.

[Tig Notaro]

Like, yeah, my mom would be like, stop fidget. Stop messing with your hands or fingers, whatever. Like, okay. I didn't even know I was doing it, really. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

When you act, do you ever overthink your hands?

[Tig Notaro]

Like, yeah, sometimes you don't know what to do with them.

[Mae Martin]

And, like, the more you think about it, the more you don't know what to do with your hands. Yeah, I'm always like.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I'm always, like, kind of putting them in pockets or on the side of my hips, like.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

It's. It is a weird thing where. Because you're suddenly very conscious of your body when you're on screen.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, my God. Yeah. Someone goes just walk across the room and you're like, how do you walk again? Like, yeah. And it feels so unnatural all of a sudden.

[Tig Notaro]

When do we know about your show as far as the. It's being completed? Do you know anything?

[Mae Martin]

I don't know if I'm allowed to.

[Tig Notaro]

Say, like, no, not like the premiere date or anything, but are you close to it being delivered?

[Mae Martin]

So close. And. Yeah, maybe by the time this comes out. No, I think it'll be all delivered by July 16th. Completely sound, mixed color, graded, and then it comes out in soon after that.

[Tig Notaro]

You've been seeing sneak peeks. What are you thinking?

[Mae Martin]

Oh, I'm pumped.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, I'm really pumped. And scared. It's. It's weird.

[Tig Notaro]

It's really weird, but, like, this. Has it come together in a way that you hoped?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, it has. It's different to what I imagine, of course, but it's. Yeah, it's like a weird kind of parable or something.

[Tig Notaro]

Because it's a thriller, right?

[Mae Martin]

It's a thriller, but it's not like A procedural cop thriller. It's like a weird little small town. All the characters are bizarre. Dark is happening, people are funny stuff. Well, I'm in it, so.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, that was about the gay stuff.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, there's lots of gay stuff with me and my wife and some of the teens and lots of. Lots of straight stuff, too.

[Tig Notaro]

Straight stuff for the straight folks and gay stuff for the gay folks and everything in between.

[Mae Martin]

There's toads in it for the toads, for the toad community.

[Tig Notaro]

Animal stuff.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

All right.

[Mae Martin]

I hope you like it. I'm.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm pumped, bud. That's a huge accomplishment.

[Mae Martin]

Thanks. I'll invite you guys, of course, to the premiere. I hope they have an LA one. I know. Please be a Toronto one. But yeah. And what about you? How are you feeling about. Oh, wait, I was gonna say about fubar being out in the world, but we're recording this before it's come out.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. I mean, it's so fun to film something and you work so hard in long days and just to kind of finally have it come out to the world to see, like, why you disappeared for five months is cool and to show people another side of yourself and what you can do. Not that I'm a huge departure in what I'm doing, but, you know, just me shooting a gun is fun and weird and running from explosions is pretty cool. I did not think someone like me would get that kind of opportunity. So it makes me feel good that I can just, you know, do do something like that that many people don't get the opportunity to do.

[Mae Martin]

It's the childhood dream. It's like I will never become jaded about it, I think. Yeah, it's too cool. Like. Yeah. I was at a party the other day and then someone was. I mentioned the new Mission Impossible, which I didn't love. I love Tom and I love Mission Impossible. And I was like, but. But it's incredible still. Like, the stunts are insane. Insane. And this person was like, all those movies are trash. Like, it's terrible. That's not entertainment. Like, we're so. We're so dumb. And I was like, I. I wanted to say, like, it takes so much work to make something and. And those are objectively not terrible movies. Like the first.

[Tig Notaro]

Right.

[Mae Martin]

The first three especially are incredible movies. Like, yeah, yeah, I get it if it's not your taste or your genre, but like, once. Once it has value.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Once you spent months and months on set for, like 17 hour days, it's hard to, you know, totally crap on a movie or a TV show. You can. You can see, like, where it went awry or whatever. But yeah, you know how much work went into it from so many people that you just have to, like, appreciate it for what it is.

[Mae Martin]

Totally.

[Tig Notaro]

And the business is in such a bad spot right now, so many people aren't working, that anything that gets made truly at the moment is a big. A big deal.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if we'll ever. If you. If you do another season of fubar, if we'll be in Toronto at the same time again. That'll be fun.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what's gonna happen with that show. Sometimes Netflix is a two and done kind of thing. Sometimes three. We'll see.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, let's get to some questions.

[Mae Martin]

Yes, please.

[Melissa]

Hi, handsome. This is Melissa. This question is being submitted in response to May's request for more hypotheticals in honor of Fortune's early career as a journalist and to give Tig chance to do her good deed for the day.

[Tig Notaro]

No pressure.

[Melissa]

Hypothetical. If you were a successful career journalist at the largest circulation media outlet of all time and could therefore reach a vast audience with your human interest story of uplifting news and positivity, what story would you write?

[Tig Notaro]

Huh? Oh, wow. I think it could be anything. Right. It could be like a personal story.

[Mae Martin]

Right. Okay. Or a news story or a historical story, or positive human interest.

[Tig Notaro]

It sounds so like Pollyanna. But, you know something, on looking at the glass half full and what that means and having that as your lens to the world, I would not mind some kind of piece on that. I've been thinking lately about that and how lucky I am. Even through some hard times that I've been dealing with, I naturally wake up seeing the glass half full. It is my factory setting. That's a superpower as a human. And I know that that is not the case for everybody, that sometimes just waking up and feeling good is such a struggle for so many people. So the fact that it is the. The factory setting for me, I'm so grateful for, and how that influences my life and relationships and friendships and. I don't know, do something maybe on that. Of, like.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, on gratitude and, like. And helping people get there because you're right, it's, like, easier said than done. And so, like, helping people tap into that. That's a good idea. Yeah, I would, maybe. I just remember. I remember when I was in rehab and I was 18, and there was a creative writing competition, and there were only like, 10 of us in this rehab program, and part of it was helping to get your ged, like, doing some high school classes and stuff. And so I wrote, like, a short story and. And one of the teachers was really supportive and, like, entered it in a competition. And it was, like, in the finals of this competition. But it was such a, like, beacon of light for me at that time. Like, I couldn't believe it. So I think I would maybe use my column to, you know, get a troubled teen in a rehab center to write a short story or a poem. Like, use it as a little. A thing that, like, especially. Yeah. Teens.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, for sure. I mean, they're the ones that need to hear those kind of things.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Especially if they're struggling.

[Mae Martin]

Like, I would. You could submit and then you publish, like, a. Something written by a teen or even someone in. Someone in prison who's interested in creative writing, who has, like. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I love that. Should we hear the answer from Melissa?

[Melissa]

I would write a story of all the very tiny acts of kindness I saw in a single day. Someone offering to carry groceries for an older person. A genuine smile from a cashier at McDonald's, a driver who intentionally slowed down to let someone in. The guy in front of me at Starbucks who paid for a random stranger's coffee, and the lady who lives down my street out walking her foster dogs. It would just be an aggregate of the tiniest stories of a day, but hopefully it would make people smile to read it.

[Tig Notaro]

Aw, I love that. I like those. Acts of small acts of kindness of people did more of that. It would add up to big, big, big things.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, I like that a lot. And I like the use of the word aggregate, which I've never used. And I got a Google, and I guess it means a combination of many things, but love that.

[Tig Notaro]

Very good.

[Mae Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mae Martin]

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[Leslie]

Hey, handsome.

[Mae Martin]

Pod, this is Leslie from Maine, and I'm curious what jingle from a commercial from your childhood lives rent free in your brain. Oh, my God.

[Tig Notaro]

I know this one because we used to sing it all the time when I was in tennis.

[Mae Martin]

Let's hear it.

[Tig Notaro]

My name is Coco and I swing from the tree I live in the jungle I'm a monkey, you see Whenever I get hungry I do as I please But I'd rather have a bowl of Coco Crispy oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Crispies. Oh, yeah. I haven't sang that since college. I can't believe it's still in my brain.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, my God.

[Tig Notaro]

Did you ever hear that?

[Mae Martin]

I've never heard that.

[Tig Notaro]

It's Cocoa Crispies.

[Mae Martin]

And was that across America or just in your state?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah, I think it was national commercial.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, yeah. It. I love when it breaks down at the end just to the. Oh, yeah. And was the monkey character really memorable?

[Tig Notaro]

Animated character, I believe. Wow. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Mine is shorter and it's. I maybe like once a week I wake up saying it.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, yeah.

[Mae Martin]

It just goes sleep country Canada. Why buy a mattress anywhere else?

[Tig Notaro]

Thomas is smiling. Yalls Canadian thing. Oh, yeah, that hits.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, that hits hard. That's a banger. And also I. There was a show called Breaker High that I used to rush home to watch with. Actually, Ryan Gosling was in it. And it. The theme song went nah, nah, nah, nah, nah hey, hey, carry me away and in my mind, this was throughout my childhood. And I just found out there was only one season of it.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, yeah. It really stuck with you. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. It must have been just like one year that I watched it.

[Tig Notaro]

But I think jingles are fun. There's one in LA that for years is always. They still use it. I think it's like keys, keys, keys, keys. On van nice. What? It's a car place.

[Mae Martin]

Keys, keys, keys, keys on van nice. Whoa, scary there.

[Tig Notaro]

I. I know. There's so many more jingles that. That I'm just not thinking of. Eleven.

[Mae Martin]

Eleven phone pizza, Pizza. Hey, hey, hey.

[Tig Notaro]

Is that another Canadian thing? Yeah, Canadian listeners are pumped right now.

[Mae Martin]

And there was a guy called Russell Oliver who would buy your jewelry and sell it, like. And so he had. But he had tons of TV ads and he'd go, I buy your jewelry. He had a sort of weird accent. I'm Russell Oliver. I'm the cash man.

[Tig Notaro]

And the cash man.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, it was really strange. Maybe he was Australian.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, any of those. Any of those catchy things I do think was good for the business. So, yeah, you want me to bring back jingles is what I say.

[Mae Martin]

Also, those are the days where you had, like four TV channels. And so you're seeing these commercials all the time. And. And you're listening to the radio on the way to school every day. Like, yeah, I think our ads on handsome. We should be more empowered to improvise jingles for. I think we'd sell more.

[Tig Notaro]

You never know. Yeah, you're our. You're our music writer.

[Mae Martin]

No, but you're better at a. I don't write.

[Tig Notaro]

I don't write it. I'll just do what you tell me that you came up with.

[Mae Martin]

Okay, I'll write. I'll write some.

[Tig Notaro]

Okay.

[Mae Martin]

I wonder if. I wonder if Allstate would be into it.

[Tig Notaro]

Maybe. Let's hear Leslie's answer.

[Mae Martin]

I grew up in Massachusetts, and there's a commercial jingle from a furniture store called Bernie and Phil's. And it goes. Bernie and Phil's. Quality, comfort and price. That's nice.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, I like the rhyme.

[Mae Martin]

Thanks, everyone. Love the pod.

[Tig Notaro]

Love a rhyme.

[Mae Martin]

Love Leslie's commitment to that. I love. That's nice.

[Tig Notaro]

That's nice.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, that's great.

[Tig Notaro]

Amazing. Let's hear another one.

[Leslie]

Hi, May Fortune and Tig. My name is Sarah. I'm a big, big fan from over here in Australia.

[Tig Notaro]

Or Australia.

[Leslie]

Australia, as we like to say. I once laughed so hard at the podcast while I was in the car that I reversed into a pole.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, no.

[Leslie]

So with that in mind, My car and myself are fine, by the way.

[Tig Notaro]

Good.

[Leslie]

In case you were wondering. But with that in mind, I want to know. If you guys were Transformers, what vehicle would you turn into?

[Tig Notaro]

Transformers? More than meets the eye.

[Mae Martin]

Is it Robots in Disguise?

[Tig Notaro]

Is it. I don't know the rest of it.

[Mae Martin]

I don't know it either, but I know that. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

The greatest jingle, though it's not a commercial, but for tv will always be the Golden Girls.

[Mae Martin]

Can you sing it? Oh, Jake's not here. I welcome the singing.

[Tig Notaro]

Thank you for being a friend. Travel down the road and back again? Your heart is true? You're a pal and a confidant? And if you threw a party? Invited everyone you knew? You would see? The biggest gift would be from me? And the card attached would say? Thank you for being a friend.

[Mae Martin]

Yes. You crushed that. Do they have that in karaoke places?

[Tig Notaro]

Cuz they should, because the whole crowd would go nuts. I have sang it at my show before. I had someone ask me, I'm doing a little Q and A at the end of my live shows and someone said, if you could remake a 90s sitcom, what would it be? And I said, the Golden Girls. And then I started singing the theme song and the entire 2500 seat theater people started singing it. With me, and it was one of the coolest moments that now I want to sing it at every show, and maybe I will.

[Mae Martin]

I think you should. You could just introduce it that way.

[Tig Notaro]

You're like, guys, I'm just singing this now.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, guys, this is just part of it now. Get on board also. Yeah. If you're gonna have a big group of people gathered in one place and, you know it's an option to all sing that, why would you not?

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. Transformers.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, yeah. Transformers. Yeah, we got back on.

[Tig Notaro]

Are you a car? Well, you're. You're not really a car person because you don't even drive.

[Mae Martin]

Not a car.

[Tig Notaro]

So you're not even, like. You're not even into, like, looking at them.

[Mae Martin]

Not really. Like, I. I'm not into looking at them. I turn around, like, I love the.

[Tig Notaro]

Looks of a car. I don't know.

[Mae Martin]

No, I. I don't. I think if I. I would transform into one of those propeller hats and zoom away. Yeah, you.

[Tig Notaro]

It's you in the hat. Just going, yeah, you'll see that for you. I like to drive a lot. It started young for me. I think I've told you guys this. I started driving in the cemetery when I was 12. Yes. And my grandmother would be, you know, working, planting flowers at the tombstone, and I just casually gotten her giant Caprice Classic and just started driving it around. No one she had no qualms about it was not like, hey, don't do that. She just was like. When I returned with the car, she was like, you ready to go? I'm like, yeah, but you were by.

[Mae Martin]

Yourself in the car.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, yeah. By myself.

[Mae Martin]

I always thought it was like you were lessons. Oh, my God. Fortune.

[Tig Notaro]

Totally by myself at 12.

[Mae Martin]

That's insanity.

[Tig Notaro]

That's what I'm saying. But it was the 90s.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

You just did these things, but it was an open cemetery. Like, you could see everything. So I would know if there was another car in there, and I would not drive by another car. I would. Like. I would have pulled over or something so I could see what I was working with.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

I guess I was tall for 12. But right. That being said, I. I love to go kart. Love anything with a wheel. A steering wheel. I loved it. So I don't know if I were to be a Transformer, maybe. Like, I like the big cars, like a Bronco. Something real dikey like that. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Big dikey Bronco.

[Tig Notaro]

I'm googling Bronco. Or some kind of big car suv.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, yeah, Ford.

[Tig Notaro]

Well, I want those vintage ones. Would be cool where you pop the top.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, yeah, That's a good answer. Should we hear. Should we hear Sarah's answer?

[Leslie]

I think if I were a Transformer, I would be like a fun little Vespa. Not really sure why, but I just think it would be fun to zip around in Italy or, you know, anywhere, really, as a Vespa. Thanks, guys.

[Tig Notaro]

For sure.

[Mae Martin]

But also, let's not forget you're trying to defeat Optimus Prime. So you don't want to be. I mean, the propeller hat and the Vespa are pretty useless.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. You're gonna need more Bronco. For sure.

[Mae Martin]

You need the Bronco. Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And I don't want a convertible because my curls, you know, I don't want to mess up my curls.

[Mae Martin]

Right, right. Yeah, you got to keep those pristine.

[Tig Notaro]

For sure.

[Mae Martin]

Well, that was a joy.

[Tig Notaro]

It was absolutely.

[Mae Martin]

I. I'm going to have all those jingles stuck in my head now. And thank you for being a friend.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah. You got anything coming up?

[Mae Martin]

I got nothing coming up. I'm just chilling this summer. I hope everyone else is chilling as well. I'm trying to spend time off my phone and.

[Tig Notaro]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

But if you do feel like sitting in front of a screen, you could always watch one of my specials or feel good or something. And. And I'll be back doing live shows soon. What about you?

[Tig Notaro]

I'm in Edmonton in July for the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival with Mat Lane. And then starting September, I'm doing a bunch of stuff. San Antonio, Houston, Norol and Richmond and D.C. portland, Maine. All these places. Boston. It's going to be a busy fall.

[Mae Martin]

You should check out a song called Portland Maine by Donovan Woods. Really beautiful song. Portland Maine. I don't know. It's really good. I don't remember any of the other lyrics.

[Tig Notaro]

Oh, look it up.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

How did you like your eggs in the morning?

[Mae Martin]

Shouting morning.

[Tig Notaro]

In the morning. Morning.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Tig Notaro]

And.

[Mae Martin]

But also, keep sending your questions and your hypotheticals to speakpipe.com handsomepod we love hearing them.

[Tig Notaro]

And I'd like to hear some advice questions, too. Oh, I feel like we get pretty good advice. So I think if you guys are in need of any sort of help with anything, let us know.

[Mae Martin]

Yes. Situations in your life. I also, when I said there, I suddenly was like, oh, God, why did I say that? And then I remembered I'm an adult and I can say it.

[Tig Notaro]

That's right. You're not getting in trouble here, bud. Yeah, little cowboy. You're good.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. All right, Well, I guess all that remains is for everyone to please remember at all times to keep it pretty. Handsome Handsome is hosted by Me, May Martin, Tig Notaro, and Fortune Feimster. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willette. Email [e-mail] and please follow us on social media at handsomepod.

[Tig Notaro]

What a podcast.

[Mae Martin]

What a podcast. That was a headgum podcast.

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[Mae Martin]

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