Pretty Little Episode #64

Summary

Handsome – “Pretty Little Episode #64”

Hosts: Mae Martin & Fortune Feimster
Date: November 7, 2025
(Tig Notaro is not present this episode)

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Episode Overview

In this “Pretty Little Episode” of Handsome, co-hosts Mae Martin and Fortune Feimster keep things light and personal, answering listener questions in their trademark playful, self-deprecating style. Mae’s preparing for a whirlwind busy week, Fortune's just returned from performing in Atlanta, and they end up playing a nostalgic storytelling game and exploring the wild idea of “if you could start a harmless cult.” Along the way, they trade stories, laughter, and a few confessions about baths, birthdays, and the messiness of adulthood.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Opening Chit-chat (01:03–03:20)

• Martin Short & Jiminy Glick: Mae and Fortune reminisce about Martin Short’s character, Jiminy Glick, referencing his catchphrase “Ms. Yum Yum herself.”
• Catching Up: Fortune’s just back from Atlanta; Mae’s heading to NYC to promote her show (01:48).
• Performance Anxiety & Beta Blockers: Mae discusses using beta blockers for anxiety before TV appearances, noting, “I tried them once, and I felt real lethargic, so I don’t use them” (02:21).

Self-care Talk: Baths & Relaxation (03:20–05:09)

• Baths & Hot Tubs: Fortune reveals she loves a bath about once a week and uses the time to relax and memorize lines. Her new house has a much better tub—"It's where I'll like learn my lines and stuff" (04:33).
• Sleepy Bath Confessions: Both hosts share bath-related stories, including friends falling asleep in the tub (03:56–04:54).

Listener Question #1: “If you could start a harmless cult…” (05:51–12:37)

Caller: Allie from Chicago

Discussion:

• Hazards of Leadership: Fortune is emphatic: “I don’t want to be a cult leader. Let me just preface that” (07:00).
• Fortune’s Fantasy Cult: If pressed, Fortune proposes a cult around "happy stuff": “Like hanging out, getting massages, taking baths. Not together. I don’t need it to be sexual. Eating pad Thai” (07:51).
• Mae’s Fantasy Cult: Mae jokes about creating a "cult for billionaires and far right world leaders,” luring them in with exclusivity, only to gently “soften their little hearts and awaken their inner children” (08:28) and “brainwash them… Make them listen to Bette Midler ‘From a Distance’” (09:34).
  • Memorable Scene: Mae sings a few lines of Bette Midler’s “From a Distance” at 09:43.
• Childhood Cult Leadership Credentials: Mae describes her 5th-grade birthday party where she forced classmates to listen to her sing Bette Midler songs: “Maybe I should be a cult leader because I was a boss boss” (10:07).

Allie’s Answer:

• Tap Dance Cult: Allie runs a “tap dance cult” in Chicago, recruiting friends old and new to join her class: “Tap dance brings joy and just… get in the tap community. And it’s pretty harmless there” (11:41).

Reactions:

• Mae: Admits tap can be “wildly frustrating” when you’re not good, and jokes about a future “tap dance cult” Netflix documentary—"writhing naked people, but they got their tap shoes on still" (12:19).

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Listener Question #2: Story Sharing by Age (13:12–20:44)

Caller: Sarah from Washington, D.C.

Game Prompt:

• Sarah recounts her dad’s bedtime game: Pick an age between 7 and his current age, and share a story from that year. She invites the hosts to try it.

Fortune’s Story – Age 35 (16:11–18:44)

• Milestone Birthday: Fortune had just met her now ex-partner Jax, threw herself a 35th birthday at LA’s legendary gay country-western bar Oil Can Harry’s. Her friends’ burlesque troupe performed, it was “hot as balls” in the summer heat, everyone danced, and “That birthday felt kind of like my last... last time I felt young” (17:43).
  • Quote: “I had my friends burlesque troupe do a fun dance... This bar did not have air conditioning... just pouring sweat” (16:41–17:18).
• Reflections on Transitions: She connects the event to feeling “in a very transitional year” after the end of her marriage and the challenges of reconnecting with friends (18:07).

Mae’s Story – Age 30 (18:53–20:13)

• Wild London Birthday: Mae threw a raucous party, got “too drunk,” tried to make everyone play “spin the bottle,” and “did give hand job in the bathroom... to my friend. Well... we’d been hooking up, but…” (19:11).
  • Quote: “But I remember... there’s a whole lineup for the bathroom and he was kind of like, let’s not.” (19:41)
• Non-monogamy & Friendship: Later, Mae learns her friend slept with someone else after the party, but she laughs it off, “Just free love. Everybody gets some” (20:13).

Reflections on Memory, Milestones & Getting Older

• Decades Blur: Both hosts reflect that “the last decade has been a blur of non-events” (20:18).
• The Value of Journaling: They resolve, “Maybe fun things have happened and I’ve just gotten older and forgotten about them” (20:40).

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A Final Anecdote: Fun in Atlanta (20:50–22:11)

• Backstage Parties: Fortune shares a recent happy memory—old friends coming backstage, making Old Fashioneds and eating cake after her Atlanta show. “It just ended up being really lovely” (21:18). She and Mae discuss the drag of moving groups between venues and the joy of impromptu parties.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Mae, on her cult plan:
  “I’d lure [billionaires] in with like, this is an exclusive elite cult... and then once they’re in there, I’d soften their little hearts and awaken their inner children and change their minds and their hearts.” (08:28–08:57)

• Fortune, on bath habits:
  “It’s where I’ll like learn my lines and stuff.” (04:33)

• Mae, recalling her youthful ‘leadership’:
  “Maybe I should be a cult leader because I was a boss boss.” (10:07)

• Fortune, on transitional birthdays:
  “That birthday felt kind of like my last... last time I felt young.” (17:43)

• Mae, on 30th birthday debauchery:
  “I did give hand job in the bathroom… to my friend.” (19:11)

• Fortune, reflecting on missed events:
  “Maybe fun things have happened and I’ve just gotten older and forgot about them.” (20:40)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:48 – Mae discusses upcoming press appearances (& beta blockers)
• 03:31 – Fortune sings the praises of baths and her new house
• 05:51 – Listener Question 1: “What harmless cult would you start?”
• 07:51 – Fortune’s dream “happy cult” (massages, pad Thai, baths)
• 08:28 – Mae’s “elite cult for billionaires and far-right leaders” plan
• 10:07 – Mae’s childhood Bette Midler performance
• 11:41 – Allie’s “tap dance cult” in Chicago
• 13:12 – Listener Sarah’s age-by-age storytelling game prompt
• 16:11 – Fortune’s story: her 35th birthday at Oil Can Harry’s
• 18:53 – Mae’s story: wild 30th birthday party in London
• 20:50 – Fortune’s Atlanta show and backstage party
• 22:11 – Farewell and call for listener questions

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Tone and Style

The conversation is loose, irreverent, and full of self-aware humor. The hosts riff openly about their quirks and flaws, creating a space that’s intimate and playfully confessional. Fans will appreciate the honesty, the willingness to “go there” with both jokes and real-life anecdotes, and the feeling of simply spending time with friends.

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For Listeners: Participation Encouraged!

• Submit your own questions or invented games: speakpipe.com/handsomepod

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Fans of Handsome will enjoy both the laughs and the moments of real talk—on nervousness, memory, friendship, and getting older—all wrapped up with lighthearted energy.

Transcript

[Mae Martin]

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[Fortune Feimster]

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[Mae Martin]

Friends on the Handsome Pod Chatting with.

[Fortune Feimster]

Friends on the Handsome Pod Pretty little episode.

[Mae Martin]

Welcome to the Handsome Pod. This is a pretty little episode, and I'm Mae Martin, joined by the ray of sunshine herself, me, Fortune Beamster. It's you and me.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's right. Good to see you.

[Mae Martin]

Good to see you, too. I always think about this, you know, Jiminy Glick, the Martin Short character? He. There's a bit where he interviews Julia Louis Dreyfus, and he goes, and Here she is, Ms. Yum Yum herself. Ms. Yum Yum herself.

[Fortune Feimster]

Ms. Yum Yum. That's. Yeah, that's a funny, crazy character.

[Mae Martin]

I do like Jiminy Glick. I like Martin Short. How are you doing, man? I like your watch.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, thanks, Hamilton.

[Mae Martin]

Very handsome.

[Fortune Feimster]

I appreciate it. I'm good. I just flew back into town. I had a show in Atlanta, which was super fun. Yeah. So I'm just getting my bearings.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. I'm off tomorrow to New York and trying to figure out what to pack and not my synthesizer. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna pack a light.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, you got to do the. The press for your show, right?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I did my pre. My pre interviews with Kelly Clarkson show. Talked a lot about you.

[Fortune Feimster]

You feel good about the topics they brought up?

[Mae Martin]

I think so.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

I think so.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. It goes by so quick.

[Mae Martin]

Have you ever used beta blockers for hands?

[Fortune Feimster]

I have not.

[Mae Martin]

You know those. They're like. They stop your body from experiencing the symptoms of nervousness or anxiety. And I've tried them once, and I felt real lethargic, so I. I don't use them, but I wish I could because they. They're supposed to make you just superhuman. You could go on the Kelly Clarkson show, no problem.

[Fortune Feimster]

So are you going. Is your plan to take a beta blogger?

[Mae Martin]

I don't think I want to risk it. Just in case I'm like, well, yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

That would be dicey.

[Allie (Listener Caller)]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I think you'll be great. Just be yourself.

[Mae Martin]

Okay. Who is that again?

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay, well, the new evolved you. After having come back from your experience.

[Mae Martin]

The new evolved me bears a striking resemblance to the uninvolved me. Does all the same things and is still anxious. But yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, that's all right. You can still be anxious and still be the charming person you are.

[Mae Martin]

Thanks, bud. Well, ditto. I feel like there's only so much you can like, calm your nervous system and have a bath and do self care when the world itself is so scary.

[Fortune Feimster]

I do enjoy a bath.

[Mae Martin]

Do you?

[Fortune Feimster]

I love a bath.

[Mae Martin]

Well, I know we've talked about your butthole getting. Sorry. Getting out of the bath, but. Yeah. Do you. Is it you? You have one every night or what?

[Fortune Feimster]

No, not every night, but like once a week maybe.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. God, it's good.

[Fortune Feimster]

My new house has a bathtub I actually like.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

My last house, the bathtub was not very comfortable. Yeah. So I would hot tub it more.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

I haven't even gotten in this hot tub.

[Mae Martin]

You got a hot tub at the new place too?

[Fortune Feimster]

I do. It's a small, little, small one, but I don't need anything big. Just me. So. Yeah, I'm hot tubbing over here.

[Mae Martin]

Hot tub and bathing. You're gonna be just so relaxed. Like jelly, just.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, yeah. So this one, this tub is. Is still fairly shallow, but it's more comfortable.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

So I can get in there and I. It's where I'll like learn my lines and stuff.

[Mae Martin]

It's a nice image. Would you. Have you ever. Have you ever used like a bath pillow for your head? That's like. Then you're going to fall asleep. That's too comfy.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

I used to date someone who would. She'd get in the bath and be like, come get me if I'm not out in like an hour. And she'd always fall asleep.

[Fortune Feimster]

One hour's too late.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Yeah. You're floating face down.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, yeah. This one's too small for me to do that, but yeah. Anyway, something's happening to go there.

[Mae Martin]

I'm excited to hear some questions from. From these listeners. I keep wanting to send in a fake question, doing a voice and see if anyone notices that it's me. Well, now I've blown it. I know.

[Fortune Feimster]

I was like, well, now I might be listening for that.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

All right, well, let's hear questions that I don't think are from you.

[Mae Martin]

I want to do one that's like, hi, this is specifically for Fortune.

[Fortune Feimster]

Now if you do that voice, I Will know it's you. Okay.

[Mae Martin]

I'll do it differently.

[Fortune Feimster]

But I don't think I would have realize that was you if you had done it without prefacing that.

[Mae Martin]

Really? Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Okay. All right, well, let's. Okay. Let's hear what people are saying.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Mae Martin]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Allie (Listener Caller)]

Hey, handsome. This is Allie coming from Chicago. And my question is if you could start, like, a harmless cult, if there ever were such a thing, what would that be?

[Fortune Feimster]

A. You know, some cults might have started out harmless, but then those cult leaders get drunk with power.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And it always goes south.

[Mae Martin]

They always start with, like, us proposing a solution to a very real problem. And it all seems really appealing. And then, yeah, someone's like, but I could marry all of you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Because wasn't that. That one, like, Wild, Wild country or whatever it was. They wanted to try to help drug.

[Mae Martin]

Addicts and totally sending on as well as people.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then they were like, oh, very quickly.

[Mae Martin]

They're like, we're gonna put snakes in people's mailboxes.

[Fortune Feimster]

Taking lots of money from people. This one's sleeping with this person. Yeah, it always is. Like somebody gets drunk with power, starts sleeping with everybody and steals the money.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty much the trajectory. Would you. So if you had a cult, would you. What would your rules be? Or like, the. The goal.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, a. Just in. I don't want to be a cult leader. Let me just preface that.

[Mae Martin]

Let's make that clear.

[Fortune Feimster]

Some people are like, do actually have that desire. I don't want to be in charge of people in their life at all. Yeah. That does not appeal to me in the slightest.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. You got your own life to deal with.

[Fortune Feimster]

I got my own life. Listen, I'm happy to give advice. I'm happy to chat with people. I want the best for people. But I. I ain't the one trying to guide you into the. Into the light to where you need to go. I'll give, you know, a couple like I said, things of advice, but, man, that's just too much responsibility. Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

It would end up just being another thing on your to do list thing.

[Fortune Feimster]

I guess if. I mean a cult of like, happy stuff.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Just hanging out.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Like hanging out, getting massages, taking baths. Not together. I don't need it to be sexual. Eating pad Thai.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, maybe like an. It's connected to like an elephant sanctuary. Remember you wanted to hang with elephants in Thailand.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's right.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, I remember.

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[Fortune Feimster]

Listen, what would yours be? I feel like you would. I think we've Talked about it a long time ago that you would be a good cult leader.

[Mae Martin]

Really? I. I don't remember anything we've said.

[Fortune Feimster]

I know this was early days.

[Mae Martin]

What occurred to me just then was, this is nefarious. But I think for good, I would start a cult that specifically appealed to billionaires and far right world leaders like Trump and. And those people. And I'd lure them in with like, this is an exclusive elite cult where it's like the Illuminati.

[Fortune Feimster]

And then.

[Mae Martin]

And then once they're in there, I'd soften their little hearts and awaken their inner children and. And change their. Their minds and their hearts.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, okay.

[Mae Martin]

So it'd be like taking all the. All the scary people, fucking up the world.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Get. Getting them, luring them in by being like, you get a gold ring and a nickname. And then I would. I'd be like, and now I'm going to spoon you and whisper in your ear that you got to do better.

[Fortune Feimster]

And you think that would do the trick?

[Mae Martin]

You know, I'm up forgiving.

[Fortune Feimster]

I get murdered.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't actually want to spoon Donald Trump. Let's be clear. I just want to trick everyone into one place and then like.

[Fortune Feimster]

And get brainwashed. Be better.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Like brain. Yeah, Brainwash them. Make them listen to Bette Midler. From a distance.

[Fortune Feimster]

From a distance. Then what? What happens?

[Mae Martin]

The world is blue and green and the mountain something. God is watching us God is watching us God is watching us God is.

[Fortune Feimster]

Watching us From a distance. I.

[Mae Martin]

My grade five birthday party invited over about half the class and they all sat underneath the ping pong table and my parents grimy basement. And I put on Bette Midler and I sung in my best voice the entire, like multiple songs and they had to listen. And so maybe I should be a cult leader because I was a boss boss.

[Fortune Feimster]

You got people to do random stuff. For sure.

[Mae Martin]

They were like, this is the worst birthday party I've ever been to.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, all right. Well, listen, in this world of handsome questions, anything, it can be anything you want. So your cult can be the thing that you said.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay. Mine. And. And it will just assume it works.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

And mine will just be everyone's happy. Getting massages and eating pad thai, having baths. We're not trying to accomplish anything.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. That's kind of nice. That's refreshing. Yeah. Just relaxation.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Should we hear what Ali's answer is?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Allie (Listener Caller)]

I like to say I've already started it. I would start a tap dance cult. Always recruiting people to my tap class, which is in Chicago. So when you're in Chicago and you really want to take some tap lessons, come join me. But I've been recruiting people who maybe I've met at work or other places who used to tap dance and haven't in a long time. So they'll come back to tap class and then, I don't know. I think the. The whole goal of the cult is that tap dance brings joy and just. Just come to come put on your tap shoes, take a class, learn about tap dance, get in the tap community. And it's pretty. Pretty harmless there. All right, thanks.

[Mae Martin]

I like that. I mean, Allie says it brings joy, but I do remember when we all tried to tap dance, I found it wildly frustrating because I wanted to be good at it. And there's like a big gap between my, My, my want and my ability.

[Fortune Feimster]

It's definitely harder. No, it looks hard, but it also is hard.

[Mae Martin]

It's hard. It's hard. You're using all different parts of your foot.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, we were sweating up a storm when we did it at our live show.

[Mae Martin]

We really were.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

Also, I can just see the Netflix documentary about, like, it started like a harmless tap dance cult. And then there's footage of like, writhing naked people, but they got their tap shoes on still and they're all tapping in on people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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[Fortune Feimster]

Hello.

[Mae Martin]

Thank you.

[Fortune Feimster]

All right, let's hear another one.

[Sarah (Listener Caller)]

Hello, Tig May and Fortune or whatever combination of the two of you is here today. My name is Sarah and I'm calling in from Washington, D.C. and I've been particularly moved recently by you all talking about your families and especially Tig. Your just passionate about your kids and all that you say about them. And so I thought maybe you could play a game that my dad used to do with my sister and I kind of at a bedtime tuck in situation. He worked a lot and so he would come in and we would pick a number between like seven and his current age. And then he Would tell us a story from that age. So maybe you could give numbers to each other and tell a story from that age. I'm looking forward to hearing what you guys have to say. And, yeah, just love this podcast. Listen every week, and it's very soothing.

[Fortune Feimster]

Especially where I live. Huh? Not this game of you.

[Mae Martin]

No, I like a game, and I like that. I'll get. I'll throw an age at you.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay.

[Mae Martin]

38.

[Fortune Feimster]

38. And I'm supposed to tell you a story of something that happened when I was 38?

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. Because I'm 38, aren't I? Or am I 39?

[Fortune Feimster]

I don't know.

[Mae Martin]

I think I'm 38. Yeah, I'm 38.

[Fortune Feimster]

38. Gosh. Okay. That would have been pre Covid. I unfortunately live my life lately by what specials or what tour I put out.

[Mae Martin]

That makes sense what tour I went.

[Fortune Feimster]

On, what special I put out. So that would have been pretty sweet and salty, which came out in Covid. So I was still doing clubs.

[Mae Martin]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

But, you know, it's not like your childhood where you're like, I specifically remember when I was 12, we did this thing, like, when you're an adult, everything, like, becomes a blur unless you have milestones. Like, I got married or I got engaged. I got this Jackson. I were together a couple years then. So I honestly.

[Mae Martin]

Do you remember your third birthday?

[Fortune Feimster]

My 30th. 30. 38th.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

I do not. Okay. Because we were never big into, like, parties, so we never did much for our birthdays. I did a lot more for my birthday when I was single. Yeah. I remember my 30th birthday and my 35th birthday.

[Mae Martin]

Okay, are we switching gears?

[Fortune Feimster]

We're switching gears. Okay.

[Mae Martin]

Let's say 35th.

[Fortune Feimster]

35Th. Yeah. Okay. That. So when I turned 35, I had just met Jax, like, three days before. Four days before.

[Mae Martin]

Okay.

[Fortune Feimster]

We obviously liked each other, and we're kind of, like, seeing how we, like, we hung out in Chicago and then spent time getting to know each other over tech. She was in Italy for, like, three weeks. So I was like, oh, I like this person. But I'm still, like, living my life. And I had a big 35th birthday party that I threw her myself at the gay country western bar in l. A. Called oil can Harry's.

[Mae Martin]

Yes.

[Fortune Feimster]

And it was super fun. It was my last party as a single woman. Not that I did anything on my birthday that was indicated that I was single, but I had my friends burlesque troupe do a fun dance.

[Mae Martin]

Fun.

[Fortune Feimster]

And it was hot as balls because it Was summertime. And this bar did not have air conditioning, and I did not take that into account. So everyone had a blast, but was like, just every picture, everyone's face is red and just pouring sweat.

[Mae Martin]

That's so fun, though.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, but it was such a blast. Ordered a bunch of pizza and cupcakes and.

[Mae Martin]

Did you dance?

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. We had a really great DJ that play plays, like, all the, like, old school stuff, like, 90s and stuff. So, like, everybody was dancing like crazy. And so. Yeah, that. That birthday felt kind of like my last. Like, we're the last time I felt young.

[Mae Martin]

Oh, my God. Fortune. Okay, this year we're having a party.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, I just. In July, I had a birthday and I did absolutely nothing.

[Mae Martin]

No.

[Fortune Feimster]

So it's getting better.

[Mae Martin]

It can't happen again like that.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay. Next. Next year I'll have to be in a better. I was not in a great space.

[Mae Martin]

I guess we'll do a big party next year.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah. Because I was. I was leaving my life. I had left my life as a married person, going into my life as a single person again. And it. There's a shift there where you haven't really seen a lot of your friends for a long time because they just got so used to you being in a couple and you or me touring and being unavailable. Like, I still have those friends and those friends still love me, but you're just not in that rotation with them like you were when you were single. So I just was in a very transitional year.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. And. And those milestones are tough after. After breakups, too. It's. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

So. Yeah. There you go. 35 for me. Let's see for you. Ooh. What about your 30th?

[Mae Martin]

Well, I had a crazy party for my 30th in London. I was living in London, and I was too drunk and trying to make everyone play spin the bottle. And I did give hand job in the bathroom.

[Fortune Feimster]

Whoa.

[Mae Martin]

To my friend. Your friend? Well, I mean, we. We'd been hooking up, but.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay. I thought your friend was just like, happy birthday. Like, let me try to do a British accent. My happy birthday. No, that's not good. That's an Australian.

[Mae Martin]

But it was.

[Fortune Feimster]

Why don't you give it a wank?

[Mae Martin]

Wow.

[Fortune Feimster]

That's your birth. That's your birthday present.

[Mae Martin]

Those are the magic words. That's all you have to say. But I remember it was. I was just, like, really gung ho. But. Well, we went to make out in the bathroom, and I just remember being being like, really? And there's a Whole lineup for the bathroom and he was kind of like, let's not.

[Fortune Feimster]

Not here. Well, also, it's your birthday. Why are you giving hand jobs? You should be getting something.

[Mae Martin]

It's the gift. It's a gift for me too.

[Fortune Feimster]

Really? Okay.

[Mae Martin]

No, I don't know. I don't know what I was doing, but I was. It was a really fun party for me. Sure.

[Fortune Feimster]

Oh, that's great.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah. And then I found out that he slept with my friend that night. So, like, he had a great night.

[Fortune Feimster]

Were you upset about that or. It was fine.

[Mae Martin]

I think it was fine. Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

Okay. Look at you. Just free love, Free love. Everybody gets some.

[Mae Martin]

Those are the days. Well, Sarah, thank you so much for the question. Yeah, we like that game, even though it kind of brought into focus for us that the last decade has been a blur of non events.

[Fortune Feimster]

But I know I'm going to start making some new memories or just keep.

[Mae Martin]

It a little journal or something. I want to. I want to get more fastidious about that.

[Fortune Feimster]

True. Maybe. Maybe fun things have happened and I've just gotten older and I forgot about.

[Mae Martin]

Them a billion percent. Fun things have happened.

[Fortune Feimster]

I had a lot of fun on after my show in Atlanta. Oh, yeah. I had some good friends that. That happened to be. Well, some that live there and happened to be in town and they came backstage and I had stuff to make old fashions with and we just. And it was Zach's birthday, so we like drank old fashions and ate cake and. And for like a couple hours, and it just ended up being really lovely.

[Mae Martin]

They didn't kick you out of the dressing room because that's my favorite when they let you stay and hang. Because I know.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah.

[Mae Martin]

You don't want to go to a bar and go. You lose people in the traveling from point A to point B. I know.

[Fortune Feimster]

We. Which we tried to go to a gay bar for like 30 minutes and then we were like, what are we doing? We're tired.

[Mae Martin]

And.

[Fortune Feimster]

And we did lose people in that transition, but it all worked out. It was. Yeah. The show. Or actually it was about an hour and a half backstage. I never like to go too late and be rude.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

But. But then other times they're like, oh, people stay here till like two in the morning. I'm like, I would never do that. This was like till 11:30.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah.

[Fortune Feimster]

And, yeah, it just feels like everyone was laughing and there was a couple groups of people that didn't know each other and they were all. By the time I came back from my meet and greet you know, chatting and drinking and.

[Mae Martin]

Yeah, see, write that in your journal.

[Fortune Feimster]

Yeah, that's right.

[Mae Martin]

All right. Well, thank you so much for your questions. Keep sending them, please. You can go to speakpipe.com handsome pod and we' want to know your. We want to know your games that you've invented or weird or. I do. Anyway.

[Fortune Feimster]

Ask us questions, ask us advice, whatever you want.

[Mae Martin]

Yes, please.

[Fortune Feimster]

Well, until next time, keep it pretty.

[Mae Martin]

Handsome Handsome is hosted by me, May Martin, Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willette. Email us@handsome podgmail.com and please follow us on social media. Nsomepod.

[Fortune Feimster]

What a podcast.

[Mae Martin]

What a podcast.

[Sarah (Listener Caller)]

That was a headgum podcast.

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