Pod Insights Handsome Pretty Little Episode #38 About this episode Tig and Mae talk about designing their own escape rooms, performing their best cartoon voices, and beautiful places on an all-new Pretty Little Episode!
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2:06 Speaker 04 Handsome. Chit and my friends on the handsome pod. Chit and my friends on the handsome pod. Pretty little episode.
2:19 Mae Martin? Girl.
2:24 Tig Notaro? Got me again. You know, every time I hear the chatting with friends, I try and pick out each voice.
2:33 Mae Martin? Oh, really?
2:34 Tig Notaro? And I never can.
2:35 Mae Martin? Yeah, we've become one organism, kind of.
2:38 Tig Notaro? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm typically pretty good at isolating vocals and picking out different instruments when I'm listening to something.
2:48 Mae Martin? Right.
2:48 Tig Notaro? But I can't in ours.
2:51 Mae Martin? I think that's beautiful. How are you, Tig?
2:55 Tig Notaro? I'm doing all right. How are you?
2:57 Mae Martin? I'm well. I'm, I'm in Toronto.
3:00 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
3:01 Mae Martin? In this like very brightly lit, kind of severancy office room. I'm, I'm in the edit. I just had to do ADR, like record my audio for a big fight scene and a big sex scene. It was humiliating. I made everybody turn and face the wall.
3:16 Tig Notaro? Wow. So wait, um, like i- is it giving away too much, I guess, if you're, tell me who you're fighting with?
3:24 Mae Martin? Yeah, I can't say who I'm fighting with, but I get tased. I think I talked about this on the, on the pod and I was so embarrassed by my tased acting and especially the noise. So this was like my second shot at it.
3:35 Tig Notaro? Okay.
3:36 Mae Martin? And, um.
3:37 Tig Notaro? What was the noise? And then what is the replace noise? What, let's hear it.
3:41 Mae Martin? Okay, what it was, was like.
3:45 Mae Martin? Like it was really not good. And then would it be.
3:49 Tig Notaro? And what did you base that on? Did you look up like people getting tased and noises they made or anything like that?
3:56 Mae Martin? Well, I looked at videos and I saw the physicality, but they don't really make noises. Like you're too, your, your body's all frozen up.
4:04 Tig Notaro? Oh, so you're silent when you're tased?
4:07 Mae Martin? I, maybe?
4:09 Tig Notaro? Uh huh.
4:09 Mae Martin? Yeah. But then today I tried a new noise, which is more like.
4:17 Tig Notaro? And who's deciding? Like, who has the experience of knowing the sound of a tased person?
4:25 Mae Martin? All I know is that the sound team here were like, you gotta do this again.
4:29 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
4:30 Mae Martin? And I think people seem happy with the second round.
4:33 Tig Notaro? Okay.
4:33 Mae Martin? And then the sex scene was really embarrassing. I had to turn the lights off in the studio, basically, in my little booth.
4:39 Tig Notaro? Sounds sexy right away.
4:40 Mae Martin? It was pretty sexy, yeah. And then I had to do all this, like, heavy breathing. And I thought it would be really funny if I ADR'd like, like, ah, like crazy sex noises as a joke, but...
4:52 Tig Notaro? Do you want to explain to people what ADR is, in case they maybe don't know?
4:56 Mae Martin? Like, if there's a sound problem when you're recording, or if you want to add a line or something, you, you go in and record your audio and your, your dialogue. But often it's just like breathing, or do you, I can imagine, like, when you have to do a running scene or something, and then you have to ADR all your panting. Do you do that?
5:13 Tig Notaro? Yeah, I was just about to act that out, that sometimes you have to go in and be like,
5:18 Mae Martin? Yeah.
5:20 Tig Notaro? I don't even know if I really make noise. I don't know when the last time I ran was, but I don't know that I, I don't know if I make those noises.
5:30 Mae Martin? I don't think anyone does. But then, I guess for storytelling, they're like, just go for it, just...
5:36 Tig Notaro? Especially in a cartoon. It, it feels better if I'm doing that, if I'm voicing a cartoon, and you have to do the huh, whoa, whoa.
5:49 Tig Notaro? And then it's like, okay, you're now putting something up on a very heavy box on a shelf.
5:58 Tig Notaro? Yeah, yeah. What is that?
6:00 Mae Martin? Oh, that was just a boing, like a cartoon boing.
6:03 Tig Notaro? But like, if you're lifting a box onto a shelf?
6:06 Mae Martin? But then you might drop it on a trampoline.
6:08 Tig Notaro? Of course. Yes, yes. We watched the same cartoon, apparently.
6:12 Mae Martin? Yes.
6:13 Tig Notaro? But I want to go back to your sex scene. That, was that more uncomfortable to do the ADR for the sex scene than it was to do the actual sex scene?
6:24 Mae Martin? Sort of, because at least, you know, when you're doing it, the adrenaline's going, you're not, you're like, I gotta just do this and get, and there's another person you're ideally in the moment with, but this is like, there's a guy with headphones, eating a sandwich at the next desk, and...
6:42 Mae Martin? Yeah, just watching yourself as well as hell.
6:45 Tig Notaro? And how did you feel watching yourself? Were you, was it titillating?
6:50 Mae Martin? Titillating? No, but I hope it is for others. It's, it's kind of a wild scene. Yeah, I think, I think it will be okay. I don't know.
7:00 Tig Notaro? And how many sex scenes have you done in your career thus far?
7:04 Mae Martin? I would say I did about four in Feel Good and then one in this show, so.
7:10 Tig Notaro? And does it get easier?
7:12 Mae Martin? That's five in total. Yes, absolutely. And also that I feel more confident in my, in my bod now, you know?
7:19 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
7:19 Mae Martin? What about you? Have you ever done like a full?
7:21 Tig Notaro? No, nor would I.
7:24 Mae Martin? Really?
7:25 Tig Notaro? No, no, no, no, thank you.
7:29 Mae Martin? I, I wouldn't mind seeing it. I think you'd be great.
7:32 Tig Notaro? Oh, well, you are kind, but also back off.
7:37 Tig Notaro? Yeah, I remember, I think Stephanie and I, the most that went down on one Mississippi was kissing.
7:45 Mae Martin? Right.
7:45 Tig Notaro? And that's the only, any kind of interaction I've had.
7:49 Mae Martin? Was with your very own wife?
7:51 Tig Notaro? Was with my own person. And that was even uncomfortable for me because I'm not like a very.
7:59 Mae Martin? PDA.
8:00 Tig Notaro? No, I'm just not. What about you?
8:03 Mae Martin? Uh, yeah, it is just weird. There's a whole, a whole crew, but I don't, I don't, I don't mind it.
8:09 Tig Notaro? Wait, a whole crew? What, but like for PDA in life?
8:12 Mae Martin? Oh.
8:13 Tig Notaro? Are you PDA, PDA in life?
8:16 Mae Martin? I'm a very like hand holdy, hand on the leg, hand on the back, but I'm not like kissing a bunch in front of people. I don't like, I don't like that.
8:25 Tig Notaro? Yeah, yeah, same.
8:26 Mae Martin? Yeah, but I like to have a, a bit of contact.
8:29 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm. Yeah. Just a, hey, I'm over here.
8:33 Mae Martin? Hello.
8:33 Tig Notaro? Hello, it's me, the one you love. Um, well, I can't wait to see.
8:39 Mae Martin? Thanks.
8:39 Tig Notaro? Cannot wait to see. Can you tell us if you win the fight?
8:42 Mae Martin? Oh, I do win the fight, actually. Yeah.
8:44 Tig Notaro? Oh, spoiler.
8:47 Mae Martin? Yeah, there's a couple of fights.
8:48 Tig Notaro? Okay.
8:49 Mae Martin? Yeah, I'm excited for you guys to see it. I hope you like it.
8:52 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
8:52 Mae Martin? Um, I feel like Thomas might like it because it's set in 2003 and there's a lot of Canadian music in it from that era, which is really my era, like Canadian indie music, you know?
9:04 Tig Notaro? 2003.
9:05 Mae Martin? Yeah, I love that year.
9:07 Speaker 05 I'm really excited. Any bare naked ladies in there?
9:09 Mae Martin? No, but you got some tragically hip. You got some, uh, Sam Roberts. Oh, my God, bare naked ladies. I got a really dramatic moment.
9:21 Tig Notaro? Or during the sex scene?
9:22 Mae Martin? Yeah.
9:23 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm.
9:23 Mae Martin? Yelp spin.
9:24 Tig Notaro? Yelp spin. Boy, they've really had a massive explosion, didn't they? When they?
9:30 Mae Martin? I, yeah, like they, because they've made it down to the States, right?
9:33 Tig Notaro? Oh, yeah. Yeah. And they just had such a different vibe. I guess that vibe was Canadian. I was truly like, what is this? I enjoyed them very much. I just had not experienced.
9:47 Mae Martin? That like silliness?
9:48 Tig Notaro? Uh huh. Yeah.
9:50 Mae Martin? Very silly.
9:51 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
9:51 Mae Martin? What were you doing this morning?
9:53 Tig Notaro? What was I doing this morning? We dropped off, um, you know, Max and Finn at their school. And then, um, I had to edit, uh, this thing for a charity event that I'm, I'm involved with, that I have to announce. Um, I had a doctor's appointment.
10:14 Mae Martin? Love it.
10:15 Tig Notaro? Yeah, love, love, love. And, um, physical therapy.
10:21 Mae Martin? Oh, cool.
10:21 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm.
10:22 Mae Martin? Is that, does that feel good? Physical therapy? Like?
10:25 Tig Notaro? Yeah, it feels really good. Um, it's making me feel like, oh, I should, maybe I should get more into strength training because it's hard. I mean, I know it's not hard for you because you can do pushups with me on your back.
10:42 Mae Martin? I couldn't even do one, but I could at least do a plank.
10:45 Tig Notaro? You, yeah, I mean, I was really impressed that.
10:48 Mae Martin? Really?
10:49 Tig Notaro? Absolutely. I, I mean, if you sat on my lap, I would, I would, I, I'm just, yeah, I need to definitely work on. My strength training.
11:01 Mae Martin? The thing I hate doing is legs. Like, I like doing upper body stuff and trying to, trying to look strong, but I'm get, my legs are like little twigs. They're very weak. And I went rock climbing, I went bouldering.
11:14 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm. I love bouldering.
11:16 Mae Martin? Yes. And I didn't realize it's all legs. Like, you're meant to be pushing with your legs. Anyway, I was just.
11:22 Tig Notaro? Where were you bouldering?
11:23 Mae Martin? Echo Park, there's a place, an indoor place with a bunch of walls, but the, the crowd there, like the bouldering scene is like lot of guys with ponytails, a lot of those stringy little, stringy little guys who are coming up. I was like trying to do something and then this guy comes up, he's got braces, he looks about 12. And he's like, yeah, what you want to do is get your foot in the crevice there and then like boots me off basically and takes over.
11:49 Tig Notaro? I remember I, um, I went, where was I? I was in the Arches in Utah, in the Canyonlands. And I was camping with these friends of mine, uh, Mike and Micah. Mike was my friend and Micah, I knew through Mike and we had, the three of us had gone to Utah to camp and, um, and we went bouldering out there and.
12:16 Mae Martin? On like real boulders?
12:17 Tig Notaro? Oh, we went real bouldering, like through really tiny crevices, you know, just like shimmying up and down. And I remember I, um, I was on top of this massive boulder and they had made their way down and they were like, just slide, just, just slide. It was so precarious that it wasn't, it, it just wasn't totally straightforward for me to get down off of this boulder. So I slid down and it completely, I lost the entire backside of my jeans.
12:51 Mae Martin? Oh, my god.
12:52 Tig Notaro? And I had the rest of the day to boulder with these guys with, with my, you know, half of.
12:59 Mae Martin? Your shiny red bum.
13:00 Tig Notaro? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And we were so far from our campsite that there, there was nothing that I could do. So.
13:08 Mae Martin? God.
13:08 Tig Notaro? Yeah, it was a bit of a, a damper on the bouldering day.
13:12 Mae Martin? I mean, I was like visualizing that in my head, but in my head, when I pictured it, it was a cartoon.
13:17 Tig Notaro? It basically was.
13:19 Mae Martin? Such a cartoony moment.
13:25 Mae Martin? Well, listen, should we find out what our listeners want to?
13:28 Tig Notaro? I think we should. That's why we're here. So let's give them what they want.
13:31 Mae Martin? Yeah.
13:32 Speaker 00 Hi, handsome podcast. My name is Marky and I have a question for y'all. Since May is a fan of escape rooms, what theme would your escape room be? And what would be the key to getting out?
13:43 Tig Notaro? Hmm.
13:47 Mae Martin? Well, I would have said Titanic, um, which feels fucked up because it's a real life tragedy. But then I recently did a Titanic escape room that was so epic. Cause I think there's nothing scarier than the idea of like water rushing in and trying to get like, yeah, yeah. So I would have said Titanic, but it's not a very whimsical joyful idea. What about you?
14:10 Tig Notaro? I really don't know. I mean, it, you're just like in a, um,
14:15 Mae Martin? Like a themed world, like you might be in Jurassic Park or you might be in, um, Sherlock Holmes's study, Mr. He was something like that, or an Inca.
14:27 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
14:28 Mae Martin? Ruin. What about an insane asylum? Like you start, I've never been in an escape room where you start in a padded room in a straitjacket. And you go, where are the clues? What am I supposed to solve? And then maybe there's like, you find a pin hidden in the padded walls and you use that.
14:44 Tig Notaro? Here's my question. Is it, I have really bad claustrophobia. Would this be bad for claustrophobia? Like if you didn't feel like you could get out?
14:57 Mae Martin? The straitjacket would be a problem for you, I think, but generally I think you'd be okay. You're in a room, you know that the door's not really locked. You're not like,
15:06 Tig Notaro? Okay, because we were on, on, this is how much, how bad my claustrophobia is. We were, uh, in Chicago on spring break, as you do.
15:18 Mae Martin? Yeah.
15:19 Tig Notaro? And, um, there was a submarine that was indoors. No water.
15:26 Mae Martin? Yeah.
15:27 Tig Notaro? No locking door.
15:30 Tig Notaro? I stepped onto the submarine and the guide started just talking about, and I went, "Okay," like, I couldn't even talk. I, I, my mind went so far into the future of like, or the past, or wherever, it just was not there.
15:47 Mae Martin? Yeah.
15:47 Tig Notaro? And I imagined being in the submarine, like underwater for months, which is apparently what happens. They, that's how you, you train above water and then you go into a submarine for the first time and you go away for months. So...
16:05 Mae Martin? There's gotta be a better way. That's insane. People are going for months in tiny submarines.
16:11 Tig Notaro? Yeah. So that would, I wouldn't have ever thought that something like that would be a problem for me until I, until the spring break, when I was like, "Wow, I am, I know I'm not really submerged."
16:24 Mae Martin? But your fight or flight kicked in.
16:25 Tig Notaro? Yeah, it really kicked in. But who cares? That's my issue. And, um, you know what? Maybe what I would do is I would be, again, I don't really know what I'm referencing.
16:41 Mae Martin? Right.
16:41 Tig Notaro? What about like a, a school or college or something that I want to get out of? Would that make sense?
16:49 Mae Martin? Yeah, I don't mind that. There'd have to be like a plot element where you're trapped in there, like, but yeah, like...
16:54 Tig Notaro? Well, because I felt trapped in school.
16:56 Mae Martin? Yeah, emotionally.
16:57 Tig Notaro? Yeah, everything.
16:58 Mae Martin? It's an emotional escape room.
16:59 Tig Notaro? Yeah, yeah. Why don't you give me a, a, an option? I guess you rattled off a few.
17:05 Mae Martin? Titanic, uh, insane asylum, prison, uh, what are some good ones I've done?
17:13 Tig Notaro? Oh, you've done all of those?
17:15 Mae Martin? I've done, I've done all those. Actually, you know what? Lisa Gilroy, our, our friend, friend of the pod, um, she went to visit the pyramids in Egypt, like, and she went into the Great Pyramid and you have to walk through a tiny tunnel into the pyramid. And she said, like, halfway through, she realized there's a line of people in front of her, a line of people behind her, like, you can't go back. And she was panicking. And that's my hell. I, I'm also...
17:38 Tig Notaro? So is that claustrophobia?
17:40 Mae Martin? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, that's bad.
17:41 Tig Notaro? Okay, yeah.
17:42 Mae Martin? Yeah. I think we're, I think we should do insane asylum, but you could be one of the orderlies. You could be like, you could be Nurse Ratchet.
17:49 Tig Notaro? I'm down. I'm down. Sorry to complicate that.
17:52 Mae Martin? No, no, I, I love it.
17:54 Tig Notaro? I just want to know what I'm in for.
17:56 Mae Martin? I'm gonna find a really spacious escape room and take you.
17:59 Tig Notaro? Are there tiny hallway room, escape rooms where?
18:03 Mae Martin? Yeah.
18:04 Tig Notaro? Is there's, they should do a claustrophobia escape room.
18:07 Mae Martin? Oh, Christ. I mean, I'm saying that, but I would do it in a heartbeat, but I'd hate it. I'd hate every second of it.
18:15 Tig Notaro? Oh, my gosh. I can't even think about it. Let's move on.
18:18 Mae Martin? Yeah. Oh, let's hear Marky's answer.
18:21 Tig Notaro? Yeah. What's Marky up to?
18:23 Speaker 00 My escape room theme would be similar to an episode of Double Dare, where guests climb and search giant cat towers and sift through litter to find three flags to open the door to get out or something. Okay, thanks. And what a podcast. Cheers.
18:37 Mae Martin? What a podcast. Wait, that was really thought out. It was like, or something like that, but I like that.
18:44 Tig Notaro? Why don't you start a business doing?
18:47 Mae Martin? Don't tempt me. I want to pack it all in and just do escape rooms. Yeah.
18:51 Tig Notaro? Is that what, if you, if you could leave your career, is that what you would do is start an escape room company?
18:58 Mae Martin? Immersive theater slash escape rooms. But I like the idea of that Marky had of being shrunk down almost where your cat size and you're going through big things of litter. That's cool.
19:07 Tig Notaro? Yeah. Thank you, Marky.
19:10 Mae Martin? Thank you so much.
19:11 Tig Notaro? Thank you so much, Marky.
19:12 Mae Martin? Thank you so much. What a, what a question.
19:14 Tig Notaro? What a question. What a Marky.
19:16 Mae Martin? What a Marky.
19:18 Tig Notaro? Should we hear another one?
19:19 Mae Martin? I think we should.
19:20 Tig Notaro? Yeah, I don't see why not.
19:22 Speaker 06 Hello, handsome's. My pretty little ladies and ladies. My name is Nikki and I'm from Chicago. Longtime listener, first time question recorder. I'm a huge fan of all y'all. And my question is, what is the most beautiful place that you have ever been to?
19:43 Mae Martin? Oh, great. Great question.
19:46 Tig Notaro? Yeah, that's hard.
19:48 Mae Martin? Did something jump into your mind?
19:50 Tig Notaro? I mean, there's so many places. I love the, um, Pacific Coast Highway.
19:57 Mae Martin? Oh, yeah.
19:57 Tig Notaro? I mean, what like I'm just right. I mean, I've been to New Zealand, the black sand beaches of New Zealand. Have you been to
20:06 Mae Martin? Whoa.
20:07 Tig Notaro? To New Zealand?
20:08 Mae Martin? No, never. I would love to because I love Lord of the Rings and that's where Ho- Hob- Hoberton is.
20:13 Tig Notaro? Oh, is that right?
20:15 Mae Martin? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That might make you claustrophobic, little hobbit homes.
20:19 Tig Notaro? Yeah, I don't think I'm cut out for the hobbitry, but
20:23 Mae Martin? Okay, so New Zealand for you?
20:25 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm. You know, I love the Rocky Mountains. Um, I don't know.
20:31 Mae Martin? There's a theme here that you're drawn to like mountainous rather than like white sand, blue water Caribbean.
20:37 Tig Notaro? I certainly like blue water Caribbean.
20:41 Mae Martin? Sure.
20:42 Tig Notaro? What is the most beautiful? That's not fair. What is your answer?
20:48 Mae Martin? I'm gonna say, um, when I went to Nepal, there's a city in Nepal called Pokhara.
20:54 Tig Notaro? Mm hmm.
20:54 Mae Martin? That's like around a lake and snow capped Himalayas all around it. And it's got these like jacaranda trees that were, when they're in bloom are like so perfumey and beautiful.
21:07 Tig Notaro? Yeah.
21:07 Mae Martin? And it just looks like it's, uh, post like a fake place. It looks like, like Disney. Um, so Pokhara and also Iceland, when you were talking about black sand beaches, like Iceland just looks like Mars and there's like hot springs and, and northern lights and
21:26 Tig Notaro? I want to go there so bad.
21:28 Mae Martin? Really?
21:28 Tig Notaro? Yeah, I do.
21:30 Mae Martin? You'd love it.
21:31 Tig Notaro? Stephanie and I were, um, walking past these flowers this morning and we, I was like, oh, look how beautiful those flowers are. And she stopped and was like, whoa, these look like, like this looks like when you're on drugs, looking at something. They were so beautiful. And it's crazy how
21:53 Tig Notaro? I mean, I'm gonna say an obvious thing, but how nature is like that where you
21:58 Mae Martin? Yeah.
21:58 Tig Notaro? You can't make any sense of how beautiful something is. I'm gonna go with the Rocky Mountains. I'm gonna go with the Rocky Mountains. I love a river. I love rivers so much. I love that you can, there can be a shallow part of a river. I love that there's a, there can be a waterfall. I love that a river can pool. And there's so many options and that you can have a sandy beach vibe on the neck, on the side of a river.
22:28 Mae Martin? Yeah.
22:29 Tig Notaro? Yes, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go with that. Beautiful flowers, beautiful mountains, unbelievable water.
22:36 Mae Martin? Isn't that crazy that like you just switched your awareness there and you were like, I'm gonna be really present and aware of the beauty of this flower. And, and then you feel like you're on drugs all the time. That's what like enlightened people must feel or people who are really practice like mindfulness and stuff. It's like you can, you can feel like you're tripping all the time because everything's so beautiful.
22:55 Tig Notaro? Yes, yeah.
22:57 Mae Martin? I like the idea of the river that like a babbling brook, nothing babbles except a brook. I can't.
23:03 Tig Notaro? Well, I know a few people that babble. I know some babblers.
23:08 Mae Martin? Yeah, and babies, I guess.
23:09 Tig Notaro? Yes, babies, little babbling babies.
23:12 Mae Martin? Should we hear Nikki's answer?
23:13 Tig Notaro? Yes, let's hear what Nikki has to say. I can't wait, but I'm gonna have to.
23:19 Speaker 06 A place that really made you say, get out of town, Charlie Brown. This is crazy, you know, something like that.
23:30 Speaker 06 My answer is Rio de Janeiro. I went there last year with my best friend, who I've known since I was three years old. And we truly had the time of our lives. The, the horizons, the cascading mountains, the people. I mean, it truly was magic. Really looking forward to your answer and I love you all so much. Have a good one.
23:55 Mae Martin? Thanks, Nikki.
23:55 Tig Notaro? We love you too, Nikki. Thanks for listening and I have not, I've never been there, have you?
24:01 Mae Martin? Never, and I've never said, get out of town, Charlie Brown, but you better believe I'm gonna start.
24:08 Tig Notaro? Oh, get out of town, Charlie Brown. Yes.
24:13 Mae Martin? Let me quickly Google it because where is that? Brazil, Brazil.
24:18 Tig Notaro? Max is obsessed with Brazil.
24:20 Mae Martin? Is he? Because I'm learning all the capital cities now. I'm trying. So I'm.
24:24 Tig Notaro? Just in your time off?
24:26 Mae Martin? Yeah, like I'm every day I'm like, right now I've got Europe down. I've done Europe, but it's Africa that's going to be hard because some of those words are really hard and Asia. Yeah.
24:37 Tig Notaro? And you fully have the others down?
24:39 Mae Martin? I have Europe down because I've got all the countries. And then I was in the, I had like my most kind of spectrum-y moment of my life where I was in the back of an Uber and the Uber driver was like, oh, I'm from Armenia. And I went, capital city, Yereban. And I was like, what am I doing? He was like, yep, that's right.
24:58 Tig Notaro? Oh, my gosh. You would have a wonderful conversation with Finn because he loves geography.
25:04 Mae Martin? Really?
25:05 Tig Notaro? Oh, he knows his countries, his capitals, all of that stuff.
25:09 Mae Martin? Awesome. It's really soothing to organize the world.
25:13 Tig Notaro? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Finally, it's organized.
25:17 Mae Martin? Finally.
25:18 Tig Notaro? Well, it was a wonderful experience seeing your mug again and.
25:25 Mae Martin? Great to see your mug as always.
25:27 Tig Notaro? Yeah, I, I hope you don't mind me calling it a mug.
25:31 Mae Martin? No, I like it. It's very New York.
25:35 Tig Notaro? Seventies?
25:36 Mae Martin? Yeah, seventies.
25:37 Tig Notaro? Fifties to seventies.
25:39 Mae Martin? Yeah.
25:39 Tig Notaro? All right. Well, thanks, everyone for listening and submit your questions at speakpipe.com/hansampod.
25:47 Mae Martin? Please.
25:47 Tig Notaro? Yeah. And tell your friends, share episodes. Let's build the handsome community. And thank you so much for listening, everyone. And until next time, what do you say, May?
25:59 Mae Martin? I think you better keep it pretty handsome. Handsome is hosted by me, Mae Martin, Tig Notaro, and Fortune Feimster. The show is produced, recorded, and edited by Thomas Willett. Email us at [email protected] and please follow us on social media at HandsomePod.
26:19 Mae Martin? What a podcast.
26:20 Speaker 05 What a podcast.
26:25 Speaker 00 That was a HeadGum Podcast.
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