Pretty Little Episode #88

Mae and Fortune answer your questions about mood music, natural terrors, and alternate career choices on a Pretty Little Episode that's sure to lift your spirits! Don't forget to get tickets to our May 4 Live Show in LA https://www.ticketmaster.com/netflix-is-a-joke-presents-handsome-los-angeles-california-05-04-2026/event/0900642CE31BB7C3! Handsome is hosted by Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, and Fortune FeimsterSubmit your questions to speakpipe.com/handsomepod http://speakpipe.com/handsomepodFollow us on social media @handsomepodMerch at handsomepod.com http://handsomepod.com/Watch Handsome on YouTube http://youtube.com/@handsomepodThis is a Headgum https://headgum.com/ podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter https://x.com/headgum, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/headgum/, and Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@headgum. Advertise on Handsome https://gumball.fm/shows/handsome via Gumball.fm http://gumball.fm/. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:01Speaker 00

  This is a HeadGum Podcast.

• 0:15Fortune Feimster?

  Pretty little episode. Woo, welcome to the Handsome Pods Pretty Little Episode. I'm Fortune Memester.

• 0:23Mae Martin?

  I'm Mae Martin.

• 0:24Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. So I'm in Belmont. I actually have come back to see my mom Ginger because a couple of days ago, as of this airing, she will have had her big appointment where she is seeing if the radiation balls that were put in her were effective.

• 0:44Mae Martin?

  Uh huh, okay.

• 0:45Fortune Feimster?

  So I'm back in Belmont for that.

• 0:47Mae Martin?

  Yes, and you're...

• 0:49Fortune Feimster?

  And I don't have the results yet because this is the future.

• 0:53Mae Martin?

  Yeah, well, right. You're talking about the future.

• 0:54Fortune Feimster?

  Talking about the future.

• 0:55Mae Martin?

  I see, I see. Okay, okay.

• 0:57Fortune Feimster?

  Yes.

• 0:58Mae Martin?

  And Ginger's there with you now, correct?

• 1:00Fortune Feimster?

  She is right here on her recliner beside me.

• 1:04Mae Martin?

  Oh my god, great, great. So you're both in your recliners. I'm getting a glimpse into the Memester hang.

• 1:11Fortune Feimster?

  That's right. Well, I have to, I have to get y'all's opinion on something.

• 1:17Mae Martin?

  Oh, hit me.

• 1:18Fortune Feimster?

  So I am doing a little European run. I already did my Amsterdam show. That was a separate trip. But I'm doing a run of Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, London, and Dublin. Now, what do you think I'm gonna say?

• 1:42Mae Martin?

  I think it's something to do with Ginger.

• 1:45Fortune Feimster?

  You're right, bud. So this one loves to travel, okay? And she's like, "You're going to Europe? Oh my god, I have never been." So what, all those cities?

• 2:00Fortune Feimster?

  All but London. You've been to London. So she wants to come, but here's the thing.

• 2:07Mae Martin?

  You've got to...

• 2:08Fortune Feimster?

  She's 80.

• 2:09Mae Martin?

  Right, okay, I keep forgetting.

• 2:10Fortune Feimster?

  And she's riddled with cancer.

• 2:15Fortune Feimster?

  She had said, I'm not riddled. Your liver has it hopefully let hopefully a lot less now.

• 2:22Mae Martin?

  I mean, I think of Ginger like very sprightly and I do, you can tell her that. And I think that she would be amazing, particularly in Berlin. I'm picturing her lined up.

• 2:33Fortune Feimster?

  Don't tell her that one.

• 2:35Mae Martin?

  Lined up to go into Berghain.

• 2:40Fortune Feimster?

  Well, so she she her thing is she loves to go to countries and cities that she's never been to before. That that excites her, which I love that for her. I love her adventurous spirit. Ginger is just like Tig in that they like to get on a hop on, hop off bus.

• 2:58Mae Martin?

  Oh, that's fun.

• 2:59Fortune Feimster?

  And not hop off.

• 3:00Mae Martin?

  Right, yeah, that's fun.

• 3:02Fortune Feimster?

  What will happen is she will go to these countries. I mean, we it'll take an act of God to push her up onto the top of this bus.

• 3:11Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 3:12Fortune Feimster?

  And to get her back down, you know what I mean? And so I would have to get her, you know, hoist her onto this bus. She'll ride around for a couple of hours and that will be she'll go, I that was an amazing day of sightseeing.

• 3:26Mae Martin?

  That's great. I mean, OK, what if I think of all the cities Dublin would be the best then because it's like.

• 3:32Fortune Feimster?

  OK, so here's my here's my suggestion.

• 3:35Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 3:35Fortune Feimster?

  If we are going to do this, I don't think she can handle all those cities.

• 3:41Mae Martin?

  That's a lot.

• 3:42Fortune Feimster?

  Because that's a lot, even for me, I'm going to be exhausted. And she's, you know, has some health things and she's older. So I was saying the compromise here would be to take her to Copenhagen, London and Dublin.

• 3:57Mae Martin?

  That's an adventure. That's really good. Yeah, Copenhagen is supposed to be beautiful. I've never been, but Dublin is very like my parents loved it like you get.

• 4:07Fortune Feimster?

  They said you like Dublin a lot.

• 4:09Mae Martin?

  Like you go to these, you could just settle in a pub, have a little Guinness. You're hearing these stories from the locals and like, you know, Dylan Thomas and well, not Dylan Thomas. He's Welsh, you know, all the Irish guys.

• 4:24Fortune Feimster?

  Would you drink a Guinness in Dublin?

• 4:27Speaker 03

  I would have to.

• 4:27Fortune Feimster?

  You would have to, okay. Well, so I would, I would fly her out to Copenhagen the day before my show.

• 4:34Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 4:34Fortune Feimster?

  So she'd have two days in Copenhagen. We'd only have one day in London, but then I would extend the trip a day for her to have an extra day in Dublin.

• 4:43Mae Martin?

  Okay, yeah.

• 4:44Fortune Feimster?

  And I think that's, I think that's good.

• 4:46Mae Martin?

  Damn, it seems far to, far to go to not have like some extra days to just dick around, like.

• 4:53Fortune Feimster?

  What's that? I know, but the problem is I'm going from city to city to city, country, country to country to country. And it's a lot of wear and tear. Like, people don't realize how much that like turn, that quick turnaround is really hard on your body.

• 5:07Mae Martin?

  Yeah, maybe, but could you stay another couple of days in Dublin?

• 5:11Fortune Feimster?

  And she's coming from Charlotte, so it's not as far as LA.

• 5:14Mae Martin?

  That's true.

• 5:16Fortune Feimster?

  So, but you think, you think she should go?

• 5:19Mae Martin?

  A hundred, tell, tell Ginger I'm on board.

• 5:21Fortune Feimster?

  May's on board with you going.

• 5:23Speaker 03

  Okay, going where?

• 5:25Fortune Feimster?

  Go, my mom said going where? We don't need to get into that.

• 5:29Mae Martin?

  London, Stockholm, and, no, London, Copenhagen and Dublin.

• 5:34Fortune Feimster?

  Copenhagen, London, and Dublin would be the trip. I think that's plenty.

• 5:39Mae Martin?

  Can you stay in some fancy hotels and?

• 5:41Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, who'd do all that?

• 5:43Mae Martin?

  I think you should do it.

• 5:44Fortune Feimster?

  By the way, it ain't cheap. This is like her make a wish.

• 5:48Mae Martin?

  Fortune, Marie, you can't say that. Oh my God.

• 5:55Fortune Feimster?

  Did I, was that bad? Oh no.

• 6:03Fortune Feimster?

  For your, cause you have cancer.

• 6:06Mae Martin?

  Can you, can you tell her that I want to come and like when you're busy doing your shows, I'll hang out with her?

• 6:11Fortune Feimster?

  May said they'll come and hang out with you while I'm busy.

• 6:16Mae Martin?

  Ginger's not, not that pumped about that.

• 6:18Fortune Feimster?

  We'll have to see, like I was, when I, my mom is definitely in, like, being off chemo right now. Her health is better.

• 6:27Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 6:28Fortune Feimster?

  But I'm, I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm a little. Concerned about the mobility here.

• 6:36Mae Martin?

  Right, right, okay.

• 6:37Fortune Feimster?

  So.

• 6:37Mae Martin?

  Play, play it by your.

• 6:38Fortune Feimster?

  That's why I'm not trying to extend this anymore. It would be a, she would be gone for uh, oh, six, a week. And I think that would be an, all she could handle.

• 6:51Mae Martin?

  That's great.

• 6:53Fortune Feimster?

  Um, and it, it will be, um, I will be moving at a snail's pace.

• 6:58Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 6:59Fortune Feimster?

  At, at those three cities.

• 7:01Mae Martin?

  But, but you'll soak up, you'll soak up some joy. I gotta say, I'm, I'm like being on tour, I'm like, if I didn't have my friend Matt, here, he is like, it, it's nice to experience these things with someone too.

• 7:15Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna observe her this weekend and next and make my final decision based on her.

• 7:24Mae Martin?

  But now she knows, she knows you're gonna be observing her. She's gonna be like skipping around.

• 7:28Fortune Feimster?

  Tight ship.

• 7:29Mae Martin?

  She's gonna be like.

• 7:34Fortune Feimster?

  So we'll see. You're up. You might be seeing Ginge for that second half of the tour. We'll, we'll see how her health holds up.

• 7:42Mae Martin?

  Fun.

• 7:43Fortune Feimster?

  She said fair.

• 7:44Mae Martin?

  Now, ma- may I ask you, to your right, is that a stack of CDs?

• 7:49Fortune Feimster?

  What is, oh no, that's books.

• 7:51Mae Martin?

  Oh, there's books, okay. Oh, great.

• 7:54Fortune Feimster?

  They're just on a, a lamp.

• 7:57Mae Martin?

  Yes, okay.

• 7:57Fortune Feimster?

  Shelf.

• 7:58Mae Martin?

  I have those lamps too.

• 8:00Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 8:01Mae Martin?

  Okay, I thought it was CDs.

• 8:02Fortune Feimster?

  No, but that, my mom probably does have CDs somewhere around here.

• 8:07Mae Martin?

  I, yeah.

• 8:08Fortune Feimster?

  She likes to collect things.

• 8:10Mae Martin?

  Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, CDs, books.

• 8:12Fortune Feimster?

  And I put "collect" in quotes.

• 8:15Mae Martin?

  Listen, you're.

• 8:16Fortune Feimster?

  Do you see that, Mom?

• 8:17Mae Martin?

  You are roasting Ginge today.

• 8:19Fortune Feimster?

  I think I'm roasting you. Do you feel roasted? You feel okay. I feel okay.

• 8:26Mae Martin?

  Good.

• 8:27Fortune Feimster?

  It's all with love. Well, should we get some questions?

• 8:31Mae Martin?

  Yes, please. Yeah.

• 8:33Speaker 04

  Hi, handsome pod. This is Maggie from Olympia, Washington.

• 8:37Mae Martin?

  Hi, Maggie.

• 8:37Speaker 04

  My question for you is, when you get your music going for the day, whether you're, you know, driving to work or getting a workout, or for your morning activities when you're going to set your playlist for the day, what drives your decision making for what kind of music you're gonna listen to? Do you choose music based on your mood? Or the weather? Or maybe the mood that you want to be in?

• 9:04Mae Martin?

  Hmm.

• 9:05Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:06Fortune Feimster?

  What do you think, May?

• 9:08Mae Martin?

  It's a really good question. I, I always listen to the same 12 songs since I was a teenager.

• 9:13Speaker 04

  Oh, really?

• 9:14Mae Martin?

  Yeah, like I, I just listen to things that I know every word to. I find that very soothing, but a lot of that stuff's like moody. And then, living with Parv and Amma, that really changed my perception of like, they wake up every morning and it's aspirational mood wise. They put on Whitney Houston.

• 9:32Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, jams.

• 9:33Mae Martin?

  They're blasting Robin, like female pop singers, Taylor Swift, and it actually, it puts you in a great mood. And they're like, on the way to school, they're singing, "In the back of a car."

• 9:47Fortune Feimster?

  "In the back of the car."

• 9:56Mae Martin?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 10:05Mae Martin?

  It's so good.

• 10:06Fortune Feimster?

  We know all the words.

• 10:08Mae Martin?

  Yeah, and definitely a lot of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey and Parv's era as well.

• 10:13Fortune Feimster?

  Gotta have the divas.

• 10:15Mae Martin?

  Yeah, so that's kind of changed my.

• 10:16Fortune Feimster?

  I like that.

• 10:17Mae Martin?

  I would never listen to pop before, but now I'm like, I'll start the day with the pop jam. What about you?

• 10:23Fortune Feimster?

  Well, people make fun of me. I guess this is very old school. Um, cause I guess the modern thing is to make your own playlist on Spotify, but whatevs. I do, I do that for my shows. I have a, a pre-show Spotify playlist.

• 10:39Mae Martin?

  Yeah, same.

• 10:40Fortune Feimster?

  But for whatever reason, I can't get it together for life. So I just go to Pandora.

• 10:46Mae Martin?

  What's Pandora?

• 10:47Fortune Feimster?

  Pandora is like you pick a artist's radio station and it plays them, but it'll also play people in their genre.

• 10:56Mae Martin?

  Oh.

• 10:56Fortune Feimster?

  Cause I like to be served up unexpected things.

• 11:01Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 11:01Fortune Feimster?

  But apparently people are like Pandora and I'm like, well, why not? I, but I also don't pay for the non ads. So every, every like 25 minutes, it's like, you know, shut up.

• 11:21Fortune Feimster?

  So like I'll pick like, if I'm in a Taylor Swift mood, it'll, I'll pick her station, but then it'll serve me up. I don't know, various people like Dua Lipa, Chapel Rohn, um, Teddy Swims, you know, that, some, some bops. Pink or whatever. And then maybe I want a Brandy Carlisle. So then it'll be like a Tracy Chapman and a, you know, it'll, or a Chris Stapleton. Those kind of all go together.

• 11:50Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 11:51Fortune Feimster?

  Uh, but you can, you know, if you're, if you're not into a song, you just press the thumbs down and it takes you to the next one.

• 11:57Mae Martin?

  Yeah. Maybe I'll start doing that. I listen to a lot of like.

• 11:59Fortune Feimster?

  It's like a surprise.

• 12:01Mae Martin?

  I like that. I do. I listen to a lot of oldies, a lot of like Led Zeppelin and stuff.

• 12:08Fortune Feimster?

  I go even older. I will hit up that Etta James radio station and there are some great old jams that come through.

• 12:15Mae Martin?

  Oh, I bet. That's a good idea. Now what's on, what's on your pre-show playlist?

• 12:21Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, I have a great pre-show playlist.

• 12:23Mae Martin?

  Can you send it to me? Can I?

• 12:25Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 12:26Mae Martin?

  Cause actually so many people on this tour are like, I just saw Fortune or, or they're gonna see Tig or they, yeah. And I always wonder if we've been in the same venues or what.

• 12:37Fortune Feimster?

  I don't know. It's, yeah, it's just a lot of upbeat songs, like a lot of jam, a lot of jams.

• 12:42Mae Martin?

  Yeah. I got some Alanis on mine.

• 12:45Fortune Feimster?

  There you go.

• 12:46Mae Martin?

  Yeah. Some Rousing Alanis. I got all over.

• 12:48Fortune Feimster?

  I love it.

• 12:50Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 12:51Fortune Feimster?

  Um, so yeah, I, but I also, you know, if it's like a wintry day and it's like overcast, I'll go a little slower. If it's a bright sunny day, I'm doing the aspirational jams. If I have a big meeting and I want to pump up. Yeah, then I'm doing the big jams.

• 13:11Mae Martin?

  Yeah, don't stop believing.

• 13:13Fortune Feimster?

  Uh huh.

• 13:14Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 13:15Fortune Feimster?

  That's right. Did Maggie tell us what she does?

• 13:18Speaker 04

  Uh, I think that I choose music based on the mood that I want to be in. So if it's, you know, a rainy, gloomy, cloudy day, I'll often listen to like, you know, upbeat dance or reggaeton or, you know, things that really make music that makes me feel happy.

• 13:34Mae Martin?

  Whoa.

• 13:35Speaker 04

  Um, anyways, love the pod. Thanks so much.

• 13:38Fortune Feimster?

  All right.

• 13:40Mae Martin?

  Thanks, Maggie. Yeah, I think I need to start doing that more. But the thing is, sometimes I want to be in a gloomy mood, so then I would put on like an Elliott Smith or something.

• 13:48Fortune Feimster?

  Hmm.

• 13:50Mae Martin?

  Most of the time it's Third Eye Blind. I'm not gonna, can't, can't lie.

• 13:54Fortune Feimster?

  There you go.

• 13:55Mae Martin?

  It's my boy Stephen Jenkins.

• 13:56Fortune Feimster?

  Aww.

• 13:58Speaker 00

  Hi, May Fortune and Tig. My name is Lindsay and I'm calling from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

• 14:04Mae Martin?

  Hey.

• 14:04Speaker 00

  I have the privilege of being a pediatric nurse practitioner, working in outpatient neurology and primarily with infants, children, and teens with epilepsy.

• 14:12Mae Martin?

  Wow.

• 14:13Speaker 00

  If you worked in healthcare, what specialty do you think you would choose? Maybe dermatology of skin is your thing, or perhaps orthopedic surgery if you think bones are hip. Thanks.

• 14:24Fortune Feimster?

  I think anyone that works in pediatrics is a freaking angel. Holy cow.

• 14:29Mae Martin?

  I know, and why do I feel like you're, you're gonna say you'd be a boob inspector or something?

• 14:36Fortune Feimster?

  FBI, female body inspector?

• 14:37Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 14:40Fortune Feimster?

  I was keeping it classy.

• 14:42Mae Martin?

  You were. I mean, you got gendered sitting right there.

• 14:44Fortune Feimster?

  Sounds very professional.

• 14:46Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 14:46Fortune Feimster?

  And yes, my mom is right here, but she's used to my shenanigans. I will say this, I, um, I can't do it this year, but for the last couple of years, I've done this charity event called Big Slick in Kansas City, um, that, uh, Jason Sudeikis and Paul Rudd and, uh, a bunch of guys put on that are from K- Kansas City. And part of the experience is going to their children's hospital in Kansas City, because that's what they're raising money for. And you're assigned a different hall and you go visit the kids in the hospital. And oh my gosh, is it? Um, heartbreaking. I mean, you're hopeful that like you see where the money's going and that's amazing.

• 15:29Fortune Feimster?

  And I'm so, they raised so much money and it's incredible. But like you visit with these families and just all the stuff they're going through and these, what these kids are going through. That would be a tough, tough profession. So I am, my hat is off to anyone who works in that field.

• 15:46Mae Martin?

  Yeah, that would be, I mean, they're angels that work in that field. Yeah. I feel like I would, I, I mean, I still might, like, I really want to work with, uh, teens with addiction and mental health stuff. Like I want to work with kids in the foster care system and just, just because I saw what it impacts some of those like social workers and stuff had on my life and,

• 16:10Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 16:11Mae Martin?

  and those, and those kids and stuff. I think, I, I think I'd, I, I think I could get through to them. I think I could be like in that, what's that Michelle Pfeiffer movie, you know?

• 16:21Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, um, Dangerous Minds?

• 16:24Mae Martin?

  I feel like everyone would be like, these kids are unreachable, you know? You're gonna get your heart broken if you get your hopes up going in there. And then I go in, I'm like, guess what? Put your books away. We're going in the park, kids.

• 16:34Fortune Feimster?

  You're like Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me.

• 16:37Mae Martin?

  Yeah. And I take them all to the, to the art gallery and I get, I really inspire them and I'm, and then they, they get home. They start painting and then writing stories. Yeah, that's what I want.

• 16:48Fortune Feimster?

  I love it. I think I would just have to work, I think I would love working with like old people, like, you know, in some, physical therapy or something like that, something non-life threatening.

• 17:00Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah, totally.

• 17:01Fortune Feimster?

  Where you just get to hear fun stories from all, and I don't want to see old people in like dire straits either. I just want to like enjoy their stories and them bringing a little happiness to their lives.

• 17:13Mae Martin?

  Yeah, totally. So when, I mean, Tig was saying she's gonna join a retirement home, move to a retirement home.

• 17:20Fortune Feimster?

  I'm gonna help Tig with physical therapy. Or just pick Tig up like a baby.

• 17:27Mae Martin?

  Yeah, seriously. I, I, I forget who it was who picked Tig up and broke a rib.

• 17:32Fortune Feimster?

  A fireman.

• 17:33Mae Martin?

  Fireman, pick, uh, Allison Janney, right?

• 17:36Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, Allison Janney picked Tig up, um, and broke a rib.

• 17:40Mae Martin?

  I really understand the impulse. Like I do kind of want to pick Tig up as well.

• 17:45Fortune Feimster?

  Tig is tiny. At the Oscars, we took a picture together and I look like. Goliath next to Tig. Should we get one more question?

• 17:56Mae Martin?

  Sure.

• 17:57Speaker 05

  Hello, handsoms. This is Rachel over in Alaska. And my question for you is, has anything terrifying happened to you in nature?

• 18:07Fortune Feimster?

  Yes, in Alaska, actually.

• 18:09Mae Martin?

  No way.

• 18:10Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. That's why she's asking, because nature stuff goes down in Alaska.

• 18:16Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 18:16Fortune Feimster?

  You're surrounded by nature. I think I told, I did tell this on the pod. But it was when I went fly fishing in the absolute middle of, in middle of nowhere. Um, in this part of the States is very different than middle of nowhere, Alaska. You are beyond off the grid. And we went, um, fly fishing, you know, basically in a bear's dining room. And our guide, um, forgot to bring proper equipment to save us should any bear. Um, attack happen and he turned ghost white when he realized he had left his, uh.

• 19:01Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, I mean, we don't want to hurt anything, but like, you, you know, if something were to happen. He left all, all that equipment in the van.

• 19:09Mae Martin?

  Um, and did you see a bear?

• 19:11Fortune Feimster?

  By some miracle, I, I mean, we were being watched out for that day because we were trekking through the woods. To, to the stream and you have to yell, hey, bear, hey, bear. Like you have to make a lot of noise so that they stay away.

• 19:25Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 19:25Fortune Feimster?

  Um, and somehow, and we were there, I'm telling you like six hours and somehow, and did not see a single bear. It was by a miracle. And so when we realized, when we got, we were fine all day, like we had the best time. And when we got to the van and saw, because this is a guy who lives there, does this all the time. When we saw his face, we realized how like, what danger we would have been in. He.

• 19:47Mae Martin?

  Oh, my God.

• 19:49Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. And so I was like, so luckily I was not aware of the danger, but in hindsight.

• 19:56Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 19:56Fortune Feimster?

  Um, but it could have been a real mess.

• 20:00Mae Martin?

  Oh my god, I wanna go there so bad, but I would be, I would have bear mace strapped to me.

• 20:06Fortune Feimster?

  Well, you just have to be, if you're going in literally a bear's, you know, you don't, no one wants to hurt any, that's their home. You don't wanna like tread on them at all, but you know, things happen.

• 20:17Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah, they do, girl.

• 20:19Fortune Feimster?

  But Alaska's gorgeous. I, I had um such a great time visiting there.

• 20:26Mae Martin?

  I, the first thing that came to mind was in Stanley Park in Vancouver when I was seventeen. And I had just done a um show and then a group of drag kings were like, do you wanna come with us to do mushrooms? And they must've been in their thirties. Me and, me and my friend went with them to the middle of this park and did mushrooms. And we all got lost in the pitch black and we had to wait for the sun to come up. Like it was so dark, you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. And there were signs everywhere going beware of bears and they really felt like we were in the jungle. And then, so we went, we found like the, where you could look at the sea.

• 21:10Mae Martin?

  And so we just sat there and we waited for it to get a little lighter, but.

• 21:13Fortune Feimster?

  So you could, it wouldn't fall down the mountain?

• 21:15Mae Martin?

  Yeah, but that was spooky.

• 21:17Fortune Feimster?

  That is scary.

• 21:19Mae Martin?

  And then I have a memory of being chased by a bear at camp, but I don't know if I invented the memory, so.

• 21:25Fortune Feimster?

  Ah, so we're not positive about that one?

• 21:28Mae Martin?

  Sure, we're not sure. I have a memory of hiding in this little outhouse because a bear came running at me. And then I was, in my memory, I can hear it, like the revenant going around the, but I don't know. I might, I might have made it all up.

• 21:44Fortune Feimster?

  Hilarious.

• 21:45Mae Martin?

  Let's hear Rachel's answer. I feel like Rachel's gonna have a good story.

• 21:48Fortune Feimster?

  I bet.

• 21:49Speaker 05

  So my answer is yes. Um, I forget that I live on an island full of huge bears. Uh, and every year I go for a meditative hike and I don't make enough noise and I bump into a bear. And so far, uh, it's all been good.

• 22:09Speaker 05

  Uh, yeah. Anyway, I love you all. Um, thank you for the giggles and yeah, bye.

• 22:16Fortune Feimster?

  There you go.

• 22:18Mae Martin?

  Every year she's bumping into a bear. Geez Louise.

• 22:21Fortune Feimster?

  I bet. Um, I was gonna say to Lindsay, I'm gonna be in Toronto, May 8th at Massey Hall. So hopefully Lindsay gets a break from work.

• 22:31Mae Martin?

  So many of my friends are going to see you.

• 22:34Fortune Feimster?

  Aww.

• 22:35Mae Martin?

  I'm at Massey Hall April 4th, so you know, I'm leaving a note for you somewhere secret.

• 22:40Fortune Feimster?

  There you go.

• 22:40Mae Martin?

  I'm gonna find somewhere. Can I? Will you actually look for it?

• 22:44Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, I'll look for it.

• 22:46Mae Martin?

  I mean, you don't sound that.

• 22:47Fortune Feimster?

  No, no. Yes, I know. I think, I just, I was thinking, I hope I remember. You might have to remind me.

• 22:55Mae Martin?

  Okay, yeah, maybe Thomas, can you help?

• 22:59Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, and, and don't forget, May 4th, we have our, um, LA show for Handsome.

• 23:04Mae Martin?

  Yeah, for Netflix is a joke.

• 23:05Fortune Feimster?

  At the Wiltern, so get your tickets for that if you haven't already.

• 23:09Mae Martin?

  That'll be great. And check out maymartin.net. I'm on tour and keep sending us your questions and your advice to speakpipe.com/hansampod.

• 23:18Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, May 15th, Reading, Pennsylvania. That was a new show. And then maybe you'll see me and my mom in Europe.

• 23:24Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 23:25Fortune Feimster?

  Well, what another fun pod.

• 23:28Mae Martin?

  Always a pleasure and a joy and have fun on your visit in North Carolina.

• 23:35Fortune Feimster?

  Thanks, buddy. I'll talk to you soon. Until then, keep it pretty handsome.

• 23:42Mae Martin?

  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.

• 24:04Mae Martin?

  That was a HeadGum Podcast.