Pretty Little Episode #112

Mae and Fortune give a nod to Chicago and Dirty Dancing as they pick their dream Handsome choreo on today's Pretty Little Episode! 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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• 0:01Fortune Feimster?

  This is a HeadGum Podcast.

• 0:16Mae Martin?

  Pretty little episode. Welcome to the Handsome Pod. It's a pretty little episode. It's me, Fortune Feimster, and me, Mae Martin. I just had a little coughing fit there.

• 0:27Fortune Feimster?

  I was about to say you were choking, so I decided to go on in there with the introduction.

• 0:31Mae Martin?

  Thank you for that, my friend.

• 0:33Fortune Feimster?

  You're welcome.

• 0:34Mae Martin?

  Always got my back.

• 0:35Fortune Feimster?

  That's right.

• 0:36Mae Martin?

  I have a hard time, you know, drinking water and breathing at the same time.

• 0:42Fortune Feimster?

  It's complicated, you know?

• 0:43Mae Martin?

  It's complicated.

• 0:44Fortune Feimster?

  You never know how hard it is to breathe until you can't.

• 0:47Mae Martin?

  Have you ever had a coughing fit onstage?

• 0:50Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, I sure have. I was in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and I had just eaten a charcuterie board pre-show.

• 1:00Mae Martin?

  This is all very on point.

• 1:02Fortune Feimster?

  And about midway through the show, I started coughing, and then I coughed, and then all of a sudden I coughed real big, and a piece of cheese flew out of my mouth.

• 1:14Mae Martin?

  Oh my lord.

• 1:15Fortune Feimster?

  Onto the floor, and I went, "Oh!"

• 1:17Mae Martin?

  Did you guys see that?

• 1:19Fortune Feimster?

  And they were like, "Yeah."

• 1:21Mae Martin?

  Oh my god, they probably thought it was part of your lung.

• 1:24Fortune Feimster?

  I know, like, that was disgusting. I mean, it was just a piece of cheese, just lodged in there.

• 1:30Mae Martin?

  Oh.

• 1:30Fortune Feimster?

  So yeah, sometimes it happens.

• 1:32Mae Martin?

  You had cheese in your pocket?

• 1:34Fortune Feimster?

  I had cheese in my pocket.

• 1:35Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I had a coughing fit. I flew to Australia to do the festivals, and I must have caught, like, pneumonia on the plane.

• 1:43Fortune Feimster?

  Oof.

• 1:44Mae Martin?

  I have never been that sick, and then I coughed in a televised, like, when you have a five-minute set at a gala, and just started coughing. And then when I had to speak again, my voice was like a little frog. And then, so they, in the edit, they cut the coughing out, but halfway through my set, my voice just becomes like, "Anyway, guys."

• 2:05Fortune Feimster?

  Oh my gosh.

• 2:06Mae Martin?

  It was bad.

• 2:08Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 2:09Mae Martin?

  That might have been the trip where I met you.

• 2:11Fortune Feimster?

  It might have been, yeah. It was back in, like, 2016 or something.

• 2:16Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 2:17Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 2:18Mae Martin?

  I was on a mad tear during that time. Yeah, I was, like, single and at the festival with pneumonia.

• 2:24Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, you were singling and mingling.

• 2:26Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 2:27Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 2:28Mae Martin?

  How are you, bud?

• 2:29Fortune Feimster?

  I'm good. I'm currently in Florida right now, doing some shows. My tour is at the tail end. I pulled into the hotel, and in one of the parking spaces was a huge iguana.

• 2:44Mae Martin?

  No.

• 2:44Fortune Feimster?

  And I was like, "I'm definitely in Florida."

• 2:47Mae Martin?

  Okay, should we Google what that means spiritually?

• 2:50Fortune Feimster?

  Well, I mean, they're everywhere here, just so you know. Did you know that when it gets cold here, iguanas fall out of the tree?

• 2:58Mae Martin?

  No, they just freeze?

• 2:59Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, they like, it freezes them, and they fall out of the trees.

• 3:05Mae Martin?

  Wow.

• 3:06Fortune Feimster?

  It's a thing. And there's a lot of iguanas here.

• 3:09Mae Martin?

  Yeah, and they're big, right?

• 3:11Fortune Feimster?

  They're very big. I mean, there are small ones too, but these are ginormous. Now, on my way here, my mom called me, and she was reminiscing about her love of Florida from when she was in her childhood. They used to come here. And then we were about to hang up, and she goes, "Oh, I have to remind you that Florida is full of alligators. Wherever there's water, there's an alligator. If you're sitting by a pretty chair with water near, there's an alligator."

• 3:45Mae Martin?

  Oh my god.

• 3:46Fortune Feimster?

  And then she proceeds to tell me this horrifying story of this woman in an old folks' community by the, that had a lake, and you can imagine, it didn't end well because it involved an alligator. And I was like...

• 3:59Mae Martin?

  She got gobbled down?

• 4:00Fortune Feimster?

  Yes, trying to save her dog. And I was like, "Why are you calling to tell me this?" She goes, "They can even be in the pools, so..."

• 4:08Mae Martin?

  Oh my god. Check your hotel swimming pool.

• 4:11Fortune Feimster?

  I was just like, "Did you call just to terrify me about bodies of water in Florida?"

• 4:18Mae Martin?

  But she'd be so pissed if you did get eaten by an alligator and she hadn't...

• 4:22Fortune Feimster?

  I told her.

• 4:23Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 4:23Fortune Feimster?

  That's right.

• 4:25Mae Martin?

  They are scary as hell. They're dinos.

• 4:27Fortune Feimster?

  They're, yeah, they're, um, she was telling me how fast they are.

• 4:31Mae Martin?

  Oh god, yeah. There's some urban legend about a person who gets dragged underwater by an alligator and then there's, into like, an underwater cave where there's all the bodies, but that must be fake.

• 4:47Fortune Feimster?

  I have no clue, but I'm definitely not going to walk by any water.

• 4:53Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 4:54Fortune Feimster?

  Um, I can promise you that. I don't want to let her down.

• 4:57Mae Martin?

  If you're doing some bench sitting, just make sure you're in an urban place.

• 5:01Fortune Feimster?

  I know. I'm not going to have any, not even a puddle near me.

• 5:06Mae Martin?

  Hey, um, you know how we had our nicknames were LLC, Anxious Slot, and Easy Tig?

• 5:12Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 5:12Mae Martin?

  Um, somebody online said that you should be Business Bitch.

• 5:19Fortune Feimster?

  I like that.

• 5:20Mae Martin?

  I like it. Business bitch, like Peanut Butter Rich is good.

• 5:23Fortune Feimster?

  Business bitch. It's so fun when I see people wearing the Peanut Butter Bitch shirts out at my shows.

• 5:28Mae Martin?

  Have you seen that? That's great.

• 5:30Fortune Feimster?

  Love it. Just a little Peanut Butter Bitch out in the wild.

• 5:35Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I've been eating a lot of peanut butter recently, actually.

• 5:38Fortune Feimster?

  Me too. Well, not a lot, but I was at my hotel in Durham. They randomly had a little two-ounce thing of peanut butter in the minibar, and I bought it.

• 5:48Mae Martin?

  Why doesn't every hotel do that?

• 5:50Fortune Feimster?

  I know. It's like artisan peanut butter.

• 5:53Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 5:53Fortune Feimster?

  It was only like, six bucks, which, you know, for a minibar, I felt was pretty reasonable.

• 5:59Mae Martin?

  Not bad.

• 6:00Fortune Feimster?

  So I was like, "I'm taking this little Peanut Butter Bitch with me. I'm going to pay for this."

• 6:05Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 6:06Fortune Feimster?

  So I did.

• 6:07Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I don't, I don't want like, a peanut butter power bar, peanut butter granola bar. I want, I want the butter.

• 6:13Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 6:14Mae Martin?

  I want that creamy, um, ambrosia.

• 6:19Fortune Feimster?

  Creamy, crunchy goodness.

• 6:20Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 6:21Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 6:22Mae Martin?

  Well, uh, I'm, I've been watching Survivor. What have I been doing? Um, painting, painting a picture of Parvati's mom.

• 6:33Fortune Feimster?

  All right.

• 6:33Mae Martin?

  You know, you gotta do what you gotta do.

• 6:35Fortune Feimster?

  How did Parvati's mom become your subject?

• 6:38Mae Martin?

  There's this beautiful photo of her. So her and Parv's dad went on a cruise, and they, they bought nice clothes before they went because they knew that they'd have, like, a date night on the cruise. And so I guess he snapped this photo of her in their little cabin on the cruise, and she's just like flipping her hair, and she's got a glass of champagne, and it looks like, it's just such a beautiful photo, and there's so much, like, joy in it. My new thing is I'm only painting, I'm pausing on the emotional animal paintings. I'm painting moments that I would want to live in, like, nice moments from life.

• 7:12Fortune Feimster?

  Nice moments. So hot mom alert, huh?

• 7:15Mae Martin?

  Listen, not hot mom alert.

• 7:16Fortune Feimster?

  Hot mom alert would sound like...

• 7:18Mae Martin?

  Just to me.

• 7:20Mae Martin?

  Now, I'm going to, but I'm going to paint her, I'm going to paint her dad next. Yeah.

• 7:24Fortune Feimster?

  All right.

• 7:25Mae Martin?

  I just like a good photo that has movement to it and feeling, you know?

• 7:30Fortune Feimster?

  I'd like to see these paintings when they're done.

• 7:33Mae Martin?

  I gotta do one for you.

• 7:34Fortune Feimster?

  Especially since it's a hot mom.

• 7:36Mae Martin?

  I know you love a hot mom. I should paint your hot mom. I should do a ginger painting, actually.

• 7:41Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, she would love that.

• 7:42Mae Martin?

  If you have a photo of her that you really love, I would love to do that.

• 7:46Fortune Feimster?

  I will, I will look to see what I have. I'm sure I have something.

• 7:49Mae Martin?

  I respond well to, like, a task. Like, give me an assignment.

• 7:54Fortune Feimster?

  I'll, I'll look for an older picture. Right now, she's, she wouldn't want a picture painted of her because she has a big old black eye.

• 8:00Mae Martin?

  Oh, right. Fuckin' hell, yeah.

• 8:02Fortune Feimster?

  She's face-planted and just landed right on the old eyeball. Ugh.

• 8:08Mae Martin?

  God, I'm glad it wasn't her nose.

• 8:10Fortune Feimster?

  I know. I'm, I'm, my dad fell, like, two years ago and broke his nose, so, you know, parents getting older, man. It's, uh...

• 8:17Mae Martin?

  Parents fall.

• 8:18Fortune Feimster?

  It ain't no joke.

• 8:19Mae Martin?

  It's not, it ain't no joke.

• 8:21Fortune Feimster?

  The falling is something I used, I remember with my grandmother, but you kind of forget about it, because my grandmother's passed long since. And now that we're entering this phase, I'm like, "Oh, yeah, like, staying on their feet is not easy."

• 8:35Mae Martin?

  Yeah, which is wild. There should be more, yeah, like, when does that happen, that you just get unbalanced? But there should be more, um, like, my, I have a trainer in Toronto who I worked with when I was making Wayward, and his specialty is working with older people on balance.

• 8:50Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 8:50Mae Martin?

  And like, strengthening their, their legs and their core.

• 8:53Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. We had someone come in today, uh, that's going to meet with her once a week to keep working on the balance, so that'll be good.

• 9:03Mae Martin?

  That's great.

• 9:03Fortune Feimster?

  Go and get one of those Life Alerts, one of those, "I've fallen and I can't get up."

• 9:09Mae Martin?

  Where did that phrase enter public consciousness?

• 9:12Fortune Feimster?

  That was a commercial for Life Alert.

• 9:14Mae Martin?

  No way.

• 9:15Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, yeah. It was an old woman falling and going, "I've fallen and I can't get up."

• 9:20Mae Martin?

  And we all just mocked her? We all, like, because...

• 9:23Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 9:24Mae Martin?

  I knew that phrase.

• 9:25Fortune Feimster?

  We're cruel, a cruel society.

• 9:28Mae Martin?

  Like, pre-internet, when things would just get around. I guess I knew, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up."

• 9:33Fortune Feimster?

  I gotta find her one of those systems. I don't know which one to get.

• 9:38Mae Martin?

  I bet there's great ones now.

• 9:39Fortune Feimster?

  I need something where if she falls, she can press that button, because she also can't, she actually can't get up, so she was in a pickle for a while and nobody knew.

• 9:51Mae Martin?

  Oh, I hate that.

• 9:52Fortune Feimster?

  I know.

• 9:52Mae Martin?

  What about, um, cameras? Like, putting some cameras up?

• 9:56Fortune Feimster?

  Maybe. I don't know. We'll see.

• 9:59Mae Martin?

  If you don't hear from her, you can just check in or like, spy on her and then freak her out, text her.

• 10:10Mae Martin?

  Checking Allstate first could save you hundreds on car insurance. Not checking that I get enough pizza for everyone before calling in an order? Mama mia, I did my pizza math wrong and now we're completely out of pies, but not completely full.

• 10:22Tig Notaro?

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• 10:40Mae Martin?

  Well, should we get to some questions? Yes, please, let's do it.

• 10:44Speaker 03

  Hey, handsome pod, my name's Lena and I'm from the San Francisco Bay area. I'm a big fan, love listening to you all, especially at the end of the day as part of my wind down routine. My question is, if you had to pick one iconic dance choreography to learn and replicate, what would you choose? It could like be from a movie, a music video, a Broadway musical, whatever.

• 11:10Mae Martin?

  Oh, that's good.

• 11:12Fortune Feimster?

  You know, it's funny, every time I watch TikTok, cause there will be some sort of dance that comes in and out, like very popular and everyone does it and it feeds it up to you over and over again. And, and every time I watch those things, I was like, I could do that.

• 11:30Mae Martin?

  Yeah, you could.

• 11:30Fortune Feimster?

  I know I could. Some of them maybe, but they're, some are very intricate and I'm always like, I could easily do that.

• 11:39Mae Martin?

  Would you ever do Dancing with the Stars?

• 11:41Fortune Feimster?

  I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so.

• 11:46Mae Martin?

  You've got more moves than Tig or I. Like Tig on the dance floor, we know, just like sort of claps and bobs.

• 11:54Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, snaps and claps and bobs.

• 11:57Mae Martin?

  You can tear it up.

• 11:58Fortune Feimster?

  It looks, I mean, Nikki Glaser did it and said it was so hard.

• 12:03Mae Martin?

  Really?

• 12:04Fortune Feimster?

  So yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I have that in me.

• 12:08Mae Martin?

  Okay, the first dance that came to mind for me was Saturday Night Fever. John Travolta and his dance partner. I like a seventies disco. He was so good.

• 12:22Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 12:23Mae Martin?

  Yeah, so I think maybe that. I mean, obviously Dirty Dancing.

• 12:27Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, you want to do the, do you want to be the one lifted or the one lift, lifting?

• 12:33Mae Martin?

  I'd like to.

• 12:34Fortune Feimster?

  You know what I'm talking about?

• 12:35Mae Martin?

  Be lifted.

• 12:36Fortune Feimster?

  You want to be lifted?

• 12:37Mae Martin?

  Yeah, well Brett Goldstein and I did a live show that we would always end with a dance and he would lie on his back and kind of Superman me, like lift me. And it felt good.

• 12:48Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, alright.

• 12:49Mae Martin?

  Felt like a little princess.

• 12:51Fortune Feimster?

  Well, that last dance they do is iconic.

• 12:54Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 12:54Fortune Feimster?

  You know, they're all in a, in a triangle. He's at the front. They're dancing towards a baby. And they're doing a little look back and look forward, a little dip.

• 13:04Mae Martin?

  Yeah, that's good.

• 13:06Fortune Feimster?

  And then she's like, and she's like.

• 13:09Mae Martin?

  Go to YouTube, Fortune just did it, the look back and the.

• 13:13Fortune Feimster?

  Look back and then this and then.

• 13:14Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 13:15Fortune Feimster?

  Do the little dip down and then she's, does this and then he's like, ready for her and then she runs and. I've had the time of my life.

• 13:27Mae Martin?

  Okay, well, we got a challenge for the Holly Bob's show then. We got to start practicing some kind of dance.

• 13:32Fortune Feimster?

  Somebody teaches that dance?

• 13:34Mae Martin?

  Anything, I, it's all I want is to have.

• 13:37Fortune Feimster?

  That's an iconic dance for sure. I wouldn't mind learning that one.

• 13:42Mae Martin?

  Imagine if you just had like four months with no work and your only assignment was to like.

• 13:49Fortune Feimster?

  Learn one dance?

• 13:50Mae Martin?

  Self betterment, like, yeah, you have the time and the space to be like, okay, three days a week, I'm, I'm learning this dance with this instructor.

• 13:58Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, okay, be pretty good at that dance if you had all that time for it.

• 14:03Mae Martin?

  Anyone can do anything, that's what I'm learning.

• 14:06Fortune Feimster?

  I would be up for learning that dance. I also wouldn't mind nailing Beyonce's All the Single Ladies.

• 14:13Mae Martin?

  Oh, yeah.

• 14:13Fortune Feimster?

  I know I'm about, what, 12 years behind on that one?

• 14:16Mae Martin?

  No, but it's never, it's, it's evergreen, yeah. It's that, that.

• 14:22Fortune Feimster?

  I learned the little, you know, arm thing.

• 14:27Fortune Feimster?

  And then the hand, you know.

• 14:30Mae Martin?

  And we know, like, I've always wanted to do a Magic Mike thing to, to pony.

• 14:36Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, yeah.

• 14:37Mae Martin?

  I keep talking about it and then have nothing to deliver. So that, yeah.

• 14:41Fortune Feimster?

  That would be a good one.

• 14:42Mae Martin?

  What Lena has to say? Maybe she has ideas.

• 14:45Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 14:46Speaker 03

  So I actually did this when I turned 50. I was feeling this pull to get back into dancing and music, partly after my dad passed away. I'd always loved Dirty Dancing, that final dance, since first seeing them, that movie in, in high school. And so I decided I was going to learn the whole thing. I hired a ballroom dance instructor. I spent so long working on it and wow, it was tons and tons of fun. Lots of joy, lots of fun, but it was so much harder than it looks. Okay, thanks and keep up the great work.

• 15:23Mae Martin?

  She's like, just so you know, it's going to be very hard. I know, and she was, she said she was getting back into dancing, so she already had a foundation.

• 15:32Fortune Feimster?

  Well, that one might be tough. I know Tig's not going to be able to learn that one, no offense to Tig.

• 15:38Mae Martin?

  What about, um, in Chicago, the, he had it coming.

• 15:42Fortune Feimster?

  That's a, um, the, the, um, one that's, uh.

• 15:47Mae Martin?

  Cicero.

• 15:49Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, yeah.

• 15:52Fortune Feimster?

  And all that jazz.

• 15:54Mae Martin?

  Okay, let's learn that.

• 15:59Mae Martin?

  Can we put that on the list, Thomas? It might already be on there, it's ringing a bell.

• 16:02Fortune Feimster?

  That jazz.

• 16:06Mae Martin?

  Yes.

• 16:07Fortune Feimster?

  That's a good one too, a little Bob Fosse, a little.

• 16:11Mae Martin?

  I mean, I'm like, since I saw Rocky Horror on Broadway, I'm feeling so inspired to, I'm like, let's put on a charity show and we, and we do a musical, like we all. I just want to.

• 16:22Fortune Feimster?

  Get out there and dance. I actually think Tig might be able to learn, um, All That Jazz before the Time of My Life song.

• 16:31Mae Martin?

  Uh, yeah, definitely, yeah. Oh wait, Thomas says it's already on the list.

• 16:35Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's from Bob the Drag Queen. The episode, we decided to learn a dance from Chicago.

• 16:40Fortune Feimster?

  Maybe that, maybe we need to learn that for the Holly Bob's show.

• 16:44Mae Martin?

  At least we're consistent, at least these themes keep coming up.

• 16:49Fortune Feimster?

  And she's, Tig's, one of us has to have a jazz dancer friend.

• 16:55Mae Martin?

  Yeah, right?

• 16:56Fortune Feimster?

  I, I don't personally, but maybe.

• 16:58Mae Martin?

  I just hiccuped when I said right, by the way, sorry.

• 16:59Fortune Feimster?

  Tig knows somebody. Tig knew the tap dancer in Austin.

• 17:04Mae Martin?

  I'm going to put the word out there, I think I do know someone, a choreographer.

• 17:08Fortune Feimster?

  You know, and you get that little hat, you do a little.

• 17:11Mae Martin?

  Oh, hell yeah.

• 17:12Fortune Feimster?

  I would love it. And then you even do this little thing with your.

• 17:15Mae Martin?

  Yeah, you do.

• 17:17Fortune Feimster?

  It's all these little intricacies.

• 17:20Mae Martin?

  But the first, you gotta have rhythm, you gotta have the rhythm of life and that's what I'm worried about. I don't know if I have it, but I know I must, I must, somewhere in me. I simply must.

• 17:30Fortune Feimster?

  Well, that I really want to have happen now at the Holly Bob's.

• 17:33Mae Martin?

  I'm, I'm, I'm with you, I'll help organize that.

• 17:36Fortune Feimster?

  Okay.

• 17:38Mae Martin?

  Yes, let's get another question.

• 17:40Fortune Feimster?

  Yes, indeed.

• 17:42Speaker 05

  Hi Fortune, May and Tig, my name is Danielle and I'm recording in Rochester, New York, where I moved two years ago, but I'm originally from Toronto.

• 17:50Mae Martin?

  Hey.

• 17:51Speaker 05

  I've been a fan from the beginning and recommend you to all my friends. My question for you is, if you were a nurse, what sort of specialty would you like to work in? There's cardiology, dermatology, mental health, labor and delivery, ER nursing, OR nursing, and there's many more. Feel free to choose one that I didn't think of.

• 18:12Mae Martin?

  Oh, that's terrifying, the thought of that.

• 18:16Fortune Feimster?

  Never thought about being a nurse, cause I know I would be a terrible nurse.

• 18:20Mae Martin?

  Would you faint at, at blood?

• 18:23Fortune Feimster?

  It's just so hard, I mean, hospitals are so tough, you know?

• 18:27Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 18:28Fortune Feimster?

  Uh, I, I went to the, visit the Children's Hospital with the charity event I do big, um, that I sometimes go to called Big Slick in Kansas City. And we go to the, to visit the kids and, oh my, it's so rewarding and amazing, but I, you just look at these nurses and you're like, how do they do this?

• 18:48Mae Martin?

  They're angels, yeah.

• 18:50Fortune Feimster?

  Such bad shape sometimes and that, that one would be very, a very difficult, uh, field in nursing, in my opinion.

• 18:59Mae Martin?

  Yeah, my good friend was an ER nurse, like during the pandemic and stuff and I was like, you, they're, it's crazy. They should be getting paid more than anyone.

• 19:09Fortune Feimster?

  I, I had a ER doctor, uh, come up to me in Louisville. Um, and he was like, I just want to tell you, I was, uh, listening to your comedy during the pandemic and I'm an ER doctor and it helped get me through. And I was, he's like, I want to buy you a drink. I'm like, no, like, thank you, like.

• 19:31Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah, seriously.

• 19:32Fortune Feimster?

  Doing the, the stuff, oh my God.

• 19:36Mae Martin?

  Wow.

• 19:37Fortune Feimster?

  I just couldn't believe it, like, um.

• 19:40Mae Martin?

  Yeah, those are heroes, for sure.

• 19:42Fortune Feimster?

  I think I would go with, um.

• 19:46Mae Martin?

  Mental health, I guess, because I think I'm too squeamish for anything else. Yeah, I think I'd find that interesting, but man, intense.

• 19:58Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, you know, my dad, my dad had open heart surgery a couple of years ago. So it would have been the cardiology. Um, man, those, those nurses were pretty incredible. Uh, he, he ended up on a ventilator for three days. And, you know, when he came out of it, his nurse was just like, I was praying for him every day. And you just like, you know, forget like there is just as invested in, in people's wellbeing. And yeah, getting them, them better, that's gotta take a toll. But I felt that was, uh, it just gave me such a new appreciation for nurses seeing like how much she cared about my dad and him getting better.

• 20:43Fortune Feimster?

  And, you know, she was coming in and out, trying to make him comfortable. And, uh, it just, man, it meant, it meant a lot. So, um, cardiology could be interesting. I mean, but you know, I have to say the, the, the birth, uh, the birthing of the babies, that'd be pretty cool.

• 21:00Mae Martin?

  Pretty cool. Yeah. That's, yeah, I don't think we should be in any operating room. Like what if you did, what if you had a coughing fit and a piece of cheese came out?

• 21:10Fortune Feimster?

  I know. A piece of cheese going right up someone's hoo-ha.

• 21:13Mae Martin?

  Yeah, no, I, but I-

• 21:14Fortune Feimster?

  As I'm there to catch the baby.

• 21:16Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I think that's fine.

• 21:18Fortune Feimster?

  Catch them.

• 21:19Mae Martin?

  Yeah, you just catch them. They pop right out.

• 21:23Mae Martin?

  You catch it like-

• 21:23Fortune Feimster?

  You pull them out. I mean, obviously, listen, I know there's a lot that can, can and does go wrong in childbirth as well. It's not all rainbows and butterflies over there. Um, but, uh, seeing the, the cute little babies that, that are born.

• 21:38Mae Martin?

  Yeah, that'd be nice.

• 21:39Fortune Feimster?

  Real, a real treat.

• 21:40Mae Martin?

  Although they're pretty grotesque. When they first come out, they all look like little shriveled up old men.

• 21:45Fortune Feimster?

  Slimy things.

• 21:47Mae Martin?

  Yeah, they're cute though.

• 21:49Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 21:49Mae Martin?

  Uh, let's hear what Danielle has to say.

• 21:51Speaker 05

  My answer is that I actually am a nurse and I work in urology. That's right, urology to do with the urinary tract system and male reproduction. Not to be confused with neurology, which is the brain.

• 22:04Mae Martin?

  That's right.

• 22:05Speaker 05

  I know that Fortune did not choose urology because I do have to touch wieners all day long. But seriously, at the end of the day, for me, it's about the working conditions and the team. I am happy at my current workplace because I am treated well and I have great coworkers. Thanks so much for airing my question. You are the best. The only pod that has me laughing out loud alone, driving in my car.

• 22:25Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, thanks, Danielle. I have to touch wieners all day long. Yeah, girl, you keep, you do that. I'll let you do that.

• 22:32Mae Martin?

  I hope she, I hope she calls it, calls them wieners to her patients. And she's like, okay, and just pop your wiener on the table.

• 22:38Fortune Feimster?

  Pop your wiener out. I can't just call them anything else but wieners. It's just what they are to me. Well, we appreciate you, uh, Daniella. It's, uh, really cool. You keep those wieners in good health.

• 22:51Mae Martin?

  Yes. Um, please do. Um, what do you got coming up? I'm, I only have, um, a couple of things on this Sunday, October 11th. I'm doing a show at UCB with Atlanta Johnston and Matt Foley. We're just doing improv. And, um, you can get live stream tickets. Please do. That is so helpful to us. Uh, and watch it from anywhere in the world and the link is up for a week. Uh, and then November 12th, I'm at Largo doing a music show, which is going to be very cool.

• 23:20Fortune Feimster?

  I have a ton of, uh, California shows, uh, coming up from Oakland to Bakersfield, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo. I'd love people to come to my Los Angeles show, November 7th, Palm Springs, and then I just added Greeley, Colorado in mid-November. So check that out and, uh, get your tickets for our Holly Bob show.

• 23:38Mae Martin?

  Yes.

• 23:39Fortune Feimster?

  December 12th at Dynasty Typewriter live stream. We're, we're putting it out early this year because we want people to have a runway to make a night of it if they want to have a handsome Holly Bob party. Um, and we're excited for that. If you have any, uh, questions or advice that you'd like to ask us, go to speakpipe.com/hansampod.

• 24:00Mae Martin?

  Yes, please keep sending your questions and we love you and-

• 24:04Fortune Feimster?

  Next time, keep it.

• 24:06Mae Martin?

  Keep it.

• 24:06Fortune Feimster?

  Pretty handsome.

• 24:07Mae Martin?

  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.

• 24:24Mae Martin?

  What a podcast.

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• 24:50Mae Martin?

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