Pretty Little Episode #109

Mae and Fortune take on injustice, pick a deadly sin, and more on this prideful 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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• 0:01Speaker 00

  This is a HeadGum Podcast.

• 0:19Mae Martin?

  Welcome to the Handsome Pod. If you're feeling pretty, if you're feeling little, this is the place for you.

• 0:26Fortune Feimster?

  It's our pretty little episode.

• 0:28Mae Martin?

  I'm Mae Martin and that voice was?

• 0:30Fortune Feimster?

  Fortune Feimster.

• 0:32Mae Martin?

  Hello.

• 0:32Fortune Feimster?

  What's going on?

• 0:34Mae Martin?

  Hey bud.

• 0:35Fortune Feimster?

  Hi bud.

• 0:36Mae Martin?

  I just ran and put on my tinted sunscreen so that I looked a little more presentable for my bud.

• 0:41Fortune Feimster?

  A little glow?

• 0:43Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 0:43Fortune Feimster?

  And I love it. You look amazing.

• 0:46Mae Martin?

  Oh man, the mornings, you know, I'm not good in the morn.

• 0:50Fortune Feimster?

  I know, it's not your favorite time, but.

• 0:52Mae Martin?

  It is 10:20 a.m.

• 0:54Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, I know, it's not like 8 a.m.

• 0:56Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 0:58Fortune Feimster?

  I just flew into North Carolina.

• 1:00Mae Martin?

  Oh, you did? Okay.

• 1:01Fortune Feimster?

  Late last night, so I'm with Ginger.

• 1:05Mae Martin?

  Oh, you're with Ginger? Of course you are. Yeah, yeah.

• 1:07Fortune Feimster?

  Say hi, say hi mom. Yeah, that's you. You're my mom. Say hi.

• 1:13Speaker 03

  Hi.

• 1:14Mae Martin?

  Hi Ginger.

• 1:15Fortune Feimster?

  Can you hear that?

• 1:16Speaker 03

  You need me to say hi mom?

• 1:18Fortune Feimster?

  Oh no. Anyway, moving on.

• 1:23Fortune Feimster?

  She doesn't always say things on cue.

• 1:27Mae Martin?

  You can't predict the timing bud.

• 1:28Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, we're about to go on a little road trip, she and I.

• 1:32Mae Martin?

  Oh, where are you going?

• 1:33Fortune Feimster?

  I have shows this weekend in Greenville and Wilmington, so she is going to be road tripping with me.

• 1:40Mae Martin?

  Oh, nice. Are you driving?

• 1:42Fortune Feimster?

  I will be driving. She has a laundry list of places she wants to go to, to buy food, to put in her freezer.

• 1:48Mae Martin?

  Oh, great. And is she a good passenger? Like, does she get nervous about your driving or is she?

• 1:55Fortune Feimster?

  No, she does not get nervous about my driving. She's usually feels pretty comfortable. She's not, our family, we're not car sick people.

• 2:06Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 2:06Fortune Feimster?

  Or anxious passengers.

• 2:08Mae Martin?

  That's good. Mine's the opposite.

• 2:11Fortune Feimster?

  She usually just chats or looks at things on her phone.

• 2:15Mae Martin?

  That's nice. If you're in a car with my family, it's, it's my mom, every time there's a bump or any kind of movement, she goes like that and like grips the car. And then you got my brother in the backseat going, I feel sick, I feel nauseous.

• 2:30Fortune Feimster?

  Yes.

• 2:30Mae Martin?

  And my dad going, I can't see the road. It's really, it's explosive.

• 2:36Fortune Feimster?

  And you're not probably the most confident of drivers yet.

• 2:40Mae Martin?

  No, and, and if I feel like I'm being scrutinized, then I'm, I'm worse.

• 2:45Fortune Feimster?

  It's worse, yeah.

• 2:47Mae Martin?

  Cause there are moments when I'm by myself, I think, I'm ace in this.

• 2:50Fortune Feimster?

  I feel like you're just gonna keep getting better though. It's like anything.

• 2:54Mae Martin?

  Thanks. I think I'm a natural bud.

• 2:56Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. I happen to be from the south where you learn to drive at 12 years old in the cemetery.

• 3:03Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah. I think I went in the cemetery with my mom and when I was about 11 or 12, but I hit a, I just nicked a gravestone.

• 3:14Fortune Feimster?

  You're just always snicking something.

• 3:17Mae Martin?

  Nicking something, yeah. So did Ginger teach you to drive?

• 3:21Fortune Feimster?

  No, my grandmother did. But also my grandmother didn't do it willingly. I, we would go down to the cemetery. She would be tending, because old, old southern ladies would tend to plots, you know, like

• 3:35Mae Martin?

  That's so nice.

• 3:36Fortune Feimster?

  Plant flowers and it was sacred to them. So while she was doing that, I'd help a little bit. And then I would get in her car and just start driving.

• 3:46Mae Martin?

  Just book it.

• 3:47Fortune Feimster?

  I just, and so she didn't cause a fuss or anything, but it wasn't like she was in the car with me going, hey, let's do this.

• 3:55Mae Martin?

  Right.

• 3:56Fortune Feimster?

  And can you imagine in this day and age, a 12 year old?

• 4:01Mae Martin?

  Just hitting the gas?

• 4:02Fortune Feimster?

  Drive.

• 4:02Mae Martin?

  No, that's crazy.

• 4:04Fortune Feimster?

  But it was a different time and none of my, none of my family condoned it. I was doing it on my own.

• 4:12Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 4:13Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 4:14Mae Martin?

  On instinct.

• 4:16Fortune Feimster?

  I just loved being behind a wheel.

• 4:18Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah. And what's the longest road trip you've been on?

• 4:22Fortune Feimster?

  Um, I've driven across the, the United States.

• 4:28Mae Martin?

  Really?

• 4:29Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, when I moved from North Carolina to Los Angeles back in the day, 2003. My mom and I actually drove across country together.

• 4:41Mae Martin?

  This is bringing back memes. That was a, yeah, that was an arguing time.

• 4:45Fortune Feimster?

  Um, yes, she had a, a sign in the car because American Idol was humongous. And it said honk if you love Clay Aiken. And that was wildly embarrassing.

• 4:56Mae Martin?

  Oh my God, how have you not mentioned that?

• 4:59Fortune Feimster?

  Well, cause I was living in Spain for the prior year, so I didn't know anything about American Idol.

• 5:05Mae Martin?

  Or Clay Aiken, yeah.

• 5:07Fortune Feimster?

  Because in Spain, their big show was called Operación Triunfo. And that was the show I was watching.

• 5:14Mae Martin?

  And was that like?

• 5:15Fortune Feimster?

  So I come back, she's like.

• 5:16Mae Martin?

  A talent show?

• 5:18Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, it's just, but, but on their show, they put all the singers through training, like everywhere from press training to gym to singing lessons. And you see all the behind the scenes.

• 5:31Mae Martin?

  That's fun.

• 5:32Fortune Feimster?

  And they all lived together.

• 5:33Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 5:34Fortune Feimster?

  Romances started. It was riveting.

• 5:36Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 5:37Fortune Feimster?

  I come back, she's like, it's Clay versus Ruben. And I'm like, who are you talking about?

• 5:44Mae Martin?

  God, Clay.

• 5:45Fortune Feimster?

  So we had this sign. She was obsessed with Clay Aiken. And I had people honking at me all across the country. And I was like, this is too much.

• 5:55Mae Martin?

  I, I always wonder about those honk if you love whatever signs.

• 6:01Fortune Feimster?

  My mom is, sorry. My mom is asking me for fashion advice. I am recording a podcast right now.

• 6:11Fortune Feimster?

  She doesn't care. She, it's cute, mom. You're welcome. Sorry.

• 6:16Mae Martin?

  Oh.

• 6:17Fortune Feimster?

  And you can keep that in.

• 6:19Mae Martin?

  Yeah, keep it in. Keep it in.

• 6:22Fortune Feimster?

  But everything's hunky dory with you?

• 6:25Mae Martin?

  Everything's good. I, last night I did a sexy photo shoot.

• 6:31Fortune Feimster?

  What?

• 6:31Mae Martin?

  At my house, yeah. With Parv, we, we met this painter, this amazing like queer painter, and she paints couples in various situations.

• 6:43Fortune Feimster?

  Uh huh.

• 6:44Mae Martin?

  And like, yeah, not too crazy explicit, but like intimate. And, and I love her work.

• 6:51Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 6:52Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 6:52Fortune Feimster?

  So clothes were on?

• 6:54Mae Martin?

  Uh, actually, my shirt was off and Parv was in some lingerie. It was crazy. I don't know which photo she's gonna choose. She basically, she takes the photos and then paints from the photos.

• 7:08Fortune Feimster?

  Wow, this would be a high demand item.

• 7:11Mae Martin?

  Yeah, Hallie Torres is her name.

• 7:13Fortune Feimster?

  Alright.

• 7:14Mae Martin?

  And she is nude to LA and yeah, paints these incredible things. I'm gonna, I'll send you some of her stuff, but.

• 7:22Fortune Feimster?

  So that I can be painted nude?

• 7:25Mae Martin?

  I would love if all three of us could be painted nude together.

• 7:30Fortune Feimster?

  That would be a hot ticket item too. I would hide, I would try to hide behind y'all.

• 7:34Mae Martin?

  You'd be a demure. You'd be like.

• 7:36Fortune Feimster?

  I'd be demure, holding, holding myself.

• 7:39Mae Martin?

  It was like before she arrived, I was super nervous and I was like, I don't know why we're doing this. And then, and then I had a couple of drinks and I was like, okay.

• 7:47Fortune Feimster?

  Time you up. Taking everything off.

• 7:50Mae Martin?

  Yeah, it got pretty, it was pretty fun.

• 7:52Fortune Feimster?

  A little steamy.

• 7:53Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I think we're exhibitionist a little bit.

• 7:55Fortune Feimster?

  You two are good looking people and you like to, you know, be free with your bodies. And I, I think that's great.

• 8:03Mae Martin?

  Thanks bud. I feel like we're gonna be old one day and I'll, I'll be glad.

• 8:07Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, listen, now's the time to enjoy, enjoy it.

• 8:10Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 8:11Fortune Feimster?

  If I, if I had one of y'all's bodies, I would definitely be naked a lot.

• 8:18Mae Martin?

  I think you gotta be naked.

• 8:19Fortune Feimster?

  I don't wanna be naked now, but I admire those who are of all body types. I admire anyone who's free with, and lets it all out. Good for them.

• 8:32Mae Martin?

  I think we should do our sexy calendar still. I really like that idea.

• 8:37Fortune Feimster?

  We gotta figure that out.

• 8:38Mae Martin?

  Should we get to a question from one of our handsome listeners? See what people wanna know?

• 8:44Fortune Feimster?

  Uh huh.

• 8:45Speaker 04

  Hello handsome squad. This is Claire from Minneapolis, Minnesota, currently attending graduate school in middle of nowhere Iowa. And I wanna know from y'all, my favorite dinner party question, which is a little probing. This question is, if you were one of the seven deadly sins, which would you be? So they are pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, gluttony, and sloth.

• 9:12Mae Martin?

  Oh, man.

• 9:14Fortune Feimster?

  I know mine right away.

• 9:16Mae Martin?

  You do?

• 9:17Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, yeah. Gluttony.

• 9:20Mae Martin?

  You're a hedonist. You like pleasure. You're like.

• 9:24Fortune Feimster?

  I like to indulge.

• 9:25Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 9:26Fortune Feimster?

  Mainly it's in food. Um, my, my, my gluttonous acts are usually based around treats and sweets.

• 9:36Mae Martin?

  Nothing wrong with that.

• 9:37Fortune Feimster?

  But yeah, when I like something, uh.

• 9:40Mae Martin?

  God, I also partake in other things, too. Gluttony is such a, what a crazy word. Um, but yeah, I, okay. Oh, Thomas sent the list of words. Okay. So, yeah. And are you, you're a hedonist. You like, you like, yeah, you like pleasure.

• 9:57Fortune Feimster?

  Wait, that's what a hedonist is?

• 9:59Mae Martin?

  A hedonist is, yeah, someone that like indulges in the.

• 10:03Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 10:03Mae Martin?

  Things, the, yeah. Oh, man, I, I, this is hard. Cause there's, if there's.

• 10:10Fortune Feimster?

  Would you be lust?

• 10:11Mae Martin?

  What I am is ruminate, rumination, but that's not on there, but I'm like.

• 10:16Fortune Feimster?

  I was about to say, I was like, I don't think I heard that word.

• 10:19Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I know. It's not, it's not an option, but that's, it's like I, I'll, I'll seed, like, I'll sit and I can't let go of things.

• 10:26Fortune Feimster?

  You fixate?

• 10:27Mae Martin?

  I fixate, like I'll.

• 10:29Fortune Feimster?

  I fixate a little too sometimes.

• 10:31Mae Martin?

  Do you? Yeah. Like, I'm still annoyed about something someone said when I was like 24, you know, like, I.

• 10:38Fortune Feimster?

  I won't do, I won't fixate long term, but I'm, I'm very, I get very fixated on when some, someone is doing something that is not right.

• 10:51Mae Martin?

  Me to.

• 10:51Fortune Feimster?

  When there's injustice. And I feel like there's a person being bad. I don't know if that's the word.

• 11:00Mae Martin?

  Being unfair, like.

• 11:02Fortune Feimster?

  Unfair.

• 11:03Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 11:03Fortune Feimster?

  And I will ruminate on that and it will, I'll fixate it until finally, like I'll, I'll have a pit in my stomach for like a day and then I'll usually move on.

• 11:14Mae Martin?

  Yeah, that's like, I don't know which of these words is closest to that, cause that's, I think that's my thing too, is like, there are people from my teens and stuff who kind of got away with stuff and I'm still annoyed about it. I would never do anything about it, but I'm still like, those fucking people. And it's not, it's only bothering me. Like, they don't, they, they're just living their lives, but injustice.

• 11:39Fortune Feimster?

  I play the long game. If there's someone that is unfair.

• 11:46Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 11:46Fortune Feimster?

  And not doing something right, I will find a way at some point to make sure that, that justice prevails.

• 11:56Mae Martin?

  I mean, in a way, are, is that why, is that our whole, what drives us? Like, to be successful is like, you know what I mean?

• 12:03Fortune Feimster?

  I don't know.

• 12:04Mae Martin?

  So, so maybe that's wrath.

• 12:06Fortune Feimster?

  And P, and I think that's the cancer to me. I'm very sweet. I'm like pretty amenable for a minute, a long, long time. And then you push me to a certain place.

• 12:18Mae Martin?

  And those pincers come in.

• 12:18Fortune Feimster?

  And I won't necessarily strike back right now, but at some point.

• 12:23Mae Martin?

  Twenty years from now.

• 12:25Fortune Feimster?

  You will see this come to roost. I promise you.

• 12:30Mae Martin?

  I promise you that.

• 12:32Fortune Feimster?

  Look at me. You will rue the day.

• 12:35Mae Martin?

  I think we're finding out actually wrath is our shared trait, but it's, it's a quiet wrath that bubbles.

• 12:42Fortune Feimster?

  Quiet wrath.

• 12:43Mae Martin?

  Quiet wrath. I'm gonna go.

• 12:44Fortune Feimster?

  Look at my eyes.

• 12:46Mae Martin?

  But do you, and you, do you feel that, like, if someone wrongs someone close to you as well?

• 12:52Fortune Feimster?

  Um, yeah, I, I mean.

• 12:55Mae Martin?

  You're like, no, just me.

• 13:03Fortune Feimster?

  It would have to be like a really good, good friend. I'm not gonna do anything, you know, crazy, crazy.

• 13:10Mae Martin?

  If anything, you'll just try.

• 13:12Fortune Feimster?

  I will just do something where justice prevails.

• 13:16Mae Martin?

  I love that. That's it. Should we hear Clara's answer?

• 13:19Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm. I reckon I'd be greed. I really like love items and I really appreciate a beautiful item. So if I see a beautiful dish or a plant or a piece of furniture, I am like, I have to have this immediately. And nothing stands between me and my beautiful items. When I moved, I had to rent a 20 foot U-Haul for my one bedroom apartment, which is technically the size for a three bedroom apartment. So, yeah, I'd be greed. Thank you so much for your pod and I'm interested to hear what you say.

• 13:53Mae Martin?

  You know, I do relate to that too, actually, cause I, once I get into something like, like cameras, I'm into film cameras and I keep buying them. And I don't need them. Yeah.

• 14:04Fortune Feimster?

  I don't have the, the greed thing as much, cause I don't really care about, um, things.

• 14:12Mae Martin?

  No, and you're good with your money.

• 14:14Fortune Feimster?

  I like to make money because I want security. That's, that's what it is.

• 14:18Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 14:19Fortune Feimster?

  It's a, it's a, because I've watched my family, no offense, mom,

• 14:26Fortune Feimster?

  make some bad choices and go from having, you know, a comfortable life to like nothing.

• 14:33Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 14:33Fortune Feimster?

  And so that has motivated me to save and be, and work really hard and be responsible.

• 14:40Mae Martin?

  Yeah. Should we hear another question?

• 14:42Fortune Feimster?

  Uh-huh.

• 14:43Speaker 00

  Hi, handsome pod. I love you all. I've been listening since the beginning. Thanks for all the laughs. My name is Shannon. Uh, my question is inspired by my toddler, who is recently going through a developmental phase where she's suddenly very cautious, or in some cases afraid of things that she wasn't afraid of before. And it's been really interesting to watch her reason through those and really rewarding in some cases to even see her overcome some of those fears. And it's got me thinking, what is something that you were afraid of that you've overcome?

• 15:14Mae Martin?

  Great question. Great question. Driving for me is a big one.

• 15:19Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, a fear that you will overcome.

• 15:22Mae Martin?

  I've overcome driving, yeah.

• 15:24Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 15:24Mae Martin?

  As a fear.

• 15:25Fortune Feimster?

  A fear that we will overcome or have overcome?

• 15:28Mae Martin?

  Come, that you have, okay. Like skiing, I was terrified. I don't think I've overcome that though. I'm still pretty terrified.

• 15:35Fortune Feimster?

  I can't ski. It, I definitely don't want to partake in that at this point.

• 15:40Mae Martin?

  Everyone's out of their goddamn minds if they're skiing. You're flying down.

• 15:45Fortune Feimster?

  You have to learn when you're a kid, or it's tough to like learn that as an adult.

• 15:51Mae Martin?

  Your little legs are gonna snap. You're, you're, you're unprotected. Yeah, no, not for me.

• 15:56Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, it's not for me either. There's, yeah.

• 15:59Mae Martin?

  What, did you have stage fright when you started stand up?

• 16:02Fortune Feimster?

  I did, actually.

• 16:03Mae Martin?

  Same.

• 16:04Fortune Feimster?

  Um, when I was in college, I had, uh, I did a couple of plays and I had terrible stage fright. I was like a deer in headlights. Um, and it was very baffling to me and to others because, um, I was very social and chatty and seemed fearless in life. And then I would step on that stage and it was just like.

• 16:26Mae Martin?

  Would you shake? I'm a shaker.

• 16:29Fortune Feimster?

  I don't know. I don't think I shook. I, I had some crazy fear of like forgetting the lines. To the point where like I would have nightmares about being in a, on stage and not knowing what to say. I don't know what that was about.

• 16:43Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 16:43Fortune Feimster?

  And then, um, when I moved to LA and I started improv and I learned how to like dig myself out of a hole, the stage fright completely went away.

• 16:54Mae Martin?

  Yeah, that's good advice for anyone with stage fright is improv classes, even if you don't wanna be an improviser, they're pretty, it's pretty great for confidence.

• 17:04Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, cause you just learn to trust that your brain will bail you out, that you will think of some, something to say. Even if you don't, the line doesn't come to you, you will make up one. I just kinda got this little toolbox.

• 17:21Mae Martin?

  Oh, my God, I just.

• 17:23Fortune Feimster?

  And there it got so much better.

• 17:25Mae Martin?

  I just had like a physical memory of.

• 17:27Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, really?

• 17:28Mae Martin?

  When I was.

• 17:29Fortune Feimster?

  Of what?

• 17:29Mae Martin?

  14 and they were, they wrote an article in the newspaper about how me and my two friends kept seeing the Second City main stage show. Like, it was like, wow, these freakish kids have seen it like 200 times or something. And then, so the part of the article was they brought us, cause they were like, they wanna be comedians and how adorable. And then they let us do an improv set on the Second City main stage with our heroes. And I, I, I didn't, I couldn't say a word. I couldn't, it was like, it's Christmas morning. They go, what's this, uh? Oh, we open a, open the present. What is it? And I was like, I don't know. I don't, I was like, I don't, I don't know. And they're like, okay, it's a, it's a puppy.

• 18:11Mae Martin?

  And I was like, okay, like I couldn't, I was shaking like this. Oh, God.

• 18:15Fortune Feimster?

  Sometimes you get in that space and it's hard to pull yourself out of it.

• 18:19Mae Martin?

  Yeah, God, I was like I'd forgotten English.

• 18:23Fortune Feimster?

  I had that happen actually as this one time as a stand up.

• 18:27Mae Martin?

  Oh.

• 18:27Fortune Feimster?

  And it terrified me.

• 18:29Mae Martin?

  You just went blank?

• 18:31Fortune Feimster?

  Uh-huh. I was taping my very first late night stand up set for Conan and it was, it was on Conan. And they go, and I knew my set frontwards and backwards, but they said, do you want cue cards? And I said, cause I don't get nervous performing stand up ever. I only get a little nervous when it's being filmed.

• 18:52Mae Martin?

  Me too. I hate when it's being filmed. Yeah.

• 18:54Fortune Feimster?

  And, um, and I said, you know what? Just in, I've never filmed a late night set, so just in case I, my nerves happen, yeah, let's get it, let's get my bullet points on the cue cards. So I start my set and I get my first joke out and it goes good.

• 19:15Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 19:15Fortune Feimster?

  But then something tells me like, let's just glance at the cue card. I'm just gonna glance real quick. And the cue card guy is sitting on the ground and, and the cue cards are on his lap.

• 19:25Mae Martin?

  No.

• 19:26Fortune Feimster?

  And so I freeze, cause again, we're going back to justice.

• 19:33Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 19:34Fortune Feimster?

  My brain goes. That guy's not doing his job. Like, he's supposed to be doing the thing. We talked to, he's not doing it.

• 19:44Mae Martin?

  He's supposed to have your back and he doesn't.

• 19:45Fortune Feimster?

  He's supposed to have my back and he doesn't. So I, all, that's all I'm, my, I'm ruminating all of a sudden about that. So, but in life, I'm going, um, um.

• 19:56Mae Martin?

  Oh, my God.

• 19:57Fortune Feimster?

  For like, it is probably about 10 seconds, but it felt like three minutes. I'm looking at Conan, I'm looking at Andy, I'm looking at the cue card guy. And, and my brain's going, why isn't he doing anything?

• 20:12Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 20:12Fortune Feimster?

  And so then I sort of stumbled back into my set. Somehow I, I am able to pull it out. And I, and, and they, and I get off stage and the booker comes running over and they're like, "Oh, my God, we're so sorry. We forgot to write cue cards for you." The cue, so the cue guy didn't even know.

• 20:37Mae Martin?

  My God.

• 20:38Fortune Feimster?

  That I was supposed to have cue cards and they were so apologetic. And they edited, it wasn't, it was live to an audience, so that was embarrassing. But they edited it so that that was cut.

• 20:51Mae Martin?

  That's so shitty. Your first tapes.

• 20:54Fortune Feimster?

  I've never felt such fear as an adult performer.

• 20:58Mae Martin?

  Yeah, that, those moments, your, your nervous system doesn't know the difference between that and like, you're about to be executed by firing squad. It's like you are staring down the barrel of like, that is pure horror. Your stomach just drops. Oh.

• 21:14Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, man.

• 21:16Mae Martin?

  Should we hear Shannon's answer?

• 21:17Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, let's do it.

• 21:18Speaker 00

  For me, I used to be really afraid of roller coasters as a kid. I always wanted to go on them, but I would try and I would come off the other side crying because I would be so freaked out. And then one summer I went to Disneyland with some friends. I was around 12 and peer pressure got the better of me. And I realized if I just relaxed and let go, that was actually quite fun. And now I love roller coasters. I love thrill rides, so I'm super happy that I faced that fear. Okay, can't wait to hear your answers. Love you.

• 21:48Mae Martin?

  Thanks, Shannon.

• 21:49Fortune Feimster?

  I, I, I don't necessarily love roller coasters myself. And used to be pretty fearful of them, but as an adult, I have sort of forced myself to do them. Yeah. Cause especially like with big groups of friends. So I just sort of give in to the roller coaster.

• 22:08Mae Martin?

  Yeah, but you're not necessarily loving it.

• 22:11Fortune Feimster?

  Flapping around.

• 22:14Fortune Feimster?

  And I, yeah, I'm not, we had, I filmed something where we had to be on a roller coaster and we did it twice. And the whole time I'm just like, holding the person's hand next to me. It's like, oh, God, oh, God.

• 22:27Mae Martin?

  Do you feel like nauseous after and?

• 22:31Fortune Feimster?

  I've, not after, but my stomach drops during.

• 22:34Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 22:35Fortune Feimster?

  It's the, um, I don't mind the dippy do's.

• 22:38Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 22:39Fortune Feimster?

  It's the drops.

• 22:40Mae Martin?

  Same.

• 22:40Fortune Feimster?

  Kill me. The drops kill my stomach.

• 22:43Mae Martin?

  Again, I'll say it again. People are out of their goddamn minds. We're not meant to be doing this to their bodies. I don't mind a roller coaster though. Um, well, thank you so much, uh, for another lovely little, uh, chat, Fortune.

• 22:59Fortune Feimster?

  Well, thank you, my friend. It was lovely indeed.

• 23:02Mae Martin?

  And thanks to everyone who sent in your questions. Keep sending them. Uh, you can submit your question and advice requests to speakpipe.com/hansampod. Um, and we love to hear from you. Uh, what do you got coming up?

• 23:17Fortune Feimster?

  I'm doing a bunch of shows. I just added some in, uh, Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Morganton, North Carolina, San Luis Obispo. And then I have a bunch of shows in like Dayton and Madison and Durham. Um, a bunch of stuff. So yeah, uh, fortunefeamster.com for tickets.

• 23:38Mae Martin?

  I am actually, tomorrow night, September 19th, I'm at UCB with, um, in LA with my friends Matt and Alana doing improv. But you can live stream it from anywhere in the world. And that's, I would love that if people did that. Yeah. Once, I think you get to keep the link for like a week so you can watch it at a later time, but go to the UCB website or my social media. And then yeah, watch us do an hour of weird improv. That would be great. Let me know where you're watching from.

• 24:06Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 24:07Mae Martin?

  And until next time.

• 24:09Fortune Feimster?

  Keep it pretty handsome.

• 24:13Mae 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.

• 24:29Fortune Feimster?

  What a podcast.

• 24:35Fortune Feimster?

  That was a HeadGum Podcast.