Pretty Little Episode #106

Mae and Fortune eavesdrop on therapy sessions and talk about feelings for friends on a healingly hilarious 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.

• 0:19Fortune Feimster?

  Welcome to the Handsome Pods, pretty little episode. I'm Fortune Bemster.

• 0:22Mae Martin?

  I'm Mae Martin.

• 0:24Fortune Feimster?

  I'm Mae Martin, everybody.

• 0:26Mae Martin?

  Hi, guys. Thanks for tuning in again. It's just old me.

• 0:30Fortune Feimster?

  Mae Martin.

• 0:32Mae Martin?

  I wonder if I ever sounded like that as a kid.

• 0:34Fortune Feimster?

  Um.

• 0:35Mae Martin?

  Adenoidal. Yeah. No, I think it was more like.

• 0:39Fortune Feimster?

  I wish I had more videos of me as a kid. I feel like I probably said some funny stuff, but.

• 0:44Mae Martin?

  You would have been hilarious.

• 0:46Fortune Feimster?

  I'm sure. I had my moments, but those, that was kind of like, my early childhood days were sort of pre-everyone having a video camera.

• 0:56Mae Martin?

  I know. These kids, the kids today, they're gonna have hundreds of hours. It is nice, though. Yeah, I only have one video for my, my second birthday and one from my grade four production of Charlie Brown. But other than that, nothing. Yeah. Do you have a lot of pictures, though?

• 1:12Fortune Feimster?

  Um, I, I don't feel like I even have enough pictures either. I feel like a lot of them were printed out and, uh, many of them got lost in the shuffle of moving homes several times.

• 1:24Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 1:25Fortune Feimster?

  I have, I have enough that, you know, we get the gist of.

• 1:29Mae Martin?

  You get the gist of your childhood.

• 1:30Fortune Feimster?

  I was really adorable when I was super young and then went through a super awkward looking phase in junior high and then sort of evened out in high school.

• 1:40Mae Martin?

  Sort of the tale as old as time. I was just, uh, when I was in Italy on my vacation, I was traveling with three kids, two eight-year-olds and one 10-year-old. And I casually was like, oh, guys, we should make like a zombie movie while we're here. And then I, I forgot about it. And like six hours later, they came to me and were like, had planned everything out. They were like, it's gonna be called The Uninvited Three. And, uh, anyway, I, so I really went for it. Like, we did a shot list. We did like cameras up, sound speed. I was like, we really. Yeah. And I now have this horror movie. So that, they have a record of them. It was so, they were so creative. It was great.

• 2:24Mae Martin?

  And also, none of them have ever watched a horror movie or know what a zombie is.

• 2:28Fortune Feimster?

  Right.

• 2:29Mae Martin?

  So there's a musical number.

• 2:31Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, wow. A musical number.

• 2:33Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 2:34Fortune Feimster?

  I like it when kids get very creative like that. My friend's daughter and her friend wrote a play, um, that, that they asked us to sit down for.

• 2:46Fortune Feimster?

  The plot needed some work.

• 2:48Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 2:48Fortune Feimster?

  Uh, but the heart and compassion and dedication was there and that's what matters.

• 2:53Mae Martin?

  That's like my, my dream thing to happen as a kid, getting people together and they, and really earnestly presenting something they've created. And you have to keep a straight face and it's the best.

• 3:07Fortune Feimster?

  I love that. So you went to Italy?

• 3:10Mae Martin?

  I went to Italy.

• 3:11Fortune Feimster?

  And that was fun.

• 3:13Mae Martin?

  It was amazing, but I definitely, I was like, guys, I got the accommodation. I'm gonna find this luxury villa. I was really trying to like impress and show that I was. And so I guess I just Googled luxury villa.

• 3:29Fortune Feimster?

  And it's never luxury, it's never luxury when it refers to itself as luxury.

• 3:35Mae Martin?

  It, and also because it was, it was a website that was like luxuryvilla.com or something.

• 3:39Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, no.

• 3:40Mae Martin?

  So on Airbnb, at least you can see all the reviews. You can see the star rating. And I was going in blind thinking, for this much money, it's gotta be amazing.

• 3:50Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 3:50Mae Martin?

  And it was, yeah, I got fleeced for sure.

• 3:53Fortune Feimster?

  Not good. Was it at least clean?

• 3:56Mae Martin?

  Uh, no, I would say, no. There were no blankets on the beds when we arrived. We'd been traveling for like 24 hours.

• 4:04Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 4:04Mae Martin?

  It was, they hadn't aired it out. It was all like dark and.

• 4:08Fortune Feimster?

  Oof.

• 4:08Mae Martin?

  One of the kids, the first thing she said was like, it doesn't look like the pictures.

• 4:13Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, no.

• 4:14Mae Martin?

  But we made it work. I mean, it was a great, it was a great place. It just wasn't, I did get ripped off of it.

• 4:20Fortune Feimster?

  Right. You spent way too much money for what it was.

• 4:22Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 4:23Fortune Feimster?

  No one's rented that luxury villa in a while.

• 4:26Mae Martin?

  No. I mean, the, like, the water went out for four days, like.

• 4:30Fortune Feimster?

  Four days?

• 4:31Mae Martin?

  And, and then we'd get it, there was like a reserve water switch and it would come back on for an hour and then it was.

• 4:37Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, my gosh.

• 4:39Mae Martin?

  I'm getting some money back for sure.

• 4:40Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. It'd be one thing if it was like a day, but four days is wild.

• 4:46Mae Martin?

  On and off for four days and the pool turned green from algae for three or four days. So.

• 4:52Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, dude.

• 4:54Mae Martin?

  I know. And they said, well, that's definitely from people wearing sunscreen on their skin in the pool, but.

• 4:59Fortune Feimster?

  Okay.

• 5:00Mae Martin?

  They should have warned us, right?

• 5:02Fortune Feimster?

  I mean, I feel like.

• 5:04Mae Martin?

  Dark, it turned green.

• 5:06Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. Did they get it fixed?

• 5:08Mae Martin?

  Yeah. But then it had to be sterilized for 48 hours. We couldn't go in it.

• 5:13Fortune Feimster?

  And no one could use it for two days. Oh, my God.

• 5:17Mae Martin?

  There's three little kids that just wanna jump in that pool, but.

• 5:19Fortune Feimster?

  This is so, uh, yeah, that sounds like something that would happen to me.

• 5:24Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah. I felt, it was so embarrassing because I was really like, hey, I'm getting the accommodation, you know, because I really wanna splash out. I never go on vacation and switch off like that.

• 5:35Fortune Feimster?

  I get very nervous when I'm put in charge of the, I don't mind paying at all, but I hate being the sole responsible person for the accommodation because something always goes wrong somewhere.

• 5:49Mae Martin?

  Always.

• 5:50Fortune Feimster?

  And, and then if you're the one that picked the place, everyone's looking at you like, you did this.

• 5:55Mae Martin?

  I'm on a WhatsApp thread with the Italian house manager, just like trying to get it sorted. Yeah.

• 6:01Fortune Feimster?

  No, I want, I want, if there's a group situation or you're traveling with someone else, I want them weighing in so that we've both decided this is the place.

• 6:11Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 6:11Fortune Feimster?

  And then I'll pay. But I do not like being the one that's like, I'm gonna pick the place.

• 6:18Mae Martin?

  I know. I really pulled the trigger too fast and I should have at least consulted a few people, but ultimately it was good, but.

• 6:26Fortune Feimster?

  Listen, lesson learned. You're making the most of it. I don't think it was that great from what you're telling me. I just think you're being very positive.

• 6:35Mae Martin?

  It was a good part of the, the lore of the trip, though. Like, we could laugh about it.

• 6:39Fortune Feimster?

  Well, definitely makes for some stories, right? Especially on this pod.

• 6:44Mae Martin?

  Traveling with two Survivor winners. I was like, you guys have slept on the beach for months, like.

• 6:49Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, you guys are like, you're like, this is great, right?

• 6:52Mae Martin?

  Yeah, this is luxury, right? It's not, it's not the beach.

• 6:56Fortune Feimster?

  At least you're not starving.

• 6:58Mae Martin?

  Yeah, sleeping in a cave with bats shitting on you.

• 7:00Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. Well, next time, next time you'll get the, the place that matches its picture.

• 7:07Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 7:08Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, just do something where you can read the reviews.

• 7:10Mae Martin?

  Yeah, of course.

• 7:12Fortune Feimster?

  I always read the reviews because there, there'll be a couple of people in there that tell you what's up.

• 7:17Mae Martin?

  Yes. And, and.

• 7:19Fortune Feimster?

  You can't go with one person because then you're like, you might just be hard to please.

• 7:23Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 7:23Fortune Feimster?

  But if two or three people say, you're like, okay.

• 7:26Mae Martin?

  Yes. I even didn't Google like what part of the island of Sardinia to go to. So we were in sort of the wrong part. I thought it was a small island. It's massive.

• 7:37Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, really?

• 7:38Mae Martin?

  There's two airports. So we were really, we were in a.

• 7:41Fortune Feimster?

  You definitely did no research.

• 7:43Mae Martin?

  No research. But we did, we found amazing. I, I know, I know. And then like day one, I'll stop talking in a minute, but day one, we were looking for, um, a restaurant and on the map, I could see there's like 12 restaurants on the beach. And so we walked down and we're going in every restaurant and it's like an Indian restaurant and then a Chinese restaurant and they're all buffets. I'm like, this is weird. Where's like, where's like the Italian like beach grill?

• 8:09Fortune Feimster?

  The local, yeah.

• 8:10Mae Martin?

  Finally, we find an Italian place that seats us and, and it's also a buffet, which is weird. And we sit down and load up our plates and then a guy comes over and is like, you can't be here. This is a resort. And it turns out it's all like a monster resort and on the whole beach. And then our villa is just outside the resort.

• 8:31Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, my gosh. What did you do?

• 8:34Mae Martin?

  Well, we said, okay, what would you have us do? We were like, we've got food on our plates. Like, we're, we're happy to pay for the meal.

• 8:41Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 8:42Mae Martin?

  The kids were eating like a few chicken nuggets and some plain noodles. Like, and he charged us a hundred euros per person. So.

• 8:49Fortune Feimster?

  What?

• 8:50Mae Martin?

  The whole, I know.

• 8:52Fortune Feimster?

  Dude, you're.

• 8:53Mae Martin?

  It was crazy. And then we left. And we went to walk back to the beach and the door was locked. Like, there was a gate and we were like, hey, we gotta get out to, and they were like, no, sorry. We're like, are you locking us in the resort? It was crazy.

• 9:08Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, my God.

• 9:08Mae Martin?

  Eventually they let us out, but.

• 9:10Fortune Feimster?

  Comedy of errors here.

• 9:12Mae Martin?

  I know. The first two days I was just a wreck of anxiety, but then we really found our groove.

• 9:18Fortune Feimster?

  Okay, good.

• 9:19Mae Martin?

  Great adventures. Yeah.

• 9:21Fortune Feimster?

  Good, good. Well, that makes me happy.

• 9:24Mae Martin?

  Yeah. And Parvati's good because she just laughs. She, Parv just cackled at everything the whole time.

• 9:29Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, that's good. You wanna be with somebody that can, you know, make the most of any situation.

• 9:34Mae Martin?

  Totally. Yeah, let's hear some questions.

• 9:36Fortune Feimster?

  All right.

• 9:37Mae Martin?

  Let's do it.

• 9:38Speaker 03

  Hey, Handsome Pod. My name is Ivy and I'm a Seattle-based therapist. My question for you is, if you could be a fly on the wall for anyone's therapy session. Could be a friend, a famous person or a pet, who would it be and why? Obviously, there's some ethics for this question. You kind of have to ignore them, but I wanna hear your answers.

• 10:02Fortune Feimster?

  That client, uh, therapist privilege.

• 10:07Mae Martin?

  Oh, that is really a great question. That's really good.

• 10:16Mae Martin?

  I mean, is it weird that I'd be kind of interested in Tiggs?

• 10:20Fortune Feimster?

  Tiggs would be, Tiggs would be good.

• 10:23Mae Martin?

  Tig would be really, like, I'm imagining her being pretty dry with the therapist, like,

• 10:28Fortune Feimster?

  Right.

• 10:29Mae Martin?

  Really holding her.

• 10:30Fortune Feimster?

  Trying to crack a few jokes in the beginning.

• 10:33Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 10:34Fortune Feimster?

  And then just laying it all out.

• 10:36Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 10:37Fortune Feimster?

  I mean, they said dogs, I mean, if we're entering into this world in which a dog can talk and go to a therapist, and I'm obviously gonna wanna hear Biggie's therapy session.

• 10:51Mae Martin?

  I want to as well.

• 10:52Fortune Feimster?

  Cause A, I wanna hear what his voice sounds like.

• 10:54Mae Martin?

  Do you have an idea?

• 10:56Fortune Feimster?

  I never was able to pin down his voice.

• 10:59Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 10:59Fortune Feimster?

  Cause you know, some, some animals, you can tell right away.

• 11:03Mae Martin?

  Yes.

• 11:04Fortune Feimster?

  He's a little bit more of an enigma, so that's why I'd be so curious. And then I would like to know, is he just in there being like, I have the best life, my feet barely, barely touch the ground, I have all the food I could ever want, I'm well groomed, or would he be like, I'm being smothered to death?

• 11:23Mae Martin?

  Right.

• 11:24Fortune Feimster?

  From the, the love of these two people, um, get me out of here, let me explore some other dogs butts and go to a dog park every now and then.

• 11:34Mae Martin?

  Well, he's never known anything different. I feel like in the, like, almost like kids who just are given everything, he might find things to nitpick on and you're like,

• 11:45Fortune Feimster?

  Maybe.

• 11:46Mae Martin?

  No, I think he'd be deeply satisfied.

• 11:49Fortune Feimster?

  But also, he was found on the street.

• 11:52Mae Martin?

  Oh shit, yeah.

• 11:53Fortune Feimster?

  Um, and he was around three. I, I imagine he was not on the street very long, um, because he's so cute. He was found with another dog, uh, and I would like to know, I would like for him to unload what happened during that time.

• 12:10Mae Martin?

  Yeah, who was the other dog?

• 12:12Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah. Where did he come from? He wasn't chipped, he wasn't neutered?

• 12:17Mae Martin?

  Whoa.

• 12:17Fortune Feimster?

  What was his situation?

• 12:19Mae Martin?

  That is interesting.

• 12:21Fortune Feimster?

  So yeah, I want, I need Biggie to, to lay it all out for this therapist.

• 12:25Mae Martin?

  Oh, that's a really good answer, yeah. I'm gonna, I guess I'll stick with Tig because I can't think of anyone, but other than that, um, yeah, maybe my brother, that would be, that would be cool. Any, anyone, yeah, yeah. Let's hear Ivy's answer.

• 12:41Speaker 03

  To answer my own question, I would love to listen in on Biggie's therapy session.

• 12:47Fortune Feimster?

  Ayy.

• 12:48Speaker 03

  I'm imagining he would have some complaints about not being fed human food, and I'm also wondering what his self-concept is. Like, does he know that he's a dog? Does he think he's the provider of the house? Does he think he's a person? Um, and I also wanna know what it's like having fortune as a mommy.

• 13:05Fortune Feimster?

  Oh.

• 13:06Speaker 03

  Thanks for answering, and I'm so glad each of you exists. Thank you for the pod. You've gotten me through some tough times. Keep it handsome.

• 13:13Fortune Feimster?

  That's sweet.

• 13:14Mae Martin?

  Thanks Ivy.

• 13:15Fortune Feimster?

  I haven't seen, I haven't seen him in a very long time. I hope he's good.

• 13:20Mae Martin?

  I hope he's good. I think he'd bring that up in therapy for sure.

• 13:25Fortune Feimster?

  I think he might as well.

• 13:26Mae Martin?

  I think he'd have a few complaints, but I, he's, I, I love the question of, does he know he's a dog? I, I'm not sure about that.

• 13:33Fortune Feimster?

  I don't think that he knows, I really don't.

• 13:35Mae Martin?

  No.

• 13:36Fortune Feimster?

  He definitely thinks he's bigger than he is.

• 13:39Mae Martin?

  Really? Like he'll?

• 13:40Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, he has no fear. He'll go right up to a big dog and just like, rah rah rah.

• 13:44Mae Martin?

  Really?

• 13:45Fortune Feimster?

  Oh yeah, it's, it's so terrifying. I like, we'd run over and grab him.

• 13:51Mae Martin?

  I once had a, a couples' therapy session years ago with, and the therapist had a big, um, Irish wolfhound dog in the, there, she hadn't told us in advance, and it was like one of those giant dogs, like the size of a horse, that was just in the room with us. It was like a fourth person, it was so big. It was really unsettling, actually.

• 14:13Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, really?

• 14:14Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 14:15Fortune Feimster?

  Well, yeah, probably distracting.

• 14:17Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 14:17Fortune Feimster?

  I did bring Biggie to a couple therapy appointments with me.

• 14:21Mae Martin?

  Did you? Yeah, good.

• 14:23Fortune Feimster?

  Back in, you know, last year, I was like, do you care if my dog's with me? And then she was like, no, please.

• 14:30Mae Martin?

  It's a support animal, yeah.

• 14:32Fortune Feimster?

  That's right.

• 14:33Mae Martin?

  Um, let's hear another one.

• 14:35Speaker 04

  Hey guys, uh, my name's Izzy. I am calling for some relationship advice. I just recently went through a breakup with a long-term partner. Uh, we were married and she broke up with me in kind of a fucked up way, but it's kinda all good now. That just so recently happened, and I have made the mistake of drunkenly confessing feelings or something to my best friend who's been with me 24/7 and has been there for me super, super deeply and emotionally. And I need advice on how to keep our relationship from, uh, feeling awkward off of that because

• 15:18Speaker 04

  we have such an awesome relationship and, uh, neither of us are in any position to be in any kind of relationship at all in that kind of way. And being best friends is so important, but, oh, I said some crazy, crazy stuff and I, how, how do I like, keep it not awkward or talk about it in a normal way?

• 15:42Fortune Feimster?

  Oh man.

• 15:43Speaker 04

  Thank you guys, I know you're coming clutch.

• 15:45Mae Martin?

  Oh man.

• 15:48Fortune Feimster?

  Wow, that's like soap opera.

• 15:51Mae Martin?

  I wanna know what the crazy, crazy stuff was.

• 15:54Fortune Feimster?

  Well, I think you have to, if you're, if you're not in a place to be in that situation right now, or either of you, maybe you just have to be like, sorry, you know, I'm just in a sensitive place, is a state right now where I'm just kind of feeling everything, so I don't, I, I mean, if it's, you know, your good friend and they'll understand. And if that's meant to transpire in a better time, I think it will.

• 16:22Mae Martin?

  Yeah, I think so too. Uh, but I think for now, you, you have to totally take it off the table so that they, you guys can get, like, I think you gotta lay it all out.

• 16:32Fortune Feimster?

  Not have that, like, elephant in the room.

• 16:34Mae Martin?

  You gotta say exactly what you said to us, just go, I was, that was crazy. Just be like, I, I was probably projecting, I just got out of this thing, and I would hate to lose our friendship. And then maybe hang out in a group a couple of times.

• 16:50Fortune Feimster?

  Right.

• 16:51Mae Martin?

  You know, get back in the swing of the friendship, but that is, oof, that is tough. But it's better than texting your ex when you're drunk.

• 16:59Fortune Feimster?

  True, I, which is where I think, I thought it was going at first. So, cause it sounds like you're already kind of moving on past that, which is, I guess, good, right?

• 17:10Mae Martin?

  There's nothing like a crush to, to help you move on, so.

• 17:14Fortune Feimster?

  Right.

• 17:15Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 17:15Fortune Feimster?

  So yeah, maybe it was like a nice distraction for a minute, and then now you can just be like, oh, wasn't that so silly?

• 17:24Mae Martin?

  That was crazy.

• 17:25Fortune Feimster?

  That was crazy.

• 17:27Mae Martin?

  Yeah, it wouldn't be crazy if that actually happened, or?

• 17:31Fortune Feimster?

  And then if, you know, like I said, if that's something that's meant to evolve in time, you know, there will be a time and place for that.

• 17:39Mae Martin?

  Yeah, and all the more motivation to get yourself back on your feet and in a place where you could date someone. Um, but yeah, I think for now, you gotta just be super, um, brave and blunt and just bring, like, address it. Just be like,

• 17:55Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 17:56Mae Martin?

  I am so sorry about that, you know?

• 17:58Fortune Feimster?

  Right.

• 17:59Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 17:59Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, so there's not like this weird push-pull kinda thing, and

• 18:03Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 18:03Fortune Feimster?

  Also maybe confide in multiple people, not just one.

• 18:07Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 18:09Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, have some other outlets.

• 18:11Mae Martin?

  Don't beat yourself up, very human, very normal.

• 18:14Fortune Feimster?

  That's right.

• 18:15Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 18:15Fortune Feimster?

  Keep it handsome, Izzy.

• 18:17Mae Martin?

  Keep it handsome, and maybe you were picking up on some vibes, I don't know.

• 18:21Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, that is true, we don't know.

• 18:24Mae Martin?

  Yeah. Do we have time for one more?

• 18:26Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, I think so.

• 18:28Mae Martin?

  Let's do it.

• 18:29Speaker 00

  Hi guys, my name is Danielle. Um, I'm from Nashville, Tennessee. Um, I know you guys love Nashville and we love you. We do. Um, I listen to you guys all the time and just want you to know that we are really good friends. Um, we laugh, we cry, we have so much fun together. So, thank you guys for what you do. Um, so my question is about comedy. Um, I work for a nonprofit animal rescue and, uh, we do a lot of, you know, sad stories, you know, there's some good ones in there too, but I really want us to incorporate some comedy into our social media posts. Um, so if you guys had a rescue,

• 19:11Speaker 00

  what would you do to spice things up? Um, we're foster-based, we're small, and we're really working towards.

• 19:18Speaker 00

  Building followers and getting our adoption center. So if you'd like to shout out the rescue, it is called Rare Rescue. If not, you can bleep this out. Let me know any creative ideas you might have for us to boost our followers and make people laugh and engage.

• 19:37Fortune Feimster?

  What if we were like, we are not mentioning the name of this place that's rescuing animals?

• 19:43Mae Martin?

  Yeah, we bleeped it out.

• 19:47Mae Martin?

  What a cool thing to do.

• 19:49Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 19:50Mae Martin?

  My, the first thing that popped into my head was if you, let's say you've got a, yeah, a dog. And you film it sort of going about its business, but you record a voiceover of its inner monologue, maybe?

• 20:01Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, like that.

• 20:02Mae Martin?

  Maybe having it talk about-

• 20:04Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, doing some funny voiceovers.

• 20:07Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 20:08Fortune Feimster?

  Various animals.

• 20:10Mae Martin?

  Yeah, almost as if the animals are, are talking about their dream adopters, maybe.

• 20:16Fortune Feimster?

  Or also going TikTok, there's a lot of people that post their pets and they're really funny. I get down these rabbit holes all the time with funny animal stuff. I think, listen, I'm not gonna lie, seeing an animal pet in a costume, always a treat.

• 20:33Mae Martin?

  That's your little hat, if they don't mind.

• 20:35Fortune Feimster?

  And they could play like Shania Twain in the background, like bam bam.

• 20:41Fortune Feimster?

  Let's go, girls.

• 20:42Mae Martin?

  That's true.

• 20:43Fortune Feimster?

  Dogs, like a little Chihuahua in a cowboy hat. I mean, already-

• 20:48Mae Martin?

  That's a winner already. I saw a thing that was, you can buy for your cat and it goes sort of over their shoulders and it makes it look like they've got big human arms. So they walk around, it looks like they got like, it's really good.

• 21:04Fortune Feimster?

  You could put some cats, there's little tiger faces you could put around them. There's also TikTok challenges where you're like, there's like audio that's on the TikTok where it involves an animal, you know what I'm saying?

• 21:19Mae Martin?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 21:20Fortune Feimster?

  Where they're like, maybe the animal's just like doing something funny or making a funny face and there's that audio playing over it.

• 21:26Mae Martin?

  Right, right.

• 21:28Fortune Feimster?

  TikTok and, and Instagram are the places that people go to for, to look at animals. And I do think social media does help people spread the word about adoption with animals.

• 21:43Mae Martin?

  But I will say too, sometimes a tearjerker, that's, that gets people too. Like I love seeing-

• 21:49Fortune Feimster?

  Sarah McLachlan action.

• 21:51Mae Martin?

  Oh, that was so bleak all through school. But when, you know, when you see them with all their matted fur and you see the before and after, I think it's-

• 22:01Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, yeah.

• 22:01Mae Martin?

  As long as you see the after-

• 22:03Fortune Feimster?

  A feel-good story.

• 22:04Mae Martin?

  A feel-good story, yeah. That's always good.

• 22:07Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, you could have a feel-good Friday.

• 22:10Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 22:11Fortune Feimster?

  Post, post someone, a dog getting adopted and them like running to their new owner. Feel-good Friday, I love it already.

• 22:19Mae Martin?

  That's good.

• 22:20Fortune Feimster?

  And you post the new adoptions every week.

• 22:24Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 22:25Fortune Feimster?

  And then people go, oh my God, I want that. But I don't know, I feel like, Danielle, I feel like we're giving you some gold here.

• 22:33Mae Martin?

  Gold. I mean, you could even, you know Homeward Bound, remember that movie?

• 22:38Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, yeah.

• 22:39Mae Martin?

  They didn't even move their mouths, right? They just had voices. Their mouths didn't-

• 22:43Fortune Feimster?

  I don't remember, yeah.

• 22:44Mae Martin?

  Move. It was real animals, but they just had like, you could do a whole story. You could do like an Elizabethan lesbian romance between-

• 22:52Fortune Feimster?

  Oh, okay.

• 22:53Mae Martin?

  Two Chihuahuas or something.

• 22:55Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, listen, I think we're, I think we were off to a good start here. Start with these and then let those inspire other content, because certain animals might start to become popular. And then it'll lead to a feel-good Friday because they've been adopted.

• 23:13Mae Martin?

  Yeah, or they get signed with an agent.

• 23:17Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah, they might get-

• 23:18Mae Martin?

  They might become huge stars.

• 23:22Fortune Feimster?

  I think, yeah, just utilizing the, the socials of it all to help get these animals a home. But thank you for what you're doing.

• 23:31Mae Martin?

  Yeah, Rare Rescue in Nashville.

• 23:33Fortune Feimster?

  To facilitate that, yeah.

• 23:34Mae Martin?

  Next time we're in Nashville, we should go pet some animals.

• 23:37Fortune Feimster?

  That's right. We already had cats show up at our kittens at our show in LA for the ASPCA.

• 23:43Mae Martin?

  That was so good.

• 23:44Fortune Feimster?

  That was cute.

• 23:46Mae Martin?

  Well, another very pretty little episode.

• 23:48Fortune Feimster?

  That's right. Loved it.

• 23:50Mae Martin?

  Loved it. As always, keep sending in your questions or if you need any advice in your life, speakpipe.com/handsomepod.

• 24:02Mae Martin?

  We love to hear from you.

• 24:03Fortune Feimster?

  Yeah.

• 24:04Mae Martin?

  You've got stuff coming up. Fortune, you're on tour.

• 24:06Fortune Feimster?

  Um, yeah, tonight I'm in Greenville, South Carolina, then tomorrow night in Wilmington, North Carolina. Boise's coming up, Portland, Oregon, Austin, Chattanooga, Dayton and Louisville, so a bunch of shows.

• 24:19Mae Martin?

  I like how you say Louisville.

• 24:21Fortune Feimster?

  Louisville.

• 24:22Mae Martin?

  Yeah.

• 24:22Fortune Feimster?

  That's right. Durham, Madison, Wisconsin, I'm all over it.

• 24:27Mae Martin?

  And check out maymartin.net, I think, for, for, or just social media for any shows I'm doing. I'm sure there'll be some.

• 24:39Fortune Feimster?

  That's right.

• 24:40Mae Martin?

  It sounds bleak, but I'm working on new stuff.

• 24:43Fortune Feimster?

  Love it.

• 24:44Mae Martin?

  Yeah. And until next time-

• 24:47Fortune Feimster?

  Keep it-

• 24:49Mae 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.

• 25:08Mae Martin?

  What a podcast, what a podcast, what a podcast!

• 25:14Mae Martin?

  That was a HeadGum Podcast.