Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #102

Episode Date: July 31, 2026

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Hi, it's your friend Tignotaro on a pretty little episode and I'm here with my co-host May Martin Hello, May Martin, what's on your shirt? Oh, Toronto Blue Jays. Oh, yes, yes, of course. I'm a real fair weather fan.

I don't nothing about baseball, but it's a good shirt. It's a great shirt, and my knowledge of them is like from the 90s when Joe Carter was our star batter. I'm stuck there. Joe Carter? What a guy. He was so hot, and we won the World Series 92 and 93. Okay. That's where I stopped.

Yeah. How are you, TIG? I'm doing all right, you know. Just vacationing. You're switched off. Are you off grid? How's being off all social media? Oh, it's dynamic.

Thanks for asking. Yeah, I'm off social media. I think that there's, I mean, my assistant still, you know, posts things, I think, on Facebook for my shows. And there is some chatter about maybe I should have Instagram still where my assistant can post on there too. Right. But you wouldn't have access. Yeah. I don't even to this, like, yeah. But I think I told you, it doesn't even cross my mind. Wow. It doesn't. I thought it was going to be like I'd have this burning curiosity. Yeah. Or a withdrawal period or yeah. I know there are first few days where I had the habit of like, oh, let's see what people are up to.

But now it just doesn't even cross my mind. And I have, I don't carry my phone with me anymore. I just have an Apple watch. And I have such terrible eyesight, as you know, that the text is so small that I oftentimes, if I don't have my glasses on, I don't know what anybody has communicated to me. And then I just go about my life. God, that's nice. Look, if it's super important, it'll get to you, you know. But yeah, to be able to just go, well, I got a text, I guess.

And there's a lot of terribly unimportant stuff that reaches me. Terribly, yeah. Terribly, yeah. It's terribly unimportant. But yeah, I'm just trying to really get, and I think I'm doing it. Like, get very focused. I'm not a perfect person. I do want to always reiterate that.

But you're kind of proud of myself. Yeah. And it's like none of us signed up for this life where we're reachable all the time. Like it just slowly happened that, you know, you can be. And 24 hours a day, people know that you got your phone and you should be responding to them. But we didn't sign up for that. That's not how humans are meant to operate. I know.

I'll sometimes get emails where it's like time sensitive. And it's like, whoa, you're just assuming I checked my email. Yeah. You know? Like truly, it's just like. robotically, time sensitive, we need to hear from you by tomorrow. And I'm like, good God. I know.

I know. Well, you're training your life to slow down to the pace that you want and to streamline. Well, yeah, I just don't want a lot of riffraff coming at me. You know, I want to have the close, important people in my life. I have different relationships with different people. and we maintain them in different ways, whether it says pen pals or we meet in person or we have a dinner regularly or whatever it is. Yeah.

And I just, I don't know, it feels, it feels really good. And again, I always want to mention, I could be TikTok TIG tomorrow. Yeah. But so far, three months in, I'm really digging it, especially making the leap to an Apple Watch. And I have the kind where you don't have to carry your phone with you for the Apple Watch to work. I can just be without my phone. That's great. I think, I mean, I got my brick going.

The thing that you see, you put it on your fridge. And when you tap it, it disables all your social media and stuff. And then to enable them again, you'd have to physically tap your fridge. So if you leave the house or something, you can get your texts and stuff, but that's it. So that actually has been pretty amazing. that is helping. And so how often and when do you decide and walk me through that? Well, now I do it when I'm, if I'm going out for a walk or just going out to do errands, I'll tap. And then every night at 10 p.m. until 7 a.m. They're disabled. And I could tap my fridge and enable them.

But that extra step, I've done it once or twice, but mostly I've been pretty good. Now, why 7 a.m.? Are you up at that hour? Absolutely not. I was going to say it seems a little early for this little cowboy. If I'm at Parv's or you know or Parv's here, then I'm up. I'm having a lovely coffee. I'm chatting. But no, if I'm on my own, I'm nine, nine-ish.

And so you and Parv are having like morning coffee time and connecting and. Yeah, I do. I like the morning. When we went to Idlewild, I got up at 5.30 or something. Wow. Yeah, I went in the sauna at this. little hotel that we were at. So I think I could be a morning person in there somewhere. If I go to bed early enough, that's what it is. When I'm with, par of we're falling asleep early. Because we're

spent, you know what I mean? Is that what it's about? Yeah, that too, I guess. Is she just like an early riser anyway, or is it all about her daughter? She's an early sleeper. So if, but if it's the two of us and she, and almost with her dad, then, yeah, we're in bed, we're in bed pretty early. Oh, so you're in bed early no matter what? Yeah. Okay. But on my own, I go to bed at. Yeah, in the wee hours.

Three. Two, three, it's hell. Yeah. Yeah. It's hell. Yeah. I used to do that and I thought like, oh, this is just my rhythm. Yeah.

But once you shift it, I think. You know what? You were just saying about like you have certain relationships with people and you're trimming the, I really like the relationships. in my life where it's like, like, I have a friend in New York, and it's just sort of every time I'm in New York, which is once a year, maybe twice a year, I'll message him and we'll go for a lunch or go to a museum and we're not keeping in touch in between. But I see him, yeah, every time I'm in New York, or if I'm in London, you know, I like that. Yeah, I mean, like, you know, I was just with Tony when I was

in Aspen. And he wrote me the nicest text about how like, just, how connecting and fun it was to be together and just like having such a different kind of relationship where are we friends? Is it family? Is it, you know what I mean? Just being like, this is just great and we're both so thankful for it. And I don't talk to Tony every day. But when I'm in Colorado, you bet I'm going to see that guy. Yeah. I love that. And it's like no time has passed. And we just sit and talk for days on end. Yeah. And I guess in the olden days, you might get a letter by mail and it might say, I'm going,

traveling by horse and carriage, you know, in November I'll be coming through. You know, I can spend a few days. Yeah. That's how it should be. Yeah. But yeah, I, I, I love all of my, you know, I've got childhood friends that we keep in touch. And, and, but it's impossible with as busy as everyone is to, like, have constant just maintaining every relationship,

especially after you've moved so many times and had a million different jobs and then what we do with all the different cities we go to. It's just my kids have parents. Oh, yeah. And your kids' friends' parents. That's not what I meant. My kids have parents.

They do. It's me and Stephanie. But their friends have parents and all of their sorts. all of their sports teams have parents. It's just like you open another box and another, it never ends. It never ends. And it's great. But yeah, you got to streamline things a little bit is what I'm finding.

Agreed. For my sanity. Well, shall we get to a question and see what? I think we should. That's why we're here. It's like people are tuning in, May. Yeah. I love when people tune in.

Hey, handsome fam. My name is Carson and I'm calling in from Carson City. Nevada. And my question is, I'm an electrician by trade. And I was wondering if y'all had to pick a blue collar trade or profession as your career. I was wondering which one you guys would pick. I appreciate you guys. You guys keep me company out on the solar field out in the middle of the desert and plugging in panels. So yeah, appreciate you guys. Thank you. I love all of these questions. Yeah. They're so good. They're so random. It's like, Who the hell is going to ask me what blue-collar job I want?

And plugging in solar fields out in the desert and then imagining Carson with headphones in, listening to a handsome out there? That's cool. I mean, good old Carson from Carson City. Yeah, seriously. Checking all state first could save you hundreds on car insurance. Not checking the weather conditions before I went on a boat tour with my mom. That could have been planned better. The sun's gone behind some clouds and now we're shivering and,

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Northbrook, Illinois. That's very cool. And I really, the friends of mine I know who learned to trade young, just they set up their lives. Yeah. It's really a smart thing to do. For sure. I would do, well, I would have said painting, but in my 20s I was picking up odd jobs and someone

hired me to paint a school of gymnasium. And I sort of said, yeah, I've done things like that before and hadn't done it. And was so listening to music and just, you know, really in the zone. And then stepping back and looking at it, it was such a mess and like not uniform at all. And I realized what a skill that is. So I would have said, I would have said that, but I wouldn't know. Maybe I would, I'd like to learn carpentry. That would be cool. Oh. That would be so, like the way Nick Offerman does.

Oh my God. Yeah. With his hands, like how meditative and zen would that be? Did I tell you about the painting job I had? No. I feel like I've mentioned it where a friend of mine, she painted commercial sets and she hired me. And I was like, I've never done anything like this. and commercial sets being actual sets that you're on to film a commercial.

And she was like, oh, you don't need to know anything. I'll just, because she had a boss above her. And she was like, I'll just show you what you need to know as you need to know it. And I was like, great. And then one day I came into work. And the big boss guy was like, Tig, mix your colors. And I'm sending you out to Anaheim to paint a Toyota dealership for, commercial and I was like, oh, no. And not only did I mix your colors. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

I needed a certain, uh, yeah, these different paint colors for the, um, God, for the production. I was like, oh my gosh. And so my friend, her name Sharon, she, um, she, she, she was like, don't worry. She mixed my paints for me because the boss guy couldn't know that I didn't know what was happening. Yeah. And, um, so, So Sharon mixes the paints for me. I get in my car and I'm like, oh, my God, I don't know what's happening. And it was at this Toyota dealership where there was like this big round platform that tilts, you know, to show you the different angles of the car. And so I had to paint that circular platform.

I'm just picturing you like, okay, yep. I had one of those paint rollers and I'm painting it. Oh my gosh, did I reveal? I didn't know what I was doing. I'm painting and then I paint myself stuck in the middle of, yes. And so everybody is like, I'm the one that's supposed to know what's going on. You could see everybody looking at me like, what the hell is she doing? And then I'm trapped on that circle. And then I also had to paint the Toyota sign with this texture where you put little, little tiny balls in the paint. So it had like once you paint the sign, it has this texture to it. I was so out of my league of what was supposed to happen. Anyway. Did you get in trouble?

No, I think people were on to me. But anyway, and I did some house painting with friends also. I don't think I'd do that. what I would do, I would like to drive one of those machines that has the big rolling where you just flatten out. I don't know what, you just flatten out the road. Yeah. That seems very relaxing.

Like, all right, everybody out of my way, flat in the road. That does seem really soothing. Yeah, you can ride with me. Your friend Sharon was so confidently like, yeah, it'll be fine. Well, I think Sharon was a little nervous for me, but when I went off on my own, but she thought, we never planned or even considered that the boss guy would just grab me and send me off to Anaheim all by myself. I'm picturing you painting yourself into a little circle like in a Looney Tunes cartoon.

I mean, I was truly like, of course. And I don't know the answer of how to paint the platform. But yeah, I don't know how you do that. Yeah, I was I was like, oh, no. But anyway, that's my answer, Carson from Carson City. And there you go. Steamroller. See you on a steamroller would be pretty good. Steamroller, that's what it's called.

Yeah, of course I need a hat. Yeah. I'm on a steamroller. Should we hear another one? Yeah, let's do it. Hello, handsoms. This is Eva from Berkeley, California, asking a very shallow, not important question.

Love it. Do you have or have you ever had a sartorial pet peeve? Something decidedly not handsome fashion-wise. For example, someone wearing white socks with black shoes or when somebody's slip is showing or wearing mismatching patterns or whatever? Yeah. Yeah. I think the thing that comes up for me right away.

Yeah, what's coming up for you? I was never into the peek-a-boo. What are those things called? Peek-aboo? Like a underwear, like G-string kind of underwear. Yeah, where you can see the G-string and the low-rise jeans? Yeah, I don't want the peek-a-boo. See, I want the peek-a-boo.

No, I don't want the peek-a-boo. Because, you know why? It doesn't feel authentic. It didn't feel authentic to me because it was always kind of worn in this way of like, oops, it's accidentally showing. Yeah, you're right, but it was definitely on purpose hiked up. Everybody was doing it. And I was like, eh, can't get on board with that.

Is that the correct kind of answer to her question? Yeah. Yeah. There's a cornyness to that. It's very Christine Aguilera when she did the song Dirty. Uh-huh. Mine is turtlenecks. I like people's necks.

I want to see people's necks. There's something about a turtleneck that maybe I'm imagining how it feels on me. I hate the feeling. I think I have some sensory things. Yeah, and I don't like a turtleneck. And even on other people. And it's hard in relationships to express that because you don't want to be controlling, like don't wear turtlenecks. Of course, wear them.

But just so, you know, I'd just not around me. They stress me out. Yeah. I also, I like when, I like when women's hair, like I like when it's down. I don't like when there's a lot of like business going on in the hair. What clips and curls in. Yeah, I like to be able to put my hands and, well, I'm talking romantically. Yeah, like a sort of messy down.

I just whatever. I just want to, if I put my hands in there, I just want free head hair. hair. Yeah, you don't want like a ballerina's like jelled tight bun. Yeah, I don't want it like slicked back. I don't want I don't want I just want to be able to get my hands in there. Yeah. No peekaboo ponties. Yeah, peekaboo ponties turtlenecks and no tight buns. No, my gosh, if somebody had a tight bun and peekaboo ponties I would be I'd be moving it along real fast. Oh, my God. But then, having said that, now I'm picturing it.

And there's a version of it, though, it does work for me. The tight bun and the piccuba ponty and a turtleneck. Well, here's the problem. I love a turtleneck. Oh, you do? I do. Like a Diane Keaton or not necessarily. I just mean for myself.

Yeah. I like, you can't have a turtleneck and peekaboo ponties. right? Because if there's a chill in the air, why would your peekaboo ponties, like, you know. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's, why are you being so coy about your neck, but then you're showing your peekaboo ponties.

Yeah. I need authenticity in your hair and in your ponties. Right. Not that a tight bun is inauthentic. No, but, yeah, I know what you're saying. Should we hear what Eva's answer is? Yeah. For me, it would be when someone wears a big t-shirt that goes longer than their two short shorts.

Then you can't even tell if they are wearing shorts. And that is distracting. Are they? Aren't they? But here in Berkeley, fashion-wise, pretty much anything goes. You can wear whatever you want. And I really like that vibe. Thank you.

Thank you. I like that. I do like that in L.A. And say I'm in Toronto, there's a real mix of what people were wearing. And when I went to London, I noticed how many people were wearing black. It was like, I suddenly felt so uncool. Like I had to get black jeans and black winter jacket. Yeah, black turtlene, black, Pekobonties.

To have my hair black, put in a tight bun. Yeah. Well, always, always a pleasure to hear what's a brewing in our listeners' minds. It really is. I love it. It's all over the place. It's all over the map. Yeah, yeah, I like it. Then people from all different parts of the world. I know. Love it. I don't really have anything coming up, but check out my music on Spotify or check out my social media and come and see me in L.A. doing a show.

What about you, Teg? Oh, I'm glad you asked. I'm always a dynasty typewriter in Largo in Los Angeles, just squirreling around on stage. And then out in the world, you can see me in Rochester, Iowa City, Des Moines, Omaha, Oklahoma, City, Cincinnati, Charleston, West Virginia, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Olympia, Washington, Fresno, Napa. Go to tignotaro.com for all updated info. I'm doing minor markets for the most part right now, and I'm going to be adding dates and hitting major markets, and go to speakpipe.com slash handsomepod to submit your questions and advice requests. And until next time, what do you say, May?

We should keep it pretty handsome. Handsome is hosted by me, Fortune Feimster, Tignitaro, and May Martin. The show is produced, recorded, and edited by Thomas Wulet. Email us at handsomepod at gmail.com and follow us on social media at HandsomPod. What a podcast. What a podcast. That was a hate podcast. Gapam podcast. Checking Allstate First could save you hundreds on car insurance. Not checking my

backyard for new critters when I get back from tour. Yeah, like, while I was gone, a raccoon made itself at home in my sauna. Sorry to disturb you, little guy, but I got to get my sauna in. Yeah, checking first is handsome. So check Allstate first for an auto quote. It could save you hundreds. You're in good hands with Allstate. Potential savings varies, subject to terms, conditions, and availability, Allstate North American Insurance Company and affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois.