Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #86

Episode Date: April 10, 2026

Tig and Fortune muse about a modern-day Lilith Fair music festival and catch up on each other's spring plans on a Pretty Little Episode that will make you feel renewed! Don't forget to get tickets to our May 4 Live Show in LA!Handsome is hosted by Tig Notaro, Mae Martin, and Fortune FeimsterSubmit your questions to speakpipe.com/handsomepodFollow us on social media @handsomepodMerch at handsomepod.comWatch Handsome on YouTubeThis is a Headgum podcast. Follow Headgum on Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok. Advertise on Handsome via 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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Welcome to the Pretty Little Episode. It's me, Fortune Feinster. And Tizai. Tignotaro. your handsome host today. Yeah, we're doing a little tiny, mini, pretty little episode. Little tiny mini, pretty little episode. I love that song, by the way.

Well, I give you the good stuff, my friend. You sure do. You sure do. I give it right to you and your pooter-cooter. Oh, good times. right in your pooter-cooter you know what I'm talking about heard you the first time but you know what I mean

I don't putter cooter what do you mean I know what you mean what is that mean no I don't you know you should not speak to your elder like that you're not that much older than me I'm a decade older no like I think you're like eight years older how old are you 45 I'm 55

Oh, okay. Then, yeah, you're a decade older than me. Why aren't you listening to me when I say, I'm double nickels? I can move into a retirement. I forgot. I forgot you reached your free senior drink age. I was 10. I was already around a decade. And then you were like, me. I'm born. Me. It's me, baby fortune. Baby fortune. I was really cute as a baby, too. God, let's talk about it. That's where I peaked. You peaked as a newborn. I peaked at five. That was my, those were my years. I beg to differ. I don't know. You get, you get more and more adorable as the days go on, my dear. Me?

Yes, little tiny baby fortune. Little tiny baby fortune. Does that mean we don't really have much to talk about when you're turning every sentence into a song? Probably. Yeah. No, we have plenty to talk about. You do first girl.

For example. Do you not? how life has been? Yes, life has been. Just to recap, I lost the Oscar. Star Trek was canceled, and I turned 55. Wow. That was in a week.

What a week. I was about to say a month, but I didn't know it was all in one week. It was a week. But that's not to say that those are bad things. No, I will say it was really cool to see your big gaggle. of lesbians together at the Oscars. Lesbian Avengers is what we call ourselves. Even though I was also there as part of a different thing.

Different gaggle. A different gaggle. It felt like cool to see so many, yeah, I don't know how it's to say it. Just lesbians at the Oscars. Yeah, it was a good time. And, you know, as Glennon said, would she'd much rather lose with all of us than win with anyone else. So I think that was the general feeling.

Really, though? Do you know, she could win an Oscar? No, she chose to lose with us. But it would not, it would be a different group of people. Yeah. She don't want that. That's right. None of us do.

We're doing this together and we're not doing it at all. Yeah. No, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, fun. It's got to be kind of, I don't know what the word even is for Meg having like had this whirlwind. I mean, basically since Andrea died, this has all been a busy time, right? Yeah, very busy. And went straight into like promoting the movie and like flying and then all the award season. That would be kind of jarring to then suddenly just be done, right? Well, we're done with that, but we have a couple of other things that we're working on.

Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's good. Yes. It's some exciting, fun things that the documentary has taken us in these directions that I can't talk about yet, but we'll be announced soon. but I think it's going to keep Meg busy and creative and being able to still celebrate Andrea.

That's great. Yeah. Yeah. And like I said, my week of turning 55 and not winning an Oscar and having the Starfleet Academy canceled, there is positivity to all of it. Yeah. You know, like turning 55 and feeling healthy and lucky that I am alive and thriving

and hanging up my space suit and opening the door to other possibilities is exciting. Yeah. I've been in the Star Trek universe for almost a decade. I was what I say. Yeah, that's, I think it'll be good. I think, you know, as much as it's always a bummer to have something. And I think for you personally, it's good to be moving into something else. Yeah.

And look, losing an Oscar is, it goes back to, it's an honor to be nominated. And what a fun ride that was. So I just present it like I had a massive downfall in a week, but it was actually, it's all completely fine. Yeah. And I'm excited about what is coming in life, you know? Mm-hmm. How are you feeling about life?

I'm feeling good. You know, I was so focused on work for six months. Yeah. Where I was filming constantly. So it actually came at like the perfect time because it provided a really nice distraction from my own personal situation. Yeah. Which, you know, I had had the time where I dealt with things.

Not to say you deal with and it's done, but I had had many, many months of sitting in my own stuff. Yeah. That I was ready to pivot into something else. For sure. And I was really grateful that it just became oral. I mean, I had no time for anything. Yeah. Beyond what I was doing.

And I'm coming out of that now just kind of feeling renewed. Like I definitely feel like I'm heading into a new chapter of my life. And some of those old doors are closing soon. And yeah, I'm just sort of focused on just sort of being. you know, trying to enjoy life and find balance and I feel good. That's great. Yeah. I'm getting started on spring break right now.

We got two weeks with our Cubs. And I'm just thrilled that I'm able to be home for it. And we're not traveling, you know, just so we can be with fluff. And so we've planned, we all hung out and organized day trips and activities in Los Angeles. and so we're going to take L.A. like we're, you know, the rest of the world that comes out here to visit and vacation. Yeah, it's, Max and Finn are always kind of up for whatever it is. That's great. Yeah. So I'm just thrilled that I'm home for this.

Yeah. Yeah, it's been really nice. After spring break is done, you'll have to give us the update of how it went. We want all the hot goss, all the deets. Yeah, all the details of our museums and vegan outings. We're trying different restaurants. Yeah. But I'm excited for your new chapter because it feels similar to what I, I mean, different, of course, but similar in that like, what's coming?

Yeah. What is it? Let's see it. Yeah. Let's see what life is going to reveal. That's right. I'm excited to just get on this new path. Mm-hmm.

The fun of not knowing. Like, what is it? Because you can turn a corner today or a year from now and a whole different world opens up. Yeah. So I've been a lot of people listening can relate to that as well. Mm-hmm. But because we're here together,

should we get into some questions and see maybe these questions will open some doors or close some doors for us. They could. Yeah. Hi, this is Katie Walker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And I was watching the documentary Lilif Fair on Netflix and just like seething with jealousy because it looks like such a cool freaking thing to be able to experience at that time. So it got me thinking, if you were to make your own Lilith Fair Festival today, what artist which you choose and why.

Love that question. And I really want to see that documentary. Yeah. In fact, I wanted to make that documentary and said that to Stephanie, and she said, it was just made. So close. Yeah.

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Yeah, checking first is smart, so check Allstate first for a quote that 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. have any uh i i feel like i know a few who would be on your list um well you know i'm natalie maines is one of my dear friends but she was she did they did a little fair i saw them there so um i we talk about that sometimes about the modern version of that you and natalie do yeah i mean they would definitely be in there i think got to with along with

Brandy Carlisle would seem to be like the person that would be or if anyone's going to organize something like this it feels like a brandy yeah Alanis you know my gal Alanis yeah you're a dear friend she'll probably want me to come up on stage and sing with her yeah she'll probably want me to not that will always be part of handsome lore Let's see. Kelly Clarkson obviously has to be a part of it. Obby, obvious, obie. I mean, I would say Beyonce, but she's not, she's doing her own thing.

She's not going to do that. She didn't have time for us. She has time for that. She's amazing. That's Lilith unfair. Oh, Janelle Monet. I love her. I feel like she'd be really fun and a Lilith fair.

Mm-hmm. She has all those fun outfits, too. She's such a good entertainer. I mean, if Dolly could show up and, you know, she's also not going to show up for the whole thing, but, you know, a few select cities. We'd really love Dolly. In a few select cities. In few select cities, yeah. Uh-huh.

Who else am I forgetting? Who else, T? Well, this is your dream setup. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I don't, I can't. We'll hear about your dream set up in a minute. Yes, well. I mean, Celine again, too busy.

Celine Dion at Lilifair. You know I love Celine. I mean, I have a Lilith Fair with Celine and Babs. And share. A divas version of Lilith Fair. Oh, my God. No, Celine's not going to do that. This is more like folk music, right?

This is like, this is more like. This is your Lilith Fair. You do what you want, girl. I never got to go to Lilith Fair. I wish I had. You're too little? Yeah, I was, it just was, like, I don't even think it was on my radar to look for tickets. I didn't really look for, like, when I was in high school, we didn't really go to concerts very much.

I lived at them. Yeah. I don't know. That feels like a good start. That feels like a lot. What about you? And you're locked, okay? I mean, you might say something that might make me remember somebody else.

Locked. Of course, the Indigo Girls. For me, yeah. No, no, no. You missed it. I want them too. No, no, you can't have them. You're locked.

The Indigo girl. Oh, Tracy Chapman. I'm doing mine. Tracy was on my list. Tracy was on my list. Good. She's on my list too. Yeah, well, you're already locked.

The pretenders. Mm. Mm. Okay. You got to have Edie Brickle. got to absolutely got to dolly she's going to she said she'd do the whole run with me she'll do the whole thing amazing for me yeah yeah yeah brandy carlyle said she's going to be there in sarah burrellas which is really love her too yeah well you missed it well i love her

you miss it well i love you too that's that's my lilith fair i love this yeah katy who's on yours And my answer is I would choose Miley Cyrus, Olivia Rodriguez, Joan Jett, Brittany Spears, and The Spice Girls. I know there were more people in the Little Fair Festival, but those were just my top ones. Thank you so much for all the laughs. Absolutely love the pod. I've seen all three of you live, and I can't wait to see you again. Thanks for everything. Love you.

Bye. Thank you, Katie. And I'm going to unlock mine. Throw Olivia Rodriguez in there. She is so good. Oh, I also would throw in for nostalgia effect, Salt and Pepper. Mm, yeah, Salt and Pepper. Yeah.

Who else did she say that I was like, oh, yeah, Joan Jet? I mean, that's who I named my character on Star Trek after. Commander Jet Reno. Yeah. Well, anyway, that was fun. That was fun. I love that. I love you, too.

All right. Should we get another question? Yeah, we should. Hello, Fortune, May, and Tig. This is Mercy from Richmond, Virginia. And I have a question for you that sort of comes from a philosophical standpoint. So I'm curious if you could know exactly how many times you've done any one activity. Like, for instance, how many times you have smoked a cigarette or eaten a grape or anything, literally anything, if you could know exactly how many times you've done any one thing over the course of your,

entire life, what would you want to know? I know exactly what I'd want to know. Oh, I love that you know. I would want to know, I think about this often. As a vegan person, I'm very curious how many times I have accidentally eaten an animal product. Oh, interesting. And because I feel like, I mean, it's hard to not accidentally eat something.

And then you go, oh, something tastes weird in here. Or you look at the wrapper and you're like, oh, I thought for sure this was. Right. And so I don't think it's a lot for me, but I'm very curious how many times that has slipped on by. Yeah, because like you're obviously not doing it on purpose, but I'm sure it slips on by. It does. I did confirm that. It does slip on by.

It's rare as far as I know. But you probably have a tape, like now that I mostly drink oat milk, I have not drank regular milk in many, probably six years now. Wow. In my coffee. So when someone puts regular milk in my coffee, I can taste it immediately. Does it taste gross? It has a weird taste to me. I don't enjoy.

I'm on your side with that. Yeah. And I don't overdo the oat milk either because I know that has sugar in it. But I just do a little bit. But regular milk in coffee does not taste good to me now. I'll tell you what. Speaking of sugar, I used to have these vegan bars that I would eat. And then I really kind of paid attention to like, oh, there's a lot of sugar in this.

And then I started eating these other bars. They're called Well-Been. And this is not a commercial. But do you ever love something so much like your coffee or your little morning nibbles that you can't wait to wake up in the morning and have it? Oh, yeah. I feel that way about coffee. Yeah. I'm like this new bar, like it's like the chocolate.

But it's only whole food plant base. There's no sugar added. And it's so delicious. Oh, that's good. Yeah, I'm like, I cannot wait to get to tomorrow. I'm excited. I am excited by tomorrow. Anyway, I'm trying to think of what I would want to know.

I was going to say, I would want to know how many times I've called my mom, but then it might make me think I need to call my mom more. How many times a week do you do it? If the week or? Yeah, we talk like 40. times a week. Oh, that's a good amount. Roughly every other day. Every other day. Yeah, that's about every other day.

That's good. Two in a row. Definitely more now that she's, you know, older. I try to be more diligent about that. I would, I definitely don't want to know how much cake I've eaten. Please don't anyone tell me. No one track that and tell me.

I think you'd tell by my belly how much cake I've eaten, but maybe how much I'm on my phone, because then that would make me horrified and maybe want to use it less. Okay. Not the calling my mom part. I mean, like, the scrolling. Do you have the notification that's like, oh, you've been on your phone two hours or

three hours or nothing like that? No, but I've definitely been trying to, I would say in the last year since my life changed significantly. I have posted a lot less of like just whatever. I've been more, it's been more like deliberate what I post, but less like, I'm just walking down the street.

You know, that kind of thing. And why do you think that is? That's so interesting. I really don't know. I don't know what shifted. Uh-huh. Because now I'm, you know, by myself, uh,

Like I'm here in my house by myself. And I could just like whip out my phone and be like, what's up everybody? Yeah. But I've not been doing that very much in my days as an unmarried woman. Mm-hmm. I don't know what the shift there is. That's really interesting. Mm-hmm.

I've noticed that since the documentary and award season and all that kind of wound down, I just don't I don't have anything to say Yeah you know like I was it was so around that like I feel like I was on social media way more than I was comfortable with Because I was having to always promote the pot the um not the podcast but the documentary which was of course I was happy to do But it's definitely Wound down right Yeah maybe it'll

jack back up at some point. Jack it back up. Yeah. But sometimes I do feel like, who am I posting this or talking to? What am I doing? Like, it's just like into the abyss of like, hey guys. It's like, who are the guys? Who am I talking to?

But anyway. I think also my priorities shifted a bit to. In what way? Um, like I just want to work and like have enjoyable work experiences, but I'm not as like into, like, I don't really care about the Hollywood parties anymore or the networky stuff. Yeah. I just am like, does that any of that really matter? I mean, I'll go to think, you know, like you went to the Oscars and go to the Globe, stuff like that as part of work. but yeah i'm just like there were a lot of parties i didn't go to this year yeah um that i just was

like i don't know if i'm in that space anymore right and maybe that will shift again as well i don't know sure could so i'm just kind of living my life you're not just itching to be at every red carpet in town no no same zies uh should we hear from mercy let's do it for me for me I really want to go basic and just know how many times I've blinked ever. That would be a lot. That is so basic. I blink when I don't even realize I'm blinking. What if Mercy blinked 182 times?

It would be a lot more than that. But do you get it? Oh, blink 182. That's right. Yeah. Well, Fortune, I'm just going to go. ahead and tell our listeners to please submit your questions and advice request to speakpipe.com slash handsome pod. We love getting your questions. They're always so interesting. Like, oh, my gosh,

what the heck made you think of that? Yeah, I love it. Yeah, I love you too. And we also have our handsome live show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, May 4th. So if you are itching for something fun to do on a Monday night. We'll be talking to Malin Ackerman and Brittany Snow from the Honeywives to gear tickets for that. Don't wait. Stop waiting. All right. Well, until next time,

keep it pretty handsome. Handsome is hosted by me, Tignotaro, May Martin, and Fortune Themster. The show is produced, recorded, and edited by Thomas Willett. Email us at handsomepod at gmail.com.

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