Pretty Little Episode #102

This is a head gum podcast. Handsome, childhood friends all mad some part. Chad and the friends all the handsome part. Pretty little episode. Hi, it's your friend Tignotaro on a pretty little episode that I'm here with, Mako Host. May Martin. Hello, May Martin, what's on your shirt? Oh, Toronto Blue Jays. Oh, yes, yes. Of course. A real fair weather fan. I don't know nothing about baseball, but it's a great shirt. And my knowledge of them is like from the 90s. Where Joe Carter was our star batter. I'm still Carter. Joe Carter. What a guy. He was so hot. And we won the World Series 92 and 93. OK. That's where I stopped. Yeah. How are you, Tign? I'm doing all right. Just vacationing. You're switched off. Are you off grid or how's being off all social media? Oh, it's dynamic. Thanks for asking. Yeah, I'm off social media. I mean, my assistant still posts things on think on Facebook for my shows and yeah, 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 debt 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 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. 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, that'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 can-- 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. But 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 church my email. Yeah. Like truly, it's just robotically time-sensitive. We need to hear from you by tomorrow. And I'm like, good, good. 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 riff-raff coming at me. 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's as pen pals or we meet in person or we have a dinner regularly or whatever it is. And I just-- I don't know. It feels really good. And again, I always want to mention, I could be tick-tock-tig tomorrow. 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-- 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 have to physically tap your fridge. So if you leave the house or something, you just-- you can get your texts and stuff, but that's it. So that actually-- it's 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., it's their 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. Well, I was going to say it seems a little early for this little cowboy. If I'm at parves 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 parver having morning coffee time and connecting and-- Yeah, I do. I like the morning. We went to idle wild. I got up at 5.30 or something. And I-- 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 parve. We're falling asleep early. Because we're-- She's got the kid. 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. But if it's the two of us and she and almost with her dad, then yeah, we're in bed pretty early. And that was pretty good. So you're in bed early no matter what. Yeah. OK. 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. I used to do that. And I thought, oh, this is just my rhythm. Yeah. Want to 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-- 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 every time I'm in New York, 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. And I love them. 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 traveling by horse and carriage. In November, I'll be coming through it. You know, I can spend a few days. Yeah. That's how it should be. Yeah. But yeah, I love all of my-- I've got childhood friends that we keep in touch. 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 that-- Oh, and yeah, and your kids, friends, parents. I bet that's not what I meant. My kids have parents. They do. It's me and Stephanie. But their friends have parents and they're based-- all of their sports teams have parents. It's just, it's like, you open another box and another-- it never ends. It never ends. And it's great. But yeah, you've got to streamline things a little bit as what I'm finding for my sanity. Well, shall we get to a question and see what-- I think we should. That's what we're here. If my people are tuning in, may-- Yeah. I love when people are tuning 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 plug it in panels. So yeah, appreciate you guys. Thank you. Love-- 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. But and plugging in solar fields out in the desert and then imagining Carson with headphones in listen to the handsome out there. That's cool. I mean good old Carson from Carson city. Yes, seriously. That's very cool. I and I really the friends mine. I know who who learned a trade young just they set up their lives. Yeah, it's really a smart thing to do for sure. I will do. Well, I would I would have said painting, but in my 20s I was picking up odd jobs and someone hired me to paint a school gymnasium and I sort of said, yeah, I could I've done things like that before and hadn't done it and was so listening to music and just you know really amazing. And then stepping back and looking at it was such a mess and like not uniform at all and I realized what a skill that is. Yeah, 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. So like the way Nick offerman does. Oh, my God, yeah, with his hands like how meditative and Zen would that be. I tell you about the painting job I had. 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 mix your colors and I'm sending you out to Anaheim to paint a Toyota dealership for a commercial. And I was like, Oh, no, and not only good at your colors. Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, well, I needed a certain. Yeah, these different paint colors for the God for the production. I was like, oh, my gosh. And so my friend, our name Sharon, she, 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 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 and it was at this Toyota dealership where there's 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 that circular platform. I'm just figuring 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. No of yes. And so everybody is like, I'm the one that's supposed to know it's going on. You could see everybody looking at me like, what the hell is she doing? And 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 the 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 any trouble? No, I think people are on to me. But anyway, and I did some house painting with friends also. I don't think I do that. What I would do, I would like to drive one of those machines that has the big rolling. Oh, yeah, where you just for time now, I don't know what you just flatten out the road. Yeah, that seems very relaxing. Like, all right. Everybody out of my way. All out that road. That does seem really soothing. Yeah, your friend with me, your friend Sharon was so confidently like, yeah, it'll be fine. Then 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 loony 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. See, you want to steam roller would be pretty good. That's what it's called. Yeah. Of course, I need to have. Yeah. I'm on a steam roller. Should we hear another one? Yeah, let's do it. Hello, handsome. 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 peekaboo. What are those things called? Peekaboo, like a underwear like G string. I wonder where you can see the G string and then a bunch of jeans. Yeah, I want the peekaboo. See, I want, I want the peekaboo. No, I don't want the peekaboo 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, but it was definitely on purpose. Everybody was doing it and I was like, I can't get on board with that. Is that for a kind of answer to her question? Yeah, there's a corniness to that. It's very Christine Aguilera in her when she did the song dirty. 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 just not around me. They stress me out. Yeah. I love the turtleneck. 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. 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. Yeah, you don't want like a ballerinas like gel. Yeah, I don't want it like slipped back. I don't want I don't 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 that does work for me. The tight bun and the tight bun and the turtleneck. Well, here's the problem. I love a turtleneck. Oh, you do. I do like a Diane Keaton. I mean, not necessarily. I just mean for myself. I yeah, I like a you can't have a turtleneck and peekaboo ponties, right? Because if you if there's a chill in the air. Yeah, why would your peekaboo ponties? But you know, yeah, yeah, it's marie being so coy about your neck, but then you're showing yeah, peekaboo ponties. Yeah, I need authenticity in yeah in your hair and in your ponties. Right. Not that a tight bun is in authentic. 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're 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 in LA and same in Toronto. There's a real mix of what people are wearing. And when I went to London, I noticed how many people were wearing black. It was like I suddenly fell so so uncool like I had to get black. jeans and a black winter jacket. - Black turtleneck. - Yeah, like turtleneck, black poop panties. (laughing) - Time my hair black, put 'em in a tight bun. - Well, always, always a pleasure to hear what's abruin' 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. - 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, Tig? - 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 gonna be adding dates and hitting major markets and go to SpeakPype.com/HansomPod to submit your questions and advice requests. And until next time, what do you say, Mae, we should keep it. Pretty handsome. - Handsom is hosted by me, fortune-feme sir Tignotaro and Mae Martin. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Woolett, email us at [email protected] and follow us on social media @hansompod. (bell dings) - What? - What? What the hell? What the hell? - That was a HitGum podcast.