Pretty Little Episode #92

This is a head gum podcast. Handsome, childhood friends on handsome part. Chad and the friends on the handsome part. Pretty little episode. Hey, it's your friend, Tignotaro, on the pretty little episode of Handsome, and I'm sitting here with Fortune Beamster. How are you, Fortune? I'm so good. I just got back from Costco. Why is that good? What happened here? I love a Costco trip. Okay. What'd you get? I went to get a television because I'm still figuring out my house and I ended up moving one of the guest rooms in my office, I switched them and now that I've switched them, I wasn't going to get a TV in that guest room, but now it's a bigger room and I'm like, "I think it needs a TV." Hmm. Here's, this is going to surprise you. Yeah. I didn't know Costco sold TV, so I thought it was just like bulk food. They sell everything and honestly, their TVs are a very good deal. Okay. I got this TV, 55-inch Sony, which is now TCL, I think, 30-inch. It's TCL. TCL, with TCL. It's now, what was Sony is now TCL? It's just the same. Oh, it's a company. Yeah. Oh, okay. But 300 bucks, great TV. That's, come on now. Come on now. And then while I was there, I picked up some smart water. I'm sorry. Water, instead, I'm not good at flossing, so I got a water pick, you know what I'm talking about? Of course I do. And you're not good, meaning when you floss, there's still chunks of beef in there or like you're not good to remember. To remember. Ah, okay. So, I'm hoping to put this in my routine now, brush my teeth, water pick. Wait, now you're stand-up routine. No. Okay. My teeth routine. Okay. Your dental routine. That's right. I also got. What's up? I was just going to ask, did you just recently visit the dentist and they were like, man, you got to get on this. Every time. No, I didn't recently go, but they have every time I've gone, told me you have to floss. So I just saw it and remembered. And then I also got some sunscreen. I mean, it's really a one-stop shop. Yeah. Okay. It's a $300 TV. What would that be if you were not shopping at Costco? Um, maybe somewhere else might be 500. Okay. So, you almost can buy a whole other TV. Yeah. For 50, something like that. It just depends on where you get it. And then they have wall mounts for the television for like 60 bucks. And then if you go to somewhere else, they don't have as many selections and theirs are like 120 and up. Hmm. Hmm. I'm not sponsored by Costco. I'm just telling you I went there. And then how many TVs do you have in your house? Um, this makes three. Okay. I don't know. Do you have one of those little tiny ones in the kitchen? Like how they used to have, like in childhood, you know, a mom? I know. Those are so funny. I don't know. Because I don't, my dinner and kitchen are kind of all in one thing. So I don't, if to have a extra little mini TV, it would be weird. I also don't cook enough to like beat. I feel like those were for the moms that were like cooking for a long periods of time that you know, and dad and dad sure, yeah, yeah, they have to watch their stories. And then, and then, um, are you somebody that likes a TV in your bathtub? No. I don't have one in my bathroom. There's a lawyer to put it. When you come over, you'll see there's not, there's no words to hang anything. Okay. Well, I know sometimes people have them like in the wall, you know, I like a TV, but I don't need it in all these random places. Because I was, I'm always a mute or, um, fascinated, not a mute, fascinated by people that have a TV or like when you're in a hotel room, and they have a TV in the tub, yeah, that's just, uh, interesting. Like, I, I was hoping to pick your brain about it like, that feels very old school, though. I don't think people are putting TVs in the bathrooms in modern times. I don't think modern, I mean, in the past five to 10 years, like 15, 15 to 20. Okay. Yeah, a lot of those TVs are old school, but I have to say I like this configuration a lot better. Of your house? Like how? How you moved rooms? Yeah. Because I, I had chosen the bigger, I have another guest room on the other side, and this was a guest room, and I, I was like, well, I'm always in my office. I'm going to use the bigger room for my office and the small room can be the second guest room. Yes. But then they were like, the guys that were helping me with decor were like, mm, you should switch these. And now that I'm in here, this way makes way more sense. Even my video game looks way better in here, because it's more of a square than a rectangle. Okay. And the sound is better before on the pod, it was a little echoey, and I can tell that the smaller room is better for potting. Okay. And then you said you had guys helping you with decor. Does that mean you hired designers or other guys that were like, we got to help this lesbian with decor? They are gay, guys. I figured. I just picked him up on the street, said you guys probably have taste, right? Somebody help. Somebody help. They're designers. Yeah. I'm getting my house looking nice. Oh, good. Yeah. That's fun. Well, congrats to you. Thank you. And thank you, um, Costco, even though this is not a commercial, it's not here for the work. Snacks. Okay. Why are you showing me that? Because you can get a snack at Costco. Full circle, maybe. Should we get to our questions? What does that say? Subpop records. There you go. I'm performing in Washington state, and um, Subpop is from Seattle, so I'm gonna, you know, I'm in Bellingham, Washington, so I'm gonna walk out and be like, you know, what's up? Subpop. Yeah. Anyhoodles. I was here last night, but last night's audience doesn't get the Subpop t-shirt. They do not. Yeah. You know what they did yet? The Nashville Comedy Festival t-shirt that I love. Oh, yeah. I love that. I love that. I'm sleeve t-shirt. Okay. Yeah, let's get to our question. Okay. Okay. Hi, Forgin, May and Tig. This is Taren, calling from Amsterdam. Do you have a Pavlovian reaction? If yes. What are the two things that got linked in your brain and what happens when one of them shows up? That's so interesting. So basically like, is there something in our life that when it happens, it creates a certain reaction? Yeah. Hmm. Interesting. Yeah, it's really interesting. I've never even thought about this. That's why it's interesting. That's true. God, yeah, let me think. I mean, it's not just like a memory, right? I don't think so. I think it's like an action. I can give an example, like whenever I hear the HBO, like static sound of like, yeah. I hear the curb your enthusiasm. No matter what show I'm watching, I always hear the curb your enthusiasm, like bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, because I watch so much curb your enthusiasm. So they're like, well, anytime I, someone mentions crab rankings, I get hungry. I mean, does that count? There's never a time that I don't want to crab rank in. So if someone brings it up, then my brain wants it. Oh, my, I don't know if it's counts, but my mom's always trying to get me to sing more on stage and anytime she does, I, it like gives me anxiety and I try to change the conversation. Is that linked to something long ago or it's just that I just don't want to. So is that Pavlovian? I don't know. Gives me anxiety. I mean, I guess it would be more like if my palms were to get sweaty or something. Like physical happened. Uh, uh, that's the best I can do. I don't know what to tell you. I mean, look, I, is that Pavlovian, Thomas, what fortune saying? You're saying you kind of. to get anxious every time. Yeah, like, yeah, I think that could kind of work. It'd be more like, if like, every time you saw your mom, you got anxious, because you knew she was gonna like nag you about something. Yeah, I think, I mean, I cannot pretend like my mother did not party. Okay, I cannot pretend I'm not going to. Okay, whether it was like people that live near us or people in town visiting, it was just like all nighter kind of situation. Yeah, and sometimes when I hear like, whether it's silverware really late at night or like a beer opening or wine opening, I'm like, Oh gosh, is this going to be an all night situation? And it could just be somebody grabbing a spoon for some soup and opening a waterloo. You know what I mean? Yeah. Is that Pavlovian? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I just I think kitchen noises late at night or even TV late or music late, but I don't really hear that too much, but we've had people that have stayed with us and like, we're totally, once Max and Finn go to bed, we go to bed. And sometimes people will stay with us and they'll be up later and I hear the TV and or I hear music or clanking around in the kitchen. I'm like, Oh boy, it's going to be a night, you know, and then it's not the end, the end, the end. Does that have an answer? Terran in Amsterdam. Terran doesn't sound like she's from Amsterdam. I accidentally Pavloved myself by spending weeks pulling weeds always while listening to the handsome pod. So now whenever I walk into my garden, I hear it say, Hello, my brain is like, Hey, Gost, I love you guys so much. Consciously and evidently subconsciously as well. What a podcast. Thank you, Terran. What a question. That's right. What else we got? Hey handsome, my name's Dot. I'm talking to you from Tacoma, Washington and thought of a question we'll have to a drink with a friend today, which was what were your guys's first cars? And is there any like nostalgic story behind it? How you lost it? How you got it? What you loved about it, etc. My first car was my mother's car. Well, first of all, Dot, that's my niece's name, little baby, Daddy. But my first car was my mother's car. And I believe for a while, my brother and I shared it with my mother. And then maybe she got a new car. I think that's what happened. And then she gave the car to me and my brother to share, which was tough, you know, to share. Yeah. But in the olden days of the 80s, when a metal key would go into a car to start it. Yeah. The car that was my mother, it was a Chevy Malibu Chevrolet Malibu. And when she would put the metal key in and turn the key, start the ignition. Her favorite little prank to do was for some reason, the key got run down or something, where you could pull the key out of the ignition while you were driving. And she would, so she'd be in the car with me and my friends. We'd be driving. She'd pull the key out and then she'd hand it back to my friends in the back seat and they'd be like, but it obviously didn't stop the car from going. But that was so not anything. I'd ever seen another car do, but the Chevy Malibu key that we had got, I think it just was worn downers. I don't know what happened. I would think that the car wouldn't be able to work with that. Well, it could because it was already turned. It was turned into place. Then you could slide it out. I've never seen that either. That wasn't anything that the car came with. It just was a weird glitch that happened over time and she loved to do that to rattle her guests in the car. That would rattle me if someone pulled a key out. I would not think that that would be okay. Yeah. Well, that was my first car. It was a Chevy Malibu and the key came out and then you just passed it around the car. I love it. My first car was this really janky BMW. It sounds fancy, but it was not fancy. It was from a neighbor. My brother bought it for like $1,800. It did not work very well. In fact, at the time, it was ready for me to drive. I don't know why he didn't end up driving it. I think it broke down a lot. It just sat in our driveway. I turned 16 and we couldn't afford to get me a car. The only car option was this BMW. It was from the 80s, early 80s. This was like 96. A friend of my mom tried to stitch it together, but it took a months. So about maybe eight months into turn 16 and finally started working, but it was a stick shift. I didn't know how to drive a stick shift, but I was so antsy to drive that I just started driving it and was completely stalling everywhere and just had no clue what I was doing. But this car was such a hunk of junk. When it rained, the water came through the sun roof and just dirty rain water poured all over me and sat in the floorboard. It would stall constantly in the middle of intersections. I had to pull the emergency break up to come to a stop without changing gears so that it wouldn't shut off. I mean, this car was so wildly dangerous. I can't. But it was a BMW. That's all that matters. It was such a piece of shit. But it lasted me till my senior year of college and then just dead dead as a door now. There was no bringing it back to me. I don't know. Rest in peace. I remember when my grandmother died, the whole electric board died. I couldn't roll down the windows and I couldn't play the music and I couldn't run the air conditioning. I was so miserable. I had to drive three hours to go home for her funeral. That was in agony. But it was a BMW. That's all the outside world saw. That's right. Does not have anything to say about her car? My answer is I had a Honda CRV that I got from my mom and his name was Newbie and he was beautiful and he got totaled by some construction next to my house in college, which was very sad. But now I have a little Honda bit and I love her so much. All right, can't wait to hear. Thanks. Bye. Thanks, Dad. Yeah. That was delightful. That was delightful. It's like every now and then I'll have this wave of like we're going to run out of questions. People are going to run out of questions to ask and then sure enough, they come up with new stuff, even to the point where we're like, is this a Pavlovian response? I have to say a lot of times it's our listeners that have the best questions. They do have some interesting questions. I find that when I ask people for questions for the pod, they're always like, I don't know what to ask. I'm like, you can literally ask anything you want. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Then submit your questions and advice requests to speakpipe.com/handsomepod. If you'd like to come see me on tour, please do. I'm hidden minor markets right now, but I will be adding major markets and more cities. Go to Tignotara.com. Yeah. I am, uh, and currently, uh, on my European tour. So, many of you folks in Europe, uh, want to come check out a show. Let's see where would I be. Currently, I would be, uh, Stockholm, Sweden tonight, Oslo, Norway, Sunday, Copenhagen, London on June 3rd, and then ending in Dublin. So, yeah, come on out for one of those shows, my European friends. Until next time, keep good. Pretty handsome. Handsome is hosted by me, Tignotara. May Martin and Fortune Theemester. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willett. 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