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Pretty Little Episode #77 | Handsome

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Pretty Little Episode #77 | Handsome", an episode of Handsome Podcast published February 6, 2026 (25 min, about 4,326 words). It mentions 5 people, works and ideas, including Tig Notaro, Comedy Central, Belmont, North Carolina, Yaya.

What this episode is about

In this episode, Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster reminisce about personal milestones, including their parents' birthdays, and discuss the joys of celebrating family togetherness while navigating their busy lives. They share light-hearted banter and reflections on aging, gratitude, and planning meaningful gatherings.

Key takeaways

  • Checking for savings is smart; just like checking your phone's volume before an acoustic concert is essential.
  • Turning 80 doesn't mean slowing down; just ask Ginge, who’s still bench-sitting with her pals.
  • Friendship nostalgia hits hard—those decades-old bonds still have the power to bring people together.
  • When filming flops, it's not the end; just revisit the old footage, like a neglected time capsule.
  • Joint birthday parties? A hilarious way to blend friend groups, proving age is just a social construct.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Belmont, North Carolina, Yaya, Tig Notaro, Allstate
  2. – 10:00: Comedy Central
  3. – 15:00: Allstate
  4. – 25:00: Tig Notaro, Allstate

Notable quotes from "Pretty Little Episode #77 | Handsome"

  • Checking All State first could save you hundreds on car insurance. That's smart.
    about Allstate · at
  • Hey, it is your dearest friend in the entire world, Tigotaro, sitting here with your other friend. That's the most important in the entire world. Is that.
    about Tig Notaro · at
  • You're going to come to Belmont, North Carolina and celebrate.
    about Belmont, North Carolina · at
  • Has them. I It's funny. A couple gosh about I want to say seven, six, seven years ago, I filmed this thing for Comedy Central.
    about Comedy Central · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Tig Notaro — Person · Co-host · 3 mentions · first at
    One of the two main speakers; co-hosts the episode, answers listener questions, and plugs her tour dates.

Companies & orgs

  • Comedy Central — Company · Referenced company · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of a past project involving the host's mother and her friends

Concepts & topics

  • Yaya — Concept · Referenced group · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a friend group of the host's mother, who get together regularly
    And they get together a couple times a month for like lunch or whatever.

Places & events

  • Belmont, North Carolina — Place · Setting · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as the location where the host's mother lives and where a birthday party will be held

Sponsors

  • Allstate — Product · Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at
    Primary sponsor of the podcast, mentioned multiple times with promotional language

Full transcript with timestamps

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Pretty little episode. Hey, it is your dearest friend in the entire world, Tigotaro, sitting here with

your other friend. That's the most important in the entire world. Is that what you said?

No, it's not. Fortune Beamster. Hi, Fortune. You are the most important person in my life.

Oh, you stop. And I don't believe you. I don't either. I'll be honest. I don't believe that.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know what's so funny is the last time we did one of these, it was your folks birthday. Well, tomorrow is my mom's birthday.

Really? I mean, I know that's kind of a stretch, but in the same vein, you know what I mean?

Sure. Sure. And And would uh old Ginge mind telling us how old she This is a big one. 80.

80. I can't I can't I truly cannot believe it. Wow. She looks really good for Very good. Yeah.

I It's just Yeah. I I 80 years old. That just doesn't seem I'm glad she's here. Listen, I I'll take it. I'm grateful.

She She's active, heading out, sitting on benches and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, she's she's uh doing doing pretty good. We're going to have a big party for her. I I'm filming right now, so

I I wanted to do it around this time, but um it just will be easier once I wrap. So, we're going to uh she was fine to wait till March.

So, okay. We uh are going to have a little a party for her for some of her good friends and mo mostly family. Um but just

when in March because if it lands on my birthday, maybe we could do a double. You're going to come to Belmont, North Carolina and celebrate.

That I will late March. That's when my birthday is March 24th. Oh, it's not that it's not that date, but close.

Oh, sure. 28th. I saw I 28th. Yeah, I can stick around. We could do it right in the middle. Why not?

Yeah, we could do the 26 right in between. I would love for you two to have a joint birthday party. That would be hilarious.

I'm sure we have the same friend group. Totally the same friends. What are her friends like? Are they just like Ginger? Um, yeah. They're fun. There's a whole group of them called the Yaya.

Mhm. And they get together a couple times a month um for like lunch or whatever. They they celebrate uh the birthdays of the month will all celebrate with one

meal. And how do they know each other? Years and years of just growing up in in Belmont. And I mean they've been a friend group for decades now.

Yeah. And uh I a lot of their a lot of us some of them had kids all the same age. So my friends

are in that friend my my friends moms are in that mom group. And then they have their own then they branch out and do stuff, you know, individually with little

outside of the YA. Yeah. Are you tight with the f the kids of the friends? I was growing up. I just don't see people as much, you know, but if I saw them, it would be great to see them.

Mhm. But, you know, they're they're it's a wonderful friend group. I'm so glad she has them. I

It's funny. A couple gosh about I want to say seven, six, seven years ago, I filmed this thing for Comedy Central.

Congrats. In my hometown and they came and they had my mom's the Yaya come over and a lot of that footage got cut

in this thing. But I would so wish I had it because they it was so great seeing her friends all together and they were

I wonder if you could get in touch and have someone dig it up. I bet it's somewhere

maybe. And funny enough, the cameraman for that that project uh was at a a screening I went to of of your documentary um in a good light. Yeah. And uh I hadn't seen him since and he was there with my mom filming all their friends. It was really a special experience. So

that's amazing. Yeah. But yeah, I'm glad she has those uh those friends. They all

Yeah. I'm telling you, I this is this is this is your job right now is you got to reach out to Comedy Central and see if there's any way to track that footage down. You will be so glad you did that. Fortune,

they were all on that day just like yapping and cutting each other off and making jokes and it was really sweet.

And your your reps can help you hunt that down. You got to do it. It be one day of work for you to do. Yeah, I definitely

phone calls, emails. I should get a lot of that footage cuz it was all about me and my mom.

Yeah. And uh there I'm sure we got some cool stuff that and like when they aired it, it was supposed to be about uh comedians and their moms, but

they barely showed anything that they filmed. It was very odd. They showed me they showed more stuff of me on stage than they did of the footage

in my hometown. Interesting. I know. And and so we I have all this probably pretty great footage of the two of us that I would like to get a lot of it if I don't know how that works, but I'll have them look into it.

Yeah. Yes, you will. Mhm. That's exciting. Yeah. So, yeah. Shout out Ginge. Yeah. The Yaya. Uh Fortune and the Yaya is the band name.

That's right. Well, that's all I got. Well, let's get into our questions then. Hi, handsome. This is Hope calling from Georgia. First of all, thank you so much for the endless entertainment. Um, one of the things I love to do besides listen to your podcast is do road trips and stop at weird roadside attractions like I don't know like largest ball of yarn or I recently went to see a peanut shaped like Jimmy Carter. Um, my question is, if you had to design a new roadside attraction, and I know I'm going to get push back on the had to, like why you have to. So, let's say you are going to earn money for this that goes to charity, um, charity of your choice. What roadside attraction would you design? And tell me a little bit about it.

Well, have you ever have you ever been to one of those random roadside things? Yeah, I think I've seen the ball of yarn or the rubber bands or whatever.

I stopped into I think it was Arlington, Texas. They have a bunch of like Cadillacs in the ground like standing up.

It was kind of crazy. I don't know why, but it's there. Okay. The end. I think I would personally like just right out of the gate, what I would love to see is just like a huge animal sanctuary adoption place where you're on the road, you're exhausted, and I'm talking a big one, like

where you pull off the side of the road and you just pet kittens and dogs and old grandpa animals. and and just like, you know, you're just like, "All right,

that was fun, but also I'm going to take mittens with me." And I mean, like a circus of animals out there,

but they're all treated very well and Oh, well, of course. I'm not going to have a roadside attraction where animals are getting abused.

That's right. I'm just saying this is like the place to go. It's like a spa here.

Yeah. But for animals. Mhm. But they also But you're there's so many that they they need home. Forever homes.

Yes. And if you can't adopt them though, it's just so fun to like run around with um cows.

Mhm. Love a cow. Sound fun. I love that sounds great. I just saw a very longhaired cow.

Really? Like flowing in the wind hair. Oh yeah. I don't see many of those. I've never seen one until that.

Yeah. But um I don't know. I just that would be a sight for sore eyes if you're like on the road for days and hours. And

I like that. Well, I you know, now that I'm a Disney beaver, I would have said I would have some kind of beaver attraction, but Bies kind of cornered the market on that.

They uh beat me to the punch. Yeah, those are Have you been at a BIES? I have. And what is your feeling about Bies?

They're ginormous. Well, I know their size, but what I mean, you know, the I like the novelty of it. You go in there and hear them yelling about brisket sandwiches and pick out a million different versions of beef jerky or fudge. It's a It's a lot though. You know, I like to get in and get out. I don't go lolly gagging. Well, here's my thing I'm very confused about.

Mhm. Everyone like people's obsession with Bies. Like I don't I don't I don't get it. I'm just like, right, there's gas here and then there's a place where you can buy a bunch of stuff.

Yeah. Who cares? Like why is everyone buying shirts about it and like talking to friends and you got to go to Bies and oh my god, you go to Bies? Like

I don't think you're the target audience. No, I'm not. And I'm not the target audience that talked to me about Bies.

Yeah. Well, because they're going in there for brisket and jerky and those aren't your things already. They've lost you.

Even if they had vegan brisket and jerky all down the aisles, the whole hype around them.

Yeah. I'm like, who cares? Who cares? Well, I'll tell you something. They did two things they did uh that were interesting um to market.

This isn't anti-bies. This is anti the people freaking out about Buck. I hear I hear you. But I am going to highlight two things that people do like about it. One, they don't allow any of those big transfer trucks.

Okay. And you know, those can get a little intimidating to drive around at gas stations on the road. So people are kind of into that that they don't allow that. That's not what I'm talking about.

Well, the other thing they did is they catered to women, which is unusual uh by they their marketing plan was uh clean.

Women like clean bathrooms. And I will say their bathrooms are unbelievable. I understand this. I know all of this.

I'm all for bies. All right. I'm not all for the people that are acting like this is some like like we need merchandise and we need to tell everyone alive how incredible Buck is.

Well, I think it's like one of those things that it just kind of becomes part of the like culture. How people wear like Waffle House t-shirts, you know? I don't know. It just becomes like

I Yeah, I feel like Bies is a whole different thing. Yeah. Well, it's kind of like a Yeah, it's like a circus. I don't know.

I don't know. Well, I think it's also kind of my response when what was that frozen yogurt place everyone went nuts about.

Oh, uh, Pink Berry or Pinkberry and then like the doughut place that everyone was going nuts.

You like all the hubbhub. I know. I'm just like, go in, get your donut, go and get your jerky. Go get your mouth and just cork it.

Cork it. Quit acting like a nerd. your mouth about a gas station. I mean, get a life. Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't know I had that much pent up anger around.

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Was that a question we had? Like why am I talking about that by saying they already did what I would do which would be a beaver place.

Oh roadside attraction, right? I don't really other than that I don't I mean I I don't have anything random. I just want food. Like I just want a bunch of pastries and pies,

you know, and then and then maybe some lesbian music playing like Melissa Eidge or something. I don't know.

All right. Well, does hope have an answer? Come to my bookies. Come get your pies. The roadside attraction I would design would be like a giant TV with like a row of giant books on top and then like inside you would see like weird artifacts that were like supposedly from big movies but like you know for sure they're just like totally made up or like you know like a gum wrapper found on the set of Scream something like that. Thank you.

Okay. Okay. I like it. I like it. Hope we like it. Hope. We like it and we like you hope and we like when people send in questions and answers. And who's the next one? Who's the next one?

Who's the next one? Hi handsome pod. My name is Andy. I'm from Houston, Texas. So my question to you is I have a friend that I've been friends with for years and I love her. She's a very very kind-hearted person. She's the embodiment of treat how people how you want to be treated.

My issue is is that she tends to tell, shall we say, tall tales. And she does this a lot.

So much so that I find myself kind of zoning out when she's telling these tall tales. My question to you guys is, what should I do about this? Should I call her out? Should I go along with it? Should I subtly let her know that I don't really believe what she's telling me?

Oh, how would you guys address this? I absolutely love the pod. It's something I feel like we desperately need in these times. You guys are my favorite sillies.

A thanks. Oh, finally some advice. Well, first of all, I don't believe that she has friends that lie to her.

No, I don't know. It doesn't sound like I was being funny. I was being funny. Oh,

I was acting like she's a liar, too. Oh, I get it. I get it. I get it. Do you think the people that exa Cuz I know some people that exaggerate like that. Do you think they realize they're doing that?

Yeah. Really? Yes. Yes, I do. Have you Have you encountered this in your own life where you've had to say something to someone?

Um, yes. But and you did and you did say something. Yes. Yeah. Well, you're pretty straightforward like that.

Yeah. I But I'm not doing it in a like you're lying to me, right? I've done it more

suggest that in a in a way of like hold on a minute, you know, where I'll be like back up.

You're I need clarity here. I need clarity. You're telling me that this, this, and this happened. Mhm.

Or they'll kind of big talk like, "Oh, if this happened, I would just do this."

And then I'm like, "Would I'm sorry, but would you really just do, you know what I'm saying?

The other thing, and I feel like I've talked about it on this is uh on this show, is um there was this guy um and believe it or not, before I knew I was gay, um he was pursuing me." Yeah, he was.

And he was he was calling and he was I mean lying his face off. Really? Oh my gosh. And you could tell

it was like the craziest lies every time he could. And I reme I actually knew him

from long ago and we ran into each other as as adults and I remembered it about him as a kid where I was like

this guy, right? So, as an adult, I'm like, "Wow, he's still doing this, but it's like on a bigger scale." Yeah.

And he was clearly trying to do it to impress me. And the last time I ever heard of ever heard from him,

he lied to me. Like, of course, I don't have proof, but I know he lied to me. You just have that. You can kind of tell when someone's like,

"Let me tell you what he Let me tell you what he told me. Yeah. And this was I was so irritated and like this was before caller ID and I would never know it was him and I'd pick up and

um and one and his favorite band was Yeah. loved. Well, he calls me and what do you know? He's backstage atm.

Yeah. He's hanging out with them. But you know what? He took a beat and he went to the pay phone to call me right

to just chat. I'm having the time of my life. having the time of his life. Got to go call TIG.

Got to step away. Not even just enjoy the time of my life, but I need to go call call TIG from the phone. Long distance.

Long distance. Collect call. They called those. It wasn't collect. He paid. He he paid.

Oh, okay. And um so anyway, after I was sitting there rolling my eyes so irritated that this guy like you think I'm the like on what planet did you end up backstage at your favorite bands,

right? And of course I understand it happens, but this was just it was par for the course with this guy. And I'm sitting I finally come up after I we get off the phone. I come up with the perfect thing to say to a liar.

Yeah. But I never heard from him again. And what I should have said to him when he was telling me he was backstage partying with

Mhm. I should have said me too. That is funny. that I when it hit me I was like that is the best thing to say to a liar is just tell them you're doing the same thing like oh my god me too

you're backstage I'm backstage atm too where do you want to meet cuz like he's not going to call me a liar

right he's probably going to hang up the phone that's so funny I've never occurred that never even occurred to me

it never occurred to me either but he drove me so crazy drove me so crazy. So, yeah, that is those are different levels of confronting a liar. Um where it's like, hold on, back up. I need clarity.

Yeah. You know, and and kind of get into it, make them a little nervous and have them explain themselves because if you're not lying

and somebody says, "Back up. I need clarity." Yeah. You don't take that person. No big deal. I'll give you all the clarity you want. Yeah.

And then you have some unhinged lunatic that is like, I landed a 747 on a freeway and you're like, oh yeah, me too. What was your experience like doing that?

It is the best feeling. That is pretty funny. So yeah, I like something like that. I don't recommend just like calling being like you're lying. I I'm more of just like Yeah. Like wait, what was that? Come on now. You know that didn't happen. I I kind of start teasing people like

well we we early on May we joke with May because May told us I think it was like one of their first recordings that the internet was out and would be on at 10:30

and Tig and I looked at each other like okay that's when their date has to get leave to go to work

leave. So when May got on, Tig and I just gave May so much [ __ ] but in a fun way where May was laughing and we were laughing because

May was like but kind of busted sort of thing. So there is a way to go about it where it can still be like,

you know, light. Yeah, it's it goes back to like your intentions and your delivery and you know as long as you're not harboring some

Mhm. I mean, I'm it is crazy making when somebody is consistently lying. It it's it's like that's it is tough. So, I feel for you, Andy. But, um I think you can find a happy medium between um Hold on. I need some clarity. This I'm confused. Walk me through this.

Um even down to me too. Yeah. And there's a whole new me too movement. That's right. And if it becomes a thing where they're like just being dishonest about every like it's not like tall tales when trying to like appear cooler is one thing but just like straight up lying

then you can make a decision if that's somebody you want in your life or not. Um you heard it here first

cuz when someone lies like about everything all the time that's it's tough to have a deep friendship with that person.

For sure. Best of luck to you Andy. Hopefully hopefully that helps. Mhm. We did it again. Yeah, we did it again. If you have any other advice, look how good we are at this. We just fixed everything. We just fixed Andy's entire life.

Mhm. Um you can uh send us questions here or ask us any kind of advice at speakpipe.com/handsomepod. For sure.

Um well, what a treat. Delight, delight, delight. Also, check out tigotaro.com for all of my tour dates. I'm coming at you. New cities, new dates being added all the time.

Yeah, same. I'm uh I'm going to the Beacon on February 14th, so join me for Valentine's Day in New York City. That'd be pretty sexy.

I'll be there. Oh, I wish. That would be fun. I won't be there. But um have a great show and until next time,

keep it keep it pretty handsome. Handsome. Checking All State first could save you hundreds on car insurance. That's smart. Not checking that your podcast co-hosts know the lyrics before bursting into song. A little awkward. I'm happy to take a solo, but what I really want is for our voices to join in handsome harmony.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Pretty Little Episode #77 | Handsome"?

Tig Notaro (Guest), Fortune Feimster (Host), Hope (Guest), Andy (Guest).

What is "Pretty Little Episode #77 | Handsome" about?

In this episode, Tig Notaro and Fortune Feimster reminisce about personal milestones, including their parents' birthdays, and discuss the joys of celebrating family togetherness while navigating their busy lives. They share light-hearted banter and reflections on aging, gratitude, and planning meaningful gatherings.

What is mentioned in this Handsome Podcast episode?

5 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Tig Notaro, Comedy Central, Belmont, North Carolina, Yaya. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Pretty Little Episode #77 | Handsome"?

The episode runs 25 min; the transcript is about 4,326 words in 133 timestamped sections.

More from Handsome Podcast

About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated February 8, 2026.