Pretty Little Episode #93

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Pretty little episode. Hey it's your friend Till. Who is it? That's May. Is that May Martin over there? May over here. May, it's me, Tig. How are you? I'm well, I look like Grandpa Joe in bed here. Yeah, you do. And I look like Grandpa Joe just with my face. Right. I did um forget that we were recording and um until about Not like you. Six minutes ago and I'm so relieved that I I uh it got it together just about

Yeah. And how did you get it together? Like because it doesn't look like you got it together from where I am because you're in bed. I'm in well, I'm in Venice. Uh In LA. Italy? No, I wish I'm in Venice, uh, at Pars and I complet so I just I've been scrambling, I have to borrow a laptop and then the only room that doesn't have like children and busyness in it is this is the bedroom. Yeah. So do you like Venice?

Uh yeah. I it it's a it's definitely a different town than when I was there. It it had a little more of a I mean a fully indie vibe. Oh really? On yeah, on Abbott Kenny. Um I lived right around. Yeah, yeah. Uh very indie. It was um just like Independent coffee shops, bookstores, uh little restaurants and that there was nothing like what it is now. Um Imagine that. Yeah, now it's like sort of yuppie and then mixed with really sketchy. Um Yeah, well I mean Abbott Kinney is just like every big

store is on there now. It it's wild. It's really wild. Um but I still enjoy it. It uh you know, it uh it's just different. It's kind of similar to aspects of Austin. Like I lived there when it had way more of like the keep Austin Weird vibe. Yeah. Um that uh that they're famous for and now there's like Some weird pockets, but it's mostly like really high end cool. Yeah. Um same with Denver. I mean so many places that are just like, wow, this is this is different.

So like where does that end? Like where are we headed? Is it will it will it Yeah, I don't know. I mean everything uh there's such a a a leaning into like Yeah. Yeah, and i it it's just it's wild. But then I'm sure that'll be rejected and then I hope it's I I we need a rebellion again like you going off Instagram. I hope that Gen Z eventually is like, we don't want any of this and Well, my kids, like if I take a picture or video of them, they're they are like disgusted. Really?

They're like another with your. Yeah, they're just like stop Stop taking pictures and videos of us. Oh yeah.

I'm so sorry. Um, but you're right. What am I doing? But it's like I wa I wake up and I walk into their room and they're just like snuggled together, um, watching independently watching their own they have their iPad time in the morning and they sit next to each other with their own shows like Finn's watching s baseball replays, Max is watching The Simpsons, but they also watch each other's screens and then they'll reach over and pause each other's screens and rewind it without ask it's like

It's like just one being. Yeah. You know what I mean? And it's symbiotic. Yeah. And um and it's hard to just peek in and be like, good morning guys, and then Just stand there going. This is the cutest. Yes. What's that quote like the revolution will not be televised? I can't remember what it's from, but I do feel like that's the next the next wave. That'll be live. Performance, it'll be like an underground thing. I don't know, I hope so.

Oh I think it's It's inevitable that that I think people are gonna look back and go, I can't believe that we let people use the internet. It's so ad it's so bad and addictive. I think they're gonna be like, that was crazy that we even let people near it. Yeah, yeah. I mean I uh I'm three weeks. Three weeks sober off Instagram.

Three weeks off of Instagram. It is completely fine. Like I I'm just like there was nothing I was missing. There's n it's just like I There's things where it's like as I've mentioned I mentioned on that one episode where it's like, oh, it's fun to kind of like I guess brag that like, oh I'm on this project coming out or oh I did this but yeah it's also like people will see it. Like I don't need to make the announcement. It's fine. Yeah.

wonder I feel like weed was so linked to counterculture in the past and and not that I mean I got into so much trouble getting in cars with strangers and stuff trying to find weed as a teenager. I don't want that for young people but Now that it's so it's like a weed store is like an apple store, like where does that counterculture come from? I don't know. Yeah. Well it's even just uh i in gay culture that like it used to used to be and and now it it's it's not at all, really.

Uh I mean of course there there is um different uh uh I I just mean specifically gay. I'm not talking about like trans or non binary, but like being gay is is borderline Almost mainstream in ways, you know? Well, that's what I'm saying is like it borderline because in some pla like it is not I am obviously not talking about places that where this doesn't apply. I'm just talking about how In like T And um Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, just it there's like a gay character. That that's what I mean, like mainstream. Like oh yeah, of course there's a gay character. Yeah. Yeah. No, it was it was Mm hmm. Very, very, very. And even coming out. Like there's so many stories of peo young people feeling like coming out is lame. You just don't even come out. You just you just are. Yeah, I knew. That's it. Bread.

Yeah, and you just let the world catch up with what you're doing. And again, I'm not saying that's everywhere with everyone, but th it's there's that borderline of it of there's It's it's different. Yeah, I hope I hope I mean that pride is a protest, that slogan. I hope that. Mm-hmm I think that I wonder this year. I hope that it feels like that again. Anyways, how you doing other ones?

I'm I'm doing well. I uh I slept last night. I've had the most insane ten days. Eleven days. And uh just one of those crazy back to back travel every day, land someplace, have meetings and things and then no sleep travel. I went to sleep And I got my best night of sleep in years. My friend. It is wild. I was startled when I woke up. I'm like, what happened? Oh my god. Uh did I sleep? I slept. Oh my god, I slept. Yeah. Yeah. What did you dream about? Ah, there were no dreams.

oh god that's good so yeah No. If you dream that means you're you're in a deeper sleep. Oh Really? Okay. Yeah. Sometimes though I wake up exhausted from from dreaming nightmarish things. Like last night I dreamed I was stabbed by a haunted blade that cursed me. And when it stabbed me, it I started speaking with a British accent. That was the dream and I woke up like this I was making this weird noise. Are you still recording your night noises?

No, I've taken a break and I need to get back into it. Yeah.'Cause I would love to have heard uh. Um should we listen to some questions? I would love that. That's why we're here. That's why we're queer. Get used to it. Get used to it. Hi, Handsome. My name is Sarah and I'm in Portland, Oregon. I have a question for you about

research and science and nature. I'm wondering if you had access to any amount of money and all the knowledge in the world and there was a question about nature that you wanted answered, whether that be something botanical, biological. Ecological, hydrological, mycological. Yeah, you get it. Um, yeah, what would it be? What would you research and why? Okay, Sarah's smart. I mean Yeah, she knew all of the Ickle words. Uh mycological? Whoa. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, mine would be cosmological. I it's just that like I need some answers to things like Black holes and Oh talk to Mac. Yeah, I I would like to. Yeah. Yeah. I need I'd I mean it's just the big questions of about yeah, whether the laws of physics apply everywhere in the universe, uh whether quantum entanglement Blackological. Black holgical. Yeah. Black a callgical and um yeah, it's about

the fabric of our of our universe. That's what I wanna know. Like on and and on the smallest, most quantum level.'Cause they're so it's such it's so mysterious. Like There's so much that we just go, Wow, yeah, that's crazy. Just accept it and it and it all kind of m make like it all feeds into itself and works together and and and it's like, wow, it just does that, I guess. Yeah, like particles can be in two places at once and we just go, wow, okay. Yeah.

I think we know nothing. So yeah, I think it would be about that dimensions and things. Yeah. dimensional logical. Checking Allstate first could save you hundreds on car insurance. Not checking for vegan restaurants when I'm in a new town. Missed opportunity. Yesterday was my last day in town, and I just learned there's an amazing vegan po-boy restaurant I didn't get a chance to visit. Yeah, checking first is handsome.

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I don't know if mine i is quite right, but I think I'm just I'm curious what And I I I really am scared of and intrigued by simultaneously the discussions around um AI. Uh but I wonder as destructive as it is, will it Um potentially be helpful in ways with nature and the planet and climate change and um or is that Just insane. I mean I I

It's really hard when there's like experts saying both things about Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So y y you're saying like could it actually escalate a big awakening for us maybe? Like it yeah, it tops Find ways to um yeah, fix or um inform us. Yeah. uh in in ways to like uh there's a hurricane coming or an earthquake, you know, could AI fi um f uh wildfires. Yeah, why are we not seeing that yet? Like my my big conspiracy theory is that

Something's going on in the oceans, like Orca are planning things or aliens live down there, or something's happening. Because I'm like, why have we not by now fed in whale sounds to AI, decoded what they're saying, and we're communicating with whales? That seems so easy. Well, let's get started. Let's get on that, you know? Let's get down there and record those guys.

I wanna hear what they're talking about. And there's some shady stuff going on. Like the government just came out and said it's illegal to talk to dolphins. And it's like, why'd you make that law suddenly? What are you afraid of them telling us? Wait, where did you see this? Thomas, is that real? Also Guys recently have claimed that they were kidnapped by dolphins to build underwater cities. They were Florida guys. I don't know. Are you sure that you're getting actual information? I don't know.

Another reason I had to get off Instagram Yeah. Like I'm like, is this a real s cute baby squirrel I'm looking at? Yeah, really. I is this a real news story? And then I was like, ugh. So there is something called the Marine Mammal Protection Act. It it makes it illegal to try to interact with dolphins. Uh because you could, you know, mess up their Yeah.

Let's see, I'm just trying to read. For example, when ad adult dolphins become accustomed to peop getting food from people, their young might may not learn to forage. Okay, yeah. But does it say you can't talk to them? Yeah. I'm not saying anything about talking. Yeah. Is it illegal to talk to dolphins? Is it illegal to wave two dolphins? Oh it it says that it's mm no yeah, you're right.

Well also can I say that it is wild that So many of the people who created AI and the CEOs of these companies have have quit and are saying this will destroy us and we cannot be using this and we're all just like, ah anyway. Yeah, let's see what Sarah has to say. I think for me, a long time ago I read about a study about a scientist who had recorded like radio frequencies or something of plants and how they changed when

things in the environment changed or a human walked by and it was how like plants communicate with each other. So I'd want to know what plants were saying about us. And about each other. Thank you so much for all the joy you've brought to me. I've listened to every single podcast, every one. Thanks. Does she mean every podcast ever made or ours? Not just ours. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Sarah. But also that is very juicy, uh thinking about the trees communication networks, their roots and things and

Yeah, yeah. Um in there something like you were talking to the jar. It wasn't a tea it wasn't a a plant. But you're talking about some things and rice, right? Yeah. Which is basically, you know, a plant ish. Yeah, the you're right. And it was moulding and mould is living, isn't it? Yes, it is. See we know this stuff. We don't need a high score to get it. No, I don't need any more information.

My dearest handsomes, this is Mark in Bristol in the UK. I'm a huge sitcom fan, they've got me through some very difficult times, and I'd like to know um who is your favourite sitcom character of all time and why? Oh wow, that has uh I got a little shiver of excitement there at this question. I know exactly who mine is. Do you? Yeah, I do. I wonder if I know you well enough to guess, but I Let's hear. Is it someone from like Fort Wagon Train or something? From the Waltons.

No, uh that wasn't a sitcom. I think I've talked about one of my favorite sitcoms of all time was Good Time. Good time. It was yeah, it was uh just such an incredible balance of comedy and intense drama. And all in half in a half hour. In whatever, twenty two minutes. Wow. I mean I loved everyone, but I really love The dad. It's a in fact he died in the past year or two. His name was John Amos. And he was like

I don't know. Like there was something about him, his like the love for his kids And his wife and was so intense. You know. And um and it was all it was, you know, the seven d did I already say that? It was the seventies. Uh oh, okay. And it was this um this black family in um you know, they were uh they were s a struggling family, but there was like that They were a family. I you know, like broke and like trying to make their way and like having some real issues. But man was the comedy there.

Um, and uh I that's who comes to mind right away is John Amos. I wonder if you unconsciously'cause you feel that passionately about your family unit. You kind of have that quality of like these are my I ride or die for these people. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. This is my little crew. This is our team. You know? Yeah, I lost it. All the the all you know, every every version of or every um uh what am I trying to say? Iteration.

Every end of the spectrum. Like uh fun, funny, angry, intense, sad, all of those things. Whereas I, you know, when Max and Finn act up, I'm like, do I tell you how I correct them? Yeah, I got guys. Uh uh. I love the the power. It's so cool. Um I so I yeah, I like that you didn't go for like a wacky character. You went for the yeah, the the main See the you gotta see good times. I gotta see good times. I haven't seen it in years, but I I I I I think it holds up. I would imagine it holds up.

I'm gonna say I have two favorites that come to mind. Both of them I think are are like crushes, really. One is Karen on Will and Grace, Megan Malale. I just Mm-hmm. I met her once and uh I'm such a big fan and and the voice and the her timing

Is so good. She's just really effortless. And then I gotta go Elaine Bennis. Elaine I and I'm I was a Seinfeld fan growing up, but not massively, but I was an Elaine fan because she's the heart of the show. And without Elaine it would have been all just sardonic and kind of but she really she's such an amazing actor that you really buy it, even in these insane situations and Yeah, that it just made the show what it was. Yeah, deep Elaine fan.

Yeah, those are my answers. I wonder if there'll be British ones like the Royal Family is a a British sitcom that everyone loved. And my favourite is gotta be uh Megan Mellaly's Karen from uh Will and Grace. I could just watch clips of Karen over and over again all day. I think she's comic genius. I would love to see the three of you in a three-hander uh sitcom together. I think uh yeah, you've got to make that happen. Okay, love you guys.

Thank you, Mark. Yeah. Three's com we'll remake Three's Company. Yeah, perfect. Never seen it. But yeah, imagine the three of us. Do you think you would be I feel like you would be the kind of like Fortune would be the wackiest character, don't you think? Well yeah, of course. Yeah, Fortune will be kind of coming in every morning like a ball of energy. Mm-hmm. Singing, of course. I'd be in a crisis always, and you'd be kind of dryly receiving it all and commenting on it. It works.

Yeah, who wants to make this? Yeah.

Well that was fun. Yeah. Absolutely. Always is, always will be. Always will be. I'm gonna be in Albany, New York. Come on out and see me in Peakskill, New York, and Clayton, New York, and uh Spokane, Washington. Eugene, Oregon, LA, I have some dates, Rochester, New York, Colorado Springs, go to Tignotaro.com for all show information. Eugene, Oregon there's um Jerry Garcia's widow has a weed farm up there and his daughter in Eugene, Oregon. He's got a deep connection to Eugene.

Well none of what you just said is surprising. Yeah. Um I am on June tenth at Largo in LA. Uh and that's kind of uh it for live shows. Oh I'm I'm uh in uh Guelph. And Yellowknife in mid-July kind of, uh doing music festivals, but check out Maymartin.net. And also please keep submitting your questions to us and your advice requests to speakpipe.com slash handsome pods. We love hearing it. We sure do. And until next time. Keep it pretty hand. Mm-hmm. Handsome is hosted

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