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Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers
FORTUNE FEIMSTER Almost Got Trampled by Elephants
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Fortune Feimster joins Seth and Josh on today’s episode! She talks all about studying abroad and what it was like to have her family come visit her, almost getting trampled by elephants in Thailand, what it was like growing up with brothers, and her new Netflix comedy special, “Crushing It!” Support our sponsors: Nissan So thanks again to Nissan for sponsoring this episode of Family Trips. Adventure calls in the first-ever Nissan Rogue Rock Creek. Learn more at NissanUSA.com Airbnb Thanks to Airbnb for their support of Family Trips. Visit Airbnb.com today and book a guest favorite. These are the most beloved homes on Airbnb. Aura Frames Save on the perfect gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $35-off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames by using promo code TRIPS at checkout. Blueland Right now, get 15% off your first order by going to Blueland.com/trips
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Sufi
This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by Nissan Adventure Calls in the first ever Nissan Rogue Rock Creek. Learn more@nissanusa.com Here we go. Hi, Pashi.
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Pashi
Hi, Sufi.
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Sufi
I want to start by saying I feel as though I've been done dirty.
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Pashi
Done dirty.
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Sufi
A lot of people don't know that. This is also available to watch on YouTube. And there's, you know, the only video element is really that we're just. You can see us while we're talking to our guests. Right. I forget which episode. Do you remember which episode it was that I got busted for drinking my smoothie? I guess it must have been.
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Pashi
I think it was the episode Listener episode. Yeah.
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Sufi
So because it was just listeners who had sent in our things, we weren't talking to a celeb. I felt like it was a safe place where I could drink my smoothie free of judgment.
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Pashi
Yeah.
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Sufi
And then at the very end, you pointed out that I drank my smoothie. Weird, right?
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Pashi
It looked like it was either very thick or you just sort of.
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Sufi
It was.
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Pashi
Yeah. Well, you let half your face go totally slack in order to pull on that straw to get some of that sweet smoothie goodness to.
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Sufi
Whatever. You burn me on it. And I'm thinking to myself at the time, whatever. It's not like people are gonna go back and watch. You know, if you're watching on YouTube, you wouldn't go back. But then Sam, our producer, super cuts all my. And it does. I look like an idiot. And so, you know, welcome, everybody. If you want to, you know, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch any episode, but by all means, go back and watch the Listener episode. We're just. I feel like, ganged up upon.
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Pashi
Yeah, it's. Gosh, I want to say it's like, minute 37 or minute 47, because you.
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Sufi
Don'T have to give him the time with my guy.
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Pashi
I will say to your credit, it was shown to me before it was added into the episode, and I was like, ooh, I think we gotta show him.
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Sufi
But I thought, well, that's a credit to you.
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Pashi
I thought it was really gonna show whether or not comedy was more important to you than ego. And I like that you put comedy ahead of ego.
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Sufi
Yeah, yeah. If it was comedy, vanity comedy won because it is very. It's a huge hit to my van. So anyway, I have enlisted in Straw University. Do you know what else it's called? Do you know what else it's called?
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Pashi
Josh Suck School.
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Sufi
That's better than what I'm gonna say.
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Pashi
What Were you gonna say strawage? Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Sufi
That's the difference. That's where, you know, I'm a dad and you're not. That I went for this shitty pun and you had the funnier one.
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Pashi
Yeah.
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Sufi
Suck school.
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Pashi
How are things going over at suck school?
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Sufi
It's not great. I mean, I don't wanna. You know, there's an on the nose review of it that I. But let's just say it's bad.
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Pashi
Yeah, I believe it.
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Sufi
A couple things have happened since the last time we've talked. We. You were on the show. We did our annual Thanksgiving show, 11th time. Mom, dad, you. Yeah, Mackenzie and her mom in the audience. How. I felt like it was one of the best.
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Pashi
Yeah, it was great. Yeah. People, a lot of comments sort of among the staff and some longtime fans and viewers, good friends of ours say that mom has really sort of come into her own. She's settled in. She's in the pocket, feeling herself. Feeling herself. You know, Mackenzie's mother, Linda, had a moment that she made the most of. That I thought was really great. And yeah, it was just. It was just a delight.
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Sufi
Uh, it helped. I mean, it always helps when we have big things to talk about that are not repetitive. And obviously this year the highlight was your wedding. And so it was nice to tell stories about the wedding. We did a little sketch called. At this point in the broadcast. We showed the turkeys, which are my children and my niece. That was a lot of fun. And yeah, all in all, it was a good time. Also, can I say something that I really enjoyed? It was very nice to have the three of you there for corrections.
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Pashi
Oh, yeah.
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Sufi
And I watched it back because I enjoyed this last corrections and I sometimes like to watch them back. And it's very fun to hear your very unique and specific laughs.
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Pashi
Yeah, we shot that on Thanksgiving proper. I drove up to western Massachusetts with MacKenzie and her mom. And the next night we had sort of a delayed Thanksgiving at her dad's house with, you know, her brother, sister, their kids. And it was great. It was just sort of a bonus Thanksgiving. But in the lead up to that, people got together to sort of watch MacKenzie's bit on the show.
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Sufi
Sure.
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Pashi
And I was reading in the other room. I'm not a huge fan of watching us on the show. It just doesn't do it for me.
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Sufi
I agree.
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Pashi
Yeah, mom and dad love it. That's fine. They can have it. So I was in the next room and there was one. You had one comment where I could hear sort of from the other Room. A big dumb laugh out of me, then big dumb laugh out of mom and big dumb laugh out of dad. Like just these big guffaws, which, if anyone ever thinks, are they real? Are they honest? They 100% are. That's just how we do it.
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Sufi
I guess that was in the body of the interviews that Big Time left.
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Fortune Feimster
Yes.
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Sufi
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say it has. And again, no judgment. I just feel like maybe you and I have performer anxiety in a different way and we don't like to watch ourselves back. Would you say that might be what it is?
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Pashi
Yeah. I also sort of don't want to be, like, patted on the back for doing a good job as a guest on your show, I guess. I don't know.
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Sufi
Yeah, that's interesting. I think mom and dad really like it, and I love that they like it. But there was always. Which has stopped. Which I love. They can appreciate now that they can go watch it on their own and not whenever you want.
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Pashi
Yeah.
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Sufi
First thing Friday morning. Say, when are we going to watch. When are we gonna watch the show back? Because for me, it's not important for me to watch it with them, because I did it with them. Right. You know what I mean? Same. We've already. Yeah. And it's one of my favorite things to do. We did watch something over Thanksgiving that was real important.
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Pashi
Yeah. This is Star Wars.
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Sufi
Yeah, we watched Star Wars. Let me just say, I hate talking about Star wars with kids because you're like, we watched the first Star wars. And they're like the first of the first one or the four. You know what I mean? Like, it's the worst. We watched Star Wars. And by the way, Star wars means Star Wars. And you can say a new hope if you're the worst. But also, we watch Star Wars. Kids had never seen Star Wars. It was great. Watched it with mom and dad. Way too many questions. Which, of course, makes sense. And I wonder if, because I watched it in a theater the first time, if I was. Mom and dad were spared from the questions. Probably because we're in a movie theater. I think so, too.
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Pashi
I mean, to hear sometimes if you go to a movie that kids are in the theater. You'll hear kids asking little questions here and there. But I feel like the sound. The sound level. And also. Yeah. Not being in your own house makes kids question whether or not, to a degree. Can I be talking in here?
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Sufi
And I think there's a terrible problem happening with today's kids, which is this from word of mouth. They know that Darth Vader is Luke's dad.
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Pashi
Ugh.
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Sufi
That's just gotten back to them.
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Pashi
Do they? They've also. I hear the kids are ruining the Crying Game.
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Sufi
Yeah. Crying Game. Don't even bother. So. But here's the thing. It's not just that the surprise is ruined, which is bad enough. They're so confused. The amount of questions about Darth Vader being Luke's dad, which is, why don't they live together if he's just father? Like, just logistical questions where the amount I want to say, you don't need to know. You're not supposed to know.
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Pashi
Yeah.
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Sufi
And so that really stinks.
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Pashi
Yeah.
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Sufi
Also, so many questions, Axel. Needless to say, the most questions. There's also the very first scene of Star wars when, you know Darth Vader's attacking the ship that Princess Leia's on.
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Pashi
Yep.
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Sufi
And it's just. You see R2 and C3PO are going down the hallway, and behind them is a silver C3PO.
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Pashi
Mm.
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Sufi
And then there's an explosion, and that C3PO just sort of falls into a hallway, and you never see it again.
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Pashi
Right.
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Sufi
Literally, the only thing Axel wanted to talk about the whole movie. Where was the silver C3PO? Is he in the next movie? I'm like, you're never gonna see him again. You're never going to see him. I'm so mad that that's what you're locked in on. And then end of the movie, you maybe remember they all get medals. There's, like, a medal ceremony.
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Pashi
Yeah.
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Sufi
And Ash hates it because he hates ceremony. Ash hates anything where you're supposed to feel emotion. By the way, I had fully. My voice cracked when Han came back and rescued Luke. Then it cuts to Leia, who has a different haircut at the end. And, you know, she's putting her medals on. And Ax goes, who's that? I'm like, jesus Christ. But so much fun. We also had it. We had one of the. We had one of the best. You know, obviously, I'm only counting Thanksgivings without you. Poshi.
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Pashi
Sure.
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Sufi
But as far as Thanksgivings without you, maybe the best one ever.
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Pashi
I heard it was giant.
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Sufi
Giant dance party. Giant conga line. Conga line around the whole house. Everybody was in a great mood. Incredible food. How was yours?
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Pashi
It was great. Yeah? Yeah. Really nice. And then Mackenzie's hometown does this thing called Moonlight Magic where the whole town.
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Sufi
Yeah. You talked to them.
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Pashi
Is sort of like, there are vendors, and all the shops are open, and there's a parade. Santa Claus. Not to brag but Santa Claus was there with Mrs. Claus, so I got to see them. Yeah. And yeah, it was just a really lovely night. And it started to snow, like really heavily in the middle of moonlight magic, which was magic.
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Sufi
Friends of ours host an annual soccer game and they have a proper. On their farm, they have a proper soccer field. Like cutout. Like the dream if you're a kid. Yeah, like a little soccer field. Two nets.
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Pashi
Okay. I was gonna say a full size soccer field.
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Sufi
No, but like a fence around it too. So like the ball can't. Like when a kid kicks it too far. Also, grass in the middle, cut long grass on the outside. So also when the ball hits the out of bounds, it just kind of stops, slows down.
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Pashi
Yeah.
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Sufi
And really fun parents and kids. And you know, Ash is incredibly fit, but much like his dad, he's incredibly clumsy.
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Pashi
Yeah.
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Sufi
You know, me and that kid together, four left feet. But he was really putting the effort in, you know, a very workman like, performance. And then late in the game, you know, and again, this isn't mostly. There were goals being scored and I'm not sitting here being like, yeah, final score was like 30 to 100. So anyway, Ash scores a goal and I'm so proud of him. And he's running back and he's got this like big smile on his face, and I'm like, way to go, buddy. And I give him a high five. And right before he high fives me, he literally trips and falls down. I'm just like, oh, boy. There's no clean wins. Yeah, no clean wins with this guy.
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Pashi
Well, you probably put your hand up too high and it took his eyes off the ground.
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Sufi
And I mean, I asked him to do a second thing other than just. Other than just running. So it was a really nice Thanksgiving.
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Pashi
Great. Yeah. Excellent. Onto the next.
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Sufi
On to the next. And yeah, again, go over to our YouTube family trips with the Myers brothers. Needless to say, we use the same title over at YouTube. We do. That was my idea.
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Pashi
Yeah.
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Sufi
And now Sam's sending the time code 4022. Go to 4022. But you know what? If you're going to go. If you're going to. If you're going to shame me, at least click like and subscribe or like it or subscribe it. I don't know.
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Pashi
Yeah, it's also 40:02. It's two seconds after the 40 minute mark.
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Sufi
Oh, I see. I was trying to get him. Or go to 40, 32. And.
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Pashi
Some good stuff there too.
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Sufi
There's a lot of Good stuff there. All right, buddy. We talked to our friend Fortune Feubster. She's a delight. Everybody's listening is a delightful. Says Jeff Tweedy. Give him a listen.
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Pashi
Family trips with the My brothers family chips with the mic.
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Sufi
Hi, kids. Hi, Fortune.
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Fortune Feimster
What's up?
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Pashi
How are you?
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Fortune Feimster
I'm so good. How are you guys?
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Sufi
We're wonderful. And again, I say it every time it's the case. I love talking to a fellow podcaster. Your gear is top notch. You look great.
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Fortune Feimster
Light is good. Don't even think I have headphones. And I do.
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Pashi
Yeah. My God, it's like you're a drummer for a rock band.
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Fortune Feimster
That's right.
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Sufi
Yes. This is. I'm excited to talk to you, Fortune, because you are youngest of three, Two older brothers. That's what my. That's my daughter's life. Because we had two boys and then we had our third, and I feel like she's in for a thrilling ride. How was life for you with two older brothers?
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Fortune Feimster
This is taking me back. Just being with the both of you, it feels similar to this. Yeah, she's gonna get tough skin. That's for sure.
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Sufi
She already kind of does.
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Fortune Feimster
Because being the youngest with two boys, you're just like, oh, you're beat up all the time. You're tested, you're picked on, and you never. You're never the one deciding where to go eat. You're never the one deciding what sport we play. You're just tagging along.
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Sufi
What were. How much older were they?
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Fortune Feimster
They are the middle. My middle brother Jay, is three years older than me. And then Price, the oldest, is three years older than him.
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Sufi
Okay, gotcha.
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Pashi
And they say that girls mature, mature faster. Did you feel that you were more mature than your brothers when you were at a very young age?
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Fortune Feimster
No, I definitely gave them the middle finger a lot.
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Pashi
Okay.
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Fortune Feimster
Because that was my only comeback. It was when my mom wasn't looking. I would give them the bird, and I'd be like, mom, Price, you just gave me the bird. And she was like, prize. And I'm like, a second. So my maturity level did not come for a bit.
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Sufi
Gotcha.
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Pashi
Fair enough.
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Fortune Feimster
They were big into wrestling, so, you know, the WWE or whatever. And so it was a lot of, like, they were Macho man and Ric Flair, and I just was getting pummeled.
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Sufi
And. And so you guys grew up in North Carolina, and what kind of. Do you remember going on trips with your family? Were you a road trip family? Were you?
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, we didn't have a lot of money because my mom Was a teacher and my dad just, you know, working class guy. And there was, especially in summertime, it was a little bit tighter. But my mom wanted us to have those experiences. So our, like, family trip would be to drive to, like, Holden Beach. It's a little beach in North Carolina. And we'd rent this. Like, there'd be all these, like, gorgeous houses on the beach. And we'd be like, in the one shack, you know, the has been swept away by Hurricanes like 20 years ago. But it just was, you know, it was so great to just do something. I didn't necessarily love being with my family, but I loved being on the beach. Just the wind in my hair.
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Pashi
Was there a little town close by? Could you sort of like, yeah, was there a boardwalk or what's. What's the vibe?
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Fortune Feimster
There was a boardwalk and the big thing to do in town was one of those water slide parks. I mean, we were like, so about that. There was an ice cream parlor with the blue ice cream that turned your whole face blue. But, yeah, I was determined to make sure my brothers did not have fun whenever possible. That was my way of getting back at them.
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Sufi
Like, how would you ruin the fun?
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Fortune Feimster
We were at the boardwalk and, you know, there's like arcade games and my dad gave us money to, I think, buy like a hot dog or something. And there was change left over. And my one brother was like, oh, we're going to play arcade games. I'm like, this is dad's money and we have to give him the change back. So I stole the money from my brother and I put it in my jams. Those were like short, long shorts. Put them in my jams. There was a lot of change and my brother started chasing me. So I ran down the beach, which running was not my forte. And I'm out of breath. I'm running, I'm running. I finally get to the house and all of the money had fallen through the hole in the pocket of my jams.
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Sufi
Jams were known for their poorly made pocket linings.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I guess I wasn't mature, but I thought I was responsible.
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Pashi
Yeah, no, that's an act of responsibility.
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Sufi
When you said you didn't like hanging with your family, is it more because you had a very independent streak as a kid and you just sort of felt like, I want to be on my own doing my own thing.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, I think it was because being the youngest, no one was ever, like, pumped to hang out with me either. So I just was always kind of doing my own thing. And I was forced to hang out with one of my parents, and, you know, that's no fun. I would try to make friends with, like, other kids on the beach, but my brothers were always the life of the party. Like, big group of guy friends, and they were all, like, doing their thing. So I was stuck, like, with my dad, who was going through a midlife crisis with a mustache and a gold chain. Listen to Emsi Hammer. I'm like, what's happening?
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Sufi
Also, by the way, I feel like when you're going through a midlife crisis, you don't want to be hanging out with your youngest of three.
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Fortune Feimster
No.
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Sufi
I feel like that's sort of a real reminder of where you are.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, I knew. I knew something was up because neither of my parents were big drinkers. And suddenly. Suddenly my dad's, like, coming out of a hotel bar with a picture of Long island iced tea. What's happening?
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Pashi
How old are you when you take a vacation like this? When you headed out to the beach?
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Fortune Feimster
Those vacations started, I think, from, like, six on. We did them until I was about 12. Our last big trip that we, like, the biggest trip we took as a family before my parents divorced was a trip to Disney World, which was.
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Sufi
So you got the big one in. And I think a lot of. By the way, I think a lot of parents divorce right after that trip.
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Fortune Feimster
Oh, for sure.
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Pashi
Because they check that box, and then.
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Fortune Feimster
There'S also five of us squeezed into a car, you know, and it's not comfortable. Nobody. Nobody's happy. And a vacation just forced my parents to be around each other, and they're like, we don't want this either. So we're all like, what are we doing here? We're just.
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Sufi
Could you. Was it a palpable tension in the car? Do you remember?
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Fortune Feimster
Like, what do you think?
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Sufi
Yeah, yeah.
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Fortune Feimster
Because when we did that Disney World trip, my. My dad insisted on renting a convertible because he's like, we're in Florida. We're going to get a convertible. And that's, like, the tiniest car. So you're talking about five very large people, right? Squeezing this car. And my brother. My brothers would, like, burp in my face. And there was no personal space. It was too much. We all. It's not like these days where every family has, like, you know, eight. Eight seats in an suv.
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Sufi
Yeah, yeah.
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Pashi
Pilot seats, cup holders, your own screens.
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Sufi
Yeah.
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Fortune Feimster
Oh, God.
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Sufi
Did you.
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Pashi
Were you all in one hotel room on a trip like that? Would you pile in? Yeah.
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Fortune Feimster
Oh, yeah, we were. We got that. We're Calling the motel. We need a roll in bed, please.
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Pashi
Was that you? Were you on the roll away?
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Fortune Feimster
I think one of my brothers were, because they were, like, a bigger person and I could squeeze into a bed better with my mom or something. It was miserable.
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Sufi
It is so funny, like, when the hotel gets a call like that, because they're like, you should have got a different room. You have too many people.
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Fortune Feimster
Too many people. And we're all eating the hotel breakfast well beyond what's allotted, trying to get whatever we could for free. It was. I still don't know how we. I think my grandmother helped pay for that Disney World trip, but we went over Christmas, and my mom decided she was going to bring all of our Christmas presents to Disney World, and we were going to have Christmas in this motel. So my mom. This was before, you know, weather apps where you could, like, look it up and be like, it's hot in Florida. I know. I know it's December, but it's hot.
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Sufi
Right?
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Fortune Feimster
And so we had all these winter clothes, and she, that year, gave me a faux fur, if you want to know what path my mom was trying to get me to go down.
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Pashi
You're not wearing it today. I'll make it.
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Fortune Feimster
I wore this faux fur to Disney World, and It was about 101 degrees.
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Sufi
I mean, to be honest, like, she might have pushed you the other way. Like, you were like, this is a disaster.
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Fortune Feimster
I think so. Like, who wants to do this? Every picture is us with just red faces, like, pouring sweat in our winter clothes in Florida.
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Sufi
How old is. So that. You said that was around 12.
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Fortune Feimster
That was around 12. I think that was. That might have been the straw that broke the camel's back for.
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Sufi
Is it true that when you were 12, your mother did something very unique for your brother's 18th birthday?
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Fortune Feimster
Very true.
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Sufi
Would you please let us know? Because it's really delightful. And it is, I will say, like, it's very almost in line with, like, I'll get my daughter faux fur, and I will get this for my son.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, she was very into stereotypes.
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Sufi
Her hobby was stereotypes.
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Fortune Feimster
I want to enforce the patriarchy upon my son. So my family loved to eat at Hooters because this was, you know, the 80s and 90s where you couldn't see boobs on your phone yet. And it's very scandalous, but we didn't care. Like, you could get tons of chicken wings for cheap. And being a family that liked to eat and didn't have money, it was like, our place. I didn't even as a young Unknowing lesbian. No realize what was happening around me. I was focused on these chicken wings. So when my brother turned 18, she had probably the greatest birthday party that an 18 year old in the 90s could have in their entire life. She hired two Hooters waitresses to come to our house. I didn't know you could just have them do house parties. They show up with buckets of chicken wings in hula hoops. And she had all of this for him. These Hooters waitresses are hula hooping in our backyard. All these 18 year old boys, their minds, their heads are exploding with like not have never seen women scantily clad like this in person. And yeah, it was. She even made the invitation for the party in an orange postcard and it had a hand drawn owl on it and it said, this party will be a hoot. Wow.
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Sufi
By the way, I feel like other parents wouldn't necessarily know what that was alluding to.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, yeah. I just remember shoving chicken wings down my throat and didn't. And I think I also hula hooped with the Hooters waitresses and all the guys were like, no, no, no, no, we don't want this.
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Pashi
I was walking down the street recently and there's this young family or they've got a young kid that I know and they were like, oh, it's like it's Jackson's birthday. I was like, oh, cool, Jackson, what are you doing for your birthday? He's like, I'm gonna go where you get chicken wings on a frisbee. And I was like, where do you get chicken wings on a frisbee? And the mom was like, hooters.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah. Kids will.
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Sufi
Yeah.
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Pashi
And what a great way to like have kids be psyched. Like, yeah, man, you get chicken wings on a frisbee and then I get to keep that frisbee.
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Fortune Feimster
It is a great plate when you think about it.
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Pashi
Yeah, perfect plate.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
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Pashi
That's a plate you play with.
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Sufi
You actually.
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Fortune Feimster
For kids. Yep.
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Sufi
Or a different kind of kid.
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Fortune Feimster
That's a great kid. Yeah.
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Sufi
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Pashi
Hey, Seth.
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Sufi
Yeah.
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Pashi
Tell me about your inner adventure. Are you a rocky trails guy or more of a snow roads bird?
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Sufi
I'm a snow roads bird. Like to go up my snow roads, maybe pull over at one point, pop off a couple snow angels back in the car. Keep on rocking.
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Pashi
Yeah. I was gonna say your snow angels are some of the nicest snow angels I've ever seen.
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Sufi
They look as though they an angel fell from heaven and just splatted into the snow.
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Pashi
Yeah. One thing I will say a note on snow angels.
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Sufi
Yeah.
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Pashi
You don't have to do them face down.
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Fortune Feimster
What?
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Sufi
This is gonna be a game changer. What about you? Posh rocky trails or snow roads, Bird?
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Pashi
Well, I mean, I'm a bit of both. I do love when you're in a vehicle that can handle some rocky terrain. I like driving slow and feeling a big old tire sort of creep over a rock and sort of waggle you back and forth. And that's the kind of feeling that you can get with some confidence in the Nissan Rogue Rock Creek.
- [26:58]
Sufi
And I would say a lack of confidence in the car we drove in high school, which was a Renault look car. And if it was even a little bit rainy, you wouldn't go outside.
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Pashi
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Sufi
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Pashi
Hi, Sufi. Airbnbs are exceptional. We've stayed in Airbnbs in Pittsburgh with the family, but also at my wedding. I know we've mentioned that it was at a hotel, but at the same time we couldn't have everyone stay there. But there were all these fabulous Airbnbs in the area. And one thing that just warmed my heart to no end is I had a group of friends from New Hampshire, childhood friends who came and they all stayed in one Airbnb. And I was getting pictures throughout the weekend texted to me of them getting ready of my friend Randy Swazo and his West High half shirt, which is just a classic thing in our childhood and from our youth. And to think that my marriage got that group of people to stay together for a weekend in an Airbnb, something they probably would never have done otherwise, just made me so happy, even though I never went there. And I know that they had just the best time. And that's the kind of experience you won't get if you're not in an Airbnb because you get to have your meals together, you get to get up and you get to have your coffee together. You get to sit around in a living room together. And it was really special. And even as someone who wasn't there, it is one of my favorite things about my wedding.
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Sufi
Well, that's so lovely to hear. Book your next awesome trip today@airbnb.com Here we go. So do you. So I know you lived after college. You lived in Spain for a year.
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Fortune Feimster
I did, yeah.
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Sufi
Had you been to Europe before then?
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Fortune Feimster
No, I. I kind of got bit by the bug, as they say, the travel bug. When I got to college, I went to this small women's college in Raleigh, North Carolina. I had never been out of the country. You know, like I said, my biggest trip was Disney World. And I had a. There was a professor there of anthropology who was the most fascinating person I've ever met in my life. And she takes this trip to Mexico every summer where she takes students for like two weeks and they study the Mayan ruins and go all over the jungle of Mexico and Guatemala and study lemurs. It's like things I've never heard of, things that were blowing my mind. And I raised all this money, like, working all these different jobs to take that trip. And it just opened my mind because I'm from a town of 8,000 people. And I was like, I had no idea what was beyond this town of 8,000 people. And that just made me really want to see what else was out there. So when I graduated college, I just had it in my head I was going to move to Spain, live there for a year, learn Spanish, travel in Europe. And I had no money. I graduated with $50 in my little bank account. And I got like eight jobs that summer. I worked from sun up to sundown. And by the end of the summer, I had $7,000, which to me could have meant a million. Yeah.
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Sufi
You almost considered just retiring.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah. I was like, I've made it. I'm going to Spain, baby. And this was back when you could get a one way trip, a one way ticket to Spain. And no one, everyone was like, cool. And I just got a one way ticket to Spain. No one cared. I didn't apply. I think I did it all wrong. I don't. I would travel to, like, get my passport stamped every like three months and then come back. Yeah. So I was there for just shy of a year. I had to come home like three, a month early. Because I ran out of money. Turns out I couldn't retire.
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Sufi
How much.
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Pashi
How much Spanish did you have before you went over there, but it stayed with you?
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Fortune Feimster
My Spanish was not great before I went, and it was slightly better when I left. It was an amazing experience. I did learn a decent amount of Spanish, but I learned that Spanish, like another language. Learning another language was not my forte. And they speak so fast. And I was in Sevilla, Spain, and everything's like. And a lot of hand motions, and a lot of the tongue is like, sumo de pina. Gracias de la da. What's happening?
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Sufi
Why did you pick Sevilla?
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Fortune Feimster
Because another professor at my college lived there part time. And she's like, it's a beautiful city. You can live with my mother. Oh, wow. Yeah. So I rented a little tiny room from her mom, this little old Spanish lady who tried to teach me how to be a good wife to my future husband. Like, you've been talking to my mom. So I lived with her for the first two months. And it was interesting. She was this cute little lady with this curly hair. And I came home to her house one night, and she was bald, totally bald, with one sprig of hair popping out. And I was just like, oh, okay. And she's like. She said, stress. And I would go, oh, you lost your hair because of stress? She goes, si. And I'm like, okay. And we just watched telenovelas together.
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Pashi
It helps the stress go away.
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Fortune Feimster
I got a haircut, like, weeks later, and I didn't know the difference between trim and cut in Spanish. So I said, I need a haircut. And the person cut all my hair off. It was very, very short. I came home. I was horrified. So upset. I figured the one person who was going to understand my plight is my roommate. And she looked at me and she goes, que rado? Which I then looked up in my Spanish book, and it says, it means, how weird.
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Sufi
So she stresses down to a sprig, and she can still call you out for being. For being weird. It's really funny. And so then. So two months with her, and then you get your own place somewhere else?
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Fortune Feimster
I got my own place. A friend. A friend of a friend said that they knew someone who had an apartment who had rented to me for cheap. €300amonth doesn't even seem possible now. Yeah. And so I lived in this little apartment for the rest of the time. And I would go to an English. I would go to a school to learn Spanish. I would. I got a job tutoring some kids in English. And Then every like three months, I would buy a URL pass and travel around. Like, I'd pick like four countries and travel around those areas, staying in, like, hostels.
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Sufi
And I'm very impressed. Josh and I both live. We got jobs and we lived in Amsterdam right after school. And I feel like I did not do that travel. I mean, to be so central and not have your railed. Did you. Were you the kind of person that would meet people on your travels?
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, from that language school I went to, I couldn't believe how open Europeans were, at least at this time. This was 2002. And they would just. I would meet them. I would be in a class with them for like a week, and then they would go back to their country and they would be like, yeah, if you ever are going through, you know, Frankfurt, or if you're ever in Switzerland, you know, let me know and you can stay with me. And I'm like, really? And they were like, yeah. So I stayed in all these random people's places that I barely knew, but everybody was just so cool, like, yeah, if you want to stay, stay.
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Sufi
I was like, you, the hypothetical. Not hypothetically. Let's say Frankfurt. Right. So you go to Frankfurt, somebody you've only known for a week.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
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Sufi
And how many days would you stay with them?
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Fortune Feimster
I didn't overdo it. It would be like 2 max. And then I'd gone.
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Sufi
Would they take it upon themselves to be like, hey, let me show you Frankfurt since you're here?
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, a lot of them would show me around or, you know. Yeah, tell me the. Show me the sites. One guy my in Berlin was like, are you good? I'm like, sure. He showed me some, like, videos of Borat, and then I was on my own.
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Sufi
He's like, you can only get these here.
- [36:25]
Fortune Feimster
This was before Borat had gone international. I was like, what is this?
- [36:30]
Sufi
And yeah, that is actually pretty cool. I mean, it's all. I mean, before Borat went international, it'd be worth going to Berlin to see it.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah. It was when his Ali G character was all the rage in Europe. And I was like, who is this guy? So I was in the know, you know?
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Pashi
Yeah. What was your favorite stop on any of your travels? Any of those Eurorail swings?
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Fortune Feimster
I did love the Netherlands, where you guys were one of the most beautiful areas, like Belgium. All those really cute towns in Belgium, I loved. And just traveling around, I didn't love the Hague.
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Sufi
I thought that was so funny. So my wife, she did a semester where she was in law school working at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. I remember the school said like, hey, this is where you're going to stay for the summer. And I, we, you know, we used it as a reason for us to go to Amsterdam and then we went down and it was just where they had her. Staying was terrible. And I feel like we had to. We kind of found one of those apartments like you probably found in Sevilla. Like it was a four floor walk up. And you know, we met this family that was renting it out. And I still. And I know like this window is closed. The idea of like just spending like nine months in Europe living in a weird attic apartment where like you have a tiny window and just a stack. And maybe it's that I have kids, but I'm like, that's what I would like. I know that. Just a weird attic apartment where the. When I have a tiny view of a church.
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Fortune Feimster
Exactly. And you hear church bells.
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Sufi
Yeah.
- [38:04]
Fortune Feimster
It is very romantic in theory. I could never do this, what I did now and I don't have kids.
- [38:15]
Sufi
But still, like, that's why it's great you did it when you did it. That's why I'm jealous. Like I was right there on our doorstep.
- [38:21]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. Yeah, it was. In hindsight, I can't believe I did it. I can't believe because I'm. I just was so naive.
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Sufi
What did your parents think? Because this must have been even more foreign of an idea to them than it even was to you.
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Fortune Feimster
They were like terrified because that just didn't occur to them that any child of theirs would want to do this. You know, a lot of people, especially in the town that I grew up, weren't traveling abroad and you know, Myrtle beach was our hotspot. So I think everyone's confused, like, why do you want to do this? And I think for my parents, they were more nervous because we, that was the year we went to war. And the only person, the only country backing us up was Spain. And was it maybe England? But the Spanish, the people of Spain did not want to be any part of it and basically would march against Americans like every weekend. And I would be like, I'm from Canada. Yeah. But they knew I was American and would just stare at me. Very angry.
- [39:39]
Sufi
Even. We know they're like, that's not a Canadian act.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, we know. So the little ladies would stare at me very angrily. So it was a tense time. I loved it. There were so many wonderful things. But it was also very weird. I had never been stared at in the way I was for that entire trip that. A year of just people glaring at me.
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Pashi
Did any of your family come over to visit you while you were there?
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, my mom came, and my brother Jay and I said they came over Christmas, which was great because I was getting so homesick. This was back when if you wanted to communicate, you had to go to, like, a Internet cafe and pay for Internet, which seems wild.
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Sufi
Josh got his passport and wallet stolen, edited in Rome.
- [40:30]
Pashi
Oh, that's also, though, anytime any. A hotel tries to charge me for Internet, I call down and I tell the front desk. I think it's tacky.
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Fortune Feimster
Good. Because it's just.
- [40:39]
Pashi
It's like, just. It's there, you know? It's there.
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Fortune Feimster
It's there.
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Sufi
And they're always like, we're gonna. Well, we're gonna make a note that you thought it was tacky.
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Pashi
Yeah.
- [40:47]
Fortune Feimster
Josh is, like, trying to nickel and dime me. And this water's $12.
- [40:53]
Pashi
Oh, the water.
- [40:54]
Sufi
I get the water.
- [40:55]
Pashi
The water already cost 8 when they bought it in the store. But I'm also buying my own water.
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Fortune Feimster
I hear you. But anyhow, the Internet should just be for all of us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. I was so homesick, so I was, like, pumped to see them. But I said to them, I said, listen, Europe is small. The Europeans are small. Cars are small. Hotels are small. Everything's small. We're large. We're big, fatty, fat Americans. Please, for the love of God, bring one bag. One bag. Because we're going to be traveling for, like, three. They were coming for, like, three weeks. We were going to go to, like, start in Madrid and go to Portugal, go to the south of France. We're gonna go all these places. I go. We're on the move. One bag. I show up to the airport in Madrid. They have three giant suitcases of peace. My brother has a sleeping bag with him. I'm like, it's Europe. It's Europe. They have beds. What's happening? I'm freaking. I don't even say hello. I'm not like, I miss you so much. I'm like, I told you, one bag. And we barely got all of our bags into the cab. We're busting at the seams. The cab driver's losing his mind. I happened to know someone who had made friends with someone who lived in Madrid, and I was like, can I please keep four luggages in your apartment for three weeks? So I made them, like, yeah, I made them leave bags. And we barely fit in the rental car after.
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Sufi
Even after that, it's so Funny when you're like, this is why they hate us.
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Fortune Feimster
Oh, yeah.
- [42:37]
Sufi
This is why.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah. And I did realize we are loud. I used to think they're just sensitive over there. And then I would be at a restaurant, I'm like, oh, these loud Americans. So annoying.
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Sufi
It is funny when you live in a place and you realize you don't want to be associated with the tourists from your home nation. You're like, I'm a local now.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah. And it was weird because at that language school, a lot of the European students would challenge me on, like, foreign policy because of the war. And I'd be like, I don't know, I gotta read a newspaper. It was a lot of pressure. I felt like. Like I was repping my whole country at this tiny language school. And, Yeah. I don't know if I rose to the occasion, but I will say, in.
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Sufi
Amsterdam, I feel like, don't. I feel like there was, like, buffet. That from 911 to the start of the Iraq War was like a real. Like, there was a glow where, like, everybody was almost like, hey, you know, America, we got your back.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
- [43:50]
Sufi
And then it was like, oh.
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Fortune Feimster
They were like, never mind.
- [43:54]
Sufi
We should have known this is what you were going to do.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah. How long were you all in Amsterdam for?
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Sufi
I was there for two years. Josh, you were there a lot longer.
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Pashi
I was there three and a half.
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Fortune Feimster
Dang. That's a long time.
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Pashi
And, yeah. Yeah, it was right out of college. And, yeah, I sort of. There was nothing else going on for me. It didn't seem like. And I had.
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Sufi
But we. You know, there was also like, a community of American comedians. Right. So, like, there was less. You know, it wasn't like, I gotta get out of here. It was almost, weirdly, almost like a false sense of security and career. But then.
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Fortune Feimster
But not at the same time.
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Pashi
We had a brief overlap.
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Sufi
Yeah.
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Pashi
Yeah. I forget how long you were there for.
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Sufi
Six months, I think.
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Pashi
Yeah.
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Sufi
Something like that.
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Fortune Feimster
Oh, nice.
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Sufi
Have you ever gone. Have you ever done standup in Europe?
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Fortune Feimster
I have, yes. I. My first shows were pre pandemic, I think 19. I did a week in London.
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Sufi
Oh, great.
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Fortune Feimster
And that was very eye opening because they. I. I did the American comic thing where I did crowd work in the beginning. I was like, you guys are going to love this. And you see how quick I am on my feet. Get ready for this. And I did it. And then I got reviewed, which, you know, we don't really get reviewed much and stand up here in the States, unless as maybe a special and the reviewer Was like, I loved your material. Crowd work I could do without. And I got three stars because they hated the crowd. The crowd, they. Over there, they're like, we're here for you to talk to us. We're not part of this. So I learned very quickly, you know, Americans, we all want to be part of all of it.
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Sufi
Yes. British people, you're right. They're like, we. Yeah, we paid for you to do it.
- [45:48]
Fortune Feimster
Exactly. So lesson learned. And then I was supposed to go back for this really big tour post pandemic, but then my filming got pushed. It canceled that. But then I was able to finally get back, and I did Amsterdam, I did London, and then I've done. I did five cities in Australia.
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Sufi
Oh, that's great. Where. Do you remember what theater in Amsterdam and what theater in London?
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Fortune Feimster
London was the Union Chapel. Really cool. It was like an old church that's now a theater. That was really cool. And Amsterdam, I could not tell you, but everyone warned me about Amsterdam. They were like, the crowd's not going to laugh. Just know they're going to be quiet. They're very polite people. It's going to feel very weird. You're going to think you're bombing. And a lot of people then do bomb because they think they're bombing.
- [46:41]
Sufi
Right.
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Fortune Feimster
I was like, thank you for the pep talk. This is from my opener, who was a local. And the crowd ended up being amazing. So I don't. Because she. She kept naming all the comics who'd come embalmed. And I was like, this isn't helping.
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Sufi
I kind of like, though. I mean, I like knowing a place is hard. Cause then any laugh you get is like wind under your wings. And you start thinking, maybe I'm the first one.
- [47:12]
Fortune Feimster
No one's broken this barrier.
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Sufi
I always say maybe. You agree, Josh? I think Dutch people, they're not bad laughers. They just don't. They laugh and then they immediately stop. There's no rolling laughs in Holland. Yeah, they're just done.
- [47:28]
Pashi
They're waiting for that next joke.
- [47:29]
Fortune Feimster
That's all you're saying? Yeah.
- [47:30]
Sufi
They almost are like, what's next? And so it's. I always feel like if you. I'm like, if I have an hour and I do it in Amsterdam, I feel like it only takes me 48 minutes.
- [47:40]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, sure.
- [47:42]
Sufi
It hasn't gone worse. It's just like, oh, I think I had to just sort of move a little bit quicker.
- [47:47]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, that probably helped. You guys having experienced that early on with, like, just being more comfortable on.
- [47:54]
Sufi
Stage, I think Dutch I think doing, you know, multiple years of Dutch audiences is pretty good. Yeah, yeah. It's like when bad. It's like when Bruce Wayne was like, I'm gonna go train for, like, two years someplace awful.
- [48:06]
Fortune Feimster
Basically, they're the reason y'all are successful. Thank you, Dutch people.
- [48:09]
Sufi
Wait, look, we have nothing but love for the Dutch. We agree with them.
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Pashi
Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.
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Sufi
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Fortune Feimster
Yes.
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Pashi
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Sufi
You know, had mom and dad with the kids. Cannot, for the life of us cannot get a good picture of Addie with my parents.
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Pashi
What's she doing, closing her eyes?
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Sufi
Yeah, just something. But the good news is, I feel like that used to be heartbreaking. Cause they would want a picture they could take home with them. But now I'm like, look, you guys go home. Don't worry about it. You've got aura frame. I know how to upload pictures, and I promise that by the time you get home, there's gonna be great pictures of Addie, and you're gonna be able to look at them all day long while they sort of cycle through on this incredible device.
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Pashi
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Sufi
And needless to say, if you know anything about Josh and I, he, of course, was the one who sent this preloaded to my parents. But he was nice enough to explain to me how to do it, and so I can throw some in there every now and then. It's not just Josh and his beautiful bride. Sometimes my kids. And they're very happy to look at it. Plus, with smart photo cropping, aura detects faces and other key details in a photo to make sure nothing gets left out.
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Pashi
I was just back in Mackenzie's hometown. Both of her parents have these frames. They have different photos loaded into them. So as you're sitting in their kitchen or in their living room, you can always glance over and there's a different picture sort of scrolling by. It's a great way to look through your pictures without having to swipe on your phone. They just sort of appear, and you could even have one in your bedroom. And if you're like, well, that's going to keep me up at night. It senses when you go to bed and turn out the lights, and that frame will turn itself off so you can get a perfect night's sleep. And when you wake up in the morning, there's your family again, there's your friends, there's your vacations. They're the best.
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Sufi
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Pashi
Yes, Sufi?
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Sufi
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Pashi
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Sufi
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, big time. I mean, as you know, like, stand up is. You're everywhere all the time. So in the last. Since things opened back up with the pandemic, I did 200 city tours back to back. 150 shows each get.
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Pashi
Wow.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah. With two seasons of FUBAR in between. One in between the first tour and one at the end of this last tour.
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Sufi
And does she travel with you? Does she come with you everywhere?
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Fortune Feimster
She the first early on in our relationship. We've been together 10 years.
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Sufi
Yeah.
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Fortune Feimster
She was at every show all the time. But I wore her out. Like, at the end of the first hundred of this hundred city tour, she is like, at the end of that, she's like, I can't do it anymore. Yeah. So she's like, I used to love to travel. You've made me hate traveling. I was like, oh, no. So this last tour, she would come to, you know, the big shows like Chicago Theater, the Beacon. Not the Beacon, but like, places like that. But then we. We do want to keep that love of traveling for fun. So we've gone to, like, Thailand and, you know, obviously European places, Paris places in Italy. We've gone to Australia, like three times.
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Sufi
Oh, my God.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, we go to a lot. We've been to Bali, Maldives. Yeah, we're all.
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Sufi
Do you have a favorite? What would you say? Do you. It's Jacqueline, right? Your wife. Do you guys. What would you say was your favorite? And what would you say is hers?
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Fortune Feimster
I think we would both probably say Thailand. We went. That might have been like six years ago. And we went to Chiang Mai and we went to. I can't remember the island. It was amazing, I think, because neither of us had been before. The people were so kind and lovely. It was very safe country. The food was amazing. We went to an elephant reserve in the middle of the jungle where we. They. You pay to, like, basically help this. It's a. An organization that rescues elephants. And a lot of people in Thailand just, elephants pass down through their family. And the, you know, the person that gets it is like, I don't know how to take care of an elephant. And so, you know, you're like, just given a giant elephant that eats a lot and such a terrible thing to inherit. I know.
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Sufi
So this must be so funny. At the will reading, you must be like, please don't. Please don't give me the elephant. Please don't give me the elephant.
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Pashi
I love the beach house. I'd love the beach house.
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Sufi
Give me the beach house. Beach house. Beach house.
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Fortune Feimster
And so they. This restaurant, rescue organizations, they help these families take care of these elephants. And it's. It's amazing. So we went to this. The middle of nowhere Thailand jungle, washing the elephants, feeding the elephants. It's. It was so cool. It was.
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Sufi
Did you actually get to feed an elephant?
- [55:45]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. Put the little bananas in their mouth.
- [55:47]
Sufi
You get that close of. You get a banana's length away.
- [55:50]
Fortune Feimster
Oh, I almost got trampled by two elephants.
- [55:53]
Sufi
Oh, here we go.
- [55:53]
Fortune Feimster
Don't worry. There's Daytona.
- [55:54]
Sufi
You buried the lead.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
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Pashi
How many elephants are at this preserve?
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Fortune Feimster
Oh, like, there were like, 10. 10 there. And we were just walking beside the elephants. And you're. You do get this false sense of security, like you're at a Disney World.
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Sufi
Right.
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Fortune Feimster
And then all of a sudden, two more elephants just come down this hill, and I'm standing there at the bottom like I'm about to get trampled by an elephant. And we just both, like, jump out of the way right before they come down to the road. So. Yeah, you just have to be more aware.
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Sufi
Alexei and I were on a safari in Kenya, and, you know, we were in, like, a Land Rover, and, you know a guy, like a real sort of rugged safari guy.
- [56:38]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
- [56:38]
Sufi
You know, just one of those, like, guys who's so capable that you. You are also lured into a false sense of security.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
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Sufi
And then all of a sudden, we get, like, close to these elephants, and then they just turn on us and just start stampeding. And the guy, like, tries to start the car, and it doesn't start. And you just. We watched the fear. His fear.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
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Sufi
Cause he was like, uh. Oh, you're like. You finally got it going, but you were just like. And you just kind of like, you feel like it's a. You know, when you got in it, it seemed like a sturdy car. And now you're just seeing the elephants bearing down and. Yeah. I mean, obviously, based on the fact that I'm talking, everything worked out all right.
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Fortune Feimster
You're all right.
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Sufi
I did not care for it.
- [57:17]
Fortune Feimster
They happened to me, and I took a random trip to Alaska with my. On a cruise. Great way to see Alaska BT cubs. And it was with my friend's family, and they invited me to come along, and they wanted to go fly fishing. And they're like, you want to fly fish? And I'm like, I guess I've never done this, so it's like, hardcore where you put the waders on, and they're like, we're going through, like, Alaskan Wilderness. Like, there's no cell phone tower for, like, an hour. And we had one of those same kind of guides, this, you know, burly guy with a shotgun, and he was just like, you know, of the woods. And we walked through the Alaskan woods, like. And he. It reminds me of that Nate Brigadier joke. He's, like, yelling, hey, bear. Hey, bear. And I was like, this is. Is this what we're supposed to do? We're supposed to call for the bear? He's like, no. This tells him we're coming, and that scares him away. So we spend, like, four hours in the stream. All this salmon's everywhere. I mean, we're in the lunchroom of bears, just neck deep in water, and we somehow don't see a bear. We're coming back through the woods. When we're done, get to the van, and the guide's face turns, like, white, and we're like, what? And he goes, I didn't have any ammo in my gun, and I just realized that. He goes, so if we had gotten into a situation, we would have all been dead. And we're like, cool, cool, cool, cool.
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Pashi
Yeah, so we don't tip you right.
- [58:57]
Sufi
It is a weird thing to give away at the end.
- [59:00]
Fortune Feimster
What's happening?
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Sufi
I just want you guys to know I know everything went smoothly, but I've been massively incompetent.
- [59:09]
Fortune Feimster
We almost died.
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Pashi
How was fly fishing? What's your take?
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Fortune Feimster
I liked it, because if you try to do it just in a regular stream, chances are you catching something. First time, pretty slim to none, but in Alaska, I mean, you just be like, bloop. And it's like, salmon, bloop, salmon. I was like, this is easy, but it really was like shooting fish in a barrel.
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Sufi
Do you know, you must know Brooks Whelan.
- [59:37]
Fortune Feimster
Mm, I do.
- [59:39]
Sufi
Brooks just shot a great special in Alaska. And the roll up, he went and did, like, tiny little towns in Alaska.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
- [59:46]
Sufi
But he has a shot of him literally reaching his hand into the water and pulling out a salmon.
- [59:52]
Fortune Feimster
I believe it.
- [59:53]
Sufi
It was the first time he tried it. And he said the worst part was nobody in Alaska. All the Alaskans were like, yeah. Nobody thought it was cool or impressive.
- [60:01]
Pashi
He's like, it's the first time.
- [60:02]
Sufi
And they're like, yeah, but these are not. Come on.
- [60:04]
Fortune Feimster
They're like. They're literally everywhere.
- [60:06]
Sufi
It's like, going. It's like a grocery store.
- [60:08]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, There's. You know, they do that fat bear week in Alaska where. Yeah. During the pandemic, when we were all just like, Losing our minds and full of anxiety. You could. I found out there's a bear cam in Alaska that you can just click on it and watch the bears. All the bears, like, eat in order to get fat, to hibernate for the winter. And I stared at that thing every day, and I don't know how it calms me in the midst of, like, all this tragedy around us. I'm just like, bears in Alaska eating salmon.
- [60:45]
Sufi
They're fine.
- [60:46]
Pashi
The world goes on.
- [60:47]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
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Sufi
They don't have to wear masks.
- [60:49]
Fortune Feimster
Yep.
- [60:51]
Pashi
There are two. There are two rattlesnake cams now as well.
- [60:54]
Fortune Feimster
Oh, really?
- [60:55]
Pashi
Yeah, but that's a little creepier. I don't think you'd want to look at that for hours, but they freaked.
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Fortune Feimster
Me out for sure.
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Sufi
Crushing it. Your new special, where did you shoot it?
- [61:06]
Fortune Feimster
Crushing it? Yeah. I shot it in Seattle.
- [61:09]
Sufi
Why did you pick at which theater?
- [61:11]
Fortune Feimster
At the Moore.
- [61:12]
Sufi
Great. And why did you pick Seattle?
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Fortune Feimster
On my last tour, I did the Moore for the first time. I did two shows there, and first show was like, the energy in that room was unbelievable. And I was like, this has to be an outlier. There's no way that that shows this good, that the energy is that good. Second show that night, same energy, same like. And it's a big theater. It's like a 1900 seat theater, but it's. And it's three stories, but it's like right on top of the stage. So all of that energy and laughter comes flying at you as a performer, which usually in those big theaters, you. It's so lost in the rafters, you don't feel it or hear it in the same way. And I. I clocked it. Then I was like, this is where I'm doing my next special.
- [61:59]
Sufi
That's great. And did it pay off? Did you feel like you got that same energy when you.
- [62:02]
Fortune Feimster
Oh, yeah, they were amazing. It was just. Yeah. Because, you know, doing. Doing these like 100 city tours, and if it goes well, you. All you want is for that special to. To reflect what you've been doing for the last year and a half. You're like, I just wanted to go. Right. I don't want to. I don't want this one night to be like, oh, the tour is amazing. And then this one night really sucked. So you're just trying to bottle that thing you've been spending so much time doing. And it just feels like a lot of pressure. So I was really, really happy when it. I felt like it came across. Yeah.
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Sufi
I would feel like one of the Risks of doing it 150 times is that thing of you can always remember the 10 best times a joke landed. And so, I mean, I even find it, like, when I know I'm recording, like, filming something, I'm like, okay, that was top 85th percentile. That's good. Okay. I was feeling like that's gone better more than half of the times. But I'm so glad you got a good one. I'm very excited to see it.
- [62:59]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah. I'm very proud of this one. I wanted to do things a little differently. I wore a pink suit in this one. Yeah. Because I have this podcast, Handsome, that I do, of course, with Tig Notoro May Martin. And in our picture, we're all in suits, and it's kind of just playing with the word handsome and what that means, and it's kind of for everybody. And it sort of inspired me to try to do something besides my typical bomber jacket.
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Sufi
That's fantastic.
- [63:30]
Pashi
I just want to swing to Tig real quick. Have you been to Tig's hometown of past Chris Chan?
- [63:35]
Fortune Feimster
I have not, no. She talks about it a lot. Have you been?
- [63:39]
Sufi
I know, but she was on her pod and she really sold us on it.
- [63:42]
Pashi
Yeah. We're desperate to go. And with all the cities that you've been to.
- [63:45]
Fortune Feimster
I know, it's cool.
- [63:46]
Pashi
Yeah. It probably wouldn't be one of those cities, but close by, and I was just curious if you've made it down there.
- [63:52]
Fortune Feimster
She's very fond of it. It's in Mississippi, right?
- [63:55]
Pashi
Is that what you said?
- [63:56]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
- [63:57]
Pashi
Yeah. About like an hour from New Orleans, I think.
- [63:59]
Fortune Feimster
I'm sure it's amazing. I just. They just don't have a comedy club.
- [64:04]
Sufi
Yeah. Look, if you want Fortune to stop by, you need a mic. Come on now.
- [64:10]
Fortune Feimster
Get paid. I'm not traveling for free. Come on now.
- [64:14]
Pashi
Is 100 city tour. Is that like. Is it like a marathon for comics? Is it like. Do they. Because it seems like, yes, it's a nice round number. But have they figured out over the years that, like, that's the breaking point and you can just get to that.
- [64:32]
Fortune Feimster
It's like, pass out.
- [64:33]
Pashi
Yeah.
- [64:34]
Fortune Feimster
I don't know how both tours ended up being that. It really wasn't what I planned to do. What I usually do is because I'm filming stuff, too. I'm always like, it's so hard to plan a tour because you're like, I might be filming for four months at some point. So what I usually do is I start with the first leg and plan that and Then from there, I keep adding, adding, adding. And then somehow both of these tours ended up being like. I think the first one might have been 99 cities, and this one was like, 101 now.
- [65:13]
Sufi
So you come out even.
- [65:14]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
- [65:14]
Sufi
Give us a city that we would be surprised by that you think is a great comedy town. Like an off the radar.
- [65:24]
Fortune Feimster
Fayetteville, Arkansas.
- [65:26]
Pashi
Great.
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Sufi
Perfect answer.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah. I would not have guessed. I was asked to do a show there. I did Fayetteville first as part of a Pride event, and then Eureka Springs, which is about an hour and a half for my own show a little bit later. But at first I was like, gay in Arkansas. How's this going to go? You know, even though it was a Pride event, I thought, like, this is going to be a tiny little thing. We're going to be, like, in the corner of, you know, some place in the woods that no one knows about. And I get to Fayetteville and there's Pride Month, so there's like, pride flags everywhere. It's a very cool city. I go to Bentonville, which is. Has the. The hotel, so that's the, you know, where Walmart started. That's their. Their whole area.
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Sufi
So I'm thinking they got a killer museum.
- [66:18]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah, museum's amazing. There's all these cool restaurants. It's, like, super cute. I was like, I would have never guessed in a million years that this would be this place in Arkansas. And those crowds were so good. And Eureka Springs out in the middle of the mountains. All these lesbians come off the mountain and come to this theater and are so pumped. I mean, it. Really? Yeah, that really surprised me.
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Sufi
That's fantastic. It's a heck of a way to see the country.
- [66:49]
Fortune Feimster
I'm surprised a lot. You know, as an out gay woman, I never truly know what to expect, but there are times where I sell more tickets in red states than I do in, like, San Francisco.
- [67:04]
Pashi
Right.
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Sufi
Do you think it's just the fact that they. There's an audience there and maybe less people take a chance to go down?
- [67:11]
Fortune Feimster
I think so. I think they just assume, well, that's not a place for me. And I'm right. I'm just like, let's go everywhere, you know, let's. I want to tell my stories. I want to make people laugh. I have a lot of people in the audience that are like me, who think like me, but I have a lot of people in the audience who barely know a gay person. And.
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Sufi
Yeah, well, that's. You're providing a service there as well, man.
- [67:33]
Fortune Feimster
I Mean, I just think, you know, that's the last bridge for us is comedy, because there's not a lot of other things that are bringing us together. So I love to do comedy in front of as many people are as willing to come into that theater and sit down and allow themselves to have a good time.
- [67:53]
Sufi
Well, it's even on election night, like, when you see a state like Mississippi and it's like 70% red, 30% of Mississippi is a ton of people.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
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Sufi
You know what I mean? It's a ton of people. And so even if it was just people who, you know.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
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Sufi
So anyway, that's fantastic.
- [68:12]
Fortune Feimster
Listen, I'll get people saying, I don't like them gays, but that's a funny story. I'm like, cool.
- [68:21]
Pashi
Maybe rethink your opinion on it.
- [68:23]
Sufi
Yeah, there's a better way to go. A compliment.
- [68:25]
Pashi
All right.
- [68:25]
Fortune Feimster
You guys aren't so bad after all. Okay, there you go.
- [68:29]
Pashi
Getting somewhere better. Better.
- [68:32]
Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
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Sufi
Crushing. It is going to be on Netflix December 3rd. And you're also doing a podcast with your wife. Sincerely, Fortune. That's very exciting as well. How do you enjoy it?
- [68:44]
Fortune Feimster
Well, it's awesome, but she's. Now that I have Handsome. We've. We've put that on hiatus.
- [68:50]
Sufi
Okay, gotcha.
- [68:51]
Fortune Feimster
She was like, I. I'm done talking. You're the. You're the stand up.
- [68:56]
Sufi
Okay, gotcha.
- [68:56]
Fortune Feimster
You can't make me do this anymore.
- [68:57]
Pashi
Done traveling. Done talking on our l. You can.
- [69:02]
Sufi
Get your Fortune podcast fixed on Handsome.
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Fortune Feimster
That's right.
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Sufi
And it's great to talk to you. Before you go, though, Josh has to ask you your questions that everybody on family trips get asked.
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Fortune Feimster
Josh.
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Pashi
All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational?
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Fortune Feimster
Mine is relaxing all the way. I just went to Greece. We went to Santorini. I was by that pool with a cocktail in my hand, and I was like, do not make me do anything adventurous. I don't want to see a church. I don't want to climb a mountain. I don't want to snorkel.
- [69:37]
Sufi
I got a question. Feta cheese, Santorini, poolside. What is Fortune's cocktail of choice?
- [69:44]
Fortune Feimster
They have this, like, it was mango drink. That was delicious. I'm an old fashioned gal at night.
- [69:52]
Sufi
Yeah.
- [69:52]
Fortune Feimster
But during the day, it's aperol spritz or something fruity.
- [69:55]
Sufi
I agree. I also feel like in the summer. I also love an old Fashioned. It's a tough summer drink for me.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah, you gotta have a steak or something with it.
- [70:04]
Sufi
Yeah. Fall Fall to spring, I can do it. But summer, Negroni. I feel like a Negroni is not a bad.
- [70:10]
Fortune Feimster
It's a good one. That's why I'm. Aperol Spritz.
- [70:13]
Sufi
Yeah, spritzes. I know. No complaints.
- [70:16]
Fortune Feimster
The three of us can have an Aperol spritz and hang by the pool relaxing.
- [70:20]
Sufi
We'll get the large feta to share. Three spritz.
- [70:24]
Fortune Feimster
That's right.
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Pashi
What is your favorite means of transportation? Train, Plane. Automobile. Boat. Bike. Something else.
- [70:33]
Fortune Feimster
Plane. Just because it's the fastest way to get there. I'm so grateful. I don't get terrified of planes because I have to be on them all the time.
- [70:43]
Pashi
Yeah. Have you ever done tour bus? Have you done that?
- [70:45]
Fortune Feimster
I haven't done the tour bus. Yeah, a lot of those guys. But again, I think because I'm a cancer, I like to be at home. I'm a homebody by nature. So most of my tour. The reason why it's a year and a half to two years long is because I'm going Thursday through Sundays and then coming home.
- [71:03]
Pashi
Great. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what family would you like to take a family vacation with?
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Fortune Feimster
Oh, my gosh. What family? I guess just Oprah and Stedman and me.
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Sufi
Yeah.
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Pashi
Excellent.
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Sufi
Great pick.
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Pashi
Yeah.
- [71:24]
Sufi
Great pick. I love, by the way, that you're like. And me, like, your wife can't come.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
- [71:29]
Sufi
You did not invite me.
- [71:29]
Fortune Feimster
No, my wife can come too.
- [71:31]
Sufi
So many that you're like, oh. She's like, am I coming? You're like, oh, I forgot to ask.
- [71:35]
Fortune Feimster
Oh, yeah.
- [71:36]
Pashi
But anyway, it probably would have been fine, but now it'd be weird.
- [71:39]
Sufi
Feels weird to ask if I could.
- [71:40]
Fortune Feimster
Have a plus one. You know, the chef is already preparing food for the three of us. I mean, it's probably fine.
- [71:48]
Pashi
If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be?
- [71:56]
Fortune Feimster
I mean, we're all getting eaten by something at this point. If my family's like Jax's family, they're all handy, and we would have a home and everything built. And my family, I guess. I guess my brother Jay, because he was in the Coast Guard for a long time.
- [72:13]
Sufi
That's something. Yeah. Some nautical skills.
- [72:15]
Fortune Feimster
Do something. Yeah, he'll go fish.
- [72:18]
Pashi
You're from Belmont, North Carolina. Would you recommend Belmont as a vacation destination?
- [72:24]
Fortune Feimster
Listen, I actually do really love my hometown. When I was growing up, it was so boring. I could not wait to get out of there. But Something happened when I went to college. My whole town that was sleepy, like, we didn't even have a nice restaurant because there was no alcohol allowed to be sold. And so no nice restaurant would come because most of their sales are through alcohol. And when I was in college, they passed. It's called liquor by the drink. And my mom was on the forefront of getting this passed. She helped volunteer. They were even shuttling students from Belmont Abbey College to go vote. She's like, we're getting layer in this town. And I will say, weirdly enough, it, like, saved my town. All these restaurants came. It started becoming this, like, cute little place, this destination place. I mean, it was. When I tell you it was like, dying dead, sleepy town, nothing there. And now it's this vibrant place. Like all these people from Charlotte keep moving there. It's actually growing too fast. And I'm. I'm like, y'all need to simmer down. There's like one lane in and out of here. But yeah, it's. It's a great place to visit.
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Pashi
And then Seth has our final questions, fortunately.
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Sufi
Have you been to the Grand Canyon?
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Fortune Feimster
I have. I have been to the Grand Canyon. I went when I moved to Los Angeles. I drove cross country, and my mom went with me. And we were broke. I had a $250 credit card. She again, was a teacher, so she had no money.
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Sufi
So what did she teach, by the way?
- [74:02]
Fortune Feimster
Special education.
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Sufi
Okay, gotcha.
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Fortune Feimster
For like 30 years. And so we were going to the sites, you know, that were. I think it maybe cost 20 bucks or something. Go up there. And we're like, why not? It's, you know, it's a destination. It's part of our. One of the things we're most proud of in our country. This is my mom. I'm like, all right. So we trek up this hill, and we get up there and we take, like, three pictures. We buy a book called Deaths in the Grand Canyon. And that's it. And like, that was it.
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Sufi
And I was like, so worth it. Would you say worth it?
- [74:40]
Fortune Feimster
I mean, I'm glad I've seen it.
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Sufi
Okay.
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Fortune Feimster
Because I feel like it is one of those, like, things you need to just say, like, I saw it. It's great. Like, I'm sure that's how people feel about, like, Mount Rushmore. Like, I've never seen it. But you're like, I saw it. But, like, I don't know.
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Sufi
You know, you might need to update that book. Cause there's been a lot more since you've been.
- [75:03]
Fortune Feimster
I did get up on a ledge, take a picture. And my mom was like, do not do that. And then she bought the deaths and the grand can. She's like, I told you, look at all these people in this book who have died. I'll tell you that if I had died taking that picture, that would not have been worth it.
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Sufi
Right?
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Fortune Feimster
Because when you. When you get these pictures, you're like, it's fine.
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Sufi
Right? It's all.
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Fortune Feimster
It's brown.
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Sufi
It's a brown backdrop. If you did your special and that was the COVID of the curtain, you'd be like, no, yeah.
- [75:38]
Fortune Feimster
Brown's not my color. So.
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Sufi
Well, it's. That's great feedback on the canyon.
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Fortune Feimster
Yeah.
- [75:45]
Sufi
It is a delight to see you, as always, and thanks so much for joining us.
- [75:49]
Fortune Feimster
Oh, thank you, guys.
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Sufi
Yeah.
- [75:50]
Pashi
Congrats on crushing it. Looking forward to it.
- [75:52]
Fortune Feimster
I appreciate it. It's always a pleasure to talk with you guys. Thank you for having me.
- [75:58]
Pashi
Thank you.
- [75:58]
Fortune Feimster
I'm part of the family now, right?
- [76:00]
Sufi
You are, yeah, absolutely. Oh, yeah. One, two.
- [76:01]
Pashi
You get it.
- [76:02]
Sufi
You're in.
- [76:02]
Pashi
You don't have a plus one, though. So you didn't ask?
- [76:08]
Sufi
Nah.
- [76:09]
Pashi
Bring her along. Got changed from a hot dog. Her brothers wanted to use it for video games, but that change was dad's. So she takes it. Takes it.
- [76:31]
Fortune Feimster
Runs all the way home.
- [76:34]
Pashi
Her bros were getting close. She beat them, beat them there. Jim's pocket, well, it had a tear. And all the other of the change was gone. And at Disney on Christmas Day, she wore a fur.
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Sufi
It was a faux fur.
- [77:03]
Pashi
100 degrees. Cause her mom had math check. The weather was a pro. He turned 18. Mom threw a party with chicken wings. And who knows?
- [77:22]
Fortune Feimster
Who knows?
- [77:23]
Pashi
Guess who knows? A couple Hooters girls were there.
- [77:29]
Fortune Feimster
Hula hoops.