Fortune Feimster | Not Skinny But Not Fat

Fortune fine Stars here oh [ __ ] that I practiced it it's all right it's it's so it looks like it would be pronounced like the first of all you should be very proud that your name comes up before the fortune 500. oh my it does yeah oh my gosh you type in Fortune yeah you come up and then Fortune 500. suck it Fortune 500. so theme star what a name yeah I know it's uh it's a wild one yeah Fortune's an old family name like someone was named that uh a last name yeah it's my great grandmother's maiden name so they gave it to you yeah well technically that's my middle name so what's your first name Emily but uh absolutely you look like an Emily to me that's like such a dainty little girl name like which is so when did you switch it uh when I was like 23 or 24. really yeah and now I'm 26. oh my God I'm does anyone call you that now um like my family and stuff but my grandmother really really wanted my mom to name me Fortune um she just loved the name and uh this is before I was born and my mom said I'd have to be Miss America to live up to a name like that so when I got older they told me that story and I was like hey I am Miss America yeah I can't believe that she didn't think I had that in me oh my God but it was some therapy over there right since before I was born you didn't believe in me yeah but my mom always wanted a girl like that she had two boys already and it was like her dream to have a little girl she bought like all kinds of dresses again before I was born and uh Emily I think represents that quintessential little girl she always wanted and I never it's not like I hated the name Emily it was just I never never quite resonated when I was young everyone called me fiendster or female or female no one called me Emily oh and then and no one called you 4chan no one called me Fortune um because I just never talked about my middle name and then when I started I moved to LA and I kind of thought in the back of my head like if I ever do any sort of acting I was gonna go by Fortune as a kind of a nod to my grandmother because she passed yeah um and she instilled you know confidence in me she's kind of the reason I I have any guts to even try the acting or improv or anything and so I did it as kind of a nod to her thinking I would be Emily in life and fortune on stage and it just doesn't quite work like right you need to like commit yeah and I think Fortune is fit yeah everybody was just yeah you're so unfortunate yeah and that's like manifesting at its finest it's like yeah give me all the fortune well I also feel like my grandmother it's so wild because she she wanted that before I was even born but it was like this is the like I don't know sort of hippie dippy in me it just feels like she kind of knew who I was before I did oh that's like she had this like so when did you pass did she get to see you like no no she died when I was 18. oh I'm sorry no you know it just I didn't get a grandma so at least you had like 18 years let's let's just tell our sad stories to each other no but I mean you got 18 years though yeah I mean listen I was really lucky she died the day after I moved to college um so it was that was a very sort of symbolic thing to me as well and which is another thing what that I just want to sort of Honor her in that way so even though she never got to see me perform never even I was never even out before you know she died yeah there's so much of me she she didn't know so this Fortune name is kind of my way of keeping her with me I know to her yeah what was her name Evelyn now I need to like I need to picture her I couldn't feel her in the room though nana she's actually right here Nana um you're from North Carolina hence the little draw yep so how is it like growing up there with because you were saying before like you weren't into the dresses were you really you remember you were never into them never well my mom you know when you're pre five years old you don't get to don't get a choice yeah so I was in a dress every day I have those Olin Mills you have those the it was like uh basically pictures at the mall where and like you know holding a flower yeah staring at the flower yeah and all the Mills was big in the South I guess where it was basically like the professional photographers would take these pictures yeah uh so I have a lot of those and then at five years old I discovered soccer and that was five yeah I was like never put me in a dress again really do you still love it do you watch yeah I play yeah I mean I grew up playing three Sports a year so I was very sporty oh she's an athlete it's in my GNA I know do you know that it's actually my DNA I took it 23andMe and it said that I have Elite athlete jeans what I know I don't but I play sports I do no my mom was like your mom yeah except I went with it you know like I but I looked back and my sisters who played soccer softball yeah and I look back at myself and I'm like how did you just decide to put me and dance right like what did you see so I don't even know maybe I would have been you're a killer you're over on the sidelines or your sibling soccer practice smoking a cigarette well like literally not an athlete but in the jeans I was meant to be you guys so you said you had two brothers did they influence you to like be into sports and stuff they were big into sports my oldest brother in particular anything he did I wanted to do so he played tennis I wanted to play tennis uh my middle brother swam and I tell a story in my special sweet and Saucy about how that went I basically was a terrible swimmer and had to run across the swimming pool um pretending to swim thinking I was fooling everybody I mean if you were tall enough maybe you could fool everybody it was the butterfly that was so hard so like you were walking around and I did this oh my God I did my arms flailing through the air like I was doing the butterfly well you know that now when you're talking about having a brother I cannot picture your brother on The Mindy Project oh I know uh Garrett played my brother I know yeah everyone still talks because that that show's not on Netflix ah so but if you guys haven't been to the The Mindy Project so good you're in it you play Colette and what's your brother's name on the show uh Jody right that's like a woman's name and it's so good and your relationship brother and sister like kind of too close yeah they wrote so many funny things for us that he would like curl my hair every morning like while every episode every episode we would get the script and be like there would be some new nugget of random ridiculous that our mom you know would uh being a rocking chair in the Attic every day what when you were both you had like the southern thing too oh my God I love that show so much everyone go watch it on Netflix if you haven't um okay so grew up in North Carolina two brothers didn't like the dresses got into sports went to college I went to college a women's college what's up uh peace College peace peace college that sounds that also sounds hippie but it was the last name of the founder oh okay yeah a women's college is that where you kind of like explored no it was still you were like nope of all the times of my life that would have been the time to be gay uh no I can't believe that that I was not out still uh but that it's like five minutes away from NC State which is a huge um engineering school which tends to be more male dominated a male-dominated field so NC State's full of dudes and they would like love coming to our school to try to meet girls there were a lot of oh so it didn't feel like because you had kind of the two colleges nobody was nobody was like massaging each other and except me I was I was the one putting lotion on my friend's arms wait so you went for what for journalism I went and studied communication technically you know at least at the smaller liberal arts yes I know I did the same thing they paid a hundred thousand dollars I give four things you can choose yeah and you're like well I don't like science I don't like to communicate yeah so you're like I'll talk yeah but you actually use that you were in entertainment journalism for seven years yeah I fell into it I moved to LA and and I met this lovely woman who wrote uh for the LA Daily News and a bunch of other places and she was like I heard you can write what do you mean where'd she hear it she knew someone that had seen me speak at my graduation oh you were I was the commencement speaker oh my God yeah what you made it funny I mean yeah I and it was before it like knew that I could do comedy or like I I just like liked making people laugh and I wrote this speech and I I it resonated with people and it kind of in my small circle of that time of my life people heard about that speech yeah we kind of kept going around and this was pre-youtube so wait you moved to LA though right after college to be Inc to do what to to like I worked as a personal assistant for a little bit kind of like odd jobs what was the goal like in the back I really don't know if I had a goal I I don't know I think I secretly wanted to pursue you know the entertainment business but being from a town of 9 000 people I didn't know how that would even be possible so I got an opportunity to work in La um as a PA and uh was terrible at that and luckily met that that journalist who gave me a part-time job and I started covering premieres and then that led to this other company who just did everything they would do a lot of interviews on the phone they would do like the Emmys the Oscars the press junkets and it was a bit more all-encompassing so did you care about like movies and celebrities and entertainment like that was of interest to you I mean I found that world fascinating because again being from a small town in North Carolina suddenly I'm interviewing Julie Andrews or Tom Hanks you know it to me that blew my mind yeah so even though I wasn't in the business I was adjacent to it and that felt like I was still learning a lot did it feel like I should be on the other side of the phone call I mean I think I definitely was like I hope to one day especially when I would visit sets yeah I would be like oh man this would be so cool to get to do this and I was pursuing as started taking improv classes at the Groundlings so it was becoming more of a passion as I as I kept doing those uh classes and you have to like get into the Groundlings right yeah well you start with like you start with the fun classes then you have to audition so I started with the fun classes and then kept moving my way up the ladder but so many big like comedians went there like yeah like Will Ferrell Melissa McCarthy Kristen Wiig at Lisa Kudrow I mean who was anyone with you in your class um my class is like Jillian Bell from Workaholics uh Taran killum who was on SNL and the scene pedrod was right ahead of me um like a dream of yours yeah they flew me out two summers in a row to test on the stage that whole you know Lauren the Lauren in the corner with that light you know that you're in the old school Broadway thing where you just see a dark corner oh and then there's a light that really felt like that yeah was it nerve-wracking oh my God yeah because you you think that's the end all Bill like if this doesn't happen I'm gonna pack it up and go home yeah you know that that's the path to to success and I grown up loving it watching it I used to record it and and do those like learn the sketches and as we call them skits in the South and perform them for like my Tennessee or softball team and uh and then to be on that stage was like oh my God this is it this is my big break baby well now you're like on your own I mean you did the sweet and salty which is also on Netflix yeah was nominated for a critical choice that had good fortune so that was nice that's so cool yeah well stand up ultimately is where I think I found my voice you know back when I tested for us no I didn't even do stand up in the audition which somebody now seems Wild and Impressions and stand up is what I think I'm best at yeah funny to me that I didn't even put myself but I do think things happen for a reason yeah you know and and you're meant to kind of do certain things and for for whatever reason that wasn't meant to be and I ended up six months after my second audition I that's when I got Chelsea Lately you wrote for it I wrote I started as a writer I uh submitted a package uh which in hindsight is hilarious because I was writing jokes Chelsea would never say in a million like what I think I did like a Harry Potter joke I'm like you know what I mean yeah and knowing her now I'm just like what did you not know her then I I mean I watched this show but I don't think she might love Harry Potter yeah but I would do like jokes about food and like she's not eating she's drinking um but got it I got it I think because she saw something she saw something and I think she saw the opportunity to dress me up in tiny outfits and I I think that is why I got the job because she just envisioned me in a tiny outfit but she met you she met me she saw the package yeah the whole pack she wanted the whole package what year was that that would have been 2011. wow January of two I interviewed the late 2010 and I mean it really was one of those meant to be things I feel like because I was broke I was I had been a journalist for seven years but the newspaper business was you know not not thriving yeah and they had to to lay me off because there just wasn't enough income and so I I took that year I was like I'm gonna put everything into to this business and try to make it and um was broke broke I mean I did not know how I was gonna pay my rent in January and I kind of had this come to Jesus moment on New Year's with my friends where I said I just laid it all out like I'm broke I've been at this for so long everyone keeps telling me no I keep getting close to these big opportunities it's not happening and I just need something I just need something to happen and my friends kind of to break the ice because I was probably being a bummer on New Year's Eve uh my friend goes well you're gonna go to Australia you know that whole Oprah thing like you're gonna go to Australia and you're gonna Australia yeah and we all started like cheering and clapping we're like yeah we're getting Australia I got a call uh the beginning of January that they were giving me the job I'd interviewed two months before and you know just thought it was not happening they said we want you to have a final interview with Chelsea got the job the next day my first day at work this is you know a couple weeks after New Year's uh they they were like you know how was your first day you know this is amazing I think oh by the way uh in May we're gonna go film in Australia for a week and uh you're gonna come and I was like yeah so it was a real like pinch me kind of moment yeah oh my God so you were at it I mean that's the thing I love saying those things out loud because like people see you on the show and they're like oh yeah she got this thing how cool like so funny they don't always know how long people have been in it it's a long road it's a long road even now people are discovering me I've been lucky enough to be working steady since Chelsea since 2011 but you know you find you get new people that discover you and they they go oh my God isn't it cool that you just got this and you're like yeah 20 20 years into it it blew up on Tick Tock overnight you're a tick tock sensation I know well the thing is now things do happen like that they do a lot more because of social media yeah but it was it was a different time so you got The Mindy Project at post Chelsea Lately until 2015. yeah so I uh Chelsea ended in 2014. I actually left the show as a writer that year or before the show ended to pursue acting I did a pilot with Tina Fey that was so funny but it was supposed to get picked up did it and then I while I was in that experience pitched her a show of my own she produced it we filmed it for ABC that it was like so amazing so cool Annie Potts played my mom I played a version of myself but it didn't get picked up and I was so bummed yeah um but a writer for The Mindy Project one of Mindy's very good friends um uh Lang who does um the show with Mindy uh the the college girls yeah yeah they do that or yeah or no do they never say that never never have they do never have I ever uh Lang Fisher and she recommended me to Mindy she was like I just did punch-ups on this pilot this this girl's really funny yeah and it was supposed to be a three uh three episode guest star um you stuck around and I stuck around I feel like watching it again was it so fun to be honest that was the greatest show I didn't know because it was my first big acting gig I didn't know how great I mean I appreciated the moment we had an awesome time but I'm like that job is one of the top tier jobs I've had I miss it and yeah and she's so talented audition like after she wrecked the no they recommended you they gave it to me they gave it to you yeah yeah they were like you know Mindy trusted links uh opinion and maybe she went back and watched the episodes I'm not sure um but she called me and was like super cool and I knew I was in great hands because I mean Mindy's such a amazing writer and she is so the writer's room is so important to her that I knew did you do any writing on it I did it you didn't no because that writer's room was solid they didn't need me like hey you guys yeah nope and they were already three seasons in yeah I came in season four yeah yeah yeah see they'll have like every opportunity or like missed because that's another thing about the biz people don't get you know how when people post their like deadline um articles right or like variety like new show pictures so those don't don't always happen like you were saying like you did two pilots and it didn't end up happening but it led to this there's a lot of that in my life a lot of those that have been like very heartbreaking at the time have led me to some other thing that wouldn't have happened otherwise right there's a lot of pivots that I have done work but where I can look back and be like oh now I see why that happened and why that happened yeah it's it's very interesting it is life is so crazy you guys you guys life is so crazy if you take anyway anything away from this podcast you take anything away um and currently life is so crazy because obviously you're a comic you're gonna comic um and you were just in like an action currently airing with yeah an old Schwarzenegger right um the man who bar you said it stands for uh it stands up it stands for [ __ ] up beyond all recognition it's an old military term oh my God like oh like your body like you were so blown up in the war well it could be anything it could be if like any thing that's gone awry like oh okay where you're just like you know out of the tank when yeah I almost feel like every it we're totally a Fubar like it's like out of our hands out of control things like there's Mayhem it's it's that so so if you know that context of the name going into the show you know that the show is going to be over the top crazy wild things are gonna go and you play this like genius CIA agent anyone that can like know how to tip or without a tip calculator I'm like you're a genius you are so smart yeah yeah so any math skill you're a genius um I'm not a math person in real life so it's fun too yeah to pretend yeah yeah I mean uh they offered me this gig and I I honestly thought I would be the person in the van giving coordinates drinking a Slurpee she's being like that's what's up guys good luck um action which once once I like realized that they were wanting that I was like oh my God I want that yeah and so the actual part was my favorite because they probably saw something in you like they cast they wanted you for a reason yeah for it to be a little bit funny yeah they I I was definitely assigned the comedic part yeah the like uh levity and the one-liners I had a lot of that and then they let me because our creator Nick santora was uh had watched my work he was like I know you're a writer and I know you know what you do so I want you to take what we've written and run with it and just ad-libbed a lot yeah that's so cool yeah so it wasn't fun working with Arnold it was really cool I had never met him before I didn't know what to expect I mean he's been how old is he a hundred no early early 70s oh really yeah damn I want to tell you he's got giant guns still the photo of you two like he lights up for you oh we have a we have a fun report like I don't think anyone's ever seen him smile so big really yeah everyone go check out the selfie I'll post it when this episode comes out he is grinning from ear to ear did you make him laugh I make him laugh a lot I think that's what helps you know yeah you kind of just like you you sort of take away all those pretenses and just laugh together I think immediately you know when we met he knew I was a stand-up and and he just sort of we cut the formalities you know we just started joking with each other and he was telling me stories about Milton Berle and and then and then I would like every day try to make him laugh I would do his one-liners to him I'd be like oh no let's go get to The Choppa come on what are you doing and he'd shake his head did you ever in your wildest Emily dreams think you would be working with Arnold Schwarzenegger never in a million years because he was the physical fitness ambassador literally not to date myself yeah but uh back for whatever president back in the day and so they would roll out those big old TVs into the like gym and put in a video and he's like hey I'm Arnold Schwarzenegger and kids it's very important to work out you're gonna have to eat your vegetables we're gonna work out get ready let's go and so I was like 18 years old like doing jazzer Subs with Arnold and then now here I am oh my God it's crazy but that's my whole life in La has been that way yeah no one you know no one in my small Hometown growing up thought that so what does your mom think now I mean she she loves it yeah you know I talk a lot about her in stand up and my current tour especially I'm doing a lot of jokes about her and she loves being on the live laugh the live laughs she's she loves me in the center of attention she's like me she's a false sense of humility a little me okay if you want to talk about me that's great I have more stories if you want me to get up there and talk I'm like she loves the life I love the Limelight yeah is she interested in in hearing stories from you about like Hollywood and stuff um yeah I mean she finds the whole thing fascinating too yeah she's a big supporter both my parents are so they just think it's great I mean you know there was that worry when I first moved to LA because that was very academic and she was like are you sure you don't want to go to grad school I'm like to study what you know women study I'm doing that I'm studying women now yeah I don't want to go into debt and because now I know what I want to do that seems like wasteful to go to get my masters um but you know every parent I think just worries well how are you gonna make a living how you're gonna pay your bills and she certainly had reason to worry for a long time but then once you you know quote unquote make it right everybody's like I knew all oh so glad I kept on believing in you and didn't tell you to give up like you didn't even want to name me Fortune no it's so so good everybody go watch Fubar it's it's crazy it's out on Netflix yes it's doing great it's it's uh been number one for like it was number one all over the world for like two weeks almost wow uh as of today it had like almost 180 million hours watched not that you're 10 minutes I mean they give you these stats they know or you're just like the first two weeks like they track it every week how many people watch so exciting but you know so we don't even need you guys don't watch yeah guys we don't need you we're fine we're ready like stopping the chart well it's cool because you know Arnold's so beloved internationally and and here as well so you know people are definitely going to tune in for him but we have such a strong cast that everyone's really loving The Ensemble no that's so cool he also also hasn't done done anything in so many years uh yeah I mean he's because once he was a governor he was like really on that path of like doing doing those kind of things you know I know everyone forgets he was the governor for eight years you're here to tell his like life story he started he's got a documentary out on Netflix right now why promote me when I can promote someone who's hugely famous okay so let's get back to you okay everybody go watch Fubar if you don't want to it's fine it's fine you can watch Good Fortune or sweet and salty on Netflix yes she's a Netflix girl yeah I get around I'm also alone Izzy cake season one I don't know what is it cake is it cake you've never watched that show here I'm gonna blow your mind okay you have to decide if something Escape it's like fake cake yeah people make things like that looks like a bowling ball yeah but is it cake [Laughter] what a judge yeah season one and who I'm here to plug it's okay too I'm not on that where you would are the people people come um are you the judge that knows the answer or do you not know we don't know the answer me or whoever there's three judges judges or whatever I can't believe you you never heard of it it was like last Summer's hit okay I didn't I'm sorry let me get the stats out for how many people watch no that actually sounds better than Fubar kids loved it yeah that was a big hit with kids for the summer did you eat it oh yeah you didn't taste it too not not usually is great that's right yeah yeah but yeah there's like a table of things like tacos sometimes it's real tacos sometimes it's okay that looks like tacos I love were you a judge in the hole no one literally one episode the very first one but everyone thought it was my show so they kept watching for you because um they put my big old face on the Netflix thing looking at cake like like I love cake okay so sold on that so is there any other project for anyone else I should vlog um um Netflix in general yeah I I have bopped around a lot of Netflix things okay let's get back to you okay okay I've been in like 13 Netflix things but I don't want to plug myself um speaking about red because that's Netflix yes is that a good transition red I don't know it's a red logo oh okay sure that's a fantastic transition you're touring right now like you said yeah um and you're also touring some red States oh there's your transition you guys hello Emmy nominated yes I perform it everywhere wow yeah how's that I mean I'm Southern so yeah that's not like that's crazy people are like you're gay going into the South like that's why I'm asking because you did make the news it did [ __ ] everybody there's a gay coming to perform otherwise I wouldn't have thought about it but like it's in the like it's made yeah someone decided that was like big time like you went to Oakland there's a guy coming to Tulsa and she was okay so it's not crazy no I mean I think that's the beauty of Comedy it it sort of is that weird there's not many bridges that get people to or you know together anymore she is High um I am but if you make people laugh they will sometimes not you know that they don't think about the other things they're just like oh this person makes me laugh yeah so I have found especially on this this tour in my last tour uh you know a lot more people want to see me that I would have never expected I would like we have different belief systems you know they're like I'm not sure how I feel about you gays but you're funny so it's you know and so that's been an interesting thing and and talk a lot about it though on the show too it's not like I'm just telling stories about my life you know I'm just telling stories about my relationship my marriage I'm talking a lot like I said about my mom the stories that people can relate to of all different backgrounds and so it's sort of bridging that Gap in a way that I had never expected but I'm just touring like I'm not like Point specifically picking certain places yeah well I'm just going all over the country but I love being that there are places I'm going to where they don't have representation they don't have someone telling their stories do people come up to you and and yeah yeah a lot and so I guess the story is I don't shy away from this place and that also you do really well in them like yeah I love you yeah a lot of the shows sell out and people come because you know it's a place where they can see themselves in my stories and and they're looking around in a room full of people who are like them or Allies or you know that it just feels good to have a room full of people um that are laughing and accepting and and maybe they don't get that on a regular basis in those certain you know wherever they live where were you that you posted something really funny Kentucky that you roll down oh yeah oh my God I literally so tell the story so I was doing a show in Lexington Lexington Kentucky and I was driving through some smaller town beside Lexington and there were two lesbians in the parking lot that were saying goodbye to each other so they kissed to say goodbye and I was so pumped to see two lesbians in the South kissing then I rolled out my window and I went lesbians [Music] like but in my mind I'm like go lesbians but in the South you forget that that can be a hate crime and they so they like ducked and I went okay yeah and I was like no no that was a gay lesbians not uh you're in trouble lesbians so I went on stage that night told everybody what happened and they were like what is wrong they were laughing so hard I was like I just was trying to support lesbians in Kentucky no that literally cracked me up um speaking of a lesbian yeah there are two in this room your wife's here there are two unless anyone else has anything do you does anyone want to confess anything um your wife so adorable right this was before we started but she like fixes your shirts she flaps me ah she's white she just takes really good care of me I she was I was saying she was a kindergarten teacher for 13 years she has her master's she's very smart very accomplished and she's like I'm over here fluffing you what's happening but that's love that's true love so how did you meet we met at Chicago Pride what like the a parade yeah well the day before the parade where the Le the lesbians what do they do they're in a parking lot because lesbians aren't allowed to have bars anymore apparently um so once a year lesbians descend on the parking lot we're allowed to have one space um and people were like are y'all here to valet cars or are you having a party and it was a party in the parking lot for Chicago pride and cool I was watching I was there to introduce some people oh you were kind of working ish yeah and um I was watching the bands and she and her friend walked up and I was like who's this gal was this one you were famous already I was like everything it was like post Chelsea Lately so people didn't know who she was Jack that's right that's what's up but her friend but her friend wanted a picture and was too nervous to ask because I was you know kind of a big deal and Jack was like who cares like yeah she's like whatever she's on she's like she's on Shelby who cares and um no she's she keeps me humble oh but uh yeah I thought they were together oh yeah yeah so I I just was very polite like I you know took a picture was like happy to do it but I was like clock did you take a picture with her too or do you not care she was that's funny when like only the one friend wants to take a picture and they're like do you want one too oh no you're like I'm good and you're like okay well some people a lot of people like to take pictures wait so she that night so how did it progress so then she went they went away and I just kind of clocked like Oh that girl was really pretty um but didn't think anything about it and she went and looked at the picture and she's like no no this is picture is horrible um she hated the picture and basically was like you can't post that and the girl was like but that was the whole point and they came back and I thought so then I I never had a lot of confidence when it came to talking to women like I was always assuming they were looking at the person behind me but it gave me like a a false sense of confidence I thought she was coming back because she liked me I don't know I might have had a drink or two yeah and um and so she we took another picture she was like the picture was bad like sure it was you know it's like you left you accidentally left yeah in my place and then we kind of like our arms lingered after the picture yeah and then we just kept excuse me running into each other all night but I I was like oh she likes me because she came back for that picture yeah and like later she's like no that picture was terrible I really wasn't coming back to hit on you so yeah we just kind of ended up hanging out all weekend oh my God and then she left and we just kept talking and she uh went to Italy with her mom for like three weeks and we kept were you both in L.A at that time though no she lived in Chicago oh and I lived in L.A so how did what how did you do it long distance for a while yeah well she after she got back from Italy we I we just both were like come out I guess I'll come out and I'm like you should come out to LA for like five days but we realized we barely knew each other yeah so I it was on the way to the airport where I was like what am I doing and it was her flying to La going what am I doing yeah and we met at the airport kind of like two Strangers Like hi someone when you're in long distance and someone visits someone you're like together yeah you like stay together yeah you stayed I'm like we're about to spend five days together what if we hate each other like this could be a disaster and she was like what am I doing we both were just like this is nuts yeah um and so it was like a awkward for the first couple hours we kind of didn't look at each other she was like this and then we just found that like space that we had when we were hanging out that weekend where we were as fun and comfortable and then there was like we were never never felt like strangers after that so how long until she moved to LA a year oh wow yeah we know maybe those like super hardcore lesbians yeah but we were so exhausted I was on tour she was meeting me in a lot of cities but she was also teaching full-time so she would like leave her classroom at you know three o'clock on a Friday four o'clock flat or whatever City we'd spend the weekend together she'd fly back have to go right into teaching I was flying to visit her she just wanted to visit me we were both so tired at so at the end of the year a week she had to decide before the new school year she didn't want to leave a class halfway through the year and we kind of had to be like are we doing this or we're basically like we're either gonna you're either gonna move cross country or we're gonna break up yeah and I'm very lucky and you got married in the pandemic 2020 2020. congratulations one of these oh so it's a wedding ring um yeah we did it did you propose did you do a joint proposal a joint proposal that there's nothing I want more than a joint foreign [Laughter] this is not my plan that I didn't want to get married so what did you what did you guys do uh I took her up to I was gonna go to one place that um but the wildfires uh shut that hotel down and it was a place we had gone to early on in our relationship so it was very special so I had to Pivot very quickly yeah damn it I talk about it my special Good Fortune uh it all went wrong I it was this very fancy place but like I paid all this money to get the ocean view that I mean this lady up charged me so hardcore she's like you're proposing you need to get the ocean one don't you're gonna get the cheap one the cheap The Cabin in the Woods um but the cheap cabin in the woods is like very updated and she's like no you're gonna need this old ass cabin that looks at the ocean we got there and it was fog there was fog for three days you could not see your hand in front of your face she never knew that there was an ocean outside of our cabin so it was like all this money for an ocean view that we never saw it was just like one of those things where everything was kind of a hair off yeah yeah and I probably should have aborted the mission that weekend and found another way but I was just like in my zone like this is happening yeah we were two in it already yeah and we had a very fun waiter who was very excited to be part of the evening and but like two like two into it he's you know I'm like they're doing stuff to the room can you like give me a signal at the end of dinner like do you mind checking to see if the room's ready because I was having them do like rose petals out all the bachelor stuff basically you know the strawberries with chocolate all that stuff and uh you know he was like sneaking over behind her and giving a big thumbs up like it's ready yeah it was like so funny to me all out of love he was lovely yeah um but I I kind of like uh I I take creative license with him in Good Fortune to make him even more ridiculous yeah yeah um but that was all in in fun uh gist and then we go to the room and it's so it was weird it was like the room was weirdly lit like in in a way that wasn't romantic more of just like does someone leave the bathroom light on and it so it had this like we're like adjusting our eyes and we're looking around the room there's rose petals everywhere but like dead white rose petals it looked like a funeral home no no red roses no heart shape it looked like a leaf blower had they brought a leaf blower and just like and it's like there's your rose petals so she was like what this can't be a proposal like she wasn't even thinking it was coming because it seemed insane the chocolate covered strawberries they placed right in front of the fireplace they did start a fireplace the fire which was nice but they put them literally right in front of it they were met like soup and the champagne was on Ice that all was melted and I'm just standing there like this is this is it this is what I got and you know I I was so in my head of like this is not what I had in mind but I had to you know we're in it I gotta go I get I'm going down on one knee so I for sure the least romantic proposal I feel like you wouldn't think that or do you agree no she she agrees well at least I feel like in what you do you're like but it'll make it good well at the time I wasn't kind of embarrassed I was like oh this is embarrassing because everyone's gonna ask her about how I propose yeah I at first was kind of shy away from the story of like well let's just chalk that to like a story we don't talk about and then of course one day we're hiking and she's like if you want that proposal story is probably pretty funny if you want to buy that people are gonna die at that store yeah oh my God I love it I think especially guys related with that right yeah I often have that pressure of having to figure it out and shows like The Bachelor have not helped you watch The Bachelor I used to but now who has the time yeah for two hours wow they're three hours long they are now without commercials it's three yeah that's true I don't do it anymore either I used to that I can't when did you stop a couple years ago like who was the last one who was that Clayton Colton oh my Colton might have been the last one okay he came out yeah um okay a few questions okay before I let you go oh no don't let it in are we best friends now are we sure okay no yeah of course do you like long-distance fringes I do all I need is like Instagram comments all right I'll check in every now okay um so you're meeting a lot of celebs in this world yeah is there anyone that you're Starstruck by like that you would be um well this is so funny because it's of the times right now I mean clearly I'm watching Vanderpump Rules like everybody whoa and it's by the way you guys we're filming this on a Wednesday it's tonight it's the big reunion are you watching yeah are you watching Live Well actually well Jax doesn't watch it so we'll see oh she's like I just what how's your hair do I have to watch Phantom have you gone into how haven't you pulled her into it I should I don't know I've been watching it on the road by myself like did you start from the beginning or did you not after Scandal so I started a scannable I'm one of those people you're one of those people so the Scandal was so big that I was like okay well now I'm fascinated so I was like I can't I don't have the time to go back to season one I went back to season five but it was kind of cool watching five and the current one simultaneously yeah because there was a lot of going back in the current season a lot of going back to those times yeah that I was already so I was like up to date with it oh wow good for you now I'm at like seven but still watching the current one but at least I saw LOL I can't last night and where'd you see her Carbone like randomly yeah randomly I never met her she's friends with people that I know someone said hi she's lovely yeah she is and I said uh thank you for entertaining me uh in these days in these days it's crazy yeah so that was a big Star Striker so yeah that was a fun yeah that was a good story so that was my Vanderpump uh Vanderpump run in but I've met some I mean really amazing I've gotten to work with some amazing I know you really have I like worked with recently Jennifer Garner yeah that was cool to like uh first day they're like you're gonna drive her in an ambulance no pressure there so that was for this cute movie yesterday I've got to drive Jenna ranison in an Uber for office yourself why are you driving so much I think I just have skills I filmed a movie a couple months ago where I'm driving a boat no stop yeah damn I'm a handy a handy yeah you are I also have a question I heard another comedian talk about this recently in an interview that like people always assume that comedians are funny all the time yeah and like the funniest person in the room and like if you invite them to a party they're gonna be like the vibe yeah not always yeah there are certainly comedians like that yeah but there's too much sometimes it's too much you're like can you let's not do bits no yeah I'm I personally I'm in the middle yeah I can turn it on if I go to a party I can be the life of the party grab the mic at karaoke and I'm like let's go you know I'm like everyone's drinking person oh wow oh you're in college okay yes okay or I can be the the weirdo in the corner eating cheese we really don't know what we're gonna get yeah um but I don't have that like incessant need to be on all the time yeah so I you know somewhere in the middle yeah I can be that chill person that's just we're on a couch like you know getting deep all of a sudden it's like tell me about your childhood I can be that person too so so many things going on like we talked about taking over Netflix yeah bar specials touring what what's your next dream what's the next thing my net my next stream because I've been lucky with TV I've got to do a lot of cool TV projects um I would really love to be a lead in a movie I would love to spearhead some sort of big fun even if it that if an action comedy even in that world driving something driving something speeding so stop the strike yeah but um yeah I would love to like have I've done really funny bit Parts in movies where I come in and I'm the ridiculous person yeah but I would love to do that for a whole movie yeah uh and I write a lot I've developed a lot of stuff I'd like to make one of my own that I've written um that would be cool to be on the creative end of it and and get to put that um producer hat on as well so that's my next I love that movies yeah but you know I'm always touring I'm on the road right now everywhere all over the US I'm going to have any New York dates uh we're gonna announce New York we're we're put in the challenge for a theater uh and we're waiting to see if it clears so hopefully it could be better let me know about those New York dates that's right early it'll be early next year though oh cool um yeah and for the for the meantime I'm going to Dayton Ohio you want to come there yeah and uh Australia New Zealand I'm doing a little International situation but so many places you know I'm going back to my home areas Charlotte and Greensboro and Asheville those they always are very excited which is we're doing huge like yeah yeah so it's it's a fun tour and it's all new material no one has seen this you know as far as on Netflix and stuff cool because people are like I don't want to watch your special because I'm coming to the show and I don't want to ruin it I'm like no no it's all it's all new yeah give us the views in both of the places please yeah so listen you're amazing Fortune you're so much fun you're so much fun thank you the podcast is awesome I appreciate you having me on it oh my God I appreciate you being here I would love to plug you plug me it's like me please what please I said please watch please listen I'm not just kidding [Music] my podcast is just fat wait it felt just fast I have a radio show I do a radio plug it uh what a joke with uh Papa and Fortune I'm like what is the name of my radio show serious right no yeah it's on SiriusXM for Netflix again unfortunately you're a gem but I hope to send that I hope to come on here again really maybe I'll be not skinny but not fast okay I thought you were serious what's up so you want to come on I do want to come on okay but right now I'm just fast I know it's a dog I want to be not skinny but not fast no it's great because I always hear it and it sticks in your head it is because it's like what is that yeah yeah that is same marketing people you're smart get with it okay thanks guys

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Published: Sat Jul 22 2023