Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - FORTUNE FEIMSTER Almost Got Trampled by Elephants

Episode Date: December 10, 2024

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:NissanSo 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 AirbnbThanks 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 FramesSave 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. BluelandRight now, get 15% off your first order by going to Blueland.com/trips Executive Producers: Rob Holysz & Jeph Porter Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Coordinating Producer: Derek Johnson Mix & Master: Josh Windisch Episode Artwork: Analise Jorgensen

This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by Nissan. Adventure calls in the first ever Nissan Rogue Rock Creek. Learn more at NissanUSA.com. Here we go. Hi Pashi. Hi Sufi. I want to start by saying I feel as though I've been done dirty. Done dirty?

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 listener episode. I think it was the listener episode, yeah. So, because it was just listeners who would send 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. And then at the very end, you pointed out that I drank my smoothie weird. Right. It looked like it was either very thick or you just sort of- It was. 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. So 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. 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 wanna, you know, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch any episode, but by all means, go back and watch the listener episode where just, I feel like ganged up upon. Yeah, it's, gosh, I wanna say it's like minute 37 or minute 47. We're gonna have to give him the time, my God. Yeah, it's, gosh, I want to say it's like minute 37 or minute 47.

We don't have to give them the time, my God. 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 got to show them. But I said- Well, that's a credit to you. 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. Yeah.

Yeah, if it was comedy V vanity, comedy won because it is very, it's a huge hit to my vanity. So anyway, I have enlisted in straw university. Do you know what else it's called? Do you know what else it's called, Josh? Suck school. That's better than what I'm gonna say. What were you gonna say?

Straw-ledge. Oh yeah. That's the difference. That's where you know I'm a dad and you're not, that I went for the shitty pun and you had the funnier one. Yeah. Sucks for me. How are things going over at the suck school?

It's not great. I mean, I don't wanna, there's an on the nose review of it that I'm not gonna say, but let's just say it's bad. Stinks. Yeah. Yeah, I believe it. 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. Yeah, it was great. Yeah.

Yeah, people, a lot of comments sort of among the staff and some long time 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. Also- 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 a delight. 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.

Oh yeah. 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. 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 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 sort of watch Mackenzie's bit on the show. Sure.

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. I agree. 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, I guess. That was in the body of the interviews that Big Gun left? Yes.

Yeah, great. 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? Yeah, I also sort of don't like to watch ourselves back. Would you say that might be what it is? 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. 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.

First thing, Friday morning, say, 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, 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. Yeah, this is Star Wars, 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, the first one or the fourth one? You know what I mean?

Like it's so, 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 watched Star Wars. Kids have 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. I mean, you'll 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 like sound level and also, yeah, not being in your own house. Yeah. Makes kids question whether or not, to a degree, can I be talking in here? 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. Oh. That's just gotten back to them. Do they, they've also, I hear the kids are ruining the crying game. 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, 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.

Yeah. And so that really stinks. Yeah. 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 is on.

Yeah. And it's just, you see R2 and C-3PO are going down the hallway and behind them is a silver C-3PO. And then there's an explosion and that C-3PO just sort of falls into a hallway and you never see it again. Right. Literally the only thing I actually wanted

to talk about the whole movie. Where was the silver C-3PO? Is he in the next movie? I'm like, you're never gonna see him again. You're never gonna see him again. 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. Yeah. And Ash hates it, cause he hates ceremony. Ash hates anything where you're supposed to feel emotion. Uh-huh. By the way, I had fully my like voice cracked when Han came back and rescued Luke. and 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 she's putting her medals on and asking, who's that? I'm like, Jesus Christ. But so much fun. We had one of the best, you know, obviously I'm only counting

Thanksgivings without you, Pashi. Sure. But as far as Thanksgiving's without you, maybe the best one ever. I heard it was great. Giant dance party, giant conga line. Conga line around the whole house. Everybody was in a great mood, incredible food.

How was yours? It was great, yeah. Yeah, really nice. And then Mackenzie's hometown does this thing called Moonlight Magic, where the whole town is sort of like their 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. Friends of ours host an annual soccer game and they have a proper, on their farm, they have a proper soccer field their farm, they have a proper soccer field, like cut out.

Okay. Like the dream, if you're a kid. Yeah. Like a little soccer field, two nets. Okay, I was gonna say, a full-size soccer field. 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, yeah. And really fun, parents and kids. And Ash is incredibly fit, but much like his dad, he's incredibly clumsy. Yeah. 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. I'm not sitting here being like, yeah. Final score was like 30 to a hundred. 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. 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 winds. Yeah. No clean winds with this guy. Well, you probably put your hand up too high

and it took his eyes off the ground. And I mean, I asked him to do a second thing other than just running. So it was a really nice Thanksgiving. Great, yeah, excellent. On to the next. On to the next. And yeah, again, go over to our YouTube family trips

with the Myers brothers. 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. Yeah. And now Sam's sending the time code. 4022, go to 4022. But you know what? If you're gonna shame me,

at least click like and subscribe or like it or subscribe it, I don't know. Yeah, it's also 40.02. It's two seconds after the 40 minute mark. Oh, I see. I was trying to get him. Or go to 40.32 and... There's some good stuff there too.

There's a lot of good stuff there. All right, buddy. We're talking to our friend, Fortune Feimster. She's a delight. Everybody who's listening is a delight. So Jeff Tweedy, come and listen. We're joined by our friend, Fortune Feimster. She's a delight. Everybody who's listening's a delight. So Jeff Tweedy, give him a listen. Family chips with the Myers Brothers.

Family chips with the Myers Brothers. Here it goes. Hi. guys. Hi, Fortune. What's up? How are you? I'm so good. How are you guys? 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. You don't even think I have headphones and I do. Yeah a fellow podcaster. Your gear is top notch. You look great. Lighting's good. You don't even think I have headphones and I do. Yeah, my God. It's like you're a drummer for a rock band.

That's right. 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? 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. She already kind of does. 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're never the one deciding where to go eat. You're never the one deciding what sport we play. You're just tagging along. How much older were they?

we play, you're just tagging along. What, how much older were they? They are, my middle brother Jay is three years older than me and then Price, the oldest, is three years older than him. Okay, gotcha. And they say that girls mature faster. Did you feel that you were more mature than your brothers when you were at a very young age? No, I definitely gave them the middle finger a lot.

Okay. 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 just gave me the bird. And she was like, Price. And I'm like, second. So my maturity level did not come for a bit.

Gotcha. They were big into wrestling. So my maturity level did not come for a bit. Gotcha. Fair enough. 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 bumbled. 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? Yeah, we did 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 summer times, uh, it was a little bit tighter, but my mom wanted us to have those experiences. So I really like family trip will be to drive to like Holden beach. Um, 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 that has been swept away by hurricanes like 20 years ago. Um, 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 love being on the beach. Just the wind in my hair. Was there a little town close by? Could you sort of like, was there a boardwalk or what's the vibe? There was a boardwalk and the big thing to do in town was one of those waterslide 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. How would you ruin the fun? We were at the boardwalk and 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 gonna 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. Jams were known for their poorly made pocket linings.

Yeah, yeah. So I guess I wasn't mature, but I thought I was responsible. Yeah, no, that's an act of responsibility. 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 wanna be on my own doing my own thing? 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. I was in the MC Hammer, I'm like what's happening? Also by the way, I feel like when you're going through a midlife crisis, you don't wanna be hanging out with your youngest of three. No. I feel like that's sort of a real reminder

of where you are. Yeah, I knew something was up because neither of my parents were big drinkers and suddenly my dad's like coming out of a hotel bar with a pitcher of Long Island iced tea. I'm like, what's happening? How old are you when you take a vacation like this, when you headed out to the beach?

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 like- So you got the big one in. And I think a lot of, by the way, I think a lot of parents divorced right after that trip.

Oh, for sure. Because they also- They checked that box and then- There was also five of us squeezed into a car, you know? And it's not comfortable, 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 sitting in the middle of the house. Was it a palpable tension in the car, do you remember? Like when you think back, yeah. Yeah, cause when we did that Disney World trip, my dad insisted on renting a convertible. This was like, we're in Florida, we're gonna get a convertible,

and that's like the tiniest car. So you're talking about five very large people squeezing this car, and my brothers would like burp in my face, and there was no personal space. It was too much. It's not like these days where every family has like, you know, eight seats in an SUV. Yeah, yeah.

Pilot seats, cup holders, your own screens. They're on TVs. Yeah. Oh, God. Were you all in one hotel room on a trip like that? Would you pile in? Yeah. Oh yeah, we got that, we were calling the motel,

we need a roll in bed, please. Was that you? Were you on the roll away? I think one of my brothers were, because they were like a bigger person and I could squeeze into a bed better. Yeah, that's so funny. It was miserable.

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. 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. And so we had all these winter clothes and that year, gave me a faux fur. If you want to know what path my mom was trying

to get me to go down. I wore this faux fur to Disney World, and it was about 101 degrees. I mean, to be honest, like, she might have pushed you the other way. Like, you were like, this is a disaster. I mean, to be honest, like she might have pushed you the other way. Like you were like, this is a disaster. 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.

How old is that? You said that was around 12? That was around 12. I think that was, that might've been the straw that broke the camel's back. Is it true that when you were 12, your mother did something very unique for your brother's 18th birthday? Mm-hmm. Very true. 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. Yeah, she was very into stereotypes.

Her hobby was stereotypes. I want to enforce the patriarchy upon my son. Um, so my family loved to eat at Hooters, um, because this was, you know, the eighties and nineties where you couldn't see boobs on your phone yet. And it's very scandalous, but we didn't care. Like you 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, know, 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 nineties could have in their entire life. She hired two Hooters waitresses to come to our house. I didn't know you could just have some house parties. They showed with buckets of chicken wings and hula hoops. And she had all of this for him. These hooters bitches are hula hooping in our backyard. All these 18 year old boys, their minds, their heads are exploding. 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. By the way, I feel like other parents wouldn't necessarily know what that was alluding to. Yeah, I just remember shoving chicken wings down my throat and I think I also hula hooped with the Hooters waitresses and all the guys were like, no, no, no, no, no, we don't want this. 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. Yeah, kids meal. Yeah. 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. It is a great plate when you think about it. Yeah, perfect plate.

Yeah, that's a fantastic. That's the Disney world for kids. Yep, a different kind of kid. That's their Disney world. A different kind of kid, yeah. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by Nissan. It's time to fuel your inner adventurer

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Hi 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 half shirt, which is just a classic thing in our childhood, 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. Well, that's so lovely to hear. Book your next awesome trip today at airbnb.com. So, I know you lived after college, you lived in Spain for a year? I did, yeah. Had you been to Europe before then? No, I got bit by the bug, as they say, the travel bug.

When I got to college, I went to the small women's college in Raleigh, North Carolina. I had never been out of the country. Like I said, my biggest trip was Disney World. And 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 eight thousand people. And I was like, I had no idea what was beyond this town of eight thousand 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 sunup to sundown. And by the end of the summer, I had $7,000, which to me could have meant a million.

And- You almost considered just retiring. 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 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. How much Spanish did you have before you went over there? In Poco. But it stayed with you. 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

a lot of other languages is 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 piña, gracias, de nada. What's happening? Why did you pick Sevilla? 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 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 now I go, oh, you lost your hair because of stress. She goes, see. And I'm like, okay. And we just watch telenovelas together.

The stress go away. I got a haircut like 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, like, cut all my hair off, like, it was very, very short. I came home, I was horrified, so upset, and I figured the one person

who was gonna understand my plight is my roommate. And she looked at me and she goes, que raro, which I then looked up in my Spanish book and it says, it means how weird. So she stresses down to a sprig and she can still call you out for being weird. Yeah. It's really fun. And so then, so two months with her and then you get your own place somewhere else? I got my own place.

A friend of a friend said that they knew someone who had an apartment who had rented it to me for cheap, 300 euros a month. That didn't seem possible. Yeah. And so I lived in this little apartment for the rest of this 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, I'd pick four countries and travel around those areas, stay in hostels. 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 URLed. Were you the kind of person that would meet people on your travels? 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're 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. I was like, all right.

So if you, the hypothetical, I was, not hypothetical, let's say Frankfurt, right? So you go to Frankfurt, stay. I was like, all right. So if you, the hypothetical, I was on a hypothetical, let's say Frankfurt, right? So you go to Frankfurt, somebody you've only known for a week. And how many days would you stay with them? I did not overdo it. It would be like two max. And then I'd be on-

And would they then, would they take it upon themselves to be like, hey, let me show you Frankfurt since you're here? Yeah, a lot of them would show me around or, you know, yeah, show me the sights. One guy in Berlin was like, are you good? I'm like, sure.

He showed me some videos of Borat. And then I was on my own. He's like, you can only get these here. This was before Borat had gone international. I was like, what is this? And yeah, that is actually pretty cool. I mean, it's I mean, before Borat went international, it'd be worth going to Berlin to see.

Yeah. Yeah. It was when his Ali G character was all the rage in Europe. Yeah. And I was like, who is this guy? So I was in the know, you know? Yeah. What was your favorite stop on any of your travels, any of those Eurorail swings? I did love the Netherlands, where you guys were,

was one of the most beautiful areas, like Belgium, all those like really cute towns in Belgium I loved and just traveling around. I didn't love The Hague. I thought that was so boring. It's so funny. So my wife, she did a semester where she was in law school working at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. And I remember the school said like, hey, this is where you're going to stay for the summer. And 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. We met the 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 of books. And maybe it's that I have kids, but I'm like, that's what I would like. Just a weird attic apartment, where I have a tiny view of a church. Exactly, and you hear church bells. It is very romantic in theory. I could never do this, what I did now.

And I don't have kids. But it's 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. Yeah. Yeah. It was, in hindsight, I can't believe I did it. I can't believe, because I just was so naive. What did your parents think? Because this must have been even more foreign of an idea to them than it even was to you. They were, like, terrified because that just didn't occur to them that any child of theirs would want to do this. A lot of people, especially in the town that I grew up, weren't traveling abroad, and Myrtle Beach

was our hot spot. 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. Um, and the only person, the only country backing us up was Spain. Um, and then was it maybe England? Um, but the Spanish, the people of Spain did not want to be any part of it. And basically, um, uh, 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 angrily. They're like, even we know. They're like, we know. That's not a Canadian accent. Yeah, we know. So the little old 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 year of just people glaring at me. Did any of your family come over to visit you while you were there? that year of just people glaring at me. Did any of your family come over to visit you while you were there?

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. Josh got his passport and wallet stolen edited in that cafe. Yeah, in Rome.

Also though, anytime a hotel tries to charge me for internet, I call down and I tell the front desk, I think it's tacky. Good, Josh. Because it's just like, it's there. You know it's there. It's there. And they're always like, we're gonna, well, we're gonna make a note that you thought it was tacky. Yeah.'re always like, we're gonna, well, we're gonna make a note

that you thought it was tacky. Yeah. I just wanted to know. Josh was like, you're trying to nickel and dime me and this water's $12. The water, I get the water. The water already cost eight when they bought it in the store,

but I'm also buying my own water. I hear you. But anyhow. They, internet should just be for all of us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was, I was so homesick. So, Internet should just be for all of us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, 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. Cause 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 going to go to 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 these. 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, we're bussing at the seams. Back, the cab driver's losing his mind. I happened to know someone who I 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? And so I made them like, I made them leave bags and we barely fit in the rental car after, even after that. It's so funny when you're like, this is why they hate us. Oh yeah. This is why. 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 and I'm like, oh, these loud Americans, so annoying. Yeah. Yeah. 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, oh, I'm a local now. Yeah. And it was weird because at that language school, a lot of the European students would challenge me on foreign policy because of the war. And I'd be like, I don't know. I've got to read a newspaper. It was a lot of pressure. I felt 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 Amsterdam, I feel like there was like, both that from 9-11 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. And then it was like, oh, nevermind. And it was like, nevermind.

And we should have known this is what you were gonna do. Yeah, how long were you in Amsterdam for? I was there for two years, Josh, you were there longer. I was there three and a half. Dang, that's a long time. And yeah, yeah, it was right out of college I was there for two years. Josh, you were there longer. I was there three and a half. Dang, that's a long time. 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 not.

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 got to get out of here. It was almost weirdly, almost like a false sense of security and career. But then- But not at the same time? We had a brief overlap. Yeah. Oh, God.

Yeah. I forget how long you were there for. Six months, I think. Yeah, six months. Oh, nice. Have you ever gone, have you ever done stand-up in Europe? I have, yes, my first shows were pre-pandemic, I think, 19. I did a week in London. Oh, great.

And that was very eye-opening because they, I did the American comic thing where I did crowd work in the beginning. I was like, you guys are going to love this. You're going to 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 in standup here in the States, unless it's 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 work. Over there, they were 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 wanna be part of all of it. Yes, right, but British people, you're right. They're like, yeah, we paid for you to do it. 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 did able to finally get back and I did Amsterdam, I did London, and then I did five cities in Australia. Oh, that's great. Where do you remember what theater in Amsterdam and what theater in London? 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 gonna laugh. Just know they're gonna be quiet. They're very polite people.

It's gonna feel very weird. You're gonna think you're bombing. And a lot of people then do bomb because they think they're bombing. Right. I was like, thank you for the pep talk. This was from my opener, who was a local. And the crowd ended up being amazing. So I don't, because she kept naming all

the comics who'd come and bombed. And I was like, this isn't helping. I kind of like though, I mean, I like knowing a place is hard because then any laugh you get is like wind under your wings and you start thinking, maybe I'm the first one. No one's broken this barrier. 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, it's like ha ha. I would agree, yeah. And they're just done. Yeah. They're waiting for that next joke. That's all you're getting from us. Yeah, they almost are like, what's next?

And so 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. Yeah, for sure. It hasn't gone worse. It's just like, oh, I think I had to just sort of move a little bit quicker. Yeah. For sure. It hasn't gone worse. It's just like, oh, I think I had to just sort of move a little bit quicker. Yeah. That probably helped you guys having experienced that early on with like just being more comfortable

on stage. I think Dutch, I think doing, you know, multiple years of Dutch audiences is pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. It's like when Bruce Wayne was like, I'm going to go train for like two years someplace awful. Basically, they're the reason you are successful. Thank you Dutch people. Wait, look, we have nothing but love for the Dutch.

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Here we go. Do you and your wife, are you guys travelers now? dot com slash trips 15% off Do you um do you and your wife are you guys travelers now? Yeah big time. Um, I mean as you know like stand-up is You're everywhere all the time. So in the last since things open back up with the pandemic I did two hundred city tours back to back, 150 shows each. Get out! Yeah, with two seasons of FUBAR, one in between the first tour and one at the end of this last tour. And does she travel with you? Does she come with you everywhere? Early on in our relationship, we've been together 10 years.

Yeah. She was at every show all the time, but I wore her out. Like, she, at the end of the first 100, of this 100 City tour, she is like, at the end of that, she's like, I can't, I can't do it anymore. Yeah. So she's like, I used to love to travel. You made me hate traveling. I was like, I used to love to travel. You made me hate traveling. I was like, oh no.

Um, so this last tour, she would come to, you know, the big shows like Chicago theater, the beacon, uh, not the beacon, but like the places like that. Um, 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 the European places, Paris, places in Italy. We've gone to Australia like three times. Oh my God. Yeah, we go to a lot.

We've been to Bali, Maldives. Geez. Yeah, we're always- Do you have a favorite? What would you say? Do you, it's Jacqueline, right? Your wife? Mm-hmm. Do you guys, what would you say was your favorite and what would you say, do you, it's Jacqueline, right? Your wife? Mm-hmm.

Do you guys, what would you say was your favorite and what would you say is hers? I think we would both probably say Thailand. We went, that might've 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 a very safe country. The food was amazing. We went to an elephant reserve in the middle of the jungle where we, they, they, uh, you pay to like basically help this, uh, it's a organization that rescues elephants. Um, and, uh, and a lot of people in Thailand, um, just, uh, elephants passed 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. 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 so there's- Such a terrible thing to inherit. I know. So this is amazing. It 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. Please don't give me the elephant. Love the beach house, I'd love the beach house. Give me the beach house, beach house, beach house. And so this rescue organizations, they help these families take care of these elephants. And it's amazing.

So we went to this, the middle of nowhere, Thailand jungle, washing the elephants, feeding the elephants. It was so cool. It was- Did you actually get to feed an elephant? Yeah, put the little bananas in their mouth. You get that close. You get a banana's length away.

Oh, I almost got trampled by two elephants. Oh, here we go. Don't worry, there's danger involved. You buried the lead, yeah. How many elephants are at this preserve? Oh, like, there were like 10. 10 there. And we were just walking beside the elephants

and you do get this false sense of security like you're at a Disney World. Right. 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. Alexi 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. Yeah. You know, just one of those like guys who's so capable that you you are also lured into a false sense of security. And then all of a sudden we get close to these elephants and then they just turn on us and just start stampeding. And the guy tries to start the car and it doesn't start.

And we watch the fear, his fear? Yeah. Uh oh. You're like, no, not from you. You finally got it going, but you were just like, and you just kind of like, you feel like it's a, when you got in it, it seemed like a sturdy car, 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 already. You're all right. I did not care for it. That happened to me in, I took a random trip to Alaska with my, on a cruise, great way to see Alaska, be two doves. And it was with my friends on a cruise, great way to see Alaska, B2 Doves.

And it was with my friend's family, 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 home tower for like an hour. And we had one of those same kind of guides,

this burly guy with a shotgun and it was just like, you know, of the woods. And we walked through the Alaskan woods like, and he reminds me of that neighbor, Gatsby 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 them we're coming and that scares them 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'd 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. Yeah. So do we don't tip you, right? That is a weird thing to give away at the end. We're all free. What's happening? I just want you guys to know, I know everything went smoothly, but I've been massively incompetent. We almost died. How was fly fishing? What's your take? I liked it because, you know,

if you try to do it just in a regular stream, you're not, chances are you catching something first time pretty slim to none. But in Alaska, I mean, 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.

Do you know, you must know Brooks Whelan. Mm-hmm, I do. Brooks just shot a great special in Alaska. Oh, really? And the roll-up, he went and did like tiny little towns in Alaska. Yeah. But he has went and did like tiny little towns in Alaska. Yeah. But he has a shot of him literally reaching his hand into the water and pulling out a salmon. I believe it. 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. He's like, it's the first time and they're like, yeah, but these are not, come on. They're like, they're literally everywhere. It's like going, it's like a grocery store. Yeah. There's, you know, they do that fat bear week in Alaska. Yeah. Yeah. I, 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. They're fine. Yeah, the world goes on. They don't have to wear masks. Yep. There are two rattlesnake cams now as well. Oh, really? Yeah. But that's a little creepier.

I don't think you want to look at that for hours. They freak me out for sure. Crushing It, your new special, where did you shoot it? Crushing It, yeah. I shot it in Seattle. Why did you pick it? At which theater? At The More.

Great. And why did you pick Seattle? On my last tour, I did The More 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 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 it would end the it's a big theater. So you have

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, it's so lost in the rafters. You don't feel it or hear it in the same way. And I clocked it and I was like, this is where I'm doing my next special. That's great. And did it pay off?

Did you feel like you got that same energy when you did it? Oh yeah, they were amazing. It was just, yeah, cause you know, doing these like 100 city tours and if it goes well, all you want is for that special to reflect what you've been doing for the last year and a half. You're like, I just want it to go right. 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. 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 like, I feel 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. Yeah.

I'm very proud of this one. I wanted to do things a little differently. I wore a pink suit 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 where with Tignotaro 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, you know, do something besides my typical bomber jacket. That's fantastic. I just want to swing to Tig real quick. Have you been to Tig's hometown of past Chris Chan? I have not, no. She talks about it a lot. Have you been?

I know, but she was on her pod and she really sold us on it. Yeah, we're desperate to go. And with all the cities that you've been to, I know it's not, 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.

She's very fond of it. It's in Mississippi, right? Is that what you said? Yeah. Yeah, about like an hour from New Orleans. I'm sure it's amazing. I just, they just don't have a comedy club. Yeah.

Look, if you want fortune to stop by, you need a mic, come on now. I'm gonna have to get paid. I'm not traveling for free, come on now. 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 and it's like- Pass out? Yeah. 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 tour might have been 99 cities, and this one was like 101. So you come out even. Give us a city that we would be surprised by,

that you think is a great comedy town. Like an off the radar. Fayetteville, Arkansas. Great. Perfect answer. 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, oh, 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, you know, it's Pride Month. So there's like Pride flags everywhere. It's a pride flags everywhere.

It's a very cool city. I go to Bentonville, which is what has the, the hotel. So that's the, you know, where Walmart started it. That's their, their whole area. So they got a killer museum. Yeah. Museums 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 on 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. That's fantastic. That's a heck of a way to see the country. 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. Right. 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? I think so. I think they just assume, well, that's not a place for me. And I'm just like, let's go everywhere. You know, 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 they're- Well, that's, you're providing a service there as well, man. 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 as willing to come into that theater and sit down and allow themselves to have a good time.

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. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's a ton of people and so even if it was, you know, just people who, you know. Yeah. So anyway, that's fantastic. Listen, I don't get people saying, I don't like them gays, but that's a funny story. I'm like, cool.

Maybe rethink your opinion on them gays. Yeah, there's a better way to give a compliment. All right, you gays aren Yeah, there's a better way to give a compliment. Alright, you gays aren't so bad after all. Okay. There you go. Getting somewhere. Better, better. Yeah. 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? Well, it's awesome, but now that I have Handsome, we've put that on hiatus. Okay, got you. She was like, I'm done talking.

You're the stand up. Okay, got you. Please don't make me do this anymore. Done traveling, done talking. I know, you have my horror out. You can get your Fortune podcast fixed on Handsome. That's right. 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. Josh. All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? 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 wanna see a church. I don't wanna climb a mountain. I don't wanna snorkel. Just let me eat some feta cheese.

Santorini, poolside, what is Fortune's cocktail of choice? They have this, like, it was a mango drink that was delicious. I'm an old fashioned gal at night, but during the day it's Aperol Spritz or something fruity. I agree. I also feel like in the summer, I also love an old fashioned. It's a tough summer drink for me.

Yeah, you gotta have a steak or something with it. Yeah, fall to spring I can do it, but in the summer. Negroni? I feel like a Negroni is not a bad... It's a good one. That's why I'm after all spritz. Yeah, spritz is... I have no complaints with the alcohol spritz.

The three of us can have an after all spritz and hang by the pool relaxing. We'll get the large feta to share. Three spritz. That's right. What is your favorite means of transportation? Train, plane, automobile, boat, bike, something else? Plane, just because it's the fastest way to get there. I'm so grateful I don't get like terrified of planes because I have to be on them all the time.

Yeah. Have you ever done tour bus? Have you done that? I haven't done the tour bus. I, yeah, a lot of those guys, but again, I like, 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. 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? Oh my gosh. What family? I guess just Oprah and Stedman and me. Yeah, excellent. Great pick. Yeah, great pick. I love, by the way, that you're like, and me,

you're like, your wife can't come. Yeah, oh yeah, my wife can't come too. So funny that you're like, oh, she's like, am I coming? You're like, oh, I forgot to ask. Oh yeah. But anyway, it probably would have been fine, but now it'd be weird. It feels weird to ask.

Maybe say if I could have a plus one, you know, the chef is already preparing food for the three of us, it's probably fine. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? I think we're all getting eaten by something at this point. It's my family's. I like Jack'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, cause he was in the Coast Guard for a long time. So that's something, yeah. Some nautical skills. I'll do something, yeah, he'll go fish. You're from Belmont, North Carolina? Would you recommend Belmont as a vacation destination?

I, 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 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 was 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, where can't liquor this town? I will say, weirdly enough, it like saved my town. All these restaurants came, it started becoming this like cute 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 like, you only need to simmer down. There's like one lane in and out of here. But yeah, it's a great place to visit. And then Seth has our final questions. Fortuny, have you been to the Grand Canyon? I have. I have been to the Grand Canyon. 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. What did she teach by the way? Special education. Okay, gotcha. 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 to 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. And I was like, all right. So worth it? Would you say worth it? I mean, I'm glad I've seen it. Okay. Because I feel like it is one of those 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. You might need to update that book because there's been a lot more since you've been. I did get up on a ledge to take a picture and my mom was like, do not do that.

And then she bought the deaths and the grandkids. She's like, I told you, look at all these people in this book who have died. None. I'll tell you that, if I had died taking that picture, that would not have been worth it. Right, right. Because when you get these pictures, you're like have been worth it. Right, right, yeah, that was fair. Because when you get these pictures, you're like, it's fine.

Right, yeah. It's brown. It's a brown backdrop. If you did your special and that was the cover of The Curtain, you'd be like, no. Yeah, brown is not my color. Well, that's great feedback on the Canyon. Yeah. It is a delight to see you as always, and thanks so feedback on the Canyon. Yeah.

It is a delight to see you as always and thanks so much for joining us. Aw, thank you guys. And congrats. Thank you, Josh. Yeah, congrats on crushing it. Looking forward to it. I appreciate it.

It's always a pleasure to talk with you guys. Thank you for having me. Thank you. I'm part of the family now, right? You are, absolutely. Yeah, you're in. You don't have a plus one though. Oh no.

You didn't ask. I'm gonna tell my wife. I, once you're in. You don't have a plus one though. Oh no. You didn't ask. I'm gonna tell my wife. I'm gonna tell my wife. Nah, bring her along. You got change 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, runs all the way home

Her bros were getting close She beat them, beat them, they're Jim's pocket Leave them there, gems pocket Well it had a tear And all the, all the, all the change was gone And at Disney on Christmas Day She wore a fur, it was a faux fur One hundred degrees It was a faux fur, 100 degrees, Cause her mom had not checked the weather, whoa!

The frog, he turned 18, Mom to a party, with chicken wings. And Hooters! Hooters! Yes, Hooters! Hooters! A couple Hooters girls were there! Hoot-a-hoos-in!