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🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Fortune Feimster joins Nick in the studio to talk about growing up gay in the South. She shares some hilarious stories about her love for Hooters, how her mom reacted to her coming out, and how she met her fiancé at a pride parade.
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0:00.0 | What is going on, everybody? Welcome to another episode of The Vile Files. I'm your host Nick, joined by my producer, Rochelle. Hello. Hi. I'm very excited for this episode. |
0:24.0 | I'm going to say, this is my favorite interview you've done. Yeah, I just thought it was really good. |
0:34.0 | For those of you who don't know who Fortune Femister is, I feel like we got Fortune right before she was way too big to come on the show. |
0:46.0 | That's where I think growing, I think she's already huge. She's already a big deal. |
0:50.0 | Yeah, but I think she's going to be. Even bigger, stratosphere. Yeah, I think she's going to be like top 10 comedians in the world. |
1:00.0 | Yeah, I could see it. She's so nice and normal and grounded. Yeah, she's been around for a while. She's had a very successful career. |
1:08.0 | Chelsea lately. But I think she's so funny. Yeah. And she's just a great person. Yeah. You'll hear in the interview just kind of talking about her life. |
1:18.0 | She is charismatic. And you just, she just has a great soul and a great perspective. I do. I truly love her. She's so great. |
1:28.0 | And so I really appreciate her coming and doing this podcast with us and have some great stories and shares a lot of wisdom and perspective about life. |
1:39.0 | Obviously, she talks about her, her stand-up special, which in her stand-up special, she talks about coming out as gay and what that was like and that experience, especially growing up and in the south. |
1:52.0 | And people can be a little bit more conservative in that part of the country. And then obviously that was personal to me as my young sister, Olivia, you know, came out and we grew up in a very conservative family as well. |
2:03.0 | And so I thought it was just kind of a beautiful story and with a lot of laughs and in fun. So I do hope you guys enjoy this episode. |
2:11.0 | Yeah. And if you like her, check out her sweet and salty special on Netflix. Yeah. What's new with you, Michelle? |
2:17.0 | Me? Oh, nothing. Nothing? No. What? Why are you looking at me like that? Nothing is new. |
2:25.0 | So I have a couple of friends trying to set me up and I've been resistant, but I'm like, why? |
2:30.0 | Because I've gotten set up in the past and then gotten to dinner and then be like, why would you think I would ever like this person? |
2:38.0 | When you get set up, do they offer you pictures? No. They refuse. Yeah, they want it to be like... What the fuck? |
2:48.0 | Because have you watched a new show Love is Blind on Netflix? I know I have it, but I heard people really like it. |
2:53.0 | Yeah, I actually really liked it too. Sadly, but yeah, there's an idea that like, it shouldn't be about looks, you know? |
3:01.0 | Whose idea is this? I don't know. What do you mean it shouldn't be about looks? I don't understand that. |
3:07.0 | Like, give someone a chance. Looks are a part of it. |
3:11.0 | But I think they're like, you have been unsuccessful so far, so maybe try something different. |
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