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Fortune Feimster Reunites With Erica DeLong on G105 · The Erica Show

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  Do you want O five? It is the Erica Show. I have Fortune
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  Feamster who. Actually I don't know if you remember this, but you were
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  the one that said, hey, there's an internship at do you want a
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  five? Y'all should try it? Because you were an intern here and you
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  got me started in radio. So I'm very thankful to you for that.
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  Absolutely. Yeah, I remember you coming up to me saying like, hey,
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  like, I know you were interning. Do you think maybe want another
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  intern? I was like, I can certainly find out, And I mean,
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  I love that it has turned into such a career for you. Yeah,
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  it pays the bills. But you are coming to DPAK two shows on
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  Saturday. You got a seven o'clock and a nine thirty show. Everybody that
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  goes to Piece or now William Piece, they're like, hey, do you
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  have tickets? We want to go? Are you going? Everybody wants to
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  see Fortune live live and love to them that's right. Yeah. The first
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  show is sold out. The second show we have tickets left. I'm hoping
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  to see familiar faces, new faces. This is my first time doing DPAK.
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  It's such an iconic theater, so I'm excited. I can't believe I'm
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  getting to do two of them. Now, do you ever do because you
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  know this is home for you. I know you're from Charlotte originally, but
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  still when you come to the Raleigh Durham area, do you do me and
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  greets or is it kind of like you don't have time because you got to
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  go on to the next thing. Yeah, I think that we have a
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  meet and greet between shows. Okay, it's just hard to It's just hard
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  to catching up because you know, we went to Peace so it was small
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  and everybody knew each other. So I obviously have a lot of friends from
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  college and I want to see everybody, but there's not enough time in the
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  day. So I'm gonna be driving from Wilmington to bat two shows there the
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  night before, and a bunch of friends were like, let's hang out.
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  I'm like, well, I've got to drive from Wilmington and then I have
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  two more shows and I need to be able to function. Uh So it
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  just, yeah, it doesn't make the hangout tom as easy. Does Jack's
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  travel with you or she stays in la She travels with me like one once
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  here there, Like she came with me to Chicago and she's come to like
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  some of these bigger markets. But she got so burnt out on the last
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  four because I have I'm doing a hundred cities on this tour. My last
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  tour was also one hundred cities. And then we also went to Toronto to
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  film Food Bar for five months. So she was like, I need a
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  break, and I totally understand. So so yeah, she comes from and
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  stays home and takes care of everything here the other times. Now, how
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  do you do it? Because I know, when it's your passion, obviously
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  you make it work. But you were filming Food Bar except for another season.
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  You've got good fortune on Netflix. I mean, you got the tour.
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  How do you keep yourself sane when you got so much going on?
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  Oh? Okay, who knows, but I'm trying. I mean there are
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  definitely days where I just jags will catch me staring in the space. Okay,
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  I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is definitely a lot.
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  I mean, but you're you know, if you remember at the Peace
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  days, I love doing a lot of things and juggling a lot of things.
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  I'm always happiest when I'm busy, right, And that has only gotten
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  you know, times five, as I've gotten older. I definitely, you
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  know, we'll be happy that this tour is coming to an end. It's
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  been such an amazing tour, one of my favorite hours. But I will
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  definitely need to come off the road. But you know, essentially, I
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  have nine days after I fill my special where I'm off, and then I
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  go back to Toronto again the film flood Bars with Arnold Schwarzenegger. So it's
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  not it's not a big break, but I'm doing what I love at least
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  even though even though I'm tired, I'm happy. And you're friends with Arnold
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  like you've met a donkey or all of us animals, like y'all hang out.
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  Yeah, I mean he's a busy guy, Recelyve former governor and as
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  busy as ever. I've not met anyone that moves around and does anything and
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  as he does. But yeah, he'll have our cast over to his house.
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  He has shary events he invites us to. He's you know, the
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  people that work for him and worked for him forever, and they're all just
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  really lovely to us. And he's awesome. So I'm excited to get back
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  to work with him. I want to. Now I know him even better,
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  so it'll be cool to like try to go work out with him some
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  and there, and you know, if he walks to a gym and guys
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  like lose their minds, they just can't even believe it. He's He's like,
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  you know, their their guy, right, I love that. And
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  you're gonna have more weight this time, right? Is that the deal?
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  That's right? Yeah? Because last time I worked out with him, he
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  kept he would do the big the big weight, which I can't do that,
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  but he would he would take the pen out and put it down like
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  Bob. I'm like, I do alone. So yeah, I think he
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  was trying. He's trying to be nice, but I'm ready for more weight.
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  It's Fortune Thiaster. I still call you Emily Fiemestra in my habit Fortune
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  Feasters gonna be a dpak. Do people do that a lot to you?
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  Or you're like, I don't know what you're talking about, Unfortune? Oh
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  no, I mean anybody that I grew up with obviously knows me by that.
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  It's just a uh it's Tom. Tom is crazy because now so many
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  people know me it's Fortune. I always thought that, you know, it
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  would be just kind of a stage name and it just doesn't work like that.
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  But honestly, for I don't mind people call me only that's you know,
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  my part of my name as well, and it's an awful family name.
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  I just I definitely feel such a connection to the name of Fortune,
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  just because it was my grandmother's maiden name, right, and she really wanted
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  me to have that name. So it holds a lot of meaning for me
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  and your mom. How often, because I died life and you had a
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  picture of your mom holding up everybody called her a slow walker? Does she
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  get Does she get to travel with you a lot? Because she's a hood
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  I love y'all together. She listen. She would love for me to take
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  her on tour and take care of her and pay for everything. I would
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  be worn out by the end of that tour if I had to also look
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  out for her. But the nice thing is when I come to the North
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  Carolina area or you know, South Carolina, Georgia, she is within driving
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  range for her, So she'll be at the Durham Show and I already know
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  she's gonna be. You know, she didn't like to go through the back.
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  She wants to go through the theater and meet everybody and talk to everybody
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  and take pastures. She loves, she loves the love, so she will
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  be in Durham both shows getting the Love. Okay, well then I'm getting
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  a picture with her and all the other piece girls that are coming. We're
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  gonna have to get a picture with your mom. And I recently saw that
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  you do a vision board every year. I do. Yeah, okay,
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  so what's on the vision board this year? You know? Jackson and I
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  were just saying, we were talking to her mom that we needed to look
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  at our vision board to see a what's come true and be what what's less?
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  But the division board would be I want to I really want to make
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  my own movie, I wrote. I've written some movies that you know,
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  it's very hard to get a movie made, especially these days, and I
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  would just love that experience of, you know, creating something from the ground
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  up and seeing it all the way through it and starting in a movie.
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  That would be cool. But yeah, I have big I have big goals,
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  you know, hopefully. I mean I'd love to be known enough one
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  day to hosts and l something like that, you know, But right now,
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  so many dreams are coming true. I'm this tours been unbelievable. I
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  sold out the Chicago Theater three months in advance, with almost a four thousand
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  seat theater. I'm starting in a Netflix show with Arnold Warson. There that
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  the world. So I'm doing all right. The division board has has been
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  working okay. So for anybody listen, because you know, like I make
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  vision boards. A lot of people do that, but sometimes they get defeated
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  if it doesn't come true. Any advice for them on that, I mean,
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  you know, you have to just keep at it. I've been in
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  LA for twenty one years. I ride here with twenty five dollars in my
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  pocket, you know, no backup plan. It was just like, I
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  want to figure this out. And you know, I never let not having
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  money or not knowing people keep me from accomplishing things. I think you just
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  have to work hard. And if you have a goal, you know that
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  gives you something to work towards. And if you just keep working hard,
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  I think that's the ticket, right. It's not sitting around and waiting for
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  something to happen. It's trying to make things. Half of yourself. Well,
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  Hooters be a part of the show this weekend. Maybe it's not part
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  of my act. But sometimes if I have time, I'll at the end
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  slide in the Hooters story as a little cherry on top. So it'll just
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  depend on the timing. But it's so fun when I can do it because
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  the whole audience kills. I have never been to Hooters when I say it,
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  Uh so that's the That's a pretty cool moment pretty much. Chili's and
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  Hooters, both of those restaurants. Anytime I see it, I'm like,
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  that's Fortune's restaurants, both of them. Are you still doing Chili's? I
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  mean occasionally, like you know, they'll reach out and whatnot, but everyone
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  loves them and so they're good. They don't need me, but it's it's
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  nice to go there and enjoy it some time the time. Fortune Feast are
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  at Deepak the Live Life and Love Tour, which I love the name.
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  What inspired the name? Just those sons, you know that our moms have
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  everywhere that they're like, this is my art, and you're like, mom,
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  that's not art. It's a word and a frame. But yeah,
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  but then you know, I ended up having one of those and Jackson's like
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  what is this And I go, oh my god, I'm sure there's my
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  mother so just that, you know, not a lot of sets about my
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  mom and Jack, and so it just felt like it fit. But also
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  I love to send to it, even though that sign we always made fun
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  of. I mean, I'm like, I don't want to live and laugh
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  and love exactly. The hope is that people come to the show and they
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  feel good, they laugh a lot, and they leave feeling a lot better
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  than when they got there. Joy is what we're we're trying to bring to
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  the table. And uh and the energy in that room, you'll feel it.
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  It's it's so good and so positive. And that's what you know,
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  makes me proud about the career I've crafted for myself and the people that come
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  and support me. It's just a lot of love and a lot of joy.
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  Well, we love you, very excited to see you. Great to
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  talk to you, you know, and thanks for America. Y'all. Go
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  see our girl Fortune Fiinster at DPAK. Two shows seven o'clock sold out,
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  but there's still a nine thirty show. That's the show. I'm going to
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  get those tickets now dpakanc dot com.