- Chelsea like you want to see your show.
- Fortune, I could never perform in front of you.
Give me a couple of years.
Okay.
Yes.
This is What a Joke
- With Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster.
On Netflix is a Joke Radio.
I was just in Pittsburgh and I saw your poster that you were
coming right after me.
- I know we got into town and Lindy said that you were there
that night. I was like, dang it.
- Every time I go to club they're like Chelsea was here and
sold like bazillion thousand t-shirts
and fans were having a
great time. Yeah.
People are obsessed with you. I love it.
It's.
- Nuts, man.
Yeah, it's been cool.
They like.
- Those, those titties you swing everywhere.
They love the saggy titties.
When did it all start exploding?
And this was pretty much off of YouTube, right?
- Yeah. Well, I started on vine eight years ago.
Never thought anything of it,
never thought it would be a career or anything. You know,
growing up I was, I was wanting to be on SNL.
Always wanted to be, you know, in the movies,
but never thought that doing stuff on the internet would
turn into this. So I started eight years ago.
I quit my nine to five about four years ago. But honestly,
when it, for me, when it really,
really took off was within the last year or two.
- Was it just like the consistency of posts and videos? And.
- I think it was the pandemic. I,
I gained more followers in the pandemic than I have the
previous six years, you know?
And I think people were just at home watching and I was
just, I was at home too.
So I was pumping out the content and it just,
it just took off.
- Wow. That's so great.
I'm always watching your videos cause I never know what's
going to happen.
- You never know.
And people always tell me like, well,
if you're watching your videos in public,
we like either wait or turn down the volume, like.
- Because you and your friends are not shy.
No, I also enjoy when you go to the,
like the cheesecake factory and everyone goes around and
shows what they ordered. I didn't see that one.
- If we go to a restaurant,
we'll just go around real cheesy and we'll hold up our place
and tell everybody what we die. It's so dumb,
but people love it.
- That's crazy.
Chelsea, where are you from?
Is it Oklahoma from Oklahoma? When you started vine,
where you in Oklahoma? Still?
- I had, yes.
And I was doing vine about a month
and then we moved to California.
Wow.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
We just bought some land in Nashville.
- That's where I met you at Luke Bryan's house. Yes.
Yeah. You guys a Luke Bryan's house.
It was a charity event.
And then Chelsea played a trick on a Luke's mom.
- He had told her that whole morning that there was a crazy
fan outside of the property, trying to get in.
And like security was like holding her back and she was nuts
and she was threatening his wife.
And so I get there and he's like,
we just want you to come in and basically tackle me in front
of my mom. And I'm like, oh Lord.
Great.
So that's what we did. And I felt honestly,
at first I felt horrible because I thought she was gonna
have a heart attack.
- She was smoking a cigarette and threw it down.
She was about to whoop my ass man
- She's her running towards Chelsea hitting her.
- Get off my son.
- That was fun.
- How did you come up with a Trailer Trash Tammy?
Where did that start?
- Have you ever seen the movie monster with Charlize Theron?
Okay.
So I've took like the mannerisms from that character and the
slicked back hair.
That's kinda where I got the aesthetic from.
But in terms of the content,
just that's a mix of a bunch of women.
I knew growing up in Oklahoma, everyone knows the Tammy.
Yeah.
- That's the same with my Brenda character out of
North Carolina. People asked me the same thing.
I'm like, it's like six women in all of one.
- I love it when you do that character. Cause it's so, oh,
it's so relatable. Everyone knows everyone.
Everyone knows the Tammy.
- You got to get them together one day.
- That would be hilarious.
So what are you doing in an RV.
- Or in an RV? We're traveling in an RV and check that out.
Oh, sweet.
- Yeah. You fly out to a city and then it meets you.
- It depends.
So my sister quit her job to come out on the road with,
with me. So she's, she's doing the RV,
she's doing the merch booth.
So it depends on if I have to go back to California for
stuff, I'll fly out and she'll drive the RV.
But if not, I'll drive it as well.
So we just go around.
- How did you find your group?
Cause it feels like you have a very tight group that goes,
that does a lot of stuff with you.
- I guess, internet, you know, so my opener living,
we met on vine eight years ago. Wow.
And became really good friends right away.
And she quit her job of 22 years
as a special education teacher. Wow.
To come on the road with me and she's funnier than me and I
don't care.
The world needs to see her. You know.
- Y'all were both funny, just different.
You're just happy to talk about different things.
- That's a good way to do it. Have like a,
the people that are just like part of your crew and just
stay in there. I was picking up randoms in different cities.
- I love when it's calendar time, every year,
your calendar has become a big, huge thing.
How did that, how did that come about?
- The calendar is the biggest thing I do every year in terms
of income, in terms of just fans being excited for it.
It's the biggest thing.
Really? So I do a topless calendar every year.
I don't know if you knew that.
- We do now as.
- Tammy.
- Really? These are Tammy's, not mine.
- Well that's,
that's honestly how I look at it because I would never do
it. Tacos, calendars, Chelsea.
Oh my God. Hell no.
You know what I mean?
I don't think I'm hard enough to get on, on calendar,
but Tammy does. She thinks she is the hottest thing.
My boobs are huge and saggy and not your typical
calendar boobs. You know what I mean?
So it was meant to be as a job, but oh my gosh.
I would say 90% of people that buy the calendar are women.
- Wow. Really?
- You,
this has given me so much confidence that you just do this
and they're like, I know it's meant to be funny,
but you have no idea.
Like every year I look forward to this and it just gives me
that boost of confidence and I'm about to shoot it.
I start shooting next week for next year's.
- Yeah. And I knew that with calendars,
you had to shoot really far in advance, but man,
when every time you post about and you're like,
well they're already sold out. I'm like.
- It's not stick the last two years.
The website has crashed within the first couple minutes of
launching.
- Woah. That's amazing.
It's crazy.
- I mean, at this point with your videos,
is it something that like,
you're just shooting a lot of stuff naturally cause that's
part of your life or does it feel, does it feel like a job?
Like, oh, I gotta get content.
I gotta to it a little bit of both.
- A little bit of both.
I don't have, like,
I know a lot of people that have like a schedule of filming,
schedule a posting schedule, all that I don't,
I don't do that. I don't mess with that.
But if I'm, if I've been busy and I'm like, oh man,
I haven't posted something in a couple of weeks.
I'll kind of think of something,
but I really just let it happen. Naturally.
If I have a funny idea, I'll just whip out my phone,
you know?
Right.
- Right.
And you don't have to spend a lot of time editing because
you're just going for it.
- Nope. Most of it's not even edited at all.
And mostly just cause I don't know how to do it.
- So how many dates do you have and how can people find out
about.
- And you can find me on Facebook, Instagram
at Chelcie Lynn,
my official website.
It's got my merch and tour dates on there is
eat my trash.com.
That's a real website.
Snap that up fast.
- Yeah. For real.
Like,
do you have a goal in mind or are you just like as far as
what's next, are you just kind of seeing how it all unfolds?
- No, man, I don't no goals.
If this is the top of everything I do,
I will be so happy with that.
I just can't believe this has happened. And anyway,
so I'm just happy with everything and I'm just taking it one
day at a time, riding the wave.
This is awesome, man.
This is awesome.
- It's so great. I can't wait for you to
send us the calendar,
even though it's going to sell out.
- I've got a calendar for you all.
- Yeah. It makes me want to do a calendar, but you should.
My dogs in front of my boobies.
- Do it. I'm serious.
- Intrusion.
It's a thriller that is exciting and disturbing. Adam.
- That's me. Exciting and disturbing.
- Whenever I look in magazines like in the week or whatever,
and they show these homes like you fantasize about where you
might live one day and you see these like beautiful modern
homes out in the middle of nowhere. I'm like, oh,
that looks cool.
Like with the big open windows and your film has ruined that
fantasy for me.
- Houses,
it's a character in the film and it was actually a literal
needle in a haystack that we found in Albuquerque,
New Mexico. It's a real, it's a real place.
You can go there and be traumatized all over again.
(giggles, laughter)
- Henry
The powers out.
(screams)
- Henry
- Run.
(gun shoots)
It's a real stroke of luck. We found that place.
There is something ominous immediately.
I don't know it's kind of scary.
- Any house with windows. It's just happening.
I know right, you just need sweet spot of just
enough windows when you go house shopping.
(laughter)