Guess Who's Back, Back Again! 🎀

Host: May June (@fugettes)^* · Sun, Aug 16 2026 · 1:06:18 · 3 active voices (plus music)

TL;DR

• May June reopened the Fuggettes Space after a few weeks off, easing back in with zero agenda and a "we are so back" energy. [5:49]
• Most of the hour was a warm travel debrief: May June's first trip to Egypt for a friend's wedding, and guest Show's long history of medical mission trips to Africa. [12:17]
• NYC prep was a running thread — Show is heading to NFT NYC side events in two weeks, nervous about the city but excited to finally meet the community IRL. [21:03]
• A candid detour into the craft of running Spaces: cutting off monologuers, filling silence, and surviving X "rugging" you off the mic. [46:05]
• Fugs housekeeping: two big partnership announcements this week (including one with LT3), Fugs official Spaces Mondays 1pm ET, Fuggettes Thursdays 1pm ET. [1:00:56]
• Closed with the traditional founder tribute song that the community swears sounds like it's saying the founder's name over and over. [1:02:56]

Highlights

"We are so back." [5:49] May June opens the first Fuggettes Space after a multi-week vacation gap, framing the group as a community-led subcommunity for women and the wider Fugs community that she's run largely solo since last September — nearly a year now, a milestone she's quietly proud of.

A very new fugget [9:25] Show introduces herself as only a few months in, multitasking through the call while making "a couple cheesecakes," and immediately glancing at SB's PFP as the resident who "just makes us laugh."

The jetlag math [11:02] Show offers the traveler's rule of thumb — one day of recovery per hour of time difference — leaving May June to note she's got several more days of Egypt-to-Canada fog to sleep off.

First time in Egypt [15:59] May June recounts flying out for a high-school friend's wedding — a friend she hadn't seen in seven years — and realizing it was her first time on the African continent at all, sparking a shared confession that neither of them was ever a geography star.

The tourist tax [19:40] The food talk turns gently honest: chicken burgers by day two, "on the shitter" by day three, and a hard-won lesson to be more careful with meat. Show, a seasoned Africa traveler, shares her team's stay-safe eating rules.

Jed's "grapply" voice [27:35] The room bonds over the surreal experience of meeting people IRL whose voices you only know from Spaces — Show teasing that she wouldn't want to meet Jed in an alley on voice alone, and May June admitting she once had to show Angel a clip to confirm it was really him.

The fam brings the receipts [35:00] A community-team member ("the fam") who'd just visited Egypt himself adds texture — the wealth gap, the harassment tourists can expect near Giza (including the classic "let me take your photo" phone-ransom hustle), the resort coast full of Europeans, and mosques and churches literally built atop one another through the country's history.

"He would absolutely never thumb us down." [54:00] Asked in chat whether he's coming to NYC, SB answers with a thumbs-down emoji — which Show gallantly insists must mean "not going," not disapproval of them — right as SB cheerfully keeps spamming the thumbs-down button. May June cracks up at the timing.

Fugs news [1:00:56] Before playing out, May June flags two partnership announcements this week, teases an announcement-of-an-announcement with LT3, and reminds everyone of the schedule: Fugs official Mondays, Fuggettes Thursdays, all 1pm ET.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "So for the people that don't know, we are so back." — May June [5:49]
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• "I love to you know just spread the pink sparkly vibes for everyone, but at the same time, every girl in here has their own personality." — May June [8:35]
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• "You gotta get back to the grapply voice... the one that scares me. I don't want to meet you in an alley with that voice." — Show, on Jed [27:35]
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• "I've learned to be comfortable on opening my mic and cutting people off." — May June, on wrangling monologuers [48:52]
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• "Now I get to harass people officially, so let's go. No more 'hey, I'm just a holder.'" — the fam, on joining the community team [55:14]
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• "I'm not just a pink gopher. I'm not just the Fuggettes, I'm not plural. I'm May June." [1:00:56]
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Who said what

• May June (@fugettes)^* — host; guided the whole hour, recapped her Egypt trip, gave Fugs news, and reflected candidly on how the Spaces have evolved from her hour-long solo "radio" monologues to relaxed group chats.
• Show (guest) — fairly new fugget and frequent co-host of the Super(highgasfees) Space; brought years of Africa medical-mission experience, prepped aloud for her first solo trip to NYC, and traded hosting tips.
• The fam (community-team member) — hopped up mid-Space with firsthand Egypt context and plenty of dry banter about "officially" harassing people into becoming speakers.

Worth a full listen

• [15:59]–[42:24] — The Egypt travelogue. Between May June's wedding trip and the fam's own recent visit, this stretch is a genuinely rich, two-perspective portrait of the country — the welcome, the hustle, the wealth gap, the architecture — that a bullet list flattens.
• [46:05]–[51:24] — Running Spaces, honestly. May June's practical advice on reclaiming a conversation from a monologuer and getting comfortable talking over someone is the most useful few minutes for anyone who hosts.
• [1:02:56]–[1:05:23] — The founder song. The full "is it really saying that?" community in-joke only lands if you hear it play out.

* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.