ONE OF EVERYTHING, SHOPKEEP! Ft. Latrice Royale ｜ Episode 165
Summary
In this episode of the Comment Section Show starring me, Queen Latrice royale, we chat about how she came to be a drag queen, how she discovered her passion for drag and how she went on to become one of the most successful drag queens of all time.
Transcript
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you look good bitch you look fucking good you know black don't crack unless you smoke it
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hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show starring me your
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favorite everybody knows me who cares about me on to the guest today we have the iconic the
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legendary the unbelievably talented latrice royale welcome to the show queen thank you
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oh my gosh i'm so happy it has we've been passing ships like literally a couple of years yeah and
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i've had i've had several people several hundred thousand people comment you should have latrice
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you should have latrice i said bitch i'm trying we're trying she's busy and successful and i'm
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waiting and i'm sitting around open and available hey hey for a coin though
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i think you are so fantastic and i'm so happy we finally got to link oh likewise i've been you know
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following watching and you know stalking obviously i know everything about you oh you do yeah of course
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i do and we also have fun facts but we'll get to those okay before that how much you dug up yeah
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i know we're we're entering a real nard war era where we're trying to to really unearth some really
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fun things i like that so obviously i'm sure as most people know obviously you did very well on drag race
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but i would love to know your lore like how you are other people to know your lore of how you came into
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drag how you like kind of discovered drag or discovered yourself through drag well that's more
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like what had happened because i did not want to do no drag like that was not on my radar gay
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or any none and um it was a dare my friends were daring me they're like because i would be lip-syncing
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now i was always lip-syncing yeah give me some i'm every woman and i was that woman right exactly but
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uh i never thought i would do drag but we used to go to drag shows and watch the girls and
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and the boogers and we're just like girl you should do drag i'm like no yeah yeah yeah um so but i did
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it for halloween i was wonder if i live in color okay um and i thought that was gonna be the end of
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it but no they convinced me to do the amateur show okay at the local bar at copa cabana in fort
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lauderdale and um i was horrible girl i got out there because let me tell you first of all there
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was no amazon prime back then yeah we talked about 33 years ago right so there was no size 16 pump
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readily available at my doorstep i could just order up a hair piece you know go on youtube there was
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none of that right going on so uh we got creative and i went out there that we found some gold liquid
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lame and a bodysuit so we pinned up the gold liquid lame on one leg and then made a turban i went out
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there and did a lyrical dance piece at the drag show and maybe they said oh no a lyrical lyrical
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dance because now i'm a color green queen so yeah so i used my dancing right to uh distract from my drag
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nope no damn they said not on tonight as a matter of fact here's a fashion citation don't ever wear that
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they said you owe me money for real we want our free drink back like for real my two drink minimum it
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was horrible but um ironically like i came back the next week and won the contest and that was the
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beginning of the never-ending story right here i am you said i found something i found something and like
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when you find it i leaned into i'm a ham soo so like if you're gonna scream and yell for me i'm
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gonna do a little bit more you know what i mean this is how i go oh you love attention oh yeah i know
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all about that that part so here we are i know i've joked about it because i'm in drag all the time
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too when i do you are done yeah i'm i'm i'm dragged out right now i love it all right but i i
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always tell people that i'm like you have to love attention to some extent to do this you have to
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you have to and i love it and here we are biggest narcissist in the world
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right for real me oh look at me i'm so stunning i'm so stunning and you are what was it as are you
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what was it that really drew you to it like other than the attention obviously well the performance
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art of it like to be able to like completely transform and move an audience like and control
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a room and a vibe entertain that's that's the whole thing and that's a whole different kind of
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skill set and um level of excellence and so when i found out that i had something special that i could
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do that i really leaned into it and like wanted to hone it hell yeah because again it fed the ego
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you know that definitely didn't hurt that's why i said why do you think we do it for no money for
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so long for so long that's why you call it the struggle right yeah we will struggle go hungry and
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we had to be crafty like we have to be crafty and create our own drag and looks and things i made things
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out of cardboard but it looks sickening on stage but don't get it wet that's all that matters all that
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matters i've had a i've had obviously i've had so many queens on the show and a lot of them have said
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too that they think bad drag is a rite of passage it's like it's like an essential piece of your
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if you're not booger your first time out you're not doing drag for real for real yeah yeah so these
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lollipop guilds that just came out here with the youtube tutorials that come out polished with their
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coiffed hair and the perfect makeup and yeah girl you have not struggled you are not doing that
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yeah that's why i because i've asked like obviously social media has completely shifted
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the the drag scene especially rupaul's drag race becoming so popular outside of the community it's
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geared towards like it kind of and drag queens becoming so popular amongst other audiences that
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they're not normally gravitating towards so all of that has kind of shifted the drag scene and so
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that's why i've asked my uh the queens i've had on the show before like if they have any opinions on
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how social media has kind of shifted drag it really has yeah i mean like it's just for me i mean it
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has its positives yeah it's like pros and cons yeah with everything you know and i'm all for evolution
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and i'm glad that we've evolved and i'm glad that drag has um taken the place and space that it is
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because we need tools and we need people to make things for us as well you know what i mean and that
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was the struggle for so long we just didn't have the visibility and it wasn't cool um you know what i
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mean and now the girls on daytime tv are in drag girl full out full beat glitter lit girl i'm like
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301 so i'm like really where are you going middle part bus down like bus down where are you going
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even the men like male i watched um i was watching something i forget where i was it was in a hotel
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but um it was like a sports commentator show and they were sitting at that table and all the men
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beat down bitch contoured out contour painted yeah and contour muddy but still contour contour
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it's muddy and bad but i can see it which is why i find it so shocking when people are so
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uh judgmental or prejudice about drag queens because i'm like you have no idea there is like and now it's
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so like uh like you said it's all cool now even not to everyone but to a lot more people yeah but
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it's also it's like i feel like drag as as an art form has been the genesis of most if not all popular
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makeup techniques wig techniques hair techniques like all of that shit all the shit that y'all have
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been new been done yeah that's why i was like you guys weren't there in the air spun powder days
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you don't get it you don't get it you don't get it getting clown lung you don't get it
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baby the girls don't get it they don't get it because y'all got good product now yeah
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no lead in your makeup no glass like fiber glasses there's some powders that would like cut you up
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right uh i so when you were in the drag scene fully and then you were working your way
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towards drag race like how did that come into the picture like wanting to try for drag race well okay
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so i i was working locally and gigging and just doing the things and it was constant consistent and
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i wasn't really advancing in my career i wasn't you know like before drag race pageants were the way to
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like get nationally known and things like that but i found out was i was trying for pageants too but
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that was not really my destiny child either so so um literally i was when drag race came out i was a
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fan i was watching from season one season two i was even more into it couldn't believe it i was like
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a bitch look like ruPaul's on tv blurry as hell but she's on there logo honey she was back in the
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day the ogs know she was not cute she got budget now she got that mtv money right exactly um but
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season three was what really solidified the fact that i needed to go ahead and audition because
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i was really rooting for the big girls they had delta work stacy lane matthews i was rooting for
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these girls you know and delta was holding her own baby delta was showing me what big girls supposed
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to look like she put her stuff where it's supposed to go you know what i mean i love that yeah and then
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there was stacy girl stacy over here crying because she's fat nobody told her but she was fat before
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she got down girl i don't know what you said you just found out you just found out you didn't know
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girl girl mistake what is you crying for own this shit don't let this be a hindrance like she was
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very down like she was and that drove me nuts so i went in my room
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and i'm like i'm gonna find these people and i looked up the email address i found a world of
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wonder at dot net yeah so i just wrote some random at that email to who it may concern i am tired these
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fat girls getting on your show crying about being fat i'm not in charge i did i was talking
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shit i'm not in charge chugging up bucket and i can show you better than i can tell you here's my
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pictures my phone number give a bitch a call i didn't know they were casting girl
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you just wrote hate mail i just wrote hate mail
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i was mad and they called me two days later talking about we loved your email
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oh i was like you forgetting you sent it completely in a rage in a rage and didn't
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think nothing else about it and they called me talking about we loved your email we want
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you to get your tape in like asap damn they said get that girl in my office that part i was like
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she's gonna be a star i wrote them on a tuesday they wrote me called me on thursday
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shit okay i was like girl i got bookings all weekend i'm busy i ain't got time for this yeah
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and she was like don't worry about making it pretty just answer the prompts and show us your closet and
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send it yeah they just want to see you your personality and baby there was one old tape
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rupaul remembers my tape very very vividly because is that a good thing or a bad thing it was horrible
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girl girl all you saw was teeth and eyes because it was dark because i did my whole tape on a yahoo
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webcam it's like i'm telling you it ain't about all the production value it's just about you
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so yeah but they they love my tape and then i got on my first try and i wasn't even trying i was just
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talking shit and hey is it who am i to question god's plan that's what it was but i was really
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wanting to like advance and change my life i needed absolutely it was like written in the stars for you
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then i think that's so funny yes that what ended up pushing you was being like i am pissed the
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off i do remember your very viral meme of saying chunky yet funky and you have the blue beanie on oh
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my god yeah yeah in your interview and you say chunky yep punky i remember it very distinctly do
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people quote yourself to you all the time all the time is that your most popular one or do you have
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another oh my god there's so many they want me to get their nuts out of their face the thing of it is
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it's funny like back then we weren't produced i literally was coming in and talking shit that's
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what i do whatever comes up comes out yeah and i didn't know that i was giving soundbacks and catchphrases
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i didn't right until it aired and they were catching on and people were quoting and i was
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like oh hashtag i'm like what is the hashtag i knew nothing you said you guys are making me feel
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a thousand years old like i literally had just they made me get a twitter and like i was like okay
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okay girl i'll get a twitter geez well how was your experience on drag race every time i talk to the
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queens they're always like it felt like american ninja warrior uh but i have to know how to sew and
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dance and and perform all at the same time i mean it depends on which time you're talking about
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which of the three times you're talking about i know it changes depending on when you get moneyed up
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yeah right um but my my initial season yeah you know i went in very green and very um like trying to do
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everything that they asked and but still wanted to hold on to who i was yeah totally 100 so for me
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coming from a pageant background i felt very like i was in pageant mode yeah and my whole goal was
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the time the whole time i was like i just gotta get top five gotta make the top five yeah because
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that's what pageant you gotta make top five yeah yeah um but um it was good because it was pure and i
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found uh my purpose while i was there i realized that everything that i went through with my hardships
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and going to prison and all that yeah was all for this reason and for this moment so i can share my story
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yeah and not just for myself healing but help others in the process so like when i found out
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i was like oh it was like that aha moment this is your time kind of thing yeah and um so it was
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really really really a positive thing for me oh that's so great i'm glad your initial experience
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was so positive it was like transformative for you
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responsibly they said okay you got the good one out of the way okay now you're gonna have a terrible
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time here we go here we go partners all stars partners here we go yeah that part yeah trixie's
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told me that all stars is harder because everyone has money and everybody's stunning and gorgeous and
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everybody gets their costumes made and their wigs made and all that so it's like you know the
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production antics yeah like you know when you've seen behind the curtain
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bullshit right oh girl here they go you know yeah you said untucked just unravel
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with all your experiences on all the different versions of drag race that you've done what would
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you say was like your favorite part of the experience overall if you had to choose one was
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it like lip-syncing was it the outfits was it the comedy like oh like the aspects of the actual
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challenges yeah of the of the challenge um i love the um acting challenges obviously and i did not
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shy away from like dance challenges or anything like that because maybe let's go let's five six seven
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eight bitches let's go um it was just like for me like the connection with working with um
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my sisters like like i gained like a really dear friend through all stars one with manila like we
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are like that's my other other half yeah you know what i mean yeah and so like that's a lifelong
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situation yeah um that i can't even put a price tag on so like the win for me is her isn't that crazy
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like this industry you like don't realize that you meet people that you're like we were always meant
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to cross paths i just didn't think it would be in something like like this yeah like at all i know
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some of my like best friends now are like women that i met doing this like doing this as a job and
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doing this as a career which like i feel like when you're older you kind of think like especially me
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in tiktok years i'm 2 000 years old like they think i'm aarp certified damn on tiktok this is why i don't
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play on that this is why what are you 32 girl girl you were in fort lauderdale when you were one
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obviously not you're clearly that was 33 years ago i was a baby girl good thing i shaved her
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or she would see all this great but you can see up here no you look fantastic thank you yeah this is
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this is 53 t you look good this is 53 you look fucking good you know black don't crack unless you
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smoke it i'm inclined to believe you okay so there's that yeah in tiktok years i'm 2 000 years old like
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sometimes i'll go to stuff like events and then they'll ask me how old i am yeah like when i go to
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like premieres or like little ass parties i thought you had tiktok events i was about to say they do
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have those too sometimes yeah okay and then i go and then they're like how old are you and then right
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now i'm gonna be 30 this year um so i would say like i'm 29 and then they're like damn oh my god you're
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like almost 30. first of all my god fix that tone okay first of all bitch wait a minute back up
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and then wait a minute that just you know that made me think about how they're calling lexi grandma
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grandma because she's 33. she's the only oldest girl on the show she's grandma can you imagine being
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a grandma at 33. no i cannot no i absolutely i rebuke you're on your way i rebuke that keep playing
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a tick-tock in the name of the father they're gonna be like hey granny i know they call me auntie
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sometimes yeah and i said already yes uh they don't take me seriously on that app
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why are you here now you know they're like oh auntie literally the other i went to a premiere the other
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day and um some one of it was like one of those outlets posted a video of me just like posing or
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whatever and then i wrote like i wrote something nice on it i was like oh thanks for this and
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someone responded auntie you look so pretty delete your comment right now i'm not gonna do i don't
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know you personally you ain't no kidding to me you're not gonna call me out my name right
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the disrespect i also know you were on uh we are here we're here yeah yes and i would i would
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love to know how your experience was on that show that was really now that was the lord's work for
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real um like i gotta give it up to to bob shangela and and eureka for being the you know matriarchs of
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the show or whatever but like that is real yeah like there's nothing like going to a little small
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town being called faggots and in words and things like that like i mean in combination of both of
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them like it's just it's just wow to me that people are that scared yeah of something they know nothing
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about yeah it's like they know nothing about like not even close not even close and the
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shit they say you're like where did you even get that yeah like who said that what the like i've
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made so many videos like just dogging out men like that especially when they talk about trans people
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when they talk about gay people and talk about drag queens right the whole like drag queens reading to
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kids thing i was like this is nothing more than transphobia disguised as something else uh they're
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trying to make you believe trans people and drag queens are a monolith they're not um but it's just
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fear-mongering more than anything right and i was like fine trying to find someone to blame for why
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you don't give a about kids in this country but i've said before i'm like i actually know and love
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drag queens in real life i know them for real um they hate your kids i don't know how else to say that to
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you tell you how i don't want no kids yeah me either and i don't want them either and maybe that's why we
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get along we're all and tall and don't like children and self-indulgent and we love attention we love
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attention and if you're gonna be taking attention away from me little brat i can't like i was like
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i i guarantee you i was like they don't want your kids near them they don't want them at the shows
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like what the are you talking about like also who's taking kids to a drag brunch what a bummer i'm
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trying to get up at the brunch and we gotta censor our music because your little bratty ass here
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i was like we're trying to do trino we're trying to be the baddest bitch i'm trying to do you know
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a lyrical dance and this is getting in the way i was like and this is making it harder for me
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for me to show my art yeah but it really is mind-boggling and to like when i sat down with
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that that um i don't know what she worked in like with the senate or whatever the black lady and
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listening to her just bowed off things that she's heard and then i asked her have you ever been to
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a drag show no have have you ever met a drag queen in real life no so then i had to gather her yeah i had
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to gather yes because there's people like you that makes it hard for us like you you're spewing
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all this thing that you don't know nothing about exactly we're just trying to be happy exactly i know
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i'm a good person right but what are you doing in your life no shit and also the places there are
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drag shows those are safe spaces there's no no one's telling you to go over there if anything
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straight people are gentrifying those safe spaces and they have been for a while a long time baby that's
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why there is a brunch on every brunch every day of the week exactly every day of the week right and
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then they're just randomly becoming drag brunches i was like you guys don't know what the fuck you're
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talking about i was like you haven't been to a hamburger mary's i don't want to hear it that's
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the starter one that's the starter yeah you're not at a mary's honey exactly girl you don't know
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well and it's just like it's that kind of ignorance that infuriates me too because i i don't need to
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have the lived experience or even know anyone in real life to honor to empathize with a community
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that i'm not a part of i just so happen to know a lot of them and love a lot of them in real life
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as well so it makes me extra mad because i was i was telling my guests earlier that i recently made
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a video uh defending trans women because uh this woman made a woman's only gym said she would support
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trans women coming then once she got her bag said actually never mind um this is only for
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right to which i'm like how how are you gonna check that right first of all but they don't
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ever think that far so i basically made a video uh just saying i wasn't even talking about talking
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to her directly i literally just said if you're a transphobe your ass stinks and that's all i have
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to say to you you have shit in your crack and i know it i know it for a fact and i was like that's
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that you want to talk about science wow that's science wow not a shitty kitty maybe you should be
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focusing on that biology you stinky and so i called them losers and then i said and
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i bet your friends talk about how bad you stink when you walk away i bet they do that and then at
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the end i said you guys can suck my dick and then i said actually suck it from the back because i don't
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want to look at you and that's what made them really mad at me like turfs got really mad at me
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yeah turfs so they started attacking me saying i don't actually care about women because i don't care
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about bio with quotes women and i was like your gender and sex are two different things i know
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that's really hard for you to like they don't yeah that's way and it's so funny because it turned
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into this whole thing and they're like trying to justify it with religion and shit don't do that
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either i was like don't do that exactly i was like pause pause pause pause pause i was like i don't
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want to have this conversation with you because all of you don't want to learn and all of you are bigoted
00:26:34.900
you just don't want to admit it for whatever fucking reason you know like trump supporters
00:26:38.900
they sometimes get embarrassed that you call them that what are you shy okay you ready for this
00:26:45.540
my neighbor is a trump supporter okay and they fly their flag in their backyard
00:26:52.500
what are you nervous why why why why aren't you proud yeah why why that's on your front yard exactly
00:26:58.740
why isn't it flying you fucking bitch look look you won you should be gloating you should be proud
00:27:09.940
that's why i hate that they moved in next to me oh my god it's hard but it's a test it is
00:27:15.140
i love it because they're gonna have to eat it because we are loud we smoke my lanai all the time
00:27:26.900
i love that you called it a lanai yes that's what i call it too i'm a golden girl honey
00:27:31.140
are you oh my god everybody knows me and my relationship with the golden girls
00:27:37.860
baby you know the lanai is is hawaiian for a porch yeah i didn't know you got it from golden
00:27:43.540
i also identify as polynesian so like period that part so like oh my god yeah that part
00:27:56.260
i love that for you i think that's fucking awesome i'll dub you right now there you go
00:28:01.140
there you go give me the seal of approval thank you please finally my people honey you know what's
00:28:06.740
funny is i um i've talked about this with uh my family my friends before but like someone uh culture
00:28:13.380
and black culture we have a lot of similarities in many different ways but there's a lot of media
00:28:20.100
that we consume and i don't know anyone else that consumes it it's just my black friends and someone
00:28:25.940
people so like for example movies like drumline the friday series uh stop the yard right in living
00:28:34.740
colors another one right and um anything or even like music like baby face or luther vandross talking
00:28:43.220
my language right or things like the electric slide baby doing it at funerals and birthday parties
00:28:52.180
because this is a celebration yeah technically a celebration of life of life right exactly period
00:28:57.620
that's why i was like there are some things where i'm like nobody gets that except my black friends
00:29:02.740
and my someone friends we we consume a lot of the same media yeah it hits us all the same
00:29:11.300
so i that's why i said i dub you there you go i love that oh so you have a trump supporting neighbor i
00:29:16.500
i have a couple too in my neighborhood too and i've even i i see them and every time i see them
00:29:20.900
i give it a thumbs down when i drive big old thumbs down yeah uh and even i told my fiance the other
00:29:26.820
day i was like one day i'm going to get a bb gun and i'm just going to shoot holes through that
00:29:30.340
bitch but they're also flying them in the backyard backyard and i can see it i can see it yeah and it
00:29:36.900
pisses me the fuck off but i like you know what i'm like this ain't gonna steal my joy because the fact
00:29:41.780
that they are flying in their backyard right already shows me they're they're ashamed of themselves
00:29:46.820
exactly and i that's why i'm i'm i commend you for being able to do a show like we're here
00:29:52.900
because that can be very triggering too to like to re-enter spaces that are unsafe and like almost
00:29:58.820
re-experience things that you've absolutely already gone through and weathered so i commend you for
00:30:05.220
being able to do stuff like that i think i'll tell you i'll tell you i don't mean to cut you off
00:30:09.300
but i'll tell you what the major difference is yeah yeah i know who the fuck i am now period
00:30:15.700
bitch i know who i am period i wish you will try to tell me about me because you don't know me
00:30:23.940
what but i can tell you about you exactly because you've met hundreds of thousands of
00:30:28.740
you are a dime a dozen exactly it's fucking exactly you're definitely not an egg
00:30:42.100
honey what would what would you say was your most memorable part of working on that show
00:30:46.740
because i know it can be very like moving actually the church really that that scene in the church yeah
00:30:53.060
took me out well because i there was a lot of anxiety uh anxiety coming up like just getting
00:31:03.460
ready to go inside yeah and like all those voices started coming in my head like i'm making a mockery
00:31:12.100
i'm blasphemous there's a lot of going up in this church and drag all the things that
00:31:16.900
you know you heard you know and um i really didn't want to go in and i was having a moment but i
00:31:24.900
didn't tell anybody yeah i had to breathe through put on my big girl panties and said no this is
00:31:29.140
this is the moment that you need to go in here you need to do this right and so once i got in there
00:31:34.580
and then hear all those affirming words which were completely opposite of everything i've ever heard
00:31:40.180
in the church yeah it took me out and i was so emotionally emotional and totally um but it was
00:31:47.460
healing i bet oh i'm sure it was so affirming and i like when he when the the pastor um called our drag
00:31:57.140
a ministry in which that's how i yeah that's how you've always seen it yeah you've always seen it i was
00:32:02.900
just like that's all the affirmation i need that's right there that's it i'm in i'm in god's house and
00:32:08.740
i'm already like i'm ordained right yeah exactly so it's it was that was my absolutely i can only
00:32:16.660
imagine but probably like transformative it really was and also your you are a living breathing
00:32:23.060
testimony right because of your because of your background and now what you do now like there is
00:32:28.020
no other way to see it other than a testimony like truly it like a ministry really i think that's
00:32:33.380
a beautiful way of describing it because that's so true it really i mean i'm like i know that i'm
00:32:37.620
healing people and people are coming up to me daily every like literally every moment yeah um and
00:32:44.820
letting me know how i am touching and affecting lives do not change please keep doing what you're
00:32:49.380
doing right i'm like i promise you i'm gonna keep on going right but i you know like you have to take
00:32:54.420
care of yourself and you have to recharge and actually this trip is for that this is the trip that
00:32:59.540
i i made to come here to get recharged and get um back in the feeling with my my sisters and that
00:33:08.660
the camaraderie and getting that creative juicing spaces and be inspired and all that and so this
00:33:14.100
trip has done that for me so i'm really happy so now i can keep on going another another non-stop
00:33:20.740
five years and i see you again you know and that's true and i and i think too it's also
00:33:27.860
like when you take really good care of yourself um like you take some time off so you can recharge and
00:33:32.500
recenter that like allows you to keep going obviously but it also allows you to like refill
00:33:36.900
your cup just in general like spiritually emotionally i know especially because i know you've been in the
00:33:42.180
game for a long time you've been doing so well for so long um like what's what helps refill your cup the
00:33:47.860
most you would say um good energy good people you have to really make sure you have the right people
00:33:54.900
in your court right and because like i i've learned and it's been painful to have to let go people go
00:34:03.860
it's like mourning a death almost because you're losing them and you just can't take them with them
00:34:08.740
because it's not healthy for you yeah and where you're headed and where i'm going yeah you can't
00:34:13.300
go because you're not ready yet yeah exactly you know and so sorry boo boo i gotta go yeah um but
00:34:18.660
having people who recharge you and understand you and make sure that you are taken care of um it's
00:34:27.220
important yeah and we have this phrase called drinking while pouring so like you know it's it's important
00:34:34.580
that you give or whatever but you can't just deplete yourself right you have to like as you're giving you
00:34:40.820
have to have somebody pouring into you yeah and so that's what we always do we make sure we're
00:34:45.300
pouring into each other yeah especially what it is you do because it is so obviously physically it's
00:34:50.500
taxing obviously like working all the time and not sleeping that much traveling all of that but like
00:34:55.380
what it is you do like the people that you touch the lives that you touch the testimonies you hear
00:34:59.940
because even like when bob was on recently again we joked about how like he asked me if i get trauma
00:35:06.980
dumped on and i was like well yeah obviously and i was like but obviously you've been doing it for a
00:35:11.700
long time too and so you're also like one of the first like you're like a one of one kind of queen
00:35:18.180
right so when they come to you they're like they i'm sure they have so many testimonies and it can be
00:35:23.140
heavy to like carry that and also it feels like a a responsibility that you have yeah you want them to
00:35:29.460
be heard and you want them to feel like you someone understands them totally you know and so
00:35:35.940
yeah i i take it in but it is a lot to take in and you have to be able to release that because exactly
00:35:40.980
yeah you know you can't i can't care i'm big enough i don't need yeah i can't carry any more
00:35:45.940
weight baby i'm good yeah good people good weed baby we're both green queens 100 and that is the other
00:35:54.340
part of it that keeps me on a level because if i'm not on a level it's not gonna be fun for nobody
00:36:00.820
girl it's not me too i sometimes think i'm like well see if i don't have that i'll grow 10 times the
00:36:07.380
size of a building like godzilla and i'll wreak havoc on japan it's gonna be i need it you don't
00:36:14.660
that's why it's medical and i got my medical card oh mine's not but mine is let me tell you
00:36:22.420
it's starting to feel medical it is because it's necessary well because florida is only medical
00:36:27.060
but like when i came here i didn't realize that i wasn't on the medical card of my i gave them my
00:36:32.100
card yesterday baby it went green which meant that i could buy a lot more than you happy days are here
00:36:42.900
you went to the dispensary yesterday yes ma'am so funny so did i and i went and i i was said one of
00:36:49.060
everything shopkeep that's how i felt i'll take the lot i'll take a lot honey well today is a wednesday
00:36:58.980
and the one i'm going to uh back to today has a special half off i'm sorry you said the one i'm
00:37:07.300
going back to today back to today yes indeed do you like uh og flower or do you like the vapes or do
00:37:21.060
me literally me girl what check my bag right now what you got i got edible i got a flower what you need
00:37:29.380
dabs what you want girl i went to the uh elton john after party of the oscars right this year
00:37:37.460
and when i went there i took my own vape i always have at least two on me at all the battery gonna
00:37:43.620
die yeah exactly i'm gonna be mad the first time i ever got like a a vape one uh one of my friends it
00:37:50.420
was like three four years ago that was the first time i ever got otherwise i was smoking pre-rolls or
00:37:53.940
like og bud but i had never gotten the little vapes so when i got my first one i told one of my
00:37:58.980
friends and then he goes good luck doing anything sober for the rest of your fucking life and then
00:38:04.020
i was laughing about it he wasn't kidding not alive it makes it way too easy way it's the way it's
00:38:11.620
supposed to be it's too convenient yeah that's that's the purpose it's doing its job exactly that's
00:38:18.020
and god put it on earth and here we are again who am i to question i'm not questioning god no that's
00:38:23.620
the almighty he know better he knew i was gonna be a pothead he knows that about me he knows my
00:38:31.060
heart he knows your heart and what's left of your brain yeah when i was at the after party i took my
00:38:39.380
vape i took it there and then i was like i took my sister and we were we were getting kind of drunk
00:38:44.500
and then i had my little vape with me and then i was walking around and i can't say who it was but
00:38:49.060
i was hanging out who would i'll tell you who would it's not even that big but i don't know if
00:38:56.820
anyone knows they do this so i don't want to like out them but i was hitting my vape this person's
00:39:01.060
famous and we're like kind of king and then uh one of my girlfriends was like oh i wish i had weed i
00:39:06.500
go right now she goes yeah i go here and i offered mine and then the other person goes i have one too
00:39:11.140
baby we were all hitting each other's pens and i go this is crazy this is good i'm sharing germs
00:39:17.060
with famous people you are i bet y'all were high as hell oh i was so up because you're just mixing
00:39:23.220
strange you don't know what she got i don't know what she got but it tastes good oh this tastes like
00:39:27.380
strawberries i know i was like and i had a clip-in bang i was like oh he was feeling it i was going
00:39:34.020
crazy that night you want to hear something crazy though the next day i was pretty hung over which i
00:39:38.260
i i don't really drink because i always smoke so if i do drink it's like a special occasion
00:39:43.940
but the next morning i felt like i was like oh i'm kind of hungover i woke up at like uh 7 a.m
00:39:49.860
because i had to i needed water i was like i need water so bad so i like went to the little fridge in
00:39:55.220
my hotel room and i didn't have any more of our water so i just took one of theirs i'm like they're
00:39:59.460
gonna charge me 45 for this but it's fine so i'm like chugging the water i drink like half of it and
00:40:05.540
then i'm like as i'm standing there trying to catch my breath almost shit my pants can you
00:40:11.220
believe that what do you mean like literally almost pooped my pants because i was that hungover
00:40:18.420
isn't that insane wait what yeah i don't know what that has to do well you drink water yeah and
00:40:24.900
immediately had to shit yes can you believe that and i don't know if that's i mean you're older than
00:40:29.860
me tell me does that happen as you get older no girl i don't know what's wrong with you i don't
00:40:36.340
drink water and have this shit what girl that's never happened to me in my life and it was the
00:40:42.900
alcohol were you drinking brown liquor no i was drinking um champagne more than anything champagne
00:40:47.460
and wine wine yeah i was on some white girl it was the grapes i was on my i was on my great
00:40:52.340
i was so overwhelmed i was like what the fuck like i literally almost pooped my pants and that
00:41:12.100
because when she was here the first time she told me you never shit yourself and i go like actual poop
00:41:18.180
in my pants no and then she was like yeah you have you fucking liar she literally did not believe me
00:41:23.700
and then she was the first person i thought of when i almost shit myself
00:41:29.060
yeah she put that curse on me it's like that meme that says like just got my
00:41:36.340
i felt like she put that shit on me literally she's so mad so mad
00:41:45.140
see what happens when you hang out with drag queens you almost poop your pants
00:41:55.940
what's your uh what's your favorite strain what do you like to smoke indica sativa i'm indica girl
00:42:01.380
me too for real i can do an indica hybrid love but the sativas i really i could smoke a whole
00:42:07.540
bag and be like did i smoke anything me too it's so weird it does nothing for me i just be like i'm
00:42:16.100
am i high maybe i'm high because i'm questioning if i'm high right exactly but no if i was high
00:42:25.300
i'm gonna do all that so that's what sativa does to me right makes me all in my head it
00:42:30.020
feels like it makes me focus which i know people will diagnose me with something and that's they're
00:42:34.580
gonna tell me i have a mental illness and that's what it is we all do but like they're gonna diagnose
00:42:39.300
me with something i'm sure yeah but the the few times i've done sativa i i feel like it just makes
00:42:43.460
me more focused so like i can do tasks yeah which is not the point of it i know not for us we're trying
00:42:50.340
not to no yeah i want i wanted to make i wanted to make me silly like silly as i'm gonna kiki right
00:42:56.820
and eat do you smoke while working always yeah same uh one time i'm like if we are breathing
00:43:10.740
someone asked like do you have any tips like recently i did a q a and they were like
00:43:15.380
do you have any tips to like wean off like weed because i feel like i'm becoming dependent on it and
00:43:21.380
i said yeah i said i feel like i can't get enough personally so i i don't think i'm the person to
00:43:28.020
ask i literally was like is there tips you let me know because i'm not your person for that i'm trying
00:43:35.060
to figure out why you would want to do that people were like i need to stop the weed i'm like why
00:43:43.220
no i just don't get anything done oh so when me and my husband first got together
00:43:51.300
okay he was a little bowl smoker okay like in a in a pipe like a little pipe and he had a little
00:43:56.900
corn cob pipe i mean girl the bowl was like that big and i was holding it like this half a nug yeah
00:44:03.460
you know like these soup coolers honey i'm gonna be scared i'm gonna light my lips
00:44:07.700
like like but he was a bowl smoker so he didn't smoke blunts i smoke blunts me too and so girl
00:44:14.980
me gotta hang out okay i would love to i'll smoke you out crazy bitch for real um and so
00:44:23.620
when he first started hanging with me and then started working with me as we got closer and things
00:44:28.980
um i'm always smoking and i'm smoking with him and he's like babe babe babe look i like do you want
00:44:34.580
me to be high or do you want me to work i said yes because you need to learn how to focus
00:44:42.180
while high because this is going to be the standard exactly we're going to be high
00:44:48.260
but we need to get done right i don't know what you're up to but this is the type of
00:44:52.980
i'm on this is it and he's learned now now he's very well adapted and we could smoke blunts be at
00:44:58.580
the computer at the same time i i feel the same way i honestly sometimes feel like i do i do better
00:45:03.140
no you have to and like i know that i get things done when i'm it helps me focus yeah me too honestly
00:45:10.100
i feel like it quiets the voices in my head a little bit so i can focus i and because i always
00:45:14.820
carry my pen on my person but i was hosting something for okay so oh i it was big big deal
00:45:21.140
right uh so i'm like okay and i was working all day this was my last thing of the day so i'm just
00:45:27.540
ripping that shit like crazy in my dressing room i'm like i'm going nuts on that thing and
00:45:33.060
so then my mom's like oh let's go to the restroom and then we'll go upstairs because there was like
00:45:36.340
a little dinner thing we had to do and then i had to host for like a few hours and so i was gonna be
00:45:41.300
at the dinner though for like maybe 30 minutes so i i'm like okay and i'm hitting it as i'm walking
00:45:46.580
out but then there's people walking that are like dancers and i just didn't want to like be
00:45:50.580
disrespectful so i swallowed the smoke but i was already trying to blow it so you know when you like
00:45:54.900
change directions like that then i started like i was like oh like that that like coughing where
00:45:59.940
you're like trying not to cough so i go in the restroom i'm like okay i'm gonna hold this so i
00:46:03.540
get in the stall i go in the restroom i'm lighting it up in there i'm like
00:46:10.900
i sound like a thousand years old i sound like i have the black plague
00:46:15.380
like i'm giving it my all i started sweating because i was trying to get it out
00:46:18.980
like that's gonna make you higher than i know i know and then i walk out of the room and my mom
00:46:24.980
is standing up there she's waiting for me because they were like single stall rush rooms so they had
00:46:28.180
like doors and so she came out and she was like are you okay and i came up and i go i'm like my eyes
00:46:39.940
never understand yeah and then my mom goes what were you doing in there and i was like what do you mean
00:46:44.420
and she goes the coughing and i go you can hear me oh because i thought it was like soundproof oh my
00:46:50.820
god and then probably because i was high so i was like no one can hear me in this little cardboard box
00:46:56.820
and then she goes everyone could hear you and i was like nice love that then as i'm going up the
00:47:02.100
stairs to go to the dinner i realize i'm a little too high and by that i don't mean i got this i get the
00:47:08.020
scarys i never get the scarys i get too silly which means i'm gonna make a tit joke oh and i
00:47:15.220
can't do that because john legend is there with his kids so i can't do that and so i'm like i am so
00:47:21.620
silly right now i need to like get this out of my system and so my cousin he does my hair makeup he was
00:47:26.740
sitting with me and i go i start cracking jokes like left and right to him i'm like trying to make
00:47:31.380
him laugh to get it out of my system yeah and i told him i was like i feel like i have to go outside
00:47:35.460
and have the zoomies like on all fours i just need to run around just run around get it all out
00:47:39.620
let it all out you know sometimes like when you need to tire out little kids you're like let me see how
00:47:43.780
fast you can run down that hallway and come back that's how i felt like i had to go downstairs and
00:47:47.540
run a couple laps to just tire myself in the bathroom stall girl and it echoed through the whole
00:47:54.740
dude god himself could hear me coming from the top of mount everest you could hear me i can tell you
00:47:59.460
a story please do okay the time that we smoked out the entire church choir at a party a house party
00:48:09.300
so the church the choir was having a going away party for one of the members okay and so
00:48:17.700
everyone gathered and in the house and then we show up of course bad news bears right and we asked
00:48:27.700
the host where we should go to smoke because we didn't want to be disrespectful right he goes oh
00:48:32.580
go to the the back guest room and it'll be fine so like eight of us yeah go to the back uh back
00:48:40.500
guest room and we lighten up we got a circle going we got like three blunts going and it was just
00:48:46.820
rotating it chiefing yeah like hot box right little did we know that we were in the room
00:48:54.180
with the vent for the ac this is your air so it's just pushing it push it all through the house
00:49:01.540
you're hot boxing the house the whole house so we come out and nobody's inside the house
00:49:07.540
everybody's outside we're like where'd everybody go yeah the rapture it happened we realized that we
00:49:17.140
three blunts inside inside a closed room that's crazy that reminds me of college though i did that
00:49:24.100
was what happened in college all the time my girlfriends and i we used to do this thing for
00:49:28.420
birthdays where we would all pitch in to get one gift for like one of our friends and so because we
00:49:33.380
were all fucking broke and one of our friends was big old pothead like we all were but to some
00:49:38.100
extent i didn't really smoke at all in college it wasn't until after but like my friends big old
00:49:42.500
potheads and our friend was two things we knew about her she loved weed and she loves beyonce those are
00:49:48.340
the only two things that you ever really need to know about her okay and so like we got her um
00:49:53.780
a bong like we got her really nice bong with like purple in it because that was her favorite color
00:49:57.220
and then we had a buddy that could stain glass so he like stained glass like designed beyonce's
00:50:04.900
like face on her on her bong and we called it be bong say oh that and it was like when i tell you
00:50:13.620
she cried when we gave it to her oh my god it's like to be loved is to be seen like that is it
00:50:25.780
it's the most insane gift in the world it was fucking insane oh my god i love it but it's
00:50:30.740
thoughtful yeah it's very thoughtful but it's i feel like it was just a red herring for my future
00:50:35.540
being a big old pothead yeah and i do love beyonce and i do love weed so there you go
00:50:40.900
it is what it is all's well that ends well that's the part
00:50:43.460
i do have uh some fun facts about you okay if we'd like to partake in them
00:50:48.980
some fun facts about me okay so it says here that you were born in torrance yeah yes
00:50:56.580
my producer wrote me too were you really that's it oh my god god okay period and you're an aquarius
00:51:08.420
love that uh it says you're an ordained minister i am indeed have you married people
00:51:13.300
very much so oh my gosh how is that so that's what hope that's that's what changed really
00:51:18.100
literally my whole life um because you know in the on the show on that show i would say like
00:51:23.460
i don't want to be called gay marriage you know what i mean i didn't have a name for it at the time
00:51:27.540
in the day yeah but i just knew i didn't want to be called that because it made it feel like it was
00:51:31.540
something different and and wrong yeah um with the connotation that i didn't like yeah and so
00:51:37.700
um a friend of mine asked me when like we were still trying to fight for marriage equality nationwide
00:51:47.140
but like new york had did it san francisco you know california did it like so um they were in new york
00:51:52.740
and he was like i would love for you to officiate my wedding i was like oh yeah okay sure just let me
00:52:00.020
know that you know and this is after the show after drag race and all that kind of stuff so i was busy
00:52:04.500
and and i just kind of passed it off as yeah yeah yeah sure something fun yeah not ever thinking
00:52:11.700
that he was really serious about it and then he was like so i'll just call and check in on these
00:52:16.980
dates and see if you were still going to be able to i was like oh you're for real for real yeah okay
00:52:22.100
so let me go ahead and go let me go get this this certificate you know so um i got ordained to
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perform his wedding and it was really beautiful because i took it seriously because i like to me
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it is a union it is really that promise that commitment and i was able to see true love for
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what it was both sides of the family were there in support um i met the mom and dad on both sides
00:52:50.100
stepmother and stepfathers like their parents had divorced and remarried or whatever but like
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everybody was there and so it was really really really sweet and so that gave me a a different
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kind of perspective and i and then i started doing the campaign campaign uh toast to marriage where i
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was trying to get people to get voters out to get so we can pass it nationwide and it did um but then i
00:53:15.220
started getting so many weddings yeah so that became a gig a new gig i was like okay i got a wedding
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package deal for you you know i'll come officiate and perform at your reception that's fucking awesome
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that's like you get a twofer exactly so people were hopping on that so i started doing lots of
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weddings that became my other gig and um pretty soon through that i started realizing that
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this is something that i want i never thought i saw this happening in my lifetime but now i want it
00:53:49.540
that's so incredible and that's what it just like kind of shifted your ears completely yeah
00:53:54.500
because you got to see and honestly probably because you got to see it where it's not existing
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in like a cisgendered heterosexual like white supremacist ideology it's not existing in that space
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so you can see it for what it is which is a union a partnership like it's two people coming
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together and committing to each other yeah without all the trappings of white supremacy and like
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capitalism tied to it it's like a beautiful it's a beautiful thing yeah it's like actual pure
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beautiful thing yeah yeah and i like wow that's so beautiful yeah and so then i wind up proposing to
00:54:26.260
my oh that's so sweet yeah so did you marry each other did you marry you guys we we married yeah the
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dude yeah yeah let's read saying no time for that he knew he wasn't marrying her but we had a beautiful
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wedding and it was star-studded because the girls were at my wedding and not drag con just saying
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just saying new york drag con was yeah new york drag con was a little slim it was empty that day
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they had some girls but they didn't have v girls the girls were at my wedding and i bet they were
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fired up about that because i know drag con is exhausting and so we we definitely had like
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a time a time oh my gosh how exciting i'm getting married next year do you have any tips for me i do
00:55:14.100
i would love i would love a good tip just have a party girl but gather this though i was filming drag
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race damn during the time that you were planning the wedding yeah like i was in drag race hell uh june july
00:55:28.580
august we're getting married in september damn and he couldn't talk to me for those months
00:55:34.820
no phone you said i'll see you on the day of the wedding see you there
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maybe like but like he did a great job like yeah and his mother actually was very supportive and oh
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that's so yeah i love that it turned out to be wonderful and beautiful because we gave everybody
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an experience i love that good thing in a live band like we did because we're entertainers yeah so we
00:55:56.420
wanted our guests to have an experience you like to host baby i love i'm a good host yeah me too
00:56:02.660
we throw it down and i can cook so you know there's gonna be okay period oh yeah i can't cook but i mean
00:56:09.940
i can i just don't i don't really like you want to but my fiancee loves to cook oh okay yeah he cooks i
00:56:17.540
sit there and i talk that's fine i entertain okay that's just you gotta know your purpose exactly
00:56:23.860
hello we all know our strengths yes i do see yeah that's that's my contribution that's yeah that's
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fair we trade off what's your favorite thing to cook girl everything yeah do you have like a specialty
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though you're like when i know this one hits forever well because everybody loves my like baked
00:56:39.220
spaghetti i have a baked spaghetti recipe that will just like baby i love spaghetti the girl that's my
00:56:46.740
favorite you ain't had it like this i bet i have it i believe you you like meat because my my sauce
00:56:52.820
is meaty yes i got meaty me i i feel like there's not enough meat in certain things a lot but girl
00:56:58.900
we got we got meat okay we well we have a lot of plans then we got to smoke out and then we got it
00:57:04.660
i gotta take you to the good beaches yes and then we got to have baked spaghetti yeah
00:57:08.980
yeah girl come on down like for real we got we got shit to do yeah we should do accomplish your
00:57:15.460
shit to do okay let me see some of these other fun facts okay oh it says on here latrice proposed to
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her now has been on stage during a performance at seattle pride in 2016 how was that it was a crazy
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time yeah pulse had just happened oh okay and i literally have made plans to propose to him
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um that the week before i that it happened and um i was debating whether or not i should do it or not
00:57:44.340
and my spirit was like absolutely the world needs something yeah positive to happen right now and so
00:57:52.020
um yeah i i did we were in seattle that's where we fell in love you know like we had um our first kind
00:57:58.500
of like travel to meet me at a gig date yeah he was in seattle cute and he was so sweet he had got
00:58:05.220
there before me because i was coming from i think i was in dublin ireland okay so i was coming from ireland
00:58:11.940
and he was coming from uh tennessee he got there a day before me so i put him on that reservation so
00:58:17.860
he can check in so when i arrived he had like saw a youtube video once when i had my birthday and i was
00:58:28.100
like i just want some balloons and some cake and some drinks that's all i want for my birthday yeah
00:58:34.420
and he had like some balloons and some cupcakes from cupcake royale and a bottle of champagne waiting
00:58:40.260
for me yeah and it was the sweetest gesture no one had ever done anything like romantic for me yeah
00:58:47.140
and he had just that's when he just reeled me in that's how it's like oh my baby so we went from
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complicated until we were dating it was complicated at first you know
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oh my gosh that's so beautiful okay it says yeah uh that you performed a gender-flipped version of
00:59:05.700
sister act called mr act off broadway in 2016 that happened too sister act's another movie set that
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see that someone's that part of sister act two is my favorite one of course yes of course
00:59:18.020
lord hill obviously yeah joyful joyful um but um yeah peaches christ productions she she uh wrote uh
00:59:30.580
the the the script and it was featured me and willem willem played the little mousy nun which is yeah
00:59:39.860
which is so not her so she was tapping into the actresses but it was so fabulous um we toured it
00:59:47.060
here in northern california and then i took it and produced it in florida lauderdale it was really
00:59:52.980
really amazing so we're talking about bringing it back we're gonna bring it back you have 2026 i want to
00:59:59.620
bring it back i just got chills yeah bring it back it was so good because i know you've got pipes on
01:00:04.900
you girl oh i just think yeah i know that but i'm jealous i wish i could fucking sing i'll come
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watch it though when you revive it i'll come watch it it says that you chose the drag name latrice royale
01:00:18.580
because you knew a girl in school named latrice and she thought royale quote sounded delicious okay
01:00:24.820
so that's almost it so i my my little childhood best season was named latrice beautiful black girl
01:00:30.740
you know you know them girls with the good hair and then they mama put she would put her hair in
01:00:36.740
all the little pretty barrettes and the little and her hair was just yeah um so i like that was
01:00:44.660
that's who i hung out with all the time at a recess um and then when i was choosing my name
01:00:53.860
my good friend matt was with me when i was signing up for that show that dreadful night at the
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girl right before the dance hit the floor honey um they asked me well what's your what's your name
01:01:18.740
i just know latrice i didn't get that far right i'm just here because they made me come yeah um
01:01:24.500
and then my friend matt actually gave me the royale he goes well you're chocolatey and like fudge royale
01:01:29.620
royale royale and latrice royale has been that was the name the name then she was born and then she
01:01:36.980
was born and now she's established and now she's incorporated
01:01:41.220
period and fucking period and then this last one says you were on an episode of celebrity family
01:01:48.580
feud with steve harvey oh my god how was that uh amazing baby look to make steve harvey
01:01:56.900
be uncomfortable and cringe is the lifetime goal baby we let him have it it was so much fun just
01:02:06.660
making him uncomfortable ruth started it so she started it michelle was cool but then carson
01:02:14.500
baby carson's a nut he's a nut and then he got to me and then it was on the popping
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baby i grew up a brother's like you so i know how to handle your ass yeah it was a lot of fun i just
01:02:27.380
but but i really felt like really honored because rue chose me to be on her core team yeah like that's
01:02:33.460
a big deal she brought her crew and i was a part of it that's so fucking cool yeah and it was a fun
01:02:40.260
experience it was a whole it was a because family feud is my favorite show my favorite game show and like
01:02:45.300
i never thought because i had no family to go i'm sorry it's gonna be be so dark but
01:02:56.820
well the one thing you need you need family to go on family feud it's kind of the whole part
01:03:03.300
the whole part right in the name um but we were feuding we had that part down i was feuding with my
01:03:10.900
family i have half of it i had it down i just didn't have it in the right way
01:03:15.300
um so yeah so i never thought i would be able to get on the show but like when you
01:03:19.700
when you have your chosen family and you get to go and you become a celebrity you're on celebrity
01:03:25.220
that's so funny and again yeah another example of you being loosely related to me because my family
01:03:31.460
loves family feud we went through a real family feud app phase because they had like they have like a
01:03:36.100
game oh yeah yeah yeah we went through a real phase with that like we were playing it constantly
01:03:41.140
like trying to beat each other and stuff and my family has actually gone on family feud
01:03:45.380
um way back in the day oh really yeah and i was too young to go on at the time so like my parents
01:03:50.580
went and some of my aunts and uncles went together like as a team um they got kicked out real real fast
01:03:56.820
but like they were super entertaining because like my family's just like me like loud and they make
01:04:03.220
people uncomfortable and they make jokes and like i only remember my mom like recorded it for us like
01:04:10.020
on vhs so we could watch it because and i remember watching it on the tv on vhs that is wild that was
01:04:15.140
crazy watching my parents on tv that's a long time yeah losing at that game and my mom being too
01:04:19.940
competitive like it's just like now you can be competitive and lose yeah exactly my mom was like
01:04:26.020
like well it's like a group project and nobody they weren't listening to me all right queen okay
01:04:31.300
girl i love it well to kind of like tie a little pretty little bow on the end of this episode
01:04:39.220
i would love to know if you have any advice for anyone looking to not just go into drag but just
01:04:44.340
into entertainment as a whole and maybe um might be afraid given the world we're living in now like
01:04:50.500
maybe living in fear of performing making your art like uh just kind of putting yourself out there
01:04:55.860
do you have any advice for anyone i mean my my biggest thing like that drives what i do is
01:05:02.180
passion and if you don't have a passion for it don't do it yeah if you don't have a thick skin don't
01:05:08.820
do it right exactly because like these are the things that like you have to be able to take criticism
01:05:13.860
rejection um you have to be able to self-reflect you have to be able to do um a lot of things that um
01:05:23.140
normal jobs don't exactly you don't learn how to deal with you don't and there's no school that
01:05:29.380
yeah teach you the business the way experience teaches you the business because people are a trip
01:05:35.540
but if you are strong-willed if you are a person that has a passion for whatever it is passion for
01:05:42.100
fashion or drag or whatever do it yeah go wholeheartedly there is room for everybody at the table
01:05:49.140
whether people seem to think so or not yeah it's like you create your own lane like i do yeah
01:05:55.620
absolutely it's a double wide lane but it's just mine and you had no choice you had no choice because
01:06:00.660
it's not a necessity and like no one is sitting around here waiting to produce and say hey drew i
01:06:08.020
have this great show for you um i think you'll be wonderful for let me give this to that's not
01:06:14.340
happening that's why you're here and you got your own shit like you got to make your own yeah your
01:06:19.380
own lane yeah well and i i think that's fantastic advice and i also want to give you your flowers
01:06:24.980
because i think you are a legend obviously you're a legend in the community um in general but especially
01:06:30.900
to me and i also think uh people like you existing in entertainment and not just not just in the world
01:06:36.020
of drags obviously that's where you blew up but like you've transcended that for a while now and
01:06:40.980
you've been building an empire and you're that's why you're a long-standing legend in the game and
01:06:45.300
i just want to give you your flowers for that because i think people like you are so important
01:06:48.580
and so imperative to like keep not just like obviously you're always fighting for others
01:06:53.540
marginalized groups ones you're a part of and ones you're not but more importantly like seeing you
01:06:57.540
succeed and seeing you live life be married be happy be in love like those are all things that i think
01:07:03.700
are so powerful and i think you continuing to do that loudly and proudly and boldly and publicly
01:07:09.940
is like it makes a huge difference so i just want to give you your flowers for that i admire
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you i've admired you for a long time thank you yeah of course i just think you're amazing
01:07:18.580
and i'll stop jerking you off now please don't don't just edge me like that again no happy ending
01:07:25.300
girl we're both taking women we can't do this that's true we can you can take a look at him go
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ahead let me know if it if it suits your fancy oh this is he'll yeah baby right i know you did that
01:07:42.100
right he's handsome it's annoying as fuck oh my god he has really long hair yeah for real
01:08:01.620
fucked up and we were at like an award show like at the end of it and she was like
01:08:06.100
i need to ask you something and i go yeah and i've known her for years so she has never asked
01:08:09.940
me anything like that she goes that's really good isn't it and then i at the time i wasn't engaged
01:08:15.140
so i was like i mean seven years no ring what do you think
01:08:21.220
i'm kidding that's a joke but then here we are but yet girl look at that like a rock oh yeah
01:08:29.620
what yeah picked all by himself can you believe it yeah i know that's fucking right that's
01:08:36.020
it's correct check mark baby yes you need a drag queen at your reception
01:08:44.820
you are absolutely in baby you are coming obviously yeah i was gonna invite you whether
01:08:49.300
he you thought he was ugly or not i was swimming in by you
01:08:51.300
i already know this is gonna be the event it's it's gonna be fun it's gonna be fun
01:08:59.220
i don't think it'll outshine yours but it'll be fun girl i'm gonna try to compete though
01:09:02.820
please do yeah i will you better try because go big i set a standard yeah i
01:09:08.740
believe you well thank you so much for coming on the show my pleasure i'm glad we were able to
01:09:14.500
make this happen i know finally finally well that's why like i said once you're done being
01:09:19.140
successful and busy i'm here i'm waiting okay i'm just hanging out waiting for you thank you so
01:09:24.500
much for coming to the show uh for the two people maybe that maybe don't know of you or where to find
01:09:30.100
you where can they find you i am i'm i'm i have the tick tock cap
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um instagram at latrice royale i'm on facebook too yes um you can follow me there and then i don't
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really deal with that x thing anymore me either and i haven't moved over to blue skies so it's just a
01:09:47.940
little bit it's more like instagram or facebook you're gonna find me um or my website yes you
01:09:53.540
can keep up with me at latrice royale.com and buy some merch at my store period get into it there
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you go thank you so much for coming again you're fantastic i love you i love you more you're the
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best thank you all so much for tuning into this episode of the comment section show don't forget
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