The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - ONE OF EVERYTHING, SHOPKEEP! Ft. Latrice Royale ｜ Episode 165

00:00:00.000 you look good bitch you look fucking good you know black don't crack unless you smoke it 1.00

00:00:04.740 hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show starring me your 1.00

00:00:17.000 favorite everybody knows me who cares about me on to the guest today we have the iconic the

00:00:21.560 legendary the unbelievably talented latrice royale welcome to the show queen thank you

00:00:30.000 oh my gosh i'm so happy it has we've been passing ships like literally a couple of years yeah and

00:00:37.020 i've had i've had several people several hundred thousand people comment you should have latrice 0.55

00:00:42.360 you should have latrice i said bitch i'm trying we're trying she's busy and successful and i'm 1.00

00:00:47.000 waiting and i'm sitting around open and available hey hey for a coin though 0.96

00:00:57.760 i think you are so fantastic and i'm so happy we finally got to link oh likewise i've been you know

00:01:05.360 following watching and you know stalking obviously i know everything about you oh you do yeah of course

00:01:11.360 i do and we also have fun facts but we'll get to those okay before that how much you dug up yeah

00:01:18.100 i know we're we're entering a real nard war era where we're trying to to really unearth some really 0.60

00:01:26.020 fun things i like that so obviously i'm sure as most people know obviously you did very well on drag race

00:01:32.820 but i would love to know your lore like how you are other people to know your lore of how you came into

00:01:38.020 drag how you like kind of discovered drag or discovered yourself through drag well that's more

00:01:42.500 like what had happened because i did not want to do no drag like that was not on my radar gay 0.94

00:01:47.780 or any none and um it was a dare my friends were daring me they're like because i would be lip-syncing

00:01:53.700 now i was always lip-syncing yeah give me some i'm every woman and i was that woman right exactly but

00:02:00.660 uh i never thought i would do drag but we used to go to drag shows and watch the girls and 0.58

00:02:04.500 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

00:02:11.380 it for halloween i was wonder if i live in color okay um and i thought that was gonna be the end of

00:02:20.260 it but no they convinced me to do the amateur show okay at the local bar at copa cabana in fort

00:02:25.220 lauderdale and um i was horrible girl i got out there because let me tell you first of all there

00:02:32.500 was no amazon prime back then yeah we talked about 33 years ago right so there was no size 16 pump

00:02:38.900 readily available at my doorstep i could just order up a hair piece you know go on youtube there was

00:02:44.340 none of that right going on so uh we got creative and i went out there that we found some gold liquid

00:02:51.060 lame and a bodysuit so we pinned up the gold liquid lame on one leg and then made a turban i went out

00:02:57.860 there and did a lyrical dance piece at the drag show and maybe they said oh no a lyrical lyrical

00:03:04.260 dance because now i'm a color green queen so yeah so i used my dancing right to uh distract from my drag

00:03:13.220 nope no damn they said not on tonight as a matter of fact here's a fashion citation don't ever wear that

00:03:20.260 they said you owe me money for real we want our free drink back like for real my two drink minimum it 0.88

00:03:27.620 was horrible but um ironically like i came back the next week and won the contest and that was the

00:03:34.740 beginning of the never-ending story right here i am you said i found something i found something and like

00:03:41.300 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

00:03:47.780 gonna do a little bit more you know what i mean this is how i go oh you love attention oh yeah i know

00:03:52.900 all about that that part so here we are i know i've joked about it because i'm in drag all the time

00:03:59.220 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

00:04:04.580 always tell people that i'm like you have to love attention to some extent to do this you have to

00:04:08.900 you have to and i love it and here we are biggest narcissist in the world

00:04:15.940 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

00:04:24.740 what was it that really drew you to it like other than the attention obviously well the performance

00:04:29.300 art of it like to be able to like completely transform and move an audience like and control

00:04:35.060 a room and a vibe entertain that's that's the whole thing and that's a whole different kind of

00:04:40.420 skill set and um level of excellence and so when i found out that i had something special that i could

00:04:48.180 do that i really leaned into it and like wanted to hone it hell yeah because again it fed the ego

00:04:55.220 you know that definitely didn't hurt that's why i said why do you think we do it for no money for

00:05:00.660 so long for so long that's why you call it the struggle right yeah we will struggle go hungry and

00:05:07.460 we had to be crafty like we have to be crafty and create our own drag and looks and things i made things

00:05:12.660 out of cardboard but it looks sickening on stage but don't get it wet that's all that matters all that

00:05:20.260 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

00:05:24.500 too that they think bad drag is a rite of passage it's like it's like an essential piece of your

00:05:30.740 if you're not booger your first time out you're not doing drag for real for real yeah yeah so these 0.63

00:05:35.620 lollipop guilds that just came out here with the youtube tutorials that come out polished with their

00:05:40.180 coiffed hair and the perfect makeup and yeah girl you have not struggled you are not doing that

00:05:46.020 yeah that's why i because i've asked like obviously social media has completely shifted

00:05:51.940 the the drag scene especially rupaul's drag race becoming so popular outside of the community it's

00:05:57.700 geared towards like it kind of and drag queens becoming so popular amongst other audiences that

00:06:02.740 they're not normally gravitating towards so all of that has kind of shifted the drag scene and so

00:06:08.660 that's why i've asked my uh the queens i've had on the show before like if they have any opinions on 0.84

00:06:14.820 how social media has kind of shifted drag it really has yeah i mean like it's just for me i mean it

00:06:20.340 has its positives yeah it's like pros and cons yeah with everything you know and i'm all for evolution

00:06:25.540 and i'm glad that we've evolved and i'm glad that drag has um taken the place and space that it is

00:06:31.060 because we need tools and we need people to make things for us as well you know what i mean and that

00:06:37.300 was the struggle for so long we just didn't have the visibility and it wasn't cool um you know what i

00:06:44.580 mean and now the girls on daytime tv are in drag girl full out full beat glitter lit girl i'm like

00:06:55.140 301 so i'm like really where are you going middle part bus down like bus down where are you going

00:07:03.300 even the men like male i watched um i was watching something i forget where i was it was in a hotel

00:07:08.660 but um it was like a sports commentator show and they were sitting at that table and all the men 0.94

00:07:13.620 beat down bitch contoured out contour painted yeah and contour muddy but still contour contour 1.00

00:07:23.140 it's muddy and bad but i can see it which is why i find it so shocking when people are so 0.96

00:07:28.980 uh judgmental or prejudice about drag queens because i'm like you have no idea there is like and now it's

00:07:37.220 so like uh like you said it's all cool now even not to everyone but to a lot more people yeah but

00:07:43.700 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 0.92

00:07:51.220 makeup techniques wig techniques hair techniques like all of that shit all the shit that y'all have 0.91

00:07:57.060 been new been done yeah that's why i was like you guys weren't there in the air spun powder days 0.98

00:08:03.380 you don't get it you don't get it you don't get it getting clown lung you don't get it

00:08:11.220 baby the girls don't get it they don't get it because y'all got good product now yeah 0.74

00:08:16.820 no lead in your makeup no glass like fiber glasses there's some powders that would like cut you up

00:08:25.620 right uh i so when you were in the drag scene fully and then you were working your way

00:08:31.700 towards drag race like how did that come into the picture like wanting to try for drag race well okay

00:08:37.060 so i i was working locally and gigging and just doing the things and it was constant consistent and

00:08:50.260 i wasn't really advancing in my career i wasn't you know like before drag race pageants were the way to

00:08:58.420 like get nationally known and things like that but i found out was i was trying for pageants too but

00:09:04.420 that was not really my destiny child either so so um literally i was when drag race came out i was a

00:09:14.340 fan i was watching from season one season two i was even more into it couldn't believe it i was like

00:09:20.580 a bitch look like ruPaul's on tv blurry as hell but she's on there logo honey she was back in the 1.00

00:09:27.300 day the ogs know she was not cute she got budget now she got that mtv money right exactly um but 1.00

00:09:37.140 season three was what really solidified the fact that i needed to go ahead and audition because

00:09:41.780 i was really rooting for the big girls they had delta work stacy lane matthews i was rooting for 1.00

00:09:47.780 these girls you know and delta was holding her own baby delta was showing me what big girls supposed 1.00

00:09:53.940 to look like she put her stuff where it's supposed to go you know what i mean i love that yeah and then

00:10:01.620 there was stacy girl stacy over here crying because she's fat nobody told her but she was fat before 1.00

00:10:11.300 she got down girl i don't know what you said you just found out you just found out you didn't know 1.00

00:10:19.060 girl girl mistake what is you crying for own this shit don't let this be a hindrance like she was 1.00

00:10:26.980 very down like she was and that drove me nuts so i went in my room 0.99

00:10:34.980 and i'm like i'm gonna find these people and i looked up the email address i found a world of

00:10:39.220 wonder at dot net yeah so i just wrote some random at that email to who it may concern i am tired these

00:10:46.740 fat girls getting on your show crying about being fat i'm not in charge i did i was talking 0.98

00:10:52.260 shit i'm not in charge chugging up bucket and i can show you better than i can tell you here's my 1.00

00:10:56.420 pictures my phone number give a bitch a call i didn't know they were casting girl 1.00

00:11:02.420 you just wrote hate mail i just wrote hate mail 0.98

00:11:07.140 i was mad and they called me two days later talking about we loved your email

00:11:12.020 oh i was like you forgetting you sent it completely in a rage in a rage and didn't

00:11:22.820 think nothing else about it and they called me talking about we loved your email we want

00:11:26.740 you to get your tape in like asap damn they said get that girl in my office that part i was like 1.00

00:11:34.580 she's gonna be a star i wrote them on a tuesday they wrote me called me on thursday 0.97

00:11:40.980 damn and they wanted my tape in by monday 0.96

00:11:44.500 shit okay i was like girl i got bookings all weekend i'm busy i ain't got time for this yeah 0.99

00:11:50.820 and she was like don't worry about making it pretty just answer the prompts and show us your closet and 0.89

00:11:56.740 send it yeah they just want to see you your personality and baby there was one old tape

00:12:01.780 rupaul remembers my tape very very vividly because is that a good thing or a bad thing it was horrible

00:12:07.780 girl girl all you saw was teeth and eyes because it was dark because i did my whole tape on a yahoo

00:12:13.060 webcam it's like i'm telling you it ain't about all the production value it's just about you

00:12:20.660 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

00:12:33.140 talking shit and hey is it who am i to question god's plan that's what it was but i was really 0.74

00:12:40.820 wanting to like advance and change my life i needed absolutely it was like written in the stars for you 0.99

00:12:45.860 then i think that's so funny yes that what ended up pushing you was being like i am pissed the

00:12:51.940 off i do remember your very viral meme of saying chunky yet funky and you have the blue beanie on oh

00:13:07.940 my god yeah yeah in your interview and you say chunky yep punky i remember it very distinctly do

00:13:13.940 people quote yourself to you all the time all the time is that your most popular one or do you have

00:13:18.180 another oh my god there's so many they want me to get their nuts out of their face the thing of it is 0.98

00:13:24.020 it's funny like back then we weren't produced i literally was coming in and talking shit that's 0.97

00:13:30.580 what i do whatever comes up comes out yeah and i didn't know that i was giving soundbacks and catchphrases

00:13:35.940 i didn't right until it aired and they were catching on and people were quoting and i was

00:13:41.220 like oh hashtag i'm like what is the hashtag i knew nothing you said you guys are making me feel

00:13:47.460 a thousand years old like i literally had just they made me get a twitter and like i was like okay

00:13:54.740 okay girl i'll get a twitter geez well how was your experience on drag race every time i talk to the

00:14:00.180 queens they're always like it felt like american ninja warrior uh but i have to know how to sew and 0.98

00:14:05.700 dance and and perform all at the same time i mean it depends on which time you're talking about

00:14:12.180 which of the three times you're talking about i know it changes depending on when you get moneyed up

00:14:18.100 yeah right um but my my initial season yeah you know i went in very green and very um like trying to do

00:14:25.940 everything that they asked and but still wanted to hold on to who i was yeah totally 100 so for me

00:14:33.700 coming from a pageant background i felt very like i was in pageant mode yeah and my whole goal was

00:14:39.540 the time the whole time i was like i just gotta get top five gotta make the top five yeah because

00:14:44.980 that's what pageant you gotta make top five yeah yeah um but um it was good because it was pure and i

00:14:51.540 found uh my purpose while i was there i realized that everything that i went through with my hardships

00:14:59.380 and going to prison and all that yeah was all for this reason and for this moment so i can share my story

00:15:05.300 yeah and not just for myself healing but help others in the process so like when i found out

00:15:13.140 i was like oh it was like that aha moment this is your time kind of thing yeah and um so it was

00:15:19.940 really really really a positive thing for me oh that's so great i'm glad your initial experience

00:15:24.180 was so positive it was like transformative for you

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00:16:33.700 time here we go here we go partners all stars partners here we go yeah that part yeah trixie's

00:16:41.700 told me that all stars is harder because everyone has money and everybody's stunning and gorgeous and

00:16:48.740 everybody gets their costumes made and their wigs made and all that so it's like you know the

00:16:53.140 production antics yeah like you know when you've seen behind the curtain

00:16:59.460 you know when they pull in some 0.99

00:17:00.420 bullshit right oh girl here they go you know yeah you said untucked just unravel 1.00

00:17:06.020 all just everyone started acting crazy 0.99

00:17:13.380 with all your experiences on all the different versions of drag race that you've done what would

00:17:18.420 you say was like your favorite part of the experience overall if you had to choose one was

00:17:22.180 it like lip-syncing was it the outfits was it the comedy like oh like the aspects of the actual

00:17:28.020 challenges yeah of the of the challenge um i love the um acting challenges obviously and i did not

00:17:37.140 shy away from like dance challenges or anything like that because maybe let's go let's five six seven

00:17:43.540 eight bitches let's go um it was just like for me like the connection with working with um 1.00

00:17:51.780 my sisters like like i gained like a really dear friend through all stars one with manila like we 0.94

00:17:59.460 are like that's my other other half yeah you know what i mean yeah and so like that's a lifelong

00:18:04.500 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

00:18:12.020 like this industry you like don't realize that you meet people that you're like we were always meant

00:18:18.580 to cross paths i just didn't think it would be in something like like this yeah like at all i know

00:18:23.460 some of my like best friends now are like women that i met doing this like doing this as a job and 0.98

00:18:28.580 doing this as a career which like i feel like when you're older you kind of think like especially me

00:18:33.140 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

00:18:39.060 play on that this is why what are you 32 girl girl you were in fort lauderdale when you were one 0.91

00:18:48.580 obviously not you're clearly that was 33 years ago i was a baby girl good thing i shaved her

00:18:54.500 or she would see all this great but you can see up here no you look fantastic thank you yeah this is 0.99

00:18:59.620 this is 53 t you look good this is 53 you look fucking good you know black don't crack unless you 0.99

00:19:06.580 smoke it i'm inclined to believe you okay so there's that yeah in tiktok years i'm 2 000 years old like 0.98

00:19:19.380 sometimes i'll go to stuff like events and then they'll ask me how old i am yeah like when i go to

00:19:24.820 like premieres or like little ass parties i thought you had tiktok events i was about to say they do

00:19:30.340 have those too sometimes yeah okay and then i go and then they're like how old are you and then right 0.99

00:19:36.020 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 0.99

00:19:42.340 like almost 30. first of all my god fix that tone okay first of all bitch wait a minute back up 1.00

00:19:50.660 and then wait a minute that just you know that made me think about how they're calling lexi grandma 0.64

00:19:57.540 grandma because she's 33. she's the only oldest girl on the show she's grandma can you imagine being

00:20:05.140 a grandma at 33. no i cannot no i absolutely i rebuke you're on your way i rebuke that keep playing

00:20:11.860 a tick-tock in the name of the father they're gonna be like hey granny i know they call me auntie

00:20:19.460 sometimes yeah and i said already yes uh they don't take me seriously on that app

00:20:27.620 why are you here now you know they're like oh auntie literally the other i went to a premiere the other

00:20:33.780 day and um some one of it was like one of those outlets posted a video of me just like posing or

00:20:39.140 whatever and then i wrote like i wrote something nice on it i was like oh thanks for this and

00:20:43.940 someone responded auntie you look so pretty delete your comment right now i'm not gonna do i don't

00:20:50.020 know you personally you ain't no kidding to me you're not gonna call me out my name right

00:20:56.580 the disrespect i also know you were on uh we are here we're here yeah yes and i would i would

00:21:05.860 love to know how your experience was on that show that was really now that was the lord's work for

00:21:11.620 real um like i gotta give it up to to bob shangela and and eureka for being the you know matriarchs of 1.00

00:21:20.980 the show or whatever but like that is real yeah like there's nothing like going to a little small 0.96

00:21:28.020 town being called faggots and in words and things like that like i mean in combination of both of 0.93

00:21:35.300 them like it's just it's just wow to me that people are that scared yeah of something they know nothing 0.98

00:21:42.580 about yeah it's like they know nothing about like not even close not even close and the 0.97

00:21:49.220 shit they say you're like where did you even get that yeah like who said that what the like i've 0.99

00:21:56.420 made so many videos like just dogging out men like that especially when they talk about trans people 1.00

00:22:01.220 when they talk about gay people and talk about drag queens right the whole like drag queens reading to 0.98

00:22:04.820 kids thing i was like this is nothing more than transphobia disguised as something else uh they're

00:22:10.420 trying to make you believe trans people and drag queens are a monolith they're not um but it's just

00:22:15.300 fear-mongering more than anything right and i was like fine trying to find someone to blame for why

00:22:19.460 you don't give a about kids in this country but i've said before i'm like i actually know and love

00:22:24.100 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

00:22:29.220 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

00:22:35.060 get along we're all and tall and don't like children and self-indulgent and we love attention we love

00:22:41.620 attention and if you're gonna be taking attention away from me little brat i can't like i was like 0.53

00:22:47.620 i i guarantee you i was like they don't want your kids near them they don't want them at the shows

00:22:52.500 like what the are you talking about like also who's taking kids to a drag brunch what a bummer i'm 0.99

00:22:59.380 trying to get up at the brunch and we gotta censor our music because your little bratty ass here 1.00

00:23:04.900 i was like we're trying to do trino we're trying to be the baddest bitch i'm trying to do you know 1.00

00:23:10.900 a lyrical dance and this is getting in the way i was like and this is making it harder for me

00:23:20.660 for me to show my art yeah but it really is mind-boggling and to like when i sat down with

00:23:26.900 that that um i don't know what she worked in like with the senate or whatever the black lady and 1.00

00:23:34.020 listening to her just bowed off things that she's heard and then i asked her have you ever been to

00:23:42.500 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

00:23:52.660 to gather yes because there's people like you that makes it hard for us like you you're spewing

00:23:58.580 all this thing that you don't know nothing about exactly we're just trying to be happy exactly i know 0.85

00:24:04.260 i'm a good person right but what are you doing in your life no shit and also the places there are 0.79

00:24:09.300 drag shows those are safe spaces there's no no one's telling you to go over there if anything 0.91

00:24:14.420 straight people are gentrifying those safe spaces and they have been for a while a long time baby that's 1.00

00:24:19.700 why there is a brunch on every brunch every day of the week exactly every day of the week right and 0.99

00:24:26.260 then they're just randomly becoming drag brunches i was like you guys don't know what the fuck you're 0.97

00:24:30.340 talking about i was like you haven't been to a hamburger mary's i don't want to hear it that's 0.99

00:24:34.500 the starter one that's the starter yeah you're not at a mary's honey exactly girl you don't know

00:24:42.180 well and it's just like it's that kind of ignorance that infuriates me too because i i don't need to

00:24:47.780 have the lived experience or even know anyone in real life to honor to empathize with a community

00:24:52.340 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

00:24:57.780 as well so it makes me extra mad because i was i was telling my guests earlier that i recently made

00:25:03.700 a video uh defending trans women because uh this woman made a woman's only gym said she would support

00:25:09.220 trans women coming then once she got her bag said actually never mind um this is only for 0.99

00:25:14.420 right to which i'm like how how are you gonna check that right first of all but they don't

00:25:19.860 ever think that far so i basically made a video uh just saying i wasn't even talking about talking 0.99

00:25:25.300 to her directly i literally just said if you're a transphobe your ass stinks and that's all i have 1.00

00:25:30.980 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 1.00

00:25:36.980 that you want to talk about science wow that's science wow not a shitty kitty maybe you should be 1.00

00:25:42.660 focusing on that biology you stinky and so i called them losers and then i said and 0.99

00:25:48.340 i bet your friends talk about how bad you stink when you walk away i bet they do that and then at 1.00

00:25:52.900 the end i said you guys can suck my dick and then i said actually suck it from the back because i don't 1.00

00:25:57.460 want to look at you and that's what made them really mad at me like turfs got really mad at me 1.00

00:26:04.580 yeah turfs so they started attacking me saying i don't actually care about women because i don't care 0.98

00:26:08.420 about bio with quotes women and i was like your gender and sex are two different things i know 1.00

00:26:15.700 that's really hard for you to like they don't yeah that's way and it's so funny because it turned

00:26:21.060 into this whole thing and they're like trying to justify it with religion and shit don't do that

00:26:25.860 either i was like don't do that exactly i was like pause pause pause pause pause i was like i don't 0.99

00:26:30.900 want to have this conversation with you because all of you don't want to learn and all of you are bigoted 0.98

00:26:34.900 you just don't want to admit it for whatever fucking reason you know like trump supporters 0.98

00:26:38.900 they sometimes get embarrassed that you call them that what are you shy okay you ready for this 0.99

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 1.00

00:26:58.740 why isn't it flying you fucking bitch look look you won you should be gloating you should be proud 1.00

00:27:04.100 exactly are the price of eggs down baby 1.00

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

00:27:20.020 i have all my family-ass friends over there

00:27:23.380 honey yes ma'am talking loud

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 0.89

00:28:01.140 there you go give me the seal of approval thank you please finally my people honey you know what's 0.53

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 0.94

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 1.00

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 0.99

00:29:41.780 that they are flying in their backyard right already shows me they're they're ashamed of themselves 0.98

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 0.95

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 0.98

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 1.00

00:30:23.940 what but i can tell you about you exactly because you've met hundreds of thousands of 1.00

00:30:28.740 you are a dime a dozen exactly it's fucking exactly you're definitely not an egg 0.99

00:30:38.020 not chunky nor funky 0.99

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

00:37:14.900 you like edibles are you just uh

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 0.99

00:37:58.980 friends and then he goes good luck doing anything sober for the rest of your fucking life and then 0.97

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 0.98

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 0.53

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 0.99

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 0.98

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 0.99

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 1.00

00:40:42.900 alcohol were you drinking brown liquor no i was drinking um champagne more than anything champagne 1.00

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 0.98

00:40:52.340 i was so overwhelmed i was like what the fuck like i literally almost pooped my pants and that 0.99

00:41:05.940 reminds me of katya because shitty pants 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:41:23.700 and then she was the first person i thought of when i almost shit myself 1.00

00:41:29.060 yeah she put that curse on me it's like that meme that says like just got my 0.96

00:41:33.460 lick back from 2016 don't ever rest around me 0.99

00:41:36.340 i felt like she put that shit on me literally she's so mad so mad 1.00

00:41:45.140 see what happens when you hang out with drag queens you almost poop your pants 1.00

00:41:49.860 you know why because they're the shit 1.00

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 0.99

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

00:42:22.020 but no 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

00:43:41.220 why are you okay are you okay

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 0.96

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 0.99

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 1.00

00:44:23.620 when he first started hanging with me and then started working with me as we got closer and things 0.99

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 0.92

00:45:27.540 ripping that shit like crazy in my dressing room i'm like i'm going nuts on that thing and 0.93

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 0.99

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 0.99

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

00:46:35.380 are all bloodshot yeah why wouldn't i be

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 0.83

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

00:49:13.380 had a smoke table

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 0.72

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 0.69

00:49:33.380 were all fucking broke and one of our friends was big old pothead like we all were but to some 0.88

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 0.93

00:49:42.500 potheads and our friend was two things we knew about her she loved weed and she loves beyonce those are 0.88

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

00:50:19.300 y'all really oh my god guys

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 0.91

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 0.94

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

00:52:30.180 perform his wedding and it was really beautiful because i took it seriously because i like to me

00:52:35.940 it is a union it is really that promise that commitment and i was able to see true love for

00:52:43.460 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

00:52:55.060 everybody was there and so it was really really really sweet and so that gave me a a different

00:53:01.780 kind of perspective and i and then i started doing the campaign campaign uh toast to marriage where i

00:53:08.260 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

00:53:20.980 package deal for you you know i'll come officiate and perform at your reception that's fucking awesome 0.94

00:53:26.580 that's like you get a twofer exactly so people were hopping on that so i started doing lots of

00:53:32.420 weddings that became my other gig and um pretty soon through that i started realizing that

00:53:42.260 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

00:53:58.660 in like a cisgendered heterosexual like white supremacist ideology it's not existing in that space

00:54:05.620 so you can see it for what it is which is a union a partnership like it's two people coming

00:54:10.180 together and committing to each other yeah without all the trappings of white supremacy and like

00:54:15.140 capitalism tied to it it's like a beautiful it's a beautiful thing yeah it's like actual pure

00:54:21.060 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

00:54:34.020 dude yeah yeah let's read saying no time for that he knew he wasn't marrying her but we had a beautiful

00:54:42.100 wedding and it was star-studded because the girls were at my wedding and not drag con just saying

00:54:49.300 just saying new york drag con was yeah new york drag con was a little slim it was empty that day

00:54:55.460 they had some girls but they didn't have v girls the girls were at my wedding and i bet they were 0.98

00:55:01.380 fired up about that because i know drag con is exhausting and so we we definitely had like

00:55:08.740 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

00:55:21.220 race damn during the time that you were planning the wedding yeah like i was in drag race hell uh june july 0.78

00:55:28.580 august we're getting married in september damn and he couldn't talk to me for those months 0.97

00:55:34.820 no phone you said i'll see you on the day of the wedding see you there 0.69

00:55:38.820 maybe like but like he did a great job like yeah and his mother actually was very supportive and oh

00:55:45.620 that's so yeah i love that it turned out to be wonderful and beautiful because we gave everybody

00:55:50.420 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

00:56:29.940 fair we trade off what's your favorite thing to cook girl everything yeah do you have like a specialty

00:56:35.460 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 0.78

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 0.98

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 0.99

00:57:21.140 her now has been on stage during a performance at seattle pride in 2016 how was that it was a crazy 0.98

00:57:27.300 time yeah pulse had just happened oh okay and i literally have made plans to propose to him

00:57:32.980 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

00:58:53.300 complicated until we were dating it was complicated at first you know

00:59:00.100 oh my gosh that's so beautiful okay it says yeah uh that you performed a gender-flipped version of 0.65

00:59:05.700 sister act called mr act off broadway in 2016 that happened too sister act's another movie set that

00:59:13.700 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 0.75

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 0.96

01:00:12.100 watch it though when you revive it i'll come watch it it says that you chose the drag name latrice royale 0.81

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 1.00

01:00:36.740 all the little pretty barrettes and the little and her hair was just yeah um so i like that was 1.00

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

01:01:00.500 copa

01:01:04.740 girl right before the dance hit the floor honey um they asked me well what's your what's your name

01:01:12.100 and i said latrice they said latrice what

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 0.95

01:01:41.220 period and fucking period and then this last one says you were on an episode of celebrity family 0.99

01:01:48.580 feud with steve harvey oh my god how was that uh amazing baby look to make steve harvey 0.99

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 0.99

01:02:19.780 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 0.99

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 0.96

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 0.66

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

01:02:51.940 like i think i was like oh i'll never go

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 0.84

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 0.99

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 0.95

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 0.96

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

01:07:14.420 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 0.90

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 0.99

01:07:34.020 ahead let me know if it if it suits your fancy oh this is he'll yeah baby right i know you did that 0.98

01:07:42.100 right he's handsome it's annoying as fuck oh my god he has really long hair yeah for real 0.97

01:07:50.980 so you must got that thank you 0.96

01:07:52.500 like

01:07:52.740 one of my girlfriends one time we were so 0.97

01:08:01.620 fucked up and we were at like an award show like at the end of it and she was like 0.96

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 0.96

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 0.89

01:08:29.620 what yeah picked all by himself can you believe it yeah i know that's fucking right that's 0.98

01:08:36.020 it's correct check mark baby yes you need a drag queen at your reception 1.00

01:08:44.820 you are absolutely in baby you are coming obviously yeah i was gonna invite you whether 0.93

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

01:09:36.980 um instagram at latrice royale i'm on facebook too yes um you can follow me there and then i don't

01:09:43.060 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

01:09:58.820 you go thank you so much for coming again you're fantastic i love you i love you more you're the

01:10:02.820 best thank you all so much for tuning into this episode of the comment section show don't forget

01:10:07.860 to stream new episodes of the comment section every wednesday you can stream the audio on all streaming

01:10:11.860 platforms or the video lives for free and exclusively on our favorite platform spotify so thank you so much

01:10:16.740 for tuning in thank you to my amazing guest latrice royale and i'll see you next week bye

The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - April 16, 2025

ONE OF EVERYTHING, SHOPKEEP! Ft. Latrice Royale ｜ Episode 165

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