Consider This ...Becoming! || 06

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Hi friends.
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Hi, queers.
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How y'all doing?
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How y'all doing?
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It's me.
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Hello.
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We're black.
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Oh.
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What the fuck?
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It is Melanin March, babe.
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Yes.
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It is Melon March.
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Okay, we're continuing it on.
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I don't know.
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Black History Month was so exhausted.
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Oh, in so many different ways.
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Yeah, there was a lot of things.
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Yeah.
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I don't know if we want to continue.
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I think I just want to be black.
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I don't want it to be celebrated by other people.
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I'm going to celebrate you.
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Oh, thanks.
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Hey.
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Sorry.
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Titi Bregunto.
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Okay, okay, okay, okay.
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That's my vocal stem.
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Hello, I'm Robin.
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I'm Butterfly.
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And this is Lashes I.
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And I swear this is not a Tanger Ranger episode.
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We did that last week, I think.
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Oh, we're still.
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But it's just what we do, hey.
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Ay.
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Titi Baby Pregunto.
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It's our vocal stem of the week.
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Shout out to America's boyfriend.
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My boyfriend.
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America's boyfriend.
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Benito Teyamo.
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Bye.
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Bye Bonnie.
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Bye Bonnie.
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Aye.
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Say cheese.
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You don't have a brain.
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Love that man down.
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You don't have a bra on, and I think that's great.
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You say, wa, wa.
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Y'all welcome.
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I don't be one to wear.
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Listen, if I am not on the stage taking the bra off, I am not wearing a bra.
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It was already off, yeah.
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That's what I'm saying.
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I'm not.
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I wear look, I buy bras for um burlesque.
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Yeah.
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Just be free.
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There was one photo from paying tribute when he said my titties are all the way down there.
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And you were just with your camera, just like a uh a mom, just recording.
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It just looked like a ring at the end.
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Good old Chris Jenner.
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Poor T.
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I don't give a fuck.
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I don't give a fuck.
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I don't give a fuck.
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Yeah, this is what we're on today.
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It's gonna be so fun.
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Oh, we should make the play a drinking game.
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Every time we get distracted, take a shot.
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I'm talking to you, Phoenix.
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Uh-huh.
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Shout out to Phoenix.
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Phoenix always watching, always sharing, always liking.
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We love, love, love Phoenix Town.
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Melanated house dance.
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No.
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Oh my god.
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Okay.
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I just found where we're gonna go right now.
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Oh.
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Hold on.
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What's happening?
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I don't know.
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I just need to have a little look at it.
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Um in front of us there are drinks from High Neighbor.
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Yeah.
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We've got an S exotic soda.
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Does that mean sexy slut?
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Sexy and slutty.
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Sure.
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Enjoy.
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What is the flavor?
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Yummy.
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Tropical mangoing Waba.
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Aye.
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Was that racist?
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I don't know.
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Well, I I'm I'm the Latin person in the room.
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Okay.
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I didn't answer the question though, but yeah.
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We're just singing a song.
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Okay.
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Did you sing along when you watched the studio?
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I didn't sing.
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You still haven't watched it.
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Have you watched the Benito Bow yet?
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I'm sorry.
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This is important.
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No.
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Roll that beautiful bean.
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Oh, and they start behind the tree too.
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Like in the little green.
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What?
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You would know if you said that.
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Oh, in the yes, I have seen that part.
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Fucking no.
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I've also seen the memes where um like the trees are talking about their experiences, and uh, I was tree number five.
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I actually would have killed to be any of those.
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Really.
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I would have loved to be standing up there with uh oh, you don't even know.
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Never mind.
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Watch it and then we'll talk about it.
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Seems so upset.
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I am upset! It's been like 42 weeks!
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It's also like, you know, I've seen it, basically.
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No, you haven't.
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I've seen all of the memes, all of the wow.
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All of the memes, all of the clips.
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And so in reality, I've seen the entire time.
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Oh wow.
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You can get your high neighbors.
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Make sure you're following high neighbor on Instagram.
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At high neighbor614 on Instagram.
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Period.
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Um, but you talked about hold your poodle, and that brought me to April 18th, where High Neighbor and Melinated are putting on White Chicks.
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We're watching White Chicks, and we're gonna do a drag show.
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And there's a seven course.
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Like you say, we're watching white chicks and we're doing white chicks.
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We're doing white chicks.
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Sure.
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Um, seven course meal.
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Um follow high neighbor 614.
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Get all of the details.
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They just released the courses earlier.
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I read that shit and I'm salivating.
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Yeah, so it's gonna be a fun, fun time.
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Yeah.
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Get your tickets.
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Hold your poodle.
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Oi.
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I didn't take my step.
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Perhaps not! We're back.
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Oh shit, I took my glasses off.
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Don't zoom in on my boarheaded legs.
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They shall find you.
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They are off with your lashes.
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We got goodie bags.
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Okay.
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Okay, what do we got?
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Okay.
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What do you got?
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Okay, I got Ooh, I'm opening this right now.
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A gusher snackle box.
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Snackle box.
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Hi neighbors.
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See what's sweet inside.
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100 milligrams total.
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About five milligrams per.
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Ah, perr.
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Perr.
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Make that kitty go purr.
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And let's see.
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Ooh.
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No beavers.
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Beaver nuggets! Oh! I don't even care.
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I don't want to open up anyone.
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Um, also 100 milligrams total.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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I have soda.
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Mm-hmm.
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I've got a melanated soda.
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Ooh.
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And and and red cream exotic.
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So now we've got.
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We exotic.
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Melanated soda, which is like um here.
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A lightly carbonated black cherry blood orange ginger with a hint of vanilla exotic.
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That sounds freaky.
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I like it.
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Uh-oh.
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Red cream soda, which I think you know what that is.
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No, what is it?
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It's a red cream soda.
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Alright.
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We also have the old-fashioned maple root beer.
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Do you want any of these?
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And then we were having the guava.
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Yeah, let's do it.
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You didn't open it.
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You said you were gonna open it, but you didn't.
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I got crazy about these.
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Just a little AMS.
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A M R S R.
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K V W X Y N Z.
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Alam L P.
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A S M R.
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Sorry.
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Shut up, boy.
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I say You have to be stronger than those.
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Your lips look juicy.
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What's the flavor like?
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Delicious.
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Delicious?
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Would you be good on traitors?
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Yes! I want to go on traitors so bad! Somebody tag Rob Roush that just won.
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I think I said his last name right.
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My Love Island Snake Boy.
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I'm so sorry.
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I don't care.
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It's out.
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It's on the internet.
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I haven't seen it.
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Oh.
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Last person I saw went home.
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Who was that?
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You can kill me now if you want.
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On live camera.
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Wow.
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But you have to have known violent today.
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I'm feeling spicy.
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Snarky reason.
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Retrograde.
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Who went home last?
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Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
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Oh, it was uh Taylor Swift's uh Oh, you're at the beginning.
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Yeah.
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Taylor Swift's mom-in-law or whatever she is.
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Did she come back or something?
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I'm not saying anything else.
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Oh, okay.
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I have already talked about.
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All I'm saying is I really actually there's all they're auditioning right now.
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The next one.
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Yeah, no, they're auditioning for regular people.
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So I really I think I would kill on traders.
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I thought about it.
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Um I know that I would kill on traders.
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I would eat.
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I don't get y'all.
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Chew your feelings up and apologize later.
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I'm not really here.
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Like the ultimate goal is to win.
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To win.
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To win.
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So if we're friends, like you should be.
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You should be chill, babe.
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Um, but we're like we're friends outside of this.
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Okay, bitch.
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Let me win this money.
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Let me win this money, bitch, and then we can go fly the fucking like because we're somewhere else.
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Yeah.
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Not not political.
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We'll go to Costa Rica.
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I love Costa Rica.
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Um, no, I really do want to be on that show.
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So you need to we're gonna make each other audition.
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And they have like a local one, which is cool, but I wanna I really want to try.
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I feel like, I don't know, I feel like my momentum is kind of I feel like I could get on that show.
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Okay.
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And then I could go hang out with Alan and the dog in that castle?
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Bitch, I'm packing my bags.
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In the middle of nowhere.
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Um, yeah, it's uh you know they don't actually stay in the castle.
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That's sad.
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That was sad.
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Why the fuck did you tell me?
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I mean you're in the castle.
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I don't want to go.
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Yeah, that's where the I don't care.
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During actual recording, but I thought that you would actually stay in the castle, but then also it's like, what happens at nighttime in the dark castle?
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That's why I want to stay in the castle!
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That's where you're taking the Ghost Hunter uh podcast starts.
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What?
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If I don't make it I would record it.
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I need you.
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I need you to We were talking earlier about what's your your favorite uh what's your favorite gospel track.
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Drop it low for Jesus.
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That's not a gospel song.
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But that would make sense for you.
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Because you are a harlot.
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Rrrr.
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Alright, pipelines.
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Getting piped on the line.
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Um Yes, getting piped on the line.
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That sounds fun.
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Takes us back to those fisting moments you were talking about earlier.
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So freaky and violent.
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What's going on?
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Sometimes violence is freaky.
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True.
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And freaky can be violent.
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True.
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That we're talking today about the origins of us.
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Of us.
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As entertainers.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It could be a sad episode.
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It could.
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Maybe.
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I might cry.
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I am on my period.
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I might.
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And we're in sync, so I guess I'm also on my period.
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Do you want a whole hands?
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We should have brought ice cream.
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Wow.
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Fuck me.
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Very emotional.
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Not fuck you.
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Oh, I forgot to say this.
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Oh.
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It's important.
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Okay.
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After Sunday fun day, we did not go home.
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Where did you go?
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We went to union.
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Oh.
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And then to church.
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Oh, you went to church?
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Yep.
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What a Sunday for you.
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It was a Sunday.
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You were outside.
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I was outside.
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Uh-huh.
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How was that for you being out that late on a Sunday?
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And also being on the north side.
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All right.
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Say cheese.
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And then I left without saying goodbye to anyone.
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That's that's you.
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That makes sense.
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Also I saw Cherry at Bendy on Monday.
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Oh, just randomly.
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Um they came for lunch.
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I was like, did Robin tell you I work here?
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Because I also saw them the night before.
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Yeah, at church.
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Yeah.
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Uh huh.
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Wow.
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Origins of us.
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Who are you?
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Tell me about Robin.
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Tell me about your name.
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Who is you?
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Um, so I started drag.
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Um originally I before drag.
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Okay.
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Performing.
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Did you do anything before drag?
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Tell me.
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Oh yeah.
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So you know, I'm a church kid.
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Uh that's not the same.
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Nope.
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I'm a church kid.
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Um, I went to tracks.
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I I trained myself to uh not go tracks Columbus.
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Did you see that?
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I trained myself, but I still did it because Deja Deja Baby Deja vu.
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Baby Pun it.
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I'm a church kid.
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Been in church since I was five.
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Um started singing in choir.
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You're just running the streets from one to four.
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I'm just curious.
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Yeah.
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I but then I turned my life over to Jesus.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Five or six.
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Started going to church.
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Um joined choir, then joined mime.
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Um I almost.
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Yeah, I almost did that, but I didn't want to be disrespect.
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No, that's not the same type of mime, but it's the same, I guess.
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In a way, it originates from it.
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Yeah, I know.
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Um I know I almost did that.
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Christian mime.
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Um, you know, we wear whiteface.
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Um we wear whiteface.
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Um I still wear whiteface a lot.
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The preacher does.
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Um I did I did my uh for uh most of my church dumb that was my that was my uh bread and butter.
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Um and then I left church.
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Um and back to the streets.
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Back to the streets, yes, in a different way to go pass out trucks.
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You can't resist.
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Um left church, went to do that, and then I started preaching, obviously, and we talk about all of the I actually feel like this episode could probably be a part one and a part two, by the way.
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Yeah, maybe.
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I guess.
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Well, because I don't want to talk about the preaching stuff right now.
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We're talking about the entertainment.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That's the fun stuff.
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I know, but I'm saying that's the fun stuff.
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This could be part two.
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Um I started that and then um throughout high school, actually, um Jada Phoenix Lorez.
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I love Jada.
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Yes, I went to high school with Jada.
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Um was one of the first persons who ever showed me that um queer show, Drag Race.
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Um it's like season one when we were in high school.
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When were you?
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Where were you?
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What?
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2009.
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2009?
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I was in college.
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Yikes.
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I was in college.
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I graduated from high school in 2007.
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Let's just get this out the fucking way now.
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Okay.
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Here comes the violence.
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I'm turning over an early for the rest of this episode only.
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I was in high school.
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I mean, I was in college, yeah.
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Okay.
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Um but I wasn't watching Drag Race.
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Wow.
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No shade.
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I just wasn't.
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Trevor introduced me to Drag Race.
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I like watched like three minutes of it before I was like, no.
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You know, very closeted.
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I'm not watching this.
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Um very closeted, but you know, open to other people living their experiences.
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It's just not for me.
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We've all been one of them, huh?
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I've been one of them.
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Yeah.
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I had a girlfriend and maybe a boyfriend, but they didn't know each other.
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Anyway.
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Uh so we're watching drag race.
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I would go home some nights and watch drag race early at night and like two, three in the morning.
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The way I was watching porn.
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That's all I mean.
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I was doing that often as well.
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B.E.
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T.
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Uncut.
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Tip drill.
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Shit tip drill.
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Yeah, all of that while also just watching the scramble channels.
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Oh.
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You didn't watch the scramble channels?
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No.
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Oh.
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Or were you rich and you just actually had the channels?
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I wasn't rich, but I had cable.
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You had cable?
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Well, I had them channels where you could watch the freaky stuff.
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But like the HBOs and all of that, those were scramble channels.
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And Dr.
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Ruth and all that.
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Well, I had the channel that you could watch the stuff on.
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I did watch it.
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And you want to know what I used to call it?
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What?
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Pleasantville.
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I'd be like, yeah, I'm just gonna like when my little girlfriends are coming.
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You guys wanna watch some?
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Like we watch them together.
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Yeah, we did.
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How you doing?
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No, I'm just kidding.
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But we call I was like, you guys wanna watch Pleasantville tonight when uh grandma goes to sleep?
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Boop boop.
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Yep.
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Yep, you gotta have that remote hold that remote your entire time and watch the show.
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Ah, it's just a dog.
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It's a ghost.
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Oh shit.
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This was not acting.
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I don't know how this channel got on here.
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I don't know.
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I was watching fucking Rocco's Modern Life, man.
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Which is still inappropriate.
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Yeah.
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Courage.
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I was watching Courage last night.
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Yeah, it's courage.
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It's on Tubi right now.
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They moved to B.
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Tubi.
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Not sponsored, but maybe we can get a movie on there.
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I should have projects.
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I'm sorry.
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Um watching it late at night.
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I'm watching Pleasantville.
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Direct race late at night.
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Um I continue in church, but now I'm an affirming church, so I'm inclusive.
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I'm okay with being gay.
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I have, you know, a first gentleman instead of a first lady because I'm a faggot.
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Um things are different.
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Um but uh within that process, I think it was my 20th birthday.
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Um I wanted to celebrate the entire month.
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That's something that I do.
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Um for this one we did something every weekend.
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The first weekend.
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You went to Trax Columbia.
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I don't remember.
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But this the first weekend we had dinner.
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Um second weekend was drag weekend, so Michaela and uh Mystic Just Right.
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Um put us in drag.
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And um me and my spiritual brother at the time, um, we were we shaved our entire body.
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Together?
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No.
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I don't know.
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You're gay now.
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So I'm like, what the fuck?
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It's not like it's a bad thing, but yeah, we we shaved our body.
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We took razors, shaving our entire legs.
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We had prepared these outfits, um, the shoes didn't fit, so we had to like cut open.
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Have I seen a picture of you in this outfit?
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I'm just curious.
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I'm certain you have.
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Um I was Sahara Darling.
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Yes, you were.
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Yes, you were.
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Michaela the other day said, I don't know who the hell all these people are, but I have one daughter and her name is Sahara Darling.
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That's it.
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That is not funny.
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Um But yeah, I started drag and technically I started dragging in 2014.
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2014.
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Um, but I never did it again until 2018, 19.
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Okay.
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2019.
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Um Okay, wait timeout.
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Yep.
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Okay, we have Sahara.
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And then we have Robin, right?
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Yes.
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So what happened in between this time?
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Oh, I was just I just did it that one time.
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No, I mean, but like what happened to where Sahara didn't come back?
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I moved to Chicago, I started planting churches, drag was.
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No, I'm not asking about I'm asking how did Sahara not come back and Robin.
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Where did Robin come from?
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Yeah, I'm getting there.
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Oh, okay.
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I'm like, no, I don't need you to Okay, I'll shut up.
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Sahara was never going to be um the thing.
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That was the thing back then, and then I was a different person.
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You know his name again?
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Darling.
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Um, actually, that's a quick story.
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Um, when I was watching Drag Race, Sahara Davenport um was on season two of Drag Race.
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Um she was Manella Luzon's partner.
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Did you work with Manela when she was here?
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She's so sweet.
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She was Manella Luzanne's partner at the time.
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She's like, dude from fucking Boniface.
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No, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Um that they were partners.
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Um, and but Sahara was like someone I really like fell in love with in terms of like drag and like her personality.
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She unfortunately passed.
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Um yeah, but that was like I want to based my character off of her.
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Um and so I became Sahara Darling.
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Cool.
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Anyway.
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Um, but when I came back, it was like that's not gonna be it.
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And also I came back very alternative.
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Um, you don't saw it.
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I was at Miss Union the year that Envy Green won.
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Oh my goodness.
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I haven't heard that name in a minute.
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Yeah.
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She was like stapling herself on stage.
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And I thought, dude, this is really cool.
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I must I want to do that type of job.
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I'ma go home and staple myself.
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I don't know if no, I think it was the year that Maha was crowned.
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It was her step down.
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Um 45 years ago, according to Maha's post yesterday.
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Right.
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Um, but yeah, she had stapled herself on the stuff, and then I was like, oh my god, I that's the type of drag that I think I want to do.
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Um and I was with the circle at the time, like hanging out and getting to know people who were very alternative as well.
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Um so that's just where it looked.
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And then um personalone who I was really close with at the time was like I'm doing the show.
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I really think that you should think about doing drag.
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And I said, I don't think so.
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And you know me.
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I like give it a couple minutes and then I'm like, okay, so here's the personality, here's what I thought about, here's the number and the concept.
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It's like, I thought you didn't know.
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I didn't, but I took two minutes and I came up with everything.
00:22:42.620 --> 00:22:44.060
That is the most unique.
00:22:44.780 --> 00:22:47.740
That is exactly who this person is.
00:22:47.980 --> 00:22:48.860
Please know that.
00:22:49.019 --> 00:22:50.140
That is who you are.
00:22:50.300 --> 00:22:51.580
It's so perfect though.
00:22:51.740 --> 00:22:54.540
You are like so meticulous in your brain.
00:22:54.700 --> 00:22:56.780
It's like you know it before you know it before you know it.
00:22:56.860 --> 00:23:00.060
And then once you have the implanted in your brain, you're like, well, the alcohol is a little bit more.
00:23:00.220 --> 00:23:02.220
It's literally one of those Libra traits, right?
00:23:02.300 --> 00:23:05.900
Like people are like, um, why did you even ask me?
00:23:06.300 --> 00:23:07.820
You're going to make your own decision anyway.
00:23:08.140 --> 00:23:08.940
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:23:09.180 --> 00:23:11.420
But I just wanted to hear what like you were thinking.
00:23:11.500 --> 00:23:12.780
I didn't like any of it.
00:23:13.019 --> 00:23:18.540
But I kind of already did have my mind set with what I wanted to do.
00:23:18.620 --> 00:23:21.580
But if you said it, then it'd be different than I probably wouldn't want to do it.
00:23:21.820 --> 00:23:22.060
Yeah.
00:23:22.300 --> 00:23:22.700
Uh-huh.
00:23:23.340 --> 00:23:25.019
Sometimes you just need to say it out loud.
00:23:25.340 --> 00:23:25.820
Exactly.
00:23:26.220 --> 00:23:27.660
Um, Maha hates it.
00:23:28.460 --> 00:23:29.019
That's okay.
00:23:29.580 --> 00:23:31.580
The show was funeral for my regrets.
00:23:31.740 --> 00:23:36.860
Um, I did my first number was um Florence and the Machine.
00:23:37.100 --> 00:23:38.940
Uh, what's the song called?
00:23:39.980 --> 00:23:40.780
Happiness.
00:23:43.980 --> 00:23:44.220
Nope.
00:23:44.300 --> 00:23:44.940
It wasn't that one.
00:23:45.019 --> 00:23:45.180
No.
00:23:45.580 --> 00:23:46.300
It was the other one.
00:23:47.900 --> 00:23:48.220
No.
00:23:49.420 --> 00:23:54.220
Um it's like old friends.
00:23:55.420 --> 00:23:59.019
Rennie with me, Zimbabwe, you know the song.
00:24:03.100 --> 00:24:04.860
But you were singing what I was singing at first.
00:24:05.100 --> 00:24:05.420
Yeah, I was.
00:24:05.580 --> 00:24:05.740
I know.
00:24:06.220 --> 00:24:06.780
That wasn't what it was.
00:24:06.860 --> 00:24:08.700
Okay, I'm the first song that came to mind.
00:24:09.660 --> 00:24:10.140
What is the song?
00:24:10.220 --> 00:24:11.100
No, I have to figure it out.
00:24:11.259 --> 00:24:11.580
Okay.
00:24:11.980 --> 00:24:13.580
Have you ever seen this performance?
00:24:13.820 --> 00:24:15.420
I don't I don't think so, actually.
00:24:16.940 --> 00:24:19.019
Where can I You gonna send it to me?
00:24:19.180 --> 00:24:20.940
It's on my Instagram.
00:24:21.100 --> 00:24:24.700
It's the like the first or second video ever on my Instagram reels.
00:24:25.019 --> 00:24:26.540
How long I gotta scroll down.
00:24:26.860 --> 00:24:27.259
Not far.
00:24:27.500 --> 00:24:27.980
I made it.
00:24:28.140 --> 00:24:29.100
Shake it off.
00:24:29.420 --> 00:24:29.900
Shake it off.
00:24:29.980 --> 00:24:30.140
Oh.
00:24:30.380 --> 00:24:31.580
Shake it off, shake it off.
00:24:31.980 --> 00:24:32.380
Yeah.
00:24:34.300 --> 00:24:34.540
Okay.
00:24:34.780 --> 00:24:42.060
Um so I wore this like soup this outfit and um it's like red and black.
00:24:42.220 --> 00:24:43.180
It's got blood on it.
00:24:43.259 --> 00:24:44.700
It's literally like a choir robe or something.
00:24:44.780 --> 00:24:45.100
Yeah, it's a lot of things.
00:24:45.259 --> 00:24:47.180
But it revealed No.
00:24:47.500 --> 00:24:54.620
But it revealed into um my f my friends came up and like cut it off of me.
00:24:55.660 --> 00:25:04.620
And it reveals into this like fully index card outfit um that says they them on it on every index card.
00:25:04.780 --> 00:25:06.860
And so it was like my coming out story.
00:25:06.940 --> 00:25:07.580
What an outfit.
00:25:07.660 --> 00:25:09.180
Doesn't that look so good?
00:25:11.580 --> 00:25:13.340
This is this is very huge.
00:25:14.700 --> 00:25:15.420
That's a message.
00:25:15.500 --> 00:25:16.700
I mean, but there's a message.
00:25:17.019 --> 00:25:17.420
So a message.
00:25:17.580 --> 00:25:20.620
There's a concept that like you are just yeah.
00:25:21.100 --> 00:25:34.380
Yeah, and I had my like I I it was the figuring out who you are, going through all of that, and then surrounding yourself with people who are gonna cut you out of that mess so that you can reveal into your full self.
00:25:34.460 --> 00:25:35.980
So it was my coming out story.
00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:37.180
Have you done it since?
00:25:37.820 --> 00:25:38.140
No.
00:25:38.460 --> 00:25:39.580
Would you redo it?
00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:40.780
Not like that.
00:25:41.259 --> 00:25:42.860
I didn't ask if you would redo it like that.
00:25:42.940 --> 00:25:44.140
Yeah, I do think that I'm like.
00:25:44.220 --> 00:25:47.100
I was like, I feel like that's a really sickening like concept.
00:25:47.420 --> 00:25:52.460
And like you now could take it somewhere like so do it again.
00:25:52.620 --> 00:25:53.900
Yeah, do it.
00:25:55.019 --> 00:25:57.180
It was my first ever performance.
00:25:57.500 --> 00:26:01.019
Um and in reality, the rest was history after that.
00:26:01.180 --> 00:26:03.820
I was like, I I think I really want to do this.
00:26:03.980 --> 00:26:12.460
Holly, who was not Holly at the time, um, drag persona-wise, was like, you go guard, you've gotta you've gotta keep going, girl.
00:26:12.700 --> 00:26:16.380
Um I think I think you're right, Holl Holly.
00:26:16.780 --> 00:26:20.300
Uh um, and then I just kept going.
00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:23.100
I did a couple more performances at Club 20.
00:26:23.259 --> 00:26:26.380
I was at South Bend literally the next week.
00:26:26.620 --> 00:26:31.180
Um, and then I you weren't at the first one for at Club 20.
00:26:31.420 --> 00:26:31.980
Who was it?
00:26:32.060 --> 00:26:32.860
Whose show was it?
00:26:33.019 --> 00:26:34.620
It was a abortion show.
00:26:34.860 --> 00:26:36.300
Oh, on a Sunday?
00:26:36.540 --> 00:26:36.860
No.
00:26:37.100 --> 00:26:37.820
This was a Saturday show.
00:26:37.900 --> 00:26:39.660
Oh, was it like a okay, it was a Saturday show.
00:26:39.740 --> 00:26:40.620
Like, it was a Saturday show.
00:26:42.140 --> 00:26:46.780
Yeah, she was like doing it like an open stage competition type thing.
00:26:48.060 --> 00:26:51.500
Yeah, I honestly I worked there at that time, so I promised you I was probably there.
00:26:51.820 --> 00:26:53.740
You were probably there, just not there at that time.
00:26:54.060 --> 00:26:56.620
Who is still in the podio?
00:26:57.340 --> 00:27:03.420
I do remember that one because uh I beat the fuck out of Crybaby that night.
00:27:03.900 --> 00:27:07.259
Oh, crybaby! I still have that video somewhere.
00:27:07.340 --> 00:27:08.700
We're friends, so he's fine.
00:27:09.019 --> 00:27:10.300
He's recovered.
00:27:11.420 --> 00:27:12.620
He's over it.
00:27:12.860 --> 00:27:14.060
He let it go.
00:27:14.540 --> 00:27:17.740
Um, but yeah, no, truly, that was that was the rest became history.
00:27:17.900 --> 00:27:19.420
But my name was Robin Banks then.
00:27:19.660 --> 00:27:30.140
I remember uh uh which um I was at South Bend like a couple months later, um, and Ursula Majors from Dry Gla season one was there.
00:27:30.220 --> 00:27:34.540
She was in town, she used to do tons of shows here um with the cult of controversy.
00:27:34.700 --> 00:27:35.180
Remember them?
00:27:35.420 --> 00:27:35.740
I do.
00:27:36.060 --> 00:27:36.940
Those were times.
00:27:37.180 --> 00:27:37.660
Times.
00:27:37.900 --> 00:27:39.660
Holly, you remember those days, Holly?
00:27:39.900 --> 00:27:40.540
Hollyana.
00:27:41.740 --> 00:27:45.660
Um yeah, uh, she was here and we were outside smoking.
00:27:45.740 --> 00:27:49.900
Um, and she I introduced myself and she said, you know, Robin Banks is a really popular name.
00:27:49.980 --> 00:27:52.540
You don't want to be you don't want to be anybody else.
00:27:52.700 --> 00:27:54.220
I was like, oh fuck.
00:27:55.500 --> 00:27:56.140
You're right.
00:27:56.380 --> 00:27:57.580
Thanks for reading me get out.
00:27:57.740 --> 00:27:59.340
I'm gonna go home and change my mind.
00:28:04.620 --> 00:28:04.940
Okay.
00:28:05.660 --> 00:28:10.540
And then and then five minutes later, you had 16 different names, and you were like, that doesn't work.
00:28:10.860 --> 00:28:11.740
I actually did it.
00:28:11.980 --> 00:28:14.140
So I um was getting hot.
00:28:14.460 --> 00:28:17.340
You're just like tearing up, throwing them, no, this doesn't work.
00:28:17.660 --> 00:28:18.300
This is not it.
00:28:18.460 --> 00:28:19.180
I hear it.
00:28:20.940 --> 00:28:26.220
I was actually listening very high, listening to Dejango Jane, Janel Monet.
00:28:26.860 --> 00:28:28.220
And what do they say?
00:28:28.460 --> 00:28:31.420
They say, I do it for the culture.
00:28:32.140 --> 00:28:33.740
And I said, you know what?
00:28:35.019 --> 00:28:36.620
Me fucking too bitch.
00:28:37.500 --> 00:28:38.940
Robin the culture.
00:28:39.180 --> 00:28:39.580
Period.
00:28:39.820 --> 00:28:41.740
I have my career, my new career to Janelle.
00:28:42.140 --> 00:28:45.340
Don't tell them that because we're doing it.
00:28:47.100 --> 00:28:52.060
You know, we just did a uh a trivia, a Janelle trivia last week.
00:28:52.380 --> 00:28:53.980
I won that trivia.
00:28:54.060 --> 00:28:55.340
I just not that one, but the black one.
00:28:55.980 --> 00:28:56.620
I won the black movies.
00:28:58.060 --> 00:29:02.700
I won black movies, and I I just need you to know I ain't never won a thing in my book.
00:29:02.940 --> 00:29:04.140
You won a lot of things.
00:29:04.300 --> 00:29:06.140
You just won a tattoo recently.
00:29:06.540 --> 00:29:08.140
Recently, because this is now my season.
00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:09.820
Say something.
00:29:10.060 --> 00:29:11.340
This is my season.
00:29:11.820 --> 00:29:15.500
I have never won bingo, I ain't never won trivia, I ain't never won shit.
00:29:15.580 --> 00:29:27.660
And I didn't tell nobody I was playing, and I was just sitting my black ass over there in the name was drinking, drinking my water while I was drinking Hi Neighbor, and my name, my game name was Hi Gaber, but for some reason they couldn't figure out it was me.
00:29:27.740 --> 00:29:29.660
And I'm like, well, they must be hi too.
00:29:29.980 --> 00:29:30.540
Anyways.
00:29:31.259 --> 00:29:35.019
And then when they were like, first place, hi bo.
00:29:35.580 --> 00:29:36.300
I said, Oh.
00:29:37.740 --> 00:29:38.380
It's me.
00:29:38.540 --> 00:29:40.140
They say hi Gaber.
00:29:40.300 --> 00:29:40.540
Uh uh.
00:29:40.780 --> 00:29:42.060
Robin, you should have fucking known that.
00:29:42.300 --> 00:29:43.980
You don't want to like spell it right or something.
00:29:44.300 --> 00:29:44.460
Hi.
00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:45.980
Gay.
00:29:46.300 --> 00:29:47.580
G-H-E-Y-G.
00:29:48.060 --> 00:29:49.900
It didn't work that way in my mind.
00:29:50.060 --> 00:29:52.060
It well, your mind wasn't working, babe.
00:29:52.220 --> 00:29:54.220
That's what I'm here to say to you right now.
00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:55.420
Fix your lips.
00:29:55.740 --> 00:29:57.500
Fix your lips, but I give you a reason to pout.
00:29:57.740 --> 00:29:59.180
Your words are also violent today.
00:29:59.340 --> 00:29:59.740
I love you.
00:29:59.820 --> 00:30:01.820
You want to have smoochy?
00:30:02.300 --> 00:30:02.620
No.
00:30:02.860 --> 00:30:03.820
Okay, well, whatever.
00:30:04.060 --> 00:30:06.300
Anyways, um, the culture.
00:30:06.540 --> 00:30:09.820
And then the culture came and it just kept spiraling from there.
00:30:09.900 --> 00:30:11.660
And then it How did you get all these?
00:30:11.740 --> 00:30:14.300
Are you like, what's going on in there?
00:30:14.460 --> 00:30:15.100
Oh, the other people?
00:30:15.259 --> 00:30:16.620
Yeah, they're about the other people.
00:30:16.860 --> 00:30:18.060
They've always existed.
00:30:20.140 --> 00:30:20.940
Same honestly.
00:30:21.180 --> 00:30:21.500
They're here.
00:30:21.580 --> 00:30:22.700
Whoops.
00:30:22.860 --> 00:30:23.820
The rest of them isn't there.
00:30:24.220 --> 00:30:25.740
I just thought that I would introduce the world.
00:30:25.980 --> 00:30:27.420
I present for everyone.
00:30:27.740 --> 00:30:31.660
I thought I would introduce the rest of the world to the craziness in my brain.
00:30:31.900 --> 00:30:34.060
Okay, so then what was who came after the culture?
00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:39.580
So technically, the creature was first because Robin Banks was that.
00:30:39.660 --> 00:30:42.700
And then um I started Maha.
00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:47.340
We went into quarantine, and Maha was getting ready at the time for Miss Gay Ohio America.
00:30:47.660 --> 00:30:49.420
Um, you know what?
00:30:49.660 --> 00:30:50.300
You know what?
00:30:50.540 --> 00:30:53.660
Yeah, so I did face off drag race um Selena.
00:30:53.980 --> 00:30:55.820
Um Selena just won a new hat.
00:30:56.060 --> 00:31:00.380
Selena did, just uh when Miss Ohio gay United States.
00:31:00.540 --> 00:31:02.700
Okay, Miss United States.
00:31:02.860 --> 00:31:03.340
Yes.
00:31:03.580 --> 00:31:08.300
Um, but I was in face off and I won face off.
00:31:09.180 --> 00:31:18.300
Um but there was one of those weeks during face off that Courtney Kelly, who was the current Miss Gay Ohio America at the time, was like, You should really consider doing pageantry.
00:31:18.380 --> 00:31:20.860
And I said, absolutely not.
00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:21.660
Pageantry.
00:31:22.460 --> 00:31:25.980
I feel like you said absolutely not to every fucking persona.
00:31:27.180 --> 00:31:29.259
We're gonna hear this like a few more times.
00:31:29.500 --> 00:31:30.620
Just okay, drink.
00:31:30.780 --> 00:31:32.540
I never told you I want to drink.
00:31:33.019 --> 00:31:35.340
I actually probably did, but drink also.
00:31:36.060 --> 00:31:36.380
Whatever.
00:31:37.500 --> 00:31:38.700
Just keep drinking so you can break.
00:31:41.900 --> 00:31:42.700
It could be water.
00:31:43.019 --> 00:31:44.860
Unless you're in Ohio.
00:31:45.900 --> 00:31:46.780
It can be water.
00:31:46.940 --> 00:31:48.860
Yeah, let's have a shot of water.
00:31:49.100 --> 00:31:50.140
Stay hydrated.
00:31:50.300 --> 00:31:51.180
It's important.
00:31:51.340 --> 00:31:54.140
Anyway, um, Courtney was like, you should consider doing patentry.
00:31:54.300 --> 00:31:56.140
And I was like, I don't think that's for me.
00:31:56.460 --> 00:32:00.940
Um Ma is getting ready for Miss Gay Ohio America.
00:32:01.019 --> 00:32:02.860
We're locked in together.
00:32:03.019 --> 00:32:03.660
We're quarantine.
00:32:04.300 --> 00:32:05.259
We're quarantine buddies.
00:32:05.580 --> 00:32:07.340
We're quarantine bunnies living our lives.
00:32:07.580 --> 00:32:07.980
Butt buddies.
00:32:09.340 --> 00:32:10.940
We're butt buddies, yes.
00:32:11.180 --> 00:32:21.420
Um, and they're getting ready, and I'm like, like falling in love with this idea of like, oh, this is like cool, and like what it might do, and I might consider it.
00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:25.180
And so Entertainer of the Year um was where I started out first.
00:32:25.340 --> 00:32:29.180
Nina West is a former, and Nina and I started having more conversations.
00:32:30.220 --> 00:32:30.780
I seen it.
00:32:31.180 --> 00:32:31.900
Yes, her dumb.
00:32:32.220 --> 00:32:32.940
I seen it.
00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:34.940
Um, Nina started.
00:32:35.259 --> 00:32:36.620
I don't feel like I put deodorant on.
00:32:37.500 --> 00:32:41.900
I just thought you should know, so I mean, I don't stink, I just feel like I'm sweating.
00:32:42.300 --> 00:32:45.900
This is just butterflies, tangerang, and I'm trying to have an actual conversation with y'all.
00:32:46.460 --> 00:32:48.540
Like, I don't want you to like, I just felt like I smelled it.
00:32:48.620 --> 00:32:49.500
I was wondering what I was smelling.
00:32:49.900 --> 00:32:50.380
Fuck off.
00:32:50.620 --> 00:32:56.140
Anyway, um started have conversations, more conversations with Nina, and Nina was like, girl, I can just appoint you.
00:32:56.300 --> 00:33:01.340
Like, one of the things for you to qualify for nationals is either go through a prelim or be appointed by a former.
00:33:01.500 --> 00:33:03.019
Nina was like, I can just appoint you.
00:33:03.100 --> 00:33:07.420
I said, I really think that I should go and watch first and like learn more about the system.
00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:09.980
Um, and then I was like, you know what?
00:33:10.220 --> 00:33:10.620
Why not?
00:33:10.940 --> 00:33:12.300
Let's just go do it.
00:33:13.100 --> 00:33:14.220
Don't do that.
00:33:16.460 --> 00:33:17.259
Don't do that.
00:33:17.340 --> 00:33:18.620
Thank you to shit, bitch.
00:33:19.580 --> 00:33:20.460
You had even a far.
00:33:22.300 --> 00:33:28.940
I did make top ten though, but uh yeah, and so I did that, and then I like the rest was really history.
00:33:29.019 --> 00:33:34.220
I like from that first moment, it was like I gotta keep going.
00:33:35.019 --> 00:33:38.860
Um so I did my first ever pageant was National Entertainer of the Year.
00:33:39.019 --> 00:33:39.660
Jesus Christ.
00:33:39.820 --> 00:33:42.460
Um don't suggest that for anybody.
00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:48.140
But almost seven years later, you see where I am now within pageantry and within my career.
00:33:48.220 --> 00:33:51.900
So it like um it lit that fire.
00:33:52.060 --> 00:33:52.380
Yeah.
00:33:52.540 --> 00:33:56.380
Um I learned a lot from that experience.
00:33:56.860 --> 00:33:58.460
Oh, you just sell in the fucking deepest.
00:33:58.700 --> 00:34:09.179
And people are like, so like tell me more about pageantry and like you know, I want to get into pageantry, and I'm like, really, like learn the system before you just jump into something.
00:34:09.820 --> 00:34:13.340
Don't just think that you're gonna show up and that you're gonna do it.
00:34:13.500 --> 00:34:14.219
That can happen.
00:34:15.820 --> 00:34:16.780
It can happen.
00:34:17.340 --> 00:34:25.340
Might I remind you that my sister, Jane Darlins, the wrench, went to Continental and whooped those bitches' asses.
00:34:25.739 --> 00:34:26.219
First time.
00:34:27.019 --> 00:34:30.139
First time, everybody can't be Janay Darlins.
00:34:31.340 --> 00:34:33.340
Um, but literally learn the system.
00:34:33.420 --> 00:34:35.260
Think about like, is this the system for me?
00:34:35.340 --> 00:34:37.579
I think that pageantry literally can be for anybody.
00:34:37.740 --> 00:34:41.180
Anybody can do a pageant and be successful in pageantry.
00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:43.820
You just need to find the system that's for you.
00:34:44.059 --> 00:34:44.460
Yeah.
00:34:44.700 --> 00:34:45.260
Yeah.
00:34:45.900 --> 00:34:51.500
Um so the culture the culture really came from melanated, really.
00:34:51.900 --> 00:35:05.820
Like the culture you know now came from melanated, and like me really getting to that point that it was like I really want the persona that wholeheartedly focuses on being this Nubian goddess of sorts, and that's where the culture came from.
00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:17.500
And then I put the creature into its own box and became this like out of this world, non-binary creature.
00:35:18.220 --> 00:35:20.460
Fertile, fertile character.
00:35:22.139 --> 00:35:23.740
They've they've changed over the years.
00:35:23.900 --> 00:35:29.420
Like the creature used to wear a body, and now the creature is just slangant.
00:35:29.820 --> 00:35:35.099
Slangent! Oh, we were like, oh my god.
00:35:36.139 --> 00:35:42.860
Remember, we were at um alternate egos, uh, there was a bartender, we're not gonna go into details, and I was just there, and he was like, Oh.
00:35:45.099 --> 00:35:47.579
Yeah, I sure do.
00:35:48.780 --> 00:35:49.420
Yep.
00:35:49.740 --> 00:35:49.980
Oh.
00:35:51.180 --> 00:35:51.340
Okay.
00:35:51.740 --> 00:35:55.420
Hey, what what oh uh we ordered drinks.
00:35:55.900 --> 00:35:56.940
Well, you fucking state.
00:35:57.260 --> 00:35:58.380
Oh, what did you order?
00:35:58.700 --> 00:35:59.660
I'm sorry.
00:35:59.900 --> 00:36:01.740
I'm what?
00:36:02.139 --> 00:36:04.460
I'm just ready to I'm just trying to start the show, girl.
00:36:04.780 --> 00:36:06.059
I just need a shot.
00:36:06.300 --> 00:36:07.980
I'll uh never mind.
00:36:08.300 --> 00:36:09.660
Oh, it's been too far.
00:36:09.820 --> 00:36:10.619
Oh real.
00:36:12.460 --> 00:36:12.940
Anyway.
00:36:13.260 --> 00:36:14.220
Dolphin noises.
00:36:16.059 --> 00:36:23.579
Um, the man came from me wanting to really explore masculinity, you know, being um non-binary and typically mask presenting.
00:36:24.460 --> 00:36:24.780
Okay.
00:36:25.500 --> 00:36:30.139
Um I wanted to explore that a little bit more.
00:36:30.300 --> 00:36:32.380
So that's where the man came from.
00:36:32.619 --> 00:36:36.059
Um the fly came from being forced to do burlesque.
00:36:36.220 --> 00:36:40.860
Um timeout.
00:36:41.420 --> 00:36:43.019
Who forced you to do burlesque?
00:36:43.340 --> 00:36:43.900
Dad.
00:36:44.139 --> 00:36:44.619
Who?
00:36:44.860 --> 00:36:46.059
All of my children.
00:36:46.220 --> 00:36:49.340
Um I was like, I didn't force you to do anything.
00:36:49.579 --> 00:36:54.780
I distinctly remember you going, I want to do this number, and you sent me the side.
00:36:55.260 --> 00:37:00.220
And I said, All of my children are burlesque performers.
00:37:00.300 --> 00:37:02.300
I have no idea how the fuck that happened.
00:37:02.539 --> 00:37:05.579
Um I don't know.
00:37:05.740 --> 00:37:11.500
It's like, well, I think that I should dabble in your world a little bit and like figure that out a little bit more.
00:37:11.579 --> 00:37:19.660
And obviously, you know, burlesque entertainers have always been like my ride or dies from the beginning of my career.
00:37:19.900 --> 00:37:24.300
Um shout out to Butterfly.
00:37:24.460 --> 00:37:26.139
Shout out to Deli Marquette.
00:37:26.380 --> 00:37:27.500
Yes! Delhi!
00:37:27.820 --> 00:37:28.460
Come back.
00:37:28.619 --> 00:37:29.820
Right, come back.
00:37:30.059 --> 00:37:33.420
It's so exciting to see uh Deli at like Payne Tribute.
00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:34.780
We see them once a year.
00:37:35.420 --> 00:37:35.820
Come back.
00:37:39.740 --> 00:37:41.260
Come back next year for paying tribute.
00:37:41.340 --> 00:37:42.300
It's the 10-year anniversary.
00:37:42.460 --> 00:37:43.740
Yes, it's my birthday gift.
00:37:47.980 --> 00:37:51.500
But Deli was actually the first person that booked me um out of town.
00:37:51.820 --> 00:37:52.220
Really?
00:37:52.460 --> 00:37:53.099
In Athens?
00:37:53.660 --> 00:37:55.660
Yeah, with Renee Lamar.
00:37:56.700 --> 00:37:57.019
Yes.
00:37:57.260 --> 00:37:58.059
From the burlesque.
00:37:58.300 --> 00:37:59.500
Yes, from the troop, yes.
00:37:59.660 --> 00:38:10.059
Yeah, um, yeah, so I I've always been in the burlesque community, and so it just felt like time to start exploring that art form a little bit more.
00:38:10.220 --> 00:38:12.059
And I never want to get tired with art.
00:38:12.300 --> 00:38:20.940
So, you know, I'm always looking to find other ways to progress and grow, which is why we've got so many projects we're working on.
00:38:21.260 --> 00:38:23.900
So many can't get tired if you just keep going.
00:38:24.059 --> 00:38:24.619
Yeah, no.
00:38:25.980 --> 00:38:27.500
And then lastly, fire.
00:38:27.660 --> 00:38:45.740
Um, the creature has always played with fire in a lot of their numbers, and um, I started going to like wanting to get more involved and learn more about the art form of flow arts and fire play and all of these things, and I was like, I want to start eating and breathing and I wanna breathe fire.
00:38:46.780 --> 00:38:49.660
I wanna just play with it, touch it a little bit more.
00:38:49.820 --> 00:38:56.460
Um and so I started going to fire camps, and at my first fire camp, I was like, Robin Deflame.
00:38:56.539 --> 00:38:57.340
It's a thing.
00:38:57.579 --> 00:38:58.780
It has to, it has to be.
00:38:59.740 --> 00:39:04.380
And so now it's a whole uh production, Robin's Universe.
00:39:04.619 --> 00:39:13.820
There's a lot of people there, and anything that's not black related, Robin's Universe puts it on, and Melanated 614 puts on all the nigga shit.
00:39:14.940 --> 00:39:15.820
And here we are.
00:39:16.059 --> 00:39:16.860
Here we are.
00:39:17.019 --> 00:39:17.579
Yeah.
00:39:17.980 --> 00:39:19.340
Queer we are.
00:39:20.619 --> 00:39:21.900
Now you're a podcaster.
00:39:22.380 --> 00:39:23.420
Now we're a podcaster.
00:39:23.740 --> 00:39:25.500
Now we're podcasters.
00:39:26.059 --> 00:39:41.180
It's crazy because people usually say that people that podcast don't like want to be in front of like cameras, but then I feel like this big wave of people podcasting with video, with video came, and you know, I like to be in front of the camera and innocent.
00:39:41.420 --> 00:39:42.860
So I was like, oh, you know, this is cool.
00:39:42.940 --> 00:39:43.099
Yeah.
00:39:43.260 --> 00:39:46.380
Although the podcast that I listen to actually, I don't watch any of the visuals.
00:39:46.780 --> 00:39:49.980
Which is crazy because I am like a I do got ADHD.
00:39:50.139 --> 00:39:50.220
What?
00:39:50.460 --> 00:39:51.579
I do be everywhere.
00:39:54.220 --> 00:39:59.740
I was trying to listen to a book earlier while we were also having conversations, and you were like, I I can you turn this on?
00:40:00.059 --> 00:40:01.420
I was trying to focus on what you were saying.
00:40:01.579 --> 00:40:04.780
Meanwhile, I was very focused on you while also focusing on the book.
00:40:05.019 --> 00:40:13.099
I would have had a my like a one of my shits on, I could have focused because I wouldn't, but I was just like, I shut up! Shut up, they're trying to tell me something.
00:40:13.579 --> 00:40:14.619
I can't focus.
00:40:14.700 --> 00:40:16.220
You're so fucking loud.
00:40:16.700 --> 00:40:18.380
It was just the radio.
00:40:18.780 --> 00:40:19.820
I get overstone.
00:40:20.220 --> 00:40:20.539
You do.
00:40:20.860 --> 00:40:22.139
I do, I'll be overstone.
00:40:22.460 --> 00:40:23.019
Um, okay.
00:40:23.180 --> 00:40:24.300
So I have a question.
00:40:24.539 --> 00:40:24.780
Okay.
00:40:25.099 --> 00:40:36.139
So obviously you just said the flame is coming into fruition, and like I would love to see you at like one of those, like, like a freak show type of like outdoors, like circus type vibe.
00:40:36.460 --> 00:40:36.940
Do you know?
00:40:37.180 --> 00:40:41.820
This is a perfect segue, actually, because I'm getting ready to tell you my shit.
00:40:42.059 --> 00:40:43.099
My burlesque shit.
00:40:43.180 --> 00:40:46.619
The first burlesque show I ever performed at as a solo was actually a freak show.
00:40:46.780 --> 00:40:49.500
Um, not a show that's happening now.
00:40:49.579 --> 00:40:55.980
It was like literally a traveling circus and they were um using Wall Street as a I guess.
00:40:59.500 --> 00:40:59.900
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:00.300 --> 00:41:03.500
It was just like a traveling and they were there for the whole weekend, and that was the first time I debuted.
00:41:03.660 --> 00:41:05.180
But I'll go back further than that.
00:41:05.260 --> 00:41:07.579
Um after I asked you this question.
00:41:07.820 --> 00:41:23.420
Do you see any other like what's an we have so many things that we want to do, but like where do you want like where do you see yourself going or do you see more more personalities coming out?
00:41:23.500 --> 00:41:24.700
Do you see yourself dabbling in a few years?
00:41:24.780 --> 00:41:25.820
Oh, there's more personalities.
00:41:26.860 --> 00:41:27.180
I know.
00:41:27.500 --> 00:41:29.579
But I'm like, what what else do you see?
00:41:29.660 --> 00:41:37.900
Like because I feel like you and I both do have this vi like we see so far out, like we think further than just like tomorrow.
00:41:37.980 --> 00:41:39.420
I'm like, no, bitch, I'm thinking about it.
00:41:39.740 --> 00:41:48.460
You know, I'm like, where do you what what's like something that's like Yeah, like um remember during quarantine that we were all making like music videos of sorts?
00:41:48.780 --> 00:41:54.460
I there are so many moments that I just want like I have a song in mind and I'm like I want to create a music video to this.
00:41:55.019 --> 00:41:59.260
Um I think that's something that I I want to do.
00:41:59.420 --> 00:41:59.820
Yeah.
00:42:00.059 --> 00:42:01.420
Um I don't know.
00:42:01.579 --> 00:42:02.940
It's like that's cool.
00:42:03.260 --> 00:42:04.139
Do people actually want it?
00:42:04.220 --> 00:42:06.780
Do people watch music videos so I mean someone needs to bring them back?
00:42:06.940 --> 00:42:07.820
I love music videos.
00:42:08.139 --> 00:42:08.860
I love music videos.
00:42:09.180 --> 00:42:11.420
I love I it's just I don't know.
00:42:11.500 --> 00:42:13.579
I like the storytelling I just like to see it.
00:42:13.660 --> 00:42:15.180
I'm a visual person.
00:42:15.420 --> 00:42:15.980
I think it's cool.
00:42:16.539 --> 00:42:17.340
You're not watching visuals.
00:42:18.220 --> 00:42:22.139
Yeah, I'm not well because I'm usually at work doing something and I shouldn't even be listening to it in the party.
00:42:22.539 --> 00:42:23.099
But guess what?
00:42:23.260 --> 00:42:24.940
I got that little pod in my head.
00:42:25.180 --> 00:42:26.460
I love reading books at work.
00:42:26.539 --> 00:42:31.019
I made a post- did you see my post the other day about I I was I'm not reading it anymore.
00:42:31.099 --> 00:42:34.619
I finished it, but I was reading um Malcolm X's autobiography.
00:42:34.700 --> 00:42:35.099
Yes.
00:42:35.260 --> 00:42:44.940
Um, and I have a very diverse office, but it's still a overall predominantly white, predominantly white company, et cetera, et cetera.
00:42:45.019 --> 00:42:47.340
And I was reading Malcolm X's biography.
00:42:47.500 --> 00:43:02.619
Um and people were like coming up and it was just like You're like, white devils, you fucking fucking you look like the motherfucking president of the KK right it was just you ancestors! You know what?
00:43:02.700 --> 00:43:04.139
I'm about to pop off right now.
00:43:04.220 --> 00:43:06.059
I'm gonna kill everybody, but I get it.
00:43:06.220 --> 00:43:08.139
Hey, insert out of drag name.
00:43:08.300 --> 00:43:10.300
Have you uh started this yet?
00:43:10.460 --> 00:43:14.940
Or like, hey, uh you know, um just a normal, hey, how's it going?
00:43:15.740 --> 00:43:17.900
I'll tell you how it's going, whitey.
00:43:21.180 --> 00:43:28.220
You devil you fucking I love white people.
00:43:29.180 --> 00:43:32.059
Some of you some anyway.
00:43:32.539 --> 00:43:34.220
Um what were we talking about?
00:43:35.099 --> 00:43:35.660
Uh-huh.
00:43:38.460 --> 00:43:40.139
If you oh, you want to make music videos?
00:43:40.380 --> 00:43:41.019
I want to make music videos.
00:43:43.180 --> 00:43:46.539
You kind of are already uh They told me not to wear a bra.
00:43:46.780 --> 00:43:47.820
I was lying in the beginning.
00:43:47.980 --> 00:43:49.260
I was only I was lying.
00:43:49.340 --> 00:43:51.260
They said, don't wear a bra, we gotta get our views up.
00:43:54.940 --> 00:43:56.139
Teddies for the views.
00:43:56.539 --> 00:43:58.700
Teddies for the views, titties for the kitties.
00:43:58.940 --> 00:43:59.740
I don't know.
00:43:59.980 --> 00:44:04.380
Um, but yeah, no, I think that's um a good thing.
00:44:04.539 --> 00:44:19.019
Um I'm still on the fence right now about the rest of the year and about like the year started off so well that I I really want to enjoy the rest of the year versus like 'cause that was all crazy, right?
00:44:19.260 --> 00:44:19.500
Yeah.
00:44:19.740 --> 00:44:21.980
That was a lot, and we're still looking kinda like not all.
00:44:22.460 --> 00:44:23.099
Not even done yet.
00:44:23.420 --> 00:44:25.579
So like Can we get off the train for a bit?
00:44:26.300 --> 00:44:35.340
And then all of the pageants started coming up and all that stuff, and I was like, Whoo, um, I just wanna go to another country.
00:44:35.420 --> 00:44:40.780
Uh, and I can use all that money for that or something, versus buying these costumes and doing that, you know.
00:44:41.019 --> 00:44:42.380
Are there any pageants you want to do?
00:44:42.539 --> 00:44:42.780
Right.
00:44:42.940 --> 00:44:43.099
There are.
00:44:43.180 --> 00:44:45.420
I'm not gonna talk about the on the microphone though.
00:44:45.660 --> 00:44:46.539
I just wanted to know.
00:44:46.700 --> 00:44:47.500
I was just curious.
00:44:47.740 --> 00:44:48.460
You are, you know.
00:44:48.700 --> 00:44:49.820
Well, I'll be there in the audience.
00:44:50.139 --> 00:44:50.860
Yeah, I'll be able to do that.
00:44:51.660 --> 00:44:53.579
Um, maybe we'll take the house dance.
00:44:53.980 --> 00:44:54.619
We're a sign.
00:44:55.099 --> 00:44:55.340
Yeah.
00:44:55.500 --> 00:44:56.460
Oh my god.
00:44:56.619 --> 00:44:59.740
You You know, I strategically I know you did.
00:44:59.980 --> 00:45:00.860
You're so smart, you shouldn't.
00:45:01.019 --> 00:45:04.619
I didn't just start a troop for melaninated.
00:45:05.260 --> 00:45:07.660
Do y'all wanna travel with me?
00:45:09.340 --> 00:45:13.980
This is so I have so many I don't want to like, I have so many things I just want to say.
00:45:14.059 --> 00:45:20.220
You just like that I see happening for like this, but I don't want to say it because you know, I want to say it to you.
00:45:20.380 --> 00:45:23.260
I don't want you all to know yet, because you know we gotta keep our cards close to our chest.
00:45:23.579 --> 00:45:23.820
Exactly.
00:45:23.980 --> 00:45:26.780
Because your guys are already watching all the other 5,000 things.
00:45:26.940 --> 00:45:28.860
We'll keep this 6,000 thing away.
00:45:29.340 --> 00:45:30.139
And then what we do.
00:45:30.300 --> 00:45:30.619
You should know.
00:45:30.780 --> 00:45:31.980
I don't know what we did with the podcast.
00:45:32.059 --> 00:45:37.980
We just were like look at us.
00:45:40.220 --> 00:45:41.660
Follow this fucking page.
00:45:41.900 --> 00:45:42.700
Who the fuck is this?
00:45:42.780 --> 00:45:44.300
It's like oh fucking no, follow it.
00:45:44.380 --> 00:45:45.500
It's like what is happening here?
00:45:45.660 --> 00:45:47.820
Why are these bitches behind a microphone?
00:45:48.780 --> 00:45:49.820
And now look at you.
00:45:53.500 --> 00:45:55.260
Make sure you like, comment, and subscribe.
00:45:55.420 --> 00:45:57.340
Talk about all of our craziness in the comments.
00:45:57.579 --> 00:45:57.820
Yeah.
00:45:58.139 --> 00:46:03.820
It's been your favorite moment so far of this thing that we're doing.
00:46:05.260 --> 00:46:05.900
Yeah.
00:46:06.059 --> 00:46:08.300
Also, I feel like they were supposed to tell us things last week.
00:46:08.539 --> 00:46:09.579
I hope that you told us things.
00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:12.460
You didn't tell us things yet.
00:46:12.780 --> 00:46:14.059
Okay, because the episode Okay.
00:46:14.220 --> 00:46:16.780
Make sure you watch last week's episode because we gave y'all homework.
00:46:16.940 --> 00:46:17.740
We did give you homework.
00:46:17.820 --> 00:46:18.300
We would like to.
00:46:18.539 --> 00:46:20.619
So if you haven't watched it, stop.
00:46:21.019 --> 00:46:22.139
Collaborate and listen.
00:46:22.300 --> 00:46:23.820
I'm just kidding, at this point you can finish the episode.
00:46:24.220 --> 00:46:26.139
But when you're done, go back.
00:46:27.260 --> 00:46:28.059
It's good homework.
00:46:28.139 --> 00:46:28.619
It's homework.
00:46:28.700 --> 00:46:29.180
You're gonna like it.
00:46:29.260 --> 00:46:30.220
It's fun, it's fun homework.
00:46:30.300 --> 00:46:31.420
But watch the episode and figure it out.
00:46:31.579 --> 00:46:36.940
Also, last week's episode was a tangent rangent where you just We just shot shit the shadow.
00:46:37.099 --> 00:46:38.860
I talked about it shattered the shit.
00:46:39.019 --> 00:46:42.059
To the point that Butterfly forgot that you were even here, so I did.
00:46:46.539 --> 00:46:49.340
Uh I just um oh wait, I'll save okay, okay, wait.
00:46:49.420 --> 00:46:50.059
Where are we?
00:46:50.300 --> 00:46:50.940
I don't know.
00:46:51.099 --> 00:46:51.980
Okay, we're back.
00:46:52.300 --> 00:46:52.619
Okay.
00:46:52.860 --> 00:46:54.059
Did you ask me something?
00:46:54.220 --> 00:46:56.860
Oh, I said pageants and you said okay, no.
00:46:57.099 --> 00:46:57.500
Yes.
00:46:57.740 --> 00:46:59.740
Um, I guess I should talk about myself.
00:46:59.900 --> 00:47:00.539
Yeah.
00:47:00.860 --> 00:47:03.500
Gosh, um my life's been so much longer.
00:47:03.660 --> 00:47:07.260
We might be here on a night since I'm 45.
00:47:08.940 --> 00:47:11.260
We would have known that yeah last we talked were here last week.
00:47:12.220 --> 00:47:15.579
Um, for me performing, I've always been performing.
00:47:15.820 --> 00:47:22.059
I've been in like my grandmother was the type of grandmother that kept you in like every activity.
00:47:22.300 --> 00:47:24.380
So I always had dance recitals.
00:47:24.460 --> 00:47:26.780
I always had gymnastics.
00:47:26.940 --> 00:47:27.500
I quit that.
00:47:27.660 --> 00:47:29.660
I cannot do any of those things any longer.
00:47:29.900 --> 00:47:31.820
Except for like the things that I already do.
00:47:32.059 --> 00:47:34.300
Okay, so don't think I'm a gymnast any longer.
00:47:35.019 --> 00:47:42.059
That's not what M telling me, but uh Um.
00:47:43.340 --> 00:47:46.300
I my first thing I ever wanted to be was an Olympic ice skater.
00:47:46.380 --> 00:47:47.420
My girl, I used to ice skate.
00:47:47.500 --> 00:47:52.619
I I was on a synchronized ice skating team for a while, and then I had a private coach for a while when I was competing.
00:47:52.780 --> 00:47:54.940
But ice skating's really expensive, so we had to quit.
00:47:55.019 --> 00:47:56.380
That was when I was in elementary school.
00:47:56.860 --> 00:47:57.579
I'm really sad.
00:47:57.660 --> 00:48:00.460
I could have been at the Olympics with Sergei Bonnale.
00:48:02.220 --> 00:48:05.740
I still low key when Ice skate, but I'm too I just feel like my body would say no.
00:48:05.900 --> 00:48:12.860
Like, I can go ice skating, but there's no way I think I was gonna say there's no way I'm gonna be an Olympic ice skater, but I could if y'all start like an adult ice skating group.
00:48:12.940 --> 00:48:15.579
Yeah, stop coming up with things to do.
00:48:15.820 --> 00:48:17.420
That's just you know, that's me talking to myself.
00:48:17.740 --> 00:48:19.180
I'm gonna say you go do it, girl.
00:48:20.220 --> 00:48:21.019
That's all you need.
00:48:22.220 --> 00:48:23.500
I'm gonna be there cheering you on.
00:48:23.660 --> 00:48:24.619
Okay, as long as you're gonna be doing it.
00:48:29.500 --> 00:48:32.220
Uh you don't have to ow in that.
00:48:32.380 --> 00:48:32.780
Boo.
00:48:33.820 --> 00:48:35.099
Boo evolved.
00:48:35.420 --> 00:48:37.980
Um, what was I saying?
00:48:38.220 --> 00:48:39.579
Oh, okay, ice skating.
00:48:39.740 --> 00:48:43.820
Um, so middle school, I mean, I did theater, my grandma had me in theater camp.
00:48:44.300 --> 00:48:47.740
I got to high school, and believe it or not, I used to really be shy.
00:48:47.820 --> 00:48:53.900
I and I know you probably won't believe it, but I used to be a doormat, a quiet little mouse.
00:48:54.300 --> 00:48:57.180
Just those moments.
00:48:57.420 --> 00:49:00.460
Yeah, when I'm high or dissociated or asleep.
00:49:00.780 --> 00:49:01.260
They come out.
00:49:01.500 --> 00:49:02.780
Or sleep, okay.
00:49:03.180 --> 00:49:06.460
Um what was I saying?
00:49:08.139 --> 00:49:09.099
I suscated.
00:49:09.740 --> 00:49:10.380
Where was I at?
00:49:10.619 --> 00:49:11.260
Theater camp.
00:49:11.420 --> 00:49:12.380
Yes, theater camp.
00:49:12.539 --> 00:49:13.579
Um, high school.
00:49:13.660 --> 00:49:19.980
I get to high school and I was like, I always wanted to like try theater, right?
00:49:20.139 --> 00:49:22.700
But I was just, you know, you're shy, you know, I didn't want to do any of that.
00:49:22.780 --> 00:49:24.460
And like I was like I said, really shy.
00:49:24.539 --> 00:49:28.220
So like in middle school we had to go up and do the little speeches or go do any.
00:49:28.380 --> 00:49:29.340
Oh my god.
00:49:30.220 --> 00:49:31.500
I'm like, no.
00:49:32.300 --> 00:49:33.900
You want me to do what?
00:49:34.619 --> 00:49:36.300
In front of those people.
00:49:36.460 --> 00:49:37.260
Oh, it was awful.
00:49:37.420 --> 00:49:38.059
I hated it.
00:49:38.300 --> 00:49:42.700
But I got to high school in ninth grade immediately on my schedule, theater.
00:49:43.180 --> 00:49:44.220
Oh no.
00:49:44.780 --> 00:49:45.900
I was so scared.
00:49:46.059 --> 00:49:47.420
I was fucking scared.
00:49:47.740 --> 00:49:49.180
I tried to get it taken off.
00:49:49.340 --> 00:49:50.780
They're like, Well, you have to take it.
00:49:50.940 --> 00:49:51.260
Why?
00:49:51.340 --> 00:49:52.460
I don't want to be an actress.
00:49:52.539 --> 00:49:53.579
That's a fucking lie.
00:49:54.380 --> 00:49:55.900
Um why don't I do that?
00:49:56.059 --> 00:49:56.860
I don't want to do that.
00:49:57.019 --> 00:49:58.780
Perform me being you.
00:49:59.099 --> 00:49:59.420
No.
00:49:59.500 --> 00:50:01.500
I mean I don't want to do that.
00:50:02.220 --> 00:50:03.740
Meanwhile, have my whole career plan.
00:50:04.059 --> 00:50:04.380
Anyway.
00:50:04.619 --> 00:50:12.059
Um, so I made friends with these gals, and auditions were coming up for the musical in the spring, which was the whiz.
00:50:12.780 --> 00:50:15.500
So we had the auditions, and me and my friends were like, you know what?
00:50:16.780 --> 00:50:18.380
Because we were having fun in theater class.
00:50:18.460 --> 00:50:25.340
It was just like we would do random, like, fucking theater exercises that were like to get you uh more comfortable and all that stuff.
00:50:25.420 --> 00:50:27.260
And I was like, oh, this shit's kind of fun.
00:50:27.420 --> 00:50:28.940
Like, ooh, I kind of like this.
00:50:29.019 --> 00:50:32.220
So we were like, okay, let's not be bitches, let's not be little pansies.
00:50:32.539 --> 00:50:33.340
Let's audition.
00:50:33.500 --> 00:50:36.619
So we auditioned, and I got into the we got into the whiz.
00:50:36.780 --> 00:50:42.380
We were in the um, like we were dancers in the whiz and singers background, like we weren't I wasn't a lead.
00:50:42.539 --> 00:50:45.019
But then I this is way before I used to sing in public.
00:50:45.180 --> 00:50:47.099
I didn't sing in public at all in high school.
00:50:47.340 --> 00:50:52.380
And I'm so pissed that I didn't because I could have been singing in the fucking musicals, but I was too scared.
00:50:52.460 --> 00:50:53.019
I really was scared.
00:50:53.180 --> 00:50:56.860
I wasn't even in choir because I was so deeply like immersed in the theater.
00:50:57.260 --> 00:50:58.539
I couldn't even do drill team.
00:50:58.619 --> 00:50:59.820
Like I wanted to do all those things.
00:50:59.980 --> 00:51:02.139
Anyways, there fast forward.
00:51:02.220 --> 00:51:06.139
I mean, like I fell in love with it and I I became the fucking president of the Thespian Society.
00:51:06.220 --> 00:51:07.740
If you tell that how fast I go.
00:51:08.220 --> 00:51:10.460
Like I I don't want to perform.
00:51:10.700 --> 00:51:16.539
I don't want to perform, and now I'm the president and I'm did every show from the whiz through high school.
00:51:16.700 --> 00:51:22.059
I did every fucking show, whether I was dancing, acting, stage managing, stage crew, any of it.
00:51:22.539 --> 00:51:23.579
And I just like fell in love with it.
00:51:23.660 --> 00:51:25.019
I was like, oh my god, this is what I'm doing.
00:51:25.099 --> 00:51:25.420
You know what?
00:51:25.500 --> 00:51:27.180
My dad and my family, they already live in Cali.
00:51:27.420 --> 00:51:27.579
Cool.
00:51:27.740 --> 00:51:29.500
When I graduate, that's where I'm going.
00:51:29.660 --> 00:51:31.260
I obviously didn't go there.
00:51:31.660 --> 00:51:32.780
That was my plan though.
00:51:32.940 --> 00:51:36.380
I was like, I'm gonna move to California, I'm gonna get on TV, it's gonna be great.
00:51:36.619 --> 00:51:39.180
And then I went to college.
00:51:39.340 --> 00:51:39.740
Yeah.
00:51:40.220 --> 00:51:44.380
And I went to um, I don't know, should I say my college?
00:51:44.460 --> 00:51:46.619
I mean, I guess they know I work at District West.
00:51:46.940 --> 00:51:48.220
If they're gonna come get me, they're gonna come get me.
00:51:48.380 --> 00:51:49.099
Who's coming to get you?
00:51:49.340 --> 00:51:51.579
I don't know, like a stalker or something, bro.
00:51:51.900 --> 00:51:53.660
Like people is crazy.
00:51:53.900 --> 00:51:56.700
I think you've also said where you went to college in another episode.
00:51:58.860 --> 00:52:00.539
I was at Capitol University.
00:52:00.780 --> 00:52:08.380
Capitol University is a Lutheran school, uh private, predominantly white, not a lot of chips in the cookie.
00:52:08.539 --> 00:52:14.380
If you went to Capitol, I know you've heard that because that's a one of the fucking medals we all said.
00:52:15.660 --> 00:52:15.900
Yeah.
00:52:16.220 --> 00:52:17.019
What were you expecting?
00:52:17.180 --> 00:52:17.340
Yeah.
00:52:17.420 --> 00:52:19.420
Well, I mean, I didn't expect anything because I didn't want to go there.
00:52:19.820 --> 00:52:21.980
I didn't get in the Otterbine, but it's cool.
00:52:22.059 --> 00:52:22.539
I'm actually glad.
00:52:22.860 --> 00:52:23.579
What is the difference?
00:52:23.820 --> 00:52:25.740
It was they were rival theaters.
00:52:25.900 --> 00:52:26.300
Oh, okay.
00:52:26.460 --> 00:52:32.220
And they were like, I mean, I'm not gonna say they were a better theater because I loved every show we did, it was like we had a great theater.
00:52:32.300 --> 00:52:33.579
We were more of a black box theater.
00:52:33.660 --> 00:52:34.700
But that's where I would try to go.
00:52:34.780 --> 00:52:35.019
I did.
00:52:35.099 --> 00:52:35.820
I didn't get in.
00:52:35.980 --> 00:52:41.660
And I'm grateful now that I didn't get in because like I loved my whole entire experience at Capitol.
00:52:41.740 --> 00:52:44.780
Um, as I was going to Capitol is when I started dancing more.
00:52:44.940 --> 00:52:46.139
We had like a dance team.
00:52:46.460 --> 00:52:49.820
It was out there with the football team, like this only black girl.
00:52:52.300 --> 00:52:53.340
It was lit.
00:52:53.579 --> 00:52:57.019
Um and then I started going out to the clubs.
00:52:57.500 --> 00:52:57.660
Oh.
00:52:58.780 --> 00:53:02.860
And you kind of told the story now about your first performance.
00:53:03.180 --> 00:53:04.700
No, I'm not gonna talk about the first well.
00:53:05.180 --> 00:53:07.260
About the first time that you really got involved.
00:53:07.579 --> 00:53:08.860
In the very first episode, yes.
00:53:09.180 --> 00:53:10.940
So I got involved that way.
00:53:11.019 --> 00:53:12.139
I don't need to go through that, yes.
00:53:12.220 --> 00:53:17.340
So I started at Wall Street performing burlesque, da-da-da-da-da.
00:53:18.860 --> 00:53:23.019
And butterfly just like happened.
00:53:23.420 --> 00:53:26.619
Butterfli I think I also said this in that episode, but I will just say it again.
00:53:26.780 --> 00:53:28.380
I didn't like pick that stage name.
00:53:28.619 --> 00:53:29.980
I went my butterfly before that.
00:53:30.059 --> 00:53:30.780
Did I not say this?
00:53:31.019 --> 00:53:34.300
Yeah, you were butterfly before Yeah, I was that I was just my Facebook name.
00:53:34.380 --> 00:53:38.780
But I made it my Facebook name after my great grandmother passed away just because butterfly signs of life.
00:53:38.860 --> 00:53:39.500
They were her favorite things.
00:53:39.660 --> 00:53:41.099
I was like, I love butterflies.
00:53:41.420 --> 00:53:45.579
And then it just blew up really fast.
00:53:45.900 --> 00:53:56.860
And I was like, wow, I really I really am in love with burlesque after, you know, joining that troupe and then having to kind of like dive in just to performing.
00:53:56.940 --> 00:53:57.900
I was like, this is great.
00:53:58.380 --> 00:53:59.900
This is great, this is what I want to do.
00:54:00.059 --> 00:54:04.059
Obviously, I had we had to be squared before that, but burlesque, I like I fell in love with that.
00:54:04.139 --> 00:54:07.500
That's why I was like, oh yeah, okay, I like this.
00:54:07.660 --> 00:54:15.500
This is cool, it's empowering, it's it's like a way of owning, like owning your body and falling in love with yourself.
00:54:15.579 --> 00:54:19.660
That's one thing when I talk about burlesque, it's literally letting someone fall in love with you.
00:54:19.820 --> 00:54:22.300
Like letting people watch you fall in love with yourself.
00:54:22.619 --> 00:54:23.579
Because that's what you're doing.
00:54:23.660 --> 00:54:28.539
You're celebrating yourself, you're you're taking whatever you're going through, you're putting it into it.
00:54:28.700 --> 00:54:32.300
And I feel like it really, I don't know, helped me.
00:54:32.700 --> 00:54:36.300
I I mean, if I haven't performed in like three days, I'm probably not a nice person.
00:54:36.380 --> 00:54:38.300
And I know that sounds so insane.
00:54:38.460 --> 00:54:43.260
No, like that is my I have I I that's what I ha I need to do that.
00:54:43.660 --> 00:54:44.860
I have to do that.
00:54:45.099 --> 00:54:51.900
Um then I got into district uh after a while.
00:54:52.059 --> 00:54:56.619
You know, I was performing obviously with Club 20 and I was at Bossy for a while.
00:54:57.420 --> 00:54:57.980
Long time ago.
00:54:58.619 --> 00:54:59.340
Like ten years ago.
00:54:59.820 --> 00:55:00.380
Long, long time.
00:55:01.019 --> 00:55:01.740
We all start somewhere.
00:55:01.900 --> 00:55:02.780
You know, we all start somewhere.
00:55:03.500 --> 00:55:05.820
Um I got into district and shit took off, honestly.
00:55:05.900 --> 00:55:06.139
Yeah.
00:55:06.380 --> 00:55:07.340
I got very lucky.
00:55:07.500 --> 00:55:14.940
Um I honestly just started going to shows and 'cause you weren't at district when it opened.
00:55:15.099 --> 00:55:15.740
No, you weren't.
00:55:15.820 --> 00:55:17.579
No, I was we we were still at Two Truths.
00:55:17.820 --> 00:55:18.059
Yeah.
00:55:18.460 --> 00:55:19.099
I went.
00:55:21.019 --> 00:55:23.099
I mean I was still at Two Truths afterwards.
00:55:23.660 --> 00:55:26.380
Because Tutruths closed while I was at District.
00:55:26.700 --> 00:55:27.019
That's true.
00:55:27.260 --> 00:55:27.660
Yeah.
00:55:27.900 --> 00:55:28.059
Yeah.
00:55:28.220 --> 00:55:30.619
But it would just become a instant segue.
00:55:30.700 --> 00:55:36.860
But yeah, but you were talking earlier about how not like burlesque saved your life, but like, you know, you're like you can't live without it.
00:55:37.019 --> 00:55:40.860
But um truly in reality, like drag saved my life, right?
00:55:40.940 --> 00:55:41.260
Mm-hmm.
00:55:41.500 --> 00:55:43.340
Um I talk about it a lot in pageantry.
00:55:43.420 --> 00:55:47.820
Like people talk about like what's that one thing that you would change in your life?
00:55:47.980 --> 00:55:55.740
And truly the answer is like I wouldn't change anything because I wouldn't be the person I am today without everything that I've been through.
00:55:56.220 --> 00:56:06.780
But um when I decided that I didn't want to do church and ministry anymore, that's truly when you know, like I was like, I need to figure out something else.
00:56:07.019 --> 00:56:16.059
Um and it's a common thing with like church folk, like when you're like deeply involved in church and like you're that's probably for everything.
00:56:16.220 --> 00:56:22.300
When you're deeply involved in something and like you take that thing away, it's like, well what else what else is life?
00:56:22.380 --> 00:56:23.980
What else do I live for now?
00:56:24.380 --> 00:56:29.420
Um And really I had that moment where it was like what else do I live for now?
00:56:29.579 --> 00:56:32.539
Like this is literally everything I know.
00:56:33.099 --> 00:56:35.660
Um and then drag came about.
00:56:35.740 --> 00:56:41.660
But you know, I had a real low moment where I wanted to not be here.
00:56:41.900 --> 00:56:45.820
Um and really try to not be here.
00:56:46.220 --> 00:56:52.700
Um, because there wasn't like I literally felt there was no other option, and you know, it took that a step further within religion.
00:56:52.780 --> 00:57:06.380
It's like, well, if God is telling me to do these things and I don't want to do these things anymore, and I f I feel like I'm a disappointment now to God, then might as well just end it all and not be here anymore, right?
00:57:07.260 --> 00:57:11.660
Um so that's really why drag started off like super alternative for me.
00:57:11.740 --> 00:57:18.780
It was like that rebellion moment, but also like this is truly saving my life.
00:57:19.180 --> 00:57:19.340
Yeah.
00:57:20.380 --> 00:57:35.099
That makes me like connect burlesque because like a lot of people have very negative perceptions of burlesque because like if you haven't come to a burlesque show and you don't know burlesque, you just like that's just some stripperho, and yeah, that might be true, and that's fine.
00:57:35.500 --> 00:57:47.420
But like within this, I feel like within performing and and just putting myself out there in that way, uh like unapologetically and without fear, has helped me become stronger.
00:57:47.740 --> 00:57:50.220
Because like fuck you, you know what I mean?
00:57:51.180 --> 00:57:54.700
So I'm just like I connect with it in that way with in that way too.
00:57:55.660 --> 00:58:01.019
I just feel I feel like I've I have lost people in my life because of it though, which is strange.
00:58:01.740 --> 00:58:05.579
Like people don't really fuck like some people like and I don't really care about that.
00:58:05.980 --> 00:58:11.500
Yeah, like I but it's just like you probably you have not lost anybody who was worth something, right?
00:58:11.820 --> 00:58:13.500
Because if you were worth something, you would still be here.
00:58:13.900 --> 00:58:14.300
Exactly.
00:58:14.539 --> 00:58:27.500
Um and that's what like people try to come back often, like you know, I used to have my personal page, only my personal page, and at some point within my drag career, it was like I don't really need two pages.
00:58:27.579 --> 00:58:37.099
Like these are obviously I'm still myself and still the persona, but the persona is like the person who is social and needs all of these things.
00:58:37.260 --> 00:58:41.740
Yeah, um, I want to keep some type of privacy.
00:58:42.139 --> 00:58:43.180
There's no privacy.
00:58:43.740 --> 00:58:48.220
Um but I want to keep like those things separate as much as possible.
00:58:48.380 --> 00:58:51.900
And then as time went on, it was like, no, this is just who I am, right?
00:58:51.980 --> 00:58:55.420
And so if you have an issue with that, then you're just gonna remove yourself.
00:58:55.900 --> 00:59:17.180
Um, and like those first couple of months where I was like super alternative and super dark and um doing blasphemous type numbers, um, and seeing all the church folk on my page who were like going back to my grandmother and back to the other church members, and it's like, oh my gosh, yeah, you are different.
00:59:19.019 --> 00:59:22.619
Woo! You the left Jesus and look at you now.
00:59:22.700 --> 00:59:50.619
You're just a hell yeah! And yes, uh, but you know, those moments were reassuring because it helped make a space for other people, like not you, but other people to like enter into my life to like enter into my life and like make it better, but like not you, but other people.
00:59:51.019 --> 00:59:52.940
So yeah.
00:59:53.260 --> 00:59:57.980
I'm leaving, I know what I'm not wanted.
00:59:59.099 --> 01:00:00.860
Lock all this shit over.
01:00:01.900 --> 01:00:02.700
Motherfucker.
01:00:03.260 --> 01:00:03.660
Fucker.
01:00:04.539 --> 01:00:09.099
Um, but it kind of leads into our origins, like you.
01:00:09.340 --> 01:00:13.180
I don't we were obviously talked a little bit about this at Club 20.
01:00:13.260 --> 01:00:14.380
You saw me perform.
01:00:14.539 --> 01:00:21.579
Oh, I saw you perform at community pride, ball headed ho shit, uh, to not naked.
01:00:21.660 --> 01:00:22.139
What was it?
01:00:22.300 --> 01:00:26.619
I performed, excuse me why I feel my lizard.
01:00:26.940 --> 01:00:29.660
Excuse me why I right at that park.
01:00:30.220 --> 01:00:31.180
I almost named it.
01:00:31.980 --> 01:00:34.860
I don't want to name it because I live close to it, babe.
01:00:35.019 --> 01:00:36.460
You didn't have to say that.
01:00:36.780 --> 01:00:37.500
Remove that.
01:00:37.980 --> 01:00:39.180
Sorry, I'm sorry, Shaq.
01:00:39.500 --> 01:00:40.300
I just said the park.
01:00:40.539 --> 01:00:41.900
Mamie Moore Park.
01:00:42.139 --> 01:00:43.820
Yeah, we performed at Mamie Moore Park.
01:00:43.900 --> 01:00:44.780
Yeah, it's community pride.
01:00:44.860 --> 01:00:48.940
It's always at Mamie Moore Park, so I do not live anywhere near there.
01:00:51.660 --> 01:00:52.860
Whatever next.
01:00:53.180 --> 01:00:54.780
I don't have to knock on a lot of doors.
01:00:55.900 --> 01:00:59.260
And I would not be knocking on random people's doors by Mamie Moore Park.
01:00:59.420 --> 01:01:01.019
No, but do what you want.
01:01:01.180 --> 01:01:05.019
Hey, you if you are that interested in finding butterfly, do what you want.
01:01:05.260 --> 01:01:08.380
Um, but yes, you were outside performing at Mamie Moore Park.
01:01:08.539 --> 01:01:14.860
Um I was there because I was I was uh the sh not chaperoned.
01:01:15.260 --> 01:01:16.780
I was I don't know.
01:01:17.019 --> 01:01:19.500
Or you was I was there with someone a volunteer?
01:01:19.740 --> 01:01:21.740
No, I came with another performer.
01:01:21.900 --> 01:01:23.340
Uh you were their dresser?
01:01:23.500 --> 01:01:25.579
I was not their dresser, I was their driver.
01:01:25.820 --> 01:01:33.820
Uh um, but you were there and you were bald and you were titties out.
01:01:35.579 --> 01:01:37.099
And you seemed fun.
01:01:38.539 --> 01:01:39.820
And here we are.
01:01:42.380 --> 01:01:42.780
Yes.
01:01:43.019 --> 01:01:51.820
And then I saw you a couple weeks later as I was performing, and you were like, oh my god, I need you to do this, and that's still the same.
01:01:52.059 --> 01:01:53.260
I need to be a poacher.
01:01:53.660 --> 01:01:54.059
I'm serious.
01:01:54.700 --> 01:01:55.660
I'm still a poacher.
01:01:56.139 --> 01:01:58.940
I love going to shows when people are shows.
01:01:59.180 --> 01:02:01.900
I'd be like, hey, kid.
01:02:06.460 --> 01:02:07.420
Come on, quick mom.
01:02:10.059 --> 01:02:11.579
I'm gonna make your big star.
01:02:15.500 --> 01:02:17.099
You ever want to be a star kid?
01:02:18.139 --> 01:02:20.220
I feel like I do act like that still.
01:02:20.300 --> 01:02:20.700
Yeah, you're right.
01:02:24.700 --> 01:02:25.579
I can't help myself.
01:02:25.660 --> 01:02:27.260
I get so excited, but I love that.
01:02:27.340 --> 01:02:30.300
I'm like, ooh, I want to book this bitch right now.
01:02:31.980 --> 01:02:32.860
Oh, can't be out.
01:02:33.900 --> 01:02:38.220
Do you know I was there for Rave's debut and I immediately gave him my Instagram?
01:02:38.700 --> 01:02:40.139
Immediately at Bossy.
01:02:40.300 --> 01:02:40.460
Oh.
01:02:40.700 --> 01:02:41.579
I was there.
01:02:41.900 --> 01:02:46.780
I was in the audience and I was like, What's your Instagram?
01:02:47.420 --> 01:02:49.019
You're so great.
01:02:49.260 --> 01:02:50.700
I'd love to book you.
01:02:50.860 --> 01:02:52.539
I didn't even have a show yet.
01:02:53.740 --> 01:02:54.700
I'ma book you.
01:02:54.780 --> 01:02:56.460
We gonna do something together.
01:02:57.500 --> 01:03:02.780
I think that's when Femi has started, like, then they started doing um Fimmy was hosting one of the Mondays.
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So like we all three was always together for Mondays.
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And I used to host it and you know, I mean like I can't pretend we had some fucking times up in that bitch.
01:03:10.700 --> 01:03:14.539
We had some great times, and we had some really worse times that are awful.
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But that was a great time.
01:03:16.619 --> 01:03:18.460
I poached, I did the same thing with Femi.
01:03:20.380 --> 01:03:21.980
Me and Femi have such a crazy history.
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I love that girl.
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Hi, Femi.
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La freak.
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Fimmy La Freak.
01:03:26.860 --> 01:03:37.980
Um but uh going into district time, so Maha used to do a pod, like a video podcast live dancing show.
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I remember.
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Yes.
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Um, and it was with Jennifer Lynn at first, and then it became with Virginia.
01:03:44.700 --> 01:03:50.300
Um and I I was always told coming up, this is when you know the West were at Union and Access.
01:03:50.539 --> 01:03:55.660
I was always told you will never meet Virginia until one to two years of your career.
01:03:55.900 --> 01:03:56.460
I said.
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What?
01:03:58.059 --> 01:03:59.579
Who is this woman?
01:04:01.740 --> 01:04:03.420
That was an actual thing that people said.
01:04:03.500 --> 01:04:05.820
Like you you'll either never meet her than one person.
01:04:05.980 --> 01:04:14.139
You'll either yes, you'll either never meet her or she like won't know who you are, or like it's like all these things are just who is this woman?
01:04:14.460 --> 01:04:18.059
Um that's just that's also not the Virginia that I've come to know.
01:04:19.340 --> 01:04:20.619
It's not gonna go back to the code.
01:04:21.019 --> 01:04:22.700
Right! The fuck no! Fuck!
01:04:24.619 --> 01:04:30.139
Um, but I was like, oh well, whatever that curse is or whatever, I'm gonna break that shit.
01:04:30.380 --> 01:04:33.980
What did you Virginia?
01:04:34.619 --> 01:04:36.619
Fuck you, yeah!
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I'ma break that shit.
01:04:39.500 --> 01:04:46.059
Um and literally, Virginia went one at it was one show where she was like, I want you to be in.
01:04:46.139 --> 01:04:49.740
We I was just at the podcast and I didn't was doing drag for like three, four, five months.
01:04:49.900 --> 01:04:52.860
She's like, I want you to come do come do the show next week.
01:04:52.940 --> 01:04:58.780
And I didn't think she was serious, so I didn't show up in drag next week, and she was like, Why aren't you in drag?
01:04:59.340 --> 01:05:00.860
I said, Oh.
01:05:03.019 --> 01:05:03.660
My bad.
01:05:06.460 --> 01:05:08.700
And then she booked me for my first production show.
01:05:08.780 --> 01:05:11.900
Uh I think it was the last, the actual last production show at Axis.
01:05:12.460 --> 01:05:17.820
Um, it was the Don't Ask Me 90s.
01:05:18.780 --> 01:05:20.220
It was like 90s or something.
01:05:20.619 --> 01:05:21.740
Yeah, it was at Axis.
01:05:22.220 --> 01:05:23.900
Um I don't remember what it was called.
01:05:24.059 --> 01:05:25.980
But that I was like, I wasn't going there yet.
01:05:26.300 --> 01:05:27.660
The rest was truly history.
01:05:27.820 --> 01:05:29.420
I was in Madame West.
01:05:29.740 --> 01:05:33.340
I did we did a show at um Stonewall, right?
01:05:33.500 --> 01:05:34.700
That was at Stonewall.
01:05:35.019 --> 01:05:38.619
We did a show, an outdoor show at um Valley Dale Ballroom.
01:05:38.780 --> 01:05:40.700
Was it uh oh wait, I don't know what it was.
01:05:40.780 --> 01:05:41.420
I just made that up.
01:05:43.180 --> 01:05:53.980
Yeah, it was like a drive-in, so everyone was in their cars and we were all on the stage, and we'd like walk around to those cars and like collect the money and like all of that.
01:05:54.220 --> 01:05:55.660
It was a different time.
01:05:56.300 --> 01:05:56.940
That sounds cool.
01:05:57.019 --> 01:05:58.300
I wanna do it.
01:05:59.260 --> 01:06:00.460
I think we should literally bring that back.
01:06:00.619 --> 01:06:01.420
Let's bring it back.
01:06:01.660 --> 01:06:03.660
And if you do it before us, I'm gonna shoot you back.
01:06:05.820 --> 01:06:07.980
I'm not gonna I'm gonna shoot you a shot.
01:06:08.220 --> 01:06:09.660
I'm gonna give you a shot.
01:06:10.300 --> 01:06:14.940
If you would like to be booked, um, but we have to do that.
01:06:15.099 --> 01:06:16.300
We can actually play in that part.
01:06:16.380 --> 01:06:17.099
Yes, we'll do that.
01:06:17.180 --> 01:06:17.420
We'll do that.
01:06:18.059 --> 01:06:18.619
That'll be lit.
01:06:19.019 --> 01:06:20.860
We could probably do something like that with them.
01:06:21.099 --> 01:06:22.539
Yeah, that'd be a good idea.
01:06:22.780 --> 01:06:23.579
No more play.
01:06:24.139 --> 01:06:25.500
Projects, damn it.
01:06:28.059 --> 01:06:28.380
Okay.
01:06:30.220 --> 01:06:35.660
But so I guess you don't want to A couple of months later, a couple months later, there's this new bar in town.
01:06:35.740 --> 01:06:36.539
It opens.
01:06:36.700 --> 01:06:43.420
Virginia wants a lot of us to be on cast, and uh I guess here we are.
01:06:43.820 --> 01:06:44.940
Six almost six years later.
01:06:45.099 --> 01:06:46.860
Yeah, you've been on you've been on cast longer than me.
01:06:47.099 --> 01:06:48.059
Since the jump.
01:06:48.780 --> 01:06:49.820
The jump off right here.
01:06:50.300 --> 01:06:51.099
Sorry.
01:06:52.059 --> 01:06:53.740
No! No, it's not!
01:06:53.980 --> 01:06:59.180
No! Owen! Or maybe just What's the wrong with uh I don't know, you gave me a look.
01:06:59.420 --> 01:07:00.619
It's still low kim, you know.
01:07:00.700 --> 01:07:08.539
I don't I can't I don't like Orange Pinage, but I mean You go cry.
01:07:09.099 --> 01:07:09.900
You go cry?
01:07:10.059 --> 01:07:22.700
No, because I saw today a meme where someone uh someone like asked her what her favorite Bible verse was, and she said she said, Oh, you know, the simple one like Sam's 23.
01:07:23.340 --> 01:07:26.059
I said, What the fuck is Sam's 23?
01:07:26.300 --> 01:07:34.220
She meant Psalms, which is a very popular verse, but she becomes more and more like the orange goblin every day.
01:07:35.500 --> 01:07:38.940
All right, Peter, she's not dead, but maybe she's dead.
01:07:41.340 --> 01:07:48.619
Anyway, we go to district, we're at district, and now our lives surround district a lot.
01:07:48.860 --> 01:07:49.180
Yeah.
01:07:49.420 --> 01:07:50.059
Yeah.
01:07:50.460 --> 01:07:51.980
What's your origin story?
01:07:52.059 --> 01:07:52.860
How did you start?
01:07:53.019 --> 01:07:56.139
Did you start drag or burlesque or anything?
01:07:56.380 --> 01:07:57.980
Let us know in the comments below.
01:07:58.220 --> 01:07:59.500
I thought you were asking me.
01:07:59.579 --> 01:08:01.500
I was like, I swear to God.
01:08:01.740 --> 01:08:10.539
We just talked about I mean, like, I didn't talk about the first time I was there because then we're gonna save that for another day.
01:08:10.700 --> 01:08:11.019
Yeah.
01:08:11.420 --> 01:08:13.579
Um, this is fun.
01:08:14.139 --> 01:08:16.779
Yeah, you get to know a little bit more about our origin story.
01:08:17.019 --> 01:08:18.059
I hope it was fun for you.
01:08:18.220 --> 01:08:19.340
Ask questions down below.
01:08:19.500 --> 01:08:20.220
Maybe we'll answer them.
01:08:20.779 --> 01:08:21.819
Maybe we will.
01:08:23.099 --> 01:08:26.779
Um, also, go do your homework because there's prizes for your homework.
01:08:27.019 --> 01:08:27.500
There are prizes.
01:08:27.739 --> 01:08:28.699
If you do your homework.
01:08:28.939 --> 01:08:32.300
You get seven minutes in heaven with Robin.
01:08:34.859 --> 01:08:36.699
Wow, are you pimping me out?
01:08:37.500 --> 01:08:41.179
I'm the pimp who built this shit.
01:08:42.779 --> 01:08:44.139
You don't know that monologue?
01:08:44.379 --> 01:08:44.539
No.
01:08:44.939 --> 01:08:46.539
That's my capitalism monologue.
01:08:46.859 --> 01:08:47.979
Oh, I do know it.
01:08:48.859 --> 01:08:49.420
Yes, I do.
01:08:49.500 --> 01:08:50.539
You're wearing the green.
01:08:50.859 --> 01:08:51.339
The green.
01:08:51.579 --> 01:08:52.139
The green.
01:08:52.219 --> 01:08:53.979
And you got that bag and you're doing it.
01:08:55.500 --> 01:08:56.619
You are, your arms.
01:08:56.699 --> 01:08:57.819
You're like your arm.
01:08:59.019 --> 01:09:00.299
Grandma, your arm.
01:09:03.500 --> 01:09:04.619
We're done today.
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We hope you had a lovely time with us.
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Learning more about our history.
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Um, stick around.
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Stay tuned for more.
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Yeah.
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