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How are your headphones? Oh my God, so great. Yeah, good. I want to hire lower. Lower a little bit. Yeah, sure. Sure. No, you don't want to go deaf. I don't. I just don't want to listen to myself.

Would you like me to pipe in music instead? Yeah, Chopin, please. Oh sure. Okay. Give me a second to call that up because I was listening to something else earlier, but yeah, Chopin is good for podcast recording. It really gives you that soothing but yet stately sensation. Yeah, I'm going to ask if you would mind. Yeah, let me get a napkin though so you can hold on to it. Yeah, give me your

most important note. There you go. There it is. Yeah. Wow. Now that is that is true friendship. Amy just handled your gum. And I'm blind there. Oh, okay. I looked up at the wrong time. Okay. She shoved it in there before I could pull it away. It's always the case. Yeah. So we're also joined. Well, of course, I should say a Boris here and also with us is Amy Dean from Sugar Pill cosmetics. Amy Dean.

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, for today, you're Amy Dean. Okay. Look, it's the first in person taping a pen. I thought Amy Dean. Yeah. Well, I thought Amy Dean was coming. So we're going to have to negotiate the contract. Yeah.

You and I taped for a couple hours, a couple months ago. We had this scrap most of it. Yeah, because we were in the middle of the pandemic. And it like we were both just visibly bummed out.

Yeah, a lot of sad talk. And it just, you know, we want people to jump into this spring mood. Yeah, lighthearted talk. And we'll yeah, just scrap most of it.

We had such a good time. It would be better to do it in person. Right. Since we could actually have fun. And you have been enjoying being in person in the bubble with Amy, right? Yeah. Yeah. Amy and I have been spending a lot of time together this year through the pandemic.

She's my writer, and when you ride with her, you might die. Is that a reflection of her driving? She's a stellar driver. She has her classy license and can hit up a caravan quite nicely.

That's important. And also, Amy has that fondness for driving buses once in a while filling in. Yeah, yeah, driver or something like that.

Charity is at the same class license. I get confused. I think so. Oh, that's good. That's good. Very versatile. Yeah, she can back out of anything.

Now, I've shows resumed for you. I know they've resumed in general, but have they resumed for you here and there. I did a private gig for the local show exposure.

If you're in LA, let's say a very prominent show featuring fresh talent and some longstanding talent. It's a great mix of talent.

And a lot of people just doing it for the exposure. And I wanted to expose a lot of people to me again. It feels like I'm starting over again as I emerge from the cocoon of COVID.

Did you experience an identity slippage like I did in the last year and a half? Did I feel like you did? Yeah, but it's all good because who I was before just wasn't working.

So now give her a little rundown on who you used to be. Well, I started drag with a very simple formula of transmuting my pain into power.

And if you're not careful in using that responsibly, I can do more harm than good. So what I've decided to do now is to refract that pain through a prism of light.

And just my main goal in every situation is to make sure everybody from the dressing room to the back of the house has a good time.

And because it's so important now to just spread joy instead of, you know, spreading bacteria, which I'm so used to.

And it's become old hat really.

You even think about it. It's just part of your day. And when you master one art, it's time to branch out and figure out about, you know, making people smile for a change.

Instead of holding them upside down while they frown, you know. Also, you can still spread the bacteria along with the joy and intermix them.

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