Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives. This is Jess and I am

excited. I am thrilled actually to be sitting here with Peppermint

aka you may know her as Miss Peppermint

she is

really the person you think of when you think of New York City Nightlife. She has been a fixture here

for at least the past 10 years. She's also a performing artist in every sense of the word,

an actress, a singer.

She was the first out trans woman to originate a leading role on Broadway.

We're going to talk about that, the Gogoes musical, Head Over Heels.

And by the way, you are also the runner-up in season

nine of RuPaul's drag race just a couple years ago. Please please welcome to the stage Ms Peppermint.

Hello.

Hi, Jessica.

How are you?

I'm fabulous, how are you? I'm good. So wait, so where are you? Remind me, are you in New York or you in

I'm in New York lady? Yeah, so you're are you going to stay in New York for good? Well I don't know if that's where I'll have my

funeral I beg your pardon but but I I mean look New York is my number one love. I can't think of a city that I love more than New York

There's lots of places that I'd love to go and visit but you would have to pry in terms of like places to live you would have to

really pry New York City out of my hands and so yeah so I am here I made I

was here through all through the quarantine, through this election, whatever, I'll be here, honey. Yeah.

Clinging to the Statue of Liberty. I love it.

I mean, honestly, same.

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