Hello, everyone. I'm Jinks Monsoon and welcome to a brand new episode of Hi Jinks with me, Jinks

Monsoon. Today, I am in my dressing room in Toronto, Canada. I'm on tour with everything at

stake. We've been showing the show. We've been, I don't, I don't, I started an

S sound like I, like I knew what I was going to say. We've been showing the show. It's been going

great. You can still get your tickets at jinksmonsoon.com. We've got Toronto, then Montreal, then a couple more stops in Canada,

and then we embark through the U.S. So I'll see you when we tear through your town.

But today on Hyjinks, oh my gosh, this episode, so much fun. We have just a really prolific,

wonderful writer, director, producer, Justin Simeon. He created Dear White People. He directed

Haunted Mansion, which is a in theater. It's either now or it's about to come out whenever this is airing.

The point is, he is such an incredible filmmaker.

And he's going to talk about his process, why he creates the work that he does, and his experiences in Hollywood as a black queer man.

So let's sink our teeth into some brand new hijinks.

And don't forget to buckle up and hunker down while you're at it.

It's hijinks.

Here we go.

M. Oh. M. Mom!

Mom! Hello, everyone. I'm Jinks Monsoon and welcome to, hi, Jinks, a podcast where I, an internationally tolerated drag superstar, get to interview

compelling and fascinating people about how they became who they are and why they do what they do.

Today, we are joined by writer, director, and producer, Justin Simeon.

Hi, Justin.

Hi, Jinks.

Did I pronounce your last name correctly?

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