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The link is in a description and let's do it live. Hello, hello, hello, everyone. This is your host, Ruben, coming to you from Portland, Oregon. And with us, we have the multi-hyphenate singer, actress, journalist. You might have seen her on the pages of Vanity Fair, LA Times, Rolling Stone.

She is a karaoke queen and self-proclaimed ex-Florida goth.

I still think she's a goth, but, you know, to each, everybody can self-identify how they want.

So please welcome Susie Exposito.

Thank you so much, Rubin.

Thanks for the invite.

Yeah.

Did I miss any hyphenate there?

No, I think you covered a lot of the bases, although I am also an illustrator.

Work, yes.

I'm just an all-around art ho, you know.

You had a book published recently or in the works?

Two years ago.

Yeah, yeah.

I illustrated a memoir for like a grown riot girl called Pieces of a Girl.

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