Welcome to The Necessary Conversation. Midweek edition, today we are blessed to have a very important guest. She is an actress, singer, songwriter, drag queen, and activist. She was the first out transgender player on Rupal's Drag Race Season 9, where she finished in second place. She was a lead on Broadway in the Go-Go's inspired musical Head Over Heels. She has released two full albums, five EPs. She was banished, in my opinion,

way too early on Season 2 of the Traders U.S., along with Friend of the Necessary Conversation,

Bob the Drag Queen. She co-founded a Black Queer Town Hall, a non-profit committed to celebrating

black queer excellence by supporting and cultivating community, sharing knowledge, and uplifting

voices. We are humbled. We are honored that she is now sharing her knowledge in time with us today.

Please welcome to the show, a superstar in every sense of the word, peppermint.

Yay.

Welcome.

Hello. Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here with the family. What a wonderful intro. Thank you.

I'm so excited. Huge fan. Oh, well. I mean, I can say the same. I do another podcast that's a reality TV

coverage podcast. And so season two of the traders was like, God, it was mind-blowing. And I'm sorry that

you got banished so early. I wanted to see what you were going to do in that game.

They do.

Me too.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Maybe they'll bring me back for All-Stars or something. Who knows? If they have, they do something like that. But I really do. I love the show. I love shows like that. And, yeah, they got me. I'll have to come, we'll have to talk

when the subject

is reality TV, but they got me now.

They got me.

Well, I'll have to come. We'll have to talk when the subject is reality TV. But they got me out.

They got me. Well, first of all, thank you for doing this. And my first question to you is,

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