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Speaker 4: I'm going to say so. And it's my first night.
Speaker 4: And I'll be honest with y'all. I'm nervous.
Speaker 5: That I might christ. It's too hard, Okay, I'm gonna crash.
Speaker 4: It's too hard to make the world incredibly jealous. Oh
Speaker 4: now we've got a great show for you tonight. My
Speaker 4: guest tonight is the winner of season fifteen Paws Drag Race.
Speaker 4: So how she called me an? But we have a
Speaker 4: lot to talk about, So let's get into these headlines.
Speaker 4: Let's kick things off with a big sports comeback story.
Speaker 4: And I'm talking about a real comeback. None of this.
Speaker 4: We were shipped for twenty years, but now we're in
Speaker 4: the playoffs. Bullshit, you know what coming when you get
Speaker 4: a ring? Okay, I'm talking about the woman who came
Speaker 4: back from a Russian ghulog. Britney Griner, the WNBA star,
Speaker 4: is now saying that after what happened in Russia, she
Speaker 4: is never playing overseas again. And I feel you if
Speaker 4: that shit happened to me, forget overseas, I wouldn't play
Speaker 4: basketball anywhere, not in America, not in my backyard. I
Speaker 4: wouldn't even watch basketball. I've become the black woman to
Speaker 4: watch hockey. I mean, really, think about what she went through.
Speaker 4: She went to Russia to play basketball, and she ended
Speaker 4: up in jail. Staying out of jail is a reason
Speaker 4: black people started playing.
Speaker 5: Basketball in the first place. I don't even know if
Speaker 5: we like it.
Speaker 4: Bouncing the ball like a child, running around back and forth,
Speaker 4: us exhausted, not even sound like a real job. And
Speaker 4: I'm supposed to watch this. Plus the short's a way
Speaker 4: too long now, I mean, what happened to them? Nice
Speaker 4: little Wilt Chamberlain short. You know, I'm trying to see
Speaker 4: a man in circumcised. I mean, look at the one
Speaker 4: in the white shorts. You can see his heart beat.
Speaker 4: And so I understand where you're coming from, Brittany. And
Speaker 4: I know people are saying, how can she never travel again?
Speaker 4: And those people are white. White people always do this.
Speaker 4: A shark will bite off there all all arm and
Speaker 4: I'll be like, I'm going back in the ocean of
Speaker 4: the shark winds.
Speaker 3: Bitch.
Speaker 4: The shark already won. It is swimming around slapping other
Speaker 4: sharks with your arm. Well, let's move on to another
Speaker 4: compass black woman, Cleopatra, And don't tell me she wasn't black.
Speaker 4: I'm already hearing enough of that from Egypt.
Speaker 6: Well, the folks in Egypt are accusing Netflix of misrepresenting
Speaker 6: history in Netflix's new docu series called Queen Cleopatra.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the country is actually criticizing the decision to cast
Speaker 7: a black woman to play the title role in series reenactments.
Speaker 7: Netflix says the casting decision was intended to acknowledge the
Speaker 7: century's long conversation about the rulers' race and the multicultural
Speaker 7: history of Egypt, but officials in Cairo are calling it
Speaker 7: a blatant historical fallacy, claiming that Cleopatra was fair skinned
Speaker 7: and of Greek descent.
Speaker 4: Oh, okay, Egypt is concerned about historical accuracy. I didn't
Speaker 4: hear you complaining when all the Mummy movies came out.
Speaker 4: What you're talking about. We got mummies coming back from
Speaker 4: the dead, chasing Brendan Fraser and y'all don't have a problem.
Speaker 4: And then a black woman plays called Cleopatra, and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden it's like, oh, that didn't happen. That
Speaker 4: didn't happen. No, the Mummy that was real. This aw like,
Speaker 4: what are the Egyptians so afraid of? You think Cleopatra
Speaker 4: is gonna turn your history into a black exploitation film.
Speaker 4: You think she's gonna be cruising down the Nile in
Speaker 4: a Cadillac yelling.
Speaker 5: Freeze job Turkey. This is not Pyra of it now.
Speaker 5: So okay, you.
Speaker 4: Can have Cleopatra, But then we get Jesus. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's only fair. We all know Jesus was black because
Speaker 4: he was found guilty.
Speaker 5: In court and he did nothing wrong.
Speaker 4: And since we're talking about representation, let's talk about what
Speaker 4: mermaids really look like. And I'm not talking about miss Haley. No,
Speaker 4: there's a new controversy about a statue that some people
Speaker 4: say is too damn sexy. I mean, look at that thing.
Speaker 4: You got Mermaid the Stallion over here. This is the
Speaker 4: first statue every time you walk up in place, body, yady, yadyady,
Speaker 4: yadyadyady yady.
Speaker 1: Not Look.
Speaker 4: If you want to give me a mermaid with some
Speaker 4: big old titties, that's fine with me. But where it
Speaker 4: gets confusing is that ass. Come on, we all know
Speaker 4: fish don't have an ass. It almost feel like the
Speaker 4: sculptor figured out too late that he couldn't do legs.
Speaker 4: He messed them up so bad he had to just
Speaker 4: pivot into a mermaid on the fly. And that's just
Speaker 4: not any ass. That mermaid was working with thirtified cakes.
Speaker 4: You hear me, I'm talking full bakeries, all right. Even
Speaker 4: so I mix a lot is like, you know what,
Speaker 4: this is too far from me. Anyway, if you want
Speaker 4: to see more of the young ladies, you can check
Speaker 4: out her account on onlyfins. So that mermaid story was
Speaker 4: for the men out there, but I got a little
Speaker 4: something for the ladies. Yes, this is what it looks like.
Speaker 4: An iceberg dust off the coast of Harbor Grace.
Speaker 8: Newfoundland, with a very particular shape.
Speaker 9: I've personally never seen anything like it. From the right angle,
Speaker 9: it appears to replicate certain body parts from a male.
Speaker 10: It looks like it's.
Speaker 4: Like fifty feet tall.
Speaker 9: As far, it's the biggest i've seen. It definitely looks
Speaker 9: like what people are saying, almost a little bit graphic.
Speaker 11: It's a very large meal member. There's no mistaking that's
Speaker 11: what it looks like. I'm not sure if we can
Speaker 11: see this on the air, but I'm going to it
Speaker 11: looks like a penis.
Speaker 4: She didn't want to say it, but she did. Now see,
Speaker 4: that's the real North Pole right there. If this is
Speaker 4: what it looks like when it's cold, oh, I want
Speaker 4: to see it when it is warmed up. Just the
Speaker 4: tip of the iceberg has a whole new meaning. Now listen,
Speaker 4: I know what some of y'all are thinking. But if
Speaker 4: you stretch first, you'll be fine. Now you see why
Speaker 4: we can't be making these mermaid statues. I mean, the
Speaker 4: earth got one. Look at that murmail and look what happened.
Speaker 1: Bodies.
Speaker 4: And finally, we all know social media is a big
Speaker 4: part of our lives. Many of us are watching this
Speaker 4: on social media right now. Thank you follow me. But
Speaker 4: we also know that social media can be very destructive
Speaker 4: for young people, you know, the youth, but maybe not
Speaker 4: for long.
Speaker 10: A bipartisan team of senators are eyem a social media
Speaker 10: band for kids thirteen and under. It's called the Protecting
Speaker 10: Kids on Social Media Act and would set a minimum
Speaker 10: age to use apps like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.
Speaker 9: Their bill sets aged thirteen as the legal minimum for
Speaker 9: social media platforms, requiring companies to conduct more rigorous verification.
Speaker 9: Teens under eighteen would need verified parental consent to sign
Speaker 9: up for an account, and platforms would be prohibited from
Speaker 9: using algorithms to target content to.
Speaker 5: Yes, get these kids on social media.
Speaker 4: And none of this is bullshit where they can get
Speaker 4: their parents' permission. That just makes the cyber bullying worse.
Speaker 4: Because now when Jessica calls you a bit, you know
Speaker 4: her mom and her dad signed off on it. That girl,
Speaker 4: whole family is coming for your hairs. Now for more,
Speaker 4: we're joined by one of my favorite people, fresh fresh
Speaker 4: off hosting the White House Correspondence Dinner.
Speaker 5: Uncle wrong with Junior?
Speaker 1: Hello, go.
Speaker 5: Like the colors, take you the maud take you a up.
Speaker 4: Now you agree with me, Roy, We got to get
Speaker 4: these kids off that social media.
Speaker 6: You're crazy. Social media needs to be mandatory for kids,
Speaker 6: keep them distracted on their phones. I want these kids
Speaker 6: out on the street talking to me, making me feel old.
Speaker 6: Be trying to walk past these kids and then they
Speaker 6: start complimenting you on your shoes. But I don't know
Speaker 6: the street name of these shoes. Joe O G I
Speaker 6: see you cop the Scooby dude green goblins.
Speaker 4: What is your ass talking about?
Speaker 8: Did you just ask me for drugs?
Speaker 1: Just say nice sneakers.
Speaker 6: You're about to need to get the hell away from me. Hell,
Speaker 6: I ain't want of your little friends. You need to
Speaker 6: go home and bite down on one of them tide pods.
Speaker 6: I'm tired of them.
Speaker 1: They still eat the tide.
Speaker 4: Podch I mean, listen, I heard they're delicious. Listen, Roy,
Speaker 4: you have a child. Do you want him on social media?
Speaker 1: You damn straight, I want him on social media.
Speaker 6: I got to think about his future after AI and
Speaker 6: chat GVT take over. Being an influence is gonna be
Speaker 6: the only job left. In fact, In fact, when I
Speaker 6: catch my kid doing geometry homework, I go.
Speaker 4: What boy?
Speaker 6: If you gonna go get in front of that computer,
Speaker 6: set up a ring light and start selling that flat
Speaker 6: timmy teeth.
Speaker 1: We got to get these mules up, boy.
Speaker 4: And you know what else?
Speaker 1: What else you don't say?
Speaker 6: Like instead of banding kids from social media, the people
Speaker 6: you really got a band is all them mooty models.
Speaker 1: That's who you got a band. How am I supposed
Speaker 1: to be faithful? When I ain't seen a woman's face.
Speaker 4: In six months?
Speaker 6: I shouldn't be able to recognize a woman by a
Speaker 6: booty crack.
Speaker 4: But I can.
Speaker 5: See.
Speaker 4: This is what I'm talking about. We're all too immature
Speaker 4: for social media, not just the kids. Everyone should be banned.
Speaker 4: Hell man me, Do you know how productive I'd be
Speaker 4: if I didn't have social media? I'd be Oprah, a
Speaker 4: billionaire telling white women what to read. Oh, the power, Roy,
Speaker 4: the power.
Speaker 5: Do you understand?
Speaker 4: If I could just get these white women to read
Speaker 4: these books? I can have so much Roy, Roy, Hi,
Speaker 4: we're working. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Did you know mermaids got asked?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 6: Oh my god, I'm looking at the statue. Look at
Speaker 6: the statue. I'm gonna support her career. I'm gonna follow
Speaker 6: her real quick. You need to follow these mermaids.
Speaker 4: Roy Wood Junior. Everybody, we're gonna take a bread.
Speaker 5: But when we come down, I got a surfing for real.
Speaker 8: You don't want to make it.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Daily Show. There's a lot of
Speaker 4: stereotypes about black people and what we do and don't do,
Speaker 4: But tonight I break down one of those stereotypes in
Speaker 4: another episode.
Speaker 5: Of We Don't Do That.
Speaker 4: I'm skeptical, but apparents black folks have been searching for
Speaker 4: at least fifty years. That's got to account for something.
Speaker 4: So I'm getting what suited up and liddy Lou Harris
Speaker 4: teach me how to serf in Queens.
Speaker 1: Now, this is a surfboard here, nine foot now it's
Speaker 1: our thirty.
Speaker 5: This is the wat.
Speaker 1: This is gonna help him stick to it.
Speaker 4: He's using a lot of words for what little surfboard.
Speaker 8: I'll be done.
Speaker 4: I'm i gonna remember any of this.
Speaker 12: We're gonna teach you the pop up, right, the pop
Speaker 12: up is a push up and then you jump to
Speaker 12: your feet, push up, push up.
Speaker 4: I know, but I do push ups with my knees
Speaker 4: and you could do it then, taught me in high school.
Speaker 12: Carry out, Come in, show her what a perfect pop
Speaker 12: up is. Okay, let's do it all right, young lady.
Speaker 12: Paddle paddle, paddle, pop up.
Speaker 4: Okay, did you see at one point all of her
Speaker 4: body was in there? Yes, you show me somebody who
Speaker 4: remembers the Clinton administration to show me how to.
Speaker 1: Do that with two bad knees.
Speaker 4: Okay, So, Maoby, he really does know what he's doing.
Speaker 4: But I can't understand why who would do about purpose?
Speaker 12: There was a fire in Coney Island, and that was
Speaker 12: starting by at the time he was thirteen years old,
Speaker 12: name was Marcel Dockery and he uh lit a mattress
Speaker 12: on fire in the basement. And coincidentally, the police officer
Speaker 12: who died from that fire, he was some rock awake,
Speaker 12: like we had a funeral here. And when the police
Speaker 12: asked the kid why he did it, he said he
Speaker 12: was bored.
Speaker 6: I ain't mean for the whole fire to come just
Speaker 6: for a second, just because I was bored, like and
Speaker 6: just wanted something to do instead of sitting in the hallway.
Speaker 1: So that, like that really tripped me out.
Speaker 12: And I was thinking, if this kid had an activity,
Speaker 12: then maybe this officer would be alive. So I reached
Speaker 12: out to the BSA in California and told him up
Speaker 12: the tragedy, and and that's how it started.
Speaker 4: Just like that. What made you pick surfing as the
Speaker 4: thing that the little black children should be doing because
Speaker 4: they don't do it here.
Speaker 12: Not just black kid, This is open to white kid,
Speaker 12: Asian Muslim gaze straight. I don't care who you are.
Speaker 12: If your parents can't afford surf lessons, I'll teach you
Speaker 12: for free looking little running his.
Speaker 4: Own United Nations. A surface.
Speaker 12: Is so very simple. We're gonna do this one, two, three,
Speaker 12: push up. This needs gonna come first here, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah.
Speaker 12: Now bring that left, yeah right there, and I don't
Speaker 12: care how your feet.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna drown.
Speaker 8: But no, no, no, no, it's no time.
Speaker 1: It's like two for the water right there. We're good money,
Speaker 1: We're good.
Speaker 4: I got you.
Speaker 5: We're good.
Speaker 4: You can dine out of the water.
Speaker 1: Listen, I'm fifteen. I mean swimming for forty five minutes.
Speaker 12: I got you.
Speaker 1: This is my backyard. I got you, I got you.
Speaker 1: I'll take a bullet be today.
Speaker 4: I got you.
Speaker 8: Let's go.
Speaker 4: You didn't take a bullet. You didn't take the ocean.
Speaker 4: Like most black people in the seventies, Lou's parents didn't
Speaker 4: know how to swim, but they've made sure that he
Speaker 4: and his twin brother could and got the boys swimming
Speaker 4: lessons at an early age. Didn't they see the movie Jobs?
Speaker 4: We have this segment on the show Vault. We don't
Speaker 4: do that because there's a lot of stuff we don't do.
Speaker 4: But I think we don't know sometimes why we don't
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 12: A lot of black people, since you know, the segregation
Speaker 12: of pools, didn't have the same opportunity as white kids here.
Speaker 1: People think black people are scared of water. We're not
Speaker 1: scared of order.
Speaker 4: Well, it's scared of order because we can't swim.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we can't swim because we didn't have the same opportunity.
Speaker 12: Exactly when those pools were open for white people, we
Speaker 12: weren't allowed.
Speaker 1: That's one thing about the white people that live here.
Speaker 12: They never balled me, never said anything derogatory nasty about
Speaker 12: me surfing.
Speaker 1: It's my black brothers and sisters. They're the ones that,
Speaker 1: you know, black people don't surf. Man black people doing
Speaker 1: so what to do with that surfboard?
Speaker 4: Listen? I was a Maroom five fan and we had
Speaker 4: to figure out how to listen to that, and black
Speaker 4: people accepted them. The plan really believes that I can
Speaker 4: do this, and I'm fretty sure I'm gonna prove I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: Have you seen the ocean? Do you see these ways?
Speaker 4: Want a good in the water? The gold is to
Speaker 4: not meet Jesus. Maybe if I learn how to surf,
Speaker 4: then I can float out to a man who owns
Speaker 4: a yacht. Maybe all right, let's do this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have the kids go out first, Okay, but.
Speaker 4: They know what they're doing. Don't say because they kids.
Speaker 4: I'm closing to feel better. Turns out there's money out
Speaker 4: here for the young Black surface who has sponsors like fans,
Speaker 4: Red Bull and the Black Surface Association.
Speaker 8: I didn't get better.
Speaker 12: Papa Red Bull will call me and say, look, we
Speaker 12: got eight thousand dollars a blow go find.
Speaker 1: A surf shop here.
Speaker 4: They can't drink it right.
Speaker 12: No, No, Red Bull brought us eight thousand dollars worth
Speaker 12: the surfboards for the kids.
Speaker 4: Okay, I thought you had eight thousand dollars with a
Speaker 4: Red Bull. I was like that sounds like a great
Speaker 4: night in college. Yes, but a twelve year old with
Speaker 4: Red Bull. Oh gotta stunt your growth.
Speaker 1: I don't know that.
Speaker 4: Don't suit me, Red Bull. I'm just saying I don't
Speaker 4: think we can get You can't give it at your
Speaker 4: tricks to children. Okay, moment the truth, I don't make it.
Speaker 4: Tell my mama I love her.
Speaker 3: We did, we did, we did.
Speaker 8: I'd get a shoot over.
Speaker 5: I love how to start far left.
Speaker 4: You're working a wet suit, you know that. Listen. You
Speaker 4: never know that when you're out here on your own,
Speaker 4: just working, like doing just things, just by yourself. You know,
Speaker 4: you never know what you can achieve. But just a
Speaker 4: few lessons and a fool and don't help at all.
Speaker 4: I'm like, sorry, can be back up with a little
Speaker 4: bit perfect thank you? So like when no one ever
Speaker 4: helps you, like when you've done everything on your own.
Speaker 4: It just really worked hard.
Speaker 13: Like wow, when we come back, that's a call. We
Speaker 13: will be joining me on the show. Don't go alright,
Speaker 13: welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 4: My guest tonight is the legendary drag performer and recent
Speaker 4: winner of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Speaker 5: Please welcome the god. It's the Queen myself, Sasha call me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that looks good.
Speaker 4: Okay, listen, I'd admit when it just came up on
Speaker 4: the screen, I must tear it up. And I was like, no,
Speaker 4: you have a makeup one.
Speaker 8: Don't do it.
Speaker 4: Don't do it. But no one's gonna bring you in
Speaker 4: a tissue. Listen. I'm so excited for you. America's next track,
Speaker 4: Superstar Congratulations with Sasha Colby. Now tell me you're in
Speaker 4: your winning era.
Speaker 8: Definitely, definitely early.
Speaker 4: I was at the Sasha Colby meeting. Great period and
Speaker 4: if you were watching the show and don't catch that,
Speaker 4: you need to get your life together? How does it feel?
Speaker 8: Oh my goodness, it's two weeks since I won, and
Speaker 8: it's like still like integrating in me, Like I haven't
Speaker 8: realized that I actually want the big one, Like I
Speaker 8: caught the biggest fish that you could and it hasn't clicked. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I know, Like it'll be random. I'll be like on
Speaker 8: a plane, I'll be like, oh, I did it, Like
Speaker 8: I love you.
Speaker 5: That's craz that's crazy. Listen.
Speaker 4: It's like I was. Someone asked me yesterday and it's like, so,
Speaker 4: how does it feel to be hosted a daily show?
Speaker 4: And it didn't click for me until about four pm
Speaker 4: yesterday because I've been like moving and I was like
Speaker 4: the time and I was like, oh shit, I'm hosting
Speaker 4: a daily show, so I know exactly how you feel
Speaker 4: it what I got here. I was like, they're asking
Speaker 4: me all these questions. I'm like, oh shit, I'm hosting
Speaker 4: a date.
Speaker 8: Oh I'm supposed to know the answer.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 4: To answer to these questions. So it's like, listen, now,
Speaker 4: I know. The running joke we told y'all was the
Speaker 4: Sasha Colby meet and greet. Now, what's it like competing
Speaker 4: as a queen who was already legendary before she got
Speaker 4: on the show, because you are a legend and you
Speaker 4: have to appreciate.
Speaker 5: Her as Goddes sees daughters.
Speaker 8: Greatness sees greatness.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, So tell the children what it was like to
Speaker 4: be legendary and then be out here with the children.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I am mother, true, so I deal
Speaker 8: with a lot of kids, right, a lot of kids
Speaker 8: coming and out of the way. But I must say,
Speaker 8: the group of girls, the group of drag performers that
Speaker 8: we were with that I got to be so blessed
Speaker 8: to compete with, were such amazing girls, Like literally the
Speaker 8: best cast I could ever have dreamt to be with. Okay,
Speaker 8: but legend they all knew, you know. That's why they
Speaker 8: all stood up with the meat and greet.
Speaker 4: And like, listen, because I remember when you walked in
Speaker 4: the room. I don't know if you've ever seen shock
Speaker 4: and awe before, but I'm talking about face cracked, jaws drop.
Speaker 4: I literally saw somebody go.
Speaker 8: And I think you can hear a nature go. Should
Speaker 8: we all go home now?
Speaker 4: Because you walked in the room and it's like, oh
Speaker 4: do we should we even try?
Speaker 8: I'm glad the delusion was hitting hard, and they did try.
Speaker 8: I mean, I want them good next to me, you know,
Speaker 8: I want to beat the best.
Speaker 4: I'm going to go to back that because the nature
Speaker 4: was not playing when it came to the lipsy just
Speaker 4: free willing No, ma'am.
Speaker 1: If you did not do the.
Speaker 4: Free Willie moment, because the nature was not playing with anybody.
Speaker 4: That's why the whole season I was just like, please, please,
Speaker 4: please put Sasha in a nature together. Television is not ready.
Speaker 4: They have to compete together.
Speaker 8: Yes, I mean after that Lolla perusa. I mean that
Speaker 8: was like a final two number right there.
Speaker 4: It had to happen. It had to happen because the
Speaker 4: drag delusion was real.
Speaker 8: It's real. We all suffered from it a little, some
Speaker 8: more so than others.
Speaker 5: Mother, this this on the.
Speaker 4: Like now, y'all know. For like I've watched the show.
Speaker 4: I was a judge on Rupel' Drag Race like last
Speaker 4: season like two seas, and I was like, it has
Speaker 4: been my dream forever to be a judge on that show.
Speaker 4: So I'm waiting. Listen, they're gonna put you on All Stars.
Speaker 4: They're going to now because you are legendary, because you
Speaker 4: are Mother, we need to know about the journey. So
Speaker 4: I do want to know that you're the first Hawaiian
Speaker 4: queen to take the crown.
Speaker 8: Yes, actually I think I'm the first Hawaiian queen to compete.
Speaker 8: All that's actually show there's one of other Polynesian girls,
Speaker 8: but the first representing Hawaii.
Speaker 4: Praise God. So how is your Hawaiian heritage shaped you
Speaker 4: as a trans woman?
Speaker 8: Oh? Well, I think being any indigenous culture, there is
Speaker 8: the third sex. There is this level of non binary
Speaker 8: that was always known and spoken about before you know, colonization, Christianity,
Speaker 8: all that love you Christians love yourselves anyway, that's the reality.
Speaker 8: How you gonna love anybody else? Gonna go to am?
Speaker 4: I mean read the word.
Speaker 8: That's not the point.
Speaker 4: Often thought, that's truly tent tangent choles.
Speaker 8: What was the question?
Speaker 4: How we both got distract it? Because you were so
Speaker 4: pretty and this jacket is shiny, and I like shiny things.
Speaker 4: I was asking you, how how has your Hawaiian heritage
Speaker 4: shaped you as a trans woman?
Speaker 8: Well, like I was saying before I interrupted myself, in
Speaker 8: any indigenous culture, there was space for trans and non
Speaker 8: binary folk and they were integral parts of our society
Speaker 8: and every indigenous culture you can find. So my transness
Speaker 8: is in my blood, it's in my DNA, It's what
Speaker 8: has been going on since before any man made religion.
Speaker 8: Any any of these like standards that we hold ourselves to,
Speaker 8: any male woman.
Speaker 1: All of that, that's just.
Speaker 8: A way to oppress, you know, a way to keep
Speaker 8: in line, a way to segregate everybody. And that's why
Speaker 8: I feel it's so important to be really in your culture.
Speaker 8: Is like to figure out your culture, because we are
Speaker 8: always programmed to believe what our parents need us to
Speaker 8: believe instead of what it's actually going through our veins,
Speaker 8: in our DNA and our blood.
Speaker 4: Right and then with the society at large wants you
Speaker 4: to believe. Because if we go about mainstream society, then
Speaker 4: none of us would be able to dance.
Speaker 8: No man, I definitely would have been able to show
Speaker 8: my tits on national television.
Speaker 4: And we all needed that, I mean we all needed real.
Speaker 8: T Like I was like, everyone saw like a great
Speaker 8: competition in Sasha Kolby, but all my friends were like
Speaker 8: they didn't even see Sasha Koba at naked drunk at brunch,
Speaker 8: you know, rolling around half naked.
Speaker 4: I think you showed us so much. I think only
Speaker 4: doctors would need to see.
Speaker 8: Anymore not a cough.
Speaker 4: I mean, listen, if I closed my eyes and they
Speaker 4: were like, okay, Sasha Kolby is missing, I'm like, all right,
Speaker 4: don't you work? It might have to identify for our kitties, but.
Speaker 8: I got you you or you know, identified by Booty
Speaker 8: because that bang is Biger Mermaid and as the one
Speaker 8: bang off of we bang.
Speaker 4: And listen and recognize. Yeah. Now, as women of color especially,
Speaker 4: we always have to worry about representation, right, And I
Speaker 4: know you want to be an example of a happy
Speaker 4: trans person in the media. Why is that important to you?
Speaker 8: Well, all that media has been concerned with a lot
Speaker 8: of the time is telling the transition, story, telling the trauma,
Speaker 8: telling the effect that it did on the family, but
Speaker 8: not showing why why we go through all that? And
Speaker 8: how how happy like being being so adamant about making
Speaker 8: yourself feel comfortable in your own skin. Uh, that's the
Speaker 8: whole reason why we do the transition. It isn't to
Speaker 8: like hurt or harm or traumatize our families or anyone else.
Speaker 8: It is to be our true happy So and we
Speaker 8: are missing that a lot. And I don't want it
Speaker 8: to get like misconstrued that I want to be a
Speaker 8: representation of only I'm a happy trans person. There are
Speaker 8: so many happy, well adjusted, loving trans people, but you
Speaker 8: only see us getting murdered. And yes, so to be
Speaker 8: able to normalize the fact that you probably have come
Speaker 8: into contact with three or four trans people every day
Speaker 8: and not even know it because we are everywhere and
Speaker 8: we're not going anywhere, well, I.
Speaker 4: Can definitely understand that because being you know, a woman
Speaker 4: of color and a plus size wan of color in
Speaker 4: this industry, you spent a lot of time. It's like, oh, well,
Speaker 4: you're plus sized, you must be unhappy, and it's like, no,
Speaker 4: I'm not. Also, I'm the very girls are unhappy, hungry.
Speaker 8: The skinny girls are hungred.
Speaker 5: They're very hungred.
Speaker 4: Girl that was at a diner at three am and
Speaker 4: I saw this drunk white girl eating a salad, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, that's not what you want, what anyone wants.
Speaker 4: You are drunk, a threm Why are you eating lettuce?
Speaker 3: Eat the girl?
Speaker 4: You were in a track suit, your yoga pants, working,
Speaker 4: eat the fast, drunk and no salad. You're going to
Speaker 4: be sick. Now I have to ask this question because
Speaker 4: we know we have to ask this question. Now, you
Speaker 4: won drag race at a time a drag is being
Speaker 4: politicized for absolutely no reason. What do you think they're
Speaker 4: really trying to do?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, the.
Speaker 8: The legislation. I don't want to be like political and
Speaker 8: say like this.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you know they're out here nothing
Speaker 4: a donkey, right.
Speaker 8: It's always about these white men trying to control people's bodies.
Speaker 8: So they're there were doing, you know, controlling women's reproductive rights,
Speaker 8: controlling our medicine like a basic human right of giving
Speaker 8: trans people and like even like anyone good health care.
Speaker 8: So it's always about controlling. And I always notice that
Speaker 8: these guys, they're not really killing a lot of like
Speaker 8: trans men. There's a lot of trans women being murdered.
Speaker 8: That's because these men objectify trans women as much as
Speaker 8: they objectify CIS women. Yes, So once they objectify you
Speaker 8: and you're living your truth, they get so mad. Yes,
Speaker 8: because they're one jealous that they're not living their truth. Yes,
Speaker 8: and two because it makes them question.
Speaker 1: Why do I like this?
Speaker 8: But why do you have to question that? Why does
Speaker 8: that even have to be a thing? You know, So
Speaker 8: for all of them just I think they just want
Speaker 8: to be in drag or they probably.
Speaker 4: Win in drag.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and then they look awful.
Speaker 4: Sanchos say, you hop and drag, you find out you're
Speaker 4: a booger, and you bitter bitter Burger, bitter Burger, and
Speaker 4: you're like, you know them all This free tress wig
Speaker 4: might not be for me.
Speaker 8: She couldn't find a mother, she couldn't come from They say,
Speaker 8: no lost cause.
Speaker 4: Nows. Oh my goodness. Nothing like calling CPS on a
Speaker 4: forty five year old man, like not on his children's
Speaker 4: start on you, you need adult supervision.
Speaker 1: This is true. This is true.
Speaker 4: So with all these anti drag bills that they're starting
Speaker 4: to pass places, has that affecting where you can work?
Speaker 8: Yes, I'm a little nervous to go to Tennessee and
Speaker 8: I do have a booking there in like a month
Speaker 8: or so. You could be committing crap, I mean technically
Speaker 8: walking like sending foot down there. I'm breaking the law
Speaker 8: for some reason. You know, it's insane even when you're
Speaker 8: in grog. Well like so if you are, I'm not
Speaker 8: too sure exactly, but I've heard from my queen friends
Speaker 8: like Aura, she lives in Tennessee, like you can get
Speaker 8: in drag at the venue, but to be out like
Speaker 8: walking from your car to the venue. If you're in drag,
Speaker 8: you're breaking the law. So someone like me who doesn't
Speaker 8: this is what it's made for. I can't get out
Speaker 8: of drag i'm trans women, because you're going to be
Speaker 8: breaking the law. And that's what they want.
Speaker 4: Oh, because they're trying to learn about.
Speaker 8: Way to get trans people controlled.
Speaker 4: So they're trying to say you're in drag when you're
Speaker 4: really the legislation.
Speaker 8: I believe, like the wording is if you're in an
Speaker 8: article of clothing that is not your assigned birth article
Speaker 8: of clothing. That's how they can round about say that
Speaker 8: drag is illegal, and then the real thing is being
Speaker 8: trans is illegal.
Speaker 4: Oh dad, I did don't even know that they live
Speaker 4: in New York. They think they free.
Speaker 8: We live in a good left bubble's listen.
Speaker 4: I've had a lot of people try to con me
Speaker 4: and tell me that New York was a racist Go
Speaker 4: outside anyway, like y'all know where all the Dominicans are, Okay,
Speaker 4: that's not racist. Anyway, If you know where every part
Speaker 4: of a group is, it's racist. I shouldn't be able
Speaker 4: to roll go across that street. That's what they at.
Speaker 4: But you know what, that's not what we're talking about.
Speaker 4: We're talking about Slash Colly right now. This is a
Speaker 4: this is a segment of tangents. I mean, listen, I
Speaker 4: am tangential. I'm a tangerine. So oh, they mess a
Speaker 4: out of Tommy vocabulary. Now all right, now, we have
Speaker 4: talked about all of the the political thing. Yes, we
Speaker 4: have talked about the experiences. But what I do have
Speaker 4: is one final question for you mother. If I was
Speaker 4: in the family, what would my drag name be? Oh?
Speaker 8: I mean says already, A sick.
Speaker 5: Dragon called me something really nice.
Speaker 8: I just gave birth again, so many tune up?
Speaker 4: The water is bro.
Speaker 8: Broke?
Speaker 4: Listened, somebody gets this percenter wrapped up? I'm ready.
Speaker 5: Group on ground races. I'm streaming my Paramount Plus. We're
Speaker 5: gonna take a quick rank for we move out.
Speaker 3: Why not get it?
Speaker 5: That's my show for night.
Speaker 4: But before we go, please consider supporting the ACLU Drag Defense.
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