Speaker 1: Forever. Look may oh, I see you? Why why Bowen?
Speaker 1: Look over there? How is that culture? Yes? Goodness? Well
Speaker 1: hello everyone, this is Matt and we have a very
Speaker 1: special episode today with literally Angela. I just recorded the
Speaker 1: episode with her. I am fully gagged. I saw Stars
Speaker 1: Born last night. I am also going tonight. I am
Speaker 1: also going tomorrow night. I am also going Sunday. There
Speaker 1: is a story but behind why I'm seeing it four times?
Speaker 1: Do I have a sick disease? Yes? Um, but I'm
Speaker 1: very excited. The movie is absolutely fantastic. The conversation with Angela,
Speaker 1: I cannot wait for you to hear. However, I did
Speaker 1: just want to get on here really quick and say
Speaker 1: it is just gonna be me with Angela on this
Speaker 1: episode because Bowen is what working this week now. I
Speaker 1: know some people have been reaching out and asking some
Speaker 1: questions about, you know, bowing with his new job, which
Speaker 1: if you don't know what it is, you can look
Speaker 1: at out bitch um. But I know there's been some
Speaker 1: questions about, um, what's gonna go on with last Culture
Speaker 1: Rista's Last Culture Rista stays exactly the same. Bowen is
Speaker 1: still the Lost Culture Rista that he has always been
Speaker 1: our law Culturerista. If you're gonna hound me for my
Speaker 1: for my grammar, you vultures um. But you know, we
Speaker 1: just really wanted to get Changela what we could, and
Speaker 1: the nature of his schedule now is we're going to
Speaker 1: be recording on his off weeks. So of course there
Speaker 1: were some stuff throughout the rest of the year that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have some sisters co host with me. Did
Speaker 1: some really really fun episodes up in Toronto with Dave Mazzoni,
Speaker 1: and I'm super excited that Jill Kim Booster is going
Speaker 1: to be hosting my next UM show in l A.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, Honey Live at the Region on
Speaker 1: December five, so but that should really be it. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: Bowen is still around. I know all my die hard
Speaker 1: Bowen fans are like clamoring for their bow. I am
Speaker 1: also clamoring for your bow. He's also my bow. Um.
Speaker 1: But I had to get Chandela while she was available.
Speaker 1: The woman is on a one eighty one city towards
Speaker 1: doing literal press all over the world. First Star is born,
Speaker 1: so I was so gagged. I'm sitting here with HBJ.
Speaker 1: He is shaking his head because he can't believe that
Speaker 1: we got her. We had to get her. This is
Speaker 1: such a fun, fun, fun episode. I can't wait for
Speaker 1: you guys to hear it. Um. So here we go.
Speaker 1: Here's me with literally Changela la Cuifa wildly okay, ding
Speaker 1: Dong lost Culturista's calling, and oh boy, can I tell
Speaker 1: you we rented a breather for this moment. We're in
Speaker 1: Union Square. I traveled to the talent today because this
Speaker 1: is I actually, actually, I am pretty gagged that we
Speaker 1: even have you, because this person is in the middle
Speaker 1: of a one hundred eighty one city tour. Now. I
Speaker 1: don't think you guys might remember how many days are
Speaker 1: in a year. A roughly three potentially three sixty six
Speaker 1: if you fall on the leap um. But that's a lot.
Speaker 1: This is a busy human being also doing international press
Speaker 1: for I think the film of the Year, and I
Speaker 1: have to tell you, listeners, I did go last night
Speaker 1: and it is as good as you've heard. It is stunning,
Speaker 1: It is unbelievable. A star is born. You also know
Speaker 1: my guest clearly from Repulse Drag Race Season two, Season three,
Speaker 1: All Stars three. We know we've been around the Repulse
Speaker 1: Drag Race block um, but this is truly in honor
Speaker 1: to welcome ch Angela to last cultures. Well, hallelu be here,
Speaker 1: yees I, there's never a time that you say hallelu
Speaker 1: that I'm not cracking up laughing. I think it's the
Speaker 1: funniest thing I've ever heard. Good because a lot all day.
Speaker 1: Then I love that you just it didn't. It didn't
Speaker 1: sneak into a star is born. It didn't because you know,
Speaker 1: I was trying to be a professional the character. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is the character. However you will find the word professional.
Speaker 1: You might want to listen question she didn't want to
Speaker 1: lose her liquor lie. Since I saw your action, I
Speaker 1: was like, let's stay in business. This is what this
Speaker 1: this woman is feeling. I also, I have to tell you,
Speaker 1: like I couldn't have anticipated this movie more. It is
Speaker 1: beyond I think what I could have expected, not only
Speaker 1: in how great it is, but how much you guys
Speaker 1: are in it, Like you and Willam are have big
Speaker 1: parts in this movie. Like what what was when you
Speaker 1: got the script or if there even was a script,
Speaker 1: because I'm hearing now a lot of it was improvised.
Speaker 1: Did you think, Wow, we're in this thing no, they're
Speaker 1: one was the script. And you know, the great thing
Speaker 1: about it is you never know what's going to end
Speaker 1: up in the final cut of and so I really
Speaker 1: didn't tell a lot of people about it. I was thrilled.
Speaker 1: I was thrilled when we shot it, but I've been
Speaker 1: in situations before. I shot a role in a film
Speaker 1: called R I P D. And I said my mom
Speaker 1: was like, Mom, I'm in this movie. And she called
Speaker 1: me after she said, baby, you ain't in that movie.
Speaker 1: I said, no, Mom, I'm in Dragged. You probably did
Speaker 1: recognize me. And she's like, baby, I know you. You
Speaker 1: and I in that movie I'm familiar with exactly. So
Speaker 1: I didn't tell a lot of people about it because
Speaker 1: you never know what's going to make it. But in
Speaker 1: the end, when I first saw it last week in London,
Speaker 1: I was like, are we up in this? And I
Speaker 1: was thrilled because you know, the script was really, really,
Speaker 1: really well written. But also when we got to set,
Speaker 1: Bradley was like ums, Bradley Cooper, Mr brad Ritorial debut,
Speaker 1: gave you um he was. He was super knowledgeable about
Speaker 1: what he wanted and it created this great scene. But
Speaker 1: he also said to me, you know she Angela, I
Speaker 1: know you know this world. Feel free to go there,
Speaker 1: and if I feel I did need to pull you back,
Speaker 1: I will. And Baby, I went there because it's a
Speaker 1: drag bar scene one hundred eighty one nights a year, okay,
Speaker 1: so it was so much fun. Let's do this. Whose
Speaker 1: idea was it for you to serve full executive real
Speaker 1: illness while you were doing the numbers at the end
Speaker 1: of the night, because that was harkening back to your
Speaker 1: relationship with Chadvan on starts three in Yours and your
Speaker 1: whole get up. Yeah, well we filmed that well, but
Speaker 1: were all starts three. But it did give a nod
Speaker 1: to I will say um in the character when you're
Speaker 1: working with hair and makeup, and they had a great
Speaker 1: wardrobe and hair and makeup team. I actually did my
Speaker 1: own makeup for the film, but the hair team came
Speaker 1: with a couple of options. And when they showed me
Speaker 1: that little short rear Brianna Cranberry piece, should I have
Speaker 1: on in the field? I said, well? And I had
Speaker 1: to say you ain't to Channgelo. This is the drag
Speaker 1: bar owner. This is not Channgelo. She's working this. Ain't
Speaker 1: you know me? And my gonna Beyonce quaff because I
Speaker 1: love a Beyonce quaff, but this is the working woman
Speaker 1: and this is and it gave a very The look
Speaker 1: was very Cabaret, you know, with the hat and the
Speaker 1: Leah chard and the jacket Britney circus kind of feel.
Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, I'm going with this. And look,
Speaker 1: when you got a mug like this moment, you can
Speaker 1: pull off a little shine. I was giving you money
Speaker 1: exchange realness. The pussy cat wing when we called that
Speaker 1: a pussycat wig or that was more of like a
Speaker 1: sort of Mary Day Well, William calls it a bus drive,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. I wrote a lot of busses.
Speaker 1: Is the bus still run? It is what I want
Speaker 1: to know, is it? And okay, so listen. So you're
Speaker 1: on set and this is the scene. This when you're
Speaker 1: doing the numbers and William has this city signed. The
Speaker 1: spoiler alert this will come out a week or so,
Speaker 1: so they'll all have seen them. I know my listeners
Speaker 1: and they're out seeing the stars more in Fabulously Um.
Speaker 1: But this scene where he starts singing and you guys
Speaker 1: are sitting there and you're listening to him saying that
Speaker 1: had to be the gag because he's truly doing it well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And there was so much live performance in this film,
Speaker 1: and even on the days that we were shooting there,
Speaker 1: it was amazing. It was like being front row for
Speaker 1: a free Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga concert. Like she
Speaker 1: when she was doing Love on Rose, she would sing it.
Speaker 1: Of course she's singing it live and they're doing the playback,
Speaker 1: but she's singing it live. And they would say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go again, and I was like, yes again,
Speaker 1: please go again, and they did and it was it
Speaker 1: was great. It was like front row tickets. And then
Speaker 1: when Bradley is doing his part, he has such a
Speaker 1: great presence, like he's just like, you know, he's Bradley
Speaker 1: Cooper and he's gorgeous, but he's also sweet. And and
Speaker 1: then he's in this characters Jackson Maine and he's there
Speaker 1: with the guitar and you're just like, yeah, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you can see it on your guys faces. I mean,
Speaker 1: William's mouth is dropped, like girl. I had to tell
Speaker 1: if I was thinking, if this woman throws up panties
Speaker 1: at the stage, I'm gonna leave. I'm just gonna get
Speaker 1: up to leave. I'm gonna have to, and we believe
Speaker 1: that it would happen. We had Willam in the studio
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Now I know with Willem
Speaker 1: anything as possible, true, true, But I don't even want
Speaker 1: to go there with what happened. But I can just say, so,
Speaker 1: were you a fan of Bradley Cooper's before this, Because
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know that he's this talented as one thing,
Speaker 1: but I was also just like he was in my
Speaker 1: top five as we say, yeah crushes, Well you're talking
Speaker 1: about one of the sexiest men a lot. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: been named, it's been said. And also his ability as
Speaker 1: an actress, Fantastic Silver Linings, Playbook, even him as a
Speaker 1: comed the actor in The Hangover, in those films, I've
Speaker 1: always been a huge fan of his as well, and
Speaker 1: then to be a part of his directorial debut. He
Speaker 1: was just so professional but also very like warm. He
Speaker 1: wanted he created an environment where he wanted you to
Speaker 1: be able to do your best work, and that was
Speaker 1: really as an actor that was like thank you, thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: And something I really liked about the whole um drag
Speaker 1: bar scene was this is this guy who's a country
Speaker 1: legend and he stumbles into this drag bar, but there's
Speaker 1: really no comment from him or from anyone of like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's a drag bar, you know what I mean. He's
Speaker 1: just there and he's getting to know everybody. Sure, he's
Speaker 1: like drunk or whatever. But it did feel like something
Speaker 1: we haven't seen before where there was no comment on
Speaker 1: the fact that this is a drag bar, this is
Speaker 1: these are gay people. It's just like he was there
Speaker 1: enjoying everything. Can you speak a little to that, like
Speaker 1: like what that was like? And really watching it, it
Speaker 1: really just feels very celebratory and very loving towards the
Speaker 1: gay community, which I'm sure was important to Gag. It
Speaker 1: must be important to you. Yeah, it was very that
Speaker 1: And it's it's funny you say that, because you're right,
Speaker 1: we don't see that a lot on screen, uh, in
Speaker 1: films and in television, But my experiences in person with people,
Speaker 1: especially even straight men that come to our shows, and
Speaker 1: because of RuPaul's drag race, we have families that watch
Speaker 1: the shows and women come with their husbands who they're
Speaker 1: like me and him watching We were so mad. You
Speaker 1: didn't you know that is a part of my life.
Speaker 1: So to see that it gave this real authentic feel
Speaker 1: as well to the film. And I love the way
Speaker 1: that it's written in there that he, you know, drag
Speaker 1: a lot of times the punchline in movies past. I
Speaker 1: think it's very refreshing to see where we're going, where
Speaker 1: writers are being more aware that this is sometimes just
Speaker 1: the experience. This is a slice of life, and I
Speaker 1: think that's what he was having, just a slice of
Speaker 1: life experience. And I hope it inspires people on how
Speaker 1: to treat people that you may not be necessarily familiar
Speaker 1: with that particular community. It's not always a joke, it's
Speaker 1: just what it is, and you just go in there,
Speaker 1: you experience it, you accept people for exactly who they are,
Speaker 1: and we keep it moving. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: I mean by like, like I was, So, you guys
Speaker 1: have such a big part in this movie because you
Speaker 1: go to movies like this, like and as a gay
Speaker 1: person and as someone who's like loves dragon like, but
Speaker 1: you go and you hear Shandra and Wilmer in the movie,
Speaker 1: and then you watch it and you guys are real
Speaker 1: characters in the movie. You appear later on in the movie.
Speaker 1: I was like, but it's just so it was so
Speaker 1: great to see and like, obviously that's a throwback or
Speaker 1: a call back to Gaga's own life, which her drag
Speaker 1: friends in her community that she came up through is
Speaker 1: so important to her. So I guess my question is like,
Speaker 1: did she also sort of like what was she like
Speaker 1: to work with in that back room? Like was she
Speaker 1: very down to earth or was it what there was
Speaker 1: no airs about her? She was just back in that
Speaker 1: old zone. Let me lay it down for you, because
Speaker 1: you know, I love Lady Gaga. I'm a fan first
Speaker 1: before and being you know, a part a star in
Speaker 1: the film with her, a co star in the film
Speaker 1: with her, So I was thrilled to be able to
Speaker 1: work on set with her. And then when I found out,
Speaker 1: you know that she had kind of hand picked me
Speaker 1: for this for all, I was like, okay, I don't
Speaker 1: want to miss this up. So working with her in
Speaker 1: the back room, you talked to Gaga for like thirty
Speaker 1: seconds and you automatically feel like, oh, this is my
Speaker 1: home girl, we're best friends. Then you realize, okay, I
Speaker 1: don't have her cell number, so remember we're not best friends.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no no, no, no no, but I
Speaker 1: will say no no. I love the Gaga level let me.
Speaker 1: I love that, you know. I want to pay all
Speaker 1: homage and worship to the Gaga. But working with her,
Speaker 1: it was such a pleasant, fun experience. You know, when
Speaker 1: they would call cut between scenes, I would think, you know, okay,
Speaker 1: she's gonna go with her charge to the trailer and wait. No.
Speaker 1: She kicked it in the dressing room with us, and
Speaker 1: she was like, so, Shan, how are you? And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I'm good. Lg MS Gaga, you know.
Speaker 1: And you know, in that moment, I was like, well, honey,
Speaker 1: entertained the queen and I got like a jest at
Speaker 1: the court. So I was like girl and sister. I
Speaker 1: started telling story left and right, you know, and just
Speaker 1: asking questions. I felt like the operal. I know, she's like,
Speaker 1: oh Lord, she's gonna get this queen shut up. But
Speaker 1: I was just so excited to be there with her.
Speaker 1: But also as an actress, she's so um. She's very
Speaker 1: focused and dedicated to the role and to herself in
Speaker 1: doing it. You can see when they're called action, she's prepared,
Speaker 1: she's ready. It makes you want to pull up and
Speaker 1: be a better actor as well, anyone that like, I
Speaker 1: think there was like when the first was announced, there
Speaker 1: were some like doubts like, oh, Lady Gaga is gonna
Speaker 1: do a movie and it's going to be this big
Speaker 1: deal like we've seen the stars weren't so many times
Speaker 1: Bradley Cooper was first times directing. There were so many
Speaker 1: question marks. But I said to myself, I was like,
Speaker 1: anyone who doubts Lady Gaga at all is not a
Speaker 1: fan because you've seen her over the years, like reinvent
Speaker 1: herself so many times, like come back against everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: you see in the documentary the struggles that she deals with.
Speaker 1: It's like this woman is unbeatable. Well, and I think
Speaker 1: that I attached to her even personally also as a
Speaker 1: fan in that way because a large part of my
Speaker 1: experience is, especially with RuPaul's drag race, has been go
Speaker 1: get told no, come back, get better, Go get told no,
Speaker 1: that's all right, come back, get better. And I think
Speaker 1: she continues to exceed people's expectations as well, with big
Speaker 1: things like Coachella and the super Bowl and just so
Speaker 1: many amazing things that she's done. It really makes you
Speaker 1: be like, you know what I can do that too.
Speaker 1: She's very inspirational. I think that the way you say
Speaker 1: that about her, I do think that people feel that
Speaker 1: way about you. And that's one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to have you here, because I do
Speaker 1: think that you are such like an example of queer
Speaker 1: excellence that I really think that and just excellence in general,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like that people like, for example,
Speaker 1: in the finale of All Stars three, when you did
Speaker 1: your verse, me and all my friends are watching in
Speaker 1: the bar. We got emotional, We really did, because it's
Speaker 1: like when you know, he said, no, I got the
Speaker 1: whole world scream of Holly. I was like, you know what, though,
Speaker 1: she does anyone cities bitch. I mean, that's that's nothing
Speaker 1: to scoff at and to think about where you started,
Speaker 1: where you come in and you're the first one knocked
Speaker 1: out of you. Remember season two, I came in the
Speaker 1: door with a dream and no makeup map. No, yes,
Speaker 1: I had no baby. It was I thought I was
Speaker 1: in daytime finish. You know, I give a love light
Speaker 1: dusty beat honestly. But then so you come back to
Speaker 1: the next season and I thought you were great on
Speaker 1: that season. Well, thank you but even at that point,
Speaker 1: I've only been doing drag for one year. I was
Speaker 1: super brand new. But I felt like RuPaul had brought
Speaker 1: me back. I was the first person brought back from
Speaker 1: another season to compete again. So I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's invested in me. I've really got to pull up
Speaker 1: on this and do a good job. And so I
Speaker 1: was like stressed, but I wanted to do well. I
Speaker 1: wanted to have fun. But yeah, you're right. I kept pushing, girl,
Speaker 1: I got another no, but I got so was the
Speaker 1: box You're idea? The original ball when I come in?
Speaker 1: The Christmas box was the production teams I did? That
Speaker 1: was all well, the one that they're like, it's a
Speaker 1: Christmas episode and we want you to jump out, and
Speaker 1: I was like ready, but they didn't put any breathing
Speaker 1: holes in that thing. Girl. I was just in there,
Speaker 1: sweaty and hot. I was like, come on, rude. But
Speaker 1: it was fun though. So the energy was Channgela energy
Speaker 1: and also I'm extremely hot energy true thank you. You know,
Speaker 1: since then, no box has been safe. I mean I
Speaker 1: was Holiday box, mail in box. I think children are
Speaker 1: afraid to eat out a cereal box and you never
Speaker 1: know that could be honestly Cereal branding idea. I'm looking
Speaker 1: over about the team. They're obviously their phones typing down. Yes,
Speaker 1: Cereal brand There you go. That's you. Guys are on this.
Speaker 1: Charlie is on this. Perfect instead of wheaties will have wiggies. Yeah. Yes,
Speaker 1: hallelula hoops, Yes, hallelula hoops. This is your machine. Um.
Speaker 1: So then you go back years pass and you cultivate
Speaker 1: Changela and you become like this kind of like sort
Speaker 1: of this is I feel good saying, like sort of
Speaker 1: like a modern drag legend in a way that you
Speaker 1: are out there all the time, all starts through. You
Speaker 1: come in and you are slaying. It doesn't end up
Speaker 1: going your way for reasons that you could attribute to
Speaker 1: just them wanted to put on a fun show and
Speaker 1: like having it be the voting or whatever from the
Speaker 1: other contestants. But you know, you slay. So when you
Speaker 1: think about it, now, do you look back on it
Speaker 1: kind of just like that was just you're disappointed that
Speaker 1: you didn't win. Are you looking at it like that's
Speaker 1: a reality show and they're gonna pull the stunts they're
Speaker 1: gonna pull, They're gonna do what they want to do.
Speaker 1: How are you looking back on All Stars three? Well,
Speaker 1: in the moment when we filmed it last year, right
Speaker 1: after that final episode when I didn't get voted from
Speaker 1: by the other girls to go from the four to
Speaker 1: the top two to lip sync, I was like super
Speaker 1: disappointed because I just put so much into coming back
Speaker 1: and I felt like, this will be like the icing
Speaker 1: on the cake if I can win this, if I
Speaker 1: get that lip stinking you know, I had a wrecking
Speaker 1: balls number hunter that was going the ball. I was
Speaker 1: curious to know what you would have done because I
Speaker 1: was on schoolore you and the lip stings were so
Speaker 1: get ready. If a stunts trick shows an extra, I
Speaker 1: was gonna give it. So when I didn't get to
Speaker 1: do just didn't get the chance. That's all I wanted
Speaker 1: was the chance to show like I totally could do this.
Speaker 1: Um it was. It hurt, But what I learned and
Speaker 1: looking back at the season and even I processed all
Speaker 1: that after we filmed it and then kept working. That's
Speaker 1: all because I'm accustomed to not getting the crown so
Speaker 1: and I've been working since season two and three. You
Speaker 1: just keep going out there and you keep pushing and
Speaker 1: you keep letting people know, you can be a queen
Speaker 1: without having a crown. Okay, you don't have to have
Speaker 1: that crown to be the queen. So that's what I
Speaker 1: wanted to do. I went right back to work. And
Speaker 1: then when I saw it and so I had all
Speaker 1: played out on All Stars. I'm so thankful. I was
Speaker 1: like so gracious and I am so uh just sometimes
Speaker 1: in awe about how many fans really attached to my story.
Speaker 1: I thought, Oh, because I didn't win, they're gonna not
Speaker 1: feel as inspired as I wanted them to be. But
Speaker 1: that I hear from people that has still inspired them.
Speaker 1: You know, you told me, taught me how to not
Speaker 1: give up, to keep coming back, and even though you
Speaker 1: didn't win, you didn't like fall apart. Now you're on tour,
Speaker 1: which is the largest single tour of any drag race
Speaker 1: contestant in history, for one year, and I'm continuing to
Speaker 1: get out there and now here to a star is born,
Speaker 1: which is also amazingly awesome. So um, you know, looking
Speaker 1: back at it, I wouldn't changed anything. Maybe the very ending, right,
Speaker 1: like if we had one and I came back to
Speaker 1: have fun. Yeah, I came back and I gave mad
Speaker 1: some memorable moments in TV and I got to finally
Speaker 1: be the drag queen that I always envisioned myself able
Speaker 1: to be. And that audience, especially the new v H
Speaker 1: one audience, now gets to see that, Yes, that gets
Speaker 1: to enjoy you at Changelo Diva level hotel indeed, and
Speaker 1: it also is kind of like in a macro sense,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a thing of like, you know what, y'all,
Speaker 1: life isn't fair. Sometimes you could deserve it, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't always go your way. Maybe that's the story of
Speaker 1: my entire life. You gotta think. As many highs as
Speaker 1: I've had in my life, I've also had a lot
Speaker 1: of low points. You know. Working in Hollywood you get
Speaker 1: told no a million times. I can only tell you
Speaker 1: how many things that I've been like, Okay, this is it,
Speaker 1: this is my moment, Finally it's going to break through,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it just disappears, and
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, but you gotta keep going. I broke
Speaker 1: a leg on stage in New York in Honey, I
Speaker 1: went up for a leap in helicopter death row and
Speaker 1: you know, I know the debt trop I taught it
Speaker 1: to the kids on dance moms, okay, how to execute
Speaker 1: the exactly. And I came down and released the leg
Speaker 1: early for some reason, and laying on it, broke the
Speaker 1: tibia and fibula in my right leg. Honny, that could
Speaker 1: be twins. Twins and today we have names for you.
Speaker 1: And I had to have a titanium rod put in
Speaker 1: the leg with two screws in the knee and to
Speaker 1: the ankle that I still have to do this day. Yes,
Speaker 1: but I and I being in the hospital here in
Speaker 1: New York. I was at Lenox Hill, you know, that's
Speaker 1: where Beyonce that gave birth to baby Blue. So the
Speaker 1: good hospital, thank you, Blue Cross, Blue Shield. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't have changeling money, that's that p PO. I had
Speaker 1: just qualified actually in the Screen Actors Guild for insurance
Speaker 1: October one. I never broke anything before, and then October
Speaker 1: thirty one, I broke the legs. So I was very
Speaker 1: thankful for that. But I came back. You know, I
Speaker 1: had to go through physical therapy. I was on a walker,
Speaker 1: I was on crutches, I was on a boot. But
Speaker 1: I didn't give up. And now this year I'm still
Speaker 1: able to death drop and safely and turned the party
Speaker 1: in cities. I'm pretty much almost every continent except Antarctica. Okay,
Speaker 1: so literally Antarctica has to be a destination now at
Speaker 1: this point, yes, honey, I've already looked it up. There's
Speaker 1: a National Geographic cruise that goes from the tip of
Speaker 1: Argentina down to Antarctica. But you can only go during
Speaker 1: the months where it's never worn. But you know, seasonal
Speaker 1: for travel to Antarctica, and they'll let twelve people off
Speaker 1: the boat at a time. And I'm gonna do my
Speaker 1: little happy feat number one day. It's gonna not this
Speaker 1: year because it has to be like the season is
Speaker 1: like between I think late November through like yes, yes, yes, honey, yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: well I have to I guess I have to get
Speaker 1: a ticket. Bro. You know you can't go before me, though,
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to get in the Goodest Book of
Speaker 1: World Records for the first drag entertainer to ever perform
Speaker 1: on all seven continents. And I just got one more
Speaker 1: to go. I mean, here we go. Do you have
Speaker 1: a favorite today that you perform? Yeah, well they're different
Speaker 1: around the world. We were talking earlier. I love Toronto,
Speaker 1: you know, I love Brazil. Everywhere in Brazil. I love.
Speaker 1: I'm going to some places for the first time, Australia
Speaker 1: and London they're always great. Um, but I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: in New Zealand for the first time in December, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore. Uh,
Speaker 1: some places in Australia, Canberra never been. So I have
Speaker 1: a new one hour stand up comedy show called She
Speaker 1: Angela is Shook. So yeah, it's honey, I'm shocked this year.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna be taking it there and really excited.
Speaker 1: So what are we talking about on the show? Is
Speaker 1: it All Stars three related? The show is kind of
Speaker 1: a roadmap recap of All Stars three, but it also
Speaker 1: talks about some other hilarious fun stories and anecdotes that
Speaker 1: we get in there too. That's amazing. So just like,
Speaker 1: because I think it's good for people to hear you're
Speaker 1: someone who when there's something in your way or there's
Speaker 1: something going down like that's maybe negative or like there's
Speaker 1: something you are a worker. You work through it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to push. What I learned early in my
Speaker 1: life is that if you don't do it, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna get done. So you gotta get out there and
Speaker 1: go to work. My mom was a worker. She's a
Speaker 1: military veteran. When she came back, she was a single
Speaker 1: mom um. And I watched her have two, sometimes three
Speaker 1: jobs at a time, even to the point where one time,
Speaker 1: like she had taken a night shift to make extra
Speaker 1: money for us, and she was like filling vending machines
Speaker 1: and she would like load up though, that little dolly
Speaker 1: with like cases of cokes. And I would go with
Speaker 1: her sometimes and she'd be like, no, go home, you
Speaker 1: have school in the morning. I'm like, no, I want
Speaker 1: to help you. So I've always seen that in my life.
Speaker 1: I was the first of my family to go to
Speaker 1: college UM in Dallas, and then I moved out to
Speaker 1: l A to be an actor, and when I quit
Speaker 1: working in corporate world to be a drag queen. You
Speaker 1: worked in the corporate world, Oh, honey, I was pr
Speaker 1: fish but t gr Friday. Yeah, setting with Jack Chicken
Speaker 1: strips were good word about, Thank you very much. Yes
Speaker 1: I was, Yes, I was. But you know, even at
Speaker 1: that time, I still knew that I wanted to be
Speaker 1: an entertainer. We would have an annual Halloween party and
Speaker 1: they put me in charge. Well, they used to have
Speaker 1: a costume contest, but I turned it into a pageant
Speaker 1: gay you know, the gay a job. We have those
Speaker 1: intrinsic gay interests, and yeah, honey, I had pulled people
Speaker 1: from finance and accounting to be on my in my
Speaker 1: squad for my talent number I did bringing Sexy Back
Speaker 1: as Michael Jackson Zombi. Okay, yeah, I won one. And
Speaker 1: I remember the time. At the time, the CEO of
Speaker 1: t j F Fridays, Richard Snead, he wanted to do
Speaker 1: an elvis number. Well, yeah, so I helped him but
Speaker 1: get his elvis dragged together. But then he told me,
Speaker 1: after seeing me in the show, he goes, look, you're
Speaker 1: great here. I love you here. But if you ever
Speaker 1: have the passion, you should really consider pursuing a career
Speaker 1: in entertainment. You'd be really good. And now it's probably
Speaker 1: the time you should do it. So I'm not He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you to leave us, but he was
Speaker 1: just saying, if that's in your mind ever something you
Speaker 1: wanted to pursue, you should do it. And I listened
Speaker 1: to him, and I started saving money at that time,
Speaker 1: and I remember at one point I said, okay, that's
Speaker 1: it here. I love it. But and I love. I
Speaker 1: know that people love their jobs there, but that life
Speaker 1: for me wasn't. I didn't feel fulfilled. Honey, I packed
Speaker 1: up my car Ella. She was an explorer, Ella Explorer,
Speaker 1: packed her up and moved out west and then literally
Speaker 1: within a year, so I was going to audition for
Speaker 1: drag Race. So listen, I feel like, why don't we
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Speaker 1: a little bit about your background. By the way, I
Speaker 1: your explorers named Ella. I had a jeep Grand Chericho
Speaker 1: Larado named Jeff. But that's just the different upbringings there.
Speaker 1: Jeff Evan Jeff the jeep um. But I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you. We asked all of our guest this question.
Speaker 1: So we talked a little bit about you as a youngster.
Speaker 1: But this is a question, what was the pop culture
Speaker 1: or the culture in your life that influenced you that
Speaker 1: made you say culture is for me. And what I
Speaker 1: say that, what I mean is like what was there,
Speaker 1: whether it was like a movie or a particular musical
Speaker 1: artist or something that's like your thing that you were like,
Speaker 1: I feel this in a way that's like defining from me.
Speaker 1: Do you have like something in your life like that.
Speaker 1: There were film one. I always loved movies like Sister Act,
Speaker 1: Mrs Doubt Fire. Um, I just I love seeing artists
Speaker 1: on TV that were able to like go into a
Speaker 1: different character, like whether they were undercover or whatever. Yes,
Speaker 1: but hilariously funny. And that was a part of my escape.
Speaker 1: You know, I grew up in Paris, Texas. There weren't
Speaker 1: a lot of gay culture or any of that. But
Speaker 1: I also there wasn't even particular one particular music artist.
Speaker 1: I love Tina Turner, I love Beyonce figured You're because yeah,
Speaker 1: which is an under that even Okay, I don't don't
Speaker 1: let Tina see it. But um, honestly, it was less
Speaker 1: the artist and more music, high energy dance music, just
Speaker 1: gave me this freeing feeling. If I could turn on
Speaker 1: something that had a good beat, I just wanted to move.
Speaker 1: I wanted to dance, And I think that is part
Speaker 1: of the energy of me. Like I just love a
Speaker 1: good time. I love when you're just you know, having fun.
Speaker 1: And that's why I love being on stage. People go,
Speaker 1: are you exhausted, I'm like, no, I get my life,
Speaker 1: you know, and I really do. And then to be
Speaker 1: a part of this, you know, now, to be working
Speaker 1: in Hollywood as an actor, it's still entertaining. It's the
Speaker 1: same energy and the music in this film too, Like
Speaker 1: all of that is just motivating. It's part of my thread.
Speaker 1: So that's it. Just it's so crazy for your journey
Speaker 1: to end up at this particular not end up obviously,
Speaker 1: it's still going. I'm just saying, like at this moment
Speaker 1: for it to be literally a star is born, which
Speaker 1: is a musical, which is you know, Lady Gaga, it's her.
Speaker 1: It's going to be her breakthrough to the next level.
Speaker 1: And I hear you when you say you're not you're
Speaker 1: not tired, You're not well, you must be tired, but
Speaker 1: you're not like beat down by You're just excited about
Speaker 1: the cities. How often do you ever get to like
Speaker 1: just sit back and be like, oh my god, Like
Speaker 1: I get to actually do this each and every day
Speaker 1: in my life. And not only that, but it is
Speaker 1: at the highest level. This movie is gonna win several Oscars.
Speaker 1: It might be nominated for like eleven or twelve. I think,
Speaker 1: do you see my mouth just dropping? And I'll tell you, um,
Speaker 1: because I'm on the go so much. The London premiere happened,
Speaker 1: uh and thank you, but um, I will you know.
Speaker 1: That was on Thursday, and then we had quickly we
Speaker 1: popped to the after party, and then I had a
Speaker 1: show at g a y Heaven at one am. I
Speaker 1: was on stage, and then I had a meet and
Speaker 1: greet right after that, and then I showered quickly to
Speaker 1: get on my six forty am flight because I had
Speaker 1: a show in Atlanta when I landed the next day,
Speaker 1: and then I had with Latrese's wedding the next day
Speaker 1: and then we flew to New York. So I really
Speaker 1: had dropping that nuggeting again. But that being said, I
Speaker 1: didn't really have a big moment to sit and be
Speaker 1: like wow, this morning, Um, I was going through Twitter
Speaker 1: and now more people are seeing the film, and I
Speaker 1: usually I can check, like I try to check all
Speaker 1: my Twitter messages and d m s, like I'm on
Speaker 1: that I'm attached to my phone, but I had so many,
Speaker 1: and people were saying such nice things about the film.
Speaker 1: I almost started crying. I was sitting there in the
Speaker 1: in the hotel and I'm like, okay, girl, pull it together.
Speaker 1: But I was like, this is wow. This is amazing,
Speaker 1: and not just for me, but just to be a
Speaker 1: part of this film and to know, you know, how
Speaker 1: hard I've worked, but not just that, but like to
Speaker 1: be with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper and just an
Speaker 1: amazing cast and amazing to see the film again last night.
Speaker 1: I saw it last night and take it all in
Speaker 1: like bitch, that is me up. And in addition to that,
Speaker 1: like this is an amazing It's a great move, is
Speaker 1: flat out so good. I'm thrown so the fans. It
Speaker 1: really is. Like it's even in meet and greets and
Speaker 1: stuff around the world. I'll get messages and notes from
Speaker 1: kids or from anyone and I read them in the
Speaker 1: dressing room or later on that night, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm really, this is cool to be a part of
Speaker 1: something that means something to people. I mean, well you
Speaker 1: might not. You've seen it. You saw it last night
Speaker 1: was the second time. It was the second time, well
Speaker 1: in my experience seeing it last night, and I saw
Speaker 1: it at like a press screening. There was applause when
Speaker 1: you came out. And I know that tonight I'm seeing
Speaker 1: it with I swear to god, I thought. I thought
Speaker 1: I felt like a rhythm micclap to a working girl
Speaker 1: the song. Um, but um, I'm going tonight with like
Speaker 1: thirty days. Like I even posted on my answer story,
Speaker 1: like the ticket stub, I said, this is when we're going,
Speaker 1: come buy a ticket. Let's sell out this theater. So
Speaker 1: I know everyone's gonna go wild tonight when they see you.
Speaker 1: But even in like the screening, like and I heard
Speaker 1: this woman next to me go, that's Changela to like
Speaker 1: her colleague or whatever that is ch Angela. She was in,
Speaker 1: she had she had it all, she knew the cast.
Speaker 1: But um, it's just crazy. And so I really I
Speaker 1: hope that you do give yourself those moments because and
Speaker 1: it's just insane to me that you had to do
Speaker 1: a show one am after the London after these huge
Speaker 1: London premiere of A Star is Born. You're in a
Speaker 1: photo with Lady Guga Bradley Cooper. Let's get out the
Speaker 1: dress and do a gig. I'm a working girl, honey
Speaker 1: checks okay. But in addition, there are so many great
Speaker 1: fans in London, and I wanted to celebrate with them,
Speaker 1: like let's party and we had a great time. But
Speaker 1: I'm learning how to take it in, like have a second.
Speaker 1: I journal a lot, so maybe for the memoir one
Speaker 1: day of course, like Jennifer Lewis says, how they write
Speaker 1: it down, Sure, it's dictated exactly. So I did journal
Speaker 1: a lot about it, and sometimes I go back and
Speaker 1: read it because it's like, wow, this is a cool moment.
Speaker 1: But I hope to have many more, you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: this is just a great start. I'm hoping to get
Speaker 1: more visibility UM and just you know, people to understand
Speaker 1: that not only am I a drag entertainer, but I
Speaker 1: also I'm interested in working as an actor. Do we
Speaker 1: have more products signed up on the pipeline? Oh? You know,
Speaker 1: sister has always got a job coming on. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: actually filming UM an episode for a Netflix series this weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm featured in a couple of episodes of Alyssa Edwards
Speaker 1: new docuseries. I wanted to act. Oh yeah, listen and
Speaker 1: I have been friends for god before even there was
Speaker 1: a Channgela. I used to back up dance for her
Speaker 1: in Dallas and the pageants, so um, it's really cool.
Speaker 1: Like for then I was on Drag Race and then
Speaker 1: she was on Drag Race and we toured together. We've
Speaker 1: been great friends for a very long time, so it's
Speaker 1: really cool to be able to celebrate each other's accomplishments
Speaker 1: right now as well. And then I wish Logana as well.
Speaker 1: She's all over the place. I think she just landed
Speaker 1: in Beiru today to do a show tonight. So everyone's
Speaker 1: on their tracks doing their thing. And we always like
Speaker 1: when we circle back high five girl, keeping moving. We
Speaker 1: want to see her on All Stars. I think Liganda,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised she hasn't been on. You know, I do too,
Speaker 1: but you know, she's always said that she wants to
Speaker 1: focus on her dance as well. She started that Lagan
Speaker 1: just dance school thing that she did. I know that
Speaker 1: she was teaching at Young Arts, a program in Florida,
Speaker 1: so she's she's on her and then she was on
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Star No No No, so you think yes,
Speaker 1: and that was that was wild too, And it's crazy
Speaker 1: like like Alyssa and Lagonda, it feels like like dance
Speaker 1: education is really like in their blood. They truly love that. Well,
Speaker 1: lagn you was a student at Lyssa School and also
Speaker 1: taught at Alyssa School in Dallas. I used to back
Speaker 1: up dance and do all rehearsals at Alyssa's dance studio
Speaker 1: in Dallas. So she's created a really great home for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. And that's why we're so happy.
Speaker 1: You know. I love her as my friend and so
Speaker 1: excited for her. Have you always been a dancer ever
Speaker 1: since a young age, because it seems like I've always
Speaker 1: been excited to dance. I have never been trained, but
Speaker 1: I did me due to Jamison once at SMU, which
Speaker 1: is why I graduated from in Dallas and all my friends.
Speaker 1: You know, that's why all the games were okay, all
Speaker 1: the gays with a dance department. So I used to go.
Speaker 1: Of course, not all of them, but a lot of
Speaker 1: the dance of all was the gays, So I would
Speaker 1: when I I just first came out, when I went
Speaker 1: to college as eighteen, so it was a whole new
Speaker 1: world for me, and a lot of them have been
Speaker 1: out since, you know, for everything from New York and
Speaker 1: I was from Paris, Texas, so so over this country
Speaker 1: came to this college being in Texas. Well, yeah, in
Speaker 1: the Middle School of Dance is one of the most
Speaker 1: respected dance schools in the U S as well of
Speaker 1: her arts. So um yeah, I just remember I took
Speaker 1: one class over there and I thought, oh, honey, I'm
Speaker 1: a dancer, now dancer. I love to dance. Yeah, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a great way to like have a
Speaker 1: great time and communicate with people. Plus I know I
Speaker 1: talk a lot. But Latrese's wedding, me and Bianca ha
Speaker 1: cut the rug, honey, all the girls at the wedding,
Speaker 1: well it was me the ones that were there because
Speaker 1: it was also during New York drag Con weekend, but
Speaker 1: it was in Atlanta. It was me, Bianca, Willem, Manila,
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting Kennedy Jasmine Masters so fu yeah, so we
Speaker 1: all had a great time. That had to be Oh honey,
Speaker 1: you know, we move all of us. She didn't even
Speaker 1: book us, but we did a booking OK, No, no
Speaker 1: one was in drag, you know, we want but a
Speaker 1: lot of people at Latrice's wedding did come and drag
Speaker 1: and it was such a nice thing. You know, we
Speaker 1: get to see each other in the clubs a lot
Speaker 1: or working, but to be there like in our little
Speaker 1: suits and ties and like celebrating our friend and their
Speaker 1: love for each other a Latres and Chris, it was
Speaker 1: really special. How long have they been together? Many years? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've been together for a while. Yeah, because I remember
Speaker 1: on Latresa's season she had this moment where she said
Speaker 1: she didn't know if she believed in in herself getting married.
Speaker 1: So now we have obviously the turnaround. Well she said
Speaker 1: that too during her speech and between the tears, it
Speaker 1: was so many people were crying. I was like, Lord,
Speaker 1: I'm crying over here. I'm a room, a good light,
Speaker 1: bass powder. But um, yeah, she said that. I didn't
Speaker 1: I never thought this would happen for me. I really
Speaker 1: didn't believe in it. And this person, Chris, has changed
Speaker 1: my life and changed my mind. And that's really cool
Speaker 1: to see that. You know, it's been an emotional week. Sunday,
Speaker 1: I mean Saturday, that wedding, and then when I saw
Speaker 1: Stars Born last night bawling again. You know you can't
Speaker 1: help it, you can't, you really can't. There's so many
Speaker 1: scenes in that movie where it's just like you feel
Speaker 1: the tears coming down your face and you didn't even expect. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I was trying to be all professional, so
Speaker 1: I was doing the quick white you know, you swipe
Speaker 1: it like real fast, like here comes into it's gone.
Speaker 1: But there so many because the movie is so powerfully emotional,
Speaker 1: and uh, I love that we get to bring some
Speaker 1: light and fun to it as well. But it's a
Speaker 1: great that's the thing too. I didn't expect it to
Speaker 1: be as funny as it is, even like even like Gaga,
Speaker 1: there's a scene where she overpours a shot and just
Speaker 1: the way she reacts to it, so funny little things
Speaker 1: that you don't see from her because you never see
Speaker 1: her out there being the grounded um lady Gaga, you know,
Speaker 1: you see, And for so many years I thought when
Speaker 1: people were like, maybe she'll act one day, I was like,
Speaker 1: but who is she? There? Needs to be like we
Speaker 1: need to see who that is. And now you truly
Speaker 1: see who that is, and just I'm so excited to
Speaker 1: see more in seeing the film, you saw two people
Speaker 1: at the top of their game really going in with
Speaker 1: these characters. I swear it was like a masterclass. The
Speaker 1: performances alone deserve the accolades whatever they may be to
Speaker 1: come because you could take they were amazing together, true
Speaker 1: amazing chemistry. But you could take those performances and sit
Speaker 1: them by themselves and look at them and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: she was doing that, even especially other people. Sam Elliott
Speaker 1: the great, great performances so good. Andrew dice Clay sickening,
Speaker 1: truly great and like such a believable father character, and
Speaker 1: you could tell. I think I read an interview with
Speaker 1: Bradley that was saying that they had seen major names
Speaker 1: for that character. Like I heard the word the nero
Speaker 1: floated through the air. Yeah, I can see it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But then you meet someone like Andrew dice Clay and
Speaker 1: it's just it feels so right. And I love like
Speaker 1: the kind of atypical casting in this movie, like you
Speaker 1: would never think Andrew dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, like Angela. But the thing is, I
Speaker 1: think that is the coolest thing. And I think that's
Speaker 1: like part of another credit to his directing and his eyes,
Speaker 1: just like he knew exactly what he wanted. He also
Speaker 1: knew when to listen to her and her instincts, and
Speaker 1: she obviously said, we must get Chandel that will for
Speaker 1: this movie. I'm thankful that I told her when we
Speaker 1: were together at the Soho House in London. Didn't that
Speaker 1: sound fast? Happy? From Paris, Texas? Well? When I was
Speaker 1: sitting with Lady Gaga at the Soho House in London, yes,
Speaker 1: in my geche Darling was my mom there by the way,
Speaker 1: who had flown over from Texas. Um I she said
Speaker 1: to me, uh, Angela, uh, when I saw you on
Speaker 1: the carpet tonight, it's the true story. Wow, I can
Speaker 1: say this it's private, but I'm saying, she said, when
Speaker 1: I saw you on the carpet tonight, I looked over
Speaker 1: and I said, that's a star. And don't you know
Speaker 1: I was that's not even when my head was saying,
Speaker 1: I just wasn't happy. I was, you know, standing the course.
Speaker 1: It was so tired. I was like, I can at
Speaker 1: least kind of breathe. But she and I said, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, but you have no idea. I I'm
Speaker 1: in like I am bowing in homage and worship to you.
Speaker 1: You gave me such a great opportunity. She goes, all right,
Speaker 1: now keep it going, she said, keep it going. And
Speaker 1: I will forever be grateful to her and to Bradley
Speaker 1: for what they've given me with allowing me to be
Speaker 1: involved with this. There's just so much beauty emanating from her,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. There's just so much obvious
Speaker 1: love for our community, so much obvious love and passion
Speaker 1: for what she does. And I do feel that from
Speaker 1: him as well. And it's so interesting you you mentioned
Speaker 1: the chemistry between them. You fully believe that they fall
Speaker 1: in love in this movie? Yes, in seconds? Yes, I
Speaker 1: mean like that. There's like that, the sequence of them
Speaker 1: spending like a night together and they don't sleep together
Speaker 1: at first. It's kind of just very kind of like
Speaker 1: very meat cute. They have this like wild night where
Speaker 1: these things happen in a bar etcetera, etcetera, and it's
Speaker 1: just like this is such a And we've seen the
Speaker 1: stars more before. How you seen the other stars borns? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: so we've seen all of them, but I've seen something Barbara.
Speaker 1: She's just familiar. Um, we're familiar with the Barbara version. Um.
Speaker 1: But The thing is like, it just feels so new
Speaker 1: and so authentic. And what I've about the movie is
Speaker 1: it feels like a big Hollywood movie, but it also
Speaker 1: feels very small, like that scene with the cake on
Speaker 1: her face, yes, or the scene in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: Felt the way that it was shot was really cool
Speaker 1: and it almost felt like like when you see a
Speaker 1: really cool indie movie. You know, um yeah. That was
Speaker 1: a true testament to the directing and everyone who worked
Speaker 1: on this film was it was fantastic in the chemistry.
Speaker 1: You're exactly right, because you know, this is Bradley's I think,
Speaker 1: um modernization of this story, and he kind of like
Speaker 1: revisualized it and you could see there from the previous versions.
Speaker 1: This one is like a retake on and it's amazing
Speaker 1: and um sex, I mean just the chemistry between the
Speaker 1: two is hot. Was we were standing there, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I wish his character had fallen in love with mine,
Speaker 1: but okay, yea, I would have even in his like
Speaker 1: alcoholics just spare. I was like, you can't deny this
Speaker 1: is still Browdley Cooper. Hallelu hallelu Honestly, And the thing too,
Speaker 1: is like why saw it in like it was a
Speaker 1: good theater that I saw it, and I had the
Speaker 1: Dobe digital. Yes, feel it in your seat, okay for real,
Speaker 1: because you really think you're at a real rock concert
Speaker 1: like this, Like just like I coming a straight up
Speaker 1: and Charlie is nodding. Uh um, publicist Charlie, who we love? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: why do you wins? You don't like the spotlight? No? Um?
Speaker 1: But you the sound mixing and the sound editing and
Speaker 1: listen to me, sound like a fucking film. I love it.
Speaker 1: These are the awards that have given out at six
Speaker 1: o'clocks that were cut from this year's broadcast. Very important though,
Speaker 1: but they are important. I was saying, like, like I said,
Speaker 1: I saw my friend Amanda and I turned around, I'm like,
Speaker 1: are we at this concert? I could almost smell it. No,
Speaker 1: it was because the music is such an integral part
Speaker 1: of this film, because it also tells the story. Um. Yes,
Speaker 1: it made me feel like, you know, I've been every
Speaker 1: guy guy tour. I've been all of them. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: the okay, so um when you're seeing her and she's
Speaker 1: playing at that piano and the cameras are right there
Speaker 1: in that face, but you feel that you feel the
Speaker 1: music and it's part of the emotion. And that's why
Speaker 1: this film does have so much hard That's why people
Speaker 1: cry because you are in it. You are in it,
Speaker 1: and I hope that if anyone watches it, they get
Speaker 1: to feel it the way that we've seen it and
Speaker 1: felt it. Yeah, I mean truly, there's a couple of scenes,
Speaker 1: like not to give anything away, but there's just a
Speaker 1: couple of scenes with between the brothers that will get you,
Speaker 1: and then and obviously scenes between them. The final song
Speaker 1: there's a certain cut at the end of the song
Speaker 1: that will destroy destroy, ending on with a heart. Ye.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy. And I'm thinking, like I also can't
Speaker 1: wait for the soundtrack. Yes, well I don't have this,
Speaker 1: but I have it pre ordered. But you know I
Speaker 1: got Shallow. That's really all I need is conver and
Speaker 1: I didn't know if you get like a special pre
Speaker 1: order ch angel a copy that miss LG SA LG
Speaker 1: LG to L please, we're about to get it. And
Speaker 1: that's another thing too, is like you watch the movie
Speaker 1: and like you hear little snippets of songs and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: what's that? Like that makes you wait for the soundtrack
Speaker 1: because of course you're not gonna hear every whole someone.
Speaker 1: I'm about to break into the SNL well to a
Speaker 1: performance song right now. But there's so many good ones
Speaker 1: like I'm Just and when you see the pre order,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of tracks on there, so you want
Speaker 1: to just like click through and get your life. And
Speaker 1: it's like one of those walking through New York kind
Speaker 1: of albums. You know, you had the headsets and you're like,
Speaker 1: I gotta go from thirtieth Street all the way up
Speaker 1: to the sixties. Watch me walk pumpet with this album.
Speaker 1: I have a question for you, who is inspiring you
Speaker 1: right now, whether it's another queen or like a certain
Speaker 1: like artist besides Lady Gaga, who we've discussed in full. Um,
Speaker 1: is there someone that you're watching right now out there
Speaker 1: that you're like, Okay, I think they are. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ramble a couple of names to you, because I really,
Speaker 1: I really am inspired by these people. Um. First and foremost,
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lewis, I mean, the legend, and I'm so grateful
Speaker 1: and I've been blessed that I get to You know,
Speaker 1: I moved into her basement seven years ago and I've
Speaker 1: never left because I get a master class in Jennifer Lewis.
Speaker 1: It's still to this day grant control. She always tells me,
Speaker 1: if it don't worry when you come home, your things
Speaker 1: are gonna be at the street. Too big of a
Speaker 1: stall um. But she's such, She's like my l a mom,
Speaker 1: and she's taught me so much. She's been in the
Speaker 1: business thirty years and she's weathered the ups and the
Speaker 1: downs of the world of entertainment and and still managed
Speaker 1: to hold onto herself, be successful and be a good person.
Speaker 1: And like that inspires me at all times. In addition
Speaker 1: to her Beyonce I saw on the Run tour just
Speaker 1: recently in Dallas, and seeing knowing where she is in
Speaker 1: her world and at her level, but the fact that
Speaker 1: she still gets out there and gives you a hundred
Speaker 1: and ten. There ain't no doll in, there ain't no
Speaker 1: phone in, she goes for it. It makes me like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta get to the house, Like I need new costumes,
Speaker 1: I need to give I need a new mix. I
Speaker 1: gotta do better. It's inspiring no matter what you do.
Speaker 1: Ye even I do comedy and stuff like that. But
Speaker 1: I saw her show, you know, I saw I've seen
Speaker 1: her three times, but the most inspiring time I saw
Speaker 1: her was the Four Albums. She did four shows at
Speaker 1: roseland Ballroom and a small so I was like a
Speaker 1: hundred feet away from her because you know, I got
Speaker 1: there early. But this was the four album, which to
Speaker 1: me is genius album. And jay Z is sitting up
Speaker 1: there like in the balcony watching her, and she is
Speaker 1: on top of the piano singing one plus one giving
Speaker 1: the fantasy and You're like, wow, this feels like a moment.
Speaker 1: There's the sound is all around you giving her everything.
Speaker 1: During end of time, Corio didn't miss a step, showing
Speaker 1: up every dancer being the one. Two months later, she
Speaker 1: does the mic drop on the v m as and
Speaker 1: she shows that she's pregnant. I was like, are you
Speaker 1: telling me that this woman was three four months pregnant
Speaker 1: when that happened. Un So, there's Jennifer Lewis, Beyonce, and
Speaker 1: then uh, my good friend Lena Wade. Yeah, yeah, now
Speaker 1: Lena and I. This is a fun story. Not a
Speaker 1: lot of people know this. Lena and I started around
Speaker 1: the same time as assistants in l A. She was
Speaker 1: Mark Brown's assistant for a while working on the show
Speaker 1: girlfriends Uh for BT, and I was Jennifer Lewis's assistant
Speaker 1: and Mark and Jennifer have been best friends for like
Speaker 1: twenty thirty years, so they're like, well, since we're best friends,
Speaker 1: you guys should know each other. So Lena and I
Speaker 1: would like go out to like lunch or whatever, hang out,
Speaker 1: and then we became really close friends. She wrote the
Speaker 1: first short film that I ever did about the time
Speaker 1: my car was stolen, called Body of a Barbie. Yeah, Lena,
Speaker 1: after I told her the story and she was like, oh, baby,
Speaker 1: I'm writing this into a script and she did and
Speaker 1: produced it and it got on BT like in a
Speaker 1: short festival thing. This was bad makeup SHANGI way back
Speaker 1: in the day. I did my own look and um
Speaker 1: and then like my car ran out of gas like twice.
Speaker 1: She's the friend I called it, come pick me up,
Speaker 1: and she would come out there where the gas came.
Speaker 1: We're on the side of the one on one in
Speaker 1: l A, like pouring gas into my car. So this
Speaker 1: is I've known her for a while and I know
Speaker 1: how hard she's worked and now to see her getting
Speaker 1: her shine. And she's such a smart person but also
Speaker 1: a person who gets the job done, and she encourages me,
Speaker 1: like I'll be like Lena, She's like, you know yo,
Speaker 1: you know Lena, She's like, Yo, look you need you
Speaker 1: need to get you need to get your team together, yo,
Speaker 1: because you know this is your time. Do it, broy.
Speaker 1: And she's like sometimes she'll tell me like, I got
Speaker 1: a role for you, but you ain't never here. You
Speaker 1: on the tour. So when you coming home so you
Speaker 1: can do your job. And I'm like, I'm commingly and
Speaker 1: I promised. So I love her so much and and
Speaker 1: and she inspires me. She's history making, Okay, hallelu And
Speaker 1: that is such a cool thing too, when you when
Speaker 1: you think, when you have a sense that the community
Speaker 1: that you're a part of his special. And then as
Speaker 1: you guys start working and working and working and things happen,
Speaker 1: you're like, wow, I was right, Yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. That's super special. It is and it's amazing too.
Speaker 1: I love being gay, Oh, I love being gay, and
Speaker 1: it's it took me a while because you know, I
Speaker 1: grew up in a very southern Baptist household. I was
Speaker 1: in church with my grandparents like every Sunday, and you
Speaker 1: would hear messages like gay is wrong and homosexuality and
Speaker 1: sin You're going to hell. So I didn't embrace being gay.
Speaker 1: I thought like, I'm gay, darn whish I wasn't gay
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And then when I got out there
Speaker 1: on my own and started like learning about who more
Speaker 1: of who I was and coming into my own and
Speaker 1: learning that everything that I do, I should love. If
Speaker 1: i'm doing, if I'm a good person, I'm out there
Speaker 1: just being myself, there's nothing wrong with being gay. I'm gay,
Speaker 1: So then I was on this journey and even being
Speaker 1: a drag queen, you just build up even more confidence
Speaker 1: in yourself. So people who love themselves also inspire me
Speaker 1: to continue loving myself. I'm so inspired by like kids
Speaker 1: too that come to our shows and they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: figuring themselves out, you know, trans kids or gender non
Speaker 1: conforming or whatever because or even like straight kids that
Speaker 1: just are like, that's my gay friend. I love her
Speaker 1: because I didn't get that until later in my life.
Speaker 1: So to see it happen for people who are younger,
Speaker 1: I'm like, good for you, good for you, And it
Speaker 1: also takes there. I've spoken with many people on this
Speaker 1: podcast that that you know, sometimes looking at that generation,
Speaker 1: there is that little part of you that's like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: only I had been born fifteen twenty years later, five
Speaker 1: years later. Times it's like I could have had that.
Speaker 1: But you have to be grateful for the adversity because
Speaker 1: maybe you wouldn't be the work cards that you are. True.
Speaker 1: I tell people that all the time. They're like, don't
Speaker 1: you wish you would have won Drug Race Threads That No,
Speaker 1: I wasn't. Apparently I wasn't ready for it at that
Speaker 1: point and even to this point where I didn't win
Speaker 1: All Stars three, that wasn't in the cards for me.
Speaker 1: But I've never given up and that means something to
Speaker 1: me and hopefully it means something to someone else as well.
Speaker 1: And I think it's really cool. How Like, that's why
Speaker 1: I love being a part of this movie, because somebody,
Speaker 1: some little gay kid, is going to be able to
Speaker 1: go down to the Paris, Texas Cinema Movies eight and
Speaker 1: see on one of those screens there's Channgela, who grew
Speaker 1: up right down the street, you know, in this community,
Speaker 1: went to St. John Baptist Church and there she is
Speaker 1: as a drag queen living her best life in this film.
Speaker 1: So not only does it mean something to me to
Speaker 1: be able to work as an actor. But it's a
Speaker 1: message as well that there is acceptance out there for
Speaker 1: you as it's actually you know what it is. It's
Speaker 1: literally a very Genufer Hudson narrative. Oh, it's like we
Speaker 1: did not win the gig, but I stole the whole show.
Speaker 1: I applauded for her when she sang her song, and Dreamgirl,
Speaker 1: she bet applaud for me when I come on that screen. Please,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. That's what we need is you guys
Speaker 1: to host the Oscars. You and Willam. How about that's
Speaker 1: Oh I love that host the Oscars host Miss Universe,
Speaker 1: Miss America hosted All Honey Again. We're saying, yes, two gigs,
Speaker 1: Yes we are, We're available. Nineteen Here we come. When
Speaker 1: does the tour wrap up? December thirty one. My last
Speaker 1: night is New Year's Eve in Columbus, Ohio at acts
Speaker 1: As Nightclub. Come on Columbus for New Year's They actually
Speaker 1: have ch Angela analysta Edwards. That place is gonna light
Speaker 1: on fire. It is gonna be greatly Okay. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna do a segment that we do to wrap up
Speaker 1: the show. It's called I don't think so, honey. You
Speaker 1: already know what this is, listeners. So we take one
Speaker 1: minute to rant against something in culture, pop culture, or
Speaker 1: whatever that we think needs are dressing down. It can
Speaker 1: be anything big or small. I'm gonna go first. HPJ
Speaker 1: is gonna think we have it is one minute. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go first, and I'll thirty second myself. How about that? Ready,
Speaker 1: here we go. This is Matt Rogers, that's me my
Speaker 1: I don't think so, honey. Time starts now. Okay, bitch,
Speaker 1: I don't think so honey. When something is overbooked, if
Speaker 1: there was a number of seats book that many people,
Speaker 1: and I especially me, and this for planes, because if
Speaker 1: I paid for a seat, and then I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to tell my mother, hey girl, pick me up at
Speaker 1: three pm at the airport. I slipped, you know the one,
Speaker 1: and she shows up and I'm not there because you overbooked.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, honey. You also potentially maybe I
Speaker 1: was at um like a couple of screenings and they
Speaker 1: didn't have enough seats. Okay, this is this is I'm
Speaker 1: teasing not that one another one. But I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be sitting on the ground. But Luckily we did
Speaker 1: end up with a great seed because some people didn't
Speaker 1: show up. But I don't think so, honey, the fact
Speaker 1: that I might have to sit on the floor. I
Speaker 1: need a thing from my form, my juice I need.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a juice. It was a slushy, but I
Speaker 1: need a little cup holder for it and something to
Speaker 1: pot popcorn down. Don't overbook, only underbook so I can
Speaker 1: put my legs on the seat in front of me.
Speaker 1: Until then, I don't think so, honey. Boom, And that's
Speaker 1: one minute. You did that. Okay. I got a little
Speaker 1: loss along the way because you had to get because
Speaker 1: can I tell you, like whenever I hear a story
Speaker 1: about someone buying a ticket to an airplane on an
Speaker 1: airplane and then they have to get moved when they
Speaker 1: paid the same money as everyone else, don't over a
Speaker 1: book Southwest Airlines. I'm looking at you. Don't worry. I
Speaker 1: said it, not you. That's why I love me some
Speaker 1: Delta honey hole. I'm Delta diamond Fish. Yeah fish, Delta
Speaker 1: diamond Fish might be the title of up. That might
Speaker 1: have to be what it is. Okay, So I'm thrilled
Speaker 1: because Chandel, are you ready to do it. I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey. Oh, let me see what I'm going
Speaker 1: off about. I'm going off. I can go off. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is chandel as. I don't think so honey,
Speaker 1: and her time starts now, Okay, I don't think so honey,
Speaker 1: Miss uber Eats. When I order something in the bag
Speaker 1: and I tell y'all order French fries and my burger
Speaker 1: and my soda, when I get my bag and you
Speaker 1: have disappeared, and I don't have all the things that
Speaker 1: I need it in my bag, and you know I
Speaker 1: was hungry for my meal. Now my meal should show
Speaker 1: up warm already, okay, Because I've been tracking your process
Speaker 1: and when I'm looking at six minutes and then it
Speaker 1: says four minutes, and then it's back up the six minutes.
Speaker 1: Did you make a pit stop for gas? All my things?
Speaker 1: And when I ordered French frides, I'm gonna need to
Speaker 1: have some catchup that should have been known. I have
Speaker 1: to write catch up on the order. You should know
Speaker 1: if a lady orders French prods, you bring up some
Speaker 1: ketchup and might as well one of those some maynaids
Speaker 1: in the bag too, because I like mayonnais. Can let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. I'm sending my heart earned money
Speaker 1: over here, okay for to put my process my mind.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to leave the house. I wanted you
Speaker 1: to bring my nice things, and I paid for it
Speaker 1: with my things. Because you want to know why, because
Speaker 1: I don't have a sugar daddy. I never had a
Speaker 1: sugar daddy. I want to sugar dad. I can go
Speaker 1: out and get one because I am what and with
Speaker 1: Uber Eats, I still might be hungry and hollyl Loup.
Speaker 1: That's one minute wow iconic and it's actually rule of
Speaker 1: culture number. I'm gonna say fifty two. If a lady
Speaker 1: orders French fries, there should be catchup. Okay, Uber, thank you.
Speaker 1: I also love personifying it as miss Uberes as I
Speaker 1: did see a woman like her glasses on, kind of
Speaker 1: like softly doing her job, like miss uberries. You gotta
Speaker 1: She just picked up the bag and then dropped it
Speaker 1: in my hand and hit it because she knew I
Speaker 1: was gonna hit no, so she was like, I already
Speaker 1: got my deliver fee. I'm good. Yeah, whatever I'm doing
Speaker 1: the bear minimum ms Uber It's okay. So this is
Speaker 1: what I have to say. Obviously, you know where I
Speaker 1: stand on the movie Your Star Is Born, but go
Speaker 1: out there and see it for yourself. I'm actually gonna
Speaker 1: go see it again tonight. As I was telling ch
Speaker 1: Angela before, my mom also texted me and said, I
Speaker 1: got tickets for us Friday night, so that'll be the
Speaker 1: third time. And I did also promise my friends study
Speaker 1: i'd go with her on Sunday. So are we going
Speaker 1: on what fourth time? You may No, we can't be
Speaker 1: standing up, sudi Um. This was such a pleasure and
Speaker 1: honor to have you on. Thank you you really you
Speaker 1: really are just like I mean, I don't have to
Speaker 1: tell you. You were my favorite on All Stars three.
Speaker 1: You're also my favorite on season three. Hollell. That's the
Speaker 1: one I actually we were. I was watching with Henry
Speaker 1: and my boyfriend at the time, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I think ch Angela should win and he was like,
Speaker 1: I like Manila, and I was like, this is over.
Speaker 1: We have divided a minute family. But you gotta know,
Speaker 1: me and Manila reconnected at the wedding after many times reconnected.
Speaker 1: I love her so much, because so much, but she's
Speaker 1: married now. Henry, come on, I know he's with someone.
Speaker 1: She's his His His name is Mike. Her name is Mike.
Speaker 1: All right, well everyone, this is Angela. This is Matt
Speaker 1: Roger signing off. Thank you everyone, like you're for listening
Speaker 1: to glass called Teresa's Go see a Stars Barn or
Speaker 1: else you're farther from the shallow Na? Na, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love so. Why didn't they put me on the album? Girl?
Speaker 1: We need the work girl on the album? Thank you.
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