Monét X Change Is All Fun and No Filter

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Look at that. What you did? This is my last time going on this God-for-sacred show. What is up, neighbors? We've got Monet exchange pulling up to the house today, making it a little bit more fabulous around here. Now, you've seen her win RuPaul's Drag Race, shake it up on the traders, keep it real on the podcast, Monet talks, and sell out theaters on her tour, High Heel's Bad Knees. She is the kind of friend that always says what everybody else is thinking, and I bet she's the kind of house guest that's an open book with a refreshing read. Let's get it. Oh, Monet, I am so glad that you are here. So having me. I know you love a margarita like I do. Woo! So we have, it is a strong margarita, she's strong. It is strong. But she talked to you real nice. Yeah. Cheers. Cheers indeed. Mmm. Yes. Sim Sam? Yes, Sim Sam? With a little bite at the end though. Because you gotta have a look. You gotta have a look. Cause you gotta know what you're dealing with. Yeah, I'm saying. I like Italian food. So my margarita has like an Italian flair, like a Mediterranean flair, so I use a talacus. Is that a liquor? It's a liquor. A liquor? It's a burger mouth, liquor. You see, I make my margarita food. I got me some margarita mix from the Costco, with a little tequila in it. Yeah. With some lime juice and then that's my margarita. I am so fancy. Okay, let me tell you, the real hood margarita. It's what? For loco? Oh my God. That's a death margarita. The real hood margarita is a sprite and your favorite tequila. Woo! Cause you just got lemon lime. Yeah, that's all you need. That's all you need. Okay, so I know that your tour is high heels and bad knees. Hello. I feel like it's a grown conversation. It is 100%. You know what I'm saying? And I know you also love Italian food. I do love Italian. So I figured we would do Italian food, but grown. Okay. So we made everything from scratch. I'm looking at this hand-strong woven pie. You did this pie, what's your hands? We about to do it with our hands. Wee! Oh, so now you speak afresh. Yeah, we have an Italian. Yeah, we are. Wee! Wee! About to get our hands dirty, so go ahead and let's wash them up. Lord. It's God has me in here, the cooking making. This is crazy. Yeah. It's a little nuts, but why not? You know, I can cook, but I don't enjoy cooking. Like I come from a cooking house with all my mom, grandma, everybody, but look at my soul. It's so labor-intensive. But you made chicken chips. I did make chicken chips. And you're going to try the chicken chips today. I'm going to bring me a chicken chip, talking about. I said, what's the chicken chip? Is that a chip with chicken salt on it? No. It's a chip made out of ground chicken. Yeah. We going to talk about that. When we cut the commercial, we going to talk about that. Okay. So here's your red sauce. Oh. So you've got pork. You've got beef. You've got tomato. Onion. Garlic. Celery. I normally put zucchini in there. Also, I like, you know, I just use it up. Is this what you call a bone in there? Is this a bone in there? It's a bone in there. So while that's on the slow simmer, we've got our pasta water. It should be ready. Yeah. Okay. Get that back up to the boil. Wow. What do you want? How to cook? Oh, I took a class. I watched it on YouTube. You can learn everything on YouTube. You can learn how to build a plane on YouTube. 100% and I have. Really? That's how it's put it in there as well. And it's also how it finished. Okay. So now this is salmahaya. Salmahaya. Salmahaya flower. Okay. Salmahaya flower. Salmahaya flower. Salmahaya flower. Okay. Salmahaya flower. Salmahaya. So this is straight from Italy. Okay. So we're going to cut this on. Just on the first one. And now this is our pasta cutters. And this is actually what's going to make our beautiful spaghetti pasta. So you're going to do it. So you're going to take it like this and you're going to feed it through that machine but try not to let it hit the edges. Also it has to stay like right in down the middle. Yeah. You want to go a little bit more now? Up to, oh, you got it. There you go. There you go. You got it. You got it. Look at you. You make it pasta. It's got to wait until after I had anything. You said you might want to go. But you got it. You got it. You did it. Look at that. Look at that. Oh wow. And look at that. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. That's what you did. I ain't never seen about a noodle before. You hear me? And I eat at Olive Garden at least three times a year. And that's a good noodle. That's a good noodle. Okay. So now we get our pasta water back up to boil. I always make my pasta too mushy because it's going too long. Well, because the time of the box is never accurate. They say six minutes, but they mean seven or eight or nine or fifteen sometimes. That's why you get lunch. They mean seven. The seven. Okay. We're in with cold water so that you stop the cook process. Got it. Cold water is important. Okay. So you want to grab you grab a bunch? Okay. Are you just dropping like this? Are you just dropping like it's hot? You want to get close though. Close. So don't slash back. You did it all elegantly. Yeah. I don't know what to do. I don't know. Okay. So while that's going, we've got a couple more minutes. I figure in the spirit of your tour about adulting what it's like to be where you are, who you are in this skin and this stage in your life. We see where we are in our stages of our lives in these situations. Okay. With family, adulting is, ooh, okay. With family, I'm heavy on this. Adulting is getting a hotel when you go visit. Don't say it to Mama Sam. No. Because there's too many expectations. I want to stay in your old room. I don't know. I want to stay in my old room. It's my old room for a reason. But you and your partner are going to be staying in the house? No. No. That's how they go. So I happen to think this is a goal. We want to go. You know somebody, it's an auntie, but there's not blood aunties where by their house. And they made me and him separate. And I was like, to go to bed. To go to bed. How old are you? 35 years. Oh, I was gagged. I was geeked. I was like, are you kidding me? That's the point. I'm not married. I'm like, so what? Neither are you. And that's the real thing. With friends, adulting is showing up. Showing up for your friends. And you know, it's hard to pull out a work mode, but I feel like the real sign of an adult is showing up for your friends when they need you the most. And also when they need you, just a face in the crowd. Anything. Yeah. What is it? With friends. Adulting is buying tickets to my show. Don't ask me for no free ticket. You can afford the $45. We went to Beyoncé. Exactly. And you paid. So you can pay the $45.50 to come to my show. Come on. Don't ask me for no cons. Because if you had a show, I would pay for-- I would do it. I want to support you. I want to support your art. So-- You know what? With friends, adulting is supporting-- Financially supporting. Financially supporting your friends. Your art. Your artistic friends. I'm not talking about loan and friends money. I'm talking about that. And what do you do it? You just got to give the money and not expect anything back. She is. You can get the money and not explain it back. But I learned adulting is with friends with borrow money, if you want to sign a contract. With your body, adulting is with your body, accepting her for who she is. Sometimes she feels fit. Sometimes she feels fat. Sometimes she feels conditioned. Sometimes she feels like whatever she's feeling, they just let her be that. How are you feeling today? How is the body feeling today? The body today is feeling legubrious. Okay. I need the Webster. Hey, Chad. Hey, Chad. Legubrious. Legubrious. Legubrious. Legubrious. Legubrious. Is that real? It is a real word. What's it mean? No, I don't know what it mean, but that's how my body feels. What? I don't know. I heard it. Legubrious. I heard it on the show one time. And it felt good. Legubrious. Who I like that? What's that mean? No matter. No matter. What's how she feels today? That's our four minutes. Four minutes already? Yep, that's our four minutes. So now that's just the cook of the pasta. So now we're going to get it into the bolognese. So we're going to take it over here. Oh, so you drained the pasta and added to the sauce, not sauce to pasta? Correct. Wow, I'm learning so much today. Look at that. Drank. I've heard this thing about leaving pasta water. You got a little bit. See that? You got a little pasta water in there. We got a little bit. Got it. Okay. You know, I got this. I got you. I got you. I don't want you to burn yourself. Honey, I am Caribbean. My hands are titanium. You hear me? I know, that's right. I picked a plenty of hot stove. Well, I see a little belly fin there too. People, Chefs love a belly fin. They love a belly fin. A little belly fin thing. You know, I don't even know what it tastes like. It just be in every cuisine. I'm like, why are you making general-style chicken with-- With a belly fin? Because you got two. They have belly fin over there. Yeah, they did. Oh, okay. Okay, here we go. Okay. Wow. Okay, and I think we're going to start with that. Okay. If you break up noodles, Italians get so mad. So mad. Because, you know, I grew up when we made spaghetti. Take them out the box and you crack 'em in half. - Crack 'em in half. - I'ma let that sit for a little bit so that new. who can soak up all of that good sauce. And we're gonna do a couple more of these questions. - Okay, what's your other way to do it? - Do you put it right here? - Hanging, huh? - No, cold. (laughing) Cold! - Cold to the test. (laughing) At work, adulting is setting boundaries. Because I think as a young professional, you're like, "Oh, I'ma do all these shifts. "I'ma do what are they telling me?" And these mother-tuckers will discard you and fire you like yesterday's news. - Why don't you soak up? - They'll get rid of you. - And can't wait, and can't wait to get rid of you. So I'm not gonna be on for a company that will just literally fire me at the drop of a hat. - Adulting on the flip side of that is establishing a place where you wanna grow and you have real growth potential and giving it 100%. - 100%. - Right, 'cause like, with the right place, at the right time, those scenarios can make or break I think a career, especially early on, you know what I mean? But you also gotta know what you, what we talking about. - Yeah. - You know what I mean? If we at McDonald's, you're not trying to be a manager. You know, go ahead, cock in, cock out. - Go on, cock in, cock out. - You know what, doing this? - Also, if we had a Fortune 500 company, and you ain't got no path to management, cock in, cock out. - Get that resume together, stack up the resume. - You know what I'm saying, move on. - But if you see it in your life, to own, operate, and manage. - Your own McDonald's. - Baby, get your work in. - Franchise, franchising. - That's a kid I always wanted to own, a Wendy's. - Because I felt like I could have been- - What? - I could have been a little girl with a little pick tail. You understand? - Hey, that's me. - That's me. - That's me. - Ooh, okay, with money, adulting is- - Ooh. - I'ma say, the thing that led me know I was really, I was actually grown up out of my mama's house. And actually an adult was when I was able to put all my bills on auto pay. - What? (laughing) - All of your bills on auto pay. (laughing) - If you're out whenever the bill wanna come out? - I'm hoping to get there. Hopefully I'll be on auto pay soon. - All your bills on auto pay is- - That is adulting. - That is grown folks. - I was like, it's time to get a boat. (laughing) - The mortgage and the car payment and I was like, yeah, and the phone bill. - And the phone bill? Well, let's see, that's the one I won't do because AT&T will get you. - They do be trying you. - They will try you. - I'll submit a fraud report on AT&T. (laughing) - I'm begging you, it will get you. I'm like, okay, so it's been the same for the past three months. Why all of a sudden are we at 400 something? What happened? - Fraud. Fraud. (laughing) - And American Express be like, we gonna go get 'em. I'll be like, run me my money back. - The boat's international, I was in New Jersey, I ain't go that far. - Fraud. - How'd that come up? - Costa Rica. - I went in the van, Costa Rica. - I had to write them a letter. And telling my bad, I wasn't Costa Rica. - No. - Yeah, 'cause I have forgot. - I was recently went to Costa Rica and I hated it. - I hated it because- - Pura Vida. - No, the island was beautiful. - Pura Vida. - And my friends are like, oh, we wanna go to- - You're no seco no sec. - We wanna go to Uvita. - Uvita is in the South of Costa Rica, right? - Yeah, yeah. - And they wanted to stay in an Airbnb. Now this was a half and half out Airbnb, which I was already- I'm not a half-algar, I don't want to do anything outside. - I'm not sleep. - They had monkeys that were all over the thing getting- 'cause the kitchen was outside, getting pots, banging pots, whatever, whatever, whatever. The whole thing Airbnb said, we think, like, after we left, sends an email from Airbnb that there was a dispute with our stay. - 'Cause she was like, fraud. - We're chicken. (laughing) - The monkeys apparently stole, like, a utensil and something outside and she was trying to pin us for forks, knives, and utensil that we're missing. - Feels like a racial slur. (laughing) - And I was like, you're charging us for your monkey stealing utensils? I was like, this is a podcast. Can you do this every stay? And you get a little $20 here, a little $30. (laughing) - I was like, $40,000 in your utensils. - So I was like, I was so close to rickus on my shit list 'cause of that. - Okay, so my first time in Costa Rica was my first international trip and we went to Costa Rica at a place called Manuel Antonio. This beach, where it has like a, it looks like there's like a, a mammoth in the water off the beach and it's its own little island. But this particular coast, they are known for lizards and monkeys. - Okay. - Some monkeys everywhere. Monkeys stole a bag, a book bag full of phones and chargers and alcohol. When we got back to the room, this is after the monkey stole the bag. We're on the bed and you hear, (snoring) (snoring) - Absolutely. - I was like, what is that? Sounds like a steamer on like an iron or something like that, right? I'm like, what is that sound? And friend jumps up, looks like you can see this little tail flick against his leg and he starts screaming. I start screaming. Well, other friends start screaming. The woman who they refer to as Latina, who was the owner of the establishment comes in on the phone. We're like, I think it's a dragon on the ears, a dragon. I'm on the bed, you know, I'm freaking out. As far as I'm concerned, I'm about to die. And she's on the phone, cussing somebody on in Spanish. And she's just, hey, hey, hey. Okay, and gets the dragon, looks like a Komodo dragon. Gives the thing out from underneath the bed, out the door, lost my mind. I'm gonna fly home the next day. - Okay, how big are we talking though? - The body of it was about this big, but then the tail of it was about that big. - The little castle where? - I did, two or three times. - Two or three times. It was ridiculous. - Do you know the best thing I can say in Spanish? That's what they do on the whole. - Or AT&T? - Yeah. I'd be like, That's my favorite one. That's my favorite one. Okay, so I think we are ready to eat. - Yeah, that's really ready. - Okay, you ready to hit your bowl? - Thank you. - Let's do this. I'm done for ready. - Who cares about your poops? Ollie does. That's why Ollie signs back the gut health lineup, help support your family's regularity. From daily probiotics to fiber gummies, your kittles will love. Find it all on Ollie.com. That's o-l-l-y.com. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. 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I'm like, so maybe he is intentionally trying to play this like really bad character, so we'll think he's a traitor. - Right. - I thought it was like some 40 chess. - Like, you know what? I can't give him that much credit. He ain't that smart. He's not that smart. I was like, I think he's just a buffoon. - Did you see the situation with Colton? - Yes. - That whole situation shocked me. - What was your take on that? 'Cause I mean, at that point, you were already-- - Yeah, I was gone. - Murdered. - And I had been trying to get him out since day two in the cast. I was like, he got to go. But like, watch it, I think something about traitors. And I had to say, it is the most fun I've ever had filming anything. - Is that right? - It is the most fun I've ever had filming. - Talk about how grueling the shoot schedule is. And like, you wake up in the morning, it's cold. You gotta go, you gotta drive two hours. And it's like, it's intense. - It's better than waking up at seven o'clock in the morning and getting makeup on for RuPaul's Drag Race. And 'cause Drag Race is like about 18 hour shoot days. Drag Race is long too. - Wow. - And this is a much ladder to the Drag Race. I'm not sweating, crying, throwing up. 'Cause I'm gonna go home tomorrow, you know what I mean? I'm just like, because traitors, it's all the look of the draw. All you can do is control. Like, you really just, you have no options. Like, it just is what it is. - Right. - The only people who have control of power in the game are the traitors. If you're a fateful, you're just throwing shooting darts the entire time. - Geez. - Mm-hmm. - Mm. Ain't that good? - Aye. - Ain't that good. - Saturday, bobo bobo. - Oh! He's coming at a Hyundai. - And y'all got me no white shirt in spaghetti. - Yeah, he was your man. You said you wanted pasta. - So what I'm saying, I love traitors so much because the production, like crew, they care so much about the integrity of that game. - Yeah. - So they wanted to be the most authentic expensive everyone. - And most exciting for the audience. - Yes. - And then with Michael, everyone in this world has implicit biases. We are born, we live, we exist in this world, we grow up in this world. These things exist in all of us. And I think that he just literally just let his mouth go too far in it. And it's okay to acknowledge it, but you have to also, because he tried to walk it back and be like, well, that's not what I meant. [BLANK_AUDIO] - I'm like, but that's what you said, baby. - It's true, true, true, true. - And it's also like what you were like fired up. - Exactly. - And like maybe a little bit more honest than you thought she was gonna be. - And you know, I think they did us some favors. It could have been worse as what I'm gonna say. - Tell me what it was like when you found out you were gonna do the show and you were you like a fan of it, you wanted to do, you were always excited about it. Did Bob give you any sort of advice about like what to expect or like what not to expect? - No. (laughs) - Wait, nothing. No. (laughs) - Bob tried to give me advice. I'm like, I don't want advice. - You're a loser, you lost. - You lost. - And no shade, I lost two, but I'm like, I don't want to play like you. - When Bob got up there and said, I swear to God, I am not a traitor. Ha, gag zone, joke zone, you I don't believe in God. - I was like, no! (laughs) - This is a great, it's a great, it's a great. - I'm gonna fan a traitor since season one, episode one. - Yeah. - I was OG traitors when they were mixing civilians and celebrities together. - Which I still think they should get back to. - I think so too. I like that because it's just different game. Because you know, with the celebrities, yeah, they want it, but the civilians, they need this money. - Yeah, yeah. - And you feel the energy in it. - I've watched all the seasons. I watched all the UK seasons, Australia. I'm not watching New Zealand. New Zealand, they're not in a castle. They're some of my Airbnb. - Wait, what? - Yeah, it's like a house. (laughs) - That's somebody's house. I'm not watching it. - You know, it's a fantasy in the house. - Fantasy in the house. So I don't watch that one. But everything else went into the castle. I really like that. And I love strategy games. I love Survivor, I love Big Brother. I when we have game after the house, playing Secret Hitler and Mafia all these games. - I love that shit. - Okay, so then I'm glad to know that because you have to come back when we do Game Night here. - Oh, hello. - If you're down, I'm definitely here. - I'm serious though. Don't, don't fight before me because you get serious. - No, it gets serious. There are a couple of friends I've not talked to since Game Night, 'cause there was some shit. You think you get up and then you see the cars tucked in the couch. You're like, what the fuck is this? Oh no! - Yeah, I felt like red on heartbeats. You know what I mean? I was like, my office hours are from nine to five. - It was crazy. - Did that movie win any awards? - It should have won all of 'em. - It should have. - Matter of fact, put it back in the theater so we can read watching and they can be re-eligible. - It's so good. - It's so good. - When they were sitting outside of the car, oh, so y'all singers, what's your sing some voice? - Nice, like, this song really. ♪ The rain's gone with the fog ♪ - Trauma! Trauma! My God! But the best performances. - Yeah, I think there should be something in the Oscars and the globes and sag whatever, Wendy A. Take like movies that didn't get there. Like, what's love got to do with it? We know. Go back in time, give it something. Give it, it needs some new. - What you're gonna do with that gun, Ike? - It's still with me. - I was seeing the story of the one who played her best friend, Jackie. - Yes. - And she was saying, to sing with the slap, you know that was a real slap? That's why she reacted that way 'cause they had them take after take. - Would you do it with the cake? - With the cake. Eat the cake, any man. They were supposed to be put to the Jackie's face, and they had rehearsed several times. And in that one, 'cause you know when someone slaps you, you are to go away. - Yeah. - But on that one, she just ran a brain fart. She went into it, or whatever it was. And he really slapped and flipped her ass over that thing. - Which is why she said, "You ain't got to do anything more than I am!" (laughing) - And in me, you a dead woman if you stay. - Yes. - Woo! - 'Cause you tell her, I just drop that Houston. - You wasn't there. - Every Christmas. How the Oscar goes to. (laughing) - Scott! - I'll take it. Listen, I'll tell you right now. It's set up on that stage, right now. And be like, this is for Angela Banks. (laughing) - And she did the bag. - You have become a, I think I really, a favorite in the industry. You are stounded in so many ways. You have this way of like captivating an audience. - Do you? - Where did this come from? How would you describe your childhood? Were you always like the performer, were you always out front, out center, or what? - So you know, no one in my family is artistic at all. There's no one in my family sings, dances, nothing. - And nobody in your family is an entertainer, talented, artistically. - No. - So how did you get involved in art? - What happened was, I was in middle school. - Yeah, what happened, what? - And you know, in middle school, the middle school music teacher Miss Little, I love Miss Little. Miss Little was my first like influential teacher. And then they were trying to get boys into the chorus. But all the boys, like, not as gay. I'm gonna do an accord, that's so gay. And you know, and I want to let us know joke, and our exaggeration be third, worse middle school in New York state. Like so bad. In middle school, this is six, seven, eight graders. They would have cop cars outside the street, wait, to wrinkle, to wrangle us off of the school premises after school, like they would be, I got jumped like seven times in middle school. - What? - I was, oh yeah, it was a bad, bad middle school. So all, none of the boys wanted to be in it. And then so I was one of three boys, who was in the school chorus. Didn't like a sing, I just, I was like, sure, why not? - Didn't know you could sing. - Didn't like a sing. - And now you sing opera. - Because I've had a low voice since sixth grade. I had facial hair, I look like a grown-ass man, it's his great walk around. - They're talking like this, it's great. - Yeah, they're like, is this someone's daddy who is? You're the parent, right? I'm like, no, I'm just me. So I had a low voice. I was a low singing voice in sixth, seventh, eighth grade. And she was like, you know what? I think you should audition for one of the performing arts schools for high school. I was like, okay, so I did the whole thing. I got into professional performing arts school, has great alumni like Alicia Keys. - Right, Britney Spears. - Right, Sarah Highland. - Hello. - Taylor Momson. A lot of us went there, right? And yeah, and I had another great high school teacher Miss Wright, who was really dope about like teaching us class. She's like, I know y'all like the R&B and the hip-hop and stuff, but she's like, I wanna teach you something that I think that no one else will tell you about. And you may like it, you may not. And she was really vocal in teaching us about opera and Leantine Price. And just the norm and having it teaching us arts, education, and just in the center around the music that we already listened to. - F-A-C-E. - Yes. - Every good boy does fine. - Okay, how are you, are you a musician? - Yeah. - What you play? - Shoot. - You know, is it, come on. - See, see, that's it. That's all I got. - Shoot. - Yeah, that's it. It took care of you night. Come on. (laughing) - So because of that, I fell in love with opera. And then I went to a, to Westminster choir college from music ed degree. I got my degree music ed, I taught for a year and a half. And I was like, I ain't waking up at 6 o'clock and wanting to teach these better. - Bad ass kid. - So then then I started working with Portland Opera. I sang with Portland Opera for a couple of years. - Watching you sing opera. I was like, I mean, I knew that you were funny. I knew that you were talented. And I knew that you were gonna be someone who would find ways to stay in this business. - Yeah. - Do you know what I mean? But when I saw you singing opera, I think I messaged you on Instagram and I was like, I had no idea. - A lot of people did it. And the reason why, because I felt for so long, I was like, no one wants to hear no damn drag queen singing bass. You like that is the juxtaposition I thought of. It was so ugly. I thought no one to hear that. And then I was like, you know what? This is my last time going on this God forsaken show. (laughing) I said, so for this talent show, I'm gonna sing opera. I'm gonna get up in my beautiful gown and my sickening hair and my corset and let RuPaul Andre Charles in his ball head. - Damn it. - And I walked up on that stage and I started and I opened my mouth to sing. And at the end. - Which also difficult to do in a corset. - In a corset. - For as low as you got to get. - Hello, you see, you know about the diaphragm. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - From Swimsys Act 2. - Absolutely. - Get the diaphragm, la, la, la. So then, I'm singing and at the end, RuPaul took the pointer finger on his left hand and went to the corners of his eye to like wipe away a tear. Now, I don't know if that shit was for me or for the cameras. - Right. - But it felt so validated into me. I was like, okay, like this is the stuff, Monet. - There's this place for me here. - There's a place for me here. And then because I did it on there, I've been blessed with the opportunity to sing with a lot of symphonies and orchestras. And I did some with Minnesota opera and all these. - Wow. - It's been, it's been, it's, if I did not do that and did some dry queen doing a singing a dance song about a catchphrase, they said a couple seasons ago. - Yeah. - That would just be one of the middle kind of girl, but she's not a run of the middle kind of queen, honey. She's hard. - That's hard. - What? - You know what I'm saying? - I am that good. - I think I'm all right. Come on, Winkin' and sit down. - I think about the influence, how you see one thing at least or another thing at least or another thing. And I know that the album Cowboy Carter was cut. No, this wasn't Cowboy Carter, that was Renaissance. - Oh, no, no, no, no, it was Cowboy Carter. - Cowboy Carter. - And daughters. - She did. - Tato Miobe. - And every classical musician knows that Cowboy Miobe, it is from that yellow, 24 Italian art song book that they give to you in high school in a freshman year. And you have to learn them songs and start singing opera, so. - Let me say, let me be honest with you. - Every single opera singing, - Faggot in the world. - That's the way to sing it. - Oh my God, girl. You see, if you're honest with me, it's Cowboy Miobe. That's great. - Cowboy Miobe. - You know, I love it. - How does it go in here? (coughing) - Cowboy. ♪ Cowboy Miobe ♪ ♪ Crazy, Miobe ♪ ♪ Senzani ♪ - That's what I got. - Cowboy. - And you have me, it's Cowboy Miobe. (laughing) - I will speak for myself. I think I have counted us out of some of those performance spaces. - Talk about that. - And I have a cousin who actually sings opera. She's at the knit right now singing "Porky and Bess." - Yes. - And she reintroduced me to the art, right? - Uh huh. - This is a totally different way of singing. - Yeah. - You're singing from a totally different place in opera, in order to sustain those notes, that sounds, that pitch. - To cut through an orchestra, especially at the Met. For you with your, because people don't realize, the voice is such a beautiful thing. To produce the phony, to talk, to anything, it's just these two muscles right here that I want to say. of a dime, right? And it is rubbed together. And so from Ariana to to Cynthia Rivo to Lashon Pace, they all have these same two little chords, two little band draws, the little band draws that just vibrate and just depending on the thickness of them, how long they are, they are able to produce and make these beautiful sounds. And again, with things like, you know, all the echoing of the of your Turkey and Apple got it, stuff like that, whatever. But it's just these two little muscles that are responsible for producing some of the most beautiful sounds the world has ever seen. That's why I think music is such an electric thing. And we can all like feel music. So you're saying that like, I got the same stuff Beyonce got. I have the same stuff in print. Okay, that's all I wanted to know. I also want to know, people have, I feel like in so many, for so many years said two different things, Luther Vandros, Luther Vandros. Which one is it? Come on. It's Ross. It's Ross. We don't say vote water. We say boss water. I said, right. It's a little Vandros. It's gotta be. It is. That, that, that, that is a little Vandros. It's like seeing Sierra. It's Sierra. Can I tell you the other day I was at, because I DJ as well. Another thing I'm doing. I know one of the kids at the club said, can you keep playing throwback? I was like, well, I don't think it like, like, earth wouldn't have fired. Throwback, right? Like, Sierra one, two step. That's a throwback. And I said, did you unplug your shit and walked out, you unplugged your shit? I'd have been like, well, you're talking to me. I don't deserve me. One, two step. Is it a throwback? Is it a, I, but I think it is though. You have a brandy shirt. So you're on this tour right now. High heels, bad knees. Is it, is it everything that I envision? Is everything that you envision? You know, the, the, the true of the matter is sometimes you wake up in the middle of the night, you go to the bathroom to take a pee, which I've been sitting down to pee lately. Game changer. The women have been holding out on us the whole time. The whole time. It's just so easy. It takes all the stress out of your nation. You get it right every time. Yeah. Because you know, when you have a pee, it's going to go pee. You basically, because you sleep in bus and your ass, you got one eye open. You don't know what'd be going on. You just, it's a gamble. You just, you just, it's just going by echolocation. You think sound like they're going to, you really only know by the morning whether it get apart. I'm sorry. I was sleep. But that's like me. I look in the mirror when I was like, bitch, I can't believe I'm 35 years old. Like I just don't know when that happened. Yeah. Like I just don't, they just pops up on you. And I'm not mad at it. I'm happy to be aging because all of you don't get the chance to. So the tour is really about talking about my experiences aging and how many parts of my body don't function like they used to, but that's okay, because I love that about me. I love that about what part. I love it. You know, uh-oh, Scott, my eyes were the first thing to go the other day. I have to go into the settings on my phone. You didn't put the big setting on the text. I have to go into display and go one size bigger from the default factory settings. And I don't know. I just can't believe like when this happened, happened to me. The person in and see 47 Jake and read my text message is going to have to blow them up so big to see anything now. Well, here's going to tell you at least they got a size big enough for you to see. This is true. You know what a bifocal. Yeah. That's just a natural next step. Oh, no, that's your next step. I had 2020 vision my whole life up until two years ago. You can't say that no more. I can't say it. No, I think right now I'm like 16 20. I don't even know what I would be. I stopped going to the eye doctor because I stopped wanting to know. I just walk around blind. This is spaghetti, right? I don't know what they are. It's going to be a peanut butter sandwich. Well, I want to eat this. If I eat like I want to do, I'm going to embarrass myself. You're an area eat because I got another question. I'm looking at this ring on your finger. Oh, I'm going to ring. Okay. So you just got engaged. I did. How did that proposal go? Were you excited? Were you nervous? Did it? Did you have any say on the ring? Like, what is that? That go. So this man, we've been together. So I originally say, you know, I'm not saying this man. I'm not trying to be engaged, but until like five years in. Okay. He's in there for four years and I was like, yeah, I was a little taken back, but I was like, you know what? When it's right, it's right. When it's cool, it's cool. And we had I had said like a type of rings out with the interest in like a year or two. Are they just in case? I'm like, do with this information, what you will. I don't know if we'll ever get here, but this is what I like. Just what I like. That's what I like. Because if I open, you open up that box and it's something that is not pleasing to the eye, the answer was no off rip. You have to come back and try again. Return to sender. Just in case you was wondering. I'm like, people who say yes or other ring, I'm like, who hurt you? I'm like, you know what this thing gets to that? You're not except prums. You get you. You accept the life. What do you want? I know that's right. No. And it starts now. And it starts now. So, um, how he had did it was on our first day, we went to Hotdog Sundays and said it one of our first dates. And then so he basically recruited our first date. We went to sorry, we went to Van Ruin ice cream first. Okay. And for because, you know, ice cream on the first day, low stakes, you're committing to max 20 minutes and you can tell a lot about the first day. Exactly. What they order, how they eat the ice cream, right? So I was like, so it was a perfect first day. And people who go out for dinner, I'm like, so you're locking yourself into an hour and a half at least at least, at roughly $50 at least for yourself. Yeah. I'm like that ice cream. That's 20 minutes, $4. And then that's a wrap on that, right? Right. So we went to Van Ruin ice cream. And when we walked in, the person, uh, the woman behind the counter, he went there earlier and she was playing, um, my song, love like this. And I was like, well, I was like, how you got this song? And I was like, I was like, oh, that's so cute. What a cute little first day. Oh, thank you, baby. And then afterwards, because hot dog sundays happens at about 5 p.m. That's what it starts on that. This is about two o'clock. And he's like, let's go to hot dog. And I'm like, I'm going to hot dog sundays. It's two o'clock. No one's there. It's close. Right. He's like, let's just go. I'm like, I mean, I'm like, that's stupid. I'm like, why are we? That's dumb. I'll like, I'd rather do anything. We're wasting our time. He's like, can you just show them like, no, I rather go, but he's like, let's just go to hot dog. I'm like, oh, my God. It's just a stupid idea. It's so good. I'm going to do hot dog sundays when it's closed. What a dumb idea. So we get there and Selena Sitties, which is a friend of ours directly to the cities. We get down there and she's a door girl. I'm like, what're you doing here? Right. You on RuPaul's Drag Race now. You don't have to do this local girl shit. What the hell are you doing here? This bar girl. Did you be across the globe? Oh, my God. She's like, I'm picking up an extra shift. I'm like, at hot dogs sundays. Right. I'm like, okay. You're still oblivious. At that point, I saw her. I was like, something is a foot. And it's a size 13 foot. Okay. So then we go into hot dogs. And he's like, I'll be right back. I'm going to the bathroom. And I'm talking to Selena and she's like, can you help me something inside? I'm like, okay, something's definitely going on. And then we walk in and then we open the curtain for the bar. And he has this beautiful sunflower installation because he brought me sunflower on our, on our, on our first date, but it's beautiful sunflower installations. And then he walks out on stage. And he's singing an acoustic cover of my song, Love Like This. And he changed all the words to like, your relationship and then the second verse, he's like, calls me on stage and he proposes. It was a very sweet. It was a very sweet engagement. But it had to be a good engagement because he would, he had, he had proposed to someone before. And I heard how elaborate the engagement was and how it was the belt. And I thought, you got to come at least. You got to raise the sex, man. So he did. And it was a very beautiful proposal. Oh my gosh. I did stop for a second because when he first opened, I said, oh, let me look at the rig. Oh my God. It was good. It was good. Yeah. I heard that there was a, uh, maybe a switch up that happened with it. Oh, I heard it was. You know, we had to maybe spit something out real quick. You know, we'll keep that in the family. And maybe we do something else. So my God. It does sound so great. That's not like such a bitch. Okay. So it was this one. But in the middle of it, he had a big square. Like, I just want to pop a set. I want tiny diamonds set all the way around. Just one continuous, right? But he had, he had cut in the middle of it and it was like a big square diamond in the middle of it. Beautiful. And this sounds so, so my partners mom had passed the way a few years ago. And it was the ring from her and get from her wedding ring. Okay. But not her ashes. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you take that. You take that. Make it. Make it. I mean, no, it was a ring from her thing. I'm like, okay, so I love that. But I think we can put that in something else that I will wear, but not in my engagement ring. Okay. So we took it out. We've fully said it. And now we're putting it in another piece of jewelry. Yeah, that's called a toofer. That's who for exactly a two piece of jewelry. Thank you mother-in-law. Thank you in my hell. Appreciate your girl. Yeah. But you know, you've got to get it together and so this is the thing when it when it comes to an engagement, I feel like, especially if the answer is yes, and you don't like the ring, or the ring isn't necessarily something you would wear. It's like, yeah, we'll talk about this later. Oh yeah, I didn't say it there. I waited with the thing that we did the thing to think happened. And then we, like, once you see friends, look at that night, we were really in bed. He was like, so look, you like everything I was like? Oh, I love this song. I love this song. I love this so much. And Jess, I love this song. Like, can I like it? Can I like it? Can I like it? Can I like it? Can I like it? Can I like it? Can I like it? When I was showing everyone the picture, I was just turning it around every time. I'm like, look at my ring. [laughter] A great, pretty little game, face card. It's never the clients of my God. - My God. Eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it. - Okay, so this is a little game we're calling face cards. We've got some celebrities, people of notes, entertainers, here in the deck, you get five different questions to give you clues as to who it could be. At the end of your five questions, you gotta name somebody. - Okay. - If you get it right, we reveal one of the tiles on our ultimate face card up here. Yes, first. - Yes, okay, good. If you was gonna go first, I wanna say, well, we got our rock paper scissors there. - You know what? - Oh, damn, I don't mess myself up. That's what, you know what, rock paper scissors shoot. - Oh, hood rules, okay, got it. Rock paper scissors shoot. - Damn. - You got five guesses, five questions. - Is this person dead or alive? - Alive. - Is this person a musician? - They played one. - Oh, so this person is not a question. This is a statement I'm making to myself, a clarified statement. So this person must be an actor, they played one. Interesting, okay, I got two more left. - Is this person a woman? - Nope. (bell dings) - Now, why are you thinking? - No. - No. - Okay. - You got one more question, I think. - No, no, no, no, two. - Two, two, two. - I was a clarifying statement to myself. (laughs) - Is this person young or old? - What is young? (laughs) What is old? (laughs) - I'm gonna say young. - Young. - Okay? - Younger. - I get one more. - What is the last one? - Yeah, is this person one critical of claim? - Yes. - Did it help you? - Did it help? - It was so easy. - Who is it? - You thought you got me. - Job rule. (bell dings) (laughs) - Job rule, is that what you said? - He's a musician. (laughs) - Oh my God. - Will you play it on TV? - Oh my God. Timothy Chalamet. - Timothy Chalamet. - He was Bruce Springsteen. - In fact, Bob Dylan. - Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, yeah. - So since you didn't get it, we're gonna reveal a tile and see if I can just, if I can guess you. - Okay, okay, okay, okay. - Let's just see. - Let's just see. - What up? - Okay, we got a clavicle and a neck. It looks like a necklace. - A very nice necklace, too. - Okay, that's it. - This ain't no Sancti Ali, honey. That is where they go dry. - Hello. That's Italian craftsmanship. - 100%. - Yeah, okay. I don't know who it is, though. - Ooh. - What's funny is this was the name I was gonna guess if the person wasn't an actor, a male. - But anyway. - Is this person male or female or? - Female. - Okay. Do we like this person? - Love this person. - Love this person. - And love. - A performer, a singer, a dancer. (laughing) - Is he gonna give a list of stuff? (laughing) - With the actual name. - Which one? - Yes. (laughing) - So she is a singer, dancer, performer? - Yes. - A mother? - Yes. - You know who this is. - Is she close to a pride of lions? (laughing) - Close to a pride of lions. - She played a lion? - Lupita, y'all go. Oh no, no. - No. - My pizza and y'all go. - No, no, no, this person did not, I was like, okay, I didn't know. This person did not know. - But a performer, a singer, dancer. - Yes. - No lions. - No. - But we love her. - Love. - And a mother. - Mother, love. - Kiki Palmer. - Close. - So close. - Tiana Taylor. - Oh, Tiana Taylor. - Tiana Taylor. - Tiana Taylor. - We love her. - She, dancer, singer, writer, choreographer of everything. - Older. She does everything. - I don't know one thing she can't do. - I cannot describe a better woman. - No. - No, I get the show to shit. - Yes, you know what? I got excited. I was like, oh my God. - I said, oh yes. - Yes. - Basically they go reveal us some tiles. Let's see how many we get. - Let's see. - Okay. - I'm seeing a fresh silk press. - Yeah, yeah, I think. - I have a guess I want to say about don't, I don't want to blow my wand. It isn't with me. - Hi. - That's what I said. - That's what I was like. - Yeah, that's what I was like. - What? - You mean that? (laughing) - Yes, you did. - Is this person a parent? - I think so. - You think so, okay? - Yes, I think she's a parent. - Is this person a musician or an actor? - Singer, songwriter, performer. - Okay, okay, does this person play piano? - She plays many things. I've never seen her play piano. I don't think that she is a pianist. A musician seeing a song or whatever. - I focus on the singer's song or singer's songwriter dancer. - A singer? - Yeah, a songwriter. - And she'd be dancing. - So hot right now. - What is this person's last album? - Well, here's what I'll tell you. - That's a question. - That is a question. I can't tell you because that would give it away. - That's a question. - I would say her last album was a hit. (ding) - A singer's songwriter, last album was a hit. - Last single, last two singles, what? - Last two singles and she has children. - Had these bitches all kind of folded up. - Oh, baby! ♪ So good, big, big, young girl ♪ ♪ It's Kalani ♪ - Yeah. - Again, Kalani. - It's Kalani. - She went on, she went on to Ruffa Glow. She said, by the way, let me set the record for her. My name is not Kielani, it is Kielani. It's Kielani. - Kielani, I didn't know, I had to go for Kalani all the time. - Okay, we're gonna go for Ruffal. - Ruffal yourself! (laughing) - What? - What? - Why did we do this? (laughing) - Alive or dead? - Alive. - What type of performer? - Actress. - Critically acclaimed or hood acclaimed? - None of the above. - Oh. - Shadily acclaimed. - Shadily acclaimed. - Mm-hmm. - TV theater or film? - TV. - You're for it, the TV. - Oh. - Do they like jeans? - Mm-hmm. - Sydney Swing. - It is, Sydney Swing. (laughing) - I've never been less enthusiastic and I'm guessing a person. (laughing) - Wow. - Wow. - You got that though. - How do we go from so well to so not? - You know. - So fast. - Crazy, right? - The double down was wild. - It is still as wild. - And it did not reveal. - Yes, it did. - It's, I, I, I, I, really, okay. - It's not. - It's really, okay. - Is this a singer? I'm sorry, is this a male or female? Female. What is their profession? - Bringer of joy. - Bringer of joy? - Bringer of joy. - Okay, is this person a talk show host? - Nope. - Bringer of joy. - Has done interviews. - Is this person a billionaire? - No. - Is this an older woman? - No. - Young. - Yes. - Okay. - That's two work, that was two. - No. - I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, she was. - And you had to answer, I had to answer, I had to question her. - Okay, and is person a had children? - Yes. - And she's a mislead has children. - Famously. - And also just had a child. - Just had a child. - Reality TV turned. I think always a rapper. - Oh. And I'm gonna go, gonna go by the goodbye. The name y'all see on the magazines. I'm gonna go by her birth. - Come on. - Bel Kalice Almanzar, aka Cardi B. (laughing) - Don't you think that she should have gone out as Bel Kalice. - Bel Kalice is a great name. - It's a great name. - Is a great name. - Okay, I'm nervous about this. - I can't figure out who. - I think, if we get one more, Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile, the message for everyone paying big wireless way too much. Please, for the love of everything goodness world, stop. With Mint, you can get premium wireless for just $15 a month. Of course, if you enjoy overpay no judgments, but that's weird. Okay, one judgment. Anyway, give it a try at MintMobile.com/switch. - Upfront payment of $45 for three month plan equivalent to $15 per month required. Intro rate for three months only. Then full price plan options available. Taxes and fees extra. See full terms at MintMobile.com. - Oh, I cannot believe, girl. How do we not know who this is? Okay, we gotta get this bit. - Oh, you're gonna get this so fast. - What makes you say I'm gonna get this so fast? - Because, oops, I just think you're gonna do it again. - Has she dance with knives? - Is she fresh out of a conservator? Is she somehow America's princess and a hood princess at the very same time? - Yeah, that's my sister. - Miss, Britney Spears. - I'm Britney Spears. - Are you better spell it the right way? - Give me my clue. - Yes. - Oh, oh, who is who? - Okay, 'cause here's the thing. Are y'all playing around? - Here's the thing. If you look at just this right here, this could be one of two people. You know what I think about it. This could be who it is, and it could also be who I'm thinking. - Uh-huh. - No, think about that. It could be who I'm thinking, or it could be who this is. And I'm convinced it's one or the other. It's gotta be. Okay, baby. - All right. - Ha-ha. - You gotta ask a question. - Is this person, uh-oh. - What do you like? - It looks tough. - It's him. (laughing) - Is this person a comedian? - No. - Actor. - Yes. - Man. - Actor, yes. - Actor. - Do this person. Black? Yes. Yes. My God, yes. Would they thrive in a training day? When you say a training day, you mean like film? No. They were not in training day. They are, though, seeking to re-emerge from a torn society. And Sinatra is plan dirty. Okay, I think I got it. Okay. I'm going to give you Vingraimes. I'm going to give you one more guess. Okay, one more clue. Okay, one more clue. Was adopted on TV. Oh, Will Smith. What's his adoptive? Can you remember his dad came back and Uncle Phil had to give him a hug. Oh, my God. Okay, give us. Oh, it's Joni Smollett. Oh, my God. Now see, here's what I was saying. It could either have been Journey or Olivia Dean. Olivia Dean, I saw that too. But it also could have been Alicia Keys. Alicia Keys. I think Alicia Keys or the young lady from jumping the broom. Was made to rob and fit. Yeah. That's all that. That's all the bad. That's all the bad. Also could be Jimmy Chan. I don't know, I don't know. But do you really know that? You don't. Do you? You know what I do now? What? You have been a fantastic guest. Thank you so much, Monet. Oh, my gosh. Okay. So if people still want to catch you out on tour, where can they go? How do they get tickets? They go to MonetXchange.com. And that's M-O-N-E-T, the letter X word change. People always spell whether E like a exchange, like you exchange it a gift, just a letter X in the word change. Come on, baby. That's all. Let's get it. Come on, give me some love. Thank you. This is so fun. Now you might invite me to this game, Mike. Rio, don't say it on camera. You keep guessing VING RANGES, you might be. VING RANGES? I thought VING was going to be VING RANGED!