Entrepreneurship, Ghosts, and Viral Success Stories | Queen of Melrose DSH #1356

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Speaker 2 And he went against God. Yeah.
So basically, with that little girl, it's like when she was possessed, Reagan, and it wasn't,

Speaker 2 it wasn't a demon, it was the devil himself that possessed her. And he really fucked her up, right? Yeah.
And she was shrubber crosses up our cunt and everything.

Speaker 2 I was eight years old when that movie came out.

Speaker 6 All right, guys, Queen of Melrose in the building.

Speaker 2 We finally. Yes.

Speaker 2 Finally, got to meet you after all this time. We've been trying to make it.
We had a little cancellation for the fires.

Speaker 2 Now everything is copacetic. So so glad to meet you.

Speaker 6 Has everything settled down?

Speaker 2 You're very tall. Yeah, 6'6.
And you got good hair. Do I? Good hair don't care.

Speaker 2 Is that a perm or is it natural? Natural. Wow.
Yeah. So what's your ethnicity, if you don't mind? Half Chinese.
Uh-huh. Half Irish.
And half Puerto Rican. I wish.
I love it. That hair is everything.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God. Good hair.
Afros are hard to pull off these days. Yeah.
You know? So I want you to do maybe one of my runway shows. I'm down.
You know? I'd have to check out the vibe. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 I'll let you know ahead of time.

Speaker 6 You won't put me in anything crazy, though, right?

Speaker 2 No, just like maybe the G-string and the cowboy boot.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 No, I have beautiful fashion for men that you will actually wear and love.

Speaker 6 It's a bucket list thing for me.

Speaker 2 It's up to you, though. If you want to, there's like the PG version, and then there's like an R version.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And there's like a, oh my god what is he wearing version that's the kanye version that's the kind of

Speaker 2 yes

Speaker 2 that's the naked yeah oh yeah did that surprise you did you love her though she looks good i'm not gonna lie right but did you see when she's out there and i watched it on youtube So they didn't cut, they didn't bleep it out.

Speaker 2 They actually showed her her butts. And I'm like, is that her pussy? Oh my God, it's been a while since I saw a pussy.
And then she's got a pretty pussy. But

Speaker 2 I didn't realize she was wearing a dress. Did you see how she was trying to pull down her dress?

Speaker 2 It was hilarious. So she's on the red carpet.
Meanwhile, the fucking dress is all mesh, right? Why was she pulling it down like she was shy? Did you notice that? Like, what are you pulling down, girl?

Speaker 2 You're like fucking naked over here.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I thought it was hilarious. Yeah.

Speaker 2 She's trying to pull it down. Like, what are you pulling down, girl? You're nude.
Yeah. Hilarious.

Speaker 6 I'm sure you've seen all sorts of outfits. All of it.
Yeah. Nothing surprises you with that.

Speaker 2 Wax on, wax off.

Speaker 6 Yeah. I don't even know what that means.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Did you see Karate Kid? Yeah. Remember when you were

Speaker 2 a youngster? What are you like, 23? 28. Oh, yeah.
You look if you're itchy. You're still a baby.
Thank you. I would buy you a drink for sure

Speaker 2 and give you a lap dance. But anyway, bangs back to the interview.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 What were we saying?

Speaker 6 Karate Kid.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, wax on. Wax off.
Yes. Yes.

Speaker 2 So how are things things going?

Speaker 6 Good. Good.

Speaker 2 Okay, complain.

Speaker 6 Good. Power here in LA.

Speaker 2 You got your podcast. Podcast.
You got a lot of followers. Good amount.
I'm impressed. Yeah.

Speaker 6 You got the formula, man.

Speaker 2 Congratulations. I got the formula.
That's amazing. Yeah.
You might have figured you'd give me some pointers later. Okay.
You should be getting queen needs.

Speaker 6 A lot of views. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay. I'll teach you.

Speaker 2 So excited.

Speaker 6 Thank you. I'm surprised you're asking me.
You got some big clients, man.

Speaker 2 No, I do have, and I just started like last year. But you know what? And I'm very, very very grateful.
But the whole thing was just to get out there, I wanted software underbelly. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 2 And then

Speaker 2 my friend, like, you need to go on software underbelly. And he's my sponsee in the AA program.
So he goes, he's talking about Cosmo, Cosmo, Cosmo. So the guy, Mark, that does software underbelly.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 He says, well, I want to meet this Cosmo.

Speaker 2 So he called me and he goes, would you like to do my show? And I'm like, yeah.

Speaker 2 And then I I saw why, because my sponsee was saying Cosmo got me sober. I work for Cosmo.
He taught me everything I knew in the schemata business. I've been on Morris 30 years.

Speaker 2 So I didn't even see the interview. So long story short, I go on the interview and I'm talking about my, he goes, well, what happened?

Speaker 2 You know, and usually everybody he interviews on that show is kind of like doom and gloom. There's no recovery.
There's no sobriety. You know what I mean? It's usually just dark.

Speaker 2 So that's how my life was. It was very dark.

Speaker 2 But but then i cut to the solution like a queen like me it's possible to get sober you know i was in the bushes i was downtown la i was smoking crack in the cecil hotel you know what i mean i was doing all those things and um

Speaker 2 basically i came back from uh

Speaker 2 you know i came back from this drug addiction like basically i uh got sober you know and if i could do it you could do it you know what i mean and it wasn't it wasn't easy.

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Speaker 2 You know, I was relapse, relapse, relapse, relapse, relapse. I got sober at 50.
Wow. You know, but I've been in A for 20 years.

Speaker 2 So I got sober at 50.

Speaker 2 My first meeting was like 20 years ago. Okay.

Speaker 2 And like I got, we get two years, then I would get three years sober, but then I would go out and just get worse and worse and worse, never better.

Speaker 2 You know, I don't know if you ever read the book of Alcoholics Anonymous. I haven't.
So

Speaker 2 there's no cure for what we have. There's a solution, you know, but there's no cure.
Like a doctor didn't come up with a pill and say, take this pill, you'll never drink and smoke crack again.

Speaker 2 Nothing exists. But the only thing that really works is a psychologist got together with a doctor and found out one hurt, one addict talking to another addict.
you can get sobriety that way.

Speaker 2 That's the solution. One person helping another person.

Speaker 2 So, and it grew into this big thing. And there's meetings all over AA 24 hours a day.
There's meetings from five in the morning until 12 o'clock midnight.

Speaker 2 And she got sober.

Speaker 2 So when I went on there with the solution,

Speaker 2 you know, with glasses on, looking fabulous, you know, and doing the whole thing, looking like Farah Fawcett, I was wearing some kind of Afghan darling.

Speaker 2 And I got people coming to my store going, you know, I'm sober now, Queen. Thank you so much.
You know, I got three three days. I got four days on my Instagram.
Oh my God, queen, thank you.

Speaker 2 So like if a queen like you could do it, you know, and it's also facing ageism too, you know, because I'm 61 years old. I'm still living my life.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 I'm doing what I want to do and I'm doing it queen and sober. We came up with a set of clean and sober.
Now it's queen and sober. So that's kind of the gist of what happened.

Speaker 2 And then before you know it, I went to the, oh yeah. So I went viral with that because I went on there with the solution.
It wasn't the gloom and doom, you know.

Speaker 2 And then I went to the Madonna concert the next day. Did you guys go see Madonna? What you ever see?

Speaker 6 I was live, no.

Speaker 2 Okay, she's amazing. She is, you know, I remember seeing her years ago, 30 years ago.
I see her now. She's a little crickety girl.
Like she can't, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 She got a little poochie over here, but she's still Madonna. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 So I went to the concert and there was like $80 for parking. Damn.

Speaker 2 And it was not not only that it was like you had to walk a mile holy crap there was no little cars taking you and whatever then we get to the front of the place and they're like it's 40 you got to leave your purse there you can only come in with a clear purse

Speaker 2 so i was like i had the i don't know they had the phones on me my business part and i said

Speaker 2 madonna I said, I need an oxygen tank and a cigarette over here. I just walked a mile, $80 for parking.
Now I need a clear purse.

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Speaker 2 Was the last time you worked in Macy's, you know? And I said,

Speaker 2 I know, I said something real crazy. And

Speaker 2 the next next morning I wake up and everybody's calling me. They're like, on Twitter, you have 20 million views.

Speaker 2 And I'm like, what the fuck was it something I said?

Speaker 2 So anyway, and that's what started the ball rolling. So, of course, I have Eugena, beautiful Eugena over here.
She's built like a Puerto Rican, as you could see from the Bronx, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Available.
But anyway, I just thought, you know what I'm saying, girl? And she's like, dynamo. So she's working on my store.

Speaker 2 And then since COVID and like all these things were happening on melrose the riots did you see on the news when they were burning down melrose yeah they're literally burning down all the stores so they didn't touch my stores but people were getting shot in the daytime geez it was really bad it was very very bad so um

Speaker 2 all my money customers like for burning man do you go to burning man i've never been we gotta go we're gonna go we're gonna go i've heard good they're gonna dress you up yeah burning man just wear a g-string

Speaker 2 It's all nude and fabulous.

Speaker 6 I want to go and do the full experience there. I would probably do a little psychedelics if I I went there.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Well, they have like the psychedelic camp.
They have a sober camp. You got lap dances.
You got whatever you want, gay, straight, other. It's all there.

Speaker 2 Everybody gets along. There's not one fist fight, not one gang shooting.
It's fabulous for like 15 years.

Speaker 2 So my business thrives off Burning Man because I get people like all over the world, like Michelle Rodriguez. I got Puff Daddy.

Speaker 2 I got his whole camp coming in my store shopping for clothes for Burning Man because my clothes are very dramatic and everything is specifically made. I design 70% of it.
Wow.

Speaker 2 But now I invite LA designers to come in that are very talented and I give them a check every two weeks and it helps

Speaker 2 the community.

Speaker 2 So basically,

Speaker 2 but the store was doing really bad. And then the Burning Mans after COVID just got kind of worse and worse and worse.
Like people aren't showing up like they should.

Speaker 2 So Eugene is like, you have to get on camera. She goes, because your personality and plus all this software underbelly and you just went viral in Madonna concert.

Speaker 2 And I'm like, girl, I'm 61 years old, girl. I got a belly now, girl.
I might even have on the DL, a yeast infection. Okay.
Damn. Girl, all those things.
I'm like, I don't want to get on camera.

Speaker 2 I didn't want to get on camera. She goes, you will.
You got to save your store. She goes, and your personality will save.
Right. So anyway, I got on camera and we started doing little blogs every day.

Speaker 2 And then we started doing podcasts. And we started doing, and then before you know it,

Speaker 2 I'm going to cry. What the fuck? I got my period.
Anyway,

Speaker 2 people started coming to the store.

Speaker 2 You know, and I had it for 30 years and I thought I was going to go to Palm Springs and retire. Why am I crying, bitch? Give me some Kleenex.
Give me some Vagicil. Give me something.

Speaker 6 You guys have this special bond together.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God. She's my girl.
You don't understand.

Speaker 2 That's hard to find. You know, and she just like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So anyway,

Speaker 2 Sam started coming to the store. We started doing this thing.
And then the queen and sober. And I'm actually helping people get sober.
It's like a dream of mine because I'm like, really, a drunk.

Speaker 2 and a crackhead. And I came out here with a dream, but I found downtown LA.
And unfortunately, there's an underbelly there that could suck a lot of people up. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 I've seen a lot of people die and get addicted. And they come out here to model and act and pursue their dream.
And it never happens.

Speaker 2 So I kind of get like the second chance in life, you know, so that's why I'm very grateful.

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Speaker 2 Yeah. So anyway.

Speaker 2 So we're like, you know, and, you know, she came through, you know, and she's a designer too. And she's like, let's just get you out there.

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Speaker 2 And then every day with the camera, you know. So I was afraid to get on camera because I was overweight.
I was going to retire in Palm Springs. Cut to now you can't get me off camera.

Speaker 2 Because like, I'm just like, I don't know. I'm just like loving and living my life right now, you know? So cool.
And then the fans are coming in and it's all like a full circle thing.

Speaker 2 And I think my parents have a lot to do with it that aren't here anymore. But I feel like they're there.
Their energy's there. Their spirits there supporting.
They're wanting the best for me.

Speaker 2 I believe in that. Because I grew up really tough in Harlem with,

Speaker 2 you know, I grew up with the mobsters. My father was like mobster, you know, and I grew up, it was really tough, you know, to be gay in Harlem.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 Especially in that lifestyle.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God. You know?

Speaker 2 So we would have Bible study and my father would be like,

Speaker 2 they'd be like, you can't be gay. You can't set yourself.
You know, it's like your homosexuality is off the list, Cosmo. And I'm here.
I have seven year olds.

Speaker 2 I'm like, well, the Bible also says the truth shall set you free. And I'm gay.
And that's it, you know? So anyway my father's like, what am I going to do with this kid? You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 And he didn't want to buy me the Barbie doll, but then he wind up buying me the Barbie doll instead of G.I. Joe.
Long story short, I became a hairdresser.

Speaker 2 I became very successful, him letting me do what I wanted to do. And then he passed away 10 years ago with my mom, you know, because they couldn't live without each other.
Same year.

Speaker 2 He went.

Speaker 2 Two years later, she went. Wow.
Yeah. They were just like together since they were 15.
There was always love in my family. You know, we always ate at five o'clock.

Speaker 2 Basically, yes, there were FBI agents in my house, like Goodfellas.

Speaker 2 They were in the yard. They would follow my father to school when he drove us.
You know, basically, very exciting.

Speaker 2 You know, like some days my mother had main coats and we had best cars and we're eating filet mignon, you know, and then, you know, then there's as a mob guy, there was some weeks where

Speaker 2 she had to go get food stamps. Wow.
We had to hide the TV because in those days, with the G, you know, GR welfare, where you go, welfare, you go get help.

Speaker 2 Like if you, you know, I heard of your low income. Yeah.
But they would come to your house. So if you had a TV, a color TV or a nice car, they would cut your welfare.

Speaker 2 So we had had to hide everything with the gold chains and shit. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 So that's how I grew up. And it was normal.
That's crazy. It was normal.

Speaker 6 Well, the fact your dad made it that long and that lifestyle is impressive. Yeah.
Most of those guys don't make it the full way.

Speaker 2 No, what would happen was after the FBI was chasing him because there was the Lufthansa heist. You see good fellas when they robbed the plane, they got all the money.

Speaker 2 They tried to implicate my father in that. So he was going to court.
And he thought he was going to go away for a very long time.

Speaker 2 And then the judge let my father go, found out that he wasn't implicated on it. Then he came out here.
Did you hear my song, Move to LA? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
So there's a whole thing, Move to LA.

Speaker 2 It's the meme from Software Underbelly. And I tell my story.
So, anyway, my father got a job in the Palm restaurant out here. And he's serving like, so no more mob.
He's like, fuck that.

Speaker 2 So then we all came out here one by one. There's four of us.
I have a twin brother. who's straight.
He's the boy. I'm the girl.

Speaker 2 And then I have an older brother and I have my sister, Sophia, who's gorgeous, you know, and was still very close.

Speaker 2 Long story short, my father had to get away from the mob, moved out here. My uncle worked in the Palm Restaurant.
He was a Jehovah's Witness.

Speaker 2 Because my grandmother, Catholic,

Speaker 2 all these years, Catholic women going to church every Sunday. Italian.
We had to pray before meals and stuff, you know, go to church.

Speaker 2 What happened was, you know how Jehovah's Witnesses come to your door? Yeah, they knocked door to door well they knocked on my grandmother's door

Speaker 2 and i was seven years old and she was a devout catholic

Speaker 6 and she converted no way so now we're jehovah holy crap okay so that actually works on people It worked on her.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it works on people. Yeah, they have an influence.

Speaker 6 And they say that makes them...

Speaker 2 I don't know. And I don't know what state of mind she was in from going from like Jesus Christ Catholic to Jehovah.

Speaker 2 So now she's the matriarch of the family my father's mother so now we all have to try to be jehovah's witnesses so now here i am seven o'clock no uh seven years old no birthday

Speaker 2 no christmas no celebrations

Speaker 2 you can't be gay is the thing you can't touch yourself you can't masturbate And I'm like, we're fucked.

Speaker 2 Like, we're fucked. First growing up in Harlem, this and that.

Speaker 2 So anyway, my mother and father tried to do it for the mother, but it didn't happen. But my uncle Jr., who worked in the Palm Restaurant out here in California, he's still a Jehovah's Witness.

Speaker 2 He's 89 years old living in Vegas and he's still a Jehovah's Witness. But we couldn't do it because we're already like spoiled with, you know, getting gifts and, you know.

Speaker 2 doing cocaine. Like they weren't having it.
Giving up Christmas. Damn.
Yeah, it was torture.

Speaker 2 Child abuse. Yeah.

Speaker 2 As a kid. It was horrible.
So it's in work. So anyway, the Italian side of the family won.
We got our Christmases back, but it was like literally four years of not having a Christmas and a birthday.

Speaker 2 It was fucked up.

Speaker 2 My mother tried to make her happy, but we couldn't. You know, you can't turn a pickle inside into a cucumber if it's a pickle.
Yeah, you mean?

Speaker 2 So anyway, that happened. So my father moved out here.

Speaker 2 When you have time, just go

Speaker 2 Queen of Melrose on Soft White Underbelly. And I tell my whole story on there.
But I'm about to spell my guts to you right now. Are you ready? Yeah.
So you got a cigarette?

Speaker 2 Get comfortable. But anyway, so my father moved down here.
My uncle worked in the Palm. The Palm restaurant was Johnny Carson.
It was Larry Flint. It was Tony Danza.

Speaker 2 It was the guy who made The Exorcist. Really? William Bladdie.

Speaker 2 that he opened the palm wow so it was all celebrities i used to love that movie yeah oh that's my favorite movie yeah

Speaker 2 were you terrorized terrorized yeah i would force myself to watch it yeah yeah yeah yeah and like i could like at night i had to go in bed with my mother like literally as a kid i used to sleep with the light on that scared me

Speaker 2 i don't know why i liked it it was so scary yeah because it was so good and you know what it's like when it deals with the unknown and the supernatural and demons like i believe that shit's true.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. And I learned like growing on all these fucking Bible studies that not only there's a God, but there is a devil.
And it was God's angel and he went against God. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So basically when that little girl, it's like when she was possessed, Reagan, and it wasn't.

Speaker 2 It wasn't a demon. It was the devil himself that possessed her and he really fucked her up, right? Yeah.
And she was shoving crosses up her cunt and everything.

Speaker 2 I was eight years old when that movie came out. So my father and mother said, don't take Cosmos and my aunt to that movie.

Speaker 2 Joan, it's going to fuck him up, you know, because they knew I was like really, you know, and I was like empath. Like I would absorb everything like a sponge as a kid.

Speaker 2 So anyway, saw the exorcist, didn't sleep for a year. Okay.

Speaker 2 I think my mother beat my aunt up for taking me. And, but the best movie ever.
Like you could have Freddy Krueger, you could have anything, but that movie is the most horrifying movie I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 I've ever seen. I agree.

Speaker 6 It's one of the scariest I've ever seen too.

Speaker 2 And there was no CGI.

Speaker 2 There was all, it was all real, like they made that all by hand. Like it was all, yeah.
There wasn't no like AI. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Like they really just did.

Speaker 2 You got to see there's a, there's a documentary on the making of that movie. Okay.

Speaker 2 And how fire started. And it was like, all this shit happened.
All this demonic shit happened when they were making the movie.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Holy.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 i believe all that stuff yeah yeah there's a haunted museum in vegas yeah i go to zach bagan's haunted museum oh really yeah there's a yeah it's scary i gotta check it out you're in ever go to the cecil hotel no is that haunted

Speaker 2 oh my god we have to hang out i promise i'll be good

Speaker 2 well maybe a little creepy but it's that haunted

Speaker 2 so there's a secret hotel downtown yeah do you remember when the girl came from canada to go visit canada when was this this is like 10 years ago no i don't remember that so basically, they made one side of the building like all homeless guys that lived there since the war.

Speaker 2 But then they tried to make the new one gentrified and like really cool. But there was only one elevator.

Speaker 2 So all the tourists that come to stay there will go in the elevator like with these homeless people. You know what I mean? They live there for years, right?

Speaker 2 So basically, long story short, this girl came from Canada. And she's in the Cecil Hotel, Asian girl.
She came here to visit LA. And all of a sudden, she's missing.

Speaker 2 So a month goes by, month and a half goes by.

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Speaker 2 All right. So people are in the Ceesa Hotel and they're complaining about the water that it tastes like shit.
It tastes like feces.

Speaker 2 So they did a little investigation. So they had the water tank on top of the Seesaw.
It's very haunted. Would you pass by now? I'm going to tell you the story.

Speaker 2 They have it on Netflix too, Seesaw Hotel.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 there's the water vat of the building on the roof. And it has 700 rooms, that building.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 the janitor went up to the water vat and said, why does the water smell? There are pigeons shitting in the water.

Speaker 2 They found her body in the water that. Whoa.

Speaker 2 Then you'll see her if you watch Netflix. We're going to have a movie night.
You and Eugena. I got to see her at the moment.

Speaker 6 Is that cool?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Oh, whoa.
I would love that. I love the movie.

Speaker 6 Nice little love sock. And creepy.

Speaker 2 Love check.

Speaker 2 Love check.

Speaker 2 Okay. We could just like cuddle a little bit.
I'll behave a little bit. So anyway, they found her in the water that.

Speaker 2 Then they played back the tapes of how is she missing. So literally, she's running from, there's nobody chasing her, but she's running from a spirit.

Speaker 2 And you see her in the elevator and she's like scared, like running from the, but there's nobody there. It's just a fucking evil spirit.
Whoa.

Speaker 2 So this hotel, we found out that Richard Ramirez, the serial killer, lived there. Damn.
The guy, um,

Speaker 2 All these murderers lived there all these years.

Speaker 2 And it was very suicidal, people jumping out the windows years ago so now it's haunted now this girl so they finally closed it down after they found her but my friend was staying in that hotel and she was drinking the water oh yes and i would go in there and party oh my because it's downtown la right so that's where i got my drugs So I would party there, but horrific the Seesaw Hotel.

Speaker 2 And now it's closed, but you could actually, there's a guy across the street that's been doing

Speaker 2 a podcast that lives across the street and you can see shadows at night. It's very, yeah, it's still very haunted.
Holy.

Speaker 2 I'm surprised you don't know about this, but you know, mother's here and school is open, baby. But yeah, horrific, horrific, horrific.
Yeah, it's nuts. So watch that documentary.
I will.

Speaker 6 Have you ever seen a ghost before?

Speaker 2 You know, I do believe, I do believe.

Speaker 2 Do you believe? Yeah. Yeah.
100%. I do.
I remember I grew up in Harlem and I grew up in a brownstone that's built in like the 1600s in New York City.

Speaker 2 And my grandmother lived there. I never forget she paid like $39 rent when I was a kid.
Wow. And it was three floors, brownstone.
It was beautiful. It was all marble.

Speaker 2 Those buildings are gorgeous in New York. Now they sold for millions of millions.

Speaker 2 But I remember there was a ghost. My grandfather would say there's a ghost.
He was an alcoholic, but he lived on the third,

Speaker 2 the third level was his bedroom. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I remember waking up in the middle of the night and literally seeing this ghost. She was a lady, you know?

Speaker 2 And I didn't get creepy feelings from her, but I remember if it was a dream or whatever, but I remember her pulling my aunt's hair when she was sleeping, like really pulling her hair, like angry.

Speaker 2 And then, yeah, I believe it was haunted. I totally believe in ghosts.
I do too.

Speaker 6 Yeah. I think they can enter your dreams too.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And the supernatural. yep like all this demonic

Speaker 6 so sure you've seen some demons in la

Speaker 2 well you know at los angeles right yeah lost angels

Speaker 6 wow i never thought of it all

Speaker 2 and downtown la

Speaker 2 you know i would hang out with these people and they would be like look there's a shapeshifter over there this guy's got six fingers you know and you're all high and you're like you don't know what's live or what's okay you know what i mean you don't know what's really happening but yes it's very i see demonic I see it now on the streets when people are like contorted and they're doing drugs.

Speaker 2 It's not only your drugs.

Speaker 2 I think that drug addiction is a

Speaker 2 demonic

Speaker 2 assignment.

Speaker 6 They say you're more vulnerable when you're in that state of mind. Yeah.
You know, to position.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 As a matter of fact, I have a sponsor, you know,

Speaker 2 her name is Annsley, you know, and she's like Christian and she got me sober. Yeah.
Because she's so empathic. And she's also a life coach.
And she does exorcisms. damn

Speaker 2 so anyway i have a friend that um

Speaker 2 he wouldn't get sober he couldn't get sober like me but he was on crystal meth and crystal is hard to kick it's worse than crack

Speaker 2 because crack is like kind of natural so three days it's out of your system crystal is all chemicals and it's all man-made So that stays in your system for a very long time. That makes sense.

Speaker 2 So the detox is longer.

Speaker 2 And I'm trying to get my friend sober and he's talented and he's older like me. And I'm like, girl, it's time you're going to get a heart attack.
You know what I mean? Like, please get sober.

Speaker 2 So I took him to my spot. I said, you got to meet my sponsor.
So she put him in the chair and she's literally praying over him. And she's, she talks in tongues too, really like effective too.

Speaker 2 She got me sober. So, you know, I needed the fucking exorcism.
So anyway.

Speaker 2 She's getting, he's in the chair. I got to see things to believe them, though.
I really got to see for me to believe. You know what I mean? So she's literally talking in tongues and praying over him.

Speaker 2 But I see her talking to the spirit. She's going,

Speaker 2 she's literally like fist fighting the spirit, like with her eyes closed. And I'm like, oh my God.

Speaker 2 Like, this is really happening in my living room. You know, I believe that she's powerful, you know, and anointed.
And then all of a sudden, I see him.

Speaker 2 And this is me sober, stone cold sober, maybe on a cup of coffee at a cigarette. And I'm looking at him and he turns, literally turns black.
I literally see the demon like leave his body.

Speaker 2 I should have filmed it. I was like, I should have fucking filmed it.
And she's fucking fist fighting the demon. Get away, shuckless.
She'll be like talking in tongues or whatever. And the demon left.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I might cry again, but I'm not going to. But he got sober that day.
Holy crap. He got sober.

Speaker 2 And I think he's still sober. Now he's like drinking, but off the crystal meth.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 he's a hairdresser. He's in Miami.
He's thriving. And I believe that day she did that exorcism and it worked.
Wow. You know?

Speaker 2 Because sometimes I'm like, it's all bullshit, you know, in my mind, you know? Yeah. But it's some real shit.

Speaker 6 It makes me wonder because my dad had some issues, you know?

Speaker 6 He was an alcoholic and a drug addict. I would walk in his room someday as he'd be yelling at the wall.

Speaker 6 Makes me wonder if he had a demon in him.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's, it's a gene. I think it's a demonic assignment.
Wow. I really do.
I think you open a porthole when you're that vulnerable because alcoholism is a disease, right? There's no cure for it.

Speaker 2 You know, you go to meetings. It's like getting chemotherapy, but it does run in the family, you know, but it skipped my, it skipped my sister, my little sister, thank God.

Speaker 2 But she has the ism. Oh, it's a good idea.
Because as all we were, we were all drinking and we all did something.

Speaker 2 She didn't do any of that. So she had to experience all of it sober.

Speaker 2 So that's why she has no nails. Oh, shit.
You know what I mean? Because imagine being in a family with all alcoholics. Like, how did you feel like with your dad?

Speaker 6 It was tough. Yeah.
It was tough.

Speaker 2 Did he get sober?

Speaker 6 Kind of. He like transitioned into mushrooms later on and nicotine, if that's sober for some people.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
Well, it's progress.

Speaker 6 right yeah it's not perfection it's better than horse tranquilizers and xanax and stuff and talking to the wall yeah screaming at the wall and i'm walking in that as a kid yeah it was wild

Speaker 6 and um do you think you have the the addict gene i have an addictive personality but i could channel it yeah yeah so it's right now it's manageable right now yeah i'm channeling it in the in the right direction with the podcast and stuff yeah good for you yeah but i've had like a weed phase i've had an alcohol phase but when i was when i was younger yeah like when you party you have have to like say there was some cocaine going around.

Speaker 2 I didn't do cocaine. Oh, you didn't? Good for you.
You saved yourself years of terror.

Speaker 6 I was more a psychedelic

Speaker 2 liker. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 Because I'm an Aquarius, so I like thinking.

Speaker 2 Oh, happy birthday. This is your mom.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 So there's so many Aquarius birthdays around me right now. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah. I love Aquarius.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're amazing people.

Speaker 6 What's your son?

Speaker 2 I'm a Scorpio. Scorpio.
I know a few Scorpios. Yeah.
So pretty hardcore. We get a bad rap.
Do you? Like, we'll take your husband or your wife. Really? But we'll bring her back.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Because we're loyal. We are loyal.
Like, I have friends. The friends I have now, I have for a very long time.
Nice. Like, you know, I may like be cut you with my mouth.

Speaker 2 I'm feeling, I'm like Archie Bunker, no filter.

Speaker 2 But then the next day, I'm like, I'm sorry. You know what I mean? Like, I like, I like to make amends, especially now that you're sober.
You have to make amends.

Speaker 6 It's like, I don't want any enemies.

Speaker 2 It's required. No enemies.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 I don't like living like that, you know. Right, right, right.

Speaker 2 You're like watching your back. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Exactly. Yeah.
Who wants to live like

Speaker 6 looking over your shoulders? Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, what about your mom? Like, you know, I don't want to get nosy, but did your mom like make everything okay? Did she save the day?

Speaker 6 Or, um, well, they got divorced when I was 10. Okay.
So single-parent household. So that was interesting.
Okay. And she tried her best, but raising a kid by herself as a mother, I think that's tough.

Speaker 6 You never get that father figure.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It's really hard to replace that, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. So what did you do, though?

Speaker 6 Like, you know, I've spent a lot of time by myself, man, to be honest. I was pretty lonely.
I was an only child and got addicted to video games. Yeah, it was a lonely childhood, to be honest.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I struggled.

Speaker 2 But look at you now, though. Malam podcast.

Speaker 2 God lives on the corner, baby. You know, it really does.
I think so. I'm so glad because I know this life of I've seen it.
It's in my household. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 And it affected my older brother, who never had a drink in his life, and my younger sister. We really them up, yeah, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 Because they saw what was going on, and at least we could have smoked a joint, I could have had a drink, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 But they had to go through it sober and like see the fights, and me coming home late, and like, you know, robbing my mother's purse, and go, Where's the money?

Speaker 2 I need more, you know, and it's like they went through all that.

Speaker 2 So, uh,

Speaker 2 I tell them, go to Al-Anon because it's for people who grew up with drug addicts and alcoholics and your life. And then

Speaker 2 it teaches you how to deal with it when you get older, you know, or children of, there's a program for everything these days.

Speaker 2 So,

Speaker 2 but they don't want to go. They're set in their ways, you know.

Speaker 6 You said Al-Anon?

Speaker 2 It's called Al-Anon. El-Anon.
I haven't heard of it. So if you grew up with like an alcoholic parent.
Yeah. Or there's also child children survivors of alcoholics.

Speaker 2 There's all this out there, you know, just in case shit might get shitty for you. You know what I mean? That's good to know.
There's in LA, there's so many meanings for everything. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like sex, you know.

Speaker 6 Oh, there's a sex one?

Speaker 2 Sex and love anonymous.

Speaker 6 Did you go to that one? I went to that one.

Speaker 6 I was joking when I asked that. Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, I had to go. That was a big one, you know, because sex is before drugs.
Sex is before. You know, like you start masturbating.
Oh, fantasy and all that. So that kind of like.

Speaker 6 So you were, you were addicted to that?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Everything I do, I'm addicted to.
Now it's food. See, I got sober, but it bounces around.
Yeah. So it was sex, it was drugs, it was alcohol, it was pot.

Speaker 2 And then it was food because I grew up with food being so loving.

Speaker 2 Like, let's eat at five o'clock. So what? Everybody's killing themselves.
Let's have a nice meal. So it was when you're Italian.

Speaker 2 any nationality you know it was like love through food yeah you know we just cook and my mother would cook and eat this and pasta have a meatball shut the up you know what i mean

Speaker 2 so but then later on it becomes a problem because now it's like since pandemic i haven't been able to lose the weight because i go to food you know so now i'm on a food program

Speaker 2 ozempic

Speaker 2 no

Speaker 2 i tried ozempic oh you did you didn't like it

Speaker 2 i had to get rushed to the hospital

Speaker 2 you know all those horrors you hear about ozempic

Speaker 2 happened to me oh my gosh So I had to get rushed to the hospital on fucking Ozempic. I thought the bitch was going to be skinty.

Speaker 2 And my doctor's like, get him off of that.

Speaker 2 So I asked him why that happened to me. He goes, well, some people have really bad side effects.

Speaker 2 And I talked to people that have side effects and they're like, yeah, we get the side effects, but mine were really bad.

Speaker 2 So I have to like do it naturally. So I got me a nutritionist.

Speaker 2 And he's like, the only way you're going to lose at Healthy Cosmo is like, you're going to start eating like real food and like,

Speaker 2 you know, don't get, don't, don't buy olive oil and plastic. Like, you have to buy real olive oil, you know? Yeah.
And he's teaching me how to eat healthy.

Speaker 2 But the good thing is that you can eat five times a day, but you can have all the steak you want,

Speaker 2 but you have to eat healthy. So, you know, constantly learning.

Speaker 6 Yeah. I love me some good food.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's really important to me. Yeah.
What's your favorite food?

Speaker 6 Italian's up there. I'll say that, but it's a little too heavy to to eat daily because all the carbs.
You get fat if you eat too much.

Speaker 2 So you're watching. Yeah.

Speaker 2 You seem like you have good genetics.

Speaker 6 Blessed genetics.

Speaker 2 You could probably eat a hamburger. Yeah.

Speaker 6 So my resting metabolic rate, which is how many calories.

Speaker 2 I'm learning. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 Do you know what yours is?

Speaker 2 No, I'm going to go right now. The nutritionist guy just recently happens.

Speaker 2 I met this guy in the program and he goes, I'm going to help you. So you got to test your metabolic weight and get weighed.

Speaker 2 And I haven't weighed myself for a while because I was trying to avoid the issue,

Speaker 2 you know, but then it's like, can't avoid it anymore. So anyway, so yeah, so you know about that stuff.

Speaker 6 So yeah, basically, if I sat down all day and did nothing, I would burn 3,000 calories a day. That's your resting metabolic rate.
Okay. Which is really high.
Right.

Speaker 6 So basically, I have to eat like, because I'm active, I have to eat like 4,000, 5,000 calories a day. So I don't lose weight.
So I have the opposite issue as you. Right, right.

Speaker 6 I struggle to gain weight.

Speaker 2 So you have to, so you eat, what do you eat?

Speaker 6 Like a lot of protein. No, barely any carbs.
Carbs is how you gain weight.

Speaker 2 Right, right. Yeah.
Right, right, right. Okay.

Speaker 6 Because you get bloated.

Speaker 2 Right. Exactly.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 So I'll eat a little carbs, but nothing crazy.

Speaker 2 Okay. Okay.
So I'm learning about all that now. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then he's telling me like the food and drug administration, like he wanted you to stay, they wanted you to stay away from certain foods for so many years.

Speaker 2 But we find out like steak is good for you. You could have steak.
You could actually have real butter.

Speaker 2 Real butter. Yeah.
What?

Speaker 6 Yeah, they taught us growing up butter was bad for you, right? Every year. Yeah, I remember that.
Right.

Speaker 2 That's the food and drug administration. Right.
Because they want everybody in the hospital.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 So anyway, I'm learning that it is good. And that's great.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I'm glad you're doing that. I would never listen to the FDA on food advice.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 6 What's your favorite food, though?

Speaker 2 I like a little bit of everything. You know, I love Puerto Rican food.

Speaker 2 you know from New York yeah uh basically there's a good restaurant in North Hollywood it's called mamfungo and like there's not a lot of puerto ricans out here really it's not a big food i love mexican food yeah but puerto rican food is good did you ever try it i've never had it what is it still love it is it a repos or is that mexican it's not spicy but they have plantanos

Speaker 2 um rice

Speaker 2 um do you eat pork so if it's high quality yeah yeah i heard pork is really bad i heard it's terrible yeah because they don't have sweat glams i only eat the acorn fed one oh okay yeah where do you find that uh rarely It's on certain menus, but yeah, it's hard to find.

Speaker 2 Could you like buy it in the supermarket?

Speaker 6 Probably not the supermarket, but maybe online. Okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Because I love pork.
I think it's called Iberico pork. Oh, really? Does it taste the same as pork? It's better.
Way better. Oh, really? Okay.
You're turning me. You're hooking me up.
I got you.

Speaker 2 You're hooking the queen of her. I got you.
Because she likes her pork sausage.

Speaker 6 I love sausage. Yeah.
Italian sausage. Yeah.
Yeah, that shit.

Speaker 2 That's good. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. I could send you over a plate.
Because literally, like, you can walk out of this building. I'm like literally five minutes away up, Melrose.
So come over.

Speaker 2 I'll bring some food. Sure.

Speaker 6 Do a little intermission. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But I love food, but now I'm learning to eat healthy. So it's never too late, right?

Speaker 6 Never too late.

Speaker 2 But you're a sweetheart. Are you seeing anybody?

Speaker 6 Are you about to get married?

Speaker 2 Congratulations.

Speaker 6 We're eight years in.

Speaker 2 Getting married this year. Wow.

Speaker 2 And where did you guys meet?

Speaker 6 We met in Jersey.

Speaker 2 Grew up in Jersey. Jersey.
Yeah. See, I always tell Eugena, I'm like, if you want to find a man in LA, kind of, they want to hit it and quit it.

Speaker 2 But if you go back to New York, you go to Jersey, places like that, they kind of believe in like marriage. They have more old-fashioned values.
Am I right or wrong?

Speaker 6 I think so. Yeah.
The East Coast. East Coast is about families.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 6 So we got it. So that's funny you said that.
LA just got voted the worst dating city in America.

Speaker 2 Because you know what? It really is. It's like now you see them, now you don't, you know? Yeah.
And then with all those hot trannies on the internet,

Speaker 2 you don't have a chance. Sorry.

Speaker 6 I'm sure you've been offered to start in OnlyFans.

Speaker 2 Well, I have my persona. Her name is Ginger.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 I would go to the tranny club. Yeah.
You know, you ever go to a tranny club in LA?

Speaker 6 No, but my friend manages a bunch of trannies.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 6 They crush it on OnlyFans. Yeah.

Speaker 2 They kill it. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. So I don't know because what do you think the queen of Melrose on OnlyFans?

Speaker 6 You would do six figures a month easy.

Speaker 2 But would I have to be sexual or could I just do like stockings and do fetish?

Speaker 6 You wouldn't make as much if you did that, but you could probably still make a decent amount doing that.

Speaker 2 Really? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 I don't know. You know what I mean? Because it's like, I'm always like private when it comes to my sex life.
Oh, is it? But I can give a hell of a lap dance. Okay.

Speaker 6 You know, just do lap dance, OnlyFans stuff, maybe. Yeah.
I wonder if that was.

Speaker 2 Like, I'm good in fish nets. I have great legs.
You know, maybe do something with food. Yeah.
You know, but I don't think I should just like air my vagina out yet. Yes.

Speaker 2 But thank you for the all right.

Speaker 2 Girl, thanks for the six figures, honey.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Once you go down that route, it's it's tough to yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 But it's nice to know the queen could make six figures. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, a lot of my clients aren't OnlyFans. I bet.
One has five kids. Damn.

Speaker 2 She's hot as fuck. She works out like a fucking fiend and she's on there with her husband.
Okay. You know, but now she's doing girl on girl, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah. So I was like, show me.

Speaker 2 And when I see it, I'm like, whoa, dude. Like, it's like straight up triple X point.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 You know, which I'm not opposed to. But, you know, when you see somebody in a different light and then you see, I'm like, this bitch is

Speaker 2 her pussy's wide open you know what I mean and then another fan came to me the other day he goes you know I'm on only fans and I'm talking to him he's a client whatever he's a fan he goes queen of merrows I love you he goes just look at my only fans

Speaker 2 like shoving things up his asshole and it was like whoa dude like oh shit you know yeah so maybe I would do but like a happy medium yeah you could figure out your middle ground right because I'm not a Jehovah's Witness anymore.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 6 That's a big change.

Speaker 2 Would you do it? No. No.
No.

Speaker 6 No. I know Adam 22 did it with his wife.
Did you see that? No. You let his wife get banged by someone else.

Speaker 2 Oh, really? Yeah. Who's Adam 22?

Speaker 6 He's a podcaster in L.A. Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, to each his own. You know, if it works for you and you guys are making the money you say they're making.

Speaker 2 The lady that came in my store, I don't believe she's making the money she says she's making. You know what I mean? But you can make a lot of money.
You can make a lot.

Speaker 6 Yeah. But whenever someone throws out numbers, you know, it's slightly exaggerated.
Yeah. But I have seen six figures a month for

Speaker 2 people. I believe it.
Yeah. It's not.
And there's a lot of celebrities on there too, right? Yeah. I think Cardi B showing their dicks.
Tyga.

Speaker 6 Tyga showing his dick.

Speaker 2 You got a picture? Nah.

Speaker 6 He's probably packing.

Speaker 2 I'll probably rub one out right here.

Speaker 2 What are you doing? Let's make money off of it. Come on, go viral.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so I would do something literally happy medium. Yeah.
We'll talk, girls. Like something sexy.
We'll talk. We'll do coffee.
We're going to do coffee. Come by the store with your girlfriend.

Speaker 2 We're going to talk. Sounds good.
And you will love the store, by the way. Yeah.

Speaker 6 I'm going to check it out. So you got two stores in L.A.
You got a store?

Speaker 2 I had three stores. I had Shoe Whore.
It was a shoe store that I opened up. And the Instagram said, we fuck for shoes.

Speaker 2 And it's called Shoe Whore.

Speaker 2 And it just never,

Speaker 2 but i didn't have the time for it it was to three stores is a lot yeah you know what i mean two stores are like monsters you know what i mean one is glam squad the original store very very busy it's the rock and roll store it's very fucking cool leather jackets and stuff like that that you would love yeah

Speaker 2 and then the other store is more like burning man like opulent more expensive you know so handling those two stores is a lot and trying to keep them open after covet you know but um Area 15, they're my clients.

Speaker 2 So they own like half of New York. Yeah, I was just there last week.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 So you want to say Area 15? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the owners are great and they go to Burning Man every year.

Speaker 2 So I dress them every year, but I didn't know who they were. I didn't know if they were Area 15.
I didn't know if they worked at McDonald's. I don't know.
But I just give it away all.

Speaker 2 So I would dress them all.

Speaker 2 And basically, I find out years later that they own Area 15. They call me up and they want the Queen of Morrows involved.
So what I did was I make a whole clothing line for Burning Man, right?

Speaker 2 So I designed some stuff, this, that, beautiful, beautiful stuff.

Speaker 2 So they bought the whole entire line. Rani was no object.

Speaker 2 And so now they're selling my stuff in Area 15, you know?

Speaker 2 So it was just another opportunity. A lot of it.
The owners are great. They still go to Burning Man every year.
You know, know, they're

Speaker 2 loyal, you know. Yeah.
And they just stick with Burning Man and stuff like that. So it's people like that.
And

Speaker 2 yeah. So you go to next time you go to Area 15, pick up a garment and it should say Cosmo.
Wow. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 The store right when you walk in, right? In the middle. Yeah, yeah, the middle.
Yeah, yeah. I've seen that one.
Yeah. That's awesome.
Yeah. Yeah.
Small world.

Speaker 2 And it's cool in there. Did you go in the rooms, like all the psychedelic rooms?

Speaker 6 I went in everything. That's fast.
So a trip. I go there at least once a year, man.
It's a fun time.

Speaker 2 So if you like that, I think you're going to love Burning Man.

Speaker 6 I want to go to Burning Man. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I've never been to a Burning Man.

Speaker 6 I actually want to go there and like do interviews because I feel like it'd be viral. Oh, yeah.
Talking to people there. Oh, yeah.
I don't know if they don't have service there, though, right?

Speaker 2 I don't think so.

Speaker 2 It's all like no corporate, no wire, no money exchange at all. It's all like they're giving each other, like you trade like weed.

Speaker 6 Oh, it's fartering.

Speaker 2 It's bartering. Oh, that's cool.
That's how it used to be.

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Back in the day. Yes.
That's where it all came from. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So that's that's why at the end they burned that man yeah that big corporate that big wooden man they build they burn it it's like born bore it's like burning the corporate the corporate veil

Speaker 2 and just living like live like we lived years ago you know and it's you know sex drugs and granola yeah you know sex drug and granola but a few years ago the guy ran into the fire did you hear about that yeah what was that So I think he had a little too much sex, drugs, and granola.

Speaker 2 And he wind up running into the fire when they burnt the man.

Speaker 2 He was like, wow. And he ran right into the fucking fire.

Speaker 2 So anyway,

Speaker 2 that's what happened. But it's still going on, but it's kind of getting less and less now.
Like, you know what I mean? It's not what it used to be. You know how some stuff just

Speaker 2 fizzles out. Yeah.
So I would get like customers and be like, wow, like that, that month of Burning Man.

Speaker 2 I would just make so much money. It would keep me open for the whole year.

Speaker 2 But now it's kind of going since COVID. It's not the same.

Speaker 6 Well, that's all music festivals. They're all hurting right now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Since COVID, like nothing's the same.
Right. Tough business.
Unless you're doing what you do, podcasts. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Mark, Starbucks, Underbelly, Blue Eyes.

Speaker 2 The Queen of Melrose is going to blow up. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm excited.

Speaker 6 You got music videos now?

Speaker 2 I got music videos. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the first one was move to LA.

Speaker 2 Then the second one was my Christmas song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Did you hear it? Not yet.
You got to hear it. It's so good.

Speaker 2 Basically,

Speaker 2 and then I just did a song.

Speaker 2 So the producer of Drag the Musical, it's on Broadway. It's called Drag the Musical.
You ever hear of it?

Speaker 6 No.

Speaker 2 Anyway, she DM'd me. She goes, I am obsessed with you.
I'm Italian from New York. You're Italian.
Let's do a song called Italian Men.

Speaker 2 So we just did the video yesterday. It's a really good song.

Speaker 2 so it's on spotify the queen's on spotify right so here it is a year and a half ago i was going to retire and go to palm springs right now i started off trying to sell a dress and now i'm making music it's crazy so anyway we did the video yesterday i had two mob guys in the video like i said and then i in an italian restaurant in north hollywood um called uh north end pizza she got the best pizza like pizza i love pizza north end pizza it's on Magnolia in Burbank.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 6 Good to know.

Speaker 2 So anyway, do the video there. And yeah, I got this song out called Italian Men.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Check it out. We'll link it below because it'll probably be out by the time this airs.

Speaker 2 Yes. And then we have another one we're working on.
It's called Mike Hunt.

Speaker 2 What a name. It's very interesting.

Speaker 6 What a name. How are you going to film that one?

Speaker 2 I'm still, it's still up in the air. If you have any suggestions, let the queen know.
I got to keep it friendly. But I have a rapper from OnlyFans on it.
It's really good.

Speaker 2 And it's called My Cunt is Killing Me.

Speaker 2 Because my mother growing up, like in an Italian household, I'll be like, Ma, where's my keys? She's like, if it was up, my cunt, you know where they were.

Speaker 2 You know, it was like a common word, up my cunt.

Speaker 2 So, and she would be like, My cunt is killing me today. Leave me alone.
So I took that and I said, Can we make a song out of it?

Speaker 2 So the producer of drag goes, let's do it, kind of the Queen of Marrows. So we just did Italian Men, which is you're gonna like it it's a bop

Speaker 2 and then we're next week we're doing my kind i love it so uh that was awesome where can people find you so you can find me on melrose in the boutiques okay so i'm at cosmos glam squad and um there's also cosmo and donato that's the label the clothing label okay those are both on melrose and then our website is queen of melrose and that's where we have our merch and you can buy our t-shirts we have fashion jewelry.

Speaker 2 So go to

Speaker 2 Queen of Melrose. And we also started a Patreon.

Speaker 2 So come check out the Queen.

Speaker 6 Link it all below. Check them out.
Peace.

Speaker 2 Yes.

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