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Thank you for joining me again for another episode of YQG In Bloom.
My name is Tracy Martens and I will be your host.
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Now today is a very special day for me.
We have the lovely Venom here with us today.
Not my first drag queen friend, not my first drag queen show, but you stand out from the
rest.
It's extra.
It's the jaw line.
It sticks out.
You know what, actually you do have a good jaw and cheekbones.
Thank you.
But your makeup, you do a fabulous job.
You do that all yourself, right?
I do, yes.
I do it all myself.
I'm self-taught, which means that I've gone through the stages of horror that most drag
queens have.
If you have not gone through a stage of horror, you're a liar.
Yeah.
Even us girls growing up.
Oh, that's it.
2008.
First time you have makeup, forget it.
The Maybelline Dream Matte mousse.
Bring it back.
It was so easy to apply.
Just one and done.
Now what got you into being a drag queen?
Okay.
So I was always interested in drag ever since I was like 14, I would say.
But I have a drag mother in Nova Scotia.
So I was born and raised in Nova Scotia.
And my drag mother, Stevie Von Snaps, has been doing drag for, I would say like 10 years
maybe.
No, but what is a drag mother?
I've never heard of that before.
Okay.
So a drag mother is a term probably established, I would say in like the forties, maybe the
sixties, I think more the sixties.
I don't have the exact date.
But a drag mother is basically a person who has been doing drag for a while.
Keep this in mind, if you were having drag children, keep this in mind, has been doing
drag for a while and knows what they're doing in some aspects.
So they're trained, they've been around, and then they will usually take in drag children.
So drag mothers originate from when like younger queer youth were exploring their gender identity
and they would usually get kicked out of their homes.
So drag mothers would usually start houses and then those kids would move in and then
they would grow into adults and it would basically be like their own type of family.
So that's where drag mothers kind of started.
It's now trickled down through the years basically with advances in politics and gender equality.
So a lot more people just become drag mothers and they're not starting full houses where
everybody lives together.
But they are mentoring newer drag performers, just kind of showing them the ropes.
Some people are just claiming children off the street, which is nice, but please teach
them something.
Yeah.
You know?
Definitely.
But that's where drag mothers originate from.
So my drag mother basically scooped me up.
She was starting a merch line and wanted somebody to model up for her and instead of modeling
for her, she just put me in drag and was like, this will do.
And then Venom was born.
And she has stayed.
So how old is Venom?
So Venom, my goodness, I would say about two and a half.
Okay.
Two and a half I would say.
Wow.
Yeah.
Time flies.
But you know what?
Your performance is, you look like you've been doing it a heck of a lot longer than
two years.
Yeah.
So I broke my foot actually in 2020 at a Pride celebration and I jumped off a stage and I
had a strap on my heel cut through all of my metatarsals on the top of my foot.
Oh my goodness.
So I wasn't able to like dance or rehearse.
I wasn't actually back to like full capacity for like dancing and moving until I would
say within the last five months.
Oh my goodness.
I just, I start, I can like these shoes that I'm wearing when I first got them, I couldn't
really wear them because like my foot would still not bend in the way I needed it to bend.
So I'm finally just having more fun being able to dance and move again.
I quite literally thought I was never going to be able to, I thought it was over.
I was like, well, she started and she's done.
It was a nice year.
She was short lived.
Hey, I say kudos to you for, well, to all drag queens for wearing those kinds of shoes.
I'd still like to know how in the hell you dance in them.
Well, I will say we've learned from our mistakes.
This is not a dancing shoe.
A dancing shoe is usually secure.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
So take that.
If you're listening, please wear a secure shoe when you're dancing.
But even in heels.
Some girls will wear like a really nice like strappy heel and they'll have like a clear
band that you can't really see, but it'll hold the foot in.
Okay.
That is a really good dancing heel because like your foot's not going anywhere.
But I see a lot of queens, including baby venom, wearing a strapped heel with nothing
else holding it in.
And then your foot's just like, oh, you're just, you're clinging on.
And you got little cliffhangers just praying to God that you don't lose your ankle.
Yeah.
And kinking up.
No, I couldn't do it.
Couldn't do it.
It's all right.
I've tried, but my foot just does not fit into those.
It's just, I feel pain when I see shoes that are that high.
There's something about them.
Like especially now that after I've started transitioning, I just live for a heel.
There's something about.
And you find them comfortable?
I wouldn't say comfortable, but I would say they're like powerful.
Like I just feel more confident.
Maybe it's because I just have a decent set of legs.
Your cats are killer.
Thank you for my mother.
Not my drag mother, my biological mother.
Yeah.
She gave me a couple of things.
Some trauma and these legs.
Thanks mom.
We all have them.
Thanks.
My mom's not watching anyway.
Yeah, I probably smell like someone.
So how did you develop your style and your character?
Is that something that you really have to take a long time figuring out?
That's a very, okay, that's a really good question because it's ever changing for myself.
I'm constantly kind of finding what makes me feel comfortable, confident and happy.
Where when I first started drag, I thought I was like, my name is Venom.
I have to be like kind of spooky and I would really lean into that aspect of my drag.
So I was like, oh, like Alvira and I still love that aspect of my drag.
I saw those pictures you got the other night.
So I still, that's like my roots.
Thank you.
But it's ever changing for myself.
There are queens that know like their textiles, their motifs, like everything right off the
bat and they are stuck with them their whole career.
Which I think is really good for those girls and like kings.
Most performers, if they have that, like it's pretty, they're very successful.
If you have a good brand.
Myself, I try and just use like community outreach, kindness.
And just like positivity with like a little shade.
You got to have some fun.
That's what drag is.
But that's what Venom is right now.
Because I'm just constantly ever changing.
I've started transitioning outside of my life, which I think has really influenced who Venom
is in terms to like who I am.
If that makes sense.
Yeah, it does.
It's almost like a smidge of a...
It's like an amalgamation.
Yeah.
I'm like, you need to keep them separate.
Exactly.
Because Lord knows I'm not looking like this when I go to get groceries.
I would love to look like this when I get groceries.
Okay.
But yeah, realistically, if you're transitioning, you're lucky if you throw eyeliner on and go
to the grocery store.
That part.
Yeah, that's about it.
That's about it.
Yeah.
You're not getting this, honey.
Sorry.
Oh, so you are in the beginning stages of your journey?
I'm in my baby stages.
Wow, that's exciting.
It is.
I had kind of like an inkling, but it was really repressed.
Being like a rural kid from Nova Scotia, I didn't really even have the opportunity or
the option to explore that part of my life.
I didn't even consider it an option for the longest time until I moved here and I started
working with Trans Wellness Ontario and just giving myself the opportunity to reflect and
be like, is this... because a trans woman told me who is a really good mentor to me,
her name is Angelina, and she told me that a really good sign that you owe it to yourself
is if you keep asking yourself the question.
So if you are constantly asking yourself, well, is this for me or may I be trans?
You can ask those questions, but most people who aren't trans don't ask themselves that
question.
No.
You have probably never woken up one morning and said, you know what I need to be today?
A man.
I wish.
I know, we all do.
Although I'll be happy not to have the face here.
Same.
But yeah, that is where it all began and I've just recently started reaching out.
Like medically, I have to go through a couple of things.
I'm not putting a bunch of weight on it and being like, I'm doing this and there's like
a strong timeline because I feel like that'll stress me out.
Yeah, it's going to happen.
It's just going to happen really naturally and I'm just going to basically enjoy my life
and give myself the opportunity to just do and be who I want to be.
That makes sense.
Perfect sense.
Yeah.
Perfect sense.
Now, okay, getting on to a little lighter side.
Do you have a signature song or performance?
Oh my gosh.
So I actually don't have a signature song, but I have a couple staples that I have realized
make their way back up throughout the years.
So I love Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend.
Not by Marilyn though, by Carol Channing.
Yes, that was a good cover.
Oh, it's my favorite.
And when I broke my foot, I haven't done this, but I want to do a reprise because I loved
it so much.
I still wanted to perform when I broke my foot and I had like a little knee scooter.
So I just did Hell on Wheels by Cher.
Oh my goodness.
And I just did it every, I would not do any other song.
I was like, oh, I have to perform twice.
You're getting Hell on Wheels twice.
Yeah.
And I would roll around on my little scooter and there's some days I wake up and I go,
oh, I missed my scooter days.
How do you feel Windsor is with the drag community?
So yeah, ever since like the emergence of RuPaul's Drag Race in like the early 2000s,
it's really, it's really just brought it into the mainstream and made it a lot more like
acceptable.
People are like, well, this is enjoyable.
Like we like to watch this.
So it's really blossomed in Windsor coming from a rural town.
I expected almost like more queer representation because it's, we're so close to Toronto.
You know what I mean?
But it didn't, it didn't transfer in the way that I thought it would because I, I have
been like openly queer in Halifax in Nova Scotia and I felt almost like more comfortable.
Now that was a couple of years ago.
That would be two years ago.
But I almost felt more comfortable there than I have in Windsor sometimes, which I thought
was very, very interesting.
I remember calling like a couple of my friends and being like, I don't know what's in the
air up here, but like I'm on edge.
It's the border city.
It's the border.
And that's what a lot of people have told me that it's, it's that we're a border, a
border city.
But the community here is very vocal and tight knit.
So all of my friends, like, well, I've branched out now, but a lot of my friends when I first
moved here were in the drag community.
They were like, they're, they were very welcoming, open, open arms when I showed up off the little
plane.
That's really good.
Yeah, I was really like, I have a drag family up here called the House of Whimsy.
Okay.
And a house usually consists of like a bunch of performers who usually like kind of have
their, their each other's backs.
Again, that circles back to drag mothers and drag houses.
And they're really tight knit with me.
And that consists of like Miss Mercury, retrograde, Lua, Luxie Charms, Hudson Bay.
Oh, well, a lot of girls start back in the day, they used to say it was your first pet
in your street name.
Okay.
So like, what was your first pet's name?
Poppy.
What was your street that you grew up on?
Lakeside.
Poppy Lakeside.
Oh my goodness.
Like, I love that.
I live for Poppy Lakeside.
So that's how you guys.
So that's how a lot of girls back in the day would kind of get their drag name.
A lot of people now just kind of do so venom for me.
Like I thought, like I'm pretty quippy and I enjoy, I like, I enjoy fun banter.
I love throwing shade, but it's always, it's always just for fun.
So that's why I thought venom, because it's kind of punchy.
It's a little.
You can have a little sass with that name.
Yeah.
And then the Von Snaps comes from the drag family.
So which is cool.
Yeah.
Which is cool.
So it goes back to my drag mother's mother who started in like the early 2000s, maybe
even the nineties.
I can't confirm, but her name was Bridget.
Bridget Von Snaps.
And she adopted my drag mother who then adopted me.
So there's three of us.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
Do others take on the name of their drag mother or is that?
So some do.
Okay.
So like some people when they're entering a house and they take a last name, it's, it's
based on like old pageantry as well.
So there's like full pageantry like queens that have gone for years, like decades.
So like the Davenports, the Dupris, like that's kind of where it stemmed from.
Okay.
But nowadays some people, when they're adopted into a drag house, they don't even take the
last name.
Because they're just saying like, oh, that was my drag mother, like my drag mentor, but
they want their own last name.
I myself like really admired Stevie and Bridget.
So I was more than happy to take the last name.
If that made sense.
No, it does.
It perfect sense.
It's like a child being adopted.
You take your parents last name.
Exactly.
Out of respect.
Exactly.
Now I know I've just known the drag community for a short amount of time and I'm still dipping
my toes into...
Yes, you've just opened the door.
Exactly.
I mean, between you and Coco.
And you're just waiting through the crowd.
And I've been to two of her shows and now I've seen one of your shows.
And what I'm finding is that there's a lot of misconceptions about a drag show and about
drag queens.
Because I had no idea that there are...
Because I don't want to get into this gender identity thing, but even biological women
can be drag queens, which I had no idea.
Oh yes.
Now did I say that right?
Yeah, you did a great job.
You did a great job.
Listen, I'm not here to be the police.
Nevermind, I just said A-cap.
But no, I'm not here to police people.
I am here to just educate.
I feel like a drag queen's job in a community.
And that's what we're rooted in.
Like drag queens were rooted in...
We started Pride, like we threw the first brick.
So women doing drag has existed for a long time.
And it's really segued from the burlesque scene.
And then women can do drag because it's basically...
Drag is usually, it's typically, femininity or performance exaggerated.
So even if you're not being a woman, you can be a drag creature, you can be a drag king.
So it's quite literally just taking a character and exemplifying it and making it marketable,
entertaining and community oriented is what I think it stems from.
I like that idea because I had no idea...
Like we have a local performer, her name is Miss Mercury Retrograde.
It's different for some people, some people don't align with this, but like an AFAB performer,
so it's Assigned Female at Birth, she's an AFAB performer.
And she's really good at all.
She's really good at it.
Her costumes, like her production, her wigs, like she does good stuff.
I know, like I had no idea about drag kings or creatures or...
Yes, oh it spans, it's very extensive.
So there's RuPaul's Drag Race and there's Dragula.
Those are the two main shows and then a couple side shows.
I haven't seen Dragula.
Dragula is basically drag, but like spookified.
So like think Fear Factor meets reality television.
So like these queens are sewing outfits, they're performing, but they're also like doing, like
they're eating bugs and they're like getting buried alive.
And that's where drag creatures will kind of fall in because drag creatures are giving
you something completely different.
Now is their makeup staying perfect the whole time?
A lot of them, a lot of them are really good, I'm telling you.
Okay they kill on you too.
A little bit of cake and spackle, they don't move.
That's true though.
I've watched you guys perform, everybody perform and the makeup is flawless at the end.
Hair might be ruffled.
Hair might be a little ruffled.
And the costumes, your dresses can be a little, whoa, but makeup still spot on perfect.
Notorious for a little outfit.
Okay.
Gibbaco.
Now how do you, how did you learn how to do the makeup?
Is it, was it from your mother or is it just years and years of practice?
There is not, no I have some people on like my dad's side of the family, but not one woman
in my life did makeup.
My grandmother like loved Clinique and like Lancome, you know.
So I remember like being younger and like sneaking into the bathroom and like playing
with her makeup.
I didn't even put it on my face.
I was like, like draw, like I was just playing with it.
Yeah.
But she still has that makeup from when I was like a child.
So and my mother doesn't do makeup at all.
So like when I call my mother and I am in full makeup, she's like, how did you do that?
So I've done it all.
I've taught myself using like YouTube videos and I had to like hide it for a long time.
So I remember one time my grandmother like caught me and found my makeup train and she
like was like, this is not happening and she like threw out my whole makeup train and I
was like, oh, okay.
So that I just like threw everything into like a rucksack over my shoulder and out the
door I went because I was like, and I think that's where a lot of like that's where venom
can stem from too is I, I didn't take a lot of guff as a child.
I didn't like I had a complex situation.
So I was constantly being like, this isn't going to fly.
I was, I was a little delinquent at one point.
So sorry.
We all listen, if you weren't a delinquent, you weren't having fun.
Exactly.
I'd rather.
And you know, I got it all out of the way now.
So I'm in like my mid twenties before we could hit jail.
No prison and I love going to bed before 10.
It's I know.
It is I'm up at six o'clock in the morning and I don't care because I woke it up at six,
but you can get me up at nine.
I don't want to get up at six.
That was the problem with having my son the day I found out I got pregnant up before dawn
and it just never went away.
It's not a bad thing.
It's not about that.
Now I get a lot of stuff done and then get to bed early and then you feel good.
You're like, look at all the stuff I've done before 10 am.
I know.
And then you can sit back and relax and not feel guilt.
I love that.
Now is there any certain misconceptions about a drag queen that we haven't covered yet?
So this is like a newer misconception.
We probably probably know what I'm going to cover.
It's the whole like drag queens are groomers.
Drag queens are like out here to like steal your children and eat them for dinner.
It's ridiculous.
Unfortunately, like there's just a lot of rhetoric that has just been backpacked off
of like political policy and they just use drag as like a wonderful reason to ignore
what's actually going on.
Easier to blame.
It's so much easier to blame because respectfully, like I have no business with children.
I don't even know if I want them.
That's okay.
Yeah.
And you know what?
I can read a book.
I can read you a children's story.
But like that's the extent of it.
Like I am not, I promise you drag queens are not thinking about kids.
No, no.
I promise you.
And there's, and there's rhetoric that like drag queens are like nasty and
You know what?
I, I'm almost wonder if people understood about the drag, the drag mothers, because
then it makes a lot more sense because it's a mentorship.
It's a family and a mentorship, but you can be part of these community groups and be mentoring
and they're
Drag has existed for
Yeah, just taking care of you guys
For like well over a hundred years.
Drag has been documented.
So it's not new.
No.
It's just that it's, it's new that it's so popular in the mainstream, which is great,
but then it also makes it a target, which for most things.
Yeah.
All you can do is just be vocal.
And I like, if you haven't been to a drag show and you have like these thoughts and
feelings and conceptions, go to a drag show.
If you haven't been to a drag show, go to one.
They're fun.
It is.
It's a lot of fun.
They're the people, the audience, they just have a blast.
They just honestly, they have a blast.
It's one of my favorite.
It's my favorite part.
I really enjoyed it.
I see people's like smiles and like
Yeah, get right into it.
People get it.
People love it.
It's so fun for so many people.
It is.
And, and that's what people don't understand is it's not some kinky sex night or anything.
It's not fun.
It's like a, it's like a performance, a show, a play.
It's like the, it's so theater based.
Yes.
Like, and, and it can be like performing, we're performing and it can be like raunchy.
It can get adult themed, but so can movies.
Yeah.
So can movies.
We're exposing children to these shows that like, that is my biggest like thing when people
are like, Oh, well, like you're exposing our children.
We are not exposing.
You are making an active choice to take your child to a show where adult content could
be taking place.
That is not on me.
If it's an all ages show, it is then on me.
If it's advertised that like young people are going to be there, then on me to make
it marketable and safe, like not a overtly like R rated environment.
And that's on all drag queens.
If you know, you're going to be with young people that I expect myself and most performers
to use a little bit of like cadence in that regard.
Yeah.
It's just common sense.
Common sense.
As a, as a human being.
Which we lose year after year, I've noticed.
Well, it's easier to blame others than to blame yourself.
But I want to talk really quickly about pride that our pride fest that's coming up in August.
Now did we already have a pride parade in June?
I don't think we had a parade in June.
No.
Okay.
You just see so much.
It's so hard to tell between online.
I know, I know.
And then I even get confused when I pride month in June.
Yeah, we're having pride.
Back home, they had it in like September.
I broke my foot in September at a pride show.
I think it lines up a lot for like districts and like times of year.
I'm not super like, I'm not on a pride board.
So I don't know the full reasoning on why it would be in August.
This is my first time performing in pride here in Windsor.
Yay.
So I know the parade is going to be in August.
Maybe it's just easier for them to put them to span it out because it would be too jam
packed to do it in June with a million like Toronto Pride.
And then there's like would be starting a pride.
So if it was all in June, maybe some people are going to feel like they're going to miss
events or something.
This way they can hit them all.
This way they can hit them all type vibe.
But yeah, this is my first time performing at pride.
It's going to be at Lansbury Park.
It's my first time going to it.
So I actually couldn't get the day off last year at my job.
So by the time I was off of work, most of the festivities were over.
So this is my first year like going, going and I'm performing.
Oh my goodness.
So and it's with Trinity the Tuck and a couple like really like all star performers from
Toronto.
And then we have like a local queen, my sister Apoxie.
She's in it.
Okay.
Yes.
But Trinity the Tuck won her season and she's going to be headlining the show.
So I'm excited.
I'm excited.
I'm very nervous.
You'll be fine.
I know I'll be fine.
You are a performer in and out of drag.
Yeah, I do try.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, I've come to realize that I do put on a performance in most places of
my life.
But that's okay.
Oh, the world's too boring.
You have flair.
Yeah.
I love it.
The world's too boring.
Yeah.
Exactly.
They say there's been a study show that color has dropped like worldwide in the last like
50 years.
There's just less color everywhere.
It's like as my son would say, we've turned back into the gray days.
Exactly.
It's a really good way to put it.
He always said the black and white TV shows and that were it's from the gray days.
Okay, whatever.
But there's not just the drag shows at Pride Fest.
They have.
Oh, they have like I think they have like picnics and they have like painting events.
There's like open discussions.
It's gonna be like pop ups with local businesses.
Pride parades really Pride season is really good because it engages a lot of local businesses
who are who want to be a part of Pride, which also like gives them more business in the
long term.
Of course.
Which I think a lot of people tend to forget about Pride season is it's for it's for visibility,
but it also like fully engages your local communities when you're starting them like
it gets vendors out.
It starts businesses.
It helps make it more mainstream.
It just makes it more mainstream and a lot of people and it stimulates the economy in
your local area.
And a lot of people forget that a lot of people forget that a lot of money is spent on the
gate and everybody else, but they spend a lot of money in the gate.
Okay.
Now looking at your shoes and your outfit, where do you find clothes that fit?
Like the shoes, they're gorgeous shoes.
So I can't find a seven and a half.
I'm like a drag, like a hunter.
Like I hunt down these items mostly because I'm cheap because it's like drags expensive
overall like it's all expensive.
So you have to be very tactful because you can basically blow thousands of dollars right
out the gate if you want to look and do what you want to do, which fine.
But if you're not getting booked to pay those bills off, then you're just sitting there
with thousands of dollars to drag and you're like, Oh God, what did I do?
So myself, like I, if like a performer is selling something and I really like it, I'll
like message the performer and buy it off them.
So they're usually commissioning it and then you're getting it for half of the price or
whatever they paid.
Wow.
I will scope thrift stores like no one's business.
If there's something I need an outfit for, like I will, I have had outfits commissioned
done.
You just do what you got to do to find what you need.
Shoes are a hard one.
You find a sister who has bigger feet than you or about the same size and then you just
wait for her to die like I did.
She didn't actually die, but she just wasn't doing drag anymore.
So I just inherited a lot of her stuff, but like all of my shoes, like I would have to
go on like pleaser, like shoe freaks.
Like there's a lot of sites now that drag has become popular.
So yeah, you can get shoes, you can get shoes from anywhere.
Now that drag has become more mainstream, there's just so many retailers.
Even Amazon has expanded their size where you can get like size 12, like size 13.
That's when you're a really big footed girl and you're like Mrs. Big and Tall.
People forget how tall they are and then they buy these little dresses and then they're
like inches away from a lawsuit and I'm like girls, longer dresses.
Especially when a lot of you are six, four out of heels.
I know like Coco, when they booked our photography studio to get pictures done, Haley, the photographer
is going, do you have anything big enough because she might be close to seven feet in
her shoes.
Seven feet!
Well probably close.
She is taller than me now.
Yeah, she is tall.
She was a tall girl.
Yeah.
Was, we have to use was.
She's no longer with us.
In my heart, I'm hoping.
Well see, I have so much of her stuff now that my room smells like her.
So when I walk into my basement, I go, oh, smells like a dead girl.
So where do you see venom going?
So for a while I was just doing drag and venom wasn't going to go anywhere.
Venom was just going to be like with me and I was going to perform where I could perform
and just enjoy life.
But as I have started to grow and my foot healed in a way that I can move again, I'm
just going to keep on actively trying.
I try to actively improve after each event.
That makes sense.
Like I try to, after every event, successful or non-successful, I'll basically kind of
pick it apart and be like, what went right?
What went well?
What didn't go well?
So then hopefully, the hope is that I will just be like very polished and well put together
in the next five years where when you are performing at that level and you are delivering
a certain expectation, then you can do more with your drag.
So like, who knows if I want to go on television?
Who knows if I want to start?
I think I should.
I would love to.
You would have great personality for that.
I would love to be on television.
I actually wanted to audition for Big Brother.
I don't know if I should do it like this or if I should just do it like this.
I wouldn't that be fun?
See the looks on everybody's face.
Oh my God, it would be insane.
With those pink gloves.
Oh hell.
Into the Big Brother house.
Now let's see how long it lasts.
Hopefully it would be a good house.
Because it would be so funny to see you on there.
For some reason in reality television they hunt the queers down in like 10 minutes.
The traitors, they just had Peppermint on it and Peppermint was in and out within like
the first two episodes.
And I'm sorry the producers, they're stupid then because you keep that on and you got
some drama for weeks to go.
People don't understand the queers.
Some of them, gay men love drama.
Oh my gosh.
Love it.
Well Coco, rest in peace, told me about Real Hells.
I watched Vanderpump Rules and well you got to watch Real Housewives, Beverly Hills.
Did you watch Beverly Hills?
Yes.
What season?
All of them.
All of them?
I binged for months.
Who's your least favourite housewife and then who's your favourite housewife?
Oh my gosh.
You know what?
I love Yolanda.
You love Yolanda?
I love, I know she was vanilla.
She was vanilla but she went through an awful lot.
She did.
And she had class and I think that's what I loved about her was that she had class.
And there's a lot of them.
Lisa Vanderpump for one.
Lisa Vanderpump.
Okay, Lisa Vanderpump was one of my favourites and then Lisa Rinna was my all time favourite
housewife.
She was.
Because she just woke up every morning.
Oh my goodness.
Dusted off her little wooden spoon and then just stirred every pot she could find.
Even sometimes inadvertently.
And that's why I live, because she didn't even know what she was doing.
Yep.
Oh I love that one.
Oral vomit.
Yeah, oral vomit.
There's a lot of them that I was glad they were only one season.
They were like, okay, now you're just trying to fit a square peg into a round wall like
the goth lady.
Do you really think her and Lisa are going to be BFFs?
No and then who was the other one?
Teddy Mellencamp.
She was too nice.
But she's still friends with a lot of them.
She is.
She has her own podcast so she has a lot of the girls on it now.
Oh yeah.
I can't believe Kyle Richards is still there.
Yeah.
We'll have to see what happens next season with that one.
Yeah see if she's not admitting anything.
See if she's part of the community now.
Come on.
You know how terrible she is.
Oh my gosh.
I think it was just a, we're going to keep this under wraps until the divorce is done
and make everybody wait until the new season and then hello.
It's like yeah, okay, we already knew because everybody else is wondering.
Oh my god.
Like who follows their lead?
They were really close friends.
She started dressing like her.
She always had the best clothes and the best shoes, the best outfits.
She could have been a drag queen and now she's in jeans and ripped shirts.
Oh my god now she looks like she was raised at the Hideaway Ranch.
I know.
One last question.
Are you doing any of your shows outside of the Windsor area or do you stick directly
here?
I've actually recently, I've done a couple shows outside of Windsor now.
So I've done two in Sarnia and then I did one in Chatham.
And then I might be doing one, oh my god, Amherstburg.
I might be doing one in Amherstburg.
Oh the outdoor one.
Went there last year and it was so much fun.
Were you there?
No at the True Fest.
No Coco was there.
No I didn't know if you went and watched.
No I was in, I had to work that whole week.
Yeah it was a lot of fun.
So I might be doing something in Amherstburg in the future.
Hopefully.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Now where can people find you online so that they know when and where you're performing?
So you can find me online, usually on Instagram under Venon Von Snaps.
And I'm usually just on Instagram.
You can find me on Facebook under like Jared Alexander.
Don't look me up, I probably won't add you out.
And I'm on Twitter, but I'm not on Twitter.
You know I'm on X, sorry X.
I'm not on X actively.
But Instagram like I am on there every single day.
If you want to get in touch with me, please just DM me.
And go watch my stories because they're insane.
She gets into a lot of trouble.
I know.
It's so nice to, I love it.
I love you, love you, love you.
And you are so much fun.
It allows me to be a little bit more me which is sassy and snarky and snotty.
Oh you're just so fun.
Who are you?
You are so fun.
Okay, quick story.
Saturday at Sephora so I can get my birthday gift there.
And we went through every stinking, the perfume.
Oh we got to spray.
You could smell it at the other end.
I came home, I could still smell it.
I had an upset stomach, I had to shower.
Oh I sprayed this like tangerine one on me.
I was like I love this one.
And then like two hours later I was like I hate this one.
I smell horrible.
I couldn't smell it after.
Well that was why it was cheaper, it didn't last that long.
But yes you definitely have to bring her to the makeup.
Yeah so you can like come and get me, you can see me at the Devon Taylor mall.
Oh yeah.
At my day job if you already need your makeup done.
Makeup.
Come DM me.
She's good, she picked out the lipstick and.
Anyway I do have to call it a day and thank you so much for being on my show.
Thank you for having me.
Venom lawn snaps.
You can have me anytime.
Gladly and we definitely will.
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