sweet and their new restaurant funky grits can tell me a little bit about funky grit saloon thank you for having us everybody money this year roots and i'm one of the founders of funky brits funky ribs is a fast casual diner concept that's opening up this winter in community has been such a great honor being in radio broadcasting you don't see a lot of trans people doing that you know which is kind of just living my dream of being out there and showcasing and also posting on local events in the twin cities and i'm we live our life with daily struggles and we have our imperfections and also in the community health care is a really big struggle for trans people you know a lot of health care providers do not give us access to hormones and other programs and stuff like that so for me my story is i'm not on hormones i'm just you know a trans woman i've been living my life this way for so long and so i want to start the journey and it's just been kind of the top of the me so i really want to know that we do have a struggle and biggest brightest light of my life and he's been there for me to grow my dark days my happy days and he's my biggest supporter also i have to say roxanne anderson because in radio broadcasting roxanne is the only person who's never  so the monk our friendship play or friendship play is has been something that's been brewing for the last two years with my my real life we wanted to write it because she's ethnically mung and i'm ethnically  we're we're kind of an odd couple because our communities have historically but it heads in the past and being in minnesota you know this year marks the fortieth year of people in minnesota and we thought that there was this major disconnect that our communities don't gather together we don't go to each other's events we have this we share the same language we're both from miles we we we have similarities in culture food you know music because like that and so we wanted to write this play based on our friendship and just i guess we have this naive outlook a maybe our play would bring our communities together but really that's i don't think that's going to happen but actually received a minnesota's that i explored grants for arts access to develop this play and to mount it and so we started writing back in february and had we went on two separate writing retreat so that we could have concentrated focus time to work on the script so we had to address the second draft we worked with our drama target our director and once we put we started doing the scenes in rehearsal for some reason some of the scenes did not work out at all it just the way it was written the way that we brought it up on its feet did did not work so what we ended up doing was we did a lot of improv and devised you know him give us scenarios and then we would act it out so one of the scenarios that didn't make it into the the final cut of the play was one where our director said to us so how about you guys in that age and that you get invited to a a swingers party in the suburb and how would you react to that and so we did that scene in a didn't it didn't work for the the whole play so the process has been fun and we really embrace intentional probably the play that i'm most well known for nationally i really love science fiction and i love horror movies and i love kung fu and i love hip hop and conspiracy theory conspiracy theories like i love all these things and so obvious like this combination of all these things that would be nice combinations right but the play is really about the fact that laos is the most historically bombed country per capita in history and this was because of the  during the vietnam war the cia had a carpet bombing campaign which meant that they were unloading plane loads of bombs on on to laos that's probably equals every minute every eight  minutes all day twenty four hours a day for like a period of nine years so that's the equivalent of how many bombs they dropped on lyle's and i wanted to have the zombies be like these bombs that have been detonated and after so many years  under the ground in miles the get bothered by like maybe a farmer you know telling his land and he hits a bomb b and explodes and like a zombie it destructive many years after it's been  put in the ground so that's what i wanted to write and plus i just love zombies a lot and thought that nobody would want to come to a play called why but why laos gets bombed and thought that maybe if i just put kung fu and zombies and cannibals in there that people would come and they did and so it's a great run  ok so i'm not really a rapper but i play one in theater so for the money low friendship play or long friendship play mainly and i we wanted to talk about language and how as refugee kids growing up in minnesota in the public school systems we were actually course to go to english as a second language sessions and even though our english was perfectly fine we just kept being put into these classes and so we wrote a rap song about  having multiple tongues and the advantages of that and so we wrote a song inspired by a big bell which is one of my favorite records and the song is called refugees playing and it's the shameful thing i've ever done because i know my actual rapper friends are probably cringing but i'm really proud of myself for learning my rat market and keeping on