A Triumph of Pure Delight with Trixie and Katya

Summary

The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya

Episode: A Triumph of Pure Delight with Trixie and Katya

Date: March 31, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this vibrant and delightfully chaotic episode, Trixie and Katya—joined by Mary Beth Barone—celebrate major career milestones, dish on the joys and humiliations of showbiz, delight in pop culture obsessions old and new, and, as always, spiral into tangents involving wigs, air conditioning, theme parks, and anatomical misadventures. With zippy banter and personal anecdotes, they find the beauty in the absurdity of Hollywood life and their journeys from small-time drag shows to starring on Emmy-winning series.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Career Milestones: Hacks, The Comeback, and Manifestation

• Katya’s Role on 'Hacks'

  • Katya excitedly relays the story of being cast in HBO’s "Hacks" for its final season ("the best day of my professional life" - [14:09]).
  • Casting came directly from Paul Downs (show creator), who DM’d Katya on Instagram without an audition ([06:12]).
  • Costume fitting anecdotes reveal Katya wore Jean Smart’s (Deborah Vance) wardrobe and wig, and deeply appreciated the authoritative costume designer ([09:27], [10:02], [14:28]).
  • Katya and Fina reminisce about humble drag show beginnings 15 years ago, contrasting them with their new HBO collaboration ([15:15]).
  • Katya reflects: “No matter what happens, no matter if I get cut out, no matter how… whatever, I’m not involved in the editing… I would probably feel relief that I didn’t ruin their show” ([16:40], [16:50]).
  • The anxiety spiral: Katya details her self-sabotaging inner voice and nerves before the shoot ([11:53], [14:09], [23:44]).

• Mary Beth Barone’s Appearance on 'The Comeback'

  • Mutual congratulations as both Katya and Mary Beth secure spots on their favorite TV shows nearly simultaneously ([01:46]).
  • Discussion of cringe comedy and their love for Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish on "The Comeback" ([03:06]).
  • On waiting for new episodes: “Why do they make us wait for shows? Give me the whole thing. Valerie only gave me one episode” - Mary Beth ([04:12]).

2. Drag Race Nostalgia and Showbiz Evolution

• Reflect on early Drag Race days:

  • “The only way to watch Drag Race was on one of the Teletubby stomachs…” - Katya ([05:04]).
  • Wistfully compare 2000s “fat-back TVs” with today’s streaming era.

• On the perils of being offer-only actors:

  • “Offer only. Show up, disappoint them, and get out before anyone can say anything.” - Mary Beth ([07:23]).
  • Versatility of drag artists, unpredictable bookings, and the fear of being a “one and done” guest ([07:48]).

3. On-Set Realities: Wardrobe, Memorization, and Meeting Idols

• Katya gushes about Jean Smart: “She’s so fucking sweet, so fierce…in two seconds I was not nervous” ([24:05], [24:23]).
• Fear of disappointing revered co-stars and self-flagellating over-perfectionism ([23:44]).
• Practical showbiz tips:
  • On memorization: “You write it down long-form” ([23:02]).
  • On veteran drag hair/makeup: veterans are unreliable except for precious unicorns like Fina ([38:07]).
• Industry differences: TV versus movies, and the breakneck pace of soap actors ([25:05]).

4. Awards, Live Shows and Community

• Prospects of presenting at the Emmys after landing major TV roles ([22:19]).
• Discussion of performing at the Queerties—Trixie’s jokes, audience inattentiveness, and friendly competition with Bob the Drag Queen ([39:52]).
• Live tour success, ticket sales anxiety ("if I have one more humiliation, it’s curtains" - Katya, [55:38]), and hoping to sell out two nights at Boston’s Wang Theater.

5. Theme Parks, Animal Escapades, and the Dolly Parton Reckoning

• Mary Beth describes recent adventures at Dollywood and Disneyland, including the glam of a VIP tour ([45:44]).
• Anecdotes about Parrot Mountain, holding rare parrots, and side jokes about being a "bird fan" ([50:28]).
• Riffing on Dolly Parton as a mythic, angelic figure (“She really eats. Angel. She eats. She chomps.” - Katya, [52:26]).
• Dolly’s perennial health updates: “every six months, she’s giving a ‘I’m not dead yet’ message” ([51:39]).

6. The Absurdity of Danger (and Weather)

• Surviving a Kentucky tornado scare with boyfriend’s family—Mary Beth recounts the anticlimactic wake-up, sitting out the storm in the living room ([52:33]).
• Joke about Twister: “The plan was to wake up and die in the living room” ([54:17]).
• Katya: “Her mom says… she always loved weather” ([54:44]).

7. Media Satire: Occupational Jargon, D-Box Chairs, and Rage Baiting

• Satirize the script memorization required in medical/legal dramas and finance shows:
  • “‘We need three CCs of Thorazine!’” - Katya ([43:30]).
  • Even if actors don’t know what they’re saying, it can feel riveting ([42:49]).
• Experience with theme park D-box chairs: “In the movie, if there’s a fingering scene, you feel a robot hand just reach up… I hate it!” ([47:26]).
• On Jubilee and rage-baiting: enjoying the spectacle of laypeople arguing with experts ([44:31]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

“So I get a message on Instagram from Paul Downs… ‘Hey, Katya, do you want to be on Hacks?’ And I thought it was like an April Fool’s joke. It was January.”
— Katya ([06:12])

“No addition.”
— Katya, on bypassing auditions for her Hacks role ([07:22])

“She took everybody’s pussy and said, you don’t have a pussy anymore. Because this wig is the pussy she deserves.”
— Katya on Fina’s wig artistry ([15:07])

“Fifteen years ago we were getting paid $40, losing the bar money doing shows. Cut to she’s designing a wig for HBO for me to act along with Jean Smart.”
— Katya ([15:41])

“I would just chain him to a radiator and fuck him to death.”
— Katya, crushing on Paul Downs ([31:02])

“Angel. She eats. She chomps. Double anal. Angel.”
— Katya, on Dolly Parton ([52:26])

“I’d love for a guy to rivet me. You know, both legs.”
— Mary Beth ([42:57])

“The plan was to wake up and die in the living room.”
— Mary Beth ([54:17])

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |-------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:46 | Mutual congratulations: landing roles on dream TV shows | | 06:12 | Katya reveals 'Hacks' casting & wild Instagram DM story | | 09:27 | Katya’s fitting, costuming details | | 14:28 | Katya wears Jean Smart’s wig and wardrobe | | 15:15 | Drag roots: 15-year journey from dive bars to HBO | | 23:27 | Meeting Jean Smart; insecurity around acting with idols | | 25:05 | Memorizing lines, comparing TV vs soap actors | | 38:07 | The trials of drag hair/makeup in the industry | | 39:52 | Queerties awards, drag jokes, and banter with Bob the Drag Queen | | 45:44 | Dollywood, Disneyland VIP tour, theme park adventures | | 47:26 | D-box movie seats: mechanical misadventures | | 50:28 | Parrot Mountain and bird-loving anecdotes | | 51:39 | Dolly Parton health updates and “angel” status | | 52:33 | Tornado in Kentucky: weather trauma, family nonchalance | | 54:17 | Twister/Weather, dying in the living room, dark Midwest humor | | 55:38 | Boston show sales push, humiliation anxiety, tour nostalgia |

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Tone and Style

Raw, irreverent, honest, and self-mocking, the conversation is simultaneously supportive and bitchy—classic Trixie and Katya. They oscillate between high-camp satire, genuine vulnerability, and rapid-fire inside jokes, all delivered in their signature rhythm of escalating absurdity.

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Takeaways

• Dreams can manifest—often weirdly (“I’ve tweeted obnoxiously about Hacks forever… and now they wrote a part for me!” - Katya).
• Showbiz is both magical and deeply humiliating, often at the same time.
• Being a drag queen in Hollywood still means fighting for legitimacy, recognition, and reliable hair stylists.
• The grind never stops: From the trauma of learning lines to the trials of sitting in D-Box movie seats, it’s a triumph of pure delight.
• Cherish those Dolly Parton updates, stock up on air conditioning, and never, ever trust a tornado warning in Kentucky.

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For fans and newcomers alike, this episode is a celebration of queer resilience, comedic catharsis, and the beautiful insanity of life under the studio lights.

Transcript

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, it's our honor.

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Hi everybody. Our spring very bald and very beautiful dates are just about sold out. So we're putting shows up for the fall. Hello. Why don't you go ahead and get your [e-mail] the website. Do you like websites?

[Mary Beth Barone]

We have to start right off the pot because as this will be the first time we acknowledge we made it under our own favorite TV shows. What about it?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, I brought a shirt to wear.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, this is cute though.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, thank you so much. I well, when we. First of all, let's get back to that. Congratulations.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Congratulations to you, baby.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Manifestation.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The same few months. It was right around the same time

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

it yeah, I I you pull it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Pull up.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The kids have pulled up the receipts. I remember distinctly, you know, I've tweeted obnoxiously about hacks forever since it aired and and I was like, all I want in my life is to get hit by Deborah. Deborah Vance's Rolls Royce. And basically. I mean, I don't get hits, but I don't get hit.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We know from the trailer that it's a. An altercation.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes, there is some kind of. Yes, it is.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Maybe in the next kiss, maybe we

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

fuck, maybe we scissor, maybe we squirt. Who knows? But stay tuned to find out. And I saw. I watched the first episode of the Comeback yesterday, and I did, too. Mary, it's Lisa Kudrow. Oh. Oh. Ow. Oh. Oh. Ouch.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Do you want to talk about the.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

We have to address the elephant in the room. And it's not my giant unit. It's the carbuncle, and it's sort of concealing. I'm just. We're gonna ignore it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Dermatological event.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I think it's a lot more than that. I think it's.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's multifaceted.

[Sponsor Voiceover]

But let's move on.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Valerie Cherish, that character. It's cringe comedy, right?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I saw.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She's on the COVID of a magazine, says, queen of Cringe.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And it's true. It's true. It's like. It's like. It's like Ricky Gervais's character in the British Office. It's. He's. It's the character. The actor's so good at making you cringe that it's almost unwatchably good. Like, physically hurts. Yeah, it's like that tough a feeling that I've like. I mean, it's played so well. That is almost like I had to watch it in two parts, and it's only half an hour long.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She's so incredible. She's so incredible.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's a painful watch, for sure, but

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

it's such a good show.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's amazing. It's just exciting to see her. And I watched it on the app. The app started with a recap of both seasons.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So I was on the couch like this.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Getting ready to eat. Ms. Big pulling out her gut and separating her titties. And getting ready to eat.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Put your eating dress on.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I put both titties, separated them, stuck them under my armpits, grabbed my fork and my knife, and was ready to Chow down on Ms. Valerie.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, you need to keep that in the back of your mind, because I got a point about that very thing later on about eating the boat. Separating the titties for eating. We'll talk about that later.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Why later? It's too Soon. It's too soon. It's way too soon. I'm excited to see you in Hacks and I'm excited to. I hate. Why do they make us wait for shows? Give me the whole thing. Valerie only gave me one episode.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Mary. I could not believe it. Season one, Season three, Episode one, Available Only. I could not believe it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I couldn't believe it. And after everything I've trusted with Valerie,

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I felt so shocked and betrayed on my couch with that remote.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes. Oh, by the way, we can tell people. Katie and I also got sex changes. I changed for something. Change your sex, Mimi. Change it around. What we need to do.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Mimi. I'm first. Third on the sex change list. I could not believe it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The best part of that. And the fans who are brand new to Drag Race don't know about this. This is some old shit now. This is when old maiden type of shit. The only way to watch Drag Race was on one of the Teletubby stomachs.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. Like that bag or nothing. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Fat back TV with. You would have to have your kids stand on top of the TV with tinfoil just. Just to try to get RuPaul. Like, good luck and don't buck it out.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And if you wanted to skip the commercials, you gotta yank the cord out of the wall.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yep. Okay, so when you. Can I ask about Hacks? I knew we couldn't tell people.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What did you think when they. How did you find out you were gonna get the opportunity to do it?

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

No, I asked. Cause I don't want you to tell me. We finally have new information. I'm just trying to pad.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I'm trying to pad my essay. That's okay. What?

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's not a good story. And you're gonna be like.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, you're never gonna believe this. Cause once they start tell, you are going to be told all the details, starting with the first one.

[Mary Beth Barone]

This is big for Deborah, but for Katya, this is huge.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So I'm not going to brag. I'm just going to state facts in a very condescending way. Okay. So I get a message on Instagram from Paul Downs, one of the series creators. It's created by Paul Downs, Lucianello and Jen Statsky. Those are the showrunners. And Paul said in a dm, hey, Katya, do you want to be on Hacks? And I thought it was like an April Fool's joke. It was January.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And so you're like Josie Grossi getting asked to the prom.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I was like you. I was like if this is a joke, I'm going to kill you then myself. Or I'm going to kill myself, then you. Whatever.

[Mary Beth Barone]

How do you kill yourself and then him?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I don't know. Jennifer from 30 Rock knows how to do that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Tylenol PM, slow release. You kill yourself, and then hours later, he's like, I'm sleepy at the wheel. Right?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Death by Tylenol pm. She died. She died doing what she loved. Overdosing. Girl.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That could have happened to me.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Thank you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So would it be fierce if after all these years of you being Ms. Cracky, if I OD'd on Tylenol PM, they be so cunty.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I would drag you. I would go. I would. I would go. I would deny a woman at a bank alone, so I could go down to hell and drag you back, bitch. That's what I would do. I would drag you back from hell

[Mary Beth Barone]

to kill you myself.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, I. So he said that. And I hope that's okay to mention. Um, he also sent me a ton of dick pics. Not his, just other people.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Just other people. Yeah. Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And I was like, holy crap. So they. They. I was like, okay. Yes, yes, yes, of course. And they wrote a part for me.

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No addition.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Wow.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No addition.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, thank God.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Thank God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You wouldn't have got it. No, that's. Me too. Girl offer only. Show up, disappoint them, and get out before anyone can say anything.

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That tea is so nasty.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Let me try to make sure my hair is good, because this line reading is about to be dead on arrival. Like, let me make sure my hair. Let me get my alligator clip.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, because this ain't a talkie, right?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Because these lines you wrote for me are going to be so flat.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Flat, so wooden.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And because you cast wrote it for me, there will be no recasting and I will never be asked back. Every time I'm on something, it's a. It's not a recurring character. They're like, we're good.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, this is the final season, so my performance could be the death knell, but it is. No, I don't want to tell anybody until the.

[Mary Beth Barone]

When the trailer came out for the Comeback and. And for Hacks in the trailer. So at least we know we're not cut out because we don't want to tell anybody we're in it. And then they're like, well, that's not what happened because you weren't in it. Do you know what I mean?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Totally. Totally.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And these faggots that hate us, that

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

swarm all around, all of them all of them, they would love to be like that one.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Bet you really thought how. Yeah, that you really thought that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You really thought that this was a pivotal moment in your shit ass career. Well, guess what, it's not that shy heifer.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Why don't you put her on your iPhone and make some tiktoks, bitch? You know, why don't you try to

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

get your socials up? You flop because it's never going to happen for you in Hollywood.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Because a super fan of the comeback and hacks, even super fans who beg for the job publicly who get a part written for them can't even show up and succeed at line reading a

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

part that was written for them in their voice.

[Mary Beth Barone]

In their voice as them no one day read. Mary.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Let me tell you, let me tell you something. So I, so I get the, the date, of course I go in for a fitting. The costume designer is legit. You can tell a costume designer is legit the way this woman's legit. You know, I don't know how to explain it, but she was, I don't know how to explain it. She was, she had a serious, authoritative. Which was nice. She wasn't super warm or sweet, but she knew what she was fucking doing and she could tell that she had done the job for a long time. I was a little scared of her.

[Mary Beth Barone]

TV people in costume are usually, they are dressed chic but it's all very downplayed. Yeah, it's like a really nice T shirt, it's a really nice pair of jeans. They're not like.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, no, no, no.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What are you looking at?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, no, no. It wasn't like she didn't come in voguing or anything.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Right.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But she was an older lady who came in and I could just tell she had an air about her, of authoritative air. Small, small lady. And I was.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And it was Jean Smart because they, yeah, they do multiple roles.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Gene Smart and I, I brought my, my selection of boo boo nasty hoochie outfits that were.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You didn't go down there with your Albanian?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Of course I did with my little. I had, I had a small selection of Deborah Vance like outfits. The only two. They only allowed me to wear the shoes that I brought, but I ended up wearing Deborah's costume because I am what, 5 to 120 pounds? Just like Deborah Vance. She's really tall. So Jean Smart's actually quite tall. And we fit into the same sequin duster, the same chemise blouse, the same sequin pants which were boiling hot.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I love that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So that's my first spiral.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Right.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Spiral, spiraling. So then they moved the date up three weeks fierce into three days.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And you needed those time that time to learn that one line. Well, baby, high point coffee.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, yeah. It's decaffeinated. Well, the fiercest thing is that the moment, the day. I'm getting ahead of myself. But sidebar. And I'll go back to it. The day that the trailer comes out for what had become the best day of my professional life. By far the best day of my life. I get a check for the worst day of my life from residuals from a show.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, from. Was this from.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, but leave that out.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But it's put something else in. Was it from the prices? Right.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It was from double analyses. Right.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And you guessed that that Pontiac Grand Prix was $4.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That was humiliating.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, it was my guest star and double anal angels girl.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I get a really cunty residual from. From Drew Barrymore show.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That is so weird for a talk show.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I guess it gets replayed. Yeah. Thank you.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Sad because I sure did pay my dues. Which were $3,000. Hello. Oh, anyways, blah, blah, blah, blah. Sake. But so I, after the fitting, I spiral. I spiral because I'm like, this is going to be so hot. Hot lights. I, you know, I'm, I'm going to be so nervous. I'm, I'm just terrified.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You also have a self, self sabotaging streak.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, duh. Exactly. Is getting hacks.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Does he realize this is your death note?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I know, I know. And it's like, and not to be dramatic, but if I had this. I, I, I, I'm not joking. I would have been a very, very. I would.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, this is what I think happened would have been. I would have killed myself. I know. Have you have your.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Maybe there's a part two Paul Downs.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Call her back. Make the part reshoots. You're gonna need the part in Spanish. I think that when they asked you. Because you're self sabotaging. When you looked at your phone, it said, would you like to be on hacks? I think you put it down and it was that part in that part in that part in force gone.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She gets out on the ledge where she's on the ledge.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Jenny. And she's ready to jump.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I, I step on, I step on the table of cocaine. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes, totally. Well, you know, it was you.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It was Zoe Bell on the, on the hood of the car with no straps.

[Mary Beth Barone]

For sure.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I know.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I can't wait to see the show. You're gonna be. You look great.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, let me tell you, let me tell you more. Okay, so it was a huge. So the I, I mama, baby, sweetie, darling, cunty, honey, baby. Get this out of my way. The second miracle. That was the first miracle. Okay, guess what fucking happens the night before call time?

[Sponsor Voiceover]

5am

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So I start to, I'm like, okay, okay, okay. Spina is like, you're like, we should stay up. No, no, no, no, no. I can't. That's not an option. But I also can't tranquilize myself to go to bed because I won't wake up.

[Sponsor Voiceover]

Right?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Sophia's like, just make sure in your bed by 8pm I was like, who are you talking to?

[Mary Beth Barone]

She's right.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Of course she's right. But it's not possible. So around 4pm that day, my call time gets moved up to 11am in the way that I got bricked so bricked up and almost spontaneously ejaculated my pants. 11:00am makeup call arrival.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, that's nice.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Nice. You think that's nice? That's a miracle.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I could never be in TV like that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's amazing. At 5, no, if I'd show, I got fresh showered. Not in makeup when I was but

[Mary Beth Barone]

Mary, when I did English teacher, I had to be, I think hall was like, yeah, five or six. And I had to start makeup that early. It was bad.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. When I, yeah, I've had that experience. It's not great. So I, I, I, I learned all my lines. I learned all my lines. Let me say that again. I memorized my lines.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Huge.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And I had huge if true. But call time got moved up. I had a scene with Jean Smart. Mary, when I tell you. And it was hbo. So hbo, they know what they're doing. This is the final season of multiple Emmy winning show. And the fierce thing is that I was dressed as Deborah Vance, as you can see in the picture, wearing her outfits. But they had several Deborah Vance wigs for me to wear. They chose the one that Fina made cause it was the best.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised because girl, she turned

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

that wig, she turned that wig's pussy into a pussoir.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The ultimate pussy. She took everybody's pussy and said, you don't have a pussy anymore. Because this wig is the pussy she deserves.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She deserves the recognition. She really does a great job.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Mary. We showed up and I think separately we drove home. I think we both cried because it was. We reminisce that this is a Wednesday 15 years ago. We were doing a show called The Cream of Laughter at Jack's Jacques Jacques Cabaret for zero people together who thought of that name. It was a joke. It was really just called something. Wednesdays, we. That was our nickname for the night. But, like, it's not. That's not the point.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The Cream of Laughter.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's hysterical. No, I know. Like Cream and Wheat and he. But the point is, we were doing shows for nobody. We're getting paid $40, losing the bar money in doing shows. And then cut. Fifteen years ago Wednesday, she's designing a wig for HBO for me to act along with Jean Smart, and she helped me with her makeup.

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It was.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The day was, like, so magical. It was unbelievable. It was unbelievable.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You're not allowed to say what happened in the scene, but I am.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You and Jean.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Ms. Smart. Excuse you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Sorry. You and Ms. Smart. Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes. You know, it made love.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Isn't it?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Love is really, like, more apt, but not for what we were doing.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, I was also hired. I was the intimacy coordinator.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I said, Gene.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Use the whole fish. You can't feel nothing.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Thank you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Nothing.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And you don't worry about the nails, honey.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Jean, get the anal paralytic for you. For you. Yeah. I just was so excited for you. You deserve. You deserve it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I. And no matter what happens, no matter if I get cut out, no matter how. Whatever, Whatever, whatever. I'm not involved in the editing. Although I email them every day.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What would you do if you were in the trailer and cut out of the season? I.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Honestly, I. No, no, honestly, I. To be quite honest, I would probably feel relief.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That I didn't ruin their show.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You can be like, you guys missed the scene, but I jump out of a helicopter, I'm really the star of the season.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You got cherry pied.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. Mary. I didn't. I pulled focus from Ms. Smart. She didn't want that. She wants someone that. She and Lisa are in hot contention for an Emmy this year, and I didn't want to get in the middle of.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Because everybody knows I would get a Virginia. You know, Nobody.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I got my job on the Comeback the same way, which is begging to the. Begging to the camera. Don't audition, mama.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Audition, audition.

[Sponsor Voiceover]

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

You beg.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You stalk. You put on that Sean Young Catwoman suit. You get out front of the lawn, and you let it rip.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, I think. Well, I told on this pod the story when I met Michael Patrick King at that Saint Patrick's Day party, which

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

now is Michael Patrick King, Saint Patrick's.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I know. And now thinking back, that story was me talking to somebody else about the comeback and going, we're just talking about the comeback. And remember, I didn't know he was.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Which is in. It's very Valerie.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's so Valerie.

[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

Maybe we'll get to present at the Emmys this year because I'll have been on the Comeback and you'll have been on Hacks. Maybe I'll get to dress as Valerie or dress as Gene.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Honey, they have, let me tell you, we beg. We beg for dolls.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's true.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You've got a big storm coming.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh. As you learned, we're gonna need the script for the category now.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yesterday.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And I will get up there and go. I have swamp ass. And leave.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I can't memorize.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I can memorize, like, you know, one day. Guru Nam Chaanada Vinde. But that took about 650 times, right? Every day.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's hard to memorize.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's hard to memorize. But you know what, you know you do. You write it down. Long form.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Loved. I watched the first ever the Comeback.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's not as hard to memorize. I mean like Glamazonian Airways, I was a cinch aboard.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I. Yeah, you really flopped. I. I wish Paul Downs had seen that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, that they did. That's why they hired me. No, but wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm not done.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So can I tell you about Gene Smart?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh man, she's fucking cool.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She smell good.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She's, she's. She smell great.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Meg Salter said she smell good.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She smelled great. She smells a little like freshly, but I'm just kidding. No, like, so we get, we get there. I'm nervous as hell. I'm so nervous. I mean I'm like, so. I'm so fucking nervous.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Dream job turns into nightmare.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Nightmare in a heartbeat. Because I could ruin it, of course. And I've. There's so many ways in which I can ruin it and have ruined stuff before. Like, and I, and I can, I can. I am so familiar with the air in the look of frustration and disappointment on people's faces that it's becomes a palpable like weather pattern.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And it only that ride home in the car could go very differently.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The ride home in the car would go off a cliff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the. She so fucking sweet, so fierce. She's like when I run lines and I'm like, yeah, yeah, I do. And then in two seconds I was like, not nervous.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What if you said no? I was like, do you want to run lines?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, you old bitch.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, bitch, I know my lines. I've been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the beginning. And when I think of Sarah Michelle Gellar making basically an hour movie every week. It's a 50 minute episode, whatever.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. It's basically like soap opera schedules, right?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes. And fight choreography. She's in fights every week. And sex scenes. Honestly. All of it.

[Sponsor Voiceover]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

I think of her learning it quickly and I googled, how would you do this? She was on All My Children. The part of her brain that could

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

do soap and then just dumps it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She was like, I think she has said that that helped her memorize quickly.

[Sponsor Voiceover]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Wish I could do that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I know. It's like Lisa Rinna when she was on. She was on like Melrose, whatever those. Or she was on soaps as well. Like you just, you do like 20 pages a day or some crazy shit like that. And you Just. You just got to.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, I have a friend who's on General Hospital. And I said, how do you do that? I heard, I talked about the Buffy thing. I said, I heard Sarah Geller talking about how he learned so fast. He said, it's an exercise in acting because you don't get a second chance of anything. He's like, once you've got it, you didn't mess up the words. You move on. So he says, as an actor, it has really taught him to throw it all out there every time. Because you're not like, oh, my fifth take will be great. It's like, no, it has to be great every time.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Whereas, like, I mean, who is it? Somebody was talking. Julia Roberts was talking about working with Andrew Garfield on that movie. And like, she's the type of person who's like, okay, she doesn't want to do 50 takes. And he does want to do 50 takes. Oh, God, I don't know.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I think actors work differently.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

They work a lot. Movies, Mary, movies are a whole different thing.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What's great about this season is that Jean's not in it and you just played her. Because what I saw in the trailer was you dressed as her, which I thought meant. Yeah, Jean quit the first day.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And they got the only person who could fill in for her.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. Well, she's actually co starring on the Comeback, which is strange. And then, you know, Valerie comes into my season later, but we don't talk about you. And it's, It's a whole. Yeah, no, it was, it was the best day of my life.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's great.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And if it doesn't air or if I die before then, or they cut me out, I don't give a. Well, I mean, I don't want to die, but. And I prefer they not cut me out.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But now I think they won't because you're in the trailer for. I didn't celebrate the back until I saw the trailer. And I was like, okay, good.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What if they cut us both out?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, I'm gonna say this. I got feedback from one of the directors, and they said, well, how about this? When I, when I was done, they said, like, you were Jenny Craig.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We couldn't use the footage because of the back. Your back rolls?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, no, no. The. They said you killed it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, that's good.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But I think they were talking about the, the possum in my trailer. Love. I don't know. I, I, I, I cried on the way home.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Tears of joy All I pray for is air conditioning. That's all I pray for.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So that's why I got that mucus sucking medication, which I know somebody chimed in on the comments, which I never read, that it's a very dangerous medication because it dries up all your mucous membranes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's not safe.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's for event specific hyperhidrosis.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Right.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I don't take it every day. I've taken it twice.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But you telling me to take it at music festivals is not good advice.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But that's when you told me to take it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's. I. I said you could try it at a music festival if you are available to be super hydrated, but you're not in 120 degree heat.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Okay.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Because this was. This was.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm gonna refer. I'm gonna ask my primary care.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Ask him about it. I asked an MD about it. I told him exactly the scenario, and then they prescribed it to me.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Sure.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But here's the thing. It dries up all your mucous membranes. You get dry mouth. You get very, very dry.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And what about my.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Your pee, your pussy? You will not squirt.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Can I get wet?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Damn.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You won't squirt. There'll be a Sahara down there. Damn. With a Sahara, like the goby.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Damn.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

From the Yangtze to the Gobi. But wait, wait. So it's not great for you, but it was an emergency situation, because think about it like, sweating. Reattach. If once the mustache goes, mary, it's over. It's over.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's over. And Gene goes, is that sweating?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Get this faggot out of here.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Because she famously runs cold.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, here we go.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That's. And I know that. I heard that she's like, I hate how cold it is on set.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I'm like, that would drive me insane.

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[Mary Beth Barone]

But she was.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Anyways. Yeah, it worked for the. It worked when Fina. I mean, I didn't really. Actually. No, that's not true. Because we.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It got kind of physical, the scene.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Because of the fucking. Yes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And normally I would have walked out of that scene because I really went for it, you know, And I would have walked out of that scene drenched, got back into the trailer bone dry. Love the bone temple.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, when it comes out, I'm gonna have to talk to it again because I'm gonna want to know, because I only know about the. I want to know about. You can't say no.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I know in my. The reason I'm there is interesting and it's. It's integral to the Plot of the season, which I don't know. I know the whole episode, but it's gonna be. The episode sounds wild. It sounds really crazy. And I cannot wait to watch it. And I mean, I'm like, I love all those people. I've been to Han, Hannah. I'm Finder's like, stand up show at the Dynasty typewriter. She's incredible. I've worked with Mark and Delicato in that Celebrity Drag Race thing. We danced together. Lost Celebrity Drag Race, Rotten.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Are they still doing that?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I don't know. I hope they don't. They shouldn't. Were you talking about air conditioning, baby? That place was a little abusively air conditioned.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Celebrity Drag Race.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Love it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It was like 30 degrees.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Love.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It was a little for me. I was actually like, this is bad for our joints.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I love. Oh, I love that one time. Tom Feeney, Thomas Feeney, he was like, for the hello, hello video, he's like, you know, if it's too cold, it's actually bad for your joints, baby.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Get ready to break those knees.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes. Yeah. Boniva is.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But then jokes on you. I showed up and it was 98 degrees.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, that's right. In that velvet. That velveteen rabbit suit. Yay. Yay.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'm at the point where I don't even walk up when it's hot somewhere. I don't walk up and say anything. I just power down and take. Go inside myself.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Take your glycopyrrolate.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Just kidding. Like that scene in Precious where she's. She like goes outside of her body. That's me. When it's that hot and drag. I go like, well, I'm going to turn on my peripheral personality and go inside myself and think about everything bad that's ever happened to me and will ever happen to me.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I'm gonna astrally project above myself.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So as to avoid the trauma.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just saw Paul Downs at the Queerties.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Mama. Let's talk about his skin. Let's talk about his hair. Let's talk about his personality. The way that man is so lovely, so hot, so nice, so funny. I would just chain him to a radiator and fuck him to death.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Okay, that didn't happen at the Queerties. He was introducing Meg because she received

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

an award, major award in her American flag outfit.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Her American flag with her tramp stamp. She came and she also was on the red carpet just going, the president should be in jail. Vote for Meg.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

What was her acceptance speech like? I forget. It was hysterical. It was.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She's out of her mind.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She's out of her mind and she's

[Mary Beth Barone]

out of her mind.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

When she was on Colby, it was some late night show when she had a long, long, long wig and she's like. When she mentions when I'm on my big period, my big period. When I have my big.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She's going to do her big one.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She. And it was just too much. I think it was Stephen Colbert. It might have been, but it was he. He didn't even know what to do with that. That lady. Cuz she is too hot for tv.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She's amaz. Oh, that's the one where she goes, get me out of here. She is so you ever been in

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

London and you just, you go to breakfast, you're like, get me out of here.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What a.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She's so like, probably my favorite person in this whole world.

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, thank you. Very nice gown. Amy built that gown. Beautiful. I did the hair. Fina was out of town working with you.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And there's no hair and makeup people left in Los Angeles who do drag. Hair and makeup?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No. There's Dean and that's it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's a when. When beauty. It's a weird thing where there's hair people and makeup people.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, I know you must pay better than me. That's got to be what it is. Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I find out whatever you offer and I triple it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That's why I'm in such dire financial space.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I. The credence was easy. I showed up, I did my test.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It was your best joke.

[Mary Beth Barone]

No good jokes. No, they were really funny. They were funny. Which one did I like? Oh. I said, if you guys get nervous about the Queerties, remember that no one even knows what they are. They're like RuPaul songs. And that only the people in this room even know they exist. Pretty fun. Oh, Raven Simonye, incredible sense of humor. I said, raven Simonier is here tonight. But she probably already knew that. And I didn't watch till the feed. But the feed is just her, like,

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

because she probably doesn't even remember being on that show. No.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And then I go, I'm Trixie Mattel, and you're watching the Queerties. And I did, like, the Disney Channel thing.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I'm telling you, she doesn't even remember.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But maybe it's the editing. But I watched the feed on Tick Tock because it kept cutting to her not laughing. But I'm sure she. I'm sure she did laugh. Whatever.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She was probably laughing so much she puked.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. But I will say this story, okay? So I was gonna do the Queerties, and they asked me and I said, well, I've seen Jinx do it and Alaska and Bob, and when I know from going to Queerties to host it, but what I know from going is that people are so drunk and talking, no one is even listening. So what I've learned is I said, bob, it actually inspired me because you three are so funny. And I've been in the audience. No one's really listening. It's kind of freeing. Just talk to the camera, do your job. I was like, bob. And Bob goes, well, actually, when I did it, a lot of people laughed and people actually really liked it. And people came up to me and said they thought it was really funny. I said, okay, perfect. Nevermind. No common ground. Then we're good. Okay, good.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Actually, what most people consider a failure, I actually see that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I was like, girl, I'm saying you were funny, but I'm saying that in that environment, drunk and.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, it's not the Oscars.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes. So, like, thanks for the confidence, Bob. Perfect. Bob's like, actually, I was incredible. Got it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. I didn't mention you're also ugly.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Right, Right. And Bob said, everyone's saying that you look bad. My press release for the Queerties was that this year they went with pretty fierce. Nice. What? But it was easy. Just go and read your lines. Read your lines. Funny, funny, funny. Leave. Oh, I said last. I said you guys were here. And David Archuleta did that Paula Abdul tribute because he did one a few years ago. I said I was so inspired. I've been doing a Lady Bunny tribute for the past 17 years.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That hysterical.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's so good that Gen Z is like, who's Lady Bunny?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes. Genoa's like, six.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Was seven with the Sigma. Crazy.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

What else? What was that? It was easy.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I just.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Mary Beth Barone]

The cast of Boots was there.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, I watched that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Boots was there. Who else was there? A lot of people were there. Girl, I went by like a blur, but they put me next to the stage with a little glass of wine. So I just had to sit backstage and wait and wait to go on and talk. And there was one part where I guess I was spacing out and somebody walked off stage. And I have this thing where when I make a mistake on stage, I tell the audience. I don't know what that is.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's a bad instance, but I ran

[Mary Beth Barone]

out on stage after some dinner, and I go, I'm here, I'm here. Sorry. I was drinking. That wasn't. But that wasn't comedy. That was me just being like, I was over there drinking.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Funny. That's funny.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But you should just pay attention.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I mean, I was back there with wine. Like, yeah, somebody gonna host.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Like, what the. That's fierce, though.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It was really easy. And then I just went home. But I got to see Paul and I, I, I, I said, you know, Katya, we talked about Uganda hacks, and it was exciting.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

They should do it. You've seen, you've seen House, that, that weird medical show. Yeah, they get to do it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Not weirder than every medical show.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, I know. But they should do it. A crossover. Boots the house down. You know what I mean? Where they all become medical students, all the army, the Marine guys. And then it's gay.

[Mary Beth Barone]

How do you think the actors on those shows memorize medical jargon? Oh, baby.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Because I have. I've been watching industry. You want to talk about financial jargon, baby? Shorts. I don't even read derivatives wearing shorts. No, like, we're gonna. We're gonna short the fund, the hedge, the. I mean, I have 60 of the dialogue. I have. I couldn't tell you what the. It was. And I don't want to learn because I hate finance. The show is so riveting. I had to turn it off because it got really dark and depressing. It's a lot of sex, a lot of violence, a lot of really grim people doing despicable things. It's excellent. Kit Harrington is cunty in it and so is everybody else, but it's like, girl, I don't know what. Finance, trading, all that, none of it. But it still rivets me. Is that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Can you be.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Can you be.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I don't know these words.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, I mean, is.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Can I.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Is it weird to say it rivets me?

[Mary Beth Barone]

No, I think it's good. It's riveting.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I was riveted by it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Rivets me. I think that is wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got riveted.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, frog rivets. And I get riveted.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I'd love for a guy to rivet me. You know, both legs.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Sorry. But yeah, no, I don't know the met. The jargon. And do you think it's satisfying for actors?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I do think House is funny because it's always like. But menstrual cramps. It's always like, I know you think that you need your prescription change in your glasses, but you're pregnant with triplets.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Or like, like the lip that's on in your vagina, that is. Or it Degree's anatomy. That's funny.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Your daughter said she's a virgin. It's. It's always like your 9 year old doesn't have brain cancer. She's pregnant. That's crazy.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But on the pit, it's like, we need CC. We need three CCs of Thorazine.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's like, did you see on Saturday Night Live? Did you see? It's like the Pit, but it's like, like Make America Healthy Again edition. And it's like we need beef tallow and brown milk or whatever. They're like prescribing milk.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Wait, speaking of Maha. And I know we can't touch or talk on this on the pod, perhaps, but I watched the. Jillian,

[Mary Beth Barone]

what do you mean we can't talk about it? It's all I've thought about. Why didn't you start with this?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, because I'm edging you for the next episode when I put my other T shirt on and let it rip.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I cannot tell you how badly we need to talk about it, baby.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The way I had to take a break because Andrew and I watched it at this. Watched it at the studio. 45 minutes in, I said, we need to pause this.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Why can't we talk about it?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

We're going to next episode, honey. So why bring it up now for cliffhanger. Oh, okay. They're never gonna tune in.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Get me all horny. I watch a lot of Jubilee. Jubilee content. I think that I thought the Queen's

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Jubilee was just about her body being brought around the world.

[Mary Beth Barone]

They do a really good job. It's obviously very engaging. It's fun to watch people be passionate and fight. I've been. I watch a lot of Jubilee.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Never heard of it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And some people call it rage baiting, where you're baiting the audience to just be enraged watching people.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You know, mama, I was. I was the biggest trout in the. In the. In the lake.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But it's right up with like, okay, we'll talk about it next.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Don't mind if I do.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Watching Dr. Mike talk. Be surrounded by anti vaxxers. Like, I like to watch the audacity of people with no medical background, sit down with doctors and be like, well, actually,

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

we'll get to it when we next episode. It was exasperating. It was my. I had to. I had to constantly check my blood pressure. I had to take my Losartan twice. I had. I had to do the. You know what I mean? I had to. I had to do.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Check in.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I had to do yoga breaths, you know, cooling breaths. We gotta turn the AC on. I had to take a walk around the block, get some tacos. I needed a break.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. I had a joy.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

What's your joy?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, got to go to Dollywood, right? I've been on my theme park kick, Dollywood, two weekends ago.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Thanks for the invite, by the way.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Going to Disneyland this weekend.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You like Disney?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, yeah. I splurged on the VIP tour guide to do the whole park in a day.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You do it underground? The underground pizza shop.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, yeah. You walk in the exit, they say, which cart do you want? How many rides do you want to ride it?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Do you see the secret? You know what's on there?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I met Mickey. He's not what you think. Huge, huge, bloated Italian guy. I walk in he has a pile. He has an Easter basket full of fingers he's cut off that day that

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

he wears as a penis packer.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And he was making friendship bracelets that he said, are you Tracy? Come sit down. And I sat down. It was me. You know who else it was? It was Timothee Chalamet. Because Mickey loves opera.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Of course.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So Timothy Chalamet, all the toes have been removed.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And yeah. Made him dance.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yep. Oh, my God. Did you see, you know Caitlin Riley?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Who? I love the comedian. She did a skit on her Tick tock that was talking about, like ballet and opera. Sitting down with Timothee Chalamet.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And it was like, the next time you say anything about us, we're cutting off your fingers.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, baby. The Dude 3 trailer got me so hard.

[Mary Beth Barone]

What's dude Dune?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Are you turned on?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Wait, dude three? Dude three?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No. Are you turned on, turned up and turned out. What is it? There's a. There's a Get out.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah, that's you watching the Dune trailer.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I thought I fall through a ceiling into a split somehow, Mary, the way that trailer has me bricked and just gooned. And I watched it 16 to 17 times because you know, I'm about to split. I'm see that thing in 60 because the 5D is when they shake the chairs. The 60 is when I squirt through the screen.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Girl. I went to see a movie recently. I sat in one of those D box chairs. Do you know about this?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

D box?

[Mary Beth Barone]

D box.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's the ones where they go like that and they poke you. I hate that.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I went with my boyfriend. He said, if we're paying for this, we got to turn him up all the way. I said, okay. They you the way I got sore and nauseous.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, yeah, it's awful.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Like in the movie. In the movie, if they're driving down a smooth road.

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, no, Mary. God forbid somebody spits in somebody's mouth.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, in this. In the scene, if there's sex, you get fingered. In the movie, if there's like a fingering scene, you feel a robot hand just reach up.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Hate it. And then just really, just get your clips.

[Mary Beth Barone]

They don't make sense. Like in the scene, it's like fast and Furious. They're driving a car. Who's tweaking my nipples? What sense does that make?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Why are they wired? Oh, because he's hot. Wiring a car.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Everything sexual. I'm going to have a D box chair. That everything's sexual.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I think it's just called a machine.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You're watching the Notebook. If they kiss. Yes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You're got your legs up like it's

[Mary Beth Barone]

one of those hydraulic machines. And you're watching the country bears.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Kirby too fully loaded?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No. But, oh, when they got stabbed in Dune, you.

[Mary Beth Barone]

You felt a jab.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I was like, I'm not here for that. No violence.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Not. I had to turn it down. It was taking me out. I went to, okay. I went to Dollywood, went with a big group, bunch of my friends from Milwaukee, a bunch of friends from Kentucky. We all went and got, you know, Pigeon Forge. Dolly built Dollywood in her hometown in rural Tennessee. So it's this entire community.

[Sponsor Voiceover]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That's all about this theme park that she dropped there so that she could stimulate the economy in her, you know, because Dolly's endlessly generous, of course.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Incredible.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It was amazing. It was the I will always love you music festival season. So all of the decorations were pink. It was amazing. I was freaking out. Wrote all the rides. The rides are death defying. They're serious roller coasters.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That is so country. I want to go so bad.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Then I went to this show that was like this life story of Dolly show, which you would have hated. It's like musical theater with singing, but it's the story of Dolly. It was so interesting. They do it with like eight different dollies. So as they go through the phases of her career, it's like a transition happens. A scrim goes by. There's a new Dolly in a new outfit comes out singing a new song.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And you're like, ah, that's so fierce.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That was really fierce. And then there's a few things I want to go to. One of them I didn't go to. It's Kentucky Kingdom. It is a religious theme theme park. But I'm not going to give religious people money. The other thing I want to go to is the creationism museum where you can see like Adam and Eve riding raptors. But I don't want to give them money. But it's like Adam and Eve naked

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

writing raptors and then Satan sending the meteor, right? Yes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But what I did go to, it's crazy. I read in Pigeon Forge there's, you know, I'm getting my parrot. And I read there's a place called Parrot Mountain which is an outdoor parrot sanctuary. And I went, obviously I'm going, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I went. And they have all these rare parrot species. Rarit species, if you will.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, rare.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And I get in there, I pay my money, I go In I. They got lorikeets, they got cockatiels, they got cockatoos, they got macaws, they got African grays. They got anything which you would ever want. And all these parrots are free roaming, shiny, happy and healthy. And I have a million questions. I go, where are the president predators? How are the wild hawks not killing these birds? And they said, there's too many birds here. They're making too much noise.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Safety.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The other birds are like, we're not coming over here. And they said they. It was so interesting holding all these birds. Got to hold a black cockatoo, which is super rare. It was so exciting. I don't have a further story other than I got to go up to all these. Whatever species of bird you want to see. Not only can you see them, you can walk up and hold them and feed them.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Would you say you're a bird fan?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Am I a bird fan?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I've kissed a cockatoo. Horrible brunch joke. Horrible brunch joke.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I've kissed a cockatoo.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Like, if you're wearing feathers, I'd say like a feather boa. Like, oh, you're a bird fan. Kissed a cockatoo. Horrible, Horrible.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It's not so bad. It's. It's not as bad as it gets.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That's true.

[Mary Beth Barone]

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. The more you drink, the prettier we get.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Wait, the music skips. We're having testicular difficulties.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, God. Flashback. Core memory. Core memory. I. There was a funny clip on. On Instagram that of Dolly.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

God, she's so hysterical and she's doing like a question from an audience and they were like, how do you do it? Like, you do so much. How do you do it?

[Mary Beth Barone]

She's like, honey, I do drugs. She's too good.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So fierce.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But we're at the point now where every six months now, she's giving like a. I'm not dead yet.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Like, message.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

The weekend I was there, the day after Dollywood opened. So the day before, she was there doing her parade. She always comes to the parade. And the day after, she'd given like a. She gave like a. What do you call it? Like, she goes on stage and talks and she's like, my health, I'm older.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

An update.

[Sponsor Voiceover]

Yeah.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I take new medicines, etc. Yeah. But you guys always think I'm dying. I'm okay, I'm here, I'm in a wig, I'm here. But people are always like, oh, God, there's a Dolly health update.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, my God.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And the news article is always like, new update on Dolly's health. And it's like, she says she's doing good. This is so. I'm like, let. Can we just assume she's good?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Until we're not sure.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Healthy until proven otherwise.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That woman is. You know, I'm not to be corny, but literally, there are some people, very few of them that I know of, and she is one of them. Angel.

[Sponsor Voiceover]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

On earth.

[Mary Beth Barone]

She really eats.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Angel. She eats. She chomps.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Double anal. Angel.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She also serves.

[Mary Beth Barone]

And she serves.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She serves food for people.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh. So I'm staying in Kentucky with my boyfriend. Right. And his family.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You have a boyfriend?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yes. Staying with him and his family. I go to sleep, they all die. No, no, no. Tornado alley. I've never lived through a tornado. Hello. Hi.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Hello. Yes, you have. You're liar. You've never lied so much in your entire life.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, right. That one time in Florida. I forgot about that. But I was young. Doesn't matter.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You saw her, you were Bill Paxton.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I mean, the tiles were getting ripped off the roof, but it's not like a tornado came over my building. But that was when I was younger. It was at a Waffle House.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The tiles just got ripped out of the roof.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Yeah. So I get woken up. Boyfriend goes, you got to wake up. There's a tornado. And I'm. I just go back to sleep. I just go. And he goes, no, you have to wake up. There's a tornado. And I'm like, oh, my God. Because I'm thinking, like, what for you just tired. I'd rather die.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Grab the bedpost. The bed's going to take you up. Like Dorothy.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Right, Right. I like, I've seen the wizard of Oz. This whole house is going to go,

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

yeah, it's gonna be beers. I hope you like color. We might lose a cow or my dad, but I get revenge.

[Mary Beth Barone]

So I go down to the living room and me. And we're sitting watching the news, and there's the tornado. And we're watching it go like over the town, basically. And his mom opens the front door and it looks like a tornado is coming out there. The wind is super blowing. They're just looking. And I guess that's when I realized these people are way more used to close calls with tornadoes than I am. Yes. I'm not taking it seriously. And they're almost like watching a parade. They're like, yay.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But what's the plan? What's the safety plan?

[Mary Beth Barone]

What's my issue? The issue Is we get down there, and then finally I'm waiting for something to happen. And like 15 minutes go by and they go. The good news is when it's close like this, they come and go quickly. You can go back to bed. You're fine. It de. Escalated from a watch to a warning or whatever. And then I go. So the plan was to wake up and die in the living room.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You don't. You don't run up to the. To the shed, to the basement shed or whatever like Helen Hunt.

[Mary Beth Barone]

That plan is to sit as a family and die watching the news, praying together. Praying.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I just was like, that's crazy.

[Mary Beth Barone]

But there was no basement. So I guess what do you do? You don't get in the car and drive.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, you get under the dining room table, you start jacking it.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Well, what did they do in tornado? They put the belt around their hand and then hold onto the pipe, remember?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes, but. But most importantly, her mom says, you

[Sponsor Voiceover]

know, she always loved weather.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Who loves weather?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's like, that's the line in The Twisters, Part 2. Twister with Glen Powell and what's her face, Maury Tierney or whatever the fuck of her daughter. You know, she always loved weather.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Sure. She always loved weather.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She always loved weather.

[Mary Beth Barone]

In fact, it's the only word she could learn to say. What weather? Before we go, I want to say we added a show in Boston at the Wang Theater.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

We totally did. It's not technically the we used to. It's the formerly Wang. The theater formerly known as Wang.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Okay.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I think it's the. Probably the. The Ernie Bock Jr. Automile Spectacular Civic center or something.

[Mary Beth Barone]

I checked the numbers this morning. The first night is at 97%, so it's basically sold out. But the second night we added. We still do have some tickets left, but it's on track to sell out. So I just want to tell you

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

guys, yes, and if. Please, we.

[Mary Beth Barone]

We.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

We need to sell out. Because not only is our dignity at stake, if I have. If I have one more humiliation, it's curtains, right?

[Mary Beth Barone]

I also think you cried when we sold out Wang last time. If we have two nights sold out, what will you do?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I'll probably throw up.

[Sponsor Voiceover]

Finally.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Your family gonna come?

[Sponsor Voiceover]

God, no. They hate me.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, no, no. They're. Maybe they don't live close to Boston anymore.

[Mary Beth Barone]

Oh, okay.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Plus, they got tornadoes to watch, right?

[Mary Beth Barone]

Okay, bye.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Goodbye.

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