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Shop Craftsman at Lowe's today. Valid through 618. Wall supplies last selection varies by location. The Bald and the Beautiful Live is coming to a city near you this year. There's only a few more chances to see us live, so don't miss out on the following cities starting now. So we're coming to Canada on October 3rd in Calgary at the Southern Jubilee Theater, and on October 4th we're in Winnipeg at Club Regent, Tucson, Arizona. November 9th, the Linda Ronstadt Theater, of course. Linda Ronstadt, writer of Blue Bayou, one of my favorite songs. Thank you very much. And on November 13th, our asses are wiggling over to Honolulu. What's my favorite Hawaiian island? Come on, I want to lay you. Tickets are available at trixie and kati.com hey broke ass. I'm also broke, so I can say that if you need a pre sale code, it's Bald B A L D. All right, you. Hi everybody. This is a little. What do you. What would you call this?
Trixie Mattel
This is A little special put in.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, yeah. This little message. Because we feel that we can't really. While we're not a political podcast, we can't ignore what's going on in Los Angeles right now, which is scary. Really fucked up and not great.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah. Because we pre taped the show. You might not ever really hear us talk about something that's happening. Right. Right now.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Right.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah. So we just wanted to make a special exception because we live right in the middle of these atrocities and it's awful. And we. Where. We love you. Los Angeles, a place where everybody's from everywhere. Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's crazy here. It's super scary. I. I think that ICE is a domestic terrorist organization. I don't. Because it is. It is. I mean, why do these people. Why are they. Why do they look like a militia? Why were they covering their faces? Why are they. Are they ashamed of their behavior? They're deplorable, despicable. Like criminal behavior.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Like the fuck.
Trixie Mattel
I.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Also crazy.
Trixie Mattel
You know, I watch 28 hours of news a day, and right now they keep saying that they are supportive of peaceful protests, but I'm like, all right, you're shooting reporters.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Did you see the fucking Australian reporter? Like. And the guy was like this.
Trixie Mattel
Yes.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Boom.
Trixie Mattel
Then there was another reporter who. They're. They have their credentials and they're barely letting them in. Then I saw in the news today that one of the highways where they knew the overpass was people with signs. They shut down the highway because they don't want anyone to see the protest. And they are. They are saying that they're supportive of protests, but also calling it unlawful assembly.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And detaining everyone in Insurrectionists.
Trixie Mattel
The. When I heard Ms. Thing say insurrectionists, the January Six people are what, getting pardoned? Girl. Just. You know, Katie and I live right in the middle of Los Angeles, and it's horrible, and I'm sorry. And look out for yourselves.
Katya Zamolodchikova
This is not a political podcast.
Trixie Mattel
It's not.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And. And we. I think that we talked about this earlier. That. I think that. I think that our. Our most significant contribution to the culture, as it were, is. Is levity and humor.
Trixie Mattel
It's calling my own body Greek yogurt.
Katya Zamolodchikova
That's, you know, it's puts these tits in a little. Tish. Little ass. Little cut. Cut.
Trixie Mattel
Yes.
Katya Zamolodchikova
You know, but. And it's relief.
Trixie Mattel
It is. Los Angeles is a beautiful place full of people from everywhere.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
But we're going to do our job, which is make you laugh.
Katya Zamolodchikova
So, yeah, we're going to talk about pee pee and Poo Poo now.
Trixie Mattel
Okay, how can we not start this pod by talking about how HBO Max went back to HBO Max. Max is HBO Max again. For. For two years I've been saying watch Trixie Motel on HBO Max. People go, well, it's actually Max now. And I go, oh, I'm sorry. And now these bitches have the nerve to say, never mind. We are here. We. You said we were.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Honey, I've only like. I'm almost halfway to the point where I've like re acclimated to searching for the other app on my thingy, right?
Trixie Mattel
And now they're going to change it.
Katya Zamolodchikova
What's the problem? What happened?
Trixie Mattel
They woke up and this they saw the branding intern said, switch my wig. Make them feel like a cheating they. You.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Wow.
Trixie Mattel
The thing is, I have news for you. HBO Max. You've been HBO Max the whole time. We all say hbo.
Katya Zamolodchikova
HBO ain't going nowhere because you don't want it to go nowhere.
Trixie Mattel
It's the home broadcasting office.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Home Box office.
Trixie Mattel
Also Pepsi Max. Got the jump on you, T. Oh, homebox office.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Homebox office.
Trixie Mattel
What did I say?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Home Buster Keaton office.
Trixie Mattel
Let's take a break. I just think it's. I woke up and was just like really? I felt like that Jasmine Masters meme of like a fucking gin. Nothing. Nothing different. Nothing new.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Just as I thought. Trash. No good. So what is the. Do you know? Have the inside scoop about like what actually happened because you know there's some crazy shake off shake up where people got fired and killed.
Trixie Mattel
It was like a. The gayest person you know coming out to you.
Katya Zamolodchikova
But we're coming out as what?
Trixie Mattel
As gay?
Katya Zamolodchikova
No, no, but I know, but like.
Trixie Mattel
It'S like I wanted y' all to know that I'm gay.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's like this might come as a shock.
Trixie Mattel
Guess what, Max? We. Ben knew. I've been knew that you're hbo.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I know, but whose head rolled? That's what I want to know.
Trixie Mattel
I don't know. Maybe they just gave up the ghost. I mean, at a certain point, like.
Katya Zamolodchikova
No, there's no ghosts give up. They like fired like 50 people.
Trixie Mattel
I bet they're trying to be like, oh, well, I'm. I'm Bricky Lake.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Bricky Lake.
Trixie Mattel
No, bitch, you're Britney Spears.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Britney Spears.
Trixie Mattel
Britney Spears.
Katya Zamolodchikova
So HBO Max is HBO Max.
Trixie Mattel
And now we can say it without people correct. It's actually Max.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Well, why did they switch to Max in the first place? Wasn't it to save money or something? Right.
Trixie Mattel
I think it's a tax so they.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Don'T have to pay residuals.
Trixie Mattel
Tax pit. It was so that they wouldn't be elitist. Be seen as elitist. Because HBO is elitist. When they were bought by Discovery.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh, I'm sorry. My name is hbo, by the way. I'm sorry that I produce high quality entertainment and have been doing that for the last 30 years.
Trixie Mattel
And you're. She's the number one purveyor of. What do you call it?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Prestige Sunday night Prestige television. You, you fat, ugly you.
Trixie Mattel
You happy? You stupid, happy little bastard.
Katya Zamolodchikova
You dumb.
Trixie Mattel
Listen, I'm at home, by the way. Hbo, Max, the rehearsal.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Thank you.
Trixie Mattel
It is the home of the home of Trixie Motel Nathan. For you, it's the home of the best programs.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Game of fucking Thrones, the Sopranos.
Trixie Mattel
Thus the Sopranos. Hello, Taco Bell. Are you hiring? Okay, I will come down and fill out an application.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's the best. It's Mama. I grew up on hbo. She raised me.
Trixie Mattel
She raised. She.
Katya Zamolodchikova
No, I'm not six feet under. Sex in the fucking City.
Trixie Mattel
Sex in the City.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Dream on. That's the deep cut. Of course that's the deep cut.
Trixie Mattel
The Smurfs. I don't know about that. I made that up.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Real sex too.
Trixie Mattel
Pitch secret. Secret life of pets. Oh, whenever Brandon. Brandon, when he talks about his personal life, I assume he has secret life. He I'll say, tell me about your secret life of pets. And that's what you know.
Katya Zamolodchikova
He do have a secret life.
Trixie Mattel
He do have a secret life.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Sometimes I, I, I, you know, I, I clock him.
Trixie Mattel
You clock his te. You clock his. Not his non binary tea. And it's very valid.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's very hot.
Trixie Mattel
You ever. The best is when you're on Grindr and you see someone and it's like someone you work with or someone and you have to comment girl. Or like just the eyeball emoji.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I immediately block.
Trixie Mattel
You do.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh, yeah. It's humiliating.
Trixie Mattel
I love to get in.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Absolutely humiliating.
Trixie Mattel
I love to get in there and say, what are you up to tonight? Or like, you know, looking. Yeah. What? Local news. Any local news?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Are you horned?
Trixie Mattel
Can I tell you what happened last night?
Katya Zamolodchikova
As long as you don't. As long as you don't forget to remind me about Beyonce.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about Beyonce. We will talk about Beyonce. We both saw Beyonce and we have a. I saw it on a Wednesday, you saw it on a Friday, and.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Here at Englewood, two different days.
Trixie Mattel
And we can talk about it. I think we should save it for the end because it's going to be so explosive. Okay. How are we going to follow it?
Katya Zamolodchikova
That's a really good.
Trixie Mattel
You know. So last night, I don't know if you know this, but get into this. The Republicans in the COVID of night are just.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I know.
Trixie Mattel
Passing the great big beautiful bill, whatever the fuck they're calling it.
Katya Zamolodchikova
They're big beautiful.
Trixie Mattel
Great big beautiful bill or whatever the.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Big Be the build back better.
Trixie Mattel
The BBW midnight special, whatever they're doing. I just have to say as a politician myself, if you're, if you're up doing it, the witch's hour. If you're blood oath murder, like taking food out of baby's mouth. Piece of paper has to get signed in the COVID of darkness like a.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Witch after 2:00am by the way, which anybody in Hollywood or anywhere else knows that nothing good happens after 2:00am Nothing.
Trixie Mattel
Unless you're in LA or in New York. I think it's 4:00am yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
After, after hours in New York.
Trixie Mattel
Everything, everything in nightlife is too late in New York.
Katya Zamolodchikova
No, I don't understand that.
Trixie Mattel
In New York. In New York, sometimes they don't even start eating until 4am Say about Barcelona.
Katya Zamolodchikova
We have dinner at 11:30.
Trixie Mattel
That sounds awful.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, it sounds.
Trixie Mattel
What do you do at five? Pray. I'm hungry by five.
Katya Zamolodchikova
You take a three hour nap. Okay.
Trixie Mattel
I just think it's. And what did you see one of the things in it, obviously they're slashing Medicaid. They're taking literally life saving things away from people. We're not talking luxuries, we're talking can I get a hospital bed for myself at my house?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, yeah. Medicaid things are all like super fine printing out. And then they're giving huge tax cuts to the wealthy.
Trixie Mattel
One of the.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Well needed.
Trixie Mattel
Well, thank God.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I know.
Trixie Mattel
It's like one of the tax cuts is the craziest thing and I had to tell you about it.
Katya Zamolodchikova
What is it?
Trixie Mattel
One of them is tax cuts for people who have tanning beds in their homes. Which by the way is money elitist and racist. All these rich white people need their tanning bed coupons. Honey, go outside. Tanning bed is the sun.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I hate everybody.
Trixie Mattel
It's fierce. It's so fierce. By the way, Planet Fitness has tanning beds. $20 a month. You get any tanning bed in Planet.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Fitness for are they getting a tax cut? I highly doubt it.
Trixie Mattel
And I just think it's funny that under a certain administration where everybody's very Caucasian and sometimes even orange, they said, you know what I mean? You're in your. You're. He's hanging up. I bet he hangs upside like a bat. Like, like a bat when he tans. And he opened those B eyes and said, I think I, I think I should get a little financial kickback for this. Yeah, I just think it's crazy. That is so money elitist and racist.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's also, I, I saw the footage of them in the, in the celebrating and you know, up all night. I saw like, I felt like I had X ray vision glasses on and I saw a bunch of lizards, just a bunch of nasty lizards, like not wanting to do public service, not giving a. About any taxpayer, not giving a shit about anybody but themselves in their weird like cabal of fucking pervert nasty pieces of shit.
Trixie Mattel
It's, it's really hard. I just wanted to get it out of the way because I'm just, I'm fascinated with the idea of sitting down and going, well, this one's going to be unpopular, folks. What do we schedule at 2:30am and how about we just try to keep the cameras off and dim the lights and we just get our, get our tax rebate on our tanning bid.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
What about a mail in rebate? Remember the days of mail in rebate?
Katya Zamolodchikova
I've never.
Trixie Mattel
I do 200 off a washer dryer at Best Buy with a mail in rebate fine print.
Katya Zamolodchikova
You got to read that. Have you ever had, have you ever done that? I don't think I've ever.
Trixie Mattel
Have you seen, do you see a Nathan for you when they put the rebate on top of a mountain and you have to go hand carry it to a mailbox and he keeps them all night asking them riddles.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Wait, I've been so. I caught up on the riddles.
Trixie Mattel
20 off their gas.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I caught up on the rehearsal a little bit. I finished the, the, the parenting one. And I gotta ask you.
Trixie Mattel
Wait, I gotta ask. Have you ever seen the first season, the Parenting? No.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I saw, I saw it, but there were new episodes, I think. Or no, I guess I didn't finish it. I didn't finish it.
Trixie Mattel
I'm only up to season. I am on the season that's about the plane.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Airplane. I haven't started that yet.
Trixie Mattel
Okay. The parenting one is wild. The kid. Do you think it was wild?
Katya Zamolodchikova
I was like, I found myself. I'm like, okay, what reality is the real one right now? And in which reality should I be actively concerned about this child?
Trixie Mattel
What about when the child starts to think it's his dad?
Katya Zamolodchikova
That's what I'm Saying I was like, this is heartbreaking. Is he a monster?
Trixie Mattel
Right. What about in episode two of that first season? Nathan, please come on the pod. Pod.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Anytime, anytime, day or night. 2:00am Please, Nathan, come on.
Trixie Mattel
At 2:00am on the pod. Our first live episode in Cover of Darkness. And what about the second episode where the guy is trying to talk to his estranged brother at a raising cane's chicken finger restaurant? It's in the people in the restaurant has fake chicken and they're holding up.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And they can't talk. Union rules. Like the little kids party.
Trixie Mattel
They can't talk. Yeah, the love that. Which by the way, fake talking is more energy than.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Thank you. It's more. Well, I guess you don't have to learn.
Trixie Mattel
Well, that makes me think of real tv. Whenever you see a party and it's like Janine, should we go dance?
Katya Zamolodchikova
And they're like, oh, dancing.
Trixie Mattel
No music extras are there going, that is so weird.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I've done it. I've done it. I can't remember where, but I did it.
Trixie Mattel
I hope it. It's a slow dance and you're like no SL.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Like Elaine.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I owe $949 to SAG. What do you think about that?
Trixie Mattel
You do? What do you think about me calling it sag?
Katya Zamolodchikova
I owe me my SIG extra card.
Trixie Mattel
Why do you owe money to sag? You're not in it. You don't work.
Katya Zamolodchikova
You don't, you know, job having bitch.
Trixie Mattel
By the way, that's, that's seg. We didn't book anything this year, but we would like our due.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Listen, I'm all for unions. If they want to come give me a rectal exam, that's fine.
Trixie Mattel
Fran Drescher needs your money. Give her ninety dollars.
Katya Zamolodchikova
How much is 949? But I think every, every year it's like three grand.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah, I mean I think we should pay it. But why are you behind? You didn't pay.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I don't know. I just got an email that said you're May. Dues are due. You fat, ugly. You won't. We won't book you for nothing. But.
Trixie Mattel
Well, I've seen how much you complain on union things. Imagine how much you complain on an independent program with like here's your bag of Cheetos.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah. And take that dog sled up the mountain. Yeah, bitch.
Trixie Mattel
Have you ever. Well, non union work. All of drag is you're being paid with a, you know, cocaine use.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Union sanctioned cocaine brand dresser approved cocaine.
Trixie Mattel
This weekend I saw cocaine use for the first time. No, it's Just like, it's been a while.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Cocaine. Champagne.
Trixie Mattel
It was cocaine. It was in Mexico.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Wait, you went to Mexico?
Trixie Mattel
Yes, this weekend.
Katya Zamolodchikova
The hot air balloon.
Trixie Mattel
Oh, my God. About it.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Talk about.
Trixie Mattel
Okay, well, I guess I. Can we go back to what? Because. Well, it's Mexico. Later.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Okay, we can save it for the next part.
Trixie Mattel
But I saw cocaine. Well, okay, go back. I didn't see cocaine use, but I heard someone was doing it.
Katya Zamolodchikova
That is not the same thing, you stupid bitch. Oh, my God. So you didn't actually see it?
Trixie Mattel
No, I was working. I was in. I was in drag, but I had someone run to. Oh, run to my dressing room and grab this. And they were like, someone was doing cocaine. I was like, in your dressing room? Well, I was sharing a dressing room.
Katya Zamolodchikova
With people who do cocaine.
Trixie Mattel
Cocaine use.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Okay.
Trixie Mattel
And I guess people do it. I just, like, forget about it. And then you see the cocaine use and you go, holy. It's like seeing an Amish person or something. It's like, whoa. You know?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Well, I associate cocaine with straight people.
Trixie Mattel
They love it.
Katya Zamolodchikova
K is very gay. K is gay. Coke is straight. Coke is woke up.
Trixie Mattel
Well, because coke is, like, very uppy.
Katya Zamolodchikova
But the gates for the drinkers, you know, like, it sobers me up so that I can drive.
Trixie Mattel
That's fierce.
Katya Zamolodchikova
That's crazy.
Trixie Mattel
It's actually.
Katya Zamolodchikova
But actually, like, that's the feeling that straight people have on cocaine. Like, I need a little bump so I can drive home. Do you know that?
Trixie Mattel
Yeah, I do.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's crazy.
Trixie Mattel
You know, I know that Gen Z doesn't drink because it's obviously, they're in a much worse financial bucket than us when we were that age. It's like the, you know, the economic stretch is much worse. And also, I understand that they're more health conscious because they know that, you know, alcohol shrinks your brain and, you know, the ethanol kills the cells of your walls, all kinds of stuff. Okay, buy a bottle of pink Sir Vodka. Go ahead. But I also think it's crazy that. Do young straight people not know Gen Z? Back in the day, we used to go to the bar with a handle of booze in the trunk. You step outside, you chug booze in the parking lot, pre and then go back in the bar. You can go into the bar and actually not buy many drinks.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Absolutely. You can go get a water.
Trixie Mattel
Boof.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
Boofy the vampire. Sl.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Boof the bourbon.
Trixie Mattel
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Katya Zamolodchikova
So someone was doing cocaine in your dressing room and then you went on a hot air balloon ride.
Trixie Mattel
Okay. So I had to go. Well, I got the opportunity to go to Mexico City this weekend, which is just a beautiful city. My God, love it. Mexico pouring out from Mexico City. Beautiful people, nice people. Stunning heads of hair. Thick, glossy, not balls. Gorgeous hairs. And I went with two girlfriends from college and I said I'm going to Mexico to do Tecate Emblema and it's going to be a huge music festival. I'm going to get to dj. Would you guys like to come? We can all hang out. And they said sure. So my friends Becca and Claire shout out to the pod who you've met both them several times.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Love them both.
Trixie Mattel
So they told me I could tell this story. Poor Claire gets the. Gets the good. The good diarrhea. She gets the good diarrhea. The kind where you don't have time to close the bathroom door behind you when you're running in there. You know what I mean? Like I felt the earth.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh, you know that is that. Yeah, that jet pack diarrhea that's 3 inches off the of the toilet seat.
Trixie Mattel
Not to get cybertruck diarrhea. The real damn.
Katya Zamolodchikova
What'd she do? She drinks some water from the tap.
Trixie Mattel
Well, poor thing. She was well enough to go to my thing. Which you know, Becca and Claire aren't music festival people. And and so they. Yeah, they were very support watch me and clap and enjoy it. And then I thought, well you guys, if we get through this, we're going to a real tourism the next few days.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
So we got to do my show and then we'll go do real. We went to see a castle in Mexico City. A Mexican castle. And then something they don't tell you about Mexico. Mexico is very old.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, they have.
Trixie Mattel
That is older than old. So we got in a hot air balloon.
Katya Zamolodchikova
That didn't stress you out at all?
Trixie Mattel
Okay.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I find it to. I find it completely terrorizing. So like there was a lot of.
Trixie Mattel
Reasons you wouldn't have gone first up. We had to be picked up at the hotel at 4:30 in the morning?
Katya Zamolodchikova
No ma' am.
Trixie Mattel
Okay, 4:30 in the morning?
Katya Zamolodchikova
No ma' am.
Trixie Mattel
The day before Becca goes, so tomorrow we have pick up at 4:30. And then she goes and you said in a text that you were fine with it. And I was like damn, she's got me. Cuz she knew I was about to launch into a complaint.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Wait, why 4:30.
Trixie Mattel
It's so early because we got to drive an hour out of the city, get in the. They have. Give you coffee, sign the waiver, whatever, and then you get in. Okay, so, Becca, first of all, Claire can't come because she has diarrhea. So that bodes well because you don't want to react in a hot air balloon. You don't. You are a hot air balloon.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Mom.
Trixie Mattel
What, are you gonna hang out the side of the basket, baby?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Poop little booty off the side?
Trixie Mattel
Yes. And the young, the Nina's and the abuelitas below do not deserve you to shit on them.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Face speckled with brown.
Trixie Mattel
You look up and see a white ass just shitting like. No. You know what I mean? So then. So Claire doesn't go.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And Claire's big white ass.
Trixie Mattel
And so we. We feel bad because Claire's. She has a. She has a minor in Spanish. She got a master's in Spanish. Oh, she speaks fluent Spanish. And it was like, Claire's our guide. And because she's dedicated so much of life to learning Spanish, we were like, this is a really her trip.
Katya Zamolodchikova
This is her moment.
Trixie Mattel
And then she couldn't go. And so we. We feel horrible for her because not only can she not go, she's at home sick.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is she, like, helping you on the toilet, like, with phrases?
Trixie Mattel
No, she's texting us, being like, you know, miss you guys. Wish I could come. And we feel awful. And so then it's me and our group, and we end up. We're in a van. They don't tell you this. They put you in a van, a huge sprinter van with a bunch of other people who are going, sure, Straight people. Oh, straight. Like. And when I see straight people in their 20s on a trip, I immediately think hostile. I think, this is how horror movies start.
Katya Zamolodchikova
This is human trafficking.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah. Like, come on, Troy, this isn't funny. And then you, like, walk over and get your tits hacked off. You know? So, like, everything about a straight some.
Katya Zamolodchikova
German businessman is, like, on. Watching on a monitor.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah. So I am the last person to get in the van. And I'm sitting in this single seat, and, you know, Becky with the good hair is behind me, this blonde girl in a white linen dress with a white linen shirt, and she's ready for her Instagram. I was gonna say Mexico moment. And I hope she doesn't hear this. And I'm sorry to tell the story. She starts throwing up in the moving vehicle leaving Mexico City. She starts going. And then she's going up and over. A little bit over. So then her boyfriend saves the day, goes, hey, senor, can we pull over.
Katya Zamolodchikova
My girlfriend to blow chunks.
Trixie Mattel
And I have my headphones in, and one part of me is grossed out. The other part of me is like. The other part of me's like, it's early. This is crazy. And you know what I thought of immediately? Katya's gonna love to hear about this. So she's what? We're in Mexico. So centimeters. She's eight centimeters behind me, puking. And the guy's on the highway, and he goes, I can't stop. We're on the highway. So he keeps driving. She keeps puking.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Puking on what? Where? In her dress.
Trixie Mattel
To her credit, she got up and there was no puke. She must have been puking down her shirt, protecting the group.
Katya Zamolodchikova
That is. That's cunt. That's considerate.
Trixie Mattel
And she gets off, and she's in a white linen. And when she walks by me, some droplet hits me here. So I'm already like, great. I'm in a dye, covered in pink and a hot air.
Katya Zamolodchikova
You're going to be Gwyneth Paltrow in contagion.
Trixie Mattel
So she gets off, and her lovely boyfriend helps her off. And she turns to the rest of the van, which is like eight more of her friends, and goes, like, you guys just go without me. I don't want everybody's time to be ruined. We will Uber back. It's totally fine. So we leave her. So I'm like, yeah, the straight people are dropping like flies. We've lost my friend. We've lost her. Right? And so. And it's also like, you know, you feel corny as a Caucasian person on vacation in Mexico to get sick. It feels corny. Boots.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's a little predictable.
Trixie Mattel
It's like coming out, Coming out day.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you guys.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah. So we get there, it's so early, the sun is starting to rise. And I'm standing in a field outside of Mexico City. Like, here we are, girls. And I see 20, 30 hot air balloons starting to get erected with a balloon. And it occurs to me, they do this 20 or 30 times a day, every day. This can't be unsafe. So I ask Google, I say, is it unsafe to hot air balloon? And Google says, it's one of the safest. It's the safest form of air travel, and it's safer than driving. So I think, okay, yeah. I mean, not for Ms. Puke behind me.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's not safe for her also, actually think about it you get sick talking puke. Not that one.
Trixie Mattel
Right.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Hot air balloon. Fabulous place.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Portable toilet.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Just outside and you know what I mean, and shout.
Trixie Mattel
And I. I don't want to expose this woman's information, so I don't know her name or anything, but her name.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Is Kelsey Robinson, 616.
Trixie Mattel
Claire, friend of the pod. Told me I could use her name. So thanks.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Thank you, Claire.
Trixie Mattel
You know, and also, I don't know yourself, story on vacation is not exactly novel. Travel up everybody's.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
Body except ours. I know because it's all we do.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
It's always diarrhea.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's like if mommy, if you stay sick, you don't have to get sick.
Trixie Mattel
Everyone my group had diarrhea.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
Except me. And I'm sitting there with my, you know, 19 inch sig, like whatever, you know, I'm cast iron, stomach completely fine. I'm like, you know. So we walk over to the hot air balloon and I'm like, holy shit, this is happening. And it occurs to me, this is a balloon in the sky with a basket.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And fire.
Trixie Mattel
And fire.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Fire. So a basket, fire. A giant balloon.
Trixie Mattel
And I'm thinking, where's the gas? How do I know the whole thing doesn't start on fire? And by the way, last week in Mexico City, last week there was a viral video of a hot air balloon starting on fire and falling to its death. Last week, somebody in my group sends it. I said, thanks so much.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Is the first time in like 100 years apparently.
Trixie Mattel
I don't know. So it takes off, the guy starts going, they pull a thing and hot. Hot fire.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Propane or whatever.
Trixie Mattel
Yes.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
And we start lifting and there are six to eight men guiding it off the ground. And before you know it, we are.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Floating away like a roller coaster with no track tea.
Trixie Mattel
And it's a basket maybe the size of a quarter of this room.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Okay.
Trixie Mattel
Small.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Do you. Is there chairs inside?
Trixie Mattel
No, but it's cut into a middle section where just the operator is the pilot. And I looked up they have real training where they get like certifications. Like a real pilot, I would hope.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
But I didn't know.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's not like a tandem bicycle. You need some credentials.
Trixie Mattel
Well, I didn't know if it was like super regulated the way planes are. I didn't know, you know, do you need a license to skydive? I don't know.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I would not get in a helicopter without doing some research.
Trixie Mattel
Right. What about a helicopter? Like from one of the hair shows, the helicopter, I hold her legs yeah. And she just goes, that's the safest way to travel.
Katya Zamolodchikova
You hold her thighs really tight.
Trixie Mattel
Of course, you can only go from a hair show to a Sephora and back. That's all you can do.
Katya Zamolodchikova
You know, you get an Ulta if.
Trixie Mattel
You want because you need to get hair sprayed once you get there, you know, and you better hope the hair doesn't come out of the head. So we're in the air at first. We're a little bit off the air and I'm like, this is so cool. This is crazy. I look off the edge and it occurs to me as we get really high, it occurs to me my feet are here. Then there's actual wicker basket. We're in a Easter basket in the sky.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Basket in the sky.
Trixie Mattel
And they have a JBL speaker playing like 99 red balloons. Come fly with me. 99 red balloons.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Real literal.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah, Coldplay. Sky full of stars. And I was like, this is crazy.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's also. It's a very well trodden, like, songwriting wise. The sky.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah. And then it occurs to me why it's so early. We're watching the sunrise from a balloon in the sky surrounded by 20 or 30 other balloons.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
It was like being in a Windows XP screensaver. It was so cool. If anybody has the privilege to go to Mexico, do it. We also.
Katya Zamolodchikova
How much did it cost?
Trixie Mattel
Don't remember. So we're. I also don't understand how money works there. Oh, here's your meal. It's 26, 000 pesos.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, yeah.
Trixie Mattel
I think we could just.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I know the same thing with rubles. Like, same thing with rubles. It's like $5 is 450,000 rubles.
Trixie Mattel
Why are we doing all that? Like, why are we doing all that?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Why don't you just, like, cut some of those zeros off you?
Trixie Mattel
Are there pennies there?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Well, pesos.
Trixie Mattel
I know, but is there anything lower? Like dollars, Quarters?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, yeah. They've got to have change. So look it up.
Trixie Mattel
1 peso is cents.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It like 01.
Trixie Mattel
So what could be smaller? That's why I'm asking.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh, no. Oh, I see what you mean. Well, of course it could be smaller if they do like 150. Is anything ever 150?
Trixie Mattel
There's pesos and the paquitos.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I think we should all be using the. The.
Trixie Mattel
The toilet crypto. Oh, the dogecoin, for sure. The trump coin. And so we were in the balloon because once I get over the fear of it, I go, oh, my God, we're going to see Mexican pyramids. I'm from the balloon. From the balloon. The balloon lands and then I get to go to the pyramids, which, fun fact.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Look at you complaining.
Trixie Mattel
Are called temples. They're only called pyramids colloquially because they're not hollow and it's not really a pyramid. They're flat on top.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh, I didn't know that.
Trixie Mattel
And they were named by the Aztecs, who only found them and thought they were built by gods, because the people who built them are from so long ago, we have no idea who they are or, like what they called themselves. Oh, my God, it was so crazy to be somewhere so old. I love that. And then we got to go down to. Into caves to see where the people slept because it's so hot. They slept underground.
Katya Zamolodchikova
That didn't freak you out?
Trixie Mattel
No, it was just amazing. Mexico's very cunty.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I know.
Trixie Mattel
Shout out to Mexico.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, Shout out to Mexico.
Trixie Mattel
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Katya Zamolodchikova
The country of Mexico. The country of Mexico de Mexico. What about our country only being like 40 years old?
Trixie Mattel
That's the thing. I'm like, she's like 45 years old.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
Well, is Boston no, like Native American shit? Well, yes, but America loves to not exactly build museums for that.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And also, they don't really love talking about that.
Trixie Mattel
No. So we're at. We're at this castle in Mexico and we're like, wow, this was built for a while. It was used as a headquarters for military for a while. Presidents of Mexico and emperors of Mexico, like, lived here in America. The way we completely do not acknowledge the history of indigenous people. We act like American history started in 1492.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And also, how about the, like, other English. English speaking countries, like, doing land acknowledgments when you land, like in Australia and New Zealand, for example, we would like.
Trixie Mattel
To acknowledge that we live on the land of the Walla Wall.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's like so aggressive and like. And here we are on the very opposite side of that spectrum. Like, what? Genocide, bitch. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Slavery. What are you talking about?
Trixie Mattel
We are from the era of Sarah Palin telling us that slavery was a hoax.
Katya Zamolodchikova
If you believe it didn't happen, guess what? It didn't.
Trixie Mattel
I just was like, wow, Mexico. Relating themselves to this culture and treating it as their ancestors instead of basically acting like, bloop, sorry. Yep. The people that we don't even know the name of it because the.
Katya Zamolodchikova
So the Mayans and the Aztecs, are they contemporaries or. No.
Trixie Mattel
Aztecs found these structures and thought they were built by gods because they don't know what they thought. The people had a volcanic eruption or famine, but all those people are gone.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Who made them?
Trixie Mattel
We don't know.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Probably the same people who did Stonehenge. I recognize that work.
Trixie Mattel
I think it was. Oh, you know who it was? It was.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It was the Property brothers.
Trixie Mattel
Yes, it was the Property Brothers and Chaz Bona. For sure. It was Chaz Dean.
Katya Zamolodchikova
That's what I was gonna say.
Trixie Mattel
Wait, it was a chastity salon. It was a chat.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I saw this sign.
Trixie Mattel
There was a little overgrowth, jungle over Chaz Dean Salon.
Katya Zamolodchikova
We gotta talk about these billboards, mama. If you have the opportunity to get a billboard, I suggest you do it. It's a way. It's a great, wonderful way to remind people that you exist and that you are slaying the game.
Trixie Mattel
You would think she's a musical artist. It looks like. Like, this is Beyonce's Lemonade visual album. Oh, no, it's a Chaz Dean billboard.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Also, I feel like with. Especially with styling, like that particular profession where. Where desirability is so, like, pinned down to, like, elusiveness.
Trixie Mattel
Right.
Katya Zamolodchikova
You can't catch me because I'm so sought after.
Trixie Mattel
Right.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Being so aggressively, like, promotional is a very weird flex. You know what I mean?
Trixie Mattel
It's fierce.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah. Like, he could either be a total flop, like arsonist or a legend or somewhere in between, but probably one of the. You know, either or.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah. I mean, we sell things with our faces on them, but we're entertainers, you know?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah. We all. That's what we do.
Trixie Mattel
And it's not our faces. No, that's not us.
Katya Zamolodchikova
They're masks.
Trixie Mattel
They're masks.
Katya Zamolodchikova
His billboards are so fierce.
Trixie Mattel
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Katya Zamolodchikova
Mexico at the markets for 0.$1.
Trixie Mattel
And this gentleman, I said, so what do they mean? I was like, this is. They have these big chubby cheeks with angel wings. And he said, well, they're the children. People just like them. And I said, great. Thanks for the. This is a really interesting thought. He was gonna be like, oh, it's.
Katya Zamolodchikova
A religious figure or like it represents the children of people, of gang members slain by the Sinaloa cartel.
Trixie Mattel
He said, people like. And people think they're cute. And I said, thank you, senior.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Sometimes it just is what it is.
Trixie Mattel
It just is what it is. And that's enough. You know what I mean?
Katya Zamolodchikova
We don't need to be anything more than what we are.
Trixie Mattel
What did you do last weekend? Because when I'm gone, I know that you're not working. No, you did work.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I did a huge if true.
Trixie Mattel
What did you do?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Mary a girl? That's a great question, but I did it.
Trixie Mattel
I thought you worked in San Francisco with Peaches.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I worked at Stanford, in Palo Alto. At Stanford University with Peaches, whose pattern I went with. She gave me this lovely T shirt support.
Trixie Mattel
The girls love Peaches.
Katya Zamolodchikova
She's always a delight to work with. She dishes backstage and it's so Funny. She's great. And then she's a real humdinger.
Trixie Mattel
She's not exactly of a great beauty.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I love working with her because I look amazing.
Trixie Mattel
She's not exactly an impenetrable fortress when it comes to gossip.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Let's just say she lets people ride the subway for free. Totally.
Trixie Mattel
She was. One time she was like, I heard from so and so that you said that I was gossip. I was like, you're gossiping now you're doing it. Now you're calling me to tell me what you heard about you.
Katya Zamolodchikova
God, I love her. It's so transparent. I didn't know all this stuff about, like, the. The continuing mystery about Hecklen and all that stuff, which I find fascinating.
Trixie Mattel
Talk about it.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Well, I don't know about it. Nobody does. That's the whole point.
Trixie Mattel
Basically, there is a movement beseeching and suggesting and.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And there's also, like. There's media, right? Like Hulu or somebody or whatever.
Trixie Mattel
There is, like, a suggestion that this was not reported upon properly. It was not investigated properly because of a. Because of the nature of it.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yes. Because potentially, or allegedly, there may be people with very high profiles involved in the.
Trixie Mattel
Right.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's like, so say, for example, you're Kate Middleton.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And you're going to a PNP orgy, right? You don't. When somebody dies at the orgy, you want to scoot off real quick and not have the British royal family know that you went to a PNP orgy.
Trixie Mattel
The freak off.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, it's the freak who's gonna match your freak.
Trixie Mattel
Who's.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, but you know what I mean, that's. That's the implication.
Trixie Mattel
I mean, I don't know if people remember. I think we talked about this on the pod when it happened, but Peaches and Heklina were in London living together, working on some projects, and Heklina passed away.
Katya Zamolodchikova
No, she died.
Trixie Mattel
She passed herself away. She passed herself away. And Heklina was such a force. And in a way, you know, Peaches and I have joked about, like, listen, for her, Kalina, sex, drugs and rock and roll, what a way to go. Of course, right?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Not like slipping in a puddle and whacking your head on the sidewalk, right?
Trixie Mattel
But the way it was investigated and handled and the accountability and, I mean, I don't think it's wild to suggest that if it's an LGBT person or a black person person or, you know, that things don't get exactly their due diligence, you know, and so people just want that type of justice across the Board. Because Hecklin was so big and also.
Katya Zamolodchikova
So full of herself. So, like, I feel like this is very fitting. She's like, y' all ain't gonna forget me.
Trixie Mattel
Like, why are you all. Stop talking about me. Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
She's like, it's only been two weeks.
Trixie Mattel
Hello.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Excuse me. I definitely want foul play. Like, I went DNR and then foul play. You should have been on my sheets. Yeah, I. I need you to not resuscitate me, but not stop talking about me.
Trixie Mattel
Well, do you remember when it happened? Do you remember what we said to each other?
Katya Zamolodchikova
That's we picked up the race, I.
Trixie Mattel
Gotta be you, she said. Should have been you, she said. I thought it was gonna be me, too.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, well, I mean, duh.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Like, that's just the. The brutal reality of it.
Trixie Mattel
It's tough. I mean, it's. You know, we just lost Jiggly Vivian Chi Chi heckling like, the list of drag queens. Sahara. Like, unless you have drag queens, we lose. High profile drag queens is always odd.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Well, a. Because they're usually under 50.
Trixie Mattel
Right.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And anybody under 50, unless you're high.
Trixie Mattel
Too, then you're 90, 102. You know, you look really old, but.
Katya Zamolodchikova
What would you do if you got a call.
Trixie Mattel
To be on American Idol? To be on American Idol, the singing show? I would do it.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Would you ever work if America's Next Top Model were hiring, like, male models and they approached you, like, in person?
Trixie Mattel
I would think it was a Josie Grossi situation.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Right.
Trixie Mattel
I would say, nathan Fielder, come out okay. You know what I mean?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Trixie Mattel
Do you hear about that part of it?
Katya Zamolodchikova
No.
Trixie Mattel
Nathan Fielder and Nathan for you, I believe. Or wait, no. In one of his shows, he has the people audition for a singing competition and pick somebody to go to Hollywood. And you have these. This girl was like, I flew myself out to audition for this show that's a singing competition that wasn't real, and she spent her own money and took off work.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Do you think there's an unethical angle of what he does or exploitative facet to what he does? Because sometimes I've read certain critical pieces or whatever about it, but I'm like, I don't know. Sometimes it does seem a little like.
Trixie Mattel
Well, it's not exactly reality, but I wouldn't say that it crosses more lines than reality television across the board.
Katya Zamolodchikova
But I don't think reality television is ever projecting a squeaky clean image. Like, a squeaky clean image.
Trixie Mattel
Right.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Do you know what I mean? Whereas, like, I don't know what you wouldn't really have any assumptions. He's deception. Like, that's actively deceiving, right?
Trixie Mattel
I don't know. Can I say that I don't have an opinion? Because I love the program.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I do, too.
Trixie Mattel
Something really different than anything else on tv. And there's no. There's also no rubric for what he's doing on TV right now.
Katya Zamolodchikova
No, but you know what he's up to. Like, we know.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
What he's up to. And we know that these are rubes. He's like. He's like juggling. You know what I mean?
Trixie Mattel
But then again, like, I don't know, like in the first season, the woman who agrees to do this live in marriage with him.
Katya Zamolodchikova
She's wild. She's wild, but she's also really, like.
Trixie Mattel
She was fine with it.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, she can tell. Like, that's not a person I want to feel sorry for. She's got this.
Trixie Mattel
What about when she's like, did you know that eating poop is satanic?
Katya Zamolodchikova
I love that she's so great.
Trixie Mattel
That's when you leaned in. You said, if eating poop makes you satanic, I.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Okay, wait, wait. I know we're not supposed to talk about poo poo and pee pee, but wait a minute. I tuned in on Netflix last night. No, on hbo Max, I think. And it was a guy who. He was pulling down his linen pants.
Trixie Mattel
Okay.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And his hairy butt head was caked with shit.
Trixie Mattel
What show was it?
Katya Zamolodchikova
It was. It was called.
Trixie Mattel
Gabby's Dollhouse. What? Have you ever seen that?
Katya Zamolodchikova
It was called Leaving Neverland. No, it was a comedy thing. And for the whole episode, he had shit caked legs, dick and balls and ass.
Trixie Mattel
Wow. And I was like, you know, can I tell you what Nathan reminds me of? Have you ever seen Bad Grandpa?
Katya Zamolodchikova
I have not.
Trixie Mattel
And Bad Grandpa people don't know that. Johnny Knoxville isn't this Grandpa.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Wait, wait, I thought that was with Robert Neil De Niro. Robert De Niro and Zac Efron. Sorry, but isn't there a movie called Bad Grandpa?
Trixie Mattel
I don't know.
Katya Zamolodchikova
With. With. With. I'm aware of that one.
Trixie Mattel
By the way, shout out to Mr. De Niro for being accepting of his trans child.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh, dirty Grandpa. My bad has a trans child.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah. And very accepting of.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Well, I would imagine.
Trixie Mattel
Is that sad? We have to clap. Is that sad? We have to clap for people, their children.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I know. Shit. So Bad Grandpa.
Trixie Mattel
We also got to talk about that new Wendy Williams documentary, because I watched that too.
Katya Zamolodchikova
There's a Wendy Williams documentary?
Trixie Mattel
Another one there's like one every two and a half weeks.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Also, HBO did a documentary about Blake Lively. The thing is not even near resolved.
Trixie Mattel
It's fierce.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's so crazy. It's like this is not even. This little moment has not even half over. No, you can't do a documentary about.
Trixie Mattel
It because people can't talk so well. The thing is, the only people they're going to get clips from is people who aren't involved in the case at all.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Perez Hilton.
Trixie Mattel
But then what do you want most of Peanut? Like, I don't know.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's so weird that, like, when the talking head is mostly Perez Hilton, that's when you know.
Trixie Mattel
All I want is a gritty Taylor. I want it to be Taylor Swift, but backlit. And they change your voice. But it's totally. We know she jumps at the. And we know it's her. We know it's her.
Katya Zamolodchikova
She's talking about all her.
Trixie Mattel
And she's available because Donald Trump said that she's not hot anymore and she fell off. Did you see that?
Katya Zamolodchikova
What girl?
Trixie Mattel
He sucks so bad. Also to allege that Taylor Swift is not popular and not pretty.
Katya Zamolodchikova
And also granting asylum for white South Africaners and then. And then falsely, like giving a whole little presentation about the Mary.
Trixie Mattel
He suggested that the white South African are getting genocided. It's fierce. It's fear in front of the South African president. It's fierce. All these people from Mexico, get out. But all of you white South Africaners, welcome.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Also, not to like, display my ignorance, but I couldn't help but notice that every time I see an ICE agent, their face is covered up.
Trixie Mattel
It's cunty.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Why is that?
Trixie Mattel
Well, it's.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Why would you cover up your.
Trixie Mattel
Proud of what they're doing? It's right up there with doing deals in the middle of the night or.
Katya Zamolodchikova
The Ku Klux Klan.
Trixie Mattel
Baby.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's the same thing. You're a domestic terrorist if you have your face covered.
Trixie Mattel
Well, vigilantism at its. At its worst, it's.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh, I know.
Trixie Mattel
We're supposed to keep it in the HBO series. Hbo. Max. In the HBO series Watchmen, they say masks make men cruel.
Katya Zamolodchikova
They do.
Trixie Mattel
I feel that way.
Katya Zamolodchikova
They make me horny.
Trixie Mattel
They make me horny. What about. No, I think mask singer, where they get gay guys to have to do like, pitbull songs.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I don't.
Trixie Mattel
London to bees. Is that. Is that Pitbull?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Caitlyn Jenner was on the Masked Singer.
Trixie Mattel
Now what is the chick talk on the clock? That's. Yes.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Wake up in the morning feeling like whoops. Yeah. Oh, what about that whole mess? Where's the HBO documentary about that ongoing investigation?
Trixie Mattel
Also, why didn't she go to Kris Jenner's faceperson?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Mama, that woman is 70 years old.
Trixie Mattel
Chris Jenner.
Katya Zamolodchikova
She's going back to high school.
Trixie Mattel
Kris Jenner gate kept the good plastic surgeon.
Katya Zamolodchikova
They she has him saw change to a radiator in a basement somewhere. That old bitch really got a weird haircut and waltzed into the room with a 17 year old face.
Trixie Mattel
It's giving freaky Friday. It's like, have we seen Kim? Is she old now? Did they switch bodies?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, she ripped the face off and sew it on. It's crazy easy.
Trixie Mattel
It's fierce. It's the best tick tock on the clock.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Hey kiddo. I love your like. I was like, okay, you get a weird little haircut to pull focus from the fact that you just de aged 35 years.
Trixie Mattel
Like I got an. I got a Dyson air wrap.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, no, it's just vitamins. A lot of vitamins.
Trixie Mattel
Water vitamins. It's just vitamins. That's really all it is.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Vitamins.
Trixie Mattel
Vibamins.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh my God. Wait, so Beyonce.
Trixie Mattel
Wait. Oh, okay. I thought you were gonna tell me more about your gig this weekend.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh, sure.
Trixie Mattel
What happened?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Well, me and Peaches hosted a show and that was it.
Trixie Mattel
Although you didn't even have to perform.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I did perform at the end. Little Italian number. I don't know why. And the. My. My Uncle Tom and my Aunt Karen. I think it's amazing.
Trixie Mattel
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I Wait a minute. In this America, you have an Aunt Karen and an Uncle Tom.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh my God. It's so funny. I didn't even realize that because they are literally the opposite. So they are like not racist. Complainer.
Trixie Mattel
That is so kind of my Uncle Tom. My Aunt Karen's coming from there.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Let me, let me. Like actually so funny.
Trixie Mattel
Jesus.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Uncle Tom is a. Owns a pilates studio, is. Did a butt modeling calendar in his youth. And Aunt Karen is the cuntiest, most laidback, kind of like just vibe.
Trixie Mattel
Just that people don't pick their names. And by the way.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
McBrady, 10 years ago, I think the name Karen was still okay.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah. Also I think Amy Poehler and TNFA talk about how like it was this close to being Amy. Karen.
Trixie Mattel
Oh.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Do you know what I mean? Like we have to use a scapegoat for this type of personality. And it's almost Amy.
Trixie Mattel
Amy's not bad.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I mean any name.
Trixie Mattel
Emma, Judy, Bethann.
Katya Zamolodchikova
McNavy, Braylon.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah. Beyonce. Okay, so I told you what I thought of it on, I think, two episodes ago. What did you get out of it?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Okay, so I was offered. So my friend Eddie, he was like, hey, do you wanna go to the Beyonce concert? I said, no, thank you, because I honestly don't really listen to her music, but thank you so much for thinking me. And then Spotify came through with a ticket for a little buffet seat. When there's food involved, I'm perked up and interested.
Trixie Mattel
So you won't go for Beyonce, but you go for Spotify? Swedish meatballs?
Katya Zamolodchikova
No. How dare you. Charcuterie fresh, replenished. Have you ever seen a charcuterie board replenished?
Trixie Mattel
No, actually, the Delta Sky Club replenished.
Katya Zamolodchikova
By the Senate under the COVID of night.
Trixie Mattel
You're right. And who went with Fina?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Saw Mark there, so that was amazing. Like, instantly a good time.
Trixie Mattel
Mark who?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Amanato, our producer.
Trixie Mattel
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
He was there randomly.
Trixie Mattel
Mark.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah. We had the time of our lives.
Trixie Mattel
Not random. He's dating Beyonce. He's the father of her children. His daughter Blue Ivy is doing her show.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Listen, I don't. I don't have Beyonce songs in my playlist. I don't have them downloaded. I never listen to her. I don't. I rarely think of her.
Trixie Mattel
Right.
Katya Zamolodchikova
This song. I mean, this song, this concert was the best thing I've ever seen in my life.
Trixie Mattel
The best thing I've ever seen in my life.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It's like she is doing something that. What? Yeah, I know. You told me, but I didn't believe it. I had to see it also. I had to see it with a full stomach.
Trixie Mattel
It was amazing. Did you feel proud to be American?
Katya Zamolodchikova
I understand. A hundred.
Trixie Mattel
She texted the next day. I know what you meant when you said proud to be an American.
Katya Zamolodchikova
It was like. And it's so funny.
Trixie Mattel
Hopeful.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Hopeful. It wasn't like an elegy to America. It was like a anthem. And it was like, I don't go up for any kind of country music, certainly not hers. I cried seven or eight times.
Trixie Mattel
I mean, I would say country music is hard to define because country music at its core is folk music. And folk music just means music passed down.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, I want to talk about, like, stars pivoting or changing lanes in their careers and being met with nothing but, like, hate and derision for it.
Trixie Mattel
Oh, what about the clips in the show from the news being like, apparently Beyonce thinks she's doing in country.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah, this black bitch wants to play White music. It's like, what are you talking about? She's born and raised in Houston, Texas.
Trixie Mattel
Also.
Katya Zamolodchikova
You gotta do street music. Like what?
Trixie Mattel
I guess a lot of country music lives in the South. There are a lot of people of color in the South, Mary.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah. News flash. Texas is very black.
Trixie Mattel
No kidding.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Anyway, so she was. The show was so. It was so good. The interstitial videos were so cunt and juicy that you didn't even miss her when she was changing. They were so cunt.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
You were like, oh, you. Screaming, screaming, screaming. She looks perfect. She performs the breasts, the legs, the hair, the hair, the face, the hair, the face. Every once in a while, she would do this to, like, mime. Getting sweat off her face. I don't think she was even sweating.
Trixie Mattel
The best singing I've ever heard live.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah. It was like an expert performance by an expert performer.
Trixie Mattel
I can't believe how much she said without. Without killing the vibe.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh, my God.
Trixie Mattel
She felt it. She communicated without making it too heavy.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Guess what else she did?
Trixie Mattel
What?
Katya Zamolodchikova
She started at 8:01, baby. 8:01pm I was like, oh, boner.
Trixie Mattel
It was for me, boner. Maybe 15 minutes long.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh, yeah.
Trixie Mattel
I'm just not used to that long of a piece.
Katya Zamolodchikova
So once I've. Once I've let the, like, the. It wash over me and I'm less, like, hyperbolic about it, I can, like, criticize the show. Absolutely. 15 minutes.
Trixie Mattel
A little long. Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
50 minutes too long. In the. In the second outfit with the. With the. The. The boot aloons.
Trixie Mattel
Right?
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
And when it starts to really kick off to Once, you start to maybe go, like, once you've looked at your watch at all, if you have the Renaissance portion starts, and then you got a tuck, and so you get a carpenter's tape out, you put on your. Your good hair, and I put on my cat suit. Check my technique. You know, no makeup, there's no time.
Katya Zamolodchikova
But everything else, it's so. I mean, Ren, I saw the Renaissance movie twice for some reason, and, like, that pink dress with the crisscross titties.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah. Anyways, that whole section was great. The robot things were cool.
Katya Zamolodchikova
The flying on a horseshoe, the flying on a car. I hated the last outfit, but in the moment.
Trixie Mattel
You didn't like the sparkly dress with the.
Katya Zamolodchikova
No, no. It was a black matte black bodysuit with the.
Trixie Mattel
With the America on the bottom.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I thought that was in the moment. I thought it was lovely. Now that I'm reflecting, I could have used something else, but who cares?
Trixie Mattel
What'd you think of the dress that was half blue, half red, and sparkling.
Katya Zamolodchikova
She didn't wear that.
Trixie Mattel
The night I went. It was a dress that glowed with lights.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Oh, the. The. The. The thingy.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
That was so cool. At first, I was like, oh, that's corny. And then I started to cry. No, no.
Trixie Mattel
I cried a lot also.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
Using, like, using samples of music that's like, American radio music to talk about America in a. In a fresh way.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
Was like, she's on some type of shit we wouldn't understand. Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I mean, she's operating at a. At a level in a frequency that is not very well known to other people.
Trixie Mattel
Right.
Katya Zamolodchikova
She's that bitch.
Trixie Mattel
It was awesome. I just was like, wow. I just saw maybe one of the best things I'll ever see in my life.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah. And, like. And to not be a huge rabid fan, that's what I'm saying, is, like, really impressive.
Trixie Mattel
Well, that's how I felt about Madonna, too. I was like, okay, I know probably a dozen Madonna songs. Songs by heart.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
But that's just because I'm a drag queen. I'm not like, fina, where I own all these albums.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah. Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
And after Madonna, I was like, damn. Lifelong fan now.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
After Beyonce, I was like, I now would walk into traffic for that person.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I know. I was like, now I just really wish I had seen the Mrs. Carter show, because I want to see her do blow.
Trixie Mattel
People say that. That was a wonderful concert too. It's interesting to go and talk to people who've seen her three, four, five times.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
That's the only.
Katya Zamolodchikova
The big gag of the night was we rolled up into the parking lot, and they were like, $100.
Trixie Mattel
For parking.
Katya Zamolodchikova
$100.
Trixie Mattel
Did they sell you one of those bags?
Katya Zamolodchikova
No. Oh, they did. I got it.
Trixie Mattel
They said to me, you have to have a clear bag. So I paid $10 for a clear bag. No one asked about a clear bag.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Sweet. That's amazing.
Trixie Mattel
So now it's my Beyonce concert merch. I have a clear vinyl bag.
Katya Zamolodchikova
They. I got a embroidered denim jacket and a little rucksack, courtesy of Spotify.
Trixie Mattel
They're very nice.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah. And that was. I just. I thought that was so cunt. They were like. I was like, how much is parking? Like, a hundred dollars.
Trixie Mattel
You better work.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I was like, okay. I guess it was a $50 show.
Trixie Mattel
Because, you know, I know in Englewood, I'm like, rent, here's 100.
Katya Zamolodchikova
But I married, like, after the. The insult in the crime of, like, a $3,000 ticket. You're going to slap me with $100 parking? That's so crazy.
Trixie Mattel
Well, Englewood is in L. A, which means everything is still crazy expensive. And they got you.
Katya Zamolodchikova
They got.
Trixie Mattel
They know you want to see Beyonce.
Katya Zamolodchikova
However, I will give them this. Mama. We were in and out of that parking lot in record time. Those whores know how to, like, get that hamster wheel rolling.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Because we were. I was so impressed how early I got home.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I was like, this is gonna be a nightmare. 10,000 people or whatever.
Trixie Mattel
I, like, left that concert in the car in shock.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Yeah.
Trixie Mattel
I was just, like, it took me days to honestly even process what I saw.
Katya Zamolodchikova
I agree. I agree. And also, it took me days not to get like. I'm like, oh, I'm being so annoying about this, you know, because it's really, like, it was crazy.
Trixie Mattel
I was calling people and being like, have you heard the good news?
Katya Zamolodchikova
It was very mission. I was like, she converted me.
Trixie Mattel
I called my brother who, you know, let's just say is not on the same political side of life as me, and I said, I think that she created something that you and I would both enjoy for different reasons. Not in a bad way.
Katya Zamolodchikova
No.
Trixie Mattel
I think this is like a concert that could heal America.
Katya Zamolodchikova
She puts one heel on the dresser on the and the red states, and the other heel and the dresser in the blue state, and she shits everybody. It's fierce.
Trixie Mattel
Yeah. Shout out to Beyonce. She is going to be on the pod next week.
Katya Zamolodchikova
So, yes, we have Beyonce, Kelly, and Michelle. And then we have Tina Knowles, of course, promoting her new book. And then Kris Jenner, of course, my.
Trixie Mattel
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Episode Summary: "Book a Ride with Beyonce's Balloons Today!"
Release Date: June 17, 2025
Hosts: Trixie Mattel & Katya Zamolodchikova
Trixie and Katya begin the episode with a heartfelt message addressing the escalating tensions and recent atrocities occurring in Los Angeles. They express their concerns about the actions of ICE, referring to the organization as a "domestic terrorist organization" and denouncing the aggressive enforcement tactics being employed.
Notable Quote:
Katya Zamolodchikova ([03:24]): "I think that ICE is a domestic terrorist organization. ... Why do they look like a militia?"
Despite the heavy topics, the duo emphasizes the significance of maintaining levity and humor. They highlight their role in providing relief and making listeners laugh, asserting that humor is their most substantial cultural contribution.
Notable Quote:
Trixie Mattel ([04:29]): "It's relief."
Trixie and Katya delve into the recent rebranding of HBO Max back to HBO Max, expressing their frustration with the constant name changes. They humorously critique the lack of clarity and the confusion it causes among viewers.
Notable Quote:
Trixie Mattel ([05:02]): "And now we can say it without people correct. It's actually Max."
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to recounting Trixie's adventurous trip to Mexico City, which included a hot air balloon ride. She narrates humorous and chaotic moments, such as her friend Claire's bout with diarrhea that jeopardized their balloon experience.
Notable Quote:
Trixie Mattel ([25:13]): "You look up and see a white ass just shitting like. No. You know what I mean?"
They also explore cultural and historical insights about Mexico, reflecting on ancient structures and indigenous histories.
Notable Quote:
Katya Zamolodchikova ([35:57]): "The Mayans and the Aztecs, are they contemporaries or...? No."
Towards the end of the episode, Trixie shares her transformative experience attending Beyoncé's concert. Initially indifferent to Beyoncé's music, the performance deeply moved her, leading to a newfound admiration and emotional response.
Notable Quote:
Trixie Mattel ([56:47]): "She put one heel on the dresser on the red states, and the other heel on the dresser in the blue state, and she shits everybody. It's fierce."
The hosts engage in a conversation about reality TV shows, specifically mentioning Nathan For You and comparing its ethical boundaries to traditional reality television. They debate the authenticity and potential exploitative elements of such programs.
Notable Quote:
Katya Zamolodchikova ([47:30]): "But reality television is never projecting a squeaky clean image."
Trixie and Katya examine how Mexico acknowledges its indigenous heritage compared to the United States. They critique the superficial treatment of historical narratives and the erasure of indigenous contributions.
Notable Quote:
Trixie Mattel ([35:10]): "We act like American history started in 1492."
Conclusion
In this episode of The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya, the hosts seamlessly blend humor with critical social commentary. From addressing pressing issues in Los Angeles and reflecting on cultural histories to sharing personal travel mishaps and transformative concert experiences, Trixie and Katya offer listeners a rich tapestry of discussions that are both entertaining and thought-provoking.