RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7 Eps 9 & 10: "Prancing, Poo, and Panache" with Trixie and Katya

Summary

The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7 Eps 9 & 10: "Prancing, Poo, and Panache"

Release Date: September 9, 2025
Hosts: Trixie Mattel & Katya Zamolodchikova
Guests: Kennedy Davenport, Ginger Minj (via voice messages)
Theme: A hilarious, shade-filled, and honest rewatch and recap of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7 Episodes 9 and 10, focused on “John Waters: Divine Inspiration” and “Prancing with the Queens.” Expect behind-the-scenes tea, performance analysis, runway critiques, production insight, and signature wild banter.

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Overview

In this energetic episode, Trixie and Katya (joined by Kennedy and special voice notes from Ginger Minj) dissect the John Waters musical challenge ("Divine Inspiration") and the dancing mash-up challenge ("Prancing with the Queens") from their own Drag Race season. With drag icon candor, they relive the struggles (and joys) of revolting production numbers, disastrous group dynamics, frenemies, iconic runways, and controversial eliminations. Not a moment is spared from their pointed, campy critique—whether it’s the infamous word “poo,” runway clownery, or RuPaul’s raptor-like legs.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Awards, Webby’s, and The Power of Fandom

• [03:06] Katya shares her (possibly dubious) Webby Award for Best Dance/Performance, sparking instant skepticism from Trixie.
  • "Why are you mad?" (Katya, 03:50)
  • "When don't I dance?" (Katya, 03:57)
  • Trixie suggests the award is probably fan-driven: "It's giving Russian bot." (Trixie, 05:17)
  • Both marvel at how Drag Race fanbases can “hack the mainframe,” illustrating their reach beyond simple TV contest voting.

2. Untucked Gets "Gritty and Sad"

• [10:31] Trixie and Katya mourn the loss of classic “Untucked,” comparing the S7 black-and-white version to "planet Earth surveillance footage."
  • Katya: "It was like going to meet Santa and seeing him smoking behind the mall." (12:45)
  • Trixie: “No more Teleporters to Mars. No Sugar Daddy. There was none of that.” (11:39)
  • They both agree: season 7 Untucked was a letdown compared to earlier exciting (and chaotic) lounge episodes.

3. The John Waters Musical Challenge (Divine Inspiration)

• [13:00] Discussion of John Waters challenge: both knew his films and felt comfortable (“not going home this week!”).
• The infamous “poo” song is dissected:
  • "You can’t say 'poop' on TV, so you’re allowed to say 'poo.'" (Katya, 13:57)
  • Universal consensus: the “Poo” group number was a set-up and borderline unwatchable.
  • Trixie: "None of us, not even Ginger, could have done that song well. Because the song was unlistenable. I have a huge, visceral reaction to the word 'poo.'" (15:20)
  • Sympathy for the trio stuck with that part, and speculation about production “shenanigans”:
    • "This number sucked. Yeah, it really sucked. I hated watching it back." (Trixie, 28:53)
  • Ginger Minj weighs in via voicemail, confirming the challenge was as miserable as it looked.

4. “Eggs, Eggs, Eggs!” – Legendary Drag Theater

• [21:13] Celebratory breakdown of the challenge highlight—Ginger’s performance as Edith Massey:
  • Trixie: “This is an Oscar, Tony-winning performance. It's unbelievable how able she is to channel Edith Massey... it's just perfect.” (21:13)
  • Ginger recounts getting dozens of eggs smashed on her for 45 minutes, and the perils of egg-covered hip pads (24:00).
  • Katya: “She commits. She never broke character.” (25:09)

5. Runway: "Ugly Dress Realness"

• [34:55] The queens rehash what made the "ugliest dress" runway so subjective (and so much fun):
  • Praise for Violet’s speedy (and genuinely ugly) clown creation.
  • Trixie proudly describes her iconic outfit: "A craft fair at a meth lab." (35:56)
  • Katya: "The dress is so... is this too far?" (35:59)
  • RuPaul’s puns: "Knitter, please." (36:41)
  • Candid critique of each other's and competitors' looks. General shade at Ginger and Kennedy’s outfits.
  • Violet’s attitude and public statements get a brief, shady roasting.

6. Post-Episode 9: Farewell to Fame

• [42:31] Miss Fame’s elimination and abilities are discussed candidly but with admiration:
  • Trixie: "She's an incredible artist behind the camera... but she's not a performer." (41:58)
  • Both agree—her drag is stunning but not stage-ready, and her success deserves celebration, not hate.
  • "I'm all about celebrating people for what they're good at. Fame is good at what she's good at. She's the best at it." (Katya, 43:14)

7. Episode 10 (“Prancing with the Queens”):

• [46:11] Reliving the wild mini-challenge (taping faces for “Real Housewives” intros).
  • Katya: "Your face tape was nuts, girl." (47:43)
  • Trixie: "Again, you look... I thrive." (47:45)
• Dance pairings are debated:
  • Violet’s smart picks set the tone (48:22).
  • Pairings: Tango/Vogue (Trixie & Violet), Country/Robot (Katya & Ginger), Charleston/Twerk (Pearl & Kennedy).
• The infamous moment of RuPaul walking with exposed legs:
  • Trixie: "This is the first time we learned RuPaul has legs." (49:16)
  • Katya: "Like a raptor or ostrich... it's weird that she crab-walked everywhere." (51:12)
• Behind the scenes: injuries, exhaustion, and partnership frustrations
  • Katya: “I should have spoke up and said I can't be lifting Ginger Minj... I drop her on my lap.” (52:32)
  • Ginger: Confirms via voice memos that rehearsals were cut short due to injuries. Both felt they did ok with a rough hand.

8. Dance Costumes—Sewing Under Duress

• [58:18] Hidden challenge: the queens had to make their dance outfits.
  • Trixie: "They give us the nastiest polyester tuxedo...and it was difficult. I made that half dress.” (58:29)
  • Katya calls out Kennedy’s “car wash” look as worst of the day (59:01).

9. Runway Results & Lip Syncs

• [60:24] Paired judging leads Katya and Ginger to the bottom.
  • Katya: _"It ends up being me and Ginger. That kind of sucked because I was like, 'well, Ginger's been here the whole time.'"
  • Lip sync song: "Show Me Love." Katya survives, but the process leaves her feeling dissatisfied with her Drag Race legacy.
  • Trixie: "It was shenanigan, Tom foolery, Rigori."

10. Reflections, What-Ifs, and All Stars Tie Talk

• [63:10] Katya and Trixie riff on the hypothetical of an All Stars tie (“I wouldn’t want to share it!”) and the general unfairness of team judging.
• [64:14] Both regret not being able to do the Hello Kitty challenge (“I would have smoked Hello Kitty!”).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Awards & Fandoms:
  "It's giving Russian bot." – Trixie (05:17)
  "Smile while you still can. Botox, bitch, before I bust all your front teeth out, you fat bitch." – Katya (06:07) (loving drag banter, do not take literally)

• On Untucked:
  "It was like planet Earth surveillance footage. It was parking lot on surveillance." – Trixie (11:11)
  "It was like going to meet Santa and seeing him smoking behind the mall. Or pants down, jerking off." – Katya (12:45, 12:50)

• On the Musical Poo Challenge:
  "None of us, not even Ginger, could have done that song well. Because the song was unlistenable. I have a huge, visceral reaction to the word 'poo.'" – Trixie (15:20)

• On Ginger’s Performance:
  "This is an Oscar, Tony-winning performance... so grotesque and so accurate." – Trixie (21:13)
  "She never broke character." – Katya (25:09)
  "My note I have here is that you are amazing." – Katya to Trixie (25:20)

• On Production Allegiances:
  "Generally, my opinion is it's never shenanigans. It's negligence... People aren't plotting against you. They just overlook things." – Trixie (27:59)

• On Eliminations:
  "She's an incredible artist behind the camera... but she's not a performer." – Trixie (41:58)

• On Costumes:
  "I thought I served. I was ugly.com spokeswoman." – Trixie (37:20)
  "A craft fair at a meth lab." – Trixie (35:56)
  "Kennedy made all the food and then served it, and then we both ate." – Trixie (25:41)

• On Drag Race Fame:
  "She did not aspire to bump oars with us lip syncing at a gay club. She... I don't even know why she did Drag Race." – Katya (43:25)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Webby Award Discord & Fandom Dynamics: 03:06–06:14
• Untucked: New Format Sucks: 10:31–12:50
• John Waters/Poo Challenge Discussion: 13:00–17:21
• Ginger’s “Eggs” Performance Analysis: 21:10–25:16
• Runway: Ugly Dress Realness: 34:55–39:18
• Miss Fame’s Elimination Reaction: 42:04–43:50
• Mini-challenge: Face Taping Housewives: 46:11–48:22
• Group Dance Pairings & Ru's Legs: 49:16–54:00
• Costume Construction Drama: 58:18–59:01
• Bottom Two, Lip Sync, Reflections: 60:24–63:32

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Tone and Originality

The tone is campy, razor-sharp, chaotic, and “family” in the drag sense—savage shade wrapped in sisterly love. There are frequent asides, running jokes (RuPaul’s legs, the cursed black wig), and deadpan acknowledgments of Drag Race’s absurdities and production quirks. Listeners unfamiliar with the original episodes get both the context and the heart of why this era of Drag Race remains unforgettable and meme-worthy.

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Conclusion

This episode of The Bald and the Beautiful is a masterclass in comedic dissection of reality TV. Trixie and Katya offer rare behind-the-scenes takes, classic quotes, and no-holds-barred reads on everything from production to personal growth. For Drag Race fans and casual listeners alike, it's a perfect blend of honest nostalgia, self-deprecating analysis, and iconic banter.

Transcript

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I don't know if you saw this email. We're going to be included the Hollywood Reporters 2025 Power Podcast list. It comes out in August, so I think anybody wants to know.

[Trixie Mattel]

I believe that when I see.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And then look at this. I'll have you know that I won a Webby award by myself.

[Trixie Mattel]

That's a Slinky Mama.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, no, no.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's.

[Kennedy Davenport]

What?

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, my God. Look at you. Oh, it's. Oh, heavy.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Read what it's for.

[Michelle Visage]

Oh, sorry.

[Trixie Mattel]

Okay. To.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Why won't you say what it says?

[Trixie Mattel]

Because I don't trade in falsehoods. What?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Really? You had a plastic wig on last week.

[Trixie Mattel]

Wait, 2025 People's Voice Award.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Is this from Temu? Does Temu mean Webby Creators?

[Trixie Mattel]

Colon? Best Dance in Performance?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Why are you mad?

[Trixie Mattel]

I'm not mad. I am confused. What the hell is it? Why. When did you ever dance? And why would you win in a wedding?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

When don't I dance?

[Trixie Mattel]

Trixie Mattel and Nick Walker. So please explain. You got a lot of explaining.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You know what? It's up for the people to decide. Okay. I don't.

[Trixie Mattel]

I could never. And you know I should never.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

There's a reason why I was nominated. And I wonder, what is it? It's an award for dance. Why are you like. What happens if I actually have done something and I get recognized?

[Trixie Mattel]

Well, it's like when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. What is it really? What do you say?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's an award for dance.

[Trixie Mattel]

What are you talking about?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I actually. Can I say, what is it? I don't know. Okay.

[Trixie Mattel]

But I want it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You will never take that from me.

[Trixie Mattel]

No, I won't.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But you know what?

[Trixie Mattel]

You know, you could. I could say a lot of things. I could be Mother Goose.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I could get disgraced, though, and it could be taken away from me in the next year. And then I have to.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yes. Stripped of your metal.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Stripped of my. My crown.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, my God.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So I want to say I love to dance. I would have never thought that I would receive an award for it, but here we are.

[Trixie Mattel]

Well, honey, if it's at the Cheetah it ain't dancing. I know that much.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

What I worry about is what if somebody who's a professional dancer was nominated in that category and was like, wait a minute.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah, what if I'm fucking, you know, Henry Goldenblatt or whatever.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But I think. I think it's voting related. And Trixie and Katya fans are like those spam Uber Eats accounts with the multiple phones on the wall. Oh, yeah, they're ready.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's giving Russian bot.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

We got teenage girls who are at home voting. Not just outvoting us.

[Trixie Mattel]

Not just voting, baby.

[Kennedy Davenport]

They're.

[Trixie Mattel]

They're patched into several mainframes in different countries.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Hackers.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

I still would love to know which dance performance this. This receipt. I think it's just like the energy.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I don't honestly.

[Trixie Mattel]

Shut up.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's not for one thing. It's like a Creator award, Best dancer. I don't know how that.

[Trixie Mattel]

Is this a loophole. It's like the Golden Globes when they put August Osage county and Best comedy or musical. I mean, they didn't do that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Okay.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Well, nevertheless, congratulations.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Thank you. Yeah, thank you.

[Trixie Mattel]

So well deserved. I mean, you're not.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Stay mad.

[Kennedy Davenport]

You're not.

[Trixie Mattel]

Now listen. No, I'm going to give it up because it takes a lot of calories to really be a hater. And. And I just want to congratulate you on your well deserved and very, very well deserved success.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Thank you. Smile while you still can. Bix, Bix, Bix. Botox, bitch, before I bust all your.

[Trixie Mattel]

Front teeth out, you fucking fat bitch. So.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, okay, we're in this episode here. We lost Jaden do our fierce last week rip.

[Trixie Mattel]

We lost her to tuberculosis.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

We lost her to tuberculosis. The lip sync was Tiffany. I think we're alone now. Which is funny for twins.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yes, very funny. Very funny. Although Break Free could have been also really good by Ariana previously.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Break Free, you know, Break free. You know. So we open this episode that is a very.

[Trixie Mattel]

They don't do that witty, witty kind of like nod right anymore.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

They do, like. Do you remember when they did the all black and white looks and then they did like Bloody Mary?

[Trixie Mattel]

I thought it was Colors of the Wind. That would have been funny.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

They do sometimes pick them for the thing.

[Trixie Mattel]

Really?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Sometimes. Okay, so we open with the reading challenge. The season seven reading challenge. What do you remember about putting that together? Because I remember being ready to rip into all of you.

[Trixie Mattel]

I don't remember. I actually don't. I remember from All Stars. I don't quite recall this one. I don't remember. I remember. What did they say?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I remember winning. When I got back in that night, they said, all right, go home tomorrow. Just so you know, it's the reading challenge.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, you know what? And I do remember us all kind of collaborating because a lot of the girls weren't really. I mean, by self include. I wasn't really like an insult comic. So we kind of struggled a little bit. I. I know. Like, some people were given reads by me. Like, I feel like I said, oh, this is something good. Or vice versa.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right.

[Trixie Mattel]

We kind of, like workshopped it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I feel like I've done a few of those tours where you, like, roast, and I love roasts. I love reads. I love me and funny shit.

[Trixie Mattel]

I don't.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I love it. I do tend to cross the line. And then later, someone has to come up to me on the tour bus and say, hey, anything but my divorce. Okay? And I go, oh, okay, Change it up for tomorrow, you know?

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

And you're like, this divorced bitch can't find one fucking lover.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, they'll tell after I've said it. Like, hey, you know my mom just died.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah, please don't mention her being fat.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Exactly. I'm like, oh, sorry. You know, But. But then that same person is like, anyway, Trixie's so ugly, the only one who her was her dad. I'm like, so what? So what's the straight hair, girl? You know, why can't you make fun of things that are, you know, my hairline or my, you know, whatever. So I do like that. Violet says, katya, why don't you make like your hairline and receipt?

[Trixie Mattel]

That's a good one.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Fame is the worst reader. Oh, baby. My God, you guys. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was so.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's. They got. There's a thing called tough where you feel like, viscerally embarrassed for somebody on stage. It was very horrible to. To. To. To have to endure for me and everybody else.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was like. It was like, baby, just get her off the stage. Just get her off the stage.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Everybody picked their worst joke and their worst aave and just went for it. It was like. It was really not a great moment. So bad, you know, I win the reading challenge. I remember feeling very good about that.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Did you win some money?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, I didn't get fucking anything.

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

Are you fucking?

[Trixie Mattel]

No, no, no.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I did. Oh, my God. I did.

[Trixie Mattel]

We've been.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Thank you for jogging. No, no, no. Bitch. I will tell you, whore. What? I won. I remember RuPaul goes and you win a phone call home. I had just been home the day before, mind you. We know Val doesn't call me. She won't even pick up. My mom called. I called her this morning on the way here in the car, and she said, oh, can I. I'm gonna have to call you back. I'm gonna step outside. And then she called me on speaker from outside. She said, I just brought you on the patio with me. So if I get her on the patio on speakerphone, she'll smoke. We didn't talk to.

[Trixie Mattel]

That's it. I can't.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I want a phone call home.

[Trixie Mattel]

Who did you remember? You called James soccer love, attorney at law.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, Ginger was married at the time to someone else. Oh, you gave her husband gave my phone call.

[Trixie Mattel]

Good for you.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And I shot. And then they never showed it, of.

[Trixie Mattel]

Course, because you were just cheating out to camera the whole time.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That's what I'm saying. Like, if you're not going to use that, I'll order a pizza. I'll do something. I'll call Movie Phone.

[Trixie Mattel]

You should have ordered a pizza.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It would have been amazing if they filmed it. And I called Movie Phone just to see what movies are playing.

[Trixie Mattel]

Or you called our congressman.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, my God. Or prank call. If I get one poker home. And they're rolling the cameras. Do you have Prince Albert in a can? Like, I would have loved that.

[Trixie Mattel]

Looking for Amanda.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I just was mad. I remember watching it and being like, wait a minute. Wait a minute. If. Here's the glorious footage of me talking about domestic abuse.

[Trixie Mattel]

Right?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Can we get the phone call?

[Trixie Mattel]

I gave you a through line. I gave you a button like. Like, come on, I'm giving.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You know, and we know why I'm not calling home. You know, I'll get popped.

[Trixie Mattel]

Wait, wait. So we haven't thoroughly discussed the.

[Kennedy Davenport]

The.

[Trixie Mattel]

The huge dynamic shift away from produced and untucked. Really at length. Mama. This is like boring boots. Kind of, sort of. I mean, have we talked about Kennedy falling asleep and untucked?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, can I be honest? Nothing. Did we talk about this? Nothing hit me with reality more than when you're on Drag Race, the first episode on season seven, and you walk into what you think is going to be the interior.

[Trixie Mattel]

Another show, another TV show, another TV show.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

They decide to make it a 35 minute, gritty, sad documentary. That's YouTube only.

[Trixie Mattel]

A no audio slice of life, black and white screensaver kind of racer head. It was. So I was ready.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I was like, well, March of the Penguins.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah, no more. That won awards. It Was like. This was like. This was like planet Earth surveillance footage. It was surveillance footage. It was parking lot on surveillance.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yes.

[Trixie Mattel]

We had three. I mean, it literally was.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It was so.

[Trixie Mattel]

It literally was. It literally was. That was the whole. It started as surveillance, like, black and white.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I hated that on Tu Ha. I hated it. Give me the real Untuck. Bring back the interior Lounge. I'm Fair Illusions Lounge. Bring back.

[Trixie Mattel]

I feel very attacked. Bring back Teleporters to Mars. Bring back Sugar Daddy. Like, there was none of that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Put it on tv. The funnest part about Drag Race was sometimes Untucked would start and it would be so exciting.

[Trixie Mattel]

Some people would look at Drag Race as a prelude to Untucked as being the main event.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I mean, for season six, season seven, we got the worst untucked.

[Trixie Mattel]

And it was. Yeah. And it was also a demoralizing setup. It was like, okay, so we are like. Our moms and dads moved away. They left us home alone, and we have to fend for ourselves. You know what I mean? It felt like the beginning of the end.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was not very.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It didn't feel very hated.

[Trixie Mattel]

I hated it, too. But although I gotta say, it was, the only good thing about it I felt was like, you just relax.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, it also wasn't on tv. That's the part I don't hate. I don't like about it.

[Trixie Mattel]

Well, no, it wasn't. It was a nothing.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Like, I'll shoot on a new set. Obviously, it was a button.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was a. It was an afterthought. It was an afterthought.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Where's the TV?

[Trixie Mattel]

Also their YouTube channel. Mary. I think you had more subscribers back.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Then than they did do now.

[Trixie Mattel]

You know what I mean? But, yeah, it was. It was. It was like, fun, kinda, but it was like, not a show. It wasn't a show. We didn't do a show.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, that really disappointed me. It was like going to meet Santa and seeing him smoking behind the mall.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was like, oh, pants down. Jerking off.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Jerking off. Okay, so we get announced that John Waters is going to be there, and we're going to be doing musical vignettes taken from iconic John Waters films.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Did you know about John Waters at the time?

[Trixie Mattel]

Yes, I was very. So this is one of those moments where, like, as the setup is rolling out, I'm like, I'm not going home this week.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo. And also, no offense to everyone around us, I was like, okay, we're singing and doing comedy. It will be okay.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

And what I Was the latch in the door of me not going home. When she said, ugliest dress ever, I was like.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You said, can we rewear things?

[Trixie Mattel]

Like, I was like, baby, pack it up, hose.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You should have come out the despise dress again.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, I know. Because now that all the back was all rubbed off from the sequins with no lining, girl, it was. That was my moment to shine. I knew that was like, when the. That when I felt my name on the marquee and I felt like. I felt like the green carpet roll out, and I was like, this is my sweet thing moment.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right?

[Trixie Mattel]

This is the moment where I get to show how chunky my ski is. Right?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, speaking of, I completely forgot all about this challenge, and we'll get to our skits, but let's start with.

[Trixie Mattel]

Okay, so this is.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But I learned this. You can't say poop on tv, so you're allowed to say poo.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Okay.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Which is why we kept saying poo.

[Trixie Mattel]

Okay, so. So okay. Okay. There are so many things I gotta say about this, and I. My heart really goes out to the three girls because they had the. The chips stacked against them.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Single mom who works too hard and.

[Trixie Mattel]

Has three jobs and never stops. And then she gets penalized for being a minute late. Park it in the wrong parking spot. She gets towed. She has enough money for the tow. It's the whole thing.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She's trying to get by.

[Trixie Mattel]

She's just doing know.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

These girls were. All three of them were unequipped, and they were unqualified to wear these shoes.

[Trixie Mattel]

And also, those shoes didn't fit anybody. Shoes was mama. It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. It was. It was a crime.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Not to mention, there's other scenes in Female Trouble way more interesting than eating the lobster.

[Trixie Mattel]

The. The courtroom scene. I mean, think about John. Hairspray.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Hairspray.

[Trixie Mattel]

Polyester.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, I think that's what they were trying to do is because Hairspray is a musical. Let's make other John Waters things a musical.

[Trixie Mattel]

Who cares, right? Like, I, I. It doesn't. There's so many you could have done. What would I. Long story short, this was unforgivable.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It was. It was not interesting. The girls did still set up for success.

[Trixie Mattel]

None of us, not even Ginger, could have done that song. Well, because the song was unlistenable. It was. I have a personal, huge, like, visceral reaction to the word poo.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Like, and Violet with the fat belly looking pregnant.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was. I, I felt for those girls so much. They were so miserable. And. And it was so deserved least. It was tough to watch.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I hated that also, all three of them. I don't think any of them are.

[Trixie Mattel]

Suited for collaboration and also for being ugly and like. And like, gross. And also they. They were. It was one of those, like, hypocritical critiques where they were like, you guys are doing too much.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right?

[Trixie Mattel]

Doing too much on a John Waters drag musical costume.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Too costume.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The only part I liked was when fame was like this.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Oh, yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It made no sense, but I loved it.

[Trixie Mattel]

Also, I like that Rue Ginsburg, Merle Ginsburg thing when they had the absurd one. This made no sense either.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right.

[Trixie Mattel]

Like, it wasn't able to. You weren't able to stage it. Well, I think something better would have been like, something about the filthiest people alive.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right?

[Trixie Mattel]

Do you know what I mean? Like something like Raymond, Connie Marbles, and Divine. Yeah, that would have been perfect.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Or like, I'm trying to think in Female Trouble when she's in high school. They could have played the high school girls. Sure. No, wait a minute.

[Michelle Visage]

What?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Pink Flamingos is the dog eating? Sorry. I'm so sorry.

[Trixie Mattel]

Flamingos is the filthiest people alive.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Connie Marbles.

[Trixie Mattel]

Connie Marbles, Divine. And then Edith Messi.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And is. Wait, is Egg lady is also from females. Right, okay, got it, got it, got it. And then yours is female trouble.

[Trixie Mattel]

Ours is.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yours is female trouble.

[Trixie Mattel]

But also.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I better get those cha Cha drinks.

[Trixie Mattel]

Eat your makeup from. I mean, way, way, way back. I mean, eat your makeup is a perfect thing for fame.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I love desperate living, too. Desperate living is, I think my favorite one.

[Trixie Mattel]

That was with the lesbian, Right.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

When she gets the phalloplasty and then decides she doesn't want it and cuts her own phalloplasty.

[Trixie Mattel]

That's what I haven't seen. Was that the lesbian queen of the whatever?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, she, like, queen of. It's like a queen of a garbage town.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah. Y.

[Trixie Mattel]

There was so many more options. And, like, I. Again, like, I can't hear the word poo without, like, just.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I hate it.

[Trixie Mattel]

Poop is fun. This is.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Poo's close.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's just gross.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

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[Trixie Mattel]

You do look like the killer.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I guess I'm. I think I glue sticked my hair down and foundation over it.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah, the hair looks so chilling to me. I feel disgusting.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So our accompanist is Lady J. Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Fabulous.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Old school.

[Trixie Mattel]

Lady J on the piano.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Lady J looks a little different now.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Very different.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She's blonde, she has glass. She looks like.

[Trixie Mattel]

She looks like Anna Nicole.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, I. The note I took was, I kind of just flopped everything on this season. Even this, which is. I do okay. Ginger bulldozes me.

[Trixie Mattel]

But here's the thing about that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She's amazing.

[Trixie Mattel]

This is. I feel like out of every. Anything I've seen on Drag Race, she is. This is an Oscar, Tony winning performance. It's unbelievable how able she is to channel Edith Massey. And it's so grotesque and so accurate and she gets everything. It's just perfect. She's perfect.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's incredible. It's incredible.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's fucking amazing. And everything on the song is delivered so well. Doesn't hurt that the song is fabulous.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The song is good too.

[Ginger Minj]

It's great.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's catchy. It's like you comment and you want to sing it. It's fabulous. And it's. You guys are singing great. And she just.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And the set is good. It's the baby pen with her in it.

[Trixie Mattel]

And it gets so nasty.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's. And then we're crushing eggs on each other's faces. We got a good skit.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And honestly, I remember my focus being I'm not going to beat Ginger, so I can't be the person who completely disappears next to. No, you did fine. And I luckily did fine.

[Trixie Mattel]

You did fine.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I would have. No, but none of us would have ever beat Ginger in this challenge except maybe, honestly, Kennedy was. We have to talk about yours. You guys were both so good.

[Trixie Mattel]

We had a blast.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Kennedy was so. Oh, yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, yeah. Let's see what Ginger from Ginger, who.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Apparently has a phone.

[Trixie Mattel]

Congratulations on your phone purchase.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

T mobile.

[Trixie Mattel]

In the morning when the sun goes. I could poopy in my bum all day.

[Ginger Minj]

Well, well, well, if it isn't Trixie and Katya. He girls, it's Ginger Minj. I am no longer an overweight, but I am still an asthmatic, chain smoking, cross dresser from Orlando, Florida. And I'm so happy that you're actually doing this rewatch. I should do it myself because I haven't actually sat down and watched season seven in 10 years. But there are things that like, she's pop back into my memory. Mostly everybody goes, what's like was like the best day ever? Was it eggs? Eggs, Eggs. Grateful for eggs, Eggs, eggs. And I think that Trixie and I had a great time doing it, but do you remember they stood us there for like 45 minutes just chucking dozens and dozens and dozens of raw eggs at our faces while they were trying to get the right angles. And I mean this, of course, like, the show has grown and expanded and now there's a much bigger camera crew. Well, crew in general. But at that time, there were like two cameras that were trying to get everything. So they just kept pelting us with eggs and then we had to go and immediately shower. But then they took. You wore my hip pads on top of your hip pads to give you that shape. And they were covered in raw egg and they took them and had to. Well, they said they were going to wash them, but they didn't. Or maybe they did, but not well enough. And for like the next two weeks, those pads just get worse and worse and worse.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, like, she needed help in that department.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Not to mention, who wants their butt area to smell like rotten eggs? I have to say, too, I acknowledge she said that. I remember standing in this baby crib and it's cold on Drag Race.

[Trixie Mattel]

Freezing.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I'm smashing eggs all over her. We're whipping eggs at each other. I'm hit. I'm whipping real eggs at her. And I remember smashing the egg on her and the shell and the yolk running down her eye. And I remember being like, is this okay? Can she. She can ever see again?

[Trixie Mattel]

She is. If anything, she commits.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She was amazing. And also she was incredible. This is a musical theater thing, obviously, but, like, when you're not singing. You're still supposed to be in character. That whore never broke character.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was. I mean, it's truly fudgeing. Stunning. It's. I think it's one of the best performances I've ever seen on Drag Race, period.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's the best performance of the season, I think.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, 100%. 100%.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Okay. You may not be able to sing like Ginger. You were incredible. My note I have here is that you are amazing.

[Trixie Mattel]

Really? I mean, are you kidding? I had the. It was. This was by far the funnest day or couple of days. There was not one moment where I was, like, fearful or nervous or anything. I was like. It was just 100% fun. I wish. I wish.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

These eats, too, girl.

[Trixie Mattel]

Kennedy.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I mean, good scenes.

[Trixie Mattel]

Kennedy made all the food and then served it, and then we both ate.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, I mean, you don't have the anxiety of her not performing. Well.

[Kennedy Davenport]

No.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So you just get to.

[Trixie Mattel]

I had to keep up with her because she had the main part, and she had most of the lines and ice.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

What the hell are these?

[Trixie Mattel]

You do shoes? It was like. It was so fun in the. Lucian, pee on me.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Lucian, pee on me.

[Trixie Mattel]

But it was like. That was one of the rare days where I was like, oh, my God, I know I'm not gonna go home. It was just so, so, so, so fun. There was no stress. Got to be ugly as fuck. And then also ugly on the Runway.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was, like, definitely my moment that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You had so many moments. When they announce who's in it, you do this slow turn to the camera. That's psychotic. Also, the thing where you're like, all I ever.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, yeah. The legs, the busted pantyhose.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She beats the shit out of you. Like, she beats the shit out of you.

[Trixie Mattel]

And I love to get thrown around.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You and then throws the tree on you.

[Trixie Mattel]

Smack.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's a. Please. Can I tell you, you probably don't have this memory. So you guys know I work on the workroom on Drag Race. It's all these tables, and when we're not performing, we're sitting there with our headphones and rehearsing. This is sitting there by herself at a table. And I don't even think you know that I'm in there. And she has her lyric sheet, and she's dressed as that old lady, and you have the lyric sheet and headphones, and on a loop, you're going, please, Todd. Please, Todd. It's Christmas, twad. And I remember, like, watching being like, what is their shit about?

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, it was so, so Fun. And they really, they really, they really turned the party with those sets. Besides the poop.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The sets were good.

[Trixie Mattel]

Your guys was amazing. Ours was great. It was like we really got handed.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The best thing about your scene too, is your scene plays out in that movie. It worked perfect for a musical. Dawn would have a tirade because she doesn't get the shoes.

[Trixie Mattel]

And also we had a great. We had a great climactic denouement and it was just like really satisfying to see.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Christmas is always a good starting point, too. A mom and daughter on Christmas. Love it.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I really. You know, there are a few times as a participant and a viewer in this. In this process where I think shenanigans are afoot. This is one of the.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The.

[Trixie Mattel]

This is one instance where I actually kind of as a viewer watching it back, it gave me pause. I was like, what's going on here with them three? Why'd they give them that shitty number? You know what I mean?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, you feel like it was like shenanigans.

[Trixie Mattel]

I don't usually my opinion is that it's never shenanigans. It's negligence. You know what I mean? Things don't. People aren't plotting against you. They just make mistakes or they overlook. You know what I mean?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

TV can work both ways. The group that no one expects to do well, doing well is also good tv.

[Trixie Mattel]

Sure.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

They also could pull it out.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Or it's interesting story if one of them kills it and the other two are awful.

[Trixie Mattel]

Sure. But I don't. So generally, as a rule, I generally don't think people have the time or the energy or the. Even the intelligence to plot against you. No, I don't. It's negligent.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. I. Absolutely. Girl. They're not there to make it easy for us.

[Trixie Mattel]

No.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But I don't think they sit in a room and say, let's her life up. I really don't know.

[Trixie Mattel]

They're outside smoking or having lunch. They're not like they're regular people. They don't have the time.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And also when you're drag queen flopping on tv, it's very easy to say production headed out for me.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

They don't even have it out for themselves.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Girl. You weren't even out for yourself, you know, like.

[Trixie Mattel]

But that number sucked. Yeah, it really sucked. I hated watching it back. It. I. It was sucked and I felt bad for them.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I. I think we get. Somebody says, I'm not ready to go home. Which I love when they say on tv, because who is no one ever.

[Trixie Mattel]

Well, actually, I.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right. No one ever says, I'm ready to go home. I said, I'm ready to go call my Uber. Uber didn't exist at the time.

[Trixie Mattel]

Sorry.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Also.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I wrote this.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And this is like, I don't want to be whatever to anybody. Do Pearl and Fame hate each other? Like, their energy? They're always bickering in this series.

[Trixie Mattel]

Well, think about it. At this point, think. Just think about their personality types. Fame is insufferably verbose. Pearl is incredibly chill. There's just oil and water.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

You know what I mean?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

They were like, kind of fighting because they're. They're putting their skit together and they're fighting. Putting together Pooh. And watching people really be irritated like that is like, ooh, hard to watch.

[Trixie Mattel]

And also having an arm wrestling contest over shit is just really futile.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

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[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, our runways. Okay, Mary, gotta give it up for Kennedy as the old grandma lady.

[Trixie Mattel]

See, I. This is where I disagree.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That cracked me up.

[Trixie Mattel]

I think it was too easy.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You think?

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah, I think Kenny and Ginger, big time dings on this Runway.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, I hated gingers.

[Trixie Mattel]

Gingers and famed Kennedy ginger. In my opinion, Kennedy ginger, fame and Pearl, huge dings. Did not follow the assignment.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Beautiful.

[Trixie Mattel]

Fame was editorial fame.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Looked so beautiful.

[Trixie Mattel]

One of the most beautifully sculpted updos ever seen on the show. Could see the tape, but, like, the.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Makeup, the makeup, gorgeous.

[Trixie Mattel]

The tears. I mean, it was like breathtaking.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Gorgeous. Pearl.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was Vogue Italia.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Pearl was pretty.

[Trixie Mattel]

Kawaii. Like, yeah, it was, like, pretty.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You're adorable.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Ginger was like, oh, that dress is horrible because it has, like, a rip in it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Gingerbread. I've. You've worn uglier things.

[Trixie Mattel]

No, honey, I would have taken something else out of the closet, baby.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Turn the wigs around, Dina. You know what I mean?

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And I will say, too, I ate that challenge.

[Trixie Mattel]

I ate that Runway.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I look like Natasha Leonard.

[Trixie Mattel]

A craft fair at a meth lab.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The dress is so. I remember seeing your shoes and see, I remember being like, is. Is she? Is this too far?

[Trixie Mattel]

Maybe when it comes to ugly, there's no limit. The limit does not exist. It was ugly, but I remember. I remember I went because I was struggling.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The wig, mama.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, that. You know, the wig came courtesy of my friend Jake Tinsley, Frida Fries, who also gave me that track. The track Mugler tracksuit I wore in All Stars. Later, it was just this gigantic loaf that I, like, fucked up a little bit. But I remember being in thrift store prior to going to drag race and just looking for shit, and I was like. It was like. It spoke to me like. It, like, glowed. I saw that crocheted piece of thing. And remember what RuPaul said? Knitter, please.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Oh, yeah, RuPaul said, knitter, please.

[Trixie Mattel]

That. That was so funny.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She also. She also says about Violet, her clown is. Her clown posse is on fire.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, Violets. She. She bet she bested me also. She made that in, like, 15 minutes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She said, I didn't bring an ugly dress because I don't own anything.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, yes. I'll never forget. She was in the mirror and she. She whipped that thing up in, like.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Two hours from Fabric Planet.

[Trixie Mattel]

Incredible. Yeah, incredible. But it was so ugly, I didn't want to look at it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You know, I didn't. I didn't think it was ugly enough. Is clown ugly?

[Trixie Mattel]

Well, Rainbow is so fudgeing ugly to me.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I guess I didn't think it was particularly ugly.

[Trixie Mattel]

I mean, I thought I served. I was ugly.com spokeswoman.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But then again, you know, Violet told me that she thinks that I dress like Nina west, so fuck that hoe with a shovel. I don't give a shit. And I saw a certain article that she was. Did you see. See what she said on her pod about us asking her for a voice note? Who do you think you are? Don't you think that was a little crazy?

[Trixie Mattel]

I was like, girl, shut the up. Shut the up, girl. You don't call me back.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, you don't call me back. Ho. Assistant reached out. You know, if I want to get to you, I might talk to Gottmik.

[Trixie Mattel]

Also, sorry that you're the most. Girl, check the stats.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I know.

[Trixie Mattel]

You know what I mean? You would never brag about your position, but that's the truth.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

We're recapping Drag Race. Sorry for including you.

[Kennedy Davenport]

I know.

[Trixie Mattel]

Like, did anybody else make up, like, a passive aggressive public statement about being contacted? Not by us.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I know they gave us one of you, but I was like, what the.

[Trixie Mattel]

They gave us wonderful, long, usable clips. And it was one.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Had to exhume Max. And she sent us a voice note that was like, 10 minutes long. Sent us one from an RV on the edge of a mountain.

[Trixie Mattel]

And she hates us. Actually, most of these people probably don't.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Like, I just Was kind of like, oh, damn. Wow.

[Trixie Mattel]

Well, you know, she's a. Stay mad, Brenda.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, that's okay.

[Trixie Mattel]

I still love her.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Still love her, still love her. Raymond's outfit is incredible. Raymond RuPaul. Raymond looks amazing as usual.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's the graffiti ru dress.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Great.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

With the afro. With the graffiti RuPaul dress. Velvet.

[Trixie Mattel]

She, the velvet airbrush and then again the fucking makeup. The makeup, the fucking makeup. This tall black bitch just is like. She just. I mean, every time in this season, she gets on that Runway and every. And forces everybody into suicide. She does like. It is. It is diabolical. She looks. Ah, it's crazy. It's 60 fucking years old. She's a little transcendent.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She really looks amazing. That's one of the best RuPaul outfits.

[Trixie Mattel]

Matthew fucking her in the ass all night long.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's really.

[Trixie Mattel]

And then Zaldi turned her over and fucked her again.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Also, I forgot to talk about my look. My dress isn't that ugly. My makeup is awful.

[Trixie Mattel]

I agree.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I look awful this entire season. And I don't know if I have to keep saying it.

[Trixie Mattel]

No, you don't have to keep it all. You just look like a prototype because now you're the. Now you're the final boss.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I can. I tell you, I think artistically, not to be. Whatever. I don't think I was ready for Drag Race. I. I'm a couple months after Drag Race, figured out the Trixie, like, I. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a couple months later. And I remember being like, oh, I wish I had figured out this big thing then.

[Trixie Mattel]

If you had gone with. If you, like, with what you have now, like, your best looks now going on, then would have been a very different story.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, I. My makeup just screamed like, I have an idea, but I don't have the skills to execute it.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

You know, because it's a little bit.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

The polish is not there.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The polish isn't there.

[Trixie Mattel]

I mean, I was.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I mean, even when I got there, I remember Anastasia Beverly Hills giving us all that makeup. I mean, I'm also trying to use products I've never used. I don't know what I'm doing, makeup wise. It's awful. It's bad.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's the eyes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's the eyes, which is the eyebrows point.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Is not good.

[Trixie Mattel]

No. And especially because. Especially because Ruth's eyes are huge in so well painted and she doesn't. She's not doing this, like, subtle shit. Like. And in the printing episode, RuPaul has a lot of Makeup on her eyes are so giant. I mean, it's like.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. I just. As a general note, I look offline. No one. I'm sorry. Okay. It's okay. Okay, wait, so then who goes home?

[Trixie Mattel]

It is. It's.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Forget David Lovato's there.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, Demi Lovato.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Who? Then I did her Christmas special, like, two years ago. She was super cool and nice. She's funny. Even if the stars and moon. We get Pearl and fame in the bottom.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

What. What a show. Stopping dance dancery.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I know. I. I thought it was me. A double. Do you remember it? Not. Remember it being just not. It really was a flat lip sync.

[Trixie Mattel]

No, baby, I'm. I'm a controversial opinion that I maintain. Listen, y' all weren't there. Nobody. We were there. I think every lip sync is boring.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, they are. They're all.

[Trixie Mattel]

However, this was a absolute shoe in for the Academy Award for most boring lip sync.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I mean, Pearl did better than fame, for sure.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, 100. I mean, here's the thing. If I. I would never have. I would never have been intimidated by fame had I known about her, because I would have gone on there and.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Like, why are you here?

[Trixie Mattel]

You're behind the camera, girl.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

You're behind the camera, girl. What do you do in front of the camera? Because she's not a performer.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

She's an incredible artist behind the camera.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. I mean, she kind of just had a completely different background than any of us, too.

[Trixie Mattel]

She was an expert makeup artist.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

And had access to incredible drag. She didn't know what to do with it, though.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

You know what I mean?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She was gorgeous.

[Trixie Mattel]

No, gorgeous didn't even cover it. She's like, stunning.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Stunning.

[Trixie Mattel]

But that's it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I mean, I was on Drag Race with her. You want to talk boop boopy doop. I stood next to her on the.

[Trixie Mattel]

Runway, but she can't do anything on the Runway. You know what I mean?

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Like, no. No offense. Like, I mean, you know, she's not a performer, she's a model and she's an incredible artist. That's right.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right.

[Michelle Visage]

I'm sorry, I shouldn't.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You're talking about someone's mother like that.

[Trixie Mattel]

I am, but you know what I mean, though, right?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I don't. I thought she was incredible. You said that about her. I forgot to. Lovato's there. Spoiler alert. Pearl. Pearl does win. She deserves the win.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Of the two. And we lose fame beyond this planet. Beautiful.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

What did she say? The Galactic Queen has Departed or something crazy.

[Trixie Mattel]

I come and pee.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No, she says, the Galactic Queen departs. And then she, like, goes.

[Trixie Mattel]

And we're like, okay, yeah. No, I forget what her shout out to Fame.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Love Fame girl.

[Trixie Mattel]

She was. I love her.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I'm all about celebrating people for what they're good at. Maybe is good at. Good. What she's good at. She's the best at.

[Trixie Mattel]

Dude, are you kidding me?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I.

[Trixie Mattel]

She. I was lucky enough to be in one of her painted by Fame tours. It was, like, one of the funnest afternoons of my life.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She did not aspire to bump oars with us. Lip sync sinking at a gay club. No, you know what I mean. She. I don't even actually don't know why she did drag race.

[Trixie Mattel]

No, I know. And I remember. I. I do recall, like, after the show, after the season, before it aired, I think maybe she was one of the first. She had a lot of buzz around her, but then it was. She was quickly singled out and scrutinized for her performance abilities or lack thereof. And I think she got a lot of hate and unnecessarily so.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But I also think that Com. I mean, Fame maybe is listening to this. I think when you look like that, people are looking. Or any way they can say, yeah, but she's right.

[Trixie Mattel]

And I'm a hater, too. We shouldn't. She's probably breastfeeding right now. She's not listening.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But, like, she's sucking on someone's TV right now.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah, like. Yeah, it's. It is. It's like if I went, I don't know, on a contest for anything. It's like RuPaul said, this is.

[Michelle Visage]

He asked who should go home tonight on that episode.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, I mean, that's kind of. You know, what we both said? Tough. That's a tough, tough, tough question. It's so shady when they do it in the beginning. Like, the second day, somebody said my name.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Both times it was asked. This season, you were off.

[Trixie Mattel]

Off camera.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes. No, the first time, it was Kennedy in episode one.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

That was so crazy to ask that question. I mean, episode one.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I know. Trixie seeing All Stars. No. And then. And then this episode, Violet says me because.

[Trixie Mattel]

Just because she can't say Fame, you know, she hates.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, she's been, who do you think you are since day one to be. So it all continues.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

But Fame definitely deserved to go home at this point, I think, objectively, and also in this. It's funny because up until this point, my perception of her is capital A. Although in the next episode, we'll talk about Prince and queens. We. I really get to love her.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, let's. Well, let's get into it right now. So it's the next episode. Top of the episode, we do the post elimination. We just lost Miss Fame.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

RIP to cancer. Say we just lost.

[Trixie Mattel]

I know. To a car.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

We lost her at the mall.

[Trixie Mattel]

We lost her at Disney World. Chewed up in the Matterhorn.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Damn, I wish when Drag Queen. You know, there's something also so pitiful about standing there with the statue. Between that untucked and the statue. This season, it's the saddest season.

[Trixie Mattel]

What they should have done is like RuPaul's super fun of this expression. She's left for Paris when they die. That's what you say. She's left for Paris when someone dies. She's boarded the Concorde to Paris. So that they should have had us, like, get on a fake plane and go to Paris. Do you know what I mean? That'd be so cunty.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So you're leaving Drag Ra. But we do have you going to your meeting for Global Entry. So make sure you have your ID and your birth documents.

[Trixie Mattel]

We have three nights stay comped at the Georges Cinq in Paris for you. No, you are leaving.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But we have a table for you at the Wagamama. And can I recommend the vegetable gyoza?

[Trixie Mattel]

Steamed, not pan fried. So we have the mini challenge again. Is super, super fun. It's the tape face thing.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Which can I say what? Fame leaves. And we start putting tape on our faces.

[Trixie Mattel]

The ultimate irony is, like, it's too real.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I never got this until now, but I was watching it this morning and I go, fame leaves. And we all start taping our faces.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's so funny.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I think maybe they. They didn't.

[Trixie Mattel]

They made it up on the fly. I doubt that. They're not that smart. But like, yeah. It's so hysterical. It's crazy hysterical.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So I'd never seen Housewives at this point.

[Trixie Mattel]

Me neither.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I. I don't know what we were. And Pearl. Pearl has always loved the Housewives. I know she was in it to win it.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah, she was very funny.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So I just remember being like. They showed us some trailers of the opening of Housewives. Remember, they bring out a computer?

[Trixie Mattel]

I don't remember that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Sometimes on Drag Race, if you don't know the reference very. They'll bring out a computer and go, oh, here's the intro to Harold Houses New York. And they'll let you see what we're doing. What? We're parodying. And a year. Oh, my God. What did Pearl say? I'm.

[Trixie Mattel]

I'm not only a slut, I'm an alcoholic.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I'm not just a slut, I'm also an alcoholic.

[Trixie Mattel]

Love what I wish I would have said. I thought about it right after what he said. I was like, I'm. I'm. What is it? I'm a socialist. A sociopath? No, I'm a socialite. A socialist and a sociopath or something like that. I think that'd be fun.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You ended up saying some weird long thing. No, it was like. The best thing about being in an abusive marriage is the threat of danger keeps me so thin.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah, a little dark.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Your face tape was nuts, girl.

[Trixie Mattel]

Again, you look. I thrive.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I thought it looked like Kelly Mantle.

[Trixie Mattel]

I know. And you said it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Kelly, listen. I'm sure. Kelly. Listen. Kelly's like a 21 year old. Look like me.

[Trixie Mattel]

Love it.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You know what I mean?

[Trixie Mattel]

I. Kennedy, she had one piece of tape on her neck.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Do you remember how bad that hurt our faces?

[Trixie Mattel]

I don't, actually.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

We were stuck like that for a while. Damn, it hurt.

[Trixie Mattel]

I loved that. Anything?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

One of my eyes was taped closed.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah. You looked like you got beat with.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The ugly Phantom of the Opera. I don't know what was going on. I looked crazy.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was fun, though.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That was a really fun mini challenge. I believe the winner is Violet. Violet. Good for her.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yep.

[Trixie Mattel]

And then she just picks everybody, which is a great strategy. She just goes, whoever's right next to each other. Love that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

To wash your hands of the drama.

[Trixie Mattel]

Seriously, it's a great move.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Who?

[Trixie Mattel]

Don't overthink it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Just right.

[Trixie Mattel]

Here we go. Also, I'm kind of flattered that she picked me. I don't know, because as asholish as she was, she was so clearly talented and confident that I thought this was a very good challenge. Kim Johnson from Dancing with the Stars.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Kim Johnson completely forgot that she's there.

[Trixie Mattel]

She's fabulous. She's really great.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Our second Aussie of the season because we have Olivia Newton John.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, that's right.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

We're getting all the Aussies.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

And she's like halari.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Halari.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

So do the tying guard.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

We get paired up.

[Trixie Mattel]

You guys get Tango Vogue.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Tango Vogue.

[Trixie Mattel]

You guys get Country Robot.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Country robot. And Pearl and Charleston twerk. Charleston twerk.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So we come out in this real little dance floor and we start learning our things.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You say you're not a dancer, but you. Spoiler alert. You end up doing Amazing.

[Trixie Mattel]

Well, here's the fucking thing about it. So I don't. None of this made it. So there's a lot of fun, interesting behind the scenes tea. About this episode. This is the first time we learned that RuPaul has legs.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Legs, right.

[Trixie Mattel]

I'm telling you, we have never.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She was in this room and they brought us in one by one, and RuPaul was in a blank. Listen. Like a hospital bed. And the nurse would pull back the legs and they would kind of hold my jaw and make me look at it because I wanted to look away.

[Trixie Mattel]

All exposed bone. And they were twisted up.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

They were twisted up. And kind of. Rachel.

[Trixie Mattel]

You know, they're like. So RuPaul has spinal meningitis and you have to leave her for dead. She's gonna ask for you to save her. You gotta leave the.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

No.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was chilling.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I remember, like, it was five minutes had gone by and I remember being like, am I? And they said, no. So I had to keep looking. And then, then, then RuPaul says, I don't like it. So they hand me a puddle of Essie nail polish and I have to change the toenail color to bubble bath. And I'm sitting there. Oh, and then I remember I left. And right before I walked in, same like, oh, she was gone before I walked in. Violet was leaving. She was sobbing. Yeah, right.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was so. It was really. It was a tough day for legs.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And all the tattoos, like, some of them kind of, you know. No.

[Trixie Mattel]

So we're on the. We're practicing our thing and RuPaul on the performance day, of course, RuPaul's in the. She walks in the frame and I see her in this tiny little cha cha dress with her fucking seven foot legs. I was like, holy shit. That's a first. But this was.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So why did we see her? We saw her somewhere.

[Trixie Mattel]

She was. She came out onto the floor for some reason, I don't know why, we.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Saw RuPaul and drag standing up, which had never happened to this point.

[Trixie Mattel]

Never, never, never. I had not so Mama, Return of the black singer wave.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I think her knees went backwards. Do you know what I mean?

[Trixie Mattel]

Like a raptor or an ostrich.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yes, yes. It's. And it's weird that she crab walked everywhere.

[Trixie Mattel]

As a raptor, she can open doors, right?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Have a girl, you know? That's how RuPaul got in there. Locked it. Clever girl. Do you have any feeling? I remember thinking Country Robot was like, sure, Tango bogus. You got. I mean, watching it, you guys had.

[Trixie Mattel]

The best number I. I think. Yeah, I think we had. We definitely.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Robot country was corny. Corny.

[Trixie Mattel]

Also stupid. Stupid ch. Charleston twerk was amazing. I think Charleston twerk was the best mashup. No, no. Yeah. I think it was great. But I think if anybody was gonna slam dunk it, there's such a. It's such a. It's such a. What do you call that? The dichotomy. It's, like, so diametrically opposed. Like.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's such a great combo.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Country robot was that too. But, like, sucks. Country dancing and drag robot's not a dance dance.

[Trixie Mattel]

The robot is not a dance.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, it's.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's just a stupid thing.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And Ginger, to the robot, she looks like a Roomba.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

And also country. Like, no offense, but, like, the aesthetic.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Okay, well, I don't feel that way, but I. I have a lot of issues with this challenge. One of them being I should have spoke up and said, I. I can't be lifting Ginger. Minj. I love Ginger. I think I felt nervous to speak up. I drop her. Yeah, I drop her. Well, to drop a 70 year old woman, she's a butterball.

[Trixie Mattel]

I mean, what are you gonna do?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I drop her on my lap. But I remember feeling bad.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

But I didn't want to say no.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You want to be a team player.

[Trixie Mattel]

Right?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And I could tell Ginger's even nervous about me grabbing.

[Trixie Mattel]

Also because she's not a dancer.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She's not a dancer.

[Trixie Mattel]

Which.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Can I say this? I took this note. I learned this in college. The second my dance teacher told me Darcy woots. Darcy woots. My jazz teacher. The second you say that you're not a dancer, it's over.

[Trixie Mattel]

You will not dance.

[Michelle Visage]

Dance.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's over.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And when you go to auditions and stuff, it's not really anyone's business that how much you do or don't dance.

[Trixie Mattel]

It's like, of course I do. You speak Mandarin.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Ginger. Starting from a place of defeated, looking back, I'm like, I don't like that.

[Trixie Mattel]

Also, you're literally. No, pardon the expression. You're a heavy weight. You're dragging people down.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right. And I'm not a professional dancer, but.

[Trixie Mattel]

We can do this girl by stark contrast. What do you think? You think Violet walked into that with it? She's like, of course I can't, Mary. I invented this challenge. I actually gave birth to you.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right.

[Trixie Mattel]

I own your birth certificate, you Australian bitch.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right? You know, like, so Ginger and I are trying to make the best of it, but I just remember her feeling very defeated.

[Trixie Mattel]

And also, I would have hated to have your combo.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I hated our song. You know, I'm lifting her off a hay bale. At what. At what point does the cut factor enter the chat?

[Trixie Mattel]

I know. Where's the Wagon Wheel? How about Wagon Wheel Watusi?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

How about Wagon Wheel Watusi?

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Ginger Minj]

Did prancing with the Queens. And we were in our rehearsal and everything was going fine, and you picked me up, up, and it's like something wasn't right. And you dropped me, and I landed on your foot, and we couldn't even rehearse like the other girls. I forgot about that because we had to, like, go to the medic. They had to pull us both aside.

[Trixie Mattel]

You went to the medic, and then.

[Ginger Minj]

You had to be, like, checked out before we could get back in an iron lung. Didn't even have nearly as much time as everybody else did to kind of pull it together. I still. Excuses, excuses, excuses, excuses. I liked it. I thought we did as best as we could with Country Robot. Like, what the even is that?

[Trixie Mattel]

Thank you.

[Ginger Minj]

But I have great memories. I really don't.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I have good memories of it, too, honestly. And maybe it's because Ginger had been there the whole time, so maybe.

[Trixie Mattel]

And also, she was, like, on the straight shot to win. I felt like, right.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

So for me to be. For her to be like, I can't do this. At the time, I guess I was like, girl, well, we're in this together.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

By the way, they also had an announcer being judges, pairs. She came out of nowhere.

[Trixie Mattel]

But that was. That was a curve. But that was a. That was a little. I was a blow below the belt.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It was a little special. But I remember just being like, well, Ginger, we have to do this anyway. So, like, I, I, I. Now looking back, I'm like, she was probably tired. She's tired of it.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You know?

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah, yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I forgot. She stepped on my foot and I had to ice it. We couldn't rehearse.

[Trixie Mattel]

And also, girl, she. I. When I was watching this this morning, she's like, I hadn't slept all night. Guess who hadn't slept a wink all night either.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

And that's. I remember. I remember very vividly. Not only was it for the return of the fucking black wig that won't.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Go away, I wrote it down. Your Frederick Douglass wig, Mary.

[Trixie Mattel]

My $34.99.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Your Freedom.

[Trixie Mattel]

Freedom Rider wig. My 34.99 Josephine Baker Dorothy's boutique wig that has made. Has graced the episode for the fifth or sixth time.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Why did you get to a black wig? In my life, I am a short finger wave black wig diva.

[Trixie Mattel]

My name is Sophie Tucker. I was born in 1880 and I got my start in the roaring twenties.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah. During prohibition.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I was, you know, working in bath houses.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Bathtub gin was my specialty. And doing the. The Charleston, whatever.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It was like, have you ever hear those really dirty old school songs that are like, he eats my pussy, baby. He eats it all night long. He'd be one of those artists who sings those nasty songs well, so.

[Trixie Mattel]

But this was the only time it was actually apropos or, like, appropriate to wear. So I was like, thank God I have that. I did not.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I so much hair.

[Trixie Mattel]

And I did not sleep. You know what? I didn't sleep a wink. And this is the stupidest reason why I was so. I did not know how I was going to attach it to my head.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

How did you do it?

[Trixie Mattel]

So I put so much fucking gel in my hair, which I had some at that point. And then fucking. So my head became a helmet, right? Like, of hair. And then I. I dug so many hair long roller pins through it. And it hurts so bad. It hurts so bad. Like, to. To. You couldn't rip that hair off of me. It was like, sealed onto the. And it hurts so bad. Gave me such a fucking headache. And I hadn't slept at all. And when you don't haven't slept at all and you just did a whole, like, long day of physical, like, activity. Your body's, like, overtired and starting to cramp everywhere. And I'd been chain smoking 20 cigarettes a day.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Right.

[Trixie Mattel]

During the rehearsal or. No, during the first run through, because we did it twice for camera. I almost had a heart attack. And then, like, that's not an exaggeration. I was like. I think people started to, like, get a little scared because I was like, so out of breath and I thought I was gonna faint.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Why are you trying to one up my foot event?

[Trixie Mattel]

Because this was like.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You went to the icu, they flew me out of there in a copter.

[Trixie Mattel]

I actually got worried for myself. And. And RuPaul was watching the whole thing. She was there the whole time. She watched all of our.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And you looked over and she showed the leg again. I better pull it together, the rotting maggot. I know she showed the leg.

[Trixie Mattel]

She said no, but it was like. I remember being very miserable. I had a horrible time. And. And we had to do the outfits, right? We had to sew those outfits on those shitty socks.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Can I Say they never told. They never talk about this in the episode. We had to make the outfit.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Part of the challenge was making the outfit.

[Trixie Mattel]

They really glossed over that.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

They don't talk about it.

[Trixie Mattel]

No, baby. They give us the only nasty polyester fucking tuxedo that we have to create a whole other look for. And it was difficult, although I made.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That fucking half dress.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

And also, I give Kennedy huge props for her little car wash number. I thought, she can't sew at all.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Out of your mind.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yes, I am.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That's the worst look of all of them. Shreds of fabric. It worked.

[Trixie Mattel]

It worked for the number. It was just a weird fringe thing that can't sew at all.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She went to drag race not knowing how to sew, and we're supposed to say, good job with the glue. You out of your mind? That was the worst outfit of the day.

[Trixie Mattel]

Was it? Yeah, I guess the car wash, maybe, because I just. I just joined, like, I got a membership of this car wash on. On Sunset, and I love when they do the thingies.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I. The best outfit was violets.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Violets was like, wow, I wish that was a full outfit. It was amazing.

[Trixie Mattel]

I don't like the mustache a lot.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You looked great.

[Trixie Mattel]

I thought I looked good.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You look so handsome. The blonde half.

[Trixie Mattel]

Well, because I. You know what? I stippled in a beard. So weird.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Are you the witness protection program?

[Trixie Mattel]

My name is Jeremy.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I look awful. I'm not saying.

[Trixie Mattel]

No, I, I, I. No offense, but you do look.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I do look awful. You do look awful.

[Trixie Mattel]

And you did that. You do the thing that I drag race with. The mugging on the Runway.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

I don't like the pantomime.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I hate Ginger's outfit, too. God love her.

[Trixie Mattel]

She looked hard.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I hate Kennedy's. I hate mine. I hate Ginger.

[Trixie Mattel]

You guys should have been thrown in the dunk tank.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Who else was it? Pearl and Kennedy were very cute, and there is what they're. I remember I watched. Watching it this morning. I was like, oh, their number is charming. It's bad. Pearl's terrible. But it was so charming.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, for sure it was charming.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You. Honestly, I thought we did great. You and Violet were the best.

[Trixie Mattel]

I think we did great.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The win, of course.

[Trixie Mattel]

Shocked. I thought I was going home like usual. Fucking just.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You and Violet were the best.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah. And we won.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You won the challenge.

[Trixie Mattel]

We won the challenge.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

The bottom, it ends up being me and Ginger, and that kind of sucked because I was like, I could levitate I'm gonna go home. Like, Ginger's been here the whole time. Luckily, it's Show Me Love, which. Which obviously was a perfect song for me, and. But that song plays so often everywhere that whatever trauma you have for your lip sync song I like. I forget that I lip synced that on Drag Race even.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, roar. Same.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I don't remember dreaming when I hear it. I'm always like, oh, this is Drag Race. Or when I won All Stars, it was Wrecking Ball. So whenever I hear that, I'm like, oh, this is my $100,000 song.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, God, I don't remember. I don't associate any of them with Drag Race.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah, yeah. But Show Me Love. I also was like, oh, this is break my soul. Forgot, of course. You know, and Ginger was very downtrodden. Maybe Beyonce got the idea from watching Ginger on Drag Race.

[Trixie Mattel]

Maybe.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I think.

[Trixie Mattel]

Certainly.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Of course.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

That biter, right?

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Famous biter Beyonce.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I go home again. I remember being like, ugh, whatever. Because I remember being mad. I remember being mad. We were judged as doubles.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was shenanigan, Tom foolery, Rigori.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I remember being like.

[Narrator/Ad Voice]

Like, it was riggery.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I mean, it probably still should have been me. I was. It's not like I was amazing, but I don't know, because Ginger did the absolute worst that day. Yeah, but Ginger was really good all season, so I probably should have been me.

[Trixie Mattel]

Doesn't matter. But still, it's not a cumulative judgment.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I. But that's how I feel about people who come back, should be able to win.

[Trixie Mattel]

Well. Right? I guess in that. In that sense, I do agree with you because, like, remember when. Oh, I guess this is just different.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

What if Violet went home and came back after missing two episodes? But she was really good. She should be able to win.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

And then she would have to endure comments for the rest of her career that you shouldn't have won. You were gone two episodes.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Well, that's like, when this. The win is split.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, God.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You know, Kennedy and I filmed a tie for All Stars, and I was like, I would have hated that girl.

[Trixie Mattel]

I had to do. I dressed up as.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

You would have rather lost.

[Trixie Mattel]

I had dressed up as you would for that time that Monet and. And what? The Monet and Trinity did the split, and I saw the look on Trinity's face.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

She wasn't living, Mama.

[Trixie Mattel]

No, she was not. And I wouldn't have either. I would not have either. I was like, I.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

They both got 100,000. Kennedy and I were going to get.

[Trixie Mattel]

Half it's not about the money. It's not about the money.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Kennedy. I were to get half.

[Trixie Mattel]

Not the money, though. It's not the money. You don't do it for money. You do it for the money you make afterwards. But, like, Trinity was like. It was like that. It was like, crazy.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I get that.

[Trixie Mattel]

I would have been like, do we rock, paper, scissors now? Like, what the right.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I would have. I don't know. I mean, when I won. When I won, I remember thinking, this is. This is going to primarily be about how De La Left and Shangela didn't make it to top two.

[Trixie Mattel]

But imagine, like, winning.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It was winning, but very, like.

[Trixie Mattel]

But like, if we won, I mean, Bizarro World. Bizarro World. If I shared a win with you, I'd be like, that's amazing. That would be incredible.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

On season seven.

[Trixie Mattel]

No, imagine an alternate universe, like, where we both did amazing and we were friends on the show and we got the first co.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Win.

[Trixie Mattel]

It was friends. It would be incredible. That would be like. We would be unstoppable.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

You know, Would you do a version.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Of All Stars with. With partners?

[Trixie Mattel]

No, because I hate working with people.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

Do you know what I mean?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

People, when they do, like, Drag Race, BF Edition, I'm like, oh, I don't really want to do that. No.

[Trixie Mattel]

Because it's not. I don't like that. If I'm going to make mistakes, I want to be responsible for them. I don't want to bring anybody down. You know what I mean?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I feel.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And that's, I guess, my issue with it being judged as a pair. I was like that. The. Is this.

[Trixie Mattel]

I was like.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

And in the edit, we're not going to mention we had to make these outfits like, girl, bye.

[Trixie Mattel]

No, because I. I am a seamstress, but I'm not great. And also, I need a lot of time. And those machines were horrible. I had a very difficult time, and it ate up a lot of, you know, time and, like, whatever.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Yeah. And I hate. Would have, coulda, shoulda. I would have smoked that hello Kitty.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, baby.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

It's one of the only things that probably would have been good.

[Trixie Mattel]

I know. Tell me why I thought Katy Perry was coming out.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

What are you talking about?

[Trixie Mattel]

When they introduced the whole thing and they. The hello Kitty character came out in the. In the beginning of the episode. I know. I thought it was Katy Perry.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I haven't watched it yet.

[Trixie Mattel]

I thought we're supposed to talk about it.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Talk about it. Next up. No.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, really?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Two today.

[Trixie Mattel]

Oh, I thought we talked about. I thought we were talking about hello Kitty today.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I'm excited for hello Kitty. I have not watched that. I have not watched that since the first time.

[Trixie Mattel]

Yeah, I have a lot of fun things to talk about. They didn't make that edit, so I'm.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Excited to see it. So, yeah, shout out to me. I lost again.

[Trixie Mattel]

You lost again. Did you go home in disgrace or were you happy to be released?

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I was. I was actually grateful I got to do it again. And honestly, I'm talking about me then. I didn't feel like I should have went fourth when I went and I wasn't thrilled about it. So going the second time.

[Trixie Mattel]

I thought it was a good justice that you get to come back, but.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

I was happy I got to come back.

[Kennedy Davenport]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Trixie Mattel]

And also our broke asses were happy. For another $400 check, baby girl.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Boop. Me going home from drag race feeling.

[Trixie Mattel]

Rich in the red. $550 Delta luggage didn't have that money.

[Katya Zamolodchikova]

Boop. Bye. Bye.

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[Trixie Mattel]

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