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Drake Bell
Hey, this is Devin Werkheiser. This week on Ned's declassified podcast Survival.
Devin Werkheiser
Guide, we sit down with Drake Bell to discuss the year since Quiet on Set came out.
Drake Bell
The tweet that killed our podcast and.
Devin Werkheiser
Our shared history growing up on Nickelodeon. On the live stream, everyone is asking like, what do you think? And we hadn't watched it yet.
Drake Bell
Oh, we weren't. Yeah, we weren't on a show like that.
Devin Werkheiser
We didn't have that experience.
Drake Bell
Yeah. I said, speak for yourself.
Devin Werkheiser
I'll be releasing my tell all. And then what was your response to that? And then I made the joke that got clipped. So obviously I'm getting one small clip with everyone else explaining what was going on in the. They were talking about Quiet on Set.
Drake Bell
And they had just watched it and.
Devin Werkheiser
They, they were, they were live streaming while they were watching this is what they were telling me.
Drake Bell
We were all anxious to have this conversation and you don't want to miss it.
Devin Werkheiser
Watch on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello. Hi.
Drake Bell
What is your tea, girl?
Devin Werkheiser
My tea? My tea is. Girl, where's your tea, Val? What's the villity of your tea today? I went for a walk today on Hollywood Boulevard just cuz I wanted to see shit. Yeah. Human feces. Rent by the. Rent by the 30 minute block. Cyber trucks you can ride and take pictures in and you know, penis, penis. Naked penis.
Drake Bell
Wagglers.
Devin Werkheiser
Wagglers. Just showing it all. And every time I do that diagonal crosswalk in Hollywood Boulevard, it feels like when you get hit by a car.
Drake Bell
Oh, is that Hollywood in Highland? Yeah. Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
And there's the X shaped crosswalk. And every time in the middle, I know like a young girl taking a hair flip photo. So I'm ducking and covering because I'm ruining pictures and I keep being like, we're gonna get hit by cars. This.
Drake Bell
Yeah. This is not the time for a flash mob photo shoot. Yeah, there's like go to the Hollywood sign.
Devin Werkheiser
Go somewhere.
Drake Bell
Go anywhere else. Literally anywhere else. Go to the Chinese Theater.
Devin Werkheiser
Go to the Chinese. Go to the Grauman's.
Drake Bell
Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Devin Werkheiser
Or the tlc. Or the TLC theater. Other Chinese theater.
Drake Bell
Wait, that's the same theater, right?
Devin Werkheiser
I don't know.
Drake Bell
I think it is.
Devin Werkheiser
I have fans saw me and came up and you know, it always feels very corny to get Recognized on Hollywood Boulevard because it feels like I'm out there going, I mean, you're doing the. The. The selfish.
Drake Bell
Yeah, exactly.
Devin Werkheiser
You're taking yourself to the mall and cheating out what's her name?
Drake Bell
What's her name?
Devin Werkheiser
You're so small. Yeah. And so this person comes up and is so excited, goes, but. But it's like Tick Tock. Brain rot. So it's just. Wait. No, wait, wait. You know, it's just. Wait. What are we waiting for?
Drake Bell
Yeah, we're in the. We're in the middle of the street.
Devin Werkheiser
And it's like the. The targeted ads on Tick Tock where they're selling clothes and it's just some girl pulling up tights over an ass going like, oh, my God, wait. But, oh, my God, wait. And I'm waiting, and it's just pants waiting. Nothing to wait for.
Drake Bell
Nothing to wait for.
Devin Werkheiser
So then. And then I take the picture with them and they were so excited. And then they go, honestly, it really is not tea. What's not tea? This, like, really isn't tea. What isn't tea? I have just.
Drake Bell
Are we past the point of no return in regard to language girl? I think it's done. Sometimes done.
Devin Werkheiser
It's too much. Wait. Oh, my God.
Drake Bell
Wait, wait.
Devin Werkheiser
What are we waiting for? Wait.
Drake Bell
I don't know the way it.
Devin Werkheiser
Wait, wait, wait.
Drake Bell
I don't like that.
Devin Werkheiser
It makes me think of the crosswalks. Wait, wait.
Drake Bell
Oh, yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
Walk sign is off.
Drake Bell
Like, wait for what? Wait for the perfect lighting to hit you at that diet. I don't. I don't like that crosswalk in any way, shape or form. I don't walk it. I don't drive through it. I avoid it.
Devin Werkheiser
The crossy walk.
Drake Bell
The crossy walk, the crosswalk. It's hard, heavy, bricky tea in that crosswalk.
Devin Werkheiser
The crosswalk. And you know what I do love, though? And this is kind of like. Maybe I used to like pimple popping videos. Or maybe then I used to like the Korean baking videos.
Drake Bell
I'm trying to get into those.
Devin Werkheiser
By the way, my new thing I like is those videos of. Let's say it's a butt where you've lost £300. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of extra skin. It's dimples. It's whatever. It's that moment where you pull those tights over.
Drake Bell
Oh. And it goes.
Devin Werkheiser
And it all snaps together and then wait. And then. It's thrilling. It's fucking thrilling. You go from. You know, a lot of these people have worked out very hard. It's very gratifying. To see somebody who. Who, you know, you have all the extra skin. You probably have to feel like you have to hide in clothes. And then they put on the Spanx, the neon Spanx, and they're like, wait. And then I do wait. And then I. You know what?
Drake Bell
It's worth it.
Devin Werkheiser
It's worth the wait. Do you know I hit the Penjamin last night and spent $700 on TikTok shop?
Drake Bell
You hit the what?
Devin Werkheiser
I can't talk to you anymore.
Drake Bell
The Benjamin.
Devin Werkheiser
The Penjamin Pena Angelie.
Drake Bell
Wait, what are you talking about? Wait.
Devin Werkheiser
What are you talking about?
Drake Bell
There's something about the way he says that.
Devin Werkheiser
Oh, wait. It's too much. I love it. I love it, I love it, I.
Drake Bell
Love it, I love it.
Devin Werkheiser
Will you.
Drake Bell
Your body just. You know what? I don't have time to wait for. I'm not waiting for your body dysmorphia. Not one second. I'm not in that crosswalk.
Devin Werkheiser
It's been really hard. It's been really hard.
Drake Bell
I'm not saying I don't sympathize. I'm saying I don't see her.
Devin Werkheiser
I had. It's my own journey. My own journey. I have my. I think we talked about this. I don't have the same. I would see a man with my body and have no issue. But on me, I'm like, of course. You should just go.
Drake Bell
Of course. Yeah. Kill yourself.
Devin Werkheiser
Go wait for that cross line, that crosswalk sign to change until the cars come and then let them hit you. Yeah. I had to do that Phantom of the Opera descent into the basement to get my 34 jeans, not the 32 cover.
Drake Bell
One eye.
Devin Werkheiser
Oh. Completely out of candelabra. I have a mask on. I'm like, you know, and that's Hunchback or Phantom? It's BofA. Because I also rang a bell. The Hunchback of the Opera. The Hunchback of the Phantom of the Opera. Angelique. It was just. It was too much. But.
Drake Bell
So you're now your row size 14?
Devin Werkheiser
Well, I just wear my clothes from a year ago. Great. Before I got arthritis. So I guess I'm back.
Drake Bell
You're back.
Devin Werkheiser
Back, Back again. Back to who I always was.
Drake Bell
Returned to you, Big face.
Devin Werkheiser
Now in a photo, I'm like, shit, I'm about to start taking a charcoal brick gray and drawing a circle in the daylight around the face.
Drake Bell
No, no, no, no, no. Well, you know that I want a.
Devin Werkheiser
Tiny Mitt Romney face. I want that postage.
Drake Bell
Huge forehead, giant hair, little face.
Devin Werkheiser
Oh, I guess that's not good either.
Drake Bell
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Devin Werkheiser
That's not good.
Drake Bell
No eyes. Sunken eyes. Ugh.
Devin Werkheiser
Ugh.
Drake Bell
You've got. You've got perfect. Perfect face for drag.
Devin Werkheiser
Oh, thanks. You have a perfect face for completely transforming into someone else. Oh, no, no, you pumpkin. For carving. Cuz it's so big.
Drake Bell
That's right.
Devin Werkheiser
Anything you want to do?
Drake Bell
Paper plate. To be. To be put food on.
Devin Werkheiser
Can I tell you that I barely made it here? They closed Kanga Pass.
Drake Bell
I was right behind you.
Devin Werkheiser
They closed Kanga Pass. The only way I know how to get here. And I literally was like, no, they didn't, baby. Yeah, they did.
Drake Bell
I was on her.
Devin Werkheiser
No, you weren't.
Drake Bell
Yes, I was.
Devin Werkheiser
The entrance to it at least was closed.
Drake Bell
No, I was on her.
Devin Werkheiser
Tell me why I ended up in the parking lot at Universal Studios.
Drake Bell
Are you serious?
Devin Werkheiser
Yes. Trying to get here.
Drake Bell
You know what? That is not surprising because I have done the car is. I'm not ready to not stop talking about the car.
Devin Werkheiser
Okay.
Drake Bell
I'm not ready to not stop talking about it. It's so dangerous, girl. It's like it's. People are so willy nilly with the danger. And I can't. And I won't. And I won't ever stop.
Devin Werkheiser
I drive like a mannequin. I grab. I drive. I have.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
Erectly around your back.
Drake Bell
Vision peripheral.
Devin Werkheiser
Yes.
Drake Bell
On alert.
Devin Werkheiser
My blind spot. My head turns all the way around, I swear to God. And I have to give my rental back on Tuesday. And I feel like a foster parent having to, you know.
Drake Bell
Did you like that car?
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, I loved it.
Drake Bell
Why did you get. Well, you still have it.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, I'm still trying to get a real car. This is a car.
Drake Bell
Like a car.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
It's not fake.
Drake Bell
It's real.
Devin Werkheiser
I have to return it to Enterprise on Tuesday.
Drake Bell
How does she handle?
Devin Werkheiser
It's gorgeous. Can I tell you how much. Well, the car jerked me. Didn't know it had the thing where it puts you in the lane. Oh, I guess I was.
Drake Bell
How do you feel about that?
Devin Werkheiser
Well, there was construction taking me around, so there's cones taking you off the lines.
Drake Bell
Got it.
Devin Werkheiser
But my. My car thought, oh, you're drinking and driving or something. Tried to yank me back in and I had to fight her.
Drake Bell
Sometimes when we try to help, we hurt.
Devin Werkheiser
We hurt. So I had to like, push, make like a nail and press on and just get around it.
Drake Bell
How do you feel about the beeping sounds when you're backing up? It's like, shut the fuck Up.
Devin Werkheiser
It's too much beeping is what it is.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
Too much beeping.
Drake Bell
It's too much beeping. And also, we've talked about this. The unpredictable cadence and the unclear message of her beeping is like. What do you mean?
Devin Werkheiser
What do you mean? Like.
Drake Bell
Can you be more specific?
Devin Werkheiser
There's a truck eight feet behind me.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah.
Drake Bell
It's horrible.
Devin Werkheiser
What?
Drake Bell
Hate it.
Devin Werkheiser
It's too much.
Drake Bell
So what kind of car are you going to get? Is this too unrelatable to talk about?
Devin Werkheiser
No, I don't. I. I have a lot of feelings and a lot of thoughts. Sometimes I. I mean, when I sit in a giant Navigator or a Tahoe, it still doesn't feel big enough for me to sit in drag. So part of me thinks, just accept it and get a small car. So that's easy to maneuver when you're not in drag, you know.
Drake Bell
Well, you can get a sedan that's roomy through the hips.
Devin Werkheiser
I hate riding in the car in drag. I had to do photoshoot.
Drake Bell
Oh, it's awful.
Devin Werkheiser
I had a photo shoot yesterday.
Drake Bell
It's so big, though. Like, tall. I mean, huge. Shut up.
Devin Werkheiser
And the giant hair.
Drake Bell
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
Do you have to do this? Yes. I had to come to a photo shoot here yesterday, and in drag, trying to sit up like this.
Drake Bell
You don't do a tip and wig?
Devin Werkheiser
No.
Drake Bell
I think you just started to hurt.
Devin Werkheiser
My back so bad.
Drake Bell
You should start doing a tip and wig. A tiptoe wig.
Devin Werkheiser
A tiptoe wig, Yeah.
Drake Bell
I mean, it's a.
Devin Werkheiser
Essentially.
Drake Bell
Essentially a bus driver. Something that'll fit, but also give you some dignity.
Devin Werkheiser
A ma wig.
Drake Bell
Yes.
Devin Werkheiser
There was an era.
Drake Bell
Oh, just a bang.
Devin Werkheiser
There was an era of drag where a lot of the wigs you could attain were maybe not found in nature for Caucasians.
Drake Bell
Oh, yes. Well, yeah, originally.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah. So there was a time in drag where a lot of black girls were wearing some very.
Drake Bell
I'm right here.
Devin Werkheiser
I wouldn't say you'd do it now.
Drake Bell
I'm right here.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah.
Drake Bell
The first. I mean, I don't know, 23 wigs I owned.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah.
Drake Bell
Like, I'm from Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Devin Werkheiser
Well, there wasn't access to it.
Drake Bell
My name is lawanda and I have, like. And I live in the projects. It's crazy. No, no.
Devin Werkheiser
Because that's all that was available, but now there's. I don't think the kids today know the access of wigs. You can get your lace to match your skin. I mean, I used to buy the blonde wigs with the brown wig and the lace would be like.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
A deeper. So I'd have to paint it or paint my forehead brown, which I was already doing anyway. Boop.
Drake Bell
We, we, we. Oh, I remember this so clearly.
Devin Werkheiser
It was a hard time to be blonde 15 years ago.
Drake Bell
Yes, it was. But you know what we all did? We all made a collective delusional decision to say, I don't see that brown screen. It's not there.
Devin Werkheiser
It doesn't concern you.
Drake Bell
It was absolutely there. It was so there. We all knew it and we all knew it, but we just chose to ignore it. And I was like, that's fierce.
Devin Werkheiser
And then there was like the. The. The access to wigs by vanity era where all the girls had the six inch lace at DragCon. Do you remember that? The birdcage veils because it's too much. What the fuck was that?
Drake Bell
Because it's so good, you don't want to get rid of it. It's.
Devin Werkheiser
It was so crazy. People at Meet and Grab do like.
Drake Bell
Girl, it's like chopping up your Gucci gauchos. Oh, I like the length because I.
Devin Werkheiser
Like a short lace. I like it almost gone. I know. That's horrible.
Drake Bell
Well, it depends.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, but it's so long. And we're giving Broadway tea.
Drake Bell
It's right there.
Devin Werkheiser
And it's like we got in the room. Yeah.
Drake Bell
We have to acknowledge the present.
Devin Werkheiser
It's a Covid mask.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
I mean, it's covering the mouth.
Drake Bell
I mean, they might as well have just like laced eyebrows into it.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah.
Drake Bell
Because that would be a fierce little look.
Devin Werkheiser
Do you remember Lana Del Rey? Do you remember the Lana Del Rey face mask? That was like clear.
Drake Bell
See through the rhinestone love that is cunt. She's always ahead of the game.
Devin Werkheiser
She's always ahead of the game.
Drake Bell
She's behind the curve, you know, Ahead of the curve, behind the times.
Devin Werkheiser
Hell, yeah.
Drake Bell
I think that she should write it.
Devin Werkheiser
Does she?
Drake Bell
It's so funny that she came onto, you know, Coachella with the same, like, what do you call that? Like, it was her Coachella.
Devin Werkheiser
Yes.
Drake Bell
Right after Bachela, which was legendarily enormous and crazy. And she just rides in there on some, like, motorcycle in a little two piece and goes, oh, lona Cello.
Devin Werkheiser
Limoncello.
Drake Bell
Limoncello.
Devin Werkheiser
Have you ever had. Okay, there's. Sorry, there's lemon lacroix.
Drake Bell
Yes.
Devin Werkheiser
And then there's its fucked up sister called lemon cello. The instacart person brought lemon cello.
Drake Bell
Wait, actual limoncello or Limoncello La Croix.
Devin Werkheiser
Okay, so there's lemon flavored lacroix which is like sparkling while it tastes like lemons. And then there's limoncello, which is, I don't know, like chemical flavored.
Drake Bell
Boo boo lemon. Boo boo boo lemon. Well, I tried limoncello in Italy because it's like limonce. So you do it and you're like, this is fucking gross.
Devin Werkheiser
Right?
Drake Bell
It's gross. It's like a lemon flavored battery acid or gasoline.
Devin Werkheiser
Right. People like that, I guess. I mean, I hate the limoncello Lacroix.
Drake Bell
It sounds like a bad idea.
Devin Werkheiser
It's just. Just do lemon.
Drake Bell
Well, it's like that cucumber and BlackBerry. I was like, what?
Devin Werkheiser
They do too much. Everybody's trying to reinvent the wheel.
Drake Bell
Just do red, brown and green.
Devin Werkheiser
Well, that's like the vape people. This is bubblegum brown cinnamon.
Drake Bell
I know. And it's also so nefarious because it's so clearly marketed towards the youngsters.
Devin Werkheiser
Right?
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
This is watermelon. Watermelon peach. Watermelon peach brownie.
Drake Bell
They need to. Yeah, that's too. They need to like make it more adult oriented. I would do like, my vape line would be like hot pussy.
Devin Werkheiser
Right?
Drake Bell
Like full bush.
Devin Werkheiser
Do they make vape that tastes like a. Like a cigarette? Just like. This is my mar. Mar Red. They do.
Drake Bell
Absolutely. Tobacco flavored. Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
What?
Drake Bell
Yeah, well, because, you know, people. Some people try to replace it. For me. It's not a. It's not a replacement at all. But ask me if I've had a cigarette today.
Devin Werkheiser
Have you had a cigarette today?
Drake Bell
No.
Devin Werkheiser
Impressive.
Drake Bell
Ask me if I had one yesterday.
Devin Werkheiser
Do you have one yesterday?
Drake Bell
No.
Devin Werkheiser
Wow. Huge if true.
Drake Bell
Huge if true.
Devin Werkheiser
Planet of the vapes.
Drake Bell
Yeah, but I have them.
Devin Werkheiser
What are you gonna do with them? Like a. Just in case.
Drake Bell
Just in case. You never know. Just in case.
Devin Werkheiser
I think in the. The collapse of America, they will be currency.
Drake Bell
Well, they're, they're. They're coming back. I. I don't know why. It's. Well, I know why. Just because what you just said. But I don't know how did you let me smell like shit all this time? Remember when you.
Devin Werkheiser
It was just kind of part of your charm.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
We're just happy you were still with us most of the time.
Drake Bell
Oh, here she comes.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah. You smell her?
Drake Bell
This is smell like booty.
Devin Werkheiser
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Devin Werkheiser
I fell asleep on the couch last night, which did not help my back.
Drake Bell
Are you depressed?
Devin Werkheiser
No, I just was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was the Thanksgiving episode. I don't love that episode. Okay, so I fell asleep.
Drake Bell
Good.
Devin Werkheiser
You know? Cause, okay, so I wake up, I'm in pain, right? I wake up the way I wake up every morning lately. I try to lift my head and I'm wincing. I'm going, oh, it's been horrible. So I turn on the TV because I like to watch the news and what do I see? Badlands in Sacramento. Do you remember that gay bar? I'm sure you performed there. Lovely place. Hello. Hello.
Drake Bell
Burned down.
Devin Werkheiser
And now that my beautiful bar closed, I feel like I can be more loose lipped about the industry and some of the issues and the problems, right? I turn on the news and I see that this bar in Sacramento called Badlands has banned their political. They've banned political attire at the bar? They're like Just come here and drink. Leave your politics at the door. But then I guess that was the original thought, but the thought became banning, just MAGA shit. So you couldn't come to the gay bar where the gays and bisexuals and trans and bi people and, you know, pansexual people live and drink and wear your red hat.
Drake Bell
I agree with you, though.
Devin Werkheiser
That's my thought.
Drake Bell
Because people were doing it. I wonder.
Devin Werkheiser
Well, then the news, they had the nerve to say on the news, they had a Republican on there saying it's bullying a community mama.
Drake Bell
That's, like, racist towards white folks.
Devin Werkheiser
That is fucking racist towards white people.
Drake Bell
It's not a thing.
Devin Werkheiser
And Ms. Thing who came on the TV gave deep in the closet.
Drake Bell
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
She came on in her, like, her, like, laminated brows, and she was like, it seems unfair.
Drake Bell
That's.
Devin Werkheiser
I'm gonna go fuck my wife.
Drake Bell
That's neither here nor there. The point is, like, you just shut up.
Devin Werkheiser
Why do you need to go to that bar?
Drake Bell
Also, why do you need to know whose penis I'm putting my. No, no. Whose body I'm putting my penis into?
Devin Werkheiser
Well, I'm obsessed with these cunty videos of people trying to go into gay bars and MAGA shit and these.
Drake Bell
What are they looking for, these bartenders.
Devin Werkheiser
With the little mullets? Just go. Get the fuck out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't want your money. We don't want your friends here. Get out.
Drake Bell
I mean, imagine rolling up to the Eagle with a maga hat. 2:00am, a bunch of horny bears around. They're gonna kick your ass.
Devin Werkheiser
I know. And it's hard because obviously I know this, gay bars are harder and harder to keep open in 2025. So turning away any business seems crazy, but get your fucking red hat the fuck out of here. Go down to Chili's and leave us alone.
Drake Bell
Thank you. Applebee's is open till 2am baby. And they have all you can eat buffet on Sundays from 3 to 6.
Devin Werkheiser
And for 18 bucks, you will get a thimble of liqueur in that drink.
Drake Bell
Oh, yeah, It's a milkshake with about a half a cup or half a teeny little thingy of a fucking whatever.
Devin Werkheiser
I just was gagged because it's. That's weird for them to say it's discrimination. I'm like a. Why do you want to come in here? Why do you want to drink here? And this. This paraphernalia, you're wearing it to signal that you make a hobby out of trying to snatch it, right? Out of my. My little denim skirt pocket.
Drake Bell
Yeah. It's like going down to elementary school and just kicking kids in the face. What's up with that? Well, that sounds kind of fun, actually.
Devin Werkheiser
I just was watching the news gag. That is crazy, the word bullying being used. I was like, bullying, Bullying. Why is it.
Drake Bell
I mean.
Devin Werkheiser
So go off, Badlands. I love you. Go off?
Drake Bell
Yeah, go off. Do whatever you want to do. I just wish the descent into fascism wasn't so riddled with stupidity. But I guess that's the foundation of that kind of prejudices. Ignorance.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah. I will say, as the world has gotten crazier, my taste for television has gotten even worse.
Drake Bell
What are we watching now?
Devin Werkheiser
Like, now it's not enough for me to goon and watch Natalia Grace. Okay, now I'm gonna have. Who's that?
Drake Bell
Natalia Grace.
Devin Werkheiser
Mrs. Grace is this young woman who was adopted by an American family. I could be paraphrasing. Don't fact check me, people.
Drake Bell
Okay? Don't fact check.
Devin Werkheiser
The program is called the Curious Case and Natalia Grace.
Drake Bell
Okay, that's fun.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, it's kind of a fun little. Yeah.
Drake Bell
What channel is it on?
Devin Werkheiser
I was one of the crazy ones.
Drake Bell
Tlc.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, probably tlc. And she. Her family decided that she was secretly older. It was, like, part of the inspiration for the orphan. Her family decided to age her. She had a form of dwarfism where they were like. Eventually they saw in a bathtub that she had pubes. And they were like, she's secretly 30. And they got her an apartment and took this, like, child and gave her an apartment and just left her there for years. And so it's kind of an abuse story.
Drake Bell
That's so weird. You're like, get out, oldie.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah. So now there's a dramatization starring that woman from Grey's Anatomy. What's her name?
Drake Bell
Ellen Pompeo.
Devin Werkheiser
Is that her? So now I'm gonna have to watch that.
Drake Bell
You have to.
Devin Werkheiser
Of course you have to, because I.
Drake Bell
Did watch Ellen needs the work.
Devin Werkheiser
So the first season of Natalia Grace is the parents speaking out, being like, she was horrible. She ruined her lives. And the second season, Natalia Grace is the main character. And she said, open the fuck up. And she sits down across her legs and tells the real tea that she's basically abused.
Drake Bell
Holy shit.
Devin Werkheiser
And they said that this happens. People with no birth certificates from other countries, they come in and they get re aged.
Drake Bell
Oh, my God. Renamed re aged. And then nine years old, you're 18.
Devin Werkheiser
Bye.
Drake Bell
It's like. It's like 30 Rock is like, you know, your cousin Jeffrey used to be a girl or. No, I figured. What, it was an accident with a hot comb. You know what I mean? But, you know, well, if you're using.
Devin Werkheiser
A hot comb to straighten your pubes. I don't know, straightening the pubes redeem. I'm.
Drake Bell
Wait, you're older. My child is actually 30 because.
Devin Werkheiser
Because she had pubes. Which, by the way, people can mature at all different levels of their life.
Drake Bell
It's not a blood. Yeah, there's a. There's a spectrum of age range and things. Oh, my God.
Devin Werkheiser
Not to mention she has a form of dwarfism. Are you an expert on what her.
Drake Bell
Body does when my child identifies as 35?
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, it's a crazy program. It was very hard to watch that type of abuse. Crazy.
Drake Bell
Are they in jail now, those parents?
Devin Werkheiser
I think they're vibing. That's the thing about these documentaries. There's really no justice. It's just kind of like.
Drake Bell
Don't you think it is.
Devin Werkheiser
They probably can't go to the grocery store anymore.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah.
Drake Bell
Well, I mean, Town hall justice or Village Pitchfork justice is not the right kind of justice. I wonder about those things. If it's exploit, exploitation. I watched. Oh, did you watch? You like sad stuff?
Devin Werkheiser
I have a really hard time with it. But what is it?
Drake Bell
You'll hate it then. Adolescence. Oh my God. Four. It's four episodes on Netflix. Thirteen Year Old Boy stabs a girl to death.
Devin Werkheiser
Oh my God.
Drake Bell
And it's just the aftermath of the. The trial or the investigation? The trial. The parents, the school, the community. It's like devastating. It's good, though, which is great for Netflix because they really need a win. They got. They're pumping a lot of turds out of that shit factory. Yeah, that Electric state, mama. I know we're not supposed to speak ill of our employer.
Devin Werkheiser
You're allowed to like what you like.
Drake Bell
Yeah. I mean, and they encourage us to tell the truth. Yeah, it's not them anyways, it's.
Devin Werkheiser
I never feel, ever, ever feel censored at that job, ever. Not like here, where I'm told, you.
Drake Bell
Know, you're too sexy. Yeah, cover up. Cover that skin.
Devin Werkheiser
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Devin Werkheiser
Hey everybody.
Drake Bell
My name is Bob the drag queen. And I'm Monet X Change and we are the host of Sibling Rivalry. This is the podcast where two best friends gab talk smack and have a.
Devin Werkheiser
Lot of fun with our black queer selves. Yeah, for sure.
Drake Bell
And you know we are family so.
Devin Werkheiser
We talk about everything honey. From why we we don't like hugs.
Drake Bell
To black lives matter to interracial dating, to other things. Right Bob? Yes.
Devin Werkheiser
And it gets messy and we are.
Drake Bell
Not afraid to be wrong.
Devin Werkheiser
So please join us over here at silverbribery. Available anywhere you get your podcast.
Drake Bell
You can listen and subscribe for free.
Devin Werkheiser
For free, honey. In the spirit of transparency, I didn't know what we were going to talk about today, so I took it upon myself to use my own money to go down to the El Capitan Theater and see Snow White this morning.
Drake Bell
Hold on. I'm gonna do this. Okay, here I go. Here we go.
Devin Werkheiser
10Am showing on Hollywood Boulevard.
Drake Bell
Okay, here we go.
Devin Werkheiser
So can I just say, it's not for you. It has everything you wouldn't like. It has singing shit. It has good feelings.
Drake Bell
You had me at Gal Gadot singing. Yeah, yeah, tell me everything.
Devin Werkheiser
You know. I went. Cause I really thought it was gonna be the ultimate stinker. And I was like. I was like, yeah, you were heading here and like, get a good story for you.
Drake Bell
You brought toilet paper, didn't you? Yeah, it wasn't.
Devin Werkheiser
It wasn't bad enough to be funny bad. It was just. It never really took off for me.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
Never took off for me. Yeah, that a really, like, earnestness and like musical theater vibes to like that.
Drake Bell
How was. How is the singing for Ms. Godot?
Devin Werkheiser
Oh, I mean, well, Rachel Ziegler is an incredible singer.
Drake Bell
Is she really?
Devin Werkheiser
That's kind of not negotiable. She's a great.
Drake Bell
Okay, I didn't know. I don't know anything about her.
Devin Werkheiser
And it's a retelling. This is super spoiler. None of the people who listen to us are going to see that. Maybe they are.
Drake Bell
Are the dwarves all 35?
Devin Werkheiser
They are all animated.
Drake Bell
Oh, I don't like that. They're mixing and matching.
Devin Werkheiser
They're all animated. So it's Polar Express vibes with the faces. I mean, they're animated.
Drake Bell
I don't like that.
Devin Werkheiser
Really good animation. I thought, well, then why don't we.
Drake Bell
Make the people animated? You don't have to hire Gal Gadot then.
Devin Werkheiser
Well, there was a little person in the movie who played a, like a hero character.
Drake Bell
Okay. Oh, so they're okay, that's interesting.
Devin Werkheiser
So the Dwarves were not little people. The dwarves were creatures. Yeah, they were hundreds of years old.
Drake Bell
They were creatures. Okay, so they were non human.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, they're not human. So when they see her, they go, oh, my God, it's a human.
Drake Bell
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. And she's like, oh, my God, it's a creature.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah.
Drake Bell
You are not Peter Dinklage.
Devin Werkheiser
And when she sees them, she's not scared.
Drake Bell
Okay.
Devin Werkheiser
You know, she's like, oh, hello.
Drake Bell
Hey, and how. What is their relationship? How would you characterize it?
Devin Werkheiser
Well, can I say Gal Gadot looked cunt, of course, because she got her head to toe jeweled in the gown.
Drake Bell
I saw the drag queen jewelry neck thing. Mary, it's cunty.
Devin Werkheiser
The girls at Mickey's are hot gluing right now.
Drake Bell
Oh, and Morgan, Michael, literally, the girls are getting ready. Black smoke is churning out into the atmosphere right now.
Devin Werkheiser
Yes, I know the girls are ready to do their Dangerous Woman number or something.
Drake Bell
They just better not do the actual song from her.
Devin Werkheiser
I would say the song had an Amelia Perez vibe. I'm gonna be honest. Really, it did.
Drake Bell
I'd like to know about your seven little creatures.
Devin Werkheiser
I thought some of the music was really nice. There was a song called Waiting on a Wish that I liked, but I kind of Can I also say Rachel Ziegler is a very beautiful woman. They have her in this Lord Farquaad cut. That is so diabolical.
Drake Bell
Sweetie. They have. They have stacks. She does deserve cards against her. Like they. Like they made her play at a penalty. Like they gave her a golfing handicap. I was like, why are you doing that to Miss Sinnoh white girl?
Devin Werkheiser
So I liked some of the songs. The Good Things Girl, the opening song, Waiting to Wish. That was great. Obviously in some of the old shit. Hi ho slaps. I don't care who you are. It's off to work we go.
Drake Bell
Gotcha. Go. Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
Sucking on it. Sucking on it. Titty, titty, titty. It was. That was fun.
Drake Bell
Giving them. Giving them. Giving them blowjob. This is a missed opportunity to hire Ms. Lana Del Rey and have her and. No, because they. They missed it in Priscilla. They missed her scheduling conflict. I'm sure they missed. They did it in Maleficent. She did one of the songs. She should have sang all of her songs and she should have lip synced like the old days.
Devin Werkheiser
It's. I mean, it wasn't. To be honest, I think that the. I was expecting it to be a complete mess. It just doesn't lift off the way you want it to.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
But obviously, live action. I tend to never like that anyway. So I'm not the. I didn't like Beauty and the Beast. I don't, like, care for that.
Drake Bell
I know. I don't understand why they're doing it. Like, why. I guess. Oh, existing ip. Existing ip. Let's just like, people know it. People know it. But, like, I don't know.
Devin Werkheiser
It was just. And also I went into it knowing I'm not a child. There was Children in the theater, they loved it.
Drake Bell
Did they really like it?
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah. So why I'm not there to hate it at all. Yeah. But I really thought Gal was gorgeous. They got her in the good drag makeup and she is so. And how many people look good with their hair gone and just a nun like cut out of the base?
Drake Bell
But wait, there was a girl on TikTok, she was like. She was like, Gal can not sing, she cannot act. And she even struggles to stand there sometime.
Devin Werkheiser
You know, she. I. I don't love the portrayal cuz I can kind of forgive actors who aren't super actors doing singing a movie.
Drake Bell
And that's.
Devin Werkheiser
It's all Melody to hell. What does that mean? It's so autotuned. It all gives glee. Like it's all just. Yeah, that level. Like pop singing.
Drake Bell
Anyway, you saw around the Crown and just. Thank you. What did they do when they changed CeeLo's fuck you to Gwyneth Paltrow's Forget you.
Devin Werkheiser
Bless you.
Drake Bell
That was a real weird one. Melodyne. That's a new one for me.
Devin Werkheiser
The auto tune Melody. It's like a tool. Okay, so it just wasn't for me. But Gal Gadot had the good. When she first came out, she's standing in front of this mirror and there's this magic shit happening and she's doing the mirror, mirror. I was like, oh, my nipples are hard.
Drake Bell
Yes, because she really is. But also in that story, she's too cunty because she's like fierce. Obviously she's the fiercest of them all. What's the problem?
Devin Werkheiser
Well, it was a kind of a reimagining the storyline. She's not saved by a prince, she's saved by like a poor person who sounds woke. Yeah.
Drake Bell
Yes, very woke.
Devin Werkheiser
And then they're together. Like let's. Let's take. Let's make sure everyone's happy again. You know, it's very sweet.
Drake Bell
So. But she wasn't jealous. She wasn't very jealous. Like a rat searching around for food.
Devin Werkheiser
She's jealous of the beauty. That's the main thing.
Drake Bell
But she has the beauty. I don't know what comes to the.
Devin Werkheiser
Mirror says that Ms. Snow White is prettier and so she gets cooked and plucked.
Drake Bell
The mirror ages Snow White, she says that's the 35.
Devin Werkheiser
No, the mirror goes. Well, she's. You're not giving anymore because this, you know, Snow White, who is the.
Drake Bell
She's up and coming. Legendary.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, legendary children who got the good face smash in Turkey. And now she's giving the girls the boop.
Drake Bell
She's got. Her plugs have healed. It's curtains for you, maybe.
Devin Werkheiser
And none of them fell out.
Drake Bell
Yeah. What are you hiding underneath that?
Devin Werkheiser
Give up, jobless. Give up, jobless. Keep crying, jobless. So it was fine. It wasn't for you. But I didn't walk out. I stayed till the end.
Drake Bell
That's impressive because I. I do be walking out of theaters these days if it do stink.
Devin Werkheiser
Like, the only thing I missed was in the cartoon, which I do love. When they kill the queen, she's as the old hag. Yeah. And she falls off the cliff, I believe. Right. And she screams and it's scary as hell.
Drake Bell
Yeah. She's one with the apple.
Devin Werkheiser
That wasn't very scary.
Drake Bell
Did she have an apple or.
Devin Werkheiser
She had an apple.
Drake Bell
I was going to say it was a banana or something.
Devin Werkheiser
She had an apple. It was just. It was a green juice.
Drake Bell
It was very L. A. Oh, my God. She like. Here's a turmeric shot.
Devin Werkheiser
She came door to door with a wellness shot.
Drake Bell
It's one of those vitamin B tour shots.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah. I don't think it was as bad as everybody said, but it kind of prevented. When you're not scared of the evil thing, it makes the stakes feel lower.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
She didn't really scare me.
Drake Bell
Also, the hag portion of that is the fun of that character because you see her in different iterations. Like, I remember Sigourney Weaver was Snow White. She played a version a Hague. And the hag was fierce, fierce, fierce. I watched a movie that you give me Marla Hooch. Yeah. A lot of night games.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah.
Drake Bell
But like.
Devin Werkheiser
Or give me a. Like. Not Alyssa sue, but the one before where Demi's bald.
Drake Bell
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
The.
Drake Bell
The club foot in the room.
Devin Werkheiser
Get her down here.
Drake Bell
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Yeah. I mean, more hags love hags. Speaking of hags, Andrew's show last night. Cunty.
Devin Werkheiser
Oh, How'd it go?
Drake Bell
It was really good. So it was a one night with Aster. Also. The nerve of him to have merch. Just. That's amazing. Like, all I blinked and there were T shirts, girl. And they were so glittery and kind.
Devin Werkheiser
I do drag. 12 years.
Drake Bell
Yeah. I'm like, so this is my 20th year in drag. 18th year trying to sell shit. Can't come up with a good. Whatever. It was amazing. He did. He did a very, very poignant and stirring rendition of a Judy Garland song that brought tears to the eyes of its people. I don't remember, but it was amazing. Perfectly delivered. And he Looked so beautiful. I was worried because solo show, you never know.
Devin Werkheiser
Mary, you don't even know about our solo show.
Drake Bell
Mama, I don't want to talk about my solo show.
Devin Werkheiser
I don't either.
Drake Bell
He was incredible. And it was the. It was. It made me want to do drag. That's how you know.
Devin Werkheiser
Wow.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
Wait. Oh, wait. Oh, my God.
Drake Bell
Wait, wait, wait.
Devin Werkheiser
Lately, I've been spiritually feeling dragged, but physically completely against it. I love everything about the corset and the tights. The problem is, lately it hurt. It's just been hurting. And my back hurts. My arthritis hurts. So the drag on top of that.
Drake Bell
It'S insult to injury.
Devin Werkheiser
I get in such a foul mood.
Drake Bell
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
I just get such a foul mood.
Drake Bell
That's like when. That's when you. When you're. When it's so painful and you're like, I.
Devin Werkheiser
Like.
Drake Bell
I'm a sad clown. I'm an angry. I'm an angry. Like, Bugs Bunny or something. It's just so, so corny.
Devin Werkheiser
It's corny. Booze.
Drake Bell
It's corny. It's corny. Corny.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, it's corny. Boots, like.
Drake Bell
I took my corset off. We did Netflix the other day and had my corset on for quite a long time, and it had started to affect the organs in my body. I felt.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, yeah. No, it really did. It does.
Drake Bell
The. This is so gross. I'm. I won't. I took it off, and as I'm taking it off in my tights, off. Flatulence is expelling from my body in the most, like, stepbrothers kind of Farelli Brothers movie kind of way. You know, it's like. It's like the Gro. Shallow how Kind of bathroom humor. It was so gross. It was so embarrassing. But I couldn't help it because I was like, it is what it is. Disgusting. Totally gross. Because it was all, you know, can.
Devin Werkheiser
I tell a story? And you might. We can cut it if we have to.
Drake Bell
Okay.
Devin Werkheiser
Do you remember what happened in Amherst? I went in your dressing room, and you were standing there in drag, and you went, oh, I farted. I heard it.
Drake Bell
Wait, wait, wait.
Devin Werkheiser
Did you. And I said, yeah, you heard it.
Drake Bell
I don't remember that. Wait. I farted. And it made sense.
Devin Werkheiser
You were in drag and you went. I farted. I just heard it.
Drake Bell
I just heard.
Devin Werkheiser
I just heard.
Drake Bell
We've just received word.
Devin Werkheiser
Are you ran through? Is your whole ran through.
Drake Bell
Is your anus discolored and ran through? It was just like my whole body Was ran through and then it had release. The moment of release was like the other day.
Devin Werkheiser
This is two days ago, we were shooting at Netflix and It was almost 5 o'clock and I was starting to just reject the drag. Your body starts to. Your involuntary reaction is to tear off the wig.
Drake Bell
It's physical, spiritual, emotional. It's a full rejection.
Devin Werkheiser
You fight the urge to rip off the wig and the corset. And our director, who we love, goes, come on, it's not even 5:00. And my immediate thought was I started putting glue on my face. On my face.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
At 6:30 this morning. Oh man, that's still.
Drake Bell
Yeah, it's 5:00 somewhere.
Devin Werkheiser
Mary, I recently had an opportunity for a work thing and I said I.
Drake Bell
Was turned to town.
Devin Werkheiser
Well, yes.
Drake Bell
Yeah, huge if true.
Devin Werkheiser
But I first wasn't going to.
Drake Bell
Okay, tell me about.
Devin Werkheiser
It was supposed to be. And I won't say what it is so I can be more clear about it. I was supposed to be one shoot day. We were supposed to do one shoot day. And I said, okay. And then they said, well, now it's a shoot day and a practice day the day before. And I said, well, baby. And then they said, well, we need you to come and drag for cameras and lighting and you do social the day before. I said, well, that's a two day shoot. And then they said, the day of the shoot we will need you in makeup shooting 8:30am to 8:30pm And I said, you must not know about me. I literally, I just was like, I suddenly felt the spirit of you and these big demonic wings blew out of my back and I said ca caw. And just fled the situation. That.
Drake Bell
Because I was like, is that what you want? Because let me tell you, you're never going to get it.
Devin Werkheiser
I said, get on the phone, get one other girls, get miss for Mic a table or whatever else, get them to do it with. Also mic a tabletop down here.
Drake Bell
It's not plausible, probable or possible. Yeah, you know, 12 hours. No, no, no.
Devin Werkheiser
You're.
Drake Bell
You're dealing with fantasy. You want when you got to do animation.
Devin Werkheiser
Do you know what it makes me think of? The beginning of True Blood where it's the time lapse of like the fox rotting.
Drake Bell
I don't remember.
Devin Werkheiser
That's me. 12 hours.
Drake Bell
Yeah, I told you I look pretty.
Devin Werkheiser
Good after 12 hours because I don't have a beard.
Drake Bell
Yeah, sweetie, you don't want to know.
Devin Werkheiser
About this attitude after 12 hours in drag. You don't want to know about it. I Don't want to know about it.
Drake Bell
I know. Nobody needs to. If you're cold, they're cold. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's. I'm. I was thinking about that the other day, and I'm like, fuck, what is my window of freshness in drag? I think it's under two hours now.
Devin Werkheiser
That's fierce.
Drake Bell
I think it's like a 90 minute window, love. Because also it takes two hours to get right.
Devin Werkheiser
Well, I explained this to somebody. I said, you know, the thing is, in the beginning of drag, at most you're in drag like an hour and ten. The drag shows I wear were 90 minutes.
Drake Bell
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
And you're only out there two lip syncs that are three minutes long, 12 minutes maybe. You're out there 10 minutes.
Drake Bell
Yeah, yeah. 1012 minutes.
Devin Werkheiser
That is so different.
Drake Bell
That's fucking crazy.
Devin Werkheiser
Than the RuPaul drag. That is like just 12 hours on camera. But, you know, I'm about that life.
Drake Bell
Yeah. But you know what, though? I still think about this all the time. I would. My primary fear before going on RuPaul's Drag Race was sweating. I was like, I'm gonna be. I'm. I was like. It kept me up at night. I was like, I'm not gonna be able to. I'm gonna. I'm not gonna survive. I'm not gonna survive. It's gonna be. I'm. Look, I'm just gonna be wet the whole time. Cut to set and it's 45 degrees.
Devin Werkheiser
Right?
Drake Bell
But there's something. It must be the lighting there. Is it the lighting? Because I. We did 10 hour days.
Devin Werkheiser
Some days it's adrenaline.
Drake Bell
No, no, no, no.
Devin Werkheiser
No situation.
Drake Bell
No, but I'm looking. I'm just saying as a person looking at the makeup, I don't see the nasty as much.
Devin Werkheiser
It's the lighting. It's the filters.
Drake Bell
It's the lighting. Right?
Devin Werkheiser
It's the filters. It's the lighting.
Drake Bell
Because we were.
Devin Werkheiser
And you weren't 42.
Drake Bell
No, but I was 32. And I wasn't wearing any makeup. Cause I thought I was like a girl.
Devin Werkheiser
You really had no makeup on. Did you even contour?
Drake Bell
I was like this.
Devin Werkheiser
You didn't contour one 301 lashes like this.
Drake Bell
301. 101 cut in half. No, I mean, it was. I wore 111s or two 10s or the whatever, not 301s.
Devin Werkheiser
Fierce.
Drake Bell
I really thought I was like, hi, I'm a girl. Everybody was like, what?
Devin Werkheiser
No blush, no eyeshadow, like, nothing.
Drake Bell
No, I did experiment with eyeshadow at some time. At some point. At some point. Oh, but I did go to the. The trouble of making nails.
Devin Werkheiser
We didn't look great like I did.
Drake Bell
Yeah, it's true.
Devin Werkheiser
You didn't look incredible like I, I.
Drake Bell
Was, I was unforgettable. Unforgettable.
Devin Werkheiser
Do you know I mean pieces of jewelry and shoe that shoes I had. Do you know I had like three.
Drake Bell
Pairs of white shoes and that's it.
Devin Werkheiser
I had white shoes that I would spray paint and I had a few sets of jewelry. I either had my shitty plastic Claire's jewelry or drag queens had borrowed me. Giant pageant like platters. So there was no middle. Do you want a ring the size of a serving plate or do you want flares like plastic magic eight ball ring?
Drake Bell
Why did I wear a black wig every episode? Why did I wear a short.
Devin Werkheiser
Why did you wear a black wig?
Drake Bell
Why did I wear a short black $34.99 finger wave wig every single episode? Never wore black wigs in my whole career. I go and don't do the thing that I do and then I wear black wigs. What is that? What is that?
Devin Werkheiser
Identity. It's identity.
Drake Bell
Up in the air I was like, who? Like Jessica? No, I'm Marie.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, it was so fun. Have you ever been to the El Capitan Theater? Yeah, they had it all decked out for Snow White. I guess when you go see Disney, is it all themed? It was all Disney themed in there. There was a little hut.
Drake Bell
Oh, I don't know.
Devin Werkheiser
Maybe it was because of the premiere. Oh.
Drake Bell
Cause yeah, they did the same thing with the Nosferatu. They had a hearse and a coffin and all that shit.
Devin Werkheiser
In the theater.
Drake Bell
Oh, no, not outside it.
Devin Werkheiser
Oh, so cool.
Drake Bell
But that was at the TLC Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Devin Werkheiser
I think it is TCL, I like to say TLC. If there was a movie theater that just screened TLC shows.
Drake Bell
Oh, that'd be cunt.
Devin Werkheiser
My 2000 pound mother.
Drake Bell
My, you know, my 4000 pound boss.
Devin Werkheiser
90 minute fiance.
Drake Bell
90 minute 90 pound fiance.
Devin Werkheiser
My 2000 pound mother. Yeah. 4000 pound brothers, girl. All the good ones. Amisha. Loving it. That sounds like. Honestly, I didn't know I was £2,000. My £9,000 baby. I didn't know I was pregnant with. Yes, girl. Woo.
Drake Bell
Oh shit. Yes. Yes, girl.
Devin Werkheiser
Extreme Rum Springer.
Drake Bell
Oh, they just die.
Devin Werkheiser
No, they throw them out of helicopters and stuff. With the bonnet on. Rum Springer.
Drake Bell
Jerry Rum Springer, the Amish. Fire up the helicopter.
Devin Werkheiser
Absolutely. We're gonna take six Amish people about to turn 20 and we're gonna drop them into a live fire war zone.
Drake Bell
Into an active volcano inside. See what happens when things get real?
Devin Werkheiser
O, girl, this sounds like another TLC show. Oops, I'm trans. We're going to kidnap people and give them. We're going to kidnap Republican. We're going to kidnap conservatives and make them put them under the night.
Drake Bell
From Red Hat to Red Hot.
Devin Werkheiser
My bad. My terrible. My terrible skin. Colon. Stephanie's journey.
Drake Bell
What about the swan? How about the goose?
Devin Werkheiser
Swan, of course.
Drake Bell
But what about. Because it's the mallard, it's woke now.
Devin Werkheiser
The mallard.
Drake Bell
The mallard or the goose?
Devin Werkheiser
Where are the swan girls? I bet all those veneers popped right off, sweetie.
Drake Bell
Oh, yeah. It's Homeless not toothless or Toothless not homeless.
Devin Werkheiser
Right.
Drake Bell
What is that from, by the way?
Devin Werkheiser
It's from Real Housewives. There's a. There's a charity called Homeless Not Toothless, where they help unhoused people with their teeth.
Drake Bell
Okay.
Devin Werkheiser
And she accidentally calls it Toothless not homeless. Toothless, not homeless.
Drake Bell
Which is fine.
Devin Werkheiser
Well, I think her heart was in it, but. Yeah, you gotta say it, right? You gotta say it, right, Right, right, right, right.
Drake Bell
What do you think about Mario Lopez? Would you. Him?
Devin Werkheiser
You know, I saw him at event once.
Drake Bell
You did?
Devin Werkheiser
Yes. One of. He's friends with Vanderpump.
Drake Bell
Okay.
Devin Werkheiser
And I saw him at one of her galas, and I sat by him at the table.
Drake Bell
Does he talk different when he's not on the.
Devin Werkheiser
He didn't talk much, but he just looked, what, about 18?
Drake Bell
Wet?
Devin Werkheiser
Yes.
Drake Bell
Gorgeous. Young and wet.
Devin Werkheiser
His wife cut up his food for him and gave the plate back, which I found kind of, like, sweet.
Drake Bell
That's fun.
Devin Werkheiser
Romantic partners cutting up the food and giving back. I thought that was sweet.
Drake Bell
I think it's probably portion control. She's, like, keeping tabs on his weight.
Devin Werkheiser
She said, no more.
Drake Bell
She said, I'll get this fatty.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, I have off this weekend.
Drake Bell
What are you gonna do? You're gonna work somehow?
Devin Werkheiser
No, I was gonna go camping.
Drake Bell
Ew. Wait, why? Just to do what kind of. Is it glamping or camping?
Devin Werkheiser
I was gonna rent one of those, like, small campers and drive it into the desert. Sounds like suicide, now that I say it out loud. I was gonna cook some meth. You know what I was planned in your college, Pinkman. Grab some beakers and cook some meth.
Drake Bell
I'm gonna moonlight as a crystal maker. Damn.
Devin Werkheiser
My street name is gonna be called Dr. Cook. Yeah. Yeah.
Drake Bell
What would Your Breaking Bad name be. Oh, what is his name? Walter White. Yours would be, like.
Devin Werkheiser
Not Weinstein.
Drake Bell
No, no, no. Pinkerton. Jesse Pinkerton. Pinkton.
Devin Werkheiser
Jesse. It's Jesse Pinkman.
Drake Bell
Pinkman.
Devin Werkheiser
But then he's Mr. Heisenberg. He's Heisenberg. Heisenberg.
Drake Bell
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And what is the guy who owns the chicken?
Devin Werkheiser
The.
Drake Bell
The evil chicken guy?
Devin Werkheiser
Oh, Gus Fring.
Drake Bell
Gus Fring. What a character.
Devin Werkheiser
Love him.
Drake Bell
Love him. Giancarlo Esposito, I believe, is the same. He eats. He chomps. He chomped in that one.
Devin Werkheiser
He's so good.
Drake Bell
Here, would you. Would be something like. Pookie. Pookie. I don't know.
Devin Werkheiser
Pookie Wilson.
Drake Bell
Pookie Wilson.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah, Pookie Wilson and the Crystallettes.
Drake Bell
There you go. Yes. Yes, girl.
Devin Werkheiser
So now I got off. I got off for the weekend.
Drake Bell
You're not gonna go camping? I wouldn't go camping.
Devin Werkheiser
These are my plans.
Drake Bell
Don't do it.
Devin Werkheiser
I'm gonna deep clean my bathroom.
Drake Bell
Oh, wow.
Devin Werkheiser
I'm gonna throw away expired products.
Drake Bell
Oh, God.
Devin Werkheiser
You know. Yeah. I'm gonna deep clean my spice cabinet. Throw away spices.
Drake Bell
This is cunty.
Devin Werkheiser
And, you know, gotta. Gotta consolidate a lot of stuff in my basement.
Drake Bell
I love this idea.
Devin Werkheiser
Isn't this a fun story for the pod?
Drake Bell
No, I think. I don't care. I think it's great.
Devin Werkheiser
I.
Drake Bell
You know what?
Devin Werkheiser
I think I'm gonna do a little weed and do this. Do you think that'll help?
Drake Bell
No, no, no, no. You'll get. You'll start spinning around in one corner like a Roomba, right?
Devin Werkheiser
And you won't get. It's not going to help. My diet right now doesn't consist of me changing my diet, but just consists of me talking about it a lot.
Drake Bell
Okay?
Devin Werkheiser
So I think if I do weed, I will also just.
Drake Bell
You'll eat the house down.
Devin Werkheiser
Because my current strategy.
Drake Bell
Expired products, of course.
Devin Werkheiser
No, don't do it. These pills are expired. My current strategy is to walk around the house and scream, stop eating. The way I talk to myself in the kitchen to try to get myself out of there.
Drake Bell
Don't do it, fatty. Really?
Devin Werkheiser
Delete it, fatty. Of course it's Sybil. I hear a voice. And it's my voice.
Drake Bell
Oh, no. Cause you're screaming and heard me.
Devin Werkheiser
I just heard it. I hear a voice. Go, step away from the fridge, Carol Ann. And I'm like, you should have. You should. I mean, all I've had is for baby Bell.
Drake Bell
What's that, Baby Bell?
Devin Werkheiser
The cheese that locks me up.
Drake Bell
You should have one of those cartoon punching bags that comes out of the fridge if you open it.
Devin Werkheiser
Baby. I made lasagna on Friday. Then I had some Baby bell didn't have a bowel movement till Monday.
Drake Bell
That's a lot of cheese. That's a lot of cheese.
Devin Werkheiser
Saddled to the pot, praying to the Lord.
Drake Bell
Oh, damn. Pissing out your asshole.
Devin Werkheiser
I wish.
Drake Bell
Oh, are you kidding?
Devin Werkheiser
I pushed out a cinder block.
Drake Bell
Oh, my God. And then there's blood.
Devin Werkheiser
It was awful. I had to treat it like tofu. I had to kind of like wrap it in paper towel and cheesecloth and dehydrate it a little bit. Yeah. And then chop it up into little rectangles just to get it down. Isn't that horrible? What I just said? I hate the way I am.
Drake Bell
I think we get ended on that.
Devin Werkheiser
So sick.
Drake Bell
Every time we. We vow not to tell fecal eating stories, and yet. And yet all we do is talk.
Devin Werkheiser
About pooping and Amelia Perez. Yeah.
Drake Bell
And then eating the poop girl.
Devin Werkheiser
And then we have to sit here and say, well, I don't think that. I don't think that that singing was very good. It's not great. Like our pod where I talk about cleaning out the pantry. How am I gonna do the dough?
Drake Bell
Can't act. But I can talk about cleaning out my pantry.
Devin Werkheiser
How am I supposed to clean my pantry and not eat at the same time?
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
What is that?
Drake Bell
Do you expect me to not chop up my poop and eat it? Get out of here. You get out of here. Poop.
Devin Werkheiser
Poop. They gotta have some kind of diet. Diet thing where they. You can glue your mouth shut for the weekend.
Drake Bell
Are you talking. You get your jaw wired shut.
Devin Werkheiser
Well, I bought that book from that Amish girl, Lavina.
Drake Bell
Okay.
Devin Werkheiser
And there's an Amish cleanse in there.
Drake Bell
Well, you could do the saw trap that if you try to eat the baby bell, the thing goes.
Devin Werkheiser
Snaps right off.
Drake Bell
Yeah.
Devin Werkheiser
Do you think it's the lemon? Cayenne pepper, maple syrup?
Drake Bell
No. No.
Devin Werkheiser
Do you think it's real?
Drake Bell
I know that it's real in the sense that people do it. I don't think it's healthy or effective, and I just think it's crazy.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah.
Drake Bell
It's a form of self torture, self harm.
Devin Werkheiser
I gotta get back on the peloton, that's all. Yeah.
Drake Bell
Just, you know, cut down a little bit. The simplest device is always the best. I'm the type of person that there's no magic formula.
Devin Werkheiser
There's no magic formula.
Drake Bell
You already know what to do.
Devin Werkheiser
Take the leg.
Drake Bell
You know what to do. That's what's so frustrating about it.
Devin Werkheiser
Yeah.
Drake Bell
Like with the food stuff, it's like, oh, I know I shouldn't eat the second full pizza, right? But I'm going to.
Devin Werkheiser
But I'm going to.
Drake Bell
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, well. Shit.
Devin Werkheiser
Kalel. No.
Drake Bell
Kalel. Yeah, enough champagne. Enough baby bell to fill the Nile. Goodbye.
Devin Werkheiser
Bye.
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Summary of "Tee-El-Cee Presents: Extreme Rumspringa! with Trixie and Katya"
Host Information:
1. Navigating Hollywood Boulevard
The episode kicks off with Devin and Drake sharing their amusing and sometimes frustrating experiences walking along Hollywood Boulevard. Devin describes his encounters with the iconic X-shaped crosswalks, highlighting the chaos and unexpected interactions with fans.
They discuss the challenges of maintaining their drag personas in such a bustling environment, emphasizing the constant vigilance required to avoid disrupting photo shoots and fan interactions.
2. The Struggles of Performing in Drag
A significant portion of the conversation delves into the physical and emotional toll that drag performances take on them. Devin talks about back pain and arthritis exacerbated by wearing corsets and tight outfits, while Drake humorously recounts the mishaps of performing in heavy makeup and elaborate wigs.
They explore the balance between the artistry of drag and the practical difficulties, shedding light on the lesser-seen aspects of their glamorous personas.
3. Reflections on Drag Makeup and Wigs
The hosts share nostalgic memories of their early days in drag, reminiscing about their first wigs and makeup techniques. Devin highlights the evolution of wig styles and the importance of matching lace to skin tones, while Drake jokes about his own less-than-perfect makeup attempts.
Their discussion underscores the meticulous craftsmanship behind their looks and the personal experimentation that defines their drag journeys.
4. Opinions on Current TV Shows and Movies
Devin and Drake critique various television programs and movies, offering candid opinions on their favorite and least favorite pieces of entertainment. They discuss the dramatization of real-life abuse stories, animated adaptations of classic tales, and the impact of modern storytelling techniques.
Their analysis ranges from the effectiveness of storytelling to the portrayal of complex characters, providing listeners with insightful critiques intertwined with humor.
5. Personal Anecdotes and Humorous Banter
The episode is peppered with lighthearted and often humorous exchanges between Devin and Drake. They share personal stories about cleaning routines, dietary struggles, and the humorous side effects of maintaining their drag personas.
Their playful interactions create an engaging and relatable atmosphere, allowing listeners to connect with them on a personal level.
6. The Physical Demands of Drag Performances
Further into the episode, Devin and Drake discuss the extreme physical demands of their performances. They talk about the discomfort of extended wear of drag attire, the necessity of taking breaks, and strategies to cope with the exhaustion that comes with their art.
This segment highlights their resilience and dedication to their craft despite the challenges they face.
7. Final Thoughts and Reflections
As the episode nears its conclusion, Devin and Drake reflect on their experiences and the future of their drag careers. They express gratitude for their supportive community and discuss upcoming projects, leaving listeners with a sense of anticipation for what’s next.
Notable Quotes:
Conclusion:
In this episode of "The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya," Devin Werkheiser and Drake Bell offer an unfiltered, entertaining look into the lives of drag performers navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood. From the physical challenges of maintaining elaborate drag personas to their candid critiques of contemporary media, their dynamic conversation provides both humor and insight. Listeners are treated to personal anecdotes, humorous exchanges, and thoughtful reflections, making this episode a must-listen for fans of drag culture and engaging podcast content.