Bianca del Rio: Tale of the Haunted End Tables

Summary

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Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch – Episode Summary

Podcast: Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch (QCODE)
Episode: Bianca Del Rio: Tale of the Haunted End Tables
Date: August 13, 2025
Guests: Bianca Del Rio, Irene Bremis

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, comedian and drag icon Bianca Del Rio joins Rachel Dratch and co-host Irene Bremis for a rollicking discussion of all things “woo woo” — from haunted houses to ghost sex to the science (or lack thereof) behind spooky claims. The trio reminisce about working together, share tales both paranormal and very much explained, and riff hilariously about life, death, and being fabulous at any age.

The conversation is a mix of Bianca’s comedic skepticism, Irene's wild stories, and Rachel's deadpan humor, touching on haunted end tables, Palm Springs ghosts, dream visitations, haunted hotels, and more. The episode rounds out with a signature Woo Woo pendulum reading and plenty of candid laughter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Introduction & Hurricane Bianca Reunion (01:06-05:27)

• Rachel introduces Bianca Del Rio, noting fan requests for her to be on the pod.
• The group recalls first meeting on the set of “Hurricane Bianca” and its sequel, sharing stories of on-set laughter and memorable bloopers.
• Bianca: “God damn it, when we start cackling, you can't stop.” (03:39)
• They discuss the creepy vibes filming at an abandoned prison in Newark.

2. Bianca’s Upcoming Theatre Project (05:31-07:17)

• Bianca is preparing for a role in “Tartuffe” at New York Theatre Workshop with Matthew Broderick and others.
• Jokes about playing “an old, bitter, gossipy bitch” and finding source material in herself.
• Rachel and Irene excitedly commit to attending Bianca’s NYC theater debut.

3. Growing Up in Spooky New Orleans (07:37-09:11)

• Bianca describes New Orleans as “deep in culture, deep in food…they make a shit ton of money off of ghosts.”
• Explains the city’s above-ground cemeteries, floods that can float coffins, and the prevalence of ghost tours.
• Quote: “You could go down the highway and there’ll be a coffin floating because of them coming out of the ground." (08:40)

4. The Tale of the Haunted End Tables (10:20-16:53)

• Bianca shares her main "woo woo" story:
  • After buying new end tables for her Palm Springs house, she notices their labels keep inexplicably turning outward.
  • After neighbor “caftan lady” says a man died in the house, Bianca spends months convinced there’s a ghost.
  • Eventually discovers it’s just her cleaning lady moving the tables.
• Quote (Bianca): “I thought for a hot minute, the man that died is going, 'Get out of my house, faggot. Only one gay can live here.'” (14:25)
• The crew revels in the story’s twisty, non-supernatural ending.
• Rachel: “It’s not always a ghost. Sometimes it’s just the cleaning lady.” (14:59)
• Irene calls it “the best anti-ghost story we've ever gotten.” (14:59)

5. On Death, Dreams, and Wanting Signs (19:43-22:23)

• Bianca shares that a deceased friend promised to visit her from beyond but has only appeared in dreams, silently.
• Wonders if this means spirits exist—no clear signs, but still hopes for otherworldly contact.
• Irene, as a Greek, believes silence from the dead is lucky: “When they speak to you, you might be next.” (20:56)
• The group muses about dreams versus real visitations, with Bianca wishing for a truly clear ghostly sign.

6. Irene’s “Ghost Sex” Revelation (22:08-24:01)

• Rachel brings up Irene’s legendary “ghost sex” story, which Irene recounts with increasing detail:
  • It wasn’t someone she knew; she simply woke up feeling like she’d “had the greatest sex” of her life.
  • “It was ghost peen. It was just right.” (23:42, Irene)
• Bianca is equal parts fascinated and skeptical, riffing on whether ghosts pursue the hot or simply haunt.

7. Haunted Hotels and Travel Tales (25:18-26:43)

• Rachel asks Bianca about staying in haunted hotels while touring.
• Bianca: Old European hotels can feel haunted due to “the smells, the steps, the cryptic everything,” but nothing truly paranormal has happened.
• “It’s old carpet smell…that’s where the ghosts get in.” (26:39, Bianca)

8. New Orleans, Tarot, and Drag Tours (28:27-30:41)

• Bianca is skeptical of local “haunted tours” and fortune tellers; insists they're mostly out-of-work actors.
• Jokes about wanting to run a "Haunted Drag Tour" — “Behind this building, I sucked a dick.”
• Never experienced real paranormal phenomena herself, despite growing up amid New Orleans’ mystical scene.

9. Origins: From NOLA to Drag Queen Stardom (30:46-33:27)

• Bianca traces her drag beginnings (1996), her move to NYC after Hurricane Katrina, and finding fame with RuPaul’s Drag Race.
• Showbiz roots in Broadway costuming, not just performance. Success, she says, was mostly by accident—a “snowball effect.”
• “None of it was chosen. Trust me. The only thing that was chosen were those tables.” (33:25)

10. Superlatives & Holding Grudges (35:49-41:28)

• The trio swaps high school superlative stories:
  • Rachel: “Class Clown,” Irene: “Open Mouth, Insert Foot” and “Worst Driver.”
  • Bianca draws a parallel to holding hard feelings, sharing her own epic grudge against a club that fired her: “Thirty years later, this is what they get.” (41:17)
• Humor around the absurdity and staying power of teenage reputations (and club feuds).

11. Pendulum Reading: Will Bianca Stay in Palm Springs? (43:36-45:45)

• Rachel and Irene perform a pendulum divination, which answers “yes” to Bianca’s question: Will I stay in Palm Springs another 10 years?
• Bianca reflects on the restless energy of the city and the “gays’” penchant for relocating.
• Irene and Rachel encourage her about her future, especially her theater debut.

12. Cackles, Ghost Peen, and Closing Laughs (46:00-end)

• The group concludes, circling back to Irene’s ghost adventures (“Ghost peen might be too much for me” - 46:44).
• Bianca jokes about age, birthdays, and being celebrated for what she was once scolded for as a kid.
• Plans are made to reunite in New York for cocktails and more cackling.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Haunted End Tables:
  “For a hot minute, the man that died is going, 'Get out of my house, faggot. Get out of my house. Only one gay can live here.'” (14:25, Bianca)

• On Skepticism:
  “It’s not always a ghost. Sometimes it’s just the cleaning lady.” (14:59, Rachel Dratch)

• Dreams of the Dead:
  “She’s never been like, hey, here’s my word. I’m dead. So it’s just this spooky thing that sits with me that I’m like, is this real or is this not?” (20:49, Bianca)

• On Ghost Sex:
  Irene: “It was ghost peen. It was just right, you know what I mean?” (23:42)
  Bianca: “The question is, Irene, you had a ghost that had sex with you, and you still chose Staten Island. I don’t understand this.” (22:45)

• On Grudges:
  “They fired me back in 2007, and this is what they deserve. Thirty years later, this is what they get.” (41:17, Bianca)

• Childhood Rebellion Turned Talent:
  “Everything I was hated for as a child is what I’m revered for now as an adult.” (36:32, Bianca)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Time | Topic/Segment | |------------|-----------------------------------------------------------| | 01:06 | Opening, greetings, “Hurricane Bianca” memories | | 05:27 | Bianca’s theater project (“Tartuffe”) | | 07:37 | New Orleans origins, above-ground cemeteries | | 10:20 | “Haunted End Tables” story | | 14:59 | The anti-ghost twist — skepticism wins | | 19:43 | Dream visitations from late friend | | 22:08 | Irene’s “ghost sex” experience | | 25:18 | Creepy hotels & haunted travel spots | | 28:27 | Fortune tellers, tarot cards, drag tours in NOLA | | 30:46 | Bianca’s drag origins & accidental path to stardom | | 35:49 | High school superlatives & holding grudges | | 43:36 | Pendulum reading: Will Bianca stay in Palm Springs? | | 46:00 | Recap, closing laughs, ghost peen callback |

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Final Notes & Tone

The episode delivers an energy that’s campy, candid, and contagiously funny. There’s as much skepticism as woo woo, and a clear joy among friends. Even as paranormal tales are ultimately debunked, the stories remain hilarious, memorable, and sometimes emotional.

If you haven’t listened: Expect deep cackles, a little bit of “ghost peen,” genuine reflection on chosen family and queer life, and a warm invitation to let yourself be “woo woo” — or at least to want your own haunted table.

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Transcript

[Bianca Del Rio]

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Welcome to Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch, the podcast that explores the unexplained with humor and curiosity.

[Rachel Dratch]

Hello and welcome to Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch, here with my pal and co host, Irene Bremis. Hi, Irene.

[Irene Bremis]

Hello, sweetie.

[Rachel Dratch]

Irene. Today we have somebody very fun. I mean, no pressure to be fun, but I'm assuming that they will be. Anyways, a dear pal of mine from way back when, winner of the season six RuPaul's Drag Race, please welcome Bianca Del Rio.

[Irene Bremis]

Hey, hey, Bianca.

[Bianca Del Rio]

That's the woo sound. I guess I'm a ghost.

[Rachel Dratch]

I have to tell you something funny. Even though you should have been in my roster to ask to be a guest somebody, one of our little listener comments said you should have Bianca on as well as RuPaul because RuPaul actually saw a ghost, which I've heard RuPaul discussed. But anyway, that's a sidebar. But you were fan requested and of course Dratch requested.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Let me break it to you. I was that fam. I was the one who wrote the comments. It's my burner account. I said, she's not returning my text. She's not returning my calls. I knew her when. So I said, let me say, oh, I've seen a ghost. Look, here we are. Here we are.

[Rachel Dratch]

Amazing. So Bianca, as I guess I'll call you in this. Bianca.

[Irene Bremis]

Bianca.

[Rachel Dratch]

So I met you doing the movie that I sometimes get approached about on the street for people to say I saw you in. And I'm always surprised Hurricane Bianca is when I first met you. Right.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yes.

[Rachel Dratch]

Your co star and your evil. The. What was I? What am I? The antagonist.

[Bianca Del Rio]

The antagonist. Yes.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

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[Rachel Dratch]

To your protagonist.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Well, you know, the fun thing about getting to meet you is of course, I was a super fan for many years. And then Matt Kugelman, who had written the film, had Sent me a text and said, what do you think about Rachel Dratch? And it was that weird moment where I thought, what do you mean, what do I think about her? Like, you know, like. Like, you never know coming from a gay man. You're like, what do you mean, I have no thoughts about Rachel? And he said, I don't know, that it might work out for her to get to do this. And I'm like, oh, fuck, yes. Because she's fucking funny. And Irene, I mean, you've been friends with this.

[Irene Bremis]

Oh, for a long time. I love her.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yes.

[Irene Bremis]

Yes. I have been friends with this bitch for a long time. It's true. And she's funny as shit.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yes, funny as shit. But like, also, like, totally normal. You know, you never know what to expect when you meet people. And not that I thought that she'd be whipping out jokes or this. This or this.

[Irene Bremis]

Yeah.

[Bianca Del Rio]

But God damn it, when we start cackling, you can't stop. Like, everything is funny.

[Irene Bremis]

You know, Bianca, you're right. Rachel doesn't feel the need to be on, but she's hilarious. You know what I mean? That's exactly what it is.

[Rachel Dratch]

You guys, I'm right here. I can hear you.

[Irene Bremis]

You're in the zoo. You're in the zoom. You're in the zoom, sweetie.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Can you see us? Because I'm a ghost. Can you see you? Okay, I love.

[Rachel Dratch]

You're gonna keep making this Woo woo. I don't even know if you have any woo woo stories, but we'll get to that. But no, I'm not. Yeah, but we met on Hurricane Bianca. We shot that in Texas in a hot summer, if I recall.

[Bianca Del Rio]

We did.

[Rachel Dratch]

And we were shooting mainly in a high school there. And I remember you and I at some point, as I often do, but not with just anyone, but you and I would get the giggles over certain lines, but there was one line that I couldn't get through, and it was always. It was, I don't have time for this. And I don't know why that made us laugh, but under the circumstances.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Under the circumstances, it was fun. It was so much fun. And she made me cackle. And there's moments where I'm not even near her, and she would just say something, and I don't know what it was. It wasn't even what she was saying. It's how she said it that just made me piss myself. So the bloopers are endless. Probably. The bloopers are endless. Yes.

[Rachel Dratch]

And we even did Hurricane Bianca, too.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yeah, we did.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Really?

[Rachel Dratch]

Yes. Oh, yes, we did.

[Irene Bremis]

I didn't realize. I saw the first one. I loved it.

[Rachel Dratch]

Well, part of that was shot in a defunct prison in Newark, New Jersey. So if you ever had a glamorous. No more glamorous place to shoot something than an old prison. That looked very haunted, by the way. I mean, that was creepy.

[Bianca Del Rio]

It did look haunted.

[Rachel Dratch]

That was creepy.

[Bianca Del Rio]

It was very creepy. And you had that scene with Wanda Sykes there. So that's. Y' all filmed on that day that I wasn't in that scene. But, yeah, that wild, wild, wild, spooky place.

[Rachel Dratch]

Yes, very spooky. So are you on tour right now?

[Bianca Del Rio]

No, I'm actually on break, which never happens. So I just finished last December. I finished. I'd been around the world. It was like 129 shows, and I don't know how many countries we'd been around. So I get a little break. And then in the little break, I get to do those fun vanity things, you know, like Hurricane Bianca or anything else that I have going on. I'm not doing one right now. But usually you get to do those things as I say, the things that don't make money. So you get to go and do the fun stuff that you love. So I'm kind of in between, and I'm about to start this fall. I get to do Tartuffe in New York City with Matthew Broderick, David Cross, Amber Gray and Frances Ju. So I'm quite excited to get to do that. But the. The tricky thing about it is I have to play. Now, Rachel and Irene, if you can envision this. I have to play an old, bitter, gossipy bitch. I don't know. Don't know where I'm gonna pull it from, Stretch. Exactly. But I'm gonna find my way to do it. I'm gonna find my way to do it.

[Rachel Dratch]

Wait, this is so exciting. Now you're reminding me that I read about this. The New York Theater Workshop, right?

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Rachel Dratch]

And you're with these big wigs. Big wig yourself, by the way.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Well, a wig.

[Rachel Dratch]

That's so exciting.

[Bianca Del Rio]

No, I'm truly. I'm truly excited. And it's one of those things, you know, when your agent calls you and they say, hey, they thought of you. And I'm like, do it. Yes, fine. Sign me up. Tell me later. I'll figure it out. You know, But I have been telling people. I'm like, you know, Matthew Broderick called, you know, and just says, I need you. You know, and you gotta say, yes. You gotta say that.

[Rachel Dratch]

It's very cool.

[Bianca Del Rio]

I only met the man once.

[Rachel Dratch]

But when does that start? Because Irene and I will go.

[Irene Bremis]

We're there, sweetie. We're there.

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay.

[Bianca Del Rio]

It's this fall. I don't have specifics yet, but I want to say it's November, I think.

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay. Irene and I are there.

[Irene Bremis]

Yes, we're there.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Got it.

[Rachel Dratch]

Irene, we have a lot of things to see with what we do.

[Bianca Del Rio]

We do.

[Rachel Dratch]

But I really am.

[Irene Bremis]

But this just got to the top.

[Rachel Dratch]

This was at the top, number one. I need to see you in your high cultural moment when you're saying your line whispers, dratch taught me everything I know.

[Irene Bremis]

Yes, that's right. Yes.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Okay, so.

[Rachel Dratch]

So you grew up in New Orleans, right?

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yes.

[Rachel Dratch]

And that's a spooky place, right? So I'm told it is.

[Bianca Del Rio]

And you know, well, I haven't realized until I've gotten older now is that I have to be specific because I used to say, you know, I'm from Louisiana or whatever, and you and Louisiana is compartmentalized into some crazy areas. And as you know, Louisiana votes red, but New Orleans itself is its own little world. So I have to be specific because my assistant is country. He's, like, from nowhere, and he wrote an alligator to school, so it's a different world for him. So I have to specify New Orleans itself. So it's deep in culture, deep in food. Everybody there is slow as hell, and they make a shit ton of money off of ghosts. Everything is haunted there because it's one of the oldest cities in the country, you know, with voodoo and Marie Laveau and all of this. It's a wild, spooky, spooky, spooky place.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

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[Irene Bremis]

Field trip, sweetie.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yes.

[Rachel Dratch]

Those cemeteries that are above ground, right?

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yeah. Well. Well, we're below sea level, so is it even really ground? I mean, that was so crazy, is that we have no underground. We're water. We're literally on top of water. So they build everything above. And so you could take a haunted cemetery tour and go around and find out. And also, sometimes during hurricanes, when it floods, the bodies float out amongst the people into the world. Like, you could go down the highway and there'll be a coffin floating because of them coming out of the ground. Whoa.

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[Bianca Del Rio]

That's where I'm from. Woo. Wow.

[Irene Bremis]

I hope that never happens on Staten island because there's a lot of bodies that are headed.

[Rachel Dratch]

That's where Irene lives.

[Irene Bremis]

That's where I live.

[Rachel Dratch]

Yeah, Irene does live on Staten Island.

[Irene Bremis]

I really do. Sad for me. No, not at all about My stage.

[Rachel Dratch]

By marriage.

[Irene Bremis]

By penis. By penis, sweetie.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Rachel Dratch]

She went there.

[Bianca Del Rio]

She did. I get it. I get it. You do what you got to do, honey. Yep.

[Rachel Dratch]

I've never heard you say that. Okay.

[Irene Bremis]

You bring it out on me. You bring it out in me.

[Bianca Del Rio]

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[Rachel Dratch]

Okay, so have you ever had any sort of. No, you don't have to. It's not a requirement. But have you ever had any sort of woo woo experiences on your own?

[Bianca Del Rio]

Okay, well, there's one woo woo thing and it's weird. So I was driving on the road and I was coming back to America and I was going to buy a house. And this was right before the pandemic hit. And I had eight weeks off. I was gonna buy a house and get my tonsils out. So I'm like, yes, I'm gonna do this. So I decided to live in Palm Springs. Cause as I said, it's cheaper than Plastic Sur. Get around some old ugly people and you look great. I got a house in Palm Springs that I loved. And I didn't realize, you know, I didn't have anything to furnish the house with, you know, because it's like an adult home. You know, I was in my 40s, so my IKEA bookshelves didn't make it the last move. I thought, well, here it is. Here is my big moment. Now the world is falling apart. You know, there's nothing going on in the world, but still, I need to decorate. So I was like, okay. You know what I mean?

[Rachel Dratch]

Yes, yes.

[Irene Bremis]

Space needs to be happy.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yeah. It's like you're coughing and dust. Yeah.

[Rachel Dratch]

We need these creature comforts to get us through. Yes.

[Bianca Del Rio]

And also, you know, people were coughing and dying, but I needed a sofa, so I was at home.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Oh, you meant.

[Rachel Dratch]

Oh, sorry, you meant like pandemic world falling.

[Irene Bremis]

Yeah. Right.

[Rachel Dratch]

Not like current situations.

[Bianca Del Rio]

No, no, not current.

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay, Gotcha, gotcha.

[Irene Bremis]

There isn't any piece of furniture that's gonna make this happy, sweetie. But yes, during the pandemic.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Understand? Five years. So it's five years ago, during the actual pandemic. The original. The OG Pandemic. Okay. And I. I needed furniture, so I was ordering everything online. And this is. They. They don't sponsor me. But Wayfair was pretty amazing. They still existed at the time they were sending stuff to me, and I got all this furniture that was coming in. And I got, you know, what I called my pandemic furniture. It got me through. So I consider. I mean, literally, I had no couch, no nothing. So things were coming in, by the way. Then I had bought these two little. I don't know what you want to call it, like, side sofa tables that went on either side of my door that I thought, okay, this works with the aesthetic. They're good. They were $200 a piece. So I bought them, and they came to the house. And then I put them together, and there was a plaque, like a name brand, you know, like a design of, like, Johnson, not Johnson and Johnson, but some shit like that is on the plaque on the side of it. And I'm like, well, I didn't like this. And it's probably permanently adhered to the dam furniture. So I'm just going to turn the table and put the plaque against the wall. Okay. So they were both against those. You don't see the plaque. It's pleasant when you come in on the two end tables. Now cut to about three weeks later. I come in and one of the labels is facing outside. And I'm like, what the fuck? What the fuck? Now, granted, we're not really going out, meeting anybody. But there's a select few people. My neighbors live across the street. They're snowbirds. They live in Canada. And they come out every now and then. And they were here, obvious during the pandemic. So I'm out on the street with my mask, talking to her. I call her caftan lady, cause she always wears the caftan. And she was selling him at one point. Long story. Anyway, she says to me, she said. I said, you know, it's weird. I said, I live alone, and I bought these tables, and now this table. And she's like, oh, well, you know, that man died in your house. Which of course, got me like, well, now you tell me, like, what the fuck. She says, yeah, that man died in your house. And I was like, oh, my God. So in my head, I'm going, it's this man. It's this man talking to me. So I put the tables back, let it go. About two months later, there they are facing me the other way. And I'm going, this is fucking spooky. So I call up my assistant, the alligator rider, and I said, this is wild. I said, I didn't mention this to you before because you're going to think I'm crazy. And you're going to say, you're making this shit up. You're nuts. And I'm like, but the tables. He's like, what are you talking about? I said, there's a label on the tables that I don't like that I face the wall. It's done this before. And now they're both facing this way. And he's like, that's some spooky shit. So he's now spooked, and I'm thinking, what could this possibly be? Come to find out, it was the cleaning lady. She was moving the tables behind it and turning around so there was no ghost. But I thought for a hot minute, the man that died is going, get out of my house, faggot. Get out of my house. Only one gay can live here. That was literally like two months of my life. I'm like, I gotta figure this out. Something's going on in my house.

[Rachel Dratch]

But okay, this is the best story that has a scientific explanation because we are always willing to go with the ghost. You know, Like, I truly thought this was a ghost story. Me too. But I love that because we like to keep one foot in skepticism. I love that this is like proof positive that, hey, it's not always a ghost. Sometimes it's just the cleaning lady. It's the cleaning lady.

[Irene Bremis]

This is the best anti ghost story we've ever gotten. I don't think we've ever had one before.

[Bianca Del Rio]

And to be real. And I'm not gonna say, I guess I'm admitting it now. I wanted it to be a ghost. Like, I wanted it to be the house with the story and go, we're here. He's spooking me. But it's not. But the thing that got me was Captain lady who said, oh, yeah, someone died in there. Now that opened up a whole new world.

[Irene Bremis]

That threw my scent off there. That was good, sweetie, because I was thinking the whole time, was there somebody in your house that could do it? But the minute you said somebody died in there, you're good.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Well, think about this. It's Palm Springs, a gay that died 25 years ago, and he's going, I don't like the tables. And then could you see me in the middle of the night with a nightgown, explaining to the ghost going, it's Wayfair. It's all I can get. It's a pandemic. You're dead. You don't know what this is like, but that's what I was experiencing.

[Rachel Dratch]

Oh, my gosh. Well, also, I love the creepy way she's like, so someone died in there. Because odds are, most places we live, someone may have died in there.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yeah.

[Irene Bremis]

Especially in palm springs. Everybody's 101. Are you kidding me?

[Bianca Del Rio]

So is the weather. Yeah, yeah, I agree, I agree. But it truly, it just opened up my mind because it was the one time. You know how everybody tells you a story about a ghost or they've experienced something and you're kind of like, yeah, yeah, this bitch is full of it. And then you experience something like that for a good two months? I could not understand how it was happening, you know? And like I said, my assistant's not smart enough to play a joke like that. So I was like, it's not him. He doesn't care about the fucking table. He's basically straight, you know, no sense of anything. So he wouldn't have noticed. He doesn't notice this thing. And I just thought, wow, something's really fucking with me. And no one was coming over. I'm meeting the captain lady. With the exception of the clean lady, who would come in and clean. So come to find out, at least she's doing her job. At least she's moving the shit to get behind it. So I have to thank her for that. Spooky, spooky.

[Rachel Dratch]

So how did you find out it was her? Did you ask her? Point.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Well, it came together when she rang the doorbell and she came in and I was like, wait a minute. Because usually when she comes in, you try to stay out of their way, you know, and especially during COVID you're like, you go do your thing. And I was just like, wait, wait. And then I saw the tables pulled out and she's cleaning behind it. And I'm like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. I couldn't wait for her to leave so I can get on the phone and go, girl, it's not a ghost. It's just buddy seller. Yeah. So that was it. So Maricela was my ghost in the house.

[Rachel Dratch]

All right, well, that was a good. That's not the kind of story we usually get on here, but I love it because of that. I love it.

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[Rachel Dratch]

Irene, what do you have to say to that?

[Irene Bremis]

Well, I mean, listen, I have to say to that that you're lucky she's not talking to you because there's a Greek. I'm Greek. And they speak to you. You might be next. That's what the Greeks do. So, yeah, it's really horrible. They're dark, horrifying cultural people. Yes. So, you know, the fact that she's not speaking means it's not your time.

[Bianca Del Rio]

So let's. Okay, let's.

[Irene Bremis]

You know, that's. That's. That's a very positive thing, I think. But, yes, she could be suspended in some. In some. Listen, I. We have talked, right, Rachi? We've talked about how dreams are a way that they communicate with you. A lot of spirits communicate.

[Bianca Del Rio]

We.

[Irene Bremis]

I believe I've.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Been.

[Rachel Dratch]

Well, I mean, also, like, filing this under cleaning lady. Like, it's possible that you just had a dream about her. Yeah, right.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yeah.

[Rachel Dratch]

Even though we all want the signs.

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[Bianca Del Rio]

Well, I do want the signs. I want that story to go. Girl, she was talking to me. She told me what it's like. Like, you know, and it's that thing in my head. Like, I think you can kind of fall into some trance of crazy if you actually sit there and think about it, you know, Because I do live alone, so if it gets too quiet, my brain goes, is it this? Is it that? Ooh, the pool light went off. You know, what could that be? But I've never. In my younger years, I never wanted it to be a ghost. But now I'm kind of like, it'd be best to date a ghost. It'd be best to be in a relationship with a ghost.

[Irene Bremis]

Yes.

[Bianca Del Rio]

I think it. You know, if they ghost you, it's not spooky, but I think it would be the thing to have. I would love to have that connection with a ghost of some sort, whether it be good or bad. You know, I'm not looking to get scared. I mean, I wouldn't mind a little entity action.

[Irene Bremis]

I know. I've seen that movie.

[Rachel Dratch]

You've seen that bitch Irene says she had sexual relations with a ghost once, which came out in a episode. She really buried the leaf.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Okay, wait a minute.

[Rachel Dratch]

Sexual relationship, Irene? Well, because I couldn't remember if it was consensual or not with the ghost, so I didn't want to overstate it.

[Irene Bremis]

Crack me up, sweetie. You crack me up.

[Bianca Del Rio]

The question is, Irene, you had a ghost that had sex with you, and you still chose Staten Island. I don't understand this. You could have been on every talk show. A multimillionaire.

[Irene Bremis]

I really could have. I know. I don't know what I was thinking, honestly. You know, but maybe there's still a chance. You know what I mean? The ghost has left me. The ghost? Like you just said, that was a one time. That was a one time thing. That was a one night stand. I mean, that's. That's pretty sad that I got dumped by a ghost even, because it was like, maybe once, but. But it really felt real. I was telling Rachel this. It didn't feel. Let's not. I'm not going to hijack my. My entity stories.

[Bianca Del Rio]

No, but I'm fascinated because. Is it someone you knew or was it just a ghost?

[Irene Bremis]

No, it just. It was just a ghost. And I woke up and I was like. That was like the greatest.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yeah.

[Irene Bremis]

Sex I've ever had in my life. That's what I thought.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Was it a handsome ghost?

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay.

[Irene Bremis]

Well, I mean, I really didn't see the ghost face. I just felt the ghost. You know what I mean? Like, felt.

[Rachel Dratch]

Oh, ghost peen.

[Irene Bremis]

Yeah. Yeah, it was ghost peen. It was ghost peen. It was just right. You know what I mean?

[Rachel Dratch]

The ghost didn't need a face at that point.

[Bianca Del Rio]

No.

[Irene Bremis]

Who needs a face? We still don't really need a face. Right? This was beautiful. I didn't have to. There was nothing attached to it except for the ghost peen. Thank you.

[Bianca Del Rio]

I am fascinated by this.

[Rachel Dratch]

I feel like every time I make Irene talk about this, I get a little bit more information. But I never really want the whole story.

[Irene Bremis]

She never does. She's like, okay, that's enough. I brought it up, but let's move on. Nothing to see here. Let's go.

[Bianca Del Rio]

I just. I just. I just always associated ghosts with people that you would know. I. I don't think I've ever run into any.

[Irene Bremis]

Well, oh, no, no, no, no, no. I would never resurrect somebody that I already knew to have sex with. Them. That would be like, no.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Well, I didn't know if I was. And then you had a moment where it felt like they were. In their presence. I just associated ghosts kind of going, hey, it's me. I'm the ghost. I don't associate, like, ooh. I don't know if that would scare me. Like going into some place and having a ghost of that building talk to me. Except for that moment when I thought that the man at the house didn't like my tables. I thought that was happening. But that seems logical because I go, he lived here, he died here, and he hates the fucking tables. Yeah, like that makes sense. So I go, sure enough, he could say something and fuck with me. But overall, I can't imagine what a ghost would be trying to do to someone. Like, why would you go up to. If I didn't know you as a ghost, why would I go, hey, because.

[Irene Bremis]

I'm hot as shit when I'm sleeping, sweetie.

[Rachel Dratch]

Different story.

[Irene Bremis]

No, just kidding.

[Rachel Dratch]

No, I meant about, like, the place. If they're attached to the place.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yes. But.

[Rachel Dratch]

But I have a question about. Because you have been, since you're on the road a lot, you've been to many, many hotels.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Rachel Dratch]

And have you ever stayed in a haunted or a creepy hotel?

[Bianca Del Rio]

I've stayed in creepy hotel. Not by choice. You didn't find out. So you got there. But not like some of those ones in the UK and Europe. Girl, Girl, Really? It's spooky. Well, a lot of them are old, so it's just. As Americans, this is gonna be the most American thing. And I want you to say, as I say, that I'm not proud to be an American. But this is one of the. Especially right now. But this is one of those things when you go to the uk, like, shit doesn't make sense. Like, there'll be three rooms. There'll be a bathtub in one room, a toilet in another room, and the sink in the other one. And you're going through a series of doors, so it always seems creepy. Elevators are questionable, so you always have to walk the steps. So, you know, I'm of a certain age. After you do two flights, you start seeing shit. So in those types of places, mixed with the smells, it does feel cryptic and spooky. But I. But I've never. I've never. You know what I mean? It's old carpet smell, you know, and you get it and you're like, somebody must have died in here. Something must have happened in here. But it's never A hotel that I choose on my own. Like I say, oh, I want to go there. Because it's haunted. No, no. But I've been places and, you know, there's no air conditioning. You got to open the window. Yeah, it's tricky. That's where the ghosts get in. Yeah.

[Rachel Dratch]

Europe must be haunted because everything's so old.

[Bianca Del Rio]

It is.

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[Rachel Dratch]

And then have you ever done, like, in your hometown? I don't know. Have you ever gone for some sort of, like, tarot reading or have your tea leaves? Anything like that? Good or bad?

[Bianca Del Rio]

Oh, no, because I never thought of it as. As legit.

[Rachel Dratch]

Good point.

[Bianca Del Rio]

There are, like, haunted ghost tours in America. I mean, in New Orleans in particular. And I. It was always like, out of work actors that would have a bunch of tourists because they get them at the airport and they come and they talk all this smack. And I would be in drag going to work because I would have to.

[Irene Bremis]

That is a Toronto.

[Rachel Dratch]

Wait, is this the origin story?

[Bianca Del Rio]

Well, not as this is. This is while I was working, while I was working successfully. This was big time back then. So I was working at bingo and I would have to go there at three in the afternoon in drag. Now, I lived in the French Quarter, and on one end of it, I was on the end, and then the gay bar was in the middle of it. So I would have to schlep over, walk over in full drag to the place. And as I'd go, I'd see the haunted ghost tours and all the different people talking shit. And I was just like, they're so full of it. Like, that did not happen. That's not this. At the time, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had a house. Lenny Kravitz had a house there. John Goodman had a house there. So it was all about woo. And they were dropping all these names. And then as I was walking by, like, well, this is just fuckery. I thought, wait a minute, what if I did a haunted drag tour? You know, where I go around and go behind this building, I sucked a dick. Like, wouldn't that be great? Ooh, this apartment. Some bitch borrowed my dress and never returned it. Like, that would be the ideal thing. But it was in those moments where I guess I never believed it because I came from New Orleans and people so desperately wanted to believe, you know, and tarot cards and stuff. I never. Tarot cards and stuff. I never saw anybody that did it. That actually came out better. Yeah, you know?

[Rachel Dratch]

Yeah, yeah.

[Irene Bremis]

It seems plausible. Like in la. Everybody's a waiter in New Orleans. I would imagine New Orleans, however you say, when you do in tarot and stuff like that, they're like out of work actors or like, you know, whatever. Actors trying to make a living. That makes sense.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yeah. I mean, and I don't know where the plot line is, because a lot of it is just, I think, just made up, you know, and people want to hear it. I mean, because there is a business for it. People are fascinated by it. But I lived there my whole life and I didn't experience anything like that, which was kind of upsetting, you know, so.

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay, we have so much here, but I don't want to keep you too long, but. I know.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Oh, no.

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay, okay. No, I was also going to ask you, like, so you started out in New Orleans, like, where did you first start doing drag? And then what? Like, were you already in New York when you did RuPaul? Or like, how did. What was the trajectory of your fame and fortune?

[Bianca Del Rio]

Oh, well, the funny thing about it. Way for a table. The funny thing about it, I've got so much money. Let me order these tables online. I know. Well, I started drag in like 1996. And then I ended up going to New York during Hurricane Katrina when all the bodies were floating. I thought, this is the end of entertainment as far as drag and the gay world is concerned. So then one of the reasons why I went, which was funny, was because I remember walking to drag Bingo in full drag. And as I was passing, the garbage men were on their little truck and they were picking up stuff, and they go, hey, Bianca. And I said, hey. And I walked a little further and all right, I gotta get the fuck outta here. Like when the garbage men are calling you by a fake name as you're trotting to work to go and do bingo at three in the afternoon. And mind you, the only person doing bingo at three in the afternoon is an alcoholic. And the last thing an alcoholic wants is a fucking drag queen on a microphone calling out bingo numbers while you're trying to get you fixed. So that was when I said I wanted to. I just need to get out. And. And the hurricane happened, and so we had to evacuate, and not so much about damage or anything. We just couldn't get back into the city for a couple of months. So we went to Atlanta, stay with friends, and then we went to New York, and I said, well, if we can get jobs here, we'll stay. It was me and my ex at the time, and we stayed, and that was that. And then we came back and got our stuff, and then New York was just this wild run at 30 at the time, and I was doing costumes for Broadway shows, was my day job, and then I would do drag at night, and that was kind of the world. It just kind of ended. And I saw many a couple of my friends that had done Drag Race at the time because it was just a new show. And some of my friends that were not that talented got great success. So I thought, let me try. So if they can make this useless bitch famous, let's see what happens. You know what I mean?

[Rachel Dratch]

Yes.

[Bianca Del Rio]

But at that time, it was like the only franchise. Now there's like 9,000 franchises and 52 million drag queens falling out of trees. So it was early on, and it was one of those things where I thought, you know, a few people are gonna watch it in California or New York and New Orleans. And then it just shifted your life. You know, you just get to go and you get to travel and you get to run. And that's in New York where I met Matt Kuberman and how we got to do the Hurricane Bianca movies. So it was just this little snowball effect. None of it was chosen. Trust me. The only thing that was chosen were those tables. But everything else? No. Just a wild ride.

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[Rachel Dratch]

When you were younger and this is such a might be annoying question, like when you were in like little or in high school, whatever, were you like the class clown type but like were you attracted to doing drag cause you knew that you could like, you know, slay a room, if I may use the term. Wait, let me ask you, Bianca, did you know that you were able to slay from a young age?

[Bianca Del Rio]

Your choice of words. Okay, no. The crazy thing is, is that I've said this to somebody recently. Everything that I was hated for as a child is what I'm revered for now as an adult.

[Irene Bremis]

Love it.

[Bianca Del Rio]

In those moments where I don't know if I was really gay or really a drag queen or whatever, I was just, you know, so you were just that child where you're in a situation, you would laugh at something, you'd find something funny, or you would just say the truth and everyone would be shocked, which then I realized shocking and laughing is just kind of a magical thing that's put together but without consciously doing it. You know, I didn't sit down and say, this is what I want to do. But I also said yes to everything. And then you end up doing what you're doing. But I realized as a child, everything was, shut up, quit moving, quit making faces, don't talk back. And I'm like, that's all I do now, you know? So it is kind of funny.

[Rachel Dratch]

That's so great. That's awesome.

[Bianca Del Rio]

I love it. That's kind of what it is. So in retrospect, like my siblings or old friends, like we knew from day, wow. Shut the fuck up. That's. Now they just want money. So it's that kind of a thing where you realize. I don't know if that was the case, but it just kind of how it turned out, you know?

[Rachel Dratch]

Oh, cool.

[Irene Bremis]

Yeah, I love that, sweetie. I love that. All the things you were told not to do, now that's who you are, and that's how everybody's celebrating you. And I love it.

[Rachel Dratch]

I'm swimming in Wayfarer.

[Irene Bremis]

You're swimming in Wayfair. Just swimming with those tags.

[Bianca Del Rio]

My tables are slaying. Slaying tables. Uh huh. That's funny, because I'm gonna send you both the table.

[Irene Bremis]

Yes. But for the posting.

[Bianca Del Rio]

The Ghost Tables.

[Rachel Dratch]

The Ghost Coffee tables. That's the name of this episode. Wait, Irene, did I cut you off?

[Bianca Del Rio]

No.

[Irene Bremis]

I was gonna say, you know, you're right, because in high school, we remember the superl. I think. Rachel, did you get class clown in high school?

[Rachel Dratch]

I did get class.

[Irene Bremis]

She did.

[Rachel Dratch]

Well, yeah, but Irene, what did you get?

[Irene Bremis]

I got open mouth, insert foot, which is great for standup, you know, that's what I'm saying. Like it serves my purposes now.

[Bianca Del Rio]

But the question Is though, in high school, I guess it was different for you guys because, I mean, you were already performing, like, performing as in some form or fashion.

[Rachel Dratch]

School place. Yes, school place. Yeah, I was. Irene wasn't.

[Irene Bremis]

I wasn't. No, I was just saying the inappropriate things. And driving recklessly. Yes. I'm a stand up. I got worse driver, too. Buckle up.

[Rachel Dratch]

She also got worse driver. She got worse driver. I don't see that. That's true.

[Bianca Del Rio]

I love you.

[Rachel Dratch]

I love you good driver.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Wait, how do you get worse driver in high school?

[Irene Bremis]

Oh, you close your eyes and you just step on the pedal, sweetie.

[Bianca Del Rio]

But do people, like, go in the car with you and then say, okay, we nominate her? Why is best driving a category?

[Irene Bremis]

You know what? That's really hurtful.

[Rachel Dratch]

That's a good question. It's a good question.

[Bianca Del Rio]

It's a very good question.

[Rachel Dratch]

We were grasping at straws, I guess.

[Irene Bremis]

I understand.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Class clown, best looking, best dressed. All that.

[Rachel Dratch]

There was even one. Oh, my God. There was one class lush. There was a class lush.

[Irene Bremis]

Hurtful. Who was it?

[Bianca Del Rio]

Who?

[Rachel Dratch]

I'm not gonna say. That's ridiculous. Because it was all student led. It was like.

[Irene Bremis]

Yes, it was all student led.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yeah. Okay, well, that makes sense. I just thought it'd be the yearbook. And you're opening the yearbook, and it's like, best dress, worst driver. Like, who the fuck off. You don't know how I drive.

[Rachel Dratch]

This wasn't in the yearbook. No, no, no.

[Bianca Del Rio]

That's why I was a little concerned.

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay, I understand now.

[Bianca Del Rio]

I understand. Okay. Yeah. Worst driving.

[Irene Bremis]

Now I'm cackling. Oh, my God. But that is hurtful. And you're right. You're right, Bianca. Like, what happened that somebody voted me in as worst driver. This is hurtful.

[Rachel Dratch]

But anytime I'm in the car with Irene, if she accidentally, like, turns when she's not supposed to, then I just go, worst driver. Like, you just stand just for a.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Laugh, proving their point.

[Rachel Dratch]

Proving their point. But if someone did that, like, you could do that to anybody when they make a little mistake anyway.

[Bianca Del Rio]

But when you think about it, when you think about it, it's something that you're holding on to many years and you know it to be factual in the back of your head, and you go, mm, See, they were right. I recently had a situation where a bar in New York City, a gay bar in New York City that had been open for, like, 30 years, was closing. And so there was this big old stink online going, oh, it's an iconic place that. And it's clothing. And we don't know what to do. Cause, you know, the gays are so worried about it. So cut to. It was called Barracuda, okay?

[Irene Bremis]

Oh, I know Barracuda.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Okay, so Barracuda was closing after 30 years. And so everybody's making their statements online. And then they sent me a message to drag queens that said, girl, can you do a video saying that Barracuda is closing? I said, fuck them. They fired me back in 2007, and this is what they deserve. They said, what are you talking about? I said, this is what they. Thirty years later, this is what they get. Mm. It's finally working. I told you. And in my head thought, why do I care about something that many years ago? But I'm like, see what happens when you fuck with me? 30 years after successful business, you close. So that's it. It's your worst driver moment. You know it in the back of your head and go, that's what you deserve and that's what you get because you fired me.

[Rachel Dratch]

You put a hex on them. That took place.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Took a while.

[Irene Bremis]

It took time, but you got there.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Don't give up. Don't give up.

[Irene Bremis]

Hold onto that hate and keep manifesting.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Thank you, Irene. Hold on to that.

[Rachel Dratch]

Bianca, I don't know if you were prepped that we do a pendulum reading. Did you know that?

[Bianca Del Rio]

Let's do it. Let's do it. I read it in the email. I read it in the email.

[Rachel Dratch]

It had the original pendulum.

[Irene Bremis]

All I have to say is I haven't laughed this hard on an episode ever, actually.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Well, you gotta get out more.

[Irene Bremis]

I'm actually laughing my ass off here.

[Rachel Dratch]

We're gonna go to your show.

[Irene Bremis]

We are coming.

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay. That will be your big night. You won't have time for the rest of us.

[Irene Bremis]

Everybody else got. No, seriously, everybody just got bumped to the. You know what? You're a top. Everybody else is a bottom. You know that.

[Bianca Del Rio]

No.

[Irene Bremis]

There we go. There we go.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Ghost peen. Ghost peen. No, no, I would definitely. Because I'm gonna be in New York for a couple of months, so it's gonna be a lot of fun, right? So we'll definitely. We'll venture out to Staten island to see Irene. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Okay, so I would invite you to Palm Springs, but you're a bad driver, so I don't think that would be a road trip for you. And.

[Rachel Dratch]

But you might be surrounded by them there, though.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

No, no.

[Rachel Dratch]

Ageist. I'm being ageist.

[Bianca Del Rio]

No, it's okay. Well, we're allowed to. I mean, I'm 50 now, so I'm in that group. I can do.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

All right.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Happy birthday.

[Irene Bremis]

Happy birthday.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Ain't nothing happy about turning 50.

[Irene Bremis]

You look like you're 30. You're so gorgeous.

[Bianca Del Rio]

You're beautiful. I'm in Palm Springs, Irene. Yeah.

[Irene Bremis]

But we're on a zoom here, you know? And you literally look like you're 30.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Well, I got a good doctor, but the main thing is, you better realize. You gotta realize. Everybody was like, what are you gonna do for your birthday? What are you gonna do for. I was like, it doesn't mean anything to me. Like, you know, you live a life, and this is gonna sound grand, but you get to do what you wanna do and experience so many amazing things throughout the year, and you have fun and you get to go to these places and you're working and all of this. That. It's like, I don't need to do something on the actual special day that doesn't mean shit to me. Neither does Christmas. And, you know, I'll see you when I see you. We can do dinner. Lunch here and there, but, I don't know, feel the pressure to have anything on that day. Does that make sense? Yeah.

[Irene Bremis]

I like it, too.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Yeah.

[Irene Bremis]

People have lives. Pressure.

[Bianca Del Rio]

People have lives. Yeah. Ooh. Come to my special day so I can sit with a bunch of gays that I hate. No, it's not fun. It's not fun.

[Rachel Dratch]

Well, Bianca, we have this pendulum reading here. If you have a burning question that has a yes or no. And we always say, don't ask something that's gonna make you sad if it answers not what you want, but it's pretty accurate if you like to.

[Bianca Del Rio]

What would that be?

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay, well, you're allowed to.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

I'm just saying.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Okay, so I got. Okay. All right. Let me think. Let me think.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

You.

[Rachel Dratch]

Can you take your time?

[Bianca Del Rio]

All right, all right, all right, I got it. I got it.

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay.

[Irene Bremis]

Are we doing this at the same time, Rachel?

[Rachel Dratch]

Yeah, let's do it at the same time. Okay. So it swings one way for yes and the other for no. So let's. So, okay, thank. The witches are at work. Okay, so now think.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Think.

[Rachel Dratch]

Think of your question. Okay.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Are you thinking.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay. Okay.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Okay. Okay. Ready? Here we go.

[Rachel Dratch]

Okay, I got. Okay. I'm not gonna tell you. I got an instant answer.

[Irene Bremis]

I got an instant yes.

[Rachel Dratch]

I got an instant yes, too.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

What is it?

[Rachel Dratch]

What was your question?

[Bianca Del Rio]

I asked if I'm gonna stay in Palm springs for other 10 years. Oh. Oh. It was a simple question. I didn't want to do a career question. Cause that's too shaky. Then I would say, Dretch told me I was gonna win that. Tony.

[Rachel Dratch]

No, but do you want to stay there?

[Bianca Del Rio]

Well, considering the current climate, I was like, do I sell my house? Do I figure it out? You know, it's that kind of a thing. You know, the gays love to run. We love to have an event that's as political as we get. We go, well, Ibiza's lovely. Well, you know, I could go to Amsterdam. Cause the gays are very exotic. We would never think of, like, Staten island, but we. In my mind, I was like, I got this house and I've been here five years now. Do I want to stay? You know, because when you turn on the news, you're like. So that's where I've kind of been in my head, where I'm like. And maybe. Cause I'm out here, too. It's like when you're in New York, everybody's crazy and it's chaotic and the energy is different. But out here, I've had time to think. So I was like, do I? Should I? Should I not? So it seems like I have to stay. Well, then I will.

[Rachel Dratch]

Maybe you keep your place. But also, who knows what happens after your theater debut.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Oh, who knows?

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Maybe.

[Rachel Dratch]

Maybe you're gonna be by coach.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Crotchety old bitch. Stop it. I can put that on my resume. Yes, honey, slay. I'm bi. Coastal.

[Irene Bremis]

You are gonna slay. There's no question that you're gonna slay that debut.

[Rachel Dratch]

I'm gonna incorporate slay into my speech. Much more.

[Bianca Del Rio]

I'll do it.

[Rachel Dratch]

Cause this just rolls off my tongue. It sounds so natural. Honey, I slayed last night. I really slayed.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Can you imagine laying in bed with the ghost peen. You're slaying. Did you talk to the ghost, though? Irene, I'm fascinated by this.

[Irene Bremis]

Did you, like, say anything? Well, you know what we didn't have to say? I was sleeping and enjoying every minute. I didn't want to open up my mouth. I didn't want the ghost to say anything either. Because why ruin a good moment? You know what I mean?

[Bianca Del Rio]

What does your husband say about it?

[Irene Bremis]

Well, we weren't married.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Oh, at the time. Okay, okay.

[Irene Bremis]

Yeah, we weren't married. So it's not cheating. It's not cheating.

[Rachel Dratch]

Were you dating him, though, at the time?

[Irene Bremis]

No, it was. I was with someone else at the time. It wasn't Steve. So.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Okay, yeah. That's fascinating to me. And it's never come back.

[Irene Bremis]

Very fascinating. Never come back. Never come back. And I really. I'd be scared now. You know what I mean? Because of vaginal atrophy. I'm sorry, sweetie. I have to say it.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Okay.

[Irene Bremis]

It's not fun. Ghost peen might be too much for me. For I. Ghost peen is too much for Irene.

[Rachel Dratch]

We almost made it through the whole series. We made it through the whole series without hearing the phrase vaginal atrophy. But that changes. Changes today.

[Bianca Del Rio]

And it's this episode of all of us. You're actually talking to a cunt today. Yes. This is it. This is it.

[Rachel Dratch]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Okay.

[Rachel Dratch]

Well, Bianca, this has been a sheer joy.

[Irene Bremis]

Sheer joy.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Please. It's a pleasure to get to meet Irene and get to see you always. Ms. Stretch and I will be in New York City this. This fall. So we will cackle. We will have.

[Irene Bremis]

We have to cackle.

[Bianca Del Rio]

What was our drink? We had that drink thing that we would drink and remember we were trying to drink. We're in the middle of this. We were in that Russian drag and we're standing in Brooklyn and we were trying. It was like 4 in the morning, we were freezing and we were talking about getting a cocktail. I don't remember what it was.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

And we could not buy a margarita.

[Irene Bremis]

Oh, shit. Margaritas.

[Bianca Del Rio]

Knowing me, knowing melted rim, it was something. I can't. It's one of those things I can't even remember. Good memories. They're good memories.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Those are my friends.

[Bianca Del Rio]

When I get to New York, we will have a salted rim margarita. Irene, we'll come capture you because you can't drive in. We'll pick you up. We'll come pick you up. Public Trans. And then in the meantime, I'm gonna send you both some haunted tables so you can see what happens at your house.

[Irene Bremis]

Send me the haunted tables.

[Rachel Dratch]

Thank you so.

[Irene Bremis]

This was so much fun. Bianca, you're awesome. I love you.

[Rachel Dratch]

And you can find me on Instagram at Ray Dratch. R A e Dratch and Irene at irenebremis B R E M I S. And also, don't forget to check out Irene's comedy special on Amazon and where Apple tv. Apple tv and Sweetie. Oh, it's called Sweetie. Of course, Sweetie.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

So check that out. Thanks for joining me on this journey into the world of Woo Woo. Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch is a Q Code production executive produced by David Henning and Steve Wilson. Pretty much produced by Alexa Gabriel Ramirez Edited BY Ben Milchev.

[Bianca Del Rio]

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