250 Episodes of Dolls Being Dolls with Trixie and Katya

18:39Katya Zamolodchikova:It's time for that beginning of spring energy when the sun is out, the air feels optimistic, and everyone collectively decides make-out-in-a-public-park season has begun. Austin just understands this moment, especially when you booked an incredible place on Airbnb right next to the city's best barbecue joint. I'm talking morning coffee outside while the city wakes up, walks where you don't need gloves to avoid frostbite, and plates of brisket eaten outdoors with the Texas sunshine highlighting every bit of flavor in your dry rub. I booked my stay through Airbnb and honestly, it's doing a lot of the heavy lifting for this trip.

19:11Katya Zamolodchikova:I get space to sprawl, a real couch to decompress on after screaming lyrics with strangers, and a table where I can eat like a human instead of balancing food on a pillow in a hotel room. I can close the door when I need silence, throw open the windows when I want light, and enjoy privacy that feels like I actually live there, even if only for a few days. And if I'm traveling with friends, we can all stay together instead of coordinating lobby meetups like we're in a low-budget spy thriller. And while I'm dancing my way through Austin and riding that early spring glow, I'm already plotting the next adventure.

19:41Katya Zamolodchikova:This summer, it's Lisbon. Think ocean breezes, late-night dinners that turn into midnight desserts, and perhaps a moonlit stroll with a charming local who teaches me exactly one Portuguese phrase and then disappears forever. Trips just feel better when you book through Airbnb and I already know I'll be booking again and again. With Airbnb, every journey feels like it was made just for you. So we're going to do that because I'm going to the show with you. Is it here in LA? Okay, so Katie and I are nominated for a GLAAD award. And we will be attending that ceremony dressed to kill. Honestly, when I saw Caleb and Lost Cultures, I was like, this is a hard thing to win.

20:18It's hard to win.

20:20Katya Zamolodchikova:I disagree. 250 episodes prove... Yeah, so what? They got Lady Gaga. No, this was me. They got Tina Fey. I got nominated for a Glowdowar a couple years ago and I went. And to me, I think if I go in drag that maybe I'll win. I think there's good karma to that. Mama, if you both show up dressed to kill. And I'm talking really murder. We're going to murder people there. Well, this is not this award show. But there's some award shows that are smaller, the ones that I get invited to, where if you show, you do have a higher chance of winning. Also... And they kind of almost tell you that. Yeah, they're like, hey, we'd really love to see you.

20:51Yeah, are you going to be coming? It might be really good for you to come.

20:54Katya Zamolodchikova:Yeah, you probably want to sit near the front and wear some comfortable shoes. Right. So I would love for us to win a Golden Globe. We're going to. And I'm sad we didn't win the Golden Globe. Because when we weren't nominated, most people would have thought, it means you're probably not going to win. But I thought there still could be a chance. I mean, I've never felt so shocked and betrayed in my whole life. Amy won, though. Yeah. Amy won. Amy Poehler. Shout out to Amy Poehler. Yeah, whatever. I'm just kidding. Great pod. I love that when she talked to Gwyneth Paltrow about what time they love to go to bed and eat dinner.

21:24Katya Zamolodchikova:I just saw Gwyneth. Not in person. I saw her in a movie. Wait, it wasn't a movie. Mario Supreme? It was a documentary. It was about that woman. What? It was Orgasm Inc., that documentary about the woman who, what was it called? What was the company called? Susan Powder? No, I watched that too. We need to talk about both of these. I'm sorry, I love Gwyn. I love Gwyneth Paltrow. I'm on the Gwyneth train again Orgasm Inc Okay, One Taste One Taste was this company where I'm not kidding Now some of you, trigger warning, grape, grape, grape That sounds dismissive, I didn't mean it like that Rape This is a documentary talking explicitly about lines being blurred At a sex positive company Oh shit What company, what are they selling?

22:09It's called One Taste And it was started by this woman and her whole thing was like spirituality and being connected to the universe and the power of the female orgasm. So people would pay money to show up to seminars where she would like talk about like kind of MLM style, like the self, your success, whatever. And then she would get a woman on the table, take the pants off, and some guy would stand over and do this and make her come in front of everyone.

22:35Katya Zamolodchikova:Okay. It was always guy and girl. Okay. And then at a certain point, there's cult elements they're putting a snake on people they're wearing hoods they're jerking it off and then at a certain point the only people paying to come were mostly men so then the women who work at the company are like I guess I'll go to the class today and get jerked off kind of crazy really crazy documentary that's wild I mean I wouldn't take a sex workshop unless it was given by Annie Sprinkle who's that? she's a sexologist eco she's a performance artist who does like she did a fun thing called a public cervix announcement.

23:10Katya Zamolodchikova:She makes love to the earth. She's really amazing. Huge boobs, wonderful person. What about like a passion party being thrown by Condoleezza Rice? What about if you went to a living room passion party and it was Condoleezza Rice and she brought out her dildos and was just like, let's go girls. And then she tickled the ivories and spoke Russian because she knows she can do that. There is a special time that I feel like we missed out on as adults because we weren't women and we're not like, passion parties. Passion parties. What are you talking about? Passion parties. I don't know what those are.

23:40Tell me, tell me. What is it? In small town USA, like where I'm from. It's like Tupperware parties? Yes, but they're not selling Tupperware. They're not selling Tupperware. Yes. Oh, baby. So the women come over and then somebody's like sassy friend. Right. Oh, I know what you're talking about. Ladies, you're not coming enough. Yeah. Get the rabbit out.

23:56Katya Zamolodchikova:Yes. Yeah. Hook it up to the generator. So this is kind of chattering teeth. Sex based business self positivity vibes. But it's like a performance of sex in a room. That's a perfect storm. So yeah, it was a, and the people who used to work for this company in the documentary were very forthcoming and very blatant about what they experienced. It was a very shocking documentary. It was crazy. But nothing eats, nothing touches, nothing touches the Susan Powder documentary. Right, okay. Nothing has ever touched it. I mean, are you old enough to remember her on the TV stuff? No, never heard of her in my life.

24:30Katya Zamolodchikova:Oh, I was there. Oh, I was there. And obviously the insanity did not stop. No, I mean, I'm very, we're kindred spirits. she's I think driving Uber in LA or in Las Vegas or something driving Ubers yeah the stop the insanity was huge well it was really interesting because she was like I have no issue working I have no issue driving Uber you gotta work when she was younger her managers and agents etc all took at least half of what she made and they own the name Susan Powder so there's a scene where she's on the website looking at Susan Powder fitness items she's like I don't get any of this that's my name none of this goes to me.

25:08Rihanna.

25:08Katya Zamolodchikova:That's why she don't make no music. It was so obviously this woman was traumatized by all this happening to her. And Jamie Lee Curtis produces it and they get together and of course they're crying, right? And I'm crying because these two women are crying. And Jamie Lee Curtis is like I've always thought if anyone would play her it'd be me. I was like do it tomorrow, bitch. Do it tomorrow. But I need to see Jamie Lee Curtis as Susan Powder driving Uber in a feature film. Yeah. it was a great movie and I hate stories about like when I read Michelle Visage's book and she talked about seduction her touring for years and actually leaving seduction in debt they took all her money Michelle never got anything Michelle carried the costumes and steamed them for everyone she was opening for Milli Vanilli for years stadiums Michelle had I think she said she got less than a thousand dollars a month per pay it's unbelievable the music industry is so evil and they made these the first successful interracial girl group they made these women feel like you're so lucky to be here.

26:08You're a star. Don't worry about the money because you're just so lucky to be here.

26:11Katya Zamolodchikova:I've heard that before. Michelle just ended a huge run with that band like with no money. Years of her life. It's so fucked up. And also like just the dissonance of like performing to stadiums and like... Yeah. Do you guys want to go in on some Cheetos later? Like it's crazy. Do you think about touring? I do. I go to hell touring Lately I don't know what's wrong with me Lately I really miss Touring Like a scripted show With you A scripted show? I like fantasies About doing Tricks and Katya live again What about Is that crazy? The word is fantasy This is I'm not saying I'm gonna do it Is she Is she But you know what I miss I miss the body microphone I miss Being backstage Us all in the costumes Talking about what we had for lunch And then we just go out there And do it I miss the curtain coming down And doing that And then people screaming.

27:05I missed that. Yeah. Yeah. And you know what I also got, which I didn't deserve. I got to walk in that show first and I got to stand on stage alone and get the first clap, which I love, baby. I love that. It was amazing. And then you come out and it's a double clap.

27:18Katya Zamolodchikova:But see, I love being second fiddle. That's my, that's my role. You're not second fiddle. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm Ed McMahon. You're not second fiddle. You're Johnny Carson. I'm, this is how I'm very, you know what I'm talking about? I'm a piccolo, light, dainty, cuts through. I'm an, you're a tuba. I'm an oboe. You're an oboe. Yeah. I love oboe. If you're going to sit here and talk shit about double reeded instruments. Bassoon? Do they have the thing that goes like that? Yeah. Love that shit. Love bassoon. Girl, can I tell you something? I think I've told you this before. Who cares?

27:44When I was in school, we had to go to something called music convocation. Every Friday, every music student had to go to the amphitheater and watch some area of the music department play a show. Maybe this week it's singers. Maybe next week it's a string quartet. It's fine. It was zero credits. You had to go. It's every Friday at noon. Whatever. one week it was around Halloween and it was bassoon convo and you guys bassoons are just funny oh yeah you've told me this

28:08Katya Zamolodchikova:no no keep going I forgot it no fuck me I think it's no I actually maybe I don't know I'm gonna see if I can was it like was it a yeah well I wanna try to find the bassoon sound cause if people don't know it's just a funny fucking sounding instrument let's hear let's hear a bassoon

28:37Katya Zamolodchikova:it's the farting it's too funny I love that it's like farting so you're hungover you're 19 and it was Halloween and they walked out with Halloween masks on that's right that is so fierce and they sat and guess what song they played what take me out to the ball game that's right I could not handle it that's so fierce I was like is this real that's great we should do that Play bassoon? No, take me out to the ball game for our next show. Take me out to the bald game. The bald gay. Take me out to the bald gay. Love.

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34:18Katya Zamolodchikova:I don't know why. Do you know that that, that's so weird you said that song because when you sent me that picture, it was like, this used to be my playground. Used to be. I literally had the whole League of Their Own montage in my mind. I thought about, I thought about driving home. Like, it's like, oh, it's like 545. The sun's about to set. fucking cranking it up El Contento like picking off pedestrians oh it was beautiful that time of day it's amazing charging up to the top deck to goon at that it's amazing it's just so beautiful from the street I could see your old pergola and it's just bathed in sunset light I was like that is that's end of life care up there all those gore and on your way up you get all those different flowers like always in bloom at different times all these different some great yards up there difficult parking but some really pretty yards up there.

35:10Katya Zamolodchikova:No parking. Yeah. No parking, no sidewalks. You want to get hit by a car, go up there. Yeah. Do you want to, do you want to, you know what I love? My favorite thing was counting how many fucking stupid rich fucks would wear head to toe black, walking their dogs in the middle of the street at night. With a black dog. With a huge black lab. On a 40 foot leash. And not just black, but let's say, outfit the color of the pavement. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And full makeup, the color of the pavement. Laying down with stripes. I mean, these people want to be hit. Jumping out from bushes. And then when you come up on them, the audacity.

35:45Katya Zamolodchikova:They have their headphones in. The headphones in. The headphones, Mary. I know. Headphones in the ear. It's fierce. She wouldn't get out of the cock-a-doodie street. You know what I do when I'm up there? I have the meta goggles that have the glasses with the open ear speaker. Okay. So you can hear the street in the world. I do my ghetto blaster, my boombox. Do you? No, I'm just kidding. Oh, I love the JBL. That's the clip for like going for a walk. That's noise pollution. You think? People do it at the reservoir and I think it's kind of cute. It's noise pollution. It's noise pollution. You think?

36:17Katya Zamolodchikova:I do. Okay. I mean, imagine on the subway. That's different. That's different. But okay. So memories, memories, memories. I was going to say, you know what you need to do? What? You need to go up there like Jennifer Lopez. Oh my God. Did you ever see that clip? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where she goes, I used to live here. Yeah. And the guy goes, oh, you did? Okay. Bye, lady. and he's like, who are you? What's your name? And she was like, Jennifer. Jennifer. And he's like, Lawrence? No, he doesn't say anything. But you should go up there and be like, I used to live here. And they're going to be like, yeah, we always wondered who lived here.

36:45It's so weird. We saw the shit stains. Right.

36:47Katya Zamolodchikova:It took forever to get them out of there. Why did you do that to the yard when the interior looks like this? Mama, not to put them on blast. I hear they're very lovely, the people who live there now. Very lovely. I hope they enjoy it. It's a great house. So the, But I, you know what? I drive every once in a while because I used to go to my friend's house in the hills and I would drive by a little, you know, very slowly and then drive again, drive by very slowly. Just two of these times a day. Pull in the driveway. Yeah. Run the car. Just like, I peeked inside a few times but the windows are open.

37:17Did you ever go use your old shower just for old time's sake? What if they came home and you were like exercising?

37:22Katya Zamolodchikova:What if they came home and I was spread eagle naked on the pergola? I wish when you sold a house, there's a sunset provision. Like you can use the house half time. for a year. You can have the house, but mama, that pergola is mine. I come with the house. Free gift. But also like, well, the thing is from my neighbor, I've heard that they're so nice. I could, if I asked them, I could go, I'm sure they'd invite me over to sleep over for a week. Crazy. Straight couple. Anyways, the way that I'm so rueful and nostalgic about this place, I can't even, I can't be overstated. I can understand it because when I walk by it, it feels like your house.

37:56I don't know how to describe it. I'm like, someone lives in her house.

37:59Katya Zamolodchikova:The way that I loved having, I mean, there was many things about that place that sucked. A, there's no square footage. B, there was no sidewalks. Right. You could not walk anywhere. Right. Totally car dependent. Very car dependent. I mean, no, 100%. I moved to America's second largest city, so I have to take a 15 minute car ride to a CVS. Like the moment I bought that house, I had to buy a car. Right. I had to, there was no other choice. So now contrast with my current living situation, which I'll give you a lovely update on. Continue to hate it with all my heart and guts and soul. But wait, wait.

38:36Katya Zamolodchikova:So, you know, I told you I was reading the Moisture Reader wrong. Oh, yeah. Well, you weren't. I got it right one day. So, I was a little bubbling. A little bubbling in the studio. They cut a fucking hole in the wall. They cut a hole through the drywall. Wet. Dripping. Black. Mold. The return. Game on, bitch the sequel so i've got four giant uh deafening fans and dehumidifiers going 24 7 for the next four days my i'm sure that my neighbors are not like i'm not i don't think they're in love with me i think they're like so in love with me right because i must be the best neighbor they have ever had you know the hammering the sawing the you know the fans you know what i'm gonna stop you right there because my old place my neighbor when i first moved in i go oh my god you're in, I'll make up the number.

39:28You're in 10-01. I'm 10-02. I'm your neighbor. Oh yeah, she's like, oh. She was like, oh, you're going to be done with your, they're hammering every night. You better believe I am the only person in this building who does not have children or a dog or both. All of you can suck my fat cock and lick my heavy clit. I do not care. I flush the toilet once a month. I'm not even fucking there. I don't have dogs. I don't have children. The rest of you are fraudulent bitches. Shut up. Perpetrating frauds. You know what? Don't worry about me in my house barely being there and being silent. Don't worry about me.

39:58Yeah.

39:59Katya Zamolodchikova:Renter. Worry about your ugly ass. Yeah. I'm like, I'm, I'm the secret garden. I'm the child. I'm the Indian in the cupboard. Yeah. You're the perfect neighbor. So I, you know, and to your point, my friend was like, listen, the, the people next door would not have moved to the city in a condo surrounded by two people in the middle, have two neighbors on each side. If they were so sensitive about sound and needed peace and quiet, they would have moved to fucking Albany. I moved into a condo because I needed to make sure that I didn't share a wall with anyone. How about three on each side? And I've lived in apartments and shared walls like a long time of my life.

40:35It just is. It is what it is. Be the neighbor you wish you could be. I don't blow up the neighbors. You won't catch me in my house blowing up music.

40:42Katya Zamolodchikova:Oh, baby. No, no, no. Although I did once in my old, back in Laurel where I lived below the landlord who was, I swear to God, he was a great big fat person, and he would fall a lot, and it just felt like he was going to come through the - But that doesn't seem intentional. Falling? That's not like testing subwoofers in your home. No, I don't think he was - Well, anyway, so one day I put on a movie. It made me a little loud. Dune. It was Dune. The way that that man barreled down the stairs and almost broke through my door and told me that screaming at me while Amy and Sam, Amy Doan and Sam were there, singing the whole complex is shaking god damn it and i was like

41:29can i say when you go to someone's door you got to know that you're not going to be perceived the way you think you're perceived you're going to seem crazy if the door opens you start yelling you're just going to seem crazy and what you could say is you know it's just my walls are rattling a little bit is that okay i'm sorry we've never met i'm so and so like that approach compared to the whole goddamn complex. He barreled down and boom, boom, boom.

41:55Katya Zamolodchikova:I was like, baby, I can hear you at 3 a.m. falling down. What are you doing at 3 a.m.? Bitch, your big everything broke that shoe. You know what I mean? So my life at home is currently, again, in shambles. But the, you know. I have something to add Please It's been raining in Los Angeles My guest house leaks Everybody's got water damage My guest house leaks I had to have black mold remediation Is doing my whole guest house I'm in the club It sucks It's expensive It's tens of thousands of dollars Tell me about it Tens of thousands of dollars I'm a moisture expert. The foundation, they got to do what they call a mold cut, which is the three feet from the floor, the entire property, the entire thing.

42:53And they did the moisture guard and they're like, you have maybe one wall here that doesn't have to be like gutted. Now, did you vet whoever? No, I called the first person. Is that bad?

43:05Katya Zamolodchikova:Who is it? I don't know. Do you know what the company's name is? What is yours? Well. Now I'm scared. There's got to be more than one. Maybe. It better not be fucking. It's not. Thank God. It's not. Because, Mama, they ripped and ran. They tore my whole house apart and then left without putting anything back. No, this company moves on all my belongings. Okay. It's a full service. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're going to put back all the drywall and do the construction. Yeah. Guess what else happened? What? You don't even know about this. I don't. Why didn't you tell me? So one of the issues was I said, well, Brandon and I have a storage unit down the street from my condo.

43:43Andrew told me. so in my storage unit, and this actually sucks and y 'all can make fun of me, whatever. One of the only things I have that has value. That's not money is my doll collection. I've spent years of my life collecting all these beautiful vintage toys, time capsules of American history and fashion, whatever. I'm a huge bag. There's really valuable. Many of them are, I love them. Yeah. It's one of the only material things I know is completely, it's not for food, water or sex or shelter. It's just, I love it. Yeah. And I've invested a lot of my money in, in them and making sure that they have their own storage unit that's dark and dry and cool and safe we went in there to get something mold the entire doll collection my entire doll collection dolls from 59 through 80 basically are the boxes are all melt all molded all the boxes have mold on them right and i'm having to hire a company to come in that does mold um remediation on objects to go through the whole collection and see what can be saved.

44:45But I might have to... So all my videos of vintage dolls, they might just all have to go in a landfill. And I have the fullest insurance at that storage unit. It only covers up to$5 ,000.

44:59Katya Zamolodchikova:The fullest insurance at a storage unit only costs$5 ,000? And so I'm wondering... What are you doing? Keep candy corns there? My guest house leaking is like, okay, everyone's house is leaking. But paying a monthly fee for a safe, dry storage unit, it would have never occurred to me that this unit was just flooding. I don't know why in Los Angeles we had to make buildings as if rain hadn't been invented yet. Rain didn't just hit. I know. Rain isn't new. I know. Well, Los Angeles is famously, I mean, depending on what type, I mean, unless it was, you know, unless it was built in the 20s and then renovated during the golden age of architecture in LA, it's going to probably be poopoo crap.

45:42Katya Zamolodchikova:If it was built in the 50s, 60s, 70s in apartment complex, it's going to look like the cat's ass. And it's probably going to be from tissue paper and wood chips. But, you know, my situation is a little bit more frustrating because I, it's like, I wasn't a victim of circumstance. A lot of this stuff, I did, I made the most spectacularly stupid decisions. So after getting rid of the mold, having the bright idea to let someone put these enormously heavy planters on my deck, which of course immediately perforated the newly sealed waterproof membrane of the deck. Having to take them down. All that, super expensive, by the way, for nothing.

46:29Katya Zamolodchikova:Only to cause more problems. Oh, yeah. So it's like, I'm literally, I'm like... Brandon was literally crying because he was like, Brandon was like, you worked so hard for this. And we went extra steps to put these, what we perceive to be like the safest place. It's not in our homes. It's in a storage. It's not even on the first floor. How the fuck did it get? Moldy, everything moldy. Dolls, moldy. Beautiful, pristine mint condition Barbie collection. Rotting. Fuck. Sucks shit. We're going to have to go back on tour. Oh, yeah. We've lost it all. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm in foreclosure. Thank God.

47:04Katya Zamolodchikova:Take it. Take this moldy ass place. Take it. Take it. I'll live in a wheelbarrow full of wood chips and sawdust. Just kidding. It just sucks. No, it doesn't. And I don't want to like fantasize, but I'm like, okay, over in Wisconsin, we don't have leaks in our homes. Mostly. I grew up in a trailer. It did not leak. What is the issue over here in Los Angeles where somebody is up there just poking holes? Like we're all bugs in a peanut butter jar with holes poked in the top. That was me. I paid someone to poke some holes. crazy kill me slap me throw me down the stairs i think i hope it stops raining for the winter because i can't take it i mean i'm from massachusetts where we got i don't know famously like four like four thousand feet of snow every uh winter do you think we had one leak in our motherfucking house no no i don't know what to do i don't know why we don't just make roofs like this no matter what like my house has that roof my house doesn't leak all of it rolls off.

48:03Katya Zamolodchikova:The new studio Andrew and I moved into, so it's above this restaurant. Why is the driveway concave? And why does it collect puddles and puddles and puddles and I was told not to park there because the restaurant is flooding always underneath it. Fierce. Isn't that fierce? Isn't that cunty? Isn't that great? Isn't that lovely for a restaurant? What are we going to do? I don't know. Not live in LA. I try to call my blessings. I'm like, my house isn't leaking. Trixie Cosmetics isn't leaking. Not yet. Trixie Motel isn't leaking. Once I get my little poker. But we also just redid the Trixie Motel roof when we moved in.

48:38And it's not going to rain in Palm Springs the way it's raining here. Mama, yeah, that's like, yeah, no. But I don't know, girl.

48:44Katya Zamolodchikova:Weather. We're having weather. I have another great story for you. Teaser, next week. Trixie Motel pulled over. It happens. It happens. It could happen. Trixie Motel pulled over. All of this has been happening in the same like three-day period. It's been awful. Wait, wait, we've got to end on a happy note. End on a happy note. 250 episodes of The Bald and the Beautiful. 250 episodes. Now take that, Amy Poehler. Just kidding. 250 episodes of nonstop, nonstop entertainment for free. Sometimes people will say to me about you and I, they will say things like you guys could just do anything and people would eat it up.

49:23I don't feel that way. And I know these people watching us for 10 years don't feel that way.

49:27Katya Zamolodchikova:I take that as a compliment because they don't understand. I think it's a read. I think it's insulting to these people listening too. And there's a, there's a limit where there's a, when you're a self, when you don't have it, you have a sense of humor and a sense of humility and you have a self deprecating sense of humor. There is a line where you should kind of check yourself and like, you know, I'm an actually not a piece of shit and this is not some stupid, frivolous thing. It's a wonderful thing that I'm proud of. I care about what you and I do in here. I do too. And just because it seems off the cuff or like, or that it's improvised or that it's not heavily produced or that we don't know how to say goodbye.

50:03Katya Zamolodchikova:Like, doesn't mean - We may not know how to introduce guests. Yeah, yeah. We can't remember anyone's names. But what happens in between all of that is very important. Right. They love to say this to me. Girl, I love how you could just wear anything. That's what I'm saying. Like, don't wear anything. I wish you wouldn't wear anything. What if we start doing drag but we're just completely naked but no padding on? The wigs and the makeup but just a big black bush. hateful bush hateful bush hateful bush that you just gotta it says hairy legs big old panties and that hateful bush no I have a bra and panties but I don't have them on I just hold them on my lap just so you know I could put them on if I wanted to I have them on a hanger that I hold up the whole time so much better than getting a drag we should just bring in store mannequins with our outfits on it be like this is what could have happened or a projector projector oh love paint our bodies white different outfits love and then have it cross dissolve so they change over time I love the cross dissolve All right.

51:00Katya Zamolodchikova:Last thing. Last thing. I, um, I love, I've recently discovered that I maybe am not as interested in having sex with people as I thought I was. I kind of, can I tell you, I listened to the last pod and you were talking about the asshole. Yeah. Yeah. And I knew you were going to have this Sarah Plain and tall swing backwards. And I, and I kind of did too, because that's how everyone is. Does anyone else feel like when you're horny, you have a hookup or I used to have like three in a week and then nothing for months. Mama. Once you break the seal, you're like, well. And it's like, everything I said was true.

51:33Katya Zamolodchikova:Right. I mean, I really had a transcendental time. Right. But I just haven't really been in the mood. I think that's okay. It comes in waves, I think. And also, Mama, I know me. Yeah. Nobody knows me better than me. You love to jerk it. I love to touch myself. Right. I go through a hell of pleasure in myself. I think we can go. 250 episodes. Thank you so much for letting us do the most wonderful thing in the world. because honestly, this job is so cunty. It's great. Thank you to Nick for filming and doing all the sound. Yes. Thank you to Tracy. Thank you to Sid. Always laughing in the background.

52:06Katya Zamolodchikova:Give me someone to wink at. And honestly, thank you to Mark. And honestly, Mark, Studio 71, and all of our guests, but also PEG, our managers were the ones who were like, do you guys want to do a pod? I don't know if we would have done that on our own. Don't you remember? I was like, start a pod this late in the game? Oh yeah, I remember feeling like, who wants to have us do? I remember feeling like, well we're models people want to look at us they don't want to listen to us why why are we so good at drag but people are so happy we've stopped dressing up but don't I remember thinking this is too late this is too late it's like too late in the game to this now everybody now Gwyneth Paltrow's got a pod everybody's got a pod but also our fans were so young like their cochlear like little bones had just finally yeah now their fontanelles are hardening up right and so they were cerebrally finally ready for a pod thank you now we're all on the level now that I have dementia they're ready to listen and a whole new audience whole new audience which is great because we don't have any stories except me getting pulled over I'm going to tell you next week okay cliffhanger okay 251

53:32The sun's shining, birds are singing, and all feels right in the world.

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