RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7 Ep 3: "ShakesQueer, Sewing, & Excuses" with Trixie and Katya

23:05But me watching...

23:07Trixie Mattel:Now that it's been 10 years, me watching, I'm like... Borderline personality disorder. Oh. Now watching all these years later, I'm watching going, she's one of the strongest competitors. Why? It's weird that she gets picked last because she's a good drag queen. She's 21. I think she auditioned at 20. You know what I was doing at 21? I was sucking my mom's titties, breastfeeding. Yeah.

23:35Trixie Mattel:so um then we get to the two this is shakespeare it's the it's like the bitch who stole no it's it's romeo and it's romey and juliet and mcbitch mcbitch i receive max is my team leader which is great she's been british for days this is kind of perfect right she's been british since she got here woke up British so she picks Catherine Hepburn she's got a transatlantic thing going on oh this challenge is right up my alley I'm going to let the girls know I've got it out for them because I'm an actress fetch my golf clubs here we go so I'm in we're in separate groups I'm in Romy and Juliet Julietta little did I know I was going to be in the incredible stellar group compared to the other and you did good I did okay I had the part you don't want in a group which is the narrator.

24:27Trixie Mattel:It's a dumb part. It's yeah. Can I tell you my aspirations at the beginning of this competition? I think I was so delusional that I thought I'd be there the whole time. So I thought it's okay to just pick an easy part at the beginning. I'm not going home. Like I was just like, give me the easy part. It was four lines. Wow. I was clinging from episode three on. I was like fingernails on the ledge. Obviously I was delusional because I go home next. But I was still at a point where I was like, yeah, give me the part with two lines. I don't care if I blend in. because to me, I'm going to win the next five challenges.

24:57I just thought there were

24:58Trixie Mattel:so many people there that I was like, I won't mess up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I won't win. Yeah. So I just did it and I can't explain that outfit. Max borrowed me that gray wig. Oh, you looked kind of bad. Yeah, it's a blue It's very like Renaissance. But don't you remember this? We were told in our list of runway looks to bring a Shakespeare look. I thought it was going to be a runway. We all brought runway looks. So then it comes out to be a shitty comedy challenge. And Mary, me and Violet's outfits turned out to be reveals. It's not a reveal outfit. Yeah. Like my reveal was so clunky and labored because it wasn't a reveal outfit.

25:38Right. Like it was unfair. Anyways.

25:40Trixie Mattel:So here's what I'll tell you that I remember. I remember my group doing their thing. I don't remember anything about doing this. This is what I remember about Shakespeare because again, I didn't get to watch you guys. So your trauma is not my trauma. Your tea is valid. Your tea is valid. I remember Pearl walking in. I think our group went first. Yeah. Pearl walked in after hers. And I go, how was it? And she takes off her wig and she goes, I'm lip syncing. She goes, I know I am. Fuck. I know I am. And I went, no. Like, there's no way you guys were that bad. I remember thinking, there's no way you guys were that bad.

26:16And then when I watched it, why don't you tell me what it was like doing it? So here's the thing about scripted challenges, I think in general. and in this case in particular, especially, they are rotten. Performed by, let's say, fucking Jane Krakowski couldn't make this funny. Do you know what I mean? Like Tina Fey couldn't make this funny. Like it's just not funny. It's bad. Yeah. Charlie Hydes could make it funny. Yeah. Like nobody could make this funny. Meg Stalter couldn't even fucking wear this material. She could. She would ad lib. Yeah. You know what I mean? So it's just bad. So there's that.

26:56Plus the fact that we're not good actors, none of us. And Kennedy is a horrible team leader. We just go off on our own. Excuse me.

27:06Trixie Mattel:First, there's two parts, and then they switch it. They switch, yeah. Because Violet is going to play Vesquisha. Vesquisha? Vesquisha. And Kennedy turns to Violet and says, I need you to be more ghetto. I mean, this is, this is TV from a long time ago. So, so what you saw, the awkwardness, the terror, it was worse. It was so much worse than what you see on television. Cause of course this is over the course of like 45 minutes. Yes. And this is, it is a train wreck. I am mid to middling forgettable. I'm absolutely forgettable. But you know what I'm thinking? Thank God I'm not going home. Right.

27:47Cause everybody sucks so bad. And I'm like C, like a level. But you're the best in the group. But forgettable. Right. I mean, we are all bad. It's just varying shades. It's from forgettable to preposterous. Yeah.

28:03Trixie Mattel:But that's how I was too. Like in my group, I think Max and I believe it's Max and Ginger in love. Right? Max and Ginger in love. And it's Romeo and Juliet. They die. Yeah. Whatever. And my note watching this was I'm just not in it. Which means I either did nothing wrong and nothing good. Mary, same. I'm a set piece. I'm not even in it. Girl, I'm not even in it. I think I maybe do one line and I die. And I struggle to take off my skirt. They pan away from me. Yeah. It's bad. It was very forgettable. But girl, poor Jasmine. This was hard. This was like, because it was just... Poor Jasmine. Yeah, it was like, it was never like asking a person to rock climb with no legs.

28:51Like, it was like, it's not going to happen.

28:53Trixie Mattel:Well, first of all, they're not funny lines. But second of all, they're written to pretend to be heightened language, which syntax-wise is all mixed up. It's not a normal sentence. No, and also, it's not great. It's like they don't try to do iambic pentameter or whatever the fuck. It's like it could have been more Shakespearean. Because even Michelle explains the line, Laquisha Kiana, and it still doesn't sound good. Correct. Right. Do you know what I mean? No, totally. And then in my group, you have Jaden, who hits a wall. She's messing up the words and Jaden starts crying. And you guys, if you guys could meet Jaden do her fears.

29:23Oh, she's the most lovely person in the world.

29:25Trixie Mattel:That's one of the maybe last person you want to see cry because she is too, like too fucking nice. Yeah. She is so sweet and she starts crying and I remember her going, I just want this so bad. And then Max, a good team leader, bends down because Max is six feet taller than her. Max gets on her knees, gets eye level and goes, it's okay. You're going to get it. You're doing great. and then she does do great. It's fierce. Like, Max actually leads her to not being the bottom. He was so cunty in that episode. I mean, she really gets in there and helps her team. And on your team, there really was no shepherding.

30:00No. Kennedy was like, go figure it out.

30:04Trixie Mattel:And by the way, Kennedy can read the phone book and make it funny. Kennedy couldn't make that funny. Nobody did any. I thought Pearl - Kennedy had glasses on. I thought Pearl was amazing. Like, I, she was unintentionally hilarious. Her hitting her head. She bumped it. She bumped and then ducks and looks at it. Cheerleader tryouts. She was like, hey, cheerleader tryouts happened today. Yeah. It's just wild. It was her outfit. Like, I know she was supposed to be kind of a knight. Female gym teacher. Perhaps a little lesbian. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought the suggestion was that it was a, a lot of the drag race comedy challenges have one female character who's like, hey, you know, the Leah Delaria of the skit and I thought she was trying to do that but really all there was was a unibrow there's a unibrow she was like tragic

31:02I thought she was funny and I thought she was funny I mean it was bad but at least it was funny bad it was not comfortable it was really really bad to have to endure can we play a part of it

31:16Here in Tuckahoe It's the season of the witch But none are as shady As lady make bitch Friends, drag queens Hunty men

31:28Trixie Mattel:I got something to say Cheerleading tryouts Are happening today But honestly Now I love it I think Pearl's great in this I really do Now I love it Like it's not good But it is good And this is Jasmine Watch out, sisters. I'm the real prima donna. Hair cheerleader is going to be me, Laquisha Kiana. That's right. Girl, not on tonight. This is so not your gig. I'm Lady McBitch, and you're a pig in a wig. Woof. Hey, Hogwarts rejects, what's your prediction? If I'm not hair cheerleader, it's truly fan fiction. The spirits have spoken. I'm not even in it. No, no. I think you eventually, oh, here's another Pearl part.

32:09Trixie Mattel:We got to just see Pearl. Yeah. Your engines may the best Tuckahoe win

32:17Trixie Mattel:Your reveal was just so bad It looked like someone pantsed you Clunky Cause it's not a reveal outfit And the outfit underneath it is not better It's just the outfit Oh sisters I'm stressed If I don't win I may die Try this it'll help That is really something I have one shitty line that is so forgettable and then I drop dead. Yeah. Talk about disappearing into the world.

32:48Trixie Mattel:In a world of charisma, uniqueness, talent, and nerve, two rival drag houses gonna get on they swerve. Damn. What do you do? That did not sound like you at the beginning whatsoever. I don't think much of it sounded like me. Damn shit. Fuck. Wow. Look, we shook. I mean, Now, of course, it is edited to enhance the awkwardness. They include dead air. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Like they include the dead air in the final edit, which of course you wouldn't be doing if you were trying to make it look as good as possible. Get yourself banished if you hang with this flu. What did you say? Apologize, trolls.

33:31Calm down, Beyonce, or I'll clock those back.

33:35Trixie Mattel:Everything about this is bad. Everything about this is bad. It's bad. It is like, you know, RuPaul was like, she literally goes like this. This is where Michelle says, cue the snipers. She wants you all to be shot. Yeah. She's like, you're so bad. You should be dead. It's assassinated. Completely assassinated. The set was whatever. The script wasn't funny. The script was so bad. The Shakespeare rhythm of it made the jokes not permissible to the ear. I didn't get it at all. No. And also it's all delivered at a low, like it's done that. Like there was no rhythm. There was just like, it just, it was just really fucking bad.

34:13It was really fucking bad. It was really fucking bad. And then it was, thank God. I think that the success of this episode is that it was so bad. Otherwise, imagine if we just killed it, it would have been so fucking boring.

34:26Trixie Mattel:It's really bad. Cause it would not have been funny. It's not funny now. I mean, it's really tough. It's no, you know what I mean though? Even if it was performed well, All that material would not be funny. Yeah, it's dramatic. There'd be no drama there. The episode would be flat as hell. Did you know, you knew you guys were in the bottom without seeing ours? It was, I mean, RuPaul was saying, in the seven seasons of doing this show, I have never seen a car crash like this. I think it's the challenge. She said more like that. She was like, this is the worst thing I've ever seen in my whole life.

35:01It was like, not exactly. encouraging words. But like Kennedy, for example,

35:08Trixie Mattel:Kennedy excels any time there's a character. So you're telling me that it's Kennedy's fault this isn't funny? I don't believe it. You know? No, team leader. It's Ginger's fault this isn't funny? Team leader. I guess. Oh yeah, because she lip syncs. No leadership. Kennedy has to lip sync in this. Against Jasmine, yeah. No leadership. And I think it was... Yeah, it's tough. I think that's unfair. I don't know. Well, her bearded runway was fucking awful. Do you remember It was the beard. Oh, yeah. It was the worst beard. Well, Jasmine and her had the... To be honest, I think we're going to get to the runways.

35:41Trixie Mattel:Can we go to the runways? Okay, so this was like, again, this is all edited. This was 45 minutes of this. Right. So my heart broke for Jasmine because it was painful. Right. Like she just couldn't get it. And trying like 10, 12 times. Yeah. And like when you can't get it, I don't know if you have ever experienced that. We're like... Oh, it gets worse. It gets worse. You need to take a break. Yeah. And you need to take 15 minutes or something. I think any creative person will tell you sometimes just taking a lap, you come back and you can do it. Yes, absolutely. I will go outside, have a cigarette, and then like take a beat, and then you can just kind of start again.

36:23Trixie Mattel:Yes. That was not – you were on the spot. Smoking was a huge part of season seven of Drag Race. So I came into Drag Race a non-smoker. I had to quit for a year and a half. immediately started smoking because of the stress. Well, Ginger can throw him back. Yeah. At the time? It was Ginger. I went out with her probably the second day. I was like, Mary, I got to do this. And thank God because me, Pearl, and Ginger became friends that way.

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39:10I was shocked with this runway because the bearded runway I remembered being better. Whoa. It is a dog show for the most part. Let's get into it. I think there are some strong ones. I love pearls the red beard was so cool super creative and also on the fly she came up with that the morning she came in

39:28Trixie Mattel:and cut the little red pieces up and glued it on her face that day she had no bearded runway planned also we had we had was it Kat Dennings and Mel B? yes yeah Mel B now this is something I'm pretty and I've said this a million times I know but I will always cherish hearing this from Mel B to Violet your hair and your beard they're just ugly I fucking ate. They didn't like her. I loved Violet's runway. I thought it was exquisite. Violet had this really cool going to homecoming. It was a Dior classic 50s silhouette. Gorgeous. And I loved her beard. She looked so pretty. Mel B was not eating any of it.

40:05Trixie Mattel:I don't think Violet misses on the runway this whole season. Not once.

40:11I don't think so. What was the previous one? What was the glamazonian one?

40:18Trixie Mattel:oh it was the bodysuit with the suitcase with bullets I guess I didn't like that that was her miss it also looked like french fries it did yeah it was not a good one I wish it was that'd be fierce I don't turn up for guns but I turn up for french fries oh I have again Rue's fucking hair and makeup literal perfection yeah it's very impressive what a great outfit to scream at the girls yeah I don't know about the the cape and the green the parachuting fabric I kind of like it it was interesting it wasn't a huge win for me but that top I mean that white the ponytail is so fierce yeah she screamed at us yeah so before we get to the screaming I also want to talk about your runway was Abraham Lincoln I thought I killed that I thought I killed it I mean it could have been it would have been nice if it was a ladies jacket in a little more shape but Mel B said your literal perfection to me I liked it.

41:18Yeah. I thought it was like clever and fun. Nice concept. Yeah. I had a, Mary, I had a concept. Yeah. You killed it. Half of the people. Don Wilkes Booth killed it. Half of the people just went in a shitty gown in a bad beard. That really disturbed me. So I had, I take super mega umbrage with gingers. I couldn't believe how ugly her dress was. It was a shitty corset with not even, not singed, with nasty plastic giant kids stones over an ugly fucking gown.

41:45Trixie Mattel:With the beard. You know what it gives? the This Is Me Pride performance. Oh, I don't even know what that is. The Bearded Queen from Greatest Showman. The girls love to do that for Pride. I hated that. Who else did I hate? Oh, I loved Miss Fames, the Harlequins. See, I actually, so this is what I hated it. Middle part, Red Waves. I hated it. I loved it. Yeah, I thought it was one of her real, I hated it for some reason. Well. I love that we'd have different opinions on that. But no, can I tell you, one of the things I've realized watching this as a viewer is what makes Drag Race fun is that people, you sit at a table you all watch it everybody can have completely different opinions yeah I love that too but not in a way where people scream at each other no it's just like really you like that okay ugly you know yeah but the big like I mean do you remember like the dress that's gonna cure AIDS that's gonna solve hunger oh this was Jasmine being like I'm about to let RuPaul see the best dress that's ever been worn on the stage of RuPaul's Drag Race and it was and then it was a nice dress it was a dress it kept building she kept talking about she's like I wouldn't be surprised if I get saved because of this dress I wouldn't be surprised if I cure AIDS because of this dress.

42:45I was like,

42:47Trixie Mattel:no, it was wild. The thing is, if she had just worn it, they would have been like, this is a really nice dress. But she treated it like, well, it's the Hope Diamond. Yeah, it's Princess, the revenge dress with the Hope Diamond plus the Shroud of Turin. Not to mention, it also wasn't, Jasmine, love you, but the charcoal eyeshadow on the face instead of hair. I'm 37 years old. I know my skin. This was a tough moment for me to listen to on the runway. She, her explanation for her underperformance with the, it was so tough to listen to. She's like, I'm not putting nothing on my, like, I was like, oh shit.

43:21It's like you're on drag race.

43:23Trixie Mattel:See, I, to this point have never been up for critiques. So I've never heard any of this. I'm only an untucked. So you have never had your feet hurt like that? Not until I go home. Oh my God. Mary, I'm telling you up and at this point, I have only worn super fucking uncomfortable shoes. I'm talking Bordello pleasers and giant stilette like five inch heels. So hammer time on the feet. Yeah. And it takes I was shocked at how little they should. It takes nine to ten hours to do a critique. Seriously. Every judge gets about five minutes. Yeah. For each person. For each person. And in the edit, Mary, the edit we get about 45 seconds max.

44:07Maybe 30 seconds.

44:08Trixie Mattel:Yeah. Seriously. But if it's RuPaul and four judges RuPaul says nothing. RuPaul says nothing. And it goes one by one and they each take five minutes. And then if there's six of you, that's five minutes times five is 25. Times six is hours. So you're in untucked for hours before the group even comes back. And sometimes you go back to, like if it's lunch, you break for lunch, then you come back for the rest of the critiques. The critiques are interminable. So sometimes you're breaking for lunch and you're not allowed to speak. So you're in your drag outfit eating lunch and you can't even debrief on who's going home.

44:43Trixie Mattel:You're just sitting eating. Yeah. Quiet. And if you speak, you are silenced. Yeah. When we went back for All Stars 2 in the second episode, RuPaul let us take off our shoes if we weren't on camera. And that was like such a game changer. It was such a game changer. It was, it's torture. It's torture. But if you want to take your shoes off, you do have to pull out your cock. And that's something that is non-negotiable. That's a rule that I added on All Stars 3. I said, everyone, whip it out. Take out your cock. Yep, whip it your cock. It's cock time. Bring it to the cock room and the pussy room.

45:15Trixie Mattel:Okay, so let's go down the runways. I know this is going to be bored for people just listening in their cars, but... Well, what's the rose and the thorn? I loved pearls. Yeah. I thought Max looked sensational. Oh, my God. Sensational. So cool. Max is in this sword fighting... What do you call that? Swashbuckler. Yeah. Spensing. With a beard that I... It's a mustache like warrior. It's like doll, like kind of like a crazy dolly mustache. And the eyeshadow is just black shadow and a circular on the eye. It's so cool. Max really eats the girls up. The only thing though, at this point, which I, you know, still to this day, I, let's not do bits on the runway.

45:56Let's just walk the runway like fashion models. I know I can't do it, but I can try. I know. I was like, let's stop. Let's just walk. Let's walk, turn and walk. You didn't like the gun when you, when you blew your brain out? No. I'm like, why do we, it's understood. Right. We know what happened to him. Right. Also, he didn't kill himself. Doesn't make no sense. That's a good point.

46:17Trixie Mattel:You should have asked me to come out and shoot you. And I would have, probably with a real gun. Imagine if I had orchestrated Ellen, the PA. I'd be like, can you? Can you gun me down? Love. Love. And she takes a, hucks a tomato at my face. No, but I, just walk. Just sissy that walk. Right. Did you like my Jesus? Not really. Sadly, I think it was one of my better looks. It was. I really loved that it was. There was a point of view. At least it was a story. There was a story. It wasn't just like, here's my shittiest dress in the grossest beard. How did you come up with Abraham Lincoln? Abraham Lincoln.

46:54Is that how you thought of it? Yeah. I was like, what? Who has a beard?

46:59Trixie Mattel:Abraham Lincoln. I was going to do. That was I was going to do a sexy Santa. I was like, fuck that. Nobody would have loved that. Nobody did sexy Santa, though. I was shocked. I would have loved that. Red velvet cunty gown? Are you fucking kidding me? With a sack? Like a jeweled sack or something? And it would have stood out in a good way. No shit. But I was worried that everybody was going to do that. Yeah. No, I'm not kidding. I was like, sexy Santa. I'm surprised that was the only biblical figure, to be honest. I thought there'd be another Jesus. It was a startling lack of imagination in that runway.

47:30Trixie Mattel:Because me, you, me, you, Max, Pearl, just maybe a few. I have a trauma memory of this gold gown I had on for that because the zipper broke. Amazon. And while in drag before the runway, I installed a white zipper. And then once I zipped it up, took the gold spray can and sprayed the zipper gold. That's fierce. But it was in the full, in the beard with the Jesus hair on. That is a lot of hair. It was a lot of hair. It was scary. Candy Ho's look was insane. How did she have the cube on her head? She had a cube, a yakky cube, and then a Fu Manchu long, long, long. It was very strange and interesting.

48:09I liked it. I kind of liked it too, but I'm like wondering if it borders on yellow face. I'm not sure. Because it was kind of, they straight up said, Fu Manchu or whatever. And I'm like, guys, she's Latin.

48:22Trixie Mattel:Right. I don't know. She's Puerto Rican. Yeah. I thought she looked cool though. Yeah. I think really Kennedy's beard was just. Just awful. And the short wig. And also it was like. Puby. It was puby. Pubalina. Ginger Kennedy unforgivable bad runways. My other memory of this is when we had to stop and break for lunch, eating lunch with that beard on. The beard, I know. I had to take hair clips and clip the beard away from my face and try to eat, like, I don't know, some fucking tofu chicken, like... Yeah. How was the food, do you remember? I thought it was adequate. I just remember Kennedy walking around and she would look at the food and say, this food nasty, and then she would say that she went to Boston Market.

49:01Trixie Mattel:But we got it. We got it. And it was those... Nobody tells you that. If you go to Drag Race, just say that you won't eat it and they'll get you whatever you want. I remember her spiel. I'm 37 years old. I don't glue a shit on my face. My skin. I know my skin or whatever, whatever. And then RuPaul would not have it. She really yelled at us and it was scary. We got to play the clip. It was really scary. Or should I play it? It was actually scary. Well, we're going to play a clip of RuPaul screaming at you. And I'm sure this is just a clip of it. You know, FYI for all of you girls up there. I don't want to hear any goddamn excuses.

49:33Be prepared. We didn't have time to re-rehearse. Make it work. Make it work. Fucking make it happen. I don't want to hear any goddamn excuses anymore. And then when she, like, it was chilling. What do you think about that? I think it's, um... Can I be honest?

49:53Trixie Mattel:I agree with her. Can I be honest? Yeah. There's not enough time. We're being asked to do so much in such a small amount of time. What do you want? Mary, when we get to, we haven't got to tan with you. Did we do tan with you? No, it's next. that day was ridiculous ridiculous it was asking too fucking much we had to come up with here's the challenge and a couple hours later you're recording it we had to rewrite a song we had to record the fucking lyrics we had to we had to develop with ourselves choreography and then learn it and then get in drag and then get in drag and it was like in one day I was like fuck out of here yeah it was too much it was like fuck out of here you were setting us up for failure and surely enough they all sucked but obviously what it seems like I was not on the main stage with you guys what it seems like is RuPaul is saying that you guys kind of reflect this is my show the quality of my show matters to me and you guys did not well then why don't you hire a union writer bitch I feel like she was saying that you guys didn't meet like the base level of course I agree with her I think she's got a point I also think it's just too short of time it's too short of time and also mama come up with some fierce lines and we'll try to we'll learn those and also it's hard on Drag Race 2 and like a sewing thing and someone goes, it looks unfinished.

51:09Trixie Mattel:You want to look right at them and go, I started it this morning. Yeah. No shit. I sewed it this morning. Do you know how like you know how actual outfits take to like a week? Takes me days. When I was sewing for myself, I would take one day to just cut fabric and then the next day I would sew. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then maybe the last day I'd do finishing. Yeah, you could do, I mean, literally one day you could be like sketching, like sketching, sketching, sketching, design, design cutting the next day you do construction and then you do like alterations yeah three days it was tough so i have very little while talking about cancer and your dead mom and um fighting with the girls and doing your makeup and yeah so i remember the bottom being jasmine which i guess i knew i mean the beard it was she gave up and yeah and kennedy which was sad because they were instant friends.

52:03Trixie Mattel:Yeah. They had never met till Drag Race, but they were like glued at the hip. Yeah. Which they do become glued at the hip during the... Hello. I forgot about that. Loved that challenge. And it was hard to watch them lip sync. The song is Kylie Minogue I Was Gonna Cancel, A Complete Bop. I love that song. Go! Go! When I saw Kylie and Sydney, I hoped she would sing it and she didn't. She didn't now. Because it's not really... It's not one of her hits. What's your favorite Kylie Minogue song? It's Two Hearts. Two Hearts. the lyrics really make no sense but it's such a cunty song I love it do you know the one?

52:36Trixie Mattel:of course I'm the one love that shit I also love the um what is it I don't know she's got a bunch of good ones the locomotion the um out of my way get out of my way yeah I love her yeah it's good I remember when I saw her in Sydney she said um she's like I'll walk to travel and she's bogan all of a sudden she was like I think I sit and try and is Mike going to stop in Sydney the lock of Martian and people lost their shit yeah yeah yeah she was like this is my first single that's a cover and she sang it and people loved it five foot in a whisper she is tiny so this is when we say goodbye to Jasmine I'm so bummed about it it was a tough lip sync because I knew Kennedy wasn't going anywhere she gave up with the beard I did like that move that Jasmine does where she crouches jumps it's the the um like cossack thing the leg string the cossack it's fucking their knees the knees the knees also um the uh oh I just the train I thought yeah um I just lost I'm sorry no it was a good thing too um oh Laganja don't throw it don't throw it away at the end don't throw it away at the end don't throw it away at the end and like it's like I don't know I just the beard to be honest the energy the energy being there was that she gave up she gave up and she started packing oh I forgot about that she started packing before the lip sync she started packing the morning of elimination yeah she literally just hung it up which was so tough like selfishly because I wanted her to be there I liked she's so fun it sucked when she left it's weird for some of us who've auditioned some people fucking seven times at that point it's weird to get there and pack up and be willing to go on the third episode.

54:32Trixie Mattel:I know. And also like two people have gone home who wouldn't have packed early. They would have fought to the end. So that was kind of hard. And then we left with like a big void, a huge energy left with a bunch of drips left in that work room. Yeah. That's kind of honestly one of the things I remember the most about season seven was a big vacant. I didn't feel like I had a bestie. No. I don't think I not even you. I mean, at this point, you have never seen you and I talk on camera. At this point, me and Ginger are probably pretty close. Me and Ginger and then Pearl. Well, the smoking. The smoking.

55:08Mama, you need to smoke on Drag Race. That's my, if any girls out there you get on Drag Race, you need to smoke them cigarettes. The X program, hold on. You need to.

55:18Trixie Mattel:Hey girl, and me sitting in, and all the fun people are smoking and I'm sitting next to Violet on a couch going, so where are you from? Yeah. No shit. Girl, it like, She's like, don't talk to me. All Stars, me, Detox, and Roxy cutting up out there. We're the odd trio. None of us would hang out together, really. But we just, it's all wonderful. It's a wonderful unifying activity that you should not do. The X program. The X program. Well, you could go outside and blow bubbles. Yes. It's like, also, why do smokers get to smoke? Can I say that was one of my issues when we stayed at the lovely Beverly Galland Hotel was I don't smoke.

55:50Trixie Mattel:Why don't I get to leave my room? Go! So I started putting a note under there that said I need a smoke break. and I just go outside because I'd be like, can I breathe? Yeah, do it. Do candy cigarettes. I'm not joking. Candy Ho. What about that name? What about Candy Ho? You know what I like about it? It's straightforward. Candy Ho. Candy Ho. She has a weird, weird, weird bite that I can't, I should have put down verbatim. It's like, I'm so sweet. I'm going to get in your mouth and you're going to taste how sweet. I was like, what? So fierce. She also, I think at this point, she has said, right on my alley.

56:26Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then that's the thing. It's like, oh, it's a flood. It's like sequenced dress. It's a sequenced dress moment.

56:33Trixie Mattel:It's sweet. It's endearing when someone says the wrong thing without knowing it. It's sweet. Yeah, and also, like, if maybe they are. English is their first language. Yeah. Also, Candy was from Puerto Rico, which I did a cruise after Drag Race that lifted off in Puerto Rico. I've never been. I didn't realize how far away it was. I didn't realize how remote it was. Only after Drag Race did I realize that Candy came from so much further away than any of us. Spoiler alert, when Candy does go home, there's a part where we all come back. Candy stayed in her hotel room for, I think, two weeks waiting to come back on Drag Race because they were like, we're not flying you back to Puerto Rico.

57:11Trixie Mattel:Whereas I got to go home to Wisconsin for a week. That's unethical. I went out to dinner. I had sex with my boyfriend. I was chilling. That's shitty. I know. Sorry. that's like there is some stuff we don't really need to get into it but like it's like the the the the baggage fees on the way home i was like y 'all are really fucking cheap sorry so i just didn't have the money i didn't either i did not either it's like but i just to be fair i'd complain about it now i'd be like four hundred dollars uh mama yeah i would have known to complain about it yeah yeah yeah well we would they wouldn't it would not have been a shock yeah yeah it's a little like on a normal season when you want to go pee they say 10-1 oh yeah on an all-star season you're like is somebody gonna take me to pee the entitlement these girls come back real thin with huge lips and they start bossing PAs around torturing those fucking PAs we didn't talk about the PAs fucking Katie and Ellen Katie and Ellen I'm sure they're not listening no they're not listening but they're probably happy they don't have to fucking hear us anymore they're probably working for a real fierce company Katie and Ellen were such angels and Miss Fame terrorized them she did with Motormouth Maybell She could never, she would never shut up.

58:21Trixie Mattel:Do you also remember that Miss Fame was absolutely the last one to get ready every single time? She was, she was, she and Max were, Fame and Max were always, and then on All Stars, it was Chandra. It was up to the hilt every day. It was Alyssa. She was like, baby, get that shoe, get that shoe, get that shoe. Like it was, because you know Alyssa has like three assistants like on the road and nobody was, I mean, to her credit, she was electrifyingly entertaining. but you know so funny fame the how many episodes of not getting the how's your head joke how many well that's coming because it hasn't started yet but that comes it's the next few episodes do you think it's like what do you think you think that's a very I didn't know it Mary I didn't either I didn't know it I didn't either I've seen Elvira I've seen the movie but it was like 15 years ago well I mean it's also about age like I heard that I hear things.

59:17Trixie Mattel:I heard that some of these like young drag queens don't know who Cher is. And RuPaul, imagine telling RuPaul, you don't know who Cher is. Do you just get slapped? I know. RuPaul just takes you outside, lays you down in the parking lot, backs over you a few times with the forerunner. So you want to learn about parallel parking? Yeah. Blaring turn back time. I just fucking runs the kids over. So you need to change a tire. Yeah. But RuPaul is also twice these people's age. Yes. And extremely culturally literate. RuPaul loves shit from older than what she is. Yes. She's very culturally literate. She's extremely pop culturally literate.

59:53So RuPaul was like.

59:54Trixie Mattel:She's rain man with music. RuPaul's like, Georgis, you don't know Marlena Dietrich? Yeah. You don't know about Sheena Easton's B-Sides from 87? Like, what is wrong with you? Like, come on. You know? Can I tell it to my heart? Tell it to my heart. Like, who the fuck knows that song? Taylor Dane? I don't think Taylor Dane knows it either. She's like, I bet when Taylor Dane is at concert, she's like, tell it to my heart. You don't know Samantha Fox? She said, tell it to my car, baby. I don't know the words in the car. We're my background singers. It's going to be a very, very, very hot. Well, shout out to Jasmine, who is a working drag queen.

1:00:31Trixie Mattel:I mean, I have this graphic saved on my phone. If you want to know what type of girl Jasmine is, the year after Drag Race, she hosted a 41st birthday for herself where she just invited any fans. and she was in drag at Olive Garden and she got a big table and any fans that showed up could eat with her. Fucking A. That is the queen of a queen. She's a real bitch. She's so fun. I will text her. She always responds to me. I'll send, I'll call her. I love that bitch. And over the years when I've invited her to do things, she's open for me. If I'm doing like a skit, she'll come be in the video. She's just very cool.

1:01:03Trixie Mattel:But she will be stoned. That's fine. The amount of times do you, she has probably makes up at least 45 % of my go-to, if I want to kill myself, I put this YouTube video on to like flip the script in my brain. The amount of times I've looked at, I've turned on Guadalupe McGillicuddy, the cucumber dicks. The cucumber dicks. And I, you know, everything. You don't taste that? The shit in your mouth. It's like so often that she, I probably owe her a lot of money. You know what I mean? She's fantastic. Well, thank you guys for the third episode. Let us know how this is going. Yeah, and too late because we were doing a next episode.

1:01:40Trixie Mattel:We're three episodes in. Next week we have episode four. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. I want a tan tan. Oh, when Miss Fame says, I'm going to touch your cock. It's wild. I want to kill myself. It's wild. I had a lot. Let's talk about it next week. I watched it to get ready. Yeah. It's just crazy to watch. It is crazy. Everything about watching this is fucking crazy. I thought we did. I thought comparatively we kind of slayed. The other ones were rotten. Well, next week is going to be I, I, I, I spoof. There it is. Can I be honest? I love season seven as a cast. I'm waiting for a challenge. I like, I know we're in episode three.

1:02:17Trixie Mattel:Now it's not going to happen until conjoined twins. Honestly. Yeah. It's snatch game. Well, snatch game is great for a good cause Pearl is so funny. Pearl and Kennedy are amazing. Kennedy is amazing. And then that's, you know, well, you're going to have to lead the ones. Cause I'm, I'm gone for a while. So you're going to have to really lead it. I have to show up to work. Cause the episodes that are coming, I'm watching it, not in it. Oh, my only knowledge of it is the show. Right, right, right. Oh, good. You're going to have to come hard. You're going to have to drive the bus. Okay. All right.

1:02:47Trixie Mattel:Bye.

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