The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya - Fruit is Nature's Candy!
Episode Date: March 23, 2021As we look out onto the gray skies and bleak landscape that herald the doldrums of winter, this week's episode with Trixie and Katya is here to be the warm beverage that soothes your soul until the li...ght of springtime finally arrives to brighten your day. They also discuss the perils of marathon turds. Follow Trixie: @TrixieMattel Follow Katya: @Katya_Zamo To listen to our podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/TBATBYT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Oh, I gotta turn off my TikTok.
Oh, my TikTok.
Do you want to have me, my little TikTok?
I would like to talk about Madeline Ashton.
Do you listen to me? Well, before we start, I would like to talk about Madeline Ashton.
Do you listen to me?
Well, before we start, I am Trixie Mattel.
I'm Katya.
We're so very pleased and pleasure to have you here joining us today for another riveting episode of The Bald and the Beautiful.
The Bald and the Beautiful.
Yep.
How are you, girl?
How are you on this day?
It's a beautiful 78 in Los Angeles today Yes it is
You wouldn't know that it's
It's 2-23, February 23rd
Now typically
In the east coast of this country
This is a time
Where the season is
Is rotten and ragged
It's suicide season
Absolutely
Because winter really feels like
It never ends And it's the full It's the season. Absolutely. Because winter really feels like it never ends. And it's
the full, it's the ramp up. So like
you're, you know, the holidays over, New Year's is
over. The novelty of
the New Year has long worn off. And
then February says, here's this
cold, icy dick I'm just gonna shove
down your fucking throat, you bitch.
Yeah, because once New Year's happens, you're kind of
and then you get one hot day randomly. You're like,
oh good, it's spring. No. Wrong queen mama. Yeah, because once New Year's happens, you're kind of, and then you get one hot day randomly. You're like, oh good, it's spring.
No.
Wrong queen mama.
Yeah, wrong season mama. It's about to be the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe for about eight more months.
Yeah, I mean, I remember I moved here to LA because of the February and March.
It was like the snowiest.
It was just inches and inches and inches of snow dumped on Boston.
Yeah. After February, it was like, oh, you feel like, okay,
maybe we're going to see the horizon soon.
And then it said, no.
Absolutely not.
No.
And it was, I don't, do you have any, do you miss the snow at all?
Do you miss that stuff?
The cold?
Is there like a winter wonderland scenario that you feel like nostalgic for
or fun or what's to deal with that?
There is a certain circadian rhythm to the winter.
There is a certain excitement that the winter creates when it goes away.
Okay.
So it's like somebody like stepping on your foot.
Yes.
Like you say, oh, when they stop doing that, you feel good.
You feel a little more like, yeah, like in Wisconsin, because it's so cold when the snow melts, people are like drinking outdoors, shorts, going out every night, restaurant every night.
You know, if you work in the service industry, you make more money than the rest of the year.
Everyone's very wealthy in the summer.
Everyone's spending money in the summer.
Stores make more money in the summer.
I mean, so I missed that aspect of it.
But honestly, I was thinking of going home this month and I was like, it's really not even worth it.
No.
Wait till the snow melts.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Does it get very hot there in the summertime?
Yes, unbearably.
Yeah.
And it's hot.
If it's 80 in the daytime, it's 80 at night.
It like doesn't get.
It's so hot and humid at night.
One thing I find.
Where you like sleep, you sleep with like your legs open with no blanket, just breathing with your mouth open because it's just hot.
Like, yeah, you have to have several fans on you and you have to flip yourself over like a flapjack and the fans got to get the sweat stain.
Totally. Did you have good circulation in that apartment I visited in Boston?
What do you mean by circulation?
I mean, did you have air conditioning?
Oh, no. Oh, yes. I had a little putt putt on the wall.
A window unit?
Yeah, a window unit, which is what I have now. That's what all I have now. I just learned how to turn
my heat on the other day for the first time living there a year and a half, maybe two years,
never had to turn the heat on. Although I got to say, it's one of those things where like, I'm,
I'm prone to the situation where like you settle for less and you just accept that and you don't,
you, you like normal people, I think we'd be like,
Oh,
here's,
I'm,
I'm sort of like faced with this unreasonable situation in my living space.
I'm just going to deal with it.
They don't do that.
Normal people say,
Oh no,
this needs to be fixed.
How do I go about that right away?
Do you do that?
I will endure without asking the question.
Thank you.
Should something be different?
Should I have this?
Yeah.
Is this like a human right?
Right.
Is this something that is covered in my rent? Yesterday I was eating dinner and I was eating the Campbell's
vegetarian vegetable alphabet soup with goldfish sprinkled in it. And I looked forward to it.
I was saving the soup for a night when I really wanted to feel it. I saved the soup.
I saved the soup. I saved the soup. I saved the soup.
And you know what?
I loved it.
And my music producer called me and said, are you eating soup with goldfish in it?
I said, yeah.
And I waited for it.
I earned this.
I should just be glad that you didn't douche that soup up your hole.
That's how I normally eat soup.
And then I poop out of the mouth.
No.
So I turned on the heat for the first time ever.
Unprecedented in my apartment, the heat.
And I don't know that
i love it because honestly there's a there's a we had to light it we're gonna light it is it is it
a thermostat you can set it there's a thermostat but then there's a very strange there's this very
prominent wall unit thing that involved a pilot light oh it wasn't even lit so it no wasn't lit
now it's lit and but you i felt like there's a large chance i was like okay i know something
about pilot lights i feel like if you don't light them then that's bad or whatever and so i thought
this is it when my you know studio mate andrew's like pressing the button i was like we're gonna
this is it we're gonna this whole building's going up in flames it's over yeah but it just it was a
whoosh like we almost got caught ourselves on fire and then it was lit and then that's fine and now
it's just a simple act of turning it on and off to adjust the
thermostat and there's heat in the apartment.
But I just feel like there's no challenge now.
Right.
You used to have to bundle up.
You used to have to have friends over just to breathe on you.
I had friends.
I had two friends over recently and one of them said,
can we turn the heat on?
And I said,
no,
I don't even know how I said,
I don't do that.
This building built in
2006 I believe. Central heat
central air. You can just set it at a
temperature and it's always that temperature.
That's incredible. And I won't ever go back. My old
house over in Beverly Laurel
or whatever. They didn't have a lot
of these old buildings in Los Angeles don't
have heat. And then the landlord
is only required to give you space heaters.
So I would just have,
if it's cold 50 degrees at night, I have a space heater and that's it. I'm sorry. That's I,
two years I lived here like that. I don't mind it. I don't think it's a problem. I honestly,
well, okay. So I retract that statement because I wasn't here for much, much of the time,
obviously before COVID touring and stuff. But this past year being home all through winter,
I only needed it one week, I think.
So I had a space heater that didn't work very well.
But I just felt like, oh, this is,
you know, you put another layer on, baggy layers.
Yeah, baggy layered looks, tube socks.
Well, I mean, don't you think that people in LA
are often like, oh God, I don't ever get to wear that,
you know, that leather jacket I got from Jordache.
Oh, she's wearing my camisole.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that, you know, scarves and stuff, hat, put a hat on.
Although I was going to bed fully clothed.
I'm talking like, I'm talking like a jeans.
Like sweaters.
Jeans, a shirt, a sweatshirt and socks.
Jeans?
Jeans.
Sleeping in jeans?
I slept in jeans.
It was, it was, I was interested In finding new things
Things that I had
Previously found unacceptable
Like wearing socks to bed
Now I don't care
I wear socks to bed
All the time
Isn't that bizarre
Well when I'm here alone
I like it to be
Kind of warm at night
Helps me relax
I'm gonna have
Some curdled milk
Before I read a book
You'll squeeze a lemon
Into a nice glass
Of hot milk
Yeah
But then when David stays over David's body idles at about 150 degrees.
So he sleeps next to the big bay window or whatever.
And I crank that shit all the way open because I need cold air blowing on him.
So by the time the air passes his body, it's an acceptable temperature.
Yes.
It's cool.
It's tepid.
You don't find that.
I love sleep.
The only thing I like about the cold,
cold,
cold is the sleep is,
is unparalleled.
It is just fantastic for me as a very warm person.
I'm with David in this,
in this regard.
I think I sleep deeper when I never get cold in the night.
Do you wake up chilled?
Teeth,
chattering breasts,
perky,
like nipples. My nipples have cut through the sheets. By the way, I chattering, breasts perky, like nipples.
My nipples have cut through the sheets.
By the way, I've had these sheets for, they're not Bold and Branch.
Let me tell you.
They're not Bold and Branch.
I've had them for years.
And at this point, there's, I don't know how I sleep.
But at this point, there's Freddy Cooker slices going through the bed, through the sheets, holes.
From what?
I don't know.
Night terrors.
And David came in the other night and I was, you know. I from what i don't know night terror david came in the other night and i was you know i know i don't know i had the marijuana and he pulls back the
comforter and the sheets have slits in them and he goes he looks at me and i goes and i go i was
waiting for you to ask about that and i laugh for about 45 minutes i know what i know it is you pop
a half a milligram of that gummy,
you put on acrylic nails,
you file them down to points,
and then you just go running ragged through your dreams.
I ask Alexa to play the Sam Smith version of I Feel Love
and I stand in here and scratch my own bed.
And what?
You tape the sheets
down to each corner of the bed, you get under there
and you just go scratch, scratch, scratch.
I don't know what happened. The sheets don't even match.
Long story short is,
no matter how quote unquote successful I get,
there are parts of me that are so programmed
to settle for less than standard quality of life
and that will never change.
Yeah, I think that's good.
It keeps you tethered to the sort of the real world,
quote unquote.
The soup I heated up wasn't even hot enough, but I didn't want to go back to the microwave.
That's just lazy.
We squared off.
We already had our piece.
We set our piece.
Do you wash them sheets?
I'd love to expose you right now.
I wash them, yeah.
How often do you wash them?
Not often enough.
Maybe once a month.
Okay.
Is that gross?
I think so.
Technically, that is gross.
Do you only have those? You don't have like an extra set?
No.
You got to rotate the set.
You got to have three sets of sheets.
You got to rotate them because apparently, and this is just the thing, you know, I mean,
you have to wash them.
It is, it is recommended to wash them twice a week.
Are you fucking kidding me?
I'm not kidding.
Who is doing this?
Well, people who have help.
Let's say that.
Or people who have a lot of time.
Or people who have five, six sets of sheets.
Because I have three sets of sheets.
And I do them whenever I do laundry.
But sometimes that's once a month.
You know, I have a set of guest sheets that are nicer than my sheets.
Well, yeah, yeah.
That I don't even use.
Yeah.
I don't even like shopping though.
But you don't need to get any, but no, no, no.
Would you ever get a cleaning help?
I've thought about it many times.
I thought about it when I walked into your kitchen.
Oh, my kitchen.
Oh, I have an update.
So 12 monkeys, that kitchen is 12 monkeys.
The kitchen is, um, the kitchen is very, very nightmare and Elm street.
Um, very, um, gray gardens, sleepaway camp, sleepaway camp.
It's, um, so I do, I think it's, I'm a person who does not like my kitchen sucks.
I hate it.
I hate everything about it.
I hate being in there.
I hate cooking food.
I don't like looking at food. I don't like my kitchen sucks. I hate it. I hate everything about it. I hate being in there. I hate cooking food. I don't like looking at food.
I don't like what's cooking for you.
Cooking is anything that involves an appliance or a thing going on or a food item being changed
somehow, whether it's sliced or heated or cooled or you know what I mean?
So when you turn food into poop, that's also cooking.
Yeah.
That's the name.
That's my body.
Yeah.
Body cooking. No. So when you make like a Kraft mac that's also cooking. Yeah, that's my body cooking.
So when you make like a Kraft mac and cheese,
I don't like that.
I don't do that.
You don't do that.
I don't like mac and cheese.
Oh.
So the other day, my version of cooking was involved juicing.
So I put a whole bunch of shit into a fucking blender.
And I'm talking, I had-
You got a ninja.
No, I got the food's-
Vitamix.
The Vitamix.
She's extremely powerful. She's extremely powerful.
She's extremely powerful.
And she's here to show people that she's still got it.
She does still have it.
I put a whole rack of lamb in there.
No, you didn't.
No, I put the pizza came from Domino's.
My cat who died, I didn't bury it.
Straight in the Vitamix.
I put the whole large cheese pizza with the box in the Vitamix.
And the delivery guy.
Yes, his hand. His hand. And the delivery guy. Yes, in his hand.
In his hand.
I cuffed him to the chair.
So that Vitamix, if you deranged a village of the damned, your white-headed son or daughter
possessed you, could it take your arm off now?
Abso-fucking-lutely.
Really?
That scares me.
The skin would be like-
Crate paper?
Like crate paper or like string cheese.
Like the skin would just go like, just like yogurt.
And the bone?
The bone would be tough, but it would get it.
It would go, I mean, that bone would be, yeah.
I don't like that.
It would really, if you took somebody's hand,
it would just make mincemeat out of that motherfucker.
Yeah.
And I took, I did a lovely, weird, I got to say it.
I know it's probably boring, but want to say it listen this is Los Angeles
We are mostly white
And we are here to talk about juices
We're talking about juices and ingredients and I'm going to list them right now that's right
So I want you to
I did an apple granny smith green apple
Two in fact
And I just took out
Two whole apples I took out the center
You know bam bam four cuts just throw the whole thing in there
And then I did spinach.
A lot of spinach.
And then I went to juice two full lemons, put it in there, strained it though.
Strained it.
No seeds.
This is a big smoothie.
Well, it was huge.
It was, it was the whole picture.
Why did you go so big?
I, cause I knew I wasn't going home.
So you just, I wanted to go big.
You're not going home.
Right. Go big. So, um, and wanted to go big. You're not going home. Right.
Big.
So,
um,
and then two limes squeezed him with my hands.
And then I was like,
I'm just going to let it go.
And I put blueberries in there.
I don't know why.
And then I put,
um,
protein powder.
Wild.
What you did was wild.
Unprecedented.
Unprecedented.
Then I put collagen in there.
We got collagen from a sponsor. I said, what's that doing? What's up on there? They're good. Then I put collagen in there We got collagen from a sponsor
I said what's that doing
What's up
Did you get their good
Yeah put it in there
A little prep
Yeah very strange consistency
I'll break up a prep
And throw it in there
Prep
Women's once a day multi
Yeah
And a flax seed
Fish oil whatever
And then I just kept going and going
And then I put water
Some more blueberries
And then
The thing was
I think the blueberries
Is really where I went wrong.
It tasted so,
first of all,
it was very,
wet,
fluffy.
No,
it was wet.
Yeah,
it was wet,
but it was very,
it was a lot of fiber,
a lot of fiber,
a lot of fiber,
very fibrous recipe.
It was rotten.
It came out a little light pink,
magenta,
kind of pukish,
very pukish. And I had to chew it back. And I had to like, I stuffed, I strained some of the juice so I could just
really get that down. Not a great taste, but not disgusting. What kind of, not disgusting.
Mismentioned seminary for girls, self-torture discipline. No, no, no. It wasn't torture. If
you want to talk juice torture, we could talk, we could talk about some real nasty ingredients, but we, okay. What do you think about the master cleanse? I think it is. I think it is
a form of self-harm. You think it's hogwash? I think it's a form of self-harm. Cause I was
reading about it and some people say it changes their lives, gives them clarity. And then the
doctors have said, there's no way this helps you. No, it is a form of self-harm. Now here's the
thing though, about nutrition and about cleansing and all that stuff. You'll notice that there are, at any given time, and I'm not even talking about fad diets.
I'm not even talking about the fad diets that come and go.
I'm talking about fat diets.
Yeah, I'm talking about big.
You just eat fat.
No, at any given time, there is so much information out there that could work or could not work.
It could be great for you.
It could absolutely run you into the ground.
It's so individual with the diet with with the nutrition stuff so for me it's all psychological
what do you mean by that uh like i love smoothies okay it doesn't taste like health food but it is
so i can meet you halfway what's health food well if i have a smoothie it's an apple it's a bunch of
spinach it's maybe some almond milk it's a scoop of vegan protein or whatever it's health food
but it tastes delicious yeah so i'm being tricked i'm enjoying it okay but like the likelihood of
me sitting down and eating a salad with those ingredients is not high right so it's all
psychological because you're gonna yeah or at night if I'm feeling peckish
frozen bananas
it's ice cream.
It's literally ice cream.
Yeah.
Frozen fruit.
Fruit is nature's candy.
Fruit is nature's candy.
Yeah.
You ever
why don't you
sigh a lot
with some frozen blueberries
put a little peanut butter
in there.
But let me tell you
after making my own smoothies
because I got that lovely
Smeg blender for Christmas from my boyfriend, David.
Thank you.
Hi.
I have found out that the smoothie stores are highway robbery.
Of course they are.
Mary, they're getting.
$12 smoothies.
$12.
$15.
Earth Bar.
You know what?
Earth Bar in West Hollywood.
I don't care.
I don't care if I come in there and you go, didn't you come for us?
And I say, yes, I did.
Give me my skinny drink, please.
Because those are $15.
David and I go
in there for breakfast $30 for two smoothies $30 yeah you're paying for the service they live across
the street from a grocery store I bet they're buying food that's on the brink of rotten rotten
yeah and then they freeze it yeah so I mean because that's what fruit tastes best if you
freeze the fruit it's just crazy yeah I gotta we gotta open a smoothie shop because that's the real
rub no but here's what here's the thing though.
My smoothies at that shop that we open
will cost three times more
because I value my time too much.
You want me to make you a smoothie?
It's going to cost $60.
$75.
Yeah.
And I'm going to take 40 of that dollars.
And I might even take a nap in the middle.
Yeah.
It's going to take two hours.
You got to put that order in early
and it's still going to be late.
You might not even get it.
Honestly.
I'm going to drink the smoothie once I get around to it.
Well, you're not really selling us when you're telling me that the smoothie you make is a pink.
No, no, no.
That was a fluke.
I took a left turn and I shouldn't have done that.
But the green smoothie I made was absolutely fucking delicious.
Tons of fiber.
It was fantastic.
Do you ever get into them health shots?
Like the cayenne pepper health shots?
I do.
I do too
it's a scam scheme
you think it's a scam scheme
it's an impulse buy
yeah yeah yeah
but it's okay
I like the turmeric ones
I like the ginger
I like the
it's something that is
I'm less interested
in the whatever
I don't feel
is happening to my body
but believe that it is
do you know what I mean
I want
it's direct benefits
I'm like
it wakes you up
oh it does wake you up for sure it's like it's direct benefits. I'm like, it's it wakes you up. Oh, it does wake you up for sure.
It's it's like, oh, it's a lot.
Yeah, we're going to take a break.
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So, smoothies.
Back to the topic you all came to hear about.
Listen, we're talking, this is the secret of beauty.
We're being vulnerable.
Are you getting enough fiber?
How would I know?
What are your bowel movements like?
Very regular.
Very consistent because I haven't been drinking.
Okay.
Because of the running.
Your body.
Oh, that's right.
Talk about bald and beautiful.
This beautiful lady is snatched in high and tight.
Yeah.
I don't want to get into it too much because I don't want to be that person.
You don't want to brag about it.
But I literally ran 16 miles on Saturday.
It's incredible.
I ran 16 miles.
It's incredible.
The week before, I ran from my house to Santa Monica Beach.
Can I tell you, I was running for, I had to run for an Uber the other day.
And I thought about you the whole time.
So I-
You had to run for an Uber?
I put the location in wrong.
I was late.
Oh, shit.
I was late to go do a podcast.
And I was like, it was the Boulay brothers.
And I was like, they're so nice.
Interesting they haven't asked.
Go on.
They haven't asked me.
I don't know why.
Interesting.
Probably because you're not scary enough. Oh, not ooky spooky. They haven't asked me. I don't know why. Interesting. Probably because you're not scary
enough. Oh, not ooky spooky.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They want somebody who's had real brushes
with death. They want somebody who looks
like they might have a foot in the other side.
But I run for the Uber
and I put it in the wrong
location. Who cares? Blah, blah, blah.
So I had to run a block and a half.
I couldn't believe it.
It was so difficult.
And I got into the car and I sweated the whole time.
I sweated the whole time.
I was like, I had the window open.
I was like, just pouring sweat.
Yeah.
That was a block and a half.
Yeah.
I mean, I've been training since maybe September.
No, I was running early in the year, Yeah. I mean, I've been training since maybe September, September.
No, I was running early in the year, but I started training, training like September.
And I will say the other day when I was running my 16 miles around like mile nine, I got a phone call and took it and kept running.
And I went, I just ran almost 10 miles and I comfortably talked on the phone for a while
and kept running.
That's incredible.
Can't believe it.
I'm on it.
I'm on it.
I'm on it.
I'm turning over a newly fitness wise.
I really want to get into long distance running.
What's my training regimen?
What am I doing this weekend?
No.
Cause it's endurance running.
You're going to have to.
I wonder,
honestly,
honestly,
truly.
Well,
let me tell you this.
I went on,
I went to,
I went to,
um,
that deep Creek fantasy with my yoga teacher,
and he does not smoke.
I'm a heavy smoker.
Mary, we fucking crushed that hike on the way.
It was so difficult, all uphill.
Really?
It was like doing the hard part of Runyon five times,
and it was like in a row,
and it was just like hill after hill after hill after hill.
I mean, a comical amount of incline.
And we did it.
We just, I wasn't lagging behind.
We were right there.
So my point is, I'm not quitting smoking,
but what do I do?
Well, it's not speed running, it's endurance running.
And your body doesn't respond to anything quickly well.
So it's all about starting slow.
Okay, so what do I do? Run a half a half a mile yeah like you could start your first week doing like 15 20 minute length runs
probably every day or every other day that's too long no it's not okay 20 minutes you can probably
burn out like a little two miles comfortably are you out of your mind two miles in 20 minutes for
me oh i guess maybe not to start yet. Oh, yeah.
But there are people who run a mile in like five minutes.
I know.
That's the peak of physical fitness.
Great.
I think we've talked about this.
Bryce from the pit crew.
Yeah, he's insane.
Ultra marathons.
100 miles.
I mean, that brings on mental illness to me.
It's a form of self-harm in my opinion.
Which Trixie Mattel would not ever trivialize mental illness in any way. Thank you for that.
But I think running 100 miles is some kind of self-flogging.
Yeah, it's self-flagellation.
I'd sooner clip off a toe with some gardening shears.
More efficient, quicker and easier.
Quicker and easier.
And certainly less painful.
But I realized at 31, finding my place in the athletic community,
finding a sport that I actually like.
Oh, that's good i wish i had
found it about 10 years ago because i let my internalized homophobia and fear of straight men
make me feel like i couldn't really participate in sports okay sports in general okay but running
you know running is a sport yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but you think it's faggy for you to run or
because you're a fag and you don't want to? I understand what you mean. Well, no.
Like the obvious sports that aren't running was like, well, I'm not going to go try to befriend some straight guys.
That makes me uncomfortable.
But running is basically antisocial.
Solo, yeah.
And extremely good for you.
Sure.
I wish I would have found that like 10 years ago.
You can do it anywhere.
You don't need much gear.
You can do it in the sand at the beach.
You can do it in the sand at the beach. Yeah. I love activities that don't need much gear. You can do it in the sand at the beach. You can do it in the sand at the beach.
Yeah.
I love activities that don't require any gear.
Hello.
And on tour, you don't have to bring anything.
I would, oh, okay.
I would love, you said you had mentioned
that you would like to get into a little bit more weight training
because all you've been doing is running
and you want to firm up or whatever.
Yeah, because at a certain point,
kind of plateau if you don't build your muscles.
Right.
I've got the workout for you.
Murder.
Uh,
no,
it's four sets of,
it's only 20 minutes,
16,
16 minutes.
Change your life.
What is it?
16 minutes.
It's four sets of Tabata intervals in a row.
No break.
So it's,
it's in four minute chunks.
So in,
in during four minutes,
you do 20 seconds of high-intensity activity
followed by 10 seconds of rest, eight times in a row.
20 on, 10 off.
20 on, 10 off.
20 on, 10 off.
So you rest for 10 seconds.
That's four minutes.
Then you do another one.
So I did push-ups, 20 seconds on, 10-second rest.
So you do that eight times.
By the eighth set, you're fucking cooked.
Then, sorry, I did pull-ups first.
Assisted with a band on the pull-up bar.
Well, and you're a nurse.
I have two small women like propping me up on each shoulder.
Yeah, but you do pull-ups.
Then I did push-ups.
Then I did two sets of abs.
I have never been more sore in my life.
Wow.
16 minutes changed your life.
Did they get you together? They got me together. Well, you know, I've been, um, also I've been like, you know,
trying to stay inspired. So I was like, you know what? I used to read men's health every day.
Remember when I used to talk about men's health all the time? I still do. I don't know what this
is in the past. But I stopped reading it for about three years. Okay. Okay. And the other day I pulled
up my iPad and I said, I want to get an, I want to get back into men's health. I'm going to see
if I can still subscribe. I don't want to subscribe anymore I've been subscribed
How much money have you been getting those whores
I was going through the magazine
Saying wow this preview is really long
And then I went and went
I've bought every issue
Automatically
For about four years
Without really realizing it
You had like a subscription
Like a magazine subscription How, like a magazine subscription.
How much is a magazine
subscription a year?
It can't be that much.
It's probably $15.
$50?
$40 for the digital version?
I mean, it's not even paper.
Oh, it's not even paper?
Oh, it can't be more than $20.
It can't be more than $20.
$20.
$20.
$20.
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$20.
But I love to see the men
on the front of the men's fitness.
You ever yank it?
I need a little more
than a guy in some gym shorts. You do? I need fear factor. You ever yank it? I need a little more than a guy in some gym shorts.
You do?
I need a,
I need fear factor.
You ever just draw the dick on the shorts and to kind of fill in the rest with your
imagination?
No,
but sometimes when I,
I do like to read about the cover person and what they did to look like that.
Cause you know,
sometimes it's people,
it's usually Hollywood actors training for a role.
They play like a Navy seal or something.
Yeah.
And it'll be like,
all right,
I,
my 4am I'm up having four hard boiled eggs. eggs. You know what I love? Okay. Listen. Remind me to buy
some eggs, by the way. I absolutely will. You know what I love? I am obsessed with these stars,
these celebs who talk about their, oh my God, I ate 17 pounds of chicken every day, just plain
chicken. They conveniently leave out the part where they talk up, where they don't talk about the testosterone and the HGH that they're
taking.
And the food that was professionally prepared for them.
Professionally prepared by girl.
They're not pan frying it.
And they're all on fucking steroids.
Every single one of them is impossible to get,
to go from like Bob regular to Joe jacked in like six months.
It's impossible.
You cannot do that with just chicken at 4am. Well, do you know Camille? It's okay. Johnny six months, it's impossible. You cannot do that with just chicken at 4 a.m.
Well, do you know Kamal Najani?
It's okay.
Steroids.
Well, he said,
part of why I wanted to do this
was to show that without Hollywood level help,
it is not achievable.
No, of course not.
It's not.
You got vitamins,
you got doctors from Beverly Hills
shooting you up the butt with all kinds of stuff.
But like if you're Henry Cavill
and you get cast in Superman, I bet you can write into
your contract that they pay for your personal trainer, Mary.
Oh, that's always, you know, we know celebrity personal trainer Jason Wimbley.
That's always in their contract.
He's often paid by the studios.
So somebody's got, so the studio will hire a trainer to whip, you know, Anne Hathaway
into shape for Batman or whatever.
And yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's all paid.
It's all paid for.
But I'm telling you, even with the funding,
even with everything halting in your life to a screeching hall that you can
just focus on that,
you still time is the enemy.
You can't get a body.
You can go from like regular to ripped in,
in six months without a little bit of hormonal help.
Well,
especially since the,
you're cutting out the,
the action of gaining weight and then losing like Sasha Bell was talking about the gaining and losing. If you're cutting out the action of gaining weight and then losing.
Like Sasha Bell was talking about, the gaining and losing.
If you're cutting all that out, you can't grow that much in that time without a little magic.
A little magic.
Would you ever do a little magic?
Well, this is actually a relevant discussion being here.
Evelyn. My name is every man- Evelyn.
My name is Evelyn.
Evelyn, yes.
Every man who comes to LA is faced with the kind of hard reality that all gay men are on steroids.
You think?
Well, yeah, they are.
I mean, many are.
If you're muscly, here you are.
Go to the gym.
And it's, yeah, everybody's on a cycle or everybody's it's Yeah Many Everybody's on a cycle
Or is everybody's coming off a cycle
Or going on a cycle
Or whatever
It's so common
I don't think
I mean
It's not legal
A lot of times
What's
What's happening
The cycles that people go on
Are
Are
Black market
Or off
Off the
Under the table
Off Broadway
Off Broadway hormones
I'm doing
Off Broadway hormones
Yeah It's great I go to the stage door But I've seen Off Broadway I'm doing Off Broadway hormones Yeah
I go to the stage door
But I've seen with my own two eyes
The wild
And like crazy mood swings
Some of the side effects of these cycles
Are like they're pretty
Like
You know they talk about roid rage
But there's like insane
Like Mood swings you know they talk about roid rage but there's like insane like
mood swings like you just become
you're getting a little crazy a little bit
and I've seen I've been I was at a
party a couple years ago where this guy though I knew
was on a cycle was like I was
just looking at him he was like on the floor
just everybody's talking and he
was literally like you could
see like it was almost like it was
the colors would change in his face.
According to the moods would just kind of wash over him and come in and out.
And like, he would go from like really engaged to completely despondent and then totally like animated and almost angry.
And then it was like, just, he was nuts.
Was it so bad that if you didn't know he was using, you would still clock it?
You would say, what is wrong with that guy?
Right.
And not on any other drugs.
I knew for a fact.
You would say, what is wrong with that guy?
Right.
And not on any other drugs, I knew for a fact.
But anyways, it also scrambles your insides,
depending on what kind of, like, if you do the,
depending on what kind of, like, regimen you're on,
it just can have a lot of, like, detrimental effects on your inner, internal organs.
Interesting.
Yeah, but people want, it's the time thing.
People ain't got time to wait to get ripped and jacked
because everybody was jacked yesterday.
I feel like with drag, we're a little exempt because of course I want to be fit and thin,
but I can't be blocky and masculine.
No, you couldn't, you couldn't gain 50 pounds of muscle and still be Trixie Mattel.
No.
No.
Although Varla.
Yeah.
CrossFit daddy of your dreams.
I know she is such, it's so.
The listeners are like, who the fuck is Varla?
She wasn't on drag race.
I don't give a fuck.
She's dead to me.
I'm turning off this podcast and I'm unsubscribing.
Yeah.
If you guys don't follow her,
follow Varla.
And if you can clock her out of drag,
her Instagram,
it,
she really is CrossFit.
Don't you say CrossFit?
I would say bodybuilder.
Well,
I've got the bodybuilder body during the nighttime.
She's in drag at the theater. And During the nighttime, she's in drag at the theater.
And during the day, she's outside the theater.
She has her CrossFit set up outside the theater permanently.
Wow.
She's out there.
What do you mean CrossFit?
Like a whole weight training set up?
Like weight training, the bars that you like hang on and all that.
Yeah, she is jacked, jacked up.
Jacked Tina Aguilera.
Yeah, totally.
And it's, and I, yeah, it's amazing.
But I don't know.
She's a jacked hairy daddy.
She wears those big baby dolls that come up to her, but I don't know. She's a jacked hairy daddy.
She wears those big baby dolls, like come up to her neck and go to the wrist.
She's full coverage.
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disciplined though with your fitness. If you truly wanted to change your body, you could very quickly
because you don't care about food that much.
No, that's my benefit.
And once I get a bug in my ear about something,
I become very, very myopic and focused on it.
But I've always said this
and I think like you have to,
I don't understand.
I just, I don't want to like,
when people are like,
I hate to move my body.
I just don't get that. I don't want to like the, when people are like, I hate to move my body. I just don't get that.
I don't understand that.
There's not anything you can do.
That's fun.
I think it has a lot to do with the way people feel about people seeing them
move their body.
Absolutely.
Okay.
I agree.
Yeah.
For a lot of people,
they don't hate working out.
They hate going to a place where other people are working out and then having
to do it
In front of them
That's fair
That was explained to me
By somebody
A friend of mine
Who is plus size
Who was like
I like working out
I just don't want to go
Do it in front of people
You don't understand
What that feels like
I do yeah
I get that
I've never been
That size
I've been sizes
Where I don't feel like
Taking my shirt off
But like
That's different than
Well here's a,
but so this though,
I,
it's not even,
if you take out the body shame part of it,
it's also like,
I don't want to go to a tumbling class where I'm level one.
Yeah.
And they're level 12 or whatever.
I feel like I'm bad.
Or,
you know what I mean?
Or like if I have bad technique or I'm just starting out on something,
I don't want to make a fool out of myself.
So there's that as well.
I want to start Michelle Kwan.
I'm going to start Michelle Kwan and,
and graduate.
Yeah.
And be Nancy Kerrigan the whole way through.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But no,
it's also,
I'm not going to the gym.
Gym is,
I don't know.
I'm one of the least fun places.
Well,
it is nice because for some people,
if you have a home gym,
home gym,
it's hard to commit when you're like gym mode and home mode.
It's hard to like cross those wires.
Easy.
I have a hack for you.
You ready for this?
Tell me.
I'm serious.
I don't have a home gym.
Okay.
I do.
I have a very, I have the four by four feet or something.
I got the mats and stuff.
I have a pull-up bar.
I have some free weights.
You don't even need any of the weights.
The pull-up bar is great.
You can hang.
But bands and stuff, very, very minimal setup. I'll put my sneakers and my little
shorts or leggings on and I'll change it to a gym shirt. I will leave the house. I'll come right
back inside and I'll go to the area. What? Yeah. I'm not joking. I'll leave the house. I'll maybe
walk 12 or 15 steps. Lock myself out. I'll live outside for three months. I'll come right back in with a
purpose. And I have my water
and I'll have my protein shake. Maybe I'll go get
it later. And I go right there.
I put my headphones in. It's party time.
Interesting.
Or you can
go into another room. You don't have to leave the
house if you don't want to, but you have to get out of there
and then go in there.
I hate working out at home. I mean, I love love running i hate working out at home i have the good good
then i have a mat with the weights and i put the the peloton on the tv and it's fine yeah but the
golds is too you know not to give away my address but golds is around here and it's like well then
i go there and then i feel like well i'm not going to be here and play on my phone because i just
want to do it and leave so it it's almost like switch into gym mode.
Get it done and leave.
30 minutes later, goodbye.
You know?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm telling you, 16 minutes will change your life.
You're screaming.
I really want to do the Tabata with you.
I really want to do it.
You just want to see me puke.
No, you're not going to puke.
You're not going to puke, but every exercise goes to absolute muscle failure.
Wow. But that's the only way. Like the people at the end of the marathons running and they look all crazy they're like wiggle wiggle jelly and then pee and poop in and not even aware because your
brain is so scattered and your eyes are crossed and you're ready to just collapse in a pool of
pee and poop my music my music producer nick runs marathons and triathlons and he said one time he
was running and he was like i couldn't figure out what a smell was.
And I looked up and the girl in front of him had poop running down her legs.
She didn't do the diaper?
Hi.
Or just stop to poop.
Yeah.
Or say, listen, maybe this is crossing it.
I've crossed a threshold in my life where I'm going from physical fitness to self-harm.
You're not a bad athlete.
Or a bad person.
Because you pooped in a toilet.
Right.
Yeah.
You're not.
Exactly. You're not cheating bad athlete or a bad person. Because you pooped in a toilet. Right. Yeah. You're not. Exactly.
You're not cheating.
You know what?
I want to be the person who fucking pinched a huge loaf in my squeakers, my sneakers and
squeakers at the end.
And I want to be showing it off at the end of the race.
Like, didn't shit yourself.
Oh, not committed.
I see.
And then as I walk away, just rabbit turds falling out of my.
No, you've done it.
You've gone even the distance.
You have sewed pockets into those running shorts
before the marathon
because you knew you were going to fill up each pocket
with lots of turds.
Yeah, or I'm running
and the turd comes out.
I reach and I grab it
and I throw it off the track.
I'm throwing it at other competitors.
People who try to throw water in your face,
you throw a turd in their face.
Oh my God.
No, no, no.
You trade.
You just dunked the turd
right in it.
They hold out the water
cup and I go, thank you. And I pour it in there
and I try to flush the cup
and it doesn't flush.
I just don't think it's worth it. I think it's okay
to stop the race and poop. It's okay.
It's absolutely okay. What are you doing it for?
Also, here's another thing.
Listen, I have a nothing is a means to an end.
Think about this.
Think about this.
Think about this.
Nothing is a means to an end.
What if you are, you just, you're Gal Gadot.
You just got cast in Wonder Woman.
Well, Gal, but yeah.
Okay.
A woman named Gal is playing Wonder Woman.
How funny is that?
Gal is a woman?
I've never heard of something so funny.
So Gal Gadot. Wonder Woman. How funny is that? Y'all as a woman? I've never heard of something so funny. Oh. So,
Gal Gadot. And so, she's
got six months with Jason Wimberly.
A grueling, torturous,
just nothing but chicken 4am.
First day of shooting, she gets killed.
What a horrible
way to waste six months.
No. No, I'm saying
if that happened. Yeah.
Six months gone.
You can't suffer with six months. But you're going to look
great at the funeral. Maybe. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Good point. But then, you know,
where's the quality of life? Well, for me,
when I die, they're going to weaken at Bernie's me
at like a Deb as
like a floor model. And so I'm going
to look really gaunt and look so
stunning. Yeah. And I'm going to be holding a handbag.
Yeah.
And they'll have styrofoam turds coming out of your running shorts.
Listen,
here's,
here's my beauty.
Here's my bald,
beautiful lesson for when you're,
when you're make sure that your beauty routine or your fitness routine is not a
means to an end.
And that's for real.
You have to enjoy to some extent,
you have to be able to,
to drop into the present moment of whatever you're doing. because if you're just torturing yourself for the end result you're
never gonna be satisfied by that or even if you are gonna spend most of your life in torture
well not to sound like mr woo woo uh-huh but when i used to run to try to be thin
it wasn't means to an end you get fatter well no, no, because what is,
what is run to be thin mean?
There is no goal.
There is no accountability.
There is no way to track it.
It doesn't mean anything, but running with the consciousness of the distance,
the time,
the pace goals,
ambitions that changed everything.
The weight loss happened faster because I wasn't in it for that.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
But as a person who was never athletic,
that was not clear to me.
And then they say in the runs,
they say,
think about what you want to get out of this.
And I think with fitness,
it's just like,
what do you actually want out of this?
Is this because you want to feel better about yourself?
Do you want more energy?
Do you want to fit a certain outfit?
Do you want like,
what do you actually want of this?
And then there's some real,
like there's a real finish line
to that you know what i mean yes but i will say that when nebulous like why you work out to be
hot it doesn't mean anything no no right but you gotta be careful though because when the the human
mind and the body travel at very different speeds so by the time that your body has actually made some progress,
your mind will be way over,
way beyond that.
In that,
like,
oh,
like if you look out on paper,
like,
oh,
in the last six weeks,
I've actually like lost a few pounds or,
or gained a few pounds of muscle or become my endurances.
Your mind has already adjusted and moved on.
And unimpressed.
Unimpressed.
And like,
well,
yeah,
but whatever,
but I want to be over there.
So like,
you know what I mean? Like your mind will never be satisfied. That is a losing battle. Always unimpressed. Unimpressed. And like, well, yeah, but whatever. But I want to be over there. So like, you know what I mean?
Like your mind will never be satisfied.
That is a losing battle.
Always a losing battle.
You just have to accept that.
That comes with accepting wherever you are at the moment.
Again,
because the happiness is not in the six weeks from now.
Well,
by acknowledging what you want to get out of it though,
it's the only way to track that you did it.
Yes,
totally.
Yeah.
You can still have goals to be hot.
Doesn't mean anything. No. Doesn't mean anything.
No. Doesn't mean anything.
Anyway. I think we've said enough.
I think we've said enough. Yeah.
I think, I'm going to say something that I hope is going to read.
Me? Yeah, for somebody who has maybe some
issues, I think your relationship
with fitness is always like
very intact. Do you know why?
Ray's right. The fitness, my fitness family. you know why raised right but the fitness my
fitness family my dad my dad yeah my dad was a fitness icon you know what happened to me raised
wrong my mom called me the other day my mom diabetic she called me she goes so i made this
recipe it's butter flour sugar anyway the recipe said better than sex chocolate, and I didn't think it was that good.
But it has been a while.
My mom said that to me on the phone.
Oh, my God.
Better than sex.
Thanks, Val.
Thanks, Val.
Thanks, Obama.
What about Val's emails?
Cheers.
Okay.
Bye.
Okay, Bye. Bye.