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  • Hi.

  • We're the tri guys and this is everything we do in a day on tour.

  • Oh my God, Eugene, That's their clock way.

  • Currently touring the country for our live variety show.

  • It's a comedy music spectacular coat.

  • The legends of these way sleep overnight on our tour bus between cities.

  • I wake up never because I have insomnia, so I'm constantly in a nightmares waking situation.

  • I like up about 10 a.m. Mad about 10 30 Zach about our bus drives.

  • So we wake up in the next city, and typically it's very bumpy until it around 8 a.m. a.

  • M is when the bus stops driving, and that is when we finally get like are really sound sleep and then, from like 8 to 10 we try and get some real rest.

  • So when we wake up, we crawl out of our little coffins on the bus into a week dark black nightmare because there's no light in middle of the bus, and then you slowly emerge like a little like a little snail.

  • I'm the only one with a top because I'm the only top.

  • Yeah, we're all bottoms on this tour.

  • They're no showers on the bus.

  • You're also not supposed to go Bathroom on the bus number ones.

  • Okay, Number two big No go.

  • So all that bathroom business is done at the venues.

  • But you literally have toe shit out your bowels before getting on the bus tonight.

  • Because you're not like no poo poo on.

  • Our days are kind of reversed for normal people.

  • So for, like, 11 to 3 is our only free time.

  • Oh, yeah, That took a lot of getting used to.

  • I mean, normally you wake up, get some coffee, boom, start work, but on tour, all of your work is in the evening.

  • So, like in the morning, you're supposed toe relax.

  • Around 11.

  • 30 or noon, we find the one local meal that we can.

  • This is like our one chance to get out into the city.

  • See what is worth seeing in this, You know, one and 1/2 mile square radius around our venue.

  • We really got to know the Midwest.

  • Well, they give you a beer after your bloody Mary for free in Wisconsin.

  • Yeah, Wisconsin.

  • I had no idea I've taken those cool guys.

  • Scooters around downtown areas is actually pretty fun, like as a tourist with only about 45 minutes to explore a city is Scoot around.

  • You're like, Oh, look at this monument.

  • This land so proud of this so basically around two o'clock is when we make our way back to the venue way start like our personal care time.

  • That's when you might take a shower or start stretching.

  • Or call your loved one.

  • Do whatever you gotta do.

  • I play the French horn for about 20 minutes because I play the French horn of the show, so I have to warm up.

  • So some point we just do.

  • We start playing French.

  • So where that's pretty fun to have a little song book of movie themes.

  • So I've been working my way through movies, which is fun.

  • Being on tour can be kind of lonely.

  • So during that downtime, I'll facetime my family.

  • I have a baby, and we've been teaching him how to blow kisses so we'll go like, ah, on phone to each other.

  • So it's nice to stay connected home.

  • And then when Ned's done doing that, I also face time this family, it just helps me remain grounded.

  • Yeah, kisses Yes.

  • Yeah, they taught me how to blow kisses.

  • Actually, I'm very proud of myself.

  • That's gotten really good at it.

  • I actually do my own makeup, Which takes.

  • I learned how to do makeup right before this tour from my drag mother and my makeup artist, because I do a sort of pseudo drag number in the show and I didn't want to look like shit.

  • I didn't want to let my my queer people down.

  • I have to have some sort of face beat.

  • So I actually spent six hours the morning of the first Tour show in L.

  • A.

  • Sitting with my friends, learning how to do makeup for the first time.

  • And I think I didn't think I could do it within 15 minutes.

  • Now get that face B.

  • It's a 3 p.m. We start setting up the necessary props for the show.

  • Every stage is different, so part of that is acclimating yourself to that venue, which is always the most exciting part.

  • This is the coolest moment of the days when you walk on the stage and you go nowhere.

  • My living today and every theatre that we've played is totally unique and different.

  • Yeah, that's the coolest thing.

  • Is adapting your your flow of the show to how the venue actually works.

  • And it's been kind of the most creative challenge of being your repeating.

  • The same show You around 3 30 will unfold our costumes, which we do several shows night after night after night, and our costumes get very smelly.

  • And so there's always a moment where we like like, I'm folding this like, smell of like, sweat and nasty.

  • You're seen Raiders of the Lost art.

  • Yeah, where they open it over his face.

  • That's about a great battle, Keith.

  • So we have this spray bottle of really cheap vodka, and we were told by our conch umer that spraying Arco's with vodka but help preserve them for longer and kill the smell.

  • However, alcohol does kill most of the smell, but it leaves this one and then over time just that one becomes the dominant smell.

  • And it is crazy.

  • Imagine you killed like 70% of germs.

  • Pretty good, right?

  • But what's that leftover 30.

  • At four, we have a pyro call, which is actually where they will set off the fireworks and pyrotechnics so that we can look at them, hear them and just test make sure everything's working.

  • But also make sure that we don't get scared because nobody wants to be on stage looking like a rock star and flinching because you're not expecting a big explosion before 30.

  • That's our time for meet and greet where we meet 150 fans who have gotten tickets.

  • You take photos of them.

  • We talked with them briefly.

  • Sometimes they get a school.

  • Trinkets, quitters.

  • We've got a lot of fan art has been really great.

  • Last night, someone gave us custom pop figurines of us that she painted.

  • And then we also got a chocolate bourbon pecan pie, and it was delicious.

  • We have to do our actual tech call, which is primarily for monitoring the sound.

  • Check who we have these rock star headphones that our custom molded to our ears.

  • 6 30 is the hour before we go onstage.

  • So we are getting our top team played out, starting in doing our final stretching or maybe having some sort of extra caffeine or a little bit of dinner, not the only one who actually eats a meal here.

  • The show.

  • The rest of us are like kind of nibbling like little rabbits, but he goes for full protein.

  • We do some group warm out, soak, redo the group stretch, and we all have our individual things.

  • But then do some vocal warm ups.

  • We do a couple improv games just to loosen us up, shake it out, and then I p about three times before the show.

  • Yeah, I because as soon as the meet and greet starts, I chug water because I just want to be hydrated and good.

  • But I want to get it all through me before the show starts, because then it's like two hours and I will have no time to pee.

  • At 7 30 the show begins thunderous applause, Excitement in the air.

  • So it's a variety show, right?

  • It's got comedy.

  • It's got stand up, It's got improv, It's got dance.

  • It's got music.

  • It's got personal monologues.

  • It's got a lip sync drag queen battle.

  • Wow, that's a really special show that has, like everything that we love to do.

  • Hopefully, by the end you have this reinvigorated sense of passion to get out in the world and try everything.

  • Around 9 30 Then we immediately strip off all of our clothes that are drenched in sweat and try to hang them up to Dr Gather all of our prosperity, spray everything with Bob, let it sit and hope hope this time it works.

  • Then we'll say hi to any friends or family that have come to watch us.

  • Stunt underwear.

  • Yeah, still in our underwear.

  • For sure.

  • We'll have Maur dinner if we didn't have dinner before.

  • I just, like, collapse into, like, a cave man.

  • Blob and I just eat and grunt and I eat as much food as I can, and I have never been full.

  • And then it's our time to shower college.

  • Significant others.

  • Sometimes we'll check Twitter who Keith has a bit in the show where he's trying to get pizza with D J College.

  • Hashtag pizza with Keith.

  • If you would like to help us, you could you could tweet that on.

  • So you spend about probably the next four hours liking every tweet, every person in the audience and they tweet at college, attacked me, and I will like it because, as verified stories or I know that that goes into another verified column for college.

  • We've been doing this for 17 shows, and he's not responded at all.

  • I have sent thousands of tweets his way.

  • I don't know who you've been trending on Twitter.

  • Okay?

  • We've been trying trended on Turner locally, four times round midnight, we get a lead like hang out for an hour and 1/2 you can't fall asleep.

  • So we just need to do whatever we can to unwind.

  • You think that we would want a watch TV or something?

  • But our brains are so scrambled that you kind of just wanna sit and stare and talk.

  • So just generally unwind hangout the stress.

  • Sometimes people play video games way crawl back into our magical coffin carrier.

  • Each of his disrobing just fit into a three by six little little chamber.

  • And then I start to peacefully snooze while I hear Eugene wrestling muscling above me on Ben.

  • I fall asleep and wake up in about 4 a.m. When we hit some sort of chaos on the road and it is like it's like, is it Why?

  • Why is it like this way?

  • Fall back asleep a little bit later?

  • It's kind of the type of thing where you might be in your bed for, like, 10 11 12 hours, but really only sleeping for five or six.

  • Like you can go to bed at one and wake up at 11.

  • And that's 10 hours.

  • But you're not sleeping 10 hours.

  • Oh, I had a weird waking dream last night, huh?

  • Yeah, it was about us.

  • We got our bunks, we performed open heart surgery on themselves.

  • And then I ate parts of hearts.

  • It was the weirdest thing.

  • And then I was like, Oh, this isn't really were we doing it on each other, doing it on ourselves and then be like, try a bite of this?

  • No, we weren't being.

  • It was it was more.

  • But we're not British overall.

  • Sleeping in a little moving coffin is not the ideal living situation, but it works, and it makes sense for the tour.

  • And General, we're having a pretty amazing time.

  • I mean, it's it's remarkable to see how many fans we have out there be able to perform for them, and it's been really special.

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