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Chapter 1: What are Jinkx Monsoon's first holiday memories?
You don't get that from men that often. No, no. Because gay men are still men, you know. Oh, no. Sorry to presume.
Do I present as a gay man? Because my wife upstairs would say... Oh, look who we've got on board. Jinx Monsoon. Thank you for flying, Alanair.
Well, you know, it beats the broomstick in this windy, blustery London weather. Yeah.
Chapter 2: How does Jinkx Monsoon relate to witchcraft and its history?
You came to the door dressed as a Sicilian widow.
Well, you know.
You had the big glasses on.
You had the headscarf.
I was like, who is this?
Um... I think widow's a very good fashion aesthetic. I think a lot of people have really embraced the widow fashion aesthetic. And I love a veil. I love a veil.
There's something about... And did you know you can now pay for someone to turn up at your funeral and just stand beneath a tree in the distance and cry and look mysterious? Yes. Isn't that fabulous? So the family look over and go, who's that? Who's that you can pay? That would be amazing, wouldn't it?
That's a lot of trust to put in that person, though, because it's like, how are you going to make sure they did it?
You're so cynical, Jinx.
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Chapter 3: What unique experiences has Jinkx had while traveling?
Why are you so cynical? I'm a Virgo. You're dead. I'm a Virgo. If I get taken for a final ride, I'm going to be pissed.
LAUGHTER I mean, you do identify as a witch. Do you ever holiday where there's witchy things? Do you ever go to Salem?
I haven't, yeah. I mean, I've not been to Salem, Massachusetts, because that's kind of what you go for. My touring work hasn't ever taken me there. No, no, no. But I feel like I need to make the pilgrimage there. The only thing is, currently, I'm trying to spend as much time away from my mother country as possible. Oh, yes, yes, yes. I'm just, you know...
Hanging out in London, waiting for things to topple. We'll see.
Because you know where you need to go in the UK? York and Canterbury. Because, you know, in Canterbury, there is a ducking stall where they used to put the witches on. and dunk them in the water? Will this be triggering for you?
Will they... Do they still administer the test?
No, because it is 2026. I mean, England can be backward in certain things, but we don't drown witches.
What if I need that extra push to just ignite something in me? I've done a lot of good work fuelled by vendettas. Yeah.
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Chapter 4: How does Jinkx feel about performing in different countries?
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Oh, my God. But I do want to go to Salem, Massachusetts. Yeah, yeah. But I want to take it very seriously. I don't want to go and just kind of breeze through. No. I do want to kind of... I've been to New Orleans a lot, which also has a long history of magic. Yeah. And I have a wonderful time there. And I'm from Portland, Oregon. Mm-hmm.
which is when gentrification started sweeping the West Coast, Portland is one city that fought back with the campaign, Keep Portland Weird. And so I'm not saying it wasn't gentrified, but it didn't bend over and take it from Bezos the way that Seattle did. Okay. Okay. Seattle just bent over and said, come Daddy Bezos, erect your black tower in the middle of my... You're scaring me, Jinx.
You're scaring me. Have you been to the Amazon headquarters? They are scary. It's called Darth Tower in Seattle.
I don't know where these witch rumours come from.
Are there Bezos apologists here?
I don't need to worry about them.
I think we should just replace this table with a cauldron. But you know with witches, I read a book on witches and they were saying, when you think them using a broomstick to fly on is this symbol of servitude, there is a man's worst fear, isn't it? A woman finding freedom on a broomstick and flying off. And you think about how misogynistic.
Everything that we're kind of, taught through pop culture about witches is based off of misogynistic history.
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Chapter 5: What does Jinkx think about the nightlife in London?
It's misogynistic? Misogynist. Misogynistic, I think. Is that misogynistic? Fuckhead history. Yeah. Well dodged. Can we say fuckhead? You can say fuck. Thank you. You can say fuck on this. Knobhead. Knobhead. Do you know another English one? Piss flaps. Have you heard piss flaps? Piss flaps.
That's my favourite. People think the C word is my naughty word, but I love piss flaps.
Well, like the pointed hats, right?
Yeah.
That was just what female brewers, like ale brewers, wore in the marketplace so you could find them. So they get labeled as a witch, take out the brewing competition. Midwives were competition for male doctors. So they took out the midwives by saying they're witches who will eat your babies. It was all taking out the competition. Medicinal healers, she'll curse you, you know?
Relabeling all of these women who were just doing the same things that men were doing in the kind of like ancestral way they were taught. It all got rebranded. So which is something that got put on these women?
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Chapter 6: How does Jinkx's work influence her travel habits?
And I think when modern witches claim the title witch, it's in honor of all of the women who were persecuted for just having a talent that threatened men.
Yeah. And we were told to be scared of the witches, but not the men who burned them. That's true, isn't it? I'm deep. I can go deep as well. That was deep, wasn't it?
That was very deep.
That was some deep shit.
I don't just say piss flaps. You don't get that from men that often. No, no. Because gay men are still men, you know. Oh, no. Sorry to presume.
Do I present as a gay man? Because my wife upstairs would say... Yeah, where's the mother to these dogs? So listen, tell us what do you think? This is a travel podcast. You're over here in End of the Rainbow. You are getting rave reviews, standing ovations. Everyone loves you. You are a Broadway sensation.
Well, I really like my work. You know, you like your work, right? I love my work. I can't believe I get paid to do it. Exactly. I'm getting paid for this, aren't I?
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Chapter 7: What are Jinkx's thoughts on sobriety and its impact on her life?
No, I really, really love my work. And I... It's all I have ever wanted to do. I knew exactly who I was as a kid. I had friends from my high school years, years 9, 10, 11, 12, I don't know, primary, secondary, I don't know, whatever, college, whatever. People have known me since way back when, and I was joking, they knew me when I was playing boy roles, but they knew the roles I played.
wanted to play. And the fact that I get to play them these days, like I'm playing Judy Garland in a show about Judy Garland. You know, that's not something I foresaw for myself, but I always thought it was possible. The world convinced me it wouldn't be possible. And then I had to reconvince myself that it absolutely is.
What emotionally is it like on stage? Because you're singing the songs. I mean, it's campy, obviously, but you've still got that dark side of addiction. And I did a bit of a deep dive. And I didn't realise that she died in London, didn't she? In Belgrave or Cadogan Lane, which is just, I just assumed she died in L.A., Yeah, I know. Did you have a pilgrimage to where she died?
No, I have been considering Judy and I walking kind of hand in hand right now. Like I've just welcomed her into my life. The problem is I don't have a lot of time to travel if it's not for work. Like six days out of the week is planned by my team these days. I get my one day to have dinner. with accomplices. I'm teasing. Again, I love my work.
Shall I distract your team and then you run out the back door and get on your broomstick? No, I did some rituals welcoming Judy into my life because my own research with Judy made me realize we just have a lot in common, completely different people. And yet our lives parallel each other in a lot of ways.
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Chapter 8: What famous people has Jinkx encountered while traveling?
And I have these moments on stage that feel like absolute synchronicity where Jinx, the actress,
is singing the song hoping that she's telling the story hoping that it sounds good hoping that the audience will overlook any like voice cracks if it's like one of those days and those moments where i'm just like i know that i am just ringing out what i have for my audience because i think they deserve it
where I'm like, yeah, I'm just in sync with where Judy would have been in this moment, you know? And so it kind of feels very cosmic, and then it feels really special.
Do you ever feel like she's there? Do you feel like she's there with you?
Well, I have a hard time seeing ghosts. I believe in them fully, but I haven't ever seen them myself, and that's never been my talent. But basically, I welcome her every night. I figure she has better things to do. But I do welcome her every night along with my- You've never seen a ghost. Apparently, I used to see him as a kid, and I wouldn't shut up about the ghosts in our house.
And then for a long time, just haven't had any experiences like that. And I think someone from the other side's protecting me from something or other. That's what my tarot reader... Tarot reader. Tarot reader. My tarot reader... My Tara Reid. Yeah. That's what she said. Anyway. No, I invite Judy. And there are times where I can't say that I felt Judy, but I felt what she felt.
Between, you know, my audiences have been quite fabulous in their own right. And again, there's the synchronicity of like, I'm on stage singing for everyone. But we know who I'm singing to. And that feels like another moment of synchronicity. And I grew up with all of my queer icons being women I related to. And now I'm a queer icon, a woman that young people like me love.
can relate to so it's like we're at this point now where queer icons are the queer icons and that's very special and it doesn't mean that we can't still love our divas and and our patron saints you know but it's it's special that we get to step into the spotlight now in a way that wasn't really allowed when Judy was around.
And you sort of get called it after they died, so they didn't really get to enjoy it or feel that energy or plug into that kind of energy because they were gone too soon.
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