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VENEERS CULTURE Ft. Zachariah Porter | Episode 156
Wed, 12 Feb 2025
Zachariah Porter is here this week!! Drew and Zachariah talk sweating as a medical condition, seducing Jennifer Lopez, auditioning to play a two-headed bird, Zachariah’s petition to get on wig aftercare, Drew failing her psych eval for The Circle, rebranding Disney adults, tooching on the Hagrid ride at Universal, and so much more. Get tickets to see Zachariah LIVE on “The Strip Mall Tease Tour” Zachariah IG: https://www.instagram.com/zachariahporter/ Zachariah Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@zzzachariah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: How did Zachariah audition for a role with Jennifer Lopez?
Oh, I love it.
I was also like so nervous. I didn't start until last year. Yeah. And I love it now. I've only done one five. That's it. That's great. That's all I've done. A five is great because I feel like after the five, you're there. You know what I mean? Like my show's an hour 10 and like you just keep, but you just keep going. Yeah. You know?
I'm curious. How do you, how do you like memorize? Do you just like, is it like the ends of your jokes lead into your new ones or like? It's not as hard as you think because you wrote it.
that's you know what i mean that's what caleb told me so i break my show up into like they're like five 15 minute sections and i do stand up and then i leave in a video plays of me doing some crazy thing and i come out as characters and then i leave so i do like all my bits and then i do stand up in between everything but it's really just like chunking it all together and it's just it really is there's nothing compares you've done touring though
Yes. I've done live performance. That's the same thing. Yeah. That's what he, he's told me that too. And I'm like, don't give him any ideas. He's been pressuring me. I think the big thing is though, is if that's something you want to do, like start saving the ideas. Cause like, I'm sure funnier things are going to keep happening, but you need to fill that like hour.
Yeah, because the the live performance I have done have been with my sister. We've toured like two idiot girls, the podcast. Yeah. And so it's all improv. So what we do at those shows is we like pass out prompts, which is what we do for the pod. And then they submit them and then backstage we'll pick like 10 of them and then we'll go out on stage and then we'll just go through them and then we.
and, like, talk to the audience and kind of just make jokes, like, on the fly.
Yeah, but most people are just doing crowd work now. Yeah. Like, so much crowd work, which I like dabbling, but it's not my strong suit. Yeah. Especially when... The thing is with, like, live shows, and you already know this, is, like, you have to expect people to, like... You have to be able to pivot with that.
Yeah.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Zachariah face with sweating?
I went too hard. I'm sorry. I went too hard. And then the next night happened again in a different city. Um, still in all in Florida, mind you. Uh, and the next night it happened again. This time I was like, okay, I'm going to say something, but I'm going to be nicer. And I was like, can you pause real quick? Queen.
let's go ahead and stop talking queen so everybody can participate does that sound good okay thank you thank you yeah learning and then after that it was better but the first night i mean i killed that room fast nobody wanted to laugh anymore because everybody was too scared she's gonna hit me
take his shoe off on me i take that that's on me but it's annoying it really is i've never had anyone negative but i've had like drunk people just get like loud and like want to be a little too involved what did you have to do i honestly just don't i like like tuning out like the staff usually knows to like tap people or whatever at the venues but detroit was the craziest show i ever had really everyone was just like really like spirited it felt like people were on drugs
smeared it in like a kind of scary way but still nice like little wizardry like it wasn't just drunk because people were like floating a little bit yeah it was like just so crazy energy but it was such a memorable show but i i'm so paranoid one day that someone's gonna like be like he sucks like because oh like a bad hack because i'll just leave my time thank you oh you hate it i'm done
I'll take it somewhere else. I know that I'll win you over. I know. I'd love to know how it was when you first started doing stand-up. Like how was that experience as far as like kind of just cold plunging?
Cold plunging completely. I opened for my friend for a 10-minute show and then I had like a show the next week for like 150 people at City Winery. It just did it and now it's like growing. I think it's easier for someone like me and for you when our audience already like loves us. Yeah. Yeah.
I think it's way harder and more respectful, like, respectable to do it, like, when people are, like, just testing new material and you have no, like. Totally.
Yeah, like, no loyalty.
Yeah. Or allegiance, really. People are coming because they already know me. They already like me. So it's not really hard to win them over in that sense. Yeah, that's true. So it makes it more comfortable for me. And, like, the shows are great because everyone, I don't know, like, they listen to our podcast. They, like, they're all kind of, like, friends already. Yeah. Which is cool.
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Chapter 3: How did Zachariah's TikTok career begin?
Well, I love Trixie. I love Bob, obviously. I love like Ivy Winters from like season six. Right now. Right now. I think Crystal Envy is doing really great on the new season. Oh, yeah. I haven't watched the new season. Yeah. It just started. So you're not far behind. I love a bunch of them. I just like I love the comedy queens. Oh, Delta. Yeah.
yeah have you had her on the show yeah oh my god i literally love her she's so funny she's like what i want to be she makes me comfortable like being older because like yeah she's just so so funny i think she's probably my favorite she killed she was so funny she was actually the first queen to come on my show in drag
okay cool because everyone comes out of drag mostly it's been her and bianca del rio oh how was that it was fun bianca's was so fun i'd be nervous oh yeah i know everyone was like are you nervous i was like no because she's a cunt like me so it's gonna be fun we're gonna have so much fun and we did we had we had the most fun ever we were like making fun of each other i got her a couple times really well at the end i remember i did this whole long running bit about what i was going to do if i
The punchline ended up me being like with my tits out. That was the and they're painted golden globes. Oh, I love that. That was the punchline of my very long running bit that she was following me on. Shortly after that, she like made a joke, started trying to open another bit. And I was like, yeah, I don't know. Like, I just didn't receive it. She goes, I went with your whole stupid golden globe.
Sorry. And you couldn't follow me that one fucking time. Sorry.
she goes that whole stupid story i followed you yeah so yeah she's good oh my god she'd make me nervous i love the drag guys girls i love it i know they're mean yeah i love drag in general do you ever go to like drag shows um i've been to a few yeah i love them they're so fun we were at a bar last week and it just like turned into a drag show like when wednesday at 10 i was like what's happening the girls are out it's like shot a is it a crime
literally sobbing sobbing holding a mirror like i'm like is it a crime is it a crime is it i'm like throwing one oh my god that's there's so much drag here in new york which is like one of the best parts i know i've never been to a drag show out here oh i've been to a few in california yeah but i've never been to one out here and i've been to like i've been to like hamburger mary's and all of that a few times classic you gotta go yeah it's fun have a hamburger
The food's good. The food is good at Hamburger Mary. It is good. I appreciate it. I remember too, the last time I went to Hamburger Mary's, I remember I was already doing this for a living and the queen who was hosting the whole night at the very end, she goes, by the way, I know exactly who the fuck you are. Whenever you want to come back, you let me know. All right. Let's sit back on the mic.
Cause she did not treat me differently the whole night. And then at the very end, she slid me that little.
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