Drag Time with Heklina
65 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -Heklina is the creator, promoter, and hostess of the legendary Trannyshack! and Mother drag shows. She is an actor, drag star, performance artist and you may have seen her on the E! Entertainment Network, NBC’s “Trauma”, Margaret Cho's “The Cho Show”, VH1's “Playing it Straight”, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”, BBC Television’s “Around the World in 80 Raves”, the Scissor Sister’s “Filthy Gorgeous” music video, and as a guest on the Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake show.
Drag Time with Heklina features a special guest on every episode to discuss drag culture, performance arts, sexual escapades, travel, generation gaps, political correctness & cancel culture, and events around the world. We talk about the state of drag, film & television, music, porn, sex & drug addiction, sex work/workers, homelessness & displacement, meme critiques, and just generally living the creative life!
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Episodes
S1E9 - Golden Moments ft. Alaska Thunderf*ck
May 19, 2020 13:59 - 40 minutes - 32.2 MBAlaska Thunderf*ck is here! We spend a little time catching up about the tits-up-only world of virtual drag and reminisce a lot about a time when you could still get peed on in person during a real world drag show. Heklina tells us some of her favorite memories of a young Alaska making her West Coast drag debut. We find out everything we can about Heklina and Alaska's favorite Golden Girls episodes. Alaska tells us all about her old job and recent role in the 2019 Netflix documentary Circus ...
S1E8 - BenDelaCreme, Fraiche!
May 12, 2020 12:00 - 40 minutes - 32.2 MBBenDelaCreme, Fraiche! This week we catch up with BenDelaCreme from her new home Los Angeles. We talk about the launch of her new podcast “WQUR: Queer Quarantine Radio” with Peaches Christ, Jinkx Monsoon, Peaches Christ, and Major Scales, as well as her controversial and long awaited debut on Cameo. BenDelaCreme answers questions from Marc’s High School Drama Club (emphasis on the drama) about Carson Kressley, Ross Matthews, RuPaul, and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 3. She breaks dow...
S1E7 - Show Ponies and Freaks! with Amber Martin
May 01, 2020 18:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBHey everyone in HEKLINALAND! We’re so lucky to have this week, the celebrated international Vocalist, Performing Artist and Comedic Monologist, Amber Martin. You may remember John Cameron Mitchell and Marc simply raving about her in episode 4. She supports his tour of Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig, so we find out a bit about that, and we talk about her amazing studio album, A. M. GOLD, co-written with award-winning Australian songwriter, Brett Every, which includes two song...
S1E7 - Show Ponies and Freaks! ft. Amber Martin
May 01, 2020 18:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBHey everyone in HEKLINALAND! We’re so lucky to have this week, the celebrated international Vocalist, Performing Artist and Comedic Monologist, Amber Martin. You may remember John Cameron Mitchell and Marc simply raving about her in episode 4. She supports his tour of Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig, so we find out a bit about that, and we talk about her amazing studio album, A. M. GOLD, co-written with award-winning Australian songwriter, Brett Every, which includes two songs...
S1E6 - So mignon! ft. D'Arcy Drollinger
April 23, 2020 07:02 - 40 minutes - 32.3 MBThis week on Drag Time with Heklina it is a cute little episode we are calling So Mignon! with D’arcy Drollinger. Listen in to find out why as we catch up on what’s going on with Oasis, the launch of Oasis TV! How you can get your Sexitude while we are all in Solitude! All of that and more including an update on D’Arcy’s Shit and Champagne, the Movie (2020). Support Drag Time with Heklina by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/drag-time-with-heklina
S1E6 - So mignon! with D'Arcy Drollinger
April 23, 2020 07:02 - 40 minutes - 32.3 MBThis week on Drag Time with Heklina it is a cute little episode we are calling So Mignon! with D’arcy Drollinger. Listen in to find out why as we catch up on what’s going on with Oasis, the launch of Oasis TV! How you can get your Sexitude while we are all in Solitude! All of that and more including an update on D’Arcy’s Shit and Champagne, the Movie (2020). Support Drag Time with Heklina by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/drag-time-with-heklina Find out more at ht...
S1E5 - It's Big, It's Beautiful, and You're Gonna Love It! ft. Miss Coco Peru
April 14, 2020 14:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBThis week we are joined by the fabulous Miss Coco Peru, a household name in the LGBT community for more than 25 years. She is a veteran of New York's cabaret scene, holding it down with her original show, Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret. She performs intimate cabaret stages around the world including New York, LA, London, and has more than 9 million views on YouTube. You may also know her by her appearances in cult queer and LGBT-themed films such as Girls Will Be Girls (2003), Trick (1...
S1E5 - It's Big, It's Beautiful, and You're Gonna Love It! with Miss Coco Peru
April 14, 2020 14:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBThis week we are joined by the fabulous Miss Coco Peru, a household name in the LGBT community for more than 25 years. She is a veteran of New York's cabaret scene, holding it down with her original show, Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret. She performs intimate cabaret stages around the world including New York, LA, London, and has more than 9 million views on YouTube. You may also know her by her appearances in cult queer and LGBT-themed films such as Girls Will Be Girls (2003), Trick (1...
S1E4 - John Cameron Mitchell: OBSESSED!
April 02, 2020 20:23 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBWe are back! This time with very special guest John Cameron Mitchell who is weathering the stay-at-home order in a high desert yurt in California. We get an update on the Return to the Origin of Love Tour: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig by JCM and Stephen Trask, featuring Amber Martin. JCM and Heklina chat about some of the inspirations for Hedwig & Trannyshack, including the storied Squeezebox bar. John brings us up to speed on his effort to support the Burritos Not Bombs fundraiser fo...
S1E3 - What in gay hell???
March 24, 2020 05:20 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBSeason 1 Episode 3: What in gay hell??? Everything is canceled, but we are back! This week with featured guest, the most Photographed Nun in the World, Sister Roma! Tune in, because we really do end up having some fun this week, even through this extremely difficult time. Marc gives us a a quick update on social distancing and the facts on the serious crisis we are all facing. We find out about Sister Roma’s RuPaul’s Drag Race Viewing Party’s audience reaction to the announcement about ...
S1E3 - What in gay hell??? ft. Sister Roma
March 24, 2020 05:20 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBSeason 1 Episode 3: What in gay hell??? Everything is canceled, but we are back! This week with featured guest, the most Photographed Nun in the World, Sister Roma! Tune in, because we really do end up having some fun this week, even through this extremely difficult time. Marc gives us a a quick update on social distancing and the facts on the serious crisis we are all facing. We find out about Sister Roma’s RuPaul’s Drag Race Viewing Party’s audience reaction to the announcement about ...
S1E2 - DM Your D to ThatGreg997 ft. Greg Sherrell
March 10, 2020 19:21 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBEpisode Notes: "DM your D to Greg @ThatGreg997" This week it’s a Sideshow revival with extra special guest Greg Sherrell: Find out why Heklina and Greg don’t do a Sideshow anymore Greg free-forms catching us up on the last 2 years including his new show 99.7 NOW Big Bay Mornings with Benny and Producer Art Heklina asks if the virus can be spread through oral/anal contact? CDC explains We hear from Heklina about the San Francisco W Hotel Three Course Drag at Trace being CANCELED due to ...
S1E2 - DM Your D to ThatGreg997
March 10, 2020 19:21 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBEpisode Notes: "DM your D to Greg @ThatGreg997" This week it’s a Sideshow revival with extra special guest Greg Sherrell: Find out why Heklina and Greg don’t do a Sideshow anymore Greg free-forms catching us up on the last 2 years including his new show 99.7 NOW Big Bay Mornings with Benny and Producer Art Heklina asks if the virus can be spread through oral/anal contact? CDC explains We hear from Heklina about the San Francisco W Hotel Three Course Drag at Trace being CANCELED due to ...
S1E1 - Is This Raunchy Enough? ft. Peaches Christ
February 27, 2020 03:11 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBShow Notes Heklina and first ever special guest Peaches Christ review recent events including: Peaches' co-production of SF Sketchfest/Rocky Horror (1975) 45th Anniversary tribute show, Peaches' moderation of the King of Comedy (1982) tribute with Sandra Bernhard. Find out exactly what makes Peaches nervous. Heklina and Peaches talk about cancel culture and CANCELING Rocky Horror. Get into the CrockPot corner to find out what exactly is cooking up in these queens' pots. Maybe we can get a...
S1E1 - Is This Raunchy Enough?
February 27, 2020 03:11 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBShow Notes Heklina and first ever special guest Peaches Christ review recent events including: Peaches' co-production of SF Sketchfest/Rocky Horror (1975) 45th Anniversary tribute show, Peaches' moderation of the King of Comedy (1982) tribute with Sandra Bernhard. Find out exactly what makes Peaches nervous. Heklina and Peaches talk about cancel culture and CANCELING Rocky Horror. Get into the CrockPot corner to find out what exactly is cooking up in these queens' pots. Maybe we can get a...