I grew up in Silver Cliff, Wisconsin,
which isn't that far from the pig wrestling
capital of the world.
The what?
The what now?
One year, somebody got their finger bit off,
and it got lost in the mud.
They never found out what happened to that person.
Hi, it's me Trixie Mattel
And I'm Katya.
And we are two queens who like to watch.
And today, we're watching the brand new
Netflix original series,
We Are The Champions.
"Champion."
Do I ever get into winning championships?
Yes I do.
The niche-ier, the better.
I'm a knitting champion.
Competitive crocheting.
Cup stacking.
- Do you like that? - I love that.
See, that's a skill you can take right to the bank.
This is a show about excellence in fields
that maybe you've never even heard of.
But we respect excellence in that field
- anyways. - We sure do.
Spoilers galore, so please, if you're hung up on
catching the whole season before we talk about it,
the door is right over there.
If you want to prove that you're the best
hair stylist in the world, there's only one way to do it.
Okay so, this is Bronner Bros. International Hair Show.
And in this world, Black is excellence, which we stan.
But also, it's natural hair styles
partnered with pageantry.
Pushing stuff to the limit.
Mama, this is Drag Race.
- We are a staple in Black beauty. - Work.
Oh!
- Oh my God. - Shut the (bleep) up.
This is amazing.
The choreography, the costumes.
It's fierce.
It's like drag, where it's like,
"Let's celebrate the beauty of it,
but also kind of make a joke of it."
Like, if your normal hair do is just like a, a haiku,
they go full Homer's “The Odyssey.”
- “The Iliad”, sis. Yes. - “The Iliad,” yeah!
The Legion of Glam, is my team.
Okay, so here we have Terrence, who is a competitor.
You ever fantasize
about having an entourage?
No, I want the opposite.
"Trixie Six walks up there, you can't use this street."
Only one model is allowed on stage.
So it's a three-headed woman.
Whoa.
Only one model is allowed on stage
and he wants to do a three-headed piece.
Oh I love triplets!
Terrence's history with the judges is storied.
Transgender people are here,
you gave them a platform.
Trailblazer.
This is one of the best things about the beauty industry.
Before you can get your foot in the door,
your foot and the rest of your body
better be entirely accepting of gay and trans people.
It'd be all straight people, and we'd do only,
like, "The Rachel," or like, you know, a bowl cut.
That's the only thing we would do.
You only have one hour
to attach these hair pieces to your models.
Wow.
Everybody competes and then they do a walk-off.
Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
they're doing it on stage in real time.
Yes!
Whoa!
- The stress factor. - The pressure, the heat.
The sweat coming from you, flood the building.
Lady of the lake.
Work, bitch.
If you can create that hairpiece to balance
on just one third, you’re a boss.
The physics of it. One stumble,
- hair ripped out. - Yeah.
You're going down.
Girl, they're gonna get that on her head and go,
"Okay, now I just need you to go get on that unicycle
and bike out on to that stage."
The judges are ready.
This is where you see how Black culture
created drag culture.
This is like the balls.
- This is a ball. - I mean, this is like a ball.
I love this.
Did you see that?
People in the audience are doing reveals.
You've done a sunglass reveal, haven't you?
Absolutely I have.
I would be screaming at this event.
"You (beep) work you (beep) (beep)."
You would be escorted out 10 minutes into the competition.
"That (beep) work, yes!"
"She's employed!"
You'll be at the next one in like a full disguise
trying to get ideas for your looks.
- Yeah. - Trying to take secret pictures.
In the back with a camcorder.
- "Is that four bobby pins? Okay?" - Yeah.
The Bronner International Hair Show really has everything.
There's probably like, years long beefs
and like, you know, rivalries and stuff.
It seems like it has the drama, the fierceness,
- but it just looks like a joyous time. - Yeah, like a joyous event.
You and I, they would go to attach these pieces
to our real head,
and find out they have about 45 hairs to work with.
45 is a generous estimate.
They would be combing my lower back hair
up to support it.
"Maybe we could tape it to her neck."
Next episode, we're going to the UK
for the Brockworth Cheese Roll?
Which appears to be a challenge of gravity and dairy.
Two things I'm not really fond of,
the UK and cheese.
If the cheese does come over here,
protect those kids.
Imagine if you got killed by a cheese wheel?
It is the most dangerous foot race
in the world.
Somebody better die.
Oh my God!
The hill is steeper than 45 degrees.
"45 degrees of steep."
Now that I think of it,
more than 45 degrees is extremely steep.
When things are old and traditional,
people will do anything.
Let's do the fucking Brockworth Cheese Roll.
What, oh my God.
There's a lot of falling.
Oh my God, that's harrowing!
They call it a foot race,
I don't see people standing or running.
No, it's like a, "Whoa!"
"Ahh!"
I'm not cold, I'm just scared!
We're here on competition day
and only one cheese roller as we saw,
is gonna be the winner.
If we were over there on tour
and we found out this was going on,
and it was not that far away, would we do it?
Yes we would.
- No no no, I would observe, - I think we'd...
I would never do it though.
I would be at the bottom of the mountain
doing a tip spot.
♪Sisters are doing it for themselves♪
They'd be like, "Get out my bloody way!"
This is danger isn't it?
Every sport, you know, you can get smacked in the head
by a cricket ball playing cricket, can't you?
I would break my neck, oh my God.
It's very dangerous.
Yes, it's insane, actually.
They can't wear helmets?
They can't do anything?
I mean, it's just bodies, it's not running.
Suddenly frog (beep) seems normal.
Spice Girls, they were like, "Thank God!"
'Cause British people were (beep) doing this, girl.
Separate the boys and the girls.
Wow, somebody's actually on their feet.
- Oh, oh God, ooh that butt- - Not for very long.
- Oh God. Oh (beep). - Oh (beep).
Oh my!
- Not to mention- - Rag dolls.
That little British bowl cut,
when I think of a British person, that's her.
The haircut, the stripey shirt,
kissing a cheese wheel.
Flailing.
Whoa, that bitch is turning it.
She's walking on sunshine.
- Please make it, I'm rooting for her. - Damn.
The amount of time they spend not on the ground is shocking.
It's truly wild.
But you know what, if you're gonna do it,
do it at her age.
Like, a 35 year old hitting ground like that, bye.
Osteoporosis. Bones, disintegrated.
Oh, I'd be dead.
This is (beep) psycho!
It's totally psychotic.
I can't believe she's like, all in one piece.
Every bone in my body would snap.
Yeah, dust.
"I only have one thing to say...
Ding, dong!"
All right in this episode, we're in California,
and people are competing in a frog jumping competition.
The stakes are high, the legs are low.
It's a great day to jump some frogs.
I would have seen this as more of a Florida activity,
- but let's see what the Californians are doing with it. - I was gonna say Florida as well.
Must be Northern California.
This is the oldest and biggest frog jump in the world.
I love the encouragement.
Getting down low to the earth, screaming at a frog.
It's almost a person hopping competition, as well.
"Jump, you got it."
"You gotta want it!"
"It's now or never."
These frogs don't even know what's going on.
No, it's just business as usual.
If anybody breaks Rosie the Ribiter's world record,
it's a $5000 prize.
That's not enough for my frog's barre classes.
21 feet! Girl, is that frog wilding out,
or is that frog wilding out?
I am out of here.
She said, "Bye!"
Who would get into this if you didn't find the frogs
kind of cute and charming?
They're pretty cute, right?
Um, did you ever dissect one in school?
Frog is intense, I mean, it's laying there like,
- you know, legs open. - I loved it.
The Gustine team has been jumping
for seven decades.
So, Bob has a legacy with frogs.
Very passionate about training them, catching them.
Dynasty.
- My son Justin Fasano- - Justin if you're into
frog legs...
Catching a champion frog
is all about preparation, and, location.
The (beep) canal.
"The (beep) sucker canal."
Like, why are they beeping it?
"The (beep) (beep) canal."
I want them to have a gay child though
who is like, "I'm not (beep) doing this."
- Yeah. - "No no no."
The 91st Annual Frog Jumping Jubilee.
Coming for your wigs.
Ribbit De Niro!
Go go go!
The part of it that's so funny to me,
that they're like, "Go."
And the human is like, "Booga booga booga!"
I know, it's so extra.
"Booga booga booga."
Writhing around on the ground, screaming.
For Riley Kitchel,
- there's one simple path to victory. - Go, kid!
Become one with the frog.
He's (beep) fine.
- Ooh blowing, nice nice. - Absorbed in the moment.
I'm more impressed with his jump.
Very nice.
The only thing standing between him
and another Calavaras team trophy, is this 12 year old.
We have Logan Bush.
- He won? - Kitchel is pissed.
"That 12 year old (beep)!"
"You done good, kid."
It is very California to be like,
"Stop eating the frogs.
Give them a place in society."
"Give them an outlet!"
"They’ve gotta jump!"
I would go to this.
I absolutely, I would too.
I would get Satanic, I would just like, "Rawr!"
You'd be the first person to try to enter the competition
as a frog.
Okay, screen wipe, we're in South Carolina,
and this is the chili eating competition.
Chili peppers.
I love crying from eating.
Sweating.
Like, hyperventilating?
I can take a lot of heat,
both on the internet and in a Mexican restaurant.
I just get stressed out
about the delayed reaction.
Oh yes, sometimes the pepper isn't hot at first,
and then like, a minute and a half in,
you're like, "Oh my God."
Just chewing on peppers by themselves?
Girl, the (beep) these people are taking the next day.
It's over.
Oh, I'm sure.
Ripping skin, the toilet stained red.
Like, it's over.
So this is the first competition, and we have
a trans woman competing.
Which I love, as a trans woman in America,
she's like, "We only have to eat peppers?"
Absolutely.
Smokin' Ed became a star of the industry
and a cult hero when he set the Guinness World Record
for the hottest pepper ever tested.
"What do you do?"
"I grow the hottest peppers in the (beep) world, bitch."
That is so cool.
The reaper, 5000 times hotter.
These people are psychotic!
What would happen if you rubbed it in your eyes?
I mean it could knock you out.
I feel like if you sniffed it,
you'd probably shit razor blades.
- White people. White people. - White people. White people.
This show should just be like,
- called, "White People Doing (beep)." - Yeah.
How do you not puke, I mean come on.
I watch these other contests.
The peppers they use just aren't hot.
He walks into other chili competitions
- he’s like, "All right, - "Y'all ain't (beep)."
how about y'all grow the (beep) up?"
"Not impressed."
Like, "Oh, did you want some salt with that?
- Oh..." - Yeah.
Jumping out of a plane with 10 reaper peppers in his mouth?
- What the (beep)? - What?
This guy wants to die.
- I'm transgender. - Meryl Streep.
All that discrimination or anger
gets pushed into eating these chilis
and that's what gets me through.
- Through the fire! - You better work you (beep) you (beep).
"This is the easiest thing I'll do all week."
She's like, "The real problem is,
are you gonna let me use the bathroom later?"
She retired out of boredom.
"Well, I guess I'll quit now."
That's (beep) cool.
"Quit out of boredom."
So now we're going to the pepper eating competition.
Wait, PuckerButt Pepper Competition. PuckerButt.
She's got those bad English teeth.
"She's got those bad English teeth!
She can't chew fast enough."
He really just said that to the camera.
"I've got manky chompers."
That girl is Nancy from The Craft.
Yeah.
Oh these poor people.
Oh the tears!
When does it stop burning?
That's what I wanna know.
I love that this is about championing the human spirit.
Pick something less painful Mary, oh my gosh.
No (beep), it's a hobby!
Don't torture yourselves.
Three remain, they'll end up on a track
for $1,000 dollars.
$1,000 dollars!
- $1,000 dollars to mangle your insides. - $1,000 dollars!
Get a part time job at the Nordstrom's.
Neither of them are bottoming tonight, let me just say that.
Not this month!
Girl, I'd dare you to try to (beep) me,
the day I have this chili eating competition.
Your (beep) will disintegrate.
It will literally sizzle right off the body.
I mean, my boyfriend, he's like,
"The ketchup is spicy."
I am gonna pepper spray him.
I'm gonna try to break him out of it.
This series is all very drag related
because drag is stupid, but there is sort of like,
"If we're gonna do something dumb,
let's try to do it well," do you know what I mean?
Yeah, absolutely.
This is very, the energy of this.
All right, so we are entering the world of dog dancing.
Woah what do they win, $300 dollars?
Ah!
- Oh my God. - Oh my God!
They do the same thing with bears.
Bear dancing?
Russia is wild.
That is amazing.
That is so cute!
"My hair is very beautiful.
People tell to me."
"My dog dance really nice."
I love that hair.
Like, the stereotype of like,
Russian woman, like, "blonde hair at the expense
of murdered, damaged, texture."
"I will process this hair
no matter what the cost!"
Paulina knows that Irena can dance.
But will Irena dance, too hard?
Girl, diva, you better work it.
You gotta stay fierce and dance for that dog.
I've seen homosexuals in West Hollywood
walking their dogs in a similar way.
I don't think she's dancing that hard.
- I thought she was gonna be like- - Hardly dancing, I don't-
I thought she was gonna be pummeling the ground.
I thought that she was gonna be like,
tongue out, eyes rolled back like, "Ugh."
Like, this is nothing.
- She's just doing this. - Yeah.
"Will she take the title?”
She walks by that other girl and just goes,
"Eat (beep)."
"You ugly sack of (beep)."
"Break a leg, bitch."
- She's very pleased. - She did good!
In a way, drag is dog dancing.
Except, we are the dogs.
I've been to Hamburger Mary's on the weekend
in 98 degree weather watching a grown man in a wig
lipsync in the sunlight, it is dog dancing, okay?
I could get into dog dancing.
Dog dance choreographer!
That would be, I love that for you.
- Dog dance choreographer. - Dog dance choreographer
to the stars.
To the stars!
I would think that dogs are very reliable
as dance partners.
I just hope it doesn't turn sexual.
This show has everything.
Russian people, dog dancing, track suits, bull frogs,
running down a hill, dairy, cheese, British people,
difficult teeth, hair competitions, wigs, balls,
bang pieces.
Rule breaking, trail blazing, risk taking
And it has greatness in many forms,
which is always worth celebrating.
So check out We Are The Champions, on Netflix.com!