Hello everyone, I'm Jinx Monsoon and welcome to a brand new episode of Hi Jinx with me, Jinx Monsoon.

Today our guest, Kola Escola, talks all about their celebrated career, which has spent decades at this point.

We talk about their humble beginnings on web cams all the way up to today where they're working with the

greats such as Amy Sedaris and others.

Honestly though, Kola and I just sit here for an hour and talk about life and it's really cute and sweet.

So, hunker down and sink in to some new Hi Jinx.

Hello everyone, I'm Jinx Monsoon and welcome to Hi Jinx, a podcast where I, an internationally tolerated drag superstar,

get to interview compelling and fascinating people about how they became who they are and why they do what they do.

Today we are joined by poet laureate, Nobel Peace Prize winner, psychic and the most followed person on TikTok.

It's Kola Escola. Hi Kola. Hi Jinx. Thank you, you said it perfect.

Now that intro was a fountain of lies written by my producer, I don't know if any of those things

are you a psychic? I don't know, I guess we'll see.

Wonderful answer. We would open. But in all seriousness, you're an actor, a comedian and a queer icon.

Kola Escola, I have followed your work for so long. We've only crossed paths once in Australia.

In Australia, but actually that's not true because there's no way you would remember this,

but you like, oh no, typically when someone says that, it means it was a blackout.

No, no, no, no, I don't think I don't even think we were so young. You were the first, we were at

the escape. Oh my gosh, because you grew up in Oregon because I grew up in Oregon.

Yeah, she's that underage gay club. It was, yeah, I was maybe 17, so which means you were 51?

No, but I think you were, yeah, we're the same age, so you must have been, and I think you were

the first to drag queen that I ever saw in real life. That's true for quite a handful of people who

lived in Oregon. Yes, for our listeners, the escape aka Club Z aka the city night club aka

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