## Unique Chung | The Tracksuit Podcast Unique Chung — hair and makeup artist, influencer, trained actress, and founding member of the Dirtbag Crew — sits down with James and BJ for her very first podcast appearance. What starts as a warm reunion between set family quickly spirals into conspiracy theory deep-dives, a heartfelt origin story, and a frank breakdown of what really happens in the makeup chair. ### Key Topics - **How they all met** — the Mondrian pool party, GG Saul Guerrero, and the birth of the Dirtbag Crew at a monster truck rally - **Jim Carrey & the Mandela Effect** — James's theory that Jim Carrey single-handedly implanted false pop-culture memories via *The Mask*, *Ace Ventura*, *The Cable Guy*, and *In Living Color*; the Jimmy Kimmel Illuminati rant and whether the laugh track was faked - **Conspiracy corner** — CERN, the ice wall, hollow moon physics, black holes as a matrix on-ramp, and *The Whyfiles* fish - **Casting without auditions** — James breaks down why he never auditions actors, how watching a full performance beats four sides in a room, and the friendship fallout that happens when he doesn't hire someone - **The Workout & Complex Texas** — BJ on the pressure of hitting every mark with no second takes, shooting out with Kevin Dillon, and auditioning six (eight?) times for a role he didn't book - **Unique's origin story** — Loxa High School for the Arts (rival to James's Hamilton), a theater teacher who spotted her, the clinic waiting room moment that made her mom keep her, and why she wasn't named Cedric - **How she fell into makeup** — a church pageant, a natural-makeup hire, and a special-effects class she only took because theater was full - **The makeup chair as intelligence hub** — actors spilling everything, a wardrobe dog that got dropped and sent someone to the hospital, and why the makeup artist always knows the set's temperature before the director does - **Horror talk** — Chucky as a three-year-old introduction, *Pinocchio Unstrung*, *Obsession*, Backrooms, and why scary movies only fully hit in a packed theater - **Unique's dream role** — a murderer nobody suspects, possibly in a film called *Unique* - **Future plans** — app and invention ideas she won't say on mic, a makeup brand, a beauty school, and reopening her mom's boutique Ice Queen - **Fantastic Fest chaos** — a serial killer targeting chubby dudes in Austin, James sober-wrangling a drunk crew the night before his first-ever boxing match **Find Unique:** [@vain_vixen_makeup](https://www.instagram.com/vain_vixen_makeup/) on Instagram