September 14, 2022 • 36 mins
J&J are joined by what’s her name? Priyanka! She spills all the details about her momentous rise to the top of the Drag World just when the world needed it.
From Canada’s Drag Race to an upcoming rom-com, Priyanka explains how doubts turned into courage and what it means for those like her.
The big gay spotlight is shining on Priyanka right now and we’re all feeling the warmth!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Pridecast with Jonathan Bennett James on I Heart Radio. Hey,
what's up, everybody? Welcome to a new episode of Pridecast.
I am your host, Jonathan Bennett, and I am joined
by my handsome, hunky and hot husband, James Vaughan. Say hi, James,
(00:26):
I always say that and you go, what do I do?
Your voice sounds so low and sexy because I'm tired.
I'm tired, right you know who else sounds sexy? That
sneeze right there? Let's I think we should just jump
right into our guests. When you have a guest this big,
you go right to it. You know what I mean? Well,
(00:47):
let's do it. I feel like I want to set
this up. Um, so you want to do you want
to do it? You wanna do it? My own intro?
I can do my own. Yes, please do your intro.
Everybody podcast. Today we have an amazing, iconic gas. We
are so surprised that she took time out of her
busy schedule to be today. She has a pop star.
She is the winner of Canada's Drag Race Season one.
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Her album has over ten million streams right now, which
is crazy. Everybody, please welcome to the show. What's her name? Preca?
That was so good. I just I just wanted to
do the what's her name? So can I have that
moment to yeah, you go, yeah, go ahead, say it,
do it, do it? Do it? Baby? What's her name? Welcome?
(01:31):
Show into this off the ship, never toye. Where you
are the viewers, the viewers, they're not watching us to
the listeners. Where you are over? Yeah, I am in
Croatia right now because we have our outbound cruise of
the Adriatic Seed of the Croatian Islands, and so we
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are presently and I'm gonna say it wrong because I
always do Yet, which is an island in the Adriatic Sea.
It's part of what do you call beautiful? And we
are here. Actually this cruise is on a yacht, so
it's it's pretty amazing. Presently are blue and white night.
Captain's dinner party, et cetera is going on upstairs, and
I have snuck away to the cabin to do a
little broadcast the cabin's cabin and I'm just sitting in
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palm springs and a brown out, you know what I mean.
I mean, if I had a nickel, the amount of
times I've been in a brown out if you know what, Hey,
yo yakaka, are you like full of dad jokes? That's
all he's dad jokes one after another? What the here go? What?
What the fish say when it swam into the wall?
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What damn? Everyone? If you were watching the camera right now,
I gave the face of like, I need to getcause
it's a damn because it's a wall and a fish
would swim into it a damn because it's a damn.
Oh man, this is so crunchy. I'm so sorry about
you know what I don't say because you know that
(03:00):
you know no I do? I do? You brought that
garbage to the podcast on today. I'm trash um, I'm
one of our favorites here. I'm not gonna let you
waste the time with bad jokes. All right, we're gonna
drop into this because baby, you and I both like
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Prianka is probably one of our top queens of all
time ever, and I remember them the minute we first
saw you on Canada's Drag Race. You walked in and
we were like, that's a superstar right there, and not
only because you are a superstar, but also because you
remind us of one of our best friends. That's also
a superstar. Yeah. Megan tell us she's a news anchor
at kt l A in l A and she's obsessed
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with you, and she sees your stuff and always goes, me,
that's me, this is me. You're like a drag. She's like,
you're like a drag tribute to her, and she's a
she's a she kind of dragged herself, and she'll say
she's a dragon. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes. And
I remembering my off I remember seeing you going, oh
my gosh, finally someone on TV that has more energy
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than me. I'm not the crazy one anymore. Like there's
someone that actually has more energy than me. And I
loved it because you brought me up. Every time we
watched you. I was like, oh, Priyanka makes me feel alive. Yeah.
I mean, it's funny that I was perceived that way,
because I felt like it was such a TV vacation.
I was like, Oh, I finally get to go on
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television and talk about gay ship and like just actually
be myself. It was the most electric feeling ever, because
it's not that when I was doing kids TV I
had to hide it. It just wasn't something we talked
about like I wasn't talking about boys, I wasn't talking
about being in drag I was just talking about SpongeBob SquarePants, right,
and it is And I'm just happy. I'm really happy.
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I also like thinking about like the timing of it
all too, like being on you know during the pandemic,
when it was like super it was everyone was locked down.
I think it really helped to It was my mom
who called that. My mom was like, oh, this show
will take off because of the pandemic. Mark my words
was like, what are you talking about? Mom? And she
was right. Everyone will always remember season one of Canada's
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Ragays Thank God, Oh my god. Yeah, You're like the
hope that we needed at the time in the world.
We're like, oh, this will take me out of my
day of what all the all the craziness that's going on,
and like give me something that's fun and uplifting to watch. So,
I mean, we needed you, and we needed you, and
we need a Tiger King like you and Tiger King
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are what got us through the pandemic. You know. It's
not like if I like that's my next tattoo? Are
you the Tiger Queen? The Queen Carol Box is shaking Carol, really,
no wonder she hates me. I'm making this up. I
have no clue with who that woman is. And she
first shared cut her husband. But I remember watching Tiger King.
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What an amazing, amazing documentary have you all seen? Don't
with cats? Oh my gosh, yes, we were just talking
about that in Croatia. We were just lucagnata. I hope
they want to Oscar for that documentary. The way that
it was put together, I said, oh my god, this
is filmmaking, bits, this is documentary making, this is everything.
I was on the edge of my of my seat
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the entire time it happened in Toronto, down the street
from where I live. Hello, yes, yikes, but I'm not
to be I'm I'm not about to be at Karen
and be like, what if it was me? Luca m
mcnata doesn't give a shit about me. That's controversial said that,
But let me say something is that I am obsessed.
They also just like release that Luca mcnata is like
(06:35):
married a woman in jail. Yes he did, yes, yes, yes,
do he likes the puss. I don't understand like wanting
to to to marry somebody that's committed murders in jail. Like,
I think that people find hurt people hurt people, and
(06:56):
hurt people find hurt people. And I think what I'm
assuming is that miss Thing found a way to like
relate to him and say, like, I understand why you
did what you did. I also wanted to kill my
cats and kill a random person and chop them up
and throw them in a garbage bag in Montreal. Relatable
content and they find each other and they love each other,
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and that's just that. Did I just justify that? That's so,
dub Let's move on the next question. So the question is,
let's talk about question. There wasn't a question brought us.
You brought it up. Oh my gosh, do you think? Yes,
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I think of where your life is now versus before
before going on drag race, Like, can you imagine what
your life is like now if you never want on
drag race? So my drag mom, Ecstasy Love always says
that like I still would be doing exactly what I'm doing,
it just would have taken me longer to get That's
like what she says, Like and like she has this
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perspective of she like came to my birthday party, was
like you should start drag and I was like, I'm
starting drag, let's do it, and threw myself in the
ring and became like the girl in Toronto and then
went on to win Canada's Drag Race. So she sees
it from a different perspective. The perspective that I see
it from is, oh, I guess if I didn't go
on Canada's Drag Race, then I would be still on
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Kids TV or have moved up into like Entertainment TV
and went to Eat Canada or something or E t
U S or whatever to like be a reporter on
the Red carpet. But I don't know. I I definitely
think that like drag Race holds an audience that you
just cannot get anywhere else, a very loyal fandom. Um
(08:54):
So I don't know. I feel like I would have
gotten here event eventually, Like I I look at like
my my my music and stuff up and like taste test,
my EP got like so many like streams and and lemons.
First one viral because she's an icon, and I that.
But then I think back to before drag Grace. I
was like, oh, I had released two songs already, Like
I was already on my way. I already wanted to
do this, so I think like drag Grace was just
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that bump of coke that I needed. You got that boost.
I'm speaking of the Lemon verse though, like everything, every everything,
it really is like I cannot tell you when that
viral clip went out. I probably watched it twenty times
in a row the first time, and then I still
will have days where I will pull it up just
for that clip. Yes, I remember when she recorded it.
(09:40):
The funny story about the funny thing. The funniest thing
about about this verse is that the songwriter that I
was writing with kind of like made up like a
little bit of like a guide for her. It was like,
here's what we're kind of thinking, you know, and lemons
like you match. I'm a rapt And so she scraped
the whole thing and she writes this verse no changes,
(10:03):
like what you hear in the song is her first
stab at that, at that in the in the and
and then she she came to where we were recording it,
got Starbucks where ha ha he ha, who has sister
sister and sister miss thing got in the verse into
the sorry miss Thing got into the booth, and I
was listening to her rapid and I literally I was like,
(10:25):
this is going to go viral, Like nothing in my
mind says this isn't. And then then then I got
the first mix have come through and I'm listening to
my verses and I'm like, wow, I'm a fucking singer.
I'm so proud of myself. It was the first song
in the EP that that I had gotten back, and
I was like, holy shit, like this thing is going
to take off for for me. Lemon's Verse hit and
I remember I was driving and I just like I
(10:47):
felt like this said like I was like proud of
her because I truly believe that at the finale of Canider,
because I should have been standing there with her because
she's so undeniably talented. So it was a nice way
to be able to celebrate her in the way that
she always celebrated me throughout the whole competition. And what's
good is what's good. And I actually like sat there
and like created those clips off for TikTok of her
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verse and posted them as soon as come through came out,
and went on YouTube and created an hour long loop
of the verse myself because I am like, we have
to support each other, and we have to like when
you know something's good, don't avoid it, baby, just go
in and just go go with it. When it's good,
it's good. When it's good, it's good exactly anyway. So
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that's along along, Please we can I can talk about
I love that about you. But I love that, like
I know, like not everybody agrees in this because some
people like, oh I watch Drag Grace, like the Cantinists
or whatever, but like I love when the Queen's all
get along and support each other and build each other up.
And I feel like you do that so well, and
just to hear you you're the best a lemon and
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doing that for her, I just think that's a beautiful thing.
So I just gotta say, like, thank you for being
that positive role model in this space I got you.
You know. The one thing I realized about being an
artist is it's been really hard to get people to
care about your art and like really like appreciate what
it is you're trying to do with your career slash artistry.
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Right as as a true artist, you feel something and
you do it, and like there's such a lack of
support there from everybody because everybody just feels startned and
no one thinks that there's a room for all of us,
but there literally is. That is that is something that
I find so much, especially you find that especially in
the in the in the in the queer community, that
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happens so much, and especially in the queer entertainment community.
It's like it's like there because I think we've always
had this feeling of scarcity, like we're we're never enough,
you know, as full For me, I can't speak for everyone,
but from me, I know it's like the feeling of like, oh,
being a queer performer, there's not enough roles, there's not
enough positions, like I'm not good enough to play this,
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or I'm I'm not enough to I don't deserve this role.
But now that the entertainment industry and just the world
with with social media and what entertainment is, it's all
different forms now that there are plenty of spots for
everyone and there's plenty of space for everyone to succeed
in to shine, and I think we kind of have
that old feeling in our heads sometimes or some people
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you know of like just there's not enough, there's not
enough pie And it's actually there's plenty of pies for everybody,
and everyone will have a piece of it, and like
it's just like also, the big problem in our industry
is that like people whenever they see someone being successful,
it makes them hold up a mirror to themselves and
then they completely lose it. They're like, well, now you're stupid,
or than there's sounds stupid or them this that. So
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it's like it's just a weird thing. But the way
that the one that the one thing that I say
is like keep pushing and keep going. And I'm learning
it's it's really truly about who you stride yourself with.
What do you think about this? I mean, like who
who's in your circle can really dictate and and and
influence your action in your career, in your life, in
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the way you treat people and what you the actions
you know, and like I've learned that so much and
it's such an interesting like thing to learn. My boyfriend's here,
My boys, My boyfriend just came in the frame. He's
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let's go viral. So y'all listening, just so you know,
we do these on zoom so we can all see
each other as well. And Pat's boyfriend just gave us
a light little show. Just came in the room with
a little skin. Hey, boyfriend, we gotta take a quick
break and come right back and talk about season three
Canadas drag Rissa and We're act with the One and
(15:01):
Only What's Her Name? Podcast? Okay, we're we're digging in.
We're we're locking in our our high heels and we're
digging into season three Canada's Drag Race and Go. I've
only watched one episode drunk. I haven't watched any of
the season. Um, something happens when you're a drag race
(15:24):
girl that you stop watching drag Race typically kind of
except for Crystal met Method watches it like it is
the Bible. Um, because it's it's just because like it's
like it wasn't traumatizing for me personally. Um, but it's
(15:45):
just different. It's just so different now. But I am
excited for like to crown somebody. I'm excited for isis
coatore to step down. I cannot wait to see what
she's gonna gonna wear. Um, I'm excited to go and
cry my eyes. I'm a crier here. Listen, I'm gonna
tell you understand this. So like as a Drag Race Girl.
You say that as an Amazing Race girl. I get
it because I always watched the show. I loved it
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when before I was on it, and then after being
on it, it's weird. It's hard to watch it after
having actually like seen it through your own eyes. It
takes away something, and then I feel like watching other
seasons after you sort of starts to take away from
your experience and you don't want to diminish what it
was through your own eyes. It's like I never watched
Amazing Race again after I was on, even though I
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loved the show, because my experience was what it was
and I didn't want to taint it with anything after that.
So I get it. I get it when you said that,
And it's no shade. It's no shade toward it at all.
It's just your experience was so great that you don't
want to taint how great it was. Understand it completely.
I got you. You know, it's like watching Mean Girls
Jonathan's gaze. How can I how can I believe it? Oh? Okay, well,
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you know. It's it's the quality of the action. It's
the quality of the way you're pitch with right. Carrie
Whistle to Oh, so we're gonna we're gonna talk about
mean girls. No, we know we're going to talk about well,
I was gonna say that. I feel the same way
with with Big Brother being on Celebrity Big Brother and
(17:12):
with Dancing with the Stars. I don't watch either anymore
because it ruined it for me. Like I can't, I
just can't watch. It's just like, yeah, I mean, I like,
I like watching the Winner season because I think that also,
as like a drag queen, you watch and and and
you like you take in things that you want to
be a part of. You know, I watched the Winner
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CE season and what one day I want to be
on the Winner See season, or like you watch music
videos and like I want to do that. I want
to you know, all that kind of stuff. So when
when you're when when when it's in the past, in
the past, honey, what do you say when when it's good?
It's good? Okay, it's good. But baby? Also though, like,
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wasn't Dancing with the Stars like maybe a little traumatic
for you because like I saw the dancing like so
maybe yes, I didn't realize segment two was take Jonathan.
I didn't understand that anyone else, and I love the
can talk about my acts. What do you want to
dance moves? But the dance, the dancing with the start
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the pitbull one was good, baby, that was very good
for you. And my baby is not the dancing queen
that you would like to be. And we have to
be honest in our relationship about things. As I listen,
I'm not an actor. I'm certainly not the actress in
the family. So I understand guys. Act one it was
queer supporting queers. Now complete what being gay is all about.
(18:38):
We act like we support each other and then we
go we hid each other's back and talk shit. It's
all in love. We do like what I'm a horrible
dand each other, but like a little fun shade towards
each other. This dance moves very together. For five years, yeah,
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five years long women together five years almost six maybe
almost six almost six. For almost six months, we've been
together for six almost six years. So just to give
your a little backstory on why everybody's so delirious right now,
my baby just finished shooting two movies back to back.
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I have been up for some hundred forty six hours
in the Adriatic Sea on this outbound trip and Prianka
is presently in a room with the TV in a
box and a carousel horse. I don't know what a
new dog and a new dog a new dog and
what is your boyfriend? It was in that's my drag, Mom,
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Oh it's not the boyfriend. So okay, okay, I was like,
we have before patting on, but that would explain it. Yeah, okay,
before we get into we gotta get into so many things.
We have to get into your your song stress stuff,
your ax stress stuff. But we have to talk about
Daisy because I am in love with Daisy. Are you?
Are you so happy to have so I've never had
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changes your life, right, Changing a dog is like literally
the most life changing thing ever. I've never had a dog.
But it is a not but and it's a full
time job. It's it is training. We're training her properly.
She's creating, she's is she not create right now? She's
not crying her rate right now. So we're celebrating this congratulation.
She's Daisy, that's our all um, And like celebrating when
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a dog takes a ship. It's a very interesting feeling,
I mean, but it's amazing. It's incredible my boyfriend. It's
like bringing my boyfriend and I closer together because now
we can like, who's gonna take her this? Make sure
she does this? Like it's it's like really really fun bonding.
Both of us recommended together. We've been together for a
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year and ten months or two years in December, so
that's twelve gay years. Yeah, yeah, that's literally like, yes,
more than a decade. Do you live together? We live
together now? Yeah, it's amazing when your drag mom live
there too. My drag mom is not here on the
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house behind you. I gotta ask, I want to live there?
Why is there a team? It looks fun? Why is
there a rugby team in a living room? Who was that? So? So?
This that's my finale dress on a display. The cheese
hat is on because the wig went went to Montreal
(21:32):
for this museum. Uh, and then the horses. When I
perform at the Country Music Awards, I did my country
which was amazing, by the way. I was perched for
that and it was amazing you and then my dragma
is here because we're going out for dinner in twenty
five minutes and my boyfriend is entering around. Wait, why
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are we talking about visuals. Do you have a filter
on or makeup? Or why is your skin looks so good?
I have makeup. I put like a little beat on
right now it looks okay skin. You got close to
the camera just now, and I was like, damn, because
that's not what my skin looks like. I'm close. No, no, no,
it's like the shiseto like gorgeous, very lightly fluffy, you know.
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So yeah, it looks like my skin is filtered. But wait,
did you go to the finale and drag or do
you go to I'm not going in drag? My drag
mom is going in drag because she's that bitch. Do
you know what I mean? Yes? But how about yes?
You better get to that level of yes, I was
the winner of this show, and I will show up
not in drag. Yeah, oh remember me for my confessionals.
(22:35):
That's what you're getting. Yeah, but whenever, I won't lie
like I love being in drags whenever, Like now that
like I see her in drag, I know that everyone
else is going to be in dragon, like damnit. And
I just took the two hours like a eyelash, and
you realize how stupid pretty you are in drag too,
but you posted something recently of your first time in
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drag versus where you got now baby, But that's that's
inspirational to everybody else trying out there to figure out
how to do it? What changed? What changed? How did
you what? What did you figure out that made you
like figure out how to be like the beautiful version
of You're always beautiful, but like you have figured out
how to be like stunned time. Yeah, I mean I
(23:17):
work with um a makeup artist named Victor Peters who's
also part of my drag family in the House of Love.
His name is Varushka like her and her drag names Rushka,
and I worked with Victor, says twenty twenty one. When
I started to kind of step into the music video
world to like, let's hire makeup artis, I'm like, no,
I'm doing my oh makeup because I want to look
(23:38):
like me. And then it was kind of like, you know,
we want to shoot this like Murder Mystery in a
castle in Toronto, so you're gonna have time to your makeup, bitch.
So I's like, hey, fine, So we hired Victor and
it was like from then it was like hire him
for everything and he helped me learn how to do
my makeup properly and why things are the way they are,
(23:58):
and like learn my ace and stuff. So it's interesting.
I went up for that's my experience. But I went
up for brunch with Chekhole, who we love, and she
was I was like, oh, like, do you ever get
someone to paint you? And she's like, no, I've been
doing my makeup like since the beginning. I was like floor,
Like I was like, wow, you're just really talent, national talent.
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Oh my gosh. She never compare. Yeah, because because her face,
her face is one of the absolute that bitchy as brow. Yeah, yeah,
she's stunning. Like yeah, absolutely, I mean like I did you.
I don't know if you know this, but maybe you
know this obviously I'm a huge fan, Like from the
Monte she walked in the workroom the very first time
(24:40):
ever the first season. I was like, ah, I want
to know her. So yeah, I'm I'm I'm a hyper
up all the time. Yeah, she's a star. And she's
shooting a Marvel show right now, Like let me yeah,
and she's doing Marvel, we are doing it. And you,
speaking of being an actress, you have a Canadian comedy
tell us about that. Yeah, I'm like a lead in
(25:01):
a rom com that's coming out next year. And I
also amazing I got announced that I'm in um like
a vampire or Vampire Diaries meets Pretty the Liars meets
kind of like whatever comedy shows that there. I'm also
part of that. Like being on deadline and playback and
all that stuff is absolutely crazy, Like because I made
(25:23):
an intention this year, I said, listen, I've I've done this,
I've done that, but this year, I want to do
more on screen acting. I feel like this it's like
I did. I did like a little bit of on
screen acting with y TV, the kids TV show stuff,
but it was never like acting. And then I booked
the rom com and it was one of the best
experiences of my life because learning how to be soft
on camera is interesting, Like what subtle emotions can make
(25:48):
a big impact through the lens is very interesting. Um
And then today I got a call saying that I
got a role on a Netflix show. What It's like.
It's one of those things where like, if you truly
work hard and speak things in the existence, baby, it's
gonna baby it comes to life. But my question is
(26:11):
we are doing podcast? What does pride mean to you?
Pride I mean I'll never first of all. First off,
First of all, first of all, pride means unconditional pride
to me means letting somebody have their ups and downs
and still being there like person to let them grow
(26:33):
up in. You know, being a queer person is hooked up.
It's so hard. Everyone hates you, You hate yourself, You
have body dysmorphia, depression, anxiety. When day you wake up
you want to die. The next day you wake up
your queen of the world. Like it's all these things
all encompassed, right, And I think that you need people
in your life that become your pride, that like allow
(26:54):
you to have this journey, don't judge you for it.
So I think pride is like a family thing for me.
That parts you said about how one day you can
feel the top of the world, another day you can
feel bottom of them. Listen to that. If you're listening,
I know you go through that because we all go
through it with saying is you're not alone. You're not
alone in that feeling and the happy days they're coming too.
(27:17):
So like make sure you are you are you? You
got those coming, like just know that we all go
through the interesting thing, Like the interesting thing about like
the happy days that you really have to want them
to get them. That's what I feel like. You really
have to like like have like a clear intention, like tonight,
I'm going out to have a good time and nothing
can stop me. Like that intention, you have to see
(27:37):
it all the way through because like you have to
hold yourself accountable for the energy around you and the
energy that you create for yourself. It's a very interesting
thing because I'm I'm I'm past like things outside can
really affect me. Like if someone's in a bad wood,
I'm in a bad mood. If someone throws me a
bit of shade, it's going off my whole night. But
I've learned to just protect myself. It's hard, but good.
(27:59):
I can watch you talk every single day for the
rest of my life. I think you're so entertaining in
every single word you say. Um. We we talked about
a lot about the things that the queer community is
going through and a lot of the troubles that they face.
But what we like to do on Proadcast is also
kind of flip that on its head and shout out
what's your favorite part about being queer? What's the best
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thing about being part of the l g b t
Q plus community. The best thing would be the first
word that came to my mind was hero I think, like,
you know what it what did it say? Hindsight is yes,
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And when I like to look at like all the
things that I've done, I did that with my head
down just because I wanted to do it for myself
and didn't give a shit about what other people think,
because my mom was always like where work hard, you
get the jobs, and don't let anybody others ever see
for anything but like who you are, okay, mom? But
then looking back, I think my favorite thing about being
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a queer person, and it also being a brown person,
is that people can look at me and see that
like we can have success to and I'm very like,
I feel like, very very thankful that I'm like this
brown person who won Candida Drivers, who went on to
be a pop star, who's now leading a movie, who's
now just poked to a Netflix show, because like, now
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any brown person can be like, oh well, if Ryanka
did it, that I could do it too, and like
that's like you can't, that's hard That's a hard thing, right,
It's a hard thing to like because we often like
are like, Okay, well who's doing it? Everyone wants to
be like the first, but sometimes like you know, I'm
just opening the door for everyone else to walk through.
So I would say that's it would be a queer person.
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That's it. That's it. That's that's so absolutely amazing, opening
the door for everybody else to walk through. That that
that right there. That That's what Jonathan and I always
say to whenever we get a chance to do any
type of activism or first anything, or our second or
third is getting to do something. It's like, open that
doors so somebody else can come through it. Hold it
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open and let's blast people. Get the whole alphabet mafia
in here. So I love that you know how important
what you're doing is because it is Prianka. There are
people that feel like they have hope and they can
be successful because of you, because you are the first one.
And that's a really cool thing. And I love that
you know that something like that's why we're so proud
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of you and wanted to have you on here because
it's beautiful. It's beautiful speaking of people that we wanna
we wanna shine our spotlight on and and moments that
we want to shine our spotlight on. Let's let's do
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some big gay spotlight baby, will you set me up? Yeah? Sure.
Each week we like to shout out people on the
l g B t Q plus community that are doing
the most good, that are doing extraordinary things for the
community and for people around them, and we like to
shine our big gay spotlight on them. So this week, James,
let's shine our big gay spotlight on Hey Branco. While
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I do this, I'm gonna let you think if the
Summa you want to shine you a big gay spotlight
on two And I'm gonna jump right in on this
one because it's not a person. No, not this week. No,
I'm shot my big gay spotlight on a cartoon because
I'm shot it on Pepper Pig, featuring the same sex
couple on the show for the very first time. So
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Penny the Polar Bear has actually got two moms. Uh So,
during the episode, the main character Pepper got introduced to
uh Penny Polar Bear, I just said, I live with
my mummy and my other mummy. One mummy is a doctor.
And when we mommy cook spaghetti, I love spaghetti. It's
just that simple. It's really just that simple doing something
like that where kids will see their family represented, kids
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will see a different example of love, and it will
help change hearts and minds. It will help people feel seen.
And over the years, Pepper Pig has made references to
the LGBTQ Plus community in the show and through her albums.
So Pepper is an iconic, iconic pig. And this week
I'm shinning my big gay spotlight on you girl, and
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we shot in our big gay spotlight on all the
pigs in the lgbt Q plus community. We see all
the pigs, not just Peppa, and we love you too.
So if you are one of the pigs out there,
listen to this podcast. Oint oint to you. Baby. First
of all, he run an overreact like he knows these
terms now. So in Palm Springs at the gym we
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do every once in a while see an advertiser for
pig party. There's a pig party. It's an oint party.
And so now my baby is like using this term
like he knows exactly what it's about. Exactly. Do you
want to shine your biggest spotlight on anyone? Uh? Yeah,
I was shinning my gay big spotlight ah on my
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drug mom. She's back there. Y see her, Yes, just
can't because the boxes in the way. But she's really
in a full wig, pony tail, leather round out of it.
And um, I would love to shine my gay big
spotlight on a you love my drug mother who you
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all should go follow her right now because I think
that I talk about intention a lot, and I think
that this person has taught me intention. She knows exactly
what she wants to do, how she wants to make
people feel, what message she wants to come across. You know,
she says her her initials are X and out why
because I'm fat and everything. The audience is always like,
uh what because we're you know, we're talking growing up
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that fat's a bad word, right, And she's like, you know,
I'm fat and beauty. Beauty comes in all sizes, and
I'm like, damn like her intentions to make everybody feel
like fully love for who they are and not judged.
And you know I would say that that and seen
there it is that big gay spotlight on her, all right.
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I love that, and I love I love you have
that love for her, and thank you to her for
being your mama so we could get you in this
world too. They say, thank you for my mom. She says, ah,
when I turn on her, uh, turn on her. I
just had a bad influence in my life and I
was like, whatever, how are you in? Drag years now?
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Drag years time for five and five or six five years.
She's a kind and she's with a crown. She's a
kindergarten with a crown, and everything kindergarten with a crown.
That's it, baby. Um. We want to thank you so
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much for joining us on poadcast. We love you so much.
We can't say enough about you. From the moment you
walked on our screens. You have stolen our hearts and
you still have them because of everything that you're doing
we do. We absolutely adore you and love you so
much and we can't speak highly enough about you. Priyanka,
thank you for joining us here on podcast. We hope
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everyone goes and watches all your Netflix movies, all your
Canada on out TV, get to the party and make
sure you follow on all your social media's a thank
you and thank you for having me. I love you
both so much and I can't wait you too. Thank you, baby.
We can't wait to see you in person. Love you
by all right bye, all right, So James, let's talk
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about what happened this week in gay history, because before
we can move forward, we always like to look back
at where we've come from. James, talk about gay history
this week, But we just had a whole conversation about
media and people ucing media for representation and to help
people feel seen and to move progress along. So let's
take it back to nineteen seventy two. Nineteen seventy two,
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mash marored on CBS and Corporal Max Klinger was television's
first ongoing character that was a cross stresser. So think
about that that we have these shows like Drag Race
that we love now that we are these huge stars
like come From But nineteen seventy two was the first
time that a male character on TV was wearing clothes
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for I guess close that we're supposed to be intended
for females, but like now we know because we've revolved
that they're clothes for everybody. So pretty cool in nineteen
seventy two. Now look at the progress we've made.
This is Pridecast with Jonathan Bennett James on I Heart Radio. Hey,
what's up, everybody? Welcome to a new episode of Pridecast.
I am your host, Jonathan Bennett, and I am joined
by my handsome, hunky and hot husband, James Vaughan. Say hi, James,
(00:26):
I always say that and you go, what do I do?
Your voice sounds so low and sexy because I'm tired.
I'm tired, right you know who else sounds sexy? That
sneeze right there? Let's I think we should just jump
right into our guests. When you have a guest this big,
you go right to it. You know what I mean? Well,
(00:47):
let's do it. I feel like I want to set
this up. Um, so you want to do you want
to do it? You wanna do it? My own intro?
I can do my own. Yes, please do your intro.
Everybody podcast. Today we have an amazing, iconic gas. We
are so surprised that she took time out of her
busy schedule to be today. She has a pop star.
She is the winner of Canada's Drag Race Season one.
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Her album has over ten million streams right now, which
is crazy. Everybody, please welcome to the show. What's her name? Preca?
That was so good. I just I just wanted to
do the what's her name? So can I have that
moment to yeah, you go, yeah, go ahead, say it,
do it, do it? Do it? Baby? What's her name? Welcome?
(01:31):
Show into this off the ship, never toye. Where you
are the viewers, the viewers, they're not watching us to
the listeners. Where you are over? Yeah, I am in
Croatia right now because we have our outbound cruise of
the Adriatic Seed of the Croatian Islands, and so we
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are presently and I'm gonna say it wrong because I
always do Yet, which is an island in the Adriatic Sea.
It's part of what do you call beautiful? And we
are here. Actually this cruise is on a yacht, so
it's it's pretty amazing. Presently are blue and white night.
Captain's dinner party, et cetera is going on upstairs, and
I have snuck away to the cabin to do a
little broadcast the cabin's cabin and I'm just sitting in
(02:16):
palm springs and a brown out, you know what I mean.
I mean, if I had a nickel, the amount of
times I've been in a brown out if you know what, Hey,
yo yakaka, are you like full of dad jokes? That's
all he's dad jokes one after another? What the here go? What?
What the fish say when it swam into the wall?
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What damn? Everyone? If you were watching the camera right now,
I gave the face of like, I need to getcause
it's a damn because it's a wall and a fish
would swim into it a damn because it's a damn.
Oh man, this is so crunchy. I'm so sorry about
you know what I don't say because you know that
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you know no I do? I do? You brought that
garbage to the podcast on today. I'm trash um, I'm
one of our favorites here. I'm not gonna let you
waste the time with bad jokes. All right, we're gonna
drop into this because baby, you and I both like
(03:20):
Prianka is probably one of our top queens of all
time ever, and I remember them the minute we first
saw you on Canada's Drag Race. You walked in and
we were like, that's a superstar right there, and not
only because you are a superstar, but also because you
remind us of one of our best friends. That's also
a superstar. Yeah. Megan tell us she's a news anchor
at kt l A in l A and she's obsessed
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with you, and she sees your stuff and always goes, me,
that's me, this is me. You're like a drag. She's like,
you're like a drag tribute to her, and she's a
she's a she kind of dragged herself, and she'll say
she's a dragon. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes. And
I remembering my off I remember seeing you going, oh
my gosh, finally someone on TV that has more energy
(04:05):
than me. I'm not the crazy one anymore. Like there's
someone that actually has more energy than me. And I
loved it because you brought me up. Every time we
watched you. I was like, oh, Priyanka makes me feel alive. Yeah.
I mean, it's funny that I was perceived that way,
because I felt like it was such a TV vacation.
I was like, Oh, I finally get to go on
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television and talk about gay ship and like just actually
be myself. It was the most electric feeling ever, because
it's not that when I was doing kids TV I
had to hide it. It just wasn't something we talked
about like I wasn't talking about boys, I wasn't talking
about being in drag I was just talking about SpongeBob SquarePants, right,
and it is And I'm just happy. I'm really happy.
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I also like thinking about like the timing of it
all too, like being on you know during the pandemic,
when it was like super it was everyone was locked down.
I think it really helped to It was my mom
who called that. My mom was like, oh, this show
will take off because of the pandemic. Mark my words
was like, what are you talking about? Mom? And she
was right. Everyone will always remember season one of Canada's
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Ragays Thank God, Oh my god. Yeah, You're like the
hope that we needed at the time in the world.
We're like, oh, this will take me out of my
day of what all the all the craziness that's going on,
and like give me something that's fun and uplifting to watch. So,
I mean, we needed you, and we needed you, and
we need a Tiger King like you and Tiger King
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are what got us through the pandemic. You know. It's
not like if I like that's my next tattoo? Are
you the Tiger Queen? The Queen Carol Box is shaking Carol, really,
no wonder she hates me. I'm making this up. I
have no clue with who that woman is. And she
first shared cut her husband. But I remember watching Tiger King.
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What an amazing, amazing documentary have you all seen? Don't
with cats? Oh my gosh, yes, we were just talking
about that in Croatia. We were just lucagnata. I hope
they want to Oscar for that documentary. The way that
it was put together, I said, oh my god, this
is filmmaking, bits, this is documentary making, this is everything.
I was on the edge of my of my seat
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the entire time it happened in Toronto, down the street
from where I live. Hello, yes, yikes, but I'm not
to be I'm I'm not about to be at Karen
and be like, what if it was me? Luca m
mcnata doesn't give a shit about me. That's controversial said that,
But let me say something is that I am obsessed.
They also just like release that Luca mcnata is like
(06:35):
married a woman in jail. Yes he did, yes, yes, yes,
do he likes the puss. I don't understand like wanting
to to to marry somebody that's committed murders in jail. Like,
I think that people find hurt people hurt people, and
(06:56):
hurt people find hurt people. And I think what I'm
assuming is that miss Thing found a way to like
relate to him and say, like, I understand why you
did what you did. I also wanted to kill my
cats and kill a random person and chop them up
and throw them in a garbage bag in Montreal. Relatable
content and they find each other and they love each other,
(07:16):
and that's just that. Did I just justify that? That's so,
dub Let's move on the next question. So the question is,
let's talk about question. There wasn't a question brought us.
You brought it up. Oh my gosh, do you think? Yes,
(07:48):
I think of where your life is now versus before
before going on drag race, Like, can you imagine what
your life is like now if you never want on
drag race? So my drag mom, Ecstasy Love always says
that like I still would be doing exactly what I'm doing,
it just would have taken me longer to get That's
like what she says, Like and like she has this
(08:10):
perspective of she like came to my birthday party, was
like you should start drag and I was like, I'm
starting drag, let's do it, and threw myself in the
ring and became like the girl in Toronto and then
went on to win Canada's Drag Race. So she sees
it from a different perspective. The perspective that I see
it from is, oh, I guess if I didn't go
on Canada's Drag Race, then I would be still on
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Kids TV or have moved up into like Entertainment TV
and went to Eat Canada or something or E t
U S or whatever to like be a reporter on
the Red carpet. But I don't know. I I definitely
think that like drag Race holds an audience that you
just cannot get anywhere else, a very loyal fandom. Um
(08:54):
So I don't know. I feel like I would have
gotten here event eventually, Like I I look at like
my my my music and stuff up and like taste test,
my EP got like so many like streams and and lemons.
First one viral because she's an icon, and I that.
But then I think back to before drag Grace. I
was like, oh, I had released two songs already, Like
I was already on my way. I already wanted to
do this, so I think like drag Grace was just
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that bump of coke that I needed. You got that boost.
I'm speaking of the Lemon verse though, like everything, every everything,
it really is like I cannot tell you when that
viral clip went out. I probably watched it twenty times
in a row the first time, and then I still
will have days where I will pull it up just
for that clip. Yes, I remember when she recorded it.
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The funny story about the funny thing. The funniest thing
about about this verse is that the songwriter that I
was writing with kind of like made up like a
little bit of like a guide for her. It was like,
here's what we're kind of thinking, you know, and lemons
like you match. I'm a rapt And so she scraped
the whole thing and she writes this verse no changes,
(10:03):
like what you hear in the song is her first
stab at that, at that in the in the and
and then she she came to where we were recording it,
got Starbucks where ha ha he ha, who has sister
sister and sister miss thing got in the verse into
the sorry miss Thing got into the booth, and I
was listening to her rapid and I literally I was like,
(10:25):
this is going to go viral, Like nothing in my
mind says this isn't. And then then then I got
the first mix have come through and I'm listening to
my verses and I'm like, wow, I'm a fucking singer.
I'm so proud of myself. It was the first song
in the EP that that I had gotten back, and
I was like, holy shit, like this thing is going
to take off for for me. Lemon's Verse hit and
I remember I was driving and I just like I
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felt like this said like I was like proud of
her because I truly believe that at the finale of Canider,
because I should have been standing there with her because
she's so undeniably talented. So it was a nice way
to be able to celebrate her in the way that
she always celebrated me throughout the whole competition. And what's
good is what's good. And I actually like sat there
and like created those clips off for TikTok of her
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verse and posted them as soon as come through came out,
and went on YouTube and created an hour long loop
of the verse myself because I am like, we have
to support each other, and we have to like when
you know something's good, don't avoid it, baby, just go
in and just go go with it. When it's good,
it's good. When it's good, it's good exactly anyway. So
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that's along along, Please we can I can talk about
I love that about you. But I love that, like
I know, like not everybody agrees in this because some
people like, oh I watch Drag Grace, like the Cantinists
or whatever, but like I love when the Queen's all
get along and support each other and build each other up.
And I feel like you do that so well, and
just to hear you you're the best a lemon and
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doing that for her, I just think that's a beautiful thing.
So I just gotta say, like, thank you for being
that positive role model in this space I got you.
You know. The one thing I realized about being an
artist is it's been really hard to get people to
care about your art and like really like appreciate what
it is you're trying to do with your career slash artistry.
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Right as as a true artist, you feel something and
you do it, and like there's such a lack of
support there from everybody because everybody just feels startned and
no one thinks that there's a room for all of us,
but there literally is. That is that is something that
I find so much, especially you find that especially in
the in the in the in the queer community, that
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happens so much, and especially in the queer entertainment community.
It's like it's like there because I think we've always
had this feeling of scarcity, like we're we're never enough,
you know, as full For me, I can't speak for everyone,
but from me, I know it's like the feeling of like, oh,
being a queer performer, there's not enough roles, there's not
enough positions, like I'm not good enough to play this,
(12:56):
or I'm I'm not enough to I don't deserve this role.
But now that the entertainment industry and just the world
with with social media and what entertainment is, it's all
different forms now that there are plenty of spots for
everyone and there's plenty of space for everyone to succeed
in to shine, and I think we kind of have
that old feeling in our heads sometimes or some people
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you know of like just there's not enough, there's not
enough pie And it's actually there's plenty of pies for everybody,
and everyone will have a piece of it, and like
it's just like also, the big problem in our industry
is that like people whenever they see someone being successful,
it makes them hold up a mirror to themselves and
then they completely lose it. They're like, well, now you're stupid,
or than there's sounds stupid or them this that. So
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it's like it's just a weird thing. But the way
that the one that the one thing that I say
is like keep pushing and keep going. And I'm learning
it's it's really truly about who you stride yourself with.
What do you think about this? I mean, like who
who's in your circle can really dictate and and and
influence your action in your career, in your life, in
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the way you treat people and what you the actions
you know, and like I've learned that so much and
it's such an interesting like thing to learn. My boyfriend's here,
My boys, My boyfriend just came in the frame. He's
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let's go viral. So y'all listening, just so you know,
we do these on zoom so we can all see
each other as well. And Pat's boyfriend just gave us
a light little show. Just came in the room with
a little skin. Hey, boyfriend, we gotta take a quick
break and come right back and talk about season three
Canadas drag Rissa and We're act with the One and
(15:01):
Only What's Her Name? Podcast? Okay, we're we're digging in.
We're we're locking in our our high heels and we're
digging into season three Canada's Drag Race and Go. I've
only watched one episode drunk. I haven't watched any of
the season. Um, something happens when you're a drag race
(15:24):
girl that you stop watching drag Race typically kind of
except for Crystal met Method watches it like it is
the Bible. Um, because it's it's just because like it's
like it wasn't traumatizing for me personally. Um, but it's
(15:45):
just different. It's just so different now. But I am
excited for like to crown somebody. I'm excited for isis
coatore to step down. I cannot wait to see what
she's gonna gonna wear. Um, I'm excited to go and
cry my eyes. I'm a crier here. Listen, I'm gonna
tell you understand this. So like as a Drag Race Girl.
You say that as an Amazing Race girl. I get
it because I always watched the show. I loved it
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when before I was on it, and then after being
on it, it's weird. It's hard to watch it after
having actually like seen it through your own eyes. It
takes away something, and then I feel like watching other
seasons after you sort of starts to take away from
your experience and you don't want to diminish what it
was through your own eyes. It's like I never watched
Amazing Race again after I was on, even though I
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loved the show, because my experience was what it was
and I didn't want to taint it with anything after that.
So I get it. I get it when you said that,
And it's no shade. It's no shade toward it at all.
It's just your experience was so great that you don't
want to taint how great it was. Understand it completely.
I got you. You know, it's like watching Mean Girls
Jonathan's gaze. How can I how can I believe it? Oh? Okay, well,
(16:50):
you know. It's it's the quality of the action. It's
the quality of the way you're pitch with right. Carrie
Whistle to Oh, so we're gonna we're gonna talk about
mean girls. No, we know we're going to talk about well,
I was gonna say that. I feel the same way
with with Big Brother being on Celebrity Big Brother and
(17:12):
with Dancing with the Stars. I don't watch either anymore
because it ruined it for me. Like I can't, I
just can't watch. It's just like, yeah, I mean, I like,
I like watching the Winner season because I think that also,
as like a drag queen, you watch and and and
you like you take in things that you want to
be a part of. You know, I watched the Winner
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CE season and what one day I want to be
on the Winner See season, or like you watch music
videos and like I want to do that. I want
to you know, all that kind of stuff. So when
when you're when when when it's in the past, in
the past, honey, what do you say when when it's good?
It's good? Okay, it's good. But baby? Also though, like,
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wasn't Dancing with the Stars like maybe a little traumatic
for you because like I saw the dancing like so
maybe yes, I didn't realize segment two was take Jonathan.
I didn't understand that anyone else, and I love the
can talk about my acts. What do you want to
dance moves? But the dance, the dancing with the start
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the pitbull one was good, baby, that was very good
for you. And my baby is not the dancing queen
that you would like to be. And we have to
be honest in our relationship about things. As I listen,
I'm not an actor. I'm certainly not the actress in
the family. So I understand guys. Act one it was
queer supporting queers. Now complete what being gay is all about.
(18:38):
We act like we support each other and then we
go we hid each other's back and talk shit. It's
all in love. We do like what I'm a horrible
dand each other, but like a little fun shade towards
each other. This dance moves very together. For five years, yeah,
(18:59):
five years long women together five years almost six maybe
almost six almost six. For almost six months, we've been
together for six almost six years. So just to give
your a little backstory on why everybody's so delirious right now,
my baby just finished shooting two movies back to back.
(19:19):
I have been up for some hundred forty six hours
in the Adriatic Sea on this outbound trip and Prianka
is presently in a room with the TV in a
box and a carousel horse. I don't know what a
new dog and a new dog a new dog and
what is your boyfriend? It was in that's my drag, Mom,
(19:40):
Oh it's not the boyfriend. So okay, okay, I was like,
we have before patting on, but that would explain it. Yeah, okay,
before we get into we gotta get into so many things.
We have to get into your your song stress stuff,
your ax stress stuff. But we have to talk about
Daisy because I am in love with Daisy. Are you?
Are you so happy to have so I've never had
(20:03):
changes your life, right, Changing a dog is like literally
the most life changing thing ever. I've never had a dog.
But it is a not but and it's a full
time job. It's it is training. We're training her properly.
She's creating, she's is she not create right now? She's
not crying her rate right now. So we're celebrating this congratulation.
She's Daisy, that's our all um, And like celebrating when
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a dog takes a ship. It's a very interesting feeling,
I mean, but it's amazing. It's incredible my boyfriend. It's
like bringing my boyfriend and I closer together because now
we can like, who's gonna take her this? Make sure
she does this? Like it's it's like really really fun bonding.
Both of us recommended together. We've been together for a
(20:49):
year and ten months or two years in December, so
that's twelve gay years. Yeah, yeah, that's literally like, yes,
more than a decade. Do you live together? We live
together now? Yeah, it's amazing when your drag mom live
there too. My drag mom is not here on the
(21:10):
house behind you. I gotta ask, I want to live there?
Why is there a team? It looks fun? Why is
there a rugby team in a living room? Who was that? So? So?
This that's my finale dress on a display. The cheese
hat is on because the wig went went to Montreal
(21:32):
for this museum. Uh, and then the horses. When I
perform at the Country Music Awards, I did my country
which was amazing, by the way. I was perched for
that and it was amazing you and then my dragma
is here because we're going out for dinner in twenty
five minutes and my boyfriend is entering around. Wait, why
(21:53):
are we talking about visuals. Do you have a filter
on or makeup? Or why is your skin looks so good?
I have makeup. I put like a little beat on
right now it looks okay skin. You got close to
the camera just now, and I was like, damn, because
that's not what my skin looks like. I'm close. No, no, no,
it's like the shiseto like gorgeous, very lightly fluffy, you know.
(22:14):
So yeah, it looks like my skin is filtered. But wait,
did you go to the finale and drag or do
you go to I'm not going in drag? My drag
mom is going in drag because she's that bitch. Do
you know what I mean? Yes? But how about yes?
You better get to that level of yes, I was
the winner of this show, and I will show up
not in drag. Yeah, oh remember me for my confessionals.
(22:35):
That's what you're getting. Yeah, but whenever, I won't lie
like I love being in drags whenever, Like now that
like I see her in drag, I know that everyone
else is going to be in dragon, like damnit. And
I just took the two hours like a eyelash, and
you realize how stupid pretty you are in drag too,
but you posted something recently of your first time in
(22:57):
drag versus where you got now baby, But that's that's
inspirational to everybody else trying out there to figure out
how to do it? What changed? What changed? How did
you what? What did you figure out that made you
like figure out how to be like the beautiful version
of You're always beautiful, but like you have figured out
how to be like stunned time. Yeah, I mean I
(23:17):
work with um a makeup artist named Victor Peters who's
also part of my drag family in the House of Love.
His name is Varushka like her and her drag names Rushka,
and I worked with Victor, says twenty twenty one. When
I started to kind of step into the music video
world to like, let's hire makeup artis, I'm like, no,
I'm doing my oh makeup because I want to look
(23:38):
like me. And then it was kind of like, you know,
we want to shoot this like Murder Mystery in a
castle in Toronto, so you're gonna have time to your makeup, bitch.
So I's like, hey, fine, So we hired Victor and
it was like from then it was like hire him
for everything and he helped me learn how to do
my makeup properly and why things are the way they are,
(23:58):
and like learn my ace and stuff. So it's interesting.
I went up for that's my experience. But I went
up for brunch with Chekhole, who we love, and she
was I was like, oh, like, do you ever get
someone to paint you? And she's like, no, I've been
doing my makeup like since the beginning. I was like floor,
Like I was like, wow, you're just really talent, national talent.
(24:20):
Oh my gosh. She never compare. Yeah, because because her face,
her face is one of the absolute that bitchy as brow. Yeah, yeah,
she's stunning. Like yeah, absolutely, I mean like I did you.
I don't know if you know this, but maybe you
know this obviously I'm a huge fan, Like from the
Monte she walked in the workroom the very first time
(24:40):
ever the first season. I was like, ah, I want
to know her. So yeah, I'm I'm I'm a hyper
up all the time. Yeah, she's a star. And she's
shooting a Marvel show right now, Like let me yeah,
and she's doing Marvel, we are doing it. And you,
speaking of being an actress, you have a Canadian comedy
tell us about that. Yeah, I'm like a lead in
(25:01):
a rom com that's coming out next year. And I
also amazing I got announced that I'm in um like
a vampire or Vampire Diaries meets Pretty the Liars meets
kind of like whatever comedy shows that there. I'm also
part of that. Like being on deadline and playback and
all that stuff is absolutely crazy, Like because I made
(25:23):
an intention this year, I said, listen, I've I've done this,
I've done that, but this year, I want to do
more on screen acting. I feel like this it's like
I did. I did like a little bit of on
screen acting with y TV, the kids TV show stuff,
but it was never like acting. And then I booked
the rom com and it was one of the best
experiences of my life because learning how to be soft
on camera is interesting, Like what subtle emotions can make
(25:48):
a big impact through the lens is very interesting. Um
And then today I got a call saying that I
got a role on a Netflix show. What It's like.
It's one of those things where like, if you truly
work hard and speak things in the existence, baby, it's
gonna baby it comes to life. But my question is
(26:11):
we are doing podcast? What does pride mean to you?
Pride I mean I'll never first of all. First off,
First of all, first of all, pride means unconditional pride
to me means letting somebody have their ups and downs
and still being there like person to let them grow
(26:33):
up in. You know, being a queer person is hooked up.
It's so hard. Everyone hates you, You hate yourself, You
have body dysmorphia, depression, anxiety. When day you wake up
you want to die. The next day you wake up
your queen of the world. Like it's all these things
all encompassed, right, And I think that you need people
in your life that become your pride, that like allow
(26:54):
you to have this journey, don't judge you for it.
So I think pride is like a family thing for me.
That parts you said about how one day you can
feel the top of the world, another day you can
feel bottom of them. Listen to that. If you're listening,
I know you go through that because we all go
through it with saying is you're not alone. You're not
alone in that feeling and the happy days they're coming too.
(27:17):
So like make sure you are you are you? You
got those coming, like just know that we all go
through the interesting thing, Like the interesting thing about like
the happy days that you really have to want them
to get them. That's what I feel like. You really
have to like like have like a clear intention, like tonight,
I'm going out to have a good time and nothing
can stop me. Like that intention, you have to see
(27:37):
it all the way through because like you have to
hold yourself accountable for the energy around you and the
energy that you create for yourself. It's a very interesting
thing because I'm I'm I'm past like things outside can
really affect me. Like if someone's in a bad wood,
I'm in a bad mood. If someone throws me a
bit of shade, it's going off my whole night. But
I've learned to just protect myself. It's hard, but good.
(27:59):
I can watch you talk every single day for the
rest of my life. I think you're so entertaining in
every single word you say. Um. We we talked about
a lot about the things that the queer community is
going through and a lot of the troubles that they face.
But what we like to do on Proadcast is also
kind of flip that on its head and shout out
what's your favorite part about being queer? What's the best
(28:22):
thing about being part of the l g b t
Q plus community. The best thing would be the first
word that came to my mind was hero I think, like,
you know what it what did it say? Hindsight is yes,
(28:43):
And when I like to look at like all the
things that I've done, I did that with my head
down just because I wanted to do it for myself
and didn't give a shit about what other people think,
because my mom was always like where work hard, you
get the jobs, and don't let anybody others ever see
for anything but like who you are, okay, mom? But
then looking back, I think my favorite thing about being
(29:04):
a queer person, and it also being a brown person,
is that people can look at me and see that
like we can have success to and I'm very like,
I feel like, very very thankful that I'm like this
brown person who won Candida Drivers, who went on to
be a pop star, who's now leading a movie, who's
now just poked to a Netflix show, because like, now
(29:24):
any brown person can be like, oh well, if Ryanka
did it, that I could do it too, and like
that's like you can't, that's hard That's a hard thing, right,
It's a hard thing to like because we often like
are like, Okay, well who's doing it? Everyone wants to
be like the first, but sometimes like you know, I'm
just opening the door for everyone else to walk through.
So I would say that's it would be a queer person.
(29:46):
That's it. That's it. That's that's so absolutely amazing, opening
the door for everybody else to walk through. That that
that right there. That That's what Jonathan and I always
say to whenever we get a chance to do any
type of activism or first anything, or our second or
third is getting to do something. It's like, open that
doors so somebody else can come through it. Hold it
(30:08):
open and let's blast people. Get the whole alphabet mafia
in here. So I love that you know how important
what you're doing is because it is Prianka. There are
people that feel like they have hope and they can
be successful because of you, because you are the first one.
And that's a really cool thing. And I love that
you know that something like that's why we're so proud
(30:28):
of you and wanted to have you on here because
it's beautiful. It's beautiful speaking of people that we wanna
we wanna shine our spotlight on and and moments that
we want to shine our spotlight on. Let's let's do
(30:49):
some big gay spotlight baby, will you set me up? Yeah? Sure.
Each week we like to shout out people on the
l g B t Q plus community that are doing
the most good, that are doing extraordinary things for the
community and for people around them, and we like to
shine our big gay spotlight on them. So this week, James,
let's shine our big gay spotlight on Hey Branco. While
(31:12):
I do this, I'm gonna let you think if the
Summa you want to shine you a big gay spotlight
on two And I'm gonna jump right in on this
one because it's not a person. No, not this week. No,
I'm shot my big gay spotlight on a cartoon because
I'm shot it on Pepper Pig, featuring the same sex
couple on the show for the very first time. So
(31:32):
Penny the Polar Bear has actually got two moms. Uh So,
during the episode, the main character Pepper got introduced to
uh Penny Polar Bear, I just said, I live with
my mummy and my other mummy. One mummy is a doctor.
And when we mommy cook spaghetti, I love spaghetti. It's
just that simple. It's really just that simple doing something
like that where kids will see their family represented, kids
(31:56):
will see a different example of love, and it will
help change hearts and minds. It will help people feel seen.
And over the years, Pepper Pig has made references to
the LGBTQ Plus community in the show and through her albums.
So Pepper is an iconic, iconic pig. And this week
I'm shinning my big gay spotlight on you girl, and
(32:17):
we shot in our big gay spotlight on all the
pigs in the lgbt Q plus community. We see all
the pigs, not just Peppa, and we love you too.
So if you are one of the pigs out there,
listen to this podcast. Oint oint to you. Baby. First
of all, he run an overreact like he knows these
terms now. So in Palm Springs at the gym we
(32:40):
do every once in a while see an advertiser for
pig party. There's a pig party. It's an oint party.
And so now my baby is like using this term
like he knows exactly what it's about. Exactly. Do you
want to shine your biggest spotlight on anyone? Uh? Yeah,
I was shinning my gay big spotlight ah on my
(33:03):
drug mom. She's back there. Y see her, Yes, just
can't because the boxes in the way. But she's really
in a full wig, pony tail, leather round out of it.
And um, I would love to shine my gay big
spotlight on a you love my drug mother who you
(33:26):
all should go follow her right now because I think
that I talk about intention a lot, and I think
that this person has taught me intention. She knows exactly
what she wants to do, how she wants to make
people feel, what message she wants to come across. You know,
she says her her initials are X and out why
because I'm fat and everything. The audience is always like,
uh what because we're you know, we're talking growing up
(33:47):
that fat's a bad word, right, And she's like, you know,
I'm fat and beauty. Beauty comes in all sizes, and
I'm like, damn like her intentions to make everybody feel
like fully love for who they are and not judged.
And you know I would say that that and seen
there it is that big gay spotlight on her, all right.
(34:11):
I love that, and I love I love you have
that love for her, and thank you to her for
being your mama so we could get you in this
world too. They say, thank you for my mom. She says, ah,
when I turn on her, uh, turn on her. I
just had a bad influence in my life and I
was like, whatever, how are you in? Drag years now?
(34:33):
Drag years time for five and five or six five years.
She's a kind and she's with a crown. She's a
kindergarten with a crown, and everything kindergarten with a crown.
That's it, baby. Um. We want to thank you so
(34:54):
much for joining us on poadcast. We love you so much.
We can't say enough about you. From the moment you
walked on our screens. You have stolen our hearts and
you still have them because of everything that you're doing
we do. We absolutely adore you and love you so
much and we can't speak highly enough about you. Priyanka,
thank you for joining us here on podcast. We hope
(35:15):
everyone goes and watches all your Netflix movies, all your
Canada on out TV, get to the party and make
sure you follow on all your social media's a thank
you and thank you for having me. I love you
both so much and I can't wait you too. Thank you, baby.
We can't wait to see you in person. Love you
by all right bye, all right, So James, let's talk
(35:36):
about what happened this week in gay history, because before
we can move forward, we always like to look back
at where we've come from. James, talk about gay history
this week, But we just had a whole conversation about
media and people ucing media for representation and to help
people feel seen and to move progress along. So let's
take it back to nineteen seventy two. Nineteen seventy two,
(35:59):
mash marored on CBS and Corporal Max Klinger was television's
first ongoing character that was a cross stresser. So think
about that that we have these shows like Drag Race
that we love now that we are these huge stars
like come From But nineteen seventy two was the first
time that a male character on TV was wearing clothes
(36:27):
for I guess close that we're supposed to be intended
for females, but like now we know because we've revolved
that they're clothes for everybody. So pretty cool in nineteen
seventy two. Now look at the progress we've made.
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