Ready, Set, Slay! Part Two

Alec and Loni are keeping this supersized premiere rolling along. What better way to get to know the new queens than by having one big night of talent?! The two RuVeal what they thought of each performance. Are they able to make a glass of ice cold water now? Will they help someone find their baby? Can they walk that fu*king duck? Then, it’s the first runway of the season! Plus, Alec and Loni spill about what they’re looking forward to.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome back to another episode of
Squirrel Friends, the Official ru Paul's Drag Race Podcast. I'm
Alec Papa and it's my job to introduce the Queen
of Show Business America's sister, Lonnie Love Alex. I'm so
excited to get to this, so let's get to it
because it's a supersize premiere. So excited. It's a two parts.

(00:28):
You didn't have just one episode for the premiere episode.
You had two parts. So we're back with another episode
to cover the super sized episode. We're gonna jump right in.
Spoiler warning, Monnie, if you haven't seen this episode, there's
gonna be a lot of spoilers. We're gonna talk about
everything in detail. Lonnie, what are the spoilers? What are
we gonna talk about. We're gonna see what the queens

(00:49):
all think of each other meeting for the first time.
We're gonna review the one night only Talent Extravaganza performances.
It's a total of sixteen so that's a lot. Talk
about the first runway of the season and the lip
sync and we're gonna have an elimination. So it's a
lot to get through, but we can do it. Let's
get right into it with the Maxi Challenge. The Maxi Challenges,

(01:12):
all sixteen queens will be headlining the one night only
Chalent Extravaganza and choreograph the opening number. So those are
two big orders right there. Now. When we last left off,
it was the first eight and then they didn't know
what was going on. They were arguing amongst themselves. And
then RuPaul brings in the back eight, and now they've

(01:36):
got to redo all the figure out what they're gonna do.
I love that everybody was friendly with each other, like
they didn't. There wasn't a shady kind of like showdown
of us versus them, Like, all the queens were really
sweet to each other. I think a lot of it
has to do with the current culture. A lot of
the conservative groups are coming down on drag queens these days.

(01:59):
So I had a feeling that because of that, and
I felt this a little bit after the Orlando Pulse
shooting that the season after that, people were nicer to
each other. People were a little less catty, And I
like that everybody greeted each other like in such a
friendly way. Yeah, they started hugging and all this other
kind of stuff, but we will see. I know you're

(02:19):
talking about that, but there's no shade because it's a competition.
It's not RuPaul's best Friend race. Because La said, like,
we got to get to know these bitches now there, Okay.
Iraine Dubois grew up in the Texas drag queen scene,

(02:40):
so she's more than familiar with Mistress Isabella. Like I
talked about her in the last episode, she's the Queen
of Houston, and there's something about like a queen who
flourishes in a hostile environment, do you know what I mean.
She's a big girl and she's in Texas. You've gotta
be a tough queen to kind of last and endure

(03:00):
in that environment, right, Yeah, And so Irene was kind
of happy because she felt like, Okay, now I have
someone that you know, I could shade with. You know,
I can you know, talk and get shitty with, you know,
and and she'll get it and you know, feelings won't
get hurt. So but that's what I'm saying when we
were talking about the last episode, is that you know,
get you someone that knows you, and then you guys

(03:20):
can have that energy. But if they don't know you, you
you gotta kind of like ease into it. Yeah, you
can't go up to a complete change and go, hey, bitch,
you're fat, Okay now, Selena as tutis and a lot
of the group revealed that they knew who Sasha Kobe
is and they were just losing it over Sasha. So

(03:41):
it's like that feels good when you know that you've
been in this game for a while as Sasha has been,
and people revere and respect to So I thought that
was a warm Momenta. Sasha is a part of the
big subculture of the drag pageants. She's a paget winner,
she's a title holder, and also she's everybody knows her
talent from the clubs. If you've performed in l A,

(04:03):
if you've performed in any of the places where Sasha performs,
you know that she is a show girl and she
brings it. She is. She's a show girl. Lux also
says that she knows Sugar and Spice, because nobody else
was like even trying to admit, but Lux admitted that
she knows the twins Sugar and Spice from the Internet,
and so that made them feel kind of good, like yeah, yeah,

(04:25):
Mistress Isabella was like I don't want to come out
saying I know you, I know she is, but I
don't want to say it. Having said that, I did
do a movie last year with a bunch of influencers,
and everybody Lonnie was like, she has a million followers,
or she goes to Vegas and she films it every
weekend and she has twenty million. I didn't know who
anybody was. And one of the girls was like a

(04:49):
party girl who goes to Vegas and just shows her
on YouTube getting sucked up every weekend and falling out
of cars. And now clubs in Vegas pay for her
to fly out and sloppy on YouTube. So whatever. People.
If I hadn't known there was a way for me
to get drunk and paid, I would have done that too.

(05:09):
So who's the dummy? But my point is I didn't
know who anybody was. He just did. He just wasn't
That wasn't bad. I was like, I got nothing, it's
not in your key. So Sugar and Spice. Having said that,
I do follow them on Instagram that they're awfully cute,
they're cute boys, and they're from Long Island. No, you
want to get your followers up, tell them to post

(05:31):
you on their Instagram and your followers will go up. Okay,
Sugar and Spice post me on your Instagram thing. Okay,
So Sugar and Spices is starting to think that the
other people don't like them, so there's an awareness they're
they're not like blind and going blah blah blah blah blah.
Group one shows group to their choreography, and now they

(05:53):
have to put the two groups together. Stress tries to
have one person being charge. Nobody's listening to Mistress. Sugar
and Spice feel like Mistress and Irene are fighting, but
they're not because they're not accustomed to explain the relationship.
So this is the kind of talk that goes on
in the dressing room backstage as you're getting ready for

(06:16):
a gig. You know, every key king and throwing shade.
But these two girls, because their art form has been
restricted to TikTok, they don't have the experience of getting
backstage and being shady with other girls, right, so they're
looking at it as hostile when it's not. It's not hostile,
and this is just what it's shading. That's what it is,
you know, you know, So it's gonna be interesting to

(06:37):
see how they adjust to all of this. So we
get into the workroom day the queens are running around
trying to claim their stations. This was so hilarious to
me because now you've got sixteen, so you've got to
find your area and sugar and spice. The twins they
want to be together, and this is a nice thing
about having a twin. One can go and get the area,

(07:01):
the other one went and got all the stuff and teamwork.
I mean, it's usually like a sisterhood forms on the
show with other queens. They have a sisterhood going into it,
so they're using that to their advantage. Do you know
any twins. Do you know any friends who are a twin? Yeah,
Tian Tamarrow, Yeah. And do they do? They have their
kind of own way of communicating with each other that

(07:22):
it's exclusive to them. You know. I think at a
certain point as a twin, especially in this business, you
want to be looked as an individual. So it's even
like like birthdays, like I don't put them together for
their birthday, give them one gift like look, y'all was
born the same day, right right right, split the egg anyway,

(07:44):
But they do want to be individuals. That's the older
that they get. They tend to want that. So like
even if I post, I post one happy birthday and
then I post another picture for the other, so I
make them in for the individual birthday, So you treat
them as individuals, and that's wrong. I think that all
twins should be tweeted as one person. You get one gift.

(08:08):
They're so cute. They're very cute together, and I love
that they're like taking care of each other. I love
like videos of twins, baby twins speaking their language, like
twins before they learn their verbal they have this weird
kind of like way of communicating that it just trips
met each other. Irene starts up the hair conversation again,

(08:30):
comparing her wig to Lux's. I've moved on, I'm no
longer considered No, I'm still invested in it because they
did not solve it in the first episode, So what
did they do? Irene pulls out her wig and then
look out, you know, and they put it side by
side and it's a difference now. Luxus point look at

(08:53):
the ends though, the really hands are all raggedy. She says,
it's really thick help until this point, and the rest
is like really thinned out, so mine is really the
better way. She's gonna die on that hill. It's a
you gotta do what you gotta do. You can't let

(09:13):
shade your wigs. Okay. So speaking of which, Lux, Sugar
and Spice talk about starting Dragon the Internet, and Malaysia
thinks you have to earn your stripes in the real world,
which is what I was talking about earlier in the
first episode, which is why this talent extravaganza is going
to be very interesting and it's going to be important.

(09:36):
So as we're backstage, is still in the workroom, the
queens talk about what talents they're gonna do. Lucy is
singing live, Lucy Leduca, She's going to sing live. Amethyst
is doing a lip sync Aneitra won't reveal what she's
going to do. And Sugar and Spice they're still struggling
to get ready, Like the makeup ain't ready, the wigs

(10:00):
not ready, They can't find stuff. They all over them.
I mean they say that's where the trouble is. Because
the other queens are like, listen, I do this every day.
You know, you have a season queen like Morgan McMichaels,
who lives in l A and does a gig in Riverside,
a gig in Palm Springs, a gig in West Hollywood,
does that triangle all week, driving from gig to gig

(10:24):
to gig to gig, and is an experienced queen, knows
how to get ready in a hurry. So these girls
will say, what was funny was Malaysia? She said, double
men twins can't finding weeks. But listen, they have the
talent competition coming up, and so we'll see who can
deliver the goods and we'll talk about it right after

(10:46):
this break and we're back. RuPaul comes out for the
first outfit of the season, and of course, you know
the New York Times is right. It's a drag competition
show where she wins every episode. Every episode. It is

(11:07):
a Jessica Rabbit gown. It's not basic because it's on RuPaul.
It is that beautiful kind of Jessica Rabbit, dark pink,
almost purple glitter gown. She's there with her big hair,
her big yellow wig with a huge flower on the side.
Of course, she's gorgeous. Let me tell you, I love
this color. I have a jumpsuit in this color, really good.

(11:31):
I have nothing in this color. Oh, it's like a
new like fusia, metallic fuchsia color that they added because
we've had fuchsias, but the metallic park gives you a
little bit of shine. I need metallic fuchsia in my life.
Remember and U frame Broger Rabbit when Jessica Rabbit comes
out and there's like glitter, but it's like an animation
like but everything sparkles and shines. That's what this reminds

(11:53):
me of. I need a pant suit. So we have
with the judges. We have Michelle looking great with her
black and white hair. She looks gorgeous. She looks great
this season. She did something. It's because she's healthy. She's healthy.
She had her breast reduction and she had some health
issues and she's got them all cleared up. She's good.

(12:15):
She looks beautiful, just absolutely. Ross Matthews lost a lot
of weight. He got games to be married. Yeah, no,
he's married already. He's mar and RuPaul congratulated him on
this show. He looks great. He's all tanned because he
has a house in Palm Springs. Doctor's wife, Yeah, he's
a doctor's wife. Ross sent me the name of his nutritionists,

(12:38):
which I haven't called yet, but his mother died a
couple of years ago, I think during the pandemic, and
he went through a thing where I really want to
re examine my health and food and did diet in
a healthy way. So kudos to him. He's kept it off. Yeah,
he gave me the nutrition. I haven't called it either.
We gotta do that because I had COVID and my
appetite went away and I lost some weight, but now

(13:00):
my appetites back, so I have to call that nutrigenus.
Ariana Grande is back as a judge. Ariana Grande I'm
super excited about because she's playing Glinda in the Wicked
movie being directed by John Chew. So exciting. Yeah, yeah,
that's gonna be really good. She looks so cute. She
never changed. She's so cute. She has that ponytail. And

(13:21):
what I love about her is every time I hear saying,
it's like, oh, she's really good. She's really good. She's
really talented, very very sweet, and so you know this
is she was a great judge to have for this
one my only talent extravaganza. So let's get right into
it because it was a lot happening and there's a lot.
There's a sixteen queens to go through, and first up

(13:42):
is Malaysia Baby Doll Fox. She came out in this
kind of red and yellow kind of flame jumpsuit, again
proportionized for a bigger girl, and she did a rap
and pretty much showed us who she was, and I
think a really impressive way she kind of established I
was like, Okay, I get it, I get who you are.
And I got her fierceness from her talent competition. I

(14:05):
loved her wig. It was a big red, flaming wig.
She looked like a lit match and that's what it was. Um,
that's we had the first twin Spice. She came out
in a casket, but it was good. She came out
in a casket and did kind of this rap, and

(14:26):
she did it kind of in her character as the
Spice baby Doll character. Like, these two are really into dolls.
In their interviews, they said we grew up like really
their favorite movie growing up was that Tyra Banks movie
where she's a doll who comes to life. So there
was a bit of that, but it was like a
rap from an experienced person, like something about the media.

(14:48):
Because she's grown up on media. She knew that she
had to bring something interesting and she did did. I
enjoyed it and she gave energy. It was campy with
you know, she was able to use the casket, so
I thought that it was a really good performance. Yeah.
She was an all black leather, a kind of a
patent leather with a long, straight red wig. So she's
kind of like goffe Brat's doll girl. And she looked

(15:10):
really really good. It was really cute. Okay. Up next
we had Luxe new Or London. Yes, Luxe new Or
London is a young queen. She's from New Jersey. She
came out in a glitter pant suit with all those
kind of silvery hair. She didn't have any boobs underneath,
so you could see her nipples, so she's serving body.
Yadi yadi. She was good. She was a good dancer.
She did splits at the very end of her song

(15:31):
where she kind of did a halfway split and then
a three quarter split and then a full split. So
it was like, if this is showing us who you are,
You're a trailing queen and you're entertaining. I mean, you
could tell she has the experience and so because this
is the thing too. These past two episodes, you really
haven't gotten to see all of the queens, so now

(15:53):
you're seeing that talent and it's making you go, oh,
who's standing out? This one was a standout for me.
So Mistress Isabel Brooks from Houston is up next, and
she came out and another great proportionized dress. It was
a red glitter mini dress with a little black glitter booties.

(16:13):
And she did a whole rap original song that told
us who she was, and it featured the dancers, and
she brought out a RuPaul chocolate bar at the end
that was kid RuPaul really appreciated. It was really really cute. Yeah,
and her rap made RuPaul laugh. So and she did
the split and I was like, whoa, Okay, that's yeah.
Yeah for a big girl doing the splits is always

(16:35):
really really good. She brought her experience with her to
the runway and I thought she was great. Definitely. Lucy
Leduca was next. She sang live and it wasn't um
It wasn't the best choice. I think going into it.
Her thought process was and I think she may even
have talked about this later that I thought it would
be impressive to sing live but if you're gonna sing live,

(16:56):
you have to be flawless. There are other people who
live before and it was a miscalculation. I'm thinking specifically
Fifi O'Hara during All Stars saying acapella and it was like,
if you're saying I'm gonna sing acapella, you better slay,
and she didn't, and it really stood out and it
made her seem like, Okay, not only were you not good,

(17:17):
but you're also not aware that you're not good. And
it didn't allow you like if she would have lips
saying she could have moved more, because it was like
she was like to stiff because she was concentrating on
keeping her vocals instead of, you know, a whole performance.
And that's the thing is that to me, drags the
whole performance. That's why you live sing. It's not about
you know, you're trying to be Seline Dion, you know

(17:39):
what I mean. It's you know, I have no problem
with singing live, but you gotta blow me away, you
know what I mean? And Okay, one I applaud anybody
who's things live, so let's give her flowers on that.
That is a really really hard thing to do, but
it wasn't the best decision given that her voice, it
just doesn't sound that great. And if your voice isn't
great that day, then switch it up and also add

(18:02):
some more movements. It was like she was like a
little stiff, you know. At first I thought it was
Michelle Facade. The way she looked her looked was great,
you know, but it was just you know, she tried. Yeah,
she had a pink and blue body suit which was
hip hugging, and she had padding and it was kind
of like a New Delusion. There was a lot of
cutouts around it, and I thought that the outfit was really,
really pretty. She had a huge blond wig with a

(18:24):
colored stripe down the middle, kind of like an embre effect,
and she looked great. Like if you saw this as
like a picture for a Las Vegas show, it'd be like, okay, okay,
miss pink purple leopard, you know, with the blue bodies talking,
you'd be okay. But the singing wasn't. And you gotta remember,
this is a competition. You have to make the right

(18:45):
choices because it's too many people you could get let
go like that. So you know, I'm really scared for her. Yeah,
it's up next we had Marcia Marcia Marsha and this
blew me away. The ballet dancing. She came know ballet dancer,
but she created a character through her dance. She was
a twelve year old girl in a nighty who was

(19:07):
fantasizing about being in love with Ross Matthews and so what,
and then she ingratiated herself to the judges too. She
had a story, in a character and a clear message
and she stuck to it. She was a little girl
in her bedroom kind of dancing around ballet and I
think she maybe even had headgear and glasses, which I,

(19:28):
you know, totally relate to because that was me. But
her movements were just like that was her talent. Her
movements were beautiful. You would never look at her and go, wow,
you're an actual trained dancer. She did it and and
this is the difference between what you saw Lucy trying
to do was use her talent to stand out. But
it wasn't the best choice versus for Marcia Marsha. Marsha

(19:51):
because this was it was thought out, It was thought
out of, It had a beginning, mental and an end,
and she was able to execute. I was about to
say yeah, because she's a theater person. It did have
a beginning, a middle, and an end, and she made
them laugh, which is like the most important thing. Let's
move on to Robin Fierce. Robin Fierce. Okay, here's the thing.

(20:12):
I have nothing to object to Robin Fierce. She looked beautiful.
She was in a leotard which was kind of like
the colors of the Wonder Twins on remember the Wonder
Twins one or Twin Powers. You know, they had those
purple and violet kind of striped outfits. She had beautiful hair,
She's gorgeous. I feel like this was a number I

(20:35):
saw in the club that was fine, but it didn't
show me anything new, would you agree? I felt like
it was you know, j low. Yeah, but she also
did now that we found love like she did that
that mix of the song, and I've heard it before.
It wasn't new. It just didn't It wasn't anything different,

(20:55):
so right, it didn't stand to me. That is kind
of like, you know, you have to show us who
you are, and who you are is somebody who thinks
that that's going to be enough to stand out? You know.
It's kind of like there was nothing wrong with what
she did no. No, she's a great dancer, great hip
hop danswer. But when you when you put it into

(21:15):
the point of what you just saw with Marsha Marsha
Marsha now here she comes, it's like you needed to
step up. What do you think she could have done?
Maybe changed the song, change, maybe maybe have a song
that's more current. Maybe, you know, because that is an
old song. Now that we found love by Heavy d

(21:35):
that's that we're going back to the nineties, right, that's
a they've written new stuff since then. So it just
I don't know there was I'm not I'm not messing
with you today, at Rade Duboise. Okay. Having said that,
Robin Fierce, if you're listening, there's nothing to object your

(21:56):
love like, it just wasn't news. That's my only you
probably just you would have did a different song. If
you would have I think that would Beyonce, right, Irene Dua,
if you did something from the newest album, if you
did cuff it, Yeah, that would have gave it a
little freshness. That's why if you fucked up the night,
you know. So Irene Duwa came out and she's from Seattle,

(22:18):
so she's like a performance queen, and I think she
was going remember when Jink's Monsoon when the dance challenge
joined the peanut butter making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
So she came out as kind of like a home
eck lady from the fifties and kind of like, I
leave it to Beaver mom dress Mrs Cleaver dress with
kind of a flouncy a line fifties dress with this
big hair, and she demonstrated how to make a glass

(22:40):
of ice cold water. The problem was it wasn't funny.
And I was watching this and I was thinking, Okay,
this is how I would have done it, this is
how I would have fixed it. Irene, if you're listening,
if you're such a disaster that you can't even make
a glass of ice cold water, that you literally set
fire to the stage, like it has to be such

(23:00):
an epic disaster off of the simplest thing that would
have been funny. Or as she was making the water,
it was silence. So she basically if you go back
and look at it, she was like, first you take
the water and it was silence. It's like no, girl,
put some jokes in there, say something to feel up
that silence because literally the cameraman was trying to help

(23:23):
her out, was just watching you pour water, and it
was like it was nothing there. So she said that
the bid is a lot longer, so she didn't know
how to cut it into the right places. But but there,
you know the premises, it's so ridiculous. I'm demonstrating how
to do something that everybody can do. But there was
no conflict, there was no obstacle for her to overcome.

(23:44):
I'm saying that if she was was somebody who's such
a disaster that she can't make a glass of water,
that would be funny. How I felt watching this was
I kept on waiting for the funny part to happen.
You know, it's all her actions. Yeah, and when Willow
pill ate from the spaghetti and then got into the thing,
it's kind of like it was funny because it was
so weird. It didn't make any sense. It was so stupid.

(24:06):
This just wasn't funny to make. Well, you know what
this is not. I'm going to take a quick break
because I gotta get some water and we'll be okay
speaking it's called water. We'll be right back after we hydrate. Okay,
We're back, and I think we're being pretty nice. I

(24:26):
think we're being very real. It's just no, you're just
being real. If it's not funny, it's not funny, it's
not funny. I mean, it's just it. I mean, this
is a competition. You can't and this is what you
as a matter of fact, this is what you count on.
You count on slip ups because slip ups. Slip ups
is a way for the other person to get an advantage.

(24:49):
So you know, if you you got sixteen people, you
hope they're all great and perfect, but they're not. And
so that's why you do these challenges. So you know,
it is what it is. And I've told Oaks on
stage that I thought were hilarious. Yeah, that I thought
it was, like, you know what, I wrote it on
a pad of paper at seven am. You know, I

(25:09):
thought it was hilarious that, you know, I say on stage, well,
I thought that was so much funny when I wrote it.
You guys, let's move on. Okay, moving on. A Nietra
from Las Vegas came out again. There seems to be
the trend alert is coming out in this red and gold,
so you look like you're on fire. The differences. She
was really on fire. She did a whole original song

(25:32):
about the duck walk. If you've seen the duck walk,
you've seen people on drag Race do it, where her
squatting and walking and voguing all at the same time,
and her whole thing was about that. First of all,
if you've ever done a duck walk, it's impossible. You're
folded in half and you're walking, so you need really
strong likes to do it. And then she had Bryce,

(25:53):
who from the pit crew, hold up two wooden boards,
Karate chopped it with her hand, and then Karate chopped
it her foot. No no, no, no no, She did
a triple spin then kicked the board in half. I mean,
it was like she was an anime character that she
came out dressed like that, and it was like, I
did not expect that from her. It was just so

(26:15):
well put. It was so and you have to watch
the quiet ones you got. You gotta watch those because
those are the ones that come up and you're like, wow,
we weren't expecting that because on the first episode she
was like, I had bad skin, but I'm a really
good performer, and you're like, but she didn't really stand
out to me this. She was on fire and she

(26:36):
made everybody laugh. I mean, this is the difference between
her and Robin Fierce is she brought this out and
all of a sudden, I was like, I want to
see her show, like she's the headliner, headliner, and she
showed us who she was and she knocked me out.
Next up, we have the other TikTok twin Sugar, and

(26:56):
she did something similar in that she did an original wrap.
This one was I don't know, not as good as Spice,
but I felt like she did a pretty good job.
It wasn't it was something that was missing. I don't
know if it was nerves. I think it might have been.
And you know, she doesn't have her sister to lean on.
I feel like her sister was more memorable with the

(27:18):
coffin and the wrap. There was something kind of very
soft and sweet about this, which was enjoyable, but it
wasn't memorable. And it's kind of funny because she's trying
to play the good twin, so she's got the bed
and the softness, whereas her sister Spices playing like the
bad twin. And it's like, okay, So now you're seeing

(27:39):
the difference but I think maybe nerves got the best
of her. But she looks beautiful and she was cute,
she's got those apps, but it just wasn't as memorable.
And that's the thing too, is that I don't think
we're comparing her to her sister, but in a way
we are. I mean, but you were comparing her to
all the girls. It's about being memorable. I remember, like

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Yara Sophia came out for her talent show during one
of the All Stars and she just took off She
just took off her top and her whole rap was
called shake them Titties, and that was the whole thing.
But it was so stupid in the way that RuPaul loves.
It was so stupid funny, like it didn't make any sense,
and it was like you walked away going that was
so stupid. She's the only one I'm going to remember

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from that. Well, speaking of stupid nixt, we have Princess
Poppy with a lip sync puppet show, yes, where she
has her twin who is a tumor. She basically has
this flesh colored arm length puppet that looks like a
parasite or a germ or a virus. And that was
pretty funny. I thought it was funny. I enjoyed it,

(28:45):
and it was like it was a great look and
the puppet custered around at the end bit yeah yeah,
and that she was like so pretty, and then the
puppet had this voice. It kind of revealed to me
her sense of humor and I liked it. Next we
had Selena a s Titties. Selena as Titties came out
and did an original rap as well. What did you

(29:06):
think it was? I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I
wasn't blown away. She came out with so much personality
that I was thought, Okay, your act better match the level.
And I felt like it didn't match the level of
the personality that she presented in her entrance. Yeah, I
think maybe this is something that she does in her act,
and so she thought it would I'm sure she has

(29:26):
something better, but it seems like this was something that
she does in her act. But she thought, okay, well
this is just the opening, let me just throw it
out there. But right she did an original rap. She
talked about who she was. She was wearing this flesh
color top with a silver metallic skirt and these beautiful boots.
Her beat was great, her look wasn't anything new again,
she was fine, but we need to to really knock

(29:49):
it out of the park. Yeah, you have to for
your first one. So having said that, I really liked
that her personality pops and I'm looking forward to what
there is to see about this quick next, Amethyst came
out and she did a lip sync too, been around
the world, I can't find my baby. But she was
dressed as a mom carrying her baby in a bjorn,

(30:10):
and the joke was she couldn't find her baby because
the baby was in the bjorn in back of her. Like, okay,
it's one joke, right, it's one joke. It didn't last
for the whole number. And she came out as like
she wasn't even a drag mom. She was like drag
on top. And then she had jeans and sneakers, and
I saw RuPaul look at those sneakers like somebody had

(30:32):
just taken a ship on the runway. They weren't even
clean sneakers. They weren't even clean sneakers. If you're playing, like,
okay again, how do you make this funny? Rich clueless
mom is funny? Like on ad tab we watch ad
bab You watch aDNA mon soon be a terrible mother.
All right, there's a way to do this. If she's
drinking and smoking and taking care of a baby, there's

(30:55):
ways to make that funny. For the whole thing. She
had one joke and it didn't last the whole thing.
She should have or a jacket to cover the baby.
Do your whole wine whatever makes us think that you're
thinking about a man, and then somehow do a reveal
reveal that you have a baby and your terrible mother.
The cigarette ash could have gone on the baby. You
could have put out this. You could have been the

(31:15):
baby the wine through a wine bottle, you know what
I mean, anything to kind of illustrate what a terrible
mother you are. And the bottom half could have been
more dragging. You could have been like housewife drag with
a heel or something. This really was like it kind
of underperformed for me because at the very top it
was great. You got my attention because it was funny.

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She came out, she had the wine, she had the thing,
and then I was like, oh, this is about to
be and then she revealed the baby too soon, so
that there was no joke for the rest of the thing.
It was kind of like, Okay, you're looking for your
baby camp but I get it all right, Okay, okay,
Aura Mare. Now she's the Filipino girl who said she's
a hip hop dancer. So she came out she was
kind of butching her dance, but she says that that's

(31:58):
how she is in her drag. She brings kind of
swag to her drags. And she came out kind of
looking like remember how Gwen Stefani used to look in
the nineties. She was like kind of a beaver girl.
She came out in these black kind of parachute pants
with this halter top and the gauntlets lace gauntlets on
the side, and a platinum blonde wig that was in
like a little two little buns like Princess Lea buns.

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And her beat was good. She looked very feminine, but
the dance was kind of like very kind of Rosie Perez,
kind of fly girl from a living color. That's what
I reminded me of, right, Oh my god, yeah that's
what it was. I was wider. Yeah, why is this feelies? Um?
I would have liked to heal, I would have liked

(32:40):
to be a little more feminine. Yeah, yeah, and that's
the thing that they're gonna have to. I understand that
your performance, so you gotta find a way to perform
in a hell yeah. Yeah, it's a drag competition. And
she's gorgeous. She's gorgeous, she has a beautiful body. I
would have liked this more if it was like she
was doing a butchered ans in a really feminine dress.

(33:02):
That would have been great, you know what I mean.
The juxtaposition would have stood out more. Especially at the
end she like flexed her arms. You can see that
she had big biceps, which I enjoy, but it seemed
like she was Michelle Rodriguez from Avatar. Have you worked
with her. She's very intimidating. I love her though, no bullshit,

(33:25):
like straight no bullshit, you know. Up next we have
Sasha Coloby. Sasha co in this straight jacket and started
giving this great modern dance performance body Yadiyati, Body Yadiyati
and she did Zombie, which is a great song. And
I think that she really showed us who she was.

(33:46):
She was like, I'm bringing straight up old school drag,
but I feel like the differences it didn't feel stale
to me. It didn't feel like, oh, I've seen this before.
It felt like I've been doing this for years. I've
been in pageants. I know how to be on stage,
and I'm going to bring it. And that's what you
know why, because she enjoys it. She wasn't. She was like,

(34:10):
I know you're looking at me. I know I have
the body, and she's bringing years of experience with her
on stage. What you saw in the photo shoot. Sasha
knows who she is, she knows what she brains. She's
been through the ups and the downs, and that's what
you see and that's why you see. And she's enjoying this.
This is about her. She's not worried about anybody else.

(34:32):
I love it. The last person that really surprised me
that came up for this talent competition was Jack's okay comey.
So Jack came out in long braids, like long blonde
braids and almost kind of like a leader hose in
looking outfit, kind of like it was like a short
overalls that were glittery and kind of a peasant blouse

(34:52):
arms and these long braids, blonde braids that were attached
to longer braids that turned out to be a jump rope.
I could not believe that I get over it. Not
only wasn't a jump rope, but then she was crossing
her eyes. Yeah, like this is nothing. She was jump
roping in heels. May I add she was jump roping
in heels. And if that wasn't enough, she unclipped the

(35:14):
jump rope raids. First of all, I need jump rope
braids now, Like I think it was gonna be the
latest thing that could be her merch when she goes
to drag Con. She could sell jump rope raids and
charge a billion bucks. She does four flips, four backflips,
not one, not to four and execute them flawlessly in

(35:34):
a way that only a competitive cheerleader could. And it
went with her whole set. See, this is what we're
talking about, taking something and showing us yourself and doing
something that's different than no one else. If you want
to stand out, this made her stand out. And remember her?
Remember her? Who was your favorite? My favorite was Antra.

(35:55):
I just kind of like with the energy she came out.
I was just kind of like I couldn't take my
eyes off of her. And when she went into the
kicks and breaking the boards, I was like, I give up,
Like that was like brand new. It was like if
you told me, oh, she's gonna come out lip sync
and dance, okay, whatever, but she made it new. And
also Jack's blew me away. Yeah yeah, both of us. Right,

(36:19):
you know what, I have a faith that I need
to ask you. I want everybody to go get some
water and we'll be right back. All right. I've been
called a thirsty yest bitch before, but we take so
many breaks to take water. Uh, it's absolutely true. Yeah, okay.

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So for the runway, the theme was who is she?
And this is drag that shows us who you are?
So first up, I read Dubois, who came out and
said that she was an alien, comes out again as
an alien and kind of an hr Geiger look. Now.
Hr Geiger was the artist who designed the very first

(37:05):
alien film. Remember the very first alien film. How that
monster looked, How it's all biological and black and metal.
So she tried to do that with this look. She
had the bra which was leather, black leather. She had
a black leather panty and black leather platform boots and
kind of this alien headdress with yellow outlines on it.
I thought she looked pretty cool. She looked really cool.

(37:27):
It was a nice look and it showed if she
said she's an alien, she's gonna be one hell of
a good looking alien, get it. I really liked it.
Next up is lux Noir London, our youngster from New Jersey.
She came out like as a show girl. She had
like this huge lavender cape that was so beautiful, and
this kind of frisbee hat that was gigantic, almost like

(37:50):
a giant church hat. Look like satellite tea. Yeah, like
a satellite dish exactly. It's like a satellite dish lavender hat,
and underneath her bodice was it's not quite turquoise, but
almost like a light turquoise going into green with lavender
stockings that went all the way down. It was kind
of like a lingerie look with a hat, and it
kind of reminded me like a show girl look. I

(38:11):
thought she looked great. She was great. It just wasn't
one of my favorite looks, but it was one of
my favorites. But I got who she was. It was
kind of like, Okay, you're a show girl. Definitely. Next
up is my Filipino's sister, Aura Maori. She did like
the Madonna topknot ponytail, and again she's in black lingerie
with a black high high heel. Her lingerie had this long,

(38:34):
kind of like see through kind of lingerie cape. Very
pretty girl, gorgeous, very gorgeous girl. And to me, if
this is telling me who you are, you're like the
pretty gorgeous Filipino girl. She did kind of make a
lot of funny faces during the thing, kind of like
camping it up a bit, which showed me that she
didn't take herself too serious seriously. She's memorable because she's beautiful,

(38:56):
but I think that almost if you're a beautiful girl,
you have to take it that much further, especially when
you know you are. You know, like how Jada ess
Hall is naturally beautiful, but she takes it even further
on the runway. Yes, it's like I'm gonna come out
and I'm gonna give you four seasons in one dress.

(39:16):
So I think that it's all right, You're beautiful, we
get it. I want to see more. I want to
to differently up next. Marsha Marsha Marsha Marsha, Marsha Marsha
in a Marsha Marsha Marsha outfit. Yeah, she came out
with something that I felt was a little too similar
to her entrance out there. It's another Chanel suit, which
I like, but you showed this this look already. She

(39:39):
looks like a very cute white girl. I get it.
She's rapping the pretty white girls. This wasn't she needs
to elevate it. I think that Marsha is getting a
lot of attention as a live performer because she's pretty.
And again it's that thing of like, Okay, you're pretty,
we get it. What else you got to elevate it.
It's like she's not dragged, she's just she just wants

(40:01):
to be a pretty girl. There was a girl in
the UK season named Dakota Schiffer who was similar in
that she was very pretty, but her makeup wasn't very draggy.
And this she's kind of passing, but it's not dragged.
She's not a dragoon. She's not like dragged up. Enough interesting, Okay,
Anitra is next. Anitra is next. And she came out

(40:23):
in kind of like a show girl nude illusion body
suit that was dark, that had metallic kind of strips
all over it that were really reflective, and I liked it.
And this was custom made by her. She made this especially,
and the makeup match. The makeup was beautiful, the eyes, everything,

(40:43):
the hair pulled back and long. It was just a
great run way outfit. And it lets you know, one
that she can make her own clothes. She knows her body,
she knows she is and she's just a beautiful queen.
She really And the thing is with about a Nietra
is her lie performance was so good. I really wanted
to see what she was going to bring to the runway. Yeah,

(41:05):
and I think it's like, it's not just that what
she's wearing, it's who she is. She seems to me
is that girl who's worked really hard in her craft
and takes being a performer very seriously and really wants
to create an event every time she's out on stage.
And you know what, she doesn't talk smack, She shows
you to smack. You know, that's what I get from

(41:25):
a Natra. It's like, you know, you may not hear
a lot from her, but when it's time to you
know what they say, get the assignment. She understands the
assigned and she pulls through. She's what you call. After
watching the first two episodes, promising like I want to
see what she's going to bring to the competition. Next up,
we have Malaysia Baby Doll Fox. She is the old

(41:45):
school queen, so she brought old school glamour. Come on, Patty,
she looks she looks like Patty Bell. She is in
a white sequin gown that has a beautiful kind of
course at top. And then she brought like fox tails,
a white foxtail stole off to the side. She looks
like Shirley Bassie drag, you know, like a headliner in

(42:06):
Vegas from the seventies. It's beautiful. She could she would
look really good as a yeah, and she says that
she's a makeup artist in Miami who works primarily with
black artists, and you can see that she is an
expert at doing her makeup. Her her it's beautiful, her

(42:26):
eyes are beautiful. And this is the drag makeup that
we're talking about that Marsha, Marsha, Marsha didn't do. This.
Girl is painted for the stage. She's painted for the light.
She's painted for the stage. It is perfect. And it's
really hard sometimes as a woman of color, especially a
black woman, to wear red. She knows the right red
to put on her just gorgeous. I have to give

(42:51):
a shout out real quick to my friend Adam Christopher,
who is a makeup artist in the business. You know Adam,
and Adam makes his living because he knows specifically how
to do black women's makeup. He is a master of
the light and dark shadow. He uses like ten different
foundations to contour and shape a face. And that's what
this reminded me of. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Princess Poppy. Princess

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Poppy kind of came out as a Barbie doll. She
had a big Barbie doll bouffont with a large kind
of bow in the front and kind of a to two.
It's in the colors of pink and blue and white,
and it was a very pretty dress. It was a
very pretty look. She looked like a Barbie doll like
you buy in the store. Is so cute. She's very cute. Again,

(43:37):
nothing wrong with it, but it wasn't life changing at
this point. It's season fifteen. The bar has been set
so high by so many previous queens, I mean, the
last All Stars. Every time Trinity came out, You're like,
what's she gonna wear? What is she gonna bring? Every
time Jada, what's she gonna do? What is she going
to bring? So it's the bar set so high. It's

(43:59):
not the fault of the girls, but you have to
come in with that previous knowledge of I gotta make
this now because I was thinking what what can we
do to make her? But she would need a Trinity
type dress. Yeah, it's early in the season again, nothing
wrong with it. Sasha Colby comes out all in the

(44:21):
nine twenties, kind of air ta art art beautiful, beautiful
fan head dress that is all read I fanned out,
kind of like a perfect fan overrhead, glitterally red and
satin skirt. She is the show girl to end all

(44:42):
show girls. She's kind of like, I know what I'm
doing and this this is what I'm talking about. You
come out and you create a moment on the runway.
This is your moment. And she's taking every one of them.
She's showing you she is pulling up those outfits. She said,
she pulled this one out or like you know what
in a paget ten it's like and it just tells

(45:04):
you how timeless certain pieces are based on the fact
if it's built and custom made for you, you know,
when you know how to do it, you can wear
something ten years later and it's like beautiful. She has
opera length black gloves, satin. The bottom part of her
dress is a shiny satin going up into this new

(45:26):
Delusion top that's like black sea through with this Redies
hair dress that's like half a circle on her head
with the glitter kind of like almost like bead curtain
hanging in the back. It is a thing of like
the paget queens. To be a talented paget queen is
like I'm competing against fifty girls. How am I going
to catch the judge's attention when I come out? That

(45:47):
was her talent. This is what makes her title winner.
She did it, She did it. She was a standout,
just great. Up next we have Selena s titties. Selena
s titties. So this kind of reminded me of like
how more they exchange brought her culture to the stage,
like I'm gonna bring you a drag queen queen royalty
from Queens. It was really really original and cool. It's

(46:10):
kind of like, you know, this is a club look
for a Latino girl going out to the clubs. She's
kind of like in this blue and white swirly paisley
glittery pants suit pant suit. Yeah, and she has this
blue top that turns to a hoodie with these giant
hoop earrings. She kind of takes her culture and elevator, like,

(46:32):
let me do a drag version of this l a
Latina girl. And the thing is about that I like
about her is I know who she is, definitely who
she is, and this is what I would see all
the time doing comedy in East l A. And those
are my friends. So it's like they're they're all about
the fashion, about hip. It doesn't aid you. They'll use
that denim and do everything with it. So and that's

(46:54):
definitely what she did up next. You have amethysts. Amethyst
kind of came out of sailor Moon. She had two
blonde pigtails on the side, a pink satin bow tie
going into kind of a lingerie look with bows, like
a white kind of macromy corset top with long lavender
stockings that came up to her thighs that had bows

(47:17):
on the back, high heeled shoes. She looked very feminine.
She looked like a Japanese anime queen, not padded though
she wasn't padded. She was not padded. She did look
super skinny, and the judges had to say about her
lack of padding is what the padding does is it
gives you a waste. It gives you a very feminine shape.
So what she looked like was kind of like a

(47:38):
very boyish supermodel in this look. I think some of
these queens right now, I'm getting a feeling that they
want to really look like feminine and they don't understand
that it's about drag and drags an exaggeration. Drag is
camping is not like, yeah, the big girls get it.
They're bringing shape to the runway. They're bringing and I

(47:59):
think that's because it's like, well, I'm a big girl,
so I have to create the illusion of a shape.
I have to, you know, like even Silky nutnet Ganash
she's a big girl, but she the shapes that she
brings to the runway are absolutely unbelievable. This was fine.
I thought she looked great. The thing I like about
Amethyst Beat is she's really good at the contour because

(48:20):
off stage, out of drag, she has a very big nose.
She shapes it in such a way that you don't
really see it. So she's a good makeup artist. Again,
the whole Sailorman anime thing. It's I didn't think she
brought anything now, but I feel like she's doing stuff
with her nose though, And the judges even said it
that sometimes she's ashamed of her nose. So we're gonna

(48:43):
see that. I think as we keep going on, is
she going to make adjustments because her nose is a
beautiful shape. But for her, I feel like she feels
like it's big, right, But I think it's like own it,
like Barbara Streis, come out, let us see it, you know, yeah,
Barbara stress and both those women kind of redefined the

(49:04):
standards of beauty. It's like, this is the nose I have.
I'm not changing it. It's gorgeous. Next up we have
Jack's who came out in this kind of leopard body suit,
but there was like this like eighties color blocking to it.
She had this red kind of like almost puffy members
only jacket up top that was a yellow primarily like
Ikea colors remember the eighties that used to always put

(49:25):
fire engine red with bright and yellow with bright Yeah rapper,
you know her early hip hop and pepper. Yeah, like
salt and Pepper used to do like the only thing
she was missing was a big door knocker areas that
they wore during push it. But she had red corn
row wig that I love, a corn road that came

(49:46):
up into a top knot. There's a trend alert. There
were a lot of top knot ponytails in this runway.
And she was herself again. She was another queen because
her talent thing was so good. I was looking forward
to what she was doing. She was great in this.
I thought she looked awesome and I love people that
bring their culture again, their culture into their run way. Look,
this is East l A. She's half black, half Puerto Rican.

(50:09):
That vibe from her and she shows what that vibe
is all about. Yeah. Up next we have Lucy Leduca.
Lucy Leduca came out and kind of she was padded.
She has an hour glass figure in a mermaid dress
that had cutouts on the side, creating a new delusion
that looked like her hips and her middle legs were exposed.
They were not coming out into this kind of like

(50:31):
shoulder pad moment at the top. And she had like
a little stewardess cap over this big kind of blonde
chocca con wig. Yeah. She said this was a tribute
to Britney Spears, That's what she said. Yeah, Britney Spears
kind of toxic video where she plays the flight attendant.
That's what I remember that. But she did a mermaid
gown version of this. I like this. I thought this

(50:52):
told us who she was. She's a comedy queen and
it was camp and the references were there. Definitely, I
didn't mind it. Yeah, definitely. Up next, Mistress Isabel Brooks
Texas all the Way. Yeah, our Houston queen. This is
the type of thing that she would wear in her
show at Easton in Houston, Texas. She is a cow girl.

(51:12):
This kind of reminded me of Uriko Hara. She was
a red glitter cow girl with a bottic top. It
had a glitter red fringe. She had glitter red chaps
that exposed her legs again with those glitter bugle bead
fringe hanging from it, from her gauntlet gloves which also
had the glitter fringe on it, to a red cowboy
hat from head to tell I know, she's a Texas

(51:36):
straight up all glitter fringe. She's he haw, She's ready
to tackle a sequence cow. Look. I thought it was
great because this, you know, it's who are you? I
know who you are? You're like over the top Texas queen.
Next up, we have Robin Fierce, who came out kind

(51:56):
of in a seat through body suit, but it was
all white this time. Some of them are been coming
out in black lingerie. This is a white, glittery lingerie
with a platinum blond wig that had a hole the top,
kind of like an off like an Egyptian arc, but
a headdress. Again, I liked it, there's nothing wrong with it.
It wasn't really memorable to me. She's just gorgeous. It's just,

(52:19):
you know, gorgeous. It's just but it was just something
was missing that could have made it stand out a
little bit more. I know, I feel like she's fine
and everything, but she's in danger of being not memorable.
And we have to remember it's a competition. We're not
being We're saying, gonna stand sexting girls got to stand out.
How are you gonna do it? Okay, we got our

(52:40):
TikTok's twins coming up. Sugars First Sugar, It's first. She
came out as kind of like a beast at a
Beast Bell from Beauty and the Beast, that iconic bright
yellow dress that Bell wears and Beauty and the Beast,
she did the whole reference to it. I mean, it's iconic.
You could tell who she us right away. But it's

(53:01):
like a drag version of the Beauty and the Beast thing.
Are you going? Yeah, because it just feels like a
little cosplay. It felt Halloween. It's just, you know, this
is rud It felt like drag Halloween. It needs to
be elevated. I don't know, more rhyme stones, the hair
could be bigger, or if she turns around, she could
have like the Beast face and the back, like if

(53:24):
she came out as Beauty and the Beast. There you go,
you know what I mean. That's why you're a producer. Okay, Yeah,
if like half of her outfit was split in a
half that she came out his Beauty and the Beast,
that might have been like, Okay, it could have you
know whatever, It's fine, but I think I agree with you.
It just kind of feels a little bit like Halloween cosplay.
And I want to be overwhelmed exactly. You want to

(53:44):
be memorable. We keep saying that last up with Spice. Spice,
she came out again in a Disney cosplay version of
Aerial The Little Mermaid. She has the iconic red wig
and the iconic kind of green color dress, kind of
gown that Aeriel wears when she has legs, but it's
a drag version of it, has maraboo fringe on it

(54:07):
and silver high heeled shoes. Did you think that this
was a little more successful? I liked it a little
more just because I thought it was a little more
going on with the fringe and you know, the look
and also her facial expression. She wasn't taking it so seriously.
She was taking it more so. And I'm telling you
it's just some different about Spice than her sister Sugars.

(54:31):
I'm seeing the differences. They're both gorgeous girls and a
gorgeous made up and talented, and they proved that during
the talent show. Like during the talent show, I was like, okay, right,
but here again, this is when we're talking about experience
and being able to you know, Sasha Kobe to me,
out of everyone stood out the most when it comes

(54:55):
to the runway because that's the experience. Where As you
had these young TikTokers. The dresses were beautiful and yes
they're they're in drag, but doesn't really stand out. I know.
But if you had seen this on TikTok you would
have been like, oh cool, yeah, but we're in a competition.
I mean, who was your favorite out of this runway?
I think that, like you said, Sasha Colby really created

(55:16):
a moment. It was like, Oh, you're amazing, and I
love that. You know, we all worked really, really hard,
and so I'm happy when somebody has put in the
hours and brings all of that onto the stage. You know.
It's kind of like that made me feel like if
I'd never seen Sasha Kolby before, I would want to
see a Sashacoby show, if I had never seen a

(55:38):
Ntra or Jack's before. After seeing this, I buying a
ticket to their show. And that's the purpose of because
not only is this just a competition where you know
people want to win, but also this is their livelihood.
So when they come on Drag Race, now you're giving
people a piece of Okay, do I want to go
see your show or not? So that's why it's important

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to you won by just becoming a contestant. So now
don't half asset and not show what you can do.
Show what you can do so that people will come
out and see more of you. So after this, the
judges they give their critiques and they deliberate, and the
winner of the challenge was Antra. She wants She wins
a cash prize up dollars. Wow, they upped it. Yeah,

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they ain't got some mid Okay, yeah, you know I
never heard you put it that way before that. You
win by being cast on the show, and the rest
is up to you. And really the real test of
these queens is what they do with the show after exactly.
You know, you have the ch Angelas and the Tricksy
Mantels and the Bianco del Rios, who are selling out
venues wherever they go. They're being booked on Broadway, they're

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being booked on other TV shows. It's just as great
because they have an act that they can do anywhere.
Like I said about you before, I can put a
microphone in your hand and push you out on the
stage and forty five minutes later people are going to
be entertained. So that's what something all these queens have
to bring to this ship. So they narrowed it down again.
You said that a natra. One the to bottom queens

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who had to lip sync for their life because somebody's
going home were Amethyst, who came out in that kind
of sailor moon outfit, and Irene Irene Dubois, who did
the ice water act that didn't go very well. I
think that's what brought them both into the bottom. Definitely.
Amethyst came out in sneakers and nobody appreciated that sneakers

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and jeans. It was kind of like and it wasn't funny. Yeah,
and Irene Dubois came out and did the unfunny thing
and it was like I ended up having to do
a lip sync song seven Rines by Ariana Grande, and
the winner from the lip sync was Amethysts. Yes, were
you surprised, Yeah? I was. I was surprised. I thought

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that I thought for sure Amethyst was going to go
home because of the sneakers. Yeah, I thought so. But
Irene ended up and she was here for only one night,
like they said. But but her exit line, she says, well,
I may not have won the crown, and then she
just walks off, you know, and everyone laughing right right right,

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I may not you know. It's the thing is like again,
you could be voted off first and and use it
to work your advantage back Miss Vanjie first off, but
I had the most memorable exit and in a weird way,
became the star of that season because everybody referenced Miss Vangie.
Miss Vangie Angela was voted off first on her first season.

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But what she did was as soon as the show
came out, she phoned all the clubs and said, I'm
on Rue Paul's Dragon. They didn't know that she was
the first to be voted off. Weeks before the show aired,
she got all of her bookings. If you're a smart girl,
you can work this to your advantage. And if you're
smart and you just keep your personality, you're gonna get work.

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Like I said, the win is just being on. I mean,
do you know how much a promotion did you get?
You know, magazines pick you up. It's not a loss.
It's you're on the show. It's a win. Believe me,
I judged, and I'm like winning still, it's like, it's great.
Look about a podcast. I have one? And with that said,

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I take a break, okay, Alex, because we've been talking
a lot all that winning is exhausting. You have to
take a break right back, and we're back after our
epic two part premier. It was fantastic. They did a

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fantastic job of being able to take Ruth Paul's Sweet
sixteen Queens and now we have fifteen. It was a
great two part premier to be on MTV. I think
that it's what this show deserves. It's an AMMY Award
winning show. It's going to be a great season. How
did you feel about it? I feel like there's already

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story happening. What I loved was Mistress Isabella looking at
Sugar and Spice going there's something to these girls that
I'm not going to sleep on. Like there was kind
of like a bit of like, Okay, I may not
be from the TikTok world, but I respect what you're doing.
So I like that Mistress Isabella is a standout to me.
I'm looking forward to seeing what she brings. Sasha Colby,

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I want to see what she brings. And then the
girls who were the top two, Anitra and Jack's were
the big discoveries for me and these episodes, I want
to know what's going on with this. Oh I'm thinking
that there's a thing they were like former lovers or something.
There's like history. I'm looking forward to uncovering that. But again,
four queens stood out to me, and you know what

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I saw also nerves of it being the first episode.
The first episode, everybody's freaked out and you have to
kind of like half of this game. The way it's
played is getting out of your head. If there are
thoughts in your they have to be positive ones that
kind of help you compete. Definitely. Well, you know what,
you guys can send some positive love to the queens.

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If you do, please show them some love on Twitter,
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gotta write out some of these queens. I know if

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I love your Instagram because your Instagram is like show
business now, thank you. And also it's like tracking you
in the wild. You travel so much. I'm always home
because I have a kid who's Jill in school, but
you are out there like your miles must be. Yeah,
I finally made it, you know what I mean. You
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