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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dis gad bolts. All right, everybody, Drag Race down Under
is on STAN currently streaming. You can get it right now.
Brand new episode drops tomorrow. Last week we had a
queen get eliminated.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That upset me. She was a superstar.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
She was a pillow queen and currently gracing the stages
here in Australia living down Under. She was on with
Michelle Visage and she joins me now joining us on
the show can't afford How are you kind of welcome?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Hello, Hi, I'm very good. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm so good.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Let me tell you this Filipino culture. Oh my god,
I feel it.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I love it. I can almost I can almost smell
the Adobo and I.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Have an ex that's Filipino and it's like, oh Michael,
the ubay cake, the oh, the Synagague, like all of it.
You're watching you, I'm like, you make me think of
my ex.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Damn.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Well, guess I'm very glad that I got to show
off my culture, especially my Demigogan culture on the TV show.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Can we start with the Demagogan culture because that at
the moment that made me laugh so hard. So the
Demagogan hat, which I can see is behind you. I
noticed you haven't destroyed it, which I thought you would have.
Was on the culture runway, It wasn't even really a
culture runway. Were you brieve to bring culture? Like how
did the demogogan happen?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I think I'm sush A Kolby asking if it was
part of my culture?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Was just her own thing.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
But the way I brought this, well, this this look
itself was actually a look that I was most scared
to bring on the runway because it was the only
one that I had pre existing, like before, like every
every upfing that I brought on was made for each runway,
but this is the only one that because of the
constraint of like having to find designers and the time
(01:55):
that we have for making our package, like everything goes
your way. So this is the one that I had
to bring that was in my closet already. So I
was definitely scared to bring this one the most because
it wasn't like necessarily made for it. It was just
there because it was the only one I could fit
for this category.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, you made it work. You wedged it into the category.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I wedged it in, Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And the reaction online kind of good, you kind of
want an iconic moment like that when you're a queen
on drag Race.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Like after I got back, like I honestly wanted to
burn the costume up because it gave me so much
trauma from that first step, But like after processing all
of everything that happened and like seeing how the audience
perceived it, like, I'm glad that I didn't, and I'm
glad that it was a bit of an iconic moment
(02:43):
for myself and down.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Under definitely iconic.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And this seasons so far shaping up to be I
think the best season of down Under yet. We had
the Snatch Game, which will out the Aussie version of
the Snatch Game, which I love the reworking of it,
which we'll get.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
To in a second. But you, I mean your journey
on the show was tumultuous.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I mean, this wasn't your first time in the bottom,
you know, getting eliminated. Does that get to your head
that you know, we have people like Lazy who are
right at the top and are winning two challenges in
a row and then you're in the bottom twice. Is
that does that get like get in your head as
a competitor on the show.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Well, yea one hundred percent, especially the second time being
on the bottom, like you kind of just go, oh god,
here we go again. Like obviously, like for that first
one that I did, personally like I had a fire
lit under my ass because you don't want to be
in the first girl sent home and so but the
when we got to that second one, I'm like, oh.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
God, like I need to push through, like can I
do this?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Like it was just it was hard to be in
the bottom, but then it was also hard to be
in the bottom three to lip sync and be sent home.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, Well, what's the feeling in your gut when you're
standing up there before Michelle has told you that you're
in the bottom, do you know? Is there a knowing
sense of Yep, it's going to be me or is
it like us watching at home? It could go either way.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I honestly, you don't know what's going to happen. And
I think that's what is like crazy about the show.
It's just like you don't know what's going to We
don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Like I was. I thought both times I was in
the bottom.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I wasn't going to be lip syncing, But both times
I was in the bottom I did, so it just
goes to show you to expect the unexpected.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, and now going home so early, I mean, and
people often say going home first is good because you
kind of get the first out badge, but then going
home second, it's like, oh my god, you poor thing.
Like did did you stay in obviously New Zealand for
the time that they were filming or did you could
you go straight home?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
How does it work once you're eliminated?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
No, you get her sent home straight away.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
So after like three episodes of filming, like I was like,
my my battery was depleted and so to be told
to pack up all my stuff and then be sent home,
it was. It was definitely harg breaking, was very sad.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, okay, well listen, you're gone, but you got so
many more fans now, people adore you, and this is
being spoken about as the best season of Drag Race
down Under. Yeah, what was your highlight? What was the
moment for you that you look back on and go, yep,
that was it for me? That that was made ital
worth it?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
I think definitely not in the moment, but looking back
at it now, the Demi Gorgan was probably my favorite
moments I happened like for me, especially like the song
Rush and the Demi Gorgan had a lot of sentimental
value to me, and so to be able to perform
that song in that costume on like like on national TV,
(05:40):
like I think, was like something that I'm glad that
I got to do.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
To be honest.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, for all the straight people wondering what drag race
and gay culture is, it's a Demagogan and it's Rush.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I Rush flowed at Marti Gras and I want a
Demagogan float.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So the Snatch Game this year was different.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It was kind of a take on I'm a celebrity,
Get me out of Here, which I really enjoyed. I
don't know about you, but I thought it really fit
the format and it gave you guys a lot more
to play with. Did you enjoy the format of Snatch
Game this time around?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I think it was good because it did give us
more opportunity to like show off ourselves more rather than
be like having to share the stage with all the
other girls.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
But just not screaming.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Itself is just such a hard thing to do, Like
you're having to be this character, having to make Michelle
laugh having to vulley off everyone and so all these
things like running through your head just like like, well
for me personally, like I was like overthinking it and
so like I think that's like what they saw unfortunately.
(06:49):
But other than that, like I'm this character that I
showed off. It was like it was something that it
was the only like character that I felt like I
could have done the best.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Like I felt like I didn't do bad. I just
like just didn't do the best.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, but I heard you saying, Untuck that you were
so in your head thinking about the next joke, which
is so hard and really not what comedy should be,
like you should just be in the moment, flowing, And
so I felt for you. I'm like, oh, Card, I
wish you were just out there being a little silly
goose and we would have had so much more fun.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I think, Yeah, I think I'm with all the pressure
of the show, Like I didn't get to like let
myself go as much as I wanted to, because I
usually am like a pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Person when I'm like.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
When I'm around people, or even like when I'm like
hosting my gigs and stuff. But I think just like
the pressure and of it all just like got to me.
And that's like something that I'm like sad that happened.
It was just that I got in my head a
lot during the show.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You're on a TV show.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You got cameras, you've got a hundred different lights, you've
got Michelle Visage, You've got Recee, you've got Key to Me,
and you've got the other queens.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You meant to be funny. It's a lot of it's
a lot to keep in one little mind. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's tough, Yeah, very very tough.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Easy yourself. Now, I need you to explain to me
who the hell your character was, because I.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Was like, there's so many names of it, who is
this person?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I was so confused, who the hell were you? Kana?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, so, like this character that I did, I don't
know if you've seen the movie, but Eddie Murphy is
actually in a movie called Norbert and he plays his
character called Respucia, And so my character that I was
trying to base off was Respucial. But obviously for the
copyright reasons, I had to like make sure that I
had to work my way of being able to do
it on the show, because, like I couldn't see myself
(08:32):
doing any other character. Like the Respucia character from the
movie Norbert is like a character that I've been doing
since I was a kid with my cousins and like
with my friends, like we would always piss ourselves laughing
quoting the movie or pretending to be her. But yeah,
I think. I think also the fact that I had
to like the name the name the name situation actually
(08:55):
did throw me off a bit, having to call Eddie Murphy,
edition Noles Carter, Noles Murphy that third, I think I
once I did that, I'm like, oh, it's probably not
a good idea.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Maybe won too many Knoles Murphy. So I'm like, Noles Murphy.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
No.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But you know, like come on, at the end of
the day, it's care but silly. It's what drag is.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Now the Snatch Game winner. Did you think it was
a Do you think it was a deserving win? You
happy with the win?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I think there was a very deserving win, Like especially
with us having to be in our halves. We actually
got to watch them while they did it in the moment,
and then me and the other girls that were watching them,
we were like pissing ourselves, like Brenda like she is,
like the character that she did, and the fact that
we also had mensy moves doing the other character as well,
(09:45):
seeing them like bully with each other. It was just hilarious.
So I definitely think that it was a deserving win
for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah. Do you think how Lazy was a little salty
that it was a you know, cut.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
From a third week on top. I think she would
have been salty.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I mean, being in the top two weeks in a row,
she's probably living off this high, and especially with her
crazy snapchin ideas, I think she probably thought she had
it in the bag, but I say, shared around, bitch.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I agree. I agree. Now your runway, which was so cute.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
It was adorable, Like you know, there's a lot of
gay mankana who sit there going I want to eat
her up, and then seeing you in a little sweet treet,
they're like even more so, now I want to, you know,
gobble it down?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
What that was.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Obviously inspired by a Filipino heritage. Yeah, but speak to
me about that runway because it was so cute.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Oh thank you? Yeah, it was. Yeah. So the design
that the dessert.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
That I chose was was actually called chakoits. It is
a Filipino dessert, and it's a dessert that my grandma
actually used to make for me all the time, like
growing up. So like for me, I wanted to add
like I wanted to dump in on marsh. So my
grandma has passed away. I wanted to show my Filipino culture.
So yeah, I think it was I think this just
(11:03):
that that I chose was a very personal runway. So yeah,
I'm glad that I got to show it off. It
was so sweet see what I did there? Yeah sweet sweet?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, thanks?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Now this lip sync, we have to talk about the
three way lip sync. I mean, you know, not the
three way that we're all used to, is it? But
it was definitely very entertaining to watch, Like did you
expect first of all, there had to be a three
way lipsyncvicily in the competition.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I didn't. I didn't expect the three way three way
on lip sync.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
And I thought that I had done just that smidge
better just to like get myself out of the out
of the bottom two.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
But so so let's just get that straight. You thought
you were you were safe, You thought.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You were going to be you were going to be
you know, third runner up going to the back.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Of the wall.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, I thought, I that's my Yeah, I thought that.
But unfortunately that's not how the play the game goes.
You have to expect the unexpected. And this three way
lip sync happened.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
God, it did dinner you, Max and Nikita.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You know what, it was pretty even like I thought
you were turning it out. The moment at the end
where you were on your stomach and you were slamming
your thighs, I'm like, oh my god, I want to
be the stage. I'm like, I'm jealous of a stage.
You know. Goodness, I don't know what move that is,
but that was a winning move in my eyes. And
then to be sent home, oh god on a good lipsinc.
I guess the silver lining is you look cute?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, I'm trying to help you here, I'm trying to
find a silver lining.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Take it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
No, it was good. I taught myself that.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Knowing that Max was in the competition, Like for me,
she is like one of the most incredible performers in Australia,
and so I told myself the only way I would
accept being sent home is if I was at lip
sync with Max and I was in ellip sync with Max,
so I accept my, my.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
My, god, stop, that is so cute. Cute. You guys
were good pornakita. But you know it's still cute, like
there was a third person in that lip sinc. I
don't know, I didn't. Well, listen, we loved you on
the series.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
You were great, you were charming, and it's so good
to get a your Filipino culture out there and your
style of drag. You're gonna have a whole new set
of fans. And I just for one am happy to
have seen you on the show.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I really am.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh, thank you humans. Let you saying that.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Of course, Now go sachet away, sorry to say it again,
and burn that Demagogan hat for God's son, Mike, but
get rich.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Or sell it, you know what.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Even better yet, don't burn it because you get some
money for charity, for that or just to pay the bills,
you know, go on a nice dinner, sell that Demagogan
hat for a grand I'll start the beating at five
hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Thanks, honey, thank you, Babs.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Have a good one.