March 10, 2023 • 49 mins
Calling all comedy queens! This is your week! The Bubly Comedy Festival is in town and the queens have to do stand-up to stand out. Alec and Loni chat about how the performances went and offer some sound advice. But first, it’s the Harlem Vogue Ball Mini Challenge and let’s just say the ducks were walked. Then, the queens are ripped to shreds on the runway with some of the looks leaving Alec and Loni torn. Plus, Alec can’t stop gushing about this week’s lip sync.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome back to another episode of
Squirrel Friends, the official RuPaul's Drag Race Podcast. I'm Alec Mamba, Hi,
how are you? And here is the Woman of the Year,
the Woman of the Moment, America's sister, the Queen of
show Business, Lonnie Love Alec. Oh my gosh. I went
to a fan con my very first. I've never had
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that experience where people come up to you and say hello.
I'm like, hi, And honestly, Lonnie, this was my first one.
I was like, nobody's gonna know who I am, you know,
like nobody's gonna know who I am. And everybody knew
who I was, see and they said hello, And it
was like, oh, because I live in La right, and
I work in show business. But I work in show
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business and then I go home. I'm not like you.
I'm not on the red car boat a whole bunch.
I don't go out. I don't like people. No, that's
not true. I like people, but I don't. It's a
lot for me, you know, personally, to go out and
you're good at that. Yeah, I like going out, but
I'm glad you got out and I know you're good
at You're good at the interactions socially. First of all,
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you know, everybody who's ever lived on the planet, I
can do that too, but it's effortful for me. I
have to I have to take a breath and go. See.
We remember when I always say it's time for people
to get their flowers. I'm glad that you went out there.
I'm glad that you've got your flowers. You've been in
this game for a long time, Alec and so good.
So yeah, that's why you go to those things. So
(01:30):
I'm glad you got that. My table was across from
Eric Estrada from Chill. Yeah. So he's still handsome, right,
but every time a pretty young girl would pass by,
he'd go, whoa, whoa. You gotta slow down. He's still
playing moving violation. Okay, before we get too far into that,
we have so much to cover today for our drag race.
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First of all, we have some great news. Great news,
Lonnie Love, would you like to announce what's happening with
the length of the show. Yes, okay, Squirrel friends, we
have been asking for it. MTV has agreed to increase
us to ninety minute episodes. It only took episode eleven
for them to realize I am so excited about you
(02:14):
were the voice in the Wilders. I give you complete
credit because we had so many podcasts where you're like
the rays that you love this is I can't. I can't.
I'm not get enough info. I'm not That's not an
impression of you. I'm just saying the things that they
were saying. I love it. So Squirrel friends, we have
finally guiden it. And you know what, I really think
(02:37):
it's because it was just a concerted effort from all
the fans. We trend every Friday. Yeah, after the episodes
through ru Paul's drag race, and people were just in
droves complaining. They were like, it's just not enough and
let's go back to the way it is. So this
is what we're gonna cover. We're gonna have finally a
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full ninety minutes and you're gonna see the friends. I'm
gonna play out throughout this podcast. The differences from the
ten episodes that we've seen before, we're good. They were good.
They were good. It is the lyrical something Lonnie and
I are size Queen is what she's saying, we want
it longer, is stronger and stronger. So what are we
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gonna cover. Okay, so if you haven't watched the show yet,
spoiler warning. In five four three two one, we are
going to cover I saw that on Instagram, by the way,
So that's what I'm gonna do from that one, because
the kids are doing it. The Voguing Mini Challenge, Oh,
the Bubbly Comedy Festival Maxi Challenges Comedy Challenge, Lonnie. You
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know one of that. We found out more about mistress
and her relationship with her mom, so we'll talk about that.
And of course that Boss Bitch lip sync. I'm obsessed
with that song. I always like that song, but now
I really really love it. It is in Alright, Squirrel friends,
it's time for fifteen seconds to say. This is where
Alec and I have fifteen seconds to race and say
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all of our most important thoughts, takes on the topics
given to us by our fabulous producers. Now in celebration
of the episodes returning to ninety minutes, they're gonna give
us more time. Alex, Yes, and y'all wanted a twist
extra fifteen seconds to be exact, to say anything you
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want to say anything in our time? All right, okay, Alex, Okay,
we have thirty seconds to say whatever we want. You're up, Ready, set, set, Okay.
This is the first time it's going back to ninety minutes,
and you can feel the difference immediately. We're going to
talk about what the difference is. The biggest difference for me,
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the runway and the critiques. We were missing the runway
and the critiques in the first thirty seconds, and now
they're back. I'm so happy your turn. All right, we
go go. You gotta say ready, says say, oh, oh, sting, sorry,
I gotta do this right. I've never done this before, Lonnie.
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I'm nervous. Okay, ready, said to say, I am so excited.
This is what the fans wanted. We wanted our ninety
minute episodes because it's more than just a feeling. You know,
we have watched parties, we're at the clubs, and so
the hour was not long enough. Now we get to
see the critiques, we get to hear more stories, we
get to see more fashion. It's wonderful. I love it. Yay,
(05:32):
thank you MTV. You had seven seconds to spare really yeah.
That reminded me of like you know, when you start out,
you do open mics and they give you two minutes
and you think, what can I do for two minutes
and you're like a lot, very good, Lonnie, Well, thank you.
We've both gotten into the economy of expressing ourselves in
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fifteen seconds, so I think we've become experts. They've been
training us well, our producers, they've been training us very well.
So they really had that. So if you want us
to say something or anything for fifteen seconds, d m
us or message us your ideas at Alec Mapa on
Instagram or at comic Lonnie Love Instagram, or you can
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follow me also at Lonnie Love on Twitter. Can I
just say to the girls are acting up on Twitter?
You're missing out at happening the queens? Oh no, I see,
I know, Okay? Are they biting? Is it is this
where Ross puts in the punching bag sound with like
the bells off Goods a variety show. I mean Mistress
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Lux Selena. I mean, they're very active on Twitter, and
it's always something I heard acting up. There's a difference
between active and acting up acting up? So what is it?
They're acting up? They're doing the jokes. Something happened and
I believe I believe Selena s titties got hacked and
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someone was trying to sail computers but on her account,
and so they shut down her account. So people were like,
are you working at best Buy? What's happening exactly? And
so all the other queens started making jokes about Selena's
trying to sell computers and then the hacker started blocking
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the people from Selena's account, Like, so mistress was blocked
and anybody that minted it got blocks. There's something. There's
something that's happening right now at Twitter. And I read
about it yesterday in the New York Times because I
just learned how to read three days ago. So um stopping.
There have been such massive layoffs at Twitter, like he
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let go of like seven thousand employees Elon Musk, Yes,
seven thousand, and they were the people who were keeping
Twitter running, keeping the glitches from happening, monitoring all the
rules and everything, and so they're all gone. They're working
at skeleton crews and the remaining employees this is a controversy.
They've set up beds in the office. So Twitter is
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not doing very well. He's running that thing into the ground.
Oh but you know what, while he's doing that, we're
having a fund have you ever been hacked. I've never
been hacked, thank goodness, and I hope I never get hacked.
But that was you know, this is the thing I
love about queens. They will make a bast situation funny
and good and that's why we love our queens, especially
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that for this season. So okay, let's get into the episode. Okay,
last week we said goodbye to Malaysia, Baby Doll Fox.
That was hard. Now Lucy thinks that she should have
won again. Oh loose, Oh no, we're talking about this
last week. It's kind of like it's that thing of
like complaining if you're safe. It's just it's like, we
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know you want to win. Everybody wants to win. But
I think that's her personality. Now, yeah, she I mean
it's like she's like, I think I did the best
and I should have. We were like, okay. So then
Lux thinks that she's so close to winning that the
judges won to see her win. She's very confident. I like,
Lux's very very confident, you know, young queen her heads
(09:06):
in the game. Yeah, because there was some shady moments
between Lux and Lucy. They were going at each other
and they were saying, who would win next week, and
then it was like a bunch of talk about who
won the runway. Look, they argued over the baby bump.
Lux were starting shit about like Lucy not having a
baby bump, and then Lucy said she wasn't that pregnant
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at the award show because we're talking about beyond Beyonce.
Look that love on top that that thing when she
came out and she showed her baby bump and it
was like very memorable, and Lux was feeling like Lucy
kind of copped out on that, and I was like,
this isn't a real argument, y'all. Who cares. Just drop
it if you're a Beyonce fan. Though, Ali, yeah, you
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remember that. I noticed it because that was her first child.
She did a whole dance, a whole dance in stilettos
and opened up that blazer and rubbed that Timmy and
we were like, and Lucy didn't do it, and she
didn't do it, and that just could have been a moment.
So I think she was in a way. Lux was
(10:14):
kind of correct, right, you know, it's like she was pregnant.
That was the whole purpose of her cover. But Luck's
pointing it out to Lucy made Lucy feel And I
hope I'm using the phrase correctly some kind of way. Yeah,
thank you, that I applies. I'm learning the Lingo kids
and the old dogs and Wildler new tricks. I love
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it so while they're arguing over its because now it's like, okay,
now there's some tension between Lux and Lucy, We're like,
oh oh, there's drama. Here comes RuPaul. We get our
old RuPaul back. Talk about that outfit, all right, you
know what it's like listen, real we all want to
dress for comfort. But I'm so glad the Carnegian era
(10:57):
is over. You have beautiful clothes. This is the ru
I like, Rue came out in a black and white
diamond check pattern with a black scoop neck tshirt and
these like cool boots. And this was like ruin a suit,
you know, six foot five RuPaul in a suit, realness,
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and I love that. I loved it. You know, Rue
Paul looks good in a suit. He has the long legs,
he has you know, the right build. Where does suit
honey keep you? And save the cardigans for when Lonnie
and I come over? Forget it, you know as well?
You know, just that's more whatever listen. It's it's a
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minor issue. Like I said to Lucy and Lux, it's
not a real argument. So you know, we love not
a real artument. Yeah, but do you know what, there's
a real argument if I'm gonna get to this break.
So I'm gonna get to this break. We're gonna come
back talk about the challenges, and we're back. We're talking
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about the mini challenge. Rue says America's next drag superstar
needs to have all the right moves. So for today's
mini challenge, they're going to celebrate a queer art form.
They are throwing a Harlem vogue ball. I got so
excited about this. I got so excandered about this. Rue
is looking for popping, dipping, and spinning, shah blamb all
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of it. They have fifteen minutes to get into quick
voguing drag and the category is I'm so into voguing
right now. That's what Vanessa Hudgens said when she was
the judges. Though, I'm so into voguing right now. What
did you think about it? The ones who knew how
to do it killed it. Oh my god, just killed it.
When Sasha Colby came out and did that thing where
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she pointed her boots and then counted the buttons on
the boots, and then she did this thing where she
pulled up her own hair and separated the strands one
at a time turn that into a dance move. I
was like, this is why I watched the show, This
is why, this is why I watch the show. And
then a Nietzsche It's just like, oh my god, this
is her wheelhouse. Yeah, I mean it was really like
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a challenge for them, but I enjoyed seeing the other
girls struggle. I mean it was like Mistress did a
slow bad band with the one Lady. Yeah, she did
the world's slowest death drop and it was hilarious. It
was it was really really good. But you know, I
watched those Harlem Vogue Ball videos on the instagrams and
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they're changing dance. They are they are like such innovators.
You know. When I was watching with my friend who
is a former show girl, Calpernia Adams, who is that
my tenant who lives with me, and she was like
the queen's Like these queens bring new art and new
breath into the world all the time. I love seeing,
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you know, the performances, and this was a Great Mini
Challenge and a Nietra was the winner. I really thought
that Sasha one, to be honest, so did I. But
she's won three challenges so far, and she came here
because she great. She great, But it's kind of like, okay,
well I think, okay, from a produce oreal point of view,
(14:06):
I feel like the producers World of Wonder, not gonna
name any names, are going if we just give her
everything every day, every week, then it's just, you know,
we gotta spread out, we gotta spread the love. So
I think they split hairs and gave it to a Nitra. Okay.
Anitra is named the winner of the Mini Challenge. She
was the grand prize trophy and twenty five hundred dollars cash. Yeah, Sasha,
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you did your thing. Okay, So now we're up to
the Maxi Challenge. Now, Rue tells the Queen's Drag reminds
us not to take life so seriously, like what you
just said, Alec. So for today's Maxi Challenge, Bubbly wants
us all to crack a smile because they will be
performing stand up in front of a live audience at
the Bubbly Comedy Festival. Here it is Bubbly Comedy Festival,
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and if you didn't know, it was the Bubbly Comedy
Fest of all, they reminded you at Rayed five minutes,
I was like, wow, Bubbly must have dropped some cash.
All right, that made me too behind the scene, so
forget it. Just erased that to randomly divide them into
comedy duos. They reach into a cooler and pull out
a can of Bubbly sparkling water. Okay, let's go back.
Let's go back. Because a Nietra won the mini challenge,
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so she was able to decide the order the order,
and what they did was they took these cans. Each
queen pulled out a different color can, so whoever matched
color cans, they were a team. So what Lonnie said,
what Lonnie said is what I was trying to say.
But she's the queen of all media and whatever. So
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Selena picked up the cherry can and so because their
seven yes, and then there was a twist, she was
the only person that didn't have anybody because right other
six were already picked. Okay, if I picked the solo can,
I would have been great. Yeah, I would have been like, great,
I'm gonna go on first. But who's always gonna give
you a twist? She said, Selena, you can steal someone,
(16:06):
and so she'stle Mistress, which left Marsha Marsha Marsha by herself. Okay,
so let me read you the duos that we have
so far. We have Sasha and Antre. Yes, we have
Lucy and Lux who have been fine. You're having a
Beyonce fight earlier, right, Selena and Mistress. And Selena wanted to,
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you know, bring the Mahicana flavor and have them be
the Mexican comedy duo. I love that. And Marsha Marsha
Marsha is now solo solo son. Now once you were
seeing before, you'd rather be by yourself. I'd rather be
by myself, and I would go on first or last
in this challenge or somewhere in the middle, Marsha Marsha.
Marsha said that if she went on last, she would
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spend the whole time thinking, oh, I can't pay attention
to this. My mind is elsewhere. I'm waiting to go on.
But I feel like when I go on last, you
get so much more material, You get a sense of
the audience. You can like piggyback off of other comics jokes,
you know, and just also kind of get a sense
of the room. Well, the thing is is that Marcia
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is not a comedian, and so she really could have
did anything. See, that's the thing is that I think
everybody got caught up with it has to be stand up, yes,
it has to be comedy. So since you're solo, she
could have done anything, right, the canvas is blank for
her instead of having to work with a partner. And
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this is what you'll see throughout the episode that certain
partners work together, certain partners didn't. The reason why we
call it stand up comedy is because it's a solo
art form that if you make a mistake, the audience
doesn't even know that you made a mistake. They don't
know if you missed a joke or if you said
something wrong. If you're good, if you're good, I mean,
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if you lay an egg out there. That's a whole
other out form of digging yourself out. You know what
you always say you stuff is crazy? Yeah, oh you
said that. You say that stuff is crazy. You ever
hit a punchline and don't work, Yeah, shit's crazy. I
always my my my saved myself line is oh wow, nothing. Okay, Well,
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you know, I thought that was so much funnier when
I wrote it, you guys, I had kind of the
admission and the and the thing kind of like the
audience lasted that every single time because it's like, yeah,
it's so great. Okay. So we got these duos, and
as we said before, as the winner of the mini challenge,
Aneitra got to pick the order of the performers, and
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so she decided to put Marcia first, which I thought
that was you know, you know, but she she wants
to go first. Yeah, she wants to go first, so
that that was good. And then she chose Lucy and
Lucian looks the bickering Beyonce, and then she gave herself
of course, and Sasha the sweet Spot which was third,
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and then last was Selena and Mistress. Yes, so that
was the order. I thought the order was good. I mean,
if you're going to pick the order, yeah, pick the
sweet spot because we always say you need the audience
to warm up. Yeah. The only problem is I would
have picked after Marcia because you know, Marcia is it's
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not feeling strong, is not experience. Yeah, so you're saying
that right now Lucy Leduca and lux as a second
or in the strongest place to do a good job exactly.
That's what I feel. So we see Marcia is struggling
on her own, and here's the thing. I'm a comedy writer,
and whenever I'm struggling, what I always come back to
is you have to write from your own experience. Yeah,
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I've done like stuff where I'm starting to write political
stuff and I'm like, no, I'm not a political comic.
Or I'm starting to talk about certain other issues that
really aren't. You know, I can't get up there and
be funny about stuff that I'm not. The thing I'm
most an expert on is embarrassing stories about myself. If
I've shipped my pants someplace, if I've said the wrong
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thing to someone, if you know, if I've stuck my
foot in it. Those are the best. You know, the
audiences are embarrassed for me. That's Mike, you know, I
love doing that. And it's like, don't you find that
if you're at a loss, it's like, I just got
to keep bringing it back to me. Yeah, that's it's
always about you. That's that's you know, that's that's the
key to it. All. So I think that, like I said,
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because Marsha is an experience, of course she's gonna be nervous.
They were allowed to workshop some material with Michelle and
an extra special guest, my girl Ali Wong. I love, Oh,
she's so talented. It's she's so talented. I love her
when I say smart smart. If you haven't seen her
(20:47):
very first special baby Cobra, that's what she's known for.
It's everything you need to know. And I steal from
her this phrase. I use it all the time, that
there's jungle Asians and fancy Asians, and she's like Chinese
people happening. You have the Koreans, they're fancy Asians. Vietnamese
Filipinos work jungle Asians. It's true. But before they got
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to work with Michelle, they get to workshop their jokes
with Ali Wong. There was a bit of a problem
in the workroom, a physical emergency. A Nietzsche had an
ocular migraine. Now, an ocular migraine means happening right behind
your eyes. If you've ever had a migraine before, it's
imagine somebody really driving an ice pick through your skull.
It is so painful. Have you ever had one? No, nons,
(21:32):
I haven't. Yeah, well you're not married yet, so that's why. No,
it's it's really awful. Your vision goes crazy. And I
had a migraine when I lived in Hollywood and I
was just like holding onto the walls. And the thing
that got rid of it for me is I had
to throw up. Really, I don't get them, but it's
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what happens is the blood vessels in your brain get
so constricted, like it's like at in your head, and
it's it's so so painful. I mean, people pass out
from the pain. It's so awful. Listen on that note,
we are going to get to the rest of the
episode after these important messages, and if you have a migraine,
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throw up, or take a pill, we'll be right back
and we're back. Okay. I want to talk about a
little bit of the workshopping that they did absolutely with
Ali and with Michelle. Okay, this is the time that
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I felt, Alec, if you know that you're not a
great comic, get whatever tips you could get from those two,
because that's what's important. You know, if there's a stand
up comic who is a proven comic, who's had their
own Netflix specials, and they're telling you do this, do
it exactly exactly that, and you know what, it's surprisingly
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Marsh came off okay in the rehearsal, Yes, she came
off okay. The two that had the problem was Selena
as Titties because she was telling a story like their
setup was good, I know, but the show's ninety minutes long,
not seven hours long, and they actually edited to look
like she was reading Warren Peace Out. Lad. She kept
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going on and on and on and on. And the
key to all of that is, you know, make sure
that you cut your material, get straight to the punchlines,
because she was telling a really long story beginning, middle end,
and then Mistress you know, in her confessional, was like,
if this doesn't work, I'm all for myself. You can't
do that in a duo. Duo, you can't just leave
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somebody to twist in the wind because that could go
either way. Okay, okay, Let's say your partner's bombing and
you're just letting them bomb. You kind of look like
an asshole exactly. You kind of look like, oh wha,
you're showing your ass and you're gonna I love that
expression to somebody's showing their ass and it's revelatory. It's like, oh,
you're not a good person. When the chips ran you
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want to be a good comedy duo. I loved comedy
deals when I was growing up. Abbott and Costello. You know,
do a reference. People know alec Y and peel They
can google it Key and peel Key and peo Key
and peel Key and peel Oh. You know, it's so funny.
When I'm on the show with RuPaul and I bring
up a reference, I'm like, nobody's gonna know that but me,
(24:28):
And then rue Paul always leans up and goes, I
know it. I know who they are. Yeah, Yeah, it's funny.
So they had their run through and then we get
to the workroom elimination day. Mistress opens up about the
relationship with her mom. Her mom thought that her doing
drag made the family look bad. Yes, so Mistress told
(24:48):
a heartbreaking story about her own mother. Mistress said she'd
been on her own since she was sixteen seventeen years old,
started doing drag, found her drag family was supporting herself,
and had cut off all ties with her mother because
her mother said that Mistress doing drag and being gay
made the family look bad, so Mistress had already cut
(25:13):
her off. But at one point Mistress was at a
gig performing and she said that she broke her ankle.
She actually heard it snap. She said it was hanging
there like a limp, you know, noodle, and she had
to be hospitalized. She had to be rushed to the
hospital in drag and while she was in the emergency room,
she had to contact her mother to get all the
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insurance info and pass on information about her family and
her insurance status to the hospital. And when Mistress's mother
showed up at the hospital and saw Mistress lying there injured,
the first thing out of her mouth was what are
you wearing? And Mistress had thought that that would be
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there their opportunity to reconcile. But after she said what
are you wearing? Instead of how are you? Are you okay?
Do you need anything? All she cared about was what
are you? That was the moment that they said that
they were able to move on. And there's a point
in life when you are dealing with people that don't
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respect you, don't respect your lifestyle, that you will you know,
it's a moment, I call it the golden moment that
you just move on, and you're like, I'm done. I
don't have to apologize. I'm gonna be who I am.
But I want to shout out the parents like Alec
that support their kids no matter who they are. Dwayne
Wade and Gabrielle Union what they're going through with their
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daughter Zia, and they just received the President's Award at
the NAACP Image Award, and Gabrielle made a very impassioned
speech and Dwayne gave a loving message to his daughter Ziah.
Because they're publicly sharing their story, right, and they're doing
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this to help other parents that are dealing with the
fact that their children may be transgender, their children may
be gay. We have to share these stories and we
have to we have to get these kids the care
that they need. And yes, these kids who are coming
out as trans are coming out as queer as young people.
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First of all, Okay, this is what happened to me.
I had a lot of trans kids looking after me
at the con trans young man, at trans girls, queer kids,
and we all huddled together for a group picture and
I started talking to them and this is where I'm
going to cry, Lottie. Finally I started crying because I said,
it's not fair that you guys have to have a
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hard life and that you are in danger for being yourselves.
It's not fair. I was just so moved by their
courage to be themselves in this small town setting where
they lived. And as I was crying, they all looked
at me like, we know, like we we know it's
hard to be queer in a small town, but we're okay.
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Like they're so strong. So, like you said, I shout
out to the parents, because life is hard enough. You
gotta love up and your kids enough so that when
they do come up against adversity, they can face it right.
You know that they have the strength of your love
and your support and that base. You know. We've interviewed
so many queens on the show, like Alyssa said, my
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grandma loved me. My grandma gave me the courage to
be who I am. We had Shanngela, who said I
was raised by my grandma. Oh shout out to Channgela,
by the way, who just lost her grandma. Yea. She
referred to her as Grandela on the air. I left
them a message, but personally, I like to say, Schandela,
if you're listening, we love you, and we we send
our regrets, but it's the parents love that makes you
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this world livable. You know. It's like when you come
up against it, it's like I'm worth loving, I'm worth
fighting for. And the thing is that, like what Mistress said,
they had to move on, and they did, and a
lot of children they do. And what you should do
is you should seek out. That's where the homes, that's
where the families come from. Yeah, and that's what you
(29:14):
have to do. Yeah. The drag families are so tight
because their own parents, as they say in Paris, is burning,
give them such a hard way to go, you know.
And it's it's a really common experience. I mean, I
know you've had beef with your mom. It wasn't about
you being a drag queen, but you at some point
had to do the clean cut of like, Okay, i'm
gonna take care of myself. I'm not going to rely
(29:35):
on you. And there's something about making that decision that
kind of takes the guess work out. It's like, all right,
I'm on my own, let's do this, and it's all
I think, yeah, yeah, and it's okay. And Mistress seems
like a really strong character, Like I've seen them perform
live and they're terrific. But I think that's where the
toughness comes from. It's kind of like, if you've been
on your own since you were sixteen seventeen, that's gonna
(29:58):
make for a pretty flint personality, definitely. So we are
sending our love out to all of those kids, all
those kids out there. Yeah they're worth it on their own. Yeah,
you're definitely. And with that said, let's head to the
main stage. Nain stage. Oh, the main stage. RuPaul comes
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out and it's a dress made out of soda popps.
First of all, that can't be comfortable, but it looked amazing.
It was amazing. It was a short mini dress. Ruth's
been showing off a lot of leg this season because
it's being out of pop tops. It's metallic, but it
had this fruit stripes, zig zag rainbow stripe going down
(30:46):
the middle right, and then on the top it was
pink and green. I love those colors together, kind of
heading out to the side on the bodice, on the boobies.
So it and it cinched, of course, she's always cinched
the gods and she's wearing her biggest biggest mane of
golden honey blonde hair. Absolutely beautiful. I mean, it's the
(31:08):
Bubbly promo that continues. Oh it's always it's Bubbly pop tops.
I love it's really listen it Bubbly wants to sponsor
me in anything. I'll walk around in a Bubbly dress
all day long, all day long. Send it over, I'll start.
Judge was Ali Wong. Michelle and Ts Madison were also there.
And let's get into these Bubbly Comedy Festival performances. Marsha
(31:33):
Marsha Marshall was up first. She fell flat. Listen, here's
what she did, right, I'm gonna start with a positive
She kept going. She didn't get flustered, she didn't get
the she didn't have any choice. But some people just
kind of like you can see people like like there's
a sinkhole in your soul, Like you can see them
(31:55):
just kind of going, oh my god. She kept her
smile up. I mean, she's ada answer. She's a performer
on Broadway, so she kept her energy up through the
whole thing. But her jokes weren't solid. And the thing
is like, you got to have a solid punchline if
you kind of set up a joke, have a punchline,
it's math, it's whatever. So she didn't do so great,
(32:18):
but she was really cute. She was like in a
Christmas dress. I don't think this is the best dress
on her. I mean it's different from what she's been wearing.
She's just been coming out in one little kind of
miniskirt after another. But this was like this kind of
Christmas dress. Yeah, this was a time when she could
have patted up. This is a time that she could
have added a little bit of a dance. I mean,
(32:39):
like I said, you're solo. You could do whatever you
want and make a comedy and then that would have
been different and unique. You know. Also, you're a dry queen.
That's funny immediately right, It's like, how about like a
funny whatever. How about coming out and a dress made
out of hula hoops or whoopie cushions? I don't know.
Up next, we have Lucy La dou and Lux now
(33:01):
Air London. They were good, they were excellent, strong, they
were strong. They were listening during their run through. Ali
said to Lux, I need to hear all of your words.
She was swallowing the ends of her lines and I
heard every single word. They were really smart. They well,
Lucy hosts her night every week in Connecticut, so she
(33:24):
knows what she's doing on the mike. She's very confident.
She had a wig like Chrissy from Three's Company, you know,
Susanne Summers. Immediately funny. Lux was like in a flesh
colored patent leather brown dress, like light brown with a
blonde wig. She looked fantastic. And they listened to each
other and they did a series of you're so white jokes,
your teeth are so white that they their name is
(33:46):
Karen and they want to speak to the manager. Those
were funny. Yeah, and you were together as a team,
so they were great. They were the best to me.
The next who had Sasha Kobe and Anitra. All right,
So Anitra clearly didn't have as much time to prepare
because of her migraine. She's feeling better, but I think
(34:06):
the lack of preparation showed. And they were doing stoner comedy,
which if you're gonna just stoner comedy, stoner comedy it
works for me is like Chechen Chong, right, Yeah, hilarious,
but it's because they bring energy to it. Yeah, and
I think Sasha came in with kind of like, hey,
what's up. But this was not It didn't have a
(34:28):
lot of jokes. And I have to give it up
to Sasha because you can tell at the end she
was just trying to save and so she just kind
of took over. Yeah, and she did a bit and
a joke that got him out, but that got them
out of it at the very very end, and she
scored points. And that's what I'm talking about being a
good partner. It's like, whether or not this was successful,
(34:49):
you saw the spirit and her generosity of spirit in
a crisis and that was good for them. And up next,
last but not least, Selena stities and Mistress Isabel Brooks. Selena, okay,
cut it off. She cut that story, she did, but
they switched places. So now Selena was the one who
was grief and Mistress was the one who went on
(35:10):
for it. I was like, it was mistress listening to
win it. I am like that was the note. It
may have been nerves, which surprises me because I did
see Mistress in Houston, do I'm not kidding thirty minutes
of crowd work and she was fantastic and she is fantastic.
I think maybe the nerves got the best of her.
(35:30):
I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt. Well, Selena,
as Titties had energy. She hit the punches. You know.
I really enjoyed what she was doing. She could have
did that on her own. And and they got the
critique later on that the joke was the final punchline
was that they both slept with the same guy, right,
And when the judge said you should have started with that,
(35:51):
it's like, if you're if that was a real situation,
you know, because comedy's based on truth. If I was
listening about a friend of mine sleeping with a guy
who sounded exactly like somebody I just left with, that
would be my opener. I was like, are you talking
about that? It's all right, right, right right? I felt
really bad, but I mean Selena did good. So you
know she tried and they listen, like you said, they
(36:12):
were reversed. You know what, We're gonna get to the
runway looks alec, but we gotta take a break and
we'll be right back. And we are back, you know,
because it is the first time that we have a
ninety minute episode. We hear so many great things that's
(36:36):
miss and we see the complete runway. We don't see
like a clip of the runway. We see their whole walk,
we see their whole performance, which is why I watch drags.
The runway category is rip her to shreds. I thought
this is unique. Yeah, I love it. So they're gonna
do like dresses that have like a tear in them
or you know, some kind of pattern rapper to shreds.
(36:58):
So first up, it's Marsha, Marsha Mush. She comes out
as Miss Nyc, kind of like a prom queen. Look,
I guess she didn't win. And she has like this
powder blue ballgun that goes to the bottom and it's
ripped apart, so it's kind of literal. And she did
her makeup like Tammy. They baker wear her maskaras running down.
(37:19):
And the problem with this is Lucy already did like
a runner up in a pageant. Yeah, she got ripped
to shreds by Michelle because she says this has been
done before. You should have did something different, and this
late in the game you should know that. It's kind
of like if you saw somebody else do something, you
gotta switch it up, definitely. So but it was One
funny line from this was they were like, did jan
(37:42):
Win or something? Why she got okay? That is funny.
Next up, Lucy Leduca came out in a nose faratto
Victorian look. It was kind of like a beige colored lace.
It looked like faded lace, and it was a corset
with added skirt where the brown was on the bottom.
(38:03):
And she had this kind of teased up wig that
was kind of like Gary Oldman's and the francis Ard
Coppola Dracula. She had zombie contact lenses, very pale faced,
black lips, and she looked spooky and this was a
great look and it was completely it was a new
look for her. We haven't seen her do like this.
I guess she did that Freddie Halloween mask. But this
(38:25):
was like spooky, dead vampire and I liked. I mean,
she was good to a great vampire queen. Next we
had Lux new or London. Hey, this is okay. Back
in the day before RuPaul was RuPaul. RuPaul was part
of a new wave group that was kind of like
based on you know, all the new wave groups of
the eighties, and they did a lot of gender queer
(38:47):
stuff and they were called Wee wee pole and Lewis
has posted pictures about this, He's written about it in
his books. And Lux did recreation of this and it
was so smart to do. I mean, it could have
been looked as kissing up, but they did it so well.
(39:09):
What the weevy poll look is is almost like a
football players shoulders with this tattered white kind of like
capelt going down the sides, opera lighte gloves with the
fingers cut out, white leggings, black high heels, and a mohawk,
like a teased up mohawk, and the kind of like
white stripes under the eyes, like how Adam Aunt used
(39:32):
to do. In the eighties. There was also that singer
Annabelle who sang that song I Want Candy. She'd come
out looking like this too. And Rue was so moved
by this because it was like a full st circle
boment and start crying because and they asked on the runway,
they said, if you asked me back in the eighties,
if I would be here doing this right now, my
(39:53):
aunts would be yes, yes, I love that. That would
be equivalent of like us being sixty and seventy and
people walking out on stage dressed as us. It was
paying amade, and I think it was smart. It was
smartly done and it was the right time, and so
it was Yeah, it was really good. Up next we
have Sasha Kobe. Oh my god, she did it ripped
(40:16):
jeans ballgown and she had a ripped jeans bandana that
was kind of like patchworked, and she had like almost
like a denim bikini under dressing over this ripped jeans
and so the rips came all the way up to
like right below her panty line, so it was like legs, legs, legs, legs, legs.
And again, this is like, I haven't seen this on
(40:38):
anybody else, nobody. She's like the epitome of excellence on
this runway. I mean it's just kind of like Winner. Yeah,
we see the Winner, but you know, yeah, I don't
speak too much. I don't want to speak too much.
I don't want to speak too much, but I will
need one of those shock blankets that they put on
people and when you're sitting in an ambulance if she's
(41:00):
not in the top. Next, we did a lotus blossom jumpsuit.
It's almost like a nude illusion if your skin was fuchia, right.
It was a pink body cat suit, but the overlay
over it was black shreds that were so strategically placed,
(41:23):
so beautifully placed. She could move in this, she could
walk in this. Her hair was up. She looked gorgeous,
and I really like this look. She said that lotuses
always grow up in the mud. They blossom in the mud.
So that's part of a Buddhist philosophy. And it's actually
a quote at the very beginning of What's Love Got
(41:44):
to Do with It? The Tina Turner story. Sorrying Angela
Bassett that the blossom bloom's brightest in a muddy area
from the mud. I'm miss quoting it completely. Yeah, we
get it. We don't worry, baby, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alex
stopped talking. You're like, you're like Sully his first version
of that story. We get it, blossoms mud, Lonnie has
(42:05):
someplace to go. Wrap it the fuck up. Okay, Selena
s titties comes out and a color similar the lunch
is it's over. Yeah, luncheon is over. The lunch lady
in the hand at is looking at you, like, get
out of here, hide from the bully someplace else, Alec,
(42:25):
the bell has rung. Okay, Selena s Titties comes out
in an homage to her mother, who was an immigrant
crossing the border. I love this and it was very dramatic.
It was a tattered dress, but the tatters were in
layers that started from up and went down into a
(42:46):
long dress that was short in the front and long
in the back, and the bottom was a darker color
like she had been running through the dirt or had
been running through the river. And she gave a very
dramatic presentation of it. And while her dress was in tatters,
and while she was running for her life, her hair
and her makeup were still preventive. Best right, honey, that's
(43:06):
right the mother. She dedicated this to the mothers of
the immigrants that had to go through the fields and
through the wind and the borders and risked their lives.
It was really it was lovely. Next, last, but not least,
our friend, Mistress Isabel Brooks came out in a mini
(43:27):
dress version of Madonna's material Girl Diamonds are Girl's Fress.
Friend very that but proportionized to Mistress And it looked
like it had been like a bomb went off or
she had escaped a building, like it was distressed. There
were burn marks in the front and burn marks in
the back and strategically placed holes. I got it. I
(43:48):
liked the look. I would have liked to see this
as a real dress. It seemed like it was a
real dress that she's worn before. You know, that looked fantastic,
But she distressed it for this category. That's my feeling
that may or may not be the truth. Well, I'm
the thing is is that they got through it and
the judges gave their critiques. Finally, yes they did, and
we got to hear them. We've got to hear them,
(44:11):
and finally, so we don't have to hear this next week,
we don't have to go through the first act of
her complaining. Lucy and lux both want a cash prize
of five thousand dollars, and nothing brings people together after
an argument like a cash prize, is what I always say.
It looks like it looked like all is forgiven, like
(44:33):
who cares, baby bump. It just goes to show you
that they have two competitive queens and when you put
them together and they got to work together, they're right.
They're both on time. So I was I was happy
to see that the bottom two with Marsha Marsha Marsha
and a Nietro. I saw that coming. Yeah, yeah, I
mean Antra. You know, Anitra did have the handicap of like,
(44:55):
you know, I can't imagine having to write comedy and
getting a drag under migraine. So they are both dancers,
they are both incredible performers. And their lip sync song
was Boss Bitch by Dojakat. I was excited for this
because they're both dancers and they both were gonna kill it,
so it was good. I thought the lip sync of
(45:17):
the season was Sasha and a Nature doing I'm in
Love with the Monster. This it fits it. Yeah, there
were stunts. Marsha Marsha. Marsha did a backbend and she
was walking forward and Anitra leapt over her into a
roll like did a dive roll and left in heels
in that jumpsuit. At one point, I've seen Kennedy Davenport
(45:39):
do this. She did that death drop into an open
spread eagle like landing on the small of her back. Yes,
basically I don't. If I did that, I would be
in traction for the rest of the year. You would
have to visit me in the hospital. Squirrel friends like
flowers and chocolates. This was a good lip sync. This
was the lip sync that I was like, I have
(46:00):
to see this again immediately, like right after it was done,
I watched it. I've been watching it since last night,
let's be honest. So the lip sync winner was an.
I was really worried because I'm a huge a Natra fan.
I appreciate Marsha, Marsha Marsha. But it was her time
to go, and she had a very sentimental exit line.
(46:23):
She said, forget the nose, al my heart. Oh that
was so sweet, and I think she also said that
she learned something she learned about drag more and so
I like people that walk away because she knows she's
a winner. She knows her After that performance, I would
be like I left on a high note. I mean
(46:47):
I was saying, what a great way to leave. It's
like you leave just kind of having left nothing. You
left it all in the dance floor. That was worthy
of a standing ovation. You got eliminated from the show,
But what a better way to leave? What a better
way to make an exit? So bravo. What I loved.
I loved hearing the things that we were missing in
(47:08):
our episode. You know, she didn't already have hers, you know,
stuff you didn't. We were missing girl the whole time.
Monnie and I noticed the whole time. All the things
were missing because we're squirl friends, right, squirl friends out
there listening. We know you noticed too, So thank goodness
they listened, and Alec, we finally hear our favorite phrase again,
(47:33):
just between us squirrel friends. I mean, the podcast is
named after that, and we haven't heard it on the
show in a bit, and now we can. Oh my god,
I am so like, just thank you, thank you, thank
you for the extended episode. Yes, I'm so happy. You know,
let's take a break before we get in trouble because
(47:53):
I'm gonna talk too much about this. Oh yeah, we'll
be right back and we're back. I broke Lonnie Love.
I just I broke her. Ladies and gentlemen, don't forget
to tip your queens on the show. I mean, we're
serious about this, with everything that we're going through right now,
(48:16):
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Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome back to another episode of
Squirrel Friends, the official RuPaul's Drag Race Podcast. I'm Alec Mamba, Hi,
how are you? And here is the Woman of the Year,
the Woman of the Moment, America's sister, the Queen of
show Business, Lonnie Love Alec. Oh my gosh. I went
to a fan con my very first. I've never had
(00:27):
that experience where people come up to you and say hello.
I'm like, hi, And honestly, Lonnie, this was my first one.
I was like, nobody's gonna know who I am, you know,
like nobody's gonna know who I am. And everybody knew
who I was, see and they said hello, And it
was like, oh, because I live in La right, and
I work in show business. But I work in show
(00:48):
business and then I go home. I'm not like you.
I'm not on the red car boat a whole bunch.
I don't go out. I don't like people. No, that's
not true. I like people, but I don't. It's a
lot for me, you know, personally, to go out and
you're good at that. Yeah, I like going out, but
I'm glad you got out and I know you're good
at You're good at the interactions socially. First of all,
(01:09):
you know, everybody who's ever lived on the planet, I
can do that too, but it's effortful for me. I
have to I have to take a breath and go. See.
We remember when I always say it's time for people
to get their flowers. I'm glad that you went out there.
I'm glad that you've got your flowers. You've been in
this game for a long time, Alec and so good.
So yeah, that's why you go to those things. So
(01:30):
I'm glad you got that. My table was across from
Eric Estrada from Chill. Yeah. So he's still handsome, right,
but every time a pretty young girl would pass by,
he'd go, whoa, whoa. You gotta slow down. He's still
playing moving violation. Okay, before we get too far into that,
we have so much to cover today for our drag race.
(01:51):
First of all, we have some great news. Great news,
Lonnie Love, would you like to announce what's happening with
the length of the show. Yes, okay, Squirrel friends, we
have been asking for it. MTV has agreed to increase
us to ninety minute episodes. It only took episode eleven
for them to realize I am so excited about you
(02:14):
were the voice in the Wilders. I give you complete
credit because we had so many podcasts where you're like
the rays that you love this is I can't. I can't.
I'm not get enough info. I'm not That's not an
impression of you. I'm just saying the things that they
were saying. I love it. So Squirrel friends, we have
finally guiden it. And you know what, I really think
(02:37):
it's because it was just a concerted effort from all
the fans. We trend every Friday. Yeah, after the episodes
through ru Paul's drag race, and people were just in
droves complaining. They were like, it's just not enough and
let's go back to the way it is. So this
is what we're gonna cover. We're gonna have finally a
(02:57):
full ninety minutes and you're gonna see the friends. I'm
gonna play out throughout this podcast. The differences from the
ten episodes that we've seen before, we're good. They were good.
They were good. It is the lyrical something Lonnie and
I are size Queen is what she's saying, we want
it longer, is stronger and stronger. So what are we
(03:20):
gonna cover. Okay, so if you haven't watched the show yet,
spoiler warning. In five four three two one, we are
going to cover I saw that on Instagram, by the way,
So that's what I'm gonna do from that one, because
the kids are doing it. The Voguing Mini Challenge, Oh,
the Bubbly Comedy Festival Maxi Challenges Comedy Challenge, Lonnie. You
(03:41):
know one of that. We found out more about mistress
and her relationship with her mom, so we'll talk about that.
And of course that Boss Bitch lip sync. I'm obsessed
with that song. I always like that song, but now
I really really love it. It is in Alright, Squirrel friends,
it's time for fifteen seconds to say. This is where
Alec and I have fifteen seconds to race and say
(04:03):
all of our most important thoughts, takes on the topics
given to us by our fabulous producers. Now in celebration
of the episodes returning to ninety minutes, they're gonna give
us more time. Alex, Yes, and y'all wanted a twist
extra fifteen seconds to be exact, to say anything you
(04:25):
want to say anything in our time? All right, okay, Alex, Okay,
we have thirty seconds to say whatever we want. You're up, Ready, set, set, Okay.
This is the first time it's going back to ninety minutes,
and you can feel the difference immediately. We're going to
talk about what the difference is. The biggest difference for me,
(04:47):
the runway and the critiques. We were missing the runway
and the critiques in the first thirty seconds, and now
they're back. I'm so happy your turn. All right, we
go go. You gotta say ready, says say, oh, oh, sting, sorry,
I gotta do this right. I've never done this before, Lonnie.
(05:08):
I'm nervous. Okay, ready, said to say, I am so excited.
This is what the fans wanted. We wanted our ninety
minute episodes because it's more than just a feeling. You know,
we have watched parties, we're at the clubs, and so
the hour was not long enough. Now we get to
see the critiques, we get to hear more stories, we
get to see more fashion. It's wonderful. I love it. Yay,
(05:32):
thank you MTV. You had seven seconds to spare really yeah.
That reminded me of like you know, when you start out,
you do open mics and they give you two minutes
and you think, what can I do for two minutes
and you're like a lot, very good, Lonnie, Well, thank you.
We've both gotten into the economy of expressing ourselves in
(05:53):
fifteen seconds, so I think we've become experts. They've been
training us well, our producers, they've been training us very well.
So they really had that. So if you want us
to say something or anything for fifteen seconds, d m
us or message us your ideas at Alec Mapa on
Instagram or at comic Lonnie Love Instagram, or you can
(06:14):
follow me also at Lonnie Love on Twitter. Can I
just say to the girls are acting up on Twitter?
You're missing out at happening the queens? Oh no, I see,
I know, Okay? Are they biting? Is it is this
where Ross puts in the punching bag sound with like
the bells off Goods a variety show. I mean Mistress
(06:37):
Lux Selena. I mean, they're very active on Twitter, and
it's always something I heard acting up. There's a difference
between active and acting up acting up? So what is it?
They're acting up? They're doing the jokes. Something happened and
I believe I believe Selena s titties got hacked and
(06:58):
someone was trying to sail computers but on her account,
and so they shut down her account. So people were like,
are you working at best Buy? What's happening exactly? And
so all the other queens started making jokes about Selena's
trying to sell computers and then the hacker started blocking
(07:20):
the people from Selena's account, Like, so mistress was blocked
and anybody that minted it got blocks. There's something. There's
something that's happening right now at Twitter. And I read
about it yesterday in the New York Times because I
just learned how to read three days ago. So um stopping.
There have been such massive layoffs at Twitter, like he
(07:41):
let go of like seven thousand employees Elon Musk, Yes,
seven thousand, and they were the people who were keeping
Twitter running, keeping the glitches from happening, monitoring all the
rules and everything, and so they're all gone. They're working
at skeleton crews and the remaining employees this is a controversy.
They've set up beds in the office. So Twitter is
(08:04):
not doing very well. He's running that thing into the ground.
Oh but you know what, while he's doing that, we're
having a fund have you ever been hacked. I've never
been hacked, thank goodness, and I hope I never get hacked.
But that was you know, this is the thing I
love about queens. They will make a bast situation funny
and good and that's why we love our queens, especially
(08:25):
that for this season. So okay, let's get into the episode. Okay,
last week we said goodbye to Malaysia, Baby Doll Fox.
That was hard. Now Lucy thinks that she should have
won again. Oh loose, Oh no, we're talking about this
last week. It's kind of like it's that thing of
like complaining if you're safe. It's just it's like, we
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know you want to win. Everybody wants to win. But
I think that's her personality. Now, yeah, she I mean
it's like she's like, I think I did the best
and I should have. We were like, okay. So then
Lux thinks that she's so close to winning that the
judges won to see her win. She's very confident. I like,
Lux's very very confident, you know, young queen her heads
(09:06):
in the game. Yeah, because there was some shady moments
between Lux and Lucy. They were going at each other
and they were saying, who would win next week, and
then it was like a bunch of talk about who
won the runway. Look, they argued over the baby bump.
Lux were starting shit about like Lucy not having a
baby bump, and then Lucy said she wasn't that pregnant
(09:29):
at the award show because we're talking about beyond Beyonce.
Look that love on top that that thing when she
came out and she showed her baby bump and it
was like very memorable, and Lux was feeling like Lucy
kind of copped out on that, and I was like,
this isn't a real argument, y'all. Who cares. Just drop
it if you're a Beyonce fan. Though, Ali, yeah, you
(09:53):
remember that. I noticed it because that was her first child.
She did a whole dance, a whole dance in stilettos
and opened up that blazer and rubbed that Timmy and
we were like, and Lucy didn't do it, and she
didn't do it, and that just could have been a moment.
So I think she was in a way. Lux was
(10:14):
kind of correct, right, you know, it's like she was pregnant.
That was the whole purpose of her cover. But Luck's
pointing it out to Lucy made Lucy feel And I
hope I'm using the phrase correctly some kind of way. Yeah,
thank you, that I applies. I'm learning the Lingo kids
and the old dogs and Wildler new tricks. I love
(10:36):
it so while they're arguing over its because now it's like, okay,
now there's some tension between Lux and Lucy, We're like,
oh oh, there's drama. Here comes RuPaul. We get our
old RuPaul back. Talk about that outfit, all right, you
know what it's like listen, real we all want to
dress for comfort. But I'm so glad the Carnegian era
(10:57):
is over. You have beautiful clothes. This is the ru
I like, Rue came out in a black and white
diamond check pattern with a black scoop neck tshirt and
these like cool boots. And this was like ruin a suit,
you know, six foot five RuPaul in a suit, realness,
(11:17):
and I love that. I loved it. You know, Rue
Paul looks good in a suit. He has the long legs,
he has you know, the right build. Where does suit
honey keep you? And save the cardigans for when Lonnie
and I come over? Forget it, you know as well?
You know, just that's more whatever listen. It's it's a
(11:38):
minor issue. Like I said to Lucy and Lux, it's
not a real argument. So you know, we love not
a real artument. Yeah, but do you know what, there's
a real argument if I'm gonna get to this break.
So I'm gonna get to this break. We're gonna come
back talk about the challenges, and we're back. We're talking
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about the mini challenge. Rue says America's next drag superstar
needs to have all the right moves. So for today's
mini challenge, they're going to celebrate a queer art form.
They are throwing a Harlem vogue ball. I got so
excited about this. I got so excandered about this. Rue
is looking for popping, dipping, and spinning, shah blamb all
(12:21):
of it. They have fifteen minutes to get into quick
voguing drag and the category is I'm so into voguing
right now. That's what Vanessa Hudgens said when she was
the judges. Though, I'm so into voguing right now. What
did you think about it? The ones who knew how
to do it killed it. Oh my god, just killed it.
When Sasha Colby came out and did that thing where
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she pointed her boots and then counted the buttons on
the boots, and then she did this thing where she
pulled up her own hair and separated the strands one
at a time turn that into a dance move. I
was like, this is why I watched the show, This
is why, this is why I watch the show. And
then a Nietzsche It's just like, oh my god, this
is her wheelhouse. Yeah, I mean it was really like
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a challenge for them, but I enjoyed seeing the other
girls struggle. I mean it was like Mistress did a
slow bad band with the one Lady. Yeah, she did
the world's slowest death drop and it was hilarious. It
was it was really really good. But you know, I
watched those Harlem Vogue Ball videos on the instagrams and
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they're changing dance. They are they are like such innovators.
You know. When I was watching with my friend who
is a former show girl, Calpernia Adams, who is that
my tenant who lives with me, and she was like
the queen's Like these queens bring new art and new
breath into the world all the time. I love seeing,
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you know, the performances, and this was a Great Mini
Challenge and a Nietra was the winner. I really thought
that Sasha one, to be honest, so did I. But
she's won three challenges so far, and she came here
because she great. She great, But it's kind of like, okay,
well I think, okay, from a produce oreal point of view,
(14:06):
I feel like the producers World of Wonder, not gonna
name any names, are going if we just give her
everything every day, every week, then it's just, you know,
we gotta spread out, we gotta spread the love. So
I think they split hairs and gave it to a Nitra. Okay.
Anitra is named the winner of the Mini Challenge. She
was the grand prize trophy and twenty five hundred dollars cash. Yeah, Sasha,
(14:31):
you did your thing. Okay, So now we're up to
the Maxi Challenge. Now, Rue tells the Queen's Drag reminds
us not to take life so seriously, like what you
just said, Alec. So for today's Maxi Challenge, Bubbly wants
us all to crack a smile because they will be
performing stand up in front of a live audience at
the Bubbly Comedy Festival. Here it is Bubbly Comedy Festival,
(14:57):
and if you didn't know, it was the Bubbly Comedy
Fest of all, they reminded you at Rayed five minutes,
I was like, wow, Bubbly must have dropped some cash.
All right, that made me too behind the scene, so
forget it. Just erased that to randomly divide them into
comedy duos. They reach into a cooler and pull out
a can of Bubbly sparkling water. Okay, let's go back.
Let's go back. Because a Nietra won the mini challenge,
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so she was able to decide the order the order,
and what they did was they took these cans. Each
queen pulled out a different color can, so whoever matched
color cans, they were a team. So what Lonnie said,
what Lonnie said is what I was trying to say.
But she's the queen of all media and whatever. So
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Selena picked up the cherry can and so because their
seven yes, and then there was a twist, she was
the only person that didn't have anybody because right other
six were already picked. Okay, if I picked the solo can,
I would have been great. Yeah, I would have been like, great,
I'm gonna go on first. But who's always gonna give
you a twist? She said, Selena, you can steal someone,
(16:06):
and so she'stle Mistress, which left Marsha Marsha Marsha by herself. Okay,
so let me read you the duos that we have
so far. We have Sasha and Antre. Yes, we have
Lucy and Lux who have been fine. You're having a
Beyonce fight earlier, right, Selena and Mistress. And Selena wanted to,
(16:27):
you know, bring the Mahicana flavor and have them be
the Mexican comedy duo. I love that. And Marsha Marsha
Marsha is now solo solo son. Now once you were
seeing before, you'd rather be by yourself. I'd rather be
by myself, and I would go on first or last
in this challenge or somewhere in the middle, Marsha Marsha.
Marsha said that if she went on last, she would
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spend the whole time thinking, oh, I can't pay attention
to this. My mind is elsewhere. I'm waiting to go on.
But I feel like when I go on last, you
get so much more material, You get a sense of
the audience. You can like piggyback off of other comics jokes,
you know, and just also kind of get a sense
of the room. Well, the thing is is that Marcia
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is not a comedian, and so she really could have
did anything. See, that's the thing is that I think
everybody got caught up with it has to be stand up, yes,
it has to be comedy. So since you're solo, she
could have done anything, right, the canvas is blank for
her instead of having to work with a partner. And
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this is what you'll see throughout the episode that certain
partners work together, certain partners didn't. The reason why we
call it stand up comedy is because it's a solo
art form that if you make a mistake, the audience
doesn't even know that you made a mistake. They don't
know if you missed a joke or if you said
something wrong. If you're good, if you're good, I mean,
(17:51):
if you lay an egg out there. That's a whole
other out form of digging yourself out. You know what
you always say you stuff is crazy? Yeah, oh you
said that. You say that stuff is crazy. You ever
hit a punchline and don't work, Yeah, shit's crazy. I
always my my my saved myself line is oh wow, nothing. Okay, Well,
(18:16):
you know, I thought that was so much funnier when
I wrote it, you guys, I had kind of the
admission and the and the thing kind of like the
audience lasted that every single time because it's like, yeah,
it's so great. Okay. So we got these duos, and
as we said before, as the winner of the mini challenge,
Aneitra got to pick the order of the performers, and
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so she decided to put Marcia first, which I thought
that was you know, you know, but she she wants
to go first. Yeah, she wants to go first, so
that that was good. And then she chose Lucy and
Lucian looks the bickering Beyonce, and then she gave herself
of course, and Sasha the sweet Spot which was third,
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and then last was Selena and Mistress. Yes, so that
was the order. I thought the order was good. I mean,
if you're going to pick the order, yeah, pick the
sweet spot because we always say you need the audience
to warm up. Yeah. The only problem is I would
have picked after Marcia because you know, Marcia is it's
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not feeling strong, is not experience. Yeah, so you're saying
that right now Lucy Leduca and lux as a second
or in the strongest place to do a good job exactly.
That's what I feel. So we see Marcia is struggling
on her own, and here's the thing. I'm a comedy writer,
and whenever I'm struggling, what I always come back to
is you have to write from your own experience. Yeah,
(19:42):
I've done like stuff where I'm starting to write political
stuff and I'm like, no, I'm not a political comic.
Or I'm starting to talk about certain other issues that
really aren't. You know, I can't get up there and
be funny about stuff that I'm not. The thing I'm
most an expert on is embarrassing stories about myself. If
I've shipped my pants someplace, if I've said the wrong
(20:03):
thing to someone, if you know, if I've stuck my
foot in it. Those are the best. You know, the
audiences are embarrassed for me. That's Mike, you know, I
love doing that. And it's like, don't you find that
if you're at a loss, it's like, I just got
to keep bringing it back to me. Yeah, that's it's
always about you. That's that's you know, that's that's the
key to it. All. So I think that, like I said,
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because Marsha is an experience, of course she's gonna be nervous.
They were allowed to workshop some material with Michelle and
an extra special guest, my girl Ali Wong. I love, Oh,
she's so talented. It's she's so talented. I love her
when I say smart smart. If you haven't seen her
(20:47):
very first special baby Cobra, that's what she's known for.
It's everything you need to know. And I steal from
her this phrase. I use it all the time, that
there's jungle Asians and fancy Asians, and she's like Chinese
people happening. You have the Koreans, they're fancy Asians. Vietnamese
Filipinos work jungle Asians. It's true. But before they got
(21:08):
to work with Michelle, they get to workshop their jokes
with Ali Wong. There was a bit of a problem
in the workroom, a physical emergency. A Nietzsche had an
ocular migraine. Now, an ocular migraine means happening right behind
your eyes. If you've ever had a migraine before, it's
imagine somebody really driving an ice pick through your skull.
It is so painful. Have you ever had one? No, nons,
(21:32):
I haven't. Yeah, well you're not married yet, so that's why. No,
it's it's really awful. Your vision goes crazy. And I
had a migraine when I lived in Hollywood and I
was just like holding onto the walls. And the thing
that got rid of it for me is I had
to throw up. Really, I don't get them, but it's
(21:54):
what happens is the blood vessels in your brain get
so constricted, like it's like at in your head, and
it's it's so so painful. I mean, people pass out
from the pain. It's so awful. Listen on that note,
we are going to get to the rest of the
episode after these important messages, and if you have a migraine,
(22:16):
throw up, or take a pill, we'll be right back
and we're back. Okay. I want to talk about a
little bit of the workshopping that they did absolutely with
Ali and with Michelle. Okay, this is the time that
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I felt, Alec, if you know that you're not a
great comic, get whatever tips you could get from those two,
because that's what's important. You know, if there's a stand
up comic who is a proven comic, who's had their
own Netflix specials, and they're telling you do this, do
it exactly exactly that, and you know what, it's surprisingly
(22:59):
Marsh came off okay in the rehearsal, Yes, she came
off okay. The two that had the problem was Selena
as Titties because she was telling a story like their
setup was good, I know, but the show's ninety minutes long,
not seven hours long, and they actually edited to look
like she was reading Warren Peace Out. Lad. She kept
(23:21):
going on and on and on and on. And the
key to all of that is, you know, make sure
that you cut your material, get straight to the punchlines,
because she was telling a really long story beginning, middle end,
and then Mistress you know, in her confessional, was like,
if this doesn't work, I'm all for myself. You can't
do that in a duo. Duo, you can't just leave
(23:45):
somebody to twist in the wind because that could go
either way. Okay, okay, Let's say your partner's bombing and
you're just letting them bomb. You kind of look like
an asshole exactly. You kind of look like, oh wha,
you're showing your ass and you're gonna I love that
expression to somebody's showing their ass and it's revelatory. It's like, oh,
you're not a good person. When the chips ran you
(24:07):
want to be a good comedy duo. I loved comedy
deals when I was growing up. Abbott and Costello. You know,
do a reference. People know alec Y and peel They
can google it Key and peel Key and peo Key
and peel Key and peel Oh. You know, it's so funny.
When I'm on the show with RuPaul and I bring
up a reference, I'm like, nobody's gonna know that but me,
(24:28):
And then rue Paul always leans up and goes, I
know it. I know who they are. Yeah, Yeah, it's funny.
So they had their run through and then we get
to the workroom elimination day. Mistress opens up about the
relationship with her mom. Her mom thought that her doing
drag made the family look bad. Yes, so Mistress told
(24:48):
a heartbreaking story about her own mother. Mistress said she'd
been on her own since she was sixteen seventeen years old,
started doing drag, found her drag family was supporting herself,
and had cut off all ties with her mother because
her mother said that Mistress doing drag and being gay
made the family look bad, so Mistress had already cut
(25:13):
her off. But at one point Mistress was at a
gig performing and she said that she broke her ankle.
She actually heard it snap. She said it was hanging
there like a limp, you know, noodle, and she had
to be hospitalized. She had to be rushed to the
hospital in drag and while she was in the emergency room,
she had to contact her mother to get all the
(25:33):
insurance info and pass on information about her family and
her insurance status to the hospital. And when Mistress's mother
showed up at the hospital and saw Mistress lying there injured,
the first thing out of her mouth was what are
you wearing? And Mistress had thought that that would be
(25:56):
there their opportunity to reconcile. But after she said what
are you wearing? Instead of how are you? Are you okay?
Do you need anything? All she cared about was what
are you? That was the moment that they said that
they were able to move on. And there's a point
in life when you are dealing with people that don't
(26:18):
respect you, don't respect your lifestyle, that you will you know,
it's a moment, I call it the golden moment that
you just move on, and you're like, I'm done. I
don't have to apologize. I'm gonna be who I am.
But I want to shout out the parents like Alec
that support their kids no matter who they are. Dwayne
Wade and Gabrielle Union what they're going through with their
(26:42):
daughter Zia, and they just received the President's Award at
the NAACP Image Award, and Gabrielle made a very impassioned
speech and Dwayne gave a loving message to his daughter Ziah.
Because they're publicly sharing their story, right, and they're doing
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this to help other parents that are dealing with the
fact that their children may be transgender, their children may
be gay. We have to share these stories and we
have to we have to get these kids the care
that they need. And yes, these kids who are coming
out as trans are coming out as queer as young people.
(27:22):
First of all, Okay, this is what happened to me.
I had a lot of trans kids looking after me
at the con trans young man, at trans girls, queer kids,
and we all huddled together for a group picture and
I started talking to them and this is where I'm
going to cry, Lottie. Finally I started crying because I said,
it's not fair that you guys have to have a
(27:45):
hard life and that you are in danger for being yourselves.
It's not fair. I was just so moved by their
courage to be themselves in this small town setting where
they lived. And as I was crying, they all looked
at me like, we know, like we we know it's
hard to be queer in a small town, but we're okay.
(28:07):
Like they're so strong. So, like you said, I shout
out to the parents, because life is hard enough. You
gotta love up and your kids enough so that when
they do come up against adversity, they can face it right.
You know that they have the strength of your love
and your support and that base. You know. We've interviewed
so many queens on the show, like Alyssa said, my
(28:29):
grandma loved me. My grandma gave me the courage to
be who I am. We had Shanngela, who said I
was raised by my grandma. Oh shout out to Channgela,
by the way, who just lost her grandma. Yea. She
referred to her as Grandela on the air. I left
them a message, but personally, I like to say, Schandela,
if you're listening, we love you, and we we send
our regrets, but it's the parents love that makes you
(28:52):
this world livable. You know. It's like when you come
up against it, it's like I'm worth loving, I'm worth
fighting for. And the thing is that, like what Mistress said,
they had to move on, and they did, and a
lot of children they do. And what you should do
is you should seek out. That's where the homes, that's
where the families come from. Yeah, and that's what you
(29:14):
have to do. Yeah. The drag families are so tight
because their own parents, as they say in Paris, is burning,
give them such a hard way to go, you know.
And it's it's a really common experience. I mean, I
know you've had beef with your mom. It wasn't about
you being a drag queen, but you at some point
had to do the clean cut of like, Okay, i'm
gonna take care of myself. I'm not going to rely
(29:35):
on you. And there's something about making that decision that
kind of takes the guess work out. It's like, all right,
I'm on my own, let's do this, and it's all
I think, yeah, yeah, and it's okay. And Mistress seems
like a really strong character, Like I've seen them perform
live and they're terrific. But I think that's where the
toughness comes from. It's kind of like, if you've been
on your own since you were sixteen seventeen, that's gonna
(29:58):
make for a pretty flint personality, definitely. So we are
sending our love out to all of those kids, all
those kids out there. Yeah they're worth it on their own. Yeah,
you're definitely. And with that said, let's head to the
main stage. Nain stage. Oh, the main stage. RuPaul comes
(30:24):
out and it's a dress made out of soda popps.
First of all, that can't be comfortable, but it looked amazing.
It was amazing. It was a short mini dress. Ruth's
been showing off a lot of leg this season because
it's being out of pop tops. It's metallic, but it
had this fruit stripes, zig zag rainbow stripe going down
(30:46):
the middle right, and then on the top it was
pink and green. I love those colors together, kind of
heading out to the side on the bodice, on the boobies.
So it and it cinched, of course, she's always cinched
the gods and she's wearing her biggest biggest mane of
golden honey blonde hair. Absolutely beautiful. I mean, it's the
(31:08):
Bubbly promo that continues. Oh it's always it's Bubbly pop tops.
I love it's really listen it Bubbly wants to sponsor
me in anything. I'll walk around in a Bubbly dress
all day long, all day long. Send it over, I'll start.
Judge was Ali Wong. Michelle and Ts Madison were also there.
And let's get into these Bubbly Comedy Festival performances. Marsha
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Marsha Marshall was up first. She fell flat. Listen, here's
what she did, right, I'm gonna start with a positive
She kept going. She didn't get flustered, she didn't get
the she didn't have any choice. But some people just
kind of like you can see people like like there's
a sinkhole in your soul, Like you can see them
(31:55):
just kind of going, oh my god. She kept her
smile up. I mean, she's ada answer. She's a performer
on Broadway, so she kept her energy up through the
whole thing. But her jokes weren't solid. And the thing
is like, you got to have a solid punchline if
you kind of set up a joke, have a punchline,
it's math, it's whatever. So she didn't do so great,
(32:18):
but she was really cute. She was like in a
Christmas dress. I don't think this is the best dress
on her. I mean it's different from what she's been wearing.
She's just been coming out in one little kind of
miniskirt after another. But this was like this kind of
Christmas dress. Yeah, this was a time when she could
have patted up. This is a time that she could
have added a little bit of a dance. I mean,
(32:39):
like I said, you're solo. You could do whatever you
want and make a comedy and then that would have
been different and unique. You know. Also, you're a dry queen.
That's funny immediately right, It's like, how about like a
funny whatever. How about coming out and a dress made
out of hula hoops or whoopie cushions? I don't know.
Up next, we have Lucy La dou and Lux now
(33:01):
Air London. They were good, they were excellent, strong, they
were strong. They were listening during their run through. Ali
said to Lux, I need to hear all of your words.
She was swallowing the ends of her lines and I
heard every single word. They were really smart. They well,
Lucy hosts her night every week in Connecticut, so she
(33:24):
knows what she's doing on the mike. She's very confident.
She had a wig like Chrissy from Three's Company, you know,
Susanne Summers. Immediately funny. Lux was like in a flesh
colored patent leather brown dress, like light brown with a
blonde wig. She looked fantastic. And they listened to each
other and they did a series of you're so white jokes,
your teeth are so white that they their name is
(33:46):
Karen and they want to speak to the manager. Those
were funny. Yeah, and you were together as a team,
so they were great. They were the best to me.
The next who had Sasha Kobe and Anitra. All right,
So Anitra clearly didn't have as much time to prepare
because of her migraine. She's feeling better, but I think
(34:06):
the lack of preparation showed. And they were doing stoner comedy,
which if you're gonna just stoner comedy, stoner comedy it
works for me is like Chechen Chong, right, Yeah, hilarious,
but it's because they bring energy to it. Yeah, and
I think Sasha came in with kind of like, hey,
what's up. But this was not It didn't have a
(34:28):
lot of jokes. And I have to give it up
to Sasha because you can tell at the end she
was just trying to save and so she just kind
of took over. Yeah, and she did a bit and
a joke that got him out, but that got them
out of it at the very very end, and she
scored points. And that's what I'm talking about being a
good partner. It's like, whether or not this was successful,
(34:49):
you saw the spirit and her generosity of spirit in
a crisis and that was good for them. And up next,
last but not least, Selena stities and Mistress Isabel Brooks. Selena, okay,
cut it off. She cut that story, she did, but
they switched places. So now Selena was the one who
was grief and Mistress was the one who went on
(35:10):
for it. I was like, it was mistress listening to
win it. I am like that was the note. It
may have been nerves, which surprises me because I did
see Mistress in Houston, do I'm not kidding thirty minutes
of crowd work and she was fantastic and she is fantastic.
I think maybe the nerves got the best of her.
(35:30):
I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt. Well, Selena,
as Titties had energy. She hit the punches. You know.
I really enjoyed what she was doing. She could have
did that on her own. And and they got the
critique later on that the joke was the final punchline
was that they both slept with the same guy, right,
And when the judge said you should have started with that,
(35:51):
it's like, if you're if that was a real situation,
you know, because comedy's based on truth. If I was
listening about a friend of mine sleeping with a guy
who sounded exactly like somebody I just left with, that
would be my opener. I was like, are you talking
about that? It's all right, right, right right? I felt
really bad, but I mean Selena did good. So you
know she tried and they listen, like you said, they
(36:12):
were reversed. You know what, We're gonna get to the
runway looks alec, but we gotta take a break and
we'll be right back. And we are back, you know,
because it is the first time that we have a
ninety minute episode. We hear so many great things that's
(36:36):
miss and we see the complete runway. We don't see
like a clip of the runway. We see their whole walk,
we see their whole performance, which is why I watch drags.
The runway category is rip her to shreds. I thought
this is unique. Yeah, I love it. So they're gonna
do like dresses that have like a tear in them
or you know, some kind of pattern rapper to shreds.
(36:58):
So first up, it's Marsha, Marsha Mush. She comes out
as Miss Nyc, kind of like a prom queen. Look,
I guess she didn't win. And she has like this
powder blue ballgun that goes to the bottom and it's
ripped apart, so it's kind of literal. And she did
her makeup like Tammy. They baker wear her maskaras running down.
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And the problem with this is Lucy already did like
a runner up in a pageant. Yeah, she got ripped
to shreds by Michelle because she says this has been
done before. You should have did something different, and this
late in the game you should know that. It's kind
of like if you saw somebody else do something, you
gotta switch it up, definitely. So but it was One
funny line from this was they were like, did jan
(37:42):
Win or something? Why she got okay? That is funny.
Next up, Lucy Leduca came out in a nose faratto
Victorian look. It was kind of like a beige colored lace.
It looked like faded lace, and it was a corset
with added skirt where the brown was on the bottom.
(38:03):
And she had this kind of teased up wig that
was kind of like Gary Oldman's and the francis Ard
Coppola Dracula. She had zombie contact lenses, very pale faced,
black lips, and she looked spooky and this was a
great look and it was completely it was a new
look for her. We haven't seen her do like this.
I guess she did that Freddie Halloween mask. But this
(38:25):
was like spooky, dead vampire and I liked. I mean,
she was good to a great vampire queen. Next we
had Lux new or London. Hey, this is okay. Back
in the day before RuPaul was RuPaul. RuPaul was part
of a new wave group that was kind of like
based on you know, all the new wave groups of
the eighties, and they did a lot of gender queer
(38:47):
stuff and they were called Wee wee pole and Lewis
has posted pictures about this, He's written about it in
his books. And Lux did recreation of this and it
was so smart to do. I mean, it could have
been looked as kissing up, but they did it so well.
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What the weevy poll look is is almost like a
football players shoulders with this tattered white kind of like
capelt going down the sides, opera lighte gloves with the
fingers cut out, white leggings, black high heels, and a mohawk,
like a teased up mohawk, and the kind of like
white stripes under the eyes, like how Adam Aunt used
(39:32):
to do. In the eighties. There was also that singer
Annabelle who sang that song I Want Candy. She'd come
out looking like this too. And Rue was so moved
by this because it was like a full st circle
boment and start crying because and they asked on the runway,
they said, if you asked me back in the eighties,
if I would be here doing this right now, my
(39:53):
aunts would be yes, yes, I love that. That would
be equivalent of like us being sixty and seventy and
people walking out on stage dressed as us. It was
paying amade, and I think it was smart. It was
smartly done and it was the right time, and so
it was Yeah, it was really good. Up next we
have Sasha Kobe. Oh my god, she did it ripped
(40:16):
jeans ballgown and she had a ripped jeans bandana that
was kind of like patchworked, and she had like almost
like a denim bikini under dressing over this ripped jeans
and so the rips came all the way up to
like right below her panty line, so it was like legs, legs, legs, legs, legs.
And again, this is like, I haven't seen this on
(40:38):
anybody else, nobody. She's like the epitome of excellence on
this runway. I mean it's just kind of like Winner. Yeah,
we see the Winner, but you know, yeah, I don't
speak too much. I don't want to speak too much.
I don't want to speak too much, but I will
need one of those shock blankets that they put on
people and when you're sitting in an ambulance if she's
(41:00):
not in the top. Next, we did a lotus blossom jumpsuit.
It's almost like a nude illusion if your skin was fuchia, right.
It was a pink body cat suit, but the overlay
over it was black shreds that were so strategically placed,
(41:23):
so beautifully placed. She could move in this, she could
walk in this. Her hair was up. She looked gorgeous,
and I really like this look. She said that lotuses
always grow up in the mud. They blossom in the mud.
So that's part of a Buddhist philosophy. And it's actually
a quote at the very beginning of What's Love Got
(41:44):
to Do with It? The Tina Turner story. Sorrying Angela
Bassett that the blossom bloom's brightest in a muddy area
from the mud. I'm miss quoting it completely. Yeah, we
get it. We don't worry, baby, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alex
stopped talking. You're like, you're like Sully his first version
of that story. We get it, blossoms mud, Lonnie has
(42:05):
someplace to go. Wrap it the fuck up. Okay, Selena
s titties comes out and a color similar the lunch
is it's over. Yeah, luncheon is over. The lunch lady
in the hand at is looking at you, like, get
out of here, hide from the bully someplace else, Alec,
(42:25):
the bell has rung. Okay, Selena s Titties comes out
in an homage to her mother, who was an immigrant
crossing the border. I love this and it was very dramatic.
It was a tattered dress, but the tatters were in
layers that started from up and went down into a
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long dress that was short in the front and long
in the back, and the bottom was a darker color
like she had been running through the dirt or had
been running through the river. And she gave a very
dramatic presentation of it. And while her dress was in tatters,
and while she was running for her life, her hair
and her makeup were still preventive. Best right, honey, that's
(43:06):
right the mother. She dedicated this to the mothers of
the immigrants that had to go through the fields and
through the wind and the borders and risked their lives.
It was really it was lovely. Next, last, but not least,
our friend, Mistress Isabel Brooks came out in a mini
(43:27):
dress version of Madonna's material Girl Diamonds are Girl's Fress.
Friend very that but proportionized to Mistress And it looked
like it had been like a bomb went off or
she had escaped a building, like it was distressed. There
were burn marks in the front and burn marks in
the back and strategically placed holes. I got it. I
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liked the look. I would have liked to see this
as a real dress. It seemed like it was a
real dress that she's worn before. You know, that looked fantastic,
But she distressed it for this category. That's my feeling
that may or may not be the truth. Well, I'm
the thing is is that they got through it and
the judges gave their critiques. Finally, yes they did, and
we got to hear them. We've got to hear them,
(44:11):
and finally, so we don't have to hear this next week,
we don't have to go through the first act of
her complaining. Lucy and lux both want a cash prize
of five thousand dollars, and nothing brings people together after
an argument like a cash prize, is what I always say.
It looks like it looked like all is forgiven, like
(44:33):
who cares, baby bump. It just goes to show you
that they have two competitive queens and when you put
them together and they got to work together, they're right.
They're both on time. So I was I was happy
to see that the bottom two with Marsha Marsha Marsha
and a Nietro. I saw that coming. Yeah, yeah, I
mean Antra. You know, Anitra did have the handicap of like,
(44:55):
you know, I can't imagine having to write comedy and
getting a drag under migraine. So they are both dancers,
they are both incredible performers. And their lip sync song
was Boss Bitch by Dojakat. I was excited for this
because they're both dancers and they both were gonna kill it,
so it was good. I thought the lip sync of
(45:17):
the season was Sasha and a Nature doing I'm in
Love with the Monster. This it fits it. Yeah, there
were stunts. Marsha Marsha. Marsha did a backbend and she
was walking forward and Anitra leapt over her into a
roll like did a dive roll and left in heels
in that jumpsuit. At one point, I've seen Kennedy Davenport
(45:39):
do this. She did that death drop into an open
spread eagle like landing on the small of her back. Yes,
basically I don't. If I did that, I would be
in traction for the rest of the year. You would
have to visit me in the hospital. Squirrel friends like
flowers and chocolates. This was a good lip sync. This
was the lip sync that I was like, I have
(46:00):
to see this again immediately, like right after it was done,
I watched it. I've been watching it since last night,
let's be honest. So the lip sync winner was an.
I was really worried because I'm a huge a Natra fan.
I appreciate Marsha, Marsha Marsha. But it was her time
to go, and she had a very sentimental exit line.
(46:23):
She said, forget the nose, al my heart. Oh that
was so sweet, and I think she also said that
she learned something she learned about drag more and so
I like people that walk away because she knows she's
a winner. She knows her After that performance, I would
be like I left on a high note. I mean
(46:47):
I was saying, what a great way to leave. It's
like you leave just kind of having left nothing. You
left it all in the dance floor. That was worthy
of a standing ovation. You got eliminated from the show,
But what a better way to leave? What a better
way to make an exit? So bravo. What I loved.
I loved hearing the things that we were missing in
(47:08):
our episode. You know, she didn't already have hers, you know,
stuff you didn't. We were missing girl the whole time.
Monnie and I noticed the whole time. All the things
were missing because we're squirl friends, right, squirl friends out
there listening. We know you noticed too, So thank goodness
they listened, and Alec, we finally hear our favorite phrase again,
(47:33):
just between us squirrel friends. I mean, the podcast is
named after that, and we haven't heard it on the
show in a bit, and now we can. Oh my god,
I am so like, just thank you, thank you, thank
you for the extended episode. Yes, I'm so happy. You know,
let's take a break before we get in trouble because
(47:53):
I'm gonna talk too much about this. Oh yeah, we'll
be right back and we're back. I broke Lonnie Love.
I just I broke her. Ladies and gentlemen, don't forget
to tip your queens on the show. I mean, we're
serious about this, with everything that we're going through right now,
(48:16):
you know, let's be good to each other. Show these
queens love on their socials. Don't forget to tweet or
d m us. If you have any questions or hot
takes for the queens, you can find Lonnie Love at
comic Lonnie Love on Instagram and at Lonnie Love on Twitter.
For now, who knows. You can find me on Alec
Mapa on Instagram. It's the only social Yeah, it's all right.
(48:39):
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Please and watch all new episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race
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(49:00):
Thank you's the increased episodes. We love it. We'll be
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