Race Chaser with Alaska & Willam

Race Chaser S18 E5 “Rate A Queen Talent Show - Part 1”

82 min
Feb 4, 20264 months ago
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Summary

Alaska and Willam discuss Season 18 Episode 5 of RuPaul's Drag Race, analyzing the first half of the two-part 'Rate a Queen' talent show challenge. The episode features queens performing talents while others judge, with significant focus on alliance-building drama in the workroom rather than the actual performances themselves.

Insights
  • Reality TV mechanics (alliance-building, strategic voting) can overshadow the core entertainment value that audiences tune in for, reducing engagement when drama doesn't translate to meaningful consequences
  • Runway presentation and visual impact remain critical evaluation criteria even when judges don't provide formal critiques, with hosts noting specific technical issues like wig volume, body padding, and silhouette balance
  • Conceptual or artistic performances (poetry, avant-garde pieces) face audience reception challenges on mainstream entertainment platforms unless paired with visual spectacle or comedic elements
  • Officially sanctioned viewing parties may contribute to official viewership metrics, suggesting production companies count venue capacity as part of ratings calculations
  • Drag performance quality is heavily influenced by technical execution details (wig construction, garment fit, accessory choices) that casual viewers may not consciously notice but subconsciously register
Trends
Shift toward multi-part challenge episodes to extend narrative tension and manage production pacingIncreased emphasis on contestant alliances and social dynamics over pure performance evaluation in reality competition formatsGrowing importance of social media virality metrics (view counts, viral moments) as pre-show credibility markers for contestantsTension between artistic/conceptual performance and commercial entertainment expectations in mainstream drag competitionStrategic use of officially sanctioned viewing parties as distributed viewership infrastructure for ratings measurementIncreased focus on runway technical execution standards (hair volume, body padding, silhouette) as baseline expectationsReality show editing practices that preserve raw footage and alliance-building moments over polished performance contentContestant concerns about peer judgment versus professional judge evaluation in competition scoring systems
Topics
Drag Race Season 18 Episode 5 AnalysisRate a Queen Challenge FormatTalent Show Performance EvaluationWorkroom Alliance DynamicsRunway Fashion CritiqueDrag Performance TechniqueReality TV Editing DecisionsContestant Social StrategyViewership Metrics and RatingsOfficially Sanctioned Viewing PartiesDrag Queen Makeup and StylingLip Sync Performance AnalysisCostume Design and ConstructionArtistic vs Commercial EntertainmentPodcast Commentary Format
Companies
World of Wonder
Production company behind RuPaul's Drag Race; mentioned regarding broadcast rights for viewing parties
Interior Illusions
Furniture store that sponsored the Interior Illusions Lounge on Drag Race; discussed as example of lifetime brand rec...
Gala Casino
Online gambling platform; primary sponsor with pre-roll advertisement in episode
People
RuPaul Charles
Host of RuPaul's Drag Race; appears in episode judging talent performances and runway presentations
Zara Larsson
Musical artist; guest judge on episode wearing J.C. Dior jewelry; performs song for lip sync challenge
Ross Matthews
Guest judge on episode; appears in runway segment commentary
Derek Barry
Former host of Rate a Queen challenge in Season 16; referenced in historical format comparison
Quotes
"If you can't judge yourself, how in the hell are you going to judge somebody else?"
RuPaul CharlesWorkroom scene
"I don't need to thwart other people to fuck them up. Miss Lady Falldown can hit the ground on her own."
Kenya Pleasers (referenced)Viewing party discussion
"I think it was one of the most boring episodes in recent history."
WillamEpisode assessment
"Just give me a happy meal. I want to be entertained."
AlaskaPerformance critique discussion
"There's no alliances and we spent the whole episode talking about fucking alliances."
AlaskaFormat criticism
Full Transcript
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So much alliance talk, so many whispered chittering chickens in the workroom, and some of the queens are second-guessing their choices, and their loyalties. It's getting paranoid up in here. Satin is on the runway this week, and a fierce lip sync for the win, and Mia's stars Tigle Bitties are bouncing for mother. Yes, all that and less. On this week's race chasing. And less, it's Anne's little sister. Anne less. Anne. Oh. Anne. Mom. So stunning. When I crack my ribs, so stunning. When I get 360 BBL, so stunning. Come with me to crack my ribs. When I get my bookles, so stunning. I'm going to do one quick sound bath before I go in. Oh my god. Hello. Hello. Hello, and welcome back to Race Chates are O Corrant. A podcast dedicated to the discussion, dissection and dissemination of every single episode of Rooftop drag race, starting from the very beginning. This is the beginning. Thank you. Oh my gosh, my name's Alaska. What's yours? Hello, I'm the two-faced Targary T-girl. There's two things I don't like about you. Your face. Your face. Now listen, we are getting closer, we're getting closer and closer. See, I was in New York, a Gina's house. And now I'm in Palm Springs. So I'm so close to Los Angeles, I can feel it. So I think next week we should do this in person. I'll do it. I'm totally down. Yeah. Yeah. We should be close to the sea. Okay. I would love to see what you're going to come up with next week. Because you keep turning looks, which we'll talk about more when we get to the fashion segment of the episode. But you'll need nothing to see here. You're up. Good. Good. Did you see Darian wrote on Gia's BBL content? She wrote, well, let's just say there's room for everybody. Uh-huh. You said it. I mean, it all comes back around. Have you been watching the season everyone's talking about? It's called season 18 of RuPaul's Drag Race. Yeah. And last week. And what are your thoughts? What happened last week? Well, last week RuPaul. What does a chickage kaka about? Kaka kaka. RuPaul asked the queens to pair up with their besties and go head to head in a red carpet mashup challenge to find out who wore it best. The queens took iconic celebrity inspirations. And uh, there were some slaves, some nays, and uh, even no. I don't know. Miss Lady Falldown was christened and law-roach had opinions on all of them. But at the end of the day, Vita von T. Star snatched a very well-deserved win and Briar blush and Kenya pleasers did the dance of the bottoms and they landed. And it was time to say goodbye to Ms. Bush. Goodbye, Brian Bush. Blush. Brian Bush. Brianna, Brianna, blushing tundra. Which brings us to another blushing tundra. Falldowning tundra. Yeah. Okay, Miss Lady Falldowns. Now, it was time for her to hit it. She'd been in the bottom a couple times. I think there's been two episodes or three. She was in the bottom two of them. She can go. Yeah. Can't wait to see what she does next. Yes. And I will say if you're going to get eliminated from drag rays, make it memorable, you know, make it look good. And her mug was always right. And it still is. Yeah, she's one of the old girls. I'm making it look good. Yeah. Take that fucking jacket off. And her mug just so right. Her lipstick message says, actually, I changed my mind. Keep recording me. Yes, I like you guys love Briar. It was the little catchphrase that could. I mean, she just kept giving it. What? That catchphrase, so recording me. Oh, people have to catch it for it to be a catchphrase. I knew you were going to say that. The Queen's disdisect and discuss the fall down. What about Miss Lady Falldown? You know what? They're having a little bit more compassion this time. Like off. They're saying, you know what? I feel bad that she fell down. I feel bad she got up. After winning the lip sinks, Kenya says, when the pleas are come into motion, it's over. And the other girls are like, when the pleas. Okay, girl. I also heard that in regards to last week, the viewing parties are doing what Scorpios now in North Carolina. And I think Sierra and Kenya were there. And Sierra asked for some bleach because the denim was ugly last challenge. And they're like, no, we're afraid you're going to poison the other girls. They told her that. They told you she could not use bleach to acid wash it. Because they said, you're going to poison the other girls. That was the word poison. This is your impact. Because now they have to be on the watch for everything. They're like, oh, I don't know. I would never poison someone. I could beat people just by being good. Let's go over my track record. Eight episodes. Seven of which had many challenges. I won three. Two main challenges out of eight. That's a 25% main challenge win rate. And a almost half many challenge win rate. Period. So I don't. 25% of episodes you were there. I was. That's like a skewed, that's a skewed percent. And you should do out of total episodes of the season. I was there eight episodes. So I'm doing what I do. I'm not concerned with other people and what they do. I'm telling you what I do because I don't need to thwart other people to fuck them up. Miss Lady Falldown can hit the ground on her own. I don't need to be there. I don't need to push the bitch. I'm good. I'm good. I mean, I have I have double drag on honey. I don't need to double drag on. I don't love that video game. No, no, no, I don't need to do all that. No double drag on. This episode, okay, wait, no, you were talking about the viewing parties. I have a question because they started like registering viewing parties lately. Like, do you think most places like do that? Like, they're an officially sanctioned viewing party now? I know some of them get the broadcast from World of Wonder. And I think those are the officially sanctioned ones. I'm not sure how. Do you, is yours official at Abby? I think we just downloaded. I don't know how. I don't know how it plays. I don't know if it's official. Probably not. Because I know they tried to get Mr. to sponsor them. And it was a no. Oh, drag race did. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, why would they, that seems like it would make sense. I don't know. But the reason I bring this up is because I think that the viewing parties add to their like ratings and viewer numbers, right? If it's like an officially sanctioned, they take the capacity of that place and they count that as viewership. Oh, today. I want to see the mistakes. I've heard tell that that's what they do. I mean, also, I'm listening. I have nothing to say about this episode because I think it was one of the most boring episodes in recent history. But we were in Palm Springs and they have an interior illusions store. Yeah. Which is fabulous furniture and like furnishings and shift of the liars and cuckoo to cah. But we were just pontificating like what a fucking great deal interior illusions got because they are an all time lifetime name recognition. And they only did the show a few years sponsoring the interior illusions lounge. Formative. Yes, formative. Indelementable. What a good deal. We still recognize that name instantly from drag race. You instantly know when you see it. Don't go in there. There's tacky shit. We don't need anything. I love it though because I live in Palm Springs and I have tacky shit. But also I as a woman and a drag mother need to come clean about something. Last week, I said something inflammatory. I said that I know it's we could replay this episode on any episode. Anyway, go on. I didn't know if you were done yet. I couldn't tell. Okay. Well, last week I said something inflammatory, which was. I said, Paul was wearing hair not the kind of hair you get pregnant in. Yes. I just wanted to say as someone who can't get pregnant that I didn't mean to make anyone else feel bad because I wouldn't even get an abortion in this hair. Okay, not at all. I just wanted to be clear and I want to let everybody know that the hair was not it was not the kind of hair that you get pregnant in. And it was also not the kind of hair that you get an abortion in. That's it. What are we doing with our lives? Podcasting. Discord is still in the bottom and she's she's gagged by that. An internal discord about that. She's like for me, it was kind of. I think that a lot of the people just want her to put on a little bit of body. Because right now she's given being pulled not body. We'll get to that this week for her runway because I have notes on that. I had notes on a scandal. She's still here putting on nobody. Nobody. Who can do it like me? No, there's no sport. What are you wearing on the runway? Nobody. Darling. A men of full length gown with nobody, baby. Darling is also feeling some sort of way way about Athena championing her. Listen, both of them had ugly shit on. Who cares who won? It's not like either of you won one. No, nobody wants to wear either your ugly ass outfits, especially with that shoe. Although I did think Darlin's was more fashion-y and Athena's was more one shoulder gown with the train. Like at least Athena's a pretty target gown. Oh yeah, I texted someone to see what they bleeped. It was target. Because in this whole thing they're like, they're talking and Darlin says, I don't know, Athena's is like a pretty target gown. Because they do sell silver lamebething suits at target like that. So, Darlin was not- Is that a target? No, I said silver lamebething suits, not gowns, which is the same fabric as Athena's gown, silver lamebe. Well, not lamebe, stretch silver, you know. Silver lament. Honey, she should have. It was- both of the outfits are ugly. But at least I thought Darlin's was like, like ugly girl fashion. It was more kind. Yeah, it was more kind. And Athena's was just like, oh, I bet she would take that off. That would be the pool party gown. The one she didn't mind getting wet if she were to do a pool party gig. You know. You know, RuPaul comes into the workroom and she's giving looks. Yes. She's in a sort of faded, you know, sort of distressed kind of die drip blouse and very tall shoes. Rule rules. Number 17. That's pretty. If you can't judge yourself. How in the hell are you going to judge somebody else? Wow. Well, she must have pulled that out of a Hudson River while someone was dying. The Maxi challenge is the rate a queen challenge show. Part one. So basically, after girls are going to perform this week and the other girls that don't perform are going to judge those hose and then vice versa next week. And because she won last week's challenge, Vita Von T star gets to pick which week she wants to perform. And Jane is now like doing the thing. Oh shit, pre-existing relationship. These girls are going to be like allying and all that alliances. How have they done this in the past? Because did they do this as like the first episode, didn't they? Yes. They didn't split it up. The girls didn't split it up. So everyone did a talent? They tried. Oh, they did it all in one day in real life. Yes, split premiere. How did they do it? Was it always a two-day situation like this? Like the queen? Yeah. No, rate a queen is the girls perform and then the other girls rate them. It's like the strawberry social. First, you make the strawberry pies, then you eat them. It feels a little filler like you have to massage it. It has so much squabbling going on. So much. Oh, what team are you going to be? It was almost as though we were watching just the raw footage from the cameras. And it was like, okay, this will edit really nicely down into an episode, but they just kept it all. So what, what day are you going to go? Oh, I'm going to go talk to these girls over here. Excuse me. Hold on. So what are you going to do? Oh, my pussy is doing a poem. Well, you're busy-do-a-ballet. What are you? I want to go with the dancer girls. This episode was very low on actual performing and what we tune in to see drag queens do, which is performing to be drag queens. This was reality show, machinations. And people worried about if their friends would vote for them or if they were going to vote for their friends, instead of actually judging them accordingly. But there are no rules with drag race. Like girls are allowed to accept the rule rules. There are the rule rules. Put on a wig and do drag, bring back a mini challenge. Please, just like there was no drag in the entire like first half of this episode. And that's it just was not entertaining to watch. I was watching it with my mom. Mia star had forwarded. Browse glued down since the Tuesday before last. Because she's a slow paint. Because she's like, you're not going to get me with the mini challenge. I'm going to be pre-glued, pre-shaped wig cap on, honey. She was ready to go. She was ready to do so. She was ready to do so. I just, and you know what? While all this intrigue, who alliances, teams, ooh, sisterhood, the glam, you know, alliance or culture, whatever, all of that, it could have worked and been okay if it actually ended up fucking mattering in the least. The thing happens and everyone just votes. How are the fuck they're going to vote anyway? There's no alliances and we spent the whole episode talking about fucking alliances. Well, I can't. They just be good at drag. Instead, they have to worry about like the fucking like this is the pelican brief for something. Just don't fuck the pelicans. I have information. Put on a wig that's one color on this side. That's one color on this side. Put a mirror around your head. And let's fucking go. Whitney, what's your end thought? What's your end thought? This is a replay of my life. I was in stock for many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many nights. Honey, I just did this so I could do a spot with self because nobody wants me on their chain. I think it's a good difference. So the alliance is to recap. The Red Aquine scenario. It was the first episode of season 16. It was a split premiere, but the difference was people. Where'd they get that idea? People who performed also rated. So it was the first seven queens. They all performed and rated one another. And then the following week, the same thing happened. This is when Derek Barry was the host of it. Like it was an MTV spring break challenge. I remember. She really popped up and then they slimed her at the end. I don't remember any of that. I get what they were doing. They're trying to put a twist on that and make it a little intriguing. Right. What a twist. And it could have, it could, right. But it just didn't work. And I hope they never do it again. Anyway, the chickens are chattering. Kenya, Athena, Mia and Juicy. Basically, the Miami Girls plus Kenya. Make a little alliance. And then Sierra brings the glam girls, which is the Q-pop challenge girls. They're the only team with girls still all there. And then Mia says, well, the Deon's come first. But then the glam alliance is, it's like, this is pilot season. And they're putting shit in first position, second position. Oh, well, I can do that. If you know, the glam girls. But it's so strange. Let's take a break. Let's, yeah, I can't take it anymore. This podcast is sponsored by Better Hell. March includes International Women's Day, a moment to celebrate women's strength and progress, while also recognizing how much they carry every day. Is there a woman in your life who has had a lasting and memorable impact on you? I think of my mother. I think of my dear women friends who have turned me into literally the person that I am. So, happy women's month to all the women. 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She's like, she's like an adorable like she would go visit Rahim and a few of his friends like at his home and it would be amazing. Why would that pick you going to my man's house? Your husband. She gives like that. But that's not like, oh, your trade. Like, trade has like an element of like you are like married to a woman or right? The fact that you could trade something drugs, money, housing, for sex. That is what trade is. Trade will also usually have the ability to hurt you or wreck your credit. These are things that trade is. Nini Coco not trade not trade. She's adorable though. She's adorable. She's adorable little little chameleon girl, whatever it is that she plays. The week one girls are Nina, Nini, Vita, Juicy, Mia, C. Nina and Darleen. Nila, Ulysses, Vita, Juicy, Mia, Mar, Darleen, Darleen, Mitchell, Ulysses. Darleen actually says that they tried or no, Siera. Siera said that they tried to make her drop the mist and just be Siera. And then midway through production, they were like, yeah, we have to change your name. And she's like, no, absolutely not. That's not how that's happening. Let me see you one two step. Let me see you one two step. Siera is also talking about her poem for the talent show in the mirror. And she says it's very personal, raw and important. She had me at raw. Listen, I don't really, I don't like this conversation because they're like, yeah, different one. Let me leave. Different is doing something different as a bad idea for this. So like, what are they supposed to do? Everyone is supposed to do. Kakaraka 5, 6, 7. I made a track and I'm going to dance. Everyone's supposed to do that. There should be variety. It depends if it's a variety show or a talent show. And like, when a girl tries to give variety like a puppet or look at me, I'm going to make a beverage. Sometimes it doesn't work out, such as Jane mentioning with her family. And sometimes a dancing Kakaraka number doesn't work out. Some girls like to paint. Manila. Deal trade. Oh. Deal trade. Sierra missed. She ends up doing the poem. And I thought it was cool. Production-wise, I think like she could have recorded it slightly different to make it sound more dynamic. The way it came across sounded just like a very dry vocal. But I thought it was like a cool, fun like thing. Was she going to be a baby dragon or a baby butterfly? I couldn't tell. This baby black butter fly. Wait, I can't think of the next one. Must take chance and spread my wings. Love can make you do some crazy poems. I don't know what this poem was. But how did you get this? High coups. She should have done a sing quant. Slow one. I hate that part of the broth because you're like, oh gearing up for it. Then it goes to the slow one. to try to take some notes, because I felt so unprepared. I don't have any notes, but there wasn't anything to take a note on. There was like no content, none. So, like the poem for me, I am old school. I want like, I cannot go to school, but I said little Peggy M.K. I need some shell silver steam or like some like Cajer Bert singing. I don't want to have to be too hard. I don't want to have to think too hard. There's allegory and hidden meanings and raw and personal port and stuff. I don't want it. The house of hidden meanings. I want to be entertained. This made me think and I don't want to think. It was about like drag sort of saving her like life, like finding inspiration from doing drag. That's weird. Ruins mostly. And did you? Juicy love deal. Let's talk about a Kakarakwa. Did you watch on Tuck? Yes. Could she like revealed that it was about her friend who killed herself, but that's what the poem was? Yes. Okay, just making sure you have that contact. No, I knew that context, but like the like it was like dedicated to her, but it seemed like it was about like drag giving her like inspiration in herself. That outfit was kind of cool, but what did it have to do with being a baby dragon? I think there's more butterfly. I think you're right that it's more butterfly. But why would the bottom wigs bigger than the top ones? That's not a butterfly. It was just I, I just want to be entertained. Just give me a happy meal. Like, well, I was entertained by Juicy love Dionne. Were you? I was too. This outfit where she said press the red button. This was like Fembot, Fembot on T blockers and a health, she took both of her shots. Same day. She looked great. The performance was, it was an interesting concept, but also just like let her rip, which is like what we want to see from her. And she fucking did that. Some girls don't need a bunch of reveals. And I am big pantameter. Just go out there and give them what they want. You know? Exactly. Get out there and shake your ass proper. Nobody would not want to see Juicy love Dionne do this. Nobody's supposed to be here. How did Juicy love Dionne get here? Probably there's also a stranger in my house. It took a while to figure out. It did take a while. Tell pop quiz though. Tell me where we first kiss. And then tell me where my spot is. And why are you wearing his clothes and you're sleeping in his spot? And I don't even know who you even are. You're driving his car. And Nini Kofo killed her bug friend. Praying Mantis on the stage. This Praying Mantis. And she better just casually do a fucking cat woman backflip too. That was the part that made me go, okay, I can't call this terrible. That was fun. And then it turned into like Sesame Street drag, but it's still like a had a little bit of an edge to it. And I thought it was fun. RuPaul was saying the lines after, which means she was thoroughly intrigued enough to repeat it back. And it was, it was a frothy little delight. Look at her. Oh, she flipped over. What are the words you want to make me? Women, I want to make you dinner or something, right? I don't know. I don't want to know. And you know what it's in reference to? Or you don't want to know? Praying Mantis eats their husband after they mate. But her viral video was that to that song that goes, Da-da-she's mother and mother is fucking the eight. Da-da-da-da-he's. This is just a drag race song. Oh, so she, so she remade a sort of, I text like a mimic song. Yeah, she mimics us. You couldn't get the right. So this video went super viral of her 67 weeks ago on Instagram of her. And she's doing the same bit. Is this viral? Four million views. I see 384,000. Does that views her likes, my dove? I didn't know that you could do views. How do you, where's the view? On the, uh, listen. Listen, just because you have that many views on a single music video. No, I'm just trying to. I need to look down on all the girls achieved this. That's what they said. They said four million on the show on the show. They said four million. How many, how many views does boys about have 27 million, right? 29. A cool. I'm just wondering what the threshold is for our reality. It's gotten lower. So I can, um, I don't know, talk to your doctor. Talk to the good people at APLA Health. Okay. I don't want to stop. This was not what I wanted from her. This was Hoki Poki props to two. Look at these fake cookies. This was the best part about this was the hair. Love the hair. And then the cookie weights made me think of cookie criss, which is a great cereal. The rest of it got her. She should have put a belt on nipped in that waist a little bit. But she, I, the sneaker. No, no. No. It didn't go anywhere. And I think it could have gone somewhere very interesting because it's a great setup. It's a, is a setting we all know. The 80s workout video is a trope. Like if it became Elizabeth Sparkle and then she like, you know, took the substance and then like revealed and was all like cut and pierced. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I didn't happen. And this was this felt like a last minute thing. Mm-hmm. Like, oh, I'll do, I'll do my cookie. Why are the weights? Why are the weights cookies? I don't know. I never wait for the cookie. Honey. Darling Mitchell. Don't get these cookies. Darling's giving me Tim Toolman Taylor and Pamela combined. Yeah. Yeah. Like if this was on HGTV, I would definitely watch it until the next commercial. And apparently, Fiona Barbos is going to tear. Oh, really? That's what I think I said. Oh, no, Ginger told me that she was going to wear different hair on this. And then Athena gave her this hair at the last minute. No, you need to do your research, honey. The hair that she wore for the runway with the rhinestones in it and that ugly prom gown. That was the hair that Athena gave her. That's what we're talking about. That's what the chickens are. Clark talk about you. We're missing more. Well, thank you. Thank you for doing the research for me. I'm happy. I'm happy to reroute the narrative. What about this hair, though? Who did this hair? The suitcase. Who is that? You need a baby. Is Billy Porter? Who was it? I love Harry Porter. Billy Porter at the Mariah Carey Tribune. It was almost like a Whitney Bob almost. It's not right, but it's OK. It's not right, but it's OK. That's how I would describe it. Was it really worth you going out like that? I checked your credit card, Rosie. And only two of you had to. Only two. Only two people at dinner? Only two. How did you get here? Nobody's supposed to be here. Would you leave Charlie? Would you have tipped her? I would have tipped all the girls, because that's my manners. I feel like if you tip one girl, you should tip everybody. I would have given the girls some tips. And then some of my water tips. I have a question about Darleen's act, and you might have input on this. She obviously didn't travel with the tool then. Do you think she traveled with all the tool cutouts or do you think she asked for these things to be provided? I think the props like this were probably bought. They're just flats. They're real easy to ship in a flat. They don't take up much room. So she brought the tools, but not the tool desk. Yeah, that's obviously workroom orange right there, that table with the magenta trim. You know? Yeah. So yeah, that was for right. I think this was the cute act. It was fun writing. It was also educational. Like, she taught the very important lesson of like lightweight things you can hang with a nail, but if it's more sturdy, you should probably use a screw. That's a good advice. It's like, it's like fatherly advice that I feel like the world needs. Yeah, Darleen gives me like drag dad. Yeah. I wonder if I want to like be fierce, because she's beautiful. She gives me like Wendy Malek, you know, like just tall and like, could be cut to you, but also hot and cleafland. Could you imagine the doors that would open? Yeah. Now, Mia Star, she kicks open the doors. This is an original song and dance. And she says, Miss MIA, I've been a star, got two big bitty titties stuffed in my bra. A, she's in a bikini top, which is barely covering one tittie. Those girls want to come out and play. She keeps them in the yard. She's a escape honey. But as soon as they, the, the this and as soon as she starts bouncing on Rupal loves it, bouncing titties. That's what you need for a challenge show, bouncing titties, not a fucking poem. Like make Rupal laugh or make her gag. A poem will not make Rupal gag. If you get into the sort of like the detail, also this outfit, if you get into the details of this outfit, it's, there's a lot of things that are just, just down right wrong. Wait, what's out there? Mia Star? Mia, Mia Star is out there. I love this outfit. I love this outfit. Okay, great. You're literally, you have it on under what you're wearing right now. You, this is very, this is very willum. But there's some like details that like, you can't define me. You could have been as the look could have been the first way. The first way needed to be bigger. I will give you that because when her hair was long and rainbow, I was like, why she wearing that ugly flat wig. And then I was like, I'd probably wear that wig if it was on a ponytail. And then she took it off and I said, oh. Yes. And all that is to say that like an outfit can be very much overlooked if the song is fucking fierce. And it was. If the performance is fucking amazing, which it was. And that's why she really made an impact. And then the outfit became sort of like, it was sort of like humorous, which it ended up working very well. I was entertained at least. I was, I was like, oh, I didn't see it. I was feeling entertained. I don't see why she took off the wig, but I'm glad that. I thought that was one of the best parts. It was unexpected. Me too. I was like, why is she taking off that hair to give that cue ball look, which was fun. You know, not every direct queen needs long but length 40 inch bust down. But I like, I like, I'm wearing right now. When a girl can move her hair when she lip sinks, I love it. I love it. She doesn't need that. She doesn't. She is the show. She is. Now, there will be no judges critiques. The rate of queen rules are in full effect. While you rate a queen backstage, the judges then I will hallucinate. OK. OK. OK. I'm trying to think of what I could say. Like, because I'm going to complain if it's the same old, same old. But then I'm also going to complain that the judges don't judge. Like, judges should judge. Well, they certainly don't. They leave it to us. Girls don't spend $20,000 to go to drag race to get some faggot in their peer group to judge that. They want to be judged by the people on the show. And I get that they don't make the rules for the show. But like, I don't want some girl from Florida judging me. And I'm a girl from Florida, kind of. Florida woman. Why don't we go ahead and take a break and get into the runway? Oh, good. Finally, something. Listen, before we talk about RuPaul, I think we should talk about the two-headed monster in the world. Give us the... What is the inspiration? What is the genesis of this? Where did the inspiration, what's going on? It's very impactful. It's very avant-garde. It's very fierce. Tell me about it. First of all, it's genesis-y. Genesis. And second to ball, they wanted two drag queens. They're going to get two drag looks. What, privilege. So nice. Nice. Check in the box. And also, I was inspired by, I think a guy named Thorn Darnell in New York. He works with Suzanne. He does the box a lot. I saw him with a mirror thing. And then I got Jacob to make it. And Jacob with M name really long. You know what's so funny? Because if you look this way, the other eye goes that way. So you're giving Courtney Agdai when you look over to the side. Which, wait, which that side of that side? If you look to the outside, it gives like absolutely insane. Well, if you look inside, you look cross-eyed. But if you look outside, it makes you look like your eyes are going in opposite directions, which is very satisfying. I can't tell what side I'm on. Well, I can't see your other eye. Wait, how is the pink? This is the pink side? Or is this the pink side? That's the pink side. It's really a mind-fuck. And I love that the hair is the same shape on both sides because it makes it look like the hair is pink and then a slice and it's blonde. It's very impactful. I love that. Love when I do drag well enough that you compliment me. Because it means I'm probably doing something right. Here you are. You're always doing something right. Yeah. I look great and thank you for acknowledging that. And I love what you did with the pillows on that couch and everything. Thank you. RuPaul looks cute. Thank you. You, chief of all. This hair, oh, happy birthday to me. I love this cough. I love those earrings. Where the earrings come from? Oh, she's been wearing this earring a lot and I love it. Now, I like that earring. One girl said this was an earring's closet earring, but I love this. This is like the big fat stones, like the ones that I got from area. I like it. I love it. I really like it. She looks so fucking good. She looks like she probably called a couple guys. I said, you all want a FaceTime after? No. Oh, in the belt, the silver belt that goes up like this. Yeah. Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. It's all day like belts, belts, belts, belts for every occasion. Jenna Taylor into this. Like he put his balls in it. Yeah. Probably rubbed his hole on it. This, this cock all over this. I love it. I love this so much. These colors. Really beautiful. So good. And she'll be Sasha's there. She looks beautiful too. She is ready to be Ursula the origin story. Oh, yeah. She's going to be West ending about. She better work. I love this. I love Red for Filth. She looks beautiful. Ross Matthews also looks great. A sort of epilette kind of situation. And Zara Larsson, honey. She is wearing J.C.O. Day's necklace, a friend of the pot. Really? Yeah. The stylist borrowed it from J.C. And then Zara wore it. And this look, it's all a bunch of tiny little rhinestones that she put on her face, like individual. Her makeup artist is Sophia. And it's like perfection. It's like how Sarah kind of looks like Gaga. You know how they have similar features and similar features. Zara and Sophia look very much alike. Zara looks great. She's a rhinestone from head to Gucci. And I live. Now this runway category. She does. It's called Not Today Satin. Yes. So let's get into these divas. First, a CRMist. I really, the whole time I just wanted to quote Michael Cors. Tight Satin? No human being should wear tight satin. Oh, it's polycryptous sheen. Oh. This is, this is, uh, would you think of CRM? It gives the devils dick down. Like this is the girl the devil calls when it's like 1 a.m. This is her. Yeah. Yes. The satin's concubine. Satan's little come dump. Actually not little. She's tall. Do you see love the old is massage. What is that all you have to say? Well, I don't like red. She needs bigger tits. I'm trying to be nice. I sure it's satin. But I, where's the titties? Where's the hips? Give me some body. Yes. It does something about the shape. It could have been a, the femininity could have been a little bit. It's giving me a fence post. It's just like no. Long and lean. And I would love a little bit of a jug or something. And the hair is, the ponytail is way too thin. Girls, if you have a ponytail wig on and you go to drag race and you think it's cut because you pull it over your shoulder and you're like, oh, get someone to take a picture of you walking away so you can know how thick your ponytail is and know that you need to add another so that girls that did the show 14 years ago won't rag on you for having alopecia. Okay. How dare we? This ponytail was way too thin. It is satin though. It is red satin. And so, you know, she did that. I think it could have been cool presentation wise. If that train was up over the top of like all those horns and all that bullshit. And then if she like took it down and it turned into the train and she shook out like a long thick red ponytail. But instead she had three heirs up there. It looks fine. It's not going to win you drag race. There are things that could have been judged. Now speaking of jeuxierie, Jussie loved the on in one of I think the best outfits that has ever stood on the drag race stage. This is like the level of like this is final episode pussy like ready to have the crown put on your head. This is like you won last year and you're coming back to the reunion episode the next year. Kind of elevated, cut fierceness. I love it. She's giving if that wasn't apparent. She's very much giving the decorations at the sizzler buffet. It's fucking kale. Yeah, delicious kale, nutritious, beautiful. For me, it just dwarfs her and it doesn't do anything for her. She looks great, but like why? And she's wearing the same wig again. She really liked the wig. I liked it when she had a little kid guys. The girls like their little tight finger waves. Should we do that? Like as one of our one week when we're both in drag, should we both do really tight little finger waves? No. I need hair. I just said I like girls with hair and you're trying to make me ugly. I do not ugly. Girl, it's not ugly. It's just a different like time period kind of silhouette. It's ugly on me. I do not have pretty hair. I do not have short hair gig privileges for this face. There's a lot here. I can't do center part hair unless I got some sort of clown satellite on. I'm not able to do short hair or center straight part hair. And a finger waves hair? No. Unless you put a big old ball of hair on top and I'd have up to two with a couple of tendrils. And then maybe a lace bath. But finger waves. Tendril Tina. No, I don't do finger waves. You do finger blasting. And then the coconut is up next. I do Tina toes. Not finger waves. The Tina dancing toes. The Tina tweaking toes of me. Neenie Coco has a nice shoe on. The rest of this gives me little boy blue lapiti pralce. Fuck doll. I don't like it. What about you? Why? Why? I just I what inspired not. Why does she not put on hair? Why does she always like to look like a fucking jester? She's very beautiful and very kind. Thank you. And I think sometimes the girls get a little too conceptual for their own good. And because they're like, I don't want to just be beautiful. That'll be boring. But it's like, we love to see beauty. We love to see pussy femininity. Contnist. And this is like, I'm going to be a weird wacko clown. But like you were literally a praying mantis monster in the talent show. So it would have been, I would have liked to have seen just, I don't know, some more pusification of this. If like this was open and she had like a feminine kind of bust line. If it was a little higher hem and more leg out. This all could have been you still could have gotten the like octopus. I don't know clown underwater. Harlequin thing, but just pacified a little bit. This is the Boston tryout for Vera Charles as man in the moon musical. This is the man in the moon is a lady. A lady lipstick and curls. I don't like this outfit. I don't understand. It is. This has been in the in the regional costume storage for years, but they pulled it out because they're they're doing the Vera Charles moon number. It doesn't fit her necessarily. It's a beautiful costume. It doesn't fit her, but that's what they're using for the production. Well, she doesn't even how to put in and I don't know they're not making a no coffee. So Vita Von T star is giving. M Emerald Emerald deaths. Like Emerald city girl. She gives me. She gives me Vile of Anne horn from death becomes her the music call. It's sort of that like breasts out. Cal where it goes wrong for me is the like skirt is like the wrong fit the wrong length. I think if that skirt went down asymmetrically to a hip like Haley Barry's Oscar winning dress, it was that burgundy skirt with the sheer. And it came down to like a point on like one of the front hips. It was asymmetrical and it worked. This just having a flat line cuts her off and she could be extended if it was like kind of overlapping and down here. I also need a nipple and bigger titties because all these Emeralds. I would have loved some more. I would have loved some more of them hanging. And just because all I'm like where to nipple that. Yeah. The top half though. I think it's successful. It's pretty. Also, I don't think this is satan. I think this is liquid. Oh, maybe that's made out of satan. I don't know. But one of the girls was like, I'm really not the girl. What? I am not the girl to be talking about fabrics because I literally have no idea what fabric is what. But yeah, this seems like that liquid. I thought it was liquid satan though. It's called liquid organza. Okay. Well, Darleen Mitchell. Not today satan. Not satan today. This is the wig that Athena lent Darleen because she was gone aware. A mouthy brown little little wig. Okay. This needs jugs. The face and the hair is beautiful. Without it, it's beanpull boy drag. Where are the breasts? Where is the country? Why is your arm red? And the armlets for me, that red armlet, and then the red choker, it doesn't go with blue and peach. I don't, I don't know if she had, she's just a 15% colorblind or what? And then it was like the reveal and it's like Cinderella ghost dripping very leg avenue. And it needed a titty. Yeah. It's the leg of it. It's the red-clad costume. Especially with that shoe. I mean, that is, you know, that's a woman of the night. That is shoe. Oh, that shoe? No. That shoe is what happens when a substitute teacher can't get anymore shifts because she fucked her one of her students. So then she has to go outside and hook on Easter weekend. This shoe is so bad. It's so bad. Why? And then she does the no-sing. We know your nose is beautiful girl. We've seen it every running one way. I think she's doing the nose thing. She's like, look up here. Don't look at madly fucking shoes. Look up here. Oh, my nose. Girl. She is very pretty. And if it was quiet and it was dark, I'd let her have me. She get my shape too. I ask for me a star. I think if she comes back for all stars, that she will have some fit things figured out, some like proportion things figured out, and she will be so like just like over the top stunning. Mia star, okay, is giving bow, bow, bow, bow. Yes. And from, if you cut this off with the knee, real cute. But the bottom feels unfinished and it feels like an afterthought. I wish it was like a baby doll dress with like two really long. Like so you could tell it was a bow and not just like an unerected tent. It's just it's it's a lot for her. It's wearing her. You know what I mean? Yeah. She looks pretty from these up. How do you think of the hair? The hair could have been bigger. It should have been bigger. That ponytail should have been brushed out because you take the width of your face and then. Then you double it. You want your hair to be at least as wide as the side of your face. I think. And then tall wise, RuPaul's hair in this episode is perfect geometry. It's a full head above her. So it's like, oh look, my tiny little head right here. All this hair. I'm a woman. That RuPaul is like 7-11. She's tall as fuck and that hair makes her look like, ooh feminine. This hair doesn't make her look feminine. It makes her look cute and pretty, but it needs to be bigger to balance off her white cheekbones, the jaw. You know what I mean? Like you could wear a little hair. I would be interested if this was like, if this was like just like a swimsuit and like legs out almost like Playboy bunny kind of thing and just like a very sensible little like red. little like red pump. Like it's sort of like a Valentine's Day surprise kind of thing. It's it need to be all this. I would have been interested in that. Yeah, I did not need this gown. I thought it looked like a reveal garment to me actually. I thought it was gonna come off because it was so blousey and what's the word unwieldy. Like you couldn't see your feet. You're like why is there's no shape? But Mikey Meeks comes out with a little bit of shape. I love Mikey Meeks's mug. Oh my god, that eye bitch. Mickey Meeks is in a satin bow of some sort and it's engineered well where it's like wrapped around her head like it's suspended midair and yeah it's cool. She looks good. Is the black satin? It doesn't look like it looks like leatherette or like a wax denim of some sort. Because I feel like someone made the critique like at least mine is made out of all satin on like some of these girls. I'm starting to see that. Like I think that seems like an Athena thing. But Athena's doing hair like never bands. Darleens arm bands were velvet, weren't they? I don't know because they were ugly. I didn't care to know to make up of that. You did it. Look into it. Have you heard of it? No. It should have been a loveless. If that came down over her finger and gave a little Cinderella glove lit moment, I would have wondered about the composition of the accessory. But otherwise garbage. Mikey Meeks looks amazing. Like I love that she matched that eyeshadow exactly to that like pale lavender color. The earring. I think she did the black leatherette to like make it like disappear. And so to let the the lighter satin become the star of it. But I I'm such a stickler about runway themes that like if the theme is satin, you should just be wearing all satin. Like you should be wearing satin shoes and fucking satin, fucking earrings. Like everything should be obnoxiously satin. For me. Athena, Dionne is in all satin. So I assume you love this. I do like it. Yes. But do you love it? She likes it. I do. Why does she keep wearing turban? Who is she? Gloria, fucking Swanson? She keeps pumping these turbanes like she's on soap dish. This turban needs to be bigger. I need like a bigger bow. Like the bow that Willie, how do you say his name? Vecca era. He did like big bows during Fashion Week on like a backwards baseball cap. JC has one. And I was like, what is that? So that would have been fun. Like a big, big like fashion bow. Not just like this little like cute little like on tea turban. This is just giving me a digit. Like and she's not old. She's not even in her 40s. It's just giving me like anti of the bride. She's 30. She's the grandmother of the way she's not 30. She's older than 30. No, I don't know. I don't know. 37. But like it's just giving me like pretty, but I don't know. I just wanted a big swing for somebody. Yeah, the scale. She could have played with the scale of that. I love the voluminousness of that cape. I mean, it's very extra. It's very wacko. Yeah. I like that. It's a little bit of hair peeking out the back, but it just doesn't excite me. Can you please? She didn't even have an outfit because the designer for this category said, no. So she grabbed this very real coat from Miss Jane Don't. And then she transformed it into what you see here today. And I think this was a very successful runway. She did. She took it and she was like, I'm going to style this and make it my own. And she did. And she ends up looking great. And what a fucking real fucking experience. It happens. You order something from a designer. You're very excited about it. You go through all the steps and then the day comes. And it's not ready. And it's like, what are you going to do? So I applaud her for making it happen and not being like, I didn't have it. So I just didn't wear any, you know what I mean? She made it happen. Bar or something. This looks great. She looks great. It's very day. She looks happy. Very day. Joe, Veal, even now this Jane Don't. How about that for a drag name? Joe Veal. Joanna Veal. Jean Don. Jane Don. Don. Jean-et Don. I don't know why when they said satin. She said, oh, I'm going to do the sky and a sun. Oh, you got a bird? I think she came up with this idea. High on mushrooms in Hawaii on Thanksgiving. Because why the fuck would she have a flamingo on her back? And then flamingos don't fly. So why is it up in the sky by the sun? You stupid bitch. This is not what you're asked about. How dare you Jane Don't? I was rooting for you. I'm kidding. I love her. This dress feels like a pillowcase, though. That got stretched out and then went to push gardens. I like it. However, the problem is like you said, it's like the focal point here is the crazy bird on her fucking entire upper half of her body. That eye was looking at me. The eye from the mirror was looking at me. It was really scary. Wait, no. Like if you look directly forward, a little inward, right there, a little more, a little more inward. Okay, that's pretty straight on. That looks very symmetrical. That's me looking at Dipper right now. Okay. The focal point is her cuckoo to ca burd. And I'm like, oh, I guess the dress is made out of satin, but the focal point should be, hi, I'm wearing satin. This looks like a nap area at a Kindergarten. I don't know what I'm looking at, but it looks like a daycare area where children rest. And they would have a great time. One of them pissed themselves. They'd get juice when they got up. This is weird. I don't mind it, but it's just crazy. And I wish there was a nail on this glove. You're on drag race, honey. She looks great. I love the pink leg with the yellow strapy shoe. That's so feminine, so kind. She is very beautiful. And she's very good at drag. But for the prompt, I think the focal point should have been the satin. I have a pink eyebrow. Oh, no one, no one did satine from, uh, well, I wish. Yeah, I thought that that was a miss too. Didy Fuego did a bullfighter for her satin look. And then another girl that went home had another one planned, but I don't know what Briar did. Discord Adams is wearing taupe and olive and satin. And that's printed with newspaper. Yeah. The newspaper headings are something about her probably I'm guessing. I'd, the hair comes up through like some sort of bear trap that she has mary ant's when edit on her head. This is, this is, um, the shoe is also ugly. This is confusing to me. And not in like a way where I'm like, oh, wow, and more like, oh, wow. Like she chose all of them. She's the nobody girl. And we know this. With this, you've done it. And a gown like this, it could have been really fun to have an exaggerated hip and bust and ascension waist just to like oomph the femininity a little bit. The same way that, um, the Vivian Westwood wedding gown from Sex and the city had like the extra oomph of the like padded, not padded, but like the sat sat and cup that just jutted out. And then the hip that had like maybe a penye or some sort of structure under it. Cause this is just giving me hanging and dragging you down. There's no hip. I just wanted something that was more grand if this was going to be all this fabric. Why don't you support it out in the front in the hip so we could see it. And it gives you like this great shape. Like take up some space. Don't just drag a fucking carpet. Bless you. Thank you. I'm allergic to the stress. I'm just kidding. The mites, right? It's just kidding. It's a really cool garment. And I love that she does this, this fucking avant guard editorial fucking crazy hair all the time. Like I see her and I get what she's doing and I love it. She's trying to do avant garde editorial hair editorial hair. Editorial hair requires an editor. How about that for a drag name? Edna editorial. Every girl wants to be an Edna in drag. Oh God. Can you imagine if you're a drag mother made you to be called Edna? I know an Edna. This is my daughter. Edna used to run the road. Edna Jean Curtin. Stringing hair. Stringing hair. Well that was Jane Curtin. Now Edna Jean. Edna Jean Curtin. Goodbye Edna Jean. Though I love her. Okay. This is the moment where we get into our snarky judgments of the week because really isn't that our job. The biggest dispute of the week. Who missed the mark the most only in the runway this week? Okay. Our top dispute of the week. I'm scrolling back. I'm trying to get a look at everybody. My guttorella of the week is Nini Coco. Oh. It's giving me children's part in the line. Who is your guttorella of the week? My biggest dispute this week is Darleen just because I can see how gorgeous she is and she's in that the that selection of pieces wasn't showcasing her as much as I think it could remember. Remember Celexa if she was here she would be eight foot and tearing it up. I need some Celexa honey. Celexa. Bring back Celexa. Bring her back to main stage flagship. Do it. Do it. Who is your this is the moment where we choose our top salute of the week. I don't have my marker board with me. Okay. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do it on my phone. Okay. Wait till they send these girls home. Would you say honey? I said I can't wait till they send these ugly girls home but I don't know what time you're check out it. Oh my god. That's a man. I don't want to wear any of these outfits and that's usually what my criteria is for Piggy of the Week for my top salute. But if I had to choose one hold on don't say it yet. Yeah. Ready now. I will once I figure out. They're also hideous. All of these outfits. She just like fucking let us. She's purple cabbage. I'm going to write I'm going to write down my top diva of the week even though I have no idea who the fuck it is. Hold on let me scroll. It's either need to go out without this. Well don't say it out loud because you like don't say it out. I bet. Why are you saying it out loud? Well I'm guessing there's only seven girls. It's got to be one of them. Okay. So the reason we're that we're making a big deal out of this is because there are prizes at stake. Okay. If we both unanimously decide the same person as our top salute of the week they win a prize. The prize this week is the Alaska Thunderfuck Black Fanny Pack. Okay. This has a lot of pockets. It's great for like day to day. You can use it as your carry all I like to wear it like this like a crossbody scenario. And it has a lot of pockets. It's chic. It's stylish and it's very durable. Jeremy has had his since we put these out and he's still using it and it looks brand new. So if you want one of these you can go to Alaska Thunderfuck.com and you can get your hands on one while they last. Now the winner if we both choose the same diva as our favorite they will win one of these. Yeah. So I'm gonna write down. I'm gonna. Oh my god. Why did I get the same one because these little cross-stressor crossbody I don't want to just call it a bag I would say a vessel. It's more of a vessel. They are quality. I love mine. Exactly. So shall we. It's more than a vessel. Shall we go for it? Yes. Let's reveal our top salutes of the week on the count of three. One, two, three. One, two, three. Juicy love Dion. I said Kenya Pleaser. Really? Yeah. In her bar of couture. Well at least she had a waste and she looked good. It looked like something someone would actually wear and not a piece of lettuce or a flamingo around her fucking neck. I thought she looked very nice. I like lettuce. I my second choice. I like lettuce. My second choice and I didn't like this one either that much because Kenya is all in autumn. I'm not an autumn. Yeah. Athena looked great. Did I like it? No. But she looked great and I want to acknowledge that. But Kenya looked more just carefree and casual and the scale of the hair on Kenya. It gave me drag queen. Not she did that. Not Miami-Tia, which is what Athena is giving with that tiny turban. She looked great and so no prizes this week. But if you're watching out there, you can go to Alaska Thunderfuck.com and get your hands on a fanny pack and some other exciting items. And that concludes the runway right now. The judges have general critiques. They love Nini's cocoa. I've been loved with the cocoa. I've been loved with Nini's cocoa. The performance, the execution, they loved it. And you know this was on her tape. So they wanted her to do this. Oh the dragon or the praying mantis. The buggy bottom. Buggy bottom. Buggy. Buggy bottom. Buggy. Be. I think she was almost in the top. I mean so buggy top. Miya. She was very, very close. She was middle. Miya, star and juicy were everybody's two top queens. They were just gagged overall by these two. And I kind of agree. The poem from Tiara did not translate to main stage applause the way she wanted. I don't like this critique that like they're pushing this narrative that like, oh it's just not the right stage for that sort of thing. It's like girl it should be whatever will appeal like fucking put a toaster in her bathtub. Like it should be at a stage that possibilities are endless. We shouldn't be limiting what what people should feel like encouraged to do. I think with some tweaks she could have made this concept work. But I don't like the narrative that like yeah you just shouldn't do something conceptual on drag race. It's like girl yes you fucking should. So you're saying the audience needs to be on crystal meth to get this. You want them to all tweak it. Listen. No I don't think anyone should do that. Oh okay well I don't think anybody should do a fucking poem like that. I think I want to be entertained. I want to I want my mouth to open with laughter or gagatory. And this was poetry which was sure it was beautiful. That's why it opened like you were at the dentist. Hello. That would have been a good talent. A deadly dentist set up. I put Tiara ahead of Vita though because Tiara at least like came from an artistic grounded point and was really trying to give it her all in a personal poem. So I applaud her for that for putting her full pussy in it and trying to make something put some art into the world. She was really trying. Not all art is commercial. And I am I'm very commercial. I want to be I want the Ram Bam Wham sparkle glam bang. Yeah. At least Vita. So Radik Lane I mean what ended up happening here. The girls said they had alliances and then completely threw those out the window and we're just like no she was kind so I'm gonna vote her good. It's like okay good great. I'm gonna vote you so good. You should have just said that from the beginning. Can you rate Tiara though pretty low and they're supposed to be friends. Can you blame her? No I can't. Athena doesn't mind putting Vita or Neenie in the bottom because they didn't pick her for the girl group challenge. Honey I love. Frugged. Bitter bit. Frugged. Patty met the bitter mad at Bob there that I love. I'm here for it like holds a grudge. I bet she's a cancer. The safe girls are Neenie Coco, Darleen Michelle, Vita Vanti star which makes the bottom girl Sierra missed the lip sinker for next week lip sinker number one. She is cracked and pissed and I would be too because now she has to like sweat it out for a whole fucking week dude. I mean I guess today. One day. The top two are Mia's star and Juicy Love Biong and they are doing the song pretty ugly by Zara Larsen. A great song and two dynamic performers going at it. What did you think? I thought this was a lip sink that if you look at it you can see two girls doing their own thing being aware of each other but they're not checking for what the other bitch is doing. They're doing their own thing and they can share the stage. They switch at different points. They both walk up at different points. Mia is not doing so much floor work. Juicy is on that floor and flips and kicks and tricks and Mia is still holding all the attention though from me because Juicy is down on the floor a little and tiny and then Mia is all they're all big and then she takes that jacket off and the titties start going and I'm here for it but this could have been either one and I'm glad they both won and got some money because I know how expensive Drag Race is. Yeah they did. It was a tie. They both did great and they put out a full cover of this song on YouTube wearing the same outfit. Some of those girls need full coverage. I get it. Really? Did they sing it? No. No they just have you ever sing it? Did Zara Larson sing it? No but she's just yelling. I guess they gave her they gave them permission to put that out because it's fully on YouTube and they'll put the whole song. You can put anything you want on YouTube even other people's songs with you. They usually don't take it down. What they do is they take the money. Yeah unless it's Beyonce then they take it down. They just like did it like they shot it like in a studio. They look great. She would have put that hair on. She looks like rainbow bright girl. I like that. She did it. She's don't the fuck out of everything much. She's wearing a new bikini. She got an inch of hair on. She should be stone. I shot a bitch singing it. I think they look great. I love blue girls. Blue girls. Next week part two of the Radiquine Talent show. Oh god. No I have a question and you might know the answer. Do they tell the girls who voted how? Don't know. Because if I knew that some bitch put me in the bottom I would be like I'm gonna put you in the bottom. I would never put you in the bottom. I would never. We would have an unspoken alliance. I would speak it. I would speak it just to be sure. Okay. I don't want to see my name on a lipstick and then be like well happen girl. You'll be like oh I didn't know we were playing best season friends. I would speak it. The only time I want to see your name on a lipstick is what I'm buying. Suckless face in body. They went belly up honey. They went belly up. Well done mama. Another company big grub did. You're welcome. I mean the list is growing. Did you watch untucked? Wait the commercials when you watch this the commercials say the drama drags on mama. It does because Sierra is talking about the the impetus behind her poem which is her drag sister who took her own life. Well yes. After coming out as a trans person which is just like so sad. Yeah. And then Sierra actually did her makeup so she could be buried in her true identity too. Which is the greatest gift you can give somebody is putting them to bed nice. Yeah. The queens all agree that the runway looks will be a tie will be the tiebreaker for Raider Queen which is funny. They're like oh that'll be the tiebreaker and there's a tie which they're not breaking so they don't know. But the other girls are like oh track record should come into play when raiding people. They're all now. If I can see it has a roulette I will pick that into account with voting yes. You know we love a rubric over here but she came up with presents impact point of view and energy. This is something she uses to judge in her hometown too. Okay pipe. We could have pipe. Did Darlene give you pipe? That what she did like the drilling thing. She had presents. The impact was impactful. She definitely has a point of view and she had good energy so by this rubric I would say that she did very well. Pop. Pop me down down. Pop me down down. Thank you so much for joining us to raise J.Z. their O.G. This week my name is Alaska. My name is Willem the prostitute and we would love for you to our show and write a review of our podcast on your podcast and don't forget to subscribe. 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