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00:00Hey, sweet corn cakes.
00:01Welcome to another episode of Whatcha Packin'.
00:08I am here with Seattle's own Jane Doan.
00:12Hi.
00:12Were you born and raised in Seattle?
00:14I was not.
00:15I was born and raised in Spokane.
00:17So still Washington.
00:18Close enough.
00:19Close enough.
00:19Well, in distance, yeah, but it's a very, you know,
00:23people think that Washington is, like,
00:26all liberalism and single origin coffee.
00:30I grew up on, like, the, you know, the Combine.
00:32The God of Guns, like, side.
00:34Really?
00:35Yeah.
00:35The Pacific Northwest is kind of a magical place.
00:38It is.
00:38It allows you to be quirky and weird and fun.
00:42Were you in, like, how long have you been there?
00:44I've been in Seattle for, oh, 10-ish years now.
00:48Like, were you in with the Jinx and the Daylon?
00:50No.
00:51When I was in college, it was Jinx's first run.
00:55It was season five.
00:56We get it.
00:57You're younger.
00:57Yeah.
00:58You know what?
00:59And I have a degree.
01:01Oh.
01:02Oh.
01:03So I think I went and saw Jinx perform a few times
01:06at the place that she was performing before she was announced.
01:09And I used to go and see Ben's shows when I was like, yeah.
01:13But it was all before I had started drag.
01:14So you're then Bosco.
01:17Yes.
01:17And Irene.
01:18And Irene.
01:19Yes.
01:19Those are my sisters.
01:20Those are my sisters.
01:21Those are the girls that I started that I didn't start drag
01:24with Irene because she's from Texas.
01:25But Bosco and I kind of started around the same time.
01:27How fun.
01:28So, Jane, don't you really killed it in this competition.
01:32I hope you're very proud of yourself.
01:33Yeah.
01:34You came out strong, like really strong, like pedal to the metal.
01:39Yeah.
01:40And you maintained it for a long while until, well, that happened.
01:45Yeah.
01:46Yeah, until the end there.
01:47Yeah.
01:47And it does happen.
01:48And listen, I hold a very special place in my heart for fifth place.
01:51Hey.
01:52I tend to come into a lot of competitions that I do.
01:55It's a good, cozy little spot.
01:57I'm doing OK.
01:58Yeah.
01:58So you're going to be OK, Jane Doe.
02:00So how many times have you auditioned for RuPaul's Drag Race?
02:04I think this was my fourth time, so longer than some, but not as long.
02:09I mean, some of the girls on this season were 10, 13 years.
02:13So, you know, I think before I got here was kind of like, it's been ages.
02:16Right.
02:17You know what I mean?
02:17I mean, I was like Gloria Swanson waiting for my second big break or whatever.
02:21But then I, you know, met Athena Dion and I was like, you know what?
02:24I'm doing OK.
02:25It could have been a lot worse.
02:27You're very smart.
02:29I don't think you are.
02:30And that could hinder you.
02:31Sure.
02:32And that could help you.
02:32Yeah.
02:33I know I'm an over-thinker.
02:34What's your sign?
02:35I'm a Pisces.
02:36Oh.
02:37But my moon and my rising are Capricorn.
02:39OK.
02:40Yeah.
02:40That grounds you a little bit more.
02:41Because both of my children are Pisces and all they do is cry.
02:45So.
02:45To be fair, I do a lot of that.
02:47We get our, we fill our quota.
02:49Yes, you do.
02:49But I get a lot of things done in between.
02:51Good.
02:51Fantastic.
02:52I think that you tend to maybe overthink sometimes.
02:55But you have a really good sense of humor and you have a really great reference point.
03:02Where does that come from?
03:03I don't even, you know.
03:05Like did you grow up watching old movies?
03:06I mean I did.
03:07So I, my grandmother partially helped like raise me.
03:11My grandma and my aunt lived very close.
03:13So they would take, I would spend a lot of time with my grandma pre-babysitting.
03:16Mm-hmm.
03:17And she, you know.
03:18Yes.
03:19And she had been a tap dancer when she was younger.
03:22So she was a musical theater like chorus girl.
03:25This is amazing.
03:26Yeah.
03:26So we would, we would watch like, you know, the MGM like movie musicals and you know,
03:31like the Yul Brynner, King and I and The Sound of Music.
03:33So that was kind of my first exposure.
03:35In high school I got really obsessed with like Warhol and the factory and the Warhol
03:38superstars.
03:39And then I got.
03:40How did you find that?
03:40I was a kind of a nerdy kid and I was just so desperate for anything that felt like where
03:46I wasn't.
03:47Totally get it.
03:48Yes.
03:48So I was like, I was obsessed with like the Velvet Underground and like I thought I was
03:52going to move to New York and I was going to be Nico.
03:54Like I was the second coming baby.
03:56I totally get it.
03:57I found Mae West by accident in something called an encyclopedia.
04:02Tell me about it.
04:03I've never seen one.
04:04It's very cool.
04:05It had all sorts of different volumes.
04:06Wow.
04:07And I came across Mae West.
04:08I remember saying to my mother, I was young.
04:09I must've been like seven, eight going like, what is that?
04:14And how do I be that?
04:16And I think it's the fantasy of realizing you don't really fit in, in the place that
04:21you're in.
04:22So we go into our own minds to protect ourselves, but also to disassociate.
04:28Yeah.
04:28100%.
04:29With reality.
04:30And drag is how you did it.
04:32Drag is certainly how I found a safe space to be different.
04:36I think that's why it's so special to me.
04:38So I can understand what it means to you and why your reference points are so fabulous
04:43and creative.
04:45Did you feel the love and did you feel how quickly you were like to the top?
04:50And when you did, did you think you had a target on your back at all?
04:54Oh, I mean, um, yes to both.
04:58Okay, okay.
04:58There was, um, there's a particular moment in one of the design challenges, the second
05:02design challenge where-
05:04Because you are good.
05:06I love to sew.
05:07I love to make stuff.
05:08Yes.
05:08And I did that kind of air-tay on acid like thing.
05:14And Rue specifically, it was like, you're doing mame, you're doing this air-tay thing.
05:19Yes.
05:19Like I know exactly what you're doing.
05:20It was so sincere too.
05:22Like it felt like Rue was very like, cause she said, she was like, I get it.
05:26She wouldn't say it.
05:27I don't, I don't think if nobody else gets it, like I get what's going on.
05:30Yeah.
05:30You know, that's like what you dream about happening.
05:32I don't know if it was a target on my back from the other girls.
05:35I think I felt a bit, um, isolated from folks at certain, at a certain points because I felt
05:41like, like nobody wants to hear the girl who's doing really well, like cry.
05:46You know what I mean?
05:46No one wants, you know what I mean?
05:47Like it was a little harder when I was having tough days.
05:49I kind of was like, well, I can't go complain to the girl, the bitch who was just in the
05:54bottom.
05:55Like, oh, it was a tough week for me.
05:57I was in the top for the sixth week in a row.
06:00Oh, you know, like they did say one mean thing.
06:03Right.
06:04And it was really, it was really putting me through it.
06:07Now, I know you won a lot.
06:09I did.
06:09So it might be difficult for you to answer this, but tell me why the Rusical was your favorite challenge.
06:15Well, it's one of those challenges that you always, you know is coming.
06:18It's my favorite challenge.
06:19You know, those are the ones you want to win.
06:20It's like the snatch games and the Rusicals.
06:22It's like, those are the ones that you're like, you want to do well.
06:24But for me also personally, it was sort of, um, a full circle thing because I went to school for
06:30music and theater.
06:31And I had flushed out of it because I was doing professional auditions.
06:35And I was like, this is so bad.
06:36Oh, they're the worst.
06:37Auditions are the worst.
06:38Horrible.
06:39I'm still doing it too, kid.
06:40And you're so brave.
06:42I am brave.
06:43They suck.
06:44And some people are just really bad auditioners.
06:47And I'm not a good auditioner.
06:49I'm not a great auditioner.
06:50I'm not wonderful.
06:51And I get in my head.
06:52And then there's, and then the other side of the point is the girls that are like incredible
06:56auditioners.
06:56And you're like, you dude.
06:58Like, how do you keep booking stuff?
07:00Agreed.
07:00But excuse me, you have a win as Miss Shenanigans.
07:03That's true.
07:04So, take that girls.
07:06Maybe we can book.
07:06Yeah.
07:08And that role specifically is like, that's what I used to do.
07:12That was kind of my specialty in like theater.
07:14Comic relief.
07:15Comic relief.
07:15I was Francis Flew in Midsummer Night's Dream.
07:18And be a good mother in Bye Bye Birdie.
07:20Exactly.
07:20Like, love a role where I get to come in the last half hour of the show and be the
07:25funniest
07:25part and upstage everyone.
07:28Yes, that's a gift.
07:29Like, sit in the dressing room for most of the show with my feet up.
07:31So, I loved it.
07:32Let's talk about some of these fashions.
07:34Let's do it.
07:35Now, the first one, that was a quick one.
07:36Yes.
07:37Well, that's kind of why I brought it.
07:38Because I was like, we didn't really get to talk.
07:40The talent show runways, both of them were like runways that I loved.
07:44And then when we did the runway, I was like, oh, we don't get to talk to the judges about
07:48it.
07:48But I love this.
07:49Did you make it?
07:49I did it.
07:50My friend Jasmine Dash from New York made it, who's amazing.
07:53The first thing on the mood board was like a Galliana for Dior look.
07:57Where the model's wearing this big blue brocade coat.
08:01And then she has these huge sleeves with these petals of organza and the different colors like
08:05popping out.
08:05And I was like, I've always been obsessed with it.
08:07Yeah.
08:07So, we wanted to kind of do the same effect for the shake, shake, shake.
08:11And then it kind of morphed into like this musketeer thing.
08:14Right.
08:14Because you know, I mean again.
08:15We love a pirate ship.
08:16You know, my brain kind of starts going.
08:19We venture left.
08:20You know.
08:20I'm in Seattle.
08:21Everyone's depressed.
08:22The weather's doing weird with my mind.
08:24Seasonal depression.
08:25You know, I just start kind of going.
08:27And then this middle one was my swept away look.
08:30And this one is made by an LA local Pixie Dot.
08:34Oh wow.
08:35Okay.
08:35Yes.
08:35Who is a drag queen here.
08:36And this one, I do have to give her a shout out because this fringe, a lot of it,
08:40we didn't buy individual strands of sequin.
08:43She had to go to the garment district and get that fabric.
08:46It was the flat sequin fabric and then cut up.
08:50And so there was days, days worth of work going into this.
08:53And each of the arms weighs like 20 pounds.
08:54You can see the work that was put into it.
08:57This is the mouth.
08:58My favorite body part, which is like partially the Carol Burnett, Bob Mackie reference.
09:03Being referential in drag is great.
09:06And then there's copying.
09:07But then there's just straight up like you just made the thing.
09:09And so I wanted to take this in a little bit different direction.
09:12You know, I think I am a little Bob Mackie and theatrical, but I also have this kind
09:17of like rock and roll.
09:21Woo.
09:22Look out, Seattle.
09:23Heyo.
09:24And so I was like, I want to do the Carol Burnett, but kind of in like a punk fun
09:29way.
09:29And weirdly, this ended up being the runway for the girl group challenge when I was in
09:33the punk group.
09:34Yep.
09:34So it all kind of like, it was like kismet.
09:36Yeah.
09:36Yeah.
09:37Well, your whole journey has been kismet.
09:39And you are a remarkable queen.
09:42And I'm so glad I got a chance to experience Jane Doe.
09:46Honestly, it's been so fun watching you and seeing you.
09:49You are a force.
09:50You get out there.
09:51You do your thing.
09:51You know just what you want to do.
09:53I love your reference points.
09:55I get them all.
09:56And I think you're super smart.
09:57And I love that in a queen.
09:59Send my love to Irene and Bosco and all the Seattle queens that are working their tushes
10:05off.
10:05I will.
10:06Thank you for everything.
10:07Such a good time.
10:07Of course.
10:07Thank you for your gift.
10:09You keep going out there and kicking ass.
10:11I'm excited for you.
10:11Yes.
10:13Salute.
10:14And thank you all for joining me for another episode of Whatcha Packin'.
10:17I'll see you next time kids.
10:20Be safe.
10:20I see the sun shining bright.
10:23Ain't a cloud in the sky.
10:26I mean can you be rock and roll if you call yourself rock and roll?
10:28I feel like that's...
10:29No.
10:29If you're gay.
10:31Yeah.
10:31Totally.
10:32I mean I'm dressed like Keith Richards so you know what it is.
10:34You know what it is.
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