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00:00:06So I think my goal as a drag queen is to be known as an artist and not just a
00:00:16female
00:00:16impersonator and really change people's minds about what it means to be a man who dresses
00:00:24that make a woman. I mean like not many 23 year old boys make such a good 40 year old
00:00:32woman.
00:00:55The first time I ever did drag I just used my mom's foundation and then put a bunch of
00:01:05green eye shadow on my eyes and black eyeliner and did my eyebrows black and then put some
00:01:12lipstick on and I wore this really really cheap fake looking plasticky blonde wig and
00:01:21my mom's bustier which was about three sizes too big for me so I had to safety pin it just
00:01:29so that it would stay up on my body and I went to a Halloween party as Hedwig and my
00:01:42mom didn't
00:01:43know about it because my mom had always told me that she was completely fine with me being
00:01:47gay but she thought that being a drag queen would be just pushing it and I think she
00:01:53knew that I always kind of had that brewing inside of me that I wanted to be able to dress
00:02:03up like a woman every once in a while.
00:02:07Well the very first sign was when I found my lingerie in his bedroom that was a pretty big hint.
00:02:15He went through a stage where he'd wear my headbands and my sister's headbands around his waist with
00:02:20long t-shirts and he did that for quite a while.
00:02:24He didn't play with cars and trucks and G.I. Joe's he played with dolls and wore capes and not
00:02:30capes
00:02:30because of superhero capes but capes more like look I'm wearing a dress cape.
00:02:36I just wanted him to feel comfortable with who he was I never wanted anyone to make him feel like
00:02:41he
00:02:41wasn't allowed to be who he wanted to be.
00:02:45The very first sign she could have had was the fact that I learned every word to the movie
00:02:50death becomes her.
00:02:52Something about their heightened femininity and that and their desire to be young and beautiful forever
00:02:59I think it appeals to people with the drag bone inside of them.
00:03:03Broken down, flaccid, boozy undertaker.
00:03:07Flaccid, flaccid, flaccid.
00:03:10I love to talk like Meryl Streep whenever I get a chance.
00:03:14As soon as he watched one movie he would know all the lines and be the people almost their character
00:03:20and he loved Death Becomes Her.
00:03:22I don't know how many times I rented that movie for him and it went on for years.
00:03:27I'm a girl.
00:03:29My ass.
00:03:32Ernest, I can see my ass.
00:03:37I just and another thing I didn't know I wasn't supposed to say is at seven years old.
00:03:42My mother really had no business showing me that movie.
00:03:46Get it, Paul.
00:03:47Come on.
00:03:48Get your time.
00:03:50Get your time.
00:03:53Growing up Jeric was always interested in being the female characters.
00:03:57He'd often tell me oh it's because they have better powers or I like their costume better
00:04:02and I always knew it was just him expressing himself.
00:04:06Even playing like Ninja Turtles, the little figurines, he would want to be the little side character,
00:04:12not even one of the main characters as long as he could play the girl.
00:04:17Other things as a kid was like Jessica Rabbit and Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Catwoman was another one.
00:04:26There are a lot of really hyper feminine villains in American culture.
00:04:34I wasn't really raised by a lot of men.
00:04:38I was raised kind of like by a tribe of women.
00:04:41I grew up in a generation where a lot of us were being raised by single moms.
00:04:47It's depicted in television, like strong female mother characters.
00:04:54That's just something that's always resonated with me.
00:05:00I think drag is an art form the same way like Comedia dell'arte, clowns are an art form.
00:05:10You create a character and kind of have to think with both brains.
00:05:15You have to step into this consciousness of a fictional person and make on the spot decisions and actions and
00:05:25behave this way,
00:05:28you know, the way of this person you invented basically.
00:05:33It's not just a form of self-expression, but it's a forum for kind of discussing topics
00:05:42and bringing certain things to the foreground that you want people to start talking about.
00:05:49I can call out all kinds of bullshit as jinx that I would never even really talk about as myself.
00:05:58I think the first time Derek ever went out in full drag was at SMIRC,
00:06:03which is the Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center.
00:06:06There were a lot of days where we were all just kind of hanging out like around in the main
00:06:11area
00:06:11where there were some couches and a stage and like a CD player and stuff.
00:06:15He put on a CD and he was just like dancing around the rec center, like trying to get people
00:06:21to dance with him,
00:06:22but nobody would.
00:06:23I was sitting on the couch and he just like asked me if I wanted to like dance around with
00:06:29him.
00:06:29And I said no, but he decided I was going to.
00:06:31So he just like grabbed my arms and pulled me up off the couch and made me dance with him.
00:06:36Um, I guess after that we were friends.
00:06:39Yeah, that's, that's how I met Derek.
00:06:47SMIRC would host monthly drag nights and I think it was the second Friday of every month.
00:06:51And then we would have open mic night the last Friday of every month.
00:06:54And this has been a long standing tradition.
00:06:56We had a giant costume closet behind the stage that they would spend hours in.
00:07:02I mean, Jinx would be in there for hours.
00:07:04Doors would open at four and all the queens would go running to the costume closet.
00:07:08And then you wouldn't see them until the show started at eight.
00:07:10And I think Jinx was probably 15 or 16 when he did his first performance at Smirk.
00:07:16Smirk is the shit.
00:07:20Jinxalicious definition make the gay boys horny.
00:07:24Everybody loves me cause I'm cheesy and I'm corny.
00:07:27You can see me, you can tease me.
00:07:29If you pay me, you can squeeze me.
00:07:31It don't take a lot to please me cause you know this bitch is easy.
00:07:34Jinxalicious.
00:07:36Jinxalicious.
00:07:37Jinxalicious.
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00:08:00Jinxalicious.
00:08:02Jinxalicious.
00:08:05fun to do the exact opposite of what she told me to do as it was to do exactly what
00:08:10she told me to
00:08:10do. I kept it all secret from mom by hiding it all here yeah and she would just think I
00:08:17was
00:08:17spending the weekend at Nana's and Nana knew I was going to the nightclub and drag and everything
00:08:22because so did I yeah no I know you did too but like um Nana I would if she was
00:08:28home I would
00:08:29always go have my last looks with her like have her give me a look over your makeup yeah over
00:08:35the
00:08:35makeup and the hair I don't remember this one time I was like well I think this hair looks good
00:08:42because
00:08:42I'm doing a country number tonight and this hair is kind of country and she said something like
00:08:47no no no no Jared country singers have their hair very neat and nice and quaffed and that that does
00:08:54not look very good and she let me borrow her big gaudy rings and stuff yeah she did have gaudy
00:09:01rings that's for sure and and I always see I always see everybody out on the front porch
00:09:09drinking iced tea because of Nana's iced tea moments
00:09:18when I was 10 years old it was early September and I was extremely excited for Jarek's coming
00:09:25I knew he was going to be a little boy and he was already mine and I had decided that
00:09:32I was part of
00:09:32the pregnancy and on the day he was born I started having cramps in my stomach and screaming out my
00:09:39baby's coming my baby's coming and everybody thought I was crazy and then the phone rang and
00:09:44I was called downstairs because my sister was there ready to go to the hospital
00:09:51sorry I always wanted to be um a mom always from the time I was little and at one time
00:09:57I was told that
00:09:58I might not be able to have children so I thought about becoming a nun which makes everybody laugh um
00:10:04but
00:10:05I was pretty serious about it at the time and so when I got pregnant with Jarek I was like
00:10:10so excited
00:10:11and um just so I couldn't wait to see him and they put him in my arms and I'm looking
00:10:18at him I'm like
00:10:19oh little baby and so excited and he looked up at me and he looked so disappointed like oh god
00:10:25you're my
00:10:25mom really I'm stuck with you again and I think I've always had that feeling that he's always been
00:10:31so much brighter than me or so much more advanced he's just like an old soul
00:10:38I was 17 and his mother was I think 22 23 it wasn't planned
00:10:44I was actually in a group home
00:10:51his mom was in pregnancy for I don't know how many hours so long she started in the early afternoon
00:10:59and then we were in the early morning when he actually came
00:11:04but the doctors looked at my mom and I standing to the side and said
00:11:09this may be a choice between the mother and the baby who do you want us to save
00:11:14and my mom said the mother and I said the baby
00:11:19because I had already committed to him being mine so I wasn't going to let him go
00:11:24it's good isn't it grand isn't it great isn't it swell thank you isn't it fun isn't it nowadays
00:11:39there's cocaine on this you can like the life you're living and you see there's a little boy in my
00:11:46throat
00:11:46you can live the life you like you can if one marry hurry but mess around with Ike oh wait
00:11:57you can't see that on camera
00:11:58I poked his dick and that's good isn't it grand isn't it great isn't it swell isn't it
00:12:08Jarek and I met our first week at Cornish College of the Arts and became fast friends
00:12:16he seemed pretty shy and reserved and quiet at first and so I went up to him and we started
00:12:25talking
00:12:26and then I realized what a weirdo crazy person he was and we became super fast friends
00:12:35I first met Jarek when he was a freshman at Cornish I remember him because he was kind of a
00:12:41shy gay boy
00:12:43with dyed hair and he stood out he had been performing drag for a while at that point which is
00:12:51unusual at that age
00:12:56Jarek started taking the fundamentals of what we were learning at Cornish
00:13:01and applying it to his drag and creating new characters and these fully rounded female presences
00:13:11I don't think I introduced him to anyone yet because he was like 18 years old and I wanted to
00:13:17keep my job
00:13:18so I wasn't going to be like farming him out to bars and burlesque shows
00:13:23but I could recognize his talent
00:13:26seeing how he's taken his acting training towards Jinx and made her this wild creature you see before you
00:13:59I was able to find Sylvia Oste for more who does a monthly
00:14:05theme show bacon strip and this is where I developed I think the most of my Jinx persona
00:14:12and kind of honed in on the different things that really excite me with drag
00:14:32and it really challenged me to think of material that is relevant to me and stuff within my wheelhouse
00:14:39but accessible to a wide audience
00:14:46excuse me if you're sitting in front of me apologize
00:14:49I was going to do one of these
00:14:56I spent a year doing every one of her shows
00:14:59I didn't miss one for 12 months straight
00:15:02I don't want to show off no more
00:15:10I don't want to sing tunes no more
00:15:14This really is the best costume to wear for the day, you understand?
00:15:19That was some of the most creative time for me because I was able to think
00:15:28what does Jinx do with Studio 54 thing
00:15:31and how does Jinx tackle the question of like doing a John Waters tribute night
00:15:37and it has such a cult following that it kind of built up my notoriety in Seattle
00:15:44Bacon Strip is built as a show that is not like all the other regular drag shows
00:15:50the rule is they cannot do normal things that you would see at another drag show
00:16:17And it wasn't completely polished but that was the fun part about it
00:16:22I was kind of amazed because she had said that she had gone back home to Portland
00:16:25and tried it for a while and they just didn't really embrace her as well
00:16:28and I said, well, I'm ready to embrace you as long as you want to stay
00:16:32and I figured I'd probably give her about a year until she took off
00:16:58And so she won the first Miss Bacon Strip title and she wore the crown with pride
00:17:05I think she actually even ate the, um, because we make a big bouquet of roses out of bacon
00:17:11and I think she got in a drunken mood and might have even eaten one
00:17:15Um, which we don't recommend because they're not completely cooked through
00:17:19But, uh, I believe she did. I think she ate one
00:17:25We kind of ushered her into the drag scene with our crazy show
00:17:28and then she went mainstream with the regular show on the weekend
00:17:31so she could actually make money, so, it was great
00:17:46From the moment I started drag, I was in drag every weekend
00:17:49from, like, age 16 to 19
00:17:57Julia's LaFoe, the number one celebrity impersonation show in the Northwest
00:18:02they approached me to be their host of their show
00:18:05and that is when my drag kicked up a notch, you know
00:18:11I went from just being the kooky, obscure cabaret queen
00:18:14to trying to be a bit more of a showgirl
00:18:18Jarek is ridiculously talented
00:18:20and myself and a couple other entertainers
00:18:23got the director of our show to pay attention
00:18:29and unbeknownst to me, he offered her my job
00:18:35This is working in Seattle
00:18:41When I gave her my blessing, I told her, I said, you know
00:18:43I know you didn't come in here doing this on purpose
00:18:45You didn't come in here to take anything from me
00:18:48So, I'm not, I'm not angry, I can't be angry
00:18:51But, let me give you some advice so that you can go into this situation
00:18:55educated and with ammunition
00:18:57because, remember, you have what they want
00:19:02I spent a year working with showgirls and glamour queens
00:19:05and seeing what goes into being glamorous, you know
00:19:09and I started to kind of understand it better
00:19:11because before all I liked to do was wear a simple black cocktail dress
00:19:15tease my hair into a bun, a little black eyeliner and call it good
00:19:19This is how you stay thin in Seattle
00:19:21You don't take cabs
00:19:23You just walk everywhere in stilettos
00:19:26Like calisthenics for the day
00:19:31Me and my friend used to do, like, street performance for tips
00:19:36You know, like we would go to farmer's markets and perform for shekels on the street
00:19:42as, um, wind-up doll mimes
00:19:45and we met Nick that night
00:19:47Somehow Nick and I just started, like, talking and we became friends
00:19:51and we found out we had identical senses of humor
00:19:57He started visiting me down in Portland on my summer breaks and stuff
00:20:00He came up with this idea for us to film, like, a day in the life of the Monsoon family
00:20:06and that became our little web series
00:20:09This is how you're making your money?
00:20:12Hey, bag!
00:20:16I don't have time to punish you right now
00:20:20So just give me a fix
00:20:22How much do you charge?
00:20:24Well, we have sacks of gonge for $20, bags of blow for $40
00:20:27and for $10, you get to pick one item out of the mystery bag
00:20:32Will it be a crock crock?
00:20:33Will it be a poisonous scorpion?
00:20:35The answer is yours to discover!
00:20:36Oh, shut up!
00:20:37Ow!
00:20:38I got pricked with something!
00:20:40That'll be $10
00:20:41Oh, right, buster
00:20:42That's enough funny business
00:20:44Come on, we're going home
00:20:45But, Mama, I'm finally being self-sufficient and industrious
00:20:48Why can't you just let me be me?
00:20:51It's about a mother and son who live together and try to become rich every episode
00:20:56But they're socially inept and they're both intoxicated all the time
00:21:05And that's all there is to the show
00:21:06It's, like, kind of stupid, actually
00:21:11It's this really, like, rich, full-on, like, multi-dimensional tapestry of interpersonal relationship
00:21:21boiled down to the fact that I'm a drag queen, he's a gay boy, and we somehow work together as
00:21:28mother and son
00:21:31If you could, like, say, two gay men about the same age
00:21:37If you could, like, find a relationship between those two people
00:21:43We've had every form of relationship that two gay men at about the same age could have
00:21:50We've been best friends, we've been lovers, we've been, like, collaborators, we've been artistic
00:21:57Like, we've feuded, we've fought, we've loved, we've fucked, we've done everything
00:22:04And because of that, there's nothing, there's nothing, like, on, there's nothing off-limits between Nick and I
00:22:14Of all the relationships he and I have had in our history together, co-comedian seems like the most apropos
00:22:25between one another
00:22:29I've learned from Jarek that there's always gonna be a million people who think that what you're doing isn't the
00:22:36right thing to do
00:22:37or is silly, or isn't gonna go anywhere, but if you work hard enough, you can get there, and I
00:22:44think that's what Jarek showed to me
00:22:46I don't think I really understood what my drag persona was and who I wanted it to be until I
00:22:54came to Seattle
00:22:55There was something going on in Seattle that wasn't going on in Portland
00:22:58Where drag queens were being incorporated into other areas of performance that wasn't just drag
00:23:12NARC Magazine started when I moved to Seattle out of an appreciation for all the characters here
00:23:18People that were doing a lot of crazy, fierce, amazing things that nobody was really looking at or documenting
00:23:22Spiraled into doing a lot of parties, events, concerts, drag, everything
00:23:37What I really like about Seattle's specific aesthetic is the fact that we put the performance above everything else
00:23:45Like, we kind of will overlook, like, kind of a, you know, a weird-looking drag queen
00:23:52We won't really focus in on how they're unfashionable or how their aesthetic is gaudier, tackier, anything like that
00:24:01People look past, you know, just the visual of the drag and look into what they're actually doing
00:24:19Attention all glamazons
00:24:21Casting for RuPaul's Drag Race is on
00:24:25I'm looking for America's next drag superstar
00:24:28Hello RuPaul, welcome to sunny Seattle, Washington
00:24:33My name is Jarek Hoffer
00:24:36And I'm also known as Jinx Monsoon
00:24:40Seattle's hardest working single mother
00:24:43I started doing drag when I was 15 years old
00:24:45At an all-ages gay nightclub
00:24:48So this is the extremely glamorous life of a drag queen
00:24:58Hello, my name is Jinx Monsoon and welcome to my underwear
00:25:05I was one of the hottest vaudeville singers in the 1920s, it's true
00:25:12I'm just a broad white baby
00:25:17You look absolutely terrific, honestly
00:25:20He's got sort of a light blue on
00:25:22Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono, so we had quite a fight
00:25:26I don't think that I'm the competitive type
00:25:28I like to compete with people, not against them
00:25:32Um, and when it comes to working with other drag queens
00:25:35I always try to treat other queens like my sister
00:25:39Until they give me a reason not to
00:25:42You know, RuPaul, you've been around the block a few hundred times, I'm sure
00:25:53Are you stalking me?
00:25:55I knew he was going to be famous
00:25:58Or, I just knew something about him
00:26:00And I thought it was going to be football
00:26:02So I gave him a really cool football name
00:26:04Derrick Roman Lamar Hoffer
00:26:06And I thought it would be really cool, J.R. Lamar
00:26:08Sounded like so football
00:26:10But as he started growing, I knew that wasn't going to happen
00:26:19I don't think I was ready to come out until I saw the movie
00:26:23Hedwig and the Angry Inch
00:26:25And it's lucky that I saw it right before my mom outed me
00:26:28Because I wasn't ready to be out before I saw that movie
00:26:33The material, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, has always been really personal to me
00:26:38It was my senior thesis performance at Cornish
00:26:42And so when Balogun approached me about it, I said yes immediately
00:26:47I didn't know though that I would be doing it
00:26:51While I was secretly waiting for the announcement to be made that I was on RuPaul's Drag Race
00:26:57Oh, now I do feel like Meryl Streep
00:27:00Now I am like Meryl Streep
00:27:02Look at this
00:27:03Wrinkled, wrinkled little star
00:27:06Hope they never see the scars
00:27:10And then right before Hedwig opened, the announcement was made that I was going to be on Season 5 of
00:27:15Drag Race
00:27:16And I was the first Seattle queen, first Northwest queen ever to go on
00:27:20And it was really interesting performing like, for me, the ultimate show in my repertoire
00:27:30Like, while I was also being exposed nationally on Drag Race, you know
00:27:36He must have been 15 or 16 years old
00:27:41And she called me
00:27:44And she told me that Jarek had come out to her
00:27:49What are we going to do?
00:27:51And I just thought for a second
00:27:54Well, are you going to stop loving him?
00:27:57And she was like, no
00:27:59And I was like, well you're not going to do anything
00:28:03Because he's the same person he was
00:28:06Nothing's changed
00:28:09So, there's just a realization now that he's come out and he's telling you who he is
00:28:16Which is still the same person he was before he told you
00:28:25When I talk to my dad, I feel like we just talk about the default type guy stuff
00:28:31You know, we talk about cars and work and it never gets very deep
00:28:37My relationship with Jarek is very much the same
00:28:42We don't talk much and I don't see him often
00:28:46And when we do
00:28:49The last time I saw him, I think
00:28:53The conversation is very, I don't know, it's awkward
00:28:58It's strained, it's
00:29:02It's not, it's not organic
00:29:08I wasn't there a whole lot, so
00:29:12Probably wasn't the best father
00:29:22Jarek and Jeremy were my father growing up basically
00:29:25Because I, my father wasn't really around my entire childhood
00:29:29And so, Jarek was definitely always taking care of me when my mom wasn't
00:29:33And there were times when it was mostly Jarek
00:29:36And our Nana and our Aunt Mimi definitely played a big part in my parental field
00:29:41But Jarek was always around as a father figure and big brother
00:29:46When I was a little gay boy, I always felt like I wasn't as cute as my friends
00:29:52But when I started doing drag, I felt like I don't have to be as cute as my friends
00:29:56Because I'm gorgeous as a woman
00:30:08I can't face it, I can't face it
00:30:15I just feel like people should be able to express themselves in their day-to-day life free of fear
00:30:24What's better than one gold purse? Two gold purse
00:30:29Gucci
00:30:31Gucci
00:30:35I went down to the river to watch the fish swim by
00:30:43But when I got to the river, it's a lonesome thing I wanna do today
00:30:50Oh Lord
00:30:51And so I jumped in the river, but the river was all dry
00:30:59I got them lonesome
00:31:02I got them lonesome
00:31:04And I am lonesome
00:31:12I definitely feel like I have a second family here in Seattle
00:31:15And like I have a very strong relationship with my blood family in Portland
00:31:20But I feel like my chosen family in Seattle is like, you know, comparably as strong
00:31:26And we're very tight-knit and close to one another
00:31:31And it consists, you know, primarily of some of my best friends from college
00:31:37And some of my best friends from childhood
00:31:40And then, you know, fellow performers
00:31:44Kitty kitty in the club
00:31:46Then she's the waist gold chain not moving like a thug
00:31:48It feels cliche to say like, we're all very eccentric, zany people, you know, but, um
00:31:53I don't know, I think you could make a sitcom about us
00:31:58The mace's hair in this round is coming from the DJ booth
00:32:01This remix in and came in this gonna...
00:32:06Jinx
00:32:06Are you gonna add that hair into that hair?
00:32:09Yeah
00:32:09My grandma got me this wig when I was like 17
00:32:13So your grandma was buying you wigs, girl?
00:32:15My mom wasn't really into it
00:32:17Uh-huh
00:32:18But my grandma and I would be getting me in drag
00:32:20And then I'd go out to the club
00:32:22She'd let me be who I wanted to be, you know
00:32:24When Jarek was on RuPaul, my friends and I, every week
00:32:27We would get together at my house and watch it, um, on TV
00:32:31We'd have like potluck dinners
00:32:33And, um, from the beginning they would show this one clip of Jarek saying
00:32:38I feel so guilty and crying
00:32:40And we were all like, God, what is that about?
00:32:42What, you know, um
00:32:44And, but it was kind of neat when we see that
00:32:46We knew he was going further because that episode hadn't aired yet
00:32:50So it was like, oh my gosh, they keep showing that clip
00:32:52So we know he's getting further in the show because it didn't come up
00:32:55And we all, then my friends would ask me, what is he so guilty about?
00:32:58I'm like, I don't know
00:32:59And I would try to call him and ask him, you know, what is that all about?
00:33:03What were you feeling so bad about?
00:33:04And then when that episode happened, um, it was horrible
00:33:09Because I was sitting there with my friends and it got all quiet
00:33:12And everybody was staring at me like, oh my gosh
00:33:15My mom became an alcoholic when I was about 12
00:33:18Right after my youngest brother was born
00:33:20I'm the oldest
00:33:21And when she would be out every night doing her thing
00:33:25I was the one being the parent
00:33:26As soon as I became independent from my mother, my, my life improved tenfold
00:33:32But I continually regret and like second guess
00:33:38The fact that I left my youngest brother with a, with a woman who wasn't ready to be a mom
00:33:43It just kind of took me by surprise
00:33:46And it made me feel bad because I never knew that he felt that way
00:33:50And I worry about him all the time because if I had it my way, he would have come with
00:33:56me
00:33:56And sometimes when I'm like, doing shit like this, I feel so selfish
00:34:00Don't, jeez
00:34:01To have left my youngest brother
00:34:04Don't, not at all
00:34:05It feels like right now, like I've abandoned him
00:34:07You haven't
00:34:08Your parents are the people who are supposed to protect you
00:34:11And sometimes they're the people putting you in most jeopardy
00:34:14I thought I was doing a good job
00:34:16And I know there was difficult times
00:34:18But I had no idea that I had affected him so deeply
00:34:20The second that it aired, my mom and I were on the phone with each other
00:34:25I guess I was being so selfish at the time, not even realizing what I was doing
00:34:30Or how it was affecting him
00:34:32I thought when I was drinking, we were all laughing and dancing and having fun
00:34:36So in my perspective, we were all enjoying it
00:34:41And it was sad to find out that it was, it was hurtful for him
00:34:45We had a really good conversation that night
00:34:47And she, she kind of just said that she understood that it's just a part of my story with my
00:34:53life
00:34:55And, um, that sharing it was just a, you know, it was just a given
00:35:01And she didn't, um, hold any ill will towards me about it
00:35:05And that was all I really needed to hear
00:35:09When it did air, it kind of brought things forward
00:35:12Where I had to accept how I had made him feel
00:35:15I've just been so nervous about this episode airing
00:35:18Because I don't want it to seem like I hate my mom
00:35:21My mom was, I mean like my mom has been a wonderful friend to me for the last couple of
00:35:27years
00:35:27We went through a rough patch, but I really love her
00:35:30And there's ways, there's ways to get over trauma and live your life no matter what, ladies and gentlemen
00:35:42You know, I did it all by myself for so many years
00:35:46With very little, with very little outside help, very little coaching, very little, you know
00:35:52I did everything myself
00:35:54And let's face it, you can't be good at everything
00:35:57You know, you can be really, really intelligent and really talented and stuff
00:36:03But you're never going to be good at every single aspect of something
00:36:06And I said, maybe it's time to start asking for a little bit of help with certain things
00:36:13I have someone who helps me with wigs and someone who helps me with styling and costumes
00:36:19And I feel a little bit more equipped to do, to meet the demands of being a nationally known drag
00:36:28queen
00:36:31The most valuable player in Monsoon Enterprises right now is
00:36:37Kenneth Lee, my best friend and assistant
00:36:44He's the only person right now who I think knows
00:36:48What goes into becoming Jinx Monsoon almost as well as I do
00:36:54Now that I have these giant nails
00:36:58It's really hard to put my lashes on myself
00:37:03So Kenny is now hands-on assisting me
00:37:08Kenny pretty much immediately told me he wanted to travel with me and be my assistant
00:37:13My first instinct was, I said no, and that we shouldn't do that
00:37:18Because I was worried it was going to affect our friendship
00:37:24We call each other platonic soulmates
00:37:27Like we're kind of the yin and yang to each other
00:37:31But we're not in a romantic relationship, we're just best friends
00:37:34Well now we kind of say we're more like brothers
00:37:38I was worried it was going to make a lot of tension arise between us
00:37:43And it has
00:37:46So we have times where we get really sick of each other
00:37:49Because we pretty much are together every day
00:37:54And so it kind of makes us tense at times
00:37:57And sometimes we bicker needlessly
00:38:01That's the pros and cons to like having someone who you feel like is family to you
00:38:08Work with you on something like this
00:38:09It's like you accept that you're going to get tense with each other
00:38:12But when things are working well
00:38:14They work so amazingly
00:38:16And it's so wonderful to have your best friend
00:38:18And have someone familiar with you when you're like traveling for seven months on end
00:38:23You know?
00:38:24Like if I didn't have him I probably would
00:38:28I don't know, I always say like I'd either go crazy or drink more
00:38:51I don't think much is going to be different if I lose
00:38:53I think the only difference between winning and losing for me right now is the title
00:38:59We have to get up and get on a plane to LA
00:39:02I get to play the drag queen
00:39:04And Nick gets to play the girl in the audience who watches
00:39:08He's going with us
00:39:11To the reunion filming
00:39:13And he's going to sit in the audience next to my mom and my youngest brother
00:39:19Good luck with that
00:39:20That would be fun
00:39:22He'll be drunk
00:39:23My mom's like
00:39:24Oh Nick is the kind of guy I would have gone for when I was your age
00:39:28Oh he's so cute
00:39:31He's so charming
00:39:32He's such a little rebel
00:39:35No she's just into little assholes
00:39:48I think of RuPaul's Drag Race like it changed every aspect of my life
00:39:55Like every single aspect of my life
00:39:57My boy life, my drag life
00:39:59If I lose I've already won so much that the only thing I'd be losing is the title
00:40:06But I wouldn't be losing myself
00:40:09So they're gonna film
00:40:11The winner
00:40:13But what they do to keep it a secret for even longer
00:40:16Is they take
00:40:18They film all three of the top three winning
00:40:21And then in the finale episode with the reunion
00:40:26They air just the winner
00:40:31So they film all three but they only air one
00:40:34And the one that gets aired is the winner
00:40:37So even the three of us don't know who wins until America knows who wins
00:40:43I don't even know who's in the top three
00:40:54Okay the cab's outside
00:40:57I think I auditioned saying
00:41:00Oh I just want to go into it for the experience
00:41:03And who cares what happens
00:41:05But now that I've gotten this close to it
00:41:10I realized just how exceptionally much I want this
00:41:18I think I've opened the right doors
00:41:21Through just getting as far as I got
00:41:25To do what I want to do for the rest of my life
00:41:34Okay so we just have three ground rules
00:41:37One which you've already all abided to
00:41:40Which is putting your cell phones in the bucket
00:41:42So that we don't want any spoiler alerts
00:41:45If you heard what happened on the East Coast
00:41:49Has anyone heard what happened on the East Coast?
00:41:52Perfect!
00:41:53Okay so we want to keep it
00:41:55We want to keep it as a surprise for all of us
00:41:59Number two
00:42:01Is if
00:42:03If you
00:42:04If you aren't caught up on the season
00:42:07Don't ask any questions
00:42:10Number three
00:42:12Number three is
00:42:13There will be absolutely zero talking during the show
00:42:18And we can have as much conversation as we want during commercial
00:42:21We can gasp, we can laugh, we can go
00:42:24You know you can do a really quick like
00:42:27Oh no she better don't
00:42:28But like that is it
00:42:30Keep it to that
00:42:31If Jinx wins we're all going to do a champagne toast
00:42:35Of course
00:42:37If Jinx loses we're all going to choose one piece of garbage
00:42:42From the garbage can and eat it
00:42:46So hope you're all on board
00:42:47I didn't put that in the Facebook invite
00:42:50But that's what you signed up for
00:42:53Absolutely no talking
00:42:55Wow
00:42:58So Jinxie, how are you feeling at this very moment?
00:43:02I feel like a more fully realized drag queen
00:43:05I feel like a more fully realized human being
00:43:08Well Jinxie you have continued to surprise and delight your fans
00:43:12Best of all I think you've even surprised yourself
00:43:17The time has come
00:43:20To crown our queen
00:43:23America's next drag superstar is
00:43:33Jinx Monsoon
00:43:57That moment, I'm getting goosebumps now
00:44:01When they announced I just, I started crying and we were screaming
00:44:05Through the neighborhood
00:44:06You know, it was just, it was an amazing moment
00:44:08Because I know how much it meant to him
00:44:10Now open your little mouth
00:44:26With both of my parents it was kind of like the best way to rebel was to be a good
00:44:31kid
00:44:32Like they were expecting me to follow in their footsteps and start drinking and smoke your weed and go to
00:44:38parties and doing all that kind of shit really early
00:44:41Because that's what they did
00:44:43But for me, I wasn't interested in anything like that because I wanted to rebel against my parents
00:44:49And I did that by being a straight A student and doing after school theater
00:44:54But when I was 22 was the first time that I smoked
00:44:58And it was with Kenny
00:45:01For a high-strung, like very self-conscious, very anal retentive and OCD Virgo like me
00:45:11The first time that I smoked, it was like, it was like this huge exhale where like everything that I'm
00:45:19constantly carrying around on my shoulders
00:45:24Just kind of wasn't there anymore
00:45:26Like it kind of opened up like the ability to make fun of myself
00:45:30In a way I never had dreamt of before
00:45:34And now I make a lot of fun of myself all the time
00:45:38I'll tell you this much, I wouldn't have known I was so good at doing little Edie impressions had I
00:45:43not started smoking
00:46:02In true
00:46:03Jinx monsoon fashion, they put the crown on my head and then I walked into something
00:46:07And I just slammed it into the speaker
00:46:10And then immediately after that they took the crown away from me and told me they'd ship it to me
00:46:16So this is my first time seeing it since New York
00:46:19He's always used humor in a way to calm people down or to mask how he's feeling
00:46:27And to turn things around to where he's not feeling so uptight and uses humor to
00:46:33I think sometimes hide some of the pain he might feel inside
00:46:38But he's always had, you know, this funny quirky side
00:46:42He's always been just so imaginative
00:46:49I want to say the Seattle drag scene is less superficial than other drag scenes I've seen
00:46:55But in saying that, that sounds a little pretentious
00:46:59But even that is kind of like part of the Seattle drag scene
00:47:04It's like, it's just the right amount of pretentious, you know
00:47:09I feel like people feel really free to do what they want to do with their specific style
00:47:15And you see that in the diversity of drag that you have in Seattle
00:47:19So we have all my favorites performing in the show tonight
00:47:21Starting with the hostess of the evening, my sister Binda LaGren
00:47:26Hello!
00:47:27This is the Shanghai Pearl
00:47:29My first exposure to burlesque
00:47:32Of course we have my preferred dressmaker
00:47:36And one of my favorite performers
00:47:37What?
00:47:39Co-cast members in the Daily Rue Presents shows that we do
00:47:42Jamie Von Stratton
00:47:44And then over here we have Shirdana, Lou, and Kitten LaRue
00:47:48And back there, there's the Luminous Pariah
00:47:50Here we have Fuchsia Fox
00:47:53Who's not only a talented burlesque performer
00:47:55But also a gorgeous ballet dancer
00:47:57Sydney Devereaux, who gave me and Richard our first spot in Seattle
00:48:03On the burlesque stage at the Pink Door
00:48:06So we go way back
00:48:07Of course, Richard Andreessen, my music partner
00:48:11A.K.A. Dr. Von Dandy, A.K.A. Major Scales
00:48:13This is Gabriela Sanchez-Somano
00:48:18And then of course we have Kitty Kitty Bang Bang
00:48:20Delivering Jessica Rabbit
00:48:22One of my childhood fantasy characters
00:48:26And then Jackson Brown's dicking around back there
00:48:28He normally does Cher and Kesha in our show
00:48:31Because those two people are so much alike
00:48:34I think she's ready now, ladies and gentlemen
00:48:37You can stand up when I'm done with this
00:48:39I want to say, I knew he was going to win
00:48:42I mean...
00:48:44He's my son
00:48:46Who else is going to win?
00:48:48If Jake's wants to
00:48:56I'm so sorry, I'm not going to wear this thing
00:48:59Because it's actually terribly unfundable
00:49:01But I wanted to show you guys
00:49:04Look, it's a crown!
00:49:09Well that's right, that's right
00:49:10I'm sad and blue
00:49:11Cause I can't do the boogaloo
00:49:14I'm lost, I'm lost, can't do my thing
00:49:16That's why I sing
00:49:17Gimme, gimme that damn
00:49:19What good's a metronome without a bell for ringing?
00:49:23How fast can anybody ever tell she's swinging?
00:49:27How can you tell the rhythm written on a bar?
00:49:30How can you ever hope to know just where you are?
00:49:34Gimme that!
00:49:35Gimme that!
00:49:35Gimme that!
00:49:36Gimme that!
00:49:38Gimme that!
00:49:39Gimme that!
00:49:40Gimme that!
00:49:41Gimme that!
00:49:41Gimme that!
00:50:00Richard and I met because basically we were two of the only three gay guys in our class
00:50:04and we both had really interesting hats that we wore every day
00:50:09and so we kind of hit on each other with our hats
00:50:11like I noticed you wearing your Duck Hunter hat
00:50:14while I'm wearing my, you know, Nippleese Sherpa hat
00:50:17like maybe we should get together and our hat should get a drink sometime
00:50:20you know, it was kind of like that, it was really dorky
00:50:23and then the first time we hung out just one on one
00:50:26we knew right away we didn't have any sexual or romantic chemistry
00:50:36At the end of our sophomore year we decided to move in together
00:50:39and once we lived together we started really seeing all the things we had in common
00:50:45and that's how we developed the vaudevillians
00:50:47because only the two of us thought it was funny for a long time
00:50:52we just found a way to make our sense of humor accessible to normal people
00:50:58Are you ready to talk stuff?
00:51:00I'd say so, let's hit it
00:51:01Meow
00:51:08I never thought that I'd get to tour the world and work on a show that I wrote myself
00:51:14and that I conceived in college and have been working on since then, you know
00:51:18so it's very exciting that like it now has a life of its own and there's potential for it to
00:51:25grow
00:51:25come on
00:51:26you know, you got it
00:51:44If it makes you feel good
00:52:03So this is Battle of the Seasons, Vancouver
00:52:06I really like doing these shows
00:52:08Because I really, really like
00:52:10Performing with the other drag race girls
00:52:18It's nice because it's like
00:52:20You've got a support team
00:52:22And you've got all these people who know
00:52:24What you've been through
00:52:25And know the experience
00:52:27And know what life is like now
00:52:28After you go on reality TV
00:52:33Especially with people like Willem
00:52:35And Pandora and Manila
00:52:37And Carmen
00:52:38These girls that I used to watch on TV
00:52:41And used to be so starstruck by
00:52:43And now I just got thrown into
00:52:49Their world
00:52:50And they were so accepting
00:52:51Like you really do feel like
00:52:52These girls are your sisters
00:52:53Because they understand what you're going through
00:52:56On the road
00:52:56And they know the pressures of it all
00:52:58And stuff
00:52:59So it was like surreal
00:53:01To go from watching these people on TV
00:53:03And being like
00:53:04Oh these are the coolest people ever
00:53:06To being their friend
00:53:08And then their colleague
00:53:09Like that
00:53:10And that's the interesting part of it
00:53:13It's fun
00:53:14But it's surreal sometimes
00:53:16When you realize
00:53:17People you used to watch on TV
00:53:19Are now your
00:53:20Your co-stars
00:53:21You know
00:53:31It's broken
00:53:32I guess so
00:53:35I know
00:53:37Can I see
00:53:38What dress it's in front
00:53:39I'm not trying to yell
00:53:51You know
00:53:51I had never
00:53:53Considered putting myself
00:53:54In that competitive
00:53:56Zone before
00:53:57Because I
00:53:58I had interest in
00:53:59You know
00:53:59Being the best that I can be
00:54:01But I didn't have interest in competing
00:54:02And it was when I did drag race
00:54:04I kind of like
00:54:06I realized that I don't have to change
00:54:08To be the best
00:54:09I just have to be the best at myself
00:54:11And Michelle
00:54:13Harsh as she may have been at times
00:54:15I still think back on the things she said to me
00:54:17Because from the beginning
00:54:18All she was wanting
00:54:19Was to see me do it 100%
00:54:22You know
00:54:22It's not about
00:54:23Change your look
00:54:24Change your look
00:54:25I don't want that
00:54:25I don't want you to change your look
00:54:27I don't
00:54:27I want the queen to be the best version of themselves
00:54:30That they can be
00:54:30And I can see when you're not
00:54:32Yeah
00:54:32I can see when you're stopping yourself
00:54:34That's what I was saying
00:54:53We're in Des Moines, Washington
00:54:55For the High Line Community College
00:54:58Sixth Annual Drag Show
00:55:00For the Unity Through Diversity Week
00:55:06Welcome
00:55:07To my community college tables
00:55:23I don't know what I'm going to do
00:55:26Like 90% of my material is gratuitous dick jokes
00:55:30What am I going to do
00:55:31With all these children here
00:55:34What's a PG-13
00:55:36What's a PG
00:55:38Oh my god
00:55:39That kid's like 4
00:55:41What's a G-rated way to say blowjob
00:55:44Should I just go
00:55:48When you're giving a man a
00:55:50I can't whistle well enough to do that
00:55:52When you're giving a man a
00:56:01When two people like each other a lot
00:56:04Occasionally they give each other kisses
00:56:06On their daddy rod
00:56:17There's literally babies screaming
00:56:25I'm going to have to tell Disney jokes
00:56:28I am so privileged to be emceeing the sixth annual High Line Drag Show
00:56:35And I'm going to start the evening out with a little number full of crass humor that doesn't offend children
00:57:06I don't really think any kids while I was growing up really reacted to it
00:57:13In a negative way
00:57:14I mean there were definitely some people who weren't accepting of it
00:57:18And there's still people who weren't accepting of gay people and all that
00:57:22But for the most part I just nobody ever really cared
00:57:26They just thought he was my older brother and that was it
00:57:31It was always kind of crazy but in like a good kind of I don't know
00:57:38It was always crazy at our house like it was never normal I think
00:57:44All three of us were really close and then when Jerick you know kind of moved to college
00:57:49And started doing his like own thing and started expanding his
00:57:55His options more and like what he was going to do with his life
00:57:58It was like kind of shitty because
00:58:02I was like so close with him you know and so like it was kind of like me losing like
00:58:06a best friend or like
00:58:08He's my brother but like he's like my best friend so
00:58:12But I don't want it to get so big and crazy that he completely forgets about Jerick
00:58:19And it's just jinx you know
00:58:20Because that's not good and yeah
00:58:24You know sometimes
00:58:27Sometimes when you put on a full face of makeup and a wig and everything
00:58:32It's funny because it's like I'm looking in the mirror
00:58:35And I just don't see Jerick anymore
00:58:37You know
00:58:37Like I know who I am
00:58:39And I know I'm just playing a character right now
00:58:42But sometimes even I look in the mirror and I'm like
00:58:45Who the hell is that woman looking back at me
00:58:47When you do your makeup right
00:58:49Even you can't recognize yourself
00:58:52Sometimes
00:58:53Like I don't even
00:58:54See that goofy little red-headed boy
00:58:56Right now
00:58:57I just see
00:58:58Jinx won soon
00:59:00But it's fun
00:59:01I don't know
00:59:04It's fun
00:59:14He woke up
00:59:15In the middle of the night crying
00:59:17And saying why didn't God make me a girl
00:59:20And so I kind of had an idea
00:59:22When he was
00:59:22I think he was about three years old
00:59:24And so we had a long talk about that
00:59:26And I said well if you feel like
00:59:29You should be a female
00:59:31You know
00:59:31They do perform operations nowadays
00:59:34And you know
00:59:35We can look into that for you
00:59:36But that means
00:59:39But that means losing your penis
00:59:42You know
00:59:42If you have the surgery
00:59:43And he's like
00:59:44Nobody's taking my penis away from me
00:59:46So then
00:59:46We never talked about it again
00:59:48He had pretty much decided
00:59:49He wanted to keep his penis
00:59:50But he liked dressing up
01:00:07I'm a girl
01:00:10Put the face in your
01:00:12And so
01:00:14Let your whole body talk
01:00:19Let's go in the door
01:00:52People don't ever tell you when a drag queen needs to go pee, it's going to take 20 minutes because
01:00:59we have to like, oh my God, we have to essentially take it all off, just pee for 20 seconds
01:01:07and then put it all back on.
01:01:37Oh my goodness.
01:01:38I'm going to put the hips in place and then I can, no, don't capture this, Alex, thank you.
01:01:45Oh, fifth pair.
01:01:51Here, keeps the hip pads in place, but doesn't unleash everything.
01:01:59You're taking the stream.
01:02:01I will not let you air the stream, Alex Berry.
01:02:07The point is, every time a drag queen gets the pee in the middle of the night, a fairy gets
01:02:18its wings.
01:02:18Please, you're such a bastard.
01:02:31Okay, I think that's it.
01:02:33I went pee like a normal person would, but I had to hide it from the rest of the world
01:02:39because it would spoil their idea of the whole goddess illusion.
01:02:51I don't want to spoil that idea.
01:02:56I want people to believe in miracles.
01:02:58I want people to believe in fairy godmothers and drag queens and wishes and witches and all that stuff.
01:03:07But I'm just a man.
01:03:08I'm just a man dressed as a woman.
01:03:10And you have to readjust all the undergarments.
01:03:14I guess if you've got backrolls, people will read you for it.
01:03:21You'll show up in some photo blog the next day.
01:03:27Backrolls.
01:03:29Backrolls.
01:03:30Yes, Miss Hunty, she had backrolls.
01:03:33Ooh, America's Next Drag Superstar had backrolls.
01:03:40But, no, not on tonight, Miss Alyssa.
01:03:46Not on tonight.
01:03:52I got this.
01:03:53I got this.
01:03:54Look at me.
01:03:55I don't got it.
01:03:56I don't got it.
01:03:58No, it's okay.
01:03:59You just need to bunch it up like this.
01:04:00I'll show you.
01:04:01I can do it on my own.
01:04:02It just drives me.
01:04:04It just drives me to that crazy place.
01:04:06I know I could exist without Kenny.
01:04:08I just don't want to.
01:04:10Drag is a family thing.
01:04:12It's like a, it's a group effort.
01:04:14It takes a village.
01:04:19More than one time, let's just say many, many times,
01:04:23men have come up alongside me,
01:04:26driving alongside me while I'm walking home.
01:04:28And they slow the car down.
01:04:30And they roll down the window and they, like,
01:04:33look through the window and they're like,
01:04:35Hey, how are you getting home?
01:04:39You want a ride?
01:04:40I'm like, no.
01:04:42I'm just, because the thing is,
01:04:44you don't want to let them know right away that you're a man.
01:04:46Because what if they get angry?
01:04:47What if they think you're like a female prostitute or something
01:04:50and then they hear your man voice
01:04:52and they get angry?
01:04:53So you don't want to be like,
01:04:54No, I'm going home.
01:04:55You don't want to fuck with them
01:04:56because if they get angry,
01:04:58they're the one in the car
01:04:59and you're the one walking home alone, you know?
01:05:01So I always do it in my femi voice.
01:05:03Like, because then if they're a tranny chaser,
01:05:05then they're getting what they expect.
01:05:07And if they're not a tranny chaser,
01:05:09then at least I'm, like, under the radar.
01:05:11So I just go,
01:05:12No, I'm just walking home.
01:05:15I'm okay.
01:05:15I don't need a ride.
01:05:17I don't need a ride.
01:05:18I'm just a block that way.
01:05:19And you don't,
01:05:20it doesn't matter how far away you are from home.
01:05:22You always say you're just a block that way.
01:05:25And they're like,
01:05:26I'll give you a ride.
01:05:27You want a woman here?
01:05:29You want a,
01:05:30Okay.
01:05:31How much?
01:05:33They say how much
01:05:34and they look at you like this.
01:05:36And all I want to say then and there is,
01:05:39I have a dick.
01:05:41When he did come out,
01:05:44I guess I didn't have the typical macho,
01:05:48father freak out
01:05:49where that's not going to fly in my house
01:05:51kind of reaction.
01:05:54You know,
01:05:54I felt like I was already prepared for it.
01:05:57And as a result,
01:05:59it just kind of was like
01:06:02water off a duck's back.
01:06:04You know,
01:06:04it just kind of rolled right off
01:06:05and didn't have a strong effect on me.
01:06:11And as a,
01:06:12I think that was
01:06:14positive for him.
01:06:17Whether,
01:06:19whether he thinks that or not,
01:06:20I don't know.
01:06:21But
01:06:23maybe that
01:06:24was
01:06:25something that he used
01:06:27to
01:06:28know that it was okay.
01:06:30And I'm sure
01:06:31he already knew it was okay.
01:06:33because
01:06:37you have to be okay
01:06:39with yourself first
01:06:40before you can tell
01:06:41other people
01:06:44where you are
01:06:45in your life.
01:06:47And
01:06:47I've always been
01:06:48of the opinion that
01:06:50at the end of the day,
01:06:52the only opinion,
01:06:53the only person's
01:06:56opinion that matters
01:06:57is your own.
01:06:58it doesn't matter
01:06:59what other people think.
01:07:02As long as you're
01:07:03comfortable with
01:07:03who you are,
01:07:05everybody else can just...
01:07:08Did you get that?
01:07:21I'm America's
01:07:22next drag superstar.
01:07:25For about 60 more seconds.
01:07:28I feel like I'm supposed
01:07:29to have a ton of feelings
01:07:30right now
01:07:31and I kind of feel numb.
01:07:32I feel like everyone
01:07:34wants me to be like,
01:07:37I'm not the queen anymore.
01:07:39But I don't feel that way.
01:07:41I just feel excited.
01:07:44Like,
01:07:44I mean,
01:07:45it's all a fantasy,
01:07:46you know.
01:07:48I feel like I have
01:07:49this responsibility
01:07:50to always be like
01:07:51staying true
01:07:52to the message
01:07:53that I
01:07:54put forth
01:07:55at the beginning
01:07:55of all of this,
01:07:56you know.
01:08:12you know,
01:08:12to make the world
01:08:13a better place
01:08:14than you found it
01:08:15and, like,
01:08:16to not let the little things
01:08:17get to you
01:08:18and, you know,
01:08:19just remaining positive
01:08:21and trying to always
01:08:23be the kind of person
01:08:24that you want the world
01:08:25to perceive you to be
01:08:27and don't get caught up
01:08:28in, like,
01:08:29negative trauma
01:08:30that has nothing
01:08:31to do with you,
01:08:31you know.
01:08:32I just always want
01:08:33to make sure
01:08:34I practice what I preach.
01:08:35What's life been like
01:08:37since you snatched
01:08:38that crown?
01:08:39Well,
01:08:40mother darling,
01:08:41I got to do
01:08:42my original show,
01:08:43The Vaudevillians,
01:08:44all across the world
01:08:45this year.
01:08:48So,
01:08:49GT,
01:08:49do you have any
01:08:50words of advice
01:08:51for America's
01:08:52next drag superstar?
01:08:53Well,
01:08:54I highly suggest
01:08:55you revel
01:08:55in every single
01:08:57second of it,
01:08:58mind your P's
01:08:59and Q's,
01:09:00and when the bitches
01:09:01come for you,
01:09:02let that bull
01:09:03be water
01:09:04off a mother
01:09:06duck's back.
01:09:12Well,
01:09:13James,
01:09:13your reign
01:09:14may be ending tonight,
01:09:15but it will always be
01:09:16forever
01:09:17monsoon season.
01:09:19Thank you very much.
01:09:25All right.
01:09:27The time has come
01:09:28to crown our queen.
01:09:33As always,
01:09:35I have consulted
01:09:35with the judges
01:09:36and the fans,
01:09:38but the final decision
01:09:39is mine to make.
01:09:42Adore Delano,
01:09:45Bianca Del Rio,
01:09:49Courtney Adams,
01:09:53the winner
01:09:55of RuPaul's Drag Race,
01:09:58America's next
01:09:59drag superstar,
01:10:01is
01:10:06Bianca Del Rio!
01:10:30this is something I've wanted
01:10:32my whole life,
01:10:34and yet
01:10:36nothing,
01:10:39nothing feels exactly
01:10:40the way I've always
01:10:41dreamt about it to be.
01:10:44You know,
01:10:44like,
01:10:46nothing ever happens
01:10:47the way it does
01:10:48in the movies.
01:10:51Like,
01:10:51a huge,
01:10:52huge door
01:10:53has opened for me
01:10:55and you think
01:10:56that thing you've been
01:10:58working for
01:10:58your whole life
01:10:59finally just happened
01:11:01and now,
01:11:03and now
01:11:04everything is just
01:11:05going to be
01:11:06completely different.
01:11:07And you know what?
01:11:09It's not.
01:11:10Everything's exactly
01:11:11the same.
01:11:13I think
01:11:14what I thought
01:11:15fame was
01:11:16before
01:11:17doing all of this,
01:11:18I think I thought
01:11:19it was going to be
01:11:20like a band-aid,
01:11:23if that makes sense.
01:11:24Like,
01:11:25I think I convinced
01:11:26myself, like,
01:11:27if I
01:11:29do this
01:11:30or I accomplish
01:11:31this goal
01:11:31or I make it here
01:11:33or I make it
01:11:33this far,
01:11:36then it's going to
01:11:37fix all the problems
01:11:38that I have going on.
01:11:40But now I think
01:11:42what it really is
01:11:43in this business
01:11:45is the chance
01:11:46to keep
01:11:46taking your work
01:11:48further.
01:11:49It's not a band-aid,
01:11:50it's just an invitation
01:11:51to work harder.
01:12:01Now say,
01:12:01I love you.
01:12:05Want to say it for daddy?
01:12:06Say,
01:12:07I love you.
01:12:08Okay.
01:12:09My dad
01:12:10wasn't around much
01:12:11when we were kids.
01:12:12I mean,
01:12:13he was an active part
01:12:14in our life,
01:12:14but not too much.
01:12:16And I
01:12:17always sort of longed
01:12:18for that, like,
01:12:19perfect family setting.
01:12:21There you go.
01:12:22Yeah.
01:12:23Now just work
01:12:24on that bike.
01:12:25How am I going
01:12:26to take it away
01:12:26from you?
01:12:30So I don't have
01:12:30any furs
01:12:31for you to try.
01:12:32And why does she
01:12:32never wear her wig
01:12:33when I visit?
01:12:35She looks really
01:12:36good in mink.
01:12:38We were very
01:12:40disparate
01:12:41and disjointed
01:12:41as kids.
01:12:43I feel like
01:12:44ever since we've
01:12:45started to get to
01:12:46know each other
01:12:46as adults,
01:12:47everything's been
01:12:48completely different.
01:12:50If you want some
01:12:51more burger,
01:12:51give daddy a kiss.
01:12:55Fine.
01:13:02Why do you have
01:13:03to have that look
01:13:03on your face?
01:13:05I think it took
01:13:06us some time apart
01:13:07for us to realize
01:13:10how different we are
01:13:12but how similar
01:13:12and how many struggles
01:13:14we've shared together.
01:13:16Exactly.
01:13:17See, this is how
01:13:19you know you have
01:13:20a cool family
01:13:21is when your little
01:13:22brother starts
01:13:22getting you drag gifts.
01:13:25Well, because I
01:13:26don't even think
01:13:27we ever, we had,
01:13:28what, you can't
01:13:28touch anything
01:13:29because it's still
01:13:29I know, but you
01:13:30have like, oh, I
01:13:32thought it was a
01:13:32beard hair.
01:13:33I'm not going to
01:13:34say that I wasn't
01:13:36petrified when I
01:13:36found out he was
01:13:37having a baby.
01:13:39But now.
01:13:40I was really nervous.
01:13:41Well, what do you
01:13:42happen to be nervous
01:13:43about?
01:13:44I was nervous
01:13:44because, you know,
01:13:47you're young and
01:13:48there's still so much
01:13:49I know you want to
01:13:50do and I didn't
01:13:51want you to miss out
01:13:52on the things that
01:13:53you want to do
01:13:54at this age.
01:13:55You know what I
01:13:56wanted to do?
01:13:57What?
01:13:57I wanted to have
01:13:58a baby.
01:13:59You wanted to have
01:14:00a baby when you
01:14:01had a baby?
01:14:01I honestly did.
01:14:02I, you know,
01:14:04with me it was,
01:14:05we never had that
01:14:06whole family.
01:14:07We never had the
01:14:08mom and dad and
01:14:09the family trips
01:14:11and all that stuff
01:14:12and so I feel like
01:14:13I sort of jumped
01:14:14into it because
01:14:15that's the role
01:14:16I always wanted
01:14:17to play.
01:14:17We had to grow up
01:14:18with so much
01:14:19you know,
01:14:20kind of cutting
01:14:21corners and
01:14:22struggles and
01:14:22like, you know,
01:14:24figuring everything
01:14:24out and I just
01:14:26didn't want to
01:14:27raise a baby in
01:14:28the same kind
01:14:29of struggles
01:14:29we were raised
01:14:30in and that's
01:14:31what I was worried
01:14:32about for you
01:14:32because, you know,
01:14:33you're still young
01:14:34and figuring things
01:14:34out for yourself
01:14:35but then I watch
01:14:37you with your baby
01:14:38and I just see
01:14:39a full-grown adult
01:14:40all of a sudden
01:14:41but the best thing
01:14:42for me is that
01:14:43you're letting me
01:14:44be a part of it
01:14:45and that I get
01:14:46to pour so much
01:14:47attention into
01:14:48my little baby
01:14:48niece.
01:14:49I can't help
01:14:50but take money
01:14:52from my Auntie
01:14:52Jake.
01:14:54People always
01:14:55warn you
01:14:56when you come
01:14:57into money
01:14:57that your family
01:14:58is going to come
01:14:59ask him for it
01:14:59all the time
01:15:00and Jeremy
01:15:01really never
01:15:01ever asks it
01:15:02until Chloe
01:15:03was born
01:15:04he never really
01:15:05asked for any
01:15:06kind of help
01:15:06and stuff
01:15:07and I really
01:15:08told him right
01:15:09away that I
01:15:10want to do
01:15:11everything to
01:15:12make sure that
01:15:12you know,
01:15:13he has what
01:15:14he needs
01:15:14to take care
01:15:15of Chloe.
01:15:17I love you
01:15:17Jaren.
01:15:18I love you
01:15:18too.
01:15:22You've got
01:15:22all this
01:15:23powder on
01:15:24your face
01:15:25now.
01:15:26Ah,
01:15:26I feel like
01:15:27a superstar.
01:15:29You know,
01:15:31I am
01:15:32very proud
01:15:33of him.
01:15:34He
01:15:37did something
01:15:39he got
01:15:40himself out
01:15:41of where
01:15:41he was
01:15:41and he
01:15:43decided
01:15:44early
01:15:44that he
01:15:45didn't want
01:15:47to have
01:15:48that sort
01:15:49of life
01:15:51that he
01:15:52was living
01:15:52with his
01:15:53mother
01:15:53because I
01:15:54wasn't,
01:15:55you know,
01:15:55there.
01:15:56And he
01:15:57pulled himself
01:15:58out of that
01:15:58situation.
01:16:01Oh,
01:16:01God,
01:16:02do I get it?
01:16:03You know
01:16:03who gave me
01:16:04this dress?
01:16:05Sharon Needles
01:16:06on New
01:16:07Year's Eve.
01:16:08It's
01:16:09sabotage,
01:16:09though,
01:16:10because the
01:16:10sequins
01:16:11stick to
01:16:13themselves.
01:16:15I thought
01:16:15it was the
01:16:16sweetest thing
01:16:16in the world.
01:16:17I wore it
01:16:17for five
01:16:18minutes and
01:16:18I was like,
01:16:18that bitch.
01:16:20She put me
01:16:20in a booby
01:16:21trap dress.
01:16:22But I love
01:16:23it.
01:16:23It's so
01:16:23gorgeous.
01:16:49Go
01:16:49and
01:16:50saw
01:16:51Quinn
01:16:52go
01:17:09I'm really glad that Jinx is something that Jarrett can turn to when everything's getting crazy and like that's just
01:17:16who he is.
01:17:20I love Jinx and I'm a big fan of the whole Jinx one tune persona and everything, but I kind
01:17:26of just like I'm sick of it because I want my brother to come home, you know.
01:17:36I've learned a lot from Jarek. I mean, Jarek is an inspiration to me.
01:17:41Seeing where he's come from, being there with him, and now seeing where he is today, just shows that you
01:17:48can do anything you set your mind out to.
01:18:09I've learned so much from Jarek. It feels like he's always been teaching me. I'm just so proud of him.
01:18:18It's kind of weird because my family had kind of become very disparate and we were all kind of very
01:18:25separate and, you know, drifting apart in the last year or so.
01:18:32And now my family's kind of like, reforming and doing really well.
01:18:38Like my mom and I, our relationship is better than it's been in a long time and Jacob is going
01:18:45to school proud every day of his family.
01:18:48And, you know, I've given him something to brag about a little bit at school and that's, that's kind of
01:18:54cute.
01:18:54So, um, so there have been really unexpected positive repercussions that have nothing to do with drag and have nothing
01:19:03like who would have thought going on a reality competition based TV show for drag queens that my family would
01:19:12have this like second chance to all be together again.
01:19:15And I think that's pretty, that's pretty special.
01:19:20I'm so tired. All I can see is X's, O's, and my own damn name.