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00:00:09Here's our fourth runner-up, Miss Alfonso from Chicago.
00:00:14Let's hear it for her, ladies and gentlemen.
00:00:18Our third runner-up in the 1967 Nationals from Manhattan.
00:00:24Miss Crystal, ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for her.
00:00:26The third runner-up in the 1967 Nationals.
00:00:31Well, I think the more compelling movie to watch is not when, okay, the end of the pageant
00:00:41comes, the winner is announced, and everyone shakes hands, and oh, good job, good job to
00:00:45you.
00:00:45But here is the only winner in the 1967 Nationals, that queen which will reign over America.
00:00:53Hello, ladies and gentlemen, queen of the 1967.
00:00:56The more compelling movie to watch is the bitch who thought she should have won, doesn't
00:01:01win, and gets mad and rips the fucking wig off the other girl and storms off stage and
00:01:06throws a fish.
00:01:07like Crystal LaBeija in The Queen.
00:01:12It was a good film.
00:01:14She looked bad.
00:01:16Shit, she looked bad.
00:01:18And no way or what you think they can do about it.
00:01:20Look at her makeup.
00:01:21It's terrible.
00:01:24Take a picture of me next to Harlow and tell me who's more beautiful.
00:01:27Oh, but get a picture with me and Harlow and see which is more beautiful, darling.
00:01:31Now, darling, I don't mean to take this out on you.
00:01:33You're a very lovely girl.
00:01:34You deserve everything lovely.
00:01:35But she doesn't look beautiful tonight.
00:01:37But she wasn't looking beautiful tonight.
00:01:39She doesn't equal me.
00:01:39Look at her makeup.
00:01:40It's terrible.
00:01:42Remember reenacting pageants for a documentary?
00:01:44No, we're not queen.
00:01:46And we're host the queen.
00:01:47I saw that one, too.
00:01:49And her explanation for why she wanted the money to put it in the bank.
00:01:54It's all for publicity, darling.
00:01:56That's why none of the true beauties came because they knew they wouldn't win, darling.
00:02:01Monique told me not to come.
00:02:02That's why Monique is not here in dress, because she is one of the...
00:02:05Monique, darling.
00:02:06Man of ours.
00:02:07Monique was not here as a friend of yours.
00:02:09She is a friend of mine.
00:02:12Oh, and I see you running your camera, dear.
00:02:15Oh, you're not going to use my name.
00:02:16No, darling.
00:02:17You're not going to use...
00:02:17I'll sue the fool.
00:02:29That's fucking real.
00:02:41Well, not for equal rights, just for extra.
00:02:46I want both bathrooms.
00:02:47Who's happy?
00:02:48Art and camera?
00:02:49Love it.
00:02:50I want a male bathroom and a female bathroom so I can rape your children.
00:02:54Take two.
00:02:54Parker.
00:02:55Question.
00:02:56I'm Sharon Needles, and people may know me as the winner of season four of RuPaul's Drag Race,
00:03:01or just America's biggest handful.
00:03:04All right.
00:03:05Rolling.
00:03:05All right.
00:03:07Jinx Monsoon, take one.
00:03:09Marker.
00:03:09We're rolling.
00:03:11Rolling, please.
00:03:13Rolling.
00:03:14Rolling.
00:03:14Tell me your name and how you are known, what people know you for.
00:03:22My name is Jinx Monsoon, and I'm most well known for winning season five of RuPaul's Drag Race.
00:03:33I mean, I've heard beautyality jokes on there, and...
00:03:37Right, they talk about, like, fucking anuses and, like, I don't know, fucking gay sex.
00:03:42Like, I don't know.
00:03:44The last question, because I'm sure we should tuck a little piece of hair.
00:03:50One piece of my hair is out of place.
00:03:52Burn all of the footage.
00:03:54I can't imagine.
00:03:58This is so funny to me because it's like, where is the line that it becomes, like, where is the
00:04:08line that my ridiculous nest of hair, one part of it becomes, oh, that's too much.
00:04:13We have to stop.
00:04:15It's like, I just fucking put frizzed out ridiculous hair on the top of smooth hair.
00:04:22Where is the line that it's like, that's too much, it's out of place.
00:04:26We found the line.
00:04:28It's that one little stick out.
00:04:35Am I looking at you or the camera?
00:04:37Okay.
00:04:38My name is Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, and I'm the queen of Earth.
00:04:46So audacious.
00:04:48No, I've been saying that, like, no, people know me.
00:04:51I'm a drag queen.
00:04:52I was on TV once.
00:04:58Oh, no shit.
00:05:00I'm sorry if I was disrespectful to you in any way before.
00:05:07That kind of, like, constantly irreverent thing does get old.
00:05:11Like, if you're just kind of a dickhead all the time, you know.
00:05:14No, no, I mean.
00:05:20I think I got it.
00:05:22Oh, that's a different color.
00:05:23Fuck.
00:05:24Can you tell me, is it totally uncomfortable if your knees are right on here?
00:05:27Oh, you want me to kneel?
00:05:28No.
00:05:29Just put your legs back over.
00:05:30Okay.
00:05:31Oh, I see.
00:05:32The image was too seductive.
00:05:33They're not even going to listen to what I'm saying.
00:05:35Barbara, we're looking good.
00:05:36We're good to go.
00:05:37Get the horse dart out and just shoot her in the neck.
00:05:40Is this a romance book jacket photograph?
00:05:43I'm trashy but thoughtful.
00:05:44Mmm.
00:05:45What about this?
00:05:47Yeah.
00:05:48I wonder where my wheelchair went.
00:05:50This'll do.
00:05:51I don't know.
00:05:51I've never done drag, though, because I'm a woman, biologically, from birth.
00:05:56Came out a woman, and still that.
00:05:59Sound like a man.
00:06:01What would you do if I pulled down my pants and had a beautifully manicured vagina?
00:06:14This is my hair.
00:06:18This is my hair.
00:06:22This is my hair.
00:06:26This is my hair.
00:06:28I don't wear wigs.
00:06:48Thank you guys so much, let's have an amazing show.
00:06:52Congratulations everyone, this is the largest show that you guys have ever done.
00:06:57No pressure, no pressure!
00:07:02This is the largest show you will ever do.
00:07:05I just want to thank everybody first and foremost, this is the largest show we've ever done.
00:07:09It is...
00:07:11And it warms my very black heart that it's right here in my home away from home, London Town!
00:07:18Please welcome to the stage the one and only Ms. Jinx Monsoon!
00:07:57Thank you!
00:07:59Should I stop? Should I go? Is the season in your heart as cold?
00:08:06As a kid I was very self-conscious about how big my lips were.
00:08:14My mom always said, one day you're going to be really happy that you have very big lips and you're
00:08:19going to make some girl very happy too.
00:08:20And that girl was me!
00:08:24When your love is red and green
00:08:29When your love is red and green
00:08:33Through your Santa Claus in your tree
00:08:36Do you ever even think of me?
00:08:41Some days I just don't know
00:08:45My menorah is the same
00:08:47But could never even hold a flame
00:08:51I don't think I ever thought that it was possible to be a world-famous drag queen at this level
00:08:56when I started it.
00:08:57Now there's many, many famous drag queens creating a lot of really great artwork.
00:09:03And a lot of them are my very good friends.
00:09:09My drag before going on Drag Race was intentionally half-baked.
00:09:17Because I wanted all of my focus to be on the performance.
00:09:26It was a messy, slapped-together kind of look.
00:09:30Rue just said to me, you know, you have so much to offer with your character.
00:09:34If you want to be this quirky, tacky, disheveled mess, you have to do it at a hundred percent.
00:09:48Even though I'm still very quirky and tacky, I think I'm as gorgeous as I've ever been nowadays.
00:09:56More gorgeous than I've ever been. The most gorgeous version of myself.
00:10:01Oh, darling, like you do, when your love is red and green.
00:10:18Mmmmmmm.
00:10:32Mmmmmmm.
00:10:44um generally when I'm getting ready like when I'm starting my makeup right now
00:10:50all I want to do is just not have to do it it takes so long I really like I
00:10:58love I love the
00:10:59final product and I love the way I look in the end I just hate the process doing this six
00:11:06nights a
00:11:06week covering yourself in makeup and painting yourself it just gets a little tedious other
00:11:12times when makeup artists have tried to do my makeup I'm really unsatisfied with it in the end
00:11:18because professional makeup artists who do like fashion editorial makeup and stuff when you ask
00:11:25them to do a drag queen's makeup I'd never think they put enough makeup on and there's some drag
00:11:30queens out there who can just wear a little bit of makeup and go for the more natural look but
00:11:34I
00:11:35really just don't like that on myself I like to look like a full transformation facial reconstruction
00:11:41has taken place let's say um let's say all these front um bright lights instead of 50% let's just
00:11:51cut these um we'll take yeah so we can walk on in this kind of dramatic yeah yeah so let's
00:12:01leave
00:12:01it like this until we get center stage so you kind of just barely see us in this light then
00:12:06when we hit
00:12:07center stage that's when you can um bring the lights up maybe to start them at 50 actually right there
00:12:14that's great just kind of dim because we sing a holy night and it's really somber
00:12:19oh holy night the stars are brightly shining drag queens they say whatever is on their mind and
00:12:29they don't give a shit if it's politically correct or if it um if it offends people you know we're
00:12:36kind
00:12:37of drag is a satire and a social commentary the character of jinx is supposed to be kind of boozy
00:12:46and alcoholic I like to make jokes like I'm drunk even if I'm not because then if something goes wrong
00:12:52well you can blame it on being drunk even if you aren't you know and then they they kind of
00:12:58expect
00:12:58that out of a drag queen normally a drag show is just in place to try to sell more booze
00:13:03so it's like
00:13:04kind of just expected that the drag queen's going to be drunk so I kind of just give them what
00:13:08they
00:13:08want like when I started drag at age 15 lots of people acted like I was the most negative stereotype
00:13:17of the gay community and now thanks to there being a reality tv show all about drag drag queens are
00:13:22respected in a way that they really weren't when I started drag
00:13:28joyous andpo ACTVU
00:13:29Now
00:13:30Oh
00:13:33Now
00:13:34Oh
00:13:35Oh
00:13:37Night
00:13:38Oh
00:13:40BAM
00:13:43Oh
00:13:44Night
00:13:45Divine
00:13:52Thank you man
00:13:54Thank you by this app
00:13:54how
00:13:55You
00:13:55drag show at age 14 and I feel like it changed everything for me like it changed my whole world
00:14:01when I saw my first drag show
00:14:40I was not a normal boy but I also came out at a very early age I was way too
00:14:48feminine and way too
00:14:51expressive to hide it because even when I thought I was trying really hard to hide it everyone still
00:14:59saw a little Femi gay boy so when I was like well if people are gonna just assume that about
00:15:04me
00:15:04anyway then I should stop worrying about playing this game it was trying for a lot of time and it
00:15:12was hard to go through the American public school system like that but the more that I just kind of
00:15:18realized you know there's no hiding it with me and I'll be so much happier when I stop trying to
00:15:23hide it or trying to be someone else the better my life got
00:15:38everyone I'd like to introduce you to my friends um Oscar Wilde and teeth
00:15:47we're so I mean look at those teeth Jinx is very heavily based on my mom my mom doesn't like
00:15:55that
00:15:59I don't know about you but I would be very embarrassed to have fake teeth at such a young age
00:16:05I would I would oh shit oh damn it I'm not trying to say my mom was a terrible mom
00:16:12she had
00:16:12plenty of great moments but she also caused a lot of problems for me in my teenage years
00:16:18my mom went through a phase of alcoholism and went through a phase of just being very selfish and
00:16:24my way of working through that frustration was to create a character out of it mama can remember the
00:16:29words I'm a professional the reason I'm able to be a positive person and able to keep my mind focused
00:16:36on you know um improving the world is because I get all of my anger out on stage there are
00:16:43plenty
00:16:43people plenty of people out there who do not adhere to one strict gender you know there are people who
00:16:49are genderless there are people who would be referred they prefer to be referred to as gender fluid
00:16:55um they prefer to be referred to as gender non-binary they prefer not to be referred to at all
00:17:01yeah for instance I I prefer I prefer not to be referred to yeah it's very awkward when we go
00:17:07to
00:17:07parties I have to say have you met my friend
00:17:12and we we have to respect we have to respect it
00:17:18I myself I'm much more enlightened than most of you
00:17:26and for me the best thing is when when I'm fully done with makeup and people
00:17:32it used to happen more before I was on tv but um people would think that I was a real
00:17:39woman trying
00:17:40to be a drag queen like I was a real woman painted up and trying to impersonate a drag queen
00:17:45um and I liked that because it made me feel like I had fully transformed into a character where
00:17:50people really didn't know if I was a boy just as a woman or a woman dressed as a woman
00:18:04I cannot become any more masculine than I am now
00:18:09older I get the more I'm going to start looking like a man and that thought terrifies me
00:18:16my ability to shift between the genders is the thing that's kept me from hating my body
00:18:25we have been conditioned for so long to believe that because of your genitalia it's natural for
00:18:33you to act this way or the other and to do anything outside of that is unnatural it used to
00:18:39drive me nuts
00:18:40trying to feel confident and feel good about myself dressed as a boy because ding dong I'm not a boy
00:18:47you know like that's not my inner truth
00:18:51coffee and wine to give life meaning just a
00:18:55I feel a responsibility not just as a drag queen but as a gay celebrity you have to be awake
00:19:03if you want to be an artist and not just
00:19:05someone pushing booze I have a much younger audience fan base than I ever expected
00:19:14there's got to be some substance and there's got to be something going on in this show
00:19:19so that that 14 year old boy in the audience who's seeing their first drag show
00:19:23I want to make sure there's something that they can take home with them that means something
00:19:29I want to keep you in the Java
00:19:38by him.
00:19:58Oh, thank you, thank you.
00:20:00Well, what happens is, is that when you're in drag, you take your penis and your nuts
00:20:06and you squish them in your hands and then you pull them all the way back to your legs
00:20:10and stuff them up in your butthole and then you put on like a fucking roll of duct tape
00:20:14and five pairs of panties which are seven sizes too small
00:20:17and then you sit around in six pairs of tights in high heel shoes scrunching your toes
00:20:23and then you put a wig on your head which is like a thousand degrees and it's on really tight
00:20:27and then you have a face that feels like you have a clay mask on and then
00:20:31when you're sitting around not doing anything for several hours
00:20:35it starts to get annoying and painful and then you have a diva fit.
00:20:39Hey, can we start this fucking show, please?
00:20:42I'm fucking over it.
00:20:43Michelle, can you start the show?
00:20:45Can we start the fucking show?
00:20:47We've been fucking waiting around.
00:20:49This is coming without the clock.
00:20:50We even start the fucking show?
00:20:51Alright, smart.
00:20:52What the fuck?
00:20:53You didn't sell my t-shirt.
00:20:55This is hilarious.
00:20:58I didn't sign one single fucking headshot.
00:21:06Sorry, it's the corset.
00:21:19We're like witches in more ways than one.
00:21:21If you've ever seen the Angelica Huston movie, Witches, where she's like,
00:21:26You may remove your wigs!
00:21:28And they all pull off their wigs and they have these horrible bald heads.
00:21:31They kick off their shoes and they have these big block feet.
00:21:35It's like, that's about drag queens.
00:21:37And I mean like half the extras in that movie are men dressed as women
00:21:41and I think Roald Dahl and his infinite wisdom just knew what it's like to be a drag queen
00:21:48and wrote a book about it and called it The Witches.
00:21:53As glamorous as this all looks, it's fucking painful.
00:21:58It's really painful.
00:22:00To create the hyper-Western concept of the perfect female form,
00:22:06we are constantly suffering from fever.
00:22:09Our bodies are constantly confined by spandex,
00:22:13which causes us to get very hot and to sweat a lot.
00:22:15And then all the things we use to manipulate our bodies into the female form is absorbing all of that.
00:22:21So the most beautiful drag queen, just right underneath their crust,
00:22:25is nothing but disgust.
00:22:30When I'm super busy in drag, I don't shower with any regularity.
00:22:35It's like pulling teeth to get me to take a shower.
00:22:38When you're on the road and you're doing show after show after show after show,
00:22:42you don't have washing machines to wash your tights.
00:22:45So...
00:22:46So it looks really lovely but like you're really glad this movie is in smell-o-vision
00:22:51because it's like...
00:22:52Eventually start smelling like gouda and corn chips.
00:22:54Chicken for a few days and then it starts smelling like something is wrong.
00:22:59We smell like bile.
00:23:00Like filth.
00:23:01Like a mole person.
00:23:02Like it could get somebody else ill.
00:23:04We're disgusting.
00:23:07I can't believe anyone fucks us.
00:23:42Once upon a time, science opened up the door.
00:23:49You know, I could put into a box of being a horror queen or an Elvira.
00:23:55This is a stereotype that I personally am not offended by.
00:24:06You know, and I kind of, you know, no pun intended, dug my own grave on that one.
00:24:11Super nature.
00:24:15Super nature.
00:24:18Super nature.
00:24:22Super nature.
00:24:23Super nature.
00:24:24For a hundred miles away.
00:24:26When I was growing up and like going out, I never did the gay thing.
00:24:32You know, I primarily was a feral gay rat raised by street punks.
00:24:40Super nature.
00:24:44Super nature.
00:24:47Super nature.
00:24:49Super nature.
00:24:57Super nature.
00:24:59Super nature.
00:25:02Super nature.
00:25:06Super nature.
00:25:09Super nature.
00:25:10Super nature.
00:25:13Super nature.
00:25:15Super nature.
00:25:16Super nature.
00:25:18Super nature.
00:25:19Super nature.
00:25:20Super nature.
00:25:21Day gigs should be illegal.
00:25:24Yeah, this shit should be illegal.
00:25:27We are designed for the night.
00:25:29Oh, God.
00:25:35Thank you so much. It's my Halloween costumes.
00:25:38Feel free to try them on if you want.
00:25:42Thank you so much. Bye.
00:25:44Do you have ults?
00:25:46For Halloween, never. I'm the fucking queen of Halloween.
00:25:49Well, once Elvira dies.
00:25:51I'm looking at your toenails, and I'm concerned.
00:25:54You should be.
00:25:55Is that from dancing?
00:25:57This is just old black nail polish, but our pantyhose constrict toes so much.
00:26:03They're full of calluses and corns.
00:26:06But what to wear is always difficult in a day gig.
00:26:09Why?
00:26:10Because I think costumes on drag queens during the day look dirty.
00:26:17It looks...
00:26:19I mean, it sounds oxymoronic, but it sounds...
00:26:22It looks too much.
00:26:24In a spotlight, you look like Barbie.
00:26:27And in a sunlight, you look like a birthday cake.
00:26:35I did find a bag of cocaine in my toothbrush bag though today, which I found kind of shocking.
00:26:43Oops.
00:26:44I don't know anything about that ossifer.
00:26:49The fun about drag is that you can escape yourself and a million different people.
00:26:54I'm every woman.
00:26:55They're all in me.
00:27:00Oh, J gigs.
00:27:02It's just not right.
00:27:25Oh, J gigs.
00:27:26It's just not right.
00:27:26The great thing about Pittsburgh is that they don't give a fuck who I am.
00:27:31You know?
00:27:32Right after Drag Race, it was a sensation for maybe an hour.
00:27:36Why the fuck you all up this early?
00:27:40This is torture.
00:27:43After Drag Race, I had the opportunity to move to Los Angeles like a lot of my RuPaul's Drag Race
00:27:50sisters do.
00:27:51Or New York or, you know, even getting out of the country.
00:27:53But I look at Pittsburgh the way John Waters looks at Baltimore.
00:27:57Because it's like an escape from all of this, you know?
00:28:00Would you like some of my vodka?
00:28:02Sure.
00:28:06When I say that's a whole glass of vodka, I'm not lying.
00:28:08Go ahead, have a little sip.
00:28:10Pittsburgh is just an old industrial town where you can still smoke in the bars.
00:28:14And I love that.
00:28:16So I dropped out my freshman year.
00:28:21And, well, I didn't really drop out.
00:28:23My counselor brought in my parents and said it might be best if I left the school
00:28:28because my visuals were a distraction to the other students.
00:28:32So I left high school.
00:28:33Then I came to Pittsburgh.
00:28:43You were just a group of misfit Pittsburgh drag queens.
00:28:46We became successful quite quickly because I think what we were doing on stage was reflecting who they were.
00:28:53It's a rough, sloppy, rusted industrial town.
00:28:56So I think they liked that we were rough and punk and more in your face.
00:29:09You know, it was never just a pretty dress and a lipstick.
00:29:12You know, there was always a political, a transgressive, or a hyper art side to what we were doing.
00:29:21Just because we're drag queens doesn't mean we all come from the same pasts and we're on the same path.
00:29:25I didn't want to be RuPaul.
00:29:27I wanted to be Divine.
00:29:28You know, I was introduced to drag by it being something really bonkers and scary.
00:29:36I call it visual terrorism.
00:29:399-11 in high heels.
00:29:41Gay people are the one minority people don't really fear.
00:29:45They can scare normal culture.
00:29:47And that's fun.
00:29:48And needed.
00:29:56Red wine before noon is gross.
00:30:00Not gross enough not to drink.
00:30:05Not a real drag queen unless you have no toes.
00:30:08And they're spilling over.
00:30:10Ready to commit suicide.
00:30:12It's called a suicide toe.
00:30:15Ready to jump.
00:30:16How clockable is this lace today?
00:30:18Like right up on it, yeah, you can see it.
00:30:21Okay.
00:30:22A classic lace then?
00:30:23Yeah.
00:30:24Okay.
00:30:25I don't wear costumes in a day gig.
00:30:29A full face of makeup, of course.
00:30:32I had the best night's sleep last night though.
00:30:34You got in last night?
00:30:36Got in last night, watched this documentary about child, child sex offenders.
00:30:42Oh, I bet you were 11.
00:30:44I was like, oh, why is this on A&E? They're not describing enough.
00:30:48Um.
00:30:50Now if I found a time machine and I had sex with my six year old self, would that be
00:30:54illegal?
00:30:55Six year old sex?
00:30:56I wasn't even that cute at six.
00:30:58No, definitely.
00:31:01You had only had half the procedures done by then.
00:31:04Individual.
00:31:05You want to go to a hotel today?
00:31:08Um.
00:31:08Sonique is performing.
00:31:09Is it in this town?
00:31:11No.
00:31:12It's a downtown LA.
00:31:13I have a 5.30 a.m.
00:31:15And it's, it's chats.
00:31:17It's a teen girl pageant.
00:31:18I know, I know, I know, I know.
00:31:21Caitlyn Jenner is going to be judging you.
00:31:23I'll be there.
00:31:26My shoe is slowly filling up with blood.
00:31:30Oh, day gigs.
00:31:32But that fell asleep.
00:31:38This is corporal punishment.
00:31:45Can we get a golf cart?
00:31:49A golf cart.
00:31:49Or any sport cart.
00:31:52A golf cart.
00:31:54A big wheel.
00:31:56If Caitlyn Jenner was here, we would have a golf cart.
00:32:00I think it's the only thing she's legally allowed to drive nowadays.
00:32:03It's been on the outside.
00:32:04Natural fashion kit.
00:32:05Maybe not.
00:32:08This is like the Flintstones.
00:32:10I'm like the fucking steak in the Flintstones, girls.
00:32:15Oh my god, how tall can I?
00:32:17This way.
00:32:18I'm the tallest person I've ever seen.
00:32:20You good?
00:32:21Yeah, I think so.
00:32:24I need that mic wet, wet, wet.
00:32:27Wet as can be.
00:32:29Yeah, give me as much reverb as you can.
00:32:30Reverb to the point of echo.
00:32:31I don't want that though.
00:32:33Don't shut it off.
00:32:40Every time I get ready and I look in the mirror, I always say,
00:32:43I'm never going to look better than this.
00:32:45And then one year from that, I'll look back at that and I'll be like,
00:32:48oh god, what was she thinking?
00:32:49And then think that is the current standard of perfection.
00:32:52It's never going to get any better than that.
00:32:54If I think I ever felt like there was no more growth in this art form,
00:32:59then I'd probably quit.
00:33:03I like it to just reflect the insanity that's going on up here.
00:33:08Then it also proves to be very therapeutic for me to perform it live
00:33:12because I think the stage is a great punching bag.
00:33:16I mean, it's more legal than killing people.
00:33:29I don't have the most fans, but I think I have the best fans.
00:33:34People who are fans of Sharon Needles are usually introverted and damaged in some way.
00:33:39And I most definitely put that in my music and in my songwriting.
00:33:43You're my Dracula-la-la-la-la-la.
00:33:51Happy Halloween! Hail Satan! And as always, kill your parents!
00:33:59Is there anywhere for Grandma to sit?
00:34:05How have you been? I haven't seen you in a while.
00:34:07I know since 340, I think.
00:34:09Yeah, since 340.
00:34:10Yeah.
00:34:11Did you guys enjoy the show? Sorry it was so short, but you know, that's festivals.
00:34:16They throw you on, they throw you off.
00:34:18But the sound was really good.
00:34:20Yeah, now I have to pack up real quick, grab all my Halloween costumes for my tour,
00:34:23just got sent in at the front desk.
00:34:26And tonight, I'm meeting one of my all-time biggest icons.
00:34:29Which one?
00:34:30You'll never guess.
00:34:31I probably won't.
00:34:32Guess.
00:34:33Caitlyn Jenner.
00:34:34Oh my gosh!
00:34:36Say that again?
00:34:36I love her Caitlyn Jenner.
00:34:38Caitlyn Jenner!
00:34:40Where are you meeting her at?
00:34:41One of my biggest icons that I really identify with.
00:34:43You know, they all love it at first and then just change their mind real quick.
00:34:49I don't want to call her an idol because there's nothing about her that I want to be.
00:34:53But she's certainly one of the biggest icons of our current time.
00:34:57Have you ever seen a transsexual be so hated on?
00:34:59It proves that transgender people are just like us.
00:35:02We can hate them.
00:35:03Times.
00:35:05They are a changin'.
00:35:06Happy Halloween guys.
00:35:07Happy Halloween.
00:35:08Thank you so much.
00:35:10Tell all my babies hi.
00:35:12I will.
00:35:12I'm still looking for your ice pops, but I think they're discontinued.
00:35:15My what?
00:35:15Ice pops.
00:35:16My fans know that I have an obsession with ice pops.
00:35:20And cocaine.
00:35:22And you're not even going to drag me now.
00:35:23And then you're like,
00:35:24I thought you caused a hot shit bitch.
00:35:26It was their cool mean girl table.
00:35:29And then me, the princess, and that I'm looking for you.
00:35:31That's so cool.
00:35:33It was a Lisa question.
00:35:34Like a witchy question.
00:35:35Do you think of me as a friend?
00:35:37Yes, of course.
00:35:38I think of you as one of my best friends, actually.
00:35:40Good.
00:35:40One of my best sisters.
00:35:41Good, then we're on the same page.
00:35:43I thought I wanted to fuck in, but I know that that's just never a good idea with us.
00:35:47Because I don't, I have a hard time maintaining an erection for people I respect.
00:35:54Yeah, I mean, I always say if I, if I didn't use dating apps, if I didn't use Grindr, I
00:36:00wouldn't meet anyone.
00:36:01Because literally, when I'm on tour, the schedule is get on the plane early in the morning, get to the
00:36:07hotel, maybe have a couple hours to nap or eat, then immediately start getting into drag.
00:36:15So I just, I meet promoters, and I meet like other drag queens, and I meet go-go boys and
00:36:19stuff.
00:36:20But I don't meet many real people who aren't in the business these days, unless I use a dating app.
00:36:26I realized it's very, it is a lot trickier, especially because gay, I always forget about that.
00:36:31It shrinks the population down.
00:36:33If they know me, do they only want to hang out with me because they're a fan?
00:36:38Sometimes I meet guys who don't know me, and they just really don't get it.
00:36:41I try to explain my career to them, and they have zero idea what I'm talking about.
00:36:46I'm starving for affection, Sharon. Nobody will fuck me.
00:36:51That's not true.
00:36:53That's not true.
00:36:53Well, don't sound desperate.
00:36:55Are you gonna fuck me, bitch?
00:36:56I don't think so.
00:36:57Violet, Violet was tweeting that she wants to.
00:36:59For the, for the fame.
00:37:01Is this bitch gonna spread her fat rolls all over my beautiful fucking body, bitch?
00:37:05You leave that bakery alone, bitch.
00:37:06Are you gonna fucking stuff my hungry mouth with your delicious Asian rolls, bitch?
00:37:12Nope.
00:37:13Don't fuck yourself.
00:37:14Really? Actually, no.
00:37:15Booker Price.
00:37:16That's kind of what it is.
00:37:17It's like, alright, that guy looks like he could test the challenge of my whims in changing,
00:37:21in like, ridiculous expectations on every level.
00:37:25That's gonna be a really special person.
00:37:27Who's gonna graduate from the University of My Pussy, summa cum laude,
00:37:31and gonna donate to the alumni fund?
00:37:34Not a lot of people at this, you know, small, unaccredited college in the mountains.
00:37:39You gotta let nature take its course.
00:37:41Will you give me a kiss?
00:37:44Jiggles?
00:37:45No.
00:37:46Uh-uh.
00:37:46No!
00:37:48Kiss me.
00:37:49No!
00:37:50It's rape.
00:37:50Kiss my gross ass smokehouse.
00:37:51That is rape.
00:37:52No, I'm saying kiss me.
00:37:53Rape!
00:37:54No, don't shout rape when you're not getting raped.
00:37:58That's a lie.
00:37:59Kiss me.
00:38:00Kiss me, you fucking fat bitch.
00:38:01No, I don't fucking kiss girls.
00:38:04Because I'm not a lesbian.
00:38:06Ew.
00:38:07Kiss me.
00:38:08Kiss me.
00:38:08No.
00:38:09I'm not gonna turn around.
00:38:10I'm gonna endanger this whole vehicle and do this.
00:38:11Oh my god!
00:38:12Give her a sweet little sister peck on the lips.
00:38:15Are you not my fucking sister, bitch?
00:38:17Okay.
00:38:19God.
00:38:20Now we'll do it on the lips next time, when my ding-lings out and hard.
00:38:24It counts.
00:38:25Good thing with that.
00:38:26How the fuck are you doing, my ding?
00:38:30Listen, I'm a junkie and I'm not gonna apologize for it.
00:38:34I'm also growing out my hair.
00:38:35Does it look nice?
00:38:37Thanks so much.
00:38:38Listen, the holidays for me are all about, you know, good food, great relationships and
00:38:42then, um, well, trying not to fuck my dad.
00:38:45And it's hard, you know, because he's a really handsome guy, but that's neither here nor there.
00:38:50These days, would you say that you're straight up just a comedian?
00:38:54No, no, no.
00:38:57I'm an auteur who Moonlight says a romance novelist, but just hasn't written any books yet.
00:39:01Listen, something they never teach in school no more is that when Dorothy went to Oz, she
00:39:06had to have sex with the Tin Man the Scarecrow, but the lion wouldn't fuck her because he was
00:39:11gay.
00:39:12Did you know that?
00:39:13Wait, are you five seniors old?
00:39:15Fuck.
00:39:16I feel like I'm just Jessica Simpson with the heart of Bill Cosby and the legs of Jackie
00:39:21Joyner-Kersey.
00:39:23That's not true.
00:39:24I don't know what that is.
00:39:25I had a shot of Vicodin.
00:39:28Wait, what?
00:39:29What the fuck is that?
00:39:31I mean, I don't know.
00:39:32Do you think I'm, I mean, I'm not a comedian.
00:39:33What do comedians do?
00:39:34They have specials for one hour where they have, they wear a boring outfit and with a microphone
00:39:39they say, oh, you guys, when I fuck my wife's pussy, it just goes split.
00:39:43Splatter, splatter, makes all these splashy noises.
00:39:46And I don't know how to feel about that.
00:39:47I mean, that's every comedy special I've ever seen, but you know, I don't know.
00:39:52I like making people laugh, but sometimes I know, I know it's not that I know that I'm
00:39:56funny and it's that what I'm saying is interesting.
00:39:59And I know that even if I'm in a room, I'm just in the wrong room, but I know there's
00:40:03the right room.
00:40:03Happy New Year's to you.
00:40:05They say New Year, New You.
00:40:07And I have three New Year's resolutions.
00:40:09I want to find my dead cat and give it a proper burial.
00:40:12I'm going to call up Denise on the phone and say, I'm sorry for calling her a cunt in
00:40:16front of her dead mom.
00:40:17And I, the last thing I got to start flossing again, but it's hard.
00:40:21Would you like-
00:40:22Saturist?
00:40:23Can we try?
00:40:24No.
00:40:25You're so hung up on labels.
00:40:26Why can't I just be a woman?
00:40:27Don't put me in a box.
00:40:28You can put me in a shopping cover, not a box.
00:40:31That's comedy.
00:40:33You guys should really think about not drinking so much.
00:40:36Good night!
00:40:37Witches, witches, witches.
00:40:38All right.
00:40:38So I can actually not sing, but I like to sing in characters.
00:40:41Good.
00:40:41Can we do like camp down races?
00:40:43Sing that song.
00:40:44No, seriously.
00:40:45Yeah.
00:40:45Like old timey.
00:40:48Yes.
00:40:48Okay.
00:40:49Am I playing this?
00:40:50Am I playing and we're singing?
00:40:51Is that what's happening?
00:40:53I don't know.
00:40:53We're going to be eating sushi too.
00:40:55Amen to that.
00:40:56Did you go to college for like performance or anything?
00:40:59Yeah.
00:41:00Performance art.
00:41:01For real?
00:41:01I used to be embarrassed about it and now I'm literally making thousands and thousands
00:41:04of dollars to do it.
00:41:06So I'm not embarrassed anymore.
00:41:07But it took a long time to be embarrassed about it.
00:41:10What did you do?
00:41:10Did you do stuff like ART?
00:41:11I did.
00:41:12No, no, no.
00:41:12I did stuff like this.
00:41:14Like in the 90s beatniks.
00:41:15And I'm like, huh.
00:41:17Huh.
00:41:19Huh.
00:41:22That's it.
00:41:22To like dentist drills.
00:41:24To C curve central.
00:41:24Like to dentist drills.
00:41:25No, actually we're digitizing footage from my stuff I did in school.
00:41:28And I was actually looking back on it.
00:41:29It's kind of cool.
00:41:30Yeah.
00:41:31So I'm in the weird transition part where I'm famous for being a person and now wanting
00:41:34to be famous for being an artist.
00:41:36What?
00:41:36When you lose, when you, when Hollywood makes you, your grip snaps like a twig on real,
00:41:41not real, important and not important.
00:41:43Yeah.
00:41:44No, that scares me to death.
00:41:47Oh, I'm just, yeah.
00:41:48No, like, you know, the, generally speaking, well, I feel like a lunatic.
00:41:54Sometimes.
00:41:54But other times I feel bad.
00:41:56I don't give a shit.
00:41:56I feel like a lunatic.
00:41:57And then I want to retreat and just maintain.
00:42:00And I hate that.
00:42:01It's insidious.
00:42:02Cause guess what allows that kind of retreat money?
00:42:05Sure.
00:42:06Eccentric people are eccentric.
00:42:07If you're homeless, you're just crazy.
00:42:08Cause they've never had to fight.
00:42:10Yeah.
00:42:10If you're eccentric with no money, that's crazy.
00:42:12No.
00:42:13Crazy with no money is just crazy.
00:42:15Crazy with money is eccentric.
00:42:16Yeah.
00:42:16That's it.
00:42:17But you have to be able to extend.
00:42:18You have to be functioning to be eccentric.
00:42:20Like you have to actually meet at seven.
00:42:22You got to show up at least by eight.
00:42:23You know what I mean?
00:42:24Or otherwise you're just, people cut you loose.
00:42:28I have to be a clown or like a goofball goon because I just, there's no other way to do
00:42:31it.
00:42:32It's so grim.
00:42:33Look at me.
00:42:34I am an, I am an insane person.
00:42:36Thank God this is happening because it legitimizes it.
00:42:38Jesus Christ.
00:42:39Um, but fucking A.
00:42:42Barbara, I call you back.
00:42:43It's yeah.
00:42:43It's like nuts.
00:42:45That's why I feel like, oh, whenever I feel like, I wonder if this was what Robin Williams was like.
00:42:49Cause he's so manic and crazy and probably, probably cocaine addict.
00:42:52He's like hanging it up and then boom, hanged himself.
00:42:56Still like trying, like getting over body shame stuff.
00:42:58But it's society though.
00:42:59Why is it a crime to be naked?
00:43:01It is a crime to be naked.
00:43:02Um, well, I think the Vatican needs to pay because all of my body shame issues.
00:43:05I've been able to like, to trace back to your Catholic roots.
00:43:08Yeah.
00:43:08Like get to a level of objectivity.
00:43:11That's kind of realistic.
00:43:12You know, it's never going to be totally objective.
00:43:13It's just, if it's me, but I've able to see the same pattern and lots of other people.
00:43:16Well, those people put me through the, the, the, the Holy Trinity is not Father, Son, Holy Ghost.
00:43:21It's fear, shame, and guilt.
00:43:23You know what?
00:43:23I think my job, um, going forward as an artist is to incorporate some element of nudity in
00:43:28every single thing I do, because it's going to take that much to make just a small dent,
00:43:32because there's nothing legitimate.
00:43:33There's nothing objectively wrong with me being naked.
00:43:36Permeating everything else.
00:43:37Here's the, here's my twist.
00:43:39I have to love my body because I hate my body.
00:43:41If I didn't hate my body, I'd be at zero, but hate, hate is minus five.
00:43:46Love is plus five.
00:43:47We're trying to get actually to zero.
00:43:49Because my body is not going to be lovable forever.
00:43:51My body sometimes, my body, if I don't shower three days from now, will be disgusting.
00:43:54It'll smell like shit.
00:43:55Not a value judgment, not a value judgment.
00:43:58In a Catholicism, they say your body is dirty.
00:44:00You are worthless.
00:44:02Every time you are naked, you are ashamed and afraid.
00:44:05Garden of Eden, Mama, it starts in day one.
00:44:08The knowledge of good and evil equals being shamed of your body.
00:44:12The first thing you're aware of is I'm naked and it's wrong.
00:44:15That is fucked.
00:44:33I want this card seat.
00:44:35I forget.
00:44:35Oh, my God.
00:44:40I love this card seat.
00:44:50I want to kind of move through this because we still have to learn another one today.
00:44:53I'm going to mush my weenie into your body, and it's going to be sexual.
00:44:56It's easy, but...
00:44:59And also, I mean, I like the idea of it also breaking down from being too fast.
00:45:02That's a comedic element.
00:45:03Right.
00:45:04Not being able to do it.
00:45:04Not being able to do it.
00:45:05And I can yell at them.
00:45:06Left this time.
00:45:07Boom.
00:45:07Boom.
00:45:08Boom.
00:45:09So you guys, this starts immediately.
00:45:12So be in your first positions.
00:45:14Okay, first position.
00:45:15First position, you guys.
00:45:17Katya, get in first position now.
00:45:20Now.
00:45:22I've fucking been in first position, bitch.
00:45:24I want you to be a nasty...
00:45:25Be a nasty woman.
00:45:26A militant, gleeveless, dagger, fucking crack the whip dance instructor today.
00:45:31Just for fun?
00:45:32Just for an hour.
00:45:32Okay.
00:45:32Okay.
00:45:34That's hard for me.
00:45:35I'm going to have to work on that.
00:45:36Well, let's explore your range.
00:45:37Okay.
00:45:39All right.
00:45:40Lift it up, motherfuckers.
00:45:41Here we go.
00:45:43Yes!
00:45:46Or like how we can even do like a...
00:45:51Something like that.
00:45:52Sure.
00:45:53It's easy.
00:45:53Any of it, yeah.
00:45:54And it's percussion.
00:45:58That's good.
00:45:59Don't hurt yourself.
00:46:00I'm not...
00:46:00Girl, I know my truth.
00:46:02I don't know.
00:46:02It's so weird.
00:46:03It's great to feel sexy, but it's also so stupid.
00:46:06I can't stand like the motivation Monday.
00:46:09I put in my hard work today at the gym.
00:46:11I'm going to get a sexy body.
00:46:12I'm going to share that to you on the internet.
00:46:15Oh.
00:46:16I mean, great.
00:46:17I'm doing that right now.
00:46:20Oh, you know what?
00:46:20My drag is thing.
00:46:21Hey, that's funny.
00:46:22I know we're still going to do it, but we all get why that's funny, right?
00:46:26Oh, God.
00:46:27These guys were just like, fit life, insta-fit, like, like, hunk of the day.
00:46:33I mean, aspirational hunk of the day.
00:46:36Um, gym life, go to the gym, hashtag gym world, uh, gym place, you know, hashtag like
00:46:44muscle place, muscle fitness, gym fitness, fitness life, fitness world, muscle gym, fitness
00:46:49world, muscle gym, fitness world, planet.
00:46:51How do they get all these hashtags?
00:46:52If you look, there's a, there's a huge paragraph and you realize it's all to grab attention
00:46:57to say, look at me, I'm doing a good job.
00:47:00I don't understand why they don't see it.
00:47:02It's the same picture every time.
00:47:05Like Groundhog Day.
00:47:07Ordinary people are fucking weird.
00:47:10Not bad, but they are fucking weird.
00:47:13It looks like, it looks like a giant VV.
00:47:15Oh, God, he's so sexy.
00:47:18You just said you don't go for we hope perfection yet.
00:47:20You're, you're drooling over.
00:47:24That's, that's, that's, that's we hope 101 right there.
00:47:26Is it really?
00:47:27The ass?
00:47:28He's just a little two-step.
00:47:31Slay, fatty.
00:47:32Come on, we gotta.
00:47:32Do you guys know if there's any drag queens who are Trump supporters?
00:47:36Yeah, my friend Amy Vodka House from the original House of Hunt voted for Donald Trump.
00:47:41She's very proud of herself.
00:47:42Is it, is like, is that like a subversive kind of dig or?
00:47:45No, she's Bosnian.
00:47:46So she's got her Hillary Clinton issues.
00:47:49Everybody's got their Hillary Clinton issues.
00:47:50Yeah.
00:47:51But how did you guys feel the morning after the election?
00:47:54Oh, God.
00:47:56Next thing you know, they're going to want to film the drag process.
00:47:59Yeah.
00:47:59With close-ups of our feet.
00:48:01Do you want to see me getting in their drag?
00:48:03It's fascinating.
00:48:03You want to see the juxtaposition between beauty and ugly?
00:48:07How about me in a sequins gown at the dump?
00:48:13The subversion of it all.
00:48:15Your transgressive ideology.
00:48:18Can't host.
00:48:20Can't host.
00:48:21I would say, how long have you been?
00:48:24How long?
00:48:25How long have you been dressing?
00:48:26How long have you been dressing?
00:48:27Looking for other sissies who like to dress.
00:48:31I keep all my, I have a Dolly Parton wig, champagne teddy.
00:48:35I keep it in an oak hutch.
00:48:41I keep all my teddies in an oak hutch.
00:48:45Mother always said, too much for the hutch.
00:48:49All right, I'm going to work.
00:48:51We're going to get in trouble.
00:48:51We didn't even get cigarettes.
00:48:57My name is Ekaterina Petrovna Zemolochkova, but you can call me Barbara, you fucking idiot.
00:49:05Hi.
00:49:06So listen, oh gosh, we have so much to talk about, but we have even more to do.
00:49:10These are my dancers.
00:49:13And if you'll notice, if you have two working eyeballs and a good sense of smell, they are
00:49:18indeed men, and, uh, uh, hello, governor.
00:49:23If you've ever seen a developmentally disabled young woman just splashing around at a local
00:49:28watering hole, feeling herself, just spreading every limb of her body in just a convulsive
00:49:34fit of retardation, that's me.
00:49:56I mean, I'm a niche, like, people coming off the street were like, let's do dinner and
00:50:00a show tonight, Marty.
00:50:01We're in Atlantic City.
00:50:02They came to my show, I'd be like, huh, what is this?
00:50:05I mean, like, literally, what is it?
00:50:06Like, your brain can't get to the next step in order to process whether it's good or bad.
00:50:09Ten pounds of ravioli on the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, six
00:50:17well, it's even five to the world.
00:50:23I went, I saw Sandra Bernhardt in a sheer dress, eight months pregnant.
00:50:26She was on HBO on the television.
00:50:28I was on acid in the living room.
00:50:29She was screaming, singing about something.
00:50:31And I was like, what is this experience I'm seeing with, like, unlike any other thing I
00:50:35saw?
00:50:35I was like, that's what I want to do.
00:50:38Jesus Christ, I just want to fuck you all night long.
00:50:42When I was younger, going to these weird-ass shows, there was Cirque du Soleil obsessed.
00:50:46Then this Japanese butoh dance troupe.
00:50:49Doesn't get any weirder than this when you're the parent of this wacko child, by the way.
00:50:53Herpes.
00:50:55Football never did it for me.
00:50:56I don't get it.
00:50:56I don't understand.
00:50:57It makes me feel like an alien.
00:51:00I want to give a small slice of that to, like, a weirdo wacko kid.
00:51:11Oh, you know what, though?
00:51:12I actually had a very embarrassingly, like, heavy-handed metaphorical realization moment
00:51:17on stage where I was like, oh, I'm processing years of Catholic shame.
00:51:23Literally, like, said to myself, out loud, this is the only reason I am not killing myself.
00:51:35Thanks, guys.
00:51:37Woo!
00:51:44Okay.
00:51:45You guys are best friends with Sharon?
00:51:47Yeah.
00:51:48Tell them to say that.
00:51:48Oh, we're best friends because of Sharon Needles.
00:51:52We met last year of October 16 and 17 at 340 in Pomona.
00:51:56And we were best friends since, like, we traveled to Sanford together on a bus.
00:52:00Planes.
00:52:01No hotel.
00:52:02Like, we went on a bus, like, together.
00:52:03For Sharon.
00:52:04As corny as it is, Sharon is the reason why I'm alive today.
00:52:07Yeah, same.
00:52:07She changed my life knowing her and because of Sharon.
00:52:11I've met so many friends because of Sharon.
00:52:13Yeah.
00:52:14I had no friends because of Sharon.
00:52:17So, yeah.
00:52:18Yeah.
00:52:18Sorry.
00:52:19No, I'm so sorry.
00:52:22It's real.
00:52:23Like, this is, it's not fake.
00:52:25We're not like those guys.
00:52:29Yeah.
00:52:33There you go, darling.
00:52:35There you go.
00:52:36Yes.
00:52:38Yes.
00:52:40Oh, my God.
00:52:41Don't I get those?
00:52:42I'll shut them up.
00:52:43Okay.
00:52:45Attachers!
00:52:46You good?
00:52:50Because this is so special for the children, for all the young people who love each other
00:52:55on social media.
00:52:56They get to meet their tribe right in person.
00:52:59And that is everything.
00:53:01Here we go, now.
00:53:08Let the drag class begin!
00:53:12I know how important it is to the fans to take pictures with them.
00:53:16I know what that feels like to meet one of your idols.
00:53:19Like, when I was a teenager meeting my favorite drag queens, it was extremely important to me.
00:53:26And that was just getting to meet them randomly.
00:53:28It's not like I want to die or I have a death wish, but, like, wouldn't that be amazing if
00:53:33I died in a plane crash?
00:53:35Well, you guys would be sad, but they would replay all my episodes on Logo for, like, it would be
00:53:44great.
00:53:46But, um, but I'm glad to be alive, and, um, and so let's do this song it's called.
00:53:50Well, I'm always just, like, little kids, if you're listening, don't wish for fame, just wish for fortune.
00:53:57Because fortune is, like, way easier.
00:53:59Fame is just really inconvenient.
00:54:01I was flying on an airplane, and that airplane almost went down.
00:54:10Down, down, down.
00:54:12All the people started screaming, ah!
00:54:15But I smiled as I looked around.
00:54:18Huh?
00:54:19And I was like, and I...
00:54:21Oh, my God!
00:54:22Oh, my God!
00:54:24Woo!
00:54:26Yeah!
00:54:27I want to, like, I want to, like, I want to, like...
00:54:31Something about having to be Jinx and Jeric all at the same time and receiving all that energy
00:54:36while you're also trying to do this tricky dance of, like, when do I be Jinx?
00:54:40Like, when do I make a cunty joke to someone and, like, make them laugh?
00:54:43And when do I turn into Jeric and let them open up and share that moment?
00:54:47Tell me things you like about Mummy, darling!
00:54:50You have a lovely face and a lovely dress.
00:54:52That's me.
00:54:53It's all fake.
00:54:54The heart's real, unfortunately.
00:54:56It's a pig heart.
00:55:04You can't just walk across the floor at DragCon.
00:55:12I don't know.
00:55:13I guess, like, it's like being Mickey Mouse at Disneyland.
00:55:16And he's so busy taking pictures with people that he can't go on Space Mountain.
00:55:31I mean, I feel terrible at complaining about my problems.
00:55:35My life is so fucking lucky and I'm so fucking charmed and everything is fucking so easy, really.
00:55:43But all I can do is bitch and complain about it.
00:55:45I hear myself, I'm doing it now on camera.
00:55:48It's a movie.
00:55:49I'm in a movie and my scene is going to be me bitching about how difficult my glamorous,
00:55:55ridiculously lucky life I is.
00:56:17Everyone I've interviewed over the last is saying the same thing.
00:56:20You're exhausted.
00:56:22Yes, it's true.
00:56:31You are legendary already.
00:56:45Okay.
00:56:47Do we have that light?
00:56:48Can we turn that light on me?
00:56:53Can someone grab my phone?
00:56:57Okay, I'm coming out.
00:57:15Yes, please.
00:57:17Yes, please.
00:57:19Yeah.
00:57:22Yes, please.
00:57:29Okay.
00:57:31Okay.
00:57:39I hope I win.
00:57:40Yes, yes.
00:57:41I know.
00:57:42Hi.
00:57:43How are you?
00:57:44I love it.
00:57:46Hey, what's up?
00:57:48What's up?
00:57:48You're on.
00:57:49Hi.
00:57:49How are you?
00:57:50You're on.
00:57:55Oh.
00:57:57Yeah.
00:57:57You're in.
00:57:58We're doing the dressing room.
00:58:07How are you?
00:58:10Are you having me?
00:58:16So good.
00:58:18I love that.
00:58:19Hi.
00:58:20How are you laughing?
00:58:20Hey, me.
00:58:20New Year's Eve, 1979.
00:58:23A lonely military outpost is about to have its mind blown by an unexpected guest,
00:58:29a leggy bombshell from the planet Glamtron.
00:58:32Crash landing on Earth, the newly named Alaska Thunderfund is immediately captured by military men
00:58:39eager to exploit her body's out-of-this-world special powers.
00:58:43Read this exciting, uplifting adventure to discover the legend of Alaska.
00:58:50So, yeah, just tell me when.
00:58:53Okay, my name's Lil' Pound Cake.
00:58:57I'm five years old, but my mom told me to say that I was two.
00:59:02I weigh 18 pounds.
00:59:05I'm three foot five.
00:59:09You're not my real daddy, and you never will be.
00:59:14Okay, great.
00:59:18My name's Lil' Pound Cake, and I'm a straight-up motherfuckin' dick pig.
00:59:24My name's Lil' Pound Cake, and I'm a straight-up motherfuckin' dick pig.
00:59:30Okay.
00:59:30Like, so it's like, but it's like this.
00:59:33So it's like, hi, but also it's like, can I just hear, can you throw like...
00:59:38My name is Lil' Pound Cake, and I'm a straight-up...
00:59:40You can put auto-tune on it, too.
00:59:42Yeah.
00:59:44I'm just ridin' dirty.
00:59:46That's hot.
00:59:47I'm just ridin' dirty.
00:59:48Ah!
00:59:49I'm just ridin' dirty.
00:59:52I'm just ridin' dirty.
00:59:54I'm Lil' Pound Cake, and I'm a straight-up motherfuckin' dick pig.
00:59:56And the hands are gonna be, um, are molded, so they're creating a mold.
01:00:00The whole thing's plush, but the hands will be molded, and it's gonna be a stick in the finger.
01:00:05Uh, so...
01:00:06Like an American Girl doll.
01:00:08Yeah.
01:00:09Exactly.
01:00:10That should be the slogan.
01:00:11Like an American Girl doll.
01:00:12It is.
01:00:13Just like.
01:00:17Oh, should I show you stuff in my house?
01:00:19Yeah, let's do it.
01:00:20Okay.
01:00:21These, I just got these.
01:00:24These were custom, so I, like, went in, I talked to them, I, like, I don't want a full wig,
01:00:29I just want the piece, and then the big thing that I can just pop on top.
01:00:33So they did them, they're very beautiful, and very large.
01:00:38Um, this is my RuPaul statue.
01:00:42I bought it when they did the limited run of them, and I had to have one, so I bought
01:00:46it.
01:00:47So, um, it's, it's one of my prized possessions.
01:00:51This, I keep wigs on the, um, stove.
01:00:56Just, um, cause they're big, and I don't, I don't really have anywhere else to put them.
01:01:00Um, I'm thinking maybe this stove doesn't get turned on a whole lot.
01:01:04I don't, I do make tea, but that's on this one.
01:01:07But the rest, I mean, I don't know, yeah.
01:01:10I don't use the other ones.
01:01:12Uh, this is the spare room where I just put drag.
01:01:18This is what I'm going to wear tonight, though.
01:01:23It's, like, long and poofy at the bottom.
01:01:27I'm really excited.
01:01:30This is a fox.
01:01:31Oh, here, um, this is me on Christmas, and this is my dad.
01:01:37I look to be opening some sort of, um, Hot Wheels cars or something, which I loved.
01:01:50I knew I was different all along, like, as, as early as I had consciousness.
01:01:57I feel like my mom knew, but I think she also knew that we were, I mean, we were living
01:02:02in Erie, Pennsylvania, you know, in early 90s.
01:02:06So she was very, like, you need to, like, not play like a girl when you're out playing with your
01:02:12friends.
01:02:12Because I always wanted to be the girl character.
01:02:15I know it's shocking.
01:02:21I became, like, a drag queen, though, basically at the very end of college.
01:02:27And there was once that we did Pericles, which is a little-known Shakespeare play.
01:02:33This Russian director came, and he was, like, the resident director.
01:02:38And he was, like, you, you read this.
01:02:42At first I was reading, like, the male roles.
01:02:44He asked me to read The Madam of the Whorehouse.
01:02:49And he, and I, and I started reading him.
01:02:51He was, like, but not like this, like this.
01:02:54So I did it in a really high voice.
01:02:57And I got the role, and it was, like, it was pretty epic.
01:03:02By the end of the run, they were, like, Justin, you need to tone down your makeup because it's getting
01:03:08too grotesque and too dark.
01:03:10I had blacked out teeth, my lips drawn, wrinkles.
01:03:17That was the bite of the bug.
01:03:20Well, then I moved to L.A. to be an actor.
01:03:25Because I wanted to get out of Pennsylvania.
01:03:26I thought it was too small.
01:03:28I was getting called a fag on the street, and I didn't like that.
01:03:31And I was, like, I need to go to a big city, either New York or L.A.
01:03:34I don't care which one.
01:03:35My best friend happened to be living in Los Angeles.
01:03:38So that was it.
01:03:43Well, Alaska Thunderfuck was a being that beamed itself into my body.
01:03:49I remember when I first moved to L.A., and I knew, I knew what she was.
01:03:54She was a Glamazonian princess from the planet Glamtron who crash-landed on Earth
01:03:58and who needs to get enough Twitter followers to get her spaceship back up and running again.
01:04:02And so she saw Billboards of Beautiful Women, and was like,
01:04:05that's what I'm supposed to look like to get through this world.
01:04:10She does that through her twisted vision of how she sees it.
01:04:15So, like, she thinks she looks like fucking Marilyn Monroe.
01:04:19Because she does.
01:04:21Sarah?
01:04:22Gabe is coming.
01:04:22I think Corey's coming, too.
01:04:25Oh, Corey's going to be there, too.
01:04:26Okay, good.
01:04:27Should I call you after we play now?
01:04:30Um, well, probably, yeah, okay.
01:04:33But then it'll be a spoiler alert.
01:04:35No, of course, yes.
01:04:37All right, honey.
01:04:38Well, I love you.
01:04:40I love you, too.
01:04:41Um, bye.
01:04:43May the best woman win.
01:04:45I think that she thinks I'm not going to win.
01:04:47Because of how the fan, the fan interaction online has been in the last week.
01:04:53Because I had a horrible episode last week where I just looked like an asshole.
01:04:58And so, like, that's all my mom is seeing.
01:05:00So, I think she thinks I'm not going to win.
01:05:02So, I guess we'll see.
01:05:06Oh, yeah, I've been dreading it since we filmed it.
01:05:10We filmed it over a year ago.
01:05:12And I've been dreading that episode coming out.
01:05:15And what it was going to look like.
01:05:17And how people were going to respond to it.
01:05:21And, uh, the response hasn't been great.
01:05:28I get so many messages that are like, no matter what everyone online says, I still love you.
01:05:35Which is like, so what are people saying online?
01:05:38Like, is that bad?
01:05:50First time around, on season five, I didn't win.
01:05:54I came out of it very well.
01:05:56And this time it's like, I did really well in the competition.
01:06:01But as a person, I just feel like, I don't want to hang out with that person.
01:06:05That person needs to just chill the fuck out.
01:06:17People think that I'm lying.
01:06:19But, like, when I was there, I was making decisions.
01:06:21We had to make really difficult decisions.
01:06:23I know in my heart that I didn't make any decisions like,
01:06:28oh, I want to fuck this person over so I can do better later.
01:06:31It was like, I just made the best decisions that I could.
01:06:35And I know that in my heart.
01:06:37But people say, like, oh, yeah, sure, girl.
01:06:40Because of how it played out on TV.
01:06:43I'm a rude girl.
01:06:44I'm a rude girl.
01:06:46I'm a motherfucking rude girl.
01:06:49Who are you, girl?
01:06:50I don't know.
01:06:51I'm a rude girl.
01:06:52I just have dreams about it all the time.
01:06:55It's like PTSD.
01:06:57And just, like, the psychic feeling of even a hundred.
01:07:02It's probably thousands of people who are trying to tell me that I'm a terrible person.
01:07:10Having that being told to you so much is like, and then you see it on TV and you're like,
01:07:17well, yeah, I get it.
01:07:19They're right.
01:07:20And so then it's like, am I that?
01:07:22Am I a bad person?
01:07:24Am I that person?
01:07:25And you start to believe that.
01:07:31Drag is definitely armor.
01:07:33I do get to, like, work out a lot of the issues that I have through the art and the
01:07:39character, which is great.
01:07:41But I do also think I need therapy over this process.
01:07:45Like, seriously.
01:07:47What's your, like, worst fear about it?
01:07:50Like, about tomorrow morning or late tonight?
01:07:55I mean, my worst fear about it is that it's going to ruin my reputation that I've worked really hard
01:08:05for and that it's going to make me, make people not want to work with me and not hire me
01:08:11and that I won't have a job anymore.
01:08:13That's my, that's worst case scenario.
01:08:17Because, like, this show is more than just a show to people.
01:08:20It's a religion and it's a way of life and it's a phenomenon and it's like the Bible.
01:08:25So if the Bible says that you're a bad person and you're a cunt and you suck and you're a
01:08:30liar, then so it is written.
01:08:33That's it.
01:08:34That's truth.
01:08:35So I hope that, um, I hope that doesn't happen.
01:08:40Hello.
01:08:42Hello.
01:08:43Woo!
01:08:44Woo!
01:08:44Woo!
01:08:45Woo!
01:08:45Woo!
01:08:45Woo!
01:08:46Woo!
01:08:47Woo!
01:08:48Hi.
01:08:52How much longer do we have?
01:08:53We still have to lip sync for our lives.
01:08:55We all have to give our speeches.
01:08:56Like, it's a minute.
01:08:57You're giving your speeches now.
01:08:59Alaska.
01:09:00Every single week she's come and she has slain the competition.
01:09:03She understands how Snatched Game reports.
01:09:05Either you know it or you don't.
01:09:07And she got it.
01:09:09Copy it.
01:09:11You are the top three.
01:09:12Woo!
01:09:13Woo!
01:09:13Woo!
01:09:14Woo!
01:09:14Woo!
01:09:15My heart is pumping.
01:09:17My heart is pumping.
01:09:20Ladies, the time has come to crown our queen.
01:09:28The winner of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.
01:09:32The next queen to be inducted into the Drag Race Hall of Fame is...
01:09:53Oh my god, Justin, I've never been so happy for you.
01:09:58I've never been so happy for you.
01:10:00Did you already know?
01:10:03Um, maybe.
01:10:06Are you there?
01:10:09Fucking hell, cocksucking shit.
01:10:11What the fuck?
01:10:12Nana's calling me now.
01:10:14Okay, okay, okay.
01:10:16Hello?
01:10:17Well, congratulations.
01:10:19Thank you, Nana.
01:10:21Oh my god!
01:10:23Yeah, did your mother call you yet?
01:10:25She did.
01:10:26It got disconnected.
01:10:26I don't know what happened.
01:10:28Okay.
01:10:29Yeah, yeah.
01:10:30Listen, I want you to take that money and invest it.
01:10:35You bet I am.
01:10:37Alright, don't go blowing it on everything.
01:10:40Well...
01:10:41I want you to invest it for your future, for retirement.
01:10:45I will, that's a very good idea.
01:10:46I will definitely do that.
01:10:48Oh my god.
01:10:48Just don't blow it on popsicles and...
01:10:52Uh, right.
01:10:53Just candy and...
01:10:55Just candy and...
01:10:56You knew this though, didn't you?
01:10:59Well, I don't know.
01:11:00Maybe.
01:11:01It's one of the great mysteries of the world.
01:11:03Who knows?
01:11:04Oh, okay.
01:11:05Someday you'll tell me.
01:11:06Yeah, I'll tell you when you're 90.
01:11:08On my dying bed.
01:11:10No, I'll tell you when you're 90.
01:11:12Hello?
01:11:13Hi.
01:11:14Justin!
01:11:15Couldn't you know he won?
01:11:18Um...
01:11:19Maybe a little.
01:11:20It was so awesome.
01:11:23Yay!
01:11:24I'm so happy for you.
01:11:25I'm so happy.
01:11:29That was a good video.
01:11:32I guess it's like, I mean, that's really exciting for them.
01:11:36I, you know, I knew and I knew that like, it was gonna be whatever it was gonna be.
01:11:41But like, they didn't get to have that.
01:11:44They didn't get to have that moment on season five, you know?
01:11:49They, they didn't get to have that.
01:11:51And they do now.
01:11:53And I, I, I'm sure they're just so fucking happy about it.
01:11:58That's great.
01:12:01Ugh.
01:12:14Yeah!
01:12:18It's the last of me!
01:12:20Yeah!
01:12:20It was my dream to get on the race.
01:12:24It's like that shabby and sit on my face.
01:12:28Going into reality TV, no matter who you were before, you're putting it in someone else's hands.
01:12:36I'm owning the evil queen persona that has been thrust upon me.
01:12:40Because what else can you do?
01:12:43I'm finding power in it.
01:12:47The winner of Rupaul's Drag Race All Stars.
01:12:52The next queen to be...
01:12:54You have to take the worst stuff that happens to you and make art out of it.
01:12:59Or it will kill you.
01:13:02Alaska!
01:13:04Alaska!
01:13:04Oh my God!
01:13:09This is for the ones talking shit in my page.
01:13:13I guess I'd be a dick to have been in my ways.
01:13:16The worst things at that time was, Alaska, you're nothing but a snake.
01:13:22You're not who I thought you were. You're just a snake.
01:13:26And now, I saw shirts where it's me surrounded by snakes,
01:13:31and I'm sitting in front of a thing that has snakes all over it.
01:13:33Now the snake is my spirit animal. It's the only way to survive.
01:13:37You have to take the horrible things and make it into art, make it fun, and love it.
01:13:52You're my home, and you're my people, and I am your queen.
01:14:01I'm a mother of you, and I just want all the stars to dance.
01:14:20I'm a mother of you, and I'm a mother of you.
01:14:25Sure.
01:14:25No, I'm not going to lie.
01:14:29Have you always been a big, fat, awful person?
01:14:31No.
01:14:33Yeah.
01:14:33Yeah.
01:14:35Brand loyalty.
01:14:36Because I just think, especially now, especially with Kim Kardashian,
01:14:40it's just too surface, man.
01:14:42It's like, they don't give a fu-
01:14:44Like, the little commenters on YouTube,
01:14:46some of those kids don't even listen to a fucking word.
01:14:49It's like they watch it without the sound off.
01:14:51They're like,
01:14:52Oh my god, they look so good.
01:14:53I don't understand what she's wearing, though.
01:14:54Or like, whatever.
01:14:55It's all I see is just surface shit.
01:14:58I swear.
01:14:59Maybe I'm just being way too harsh in the critical,
01:15:01or just bitter and old or something.
01:15:03But yeah, the kids are just so obsessed.
01:15:06They don't know how to talk to her,
01:15:07that all they know how to do is put eyeliner on.
01:15:12Okay, so you're going there for Christmas?
01:15:14Right before.
01:15:14And then I do a show there,
01:15:16and then leave on Christmas Eve.
01:15:20Where are you going for Christmas?
01:15:22All my family is going to my brother's in Washington State.
01:15:25Are you, like, aware of that?
01:15:27No.
01:15:28Alaska, what are you doing for Christmas?
01:15:29My mom was like,
01:15:31I don't want anyone to talk about politics.
01:15:34No, let's talk about it.
01:15:35So out of respect, I'm like,
01:15:36okay, well I'm not going to,
01:15:37but it's also like,
01:15:39like, members of my family are like,
01:15:42personally affronting my existence,
01:15:44and I don't feel comfortable not talking about that.
01:15:47It's like, I don't want to fucking see you.
01:15:50I don't want to fucking see your fucking face.
01:15:53Did you go for Thanksgiving?
01:15:55I did.
01:15:55And no one came to my mom's house.
01:15:57Just give a shit.
01:15:59Oh my gosh.
01:16:00Look who it is.
01:16:02Fucking Donald Trump.
01:16:05And he's mad he didn't get what he wanted for Christmas.
01:16:08Oh man, what the?
01:16:10Uh, uh, uh.
01:16:12Girl, why you complaining?
01:16:13You're not in India starving.
01:16:15It's not like you don't have nothing.
01:16:17You're so damn sport that's alarming.
01:16:18You got some parents, I love you.
01:16:20A brother that fuck you so much.
01:16:21You got a brother, I love you.
01:16:22You got a brother, I love you.
01:16:24You get what you get.
01:16:24And you don't feel a shit.
01:16:26Christmas rocks.
01:16:27Christmas rocks.
01:16:32Christmas rocks.
01:16:34Christmas rocks.
01:16:35Christmas rocks.
01:16:36Look, I just got a pair of tube socks.
01:16:39Christmas rocks.
01:16:40Christmas rocks.
01:16:42Wanna bet me?
01:16:43I'll bet you a million bucks.
01:16:45Thank you mom and dad.
01:16:47I can't really be sad.
01:16:48Cause I guess.
01:16:50Christmas rocks.
01:16:54Well, before the election and just being a transgressive, you know, asshole that I am,
01:16:59I would say in the press and I would say a lot like, you know, let Trump win.
01:17:03Let's return to fags being punk and like being against the system because, you know,
01:17:08we had eight years of Obama and our fan base tends to be a little younger.
01:17:14So our fans basically grew up with drag race and Obama.
01:17:18So I was kind of like, Oh God, bring, bring Trump in.
01:17:21Remind, remind these kids, you know, just how, um, how quick things can change and how
01:17:25a new normal can sprout up overnight.
01:17:27And well, I take it all back now.
01:17:31Oops.
01:17:32Has the Trump administration changed how I feel about my job?
01:17:36Um, a little, but not as much as, um, how Orlando has changed how I feel about my job.
01:17:42I found out about the pulse tragedy on the battle of the seasons tour on the tour bus.
01:17:49And, uh, we had to go straight to Minneapolis and do a show that night.
01:17:55God, everyone was so freaked out that day too.
01:17:57It was really weird.
01:17:58And, um, Michelle saying, uh, take a bow by Madonna every night.
01:18:03And she's like, we all come on stage with me.
01:18:04And we were just a mess.
01:18:06It was a messy ass show, but that was the only show my mom came to see.
01:18:09So it was really nice.
01:18:10You know?
01:18:13Oh, I'm so sorry.
01:18:14I don't think I ever got that sad about Orlando for a while.
01:18:20I forgot about that day too.
01:18:21It was so crazy.
01:18:23It was so crazy.
01:18:24I ate meat.
01:18:26You ate meat?
01:18:27Yeah, I didn't give a fuck.
01:18:28I went to Jimmy Johnson and had a BLT.
01:18:30It was so good.
01:18:31And you're a pita...
01:18:32Well, you're a well-known vegetarian.
01:18:35Who cares?
01:18:36That pig was...
01:18:37That pig was really mean.
01:18:38I didn't give a fuck.
01:18:40I'm so sorry.
01:18:49Maybe he had a buen.
01:18:52I'm so sorry.
01:18:54Hey, hey, baby.
01:18:56I could not have.
01:18:57No, it's wrong.
01:18:57I'm so sorry.
01:18:57I don't have them yet.
01:18:58I know.
01:19:04He knew I could not have it.
01:19:06I knew I knew I knew.
01:19:14No, the Native Americans believe that there are two spirit beings who are men and women,
01:19:19and their function in society is healers and truth-tellers and soothsayers, and that's what
01:19:27we do. We put on fantastical costume and dress, and we go out and we make a spectacle, we tell
01:19:35the truth, and we exorcise people of their demons. That's what we actually do.
01:19:40So did you always know that you're a witch like that? How long ago did you find out?
01:19:44I didn't realize that's what I was doing when I started. I just had to do it. I was called
01:19:48to do it. I had to.
01:19:50I remember you said that on the show, this is my calling, and I was like, oh, 100% agree.
01:19:54It is.
01:19:55It's a calling.
01:19:55If you don't choose to do it, it makes no sense. Well, now kids choose to do it.
01:19:59Choose to do it, but I couldn't do anything else.
01:20:01Yeah, exactly.
01:20:02I literally couldn't work at Starbucks because I was so, I would be so bad and afraid at
01:20:05it. It was like, for some reason, slamming my fucking gross dick pussy into the ground
01:20:09a million times is like a cathartic experience that people love, but not more than they love.
01:20:18General public seamstress.
01:20:20I think it's okay.
01:20:21You've been panned critically.
01:20:23Yeah, I've been panned for two, yeah.
01:20:25Just across the board.
01:20:26You have like a 2% on Rotten Tomatoes.
01:20:28Thank you for two.
01:20:29I was going to say one.
01:20:30I know.
01:20:31You're so generous, Snape.
01:20:46It is now that we must band together.
01:20:49We must unify.
01:20:51We must rally.
01:20:51We must join up arm in arm and protect one another.
01:20:55So that no matter where this world goes next, at least we'll have each other.
01:21:01And what's the best way to unify a group of people?
01:21:04What's the best way to rally people together?
01:21:08It's with a rousing anthem.
01:21:17Being a track queen is kind of like, it's a clown stripper.
01:21:21You're half-clown, half-stripper.
01:21:24I think it's very important to have clowns and to have people willing to like, make fun of themselves for
01:21:31the sake of making a better community.
01:21:33Or to make fun of the people who are our bullies and our adversaries so that we know that like,
01:21:38we're just as strong if not stronger than them.
01:21:43I've always been really nervous about being too truthful or to say and speak and be and do as I
01:21:51really am in here.
01:21:52The second you start editing your work for the perception of other people is impending doom.
01:21:59There's a reason why successful artists get to where they are and you got to go with your gut.
01:22:05For Sharon, I learned to not give a fuck.
01:22:08And through Alaska, I learned what you can achieve when you commit yourself fully to something.
01:22:14And from Katya, I learned not to be brainwashed by my society anymore.
01:22:20Has the perception of drag changed? Yes.
01:22:22Do I think they're ever going to allow them to be in mainstream media? Never.
01:22:30I guess I see a world where it's not a goal to become mainstream, it's a goal to just be
01:22:36pure.
01:22:38That's actually the goal. Drag is realness.
01:22:40In a world where it's like complete bullshit on the television at all times.
01:22:45On the billboard, in the newspaper, on Instagram, everything is fake.
01:22:49But drag, going to a drag show, that's something real.
01:22:53We live in a society that still is so rigid and still has so many constraints on how you're supposed
01:23:00to be allowed to express yourself.
01:23:02It's a business to brainwash people.
01:23:05We live in a capitalist society.
01:23:07Any trick to get people to spend money on what you want them to spend money on is fair game.
01:23:12And to see someone who is so not brainwashed gives us hope.
01:23:18It's what drag is at its core, is being a truth teller.
01:23:23It's holding a mirror up to this society that we live in and saying, look at that.
01:23:30Isn't that fucking something?
01:23:32Let's laugh at it, let's celebrate it, but also take the fucking piss out of it.
01:23:37Let's regurgitate it and interpret it and make it ours.
01:23:41Make it human.
01:23:43Make it fucking real.
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