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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?
00:06:28I don't wear wigs.
00:06:30This is my hair.
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.
00:06:56No 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 Miss Jinx Monsoon!
00:07:48Darling your love, oh I fear, just like everything this time of year, it burns red and green.
00:07:59Should I stop? Should I go? Is the season in your heart as cold?
00:08:06When I was a kid, I was very self-conscious about how big my lips were.
00:08:11Now the holidays may come between...
00:08:14My mom always said, one day you're going to be really happy that you have very big lips,
00:08:18and you're going to make some girl very happy too.
00:08:22And that girl was me.
00:08:24When your love is red and green.
00:08:29When your love is red and green.
00:08:32Through 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.
00:08:48But could never even hold a flame.
00:08:52I 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 100%.
00:09:48Even though I'm still very quirky and tacky, I think I'm as gorgeous as I've ever been.
00:09:54Nowadays.
00:09:56More gorgeous than I've ever been.
00:09:57The most gorgeous version of myself.
00:10:01Oh, darling, like you do.
00:10:04When your love is red and green.
00:10:09I'm B.
00:10:16Oromy...
00:10:16...
00:10:16Mmm.
00:10:29Hmm.
00:10:43Um, generally when I'm getting ready,
00:10:47like when I'm starting my makeup right now,
00:10:50all I want to do is just not have to do it.
00:10:54It takes so long.
00:10:56I really like...
00:10:58I love the final product and I love the way I look in the end.
00:11:02I just hate the process.
00:11:05Doing this six nights a week,
00:11:07covering yourself in makeup and painting yourself,
00:11:09it just gets a little tedious.
00:11:11Other times when makeup artists have tried to do my makeup,
00:11:15I'm really unsatisfied with it in the end because
00:11:19professional makeup artists who do like fashion,
00:11:22editorial makeup and stuff,
00:11:24when you ask them to do a drag queen's makeup,
00:11:26I'd never think they'd put enough makeup on.
00:11:29And there's some drag queens out there who can just wear
00:11:31a little bit of makeup and go for the more natural look,
00:11:34but I really just don't like that on myself.
00:11:36I like to look like a full transformation facial reconstruction has taken place.
00:11:44Let's say, um, let's say all these front bright lights,
00:11:49instead of 50%, let's just cut these.
00:11:52Um, we'll take...
00:11:54Yeah, so we can walk on in this kind of dramatic...
00:11:56This is the three set.
00:11:58Yeah.
00:12:00So let's leave it like this until we get center stage.
00:12:03So you kind of just barely see us in this light.
00:12:06Then when we hit center stage,
00:12:08that's when you can, um, bring the lights up.
00:12:10Maybe to start them at 50.
00:12:13Actually right there. That's great.
00:12:15Just kind of dim.
00:12:16Cause we sing a holy night and it's really somber.
00:12:26Drag queens, they say whatever is on their mind
00:12:29and they don't give a shit if it's politically correct
00:12:32or if it, um, if it offends people.
00:12:36You know, we're kind of...
00:12:37Drag is a satire and a social commentary.
00:12:43The character of Jinx is supposed to be kind of boozy and alcoholic.
00:12:48I like to make jokes like I'm drunk even if I'm not
00:12:51because then if something goes wrong,
00:12:52you can blame it on being drunk even if you aren't, you know?
00:12:56And then they, they kind of expect that out of a drag queen.
00:13:00Normally a drag show is just in place to try to sell more booze.
00:13:03So it's like kind of just expected that the drag queen's going to be drunk.
00:13:07So I kind of just give them what they want.
00:13:09Like when I started drag at age 15,
00:13:12lots of people acted like I was the most negative stereotype of the gay community.
00:13:18And now thanks to there being a reality TV show all about drag,
00:13:21drag queens are respected in a way that they really weren't when I started drag.
00:13:25You are.
00:13:28Now!
00:13:30Now.
00:13:32Oh, Now!
00:13:54I saw my first drag show at age 14, and I feel like it changed everything for me.
00:14:00It changed my whole world when I saw my first drag show.
00:14:14It changed my whole world when I saw my first drag show at age 14, and I feel like it
00:14:32changed
00:14:33my first drag show at age 14, and I feel like it changed my first drag show at age 14,
00:14:34and
00:14:40I was not a normal boy.
00:14:44But I also came out at a very early age.
00:14:47I was way too feminine and way too expressive to hide it.
00:14:55Because even when I thought I was trying really hard to hide it, everyone still saw a little
00:15:00femi gay boy.
00:15:01So when I was like, well, if people are going to just assume that about me anyway, then I
00:15:05should stop worrying about playing this game.
00:15:09It was trying for a lot of time, and it was hard to go through the American public school
00:15:14system like that.
00:15:16But the more that I just kind of realized, you know, there's no hiding it with me, and
00:15:21I'll be so much happier when I stop trying to hide it or trying to be someone else, the
00:15:27better my life got.
00:15:28And yet some day you'll meet another gal who'll throw you away, and she won't feel
00:15:33sorry, nearly as sorry as me.
00:15:37Everyone, I'd like to introduce you to my friends, Oscar Wilde, and teeth.
00:15:47I mean, look at those teeth!
00:15:51Jinx is very heavily based on my mom.
00:15:53My mom doesn't like that.
00:15:59I don't know about you, but I would be very embarrassed to have fake teeth at such a young
00:16:04age.
00:16:05I would, I would.
00:16:06Oh, shit.
00:16:08Oh, damn it.
00:16:10I'm not trying to say my mom was a terrible mom.
00:16:12She had plenty of great moments.
00:16:14But 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
00:16:23selfish, and my way of working through that frustration was to create a character out
00:16:27of it.
00:16:28Mama can remember the words.
00:16:30I'm a professional.
00:16:31The reason I'm able to be a positive person and able to keep my mind focused on, you know,
00:16:38improving the world is because I get all of my anger out on stage.
00:16:42There are plenty of people out there who do not adhere to one strict gender.
00:16:48You know, there are people who are genderless.
00:16:50There are people who would be referred, they prefer to be referred to as gender fluid.
00:16:55They prefer to be referred to as gender non-binary.
00:16:59They prefer not to be referred to at all.
00:17:02Yeah.
00:17:02For instance, I prefer, I prefer not to be referred to.
00:17:05Yeah, it's very awkward when we go to parties.
00:17:07I have to say, have you met my friend?
00:17:12And we have to respect that.
00:17:14We 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, it used
00:17:32to happen more before I was on TV, but people would think that I was a real woman trying
00:17:40to be a drag queen.
00:17:41Like I was a real woman painted up and trying to impersonate a drag queen.
00:17:45And I liked that because it made me feel like I had fully transformed into a character
00:17:49where people really didn't know if I was a boy just as a woman or a woman dressed as
00:17:53a woman.
00:18:05I cannot become any more masculine than I am now.
00:18:09The older I get, the more I'm going to start looking like a man.
00:18:12And 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
00:18:32for you to act this way or the other.
00:18:34And to do anything outside of that is unnatural.
00:18:38It used to drive me nuts trying to feel confident and feel good about myself dressed as a boy
00:18:44because, 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...
00:18:56I feel a responsibility not just as a drag queen but as a gay celebrity.
00:19:01You have to be awake.
00:19:03If you want to be an artist and not just someone pushing booze.
00:19:07I have a much younger audience fan base than I ever expected.
00:19:15There'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 sang their first drag show.
00:19:24I want to make sure there's something that they can take home with them that means something.
00:19:29I want to keep me in the job of...
00:19:43...and...
00:19:44...and...
00:19:50...wind...
00:19:51...wind...
00:19:54...wind...
00:19:58Oh, 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 between your
00:20:09legs and stuff them up in your butthole.
00:20:11And then you put on like a fucking roll of duct tape and five pairs of panties, which
00:20:16are 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
00:20:26tight.
00:20:27And then you have a face that feels like you have a clay mask on.
00:20:30And then when you're sitting around, not doing anything for several hours, it starts to get
00:20:36annoying and painful.
00:20:37And then you have a Tifa 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 fucking start the fucking show?
00:20:47We've been fucking waiting around.
00:20:49It's like coming up the clock.
00:20:50We haven't started the fucking show?
00:20:51I'm fine.
00:20:52Smart.
00:20:52Well, 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.
00:21:05Sorry.
00:21:06It's the corset.
00:21:19We're like witches in more ways than one.
00:21:21If you've ever seen the Angelica Houston movie, Witches, where she's like, you may remove your
00:21:27vigs.
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 and
00:21:49wrote a book about it and called it The Witches.
00:21:54As glamorous as this all looks, it's fucking painful.
00:21:59It's really painful.
00:22:00To create the hyper Western concept of the perfect female form, we are constantly suffering
00:22:08from fever.
00:22:09Our bodies are constantly confined by spandex, which causes us to get very hot and to sweat
00:22:15a lot.
00:22:15And then all the things we use to manipulate our bodies into the female form is absorbing
00:22:20all of that.
00:22:20So the most beautiful drag queen just right underneath their crust is 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, you don't
00:22:42have 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 going to 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.
00:23:05We're disgusting.
00:23:07I can't believe anyone fucks us.
00:23:43Once upon a time.
00:23:46Science opened up the door
00:23:49You know, I could put into a box of being a horror queen or an Elvira.
00:23:56This is a stereotype that I personally am not offended by.
00:24:00Touched the region down the north
00:24:03And they threw a big wave
00:24:05You know, and I kind of, you know, no pun intended, dug my own grave on that one.
00:24:11Supermation
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.
00:24:49The more gay culture has gotten, you know, more accepted.
00:24:53Gay is not as punk as it used to be.
00:24:54So I just, I want to create a punk, cool, underground drag queen.
00:25:00Supermature
00:25:06Oh my god!
00:25:09Can I get a father fucking hell Satan out here?
00:25:14I don't believe in God and I don't believe in the devil, but I do believe in you and me.
00:25:18I don't...
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.
00:25:37It's my Halloween costumes.
00:25:38Feel free to try them on if you want.
00:25:42Thank you so much.
00:25:43Bye.
00:25:44Do you have ults?
00:25:46For Halloween, never.
00:25:48I'm the fucking queen of Halloween.
00:25:50Well, 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 and...
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 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, they're all in me.
00:27:00Oh, J gigs.
00:27:01It's just not right.
00:27:17It's just not right.
00:27:26The great thing about Pittsburgh is that they don't give a fuck who I am, you know?
00:27:31Right 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, or New York, or even getting out of the country.
00:27:53But I look at Pittsburgh the way John Waters looks at Baltimore, because it's like an escape from all of
00:27:59this, 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, and I love that.
00:28:16So I dropped out my freshman year.
00:28:21And, well, I didn't really drop out.
00:28:23Well, my counselor brought in my parents and said it might be best if I left the school, because my
00:28:29visuals were a distraction to the other students.
00:28:32So I left high school.
00:28:34Then I came to Pittsburgh.
00:28:43We 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 lip-sync.
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.
00:29:27You 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, and 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, and they're spilling over, ready to commit suicide.
00:30:12It's called a suicide toe.
00:30:14Ready to jump.
00:30:16How clockable is this lace today?
00:30:19Like, right up on it.
00:30:20Yeah, you can see it, but...
00:30:21Okay.
00:30:22It's a 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, but...
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?
00:30:46They're not describing enough.
00:30:50Um...
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?
00:30:54Six-year-old sex?
00:30:56I wasn't even that cute at six.
00:30:58Yeah.
00:30:59No, definitely.
00:31:00Not like you.
00:31:01You had only had half the procedures done by then.
00:31:04Individual.
00:31:05You want to go to a vigil tonight?
00:31:08Sonique is performing.
00:31:09Is it in this town?
00:31:11No, it's a downtown LA.
00:31:13I have a 5.30 a.m.
00:31:16And it's...
00:31:16It's a two-year-old pageant.
00:31:19I know, I know, I know.
00:31:20Caitlyn Jenner?
00:31:21Caitlyn Jenner is going to be judging.
00:31:23I'll be there.
00:31:26My shoe is slowly filling up with blood.
00:31:30Oh, day gigs.
00:31:32Mother fell asleep.
00:31:37This is corporal punishment.
00:31:45Can we get a golf cart?
00:31:49Or any sport cart.
00:31:52A go-cart.
00:31:54A big wheel.
00:31:56If Caitlyn Jenner was here, we'd have a golf cart.
00:32:00I think it's the only thing she's legally allowed to drive nowadays.
00:32:03Sit on the outside.
00:32:04Natural fashion kit.
00:32:05Maybe not.
00:32:07Okay.
00:32:08This is like the Flintstones.
00:32:10I'm like the fucking steak in the Flintstones, girls.
00:32:15Oh my God.
00:32:16How tall am I?
00:32:17This way.
00:32:18I'm the tallest person I've ever...
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.
00:32:28Yeah, give me as much reverb as you can.
00:32:30Reverb to the point of echo.
00:32:31I don't want that ball.
00:32:33Don't shut it off.
00:32:40Every time I get ready and I look in the mirror, I always say, I'm never going to look better
00:32:44than this.
00:32:45And then one year from that, I'll look back at that and I'll be like, oh God, what was she
00:32:48thinking?
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, then I'd probably quit.
00:33:03I like it to just reflect the insanity that's going on up here.
00:33:08And then it also proves to be very therapeutic for me to perform it live because I think the stage
00:33:14is 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.
00:33:44You're my Dracula-la-la-la-la.
00:33:51Happy Halloween!
00:33:52Hail Satan!
00:33:53And as always, kill your parents!
00:33:59Is there anywhere for Grandma to sit?
00:34:05How have you been?
00:34:06I haven't seen you in a while.
00:34:07I know since 3.40, I think.
00:34:09Yeah, since 3.40.
00:34:10Yeah.
00:34:11Did you guys enjoy the show?
00:34:13Sorry 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.
00:34:19Oh, it was great.
00:34:20Yeah, now I have to pack up real quick.
00:34:21Grab all my Halloween costumes for my tour.
00:34:24Just 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.
00:34:32Caitlyn Jenner.
00:34:34Oh my gosh!
00:34:36Say that again?
00:34:36I love her Caitlyn Jenner.
00:34:38Caitlyn Jenner!
00:34:39Aww.
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.
00:35:04Everyone, so.
00:35:05They are a-changing.
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.
00:35:22Are you not even going to drive me now?
00:35:23And then you're like, fucking causal-ass shit, bitch.
00:35:26It was their cool mean girl table, and then me, the princess, and Madame LaCoeira.
00:35:33It was a nice question.
00:35:34Like a wishy 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 him, 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
00:36:00meet anyone, because literally when I'm on tour, the schedule is get on the plane early
00:36:06in the morning, get to the hotel, maybe have a couple hours to nap or eat, then immediately
00:36:13start getting into drag.
00:36:14So 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
00:36:25dating app.
00:36:26I realize it's very, it is a lot trickier, especially because gay, I always forget about
00:36:30that.
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.
00:36:49Nobody will fuck me.
00:36:54Are you going to fuck me, bitch?
00:36:56I don't think so.
00:36:57Violet was tweeting that she wants to.
00:36:59For the fame, is this bitch going to spread her fat rolls all over my beautiful fucking
00:37:04body, bitch?
00:37:05You leave that bakery alone, bitch.
00:37:06Are you going to fucking stuff my hungry mouth with your delicious Asian rolls, bitch?
00:37:12Nope.
00:37:13Don't fuck yourself.
00:37:14Really?
00:37:15Actually, no.
00:37:16That's kind of what it is.
00:37:17It's like, all right, that guy looks like he can test the challenge of my whims.
00:37:20And changing in, like, ridiculous expectations on every level.
00:37:25That's going to be a really special person.
00:37:28Who's going to graduate from the University of My Pussy, summa cum laude, and going to
00:37:32donate to the alumni fund?
00:37:34Not a lot of people at this, you know, small, unaccredited college in the mountains.
00:37:39You got to let nature take its course.
00:37:41Will you give me a kiss?
00:37:44Jiggles?
00:37:45Nope.
00:37:46Don't give me a fucking mouth.
00:37:47No!
00:37:48Kiss me.
00:37:49No!
00:37:49It's rape.
00:37:50Kiss my gross-ass silver mouth.
00:37:51That is rape.
00:37:52No, I'm saying kiss me.
00:37:54What can I do?
00:37:54No, don't shout rape when you're not getting raped.
00:37:57That'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 going to turn around.
00:38:10I'm going to endanger this whole vehicle.
00:38:11Oh, my God.
00:38:12Give her a sweet little sister peck on the lip.
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.
00:38:24Jules.
00:38:25Good thing with that.
00:38:26I'll try to do it, my man.
00:38:30Listen, I'm a junkie and I'm not going to 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.
00:38:42And then, well, trying not to fuck my dad.
00:38:46And 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,
00:39:06she had 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?
00:39:14Wait, are you 15 years 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 Joyner-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 a...
00:39:32I mean, I'm not a comedian.
00:39:33What do comedians do?
00:39:34They have specials for one hour where they have...
00:39:36They wear a boring outfit and with a microphone, they say,
00:39:39Oh, you guys, when I fuck my wife's pussy, it just goes split, splatter, splatter,
00:39:44makes all these splashy noises.
00:39:45And 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.
00:39:51I like making people laugh, but sometimes I know...
00:39:55It's not that I know that I'm funny, 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.
00:40:02But I know there's a right room.
00:40:04Happy 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,
00:40:14I'm sorry for calling her a cunt in front of her dead mom.
00:40:17And the last thing, I've got to start flossing again.
00:40:20But it's hard.
00:40:22Would 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!
00:40:36Which is which?
00:40:38All right, so 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.
00:40:44Dooduck.
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?
00:40:53We'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, performance art.
00:41:01For real?
00:41:01I used to be embarrassed about it and now I'm literally making thousands and thousands of
00:41:05dollars 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.
00:41:15I'm like...
00:41:17Huh!
00:41:22That's it.
00:41:23To like dentist drills.
00:41:24Just 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?
00:41:31But so 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...
00:41:37When Hollywood makes you...
00:41:39Your grip snaps like a twig on real, not real, important and not important.
00:41:43Yeah?
00:41:44No, that scares me to death.
00:41:47Oh, I'm just...
00:41:48Yeah.
00:41:48No, like, you know, the...
00:41:50Generally speaking, well, I feel like a lunatic.
00:41:54Sometimes.
00:41:55But other times I feel bad.
00:41:56I don't give a shit.
00:41:56I feel like a lunatic.
00:41:57Like, and then I want to retreat and just maintain.
00:42:00And I hate that.
00:42:01It's insidious.
00:42:02Because 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.
00:42:08Because they've never had to fight or do anything more.
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, that's it.
00:42:17But you have to be able to...
00:42:18You have to be functioning to be eccentric.
00:42:19Like, you have to actually...
00:42:20If you meet at seven, you've got to show up at least by eight.
00:42:23You know what I mean?
00:42:24Or otherwise, you're just...
00:42:25People cut you loose.
00:42:28I have to be a clown or, like, a goofball goon because I just...
00:42:30There's no other way to do it.
00:42:32It's so grim!
00:42:33Look at me!
00:42:34I am an insane person!
00:42:36Thank God this is happening because it legitimizes it.
00:42:38Jesus Christ!
00:42:40But fucking A.
00:42:41Barbara, I call you back.
00:42:43It's...
00:42:43Yeah, it's like nuts.
00:42:45That's why I feel like...
00:42:46Oh, whenever I feel like...
00:42:47I wonder if this was what Robin Williams was like...
00:42:49Because he's so manic and crazy and probably cocaine addict.
00:42:52He's like, hanging it up!
00:42:53And then, boom.
00:42:55Hanged himself.
00:42:56Still, 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.
00:43:02I think the Vatican needs to pay because all of my body shame issues,
00:43:05I've been able to, like...
00:43:07Trace back to your Catholic roots?
00:43:08Yeah, and, like, get to a level of objectivity that's kind of realistic.
00:43:12You know, it's never going to be totally objective if it's me,
00:43:14but I've been able to see the same pattern in lots of other people.
00:43:17Those people put me through...
00:43:19The 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 going forward as an artist is to incorporate some element of nudity
00:43:28in every single thing I do.
00:43:29Because 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.
00:43:36Permeeting everything else.
00:43:37Here'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.
00:43:44But 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...
00:43:52My 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.
00:43:57Not a value judgment.
00:43:58In a Catholicism, they say,
00:43:59Your body is dirty.
00:44:01You are worthless.
00:44:02Every time you are naked, you are ashamed and afraid.
00:44:05Garden of Eden, mama.
00:44:06It 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,
00:44:14I'm naked and it's wrong.
00:44:15That is fucked.
00:44:18We too have been holding in the stream
00:44:23From the morning's night till the night
00:44:28The sea is between us
00:44:50I want to kind of move through this
00:44:52because we still have to learn another one today.
00:44:53I'm going to mush my weenie into your body
00:44:55and 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
00:45:00breaking 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.
00:45:07Left 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.
00:45:17Gotcha.
00:45:18Get 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, gleeful, stagger,
00:45:29fucking crack the whip,
00:45:30dance 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.
00:45:40Lifting 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 percussive.
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,
00:46:04but 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.
00:46:16I 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,
00:46:23but we all get why that's funny, right?
00:46:26Oh, God.
00:46:27These guys were just like...
00:46:29Fit life.
00:46:30Insta fit.
00:46:32Like, like, hunk of the...
00:46:33I mean, aspirational hunk of the day.
00:46:36Gym life.
00:46:37Go to the gym.
00:46:39Hashtag gym world.
00:46:41Gym place.
00:46:43You know, hashtag like muscle place.
00:46:45Muscle fitness.
00:46:46Gym fitness.
00:46:46Fitness life.
00:46:47Fitness world.
00:46:48Muscle gym fitness world.
00:46:49Muscle gym fitness world planet.
00:46:51How do they get all these hashtags?
00:46:53If you look, there's a huge paragraph.
00:46:55And you realize it's all to grab attention
00:46:57to say, look at me.
00:46:58I'm doing a good job.
00:47:00I don't understand why they don't see it.
00:47:02It's the same picture.
00:47:03Every time.
00:47:05Like Groundhog Day.
00:47:07Ordinary people are fucking weird.
00:47:09Not bad.
00:47:11But they are fucking weird.
00:47:13It looks like a giant VV.
00:47:15Oh, God.
00:47:16He's so sexy.
00:47:18You just said you don't go for WeHo Perfection yet.
00:47:20You're drooling over...
00:47:23That's...
00:47:24That's...
00:47:25That's WeHo 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...
00:47:33So, if there's any drag queens who are Trump supporters?
00:47:36Yeah, my friend, Aby Vodka House.
00:47:39From the original House of Haunt voted for Donald Trump.
00:47:41She's very proud of herself.
00:47:42Is that like a subversive kind of dig?
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.
00:47:51Yeah.
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 gonna 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...
00:48:32I 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 gonna get in trouble.
00:48:51We didn't even get cigarettes.
00:48:57My name is Ekaterina Petrovna Zemolochkova, but you can call me...
00:49:02Barbara, you fucking idiot.
00:49:05Hi.
00:49:06So, listen.
00:49:07Oh, gosh.
00:49:07We have so much to talk about.
00:49:08But 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.
00:49:21Hello, 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 fit of retardation, that's me.
00:49:41The first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me 10 pounds of rambioli.
00:49:48On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me two Bob Ross paintings and 10 pounds of
00:49:55rambioli.
00:49:56I mean, I'm a niche, like, people coming off the street were like, let's do dinner and a show tonight,
00:50:01Marty.
00:50:01We're in Atlantic City.
00:50:02They came to my show, I'd be like, oh, 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.
00:50:0910 pounds of rambioli, on the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, six wildest
00:50:17team and five to the world.
00:50:22Wow!
00:50:23I went, I saw Sandra Bernhardt in a sheer dress and 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 saw?
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, doesn't get any weirder than this when you're the parent
00:50:50of this wacko child, by the way.
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.
00:51:43Oh, you guys are your 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 and we were best friends since
00:51:58like we traveled to Sanford together on a bus.
00:52:00Planes.
00:52:01No hotel, like 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.
00:52:18Sorry.
00:52:19No, I'm so sorry.
00:52:20It's okay.
00:52:22It's real.
00:52:23Like this is, it's not fake.
00:52:25We're not like those guys.
00:52:33There you go, darling.
00:52:35There you go.
00:52:36Yes.
00:52:41I'll shut them up.
00:52:44Attention!
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.
00:53:02Now.
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.
00:53:24It 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.
00:53:31But like, wouldn't that be amazing if I 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!
00:54:27Yeah!
00:54:31Something about having to be Jinx and Jarek 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 Jarek and let them open up and share that moment?
00:54:47Tell me things you like about Mummy, darling!
00:54:50I think you 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 it's like being Mickey Mouse at Disneyland, and he's so busy taking pictures with people
00:55:19that 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.
00:55:46I'm doing it now on camera.
00:55:48It's a movie.
00:55:49I'm in a movie.
00:55:51I'm in a movie, and my scene is going to be me bitching about how difficult my glamorous, ridiculously lucky
00:55:56life is.
00:56:17Everyone I've interviewed over the last is saying the same thing.
00:56:20You're exhausted.
00:56:21Yes, it's true.
00:56:31You are legendary already.
00:56:46okay um do we have that light can we turn that light on me thank you
00:56:53um can someone grab my phone thank you okay i'm coming out
00:57:16yes please yeah
00:57:28okay
00:57:38thank you i hope i win
00:57:42hi how are you
00:57:46hey what's up
00:57:47hi how are you
00:57:55yeah
00:57:56yeah
00:58:18new year's eve 1979 a lonely military
00:58:25outpost is about to have its mind blown by an unexpected guest a leggy bombshell from
00:58:31the planet glamtron crash landing on earth the newly named alaska thunder fun is immediately
00:58:37captured by military men eager to exploit her body's out of this world special powers read
00:58:44this exciting uplifting adventure to discover the legend of alaska so yeah just tell me when
00:58:53okay my name's lil pound cake um i'm five years old but my mom told me to say that i
00:59:00was two
00:59:02i weigh 18 pounds i'm three foot five
00:59:09you're not my real daddy and you never will be
00:59:14okay great um
00:59:18my name's lil pound cake and i'm a straight up motherfucking dick pig
00:59:29okay like so it's like but it's like this so it's like hi but also it's like can i just
00:59:36hear can you
00:59:37throw like my name is lil pound cake and i'm a straight up
00:59:40you can put auto-tune on it too
00:59:42yeah i'm just riding dirty
00:59:46that's hot
00:59:47i'm just riding dirty
00:59:48ah i'm just riding dirty
00:59:56and the hands are going to 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 going to be as thick in the finger
01:00:05uh so like like an american girl doll yeah exactly that should be that should be the slogan like an
01:00:11american girl
01:00:12oh should i show you stuff in my house okay these i just 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
01:00:30piece and then the big thing that i can just pop on top so they did them they're very beautiful
01:00:35and
01:00:36very large um this is my rupal statue i bought it when they did the limited run of them and
01:00:45i had
01:00:45to have one so i bought it so um it's it's one of my prized possessions this i keep wigs
01:00:52on the um stove
01:00:56just um because they're big and i don't i don't really have anywhere else to put them
01:01:01i'm thinking maybe the stove doesn't get turned on a whole lot i don't i do make tea but that's
01:01:06on
01:01:06this one but the rest i mean i don't know yeah i don't use the other ones uh this is
01:01:14the spare room
01:01:15where i just put drag this is what i'm gonna wear tonight though
01:01:23it's like long and poofy at the bottom
01:01:27i'm really excited this is a fox oh 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
01:01:56i feel like my mom knew but i think she also knew that we were i mean we were living
01:02:02in erie
01:02:02pennsylvania you know in early 90s so she was very like you need to like not play like a girl
01:02:11when
01:02:11you're out playing with your friends because i always wanted to be the girl character i know it's
01:02:16shocking
01:02:21i became like a drag queen though basically at the very end of college and there was once that we
01:02:29did
01:02:29pericles which is a a little known shakespeare play this russian director came and he was like the
01:02:36resident director and he was like you you read the this at first i was reading like the male roles
01:02:44he asked me to read the madam of the whorehouse and he and i and i started reading him he
01:02:51was like
01:02:51but not like this like this so i did it in a really high voice and i got the role
01:02:58and it was like it
01:02:59was pretty epic by the end of the run they were like justin you need to tone down your makeup
01:03:07because
01:03:07it's getting too grotesque and too dark i had blacked out teeth my lips drawn wrinkles
01:03:17that was the the bite of the bug well then i moved to la to be an actor
01:03:25because i wanted to get out of pennsylvania i thought it was too small
01:03:28i was getting called a fag on the street and i didn't like that and i was like i need
01:03:32to go to
01:03:32a big city either new york or la i don't care which one my best friend happened to be living
01:03:37in los
01:03:37angeles so that was it well alaska thunderfuck was a being that beamed itself into my body
01:03:49i remember when i first moved to la and i knew i knew what she was she was the glamazonian
01:03:55princess
01:03:55from the planet glamtron who crash landed on earth and who needs to get enough twitter followers to
01:04:00get her spaceship back up and running again and so she saw billboards of beautiful women i was like
01:04:05that's what i'm supposed to look like to get through this world she does that through her twisted
01:04:13vision of how she sees it so like she thinks she looks like marilyn monroe because she does
01:04:21gabe is coming i think cory's coming too oh cory's gonna be there too okay god should i call you
01:04:28after
01:04:28we play now um well probably yeah okay but then it'll be a spoiler alert
01:04:35no of course yes all right honey well i love you i love you too um bye may the best
01:04:43woman win
01:04:45i think that she thinks i'm not going to win because of how the fan the fan interaction online
01:04:52has been in the last week because i had a horrible episode last week where i just looked like an
01:04:57asshole and so like that's all my mom is seeing so i think she thinks i'm not gonna win so
01:05:03i guess we'll see
01:05:06oh yeah i've been dreading it since since we filmed it we filmed it over a year ago and i've
01:05:13been dreading
01:05:13that episode coming out and what it was going to look like and how it was how people were going
01:05:19to
01:05:19respond to it and uh the response hasn't been great i get so many messages that are like no matter
01:05:31what
01:05:32everyone online says i still love you which is like so what are people saying i lied like is that
01:05:40bad
01:05:50first time around in on season five i didn't win i came out of it very well
01:05:56and this time it's like i did really well in the competition but as a person i just feel like
01:06:03i
01:06:04don't want to hang out with that person that person needs to just chill the out
01:06:17people think that i'm lying but like when i was there i was making decisions we had to make really
01:06:22difficult decisions i i know in my heart that i didn't make any decisions like oh i want to
01:06:28fuck this person over so i can do better later it was like i just made the best decisions that
01:06:34i could
01:06:35and i know that in my heart but people say like oh yeah sure girl because of how it played
01:06:41out
01:06:41on tv i just have dreams about all the time it's like ptsd and just like the psychic
01:07:00feeling of even a hundred it's probably thousands of people who are trying to tell me that i'm a
01:07:09terrible person having that being told to you so much is like it's and then you see it on tv
01:07:16and
01:07:16you're like well yeah i get they're right and so then it's like am i that am i that am
01:07:23i am i a bad
01:07:24person am i that person and and you start to believe that drag is definitely armor i do get to
01:07:34like work
01:07:35out a lot of the issues that i have through the art and the character which is great but i
01:07:41do also
01:07:41think i need therapy of this process like seriously what's your like worst fear about it like about
01:07:50tomorrow 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
01:08:12won't have a job anymore that's my that's worst case scenario because like this show is more than just
01:08:19a show to people it's a religion and it's a way of life and it's a phenomenon and it's like
01:08:24the 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
01:08:32so it is written that's it that's truth so i hope that um i hope that doesn't happen
01:08:41that's what i want to say hi um how much longer do we have we still have to lip sync
01:08:54for our lives we
01:08:55all have to give our speeches like it's a minute you're giving your speeches now alaska every single
01:09:00week she's come and she has slain the competition she understands how smash game reports you know it
01:09:06or you don't and she got it
01:09:15my heart is
01:09:21please the time has come to crown our queen
01:09:28the winner of rumble's drag race all stars
01:09:31the next queen to be inducted into the drag race hall of fame is
01:09:53oh my god
01:09:55i've never been so happy for you i think congratulations i've been so happy for you
01:10:00did you already know um maybe are you there
01:10:09fucking hell
01:10:12nana's calling me now okay okay okay hello well congratulations thank you nana oh my god
01:10:22god yeah did your mother call you yeah she did it got disconnected i don't know what happened
01:10:28oh yeah yeah listen i want you to take that money and invest it you bet i am all right
01:10:37don't go
01:10:38blowing it on everything well i want you to invest it for your future for retirement i will that's a
01:10:45very
01:10:46good idea i will definitely do that just don't blow it on popsicles and uh right just candy and just
01:10:55candy and
01:10:56you knew this though didn't you oh well i don't know maybe it's one of the great mysteries of the
01:11:03world world who knows oh okay someday you'll tell me yeah i'll tell you when you're 90.
01:11:08on my dying bed no i'll tell you when you're 90. hello
01:11:18um maybe a little it was so awesome yay i'm so happy for you i'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 i you know i knew and i knew that
01:11:38like
01:11:39it was gonna be whatever it was gonna be but like they didn't get to have that they didn't get
01:11:45to have
01:11:45that moment on season five you know they they didn't get to have that and they do now and i
01:11:53i'm sure
01:11:54they're just so fucking happy about it that's great
01:12:17that's my dream you took it on the race so let's share it and sit on my face
01:12:29going 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 because what else can you do
01:12:43i'm finding power in it
01:12:47the winner of rupaul's drag race
01:12:54you have to take the worst stuff that happens to you and make art out of it or it will
01:13:00kill you
01:13:16the worst things at that time was alaska you're nothing but a snake you're not how i thought you
01:13:24were you're just a snake and now i saw shirts where it's me surrounded by snakes and i'm sitting
01:13:31in front of a thing that has snakes all over it now the snake is my spirit animal it's the
01:13:35only way
01:13:36to survive you 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
01:13:59you're my people and you're my people and i just want all the stars to go
01:14:24so
01:14:25have you always been a big fat awful person no yeah yeah brand loyalty because i just think especially
01:14:37now especially with kim kardashian it's just too surface man it's like they don't give a
01:14:43fuck like the little commenters on youtube some of those kids don't even listen to a
01:14:48fucking word it's like they watch it without the sound with the sound off there's like oh my god
01:14:52they look so good i don't understand what she's wearing though or like whatever it's all i see is
01:14:56just surface shit i swear maybe i'm just being way too harsh in the critical or just bitter and old
01:15:02or something but but yeah it's just i don't this the kids are just so obsessed they don't know how
01:15:06to
01:15:06talk to her that all they know how to do is put eyeliner on okay so you're going there for
01:15:13christmas right before and then i do a show there uh and then leave on christmas eve
01:15:19where are you going for christmas um all my family is going to my brother's in washington state
01:15:25are you like aware of that no alaska what are you doing for christmas my mom was like i i
01:15:31don't
01:15:32want anyone to talk about politics no so out of respect i'm like okay well i'm not going to but
01:15:37it's also like like members of my family are like personally affronting my existence and i don't feel
01:15:45comfortable not talking about that it's like i don't want to see you i don't want to see your
01:15:51face did you go for thanksgiving i did and no one came to my mom's house yeah oh my gosh
01:16:00look who it is
01:16:02fucking donald trump and he's mad he didn't get what he wanted for christmas oh man what the
01:16:10uh uh girl why you complaining you're not in india starving it's not like you don't have nothing
01:16:16you're so damn sport that's alarming you got some parents i love you a brother that
01:16:20fuck you so much again you got a brother i love you
01:16:23don't get into it you get what you get the usual
01:16:25christmas rock christmas rock christmas rock look i just got a pair of tube socks christmas rocks
01:16:41wanna bet me i'll bet you a million bucks thank you mom and dad i can't really be sad because
01:16:49i guess
01:16:49christmas really good friends and dad well before the election and just being a transgressive
01:16:57you know asshole that i am i would say in the press and i would say a lot like you
01:17:02know let trump win
01:17:03let's return to fags being punk and like being against the system because you know we had eight
01:17:08years of obama and our fan base tends to be a little younger so our fans basically grew up with
01:17:16drag race
01:17:17and obama's so i was kind of like oh yeah bring bring trump in remind remind these kids you know
01:17:23just how um how quick things can change and how a new normal can sprout up overnight and well i
01:17:29take
01:17:29it all back now oops has the trump administration changed how i feel about my job um a little but
01:17:37not
01:17:37as much as um how orlando has changed how i feel about my job i found out about the pulse
01:17:44tragedy
01:17:44on the battle of the seasons tour on the tour bus and uh we had to go straight to minneapolis
01:17:51and do
01:17:51a show that night god everyone was so freaked out that day too it was really weird and and um
01:18:01michelle sang uh take a bow by madonna every night and she's like will you all come on stage with
01:18:04me
01:18:04and we were just a mess just a messy ass show but that was the only show my mom came
01:18:09to see so it was
01:18:09really nice you know oh i'm so sorry i don't think i ever got that sad about atlanta for a
01:18:17while
01:18:20i forgot about that day too it was so crazy it was so crazy i ate meat
01:18:26you ate meat yeah i didn't give a fuck i went to jimmy johnson had a blt it was so
01:18:30good
01:18:31and you're a pita well you're a well-known vegetarian who cares that pig was really mean
01:18:38so
01:18:52so
01:18:53so
01:18:53so
01:19:15No, 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 we do we put on
01:19:28fantastical costume and dress and we go out and we make a spectacle we tell the truth and we exorcise
01:19:37people of the demon 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?
01:19:44Well, I didn't realize that's what I was doing when I started. I just had to do it. I was
01:19:48called to do it. I had to.
01:19:49I 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 it.
01:20:05It was like, for some reason, slamming my fucking gross dick pussy into the ground a million times is like
01:20:11a cathartic experience that people love, but not more than a big one.
01:20:18It's the general 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.
01:20:28I thank you for two.
01:20:29I was going to say one.
01:20:31You're so generous, Nate.
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.
01:22:19Has 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.
01:22:37That'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. We 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,
01:23:29Look at that. Isn'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. Make it fucking real.
01:23:45Let's get it all.
01:23:45Let's get it all.
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