WEBVTT - Rhys Nicholson - RUPAUL'S: DOWN UNDER- Judge Comedian etc 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:03.640 TV Reload the podcast past weep. 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.200 They might welcome back guys to TV Reload. My name 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.760 is Benjamin Norris and this is your podcast to get 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:11.240 all the insight goss all the popular TV shows you 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.440 may be watching from around the world Underniably, our TV 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.959 sets are a major part of our home entertainment, and 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.840 yet very little is known about how our favorite shows 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.759 get made. So each episode I've been finding guests they 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:24.720 want to dive just a little bit deeper to the 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.160 shows they're currently making, so that you can hear all 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.120 their exclusive stories and gain access to the biggest names 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.800 in Australian television. I want to thank you for downloading 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.800 or subscribing to this podcast however you found me. I 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.000 love hearing your feedback, so make sure you leave a 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:39.360 review or a comment on. 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:40.840 Your chosen podcast platform. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.960 This chat, I'm joined by the wonderfully entertaining comedian Rhys 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.400 Nicholson and the first eliminated queen from RuPaul's Drag Race 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:52.080 down Under, which has its third season premiering this weekend 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:56.000 on STAN Australia. Reys Nicholson is an Australian born comedian 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.280 writer and actor who has been lucky enough to feature 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.320 in the Australian version of RuPaul's Drag Race as a 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.440 judge since it first began in twenty twenty one. I 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.000 honestly have been really looking forward to catching up with 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.679 Rees to get some insights on the latest series and 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.720 ask some pretty huge questions that I've had plaguing my 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.479 mind since the original series began well over a decade ago. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.880 Then I will get a debris from the first eliminated queen. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.040 As mentioned, I'm not going to mention their name now 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.200 at this point of the podcast, as you may not 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.000 have seen the first episode and I want to give 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.520 you that chance to catch up on Stan Australia, but 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.080 stick around after Nicholson to hear that part of the 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.480 podcast if you like. I will find out how hard 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.160 it is to get onto RuPaul's Drag Race in Australia 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.440 and what makes down Under different to the overseas editions. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.560 Reese will lift the lid on the runway and will 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.040 share how many times the Queen's actually walk down that 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.160 runway and why. I will also get to the bottom 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.760 of how much time ruined Michelle are actually on set 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.560 and if Reese has made a proper friendship with them 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.800 during the last three seasons. Plus, we will get plenty 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.320 of exclusives from behind the scenes of RuPaul's Drag Race 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.000 down Under, which is now available to watch the first 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.200 episode on stant Australia. Now, anyway, let's bring reason to 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.880 the podcast and guys, I really hope you'll enjoy this 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.240 really special look at RuPaul's drag Race. Yeah, just so 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.320 you know, I'm in Warburton. That's why this isn't a 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:16.839 fake background. This is actually real. 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.040 I've all got a place in Dale fin It's a 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.200 hovel and it's going to be financially ruinous. It needs 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.400 to be like re stumped to the whole fucking nightmare. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.280 I love that you're starting off really positive to start. No, 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.040 it's good to be able to get out into the 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.079 country after COVID. You kind of can do that because 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.840 we've worked out that we can do more away from 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:35.480 being locked. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.040 Yeah, stuff like this, I'm in. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.360 My underpants, which I was wondering, are you often in 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.720 your underpants? But like good from the top up when 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:42.560 you're doing rupe Paul. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.360 No, because we and I think everyone has these like 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.800 fantasies that were like youth readers or something, and like 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:49.519 and say that, you know, the whole thing that like 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.399 Ruth not even in drag most of the time. It's 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.720 like not true. And also like sometimes yeah, but no, 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.799 we always we might get more comfortable, Like if I'm 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.560 wearing uncomfortable shoes, I might take them off because we 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.560 have to do the runway and then you've got to 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.680 kind of take photos of it. It's like I wish, 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.359 I wish it was just from here up all the time. Like, yeah, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.399 I'm wearing track pants right now, and I'm not wearing 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.000 any shoes. And because it's the only thing we do 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.280 is I'm lucky because I'm in a suit. Michelle will 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.680 sometimes put on slippers or something because it is so 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.040 cold in the studio, but Ruers often stays in a 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:21.960 lot of the more uncomfortable stuff, like she might take 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:23.840 the shoes off and stuff. But you know, there's this 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.919 whole like conspiracy theory that she's like barely in drag 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.280 or anything. And I gotta say she's in more drag 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.600 than I would be if I had been doing drag 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.600 for as long as her. I don't want to talk 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.040 out of school, but you know, the lady is in 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.360 her sixties and if finched for the gods and he's 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.400 sitting there for eight hours, it's fine. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.320 I just thought it's a really fun place to start. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:43.920 I didn't mean to ask you whether or not you're 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.000 but you've given me some really good tea. 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:47.200 There. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.200 People be like, oh my gosh, Ben, you didn't ask 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:50.360 anything and you've got. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.960 Oh yeah, I'm an open book. I'm happy to talk 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.560 about anything other than the same usual four questions like it. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.680 Oh do you know what's so weird is that people 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.360 ask the same questions and like, I don't think they 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.760 all know, because the look on their face when they 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.440 approach you on the street to ask you that question 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.680 looks like it might be brand new information or a 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.160 brand new question, or they're the new Oprah Winfrey asking 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:15.640 you this one. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.680 So sometimes you get shocking. When I was in I 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.039 went to London Pride a few weeks ago, and a woman, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.320 a very drunk lady and I don't know if she 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.440 was just drunk or maybe she was under the influence 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.600 of other things, came up to me and was like 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.640 very passionate to tell me that she loves me. On 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.920 drag race and because I'm just an asshole and I'm 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.359 just myself on that show. Those are exact words, and 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.120 I was like, Oh, I'm not aware that was. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.920 My How about your drink lanscation? 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.720 Yeah, you know, like just like because you're just You're 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.640 just an asshole and you're just you. You're just you 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.320 on there, and I was like, Oh, I thought I 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:48.720 was the polar abdull of the group. 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.280 I think it's very strange though, because like I did 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.719 Big Brother ten years ago, and people still come up 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.560 to me and say I'm the bitch in my friendship 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:00.640 circle and I'm like and I'm I'm like what, I'm like, 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.600 it's not who you think you are. But isn't that 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.440 funny that the interpretation of you on television can be 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.679 taken anywhere someone's watching it and relating to you because 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:11.600 they think they're. 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.160 Like you, or an actual fact, they're nothing like you. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.280 Yeah, they just have red hair. I think they've just 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.159 confused the shape of their head. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.400 I saw you and Joel last year at your Christmas 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.800 Special and I honestly laughed for days. It was my 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.760 first time that I've ever seen you live, and I've 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.600 never laughed so much. And I honestly say, you are 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.599 the funniest comedian that I've seen live, and I haven't 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.960 seen a lot because I'm actually like a comedian, I 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.200 find not all comedians. I get like I have a 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.160 lot of friends. Again, they asked me to come along 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.440 to watch it, and then there's that moment where they 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.320 look at you and you're not laughing, and then I'm like, oh. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.159 God, well, it's like it's hard as well. I think 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:51.839 also if you work in the kind of if you 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.200 work in the media and stuff, nothing really shocked this 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.640 c anymore either, and so like, and as a comedian, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.480 I don't laugh very much in comedies anymore. If I'm 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.400 laughing in a stand up show, it means it's like 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.000 it's really you've gotten me. It's very nice of you 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.320 to say. I'm always glad when people remember that I'm 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.040 a comedian because of like you know, I've been compeding 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:13.279 for fifteen years and something very strange has been happening 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.479 where because of drag race, and I welcome it and 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.839 it's great, But they do not know I'm a comedian. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.640 They just think I'm a professional drag judge. And I 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.080 always wonder, like, what do you. 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:23.640 They've just got you in a box, ready to get 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.359 you out, Ready to be a drag judge. 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:26.440 That's all you do all year. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.960 I was doing it in Refringed last year and in Scotland, 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.720 and Karen from Finances on them in the same venue 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.120 as me after me, and so I would walk past 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.080 her audience every night, and so I would do my 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:38.719 show and they were selling quite well. I was having 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.320 fun and I'd walk past her audience and every night 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.760 someone would say, oh my god. Recent because they play 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.320 drag Race down Under on BBC over there, so it's 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.560 like free too wear, so a lot of people watch it. 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.520 Sometimes I find myself a little bit more famous in 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.359 the UK to a specific group than in Australia. But 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.400 the every night someone would say to me, oh what 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.279 do you do? Are you here to see Karen? And 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.240 I'll go, oh no, I just did my show. And 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.680 every night someone would be perplexed what I do? I'm like, well, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.880 what do you do on stage? On a stand up? 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:08.800 Like what do you think? How do you think I became. 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.680 Petry of the penis? What do you think after the show? 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:13.920 But like, what do you think? I went to like 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.880 drag law school and became a drag lawyer and then 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.760 worked my way up and had to become a judge. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.200 Like what do you I'm hoping to get on the 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:21.680 drag Supreme Court the next year. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.120 It's crazy. It's crazy. 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:24.760 I mean, I just thought it was funny because I 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.520 went along to see the show and I'd met you 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.480 once before, and I think you might have been like 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.080 not in your best mood, and so I was like, oh, okay. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:33.520 And then when I saw you do it. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.280 I think we met at a bar, right, I think. 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:37.400 Yeah, Joel might have introduced us. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.320 But two am I think from memory it was like 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:39.880 quite late. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:41.280 Yeah, we both fewt like this. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:43.560 Yeah yeah, and I think we're in the smoking area 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:43.960 of a buck. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:44.680 Yeah, there we go. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.560 But you remember, I was thinking, I'm going to bring 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.000 this up anyway. I went to go and see the 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.800 comedy show and I saw Joel. I think Joel's funny, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:52.480 you know, you know, he's a mutual friend of ours. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.800 But then when you came on, I laughed so hard. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:56.960 And then Joel texted me afterwards and said, what did 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:57.880 you think of the show? 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.239 And I wrote back and said, was so funny. 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.000 And then I realized that I always come across like 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:07.000 I'm a bitch like you comparing two people, but I just, well, I. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.640 Remember watching you ten years ago, I'm big brother and 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.840 going I'm the bitch in my friendship group. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.120 Oh well, I'll tie my hair red and we'll just 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.200 have it. We'll have a love of I just I 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:17.680 don't know. For some reason, I feel like I'm the 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.640 Simon Cow of comedians and I just go along and 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.040 I'm just like really cranky where this is a good 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.080 plug just for your shows, because I've never laughed so hard. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.280 And then I went home and was like repeating your 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.760 jokes to my partner, who didn't laugh because I didn't 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.480 have the skill set of being funny like that. 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:35.120 Do you know what I mean? 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.280 Like comedy is like stand up with very hard to 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.280 repeat as well. But I'm glad you like those shows 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.120 like we're doing We're gonna do we haven't announced the 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:42.840 dates yet, but with Joel and I are doing another. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.480 I can't wait christmath Tuur because we love hanging out 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.400 like it and it's a really we're both like we've 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.880 been best friends for like ten years and it's it's 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.520 a way for us to hang out because we're both 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.120 are busy now, like we were just literally texting yesterday 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:57.920 trying to make a dinner happen, and we're both like, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.200 and it's very it's a nice booked and left, but 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:02.600 try to make it happen. So we book in shows 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.960 so we can we have dinner, we go and do 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.480 the show, and then we go for a drink afterwards, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:07.679 and it's a way and often like you would have 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:09.600 seen in the show, we're catching up on stage. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.559 Yeah, that's what I liked about it, though it was 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.160 kind of conversational. I mean, you do in that show 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.120 very cleverly, get to have your monologues or whatever you 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:18.679 call it, when you kill and you do your bit, 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.320 but the bits in between didn't seem like they were 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.080 all pre rehearsed. Like you watch to listen to a 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.360 lot of radio these days, and radio producers are like, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.840 be you didn't know that we pre planned everything, and 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:29.360 you're like. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.000 Oh, it did sound like yeah, I did know that. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:32.720 I did know that. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.280 But with you guys, it seemed like that we were 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.559 allowed to be a fly on the wall with some 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.880 real friendship going on, which I thought was really clever. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.320 Anyway, Yeah, yeah, no, that was the dream. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.480 Thanks well, and now we're here sorry, welcome back to 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.160 another series of Roupulse drag Races. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:48.679 B Oh the way we should talk about this? 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.320 Yeah, yeah, Like it's very exciting to be doing a 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.360 third one. It's nice. You know, you never know what's 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:54.920 going to happen, and I'm glad that we're doing a third. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.319 When you first signed up for the series, though, did 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.200 you have any idea that was it was going to 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.160 be an ongoing get Do they say to you, look, 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.400 we're going to try it in Australia and see how 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.160 it goes, or were they or did you think you 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.400 were joining like this franchise that it is now? 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.559 I mean I think you hope, like you hope it's 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.000 going to be a franchise, like and you know, but 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:13.760 I didn't. You never know, like I was on a 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.200 on a year to year thing, like it's not they 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.199 don't and it's beside it every year what's going to 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.640 happen with it? And I hope I wasn't going to 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:22.319 be santinoed. 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.240 You'd imagine with these sorts of things, you'd be like, well, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.760 there's so many gay comedians now, I mean even cheap. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:29.439 It's not that. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.520 But it's good that you can keep coming back on 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.319 the show. I really appreciate it as well. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.839 Yeah, yeah, it is like and it's it's nice to like, 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.040 I definitely feel part of the furniture now, kind of 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.640 part of the family like it. You know, we we 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.120 all kind of get on really well. And it's also 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:46.800 what was what's really exciting about this year is like 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.319 the amount of guest judges we have proper like that 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.160 the weight was a little bit off Michelle and my 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.200 shoulders this year because we have the likes of Adam 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.920 Lambert and Maria Fatill and like some wild Amy Taylor 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.319 from Amel and the Sniffer is like sitting with us 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.240 and so you know, usually at the chats end when 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.880 I finished talking and now we get to listen to 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:04.559 someone else talk. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:05.000 It's fun. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.480 Yeah, I mean that's the thing is like I think 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.720 when it was through COVID, there was so many things. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.640 I mean, you did have big names, like you think 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.040 you're Kylie and Danny in the first series, but yeah 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.440 they're on zoom and so that's not fun. You want 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.480 to be there next to them to be like hi, yeah. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.319 And I never got to be like, you know, I 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.880 didn't get to meet Tiger because he met the Queens 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.000 and I wasn't there that day because it was in 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:25.760 a runway day. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.920 Yeah, I forget that you wouldn't be there for those 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:29.120 those sorts of bits. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:29.360 You know. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.680 I want to ask you about this. How you got 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:32.920 started on this. I heard a. 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.280 Rumor that RuPaul was watching you on Conan O'Brien all 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.680 one of those up laid shows and saw you doing 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.599 one of your sets, and that they reached out to you. 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.120 This way, Have I made this a Netflix? 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.280 I have a Netflix special and I think he's seen 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.360 because he tweeted out of the Blue my special on 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:57.360 Netflix and just said hilarious and I had an aneurysm. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.079 Because that was never been the same again. 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:01.120 It was bonkers, and and yeah, so we did that, 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.040 and then yeah, I got it. I knew there was 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.040 kind of names being floated around, and I knew that 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:07.640 I was on the long list, and then yeah, I 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.800 got a call on a Sunday to say that it 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.800 was happening. And yeah, I think because he is. I 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.840 think he's so much more involved than people think. And 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.040 I think that was part of it, Like there was 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.920 some bigger names, but I think he likes to have 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.160 people that we have a similar sense of human There 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.760 was a particular story in and you know, he's very 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.200 open about this that he's had. He's done a lot 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.200 of drugs in his life. He's a sober person now. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.120 But there's a story in my Netflix special about taking 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.640 ketamine accidentally for the first time. I think he told 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.600 me once that that was a joke that really did. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.640 That clinched it for him. He was like, you explained 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.320 ketamine perfectly, and that's how I wanted you on the show. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.320 It's the only time in the world where you're going 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:49.080 for a job that your recollection of doing ketamine gets 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:49.640 your job. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.280 You know your weaknesses. I've done drugs, Great, we'll take 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:54.160 You've got the job. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.160 Oh my god, it's crazy. It's crazy. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.200 That's fantastic and I love that for you. You know, 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.640 the show's produced in New Zealand, which requires you to 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.719 pack up and relocate. I've got two questions for how 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.360 long do you have to move to New Zealand? 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:05.679 Four? 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.400 And do you get to hang out with Michelle Veasage 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.320 and RuPaul, you know on the off days, like to 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:12.360 go to subway? 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.080 Oh yeah, and get a roll together? 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.800 Yeah? Yeah, we go get we go get subway together. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.320 That's exactly what we do. No, we we do hang out. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.240 We're usually there. I think it's like close to a month, 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.480 like usually it kind of depends on like COVID. COVID 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.160 was different. It's not as long as the like the 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.000 American ones, I know is longer. When I've met American queens, 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:31.439 they're like. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.439 Were we were there for six years? 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.400 Yeah? And I think also because we have a Sometimes 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.360 the American show has like eighty queens on a season 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:41.960 and they have to like get them, but you know, 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.880 we've got ten. Yeah, we do hang out. Michelle and 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.360 I we both like males, were like going to a 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:48.520 male and like we live near each other, Like we 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.680 go for luncheon and stuff, like we're not unless we 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.840 have other work to do. We're kind of because I 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.000 had a bit more work to do this year, usually 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.120 in the first year because I'd be on every kind 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.960 of second day because that's when a runway day is spoiler. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.640 I do a little bit more kind of I get 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.600 to do some challenges and stuff this year. Okay, great, yeah, 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.280 and what else and yeah, But Michelle and I we 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.760 both like seafood and so we tend to every couple 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.120 of days go somewhere like we're just there to feel 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.040 when we're not working, we're kind of fill in time. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.800 I'm just starting to picture to bend out padems. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.040 I'm picturing you both in like these Valua sort of 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.960 Julie Cooper Nickel from the OC track suits together walking 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.440 through News, Yeah, walking through Target and walking through Target 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:28.920 in big w. 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:34.440 Like her and her hair guy Craig, who does her incredible, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.240 like I think he does her in the UK as well. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.320 We tend to kind of yeah, we all just kind 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:42.360 of hang out, go to It's interesting. They're also much 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.720 healthier than me, like like they're all like vegans and 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.360 don't drink and all that, and like Michelle's got a 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.960 kind of immuno stuff that she eats particular things, and 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.120 so I'm always just like eating a burger and like 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.920 drinking a beer and they're just like eating like like 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.280 you know, delicious food but not not food for me. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.720 But they're fun. Like I remember when we with Michelle 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:03.960 and I were going to this is last year. We 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.760 were going to go to a restaurant, Like there was 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.520 this nicely food restaurant we wanted to try, and I 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.040 was like, yeah, this one's a good one, I think, 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:11.200 and she said, I we should invite a couple of 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.960 the production crew as well. We did that, and then 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.600 it got even more, like more people started coming, more people, 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.160 and then Rue just turned up on the day. So 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.560 I'd picked this restaurant and the first thing Ruth said 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.760 when he sat down was like, so who picked this restaurant? 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.760 And everyone just pointed at me, And now I'm in 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.800 charge of like what it was very stressful. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:31.880 To get a critique? Was it? 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:32.040 Like? 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:32.840 You know the show? 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.280 Did he? Yeah? I did get a chante you stay, 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:36.320 that was lucky. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:37.640 The food was okay. 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.000 You know, things like Adam Lambert was on this year 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:41.720 and he took us out for dinner afterwards, Like it 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.880 is kind of amazing to see how excited people are 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.640 to be on the show. Like I'm so excited to 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.960