Speaker 1: Is It Just Me? Podcast by a couple of mitches.
Speaker 2: Don't suck it up? Well, here we are welcome to
Speaker 2: Drag Race Debrief Everybody Him Mitchell, Hello, Hello, Here we are.
Speaker 3: With a special edition of the podcast, a little bonus
Speaker 3: episode we're going to be doing every Monday for the
Speaker 3: next few weeks because there's a brand new season of
Speaker 3: RuPaul's Drag Race down Under Season two.
Speaker 1: I was at the premiere the other night.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was at the afterparty at the premiere the
Speaker 2: other night.
Speaker 3: You missed the actual episode, And so we're going to
Speaker 3: be catching up with the drag Queens as they are freshly.
Speaker 1: Eliminated from the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and dropping these little bonus episodes here on the podcast.
Speaker 3: And today we're also going to be hearing from Michelle
Speaker 3: Visage because you spoke.
Speaker 1: To her for your radio show.
Speaker 2: I did, I did, And this is an exclusive. She
Speaker 2: only spoke to one radio show, one TV network, and
Speaker 2: then a couple of print stuff, so this is like
Speaker 2: the only Aussie chat she did for the show.
Speaker 1: Do I embarrassed you do?
Speaker 3: Do you think that I would disgrace myself in the
Speaker 3: interview if I did it too?
Speaker 2: I did pitch you and I Oh, and apparently she
Speaker 2: vomited on her iPhone and I said, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: Just do the radio show. It was horrific.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, first let's chat to the queen who
Speaker 3: got sent home in episode one. I'm pretty shocked at
Speaker 3: who went home in the first episode. By the way,
Speaker 3: spoilers if you haven't watched the episode, yeah, we're obviously
Speaker 3: going to be spoiling who went home.
Speaker 2: Yeah. If you don't want to know who went home.
Speaker 2: If you haven't watched the episode yet, don't listen to this. Now,
Speaker 2: listen to it later.
Speaker 1: Bye, Thanks for coming.
Speaker 2: See, we never really have stated the fact that we
Speaker 2: want Actually we did say I think that we want
Speaker 2: this to be like a book club. So we all
Speaker 2: want to be on the same page. So watch the
Speaker 2: episode when it comes out Saturday or Sunday or even
Speaker 2: Monday morning, and then you can listen to this as
Speaker 2: we release it. It'd be perfect.
Speaker 1: Ye, you stream it on stand and then you catch
Speaker 1: up with us.
Speaker 4: Well, what did you.
Speaker 2: Think of the episode? Because I know you like you're
Speaker 2: new to the drag race world. I've been very in
Speaker 2: it for years. I've watched every franchise, rip Ball's Drag
Speaker 2: Race Bloody Tasmania. At this point, did you like it?
Speaker 2: Do you like the season?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I haven't really watched much of the franchise
Speaker 3: outside of The down Under, like I watched last season
Speaker 3: of down Under, and already I think that season two
Speaker 3: is off to a strongest start, Like I feel like
Speaker 3: we're in for a good season, and that's in my
Speaker 3: expert opinion.
Speaker 2: Yes, now, of course, I the first couple of seasons.
Speaker 2: First season actually had some criticisms, you know, like the
Speaker 2: lighting was a bit off, the MIC's sounded like the
Speaker 2: microphone was in a different room. Yeah, they finess the
Speaker 2: teething issues apparently, but yeah, I couldn't tell. But I
Speaker 2: really enjoyed it. I think this crop of queens. Normally,
Speaker 2: when you watch drag Race, you got out first out,
Speaker 2: second out, third, like you can sort of pick it.
Speaker 2: But I at this point, I'm going to say my
Speaker 2: front runner. Why don't we both say our front runners.
Speaker 2: Then we can look back at the end and see
Speaker 2: how close we got.
Speaker 3: Hannahkonda is who I would want to win. Actually, no
Speaker 3: Mini Cooper or Heniconda.
Speaker 2: I'm the same Hannah Coonda or Mini Cooper, I think.
Speaker 3: But also I kind of want them to get eliminated
Speaker 3: so that they get to come in studio and chat
Speaker 3: with us earlier.
Speaker 2: True. Oh yeah, true, Well, I mean we will have
Speaker 2: the winners and they'll be in a great bloody mood. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Beverly Keells looks too mean for my liking. I don't
Speaker 2: I'm not a weird.
Speaker 1: Because I actually have met Beverly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Beverly was part of a comedy lineup the very
Speaker 3: first time I did stand up comedy.
Speaker 1: She was also on the lineup.
Speaker 2: Oh when you did that in that comedy drag Bingo night, Yes,
Speaker 2: bingo the switch up, there was no bingo, but and yeah,
Speaker 2: she was gorgeous, absolutely lovely, no meanness whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But did not realize that she was as young.
Speaker 2: As she is twenty one right, well, she would have been.
Speaker 3: Twenty at the time. I had no idea. But anyway,
Speaker 3: she's safe for now. She's still on the show and
Speaker 3: much to my surprise, the person that was brooted off
Speaker 3: in episode one was faux Fur.
Speaker 1: And she's come along to visit us here in the studio.
Speaker 1: So fair is here?
Speaker 2: Hello?
Speaker 4: I like that?
Speaker 2: Oh, I forget you and your mic down? Why would
Speaker 2: you do that? You're going down, going down? Now scream now, yeah,
Speaker 2: people can hear that. Oh that light woke me up.
Speaker 2: That was like a coffee.
Speaker 3: No, that was really nice. I do feel alive now
Speaker 3: with that energy cold shower.
Speaker 4: Could you imagine that? Though? I was like, they're listening
Speaker 4: to this in the kind that I caused car accidents
Speaker 4: because of a scream.
Speaker 2: It wouldn't be the first time on this show.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: I love it though, because you came in all guns
Speaker 3: blazing in that first episode. You're like, I'm just going
Speaker 3: to put it out there. I'm the loud one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm the loud one. And I thought, Okay, she's not
Speaker 3: going anywhere. She's going to be here till the end.
Speaker 1: And I cannot believe it.
Speaker 3: It was a wrong prediction as well, Yeah, because I thought,
Speaker 3: you know, you're such a character, and I thought, and
Speaker 3: there were so many like memorable moments.
Speaker 2: Like quotes, the my god, that moment at the end
Speaker 2: when you realize you in the bottom two potentially and
Speaker 2: you sit down and the girls go, how are you going?
Speaker 2: I'm fine, and then it cuts to the confession you go,
Speaker 2: I am the duality like that.
Speaker 3: So I thought, yep, she's going to be here to
Speaker 3: the end, and I'm like, I know, you can't say anything,
Speaker 3: but this is just me thinking out loud.
Speaker 1: I'm like, they're going to bring it back for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's what I thought. That's what I thought.
Speaker 3: Trying to read the body English over here and not
Speaker 3: getting anything away.
Speaker 4: Across I might come back.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's as close as I tell me.
Speaker 3: Did you keep those controversial black panties that they kept
Speaker 3: banging on about.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes I did, and I'm probably going to burn
Speaker 4: them if I ever get on All Stars and be
Speaker 4: like they're back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you have tan panty with you?
Speaker 4: I had every colored panty with me. But it was
Speaker 4: just the hardest thing because everything will happened so fast.
Speaker 4: We were designing and everything, and then all of a
Speaker 4: sudden it was like I was I haven't really fully
Speaker 4: unpacked it. So I was like, where are these underwears?
Speaker 4: And I had like suitcases to go through and I
Speaker 4: couldn't find any. So I was like, okay, these will do.
Speaker 4: And then like looking from the mirror and I was like, okay,
Speaker 4: not visible.
Speaker 3: I actually didn't notice them until everyone kept banging on
Speaker 3: about it, to be honest, Well, like the thing was.
Speaker 4: The funny thing was was like I even asked the girls,
Speaker 4: do I look okay? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What did they say?
Speaker 4: They're like, oh, no, you look fine from the back
Speaker 4: as well, be cause I asked him how I looked
Speaker 4: from the back, and they're like, yeah, you look fine
Speaker 4: from the back.
Speaker 3: And I was like, mm, and so was that your
Speaker 3: first time when you watched the episode at the premiere
Speaker 3: the other night? Was that the first time you saw
Speaker 3: the panties from the back?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, and you were like, you bitches, I know.
Speaker 4: I was like, y'all saw behind me because you are
Speaker 4: at the back of me.
Speaker 2: So can I just say though that your look? I
Speaker 2: thought when they were going through the girls could have
Speaker 2: been top, but that was a goodle and what are
Speaker 2: they but about? It was all one color, like it
Speaker 2: was all a bit too neutral.
Speaker 4: And isn't it like the monocra's So.
Speaker 2: I thought you could have been been in the.
Speaker 4: Top, but that's just so too until I well, panty Gate, Pancake.
Speaker 3: What about the hat, the thing that kept flopping down?
Speaker 3: Did you think that was going to make the cut?
Speaker 2: That blooper when you walked in on your entrance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't think that was going to make it
Speaker 4: because I wanted to go in there like all fierce
Speaker 4: and fabulous, and then that thing went So was.
Speaker 2: That a bit shady thing?
Speaker 4: The edit?
Speaker 2: Maybe a bit?
Speaker 4: No, I actually enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: It was funny, you know, That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: I loved it.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, such a character, these funny moments. She'll
Speaker 3: be there until the end.
Speaker 1: But yeah, bull shit, I'm furious, absolutely furious.
Speaker 2: How many times do you walk in? Because we watched
Speaker 2: you go they'll do it once, but no, the magic
Speaker 2: of TV is that you probably walk in a hundred times.
Speaker 4: Probably around it. Yeah, like twice. I did mine twice
Speaker 4: and the hat fell twice twice. I was like, let's
Speaker 4: just get rid of this hat.
Speaker 2: Do you get to pick the audio? You enter in
Speaker 2: order production? So you're going in second?
Speaker 4: They pick it, So I just I'm just a product.
Speaker 2: I just like the like and a gorgeous products at that.
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Did you have fun lot? Because going home first, I guess,
Speaker 2: and you know what, going home first is better than
Speaker 2: going home second or even third, because everyone remembers the first,
Speaker 2: and then by the second episode and the third, it's
Speaker 2: like who what order? But first and the winner you
Speaker 2: always remember.
Speaker 4: I had a lot of fun, like a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: It was crazy because it went so fast. Like it
Speaker 4: went so fast and in a blink of an iron
Speaker 4: back here, Yeah, with like.
Speaker 1: A lot of waiting around though. That's what I think
Speaker 1: about those thoughts of TV shows.
Speaker 3: It's very slick and polished and arrow in, but I
Speaker 3: feel like they'd be so much fucking around waiting for.
Speaker 1: The production to be done.
Speaker 4: I didn't mind. I just catched a nap whilst I could.
Speaker 2: Did you actually nap backstage?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, I to keep me quiet, they had to
Speaker 4: put food in front of me so all you could
Speaker 4: hear on my mic was me crunching on chips and
Speaker 4: apples and like oh snitzell just to shut me up,
Speaker 4: because they would tell you to like be quiet whiles
Speaker 4: they're filming things, and you're just like, did you get.
Speaker 2: Those notes from producers? Did they tell you to quite down?
Speaker 2: Like they're like, we get it. It's fun, but a bit.
Speaker 4: It was just protocol, right, So like I know I
Speaker 4: can't keep my mouth shut, yeah, and I know that
Speaker 4: if I'm with the girls, I'm just gonna keep talking. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because the MIC's are on you mind you and my
Speaker 4: mic had to get turned down quite a lot.
Speaker 2: We did the same. Yeah, we can, we empathize with production, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would have talked, so I just had. I
Speaker 4: was like, if you guys want me to be quiet,
Speaker 4: just put fit in front of me.
Speaker 1: Food, gorgeous.
Speaker 2: That works for me when I'm in the moodmach just
Speaker 2: does that. He puts a barbecue chicken on the table
Speaker 2: and upset. I just talk about twelve minutes.
Speaker 4: While I had like a whole pat Yeah, twelve you
Speaker 4: know there's little packets of twelves, the chips.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I ate.
Speaker 4: All of that on my own. Gorgeous And then I
Speaker 4: got the girls will be like where the fuck do
Speaker 4: you put it on? And I'm like I don't know
Speaker 4: me because I don't shut up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've burned it off. Yeah by talking. Yeah it works.
Speaker 2: Now what was it like with rapport? Because do you
Speaker 2: get much more time than we see Like did he
Speaker 2: come at the start and go oh, chickers have fun?
Speaker 2: Or is it really the moments that we see on
Speaker 2: TV when he does the work women, when he does
Speaker 2: the judging.
Speaker 4: You get moments with him a lot, and he's just amazing.
Speaker 4: Like I dagged seeing him five feet away from me,
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh, my god, he's literally in
Speaker 4: front of me.
Speaker 3: That's tall, right, He's so tall? Really, yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: know why that shocks. Maybe because he doesn't look like
Speaker 3: a tall person when he's out of heel.
Speaker 2: No, but when you yeah, because in Draggon in the
Speaker 2: Heels and the Wig, you think it's a normal sized human,
Speaker 2: But in real life that's like seven feet.
Speaker 4: Fuck, he's tall, and he's just got a beautiful horror
Speaker 4: about him. Like, really, the moment he walks in the room,
Speaker 4: he just presumes that motherly like feeling vibe. And it's
Speaker 4: crazy because he just keeps us calm. I don't know
Speaker 4: what it is about him, but like the moment he
Speaker 4: walks in, we're all just like the all wines and
Speaker 4: alle Yeah. Literally literally, it was just like, how do
Speaker 4: you have that type of presence?
Speaker 2: It's very rich, you know, when you made a very
Speaker 2: rich person and they have that presence as well.
Speaker 4: All rich people have that type of presence. I reckon
Speaker 4: if I was to be a rich and famous person,
Speaker 4: which I am, Yes, of course, of course, I keep
Speaker 4: forgetting sometimes.
Speaker 2: But you're so rich and famous.
Speaker 4: Well I'm not rich yet. One day it'll come, But yeah,
Speaker 4: I think i'd be like the complete opposite. I am
Speaker 4: a I will be honest. I am a fun and
Speaker 4: a messy queen. And if people are like I don't
Speaker 4: like messy queens, well, then the doors that way. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'd like to have fun. I like to have a
Speaker 4: few drinks. I like to make sure that everyone else
Speaker 4: is having fun. And if that makes me being messy,
Speaker 4: then girl, that's on you.
Speaker 1: Well I did have fun at Puffed Off on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I saw you on stage.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, are you getting a lot more gigs
Speaker 3: after the show? So you are becoming rich?
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 4: You can get a hustle all that money, honey.
Speaker 2: So you do. Will you be doing more gigs if
Speaker 2: people in other cities want to see you?
Speaker 4: Definitely? Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: What time are you on because I need to know
Speaker 1: that night's a bit of a blur to me. What
Speaker 1: time is that Puffed Off?
Speaker 4: I was on that too, Oh my god, no wonder.
Speaker 4: I was so hung over the next day.
Speaker 2: I was in the early stages of rim sleeping. I
Speaker 2: was out to it. Yeah. I got a puffed off
Speaker 2: once a year, and it's like Christmas for me. It's
Speaker 2: an event. Otherwise I'm too tired for that, you know,
Speaker 2: but you guys do it. I can't have a gay.
Speaker 2: I'm not built. I know. Mitch says the same thing, but.
Speaker 3: What type of gay he is? He literally fast tracked
Speaker 3: to like the elderly gay. He came out, got a boyfriend,
Speaker 3: and just like became a hermit in the space of
Speaker 3: a month.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's cheating.
Speaker 3: You've got to go through all the single years of
Speaker 3: being a mess.
Speaker 1: You know, you're got to do the hard Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, but I'm kind of like you because I've got
Speaker 4: a partner as well, and I kind of grew into
Speaker 4: what would we call this? We need to figure out
Speaker 4: what type this is? Like yeah, because I don't get
Speaker 4: fascinated from a bottle of like verve. I get fascinated
Speaker 4: looking at the furniture a demon.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, fuck yourself up. We are the same.
Speaker 4: I'm the same. And I'm like, if I can get
Speaker 4: a device that can cut onions the time, game girl,
Speaker 4: I will buy three of those, stocked them and then
Speaker 4: buy five more of those, and that's Christmas pressents for everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm here for that, but only because it's business.
Speaker 2: It's work, So she does, but.
Speaker 4: I enjoy it, like Yeah, being a drag queen is
Speaker 4: something I didn't think I would do it really never.
Speaker 4: I never thought I would be a dragon.
Speaker 2: How did you fall into into the dress?
Speaker 1: So to speak?
Speaker 4: So how did I? How did I land it? I'll
Speaker 4: fall into it obviously. Our legal age is eighteen, so
Speaker 4: I've never gotten to the club ever, And I didn't
Speaker 4: even know that there was gay clubs when I came out.
Speaker 2: Where are you from?
Speaker 4: I'm from New Zealand but I was raised here. But
Speaker 4: I like, obviously when you're younger, you just don't School
Speaker 4: doesn't educate you about like being gay and who you are.
Speaker 3: And start at Stonewall and then you end up at
Speaker 3: hard That's how it works.
Speaker 1: But do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Like I got out of school and I was like,
Speaker 4: what the hell is this world?
Speaker 2: Like bills? Yeah, ran tax?
Speaker 4: How to pay for my groceries?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm still coming to terms with all that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but do you know what I mean? Like they
Speaker 4: don't teach any of those life skills. When I went
Speaker 4: to my first ever gay bar, it was at midnight
Speaker 4: shift and then.
Speaker 1: I saw that is that heaven? Now?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: That's universal? O?
Speaker 1: All right, okay?
Speaker 4: And I saw this beautiful queen and I was like,
Speaker 4: that's it.
Speaker 2: It was it.
Speaker 4: Do you remember the queen of it was Charisma Beow.
Speaker 1: Oh isn't she good.
Speaker 3: She's the first drag queen I ever met as well,
Speaker 3: and she just like grabbed me and held me to
Speaker 3: where busy and I felt safe.
Speaker 1: Oh she's such an angel.
Speaker 2: We love her. So then how did you get to drag?
Speaker 2: What was the experience?
Speaker 4: Well, after seeing that, I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: that is so glamorous. I want to do it. And
Speaker 4: then also I was like where are the Asian queens?
Speaker 4: There was no Asian queens when I first started, Like
Speaker 4: when I started, I was probably the only Asian queen
Speaker 4: for four years on the strip. Yeah, working on it,
Speaker 4: and it was hard because like I was classified as
Speaker 4: a token, not anymore like thank you that the Asian
Speaker 4: community is growing and everything. But it was like there
Speaker 4: was an inspiration that I had to look up to
Speaker 4: besides Charisma, and so you became that and yeah, I
Speaker 4: was like give it to me, I'll hold I'll hold
Speaker 4: the fort.
Speaker 2: I had nice messages of people like looking out going,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, seeing you has made me want to
Speaker 2: do drag or feel better in mind.
Speaker 4: I have plenty of that, like ever since the shows,
Speaker 4: and it's just been really lots of love, lots of care.
Speaker 4: It's really nice to see that there's a lot of
Speaker 4: younger Asian people being like, oh my god, you're just
Speaker 4: like me, loud and obnoxious, and I'm like, yeah, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of us out there, and I'm glad I
Speaker 4: get to represent that for everyone.
Speaker 3: Now, there's one very important question that we ask all
Speaker 3: of our guests. I feel like you could actually be
Speaker 3: perfect for this.
Speaker 2: All these queens will be perfect for this.
Speaker 3: Based of what you've just told me, the fact that
Speaker 3: you get off on, you know, onion choppers or whatever.
Speaker 3: We have a list of things better than drugs and Dick,
Speaker 3: and all of our guests add a.
Speaker 1: Thing to that list.
Speaker 3: And what we mean when we say that is just
Speaker 3: a little thing in life that you appreciate.
Speaker 2: Well, I've got one on the weekend that I can
Speaker 2: add which will help you come act. I thought about it,
Speaker 2: So things better than drugs and Dick add to the
Speaker 2: list shopping center or food court, sushi. It's perfect.
Speaker 1: Every time I reluctantly write that on the list.
Speaker 3: The sort of things that are on the list now
Speaker 3: are like you know, a really good crunchy apple or
Speaker 3: like fresh bed linen, that sort of thing better than
Speaker 3: drugs and dick in my mind, KC. I feel like
Speaker 3: it's been a little this three times, but Barger, I'm
Speaker 3: putting it down there and.
Speaker 4: I love KC or or. I got this new thing
Speaker 4: from Kmart for two dollars. Came out shout out to
Speaker 4: what is it? What's the brand?
Speaker 2: And go and I love it.
Speaker 4: We are the same guys, so I know how to
Speaker 4: make sushi the old way with the bamboo stuff. But
Speaker 4: then came up brought out this device where it makes
Speaker 4: the perfect sushi roll. Yeah, and instead of rolling it,
Speaker 4: you just put the rights into this tube and then
Speaker 4: everything and then you just push it out and the
Speaker 4: rights and all the feelings.
Speaker 2: I've seen this on TikTok and I was like, I.
Speaker 4: Just made sushi in less than five minutes and it works,
Speaker 4: and it.
Speaker 1: Worked for twelve bucks ship Okay, Yeah, thats gonna be a.
Speaker 2: Good addition even like a a good kmart hall, like
Speaker 2: a kmart shop.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, I'm going specific twelve dollars sushi mak yeah,
Speaker 3: just like your name.
Speaker 1: Signed next to it.
Speaker 4: Yep, it's on the list though, it's ridiculous. I was like,
Speaker 4: why are they making these things? It's our of control?
Speaker 2: Came out as heaven.
Speaker 4: I know. I keep going in there and I keep
Speaker 4: buying things and I need to stop. I was like,
Speaker 4: you're going there and you're like, no, I just need
Speaker 4: bed sheets. Walk out and you're like, wow, the hell
Speaker 4: did I spend a thousand dollars and came out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like why don't have a porcel and dog doorstop
Speaker 2: always happens. Yeah, it's random shit.
Speaker 3: I went in the other day to just to get
Speaker 3: some active wearing. Came out with like a back massage,
Speaker 3: which just looks like a huge vibrator.
Speaker 1: I don't need to get the active wear.
Speaker 2: You could probably use it on there too. You know,
Speaker 2: it's probably the same thing.
Speaker 1: Don't be found you could. I'm just saying I'm not
Speaker 1: that desperate. DWL.
Speaker 2: No, I want to ask before we let you go,
Speaker 2: let's talk competition. Who because I'm sure you probably know,
Speaker 2: but who are you peaking to go all the way?
Speaker 2: Who's your top four?
Speaker 4: I can't say anything.
Speaker 2: Who do you want to get to the top four?
Speaker 3: Now, Oh, it must be really rough for you because
Speaker 3: you say that you love to talk and then they're
Speaker 3: absolutely gad actually from STAMPR.
Speaker 2: Susan, so hi, Hi, we love you? Can she say who?
Speaker 2: She thinks she'd absolutely not, so sad you can't ask.
Speaker 3: I actually didn't ask because I probably weren't allowed to ask.
Speaker 1: Good on your mitch.
Speaker 2: I have just read Susan that I love you. That's
Speaker 2: all I want you to know. Oh, she's furious.
Speaker 1: We won't get you in trouble.
Speaker 2: We won't don't want to cause any dramas I know.
Speaker 4: I love to be the pittercore drama. Y'all know me.
Speaker 4: I sit in the corner with popcorn, just watching all
Speaker 4: the other bitch.
Speaker 2: It's great, Let ask me the naughty ones. You can
Speaker 2: be well behaved.
Speaker 5: Well like I.
Speaker 4: I loved Dramma because I remember back in my days
Speaker 4: when I was a bad bitch, when I was a
Speaker 4: bad bag. It's still a bad bit, that's gonna say.
Speaker 1: Win.
Speaker 4: I used to cause drama and pin it on someone
Speaker 4: else smart I nobody would ever expect it. And I
Speaker 4: just sit there like, you deserve that bitch sleeping with
Speaker 4: my boyfriend, You dumb bitch.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, in that case, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: God, revenge girl in that scenario, go for it. What
Speaker 2: was so good to meet you? You were so fun
Speaker 2: on the show. And fingers crossed for all stars one day.
Speaker 1: Right, fingers I can't wait.
Speaker 4: I like a fingers.
Speaker 2: Crossed and those bring back the black panties.
Speaker 4: Will bring them back just to haunt everyone.
Speaker 2: Make an effigy to burn them on the main stay.
Speaker 2: Sorry today, all right, we'll see what stone Wall Stonewall
Speaker 2: box the street. All right. I also caught up with
Speaker 2: Michelle Visage, who obviously judge extraordinaire on Drag Race down Under,
Speaker 2: has been best friends with RuPaul for decades and has
Speaker 2: been on almost every all but two, I think, seasons
Speaker 2: of drag Racer. This is me and Michelle Visage in
Speaker 2: an Australian Interview exclusive. Oh my goodness. I think it's
Speaker 2: only it's only right to be playing this and say
Speaker 2: welcome to the show, the one and only Queen of
Speaker 2: the Girls, the Gays the Days. It's Miss Michelle Visage, Hello,
Speaker 2: my queen about.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, I'm not worthy, so ah.
Speaker 2: Take it, take it and run. We love you. How
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 5: I'm good, Mitch?
Speaker 2: How are you? I am really really good? I'm great.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited for this I'm obviously obviously a gay man.
Speaker 2: I'm in the hair. It gives it away in the
Speaker 2: extra button. It's quite clear. But I am such a
Speaker 2: fan of yours. I'm an admire and I know it's
Speaker 2: an ex radio broadcast to yourself. You are one of
Speaker 2: my old time faves. It's a pleasure to have you
Speaker 2: on the show. How you thank you?
Speaker 5: Us radio brethren, I have to stick together.
Speaker 2: We get those eyebags. There's there's a real type of
Speaker 2: eyebag that a radio announcer gates, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: It's tough, indeed, And I only did breakfast shows for
Speaker 5: seventeen years.
Speaker 2: Was it that long?
Speaker 5: Yeah, seventeen years. I got up at three o'clock in
Speaker 5: the morning for two pregnancies.
Speaker 2: It's not enough coffee. There's not enough coffee in the
Speaker 2: world to make breakfast radio livable. It's rough. Did you
Speaker 2: do that with Rue? Did you do a show together
Speaker 2: for a period.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I started in radio in ninety six with
Speaker 5: Rue and Ruthe stayed on I think for like three years.
Speaker 5: We had a little syndicated radio show together for a minute,
Speaker 5: and then Rue left New York to move back to
Speaker 5: la and I stayed in New York and carried on
Speaker 5: doing radio there before I went to LA and then
Speaker 5: did radio in La.
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny a lot of like I was
Speaker 2: writing Jimmy Kimble a book with Jimmy Kimmel, and he
Speaker 2: started in radio. It's a good it's a good place
Speaker 2: to learn the roots, don't you think and really get
Speaker 2: the showbiz bug?
Speaker 5: You got it?
Speaker 2: Hey? This is so fun. Obviously we're here to pump
Speaker 2: up season two of RuPaul's Drag Race Down and Out,
Speaker 2: which is coming to stand later in the year. How
Speaker 2: does that feel? Do you love the Aussie queens? Is
Speaker 2: there a difference between Ossie and the US and now
Speaker 2: the UK and the World and Thailand? And there's so
Speaker 2: many franchises, But do you love the Aussie girls?
Speaker 5: I always have. I mean some of the you know some.
Speaker 5: One of the homes of original drag is in Australia, obviously,
Speaker 5: and the way Australia does drag is different to New Zealand,
Speaker 5: which is different to the UK, which is different to America.
Speaker 5: That's the beauty of drag is regionally. It's done different everywhere.
Speaker 5: So I love to see how each queen does their
Speaker 5: drag and that's the fun of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've got Priscilla and I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: the drag culture down here. And we've got such a
Speaker 2: small city, like in Sydney and in Melbourne. The cities
Speaker 2: are so small that drag shows are so accessible. And
Speaker 2: let you have a couple drinks out on Oxford Street
Speaker 2: in Sydney, you stumble upon a guy, but you got
Speaker 2: drag queens. So I'm so glad you're getting it. You're
Speaker 2: getting a part of that. Do you guys film here
Speaker 2: in Australia? Are you in New Zealand? Can you reveal that.
Speaker 5: We film in New Zealand?
Speaker 2: Lovely, Lovely, lovely. That's exciting. Did you get to experience
Speaker 2: the kywe culture of New Zealand?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really you know, I love it here. I've
Speaker 5: gone to Australia a few times and I've never gone
Speaker 5: to New Zealand before we started filming here. So I
Speaker 5: love to travel and it's been such a fun experience
Speaker 5: being in a place that when I tell people I go,
Speaker 5: they're like, oh my god, that's on the bucket list.
Speaker 5: So a lot of people love it down here in Australasia.
Speaker 5: They love you know, a lot of Americans, Australia and
Speaker 5: New Zealand have been on their bucket lists, so it's
Speaker 5: it's just a lovely place to be both of those countries.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's stunning and we're glad to have you. It's
Speaker 2: hot for drag queens that went. It's very hot, very
Speaker 2: hot human down here in the life bread, very.
Speaker 5: Hot for drag queens. That's indeed, but worth it, so
Speaker 5: worth it.
Speaker 2: Season two is very exciting. We're very pumped for it
Speaker 2: to be coming back to stand that's with Reis Nikkelsinny's
Speaker 2: coming back. I believe Race will be there and you
Speaker 2: and Rue.
Speaker 5: Yes, we will all be there, and you are going
Speaker 5: to freak out when you see the lineup. You are
Speaker 5: going to absolutely lose the plot with this season. Honestly,
Speaker 5: if you thought season one was good, wait till season two.
Speaker 2: We're pumped, We're very excited. How does it feel to
Speaker 2: kind of be the fairy godmother of the gays? I
Speaker 2: I feel like every gay man has three big moments
Speaker 2: in their life. It's when they come out, they have
Speaker 2: their first gay experience, and then when they're first exposed
Speaker 2: to Michelle Vassage. They're the big three.
Speaker 5: I have known as the fairy gay mother. It is
Speaker 5: my honor to be her. And listen, love is the
Speaker 5: most beautiful and precious thing in this world, right, So
Speaker 5: if people look at me like that, and they look
Speaker 5: at me like a source of trust or safety, then
Speaker 5: I'm here for it. I wish I could be that
Speaker 5: person that a lot of these kids don't get to
Speaker 5: experiences growing up because of the obvious reasons. And if
Speaker 5: I can see that as a surrogate, then it is
Speaker 5: my honor and I take that duty very seriously.
Speaker 2: Where did it come from from you? Did you have
Speaker 2: like really accepting parents, an aunt or was there like
Speaker 2: a teacher. Was this someone that was a bacon of
Speaker 2: your life that made you think that is how I
Speaker 2: need to be.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I always had a very accepting a parent,
Speaker 5: you know, my mom and dad. I think it comes
Speaker 5: from the fact that I was adopted, and being an
Speaker 5: adopted kid, you start life on a different path, right,
Speaker 5: being in foster care and then going into my you know,
Speaker 5: my parents adopted me very young. But still, you know,
Speaker 5: once you're an adopted kid, there's always this feeling of
Speaker 5: not being wanted, And I think I don't ever want
Speaker 5: anybody to feel alone or feel that they're less than
Speaker 5: or not loved or not worthy. So I feel like
Speaker 5: it's kind of my path in life as an ally
Speaker 5: to let every gay kid out there who questions their
Speaker 5: validity or if they matter, or if they're loved, to
Speaker 5: know that it may not seem like it, but they
Speaker 5: absolutely are loved, even if it's by me from afart,
Speaker 5: somebody cares about them.
Speaker 2: Or read them to filth, because that's an equal part
Speaker 2: of the love experience.
Speaker 5: You see, that's my job. That's my job. That's not
Speaker 5: who I am as a No, that's my job. I'm
Speaker 5: trying to make it all nice and you're trying to
Speaker 5: bring it down.
Speaker 1: No, and I would never.
Speaker 2: I would never you get to you'd be able to
Speaker 2: claim some good shit on tax miss visage. I mean,
Speaker 2: your job title is so expansive you could be like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: claim the lace, front, wig the lips. Who knows you
Speaker 2: can claim it all?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've tried. That doesn't work. My CPA doesn't go
Speaker 5: for that.
Speaker 4: I do try.
Speaker 5: I even try to claim my nails. I'm like, my
Speaker 5: nails are part of who I am, They're like part
Speaker 5: of my identity.
Speaker 2: It's like, sorry, Okay, you just got to start. We'll
Speaker 2: see you in the next season, trying to get more
Speaker 2: and more in the shot, not putting your an, your
Speaker 2: toe in the shot and claim it. All I want
Speaker 2: to know as a Drag Race fan, is what's the
Speaker 2: tea the podcast you did with RU coming Back? I
Speaker 2: love that show.
Speaker 5: You know, we haven't talked about it coming back, and
Speaker 5: it's not for any reason except we stopped it during
Speaker 5: lockdown because of obvious reasons, and then people were able
Speaker 5: to get their stuff up and running. But you know,
Speaker 5: with the delay and everything, it's so difficult. So now
Speaker 5: that we're back to working, I haven't we haven't really
Speaker 5: discussed it, but it is time for us to sit
Speaker 5: down and have that conversation about it. Yeah, it was
Speaker 5: so much fun to do and we did many many
Speaker 5: years of it and absolutely love doing it, so thank
Speaker 5: you for asking it.
Speaker 2: Well. As a radio guy, it's like, oh yeah, I
Speaker 2: love the podcast, I love the audio. I was hooked
Speaker 2: on it. You got me hooked on magnesium free or
Speaker 2: natural deodorant, which is the most stupid thing to say
Speaker 2: in an interview, but you said it once and now
Speaker 2: I only use natural deodorance because Michelle Vessage that it
Speaker 2: wands on. What's the day.
Speaker 5: I am so proud of you. It's actually aluminum free.
Speaker 5: You still need I have magnesium in your body, so please,
Speaker 5: but it's the best thing in the world to switch
Speaker 5: over to that You're giving your body a break from
Speaker 5: all that crap and regular deodorant. So I'm so proud
Speaker 5: of you for listening. I'm sure you stunk for a while,
Speaker 5: but if you stuck with it, you got through it.
Speaker 2: That's why I work in radio. I mean an air
Speaker 2: conditioned studio. It's perfect. I never swapt That's the only
Speaker 2: reason my boyfriend's do with me. I want to know,
Speaker 2: as someone who makes stupid jokes for a living, do
Speaker 2: you ever get home from recording and on set and
Speaker 2: you've got these crazy recording schedules and obviously hilarious, the
Speaker 2: puns are coming hot and heavy when the girls are
Speaker 2: walking down the runway. Do you ever think of a
Speaker 2: pun like when you're at home, like you know, taking
Speaker 2: your shoes off for the day or making dinner, and
Speaker 2: be like, shit, I wish I said that.
Speaker 5: Did you just call my jokes stupid?
Speaker 2: That's the highest form of compliment. I promise, I'm only kidding.
Speaker 5: I'm only kidding. I can't tell you how many times,
Speaker 5: even sooner than that, like we'll wrap and I'm in
Speaker 5: the dressing room going, oh my god, why didn't And
Speaker 5: I've even asked the producers listen, I'm a producer on
Speaker 5: the show. Can I please do a voiceover?
Speaker 2: And you dub it in and they're like, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'll send you a voice note.
Speaker 5: Many many times, you have no idea that's gold.
Speaker 2: Is there something that Rude does, because you guys are
Speaker 2: lifelong friends that just cracks you up, that gets you
Speaker 2: going every time, Like you know, you've got jokes with
Speaker 2: your friends that make you just melt. Is there a
Speaker 2: look that he gives you or a line that he
Speaker 2: says that will always make you crack?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: I don't know if there's a line that he says
Speaker 5: that there are things that we've done over the years
Speaker 5: that kind of hold the test of time. And it
Speaker 5: really depends on the mood that we're in. But we
Speaker 5: can just look at each other because we are the
Speaker 5: duo that finishes each other's thoughts and sentences. But there's
Speaker 5: we can just make each other lap with a look.
Speaker 5: You know, you know how it is with your best friend.
Speaker 5: All you need to do is do that sideways glance
Speaker 5: and you are busting up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And I love that you can always pulling
Speaker 2: back in what was it the other day of the
Speaker 2: coffee Anema. I don't know what franchise it was, but
Speaker 2: he was and you were just like, hey, it's the
Speaker 2: coffee anema. Guys, you know you're being the best friend
Speaker 2: going it's the coffee.
Speaker 5: That one with coffee. Like he'll go on a three
Speaker 5: four quad. He'll do like I had three quad shots
Speaker 5: and it's like, real, your heart's actually gonna stop, so
Speaker 5: you need to stop doing it. So when he goes
Speaker 5: on one of those, it's like I just it's like
Speaker 5: up top, you pull the string and let it go
Speaker 5: and you can't do anything.
Speaker 2: Great TV though, great TV, think of the right just.
Speaker 5: Let it crash, let it crash and burn. It'll all,
Speaker 5: you know, die down. But it's so much fun. I
Speaker 5: love when he gets on a caffeine high.
Speaker 2: Now I want to talk about you hosting Wendy. That's cool.
Speaker 1: Look at you go.
Speaker 2: You're such a natural host. You did it with your
Speaker 2: Palalia remeny. Would you do that full time? Do you have?
Speaker 5: Do you get Wendy in Australia.
Speaker 2: I'm a gay man. I get Wendy wherever I need it. Okay.
Speaker 5: You know, Leah and I have been the ff for
Speaker 5: twenty years and when we first met each other, everybody
Speaker 5: was like, you two should host a talk show show.
Speaker 5: It was always our goal and we had pitched it
Speaker 5: over the years and remember going into agents and they're like, well,
Speaker 5: how's it different, and it's like, because we're actually best friends.
Speaker 5: Usually you put people together and then you hope it has.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: So at the end of the day, nobody got it.
Speaker 5: And then when this happened, Leah was the one who
Speaker 5: went to that and said, okay, I'll do it, but
Speaker 5: Michelle's going to with me. This was a perfect opportunity.
Speaker 5: So yes, that was a very long way of saying
Speaker 5: that is our ultimate goal of doing that every single day.
Speaker 2: Yes, he was so good at it. And you're right,
Speaker 2: you can't buy that chemistry. It's the same in radio,
Speaker 2: you know it. You get thrown together with all these
Speaker 2: people all the time and you cannot buy or make
Speaker 2: the kind of chemistry you have with Leah. So would
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 5: On your station? Do you have a wacky morning show
Speaker 5: with like ten people?
Speaker 2: I think you've been on them Kyle and Jackie. Oh,
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, we have Kyle.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they're kind of legendary for their for their
Speaker 5: shit talking.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I do. N So it's just me at
Speaker 2: night's being an idiot there in the morning.
Speaker 5: But it took years, i'm sure, for their chemistry to
Speaker 5: jael Or to figure out, you know, whether or not
Speaker 5: they were made for each other. And then they started
Speaker 5: making all the headlines and doing all that stuff. And
Speaker 5: that's why they're there and they'll be there forever because
Speaker 5: they're good together.
Speaker 2: Amen. Amen, you get it, you get it. You just know,
Speaker 2: you know, you're a pro. My question was that would
Speaker 2: you host, would you do a show like a talk
Speaker 2: show yourself? You'd be fantastic at it, of course, So
Speaker 2: of course I would.
Speaker 5: Again, everybody that's done radio, and you can back me up,
Speaker 5: they're lying if they say that a TV talk show
Speaker 5: is not their ultimate goal. Like in my head, I
Speaker 5: was like, Oh, I'm the next Oprah. I can solve
Speaker 5: any problem. I can do this. Obviously that hasn't happened yet,
Speaker 5: So Oprah, if you want to produce it, I'm here.
Speaker 5: But that's every every person that is in radio or
Speaker 5: is in you know, entertainment of some sort. In the
Speaker 5: back of their mind. They always want their own talk show.
Speaker 5: Nine out of ten those talk shows will sail. Yeah,
Speaker 5: So here's hoping that me and.
Speaker 2: Lee is won one day. Fingers crossed. All right, and
Speaker 2: I'm taking up all your time? Where are you shooting
Speaker 2: drag race right now? Is that what you are back stage?
Speaker 5: No comments? Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, she's good, guys. Rupoul just walked past. It's righty
Speaker 2: that you can't see Rupoul just walk past. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: Roxy Andrews just walk past.
Speaker 5: Oh, Roxy Andrews in Australasia.
Speaker 2: Oh steering shit. All right. To ask very quickly before
Speaker 2: I let you go, I want to give you some
Speaker 2: aussy slang terms and I want you to do your
Speaker 2: best at I think you'll be fine as a radio goddess.
Speaker 2: Would you like some stupid game show music? You can
Speaker 2: say no, yes, of course.
Speaker 5: I need a bad give me a bad, right, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Michelle, I have to pay a lot of money
Speaker 2: for these worlds each that's fine, it's Michellevasa's Let's do
Speaker 2: it all right, Ossie Lingo. Let's start with ranger. Michelle,
Speaker 2: what do you think a ranger is ugly. Well, it
Speaker 2: depends if you like redheads or not, because Ranger is
Speaker 2: a redhead.
Speaker 5: Oh I love red heads. No, I thought it was like,
Speaker 5: you know, the UK has mingers, so I thought it
Speaker 5: was like a minger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I meaner. No, Ranger is redhead. All right?
Speaker 5: Next, Dorry, don't use it in a sentence.
Speaker 2: After this interview, I'm gonna need a diary or a cigarette. Close. Close,
Speaker 2: but they get your hand in hand, they go head
Speaker 2: to hand, both vices. What about Banger's a mash.
Speaker 5: Banger's a mash is sausage and potatoes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's got it. Do you like sausage your potatoes? Yump?
Speaker 5: I don't eat the meat, but I do love a
Speaker 5: mashed potato.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, close, all right? Last three? Bogan? What's a bogan?
Speaker 2: Michelle Visage?
Speaker 5: Well, a bogan. I don't know how to say bogan
Speaker 5: without it being offensive.
Speaker 2: She's good, but isn't.
Speaker 5: Again, how do I say it without being Let me
Speaker 5: say it for you.
Speaker 2: Is redneck offensive.
Speaker 5: To some people? But that's you know what you can say?
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, Yeah, Well I'm a bogan. Let's say
Speaker 2: that Mitch Chui is a bog.
Speaker 5: That's I think I would be too.
Speaker 2: I think I would be the same. There you go,
Speaker 2: all right, shoey. You know what a shoey is, Michelle.
Speaker 5: Shoey is somebody who's like a shoe in like a ringer, like.
Speaker 2: No this sadly, no, sadly. A shoey is. It's an
Speaker 2: act that you perform. I'm at a party and you
Speaker 2: pour a beer into a shoe and then you drink
Speaker 2: it from said shoe.
Speaker 5: Why would anybody do that?
Speaker 2: That's what we did it to Harry Styles when he
Speaker 2: came here. Liso's done a shoey. Miley Cyrus has done
Speaker 2: a shoey. We really may be like bestowed upon our.
Speaker 5: On our Did you do you do the showy at
Speaker 5: a Bogan prom?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes see she's yes, she got it.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 5: Show you did a shoe he had a Bogan prom?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes you would. There go, she's got a down pack.
Speaker 2: Well done, Michelle, visage you get a s well's done?
Speaker 1: I sail no.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to don't want to piss you off.
Speaker 2: I think you did right. I wanted you to fail.
Speaker 2: It's better, Michelle. I love you. I think you're a superstar.
Speaker 2: You just got a phone call. Is that rue saying
Speaker 2: get back to set.
Speaker 5: No, No, I'm not filming right now. So that was
Speaker 5: somebody who didn't realize that I was on the compute.
Speaker 2: Yes, listen, we cannot wait for Drag Race down Under
Speaker 2: season two. You repall Reese Nicholson will be there and
Speaker 2: I can't wait to have you have out on our
Speaker 2: shows and back on our TVs. It's a pleasure, honey.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for loving our show. Thank you
Speaker 5: so much for being unabashedly you and being out on
Speaker 5: the radio, which is not an easy thing to do.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you putting yourself out there, and thank you
Speaker 5: so so much for having me.
Speaker 2: No, it's a pleasure. It's late night, no one listens,
Speaker 2: so they all think I'm straight anyway.
Speaker 5: That'll jest Nut.
Speaker 2: Thank you, superstar. We'll talk soon, okay, love he to
Speaker 2: meet you.
Speaker 1: Thanks Mitch, all right, we'll catch you again next Monday.
Speaker 3: Idiots, and don't forget new episodes of our regular podcast
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Speaker 2: That's right, see you then, that's just thing.
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