WEBVTT - ELIMINATED QUEENS Week 4 - RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE DOWN UNDER - Reality TV Contestant 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.920 TV Reload the podcast last week. Anby Welcome back guys 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.200 to TV Reload. As you may know, my name is 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.920 Benjamin Norris and this is your podcast to get all 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:12.479 the inside goss on the popular TV shows you may 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.760 be watching from around the world. 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Today's episode, I'm joined by this 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.360 week's eliminated Queen from RuPaul's Drag Race down Under season three. 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.840 It's the Fabulous Reader Menu. The New Zealand born drag 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.159 Queen was serving spicy looks and curves for days. She 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.760 loves to sing, and dance and split and self confessed 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.720 she is a full course meal, entree, maine and dessert. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.920 Rita found herself in the bottom two three weeks in 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.520 a row, and sadly for her, it was three strikes 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.920 and You're out. I will find out more about the 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.720 planned snatch game character and what mister Bean might have 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.960 looked like. We will talk pit crew challenges and if 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.600 it's fair to have luck based outcomes over Queen's creative abilities. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.720 readA will discuss future seasons who she thinks would be 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.240 a good addition and if the season would work with 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.040 an old Queen format. Plus, we will get plenty of 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.800 exclusives from behind the scenes of RuPaul's Drag Race down 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.600 Under season three, which is now available to watch on 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.440 Stown Australia. Anyway, guys, let's bring Rita into the podcast, 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.759 and guys, I hope you enjoy the special look at 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:42.280 week four of RuPaul's Drag Race. Morning, Rita, how are you? 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:44.040 I'm good? How are you Benjamin? 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.319 I am so excited about talking to you. You know, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.920 last night we went to go and get some Chinese 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.120 food and both of us dropped the Riata menu joke 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.600 at the same time. So you're you're in the vernacular. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:57.000 Oh, I love it. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:02.080 Thank you. How are you going post your elimination? But 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.480 by the way, I also loved your Kylie runway. Look, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.120 I actually think it was one of the best, so 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:07.560 just they have that okay that. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.080 I know I'm doing really good. I've enjoyed every second 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.799 of it, and I feel like it's been very positive 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.160 from the perspective of like the viewers, and I'm been 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.600 in such like awe of everything, and I have enjoyed 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.000 every single second and every moment. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.560 I love that, Joe. It's so such a shame is 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.800 where you also are wearing an outfit that someone else 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.680 has chosen to wear, but like we're at week four, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.280 had you and Ashley not sort of compared notes and 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.760 realized you had the same outfit and thought maybe you 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.000 could try and rustle up something else, like what happens 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:37.760 in that situation. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.760 Well, I remember unpacking and seeing the same dress and 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.480 we both looked at it come and I'm like, okay, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.760 but I did see it. Hers was very on point 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:49.760 with the runway where I wanted to do something a 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.720 little bit different, So I felt like mine sort of 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.280 a little bit more and I think it was just 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:55.400 as long as you can sell it. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.919 On the runway. Then that was the like I tried to. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.600 Embody the whole I had, like you know, in my hood, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.480 my glasses, the microphone, and I made sure I did 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:05.560 that and served it. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.440 Yeah, I feel like any other week, everyone would have 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.320 been like, that's amazing because you were you look phenomenal, 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.360 and you did get that really nice comment from Michelle 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.160 as well. She sort of made a comment about some 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.640 of the choices, which I thought was really nice as well. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.839 Does that make you like Michelle Visage a little bit more? 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.440 A little a little, a little bit more after that 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:24.680 comment about the Shrek thing? 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:29.240 No, and you know what of all the Kylie Minogue 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.359 songs that they got you guys to lip sync to. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.960 I mean, I am a Kylie's dan. You know, I'm 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.800 a big fan, and so's my partner. And I don't 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.200 think we knew that song either. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.000 I wanted because you know, right now, it would have 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:44.400 been a great opportunity to do that. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.920 Seriously, it was like it was like sitting in my 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.640 face the Padam song, I'm like get Away, get Away, 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.360 and I was like it needed to be Padam or 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:53.840 can't get you out of My head? I don't know 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:55.680 it seemed like a really strange song. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:57.360 Was very odd, very odd. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.000 You know. I was also going to ask you what happened? 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.240 And when you get eliminated? Is there a bit of 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.560 a process that you know, once you've been eliminated, you 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.360 have to go through a few checkpoints or do you 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.960 just find yourself somehow on the side of the New 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:10.680 Zealand Highway somewhere. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.840 So you have to like film your mirror message and 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.479 then do an exit interview. So I remember doing that. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.159 I felt like after the runway. You know, I was 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.000 very emotional after the getting eliminated, But it wasn't more 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:26.800 because I was upset that I'm going home. It was 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.960 more upset because I'm proud of what I did. I 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:30.840 proud of the journey that I was on, and felt 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.280 like everyone will be so proud of. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:33.520 Me once I come home. 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.159 But yeah, after all that process pretty much forlled my 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:37.760 boyfriend and said come pick me up. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.159 But let's go back to own Wilton. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.599 What's your post elimination food that you go to? This 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.680 sounds like a strange question to ask people, but it 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.320 is always rather telling. What was your go to meal 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:51.560 after being eliminated? 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.560 Well, it was quite late and a lot of places 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.720 weren't open, so I had to just get McDonald's on 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:56.240 the way home. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.600 But it was a good McDonald's. Take you that. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.279 Oh my god. A friend of mine she's just separated 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.000 from her husband and she hooked up with a guy 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.120 for the first time on like a dating app. And 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:08.960 she was like, you know, she didn't eat for three 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:10.520 days knowing that she was going to hook up with 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.360 this guy on the app. And she said, she went around. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.440 She said, the sex is terrible, she said, but the 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.400 best thing that happened to me was the big Mac. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.839 She said. She went into the McDonald's and ate it 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.440 in there. She was like, that's heaven. So I love that. 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:22.920 I'm hoping it's a big mac. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.240 It was. We got and a cheeseburger. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:26.560 That's my go to meal. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:27.880 Yeah, it's so good. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.200 That's my go to meal. Anyway, people really like, shut up, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.200 be and no one cares about what you order at McDonald's. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.640 The Queen's, I was going to say, the Queen's feeling 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.080 are feeling a little bit more relaxed by episode four, 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.640 do you reckon? That's because you've all established who you 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.200 are and the dynamic that you're kind of playing amongst 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:44.960 each other. Or is it just that it's less noise 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:45.960 because it's less people. 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:47.920 I would say less noise because less people. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.160 It was definitely very boisterous at the start and a 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.400 lot of people, a lot of big personalities, and then 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.240 slowly filtering through them. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:57.760 It did get a little bit more. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.720 Quiet and somewhat comfortable women the competition, but like not 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:02.920 comfortable to the point. 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.080 Because you know, there's it's getting less and less people. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.040 Yeah, kind of The first episode to me reminded me 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.640 of the very first time I went to Chinese New 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.280 Year in the city in the Melbourne CBD. And that's 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.360 got nothing to do with the culture of it at all. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.200 It was just to do with the color and the 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.760 noise and the spectacle of the whole thing. And it 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.159 did make us struggle a little bit to get to 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.200 know everyone as much as we probably should. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.400 Was a lot happening. For sure, I. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:31.360 Would have been there handing out ADHD medication to everyone 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.080 you served. You seemed a little reserved a little bit 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.360 in this episode, more so than some of the others, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.440 and I didn't think you were going to get eliminated, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.680 even though it was the third time lip syncing what 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.000 had happened at that point for you? What was going 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:45.760 on in your mind throughout this episode. 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:50.000 I think I struggled the most because I only had 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.680 two options for snatch game, and Rue didn't make any 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.679 of those two. So then I was in my head 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.880 China won poll to give a character that I. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.920 Didn't bring three, I wasn't prepared for it whatsoever. 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.320 I was prepared with the other two characters, but for 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.320 this one, I was like, no, and I should have 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.600 actually stuck to what I knew, not listen to roop 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:10.680 or and. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.320 You know, just go for it, which I was. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.920 You know, I think in that moment, I knew I 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.400 was already in the bottom twice and the only way 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.720 for me to get out was to listen to the critiques. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.320 And yeah, I. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.720 Just really want to see the mister Bean, and people, 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.000 this is a podcast, this is audio, so people can't 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.480 watch a mister Bean because mister Bean doesn't talk. But 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.640 I need to see it for myself and I'll grade 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.280 it out of like maybe a five. Can you give 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.560 me any kind of mister Bean. It's hard because you 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.280 know what I try, and I used to do a 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.720 mister Bean impersonation and to do it, you have to 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:47.400 really relax your mouth and not laugh. So anyway, that's 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:48.160 all I could say. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.320 And then I had like a little titty bear like 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:51.920 his titty amazing. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.960 It was a choice, I'll say that, That's all I 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:55.679 could say. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.360 Yeah, it was definitely a choice. I'm going to talk 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.000 about Snatch game in a minute, but I just wanted 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.320 to say, as well, are the pid Crew challenge that 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.600 you got? You know, it's really revealing and it's on 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.280 brand because it's a bit sexy and we get to 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.200 see them take off their underpants. You know, I'm assuming 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.240 they take you out of the work room one by one, 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.040 so you all had to leave and come back in 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.320 and do it. Yes, And then that challenge, it seems 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.120 to me that it's really based on a luck challenge, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.280 not necessarily, you know, based on your creativity. How do 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.800 you girls feel about at this point of the competition, 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.280 when you're so desperate to be there, having a luck 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.680 challenge rather than what skill you can bring to the comp. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.640 That's a good question, I think, Well, of course it 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.000 could have gone like anyway for anyone to win it, 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:36.160 So I would have. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.480 Loved to win somewhat of the challenge, but yeah, it was. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.000 It was a choice, but it was definitely a choice. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.640 I mean great, I mean we got to see them 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.560 take their underpants off, and I'm here for that. But 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.480 I just wonder because I'm always thinking of the competition, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.319 like I'm thinking of you guys, I'm thinking of the 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.760 people in the competition, and I know what it's like 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.080 when you're desperate to stay in something, and you know, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.680 I always feel like it happens in Mastership. They'll be like, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.520 smell these smells or pick these colors on the wall 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.000 that goes with the food, and it isn't necessarily about 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.400 what they can cook. So it's sometimes it frustrates me, 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.520 that's all. Yeah, not for me anyway, about the Snatch Game. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.440 Who do you think missed out on the Snatch Game? 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.040 Did you think that there was someone that's left so 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.199 far that might have been particularly good in that challenge? 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.840 Oh? I think I three would have killed it. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.040 If I'm being honest, I believe she was doing like 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.760 Ali Wong for her Snatch game, what's your auditioned with? 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.400 And the little peaks that I've seen her like post 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.439 some stories and there it was hilarious, So I thought. 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:34.960 That she would have killed it. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.200 Okay, I'm going to look forward to that that maybe 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.959 we'll get that in years to come. Wheneverone revealed their 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.599 looks their Snatch Game characters to RuPaul, a lot of 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.720 them didn't seem that exciting. I still going back to 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.160 mister Bean, I'm here for it, But I just think 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:53.600 recognizable characters that people all know but probably don't know 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.119 everything about is what works throughout the history of this competition. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.680 Like it was smart to do Jesus Christ because everyone's 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.640 going to o that, but then take it in some 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.280 you know, balls to the floor, what is it balls 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.760 to the wall? Anyway, wherever the balls are. I kind 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.920 of feel like that works better. What's going through people's 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.199 mind when they're picking characters that no one's going to know. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.240 I think they kind of like coincides with what I 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.520 was planning to do with like Kate Shepherd. A lot 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.679 of people didn't know Kate Shepherd and one She's dead 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:24.760 and Jesus True. I think for me it was I 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.400 felt more comfortable choosing a character that no other people 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.840 would know because you could play on that and make 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:30.560 it a character. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:32.520 So I have a feeling like a lot of people 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:33.720 didn't probably. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.040 Feel the same way for characters that weren't as no 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:38.320 one compared to some others. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.040 I know, but I still think that the smart move 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.240 is to pick someone that everyone knows. But then just 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.520 like what that character would do if that had absence 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.320 or something, do you know what I mean? Like, you know, 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.360 you just make them do you know, really bizarre shit 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.600 and then that makes people laugh. You know. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.840 Yeah, I think I was nervous if I was to 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.680 do mister Bean, because he is such a character himself 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.680 and people know him, and if I don't do it right, 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:05.400 then I would get rid for that. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.079 No, I reckon, I saw a little bit of it before. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.960 It's good. It's gold, you know. And also this, I 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.800 actually think it's more of a physical comedy. You know, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.640 you might not be able to say as much like 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.520 Michelle said, but there is a lot of you know, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.280 mister Bean was hilarious because of what he did with 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.280 his face gestures, and you know, you're very expressive. So 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.480 I still think it's anyway, I'm here for your reader menu. 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:29.520 Thank you. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:31.640 Do you think people are going to be upset about 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.440 Jesus Christ? I mean it was so offensive and I think, 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.280 you know, actually about asthetic great job. Do you think 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:38.800 people are going to be offended or is that just 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.559 proof that maybe the people who might be offended or 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:42.480 watching the wrong show. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.360 Yeah, I don't think people should get offended by it. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.640 I believe we were talking about it because it was 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:50.719 you know, it's Christianity. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.720 It's a religion. It's really hard to play on that. 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.200 But I think she did it in a really good 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.880 way that kind of just as you say, like literally 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.680 took it to the highest piece could. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.640 Go and just made it like completely hilarious. 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.440 Yeah, people who find a defensive watch another show. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.520 You can watch Passions of the Christ. Actually I've never 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.120 seen that movie, so maybe that's culturally inappropriate. I don't 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:17.840 know what did the experience of being able to stand 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.360 with RuPaul and be on their show, What did that 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:22.280 experience teach you? 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:27.440 I saw every opportunity as a learning curve for me, 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.400 So being one invited to Rupa's drap race is a 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.480 huge accomplishment, especially being so young and so new into 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.319 the scene itself. Of course we're a nervous at the start, 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.440 but then I felt like I kind of knew and 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.880 found myself within that. So yeah, I take on every 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.920 critique compliment and make sure I run with that. 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:48.920 And trial new things. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:53.360 And I learned that from RuPaul, Michelle, the other judges, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.920 and my peers as well. So I found this as 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.880 like the best experience I could have ever asked for. 0:12:58.320 --> 0:12:58.959 Felt like a laugh. 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.800 The loger did I expect it as well, So yeah, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:03.400 it's I loved every second of it. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.760 I really want to see all of the audition videos 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.960 for everyone that gets in every season. Like I'm the 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.560 sort of person that you know if I stay over 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.520 at your house, I'd probably go through your underpants draws, 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.160 So that's just me. I want to know what people 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.640 would do. Is there a thing in your contract that 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.520 says you're not allowed to show your audition video or 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.600 are you allowed to expose that at some point? 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.560 I don't think there is, because I have a feeling 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:29.200 some of the other like American Queens, have posted theirs 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.440 on that YouTube, so I don't think that is a 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:32.240 clause in there. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.000 I know from friends that have gotten in on shows, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.559 the tip that I've always been given by casting people 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.200 is to use takes that are longer, where you're on 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.440 camera longer, rather than a highly edited montage best of clip. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.040 What did you as well, what did you do? 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.800 It was very like raw edited. It was more just 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.360 me in my living room and literally different points of 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.400 the livingroom room as well, just kind of I didn't 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.480 want to over edit it and make sure I showed 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.600 my snowing in me, so there was like hardly any 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.679 cuts in between things when it came to it. Like 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.400 I've shown all my Hamilton sisters, We've all watched each 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.199 other's like audition tapes, and I found with mine specifically, 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.880 it was very myself and I did have someone like, 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.560 you know, telling me I should say this, and I 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.400 was like, no, this is not your audition tape. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:20.000 This is mine. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.640 I'm going to say what I want to say. And 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.240 I think that's kind of where it got me and 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.760 why it got me das because I put my heart 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.360 and soul into it and literally just gave me. 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.440 I love that. I love that. I mean, it's really 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.560 good advice. I think people be listening to this because 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.440 people do go back and listen to a lot of 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.720 the podcast chats throughout the seasons to get tips on 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.240 how to get in, and I feel like there's not 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.120 enough information in there for them. I even had this year, 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.680 people say you talked to the Queen's last year. Make 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.240 sure this year you ask about audition tapes and you 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.480 know what works. So I think that's really that's really 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.920 interesting to know. Is there a down under chat group 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.560 from the first three seasons? Like, is there an underground 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.840 down under chat group? I should say, And I was 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.440 curious to know if you're all talking behind the scenes, 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.960 is there like an miss congeniality of the three seasons, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.560 like someone who really stands up and helps everyone and 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.160 all keeps the community together. 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.720 I think we've all got individual group chats, we don't 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.680 actually get one behind one, but like one person that 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.280 definitely helped me from start to finish with this whole process, 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.080 a Keda Kidding is just like the most sweetest person 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:23.560 and has given me the best opportunities outside of drag 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:27.560 Race and has been such a great help throughout the 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.360 whole competition and was kind of my support person to 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.880 go back to and if I had any questions in 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:37.000 regards to little little details, they were there within a heartbeat. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.400 So I love Keda for that. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.280 That's so good. I mean, it's so good when you've 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.640 got that community behind the scenes and people are willing 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.200 to help you know with this season it seems quite different. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.320 It feels like we've got some flavors happening. Like the 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.520 first season to me is like a flavor of the 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.400 ice cream. The second series was a flavor of that. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.200 I asking the third one again something quite different. You know, 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.760 if they do roll into a series four, what is 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.160 your thoughts on having a season of older queens? Like 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.120 all of our classic Australian New Zealand queens that have 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.200 been around, you're kind of bumpers and maybe Mini Cooper's 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.840 no shared to Mini Cooper and Mini Cooper's age, But like, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:12.680 do you think that would work? Do you think that 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.800 the community of people watching drag Race want to see 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.920 older queens? Like? What is your thoughts on that? 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:18.640 I think so. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.160 I think a lot of people would enjoy seeing that 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.400 because you know, they've paved the way for all of 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.200 us to do what we want to do, so it's 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.680 time to kind of give them their spotlight and shine 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.480 on TV if they wanted to do that, So I 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.280 think if there was a fourth season, go for it. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:37.240 There's amazing performers in New Zealand and Australia that you 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:38.240 know we all look up to. 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.360 Is there someone that you think should do the show? 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:40.680 Are you? 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:44.280 I mean you're obviously surrounded by really talented drag queens, 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.640 you know, throughout both Australia and New Zealand. Is there 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.600 someone that you think that needs to be on the show, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.680 that you think needs to audition next year? 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:56.320 Yes, I would probably say like Buckwheat autisticle. Okay, yeah, yeah, 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.320 amazing performers here in New Zealand have been doing it 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.040 for a very long time and they still look Florence 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:02.000 as ever, and. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.960 They also say, you know, it's not it was funny. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:05.800 I was talking to a few of the queens from 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.159