Speaker 1: Is It just Me?
Speaker 2: Podcast by a couple of mitches, don't.
Speaker 1: Suck it up. Oh, here we go and have a
Speaker 1: drag Race debrief.
Speaker 2: Mitchell Ko, we're up to week two of Drag Race
Speaker 2: down Under season two. Yeah, what did you think of
Speaker 2: the episode?
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I will say it's much better than
Speaker 1: season one at this point.
Speaker 2: Definitely.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's an improvement. Something about the lighting is still
Speaker 1: off her, like there's weird shadows. Have you noticed the shadows?
Speaker 1: Irk me.
Speaker 2: I've heard other people point that out, but I still
Speaker 2: can't notice anything.
Speaker 1: Make Michelle Vasage looks like a man at some point,
Speaker 1: and she's the only one that's not a man on
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: I didn't like her look this week, just quietly like.
Speaker 1: Share old older than Share, which is actually do with
Speaker 1: a grave. No, I'm loving the season. It's really good.
Speaker 1: I just love seeing Ozzie Queen's with jokes that we get,
Speaker 1: Like there's references that I think, oh my god, the
Speaker 1: Americans watching this won't get it, but fucking we have
Speaker 1: to sit through American references.
Speaker 2: I know there was little things like I can't remember
Speaker 2: which queen it was, but she goes, oh not me brush,
Speaker 2: and I was like that is so Australian. I love it.
Speaker 2: I can't remember who said that.
Speaker 1: Even the first episode with the sausage sizzle, like they
Speaker 1: didn't explain what a sausage Chiel was and fucking fucking
Speaker 1: international audiences. This is for us.
Speaker 2: Well, last week's episode, like I said, it was a
Speaker 2: very strong start. This week's episode, I was like, a
Speaker 2: fucking acting challenge. Yeah, they don't do much for me.
Speaker 1: No, the acting challenges are weird on drag Race because
Speaker 1: I mean drag queens. We love them. We've all seen
Speaker 1: them at gay bars. They're great performers, but they're not actors.
Speaker 1: Let's be real, they're not.
Speaker 2: I just don't understand why they keep doing them, especially
Speaker 2: so early in this season. But anyway, we're catching up
Speaker 2: with this week's elimonee. Is that the words you use?
Speaker 2: It was Aubrey have it was Sorry for the spoiler
Speaker 2: if we haven't watched yet, but she's here with us now.
Speaker 2: High Aubrey.
Speaker 3: Oh Hi, how.
Speaker 2: Are you feeling after watching it back? Oh?
Speaker 3: You know, a little bit bit devastated and then robbed.
Speaker 1: I was going to say robbed. If anything, I think
Speaker 1: you were robbed and I'm happily.
Speaker 3: Someone called the cops. Please let's get on it.
Speaker 2: Do your prison themed challenge this week. And like I
Speaker 2: was just saying, acting challenges. For me, I've always been like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, another one. Do the actual drag queens
Speaker 2: feel the same, because I've never actually met a Drag
Speaker 2: Race fan that has said, God, I love the acting challenges.
Speaker 3: I would use the word acting very loose quotes acting. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's it's interesting because you're sort of
Speaker 3: at the expense of the script a little bit, which
Speaker 3: doesn't tend to be you know, it's not Oscar worthy, unfortunately,
Speaker 3: but we do our best. And you know, I was
Speaker 3: pretty happy with what I did. And you know some
Speaker 3: of the funny moments I did. You know, you may
Speaker 3: not have even seen, but and what you did see,
Speaker 3: I was very happy.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you were doing the minogue, weren't you.
Speaker 1: Yes, I thought that was funny.
Speaker 3: With the phone, am I allowed to swear?
Speaker 2: Yeah the better chok fuck it.
Speaker 3: She had a fucking bejazzled microphone and her bra the
Speaker 3: whole time that she smuggled in.
Speaker 1: That's the type of contraband I want that now. I
Speaker 1: thought it was really good. So you're a trained actress,
Speaker 1: Tell me about that. Where did you study?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So I studied over at wappa in per Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Another whopper girl did the three year Bachelor and musical
Speaker 3: theater over there. So you know, I'm glad to finally
Speaker 3: be using all that time and money to now spend
Speaker 3: more time and money on my drag right.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's like the kind of like the
Speaker 1: double edged sword Whenever a drag queen says, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: an actress, I'm an actor, or you know, I'm a singer.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for this singing challenge, then they get
Speaker 1: fucking eliminated on the episode that they're meant to thrive in.
Speaker 1: Is it the best? The best have tac did? Do
Speaker 1: you think to just not say you're good at anything
Speaker 1: on drag Race then they won't guess?
Speaker 3: And I thought I didn't say anything. Oh obviously I did,
Speaker 3: but I was trying to say it like really loosely,
Speaker 3: because I was kind of like, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I've studied theater. I didn't say I'm an actor. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: the theater.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like if they'd done one of the talent
Speaker 2: shows or the singing challenges one of the other MAXI challenges.
Speaker 2: You would have absolutely been able to do your thing.
Speaker 2: Are you spewing that you didn't get to do that?
Speaker 2: Were you kind of hoping you'd stick around long enough?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? I mean you can go on my Instagram and
Speaker 3: go have a listen to me singing. I feel like
Speaker 3: I've got a pretty good voice in here somewhere.
Speaker 1: She's what portrayed betrayed in musical theater. Of course you'd
Speaker 1: have the pipes on you. And it's just a crime
Speaker 1: that we didn't get to see it. Tell us about
Speaker 1: the drama with Minnie Cooper because it seemed like anti drama, right,
Speaker 1: like that was nothing.
Speaker 2: It was really weird because right at the start of
Speaker 2: the episode she started addressing some shady comments she'd thrown
Speaker 2: the week before, and even I'd forgotten because it felt
Speaker 2: like nothing, and even you said it was no big deal.
Speaker 2: So did that just feel like she was dwelling on
Speaker 2: something unnecessarily?
Speaker 3: You know, in the words of artsimone, that means nothing. Honestly,
Speaker 3: what did you say?
Speaker 1: You said, it's the dementia. You know, it's SETI mini.
Speaker 3: No agism on the story, sorry enough?
Speaker 1: True?
Speaker 2: If you weren't there on the premiere night, Okay, the
Speaker 2: agism thing is a thought.
Speaker 1: What happened on?
Speaker 2: Youdre make jokes like that when she comes in?
Speaker 1: What happened happened?
Speaker 3: Look the whole agism thing. I love Minnie and I
Speaker 3: love her delium. We have made up and we're all fine,
Speaker 3: but I think that she does sometimes just feel a
Speaker 3: little bit like people are out to get her and
Speaker 3: no one else everyone fucking loves her so well, well.
Speaker 1: No with love she's I would like her to win.
Speaker 1: The whole thing I was, I was. I just knew
Speaker 1: she could take the joke.
Speaker 2: I know what you mean though, because I do love
Speaker 2: Minnie and like huge respect for Minnie. But this episode,
Speaker 2: I was like, God, it.
Speaker 3: Just it just felt a little bit like.
Speaker 2: She was being Yeah, it was a little bit yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't want to say ships starring,
Speaker 2: but I can't think of anything else to say off
Speaker 2: the top of my head. Is she like that? Just
Speaker 2: for the cameras? That was a little bit of that
Speaker 2: going on as well behind the scenes.
Speaker 3: Look, I've signed an nda, I can't.
Speaker 1: Okay, she's a smart girl.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: One thing I noticed when you and Mini made up though,
Speaker 2: did you notice that she said my apology. There was
Speaker 2: no plural. It was just my apology.
Speaker 1: Did she yes?
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm sorry my apology.
Speaker 1: That's a good that's an anti apology.
Speaker 2: Is imagine like signing off an email warm regard, just
Speaker 2: literally until you get in prayer with you.
Speaker 1: What what was? I want to know the story behind
Speaker 1: your name or behave And the look today that we're
Speaker 1: getting is it's very Aten Powers? Is it? Is it
Speaker 1: an Austin Powers inspired name?
Speaker 3: One? Yes, yes, yes, So I was on the I
Speaker 3: was on the train in Melbourne heading somewhere and me
Speaker 3: and my partner. My partner also just dragged. We we
Speaker 3: often just like bounce back stupid drag names for way
Speaker 3: too long, like longer than you should. It's embarrassing, to
Speaker 3: be honest, and we were sort of doing it. I
Speaker 3: had an older name that was embarrassing and you're not
Speaker 3: going to hear it.
Speaker 1: Come on, come on.
Speaker 2: We're all friends here. I'll share. I'll share you Mitch's
Speaker 2: embarrassing drag name that I came up for him.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, now you go first, so I'll tell you
Speaker 3: what it was.
Speaker 2: I wanted him to be Rhiannasaurus, but he won't go
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: That's not that's a fat joke. That's not funny Aubrey.
Speaker 1: You can't laugh at that ethically, But I do think.
Speaker 3: That's there's nothing wrong with being fat. I was laughing
Speaker 3: because it's a good name.
Speaker 1: Is it's a very funny name.
Speaker 3: Okay, so my old name used to be because it's
Speaker 3: another pun because I love punns. It was justin a wig.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I do like that. I like what you've
Speaker 2: gone with for Plan B, though I.
Speaker 3: Agree Plan B was much better. Yeah. So I was
Speaker 3: on the train just sort of we're bouncing back names,
Speaker 3: and then I think Aubrey came up out of somewhere,
Speaker 3: and then I was I think we sort of landed
Speaker 3: on it, like an Aubrey Aubrey behave or like Aubrey
Speaker 3: be do something or whatever. And then like I as
Speaker 3: a kid, like grew up watching Austin Power's NonStop. That
Speaker 3: was my childhood film. Slightly inappropriate for a child, but
Speaker 3: you know, you know, you got to learn somehow. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and yeah and so and I sort of found it.
Speaker 3: And then the sixties references and all that sort of
Speaker 3: stuff that comes with like Austin Powers just like all
Speaker 3: fell into soap camp and I just yeah, I just
Speaker 3: loved it.
Speaker 2: Gorgeous. Now, how did you feel when Michelle Visage said
Speaker 2: that you were you were on the struggle bus this week?
Speaker 2: Because God, that's got to happen. I mean, I mean
Speaker 2: there were Yeah, there were a couple of little things
Speaker 2: that went wrong, Like there was the bag, all the
Speaker 2: stuff falling out of the wag and one of the
Speaker 2: wings not.
Speaker 3: See the bag. Thing was meant to happen.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, they were back at right.
Speaker 3: There were there were who who grubs, which is a
Speaker 3: New Zealand grub that I grew up like when you
Speaker 3: grew up in New Zealand. They're in all of your
Speaker 3: pine trees when you cut your wooden stuff to light
Speaker 3: your fire, and people eat them and so and but
Speaker 3: the who who grub turns into who beatle, which is
Speaker 3: what I was.
Speaker 1: Oh, I get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the whole thing was like they were meant to
Speaker 3: fall out, and then I pick one up and seductively
Speaker 3: go to eat it. But I also realized that Rue
Speaker 3: doesn't like you eating things in front of her, so
Speaker 3: I would have it was actually made of cheese. I
Speaker 3: would have I would have chowed down on that because
Speaker 3: I love cheese. But Rue was looking right at me,
Speaker 3: and I was like.
Speaker 1: Can you read the facial expressions or Bree, is it
Speaker 1: close enough to see that she's pissed?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and she was like, oh, don't, don't do it. Oh.
Speaker 2: So did they make it obvious that that was intentional?
Speaker 2: Or Am I the only dumb fuck that thought that
Speaker 2: was an accident because they kind of painted it as oh, whoops,
Speaker 2: that was the suffer but you're now telling me that
Speaker 2: you meant to do that.
Speaker 3: No, No, lots of people thought like they they played
Speaker 3: it as if it was an accident. No, it was
Speaker 3: one hundred intentional because the plan was they get my
Speaker 3: phone out, take my phone call, and when I go
Speaker 3: to put my phone back in my bag, it breaks
Speaker 3: open and or who grabs all.
Speaker 2: Over the makes sense?
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, that checks out?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 1: What was the actual and no, I got it in
Speaker 1: the moment, but the wings wasn't right. The wings was
Speaker 1: that was a bit of an accident.
Speaker 3: Right, Look, yeah, the little grabby things, I definitely didn't
Speaker 3: get time to practice them, and they were they I
Speaker 3: didn't realize they fling all over the place when you
Speaker 3: walk around, So I just you know, it's much easier
Speaker 3: to grab them when you're in a mirror, but we
Speaker 3: don't have that, so I just sort of couldn't find them.
Speaker 3: But you know, whatever it happens happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you get to do a second take? Because I've, like,
Speaker 1: you know, listened to a lot of drag race podcasts
Speaker 1: a lot of the time. I hear that there's a
Speaker 1: second and a third take? So could did they get
Speaker 1: you doing it properly? But chose to put in the
Speaker 1: shady one?
Speaker 3: Look the second There is a second take, but you'll
Speaker 3: never see it.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Now, tell me you said that you wanted to
Speaker 2: show off the singing in one of the challenges down
Speaker 2: the track. Did you have it mapped out in your
Speaker 2: head what you would have done? Like, what was your plan?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I mean there was no sort of Oh, I can't
Speaker 3: say that I'm giving spoilers. The answer is yes, I
Speaker 3: had written lyrics ready to sing, so that I was
Speaker 3: just waiting for you know, they usually do a song
Speaker 3: or something, you know, in the end, So I had
Speaker 3: some lyrics planned out, and you know, I can't write
Speaker 3: new melodies or anything until we hear the music. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I was definitely going to sing at some point.
Speaker 1: I would have loved that. That would have been great
Speaker 1: to see your scene.
Speaker 3: You'll still hear me sing I'm going to record some
Speaker 3: songs and stuff and put them all on, you know,
Speaker 3: on the interwibs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hot, hot, Where can we see? Where are you
Speaker 1: local to? Are you Melbourne based? Can drag? Can listen?
Speaker 1: Is in Melbourne? Come and see you?
Speaker 3: Yes? So I am. I'm in Melbourne. I've been here
Speaker 3: for like five years now, and I started drag in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: That was a lockdown thing, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the second lockdown. You know. We had many.
Speaker 2: Yes, famous it was quite lockdown, quite lockdown. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were giving it the lock we were.
Speaker 1: And what inspired it? Because with your partner that was
Speaker 1: doing drag at the time, had you always wanted to
Speaker 1: try it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well we actually met like shortly after I first
Speaker 3: like sort of started. But yeah, I just had lots
Speaker 3: of friends, you know, I was in the queer scene,
Speaker 3: so I was always going out and seeing drag, queen's
Speaker 3: perform and stuff and being like a performer and in
Speaker 3: the theater world. Like, I just loved the idea of
Speaker 3: it all. I just knew how much money and time
Speaker 3: goes into all of it. So I was like, I'm
Speaker 3: never going to have any of that, and then you know,
Speaker 3: Lockdown was like, actually, now you have nothing to spend
Speaker 3: your money on and plenty of freaking time. So I
Speaker 3: was like, well what else do I do?
Speaker 2: So you really just fast tracked yourself and now here
Speaker 2: you are on Bloody Drag Race. That's amazing.
Speaker 3: I owe it all to Ms. Rona.
Speaker 1: All right, well, it was so good to meet you
Speaker 1: on the show. I mean I wanted more of you.
Speaker 2: Hang on, Mitchell, you can't wrap yet.
Speaker 1: Oh you've got the big question, the big question. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll save my compliments for after.
Speaker 2: The most important question of all. Actually, we've got a
Speaker 2: running list that we asked all of our guests the
Speaker 2: same question. Okay, We've got a list of things better
Speaker 2: than drugs and dick. The purpose of the list is
Speaker 2: to remind our listeners that there's more to life than partying.
Speaker 2: Boys are not the end of the world, So just
Speaker 2: little things in life you appreciate. I'll give you an example.
Speaker 2: Faux Fur last week said that her twelve dollars sushi
Speaker 2: maker from Kmart is better than drugs and dicks. There
Speaker 2: a little thing in life that you just get a
Speaker 2: kick out.
Speaker 3: Of that's a really good question.
Speaker 2: What are some other things, like a good crunch of
Speaker 2: an apple, fresh bed linen.
Speaker 1: Crunch of an apple, Yeah, a brand new candle, A
Speaker 1: brand new candle, those little things.
Speaker 3: I think freshly cutting your toenails, Oh, yes, that's me.
Speaker 1: I did that last night, but I did it in
Speaker 1: bed or bringing then I missed a couple so as
Speaker 1: I was sleeping. You know when you get scratched by Yes,
Speaker 1: I did too.
Speaker 3: I do that too. But that's the fun of it, right, Yes.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: The reason I love that the most is because we're
Speaker 3: always wearing heels, and you know, if you have a
Speaker 3: tone owl at the end of that heel, really it
Speaker 3: gets you. It gets ya.
Speaker 2: That is a brilliant answer. I would never have thought
Speaker 2: of that, but you're so right. I feel like you've
Speaker 2: got your sit together after that.
Speaker 1: And I will say, there's something more. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is just me, but there's something more sort
Speaker 1: of a feeling about a toenail clip than a fingernail clip.
Speaker 1: I don't know. The toenails and.
Speaker 2: Fig and it's sum much Ethie to let the tithes go.
Speaker 1: They're at.
Speaker 3: A friendly reminder to anyone listening, please go cut your
Speaker 3: fucking tone.
Speaker 1: Click your toenails. People. If Aubrey has any sort of legacy,
Speaker 1: it's that clip your toenails. You're dirty grass.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, oh here's my compliment.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I just love watching you on the show. You were
Speaker 1: so great the confessionals. You were great to look at,
Speaker 1: so polished, right, and I think watching you and watching
Speaker 1: your runway, seeing a polished runway was like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is what I what I've been waiting for on Drag
Speaker 1: Race down Under. And then I was upset.
Speaker 2: I feel like they really did you dirty? The two
Speaker 2: runways you got to do it was like, right, here's
Speaker 2: a bunch of rubbish making our fit. Second one was
Speaker 2: dress up as an insect, Like what the fuck?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, hey, yeah. I mean I would have
Speaker 3: to say I agree with everything you said.
Speaker 1: If you're in Melbourne, you'll see you.
Speaker 3: I'm sure. I'm sure you'll see more of me. But
Speaker 3: please go follow the divas because you know, at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, social media and Instagram followings are
Speaker 3: all that mattered.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, that's why we do all this In
Speaker 1: the first speaking my language, go and see all bree.
Speaker 1: If you're down in Melbourne and we might see what
Speaker 1: the finale or who knows if we' see you pop
Speaker 1: up on our screens in the future. But thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on the show.
Speaker 3: No my pleasure, thanks for having me, and.
Speaker 2: We'll be back next week with another drag race debris.
Speaker 1: Here we will. I'm excited. I don't know who it
Speaker 1: is at this point. It could be anyone, truly, we
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