Speaker 1: Is it just me?
Speaker 2: This podcast by a couple of mitchell don't suck it up? Hello, everybody,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Drag Race Debrief. Hello Mitchell Kers he's not here,
Speaker 2: doctor's orders rest for days. Mitchell Coombs isn't here. He's ill,
Speaker 2: so he won't be here for the episode. Very sad,
Speaker 2: but listen, we're very excited to bring you the eliminated
Speaker 2: queen from this week's episode of Drag Race Down and
Speaker 2: our season two. I love this episode and it's kind
Speaker 2: of weird. I didn't really talk to Mitch about what
Speaker 2: I'd say, but if I give my opinions, there's no
Speaker 2: one here to refute it. So I think I will
Speaker 2: win drag Race Down under season two, don't you Well,
Speaker 2: if there's no one to contest it, I guess it's true.
Speaker 2: I think I will win. No, it's a great episode.
Speaker 2: We of course lost spoiler alert three to one Beverly Keels.
Speaker 2: Beverley's gone. She was eliminated and devastated by that, to
Speaker 2: be honest, but it was a great episode, a bit
Speaker 2: of drama. To be honest. I think we saw Hannahkonda
Speaker 2: rise to the cream of the crop. She's the top
Speaker 2: of the litter. Now she's now my new pick to win.
Speaker 2: I will say, here are queen cong I don't think
Speaker 2: Spanky Jackson's going to get there. But you know, this
Speaker 2: is technically a debrief podcast, so I had to give
Speaker 2: some notes on the show. Otherwise, as I live and brief,
Speaker 2: let's get her on eliminated. This week it's Beverly Kills.
Speaker 2: How i'd babe, Welcome to.
Speaker 1: The show, though, morning, how are you?
Speaker 2: No? It's not morning? Is that? How long you've been
Speaker 2: doing press? You think your time zones are out of way?
Speaker 1: I worked on drag time and this is the start
Speaker 1: of my ninety five Oh true.
Speaker 2: I guess you'll work late into the day, so this
Speaker 2: is this is your nine am rise and grind.
Speaker 1: For waking up at noon. That's part of my natural process.
Speaker 2: That's me too. We're nocturnal. I wake up, I do
Speaker 2: the night shore, so I work. I work late. So
Speaker 2: I get it. I have the life of a drag queen.
Speaker 2: And actually I want to talk to you obviously about
Speaker 2: the show. That a help, But I had an epiphany
Speaker 2: on the weekend. I came up with my own drag name.
Speaker 1: Beverly Spell.
Speaker 2: It hit me, so I have been trying to Mitchell
Speaker 2: Coombs obviously who you know. Yeah, and you did a
Speaker 2: comedy show with Mitchell Combs in Brisbane.
Speaker 1: Yeah we did. Yeah, it's called the Switch Up. So
Speaker 1: it's like the drag queens do comedy and the Communians
Speaker 1: do drag.
Speaker 2: Oh, let you switch that that I get the name? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that checks out, very smart. Well, Mitchell came up with his,
Speaker 2: which is feral Streep. Well, I think is a great,
Speaker 2: dreadful bit perfect exactly right.
Speaker 1: So mine as like Spanky Jackson, you know, yes, disgusting
Speaker 1: and just but so fabulous, like they come.
Speaker 2: From the same universe. Yeah. I came up with mat
Speaker 2: on the weekend. It hit me while I was shopping.
Speaker 2: My drag name will be m Bellish. Did you get it?
Speaker 2: Like I'm Embellisher, like all I just really embellish stories.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: But it's terrible.
Speaker 1: I love it now because drag is everywhere at the moment.
Speaker 1: What's happening now is that people are just like just
Speaker 1: like pointing at nouns and then naming themselves right the now,
Speaker 1: Like my name's car and board box, right, what are you?
Speaker 1: My name is red Bull? Can if you just in
Speaker 1: like the but it.
Speaker 2: Well, Embellish, like her name is Amelia Bellish or Emily Bellish.
Speaker 1: I think Amelia Bellish is hilarious.
Speaker 2: Oh and then everyone calls me EMBELLI is that? Is
Speaker 2: that what I need to do?
Speaker 1: Okay for sure?
Speaker 2: Okay, oh I get it all right? See see this
Speaker 2: is why I needed a pro to guide me through
Speaker 2: the process. A million Bellish. All right, let's talk about you,
Speaker 2: because I do not have a drag career. I was
Speaker 2: so sad to see you go. You were so great
Speaker 2: on the show and your looks I think, to be
Speaker 2: fully honest, you're a guy was up there, but you
Speaker 2: were definitely topping. You're a guy, which you know is
Speaker 2: a dream come true for many Your runway looks were
Speaker 2: so amazing, like they were truly did you make those?
Speaker 2: How did you get those? Like? Did you work with
Speaker 2: someone in Brisbane?
Speaker 1: Yes? They did so. The person who made most of
Speaker 1: my costumes the name is Mandy Moobs. She's my drag sister.
Speaker 1: She was so more of like a drag auntie to me.
Speaker 1: To be honest, you know, she's the sort of person
Speaker 1: that you can go to and be like, Hi, I
Speaker 1: have a a thing and I need you know about
Speaker 1: twelve fully realized costumes made in about a month's time.
Speaker 1: And I know it's the peak of omicron at the
Speaker 1: moment covid Stone, but I think you really need to
Speaker 1: do this, can you know? For me? And she was like, well,
Speaker 1: it's such a shame because I almost was about to
Speaker 1: make some costumes for myself. But I don't need to
Speaker 1: make them for myself anymore. She she got close.
Speaker 2: That, oh I get it. Oh.
Speaker 1: She was like, oh, maybe maybe I could get on
Speaker 1: because you know they, you know, everyone auditions. She was like,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe for me. So I came to her being like,
Speaker 1: would you maybe be able to help me with this?
Speaker 1: And she was like, I'll be cranky.
Speaker 2: But yes, nicely. She didn't sabotage you like make the
Speaker 2: scenes right.
Speaker 1: She wanted to, like, you know, ruin my chances so
Speaker 1: she can get on. She did like the so we
Speaker 1: we like we'd sit together and we'd like figure out
Speaker 1: sketches and look at designs and try and figure out
Speaker 1: like what fits the theme, but is also like in
Speaker 1: my own brand, I suppose. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: so she would do all the sewing and then I
Speaker 1: do all the crafting, so all of the head pieces
Speaker 1: and the stony and like the you know, prosthetics and
Speaker 1: things like that. So you just so many people in Brisbane.
Speaker 1: You've got like hair people or prosthetic people or jewelry people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just got to go to your community. And I
Speaker 1: was the first in Brisbane, so everyone was very very
Speaker 1: excited to help out.
Speaker 2: You represent a Brisbane well, especially in the All the
Speaker 2: Jude too, especially in this this last episode we had
Speaker 2: to do like the tourism commercial, which I thought, I
Speaker 2: thought yours was very funny. Who were you Bindi Irwin's
Speaker 2: lesbian sister or Dike cousin.
Speaker 1: I was Cindy Irwin, bindiow AND's lesbian sister. And it's
Speaker 1: funny because everyone thought like I was like punching down
Speaker 1: to lesbians. But they cut all of my lesbian jokes
Speaker 1: out and I was like, no, just give me.
Speaker 2: Some of the lesbian jokes. Can I have some of
Speaker 2: the blocked it out?
Speaker 1: They're like, al, I've kept all of my drags. They're
Speaker 1: on a folder over there. So I might do like
Speaker 1: a like a dramatic reading one day.
Speaker 2: My god do a spoken word drag show. Just sit
Speaker 2: on a chair with a microphone and a glass of
Speaker 2: water and deliver the lesbian jokes. I'd pay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one day in the future I share them, but
Speaker 1: not just yet.
Speaker 2: I hold on for a while underluck and key smart
Speaker 2: move Bev. I also I love saying Bev. That's just
Speaker 2: my canteen lady in primary school. Her name was Bev.
Speaker 2: And any time I think Hannah called you Bev a
Speaker 2: lot in the competition, I just I died because Bev
Speaker 2: like a woman named Bev in Australia. It's just so good.
Speaker 1: It's so funny because like Beverly Kills, like the name
Speaker 1: I think is quite cool, Like it's like cool edgy,
Speaker 1: it's fun. But like Bev is such a.
Speaker 2: Like it's the literal antithesis.
Speaker 1: Of myself, like Trudy or something like that. Does it
Speaker 1: just doesn't have the same.
Speaker 2: Like wander Yeah, yeah, yeah, it doesn't doesn't hit. Now
Speaker 2: let's talk about your run on the show. So runways
Speaker 2: on fleek every week that like that your arc in
Speaker 2: the competition was so interesting. Obviously it all came to
Speaker 2: a head in this latest episode that sent you home.
Speaker 2: But what I found really really lovely was a the
Speaker 2: way Spanky Jackson sort of guided you through at the end,
Speaker 2: which you know, I think we should see more of
Speaker 2: in the queer community, which is, I don't want to
Speaker 2: say queiz another generation, but you know, older queens helping
Speaker 2: and supporting the younger queens. I mean, was she like
Speaker 2: that for you the whole competition or a real sort
Speaker 2: of rock for you?
Speaker 1: She really was. I honestly didn't really get to know
Speaker 1: Spanky very well until those like later episodes, like we
Speaker 1: just we didn't really cross paths, to be honest, and
Speaker 1: only to the later episodes, so I realized, like, Wow,
Speaker 1: Spanky's like a really special a really special person, and
Speaker 1: like she showed me a lot of grace when I
Speaker 1: really really needed it, and yeah, I'm just I'm always
Speaker 1: so grateful for her. Wow.
Speaker 2: Well we saw Mini say spanking for the win, and
Speaker 2: then Uri said spanking for the wind. What is Spanky
Speaker 2: doing that the other queens aren't. Is she just so
Speaker 2: fun to be around?
Speaker 1: She is fun and like she was the last person
Speaker 1: like it was it was a competitive environment, but she
Speaker 1: didn't treat it as such. You know, she was having
Speaker 1: a really nice time still winning lots of challenges and
Speaker 1: doing very well, but she didn't treat it like a
Speaker 1: competition at all, you know, and I did the opposite.
Speaker 1: I was ultra competitive and one nothing, and she would
Speaker 1: have switched it around.
Speaker 2: You know, do you regret how you played the competition?
Speaker 2: Because it's one of those things like you know when
Speaker 2: you play an for the first time and you're terrible,
Speaker 2: like you don't play it well, but then the second
Speaker 2: time around, you're always so much better because you've had
Speaker 2: one go at it. Do you think you do better
Speaker 2: now having already done it once?
Speaker 1: My All Stars campaign has already started, babe?
Speaker 2: Fuck?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Like yeah, it was like it was funny because
Speaker 1: you know again you know, they're like, oh, you're still like,
Speaker 1: you know, you yet to learn so many things, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I feel like I'm learning like ten years
Speaker 1: of drag experience into like a three week period, like
Speaker 1: they crown everything in and I'm like, whoa, so I've
Speaker 1: gotten back. I'm literally like I don't even recognize the
Speaker 1: queen on TV anymore because it was it's a different person. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, I've only been doing drag for three and
Speaker 1: a bit years and because of that, you know, my
Speaker 1: since from now, since Drag Race, that's like thirty percent
Speaker 1: of my drag career. Yeah, and then another thirty percent
Speaker 1: was in COVID in lockdown. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I
Speaker 1: really like trying to I always try to give us
Speaker 1: some credit there because I'm like, I'm learning a lot
Speaker 1: and you have to learn it so quickly.
Speaker 2: Totally, and you're magnified and and A it's a competition, right,
Speaker 2: so you're all trying to like make each other slip.
Speaker 2: You all want to beat each other, and then b
Speaker 2: you're trying to work out who you are. It's I
Speaker 2: can imagine it would be like a pressure cooker of emotions,
Speaker 2: which is how all the Queen Kong stuff came about.
Speaker 2: And were you guys actually as tense as it kind
Speaker 2: of looked on screen? Or are you guys all good now?
Speaker 1: Oh we're fine now? She was literally literally twelve hours
Speaker 1: ago at three three in the morning, we were at
Speaker 1: the balcony of my local club having a drink together.
Speaker 1: So like, yeah, alswere and Mini was there too. Ironically,
Speaker 1: the three most polarizing people of the season sitting together
Speaker 1: on a balcony just drinking and laughing our heads off.
Speaker 2: Oh I should have got a photo, like all just
Speaker 2: sipping martinis, like laughing.
Speaker 1: I think I heard that, Mini, but I think we
Speaker 1: were like we were just too drunk at that point
Speaker 1: to really fuck.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah, fair and deservedly. So you guys have
Speaker 2: had a long season and have you did you enjoy
Speaker 2: it though, like you don't look back on it and go, yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I had the best time ever. Like
Speaker 1: what a dream to get to do something like that.
Speaker 1: You know, I always say, like, you know, experience can't
Speaker 1: buy it and money can't buy it. So it's just
Speaker 1: sometimes it's just luck and sometimes you fit the of
Speaker 1: the cast and sometimes you don't. And the fact that
Speaker 1: I got on was just like it meant the world
Speaker 1: that I got to just have a go at something
Speaker 1: so so so special and so cool. It was just
Speaker 1: such a privilege.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's not many Aussie RU girls, you know,
Speaker 2: you're part of a very small club.
Speaker 1: Now no, well you know one of twenty yeah twenty.
Speaker 2: Yeah if that. Now, what about the interaction with Rue,
Speaker 2: because that was wasn't as like intimidating as it looked,
Speaker 2: because I know, BEV sliding down into a chair, don't
Speaker 2: fall off, don't because I mean that looks so intense.
Speaker 2: And what do you say to Rue Paul when he's
Speaker 2: like questioning your personality and your life and who you
Speaker 2: are and where you're at and the whole Murial's wedding
Speaker 2: of it all that would have been terrifying. Bev.
Speaker 1: Well, I look back on the episode and he said,
Speaker 1: he's like, I wonder if because he's a handsome boy,
Speaker 1: he hasn't really understood that. So I think that might
Speaker 1: just be RuPaul's really like strange way of flirting with
Speaker 1: me and accept it.
Speaker 2: Well, who's an open relationship, so you never know, maybe
Speaker 2: you could be.
Speaker 1: He loves an Australian apparently, so you know.
Speaker 2: Would you ever sleep with all? That'd be weird?
Speaker 1: Did I just?
Speaker 2: Yes? I think it's a valid question.
Speaker 1: Everybody the season drag.
Speaker 2: Could get it. I put you in a compromising position.
Speaker 1: I really have okays like a lot. He seems like
Speaker 1: a lovely man with great family, friendly moral Yes, your question,
Speaker 1: I would not. I love my boyfriends all right.
Speaker 2: Right right? Okay, Well on that note, before I let
Speaker 2: you go, Mitchell Coombs had kill me if I didn't
Speaker 2: ask you. We ask all our guests. Okay, So it's
Speaker 2: a list that we've been compiling for years. We ask
Speaker 2: every one of our everyone that comes on the show.
Speaker 2: We've asked Faux, We've asked a brave Minnie Cooper. You're
Speaker 2: a guy. The question is Beverly kills a list of
Speaker 2: things better than drugs and dick because we have a
Speaker 2: lot of young listeners and we want them to know
Speaker 2: that there's more to life then partying and boys. So,
Speaker 2: for example, your guys did a good, good hangover day
Speaker 2: in bed. Minnie Cooper says, hey, you account, She loves hey.
Speaker 2: You came up, came art, sushi maker. Is what Faux
Speaker 2: first said. What would you like to add to the list?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, okay, I love this. Drugs or dick?
Speaker 1: Um okay. Sort of similar with yuries. Do you ever
Speaker 1: like pre plan having a hangover? So you give you
Speaker 1: so you get your things like your power aid and
Speaker 1: your fruit and your water. So when you wake up
Speaker 1: and a barocca and it's all just sitting on the
Speaker 1: bedside table for you, and you look at yourself. This
Speaker 1: was me yesterday morning, hung to the bung yes, drunk
Speaker 1: as a skunk, like absolutely take all the water out
Speaker 1: of my system, so hungover, and I look at my
Speaker 1: bedside table and my water and my barocca and my
Speaker 1: fruits just sitting there and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 2: Thank you, pasself, thank you. Yes, I do that all
Speaker 2: the time. But I have Baroka to Baroka and a
Speaker 2: hydra light in a glass of water. And then I
Speaker 2: always order myself Maca's hash around like a hash brand
Speaker 2: to stake everything up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and be thankful for your pasself, you know, okay,
Speaker 1: setting setting yourself up for a big night out and
Speaker 1: then just like being so knowing you're going to get
Speaker 1: absolutely obliterated, but looking after yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, meal prepping for the hangover. I love it. That
Speaker 2: is literally Beverly Kills. You're a superstar. I can't wait
Speaker 2: to see you at the finale viewing. I will see you,
Speaker 2: I'll give you, I'll give you a big hug. And
Speaker 2: I'm truly well done on the season. You should be
Speaker 2: very proud of supporting the and representing the Juice sou
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't wait to mention. We'll get to do
Speaker 1: it well, we'll get so drunk that we have to
Speaker 1: have brooker in the morning as well. Yes.
Speaker 2: Oh, and we'll preplan it. Yeah, we'll plan it out.
Speaker 2: It'll be Beverly Kills, it'll be Amelia Bellish and Feral
Speaker 2: Street reunited stream all right, so thank you for coming on.
Speaker 2: All right, that's Beverly guys here at Drag Race Debrief.
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Speaker 2: so it's you know, out there and on the record.
Speaker 2: I think we're going for a Hannaconda win and a
Speaker 2: Spanky Jackson runner up. That's the gut, that's the feeling,
Speaker 2: and we'll see if I'm right. All right, thank you
Speaker 2: for listening, guys. Mitchell Coombs get better, Dylan, We'll see
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