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Dangerously In Drag: Rusical Recap & Betsey Johnson
Get ready to dive deep into the colorful chaos of Drag Race Season 17! We kick things off with an introduction to our fabulous co-host, Phoenix Dior Vuitton, who brings fresh energy and expert insights. As we dissect the latest episode, we cover the highs and lows of the queens' performances, focusing on key eliminations and the judges' critiques, especially the noticeable shift in Michelle Visage's feedback style.
With humor and candid commentary, we navigate through the behind-the-scenes drama, alliances brewing, and the riveting challenges each queen faces. Who made a memorable mark this season, and who fell short? Our entertaining discussions explore the ever-evolving drag culture and the nuances of performing under pressure.
Don't miss our predictions for the upcoming finale! Immerse yourself in the vibrant conversations as we celebrate everything that makes Drag Race a cultural phenomenon. From iconic lip-sync moments to fashion statements that wowed (or shocked) us, this episode promises to be an exhilarating experience. Join us as we cheer for our favorites and dish out opinions that will spark discussions long after the episode ends. Subscribe, share, and let us know your thoughts!
Welcome to Dangerous Leandrag. It's your boy, sgr, and we got a new hopefully staple co-host slash guest. Go ahead and introduce yourself for the people.
Speaker 2:What's up? Y'all Y'all already know who it is. It's your boy, the first-mo father of Las Vegas, phoenix Dior Vuitton, and the creator and proprietor of the Velvet Rope Podcast. So y'all can catch me out Facebook, youtube, instagram Live every month you know, sometimes twice a month, but moving forward every month where we discuss any and everything, entertainment and a little bit of politics. So we get a little real, but we also keep it fun and light.
Speaker 1:Well, all I'm going to say, phoenix, is maybe I need to step into your world. You know you're over here on Straight A Reviews, but listen, listen. It's all about collaboration, networking, and shout out to Nico, for allowing our worlds to collide is the best way that I will say that yes, honey, bringing two fags together Y'all, when I say fags, I mean P-H-A-G-S honey.
Speaker 2:Popular hot-ass gossipers.
Speaker 1:And also two F-A-G's too, though at the same time. Listen, listen. I just be laughing because I got a whole shirt that says Hi, I'm gay. So it is what it is Dangerously In. Drag is a segment on Straight Day Reviews. That is about all things Drag Race, all stars, just all of it. But we're here to talk about Season 17 of Drag Race. The last two episodes I don't know what they're called. I can tell you what they're about. I just I'm sorry I have to rip the band-aid off. I'm happy that somebody went home today.
Speaker 1:Now, I know you said you was fine, but I want to talk about this episode. I'll let you talk about the episode before, if that's okay, is?
Speaker 2:that fine, it's your show. I'm just a guess.
Speaker 1:It's your show. I mean you can come weekly if you want to talk about this, I don't mind, let's listen, it'd be hard I would love to.
Speaker 2:I would love to. I will say, when it comes to the finale, I might be MIA because my sister and I we talked, we said we got to have a viewing party for the finale at her house. So you know, we got it because we some super fans who knows, maybe I'll invite her too.
Speaker 1:my point is after so many weeks, I'm so happy that cory king went home and I don't be trying to burn people, but like, okay, I follow another tiktoker and they've said it, michelle's massage critiques have not been nearly as severe.
Speaker 2:She's been light. She's been light on the readings.
Speaker 1:It's like Michelle Diet. It's like Michelle Diet versus Michelle. She really don't be going in. But when they ask you to repeat, not to do the same thing you keep doing it.
Speaker 2:It's like you don't want the 200K, I feel like when she first came on at season three and you know we were all a little hurt that we were like who is this new bitch? Where's Merle? Even though Merle really didn't know shit now that you look at it in hindsight. But we look at Michelle at first like who is this bitch? Who is this white bitch coming on here? Who the fuck she think she is with her big ass, gigantic titties? But then we get to see her and we're like, oh, this bitch knows her shit. Okay, bitch came from ballroom. Okay, so she knows. But I feel like ever since all winter season her readings have been as hard as she used to do.
Speaker 1:After she did the thing with Adore. I think that really hurt.
Speaker 2:Get out of my head. That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 1:Well, I was, because they went on tour and they tried to figure out everything. But I know she's now trying to come instead of a like auntie, like motherly figure, she's getting a grandmother and what I mean by that. I'm not saying oh, but like grandmother, and what I mean by that. I'm not being old, but like the things that I could do and I don't have any kids but the things that I could do as a teenager and a kid and I'm like mama, you don't went soft. Why are you so soft now? Like I just feel like, as you, this is season 17, so, without her being so cutthroat, I'm happy that on, you did not. Onya did not deserve the bottom sheet, her track record, but I don't think track records matter as much as they used to in this season.
Speaker 2:I feel like they still do, because you saw that the girls some of the girls are still kind of mad that they haven't won a main challenge yet. They, I feel like they matter more on the all-star season because they have to be more calculated, because they vote each other off. So you have to be calculated. But with this season I feel like Anya. I'm glad Anya wasn't in the bottom. I was scared for her, but the bitch came close. But the bitch came close. She was close Because I agree with the execution. You could see it, but it just wasn't there. The bows I didn't like the bows. You got this big tool bow and then you have the other two that look like actual bows.
Speaker 1:To even take a step back because I'd be all over the place. But you're talking about design. I knew Corey was going to end up in the bottom when she had the boob the two-tone boob, because, again, like the day I said before, and the two-tone boob, and then it was like the side, like you didn't think to like bow it or do something different.
Speaker 2:But did you notice? She got those same fucking heels on again in a different color.
Speaker 1:This was your, I don't know how many times. First of all, the fact that, okay, sorry, sorry, sorry. I got to reel it back in because I will be all over the place. Jesus, I always get Suzy Toots and Lydia B Collins.
Speaker 2:I know they kind of look alike.
Speaker 1:It was like a trio. I'm like I'm glad one of them went home because I'd be looking. I'm like Corey, like you who doesn't like who?
Speaker 2:But you know what, when the show first started and I saw Corey out of drag, I was like oh, he's a cute black boy. But then when I saw he went for Lydia, for Butthole, I said oh hell, girl, you ain't cute, no more. Oh, I see what you like and I'm not shaming.
Speaker 2:Let me make this clear because people love to come for me. I'm not shaming interracial Baby. I am a product of an interracial relationship Mama black, daddy white but at the same time in the gay world we just want to see a black man with another black man, like damn.
Speaker 1:Well, I didn't think Anya would have been with Corey and I don't think Anya's.
Speaker 1:Shut the shit out of Corey so many times but I crack up because it literally be all over the place like this season. I'm shocked, very shocked, that it wasn't a double win, like I really was, because I really, really, really admired Lexi's. I don't know. I feel like Lexi is going to be, lexi going to be, and you know, I feel like Lexi is going to be like a good old Bianca Del Rio. Maybe she don't win every championship, she's going to be safe until the very end. She's going to make it to the top. That's what I think is going to be safe until the very end.
Speaker 1:She's going to make it to the top and then snatches it. That's what I think's going to happen, because it just doesn't make any sense. And even Iriani's outfit was really good. I was like, okay, I see you.
Speaker 2:Well see, the thing for me with Lexi is I loved everything about the dress. I loved the veil. I didn't like the hair. The hair for me took away the dress. I didn't like that. She used her rainbow color hair. She, you should have went for black hair, have it hanging down or in a nice ponytail or something to to accentuate the face. But Arietti's dress, um was it. Yeah, it was the black one. Yeah, the black Dior inspired dress. That was everything for me. I lived for that dress.
Speaker 1:I was shocked, like okay, first and foremost, she covered and her being Jules covered that dress, the back of it, because she was like, oh, y'all ain't gonna call me out Like with the two-tone fabrics, Because, lexi, I don't know, those are the times where I feel like you're about to crash out, or the times that something comes crazy and it's like oh, I have this great idea, and her taking the different firsts allowed her to get to where she needed to go, and I think that that's what really put her over the top this week, and I'm sorry, I don't know, my head kept thinking double win.
Speaker 1:I'm like I'm glad Corey went. I mean double win, double save. I'm glad Corey went home because it kissed. I got a kiss. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good and it was just like they all going out and I was like maybe I'll kiss because they ain't going to see each other for some weeks it was like when that kiss happened I was shocked.
Speaker 2:I mean, the look on Carson's face. He had no fucking clue that was going to happen. Right, he was gagged. But I love how all the girls knew that. You know they basically been hurting this whole time. But the judges ain't got no clue that they had a secret relationship going on. But I feel like the kiss was more of like a good old Hail Mary, like okay, maybe this will keep us both here because we just gonna gag root and it doesn't. It didn't work. But at the same time, this is why I said I was biased, because, like you said, I thought it was gonna be a double safe, because at first I was like okay, cory is probably gonna eat this child. But then when I said when, then when the song started playing, I said nah, this ain't Corey's warehouse.
Speaker 2:She's not as versatile as a good drag queen should be. She don't know this song as well as she thinks she does. She was giving very R&B moves on there. Lydia fucking. I got to give it to her. She ate that song. She brought it to life. I live for that. I'm glad, so glad. Lydia brought it to life and I live for that I'm glad, so glad lydia stayed, because I thought somebody's gonna say in their confessionals maybe now the work will be a little more quiet now that cory gone, because cory does talk a lot and I I'm glad that cory went.
Speaker 1:Cory is attempting to get plain jane and I know their sisters in drag. But attempting to get get plain Jane is like I don't know if I want to be a mean girl all the way or a nice girl, and it's just like plain Jane was just that person that did not matter what she's. Oh well, good luck, I don't care no fucks.
Speaker 2:She was like this is what I said. I mean what I say you suck what you suck.
Speaker 1:Like I don't know what to tell you. Like, get better drag.
Speaker 2:But speaking of drag families, what the fuck is up with Lana Sheradian Girl? Your mother is Lexi Love. What the hell. You just as lulu as your mama was.
Speaker 1:It's no different than what, is it? Kobe, sasha, kobe, sasha Kobe? Oh, it's the same thing. It's given Like I feel like Carrie Colby tried but did.
Speaker 2:but see, this is the thing, though. Everyone knows who Sasha is, of course, even even me. When I entered in the pageant world, I knew who Sasha was. Even me, when I entered in the pageant world, I knew who Sasha was, because, sasha, she will forever go down for that infamous. And it was a prelim talent for Miss Continental the year she won. It was a prelim talent and it ate. It still eats to this day, but Corey will never live up to the status of her mother.
Speaker 1:Never I was going to the status of her mother, Never I was going to say wait, what did you say? Corey, I mean Carrie, Carrie. I don't think no, it's fine, Listen they all got their names have all started to kind of blur together. Not for the weird ones like Acacia forgot and I'm sorry, I didn't feel like Acacia was going to make a splash or do anything or I thought she was going to go home.
Speaker 2:The first episode with with Hermona, thank you. We had to wait what two, three episodes for Hermona to finally go home, because she got on my nerves. But you know, okay, hold on side note episodes for Hermona to finally go home because she got on my nerves.
Speaker 1:But you know, okay, hold on Side note. You good, you good, catch us up, because this season has been a drag, so catch us up.
Speaker 2:Ever since Raja said this on Fashion Photo Review. I can never unsee it. Hermona is sadness from inside out.
Speaker 1:But also real stuff. I think if Ramona comes back for the reunion she should dress up as sadness. She really should.
Speaker 1:She would be a good sadness, and I will say this at the end of the day I understand that each drag queen has their own aesthetic, their own vibes, their own looks and everything. But, like I was happy to see that Ariete did their own vibes, their own looks and everything, I was happy to see that Ariadne did somewhat of a different makeup this time instead of the don't-knows. At the same token, I really didn't want Jules to win.
Speaker 2:I didn't want Jules to win this week. I didn't want her to win either. I really thought Ariadne or Lexi was going, because you saw the look on Lexi's face Crap.
Speaker 1:This is it right here.
Speaker 2:Right, she's just like. She did that good old pageant. She was like, let me just clap for her, we're happy. I'm going to cut this bitch when I get backstage.
Speaker 1:Because on some real stuff I felt it. I felt it. I was like I was expecting Lexi, jewel Spark. I was like who? I was pissed. I'm not going to lie Now to take it back and I guess we'll return to this episode. Hey, stewie, I see you, stewie.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I'm like low-key covered in tats.
Speaker 1:So my question to you on some real stuff Mm-hmm, Do you feel like Sam Star should have won last week's challenge?
Speaker 2:The wicked rusical challenge. Do I think she should have won? No?
Speaker 1:I don't like Sam Star. I don't know if it's the accent. I don't like Sam Star. I don't know if it's the accent. I don't know if it's the backhanded shady comments. It's just something about Sam Star that throws me off every time.
Speaker 2:I like Sam, not because her mother is Trinity Tuck, because I love Trinity Tuck, Love that girl hands down.
Speaker 1:Of course you cannot.
Speaker 2:Trinity to Tuck, because I love Trinity to Tuck, love that girl hands down. Of course you cannot, but Sam is, she kind of has that nepotism where, because her mother's Trinity, she is trying to reach that level of perfection like her mother and she can't because Trinity has been in the game longer.
Speaker 1:Trinity is awesome real stuff. She's went through a lot.
Speaker 2:It's almost like and I hate to to use this reference, but it's a perfect reference if trinity was kim kardashian. Sam is north. North is trying to reach that level of fame like her mother, and she can't.
Speaker 1:She cannot it's like sam will get there one day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like just stay in your lane, Keep going on the path you're going. That's how it needs to be. But do I think she should have won that musical challenge? Not at all, because you had one small part. Who do you want? It's a toss-up.
Speaker 1:Okay, give me the toss-up.
Speaker 2:It's a toss-up between your wife, Anya, and Susie.
Speaker 1:I can see that, and the thing that cracks me up is that I feel like Anya is so my original top four. I think two of them have went home already. Let me double-check real quick because I'm pretty sure two have went home now. But I'd be cracking up because my top four predictions were this is so funny, I hate talking about this. Are you ready? Corey King, lana Jarae and Crystal Indy. So two of them have went home already that is a horrible top four well, I didn't know, I would just.
Speaker 1:I just I based it simply off of okay, phoenix, I don't want to say this my top four simply based off of entry into the work room, and that was it. I didn't do research.
Speaker 2:That's where you went wrong. Okay, okay, you never Now see your friend here, your new friend here. Baby, I am a Drag Race super fan, honey. I've watched every single season. I've watched every All-Star. I've seen just about every Canada season and almost every UK UK. I don't do Australia because they just boring as fuck. But you never based off your top four, never based it off that first workroom entrance, because maybe they either gonna get it wet, blown up, blown off, I mean, or something. You never, ever base it off that. But. But I usually wait until, I would say, like after Snatch Game to make my top four predictions, because Snatch Game is the challenge that separates the boys from the girls. That really shows. Can you really do this?
Speaker 1:You know, I didn't think about doing that, so I guess, based upon that, anya has become my fan favorite. I love, lexi, love. I do feel like. Sam is going to be there regardless if we want to or not, and I still stand by Jules Barker. It was like those are. That's, if I had to reconstitute the top four and I think we can talk about charm and stuff, you know the power of three is going to be there.
Speaker 2:It's going to be there. It's funny. You said that, though, because, um, uh, my sister's uh bet one of her good girlfriend. She made a top four, and those names are in her top four. That's exactly her top four, and I could see it. I could see it, you know, but, um, far as the Rusical goes, it was, it was more. Whenever there's a Rusical, it kind of shows the ones that who think they are just a fabulous singer and then they just fall flat Like Corey King could not hit. I don't know how many times Michelle said, okay, let's hit it in the range, and still giving the same fucking note. But the thing that pissed me off about that episode was Suzy was so jealous of Anya. It's like girl, let's not forget you talking about you going to slay snatch game. This is your win. This is this is your challenge.
Speaker 1:you're gonna win, and you bombed anytime somebody says this is so in my little house, this season at least and they fail in their wheelhouse. Like we know, arietti is a seamstress. We also know alexi love be trying but she puts. That's the reason why I like that outfit. She tried she did it looks very good.
Speaker 1:That's the reason why I got to give it to her. However, this is again my personal pet peeve Don't be saying you're going to be number one and you're number three. Don't be saying you're going to be judges and taking it back a couple weeks. I still crack up with a lot of jurors. I just want to be judged by the judges. I just want to be critiqued.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:You're in the bottom now.
Speaker 2:Bet you don't want that type of Come on now. And that's the thing too, with Joella too, that bitch, she was so cocky, she just knew she had this in the bag and your ass got sent packing, Thank God.
Speaker 1:I didn't like Joella and it was because, like, oh well, I met RuPaul at a book signing and I want to be on there.
Speaker 2:No, that was Harmona.
Speaker 1:I feel like it was both of them.
Speaker 2:Joella is the one that Katy Perry knew when she first walked in.
Speaker 1:They both was giving that energy, that pick me energy, so they both got out of the work room.
Speaker 2:But you are absolutely right. Thank you for the correction.
Speaker 1:I like to call those the righteous recalls.
Speaker 2:You were absolutely right, that's what I like to call them, because you know.
Speaker 1:I just I couldn't take it like you don't get to be here without being here. There are multiple queens that have applied over the years, over the time. Like getting this and like I just really Give me one moment.
Speaker 2:I need to let my dog out, because he is forever staring at me in the face like, oh my God, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 1:Come on, come here, put your things in your room, let your whole body talk and work.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm like he picks the most opportune time to want to go pee, jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:It's fine, I just did the little drag race. Song Cover girl.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. But I don't I have. I can say that I've met quite a group of Queens that were on the show and I've met one that I didn't. I didn't know she was going to be on the show, so she kind of played me in my face. Uh cause? No, it's not a bad thing. It was so funny because I think it was like a little like a month or two before the show was announced and I saw her at Piranha and I told her I was like I said girl, you need to go on Drag Race, why ain't you been on there? Oh, you know, I'm going to see what's going on. Then, literally two weeks later, bam, I said this bitch played me, god damn.
Speaker 1:You can't be saying a whole bunch of stuff, no the NBA is baby. And that's why and again obviously, we're getting closer to where we just had our top. What was the top nine or top eight? I?
Speaker 2:always forget. This is now eight. We got eight Queens left to say so it's giving.
Speaker 1:We get into that finale in four more episodes, five tops. So I never knew up until recently, probably four years ago, that they filmed everyone's reaction. They would film an SGR winning, they'd film a Phoenix winning, and then we don't play that until that very moment yeah, so that.
Speaker 2:And they did that ever since season three. Because when season three first aired even I knew when season three first aired my ex-gay mother uh, ex-gay, my ex-drag mother gotcha asked me did I want to know who was going to win? I I was like, yeah, tell me. She was like, yeah, raja's going to win. I was like, really. And then Perez Hilton had leaked it as well. So ever since that Ru has been doing she films them over and over and then she picks which ones to air, so that way, when the girls are watching it in real time, that's how they find out if they win which makes sense, because it would just ruin the show for everybody.
Speaker 1:You talk about a finale, the one that took me out of the game, and again, this isn't this one. It was the one with Sasha Velour. No, not Sasha Velour. No, I messed up. I messed up, no, no, no. Sasha Colby, really no, no, sasha Colby, mistress. What was it? Lux Noir and my good old. What was her name? Anitra, anitra. Okay, when they announced that it was going to be Sasha Colby and Anitra going forward, I didn't know. I was just like. I saw the light and the love leave from Lux's eyes and Mistress. I was just like bro. The light and the love leave from Lux's eyes and Mistress's I was just like bro.
Speaker 2:So who did you want to go against Sasha?
Speaker 1:Honestly, I felt like it was a good placement. How it was. I would love to this day. I would love for a big girl to win. I feel like that happened and that needs to happen.
Speaker 2:I think ever since Mistress got to the top four, that's the closest we've ever gotten to a big girl to win. Speaking of Mistress baby, she has dropped that weight tremendously. I told my sister I said, bitch, we can see her neck, that's how you know she lost that weight. We can see her neck, that's how you know she lost that weight. We can see her neck.
Speaker 1:Because it's not an easy task to lose weight. Trust me, I try. But Mistress was hilarious and I don't know. I felt like season 15 was like that peak season. Even season 16 was great because, lord have mercy, I can't remember none of their names, none of them. None of them. The Banana Queen shoot. What is her?
Speaker 2:name. I did not want Nymphia to win. I was so team Saphira. I wanted Saphira to win.
Speaker 1:But I have to give it up to Nymphia, because every confessional had me on the floor.
Speaker 2:Oh, she played the game. She played the game well, acting real dumb. Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do and then, boom, bust out a bitch, we're ready.
Speaker 1:This week's challenge is going to be finding rocks in the Pacific Ocean. I've never found rocks in the Pacific Ocean confessional Little do these people know that I'm a specific geologist part-timely, on the weekends, and I know the difference between a sediment rock and this like she literally this is the main stage coming out inside of a goddamn rock and it's glowing and shit.
Speaker 1:Exactly, but like that is the type of manipulation I love and truly she didn't manipulate. What she said was she played the game. That was just my process. Like that was it. It. I would go through it in self-doubt to get me to where I need to go.
Speaker 2:So shout out to you she played the game.
Speaker 2:But when you, I feel like when you look at certain finales and I can't wait for this season finale because I know it's going to be epic the song choice has to be amazing I feel like ever since Shea lost to Sasha Velour, it was like it's a moment you wait for a queen to do that. You know that just solidified their win. When Sasha raised that fucking wig, I was like damn, she won, she won. And then when Sasha Colby that bitch old school, when she was pulling that rod and pulling that rod out, that I said, oh fuck, here it comes.
Speaker 1:She got it. She got it. I mean, those are those defining moments and I'm sorry, going back to defining moments in the lip sync, I am so tired and I'm so glad that Corey went home this week. I was shocked that he she Sorry, I'm not trying to mess with the pronoun I was shocked that she was able to stay when her ass had the wig fall off. That should have been your ticket home, because if you are, taking off.
Speaker 2:It's funny you said that because what popped up on my little Instagram in the search and usually it's just shirtless, half naked men. Good God they be showing some good, gorgeous men. I've been having to stop what I'm doing and tap on a few of them. When they showed I think it was an all stars. When, oh my God, why did her name just leave my mouth, leave my brain that fast, evie? When they were doing the Aretha Franklin song, sisters Are Doing it For Themselves and her wig fell off and Ru's look was just like no the fuck, your wig did not just come off and that bitch took that stocking cap off, had a whole nother wig. I said now that's the shit I'm talking about, right?
Speaker 1:there and I will say if you're going to allow it to happen, allow it to where it makes more sense, so that you got to back up Like the first time the rig reveal under the wing, the first time that happened, Roxy.
Speaker 2:Baby. She took and started shaking Baby. That was everything this no no, actually the first time we saw a wig fall off was season one with chanel, when her her snake head piece fell off and she kept going. But I just I feel like if, like you said, if you to do a wig reveal, plan it out so it can be more strategic for you and it will sometimes it will more than likely help you because it's so unexpected. Now I just want to talk about this for a moment.
Speaker 1:Bring it Bring it.
Speaker 2:We all have our favorite. You know epic lip sync moments, epic lip syncs. To me, my favorite lip sync moment was the All Stars, this past one, and it was Plastique and it was Roxy and Roxy had that gorgeous jumpsuit on and my sister made an exact jumpsuit like that for one of her numbers and they did. No one gets the prize by that banner, ross. And when that bitch pulled out that nail file a bitch I was a hollow red. I said oh, this bitch took an old school, that's old school. Drag right there, baby.
Speaker 1:I will tell you, is I? I kinda I was taking it back Cause I mean, mean, obviously we're talking about all of the winnings and the. I was shocked that she didn't get up to where she got up and I'm happy that Lord have mercy. These names they all come out of. What was her name, the winner? I'm pretty sure it started with Donut Of who. The last season of All Stars.
Speaker 2:Angeria.
Speaker 1:Thank you, I knew it started started with a Angeria baby. Y'all have some names Angeria Van, Michael Van.
Speaker 2:Michael Paris Van Michaels. Yes, honey, she's sweet too, she's, she's. I've met her as well too. She's, she's really sweet.
Speaker 1:You can tell the Queens that are actually like one of the reasons why I Bianca Del Rio Cause she's like I love her. Don't be a dummy.
Speaker 2:I love her, oh my God. I love her. I love her comedy oh my God.
Speaker 1:Dark, but it's real, it is honest.
Speaker 2:She's Don Rickles in drag. I love that insult. Comic humor.
Speaker 1:She had me. When she goes, why would I go back? And then they didn't play when they had to lip sync back. And then they didn't play when they had the lip sync and stuff.
Speaker 2:I'm like oh, See, girls, you get it right the first time. You ain't got to do it again. I love her, oh my God. But I think, yeah, like you said, a lot of the girls, they are really sweet. I still remember the first time I met Raven and this was when season two was on I really thought she was gonna be so fucking mean. And she was so sweet.
Speaker 1:I could not believe it oh my god, no see, or that was season three.
Speaker 2:Season three was the boogers yeah, oh, I hate that season, oh my god, because that was so high school isn't that I got hooked on.
Speaker 1:Drag race was season I'm pretty sure it was like season 3, 4 and then I stopped watching. No, actually it was 4, 5, 6 and I stopped watching and I came back at like All Stars 2 or 3 when it got better because I feel like I can tell you Bob season I've seen. I feel like I can tell you Bob season, I've seen clips, I mean I could tell you, I could tell you, I remember that one. Barry was just a hate mass which I get irritated Barry is still a one trick pony.
Speaker 2:And cause my, my sister's boyfriend he's like trying to catch up and I kind of spoiled it for him and cause he was watching season 10. I accidentally let it slip that Akira won. He was so mad that I let it slip. We started watching season the all-stars with Derrick Berry, the one that Shea won. Even watching that with Derrick on there, I'm like you're still a one-trick pony. You can't do nothing else but fucking Britney.
Speaker 1:It's ridiculous and that is just. And I'll be honest with you if it works, it works, but at the same token, it don't work on the drag race level.
Speaker 1:Listen, if it works, it works. But you're right, it does not work on a drag race level, I feel. And again, do I know how to do drag? No. Do I know how to paint my face? No. Do I know how to do the soap? No, I can act. I promise you. I eat you down on the act challenge and maybe on a little bit of that comedy too. Just you know. But at the same token it's like if you already have the formula, Now wait, you forgot.
Speaker 2:One more element, though. Can you lip sync?
Speaker 1:Oh, that's easy. Oh, you think so. Listen, I mean, I'm a dramatic mother lover. I'd have a wig under a wig under a wig.
Speaker 2:You'd hate me. See, I'm gonna have to send you the video clip of me in drag. Okay, listen, I did a turnabout show, okay. So a turnabout is when the guys become girls. Okay, now, I knew what song I was going to do. I had that plan.
Speaker 2:I'm very strategic when it comes to that and people that have seen me do male drag, they know, okay, he can. Like, I'm the only one I think the only one in Las Vegas that can really do Janet and not have to dress up as Janet. I get, I know how to exude her energy, her, everything. I'll send you a video. You'll be like damn as Janet. I know how to exude her energy, her, everything. I'll send you a video. You'll be like damn, you really did give Janet Even my game. Mother said it, you gave Janet.
Speaker 2:But when I did drag, I started out with Adele's Hello because I said that's the perfect way to introduce her into the world. Let's do Hello, the first verse, and the chorus Mixed it so perfectly. The next song was Lisa Fisher's how Can I Ease the Pain, baby? When they heard that little flute play, they knew what time it was and even my sister can tell you she said this baby knew every breath, every ad lib, every nuance. Baby, I gave them a show. So that's when I said lip syncing is not easy, because you got to know where these words are coming from.
Speaker 1:The thing that I'll say is no, I'm just saying personally, if you already have the cheat sheet, which is Drag Race is an open book test. Yeah, you already know like next week's episode is a roasting challenge. You already know they're going to do the snatch games. You know you're going to have multiple lip syn challenge. You already know they're going to do the snatch games. You know you're going to have multiple lip syncs. You have to come like I'm sorry, I'd like to keep it on, please. Oh, she doesn't know the words.
Speaker 2:That's still a gag. That's still a gag of the century. Right there, baby. And wait a minute. The reunion, honey. How Nina read her ass. There are seven words in that chorus. You did not remember those seven words. I said, God damn, this bitch even broke the song down, Fuck. And then, when I actually went back and listened to Greedy, I was like, damn, she's right. All you really need to know is the chorus and then the verses. You can learn that a little later.
Speaker 1:I was like good name. But this is the question because I mean I could go on for five and have another. Can we talk about the next episode? Are you comfortable, maybe?
Speaker 2:See, this is my theory with Drag Race.
Speaker 2:Snatch game, the snatch game, the snatch game, the roast, uh-huh, and usually the rusical. Those three are the ones that will test a girl to their limits and really shows if they gonna make it. Because snatch game you can almost skate by, depending on who your character is going to be. The musical you kind of want to stand out as much as you can because there's so many of you bitches on stage. But that roast, oh baby. If you mess up on that roast, oh you gone, you in the bottom right there, Because doing a roast is not easy. Them winners, baby Jinx, Monsoon and the Vivian. God rest her soul. They made that roast look so easy. The way they spewed those jokes out, they made it so easy.
Speaker 1:Focus on Evie Otley's. I don't want to object to Evie Otley, but and I crack up because the list so here's some dick jokes. Yes, Evie Otley's daddy. Shout out to Evie Ot Ali's daddy.
Speaker 2:That's all I'm going to say oh baby, he's so damn fine.
Speaker 1:Oh my God baby In the first row of the drag show.
Speaker 2:I was like me, I mean he sent that baby, that picture right there, that video shot, sent Facebook, instagram, twitter into a frenzy honey.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, to this day he ain't got no social media cause, like there are some drag queens that I used to have, the biggest, I mean, everyone liked Cameron Michaels, cause he was the greatest. You don't like Cameron Michaels? I like I realized that he wasn't giving anything else other than what he was giving. Um, who was the other one? Somebody I done talked about so many different queens on this show. Um, I think Monet exchange is beautiful.
Speaker 2:I just hate the fact that that girl got a naturally big butt, like oh my god, why cause that girl ain't never got a pad?
Speaker 1:oh, she's so lucky she ain't got a pad damn I kind of feel the same way about cory king, but no, cory has the pad.
Speaker 2:Cory ain't got no ass, he just knows how to pad correctly to give him that silhouette where he got legs, though, for days.
Speaker 1:That's why they always that's listen, that's the legs walked out of the workroom today.
Speaker 2:Baby okay.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, sorry, not sorry.
Speaker 2:That part child, because I mean.
Speaker 1:You stayed there a little bit too long, in my opinion.
Speaker 2:Honestly, you know what? The thing that solidified watching Drag Race for me for so long was when I got to finally meet one of my inspirations for my podcast, and that was Willem. I never thought I was ever going to be able to meet her, because so I was. Um, I was at Piranha and I had and this was around pride, pride month. I am like the gayest thing walking in Piranha had my little baseball pride jersey. On my braids were pretty much rainbow colors. Each braid was a different color got my fan. So I know how they used to sneak the, the guests, into the upstairs of piranha, because there's two levels so they would sneak them up through the back way. So when I got to finally meet her and take my picture and talk to her, she was like oh yeah, I saw you from across the room with them braids and that fan. She said I'm, I was living for your look. I was like, oh, my god, this bitch really likes me, damn baby.
Speaker 2:When I told you, when I tell you, I geeked out. I was like a super fan. I said, bitch, I've watched every crafter nooning, every will, uh, break, beat down. She was like thank god, somebody watches my shit. I was like girl. I literally told her I said your show Beatdown really helped me whenever I was having a bad day. I just needed a laugh. I would turn on Beatdown and watch her just talk the trashiest shit about people's videos and other drag queens and I would just laugh my ass off.
Speaker 1:Sometimes you need that. I do. I've had people tell me like I don't know this. This has helped here and I'm like I'm not even big yet, I'm not even this, I'm not even that, but this has helped here. So you don't know the impact you can make, and that's one of the reasons I do like a drag like um, except when people have gotten in the past about like the comments and so on and so forth, and I'm not talking about, I'm talking about the Queens against Queens. So I'm happy that RuPaul has evolved over the years to be more inclusive for trans men, trans women, because, at the end of the day, drag is an art.
Speaker 1:And I remember when I came into this, I'm just like I don't want to watch this. This, this is this, this is how I'm going to watch it. And then I really kept thinking. I'm like, first and foremost, I love a competitive show, I love drama and I'm just like they got to know how to do so much. They got to know how to do so much and the whole point of the platform that I want Straight Gay Reviews. My podcast is learning and networking and there's stuff that you know that I don't know. That's the reason why I love having conversations with different people and talking about different things, and I'm happy that you got to meet your hero, but Bianca Del Rio is still the best.
Speaker 2:I know they weren't on the same team. Oh, don't get me wrong. Hands down. Bianca is like one of the top tier queens to come out of the Drag Race Olympics, you know.
Speaker 1:I'll say one thing If I keep having it, we're going to be here for a while, but I'm going to say this and this is my opinion and I don't want to be ashamed for it. I know Jeremy does not go by Fifi O'Hara anymore, but Fifi was, creatively, was one of my favorite queens. And what Jeremy did one moment, what Jeremy did with the 365 days of drag.
Speaker 2:Now that I praise him for.
Speaker 1:And then when they did the villains and then they did the Harry Potter, there you go, see, see, see. That right there. In my opinion, drag is not a See, that right there. In my opinion, drag is not a crime, that right. There was fire to me, and I don't care what anyone says, y'all can beat me down for it.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not gonna beat you down for that, because the 365 Days of Drag I thought that was very creative. A lot of his looks, pretty much damn near almost every single one of them were very spot on. Especially the Cynthia Rugrats doll look was very spot on. I don't know how he thought of these looks and just to keep them going it really. To me it shows creativity at its best.
Speaker 2:Yes, you know very creative in the form of drag, because there's different types of art forms. I mean, you look at fashion, like to me, the most biggest, the biggest name to me right now that is really standing out to me far as fashion wise, is Tom Brown. The way he can make a deconstructed suit looks so avant-garde, it's amazing. And the same thing goes with Fifi. The look she chose it's crazy. But the bitch was a good villain. I give her that.
Speaker 1:Listen, of course. I mean they're doing a villain's roast. Leading. The next week's episode is a villain's roast, so this you know, I'm going to take a brief pause and say this is going to be it for tonight, but you're going to come back right.
Speaker 2:I will come back next week for sure, now that I know how to trick the system into watching drag race on the East Coast.
Speaker 1:They're going to figure it out. You better be careful.
Speaker 2:Oh baby, please, it's already on Google honey. Look y'all. Get a VPN honey. Get Surfshark honey.
Speaker 1:Okay, you listen, you tell the people, because me, this was SGR and our lovely guest. This was our lovely guest. Listen, I'm trying to stay employed and monetized since 2025. But again, this was SGR and our lovely guest.
Speaker 2:Phoenix Dior Vuitton honey.
Speaker 1:He will be back again I will. My mama. We gonna see, we gonna see.
Speaker 2:Oh, I can't wait. I can't wait for this villain's roast. It's gonna be everything.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, we'll see.
Speaker 2:Lana Jarray gonna go home, I guarantee you.
Speaker 1:I was about to say who you think gonna go home and I, you know, I think Lana.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna second that because Lana's too nice, that's all it is. I feel like Lux I'm sorry before we go y'all, lux, happy on the floor with that one, literally happy on the floor was like, yes, I feel like this person had a great outfit, this person did a great outfit, this person did a good job, this person, and then it was just what was that person? Let's not stare at her, could not stare at her. Shoot, they was like they was. They hated each other, but it don't matter, they listen. Neither one of them won, so it don't matter. Listen, neither one of them won, so it don't matter. So see y'all next week. Okay, bye, y'all, bye.