RPDR Season 18: Finale Predictions & The Myki Meeks Mystery

Is it a "Slay" or is it "Shady"? John and Dakota are back to dissect the current state of Drag Race Season 18. From our way-too-early finale predictions to the absolute struggle of pronouncing Myki Meeks' name, this episode is 100% unfiltered. We’re talking about the Top 6, the challenges we’re loving, and the tangents that only happen at the Haus. Grab a drink and play along, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!

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Welcome back to House Tour. My name is John. My name is Dakota. And today we are discussing RuPaul's Drag Race season 18. Let's do it. My favorite show. I live. I love this season. I love the queens. I love everything about it. I love that. I love that you love it. Okay, so we've got um we got some questions to go through. I love that. And let's get started. Let's do it. If season 18 were a drag queen, what would her drag name be? What a stupid question. We're gonna skip that. Which queen from the season 18 premiere surprised you the most? Like right now? Or from the premiere in the premiere? Like from the premiere to where they got now. Darlene Mitchell. Okay. Yeah. I thought Darlene Mitchell in my like preseason guess, I thought Darlene Mitchell was at the first three out. So did I. But that's not my answer. My answer was gonna be Vita Vonti's star because I was convinced she was gonna make the top four. Same. She was in my top four. But yeah, Darlene for sure I thought was going home in the first three. And she's Anne's favorite from the season, which is wild, but I do like her. I just have not connected with her. No, I haven't either. And like she just won the roast. Did you watch that episode? I did. Okay, I don't want to spoil it. I did. No, no. Well, you already did. Yeah, well, we could have taken it. We could have edited that out. Um I didn't think she won the roast. Who do you think won? Mikey. I think Jane just won again, and they just don't want to keep giving Jane the win. Yeah. Also, like I'm pretty confident Jane is getting robbed right before the finale. Oh, the they're definitely setting her up for something's gonna happen. They're setting her up for to be robbed. Because she has the best track record in history. Yep. But she's a scream winner to me, I don't know. No, it's almost like too obvious. Um that's why Sasha Colby won because everyone assumed she was gonna win, but then she did stumble a little bit. But Jane just hasn't stumbled. Nope, no stumble. We'll see before the finale. But anyways, yeah, I thought Mikey won. She was the most like roast to me. Like Darlene was a great comedy performance, but it wasn't a roast. Yeah, but I think I agree with you. I think that the challenge is always just to make RuPaul laugh, though. And if you make every challenge is just to laugh. If you make RuPaul laugh, then you win. And she was hilarious. She was hilarious. Um, it's asking who had the strongest entrance look. I don't remember any entrance looks, but can you think about maybe your favorite look from the whole season? Um, or who's had the strongest looks this season like that? Like the strongest runway package. Honestly, Nini Coco's got a pretty strong runway package. Nini Coco for sure. I can't think of a specific look, but I every week her weird grasshopper thing. Yeah, that was really good. That was good. Honestly, Juicy Love Dion's package is amazing because she could get away with just being a lip sync assassin, but she's also just good at everything and always looks stunning. So I don't know if she's good at everything, but she always looks stunning for sure. She's not, but like, okay, the way I think about it is like she's bad at comedy challenges. Yeah. But like, who cares? You're going to a show, you're not going to see Juicy Love Dion do comedy. No. You're going to a show to see her perform, and she can always do that. Yeah. Great drag queen. Her and Jane are for sure the best drag queens of the season. For sure. But I don't think either of them will win. What? I don't think either of them will win. Yeah, I don't know. Do you still think Juicy might win? Well no, she's she's lip sync so much lately, but I genuinely don't like I feel like they're gonna have a Lollaperooza, which she's obviously gonna win. Yep. And then I feel like they're going to like who is gonna beat her in a lip sync? Because it's not just the Up Tempo lip syncs, it's like she can connect to a ballad. What song was it? Total Eclipse of the Heart? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's just I don't know. I don't know how anyone could beat her. No one will beat her. It'll be like a thing they do on Canada's Rigors where it's like, okay, this is the top four. You two are just randomly going home now. Yep. Just to get her out of there. Yeah. I think she's gonna be a strong third place. Maybe. I hope she wins, but um, which queen felt like an instant finalist the moment she walked in the workroom? Juicy, but only because Juicy was the only one I knew prior to the season. Everyone knows who Juicy was. Everyone knows who she is, and everyone was like, she needs to win. But I feel like people thought she was gonna be like doing poorly and just lip synky every week. But she's done well in certain areas. She has two wins. She has two wins, and she's done well. And one of them was an acting challenge when. Also, so many comedy challenges this season. Like that's why Jane's doing so well because she's the queen. It's like when when the queens have the um challenges that are tailored to them, obviously they're gonna do well. And speaking of tailored challenges to them, there being four design challenges in the last episode of Canvas Jones. My Queen Van Gogh. Deserving winner. Deserving winner, but yeah, so many, so many. Great season for her to be on for sure. Great season for her, for sure. Yeah. Um, okay. Let's talk about the mother-daughter dynamic. Did you expect Athena Dion and Juicy Love Dion to be such a storyline this season? Yes, of course. Obviously. As soon as I saw that. That being said, I thought the juicy Athena lip sync would have been further in the season. I did not expect Athena to go home that early. I thought she would have made top six, and I thought it would have been like a dramatic one of them makes it to the finale, one of them doesn't. Interesting. I thought that too until I watched the season. I was like, okay, yeah, it's time for Athena to go home. Really? I thought she was a main character. She was a main character, but she wasn't like eating up the challenges or anything. Fair. But it felt like they were doing like a sugar and spice where they like threw them in the lips in quite early. Fair. I don't know. Um the next question is like, were you shocked when Juicy had to eliminate Athena? Obviously, that's the reason they put them on the show together. There's no way. I was shocked, however, because I didn't think Juicy was in the bottom that week. You didn't think? No. No, but I knew as soon as they were both close to they had the chance to do it, they were gonna do it. I can't remember who it was, but someone else should have been in the bottom that week against Athena. I don't remember either. It could have been Kenya or Nini Coco. Oh, but I love Oh, yeah. I think it was I don't remember, but no, I was not shocked because obviously that was the storyline. Yep. Is Briar Blush the villain of the season or just misunderstood? You have to be on more than two episodes to be the villain of the season. Correct. And also, like, she went in there trying to be the villain of the season. Yeah, like she was portraying herself as the villain of the season. But correct. She went home way too early to have any lasting impact on the season. If I had to pick a villain of the season right now of people who are still left. I think there isn't one, and that's why the season's kind of good. Yeah, maybe Jane don't, honestly. As the villain is crazy. I just think like people like uh what's her face? The one with the boobs, plain Jane. Plain Jane. She thinks that drag's only interesting when there's like a villain, and I'm like, she's just so I find her so manufactured and I don't love her at all. So like I like a season where the girls just get along. I like a villain. I also like plain Jane. Did I see that Plain Jane was gonna be on Project Runway? Or like something like that? House of Villains? No, she was on House of Villains, but she just got announced for she's on like Project Runway or something with Q. Who's Q? From that same season. Oh god. Project? I'm gonna look this up. Yeah, Matt, but it says they're not necessarily contestants, they're just on the season. Oh. Well, I I didn't read that far. I just saw that she was on the season. But yeah, like I don't know about that, whatever. But yeah, Briar Blush was annoying, obviously, but I don't think she's a villain. I just think she went in trying to be a villain, and then it just kind of I think she'll definitely be on All-Stars, and we'll be able to tell then if she's a villain. Okay, which queen is the most underrated so far? And it's like it's kind of wild the three they chose because none of them are underrated. Mickey Meeks or Mickey Meeks. Mikey Meeks. Mikey Meeks, Arya Stark, Nini Coco, or Jane Don't. So not well, I would say out of those three, if I had to pick, Mikey. Because I think Mikey could have had like four wins by now. And Mikey was kind of um Mikey Meeks should have had more wins by now. I'm sorry if one of the four people that listen to our podcast is offended by me thinking that people should leave their kids at home. I don't think any any of our listeners are are people who have kids at home. Mickey maybe, yeah. Nikki baby? Mickey maybe. Whatever. What's her name? Mikey Meek. It's spelled stupidly for what it is. Um I thought you would have been a Mikey Meeks stan. Uh like the the theater of it all. Yeah, she's good. Like for me, the the only like you're looking at this group of drag queens, the only winner is Juicy Love Dion. Because if anyone was picking it making a decision to go see one of these queens live, it would be Juicy Love Dion, in my opinion. Yep. I I think I would throw Jane in there as well. Okay, so because I would see like Jane's, like the way Jimbo's doing like a comedy tour, like I would see Jane do her comedy tour. Fine. Yeah. But like Juicy is like Mickey is like it's been she's great, but it's been done. I've never seen a performer like Juicy Love Dion on Drag Race ever. Same with Nene Coco. People love Nini Coco. But Nene fits into the Mickey Mix group for me. That's what I'm agreeing with you on that. Yeah, yeah. Because like great queen, but like there's been a million like her, nothing like that. Whereas there's been nobody like Juicy ever. Yep. Agreed. Like the closest is Maya I'm on the page, but like Maya was a great lip syncer, but didn't like connect to the music in the same way. Right. That's why I don't think they're even on the same level because yeah, Maya couldn't, her brother. There's been discourse online about how um Maya should be getting the same flowers that Juicy was getting, which like Maya was a great performer, but like there's no there was nothing like captivating other than the tricks, in my opinion. I think Juicy is more comparable to George's. Yeah, she is for sure. Then she's a much better lip singer than George's, in my opinion. As a non-lip singer. As a sitter as a sitter on the couch and watcher. Yeah, fair. I mean I would pay. I think I'd pay the same amount to see either Juicy or George's perform. See, we've worked with Georges, so we've have to be George's? Yes. George's has been at a Daltonhouse event? No. Back when we used to work with another group in Kitchener, they it was like through uh KW Pride, I think. And back when they had a terrible human being leading their casting, they cast us with um it was George's and Jada Essence Hall at the museum. And George was amazing. So was Jada. I was gonna say Jada Shade. But no, no, they were both amazing. But um it was not a doll's event. Got it. And how were they behind the scenes? Did you get to talk to them? Oh, nice. Like I didn't, but um the girls were kicking with them and like they were like they brought their stuff into the big dressing room with all the girls. Oh, they were an elitist? No, not at all. No. There's been a few that have been though. Okay, back to season 18. Okay. What's the are we sleeping on Mia Starr as a potential lip sync assassin? No. Because she is a lip sync assassin, she just got sent home by Juicy. I think she's an amazing lip synerger. I think she's a good lip syncer, but that lip sync with her and Juicy, well. Well, iconic. I've watched it. Ask Ryan, I've watched it like 76 times. Yeah, like she's amazing. But would I, if you were bringing in me a star to a show, would I go to that show? Yes, but would I be like You know what I'm trying to say? Okay, would you pay to that show or would you just come to the show? I would pay, okay, but I wouldn't be like, oh my god, I'm going to see me a star. We are gonna go through all the queens from Who Falls of Dragon Race season 18, and you're gonna tell me if you would pay for a meet and greet, pay for a show, or stay at home. Okay. Juicy Love Dion. Pay, meet and greet, whatever money, I'm there. Yes. Love that for me. Athena Dion. I'm going to the show. Okay. Mikey Meeks. I'm going to the show and probably doing the meet and greet. Okay. Nene Coco. I'm going to the show. Jane Don't. I'm going to the show, meet and greet. I think she would be hilarious to talk to. Okay. Mia Star. I'm going to the show. So you've you're coming to every show so far. Well, there's like no one that I'm like, no. Okay, keep going. Okay, Kenya Pleaser. I'm probably going to the show. See, I'm going to the meet and greet from Kenya Pleaser. I love her. I think her energy is amazing. Vita Vonti Star. Not going to the show. Really? Yeah, I just like. Maybe it's because she wasn't on the season long enough, but bored. Okay. Discord Adams. I'm not going to the show because I can see her walk weirdly on TV. Yeah, I'm not going to the show either. Um, she's great though. Yeah. Um I don't know why she's still there, if I'm honest. Her time happened. But you have to love for you have to live for the delusion. The delusion, and also like she does not give a shit. She doesn't give a fuck what the other queens say. And I she's there. I love it. I love it. She's there if I have liked her more the longer she's been there. Briar Blush. Yeah, I'm going to the show. I'm staying home. Really? Yeah. Yeah, you don't like a villain though. I don't like I like an authentic villain. Like Van Goth is like actually like that in real life, and she's just a bitch. Yep. And but I love her. Like Miss Fears Alicious is like unapologetically just a bitch, and I love that. I just I don't like it when it looks to me like they're like clearly trying to be a villain. Like Mistress Isabel Brooks and Plain Jane, and like I don't live for any of them. I live for M I B. Of course you do. And honestly, Plain Jane. I would go to the mean grade for both of them. Problematic twinks always live for Plain Jane and Mistress Isabel Brooks. Thank you for calling me a twink, actually. Someone told me the other day that my twink death already happened. Was it Ryan? It was not Ryan. It was someone that I work with. That's crazy because I tell Ultraviolet her twink death has happened, but it's because she's bald. You have a full head of hair. Yep. Yep. I was told that I'm more like an otter now, and I don't even know what an otter is. Well, you specifically are the opposite of an otter. Isn't otter hairy? Yeah. I haven't.