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Alright Mary: All Things RuPaul's Drag Race

Episode 106: Drag Race Thailand – Episode 1

Alright Mary: All Things RuPaul's Drag Race

Colin Drucker & Johnny Also

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4.6 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

To quote the legendary Gia Gunn, we're just taking a little trip to Asia and landing like fresh tilapia on Drag Race Thailand! With a week off from Season 10, we're getting a head start on this little biddi-biddi TV show's southeast Asian sister by diving into the first episode. We still don't know who wins, but there are a few queens we're already excited about. (To say nothing of "big mama" Natalia Pliacam!) We also go on a tangent about gay cruises, Drag Race music cues, campy competitiveness and Project Runway Season 10 contestants. Our apologies for the sound this week, we only realized after recording that our mic's really failed us. Nevertheless, we wiggled!

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0:00.0

Hey Mary's, before we get into this week's episode, we realized at the end of recording that the audio is not great.

0:08.0

It's kind of a throwback to the early All Right Mary days.

0:10.0

It's still listen to a bull. It's just not the NPR quality we're trying to bring you each week

0:14.9

So we appreciate you being understanding and empathetic as you Mary's always are and next week we are going to be

0:20.9

Showroom Ready to be showroom ready. It's a great platform to educate people who don't understand the difference between gender and sex and

0:44.6

to understand that there's other options and differences between people.

0:48.6

We're understanding other people's lives in ways that is deeper and understanding their ways of creativity and who they are.

0:54.7

And it's just not just about them being in an underground culture, but bringing it to light.

0:59.2

It's even more than that, it's like, you know, if all the other LGBT wolves it's like you open one more

1:05.1

door for them to just express themselves a little bit more and understand

1:09.9

themselves a little bit more. Actually the first time I saw a drag queen, I was really scared because they're really tall,

1:15.8

they're really like all about confidence.

1:17.6

So for me, as like a soft-spoken self-hating Asian, I was like, oh, what the fuck is this?

1:22.2

But then usually after learning about it more, I was like oh what the this but then usually after learning about it more I was

1:25.0

like these people actually empowering women seeing what femininity is and

1:29.5

making it strong for me it's really great because in society lots of us view femininity as a weakness.

1:35.8

Whether it's in gay culture as well, you know how like people bottom shame.

1:39.6

Like oh you're bottom.

1:40.7

In all aspects of that I do feel like we're empowering the female sex and

1:45.2

also empowering ourselves. It's good, right? It's great, right? I mean, that's just

1:50.5

kind of where I am. We are starting our rue caps of Drag Race Thailand and we thought we'd bring you this clip of the week.

2:00.0

It's an interview with Pam Pan and Aria talking about drag race in Thailand and what

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