Episode 526: RuPaul's Drag Race S18 Ep 5 - "The Rate-A-Queen Talent Show, Part 1"
Alright Mary: All Things RuPaul's Drag Race
Colin Drucker & Johnny Also
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
It’s Part One (“PART ONE?!” - Kenya Pleaser) of the talent show judged entirely by other queens in the room via the unsinkable Rate-A-Queen device. There’s a lot of strategizing but very little surprises as the movers from Miami outrank 60 seconds of physical therapy, an earnest poem, Darlene, and alas, Nini’s gecko.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Michelle Vassage. |
| 0:04.0 | All right, Mary. |
| 0:18.0 | Is anybody's talent completely different than what they've been showing us? |
| 0:21.6 | I feel like, Sierra, this is the first time you're getting more dramatic, right? |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, mine is pretty serious. |
| 0:26.6 | Okay. |
| 0:27.6 | The poem that I wrote for my talent is personal and it's vulnerable and raw and it's a scary thing to share |
| 0:35.6 | this piece of me with my sisters |
| 0:37.9 | that maybe I haven't opened up about yet. |
| 0:40.9 | This is something that is really real and raw and important, |
| 0:44.4 | and so I want to share that today. |
| 0:46.9 | I think Magami had the same thought. |
| 0:48.7 | You're right, but she had an unsteamed flag |
| 0:50.6 | and not an original lyric in sight, so... Protect queer art. It feels like a risk that I probably would not take personally. I think the moment she said, the poem that I wrote for my talent, I was like, oh, honey. Yeah, yeah. No, honey, no, no, put the car in reverse. Honey. No, no, no. No, no. No, no. |
| 1:10.8 | Oh, no. |
| 1:11.5 | Not that. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm doing the peppermint fingers or the bob fingers. |
| 1:15.1 | Oh, no, not that. |
| 1:16.1 | Oh, no, not that. |
| 1:17.3 | No, no. |
| 1:19.6 | I mean, and it's funny that they're referencing Magami because I do think the |
| 1:25.2 | Macombie's was kind of this like accidentally iconic thing that we still quote. |
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