RuPaul's America: Frock The Vote!
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In 2009, RuPaul told the Advocate a week after Obama's inauguration, days before Drag Race season one premiered on Logo: "If you're watching this, it means a Democrat is in the White House." Where are we, and where is drag, 15 years later?
About:
Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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Sources [may cut off in certain apps]:
- You Better Work!, 01/30/09 [Advocate]
- For RuPaul, Ron Paul Confusion Is a Real Drag, 01/09/12 [ABC]
- RuPaul's Drag Race: "Frock The Vote," 03/12/12 [AVClub]
- RuPaul sashays into the mainstream, 01/28/13 [Salon]
- The Problem With Feminism in RuPaul's Drag Race, 03/14/14 [HuffPost]
- Is the T Word the New N Word?, 04/17/14 [Advocate]
- Why trans people aren't big fans of RuPaul right now, friend of the show Alex Abad-Santos, 04/22/14 [Vox]
- Why has drag escaped critique from feminists and the LGBTQ community?, 04/25/14 [Feminist Current]
- GOP candidate was once a female impersonator, 05/03/14 [Winston-Salem Journal]
- Victory for drag queens as Facebook apologises for 'real-name' policy, 10/01/14 [Guardian]
- Mary Cheney: Why is drag 'socially acceptable' and blackface isn't?, 01/30/15 [CNN]
- The pop culture phenomenon that is RuPaul's Drag Race, explained, 03/02/15 [Vox]
- Hillary Clinton, Loudly and Proudly, Taps Into a Vein of Support Among Gay Voters, 07/01/15 [NY Times]
- When Drag Is Activism, 11/05/15 [Advocate]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Now I'm gonna show you the video and then I'm going to give you some of the conservative |
| 0:04.0 | tears on Twitter over this harmless ad. |
| 0:07.1 | Yes, but my favorite part of the story is Chip Ahoy reaction to the right wingers, because |
| 0:12.8 | it's super telling and really important and fun. |
| 0:16.0 | But let's watch the first ad that they put out. |
| 0:19.0 | You know what we celebrating today? |
| 0:20.5 | Mother's Day and I am so thankful to have a mother like mine who supports me through all my craziness and loves on me and buys me chips and hoar cookies, chewy, the original, everything under the sun. My mom knows I love my cookies. So get those cookies. And what's a sweet gesture for you to do to your mama, your real mama, your drag mama, whichever mama, somebody, whoever take hand of you, whoever you feel or consider your mama, it's their day today. |
| 0:43.7 | Get them a cookie. |
| 0:47.1 | These gays, they're trying to murder me. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah. What do I think of her? |
| 1:03.2 | Yes. |
| 1:04.6 | I don't think of her. |
| 1:09.9 | Wait about that in the New York fucking post. It is fun to travel for work. |
| 1:15.2 | It is not fun to do the work that the traveling for work requires of you. |
| 1:19.6 | And I am finally done with all upset work. |
| 1:22.8 | It's over. |
| 1:23.9 | I am done. |
| 1:25.8 | Everyone please clap at me. |
| 1:27.4 | Please, God, please clap. You know, there's that thing that |
| 1:31.0 | happens when drag queens get famous where their podcasts turn into like conversations about airplanes. |
| 1:36.8 | Unfortunately, that is happening to this podcast. And yes, I am calling myself a drag queen in this |
| 1:42.2 | instance. It's time to add Delta. Out Delta at Spirit Airlines. |
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