The Rumor Mill: August 11, 2025

RuPaul's Drag Race Recap

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4 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Rumor Mill – August 11, 2025 Joe and Nathan are back with more gossip, banter, and biting commentary. Joe kicks things off with an oddly passionate ode to his collection of back scratchers, before teasing exciting Patreon news: Season 2 coverage of Drag Race is on the way — plus possible Project Runway recaps available free to all Patreon supporters. The pair dive into two big Drag Race–adjacent stories: Bob the Drag Queen “Race Play” Clip Controversy – A seven-year-old podcast joke resurfaces (minus key context), sparking online outrage. Joe and Nathan unpack what was actually said, how the clip has been weaponized in the past, and why context matters. Plain Jane vs. Dawn Feud – After declining a collaboration with Plain Jane’s producer friend, Dawn is later seen lip-syncing to one of his songs. Plain Jane calls it hypocrisy, but Joe and Nathan question whether this is even drama worth caring about. As always, the hosts mix sharp takes with personal anecdotes, weaving in thoughts on internet pile-ons, the perils of oversharing, and why some feuds feel more like reheated leftovers than fresh tea. Patreon: patreon.com/afterthoughtmedia Voicemail: speakpipe.com/afterthoughtmedia Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.3	From the mountains to the sea to across the drag universe, This is the rumor middle.
1:03.8	We are back again. Here we are with the rumor mill for August 11th, 2025. My name is Joe Batant, and I am joined by my partner in crime. He's the rumormonger himself.
1:19.5	He's the thunder from down under.
1:21.2	He's the one that only Nathan Patrick Brown.
1:24.3	Hello, Nathan.
1:25.1	Hi.
1:26.4	How are you doing?
1:26.9	How's life going for you? Any big news that we should know about? No, life's pretty good. How about you? Pretty good. Now, many of you might be thinking, well, I'm sure Joe and Nathan don't just show up and start recording. Like, I'm sure there's some sort of banter that happened before the show.
1:44.7	And there was.
1:45.2	And Nathan, do you want to tell everybody what the banter consisted of?
1:41.8	Well, you got a new back scratcher. And I was like, oh, that's... I've had it for a while. Oh, you're showing off your back scratcher. Yeah, pretty big. And I was like, oh, that's cool. And you're like, yeah, I actually have a lot of back scratches.
1:42.8	And I was like, oh, do you?
1:44.4	And you said, yeah, I've got one right here.
1:45.8	And then you went, oh, and I've got another one.
2:05.0	And I was like oh do you and you said yeah I've got one right here and then you went oh and I got another one and I was like oh cool because here's a deal I think it's from my years as a boy scout I am anything
2:11.5	wait I'm prepared all the time.
2:21.3	I didn't set myself up verbally correctly for that.
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