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RuPaul's Drag Race Recap

The Rumor Mill: September 29, 2025

RuPaul's Drag Race Recap

Authentic Podcast Network

Society & Culture, After Shows, Tv & Film

3.9 • 664 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In the penultimate episode of The Rumor Mill, Joe and Nathan dive headfirst into one of the season’s most unexpected storylines: when the host himself becomes the news. What starts as a recap of a listener’s feedback spirals into a candid discussion about paraphrasing, cultural nuance, and the perils of being quoted back to yourself. The conversation covers: A fair-and-balanced “news report” about Joe’s back-and-forth with a listener from Berlin. Audio receipts, transcripts, and the hazards of context (or the lack thereof). The return of familiar voices on the voicemail line—including a Scottish tongue-twister, Brendan’s zombie cameo, and a passionate plea for the comeback of Mr. Blackstone. Tom from Ireland pitches a brand-new Afterthought Media spinoff idea, sparking a debate about psychology, drag queens, and how deep is too deep. With just one week left before the finale, Joe and Nathan reflect on spats with listeners, conspiracies involving Blackstone, and whether Stefan himself might be orchestrating it all from behind the scenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From the mountains to the sea to across the drag universe, this is the rumor mail for Monday, September 29th, 2025.

0:31.6

Thank you. Like I said, welcome to the Rural Mill.

0:54.5

My name is Joe Batant, and I do this show with my partner in crime.

0:58.2

No, we literally do crime.

0:59.6

We get together every day and steal money from people all over the world.

1:03.4

Only the rich, though.

1:05.4

We don't give it to the poor.

1:06.2

We just give it to ourselves.

1:08.2

He's all the way in the land of ours.

1:14.1

Mr. Nathan Patrick Brown. Hello, Nathan.

1:24.3

Hello. Here we are on the penultimate episode. Wow. Of the rumor about. Next week is the season finale.

2:04.7

I'm going to miss it. You know, I got an email from someone who said they wanted to step in in your place and be the substitute host for the room mill. We're not, nope, the rumor ending. Who was it? I don't want to talk about it. But what I'm going to say, I don't want to get into that because then that person might get, you know, I'm saying no, you know, right here in the air. But what I'm telling you is, I only want to do it with my new podcasting boyfriend, not Robert Mata. I used to call R. Robert Mata, my podcasting boyfriend, but no. Oh, really? Since you're newly single. Like, he is too, isn't he? Well, we could be in a thruple. Yeah, you know what? It's official. That's an afterthought thruple. Me, you, and Nathan. No, you are Nathan.

2:36.5

Me. Well, we could be in a thruple. Yeah, you know what? It's official. It's an afterthought thruple. Me, you and Nathan. No, you are Nathan. Me, you and Robert Muttah. Oh, right, right, right. Me, we're the power, we're the afterthought power thruple. Great. Which is funny, because my, my future girlfriend, Aidan, she also, you know, she might be a little upset. What, she's upset about your thruple? Well, she might be upset that we're going to, well, I mean, we're not official yet, but she might have be upset that I'm entering a thruple with her, you know. By the way, I should announce that I'm straight. And I have a girlfriend. Well, I have a future, a coming soon girlfriend named Aiden. and she's going to be upset that I'm in a throttle with two men. How disgusting. Yeah. Oh, my God. Taboo. Yeah. Anyway. Nathan, we have a lot to discuss today.

2:46.3

Excellent. And we are going to flip things around. We are going to do the news first. Oh, okay, good. Yeah, we're going to do the news first and then we'll do the voicemails. Okay. And we've got voicemails. I'm so happy about that. Last week is rough. Yeah, we have voicemails. Yeah, we have voicemails. But that's the reason I'm ending the show, because you guys, by that one week of like, well, the Scottish guy did send a voicemail, fairness to him.

3:09.3

But other than that, the fact that there were no news stories and no voicemails were like, okay, we can't do this show.

3:15.4

I can't be hung out to dry like that again.

3:18.1

So season finale.

3:20.4

And I want to say it'll be back next year.

3:23.1

I'm not sure.

3:42.4

Well, we'll see. Yeah. So, season finale next week. You better send your voicemails in before that season finale, because that's going to be last chance. You've got a deadline, people. Yeah. Last chance. By the way, don't worry. There's a lot of content coming. You got your, well, Hello Uglies is coming back.

3:43.0

Great.

3:43.4

Dracula.

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