Is It Just Me? - DRAG RACE DEBRIEF: Molly Poppinz 💃

Episode Date: September 12, 2022

Catching up with the eliminated drag queen from Episode 7, Season 2 of Ru Paul's Drag Race Down Under, Molly Poppinz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of Mitches. Don't fuck it up. Welcome back to Drag Race Debrief, everybody. Hello, Mitchell Kearns. Hi, darling. It's week seven, and my favourite number is seven. So I've just got a feeling in my moot that this is going to be a great one.

I will say this is my favourite episode, and I was telling you off the air. Really? I even texted the Stan publicity lady. I'm like, this was the best episode. I thought it was great. I thought all the queens looked good. It was funny. It was charming. Really? I even texted the Stan publicity lady. I'm like, this was the best episode. I thought it was great. I thought all the queens looked good. It was funny. It was charming.

Loved a makeover. Like, it was different. There was heartwarming elements. Rue was on fire. Great lip sync. My favourite episode. I didn't dislike the episode. It wasn't my favourite.

Really? But I did notice the fact that there was just no drama. Yeah. And I was like, oh, here I am going on about, I don't like to surround myself with drama. I like to avoid drama. But when there was really none, I was like, oh, here I am going on about, I don't like to surround myself with drama. I like to avoid drama. But when there was really none, I was like, oh, I kind of miss it. It's like watching the news.

They all seem to genuinely like each other. What the fuck? Well, that happens, funnily enough, in the main seasons, like the US seasons, and they always call them RuPaul's best friends race. So in some seasons when the girls are really friendly, the fan base turn on them. They're like, we don't want RuPaul's Best Friends race. We want RuPaul's Drag Race. We want fighting and bitching.

That's what we watch for. Oh, really? Even the fans say that? Yeah. They actually brand a season. Season nine is a famous RuPaul's Best Friends race where by like halfway through, they eliminate all the drama queens and all they have is best friends. They love each other.

It's supporting. Yeah. Which is nice every now and again. No, I do like that. But then, yeah, there was something about this week's episode that I was like, what's missing? There's something. Oh, it's the drama. Yeah, it was very heartwarming.

And they also brought in a bunch of randoms, I noticed, for that makeover challenge. And I was like, who the fuck are these people? I don't know if I was meant to know who they were, but I was like, I see what they're doing. They save this till the end because there's only a final four. So four people might not be enough to uphold a whole episode. Do you think they're meant to be famous? Like, are they big in New Zealand? Well, that one guy, the drag queen fan, Kieran or whatever his name is, Keenan?

Yeah, Keelan McCaffery. He's a someone in New Zealand because my friend Andrew, I was watching it with him and he knew him. I was like, oh, that's that guy. It's like a Mitchell Coombs of New Zealand. I don't know. Maybe. I really don't know. Who would you have

picked if you went first and you could pick any of the four? Because I think Molly, I'll ask her this because we have Molly on. Spoiler alert, Molly Poppins went home. But she picked the guy, the famed guy, and I think it shot her in the foot. I would have gone the older dad because it's a bit of difference, you know? I mean, you're guaranteed to pull on the heartstrings

if you've got the old man in drag, but also that's a lot of work, isn't it? I know. That's what I think Hannah said, that there was a lot of old skin to work with, which is true. Putting makeup on young, tight skin is easy, but old, like raisin skin, it's not easy. And didn't they say that that old guy had too much makeup on his face, like too much white?

Yes. And it wasn't blended. Washed him out. See what I mean? You might be biting off more than you can chew. Yeah, true. Yeah. Anyway, we lost Molly in a good lip sync with Hannah Konda,

which is sad because I think I want Hannah to win and I didn't want her to go. And sometimes they've done this in drag race history. The front runner they boot out right before the end. I would love it if Hannah won, but it does look like, I just think that it's going to be Spanky. Rue's infatuated with Spanky. Yeah, you can tell, can't you?

But also, I don't want it to be, selfishly, I don't want it to be two Kiwis in a row. Agreed. And I want a Sydney Queen. And when Hannah said in this episode, she's the only ever Sydney Queen to make it to the final, apart from Courtney Act in season five of the main season. Which, by the way, I'm obviously an idiot because I had no idea that that was Courtney Act's origin story. I had no idea that she was on Drag Race Overseas.

Oh my God. Yeah, she was top three, or top two, two actually in one of the best seasons ever with Bianca Del Rio. How long ago? Oh, this would have been 10 years ago now. Oh, right. Season six and they're up to season 15. Well, there you go.

Well, we've only got one week left, which I can't believe. I know. Doing Drag Race Debrief, but we've got- Predictions quickly before we get to Molly. Who do you think? Because it'll be next week. We'll know the winner. Who do you think is going to win?

I think you'll find I just said that no I know but lock it in I don't know because I want it to be Hannah but I also would be happy for either of the other two I just want it to be Hannah

out of loyalty yes but if it was either Queen Kong or Spanky Jackson I'd be like yeah alright you deserve it

same I think they could do throw a spanner in the work and do a Queen Kong win you reckon yeah they could but I'm going to lock in Hannah. That's my pick. All right, lock it in, Chook.

Lock it in, Eddie. Let's get this beautiful queen on from Newcastle, Molly Poppins. Hello, darling. Welcome. Hello, Mitch and Mitch. Thanks for having me. Our pleasure, Chook. How are you feeling after watching the episode?

Oh, you know, I'm feeling good. You know, I've come to the end of my run on Drag Race, but I can be more fucking chuffed and proud of myself. Like, you know, I made it to top four, so that's something to be, yeah, very happy about. Yeah, and you even said it yourself at the end of the episode, which shocked me. You said on the couch in that little untucked moment

that you didn't expect to get this far, which didn't take my breath away. Yeah, no, I didn't expect to get that far. You know, self-doubt has riddled me my whole life. And I was just like, oh, you know, who would have thought this little girl from Newcastle could make it all the way to top four. But there she was, you know, and it did feel correct. We even said in the episode, like, not who I originally envisioned in the top four. But as, you know, the episodes kept going along and along each week, I was like, no, this seems correct.

How many other drag queens are there in Newcastle? Or do you just have a monopoly on all the gigs? It's like we're a small thing, but we're definitely here. I would say that there's maybe like 20 tops. Oh, wow. 20 tops or 20 drag queens? Because that's very different, Molly. 20 tops and they're all bottom.

Yeah, okay. That's very Newcastle. I will say my one recollection of Newcastle, Molly, and this will make me sad to say, but I drove up during Newcastle's time of crisis when the Pasha Bolka was moored on the banks of the ocean. Oh, the Pasha Bolka. You know what?

I didn't even see it the whole time it was there because it was like chaos. Do you know what the Pasha Bolka is? What are you talking about? Oh, why don't you explain, Molly? I mean, you're a local. I'm not going to tell your story. The Paschal Bulk is like, we had these crazy storms and one of the big,

what do you call it? Like a tanker, like a shipping tanker. Yeah, like the big ships that are, you know, kind of out in the sea got pushed up and it was beached. Oh, that red one. Yes, the big red one. And me, my mum, my dad and my two sisters drove from Sydney to Newcastle to get photos out the front of the Pasha Bolka.

Then we went to Henny Penny and had a great night. I loved my time in Newcastle. Oh, I love Henny Penny. But, you know, the Pasha Bolka does live on in Newcastle because we do actually have a local queen here now who actually named herself after the Pasha Bolka. Oh, my God, I love it. That is really good.

I love Newcastle. For those listening who can't picture Newcastle, it's kind of like Sydney's little baby cousin, don't you think? Kind of close. I'd say so. Yeah. Well, I think it is the second largest city in New South Wales. It is, yeah.

They're doing something, you know, putting something on the map. What's the gay scene like in Newcastle? Because I remember years ago I went to, I think it was called The G. Oh, The G. It's not there anymore, is it? Yeah, that's what I thought. What was The G? Because my friends told me that that was the gay bar,

but it still felt very straight, I've got to say, like for a gay bar. The venue's still there, but it's not a gay bar anymore. It's kind of like a uni bar now. But I am pleased to say that recently I have started doing shows there. So I was the first queen in Newcastle to bring drag back to that venue. But other than that, we don't have any gay venues or spaces here in Newcastle. So it's very hard to do drag. Like we have a huge gay scene here, but we don't know where to go.

What is it called now? If it's not the G, what is it called? The Newcastle Hotel or the Newui, as the kids call it. Oh, gorgeous. Okay. They're nothing if not creative up in Newcastle. What a name. I know, they spent hours on that one.

Yeah, really took it out of them. But, you know, we do have our events that pop up every now and then. Like, you know, Newcastle Pride and Queer Now, they like to put on their kind of monthly queer events, and they always go off. So, yeah, it's always a good time. Oh, Mitch, we've got to go up to Newcastle and see Molly and Pasha Bolker. That would be a good show.

Yes, I did. They had Newcastle Park. We're a party town. We'll come. We'll come up. We'll come up. That's actually what the gay men say when they kiss me. Rhys was like, oh, your advert wasn't very Newcastle.

I was like, well, Rhys, I can tell you have not been to Newcastle in a while because that's what it is. It's a party town. It's changed. Everyone on the internet was like, no, Molly, you got it spot on. I guess that's the highest form of compliment when the locals know, you know, because they know it like anybody. Because Rhys was born there, right?

But I don't assume that he's been back recently. No. I'm like, you haven't been in a while, babes. Come, come party. We'll have a drink. Let's talk about the show. You, in this episode, the Makeover Challenge, which is famous in drag race sort of history,

it's an iconic end of the season challenge. Do you think you shot yourself in the foot by choosing the drag race fan? Because I would have picked him too, truly, because you got to go first. But also it's like, oh, they're giving a lot of energy. Is it too much? Do you think that's what got you? Honestly, like maybe like we had a fun time we were kicking i was just like you know this is the obvious queen in the room so

it might be like the advantage um to to pick keelan uh but then i was just like oh maybe it was just you know um too too many queens in the kitchen or whatever that saying is because he he you know had his opinions and he wanted to look a certain way. And I was like, well, you know what? Did he try to direct you with your makeup skills and whatnot that we didn't see? So he wasn't vibing the outfits. He wanted like a luscious like human hair wig and just to feel

like the full like Puss in Wonder Fantasy. And I was like, no, well, that's not what I brought, hun. I'm sorry. This is what I've brought. I've also run out of outfits. We're at the end of the season. We're going on this camp route and you're just going to have to do as you're told and enjoy it.

I did sense there might have been something like that going on because what was it that he said to you? He said, oh, there was a bit of negativity or something like that. He threw you under the bus in front of RuPaul at the end. He did. I was like, maybe that's the reason I went home. I was just like, no, we're on the main stage. Play it cool. I reckon he pulled his that's the reason I went home. I was just like, no, we're on the main stage. Play it cool.

I reckon he pulled his own socks down to sabotage you. A little bit of sabotage. God, they really, really banged on about those bloody socks, didn't they? I really don't think that was the end of the world. Yeah. And they're like, oh, Molly should have put his socks on. I'm like, girl, have you not put socks on before? He's a fucking adult.

Yes. So I was like, yeah, have you not put socks on before? He's a fucking adult. So I was like, yeah, the socks are what I'm doing. I should have put the socks on him. Well, what about the mirror message at the end? Because you said, well, you did say spanky for the win. Is that your wording? Spanky for the win? No, I didn't say that.

That was Yuri and Bentley said spanky for the win. Oh, we haven't seen Molly's yet. Oh, my God. Can you give us a little sneak? What's the vibe of your mirror message? I just kind of kept it short and sweet. I just said she didn't just pop in. She popped off.

Love Molly, blah, blah, blah, something, something. I did want to, like, you know, pick and choose who I wanted to take the crowd. I wanted, like, the girls to come in and just, you know, not have any of that because they all deserve it. And yeah, I didn't want to point someone out and be like, you better win. Yeah. It did feel like it was a bit of a tight knit bunch, the final four, because they were genuinely quite sad to see you go. Have you all kept in touch ever since?

Is there a drag queen group chat going on? Oh yeah. There's the group chat. Yeah. No, we were really tight as the top four. Like, as you see along the season, there's like drama nearly every episode and then you get to our episode and there's no drama because we just all love each other and um yeah yeah seeing them crying as i'm leaving the stage i was like oh i teared up watching it who's who's the least active in the group chat would you say the least active um mini cooper well she can't. She's still got a landline. That's why. Yeah, that's why.

Don't, Mitchell. I'm joking! We love Minnie on this show. I actually think this is a good time to ask Molly the question we ask all our guests, Mitch, because we've asked all the queens on this show. Oh, yeah, speaking of the other queens, so we've got a list that we get all of our guests to contribute to. It's our list of things better than drugs and

dick. Oh, I love that list. We'll send it to contribute to. It's our list of things better than drugs and dick. Yeah. Oh, I love that list. Yeah. We'll send it to you. You love to have a little read of it. Yeah, it's basically just a little thing that you appreciate because we want our younger listeners not to get too obsessed

with boys and partying. So a little thing in life you appreciate. Fofa said that the $12 sushi maker from Kmart is better than drugs and dick. Aubrey Have said freshly cut toenails. Minnie said watching Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Yuri Guy said a hangover day in bed. I don't know if that's a little thing in life, that kind of skewing a bit drug, but whatever.

And what did Beverly say? She said having all your hangover essentials pre-prepared. Oh, yeah, yeah. It was meal prepping for a hangover, yes. Your Barocca, your Panadol, your water, all ready for the next day. What's some other things already on the list? Oh, my God, a good ear cleaning with a Q-tip. Like, oh, that goes off.

Oh, my God. Yeah, I love a good Q-tip, I will admit. I read somewhere that cleaning your ears with a Q-tip is like it gives you an eighth of an orgasm. You're kidding. I actually, that checks out. I would believe that. But you've got to bank it out.

Even when my ears are clean. I know. Me too. I need a little scratchy Q-tip in there. I've used like the back of a pen as well sometimes to get the same effect. Not fully there. When you've got these. Oh, my God.

Look at that. Oh, yeah, the big nails. God. All right. What do you have to add to the list, Molly? Anything? Something better than drugs and tea? I think like a crunchy leaf or like a beautiful apple,

fresh bed leaf, something like that. Well, talking food, like I'm a bitch that loves to eat and like my ultimate meal, like I don't want to be one to nine. Like give me a burger, shake and fries any day. That is better than a dick and drugs. Oh. Done. Like a good burger combo.

Burger, shake and fries. Anywhere in particular or like just a diner situation. Henny Penny. Ooh, you know, I've found the best burgers in Newcastle. And I was going to say, there's this place in Newcastle called Burger Urge. They're my favourite. Burger Urge. What a name.

I love that. I'll have a couple of Burger Urges a couple of times a day to be perfectly honest. Now, Molly, quickly, was the experience what you thought it would be? Because I'm sure you've watched every season like all the queens do. And was it all cracked up to be meeting Rue and seeing Michelle and walking on the main stage? Like, yes and no. Like, you know, I've had friends to kind of, you know, do it, you know,

here and in Canada. So I kind of, you know, had a little bit of an idea, you know, what they kind of told me even, you know, without them, you know, going against their NDAs and whatever. So I kind of knew, but it was surreal doing it. Like, it didn't feel real. Like, you know, we come back and we had to keep it a secret for, like, months and months and months and months,

and it still didn't feel real. Like, the day it felt real was when the first episode came out. Even, like, you know, we had the cast announcement, you know, the queens were revealed, and it still didn't kind of feel real. It was like a fever dream. But finally getting to watch it back, I was just like, oh, my God, like, you know, we had the cast announcement, you know, the queens were revealed. It still didn't kind of feel real. It was like a fever dream. But finally getting to watch it back, I was just like, oh, my God, like, yeah, Maroo Girl, and it's happened. Like, you know, it's going to be on the stand forever.

Love it. I also have to say that I adored that fucking fairy bread shirt that you were wearing in every confessional. Oh, confessional, yes. Yes, that was very camp. A lot of the international viewers had no idea what is on my shirt. Oh, they wouldn't. They're like Doritos or something or pizza.

A lot of the international viewers now know what Fairbred is and they're like, ew, why? Oh, don't knock it till you try it, honestly. Right, that's what I say, Phil. They make you wear the same shirt for every confessional and it might have been a different day. So did you ever notice that maybe they took something that you said on a different day and put it in a different episode out of context um i don't think they did like you know they love the continuity um but i i

don't think they chopped and changed so but yeah no we have to wear the same outfit and um we didn't wash them they got got pretty stinky. Molly, how does it work with confessionals? Because I always wonder when you're lip syncing and you're saying like, this is it, I'm not going to go home. Do you already know if you go home? Have you shot that after the lip sync or do you shoot that before in case you get in the bottom? Like filming it, like, you know, we'll do the confessionals every day.

Yeah. So it was a lot. Just like, yeah, we're always doing it. Yeah, right. Yeah. At some point of the day, we're in there, we're in the booth doing the confessionals. God, you drive yourself crazy just talking about the day nonstop. Like, did you just get to the hotel room and clock off?

Oh, absolutely. Yeah, it was just as soon as the day was done. You know, the long filming days, you know, anything in television, you know, it's a long filming day. So as soon as we got to the hotel, we would, you know, eat dinner, eat in the lobby, and then we would just crash out. What was it like doing that last lip sync with Hannah? Because you guys knew each other before the show, right?

Yeah, so Hannah was the only person that I knew when I walked in. I was like, oh, my God, Hannah's here. And, like, I kind of expected her to be there. So it was good to see someone there that I did know. And we really got closer as well because we were kind of more just like acquaintances, you know, see each other out every now and then, internet friends having a talk. So it was good to see her.

And then happened a lip sync against her, like the two little girls, two little hobbit sisters going against each other. It was, yeah, the ultimate clown and the priest Smackdown showdown. Yeah, and you've got a similar energy, don't you think? Yeah, yeah. And so it was a bit like, oh, I hate seeing them having to compete against each other in this bottom two. Yeah, you know, it was just, yeah, having to go up against her,

I was like, oh, no. I was like, she's got three challenge wins under her belt. Like, she's the front runner like it's not probably gonna look good for me uh but she did say she's like you know a park and bark queen i was like oh well i do a bit more than just park and bark but then she actually turned it and i think it was a pretty close lip sync yeah i thought it was too it wasn't obvious to me who was gonna win to be honest and also the fact you had to do a michelle visage song in front of her i know in front of michelle Yeah. I think we're both hoping.

We're like, you know what? Just keep us both. Make it a top four finale, please. You've got nearly every other season. Well, listen, Molly, if you're in Newcastle, everyone, go and see her. Because we're at the Newcastle Hotel. Is that the name? Is that the best place to see her?

Yes, I'm at the Newcastle Hotel next week, actually, September 22nd. And it's now the day that we're mourning the Queen. Oh, no. So if you want to mourn the Queen, come and have a drink with me. Jojo Sahoe will also be there. So it's going to be a party. Well, Lizzie will have nothing more than a couple of drag queens dancing on a day of memorial.

Yeah, you know, a couple of queens mourning the Queen. Do you get down to Sydney much? Oh, all the time. I'm in Sydney every week pretty much. Oh, gorgeous. Okay. Well, I'll probably see you out and about in that case. See you all the time. I'm in Sydney every week pretty much. Oh, gorgeous. Okay. Well, I'll probably see you out and about in that case. See you at the club.

See you on Oxford Street. I'll be out doing a show with Tamara and Spanky on Thursday. Oh, gorgeous. Right. All right, Molly. So good to have you on the show and so great to see you on our TVs. I'm so glad we got to see who you are and your drag style because it was so much fun. Oh, thank you so much.

Oh, thank you for having me. This has been great. Hooray. Hooray. Ta-ta. See you all. Hooray. Hooray. Ta-ta. See you all. Hooray. All right.

All right. Well, that's us. Only one more episode of Drag Race Debrief, Mitchell. That flew by, didn't it? Really? That's seven. It's crazy how far seven weeks can go. That's two months by the end of next week.

Is it? Yeah. Eight weeks. It really feels like we've done two of these. It feels like, I know, it also feels like the premiere party that we went to at the State Theatre was last week. I know. And it's already been eight episodes.

Well, it will be next week. The final episode is coming out on Stan on Saturday. So we'll know next week who the winner is and who the two runners up are. We'll have them on the show, guys. Don't worry. If you've got questions, actually, if you want to ask the runners up or the winner a question, hit us up, couple of matches in the DMs and we'll ask them. Otherwise, we're back next week for the final Drag Race debrief and a main episode in the

main feed Monday morning. Business as usual. Monday's the day, darling. We'll catch you next week. See you guys. Bye-bye. Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of mitches.

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