Episode 196: Croissant My Heart (A Drag Race France Review)
The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race
Release Date: 02/08/2023
Episode 223: Season 16, Episodes 7-16 - These Are Our REAL Thoughts, Heughnny!
The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race
READERS, school is back in session and so are we! Not content to leave you hanging, Kyle and Dr. Ben dust off their seats at the Shade Table to recap their thoughts on the remainder of one of their favorite regular seasons in a while (even if the narrative conclusion left a little bit to be desired). Join us ahead of our still-to-be-determined cadence for our RuCaps of Global All Stars with this Season 16 sum-up! (music: bensound.com)
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Episode 222: Season 16, Episode 6 - The Dawls Are The DAWLS
The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race
At this point READERS, the dawls are the DAWLS! Avid dawl collector and fellow Aries Yair joins Kyle as they discuss their childhood journeys with toys and dolls, what aspects a collector looks for when expanding on their collection, the joys of getting a fresh challenge sixteen seasons into the franchise, and the many varied outcomes with the queens' foray into creating, branding and selling their signature limited edition dolls! Did the judges get it right? Which doll did you most want to add to your collection? (music: bensound.com)
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Episode 221: Season 16, Episode 5 - Quiet (Pussycat) Riot
The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race
Down on your knees READERS - Mother is in the spotlight! What happens when Kyle (who's kind of a bitch) and Keith (who puts your man on a leash) are drinking, having Keith cookies, and talking about made up Swedish bands? It means they're also talking latex for a mini challenge, self-producing girlies who don't think fully through their edits, being picked last in gym class, and the satisfaction of an underestimated underdog edit coming to fruition! Along with pussycat wigs (and mushroom, bus driver, Marcel finger wave and bowl cut wigs pretending to be pussycat wigs), we've got a quick (for...
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Episode 220: Season 16, Episode 4 - The Jannification of Loosey La-Q-Ca
The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race
SCHNAP OUT OF IT, READERS! Kyle and Keith are joined by Berlin-born, Boston based, bashful boy Patrick R to discuss hotel upgrades, stances on sketch comedy (or lack thereof), Chermit the Tiger the Frog, Babs and that emotional Eliminaysha and all that transpired in episode 4 of Drag Race Season 16, RDR Live! (music: bensound.com)
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Episode 219: Season 16, Episode 3 - Mom Jeans & Mother Toilets
The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race
READERS - for the Mother of All Balls, who would you have summoned to the Shade Table? ("...Pass!") Kyle is joined by Keith, Ben and Holly for a 3 hour deep dive into the season so far, being kindofabitch, those WHO AIN'T NO DIVAAAAAA, what offended them about the various presentations of the episode (spoiler alert - there's a lot of things!) and opinions on all FORTY TWO! looks from Season 16's first full cast challenge, The Mother Ball! Who are your Mother Goose and Significant Mothers, and do you agree with the final Rate-A-Queen results? Were the right winner and Porkchop selected? Let us...
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Episodes 217 & 218: Season 16 Split Premiere - Two Star-Crossed Titties in VeRUna
The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race
The wait is over, reading kittens! With a new year, new season of Drag Race and new equipment to break in at the Shade Table, Kyle & Ben dive into their thoughts on heel clacking, cross-eyed titty bibs, social media mugs, flippin to flip, political posters, AI racers, bananas and rating queens in our RuCap of the split premiere episodes of Season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race! (music: bensound.com)
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Episode 216: We Need A Ruvolution (Season 16 Promo Thoughts!)
The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race
Grab your sixteen tunneled candles and pearl (h*rbor) thongs because The Shade Table is BACK IN SESSION! Fresh off the Sasha Colby Meet & Greet, Kyle is joined by Katie and Calvin Cato to give flowers and camouflaged shade at our latest crop of queens for Season 16 of Drag Race OG. (Spoiler alert: a past multi-visit Shade Table librarian is now a RuGirl!!!) Check out our rundown of the Season 16 Meet the Queens ahead of the NEW season kicking off on January 5th! (music: )
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Episode 215: All Stars 8, Episodes 7-12 - Buzzballing About Queen B
The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race
READERS, we've got more summer reading for your nerves! Kyle and Keith are joined by The Bronx's premiere andrologist Ricardo Cabanas at the Shade Table, having buzzballs and Strawberritas and a slew of various Drag Race opinions. We talk about Ricardo's job of helping people make babies, the revolving door of Hell's Kitchen gay bars, how to see Beyonce twice (Kyle's not bitter), and our thoughts on the outcome of the back half of All Stars 8. How did y'all find this season readers? And which franchise are you enjoying most (and should we cover next?) (music: bensound.com)
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Episodes 212, 213 & 214: Be Bold, Be Great, Beyoncé
The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race
Because you're holding up podcasting, green means GO! READERS, it's our longest episode ever but I promise it's for all the right reasons - Kyle's joined at the Shade Table with Ben and Tom McDonald of bookseller fame to wax poetic about the greatest all-around performer of our time, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter. We do a deep dive from the Destiny's Child days through the first 4 albums of her solo career, and of course talk about the *experience* Kyle and Ben had at the Renaissance World Tour. (We also spend time at the top talking about astrology, working at bookstores and some of...
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Episodes 210 & 211: All Stars 8, Episodes 5 & 6 - The Zaddy of All Shade Of It All Podcasts!
The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race
Happy Zaddy's Day, READERS! One of the longest episodes of The Shade Of It All to date is here for all of the best reasons: via satellite call from Lebanon, the humble, honest, humongously talented, handsome and hot Haaz Sleiman joins (a VERY geeked and internally fanboying) Kyle at the Shade Table! Adorable nieces and brief internet outages were no match for a full-range conversation, discussing Haaz's introduction to acting, the other actors whose work inspires him, which of his roles led to him owning a custom $1k human hair wig, and being named a Daddy by Queerty for Father's Day this...
info_outlineCORICORI (spelling?) LECTRICES! Kyle is joined once more by everyone's favorite Frenchman, Gary Goldman, for a brief but thorough espousing of all things Drag Race France! What elements of the show were quintessentially French? What would Gary have added to make it even MORE French? What Pokémon are serving c*nt? And how many bad French imitations made the final cut of the episode? (Spoilers for the outcome of Drag Race France, Season 1, naturally!) (music: bensound.com)