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A podcast hosted by YouTube RuPaul's Drag Race creator The Drag Detective. Every week Derek the Detective breaks down the newest episodes of Drag Race with special guests and asks the age old question: is it rigged?
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Send us a text We have another controverial episode to discuss....Myki Meeks get behind us!! Kayla and I have an early morning discussion about the second part of the talent show, the Shake Shake Shake runways, 2 lip syncs, and alllll the drama online surrounding who ended up in the bottom. Donate to creators against ICE: https://tiltify.com/@creators-for-peace/creators-against-ice?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gma...
Send us a text In one of our most chaotic episodes yet, Kayla and Derek are joined by Abigail Beverly Hillz to discuss the talent show, some juicy daily discourse, and navigate about 1000 technical issues and firemen. Did we agree with the top 2 of Juicy Love Dion and Mia Starr? Did Ciara Myst deserve the bottom spot? And who actually won the Zara Larsson lip sync?? Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Abigail's Social Links Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abigailbhillz Derek'...
Send us a text It's a classic game of who wore it better as the 12 remaining queens on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 18 have to mash up 2 iconic red carpet looks and create runway ready looks. Drag fashion icon Twink Trash joins us as we determine who wore it best in each group, talk some of the riggory, and dissect every look! Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Graphics By: https://www.instagram.com/duartsyy TWINK’S LINKS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twinktrash YouTub...
Send us a text Live from our respective bedrooms it's RDR Live! And Kayla and I have lots of thoughts on the sketches, the writing, the animal runway, and the various storylines producers are trying to push this week... Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Derek's Social Links YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DragDetective Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedragdetective Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dragdetective.bsky.social Kayla's Social Links YouTube: https://www.yout...
Send us a text There are still 14 queens left in the workroom on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 18 and 3 Girl Group performances to dissect, as well as the Athena drama, THAT lip sync, and much much more. Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Transjenifah's Social Links Linktree: https://linktr.ee/transjenifahsgawdy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/transjenifahsgawdy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/TransJenifahs-Gawdy/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@transjenifahsgawd...
Send us a text In this jam-packed episode, we talk about the 14 new queens, their entrances, the mini challenge, and dissect every design challenge runway look. And who better to help us with that but the designer extraordinaire herself, fresh off her recent stint on Project Runway: Utica Queen! Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Utica's Social Links Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queenutica Website: https://www.uticaqueen.com/ The Stitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Send us a text We're back with a new season of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Rigged Recap is back to cover all the tea, drama, and riggory! In this episode, Derek and Kayla break down the promos and pre-season of Season 18, Derek solicits a date from a ginger man, and Kayla may have been arrested...who's to say. Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Derek's Social Links YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DragDetective Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedragdetective Bluesky: h...
Send us a text Get ready for an unhinged one, folks. Kayla and I are ON ONE as we dissect and discuss the grand finale of Season 17. Public callouts from Derek, enraged speeches from Kayla, we go out with a bang as we enter our hiatus! We'll break down the finale looks, the performances, the Abracadabra lip sync, and give our final thoughts on Season 17! Thank you for listening to us bitch and moan for another season <333 We'll see you in December!! Advertising Inquiries: derekroi...
Send us a text It's the highly anticipated LaLaPaRuZa episode on Drag Race this week, and we all have a lot of feelings.... Did it live up to the hype of last year's episode? Did the lip syncs slay? Did anybody get their Megami moment?? Well we brought the MVP of last year's LLPRZ to answer all of these questions! Megami spills some tea, gives her thoughts, and we all go over whether we think this was a fair episode or not! Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Derek's Social Links Y...
Send us a text Breaking news, folks! Tooters all over the globe are in arms over her elimination from Drag Race, and Kayla and Derek are on the case to determine if it was rigged or not. This top 5 Vegas challenge was a LOT to take in, and has a LOT of questions about what all went into it. We'll break down all the aspects of the challenge and give our winner pick and predictions heading into the season finale! Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Derek's Social Links YouTube:...
Send us a text It's makeover week, Kayla's favorite challenge and we have a LOT to talk about. From the fandom coming for these queens' MOTHERS, to the weird critiques, a controversial lip sync, and much more! We'll be giving out Cold Cases and Closed Cases and ask the age old question, IS IT RIGGED??? Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Derek's Social Links YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DragDetective Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedragdetective Bluesky: https://bsky.a...
Send us a text Kayla is busy in Amsterdam, so YouTube shitposter extraordinaire RunnerEye is here as my co-host for the week! We talk about the bizarre interpretive dance challenge, disagree on basically everything, and go on many tangents as we do. We'll be giving out Cold Cases and Closed Cases and ask the age old question, IS IT RIGGED??? Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com RunnerEye's Social Links YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RunnerEye Twitter: https://twitter.com/RunnerEy...
Send us a text In a rare miss for Season 17, we're talking about the dud that was the recent acting challenge, Ross Mathews vs The Ducks. We'll get into the Suzie and Lexi storyline, Lydia's devastating lip sync flub, Onya's winner arc, and Derek and Kayla's origin stories! We'll be giving out Cold Cases and Closed Cases and ask the age old question, IS IT RIGGED??? Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Derek's Social Links YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DragDetective Instagram: h...
Send us a text We go a bit off the edge today with our iconic guest, runner-up of Drag Duel AJ Nox. We talk about Mayhem, all of the insane drama from the newest episode, the villains roast, and semen. But mostly semen. We'll be giving out Cold Cases and Closed Cases and ask the age old question, IS IT RIGGED??? Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com AJ's Social Links Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slayjnox Linktree: https://linktr.ee/slayjnox?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaPUO3NaR...
Send us a text It's time for another design challenge, this one inspired by Betsey Johnson. So to help us judge these.....interesting looks, we have Drag Duel contestant and outfit construction extraordinaire Titanic Donavon! We'll go through every look, talk about the iconic lip sync, and as always, we'll be giving out Cold Cases and Closed Cases and ask the age old question, IS IT RIGGED??? Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Titanic's Social Links Instagram: https://www.inst...
Send us a text It's time for another rusical and this, yet again, was an absolute slayage. We'll talk about the iconic rusical and amazing runway, Onya's winning chances, why they hated Acacia so much. And as always, we'll be giving out Cold Cases and Closed Cases and ask the age old question, IS IT RIGGED??? Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Derek's Social Links YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DragDetective Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedragdetective Bluesky: htt...
Send us a text It's Snatch Game week! And unfortunately, this seems to be a turning point for the season as fans have turned against it and many of its queens. We'll talk about the Crystal Envy elimination, the hatred towards Lana Ja'Rae, and give our thoughts on how bad we really thought this episode was. And as always, we'll be giving out Cold Cases and Closed Cases and ask the age old question, IS IT RIGGED??? Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Derek's Social Links YouTube:...
Send us a text It's the Sea Sickening Ball and we have 36 looks to discuss with the seamstress extraordinaire herself Trisha Can! We'll get into TarpGate, the insane stuff being said on Twitter, and disagree a BUNCH! As always, we'll be giving out Cold Cases and Closed Cases and ask the age old question, IS IT RIGGED??? Advertising Inquiries: derekroiter17@gmail.com Trisha Can's Social Links Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetrishacan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetrishacan Bluesky: ...
Send us a text Live from our bedrooms, we're talking about RDR Live! In another banger episode of Season 17 we see cliques forming, frontrunners pulling ahead, and the shocking end of the Badonka-Dunk twist! Kayla and I are here to give all our thoughts as always and talk a bit about the Grammy's and Abracadabra! Kayla's Social Links YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kaylasays Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kayla_rosa/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kayla_Says_YT Derek's Social L...
Send us a text It's time for a comedy challenge and this one was especially chaotic, so of course we had to bring back the chaos demon himself RunnerEye! We talk about losing Joella, disagree about everything, and make some sports puns! RunnerEye's Social Links YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RunnerEye Twitter: https://twitter.com/RunnerEyeYT Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pierce_mcc/?hl=en Kayla's Social Links YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kaylasays Instagram: https://www.insta...
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