The Shade Of It All: A Rucast Podrace for RuPaul's Drag Race

Take a trip in our time machine to the start of April 2020 - and the most recent gathering of your three head librarians at The Shade Table! Everyone's got ill-timed illnesses, Katie's got Death Wishes for people, Sharron's in...Hawaii? and Kyle is sorry we've got weird audio for this episode. We're asking for your sheltered-in-place forgiveness as remote recording was a new TSOIA frontier, but this episode still has plenty to keep you entertainted: gay polygamist cults, how much fun we're having playing our NO!, quaran-cleaning, "what's that bitch", secondhand embarrassment, dick thumbs on Skype and screaming about berries. And we also talk about the Season 12 Snatch Game! Apologies again for the audio - we've got a better handle on internet calls 8 months into all this :')

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Ayo sis! Ayo ma! READERS. It's a family affair at The Shade Table this week as Kyle is joined by his twin sister Kayla and mother Karen to kiki about this week's episode! Kayla talks about her admiration for look queens, Karen apparently really doesn't like Widow, Kyle divulges some tips about making the most of small parts in a show, and we recap the ups, downs and "Who should go home tonight and why?"s of Episode 5 of Season 12: Gay's Anatomy! (music: bensound.com)

Hope you're ready for some unprecedented firsts on The Shade Of It All, readers! This is our first life-altering pandemic during the pod, so Kyle is trying out a Hail Mary pass (that's sports enough, right?) with recording first time guests (and the first ever call-in librarians!) Kevin Tallon (of the Gotham Knights rugby team) and two-time Olympic swimmer Amini Fonua! These athletic gentlemen flex their shade muscles as we talk serving it to one camera, living Jersey accents, Amino's Barb status, Kevin's food dating reality show past, hater merch, problematic faves, swimming vs. Broadway, 3 different brand new kinks to praise/shame, what it takes to see a goofy French person, and of course the THIRTY SIX (!) runway looks in this week's Ball Ball! Who hit a home run? Who stayed in the gutter? How many bus driver wigs did you think this cast owns? Up your D! FENCE! and listen to find out! Gooooooooooal! (music: bensound.com)

#ThankGoodnes - Kyle-Steven's rejoined by one of his favorite Judys, Holly Louise, and welcoming to the kink-shaming Shade Table for the first time, Keith Avery! Life's not fair that Kyle's surrounded by these beauteous recipients of God's Photoshop, but we manage to sneak in references to fish hiding kids in their mouths, personal pandemic problems, murder elevators, being blessed and highly flavored, Fruit Roll Up suits, AT&Teeth, bad improv with some unfortunate character names, Rubles, buttons, bows, bus driver wigs, ASMR & vodka - all while discussing Episode 3 of Season 12, The World's Worst! Full disclosure: our recap starts at the 24 minute mark, but just make yourself a quarantini and enjoy the ride! (music: bensound.com)

READERS! Kyle's joined by the current f*cking reigning Miss Nerd New York, Megami! We spend a little bit of time discussing the giant disqualified elephant in the room but then get into a discussion of sad girl music, painting with the S12 girls, Destiny's LaTavias, the Cardi B Collection for Fashion Nova, Janne Hathaway and premiere 2 of 2 for Drag Race Season 12: You Don't Know Me. (Their Venmos do work, by the way: @megaminyc and @kyle-steven-porter - help some poor uneducated womyn out!) (music: bensound.com)

READERS. Sharron's wearing her TEAMWENDY shirt, Katie's getting her cake sitting pants on while getting increasingly blonde (she's 40!), and Kyle is…hard to hear (he has an excuse though - he's sick!) as we get the gang together to drop some *big* Shade Table Season 12 News. We also talk emoji mashups, pangolins, capybaras, skinty legendts, tiny tiny couches, getting refunds AND credits, All Stars 12, leprosy and premiere 1 of 2 for RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12. IF YOU STAY FREDDY YOU AIN'T GOT TO GET FREDDY! (music: bensound.com)

READERS, can y'all hear the beauty? POSE's own B. Hawk Snipes of the legendary House of Reign sits down with us to kiki about episodes 5-7 (What Would Candy Do, Love's in Need of Love Today, and Blow). We talk preschool academics, pudding, Sue Simmons, Solid Gold, Elektra's rejects, and sitting beside Patti Lupone. (music: bensound.com)

READERS, quick-- squeeze in our latest Summer Reading episode before this week's POSE! Katie, Sharron and Kyle welcome to the Shade Table Tito (the model who was just talking) to discuss opulentils, signature moves, Instant Hotel, Dorito Loco Tacos, killing Cousin Oliver, and calling the cops on Dorian Corry. (music: bensound.com)

READERS, Katie, Kyle and Sharron pull up to the Shade Table to talk Caroline in the City, Rachael Leigh Cook, Victim-Crime Vision Boards, and NIPPLES EVERYWHERE as we dish about RuPaul's Drag Race: Season 11 Finale! (music: bensound.com)

READERS, Katie, Sharron and Kyle gather at the Shade Table about dressing a fupa, horse feathers, functional unf*ckability, Daryl Strawberry, and Wood Glue as we assess the Season 11 reunion! (music: bensound.com)