Alaska Thunderfuck
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531 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Alaska Thunderfuck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Officially, yeah. Officially.
It felt great. I was bit by the bug. And that was that.
Uh-huh.
You did all your research on this. Like usually I have to explain all of this on podcasts. And you know everything. I'm so glad. Yeah.
Yes. I was like, I'm going to be a serious actor. I studied theater arts and I'm going to be a serious actor and I'm going to give up all this drag shit. And then I was like, being a serious actor is hard. And I lacked the discipline and the skills to do it. And I was like, I had to like have normal looking hair and I had to take my piercings out. And like, I'd wear like normal clothes.
I was like, none of that appealed to me. And it didn't make any sense to me. And so I was like, I can't do that. So I didn't know what I was doing. And so I did drag for fun just to like keep myself sane. Yeah. And I ended up getting a job just from like going out and drag and looking crazy.
You know I must. They must be somewhere. They're like the OG. And it was like a face. The eyes, nose, mouth on a white t-shirt. And just like blue eyeshadow. And that was it. And... And then it was like we did a yellow eyeshadow edition and like that's it. There are very few of those out there, but those are OG. I don't even know if I have any.
Yes. But the problem there is that it also takes all your money to do that.
So drag is like a conundrum because it costs a lot of money. Like we have a song in the musical called Drag is Expensive because it fucking is. And so you have to ride the line of like, okay, when I was first starting out, it was like, I'm getting paid, you know, $100 to do this. So that means I have to make sure I'm not spending more than that to get there. Yeah. To where all the things that...
I'm required to wear to do drag. Luckily, I wore a bunch of garbage. So that's the business savvy that we're here to espouse.
Yeah.
Well, the Blue Moon was special. And I've never had, like, a show structured like this. Andy, who was the owner and the manager... Believed in us and wanted the bar to not have a cover charge ever. So he gave us a chunk of $500, which we could use as we saw fit. There were three of us, usually four of us, but sometimes three of us.
And so we would take that and then we would like hire a guest to do it. We'd each get like $100 or $125, which was amazing. No cover charge. So all our friends could come. They'd get drunk on four locos and we could do whatever we wanted. I've never had a show like this ever since where it was structured like that. And I'm so grateful for that because it was such freedom creatively.
$40? Something like that. Something like that? Yeah. And so all the other stuff, I mean, selling T-shirts and making music and, you know, all of those things like that. No one was buying it.
When I was first starting out because no, no one bought a shirt.
No one bought a shirt. But I wanted to have it there.
To do it. Because I saw someone like Jackie B, who is a brilliant, you know, drag artist, the queen of fucking Los Angeles. And I was like, I want to emulate what she's doing. Even if no one's buying it, I want to have it.
Eyelashes. Eyelashes. Hair. Yeah. Makeup is expensive. Clothes. Shoes. All of it is so costly. And there's so many steps just to like get out the door. Yeah. Drag.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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