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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I had to make it work because I wasn't good at anything else. Like it wasn't like drag chose me and it's my destiny because every other job like it was like it just wasn't working.
Couldn't do it.
So I had to make it work.
I mean, I guess that's how we tell the story. I don't know. I think I was driving my friend Jeremy nuts and he was like studying in grad school and I was being an unhinged drag queen pothead. So I got my own place and it seemed like a great idea until it was like infested with roaches. And it was just like, it was like stalled. It was like just like a dead end.
I was like, I don't know if I can do this out here.
I did.
And so when... The folly of youth.
I mean, that is what you think. Yes, that is what you think. And then it was like, then I got, you know, we wrapped filming and, you know, Sharon, who I was dating at the time, the first phone call we had was like, the cat ran away, the house burned down. Like, it was just like everything was a disaster. So no, getting on Drag Race doesn't make all your problems go away. Shocking.
Yeah. I mean, that took a really long time.
It took a really long time to value my life outside of drag as it relates to drag race. It took a very long time. And... That's really important.
I think that's important with any career. It's like you have to have something beyond that because if that evaporates or slows down or goes away, like that can't be your whole existence.
It's like the movie The Substance.
Yes. Oh, yeah. We were very, very poor. Oh, yes. It was a disaster. It was like, are we going to keep the lights on? Are we going to keep the heat on?
Yes.
Because I can't do anything else. That was it.
So, yeah.
I ride my bike a lot. But also when I was in L.A., I was like I would ride my bike to gigs sometimes like in drag. So in like, you know, 2007, if you saw a drag queen on a bicycle going down Santa Monica Boulevard, it was probably me.
Yeah.
Well, it's been almost eight years at this point.
And I had been making music with my friends Tomas and Ash. And Ash is an amazing songwriter and Tomas is an amazing song producer. So like all my music was done with them. And so we had that relationship. And at a certain point, Tomas was like, so I'm thinking of doing a musical. Do you want to write it with us? And so I was like, sure. That'll be easy. It was not easy.
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