- Hi everyone, welcome to The Pit Stop.
I am your host Raja and today I am so excited.
I am joined by the very beautiful,
the very exciting, larger than life personality,
please welcome Ginger Minj everybody.
- Larger than life, at least larger than this dress.
- I had to go there.
- Hi.
- Thank you so much for being here.
- Thanks for having me.
- We have a lot to cover today.
This is the final four episode.
But let's talk a little about what happened last week.
- Let's talk about it.
- Kameron Michaels for the third time,
has to lip sync for her life, and sends Miz Cracker home.
- I know.
- Bless.
- Well that was kind of Sophie's Choice at that point.
You know, I love both of them so much.
I think both of them are completely different
in what they offer to the competition.
- Yup.
- But then Kameron came in and slayed that lip sync.
- They both slayed the lip sync.
- They did.
- They were both quite amazing.
- Oh absolutely, but there was passion and fire in Kameron.
You could really see it.
- Yeah and unfortunately emotions really kind of
took over Miz Cracker and she had to go
and I'm sad to see her gone, she really brought it.
- But, I feel like she always did what she does.
- She's so (bleep) adorable.
- She is.
- So Aquaria wins for the third time.
Is she the contender of the season
'cause she is not messing around.
- Well, I don't know if you can say that she
is the contender, but she's won three challenges
and she has never been in the bottom two.
I feel like no matter what happens at this point,
she has already set the bar so high for herself
that people are going to love
and revere her for everything that she does.
- And it's just wonderful to see someone
so young to really get it.
Let's move on to the Maxi Challenge.
- Let's do it.
- First things first, they have to write lyrics
and perform in Ru's Song America.
Second, they had to learn what Ru called
the most difficult choreography
in RuPaul's Drag Race herstory.
And last but not least they get to hang out
with Ru and Michelle in a podcast.
What do you think of this multi-layered lasagna
of a challenge, it was like tiered.
- First of all, I actually, I'm really jealous of it.
Because I love that they have now switched it
to these live performances.
It's like a mini pageant.
- I think a lot of the focus on Drag Race
is there's a lot of lip sync.
Lip Sync For Your Life, it's the big challenge,
but not everybody lip syncs.
So it's nice to see performers actually perform live.
Okay let's talk about the recordings itself.
Who do you think did the best in this?
Well I'll be Kameron, Kameron was a shock to me, fetch.
- Fantastic, absolutely,
her voice is actually really lovely.
- Yeah.
- I think the one that went in with
the most confidence was Eureka,
like she just jumped into it and
she nailed the recording of it.
Aquaria went in with the confidence
and then immediately lost it once Todrick was like, no.
But she pulled it out in the end,
and I really loved her verse.
- So the next part is the podcast.
You were talking about pageants earlier,
and this is that interview.
It is like you are sitting in front of the judges.
- Yeah, well I thought that all of them,
especially considering how daunting that is,
handled themselves very well.
I thought that, I learned about Aquaria and Kameron,
that I didn't know watching the entire rest of the season.
I also really love Asia's viewpoint on drag.
Where it comes from, where it is, and where it's going.
And I think that there's something very important
in the way that she broke that down for Ru and Michelle.
- Okay, last but certainly not the least.
I don't know how they did this,
but it would take a miracle from God herself,
to get me through this choreography.
(laughing)
- You and me both.
- Honey, when Ru said that it was the most
and challenging choreography, she was not (bleep) joking.
- And I just, I was watching Aquaria,
when she was going first and just,
my body ached for her.
- No Aquaria I thought did a fantastic job
but of course she did.
- It had to be very daunting for the other three
to sit there and go, well if this is where we're starting.
- I also think that our viewers and fans don't realize,
you know, you don't get days to do this.
This is all done within minutes.
- 48 hours.
You got 48 hours to do everything.
- [Raja] All of it.
- And it was really nice to see that once they did perform,
they all overcame those fears.
And they knocked it out of the park.
This was one of the best performances in Drag Race history.
- [Raja] Absolutely, absolutely, and when they finally
performed you see how natural at it they are.
And how for many us, performance is our sweet release.
It's runway time.
Runway, take it to the runway, runway.
Which is my favorite time.
'Cause that's when the girls pull all the looks.
Let's go down the list, Aquaria.
- [Ginger] Stunning, from head to toe.
Not one detail out of place.
- I loved that little trumpet skirt,
and she had so much to say.
She really is in this game and knows the responsibility
that is at hand in winning it.
- Yes.
- [Raja] Next week we have Asia O'Hara.
- Beautiful, that Tiffany's blue,
emblazoned with the gold metallic, just so eye catching.
The one thing that I didn't love about it
was I felt it was little bit too short,
but I can forgive that.
- [Raja] Next we have Kameron Michaels.
- [Ginger] Just soft, feminine.
- [Raja} Beautiful.
- [Ginger] Beautiful.
- [Raja] And that soft lavender color
really really looks gorgeous on her,
I really appreciated that look.
She looks stunning.
And last but not least, Eureka.
- [Ginger] I liked it but it's the same issue
that I had with Asia's outfit.
I felt like it was too short.
- [Raja] Yeah.
- [Ginger] It's so funny to me that the two pageant girls
are the two that came out with short dresses.
- Now, this is not my favorite Eureka look really.
I saw her really really go for it all season
and then I was like, oh, okay.
So the season is close to an end
but let's look back a little bit.
What is your favorite moment out of the entire season.
Name one.
- I think the moment that sticks out in my head
is Asia as Buttrface.
It's so funny to me.
- Brilliant.
- And because I had followed her for so long
and know her as this beautiful,
glamorous pageant title holder.
I never expected to see her take herself there.
- To me, season 10 really brought it to the runway.
There were so many moments that I can't even count
where I was just like, oh wow. Oh werk, yas, on the runway.
- It was one of the best seasons in a while.
I really enjoyed every moment of it.
- Lip Sync For Your Life, they all had to lip sync together.
Who was your favorite?
- I thought that they all did really well.
But I think if you make it to the top four,
you should have fun with it.
You should enjoy that, because that's your last moment.
- It's rare that you get to be up there
with four people and just show off.
So no one went home.
- None!
- I was relieved, I was like okay, cool.
- Yeah, which makes me kind of wonder
if it's gonna be like it was on season nine.
Because I know it gets a lot of flak,
but I really enjoyed that.
I didn't know what the hell was gonna happen.
- So we all love them in the lip sync
and no one got to go home.
But do you Ginger Minj, think that someone should have?
- If it had to be.
- Mmm hmm, who would you say go home?
- Like I had absolutely no choice.
Probably Kameron, just statistically.
But I'm glad that nobody had to go home
because I fell in love with Kameron this season.
- Do you have any advice for the final four?
- Get out of your head, girl.
Get out of your head.
- Thank you so much Ginger, for joining me today.
It has been an absolute pleasure.
I love talkin' to you.
- I love talkin' to you too girl.
- You are my sis for life.
- Yas, Queen.
(laughing)
(animal noises)
and I want to thank all of you so much for joining
us here at The Pit Stop.
Goodbye everybody.