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- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone, and I'm super excited
about today's video because I get to share
a very special guest with you.
So, I was fortunate enough to actually spend some time with
those of you that watch RuPaul's Drag Race know
Thorgy Thor, she was from this season.
So I actually got to hang out with her
She was here at a local bar, Bal Ance
thank you so much for setting this up.
And we sat down and we actually got to talk.
We got to talk about food, we got to talk about
like, what it was like being on Drag Race
and just sort of travelling and everything from eating
bugs to drinking whiskey.
It's just a really fun interview, so check it out.
I think you're gonna like it.
Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone and I'm here today at
backstage at Bal Ance where I have Thorgy Thor
- Hi.
- Probably know from Drag Race
- Woo-Ooo
- Season eight. (Thorgy laughs loudly)
How's it goin?
- It's very very good.
- Thank you so much for taking this time
- I'm in such a good mood
it's a pleasure to sit down with you.
- Awesome, awesome, so let's talk about what
this week has been like, so
It's been a rough week, you know, you were eliminated
we lost Prince, with just lots of things going on
- Yep, apparently there's like a
#JusticeForThorgy going around
- Awesome
- That's like the Twitter thing going on
I'm like, all right
- It was shocking.
- I shared it shared it a couple times (mumbles)
- It was really shocking.
- Very shocking.
- I thought you were gonna be, you know, final three
like it just seemed like that was gonna be the winner
- You know what was the most shocking for me about it
was that I knew I was gonna have to watch this live
with people 'cause I threw a viewing party in Brooklyn
every single week.
And I made sure of it, I was like
since day one when I got back from the show they were like
everyone told me like you're gonna win.
Oh you're top three, if you're not top three
I'm gonna kill myself, I'm just like
and I heard this a lot
and I was like, oh people are like rooting for me
Like this is a thing, right.
And I knew I got eliminated sixth
but I had to keep my mouth shut
so I actually watched in front of everyone in Brooklyn
and it was just this roar of like no
and I'm like listen, I had a freaking blast
I did a good job, I have sisters for life
And like it's just some good show to be part of so
I'm not sour about it.
- So, what came out of that experience now that
I imagine there's some kind of cathartic part to it
now that you can say it, right, like
(extreme crosstalk)
- There really is no more secrets, I'm like ugh.
- So what's next for you, what are you doing next?
- I have a lot of things planned, well you know
everyone knows like once you're on Drag Race
all the clubs around the States, they want to eat you up.
It's funny 'cause I'm from New York, but I've never
had the chance to like, literally be in Sacramento before.
So like, we'll fly you up and come do it
I'm like great, you know.
So it's great to really meet all the local queens
and all the shows, and like really great
like this really cool stuff and
that's what I'm doing right now, I'm just like
kinda touring all these clubs and doing little things.
But I'm also preparing at the same time like a string show.
You know I'm a violinist
violist, cellist - Yes, yes
- And I owned my own company for years booking events
and I've played for many orchestras
but I've always wanted to do it in drag.
So want to conduct in drag and conduct the orchestra.
And have like a 40 to 80 piece orchestra at, you know
at Le Poisson Rouge in Manhattan or you know, like
a loft space in Brooklyn and then possibly tour with it.
- Huh, very fun
- Yeah, I think that would be kind of a cool thing to like
meld like drag culture and like a younger demographic
with like classical music and make it cool again.
'Cause there's so many cool musicians that I know
But it's kind of like this feel where like
I don't know, it's not cool anymore for some reason
I'm like it is the coolest thing, like music's so cool.
- Yeah
- So, that's my goal.
- So if someone wanted to find out where to like
catch that performance when it comes
where should they get it?
- That's funny, see we're not even at that
stage as right now, I'm actually talking to musicians
that I know, I'm trying to put together an orchestra
but I am gonna have a casting call, I'm gonna have
like an open audition.
- Okay
- So bring you're character, I want an orchestra
full of characters that can also play.
They have to play really like, they have to be players.
- 'Cause you've studied for a long time.
- Absolutely, yes.
- And what are all the instruments you play?
- I play violin, viola, cello.
I play a little piano, but I'm mainly
a violinist, violist, cellist.
- Nice - Yep
- So, speaking of Brooklyn, now that you've been touring
and seeing all these other cities
what's the Brooklyn drag scene like
compared to other places?
- So I walked in here, we're in the dressing room here
I walked in and I was like
you guys have no idea what it's like in Brooklyn.
You're lucky if you have a dressing room
You shove your shit in the bag
and everything you bring in is like what you
watch the whole night or it gets stolen.
I walk in, and this is an incredible
incredible dressing room, like lights and stuff like that.
Anyway it`s really pro.
But Brooklyn is awesome, its really sloppy and cool.
We don`t care so much about talking shit about other people
but rather really embracing each other
as a community of artists, you know.
We`re all paid 25 dollars to show up every week
with a new look and a new number
and we just really love it.
We all sit in the front row and cheers
You know, somebody`s in flip flops, but yeah
work me in.
It`s about making fun of each other in a way
- Right
- It`s part of the culture there, which makes
the performance aspect really fun.
So, it`s for everybody.
- That`s awesome. - Yeah.
- So, in Brooklyn, you know, this is a cooking show
so we gotta talk a little bit
about food - Oh yeah
- Where do you go to eat?
What's your favorite places to eat?
- Oh my God, well I live in Greenpoint
and it's right above Williamsburg and Greenpoint is like
up and coming, everything is like this new cafe
and this new like Brazilian restaurant.
Ethiopian restaurant.
I eat everything, and wait, you're like a vegan
- I'm actually not offended so you can eat everything.
- Like I would eat cockroaches and bugs and slugs
- Very environmentally friendly, it's good, so you know
- May I share something, I don't talk about this a lot
I really really really want to be on Survivor.
- I would watch the shit out of that.
- Like I really wanna be on Survivor.
It's gonna be - In drag full time?
- No, absolutely not, but like I have dreadlocks
really long dreadlocks, I would shave it off for the show.
I just love the idea of like being so physically demanding
and like eating like birds from the sand.
It's like, I love that, like how primal that is.
- Coming up with your recipe is gonna be a challenge.
Birds, cockroaches - I've given you a lot
of like crazy ideas.
- So we know what you like to eat
what do you like to drink?
- Oh, I'm a whiskey and beer drinker.
- Made together or separately?
- Yes actually, when I have a glass of whiskey I'll wait
until all my-- I need to be like apparent.
It's like the Brooklyn staple, like everyone in Brooklyn
is like, whiskey and beer and there's always like
some beer/whiskey special like at every bar.
- Awesome. - Yeah, so.
- Well thanks for hanging out with us today.
- It's my pleasure
- You know if people wanna catch, what's your web?
Give us your website.
- It's just thorgy.com, T-H-O-R-G-Y
- That's where you can find out, if you do get your casting
together for your orchestra - Of course.
And like my Facebook is just Thorgeous
or I'm the only Thorgy Thor
@ThorgyThor on Twitter and Instagram
and cool, yeah. - Awesome, thank you.
- Well, I'm so excited.
Oh what a pleasure - And all the best to you
- Yeah cool.
- Okay, seriously, isn't she just the greatest?
The thing that I love about Thorgy, I mean, she was one
of my favorites to watch this season
on RuPaul's Drag Race
but she's just kinda this combination
of like Carol Burnett or Lucille Ball.
She's just super fun, so I really wanted to do
a recipe that kinda highlights her personality
and the things that she liked
which is like beer and whiskey.
My kinda gal by the way.
So, I'm gonna make this delicious boozy root beer float.
I'm gonna make a caramel whiskey
I'm gonna make some candied pecans, we're gonna hack some
vanilla ice cream, and we're gonna make a root beer float
using some boozy root beer.
It's gonna be super freaking good.
I think Thorgy would like it and I think you will too.
So let's get to making it, shall we?
Okay, so for this recipe, you're gonna need some cloves.
We're gonna use some freshly ground nutmeg
and some ground cinnamon.
We're also of course, we're candying pecans so we need
our pecans, and we have some vanilla extract
some brown sugar and some butter, so let's get started.
Let's turn this baby on.
Melt our butter.
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Add in the vanilla extract.
Spices.
(nutmeg grating)
It's looking pretty smooth there
so now we'll add in our pecans.
And then we want to transfer these to like a baking sheet
to kinda let them cool.
Okay so to make the caramel part of this recipe
we're gonna need some butter, some cream
a little bit of salt
some brown sugar, vanilla extract
and of course, because Thorgy loves whiskey
we've got some whiskey here.
So let's go ahead and make it.
Start off by adding our butter
add in our cream
and our brown sugar.
As always, I'll put the full ingredient list
and instructions on the show notes
so you can just sit back and watch.
We want to bring this to a boil for about five minutes.
I'm gonna add in a pinch of salt
our whiskey
and two tablespoons of vanilla extract.
Mix that together.
Remove it from the heat.
Okay, so yeah, we've made our whiskey caramel
and we have our candied pecans here
so now we're gonna make the caramel pecan ice cream.
We're gonna take this basic vanilla ice cream
scoop it out here.
And just scoop that into this dish.
And then I'm just gonna
put some of the nuts in there.
And the caramel sauce.
And then do it all over again.
I'm gonna put one more small layer on top.
Then you put this in the freezer.
Now that our hacked ice cream has firmed up in the freezer
we're gonna go ahead and scoop it out and make
our root beer float.
I'll just add in our boozy root beer.
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Okay, so there we have it, we have our boozy root beer
we have our whiskey caramel ice cream that we made.
Totally delicious, this one's for you, Thorgy.
Thank you so much for hanging out with me.
By the way, if you want to check out more interviews
like this, we have Bianca Del Rio, also from
RuPaul's Drag Race, we have Larry Smith from
Orange Is The New Black, and so many other ones.
So be sure to check out the interview series
on my channel and if there's someone that you want to see
let me know in the comment field.
Talk to you guys soon.
So good.
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