This Toxic Fandom
This Toxic Fandom celebrates over 15 years of RuPaul’s Drag Race, from the drama and conflama both on and off the show to the moments that made us feel something special. Join your hosts, Joe, David, and Steven, as they death-drop in, get silly, get fabulous, and get to the heart of this fandom - Be it toxique or iconique.
Episodes

4 days ago
4 days ago
The bitch is back as the girls of the Purple bracket pair off (again?) to try to woo the heart of... Some guy none of the bois know but all find GORGEOUS. All this with Daya deciding that Alyssa is the worst person alive for not giving her a point, Cynthia wearing the worst thing ever worn on the Drag Race runway and yes I will stand by that statement fight me Christine, Ginger Minj continuing to destroy the competition because she's better than you and she knows it, AND did we mention the really pretty man whimpers a few times and makes everyone feel something? Oh, and it's the final episode before the semifinals of the TOURNAMENT OF ALL STARS for RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10! Don't waste any time, get into it and join the conversation on all our socials!

Monday Jun 23, 2025
Monday Jun 23, 2025
This week on the pod we have extra special guest Kat Robichaud of Misfit Cabaret and The Voice Season 5. With her, Joe and David discuss the 8th episode of season 10 Stagecooch AKA the girl group challenge. Apparently Drag Race was just pandering to David as the mini challenge is based on Clueless, Orville Peck shows up, and the runway is Night of 1000 Mileys. How many Clueless references are made? Do we agree with the winner of the week? And how many references do David and Kat make that go over Joe's head? All this and more!

Monday Jun 16, 2025
Monday Jun 16, 2025
I was all prepared to go to Boston to get called a slur by Plane Jane but then it turned out to be an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 10 that was sponsored by the upcoming musical "Wicked: For Good!" This week we begin the Purple Bracket featuring some all time classic queens like Ginger Minj and Acid Betty as they prepare to enter the gauntlet that is the Tournament of Champions! Who will come out on top, who will explain to Steven how Denali's talking head shirt works, and who will be joining our six other semi-finalists in the next bracket?!!?

Monday Jun 09, 2025
Monday Jun 09, 2025
On a very special episode of This Toxic Fandom, the bois go deep under cover as sex workers in 1990s New York City to help out the international superspy Starbooty! Okay, that's not true, but wouldn't it be wild if we did the whole episode like that? Anyway, the girls of the Pink bracket of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10 are given a Rusical so Jorgeous can show off how good of a dancer they are, where they play with PUSS, DIC, and TITS! Or something like that. It's kind of a mess. It's a messy bracket with messy girls and we're diving head-first into their final challenge. Who will make it to the next bracket, and who will probably end up showing up on AS12 with Mistress? Join the conversation and download the episode now!

Monday Jun 02, 2025
Monday Jun 02, 2025
It's a new episode of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10, and it starts with an unintentional Mean Girls homage when the meanest girl in a one-inch heel decides to play dirty with her new lackey, causing every gay millennial to think "And none for Gretchen Wieners." Chapelle Roan shows up and blows us all away (or is it just a blow up doll?) and we have the six girls of the Pink bracket roast each other in a rap! Who will come out on top? Join us for a brand new This Toxic Fandom to find out!

Monday May 26, 2025
Monday May 26, 2025
We begin the Pink Bracket with six new all-star queens, including a girl who hasn't been on the show since Season 2 and a girl who was on a season that finished airing A MONTH AGO! Wild discrepancies in ages and seasons abound as the six girls of the Pink Bracket of RuPaul's All Stars Season 10 are tasked with making a complete garment out of eight randomly assigned items that would flummox a lesser queen! That's right, after seventeen normal seasons and ten regular seasons, we're finally doing Drag Race Chopped! Join the bois as they talk about the return of someone who had three days to prepare for this season after finishing their last one, how Tina Burner might turn it and burn it this All Stars, and how much Steven is obsessed with NICOLE PAGE BROOKS FROM. ATLANTA. GEORGIA.

Monday May 19, 2025
Monday May 19, 2025
The orange bracket queens of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 10 are asked to take some GORGEOUS basketball-playing divas and turn them into drag family in the final challenge of the orange bracket! David has fled to Canada, so Steven and Joe have decided to debate over who was the second-worst girl of the week because this episode is a pulse-pounding thrill-a-minute escapade through some great looks, some truly horrific looks, suspicious padding, and the ever burning question: Is Bosco hot enough to make one of the bois straight? Who knows! Find out in this week's THIS TOXIC FANDOM as they cover RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 10, episode 3: Hoop Queens!

Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
All Stars 10 continues with the second episode of the not-a-two-part-premiere-but-they-made-us-do-double-duty-anyway premiere, this time with an improv challenge for Team Orange as they have to deduce who the murderer on the dance floor is! Turns out, it's Michelle, but who cares, this is a glass eye, and I lost this eye to glaucoma! We're blind! But more importantly, find out what you call an all gay Conclave, who is a Calculus Rising, and if David ever bought the merch he promised he'd buy from Bosco, all in this week's THIS TOXIC FANDOM as they cover All Stars 10, Episode 2, Murder on the Dance Floor! You better not kill the groom, folks.

Monday May 12, 2025
Monday May 12, 2025
LET'S GET ALL STARTED! The bois are colorful, creative, and coocoo as they kick off a new season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars! As the Orange Team enters the work room, they discuss the growth of these queens, who they're rooting for, and most importantly, who will make it to the second round of the Tournament of Champions! Will a new format change bring out the best of a format that's been more miss than hit lately? Will this be what saves the world after Season 9 failed to do much? Will Joe ever get all that purple out of their pores?! Tune in to find out by downloading the latest episode of This Toxic Fandom!

Monday Apr 21, 2025
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Well, we've been dropped into a dunk tank, had our jokes stolen, held our lighters up in a jazz bar, saw a human tumbleweed, and learned never to trust thithers. We'd say we were big fans if we were all dressed as oscillating fans, but honestly, we've had a fun time with YOU, dear listener, as we've watched Season 17 of RuPaul's Drag Race. Now it's time to crown the winner and see who will take it!... You know who took it, right? Like, it was kinda obvious? Anyway, join the bois for one last splash in the Season 17 pond as they cover the season finale!