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

Monday Jan 20, 2025
Monday Jan 20, 2025
Fun fact, Steven misread this title as "menopause" and was very confused. Anyway! It's a new day in the Werk Room as the girls are given money honey and then asked to make outfits based on everyone's least favorite board game that we all have a copy of anyway, Monopoly! Will Steven keep the boardgamery in his pants? Will the girls serve the looks or end up not passing go and going straight to Jail? Find out in this week's episode of This Toxic Fandom as we dive into RuPaul's Drag Race season 17, episode 3!

Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
The top 5 girls are brought together to... Be interviewed by Brad Goreski? It's a weird one, folks, but it's Canada's Drag Race and we're almost at the finish line! We talk about Wicked, Munchkins, Canadians, Anita Bryant finally doing something good with her life by dying, and how if you squint really hard in some parts of the podcast you might see Steven hanging around. Will these jokes make sense? Only if you join us as we continue to talk about Canada's Drag Race on This Toxic Fandom!

Monday Jan 13, 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
We're back to find out who wins, who lipsync's against Acacia, and who goes home. We also answer questions like what does rollerskating lead to? Is standup a good talent? and what is a Badonk-a-dunk twist? All this and more! Sadly due to the ongoing fires in LA, Pope was not able to join us this episode. He will be back for Canada on Thursday!

Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Oh, I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You download your favorite podcast about the latest episode of RuPaul's Drag Race because you think you're too good for the international seasons, but what you don't know is that that episode is not just well produced, it's not just funny, it's taken from one of the greatest challenges ever produced on Drag Race Canada where the remaining contestants are asked to make custom outfits for the host of the program to model. You're so unaware of the fact that while America is doing Rate A Queen, Canada included that level of drama and gamery in at least two-thirds of its season. Fascinating. Does this need a belt? Find out in this week's episode of This Toxic Fandom!

Monday Jan 06, 2025
Monday Jan 06, 2025
IT'S THE SEASON PREMIERE! I REPEAT: IT'S THE SEASON PREMIERE! Join Steven, Joe, and David as they explore the season premiere of RuPaul's Drag Race season 17, The Squirrel Games! Fourteen new girls join the fray and enter the gauntlet as the hit reality TV show returns with the return of the controversial Rate A Queen and a jaw-dropping talent show filled with twists, splits, and lemonade! Join the conversation now and listen to This Toxic Fandom!

Monday Dec 30, 2024
Monday Dec 30, 2024
The Snatch Game this week was so bad that it made Joe catch the flu bug! But seriously, people, wash your hands and get your flu shots, you morons. Anyway! David and Steven are left to summarize the Snatch Game and then be teleported to Mars by the intergalactic popstar runway! With Joe not there to moderate, let's ramble and talk about David Letterman, sad backstories, and the rare WOODEN BEAVER! All this and more in this week's This Toxic Fandom, so give it a listen and let's get impersonational!

Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Oh. My. God. Becky, look at her drag race podcast! It's just, like, so... Big. This week on This Toxic Fandom, we gave up on the new millennium and went back to the halcyon days of slap bracelets, beanie babies, roller blades, and making way too many hand gestures. That's right kids, we're totally bugging and going back to the 90s! The girls of Canada's Drag Race make their very own girl groups and then have to combine the fashions of grunge and glamour on the runway. Who will be a fly girl, who will fly away like Lenny Kravitz, and who will get beamed in the head with a giant cell phone? And which one of the bois is a virgin who can't drive?!!? Find out this week on THIS TOXIC FANDOM as they dive into CANADA'S DRAG RACE SEASON 5 EPISODE 5!!!

Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
We want to see some H&M on this runway for the first time! For this season's first design challenge, the girls will have to make fashions that look off the rack, which Steven thinks is a great idea because he's WHAT? Insane. The girls are also tasked with presenting a slow-motion outfit to varying degrees of success and somehow, Squirrel Girl from Marvel Rivals is brought up. Check out the latest episode of This Toxic Fandom and listen as we dive head-first into Canada's Drag Race!

Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
Steven is back back back back again with Joe and David after his hiatus and the bois are reunited and better than ever! The three of them dive into the world of Drag Race Canada, where they get into the Tim Horton Hears a Who of it all as the top ten girls of Canada's Drag Race Season 5 compete in a smackdown lip synch for glory, honor, fame, and the chance to distribute their golden beaver however they see fit. Alanis Morisette before her big break, Joe not knowing when songs were popular to their own detriment, and David having a field day with Avril Levine?! It's all happening in the latest episode of THIS TOXIC FANDOM!

Monday Dec 02, 2024
Monday Dec 02, 2024
Well chickens, we've made it to the end of another season! This week we talk about who was crowned, the final challenge, some tic-tac lunches, and whether or not we agree with the crowned queen (spoiler alert: it's nuanced). Graba cuppa tea and enjoy this finale before we officially head true north and strong to Drag Race Canada.