Rock M. Sakura is here! She competed on Season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race and she tells us all about the inspiration behind their costumes and performances. We ask Rock M if they think there really is a “San Francisco curse” on Drag Race. After being sent home second they are still serving encouragement and advice for any queen from San Francisco who wants to compete on Drag Race. Then they tell us why it was important for them to acknowledge their own history of sex work, following a series of attacks on Asian American sex workers. 

Our very special guest this week is Varla Jean Merman, a renown drag performer, a comedienne, and singer who has filled cabarets and concert halls across the world… including the Sydney Opera House and Carnegie Hall! She’s appeared on Ugly Betty, Project Runway, All My Children and the feature length independent films Girls Will Be Girls (2003) and Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads (2011)— but today she is all ours! We talk to Varla Jean Merman about her experiences performing drag from the early 1990’s until now, including her unique incorporation of video projections in her shows as well as her legendary use of props of tremendous scale over the years. Now synonymous with drag in Provincetown, we talk to Varla about doing shows today and what it is going to be like as things are beginning to open up in nightlife. She tells us all about living the sweet life of love!

We are catching up with actor and nightlife impresario Mario Diaz. Let's face it. Us queens could not do drag without our boys! This (former) roller rat was raised by a pack of feral drag queens and he knows how to treat a wig. You may know him as the creator and casting daddy of the East Village’s The Cock bar, or for running all the best boy parties in New York and LA. He brought back the back room, he’s bringing back sleaze, and brought us the sweetness!

This episode we are joined by one of my favorites: comedienne and actress Julie Brown. Comedy in the age of cancel culture is something that we discuss a lot on Drag Time with Heklina and we get a real sweetheart’s take on political correctness in comedy. She tells us about meeting Michael Jackson while working on the dance number for her Madonna spoof entitled “Vague,” and then we reminiscence about her work on the set of Clueless (she was the lesbian gym teacher.) We play a game of “Who’s a bitch?” Listen in to find out if Zsa Zsa Gabor is one - and more! Julie Brown even tells us all about her warm spot for San Francisco!

It's a Full On Greg alert for all of the Sideshow fans. Heklina is joined by Greg Sherrell and we catch up on some old Sideshow drama. Listen in and help us decide who is inciting it more, Greg or Heklina. P.S. it is Heklina. Find out what's been going on with Greg since he began recording Big Bay Mornings from home. Greg gives us a personal review of Heklina's "Meals on Heels" delivery/performance benefitting SF Oasis. Then he has the audacity to confess to not tipping a bitch. Listen and learn about Trickle Down Gregonomics on this very special episode of Drag Time.

If you don’t know Sherry Vine… you don’t know drag! She tells us all about winning over crowds on tour opening for Bianca Del Rio and making fans around the world. We theorize about the last time it was that Jackie Beat spent a dollar on a costume. We run through a lightning round of little ditties Marc dug up online about Sherry Vine; she tells us about some drama llama from the making Wigstock II!

We have Ana Matronic! She tells us all about how she made her way from performing drag shows in SF+NY to joining Scissor Sisters, going on tour, and playing gigs all over the world. We hear about some of Ana's surreal celeb encounters with Faye Dunaway and Bono... then she gives us one of the very best Jane Fonda impressions we've ever heard. Listen in and find out the statistical likelihood of Ana rebooting with the Scissor Sisters. She tells us all about her BB2 radio show called Dance Devotion featuring 90-00's acid house, Chicago house, techno house, where the motto is "We'll dance to anything!" You can listen to it on airs every Sat nite/Sun morning on bbc.co.uk - we love Ana Matronic!

We have Traci Lords! Listen-in as we find out what's going on in Traci's world as she brings a little glamor to Drag Time. We catch up on her experiences of actively working in Hollywood and being a parent during these unprecedented times. She tells us all about TWO upcoming films and Heklina gets her to dish on her favorite times working with John Waters, Iggy Pop, and good times at San Francisco's The Stud bar.

Flloyd joins us! He is a visual, musical, and performance artist living and recording with us from the East Village. He tells us all about coming to New York from Atlanta in the mid-1980’s, where he met and collaborated with a pre-VH1/Supermodel RuPaul. First, Flloyd regales us with an historic tour of his memories from inside the club and party scenes of NYC, including a particular account of “the most glamorous party of all time” captured in the Nelson Sullivan tapes. We talk about Leigh Bowery, Anohni, Hattie Hathaway, Marti Domination, and Black Lips, the Butthole Surfers, and Larry Tee’s Now Explosion. Listen-in to find out the three books that Flloyd found on RuPaul’s bookshelf when they first met and her attempts to exercise complete mind control (!) and become the Queen of the Universe!

Ww couldn't be more excited to bring you The Boulet Brothers this week. We talk to Swan and Drac about the good old days at Queen Kong in Los Angeles, how much fun it is to make a transgressive and queer reality (hit!) television Dragula now streaming on Netflix. We find out the Brothers' favorite memories about Heklina and hear a heartfelt message from Swan and Drac about keeping the conversation going during difficult times. Then, James Arthur M actor, comedian, choreographer, and the co-creator, host, and producer of of one of our favorite podcasts, Minority Korner, joins us as a special contributor! We learn more about how to empower ourselves in the quest to un-learn oppression, racism, and center self-care while loving one another.

We catch up with Lady Bunny and find out all about what's happening in her weird and wonderful world. She tells us all about filming a music video with Christeene, writing a new song, and then... Thanks to a very special call-in guest, Lady Bunny takes us back to the good old days (emphasis on old), when she and RuPaul first went to New York and performed as go-go dancers.

We are joined by the fabulous Miss Coco Peru, a household name in the LGBT community for more than 25 years. You know her from queer and LGBT-themed films such as Girls Will Be Girls (2003), Trick (1999), To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995). Her body of work includes a prolific career on television in shows such as Will & Grace, How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development. She drops tons of names telling us how all that came to be and we find out about Miss Coco's favorite memories of Heklina. Marc's High School Drama Club submits questions and we find out everything you want to know about "THAT MONOLOGUE" from the film Trick! WE LOVE MISS COCO PERU!

This week it’s a Side-Show revival with extra-special guest 99.7 NOW Big Bay Mornings host Greg Sherrell. Greg catches us up since Heklina’s FIRING from Side-Show, we find out if COVID-19 can be spread through oral/anal contact (spoiler-alert it’s through any person-to-person contact). Heklina discloses several near-death experiences including her last date. Producer Marc makes us talk about gay stuff on TV.

It's my very own Podcast! All you Side-Show listeners can rejoice. My very first guest is none other than Peaches Christ! We're going to talk about sex, cancel culture, ageism, and find out out exactly what makes Peaches Christ nervous!