Last week on RuPaul's Drag Race, we found out that the final three would not be a final three at all, but rather a final four. This week, it was revealed that the finale would be altered slightly — with a Lip Sync death match. But before RuPaul crowns a winner during next week’s finale, the Drag Race host gathered all of the season 9 queens together in one room for a special reunion.

Rather than checking in on what each queen has been doing in the wake of their appearances on the show, RuPaul chose to, instead, discuss different highlights from the season. He started with Alexis Michelle, imploring her to address the hypocrisy she had exhibited when she took offense to jokes made about her weight despite making similar jokes about Shea Couleé’s teeth. Next was Charlie Hides’ infamous standing lip sync, and then an extended portion dedicated to Valentina, her controversy-causing elimination, and her lack of effort to control her fans’ online harassment of other queens. Valentina was clearly Public Enemy #1 of the night — shown most obviously when, after winning the fan-voted award for Miss Congeniality, the Los Angeles native was taken to task by several different contestants about her lack of congeniality.

This week, we hopped on the phone with RuPaul's Drag Race season 9 winner Bob the Drag Queen to talk about why the underground origin of drag will prevent it from ever getting too PC, how being on Drag Race affects your bookings, and why it's always important for a drag queen to work well with others.

Teen Vogue: The first topic of discussion for the reunion was about Alexis Michelle’s hypocrisy, to which Trinity Taylor said, “If you can’t roll with the punches, this may not be the career for you.” What do you think it is about drag that attaches itself to this pervasive idea of irreverence?

Bob the Drag Queen: Drag comes from a very irreverent culture. Drag is often used to mock realness and to play a joke on people who take themselves too seriously — especially on RuPaul's Drag Race. It just doesn’t really come from a super serious place. So I think that’s where Trinity was coming from. Drag has always had a super light-hearted air about it.

TV: As we see all facets of culture moving towards something more PC, do you think drag will inevitably move down the same track? Especially since many comedians still seem to think of themselves as operating in a different sphere when it comes to propriety?

BtDQ: Well, I’m not Nostradamus; I have no idea what’s going to happen in the future. But I can say that I don’t think that’s the inevitable way of everything. I don’t think comedy is doing that right now. Comedy will always be what it is — always in your face, not always PC. And drag will probably do the exact same. Comedy clubs and drag have a lot of things in common because they’re both underground. I mean, a TV show will always be a TV show but drag will still always be underground. What you see on Drag Race is a very PG version of what you will see at one of the actual drag shows.

TV: The next topic of discussion was about Charlie Hides’ lip sync, and she tried to blame it on a multitude of excuses. Given that RuPaul changed the finale format because of the ways lip syncs have been executed this season, do you think the lip sync should be centralized as something integral and inseparable from the art of drag?