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Sibling Watchery: RuPaul’s Drag Race S18E16 “Grand Finale”

Podcast: Sibling Rivalry
Hosts: Monét X Change & Bob The Drag Queen
Date: April 22, 2026

Episode Overview

In this raucous, incisive, and laughter-filled episode, Bob and Monét break down the grand finale of Season 18 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. The duo delivers their signature mix of hilarious banter, unfiltered opinions, and sharp drag analysis as they review the queens’ finale looks, dissect the performances, and reflect on the season’s conclusion. They celebrate the new winner, Mikey Meeks, debate the merits of “finale as celebration versus competition,” and take their usual detours into pop culture, drag aesthetics, and the broader evolution of Drag Race itself.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Opening Banter and Mikey Meeks’ Win

The episode kicks off with comic chaos, mock spoiler warnings, and a recurring gag about “that one guy’s ugly mom.”
Both hosts congratulate Mikey Meeks—“Mikey motherfucking Meeks!”—on her victory, with Monét noting the finale is “really mostly like, a review of looks and a few numbers. There’s no moments, there’s no like, back and forth. It’s a showcase.” [01:11]
The tone is celebratory but colored by critique of the formulaic nature of modern Drag Race finales.

2. Did RuPaul Perform Live?

The hosts question the authenticity of RuPaul’s on-stage performance, speculating it might have been pre-recorded. Jacob confirms “they did not see RuPaul perform live” at the taping. [03:56]

3. Finale Runway Looks – Queen by Queen Review

The core of the episode is spent dissecting each queen’s runway, doling out praise, nitpicks, and witty jabs:

Dede Fuego: Loved for her “cha cha cha Latina after all” aesthetic and Mexican cultural nods. [04:28]
- Quote: “She looks really stunning... she got the flowers in her hair, and they’re going up the dress.” – Monét [04:30]
Mandy Mango: Commended for her cultural reference (Philippines flag). Discussion on Drag Race’s trend toward “nods to culture” and whether this insulates queens from critique. [06:29–08:33]
- Quote: “Sometimes people cop to a cultural look because if you read the look, you’re reading the culture, and you won’t do that.” – Bob [07:18]
Briar: Applauded for cool, creative masked look, with jokes about her “double-padded childbearing hips” and a sidebar on drag padding hygiene. [09:07–10:11]
Ciara Mist: Inspiring debate over makeup choices (“just do a regular lip, girl”) but overall praised for “very creative” and expensive-looking drag. [11:10–13:28]
Vita Von T’s Star: The panel is blown away:
- Quote: “When she turned that corner and those stage lights hit her, I literally gasped... the best she’s ever looked.” – Bob [13:56]
- Monét adds “This is the best look of the entire season, actually.” [14:28]
- Discussion about inspiration vs copying (possible Beyoncé Renaissance nod).
Mia: Heavily critiqued for “hodgepodgey” material mix and incoherent design. [17:41–18:46]
Athena Dion: Inconspicuous but fine, with makeup described as “wild”—and a tangent/friendly argument about how to pronounce “Morphine.” [18:59–22:23]
Kenya: Savaged for an overdone, confusing outfit:
- Quote: “Wakanda for never. The Dora Milaje walked through the jewelry store, got caught on some shit. This is Mama. This is garbage.” – Monét [22:35–23:10]
- Laments on the lack of improvement in finale looks due to the new filming approach (finale filmed during, not after, the main season).
Discord Adams: Praised for Lady Gaga-esque safety pin look, with the sole plea: “put on a pad or get a tighter corset.” [25:30–26:18]
Jane Don’t: Loved except for a “giant septum ring covering her mouth” (“that fucking dragonfly in her mouth”); speculation it’s a Silence of the Lambs reference. [26:59–28:12]
On Your Nerve: Feather-heavy and McQueen-inspired gown draws mixed reactions; Bob and Monét agree it’s time to move on from full feather/encrusted aesthetics. [28:25–30:37]

4. On Copying vs. Inspired Looks

Bob grapples with learning Vita’s look was a direct recreation, discussing the difference between being inspired and direct knockoffs. [30:37–31:24]

5. The Top Three: Darlene, Mikey Meeks, & Nini Coco

Darlene:

Tore apart for a purposefully chaotic, “clown” look seen as “playing in our faces.”
- Quote: “You can be kooky, crazy, funny, kooky, whatever, and not come up here looking like a literal joke. I hate this.” – Bob [33:43]
- Monét: “She’s had actual fashion moments on the show... I really feel like she’s playing in our faces.” [33:58]
- Discussion about the phenomenon of fans enabling drag “anti-fashion.”

Mikey Meeks:

General praise for overall aesthetic, but quibbles over “cheap-looking” sequin fabric.
- Bob: “I like her hair and her makeup... but I think the fabric was a little cheapy-cheap.” [38:16]
- Monét waxes about the evolving “promo look” aesthetic. [38:41]

Nini Coco:

The look criticized: “It looks like she was pulling her skirt up and was about to put on the top part, and then someone’s like, bitch, we have to go now.” – Monét [39:46]
Bob rants against “AB stones” in drag: “They look so cheapy cheap to me.” [39:50–40:21]

6. Drag Aesthetics and Pet Peeves

The hosts call for a “drag moratorium” on rhinestones in wigs and overreliance on certain signature drag tropes. [41:48]

7. RuPaul’s Endurance as a Host/Icon

Admiration for Ru’s relentless work ethic (“almost 70... in full dragoons, up in pumps... three seasons of Drag Race every year!”). [42:17]
Bob: “Let’s see how you’re doing at 65.” [43:00]

Finale Performances Breakdown

Darlene's Performance ("Cooking on the Gas")

Bob wanted “more energy,” saying it “felt like just a regular bar number.” [45:27]
Monét: “Especially when she kept bragging, we have... Y’all haven’t seen me lip sync all season. And this is what... you gave?” [45:52]
Bob compares her look to Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow). [46:11]
Reveal is called “not funny, not nude, and not stunning.” [46:21]

Mikey Meeks ("Versatile")

Monét appreciates the opulent reveal but calls out a “bald-headed” feather boa. [47:38]
Bob praises the wordplay and on-air quickness: “She’s quick, and I think RuPaul likes that a lot.” [49:44]
Noted for a beautiful singing voice and “stage presence.” [49:32]
Banter about ethnicity and pop culture references (Miranda Cosgrove, Latino not being a race, etc.). [50:32–51:16]

Nini Coco ("Stimulate")

Consensus: “Favorite performance of the night.”
- Monét: “This could be at the VMAs... This was just fantastic.” [52:32]
- Bob: “The opening desk Choreo was so bomb... the song sounded like a Lady Gaga song... I really, really, really enjoyed her number.” [52:05]
Intensive debate about whether the finale performance should decide the crown or if the full season’s work matters more. [53:05–55:52]

Finale Lip Sync: Mikey Meeks vs. Nini Coco

Miley Cyrus has a cameo and is praised for her vocals and LGBTQ+ allyship. [63:24–63:48]
The lip sync provokes debate—Monét prefers Mikey’s “triple pirouette into the Spider-Man land,” while Bob thinks Nini’s choreography was strong but that she “sold herself short” by not fully showing her skills. [67:11–68:09]
Disagreement on bag prop relevance to the song and on the edit possibly excluding Nini’s acrobatics.

Crowning, Miss Congeniality, and Epilogue

Crystal Envy returns to crown Miss Congeniality—Jane Don’t—a surprise to Bob, who thought it’d go to Darlene. [59:40–61:17]
Friendly disputes over who “called” Jane Don’t as winner.
Another round of runway fashion hot takes (Crystal Envy’s bindi; rehashing Drag Race copycat culture).

Winning moment:

Mikey Meeks is crowned, ending with her line: "The Meeks shall inherit the crown." [71:22]

Memorable Quotes & Moments

On ru-diculous fashion:
“Wakanda for never. Dora Milaje walked through the jewelry store, got caught on some shit. This is Mama. This is garbage.” – Monét [22:35]
On Darlene’s look:
“You can be kooky, crazy, funny, kooky, whatever, and not come up here looking like a literal joke. I hate this.” – Bob [33:43]
On culture & critique:
“Sometimes people cop to a cultural look because if you read the look, you’re reading the culture, and you won’t do that.” – Bob [07:18]
On Drag Race’s future:
“Let’s see how you’re doing at 65... RuPaul is almost 70 years old, up here in full dragoons, up in pumps, up in hair, up in a corset, filming 18 seasons...” – Monét [42:17]

Timestamps for Major Segments

[00:55] – Spoiler/Win announcement & finale format discussion
[01:37] – The RuPaul performance debate
[04:18] – Detailed queen-by-queen runway review (continues through [30:44])
[32:32] – Top 3 finale looks (Darlene, Mikey Meeks, Nini Coco)
[45:27] – Finale performances recap & critique
[59:40] – Miss Congeniality: Jane Don’t crowned
[63:21] – Miley Cyrus cameo & final lip sync breakdown
[70:41] – Mikey Meeks’ crowning and final words

Tone & Takeaways

The episode is classic Bob & Monét: irreverent, snarky, but ultimately loving toward the art of drag. Their final take reflects a longing for more genuine competition and innovation while celebrating the evolution and endurance of Drag Race as a platform. The discussion mixes genuine appreciation (Vita Von T’s look, Mikey’s performance, Nini’s VMAs-ready number) with withering read ("Wakanda for never" and “cultural cop-outs to avoid critique”).

For fans and newbies alike, this recap is a runway of sharp opinions, fashion critique, laughter, and inside drag wisdom—a fitting sendoff to Season 18 and a signature Sibling Watchery finale.

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[00:00]
Bob the Drag Queen
Foreign. This is sibling Wisery, where we recap episode dragons. And y', all.
[00:10]
Monet X Change
Someone, Wayne Wind asks, is there anything that would make Bob, is there anything will make you break your sobriety? Yeah. That one guy's ugly mom.
[00:17]
Jacob
Okay.
[00:18]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, my God.
[00:19]
Monet X Change
His ugly. If I had to look at his ugly mom any longer, that would make me break my sobriety because of how ugly his mom is.
[00:30]
Jacob
Where?
[00:30]
Bob the Drag Queen
This is silly. Watch. This is not silly. Roastery will be Rose.
[00:34]
Monet X Change
That one guy's ugly mom.
[00:36]
Bob the Drag Queen
Some of our rude patrons. This is silly Wisery, where we recap episodes of RuPaul's Draggery Season 18. And, y', all, we're at the grand finale of season eight. What would break my sobriety? That guy's ugly, mom.
[00:49]
Monet X Change
She's ugly.
[00:51]
Bob the Drag Queen
We have some rumble jackets. This is the grand finale. Bob, we're at the end of the season. How do you feel at the end of the season?
[00:55]
Monet X Change
Yeah. Well, we're gonna start off with spoiler alerts. Obviously, if you are watching this, I'm assuming you've either watched Drag Race or you found out. So I just wanna start off with a big congratulations to the newest inductee into the RuPaul's Drag Race winner circle, which is Mikey Meeks.
[01:11]
Bob the Drag Queen
Mikey motherfucking Meeks.
[01:12]
Monet X Change
Obviously, I'm really happy that Mikey Meeks won. And, like, big congratulations to her. I mean, the interesting thing about the interesting about, like, the finales is that, like, there isn't. It's really mostly, like, a review of looks and, like, a few numbers. There's no. There's no moments. There's no like, back and forth. It's just like. It's a showcase of, you know, where you.
[01:34]
Bob the Drag Queen
This season for the girls. Yeah.
[01:35]
Monet X Change
On your journey this season.
[01:37]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah.
[01:38]
Monet X Change
So I think we should just go. I mean, we can. Before we get into the looks, we can talk about the fact that RuPaul came out and performed this number. By the way, she looks amazing.
[01:46]
Bob the Drag Queen
She looks great. But the fact that they try to trick the audience and come comments. Can y' all in your chat, can y' all sign off? Do y' all think RuPaul performed that song in front of the audience that was there?
[01:57]
Monet X Change
I don't even try to. Because they didn't even show a picture of the audience. No, but.
[02:01]
Bob the Drag Queen
But you hear the audience wooing the whole time, clapping. W. Well, they're not gonna cut off
[02:06]
Monet X Change
the audience applause there.
[02:08]
Bob the Drag Queen
But. But if they weren't there, like, RuPaul, you can just do a music video that the audience is not. Is not Sharing. They're sharing that the audience is there watching him do it. Yeah.
[02:17]
Monet X Change
I mean, I don't. I don't think. I mean, maybe someone thought. But I watched. I was like, I don't think RuPaul's performing from this audience. But I mean, as we know, she has performed for an audience before. I mean, she did it at the. At the finale with Simone. She did a number of. The finale with Simone in front of all those cars and stuff.
[02:35]
Bob the Drag Queen
Did she?
[02:36]
Monet X Change
Yeah. Wasn't it the finale where they were all, like, in cars because it was lockdown? No. Yes. I think Simone won, and they were, like, in the cars, I believe. Am I. Am I crazy?
[02:46]
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't remember that. If I. If I. That happened. I don't remember that. When I tell you. Oh.
[02:50]
Jacob
At all.
[02:52]
Monet X Change
I might have been making it up, but
[02:56]
Bob the Drag Queen
I thought RuPaul looked good when he. When she was doing her little Vogue moment. Her. Her noing section, she was like, no ging down. Well, you know what? RuPaul can know, cuz, y', all. RuPaul was. Was RuPaul ever. I don't think he was ever in the ballroom scene, but obviously. Yeah, but RuPaul was in this. He lived in New York City at the time of ballroom. He was there in the early 90s, like, late 80s.
[03:18]
Monet X Change
I don't know. Maybe. I don't think. I don't.
[03:19]
Bob the Drag Queen
He was. He was. RuPaul left Atlanta in 1990. I don't know if she was in
[03:22]
Monet X Change
the ballroom scene, though.
[03:23]
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't know. Jada's season was in the parking lot, not Simone's season.
[03:26]
Monet X Change
They said Jada. Okay.
[03:28]
Bob the Drag Queen
No, no, Jada. That's not true. They were on Zoom for Jada. What y' all talking about?
[03:31]
Monet X Change
But Jada was on Zoom. That's 100% true. Jada was definitely on Zoom.
[03:33]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, she won on Zoom for sure. Anyway, whatever.
[03:36]
Monet X Change
Something about Simone, when I feel like it was outside.
[03:39]
Bob the Drag Queen
It was outside. I think you're right. They were on, like, it was like, an outside stage because her and Gottmik, they all did their runways on, like, some stage. It was outside. That. That is correct. Jacob, can you bring it up? Like, pull up a picture? Because now that Bob is saying it's ringing bells for me now.
[03:53]
Jacob
The season 13 finale.
[03:56]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yes.
[03:57]
Jacob
Yeah. I also just was in contact with one of my friends who was out the season 18 live filming. They did not see RuPaul perform live.
[04:07]
Monet X Change
Oh, I. Oh, I.
[04:09]
Bob the Drag Queen
Girl, I know.
[04:10]
Monet X Change
Oh, the 18. Yeah.
[04:11]
Jacob
Yeah.
[04:11]
Monet X Change
Well, I mean, that's. I feel like we Pretty much confirmed that.
[04:14]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. So can we. Shall we talk about these opening girls looks?
[04:19]
Monet X Change
Let's talk about it. So we'll start off with Dede Fuego, who. I think she looks really stunning. She's giving very cha cha cha Latina. That's crazy for such a.
[04:29]
Bob the Drag Queen
Is this cha cha cha Latina?
[04:31]
Monet X Change
I mean, she got the flowers in her hair, and they're going up the dress. She looks Tamisha. Look, Mexican hair.
[04:37]
Bob the Drag Queen
That is true. Valentina did her hair. That's called her Kinoshi or. I forget what she said. Konosha. She said on my thing about. And she. That's like a thing in Mexican culture. You're right. That is a Mexican thing.
[04:50]
Monet X Change
So she was cha cha cha Latina after all.
[04:52]
Darlene
She lied.
[04:54]
Bob the Drag Queen
Didi loves to be a bride. What do you mean? Does she wear bridal? She doesn't wear bridal stuff a lot.
[04:58]
Monet X Change
Maybe she does it back online. Her name is. Is it Dee Dee? Like the letters D? I think it's letter D. And letter D. It's not D, I, E. Yeah, yeah.
[05:05]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yes, there's a letter D. Letter D.
[05:10]
Monet X Change
But, yeah, that's. I think she looks. Yeah. Simone, please. I am obsessed with her saying, I'm not a cha cha Latina. I don't know why. That is just so funny to me. Something about it just really tickles me. I don't know why. It's just so funny. Also, y' all can see me on the Pit Stop with Bianca del Rio, the Grandmama Latina. It's a really fun episode, too. So y' all, check it out. It's a really fun episode.
[05:36]
Bob the Drag Queen
Didi's eyebrow doesn't attach to her nose. What are you talking about?
[05:39]
Monet X Change
Are you talking to me?
[05:41]
Bob the Drag Queen
No. Someone comments. They said how her eyebrow attaches to her nose is.
[05:45]
Monet X Change
It looks like her contour could just continue into her eyebrow. I think maybe I kind of do
[05:49]
Bob the Drag Queen
that a little bit. Like, not, like, fully, but, like, that is kind of how you do, like, do that.
[05:53]
Monet X Change
Yeah, maybe. I don't know.
[05:55]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, let's go on.
[05:57]
Monet X Change
But do you like it?
[05:59]
Bob the Drag Queen
I like it. I like her dress. Sorry, Jacob. We can go back. I like her dress. It is giving very bridal. I like this, like, asymmetrical gabbage on one side. And I do. I do like it.
[06:07]
Monet X Change
We can go on to Philly's very own first responder, Mandy Mango. Did you change the slide, Jake, or am I crazy?
[06:18]
Bob the Drag Queen
No, but she looks great. I like it.
[06:19]
Monet X Change
Wait, y'.
[06:20]
Jacob
All.
[06:20]
Monet X Change
Oh, did it slide?
[06:21]
Bob the Drag Queen
I'm kidding. I was kidding.
[06:23]
Monet X Change
You Know, she look. She looks fantastic. It looks like she's doing some sort of a. A nod to her culture, I believe.
[06:29]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, I kind of. If I'm not mistaken, that's the. Philip. That's the. The Philippines flag she's wearing. Correct.
[06:37]
Monet X Change
A Filipino flag. No, Filipino flag is red, white, and blue.
[06:41]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yes. Behind her is a flag behind her.
[06:43]
Monet X Change
Oh, how do you see. How do you see behind this bitch?
[06:47]
Bob the Drag Queen
Because I watched the episode.
[06:49]
Monet X Change
I watched it, too, but I guess I don't remember that part. Can I ask a question? Like, obviously, there's nothing wrong with nodding to your culture. You know, I did nods to my African heritage on the show, and I did nods to my African American heritage on the show as well. But, like, I feel like it's now really prevalent amongst people, like, on Drag Race. I mean, obviously, Bibi Zahra Binae started it off on season one with a lot of nods to her culture, but I feel like it's, like, really big now to, like, nod to your culture on Drag Race.
[07:19]
Bob the Drag Queen
I think it's a reflection of the times. I think that, you know, and we live in a country where we feel like everyone's culture is on attack, and everyone's culture has been maligned and marginalized, so people feel the need to express it more and be very in your face about it. And also, I think sometimes. Sometimes people cop to a cultural look because they feel like, oh, people won't read them, because if you read the. If you read the look, you're reading the culture, and you won't do that.
[07:41]
Monet X Change
Yeah. Also, just to be clear, y', all, I. I did. I obviously watched the show. I. I watched it with Bianca de Rio. There's a whole Pit Stop where I watched this sitting there next to her. Um, but, yeah, I think it is interesting that I. I think there's two. There is twofold. I think that. 1. Yes, a lot of people are, like, connecting to their culture as. As marginalized people. And I also feel like. Do you think there's a part that's like, they won't say anything if. Do you think that's a thing, bitch?
[08:06]
Bob the Drag Queen
I literally just said that. What do you mean? That's what I just said.
[08:09]
Monet X Change
No, that's what I'm saying. Like, do you. That's what I'm saying. Like, do you. You really think that's, like, a thing? By the way, they have been like, this is cultural, and it's ugly. I've seen that on Drag Race. They go, I love. They. They always start saying, I love that you're celebrating your culture?
[08:22]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, no, I, I 100%. I 100% think people feel like, oh, if I do a culture thing, it can, like, like, they won't read me as bad. It will soften a little bit even though they have. I def. Definitely think people. People go and do that. 100.
[08:34]
Monet X Change
But she looks absolutely stunning. This is not to take away from this because she looks absolutely beautiful. And I will say, I don't love this necklace, but I love this headpiece. Y' all know I love hair slicked back into a bun. That's my number. I haven't done it a long. I should go back to doing my little buns.
[08:47]
Bob the Drag Queen
I haven't done my in a while.
[08:49]
Monet X Change
I haven't done this. I did that. My last bun was at Mr. Event with me and when I was wearing that blue.
[08:52]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, yeah, yeah, that blue dress.
[08:54]
Monet X Change
That's the last time I did one.
[08:56]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, I remember that.
[08:58]
Monet X Change
Let's go on. So up next, we have the one and only Lil Miss Fall down herself.
[09:07]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, my God. I like this. I thought this was a cool look. It's like, I like this a lot. I like having the mask in front of her. That was her makeup and her glam. I thought Briar looked great. This is a really great look for her.
[09:20]
Monet X Change
Did her hip pads grow?
[09:23]
Darlene
She.
[09:23]
Bob the Drag Queen
She definitely, like, double padded. Like her hips, bitch. Those are. Those are childbearing hips on this bitch, right?
[09:30]
Monet X Change
Like, like, yeah, I feel like something like. I feel like her padding during. During the competition was really, like, on point and, like, so proportioned, but now it just. It's like it grew. She got new pads. And I don't know if you guys know when you get. When you get new pads, they kind of like your old pads have, like, you don't realize it until. Until you, like, get new. And they have squished down so much over time, your dimensions start changing. And then you wash them and put them in the dryer, which by the. Put your pads in the dryer. Let them. It will. They. They. Mine have torn in the dryer, so I have to let mine air wash for, like, days at a time. But now I don't wash them anymore. Now I just spray them with alcohol and tea tree oil.
[10:08]
Bob the Drag Queen
Tea tree Oil them damn pads in the washer.
[10:11]
Monet X Change
No, if you. If you spray them, spraying them with alcohol, the cleans it. It's like a d. What do you call it? It's a sanitizer. Alcohol is a sanitizer.
[10:21]
Bob the Drag Queen
You don't even sweat that much. Why do you have to wash them that much anyway.
[10:24]
Monet X Change
Spraying them and keep them. I'm just sanitizing. I mean, I'm just. I just take them out and I just spray them when I'm done. When I'm done with my show.
[10:30]
Jacob
You know,
[10:33]
Bob the Drag Queen
Johnny Sex yelled or said the fall doll. The fall doll is wild.
[10:38]
Monet X Change
Her favorite season's coming up is Yo Lover is Fall. She looks good, though. Let's go over to the. To the next queen. Oh, just so you're watching this right now, I want you guys to know that you can. If you want to watch live with us, you can join us on our patreon at the top tier, and we allow our cool aunts and stepdads to watch the review with us of each episode of Watchery. And maybe. Maybe we'll do some extra ones in the future too. You never know. You said.
[11:09]
Jacob
Did you say hate?
[11:09]
Monet X Change
Is that what you said?
[11:10]
Jacob
Hate?
[11:11]
Bob the Drag Queen
No, I love this. I thought Ciara missed killed this. I thought it was really good. So I thought it was a nod to the Chimera because it's the Chimera here. The Alexander King Chimera. But Jada Fay was like, no, it's from. It's she Ra or some. Or something from. From Conan the Barbarian or some sorceress.
[11:32]
Darlene
No, sorceress from he Man.
[11:33]
Bob the Drag Queen
He's a. But it's a sorceress from. I think it's a mix between the sorceress from He man and the Chimera from McQueen.
[11:40]
Jacob
Oh, this is also Mystique's Met Gala.
[11:43]
Monet X Change
Look, I thought Chimera was Mugler.
[11:46]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, Mugler. Sorry, Mugler. Sorry.
[11:47]
Jacob
Sorry.
[11:48]
Bob the Drag Queen
You're right. Wait, Mystique, like the X Men?
[11:50]
Jacob
Sorry, it's not the Met Gal. X Men has something called the Hellfire Gala, which is the X Men equivalent of the Metagala.
[11:55]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah.
[11:56]
Jacob
And it's what Mystique wears to the. The Hellfire Gala.
[12:01]
Darlene
It's similar. It's. It's similar. Yeah.
[12:05]
Monet X Change
I think she looks really nice. This is a beautiful garment. I wonder if she made it herself. Oh, yeah, it does look like that.
[12:10]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, we'll check that.
[12:12]
Monet X Change
Yeah, I think she looks really, really nice. And I love this, like, royal blue and white color. I mean, I wear this blue a lot. I was wearing it with yellow for a long. I was really into my blue and my, like, royal blue yellow era for a hot second. This is Mr. Blue. It is very much Mr. Blue. Is this not sponsored?
[12:33]
Bob the Drag Queen
No, she's not sponsored. I don't know. Can I tell you, I was surprised you haven't seen that. A company sponsor, girlfriend. Mr. Mister. The people that Mister. Y' all niggas got money to spend. If y' all want some advertising, y' all pick. Find out which Queen mixes today. Well, I guess you can't. You don't know that. But sponsor a girl's package, their entire package has to be Mr. Blue from beginning to end. It will cause a scene, it will cause a stir. It'll be great marketing for them advertising.
[12:58]
Monet X Change
Maybe the sun sponsored Tina Burner. That's why she was wearing all those colors that one season. I don't know. The son probably got a lot of money. Crayton says, I just hate her lips. I'm sorry. To be honest, they're growing on me. They're growing on me.
[13:09]
Bob the Drag Queen
I said this from the beginning. I hated these lips. If she just had regular fucking lips, this would have been a 10 out of 10. The lips bring it to a fucking nine for me. Like, just do regular lips. We've seen them. Like this time. Do a fucking regular lip, girl. But I love Ciara's drag. I think she's very creative. I think her drag always looks expensive, and I think she looks great. But this fucking lip. I hate this. I hate. To quote Nick.
[13:28]
Jacob
Oh, God.
[13:29]
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, to quote she, what shall not be named. I hate, hate, hate this lip makeup.
[13:34]
Monet X Change
Are you wearing nails? I took my nails off.
[13:36]
Bob the Drag Queen
I am. I kept mine on, girl. I was fighting. I was like, time. He's like, no, keep them on. I was like, ugh.
[13:41]
Darlene
What?
[13:41]
Bob the Drag Queen
I was like, bob's gonna keep his on. And then I'm gonna feel bad. But look, look. You didn't.
[13:45]
Monet X Change
No, I took my eyes off. Let's go with our next girly pop. Up next, we have the one Vita Von T's star.
[13:56]
Bob the Drag Queen
When she turned that corner and those stage lights hit her, I literally gasped in my thing. I was like, this is the best she's ever looked. I think this outfit and dress and this headpiece was stunning on Vita Von Teese. I'm obsessed. I want this. This was amazing to me.
[14:12]
Monet X Change
Yeah, she looks absolutely stunning. I mean, I'm so mad that now I can't do this look. Cause it'd just be stealing. Like, she looks so, so, so good. I genuinely love these gigantic, gigantic rhinestones.
[14:27]
Bob the Drag Queen
These huge.
[14:28]
Monet X Change
A lot of people just go for the small ones. And I think that it's really nice that she went for these big ones. They are so metrically placed. Her makeup looks stunning. I feel like she's wearing the. I will say this. I can't do the, the face mask thing. My face is too big. Like my face is like spilling out of it. Like, I don't, I don't have a enough face to not have my face look like it's protruding from the mask. But this looks really good on her. This is absolutely stunning. This is the best look of the entire season, actually.
[15:00]
Bob the Drag Queen
I agree. I love it so much. The only thing I would do is. I don't know what this, this, this, this, this some tacky southerner shit. Why she wanted a white cape. The cape should have been black.
[15:09]
Monet X Change
Someone said. Can we acknowledge this is a copy of Beyonce on the magazine cover? What magazine cover? Can you look that up, Jacob?
[15:14]
Bob the Drag Queen
I mean, no, this is Bianca. Beyonce did something similar for her tour. But I mean, and I have a
[15:20]
Monet X Change
sneaking suspicion Beyonce saw it. Whoever Beyonce's designer was saw it somewhere. Cause I would say right now, in my opinion, queens can steal from the pop stars. Cause the pop stars have been stealing from the queens maybe since day one, baby. These pop stars been up in these nightclubs mopping our looks, mopping our numbers, mopping our everything. So, you know what? If a queen wants to borrow just a smidge from a pop star, it's just recycling back. It's like water going. It's like water raining up and then, you know, evaporating up and then raining down, you know.
[15:50]
Bob the Drag Queen
And what is that, what is that process called?
[15:52]
Monet X Change
Evaporation? Precipitation. You have any algunas?
[15:56]
Bob the Drag Queen
But no. What's the, what's that, what's that entire process called? Rain, fall, evaporation. Then what was that called?
[16:03]
Monet X Change
What is it called?
[16:04]
Bob the Drag Queen
I forgot to. I don't know, but I know it's called something. What is it called?
[16:09]
Jacob
The water cycle.
[16:11]
Bob the Drag Queen
No, it's. There's a word for it. It's like a one word for it. It's like. It's a long word. It's called mythosophilization or some shit.
[16:19]
Monet X Change
I don't know. But she looks stunning. This is the best look of the entire season, quite frankly.
[16:25]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, I love this. This was. This took my breath away. I get. Especially when she. Even when she took the cape off. You know what it is? The stage lights make it look even more impressive. It looks like a thousand cameras are just shuddering at her. She looks incredible.
[16:37]
Monet X Change
And did Beyonce wear this big hat like the Beyonce.
[16:41]
Bob the Drag Queen
No. Jacob, can you pull up the picture from Bianca Beyonce on Renaissance? Big diamond look. Hers was a halter, though. It was just a column gown halter. It wasn't sleeves or headpiece or cowl.
[16:55]
Monet X Change
Gotta Say to all the swifties in Beyhive, y' all have to calm down. You are making people annoyed at your favorite pop star every. You have. Yeah, I'll say. Calm down. Calm down.
[17:13]
Jacob
This is. This is what I found really quickly. And. But you can kind of see.
[17:18]
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay, yeah, that is. That is a Beyonce. That is a Beyonce. That's the same thing.
[17:26]
Monet X Change
That's the same thing.
[17:31]
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay. I thought it's the one from the Renaissance store, anyway, but that's beside the point. Let's go on to Mia.
[17:38]
Monet X Change
This is a mess.
[17:40]
Darlene
Mia.
[17:41]
Monet X Change
Mess.
[17:41]
Jacob
Exactly.
[17:42]
Bob the Drag Queen
This is wild.
[17:43]
Monet X Change
I don't understand what is happening. I don't know what you think.
[17:50]
Bob the Drag Queen
She's like a starry night.
[17:54]
Monet X Change
What you. A starry night one time was that.
[17:58]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, yeah. The light of Runway. Oh, you remembered.
[18:03]
Monet X Change
Yeah, I remember a lot of things you do. Her makeup looks really pretty, though. I do like her makeup and her eye makeup. I do think her hair should be a little bit bigger. Like, if you're gonna call yourself the big bag, well have big hair too. You know what I mean?
[18:16]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, I. I didn't love this. It looks a bit hodgepodgey. Like, the two mixing. The mixing. I think this velvet with the sp. Spandex arms and the sequin, like, skirt part, it was just too many mixing, too many materials. And then having this, like, starry, strappy shoulder to hide the breastplate. I know why she did this or why. To hide the breastplate and then this, like, sash moment. It was just a lot. It was. It was. It was. It was a lot of ideas here.
[18:47]
Jacob
Yeah.
[18:47]
Monet X Change
I don't love this one. We can move on.
[18:48]
Bob the Drag Queen
The boobs do look good. I agree. The chest. The titty plate does look good.
[18:51]
Monet X Change
Yeah. But quite nicely.
[18:53]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, but everything else is, like, we
[18:56]
Monet X Change
can move on to the next one. We now have Athena Dion.
[19:00]
Jacob
Love.
[19:00]
Monet X Change
What's that? What is this her? What's up with her hairline?
[19:05]
Bob the Drag Queen
I mean, what do you mean, what's up with it?
[19:06]
Monet X Change
She's so far forward. Is that. That's not her real hair. It's so far forward.
[19:11]
Bob the Drag Queen
No, but she's wearing a wig.
[19:12]
Monet X Change
No, like, on the sides, it's like. It's, like, all the way.
[19:16]
Bob the Drag Queen
I think the wig is just too long. She could have. She could have stand up by pulling it back a little bit. But overall, that being said, I do like this look. I like this. This hair was long. Went down to, like, past her butt. It was a big old long wig. And I think for the finale, I think she showed. I think she looks Nice.
[19:34]
Monet X Change
Yeah. This is. This is a totally fine look. I'm not. I'm not upset by anything. The more I look at her makeup, I'm like, this is. Her makeup is kind of wild.
[19:42]
Bob the Drag Queen
I've said this from weeks, weeks and weeks and weeks. The bottom. The bottom wing is so crazy.
[19:49]
Monet X Change
Like, I think what's happening is, like, it's not following. Like, it's not following a trajectory like the. I don't know. I don't know. It's. It's. It's wild.
[19:59]
Bob the Drag Queen
You see, Morphine painted her. She looked. Morphine painted her. She looked beautiful.
[20:03]
Monet X Change
Morphine. You call her Morphine?
[20:08]
Bob the Drag Queen
No, Morphine painted her.
[20:09]
Monet X Change
I love. You call her Morphine. Morphine.
[20:12]
Bob the Drag Queen
Morphine. Yeah.
[20:14]
Monet X Change
She's Morphine.
[20:15]
Bob the Drag Queen
It's not morphine. It's Morphine.
[20:18]
Monet X Change
Her name is Morphine.
[20:20]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yes. Yeah.
[20:21]
Monet X Change
I don't know if that's.
[20:22]
Jacob
No, that's 100% true. I'm not doing a bit.
[20:27]
Bob the Drag Queen
Morphine Love Dion.
[20:28]
Monet X Change
I like that name a lot less now. Is it spelled differently?
[20:32]
Jacob
No.
[20:33]
Monet X Change
Than the word morphine?
[20:34]
Jacob
No, it's spelled.
[20:36]
Monet X Change
It's just spelled like the regular word. Morphine. Yeah, but she pronounces it Morphine.
[20:42]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. Morphine Love Dion.
[20:44]
Monet X Change
I don't believe y' all now. I don't believe you. Ain't. No. I don't believe you now. It was spelled, like, differently, and then I would have listened to you, but now that y' all are saying it's like this. No, I don't believe you anymore.
[20:57]
Bob the Drag Queen
Jay just said it, too. So Jay lying, too?
[20:59]
Darlene
No, I'm on Team Bob.
[21:01]
Monet X Change
I don't believe y'. All.
[21:04]
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay.
[21:04]
Monet X Change
I think she said, my name is Morphine Diavol. Morphine Love Dion.
[21:09]
Jacob
She absolutely does Morphine like the drug.
[21:12]
Monet X Change
No, it's morphine, not morphine.
[21:15]
Jacob
Oh, that's a surprise. Okay, I would say. I'd say morphine.
[21:20]
Monet X Change
Yeah, you and I are both saying morphine. Monet is saying morphine.
[21:25]
Jacob
Okay.
[21:25]
Bob the Drag Queen
I said morphine.
[21:27]
Jacob
Yes.
[21:27]
Monet X Change
And I'm saying morphine. You don't hear the difference? You're emphasizing Feene. I'm emphasizing more. It's morphine.
[21:36]
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay.
[21:37]
Monet X Change
Thank you, Grace. Put it morphine. You're saying morphine. Does anyone hear the difference what I'm saying? Someone said.
[21:45]
Bob the Drag Queen
I really don't hear it. And I. Maybe I'm just tired. Just late.
[21:48]
Jacob
You're on the song 11, girl.
[21:50]
Darlene
You're adding a syllable, Morphine.
[21:52]
Monet X Change
She's not adding a syllable. She's just emphasizing. She put the wrong emphasis on the wrong syllable. Morphine. Versus morphine.
[22:00]
Bob the Drag Queen
Morphine. Morphine.
[22:02]
Jacob
Okay, but you also say morphine love Diond.
[22:05]
Bob the Drag Queen
Exactly.
[22:06]
Monet X Change
No, I say morphine love Dion, not morphine love Dion.
[22:10]
Jacob
Morphine love Dion.
[22:11]
Bob the Drag Queen
Stop mopping your wig like that.
[22:17]
Monet X Change
Clear it up. Yeah, Grace. Haters say, clear it up, Bob. Clear it all the way up.
[22:21]
Bob the Drag Queen
Can we move on from this? Damn.
[22:24]
Monet X Change
Can we move on? Can. I Can't even do it.
[22:26]
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay,
[22:35]
Monet X Change
This is Wakanda for never. What?
[22:46]
Bob the Drag Queen
The girl. It was too. And I love Kenya. I love Kenya. She is. She's releasing like a. This was too. I don't know what. My eyes don't know where to even settle on this outfit.
[22:59]
Monet X Change
I am so. Dora Milaje walked through the. Dude, through the jewelry store, got caught on some shit. This is Mama. This is garbage.
[23:11]
Bob the Drag Queen
This is garbage bad.
[23:13]
Monet X Change
I don't know what's happening.
[23:15]
Bob the Drag Queen
I can't tell you what's happening, girl. I cannot tell you. I am lost. I need a map to look in this look. I need somebody to give me a map.
[23:23]
Darlene
Sierra Mist helped design this?
[23:25]
Monet X Change
Yes. Sierra Mist did her dirty. Honey.
[23:27]
Darlene
No, but the sketch is way better than whatever.
[23:31]
Monet X Change
Well, maybe we can see this. Maybe this is it. Did not come through. Someone's. Emmett Fred. Emmett Fry said. Remember when y' all said Kenya was gonna win?
[23:44]
Bob the Drag Queen
Girl, she couldn't even walk in this. She was walking so trepidatiously. She was, like, boot scooting, like, a centimeter at a time because she. Her brain can't even. Her brain is still processing this look. This hair is crazy.
[23:57]
Monet X Change
Someone said Kenya tried to make it cultural so she wouldn't be red. Bitch, put some lines on my arm. I don't know what they mean. Bitch, put some lines in my arm. This shit ugly as hell. Bitch.
[24:15]
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, you know, so I thought that this was filmed. I thought it was, like, all. I don't know why. I think everything's like All Stars 10. Well, that's how the finales used to happen. For all you new drag racers who have been watching for the past two seasons, they now they do this, the finale, like, during the regular season before. From seasons. Well, seasons eight or seven or. No, seasons four to current to 14. They did them years later. Years later.
[24:44]
Jacob
15 is the last one they did.
[24:46]
Bob the Drag Queen
Live. Jesus. The seasons four through 15, they did the finale, like, months after. So the girls had time to work, get some more money, see themselves on tv and then come back. But these girls are doing this finale as the season is like, as they take the original season. So that's why we're not seeing so Much growth sometimes in these finale looks.
[25:08]
Monet X Change
Someone said, the chains literally give me anxiety now. This is wild. This is really wild. Someone said, did you notice? Someone said, did y' all notice she had a ch. A choker on underneath all them gold chains? There's a lot going on. This is. There ain't no way this bitch getting through airport security.
[25:27]
Bob the Drag Queen
Let's go on to the next look.
[25:31]
Monet X Change
All right, now we have Discord Adams. I love this look. She looks absolutely amazing to me.
[25:37]
Bob the Drag Queen
This safety pin capelet cape is really cool.
[25:40]
Monet X Change
It can be a little longer. The cape could have touched the ground. But I mean, when it's all covered in safety pins, I can see you. I can see someone being like, I'm done.
[25:48]
Bob the Drag Queen
And she should have. I don't know why this bitch refuses to put a corset on to snatch her waist. Like, good for her. But, oh, she does have a corset on. Go tighter, bitch. Why are you straight up and down? Why are you just a pole?
[25:59]
Monet X Change
Because she doesn't wear pads. Some of the girl. You can't tell the skinny girls. You can't tell them nothing.
[26:03]
Bob the Drag Queen
Skinny girls hate to see a pad coming. But I do like this outfit. I love her hair. I think her hair is really cool. And I think Detox. I think Discord is one of my favorite queens this season. I love her attitude, her energy and everything, but bitch, put on a pad or get a title corset. One of the two.
[26:18]
Monet X Change
This looks like something Lady Gaga would actually wear. Someone say Lady Gaga. It is giving very much. Lady Gaga.
[26:23]
Bob the Drag Queen
I can see that.
[26:23]
Monet X Change
I will say, too. This is why you guys, you can't believe everything you read on Reddit. Y' all remember when she called RuPaul a nigger and. And then. And then flipped the table and then held Hitler and then drew a swastik on the wall and then said Trump 2026. Like, y' all can't believe everything you see on the Internet, y'.
[26:40]
Jacob
All.
[26:41]
Bob the Drag Queen
You know, apparently there's a. There's a maga Queen on season 19 right now.
[26:45]
Monet X Change
Is there?
[26:47]
Bob the Drag Queen
Right? Allegedly.
[26:49]
Jacob
I don't who I. I. That's the rumor, but we don't know
[26:52]
Bob the Drag Queen
how true it is.
[26:53]
Monet X Change
All right, let's go to our next contest or our next queen. We have Jane. Don't.
[26:59]
Bob the Drag Queen
I love this. I love everything about this. Besides that fucking dragonfly hanging from her nose in her face that. I hated that. Everything else was flawless. I love this dress. The thing of the red at the bottom. We're mixing her red hair.
[27:13]
Monet X Change
This.
[27:13]
Bob the Drag Queen
I love everything that fucking dragon in her mouth was driving me crazy. Did you like that?
[27:17]
Monet X Change
I agree. I agree with you. A red wig and a gold dress. I do think I actually really like this look. But, like, why a giant septum ring covering your mouth?
[27:26]
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't know.
[27:28]
Monet X Change
Like, what's. What's. What's happening?
[27:34]
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't know. I do not know. But I hate.
[27:37]
Monet X Change
I hate Silence of the Lambs reference. Johnny Sexy Elder says it is a Silence of the Lambs reference.
[27:44]
Bob the Drag Queen
I guess I get. But why? Why. Why Silence of the Lambs?
[27:49]
Monet X Change
I don't. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. That's her favorite movie. I don't. I don't know. I mean, maybe it's not. Maybe the person just saying that. I don't love it, though I will say this one. On the COVID of Samson, there's a moth over someone's mouth.
[28:02]
Bob the Drag Queen
A moth. Yeah, I know.
[28:04]
Monet X Change
Maybe she killed someone.
[28:07]
Bob the Drag Queen
Maybe.
[28:08]
Monet X Change
Maybe she said she killed the season and wore its skin. I don't know.
[28:12]
Bob the Drag Queen
I mean, if she wore this, then it should have been like a skin gown, but I don't think that can't be the reference. Yeah, I loved everything about this. I think Jane has given us flawless drag the entire season. So I'm not shocked by this. I just hate that fucking dragonfly in her mouth.
[28:23]
Monet X Change
Yeah, I agree. We can move on.
[28:25]
Bob the Drag Queen
This is a finale. What part of the understanding. Take that thing off your mouth.
[28:29]
Monet X Change
This is. This Jane. This is finale. We need to see your mouth. She looks like, hey, Hei. Hey. From Moana.
[28:44]
Bob the Drag Queen
You know, I like this at first. Now, I don't know if I like this headpiece thing. I wish I like the gown from, like, the neck down, but I do not like this headpiece. Like, bitch, put on a fucking wig.
[28:56]
Monet X Change
You know, the thing about her headpieces is at first you like them, but you remember, like, her clown headpiece, the longer you. The first look, you're like. Like, ooh, the one that looked like, like, balding clown hair.
[29:06]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, yeah.
[29:08]
Monet X Change
Like, at first you're like, ooh, it's cute. But then the more you keep looking at, you be like, bitch, what you got on your head?
[29:13]
Bob the Drag Queen
Like, yeah, put a fucking wig on.
[29:18]
Monet X Change
I don't think I'm into dresses that are completely covered in feathers. I think I made my mind up now that I'm. I'm kind of over this. This actually is a. It seems like a nod to McQueen. And I'm over the McQueen. Birds of prey knockoffs. I. I don't. I'M not into. You know, I don't. I'm not. I'm not into knockoffs on. In drag in general.
[29:42]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah.
[29:43]
Monet X Change
Like, I don't think. I just don't think. I don't think it's great. Um, so I don't know. But I mean, she. I will say this is the most beautiful. Her face has looked all. She looks so stunning, though. So, so stunning.
[29:53]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, I think it's. I think it's been more impressive if it went. You can do this blue, this navy and white feather at the bottom and then went from the mermaid. It starts to come into something else that is not feathers. That would have been nice to have feathers, but giving us another material like a velvet or suede or something to come up into this, into the bodice of the gown. But I agree. The full feather thing, we've seen this so many times on Drag Race, and I think it's time to move on.
[30:19]
Jacob
Yeah.
[30:20]
Monet X Change
I mean, I might. Kimchi wore one on my season during the. During the IRA worn in All Star 7, the Realzim's music video. And it is that McQueen Birds of Prey thing. But anyway. But she does. But I do think she looks good, though. I'm just. I'm just a little over this aesthetic.
[30:38]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. Wait, so someone said, Bob, is your view of Vita's look different now that, you know it's a. It's a recreation?
[30:44]
Monet X Change
No, it's a little different. I'm talking about, like, specifically iconic fashion designer recreations. Right. Like when someone's doing, like, it's a McQueen Blank. It's. It's a Mugler blank. It's, you know, Mugler blank. And I think that. I do think knowing that vitus is a recreation, it kind of takes a little bit out of the specialness for me, to be honest. But, yeah, I'm just not super into the. I'm not super into the recreations. But when it's, like, inspired, like, I thought that Vita was, like, inspired by Beyonce, that I didn't see the exact recreations until I saw it. And I was like, oh, no, that's a direct knockoff.
[31:25]
Bob the Drag Queen
You know, mama, that's a recreation.
[31:29]
Jacob
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[31:58]
Bob the Drag Queen
close your eyes.
[32:00]
Jacob
Exhale.
[32:01]
Bob the Drag Queen
Feel your body relax, and let go of whatever you're carrying today.
[32:06]
Monet X Change
Well, I'm letting go of the worry that I wouldn't get my new contacts in time for this class. I got them delivered free from 1-800-contacts. Oh, my gosh. They're so fast.
[32:14]
Bob the Drag Queen
And breathe.
[32:15]
Monet X Change
Oh, sorry. I almost couldn't breathe when I saw the discount they gave me on my first order. Oh, sorry. Namaste.
[32:23]
Bob the Drag Queen
Visit 1-800-contacts.com today to save on your first order.
[32:26]
Monet X Change
1-800-contacts.
[32:28]
Bob the Drag Queen
Let's go on to our top three.
[32:32]
Monet X Change
She's trolling, right?
[32:35]
Bob the Drag Queen
You. You go. Cause I don't have nothing good to say.
[32:38]
Monet X Change
I think Darlene has now reached a point where she's like, I have to intentionally dress ridiculous because it's what they expect of me. She has the Puerto Rican flag on her bottom. She has feathers coming out of the stars. She has checkers on her pen. She has multicolored tie dye flower power on her skirt. She's wearing a green wig. She's wearing leopard print gloves with beaded fringe and a giant green bow in the back. Like, part of me is like, there will come a point where people are gonna stop letting you play in their faces.
[33:23]
Bob the Drag Queen
Y' all let this girl. Here's my problem. Y' all let this bitch come on this show all season long and put a batter in her back, acting like she deserves to be in this top three. And when she shows up here looking like the clown that she is, y' all can't be mad because everyone, the entire season was like, yes, Darlene, we love it. She had the most Twitter, likes the most Instagram, likes the most Facebook, everything. So y'.
[33:43]
Monet X Change
All.
[33:43]
Bob the Drag Queen
Y' all emboldened. This kind of behavior, showing up in a finale wearing this is crazy to me. I don't care if it's your brand. To me, you can be kooky, crazy, funny, kooky, whatever, and not come up here looking like a literal joke. I hate this.
[33:56]
Monet X Change
She's had actual fashion moments on the show.
[33:59]
Bob the Drag Queen
Exactly. Great ones.
[34:00]
Monet X Change
I genuinely think that this. I really. I really, really feel like she's playing in our faces. She's like. She's like, oh, you want kooky, baby? You're gonna get it.
[34:13]
Bob the Drag Queen
Like, is she like, it'll be one thing if she really was, like, a clown queen. Like, if that, like, her whole brand was like, I'm a clown, that would be one thing. But she's not a clown. She's like. She went from, like, I like mall. Is this mall drag? If you were the mall queen, come up, show up like, Willow pill angle for the finale. That's mall drag. This is not mall drag. This is fucking. This is a clown show. But you're not a clown.
[34:35]
Monet X Change
I think even if she did was a clowny queen, this still wouldn't be a good look. Like, by no metric is this in my opinion.
[34:46]
Bob the Drag Queen
I think this is absurd. Like, clown, clown. If she said I wasn't a clown,
[34:50]
Monet X Change
but it still wouldn't be a good look. That's what I'm saying. Like, we've seen queens do clowny and look fantastic. This is, in my opinion, not a great look. It feels like she's being odd for the sake of being like. I don't think she genuinely likes this. Maybe she does, right? I don't know, Darlene, but I can't imagine Darlene saw. This one's, like, gathered. I want it.
[35:12]
Bob the Drag Queen
Kudos for sharing. Said not too much on. Darlene is just tacky girl. That's her thing now.
[35:17]
Monet X Change
I don't like it. I said what I said. Kudos to sharing.
[35:21]
Bob the Drag Queen
This is so fucking hideous. I'm so mad I even had to look at this in the finale. I don't care. And you know. You know what? Let me not even get into that. That's a whole nother conversation.
[35:28]
Monet X Change
Yeah. Someone pointed out Jimbo. Jimbo does clown drag, and it's really well done. Think about Jimbo and in some of her beautiful, gorgeous clown looks, and they're really. James. Stunning. This. This look is crazy. This is. This is crazy. It is. Guys, it's bad. Like, it's bad. You cannot. Don't. Don't drink the Kool Aid, y'. All. This is a bad look. Come on. Let's. Let's. Let's think critically here. This is bad. But also, you can't get mad if her intention is to be bad. She nailed it. Like I said, with that one outfit Ginger means wore. She said it was supposed to be ugly. Then why you mad, bitch? You said it was supposed to be ugly. You nailed it.
[36:09]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. And you know what?
[36:10]
Monet X Change
You're the winner of this week's challenge. You wanted to wear something ugly. And bitch, this shit is ugly as fuck.
[36:18]
Bob the Drag Queen
This is so fucking hideous. I can't. What? I haven't watched the pits off yet. What did y' all say? What did Bianca send to pits off?
[36:25]
Monet X Change
She didn't like it.
[36:27]
Bob the Drag Queen
She's a clown.
[36:29]
Monet X Change
Someone said this is the ultimate form of the judges. Rewarding and admiring. Stupid. You're so stupid. I've learned RuPaul's ultimate compliment is you were born to do drag. And Michelle's ultimate compliment is you're just so stupid. You're a fucking dumb piece of shit. I learned about you. You're a fucking real piece of shit. A stupid dumbass. Almost dumb as that one guy's mom. You're so.
[37:00]
Bob the Drag Queen
Can I tell you something about this is probably that drives you crazy? I don't know. I don't know why it's on par with people who, like, Bob is reading comments. He said, somebody said, nigga, say the person's name.
[37:12]
Monet X Change
No, but the names are like, xy, Pip, pop. Like, some of the names are, like, not easy to read. So when the name is kind of like, I'll read like, kudos for sharing. I'll read like Johnny Tsunami, but. But sometimes the name is like, danger. What is that? Dang. Dang. Dangy or Dan George. Dan. Is it Dan George Art? While I was scrolling, I can't.
[37:36]
Bob the Drag Queen
Dan George Art.
[37:38]
Monet X Change
Yeah, it took me a while because it's like the words are blending together. So once the words are just kind of blending together, I'm like, it's too. I can't. Like, I'm just gonna say somebody like,
[37:46]
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, I don't know, but somebody. Friend has said, not the callback.
[37:51]
Monet X Change
What if I say one of our patrons said. Maybe better if I say one of our patrons.
[37:55]
Bob the Drag Queen
That's a little,
[37:57]
Monet X Change
um. Let's go on to Mikey Meeks. I genuinely love this look. I think she looks great. I love what's happening with these waves on her head. I love the shape of this skirt rising above her hips. I love this, like, high leotard. I think she looks really good. You don't like it?
[38:16]
Bob the Drag Queen
I like this. Something about this sequin is very cheap looking to me. That's the only thing. Like, I feel like I wish we'd have went with a different sequin fabric. Yeah. I think you can see it separating, like, how it's laid on the fabric so that, like, that's taking me out. I do love her hair and her makeup, and I love these hoops and these things coming out of her. I think that looks really good, but I think the fabric was a little cheapy. Cheap. But other than that, I like the
[38:42]
Monet X Change
silhouette of this Grace Henderson 3164 promo, but in a good way. Since y' all want me to read the whole fucking.
[38:51]
Bob the Drag Queen
How is this. Her promo was stars. How is this her Promo.
[38:56]
Monet X Change
I don't remember her promo.
[38:57]
Darlene
So it wasn't. It was like, the shape of it.
[39:01]
Bob the Drag Queen
Her promo was this shape.
[39:02]
Darlene
No. Yeah. It was very similar. Like, the. The body's part, the skirt, like corn husks or some shit.
[39:10]
Monet X Change
It's like one Pokemon just kept evolving.
[39:13]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, yeah, it is promo.
[39:15]
Darlene
Yeah.
[39:15]
Bob the Drag Queen
Beyonce promo. I was thinking entrance look. I was like, wait, what? Got it.
[39:20]
Monet X Change
All right, let's move on to our final queen, who is Ni.
[39:23]
Bob the Drag Queen
Ni Coco Lanithia Coco.
[39:27]
Monet X Change
And I do not like this look. I. It right. It looks like she was pulling her skirt up and was about to put on the top part, and then someone's like, bitch, we have to go now. And she's like, oh, shit. Is she wearing out? Like, I can tell that this skirt is technically well made, but, like, why? Why would you make it, though?
[39:46]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, I don't love the skirt, and I'm sorry, y'.
[39:50]
Darlene
All.
[39:51]
Bob the Drag Queen
This is a journey I've gone on. I hate, hate ab stones and drag. I hate ab stones. Drag. This ab stone in her hair looks so cheapy cheap to me. If she'd have used crystal stones, I like that better if y' all know ab stones are aurora borealis. Every stone has a color. You do crystal, and they have crystal. Ab. Siam. Siam ab is like, a different finish to it, and I hate that color. It doesn't look good. It looks cheap. And I. I do not like this look. I don't like the shape of the hair. The hair is cool, but the stones in it looks bad because the absolute.
[40:22]
Monet X Change
I don't mind ab stones, but I just don't know why she. Like, this skirt is many colors, and she chose the ugliest version of every color. Like, the weirdest red, the weirdest green, the weirdest maroon. Like, the.
[40:32]
Bob the Drag Queen
Like, they're all just all muted. They're all muted. She should have went with more vibrant colors.
[40:36]
Monet X Change
Someone says giving. Someone, sorry, Narwhal by nature said it's giving fashion school final project.
[40:45]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, it looks like it's being artsy and creative. Like, trying to be artsy and creative and just. Girl, just do your thing.
[40:51]
Monet X Change
Maybe I'm too old school, but, like, can we just. I'm showing my age. Can we just, like, wear some, like, regular wigs?
[41:00]
Bob the Drag Queen
I knew you were going to say that. I knew you were going to say that.
[41:03]
Monet X Change
Like, does every wig need to be a pool noodle twisted up into different shapes?
[41:09]
Bob the Drag Queen
I knew that, like, every wig. I knew you were going to say that.
[41:12]
Monet X Change
Little wrapped in hair.
[41:15]
Bob the Drag Queen
I do think the gloves are Cool. Or the. The. The gauntlets or hand garters.
[41:21]
Monet X Change
Johnny Elder said she's competing with Darlene, and. Oh, Darlene still won that one. I. I assure you, this is not.
[41:28]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, y. This is not as. As ugly as Darlene's look.
[41:32]
Monet X Change
Someone said this dress. I. You guys know, this dress was a gift for me from. To Bianca del Rio. She gave it to me on the Pit Stop recently.
[41:38]
Jacob
Work.
[41:39]
Monet X Change
Yeah, it's a cute little caftan that she bought, and I thought it was so cute.
[41:44]
Bob the Drag Queen
And the rhinestones and wig story.
[41:47]
Monet X Change
Sorry, I'm not against that.
[41:48]
Bob the Drag Queen
We.
[41:49]
Monet X Change
Y', all, we need to call. Maybe we need to make our. I'm gonna make a list on YouTube. Bob's Drag Moratorium. And one of them will be rhinestones and wigs. We have to stop putting out the moratorium on rhinestones and wigs. We've seen it. I think. I think I've had it. I think I've had it. Well, we already talked about this. I love RuPaul with the house of Avalon standing behind her.
[42:11]
Bob the Drag Queen
Honey, that's the house of Juicy Couture. RuPaul. RuPaul's still out. Dances for my tour.
[42:17]
Monet X Change
I would say. Say what y' all want about RuPaul. RuPaul is almost 70 years old. Up here in full dragoons, up in pumps, up in hair, up in a corset, filming 18 seasons of drag Race a year. You better work. She does three seasons of Drag Race every year. Three seasons every year. Two across the pond. What's the other one? Drag Race All Stars in Ukraine.
[42:47]
Jacob
UK All Stars.
[42:48]
Monet X Change
And then she did that Global All Stars. She did five one year.
[42:51]
Bob the Drag Queen
And she says. You didn't say UK versus the. UK versus the world.
[42:55]
Monet X Change
So she's doing, like six seasons of Drag Race a year.
[42:57]
Bob the Drag Queen
No.
[42:57]
Jacob
UK versus the World. That's what I meant. But yes.
[43:01]
Monet X Change
Let's see how you're doing at 65. Let's see if you. If you're. If you're. If you're keeping up like that while you Okaying. Yeah, that's easy to hit. That's easy to say in your mid to late 30s, but let's see how you're holding up at 60. Whatever RuPaul is.
[43:12]
Bob the Drag Queen
I will. Toots. I'm going to be killing it, toots.
[43:14]
Monet X Change
We'll check back in. Hey, guys. Check back in on April 19th in. I don't. Maybe do my 30. 30 years in 30 years.
[43:24]
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay, let's get into these performances before that, I want to remind you all that I am at the end of My Spring of the spring dates of my High Heels Bad News tour. I'm going to be at the Neptune Theater in Seattle and Revolution hall in Portland. Tickets are going really fast. We're almost sold out in, I think, Fortland, so make sure you get your ticket. And snagging me up to see me in my. I say Portland is one of my hometowns. I always do well in Portland. I love Portland. I can't wait to give you all this material.
[43:50]
Monet X Change
I also heard that Monet is going to have a special guest at her show in May in San Diego on the first show.
[43:55]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, yes, There's a special guest coming to my San Diego show.
[43:59]
Monet X Change
It's going to be really fucking fierce. You can all come see me as well. I will be. Let me look at my. I will be in May 12th. I'll be at the Omaha Funny Bone May 1st through 2nd. And then I'll be in Louisville, Kentucky. And then I'm going to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, San Antonio, Texas, and Charlotte, North Carolina, to finish up my spring days when I'm working out my new material. You can go to seethedragqueen.com to get your tickets. Let's go on to Darlene duane.
[44:31]
Bob the Drag Queen
Mine is monetexchange.com live.
[44:35]
Monet X Change
Let's go on to Cooking with. We should. Okay, can we quickly brainstorm what your live URL is? Monet X Live. Go to MonetXLive.com.
[44:47]
Bob the Drag Queen
why?
[44:48]
Monet X Change
MonetXChange.com live isn't as fun to type in as Monet XLive.com like, it's just talking about fun.
[44:56]
Bob the Drag Queen
Just go to the website.
[44:58]
Monet X Change
You know what?
[45:00]
Darlene
The shorter one's better.
[45:02]
Monet X Change
You know what? No. You know what she said?
[45:04]
Jacob
What?
[45:04]
Monet X Change
She said, this is our website. Monet's on a whole website journey. We just got the website working, so let's just say.
[45:09]
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, don't say, because now some. Some faggot out here is going to steal monetaxlive.com and I have to pay this bitch.
[45:15]
Monet X Change
You didn't even want it.
[45:16]
Bob the Drag Queen
And I gotta pay this bitch a thousand dollars for my website now. Thank you, Bob.
[45:20]
Monet X Change
You said you didn't even want it anyway.
[45:23]
Bob the Drag Queen
Let's go on to Darlene's first performance. What was the name of it? I didn't write down the name of it.
[45:27]
Monet X Change
Gas. It's on the screen.
[45:29]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, yeah. Cooking on the gas. Um, I like this, but it felt like it lacked energy. I'm like, girl, this is your swan song. This is your final moment on your season. You're in the Top three. And I just felt like it lacked energy. I wanted more energy. I wanted her to be big, bigger, bigger. I wanted it to feel like a final performance, and it just felt like just a regular bar number. I saw.
[45:52]
Monet X Change
Well, especially when she kept bragging, we have. Y' all haven't seen me lip sync all season. And this is what. This is what you had gave.
[45:59]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yo, they're gonna be. Cause you know these faggots fucking love this bitch. They're gonna. They're gonna be so mad at us.
[46:04]
Monet X Change
They'll be all right.
[46:05]
Bob the Drag Queen
Um, also, she looks like Valerie Cherish.
[46:11]
Monet X Change
What?
[46:12]
Bob the Drag Queen
When she was talking to RuPaul after her number, just talking to camera, she looked like Valerie Cherish.
[46:17]
Monet X Change
Like Lisa Kudrow.
[46:19]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yes. Maybe we all see that. Am I crazy?
[46:22]
Monet X Change
Maybe if I saw her with red hair, I could probably see it, but I don't see it. Cause, you know, Valley Tress has green hair. I really am. She reminds me of my old drag sister, Frosty Flakes. First of all, I can see that. Secondly, I will say I've always said, in my opinion, a reveal should be one of three things. It should be hilarious, it should be stunning, or it should be nude. And I don't think this reveal was either one of those things. Not funny. It's not nude, and it's not stunning. So don't buy nude. Yeah, like, you should be like. Like. Like one of those. Like, what's her name? The girl from New Jersey, Carmen Carrera.
[46:56]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, like you're revealing. Oh, got it, got it, got it, got it. Yeah, like.
[46:59]
Monet X Change
Like booty butt naked, but for stage. You know what I mean? Yeah. I didn't love this number. They were a girl. She was auto tuned within an inch of her.
[47:06]
Bob the Drag Queen
I know RuPaul was like, and these girls, they're singing live or. Or they're. Whatever he said. So, like, I was like. He acting like they're going to be. I'm sorry. Y' all would never. Y' all will never get. Get over me saying this. They need to bring back these fucking bitches. Like they did in season 10 where we sang our vocals live when Asia Persuasion. Not Asia Persuasion. What's her name? Asia Persuasion. That was a New York City drag queen. Asia o' Hara was like, snap out of it. Give these. Give us live motherfucking vocals, please.
[47:37]
Monet X Change
All right.
[47:38]
Bob the Drag Queen
Did you ever have to do yours live on the show?
[47:41]
Monet X Change
No. They did it on Bianca season, though, Right? Um, let's go on to our next queen. We have versatile from Mikey Meeks, the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 18. The latest inductee into the Drag Race Royal Court. And I think that. I think that this number. I like that she revealed to something quite opulent and sparkly. It's not overly sparkly, but it was that she needed to give a bald headed. That boa was bald headed as hell,
[48:10]
Bob the Drag Queen
because what was bald headed had this
[48:12]
Monet X Change
boa together and they were like, using. It was like a long, really skinny feather boa that I really couldn't stand looking at. But other than that, I think she did a really good job.
[48:20]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, the white one that they were using?
[48:22]
Monet X Change
Yeah.
[48:24]
Bob the Drag Queen
I mean, I wasn't bothered by that. Would you want to have a fucking 12 ply?
[48:28]
Monet X Change
No, I would. I would probably do one of those big tool boas that. That. That milk makes.
[48:33]
Bob the Drag Queen
That would be impossible, dude. Bob, they put it between their legs that were dancing and that would be. It'll be too cumbersome.
[48:38]
Monet X Change
No. Well, then change the choreography. I would rather look at you. Do something more interesting, like across your shoulders with a nice boa. Then, like, was the. Between the legs so iconic they couldn't fucking lose it? I don't know, like, was the whole number hinging on them, putting the boa between their legs. Do something else with a nicer boa.
[48:56]
Bob the Drag Queen
Well to say. Okay, look to the camera. Tell Jamal Sims that his choreography sucks. Then talk to him.
[49:01]
Monet X Change
Tell him that I didn't limp for this performance with that boa.
[49:05]
Bob the Drag Queen
Jamal's a. Do you know Jamal's a patron.
[49:07]
Monet X Change
You said you didn't like Darlene's performance, so what about that?
[49:10]
Bob the Drag Queen
I just didn't like Darlene's performance.
[49:13]
Monet X Change
Yeah, but you. You don't. You can lie to yourself and not to me. That being said, Meeks has a beautiful voice. I think she looks stunning. She is so pale here, though. She is looking like a vampire.
[49:24]
Bob the Drag Queen
Her tights are. Well, her tights are lighter than her bodices. You see that? Like, she went the opposite way. Darlinga wears darker tights. She wears lighter tights.
[49:32]
Monet X Change
But. Yeah, but I thought her voice. I mean, she has. She does have a beautiful singing voice. I think she's shown that already once on the season. She has a great singing voice and I think she looks really. I think she looked really good. I think she did pretty good, actually. I think she did well.
[49:45]
Bob the Drag Queen
I said. I said that Mikey had a great number. I love the wordplay. I thought the wordplay was very smart. I wonder how much input they had on the text when she said Broadway version or theater geek. I can make you come eight times a week. I thought that was very funny. Really good. And. And when she was talking to RuPaul saying that her baby picture was her college grad picture again, she's quick, And I think RuPaul likes that a lot. And her dad talks. Talking about when she was a kid, she used to watch Regis Philman and say and. And mimic him. I was like, nigga, you sound like Regis Phil. And you look like him, too.
[50:21]
Monet X Change
I think he looks like a Las Vegas magician with that. With that loud ass jacket.
[50:24]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, Regis Philbin.
[50:28]
Monet X Change
She is our Miranda Cosgrove, white queen. And she is the winner.
[50:32]
Bob the Drag Queen
Her parents have, like, a very thick. Like New York. Her parents. Her parents talk like this.
[50:38]
Monet X Change
Where's she from? I don't know.
[50:40]
Bob the Drag Queen
This bitch is from Florida.
[50:41]
Monet X Change
Well, you know, a lot of people move to Florida from New York. It's very common.
[50:45]
Bob the Drag Queen
Who is Miranda? Why do you keep on saying Miranda Cosgrove? Who is that?
[50:48]
Monet X Change
Miranda Cosgrove is from iCarlyn. She's a white woman who's Asian.
[50:53]
Bob the Drag Queen
She is a lead. She is.
[50:54]
Jacob
She is partially Latina.
[50:56]
Monet X Change
I don't know how much.
[50:57]
Jacob
It could just be a ginger mint part.
[51:00]
Monet X Change
Well, Latina's not a race. But she. But she. But she's not Asian.
[51:04]
Bob the Drag Queen
Jacob, don't get him going on.
[51:05]
Monet X Change
This is not a race. We need to. We need to talk about it. You can be Latino and be white. Alfredo, you can be Hispanic. You know, all Spanish people are Hispanic. Everyone from Spain, Hispanic.
[51:16]
Darlene
You know that, right?
[51:17]
Monet X Change
And they're white.
[51:19]
Bob the Drag Queen
That's everyone. For somebody is not white. Some of them are black.
[51:22]
Darlene
Technically, race isn't real either.
[51:25]
Monet X Change
All right, Jay, shut your white ass.
[51:26]
Jacob
Wake it up.
[51:32]
Monet X Change
Let's go on to Nini Coco, who did stimulate. This was my favorite number. I gotta tell you, people are online being like, I said, this is my favorite number I've seen in the finale. They're saying, no, Sasha, Colby, I honestly think this was better. This could be at the VMAs, like, the level of. To me, if this number was at the VMAs, if Dochi did this, if Lady Gaga did this same thing, this would be fantastic. Kudos for sharing. Said I'm a white Latino. Bob, I appreciate this.
[52:05]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, I thought Nene killed it. It was the best memo of the night by far, in my opinion. The opening desk Choreo was so bomb. It sounded like a Lady Gaga song. Like, even, like the song sounded like a Lady Gaga song. I recently had Lucian Piano. Whoa. I recently had. What's the name? Jay Leland. Leland. Leland did. Monet talks. The episode's coming out soon and he talks about, like, Leland has been working on Drag Race for so long, doing all these songs. He talked about his process on these songs and she. This, like, this was really good. The clothes in Choreo was very tight. Having stimulate fornicate. Like, it just. It was good. It was really good. I really, really, really enjoyed her number. The Choreo was really good. She killed it.
[52:51]
Monet X Change
It was like Cat's Eye meets Gaga meets Dochi. It was really good. This was just fantastic. I genuinely feel like she may have won this episode, but Mikey Meeks did win the season, which.
[53:06]
Bob the Drag Queen
Then what is the point? Like, is this just a celebration? This is a celebration.
[53:11]
Monet X Change
Like, it is not the deciding factor. The season is the deciding factor.
[53:15]
Bob the Drag Queen
Then what is the point of this?
[53:17]
Darlene
It's not.
[53:18]
Monet X Change
It's to add to it. So when you get to the finale, it's not everything's deleted and now it's just this. It is your breadth of work that you've done over the course of the season.
[53:29]
Darlene
That's not how it always worked, though. The point was you do well throughout the season and that's what gets you to the finale. So the top two, three, four that make the finale are now on an even playing field and the finale is the deciding factor. Because if everything else counts, then there is.
[53:46]
Bob the Drag Queen
It doesn't matter because Mike's always sacked against someone anyway. So why? What's the point?
[53:51]
Monet X Change
Well, then what's the point of doing good all season? We can just Darlene it the whole way and then.
[53:54]
Bob the Drag Queen
Because you're getting to the end of the. In my mind, let's see how I think about draggers. Similar to what Jay said. Like, you work the entire season, you win some, you lose some, you get to the finale. Once you get to the finale, we're all at base at zero and we're competing for the thing. Then why do all of this Instead, just Mikey wins the season and just do a final celebration episode of everyone. Then what is the point of all of that?
[54:16]
Monet X Change
I think it's because there is a chance where you could do something. We've had this conversation next times where you could do something that is so remarkable that it gives you so many points that it pushes you above. This is rare, it does not happen very often, but you could do something so mind boggling, so next level that it gives you the, the, you know, the advantage. But for the most part, I do think that it makes sense for it to be everything you've done this season. Otherwise, what's the point of doing the
[54:48]
Bob the Drag Queen
whole fucking season to get to the finale?
[54:51]
Monet X Change
But you could do fine. You could be like, darlene, just do fine.
[54:54]
Bob the Drag Queen
Exactly. But then.
[54:55]
Jacob
But.
[54:56]
Monet X Change
So you're telling me you can just do fine all season and then just be slightly better at the finale and win the whole thing.
[55:04]
Bob the Drag Queen
But that's the thing. If you're fine and mediocre the whole season, then chances are you come into the finale and you're fine and mediocre. You don't just find this gusto to be like, if you are just a basic bitch when you get to finale, you just not all of a sudden, sorry, this sounds so mean, but case in point. Darling did not come to the finale and do something that she hasn't done all season. It's been the same thing. Mikey was at the level she was all season, which was good. Mimi Coke was at the level she's been all season, which is good. Which all the way. Also at the end, this show did such a horrible job of painting this picture of Nene being this, like, stone cold bitch and that she was like, they did such a bad job of painting that picture. They tried to bring it up again in the finale. I was like, this means nothing. Because y' all did not show us this mean, mean, nasty Nene coco that was pushing everyone to the side that did not come across on tv.
[55:52]
Monet X Change
Well, while I agree with you that most of the time what you do in the season is gonna be emblematic of what you do at the finale, but we know for a fact that you can be relatively fine during the season and then just eat the girlies up in the finale. It makes for a particularly great tv. When it does happen, it doesn't happen very often, which is why it's rare. And when it happens, it means so much, in my opinion.
[56:11]
Bob the Drag Queen
But who besides Sasha has done that?
[56:13]
Monet X Change
I said it's rare. I didn't say it happened. But that's only one is rare. Monet. I didn't say it happens all the time. I didn't say it happened more than once.
[56:20]
Darlene
Well, the people gangs a finale. The message that the show is sending is the three of you are worthy to win. Who's gonna come out on top?
[56:30]
Monet X Change
Well, they have to create suspense. They can't be like, well, we know Darlene ain't gonna win.
[56:33]
Darlene
That's the point. There's no suspense.
[56:35]
Bob the Drag Queen
Because if Mikey did the best in
[56:36]
Darlene
the season, there is no suspense. It doesn't exist. And the Sasha Velour thing can't happen because they don't film a year later in the theater with ample time to prepare anymore. That's not how they're doing this. So the chances of a Sasha and Velour thing happening is just. It's not. It's not real.
[56:56]
Monet X Change
You never know. Listen, never say never. Never say never.
[56:59]
Bob the Drag Queen
I think he's playing them girl faces like, don't, don't. Don't bring me to. If there's no chance of me winning, then just make it like, see episode 15. We have the winner. And 16 is to Bob's point. It's a celebration of everything. Everyone gets to the final three, get to do one final thing and whatever. Like, I think that makes more sense then, like, don't give me false hope. She killed it. She killed her in the final lip sync and she killed her in this number. So now what?
[57:23]
Monet X Change
The person who said rare implies more than once. You made that up. You're just making up definitions. You're just making up definitions to words. But I think that. No, I mean, I think she did a good job. But you're going to tell me that you think based on this performance, Ninikoko deserved to win the whole season?
[57:45]
Bob the Drag Queen
I'm based on not. But. But like, what you mean like.
[57:47]
Monet X Change
Like, for example, what she did in finale, her dress wasn't better than her interview wasn't better than Mikey's. Her dress was amazing. You think Nene. I think that Mikey's interview was better. You just mentioned how she was funnier, how quick she is on her feet when she was interviewing with RuPaul Mikey Meeks. And then I don't think her dress. Her dress is certainly not better than Mikey Meeks. We both agree that Mikey Meeks is dressing better. So two out of the three categories that we've seen so far, Mikey has come out trying to.
[58:12]
Bob the Drag Queen
I thought that Nene's interview was better. I thought Nene showed a lot of personality. Yeah, she was as quick as Mikey.
[58:17]
Monet X Change
You were like, Mikey, so quick. She's.
[58:19]
Bob the Drag Queen
I wasn't even finished giving my Nini critiques. We then we started talking about something else. I literally wrote down the thing. I love how she's talking to Ru. She's talking personality. And the things that they said about in the season didn't make any sense because she has a lot of personality. So they need to let it go. I was literally saying that in my thing, in my assessment and also in
[58:33]
Monet X Change
the final lip sync. She didn't beat Mikey in that final lip singing and that bag, that bad thing.
[58:38]
Bob the Drag Queen
Bad Thing was weird. It was weird. It was a fucking.
[58:40]
Monet X Change
It didn't make any sense with the number. Like, here's the thing.
[58:43]
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait. We're hopping. Let's get. Wait till we get there.
[58:47]
Monet X Change
Well, that being said, this number was fantastic. She did a good job. This is my favorite performance I've ever seen in the finale. Literally ever.
[58:52]
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay, I. You what?
[58:57]
Monet X Change
That was my favorite performance I've seen in the finale. It was truly my favorite one. Truly.
[59:00]
Bob the Drag Queen
Weirdly, it is so simple. I don't know why, but finale performances, Daya Betty sticks out to me all the time. I was so impressed by it. Do you remember?
[59:08]
Monet X Change
Yeah.
[59:10]
Darlene
With the fabric, to Bob's point. The lyrics. The first. The first lyrics to the Miley song are, I matched my bag to my new dress, and the bag matched her dress. So it does go with the number.
[59:23]
Bob the Drag Queen
It goes with the number.
[59:25]
Monet X Change
No, not enough. It doesn't match the theme of the song. It's the first lyric.
[59:28]
Bob the Drag Queen
Wait, let's wait till we get to it.
[59:30]
Monet X Change
That's like. That's like. If the first lyric is being awarded
[59:34]
Jacob
and we have our old Miss Congeniality come out on stage to present the crown, Crystal Envy.
[59:40]
Monet X Change
So Crystal Envy looks stunning. And then the winner of Miss Congeniality is now Jane don't, which I kind of called. I said, I think Jane don't might win Miss Congeniality. No, you didn't.
[59:50]
Bob the Drag Queen
You said Darlene.
[59:51]
Monet X Change
I said Darlene. Then when Go. Do you watch the show Tamar? And then when I. And then when I said how Jane Don't. How they were, like, mourning her loss, I was like, wow, maybe Jane don't might actually win geniality. Were you there that episode?
[60:03]
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay, maybe you didn't say that.
[60:04]
Monet X Change
You listen to me when I talk.
[60:06]
Bob the Drag Queen
Maybe you didn't say that. Calm down.
[60:08]
Monet X Change
You want to apologize to me? No, I only say that because you say it. The only reason I ever say that is because you say it. I don't say that for any other reason. Do you want to apologize to me? That's a direct Monet quote.
[60:20]
Bob the Drag Queen
You started saying this on a podcast. Are you kidding me?
[60:23]
Monet X Change
Absolutely not. You started, Monet. You started this in real life. There's a small chance that I might have said on the podcast first, maybe. And also, by the way, Monet, you're the only person I say this to. I don't say this to anybody else. And I got a sneaking suspicion you say it to other people. A sneaking suspicion.
[60:42]
Bob the Drag Queen
I really don't. I know I said it to Jay. I know I said it to Jacob. Have I said it to you?
[60:47]
Monet X Change
Someone said, incoming. Let's go on to. On your nerve. On your nerve. Looks fantastic. I love this wig. I love this. This bow in her hair.
[60:55]
Bob the Drag Queen
Wait, we didn't talk about the. Can I say Jane don't.
[61:00]
Monet X Change
Damn.
[61:02]
Bob the Drag Queen
Bob is running the show.
[61:03]
Jacob
Can I.
[61:03]
Monet X Change
Can I give my opinions, please?
[61:06]
Bob the Drag Queen
I thought that I would. I mean, I wish. I genuinely thought that I was. I was shocked that Jane won. I thought that Darlene would win Miss Congeniality, but. And I think Jane was also shocked by her winning as well. She took out the fucking dragonfly from her mouth. Thank God. But, yeah, that's nice to cheese Miss Congeniality. I was shocked, but I thought it was gonna be. I thought it was gonna be Darlene.
[61:28]
Monet X Change
So glad you added that.
[61:31]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. Cause it's my fucking podcast, bitch. I get to give my opinions about every fucking topic, Bitch.
[61:34]
Monet X Change
You don't get to just Bulldog.
[61:37]
Darlene
What about Crystal Envy's dress? Y' all like it?
[61:40]
Monet X Change
It's nice.
[61:41]
Bob the Drag Queen
I thought it was cute. I thought it was cute. Whoa. Okay. I didn't see any up close. I just saw it from the widescreen. This hair is really cool.
[61:51]
Monet X Change
I don't think she needs this bindi, though.
[61:54]
Bob the Drag Queen
But why does she need it?
[61:56]
Monet X Change
Like, I don't. I don't get why she has a bindi in her forehead. I just don't get it.
[62:00]
Bob the Drag Queen
Some people have bindis.
[62:01]
Monet X Change
Do I.
[62:02]
Bob the Drag Queen
That some people have bindis?
[62:04]
Monet X Change
Yeah. I just don't understand why the. This doesn't seem to have any nod to Hindu culture in any way. And I just don't get why she's wearing a bindi like that. What I'm saying is not crazy.
[62:15]
Bob the Drag Queen
What? Bindis are not only for Hindu is not only Hindu culture.
[62:19]
Monet X Change
What else? Where do they come from? Where does the bindi come from? The bindi is a Hindu. Is a Hindi word.
[62:23]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. But other cultures in North Africa, they do. Bindis are in North African culture as well. I've seen this. It's not just a Hindu thing. I don't know. Maybe. I don't think it's called a bindi, what she's wearing. But to have jewelry on your forehead is not only a Hindu characteristic or trait.
[62:40]
Monet X Change
That's not what I said.
[62:45]
Bob the Drag Queen
I like this. It's. Didn't Jules Sparkle do a big gown like this?
[62:51]
Monet X Change
Anyway, hers was kind of like coming out from the knee, I believe.
[62:56]
Bob the Drag Queen
Right, right, right. It was more like a mermaid thing. Yeah. I think this is really grand. Very big. I think she looks great. This hair is very pretty. And I think. Oh, yeah, that's Jules. Okay. Hers came out at the waist. Yeah, it was cool. Yeah, I think. I think she looks great.
[63:09]
Monet X Change
It's kind of. It kind of comes out twice, like, from the waist, and then it busts out again by the knee.
[63:14]
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. She was great, though.
[63:17]
Monet X Change
Let's go on to what's next. What do we have next, Jacob? The final lip sync.
[63:22]
Jacob
Well, I mean, we have Miley Cyrus, if we want to talk about that, but it was.
[63:25]
Monet X Change
I don't have much to say. Miley Cyrus is an icon, and she's an amazing singer and a great ally.
[63:29]
Bob the Drag Queen
Truly.
[63:29]
Monet X Change
Like, truly.
[63:30]
Bob the Drag Queen
She's giving us life achievement award, lifetime achievement award.
[63:33]
Monet X Change
Miley Cyrus is really, really sickening. She's like, such a good singer. Like, genuinely. If you have not heard Miley Cyrus sing. Is it Jolene? No. Girls want to have fun. Like, her voice is just so amazing. Miley Cyrus is an icon, truly. I have nothing else to say about her. It's great.
[63:48]
Bob the Drag Queen
Her and Ariana, they have a cover of Don't Wake me until It's Over. It's very good.
[63:53]
Monet X Change
So let's go on to this finale performance where apparently Jay is trying to justify this bag because of the first lyric.
[64:01]
Darlene
I didn't try to justify it. You just said it had nothing to do. And I'm like, what?
[64:05]
Monet X Change
So I'm doing. And I'm telling you. And I lock myself to the door because the first lyric says that I'm telling you, I'm not going. But what is the song about, Mama? What is the song about? What is the vibe of the song, Mama? Like, I.
[64:19]
Bob the Drag Queen
Because of the lyric, I don't think it's a reach to have the bag. And I think indies are trying to do. Create, being, be creative again. It's not how. It's like my first inclination to do a bag, but I thought. I think that in the limited time they have to get this done. And you're just trying to, like, because they do this on set, right? They had to come with this prepared with all your looks.
[64:36]
Monet X Change
I'm like, I see what you're saying is. I don't know how true that is. Like, I don't know for sure. They are filming right after. I don't know that that's actually true.
[64:44]
Bob the Drag Queen
I think that issue.
[64:44]
Jacob
They film a month after.
[64:48]
Monet X Change
So do you want to apologize to our patrons for lying to them,
[64:52]
Bob the Drag Queen
Jacob, how you know?
[64:54]
Jacob
Because I did my. I did research when they filmed it.
[64:59]
Bob the Drag Queen
They film a month after what? After the after the last, they all
[65:03]
Jacob
went home and a month later they came back.
[65:05]
Monet X Change
So do you want to apologize to our patrons for lying to them?
[65:09]
Bob the Drag Queen
No,
[65:12]
Monet X Change
that's crazy.
[65:13]
Darlene
That's. I think the former has less time than previously.
[65:16]
Monet X Change
That's not what she said. So I want. That's not what she said. Also, this got her purse look like she got somewhere to be. Like this. Because the purse is so. It's a big. Like it's a day. This is a day purse. This is not a nighttime bag. This is a mom purse. This purse is big enough to carry a laptop computer in it.
[65:43]
Bob the Drag Queen
She's carrying baby formula in this purse.
[65:45]
Monet X Change
It's not. The purse is not cute. It's not giving because of the size of it. Because the outfit is so cut. But she got this big ass auntie bag.
[65:54]
Bob the Drag Queen
I see that. I do see that.
[65:56]
Monet X Change
Y' all not about to gaslight me into believing this person ate the girlies up. I also. That being said, I also don't think Mikey's outfit has anything to do with what the. Jacob.
[66:07]
Bob the Drag Queen
Jacob is weak.
[66:09]
Monet X Change
Jacob, we will get to the place.
[66:12]
Bob the Drag Queen
Jacob, he will put his Fucking bitch. We fucking see him, bitch.
[66:16]
Monet X Change
Jacob, I promise you. Jacob.
[66:20]
Bob the Drag Queen
Jacob.
[66:21]
Monet X Change
Jacob.
[66:22]
Bob the Drag Queen
Jacob. Jacob.
[66:23]
Jacob
He.
[66:24]
Bob the Drag Queen
First of all, it was this. Then he put only plain Jane. Then he cut back. Then he put only plain Jane again. Then he put it inside. They said, bitch, we see it.
[66:32]
Monet X Change
You gotta find some way to show what Jacob is doing in the edit. Because this is. Someone said Jacob. J for pain. Said Jacob. Upscreen. So you notice that people are saying this looks very similar to playing Jane. It looks like playing Jane's outfit got eaten by moths.
[66:56]
Bob the Drag Queen
I think this look is very good. And I agree too. Mikey's outfit doesn't have anything to do with it either.
[67:03]
Monet X Change
I agree Mikey's outfit has nothing. But I do think that Mikey's performance was better. First of all, something about that triple pirouette into the Spider man land.
[67:11]
Bob the Drag Queen
That was pretty good.
[67:12]
Monet X Change
Maybe that triple pirouette into the spider Man. I was like, that ate it up for me. I think that Mikey did a really good job. Mikey is a better dancer than we were given credit for. So we're seeing Nene and Juicy as these great dancers. But they are really fantastic dancers. But Mikey can move. Mikey was like. Mikey was holding her own. I would say more than hold on. I genuinely think that Mikey performed this better. And I think that she. I felt like what was happening was Nene was really hinging on this bag gag, eating the girlies up. And I don't think it did.
[67:48]
Bob the Drag Queen
No, that's not true. She started on. She put it down. She literally only brought it up for the puppet part when the thing was Miley enjoyed it. And I think what. I think Nene could have showcased her dancing more, right? Bitch, I know you just did the backflip, what, two episodes ago? Bitch, Give us some more acrobats. Give us another thing to, like, to gag the judges. Like, I think she. She sold herself short.
[68:10]
Darlene
There's an edit of the lip sync where they cut away when she's leaning and they cut to another performance of hers. And it's the same move she does before she does a. Like, a back handspring so people think she did it and they just didn't show it.
[68:22]
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, she.
[68:23]
Monet X Change
Even if she did do a back handspring, it wouldn't have won the lip sync. It's not that much of a gag anymore.
[68:27]
Bob the Drag Queen
You know what I mean?
[68:27]
Monet X Change
How many times can we see, you know, like Monet said, how many times can we see Mia do her moves before we're not gagged anymore? You know what I mean? How many times can we see the handstand to the splits until we're not gagged anymore from Juicy? And how many times can we see her back handspring until we're just not gagged anymore? So it's not like that lip sync was gonna. That backflip was gonna seal the fucking deal. You know what I mean?
[68:47]
Bob the Drag Queen
But it could have been a back handspring into a split.
[68:51]
Monet X Change
It could have been. It could have been a back handspring where she did two flips before she even landed. And then she grabbed her knees, landed on her elbows, put her fist in her mouth. It could have been that. It could have. You're right. I don't think it was. I don't think it was, but I actually do. I did think that. I did think that she. I think she did better. I think that Mikey did a better job with the lip sync. I. I also, apparently someone said that RuPaul famously doesn't like people like, don't. Don't do the words, and they have someone else, like, some. Something else do it. I don't know how true that is.
[69:22]
Bob the Drag Queen
You know, these kids, y' all don't know what this. Man, like I said, I don't know. Now you. I'm talking about the people who say
[69:29]
Monet X Change
that, oh, Diamond D. Lovebug says the gags be losing girls their lip syncs. I believe that. I really do believe that because of all the gags. We've seen in a final lip sync. This ain't it. Of all the gags for final lip sync, this is at the. Literally probably right above Aquaria coming out looking like a Chipotle burrito. Thank you, Prince. Jen y. Y' all set up in the chat. Am I crazy Money? Acting like this purse gag was the best thing she ever seen in her. Goddamn.
[70:02]
Bob the Drag Queen
I literally. I did not say the best thing.
[70:05]
Monet X Change
I just acted like this one lyric should. She should redo all her drag. Now, everything you do got a certain first lyric. Pick myself up. So at the beginning said, you got to lay on the ground. Pick yourself up.
[70:16]
Darlene
But was it. But was it better than the butterflies?
[70:20]
Monet X Change
It was. The song has something to begin. Ain't happening.
[70:30]
Bob the Drag Queen
All right, let's see. And then we find out that Mikey Meeks is the winner of RuPaul Jerkins season 18. I loved her line. What she said. She said,
[70:42]
Monet X Change
I don't remember.
[70:43]
Bob the Drag Queen
I do love it. I just didn't write it down. But it was a good line.
[70:46]
Monet X Change
1 8.
[70:48]
Bob the Drag Queen
She said, I love some of those orders. It was funny. It was. And let the mic. I don't remember, Bitch.
[70:57]
Darlene
What are you.
[70:58]
Monet X Change
Were you reading something?
[70:59]
Bob the Drag Queen
No, I just didn't write it down. Mikey's last line. Like, Jenner jinx. Monsoon season. I forgot what she said. It was good, though.
[71:06]
Monet X Change
Full disclosure, I did not see Mikey's final thing because I watched it at the Pit Stop and then they cut it off before the actual win. So I didn't know who won until tonight. So I actually don't know what Mikey said.
[71:15]
Darlene
What did she say?
[71:17]
Bob the Drag Queen
I didn't mind it.
[71:18]
Darlene
There's a longer thing. And she ended it with something. And, like, the Meeks will inherit the crown.
[71:22]
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, yes. And the Meek. The Meeks will. The meek shall inherit the earth.
[71:28]
Monet X Change
Oh, that's really cute. Is that her monsoon season?
[71:31]
Bob the Drag Queen
I think so. Yeah. It was good. It was funny.
[71:33]
Monet X Change
I gotta say. It's monsoon season. It was a pretty iconic line to yell when you.
[71:37]
Bob the Drag Queen
What was yours?
[71:39]
Monet X Change
Take whatever you love by yourself and walk into the world. First. First. And then I pulled a purse down on my dress. It was fine. I probably could have came with something better.
[71:47]
Jacob
This is for my friends, my family, all of Orlando. Live fiercely. Love boldly, and write it in the books, baby. The Meeks shall inherit the crown.
[71:56]
Monet X Change
And what was yours, Ma?
[71:59]
Bob the Drag Queen
You know what it was?
[72:01]
Monet X Change
Soak it up.
[72:02]
Bob the Drag Queen
Soak it up.
[72:03]
Monet X Change
Soak it up. Random fact. Every Trisha. See, I'm sorry not to read these names.
[72:09]
Bob the Drag Queen
Random fact.
[72:11]
Monet X Change
Trisha one time somebody said every crew that has won the Political Challenge has won the season.
[72:21]
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, okay, what if you don't have a political. That's not true. Because sometimes you don't have a political Challenge, Trisha. So you're a fucking liar.
[72:26]
Monet X Change
They didn't say everyone who's won. See, you're not. You don't listen when people talk. Trisha didn't say everyone who's ever won the Political. She said everyone who won Political Challenge won the season. This is what I mean. When y' all be letting Monet gas.
[72:38]
Bob the Drag Queen
That's not true.
[72:39]
Monet X Change
What are you. What are you not hearing?
[72:41]
Bob the Drag Queen
Derrick Berry won the Political Challenge. She did not win the season.
[72:44]
Monet X Change
Yeah, but she didn't win. I really wanted. She was kind of hanging on my. I won it. And she was kind of like, you know, there.
[72:51]
Bob the Drag Queen
Wow, that's crazy.
[72:52]
Monet X Change
I really want it.
[72:54]
Bob the Drag Queen
That's crazy to say.
[72:55]
Monet X Change
I really want it.
[72:56]
Bob the Drag Queen
See, this.
[72:56]
Monet X Change
This is how y'. All.
[72:57]
Darlene
Y'.
[72:57]
Bob the Drag Queen
All.
[72:57]
Monet X Change
This is how the money does these half truths. And y' all be believing this bullshit money. The money twisted Everyone who win didn't win ability. That's not what she said.
[73:05]
Bob the Drag Queen
And I just corrected myself. I said. I'm talking about Derek, Mary.
[73:09]
Monet X Change
No, I corrected. You didn't. Correct. I corrected you. And on that note, thank you for coming on my show. We'll see all those civil current adventary in just a second, honey.