The One About Bob's Voice

Summary

Sibling Rivalry: "The One About Bob's Voice"

Date: December 8, 2021
Hosts: Bob the Drag Queen & Monét X Change

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on Bob the Drag Queen’s journey with his “new voice” following recent vocal surgery, all filtered through the signature quick-witted banter and loving shade that defines Bob and Monét’s friendship. The duo discusses everything from drag tours and singing superlatives, to Thanksgiving mishaps and the trials of navigating the airport. Fans get insights into Bob’s post-surgery adjustment, some behind-the-scenes drag world chatter, and a healthy dose of Sibling Rivalry’s infectious camaraderie.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Tech Savvy Sibling Showdown (01:53–02:41)

• Bob and Monét debate who is more technologically adept:
  • Bob claims: "I don't think I'm any more technologically illiterate than you." (01:51)
  • Monét fires back: "I’m just more with it, sweetie. I’m just more with it." (02:06)
• The two riff on co-ownership of their PlayStation 5 and their respective domestic arrangements.

2. Touring and Drag Performance Standouts (03:29–06:00)

• Monét describes life on the Drag Queen Christmas tour.
  • Monét raves about Jan's live performance: “She sings 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' and it’s absolutely beautiful." (04:57)
  • Bob corners Monét about whether Jan is a better singer than Kylie Sonique Love, leading to some classic Sibling Rivalry argumentative banter:
    • Bob: "You think Jan sings better than Kylie and you’re shady. I cannot believe you said that." (05:49)
    • Monét: "Never said that, but okay, sure." (06:00)

3. Drag Queen Superlatives & Girl Group Dynamics (09:28–14:15)

• Who’s the best singer in Stephanie’s Child (Jan, Rosé, Laguna Blue)?
  • Bob appreciates Laguna’s “jazzy” quality and prefers her tone.
  • Monét agrees: "I'm gonna say Laguna Blue because she has not been on Drag Race yet, and she's out here turning it.” (12:19)
• Debate humorously devolves over whether not being on Drag Race makes one a better singer and Monét’s logic is lovingly roasted by Bob.

4. Bob’s Vocal Surgery & The “New Voice” Era (17:00–22:58)

• Bob reflects on his recovery and challenges:
  • On communicating without a voice: “Not being able to talk was actually really exhausting. Jacob and Ezra were both not good at reading my lips.” (21:15)
  • Reliance on technology: “I would use the notes app on my phone to type things.” (23:47)
  • Comic failures at trying to communicate "I love you" to Jacob (22:10–23:19)
• Chronic frustration and comedic moments make this segment both heartfelt and hilarious.

5. Tour Life Gossip & Backstage Realities (25:22–27:55)

• Tour company details:
  • Monét lists performers on the tour (Kylie Sonique Love, Jan, Crystal Methyd, Miz Cracker, etc.) and discusses who’s messy/neat backstage.
  • Discussion of drag tour posters and the revolving door nature of drag tour casts.

6. Holiday Tales – Thanksgiving, Pie Fiascos, & Polyamorous Family Time (33:43–37:56)

• Monét describes a “Friendsgiving” incident:
  • "Her fucking pie just falls through the bottom and just shatters on the floor." (34:23)
  • Shade is thrown at a vegan dinner guest for being insufferably extra about candles and lighting.
• Bob shares openly about polyamorous family holidays:
  • "It was my first time having a polyamorous dynamic in front of my family...Honestly, it went really smoothly." (36:36–37:39)
  • The family time included games like Family Feud, ice skating, and plenty of laughs.

7. Airports, Annoyances, and Traveling as a Drag Queen (46:24–48:54)

• Airport pet peeves:
  • “Why do you need to stand that close to the carousel?” (48:23)
  • Reflection on airport behavior: “The airport brings out the worst in people.” (48:59)
• Comparison of LAX vs. JFK; travel routines, and the perils of over-packing for drag.

8. Spotify Wrapped Discourse & Streaming Services (51:08–53:55)

• Bob’s 2021 Spotify Wrapped:
  • Top artist: Cardi B
  • Top song: "Up" by Cardi B
  • Genre stats and Spotify’s quirky features like “audio aura” discussed.
  • Monét laments her allegiance to Apple Music but is playfully goaded to join Spotify:
    • “I don't want to sound like an Apple person, but, you know, everyone uses Spotify.” – Bob (55:45)

9. Drag Race UK Finale Reactions (57:12–61:19)

• Breakdown of Drag Race UK finale performances and looks:
  • Bob: “Ella Day had a really good verse...her voice sounded good...the best verse, like, lyrically, was actually probably Kitty Scott-Claus.” (57:12–57:22)
  • Monét gives honest critiques about contestants’ performances and finale looks, particularly Ella’s.
  • Both hosts discuss Ella’s injury and fitting struggles for the finale.

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Memorable Moments & Notable Quotes

• "You know who agrees with you? Donald Trump. You and Donald Trump have the same opinion about Hamilton. Wow. You are really the Donald Trump of drag." – Bob (06:49)
• “Her fucking pie just falls through the bottom and shatters on the floor.” – Monét (34:23)
• “Honestly, it went really smoothly. No one was weird about it. Everyone was just kind of like, oh yeah, this is just Chris and his two boyfriends.” – Bob on introducing his polyamorous family dynamic (36:36)
• “When the bell dings, you can take your seatbelt off. Why y’ all standing up?” – Bob (47:43)
• “The airport brings out the worst in people. And honestly, I agree.” – Bob (48:59)
• “Why did you try to send it [money] to me on PayPal? Through friends and family.” – Bob (43:17)
• “If you have nothing nice to say, there's no need to say it at all. I don't need comments on what I should or could have done, as it's eight months too late, sweeties. Can't wait for the next chapter in my life. Watch Drag Race. Love you.” – Ella Vaday, statement read by Bob (60:22)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• 01:53 – Who’s more technologically adept?
• 04:56–06:00 – Best acts on Drag Queen Christmas tour; Jan vs. Kylie
• 09:28–14:15 – Best singer in Stephanie’s Child and antics about critical acclaim
• 17:00–22:58 – Bob’s post-surgery recovery; communication comedy
• 33:43–36:36 – Friendsgiving disaster and family/polyamory holiday stories
• 46:24–48:54 – Airline/airport gripes and travel as a drag artist
• 51:08–52:29 – Spotify Wrapped Top Artists discussion
• 57:12–59:07 – Drag Race UK finale opinions and critique

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Closing Thoughts

This episode captures the full spectrum of Sibling Rivalry’s strengths: unfiltered friendship, drag world insight, candid life updates, biting humor, and a warmth that makes the listener feel like family. Bob’s road to recovery, Monét’s tour stories, fan-favorite debates, and their playful bickering all shine here—reminding listeners why Sibling Rivalry remains must-listen content for Drag Race fans and beyond.

Transcript

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[A]

my name is Bob the Drag Queen. And I'm Monet X Change.

[B]

And this is sibling rivalry.

[A]

On this week's episode, we find out why Jan is Monet's favorite queen.

[B]

On the Christmas tour, we debut Bob's new voice.

[A]

And we find out what made Monet say this.

[B]

Her fucking pie just falls through the bottom and shatters on the floor. And we find out what made Bob the Drag Queen say this.

[A]

You know who agrees with you? Donald Trump. You and Donald Trump have the same opinion about Hamilton. Wow. You are really the Donald Trump of drag. I don't think I'm any more technologically illiterate than you.

[B]

Inept. Yes, you are. Bob. Bob. You know, it is been a thing in our lives. You're like Monet. I don't. That's literally you.

[A]

What specifically qualifies you as more technologically adept?

[B]

I'm just more with it, sweetie. I'm just more with it.

[A]

Like with what? Name a thing that you're more with and then PlayStation 5.

[B]

Do you know how to set up a PlayStation 5?

[A]

Yes, I do. We have a place that we had ours before you had yours. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah, but it wasn't yours. It was Jacob's. It was not yours.

[A]

Well, Jacob and I have one together. Let's get that clear.

[B]

Who purchased that?

[A]

Jacob purchased it.

[B]

Okay. It's Jacobs. The Jacobs.

[A]

But I've also bought things that belong to Jacob. I don't know how you and you and Andy do it. I don't know. Y' all be writing y' all names on stuff.

[B]

Yeah. If I buy bananas. I'm writing my name on all the bananas. The bananas is mine.

[A]

Well, Jacob and I together have a PlayStation 5 and we both know how to set it up. If we took it down today, I could. I could re hook it up.

[B]

A part to product.

[A]

What the is that? What is that?

[B]

The tick tock. This is a trend from back in the day. A part to product. A part to product.

[A]

Oh yeah. No, it was like. Yeah, wasn't it like. Like this guy wasn't wearing his glasses and he was like when I'm not wearing my glasses were like a partip or. Dad, tell us what you're doing. Oh my God.

[B]

The word still sounds. It still sounds just as sweet.

[A]

Can you tell us what secret, super secret location you're in? Are you filming? Are you doing.

[B]

I'm not in a super secret location. I am in Reading. California. On the Drag Queen Christmas store? Yeah, I'm already in California.

[A]

How far is reading from here?

[B]

Oh, it's. I'm like past Sacramento for you. So you want to come up here?

[A]

Wait, are you close enough to me? I could have driven to you today. Wow, this is so shitty.

[B]

Sacramento, that's like a seven hour drive.

[A]

How far is Red in California from Los angeles? It's only 8 hours and 48 minutes, Monet.

[B]

Okay, so I'm here until at 5am you want to come through?

[A]

Pull up.

[B]

Pull up.

[A]

Nigga, I can drive four.

[B]

Pull up.

[A]

I'll drive four and then you'll drive four hours and 48 minutes. We'll meet in the middle.

[B]

No, I'm not doing that. We're gonna be in San Francisco. We're gonna be in San Jose. So you wanna come to San Jose? That's closer.

[A]

Should I come see the show?

[B]

You should come. I'm. I would love for you to come see the show.

[A]

Is it legendary? Is it iconic? Who has the best performance?

[B]

Oh my God, that's such a shady question.

[A]

I didn't say it was the worst. I say it was the best. All I'm asking is for you to give an. Give a superlative. Not the dance. Who has the best performance?

[B]

This nigga just learns of demerit sensitives. Now he trying to act anyway.

[A]

That's definitely a phrase from school, but

[B]

go on, Jan. Subtitles. She sings in the second half and she sounds absolutely beautiful. She sounds fucking great. She sings. What's the one not fall on your knees? What's. I don't know.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.

[A]

Does anyone else sing live on the show?

[B]

Kylie does she sings in the first half? I don't. She sings Santa Baby.

[A]

So what you're saying is you think Jan sings better than Kylie because you said that Jan did the best number.

[B]

No, Kylie does a strip tease number. The second half from.

[A]

From what you're saying is you think that. You think Jan sings better than Kylie because you said that Jan does the best number and they both sing.

[B]

No, no, no. Kylie's in the first half, Jan sings in the second half, and Kylie does

[A]

a burlesque routine, but Jan sings and Kylie sings, and you think that Jan does the best singing. Is that correct?

[B]

No, Kylie is in the first half, bitch. Jan's in the second half.

[A]

But who has the best act in the show is Jan. Jan's number where she sings?

[B]

No, no, I think. I think. I think the best acts on the show is me hosting because I'm fierce.

[A]

I think she's backpedaling. Your Honor, I think that you just got caught on blast saying that you think that Jan sings better. You think Jan sings better than Kylie, and you're shady. I cannot believe you said that.

[B]

Never said that, but okay, sure.

[A]

What is it about Jan's number that you love so much?

[B]

Wait. It was. Was Janda wanted to use to say was the. Was the Peggy. You said she. She's the Peggy Bundy of the group. Was that you that was saying that?

[A]

No, not Peggy Bundy. Oh, my God. Yeah. How do you not know anything about musical theater? Are you not from New York? Are you. Did you know. Are you not a singer? Haven't you or don't you do musicals and shit?

[B]

I did. I did. I did real music. I did opera. I did real music. I knew that music theater shit. I sang real music.

[A]

Yeah, you. You and your little Portland buddies and your little summer stock was you. You nailed it.

[B]

Not summer stock.

[A]

Little summer stock. Anyway, it's not Peggy Bundy. It's a. It's a. It's from Hamilton and it's. And Peggy.

[B]

Oh, my God. That's so overrated. That show is so overrated. Can you. Can you agree that. Can you agree.

[A]

You know who agrees with you? Donald Trump. You and Donald Trump have the same opinion about Hamilton.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

You are really the Donald Trump of dragon. Let me find what Donald Trump said about. About Hamilton. Donald Trump on Hamilton.

[B]

You're the candle. You're the Candace Owens of drag, bitch.

[A]

Donald Trump, Hamilton tweet. I cannot believe. You really are awesome. You really on the.

[B]

You are. You're. You. Oh, my God. You're so ridiculous.

[A]

Very Rude and insulting of Hamilton cast member to treat our great Future Vice President, Mr. Pence, to a theater lecture. Couldn't even memorize lines. He said the cast and producers of Hamilton, which is highly overrated, should immediately apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior. The theater must always be a safe and special place. The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize. So now that you think they're overrated, do you also think that the cast needs to apologize to Michael Pence?

[B]

I said that they're underrated. You don't. You don't. I think. I think they fix your cords and they fucked up your ears. They mix up the connectivity, tissue. Something I said underrated.

[A]

The Gaslight Queen of America. Yeah. You know what's underrated? The Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, multiple selling out. It's completely underrated. You're right. Hamilton has not been given enough. Enough phrase. The Pulitzer, not enough. The Tony, not enough. The Disney. The Disney not enough.

[B]

I think that. I think that the whole show should win a Presidential Freedom Award necklace thing. I think the show is that good.

[A]

I just cannot. Wait, so I just. So you think you think Hamilton is overrated? Who? Who? Who? Who is it specifically in Hamilton that you think is overrated?

[B]

No, no, no. I said underrated. I do not have the same ideology.

[A]

I want to hear your backpack.

[B]

I'm not backpacking. I don't have one.

[A]

You and Jan, your favorite singer.

[B]

Wait, are you gonna come to the show for real?

[A]

Wait, how far? Okay, what date? What is the actual date of your San Jose show?

[B]

The actual date of the San Jose show? Oh, God.

[A]

If the answer's not Thursday the 2nd, I can't come.

[B]

Wait, how long are you in LA? Cause we do a show in LA as well.

[A]

I'm going to New York City between the third and the sixth.

[B]

Okay. Because the la. Oh, the LA show is the seventh.

[A]

Then I'll be here. I can't wait to come see you all and see what makes Jan. What makes Jan so superior to every other queen in the show.

[B]

Oh, my God, you're so ridiculous. Who do you think is the best. Who do you think is the best singer of Stephanie's Child?

[A]

Ooh.

[B]

To be honest, if y' all don't know, Stephanie Child is the girl group which conference which is Rose, Jan and Laguna Blue. Who may. Some of y' all may or may not know, but they have a girl

[A]

group together not giving a political answer. They're. They're all amazing singers. Like, honestly, all of them Sound really good. I think they all sound.

[B]

Choose one.

[A]

Choose one that I prefer the most. I don't think it makes her a better singer, but the style of singing that I like the most is Laguna Blues. I think her style of singing is just really great.

[B]

And what's that style?

[A]

It's like she did this, like, jazzy version of Ursula's song Poor Unfortunate Souls. That was really. That was really great. She has, like, the. I don't know, something about the way that her. It's like a jazzy quality to it. It's not necessarily, like, in the rafters, which I feel like is Jan's thing. And I feel like Rose is more the. The. The. The gymnastics. The vocal gymnastics, the. Yeah, I can't do it because of the surgery, but once I heal, I'll be better than all three of them. I feel like Rose does the vocal gymnastics up and down and riffs and all that stuff, and I feel like Laguna is kind of the.

[B]

The stray character.

[A]

Well, kind of not the straight character, but like. Kind of like the. You know, the one whose voice isn't doing all the wild stuff, but it still has a lot of substance to it. And I like her a little jazzy. I also saw her do it. Do a really great version of the Weeknd by sza, which was really great. Why is it so funny?

[B]

Because when you first heard it, you thought the Weeknd was singing that song.

[A]

Oh, so someone was, like, in the audience, like, girl, do the Weeknd. And I was like, oh, my gosh, you're gonna do a song by the Weeknd. And then it was like, I'm your side chick for the Weeknd. And I was like, is the. Did the Weeknd write a song about being a side chick? I didn't realize it was the song the Weeknd by sza. Anyway. Yeah, so I just. I just really think that her voice is. If I was, like, listening to a bunch of albums, hers would be the one that I would listen to. But honestly. And I'm not even. You know, I don't give page answers. They're genuinely all amazing singers. Honestly.

[B]

That's not some pageant to me. Anyway, I am in Reading, California,

[A]

and Monet. Who's your. Who is the best. Best singer from 70s child? Since you don't get pageant dancers, who's the best singer from seventh Child?

[B]

I think my favorite singer out of Stephanie Shaw is Lagoon.

[A]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't say who's your favorite singer? Who's the best singer in Stephanie's Child. We're not giving pageant answers, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I did not say who is your favorite. Who is the best singer in Stephanie's Child?

[B]

I'm gonna say Laguna Blue because she has not been on Drag Race yet, and she's out here turning it.

[A]

Oh, wait, so not being on Drag Race makes you a better singer? Yeah.

[B]

I mean, I think that if you have not had the international exposure like the other queens are, it just makes

[A]

you a better singer. Like.

[B]

Yeah, I can't even finish my sentence. Damn.

[A]

Cause it's bullshit.

[B]

I think it's a good blue. Okay, y' all don't know this, but Bob, he can't laugh like he wants to. So when he laughs, he has to go.

[A]

That's it. You are such. I cannot. I'm waiting for you to dignify it to. To belittle and befile this podcast with your horrible take. Go ahead. So when you don't. When you don't. When you don't have a lot of exposure. What were you saying?

[B]

I think that to do all that, to accomplish all the things she's done with singing. Last year, she did. Like, she sang with the Pops for Christmas, and she is, like, traveling, doing gigs, singing, and even not having the international exposure that these queens have. Things that bitches who can't sing can't. I mean, who can sing but have not been on the show cannot accomplish. I'm. I'm like. I think she's doing. She's obviously nailing it. She's. She just put out another music video.

[A]

Nailing it. I didn't say who's nailing it. I didn't say who's succeeding. I said who is a better. Those other answer is. And that's what their answer is. Laguna. Because she hasn't been on Drag Race.

[B]

Yes. And she's accomplishing the things that the other girls are doing. And Drag Race, I think that proves that she's the best singer.

[A]

So. So. So are accomplishments what make you a good singer?

[B]

I mean, critical acclaim does, for sure.

[A]

So how about the critical acclaim, like the critical acclaim from Monet of having the best number in Christmas court?

[B]

I can. With this laughing.

[A]

Rob gave you a sweater. Rob gave you a sweater? Oh, yeah.

[B]

Heartthrob bra. Give me a sweater.

[A]

So I've been missing Monet a lot lately, but, Monet, you've been. You've been really kind of dodging me. You've been kind of shady a little bit. Do you want to

[B]

Bob you.

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I'll tear for the break. I'll tear the break.

[C]

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[A]

So we're back and I want to talk about my feelings.

[B]

Oh my God.

[A]

Every. So I have been in my apartment just sitting here healing, doing nothing for almost four weeks. I did just come back from Atlanta

[B]

for like a week.

[A]

Just literally for a week. Yeah, but before that, for two and a half weeks, I was just in my apartment doing nothing. Monet came by to visit me one time.

[B]

Okay, did you know Bob and act like you didn't know what I was doing for those four weeks? I was little. I was doing. I was fucking working. Like every day, six days a week,

[A]

every hour of the day.

[B]

Six days, every hour of the day, six days a week from about 6am until 8pm when I get. And excuse me, but every.

[A]

You were working every. Like, every hour of the day for most. So crazy.

[B]

Most of the day. Okay, first of all, how much was Andy.

[A]

How much was. How much was Andy able to see you?

[B]

Because Andy slept in my home. We slept. We slept in the same bed.

[A]

Did you see Andy one time as well because of how busy you were?

[B]

Because Andy slept in my bed. Did you want to come sleep in my bed with me?

[A]

I would. I didn't give you offer. Did not get the invites. Gotta be honest. Well, you. You did. You did come to Ezra's. Ezra's release party, huh? I mean, I was working, which, by the way, can you just acknowledge that I killed it, like, so y'. All. So Ezra. So what happened was Ezra. Ezra had a. Released a video called the ballot of 41st Street. You should go check it out. It's really, really wonderful. Check out the ballot of 41st street on.

[B]

Yo, I can't. Bob. Bob sounds like he's. This ain't some rivalry. This. This is npr. You are Ira Glass.

[A]

Anyway, the IR class has a lot of vocal ride anyway. And Monet came. And Monet came by to work it, and I was, like, running the whole thing. Like, I was, like, on. I had, like, the start. This little switchboard in front of me. I set the lights up. I was like. And it looked really nice. What did you think, Mona? It actually inspired me to do it for us for Silver Rivalry. I mean, I wouldn't be able to do run it for us because I'd be on camera, but I was inspired.

[B]

I think that it did look very nice. I think that I was very impressed. I could not believe you did it on your own. But also, didn't Douglas help you a little bit?

[A]

I mean, this Veterans Day hangout was. Was this. Was this when you were. Was this when you were, like, working and sleeping?

[B]

Or what is this Veterans Day Hangout?

[A]

It's you. It's you. Moshiel, like, hanging out with. It's on Sergio Rodriguez's Instagram. Was this in all the hours that you were work? So is this when Andy was sleeping in your bed? Is this when you were at work? When was this?

[B]

This was at Andy's house. And this was for Drag Race UK season three, a show that I had to review and do a review pod about. And so I had to watch the show in order to do that. It's just the show that you. The show that you just abandoned me And I had to care and do myself. Yeah, that's just that show.

[A]

Because you're not sleeping in the picture.

[B]

Yeah, because, you know, I had to find hours to watch the show, to review it for our podcast, to, you know, to review it.

[A]

But anyway, I did invite you to my home, and you did come, which I appreciate, under extreme duress. And when I did invite you, you said, well, let's just go somewhere else.

[B]

That's not true.

[A]

That's not.

[B]

Oh, my God. Okay. So. Bad day. You are so ridiculous. You're so ridiculous.

[A]

You're so skinny lately.

[B]

Oh, thank you.

[A]

I have gained some weight, but I grew this beard, so you can't tell.

[B]

You always say you gain weight, and I don't really be seeing it. I feel like you. I feel like you want to see, like, yeah, I've gained weight, and you really haven't. You're one of those girls.

[A]

No, I really have. This is not a drill. I have certainly gained weight. It is all. I mean, I would show you, except my belly is kind of ashy. Is it ashy? No. This is where.

[B]

I hate when you do that. Stop doing that. I hate when you do that.

[A]

My man. Like it.

[B]

So, Bob, you have this new voice. How do you feel with your new voice?

[A]

I feel pretty good. Okay. So not being able to talk was actually really exhausting. There were a few times that I would try to say something to. I mean, mostly Jacob and Ezra, and Jacob and Ezra were both not good at reading my lips. They just couldn't do it. And that's.

[B]

That's because you got them big. Them big nigga lips.

[A]

Well, you think it would make it easier to read my lips because there's so much real estate. You know what I mean?

[B]

No. Skinny lips are easy to read. Like, skinny white people lips are easy to read.

[A]

I should have done this. Girl, listen. But anyway, so I was like, can you read lips, by the way?

[B]

I think I can. Go ahead, do something. Well, you're a little delayed. Will you come over?

[A]

Is that really what you think?

[B]

I said, no, shut the fuck up. But you also giving me. You're giving me clues by giving me, like, hand gestures.

[A]

So I gave clues when I was talking to. So one time, me and Jacob. I don't know what I was doing. We were leaving somewhere, and Jacob was. He just really nice to me. And I just said. I said, now for you, I'm at home, I'm mouthing I love you. And Jacob was like, huh? And I said, I love you. I mouthed it again. He Said, huh? Then I pointed at my eye. I was holding something. I put it. I made half a heart. I put it by my heart. And then I pointed at him and he was like, he says, like, you want me to get you some water? Or like whatever it was, it was so off base. And I just said out loud, jacob, I love you. But I wasn't supposed to be talking, but I just got so frustrated that he didn't know what. I love you me. I was like, this is, this is. This is crazy.

[B]

Jacob must have been fucking with you. There's no way.

[A]

If you look at that, that makes absolutely no sense. Pointing at your eye, half of a heart over your heart. That's half of a heart. That doesn't mean anything. But I was holding something. I had it in my hand.

[B]

Yeah, Jacob, that's pretty. That's pretty obvious.

[A]

I don't need this. And I also mouth. I said. And he was like, you need me to get you? And I was like, jacob, this is crazy. So there were a few moments where it was like. But also Jacob was. Jacob was really bad at reading lips. Ezra was pretty bad at reading lips. Kennedy, I can't speak at full speed. And Kennedy would be like, yeah, yeah. Like Kennedy could read my lips so easily. So I felt like I was being heard for the first time.

[B]

No, I felt like I was being

[A]

heard in like a week. And it was amazing. So I would. I would use the notes app on my phone to type things.

[B]

Then you started using the TikTok app

[A]

and I would use the TikTok app to talk too. And also I have like. So I still have tons of one sided conversations that I was having with people on my. Like, let me just read you a couple of random things. Penn and Teller, can you do Mariah? It's really. Is really pants that I don't try on. I try on jackets. Dogecoin. Just start calling him it. See how much he cares. He wants me to take a picture with him. The only one I really love is Batman from D.C. like I don't know what the fuck is gonna. It's just me and all these fool. Also all my.

[B]

You sound like. You sound like Jada SS hall having any sentence. Just a whole bunch of sentences.

[A]

Okay, so I don't know if Jada be high, but you're talking to Jada and she just be saying stuff and you'd be like, what does this mean? You'd be like, what? How does that make sense?

[B]

Yeah, like Jada, like Bob and I, we having a conversation and Doing our own thing. Jada, come up. I'll tell you one thing. If he don't bring the store, that he can't go to the mall. And she'll walk away like, what?

[A]

Okay, that is incredibly accurate. And I'll be like, is that a reference? And then she'll laugh, and she. She will laugh like she just. Like she just finished her first set of the Apollo.

[B]

That's very J D. Did you.

[A]

Wait, who else is on the tour? By the way, who else is on this tour besides your favorite jam?

[B]

It's my favorite jam. It's Kyrie Lee, Sonny Glove. It is Crystal method. It is Ms. Crack. Ms. Carrie just left, actually. I think Alyssa's joining us tomorrow. Hiding Closet. And there's one more person I'm missing.

[A]

Who's the messiest backstage?

[B]

The messiest backstage? I don't know. I haven't really. Well, this is only my second day. I went on two shows. I haven't really noticed if anyone's messy.

[A]

Who's the neatest? You always know who the neatest is. That's. That's the thing. The first thing I noticed is, oh, Brooklyn Heights.

[B]

Brooklyn Heights is also here too. That's who it was the neatest. I don't know again, because me and Trinity are co hosting. So we get ready, separate everyone else. I don't really see. See where everyone's space is. I'm very neat, though. I'm normally first one, first one packed up and ready to go because I, like, pack myself during the show.

[A]

You're pretty neat. I mean, you're not like Cameron Michaels neat. Cameron Michaels is like, next level. It's crazy. It's crazy. Yes, it is. Cameron Michaels, Sasha Velour and Bianca Del Rio are like, serial killer neat.

[B]

Who was she? Cameron. Who else?

[A]

Cameron Michaels, Bianca Del Rio and Sasha Velour are serious.

[B]

I've never done anything with Sasha Velour.

[A]

Is she not on the store?

[B]

No, she's gone already. She did, like, the first two weeks or something like that. She's gone.

[A]

The poster makes it look like you're gonna get 40 drag queens.

[B]

No, it is not. It is not the tea.

[A]

But the poster looks like that. The post is like, look at all 50 of these drag queens who are going to be in. In Drag Queen Christmas, everyone hops on and off. And it's three show up and it's three of y' all hoes.

[B]

Like, I know Cracker is coming back closer to Christmas. And then Shade also coming back. And Jada's Jada joining the Tour as well. I think in like, a week or

[A]

so, if the shoe don't fit, get some gumbo and slap it on top.

[B]

That's.

[A]

It's Jada essence.

[B]

That literally. So that's some Jada shit. Like, I tell you one thing, if the store is going to run to the mall, then we need to go to get some sugar cookies, girl. What the are you saying?

[A]

I'm realizing, like, I feel like there's something in my career now or my life that I'm just. I'm just no longer one of the. I'm no longer one of the girls who does these big tours. Which is. Which is. Which is, you know, obviously perfectly fine. I was. I would. To be fair, I was offered to. To. To do this tour as well, but I couldn't do it because of this surgery.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But it just seemed like for whatever reason, either because of scheduling and whatever, I'm not able to do these tours anymore. Although I did do the tour with the Voss Halloween tour, which was really fun. I did. I did two. Two dates.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, you did. You were so funny. It was so good. I mean, the big reason why I did this is because, you know, I'm trying to prepare for some stuff next year, so I'm using this as. But, you know, Matteo, I don't even think about this. What. Also, I didn't know, because I don't come from the comedy world, but a lot of times, like, comedians who are preparing stuff they'll do, like, no matter how big you are, from, like, Amy Schumer to fucking. Whoever they do, they go to, like, little theaters or little stoves, and they. And they just. They run their jokes to see how they're doing, like, if they're good, what they want to keep, what they want to. What they want to let go, what needs more work. And they work all their material. I didn't know that.

[A]

You could have asked me. Money. I'm a comedian, too. You could. You could always ask me.

[B]

Well, you couldn't talk.

[A]

I could wait. Do you want to get a taste of how I used to like the voice I used to use to type things out?

[B]

Yeah. Over here.

[A]

So I had a couple of videos saved to my phone where it was just. Just like, nothing on it like this. And then I would talk over them. So this one was actually backstage at Bianca de Rio show I made. This was like a talk backstage at Bianca show. And this is the one I would use. There it is.

[B]

Monet is touring right now.

[A]

But I was like, they just say things Weird. Like, instead of touring, they say Turing, which is like, who is that? Like, it's the rock. The guy who does rocket raccoon. Bradley.

[B]

Is it really Bradley Cooper? It's Bradley Cooper. Oh, Bradley Cooper. Okay.

[A]

But yeah, using tick tock to talk was. Honestly, it kind of worked sometimes. And I. And you. You experienced when I invited you over to play games that night, which, by the way, the video game nights are so much fun. I really enjoy doing those, like those little. Our little. Our little game nights.

[B]

The game nights are really fun. And now you finally have like, you finally have a couch. You have furniture you can host at your place.

[A]

Not dragging.

[B]

Well, that's not a surprise. You made a whole big thing that you're gonna go buy furniture. Was that secret too? Like your secret sobriety?

[A]

Okay, you the one with the secret boyfriend I wasn't allowed to talk about. Remember that?

[B]

Okay, there was nobody when I wasn't

[A]

allowed to mention his name out.

[B]

It was new at point. Why would I want you to put it out there?

[A]

And now you post a full on video saying I sit on his face. And I wasn't even allowed to say y'.

[B]

All.

[A]

Y' all went on. Why did I say that, Monet? If you posted it on Tik Tok, you literally posted this video on Tik Tok.

[B]

No, I did not. Babe.

[A]

You said. Okay, so. So when I find the video where you said it, are you going to give me like a dollar or something, please?

[B]

I'm dying to know. I'm not posting this. I still anybody's face.

[A]

Monet, you fully. You 100% did. I think you posted a video. It was you sitting on the couch and said, show yourself. And show what? The face you be sitting on. And you cut to a clip of Andy. You did it on your own TikTok. You must have deleted it. There was a video of you. I commented. I was like one day. This is graphic. It was. It says, show yourself and then show the face you be sitting on. And you cut to a picture of Andy. Do you not remember that?

[B]

I think you. I think you had a fever dream, babe. I never posted that on my Tik Tok monat.

[A]

You did it. Yes, you did.

[B]

Bob. I promise I didn't. Babe, I did not. I think, I think.

[A]

I think I made you think you may have. What?

[B]

No, I said I think maybe I. I said I was going to do it or something, but I never posted that. Babe.

[A]

How else would I know you sit on Andy's face, Mon, can you please acknowledge that you took it down and not gaslight me. Because you did not. Did. Because I commented on it, and I was like, monet, this is so graphic.

[B]

But I think that you have. I did not. I promise I didn't.

[A]

Do you remember this, Jacob? Yes, Monet, we all know you're gaslighting

[B]

right now, but that's okay youy.

[A]

And if you're listening right now and you saw it, if you happened to screen grab it before Monet deleted it, can you please share it with me right now? Thank you so much.

[B]

I. It was not a thing. I promise. I didn't. You and your little sneaky boyfriend trying to have your little coalition against me, as per usual.

[A]

No, we did not. Monet. You fully posted a whole thing saying you sit on Andy's. I'm gonna call Andy.

[B]

Do not call Andy.

[A]

Oh. Because you know it's true. Thank you.

[B]

It's not true. But you. It's not true. But you also can't call him. So why can't I call Andy? Because I said so.

[A]

Oh, you're trying to. Oh, so you control who gets to reach out to Andy. Wow, this sounds like Andy is in an abusive relationship. So you're one. You're gaslighting. And then you all started gatekeeping. What's the next one?

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

You got some girl bossing you want to do?

[B]

We were at the airport the other day. Angie and I were going somewhere, and then.

[A]

What? What?

[B]

I don't even know if it's that funny, but at some point, we were sitting at the thing, waiting to get in the thing. I just made a stupid joke because the airline. Because

[A]

what, bitch?

[B]

Because the gate agent had made an announcement, and she was like, oh. Because somebody tried to walk. So somebody tried to walk in before their boarding time. And on the thing, and she picks up the thing. She's like, once again, I said, we're only boarding. Blah, blah, blah. So I go to Annie. I was like, oh, so now she's literally gatekeeping. Who can't get.

[A]

Oh, my God. You're. You're ridiculous.

[B]

It's that funny. Okay, so

[A]

where do Thanksgiving, by the way?

[B]

Oh, for Thanksgiving. Andy had a friend's giving at his house. Oh, my God, Bob, I wish you were there. That was so funny because it was many lesbians, many queer people at this house. But then they had this, you know, that, like, annoying vegan. Just like one of those people who does CrossFit. And she just loves to be like, make sure. Like, she's like. She's like that girl. It's like, she literally like, I don't watch tv, I don't eat fast food. Like very that type of person. It was her and she was there so that everyone brought stuff, right? So Annie's a little clumsy sometimes. So we're all sitting around the table and he gets out to go prepare the dessert. And then she put. She cooked her pie in this like very like artisanal type of opening thing. So Andy goes, he opens the latch. Her fucking pie just falls through the bottom and just shatters on the floor.

[A]

What kind of pie was it?

[B]

Pumpkin, peanut butter pie. Some shit she made. And so we all hear the sound. Everyone turns to the kitchen and we look, Andy has a pie in his hand. He has some in his. He has the crumble pie in his hand and eating some with his other hand. And he's just looking at him.

[A]

He just starts eating it. He just starts eating the pie.

[B]

And she was so annoyed that Andy broke a pie. And then. And then also then later we started playing games. And they were playing games as a living room, but it's like kind of dimly lit. So I'm like, can we like put the likes of some lights on? Like hard for me to see. And then she's like. And then she makes the executive decision for everyone. She's like, no, we can't put the lights on because it's going to give me a headache. And everybody's looking at her like, what do you mean? This is not about you. So then she goes. And she's like, she's like, wait, wait, hang on, I have a solution. So then she goes in the kitchen and they have these like decorative candles. And she just starts lighting the decorative candles to light the rest of the room. And everyone is like, like the cat.

[A]

Like the kind of candles you don't light. Oh my God.

[B]

This girl was. She was a wild bob. It was a mess. But you know what? I just gave her leggings. I don't think she was wearing leggings. She was not wearing leggings.

[A]

She sound like some bitch that wear leggings. Let's talk a little bit more about her after this little break.

[C]

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[B]

And let go of whatever you're carrying today.

[C]

Well, I'm letting go of the worry that it was wouldn't get my new contacts in time for this class. I got them delivered free from one 800 contacts. Oh my gosh, they're so fast.

[B]

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[C]

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

And we're back. So, you know, even black folk, like, black families, like, you know, you have, like, the rug, the chairs nobody sits on that's there, the candles you don't like, even though they've been there for mad long. And she was just breaking all the rules, girl, she was wild.

[A]

So here's something that I did for Thanksgiving. So I went home to Clayton county, and Jacob went to visit his family in p town, and Ezra went to go visit his girlfriend in Santa Barbara. And then we all came together after Thanksgiving and hung out in Clayton County. So I was actually able to, like, I was. It was my first time having a polyamorous dynamic in front of my family. So it was like me and my boyfriend. Honestly, it went really smoothly. It wasn't weird at all. No one was weird about it. Everyone was just kind of like, oh, yeah, this is just Chris and his two boyfriends. We just. We just hung out. I was just like, oh, this is Bob and his two boyfriends. And no one thought anything weird about it. And we just laughed. And we played Family Feud. We played, like, Jackbox, and we. We watched a lot of tv. We went. We went skating. My niece.

[B]

Skating. Ice skating.

[A]

Ice skating. Me, my niece, my nephew, my brother and his wife and Ezra and his fiance and Ezra and Jacob. We all went ice skating together. We bonded. We had a lot of fun. It was really remarkable.

[B]

I love that. Look at you.

[A]

We're all in the living room playing Family Feud. Right? And do you know. Do you know. Are you familiar with Family Feud and how the game works? Of course.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Because there's a lot of rules that go with Family Feud. So you. One of the things where you have to. You have to name. You try. You're trying to get the most common answer. So they'll say, like, what is something that a diva would wear on her head? And then someone will say, like, a hat. And then that'll be the number one answer. And then you'll be like a fascinator, and that'll be the number two. And then you'd be like, a wig will be number three. But because it remind me that children don't really have critical thinking skills. They just kind of just say whatever. So one of the questions was a boy's name that starts with N. So my niece, instead of, like, thinking of a very common boy's name, it starts with N. She just names the first boy she can think of. And she's like, natavia. So everyone starts laughing, and she's like, what? I know a boy named Natavia. We're like, sure. Survey says, okay, zero. And then my nephew goes. And he goes, nazir.

[B]

Well, to be fair, in their school, those are common names, probably.

[A]

No. No, they're not. No, Natavia is not. I promise you, my niece knows one. Natavia. One. I promise you. She knows just one. And she also says up there, like, what is something that you might find in a witch's house? And she goes, pills.

[B]

We should do a Sibling Rival or sibling. Sibling. Family Feud.

[A]

I would love to do what? I would. If we do it, we should do it on Zoom, and we should each. We should each have our own teams.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Have our teams from the Patreon. We can have, like, a few people to join us or maybe some close friends or something. And we could do a Family Feud style. I never told you.

[B]

I'm so down.

[A]

I actually got asked to be on Family Feud, but I had to.

[B]

I remember with the.

[A]

With. With RuPaul. Yeah. I never told the listeners this, but I was asked to be on family feud when RuPaul was on family Feud. And I had this grand plan. I was going to dress up like Steve Harvey. I was going to wear a suit like Steve Harvey. And then when he came back the second time, I was going to have a mustache on. And then he came back the third time, I was going to be bald.

[B]

I can't.

[A]

Does that not sound hilarious?

[B]

I think Steve Harvey looked like. He wouldn't. He would be the type. He wouldn't like that, though. No, he would.

[A]

I think he'd laugh. Like, Steve's whole thing on the show. Is he. I mean. I think so. I mean, his whole thing on the show is acting like he doesn't like everything, but it's all, like, a bit. I don't. You know, I don't know Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey's not a buddy of mine. We are not friends. I thought he was great.

[B]

Stephen Harvey, he was great.

[A]

Kings of comedy. But he is also one of those, like, deeply Christian guys.

[B]

Right?

[A]

Decided to stop. He doesn't curse anymore. I have an uncle who doesn't curse now.

[B]

Uncle Steve.

[A]

Uncle Scotty doesn't curse. Uncle Steve curses.

[B]

Who made. Who made. Who made dinner? It was Uncle Steve.

[A]

Uncle Steve cook everything. Yeah.

[B]

I met Aunt Hazel.

[A]

You met my Aunt Hazel? Yeah.

[B]

And I finally got invited to the party in July because you weren't gonna tell me about that.

[A]

I don't know if I'm going, Monet. I didn't go to the last one because I was filming my Aunt Hazel's like, what was you doing? I was like. You remember that episode of We're Here? It was on the 4th of July. I was. I was in Indianapolis for Indiana. I was in Watertown. No, not water. I wasn't even. Indiana. I was in Indiana.

[B]

Well, listen, you are. You can. You can block it off your calendar now. So then your manager, your agent, whoever knows not to book something in that time so you can spend with your family. But we're in the time. We're just coming out of a global pandemic. Family time is important.

[A]

That's not how filming works. It could be.

[B]

You're. You're. You are the host of We're Here. They can film around your schedule.

[A]

That's, again, not how that works.

[B]

But it is if you wanted to be.

[A]

Maybe you're the host of a show, but no, that's not how that works. And I think you and I both know that. That's not how show business works.

[B]

It works for me, honey.

[A]

Well, then why did you have to take time off of. Why did you have to take time off of the Christmas tour? Why couldn't they just film around your schedule? How come they couldn't. How come they couldn't move the whole Christmas tour to fit your schedule? Why didn't they do that, Monet?

[B]

That's because I wasn't the host of that show.

[A]

But you're the host of the Christmas show. Why did they just move everything around to make it work for you? How about the time I had to fill in for you at the show that you host on aol Bill? I filled in. Why did. Why did you have to. Why didn't you move your whole Australian tour around so you didn't have to miss the show? Because you were the host and you. And you were a producer on that show, honey.

[B]

I was the executive producer on that show, baby, and you couldn't even figure

[A]

out your own schedule. Wow, that's so. That's so crazy. So how come you didn't move. Move heaven and earth? How did I. Why I had to show up to work for you, huh?

[B]

Because I knew. Because. Because I needed. I knew that you needed a check. I want you to get a check, baby.

[A]

And I still haven't been paid.

[B]

I did pay for that, bitch. I venmoed you. I mean, I don't. You. I will bring up the receipts right now. Don't you. You dare I paid your ass. Don't you even try it.

[A]

Yeah, under the table on Venmo. I would like a 1099. I need to claim my taxes, please. Why did you try to send it me on PayPal? Through friends and family.

[B]

When did you officially start talking? How many weeks after your surgery did you, like, officially start talking? Like, are you like you are now?

[A]

It was almost three weeks. Like, like two weeks and five days or two weeks and seven and six days.

[B]

And you can talk like this?

[A]

No, I was talking a lot less than this. I was speaking like, I mean, maybe like, I was just speaking a lot less. Like, a lot less than this.

[B]

So are you, Are you back to speaking full time now?

[A]

I mean, kind of. The short answer is yes. I, I'm not speaking like, how I want to speak. I'm not using my full voice. I'm not talking at the volume I would normally talk at. I got to an argument yesterday, but I had to do it. Like, like, like this argument with who?

[B]

Why it is.

[A]

It was a family argument. It was my. Me and my family argued. I was, I was mad at someone in my family, so I called my mom to complain about it, but I had to talk like this. I was like, can you believe he said that? Isn't that crazy?

[B]

But.

[A]

But I couldn't, I couldn't do my normal, you know, when I'm like. And Jacob, Jacob kept being like, I think that you need to stop. I think you're getting too excited. I think you need to. I think you need to lower your voice. And I was in the air. And then also I got so irritated. I was fighting with this family member. And then I got off the plane, but I was so frustrated. I just.

[B]

You left something.

[A]

I walked right off the plane without my suitcase. And then I got off and I was so mad and. No, that had to go all the way back into the airport. And then my. And then this family member of mine was sending me, like, Bible like, sermons today, and I was very annoyed with that. It was a whole thing.

[B]

What did you forget? Was, Was it your. Was it your 18 laptops?

[A]

I just forgot my suitcase also, by the way, whenever. If I'm not in drag when I travel, I do not check a bag. I do not.

[B]

I can't do that. I can't do that. I went to do it. I, I. And then I went, went to SF for a day, and I brought. I had to check my bag because all of my skincare stuff for a day Money. Yes, skincare stuff. Like, all, like, your Lotion.

[A]

And I understand what skincare is when. I thank you for breaking it down, but you. You could not go one day without a gallon of skincare.

[B]

Why? Because I don't want to put in smaller things. I just have my big travel bag of stuff. I just bring that because I bring

[A]

a few of them and like, pare it down. If it's literally just one day because

[B]

I have my skincare sack, I just bring that whole thing with me. And also, it's just checking it back. It doesn't do anything to me. Like, the bags come within, like, 10 minutes when you get there. It's not going to inconvenience me when you don't.

[A]

When you get to go from the. From the curb straight to the gate. Ooh, Bypassing the line. All I have in my one little suitcase that. That. That slaps. And then you get off the plane, you just grab your bag, and you just walk away. You just. Because, honestly, the airport really pisses me off. There's a lot of stuff that people like. People at the airport. That's when I'm like, what's wrong with y'? All?

[B]

Is LAX not an inferior airport? LAX is such a shitty airport.

[A]

Inferior? Why is it inferior?

[B]

Like, for example, back when we used to live in New York, if you in jfk, all you need was an hour before your flight to get to as. Like, before an hour of you. Like, your flight takes off and you're good lax. I can't do that. I have to give at least an hour and a half because either. Either there are not enough people working the sky priority line, or, like, that's always a problem anytime I fly out of lax every time.

[A]

The only experience I've had was getting to LAX can be a lot harder than getting to jfk. That heights. Like, there are times where it can literally take two hours to get to LAX from Hollywood, and that is just bananas.

[B]

That's crazy. It's crazy.

[A]

But when I'm there, I'm. I'm pretty much in and out. Like, I have no. Okay, here's the thing that people do at the airport that drive me crazy. When. When the. When the bell dings, you can take your seatbelt off. Why y' all standing up? Why are you standing?

[B]

Wait, wait. What?

[A]

When the plane lands and then it starts to taxi to the gate, and then the bell dings.

[B]

I hate that.

[A]

I'm like, just wait until we can actually get off the plane. They're all standing up and just, like, grabbing it, but they're just. You're just standing in the aisle for, like, another few minutes.

[B]

It's that or when people are waiting to get on the airplane, it's always like, the crew of people, like, trying to, like, they, like. Like the fucking gate. Gate lady can't even say her piece without all these people storming the gate, like, about to storm the fucking Capitol.

[A]

And what drives me the craziest, when I'm at the fucking baggage claim. Oh, my God.

[B]

Who's in front of you?

[A]

And they put their feet. I mean, their feet are up against the carousel. Why do you need to stand that close to the carousel if everyone stands, like, five feet back, right? You ever had. You ever, like, fight an old lady to get to your bags? Why are y' all surrounding the carousel? And they're all. I'm like, if everyone just scoots back. But also, you know, in Amsterdam, they don't do that in Amsterdam, Every. Everyone stands back. It was crazy. I had never been in a place like that.

[B]

Amsterdam is a wild. Amsterdam airport is so fucking big. Amsterdam airport is big.

[A]

It looks like an ikea. It looks like an ikea. I think this is crazy. I'm gonna get lost up in this. But the airport. RuPaul said a while back, the airport is, like. It brings out the worst in people. And honestly, I agree. Like, the airport will. There are times that I'm just, like, at the airport, like, I'm a monster. I'm gonna. I actually ran. I ran into Kati at the airport recently, actually.

[B]

Oh, what was she doing there?

[A]

She was flying to Atlanta. She worked.

[B]

She got a new job. She was flying somewhere.

[A]

Times are tough. She works at the. At the. At the Panda Express in. In terminal.

[B]

Bob, we need to wait before I forget. We need to really try to do this Megan thee stallion thing. How are we gonna make it happen?

[A]

I can DM Megan right now. I've DM Megan several times. She's never even seen them. But I can.

[B]

I can continue.

[A]

I can continue my process of.

[B]

I can try DMing her, too. I've DMed. I've DMed many celebrities. I'm obsessed with by DM them. I've, like, tagged them something, but they

[A]

sent her another one. I said, hi, Meg.

[B]

Did you really also have you had

[A]

Megan these d Hottie sauce from. From Popeyes?

[B]

No. Is it good?

[A]

It's. It's basically. It tastes like the sweet. Like a. Yeah, it tastes like. It's just like a sweet sauce, which is. You know, it's just great. But I'm not gonna lie. I fully 100% pulled over to the side of the road when I found out they had Megan's sweet hot sauce. And I did buy some.

[B]

Oh, my God. You bought it? Like, you bought like, a bottle of it?

[A]

No, I bought a sandwich.

[B]

Oh, got it. I mean, I still stand by that. What?

[A]

Go ahead. Sorry. Go ahead. You're saying?

[B]

No, nothing important. Like, I just. I had it today. The fucking Popeyes chicken sandwich is the greatest chicken sandwich I've ever had in my life. Anyway, continue.

[A]

Amazing. It's amazing. Yeah, I mean, I save the spicy mayo, but anyway. Can I just say right now out loud that I'm so excited that the Spotify wrap up list. Can you please tell me who your top artist of the year is?

[B]

We talked about this, Bob. I don't have Spotify. I don't know.

[A]

Oh, my God. I keep forgetting Apple. Don't be giving a fuck. I would be like, nigga, you know who you listen to?

[B]

Somebody. Somebody tweeted the other day. Someone to know today. I saw it. Someone was like, hey, just want to send all my love and support to all my friends on Apple Music. How y' all feeling today? I hope y' all feel fully supported.

[A]

It's so funny. So my number one artist of the year was. Do you want to guess your number

[B]

one artist of the year? I'm going to say Cardi.

[A]

You are correct. My number one artist was Ms. Cardi B. Bell. Cuz. How do you know that?

[B]

Because, Bob, you love her music. When you discovered up, there was no stopping you.

[A]

So up was my number one song of the year.

[B]

I knew it. I knew it. You were so crazy with that.

[A]

My number one song of the year was up by Megan Thee. Stallion. My number two artist was Ocean Kelly. My number three artist was Adele. Number four was Todrick Hall. And number five was Megan Thee. Stallion. My number one song was Up. My number two song was Body by Megan. My number three was Washingsette by Leccolet 47. My number four song was Boss Bitch by Doja Cat. And my number five song was the way I am by Ingrid Michaelson.

[B]

How can I? I wish I could find mine. I want to do that. It's so annoying.

[A]

Do you know how easy it is to sign up for Spotify? Do you know how easy it is if you just sign up for Spotify? You will have all the answers that you seek in this world. Also, sibling rivalry this year has some great stats. And thank you all for making sure that civil rivalry is having some amazing, amazing listens. We had. Okay, first of all, we did 73 episodes this year, which is amazing. We played in 125 countries. We. It said that we're up 204% on the hours. That means we just have more. There's like, we just have more podcasts. What it means or more listeners. Got it. Okay. Total days.

[B]

I wanted. I want to set to those. How many people listen to our podcast for the whole year. That's what I want. Like a number.

[A]

Well, our podcast peak. We peaked at number 30. I feel like next year podcast overall on Sibling Rivalry on the Spotify charts, we peaked at 30, but we also had 20. We charted 29 days were in. And our. Our number one episode was the finale of Sibling Wisery.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Yeah. Was the finale of RuPaul's Drag Racer 7Y3. I'm really shocked that it was not Tamisha Gate. I'm surprised.

[B]

I know. But also because that was a Patreon.

[A]

Oh, you're right. You're right, you're right.

[B]

That was a.

[A]

That was a popping. And honestly, I kind of felt. I don't want to bring it up again, but there was one of those moments I was like, we really made some money off of this. And I was like, I hope she at least got some dollars. I saw that she toured throughout the uk. I mean, I saw.

[B]

She really.

[A]

Well, I saw someone else because I'm still blocked. But. But she. She did a panto show.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Also, my. Also, you really need to get a Spotify, because Spotify also tells you what your top genres are. So my top genre was dance pop. My number two genre was Broadway. Number three was a genre called strut. Number four was a genre called soul. And number five was trap queen.

[B]

Oh, that sounds like Ocean Kelly.

[A]

Oh, and you don't know about. Do you know about face. Do you know about audio aura?

[B]

No. What's that?

[A]

So audio aura is this thing where you like. It literally just shows what your. I don't even know how to explain it. Spotify shows what you're. The. The aura of you listening to music is. So it's like, this is your. How do I. How do you describe. It's just like a cube. It's a picture with some colors in it. And it's like, this is the vibe. It's your vibe, basically. So this was interesting. And then it tells you what your thing is. Like, so this is my audio aura. Do you see it?

[B]

It's me.

[A]

Yeah. It says gaslighting and put these nuts on your face, bitch.

[B]

You're so silly. But no, the reason why, because Apple music is so integrated to all my things, and if I start with Spotify, I had to read basically my entire library. Have to re. Put it onto Spotify when I've already created. I have, like over 30,000 songs on my Apple music that I actively have. So it's just too much work.

[A]

I don't want to sound like an Apple person, but, you know, everyone uses Spotify. We're all using it. Everyone uses it. It's so easy. Why don't you just join the rest of us?

[B]

No, thank you. I like seeing Apple also.

[A]

You can still have an Apple and listen to Spotify. I'm not asking you to buy a Spotify phone.

[B]

Well, why am I then? I'm paying for two. You realize True Bill that's supporting us. True Bill will be like, no, bitch, don't do that. I have so many subscription things. I have. I have hbo, Max. I have Netflix. Thank you for that.

[A]

Thank you for that, by the way. Thank you getting hbo, Max. I really appreciate it.

[B]

I have Paramount Plus. I have so many. Like, you have so many things you can't even like. It's. It's. It's. It's stupid. I need to stop.

[A]

You have to team up with people. So I have Kennedy's Paramount Plus. No, I have Kennedy. Kennedy's HBO. No, Kennedy's Disney Plus. So Kennedy uses our HBO, Max. And then I have. Me and my honey LeBron share a Hulu. So you just. You just kind of. You gotta team up, Monet. Yeah. Team up with people.

[B]

Also, to all the people who listen to Sibling wui, I was. That was Tia Coffee's phone that was vibrating. That was not me. Everyone is like, I just know it's Monet. That's Monet. I just know it's Monet. It really was not me. It was fully tea or coffee.

[A]

Is this how you treat your guests? You just throw your guests under the bus like this?

[B]

Yeah, if they deserve it. And she did. But wait, Bob, because we weren't doing Walter for a while. How did you feel about the finale?

[A]

I felt like Ella Day had a really good verse. Like, actually, it wasn't that her verse was great. It's that her. Her voice sounded good.

[B]

Sounded great.

[A]

I honest. The best verse, like, lyrically, was actually probably Kitty Scott Claws. And I felt like Ella Day's performance was the best one.

[B]

Agreed. People were crazy people. These are the comments. They were like, monet, are you crazy? Ella was not the best one. I was. She like, she was the best. Crystal couldn't even keep up in some of the group choreo. She was like, a be.

[A]

Her performance was great. I also thought that Ella Day was much, much better in the. The roast. Like, the. Like. Like her. She was so good. And part of me felt like when. When Crystal messed up in the rose, they were just like, it's just so cute. Not cute. She up. Like, this wasn't funny. It wasn't good. Not as cute, like, because when. When. What's the name? Up. Vanity Up. They're like, you up. You're. But, Chris, you're so cute. The way you up. It was so cute. No, it wasn't. It was. She did a bad job, and it wasn't funny. And I thought that the last two performances, Ella just did a much better job. And I feel like. But also, Ella's last look was bad, bad.

[B]

It was garbage. So bad.

[A]

And her lip sync was not good. But apparently she was injured.

[B]

That's what they're saying people love. But where is that? So just like, it's the same people that said that Drag Race was filmed in 10 days. Like, Ella was injured. How y' all know Ella said it.

[A]

Ella said that she was injured, and which is why she couldn't do her last lip sync very well. And she also that she wasn't able to do a fitting with her final look.

[B]

Well, so how do. How do you explain all the other looks?

[A]

That is so rude. Well, that is so nasty and so rude.

[B]

Oh, my God. What do you think about Veronica Green's finale look?

[A]

She said the point of it was to get people talking, and, I mean, success. Congratulations. I don't think it looked particularly great.

[B]

I think. I think that she should have had just a big flaccid dick between her legs, like a big dildo. I think that would have been great.

[A]

How, you know, she doesn't have a big plastic dick of her own that she grew organically.

[B]

Well, that's not. Not show your own, but you. If I feel like you can show a dildo, like a prosthetic, and it'll be fine, but you show your own. It's like, oh, everybody know your business.

[A]

Can you read Ella's statement?

[B]

Oh, Ella said, wow, this experience of Drag Race has been so overwhelming. Extreme highs and extreme lows that you never saw on screen. Oh, oh, maybe that. That's not a blame. I. Every time I see that, I'm like, oh, there she go. Blaming the edit. We got to the finale episode, and during rehearsals, late into the night, I injured my back. The morning of finale I couldn't even put my socks on for the pain and cried my little eyes out. Was so upset that this could ruin the finale. I got through it best I could, but it was such a struggle. Then when I put my finale outfit on, I was not feeling confident in it at all. With delays and the pandemic. I got the gown the night before I left for isolation. I had not been able to try the finished outfit on, so I had no idea. If it didn't reach the floor, I thought it would flare out more at the bottom. I had no other choice but to make it work. I've learnt so much about myself during this process. I want to say a huge thank you to all you who supported me from the beginning. And please remember, fuck Monet.

[A]

Oh.

[B]

If you have nothing nice to say, there's no need to say it at all. I don't need comments on what I should or could have done, as it's eight months too late, sweeties. Can't wait for the next chapter in my life. Watch Drag Race. Love you.

[A]

Oh, that was at you Monday. That was literally directed at you.

[B]

Imagine.

[A]

I just want to say that I called it earlier and it is true. She is the fucking of Drag Race uk.

[B]

Who?

[A]

Ella Bide is the Elle of a rose. She's Rose in every. In every way you can imagine. She's Rose.

[B]

Yeah, I don't see that, but okay,

[A]

it's the musical theater. It is the. The singing, like, being really good at singing, dancing, being a little butch, being perceived a little butch in Dragon, Making it to the top four. Making it to the top, but not necessarily nailing it in the finale. It's all very Rose.

[B]

You hate Rose. Oh, my God.

[A]

I like Rosie a lot, actually.

[B]

Oh, so now. So now you're an alcoholic again.

[A]

Also, you're not gonna say anything about my beard at all?

[B]

I think it looks very hot. You look. You look. Look nicer. Facial hair.

[A]

Well, it helps with this area. It does get rid of that, which is nice.

[B]

Why you. Why you were under? You should have done the Joan Rivers. You should have got the little chin lipo that you said you wanted to do.

[A]

I was going to. I actually considered getting the chin lipo while I was under, but I have other priorities that I need to take care of. Like, I'm trying to, you know, buy some stuff for my family and get my. My porch fix, my balcony fixed. So I figured, like, that felt. That felt a little more pressing than getting my chin lipoed. You know, work.

[B]

I feel you.

[A]

And then also my Surgery got postponed so many times, and then you have to have two doctors in the room. So getting elective surgery is really interesting. Have you ready? So, like, when you get elective surgery, you have to, like, rent the room. You have to, like, pay the hospital for the room, and then you also pay the doctor for their time as well. And then you also have to, like, pay for all the instruments.

[B]

Pay for what?

[A]

Like, any tools they use. You buy that. You pay for that, too, yo.

[B]

Oh, that's crazy.

[A]

I mean, how else do you think you're gonna. You think they just. They just give it to you for free?

[B]

Well, I think if there was some, like, with, like. Do you. Do you have health insurance?

[A]

I do, but they did not take health insurance. They're like, oh, no, we. We're. This is like my. My doctor in Beverly Hills was not about to take my coverage. California.

[B]

See, that's. It's just crazy. But, I mean, I don't know. Well, our health care system is so fucked.

[A]

Well, also, this isn't. I mean, I agree, but I think it's because this is an elective surgery. It wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't an emergency in any way, shape, form, or fashion.

[B]

But even when it's not, like the surgery, for example, like, I've seen it many times. Well, many. Maybe like two or three times in New York City, where someone will rather call an Uber to the hospital because they don't want to take the ambulance because you have to pay for the ambulance. And just. Just to pay the ambulance to come and take to the. To the. To the hospital is like 2,000. Thousand dollars. That's crazy.

[A]

Oh, I will take the one train, girl, before I get an ambulance, girl. I will. I will hop the turnstile, pay the ticket, and it'll still be cheaper.

[B]

You know what I mean? And taking the ambulance.

[A]

Yeah, girl, listen. But anyway, I've been living my little. My little beard fantasy. I am going to shave it very soon. I'm going to shave it when I get to New York. And I'm also. I did not show you this. I'm growing my hair out.

[B]

Oh, my God. You told me that. We talked about this so long ago. I can't believe you're doing it.

[A]

Can you all? I'm gonna let the listeners see my. This is the longest my hair has been. I'm growing my hair out because I'm gonna get. I'm getting a piece

[B]

by Mickey the barber.

[A]

Yeah. Which is so. Me and Mickey, we're talking on Instagram. I'm setting up a time. I'm gonna get. I'm gonna. I think I'm gonna get the. The hair like killmonger from black. From Black Panther work, and we'll see how well you know.

[B]

You know, I have my little piece. Bob, do not do like me. Do not go to the gym and shit, because it will sweat and your shit will be itching so bad underneath.

[A]

You know, you convinced me I won't go to the gym. You know what? I was going to work out a lot, but Monet told me how to go to the gym, so. Girl. Anyway, so I'll update you all on my Bob with hair and maybe a beard, depending on when I get this hair put in. I love you very much, man. I miss you very, very much. And you should hurry back. I text you today, but I forgot you weren't here. I was very sad. I know.

[B]

Bob was like, bob has a memory of the squirrel. Bob calls me. He was like, I just called you. What you're doing? I was like, oh, I'm off today. You're like, well, come over. No, no. He was like, I want to talk to you. I was like, oh, we can zoom. He's like, monet, why can't you just come over? I was like, bob, I'm on tour.

[A]

Like, oh, you.

[B]

Yeah, I keep on forgetting.

[A]

Well, I miss you. I love you very much. It feels good to be back here on the podcast. Give me a couple of weeks, y', all, and I will be back to my screaming, loud, boisterous self. But in the meantime, you'll be getting the NPR version of Bob the Drag Queen. And maybe I'll do, like a. We'll do like, a side by side comparison of my old voice, my new voice.

[B]

It sounds like your old videos before you were, like, really doing drag. The ones you just put on your YouTube randomly. You sound like your old ass videos on YouTube.

[A]

I mean, when I say my old voice, like, the voice right before I got surgery.

[B]

I love you very much, Mon. I love you, too. All right, bye, everyone.