The One About Books

Summary

Podcast Summary: "The One About Books" - Sibling Rivalry with Monét X Change and Bob The Drag Queen

Release Date: March 24, 2025

Introduction In the "The One About Books" episode of Sibling Rivalry, hosts Monét X Change and Bob The Drag Queen delve into their personal relationships with reading, share humorous anecdotes, and discuss Monét's upcoming book, Harriet Tubman Live in Concert. The episode is peppered with the hosts' signature comedic chemistry, making it both insightful and thoroughly entertaining.

Monét's Book: Harriet Tubman Live in Concert Monét introduces her latest project, Harriet Tubman Live in Concert, highlighting her passion and dedication to the book. She shares details about the book's creation, emphasizing the meticulous attention to elements like font selection and visual design.

• Monét on Font Choice (07:30): "I wanted it duochromatic, and I knew that I wanted a picture of Harriet Tubman's hands holding the mic. Those are actually Harriet Tubman's hands, by the way."

Bob engages by questioning the symbolism behind the book's artwork, sparking a meaningful discussion about Harriet Tubman's legacy and the book's thematic elements.

• Bob's Inquiry (08:13): "Why broken chains? Why would Harriet Tubman want chains to be broken?"

Personal Experiences with Reading Both hosts reflect on their reading habits and experiences, offering listeners relatable insights.

• Bob on Reading Challenges (28:44): "I used to be a big book reader in school, but I think I lost a lot of my pizzazz for reading because I have PTSD with reading out loud."

• Monét's Reading Journey (29:32): "The first book I ever read cover to cover was Mick Foley's memoir, Blood, Tears, and Sweatsocks."

Monét shares a poignant story about being forced to read aloud in school to overcome a speech impediment, highlighting the emotional toll it took on her relationship with reading.

Comedic Banter and Anecdotes The episode features the duo's trademark humor, revolving around playful accusations of stealing and mishaps involving Reese's peanut butter cups.

• Monét's Accusation (04:43): "Do you know how dirty I am? Macaroni, eggs, cheese."

• Bob's Confession (12:23): "I put a liquid liner in my bag with the intention of stealing it... and got arrested."

These exchanges not only entertain but also showcase the hosts' ability to weave humor into their narratives seamlessly.

Podcast Achievements and Listener Engagement Monét and Bob take a moment to celebrate the podcast's milestones, encouraging listeners to leave reviews and engage with their content.

• Monét on Ratings (16:23): "We have 16.2 thousand reviews over on Spotify, which I greatly, greatly appreciate."

• Bob's Request (15:21): "Please go on Apple Podcasts and give us some ratings."

Their genuine appreciation for their audience fosters a sense of community and encourages continued support.

Excerpt from Monét's Book Towards the end of the episode, Bob reads an excerpt from Harriet Tubman Live in Concert, providing listeners with a sneak peek into Monét's storytelling prowess.

• Excerpt (68:52):

  They were not Reese's Pieces cups. They were the Reese's pizza wafer sticks.
  

Monét promotes the availability of her book in both physical and audiobook formats, emphasizing the inclusion of original songs within the audiobook version.

• Monét's Promotion (68:59): "You can get [e-mail] and if you want a signed copy, you can go to bobsignedbook."

Conclusion "The One About Books" episode masterfully balances heartfelt discussions about literature with the hosts' engaging humor. Monét X Change and Bob The Drag Queen not only highlight the importance of reading and storytelling but also celebrate their podcast's enduring success. The episode concludes with playful interactions and a reaffirmation of their commitment to delivering quality content to their loyal listeners.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Monét: "I wanted it duochromatic, and I knew that I wanted a picture of Harriet Tubman's hands holding the mic." (07:30)
• Bob: "Why broken chains? Why would Harriet Tubman want chains to be broken?" (08:13)
• Bob: "I put a liquid liner in my bag with the intention of stealing it... and got arrested." (12:23)
• Monét: "We have 16.2 thousand reviews over on Spotify, which I greatly, greatly appreciate." (16:23)
• Monét: "You can get [e-mail] and if you want a signed copy, you can go to bobsignedbook." (68:59)
• Bob: "Please go on Apple Podcasts and give us some ratings." (15:21)

Final Thoughts For fans of Sibling Rivalry, this episode offers a blend of meaningful discourse on books and literature, interspersed with the hosts' unique humor and camaraderie. Monét's dedication to her book project and the podcast's impressive listener engagement serve as testaments to their talent and hard work. Whether you're a regular listener or new to the show, "The One About Books" promises an enriching and enjoyable experience.

Transcript

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[Bob the Drag Queen]

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[Monet X Change]

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[Monet X Change]

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[Monet X Change]

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[Monet X Change]

Streaming versus the other big guys. @t mobile.com/apple intelligence requires iOS 18.1 or later. My name is Bob the Drag Queen.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And I'm Mon Exchange.

[Monet X Change]

And this is simply rivalry. On this week's episode, we discuss petty theft.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We talk all about books.

[Monet X Change]

And we find out what made Monet say this.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You took the words right out my pussy. And we found out what made Bob say this.

[Monet X Change]

Do you know how dirty I am? Macaroni, eggs, cheese.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So, yo, Bob walks around his entire office with a yeti mug and a vape. It's just. And now a fucking trader's robe is too much.

[Monet X Change]

You gave me this robe.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Cause you're a traitor. You want to talk about anything that I'm wearing today?

[Monet X Change]

Is that what the fan gave you? Monet. Give me my shit. No Monet. Okay? A fan came up to Monet at a gig and was like, I have some gifts for you and Bob, and Monet is stealing. This is mine.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

They didn't say what was for what. So as far as I'm concerned, everything was mine. And I could choose what is yours.

[Monet X Change]

Well, then, bitch, give me something. They say this is for you and Bob. So what do I get then?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Maybe if you behave yourself. Don't tell me something like that and I'll see. Maybe if you behave yourself for the rest of this podcast, you might get this.

[Monet X Change]

These are my things. Give me my stuff.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You might get it. Well, behave. If you behave, you get a nuts.

[Monet X Change]

You can behave. My nuts, they drag across your motherfucking chin.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay? Right now you're not getting anything. So if you want to, I'm going to get something. Fix your attitude.

[Monet X Change]

Or if you're getting shit, you're stealing, fix your attitude. You and your whole crew. All y'all do is theft.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You have some nerve. When you and your fucking boyfriend walked into my home and literally stole my $300 vacuum.

[Monet X Change]

You told us we could.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You stole it out of my home.

[Monet X Change]

You told us we could.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Or I'm sorry, another time when you guys came and I left a ring at your home and you guys stole and photoshopped it into a picture, somebody was yours.

[Monet X Change]

Only thing I ever stole from you was your car. I did steal your car one time.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And my robot.

[Monet X Change]

I did steal the robot. Yeah, I did.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So one of us has stolen from the. I've never sold it. The only thing I've ever stole it from you was one time I found $100 in your old apartment on Amsterdam, and I didn't know if it was mine or yours. I thought. I assumed it was mine.

[Monet X Change]

You assumed. You found again, you don't find money in my home. You steal money from my home. No.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Cause I was unpacking my drag and I think it was mine.

[Monet X Change]

I don't ever tip $200.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay, that is not true.

[Monet X Change]

Ain't nobody ever tipped you $100, honey. So you know that was mine back in the day, y'all. This thing we would do when you tip the queen, this little thing. One time, a guy came up to me with a hundred dollar bill. He tried to get cute baby. I grabbed it. I'm quick. I'm quick like one of them. What's one of them little crabs that be punching real fast. I grabbed it and now me and him have a hold on it. He was like, I was kidding. I was kidding. I was kidding. And he was like, please let go of the money. Please, please let go. And I was like, I'm not letting go. This my money now, babe. We re ripped it in half. And then he's like, please give me the other half. I chewed it and swallowed it. And I said, now no one has money.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You swallowed it?

[Monet X Change]

Yep.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know how dirty money is?

[Monet X Change]

Do you know how dirty I am?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, you get down at the gutter dirty, honey.

[Monet X Change]

And what of it?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, I really. This sweater is very cute, and I. I get a lot of compliments on it. I like it a lot, actually.

[Monet X Change]

What you're going to give. It's my sweater.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, it's mine.

[Monet X Change]

This.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You can have this.

[Monet X Change]

That's also very cute. But I don't carry tote bags. You know, I don't carry totes because.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know, your book is coming out, so.

[Monet X Change]

My book is coming out. Harriet Tubman Live in Concert.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Wait, so. I think so. The person. Wait, is this. Do you have this picture of the person did this, like, they made this.

[Monet X Change]

They made that on their own? Yeah. I mean, that is the font on my book, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

How did you choose the font? How did you go about thinking of choosing the font?

[Monet X Change]

I mean, they sent me a bunch of options, and then I just thought that wouldn't fit them. You know, I like playing stuff like. I like it to be kind of like. So I only wanted two colors. I wanted it duochromatic, and I knew that I wanted a picture of. Sorry, this is a sticker first. I'm gonna write this. This is for Raven Simone. And it actually is Simone. I knew that I wanted.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I literally said it when we talked about the podcast.

[Monet X Change]

That's it. Yeah, I say it, actually. Simone. I didn't know. I knew that I wanted Harriet Tubman's hands holding the mic. Those are actually Harriet Tubman's hands, by the way.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yo, that was. Those are my hands that. We made this little Harriet Tubman in post.

[Monet X Change]

And I wanted the microphone to coil down and wrap around, and I wanted a broken chain. So that was what I.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Why broken chains? Why would Harriet Tubman want chains to be broken?

[Monet X Change]

Why would she want them to be together is the question. That's the real question. Why would Harriet Tubman. What chains? Why would Harriet be bound? Honey, you think if.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You think. You think if. You think if. If. I mean, this. This might be a crazy question to ask, but, you know, I've asked crazy questions on this.

[Monet X Change]

I wrote a crazy book, so, I mean, it's fine.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Like, you think if we were slaves, do you think that you would have, like. Do you think that you would have what it is? Like, what it is to, like, run away and leave and, like, try to, like, escape?

[Monet X Change]

I would run. Yeah. I don't know that I have what it would take to come back and grab more people. I'd be like, bitch, I'm gone.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know, but even. Even. But it's even scary to even try to run away. Like, you know what I mean? Like, that's. That's scary to think about.

[Monet X Change]

Running away is obviously incredibly scary. I. I feel like I would try to run for sure.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know, I'm a runner.

[Monet X Change]

I'm a track star. That's a TikTok reference. You wouldn't get it because you're older than me.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know. I'm a runner. I'm a track star.

[Monet X Change]

You don't know that song. That's why you're mumbling by the way. We've reached by the way. Just as a side note to you, what we've reached the deadline.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What's the deadline?

[Monet X Change]

Hands up, Monat. Hands on the. Hands in the air.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Wait, why?

[Monet X Change]

Monet, just do it. Trust me.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, I don't trust Bo. I don't trust you. You're literally wearing a trader's robe.

[Monet X Change]

What am I going to do from here, Monet? We're miles away from each other. Hold your hands up. I need to hear the Queen's.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Wait.

[Monet X Change]

What was the deadline? Yeah. Three months.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay. It's not three months onto the day, though.

[Monet X Change]

It is three months. It's overdue, actually. Hands up. Hands up. Do it. This is crazy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Rosetta Tharp. Santee Gold. Bessie Smith. Nina Simone. Fuck.

[Monet X Change]

Just.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Just. I noticed it just on this section. Just the first name on this section. Do you know it?

[Monet X Change]

If I could just get.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

If I just get over this hill.

[Monet X Change]

Rosetta Tharpe. Santigo. Bessie Smith. Nina Simone.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You see, is this part.

[Monet X Change]

Is this.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It was just this one.

[Monet X Change]

Jacob. What is it, Jacob?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Just the name.

[Monet X Change]

The first letter.

[Jacob]

It is.

[Monet X Change]

It starts with a B. Rosetta Tharp. Santigo. Bessie Smith.

[Jacob]

It is not Badu.

[Monet X Change]

Rosetta Tharp. Santigo. Betsy Smith? Nina Simone. What is it, Jacob?

[Jacob]

Bette Davis?

[Monet X Change]

Betty Davis? Shalon's nose? Nope.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, no, no. Um. Rosetta Tharp. Santee Gold. Bessie Smith? Nina Simone? Bette Davis.

[Monet X Change]

You don't know it, bitch. I'll see you in three months. I'll see you in three months. Mark your calendars, everyone. Mark your motherfucking calendars.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That was good. You, Bob, hosted the Queerties the other day, and you had, like, a beginning bit of you coming down the Traders row. It was very cute.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah. And I actually took a robe from the. From the production. They gave me two options, and I was like, I don't want to use that one. And then I did want that one. I took it and it's mine now. I guess.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

At least you do. See? You're a thief. You're a klepto.

[Monet X Change]

I learned from the best.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know, I never. I don't think I've told anyone this story. Can I tell you this story? What? So back when I first started doing dragons, I mean, I was making fine money. I don't know what it was about me and not the fine money. Like, I wasn't like, you know, I wasn't, like, down and out. This story's.

[Monet X Change]

This story's getting crazier.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, but I wasn't rolling in the dough. But anyway, so I. I was. I was. I was at Target, and I needed, like, makeup stuff. I needed, like, liners and stuff like that. And I went into the Target and iced. And I put, um.

[Monet X Change]

You have gel.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Sorry, actually a gel liner, liquid liner in my bag with the intention of stealing it. And then when I go to check out Bitch, the fucking SWAT team and, like, circles around me at the target thing. Like, literally, as I'm going through the exit, and they're like. They're like, can you come with us, please? I was like, why? I was like, we need you to come with us, please.

[Monet X Change]

I was like, why?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What's going on? I was like, we need you to come with us or we're gonna call the cops. And I was like, okay. But she took me to that back room and. And they were like, you stole. Like, we know that you stole. Da, da, da, da, da. And I was like, no, I didn't. And they're like, yes, you did. I was like, take it out. Take it out of your belongings right now or we will call the police. And, bitch, they. I took it out. They called the police. I got arrested. And they took me to. And they took me down to the station.

[Monet X Change]

This part you did not tell me.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yes, bitch. And they took me down to the thing and everything. And they were like, I had to, like. I had to do what you call it? Not truancy. What's the thing when you had to restitution, had to pay restitution for. It was a whole thing.

[Monet X Change]

How much was it? Like $7, girl.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It was like, bitch, eyeliner, gel liner. That shit was like $22 together.

[Monet X Change]

Well, it was when you started drag, so that long ago, I assumed it was, like, 50 Cent and.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, and it was the most embarrassing that's ever happened to me. They took me out of the Target in handcuffs. It was so embarrassing, and it was, like, wild.

[Monet X Change]

Why would you do that?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Monet X Change]

I just.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I just. I don't know.

[Monet X Change]

You don't even know the Rider shit.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And after that, I have never stolen anything ever again.

[Monet X Change]

Except all of my jokes, ideas, likeness. The literal hoodie you're wearing this very second.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yours, by the way.

[Monet X Change]

Whoever the fan was. Can you comment in the chat and let us know who was the hoodie Monet's wearing? Show them the hoodie, Monet. Scoot back, scoot back so they can see it. Who was this hoodie with this picture of me, this beautiful rendering that you did or maybe commissioned or found? Who is this hoodie for? I would like to know, please. I would like to know who. Who this. Cause Monet had A picture of her. Her character from. Really cute sweater, by the way. It was. So did you cut the neck or was it already cut like that?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I cut it. I always cut my necks on crew sweaters.

[Monet X Change]

It looks really cute. Is there. Is there a Gertrude one? Huh? I don't like what you. I see how you play the game. I see a movie you were playing with the right one, honey. It don't gotta be House. It don't gotta be Real Housewives. Now where's. Now where's Barbara Walters?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, listen, and also, y'all, let me tell y'all something right now, okay? Y'all are doing such a good job for a long time of going to and giving us likes on. On Apple podcasts and y'all dip Talk. We are at 9,446 ratings. We need to. I. I want to see a 10K, y'all.

[Monet X Change]

I know they can do 12.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

12. Oh, yeah, 12. I mean, I would love that. That's 3,000.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, we can do that easy. Lightweight.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know, I know. So please go on Apple podcasts and give us some ratings. Y'all don't understand.

[Monet X Change]

It really helps Spotify as well. Go to Spotify as well. Podcaster. Wherever you listen to your podcast, we would Google reviews. Wherever you listen to your podcast, please, please, please, please give us a review.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Honey, I wanna read. I was reading some of the reviews this morning. There was someone. I'm gonna choose a random one to read. Okay, here we go. I don't know. I don't know. It has.

[Monet X Change]

It has four.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Four out of five stars. I enjoy listening to the podcast and appreciate the engaging discussions and interesting guests. However, since it's Also recorded for YouTube, there are moments where it feels like the hosts forget that some of us are only listening.

[Monet X Change]

And we do.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Guests aren't always introduced properly because the single viewers can see who it is. And sometimes important voice are communicated through gestures rather than words, leaving audio listeners in the dark. A little more effort to Bob and acknowledging the podcast audience like ver. She. I added this Bob, like verbally to do a guest describing visual moments.

[Monet X Change]

I. We have. We do have 16 2k reviews over on Spotify.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Gang Gang Gang Gang Gang gang.

[Monet X Change]

I don't know if the review. I don't know if you have to actually like write something in, but we have 16.2 thousand over on Spotify, which I greatly, greatly appreciate. Money. Do you know that we have been podcasting for seven years? Our first episode came out seven years ago. That's this month.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Crazy. That's crazy. Bob, that's fucking crazy.

[Monet X Change]

And there was a short time where I was like, I don't want to do this shit no more. I never told you that, actually. I never told you that. Yeah, I told Jake. I was like, I don't think I want to do when. Do you remember this, Jacob? I do. Yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Tell me when.

[Monet X Change]

It was after one of our, one of our big disagreements, and it was at some time where the Patriots was being crazy and they were acting wild. It was maybe after we had someone like, maybe it was after Todrick or someone on the pod that didn't like. And you and I had disagreed about something, and I was just so irritated. I was like, I don't need this. But then I said, but then I stepped back and I thought about why I started the podcast and how much joy I get whenever I get to hang out with you and see you and just be basking in the glow of your wonderful personality, even though you do are literally wearing stolen merchandise right now. Uh, by the way, before you give it to me, can you do the little cut?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't know how to do that on a. I don't, I don't know how to do that on hoodies.

[Monet X Change]

It looks so cute. They cut it right here.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, I, I, I wouldn't, I would, I wouldn't. Trust me to do that. I don't.

[Monet X Change]

I really need this hoodie from you.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay. And I want some stuff from you. I think, I think, I think we, we can barter.

[Monet X Change]

There's no bartering. And you're not getting that pen, that pencil holder.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I, I literally said, if you want this hoodie, you have to get the pencil holder.

[Monet X Change]

You're not getting the pencil holder.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, did you not get.

[Monet X Change]

I got the Visa holder fair and square.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay. And I got this fair and square.

[Monet X Change]

No, we'll talk about after this break.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

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[Monet X Change]

That's a good drag name. Fifi Overdraft.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's a good one. I remember that one time, y'all, I was going to the Dallas BBQ, the one in the West Village near 6th Avenue, and I had just gotten paid, but I also, my rent was debiting that same day, cuz my check was a little late and I thought I was rolling in the dough. So I was, I was buying Jake drinks for myself for co workers. I was like, it's on me tonight y'all.

[Monet X Change]

Let's live.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

She about me.

[Monet X Change]

I don't even drink the next day.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

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[Monet X Change]

No money on my card.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

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[Monet X Change]

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[Bob the Drag Queen]

Bitch. I went down to Austin, Texas and I. Or in. Yeah, Austin, Texas. And I used my. My money, my player and my miles. And I got this stuff for you. So if you want it, you're. You're gonna have to.

[Monet X Change]

You're gonna have to barter or to the. You know what? I don't know where to put it. You don't? You don't. You get rid of a lot of clothes. I don't know where to find it. I'll just go to your closet and grab it. No. What are you going to do? Okay, but you going to hide it also.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You come and get this protein you have at this house because I can't. I don't want to hear about you and Annie's motherfucking protein, y'all. Andy and Bob and this. No, I didn't steal more. He said he told you his hair and you said you're going to come by and swing by and get it.

[Monet X Change]

He's not.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Steal more. So can y'all stolen protein here.

[Monet X Change]

But I've never even used it. I have. I have it in the bag over here. Never even used it. The other day, my office manager was like, do you want to. I said, no. On principle we are keeping.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You are ridiculous.

[Monet X Change]

On principle we are keeping this fucking protein powder here. Me and my nephew got this big debacle about Reese's peanut butter cups. Tell me if I'm the wrong y'all I need. This is the am I the asshole Moment. So I bought these Reese's peanut butter cups. Cause I was in my. I was back in my. It's a little cold now, so I'm not doing it now. But I was in my. What do you call it?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

The.

[Monet X Change]

The cream. My ninja creamy phase, where I make these, like, protein ice creams. So you can get, like, 40 grams of protein in a pint of ice cream. It only has, like, 200 calories in it. It's really great. And you can mix in, like, a little Reese's cup to. To, you know, give a little ba, ba boom. So I come home and I bought these Reese's cups just for this. And I put them in the fridge, and I came home the next day, I came home. I'm gonna have. It's gonna be great. My Reese's cups are gone. I said, camion, did you. Did you take my reesa cups? I surprised that. Jacob, did you eat these Reese's cups? Jay goes, no, I didn't eat the Reese's cups. I was like, camion, did you eat these Reese's cups? He goes, yeah, I didn't know they were yours. And I was like, what do you mean you didn't know they were. They were my.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Do you ever buy them? He didn't know they were yours.

[Monet X Change]

I was like, did you buy them? He said, I didn't know who they were. I said, but, you know, they weren't. You know, you didn't buy them. It wasn't like. It was not like a bag of chips or a carton of sodas or a box of. What do you call it? One of the coke company can. It's not like that. It's not like a house. It's like. It's like individual Reese's cups. It's like, clearly not house food, in my opinion. You know what I mean? So I said, what do you mean, you didn't think they were those. Those are obviously mine. Those are clearly mine. Like, you took.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You stole my Reese, that stole. The stole is crazy. You did not steal.

[Monet X Change]

That is. I said, you took something that didn't belong to you. He goes, well, I didn't know. There you are. I was like, well, I am going to need these Reese's cups replace when I get home.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Restitution.

[Monet X Change]

So I need those cuffs when I get home. Just. This is also.

[Jacob]

This is actually a very important, critical part of the story. They were not Reese's Pieces cups. They were the Reese's pizza wafer sticks.

[Monet X Change]

No, no, no. Mine were the Reese's cups. I had the Reese's cups.

[Jacob]

Oh, you did?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah. And I said, I need these Reese's cups replaced when I get. I need these Reese's. That's what I said to him. I said, I need these Reese's replaced when I get home from work. Today I come home from work and then Cameon has Reese's sticks in the fridge. I said, cameo, what are these? He's like, oh, you asked for the Reese's. You asked me to get you some Reese. I said, yeah, but I asked you to give me back what you took from me. You took Reese's cups. I want Reese's cups. These are Reese's sticks, and I want some Reese's cups. He's like, well, I could just give you the money. I don't want the money. Cameo, you think I need $7? I don't need the money. I need the Reese's cup.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, my camera. Look at you. He said, well, you do look down bad.

[Monet X Change]

I said, I need the Reese's cups. And it was. It was like 10:00. And I said, well, Cameo, I need these before. I need these before midnight. I don't know. You got to walk to the store. You got to ubereats. You got to do something. But I'm going to need these cups, and I'm going to need them before. And I had a gig to go to. I said, I'm going to this gig. I had one more gig that night. I was going to do the. Not the lyric. Hyperion. So I was doing Margaret Cho's show. I was like, I need you when I get back. I need to. And we got into this. He was like, this is crazy. This is not crazy. You took something did not belong to you, and I'm asking you to make it right. I'm asking you to give me back what you took from me. I'm not asking for anything more. I'm not asking for anything less. I just want the thing that was here that you took that you knew did not belong to you, and I would like it back, please. So I left. And then me and him, it was. It was like, I have never heard Cammy and raises voice in my life. We were like, girl, I've still never.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Heard Cameo raise his voice.

[Monet X Change]

Girl, I don't think you ever came in, like, speak. His voice came in. Is a very, very quiet man. He's very, very calm. Very, very quiet. So he and I are going back and forth. He's like, this is. I was like, it's not crazy. I need these Reese's cups or we're going to have some. He was like, I'm not getting them. I said, camion, not to be shady. You don't have a lot of bargaining chips. You don't have a lot of bargaining chips, honey. So I need some cups when I get back. Anyway, I came home, the cups were there. Do you think I went overboard?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No. I think it's a valuable lesson that you. That. That you taught Camion. I think. I think that now, hopefully when someone does Cameo wrong and they just, like, he. He doesn't. He doesn't expect less than what he was he's owed.

[Monet X Change]

That was the whole point. The point was like, if one day someone going to do you dirty and you deserve exactly what you want. They don't get to decide when you are whole. You get to decide when you are whole.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, I think. I think it was a valuable lesson that you taught me.

[Monet X Change]

Do you read a lot of books? You know, there's a statistic that men read like a third of the books that women read.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So I used to be a big book reader in school, but I think I lost a lot of my pizzazz for reading because I have a.

[Monet X Change]

Did Sister Soldier stop writing?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, because I used to have y'all. I remember said this before. Very bad at speech impediment. Like when I was in, like, middle school. Like, Sorry. Like elementary school. It was like I would like. Like, that was. It was really, really, really bad. So to help me out, my mom would. I would have to sit at the table and read for hours. Miserable. I always had to read books out loud. Read books out loud so I can, like. And it. To her point, it worked. I mean, again, I still have a speech impediment, but it is not anywhere near what it was. So that kind of like. So now I see books. I just. It's like I have ptsd. I just think about having to read out loud for hours, and I just. I can't always get into it. Now, there are some books that I do fall in love and I can still read, but I definitely. I feel like I would have been a more impassioned reader if I didn't have to do that.

[Monet X Change]

But then I'm forced to read.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, but then I'll have a speech impediment. So then there'll be other things, you know.

[Monet X Change]

I have read several books, actual, like, holding the book. Actually, the first book I ever read cover to cover was actually Mick Foley's memoir, autobiography, Blood, Tears and Sweatsocks. It's the first book I've read cover to cover. I was in high school when I read it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Mankind. Mick Foley.

[Monet X Change]

Is that true? That's the first book I ever read of my own accord, like, without, like, the first book I ever remember reading. The first, like, novel I read cover to cover was the Giver in seventh grade.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, yeah, girl. All those. All those books in school, we were.

[Monet X Change]

All given a copy of the Giver and we had. But we had to read. So I read books like that. But Blood, Tears and Sweatsocks was the first book I ever read of my. On my own. No one asked me to. No one forced me to talk. I was just reading it myself. And I read a lot of books. I have never read a book out loud. Monet. I don't know how you. This is y'all. It's actually. It's actually reading it out.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What? Like, sitting there and just reading it.

[Monet X Change]

Out of the audiobook. I read my book for the audiobook.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, you mean, like. Yeah, okay.

[Monet X Change]

Reading a book out loud. I'm not gonna say that you went through cruel and unusual punishment, but it makes you crazy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I think so. I really think so.

[Monet X Change]

But, like, I. Cause when you're reading by yourself, you're just kind of reading it. You low key, like, skip over words, but still forming sentences in your brain, because it's just how your brain works when you're reading. When I was having to read this book out loud, getting it word perfect, by the way. Cannot skip a word. Word perfect. I remember thinking to myself, I think I'm going to go crazy. It took me about 10 hours to read this entire book word for word. And it got to a point where I was like, I don't even know what I'm saying. Like, my brain. Have you ever been driving?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yes.

[Monet X Change]

You just look up, you're like, I'm driving?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

Like, it's not. Like you're not. Because you're still stopping at red lights, you're obeying traffic laws, but you Just, it's like you come out of a brownout and you have been driving for like 15 minutes.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What the fuck is a brownout?

[Monet X Change]

A brownout. It's not a blackout. It's kind of like you just kind of like a little fuzzy. Like you just, you just.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Is that. Did you just make this up or is that a thing?

[Monet X Change]

No, it's a thing. I might be slightly using the term wrong. Let me just make sure. Let me see. What is the definition of a brown. This might be like a power outage thing. Is it a gray out?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Brown out?

[Monet X Change]

Stunning brownout, meaning temporary reduction of voltage. No, that is electricity. Is it gray out? There's a term where you're like, it's not a blackout gray out.

[Jacob]

It actually brown. It is also brownout. Brownout. Drinking is a term that refers to a state of intoxication from alcohol consumption that causes people to have spotty memories or missing periods of time from their long term memory, but from drinking. Otherwise known as a fragmentary blackout.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's from drinking.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, but it feels like you're coming out of a brown out and you're like, oh my God. I have literally just been driving for like 15, 20 minutes.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Right?

[Monet X Change]

It's kind of scary.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. I mean, I don't think I've had like a brown out. Like, maybe I have. I do have the thing where I'm driving sometimes. And you kind of like, like you said, like, I'm still obeying all the traffic laws and everything, but you kind of just like, you're kind of on autopilot for like a good like 30 seconds. You're like, oh, shit.

[Monet X Change]

It feels dangerous.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know, but I mean, I think it's normal human behavior.

[Monet X Change]

But. Yeah, right.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So when you, when you were a kid, did you have to read a lot? Well, so you only read stuff at school and you read things that you wanted to read?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, So I was never. I was. My mom didn't force me to read anything. I never had to sit at the table and my mom never really made me do anything. I didn't want to do work. I. My mom was like, I remember one time my mom tried to force me to eat food that I didn't want to eat. And she was. And I just wouldn't do it. I was a very picky eater. And then one day my mom was like at work at Burnham Services in the accounting department. She was like, my son will not eat the food I cook. I just don't know what to do. And this lady said to her, she said, Martha, is he a good kid? And she said, yeah, otherwise he's a great kid. And she was like, pick your battles. Just choose peace. And then my mom, that day, my mom came home and she just started cooking me a separate meal. I literally, my mother, if it was a meal I didn't want, she would just make me a completely separate meal.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Couldn't be me. I'm like, you gonna eat these damn, these damn pork chops?

[Monet X Change]

What do you do when your child's just not eating?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm sticking it down his throat.

[Monet X Change]

But you can't make them chew, you can't make them masticate, you can't make them swallow it. Like, what are you gonna do?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I can baby bird him.

[Monet X Change]

You can what?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Baby bird him, but you can't make them swallow it.

[Monet X Change]

There was a thing one time where me and my aunt went through a whole thing where she. Aunt Hazel, it was my aunt Lisa. Aunt Lisa where she made me these Idaho spud brand potatoes with sour cream on them. And I did not, I don't like, I don't like sour cream. I've never liked sour cream. And I was like, I don't want to eat this. I'm not interested in this. And I ate everything else. I just didn't eat this. And my aunt was like, you're going to eat these, these, these spuds. And I said, I'm not eating those. I'm not eating those potatoes. I don't want to. And she goes, well, you're not going to leave this table until you eat these potatoes. So I just slid the potatoes to the side, laid my head down, and I went to sleep at the table. I fell asleep at the table. I woke up in the morning, there was a fresh plate of potatoes right next to me. A fresh plate. She had re cooked them. Everyone else had breakfast and she had for me the potatoes.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, no.

[Monet X Change]

She said, I bet you're hungry now. I said, I am, but I'm not eating that. I just refused. I said, I'm not eating it. And I didn't. I went to school hungry. I ate breakfast, lunch and breakfast and lunch at school. Came home, there was a fresh plate of potatoes on the table again. She made this three times. She probably had to go at the store and grab it again. And she was like, you can't leave this table until you eat the potatoes. So I just, at that point, what.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Are you fighting for?

[Monet X Change]

I slid them to the side, I did my homework and I took a nap at the table. And then when I woke up, she was like the table girl, she would go, just go. Go do something. She gave up. She just gave up. I just wouldn't eat. I was like, I was going to starve to death. I was like, I'm not eating. I think it was a Friday. So what I'm gonna do, not eat all weekend.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Not about doing a. A, A boycott.

[Monet X Change]

Like, what. Like, what do you do when your kids just like, I'm not eating that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I have a question. Are your earrings. Are you just wearing mix match ones or are they. Are they not supposed to mirror each other? Like, are you wearing two of the same side of a set?

[Monet X Change]

I don't think they come in size, do they? They're probably just. They're probably. I don't know. Maybe it's the design.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't know.

[Monet X Change]

I have no clue. These are old earrings. I've had earrings forever.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know. Well, because y'all, Bob used to do this thing in New York where he'll go to the. To the. To the wholesale people and buy 100 pairs of the same earrings. And just. So he would just swap them out.

[Monet X Change]

Never wear friends and be like, I cannot believe you have these earrings for that long. I'm like, girl, these are not the same earrings. Yeah, these are not the same earrings. I've had these earrings for years.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

The first book I read from COVID to cover was the coldest ones ever. So Sister soldier or like, of my own.

[Monet X Change]

Do you remember the opening line? I know I've read on here a few times.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. Something about, he bust my big back open with his big dick. Some shit like that.

[Monet X Change]

Hold on. And I think they changed it since Nicole's winter ever opening.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm gonna do the hottest summer. The hottest summer ever.

[Monet X Change]

Real hot, girl. Shit. What are the first lines in Colin's day ever? First line. I remember reading and being like, oh, my God.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I. I read it in high school.

[Monet X Change]

Now I can't find it anywhere on the Internet.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It's bus. Oh, no. It's busting out my mama's coochie, something like that.

[Monet X Change]

It was like, jacob, maybe you can find it and read it in your voice. Jacob, if you find it, you know.

[Jacob]

That doesn't feel appropriate, but I can definitely send it to the group message.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Jacob. No, we're giving you permission.

[Monet X Change]

There's no N words or anything in it. Ain't no niggas in it. All right.

[Jacob]

And here it is in the thing.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I am not reading it.

[Monet X Change]

Monet, can you read it?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Sure. Brooklyn born. I don't have no sob stories for you.

[Monet X Change]

No, Monet, give us. Come on. Hey, hey, hey.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's not it. There's no way that's the first line.

[Jacob]

Maybe it's the one a little bit lower. The coochie part is there.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay?

[Monet X Change]

You know, the coochie part is there.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay? Brooklyn born. I don't have no sob stories for you about rats and roaches in pissy Pew hallways. I came busting out my mama's big coochie on January 28, 1977. Dream 1 of the worst. Dream one of New York's worst snowstorms.

[Monet X Change]

That's the part I want. Busting out of my mama's big coochie is crazy unhinged.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm not gonna be like, I'm Brooklyn Bourne. You know, I got some sad stories for you about being gay and shit. But you know what? I come from the hard knocks streets of East Flatbush. I came swimming down my dad's big ass black dick on February.

[Monet X Change]

And on that note, we're gonna take a break.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You don't wake up dreaming of McDonald's fries. You wake up dreaming of McDonald's hash browns.

[Monet X Change]

McDonald's breakfast comes first.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Ba da ba ba ba.

[Monet X Change]

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[Bob the Drag Queen]

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[Monet X Change]

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[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, my God. Should I do my. Should I really do that? That would be kind of. Kind.

[Monet X Change]

Would you write like a. Like a smutty book or would you like. If you were to write a book, what would it be?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I would either write a smutty book or I love fantasy. And I do want to. I do want. I do want to write a book. It Would be like. Like, it would be some type of crossover between, like, vampires, like, gay. Like, gay. I mean, now we have.

[Monet X Change]

There are no straight vampires.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's not true.

[Monet X Change]

There are no straight vampires. Vampires don't come as straight.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Edward. Edward Cullen is straight.

[Monet X Change]

Kind of gay. They're all kind of gay. All vampires are kind of gay.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But it'll be about, like.

[Monet X Change]

You play vampires, don't you? They're all kind of gay. Yeah, all vampires are kind of gay.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It would be about, like, vampire, like, assassins, though. Like, they're like. Like, they're. They're just, like, in this secret, like, society of, like, vampire assassins. And I'm with. I'll be. I'll be. I'll be.

[Monet X Change]

Wait, are they assassinating vampires or vampires who are assassins?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

They're bad. They're vampires or assassins. Kind of like on, like, Blade. They're. They're. They're good guys.

[Monet X Change]

Are they killing? So they're killing, like, demons and stuff?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, they're killing, like, real, like, regular people. But there is, like, overkill.

[Monet X Change]

Like, you're already a vampire. What makes it cool about a vamp, like, like an assassin.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I even get through. I didn't get through the.

[Monet X Change]

I wanna apologize. I wanna apologize. That's not fair. I wanna say you were just telling your story, your idea, and I shit on it. And that's not fair. And I wanna apologize.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, because. And then what they realize is that they're. They're being hired to kill regular people, but there is, like, a secret society that is acting against them of witches. So it's really Vampires versus witches.

[Monet X Change]

Are you a witch or you're a vampire?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm a vampire for sure.

[Monet X Change]

I'm a witch, 100%.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, yeah. Gertrude is a witch. Yeah, you're a witch, bitch.

[Monet X Change]

Easily. I'm very witchy. Very, very witchy. I mean, I don't believe in any of that stuff, but if I was. But if I was to be, I wouldn't want to be. I wouldn't want to be a vampire. It doesn't seem like a fun light. Oh, so are your vampires, are they, like, Twilight? Do they just sparkle or do they die in the sun?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, no, we do not. They do not sparkle in the sun. We die in the sun.

[Monet X Change]

Can I say, that feels like lazy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Writing, that they sparkle in the sunlight.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah. Like, makes it so now your vampires can go anywhere they want. Like. Like, what's the downside? Like, you just live. You have all this power. Like.

[Jacob]

No, I mean, the downside. It's like an unnatural sparkle. Like, they can't go into the sunlight because it is so obvious that something is weird with their skin.

[Monet X Change]

But, but, but who cares? You have. What you. What you gonna do to me? I'm a motherfucker. What you gonna do?

[Jacob]

Vampires can. The vampires in the Twilight books can.

[Monet X Change]

Still be killed like with the sake to the heart though, right?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No. Oh, yeah. Yes. And that and pulling off their head and shit.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah. You mean the same way that humans are killed, but just harder. So vampires can be killed? Everyone knows vampires can be killed. But like a part of what makes it interesting to me as a reader or as a viewer is the vampires have to navigate through these. What is the Eddie Murphy vampire film called?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Vampire in Brooklyn.

[Monet X Change]

Vampire in Brooklyn. Like it is hard to navigate life. And yeah, you have these powers, but you also have. It's like, it's basically like if Superman. If Kryptonite just made Superman itchy. Like we have to have a way to make it like where you like, like can the vampires in, in, in. In Twilight, can they just walk in your house?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yes.

[Monet X Change]

So what the fuck then? Like there's no restrictions. You just a strong ass nigga going around fucking people up sparkling like you're covered in fucking ab stones. Okay.

[Jacob]

I think the central idea in Twilight is that like why the vampires are strong like a group and a mass of humans is technically stronger. So like while one vampire could theoretically kill like 100 people pretty easily. Like if you had guns, if you had an army up against them and people were like, you could take out the Cullens.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But kid you though.

[Jacob]

Well that's. Well, that's why the entire. That's why they need to keep it a secret. Like the entire contention of the second book is that he's going to like reveal to him the world that he's a vampire. The other vampires are like, are going to kill him.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, so, you know, I have. I don't read those books. It's been so long since a movie. I don't remember. But also, isn't it obviously that the, the werewolves. The werewolves can also kill them as well?

[Jacob]

The werewolves can also kill the vampires. Yes.

[Monet X Change]

Can I say True Blood is a much better depiction of vampires than Twilight, in my humble opinion.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean she was a super show.

[Monet X Change]

Absolutely.

[Jacob]

For sure.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I love Blade. I love Blade. I love the story of Blade.

[Monet X Change]

Did you see Blade in. In Deadpool vs. Wolverine?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yes, I did actually.

[Monet X Change]

That was pretty sickening.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, that movie got. I mean, I know they would do. I know it was supposed to be a parody of all not A parody, but it's like taking a really big piss at the. At the Marvel at the Cinematic Universe. But it was. There were too many characters. It was too.

[Monet X Change]

Can you do a New Orleans accent?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Hear that, baby?

[Monet X Change]

Can you say more than three words?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, no, baby.

[Monet X Change]

Well, baby, I was going, baby, I went down to New Orleans. I go and have myself a cool, cool pop. Do you remember my dancer Kyron?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't think I ever met your dancer Kyron.

[Monet X Change]

Kyron had a. Like, a slight. Like, he had a New Orleans accent. And I just remember.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Where did he dance for you that.

[Monet X Change]

Would have met him on the Crazy Black lady tour?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, I never met him.

[Monet X Change]

And I just thought his accent was so cuticle. And I was. You know who's like, rip to the original Queen of Flips in my book? It's actually probably Kenneth Davenport, but Chi Chi Devane. Chi Devane had the cutest New Orleans accent. I remember when me and Derrick Bevere were fighting. She goes, babe, baby. Yeah, I love that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Have you. Have you seen a black and white video? Well, that black and white video of Kennedy Davenport performing from, like, from 1970.

[Monet X Change]

Black and white.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Monet. I'm pretty sure it's in black and white.

[Monet X Change]

Is it in black and white?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm pretty sure it's in black and white, babe.

[Monet X Change]

I want to be clear that they had the capacity to film, color film at the time.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I didn't say anything. What they had the capacity. All I know is I know the video I fucking saw is black and white, I think.

[Monet X Change]

So I put a filter on it to make it black and white, to give it a nostalgic feeling when they re uploaded it. Because y'all, Kennedy is not that fucking old, y'all. She's like 47 or something, girl.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

The video is in black and white.

[Monet X Change]

Are you looking at it right now?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, I'm trying to find it on TikTok.

[Monet X Change]

It's. It's on Drag Archives.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You better know it. Is that a TikTok?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah. Drag Race Archives? Yeah, they put a filter that. It's 1998. You could not even find a black and white camcorder in 1998.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm just saying. Well, all I know, the video I saw was in black and white. I don't know who chose to put in black and white, but the video I saw was in black and white.

[Monet X Change]

How old were you during the video when that video came out? Eight years old.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I was eight years old.

[Monet X Change]

I was.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's so crazy to me that me, as someone who is My contemporary now in the industry. When they started, I was eight years old. I would not start drag for another 14 years.

[Monet X Change]

I mean, when they were. I was 14 and she was 19.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Was she 19?

[Monet X Change]

It says around the video, 19 years old.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, yes. No, she was 18.

[Monet X Change]

18 years old. So I was, I'm only four years younger than her. Well, the math ain't mathing.

[Jacob]

Because, because, no, she's 44 right now.

[Monet X Change]

So she's, she's, she's five years older than me. I'll be 39 this year.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So what's not math?

[Monet X Change]

And maybe the math is actually perfect. I went to public school in Atlanta. Please don't. Girl, we don't need, we don't need your elitism.

[Jacob]

It looks like you were 12 when she was 18 in 1998.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, but the, you're six years younger. Do you, do you know what the. You were born.

[Jacob]

I mean, I, I, I think, to be fully honest, it feels like that Instagram account doesn't actually know the exact year it was and was just putting, like, a arbitrary.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't know how old she is now.

[Monet X Change]

Eight plus four is 12, y'all.

[Jacob]

We can't do math. None of us are math girls.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We all have a fucking high school diploma. We should be able to do this.

[Monet X Change]

Eight plus four is 12. I was 12. I was 12 years old. I did the math wrong, but you.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Did the meth right.

[Monet X Change]

I've never done meth before.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Me either. Nothing about it sounds exciting to me. People describe. I'm like, this is not like a fun drug.

[Monet X Change]

You do it, describe it, say it's the best, like, the first. Most people I know, I want y'all to know, actually, I don't want to say this. I don't want to say this.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, can you write it down? Because I want to hear what I.

[Monet X Change]

Can say, but I don't want anyone to. It sounds like I'm condoning meth.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You're not condoning meth. We are not. We do. I mean, I mean, let me just.

[Monet X Change]

Say, I'm not condoning meth. Ok? But people who have done it said the first time, the first time, they were like, it's the best high you'll ever have in your life. But after that, you will. Then they say, you will never get that back. They're like, you will never be chasing, get that high again.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's a lot of drugs. Like, people are often trying to chase the first high, like the first time that they felt how that thing made them feel. They're trying to Recreate that.

[Monet X Change]

But y'all don't do it. Do not commit suicide. Who said that?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Alaska, no.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, Amanda Lepore.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

For what?

[Monet X Change]

They were doing this, like, big. Like, I think it was for the Trevor Project. They're trying to get celebrities and to say stuff. They're like, amanda, do you have a message for queer youth? She goes, do not commit suicide. Do you get asked about messages for the youth? All the time.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Often last night at the Queerties.

[Monet X Change]

Do you have a message?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

My message in these times, what I say, what's on my heart is that this thing that queer people have not. We didn't create it, but I think we have definitely. We talk about it a lot, and I think it's true for a lot of us is this idea of chosen family. I'm like, chosen family is something that really speaks to my heart because it helps me. It helps me get through a lot of stuff. Right? We have to have, like, people like Bob, other chosen family. And having that and not saying that my family is shit. I don't want my family. But other queer people and chosen family is what's really getting me through these days.

[Monet X Change]

Does your family listen to the podcast? No, not family either. I honestly don't think my family's really.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I.

[Monet X Change]

No, no, no. I have my. My. My cousin Renee is really into what I do.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Renee. I remember Renee, baby.

[Monet X Change]

Renee. Really enjoyable. Other than that, like, my. My aunts, my uncle. I mean, I think my Aunt Hazel watched We're Here. They all watch. No, I think my Aunt Hazel watch We're Here, and she watched Drag Race, but none of them. If it's not on TV, they're not watching it. Yeah, they're not coming to YouTube. They're not coming to YouTube. They'RE NOT.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Did they watch Traitors?

[Monet X Change]

No one's mentioned my brother. My brother, I think, just called me yesterday. I'm going to start watching Traders. And he was like, everyone here. Sometimes my family's really shocked that people know me. They're like, my. My father's like, oh, my God. People here in Orlando know you. I'm like, yeah, girl. He. He goes.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

He.

[Monet X Change]

He go. He's like, do you know that you have fans in Orlando? I'm like, yes, Frank, I know that I have fans in Orlando. He's like, I cannot believe it. People in Orlando know you. Like, you actually have fans here. And also, how does that come up? Me and my dad don't look that much alike. No one's like, are you Bob the drag Queen's dad? I think my My mom used to do this, too. They see gay people and they're like, you know, my son's Bob the Drag Queen. There's no way I came up organically in conversation when my mother was at the fucking deli and Walmart. There's no way Bob the Drag Queen just organically came up in conversation.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Maybe. Maybe they had like a. I'm sure your mom probably has some of your merch or something on. Someone's like, oh, my God, I love you know what I mean?

[Monet X Change]

My mom saw a gay guy and said, my son's Bob the Drag Queen. I can almost guarantee you that is exactly what happened. Oh, my son's Bob the Drag Queen. My mom probably went to the car, put on her Bobby drag Queen shirt, and started walking around the deli section until someone said something.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Also, you had your mom on TV and super fans, and they're like, oh, I'm in Atlanta. You know what I mean?

[Monet X Change]

I know my parents, they saw a gay, and they said, I'm about to flex.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, it has been a thing, too. When I'm out with my family, and we would be in a space, and then with gay people, they'll be like, you know, that's morning exchange. I'm like, oh, my God. And then they'll do this thing.

[Monet X Change]

They'll ask the fans.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

They'll be like, do you want a picture? So now my family is running the meet and greet. I'm like, y'all.

[Monet X Change]

You know, it's really awkward when you're with a fan or with your family member or a friend, and they see a gay guy or someone and they're like, watch this. You know, that's about the drag queen. And they be like, who?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Never happened to me.

[Monet X Change]

I be like, you did me dirty with that one, y'all. Y'all did not have to do me like that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, everyone always knows who I am.

[Monet X Change]

Well, okay, sure, sure. Jan, you know who gets noticed a lot?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Who?

[Monet X Change]

Nick.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Nick Smith.

[Monet X Change]

Nick Smith.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Notice where.

[Monet X Change]

When we were out at Chipotle one time, because also, Nick Smith dresses the same way all the time. Nick, like, he's in a blouse. He's in that coral De Ville jacket. Nick is also 6 foot 4. Nick looks so much like he does online, and I look a little different than I did when I was on Drag Race. Not much different, but a little different than I did on Drag Race. I just gained some weight, almost.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Hair.

[Monet X Change]

No, I was bald on Drag Race. I didn't have any hair on Drag Race. I mean, I am more bald now. But not that you all would know, because I've been shaving my head this whole time. Um, but Nick actually gets recognized all the time.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Nick. You know, Nick is someone who's six'four Nick doesn't feel like six'four like, there are some people who are tall. Like, oh, this person feels like a big. Like a. Like a tall. Nick doesn't feel. He doesn't feel tall. Do you agree with that?

[Monet X Change]

No, I think Nick feels very tall.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Really?

[Monet X Change]

Nick looks like a tarantula. Twinkle.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Um, do you know, I was. I was looking up a picture of.

[Monet X Change]

RuPaul, you know, who's not tall, who. And, like, very short.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Who?

[Monet X Change]

Raven Simone.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. She has big energy, though.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, she is very short. In my mind, she is the same size as Queen Latifah. Yeah, but she's not.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Where did y'all meet?

[Monet X Change]

I mean, I see Raven all the time. I mean, the last time I remember, I, I. I did our podcast. I'm gonna be on our podcast soon. But I remember we ran into each other at the Wicked premiere.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Got it.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. She has big. She has big energy. It's so crazy when you see a RuPaul next to us, because RuPaul's husband is substantially taller than RuPaul, and RuPaul is already, what, six five, six, four, six, five?

[Monet X Change]

RuPaul's very tall.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So, I mean, so I think RuPaul's husband must be, like, seven feet.

[Monet X Change]

I mean, I am.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I feel like George has, like, this much on Rue.

[Monet X Change]

You're the only person in my realm who's not the only. I'm being a little dramatic, but this.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Picture of Bob and Robin.

[Monet X Change]

I was gonna say Monet, you're one of the only people in my. In my, like, sphere who is, like, average height. Like, everyone else is. Like, there I. I am surrounded by tiny people or people who are, like, taller than me. I was the. I was not even the third tallest person on my season of Drag Race.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What people on. Were people on Traders tall? I'm trying to think of when you were lined up to everyone, Rob, but the Boston Robins. Pretty is average, right?

[Monet X Change]

Boston Robins. No, Boston Robins is little Boston Robins. I say is at least six feet tall. Danielle, sitting next to me on that couch at the reunion looked hilarious. It looked like. It always looks like someone did this to me in the picture. Like, I look like someone, like, scaled me up in the picture.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

Jay, can you post this picture of me, Rob, and Layla McQueen at the photo shoot for the. For the reunion? Like, it looks like people are like. People keep being like, is this photoshopped?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Layla McQueen. Where's my motherfucking lashes, bitch? I ordered some lashes. I ain't get my lashes.

[Monet X Change]

There's also a picture of me next to Elliot Page I can try to find. I hope it's on screen right now.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Tales of the City.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, Tales of City. Me and Elliot Paige are sitting side by side, but it's also exacerbated because he's in a short director's chair, and I'm in a tall director's chair. People are like, this has to be Photoshopped. This motherfucker.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Someone did Photoshop. There's a real one.

[Monet X Change]

That is crazy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And there's another one. Someone, like, made it even crazier.

[Monet X Change]

Yes. Which is. Which looks so fucking funny. I'm still convinced that they're Photoshopping. Those are not the heights of the judges on Drag Race.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, yeah, no, they definitely edit those.

[Monet X Change]

But why don't they make them put all the.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

They took all the T.S. madison pictures and put them, like. They just took it from the picture and put it next to each other on a thing. And she. But she's. It's like they move them up and down. But maybe she's short, you know, she's not sure. But her size isn't consistent in their editing. Like, in all the different times she's on the show.

[Monet X Change]

I want to tell the story. I think. I think she'll be fine if I tell the story. One time, I was at Peppermint show at City Winery in Atlanta, and T.S. madison came in, and she said. And she said. And we were sitting next to each other, and then Peppermint was talking about how. How hard it is to exist as a trans woman. Like, it's dangerous. Like, people want to hurt trans women. And TS Mass was like, yeah, it's true. It's true. And I was like, yeah, I believe you, girl. And she goes. And you know what? I said, what? And then she took my hand and she put it on her giant breast, and she just put my hand on her titty, and she jiggled it a little bit, and there was something hard in there. And she was like, that's right. I'll leave it at that. She goes, that's right. There was something very firm in that brassiere work that was gaggy. I remember being like. Cause y'all bear in mind I have never even held one of those in my life. Never once. Go ahead. You can go.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, we both have some time home. We need to do the. Anything you can do. The first one we're doing is a gun range.

[Monet X Change]

I've never even held one in my life.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

The first time, I wouldn't have shot one of the gun rays. I didn't hold one either.

[Monet X Change]

I mean, I'd still be better than you, but that's beside the point.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I have someone that can do it, that can film it for us. We just gotta pick some time.

[Monet X Change]

I have someone too. We'll use my guy. We'll use my lady. Wow.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

First of all, you already misgendered.

[Monet X Change]

Have a guy and a lady. We'll use the lady.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Who's the guy?

[Monet X Change]

His name is Kane.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Since when? I never heard you mention. Okay, Nick of knows Cain.

[Jacob]

I do know Kane. Yes. Kane does all of Willem's videos. Or in the past, Kane has worked with Willem a lot. I don't actually know. No, no, no, that's not. That's not drama Reed.

[Monet X Change]

He's this Australian guy that. That came and filmed for me. And. And I. And I have this lady named Sam. Did our podcast yesterday.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Which one was Sam?

[Monet X Change]

The Asian lady.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, got it.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah. And there's also Naysha.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Who's Naysha?

[Monet X Change]

Naysha was the. Was the one who was doing the lights behind. We were handing. We were handing Naysha the tables and.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Got it. Got it.

[Monet X Change]

And Diego, who you microaggressed, but I don't want to get you canceled, so we'll just skip over that.

[Sponsor Voice]

Okay.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I did not microaggress.

[Monet X Change]

Diego, do you want to apologize to Diego? Diego looked at the podcast.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I did not microaggress him. I would not apologize for something I didn't do, Monet.

[Monet X Change]

What does the growth kick in.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You.

[Monet X Change]

Inject into your thighs every day to get your ass to grow?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

When I stop working with you, that's when it'll start.

[Monet X Change]

Well, give me my hoodie and let's wrap this motherfucker up then.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, you're not getting this hoodie, Bob. If you want this hoodie, you know what you have to do to get it.

[Monet X Change]

You're not getting that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Then you're not getting this hoodie.

[Monet X Change]

I'm getting that hoodie, y'all. One Monet came to my apartment and stole another thing she stole from me. You stole my taliwalically as hard.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I did not steal it.

[Monet X Change]

And then you vandalized it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I did not steal it, Bob. Let's be very clear.

[Monet X Change]

And then you vandalized it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You asked me what I. I asked you to borrow the leotard. I will say I did. Stone it without your permission, but I did not steal the leotard from you.

[Monet X Change]

Monet stole and vandalized a garment that I gave her, which is crazy. And give me back my motherfucking orange wig. I'm taking my wig back, too. So, Monet, can I tell you something? I actually wanna bring this up, and it's something that. It kind of hurt my feelings, but you didn't do anything wrong, and it's because I'm sensitive.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay, Tell me about this. Lord, I have to say, dating a sober person, being best friend with a sober person, I often. I often have. I'm in this position, which I appreciate. You guys are very aware of your feelings, and you want to talk about your feelings? I'm listening.

[Monet X Change]

I. You asked me for a copy of my book, and I sent you a digital copy of the book. And I know that you have not finished reading it. I don't even know if you started it yet. I did start, but I was at your house or something. Maybe I was hanging out with Ty and we were just talking. Somehow we ended up talking about books. And then Ty was like, oh, Monet's reading this book and it's a giant. It's a giant. It's huge.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

A giant book.

[Monet X Change]

No, y'all, this book. I thought it was a fucking encyclopedia.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It's not.

[Monet X Change]

Girl, what is that?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It's Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It's not a big book.

[Monet X Change]

Maybe it wasn't a big book. I don't remember. Maybe I didn't see the book. But Ty told me that you were reading a book. And I was like, monet stopped reading my book or didn't even start. Started reading a different book and has not read my book.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm reading both books simultaneously.

[Monet X Change]

But Monet, my book. This is a. This is a three day read. Look up.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know, I know.

[Monet X Change]

I read this book in two days, and I read slowly, and I will.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I promise it, before this book is available for the general public. I would have finished it.

[Monet X Change]

Jacob had a vacation book. And it hurt my feelings, too. We were. We were getting ready to go to New Year's and Jacob had this. I mean, y'all. Jacob had a. It's like. I mean, when I tell you this book, When I tell you Jacob's book was like this.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I was like, wait, wait, what book is it, Jacob?

[Jacob]

Oh, I was reading the House of Flame and Shadow.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, that was the giant book.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

So that's the book you're excited about? Bitch, are you fucking with me on purpose?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We Could. We could have. We could have written. Wrote in a book together. Written. Wrote in a word.

[Monet X Change]

Written. You want to. You don't want to write a book together?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'll write a book together with you.

[Monet X Change]

I don't think I'm interested in anything that's not fiction though. I don't want to write any stories and I don't want to do that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm just into essays. I feel like a book. You. If you and I did a book about essays on like siblings or like essays of like best friends or like, like close knit people who like gone through things and like how to like get through it.

[Monet X Change]

I'd rather do short stories and have them be fiction.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I say short stories.

[Monet X Change]

No, but fiction stories. Like little short fiction. I don't think I want to write any.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Like what though?

[Monet X Change]

I don't know. We could figure out a theme. Can we talk about the book that's actually in my hand?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You. The one that you. The one that brought us anyway?

[Monet X Change]

Yes. Well, I mentioned that my feelings were hurt that you didn't. That you stopped reading my book to read someone else's book.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, the only reason it hurt my.

[Monet X Change]

Feelings was because you specifically asked for a copy of the book. And I remember saying, if you don't read this book, my feelings will be hurt.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, my intention is not to hurt your feelings and your feelings of being hurt by that are valid and I would never want to hurt your feelings like that.

[Monet X Change]

It only hurts my feelings when people ask for the books. There's also someone else in my life who asked for a copy of the book and I sent them. They have not read it and I'm still mad at them too.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Who is it you want to tell us?

[Jacob]

Say their name?

[Monet X Change]

Depends on. It's someone for our management team.

[Jacob]

We used to be a podcast that stood for some time.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Jacob, you took the words right out of my pussy.

[Monet X Change]

Well, it's. What? Someone from our management team. They don't know him. They don't know. They literally don't know who this is. The fans have no clue who this is.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

If they don't know what to say, who cares then?

[Monet X Change]

But they asked me for the book. I sent it and they did not read. And I was like, that's. And I remember and I said, I said, if I send you this, you don't read it. My feelings will be hurt. It's only when they ask for it. Like, I want the book. Please send me the book.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But Bob also includes something like this. I would have wrote the. You wrote the book? Obviously, it comes out. You have, like, the paperback ones. You were like, wow, my book came in. Monet didn't even ask me for a copy. So then you feel bad. I'm like, well, I do want a copy. I was going to buy it like a regular person and not ask you for one for free.

[Monet X Change]

Again, I'm not saying I'm sensitive. I'm acknowledging that I am being very sensitive right now. But it's because Monet, it took me four years to write this book. Four years. If you think about from the time I got the book deal to the time I finished the audio recording, it was five years to finish this book. I just put my heart and soul into it. I'm so proud of this book. I think it is so smart, so clever. I'm so proud of how it is well written. Everything, the syntax, the world building. I'm just so proud of the elements of this book. So I just want people to appreciate it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, we're going to have you on Monet Talks. I'm going to talk all about your book, and by the time you go to Monet Talks, I'm going to have read some of it. Not all of it, but I would have read some of it.

[Monet X Change]

You can't bring someone on your talk show.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

If you haven't read the book, then, yes, you can.

[Monet X Change]

Like, you can, but it. But it feels like poor journalism.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's not true. I can do.

[Monet X Change]

I can go for journalism.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Now I'm going.

[Jacob]

Have you watched Motox?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, I have. Well, there you go.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't know if that was a. I thought that was a dig at you or a dig at me. One of us got a.

[Jacob]

Bob said it feels like. Sorry. Bob said it feels like poor journalism. And I said, have you watched Motox? That was the joke I was talking about.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

The show is not called Motox. I guess you don't watch it either. It's called Monetox. Boo.

[Monet X Change]

Also, Monat went on the Patreon and was like, y'all go vote for Monat Talks. Campaigning against a show she's on. Which did win at the Queerties, by the way.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We did.

[Monet X Change]

Even though you were trying to campaign against our show. That's crazy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, I had two shows in one category. The Queerties need to not.

[Monet X Change]

They can't.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, yeah, great. But, like, you could have put in two shows. Two nominations for yourself in one category is wild.

[Monet X Change]

Maybe you should just be proud that you got double nominated.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And I'm happy that Dungeons and Drag Queens won it. Was great.

[Monet X Change]

You did go on stage and call Dungeons and Drag Queen players losers in the beginning of your speech.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, I was being honest. I said. I said. What I said was, when I got eyes to do is I used to think that. That. I used to think that playing Desert Dragon, dead drag queens playing Dungeons and Dragons was for losers. Boy, was I wrong. This has been a great process. I've been loved doing the show.

[Monet X Change]

This from the Pokemon bitch. Oh, a Pokemon is cool.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

All right. Back then, I thought it was. You didn't see Ebony? Ebony was. Ebony was decked out. Did you see Ebony? Ebony's glam and everything. Ebony looked so stunning.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, yeah, she looked amazing.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Beautiful. And Brennan. So we were. When we first got there, everyone was. We were talking with Brennan, whatever. And then someone walked by, and I was like, yeah, I'm here with the cast of. I'm here with the cast of Drop Pod, Brennan, everyone. And I think it was Assad. He was like, oh, my God, I didn't even recognize you without. Without. Without your beard. And he was like, yeah, it's me. Asad went crazy over Brennan. It was very cute.

[Monet X Change]

He didn't have a beard last night, did he?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know he didn't. He did not. Brendan did not have a beard on.

[Monet X Change]

I was so caught up in. Can I tell you something that's kind of silly? I was starstruck with seeing Joella last night. Is that crazy? Oh, my God.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I saw her in line, so when she came up in line, I was like, oh, my God. I was like, joella? Yeah. I was gagged to see her as well.

[Monet X Change]

Is it crazy? I was like, oh, my God. Joel. Gaggin, honey. Gagging. And by the way, before we go, the last thing I want to say online is, y'all, if you join our Patreon, you can see that Monet and I, we. We kind of hash out some of our drama on there. And I want y'all to know that Monat lied to you again. Monet 100% purchased those chips. She brought them to my house and she handed. I will. And I will post a picture of me holding the bag of chips, y'all.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

If you believe that fucking shit. I have.

[Monet X Change]

You bought the chips?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I have a bridge in Terabithia to fucking sell you. They've. Y'all got. Purchased the chips, Bob or Jacob? Any motherfucking chips, Jacob?

[Monet X Change]

Did Monet buys the chips or not?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, that's a fucking reliable source.

[Jacob]

I don't know why she's doing a bit like she didn't I will post.

[Monet X Change]

That picture and we may. I'm gonna post. No.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Post. Post the video you took of me. Of me walking up to your house with the chips.

[Monet X Change]

I didn't take a video. I took a picture. You know that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, okay.

[Monet X Change]

And you didn't walk into my house. You parked out front of it and I came outside. Okay, so why are you act. Why are you acting like. See, Cameron stayed back and you and I went over to the party and then you. And then you looked at me and you goes, of course, you know, I got you these chips and you handed them to me. He said, girl, you know, I got you these chips. And you also got the voodoo chips for Jacob.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know what? Cambiano's right about you. Cambian should have never got you them fucking Reese's Cups. You just sat your ass there with the ninja creep with no fucking Reese's Cups with your fucking lying ass.

[Monet X Change]

And on that note.

[Jacob]

And on that note, Bob is now going to read us an excerpt from Harriet Tubman Live in concert, available worldwide tomorrow.

[Monet X Change]

You can get [e-mail] and if you want a signed copy, you can go to bobsignedbook.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Should I. Should I. Should I sign some as well?

[Monet X Change]

You'll sign one random book, and if you get a book with double signature, just know this is the one we're talking about. It's also available for audiobook as well. And I do narrate the book, and there are two original songs in the audiobook. I think the jig is up. I'm starting to really freak out. This place is starting to feel dangerous to me. And when I say this place, I mean my own mind. I feel like I'm back in church on Sunday with my mother. Can you please. I just need to. Excuse me for a moment. My hands are clammy. I'm tripping over my words. I'm not as articulate as I normally am. I rush over to Buck and pull him into the corner. He's only moving because he wants to. I don't have the strength to actually move his body. I have to stand on my tiptoes to angrily whisper to him. If you told everyone here about me, I'll. Buck crosses his arms in a very intimidating way. You'll what? He asked. I'll be hurt, Buck. I'll be really hurt. I've already gone through this once and I can't go through it again. And I say this loud enough that everyone can hear me. And now they're all paying too much attention to us. What the hell's going on over there? Odessa asks. You know what? My eyes are starting to tear up but I still stare buck down. There's nothing going on over here. I gotta step away for a second. I'm headed toward the door when I hear the hammer of a pistol cock behind me. It's a sound I have never heard in real life, but it is instantly recognizable. Don't even think about it, harriet says. I know somebody trying to turn back when I see it. You planning on leaving this room and not coming back? I know the look of somebody afraid to continue their journey. Now I done told you I'm in the business of getting people they freedom and you ain't free from something, baby. Am I the next Walt Whitman? I think so. Thank you all.

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