The One About Divas 2

Summary

Sibling Rivalry – "The One About Divas 2" (April 19, 2023)

Episode Overview

In this laughter-packed episode, Bob the Drag Queen and Monét X Change revisit their ongoing debate and celebration of “divas” in pop culture and music. The duo blend personal stories, RuPaul’s Drag Race insight, and full-on comedy while breaking down what it means to be a diva, reflecting on generational differences, and giving hilarious commentary on everything from family to hiking to pop chart stats.

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Key Discussion Points & Highlights

1. Bob & Monét’s Friendship: Tenderness Meets Drag-Queen Shade

• 00:01:50 – The duo riff on caring for each other, missed calls, and Bob’s touring schedule.
• Monét calls for an “open and honest conversation” about staying in touch now that Bob’s schedule is busier, humorously framing it as a "dying relationship."
• “You really thought you ate that. My calling you is not some sort of charity work, bitch, save your call.” – Bob (02:09)

2. Life Updates: Catfish Sandwiches, Car Registration & Family

• 00:04:38 – Bob reflects on recent family visits in Georgia, including helping out at a drag show and reminiscing about Southern food staples (catfish sandwiches with grape soda).
• 00:06:50 – Bob admits to driving nearly a year with expired car registration, leading to a discussion about New York vs. LA policing. Monét, who is anxious around police, always keeps her paperwork up to date.

3. Nepotism, Warm Soda, and Black Southern Stereotypes

• 00:08:59 – Monét is teased for being a “nepo baby in every aspect of life,” having a brother who’s a cop and “big asses” running in the family.
• 00:09:46 – The famous “warm soda” debate resurfaces:
  • “The warm soda thing, I think, is so gross... Every time he fucking drinks that shit, I want to fucking throw up.” – Monét (09:48)

4. Geographic Loyalties & Family Memories

• 00:12:10 – Friendly banter about Southern vs. Northern identity, public school latitude-longitude knowledge, and finding common ground.
• 00:14:27 – Intimate family talk: Bob’s memories of growing up alongside his niece Lachelle, the passage of time, and what it’s like to see family members grow.

5. Family Barbecues & Reunions

• 00:19:24 – Monét recounts an emotional family barbecue in Brooklyn, reuniting with his birth mother June after a decade, and meeting a surprise little brother. The experience is paired with Bob’s hilarious impressions.
  • “Why you make your grandma sound like Rafiki? It is time…” – Bob (20:49)

6. Defining “Diva” – Pop Chart Stats, Generational Icons, and Criteria

• 00:24:27 – The central debate: What makes a diva? The duo revisit stars like Rihanna, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Cyndi Lauper, and RuPaul, mixing stats with hot takes.
  • "Madonna has sold more music than any woman in the history of music. Mariah Carey has more number one hits..." – Bob, summarizing major achievements (25:21)
• Their evolving definition considers voice, accolades, cultural impact, and “je ne sais quoi.”
  • “There are different metrics…but I don’t think there’s one flat metric you can use to judge diva-dom overall.” – Monét (28:38)

7. Can Men Be Divas?

• 00:26:15 – Lively banter about whether men (Elton John, RuPaul) or rock artists (Stevie Nicks, Cyndi Lauper) qualify as divas.
• RuPaul qualifies due to embodying femininity on stage; Elton John, less so—debate ensues!

8. Modern Divas: Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Lizzo, SZA & More

• 00:32:00 – Analysis of newer artists entering “diva” territory; Cardi B and Lizzo are already “there,” Megan and Doja Cat are rising.
  • “Lizzo's meteoric rise…she was the most Grammy-nominated artist. That’s fierce.” – Bob (32:16)
  • “SZA’s SOS album…she has absolutely cemented her place in diva status for sure, in my opinion.” – Monét (33:00)
• Fun fact segment: Chart stats, how long “Old Town Road” was #1, global streaming records.

9. Streaming Numbers Game

• 00:39:35 – Bob quizzes Monét on who is most streamed on Spotify across genres (The Weeknd is #1 male, Miley Cyrus #1 female, followed by Taylor Swift, etc.).
• Brief rundown of RuPaul’s Drag Race queens’ Spotify numbers—shouts to Trixie, Todrick Hall, and Alaska.

10. Live Shows & Diva Worship

• 00:45:47 – Discussion about seeing divas in concert: Bob has tickets for Beyoncé; Monét is keeping secrets.
• Bob gushes about wishing to see Adele in Vegas, while both agree on the power of live diva energy.

11. Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus & Being Underappreciated

• 00:50:13 – Katy Perry is celebrated as “absolutely a diva,” despite critical snubbing and Super Bowl memes.
  • “Katy Perry is amazing…Who doesn’t give Katy Perry…Katy Perry is massive.” – Bob (50:25)
• Miley’s musical prowess is given flowers: “Miley Cyrus has a fabulous fucking voice.” – Monét (51:30)

12. Music in the House & Personal Listening Habits

• 00:52:39 – The duo discuss how music is played at home—Jacob’s (Bob’s partner) love for Broadway and black female vocalists, Andy’s (Monét’s partner) nonstop podcast listening.
• Audiobooks (Michelle Obama’s "Becoming") and Broadway cast albums are part of the domestic soundscape.

13. Hiking, Camping & “Nature Nerds”

• 01:01:12 – Monét’s boyfriend Andy tries to recruit him for a multi-day hike at Havasupai Falls. Monét is not here for sleeping outside:
  • "There is not an ounce of me that has any desire to hike and sleep outside overnight in the woods." – Monét (62:18)
• Bob agrees, relating trauma from his own camping experience years ago.

14. Random Comedy: Wedding Roasts, Noises in the House, and Headphones

• 01:07:00 – Stories about wedding roasts gone wrong, constant paranoia about intruders (“Monét, no one’s in your house!”), and rituals of traveling with headphones.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• "[Diva status]...it’s either someone is or ain’t." – Monét (28:38)
• "Cyndi Lauper's cultural impact breaks beyond her name even. Even if you don’t know that you know 3 Cyndi Lauper songs, you do." – Bob (29:15)
• "It just doesn’t feel like dudes are divas." – Monét, on male divas (27:08)
• "Katy Perry has had...a massive impact on pop culture and pop music...Katy Perry is amazing." – Bob (50:23)
• "Miley Cyrus has a fabulous fucking voice." – Monét (51:30)
• "There is not an ounce of me that has any desire to hike and sleep outside overnight in the woods." – Monét (62:18)

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Important Timestamps & Segments

• 01:50–04:30 – Friendship shade & updates; the dynamic of checking in
• 07:00–09:46 – Driving in LA vs NY, family “nepo baby” jokes
• 20:49–21:10 – Reuniting with birth mom and Bob’s “Rafiki” grandma voice
• 24:27–29:15 – Defining diva: chart records, famous names, shifting criteria
• 32:16–35:23 – Modern divas: Cardi, Megan, Lizzo, SZA, and holding the title
• 39:35–44:54 – The “Spotify game” – who’s really streaming?
• 45:47–49:39 – Concerts & diva worship; Adele/Vegas; Taylor Swift “Reputation” confusion
• 50:13–52:09 – Katy Perry/Miley praise and being underappreciated
• 61:12–63:26 – Hiking, camping, bugs, and "absolutely not" to outdoor sleeping

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Conclusion & Final Thoughts

This episode delivers everything Sibling Rivalry fans expect: rapid-fire wit, music nerdery, heartfelt family moments, RuPaul’s Drag Race trivia, and robust debate on pop royalty. The diva discussion morphs from technical (chart stats, cultural influence) to the intangible (“it’s just a vibe”), all filtered through the hosts’ authentic, unfiltered, and hilariously honest lens.

Whether you’re a pop music junkie, Drag Race fan, or lover of queer banter, “The One About Divas 2” is a showcase of Bob and Monét’s comic dynamism, music knowledge, and real friendship.

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For a full list of referenced divas, Spotify stats, and more, scroll to the relevant timestamps above. For maximum enjoyment, check out the actual singing, shade, and sibling chemistry only Bob and Monét can bring!

Transcript

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[B]

My name is Bob the Drag Queen.

[C]

And I'm Mon X James. And this is Sibling rivalry. On today's episode, Bob gets pulled over.

[B]

We talk about divas again.

[C]

And we find out what made Bob say this.

[B]

Why you make your grandma sound like rafiki. It is time. Like she had a big stick. Womakasa makoko. And we found out what made Monet say this. I have.

[C]

There is not a ounce of me that has any desire to hike and sleep outside overnight in the woods.

[B]

You know, Monet, when you're tired, I don't laugh. You like this. When Monat tells me that she's like, in a mood, I do not like. I'm not like blood in the water. I'm like, you know what? Let me be sensitive to Monet.

[C]

I'm being sensitive.

[B]

How?

[C]

Earlier I said, I called you yesterday, I said, bob, I miss you so much.

[B]

I'm talking about right now, bitch. I'm talking about yesterday. I'm talking about in this second. I'm tired now. I'm not talking about you calling me yesterday. You calling me is not being. If you think that calling me on the phone is some sort of charity work, bitch, save your call.

[C]

This is not saying charity work. Oh, my God.

[B]

You're sensitive because you called me, girl. You really. You really thought you ate that Bob? Yes, my man.

[C]

You know, it's hitting me that I'm not gonna see for a very long time. So that's why I've been calling you more often. You know, there was a time when Bob the Drag Queen would call me a lot. We would talk on the phone all the time. Ever since this nigga was torn with em, ever since this nigga was doing his little standup shows, ever since this nigga started acting brand new, I just don't hear from you that often. And I want to take this moment to have a real open and honest conversation with you about what has changed and how we can address these things as best friends to mend our dying relationship.

[B]

I am not going to give what you're saying the time of day because Monet does this thing, y', all, where she likes to. I'm trying to just describe him.

[C]

When I would do it, when I

[B]

would be like, I'm serious. No, I really want to talk about this. And then you'll talk about it then. Ten minutes into it, into an extremely exhausting conversation when they were like, I was just kidding. And I've told you I'm tired and I'm not going to go 10 minutes down the rabbit hole of your pretend me. I don't call you and talk to you shenanigans because I am. I am. I told you I am. I have a flight in six hours and I have not slept. So, no, we're not going to go down the road of me not talking. I've been doing stand up since before I met you. My little stand up shows. Yeah, I've been doing my little stand up show since before I ever even met you. So when you were teaching classes on the Lower east side, I go, you go, honey. Back when Mr. Burton was wearing his, was dressing like he worked at Kinko's trying to teach kids arpeggios.

[C]

Okay? There are arpeggios with an open E, not a closed E. Arpeggios.

[B]

That's how we say it in Georgia.

[C]

Arpeggios.

[B]

We see arpeggios. And I'm in Georgia because I'm in Georgia right now also. So recently, Macaroni x Cheese came to visit me at Mickey's with Naomi Smalls and Jacob. And as we were sitting there doing our. Our thing the day, like earlier in the day, I was just visiting some girls from season 15 and I was at Selena's apartment and I saw the. I can't remember if I said it or if she said it, but somebody. Somehow I ended up with her costume. And I told Selena that I was going to do. I was like, I'm gonna do Running up that Hill. Because the theme is tv, and that's from Stranger Things. So I was like, I'm gonna do Running up that Hill. I would love to do that. But I did not tell her all of my plans, which were to create a mix. And I made the mix on my phone upstairs before the show and learned it during the show.

[C]

I'm not kidding. I have the video. Y' all literally on his. This nigga, like, literally. The. It's like, I got there at, like, 9:50. The show supposed to start at 10. It ended up starting at 10:30. And Bob had just started making it on his phone. When I got there at 9:50 and everyone went downstairs, Kennedy was off that night. So I was also acting as Bob's assistant. So I put Bob in his corset. And then, like, as Bob is, like, putting his mix together, he's like, oh, Monet, you don't have to do this, but I would really love if you could run to my car and get my Crocs. So I had to, because I didn't

[B]

want to put on my. I had my Doc Martens on, but I also didn't want to put all my Doc Martens because they're not easy to put on. But I didn't want to walk around in my heels all night. But I didn't want to walk around barefoot because it's a bar and there's always broken glass in a bar. So Monet went to my car and grabbed some Crocs, And I still haven't checked the car to see if you didn't steal anything else, by the way, because I don't know what. You could have mopped for my car.

[C]

They wasn't shitting it to mop, honey. I should have run a mop in there.

[B]

My car is. My car's not dirty, is it? No, my car's pretty clean. I don't really do. I don't really do much in my car. I'm barely ever in it. I need to figure out what to grow. That's it. I just renewed my registration and I was riding dirty for.

[C]

That's crazy.

[B]

Almost a year.

[C]

That's great. And apparently. And we said this to somebody else. You said, it's around someone else. Someone's like, oh, yeah, everyone does that in la. I was like, everyone does that in la.

[B]

It was Ricky or. It was Ricky or Denzel who said it.

[C]

I was like, uh, I don't. I don't play with that. Like, I am so afraid of the cops. I don't want to give them when they stop me. I don't want to give these niggas any reason to say anything. So I stay on top of my

[B]

car stuff just in case I got pulled over. And the cop was like, your registration is almost a year expired. You need to do something about it. I'm not going to take your car or anything, but you should. You need to go do that. And then I started looking around, I was like, wow, everyone's registration is expired. Like, everyone's registration is expired. And what. How you know is because the year. The year is. They're different colors, so you don't have to get that close the itch. So if you just see, like something that's supposed to be yellow and it's blue, you just go up and you're like, whoop, whoop, yeah.

[C]

Which is such a different experience than in New York. In New York, bitch, the month before your shit expires, you. You are like. They just know, like, they.

[B]

These.

[C]

These niggas are stopping you. They just know that your shit is about to expire and they're stopping you before your shit expires. It's so crazy.

[B]

I have not. I don't have any experience with driving as a car owner in New York City. I've driven a few cars in New York City, but I've never actually registered a car in New York City. I actually let my. I let my license expire when I lived in New York City, actually, I used to.

[C]

I used to get stopped all the time. I used to get stopped all the time in New York, and I'm a pretty good driver. But New York, like. Like when I would drive and I know, like, driving on your phone is obviously not allowed to do, but I would, like, have my phone, like, if I'm trying to find a. Send a quick text or something, which is. I should not do. I recognize that. But I would get stopped all the time for that. But in la, if I do that, I have never been stopped one time since I moved to la. Not a single time. And in New York, at least back then, my brother is a cop, so I had a pba, a PBA card. And that would, like, say, help me out, but I would get stopped all the time in New York.

[B]

Wow. Not Monet. Being a Nepo baby in every aspect of life. You are a Nepo baby in literally every aspect of your life. Is there a. Is there. Have you worked for anything? Have you worked for anything? You have. This is crazy. And I've seen your aunts. You didn't work for that either.

[C]

Everyone in my family has big asses

[B]

like you should have. What have you worked for? You've inherited everything. This is crazy.

[C]

No, but I've done the work to have it sit up and be firm. Like all the squats, all the biking, all those things. Keep it up.

[B]

Listen, I know Monet when she was thick, and it was firm the whole time. Monet's full of crap. This thing's been firm the whole time. Monet's never worked hard for her hands are. The only thing Monae's ever worked hard for is those calluses on her hands. Let me grab myself a warm soda.

[A]

Hold on.

[C]

Ew. Y'. All. The warm soda thing, I think, is so gross, and I think it's very nasty. Every time he fucking drinks that shit on his podcast, I want to fucking throw up. Imagine, like, a warm grape soda. And at this point, I don't know if Bob's just doing it just to fucking a warm.

[B]

What?

[C]

You are a country ass nigga. Where's your little peach, yellow, make believe peach soda? Where's that? Whip that out.

[B]

I want to say the comments made sure that you all knew that the peach soda is a. In the south, black people love peach soda. Is a secret little surprise that northerners could literally never know about with your little pineapple flavored sodas.

[C]

First of all, no one says north. That's how I know you're people. Up here. We don't say northers.

[B]

I'm not talking about you. In the south, we say it. So what do you mean, nobody? You know how much of the country lives in the South? A lot of us. There are 6 million people in Atlanta. 6 million.

[C]

We also don't let our lines of longitude and latitude tribalize us. Like, we're like, we're New Yorkers. We're not like, oh, we're in the North. We don't play that game.

[B]

First of all, no one. The reason you don't. Because no one in New York public school knows what latitude and longitude is. If anyone in New York public school actually knew what those words were, they would absolutely let it gather you all.

[C]

Jacob is from up there. Jacob, do you know what lines of latitude and longitude are?

[B]

I'm on the same Monet as the first person. Be like, I'm from Brooklyn.

[C]

Fuck the Bronx. Okay, yeah, but not. But not.

[B]

But not. But not.

[C]

Also, how about we find common ground? Bob, we're both. We're both from the east. Like, from the east Coast. Can We. Can we find common ground there. What are some east coast things that.

[B]

Atlanta's not on the East Coast.

[C]

I know, but you would say it's one of the east coast states.

[B]

Georgia is an east coast state. Yes, but Atlanta is not a coastal city. Well, we're not. We're in the middle.

[C]

Go ahead.

[B]

I'm saying. Yeah, Atlanta is not. Atlanta's not a coastal city. We're inland. We're very much inland. And New York is at the water. Like you are looking at the ocean when you fly into Atlanta.

[C]

You.

[B]

You have driven over the. Like, there's no. You don't see ocean when you. When you fly into Atlanta. You know what I mean?

[C]

Yeah, yeah. The Chattahoochee River.

[B]

The Chattahoochee river is not near Atlanta. The Chattahoochee river is down near Columbus. Oh, well, the Chattahoochee is on the east coast.

[C]

I mean.

[B]

Sorry. The west coast of Georgia. So again, I'm going to try to describe it. So the way Georgia is. Is. Georgia kind of looks like a cell phone, and this is the west, and there's a political line that goes straight up and down, and then it kind of goes on an angle, and then once it gets about here, it squiggles. And where it starts squiggling, that's the Chattahoochee River.

[C]

Have you ever? Have you ever.

[B]

My niece is here. Lashelle. Do you know the Chattahoochee river is. Well, Lachelle's from Atlanta, though, so she's not from Columbus. Chattahoochee is a Columbus, Georgia thing.

[C]

Wait, can you bring Lachelle on? I want to see what Lachelle look like. Is she camera ready?

[B]

Lachelle is not camera ready. It's her business that she wants to show herself. Lachelle is how Lachelle is.

[C]

Oh, now you assuming she's not camera ready.

[B]

Damn. Oh, that bitch. Lachelle has her hair tied up and she's wearing pajamas. So it's Lachelle's business if she wants to. My niece is shy. Lachelle is a shy person. She. She's not. Not everyone in my family is bombastic. Bombastic. How about you got real.

[C]

You got real questions.

[B]

Not everyone in my family. Bombastic money. Some of us. Be quiet. Also, to give you an example of what my family did today, so I. I took my uncle. I took my uncles to Walmart and Kroger to love Kroger, to get some ingredients to cook. And my uncle did a fish fry. So I had catfish sandwiches. Today on white bread with red hots, which was absolutely delicious. And tater tots. That was absolutely delicious. I'm very happy that I had that meal today. And I got some warm grape soda to drink, which is also. It feels very much like home. And he also baked potatoes. I did not have a baked potato, though.

[C]

Did uncle Steve cook? Is Uncle Steve the cook? Love Uncle Steve.

[B]

Yes. Uncle Steve did cook for. For the family today. Yes. And that's so cute. I mean, my. My brother used to cook, but he doesn't live. He doesn't live here anymore.

[C]

How often does Justin come over?

[B]

I don't know, because I don't live here. So I could. I could ask him. I could call him an ass, But I think he's here maybe once or twice a week because my brother does work full time as well, and he's newly married, so.

[C]

Right, right. Yeah. I mean, I don't. I'm. If. I'm trying to think, if I live in my family, would I go all the time? And I think the answer is no. Oh, that's.

[B]

It's the microwave. It's the microwave. Lachelle is microwaving her food.

[C]

Oh, bitch. I thought. I thought something was going on. I'm really gonna put my niece on

[B]

glass like that one day. Wow. I'm sorry, Lachelle. I apologize. I don't know why my friends like this. You're out of control. I can post a picture of Lachelle. Lachelle takes me. A picture of yourself. A nice picture of yourself that you like. Yeah. There you go.

[C]

Yeah. I wouldn't.

[B]

I was there when Lachelle was born, but, I mean, I was in the hospital, but I knew Lachelle's mother before she gave birth to her, which is kind of crazy that I remember Lachelle being a baby, and now she's literally a grown woman standing in the kitchen microwaving catfish. It's kind of crazy that I literally knew Lachelle before she was. That's crazy. When you think about being around someone and you knew their mother when they were pregnant with them, it kind of makes you think to yourself, like, how is there a grown adult standing in front of me? This is crazy. Lachelle, do you have any early memories of me, Lachelle? Well, I mean, besides really just being around you and Kimyun, that's my nephew, her brother. It's been, like, years. I just been around your whole life. Right, Right. Basically, Lachelle's never not known me, so I guess I don't know it's hard to think of early memories of someone when you've known them your whole life. Me and Lachelle's mother were. Well, we weren't in the same grade. Lachelle's mother's a little bit. Is a little bit younger than I am. Not much like, I think a year, maybe two years younger than me. So we weren't in the same grade, but we went to the same school and we lived in the same apartment complex.

[C]

So in theory, you could have a kid Lachelle's age.

[B]

Oh, yeah, I could absolutely have. I could certainly have a 20 year old child for sure. Yeah, easily. Yeah. I'm older than Lachelle's mom. I'm older than my brother's mom.

[C]

You're older than your brother's mom?

[B]

My younger brother, I'm older than his mother.

[C]

Oh, got it. Yeah, I have a younger brother.

[B]

I was like, wait, no, I have a younger brother and I'm older than his mom. Which is kind of wild that he has a brother older than his mother.

[C]

Which you met when you were in Mississippi.

[B]

Yeah, when I was filming. When I was filming. We're here.

[C]

We're queer work.

[B]

Which is kind of work. Crazy. I mean, he's. He's 16 now. Good night, Michelle. I think he's like, he's like 16 now.

[C]

I think June has another kid. Like my birth mother. She has a kid.

[B]

You told me that.

[C]

Yeah, I think they're like maybe like 5 or 6 now. Crazy. I met them, I met them briefly when I went to go see my family in Brooklyn. Like, I think this is before the pandemic. Like right before pandemic. I met him and he was 2 then.

[B]

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[B]

So what's your little bro's name?

[C]

I don't know his name. I don't remember.

[B]

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[C]

So when I met him, so. So I tell you, June, she, like, talks to, like, she talks to my aunt. She talks to my aunt. She talks to my grandmother. Like, she talks to these members of my family. So my aunt was having a big barbecue in Brooklyn. And then, like, they invited June, like, they always invite her. And this time she's like, yeah, I'm gonna come. So she came and my aunt was like, just so you know, June is gonna be here when you come. I was like, she is. And she's like, yeah. She's like, is that okay? I was like, yeah. Like, sure. So I pull up to the party, and this is before everybody gets there. And I walk in, and my grandmother's in the kitchen. And my grandmother always cooks for our family gathering. Like, should we. That poor lady be up at like 6:00 in the morning, just cooking all day long, just sleeping in the kitchen. My grandmother's.

[B]

She's someone. My Uncle Steve is cooking all day, but he, like, wants to cook.

[C]

Yeah, my grandmother wants to cook. And she also. She knows everyone loves her food, so she will cook all day. She's out. So I walk through the front door, my grandmother's in the kitchen. And she's like, hi, Kev. And she just goes. Kamika laughs at this because she's. The way my grandmother said, I think Kumiko's with me. Like, she goes, june. Because I think June was in the back in the backyard. She's like, june, Kevin, it's time. It's time. And then, so June comes back to her.

[B]

You make your grandma sound like rafiki. It is time she had a big stick.

[C]

So the Jude goes in from the backyard. And then she sees me, she hugs me. She just starts, like, crying. She's like, sobbing. She's crying.

[B]

June's crying.

[C]

Yes. But I hadn't seen her for over a decade or more than she didn't get.

[B]

She didn't realize you were gay until she saw you?

[C]

Yeah, she's like this. She's like, oh, what did I do? And then so. And then, so, like, we, like, go upstairs. No, no, no, no, no. Okay, well, you don't have an accent,

[B]

so I don't know what to believe anymore.

[C]

Is she from St. Lucia? Yeah, she's from. But she's been living in the States for. Since, like, she had me.

[B]

Okay, you've been living here since you were born here. What's your excuse? Why you got an accent? What are we saying?

[C]

So we go upstairs. They talking into her room, and she, like, saying sorry for, like, the three decades. And she's like, sorry for everything. And she's like, you know, she's gonna be different now, and she's really sorry. And then she was like, you know, you have a little brother. And then someone brought him upstairs, and he's like this, like, not the reveal. Reveal yourself. And then it's like, baby, I was

[A]

like,

[C]

you have a kid. She's like, yeah. And then, like. And then she took my number down. She's like, we're gonna stay in touch. You're gonna be in contact now. And, girl, they'll ask if the LIE detected.

[B]

The lie detector determined that was a lie.

[C]

Girl, like, maybe, like, for two months. And then I just separated from her again.

[B]

This is how my mom talks. My mom would be like this. She'd be like. She like, christopher, there go your daddy. Christopher, there go your daddy. That's what my mom was saying. So I have a quick question for you.

[C]

Oh, God, the segue.

[B]

You know, let me live my life. Let me live my life. You could be a big influence in your little brother's life. You could be his diva.

[C]

You know, I could. I could. And I very well. I very well might be. This is a young kid. Also, I think about kids growing. Like, Gen Z kids. Or is it someone born four years ago? Yeah, he's not.

[B]

What is that?

[C]

Gen A. It's like Gen Alpha. It goes back to A again. Right.

[B]

I don't know how that works, to be honest, because all the generations aren't letters, Monet. Like, millennials aren't Roman numeral or anything.

[C]

No, no, no, no. Yeah. Jennifer Alsha. It is millennial. Millennial was an exception because it would happen at a millennium.

[B]

What about baby boomers? What about baby boomers?

[C]

They called them boomers, but they were Generation Z or W. They were no,

[B]

Gen X is between boomers and millennials.

[C]

It's also a new thing. I think now this is the pattern. It follows the generation Alpha.

[B]

Last time we talked, was Rihanna a diva? Last time we talked, yes.

[C]

Rihanna, she. Rihanna was a diva at that point. Rihanna had 14 number one hits. She was the third. That's the third most hits of anyone of all time. Zuriyana was absolutely a diva and she still is.

[B]

Who's the top two?

[C]

It was, it was. It was Nicki Minaj, but then she got moved around.

[B]

No, Nicki Minaj has the most. She's the most Billboard chart topping artist. So. Which means she's been in the top 100.

[C]

Mariah. It was Mariah. It was Mariah. It was Mariah's number one.

[B]

Do you know that? Okay, so here are some interesting statistics. Madonna is the top selling woman in the history of music. Mariah has more number ones than any woman in the history of music. By what metric? Number ones on the Billboard chart.

[C]

So Madonna is the top. Has sold more.

[B]

Madonna has sold more music than any. Madonna has sold more music than any woman in the history of music. Mariah Carey has more number one hits than any than any woman in the history of music. Nicki Minaj has been in the top 100 more than any woman in the history of music. Lil Nas X holds the record for a number one song lasting the longest. Did you know that?

[C]

Lil Nas X has sold what?

[B]

Lil Nas X holds the record for having the number one song be number one. The longest.

[C]

Well, how long was his song?

[B]

I think Old Town road was like 40 weeks or something. I might be wrong, but. Jacob, can you google that? How long Old Town Road was number one? It was like some absurd amount of time. It was like almost half a year or something. Which is.

[C]

That is very wild.

[B]

Which is kind of bananas, right?

[C]

It is very crazy.

[B]

Can any guys be divas?

[C]

We talked about this last time and I still don't. There's. And again, it's not about a gender thing. It just doesn't.

[B]

I lied. It was not. It was 19 weeks. Maybe it was 40 something days. Maybe it was 40 days or something. Bob thought it was a reintroduction.

[C]

40 days is not 19 weeks. 40 days is like, is like a month. It's like three and a half weeks.

[B]

Well, it was. Wait the long. Well anyway, Bob, like, do you know

[C]

that Lil Nas X was on the top of the charts for eight years on the podcast?

[B]

Just so you know, Scotty, that's my uncle behind me. But it is. But, but that is. But it is still the world record, which is bananas.

[C]

Well, okay, so we talked about this last time, and I do not think that it's not a gender thing. It just doesn't feel like dudes are divas.

[B]

So. No, men can be divas. RuPaul's not a diva.

[C]

No, but drag. Yes. RuPaul can be considered a diva because of drag.

[B]

So some men can be divas.

[C]

Yeah, for sure. But can you think of another man who's a diva?

[B]

You know, I'm gonna say it's the same one I said last time, and I just kind of feel like he is a diva.

[C]

Elton John.

[B]

Elton John.

[C]

Yeah. Actually, I don't see that for Elton, actually.

[B]

Is Stevie Nicks a diva?

[C]

Uh, no. Stevie Nicks is not weird. That may be a generational thing for me, but I don't think she's not Stevie Nicks. Do you think Stevie Nicks is a diva?

[B]

Yeah, I think so. Interesting woman in music. She has a great voice, and she. Is Cyndi Lauper a diva?

[C]

Yeah. I don't know what makes sense.

[B]

Lauper not a diva. Rihanna's a diva. But Cyndi Lauper's not.

[C]

But Rihanna has. I mean, Rihanna has. She's third for most number one hits.

[B]

Okay, okay. Is it about accolades? Because I don't think Patti LaBelle has those same accolades, but she's a diva. So the metric keeps changing. Is it voice? Is it social? Is it accolades? Is it number ones? Is it amount sold? What is the metric? It seems to be changing from person

[C]

to person, but it's what we talked about last time. Like, and I was saying that it kind of like it's either someone is or ain't. Like, there are different metrics to judge a person, but I don't think there's one flat metric you can use to judge diva Dom overall. Do you think there's one flat metric because it changes from person to person?

[B]

No, I agree, but I'm saying. You're saying that, like, Cyndi Lauper isn't because she doesn't have the same number one hits as Rihanna, but neither does Patti LaBelle. That doesn't mean she's not a diva. So I'm saying there could be some other way that Cyndi Lauper qualifies as a diva.

[C]

I would say so. I mean, that's a good point. So. So you think. You think. You think. You think she's a diva.

[B]

I would say, even though I don't know much about her, I think that. I think that Cyndi Lauper Has a massive cultural impact. Yeah, I think that her. I think that Cyndi Lauper's cultural impact is just. It's just huge. It's just a. She has a really big. She's one of those people that. I felt like, you know, her music, whether you're black or white or Asian, young or old, you will know. You will. Even if you don't know that you know them. You will. Even if you don't know that you know 3 Cyndi Lauper songs, you will know 3 Cyndi Lauper Songs.

[C]

Like, you name any Cyndi Lauper songs Time after time.

[B]

Mm.

[C]

That's the only one. I know.

[B]

You know, girls just want to have fun.

[C]

I know girls just want to have fun. I do know that.

[B]

And you probably know True Colors.

[C]

I see a True Colors.

[B]

See, you know, See, that's the thing. Cyndi Lauper's cultural impact breaks beyond her name even. And you probably know. And you probably know at least one song from Kinky Boots.

[C]

Oh, and she wrote. She wrote all the songs of Kinky Boots, huh?

[B]

Yeah. She wrote Kinky Boots.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, fair. So I would say Cyndi Lauper is a diva.

[B]

But then what is it about RuPaul that lets him be a diva? Is it because he embodies femininity on stage?

[C]

It's because he bodies feminine? It's because he embodies femininity on stage. And also just the je ne sais quoi of RuPaul. Like, you look at RuPaul, you're like, this is a diva. Even RuPaul's not in Dragon. RuPaul is a diva. Like, it's just RuPaul has that air about him to just be a diva.

[B]

But not Elton John.

[C]

I don't know Elton John.

[B]

Talk about a record breaking musician. Talk about. I know there was a point in time where Elton John represented like 3% of the world's record sales.

[C]

Really?

[B]

Yes. It was like some. Some crazy number like that. Like he was 3% of all the music in the world being sold. It was crazy.

[C]

Like Michael Jackson has. I mean, people would literally pass out, faint, need to be hospitalized when they were in post proximity. But he's not exactly. He's not a diva.

[B]

Well, because he's not gay. I think a part of the gayness is what makes. Is what the camp, the queerness is part of what qualifies Elton John over someone like Michael Jackson. Because Michael Jackson wasn't gay and Michael Jackson didn't have. I mean, he was a little bit campy, but he was not he just like, he, he, he. No, Michael Jackson is. No, Michael Jackson's the king of Pop. He's the king of pop.

[C]

Yeah. If you think about the new girlies, who do you think of. Of. Of the new generation? Is our divas or on their way to becoming?

[B]

Definitely, like on their way to. Okay, definitely. Bel Khalis Almasar, like, Cardi B. Is solidified herself as someone who's gonna be rap diva 100% easy.

[C]

Oh, yeah, for sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[B]

I would agree with Without a shadow of a doubt. And I believe coming up on her heels is Megan the Stallion. I think that Cardi's a little bit more advanced than Megan is in terms of like, cultural impact right now. But I think. But I think that. I think that, you know who I think is actually also like right up there with Cardi, which is weird because, like, at one point she was like, not as a rapper, but as well. She's a rapper. Actually. She actually said that she's a rapper. Lizzo. Lizzo has had a massive moment. Like, Lizzo has just had a meteoric rise over the past couple years and all rightfully so. I mean, I just want to point out that Lizzo, at one point, it's very rare to say that you are the most Grammy nominated artist of the year. That's fierce.

[C]

I mean, yeah, I definitely say that for Lizzo. Lizzo. Because again, Lizzo ticks so many boxes and she does. And it's just her. The scope of her career really to me does catapult also to diva. Not just even the music, but her TV shows and like all like across the board. Lizzo is absolutely getting into diva status. I also think so. For. Yeah, y' all know I talk about all the time. My favorite, probably my favorite artist, SZA. SZA's fucking SOS album, the amount of fucking records she broke, she's. She has absolutely cemented her place in diva status for sure. In my opinion.

[B]

I agree with you. I think that. I think that SZA has had especially. I think it was really. It was really this last album that did. In fact, I'll actually really tell you about it after this break because I have a whole thing.

[C]

You'll tell me about it.

[A]

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[B]

As the resident says an expert. Anyway Uhhuh. What it was about this last album. I feel like before this, she had control, had a lot of like, people were. There was some hype and some buzz. But ever since she dropped that fucking picture of her on that fucking diving board over the ocean or whatever the hell she's sitting over, the buzz around, it was just kind of truly bananas. I was actually genuinely gagged by it.

[C]

And even like the amount like she she had, she had every. She had like nine tracks on the album. They were. They occupied. The one threw nine spots on the billboard hot 100 for like a week, for like weeks. And then Kill bill was number one for like 10 weeks. It's crazy.

[B]

You know, Quentin Tarantino sued her and won.

[C]

You're so. I'm not kidding.

[B]

He did. And now, now Quentin Tarantino gets all the money from her.

[C]

That is not true.

[B]

Streams. That is true, y'. All.

[C]

That is not true.

[B]

Okay, you don't.

[C]

I'm not gonna waste. I'm not gonna waste my Internet on Google and that. Cause I know it's not true.

[B]

Well, you all at home can Google it, and if you believe it, that's your business. If not, you know, be bout Boy Boot.

[C]

I think that Doja Cat is, with this next album, she's going to cement her place into. I mean, there's going to be a lot of hype around this next album. Like, people are going to wait to see what she does next. Because Planet her was such a good album. I think this next album could put Doja into diva status for sure.

[B]

So let me say this. Let me talk about some people and their positions in music and how I feel like they're kind of occupying the space of a diva before them or of a pop star before them.

[C]

Right?

[B]

So I feel like Doja Cat is occupying the spot that Missy Elliott was leaving behind. She's Just like rapper, singer, dancer, and producer. I feel like Doja Cat is fighting you. But Lizzo doesn't produce her on. She's not a producer.

[C]

She does on Special. She produced a lot of the songs on there. Like, not. Like, not in lots. She produced a lot.

[B]

Missy. Missy be making the beats. Like, Missy be like, doja Cat does that, yeah. Doja Cat does that, yeah. I don't know how many more she does them anymore, but she used to do her own stuff especially. And I think there's something about just the way that Doja Cat navigates between singing and rapping. Because I do think that. Oh, smoking Jojo. I was like, who's looking at me, Joe? Why you looking at me like that, John?

[C]

Wait, what?

[B]

Uncle John's just staring at me around the corner. No, I do think that the way that. I don't know, something like the way that. The way that Lizzo does it, it's just. I don't know, it's different. It's not the same as the way that Doja Cat does. And Doja is giving me Missy Elliott. I'm seeing Missy Elliott in the way that Doja Cat performs on stage and the way that she navigates. Except. Except Missy was a little bit more reserved. I mean, girls are more people, pop stars, people in general, much more open with their personal lives nowadays than they were back in the day. You know what I mean?

[C]

Yeah, for sure, for sure.

[B]

Like. Like, they're like, I don't know that. But then again. But sometimes Doja Cat kind of acts like she's not a celebrity. I'm like, girl, you are a full. A full on celebrity. Like, what are you doing here in these streets?

[C]

Like, just on TikTok, Kiki, on Instagram Live.

[B]

Like, just acting like she's just. I mean, but I guess she is. She is a normal person.

[C]

So I guess.

[B]

I mean, there's no reason why. Why celebrities can't go on Instagram Live, you know? You remember when Adele went on Instagram Live, everyone act like I was crazy.

[C]

I don't remember that.

[B]

It was this whole thing. Adele went on Live and everyone's acting like it was just like the earth was moving or something.

[C]

Gag. I don't remember.

[B]

Adele is. Adele is definitely a diva. Adele is easy. She's already. She's already there and she suffers young.

[C]

Yeah. She. Adele is our age. I guess we're young.

[B]

Yeah. I mean, I mean, I think, like, I feel like in my mind, I think. I think adiba's being like 40 and older and Adele's I think Adele's younger than I am.

[C]

Anyway. She's done a lot. She's put out three albums. Adele is one of the few artists these days that still goes diamond. Artists don't do that often. And Adele still goes diamond?

[B]

Does it go diamond?

[C]

I don't know. I think she's three times platinum. I think she's about to be diamond also. But since the album has only been out, bob for four months. That's crazy. It came out in December.

[B]

So what about it?

[C]

I'm saying to go triple platinum that fast.

[B]

I don't know how long it takes to go triple platinum. I actually don't know how. I don't know if that's. I don't know is that fast. I don't know if that's fast. You know who's the most popular musician in the world right now? You're never gonna guess this. They have. They have the. They have the most streams on Spotify by a long shot. And I mean Bad Bunny. Like, a long shot. Let me look up how many Spotify streams Bad Bunny has, because this next person has more than Bad Bunny. Isn't it kind of crazy? Okay.

[C]

Oh, I know who. The Weeknd.

[B]

Yes, the Weeknd. So really, I thought it was Ed Sheeran. Yeah. So bad bunny has 65 million monthly streams, and the Weeknd has 112 million. That's almost twice as many. That is.

[C]

That's wild.

[B]

Crazy. Ed Sheeran has 80 million, and the Weeknd has over like 22 million more than he does.

[C]

That's crazy.

[B]

But I did not know the Weeknd's was this pop. I had no clue. Me either.

[C]

I was saying this. I was talking to someone the other day. I was like, I had no idea that the Weeknd was that popular. I really did not. So as of March 1st, monthly listeners, the weekend has 112 month 112 million monthly listeners. Do you know who the female with the most is?

[B]

I'm gonna go with Katherine Hudson or maybe who is it?

[C]

Miley Cyrus. 83 million.

[B]

Oh, Miley Cyrus. That makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah.

[C]

Then Taylor Swift.

[B]

Yeah, I think. Yeah, I remember seeing that. Miley Cyrus was the second most streamed artist after the Weeknd.

[C]

Rihanna, who has not put an album out in six years, has the seventh most monthly listeners of all time, which. 77 million. That's crazy. Seven years, one through six is the Weeknd. Miley, Taylor Swift, Ariana, Shakira, Ed Sheeran, then Rihanna.

[B]

Well, I think that Shakira. I think what we're forgetting Is that there's a lot of people in South America who really, really love Shakira. And Shakira. I think that we forget that. I'm surprised that none of the K pop girlies are up there.

[C]

I know blackpink and stuff, right?

[B]

Like, how many monthly listeners does blackpink have?

[C]

Adele is at 36. This is gonna be the one.

[B]

Gonna be called the One. The one where we Google, where we check everyone's Spotify. Okay, who do you think has the most out of all the RU girls?

[C]

RuPaul.

[B]

Out of the girls.

[C]

Monet, Lucy Laduca.

[B]

Okay, who has more? Okay, I'm gonna name two girls you love.

[C]

Y' all know who loves doing this?

[B]

Who has more? Loosey or. Okay, is it Loosey Laduca or is it Jan?

[C]

Loosey Laduco.

[B]

Hands down, Lucy has 52,000, and Jan has. Hold on, hold on. Give me a second.

[C]

In Jan, I'm going to say Jan has 25, 14,000.

[B]

Okay, who has more, Jiggly, Caliente or Lawrence Chaney?

[C]

Does Lawrence have music?

[B]

I don't know. Well, we're gonna find out. I think she does.

[C]

I'm gonna say Lawrence. I'm gonna say Jiggly Caliente.

[B]

I'm gonna go with Lawrence Chaney. Jiggle. What's the answer, Lawrence? Jiggly caliente. Jiggly has 2,700. Lawrence has 3,600. Oh, so it's like marginal. It is marginal. Okay. Sharon Needles or Tatiana?

[C]

Sharon Needles for sure.

[B]

I'm gonna go with Tatiana, actually.

[C]

Sharon Noodles.

[B]

It's probably Sharon. Who is it?

[C]

Jacob. Sorry.

[B]

Tatiana is harder to find because. Oh, they're not tied. Tatiana is 12,700 and Sharon is 12,000. Oh, with a marginal 500. Who do

[C]

you think has more? Trixie Mattel or Katya?

[B]

Trixie for sure. Trixie has more music than Katya in general. I think it's Trixie for sure. Without a shadow of a doubt. Yeah. Trixie has 2. 299,000, and Katya has 54,000. Okay, Trixie or Todrick?

[C]

Todrick, bitch. Not even close.

[B]

Yeah, I think Todrick. I think Todrick has, like, over a million. Yeah, I think Todrick has more than RuPaul. Yeah, I think Todrick has more than RuPaul.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay, last one. Michelle Visage or Alaska?

[C]

O. Alaska. Alaska has way more music than Michelle. Way more. Alaska has, like, an album a year.

[B]

Yeah. Michelle only has 28,000, and Alaska has 122,000. Work with Laugh out on, like, two. Number one. Like, isn't Michelle literally on like two number one songs. What's the name of the band? Maybe she.

[C]

It's Seduction. Oh, yeah.

[B]

Maybe it's under Seduction. That's shady.

[C]

Yeah. Well, how many did seduction?

[B]

72,000.

[C]

Oh, Alaska. Still saying.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Kiss my grips.

[B]

Can we name another seduction song other than two, to make it right? Oh, my God.

[C]

Jacob. My goodness, Jacob.

[B]

Jesus Christ. What did Michelle do to you? Can we. He just won't let it go.

[C]

Jacob, I've never seen you like this. So capable.

[B]

What.

[C]

When it comes to divas, are you. I mean, obviously, you're on the Madonna tour. You're going to see the Madonna tour. You're in it. Do you have to. Do you. Do you feel like, compelled to go see like diva concerts? Like you like. I have to go see this for the cultural experience.

[B]

Well, I really wanted to go see Lizzo, which is why I made sure that you and I went to go see Lizzo. We flew to see Lizzo. I have tickets to go see.

[C]

I could have seen Lizzo too.

[B]

I have tickets to go see Beyonce.

[C]

Hold the fuck up. When are you going to see Beyonce? Where?

[B]

That's for me to know and for

[C]

you to find out. Where are you going to see Beyonce?

[B]

That's none of your business.

[C]

It is my business.

[B]

Just cause you couldn't gather a ticket just because you weren't enough of a fan.

[C]

I'm going to see Beyonce. Where are you going? When are you going?

[B]

Who are you going to be?

[C]

I'm not telling you my business.

[B]

Okay, well, then I guess we're at an impasse here.

[C]

Okay. Who are you going with?

[B]

I'm not telling you. I'm not telling you anything. Just know that I have tickets and I'm going to.

[C]

It's gonna be so good. That concert is gonna be life changing.

[B]

I do wish that I could see Adele in Vegas.

[C]

Let's go.

[B]

And. And I wish that I could see. Actually, you know, I'm not a huge. Here's the thing about Swift. I'm not a big Swiftie. I wish I could have gone to Reputation. Like, that's the. I don't really know much about her folk music pose. Reputation.

[C]

What's Reputation? What do you mean? Is that an album?

[B]

You don't know that Taylor Swift had an album called Reputation?

[C]

No, I don't.

[B]

How do you not know that? It was like her biggest album. It was like the one that everyone like. It's the one with all the. It's the one. Every Taylor Swift song you know is from Reputation. Like all the Taylor Swift Songs you know are all. Are almost all of them, with the exception of He Wears Shirts and I'm in the Bleachers. All the other songs are from Reputation.

[C]

Really?

[B]

Name a Taylor Swift song.

[C]

Maybe now we got Bad Blood.

[B]

Reputation. Name another one.

[C]

I don't know. I have to think. I know Taylor Swift song. I just can't think of them right now.

[B]

But do you remember Fat blood is from 1989. Oh, is it?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Are you sure? I am 100% Taylor Swifty ashore. What about.

[C]

What about Shake It Off?

[B]

Are you a Swifty Jake?

[C]

Shake It Off.

[B]

I fight this reputation.

[C]

How about that one?

[B]

I fight this reputation. Shake It Off.

[C]

Shake it off is no, also 1989.

[B]

I think all the ones you like. All the ones you know from 89, man. All the ones you know from 89.

[C]

What is the truth?

[B]

Which one is blank space? That's 89 for sure. That is also 89. I just said it's 89. I said blank space is 89.

[C]

Every song you like by Taylor Swift is Reputation. Literally none of the songs I like are Reputation.

[B]

Do you have a favorite Taylor Swift song?

[C]

My favorite one is probably Bad Blood. Cause the video is so good. The blood. The Bad Blood video is so good. It's my fave.

[B]

Yeah, Taylor Swift was really in her bag around the 89 reputation era. And she was just making such great music. And then she really went folk on us. And I was like. And I don't think. I think it's folk music. It's just. I don't think that I am the target demographic for folk music.

[C]

This can't. Have you heard of Muna?

[B]

Yeah, I know Muna.

[C]

Do you like Muna?

[B]

I only know one Muna song, which is Silk Chiffon. That's the only Muna song that I know. But if you all are looking for some great sapphic music, may I recommend Fletcher? Fletcher is really great. I found out about Fletcher recently and she has a great song. I can't remember the name. It's like a T shirt or Becky's T shirt or something. But I recently discovered Fletcher and she's just really, really. I love her. It's called Becky. So Hot. It's a really good song.

[C]

Someone who has a lot of critical acclaim but doesn't. I feel like, does not get her just too. People don't think of her as a diva. Katy Perry.

[B]

Katy Perry is absolutely a diva. This is not even up for debate. Katy Perry is.

[C]

I love Katy Perry.

[B]

Truly a. She has had some massive. A massive impact on Pop culture and pop music. Katy Perry is. Who doesn't give Katy Perry. Katy Perry is massive.

[C]

I feel like Katy Perry gets. She gets. She's always like. They always don't like, discount her super bowl performance. They like. Because of like, the shark thing. Like, I think this. There's always like a little like, hehe ha ha at Katy Perry's expense. But I think she's great.

[B]

I mean, Katy Perry is extremely campy. I will give her that. She's very, very, very camp. But that's kind of how she's been since from the beginning. She's always been extremely over the top. She's always been as camp as a person can be. She's like, Katy Perry is amazing. I love Katy Perry. The first Katy Perry song I remember hitting on the scene was I Kissed a Girl. That was when I was also. Guys. Katy Perry has a great voice live. Katy Perry has a great voice. You know who else has a. You know who has a beautiful voice? And I feel like people don't talk about it much. Miley Cyrus can sing.

[C]

Oh, great. Miley Cyrus has a fabulous fucking voice.

[B]

Beautiful Miley Cyrus.

[C]

Great tone.

[B]

Streets singing.

[C]

She has a beautiful tone. Yeah. I agree with that for sure.

[B]

I think because she was a Disney kid for so long, people forget that she's like a really, really good singer.

[C]

There is my favorite Katy Perry song that doesn't get a lot of play and people kind of like, snug. What is it? Snob. Their nose. Whatever the expression is.

[B]

Turn their nose up.

[C]

Change the rhythm. Turn your nose up. Chained to the rhythm is such a good song. In my DJ set, I play it and it's everything. Yes. With Skip Marley. It's so good.

[B]

I do not know that song. Jacob, during the quarantine, was obsessed with daisies. I mean, like morning, noon and night. I was listening to the song Daisies. This song was playing in the house just nonstop.

[C]

So I have a question. How do you know?

[B]

And Jacob was just screaming at the top of his lung. Daisies, daisies, Daisies.

[C]

When are y' all listening to music in the house? You know, as. Cause y' all obviously occupy the same space. How do y'.

[A]

All.

[C]

Does the other person listen with headphones on or they play it out loud?

[B]

When we listen to music in the house, it is Jacob listening to music and me listening to Jacob listen to music. It is Jacob playing Aida Hadestown. Now he's on. He was into the woods for a hot minute. He really loved hearing Sara Bareilles sing. Sing? No, from into the woods. Because she was the baker's wife. Into the woods. What moments in the woods? He Jake moment. The moment in the woods. This is just the moment in the wood. Jacob loves listening to. So it's usually just me listening to a lot of Heather. I'm surprised that Heather Headley isn't Jacob's most listened to artist of the year. I'm actually kind of blown away he listened to. He was really into the Color Purple soundtrack recently. Jacob was really into the new Broadway.

[C]

It sounds like Jacob likes her singing Broadway stuff, which the streams would go to the Broadway show and not necessarily the individual artists artist singing them. Like, is Jacob downloading artists, the cast?

[B]

Because the.

[C]

I mean, I don't know.

[B]

I actually don't know how the. How the streams work. I'm not sure how. How the. How the. Because I think now the artists are actually like individualizable, to be honest. I don't know. I actually do not know how that works because I feel like back in the day used to say like ensemble and now it like literally has their names put down, you know? Yeah, it's like, it's like.

[C]

Yeah, nowadays I listen to music out loud. I listen. Andy, I don't give you. Probably you're not around the house or around all the time, but Andy always has his AirPods in. Andy walks around. He listens to podcasts all day. He always has one airpod in and listening to a podcast. I when I say I'm not kidding. 20 hours out of the day, sometimes in the shower, he has his AirPod in and he's showering. Listening to a podcast.

[B]

What podcast are you listening to?

[C]

Just different. But one's about tech and one's about finance and one's about like the politics, like, all day, all day, all day, all day.

[B]

Jacob listens to audiobooks in the bedroom when he has a headache. If Jacob has a headache, he'll close all the blinds and put an ice pack on his head and he'll listen

[C]

to Michelle Obama's book Becoming the new one or becoming.

[B]

I don't know. Well, he has multiple books, but that was one. That was a real. I just remember hearing Michelle Obama's voice from the other room playing. So basically there's always a black lady talking or singing in my house.

[C]

That's not you.

[B]

Because Jacob will be playing Heather Headley, Jennifer Holiday, Cynthia Erivo, Audra McDonald, Michelle Obama. Letici. Who else?

[C]

Oh, Jacob likes Leticy. Letici. That is a deep black cut. All right, Jacob.

[B]

What Her Broadway stuff, you know, Lettuce is on Broadway. Yes, Lettuce. Letici's got a lot of her fame from Broadway, actually. What show Letici was in? Let me see. Hold on. I'm not a huge Letici fan, so I don't know, but I know Lettucee from Broadway.

[C]

Oh, I love the name gospel music.

[B]

I just love the name Leticy too. By the way.

[C]

I like. I like Lettucey is cool, but I like Leta B.

[B]

Rudder. All right, guys. I think that's all the time Letici was in Caroline or Change on Broadway.

[C]

I always hear you bring up that musical. I have no idea what it's about.

[B]

And she was in Hair Carolina. I don't know. I'm not. To be Honest, I'm not 100% sure what Carolina Change is about, but I know that was written by Tony Kushner, who wrote Angels in America and also wrote the movie Lincoln and also wrote the movie west side Story.

[C]

And every time you say you talk about Carolina Change, I think about Caroline in the City, the sitcom. And in my mind now, Carolina Change is the musical of Caroline in the City.

[B]

It's probably not. It's about a black maid for a white family and her relationship with their young white son.

[C]

Oh, I said that Neil Patrick Harris movie.

[B]

You know, similar vibes. And not to mention, wait. And on a totally random note, you know, Caroline's is closed.

[C]

Caroline's on Broadway? Yeah. That's where you filmed your second special.

[B]

That was where I did some of my very. Where I did some of my very early standup. That was the first comedy club I ever got past that. Meaning, like, when they watch you and say you're good enough to actually be in the rotation. Caroline's was the first club I ever got passed at. And it's where I filmed my first. My second stand up comedy special. It's where I was first on cast at a show. And Caroline's is. That is great. I was actually really blown away walking through New York City and seeing all of the empty places. I like.

[C]

Yeah, it's sad.

[B]

And, like, not just, like, way at the edge of the water in Brooklyn. It is like in Times Square. If companies can. If these massive companies can't afford to move to Times Square. This is wild.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

There has to be. Something has to happen. I don't know what that is, if that's some type of legislation, but I guess these people, they're okay with these buildings. They're okay with losing out on rent because they're like, someone will take it. But something has to give, right? Like, there has to be something.

[B]

But they still have mortgages. They still have mortgage. They have to pay. You know what I mean? So they just. Like, maybe they own these outright.

[C]

Maybe they paid it all. Maybe they're like, there is no mortgage.

[B]

But they still have tax. And these are massive buildings. I mean, maybe they do own them outright, but even so, there's still taxes and taxes in Times Square. How do you feel when you walk around New York City and see all these, like, for lease, for rent signs everywhere?

[C]

It's crazy. Wait, hold on one second. I feel.

[B]

Monet, no one's in your house. Can we get a super cut of every time Monet thought someone was breaking her home?

[C]

Well, Annie's coming from a thing. I don't know if.

[B]

Wait, wait, hold on. Wait, wait, wait. Won't it. Wait, wait.

[C]

Oh, wait, hold on. I'm kidding. I'm not joking.

[B]

Hold on. My God. This is y'. All. I'm telling you, Monet, you have a cat. You have a rambunctious cat and an anxious dog who are probably fighting for their lives. Poor potato is probably fighting for his life right now because Colleen has probably yoked him up.

[C]

So what I heard was Colleen broke into the thing and took this down. So I was hearing this. I was hearing this rattling downstairs. I'm not crazy. She was dragging it down the stairs.

[B]

But I said it was Colleen's. I don't know why you're shocked that Colleen's causing trouble. You're shocked that Colleen's causing trouble. Are you blown away that Colleen's causing a scene?

[C]

But the sound was just scary to me anyway.

[B]

That is valid. But you always think someone's in your house, which is so. Which is so, so wild to me that you're always like, someone's here. You know, you can get an alarm system where every time someone opens a door or window, it goes bleep, bleep.

[C]

When I get the house, I will. When I move into the house, I absolutely. Bitch. Are you on doors? Every window. Every door. I'm not playing.

[B]

Jacob and I had on every window in our home in New York City. Every. Every window. Every time I open a window, go. It sound. It sounded like the shrines in. In Zelda.

[C]

Oh, my God. Y' all are so. What do you think of this?

[B]

We didn't set it. We didn't set it for that. That's just the way. That's just, like, literally the way it comes.

[C]

Y' all are such dorks.

[B]

Well, that's the way it Comes. You didn't. Don't call my boyfriend no dork. Your boyfriend a dork. Listen. Listen to finance podcast. This dorky ass nigga Andy is a dork nerd ass nature, nature boy out there hiking. Little nature nerd.

[C]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. So Andy wants to go on this hike to this place called have a, have a, have a, have a Supai. Have a Supai Falls. And he's like, I really want you to come with me.

[B]

Can you hear the baby crying in my house?

[C]

I can, but it just sounds like you're in New York.

[B]

The baby is crying. Oh, God.

[C]

And he's like, bobby, you should go change the baby.

[B]

You know, she's my cousin. The baby is my cousin. And I think that my mother's tending to the baby.

[C]

And he wants to go on this hike to Havasupai Falls. And I was like, I'm not into that. He's like, baby, I really want you to go with me. I was like, andy, I just have no interest in going on a hike and then having to sleep on the ground outside. If it was like a day thing, like, we'd leave in the morning, like, go camp IQ Bob. I was like, I just have no desire to camp and hike.

[B]

Didn't you and him do a thing where y' all were like, walking out in the desert of Vegas and you were in water and yes, it's gonna be that again, but worse, but then

[C]

have to spend the night. Spend. I was like, if we can go to the thing and we can go see this waterfall and then I can go back and sleep in my bed or hotel at night, I would do that. I'm not camping outside. I have no desire to camp in the wilderness.

[B]

I also, like, honestly, like, you gotta be able to do this stuff without me. You have to be able to go have. Go play in the woods. Go play in the woods.

[C]

I will not be go. I like, go have fun. Like, go hike. Go see the falls. Like, I just. I just. I'm not. I'm not. I have. There is not a ounce of me that has any desire to hike and sleep outside overnight in the woods.

[B]

Yeah, I have not slept outside, like, camping wise in Oof. Since I've been sober. Actually, literally last time I did was. It was. Was when I was. When I was getting sober. So I think it's like 15 years ago.

[C]

Wait, so you. So you've. So do you've been camping before? Did you like it?

[B]

No, I did not. As you can see by my lack of returning to the art form. No, I did not like it. I hated it, actually.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, that's me.

[B]

I don't think you realize how many bugs in the woods want to bite you. Like, I don't think y' all realize how much your home is protecting you from mosquitoes. I don't think you realize how much your home is truly protecting you from bugs. The amount of bug spray. You have to constantly be slathering yourself and lighting candles that will keep the bugs away. Putting it on your body. You wear bracelets. You smell like roach spray. No.

[C]

Yeah. I just. Kevin sounds. All of it. Every aspect of the camping sounds terrible to me. The. The all day exercise to get to the thing. Setting up a tent, getting out a little. A little flat, little bed to sleep on. Sleep. Sleeping outside, trying to get a fire, trying to warm up some water. It all sounds horrible.

[B]

I feel like. Andy, if you want to see. If you want to sleep outside, go sleep on the porch tonight. Go sleep on the balcony. Go sleep on the balcony tonight.

[C]

Like, I just strap yourself to the

[B]

top of the silvermobile and sleep outside. Absolutely not.

[C]

I was like, one of doing that stuff. I can't.

[B]

Jacob does not. And I'm very grateful that Jacob does not want to sleep outside. That is. I love that Jacob's not in these streets trying to go hiking and drink creek water. I'm very grateful.

[C]

Go ahead.

[B]

If you boil the water. Yeah. And if you bring a bottle, you'll be fine.

[C]

What you're saying? One time.

[B]

Oh, when I was in. I can't remember. I was. I think I might have been in Miami, But I slept on the balcony of my hotel with those sounds of the ocean. It was honestly everything. I took my whole comforter set out and laid on the little. The little not stretcher, like the layback chair, the lounge chairs and slept on the balcony. It was everything.

[C]

That sounds cute. This is like. Like recently or like, since you've been like, you're like a nice hotel.

[B]

This is like maybe less than a year ago. Yeah, it was at a very nice hotel.

[C]

Yeah, that sounds cute.

[B]

I went to a wedding. One of my friends said they went to a wedding. Some comedian I know said they went to a wedding, and when they got there, the bride was like, roast me, Roast me. And then he was like, you know, I don't. It seems appropriate.

[C]

No, no, no.

[B]

We are really. We have a very sick sense of humor. Please roast us. And then he got there and he roasted them. And she started crying during the. Yes. I had to Find out who it was. He said she started crying and the video went, like, kind of viral. That she was like, you ruined my wedding day. And he was like, you told me.

[C]

I need to see this. I need to see this. This sounds great.

[B]

Actually, I think it might be someone I met on TikTok. Or is it someone that I know in person? It was a straight guy, so probably someone I met on TikTok. Cause I don't really know any straight comedians besides Evan Williams. So it must have been a guy I met on TikTok. But yeah, he had this whole thing where she kept being like, no. Cause I roasted someone at their wedding

[C]

and I remember this. I remember you telling me about this. This is in Florida.

[B]

Yeah, but they were gay guys and they loved it.

[C]

Okay. That's a trend. That's the thing on Reddit, too. They were like, someone will, like. It'll be a picture of them and it's a thing that says, like, R slash, like semicolon. Roast me.

[B]

Would you sleep? Oh. Cause hey, Cameo, Monet says, hey, Cameo. He says, hey, I need your charger before you go to sleep. Yeah, I need to charge my headphones for this flight.

[C]

Anyway, Monet, let me tell you something, Bob. This is, you know, let me tell you, Bobby. At the airport, Bob will wear them damn airpods and not take them off until we get in the Uber or the car to the next place. From the time Bob leaves the hotel hair phones on, and he does not take them off until. Not even when we get to the hotel, he be in the Uber the whole time and he's talking to Bob. Huh.

[B]

Okay, I'm going to tell you why I keep the headphones on. And it actually makes a lot of sense. It's because these headphones do not feel comfortable down here. When they're down there, they are very, very uncomfortable. They don't feel good. And sometimes I'll wear them like this because it's more comfortable, but they slide off your head. So therefore, I just put them on like this. And there is an option here that takes off the noise canceling and you can still kind of hear what's going on around you. So, yeah, I do not take my headphones off because I don't want them. I don't want them to break. I don't want them to. I don't want. And it's. This is not comfortable, maybe for other people. Have you. Do you have a pair of these?

[C]

I do, yeah.

[B]

Do you think they're comfortable?

[C]

Don't wear headphones. And I don't. I normally wear them up. I wear them up here like this.

[B]

Yeah. You literally have to put them up here or do this or do this because you do not want to. I don't. I feel like I've never had a pair of headphones that felt uncomfortable down here. Except for these, which is kind of gay.

[C]

I think they're such a durable or such a strong metal. They're heavy headphones, so they just feel very constricting.

[B]

Yeah, I just don't. I don't like that part. That's why I never take them off. And you can kind of hear through them a little bit. Low key.

[C]

When you put the noise canceling, you can hear through for sure.

[B]

But yeah, if you see me in public, baby, I have these on.

[C]

If you see me out in public, that means I don't fuck with you.

[B]

It also allows me to not talk to people. Exactly. And it's. If you see me now, peek.

[C]

Yeah. Well, I'm not speaking to you anymore because we're done. We're wrapped.