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Bob the Drag Queen
My name is Bob the Drag Queen
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and I'm Monet X Change, and this is simply rivalry. On today's episode, we do an unboxing of my legendary legend star.
Bob the Drag Queen
We talk about public transportation and we
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find out what made Bob say this.
Bob the Drag Queen
Just let me do this. If y' all give me literally five seconds to do this math and we find out what made Monet say this.
Monet X Change
Citibike's a slap. And, you know, as a New Yorker, I detested it for so long. I was like, anybody got no fucking Citibe? I was like, that's so whack. Spain's entry for Eurovision was so dope.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, a big congratulations to Spain for winning the Heart of Monet X Change.
Monet X Change
I want to say you may not
Bob the Drag Queen
have won Eurovision, but you did win the Heart of Monet X Change, which is worth a lot. You were telling me that you're like, you're overwhelmed or tired or something. Tell me more.
Monet X Change
Yeah, I just have a lot going on. I have. I'm preparing for the Dynasty Typewriter show. And also, just for laughs, it's a very big comedy festival, so I'm just trying to get all my ducks in order for that, you know, It's a lot, but I'm very excited. How about you? How are you feeling?
Bob the Drag Queen
I'm feeling great. I've been very relaxed lately. Haven't been too busy, just kind of been chilling out, kind of just filling my vibes, you know, living my little relaxation fantasy.
Monet X Change
Rest and relaxation. RR is very important for the mental health.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, I have to say sorry about that, everyone. My mic was acting a while, but yeah, I've been taking it easy at a very chill morning. I just woke up, had some brunch, ran into a friend from college, and then came home, watched some YouTube videos and I've been working a little bit, but all the work seems really fun and rewarding, so I'm in a pretty good mood. You did have a straight month with no breaks, working every day. I did have a month with no breaks, working every day. That is true. But today, this is the first. It is 6pm Pacific time. This is my first thing I've had to do involving work today. And honestly, it feels great. I'm one of those folks who can work for a month straight, but if I get that one day, I'm good. I just need a break just once in a while so I can go pretty, pretty, you know, hardcore. Long as I get my little break. Eventually everyone gets a break. Eventually I get my heart a break. Heart a break.
Monet X Change
Except for my tongue. Selena Gomez. No, I don't know.
Bob the Drag Queen
Anyway, so much music. I am as refreshed as a bird. I feel like a little spring chicken. I'm in such a great mood. I'm very grateful to the patrons and the listeners of sibling Rivalry who have been sending me lots of clips of you drooling. It feels very nice to be vindicated and to know that I'm not crazy and that the sibling jewelry. By the way, if you have any clips of money, please use hashtag sibling jewelry.
Monet X Change
We did ask people to do sibling Islander. They were from Staten Island. We did not get a single sibling islandery of someone from Staten island, which.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, did you search it?
Monet X Change
No one from Staten island listened to this podcast, which is.
Bob the Drag Queen
You search them.
Monet X Change
Sad. Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
How are we spelling? We never tell people how to spell them. If you look at the screen, if you're watching on YouTube right now, hashtag siblingdruelry is on. The show is on the screen. That's how you should spell it. Apparently when they said we got zero sibling islandery, but I will say can confirm we did get some sibling jerkery back in the day.
Monet X Change
That was a. Yeah, that did happen.
Bob the Drag Queen
That bully, y' all were wild on sibling jerky.
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Sibling jerkery.
Bob the Drag Queen
Even some friends of mine, like people that I know personally, sent me sibling jerkery videos.
Monet X Change
Oh, really? Like send them to you or they put the hashtag.
Bob the Drag Queen
They were like DMs and hashtags as well. Both. Mm. I think some of them were like DMs. And I was like, oh, my God, I didn't know you were, like, not
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listening and
Bob the Drag Queen
not the. Kimchi's call. Kimchi always calls me when I'm doing something. I mean, and only when I'm doing something.
Shannon Maldonado
Kimchi.
Bob the Drag Queen
Let me ask you this real quick.
Monet X Change
Slim T. Hey, Kim.
Bob the Drag Queen
We keep missing each other. Now I'm doing the podcast, but I'll call you back afterwards. We're gonna do two in a row, though. All right, bye. Me and Kim have been trying to reach each other for a couple of days now.
Monet X Change
About what? Regarding what you want to tell us.
Bob the Drag Queen
I do not. I genuinely don't know. Monique. Kim called me the day. She was like, hey, I want to talk to you. Do you have, like, 10 minutes? And I was like, no, I don't. I'll call you when I'm done here, though. And then I called her back, and then she didn't answer. And then she called me back, and I didn't answer, and then she called me back today. This been going on for, like, two. Two. Two days or so. I was. As you all know, I've been working on some music, and I've shot two music videos, which is very exciting.
Monet X Change
When do they come out?
Bob the Drag Queen
June and July. Work June and July. I'm very excited about the videos coming out. You know, I'm really proud of both of them. They're both really creative, and they're in their own. In their own regard. They're both very different. The songs are very different. And I worked with Assad Yakub, who. Who directed the first feature film I was ever in. That's not true. The first feature film I ever starred in, like, had, like, a nice big role in. And he also. He also directed my first music video. I was his first music video, and he was my first music video, which is Purse first. Purse First. And he just recently directed his 50th music video.
Monet X Change
Oh, really? I think I did it for actually.
Bob the Drag Queen
And he was like. He was like, oh, he was. He was saying that he really wanted. Wanted because I was his 49 and he wanted me to be his 50th to, like, commemorate. But I was like, well, the timing wasn't it? But I told Assad that I'm sure we can. We can manage to have me be his 100th video.
Monet X Change
Assad is very fun. I love Assad. It's very animated. Assad is a very, very big personality. But very sweet.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, yeah. Assad is wild. And then I did my other video, music video with Marvin Brown, who's a really wonderful director and choreographer. He's kind of all. He's kind of a multiple, like an all in one type. He's from London, but he lives here in Los Angeles. He's LA based. Really, really wonderful. Yeah, he's really. He. He. He could actually be a. A, a, A sibling. He could be a sibling of ours.
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Why?
Bob the Drag Queen
Just tall, black, bald, beautiful people.
Monet X Change
Tall, black, Bald, beautiful Tom. TB, TBB. Tall black ball. No. We could have TB3.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, good. Not Monet's last two brain cells.
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Tall, black, bald.
Bob the Drag Queen
That Monet's last two princess.
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TB3. Like DC3 Monet.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, I feel so bad. You seem so tired, my sweet baby.
Monet X Change
No, I'm not tired. I just have. I just. I don't have a lot of work to do. I'm not like Ty. Like, I'm tired in my brain. I'm like, I have a lot of work to do.
Bob the Drag Queen
I know. And I want to come see you tonight, but you're probably going to say no. But I'm leaving town. I'm leaving town. Let me come help you out.
Monet X Change
We have a lot of time to chat on the phone on this.
Bob the Drag Queen
You're not going to let me come see you tonight?
Monet X Change
No, I'm busy, bitch. I'm busy. To quote Priyanka, I always want to call her Priyanka Chopra, but she's Priyanka. What is Priyanka?
Bob the Drag Queen
Priyanka doesn't have a last name. Huh? I mean, I'm sure in real life she has a last name, but she's just Priyanka.
Monet X Change
Priyanka the drag queen doesn't have a last name. Maybe we just. No one just calls her by it.
Bob the Drag Queen
She doesn't have a last name. I'm telling you, Priyanka doesn't have a last name.
Monet X Change
Priyanka's right.
Shannon Maldonado
Queen.
Monet X Change
Oh, my God, are we gonna crack the case? She does.
Bob the Drag Queen
What is it?
Monet X Change
Priyanka?
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. She doesn't have a last name.
Monet X Change
Her name is the Queen Priyanka. Or is Queen Priyanka. Is she like the drag queen? Where is Bob?
Bob the Drag Queen
Where are you seeing this?
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At Instagram.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, and I think her Instagram name is Queen Priyanka. Because Priyanka was taken. Because Priyanka is a pretty common name.
Monet X Change
Priyanka Chopra.
Bob the Drag Queen
Monet, sometimes you call me and you go, bob, you've been avoiding me and now you're literally avoiding me.
Monet X Change
Am I?
Bob the Drag Queen
You don't want me to come over. Ooh, it's getting warm in this room now.
Monet X Change
Oh, you have a fur coat on, so that's understandable.
Bob the Drag Queen
Are you avoiding. I don't know. Are you avoiding me?
Monet X Change
I'm not avoiding you.
Bob the Drag Queen
You know. You know, I can really help you develop your shows. I do shows all the time.
Monet X Change
Mateo Lane is helping me.
Bob the Drag Queen
Wow. Whoa.
Monet X Change
Some.
Bob the Drag Queen
Mateo's over.
Monet X Change
No, he's not over. Mateo doesn't live here. I wish Matteo would move to Los Angeles. I love Mateo a lot. He's great. Very sweet man.
Bob the Drag Queen
If Mateo was here, would you let him come over tonight and help you out?
Monet X Change
I don't know. It's not an option. It's not a viable option, so I haven't really thought through it. That's the thing I would want.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, you know what? I'm still gonna offer when this is all said and done. Maybe I'll just come over.
Monet X Change
Maybe I'll just show up, and who's gonna enter the door?
Bob the Drag Queen
You gave me your August. That was a mistake. That was a mistake.
Monet X Change
I can literally shut it off at any moment.
Bob the Drag Queen
You should have done that. That was a massive mistake. Massive mistake.
Monet X Change
You can shut it off. What do you. When you leave for? We're here tomorrow. Are you excited about this new. Well, the last place she went was in, like, a small. Are y' all going to a small? Maybe. I don't know.
Bob the Drag Queen
We always go to small towns. We exclusively go. We pretty much exclusively go to small towns.
Monet X Change
But the last place you were, you stayed in a big town.
Bob the Drag Queen
I know. Yeah, but we. We almost exclusively go to small towns, and I'm never particular. I'm always excited to be doing we're here. I'm never particularly excited to be in any of the towns that we film in. I mean, and it's. It's not in any shade of the town. But, like, before I went to Rustin, Louisiana, I had never heard of it, so I wasn't like, oh, I got to get to Rustin. I got to get to Branson, Missouri. I got to get to Twin Falls, Idaho. You know, I got to get to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I can't wait to spend time.
Monet X Change
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. No, I went to Gettysburg, Virginia. No, I went to Lynchburg, Virginia.
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay. Have you ever been to any. Have you ever been to any of these places?
Monet X Change
I went to Lynchburg. Lynchburg was. Lynchburg is. It was cute. It's a nice.
Bob the Drag Queen
It sounds like a town I would not want to visit for obvious reasons. Based on the name, Gettysburg is technically the smallest town we've been To Gettysburg has a population of about 8,000 people.
Monet X Change
You should go to Utica. Utica is a very small population, according to, like, 200 people.
Bob the Drag Queen
Is it 200?
Monet X Change
Hey, Google something like that.
Bob the Drag Queen
What's the population of Utica?
Monet X Change
There are many Uticas, though. There's Utica, New York.
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Monet X Change
Utica, New York. She's like, utica Indianapolis or Utica. Something like that.
Bob the Drag Queen
Not you being the Utica historian. Not you being now. You know more about Utica than. Than any other queen.
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Utica queen. I saw her dragon. I didn't get a chance to, like, say anything to her, really. I saw her, and then with everything going on, meant to go like, oh, my God, hey, girl. But I missed out her. She's very tall in person. Very, very tall. She looked like this black fan, like, tool thing that was, like, covering her face. It was very, very similar. Well, not similar, but it reminded me of what she put Simone in when she. When her and Simone, they had to, like, switch each other's looks or whatever it was that's make each other over because of the pandemic. That's what I remember.
Bob the Drag Queen
You love pointing out tall queens, tall people.
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She was. You know, it's so startling. We're all back there, and she's in this, like, black shrouded outfit, and she's, like, kind of towering over everyone. It's very, like, striking, like, oh, that person's here.
Bob the Drag Queen
The day that I went to dragcon, there was just not a lot. It felt like not a lot going on. It was Sunday. It was the last day of DragCon. And it feels like everything that happened obviously happened on Friday or Saturday. Cause by the time I showed up, bitches were like, deuces, honey, deuces. But I did get to see a lot of people. And also, I want to congratulate you on doing so well on the first episode. I know these episodes, what we're recording comes out at different times, but as of this date, we have seen the first two episodes of Drag Race. All Star seven. He did a really good job. Congratulations.
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Thank you.
Bob the Drag Queen
On your legendary legend star.
Monet X Change
I got in the mail today.
Bob the Drag Queen
They mail them to you.
Monet X Change
Mm.
Bob the Drag Queen
You can't take that. You can't, like, just take them when you leave set.
Monet X Change
No, because someone probably, like, revealed that they had it or someone like. I'm sure they have reasons why someone will probably spoil somebody come back home and just be wearing it around.
Bob the Drag Queen
Did they let y' all leave with your Twitter hat trophies?
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No, they Mail those to you too.
Bob the Drag Queen
What?
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Shea tweeted that her star was hand delivered to her.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, Shay said hers was hand delivered. Not Monet getting mail and Shay getting an armored vehicle.
Monet X Change
Well, they brought. Let me. Correct. They brought it to Patty because obviously I'm here in la. So they brought it to Patty, but I didn't have received it because I just got back today. But they brought it to, and it's a very nice orange envelope.
Bob the Drag Queen
Not Monet's in usps, and Shay has Secret Service to walk them over in a steam briefcase.
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Right.
Bob the Drag Queen
It's the favoritism for me.
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So. Yeah. So they brought it over, and now I have my legendary legend star. Legendary legend star.
Bob the Drag Queen
Can you show us?
Monet X Change
It's downstairs. I can. I'll show the audience downstairs.
Bob the Drag Queen
Downstairs. She got fucking money downstairs. You are not in the mood. I feel like I'm extra goofy, and you're just like, girl.
Monet X Change
You said what? You're extra what?
Bob the Drag Queen
I'm extra goofy and you're like, girl, I got this shit that I'm trying to fucking.
Monet X Change
No, I'm here, I'm present, I'm speaking. I am engaging with you, with the likes of you.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't think you're in a bad. I don't think you're in a bad mood, but I got my star, girl, just like. Just like a little tired, which also, I typically hate when people tell people that they seem tired, but I feel like you and I, maybe it's a different. Different relationship.
Monet X Change
But I don't feel tired, though. I just feel like I need to get to work.
Bob the Drag Queen
Bitch, we are working. Bitch, what are we doing?
Monet X Change
You know what I mean? For the show on Tuesdays, and the show's on Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday. Oh, Lord, I ain't going back to Canada. I was just in Canada, and now when I went first, when I had to quarantine for two days, and I'm literally going a week from when I went. There's no quarantine. The Canada needs to get it together.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, maybe it's the different places you're going. Maybe it's the projects you're working on. Maybe it's.
Monet X Change
It's a province of Canada. They have state rights.
Bob the Drag Queen
State rights.
Monet X Change
Each province kind of has their own rules about quarantining. And so the province I'm going to in Vancouver, they don't have the same quarantining restrictions like the other province I went to.
Bob the Drag Queen
So you're saying Vancouver is the Florida of Canada?
Monet X Change
Mm. They actually rename it to Super Super Spread of Cuba, super spreader.
Bob the Drag Queen
And can people still come get tickets to come see you? I mean, by this time. Actually, by this time, you all have already missed the show so many. How was it?
Monet X Change
How. It's happening tomorrow night? Actually, the show in Vancouver is happening tomorrow night. So if you listen to this one, on the Wednesday before the 26th of. If you listen to this, on Wednesday, May 25th, show me on last ticket,
Bob the Drag Queen
last two brain cells. Monday's, last two breaks off.
Monet X Change
Get your tickets, honey, and come see the doll. Come see the duchess.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, listen, let's take a short little break, and we'll be right back.
Monet X Change
I'm gonna get my legendary legend star for y' all to see.
Bob the Drag Queen
A legendary legend star. Damn, girl, where was this badge at? And we're back, y'. All, y'. All. Normally when we take a break, it'd be three seconds. Monet really went to the store. Whatever she eating on, she went to the store and got it.
Monet X Change
Gonna open it live. This is. This is a live unboxing.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, have you never opened it?
Monet X Change
No. Oh, this is asmr. Y' all getting the real fantasy.
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay, let's. Let's get a peek at this legendary legend star, honey. Okay, Monet, it's a little too close to the mic. This is getting wild.
Monet X Change
You don't want it, honey,
Bob the Drag Queen
Take a video.
Monet X Change
Watch a slow mo.
Bob the Drag Queen
How do you think they. They actually got this to you?
Monet X Change
A legendary legend star. They brought it. They t. Text. They texted. Edward texted me, like, hey, Monet, are you. Are you. Are you around me? Want to bring your server to you?
Bob the Drag Queen
And I was like, you think someone drove it? Was there any public transportation involved? Did it take it on the train? Was it a bird? Probably.
Monet X Change
They drove it over, I would assume, because World of Wonder is. I mean, the offices are maybe 15, 20, 10. 15 minutes away from where I live. Where do you live?
Bob the Drag Queen
Is actually. Dress, please. Cross streets.
Monet X Change
Let me look that. One second.
Bob the Drag Queen
Monet, how did you get from the airport today?
Monet X Change
I drove. I wasn't. I wasn't. I wasn't at the airport. I was. I was. I was not at the airport.
Bob the Drag Queen
Wait, how long have you been in town?
Monet X Change
I got back in town Friday.
Bob the Drag Queen
You've been back in town since Friday? Monet. What? Rub a dub dub.
Monet X Change
Get in my tub.
Bob the Drag Queen
I did not know you were in town since Friday.
Monet X Change
But if I was coming in from the airport, I normally do take an Uber, you know? Okay, so when Patty and I first started traveling in New York, I would do this the first couple times. I would drive My car and park my car to the airport and then pick it up when we got back. But honestly, that is too much work. Like, doing that is just a. It's not as cheap as you think it will be in New York. An Uber from my apartment to the airport in New York was about. It was an Excel, about 136 bucks. If it's not an XL, it was about maybe like 80 bucks. But to park your car for the airport for more than, like, two days, bitch, you're paying like $60. So it's like, if I was gone for a week, forget about it. You're, like, up in like 300, $400. You might. It's. It's more cost effective to take an Uber. What about you? Did you do that? Did you ever think about. There was one time you and I thought about getting a driver and sharing a driver because we thought it'd be cheaper than taking cars all the time.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, you were mostly thinking about it. I was just kind of entertaining you. And I was like, I just don't think I take cars that often. Often enough to justify having a driver. And I don't know what that entails. How also, how far in advance do you need to tell the driver? You need to go somewhere? Like, is the driver nearby? Like, when you call every driver?
Monet X Change
We didn't dive deep into it, but we were like. I mean, we both talked about it. We were like. I was like, should we do this thing you like, I don't know. Maybe. I think it probably is she. Because at that point, let's say we. I went to the. I went to back and forth to the airport three times out of the week. That's $150 both way. That's $300 times three. That's $900 just for myself. Let's say you do the same three at least three times a week. That's $1,800. And I was looking up, like, what you pay a driver. And like, it was like, you pay them fifteen hundred dollars for a week to be on call. Something like that. I was like, oh, my God, would that be cheaper?
Bob the Drag Queen
I used to take the train to the airport in New York City. Whenever I went to the airport, I was. You got on the one train and then transfer at Port Authority, Times Square, walk over to Port Authority Underground and get on the A train to JFK and take the bus, the M. I think it's the M63 over to LaGuardia
Monet X Change
with all your bags.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, every time up until I left okay.
Monet X Change
Up until I moved you and Kennedy and you and.
Bob the Drag Queen
Me and Louise did it. Yep. Me and Jacob, whenever we would travel out of town. Yeah, pretty much.
Monet X Change
Nice. And how much do you think you saved?
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, my God. I mean, each trip to the airport was $1.25, but I'll pay Kennedy's trip, so it was 3. $2.50.
Monet X Change
Oh, but Bob's last two blue toes, so I have to do math.
Bob the Drag Queen
So I probably saved. I mean, I must have saved thousands of dollars. Thousands. Nice of dollars.
Monet X Change
You should do it here in la. There's a train that goes to the, to the airport here in LA as well.
Bob the Drag Queen
I probably, you know, I probably will. I live a little far from the. Actually, I don't actually. I do not live far from the train stop. The train is actually right around the corner for me.
Monet X Change
Yeah. So I think that should be a new thing. It'll be great.
Bob the Drag Queen
No, I, I, of course I, I take, I take. You know, when, when you back. Back in the day before Uber and stuff to get to the airport, the yellow cabs have a flat rate to get to anywhere outside of Brooklyn. If you live in Queens, if you live in Manhattan, if you live in Staten island, or if you live in the Bronx, it is a flat rate to get to jfk.
Monet X Change
I don't know. I know there's one from Manhattan. Cause so I used to work at the Yale Club, as I've said before, and we used to always advise our guests, but they're Yale Club members. They were really highfalutin and they were like, oh, no, my driver. Blah, blah. But people who, worrying about that life, they'll take a cab. The. The cab was. It was a flat rate from $60. There was $60 flat rate from, from the airport to, To. To Manhattan and vice versa. But I don't know. I don't.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't know.
Monet X Change
It's the same thing for the Bronx and Queens, I think.
Bob the Drag Queen
I think it is. It's one of those things too. Honestly, after, like, riding in Ubers, bitch, you would be wild to catch me in a fucking yellow cab. Like, y' all yellow cabs are nasty. Like, yellow cabs are on some other shit. The whole back seat.
Monet X Change
What way?
Bob the Drag Queen
The whole back seat is like a big bucket seat. It's just different from an Uber that
Monet X Change
has the same amount of people getting in it. Probably more nowadays.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, not only that, but first of all, the back seat was always like a big bucket seat. Sometimes it felt like you're in the back of a cop car. There's like, there's like this, like, crazy plexiglass between you and the drivers. And I just feel like you have a wider variety of automobile when you're riding in Ubers. So typically in New York City, I found that in la, for some reason, most of the Ubers are Toyota Priuses. Like, they stay a Toyota Prius. Is the Uber in New York. A lot of them were like Corollas. A lot of Corollas, A lot of Honda Cam. Yeah, that's what I meant. Camrys. A lot of Camrys. Where the, where the Uber is in New York City. I don't know what's up with this. Maybe it's just about what's regionally available in different areas at different car dealerships. Blase, blase, blase. But the yellow cabs, I also thought they were old. I felt like they were just used up. I just felt like they were never as nice as the Ubers. That's how I felt. And this is from years of. And this is from years of taxi cabbing and years of Ubering.
Monet X Change
I mean, I used to take taxis, too. I mean, I think what you're describing to me are the older taxicabs, but, like, from pretty much when Ubers got really popular, taxicabs too transitioned to, like having. It's like, especially when New York started getting the green cabs and the yellow cabs all. Pretty much all the new ones, all the green ones were Camrys, like, kind of like how Ubers were. A lot of them were the black Camrys.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, the green taxis are only, you know, the green taxis only go to, not necessarily just the boroughs above 110 in Manhattan or the boroughs. So if you lived in, if you lived in like, Morningside Heights or Harlem or. Or Washington Heights or Inwood or one of the boroughs outside of Manhattan, then you would, you would take a green cab. And the green cabs couldn't stop in the, in the inner city, in the middle of the city.
Monet X Change
Well, yeah, they could pick you up in those, but they can. They could drop you in the middle of the city.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, they drop you. They just can't. They just can't pick you up there.
Monet X Change
Yeah, yeah, they can't pick you up. Yeah. I feel like initiative, because a lot of taxis, they're like, no, if they wouldn't take you past. Not they wouldn't, but they would. Like, you tell them you going, yeah, you pick them up in Midtown. You say, yeah, I'm going to 145th. They're like, Nah, I'm not going up there. And they will, like, they'll make you hop your ass out and get a new taxi because they didn't want to go to Harlem or they want to go to the Bronx or Brooklyn.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. Also, when you have an Uber, there's no arguing, there's no debating. Like, before Uber, you said that you said to fucking get in the car and, like. And, like, haggle. Like, you're like, you're trying to go to 135 and you're like, okay, man, please take me to 110. Take 110, please. I walk the rest of the way. Like, it was like this, like, absurd amount of haggling, people kicking you out of their cars. I used to hate the curbside interviews. I used to hate the curbside interview where you go up to the car and they lock all the doors, crack the window, and say, where are you going?
Monet X Change
And fair. Because they probably. Who knows what these taxicabs have faced before someone get in the car and trying to rob them or do something shady. Like, I mean, I think most of it was about.
Bob the Drag Queen
Most of the current interviews were about, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
Monet X Change
No, I used to see a lot of the news, especially growing up, like, seeing, like, some taxi gab, some taxi driver was shot, et cetera, et cetera. I'm sure if you're a driver and you see that, you're like, bitch, I need to be. And, you know, maybe what's happening in those boroughs, it wouldn't. But honestly, I would say in New York, you're always like, one block away from a fucking gunshot. So the same way you can pick someone up in. In the Bronx and. And feel nervous that something will happen, the same way you can. You can think, you can feel on the east side, on the Upper west side, in Midtown, like, New York City is. New York City is a wild place all over.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't. I don't know that my experience in New York City was being a block away from gun shop. Maybe that's cuz I lived. Maybe that's cuz of where I lived. And maybe it's because of where you had grew up.
Monet X Change
Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
But anyway, I feel like most. Most of the time people were like, locking their doors and asking us, where you going? It wasn't necessarily about safety. Maybe it has some safety, but it was also about people not wanting to go far. They wanted to go to the Upper west side at the highest or the Village at the lowest. They didn't want to go to Harlem. They didn't want to go to the Bronx. They don't want to go to New Jersey. They don't want to go to Queens. They sure as hell don't want to go to Staten Island. So a lot of those, like, doors lock window crack. Where are you going? Was just trying to make sure that they are not going to end up in a place where they can't get a ride, which honestly fair sure go off. I'm not telling y' all to stop doing it.
Monet X Change
They're like, bitch, I ain't going to Marcy projects. I ain't going to Dyckman. Like, New York. Taxi cab drivers are shady. One of my friend's father, he was a. Do you ever ride dollar cabs? Have you ever written a dollar cab?
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't even know what a dollar cab is.
Monet X Change
Okay, so for people living from Brooklyn, Dollar cabs, they, like, go up and down Flatbush Avenue or also on Nordstrom or on the Junction. It's a cab. You pay them a dollar and they go up and down that street all day. So you can take it. You can r the way from the beginning of Flatbush Avenue all the way to the end downtown for a dollar. And my friend, I guess they didn't have those in Manhattan. Yeah, I don't think dollar cats are a thing in Manhattan. Interesting. And my friend's dad was a dollar cab driver. And sometimes coming from school, we would, like. We would, like see the dollar cab and we would, like. We would, like, get his. We would get his dad. His dad would give us a dollar cab ride for free, which is always very nice. But the dollar cab is.
Bob the Drag Queen
Y' all can pay that man a dollar. Y' all can pay. Y' all can. Y' all can rustle up 50 cent between the two of y'. All. Get this man a dollar.
Monet X Change
Not. Not in middle school. In middle school, I was trying to get by, honey. I used to get my little. My little change. I used to try to hold my money for snacks.
Bob the Drag Queen
Why'd you need money in middle school?
Monet X Change
To go to the corner store and get snacks after school. Me and Kameka, I mean, I, I,
Bob the Drag Queen
I mean, I had. I had a little side hustle in middle school, but before I had my side hustle, I. I did not have any. Any money at all whatsoever. But anyway, yeah, I. So I just. That is my experience with New York City taxis and Ubers, and I prefer the Ubers because I hated the curbside interviews. And whenever, especially when you're dressed in drag and you're on the street corner in pumps and a wig holding your bags, begging a cab driver to take you uptown. That's just not fun. That is not.
Monet X Change
Yeah, my thing. What used to gag. What used to. I guess because I don't take Ubers as much anymore. But what used to gag me was the crazy surge pricing. Like, I remember one time I was coming from. I guess I was on 34th street by the Javits center, which, if y' all know, that's. That's all. That's on 34th street all the way west, really close. I mean, like pretty much on 12th Avenue. And. And I was doing something down there. I don't know what I was in, but it was during the day, I was a boy and I went to like, call an Uber and it was like the search pricing was plus 250%. I was like, that is crazy. That now my Uber that would normally cost me 44 bucks is costing me 250% more. Like, that was wild to me. I was like, how is that even legal to do that?
Bob the Drag Queen
Let's try to figure out that math when we come back.
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Monet X Change
250. So 100% would be. Let's say it's 50. Let's round it to $50.
Bob the Drag Queen
50 times a. We ain't making it easy. We're going to $46. 46 times 2. Holl at your boy. Come on. What's that, son?
Monet X Change
How about you do your. You do your own math in your head, I'll do mine in my head and we'll see. And we'll see who's right.
Bob the Drag Queen
So we're trying to figure out 250. Wait, wait, wait, so we're trying to figure out 200. We're trying to figure out 250 of 46 that we're doing.
Monet X Change
Yeah, it's about $135.
Bob the Drag Queen
We do it in our heads and then get together.
Monet X Change
Oh, do it.
Bob the Drag Queen
Do your shit in your head. I have it. Hold on. Okay. Huh.
Monet X Change
Huh?
Bob the Drag Queen
Wait, hold on. 240%, right? 250%. Hold on.
Monet X Change
Huh? Take a video. Okay.
Bob the Drag Queen
Can't. With you singing. One. I don't. Your singing is not helping me.
Monet X Change
One. Take the mic.
Bob the Drag Queen
Hold on. Everyone's talking. Can y' all all stop talking for one second while I do this math, please?
Monet X Change
Are we going to be here the
Bob the Drag Queen
rest of the century if everyone keeps talking?
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Bob the Drag Queen
Stop talking on a podcast, right? Wait, no, just. Just let me do this. If y' all give me literally five seconds to do this math without just a moment, we can skip. We can skip the silence. We have editing power.
Monet X Change
Now you talking.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, my God. Stop. Let me do my math. Thank you. Yes. All right. I have. My answer is 125.
Monet X Change
I said. I said. I was saying 127.
Bob the Drag Queen
It's 115. That's what I meant.
Monet X Change
Price is right.
Bob the Drag Queen
That's what I meant. That's what I meant. Anyway, so we're trying to find out who has a better Uber rating, me or Monet. Exchange. Monet. Do you think your Uber rating is better than mine?
Monet X Change
I don't know. Honestly, I've never checked my Uber rating. I remember I'm not even cognizant of it.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, they give you poor over ratings for can't. Sometimes you can't. So you can get a poor Uber rating sometimes if you get into an argument, if you're noisy, if you're. If you slam doors, if you have an attitude problem. But also, you know, you and your. The company you keep reflect your Uber ratings. So this is mostly you and Patty and how that has affected your Uber rating.
Monet X Change
Mm. How you take into account your Uber food is what Uber Eats orders do.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't think Uber Eats rates you. All right, Monat, what is your official rating?
Monet X Change
Mine is 4.7. What's yours?
Bob the Drag Queen
4.78 per. How many. Okay, how many five star ratings do you have?
Monet X Change
I have 441. Five star ratings.
Shannon Maldonado
Mm.
Bob the Drag Queen
449 per. All right, I'm screen grabbing mine too. How many four stars you got?
Monet X Change
I have 17.
Bob the Drag Queen
I have 21. How many three stars you rocking with?
Monet X Change
I have 13.
Bob the Drag Queen
I have 12. How many two stars you got eight. I have six. And how many one stars you rolling with?
Monet X Change
I have 21 one stars.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh my. What did you do?
Monet X Change
Probably just being in drag.
Bob the Drag Queen
Are there like written reviews?
Monet X Change
No,
Bob the Drag Queen
like I want to see the written. I want to see why Monet got 21 Ubers.
Monet X Change
How many do you have?
Bob the Drag Queen
I have 12.
Monet X Change
He also seems to take more Ubers than me.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't. Maybe there's a way to find out who takes more Ubers.
Monet X Change
Yeah, you just add those together, like the ratings.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, do you get a rating from every Uber?
Monet X Change
No, not every, but I mean, that's a rough way to tell who takes more. If you have more ratings, then likely you probably take more Ubers. In my.
Bob the Drag Queen
I have more five star rating. But you have more one star, so maybe you're. Because I have slightly more. I have like three more five star rating. But you have 11 more or nine more one star ratings than I do. What are you doing to get these one star? Are you eating in cars?
Monet X Change
No, I don't eat in cars. I, I, I, I don't talk at all. Normally I get an Uber. And I was like, hey. And when they try to start conversation, I, I pretty much, especially through Covid, I'll just be like, they're like, have
Bob the Drag Queen
you ever had a particularly upsetting interaction with an Uber driver? Because I, I've had a few.
Monet X Change
I have not. Honestly, there's only one. Recently I was going to the airport and the driver just wouldn't follow the route. Like, like Google Maps was given like the fastest way to get there. I went to the airport and he was just, he was like, no. He's like, you know, in LA everyone wants to get to the highway. He's like, no, I'm not gonna take the highway. I'm gonna take Melrose. And I was like, no, the highway's faster. He's like, no, no, no, this is better. So we ended up getting to the airport 16 minutes later than what the ETA said if we via the accident. And I was like, why would you do that? And I mean, I mean, I can't speculate about what his issue was, but he was really averse to taking the highways. He's like, no, absolutely.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't wanna sound like a
Monet X Change
an
Bob the Drag Queen
LA girl and I lost an Angelino, but I will say taking La Brea to the airport is really, for me has been consistently the fastest way to get to the airport. We also live in different parts. I live in, I live, we live in different towns.
Monet X Change
You're, you're landlocked. I'm like, I'm literally right on the highway, not landlocked.
Bob the Drag Queen
You really said la? Oh, she said, la, Not.
Monet X Change
You are in your landlocked down.
Bob the Drag Queen
So me and Jacob were leaving Trixie's house, right? And we were downstairs waiting for this car. And the guy was. I mean, when I say his music was so loud, we would have been in the car just belting Patti LuPone and Patti LaBelle in a car screaming at each other, me and Jacob. And I was like, this is so loud. And I said, can you please turn the music? And I've learned the difference between saying, turn the music down and turn the music off. If you say turn it down, they will move it one click. So I said, can you turn the music off? He goes, nah, man, nah. And I was like. And then he was reclined so far back that he was in the backseat with us. Like, I'm not kidding. Like, he could look to his right and we would be making full eye contact. He was reclined so far back so Jacob couldn't get behind him. Jacob was. Jacob had to sit in the middle seat because this guy was so far reclined. And I said, can you please move your seat forward? He was like, man, I ain't doing that. And I was like, this is crazy. And I was like, all right. I said, you know what? We're good. So then we got out of the car, and he's kind of like, in
Monet X Change
the middle of the highway or like, where were you?
Bob the Drag Queen
The car never moved. The car. We never. We never actually got to moving because we couldn't even get in the car because Jacob had to sit in the. In the middle seat in the back. And. And then I was. Then he was like, y' all need to cancel his car, man. Cause I ain't about to cancel. I ain't about to lose no money on this. And I was like, well, we're not canceling. He goes, well, you can't get no other card in. And I was like, I'll just use the other app. So I. I think I got him through Lyft, and I just opened Uber and got another car. And we just awkwardly waited, like, 10ft from him while calling our other car. It was very odd. Do you remember. Do you have any thoughts about this. This ride, Jacob?
Monet X Change
Yeah, I think you summed it up completely. It was, what. What if. What if he, like, just continued the route to your house and just when he got there, just end trip? Like, how do you dispute that with Uber?
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, Uber is. Uber does not really fight Back on disputes. I mean, every time I've ever disputed a claim on Uber, they've given me my money back instantly. Whether it be Uber eats anything. They, they usually, they say we're investigating. They do five minutes investigation, if that, and they just go, here's your money back.
Monet X Change
Well, they probably, they probably look for patterns. If someone like, does it like every, like once a month or like every other order, they're like, all right, something is fishy here. But if someone doesn't do it often, they're probably like, they're probably correct.
Bob the Drag Queen
But also, why even be an Uber driver if that's the fan? Like, why, like, how does that make sense?
Monet X Change
I don't know, girl, you must have really put a bee in his bonnet that day.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, I put a bee in his mind by just, by just getting in his car. I probably really upset the guy. But in New York City, in New York City, I really actually, I really liked taking the train in New York City. It was a really great way to get around.
Monet X Change
I had to take the train. I mean, living in Manhattan, more so than when I lived in the Bronx or Brooklyn because it was just really easy. But when I would like take the train from like the first stop in Brooklyn to Manhattan, that's like a good hour and 10 minutes. So I was like, crazy. I hated that. But when I was in Harlem, that was fun because to get from my house to midtown was maybe like 25 minutes on the one train. I was in the Bronx, it was like 45 minutes. Go ahead.
Bob the Drag Queen
I lived in the Heights, Washington Heights. And it really wasn't that big. It wasn't that big of a deal. It was a pretty short, sweet trip getting down there. I say, honestly, if you're gonna take the train in New York City, give yourself an hour to get everywhere. I don't care if you're going from, from fucking 14th street to 18th street on the one train, if you're going to. On the train, just budget an hour for yourself and you'll be happy. When I, when I used to live in Long Island City, oh, child, the journey. I used to have to. When I lived in Ozone Park, I used to have a 15 minute walk to the train.
Monet X Change
Why do you think the bus.
Bob the Drag Queen
Because I. Because as when you, when you're not from New York City, the bus can your up. You get on the bus, you know which direction the train is going, you'll be on the bus. Next thing you know, you hit a turn, you don't know where you're going. You be on the wrong bus. Multiple buses come to the same stop. You try to get on A on the. On the B63, get on the Q49, and then you end up in. You make one wrong turn, you trying to go to Manhattan, you end up in fucking Staten Island. It is very easy to be on a bus and have that bitch hit a right and you be like, I was supposed to go left. This is crazy.
Monet X Change
Yeah, I mean, I. Yeah, I guess for the most part, but, I mean, especially if you live in that neighborhood, I feel like it's really easiest to learn the bus in your neighborhood. You're like, oh, this is my neighborhood. Like, I've been here for two years. Like, I know the ba Gate goes all the way this way.
Bob the Drag Queen
The only bus I ever took in New York City was consistently was the bus to Laguardia, because you stop right outside my door at 106 in Amsterdam. I mean, I could go downstairs with my bag, get on the bus, and go straight to LaGuardia, which was amazing. For a $20 fucking five. I think it's 175 now. Is that what it is now?
Monet X Change
Yeah, 175. Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
And. Or I used to take the 96th street crosstown bus. Because you cannot take a train. There's no train that goes across town above 14th Street. The only train that goes across town is the L train, and it is all the way down on 14th Street. So if you're trying to get the
Monet X Change
S train does as well.
Bob the Drag Queen
The F. Oh, yeah, the F. Oh, the F does, too. Kind of. Well, they kind of. So the F kind of comes into the city, but once it gets to midtown, it goes straight up. Whereas if you want to go from, like, from coast to coast to coast, from, like, river to river, from Hudson to east, there's an actual bus that will go from the east river to the Hudson river, and the L train goes from the east river to the Hudson River. Whereas a lot of the trains, they will. They basically cut into Manhattan, and then once they get to their avenue, they go up and down. That's the side they stay on the whole time.
Monet X Change
Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
Especially above. Above 14th Street.
Monet X Change
And the Estrin only does Times Square.
Bob the Drag Queen
I mean, the little shuttle. The little shuttle train.
Monet X Change
Yeah, the shuttle train. It goes square to Grand Central, which is, you know, not terrible, but it's definitely not the river to river.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, but if you. But if you. Because especially mama, once you live on either side of Central park, which I used to live on the west side of Central park, and maybe getting to. Getting through Central park is crazy because there's like, there's a few. What, 96th Street, I think 83.
Monet X Change
It's a big ass park, girl.
Bob the Drag Queen
And then I think there's one way down on something. There are very few entrances to get through the park.
Monet X Change
Yeah, Central Pizzi, you know, it's five miles.
Bob the Drag Queen
If you walk all the way around the park, it's almost exactly five miles.
Monet X Change
In the Pandemic. I used to ride up and down it. Not every day, but I was really, I was really into biking. Which city bikes? Honestly, they. City bikes slap. And you know, as a New Yorker, I detested it for so long. I was like, anybody getting no fucking city bike? I was like, that's so whack. And then Pandemic, I was like. It was like the best way to travel because you could go anywhere you needed to, anywhere you needed to in the city and not have to get on the train, et cetera. And Citibikes became my jam. Even when I go back now and I have to like do little things in the city, I have to get a city bike as opposed to getting an Uber.
Bob the Drag Queen
Can you describe what a city bike is, please?
Monet X Change
Oh, yeah, Citibike, which. A lot of cities have it now. I've noticed going around a lot of cities in Europe, in America, Canada, it's these, like, bike these, these bikes for this, for whatever city you're in. Some, some, some are. They're always a bank. They're always the Santander bikes or the city bikes or.
Bob the Drag Queen
And it's called Citi because of Citibank. Just so y'.
Shannon Maldonado
All.
Monet X Change
Yeah, Citibank.
Bob the Drag Queen
And then.
Monet X Change
Yes. And they're, they're at these docks, these charging stations because they have electric ones and also regular manual ones. And you just go, you put in your car.
Bob the Drag Queen
They also lock. They're. They're locked so people can't take them. It's part of what the docs is.
Monet X Change
And then so they put them on the docks and you can just unlock one and ride it. So everyone needs to go and find another a vacant dock and dock and put it anywhere in the city, which was. It's just super convenient. It's great. Great, great, great, great. Love a city bike moment. And also you get a little exercise too, in your transportation. You're not just sitting in a car you like, you're. You're pedaling yourself, which is nice.
Bob the Drag Queen
LA does not have city bikes, but LA does have lime. Do you know, or lime birds.
Monet X Change
And there's one more lime, but it's this new one I saw the other day. It's like every day there's a new type coming out. A lot of cities have limes and those electric scooters.
Bob the Drag Queen
So if you don't know what that is in New York City, I mean, in Los Angeles you can find a bird which is a. Which is just an electric scooter. But they don't have docks. They do not have stations. They are just on the street. They're not. There's not places where you can find. They're just all up and down the street. They're just all over the street. Sideways, upside down, intrigued.
Monet X Change
Really fucks it up.
Bob the Drag Queen
I mean, they should. They should put them in docks.
Monet X Change
Yeah, it's very interesting. I mean, and I get. I wonder why New York doesn't have. There's probably some logical reason why New York does not have them. And they only do the electric bicycles. But electric scooters, those just feel a little. They feel very unsafe to me. Like, I just feel like, bitch, you trip and you fall on the street. And again, I know bikes are unsafe too, especially if you ride a bike without a helmet. But something about. I just. I feel like your body's super exposed and super vulnerable when you're just on those two little electric scooters. And they go fast. They go so fast.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, I have a friend who hit someone on a scooter with their car, with their automobile.
Monet X Change
And what happened to the. To the person dead kill seriously being a thing.
Bob the Drag Queen
No, I'm kidding. Zach. No. Towers hit a twink with his. With his car and it totaled his car.
Monet X Change
Not twinkling twin crime and Zach's car totaled his car.
Bob the Drag Queen
Total like. No, I don't think it totaled it. But he said it. His car was immobile because.
Monet X Change
So after he hit the person, first of all, how. How fast was he going? Did the person really in fact die also? Did he hit them and like drive over it? That's what fucked up his car. Like, I just don't see how hitting him. No.
Bob the Drag Queen
And then it did. He said he did $11,000 worth of damage on his car. His car was not drivable. It cracked the windshield, but the person got up and walked away.
Monet X Change
Damn. Zach was trying to kill people.
Bob the Drag Queen
Maybe it's just the sturdiness of the Twinkie hit. Maybe the twink was on his way to twank. Maybe the twink was. Was bridging the gap from twink to bear. Maybe he was on his way to. To jock and Zach hit him right on the last day of twinkdom.
Monet X Change
Damn, girl. That sounds wild. I don't think I only I've ever hit anything that hard.
Bob the Drag Queen
Brain shit.
Monet X Change
I hope not much of accidents either. I don't think I've never been in like a. Like a vehicle on vehicle accident ever.
Bob the Drag Queen
Will Be more clear what kind of accident you been in?
Monet X Change
So currently my car is in the shop right now because I was going to the doctor and the gate, the sensor in the sensor in the doctor's office in the building for the gate was broken. So literally as I drove into the, into the building, the gate just closed down on my car and it crushed the top right of my windshield and it scraped the top of my car. So I'm getting that replaced. But I've never been like an accident where I hit someone else's car, someone's car hit me.
Bob the Drag Queen
You've never hit an automobile in your life. That's so crazy. I've been in probably maybe four or five accidents. I've been rear ended. I've rear ended someone. When I was 19, I t boned a lady. I got into an accident back in, what was it? December?
Monet X Change
You need to take some maybe. Maybe you should re up on those, on those, on those driving classes.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, I was wondering. I got a 96 on my driving test.
Monet X Change
When, in what year?
Bob the Drag Queen
I was 18 years old. Maybe 19. Impressed?
Monet X Change
No. 16 years ago. 15 years ago. 13 years ago. Yeah, that'll be. No, that'll be 17 years ago. No, 15 years ago.
Bob the Drag Queen
My name's last two brain cells. These last two brains are a gather. I cannot deal with you in these
Monet X Change
last two brainstones one day, bitch. You the one that couldn't do math earlier. I'm the one that has two brainstones.
Bob the Drag Queen
We both got the math wrong. We both got the math wrong. In fact, my first time taking the. So when I first moved to Columbus, Georgia, I didn't have a car when I moved back to Columbus when I moved back to Columbus, Georgia for college. And I remember taking. Going to the bus to get to school. And when I got to the bus, this guy had a heart attack on the bus like while I was still in the station.
Monet X Change
Oh, shit.
Bob the Drag Queen
Fell over, was having a heart attack, hit his head, started bleeding. So I was like terrified of taking the bus for a very long time. I was like, this is wild.
Monet X Change
This is wild.
Bob the Drag Queen
Because I never, I had never really taken the bus in Atlanta before I had taken the metro. I'd taken the Marta like one or two times. And the C Tran when it first came out, the C Tran, which was the Clayton county bus Line which doesn't even exist anymore. But I was. I very rarely took the bus in Atlanta because I was a kid. I didn't have anywhere to go. Everything in my life was in my neighborhood. My school was walking distance from my home. I walked to and from school. And when I did take the bus, I took a school bus.
Monet X Change
Oh, you took a school bus every, like, throughout your high school tenure?
Bob the Drag Queen
No, in high school, I never took the bus because I lived right next door to the school.
Monet X Change
Got it.
Bob the Drag Queen
Like, there was between, like, my apartment complex and the school. There was literally nothing. There was nothing between them. They shared a border. So I literally just walked to school every day.
Monet X Change
Yeah, I used to take the bus. I mean, the train to school both ways was like an hour and ten minutes each way. And every time coming home from school, you just. Because, you know, I lived on the first stop. I mean, the last stop was the 2 train, East Flatbush. And I would always, like, as the train, like, you know, I would take it from 48th street, transfer to the 2, take the 2 home. And as you're on the 2 train, like, the closer it gets to the last stop, white people just start to disappear. It's like from one side to the other, white people, it was like Thanos was snapping. White people were just gone. Cause if you take any training, I don't care what city. Boston, Seattle, Atlanta, New York. If you take any train to the last stop, you're gonna see a whole lot of niggas. Just niggas, niggas, niggas, niggas, niggas and bitch. Atlanta's the home of the niggas. You take the fucking MARTA to the last stop, it takes you to fucking Wakanda. Okay?
Bob the Drag Queen
Last stop. There are no white people on MARTA at any point, at any point, for any reason. I don't care what stop you're on, bitch. There are no white people on marta. Well, I will say also there is. I think it was the A train. When you take the A train to the top of Manhattan, there's actually a lot of Jewish people on the train. Yeah, yeah, a lot of like a very large was. When you go in uptown, there's a large Jewish population at the top of Manhattan.
Monet X Change
But the E's are the last stop. The two, the A like point of Far Rockaway. The ones the last stop, it's called
Bob the Drag Queen
the N train for a reason, son.
Monet X Change
You have the entering all just a whole lot of.
Bob the Drag Queen
You remember the W train?
Monet X Change
Yeah, I do remember the W. I remember the nine train to the W.
Bob the Drag Queen
RIP to the W. Oh, my God. The nine train.
Monet X Change
The nine train also went out of
Bob the Drag Queen
commission, but I forgot about the 9 train. If you go to Times Square. If you go to Times Square, you can still see. You say cancel because of old sweet. If you go to Times Square, you can still see the stickers over where all the other ones used to be. So, like, there's this big sticker on top of the. The. The signs telling you which way to go, but underneath you can see the imprint from, like, the W train.
Monet X Change
Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
And the 9 train.
Monet X Change
Yeah. All these. All these. They be. They be. I guess the nine tournament, it says. Because the one in the nine literally ran the exact same route. Like, literally. They did. I think maybe the one, the nine stopped a little earlier than the one maybe. But the nine train, they were. They did the exact same thing. Like, what was the point of that?
Bob the Drag Queen
I think the nine went a little wild deeper into Brooklyn.
Monet X Change
It did. I don't think so.
Bob the Drag Queen
It's kind of like how the 7 train has, like, the diamond version and the circle version.
Monet X Change
Right. But that's just the express and the
Bob the Drag Queen
local, which is best? The 1, 2, and 3. So it's like the 1, 2 and 3 train take pretty much similar routes. Some are express, some are local. And then. But the 7 was like the diamond and the circle.
Monet X Change
No, I did the same thing. The night train run from South Ferry to 242nd Street. Literally the exact same route as the one.
Bob the Drag Queen
I cannot speak. I don't know. I don't. I don't know what's up with. With little Miss D. Try. Maybe there's a reason she gone. Maybe there's a reason she's gone, honey. She was nice to the party. She was the last. The last one.
Monet X Change
The nine was express and the one was local. So the one would do every stop and the nine would skip some.
Bob the Drag Queen
Like the two and three.
Monet X Change
Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
Also, this is. This. I realize this conversation is probably not remotely interesting to anyone.
Monet X Change
Was not in New York City.
Bob the Drag Queen
From New York City, I was talking about the. The two and the three, and then the. He did the beepee girl. New Yorkers love talking about trains. New Yorker this. If you want to get a New Yorker's dick wet, Ask them how to get to Times Square. They will fight. They will fight each other to try to tell you how to fucking get to Times Square.
Monet X Change
Have you ever run a train on someone?
Bob the Drag Queen
Run a train on someone? I. No. Have you ever had a train run on you?
Monet X Change
I have not. Or did one so People, I'm glad.
Bob the Drag Queen
I'm glad we have this chat. Running a train is basically when you. If you're running a train on someone, it's one person. Typically. Typically this person is bottoming in some regard, and then all the tops just come through and just do their thing one by one. But it's not an orgy. It's one at a time.
Monet X Change
Yeah, the train, honey.
Bob the Drag Queen
Which is weird because I think it makes it be more of a train if. If they were moving. Moving from top to top, but they're in state. They're stationary. No, I guess they're the station. And the tops are the train coming through, right?
Monet X Change
Yeah, that makes sense.
Bob the Drag Queen
So the bottom is 42nd Street.
Monet X Change
Oh, God.
Bob the Drag Queen
And the tops are one of the trains that are coming through 42nd Street.
Monet X Change
The S train.
Bob the Drag Queen
Busting them down. Busting them down. No, the S train is just two stops. It's got to be one of the. It's got to be like the.
Monet X Change
But I'm saying. But some. Some people.
Bob the Drag Queen
The D train. The D train.
Monet X Change
The D train. Or the A train for the A spot.
Bob the Drag Queen
When a. We're not. We're not revisiting a spot.
Monet X Change
We've already.
Bob the Drag Queen
We've already debunked A spot. Me and every one of your friends, every person in your life has debunked a spot. Now, if you want to start. If you want to start a spot, we can say. You can start it. But everyone from Brooklyn, everyone in your life, Kameka, all of your childhood friends have all debunked all the people that you swore you say A spot with have all debunked your A spot.
Monet X Change
And the A spot crew, who knows about the A spot, they chimed in and said, he had to kind of like last podcast, people debunked you, saying that you never told that story about the thing, or you said a million times, and you've never been thinking about it. And they were like, actually, Bob, you did.
Bob the Drag Queen
What are you talking about?
Monet X Change
About the San Francisco to LA thing. And you were like, monet, I've said who? From the beginning, I've always said who it was. And your friend Bob the Dragon video literally posted the episode. When you finally reveal it, you're like, should I say it? Should I say it? And you did.
Bob the Drag Queen
So what you're saying is I revealed it before that time. But also what you're saying, but also what we need to talk about is everyone revealing.
Monet X Change
I never have. You said from the beginning, you always have. And I was like, no, I remember you revealing it to Me. And then you said, monet, from the moment it happened, I've been telling you. I said, bob, I promise, you did not tell me. Especially when you.
Bob the Drag Queen
So how do you feel about everyone revealing that you drool? I mean, the account, the timestamps, I
Monet X Change
have not seen all these jewelries, and the one that I saw was on the exchange rate when I first started my Invisalign. So that makes a lot of sense, because when you start Invisalign, you do drew a lot.
Bob the Drag Queen
Monet, you are going to gaslight me and the listeners of this podcast until you.
Monet X Change
I think you're gaslighting yourself, honey, into the dog.
Bob the Drag Queen
So you telling me if I pull up a video of you juuling right now, will you admit and be like, oh, wow, you know what? I think this is a video of me drooling.
Monet X Change
I never said. Okay, Also, I never said I do not drool.
Bob the Drag Queen
I was saying. No, you drool frequently and more than most people.
Monet X Change
No, see, I don't agree with that. Also, finding a video of me drooling does not prove that I drool more than anyone else. Like, how does that even make sense in my opinion?
Bob the Drag Queen
This is the.
Monet X Change
Oh, my God, I'm drooling. Okay, yeah, I do drool, but I don't drool more than a normal person.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yes.
Monet X Change
Like, how does that even work? Like, how do you.
Bob the Drag Queen
Despite all these videos we found of you drooling, and you're like, so.
Monet X Change
So because. So, because it's a video of me drawing. That means I drew more than normal people.
Bob the Drag Queen
No, not, not, not, not. Not. Just. Not this one video. We are now up to, I think,
Monet X Change
three or four videos of you drooling and that show. And that I drew more than normal people.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yes. And a confirmed account of you drooling from several people.
Monet X Change
That's really not how drooling works, babe.
Bob the Drag Queen
Then how does drooling work?
Monet X Change
I'm saying. Yeah, I drew. I'm not. Excuse me. I drew. I don't drool more than the average person.
Bob the Drag Queen
I wish you started drooling right now just so I could be like, see, I fucking.
Monet X Change
Oh, my God, I'm sorry. I'm drooling.
Bob the Drag Queen
But despite this, despite me and Patty corroborating your drooling story, the videos of you also, by the way, y', all, footgate is not over. More evidence has come forward. There are now. There are now video people.
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Bob the Drag Queen
The. The listeners have found full on videos. I didn't even know this shit existed. Of Monat up in the clubs in New York City walking around on a single solitary shoe. One shoe.
Monet X Change
Okay, and what does that prove?
Bob the Drag Queen
It proves that you often walked around with one shoe even though you say you didn't.
Monet X Change
That's not true.
Bob the Drag Queen
Wait, is it not true that it doesn't prove that, or is it not true that you didn't walk around with one shoe often?
Monet X Change
Yes.
Bob the Drag Queen
Wait, which one?
Monet X Change
Yes.
Bob the Drag Queen
You are wild. You are trying to fuck with me. And you know what? I won't let it happen. I'll let the evidence. Maybe we should have a court case. You and I need to have an official court case where we get together, present our evidence to the jury, and we'll let them decide.
Monet X Change
I'm down for that.
Bob the Drag Queen
If Monet did indeed hobble around on
Monet X Change
Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard.
Bob the Drag Queen
Honey, I have not been following this. This case at all.
Monet X Change
Oh, because you know, it is about. Around domestic violence and it's kind of like that. Everyone's like so into it. I'm like, God, it's still a domestic violence case. People are getting. People were assaulted.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't know.
Monet X Change
I don't know.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't know if you're too young to remember, but this is nothing compared to the circus and the madness. That was the O.J. simpson trial, which was a full on murder case. Murder case. And that was. I remember being even, even as a kid and There was no YouTube, no Twitter. It was. It felt like 24 hour hour coverage for. It felt like years.
Monet X Change
I mean, people, people. It's some type of escapism from. For people. I think they're like, oh my God, I get to like look at these crazy celebrities on their murder case or their domestic violence case. I have to worry about me for a little while. I can I look at these celebrities, do this thing. I think it's some weird obsession with like celebrity drama. I don't think they're just like us. I think so.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't think it's necessarily just that. I think that cases. First of all, drama is interesting. People drop stories. Like, interesting stories are things that are unusual. Which is why one of the biggest and largest and fastest growing podcast genres is true crime. And those people, they're not even celebrities. It's just interesting to hear about the stuff. There are entire YouTube pages, podcast, dedicated to these true crime things. And then for sure. And then you add the celebrity part into it and it's just. And the stories are just so absurd, so bizarre, so wild that it's like you kind of can't stop watching. Just like when you hear gossip about Someone you're like, I'm gonna hear, but I'm gonna hear about this gossip. But now it's about someone who's famous and the story's wild, you know?
Monet X Change
Yeah, that's my point. That's my point. With the celebrity part of it. Like all these true crime things. You don't. We don't. We don't hear about it when I tell you this Amber Heard thing and Johnny Depp thing is on every tick, like on every TikTok slide, all over Instagram, all over Twitter, all of these other true crime things. Yeah, they're big. They have their own podcast. Right. But they're not, they don't. They don't, like, invade the public space. Like how this Amber Heard Johnny Depp thing or how. Or how O.J. did.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, yeah. I think it's because they're so famous.
Monet X Change
Yeah, right? Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
So. So I think maybe if anything, it's the combination of celebrity making it interesting and the content and the. The subject matter itself. So a murder case and a celebrity, it's just, it's just too. It's too unresistable. Irresistible for a lot of people.
Monet X Change
Plastique tiara. Irresistible.
Bob the Drag Queen
And on that note, I think it's time to wrap it up.
Monet X Change
It is time to wrap it up, my dear. Well, you. I'm actually gonna call an Uber right now to go to the store.
Bob the Drag Queen
I hope they don't give you. I hope you don't get your 22nd one star rating.
Monet X Change
I know, right? Peace, girl.
Bob the Drag Queen
Give you one legendary legend. Star.
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Date: May 25, 2022
Hosts: Bob the Drag Queen & Monét X Change
This episode is all about public transportation, seen through the unfiltered, comedic lens of Bob and Monét. The duo reminisce about their New York roots, swapping hilarious and sometimes exasperating tales of buses, trains, cabs, Ubers, and even city bikes. The episode is a mix of sharp observations, inside drag queen stories, and classic sibling banter, featuring everything from Uber rating showdowns to musings on why yellow cabs feel dodgy after years in Ubers. Listeners also get a live unboxing of Monét’s "Legendary Legend Star" from Drag Race All Stars 7, some insight into city living, and impromptu debates and math about Uber surge pricing.
Uber Surges as Math Problems
“Let me do this. If y’all give me literally five seconds to do this math…”
— Bob [33:04]
Drag Queens and Uber Ratings
“I have 21 one-star ratings.”
— Monét [35:09]
On Detesting, Then Loving, City Bikes
“Citybike's a slap. And, you know, as a New Yorker, I detested it for so long...And then Pandemic, I was like—it’s the best way to travel.”
— Monét [44:33]
Old Cabs vs. New
“After riding in Ubers, bitch, you'd be wild to catch me in a fucking yellow cab… yellow cabs are nasty.”
— Bob [23:20]
Public Transit & Race in NYC
“If you take any train to the last stop, you're gonna see a whole lot of niggas…Atlanta's the home of the niggas. You take the fucking MARTA to the last stop, it takes you to fucking Wakanda.”
— Monét [51:23]
NYC Cabbie Interrogations
“I used to hate the curbside interviews. I used to hate the curbside interview where you go up to the car and they lock all the doors, crack the window, and say, 'Where are you going?'”
— Bob [26:41]
Bob and Monét keep the conversation exhilaratingly tangential, with layered in-jokes, quick pivots, and zero-filter storytelling. Whether they’re breaking down public policy (with drag queen accuracy), commiserating over urban commutes, or roasting each other’s Uber ratings and transit habits, their infectious chemistry gives even the most mundane topics sparkle.
Who Should Listen:
Anyone with nostalgia (or trauma) from public transportation, lovers of NYC stories, drag race fans, or anyone who appreciates chaotic, clever, unfiltered queer comedy.
You’ll Learn:
Skip for:
Intro/ad segments, general ads, and outro sponsor reads.
The episode wraps with classic Bob and Monét riffing on celebrity legal dramas (Amber Heard & Johnny Depp), parade-level true crime obsessions, and more urban myth-and-memory, all with the comedic friction of the “sibling rivalry” that fans know and love.
Last word:
"I'm actually gonna call an Uber right now to go to the store."
— Monét [62:51]
"I hope they don't give you your 22nd one-star rating."
— Bob [63:00]
Sibling Rivalry: Where drag, comedy, and urban struggles converge—on a train, in a cab, on a bike, or just with your last two brain cells.