The One About Singing

Summary

Sibling Rivalry – "The One About Singing" (May 29, 2023)

Episode Overview

In this lively and often hilarious episode, Monét X Change and Bob the Drag Queen delve into the theme of "singing," but, true to form, meander through tangents on Disney movies, drag show traditions, music anthems, pop culture, and queer community experiences. The duo reflects on their own musical backgrounds, discuss iconic drag numbers, muse about the "Black National Anthem," and reminisce about pandemic drag innovations. As always, the banter is quick, irreverent, and packed with pop references, personal stories, and playful shade.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Disney’s "The Little Mermaid" Remake Review

• Monét's Praise and Critique
  • Monét attended the premiere and raved about the film, especially Halle Bailey’s performance as Ariel.
    • "I can honestly say this is the best Disney remake. It's really good. I was very shocked." (03:13)
  • Criticized the addition of a lackluster Prince Eric song and an unrealistic underwater scene with Scuttle.
    • "Prince Eric's song is bad." (04:00)
    • On Scuttle: "He's a bird. He can't stay... Bitch. Scuttle was down there." (03:55)
  • Noted the animated features of characters: "His eyes are like Mr. Krabs eyes from Spongebob." (04:36)
• Bob's Preferences
  • Wishes animal characters were more cartoon-like in realism-heavy remakes (04:20).
  • Discusses differences between recent Disney live-action adaptations, especially compared to "The Lion King."

Musical Theater & Drag Anthems

• Drag Numbers and Ownership
  • Discussion about drag parodies and sharing performance numbers.
    • Monét's favorite is Bob's "Dick Mix." (08:58)
    • Bob discusses not performing "Dick Mix" anymore out of respect for Jackie Beat. (09:04)
    • Anecdote of a queen performing Bob’s parody ("All That Jizz") without permission. (09:44)
      • “She ended up just doing it anyway. One day someone was like, have you seen Headed Lettuce do all that jizz. And I was like…” (10:47)
• Origins of Drag Numbers
  • Bob and Monét debate over the writers of classic musical songs ("All That Jazz," "Big Spender") and joke about composers.
    • Jacob clarifies: "Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields." (13:41)

The "Black National Anthem" and Choir Culture

• Personal Connections to “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
  • Bob and Monét and their assistants reminisce about singing spirituals and the significance of the Black National Anthem.
    • Bob: "Let us march on till victory is won." (17:54)
  • Discussion about how many people outside the Black community know the anthem.
    • Monét: “I wonder how many white people don’t know there’s a black national anthem?” (17:54)
• Favorite Performances
  • Bob recommends Alex Newell’s version: “10 out of 10 recommend you all Google Alex Newell Black National Anthem.” (18:40)

Iconic Songs & Performer Banter

• What Songs Are Hard to Sing?
  • Debate over the difficulties of singing “Happy Birthday” and the national anthem.
    • "The national anthem is such a hard song to sing. The songs that are hard to sing but because everyone sings them, you think it easy." - Monet (21:17)
    • "I feel like Happy Birthday is an easy song to sing." - Bob (21:39)
• Wish List Party Tricks
  • Bob wishes he could play "Maple Leaf Rag" at parties (46:48).
  • Monét would want to play Chopin’s Ballade in G minor (48:28).

Money, Fame, and Cultural Commentary

• Drag Queens & Currency
  • Bob and Monét imagine RuPaul on the $50 bill.
    • Monét: "RuPaul should be on a $50 bill, absolutely." (42:55)
  • Talk about famous figures on currency globally, especially how Australia honors artists.
    • Monet: "In Australia they put you on the money. They put you on $100 bill." (41:50)
• Pandemic Drag
  • Memories of "Digital Get Down," Zoom drag shows, and how they adapted in lockdown.
    • "Me, Peppermint and Monet all did something called the Digital Get Down, where we sold Zoom meet and greets." (61:28)
• PPP Loans
  • Commentary on COVID-era government loans and the fallout for those who took them improperly. (60:20)

Friendship & Rivalry

• Origins of their Relationship
  • Bob and Monét discuss how they first met and got to know each other, with playful disputes about who was more helpful. (50:47–51:43)
• Astrology & Compatibility
  • Commentary on being water signs and what it means for their friendship dynamics. (53:44)
• Mentorship and Working with Partners
  • Bob shares advice received from Sasha Velour about working with one's partner: “It will challenge you in different ways. And I'm really glad. Thank you, Sasha Velour…” (66:00)

Random Highlights and Tangents

• Australia, Accents, and Geography
  • Comedic confusion about oceans, hemispheres, and Australian currency figures (e.g., Mary Reby, Nellie Melba). (36:52–41:50)
• Pop Culture and Monarchies
  • Discussion about King Charles’ coronation timeline and currency changes after Queen Elizabeth II’s death. (33:04–34:45)
• Viral and Meme-worthy Quotes
  • On nuts: “Decolonize my nuts, because I put them from one eye to the next eye.” – Bob (53:38)
  • On Daddy Chill: “Daddy chill is a popular video.” (07:19)
  • “Drag ‘em, Daddy. Drag those fucking nuts all over my goddamn chin, Daddy.” – Monet X Change (06:57)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• "She moved to Australia because she didn't. She first. She was looking for some big prison dicks." – Bob the Drag Queen (01:29)
• “Prince Eric’s song is bad.” – Monét X Change (04:00)
• “At least, like, once a week, I would be at what, more than like, two. Like, two times a week I'd be at your shows.” – Monét X Change (10:54)
• “Big Spender turned to Big Tipper. Not all that jizz turned to all that jazz.” – Bob (11:39)
• “Chucky Finster. Way to the water.” – Monét X Change, invoking Rugrats imagery for Jinkx Monsoon singing spirituals (15:59)
• “Let us march on Till victory is won.” – Bob the Drag Queen, singing during their discussion of the Black National Anthem (17:54)
• “RuPaul should be on a $50 bill.” – Monét X Change (42:55)
• “I'm obsessed with you.” – Monét X Change, in a rare moment of sweetness (66:22)
• “Decolonize my nuts…” – Bob the Drag Queen (53:38)

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• [03:01] Monét’s “Little Mermaid” review
• [06:57] Daddy Chill TikTok reference
• [07:30] Bob’s return to NYC drag shows and music memories
• [10:44] Drag number plagiarism story
• [15:15] Jinkx Monsoon and the Black National Anthem
• [18:40] Bob’s Alex Newell recommendation for “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
• [21:17] Why the national anthem and “Happy Birthday” are hard to sing
• [28:26] Australia, currency, and big “prison dicks” theory
• [36:52] Mary Reby and Australian banknotes
• [41:50] Artistic figures on currency worldwide
• [50:47] Origin story: how Bob and Monét started working together
• [53:38] “Decolonize my nuts…” – peak Sibling Rivalry shade
• [61:28] Digital drag shows during the pandemic
• [63:15] Godoy’s iconic cockroach drag performance (pandemic memory)
• [66:00] Sasha Velour’s advice on working with partners

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

Sibling Rivalry is at its best in this episode: fast, raunchy, irreverent, and rooted in queer nightlife and Black queer culture. Bob and Monét riff on singing, but use the theme to leap into stories of drag, music, identity, friendship, and community. The episode is a whirlwind of inside jokes, musical theater trivia, and pop culture zingers, plus a window into the rapidly changing world of queer performance before, during, and after the pandemic.

Perfect for: Listeners who crave unfiltered banter, laugh-out-loud moments, theater kid nostalgia, and real talk about art, fame, race, and drag.

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Transcript

[Bob the Drag Queen]

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[Monet X Change]

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[Monet X Change]

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[Monet X Change]

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[Bob the Drag Queen]

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[Jacob/Assistant]

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[Monet X Change]

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[Jacob/Assistant]

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[Monet X Change]

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[Jacob/Assistant]

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[Monet X Change]

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[Bob the Drag Queen]

my name is Bob the Drag Queen

[Monet X Change]

and I'm Monet X Change. And this is sibling rivalry. On this episode, I give a sneak peek about the Little Mermaid.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We talk about singing and we find

[Monet X Change]

out what made Bob say this.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

She moved to Australia because she didn't. She first. She was looking for some big prison dicks. And we found out what made Monet say this.

[Monet X Change]

I think I've asked you this before, but. And again, taking like racism and all that stuff out of it is another.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Hi, Monae.

[Monet X Change]

You're such a fake ass nigga.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Hi.

[Monet X Change]

You're so fake. You're so fake.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I just want to. I want to. Go ahead. Hurry up, because you have. You do have a flight.

[Monet X Change]

Candy Muse is right about you.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Anyways, I just want to hurry up because you have a flight in three hours.

[Monet X Change]

I'm so tired. I'm going to your favorite city.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Perth.

[Monet X Change]

Perth first. Perth first.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know, but you going to. But is Perth your last stop?

[Monet X Change]

Perth last. Perth last. Is it a blast from the past?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm a real bitch. When I went to Australia, I went to Perth first.

[Monet X Change]

So was Perth really the first city went when he came to Australia?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Perth is the first Australian state I've ever performed in.

[Monet X Change]

Which is so strange because itd on all day tours on. I've done four tours with ITD over my drag race tenure and Perth has been the last stop every time I

[Bob the Drag Queen]

was in these streets. Before you ever were even a thought. Before you were a dream in your drag mom's belly when you were just a whisper of an idea in your drag mom's makeup bag. I was in these streets.

[Monet X Change]

I went to the Little Mermaid premiere tonight. I saw the Little Mermaid.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I thought it was out already. Jake was like, it's not out. I wasn't sure it was out.

[Monet X Change]

It comes out the 26th in the states.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Do you want to review it?

[Monet X Change]

I can honestly say this is the best Disney remake. It's really good. I was very shocked. Cause no shade. They've all been pretty not great. So I was prepared to be like, not this. It was so good. Halle Bailey is perfect for Ariel. She's just so great. There were two things I didn't like. Do you care?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You can tell me.

[Monet X Change]

So spoiler alert. If you're gonna see Little Mermaids, it's not really a spoiler. It's like, I'm not like. I mean, we've all seen the story of Little Mermaid. So they added some music to it, and they gave Prince Eric a song. The song was terrible. Prince Eric's song is bad. And then there's this one scene where Scuttle dives in the water and is just talking to them underwater. I'm like, he's a bird. He can't stay. Like, yes, they have birds that dive in the water, but they come back up. Bitch. Scuttle was down there.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Hey, Ariel, are you going to.

[Monet X Change]

I'm like, bird can't do that. And then, like, they made a joke because they recognized afterwards. But it was still a little bit like. But it was really good.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

One thing I didn't like from what I've seen online is, like, when Disney does remakes, they really be in these streets making these animals look like real animals. And, like, the fact that Sebastian was too. I want some cartoon eyes.

[Monet X Change]

He actually does have cartoon eyes. I thought so too. In the movie, his eyes are cartoon. His eyes are like Mr. Krabs eyes in SpongeBob.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I want them bigger. Like. Like bigger. You watch Lion King?

[Monet X Change]

Yes.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It was weird. I was like, it's too Lion King.

[Monet X Change]

Lion King was weird. Lion King was weird. But this is. This is actually good. I thought I was going to be bothered by Flounder looking so realistic, but it didn't bother me. Sebastian is one of the best watched in the movie. The guy that plays him is really funny. Well, he played the role very funny. Yeah. He's Alison from Umbral Academy's husband.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know dvd. He was in Hamilton on Broadway.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, you know him? Y' all friends.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know it's on the same line, but if you're going to talk.

[Monet X Change]

We.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I just. You can't talk off. If you want to talk though. I just want to.

[Monet X Change]

Are you. Are you. Are you here to talk to your boyfriend or work?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, Jacob talks on the podcast. My. Do you not know this?

[Monet X Change]

Okay, well, Jacob, you don't got a mic. You can't talk.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I was just saying I would just like you to talk to the microphone. It's just easier to hear you. Otherwise there's like a voice in the distance being like

[Monet X Change]

someone posted on a Patreon. They were like, jacob, J. And Mitch all have the same cadence. Or they all talk to talk. Like, I'm like, they do not.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, Jacob and Mitch have notoriously been like people been like, I can't tell whose voice is whose.

[Monet X Change]

I disagree. Mitch has a. Mitch has a very gay.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And it's like, I thought that was me talking.

[Monet X Change]

Mitch has a very gay voice. Jacob has a nerdy voice.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Not.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Jacob has a straight butch voice.

[Monet X Change]

I said Jacob has a nerdy voice, straight butch voice. And Jay has a very like New York Italian voice accent. They sound completely. Mitch's voice is gay.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Mitch is a New Yorker.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, but. Yeah, but from Buffalo.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You was the one yesterday talking about some in New York state, honey, that was you.

[Monet X Change]

Well, to you, you still fucking respect the shit because you from down south, but I respect that. As a New Yorker, I can say that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Have you tried respecting my nuts as I drag them from your chin to the spot between you? What you're trying to tell us are eyebrows, but we know those aren't eyebrows. You can't fool us. Those aren't eyebrows. Monet. We know.

[Monet X Change]

Drag em, Daddy. Drag fucking drag those fucking nuts all over my goddamn chin. Daddy. One of my favorite videos on TikTok is these group of kids arguing outside or do whatever and this white guy, he's like. And you need to. And then that big black gay boy. Daddy, Daddy, no, Daddy, chill.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Daddy Chill. You know Daddy Chill is a. Is a popular video.

[Monet X Change]

That shit is so funny. And he was like, what the fuck is that?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, what the fuck even is. What the fuck even is that? Yeah, you know, last night I got up in drags and did my first New York City show since. I think this is my first like New York City drag show since that time we performed. I performed with Jasmine Rice at Hardware in 2018.

[Monet X Change]

Why did you perform with Jasmine Rice at Hardware?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You were there.

[Monet X Change]

No, I was not.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, you were. Downstairs in the basement. We were all singing into the Unknown together.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, why did you do that again? You Were just bored. You just wanted to have fun.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. I just reached out to Jasmine, was like, it'd be fun to do it, and it was fun. And last night I did it with Kesha Carr. Last night it was. I. We did. We gave them two bearded queens for the price of one. Well, none. You know, New York, there's no fee for any of these shows. It was really, really fun. Mitch Freeno DJed me and Keja had a blast. I was up there like, oh, I really have not done this in years.

[Monet X Change]

What? What did you. If you did my favorite number, I'm going to be very mad at you.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I did Saves. I did Cheaters, and then I'm gonna

[Monet X Change]

be so mad at you if you see.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

If you do it. And then I did a new number that I was. It was like a tribute to Keisha Carr.

[Monet X Change]

Okay. You know, do you. Do you know my favorite number of yours is.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, the Dick Mix.

[Monet X Change]

The Big Dick Mix is so good.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't really do it anymore, though.

[Monet X Change]

Why?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, I feel like when I first started doing that number, it was okay because I was using Jackie Beat's song. But at the time, I was, like, much less popular than Jackie Beat. And I don't know, something about it. Now feels like I'd be taking this, Like, I don't know. It feels like I'm mopping Jackie's material.

[Monet X Change]

Can I have it? Can I have the number?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I feel like I've offered you this number, like, several times.

[Monet X Change]

No, I offered you, like, if you did the. Sometimes you would double D be like, no, Monet's mine.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, Monet.

[Monet X Change]

You can't just have my number.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I want to go back to that. It is mine. Years ago, I wrote a parody of all that Jazz. It was called all that Jizz. And this queen in New York City said, I really love that parody. Can I. I'll pay you 50 bucks if I can have it. And I said, no. Like, I wrote that, and I'm really proud of it, and I think it's really funny. And like, I wanna. I'm a new queen. I want to use this number. And she was like, okay. And then she just did it anyway.

[Monet X Change]

Can you tell us who?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, her name was. It was Hedda Lettuce.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, Hedda Lettuce.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

She was very popular at the time. I was a baby queen less than a year in drag.

[Monet X Change]

This is when you used to follow her around?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yep, yep. And I was like, anyway, she ended up just doing it anyway. One day someone was like, have you seen Headed Lettuce do all that jizz. And I was like,

[Monet X Change]

I know that I've used it all. I used to hate this. Cause as unlike you, I used to support you. I used to go to your shows a lot.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Pretty much like I used to always support you. I would never do it again.

[Monet X Change]

At least, like, once a week, I would be at what, more than like, two. Like, two times a week I'd be at your shows. And let me see if I can remember.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, I think those numbers are inflated, giving inflation.

[Monet X Change]

Let me get right to the point. I tuck my cock for every guy I see.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I did not say cock. I did not say cock. Let's be clear about that.

[Monet X Change]

What'd you say?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I said dick. And that's also not all that jizz. That's Big Spender. It was, hey, Big Tipper. I used to do that every time when I would go around with the tip bucket. How's Big spin and I'll hold the tip.

[Monet X Change]

That was it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No more. That's all that. That's Big Tipper. That's Big Spender turned to Big Tipper. Not all that jizz. Turned to all that jazz.

[Monet X Change]

You're obsessive, Big Dipper. Oh, my God. Get his dick out of your mouth already.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't. Wait. Hey, wait. How does Big Suspender start this?

[Monet X Change]

The same song.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

The minute you walked in the joint I could see you were a man with a wallet A real big tipper. I don't even remember how this used to go. I could see you were a man with a wallet A real big tipper.

[Monet X Change]

Fork it over, Give me the cash. I live in Harlem. Please don't make me stab your ass.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, fork it over, give me the cash. I live in Harlem. Please don't make me stab you.

[Monet X Change]

Better get right to the point, Bob. I was singing.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Huh?

[Monet X Change]

That's what I was singing. It's the same song. What are you talking about?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

All that Jazz and Big Spender are not the same song at all.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, I'm not talking about all that jizz. I'm talking about Dick Tiffer.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, I've been trying to tell you for the past eight minutes that Big Spender and all that Jazz are not the same song. They're Both Kander and A.B. right?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, they're both the same song.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, they're both, I think. Can you double? Is that both a rumor? Kander and AB can you Google it?

[Monet X Change]

You're a nerdy little music theater boyfriend. I can't. Is that a Johnson and Johnson? Is that a Hall of Notes?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, because when you talk about your little composers, you sound like a cool guy.

[Monet X Change]

Hip.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You're hip. When you're talking about some. Oh, Moses Hogan and Johann Sebastian Bach. Nerdy ass.

[Monet X Change]

Come on. Moses Hogan. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Okay, so I love Tor.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Is it both Kendern Ebb. I was not. Who wrote.

[Monet X Change]

I think it was Miley Cyrus.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, Miley Cyrus wrote Chicago.

[Monet X Change]

I'm pretty sure.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, it's not lighting up. I don't know why it's going on.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields.

[Monet X Change]

So I.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Wait, pause, pause, pause. Is there a reason why you don't want to use the mic?

[Monet X Change]

Oh, my God, the two of y'.

[Jacob/Assistant]

All.

[Monet X Change]

This goddamn microphone.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Jesus.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, my God. The two of them in this goddamn microphone. I can't.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Every single time I want to use it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Why don't you just sit here then?

[Jacob/Assistant]

What?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Why don't you sit here? That way you can just reach and do it. They can't see you, baby. No one can see here.

[Jacob/Assistant]

We went out last night.

[Monet X Change]

I can see him.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No one can see.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Oh, sad if I see.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But you just. I just. You know, it drives me crazy when you try to talk and you're. And you can't. It drives me. I don't. I don't think the listeners like it either.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Oh, it was fine. I. I was just turning. I'll turn it up when I talk and I'm.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But. But I also had to turn it all the way up because you were like, up there. It has to be, like, all the way over there. Well, I guess I just look like

[Jacob/Assistant]

an old dumb bitch.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, my God. Turn the mic down, man.

[Monet X Change]

Are y' all done? Anyway, so we were, like, in the dressing room last night. Let's say it was like a really long ass day. And we're just in the dressing room. Jinx is, like, going crazy in her room, just singing whatever. And I forgot how we got into the subject. And I just made. Cause, you know, again, like I said on tv, I just love making Jinx feel uncomfortable and making her think she's racist and, like, all this stuff. She'll say. I was like, oh, because it's a. I hate black licorice. Why? Cause it's black. Like, little things like that. It's just really funny with Kiki. And it was just on my music last night. I forgot how we got on the subject. I'm not gonna call Patti Soulil. Cause he was in the room too. And I was like, let me guess. Cause something about Negro spirituals. And she was like, well, you know, when I was in middle school, we sang spirituals. And I was like, really? And she was like, yes, the first soul.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Jacob's nodding. I think he used to sing Negro spirituals, too, apparently. Also. I also sang Negro spiritual, but I went to black school, so I thought it was. Cause I was at a black school.

[Monet X Change]

She was like. She was like, ay. She had a black teacher who would, like. She, like, make sure she taught these motherfucking kids. Y' all motherfuckers gonna sing some Negro spirituals today. And Jinx was just up and they said, way. I know Jinx isn't a natural redhead, but in my mind, it's just a little Chucky Finster from Rag Rats.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I was also picturing her as a redhead. But even though I know she's not a redhead, her is, like, light brown, right?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, light brown.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's so funny.

[Monet X Change]

That's so funny to me. Just little Chuckie Finster. Way to the water.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And she had a solo.

[Monet X Change]

She had a solo.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Let My People go.

[Monet X Change]

She had a solo.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

She said, let my people go.

[Monet X Change]

A solo.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What spiritual did you sing, Jacob, when you were younger?

[Jacob/Assistant]

We did Wade in the Water. That was the black national anthem. Lift every voice and sing Good.

[Monet X Change]

That's good. That's good. Bob. Your kids are gonna be well. This is good.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Talk about some.

[Monet X Change]

Lift every voice Lift every evil I know. Do you know? I know all four verses. I know the different arrangements of it. I had to sing it in so many different iterations in my 10 year as a musician.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know. Lift every voice and sing together Till earth in heaven ring Ring with the harmonies of liberty Let there rejoice Rise high as the lifting skies not check your channel rushes they resound loud as the rolling seas Sing a song full of the hope that the dark past has brought us taught us Sing a song full of the joy that the present has brought us Facing the rising sun of a new day begun Let us march on Till victory is won

[Monet X Change]

I wonder how many white people don't know that there is a black national anthem.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Join in singing a song no.

[Monet X Change]

God of our weary Getting half the story God of our weary years God of our silent tears Thou who has brought us thus It's a great anthem. Do you think a lot of white people know that we have a black national anthem?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I haven't. I've never considered that.

[Monet X Change]

Right.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I just kind of assumed they do.

[Jacob/Assistant]

I mean, Cheryl Lee Ralph just did at the Super Bowl.

[Monet X Change]

She did. She did do a Super Bowl. She looked beautiful when she's saying that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I think that if you really want a great version of the Black national anthem, I 10 out of 10 recommend you all Google Alex Newell. Black National Anthem and she did it

[Monet X Change]

for Black Cortana Hall, Black Cortan hall in 2020.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It was so beautiful. The first time I heard it, I was bald.

[Monet X Change]

Bakuth, Bakuth Bekuth.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, I bawled. Anyway, let's take a little break and we'll talk more about anthems and black people when we get back.

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[Monet X Change]

And we're black. Literally. Yeah. I thought I only knew it because we sang it and stuff I didn't like. I don't think, like my brother knows that we have a black national anthem. He probably does. What do I know? He's older than me.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Drag him. Drag his old ass. But also, I think that, I mean, I always think I know the lyrics to the national anthem and then I start singing. I'd be like, maybe I don't.

[Monet X Change]

I mean, the national anthem is such a hard song to sing. The songs that are hard to sing but because everyone sings them, you think it easy. The black. The black national anthem. The national anthem. Happy Birthday is a hard song to sing.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What do you mean hard song to sing?

[Monet X Change]

Because of how it. Cause of the range in the voice.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I feel like Happy Birthday is an easy song to sing.

[Monet X Change]

It's not. It's a hard song to Sing to sing it well.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, that's based on your own opinion. Well, I mean, I've heard very few versions of Happy Birthday. I'm like, damn, that you butchered Happy Birthday.

[Monet X Change]

Yes.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What makes it hard? Like, what dichotomy is singing notes.

[Monet X Change]

Sing it. Go ahead, sing it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I lost my voice. I couldn't even sing to a song right now.

[Monet X Change]

See, it's hard to sing.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That does not make it hard to sing. Now, I do agree that the national anthem has a lot of peaks and valleys in the song, specifically the word free. But I don't know that Happy Birthday has that same musical journey.

[Monet X Change]

It does. Cause you have that six. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birth. That interval is a hard one to sing in tune.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's just not hard for me.

[Monet X Change]

Maybe for you. Then do it right now. If it's so easy, do it right now.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It was just hard for you.

[Monet X Change]

Do it right now then. What was the name of that guy that directed Chicago? What's his name?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, not Fosse. You mean the movie, right?

[Monet X Change]

He had a movie.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. I don't know who directed Fosse. I mean, Rob Marshall.

[Monet X Change]

Yes. He directed Little Mermaid and everybody was like, oh, that's why it's so good.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay. You know the director, I believe. You should Google this, Jacob. I believe that the director of Black Is King is directing. Directed the Color Purple.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, Black is King. I thought Black is King was shot beautifully.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, yeah, undeniably. Black is King is a gorgeous, gorgeous music video. It's real. I mean, the whole. It is one big music video. Basically, it's a beautiful visual album. So I cannot. I just. When I tell you I cannot wait for Color Purple, like, the theatrical event. I might. Maybe of the decade. I want to go ahead and call it now.

[Monet X Change]

Well, I will say that when. For some reason watching. Because for some reason watching Little Mermaid, it made me excited for Wicked as well. I just feel like Wicked is gonna be really crazy. We have, like, a lot. There's a lot of great films coming out.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Wicked's gonna be crazy, too. I wonder.

[Monet X Change]

But I feel like that shit comes out till 2024. That shit is 2025. That shit is so far away.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, there's two of them.

[Monet X Change]

I can't.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And they. I think they're, like, still filming it.

[Monet X Change]

Girl, it's not coming out till 2025.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Which color purple has already wrapped production

[Monet X Change]

and when is that coming out? Is that coming out this year?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Maybe Jake can Google that. I do not know when it's coming out. I think. I know it's gonna happen before Wicked and I really think they need to drop Wicked 1 and 2 on the same day.

[Monet X Change]

They're not going to do that.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Coming out Christmas this year, December 25, 2023.

[Monet X Change]

You want to go together? Oh, no. You're going to be on. Are you going to be on the road?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I doubt we'll be on the road on Christmas day. I don't know where I'll be though.

[Monet X Change]

M might pull some stunts, honey.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, I don't. I mean, there's pulling stunts, but I don't know if there's adding last minute shows on Christmas. No, our last show of the year is on December 1st.

[Monet X Change]

Okay. So we're. You want to make a pack of good to go together?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I would love to go.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Oh, also, that's not the truth, Ellen. Doing shows until January 30th.

[Monet X Change]

No, he said here.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Oh, I see. Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

Yes. Yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Ellen, Ellen, you know you have a show.

[Jacob/Assistant]

That's also not true then because you're doing a show in London on the 5th and 6th of December and then you're in Philadelphia on the 20th and your last one is the 22nd.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know what? You're still not the truth. You're still not the truth.

[Monet X Change]

Jacob. Gathering every little. Every little follicle on that beard, honey. Gathering that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Not by the hairs on my kinny chin chin. Honestly, I look great in my little bearded drag last night.

[Monet X Change]

Do you have a picture? I don't know what it looks like.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We didn't take a picture. We should. Yeah, we should. We should look on my Instagram story. We should have taken some pictures last night. We didn't take a single picture. I'll be in these streets never taking pictures ever. And then when I'm always done, I'm always thinking to myself, man, I should have taken more pictures every time. I know ts should have. I'm going to be at industry with my homegirl, y'.

[Jacob/Assistant]

All.

[Monet X Change]

I'm kagged.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Go to the ones where I'm on stage.

[Monet X Change]

Wait, is this. You still have this outfit, Bob?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yes, I do. I wanted to make it a true New York City show.

[Monet X Change]

You're so funny. I miss my little bobber outfit by

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yu Hamasaki, hair by Meline Hatter. Yeah, it was just kind of great to be in New York City and have the full experience again with all the. I like seeing it really was given to John 12 in the best way possible seeing Larry there and Jarvis, you know, Jarvis, they won an Emmy.

[Monet X Change]

For what?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Riding on the Good morning America.

[Monet X Change]

Good Morning. The TV show. Or the. Or the. Or the. Or the. The broad. The radio.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You're thinking the morning show. The morning show they won from Good Morning America. And I was like, they were basically that girl trying to get. They were like, I'm trying to get another Emmy. I said,

[Jacob/Assistant]

work.

[Monet X Change]

Do they have the statue? Yeah, she better work. I didn't even see that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

For those of you who are new to the podcast, Monet's assistant is also an Emmy award winner. And tell me if this is wild. I offered.

[Monet X Change]

Yes, Bob.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Patty was like, I don't want to like, because you have to buy the trophy. You want Amy. You have to buy the trophy. And I was like, I'll buy the trophy for you, but. But you have to keep it in my house.

[Monet X Change]

You're so ridiculous. That is ridiculous, Bob. That's ridiculous. That is ridiculous.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, why have you not offered to buy Patty this trophy for keeps? Where have you been? Where.

[Advertiser/Voiceover]

Where's your stepping up?

[Monet X Change]

Are you not Patty's friend?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

When are you stepping up?

[Monet X Change]

Are you not Patty's friend?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yes, I am.

[Monet X Change]

Okay to bite for him.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Where are the benefits of working at your crunchy ass company?

[Monet X Change]

We have. Ooh,

[Bob the Drag Queen]

the chair crumbles.

[Monet X Change]

No, I just. I don't have underwear on. And I just threw my leg over the couch. I was like.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I was like, bitches. I was like, is that chair cookie?

[Monet X Change]

Cause it crumbles, honey. But we were all talking about. Cause Patty's upset that he's gone to Australia. He hasn't found any big old uncut dicks. Cause Patti and I used to have this saying. Real, like, girl Australian. But Patty has a theory that all the dudes, the majority of dudes in Australia have big dicks. Because the British. This is where the British used to send their prisoners. They used to exile them or exile them over here in Australia.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But it's bad to think all prisoners have huge dicks.

[Monet X Change]

But he's saying, in order to be a prisoner, want to commit a crime, there's some level of. Of badassery that comes with big dicks.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That is. That sounds ridiculous.

[Monet X Change]

I will say.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Do you. Do you think that that. Do you think that, like, the. The. The penis size in prison is bigger than the penis size outside of prisons?

[Monet X Change]

BDE Big Dig energy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's not science, Monet. These aren't statistics. This is just, like euphemisms and idioms.

[Monet X Change]

And then so we just. I also went to Tasmania for the first time. Have you ever been to Tasmania?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Never been to Tasmania. I've never been to Tasmania

[Monet X Change]

with your Russian Australian accent.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, Russian. My. It's actually Tasmanian. Is in a little bit of New Zealand as well. But I was right between, of course, New Zealand and Australia. So my accent is a little off. It is.

[Monet X Change]

Are you. Now you're Dutch and South African.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, I've told you that my exit. I was rise between New Zealand and Australia. So my accent is a little bit trans Pacific. What ocean is over near

[Monet X Change]

the Bering Sea?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Nor. What ocean is Australia in?

[Monet X Change]

Now you're from Ohio. What ocean?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Nar. Manai. What ocean is Australia in, Mike?

[Monet X Change]

The Pacific.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Nar. The Pacific's the ocean to the west of America.

[Monet X Change]

Right? And that comes all the way over here. The Pacific Ocean.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Ocean might.

[Monet X Change]

The Pacific Ocean is the biggest ocean in the world

[Bob the Drag Queen]

between. All right, my. So it's the trans Pacific accent. You know when they say trans. Well, trans Indian. Is it Indian? So it's trans. It would be a trans Indian accent. Wait, what transatlantic accent is like an accent that's like kind of British, kind of American, I think.

[Monet X Change]

Where is. Where is the. Where's the Indian Ocean?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I reckon this goes up on the.

[Monet X Change]

It's on the left side. It's on, like, the. It's in between Australia and Africa.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Not the left, bitch. It's east and west, bitch. If you turn around, your left is still your left, but east stays east.

[Monet X Change]

Is. What is the biggest ocean? Like, like where. Like, where do the. Who is dividing oceans? Like, where does. Like, when they meet? Who decides what's what?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Colonizers decided all of this,

[Monet X Change]

and we all just had to agree.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We all have agreed.

[Monet X Change]

So the sun never sets on the British Empire. That is crazy. Have you ever think about that saying that the sun never sets on the British Empire because they own so much on this globe that somewhere in the world, the sun was always up on the British Empire? That's crazy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. I mean, it is wild. They do have Australia, a lot of places in Africa and places in the Caribbean. Do you want to go fight King George? Not King.

[Monet X Change]

King Charles.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Charles.

[Monet X Change]

King Charles. They just had his coronation. I'm like, did his mama die, like, a couple years ago and they just coronated this nigga?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I think. I think the queen died in December this year. Can you. Jacob? I don't know when the queen. I think she. I feel like she died in December. Or maybe that was Betty White.

[Monet X Change]

No, the queen died. I feel like.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, that was. That was. That was. That was. That was. The journalist died in December.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, Barbara Walters.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Barbara Walters died in December.

[Monet X Change]

Wait, the queen died in September.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

September. Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

So this nine months, what we do, what was happening? Ten months.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't think the coronations happen in a week. 1. I think the coronations probably have a lot of planning.

[Monet X Change]

10 months of planning. September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May 9th.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, I guess, I mean first of all this has literally never happened in our lifetime. So we don't know. I mean there's. I'm sure there's a precedent written down somewhere and it probably took longer back in the day. But yeah, I'm assuming that planning for coronation is probably quite intense. Probably it is the, the changing of a monarch.

[Jacob/Assistant]

So I did some research. It says that the appropriate amount of time to grieve the Queen is seven months. Oh. Because the coronation is a joyous occasion. So we wanna, we wanna wait seven months and then I guess two months of planning and whatnot.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't know. I would like to see. Not like to see, but I'm interested to see the change in currency.

[Monet X Change]

I think, I think it has happened. Wait, hold on.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here for Mint Mobile. Now I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited Premium Wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills but it turns out that's very illegal.

[Monet X Change]

So there goes my big idea for the commercial.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Give it a try.

[Monet X Change]

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[Bob the Drag Queen]

You're in Australia.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Have you seen the, the clip of Camilla Walking with the Choir?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No. No.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Okay.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, this is slowly becoming the one about the monarchy.

[Monet X Change]

No, it's not. I have, I have some Australian money and I'm pretty sure some of them have a man on it. It might not be King, whatever his

[Bob the Drag Queen]

name is, but I think, I think the only person who can go on money is the. The King or the Queen.

[Monet X Change]

No, because this, this, this ain't this. This lady, ain't nobody King or Queen. Who is this lady? This is not the Queen, honey.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, maybe I was wrong. Oh no. The Duke of Edinburgh is on some money in the uk. So I guess it could be anyone.

[Monet X Change]

This is John Flynn. This is Mary Reby. What do you think? What do you think Mary Reby did for Australia? She's on their money. What could she have done.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Let me look at a picture. I'm a guess. And then Jacob will tell us. Mary Reeve.

[Monet X Change]

Rebe. She has a boat behind her.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, I think Mary Reeve was. And there's a pineapple. Let me see. Hold up. Is that a pineapple?

[Monet X Change]

Pineapple. We see pineapple.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What's that thing in the bottom right?

[Monet X Change]

That's just a flower or the thing

[Bob the Drag Queen]

on the thing behind her.

[Monet X Change]

Oh no, the. Bob, that's just. That's just a circle and like a bacteria.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Mary was the first woman to sail from New Zealand to Australia. She did it. She was actually the captain of the ship. She was the first woman in our. And the first woman to lead a naval expedition for the Australian military. She moved to Australia.

[Monet X Change]

Are you looking it up? Are. Are you. Can you do.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm not. She. She moved to Australia first. She was looking for.

[Monet X Change]

Why you looking down?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Because I don't like looking at you, Bob.

[Monet X Change]

You're such a liar. You're not. You're reading something.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

She moved to Australia because she didn't. She. First she was looking for some big prison dicks, but then she found that she actually had a love for nautical adventures and she revolutionized what it meant to sail as a woman. She had an all. Her entire fleet was women and the only men on the ship were like workers. So Jacob, can you verify that?

[Jacob/Assistant]

Mary Ribe was an English born merchant ship owner and trader who was transported to Australia as a convict. After gaining her freedom, she was viewed by her contemporaries as a community role model and became legendary as a successful businesswoman in the colony.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So to be honest, I wasn't far off, Bob.

[Monet X Change]

You weren't. What do you mean? You were all the way far off. You said she sailed from New Zealand to Australia. She was shipped to the shale herself. She shipped from the UK to Australia. You weren't far off. You were complete opposite side.

[Jacob/Assistant]

And it does say on the Wikipedia that she did love prison dick.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Is it really? Well, that's better than what you could have came up with, honey.

[Monet X Change]

Okay, I'll do. I'll do one. There's another one. What you want, baby? You. Have you noticed you never see in other countries. You never see. You know, in America it's like you see people going to strip clubs with like stacks of bills or like. Or dudes that you don't ever see. I never see that imagery in other countries. If you are from another country, like the UK or Australia, do. Do just have like a bunch of money and just like be like. Is that a thing you think it's

[Bob the Drag Queen]

because $1 bills are really only an American thing.

[Monet X Change]

No, but not. But, but you see this thing too with hood dudes have like hundreds of like hundred dollar bills.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, but I think it started. But it had to stem from the $1 bills. Maybe, maybe.

[Monet X Change]

But I was thinking like our like, like your niece and nephew and stuff. By the time they're old, physical money is probably not going to be like a thing. Everything is probably going to be like the majority of it is going to be digital.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Right now is digital.

[Monet X Change]

Right. But, but like, you know, like people still like have cash.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Like the majority of money. We're, we're already in the time where the majority of money is digital.

[Monet X Change]

But like kids, like I was saying,

[Bob the Drag Queen]

like percentage of money is digital. Jacob, do you know what percentage of money is digital versus like what percentage of money is like.

[Monet X Change]

Who is that? I love her hair.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So tell us who she is.

[Monet X Change]

This is Nellie Melba. And Nellie melba is digital.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Damn. 90% of money is digital.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, work. Nellie Melba is on the $100 bill. And Nellie Melba was the first, first woman in Australia to invent the white perm. She was the first woman to perm her hair in Australia because there's only prisoners there. No one had done it before. And when she did it, she made that into a multi hundred dollar business and she sold hair care to white women and white men across the continent of Australia.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, what's behind her?

[Monet X Change]

I don't know. There's nothing behind her.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, there's something right behind her is cut off. There's something. Pull it to the. Pull it to the. Okay, what's that behind her mo. Come on, use the. It's her. She stood behind herself.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, she. And when she made her sperm, it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What sperm?

[Monet X Change]

She made up sperm. She came up with one of the first TV jingles, I mean radio jingles in Australia. And she scored it herself and she played it herself and she orchestrated herself and it became the national perm song of Australia.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Jake, can you please tell us about this woman?

[Jacob/Assistant]

Dame Nellie Melba was an Australian operatic soprano.

[Monet X Change]

That was close.

[Jacob/Assistant]

She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victoria era and the early 20th century and was the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician.

[Monet X Change]

Wow. See, other countries revere art. America is like, you can sing, you can play some, A little piano, whatever. In Australia they put you on the money. They put you on $100 bill.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. But I feel like we, we really look up to artists, which is why they're probably Some of the most famous people and wealthy people in America. I mean, are any musicians on money in America?

[Monet X Change]

No, not a single one. Not a single one.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, can you just Google? I think there might be.

[Monet X Change]

Bob, you don't. You don't know Americans.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It's not only. That's not true. That's not true.

[Monet X Change]

Who.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Benjamin Franklin is not a president. Sacajawea is not a president, but.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, that's coins. I thought you meant, like, bills and.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Benjamin.

[Monet X Change]

Benjamin Franklin. You're right. You're right. You're right,

[Bob the Drag Queen]

bitch.

[Monet X Change]

But he old and white from the 1700s. I think he look like a president.

[Jacob/Assistant]

If you had to put a drag queen on currency, who would it be and what would her dollar?

[Monet X Change]

RuPaul. Absolutely. RuPaul should be on a $50 bill.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Why $50?

[Monet X Change]

Because I feel like that's right.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What, like, what about $50? Why?

[Monet X Change]

Because the $50 bill is so rare. I rarely say $50 bill. I feel like. I feel like the bills, like, I see a lot in life are 2010 and hundreds. Do you, like, how often do you come across a $50 bill?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, I guess not a lot, but I haven't really thought about it.

[Monet X Change]

It's very rare.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm trying to think. Oh, hold on. Oh, shit.

[Monet X Change]

What?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, shit. Hold on.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, Lord, he done y'.

[Jacob/Assistant]

All.

[Monet X Change]

He proved this means. This means a point. He's trying to prove he was right. I know exactly what this oh, shit means. What? What? I'm hearing my echo through y'. All.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Hold on. Hold on. John Quincy Adams was a musician. Eat my dick.

[Monet X Change]

Okay. What? Like, what. What. What type of musician? Don Quincy Adams is not known for being a musician. Bob. I'm not entertaining this. We're moving on.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

John Quincy Adams was a musician. Monet. Sorry. You're mad. You're mad. So now you want to take away. Now you want to minimize his. Because you don't think it's good enough for you. Wow. The artistic work of John Adams includes the current research about 500 works of paintings and drawings. Wait, that's not what I was looking for.

[Monet X Change]

What you get. You're so ridiculous.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

He was a musician. Apparently,

[Monet X Change]

John Quincy had a musician. Sure, everybody took musical music back then.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, he was like, I think there's. Bill Clinton's a musician.

[Monet X Change]

No. And Bush is a painter. And

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm not. I'm just saying Bill Clinton's a musician. That's all I'm saying.

[Monet X Change]

What is.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What does Bill Clinton play the saxophone famously.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, yeah, he does play. I didn't Know that actually, Did Obama play any musical instruments?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know, I don't know, but he looks like he would play the saxophone, too. Or like a. Or a trumpet or maybe a. Maybe the drums. No. You think he gives guitar? He plays guitar. He doesn't give guitar. He gives saxophone or trumpet. But maybe that's because I associate presidents with wind instruments. He plays the flute.

[Monet X Change]

He had long fingers. To me, he looks like a piano player.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I could see President Rocco while we're playing the piano.

[Monet X Change]

Sure.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What would he play?

[Monet X Change]

Rachmaninoff.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Rachmaninoff.

[Monet X Change]

Rachmaninoff.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What? Can you name one robot song? Name a rock for? Babadov song right now.

[Monet X Change]

The Rite of Spring.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

The Rite of Spring. Yeah, obviously the Rite of Spring. But name the one that everyone doesn't know.

[Monet X Change]

Actually, I don't think the writer. Spring is rock Wide enough.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Damn. So you up here fronting. Take back that degree.

[Monet X Change]

Well, because rock won it off. It's like piano music.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah.

[Jacob/Assistant]

The rider. Spring is Stravinsky.

[Monet X Change]

Stravinsky. Stravinsky. Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. It's such a good piece.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I want to learn the Maple Leaf Rag. If I could learn one song on piano, I would like to learn the Maple Leaf. It feels like a great party trick to play the Maple Leaf Rag.

[Monet X Change]

What's the Mickey Frog? I don't know what that is.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It goes.

[Monet X Change]

I cannot understand what that even is.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It's Scott Joplin.

[Monet X Change]

Do you know Scott Joplin is one of my favorite operas?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't know. There was a opera about Scott Joplin.

[Monet X Change]

Not. Not about an opera he wrote. Oh, what I.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Did.

[Monet X Change]

It sounds. Did you watch the interview of the Vampire series on amc?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I did not.

[Monet X Change]

Jacob, do you watch it?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I've heard great things about it.

[Monet X Change]

It's really good. It's gay. It's queer. I love it. I loved it. But if any of y' all who watched it, the Maple Leaf Rag sounds like what Louie was. Not Louie. What's the other guy's name?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Lestat.

[Monet X Change]

Lestat. That sounded like what Lestat was playing that he sold for.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Anyway, you have a song you'd like to be like a Macaulay on the piano?

[Monet X Change]

Oh, I would love to play the Chopin Ballade in G minor.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Can you sing it for me?

[Monet X Change]

You can't. I mean, dun dun dun dun dun dun

[Bob the Drag Queen]

dun. And it has that crack in it, too. Like the kind of cracks in your voice. That's crazy. These composers are wild. They write some wild stuff.

[Monet X Change]

I think I've asked you this before, but again. Because I know you gotta do a thing.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What

[Monet X Change]

I don't want to add to you because you're gonna make it such

[Bob the Drag Queen]

a thing,

[Monet X Change]

taking, like, racism and all that stuff out of it. Is that this?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I can't wait to see how this turns out. Baby, grab my glasses. Monet said, in a world where racism

[Monet X Change]

doesn't exist, is there another time you'd like to live in?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Like time travel? Yeah, I'm not into time travel.

[Monet X Change]

Paul, can you just play the game?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm not going back two weeks.

[Monet X Change]

Just answer the question.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I would have to go back to the week before I met you.

[Monet X Change]

Make any sense? You're still gonna meet me.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, no. Now I know, but now I know. I'm not. I'm not. When you. When. Now I'm gonna go to the day when you asked me to make you. Where you ungratefully asked me to make you a Little Mermaid dress. And I'm gonna say. I'm gonna look at you and I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say, ew. I'm gonna look you at the top of your head in the bottom of your busted ass. Toms used to wear every day.

[Monet X Change]

I was. I was. I was a starving artist in New York City. I was making my way. Honey, I didn't have the privilege.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Monet's one of the folks who. Shoot, you know, some folks, some niggas. Shoes be leaning. Monet, walk to the side of her shoe. What are you. See where these toes? Toes out. Bitch leaning. She was doing a Rockaway. Now leaning back. And. And I would say. I would say, I'm busy this night. I'm busy.

[Monet X Change]

Okay, I want to clear this up. So what happened was I had seen Bob a bunch of times at the Ritz, and then we, like, sparked the conversation. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And then we were just upstairs. Cause all the queens, we would all hang out after the show. D. Drag and hang out, then go to the diner and, like, hang out. That was like. That was the culture of the Ritz. And then one night, I was, like, saying that I was. Me and Jasmine saying that we were gonna do so youo Think youk Can Drag. And I was saying to them, I wanna do it. And I was saying, oh, how. We were all at the Donna Chill. And I was saying, oh, how? I wanted to, like, make this, like, reveal for it. And Bob offered. He was like, you need help with that? I could help you.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I did not say I'm hearing some fake news.

[Monet X Change]

I did not say Bob made this. You offered he was like, I can help you with that. He's like, oh, you said, do you need help with that? I was like, yeah, I do. And you're like, okay. So I was like. He's like. He was like, if you go. If you go get the fabric and you come to my house, I will help you. I will help you make this dress.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't know if that's. That is true. That's not a truth. I need to corroborate this story. I may need somebody to corroborate this story.

[Monet X Change]

Honey, corroborate or corroborate which one?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It's corroborate.

[Monet X Change]

Well, you said cobble.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Wait, that's you. You're the queen. And also everyone's gathering you. What? What did you say last. On the last podcast?

[Monet X Change]

They are o. I misspoke. And I said that. They are b up honeying. They are bing you up Bali to Indonesia. I am a human. I make mistakes.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

They are ballying you up. Monet said, I want to go to Bali. England. Monet said, I want to go to Bali.

[Monet X Change]

Kenya.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Monet said, I want to go to Bali. Antarctica.

[Monet X Change]

You remember Shangela saying she wanted to be the first queen to perform in Antarctica?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I do remember that. In Antarctica. Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

I've seen the TikTok videos of people going to Antarctica. That shit looks. That shit seems bleak. You have to. It's like, such a journey, and sometimes the seas are so rough, people are like. You have to take, like, a lot of nausea medicine. It's so cold. It's like, negative.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Is Antarctica rock?

[Monet X Change]

No. Cause on the boat, you take getting to the continent. The sea is very rough.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It's an ocean.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Whatever.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It's an ocean. Yeah. Antarctica is not in the Great Lakes. Monet's not in the Mediterranean Sea. Monet.

[Monet X Change]

There are no seas by the Great Lakes. What are you talking about?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm just throwing other bodies of water.

[Monet X Change]

Okay, yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It's not in the Chattahoochee River. It's not in the estuary known as Selena Estuaries.

[Monet X Change]

Salina Estuary. Go ahead.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Monet is actually decolonizing geography by naming her own bodies of water.

[Monet X Change]

See, as a Pisces Jacob gets it. And you know what? The girls that get it, that get it. The girls that don't.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Don't, nigga. Decolonize my nuts, because I put them from one eye to the next eye.

[Monet X Change]

Do you know, we're both water signs. We should be very compatible.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We are compatible now. We've been best friends for, like, years. Monet's like, we should try hanging out. What he said. You know what? Just thought. I think about it. You and I should try hanging out sometime. That could be really fun.

[Monet X Change]

How you decide what's an earth sign? Because they say that. Aries. Like, why is Aries a fire sign?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Because air. Air.

[Monet X Change]

Air starts fire.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Air does. You can't do it. You can't fire without air, without oxygen.

[Monet X Change]

Oxygen is not air. But air is oxygen.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I know, but there is oxygen in the air, right?

[Jacob/Assistant]

Aries. Aries is like the God of war. It has nothing to do with air.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Google that. Take him. Just Google that. Don't try to act like you knew this the whole time. I did know.

[Jacob/Assistant]

I read Percy Jackson.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, my God, I love the lightning thief. Okay, wait, here's a question.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I thought Tyra was a God of war.

[Monet X Change]

Tyra?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. Tyra's a God of war.

[Monet X Change]

Who the fuck is Tyra?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Tyra, the God of war.

[Monet X Change]

There's no Tyra. There's no Tyra God.

[Jacob/Assistant]

There might be. They might be.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Tyra's the God of war.

[Monet X Change]

I have no power. Ares and Athena are the God of war. Athena is the God of wisdom and war. And Ares just the God of war. There's no Tyra. Tyra Bank.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No Tyra. Like, she's just Tyra. Tyra, they got a war.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Tyr is the Norse God of war.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, Tyr in like, Nordic. In like Nordic mythology. If you played God of war, Ragnarok, you would know.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I feel like Tyra is a God of war. Tyra, God of war. Tyra.

[Monet X Change]

Tyr. Terr.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Maybe it translates to Tyra in some languages,

[Monet X Change]

y'.

[Jacob/Assistant]

All.

[Monet X Change]

Bob will maneuver a point and try to squiggle it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. Bend it into his room. Flexible. I hope. The point with this yoga, honey, by the time I'm done, the point will be doing a royal dancer. The downward dog cradle pose. Happy, baby.

[Monet X Change]

You know, I was watching the View the other day and they were saying New Yorkers. Because you heard about the drama, right? Prince Harry and Meghan, they were coming. They came to see some show. And then their public car crash, right? Apparently they hyped. Like their publicist or their spokesperson hyped it up. They said that they were involved in a chase in New York City

[Bob the Drag Queen]

in

[Monet X Change]

a near catastrophic chase. And you have to be considering how his mom died. When you use that language, people are thinking, oh, there was this, like, chase that probably almost resulted in them dying when that wasn't the truth.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I just can't imagine that. Cars can't really go that fast in New York City. Like, where is a car? Like, have you ever been in a car?

[Monet X Change]

I mean, Whoopi. That's literally Whoopi's point of view.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Maybe on the highway, a car can get up to like 70.

[Monet X Change]

And not even the FDR. Cause in the FDR, you're going two

[Bob the Drag Queen]

miles an hour if you're in the actual city. I don't think I've ever seen a car go more than 50 miles an hour.

[Monet X Change]

Right.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Have you?

[Monet X Change]

No, I mean, I definitely have.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, there's red lights every 10 seconds. There's car. Who's. You go over 50 in the city?

[Monet X Change]

Yes. Everybody was like, girl, y' all gassing it. It wasn't all that, mama. It's the whole thing.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But I mean, I'm not trying to. What do they say? Are they. She's not pregnant, but she has the one baby.

[Monet X Change]

She has one kid?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. You gotta have more than one kid. Unless you have a friend who's also having a kid. I just wouldn't want to grow up as an only child. No shade to all y'.

[Advertiser/Voiceover]

All.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Only kids. Listen. But y' all be low key, weird af. These only kids, they talk to themselves a lot.

[Monet X Change]

I don't you never notice that only

[Bob the Drag Queen]

child's talk to themselves a lot? No, it's a thing if you're only child.

[Monet X Change]

You remember Luis, Louise. Louise, your oldest assistant. Yeah. Maybe he.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

When I say he would have full conversations, answers, questions, arguments, rebuttals. I mean, like, who is he talking to? Full conversations just by himself, child.

[Monet X Change]

The season eight girls, y' all used to run through assistants like underwear. Y' all niggas used to run through is. Y' all used to run these assistants like underwear.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

First of all, Lewis was my assistant for like three or four years.

[Monet X Change]

And then you. You chopped and got somebody else. Kim used to have age.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That is in. In my what, eight years, I've only had two assistants. That's not crazy.

[Monet X Change]

In my six years, I've had one.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. Cause you couldn't afford one for the first four.

[Monet X Change]

I've had Patty ever since I started. Even before Drag Race.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And you were struggling to pay him during the quarantine.

[Monet X Change]

We know that you had to choose

[Bob the Drag Queen]

between keeping your lights cut on and paying your assistant. And you and Patty was over in the dark, sitting in the dark, filing paper. What paper? I had videos. I have videos. And I will. I will post all the videos. I literally come over to Monet's house with me and Jacob with flashlights. All you had was crying, heating yourselves up with the stove.

[Monet X Change]

Anyways, I. Oh, I was talking about Bob.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Should I file for bankruptcy? Crying. I literally. Literally crying.

[Monet X Change]

Show the class.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't want to embarrass you. You looked at said Bob. Please don't post this with tears. Your whole face was sopping wet like you was chopping big dick sopping like you was choking on a big. No, it's not looking like Viola Davis in any movie she's ever been in.

[Monet X Change]

First of all, I have a boyfriend, okay? How dare you insinuate that I'll be sucking another dick right now. How dare you respect my fucking dick?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I didn't see a different dick. I didn't say a dick. That's not. Damn. That was. Wow. You say. I guess you hear what you want to hear. Look out, Andy. Look out, Andy.

[Monet X Change]

You know all these people who got fucking PPP loans? Like, all these, like. I didn't realize how many of them, like, are, like, facing criminal charges for, like, lying to the government and taking

[Bob the Drag Queen]

PPP money and you know that? Yeah, girl. Yes, girl, don't be in these. Don't. Do not be in these PPP streets, girl.

[Monet X Change]

Girl, I was gagged.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Me and Monae were like. We were like, before I take a ppp, we were meet and greet. You remember our digital meet and greet? The digital get down.

[Monet X Change]

The digital. Oh, my God, the digital. Digital get down. I remember that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Doing digital shows. Let me. Right now, I'm like, I want no ppp.

[Monet X Change]

I was like, I'll be fine, girl.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Who's in these digital streets, huh? I said, bitch, I'm gonna pay these bills, honey.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

That was wild, yo. The pandemic was wild. The pandemic was a wild time. That's so crazy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

The digital get down was a really wild moment. We undersold those.

[Monet X Change]

We should have charged more, 1,000%. We sold this out of that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, we undersold those for sure. That was wild, right?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So for those who don't know me, Peppermint and Monet all did something called the Digital get down, where we sold Zoom meet and greets. They each came with a signed photo that we mailed to your houses afterwards. Honestly, ingenuity. And we talked to you, you and your friends. We, like. It was. It was like. It was like being at DragCon, but everyone would be in a zoom and they'd come in one by one, and you got five.

[Monet X Change]

You got five minutes, five seconds, which,

[Bob the Drag Queen]

by the way, five minutes is way more than you get a dragcon.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That was wild.

[Monet X Change]

It was wild, girl. It was Wild times we were out here in these streets. Okay.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Did you ever do any drag shows in your living room?

[Monet X Change]

I did one and I said, I will not do another one. I can't.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I did a few. I love them. I had a lot of fun with my little living room drag shows. We were honestly, we were eating. We were eating at 1:62 over Washington.

[Monet X Change]

I didn't enjoy it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Why not?

[Monet X Change]

Because it was just like. Just because I. Because also you had a. You had a big apartment. Bob had a big space. I had like, you know, again, I don't have a small apartment in New York City, but I just had my little hallway to do it, really, because I wanted to really move around and dance. And I just didn't enjoy it. I didn't enjoy performing in my living room.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know, that's fair.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, you had Bitch, Bob had the downstairs. You had a big ass living room. You had ample space.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I go downstairs on the zoom, though. I mean, on the digital drag show,

[Monet X Change]

though, you know, my favorite, one of my favorite pandemic performances. I'll never forget it. It was when Godoy did La Cucaracha. And she's in the cockroach costume and the camera's going around the house and it goes under the COVID You see Godoy come out in this like avant garde cockroach costume singing La Cucaracha. That shit was.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, she did I Will Survive.

[Monet X Change]

Was it I will Survive.

[Jacob/Assistant]

Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

Even funnier. That was so good.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Not like Cucaracha. Cause she's Mexican.

[Advertiser/Voiceover]

Wow.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

She's Mexican.

[Monet X Change]

Good on Mexican.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

By the way, those of you wondering, that's from. That's. People have been asking, what is that? It's T.S. madison talking about JLo playing Selena. So T.S. madison's wearing a, a, a. Like a straight. A straight piece. Like a long, long unit. She goes, oh, girl, I feel. Put a ricket in this honey.

[Monet X Change]

She's opening a new one. That's curly.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yes. Oh, yeah, that's what she goes. I feel Puerto Rican in this honey. Rick, Hun. Rickon. Then she goes, bdbd Bah. And then someone goes, selena wasn't Puerto Rican. She goes, she went Puerto Rican. She's Mexican.

[Monet X Change]

She's Mexican.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But the girl that played her was Puerto Rican. Rickon, honey. Ricken.

[Monet X Change]

The ricken.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I would put on like a long blonde wig and girl go, ooh. I feel European in this honey. European peanut. What's a great, like, Nordic song?

[Monet X Change]

Uh, Fuck it, though.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. Like, let it go, let it, let it, let it go. Which I think Frozen was written by a Latinx person.

[Monet X Change]

Actually, Lin Manuel Miranda wrote that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

He's not the only Latin.

[Monet X Change]

I mean, for the past, like, 10 years, Lin Manuel Miranda has, like, a monopoly.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Even.

[Monet X Change]

He wrote the new music for Little Mermaid.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

For the past.

[Monet X Change]

Every Disney movie I've seen in the past five years, Lin Manuel Miranda is the soundtrack. And he's great.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It's this couple, and they are egots, and they write. They wrote, like, Avenue Q.

[Monet X Change]

Yes, I saw the making of it on Disney.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Let me try to remember how they wrote. Don't. Avenue Q. Book of Mormon.

[Monet X Change]

Frozen.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Frozen. Obviously Frozen too. And probably some of the stuff I can't remember right now.

[Jacob/Assistant]

And Agatha all along.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And Agatha all along. And that's how they got their Emmy. So they're a full ego, this couple.

[Monet X Change]

They're fierce. I was like, that must be so cool to work. To work with your partner. That was really fierce.

[Jacob/Assistant]

It is.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

All right. Before I was there, before we go, you know, I was. When me and Jacob started working together, I actually called Sasha Velour. I was like, should I work with my partner? Is this a bad idea? And she was like, no, but you definitely. It will. It will challenge you in different ways. And I'm really glad. Thank you, Sasha Velour, for having that little pep talk with me on the phone that day. All right. Do you think you and Andy gonna start working together?

[Monet X Change]

No.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And I mean, you quit drag and you go work on the. On the sober bus. I just wanna encourage you to follow your dreams since you're so fucking obsessed with sober people.

[Monet X Change]

I'm obsessed with you.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

All right, thank you all for listening. We have a special little YouTube video coming up for you all where Monet and I will be reviewing RuPaul's multimillion dollar Beverly Hills mansion.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, yes. All right. Thank you.

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