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Bob the Drag Queen
my name is Bob the Drag Queen.
Monet X Change
And I'm Monet X Change.
Bob the Drag Queen
And this is sibling rivalry.
Monet X Change
On this week's episode, we talk about
Bob the Drag Queen
how we celebrated New Year's, we discuss social media trends, and we find out
Monet X Change
what made Bob say this.
Bob the Drag Queen
You went to college. How long did you go to college in New Jersey? Four years. Now you have a New Jersey accent. You're not Wendy Williams. And we find out what made Monet say this.
Monet X Change
Do you know what? Do you know where they get my spring from? All the motherfuckers. For the three times I've been mugged in New York City, I paid my dues, honey. How's your life going? According to plan or no?
Bob the Drag Queen
You know, I had a very lazy day and it was really wonderful, but didn't really do much of anything.
Monet X Change
I love a lazy day.
Bob the Drag Queen
I've not set foot outside of my house all day and it's great and I'm happy.
Monet X Change
How come you didn't invite me over?
Bob the Drag Queen
I want to be stress free. I wanted to be like a lazy day where I don't have to do a lot of working and like mental, you know?
Monet X Change
I wanted to be a really chill day.
Bob the Drag Queen
How's your day been, by the way?
Monet X Change
My day was good. What did I do today? Every day I wake up, I'm like, what did I do today? I woke up this morning, I took on my schedule. That's the only way I can remember what I did today. My calendar.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, I feel really great. The day before yesterday, I was driving back. No, yesterday I drove back from. From Las Vegas.
Monet X Change
Vegas. How was your Vegas gig?
Bob the Drag Queen
It was good. I mean, considering that. I mean, I had a lot of competition. There was. Tenacious D was in the same hotel as me, which is Jack Black's band. Adele did a New Year's Eve show. Kevin Hart did a New Year's Eve show.
Monet X Change
Oh, my God.
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Really?
Monet X Change
All these people?
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, so all in Vegas. So there was a lot of competition. And, you know, I did pretty well. And the venue seemed really happy. The comedy club. Well, it's not really quite a comedy club. It's a club where I was. It's just a cabaret space or like a venue in the Virgin Hotel. And they seem pretty happy, so I was really happy to be there. I will say that. The late show. I haven't really done stand up that late in a very long time. I mean, I've done, like, drag shows.
Monet X Change
What was late?
Bob the Drag Queen
I mean, it was during the ball drop.
Monet X Change
Okay, so you did. So you did a show up until, like, 1155.
Bob the Drag Queen
I did two shows. I did a show before the ball drop, and then I did it, which was a really great show. And I did a show during, like. I did a show before the ball drop. I started at, like, 11:20. And then I paused for a moment to give a cheers with the audience at midnight. And I think if I can go back and do it all over again, I would turn it into a show that wasn't just me doing stand up. It was kind of weird to stop the show in the middle. And then also, there were some ladies there who were lovely. And I'm sure they were. I'm sure they were fans, but I think there were just up past their bedtime. There were three of them all in a row. These, like, maybe were, like, maybe probably late 50s, early 60s. And. And it was these. These three lovely black ladies. One of them was, like, awake and, like, laughing. When I say asleep, I mean, like, these women were not. They were struggling to stay awake. And I was like, y' all are not late night people. I know, I know. And that was like. That kept throwing me off, though. I kept, like, these ladies are, like, asleep during my show. I was like, do they still believe? Are they fans of mine? I was like, they probably. I'm sure they know who I am. Cause they seemed excited when I came out, but I just don't think they had what it. Cause also, sometimes if they're not from. If you're not, if you're not from Vegas, you're probably there as a tourist and you're probably going around all day and you just get tired and exhausted and by. If you're doing the tourism thing by midnight, if you ever had a nap, you're done. You're done.
Monet X Change
For my New Year's Eve, I went Andy the Phoenix. Andy runs the Phoenix, which is a sober, active community. And they had a sober New Year's Eve celebration party. And I went to that from like 9 to 10:30. And that was so. That was, that was really cute. It was very successful. A lot of people came out to it. Like they were really excited. Like they had like over like 600 people RSVP and like 300 people showed up or something like that. So it was like really well attended. And they had like a sober bar. They had like tarot card readings. They had. And you know, I don't think I've ever been to an event besides before I was 18 and even then that, where it was like there was no alcohol and people were just like. I've never been to an adult event where there's no alcohol and people are just drinking soda pop and having a good time. It was so interesting to be a part of and to see. Have you ever been to an event like that?
Bob the Drag Queen
Do New Yorkers say soda pop?
Monet X Change
No, I just say that because in my mind it's harkening back to the good old days when we're just having soda pop. That's what I feel like going to this event. But it wasn't that. I'm just saying. But it just within lose or anything.
Bob the Drag Queen
It's soda pop regional because I, when I, when I moved to Midwest thing, when I moved to the Midwest, they were all calling it pop Pop like in the Midwest. I don't care what age you were. They all called it pop in the Midwest.
Monet X Change
I think pop is. But soda pop harkens back to the 50s era. In my, in my, in my life
Bob the Drag Queen
I've. I've been to sober events.
Monet X Change
Yes, but like big parties like that. Like think of like a big gay warehouse party. But sober, no alcohol, no nothing.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yes, I've been to a lot of them actually. I've been sober for 14 years. I've been to a lot of events. I'm. I've been in my, in my 14 years I've been to a lot of different events. Everything from cabaret play cabaret shows to dances, to parties. Yeah, I've been to quite a few. There's a group in New York City. If you're there and you want to go, if you're a former party club girl. And I don't even know if they're still there. But these. Because they're called Sober Living and it's a gay group in New York City. I'm sure it's like the Phoenix, but it's for the gays in New York City. No, it's not. It's called Sober Living. It's called Gay, and maybe it's Sober Lover. Maybe it is called. I can't remember, but I used to go to their parties a lot when I was, when I was. When I was just. When I had just moved to New York City.
Monet X Change
That. Well, that's. That, well, that's often what. That, what, like a lot of sober people will say they're like, oh, yeah, stuff like that is more like not only for newcomers, but oftentimes heavily attended by newcomers into sober stuff because, you know, because you kind of miss or you want to create a safe space for people who did used to go out to party a lot or be at bars where they can have that same vibe, the same energy and, you know, and, and be in a sober space.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't know that it's necessarily just for. I've heard from a lot of newcomers as much.
Monet X Change
No, not just. I'm not saying it's just for newcomers.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, let me, Let me say. Let me say the thing. Let me say.
Monet X Change
Well, because you kind of cut off what I was finishing saying. I was saying a lot of my. The sober friends that I know who have a lot of time, they're like, oh, yeah, that stuff is normally heavily attended by newcomers because of. It creates that safe space for newcomers who are just new to being sober work.
Bob the Drag Queen
So I don't think it's really about somebody being a newcomer. I think it's more so about. It's for younger people because a lot of my friends who got sober later in life, they do not go to those things. It is for people who, like. Because when you're young, you want to party a lot. You want to party, but you're also sober. So in my experience, even people who have been sober for a while, but they are still young. And there are those people who are like 24 but have been sober for 10 years because they got into a very, very young. And there are people who are like 28 and who've been sober for. I mean, by the time I was 28, I was sober for six years already.
Monet X Change
That's when you say that, because it was the young people there. That's what. That's. I find it very strange. It looked like to me like the 40s. The 40s and the 40s and the 50s gays. So that's why I was like, oh,
Bob the Drag Queen
the ones in New York City was a lot of young people because. But also, as I've gotten older, I just. I don't know how. Like, after the show, I went to Piranha and I was there for like 30 minutes and I was like, show?
Monet X Change
You went to Piranha?
Bob the Drag Queen
After my show in Vegas, I went to a nightclub called Piranha in Las Vegas.
Monet X Change
So I did a show in Vegas, the club.
Bob the Drag Queen
And then after my show, I went to a nightclub called Piranha. And I was like, I'm gonna leave. Like, I was there for 30 minutes and I was like, this is not it. This for me. And no, it's not. And also, today's my brother's birthday. And sometimes my own birthday is really easy for me to put in perspective. But sometimes the age that people are around me is like, oh, my God, my brother's 39. That's crazy that my brother's 39 years old.
Monet X Change
Almost 41 year to one year to being 40.
Bob the Drag Queen
But I guess in my head it makes sense for me to be 36 or 37 this year. And I was. In fact, I'm 37 this year. Part of me, like, thinks about, like, stuff I gotta try to do before I turn 30. 40, 40.
Monet X Change
After that, I went to a house party where there was alcohol. And I brought in the new year with a toasted champagne. And then I hung out a little bit more. And then I just went home. Cause Andrew went on a bike ride for a month. So who did you hang out with? Myself, Kim, an old friend from New York. Do you remember Cameron Rose? He's a porn star now. But Cameron Rose used to be a black white. I knew him from New York City. He's a white guy, white porn star. If you look up Cameron rolls, you'll see buff, skinny. No, he's short, in shape. Short white guy. A white person. I don't know what they're in shape
Bob the Drag Queen
like, buff or in shape. Like tone.
Monet X Change
Let me just google Cameron Rose in shape. Tone. Tone. Buff. He's. He's. He's a hot, short white guy.
Bob the Drag Queen
Cameron Rose. You could be Cameron Rose gay porn. Because there's some young basketball player gay. Is it Cameron with a K or something? Cameron Rose, gay porn. You know what? Apparently Cameron Rose is very hard to find. I'm sorry, to this man or this person. Cameron.
Monet X Change
I just searched Cameron Rose, gay porn and images. There's a slew of images on my Google, so I don't know what you're searching.
Bob the Drag Queen
I typed in Cameron Rose, gay porn. I'm on pornhub. It says. It says. Oh, is this.
Monet X Change
Just Google? Just Google search Cameron.
Bob the Drag Queen
What I have is Danny Rose and Curtis Cameron.
Monet X Change
If you search Google, Cameron Rose, gay porn and images, you will have.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, images. I went to the videos.
Monet X Change
No images. You'll see every picture of Cameron Rose.
Bob the Drag Queen
No Cameron Rose. This. This. This person does not ring a bell to me. I don't think that we were. I don't think we know each other.
Monet X Change
Yeah. So he had a house party and we hung out, and then a bunch of them were going to another party called.
Bob the Drag Queen
What's his address?
Monet X Change
9525 Cottingham Way.
Bob the Drag Queen
Nice.
Monet X Change
Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
Did he say Crowningham or Cottingham?
Monet X Change
Cotting. Not either. Cottingham Cotting, like Grace Coddington.
Bob the Drag Queen
Is it a house or does he live in a unit? Which unit does he live in?
Monet X Change
It's a house. It's a house with a blue fence and. And a white door.
Bob the Drag Queen
Nice. Was there a keypad code or did you.
Monet X Change
Yeah. 4927.
Bob the Drag Queen
Nice work. All right. Thank you so much.
Monet X Change
So, yeah, and a bunch of them. We're going to a party called Poor Detroit afterwards. Which is. Which is another part. I was like, girl, no, Poor Detroit.
Bob the Drag Queen
What. What is that? What is that about?
Monet X Change
It's a Mexican part. It's not P O O R. It's like in. It's like in. In Spanish.
Bob the Drag Queen
Poor P. Like four.
Monet X Change
Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
In Detroit.
Monet X Change
Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
Interesting.
Monet X Change
It means fuck me in the ass in Spanish in some way.
Bob the Drag Queen
Really?
Monet X Change
Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
That's. I don't speak Spanish, obviously.
Monet X Change
That's what everyone says. I don't know why. Poor Detroit. Yeah. Something about taking or, like taking the ass or taking up the rear, something like that. I don't know. This is what people were saying. Like, it's a. Port. A tr.
Bob the Drag Queen
That's so interesting. Yeah. I do not speak any. Well, I won't say I don't speak
Monet X Change
any Spanish, but I don't speak. It looks for, of or for. From. So I'm sure there's a way that it does mean that. But we need to take a little break and then we'll talk more about taking up the ass.
Bob the Drag Queen
So when's the last time you took
Monet X Change
it up the ass? And we're back.
Bob the Drag Queen
Monet. When's the Last time you took it up the ass.
Monet X Change
It's been a few days.
Bob the Drag Queen
Like over a week.
Monet X Change
It's been a few days? No, probably like four days. What about you?
Bob the Drag Queen
It's been like a penis.
Jacob
Last night.
Monet X Change
Oh, Jacob said last night. Jacob was in that booty hole last night. You mean, like, was that Jacob's New Year's present?
Bob the Drag Queen
For all you know, Jacob and I do this. Jacob does it on a weekly basis. You don't know what Jacob's. You don't know what me and Jacob. You up in here doing?
Monet X Change
Well, he said last night, so I'm acting. Was like, yesterday was New Year's. Was that like, oh, New Year's. Let's. Let's set the New year right by taking up the ass, maybe.
Bob the Drag Queen
You know, we didn't put that much intention behind it.
Monet X Change
Did you use a toy or was it a human body part?
Bob the Drag Queen
A human body part? Jacob's human penis.
Monet X Change
Ooh, that's cute. So chic.
Bob the Drag Queen
Old school. Retro.
Monet X Change
Old school. Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
Do you. Wait, what was I just asking you?
Monet X Change
Yes. When was the last time I took up yes.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh. And we. And we got the answer a couple weeks ago. Oh. Andy's leaving town. So are you going to be celibate for two months?
Monet X Change
Not too much. He's gone for five weeks.
Bob the Drag Queen
I thought it was too much.
Monet X Change
Um, yeah, no. Five weeks.
Bob the Drag Queen
Does that make you nervous?
Monet X Change
No.
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay, work.
Monet X Change
But, you know, I had to say this. There is. And I know we're talking about trend. I don't even try to make this thing. There is this trend now of people. You remember when people were pouring those, like, those silicone bubble things that explode or they expand or something like that.
Bob the Drag Queen
No, wait, what?
Monet X Change
They're like. They're like little squishy jelly things. And people put them in, like, drains, and then that's a Call the plumber. Because they end up, like, clogging up the whole little beads.
Bob the Drag Queen
Orbs. They're like, oh, filling my tub with orbs.
Monet X Change
Yeah, that stuff. Well, apparently it's become like a sexual thing now. And people are putting them inside them. There's like a pleasure one. But someone. I saw this on Twitter. Someone mis. Did not use the sex toy one. And they accidentally used a real one after they rushed to the hospital to get out of their office. Why?
Bob the Drag Queen
They're not that big,
Monet X Change
but there's a variety. You can get the ones that expand like this or the ones that expand like this. There are different ones.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't think the orbs are that big. And they're also really squishy.
Monet X Change
I mean, I. Bitch. I'm not a biologist, a chemist, or a doctor. I don't know, but people are.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, that's why I'm just asking. I'm just wondering. I'm like, orbs. Like the orbeez. They're called orbeez, not orbs. Orbeez are. They're pretty small, like orbeez. Not huge. It's like. It's like the size of the.
Monet X Change
Some of the videos when they get
Bob the Drag Queen
the size of, like, I think, a marble.
Monet X Change
No, there was none of this. I mean, there's something got bigger. I remember there was a woman who. That viral girl who put them in her shower tub, and they started coming out in, like, in her septic system and stuff. And they were not the size of Marvel. They were bigger than that for sure.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, this orbee here. Oh, that's a big orbee.
Monet X Change
Yeah, they vary. They're not all. They're not. They're not. They're not. Patrick Star. One size fits all. You gotta send it. I can't, girl. That. I just see a white screen.
Bob the Drag Queen
Wow. Monet says she doesn't see color. This is so problematic. It's just a large. In Jacob Net. Oh, I just accidentally sent some flag. What flag did I just send?
Monet X Change
Do you know? Oh, do you know that they.
Bob the Drag Queen
Wait, what flag did I just send?
Monet X Change
On accident?
Bob the Drag Queen
And why is that flag loaded into my icons automatically? Does anyone recognize that flag?
Monet X Change
I don't know what that is. Jacob sent the flag too.
Bob the Drag Queen
You have it loaded too, right, Jacob?
Jacob
I'm.
Monet X Change
I'm gonna look into it. Yeah. Did you. Have you heard that? So there's this. I was listening to the View. I was listening to, like, old episodes, and there is now. I think it's a Chinese religion.
Bob the Drag Queen
Or maybe it was Croatia. The flag was Croatia. For some reason, the Croatian flag was loaded into my thing. India. Wait, did you say India? What did you say?
Monet X Change
I said Chinese is either Chinese thing or an Indian thing. Someone. So the Nazis stole the swastika from this either Chinese or Indian. I need one of them. And then now this. These people who used to use it, it was like part of their religious thing, or it was like their thing. So now they're trying to reclaim the swastika, but, like, hey, like, these motherfuckers took this thing and denigrated it, and now it's.
Bob the Drag Queen
This horrible swastika was like Gaelic or something. I don't know what it was, but.
Monet X Change
No, it's from something else.
Jacob
It's a. It's a Hindi.
Monet X Change
I Believe Hindi?
Jacob
Yeah, they're a bunch of, like, old Hindi temples. It might not be Hindi, but it's like something in, like, the general region around India. There are a bunch of. It was. There are a bunch of temples, actually, that have swastikas on them facing the reverse direction. And it wasn't like, it's. The Nazis appropriated a symbol that had nothing to do with that, what they stand for.
Monet X Change
So now there's some of these. Some of these folks they want. They want to reclaim. They're like this. Like, this is not fair. Like, this is not fair that we. You know, so it's. Now it's causing this big conversation of, like, how do they go about this? And it's. It's. It's causing a stir.
Bob the Drag Queen
You know, I would just cut my losses. And I know that sounds like a lot to say when it's not part of my. My. My. It's not part of my origin or my history, but I think you have to ask yourself, like, is it worth what it would end up being to, like, walk around with a. Something that. With a swastika or maybe whatever. I don't know if the swastika was the original name of it or what. But what looks like a swastika, is it worth. Is it worth the. What it takes? Is the juice, worth the squeeze to reclaim the swastika? Because it's gonna take the world a very. A very bitch. People can't even wear that mustache anymore. That little mustache. No one can wear that. No one can wear that. No one has his name. No one has that name. And, you know, there are probably a bunch of people named Hitler. There are probably a bunch of folks named Hitler back in the day, or Adolf, for that matter.
Monet X Change
Yeah, I mean, I hear that, but I don't think. I mean, it's not my culture and my. You know, I've never had to think about this, but I don't think it's as easy as being, like, it's not worth the squeeze. I mean, I think that these people. Something that was very sacred to them and something that their ancestors that they feel some type of connection to. And I think that if they want to do the work to reclaim this image and reclaim this iconography for whatever purposes, I'm like, I'm all about it, but I think you need to make a lot of awareness. I think there is gonna be. It is gonna be a very hard road to reclaim this symbol and make it not evoke those feelings. And maybe it was still, no matter what happens, it will still evoke that for some people. But if they wanna do the work to reclaim it, then I'm all about it. Because it's just not right that they can never have this religious affiliation or feel these sacred connections to this thing. Because a bunch of dudes, a bunch of white dudes, a bunch of Aryans wanted to take it and make it this town. Terrible, nasty thing. I agree with.
Bob the Drag Queen
I agree with what you're saying. But I also think that even in the. In the. Like, I just want to reclaim this again. I'm not. I don't even remember if it was Hindi. I'm not.
Monet X Change
I wish. We should. We'll do the research about that.
Bob the Drag Queen
Because I'm not. And I know someone's gonna be like,
Jacob
I looked into it. It is Hindi.
Monet X Change
Hindi. Okay. It is Hindi.
Bob the Drag Queen
And someone could be like, Bob and Monet don't know. You're right. We don't always.
Monet X Change
We.
Bob the Drag Queen
You all are right. Monet and I do not know everything about everything. And I do. And it's. I am very. You know, it sounds very upsetting to be in that situation where something yours has been taken reappropriated and then turned into something that has become a undeniable symbol of oppression, racism and hatred. But I certainly would not want to be on the forefront of trying to reclaim that symbol because it's going to be. I don't think that in our lifetime that will be able to be reappropriated or. Or appropriate it back to where it was.
Monet X Change
I don't.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't. I don't think. I don't think the reclaiming of the swastika is going to happen in our lifetime. And it's not a fight that I'd be like. I would cut my losses, but in the end, it's not me. If you are out there and you want to reclaim the swastika, more power to you. That sounds like a very hard road to tow.
Monet X Change
Colleen, you are on the.
Bob the Drag Queen
You hurt her. You just hurt that cat. Did you hear about if you bite a cat in the back of the neck, they'll let you cut their nails? I saw this online also.
Jacob
I found out. So what happened is Caldwell changed our group chats theme on Instagram to Croatia. And when you do that, it makes the fast react symbol the Croatian flag.
Monet X Change
So that's why currently change the Croatia.
Bob the Drag Queen
Bob, I didn't change it to Croatia. Why? Why do you think I changed the Croatia?
Monet X Change
That's what Jacob suggested.
Jacob
Kal changed the theme to Croatia.
Bob the Drag Queen
I do not know when that happened. Wow.
Monet X Change
Stop Stop Croatian hate. Bob, please.
Bob the Drag Queen
How is that creation.
Monet X Change
Hey, you know how it is.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah.
Monet X Change
Okay. That's what I was saying about, about trends. Like, that's one of those silly. Like, honestly, when I wake up and I see stupid trends.
Bob the Drag Queen
If I had a kid or I
Monet X Change
live in a house where someone filled my drains and my sink and my toilet and my, and my bathtub with these orbi balls, I would be so angry and, or be like,
Bob the Drag Queen
wasn't.
Monet X Change
I don't remember.
Bob the Drag Queen
She was like an adult, if I recall.
Monet X Change
That is so crazy to me. I'm like, you just for a viral video that you, that, that you don't even know if it's going to be viral. Like you're doing this video, you have no idea what it's going to become.
Bob the Drag Queen
Maybe she didn't think it was going to happen. Maybe, I don't know what, I vaguely remember the Orbee lady, but maybe she didn't think that would happen. Maybe she was like, oh, it'll just be a little this, that the other. Who know, who knows what she thought? Because I've seen things where like someone like they fill their swimming pool like, like, or like, but like an above ground, like, you know, kiddie pool with orbeez. And then she was like, oh, I don't have. I'll just do it in my tub. And the next thing you know, the plumbing is all fucked up.
Monet X Change
Right, right.
Bob the Drag Queen
And did you, did you do any trends when you were younger that were dangerous or probably shouldn't be done?
Monet X Change
Well, when we were in. Well, we, When I was in. Because you were way like graduated stuff. When I was in high school, Internet trends weren't a thing yet. Trends started happening when I was in college. Like, that's when trends started happening. But I never really participated in them. Like I was, I was on a line.
Bob the Drag Queen
Internet trends. Just any trends at all. Like, we used to, like, we used to do this, we used to do this thing where we would try to make each other pass out. This game where you try to make each other pass out, which was quite dangerous.
Monet X Change
I think it was rough and tumble
Bob the Drag Queen
and I certainly would not recommend anyone do it today. But you, like, you like. I'm actually, I'm not going to describe how to do it, but it involved breathing and pushing on the chest and then we.
Monet X Change
Oh yeah, yeah, I know. I've seen that before.
Bob the Drag Queen
And you just, and you just faint. And we would, and we would, we would do this. We would, we would do it often actually. And I remember mom being like, do not do that. And. And then us.
Monet X Change
You did it.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, we did it before. She was not to do it.
Monet X Change
But you. But you did it afterwards, too.
Bob the Drag Queen
Maybe. I can't really remember, to be honest. I mean, I was pretty easy to scare as a child. If I thought it was gonna harm me, I probably wouldn't do it. So I was pretty easy to scare, to be honest. But I probably did, though. Cause it was. Cause it was. I probably did.
Monet X Change
We used to do gills when you gill somebody behind their neck.
Bob the Drag Queen
What is that?
Monet X Change
We always used to do this one. Remember this one?
Bob the Drag Queen
Wait, what's the gill? Wait, we can't move on. What's the gill?
Monet X Change
Just go behind the neck and you just like. They walking down the hallway and you're just like.
Bob the Drag Queen
This was.
Monet X Change
This is the neck. You just go, Gil. You just like, pull the back of the back of the neck. Skin. Not even. It's dumb.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, we used to chop.
Monet X Change
Jack this.
Bob the Drag Queen
You just go to someone at the back of the head and go. Not hard.
Monet X Change
Hard.
Bob the Drag Queen
No, just like, chop. And you have to say, chop.
Monet X Change
And what do you say?
Bob the Drag Queen
Chop.
Monet X Change
Oh, chop.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, just like. Yeah, just like y' all say, Gil, you know, I've only ever known white people to do that. I've never known black folks to do that.
Monet X Change
Oh, no, that was in my. That was in. Maybe not high school. That was where I was into the arts. High school, but in middle school for sure. People say that all the time. They'd be like, yo, well, not to me.
Bob the Drag Queen
Cause I was. Wait, I was a little girl. Wait, wait, wait. What's the. Is this a sexual. Is this, like a sexual thing?
Monet X Change
No, I don't know. But, like, I. Like the straight middle school boys weren't trying to, like, play me with their little game. I was not included in that. I was very gay.
Bob the Drag Queen
And the game is just trying to make someone look at it, right?
Monet X Change
Yeah. And then if you look at it.
Bob the Drag Queen
If you finger through it, Right?
Monet X Change
Yeah, but what happens when someone looks at it?
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't know. Do you hit him in the nuts or something?
Monet X Change
I don't remember. It was something stupid like that, though.
Bob the Drag Queen
I do remember one where.
Monet X Change
What was it called?
Bob the Drag Queen
Made you look.
Monet X Change
Maybe.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't know. You're so gay.
Monet X Change
Made you look.
Bob the Drag Queen
I do remember that we had a. The, like, once I started doing it once. So I didn't really started meeting a lot of white folks until I started doing. So I joined the theater program at the Clayton County School Performing Arts center, which is where the white people hid in Clayton County. In the theater in the Theater area. And one of the directors was obsessed with this game and played this game a lot. And with one of the guys in the show. Actually, I have a quick story to tell about one of something that happened. And anyway, so there's this one guy. He was a dad. It was a community theater. He was a very young father, maybe like 20, 19 years old. And he did the thing to him, and then he drew a massive one, like, out of, like, poster board, and he put it on Mark. Mark was there. He put it on Mark's car. And then Mark during. He saw it during his lunch break, and then he went to Walmart and he drew a finger going through it and was like, you didn't get me. Because I don't. I just remember it was the whole thing. So anyways, the guy who did the. Mark Clark, his name was Mark Clark was. The guy was a director. The guy. I think Mark Clark became like a lawyer after directing theater.
Jacob
The.
Bob the Drag Queen
The guy. The guy who pulled that prank on Mark, he was a father, a very young father. He was very goofy, almost like jackass style. Like. Like always doing something really dumb and really goofy. And then one day he did something, and I looked back at him, and I was. Bear in mind, I was like, 17, 16 years old, and I saw him do something. And I said. I said, I can't believe he's a dad. And he overheard me, but I didn't even think of it. I wasn't whispering or anything. And then, like, after rehearsal, he pulled me aside. He was like, I'll have you know, I'm a very good father. And I was like, okay. He goes, I'm a very.
Monet X Change
You touch your nerve. You touch your nerve.
Bob the Drag Queen
He was like, I am a very good dad. I said, okay. I don't think. I don't.
Jacob
You.
Bob the Drag Queen
I'm sure you are. He goes, what did you mean earlier? You said, I can't believe he's a dad. I said, oh, I guess I was just thinking that that was silly. And I just don't think of dads doing silly stuff like what you did. And I was like, he tried to gather me, girl. Oh.
Monet X Change
Because you. You touched the nerve.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, yeah. Because someone else must have said it to him in the past.
Monet X Change
Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. You definitely struck a nerve with. With Omar incident. What was. I remember in the summer of 2020. Remember the fucking milk crate challenge?
Bob the Drag Queen
That was insane.
Monet X Change
Yes. If y' all don't remember. It was like, people would. I don't know how people got all these milk crates. They would put the milk crates, they were in these. A lot of black neighborhoods, and they would use a. Stack them.
Bob the Drag Queen
Like, this was only black people. I never saw white folks doing the milk crate challenge.
Monet X Change
Yeah, I did not see it. I don't. I don't understand why. And then they would. And then the purpose was to, what, climb on the crates?
Bob the Drag Queen
They would stack them, basically. They would basically stack them like a. Like a flight of stairs and then a fight going down. And the point was to run up and then run down without falling. But everyone will fall. I never saw a video of anyone completing the milk crate challenge. I will be honest. It looks fun. Like, if I was, like, 22 or 18, I would have done the milk crate challenge, too. If I was 18 years old, you would have a hard time.
Monet X Change
Not my big ass.
Bob the Drag Queen
You would have a hard time stopping me from milk crate challenging, honey.
Monet X Change
Not my big ass. I've always been aware of how big my ass is and things that I know that my body cannot do is run up a milk crate that is hollow in the center and my big ass busts through. I would never.
Bob the Drag Queen
I just found a Colleen, get out of there. She wants to do the milk crate challenge. Leave her alone. She's trying to do the milk crate challenge. I just found a picture of me from when I was younger, and I was. I was. So I just sent it to the group chat. I was so skinny. This is crazy.
Monet X Change
I knew that was the word coming out of your mouth. Oh, that's. That's from your. Your apartment.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, that's when I used to live. Yeah, my friend Michelle took.
Monet X Change
Okay, can we. Can we put this in the. Can we put this on the podcast, Bob? Yeah, this. Okay, you remember how.
Bob the Drag Queen
What are we putting the picture you just said? Oh, yeah, yeah, the picture. Yeah.
Monet X Change
Y' all remember I used to say a couple episodes, like many, many podcasts have said it, that Bobby's always been in his house naked, and Bobby's like Monet. That's not true.
Bob the Drag Queen
This is.
Monet X Change
This image is how Bob was always in his house.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, it was in my house, bitch. My house.
Monet X Change
Hey, you the one that always said
Bob the Drag Queen
you were in my house, But I also do not. Okay, here's the thing. I do not think I walk around my house. My underwear lie. I was in this picture. Yes, in this picture, I'm in my underwear, but I do not. Jacob, do you think I always walk around the house in my underwear? Always.
Monet X Change
Now. Not now. I'm talking about back in 94 5Amsterdam, as me, as Taylor, as. As Caitlin, as Bob you were always in your underwear for whatever reason. And again, you were always sewing, so it made sense. But this is how I like if someone, if I had someone goes in my brain and pick out an image of you from the years of 2004, 2014 to 2017, 16, this is the image. It would be you and your underwear in some capacity, always.
Bob the Drag Queen
You know what image of you is? My image of you is you drunkenly stumbling into the monster after driving there in a pair of busted up Tums, toes sticking out the side.
Monet X Change
All right, you act like you're a 20 year old teacher. I think I touched the nerve somebody.
Bob the Drag Queen
I touched a nerve, girl.
Monet X Change
Do you know what image I think of you? A fat black balding from East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Bob the Drag Queen
I did not say that. All I said was that you were some busted up toms.
Monet X Change
Who do I think about you? A stuttering who got a podcast that can't talk right? That's what I think of you all.
Bob the Drag Queen
I said that you would drunk drive to the monster in your Tums.
Monet X Change
That is not true. I was drunk drive home. Not to the monster, to the monster.
Bob the Drag Queen
I never drunk with your little tums on. Monet was in her tum. And Monet used to wear a pair of tums. And I mean to, to the wheels, to the toes, bust out of the mugs, girl.
Monet X Change
Because I was barely scraping by at that point. I mean, I wore toms pretty much through drag race when I got on Drag race too. But like, yeah, I love toms.
Bob the Drag Queen
They were very durable. Get a pair of shoes that cost the same, that cost the same amount, that would last longer than toms. Cause the toms are not known for their durability.
Monet X Change
My shelf life on toms, I used to get like about two years out of a toms for sure. But they, they, they like $50.
Bob the Drag Queen
But most people would have given them up after eight months. Okay. A pair of Chuck Tay. I used to be always. I'm sure I don't know. Actually, I don't know. I used to always wear Chuck Taylor's and Chuck Taylor's when baking Maggie were about 25, $30.
Monet X Change
Yeah, I wonder. Oh my God. Let's see, let's see how old we are. How much do Chuck to like a. How much are a pair?
Bob the Drag Queen
Cause you can get a pair of tucked heels on sale for like 25, $30 and at the most they'd be like 40 bucks to get a pair of tuxedo.
Monet X Change
How much do you think they are now?
Bob the Drag Queen
But you gotta get the basic pair.
Monet X Change
Yeah, I'm@convex.com.
Bob the Drag Queen
$60. Okay.
Monet X Change
Yeah, you're right. 60. 65.
Bob the Drag Queen
Not 25. Not me buying Chuck Tails for $25. That is crazy. Everyone gagged when I tell them how much money I used to get paid at Ruby Tuesday. People always gag when I say how much I made an hour.
Monet X Change
How much you get paid?
Bob the Drag Queen
I used to get paid $2.13 an
Monet X Change
hour, but that's because you were. I think it's not much different now that waiters make. Cause they think you're gonna make all your money in tips.
Bob the Drag Queen
But it's not 213. That's illegal now.
Monet X Change
Maybe it's like $5.75.
Bob the Drag Queen
That's a lot more than. That's more than double.
Monet X Change
213.
Bob the Drag Queen
My checks used to be literally dollars. What's the first trend you think. What's the first Internet trend you think you participated in?
Monet X Change
Really quick, I really want to say this, that I cannot believe in this country, we, like, other. Literally every other country ever, like, developed country, we have not made it that restaurants pay their workers a living wage.
Jacob
Like, why is the Atlanta minimum wage this year right now is $5.15, right?
Monet X Change
Like, why. Like, why have we not made restaurants do this? Like, why is that not. Why has that not been a thing?
Bob the Drag Queen
Wait, what. What is. What is minimum wage right now? In general? What's. Like, what's the minimum wage supposed to be?
Monet X Change
725. I thought. I thought the federal minimum wage was 725.
Bob the Drag Queen
But. But, but. But for some reason, for some reason, servers get paid less. I remember back. Back when I. Back in, when I was your waiter, the minimum wage was $5.25. And. But the minimum wage for service was $2.13.
Monet X Change
That's just crazy, because depending on tips, that shit is crazy. That shit is robbery. Like. Anyway, that's a whole nother podcast. What was your question?
Bob the Drag Queen
What's the first Internet train you took part in? I remember mine. While you think about yours, if it
Monet X Change
helps, what was yours?
Bob the Drag Queen
Planking. But the first trend I remember actively taking part in was planking. Planking was huge. Like, for those of you who don't know what planking is, it was when you would just go somewhere, like, you normally in public, not always in public, but it had to be anywhere that's not a bed or a couch, and you would just lay face down and take a photo. It was massive. And I did. And I'm going to send. I'm going to send you my picture. I have to. I have to grab it. But I Do have a picture of me planking. And yeah, I remember just planking. Like it was like. I don't know why we were all planking. It was, I got a lot. It was, it was very funny at the time. It really tickled the shit out of me. I think. I don't, I don't think I like,
Monet X Change
I remember I have a consciousness of planking, but I don't think I was part of. Like, I really feel like you and I are in that sweet spot where like things that were like really big for like your friends and stuff weren't big for my friends and stuff. Like, I remember planking. I remember being a thing, but it just, it's not something that me or my friends participated in.
Bob the Drag Queen
Not this picture of me planking.
Monet X Change
How do I. Why am. Why is my screen locked on this picture of you?
Bob the Drag Queen
That is too much.
Monet X Change
Not Bob wearing flip flops. Who is this person? Also look at your ass, girl. She got a dunk.
Bob the Drag Queen
Bob. Look at your ass.
Monet X Change
She got a. You talk about girl. Bob is giving Monet X shade. You have been obsessed with me from since way back when.
Bob the Drag Queen
Since before I knew you.
Monet X Change
Since before you met Bob. Do you not see how big your ass looks?
Bob the Drag Queen
My ass does look. It's cause I was so skinny. My ass looks big because of how small my waist is. And I'm sway backed. You know folks who my. My back arches pretty severely. So my back, my butt always looks like a six out further because my back arches really severely. I think I might have been. I had hair, so I was probably like 20. I was in my early 20s in this picture.
Monet X Change
Whoa. And wearing open toed shoes. Who is this girl? We don't know her.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, imagine me in sandals, girl. You would never catch me in a flip flop. In a sandal. In a sandal. In the streets, outdoors. Never. Not once.
Monet X Change
I say never different. So Caribbean people don't call those sandals. Caribbean call Tevas sandals. Like it's very specific.
Bob the Drag Queen
What is teva?
Monet X Change
You know, like those like Velcro strappy things. Like think of like Teva sandals.
Bob the Drag Queen
I'm typing in Teva shoes right now. Teava. Oh, Jesus handles. Yeah. But in the South. In the south we call these Jesus sandals. You never heard anybody say that?
Monet X Change
Yes, I have.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh yeah, she got them Jesus sandals on.
Monet X Change
Yeah, like that's what. In solution, that's what we call sandals. So when. It's when, when Americans say flip flops or Santas, that's not sandals, they're flip flops. So what's a flip flop?
Bob the Drag Queen
To you, a flip flop is a thong.
Monet X Change
Isn't that what you have on?
Bob the Drag Queen
I have on flip flops, yeah, but they're also sandals. I mean, in America, you can call this a flip flop or you can call it a sandal. It is a flip flop sandal. The type of sandal it is, is a flip flop. I'm not kidding. We would say flip flop sandals are flip flop sandals. But we also. In the south, we call them. In the south, we call them flip flaps. Southerners call them flip flops, too. Black Southerners grabbing them flip flops. But. But where's that when someone calls them thongs?
Monet X Change
Thong sandals. I've heard.
Jacob
No, they call them.
Bob the Drag Queen
They call them. Yeah, they call them thongs.
Jacob
Australia.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. Australians call them thongs.
Monet X Change
Australia might.
Bob the Drag Queen
Isn't that wild? And they also call erasers rubbers.
Monet X Change
Yes. Well, Australia is just a. Like, they are a very, very sexy country.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. Just everybody ask me if I remember what I remember.
Monet X Change
Coney. Coney was around when I was in high school or college.
Bob the Drag Queen
Right. What the fuck is a Kony?
Monet X Change
K O N Y. I remember those. There were Kony images everywhere. The Kony.
Bob the Drag Queen
Kony 2012. What is.
Monet X Change
I don't remember what even was. Was he running for president?
Bob the Drag Queen
Is a Coney a shoe? Oh, no.
Monet X Change
He was the guy in Uganda, something like that.
Jacob
He was like. He was like a warlord who had a lot of child soldiers.
Monet X Change
Yes.
Jacob
And they were, like, trying to get him arrested.
Bob the Drag Queen
Jacob, you are. You are belting into this. Into this computer.
Jacob
Sorry. I have my gain really high up. Let me turn it down.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah.
Monet X Change
Kony was a. He was a war criminal. In what country, though? Was it Uganda?
Bob the Drag Queen
I can figure it out. Coney. Coney is.
Jacob
It was Uganda.
Monet X Change
Yeah, Yeah, I remember this. And there were those in New York City. These posters were everywhere. Kony 2012. They were everywhere, all over New York City to raise awareness about the Kony situation. I remember that trend.
Bob the Drag Queen
That's so interesting. I don't remember that at all.
Monet X Change
That's so weird. That's so crazy. Did you participate in the Harlem shake? Did y' all niggas in the south, first of all, can you Harlem shake?
Bob the Drag Queen
Yes, I can do the Harlem trick.
Monet X Change
Let me see. Let me see.
Bob the Drag Queen
I'm not wearing pants, but it's more or less kind of like. And then you grab your foot, and then you.
Monet X Change
The foot.
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay.
Monet X Change
You see, the foot was for y' all corny niggas who did not know how to do their Harlem shake in New York. We didn't.
Bob the Drag Queen
The foot was a Variation.
Monet X Change
A corny variation.
Bob the Drag Queen
You're not from Harlem. How do you know the Harlem shake?
Monet X Change
Because it was a New York City dance.
Bob the Drag Queen
Did it make it across the river? Did it make it across the river to Brooklyn? Yes, it did.
Monet X Change
It was a New York City dance. Also, I went to school in Manhattan, so at a school dance beach, we were. Did you. Do you know about the chicken noodle soup?
Bob the Drag Queen
Yes. With the soda on the side?
Shannon Maldonado
Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
What I do remember is that you appropriated the chicken noodle soup for your little dance challenge on RuPaul's Drag Race. I remember that. Don't you have this? Is there a little bit of this in yours? And is there a little bit of this?
Shannon Maldonado
Huh?
Monet X Change
Now let it rain and clear it out. Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
You appropriated the chicken noodle soup for your. To help you win a challenge on Drag Race. So do you want to.
Monet X Change
It's my culture. It's my fucking culture. You want to be the kids who
Bob the Drag Queen
made that dance up some of the money that you've made?
Monet X Change
I didn't win. I didn't win that challenge.
Bob the Drag Queen
So do you want to give them their $10,000?
Monet X Change
Do you know what. Do you know where they get my ring from? All the motherfuckers. For the three times I've been mugged in New York City, I paid my dues, honey.
Bob the Drag Queen
You've been mugged three times?
Monet X Change
Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, weren't you, like, sleeping on the train once?
Monet X Change
I was sleeping on a train. That was one time. And the other time, they weren't mugged. So I was walking down my block, the same block that you came to my house, walking down the block, and I was talking on my phone, and. And this guy walked by, like, give him. Give me your phone. And then he, like, he. He pushed me and tried to take my phone, but I didn't let go. And then the bus came in, and he ran away.
Bob the Drag Queen
But what do you want a phone for?
Jacob
Honestly?
Monet X Change
I mean, I don't know how it is now, but I.
Bob the Drag Queen
People.
Monet X Change
My friends. Like, I remember friends used to get their phone stolen all the time.
Bob the Drag Queen
I was. I was.
Monet X Change
Oh, my God. I was one of my favorite TikTok girls. I forget her name. She's. She's a girl. She's the. I think she's a Latinx woman who lives in the Bronx, and she's always, like, on my things about New York, she's like, yo, y' all niggas who. Who live. Who move to New York right now, y' all have no idea. Like, y' all don't know the fear that you'll be on the. On the train and you'll be like, on texting your shit like this and somebody just rocking shit. I was like, that is so true. Like, my mom and my auntie be like, do not take your foot on the phone. Do not, like, do not draw attention to you because someone will steal your phone on the train. Like, that was like a regular occurrence. That would happen all the time.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah. Phones to have a lot less security than they have now, but now a stolen phone is practically useless.
Monet X Change
That. Yeah. And also, you know, I. Phones like, you can. There's so many options now. You know what I mean? I mean, back then, like, what type of phone and what kind of. How fierce the phone you have there. Like, everyone, it's. You know, it's not as. It's not as rare. It's not. It's not a rarity. It's. It's a commodity these days. Everyone has a phone.
Bob the Drag Queen
Do you remember when the Harlem Shade came back and it was that thing where you would, like, freeze?
Monet X Change
That didn't come back. That was always Harlem Shake.
Bob the Drag Queen
No, no, the Harlem Shake came back and it. And it wasn't a dance anymore. It was a trend where everyone, like, does a weird dance. Like, okay, so the trend of the Harlem Shake, I remember this. It came back when I was in New York City. So when I was in high school, there was the. There was the actual dance Harlem Shake. And then this. The Harlem shake came back as an Internet trend. And it'd just be like a video of people just being, like, normal. And then the beat would drop and then everyone would go crazy in the video. It'd be like,
Monet X Change
I don't remember
Bob the Drag Queen
now. Do the Harlem Shake. You did it at Industry. You literally did this at Industry. You did a thing where you told everyone. You were like, you did it at Queen. You were like, I need people to get together. You did a. It was the first time you ever used social media to get people to come together for your number at Queen. And the idea was. The idea was to do a live version of the Harlem Shake trend. What are you talking about me? Yes. And it was.
Monet X Change
I. I don't know what you're talking about.
Bob the Drag Queen
It was the. The har. Do the. It was. It was the do the Harlem Shake song.
Monet X Change
Bob, I have no idea what the hell you're talking about list. I did not participate in this. I did not do this.
Bob the Drag Queen
Maybe it wasn't you, but I. But no, maybe you didn't. Maybe you didn't call people to do it, but you ended up in the number somehow. Someone wanted to do a live Harlem shake and you were in the number. You don't remember the do the Harlem Shake trend? This is so crazy. Everyone did the do the Harlem Shake trend?
Monet X Change
No, Bob, I don't remember this at all.
Bob the Drag Queen
There was a. It was. There was a whole compilation. Yeah, because it started with. It was massive. It was like maybe like 10 years ago. Yeah, that was. That was then. And then a lot. A lot of. And it'd always be like one person standing in a room with a bunch of people being normal, dancing. And then when the beat drops, everyone starts dancing or like shaking viciously or doing some crazy stuff. And then a lot of folks are like, this is not the Harlem Shake. This is not the Harlem Shake. And we were like, well, okay. Well, it's what we're doing now. It's what the Harlem shake has become now. I'm going to send you the link on. On the ground. I cannot believe you. I cannot believe you have no memory of this. This is. That is because it was such a. It was a huge trend.
Monet X Change
Yeah. Do you know one? I do remember. Do you remember flash mobs?
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, yeah, of course. I did a flash mob once.
Monet X Change
I was in one for my. In college. We did one for this big fucking university day. Oh, my God. I had to find a video of it. Bitch. There is me, high school coming, college, Monet beard, balding, in a big ass, flannel, checkered shirt in the street doing some flannel. I gotta. Bob, when I show this video, you gotta be like, I gotta find it and show you. It's on my old Facebook before I had a drag. Facebook. But like Kevin. It was Kevin Requiem. Remember I told you I didn't have
Bob the Drag Queen
my real name on Facebook? What's her name? Kameka. Don't like you to let people know her name.
Monet X Change
Kamika.
Bob the Drag Queen
And you used to make fun of Kamika for not wanting to say her name. You were just like, Kameka. You were just like.
Monet X Change
Flash mobs were so big, bitch. There was a whole TV show about flash mobs. Remember this?
Bob the Drag Queen
No, I don't remember the TV show.
Monet X Change
There's a whole TV show about flash mobs. So weird.
Bob the Drag Queen
Our flash mob that we did was. We did. I was in Les Mis. Oh, my God. This was like, woof, girl. This flashback was like 2002. This is before you were even in college. I was in high school still. You might have been. You were in middle school when I did a flash mob.
Monet X Change
2002. Yeah, because I was in high school 2004-2008. Yeah, I was in middle school still.
Bob the Drag Queen
So me, we were in Les Mis and we all put on our costumes and we drove to South Lake Mall and then we.
Monet X Change
We.
Bob the Drag Queen
So I don't know how well. Are you familiar with Les Mis?
Monet X Change
I've never seen Les Mis.
Bob the Drag Queen
So. Les Mis. One of the. One of the big, like, visual things that people remember from Les Mis is they march toward the audience. But the way they march is they march forward, forward, and they march back. And they walk forward like three steps, and they walk back like five, and then forward two. It's like this. This thing they do. It's very iconic. While someone's break. No, it's just regular. It's just regular marching. There's nothing where they are. It's just like. While singing the song, do you hear the people sing, singing the songs of angry men. It is the music of a people who will not be. Be slaves again. And then this massive red flag pops up with their waving this red flag in the background. So. And then we. We went to the South Lake Mall and we all. And we marched through the mall while singing. Do you hear the people sing? And we were like, people are gonna go crazy when I tell you. No one looked at us twice. We didn't record it because there were no. There were no. No camera phones. And no one owned a camcorder that we knew of anyway or had it with them anyway. And no one. We just were just doing it for ourselves to have fun. And no one even fucking bet. And we were like, come see our show. You're gonna love it. You think this was something? Come see us at the Clayton County Schools Performing Arts Center.
Monet X Change
Wait, we have to talk about the celebrity death prank.
Bob the Drag Queen
Talk about. Oh, my. You can't decide if you want to have a New York accent. Do you want to have a LA accent? Do you want to have a. Do you want to have a Caribbean accent? Do you want to be from New Jersey? You're not from New Jersey. Talk. You went to college. How long did you go to college in New Jersey? Four years now you have a New Jersey accent. You're not Wendy Williams.
Monet X Change
Wendy Williams is a fat whale. The celebrity
Bob the Drag Queen
Wendy Williams was so. Oh, oh, oh. My favorite clip I've seen online of her lady is her going, clap if you think she should shuffle. I can't get it out. Wait, let me say it.
Monet X Change
Sorry.
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't even know. I don't even know who she's talking. Talking about, but Winnie Williams just looks at the audience and goes. She goes.
Monet X Change
Clap if you think she.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, my God.
Monet X Change
Get it out, bitch.
Bob the Drag Queen
You know it. Just say it without kissing.
Monet X Change
No, go ahead. You have to. You, mom, you have to do this. You have to do this.
Bob the Drag Queen
She just goes, like, why would you say this? Clap if you think she should suffer. Clap if you think she should suffer. What?
Monet X Change
What?
Bob the Drag Queen
All right.
Monet X Change
Clap if you think she should suffer.
Bob the Drag Queen
Should she should. Should she suffer? All right. Clap if you think she should suffer. Damn. And they were clapping. All right, sorry.
Monet X Change
The Wendy Williams audience, they. They were in it with her. Like, they were in it with Wendy. And I think that' people loved about Wendy because people. You would go there. You would be in it like, you
Bob the Drag Queen
were like, should she suffer? People like. And stop wearing our wigs and our heels. What was. And stop wearing our dresses and our wigs.
Monet X Change
So problematic, but so funny. The celebrity death prank challenge. Now, this. This prank has been popping off on TikTok.
Bob the Drag Queen
We talked about it for the past,
Monet X Change
like, you talk about a little bit, but did you see the Angela Bassett situation?
Bob the Drag Queen
I did,
Monet X Change
girl. So if you don't know. So Angela Basset has a son with. I did not know that was Angela Basset's husband. Did you know that? The bodyguard.
Bob the Drag Queen
Dad, I don't. I don't. From the body.
Monet X Change
I mean, the preacher's wife. The preacher's wife.
Bob the Drag Queen
Sorry, I would not. I wouldn't recognize the preacher's wife, man, if he walked up to me right now. I have not seen a preacher's wife in. Since the 90s.
Monet X Change
I did not know that was Angela Basset's husband. I was like, gag. So Angela Basset and her husband, two big celebrity Hollywood people, parents, they're walking out with suitcases, going somewhere. And Angela Bassa's son goes. Actually, we can just play it so people can hear it because it's still on.
Jacob
Also, just to context, the son. Her son is 16 years old.
Monet X Change
Yeah, her son is 16 years old. Let me just.
Bob the Drag Queen
So here. Here's the video. Let's just. We'll just insert it.
Monet X Change
Yeah, yeah. Okay. Here we go.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, we. We insert it when we already.
Monet X Change
But we're gonna talk over it. They need space to put it.
Bob the Drag Queen
No, we know. We'll take a break and they'll put it. Wait, mom, dad, did you. Did you hear this? Michael B. Jordan, dead at 35.
Monet X Change
35. So that happens. And then Angela. I mean, her reaction, like, no, no,
Bob the Drag Queen
no, no, no, no.
Monet X Change
Like, she was like, for kids, A. You have to think in context, right? She was in the previous movie where Chad Would. Boseman died. So she has, like, PTSD of one of her co stars in this franchise, like, passing away, and her son says this thing, and, like, I. You could, like, see, like, you could feel the fear in, like, her heart, like, in her. Like, she is like, oh, my God. Like, she is, like, she is fucking freaked out. And then her son had to put.
Bob the Drag Queen
The interesting thing is this one thing online was like, this is. Only white kids are doing this trend, which, by the way, is not true. There are a lot of black people doing this trend to their parents as well. I've seen. And I don't think that the. Okay. I think that the extreme emotions that all these other parents who aren't Angel Bass are having are also very real emotions too, even though they don't know these people. But, you know, you get these. You grow. You grow an attachment to these celebrities. So I guess it just took for people to see it happening to someone that they know and respect. And also on the level that it's. It's like it. It is different when it is. It's definitely different when it is someone that, you know. That's like calling. Saying, your. A friend died.
Monet X Change
Kim Chi.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, my God.
Monet X Change
Mon.
Bob the Drag Queen
That's right. Kim died.
Monet X Change
Bob the drag queen died, you know? Oh, my God, Monet, did you hear? Bob the drag Queen dead at 36? I was like, no, he's not.
Bob the Drag Queen
I just. But also, why would Kim Chi want to break the news? That'd be so weird if Kim Chi broke the news to you that I died.
Monet X Change
You know what I mean? And I was like, bob and I connected. I feel like we're like twins. If you died, like, let's say I'm just sitting here typing and you died, I'd be like. I would feel it.
Bob the Drag Queen
When Monet farts, I fart.
Monet X Change
Cubs, I come.
Bob the Drag Queen
Exactly. So Andy is. Andy's gonna be out of town. Me and Jake gotta have to work overtime
Monet X Change
in the middle of the night.
Bob the Drag Queen
But I think that it definitely did strike. It struck a different chord seeing Angela Bassett, because it was not just a celebrity she loved, it was a friend of hers. You know what I mean? But there was something about when I was watching all the other people go through, I was like. I was like, these parents are really. They're sad. They are actually sad. Like, these people are hurt. Not. I mean, not everyone's, but some of the folks were, like, grieving. They were genuinely grieving.
Monet X Change
But sometimes they would say, trump has died. And you see their fans be like, what?
Bob the Drag Queen
I'm like.
Monet X Change
And there was one parent that was like, the one lady, she's like, thank God. But everyone else. But some of the other ones, they were like. They were, like, sad. I was like, y' all need to be happy.
Bob the Drag Queen
Well, of course there'd be someone in New York. I can't even imagine what it must be like, because no one in New York likes you. Imagine if no one in your hometown liked you. Like, imagine if you literally could not go home because. No, you, like. Trump might be the most hated person in New York.
Monet X Change
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Bob the Drag Queen
Also, I will say him also. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Like, they are. They are not liked at all. Was Rudy Giuliani a Republican when he was the mayor of New York?
Monet X Change
Yeah, he was. But again, that. Those are, like, we talked about this, those Republicans. It is different now. The landscape of the Republicans is very different. We didn't back then the Marjorie Taylor greens and, And. And all those motherfuckers. They were not prom. That was not that. That did not feel like that was a majority of the party or it was even a quarter of the party. Now it seems that. That seems to be the identity of a lot of Republicans. So it's. It's different now, you know?
Bob the Drag Queen
Yeah, it's just wild to me that, like, Rudy Jones is from New York. He's from. He's from Flatbush. Your neighborhood?
Monet X Change
Queens. He's from Flatbush.
Bob the Drag Queen
He's from East Flatbush.
Monet X Change
Tell that nigga meet me on Foster and Katen onside is on site. Giuliani what's good.
Bob the Drag Queen
But also, like, he couldn't. Like, they can't go home. Right, Right.
Monet X Change
I thought Giuliani was from Queens. Maybe Bloomberg is from Queens.
Bob the Drag Queen
Maybe he was just born in. Maybe he was just born in Flatbush and then he moved to Queens. I don't know. Yeah, you know, my homeboy is from Brooklyn, too.
Monet X Change
Your homeboy? Who's your homeboy?
Bob the Drag Queen
Bernie Sanders.
Monet X Change
Oh, yeah, he's Bony Sanders, right?
Bob the Drag Queen
Boynie Sanders. He sounds like he's from. From New York City.
Monet X Change
Bob, you are fully doing Mike Tyson now. Decide, bitch.
Bob the Drag Queen
Bonnie Santis. Listen, my name is Bonnie Santa. No, no. Bonnie Sanders.
Monet X Change
Oh, God, here we go.
Bob the Drag Queen
No, no, boy, me. Sanders is from Brooklyn, New York.
Monet X Change
Who's that singer? Who that singer.
Bob the Drag Queen
I see Treason.
Monet X Change
You saw the bitch. You saw, like, Lou Rawls, Louis Armstrong.
Bob the Drag Queen
I mean, you know, who else is from. I want to know is Judge Judy. Is she a Republican?
Monet X Change
Bitch, the amount of money Judge Judy make. Bitch. Judge Judy is a Republican, but she's smart because she won't Ever say it out loud. Judge Judy absolutely is a Republican.
Bob the Drag Queen
There's rich Democrats.
Monet X Change
There are, but I think Judge Judy's a Republican.
Bob the Drag Queen
Like, I don't think she's ever come out publicly. Right.
Monet X Change
She never would. Oh, okay. Alexanswers.Amazon.com is Judge Judy a Republican or a Democrat? Neither. Judge Judy is.
Bob the Drag Queen
She enjoys Bloomberg.
Monet X Change
Judge Judy is registered as an Independent. Also. Bloomberg is a Republican.
Bob the Drag Queen
Bloomberg is Republican?
Monet X Change
Yes.
Bob the Drag Queen
Wait, Bloomberg is a Republican?
Monet X Change
Yes.
Bob the Drag Queen
How do I know this? I don't think that's true. Is it?
Monet X Change
I'm pretty sure. Mike, Bloomberg is an American business. Yeah, he's Republican. Other political.
Bob the Drag Queen
No, he's a Democrat. Mike, Bloomberg is a Democrat. Oh, he.
Monet X Change
No, he was a Democrat before 2001. And then after 2018. Between 2001 and 2018, he was a Republican.
Jacob
Wait, and she endorsed him in 2020 when he was a Democrat then.
Bob the Drag Queen
Wait, so he was a Republican for one term?
Monet X Change
Yeah, he was a Republican from 2001 to 2007. Independent, 2007 into 2018, and I think recently a Democrat.
Bob the Drag Queen
Very interesting.
Jacob
When she endorsed him, he was a Democrat.
Monet X Change
Owen should endorse him. He was a Democrat, so.
Bob the Drag Queen
Judge Judith Sheindlin.
Monet X Change
Mike, do you know Bloomberg is fucking loaded? Is he? Is he from family wealth or he built this on his own?
Bob the Drag Queen
I don't know.
Monet X Change
In March 2019, Forbes reported Bloomberg's wealth at $16 million, a gain of 4.5 million. Yeah. Now his estimated wealth is $55.5 billion. How did he get all this money?
Bob the Drag Queen
That's a big jump.
Monet X Change
What?
Bob the Drag Queen
55 billion? In how much time?
Monet X Change
2009 to now.
Bob the Drag Queen
Jesus Christ.
Monet X Change
Oh, no, no, no. Now he's 59 billion.
Bob the Drag Queen
Currently he's making more than a billion dollars a year and retaining more than a billion dollars. That's insane.
Monet X Change
But what does he do?
Bob the Drag Queen
Bob, they own. Isn't there like a. Like a Bloomberg network or something?
Monet X Change
I sound like a general partner at some. You sound like some ignorant ass bitch.
Bob the Drag Queen
You don't know either, but I say it.
Monet X Change
In 93, Bloomer became a general partner at Solomon Brothers, a large Wall Street. Oh, investment banking. That's how these niggas. Bob, let's go. Let's go into investment banking. Can you imagine you and me walking in full corporate Chanel drag with all little briefcases. Investment bank back.
Bob the Drag Queen
Before we go, I want to say something real quick. I was thinking with this. I think I want to keep achieving more and more things in my career, but I don't want to get any more famous in this. Like, I don't want to. I don't want to get more recognizable, but I want to achieve more things. I know those two things don't go hand in hand, but I am as recognizable as I want to be.
Monet X Change
Yeah.
Bob the Drag Queen
Do you want to get more recognizable?
Monet X Change
I mean. Yeah, I mean, do I want to. I mean, I think of. I think of. I was watching what Doc Madrid is watching. I was watching something on HBO Max yesterday with Rihanna about it, and I was like walking. Like, Rihanna cannot even go to Target. And even in a hat and a face mask and a hoodie, like, people will just know it's her. I'm like, that has to be incredibly. Like, you just can't.
Bob the Drag Queen
You want to be like that.
Monet X Change
You cannot live a normal life. No, that seems not that. Like you. Like, it's never an option. Like it is to go out and not be stopped and recognized and people falling over you. It's not an option at all. At all. I can go to this, to the gym. I can go to the Target and it'll be like one or two people. But Rihanna, people will stop what they're doing and a. Now a swarm of people are following you and just. You know what I mean? That sounds.
Bob the Drag Queen
That's why I think where I'm at now, this is. This is a nice level of like. I mean, I could. Honestly, I could probably take a little less than this, to be honest. But definitely not more than this. Definitely. But I do wanna achieve. But there are people who achieve really, really big things and they're basically can just walk around and do whatever they want and hardly ever get recognized, who are way more successful than I am on paper.
Monet X Change
Yeah. And don't forget it. And what does Bob. When. What does Bob stand for? Big Old.
Bob the Drag Queen
Black Old is what it was. If you're going to quote her, quote her.
Monet X Change
Black old.
Bob the Drag Queen
If you're going to quote Terry Joe, who could be doing your job way better than you, and I might send her a little message because I think it's time for a little turnover.
Monet X Change
I'll fire you because you Forget I own 51% of this motherfucking company. You'll be the up out of here.
Bob the Drag Queen
Okay, first, that's a complete fault.
Monet X Change
So you. You just don't forget that. No, that is a fact.
Bob the Drag Queen
And how did you acquire 1%? And they showed it.
Monet X Change
Because it didn't come about it, bitch.
Bob the Drag Queen
I'm sorry. Because it didn't come from me, huh?
Monet X Change
I'm crafty.
Bob the Drag Queen
Because it didn't come from me.
Monet X Change
It did come from you, baby.
Bob the Drag Queen
You know What Monet does not realize is I. I snoot Monet because Monet. Monet and I agreed. She do 48%. I do 42%. We gave Jacob 2%. Jacob sold me his 2. I have Jacob sold me his 2.
Monet X Change
First of all, okay, if you said I'm doing 48% and you're doing.
Bob the Drag Queen
Jacob told me his four, how you selling? How you selling this percentage?
Monet X Change
You can't do simple math, my nigga. What the are you talking about?
Bob the Drag Queen
I bet Jacob saw me his four.
Monet X Change
I saw them neurons fucking sizzling, girl. On a hot bit of coals, girl.
Bob the Drag Queen
It's a lazy day. Leave me alone.
Monet X Change
Goodbye, everyone. Bode said I came for 48 and
Bob the Drag Queen
I had two start sweating, my ears start bleeding, I look six. 11. What's her name? 11 blood coming up my nose.
Monet X Change
That's what we have to say on social media trends. Have a good night, everyone.
Bob the Drag Queen
Thank you. Oh, right. Wait, wait. We're not done yet. Monet.
Monet X Change
Oh, God.
Bob the Drag Queen
Shout out to be the DQ videos because they did the math. You owe me $2,000. They did. They ran all the bets up. You owe me $2,000.
Monet X Change
I don't believe it. I need someone to go back and double check that work.
Bob the Drag Queen
Oh, so. Oh, so now all of a sudden you don't trust Because BBQ identifies as a woman, you don't trust her work.
Monet X Change
I didn't know she had an advisor.
Jacob
Wow.
Bob the Drag Queen
Yes, you did. Yes, you did. Yes. We've discussed it before because BDQ videos identifies as a woman, you don't trust her work now.
Monet X Change
Oh, my God.
Bob the Drag Queen
Interesting. Because she doesn't live in America, you don't trust her work. Interesting. All right, now we are leaving. All right, bye, everyone. Foreign.
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Hosts: Bob the Drag Queen & Monét X Change
Date: January 18, 2023
In this laughter-filled episode, Bob the Drag Queen and Monét X Change ring in the New Year by diving deep into the ever-evolving world of social media trends. From discussing their personal New Year’s celebrations to dissecting viral fads (and the chaos that sometimes ensues), the queens keep it personal, hilarious, and insightful. They reminisce about old-school trends they participated in (or avoided), debate the impact of viral challenges—both silly and dangerous—and touch on everything from sober nightlife to reclaiming ancient symbols, going viral, and the woes (and wildness) of celebrity pranks.
Bob’s Vegas Show:
Monét’s Sober Party:
Risky & Bizarre Trends:
Notable old-school trends:
The episode is packed with playful jabs, insider stories about NYC gay life, and a running meta-joke about show ownership and their classic sibling “rivalry” (even though, as always, they’re not siblings). Bob and Monet’s effortless rapport sets a warm, hilarious tone, ensuring each trend—no matter how serious or silly—is punctuated with laughter and a healthy dose of realness.
This episode offers a nostalgic and up-to-the-minute snapshot of internet life, queer community, and generational change—delivered with Sibling Rivalry’s signature wit. It’s especially strong on how viral trends shape personal and collective experience, and how the pursuit of online attention can have unintended (sometimes wild) consequences. Whether you’ve followed Bob & Monét for years or are just tuning in, this episode is a near-perfect sampler of their mix of comedy, culture critique, and candid storytelling.
Note: Ads, extended intros/outros, and unrelated sponsor plugs have been omitted for clarity and focus on core content.