The One About Voting

Summary

Podcast Summary: Sibling Rivalry – "The One About Voting" (Dec 11, 2023)

Hosts: Monét X Change & Bob the Drag Queen
Episode Theme: Navigating Voting, Democracy, and Political Choices in the U.S.
Notable Segments: Daylight Saving Time, Seasonal Depression, Third Parties, Political Engagement, Pop Culture and Age in Politics

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Episode Overview

In “The One About Voting,” Monét X Change and Bob the Drag Queen blend their trademark humor with earnest discussion about the importance of voting, the pitfalls in the current U.S. political system, and why disengagement can be potentially disastrous. The duo break down why some people are opting out of voting, debate the possibility of genuine third-party alternatives, and share personal and pop culture anecdotes to underscore the episode’s theme: voting is a right (and a responsibility) not to be casually dismissed.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Daylight Saving Time and Seasonal Depression

00:46–08:44

• Monét’s Rant on Daylight Saving Time: She passionately argues for making DST permanent, citing studies about increased depression and reduced economic activity due to early sunsets.

  “I hate Daylight savings time. …There have been so many studies of why we don't fucking need it anymore.” – Monét (03:00)

• Current Status: Jacob, the producer, helps clarify that while the Senate passed a bill (Sunshine Protection Act), it stalled in the House.

• Impact on Mood: Both hosts reflect on experiences with “seasonal sadness,” drawing the distinction between clinical depression and general malaise linked to darker, colder months.

  “It's called seasonal affective disorder.” – Monét (08:15)

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Democratic Engagement & The Importance of Voting

21:04–32:45

• Liberal Disillusionment: Bob introduces the drama around some progressives refusing to vote, particularly dismayed with President Biden's policies (notably on funding for Israel), coining the phrase:

  “There are a lot of liberals, leftists… who are really adamant that they are not going to be voting in the upcoming election.” – Bob (22:31)

• Monét's Counter: She pushes back, emphasizing that collective Democratic disengagement only benefits authoritarian-leaning candidates.

  “No, baby, like you have to use that vote, man.” – Monét (28:16)

• Long-Game Politics: Both hosts discuss how Republicans play the long strategic game, stacking the deck over decades, versus left-wing voters' fixation on “instant change.”

  “Republicans are very good at playing the long game. …They don't play checkers, bitch. These hoes play chess.” – Monét (24:48)

• Third Party Limitations: They note that due to ballot access laws, third-party candidates aren’t viable most places, especially if organizing starts late.

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Convincing the Non-voter: A Role-play

29:23–32:45

• Bob Role-Plays a Disheartened Voter: Monét is challenged to persuade a “no more Joe Biden” voter. They highlight:
  • The reality of seeing policy outcomes delayed by previous administrations,
  • The flawed two-party system,
  • The stakes of “sitting out” versus “harm reduction.”

  “Unfortunately, we are in a bipartisan country. Like that is how it works. We stuck with that.” – Monét (31:14)

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Viral Political Analogies: The “Sledgehammer” Blueprint

36:30–44:53

• Influencer Bell Curve’s Blueprint Analogy
  Bob and Monét play and support a TikTok video that likens political “burn it down” apathy to destroying structural foundations in a home renovation. The creator's thesis: if you don't know the blueprint, you risk irreversible damage to the system, with nothing to rebuild from.

  “All of y' all out there who are hollering about, vote third party or don't vote for the Democrats…y' all are the homeowners with the sledgehammer, just wanting to swing away and tear down everything. But some of us out here know how to read fucking blueprints.” – Bell Curve (37:30)

• Hosts’ Reaction:

  “To me, what she's saying makes sense 1,000%.” – Bob (44:53)

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Age Limits, Cognitive Testing, and Pop Culture Candidacies

46:29–56:58

• Debate on Age & Competency:
  They tease the idea of cognitive vs. age limits for presidential candidates, agreeing that term limits are fairer than arbitrary age caps.

  “If you can prove that you have that, then you should be able to do the job.” – Bob (53:22)

• Would a Celebrity Win?
  The two speculate on which celebrities could actually win the presidency post-Trump, seriously considering the power of fanbases like Taylor Swift’s “Swifties.”

  “The Swifties will elect her for the hell of it.” – Bob (54:52) “I think Taylor Swift is brilliant, very talented… I love Taylor Swift.” – Monet (57:05)

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The Power of Engagement & Conclusion

73:08–87:04

• Affirmation & Reality Check:
  The hosts support embracing multiple forms of beauty with age, while poking fun at Botox, fillers, and self-obsession with eternal youth.

• On the Demand for Tickets and Personal Access:
  Bob reiterates boundaries about not being able to get everyone into shows and the importance of using available tools (like Google) rather than relying on celebrity connections.

• Charity Stream Plans:
  They propose planning a 24-hour live stream to raise money for a worthy cause—possibly to support Palestinians, the Congo, or U.S. hunger relief—emphasizing a desire to use their platform for tangible good.

• Closing Notes:
  A comedic signoff on Brooklyn pride, beauty, and age, reminding listeners of the episode’s central thesis: don’t throw away your vote or your agency, even when the system feels imperfect.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Voter Apathy
  “My fear is I don't think people realize how dangerous Donald Trump truly can be if reelected… the truly fascist ideologies…” – Bob (34:05)

• On Progress
  “If you want to burn it all down, you're gonna burn down your support beams …and you're gonna be left in the fucking rubble. Then what?” – Bell Curve via Bob (37:30)

• On Long-term Change
  “Maybe, just maybe, they would have a foothold somewhere to actually be a fucking option in 2028. But as it fucking stands, y' all have not done the fucking work on the ground to get any third party candidate…on any fucking ballots.” – Bell Curve (42:30)

• On Beauty and Aging
  “You will not be unwrinkly forever. That no one does that.” – Bob (72:46)

• On Celebrities as Presidents
  “Taylor Swift posted a link to get people to register to vote… she got, like, over, like, 30 million people to register.” – Bob (56:51) “The Swifties will elect her for the hell of it.” – Bob (54:52)

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Important Timestamps

• Seasonal Depression & Daylight Saving Time: 03:00–08:44
• Political Apathy & Third Parties: 21:04–27:08
• Role-play: Convincing a Non-voter: 29:23–32:45
• Bell Curve TikTok Political Blueprint: 36:30–44:53
• Celebrity Presidency Discussion: 54:17–56:58
• Planning Charity Stream: 83:07–86:46

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Tone & Style Notes

• Language: Casual, candid, with plenty of drag queen vernacular, humor, and expletives.
• Atmosphere: Lively, argumentative (in a friendly way), honest, and highly engaged with real-world issues but always with a comedic undertone.

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Summary for the Uninitiated

This episode is a bracing, hilarious, yet sobering reminder that voting—even in a deeply flawed system—is still a crucial act. Peppered with personal stories, celebrity gossip, TikTok analogies, and genuine concern for the future, Bob and Monét both entertain and challenge their listeners: don’t opt out, educate yourself, get engaged, and above all else—VOTE.

Transcript

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[Monet X Change]

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[Bob the Drag Queen]

Hey, guys. Again, Bob the Drag Queen. I'm gonna be in Atlanta at the Atlanta Symphony on December 30, the eve of New Year's Eve. Please spend your time with me. You can go to seethedragqueen.com to hear some hilarious jokes and maybe I'll wear like a festive Christmas outfit.

[Monet X Change]

And guys, you can catch me in Orlando and Tampa. I'm going to be at the Orlando improv on December 6th and the Tampa improv on December 7th. So if you in Florada, come see your girl Monet X Change, because I'm retiring these jokes, y', all, this year. This is the last time you can hear these motherfucking jokes. So come see me do these jokes in Orlando and Tampa. And y', all, Sibling Rivalry Live is coming to San Francisco at the Castro Theater on January 5th. Now, I know we have had. We swear, we swear this is the final day. We will be in San Francisco on January 5 for civic rivalry Live. So snatch up these last tickets and sell us the out.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

My name is Bob the Drag Queen

[Monet X Change]

and I'm Monet X Change. And this is simply rivalry. On this week's episode, we talk about seasonal depression.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We try to convince you to vote.

[Monet X Change]

And we find out what made Bob say this, baby.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

This Swifties will elect her for the hell of it. And we find out what made Monet X Change.

[Monet X Change]

Say this, I'm not gonna vote. We find out, we'll fix it next time. No, baby, like you have to use that vote. Good morning, Bob Le Draghrin. Comme ta les vous.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Is it morning for you? What time is it?

[Monet X Change]

It is 9:31am it is 5:31pm for me.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We are in the, in the midst of the evening.

[Monet X Change]

Is that dusk? Did the sun set already?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't really know exactly the sun is. It is. It is night time. The sun is completely down.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, work. That's what fucking. I hate Daylight savings time. And there have been so many studies of why we don't fucking need it anymore. But we can't change that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What do you mean we can't change it?

[Monet X Change]

Like, like Congress or whoever. What the proper legal political channels that has to go to change, they just refuse to change it. Like I don't know, like we're not, like we don't need the, the, the, the, the. It's not back in whenever. When we needed the reason. I forget what the reason was. We don't need it anymore. I watch a whole YouTube video about it. We don't need it anymore.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What's your issue with the time? I haven't really given.

[Monet X Change]

It gets too dark in the winter, like at here. This. It is completely dark by 4:30 now and it's going to be getting. It takes a minute, a minute off until, until December 21st and it goes back the other way. Right. But it's like, why. Although the U.S. senate approves Bill to make Daylight Saving time permanent on 22nd March, but why isn't it, why didn't it change then? Oh wait. The Houston on Tuesday passed legislation that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice annual changing of clocks in a move promoted by supporters advocating brighter afternoons and more economic activity.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, I didn't hear what you said.

[Monet X Change]

The U. S. Senate on Tuesday, this was March 15, 2022, passed legislation that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice annual change of clocks. And a move promoted by supporters advocating brighter afternoons and more economic activity. Because there was a whole study. Right. Because it gets darker so early, people like are less likely to go out. People are like. People get experience more seasonal depression because of how dark it is so early. So I guess this year is the last year it's happening.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What?

[Monet X Change]

What? What?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, I feel like this would be news if we, if we like. I mean, maybe it isn't. I feel like I would have heard about it if we weren't. If we were no longer doing Daylight Saving Time.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, well, I think it may only be in the US but do they like. Did y' all do it in Europe?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't, I don't know. I think yeah.

[Monet X Change]

Daily saving time is only in the US So is that true?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't know. Is that true?

[Monet X Change]

I think, I don't think.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I think they also do it in Mexico and Canada and they do it in Canada too. I don't, I do not know. I mean, maybe Jacob can Google this. I don't know. I'm not really. I don't have any knowledge about daylight saving Time except I just spring forward

[Monet X Change]

and call back Reuters and they're saying the Senate approved the measure called the Sunshine Protection act, unanimously, by voice vote. The House of Representatives. The House of Representatives, which has held a committee hearing on the matter, must still pass the bill before it can go to President Joe Biden. So it passed in the Senate. So where did it end up?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Hmm. I don't, I mean, I don't know.

[Monet X Change]

Maybe Jacob can do a little research for us to confirm what the status of Daylight savings time is. But I watched a video yesterday saying, but maybe I didn't check the date on the video. So that's also my maybe been an old video.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Sound like you're getting your, your wish and they're getting rid of it or.

[Monet X Change]

Have you ever experienced seasonal depression?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, maybe, maybe.

[Monet X Change]

I mean, I think I have. Like, especially when I was back in New York in the Bronx. Cause I was also so far from everyone and I think around daylight savings time when it would get so dark. Although I was working in nightlife. So I don't, I don't remember. But I remember being like, maybe it wasn't seasonal depression. Maybe I experienced a little seasonal sadness.

[Jacob]

Like a little.

[Monet X Change]

But not, I wasn't depressed, but it was a little sad. I'm like, bitch, why is it dark at 4 o' clock and it's cold?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't know if I guess you turn up. I don't know that I would call what I have ever gone through seasonal depression.

[Monet X Change]

Right.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So I've never felt like I can't even. I don't know. But depression comes at different levels. I've never been diagnosed as depressed. If, if that, if that is the. If that's the question you're saying. Yeah, me, I've never had any diagnosis that said that I was a clinically depressed at any time in my life. I've also never gone to be diagnosed, but I don't think I've, I don't think I've ever been. When I hear people explaining their depression to me, that doesn't sound like something that I have ever experienced personally.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Or at least not for the extended Period of time.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, I agree. I don't, I don't think I've ever. I've never been diagnosed as depressed. And when I hear people describe it, I don'. With any of those feelings or any of those. I don't identify with any of that. So, I mean, I don't think I've been clinically depressed, but I definitely experienced a little seasonal sadness once here and there. I have before, for sure.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, is that, is seasonal depression, Is that a diagnosis? I don't know. Is it, Is it a diagnosis or is it kind of like just like a catch all term for people who are feeling a little sad in the winter time?

[Monet X Change]

You know, clinical.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I can see how the darkness can make people feel lonely.

[Monet X Change]

It's a disease. It's called seasonal affective disorder.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh yeah. I have never been diagnosed with that, to answer the question. But I tend to stay in darkness anyway. I don't really go out much during the day. I mean, I go out, I go out, but not like, I'm not like a. I'm not one of those, like, I got to get some, some sun on my skin type people.

[Monet X Change]

Bob Vampire.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Say again?

[Monet X Change]

So you're fully a vampire?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Maybe. But yeah, I, I don't, I don't. And even when I was living in. I never. I rarely open my windows. But also when I, When I was living in New York City for the last time, I was living in city, I was living on the first floor. And when you open your windows, everyone can just see straight into your home. So I didn't keep my windows open for that reason. And in. When I was living on Amerson Avenue, I was facing the alley, so I opened my windows, but there was no sunshine coming in.

[Monet X Change]

You know, sunshine when she's gone.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And I lived. And I kind of vaguely remember my homes where I lived before that in like Long Island City, I may remember. But like, I couldn't like walk to those houses. Like, I wonder if I, if I got off, if I took the train back to. Could I take the train to my home where I lived in Ozone Park? You couldn't do that. I don't. I mean, I lived there for maybe eight months, but I don't remember how to get back to that house. I could, I could go back to my place on Long Island City. I can go back to my place on the Upper west side. I can go to place in Washington Heights, and I could probably even go to my place in Woodside, but specifically not Ozone park because it was also a. It was a 20 minute walk from the train. So. And it was like turns. It wasn't just like. I mean, usually in New York City, the most you'll ever make is three turns to get somewhere. But what is this?

[Monet X Change]

The. I understand the logic of that. So what do you say the most to get anyways? Three turns. That is so random.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

New York City. Yeah, because you're walking in like, so you'll walk like to the corner like, so let's say you're on first and first you want to get to 125th and. And west side Highway. So you just walk up to like 14 and then you'd walk across to the west side highway and, or, and then you'd walk up to 125th. Three turns. Unless you just want to take a bunch of zigzags.

[Monet X Change]

Three times I walk into New York, it's like the amount of turns I take is, is dependent on the, on the traffic and like street signs. Right. Because let's say I'm going from, I'm going from first and let's say we're from 14 and first to 26 and seventh. Like, I'm usually doing this because I don't want to wait because let's get to 15 and, and fifth and I don't want to wait for this. So I'll like just pivot and go that way and I keep on doing that until I get to my destination. So I'm not waiting for traffic lights.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You can make a lot of turns, but you could get from, you could get from 1st and 14th to 27th and 6 with just two turns or.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, yeah. Yes, technically you could, but I don't know how likely that is.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, when I was walking, I mean, I would turn, I was always a big fan of just walking down the avenue for. I would walk to the avenue that I wanted to cross at and then I would just walk all the way down that avenue. Because avenues for me tend to be easier walks than the streets. Although the streets are usually quieter. Obviously there's just. You have to do a lot more turning and you have to keep hopping on and off different avenues. So I just walk all the way across one street and then just go all the way down the avenue. And even when the, even when it's crowded in New York City, with the exception of maybe Times Square or maybe 9th Avenue. Oh, I mean 8th Avenue during like, like 6 o' clock in the evening, you can walk through New York City pretty swiftly without having to like, really do a whole lot of dodging in

[Monet X Change]

My experience, I've been on the sidewalk, yes, but for traffic. No. Like, I feel like New York is always.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm talking about walking. I, I have very little.

[Monet X Change]

When I say traffic, I mean like, because, like negotiating like pedestrian walk signs. I feel like because of traffic is so. New York is always trying to like, make. Especially during rush hour times. Whatever. I find that you are always. Not always, but I was finding myself in opposition to whatever the street sign was I need to do. Like, if I'm at. If I'm trying to cross, of course the shit is red and I can't cross. But then you're a New Yorker, right? So you just kind of cross anyway. And if a car hits you, whatever. But yeah, I found like, those do not. They're not in sync with my, with, with my walking. Seldom.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I was into. I, I really liked Wade. I mean, I like. But like, I was, I was someone who would wait at the crosswalk as opposed to crossing, just to keep moving. I would just wait.

[Monet X Change]

I will cross and move, baby. I will cross.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't necessarily wait for. I'm waiting for traffic. I'm not waiting for the actual sign to change. But if the traffic is coming and if it's like, to the point where the traffic is like actually like slowing down, I'll walk in between the cars. But if the traffic is flowing pretty consistently, I'll just wait until the cars light up and then lighten up and then I'll go. As opposed to crossing the street just to keep moving

[Monet X Change]

and go the other way. Because I'll just go up the street and I'll be fine then, blah, blah, blah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But maybe that's the, the born and raised New Yorker in you that makes you want to.

[Monet X Change]

Daring.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, no, no, it's not. It's not that. It's not about daring. It's about the perpetual movement. Like, I, again, I will cross the street if I can get across, but if the cars are moving, have you ever seen the New Yorkers who will just cross the street the other way with the light, just so they can keep moving.

[Monet X Change]

That's. That's, that's what I'm talking about. That's what I do.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Is that daring?

[Monet X Change]

Well, I was also saying, like, like crossing. Like, like let's say I see traffic coming, I will run across, even though I. Even though I should wait for the thing. I'm like, whatever. I'll be fine that way. As a daring New Yorker.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's. That's pretty, that's pretty standard. I will walk against a Crosswalk, but I will not walk in front of a car.

[Monet X Change]

Gotcha.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Because people will hit you with their cars.

[Monet X Change]

I know they won't. As.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay, as someone who. Take that advice from one day if

[Monet X Change]

you want to someone who drove in New York City, I would. I would speed up and act. I'm going to hit you, but I would never hit any one that's you.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

People get hit by cars in New York City every day. People hit by cars everywhere, literally. Yeah, I know. That's why I say it's not just New York City. That's what I'm saying. People will hit you with their cars. People will hit you.

[Monet X Change]

I've never been hit for.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, yeah. I've also never been shot, but people will shoot you. You know, I've never been divorced, but people will divorce you. So I don't know that the lack of happening to you is any evidence that. That it won't happen, but I do think that it's safe to say that you should be cautious when it comes to, you know, a car. Cars are kind of the most dangerous weapons in the world. Really.

[Monet X Change]

Well, I was just watching the other day, like, I don't know, like, just, like, in this, like, I just seen a lot of them. Maybe I'm realizing of, like, people getting shot and, like, on, like, Reddit videos, and I'm, like, getting shot is so wild. But I'm like. Like, I don't want to know. I do not want to know. Please don't try it on me. But I'm just like, how much does a gunshot hurt?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Probably depends on where you get shot, right?

[Monet X Change]

Obviously. In, like, excluding this area, right? If someone shoots you through, like, I

[Bob the Drag Queen]

can't see what you're saying.

[Monet X Change]

Excluding your. Your torso and your. And, like, your chest or whatever. Like, not in that area. Like, let's say someone shoots you through, like, your arm. Is that, like, does that. Is it. Does that really hurt? And I.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That sounds like a stupid question.

[Monet X Change]

I'm not saying it doesn't hurt, y'.

[Narrator/Host]

All.

[Monet X Change]

I'm just saying, like, I'm wondering, like, the. The level of pain, like, from a 1 to 10, 10 being, like, chop my arm off, it's killing me. One being like, a paper cut, like, where does it fall on that, you know?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You don't know. You don't know anyone who's been shot?

[Monet X Change]

I don't know anyone that's ever been shot.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, I mean, I know a few people who've been shot. And if you want, maybe we can down the line, line up an Interview with them and ask them to. To describe the pain of being shot. I know people have been shot several times.

[Monet X Change]

Wait, I know, I know. I know. Uncle Steve. Who else you know been shot?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

My Uncle Steve's been shot. I think my father's been shot. I have a couple of friends from high school who got shot.

[Monet X Change]

No, I don't. I don't. I don't know. And I don't know a single person that's been shot. Not a single one.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Uncle Steve's been shot probably like maybe like five times.

[Monet X Change]

God. And what did he say about the pain? Have you ever asked?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No. I mean, he lost his leg one time. He.

[Monet X Change]

And why did he lose the leg? Is it because blood loss or it hit him?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Gangrene. Huh? Gangrene.

[Monet X Change]

So gangrene. Doesn't that happen over time?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, he. He got. He got shot. I mean, he lost. Don't you remember we talked about on the podcast, he got shot in the leg and he. He got shot. He lost a leg like two or three years later.

[Monet X Change]

Oh. Because. But they took the bullet out. So, like, I don't understand how the

[Bob the Drag Queen]

gangrene happened because the bullet isn't what causes the infection. I mean, the bullet can cause an infection, but you get an infection, you can get infected. You can get a gang gangrene from a paper cut, you know, like. So it's basically if you have a wound or an open wound and it gets infected over time and your body can't fight the infection off you, you can get gangrene and you'll lose the limb or the digit or the finger or the ear or whatever.

[Monet X Change]

Well, let's take a break and I'm gonna talk about how I'm gonna give Bob gangrene his pussy. And we are back. Yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Gangrene.

[Monet X Change]

Oh. Oh. So the push to make daylight savings time, Jacob and I got information. It stalls. It passed in the Senate, but it has not passed in the House of Representatives to make its way to Joe Biden's desk, which again, who knows? The fucking Republicans, they probably just want to fucking bullshit for no reason.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know, I gotta be honest. I don't have a lot of thoughts about this daylight saving time thing. I'm not as passionate as you are about it. I gotta keep it a buck.

[Monet X Change]

I'm very passionate about it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It literally keeps me up about it. I don't care about your cause. Not that I don't care about your cause, but maybe I just don't see the importance of your cause yet. But I think that, you know, I always tell folks I'm really easy to convince with a compelling pick case, I can be convinced of almost anything.

[Monet X Change]

A lot of people experience seasonal depression because of daylight savings time. It affect the economy. People don't want to shop as much. People don't want to do as much. It makes people sad. So why not just pass a bill to just make it, to just make. Keep it the standard how it was before. And then we, A lot of these people who are experiencing these symptoms because of daylight savings time, they will be cured. It will help people.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, how do we know that all that is because. Do we have the data to prove that all of that is because of daylight savings time?

[Monet X Change]

Yes, we do. There are, there are many studies of that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Do you see, do you know any of these? Do you know any of these studies?

[Monet X Change]

Yes, I do. There's a, there's a Pew research study that, that showed. Let me tell you, the study shows that. This study shows that the transition from summer to standard time was associated with an increase in incident rate of unipolar depressive episodes. Distress associated associated with the sudden advancement in the sunset marking the coming of a long period of short days causes sad, seasonal affective disorder.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Also the sad. I think that also the sun does. I don't know for sure, but I think even without daylight savings time, the sun already goes down earlier in the winter anyway.

[Monet X Change]

It does, it does. But it's not an hour like that hour is a big difference. Right? The sun's setting at 5:30. I mean the sun setting at 5:30 versus 4:30 is a huge difference.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, I'm sure.

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

So have I convinced you?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know, I'm about to do some more research. I'm not convinced also, by the way, I also don't feel any like if, if I were to hear tomorrow, like someone's like, oh, they changed it. Daylight saving time is done. I'd be like, okay, cool. But I'm not. I'm, I don't feel strong enough to be like in opposition or in defense of daylight saving time. But I guess I'm just so used to the status quo that is daylight saving time. And maybe if I was, maybe if I had, was more affected by sad, I would be probably like, yeah, we got to get on these streets. But I, if, if you're, if, if, if daylight saving time is really making your SAD act up, then you know what, let's, let's get it. But I also don't know how that affects people's working and I don't know how I Don't know. I don't know. I don't have a whole lot of opinions about daylight saving time as I, as I've stated.

[Monet X Change]

Well, as two celebrities, you and I should make it our platform. But we, you may imagine we make it our entire thing that we go to. We, we start a march on Washington to end daylight savings time.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know, that'd be wild. I would probably make, make my thing, try to maybe the bipartisan system. Maybe I would spend, focus on that a little bit more. But that would be interesting if you and I were really into like ending daylight saving time.

[Monet X Change]

I mean, that's the thing, right?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Like, I'm all about a third party kind of camp.

[Monet X Change]

Is, say it again.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It'd be kind of camp.

[Monet X Change]

It would be so Camp girl Bob. We would be so good. Like Margot Cummings. This is, we're doing what you couldn't do. Okay. Actually affect pop.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Jesus Christ. I'm kidding. Marty worked very hard and Marty did a great. They're texting you right now.

[Jacob]

Can you say some nice things about Marty right now just so they, they feel loved?

[Monet X Change]

Marty Gold Cummings is a, is a, is a great legs. Is what?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Great set of legs.

[Monet X Change]

A great set of legs. Great set of legs. Marty's very, very funny and Marty often cracks me up and.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Passionate.

[Monet X Change]

Very passionate. I, I, oh, really quick. You mentioned this thing about a third party, right? Like, this is, this is my, this is my, my thing. I'm all about getting a viable third party option, but we keep on waiting until the day before the election to do it. Like the time to do this would have been back in 2016 when people didn't like those two. And then we would have mobilized a way to make a third party a viable option.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Can we start a very pro, can we start a very heated conversation right now?

[Monet X Change]

Oh, God. God, I don't know. Give me, give me what it's about. And then we could, I could make a decision. You can't just say, can we start a conversation? Don't worry. What is it?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

There are, there are a lot of liberals, leftists, Leftists, should I say, who are really adamant that they are not going to be voting in the upcoming election.

[Monet X Change]

I know, Adam, that's not good.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm not, I'm not mother fucking voting because they're upset that Joseph Robinette Biden has his nickname.

[Monet X Change]

Genocide. Genocide Joe is, it's not funny.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But I mean, but it is a moniker that people are using.

[Monet X Change]

I know. That's just.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And people are very creative with the monikers.

[Monet X Change]

They come up with those monikers are so creative. I'm like, how do people think of this stuff?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't think this is. I don't think Runs Desanctimonious, which is what Trump is calling Ron DeSantis is good. I'm like, I think we could have done better here, but maybe our brains are on some options.

[Monet X Change]

You playing for anyway?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Because of what, because of what Joe Biden is. Because Joe Biden keeps asking for money to fund Israel in what's happening in Gaza. Folks are like, I'm not voting for Joe Biden as my, as my punishment to Joe Biden. I will not be voting for him. Or as my not maybe not punishment. But they're like, I can't support him. I can't in good faith vote for someone who, who would do that and effectively handing the presidency to Donald Trump.

[Monet X Change]

Well, yes, right.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But they're like, when they're like, well, you guys keep saying. I'm trying to hear a lot of the. Their talking points are like, well, you all said things would change. You said that last time. But also part of me is like, it takes more than four years to shift things in that regard.

[Narrator/Host]

Right?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You make progress and then the next person you elect could be more progressive, and then the next person you'll like could be more progressive and the next person you can like. And I would say right now, the, the right, the conservatives, they understand that they elected. They elected Reagan, then Bush, then Bush, then Trump. They. They kept getting progressively more and more conservative to their. To, yeah, conservative. And they, and they seem to have an understanding that, like, well, we get that it doesn't happen in one term.

[Monet X Change]

And a president always play the long game. Republicans are very good at playing the long game. They don't be. These niggas do not be playing checkers, bitch. These hoes play chess. They've proven it time and time again. And I also think another thing people don't realize is that a lot of things like, for example, the border wall. People like, I cannot believe Joe Biden is building this wall after he said blah, blah, is like, no, this is an initiative started by Trump. Like, it takes four years for the thing to happen. This money was allocated by the Trump presidency for this wall. Joe Biden isn't building it. This was set in motion four years ago. So look at things like that. And saying, well, Joe Biden's is like, well, that's not true. And also, and again, with the third party thing, I am all about it. But we can, y', all, the election is Next year. Okay. People don't realize in most states you can't even have a third party option because of how rules and constitution and for certain. So you get a third party option. They literally can't even run in certain states.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So what the Republican Party has done, which is quite smart is they have used third party candidates to take over the Ralph Nader to take over the Republican Party. Trump is a third party candidate. If you look at Republican politics 10 years ago, maybe not 10 years ago, 15 years ago versus now. And even Democrats have changed a lot too. But like Trump would have been when running against Obama, Trump would have been a Green Party. Not Green Party, Tea Party.

[Monet X Change]

Tea Party.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

See what I'm saying?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, the Tea Party.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, Trump would have been a Tea Party candidate. But somehow the Trump licans have taken over the Republican Party and it is now the third party is the Red Party.

[Monet X Change]

The Red Party. Right.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Kind of brilliant how they did that. You know what I mean? And I just am not personally interested in not voting. Like the idea of not voting. I refuse to give up my Democratic right. I refuse. I literally refuse. And the way that our system is set up, yes, it is going to come down to two candidates and you may not like either one of them, but in my opinion, you should vote for, for one of them. That is in my humble, humble opinion.

[Monet X Change]

I agree. And also, guys, we just cannot look like if we've. We are. If you think this would not look a thousand percent worse under Trump, we are sadly mistaken. I think about everything he did when there wasn't as much on the line. I mean, I don't want, I don't want to lower the stakes because at some point, at any point in time, there's always a lot at stake. But if you go back to if everything, the wars in the Middle east, in fucking Armenia, if you don't think Trump won't be a thousand times worse and now when he has nothing to lose, he doesn't have to worry about another election. Like they were already starting the initiative, the plan to make to try to get him to not leave office now that he has four years and reckless abandon, he's even crazier now. Like it's going to be really bad. So to think that just not voting. Well, I'm not going to vote. We find out, we'll fix it next time. No, baby, like you have to use that vote, man.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh my God, they found my suitcase. Oh, good Jesus. Sorry everyone. That was, that was some drama that you all did not know about. But I, I Thought my fucking suitcase was. I thought my shit was gone forever, girl. Woo. Stressed. Stressed. I was stressed out.

[Narrator/Host]

Really?

[Monet X Change]

Anyway, first of all, you don't seem stressed out to me at all, Bob. You don't seem stressed out.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Bitch, shut the fuck up. Stress that out, bitch. Stress that.

[Monet X Change]

We say all that to say you have to use your vote and you have to use it wisely. And do not think your act of not voting is some tor. Is some sort of political statement. Like you're not. Like you're not. You're not doing it, girl. You are. You're condemning us and yourselves if you take your. Use it. And so now, again, I can't tell you how to vote. I wish you would vote in the smart way. That is smart to me. But you got to exercise your right to vote and think about what that means for yourself and your family and your kids and your country.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Can we role play?

[Monet X Change]

Say it again.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Can we role play?

[Monet X Change]

Sure.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

All right. Convince me to vote. You ready?

[Monet X Change]

Convince you to vote.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm not voting for no motherfucking Joe Biden. After what he did. The fact that my tax dollars. He has the murder. Asked for how many billions of dollars? Let me Google real quick. I know right now it's over $100 billion and we over here still trying to eat. Eat day to day. No, no.

[Monet X Change]

Okay, what are these policies that Joe Biden has done that you are. That you are upset about?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay, let me see. Well, there's. The main thing right now for me is asking for more money to send overseas. The total cost of the supplemental funding request was pegged at just over $105 billion. President Joe Biden hopes Congress will move urgently on legislation and has made a case for deepening the US Support its allies during a rare Oval Office address on Thursday night.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah. So what about the Inflation Reduction act, which is a historic legislative achievement that has cost. That has caused millions of families and given them the ability to feed their families and provide.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay, well, that's good. But what about the other things that our tax dollars are being spent on?

[Monet X Change]

I mean, everything can happen. Oh, like what? Like, we have to understand a lot of these measures were created before Joe Biden came into office. So he has to see them through because Congress and the Senate has passed them because of the previous presidency. So you can't just look at what's happening now and it's all Joe Biden's fault. That's not how the government works.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So what you're saying is, no matter what, no matter what, if Joe Biden can do this, can do that, can do the other. Now I just have to vote for him regardless. Now I have to choose from the lesser of two evils.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah. And unfortunately, we are in a bipartisan country. Like that is how it works. We stuck with that.

[Narrator/Host]

I will.

[Monet X Change]

I would employ you that. If you don't like this, let's take this moment to try to make a third party option viable so that in

[Bob the Drag Queen]

the first party option. But I'm not voting for Joe Biden, that's for goddamn sure.

[Monet X Change]

So you're not. Good. So. And who is this third party option you're going to vote for? Can you name them?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I have to do some research on that, to be honest.

[Monet X Change]

So you don't, so you don't, you don't know who they are, but you're going to vote for them anyway?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm not. I know that I'm not. I know that I'm not voting for Joe Biden. And I feel like, like if we allow politicians to just do whatever they want and we're going to elect them no matter what you're saying, vote blue no matter who.

[Monet X Change]

I didn't say vote blue no matter who. I said. I said to vote Joe Biden. I didn't say blue no matter who.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So then what's happening is in my mind, I'm like, well, then he doesn't have to do good. He doesn't have to work hard, he doesn't have to earn our approval. He doesn't have to please his constituents because we're going to vote for him no matter what, just because we don't want the other guy to win.

[Monet X Change]

But you keep on saying no matter what. I'm just saying vote for Joe Biden because the other option, the other bipartisan option, Donald Trump, is going to be even worse.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We'll see. All right, now, to be fair, I wasn't doing a great job because I don't really believe in that stance. I'm sure someone who believes in that stance would probably have a lot more, you know, a lot more to say. And I want to be. I can't speak for Monet. I am not like some Joe Biden, Stan. I'm not, I'm not a stand of

[Monet X Change]

any politician, to be honest, because, you know, because they're, they're politicians and not public servants. Like, they do not serve the public anymore.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Like, like these people are people. Like, we need to stop idolizing these public servants.

[Monet X Change]

But see, don't even call them public servant because they, they don't be serving the Public. They're serving their best interest. They're serving the people who are giving them money for the, for the campaigns. And that's who they're serving. They're not serving us. And that is the problem. That is the problem in America right

[Bob the Drag Queen]

now with what's up, Jacob?

[Jacob]

You have to take an ad break.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, well, we're gonna serve the people who

[Bob the Drag Queen]

are giving us podcast.

[Monet X Change]

But we're not politicians. We are not politicians. We gonna take a little break. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here from 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. So there goes my big idea for the commercial. Give it a [e-mail] Switch upfront payment

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[Bob the Drag Queen]

So what I'm trying to impress upon people and say is like, my fear is I don't think people realize how dangerous Donald Trump truly can be if reelected. Girl, I don't think that has actually hit us how truly dangerous Donald Trump will be when he's the 45th and the 47th president.

[Monet X Change]

Do you know what it is? Because people thought come out of the

[Bob the Drag Queen]

last one when he becomes. If he becomes the 47th president of the United States because. And maybe I'm leaning into conspiracy theory shit, but like the, the, the truly fascist ideologies that he and Ron DeSantis who are the two contenders for the

[Monet X Change]

Iran anymore, he's gone down so many points. I honestly think that other the next is probably Nikki Haley over Ron. Yeah, Ron has. Ron has plummeted. He is. He has.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, he got dragged in his last debate.

[Monet X Change]

Gavin Newsom dragged that bitch. Put them on. World star. Gavin Newsom dragged that hoe.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Don't hit her, Sharkeisha. No. Sharkeisha Newsome. No, no, Newsom. Don't hit her, Newsom. Leave her alone. Newsome.

[Monet X Change]

To your point, I think because people saw that we got out of the last Trump presidency and yeah, they were like, yes, some bad things happened, but like we got out of it. People think that's going to happen again. And no, we're not guaranteed that, y'.

[Narrator/Host]

All.

[Monet X Change]

We are not guaranteed that. Like we don't Know what's going to happen?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, because Trump's playing the long game. What he did, what he did in his first four years, he was expecting to do eight years. He was right. I think he was expecting to never leave the presidency, quite frankly. So what he did in those first four years, maybe that was baby steps compared to what he. What he's planning on doing in the next four years. And now that he's radicalized the Republican Party to the point where. Where Ron DeSantis is a. Is. Is actually considered a contender.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, it's.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, he's not actually contained. He's not. He's not gonna. He's not gonna be Trump in the primary. There's no way on God's green earth any. Any Republican is going to be Trump in the primary.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, absolutely not.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But. And, And I know that asking people to vote for the lesser two evils feels shitty, but, baby, that's. Politics are kind of shitty.

[Monet X Change]

That's what we have.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And it is. And until we can fix it, it is what we have.

[Monet X Change]

So, yeah, we gotta be smart, y'.

[Sponsor/Advertiser Voice]

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[Monet X Change]

We gotta. We gotta.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Maybe we should insert that. That clip for that Leslie Jones posted.

[Monet X Change]

What she. What she post?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Bitch. You reposted it?

[Monet X Change]

I reposted it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Leslie Jones tweeted.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, that lady. The woman from Instagram.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

The lady in the car.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So let's. With. And we don't really have her permission, but we're gonna credit her. Her name is. Let me get her name. Hold on. She's on Twitter.

[Monet X Change]

I have go to my archive, because

[Bob the Drag Queen]

those of you who are just listening, obviously you will not be able to see her name. But I do want to give this one credit. Her name's idea. Her name is Bell Curve. Bell Curve. E L L E K U R V E. You should check out Bell curve over on TikTok. And this is. This is. It's not a short video. It is a little bit long. It's seven minutes. But I genuinely think that it's worth it. The. In my opinion, if you are one of those people who's like, I'm not voting, I'm not voting. And you feel justified in that. Just listen to what Bell Curve has to say.

[Monet X Change]

Yes, I agree.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And just see if this does not change your mind, at least a little bit. Check her out.

[Narrator/Host]

My husband and I talk about this a lot. And we frame it around home makeover shows, right? Like, you know those home makeover shows where they give the owner of the house a sledgehammer and let them go to town on a wall, knocking it down, breaking it down, burning it down, whatever, right? It's because demolition does not take any skill, right? Unless you are trying to preserve something. Unless you're trying to preserve the foundation of the house, or you're trying to preserve, like, the support beams of the house that keep the roof from falling in on your fucking head. Other than that, they give the owner a sledgehammer and say, go crazy. Because demolition takes no skill and because the homeowner has already trusted that the developer and the builder is not going to allow them to break down anything that is important or super important to the structural foundation of the house. So all of y' all out there who are hollering about, vote third party or don't vote for the Democrats or don't vote for Joe Biden or whatever, y' all are the homeowners with the sledgehammer, just wanting to swing away and tear down everything. But some of us out here know how to read fucking blueprints. And we are trying to tell you that, baby, if you want to burn it all down, you're going to burn down your support beams, you're going to burn down the structural foundation of the house, and you're going to be left in the fucking rubble. Then what? Now, listen, I understand you have big feelings about this, and I get it, but you have to also think and strategize and be smart and look at the fucking blueprint and realize that if you burn it all down, you're gonna have nowhere to fucking live. The gop, they got emergency tents out back, baby. You don't have any of that. So while y' all are hollering about burning it all down, what do you have in the interim for when it. When it's all burnt down and they're smoking ashes? What do you have for the people to survive on? What are you going to do when the GOP holds all the legislative power and cards in their hand and they make anything they want illegal by. And then don't throw your ass in prison for any fucking thing. What are you going to do then? And I'm going to tell you right now straight up, I don't want to fucking die for this country. I don't want to go through no more motherfucking pain or turmoil for this fuck tastic ass country. My ancestors built this shit for free. I do not want to suffer at anybody's hands anymore for the sake of revamping this fucking country. But what I will do is choose strategically to vote for people to Inch closer and closer and closer and closer to the fucking progress that we deserve. I am willing to work my ass off without bloodshed. I am willing to work my ass off without putting people through unnecessary pain and strife. Y', all, with this. Well, just do this and that. The other. Y' all don't even know how to read the fucking blueprint because if you did, you would understand that third parties aren't even on the fucking valid in every state in this country. Therefore, and there, too, they can't even win. They cannot win. It's not feelings. It's fucking math. Y' all haven't even done the minimal fucking education and research to figure out how to improve and take over the system we have. So how the hell am I supposed to trust that you're going to be able to burn something down and build something back up before the majority of us out here suffer? And we are suffering now. Yes, I 100% understand that. But, bitch, you ain't ready for the shit that we gonna have to go through when the GOP has everything under control and turns this bitch into an authoritarian fucking state. You not ready for that kind of suffering. And, baby, if you're ready to die to stop somebody else's genocide, if you're willing to set yourself on fire to keep somebody else warm, then sign your ass up for the military and take your ass over there and fight. Okay? Y' all think shit gonna be sweet and you just gonna be able to fix it in, you know, in 2028 or whatever. Bitch, if these motherfuckers take over in 2024, it's game fucking over. And I know y' all keep saying y' all said that in 2016. Y' all said that in 2020. Because the fucking reality is still this fucking close because motherfuckers will not vote in the goddamn midterms. If y' all would show up in 2018 and in 2022, we wouldn't be having these fucking discussions every four years because y' all only pay attention every four years. We have to say the same things every four years. But if you would show up every two fucking years, maybe, just maybe, we will be closer to the fucking progress you actually want. Maybe, just maybe, if y' all was talking about third parties in 2018 and in 2020 and in 2022, then maybe, just maybe, they would have a foothold somewhere to actually be a fucking option in 2028. But as it fucking stands, y' all have not done the fucking work on the ground to get any third party Candidate, whether it be state or federally, to get on any fucking ballots. And again, there are rules to this shit. Those of us who know how to read the blueprint, we know the fucking rules. We know where the foundation beams are. We know where the water mains are. We know where your electric electrical systems are. And you fucking don't. You just want to burn shit down and replace it with nothing. And I'm not here for that bullshit. You know what that's called? You know what destroying shit without doing the proper calculus is called? Terrorism. Terrorism. That's what y' all are doing. You're becoming just like Hamas. Hamas did not calculate that this was going to be Israel's response to them. And you see what the fuck is going on now. Y' all really fucking believe that the United States, which was built upon slavery and slavery is still legal in our fucking Constitution. You think that they will not put your ass back into slavery to save the country? Bitch, you better wake the fuck up the game of politics. Y' all just want to throw your hands up and either burn shit down or not participate. I will never understand for the life of me how y' all want something so bad, but don't want to figure out how to get it the right fucking way. Yes, I do understand. Actually, a lot of y' all attend Dunning Kruger University every fucking day. And that's why you think you know, but you don't fucking know. And guess what? I attended Dunning Kruger University for a semester or two my goddamn self. I 100% admit it. But you know what? I transferred out of that bitch cause I realized it's unaccredited. And it doesn't fucking teach you what the fuck you need to know to get shit done. If you have an actionable plan to get whatever the fuck you want done done, I love to see it. Please show me. Show me how in the next 12 fucking months, you are going to introduce a new person as a candidate for president. Get them on the DNC primary ballot, get the delegates and the superdelegates to get support behind them, then get them on the national general ballot, then get them elected by at least 60% of this country. If you have a plan for that, please. I like to see it. And I'm being sincere. I'm not bullshitting. If you have a fucking plan, I would like to see it also. If you have a plan on what you're gonna do when everybody burns it all down to keep everybody fed and clothed and housed and educated and all that shit. Because the gop will take all of those things away from you. If you have an actionable plan for what you're gonna do to keep people safe during the interim after you burn it down between time before you build it back up. I like to see that shit too. Show me or shut the.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So to me. To me, what she's saying makes sense 1,000%.

[Monet X Change]

1,000%.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And so there's this guy named Yuval. Do you know about you Vol on TikTok?

[Monet X Change]

Yuval?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, Yuval is this guy who's. He's like a TikTok commentator and he does a political talk. And also. But also like kind of like random beef with other tiktokers. He's really smart and he also is really into linguistics. He's really, really into linguistics. His big thing on Tick Tock was like, he'd say a sentence that he'd be like, technically the sentence you're your. Your, your, your, your, your, your. Your. Your. Your is grammatically correct. And here's why that would be kind of like that's not one of the things. But he would say something like that and then he would linguistically go down. Why you're. You're. You're you, you're your. Or you, you're you, you're. You is a. Is a grammatically correct sentence. And then he was, he was kind of. He wasn't quite giving a reason why you shouldn't vote, but he was, he was, he was sympathizing with the minds of people who are saying why they're not voting. And his. Maybe y' all should check out Yuval's points. You should look at a lot of stuff, but in my opinion, withdrawing from democracy and it feels. Feels to me like it is damning us to repeat just be. To be at the subjugation of extreme conservatives. And I don't mean like, these are mean white people. These are not your. These are not your mom's Republicans.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, these are not your.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, these aren't your grandparents. Republicans, baby.

[Monet X Change]

Right, right. Also, like, and other things, other things. Like people saying like. And to be fair, they're right. Like, Joe Biden is old as fuck. Donald Trump is old as people like again. So don't wait till the year before to try to change it. Like, this is where we. We work now to change. To elect people to who will put bills into motion or make amendments so that you. So we have age limits on. On. On. On. On presidency. So we can add a fucking. What you call it? Term limits on the Supreme Court Justice. Like we have to put this shit into place now and not be like, well, here too. Oh, I'm not. Well, you can't do anything with that. Like, there's no rule against that. He can be 100 years and run, but now is the time to act. And I think it's also, we feel like, I mean, I don't know, for me, like, I don't even know how. I mean, besides electing someone who would. Making that a top voting issue for me, like electing my alderman, who's going to be the. This. Who is going to. Who. Who has that as their platform to change that. I guess that's how you'd go about that. But, but how would we, how do you go about making that happen? Like, do we propose a bill to our representative to bring to the House? Like, I don't even know how you even do that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, I guess I'm wondering you mean about what you mean with age and stuff?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, age and term limits. Like, how do we get people.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay, term limits make sense to me. I, I think that when it comes to age, it does get tricky because that is a form of discrimination. Because someone is over a certain age, they are not competent, in my opinion, is a little bit ableist and is a little bit. But I think that asking people to engage in cognitive tests to gauge how cognitive they are.

[Monet X Change]

But it's not fair because Donald Trump did that one and the guy said, oh, he's healthy. Which we all know that's not true. So at a certain level, how do we even make sure that they're telling us the truth?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, I mean, I don't have the answers to that, but I don't think that that's like saying, I don't think that every person over the age of 70 should just automatically have their driver's license taken away because some people over 70 can't drive. I don't think that's. That to me, that does not seem fair. And I think that when I reach a certain age, I don't want people just taking my shit away just because

[Monet X Change]

you have to be a certain. You have to be 35 to run. So why, why can't there be a cap? So then, so then why can't we have 20, 21 year olds running for presidency?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Then I think that a cat in my mind, if there is a cognitive test that can show that you would be competent enough to do this job at the age of 34, I mean, I don't think I would vote for a 21 year old, quite frankly. So Even if he did, but maybe if he was, if some 21 year old was like smart enough and creative enough. I mean, we've. They're presidents of other countries who are under 35 and who have been under 35.

[Monet X Change]

They are.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So. Yeah, I can't remember this guy's name. I mean, this is, there's this. I don't know that there's this one. I don't want to say things I'm gonna get wrong, but he, he's a president. Can you hear me now?

[Monet X Change]

I can.

[Jacob]

Who?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, I'm gonna, I don't want to say his name because I'm gonna get it wrong. I don't want to say the country. I'm gonna get it wrong. But he's the president of, of, of a country in Africa and he's like, he's like in his 20s and he's apparently doing some really, really revolutionary stuff in terms of movement for black people and, you know, Africanizing Africa specifically in his country. But I don't remember the country and I don't remember the name. It's just, I just saw about it on Tick Tock. It might have been a misinformation, but I don't think it was. But if you, I think if you should, if you can take a test to show that you have the mental wherewithal to deal with the job, in my opinion, you should be able to do it at whatever age. But you don't, I mean, you don't think that.

[Monet X Change]

I mean, I, yes. If there is a way to like completely know that they're telling us the truth of that. Like, we know the doctors, like, like, if Trump thing is a perfect example, like he had this like weird doctor being like, oh, yeah, he's, he's, he's healthy than a 21 year old, which we know that's not true.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, the truth is, I don't think that, I don't think that Donald Trump is healthier than a 21 year old. But the truth is, physically speaking, Donald Trump is probably healthier than most people his age. Physically speaking. He's, he's not limping around. This is not, this is not me trying to tout. I mean, obviously they lied about his weight. Clearly. Unless the man is completely hollow. They, they lied about, they, they lied about his weight. They probably lied about his height. They probably lied about his strength to, to, to curve numbers. So maybe there's a way to get, I don't know, to find doctors who aren't going to be corrupt or who have political Agendas who are just, that's the thing. Trying to get things to be not corrupt is crazy.

[Monet X Change]

It's a crazy request that we have

[Bob the Drag Queen]

to request in a system that is so corrupt is it feels impossible if not, or like it feels like it's just not. We're not capable of it.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, it's crazy that like to find a doctor that's not corrupt, we have to request that. Like that's crazy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But I mean I think that health is a horse and health as a 21 year old is probably maybe a bit of hyperbole, but it's clear that Donald Trump is healthy. For someone in their 70s, that's not even up for debate.

[Narrator/Host]

Maybe.

[Monet X Change]

I'm trying to think of the 70 year olds I know in my life and I, I mean again, we don't see Donald Trump on his day to day. We don't know how much is like this is true. Like, you know what I mean? And they like literally people not falling

[Bob the Drag Queen]

apart from what, from what we see, from what we can see. He's not falling apart is the answer.

[Monet X Change]

And like people in his own administration who have left like, like all these, who have left him, like he eats like 4, 4 for 5 meals out of the week. He has a Big Mac and fries for lunch. I just don't see how that person is healthy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm not calling him healthy. What I'm saying is Donald Trump is clearly not deteriorating physically in any form. He's, he's, he's, he's walking around easily. He's, you know, yada, yada, yada. Also, I want to be very clear that your physical health is not necessarily an indicator of your mental health. And I don't think that someone being physically disabled or, or having an ailment would mean that they are not fit to be the president or to be in charge.

[Monet X Change]

Oh yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Just to be very clear, what's his name?

[Monet X Change]

The, the senator from. John, the one who had the stroke. John Fetterman. John Fetterman had a stroke and John Fetterman is one of like the fiercest senators we have right now.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean we, we've, we've had disabled presidents before, you know.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, well,

[Bob the Drag Queen]

who, yeah, fdr, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in a wheelchair. Yeah, he had Paul.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, yeah, he had polio and Sexy

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Chambliss was the governor of Georgia and I believe Sexy Chambers is, is. So I just want to be very clear that what I'm not saying is that any form of physical element is any indication that you, that you're not fit to be the President of the United States of America. I don't personally believe that, but I do think that you need to have a. A cognitive. A. Be cognizant. That's what I'm trying to say. You need to be cognizant. I keep saying cognitive. You need to be cognizant. You need to be. How. Have sound mind to be able to do the job. And if you can prove that you have that, then you should be able to do the job.

[Monet X Change]

So you definitely can't be president.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Probably not. Which is why I'm not running.

[Monet X Change]

I can run for president.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, you can't. You're too young. You literally can. You literally can't.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, my God. I literally can, Right?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

I think if we're gonna. If we're not gonna have age limits, then we have to open the floor.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Like, then, okay, we gotta open the floor.

[Monet X Change]

I mean, yeah, you have people who

[Bob the Drag Queen]

are under the age of.

[Monet X Change]

Who going into college. Are going to college, like. Like at 13 years old and graduating at 16. Like, what's to say that person won't be able to run for president by 30?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You're right. I. I think if you can take the test and be cognizant, and I keep saying cognitive, I need to double down. Know that I know I said the wrong word and that you are capable and that you are. That you have the ability. You should be able to do it.

[Monet X Change]

You know, Dwayne the Rock Johnson said, I was asked to run for US President by multiple political parties because they know people would absolutely elect the Rock.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't think he'd win the presidency.

[Monet X Change]

I think he. You don't think the Rock would win the presidency? No, I think he would. After Donald Trump. I think the Rock absolutely could win the presidency.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know who actually might be able to win the presidency? Oprah. The big O. Oprah.

[Monet X Change]

I think Oprah can win the presidency as well.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

She has a lot of influence, you know, actually, you know, who sadly could literally become the president if she. If she just fucking wanted to.

[Monet X Change]

Wait, hold on.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

She could.

[Monet X Change]

Like Michelle Obama.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, I don't think. I don't think Michelle Obama could win the presidency.

[Monet X Change]

You don't think she can win the presidency?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't think she would get the votes. I think that people would be afraid of her, to be honest.

[Monet X Change]

I. I disagree. I think. I think that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I think misogyny is a lot stronger than you think it is still today in this age, I think. But though I think racism is mad

[Monet X Change]

strong, I think I think Michelle Obama could win the presidency. I really do.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know who? I genuinely. I'm not even. I'm not even kidding. And this. This is not. Because I'm saying I think that she's particularly a brilliant politician. She's literally not a politician at all. But because her. This is.

[Jacob]

This. This.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We're gonna get canceled after this.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, God. Then should you say it?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But I think she could win. Ooh, bitch. I think Taylor Swift could win the. Her fans, Monet. Her fans are crazy. Like, her fans. Y' all think the Beehive is wild? Baby, you ain't seen nothing till you met a Swifty, baby. The Swifties will elect her for the hell of it. Do you know that Beyonce did about 50. About 54 shows, I think.

[Monet X Change]

Yes.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Do you know how many shows Taylor Swift is doing?

[Monet X Change]

How many?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What number would seem like, what, 75? 1. 151. Oh, my God. Okay, you didn't hear what I just said. Taylor Swift is doing 151 shows. Taylor Swift posted a link to get people to register to vote. I think they said, like, she posted the link in her, like, Instagram story. It was there for, like, 24 hours or less, and she got, like. Like, over, like, 30 million people to register to vote.

[Monet X Change]

Can she. Can she share my. Can she share my profile down.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

The Swifties are. The Swifties are wild.

[Monet X Change]

Okay, here's my thing, though. I think Taylor Swift is brilliant, very talented. I'm. I love Taylor Swift.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Why don't you marry her since you fucking love her so much?

[Monet X Change]

But. And again, I've seen. I haven't seen the whole show, so I can't really comment, I guess. But, like, watching. And even, like, Beyonce is also, like, in the documentary. Should admit that, like, I'm just not going as hard as I used to. Like, you look at the Coachella performance where Beyonce is literally dancing 90 of the time, whereas Renaissance. Whereas she's probably, like, a little less than 50, I would say.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Wasn't she also coming off of an ankle, like, a foot surgery?

[Monet X Change]

She was literally rehearsing it with her. With her knee, like, being rehabbed, which is kind of crazy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Crazy. And her ankle. Didn't she do a foot thing, too?

[Monet X Change]

No, just her knee.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Or did I make that up?

[Monet X Change]

That's what people were speculating. But it was her knee.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, yeah, because you remember she had the kitten heel. She had the skirties on.

[Monet X Change]

She had them. Hillary's Beyonce rocking the Hillary's girl.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

She had the Hillary's for. For.

[Monet X Change]

For Dubai.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

The Dubai show girl.

[Monet X Change]

And then so like, I mean, does Taylor. Okay. Cause you remember that year when Shangela documented all of her shows? Shangela did 287 shows in a year.

[Jacob]

Year.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Drag tails. 12 tails 12 ain't. That's right.

[Monet X Change]

Shangela worked 287 gigs in a year. So I mean, if Shangela can do.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I think Shangela was including everything. What I think Shangela was including interviews, brunches, podcasts, book signings. If, if a fan, if she, if she did a dip at the airport. Because I love sh. I do a lot of show. Monet. That's, that's. Is that, is that. Was it like Monday through Friday? That's Monday through Friday almost.

[Monet X Change]

Pretty much. Right. One year I should document like how

[Bob the Drag Queen]

many things you made, how many days

[Monet X Change]

I've done from the beginning of my career to now. I really should have, but I don't know how anyway. I mean, I can. If I go back to my calendar and like pl. I'm sure I can, but that just seems like so much work.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Actually, I was thinking about that too. You know, with. So Madonna has a reputation for being like. For all the divas out there. No one rehearses as much as Madonna. No one. Madonna is meticulous with her rehearsals. I did the numbers. We won't. We're doing 80 something shows. Listen to me. No, no. We're doing 80 something shows dot Sold shows that people are going to be attending. We will never have performed this show as many times as we rehearsed it work. We did this show over 100 times in rehearsals work.

[Monet X Change]

And it works, right?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, I mean, yeah. I feel like a, like a very well oiled machine up there.

[Jacob]

I have a question.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I have an answer.

[Jacob]

Well, so you said that you showed you did the show 100 times. But it's my understanding that she likes to see the show and then change things around. So did you do the show in its full current iteration 100 times or was it a hundred times of workshopping it and transforming it into what it is today?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So when we say like we're changing things around, but it's like little stuff like change this mood, change this outfit, change this thing. But the show structure has been pretty much the same, give or take a number or two, for over 100 times. Because if you include the rehearsal before we even built out the show, if it's just rehearsals in general, we've rehearsed, oh probably 150 times, maybe more.

[Monet X Change]

But it's also to have the money to do that. Right. Like I would like to rehearse that much, but I just can't. I don't have the time and the money to do it. Like, in a perfect world, we would have rehearsed our show that much before we did it, but we just don't have the time and the budget to do it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Having done this, I wouldn't do it this way. Even if I have the resources to do it, I wouldn't do it this way. This way. This is. This Monet. I don't think you understand what our schedule was rehearsing. We were rehearsing six days a week for 12 hours a day for months.

[Monet X Change]

But everyone is not always called at the same time. So it wasn't always like, you're there for 12 hours Monday through Friday, right now.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know, I was the one who here. Yes, we were. I mean, we weren't there. No one was there for less than. None of the performers were there for less than 12 hours. We were rehearsing. I mean.

[Monet X Change]

I mean, again, but that's different performance. I mean, I would. I feel like. Because watching the Renaissance documentary and also, I'm sorry, watching Coachella, like, how much you rehearsed that, but you see it in the show, and I think for me, if I want a show to be my body, I would have to rehearse it a lot like that. Because at the end of tour, when

[Bob the Drag Queen]

you end up doing the show, they're rehearsing a lot. But Beyonce's not rehearsing. This is why I rehearsed.

[Monet X Change]

No, Coachella was every day for three Months.

[Sponsor/Advertiser Voice]

Months.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Money. 3. I've been doing this show since October.

[Monet X Change]

I know, but I'm saying.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But Beyonce was every day over a year. I've been working on this show for over a year. But I'm not saying. I'm not saying Beyonce hasn't rehearsed. What I'm saying is, in the business, no one rehearses the way Madonna does. Not a. There's not a person in the business who rehearses for as long and arduously as Madonna does.

[Monet X Change]

I would want a Beyonce schedule like that. To me, like, that would get me feeling like I know every move. Like I like. I know my next breath.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's like a Broadway schedule. Like, we. Like when we rehearsed for Angels in America, we were doing five days a week. No, Jacob. I can't remember. We were rehearsing five days a week or six days a week.

[Jacob]

You were six days a week. So you only had Sunday off.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah, so we were. So when I was Working at Berkeley Road, we were rehearsing for six days a week for eight hours a day for three months. So that. I think that. That Beyonce's schedule is actually pretty consistent with profession with. With, like, what professional plays would be doing.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, I will. Like that. That would feel. That would make me feel like, oh, sorry. Beyonce rehearsed for eight months.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, eight months.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Every day for eight months.

[Monet X Change]

For eight months.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Like, seven days a week.

[Monet X Change]

Yes.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Interesting.

[Monet X Change]

She. And she had to, like, because she. She was coming off for being pregnant, so she wanted to.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

And then.

[Monet X Change]

But she. She was saying that I will never do. She was like, I will never push myself that far again. She was like, it's too much.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Why would you want to do it? Beyonce's like, don't do that. You're like, I'm doing it.

[Monet X Change]

Say it again.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Beyonce's like, don't do that again. You're like, I'm doing it.

[Monet X Change]

Well, because, I mean, but it shows, right? You look at that Coachella performance, and it is. Honestly, I. Because also, I know my brain. I forget Choreo. So, like, having it in my body, like, that would be such a different experience. It'll make me, like, be able to get on stage and, like, just feel like I can truly let go, because

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm not, like, thinking about Choreo because

[Monet X Change]

it's literally in your body.

[Narrator/Host]

Body.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I want that experience.

[Monet X Change]

I've never felt that way in all my guests performing. I have never felt that way about Choreo, ever. And you have, because I think you also have a better memory than me and you. We know this. So, like, I. I. But I've never, ever felt that way about Corey. I'm always like, oh, what's his next move?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Maybe you should. Maybe you should do less choreo and do more singing. Maybe you should focus more on the singing and the.

[Monet X Change]

I want to feel like that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I want to be like, hey, hey.

[Monet X Change]

I want to feel like that.

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You know, maybe. Maybe give it a shot. Maybe try it once like Beyonce did and see if it. See if it's for you. That's what Beyonce did. Beyonce tried it once, said, whoop, not for me. Never again. Maybe. Maybe you got to try it once and see if that's. See if that's your vibe, you know?

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Apparently Madonna tried it, and it's for her. She said, I'll do it. I'll do it for 40 years.

[Monet X Change]

Girl, it's wild.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I wonder what Taylor Swift's rehearsal process is like. Girl, I don't know, but I Don't like.

[Monet X Change]

Is Taylor Swift doing choreo like that on set? I think she's more just feeling it and singing. I don't know.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I can't make that.

[Monet X Change]

I don't mean that shady. I don't want no flutees coming on me. But from the videos I've seen out here giving you. I've been getting to the. I don't, I don't see that again.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't know, I can't, I, I have no, I've not seen the concert. So I would literally just be guessing and my guess would be based on practically nothing because I'm not.

[Monet X Change]

You've never seen the clips on Tick Tock and Stu stuff?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I've seen like clips but not that many. I'm not on Swifty Tik Tok. You know, I see, I see, I see Cam Saunders, I see a lot of his. I follow Cam Saunders. So most of what I see from Taylor's with is through Cam Saunders because I follow him. He's a dancer for, He's a dancer on her. On the, on the era store.

[Monet X Change]

Got it.

[Jacob]

Yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But what I'm saying is I, I, I, I, I, I don't know. I mean I would literally just be guessing with no basis as to whether or not she dances a lot. I mean in her music video she doesn't do a lot of dancing. So I guess I have a loaded basis. I only ever seen her dance in one music video, maybe two. I saw her dancing. Look what you made me do a little bit. And that's the one when I first seen her dancing. So maybe she's not dancing.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, I mean I've never, I've never seen Taylor Swift hit an eight count and I, I mean that's shady. But I've never seen that in like a clip or in a music video. I don't think I have so much.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But are you, are you like searching for that maybe Taylor Swift here cutting the rug.

[Monet X Change]

I mean if there's an artist, you kind of see what the thing is. Like what I've normally seen. Taylor was walking around, she's singing with her guitar. Is every clip I've ever seen of Taylor Swift.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So I didn't like, I didn't realize that Charo Charles, everyone see Charo dancing. Charles is, is known for her dancing.

[Monet X Change]

She plays guitar.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Charo is like a world class. Not just plays guitar. Churro is like a world, world class guitarist when it comes to.

[Monet X Change]

And you're very obsessed with it because

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I just, I just, I would have never, I I just happened to see it because I was on the same cruise as her. But if I didn't know about that, I would. I would assume she just sings in coochie, coochie coochies, but she's insane. I was like, whoa, this is like. She could give Jimi Hendrix a run for his money. Like, she could give Axl Rose. She could give Axl Rose a run for his money. This woman is insane.

[Monet X Change]

Got it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I was. I was very blown away. And she was well under her. Well under her late 60s, maybe. Maybe early 70s at the time. No. How old is her? All right, now let me see. She's such an interesting lady.

[Monet X Change]

There's a clip of Taylor Swift performing in Brazil and is so hot. She's, like, sweating. I was like, I've never seen, like, an.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Charles said, no, she wasn't. She was in her 60s.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, yeah. When I see. When I see, like. Because also, because, like, you see, like, people like, beyond. Like, when you see someone like Beyonce, Taylor Swift perform with their. Obviously their human hair and it gets all frizzy and stuff, and you're like, you know what? I feel human because I perform. You know me, I'm a Sweaty Betty. Everyone knows when I perform, I am sweaty boots. So I feel like these, like, these. Say it again.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I said swepthala.

[Monet X Change]

So when I see these, like, top tier performers performing and they're sweating and they're. And their hair gets frizzy and stuff, I'm like, okay. I don't feel that bad about me.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I saw someone recently, like a drag sister of mine, and she was like, so, so sweaty, but she had no sweat from her eyebrows to her temples. And I was like, what is Botox?

[Monet X Change]

Botox for sure.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Then I'm like, but I sweat on my forehead and I have Botox. So strong enough. Is my shit not strong enough?

[Monet X Change]

Bigger.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Bigger, clearly. But honestly, my. You can't see my forehead is giving right now. I got Botox right before I went on tour. And honestly, it's giving.

[Monet X Change]

I can't believe Bob is a. I would never think there would be a world where you became a Botox girly. I'm kind of gagged.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay. I feel like there's this. This thing. My mom makes this. And I'm not saying you make it. I know you know the difference, but the difference between Botox and filler are just. My mom thinks I'm gonna look like Blac Chyna. Like, my mom thinks. When I told my mom's getting Botox, she literally said, don't come Back looking like black china. And I was like, Angela. I was like, mom, what do you think Botox is like? I'm not plumping anything up. I'm just stopping my forehead from wrinkling. That's literally all.

[Monet X Change]

I want to get some Botox hair to make this relax more.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I cannot see where you're pointing at.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, to my jawline.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh.

[Monet X Change]

Apparently, it'll make your jawline leg softer. I also feel about getting a little filler in my chin to give me more of, like, a.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You should get in your armpits. That's what you should do.

[Monet X Change]

I don't sweat in my armpits, though. If I would get in my head. So I stopped sweating in my head.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. Eureka gets Botox all over her head,

[Monet X Change]

but it goes somewhere else. That's the thing I'm afraid about.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Does it? I don't know how Botox works, Mary.

[Monet X Change]

That's what everybody said. You stop it from your forehead, it's gonna go somewhere else else.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, I would be the sweat. I don't think that's how sweat glands work. Sweat glands don't travel.

[Monet X Change]

So then where's that water that would be going there? Where is it now?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I. I don't know. But that's just not like. That's just not. How so. So the way that Botox works, Botox immobilizes your muscles. So if the muscle has Botox, like, on it or around or in it, the muscle just can't move. So it's not. It's not. Botox doesn't smooth, and it doesn't fill anything up. So Botox can't get rid of wrinkles. It just stops you from creasing your face. So the. The. The. The muscles that are providing your sweat glands, they are frozen, and therefore, they just can't create sweat. So I can see that your body could possibly create more sweat in other places. Possibly. But the sweat glands don't move around your body.

[Narrator/Host]

Yeah.

[Monet X Change]

I'm gonna try it. I may try it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm gonna try it.

[Narrator/Host]

Ah. I'm gonna get Botox in my forehead. Oh.

[Monet X Change]

Did it. Does it hurt?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, it feels like you're getting.

[Jacob]

According to Google, the science says Botox blocks the chemicals that signal it's time to make sweat. So it's not that, like, you're trying to sweat, and the sweat isn't just going somewhere else. It's preventing you from creating sweat. Sweat.

[Monet X Change]

Okay, Bob, does it hurt? When.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

When I went with you, you didn't

[Monet X Change]

look like it hurt, but I don't know, I don't. I don't know.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, I guess I kind of have a. A high tolerance for pain. It doesn't feel good. It feels like you're getting poked in the head with a bunch of needles. But I also am not afraid of needles. And I mean, because of the extensive work I've had done on my teeth, I'm used to getting like, shots in my gums.

[Monet X Change]

All 32. Six of them are veneers.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I have no. I have zero veneers. When I go to give blood, I'm not, I'm not. I'm not squeamish with needles. I'm just. Because I realized that it's so thin that it kind of. It hurts. It would hurt more if I pinched your face. Like, if I took my hand and literally just pinched your face like 10 times, that would hurt more than getting Botox for sure. Easily.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, I think I'm gonna do it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

If I thumped you, it would hurt more than getting Botox.

[Monet X Change]

But also, like, I'm not out here doing. Performing like, I used to like dancing. If we were to go on tour again, maybe I would do it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Botox isn't about performing. It's just. It's just that you. And it's also just stopping because, like, once you keep creasing your forehead, over time you get more. The wrinkles. Just get set, baby.

[Monet X Change]

I don't have none. Honey, look at this, look at this.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't have that.

[Monet X Change]

Look. Okay, honey.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

When I was your money, when I was your age, I didn't have them either.

[Monet X Change]

No, you did. I knew you when you were my age and you did fun facts.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

When I was your age, I also didn't have them. So interesting. Very interesting. How. How people right before they get today, they think they're gonna look this way forever. You're hilarious. I can't wait.

[Narrator/Host]

Why?

[Monet X Change]

Why do you try to make me. Why did you try to put me down? Down.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I can't wait.

[Monet X Change]

Why do you try to put me down? Why? Can't say, Mona, you're gonna be beautiful forever.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

First of all, beauty subjective. So you can't be beautiful or you just have to change your perception of beauty. That's up to you. But you will not be unwrinkly forever. That no one does that.

[Monet X Change]

You gotta change it for.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yes, sorry for acknowledging that people can be beautiful at any age. I did not say m that.

[Monet X Change]

But I want you to affirm me that I don't need to do that. I want you to affirm me that I'm going to look beautiful like this forever.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You won't, Monet. And you know that. You will not look like this forever. That's not possible. What? Shut the up. You think you're gonna not age?

[Monet X Change]

We don't know what science is gonna be.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You can take measures. You know those.

[Monet X Change]

Those TikTok filter, the new one that shows you over 50 years? I was like, oh, wow. I'm kind of into it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I mean, I'm willing to do preventative things, but I'm not. I don't think I'm going to be trying to fight the clock that hardcore. Like, the way that RuPaul looks to me, RuPaul looks like someone in their 50s or 60s, but in a good way.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, RuPaul looks good. I think Ru looks really good.

[Narrator/Host]

Good.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I would agree, but out of drag, RuPaul's like, oh, yeah. You look like you're in your 50s or 60s, but not, like, in a bad way.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah. Rule looks good. Rules really good. Michelle looks really good. How old is Michelle visage?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Like, probably 57. Probably 56. I'm just guessing. You want to Google it?

[Monet X Change]

55 years old.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

55 years old. Yeah. She texted me. I didn't text her back.

[Monet X Change]

Is she. I'm sure she's coming to the show.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm gonna reiterate to everyone out there and to everyone listening and to all the DMs, I get every single person who can hear me. I. And I feel like what Mane's about to say might be an insinuation. I don't know who comes on stage. I don't have a say in it. I don't. So many people write me and be like, can I get a. I'm like, baby, I don't. I'm not. I don't work in casting. This lady something in the lobby at the hotel yesterday, and she was like, is there a way to get tickets to the show? It's sold out. And I was like, I don't know, baby. I don't.

[Monet X Change]

I don't.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I don't. I don't sell tickets to the show. So. Yeah, but I'm just wondering, how do you get tickets? And I was like, baby, I don't. I've never bought a ticket to the show, so I don't know. I mean. And I'm not trying to be shaded, but, like, no shade. But, like, we're in London. They've sold over 120,000 tickets to the show. 120,000 people figured out how to get tickets to the show. Just do what they did. I don't. I like. I know it'd be nice if I like to hold your hand and walk you through it, but I'm not going to talk you through how to get a ticket to a show when you could just use Google and figure it out. There's a guy who's at the front row in the pit of every single show. So you tell me this guy is able to get a ticket to every show in every city in Europe and you can't get one ticket to one show? Google it. Mary.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, it's kind of wild that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Bring us to our last stop. Before we go, I want to ask you this question.

[Monet X Change]

Extended POD today, honey. Go ahead.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I think this is in one of our cut pieces. Is it shady when someone texts me and is like, when are you going to be in my town for the show? When is your tour coming to this town? And I'm. My thought process is, well, I can't remember every single place I'm in every town. So what I'm going to end up doing is just Googling it and then texting you back what I've googled. Is that what you end up doing?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah. The short answer, I don't think it's. I don't think it's shady, but it's a little annoying. Like, girl, just Google it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Like, I'm always. I always respond, and I usually. I usually end up Googling it, but I really just wish that I. That they would Google it and that I wouldn't have to because I'm just. I'm just gonna do what you would. I'm just Googling it and then texting you back what I. What I googled. You know what I mean?

[Monet X Change]

Well, when y' all crazy, I don't

[Bob the Drag Queen]

know why, but I'm Googling the same thing over and over again. But I guess it doesn't really take that much long out of my day. And I think it's maybe because I don't like text messaging. I think what it boils down to is I don't like text messaging.

[Monet X Change]

And Jacob had a very good point. It's. It's the. It's a connection. I don't think they're asking because they don't know how to find it. They just want to, like, engage and, like, talk to you.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

So maybe they're like, oh, you're going to be in town on the 5th. I can't wait to see you. Or you're going to be down on fifth. It's going to be so exciting. Are you excited about it? Yeah, I'm excited it. I can't wait to see you. But I guess if they're just trying to ask a question that would get an answer, therefore, they can engage back and forth, and it's such a slighting. It's a very slight inconvenience. Again, I go. I. I Google the answer almost every single time without fail. I've never. I've never told anyone to just Google themselves, ever, even though they could. I've never done that before.

[Monet X Change]

You told me to Google myself. Don't lie.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I think I feel like I actually sat down with you and went through the calendar and tried to find dates where you could come. No, actually, that's what I did.

[Monet X Change]

You made me Google it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Yeah. Now you think about it. I do remember going through the whole thing with you being like, oh, come here, come here. Because you said you might come to Palm Springs. High Level Springs.

[Monet X Change]

So the problem is so many people. So many people want to go to the tour with me because of you. What do you mean? Like, like, at least six people have been like, oh, what? Which city going to? Because they want to go to the Madonna tour with me to go see you.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That makes sense. I would love to, like, if I. If I was gonna go see you on tour, I would love to go with Arcia or go with Naomi or go with dejuan. That would be really fun, actually.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, I'm not mad about that. I'm just people, like, I was surprised. People are like, oh, what day are you going? I want to go with you to go see Bob. I'm like, oh, word.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That makes sense. That makes sense. I wish I could have gone to

[Monet X Change]

Doja with you, but I took my boyfriend instead.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

You didn't invite me.

[Monet X Change]

You were on tour, but you didn't invite me, though. Do you know Michelle Visage's real name?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Her last name is. I can't remember. It's Jewish.

[Monet X Change]

Shoe Pack.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Shoe Pack. That's it. Shoe pack. So I did this thing the other day at work. I had work at the. At the arena. It's not like I'm like, I'm at H and R block at work where I have these people. It was this guy named Matthew. He's a cello, is on the show. And I was like, matthew, I'm pretty good at, like, if you give me a celebrity's real name, I can tell you who that celebrity is. And I got, like, five in a row that were so impressive. And I was like, we have to stop playing because I did Such a good job. I was like, I don't want to mess up, but I ate that. I just named five celebrities in a row. They'd be like, there's no way you know this one's name. And I was like, oh, that's so and so. Oh, that's so and so. And I want to try it again today. Me and Jacob. This is our last thing. Jacob, say a celebrity is in the real name. Me and my name are going to try to race to see if we can name the celebrity.

[Jacob]

Okay, give me one second. I need to just find a good one.

[Monet X Change]

Well, I'm going to do it in the meantime while Jacob does that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay.

[Monet X Change]

Darius Stone. Darius Stone or o' Shea Jackson?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Ose Jackson is Ice Cube.

[Monet X Change]

So Darius Stone is also his name. That's weird.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Well, maybe he changed his name when he. When he joined the Nation of Islam.

[Monet X Change]

Got it. Robert Fenton.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Robert.

[Jacob]

I have a good one.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Wait, Fenton from, like, Word of Wonder?

[Monet X Change]

Robert Fenton? Yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

From World of Wonder?

[Monet X Change]

No, but that's the name. But no.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Who's. Who's Robert? I don't know. Is that Robert Downey? Who?

[Monet X Change]

Clive Owens.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, I thought his name was Clive Owens. All right, go ahead, Jacob. Hit me.

[Jacob]

Alicia. Alicia Beth Moore.

[Monet X Change]

No idea.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's Alicia Keys.

[Jacob]

Nope.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, no, wait. Is Alicia Silverstone. Who's that?

[Jacob]

Pink.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, pink.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Per.

[Jacob]

Pink is Alicia Beth Moore.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Purr.

[Jacob]

Okay, how about Reginald? Kenneth Dwight.

[Monet X Change]

I know who that is.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's Snoop Dogg. No, no, that's Calvin Brodus. Reginald. Wait, say his name again.

[Jacob]

Reginald Kenneth Dwight.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Reginald Kenneth Dwight. Because I know that Calvin Brodus is Snoop Dogg. Reginald Kenneth is a rapper, right?

[Jacob]

No.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Now, who is it?

[Jacob]

Elton John.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

What?

[Monet X Change]

John. That's hilarious.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

A better name. Ellen John is a better name. Give me two more. I gotta get. I've got one. I got one so far. Okay, give me seven more.

[Monet X Change]

I got it, I promise.

[Jacob]

Let's see.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Jackson was impressive. Let's see.

[Monet X Change]

What about. What about Scott Diggs? That's easy.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Scott Diggs.

[Monet X Change]

Think about it. Just think about it for two seconds. You get it?

[Jacob]

Okay.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

David who? It's either Tay or David. It's either Tay Diggs or David Diggs.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah. Taye Diggs.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Tay Diggs. Yeah.

[Jacob]

Amethyst Amelia Kelly.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's that drag queen girl. Amethyst Amelia Kelly. That's a white girl. Is she white? It is, yes.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, well, I say white people beaming.

[Sponsor/Advertiser Voice]

This.

[Jacob]

Those.

[Monet X Change]

Amethyst. That sounds like a black girl name. Oh, yeah.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

No, this is definitely Amethyst Amelia Kelly. Can you give us her Profession. I feel like I'm misspelling, but you can give us a profession. What is it?

[Jacob]

She's a rapper.

[Monet X Change]

A rapper.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Is this Iggy Azalea?

[Jacob]

Yes.

[Monet X Change]

Not Amethyst Amelia Tilly.

[Jacob]

That's actually.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

That's a better rap name than Iggy Azalea.

[Jacob]

And then the last we have Angela Renee White.

[Monet X Change]

Oh, Blac Chyna.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, there you go. Blac Chyna. Oh, is that why you said Angela?

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, that's why I said that. All right.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

This is our longest episode ever, girl.

[Monet X Change]

The one. Okay. I have an idea for a thing too. I like when you did your 24 hour stream. I think you and I should do a 24 hour something for. For Patreon next year.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I would love to do a 24 hour podcast. That would be so fun.

[Monet X Change]

I'm so down.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I would love that. Do you want to do it? Do you want to raise money for

[Monet X Change]

something from my pocket? No. Jesus Christ. Yeah, I'm down to raise money for. Yes. Actually, yeah, we can. We can do it. We can do it for. For.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

For.

[Monet X Change]

For Palestinians or something like that.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

But.

[Monet X Change]

But that is a whole thing with that make it. Because the trucks.

[Sponsor/Advertiser Voice]

I don't know.

[Monet X Change]

We'll. We'll find a good way to do it. But I'm very down to do that because I'm sure there would be need more aid and nor more money come in 2024.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

There's also a lot going on in the Congo and. In the Congo.

[Monet X Change]

Yeah, I'm down. Let's do it.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Let's do it. Oh my God. Such a good idea. There's also lots of hunger right here in the United States of America.

[Monet X Change]

True.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

There's. There's so. There's so many causes. We will find a. We will find a just cause or I'm dumb 2 and that you and I if we do a 24 hour stream, I think we'd be able to raise over a million dollars. Bob, you're getting wild. A million dollars over. I think that we could raise over a million dollars.

[Monet X Change]

Not Jacob's Fucking Jacob Penguin 2 Phase Joker Laugh over there.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We could My friends Mercury Stardust and Yori raised $2 million during a. During a live stream. Oh my God.

[Monet X Change]

So I think people that people that my friend me drive me in insane.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Do not my friend Merc. You don't know Mercury Stardust, but do not my friend me but you don't know Mercury Stardust. I do know Mercury Stardust. Describe her in the but I know

[Monet X Change]

her on through the phone.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Describe her in the slightest detail, Mercury,

[Monet X Change]

is that she's an influencer.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay, what color is her hair? Is she white or is she black? She tall? Is she short?

[Monet X Change]

She is. She's not tall or short. She's. She's right in the middle and she's not black or white. She kind of like lives in all the worlds.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay, she's white. She's tall to you. She has like, who you. She's white to me. You don't know Mercury Stardust? Why is it so weird that I say my. By the way, this is like that weird you did with. When I said my friend Mitch and everyone. And everyone kept. Everyone was like, we don't know Mitch. Okay, okay, here we go.

[Monet X Change]

To everyone. Queen. So when you say it is everyone. What I say is not everyone.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

It was every single. Even. Even Mitch didn't know himself.

[Jacob]

I. I think we need to go back and talk about how Monet said she's not black or white.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

She lives in all the worlds just now.

[Jacob]

Oh.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Oh, yeah, Mercury. Anyway, Mercury Stardust is. Is. Is the trans handy ma'. Am, and she's a non binary influencer who does renters rights and stuff and like, house repairs and her and Yori, my friend, did a. Did a live stream and they raised $2 million. So we could do a million. I don't. I mean, that seems like a very

[Monet X Change]

lofty goal, and I would love to do that for people in need. I'm down. But this is what we're doing.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay, we're doing it.

[Monet X Change]

What?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

We're going to do it. We're going to do it.

[Monet X Change]

Okay, I'm down. We're going to do it. What are you down with, bitch? What are you. When are you coming back to America? Let's start there, then we can start planning.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'll be in America in about a week.

[Monet X Change]

And when are you back home?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Because after this, you have, like, another thing. I'll be in your hometown claiming the throne as the queen of Brooklyn, bitch.

[Monet X Change]

Bob, let me tell you something. People that don't see you Brooklynites, okay, we don't see bothered, right?

[Bob the Drag Queen]

First of all, I'm repping Greenpoint. I'm wearing the Greenpoint hoodie, nigga.

[Monet X Change]

I'm repping Monet X Change, Brooklyn icon.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

I'm repping the G Train, honey.

[Monet X Change]

I'm repping the G Train, honey.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Monet, Monet, say something. My hoodie says Brooklyn, New York. What y' all think you're out here doing? But I'm a badass bitch.

[Monet X Change]

I thought you ever come for me again.

[Narrator/Host]

Brooklyn, period.

[Bob the Drag Queen]

Okay, we clearly don't want to say goodbye. I love you very much.

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