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Bob the Drag Queen
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This is metro source minis, the official podcast to Metro source magazine and home of short form interviews with your favorite personalities from the lgbtq world and beyond. Quick, Fun and informative. It's metro source on the go, out in proud since one thousand nine hundred and ninety. All right, this is metro force minis. I'm your host, out Rodriguez press first first, our guest today, winner of season eight of Roopholes, drag race coast are of HBO's hip show for new per season two. By the way, Hey, hey, we're here to comedy specials. Bought the drag Queen. LIBRC CAROLYS and bought the drag queen suspiciously large women podcasters simply rivalry with money exchange after tales of the city Cherry pop producer Bessy's web series and children's stat a fist, and I doot we're going to find out. Welcome Bob, the drag queen for our metro mini. Welcome Bob, and this is when everyone at home goes they're going crazy right now. They're losing it. Yes, okay, so this is our so we're going to do short form interviews your very first time doing drags. My first time was at gay pride. I believe that he was two thousand and nine in New York City. I wore up a tennis act dress wig for Ricky's with bangs on the side and potent. I mean was later just skirt pulled up over my Chaz and I've belt it in put socks into the takes. And what was your dragon experience prior to them? Did you have a lot of drag queen friends, medicable drag Queens? I met a couple of drag queens from a local park called Lavish Lounge and Queens, and I had done drag makeup want in a makeup class in college, but besides that my only experience was from television. Okay, all right, all right, all right, you're coming out story. Oh it was really interesting. I came out a lot. I mean that we all come...
...out like over of course of a time as I got my mom first the day guards in the high school and I came to my friend and my best friend from high school and then I went to college and kind of went back in the closet and I went to spencers. You were the source of spencers that in the malls and I bought this really my tike. Yeah, we are aging ourself, girl, because they kind of have like little more adults, a little bit naughtier. Yeah, it was like, yeah, it was like a naughty little store. You could buy like interesting stuff and you can buy t shirts with like witty sayings on them, and I bought this rainbow belt and I was like, I'm gonna start wearing this rainbow belt around. That is my way. Everyone one of the gays not. Did you have any gay people in your family, or gays in my family? My mom is queer and my uncle's queer, so there's a lot of gay DAA in my family. You're about to get it somewhere. The other isn't the waters in the water. Now, how did you change the most professionally and personally, from day one of them in drag race to winning the crown? Oh, I would definitely say that I've looked at myself as much more of a business than just a talent, like he used to be like I'm time a talent and then someone else does the business. Now I look at the business side of being pop and drag. Okay, I got this question asked. CAN DRAG is. Can drag become too commercial and straight washed? I don't think that. Like for me now, I love my dragon, that I love my dragon. I don't think if someone else's drag diminishes mine. So having SIS, you two women, because Baden drag, having children because Baden drag, having Nina West, seeing songs for children, does not diminish the drag. The Bob, the drag queen us. Okay, we have been through a very interesting period of time socially and politically for the LGBT community...
...and other minority communities. How can the LGBT community best support black lives matter? What do we need to do more? Is there anything we should stop doing? From your opinion? Well, I think that we should listen to people of Color, listen to black people in terms of wet black lives matter means. We should also just consider, and a big thing. Do his vote, and you see to me able to vote like your son is black. Vote like you have a child that will grow up with a black person in America. Vote like that. Okay, yeah, I love it. Okay, real pauls drag race, tell me what your experience was like. They hold you up in a hotel you're not really able to text people, you're not really able to tell people where you are. What does that do to you emotionally and and just have any physical ramifications? Well, as I still walk with a lamp. And I'm kidding. And it is who. I want to know from WHO? Right they keep you in a hotel room. Want to how long did depend on? How far are you go? I was there the whole time. was I was an old everybody'm not to have, which at the time seemed crazy, but I've been in this fucking apartment for three months, so maybe it's what have you done? Like what's the weirdest thing you've been doing in quarantine? Like something you're like, I'm doing that now. I've never done that. I don't. Oh, I mean I, I. I. I was working out a lot in the beginning. In the beginning I was I'm gonna get this by it together, and then I lost some weight and I was like I'm good here, I'm good where I'm at. Girl, I'm on the opposite side. I was like let's eat everything that we're going to be here for months. And now they're like hey, what's Hollywood has reopened them, like wait, wait, what know, you've gotta give me some time. I was a twink when quarantine started. Do you have any survival tips for surviving quarantine? I would...
...say be honestly. The most important thing, honestly, is be nice to yourself. Like, be nice to yourself. Something be so mean to themselves and so hard on themselves. You don't need to come out of quarantine speaking Spanish, with ABS, no in sign language, with an associate's degree in interior design. Like, be nice to yourself. We're here renewed pour season two, huge accomplishment, HBO's first unscripted series. How did that project come into your last did you have to audition for it? Where you part of the creative process? I got whatever, I guess, so I didn't do being part of the creative process. We are consulting producers in the show, but we ended up. I got a phone call. I just got off the cash a cruise and I was headed back to New York. I was in Miami at the airport. I was headed to New York seat and I got a phone call runner I didn't recognize. I always answer the phone, even but I recognize the number. I'm a holding scissors because you never know who it is and I asked the car exactly nine and one and I am and I got a called being like it was from Steve Warren, that one of the crowds of the show. Is like, I really want you to be in this show. Let's have lunch and then the rest history. Did you know who the other queens were or you just trusted that they knew? Well, when I got to the when I when I got to the meeting, the dinner, he told me that it was she angela and Eureka and and of course I knew them. I had to work with them both. Had that. I actually written the song for Eureka couple of years ago and I did a song with Angela and we've I've toured with both of them, so I'm familiar. I'm familiar with their work. Did you have to work on some of the chemistry? You guys are so different on the show and...
...sometimes when personalities are so different, it doesn't Joe. But you successfully do it where the differences in your presentation, in your personality and your approach makes for a winning combination. Well, I think the reason why it works, by frankly, is because we don't spend that much time together. We roll into town, the first day we're together and then we meet our drag kids and then we were apart for each other like eight days. You come back together in a ninth game and we see each other again and that is makes for a lovely work situation. But aren't quest saying, like, at the same hotel, you guys not going up to the like the gay clubs together, or you seek out? We looked up. We all have orgies of getting. We know we've definitely we've gotten burning together, we've gone we've Gone Kara yoking together, we go to dinners together. We also do our own thing too, and that the things that just me changeling Eureka. We have entire teams of people there, so there's a lot of people there who are witnessing, like you know, all this stuff. There's the designers, there's a producers, there's the there's so many people there. What is a memory that you have from filming the first season that we're here that sticks with you to this day? Is it? And it sounds so silly, but the one of those memorable thing was we're all bowling and Chancela was doing horrible, and I mean horrible like she was doing a terrible job and then I told her, I said listen, it's next. I'm going to be a strike or we're going to go viral. So I started filming on some most I said, what do you do? Is when you bowl, right when the pay the bowl hits the pain, you need to do a dip, or some people call it a death drop, right at the ground and then you're going to get a strike. Anyway, I did it. It's on my twitter. Go check it out. into the video of Chandula hitting the shablamb right on, right as she hits the strike. It's crazy. Now can I ask you, this is just girl talk here, why does the judges on rupaul's draft rase still have surprised when somebody does it, does a depth...
...dropper like, oh, it's never been done before. My mom is doing dust drop cupping down the hallway. As someone who has been performing in the clubs for years and I've seen the power that a dip has on audience members, people who see it every week, come news your every week, it's still just gags and when you see it in person like this is crazy. Why do you think we're here? has been such a hit but did my camera guy? You went sideways. Girl, I don't know what just happened. So Weird. There we go and we're black. There we go. I know you don't drink, so it's not that. So what are you asking? Why do you think the show has become so popular and it's become popular in so many different audiences? It's not. It's not just a gay show, it's not just a drag show. It's something different. Why do you think people have responded so well through it? Well, it's all the things from every other reality TV competition rolled into one's designed. Is Sinking, is dancing, is makeup, is hair, is literally every other reality competition in one and then there's been something for everyone and some of the emotional stories and some of the lives that you guys change, seeing that journey is very touching, especially in this climate that we're in. It seems like it would have been a very heavy emotional experience. Did you need time to kind of decompress? You even we're here. We met even, we're here. We're here. Yeah, did any time to decompress? I mean bear mine. We filmed this show of the course of nine months, so it wasn't like it wasn't going from one city and then like having this emotional spirit thing going...
...on record to a next city. We had time in between two do our other gigs and, you know, visit our family and have Christmas and everything. Okay, okay. How is called? Well, the most different from Bob, the factually well, one of those drag wins that has like a persona you like been to the crime as like a different boy. She does, Yeh, and like Jins Mun soon is like Whoa? Jinks is a MILF and Jarek is like a whatever. I don't have like a different character. I'm really for me Bob as a nickname and my costumes are my working to what would you say to yourself at twenty one years old? I wouldn't say anything. I wouldn't want to. I would want to fuck it up. I wouldn't want to. I would want to change my bath. I would want, I would think, to turn out the way they there they are now. You know what I mean. Any of my father imagine I say the wrong thing and I end up not doing dragon, end up being a boring lawyer. No offense any Laura's watching, but you know your job was no, he would be in children's theater, you'd be like the biggest star in children stater, the biggest director and children sater because, yeah, probably for a few years. Yeah, I did. I did it from eighteen until twenty, like five. That's a big chump of time. And Children's theater has so many different aspects to it, from the difficulty of dealing with kids and parents, but also like behind the scenes. I've been to a cast party or two for some children singing. That's going a little lonkey. Well, kids are fine, parents show parents are the worse. I'm such a huge fan and I'm so thankful to to talk with you. We're going to play a little rapid fire. Are you okay with that? Of course, okay, that's a starts rapid fire. Who is the biggest girl?...
I can't diva on the set of we're here. I think that all the girls would probably unanimously say it was me, because I teadu to let's just say, I like things the way I like them and I'm always coming from a point whem. I was like, well, listen, I showed up one time, I did this, I did that, so why aren't you doing your end of the deal? That is very neat and if someone's say we're going to do something enough and they don't do it, I have no qualms being like, well, you didn't do what you said you're going to do. Let's talk about that. Yeah, right, and I think that works for any kind of relationship you have, whether it's family, friends, Cook ups. What is the shakiest thing you saw behind the scenes of drag race that we might not have thinking? Who Behind the scenes? Ah, my good as it was. So it was also five years ago, so I really have to like think heard about what was a shady thing. Well, here's one, another one ideva moments that Kim loves Zella Story. I was we had done. It's always my way, always revolves around food. When I'm hungry, I'm just a monster. We had to spend the entire day working. It was it was on the wizard of Oz episode and we had spent this whole day's working so hard. I was so tired. We ordered our food like five hours ago and it showed up and everyone got their food and everyone's food was perfect, except my. My order was wrong and I was just reading. I ordered a Chappotla Burrito with white rice, black beans, hot sauce, corn, salsa, cheese and Guacamoli with chipotle dinner rare. On the BURRITO. They put the heats in it and I did not want the heat is in it because I don't like cook onions, and I remember it. Taking one bite of the bridge, I took one bite of this Burrito and I saw these goddamn onions in there and I remember like, I don't remember why I said I remember freaking out and to this day Kim's like and Bob was going great. So honestly, this was like...
...people always think I'm probably one of the biggest. Yeah, but I tell you, onions are literally the worst, especially if you don't want it there. You don't want it there. It's the worst. And I was so hungry and I've work for so long. Everyone's food was right except mine. Everyone at everything want to accept me. Okay, most overdone, Dragsong, and I'm telling you, yeah, yeah, what was the name of your autobiography? It would probably be see something you like and your worst date. My worst date, Oh my God, I don't know that I had any good days. I was winning a date with this guy who's be really sweet. We're actually still kind of friends. But like at the beginning of the day, he basically let me know that he wasn't interested in me, but we still went on the date. Why? I don't because we were there and we were going to eat and I was like, wells I stood up one time. I guess I'm visible. I guess it up a problem. In eleven grade one time I met this guy at a tire restaurant. While I didn't meet it because he never showed up. So I've had some real stinkers. Oh my God. Yeah, where can our viewers going to bother? The Drag Queencom you have had all my social dare my entire schedule. Go to or just Google Bop the drag queen. My instagram pop up, my twitter's great. That's we're great. Well, and it's on fire you as well, leading in the background, which we love you for. You guys. So that is a mini episode and that has been bothered. DRACK. We from Metro source, Minties, and that's yours. I am your host and lead writer for Metro source and way before we go, before we go, everyone's looking at this, you all. You see all these magazine...
...covers around here. I see some great people around here, I see and I see over there my sister, Miss Pepper Mint. When am I going to get my cover? Metro it is common. Metal source has been around since one thousand nine hundred and ninety out in proud girl. This is a four way. Let me tell you. You have a lot to say and I love the way you say it. So grow well. Thank we're going to see you in our August September issue as well, so I'd be for that. Anyway you can find me. I am a podcaster and lead writer from Metro source, Alexander Rodriguez. Follow me on Instagram, but Alexador is on air. You can binge listen to all of our episodes of Metro source mini speaking your favorite celebrities from our issues. Until next time, stay true, stay you. Okay, boo. Thank you, Bob, so much, my pleasure. That has been another natural source mini like share, subscribe on your favorite podcast player and check out the latest issues of Metro source magazine on newstands or online at natural sourcecom. Follow us on Facebook, instagram a natural source and on twitter at let just course. Man. Until next time. They had.
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