Welcome back to hot takes and deep dives. And I wanted to highlight one of my favorite episodes

with Bob the Drag Queen.

So for some context, we recorded this in 2021 well before he went on Madonna's celebration

tour and prior to the traders.

So this is definitely in the period where he says a lot of things that he is probably now, to like, kind of quote Tina

Faye, a bit too famous to go on record with. So I find that really interesting, particularly

the stuff he says about doing Watch It Happens Live. And we talk a bit about drag queens

doing Broadway, and this is well before Jinks Monssoon had her Renaissance with All

Stars and reigning over Broadway. He also references Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson's

sketch show fucking identical twins, which was eventually turned into a movie a few years ago.

So there's just a lot here about UCB and his comedy friends. And so, yeah, please welcome to the

stage, Bob the drag queen. It feels like I'm about to be like in like an actual event space with

you right now. Yeah, I feel like I'm like there's an audience here. How are you, Bob? I'm pretty good.

I've recently moved to Los Angeles. How long did you live in New York?

I moved. I lived in New York for 12 years. So I was, I lived there since I was 22. Did you just move for

career reasons or a relationship? Well, I moved to L.A. because I wanted to buy home and I felt like I can get more bang for my buck in the surrounding LA area than I can in the surrounding New York area.

And as we know, the surrounding New York area means New Jersey or an hour and a half away in Philadelphia.

And I feel like living in the suburbs of L.A., you probably can just live a different

life of me. I've also looked at Atlanta. I was looking at Austin, Texas. I'm from Atlanta,

actually. I grew up all over the south, actually. And what initially brought you to New York City

at 22? Well, I moved to New York City to be a comedian. I moved to New York City to tell jokes and to be on Broadway. No one told me that if you're going to be on Broadway, you really need to know how to sing and dance. No one told me. So when I got there, I was like, well, I guess I'm not doing Broadway. Who knows? Maybe it's still

in my prospects. But yeah, I moved there to become a performer. I was already professionally

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