Episode 29: Bob The Drag Queen
Conversations with People Who Hate Me
Dylan Marron & TED
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Celebrated drag queen & winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Bob The Drag Queen chats with James, a stranger who tweeted “I really really really don’t like Bob The Drag Queen.”
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:05.0 | collective. So I guess my question is, was there anything you saw in Bob that you recognized in yourself that might have been behind tweeting that. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh yes, honey. |
| 0:18.0 | It's getting real up in your hands. |
| 0:20.0 | He is. |
| 0:21.0 | He is. |
| 0:22.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor. We are conducting an audience survey. Yes. dot PRX.org to take the survey today. |
| 0:34.0 | That's survey dot PRX.org slash Ted. |
| 0:38.0 | Thanks. Hey and welcome back to conversations with people who hate me the show where I take negative online |
| 0:53.9 | conversations and move them offline. I'm your host, Dylan Merrin, and today I'm |
| 0:59.1 | moderating a call between strangers. If you're familiar with RuPaul's Drag Race the popular |
| 1:04.4 | reality competition show where drag queens compete to win a cash prize and the |
| 1:09.6 | title of America's next drag superstar, then you likely know one of today's guests, the winner of |
| 1:15.8 | RuPaul's Drag Race Season 8, Bob the Drag Queen. |
| 1:19.7 | As a contestant, Bob was a huge hit with viewers and judges alike, but not everyone was a fan. |
| 1:26.9 | As is the case with many reality competition shows, some audience members feel compelled to |
| 1:32.0 | vocally trash the contestants they don't love. some audience |
| 1:33.7 | feel compelled to vocally trash the contestants they don't love. |
| 1:35.1 | Which is exactly what happened when James, a British viewer of |
| 1:39.1 | RuPaul's drag race, took to Twitter a few years ago to tweet, |
| 1:42.5 | I really, really, really don't like Bob the drag queen. |
| 1:46.5 | Now, if you're not familiar with Bob, |
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