Getting Messy with Bob the Drag Queen

Baby, this is Keke Palmer

Wondery

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Bob the Drag Queen—who brought his chaotic energy to 'The Traitors'—pulls up with Keke for a convo that’s equal parts hilarious and unhinged. They talk polyamory, pop-star fandom beef, and how Bob became a NYT bestselling author with his Harriet Tubman novel. Then it gets MESSY when they start casting their dream daytime talk show… and these two queens close it out with an impressions battle that will have you howling.

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0:00.0	From stirring the pot as a traitor in the dirt to becoming a New York Times best-selling author with his debut novel,
0:11.1	Bob the Drag Queen knows how to create a moment.
0:15.0	He's a Peabody winner, comedian, podcast host, and the winner of Rupal's Drag Race Season 8. Today, he joins me to talk about everything.
0:23.5	A little Trader's Tea, Pollyamory, growing up with a queer mom in the South and more.
0:28.6	Buckle up y'all, because we're going there. Let's start the show.
0:32.6	No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling, popo, Amazon music, sit back and listen. Life, love, sex, science, covering it all, especially the bad because money always involved. No matter what it is, we're going to make it make sense. Nothing else will do but kick it with the homies and kid. So grab you a drink and a snack you enjoy and get into the vibe that only want you're going to start. You know it's your girls. Baby, this, this is Kiki.
0:55.0	Baby, this is Kiki Poma, yeah.
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1:24.1	Fah! Hi! Hi, Boo! You have a middle name? Yes name? Yes, my middle name is Lauren.
1:28.3	My middle name is Kiana. Oh, so Kee's from the middle name. Yeah, it's kind of like my sister wanted my name to be Kiki, but my parents thought that's too much. That's not a real name. So they named me L'OQaeda. Cut too. Isn't that crazy? They was trying to make me ready for assimilation. You sound very like, oh dear, Lorden, Kiana Parliament of the Palmer Estate.
1:46.6	Oh, dear.
1:47.4	Of course, the Parliament is known for the prestigious. Where are you from? I'm from the Midwest. I'm from Chicago. South suburbs. Oh, okay. Where are you from the South? I'm from Atlanta. Oh, period. Do I say South Southern? It's's a slight thing, but it's not giving out really for Atlanta like that.
2:03.7	Yeah, no, I don't go that car.
2:05.4	My brother's sound like that.
2:06.6	Yeah, yeah.
2:07.3	Yeah.
2:07.8	Where'd you go to school?
2:08.8	Clayton County.
2:09.6	I went tomorrow high school in Clayton County.
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