The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - BI NOW, GAY LATER Ft. Chrissy Chlapecka ｜ Episode 212

00:00:00.000 I'm like the girl that's like, just happy to be there.

00:00:02.240 I'm always ensemble, sure.

00:00:04.600 Who doesn't love an ensemble part?

00:00:06.680 The ensemble's essential.

00:00:08.120 Come on, no, we need it for the whole show.

00:00:10.040 Me being like, I haven't been in the show

00:00:11.640 since I was like 19, I think.

00:00:13.520 But I'm like, we need the ensemble.

00:00:24.200 Hey everyone, and welcome back to another episode

00:00:26.240 of the comment section show.

00:00:27.480 Sorry, me, your fav, everybody knows me, cares about me.

00:00:29.960 On to the guest.

00:00:31.180 Today we have the iconic, the legendary, another all-star, Chrissy Shlopeka.

00:00:36.000 Woo! 0.99

00:00:37.200 Hello!

00:00:38.720 Welcome back, queen.

00:00:40.180 Well, thank you.

00:00:41.040 I'm happy to be here.

00:00:42.060 Oh, my God.

00:00:42.440 I'm so happy to have you.

00:00:43.700 It's been a while.

00:00:44.460 It's been a while.

00:00:45.080 I did wear a little bit of pink for you.

00:00:46.700 I love it.

00:00:47.380 Obviously on the shoes.

00:00:48.680 I was trying to, like, match Chrissy's vibe.

00:00:50.760 It's looking good.

00:00:51.700 And it's the perfect shade of pink, too.

00:00:53.460 I'm saying.

00:00:54.220 I think so.

00:00:54.940 You were right.

00:00:55.660 You were right for that.

00:00:56.820 Thank you.

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00:01:25.320 find two good creamers in the creamer aisle i'm so happy to have you how has life been oh my

00:01:31.340 it's been a journey since the last time we sat down i know we were in costume or i was you you

00:01:38.960 were unfortunately having to look at me in the costume and i thought you looked beautiful thank

00:01:42.800 you no you were stunning first of all um i mean since then i like moved to la and yeah became a

00:01:49.980 pop star period and that happened the rest is history and girl the rest is history

00:01:56.080 so tell me about anything new you've been working on lately because I know you were telling me a

00:02:01.400 little bit offline but I want the people to hear it oh yes okay what I've been working on well I'm

00:02:06.020 literally as of today when we're filming this about to leave for tour yes tomorrow how exciting

00:02:11.020 crazy yeah um I was saying to you like I don't know how the hell this happened I decided and

00:02:16.920 like well i got i got like dropped by my agent and dropped by a couple of people and really who

00:02:22.680 were like yeah they're like you can't sell tickets you can't do all that and i'm in aries and i'm a

00:02:27.180 bitch so i was like watch me and now i'm like selling out a bunch of cities and i'm about to 0.99

00:02:32.460 leave and i'm like oh now you're doing 19 cities yeah period like i'm just like shocked it happened 0.97

00:02:38.100 though why what exactly are you shocked about it's just like like i'm like you're fantastic

00:02:45.440 nothing to be shocked about i mean like yeah i work hard and i'm proud of myself and i've done

00:02:50.300 a lot i'm just like it's just like oh it's actually happening like i decided to do this

00:02:54.760 in december and like it's now february and i'm like oh okay i guess i'm doing a show time flies

00:03:00.640 when you're being a pop star tell me about it well tell me about the new music because you have

00:03:06.120 quite a few new music new singles out yes you know i'm a fan of passion fruit i know you know

00:03:11.340 i'm a fan of passion fruit i've already i was listening to it at the gym i was on a real kick

00:03:15.000 with it at the gym especially during cardio oh it's a good it's a good cardio song yes yes i'm

00:03:20.660 loving it i was so honored when you posted it too i was like oh i'm cool i was like if you're

00:03:25.960 posting this like i must be really cool i love it and i love a slutty pop song who doesn't yeah

00:03:32.040 i'm telling you who doesn't so tell me about new music tell me about all of it i know you have

00:03:36.160 quite a few singles out yes i have so i just released like the first half of my project

00:03:41.020 called Christine um I released that about a month ago I had seven songs on it very cool and literally

00:03:47.740 also as of today we are filming this tomorrow I am promoting a new song how fun which will be

00:03:55.360 super fun it will release while I'm on tour very cool it's called Andromeda and it's gonna be

00:04:01.820 really fierce and fun and then I have a whole other b-side of the project to very put out and

00:04:09.320 yeah as all your many plates that you're spinning um so many yeah i love every one of them you're

00:04:15.380 very very busy pop star can you tell me about the new project like where did it come from like

00:04:19.940 inspiration wise like how are you feeling when you put this project together wow it's such a like

00:04:24.840 it's so interesting because i wrote this project and probably like one of my like

00:04:29.600 darkest i feel like moments really of myself in like my career i feel like i started like

00:04:37.280 obviously a lot of people know me from my online content being goofy silly yeah and we love her

00:04:42.460 and she's still here yeah but like I think I found myself being like I don't it's not that I don't

00:04:48.140 resonate with that girl that I am it's just like there's more right to myself like I grew up as a 0.96

00:04:54.220 musician I grew up doing theater like I've always dreamed of bigger and you can sing bitch you can 1.00

00:05:02.400 sing bitch for real chrissy can sing for real period listen and you know that that is true 1.00

00:05:08.700 that's like what you're like i feel like is one of your strongest powers is being able to sing 0.99

00:05:14.060 and your purpose absolutely absolutely like there's no there's nothing else i'd rather be doing

00:05:19.360 and like going on stage and singing and like i don't know as a kid it was like i'm either gonna

00:05:24.860 listen to my parents screaming at each other downstairs or i'm gonna belt louder than them 0.90

00:05:28.940 bitch and that's what I did that's how I learned to sing so like you know it's just it's so like 1.00

00:05:36.000 emotional and like I don't know I feel like when I got to LA you get here and then there's a million 0.98

00:05:40.920 people telling you this is what you should do and this is who you should meet and you should be this

00:05:44.460 way and do this and x y and z and I just got so overwhelmed that I stopped I stopped doing

00:05:49.640 everything I like I put out one EP that I kind of just didn't promote and like I kind of wasn't

00:05:55.180 proud of it I love it it just wasn't me right and I just completely like shrank and I just completely

00:06:02.420 like put myself in a like a box and was just like I can't look at myself I can't post I can't make

00:06:09.140 music all of this and I just didn't know what to do because it was like do I be the girl that

00:06:16.280 everyone knows me as or do I be the girl that everyone knows me as but with the things I love

00:06:21.080 that are hard to achieve that i'm willing to try and i don't know i just like one day literally in

00:06:30.280 august woke up and i was like okay i need to stop being so hard on myself being like overthinking

00:06:38.320 everything i need to like cut everyone out not cut everyone out but like all of the people who

00:06:43.380 are like you need to be doing it this way you're not good enough doing this like you can't do all

00:06:47.120 that and I was like I'm just gonna let that go I'm gonna write a project in two weeks and I'm

00:06:52.540 gonna release it yeah and that's exactly what I did okay period and how did you feel trying that

00:06:57.820 new method it was so liberating it was so amazing just to like be like I'm gonna rely on me and I'm

00:07:04.240 gonna rely on what I love and like I didn't wait I didn't make so much music where I was like

00:07:08.880 picking through and like this is the one like this is the one it was just like I like passion

00:07:14.440 fruit so I'm gonna put out first and I ended up doing fine like I did great like and then with

00:07:19.200 the others and the whole project itself it just was like it's called Christine because that's like

00:07:23.960 my name you know yeah and like that's the girl like that's the girl I know and I love and I

00:07:28.800 wrote it for her and it just really came out of nowhere yeah but also came out of like a need I

00:07:35.660 was like I need to make something and I need to do something right same with this tour is like I

00:07:40.280 just I need to do it and I need to like also be comfortable if it just like doesn't go the way I

00:07:46.060 want it to well you're also a creative right so when you're not creating you feel like you're

00:07:50.860 dying probably oh yeah right so it's like that's one of those things where you're like I need to

00:07:55.200 get back to me I I think that's really brave and courageous of you because it's hard especially 0.67

00:07:59.120 in the music industry shit the way that they want to mold you and change you and what they think

00:08:04.100 will sell and also I agree with I totally get what you mean about feeling distant from the 0.98

00:08:09.640 TikTok version of yourself because I feel that way too many many times like because we all know

00:08:15.100 like you and I both came up honestly around the same time yeah on TikTok but also like with very

00:08:20.960 specific niches so we have like very specific things which like like you said I agree with

00:08:25.400 your what you said about how like that is me but that's not everything yes and and it does get

00:08:30.860 exhausting after a while feeling like having to perform as that thing as opposed to what you

00:08:36.620 everything else that makes you who you are totally so I get what you mean because it gets very

00:08:41.680 stifling and it gets very like pigeonhole-y almost like it it feels like every single

00:08:46.660 thing you do or when you have people that want to work with you they really want you to lean into

00:08:51.500 that one very specific thing which you're like okay but that was like if that was like part of

00:08:57.460 it and I have lots of other things to offer and it doesn't have to be just that like yeah like I

00:09:02.220 love her like she's fierce and it's not that i'm not like silly goofy funny running around but it's

00:09:07.740 like i'm not not on the streets of chicago anymore i'm not 22 like i'm i'm doing things that i really

00:09:14.700 care about and i really love and like those things come with it but right you know it's it's almost

00:09:20.620 like a flipping career completely it's like i have to reconvince people to like care about it you

00:09:26.040 know in a way i see what you mean which like is kind of fun also it's like i love a challenge well

00:09:31.760 and then you get to when you do it that way you get to do it the way you want and the way that

00:09:35.240 you want to be perceived like you get to put yourself out there in a way that feels true

00:09:39.480 and authentic to you absolutely as opposed to what people think will sell exactly which could

00:09:44.820 be anything like that's they never they act like they know but they don't always know do they ever

00:09:49.620 know that's what i'm saying sometimes they just get lucky and like can we talk about it it's like

00:09:53.740 all these men all the time it's all these men every time in this industry who are like you as

00:09:59.980 a woman I'm gonna tell you what sells and I'm gonna tell you how you should look and how you 1.00

00:10:03.620 should act and how and two women how what sells two women yeah which is crazy which is crazy

00:10:08.920 it was just like it's so it was so jarring the first couple years of my career in music that

00:10:15.540 like I never really have talked about or touched on because it just was like I felt like I got

00:10:20.760 swarmed about what people what they wanted from me right and I would like kind of do it like kind

00:10:25.400 of not and then when I wouldn't do it the way they wanted they're like oh you're worthless

00:10:29.020 right oh we don't like you and i was like you told me to do that you told me to do that and

00:10:33.620 also like why are you not trusting the girl that built her whole thing herself anyway exactly

00:10:38.100 that's like the frustrating part absolutely that's why like at this point in my music journey i'm

00:10:44.020 like very untrusting yeah of the industry and the business yeah itself just because it's like i don't

00:10:51.740 think you're gonna give me something that i need to know right now right and like you're not gonna

00:10:56.980 pay attention to me until you have to exactly and that's okay yeah that's so fine i'd rather you not

00:11:02.820 pay attention well and then at that at that level you might as well just do it on your own exactly 0.88

00:11:07.020 at that point without them siphoning shit off of you at the same time literally and like giving you 0.82

00:11:12.300 fake money that's like not yours and like it's just it's it's just so confusing and like

00:11:19.480 exhausting and i'm just glad i learned so early in the game of my music right i'm still a new

00:11:25.240 artists absolutely and i'm still learning so much but like i learn quickly like uh-uh you are you

00:11:32.120 adapt that's what you do the divas are gonna come to you and go you are the next thing and then 1.00

00:11:36.860 you're gonna be like yeah okay girl like i will be on my own time right and the only people that

00:11:41.840 honestly are right every time they pick are the gays can we talk about right the only the only 0.99

00:11:47.060 time they like someone who's has like a hundred percent batting average are the gays exactly when 1.00

00:11:52.220 they pick a girl in pop that's the one they're right yeah they're right they're right every time 0.98

00:11:56.620 they're right and they you know what they're just it takes a little longer for them to see the

00:12:01.240 theater girls in pop that's true but they they'll see us okay they'll see us I'm curious about

00:12:07.460 theater have you ever thought about doing Broadway oh yeah I would love for you to do

00:12:11.460 Broadway Chrissy you would kill on Broadway I would love to and you should manifest that here

00:12:16.040 if that is one of your dreams because I have put two dolls on Broadway from that chair and that is

00:12:20.780 a fact this is the chair this is the broadway chair yeah like dylan manifested with me that

00:12:26.300 she wanted to be in a broadway show she's in six now and anaya she's she's uh and what is it rocky

00:12:31.820 horror yeah and i cried when she told me i told me and i sobbed like i was like okay wow oh my god

00:12:39.760 it's so fucking incredible well it's like watching like also knowing dylan like i've known her for 0.78

00:12:44.040 so long too it's just like i don't know when you all grow up as a theater kid you have the same 0.98

00:12:49.360 dream I'm gonna be on Broadway I'm gonna go to New York City bitch like come on like I had a 1.00

00:12:56.400 poster of New York in my room yeah my tiny little room as a kid and like with like Anna Nia like

00:13:03.440 her making it it just like it was like and you guys have been friends for so long for so long

00:13:09.300 like she's been there for me forever I'm gonna cry like she's just I every win she gets I'm just

00:13:15.360 like i can't i can't comprehend how proud i am yeah and it's like that one specifically because

00:13:21.020 like yeah we all just like wanted that it's just so it's so amazing it's so affirming too

00:13:28.160 for everyone and that's why i know you're already winning but you're gonna win even more because you

00:13:33.360 are pure in your happiness for others which is i think an essential part of manifesting is like

00:13:38.340 genuinely being happy when other people achieve things too and i have to i do that too all the

00:13:43.440 time with my friends when they achieve things it's like i i talked about this actually with

00:13:46.860 britney once where sometimes like what you were saying about ananiya being uh in rocky horror

00:13:51.240 it's like there's something about watching someone move in their purpose that makes me

00:13:55.740 emotional no i'm like going to cry as we're talking about especially when we talk about

00:14:00.600 internet girls because we're all we're all internet girls all of us are internet girls

00:14:04.120 and watching us get to leave the internet and like do what we really want to do like purpose

00:14:10.340 for real oh my god moves me to tears every time i think about it i'm like i'm like i already had

00:14:15.920 therapy today i'm like fuck i have therapy tomorrow so i'll be sure to clock in with 0.86

00:14:20.340 already cried today on therapy like it's just so beautiful it's beautiful it's so amazing we have 0.96

00:14:26.580 this level of understanding with each other because like we knew what it was like to like

00:14:30.120 get online and blow up or something and then like you know keep chasing that thing and then to be

00:14:34.120 like but i have dreams yeah like and that's and that goes along with what you were saying earlier

00:14:38.900 which is why I know it's going to happen for you exactly the way it's supposed to happen and the

00:14:42.380 way you want it to happen more specifically because it really is one of those things where

00:14:47.040 like you are taking a chance on you because no one's ever going to work harder for themselves

00:14:51.700 than you I mean absolutely so I know what's going to happen for you in exactly the way you want it

00:14:56.920 to happen more specifically because it's already tried to happen but you didn't feel good about it

00:15:00.880 and there was a reason why it didn't happen then I so wholeheartedly agree with that I just feel

00:15:05.940 like with myself too it's just like I've I've always like had me you know just the way I grew

00:15:11.860 up and like all of that like I've always had to champion myself right and so I had to like when

00:15:16.960 I was going through so much like this past year and in August I had to like be like whoa like you

00:15:21.320 don't have yourself girl yeah you've always had yourself you've always been the one to like hold

00:15:25.820 yourself when stuff happened and like I'm not doing that I'm not taking care of her right and

00:15:30.880 that was like the moment that I was like oh my god like I have to take care of myself I have to love 0.98

00:15:35.820 myself I have to champion myself I love that because no one else is going to say that bitch 1.00

00:15:41.520 honestly no one is going to there will be people in your life who come who love you and it's so

00:15:46.420 pure and I know it's real because I have that love for other people right but like you're the

00:15:50.780 only one who can really like do it do it and be there for you like take care of you for real which

00:15:56.220 is so true I talk about that all the time that's why I'm like so convinced now like this is like

00:16:01.560 the birth of your new your your new journey right the a better journey also I just want to say 0.95

00:16:07.560 your reels when you were posting you laying down and singing tea bitch you think you yeah you 1.00

00:16:13.340 the Broadway would be lucky to have you listen I'm I'm waiting for the call from the Broadway 0.97

00:16:18.680 producer where I don't even have to go on an audition they're just like we need you as Roxy 0.98

00:16:23.800 Hart in Chicago the musical and I dye my hair back to blonde and I'm ready Roxy Hart bitch you would 0.99

00:16:30.860 come on you would kill come on or like audrey from little shop yes oh my god me getting chills 0.96

00:16:38.220 no like i'm like like hang on i feel 16 again okay so we have chicago we have little shop are

00:16:46.380 there any other shows that you would love to be in you know what i would love to be in again

00:16:50.100 in high school i was epony and in les mis oh my god that would be crazy oh i would love to do 0.98

00:16:55.980 that show again you're a crazy bitch in Les Mis in Les Mis you better work you know I was 17 and I 1.00

00:17:01.780 was like listen to this like listen to this on my own like I'm gonna belt that note I'm gonna 0.99

00:17:06.360 change it up like I was like that was my favorite song from Les Mis for a long time I love Les Mis

00:17:11.640 come on it's a great one and being the other woman and you would kill kill you would kill 1.00

00:17:16.580 especially now with grown pipes you have your grown pipes yeah yeah she's they've grown they've

00:17:22.300 grown now she's done enough when i was in high school um we did like there was one year where

00:17:29.380 they did valentine's day grams or whatever like you know like singing grams yeah so they would

00:17:34.180 have like uh madrigals is what they were called which is like the good good choir yes so they

00:17:38.860 would go to everyone's uh classroom and like deliver singing grams and they had like a

00:17:43.200 selection and you would just buy them for like four bucks or something oh my god my girlfriends 1.00

00:17:46.660 bought me one we all like got each other stuff for valentine's day so my girlfriends in high

00:17:50.880 school sent me one and i was like oh my god because i love broadway so i was like oh my god i love the

00:17:56.360 song and then they were about to sing and they sang on my own to me which was honestly beautiful

00:18:01.240 but kind of fucked up because that song's about her being alone i was gonna say like her dying 0.95

00:18:06.300 alone she sings and then dies yes she does and why was that an option for valentine's day don't 0.90

00:18:11.800 know yeah that was interesting that's interesting but is that like you're like what's your favorite

00:18:16.100 musical though my favorite broadway musical is legally blonde oh okay well that's just a great 1.00

00:18:22.280 one come on it's perfectly written oh my god the soundtrack is kick ass kick ass and i remember 0.53

00:18:27.760 watching it when i was in um how old are you 25 okay yeah i'm five years older than you so when

00:18:33.100 i was like i want to say grade school ish probably like 10 11 they had like mtv finding l woods and

00:18:40.920 so they were like recording the broadway like auditions for legal label on the musical and i 0.79

00:18:45.960 remember watching it i was like holy fuck who are they gonna pick and i was i just remember being 0.83

00:18:50.600 obsessed i told dylan i'm like i love broadway i just don't have the chops oh my gosh yeah i know 0.88

00:18:55.100 i love broadway for real it's the it's it's every that's how i feel so connected to you i'm like i

00:19:00.040 know where it's like the theater i'm a theater girl at heart the theater inside us all i know

00:19:04.420 for real i'm like the girl that's like just happy to be there oh i'm i'm always ensemble sure

00:19:09.480 oh but love who doesn't love an ensemble part like that's what cindia revo told me she's like 1.00

00:19:15.400 the ensemble's essential come on no we need it for the whole show me being like i haven't been

00:19:20.260 in the show since i was like 19 i think but i'm like we need the ensemble but you're a theater

00:19:26.640 girl that's in your dna code oh it's in my it's in everything i do every song i make like it's

00:19:32.360 not gonna have a weird like theater-esque element the shows i do like bitch we got dancers and like 1.00

00:19:38.980 props and like reveals you gotta be on broadway because you have a belt too in you like we have

00:19:45.920 to like manifest we're manifesting we're manifesting that plus the pop star career

00:19:50.460 yeah i was also gonna say to your what you were talking about your journey was kind of reminding

00:19:54.380 me of uh rebecca black when she was here yeah she talked about the same thing and she was saying like

00:19:58.820 but the gays have always been behind me yes they have championed me forever and i was like right

00:20:03.900 and they have you too they will they always do zara larson another one and zara larson's been

00:20:09.140 in the game for over a decade and just this last couple years she's really popped off yeah i mean

00:20:13.520 that's the game it's just like you have to stick around and i think like when i like started to

00:20:19.180 revert back i was like oh girl you're not in the game right you're not doing it right like

00:20:23.060 you have to stick through it you're gonna flop and you're gonna fly and then you're gonna flop

00:20:27.600 again and it's okay it doesn't mean anything and like who cares what people on like twitter are

00:20:33.140 gonna say it really doesn't mean anything at all especially because it defeats the purpose of art

00:20:37.040 when you are only focusing on numbers and money like it defeats the purpose of art the whole point

00:20:41.620 is to create right yes and that's probably i'm sure why the recalibration that you had last

00:20:47.120 summer was like a good thing for you absolutely because you got to go back to the whole point of

00:20:51.500 it which is to make stuff like is to create something that you're proud of and that you love

00:20:55.080 it's like what i love the money to be able to create what i want yes right yeah of course

00:21:00.220 do I have it no am I happy yeah okay like the money it's not the same as it was once upon a

00:21:09.280 time but hey I'm like and it will come it will come and I like smile yeah and at least and at

00:21:14.740 least you're fulfilled and happy and that's more than a lot of other people can say yeah and even

00:21:19.520 like on your new project like what would you say is like your favorite song oh if you can pick a

00:21:26.060 i know it's like picking children but it is i i always say to my fans when they ask me that i

00:21:31.720 always say my song apollo i really love it i love the music video for it it's just so classic

00:21:37.320 like 2010 pop like just the things i grew up listening to being like oh my god i'm like

00:21:42.440 gonna die i love this um and it's like also like a song that's like about just like it's just about 0.98

00:21:50.380 like uh like chasing the light and like leaving the darkness and like this is that gay shit but 0.97

00:21:56.860 i love it like it's so gay but like it's always like what a beautiful way yeah and so it's like 0.97

00:22:04.560 what i was going through and i just i have so much love for that song and then like the my

00:22:09.900 i'm a ballad girl yeah i always sneak a ballad and no one really listens to my ballads i love

00:22:15.080 a ballad I love a ballad and I more specifically love your ballads see yes me too like those are

00:22:20.980 the ones for me and my song girl on the moon is like my my other favorite from the project beautiful

00:22:27.100 why that one it's so other than loving a ballad other than loving a ballad I like I wrote that

00:22:33.700 song by myself and it's just about like you know shit so much stuff is happening and I'm stressed 0.62

00:22:41.240 out and life is hard and I just want to go to the moon and just be away from all of this like that's 0.56

00:22:46.380 really what it's about just like what would it be to just be comforted on my by myself yeah and have

00:22:51.440 myself and like away from everything and it just like is so I don't know like when I honestly when

00:22:58.520 I get sad and I'm stressed out I like play that song in my head because I'm like I can be like

00:23:04.360 the girl on the moon like I can like I can have myself I can exist in my own way beyond this it's

00:23:10.580 like corny but i love it it's not corny or it's it's beautiful it's gorge and honestly real on 0.86

00:23:17.860 especially now shit right especially fucking now i'm sure a lot of us would rather be on the 0.97

00:23:22.920 fucking moon i know like can we go meet you hitch a ride okay so when you do have um write your 0.99

00:23:29.540 music when you have you're in the writing process like where do you do you have like 0.98

00:23:33.180 you know moments where it hits like inspiration hits and you're just like i think i'm gonna write

00:23:38.480 now or do you like to wait do you like to block out time to write or do you just kind of do it

00:23:42.580 when it hits inspiration I guess I block out time because I I work with like one guy Dallas who

00:23:49.160 he's like my brother love he's perfect and awesome and such a good human being and we've been writing

00:23:55.740 together since I'm so hot which was my first song I did with him yeah and um we just block out time

00:24:01.640 together and a lot of times I come in without inspiration and then he starts I'm like I want

00:24:07.040 the song to sound blue and he's like okay and he knows what that means and he just does it

00:24:13.320 like a my song apollo i was like let's make it blue and then he whipped that out and then i was

00:24:18.540 we were able to like come up with a concept and like all of that and everything and sometimes

00:24:23.440 like i have amazing writers who come in like alex feltry or like jesse st john who have been like

00:24:29.520 all over all my projects as well who come in with their great ideas too and like really relate to

00:24:34.520 like what they know about me but it's it's also personal because like yeah half the time we're

00:24:38.760 writing but the other like three hours we're just talking yeah we're just talking about everything

00:24:42.560 in our lives i've heard that from many different artists like sometimes that's where it comes from

00:24:46.600 it's just kind of chatting but where you're at exactly mentally emotionally spiritually yeah you

00:24:52.000 just like you need people to me it's like i love collaborators in every way because it's like

00:24:56.580 they're gonna pull something out of you that you didn't even realize based on like

00:24:59.940 a conversation you had with them like three years ago you know i love that it's so cool and it's

00:25:05.300 nice to work with the same people i'm sure like they just get your vibe like when you find a good

00:25:09.620 one it's family yeah it has to be because i don't know how many producers i've gone with that are

00:25:15.000 just random who they just like don't like anything i do and then i'm like okay why am i here okay so

00:25:20.740 i feel like you hate me like can you sing like this i'm like no that's my voice hello can you

00:25:26.560 like make it less like that can you stop being you by the way and i'm like can you it's really

00:25:31.480 getting in the way of my ability to produce like one of us is gonna get hit here and it's not gonna

00:25:36.240 be me like hello okay so let's talk about tour tour how excited are you what do you look most

00:25:44.040 looking forward to what are you most uh nervous about give us all tea uh everything i'm okay i'm

00:25:50.840 like so i'm like a day away from leaving yeah and i am like beyond nervous like i am been a

00:25:56.160 performer my whole life yeah I'm never nervous and you've done live shows many many many times 0.99

00:26:00.940 yeah that's all I do huge crowd I pop my pussy like I sing those notes divas yeah I'm terrified 1.00

00:26:08.320 I don't know why I think it's just like this is like I everything with my music career I really 0.99

00:26:13.780 have done like solely by myself with my amazing like gay people who helped me like team of gays

00:26:19.980 my team of gays I have one too come on they're real and we love them oh girl I literally was

00:26:24.440 like I need women and gay people yes sorry that's all I have room for I'm sorry in house no my DEI

00:26:31.620 hire is a straight man honestly that's my DEI I get it my my actual manager is a straight guy but 0.96

00:26:37.480 he's a straight guy where I can go shut up and he's got like less talky from you no and he goes

00:26:43.080 okay and he goes Chrissy you can always tell me to shut up and I'm like I know yeah trust me I

00:26:46.980 know yeah I know and I do and I love him down but like it is literally just gays and girls yeah need 0.96

00:26:54.120 them and I need them I mean they they're the only reason I was able to do all this like every other

00:26:58.820 random guy that was on my team like was like oh you're not good enough we don't want you and I

00:27:03.540 was like okay and then like my gays and girls just we all put this tour together period like

00:27:08.420 out of nowhere like literally out of nowhere yeah and I'm just I think I'm just like shocked

00:27:13.880 I'm just shocked it's happening yeah I don't know it's like you dream of something for so long

00:27:19.660 like ever since you're a kid and like so much of my life has just been singing in my room and like

00:27:24.840 coming home from rehearsals and like going back and like dreaming of like shows or like

00:27:29.740 yeah broadway or like all these things and now it's happening and i'm like i'm scared i don't

00:27:36.620 know why like it's just it's sometimes scary to accomplish your dreams no hell yeah i agree or

00:27:43.360 it's just kind of like oh my god i can't believe i'm doing it for real yes it feels it feels very

00:27:48.420 surreal but it's a beautiful thing walk in it confidently girl because yeah you deserve it

00:27:53.000 you've earned it yeah and you're gonna kill it you're gonna have so much fun i really do think

00:27:57.080 you're gonna have a blast probably on tour i know i know i'm gonna love it so much i mean my whole 0.86

00:28:02.220 tour crew is like gay people like a gay boy and all lesbians like it's gonna be so perfect like 0.99

00:28:08.280 thank god thank god tour is really hard and my yours is gonna be way harder than mine was because 0.99

00:28:14.920 mine is just sitting and saying pee pee poo poo out my butt like in a mic for an hour whereas 0.89

00:28:19.700 like yours you're like performing like for real but even i it was fucking hard but it was really 0.98

00:28:25.380 fun yeah it was really fun because we had like a great team and i think that's like the key to

00:28:30.540 surviving and having a good time is having a lot of really good people with you yeah so you're set

00:28:35.580 there i think you're gonna have a blast totally and just remembering to like be a person right

00:28:39.960 i think sometimes it's like i love i get i turn on and i'm like i'm chrissy and i'm here and i'm

00:28:44.520 present but you know i'm i'm like such a usually quieter person honestly on my day-to-day that like

00:28:51.920 i know i'm gonna get very drained not in a bad way but it's like finding those little moments of like

00:28:57.520 resetting a little bit reset yeah yeah i agree letting myself do that oh my god that's so nice

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00:29:48.920 gays on my bus and it was funny because my man was there who's obviously not gay my dad and my

00:29:54.720 brother-in-law were there but like for some reason like when the bus driver who was a straight man

00:29:58.920 when he was on the bus it just felt like this is a girl bus no like get off there's girls there's 0.99

00:30:05.300 girls here this is girl buzz oh there's a man here no like we're gonna drive like our little

00:30:11.960 subaro like around the country and i'm so glad just like me and my choreographer slash like tour

00:30:18.220 manager slash everything he's perfect he's my god his name is alec cohen gay choreographer he's 0.82

00:30:23.600 perfect period um it's just gonna be like him driving me driving and then my gaggle of lesbians 1.00

00:30:29.360 my girlfriend's gonna come with me too love how amazing thank god and my dog oh yay oh my god

00:30:36.740 sugar sugar yes oh my god of course i remember sugar she's perfect how is she doing she's

00:30:42.400 everything to me i would die without her that's how i feel about my dogs too i really do feel

00:30:47.640 it's so funny this morning my my man was like um do you think our lives would be different if we

00:30:53.300 didn't have the dogs and i was like i honestly feel like they would be a lot sadder yeah like

00:30:57.620 my life would be so empty without my dogs like god help anyone around me the day something 0.50

00:31:04.220 happens to either of those i can't even fucking i can't think about it i'll freak out i'm gonna 0.99

00:31:09.560 make it everyone's problem if something bad happens to my dogs the world will end the world 0.98

00:31:13.980 i'm gonna do something drastic i'm gonna fuck everyone up like it's not gonna be okay no one 0.95

00:31:20.620 will survive no for real i'm i can't even think about it for too long i'll freak out no but she's 0.97

00:31:26.060 doing well I'm glad to hear that she's wonderful she's like really the only thing I need and she

00:31:32.300 loves her she loves her girlfriend she loves my girlfriend it's awesome I'm like can you take her

00:31:36.760 out like can you do can you feed her awesome perfect we love that and I'm glad she gets to

00:31:43.100 come with you too I feel like it's it does feel sometimes um like oh I could do it by myself but

00:31:49.920 then it's like I don't want to I don't wanna I know and it's like they always know you I feel

00:31:54.500 like your partner knows you better than anyone so it's like that's really nice too for when you're

00:31:58.440 decompressing from shows oh my god it's nice to like have your person with you i know so i'm glad

00:32:03.780 she's able to come with you i know i was like you have to like make me make content every day too

00:32:08.420 i'm putting her to work i'm like you're not just coming with me you're working yeah everyone's on

00:32:12.800 the clock everyone's everyone's on the clock yeah okay when i did tour too we had um we brought my

00:32:18.840 brother-in-law because he was helping us with security and my man and my dad and it was funny

00:32:25.380 because every venue we went to they're always like oh yeah they have security but it's always

00:32:29.760 like some 90 year old guy and he has like a back brace and he's like can't lift heavy things sorry

00:32:35.080 and you're like no for sure we'll bring all the stuff in ourselves right and it was funny because

00:32:39.360 my agent's husband also came for a few of the shows on some of the legs of the tour and the

00:32:45.200 way my family and him were like just doing all of the roadie work just moving everything in and out

00:32:50.840 everyone's sweating through their t-shirts because it was summer so it was like it really is like a

00:32:55.680 self-run thing it is it's a self-run operation it is no one's doing that for you no you like

00:33:01.800 need fucking help so and then someone to be tour manager or whatever so we had like we had someone 0.94

00:33:06.540 that was with us the whole time Keisha love her she was the best um and she was running all av 1.00

00:33:11.040 and stuff on our shows but we don't have all the fancy stuff that i'm sure you're gonna have

00:33:15.440 just lights and so oh yeah we just had one light oh yeah and we're like what the hell

00:33:19.960 so what's going to happen like literally my meeting with them today we were like so 0.99

00:33:24.500 lighting yeah oh shit backdrop like all these things i'm saying it's me and a gay guy it's 0.97

00:33:30.700 me and a gay guy and we're like both the most neurodivergent oh no like i don't know how either 0.99

00:33:36.780 of us have a collective thought ever sometimes we look at each other we go and then we both like

00:33:42.160 know exactly what we mean it's like kind of terrifying right we get things done but i'm

00:33:47.340 also terrified because it's me and a gay guy well and you're it's just me and a twink no it's me and

00:33:52.980 a twink and i love him he's my brother but like girl what are we gonna do the aries makes a lot 0.96

00:34:00.140 of sense in that regard oh my god yeah type b beyond yeah beyond beyond b for beyond like well

00:34:07.520 that's the thing about type b people like they stress me out i'm a virgo so i'm a type a girl

00:34:11.280 yes but they type b people stress me out but honestly everything always works out we always

00:34:16.380 get it done yeah it always gets done and it gets done to the highest of capabilities oh yeah no

00:34:21.040 it's gonna be amazing like no it'll be perfect i just don't know how like i don't i won't know

00:34:26.320 how until it happens and i'll be like oh that's awesome but when it does it will be perfect girl

00:34:29.820 it will be shining like beautiful like but no there are a couple things i'm like i don't know

00:34:35.100 how that will happen we'll figure it out it's okay and it will and it always will and it always

00:34:39.300 will i think for good people and gay people and people who are good and gay especially good and

00:34:43.980 gay and good and gay we don't always get that let's be real but i love when it happens when

00:34:50.200 it lines up it's perfect oh my god it's like otherworldly perfect okay so what can people

00:34:56.800 be excited about for tour uh what do they what can they look forward to i mean drag queens divas 1.00

00:35:04.020 live vocals i'll always say that um and you do sing live that is true and i do sing live period

00:35:11.580 i will never ever lead you the wrong way with that okay i don't care if my voice cracks maybe

00:35:17.160 it's live all right um we have like all these props we have like a puppet that's of me like a

00:35:25.340 literal puppet i don't know why either we just have it um we also like a new song is going to

00:35:31.400 be coming out soon andromeda and a music video period all while i'm on tour very exciting why

00:35:36.800 i did all that at once but i love to be like let's do everything you're just maximizing it

00:35:41.740 I love maximizing my anxiety.

00:35:46.300 Solely your anxiety.

00:35:47.380 It's awesome.

00:35:48.100 I'm so excited for you.

00:35:49.260 Where are you going?

00:35:50.420 So everyone knows.

00:35:51.240 Just generally cities, if you want to name a few.

00:35:53.480 Okay, Brooklyn, we're starting with you, Divas. 1.00

00:35:55.940 Love.

00:35:56.420 We got, oh, Jesus.

00:35:58.780 The East Coast.

00:35:59.800 Chicago.

00:36:00.700 Yes, we're ending in Chicago.

00:36:02.080 Love, your hometown.

00:36:03.180 How exciting.

00:36:04.880 We just announced the LA tickets also.

00:36:07.160 We were waiting for that one.

00:36:08.680 So that's Easter Sunday.

00:36:10.180 If you want to enjoy your Easter Sunday with Chrissy for some very biblical, loving lesbianism, come see me live at the Roxy. 0.55

00:36:21.680 There you go.

00:36:22.080 To get some sale now.

00:36:22.680 The Roxy, how fun.

00:36:23.720 I know.

00:36:23.900 What a great venue.

00:36:24.680 Love that.

00:36:25.140 It's awesome.

00:36:25.840 Amazing.

00:36:26.540 I'm so excited.

00:36:27.000 The Lord has risen again.

00:36:28.720 It's Chrissy Shlopeka.

00:36:30.220 Me and the Lord.

00:36:32.040 We go way back.

00:36:33.080 We go way back. 0.69

00:36:34.100 Well, the Christians are mad at me again. 1.00

00:36:36.540 Because of passion fruit.

00:36:37.780 Oh, that's right.

00:36:38.640 because of the catholicism oh totally because of that stuff well there's a lot of other stuff going

00:36:43.540 on in catholicism that they should probably pay more attention yeah you know what they really

00:36:47.160 don't like in the video there's this scene where there's like legs going in between me

00:36:50.640 on like a rigged thing and i did a bts video of it and they're like no blasphemy blasphemy

00:36:57.540 but you're not in the church well i wasn't a church well not in that part not that part

00:37:01.840 no i was like not that part not that part i was in a church and i looked gorgeous in the church

00:37:06.240 and you know what happened though you did actually i was thank you so much yes first of all thank

00:37:09.440 you second of all i was in that church and i was like i know if like jesus is here and god and

00:37:16.200 whoever the hell else was like part of that thing that happened then they would be riding with us

00:37:22.160 gay people i think so they would love us jesus are you kidding me yeah he was the one that would

00:37:27.180 love us he loved lepers there's no way he wouldn't love a gay please please lepers come on now i'm 0.98

00:37:32.740 saying didn't he like he like threw a table over he's like stop it because he's like everyone

00:37:37.500 accept each other right he did that he loved i wasn't jesus christ superstar when i was 12 i

00:37:42.420 know what happened hello there he loved horse he loved it all okay everyone so like why me 1.00

00:37:48.960 a whore said whore mind you said whore mind you lesbian whore femme princess why could i not be 1.00

00:37:58.600 in the room with jc right with jc the big boys and the big boy god and i'm singing my heart out 1.00

00:38:06.700 about eating out a girl like oh my god kill me like jesus christ it's fine it's literally fine

00:38:15.660 like i said catholicism has a lot of other issues as does christianity they got a lot more going on 1.00

00:38:22.200 that they should be paying attention to other than lesbian whores in the church please they need more 1.00

00:38:26.480 lesbian whores in the church don't they want lesbian whores in the church they need more of 1.00

00:38:30.040 them i'll tell you that i'm saying but don't they want us there then maybe i'll start showing up 1.00

00:38:33.980 hang on hang on i could create a nightlife event at the church exactly i could i could easily do

00:38:42.920 that easily i could make time on sunday i can make them money okay hang on isn't the church

00:38:48.080 all about money right we could hand out a basket and be like please donate to the jesus christ

00:38:54.040 slash Christy Schiapecka fund.

00:38:55.540 There you go.

00:38:55.980 And then I'll use it for tour

00:38:56.960 as the priests use it for their Lexus.

00:38:59.520 Right.

00:39:00.160 There you go.

00:39:01.200 Like, I think it's all good.

00:39:02.220 They buy private planes all the time. 0.90

00:39:03.660 I'm sure they'd sponsor a lesbian tour. 1.00

00:39:05.480 What? 0.58

00:39:05.820 Like, I have to drive a Subaru 1.00

00:39:07.120 around the fucking United States 1.00

00:39:09.020 and you're fucking on your private jet? 1.00

00:39:11.780 For real. 1.00

00:39:12.440 God.

00:39:13.120 Life isn't fair.

00:39:15.240 It's okay.

00:39:16.060 Working twice is hard to get half as far.

00:39:17.620 I know all about that.

00:39:18.440 Oh, it's so good.

00:39:19.020 Look at you.

00:39:20.600 I love my life.

00:39:22.620 Loving it.

00:39:23.340 okay i do have some fun facts about you oh shit yeah we changed the format since the last time 0.85

00:39:29.200 you've been here about me yes they're fun facts we have our own in-house nardwar whoa so i'm gonna 0.83

00:39:36.080 uh tell you some fun facts okay i'm like nervous okay well this says uh you used to be a starbucks

00:39:42.920 barista which i did know before you made enough money doing content creation to quit that's so

00:39:47.720 real how exciting did you like being a starbucks barista it was fierce because i was so poor

00:39:52.880 and i was living in the city in chicago and um i like could never afford groceries or anything

00:39:59.800 and so there there's a camera you know all over the starbucks right but there wasn't one where

00:40:05.420 like all the milk was like the oat milks and all the like food so i would come with like a i stole

00:40:10.560 a lot is what i'm saying i would come with a like a backpack that was completely like thin

00:40:14.820 like nothing in it and i would leave with it just like so much like so much i'd be like bye guys

00:40:21.280 like i'll see you tomorrow and like no one did anything they can spare it it's all right it's

00:40:25.960 starbucks yeah they can spare it in starbucks 2019 they could spare it okay they absolutely

00:40:31.740 like i was dealing with like people in the bathroom at the starbucks like throwing up

00:40:36.900 everywhere and overdosing and it was terrible and i was like four years old okay like i was

00:40:43.240 allowed to steal that oat milk it's okay it's all right they're gonna live they're gonna live

00:40:47.880 they're gonna believe it or not they're gonna pull through clearly that business is gonna thrive

00:40:52.320 right across the street right there you go they're gonna be okay did you have any crazy

00:40:57.400 stories working as a barista um or weird ones honestly it was just no i mean a lot of people 0.83

00:41:05.080 would come in and steal a bunch of shit and i would just let them well yeah why wouldn't i i'm 0.87

00:41:09.300 not dying for starbucks no why would i do that like i was like okay take that sandwich girl like 0.99

00:41:14.420 i don't care yeah oh girl it's all right i i don't have stock in this starbucks at all

00:41:19.600 absolutely i just work here i just work here i'm four years old and i work here okay like

00:41:26.500 i'm just trying to like get like pay my rent maybe maybe we'll see we'll see and it didn't

00:41:33.460 happen sometimes okay like it's gonna be fine but no the crazy i think the craziest part of that was

00:41:39.780 like i was starting to blow up on tiktok while working there yeah and i worked there for a long

00:41:45.240 time i was there for like four years oh yeah and like i was like 2021 maybe okay and that was when

00:41:50.420 i was like whoa because people come and be like are you and i was like do i quit hang on like is

00:41:56.720 this the time i leave right probably when they start identifying you at your job yeah but it

00:42:01.900 was the time when i didn't know you could make money off social media oh yeah so i was just

00:42:05.660 working at starbucks for like a year into my career oh wow okay period i don't know i know i 0.98

00:42:10.180 really wasn't making anything at all because you know like the cpm on tiktok was dog shit for 0.98

00:42:16.200 ever ever ever ever ever oh yeah and so like i really wasn't making shit for the longest time 0.98

00:42:21.920 like before i really was like oh wow i keep you could like live off this oh yeah i like really

00:42:27.160 genuinely did not think that was like a thing when i first signed with my first management i

00:42:31.780 made them like like swear to god i would be able to pay my rent i was like this was this is made up 0.99

00:42:38.720 yeah i'm going to make money off of social media you're a liar you're a man and you're a liar yeah 0.99

00:42:43.680 you're like i'm literally toiling away at that coffee shop every day i am i am making those 1.00

00:42:48.640 frappuccinos for you 12 year olds and some of you like 50 year olds fierce by the way

00:42:54.160 and i'm like i'm not even making enough so like what do you mean me being like

00:42:59.220 like hit him with your car is gonna make me money like hello dream job

00:43:04.980 okay next one says in high school you were a team captain of a recreational kickball team

00:43:14.080 oh my god so so kind of so kind of that so in high school um well how do how does this go like

00:43:25.840 i was bored and me and my friends were like what if we just like made a kickball team okay and so

00:43:31.480 we made a kickball team and i was the team captain of said kickball team it was just a bunch of gays 1.00

00:43:36.680 and those who didn't know if they were gay or not because it was high school including i you know 0.95

00:43:41.100 so it was a bunch of gays yeah bye now gay later bye now gay later hello hello bye now gay later 0.93

00:43:48.660 right i really was like bisexuality and then i went never mind 0.97

00:43:51.760 actually i'm a liar girl i was lying it was fierce it was so fierce um but yeah i'm like me and my

00:44:01.800 friend we were just like we're gonna be the team captains and then i never won a singular game

00:44:06.700 no you didn't win at all no because i would only pick the fiercest divas and the fiercest divas 1.00

00:44:11.580 aren't winning kickball that's true it's tea that's true they're in the theater they're

00:44:16.160 clocked in somewhere and we were all in theater by the way like no one had did you guys play other

00:44:22.280 schools or did you just no each other oh no like each other it wasn't like this huge thing it was

00:44:27.040 just like this group of gay people half guy figuring it out whatever they them all of that 0.98

00:44:33.800 and like figuring out like every now and then i like pick a new diva on my team that was on the 1.00

00:44:38.760 other divas team it was so you guys just mixed up every time and then went into different teams 1.00

00:44:44.060 every time fierce like why did i have the time of my life why did i have like so much fun no take

00:44:51.460 me back take me back to the elementary field that we were playing in the elementary school field

00:44:56.900 like that's honestly really sweet it was i think more people should do stuff like that i know just

00:45:01.700 for the sake of it why not and my parents still thought i was a bad kid i wasn't drinking or

00:45:06.040 doing drugs i was playing kickball and they were like you're terrible with my other gay friends 0.97

00:45:10.040 my gays like hello my man joined a softball like rec league well when i first started dating him

00:45:18.280 he was like actively in an adult softball league oh my god we're like in our early 20s and i was

00:45:23.400 like you like play for real and he was like oh yeah like i i it's me and like my friends and

00:45:29.120 they play other teams like locally okay so they joined like a local softball thing which i think

00:45:34.640 is like fun i was like oh that's cool and he's like would you want to come watch me and i was

00:45:38.740 like i mean i guess but i was kind of like i hate watching baseball but like yeah i guess right and

00:45:44.180 i did go a few times with him because he was on one like much later when we were when i was kind

00:45:50.100 of starting to do this for a living and i remember every game we went to it was like the other team

00:45:56.820 was just a gang of dads that like hate their wives oh of course and they can't wait to drink 0.98

00:46:02.980 on a weeknight like they're like fuck it and then they're all they all go and they like take it so 1.00

00:46:07.640 seriously wow nobody's in shape nobody's athletic and they're all just hitting like bombs into the 0.99

00:46:13.860 outfield and i remember watching i'm like this is the most pointless like this feels like the most

00:46:18.660 like like honey you know i have softball that night but like such the biggest excuse for all 0.99

00:46:24.700 of them to leave home right and just get to go and like fuck around and be like i hate my fucking 0.99

00:46:29.180 wife bro i'm like oh you hate your wife me too like we were pondering our sexuality 1.00

00:46:33.920 you hate your wives right you guys are playing sports in a god-fearing way you could be pondering 0.95

00:46:38.980 your sexuality too they probably should i know they should do that a little bit more probably 0.90

00:46:44.360 huh well yeah maybe a little bit more of the world's problems would be figured out if they

00:46:48.600 just realized their guy yeah that's like uh i saw i think it was the drag queen and she was on 0.99

00:46:53.300 trixie and katya's podcast and she was saying um a lot of the world's problems would be solved 0.83

00:46:58.940 if men just put a finger up their butt yes a little bit sooner period like if you guys just 0.96

00:47:03.440 put fingers over your butt a lot of your problems would be solved because then you would realize 0.99

00:47:06.000 you're not so angry some of you would realize you're gay it's like a real like win-win everybody 0.99

00:47:09.720 wins and i believe in that i fully believe in that like that's my bible okay those are my

00:47:15.680 affirmations literally i say those in the mirror every morning every morning it's like written on 0.80

00:47:20.060 a sticky note you know two fingers off the butt period okay this one says that you played alice

00:47:27.160 in alice in wonderland in high school i did oh my god that makes so much sense it was i love that

00:47:32.640 was it just regular stage play was musical it was just the stage play um and i i will brag

00:47:38.380 let me brag i was the sophomore who got the lead okay and you know i pissed those seniors off 0.98

00:47:43.920 bitch and they were mean to me 1.00

00:47:46.780 damn yeah you cleared them bitch it's hard it's hard being talented 1.00

00:47:52.540 it's so lonely at the top oh my god that is so tea though did you have fun oh of course like 1.00

00:47:58.680 did you have a lot of leading roles yes yes of course well yes of course that's all i did

00:48:05.360 i'm telling you i went i come home from school i come home from rehearsal i go to my bedroom

00:48:10.180 my parents are fighting i go i'm not listening to that i create a scene in my room i have a mic i

00:48:16.420 have a mic from like oh my god just one of those old board games i like found a fake mic in yeah

00:48:21.200 and i would like use it and like pretend i was on broadway and like all those things i was

00:48:24.860 practicing forever because i was alone my whole childhood but it was furious that in your i just

00:48:33.160 love when you're like yes no yeah like yes undeniably i was the lead and period i'm so

00:48:39.820 glad you're you're so me honestly i remember all my wins why would i not biggest thing i've ever

00:48:46.340 done like come on did you have uh do you have any like idols in terms of like pop stars or

00:48:53.880 broadway stars or anything like that people like you loved watching growing up you still love now

00:48:57.680 okay i loved bernadette peters growing up she's like my broadway icon in love with her um lady 1.00

00:49:08.100 gaga is obviously a big inspo for me yeah i was i think my first girl crush ever though was ariana

00:49:14.340 grande i was like obsessed with her yeah like i like could have been one of those girls that like

00:49:19.900 did this you know and like big sleeves yeah oh so tiny i'm so tiny yeah like that like i so that's

00:49:28.640 true i so could have been that girl um but then i realized i just had a crush on her right and

00:49:33.280 that's where it all started yeah lesbian origin stories exactly it all begins somewhere and also 0.99

00:49:39.540 another pop star turned broadway diva love that look at you even lady gaga too same thing your

00:49:45.920 your tone of voice your singing voice sounds a lot like Lady Gaga to me I like growing up she

00:49:50.980 was like like I learned to sing by listening to other people and like mimicking their tone and

00:49:55.780 like definitely she was part of that I love that definitely that she's got a set of pipes on her 1.00

00:50:02.440 bitch I mean that's mother just like you okay another one says does wedgie crew game night 1.00

00:50:10.460 mean anything to you if not please show this photo from high school that she was tagged in 1.00

00:50:15.740 I have no idea what you're saying

00:50:18.080 Does any of that mean anything to you?

00:50:25.000 That is like the most terrifying

00:50:26.640 I just got like a hot flag

00:50:29.960 So that was 0.97

00:50:32.020 I have no idea what the fuck that means 0.89

00:50:34.180 Completely honest 0.58

00:50:36.020 All I know is that is a photo of the cast

00:50:38.540 From the one acts

00:50:40.240 We did a freshman year

00:50:41.540 I was the lead of this

00:50:43.180 I was the lead

00:50:44.420 um by the way and it was like um a one act that was written about like twilight and i played bella

00:50:52.380 from twilight and that's like that's what that's from extent of my memory it must have been like a

00:50:57.800 cast party and because you know cast parties were weird you know cast and i like one time was

00:51:03.780 i was the upperclassman who like brought weed once it's like all those memes of theater kids

00:51:10.340 having parties no and you know that like what is that video of like the theater kids like singing

00:51:16.780 in like a denny's or something i see that and i'm like oh tears to my eyes like i remember i remember

00:51:24.000 the day like the glory days like that was whatever was happening at like our steak and shake like

00:51:30.140 i'm doing this weird shit god this wedgie crew game night here you i truly wish i know like 0.83

00:51:36.560 what that meant and like clearly like i don't i don't clear clearly i don't talk no that's 0.96

00:51:42.820 i just don't have anyone to ask that about to ask to confirm what the hell that is let me i send

00:51:49.040 this to like somebody i haven't talked to in 10 years so what was that do you can you tell me what

00:51:52.940 remind me what wedgie crew game night was i feel like they would block me they'd be like you've

00:51:58.300 been weird yeah since you rose to fame you've completely fucking they're like i don't know if 0.90

00:52:03.120 you know this but someone's hacking you and they're sending weird messages to people from high 0.96

00:52:07.180 school oh my god my biggest fear sending a message to someone from high school you and me both that's

00:52:13.580 never happening sorry oh my god no one time i got a dm like early on like when i had first i think

00:52:20.220 i'd been doing this for like half a year at that point and i started filming this full time and

00:52:25.500 everything and i got a dm from a kid from my high school who i never talked to i think i had one

00:52:32.780 class with him junior year oh my god that's it that's the worst and he dm'd me and was like hey

00:52:37.380 drew hope you're doing well anyways um so my girlfriend has this jewelry business where she

00:52:43.720 makes her own jewelry i was just curious if you could post it and tag her and just like give her

00:52:48.920 a shout out because she really wants new customers thanks i was like do you think my inbox i'm not

00:52:54.880 even kidding i blocked him like immediately and i was like do you think my inbox is like inquiries

00:52:59.480 like hey does anyone need anything let me know like is that did you see me say that somewhere

00:53:04.540 hey everyone from high school that was rude to me what can i do for you do you need anything 0.89

00:53:09.000 from me what do you need do you need to see my boobs like what is it like hit me up hit me up 0.86

00:53:13.240 hit me up please oh my god recently not recently i guess like a year ago i was back in chicago 0.89

00:53:18.960 and i was seeing a show that my friend had choreographed and afterwards this girl comes

00:53:23.580 up to me and she's like oh my god hi like you know someone like i know someone you went to

00:53:27.340 high school with and i was like who and she says the name of my literal bully from high school no 0.77

00:53:31.540 fucking way and i go who's that and she goes oh it's this person like she you guys used to be 0.97

00:53:36.560 you were friends and i go i don't know who you're talking about best thing i've ever done 0.98

00:53:42.080 best thing i've ever done that's so t yeah i don't know i've never heard that name in my life 0.52

00:53:47.980 i'm so sorry to that man i'm so sorry to that so sorry to that man like i'm so fucking sorry to 0.99

00:53:53.820 that like never heard of that person in my fucking life actually like who threw a frisbee at my best 0.95

00:53:58.260 friend's head to bully her at the time that's insane high school was weird it was like such a 0.98

00:54:03.420 what a weird strange thing to do as a bully sometimes when you get the lead

00:54:08.400 and they get your understudy you get a target put on your back oh honey

00:54:13.760 oh honey your understudy is not your friend in high school that's insane it was i knew it was

00:54:21.280 cut throat in there but i didn't know it was quite like that in the theater department okay i didn't 0.88

00:54:26.280 know they were moving that way we were cool everyone else was like that nerd that is insane 0.95

00:54:32.760 though that you're a high school bully would tell someone like oh we were such good friends

00:54:37.220 i gagged i was like and who's that hello hello you made all my friends hate me right hello and also

00:54:45.900 like good luck explaining that when that girl goes back to them no it's serious she said she's

00:54:50.900 never met you in her life no and she totally could like pull up a photo of us don't know that 0.90

00:54:56.440 sorry i don't know that person ever must be a fan yeah like peace and love yeah there was a lot of

00:55:05.480 people i didn't have time to hang out with no because i was i was busy with like the wedgie

00:55:09.700 night yeah clearly and playing eponene live all my leads and um the high school theater like

00:55:18.800 that's that is really good i love that though and nice full circle moment it was beautiful

00:55:25.460 it's a beautiful thing it was so beautiful i was like oh life can be life can be good

00:55:30.000 i've said before there were people like that were really awful to me in high school like whether

00:55:36.700 they used to be friends with me or not like like in high school we like had a falling out it's like 0.91

00:55:41.500 girl girlfriend shit it's very normal it happens but i literally think to myself i'm like i better 0.73

00:55:46.840 never find out that you're telling people you know me well that's what was happening yeah i 1.00

00:55:51.400 better never don't ever let me find out that you're saying we were friends oh and are you

00:55:56.300 saying you were my understudy too hello did she tell you that little detail oh yeah

00:56:01.020 huh did she forget now she forgot to share that little tidbit

00:56:06.340 like no like i was i will be petty for 16 year old me forever hell yeah i never forget i never

00:56:13.620 forget i will never forget i will never once forget dila okay last uh fun fact um do you

00:56:20.420 remember what animals you had as a webkins user as happy 1114 okay so yes of course i do i had

00:56:27.560 over 50 webkins damn i had a hyper fixation so like for years i would only ask for that for

00:56:32.640 birthdays and christmas and like like any way i could get a webkins like i would save up like

00:56:37.680 like if i got like 20 for something found on the ground because we were so poor like i'd be like

00:56:43.440 Oh, my God, I can get a Webkinz.

00:56:44.700 So I had a koala named Snuggles.

00:56:47.220 I had, that was my first one.

00:56:49.800 No, I know. 0.98

00:56:50.580 Listen, I know my freaking Webkinz. 0.96

00:56:55.260 I had a little, like, curly white dog, and I named her Fergie. 0.96

00:57:01.580 It was fierce.

00:57:03.240 It was so fierce.

00:57:04.340 You've been a diva since day one.

00:57:05.660 Oh, yeah.

00:57:06.140 Yeah.

00:57:06.560 Bear named Billy, clearly.

00:57:09.300 Obviously, the bear's name was Billy.

00:57:10.740 Obviously.

00:57:11.140 They had, like, the Valentine's Day edition of their frog, and I named her Rose.

00:57:17.240 Like, I remember, and my dad, when he, like, had moved out of our childhood house, he was

00:57:22.260 like, what do you want me to do with these?

00:57:23.900 And I was like, you have to keep them all.

00:57:25.180 Like, I still am, like, I can't, like, go on my Webkin's.

00:57:27.380 You have to.

00:57:28.200 Those were my friends.

00:57:29.140 Yeah, you need them.

00:57:30.480 There's a fair amount of, like, attachment to them at that point.

00:57:34.080 I mean, I slept with them all on my little twin bed.

00:57:36.700 Yeah.

00:57:36.920 My little twin bed, and I had so many, and I didn't, not just Webkin's, but just, like,

00:57:40.260 other plushies like yeah i loved them and i would sleep like this so like none of them would fall

00:57:46.000 off the bed yeah if one fell off the bed i would cry there's some i was a lonely kid

00:57:50.920 i was a lonely kid well also an animal lover an animal lover yeah which is why and i know

00:57:58.340 you've loved animals which i am so glad you have sugar then since you had such an attachment to

00:58:03.240 your plushies yeah i'm so glad you have sugar and she's a real life plus yeah she's your real

00:58:07.460 lifelong she's real she's real yeah oh my god oh my god well thank you so much for coming to the 0.93

00:58:13.780 show today thank you for i fucking love you i love you i've missed you i feel like i see you all the 0.50

00:58:18.940 time but i don't i think it's just because we see each other online all the time i know i see your 0.80

00:58:22.000 beautiful face and i'm like period same like yeah me me liking everything that you do no literally

00:58:27.260 i'm like you're a similar person where it's like every time i see you win i'm like am i gonna cry

00:58:31.880 like it's just amazing I don't know it's like when you just like watch we all have just a similar

00:58:38.060 experience that we all kind of only understand it feels so unique it's so unique and so I do

00:58:44.340 I'm always like like it's just so sweet same and I want to tell you I really do think you are

00:58:50.180 someone special and I think that you have a lot to offer the world of music and I want to tell

00:58:54.880 you you are brave and courageous and please don't give up you are so fucking awesome and you're

00:59:00.100 meant to do amazing great things thank you and you were meant to be here in this chair because

00:59:03.520 we had to manifest we had to and i didn't even know it was right before tour and that feels

00:59:07.660 like fate something beautiful just yeah and i know you're very witchy woo woo like me oh yes so 0.70

00:59:13.000 yeah very well obviously you being a lesbian obviously obviously that's in the guidebook 1.00

00:59:17.180 in the dna i guess yeah the crystals the witchy woo woo shit all of it all of it all of it i love 0.99

00:59:22.740 it so and i love you and i think you're incredible and i'm so happy that you're embarking on this 0.82

00:59:27.700 new pop star journey and like the way you want to do it i think that's wonderful and i think it was

00:59:32.580 meant to happen that way and i know it's gonna happen for you and then i'm gonna do what i do

00:59:36.540 every time which i'm like i'm gonna say i fucking knew it i knew it i knew it i smelled it and i 0.97

00:59:43.320 sensed it and that's why you were in the chair the day you say that is the day i'll know i made it 0.95

00:59:48.020 i'm gonna be waiting just send me a voice message i will i fucking knew it i've done it i've done it 0.92

00:59:54.720 Well, now you've been in the chair. 0.89

00:59:55.980 What is said is done now.

00:59:57.200 What is said is done?

00:59:58.280 I'm so excited for you.

00:59:59.600 Thank you so much.

00:59:59.880 And I'm so happy for you.

01:00:01.600 Congratulations on the tour. 0.96

01:00:02.580 It's going to be so fucking fun. 0.94

01:00:04.200 But where can everybody find you? 0.90

01:00:05.440 Stream your music.

01:00:06.160 Come see you.

01:00:06.760 Look up Chrissy Shepeka. 0.98

01:00:08.260 If you don't know how to spell my last name, figure it out.

01:00:10.560 And he will see me on tour.

01:00:12.500 It's all on my Instagram.

01:00:13.980 Everything I post about it like 70 times a day.

01:00:16.620 And I get like four likes on every time I post it.

01:00:19.420 But you're going to see it because, baby, we're selling out.

01:00:21.720 Period.

01:00:22.480 And period.

01:00:22.980 and thank you all so much for joining us on this episode thank you so much my amazing guest chrissy

01:00:27.420 schlopeka please go stream all her music it's actually perfect you can click right out of this

01:00:31.740 and go stream all of chrissy's music i recommend starting with passion fruit if you really want to

01:00:36.220 kick it off bitch start with that one thank you so much for joining us make sure you go follow her 1.00

01:00:41.460 make sure you go see her on tour it's going to be amazing and thank you so much for tuning in don't

01:00:45.000 forget new episodes of the comment section drop every wednesday you can stream the audio on all

01:00:48.980 streaming platforms but the video is for free and exclusively on Spotify thank you so much

01:00:53.660 my amazing guest Chrissy thank you so much for joining us and I'll see you next week bye

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