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  • - Do dogs do drag?

  • - Do dogs do drag?

  • I mean they can.

  • You can dress a dog up in a dress

  • and take him onstage with you.

  • (lilting music)

  • Hi, how are you?

  • - I'm great.

  • - What's your name?

  • - Crystal.

  • - I'm Isabella.

  • - Nice to meet you, Isabella.

  • - Nice to meet you too.

  • What's your name?

  • - Kristen.

  • - Nice to meet you, I'm Isabella.

  • What do you think of my outfit?

  • - Good.

  • - Do you like pink?

  • - Yeah, that's my favorite color.

  • - Mine too!

  • - What's your job?

  • - I do drag for a living.

  • - Are you on stage?

  • - I am, yeah, I perform on stage.

  • And I sing songs and tell stories and tell jokes.

  • - I was just gonna say about singing.

  • - [Isabella] You were?

  • Do you like to sing?

  • - Yeah.

  • - [Isabella] What do you like to sing?

  • - I like to sing Moana.

  • - Do you like to sing, Crystal?

  • - Yes.

  • - Yeah, what do you like to sing?

  • And the stupid magazines, want me to change

  • my everything. ♪

  • They don't even matter. ♪

  • They're not taking my power. ♪

  • (crew clapping) - Good job!

  • You're a great singer.

  • - Do you wear different clothes instead of this every show?

  • - I do, I have lots of different drag clothes.

  • - Like blue green, green, and yellow, and every color.

  • - I wear every color of the whole rainbow.

  • - Purple?

  • - Uh huh.

  • - How many performances have you been in?

  • - Oh man, I don't even know, I've been doing drag

  • for nine years, and all sorts of things.

  • - Isabella, do they laugh sometimes?

  • - The audience?

  • - Mm-hmm.

  • - Yeah the audience laughs all the time, that's the job.

  • - Are your eyelashes real or fake?

  • - Oh, they're definitely fake.

  • I glued them onto my eye.

  • - Ugh, glued?

  • - [Isabella] Yeah.

  • - What about the gems over there?

  • - I glued those on too.

  • - What about lipstick?

  • - The lipstick I just painted on.

  • - Paint?

  • - Yeah and then I tapped glitter into it.

  • - Glitter?

  • - [Isabella] Yeah glitter! (laughs)

  • - What's under your wig?

  • - Oh my real hair's under my wig.

  • And my real hair is like shaved short on the sides

  • and then it's kinda long on top

  • and it's dyed blue. - I think I kind of see.

  • - You can kind of see it right there?

  • - Yeah.

  • - Just a little bit?

  • What do you think, do you like it though?

  • - Yeah.

  • - Would you wanna wear a wig sometime?

  • - I tried one before. - No.

  • - [Isabella] You've worn a wig before?

  • - Yeah. For Halloween. - What did it look like?

  • - It's straight down purple.

  • - Purple, I have a purple wig.

  • - Isabella, are you a girl?

  • - I'm not, I'm a boy.

  • What do you think about that?

  • Do you think it's okay for a boy to wear clothes like this?

  • - Yeah, like girls.

  • - Yeah, it's cool for a boy to wear girls' clothes?

  • - Yeah.

  • - Yeah.

  • Did you know that I was a boy?

  • - Uh, no.

  • - [Isabella] You thought I was a girl?

  • - Yes.

  • - Yeah?

  • - I thought you was a boy.

  • - [Isabella] How come?

  • - Cause of the voice.

  • - [Isabella] Cause of my voice? Cause I have a deep voice?

  • - Yeah, like a boy.

  • - [Isabella] Yeah.

  • - Do you always dress up as a girl?

  • - Not always, only when I'm performing.

  • I usually live most of my life in jeans, and a t-shirt,

  • and a backwards ball cap.

  • - That's really cool.

  • So you're gay?

  • - I am.

  • Good question! (laughs)

  • - Did you curl your eyelashes?

  • - I did. I used an eyelash curler.

  • But your previous question, I am gay.

  • I came out of the closet when I was 21 years old.

  • - What's coming out of a closet mean?

  • - Coming out of the closet means when you tell everybody

  • that you're gay.

  • It's something that gay people have to do.

  • - We can also do that we can go out and

  • when people open the door we can surprise them.

  • - Yeah.

  • It can be kinda like a surprise.

  • - That's what I thought about coming out of the closet.

  • - Yeah, just jump out of that closet as a surprise.

  • - Yeah, I like freaking her out.

  • - Do you have friends?

  • - I do have friends.

  • - How many?

  • - Oh I don't even know I have a lot of friends.

  • I know a lot of people. - Do you have one hundred?

  • - Probably.

  • - Two thousand?

  • - Probably.

  • (Kristen gasps)

  • - If you weren't doing drag what would you be doing?

  • - Well I have a Master's degree in chemistry.

  • And I used to be a chemist for a skincare company,

  • so I'd probably still be working in a chemistry lab.

  • - You wanted to be a scientist?

  • - I went to school for science and I thought

  • I wanted to be a scientist, and then

  • I figured out that I wanted to be a drag queen.

  • - Isabella?

  • - [Isabella] Yeah?

  • - Do you have a show today?

  • - I don't have a show after this today,

  • but I have a rehearsal for a show, so I have to go practice.

  • - Okay.

  • - [Isabella] Yeah.

  • - What would my drag name be?

  • - A good drag name for you would be...

  • Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Sparkle Pony.

  • (Crystal laughing) (crew clapping)

  • Give a pose. - What would be my name?

  • - Now we gotta figure out your name.

  • The one and only, Little Sparkle Cute Pie.

  • - (laughing) Yeah!

  • - And Isabella Extynn.

  • (crew laughing)

  • - It was good to meet you.

  • - Bye Isabella. - Bye Isabella.

  • - So good to meet you.

  • - Really tall.

  • - Yeah?

  • - 11

  • - 11?

  • - Uh huh.

  • - Wow you are really tall. - I am really tall, huh.

  • - [Kristen] My dad might be that size.

  • - You think your dad's this tall?

  • - [Kristen] Uh huh.

  • - Is your dad this tall?

  • - I don't know.

  • - You don't know?

  • - I'm half your size.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Bye. - Bye.

  • - See you. It was good to meet you guys.

- Do dogs do drag?

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