#111: The Closet (@ChipPope)

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🗓️ 22 April 2013

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

Chip Pope met me at the Comedy Store to talk about the time he spent in the closet. I know a lot of gay people, but very few who are gay but not open about it. As always with Chip, the talk moved to music as well. But most of it was about what it was like not having people (including the comics in the LA scene) know he was gay.

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0:00.0	Yeah, in a way too. Yeah, because I didn't come out to my parent like I came out to my mom
0:04.3	But not as like gay I came out as you know
0:07.6	I like guys to kind of thing when I pretty early on when I was like
0:12.3	Just like that's um, that's just sexual immaturity. Yeah, probably. Yeah, when I was like 21
0:16.8	Pretension or you're not accepting that you're all the way that way. Exactly. It is kind of the bus station to gay
0:22.1	You know, yeah, but but like to the gay bus, but I
0:26.6	But then I
0:28.6	When I was I didn't come out to my parents until I was like in my early 30s because I you know to my
0:35.4	Dad and my stepmom because my stepmom
0:37.7	They're like super religious. I thought they were really gonna have a problem with it
0:41.1	But my stepmom did not have a problem with it. She's very supportive and now I really you know and I realize
0:46.7	It's because she's like you know super Catholic and I'm like well of course
0:51.8	I mean everybody she's hanging out with her just guys and dresses
0:55.7	You know, they probably did some kid or they probably are a closet gaze and so she's gonna be cool with it
1:02.5	because I remember when I was like
1:04.5	12 we there was a new priest that came to town and
1:09.3	We helped him move his solo flex machine
1:13.4	Into the rectory sounds gay, but it was just like you know and now I go why do the priest a priest doesn't have to be buff
1:21.1	It's like who see is he like getting ripped for God, you know, like why does a priest need a solo flex machine?
1:26.6	You want your priest to be kind of doughy and asexual and you know, so now
1:31.2	So I think back on certain things and go huh what was going on there?
1:51.1	My co-woo
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