This Past Weekend with Theo Von - #668 - Cristina Mariani

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00:01:44.140 Today's guest is a stand-up comedian out of Austin, Texas.

00:01:47.720 You may know her from Kill Tony

00:01:50.180 And from her tour

00:01:51.820 Currently in America

00:01:52.980 And in Europe as well

00:01:54.880 Next year

00:01:55.560 I had a great time getting to know

00:01:58.040 The hilarious 0.94

00:01:59.320 Miss Christina Mariani

00:02:02.320 Shine on me

00:02:05.900 And I will find a song

00:02:10.140 I've been singing

00:02:11.360 Amongst us

00:02:12.260 Thank you for coming, and thanks for adjusting your time

00:02:20.900 or whatever was going on in your life.

00:02:22.240 Thanks for having me.

00:02:23.380 You know, for a second I thought you meant you were going to do my podcast,

00:02:26.820 and then I was like, why would he?

00:02:28.720 He didn't know about that.

00:02:29.660 It clicked later.

00:02:30.540 That's why I asked if you could do it in the evening.

00:02:32.740 Oh, really?

00:02:34.160 Yeah.

00:02:34.840 I'm glad that you would think about me being on there.

00:02:38.000 I don't know what hat to wear here.

00:02:42.260 What do you think, Christina?

00:02:43.080 What do you think if you had to pick a hat for a guy that's sitting in here?

00:02:47.180 That's one.

00:02:47.980 Okay.

00:02:51.800 I think I like that one more.

00:02:53.800 You like this one more?

00:02:54.740 Yeah.

00:02:55.980 You look tan.

00:02:57.700 What do you say I look handsome?

00:02:58.800 It's tan.

00:02:59.460 Oh, okay.

00:03:00.680 Yeah, like you've been in the sun.

00:03:02.420 Oh, I thought you mean, look, I honestly, I thought it gave me a little street cat. 1.00

00:03:05.400 I thought you look closer to being like a BG black guy. 1.00

00:03:10.920 Oh, no, not with a mullet. 0.98

00:03:12.260 that's true you never see a black guy with a mullet but you know what you know you know what's 0.74

00:03:17.780 i think is something that should come back is the jerry curl that's what he was saying

00:03:22.260 you and zach were just mentioning that well she was talking about mullets and i said she was like

00:03:25.880 if he was it's a long story we're talking if you were black and he had a mullet i said i think

00:03:30.080 that's a jerry curl oh that's what a jerry curl is i didn't know oh that's a jerry curl baby okay 0.53

00:03:35.840 sorry and it's hard to call you baby too also that's insane and that's very unprofessional

00:03:39.820 and it's not cool i felt like you were being a narrator not you theo just the narrator of the

00:03:44.480 thank you yeah yeah i wasn't trying to be offensive no i didn't think you're like

00:03:47.600 you you said i was aloof that was worse okay that was before we were rolling yeah yeah but

00:03:53.740 now everyone knows if i'm being weird it's because you called me aloof and now i'm in my head about

00:03:58.320 it okay um oh sorry okay um your hair looks nice how about that can i say that yeah you're very

00:04:05.960 funny too let me say that first okay cool yeah and your hair looks really nice it looks different

00:04:09.920 than the last time I saw it yeah I got banged um just yeah I just wanted to try it and how does

00:04:16.200 yeah how does a bang choice come on I know that's how um you know every once in a while something 0.99

00:04:22.980 happens during the month for girls and you just get more testosterone and then you start making

00:04:28.420 decisions oh really yeah I feel like that's when I make all my important decisions is around my

00:04:33.980 period you mean something ovular oh just like because you get way more testosterone in your

00:04:39.480 body when you're about to that's why we get so angry because we're closer to you guys um when

00:04:44.160 we're about to get our periods we're the closest to guys so then is that is that is that really

00:04:48.340 what happens i'm pretty sure i don't want to like we can fact check no bring it up but so so you get

00:04:53.060 more testosterone right out of there because why is it because you have to hatch an egg kind of

00:04:57.400 deal or like is the body need more power or need more that's not a good way to say it somebody's

00:05:03.120 gonna get upset no matter what i say here but about uh power or just like you know what is the

00:05:07.940 what do they need more testosterone for do you feel like um i don't know i have no idea i feel

00:05:14.860 like it was just your body punishing you for not having a baby that's what a period is that's what

00:05:19.920 the it's like now you get to be a man for a week but then if you and what branch of christianity

00:05:24.440 says that i don't know i i don't know are you religious you're a little religious yeah i believe

00:05:31.260 in god you know right and uh uh yeah and i like jesus dude so that's where i'm at but no i yeah

00:05:38.460 i have faith for sure yeah that's cool and you're part to you're part-time religious are you i uh

00:05:45.500 grew up really religious i grew up really catholic so but then uh you know in high school i was like

00:05:50.840 i don't know i don't know if i believe in this and then now i'm like kind of into crystals and stuff

00:05:54.900 oh yeah and like but i'm spiritual i guess but you can't spell crystal without

00:05:59.120 Cree like me oh no Christ Christ yeah okay I was thinking also Christ Christina is close

00:06:08.940 wow so you yeah no matter what I was thinking about myself yeah

00:06:12.720 um what was I even asking about oh no but tell me more about the um the ovular like the energy

00:06:20.900 the ovular energy oh okay and how it led to the bangs kind of oh okay well I think I just um

00:06:26.300 you know i was i think i always have these um things in subconscious like in the back of my

00:06:33.680 mind these things that bug me but i'm able to ignore it for most of the month and then when

00:06:37.680 i'm about to get my period they all kind of come to light and they really aggravate me you know

00:06:41.520 and then i'd get like more insecure and stuff and then i just you know i'm like you know what i will

00:06:46.960 get bangs why not because you get that testosterone and that confidence to just go for things you know

00:06:51.960 okay so some of it feels like a confidence that comes in kind of like when you're angry i feel

00:06:56.680 like you don't you don't have time to overthink things if you're feeling angry about something

00:07:02.160 that's what's nice about feeling angry sometimes is that you're not overthinking that's a great

00:07:07.460 point actually angry usually kind of leads to some sort of action yes and not always good most

00:07:12.440 the time not good but you're not overthinking when you're doing it you know that's true like

00:07:17.860 oh look at these definitive people who are making a bad choice yeah exactly i don't get really that

00:07:23.820 angry though yeah well i think they look nice i think they look great or those are bangs huh

00:07:28.480 thank you i like yours too oh thanks yeah i feel like we're kind of matching yeah we're kind of 0.96

00:07:33.660 the same yeah we're like two different versions of britney kind of yeah it's britney bitch yeah 0.60

00:07:39.080 and i'm tired well every girl always wants to be toxic britney i'm okay i'm with b i'm okay with 0.96

00:07:44.240 being dancing in the foyer with the knife britney or whatever like then one of the newer ones okay

00:07:50.520 like the second like the new testament a new generation yeah yeah oh this this is you i'm

00:07:56.640 this one yeah i'm halloween britney i bet she got those bangs too it was a period decision i'm 1.00

00:08:02.140 michael myers britney this is michael jackson myers britney right here this bitch is legit 1.00

00:08:08.840 and you think those dogs how do they feel take me through this christina how do i think the three 1.00

00:08:12.700 dogs staring at her like i don't i do you think those are employees the dogs are they emotional

00:08:17.860 support dogs do you think or recreational ones i'm not sure one of them had cornrows i think

00:08:23.020 along its back i don't know i always feel like emotional support dogs look sad oh you know

00:08:30.140 they're just like imagine your friend is just like always making bad decisions and you can't 1.00

00:08:35.280 say anything but you have to stare at them like oh yeah come on stop doing that don't fuck your 0.97

00:08:42.400 again yeah dude i never thought about that and like yeah you don't do anything in the emotional 1.00

00:08:49.080 support you just feed them it's like oh they're like you're fucking your life up you know like 0.58

00:08:54.280 you're doing hair whenever i'm just laying over here with this vest on you know and people think 0.97

00:08:58.020 i was in like the military or whatever and then they're like uh you want me to forget about it

00:09:02.740 so you'll just feed me yeah and and dogs are good at that and forgetting about things if you feed

00:09:07.960 them that's a good point i feel like cats would keep you more accountable and that's why people

00:09:11.640 don't like them as much a cat would be judgy every time you do something wrong it would like go away 0.92

00:09:16.720 and show you its butthole yeah you'd be like i fucked up and the cat wouldn't like you know 0.99

00:09:22.160 that is quite a move what ethnicity move is that to walk off about 11 feet away show you their 1.00

00:09:29.060 asshole and then just wander over behind a curtain what ethnicity yeah i like to i like to relate 0.98

00:09:36.400 things to ethnicities like behaviors to different ethnicities okay so what ethnicity would like 0.99

00:09:40.840 walk away show you their butthole and hide behind a curtain i'm thinking i'm gonna get a little 0.99

00:09:46.200 flag for this but i'm gonna go i'm gonna go vietnamese gay vietnamese probably gay vietnamese 0.99

00:09:53.500 i don't think they would hide behind a curtain oh you think it would just i think they would be 0.99

00:09:58.000 proud mill around maybe pass a hat around yeah yeah they would show their butthole and then 0.79

00:10:02.920 freeze freeze frame i bet you're wondering how i got here 0.86

00:10:06.460 and that's how i met your mother

00:10:12.360 christina mariani is that how you say your last name yeah yeah yeah good uh thanks for hanging

00:10:20.560 out today no problem theodore is that your full name theodore uh the adorable my grandmother said 0.97

00:10:26.140 but she was a whore okay yeah i was gonna say uh she was no no i'm sorry i don't know no i was 0.90

00:10:33.260 gonna say she was uh just like kind of a brave woman who did a lot in her community but yeah 0.99

00:10:38.220 we'll go with that version of it horrible she was a different type of lady um yeah theodore

00:10:45.220 that's my name right there i like it it's like i've been in the chipmunks yeah so you'd be the

00:10:49.820 fat one yeah yeah oh dude yeah i think i feel kind of like i don't know i don't think you can

00:10:55.700 say i think i feel fat because people that are thicker would be like upset like you can't take

00:11:00.420 the feeling of being fat but not the the smorgasbord of it or whatever you could be like i feel full

00:11:07.080 that's it right i feel like a full male i feel like i've been full for a few years 0.54

00:11:12.360 that seems gay i feel like yeah i guess so it's the enemies guy too yeah like you haven't eaten 0.52

00:11:18.700 anything in a couple days you're like i'm full yeah some dude saying that is definitely been 0.74

00:11:24.420 being gay um have you ever been gay have i been gay yeah just like for fun no no i remember one

00:11:32.300 time some guy was like he was saying he was like a soothsayer or whatever what's that a soothsayer

00:11:40.040 soothsayer bring up an image of one let me get a jpeg of a soothsayer that kind of sounds like uh

00:11:46.820 like that that doesn't look soothing at all well all these are options right the man talking to

00:11:52.000 the horse the other britney soothsayer britney right there that's your grandpa the man talking

00:11:58.740 to the horse but it was like it was just like some guy and he's like he apparently there was

00:12:03.180 a guy in our town who could read your ribs by rubbing his fingers on him he could read them

00:12:07.020 like it was almost like reading on a crystal ball or something okay and so he was like a rib reader

00:12:11.260 right like a mystic okay and so i remember they would take us there like during the carnival or

00:12:15.320 whatever the fair they would take us there and this guy would just kind of like you know he would

00:12:21.060 kind of like read like the you know that's just your body braille right there your ribs yeah and

00:12:25.800 you would kind of feel it like that and then give you a message okay like a message of hope or like

00:12:30.080 a message of uh um concern okay i feel like the ribs is a funny thing to pick because you can only

00:12:38.160 feel um skinny people's ribs and so that was a way to like filter out who he would touch

00:12:44.440 i think he i think he was like the soothsayer was like i'm not touching fatties

00:12:49.340 right like but i don't know i think look britney i think money doesn't have i don't know if money 0.61

00:12:58.060 cares about how like which you know like but maybe yeah he maybe he maybe he had a type he

00:13:04.300 had like a very like a starving type but yeah i guess it's like yeah let me just

00:13:09.940 picture an obese person you know and you go to like look for the ribs and you've really got to

00:13:15.860 like i would love that get in there it's like an easter egg hunt kind of yeah yeah i think i would

00:13:21.120 dig that um you are from just some audience can learn about you because you you and i toured

00:13:28.020 together some yeah yep and you're on tour right now yes i am right yep where you have coming up

00:13:34.480 Just so we know. 0.96

00:13:35.820 I, man, I just, fuck, I should have looked that up, right? 0.99

00:13:40.280 Here we go. 0.99

00:13:41.840 Skyline, Appleton, Wisconsin.

00:13:43.680 I love Wisconsin.

00:13:44.800 Chicago at Zaney's.

00:13:45.980 That's great.

00:13:46.760 Yeah.

00:13:47.520 Dude, the Comedy Store La Jolla.

00:13:49.620 Oh, yeah.

00:13:49.960 That's the first time me doing that.

00:13:51.320 I'm excited.

00:13:52.400 That's the best.

00:13:53.640 Okay, cool.

00:13:54.420 That's where Mitch McConnell lives, somebody said, I think.

00:13:56.940 Okay.

00:13:57.780 That's what, anyway, or lives is a unique term to use with Mitch McConnell.

00:14:01.200 but um didn't he just fall asleep the other day did you see that

00:14:05.260 why he's a senator okay so he's just up to those like it's like those sleeping senator tricks you

00:14:14.320 know like those what's those animals that play dead or whatever possums yeah yeah oh so he's

00:14:18.840 just being a possum yeah he's just the opossum of the uh what is it senator mitchell mcconnell

00:14:24.620 was found unconscious at his washington dc home on june 14th 2026 and reportedly received cpr for 0.86

00:14:29.940 suspected cardiac arrest

00:14:32.460 sure probably trying to get insurance

00:14:34.680 money while his office

00:14:36.880 confirmed he was hospitalized they have provided

00:14:38.620 few details on his current condition

00:14:40.860 I don't know I kind of believe that

00:14:42.680 he had a cardiac arrest

00:14:44.180 you do? I think that's yeah

00:14:46.800 well he's the guy that they keep 0.98

00:14:48.580 like pressing the butt like they keep shutting him down 0.97

00:14:50.760 a lot of people think that he's controlled right 0.86

00:14:52.500 and so he's the guy that they keep pressing the button

00:14:54.660 on him and shut it you know he's the guy that kind of shorts out

00:14:56.700 oh so he's a robot you think? 0.88

00:14:58.760 People have said that he is.

00:14:59.860 He's more of like, yeah, he's kind of a, yeah.

00:15:02.440 That would be great to make all robots old.

00:15:04.440 So that's the excuse for them glitching out.

00:15:06.600 Oh, they're just old.

00:15:07.660 Oh, you got a 1996.

00:15:09.220 Yes.

00:15:09.720 What do you, what do you expect?

00:15:10.800 You know?

00:15:11.120 Maybe Michael J. Fox is also a robot.

00:15:14.080 You think?

00:15:16.120 He's just like glitching.

00:15:18.000 I think he's definitely, uh, he's testing the matrix.

00:15:21.860 How is Michael J. Fox?

00:15:23.600 What's his health condition right now?

00:15:26.220 Cause I know he's made all these.

00:15:27.560 What does he have?

00:15:28.560 ms right oh he's got parkinson's dude oh i feel bad making a joke oh no it's okay i mean he's a

00:15:36.040 comedic actor i'm sure he's okay with joking around uh michael j fox in the advanced stages

00:15:41.000 of parkinson's disease and also this is what you get for traveling through time

00:15:44.220 is in the advanced stages of parkinson's disease which he was diagnosed with in 1991 while he

00:15:50.680 deals with severe symptoms and mobility challenges he remains mentally sharp and active

00:15:54.580 making high profile appearances

00:15:56.320 like his surprise attendants

00:15:57.560 at the 2026 SAG Awards.

00:16:01.020 Dude, it would be interesting

00:16:02.380 to talk to someone that has that

00:16:03.680 just to learn about what it's like,

00:16:05.440 you know, just to learn about Parkinson's

00:16:07.140 and like, just, I always wonder

00:16:09.400 what it's like to have certain,

00:16:11.340 like a certain ailment

00:16:13.540 or a thing that's going on

00:16:14.700 with your body or mind.

00:16:16.040 But while you're like,

00:16:17.240 can you still experience it?

00:16:19.040 Like, does it feel like you're

00:16:20.100 in like a Halloween costume?

00:16:21.380 Like, you know,

00:16:21.780 when you're in a Halloween costume,

00:16:22.620 you put it on in the mask

00:16:23.780 and you're still looking out of it like it's you inside but outside people think you're like a

00:16:27.940 ghost or like a uh like a wookie or whatever you mean like if you're self-aware about how you're

00:16:34.380 coming off to other people yeah or like does it feel like you're like just trapped inside of

00:16:39.520 something that's having a problem or does it feel like you are having the problem i guess that's

00:16:43.920 what i mean i mean um and sorry there's bugs in here oh it's okay it's not bugging me it just

00:16:50.080 has a lot of bugs it's not no it's okay sorry no it's all sorry i'm taking on anger for somebody

00:16:54.820 else you're fine with it that's fine you're from stockton it's okay you're a guy you always have

00:16:59.040 anger that's true and you get it every once in a while every once in a while that's when i get

00:17:02.940 stuff done i wait i write down the things that okay i'll do that when i'm about to get my period

00:17:08.640 because i'm about to get anger that's a good idea like a period to-do list yeah yeah yeah so then

00:17:12.280 i'm like i'll get to this i know when i'm gonna so that way i remember it's like all right time

00:17:16.720 to you know um yell at my mom today no i wouldn't i love my mom well who knows if you do but time to

00:17:24.900 like dig up that body or time to like you know go look for treasure time to do something something

00:17:29.820 that's productive yeah yes put those two by fours up yeah yeah because then if not i'm just sitting

00:17:34.980 with all that anger i need to use that energy um which is why do you work out i like that yeah i

00:17:39.760 like to work out okay because of all the anger yeah you got to let it out somehow it does kind

00:17:44.480 it makes me just i don't know it makes me here's what it does for me as i realize i need to let

00:17:49.860 myself know that i'm in control of myself right because if not i'll be more at the whims of just

00:17:54.620 like what my what my thoughts are so going to the gym making myself go puts me a little bit more in

00:18:00.640 control of myself like it gives me a little bit more hope that like okay somebody's got my back

00:18:05.820 and it's me okay yeah that makes sense a little bit of that doesn't make sense it completely makes

00:18:10.240 sense i appreciate that if you complete tasks if you do things you tell yourself you're gonna do

00:18:14.700 that builds your confidence and then you trust yourself because you're like i'm not a liar i

00:18:19.020 said i was gonna do it and i did it you hate yourself when you're lying yeah yeah to yourself

00:18:23.660 yeah oh dude yeah and that's oh i spent i got to the point where i didn't believe myself anymore

00:18:29.700 i wouldn't even listen to myself i realized i would know i was saying something like i'm never

00:18:33.900 that's not gonna you know like you start to lose like integrity with yourself it gets kind of like

00:18:38.980 i don't know it can get it can you can get in like kind of a rough spot yeah because then you

00:18:43.860 don't like yourself i mean think about somebody in your life that you know is a compulsive liar

00:18:48.000 you don't respect them you don't want to be around them it makes you feel bad and then that 0.70

00:18:51.540 thing is inside your head it's you then you're like you can't escape kind of like britney's dogs

00:18:57.180 you know and then that's you in your head you're just like you know somebody corner on my back

00:19:05.280 they're like enough

00:19:08.020 that's why I never say

00:19:09.640 one of the dogs had lipstick on too

00:19:11.620 that's the part that shook me a little

00:19:13.140 he was just

00:19:14.060 he was like I need to feel better

00:19:15.380 somehow

00:19:15.900 do I look pretty

00:19:17.360 and he was a man too

00:19:20.120 I think he was 1.00

00:19:20.940 a Vietnamese dog

00:19:22.540 that one? 0.97

00:19:24.000 yeah

00:19:24.180 and this is a new advertisement

00:19:25.300 for Hollywood

00:19:25.980 this is insane

00:19:28.580 yeah

00:19:28.960 Hollywood the musical

00:19:31.100 Hollywood the musical too

00:19:33.420 that's exactly what this is you know there's some things you couldn't make musicals it would

00:19:38.100 be inappropriate right you can make movies about everything but you can't make musicals about

00:19:42.460 everything i don't know if that's true i've been thinking one thing we do need more of is like

00:19:45.940 wiggers the musical okay but see that's funny that's funny you could do that that's what about

00:19:51.620 9-11 the musical what would you call it though 9-11 the musical yeah i don't know that doesn't

00:20:00.300 seem appropriate it seems like no well I think you yeah you need a softer pitch the the title

00:20:05.600 of the the title of it I think it's an interesting idea and I think if you had fundraising in it then

00:20:11.060 it'd be I could see it but 9-11 the musical no fundraising who would be in it you need like 0.75

00:20:18.880 kind of like a gay hero that survives the rubble a gay hero that survives well you have to have

00:20:25.100 somebody that first of all likes being in a musical okay right so that's why you said yay

00:20:31.440 i'm just i'm not saying it has to be would you not be in a musical you don't think i don't know

00:20:37.180 i'd be in i'd be in it for 10 minutes can you sing i can sing all right i'm pretty good i'm

00:20:42.380 not that great uh i'm i'm getting better i'm actually not that good well can you sing something

00:20:47.840 no really yeah i'm not singing also and it's yeah i don't sing during the daytime also okay

00:20:53.580 it's a nighttime activity yeah you know like being gay yeah yeah being gay is uh it's for the

00:20:59.320 nighttime for some people i think it's nighttime i was just talking to my friend earlier about

00:21:03.700 having a hot air but like they had this guy in our town and he would meet a friend they both were

00:21:06.800 hot air balloon enthusiasts and they would go up in the sky and that's where they would hang out

00:21:11.040 and just like i think they had a gay a gay energy and they would take it up there because there was

00:21:18.580 just so much embarrassment here at sea level. 0.82

00:21:21.200 Okay, so you're saying two gay guys 0.90

00:21:23.580 went in separate hot air balloons and then they...

00:21:26.780 Yeah.

00:21:27.600 But they're in separate hot air balloons.

00:21:29.620 Right, but they met up.

00:21:31.360 Oh, so they did it so people on the ground

00:21:34.440 thought they weren't gay. 0.66

00:21:35.960 They went their separate ways and then they... 0.83

00:21:39.160 But people knew.

00:21:40.240 They're like, there's no...

00:21:40.940 What are they doing up there?

00:21:41.620 Like, you know what I'm saying?

00:21:42.360 People started to kind of put two and two together. 0.99

00:21:44.980 It's like up, but also their penis is up. 0.96

00:21:47.060 it's a new disney movie i guess it is um christina mariani good to see you today 1.00

00:21:56.340 um can you tell me again about so did you can you bring that up about um if a woman is going

00:22:02.080 through ovulation do they have is there more testosterone in the bloodstream i think it's 0.97

00:22:06.740 like around their period not ovulation okay yes yes on average women's testosterone rises around

00:22:13.360 the time of ovulation and then stays somewhat higher through the luteal phase okay yeah that's

00:22:19.820 when you get your period and stuff okay but it is not highest during the actual period

00:22:24.360 huh yeah it's usually the week before that i find is the most productive then i start to

00:22:31.180 mellow out again once i start bleeding it's like so that pre-period that pre-drip kind of

00:22:35.940 yeah yeah exactly and is that that might is that a crazy term to use pre-drip yeah i feel like that

00:22:42.800 that makes sense because i don't want to be like unprofessional or whatever have you ever seen

00:22:46.520 under the tuscan sun no is that a is that like a euphemism for a period or whatever no no no it's

00:22:52.080 a movie but um the whole movie she's trying to open a faucet and it doesn't work and then at

00:22:56.640 the end it just flows and she's happy that's kind of what it's like ah yeah oh like mad max or

00:23:02.320 whatever when they finally get the water yeah yeah yeah yeah that's actually when it's like

00:23:07.000 God, it's uphill from here now.

00:23:08.560 It's kind of like we go through a movie every month.

00:23:11.680 Okay.

00:23:12.800 Can you let me know how much testosterone, Trevin?

00:23:14.840 Like, what is the actual increase?

00:23:16.820 That's so cool.

00:23:17.520 I didn't know that.

00:23:18.580 Probably varies from person to person, the amount. 0.99

00:23:21.420 Like, if you're lightweight about testosterone, then you just get fucked up on it. 0.99

00:23:24.880 Just one shot. 1.00

00:23:25.640 That's all it takes.

00:23:27.240 But you don't start, like, I'm trying to think.

00:23:29.520 You don't just start, like, buying a Corvette or whatever, do you?

00:23:32.880 Like, what do you?

00:23:33.360 Let me see the myths.

00:23:34.300 No.

00:23:34.360 in healthy women the mid-cycle rise in testosterone is small in absolute terms roughly 10 to 30 percent

00:23:40.120 higher wow so take me on is this crazy to even ask you about no i don't think so okay you're

00:23:46.300 from stockton right okay i just want to get a little bit about your life and then we'll go and

00:23:50.120 yeah we'll come back and forth so take me through like how do you know if you're getting your period

00:23:55.780 are you just like because is it almost like you get deja vu like you're walking and then you feel

00:23:59.500 like is it feel like getting deja vu kind of um it feels like i'm start i i get obsessive anyway

00:24:06.060 i'm kind of an obsessive person but then when i'm about to get my period i get really obsessive

00:24:10.380 like almost i can't get out of my thought loops whereas i can snap myself out but then when i'm

00:24:15.100 on my period it makes me fixate on certain things or certain things i thought i resolved then it

00:24:19.680 brings it up again and then i just get real like obsessive i don't know how but that it's different

00:24:24.620 for everybody i'm already obsessive so i think it enhances it you know okay um what was the question

00:24:30.840 how did oh shit the question was like say i get a period right say i'm walking around town or

00:24:37.640 whatever and i'm gonna get a period or whatever how do i know i'm gonna get it like do i like do 0.98

00:24:43.860 you start to feel like you're like does it feel like your legs sweat or do you feel like so you

00:24:49.240 said you start to feel a little um more fixated on stuff and you can notice it oh yeah it's super

00:24:55.660 different than dude that's crazy bro yeah i get like two weeks where i'm like pretty happy like

00:25:01.540 feeling good and then two weeks of just sled steady decline and obsessive and then you know

00:25:07.780 like um do you always see how people perceive you the same way is it pretty constant for you

00:25:15.500 that's a good question so like do i always think like yes i think i do yes i think i do i think i

00:25:22.200 always kind of think people sort of perceive me the same way okay so i don't know what it is i

00:25:25.720 haven't specified it but i do believe that yeah like for me i feel like sometimes people perceive

00:25:31.700 me better and then when i'm on about to get my period i'm like oh everybody hates me it kind of

00:25:36.820 gets like more darker like it's just kind of like real life but with like a cloud you know like a

00:25:43.580 mean dark cloud that's just like and you have to like think no this isn't it's kind of like being

00:25:49.800 on drugs but a really bad one you know like and it's a bad trip for two weeks but it's like it's

00:25:55.480 not super intense i don't know i don't know how to describe it it's just no it's cool it's the

00:26:00.820 most i ever even talked about it with somebody and it's interesting because it's just crazy to

00:26:05.720 think that like maybe that's why women are so resilient and tough you know because they have 1.00

00:26:11.840 like you know what I'm saying they got like an interior thing that's good they got like a 0.99

00:26:18.000 they're going through like a mood they're going through like a how do you call it like

00:26:25.040 almost like going through the four seasons in their body and in their like like so true in

00:26:31.200 their mind and heart and everything they're going through all that so they're like they're constantly

00:26:35.960 sort of having to monitor and see what's going on with themselves and and kind of uh come back

00:26:41.080 a new kind of except it's kind of like uh summer and winter is what i feel like it's like summer

00:26:46.980 and then winter just hits you just out of nowhere we had a neighbor lady and something had happened

00:26:52.600 to her i'm trying to think what happened to her she fell out of a boat or something

00:26:55.360 and it didn't and it was going too fast and she uh so after that something was on kind of unwell

00:27:05.200 with her with her brain right she had a brain issue an overall brain issue and whenever she

00:27:12.000 would get her uh period she would put uh like pot like hand warmers or something on okay and she 1.00

00:27:18.920 would stand out in their yard down the street from us and she would always sing like deaf leopard or

00:27:22.820 she would sing like uh lock up the wolves it's like it's like an old song but it's kind of crazy

00:27:28.300 that she would that she was basically going through a menstrual cycle and she would sing

00:27:31.680 lock up the wolves like so you think her about to get that's what made her do it did it help her

00:27:39.200 feel better i think it probably did it was some sort of mechanism she was staying out on the

00:27:42.620 like on the in the porch in the yard and kind of vibrate a little bit and she would sing like a

00:27:47.740 couple different songs and one of them was lock up the wolves dear god how does that go uh bring

00:27:54.220 up the lyrics to it lock up the wolves okay it's like a metal song yes that makes sense

00:28:00.640 bring up that lock of the wolves

00:28:02.640 Rodney James

00:28:03.380 that's Dio right there

00:28:04.860 in the house of the holy

00:28:07.740 to the middle of the mystic sea

00:28:09.180 at the cradle of the world

00:28:10.380 there's a black cat screaming

00:28:11.700 and it's not even midnight

00:28:13.040 no

00:28:13.480 at the cradle of the world

00:28:15.240 they're screaming for sanctuary

00:28:16.540 they're screaming at you

00:28:17.780 lock up the wolves

00:28:19.240 lock up the wolves

00:28:20.760 yeah yeah yeah

00:28:22.240 does that seem like a period?

00:28:24.460 totally yeah

00:28:25.560 except you want the wolves

00:28:27.200 to get out of you

00:28:28.600 get away wolves

00:28:29.980 get out

00:28:31.240 I'm tired of these demons you know

00:28:34.000 enough wolves enough

00:28:35.980 you know 0.97

00:28:36.520 get out of my cat

00:28:39.740 you know speaking of cats

00:28:41.300 meow

00:28:45.260 because it hurts too

00:28:46.780 oh dang

00:28:48.240 yeah I gotta think

00:28:49.940 I sometimes gotta remember that 0.99

00:28:51.780 is it crazy if you approach a woman and asked her

00:28:54.260 where she's at in that sort of cycle

00:28:56.400 pattern is that do women feel like

00:28:58.460 they don't or i'm sorry some of this stuff feels like i'm just like because i'm a girl you're

00:29:02.980 asking about periods is that what you feel like yeah i just feel like it seems kind of cheesy and

00:29:06.800 i don't mean to do it like that i just don't ever get to talk about it and somehow we ended up

00:29:10.140 talking about it it's okay i wouldn't overthink it okay it's like this is what i would be like

00:29:14.340 if i was about to get my period i would get in my head about oh my god is he i would still be

00:29:20.040 thinking about the mullet comment earlier oh yeah and i wouldn't be able to be present i think my

00:29:24.440 whole life i've been about to get my period probably well you're a guy so yeah exactly dude

00:29:29.260 think about it if you're a guy you never even get to have your period you just have to do all the 0.98

00:29:32.100 other shit the whole time you're on your period the whole time if you're a guy oh you are yeah

00:29:35.980 that's like us on our periods is closest to a guy just baseline well what if a guy hugs you while 0.99

00:29:42.300 you're on your like when you're writing that baseline is that like almost like a gay moment

00:29:45.680 i wonder maybe maybe that's why it's like you know if you're straight you're just like no get 0.73

00:29:52.340 away from you buddy yeah you only kind of want to be around like i don't know if you actually i

00:29:56.740 don't really want to be around anyone oh going around my period time yeah i just wonder if we

00:30:01.920 all should be wearing some sort of thing that tells how we're doing so people would know when

00:30:06.460 we get approached not even ovularly yeah you can't tell though like people's vibe right away

00:30:11.300 like oh they're not having a good day today yeah i think sometimes you can but sometimes i think

00:30:16.760 there's a little of you don't know i met a girl at the gym today and she um i could tell she was

00:30:22.960 something was a little bit uncomfortable but i didn't know what it was but then i just said

00:30:26.140 yeah what's what's going on you know you seem like it is maybe having like a you're thinking

00:30:30.480 about something maybe like because she was like at the gym trying to work out and you went up and

00:30:34.760 hit on her i don't know like what's going on it can't be that i'm interrupting you working out

00:30:41.200 i don't know i mean like that can't be it that could have been but i could have been a small

00:30:49.100 part of it you know what i mean she's there trying to like meet her goal and you're like so

00:30:52.780 so baby which hat which hat do you think what you're not enjoying this

00:30:59.020 hey can i ask you about your period are you on it

00:31:05.320 Oh my god dude

00:31:08.940 Why didn't somebody tell me that

00:31:11.080 There's something this wrong with me

00:31:13.540 I don't know

00:31:14.280 Hey which one 0.92

00:31:17.120 She's like I'm trying to bench

00:31:18.780 20s or whatever I don't know

00:31:20.700 Please

00:31:22.320 But I don't know maybe not

00:31:26.920 Maybe that wasn't it could have been something else

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00:34:31.620 Christina Mariani, good to see you today.

00:34:34.080 Nice to see you too.

00:34:35.940 You're so funny.

00:34:36.960 Thanks for coming by.

00:34:38.140 Yeah.

00:34:38.980 Thanks for having me.

00:34:40.380 You grew up in Stockton.

00:34:41.620 take me just just so our audience knows because some of our audience knows you a lot of it does

00:34:45.900 but some of them might not okay right and so uh take me through a little bit of that if you don't

00:34:50.640 mind okay so i was born in lodi california but just born there then i lived in stockton till i

00:34:57.360 was like four or five and then i moved to italy um and then i moved back after a few years when

00:35:04.700 i moved back when i was 11 and do you remember being italian over there oh yeah totally i uh

00:35:09.900 really yeah yeah i mean six through eleven you remember things you know wow yeah yeah yeah and

00:35:17.500 the the romans they're very are they romans some of them uh not all of them the ones in rome are

00:35:23.240 romans and then the ones in tuscany just italians you know and how was it like being around being 0.96

00:35:29.340 an italian child um you know the kids are a lot more brutal in italy they're like wild animals 0.96

00:35:35.760 they'll just like beat you up you know here in america they're like mean with their words you

00:35:42.260 know and like they're more psychological about it but in italy they just are mean or they just 0.90

00:35:46.660 beat the shit out of you really yeah i remember when i first moved there me and my sister went 0.84

00:35:52.240 to a birthday party and i think because we you know we're new um yeah all the kids started 0.99

00:35:57.760 chasing us around and trying to beat the shit out of us and at first we thought it was like

00:36:01.460 hide and seek or like tag like a kid game yeah and then we were just hiding like we were like 0.50

00:36:08.160 really got really good at hide and seek we were hiding under the table we were calling our mom

00:36:11.940 like please come get us but like in italian because it was in italy you know yeah but um

00:36:17.360 so there was a level of like so they got the italians well they're very handsy well that's

00:36:22.340 the thing so i guess it goes like even if it's violence or love or something like that that's

00:36:27.420 True. Yeah, I guess so.

00:36:28.860 They're very gesticular.

00:36:30.020 You know, they use their hands when they talk.

00:36:31.920 Yeah, totally.

00:36:33.020 And when they, I guess, do violence or whatever.

00:36:36.380 Yeah.

00:36:37.460 Yeah.

00:36:38.460 Did it feel romantic?

00:36:40.420 Do you think people romanticize?

00:36:43.480 Like, do you ever romanticize?

00:36:45.380 Getting beat up?

00:36:46.820 All the time.

00:36:47.360 You mean like getting beat up the musical?

00:36:49.920 Getting beat up the musical.

00:36:51.840 My childhood in Italy.

00:36:53.800 The musical.

00:36:55.320 It's just me getting beat up for four years.

00:36:57.420 but do you ever kind of like yeah do you ever like i don't know i guess i wondered if i because

00:37:03.360 i like i'll like romanticize or like kind of like make something seem greater that was

00:37:07.540 a long time ago just because right like what for example like the past was better you know

00:37:12.520 but what's in something it could be just like um like when i was a kid if you wanted to know

00:37:18.100 if somebody was at home you had to go over there and see if they were at home right okay like now

00:37:24.120 you can have your mom text or you could text or send it uh uh just hit them in the chat or whatever

00:37:30.200 but now but then you had to walk over there and you kind of get a clue sometimes their cars would

00:37:35.940 be there car wouldn't be there sometimes maybe one of the parents would be home and they'd be

00:37:39.300 home sick or whatever you'd even just try to go in and play anyway like yeah but you know but you

00:37:44.800 had to go over there and so you had to create this like you know it was kind of like a little

00:37:48.200 bit of sometimes you'd be too nervous to go ask you just go stay in there like i remember staying

00:37:52.060 by my friend's door for like 10 or 15 minutes until one of his parents or somebody just came

00:37:57.620 out or came by like what are you doing here you just stand there you're committed yeah i'm like

00:38:02.640 i'm waiting is william home you know yeah yeah and you're like he's not home he's out of town

00:38:06.000 or whatever but you know so i think something like that does that make sense you think yeah so

00:38:10.360 like you but i romanticized it was tougher for you know kids had to do this sort of thing it's

00:38:15.040 kind of a bad example i guess so that's not romanticizing if you're thinking it was worse

00:38:18.680 or you think it was better i thought it was better because it challenged you a little bit

00:38:22.600 where you had to actually go right it was just like i don't know things seemed a little bit

00:38:26.140 more like you had to go and have an actual human experience to get a little bit of information

00:38:31.320 yeah i mean that's what i mean i guess no yeah i get what you're saying i feel like

00:38:36.480 everybody says like social media and like just how much access we have to the internet is killing

00:38:42.500 human connection and i was thinking about it and i think it's killing like the small talk of human

00:38:48.180 connection you know now you can't like you already know what they did like superficially now when you

00:38:54.700 see them you have to like talk about your mental problems you know like okay i saw that you had a

00:39:00.300 salad for lunch and you're going through a divorce tell me how you're feeling yeah like show me your

00:39:04.400 croutons yeah exactly it's like now i know all the boring stuff yeah i'm trying to think of some

00:39:08.820 things maybe that i romanticize but is romanticizing um healthy do you think the word am i using the

00:39:15.140 right word yeah i mean i feel like if you romanticize something you're painting it with

00:39:19.260 rose-colored glasses right that's what i'm saying it's not exactly like romantic but it just means

00:39:24.020 you're looking back on something fondly even though that may not have been the way it was

00:39:27.980 but what was the way it was isn't it better to romanticize everything then so that way you're

00:39:32.720 like looking back at your life all romantical because like what's the alternative or something

00:39:37.000 yeah even yesterday even this morning at the gym you know with the girl you could romantic

00:39:41.640 with the harassment you mean yeah yeah yeah you could romanticize that you could be like it was

00:39:45.380 unrequited love you know yeah it was and uh eventually the universe will bring you guys

00:39:51.660 together in a more appropriate setting you know you know what those videos that are the wildest

00:39:56.140 to see uh those reels bro some reels it's like it's too much it's like um 90 percent of your

00:40:03.220 shower water is chemicals have you seen those reels it's like well yeah the ones that try to

00:40:07.440 sell you the filters yes yeah i've gotten one oh yeah i got one i believe them i'm really gullible

00:40:13.260 i'm a sucker for marketing do you know how many best bloody marys in the world i've had so many

00:40:18.500 because they always say they're the best and i'm like i gotta see this for myself you know

00:40:22.320 and i believe them why are they lying you know they're never the best they're not even close

00:40:26.620 yeah yeah anyway sorry keep going no that's good but they're all those things are like that it's

00:40:31.720 like uh did you know that your grandmother has forever chemicals in her you know it's like 1.00

00:40:36.440 hugging your grandmother in the summer again that's a no-no it's like it's just like shit 0.98

00:40:41.500 that's like what like we can't even hug our grandmothers now it's like oh the forever 0.99

00:40:45.660 chemicals that not that nana has you'll never get it out of your arms you know if it was your nana 0.97

00:40:51.000 it was still phyllis that's what the chemical because she's a whore i'm sorry it's a call back 1.00

00:40:56.260 from earlier that's fair um but i haven't heard that about um hugging your grandma is that actually 0.95

00:41:05.020 something that's like a no but it's just these things that you see it's like nosebleeds must 0.89

00:41:10.440 be a f**k or whatever you know it's like it every reel is just something it's almost like it's just

00:41:16.020 this bot that's making up two things and putting them together i feel like it is a lot of them it 0.99

00:41:21.260 is bots that are doing stuff like that you know and then it's just like you hope and then it

00:41:25.000 attaches some sort of thing like that's a product you know what i'm saying it's like nosebleeds must 0.58

00:41:31.700 be a f***ing, huh? Time to get some

00:41:33.740 roller skates, you know?

00:41:35.740 Or, you know, time to get this new

00:41:37.440 set of

00:41:39.560 ice trays or whatever, you know?

00:41:41.340 Yeah, so it's like two things that aren't related at all

00:41:43.840 but they somehow make it work for the

00:41:45.700 marketing. Yeah, and

00:41:46.600 it makes so many of them that

00:41:49.460 it doesn't even care, dude. Like, all it

00:41:51.640 cares in the end is if you buy something,

00:41:53.740 right? One of the craziest

00:41:55.760 things that I see on AI all the time, or I don't know if it's AI

00:41:57.740 but that I see on, that's reels a lot

00:41:59.560 is the, um,

00:42:00.840 have you seen the one it's like if your husband is in wilmington kentucky and you think he's here 0.96

00:42:10.600 on a business trip thank again baby girl have you seen those damn no see if you can pull up one of 0.71

00:42:17.960 those for me guys it sounds like they prey on people's fears most of the time like yes this 0.96

00:42:23.880 is a fear thing well yeah that's because like people respond to fear that's like so if they

00:42:28.940 make it seem urgent like oh this is gonna happen you know your grandma's gonna get cancer if you

00:42:34.420 don't buy i don't know splenda right yeah something like that where it's like oh man i don't want

00:42:41.580 grandma to die i don't want it to be my fault yeah i feel like they use that there's like here's one

00:42:46.200 yeah what is this one your name is meredith and you live in nashville tennessee and you're dating

00:42:50.800 kevin and he works at a car dealership run he's not just test driving cars baby run but there's

00:43:01.160 like i see these all the time well that's not even trying to sell something do you think they're just 0.97

00:43:05.180 being nicer do you think they're being shit stirs that's what i just know there's just so much 0.92

00:43:09.280 everything out there i just think it is it's about fear like you just said it's like everything out 0.98

00:43:13.740 there it's like it's just creating like oh my god you know i mean this guy's a snitch or whatever

00:43:18.520 which is fine I guess

00:43:19.880 but I guess maybe he's a good snitch

00:43:22.020 or maybe it's not even true

00:43:23.600 maybe he was just like

00:43:24.700 people are gonna find

00:43:25.620 you know that he just fabricated it

00:43:27.360 I always believe them though

00:43:28.500 I'm always like 1.00

00:43:29.040 oh shit poor Meredith 1.00

00:43:30.420 you know 1.00

00:43:31.260 I always

00:43:31.840 I'm like

00:43:32.360 I'll comment sometimes

00:43:33.660 I'm like prayers for mayor

00:43:35.180 you know

00:43:36.660 I'll put that in there a lot dude

00:43:39.140 but yeah I don't know 0.99

00:43:40.640 there's just so much shit 0.99

00:43:41.500 that's out there I feel like 1.00

00:43:42.980 and it's

00:43:43.720 I don't know

00:43:44.060 sometimes it's fun to figure out

00:43:45.160 if it's entertaining to me

00:43:46.080 or if it's just kind of like

00:43:47.100 I need to stay away from it

00:43:48.140 um so so okay so you grew up you grew up until 11 in italy and then you moved to where and then

00:43:54.540 i moved to stockton again wow we moved back yeah you ever seen nate diaz over there no you know

00:44:00.320 i feel like every time i've been on kill tony tony always asks me that and i did no no no it's

00:44:05.860 okay it's that's the only thing stockton's really known for i think i don't think it's really nobody

00:44:10.500 there's nothing else going on there no i never i never have what how would you describe stockton

00:44:15.960 And then I was like, what would you say is about it?

00:44:17.580 Because there's probably a lot of great things about it.

00:44:19.100 I know there's a lot of missing people up there.

00:44:21.020 Yeah.

00:44:22.520 Crime is a big one.

00:44:24.180 What else do they have?

00:44:24.880 I know there's cigarettes.

00:44:26.000 I know.

00:44:26.380 Yeah.

00:44:26.560 Yeah.

00:44:27.000 Cigarettes.

00:44:27.480 The Kings.

00:44:28.720 The Kings.

00:44:29.280 Yeah.

00:44:29.520 No, that's in Sacramento.

00:44:30.660 Oh, Sacramento.

00:44:31.240 Wait, is there a Kings in Stockton?

00:44:33.060 No.

00:44:34.020 Basketball.

00:44:34.560 Sacramento.

00:44:35.280 Oh.

00:44:35.600 Yeah.

00:44:35.820 Yeah.

00:44:36.000 Right.

00:44:36.580 Yeah.

00:44:36.800 So tell me a little bit more about Stockton then.

00:44:38.540 I mean, you kind of nailed it.

00:44:40.420 I think that was pretty much it.

00:44:43.840 I liked it though.

00:44:44.820 i think when you grow up somewhere you think that's your baseline i think it's better to

00:44:48.520 grow up somewhere that's not that great because then as i've moved around places everywhere else

00:44:53.280 has been way better you know interesting yeah so um my baseline is low for where i lived because

00:44:59.440 if you live somewhere like really pretty like um i don't know aspen then everywhere else you're

00:45:04.600 going to be like or australia like you can you imagine and then you move to stockton but i guess

00:45:09.120 i went from italy to stockton but i don't know that's a crazy push yeah it was a lot different

00:45:15.480 for sure i lived in the mountains it was like in an isolated town in italy in italy yeah there's

00:45:20.700 like 300 people corfino in corfino nobody even knows about it i feel like uh when you look it

00:45:27.180 up on google it used to say human settlement it didn't even say like town or village wow that's

00:45:32.620 It?

00:45:33.000 Yep.

00:45:35.100 Oh, my gosh.

00:45:36.540 Nope, it's not.

00:45:37.480 See?

00:45:37.800 They always think it's in Abruzzo.

00:45:39.220 No, it's in Tuscany.

00:45:40.340 It's in Tuscany, man.

00:45:41.420 Yeah, this is wrong. 0.85

00:45:42.120 See, there's an I.

00:45:42.740 It's N-O. 0.94

00:45:43.340 It's in Tuscany, man.

00:45:44.300 Yeah, but that's how tiny it is.

00:45:46.240 It always brings up that one.

00:45:48.000 Got it.

00:45:48.380 It's the wrong.

00:45:48.900 It's an imposter.

00:45:49.980 No.

00:45:52.140 300 people live there?

00:45:53.760 Mm-hmm.

00:45:54.420 Yeah.

00:45:54.600 Oh, my gosh.

00:45:55.300 Oh, my God.

00:45:55.620 But as a kid, that was awesome.

00:45:57.300 It's a perfect amount.

00:45:58.040 Yeah, the whole town was basically like we could play hide and seek in, which was good

00:46:02.280 for me yeah with the violence do you remember leaving it uh not really um it was really sudden

00:46:13.120 our house is still like when i go visit yeah it's still my my room when i was like nine or ten

00:46:22.140 there's still my toys yeah my parents still have the house we grew up in um but it's still like

00:46:28.260 untouched it's like a time capsule yes it's crazy i go back and i was still playing with like barbies

00:46:33.800 and they're still out and it's just there and it's crazy kind of that's wow that's stranger things

00:46:39.600 dang and so uh why did your family move um i think my dad he's really ambitious he's always been a

00:46:48.960 real like project starter and it's just a tiny town and he got stir crazy i think and so he was

00:46:54.720 like i can't do this anymore um then he wanted to move back yeah i think also um just in those

00:47:01.900 tiny towns you know people are in each other's business all the time and i think he got sick of

00:47:06.400 that yeah yeah it makes sense to me it makes sense to me too i don't think i would want to live there

00:47:11.520 now i think if i were to live there it'd be when i'm like you know retired it's really pretty you

00:47:17.440 know like i could write up there a book or something you know oh yeah i always romantic

00:47:21.660 I'm writing a book somewhere

00:47:23.220 I'll write a book

00:47:24.840 what would you write a book about

00:47:26.120 I would probably write a book just about

00:47:28.700 I don't know I thought about two guys

00:47:34.900 that aren't married that just keep giving each other 0.83

00:47:36.760 shitty advice about like 0.73

00:47:38.140 they keep being each other's like

00:47:40.040 I'm gonna help you find somebody type of thing

00:47:43.180 I thought that'd be a funny thing to write about

00:47:44.680 I would write about growing up just people that I knew

00:47:47.060 stories from home things like that

00:47:48.900 things that I thought about things that I think about now

00:47:51.200 um i would write a book maybe a cook and so some of it would be words some of it would be

00:47:58.560 recipes okay a little bit of that maybe words and recipes yeah a book is kind of like a

00:48:05.140 bunch of words because sometimes i'm reading i get hungry that's a recipe huh sometimes i'm

00:48:09.980 reading a book and i get hungry and i'm like oh yeah yeah no i get that it's kind of like watching

00:48:14.380 a movie then you get hungry it's because your brain's preoccupied and it's nice to do something

00:48:18.080 while you're right i want to do two things at once yeah you know yeah but also if you're reading or

00:48:23.520 get hungry or you're in a recipes right there or a movie had a recipe right in the middle of it

00:48:31.260 so you're saying like if um like a recipe movie like oh so it's not like die hard and then in

00:48:37.020 the middle there's just a recipe for some reason yeah it is stops to like yeah it is that okay

00:48:41.860 like that so he stops and he's just like okay let me make some food or like just read the recipe 0.76

00:48:46.800 or does he go through with it then he goes back to killing german terrorists oh does now if you

00:48:51.720 could get that would be cool if that person in the movie yeah like daniel day lewis is suddenly

00:48:56.760 yeah yeah that's what i mean yeah helping you make like a tuna tartare or something i think

00:49:01.000 something like that would be pretty wild you know or he's helping you make like a bouillabaisse or

00:49:05.020 some kind of you know like a nice soup or something or cory spot or get uh gazpacho or something yeah

00:49:11.020 or like untaken you know he's looking for his daughter but he has to eat still yeah now he's

00:49:16.220 looking for ingredients it is covered all the ingredients cool yeah dude yeah i used to think

00:49:22.500 of like a bunch of tv shows i don't think of that many anymore have you ever did you try to pitch

00:49:26.100 television and stuff like once you got into hollywood did you try to pitch like on once you

00:49:29.400 got into like entertainment oh i've just been working on some like things but i nothing that

00:49:34.100 i'm like comfortable pitching or anything yet you know um but yeah i mean just being creative it's

00:49:39.860 fun to like explore did you have a dream for like a sitcom type of thing like or did like

00:49:45.280 what was kind of your motivation towards like getting into comedy like there was a time probably

00:49:49.980 before my generation where a lot of people were like i want to get a sitcom you know

00:49:53.580 and then now i think it's been a it's been a little bit more like i want to get a special

00:49:58.180 and i want to get like my generation probably like uh i want to get a special or i want to

00:50:02.800 get a podcast right maybe those things oh but yeah i wonder like yeah was it like what was

00:50:09.220 some of the reason like that like that you kind of got into like being creative like in this way

00:50:14.880 well i guess i've always really liked writing and um being artsy ever since i was a kid and then

00:50:21.740 for a while i kind of neglected that part and you know like when you become a teenager and then

00:50:28.000 college and then i was just kind of lost and how'd you neglect it what do you mean like drugs you

00:50:32.080 went into nursing no no i i think just um you start other things seem to matter more than just

00:50:39.160 being creative you know because like kids start bullying you and then you start worrying about

00:50:43.500 what people think about you and I remember I used to never a lot of things that then I got insecure

00:50:48.860 about I never knew I was just focused on like creating or like drawing or writing and then

00:50:54.540 something like is like oh this matters now like all the social like aspect and then you know you

00:51:01.880 gotta get lost and you got get sidetracked and then when I figured out what I wanted to do after

00:51:06.760 I graduated college I was in insurance and I after a year I wanted to kill myself and I was like how

00:51:11.820 did i end up being in an insurance job and then i started thinking what did i do as a kid that i

00:51:17.140 made me like enjoy life so much and then i kind of started doing that stuff again and then i that

00:51:23.120 plus things that scared me and so then i got into like trying to do comedy because that's something

00:51:27.620 i always like wanted to do but i always was like scared and i thought it wasn't like something you

00:51:33.380 could really do you know um did you see a certain comedian it made you be like that or did you see

00:51:38.980 like it made you think like yeah because sometimes i don't remember if there's a certain comedian i

00:51:45.720 mean maybe chris rock probably or i mean eddie murphy was like the biggest that people would

00:51:51.140 pass from when i was young you know but then it was like uh yeah i don't know i'm trying to think

00:51:57.480 of all the ones i mean there was like john caparulo there was like um i'm trying to think

00:52:03.880 it was like a certain comedian that really got me into it one time i just went to a comedy club they

00:52:08.160 gave you free tickets they would call all the time and get free tickets and i'd never been to a

00:52:11.380 comedy club i'd seen comedy like uh on television and stuff like that but i'd never seen it live

00:52:17.560 yeah and so i went to a live show and i was like oh my god so this is how it works and like

00:52:23.660 somebody gets up there and they do this and then people laugh and everybody's just like

00:52:27.600 in a room having a good time i was like this is so fascinating i needed that like exact direct

00:52:33.140 proof of like seeing it you know interesting what about you i never had like a comedian that i saw

00:52:39.400 i just always liked to make people laugh for some reason when i was a kid to the point where my

00:52:43.660 mom would get annoyed with me because i wasn't that funny when i was like yeah i would try to

00:52:48.640 make people laugh because for some reason i loved when they laughed at something i say and then i

00:52:52.460 would repeat it over and over again and then my mom would be like you gotta shut up that's just 0.90

00:52:56.100 fucking annoying and um i would always want to make my dad laugh because i felt like i got 0.96

00:53:01.280 his approval when he laughed he was pretty strict dad you know so then when i could make him laugh 0.96

00:53:05.620 he wouldn't laugh at anything i would feel like so then that was something too like um like making

00:53:09.700 a black guy laugh kind of kind of yeah absolutely that was my dad he was um he's a black guy of the

00:53:15.340 family yeah he's the black president father though he very much oh yeah yeah like he was 0.90

00:53:21.040 he was there you know yeah he was very

00:53:24.560 yeah um but uh I forgot what I was saying I'm sorry um oh no yeah so I was I just like to make

00:53:37.840 people laugh always and I like to create and so even when I got into comedy I didn't have like

00:53:43.020 oh I want to get on a tv show or anything I just really liked doing it and I just knew it felt

00:53:48.580 right and so then i just like like to write and get on stage and perform it and so i've just been

00:53:54.420 kind of like oh this i just love to do this and um i like exploring other avenues too but this is

00:54:01.840 like the thing i really like to do has touring been tougher than you thought has it been a good

00:54:07.420 time are you enjoying more when you just get to be at home um you seem to be out there a bit yeah

00:54:13.220 i really like it i like uh going to the airport i like being on a plane i like being in hotels i

00:54:18.920 like the whole experience really yeah it's like relaxing i don't know uh why like being on a plane

00:54:24.600 is relaxing all i gotta do is think i like to just like close my eyes and just think will you sleep

00:54:30.640 on the plane sometimes i can't i can't sleep but i'll like get like relaxed kind of daydream you

00:54:35.340 know like and just think about things oh that's probably a good that's a good call yeah it's it's

00:54:40.720 nice you know um yeah oh yeah dude the other day i was on a plane and my friend that was with me

00:54:47.180 he had to freaking do uh cpr on somebody on the plane yeah what what airline and i was like it

00:54:52.720 was on delta and i was like dude do not go do cpr they're like does anybody know cpr and he

00:54:56.240 raises his hand i'm like dude do not go do cpr right now dude because he couldn't do it did he

00:55:03.140 i didn't know if he could do it he's like dude i can do it i was like dude cannot you cannot do it

00:55:06.920 he had a couple drinks i was like you cannot be have a couple drinks and do cpr on somebody

00:55:14.920 but i mean yeah what if he threw up in his mouth

00:55:19.240 what if that then brings the guy back and then he throws up and they keep throwing up in each

00:55:29.560 other's mouths but they're both alive yeah at least oh yeah oh that's romantic yeah um

00:55:34.780 so did he did he do it did he give him cpr man and they got the guy going again they got him

00:55:40.460 back up they puffed him up to almost 200 psi filled him up that sounds good um do one time

00:55:47.280 i told the story before but one time i was at a restaurant it was like a breakfast breakfast buffet

00:55:53.200 and magic johnson was there and somebody started they needed cpr or whatever

00:56:01.860 so this guy like it was at a table it's like a kind of a nice place and so they just kind of

00:56:07.400 bring out one of those like you know those folding walls those chinese folding walls or

00:56:10.840 whatever that they bring out like a section or like a section like origami yeah it's like a

00:56:16.940 sectional that oh okay yeah yeah uh i think origami's japanese anyways yeah like a panel

00:56:24.680 thing just to make a right make it like a little area for something okay okay they bring they bring

00:56:29.840 one or two of those out and they're just doing cpr behind this these like little sectionals

00:56:35.040 while we're all the rest of us are supposed to be eating and you can hear him like hammering away 0.75

00:56:40.120 on this dude like they're doing like baritone shit on him and we're all like when do we eat 0.73

00:56:46.440 like because it's like because it's buffet it's nice and it was like on the plane no this was 0.86

00:56:52.740 awful plane oh okay i thought i was picturing this was all on a plane i was like there's a

00:56:56.520 buffet on the plane no this was at a hotel delta's really stepped up this is at a hotel okay and uh

00:57:04.300 so everybody starts looking at magic johnson to know when to eat because he just became like

00:57:08.840 it's weird like in a tribe like somebody kind of becomes the leader and everybody just looks over

00:57:14.080 at magic johnson we're like all waiting for him to eat and he had like a plate of little sausages

00:57:19.580 i remember and everybody's just waiting for him to have a little sausage so we can all eat it was

00:57:23.980 kind of crazy just like and then they got the guy going they got him popping you know you could hear

00:57:30.100 him kind of gurgling a little bit and popping or something and uh and then he went down again so we

00:57:35.740 all started eating and then everybody was like everybody had to like set their silverware down

00:57:41.120 again and be like okay oh man you know that's that's crazy because um what that story tells

00:57:47.140 me is that no one really cared about how the guy was doing everybody just wanted to eat and then

00:57:52.140 they had to pretend because if not you look like a horrible person but everybody really just wanted

00:57:57.220 to eat because it's like who is this guy and who sent him to ruin our meal that's kind of the vibe

00:58:02.280 that i'm picking up on because if you're worried about hey can we eat you're not caring about the 0.99

00:58:06.680 guy dying nobody gave a fuck that sucks dude oh here was the worst part though we kept seeing the 0.98

00:58:13.360 dude that had saved because somebody saved him the first time and then that guy had been like 0.99

00:58:17.140 pumping too hard he'd been like and i think his tries had worn out or whatever and he said his

00:58:21.720 tries locked up because he had like a he'd been overdoing creatine or whatever i guess your arms

00:58:25.480 can lock up if you have too much creatine what it's like the opposite of oiling your joints yeah

00:58:30.100 i think he just because he was over there i mean seven or eight minutes they were over there just

00:58:34.400 looking for oil in this guy dude they were over there pumping him and you could hear him and you

00:58:38.480 know and like everybody's just like it was almost like everybody's like yeah and everybody's just

00:58:44.120 waiting to finish their food which was getting cold you know and it's not like save the guy fast

00:58:49.040 but it's like save him or don't save him don't say like dude i will say this at a certain point

00:58:55.260 you started to kind of feel like hey this guy's had enough you know i'm saying like hey guys we

00:59:00.200 all kind of feel like that's enough like we gave it our best shot the musical it's just it's 40

00:59:07.460 minutes of cpr yeah so dan they get him popping and then he goes down again it's where he's like 0.99

00:59:13.160 fuck fuck fuck you know and i'm like magic johnson help out like you you know go over there and 1.00

00:59:19.360 fucking because he's so good at like dribbling it's like just go dribble the guy's fucking 1.00

00:59:23.380 you know i'm saying you would think if he just would go over there and just double dribble the 1.00

00:59:27.720 guy's heartbeat you know till it would get i don't know but that's just he just becomes black 0.99

00:59:32.180 he's like oh shit and then he gets a heart attack bad hearts oh do blah blah blah i think so right 0.99

00:59:39.940 Isn't it like high cholesterol? 1.00

00:59:40.980 I think it's they get sugar in their heart.

00:59:43.000 The sugar just goes right to their heart?

00:59:45.120 I'm not sure of that.

00:59:46.200 That sounds insane, but I think they get sugar in their heart 1.00

00:59:49.140 because they have a lot of – some black people have too much sugar 0.98

00:59:52.780 because there's even people stopping them. 0.89

00:59:55.040 You'll see people don't have any more sugar.

00:59:57.260 I've seen a couple of black guys in my area. 0.95

00:59:58.900 They'll have a shirt on that says, I can't have sugar. 0.60

01:00:00.420 Don't give me sugar.

01:00:01.900 Really?

01:00:02.420 Yeah. 0.91

01:00:03.860 Black adults are about 30% to 50% more likely to die from cardiovascular disease 0.93

01:00:09.300 than non-Hispanic white adults. 1.00

01:00:11.240 I wonder why. 0.99

01:00:12.320 I don't know.

01:00:12.660 Does it say?

01:00:14.000 Yeah, it'd say why.

01:00:14.900 Can you just ask why at the bottom?

01:00:16.980 And this is on perplexity right here.

01:00:20.480 Social determinants of health.

01:00:22.820 Let me see.

01:00:23.320 Lower income, unemployment, and poverty.

01:00:25.260 Increased stress.

01:00:26.780 That makes sense.

01:00:27.660 Unequal access to healthcare.

01:00:30.100 So some internal and external.

01:00:33.020 Higher rates of high blood pressure.

01:00:35.160 Dude, you know, what was I thinking about the other day?

01:00:38.200 What was I thinking about?

01:00:39.300 Oh, do you see, there was like,

01:00:40.620 oh, I was thinking about AI

01:00:41.580 and just like the truckers that are like,

01:00:44.560 like they won't even have any more,

01:00:45.980 like they will have some autonomous trucks out there.

01:00:48.680 So like self-driving?

01:00:49.760 Yeah.

01:00:50.060 Yeah.

01:00:51.340 And the self-driving stuff kind of gets me a little bit.

01:00:54.560 Have you seen the first time a Waymo sees a gay guy?

01:00:56.680 Have you seen that? 0.99

01:00:57.280 No.

01:00:57.900 Oh, that's good.

01:00:59.380 I'm trying to think, see if you guys can find that.

01:01:00.560 But dude, an autonomous truck.

01:01:02.020 And what if some, what if like some lot lizard

01:01:03.840 is parked behind like a, you know,

01:01:05.740 a flying J's or whatever,

01:01:07.260 like it's parked behind like a Buc-ee's or whatever?

01:01:09.300 and some lot lizard just climbs in the cab you know like one of those like kind of parking lot 1.00

01:01:13.240 escorts or whatever she climbs in the cab and she's like what do they even do then yeah um i 1.00

01:01:19.980 would think they would have the doors locked so you wouldn't lock specifically for lot lizards 0.99

01:01:25.060 that like like to pleasure trucks i think you gotta let them in though you gotta give the truck

01:01:30.120 the full experience that's true the truck is probably pissed driverless semi driverless

01:01:35.560 semi trucks have started running regular semi indeed huh texas yeah semis from the autonomous

01:01:42.000 truck computers and sensors that can see for more than four football fields the company is starting 0.98

01:01:48.740 out with a single self-driving truck and plans to add more by the end of the year fuck that dude

01:01:55.040 that's too much for me um what was your journey kind of when you got into comedy in the beginning

01:02:00.940 um you said you kind of got it to be creative did you end up feeling did you try other outlets

01:02:05.540 first like did you was there like music or was there well I used to um one thing I was scared

01:02:13.480 of was leaving uh home because I feel like I've just always been just you know my family's really

01:02:20.400 Italian really close they don't really like it when you leave you know so I was really nervous 0.99

01:02:25.560 to like leave so that was the first thing I did that made me scared was leave and I knew they

01:02:30.340 were gonna get mad at me but I did it anyway and I drove from California to Texas and then once I

01:02:35.240 was um and before that i would do things like go to the grand canyon by myself for example and like

01:02:43.360 um like to practice being out on your own yeah or to like practice just um yeah just being by

01:02:50.340 myself and doing things that like i used to feel self-conscious about eating by myself in a

01:02:56.860 restaurant you know so then i started just doing that to get over that feeling embarrassed like

01:03:01.680 just feeling a lot of shame i did a lot of things to get over all these dumb things i feel shame

01:03:07.640 about because i had a lot of guilt and shame i get from growing up i think catholic and so i would

01:03:12.640 just i started doing a bunch of stuff to get me over that and um just not not care about what

01:03:18.240 people thought anymore because that was i realized that that was keeping me prisoner in my own life

01:03:23.840 and i wasn't able to like live it how i wanted and if i kept doing it i was just gonna wake up one 0.79

01:03:29.920 day and be old and be like where the fuck did my life go i didn't even do what i wanted because i

01:03:34.220 was so worried about what everybody else was thinking about me do you know how you kind of 0.92

01:03:38.840 got through that moment i can relate to that a lot like recently i started like took a like i

01:03:43.280 finished touring for like a long time and i've been touring for like i don't even know i've

01:03:47.660 probably done half the weekends every year you know four days a week for 20 years maybe uh every

01:03:53.220 other week so not all the time but i've been touring for a long time and now there's just

01:03:56.560 like i have no comedy dates on the books i don't even have to do it if i don't want to it's like

01:04:00.040 you know i do want to i'm feeling but it's like but for the first time i was like a little bit

01:04:06.040 of me was like well who am i you know like yeah like i didn't have i always kind of define myself

01:04:11.420 i think by like achievements like some sort of achievement and i don't even feel much reward

01:04:17.040 from achievements but it's just the only way i knew to like have like to define myself for some

01:04:22.920 reason. It's like a measure at least. Yeah. It was just something like, am I okay? Like,

01:04:27.120 am I like, I guess, I guess this means I'm okay. Right. If I'm achieving something that I must be

01:04:32.520 okay. Right. Um, so that, that's just been like such a spot where I'm at. Um, right now you mean

01:04:39.600 like to, yeah, just recently I've been there. I'm just recently been there and I went into this

01:04:44.000 plant medicine and, uh, and I like, but they record you while you do it, like while you're

01:04:50.460 under it so then you can go back and listen to the recording after most of the stuff most of the

01:04:54.880 stuff I was saying was just like am I okay am I okay am I okay it was like this like this voice

01:05:00.940 inside of me just asking this all the time so do you feel like when you achieve things you can you're

01:05:06.740 like okay well I must be doing fine because I did this and this and this but then you feel kind of

01:05:12.080 empty inside because it's more like oh this is just something that everybody gets to see that

01:05:17.120 you did but it's not really about you it's not really necessarily like do you know you're like

01:05:23.020 the things you value do you live with like um doing things like oh I'm nurturing this thing

01:05:28.440 that I value and this thing or is it more like oh this is the goal I need to achieve and then

01:05:32.000 you kind of ignore what you value to get to it no I don't ignore what I value to get to it but I do

01:05:37.140 I don't I think I haven't had like a lot of like strong list of what my values are I think I have

01:05:42.420 them. I know I have them, but I've never really kind of listed them out. So funny you say that.

01:05:47.860 That's kind of like what I'm working on with this therapist right now is like, well, what are your

01:05:51.040 values? What are your beliefs? Um, and, um, and, and actually being able to see, okay, well, what

01:05:58.420 I'm doing, does this go towards, does this like honor those or is this something that doesn't

01:06:03.660 honor those? Um, so at least to give me more of like a, uh, a map, like kind of a chart of what's

01:06:10.960 going on. Yeah. No, I just think I didn't know any way. Um, I didn't, I never felt like, look at me.

01:06:20.840 I just felt like, well, what's a way that you can know you're okay. And it's like, okay, well,

01:06:28.180 if I have to achieve something, right? Like if I do something then, and we get it done and everybody

01:06:34.800 and, and, and it seems like everybody thinks it's fine, then it must be fine. You know,

01:06:39.820 i just didn't have any i didn't have any other i'd never had a pattern built inside of me that's

01:06:45.100 like well this is really what means something to you and this you know um does that make any sense

01:06:50.520 i think so if i'm understanding it correctly um so it's kind of like you it doesn't feel almost

01:06:58.600 though like then you're not super present in your life when you're focusing on like okay this is what

01:07:03.060 i gotta do and then you're not really like really absorbing every moment and then that gives you so

01:07:08.060 much anxiety because then you get to it and it's like oh well where'd all that time go that I got

01:07:12.540 to this but I didn't even live and now more time has passed and now I got it but to what cost I

01:07:17.860 didn't even like really spend the time enjoying it yeah yeah dude it's so crazy it's like you're

01:07:23.960 reading what I was writing out yesterday yeah that's what this therapist was saying it's like

01:07:28.020 well you have to take time when you have certain things that you're proud of that you recognize

01:07:31.980 that with yourself okay man I'm proud of you you did a good job and or we did a good job or this

01:07:36.620 is neat. Um, uh, and so, yeah, just, I never, I don't know. I never, I didn't have a strong

01:07:46.640 other value system. Like, thankfully I didn't have like a strong immoral value system where

01:07:50.780 I thought like crime or murder or stuff like that was okay. I knew those things, but I

01:07:55.600 didn't have a much other sense of like, um, yeah, I don't know. I guess I just, the only

01:08:04.380 way I knew how to be seen like like I guess if there was some sort of achievement then I was

01:08:09.260 being seen I guess or something and and then that made things kind of okay but yeah at a certain

01:08:13.340 point you're just like I I wasn't even there I wasn't even there yeah that's what it felt like

01:08:19.740 I felt like I got to the end of this touring and I was like yeah yeah where am I and it's like and

01:08:24.720 you and then you think but I should have been like really enjoying this the whole time but I

01:08:28.700 was just in my head thinking about like either being hard on myself or like that's what it was

01:08:33.240 that's what it is and then you're not like being really immersed in it and then it passes you by

01:08:38.180 and it's like this is a cool thing everyone thinks it's a cool thing but I wasn't even really there

01:08:44.240 like if I'm really being honest yeah and it's hard to separate that like wanting to do something

01:08:50.320 just right and being present and just letting yourself exist without worrying about doing it

01:08:56.420 bad you know because it's like you still want to be like well represented but then that's still

01:09:00.940 caring about what other people think and it's not making you be in the i think about this stuff a

01:09:05.040 lot too because i struggle with this stuff too yeah yeah that's how i can that's how i can read

01:09:10.000 it yeah no as you're saying this i'm like damn that's so crazy i've had these thoughts too before

01:09:14.080 because you get really in your head you beat yourself up all the time yeah people are like

01:09:18.080 dude you're so hard on yourself yeah it's like i i don't know i i feel that some but it's like

01:09:23.360 it's the only way i know how it's like it doesn't even feel like you're being hard on yourself when 0.97

01:09:28.840 you do it it just feels like you're being realistic and you're being like well i'm just not an idiot

01:09:32.580 and you see people all the time that are like not hard on themselves and then you're like well i

01:09:37.100 don't want to be delusional like that because that's not helping them you know so if anything

01:09:41.340 i err on the side of caution and i'm a little bit i see myself in a little bit worse than what

01:09:46.600 probably is true just in case so i can improve from that does that make sense yeah um yeah you

01:09:53.440 know but then but then you get to these milestones and you're like why was i stressed out for so long

01:10:00.500 you know and then somebody will ask you on a podcast like what was your favorite part about 0.64

01:10:03.900 touring and you're like fuck i was stressed out the whole time i don't even i can't even remember 0.71

01:10:08.160 something like i obviously i was doing exactly what i want to be doing but i was so stressed 0.99

01:10:12.780 out i didn't even like enjoy so much of it yeah and you're like fuck yeah it's kind of like an 0.90

01:10:18.420 you get in like kind of this like paddle ball match with yourself or like this you get in like 0.92

01:10:22.340 this uh padel what do they call it ping pong yeah yeah you're getting like this ping pong

01:10:29.100 match with yourself but yeah I think in the end it's like I don't know it takes focus to like do

01:10:34.540 certain things and it does take like um a lot of self-monitoring and stuff like I grew up with like

01:10:39.540 a lot of self-monitoring like always kind of monitoring myself like is this okay is this okay

01:10:44.520 do I seem okay how do I seem am I okay how do where do you think you got that from I think I

01:10:49.840 didn't have anybody telling me that everything anything was okay so you had to guess kind of

01:10:54.080 yeah so constantly guessing like i used to do like things like to soothe myself when i was growing up

01:10:58.500 like i would rock on my bed all the time as a kid um like my brother and i's bed were on wheels and

01:11:03.740 they would wake in the morning they'd be across the room like we would both have like rocked

01:11:07.400 and sometimes they would be like kind of like over by like they were both trying to get out

01:11:10.880 of the room like it was like cars trying to leave um like traffic jam yeah traffic jam um i used to

01:11:17.540 walk like step on certain things like monitor where i was walking i used to swallow on both

01:11:21.220 sides of my mouth like uh like bite your cheek kind of yeah yeah do certain things because just

01:11:26.880 to create patterns so some so things would make sense to me in my life like because i think i

01:11:31.080 just didn't i had no idea if anything made sense yeah and it was harrowing i think as a kid because

01:11:37.160 then you're so inter you're just everything's internal you're like this sort of like a fish 0.56

01:11:41.220 that fucking somebody put on some land no i feel like and let you be alive i feel like i um i had 0.97

01:11:47.120 most of my existential crises as a kid. 0.99

01:11:50.460 I feel like people have them as adults.

01:11:52.460 What is existential existential crisis?

01:11:54.200 Will you guys bring it up just so we can say it?

01:11:55.780 Because I know we say it all the time.

01:11:57.500 But also, maybe that's not the right word for this

01:11:59.660 because I was a kid,

01:12:01.340 but I just had so many questions as a kid

01:12:06.580 and I was one of those kids

01:12:08.260 that asked questions to my mom all the time

01:12:10.640 and I'd freak out.

01:12:12.400 I get like, I throw up sometimes

01:12:14.160 because things didn't make sense.

01:12:15.380 like do you know that sounds like a cartoon character sorry no no no but it but it didn't

01:12:20.580 like um like being in space and then black holes and then i'd worry about a black hole forming

01:12:26.680 right next to the earth and my mom wouldn't have the answers i'm like but how do you know but how

01:12:31.060 do you know like that that can't happen and just stuff like that yeah so yeah when i heard i was

01:12:35.480 worried a black hole that the music would be so loud in there in a black hole yeah and i'm like 0.97

01:12:40.000 i'm gonna fucking hate that shit that's why i did not want to be an astronaut that's so funny that's 0.99

01:12:44.120 so autistic you didn't want to do it for the loud noises well just allow music i'm like i'm gonna 0.99

01:12:49.620 fucking call the cops they're gonna come over everybody's gonna get pissed they're gonna make 0.88

01:12:53.740 a it's gonna be a world star video or whatever um what an existential crisis is an existential 0.99

01:12:58.200 crisis isn't a formal mental health diagnosis it's a pattern of thoughts and feelings centered

01:13:03.080 on big questions like who am i what's my purpose does anything really matter how should i live

01:13:09.160 given that life is fine yeah that's literally what i would think about as a five-year-old

01:13:13.400 and i remember just seeing other kids playing and stuff and i would just be like mom what's

01:13:19.220 you know is the world gonna end you know like just stuff like that like uh yeah i had to worry

01:13:24.700 too early i think i yeah yeah i think me too yeah worried all the time why do you think you

01:13:29.900 had to do it though i didn't i don't know i think i just was curious i think it comes from curiosity

01:13:34.860 isn't curiosity cool like it's like so double-edged sword because curiosity makes us want

01:13:40.320 to create and ask things but then also curiosity is the reason for like i don't know bestiality

01:13:45.660 for example right because it's like it's all coming from like a wonder what if oh yeah that's

01:13:52.040 true bestiality i mean that's why the cat it got killed it's because of that because oh yeah and

01:13:59.500 And I want to see that.

01:14:01.180 If they do like a mural of that, I don't want to see it.

01:14:04.820 Of a cat?

01:14:05.720 If a cat got killed through bestiality, I'm out.

01:14:11.300 Sorry, I don't know how I got down that train of thought.

01:14:14.240 No worries.

01:14:15.000 We're talking about being curious and I don't know why I thought of that.

01:14:18.280 No worries. I don't think we even know what we're talking about, but it's good.

01:14:20.220 No, no, we're talking about like-

01:14:21.420 Do you think we're making any sense at all?

01:14:23.280 Do you guys think so?

01:14:24.600 I'm following you and I think I know what you're saying.

01:14:27.280 Do you know what I'm saying?

01:14:28.560 I think so.

01:14:29.060 Are you thinking about the girl in the gym?

01:14:30.900 No.

01:14:31.320 Okay.

01:14:32.060 What if this whole time when we were talking, that's just what you were thinking about?

01:14:35.640 Oh, no, no, no, no.

01:14:37.300 I wouldn't let my brain just like, I don't let my brain just do that anymore.

01:14:41.380 Like, I'll try to stay locked.

01:14:43.300 I'm happy to be here with you.

01:14:44.660 Sometimes I do that and I catch myself.

01:14:46.460 It's like tabs.

01:14:47.260 And then I'm like, okay, don't leave that tab open.

01:14:49.080 Just close that one out.

01:14:50.300 So that way I can come back.

01:14:51.920 Yeah, I control the tabs.

01:14:53.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:14:53.780 You know, every now and then the one of them will get out of hand and I'll have to chase 0.97

01:14:56.640 it around the screen and shit. 0.95

01:14:57.700 Yeah, it's like you get a virus. 0.97

01:14:59.060 Yeah.

01:14:59.320 Every once in a while.

01:15:00.020 But I control the tabs.

01:15:01.240 Yeah. 1.00

01:15:01.460 It's like a porn pop-up and you're like, fuck. 1.00

01:15:03.580 Yeah. 1.00

01:15:04.360 Yeah.

01:15:04.860 Yeah.

01:15:06.420 But no worries talking about?

01:15:07.980 We were talking about like as kids just being worriers too soon.

01:15:11.960 Oh, yeah.

01:15:12.480 Yeah.

01:15:12.800 I think that's it.

01:15:13.460 You just find for some reason concern comes in too soon for a kid.

01:15:18.120 And I don't know why.

01:15:19.500 Sometimes why that happens.

01:15:21.500 I think when you're a sensitive kid, that's part of it.

01:15:25.380 Like you're sensitive.

01:15:26.300 So like, but you don't know when you're a kid that you're sensitive.

01:15:29.060 everybody else tells you you're sensitive but you don't know what somebody else's experience is and

01:15:33.900 how they're perceiving the world so you only know like oh that really hurt and everybody seems to

01:15:39.080 not feel that but to me it hurt really bad and now i'm being dramatic and i feel it so much

01:15:43.640 or like and then you worry something's wrong with you yeah yeah 100 i always thought i was so weird

01:15:48.660 and i always felt like yeah did you feel like that too oh i felt like my life was kind of a 0.99

01:15:55.100 nightmare when i was a kid i'm not getting into like i'm not in like any woe is me shit but shit 0.88

01:15:58.760 was kind of a nightmare and so i thought that that the outside is this reflection of me so i must be 0.98

01:16:05.440 a nightmare like oh if this because you the world just centers around you you're a kid that's all 0.98

01:16:10.120 you know so it's like fuck if everything's so fucked up out here then it must be it's a reflection 0.99

01:16:15.780 of me i must be fucked up you know and that like i think when you for me realizing that well i think 0.99

01:16:21.180 it just like i don't know it makes it makes a lot of things you're going uphill a lot it's up it's 0.97

01:16:27.380 battle a lot yeah and um i think it's kind of like you know when you get older your taste buds

01:16:32.180 decline i think um when you get older also like you get maybe less sensitive because you get more

01:16:37.480 data and you get more used to like um certain experiences so then things don't feel as intense

01:16:42.860 so you're still sensitive now but probably less than when you were like brand new you know yeah

01:16:47.780 you start to get the hang like no matter what horse you're on you kind of get the hang of how

01:16:51.240 it rides a little bit yeah so i feel like a lot less stressed out now than i did as a kid to be

01:16:56.740 honest i feel like as a kid i was like peak like just everything was overwhelming and too much

01:17:02.560 you know yeah and then i felt like how come everybody else seems to be getting along

01:17:07.400 and i'm so weird and i'm trying to be like them but i'm not they're on to me you know that's what

01:17:12.140 i always felt like i was trying to have to like i didn't always feel that a lot of times i felt

01:17:15.920 like i was having to try to posture to fit in and i didn't really know where i fit in and also

01:17:19.960 sometimes i was kind of glad that i didn't fit into just one place though like i think there

01:17:23.800 was bits of all of that you know um but i do start to recently i start to like uh say thank you god

01:17:31.700 for these things that happened right even if some of them are painful i can say thank you even if

01:17:36.800 something was painful i can say thank you god you know because um that's the only way right like

01:17:43.120 even if my like family stuff like i can still be very grateful to my mother for having me you know

01:17:48.600 I can be very grateful to my father for having me like, um, instead of sometimes being generally

01:17:54.100 like, I, sometimes I get in the space where I'm generally upset, but I, I can still find a lot

01:17:59.260 of specific things that I'm have gratitude for. And that gives me like a different position to

01:18:04.780 operate from, you know, for sure. I can sit there and think like, Oh, I'm upset at my mom about this

01:18:09.600 or this thing happened or my brother or my boss, whatever. But if I can find some, Oh, thank them

01:18:16.200 for this right and then that's kind of where i can hang my hat on with them you know and if my

01:18:20.900 thoughts start to go down some of these other spaces i can put up some boundaries and say

01:18:24.700 i'm not going down those spaces anymore just because it's not the best place for me to be

01:18:28.980 does that make any sense yeah 100 and um it's it comes from self-trust and open-mindedness and it's

01:18:35.360 a fine line that's what i've been thinking about too because i've been like is it that i don't

01:18:39.700 trust myself or i'm open-minded i tell myself i'm open-minded but is that an excuse to not trust

01:18:44.580 myself do you know what i mean like like um sometimes you want to be open-minded and not

01:18:51.040 think oh i know all the answers because most of the time you don't know all the answers so you

01:18:55.580 look for like you you're open to what people have to say and feedback which is good but then it can

01:19:00.960 go too much to where you don't even listen to what you think and you're you know the gut feeling

01:19:05.440 because with the excuse of oh i'm just being open-minded i don't want to be like i know

01:19:10.240 everything you know does that make any sense so so then sometimes it's like oh the measure is if

01:19:17.440 people are liking it but then if that's the only measure and you're not thinking like in your gut

01:19:21.820 I'm not proud of that that's when you end up feeling like because I've done things where

01:19:25.640 people have liked but then I've been like but you know that doesn't really reflect my values very

01:19:30.200 much and I don't feel good about it even though it went viral I don't know if I really feel good

01:19:34.240 about that oh yeah it's almost like you sold out a little bit because you didn't listen to the

01:19:38.200 voice that was like but is that something you value even if everyone else likes it yes that's

01:19:44.020 something i still value there's things that i've put out there like or that are out in the world

01:19:47.520 that i wish sometimes uh i hadn't put in certain like could be a special or this or that but then

01:19:52.960 some of it is i won't even be fair to myself i will hold myself to my older myself when i taped

01:19:59.700 a certain special or something to a certain special only have two specials i will hold

01:20:04.440 myself to when i tape the special or when i put a certain joke out there i'll hold my current self

01:20:08.680 to those to the time at that time you know i'm saying yep like i'll hold the person at that time

01:20:13.540 to my current like way of looking at the world so that's when i start to realize man you're too

01:20:18.820 hard on yourself you're holding a past self to a current belief that is like if you watch somebody

01:20:25.940 do that that would be it would be insane to watch somebody do that so that's when it's bad to

01:20:30.620 romanticize something is when it holds you trapped into it you think romanticizing is good but then

01:20:36.140 it's just making a story that's better than the current one and that's not good well sometimes

01:20:40.120 romanticizing i think this is interesting because we're kind of bringing it back to that sometimes

01:20:43.720 romanticizing is uh it's almost a savior way of like if you really had those moments from the past

01:20:54.600 or those feelings like sometimes maybe you're grateful that your brain romanticizes them you

01:20:59.460 know like maybe if you were trapped in a you know if you were like imprisoned for like as a prisoner

01:21:06.700 or war and but there's you the thing you remember the most is like chats with the guards on a sunday

01:21:12.840 right you know it's like um or being able to sit there in peace and meditators you know i don't

01:21:17.720 know totally well it's like if all the stories in your head are not quite right why not make them

01:21:23.600 good so that way you have like a good like story because if it's all made up anyway why not make

01:21:29.280 up something fun you know instead of like making up something bad it's all made up like i think

01:21:35.160 yeah dude yeah you're so true yeah i think real i started i think i'm just so funny i'm like just

01:21:42.340 like in the past 10 days like in this place where it's like i'm realizing a little bit more the

01:21:46.260 control that uh i have over how to frame some of my thoughts and frame some of the ways that i'm

01:21:52.060 looking at things yeah and how kind of off some of it has been you know yeah and yeah i guess i'm

01:21:56.840 grateful that i can still kind of learn and it's definitely a slow process i feel like i don't like

01:22:01.140 to lie i don't i don't know every it's like i like to be where i don't know i like the comfort

01:22:06.340 of the old thoughts and ways but it's just after a certain point it doesn't it's not serving you

01:22:10.500 anymore yeah i feel like it's like um it's like going on a diet or eating healthy but with your

01:22:16.660 brain so like when you're like reframing things expressing gratitude being present that's you

01:22:21.280 eating healthy but every once in a while you want to dip into the junk food and that's the

01:22:25.000 you know going back and thinking about things that don't even make you feel that good but for

01:22:29.440 some reason you do it anyway even though it's not helpful because because why like it must be doing

01:22:36.420 something to do that right yeah oh well I think for me Christina I realized there was a time where

01:22:41.540 I was like man sometimes I don't want to leave these old feelings of being sorry for myself or

01:22:46.420 feeling bad or thinking about the sad things sometimes I don't want to leave those feelings

01:22:50.260 sometimes i would because they're the only for at a certain point for years they were the only

01:22:56.280 friends that i felt like even had like somewhere deep inside of me it was like those are the real

01:23:00.620 things i knew was like how much pain i was in or how i felt or like this level like a certain level

01:23:07.280 of discomfort they were like my closest friends does it make any sense yeah like they were the

01:23:12.680 things i felt the most so to leave them it almost feels like you're abandoning a big part of

01:23:18.760 yourself which for in some ways sometimes you are you know and i feel like sometimes it's comfortable

01:23:23.320 to be in that mindset of like um pain because if you start feeling too good that kind of sets off

01:23:30.040 alarms it's like oh now i have something to lose but if i can like retreat in the safe place of

01:23:34.860 like not misery but like pain then it's like well i was already there and i didn't expect much more

01:23:40.240 you know and it's almost like a protective mechanism because it's scary to feel completely

01:23:45.420 good it's scary to feel like you deserve something yeah that too like you but yeah it's not but

01:23:51.540 that's a lie but that was a lie that i think was stuck in me for a long time it's scary to feel

01:23:55.360 like i deserve something or if i feel like i deserve something what are other people gonna

01:23:58.240 think of that yeah or like oh am i gonna jinx it if i feel i don't know that's kind of like oh

01:24:03.360 i think there's some karma in there something like that yeah too it's like all these like

01:24:07.140 oh i need to like keep putting my making myself smaller so that way i don't lose everything almost

01:24:12.500 or I don't like fuck it up 0.59

01:24:14.360 because I'm being like, 0.86

01:24:15.920 I'm giving myself too much.

01:24:17.280 That's not good.

01:24:18.060 Like, I don't know why we feel like that.

01:24:20.160 There is a nice balance with that though,

01:24:21.500 because I think the world,

01:24:22.960 like you do want to watch your ego

01:24:25.380 because your ego will also trick you.

01:24:27.040 Right.

01:24:27.500 Into thinking that, you know,

01:24:29.120 you deserve like everything's like,

01:24:31.240 you know, that there's something

01:24:32.380 more special about you.

01:24:34.460 You know, it's okay to think

01:24:35.660 that there's something special about you,

01:24:37.080 but to think that there's something more,

01:24:38.860 like, I don't know.

01:24:40.420 Yeah, I don't know.

01:24:41.100 um it would yeah but it wouldn't be like that it's like a fine line between ego and like

01:24:46.240 loving yourself the way you love like your sibling or your mom or somebody you know like

01:24:51.560 because like when i see my sister for example i'm like she's amazing she's great she can do

01:24:58.000 whatever she wants and that's not me being like thinking that like some ego driven thing it's

01:25:03.240 just love you know uh but if you look at it towards yourself it feels like ego when you do it towards

01:25:08.340 yourself you know when it's like no but i do that for other people why do i feel guilty doing it for

01:25:14.120 myself it's not like from a place of superiority it should be just love and i think that's the

01:25:18.620 struggle it's loving yourself but like keeping yourself in check like not it's the difference

01:25:25.000 it's the difference being like egotistical and loving yourself but it's a hard difference to

01:25:29.020 distinguish i guess but i think thinking about it and seeing it a little bit and having a

01:25:33.360 conversation with it you know like well why do i act this way for like what what do i get out of

01:25:37.940 acting this way or what am I afraid of if I do behave this way and like but but having there's

01:25:42.260 some of that self-conversation I think it's like that's pretty key and some of it can be fun to

01:25:47.600 have some of that conversation um before you go because we got to stop in a few minutes because

01:25:52.280 they have to they're gonna this is a restaurant and a nightclub and here in Austin Texas it's

01:25:57.840 cute I've never been here you haven't no but I liked it it's a good area yeah it's great we're

01:26:01.840 glad that you're here yeah thank you um what uh when when was the first time your parents came to

01:26:08.120 see you perform and what did they think because obviously you got see me perform they've never

01:26:12.720 come to see me perform really yeah they uh on my end they were they were not happy with me doing

01:26:17.960 comedy for a long time they're okay with it now but they haven't seen me perform yet and um part

01:26:23.820 of it was me too i don't know if i really want my parents to see me perform you know why do you

01:26:29.380 feel like it's your own thing or something i i just i feel like um i can i really care a lot

01:26:35.920 about hurting my parents feelings and like um making disappointing them or doing if i say

01:26:41.640 something that they don't think is quite right i don't want to get it censored because i know

01:26:45.020 it's going to get in my head like whatever they think and i want to be like when i do comedy i

01:26:49.980 want to be as honest and real with people and connect with them in the most genuine way i can

01:26:54.540 without feeling like i can't talk about this because my dad's gonna get mad at me you know

01:26:59.040 what i mean yeah because then i'm not doing what i'm supposed to be doing i'm thinking about what

01:27:03.760 somebody else wants me to do and then i'm not being myself and then i'm not even doing a good

01:27:07.320 job at that point yeah then you're wasting everybody's time yeah it's like that's then

01:27:11.020 that defeats the purpose of uh but that's something i'm trying to get over too that's

01:27:14.900 where i don't care about not in a bad way i don't care what my parents think but more in a like

01:27:20.100 i'm my own person and i'm gonna trust that they love me anyways if i you know like we're no matter

01:27:25.320 what here yeah yeah that's it wow yeah i forget i didn't have much relationship with like my parents

01:27:30.560 at that time really so there wasn't like i don't have to worry about any of that but i forget that

01:27:34.340 some people have to worry about like you know when your mom first sees you're doing your some of the

01:27:38.300 stuff and like how that feels yeah yeah yeah it's interesting to see like to put that in front of

01:27:44.700 them yeah yeah and i had like you know my they were very involved in my life and very like you

01:27:52.040 know not passive parenting at all they were very so and they raised me a certain way very strict

01:27:58.260 parents you know what's tough yeah yeah so it was very like so it was even hard for me to like move

01:28:04.960 out comfortably without feeling like oh i'm doing something they don't want me to be doing that gave

01:28:09.520 me a lot of anxiety and i know it's like sounds kind of dumb i guess because it's not that big

01:28:13.780 of a deal but to me it was no it's a huge you're disappointing you're someone that loves you

01:28:18.320 disappointing your parents i don't have tattoos because i know that were that would make them

01:28:23.080 feel bad if i got tattoos you know and i don't i guess i don't want them that badly but i think

01:28:27.960 when your parents are really involved and we're really strict and if and it's from the best they

01:28:32.100 love me you know but sometimes it makes you like not feel like your own person until you leave for

01:28:38.700 a while and then you're like what do i actually like what do i want to do what do i think yeah

01:28:43.240 you know i don't know i don't want i don't mean to keep going because i know you gotta go but it's

01:28:47.040 okay yeah well it's okay the time limit just happened we didn't know yeah and we've been

01:28:51.220 having a nice time chatting and i think it's like um yeah it's been cool and yeah and that's

01:28:58.100 important stuff and sometimes we talk or like that's unique things but that's real stuff that

01:29:01.560 happens for people it's like yeah i don't want to disappoint what am i but am i being to this

01:29:05.940 and how do i grow and like how do i you know it's like we're all kind of examining the walls

01:29:10.400 to see like you know what the space looks like yeah but yeah i just appreciate your time and

01:29:17.820 yeah we'll have we'll just have to do it again soon so we can have a we have to talk about some

01:29:21.360 more of this stuff yeah i'd love talking about i think about this stuff all the time oh my god

01:29:25.840 constantly and then the more i think about it i feel insane sometimes i'm like i have nothing

01:29:29.920 figured out it's like they think i figured something out and then i'm like i didn't really

01:29:33.980 though there's sleep there's so much more and then it's like is any of my thoughts even my own

01:29:38.380 sometimes i just go crazy i go down rabbit holes yeah and then i'm like i gotta stop like because

01:29:43.620 i'm just i need to be present then um sometimes i smoke weed so i can get present that helps

01:29:48.440 quiet down the the all the voices that are constantly like just getting high and watching

01:29:54.140 a movie and not trying to predict what happens because that's what i'll do i'm just like nope

01:29:58.080 just go scene by scene and don't try to figure it out just experience it how it's supposed to

01:30:03.040 be experienced you know yeah no experience it how it's supposed to be experienced yeah

01:30:08.000 i mean i think it's what we're all trying to do with life you know um christina mariani thanks

01:30:12.680 so much for hanging out thanks for touring with me some and doing some shows fun yeah super fun

01:30:18.440 thank you for having me on the road with you i did that when i was two years in that was insane

01:30:22.300 experience oh wow that's crazy i forget about that yeah then it went from like doing little

01:30:27.200 rooms to fucking arenas and theaters that was crazy did we do something really cool my brain's

01:30:32.240 bad yeah no we did for me it was really cool it was like a 8 000 person um oh that's awesome yeah 0.98

01:30:39.220 you tripped on the stool i remember oh yeah oh yeah oh no uh and uh ari ari was yeah ari was

01:30:47.100 there yeah yeah that was the biggest place that i've done so far i think well um yeah we'll have

01:30:52.560 to do some shows here when i'm in town too because i'm gonna be spending more time here because i

01:30:55.260 gotta start practicing comedy again um coming up you're in appleton wisconsin chicago illinois

01:31:00.940 La Jolla comedy store there

01:31:03.060 Sunnyvale CA

01:31:04.180 at Rooster T Feathers

01:31:05.800 tell them I said hello over there

01:31:06.980 that's a beautiful place

01:31:07.940 at the Bend Comedy Festival

01:31:09.940 Rochester, New York 0.86

01:31:11.260 I love their garbage plate

01:31:14.180 Central, Pittsburgh

01:31:15.080 Comedy Bar

01:31:15.980 I'm going to Europe next

01:31:17.380 in January too later

01:31:19.180 and you're doing shows in Europe in January?

01:31:20.680 yeah in January

01:31:21.380 February

01:31:21.880 and I have a podcast too

01:31:23.920 I almost forgot to

01:31:24.840 say that I have a podcast

01:31:27.080 on my YouTube

01:31:29.500 and what is it called?

01:31:30.940 I don't know. I think I was thinking, um, this upcoming weekend, this upcoming,

01:31:35.020 what do you think of that name? You think that's good?

01:31:42.860 Yeah. I think it's one of the better names.

01:31:45.340 Yeah. Should I call it that for real?

01:31:47.440 I think it's not a bad idea.

01:31:49.140 I have no idea what to call it.

01:31:50.900 Um, how about this? I'm going to think of some titles.

01:31:53.060 And if you haven't started by the next time we talk, uh,

01:31:55.280 by the next time that we podcast,

01:31:56.740 I'm going to call it this upcoming weekend. I swear to God, I will do it.

01:31:59.860 if there's nothing else

01:32:02.300 well look don't second guess it then

01:32:04.020 don't think too much about it

01:32:05.080 I think it's a great choice

01:32:06.240 Christina Mariani thank you so much

01:32:08.600 thank you

01:32:29.860 But it's gonna take

This Past Weekend with Theo Von - July 11, 2026

#668 - Cristina Mariani

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