Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe - Manon Mathews: Rock Bottom and Manonfestations

Episode Date: August 10, 2021

Kaitlyn has hilarious comedian and incredible impersonator, Manon Mathews, join her for a fun (and serious) filled hour of realizing all of their similarities. From having endless same favorite movie quotes to finishing each other’s sentences, these two completely forget they are even podcasting together. Manon proves her impersonations are actually real because they are so good that many people believe she is doing voice overs… and she gives Kaitlyn a run for her money with her laugh. But humour has also been a healing power for Manon who got her start on Vine (which nearly disintegrated her career overnight) and after she was completely blindsided by the man of her dreams, her ex-husband, just a short time after they got married. After hitting rock bottom, Manon has rinsed out the dirty water and filled her cup with the freshest of clean water and is riding the high of happiness and finding the best version of her humour once again. Funny how it works out… also the title of Manon’s book out now! You can find Manon on IG at @manonmathews and @manonfestation BOLL & BRANCH - Get 15% off your first set of sheets at bollandbranch.com using promo code vine15. EUROPEAN WAX CENTER - Visit waxcenter.com to book your reservation today and check out the new line of products — remember, your first wax is free! GEICO - Go to geico.com and in 15 minutes you could be saving 15% or more on car insurance. STRAIGHT TALK - Straight Talk Wireless. No contract. No compromise. OXICLEAN - Visit oxicleancoupons.com where a coupon is waiting for you. RESPECT - See RESPECT only in theatres August 13. Buy tickets now at respect.movie See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Let's go. Hey, ramen, Pino, ready for the show. Everyone's welcome. So come on in because OTV. It's about to begin. Welcome to Off the Vine. I'm your host, Caitlin Bristow. I am so excited for my Vynos to listen to today's episode because my guest is someone who has probably already made you laugh on TikTok or on the old app called Vine.

I'm off the vine and she's on the Vine, get it. I'm talking about comedian, influencer, podcaster, author, just all around truly incredible human being who has been in the comedy world pretty much forever, the amazing man. and Matthews. I honestly just love and admire how open she is about everything she's been through, her journey through life. She's definitely an inspiration in someone who knows how to manifest as well as I do, or shall I say, mannifest. We talk about everything from impressions to our dogs to Jennifer Anderson to going through your absolute lowest moments in life. I'm just so happy we got to have this little chat and I really think you guys are going to love it too. So listen to this episode, enjoy, rate, review. If you're not already, give her a follow. And

watch your hilarious impressions whenever you're feeling down in the dumps. Her Instagram truly and TikTok truly makes me happy. I promise it'll help. All right. Enjoy. Oh, my gosh, you look so gorgeous. And I'm like a little grease ball over here who just got out of a massage. It's my first time wearing lipstick in eight months.

Well, you're freaking rocking it. Actually, I was going to say, I've been. wear a lipstick but really I've been filming you girls are like killing it I'm what I've been watching you oh my gosh thank you I love it's it's been really fun just being in this position because we've been in their position and I'm like watching it back thinking why haven't they had women like doing this for the bachelorette this whole time I mean because they didn't ever change the host right right and now your power force killing it like your humor and giggling and popcorn and all that That's so fun. That must be such a weight off, like such a less pressured situation to just be on the

outside, like watching and guiding. Yes. That's exactly what it is. You still feel like a bit of PTSD because they're like crying on the floor and you're like, God, I remember how real this was. It's so fun to be to have this perspective on it. Yeah. I feel like your cells probably remember and take you back to that time. And so even though you're not in the response, you're like in a trauma response or something like feeling for them like I I still commend anyone that goes on that show because I would be crying every second the whole time from start to finish like I just feel like my self-esteem couldn't take it so bravo I will always say I went on at the perfect time in my life I was like 29 and I felt like I knew myself and I was like I'm almost 30 and I know what

I'm doing and I was so confident and now I'm like if I went back on now even though I'm like more confident in other ways of life like to go back in that vulnerable as a contestant on the show like I don't know how I I started crying a lot at the end but at the beginning I was like I'm not going to cry and like I felt like so confident and then by the end I was like every day yeah because it's like your whole world you're not in reality so you have to focus on everything that you're feeling and be present with real humans I mean good on you I'm just not learning how to be really confident like I can act confident and I think I come across kind of confident but inside I'm like a little girl always do you mind if I ask how

old you are. 32. Oh, that was one of my favorite ages, by the way. 37, 30 and 32 have been like my favorite ages so far. And 35 is, oh, no, I'm 36 now, but 35 was really great too. But that's, I feel like it's never too late to, you know, learn how to have confidence and self-love and go through all that. Like 30s is actually probably the perfect time to do that because nobody knows who they are in their 20s and then 30s you're like discovering who you are and you have obviously been through some things in your life that have gotten you there and have made you want to look inwards and I just feel like 30s is the perfect time to do that. I love the 30s so far. I'm about to I'll be 33 in October and I still say I'm 27 for some reason that's the age that I've like stopped and I keep

forgetting that I'm older than that. But I don't know why like I was just talking about this with somebody where I think at 19 I like made out with someone when I had a boyfriend and I it was like it tore my whole world apart like I felt like the worst person on the planet. I was like we shouldn't be in committed relationships that young. No. Like like what we changed so much from 18 to 25 let alone and then 25 to 30 like so different. And I just feel like 30s is like you're so settled into who you are and you just don't give a. Yeah. You can say it. You don't give a you don't give a you don't give. Yeah. And I I heard it just keeps going from that. It's interesting. And I feel like I don't know and I don't want to like label all comedians, but I feel like I kind of had this thing where comedy to me was a deflect or like in my 20s. I always just wanted to be funny and make people laugh because I like didn't have to go too deep within myself. But now I'm like, oh, you can do both. You can actually dive deep into who you are and like be a more serious person and, you know, have these deeper thoughts and go to therapy and do else. But you can also. still be funny like both can exist oh my god i love that you're saying that because i my i grew up

getting made fun of and so i definitely used humor as a defense but i feel like at times inside i would feel a little bit as i got older i realized that's what i was doing and then i started feeling a little bit like a bully and i was like well i'll never want to do that so i like shut down my humor and i made it all about going deep in therapy and really just getting truly connected and then i was like this is not who i really am though like i still want to bring lightness to the world because humor is so healing. Yes. Like to find the funny of a traumatic situation is what heals it.

That's how you know you're healed from it because you see it differently. And so there is a blend. I've been doing that on my social channels recently where it's like it's always been humor. But then lately I've been like trickling like spiritual stuff. Yeah. And each time someone's like I feel like you're about to joke like where's like you're about to get funny.

Like oh, there is none. This is just supposed to motivate you somehow. So it's interesting. there's an interesting way to kind of blend it. Yeah. And have you always been into comedy like your whole life since you were little? Like did you come out of the womb like making jokes? Yeah. Is this thing on to the vagina? Yeah. For sure. Oh yeah. Yeah. My parents are so goofy. Like my parents woke me up like singing to me and telling me stories. I was an only child. So it was always by myself. Like just always doing voices. Like I remember my parents being like, hey man and look at us and I would turn and they'd be like and like put their tongues together and I was like oh my God like just weird shit and so

yeah I mean I love comedy so much yeah they were very fun they still are just separately because they're not together anymore that's my my mom's very silly like she's just she's I get a lot of my humor and like outrageousness from her and my dad is so humble and kind and sweet and like

soft spoken so I feel like like I picture my parents doing that together and I'm like no well my mom was like your dad my mom's more like she has kind of stoner humor which I love and my dad's more like outgoing and funny and like goofy but she would always just go along with what he did but she's so soft spoken and sweet but I was going down a rabbit hole of your videos just because I mean I've I've seen you on TikTok so many times and then I started following you on Instagram and then I went down to rabbit hole. whole of your Instagram videos. And I'm not sure I've ever laughed as hard as I did at the Susie video. Oh. Like, is there more Susie I can watch somewhere? Or like, do you have, you need an Instagram page dedicated to Susie. What is her story? And where can I find more? Thank you. I'm really proud of her. She started, she started on Easter during the quarantine. Like, I've always done like little girl characters because in like groundlings and improv and stuff you like

just create characters and I always had like a little girl one but I always like the way that she moves and waddles around with her little hair and she just kind of dances and so she came about I think in like Easter she went on Easter acon you know she had to and she was like really excited about it and looking for a

I don't know if you've seen that one but she she she I'll tag you she has a ton of videos out there of her doing all sorts of like doing I'm a savage like doing all the dances in her little outfit um she's fun i don't know like i just i feel like that's like my something we always find characters that are like relate to us somehow i feel like that's where we pull from you know i do a lot of like entitled la girls that are just like valley

and i'm like well i'm from the valley like even though i'm making fun of it there's a little bit of me that's in there yeah that's yeah i was gonna say because you spent your whole life growing up in L.A. You weren't someone that moved there for comedy or to pursue your career. You were born and raised there. Yeah. And anytime I tell people that, they're like, what? That's so crazy. There's people like, and I'm like, yeah, everyone I know is from here, obviously. But it's the people that move here and then their dreams don't happen. They're the bitter ones. Yeah. Like the ones that are from here, they're cool. They're fine. Because most people, most people I went to high school with, none of them became actors. Isn't that crazy? Like 400 people and then people, like so many people.

none of them like turned into entertainers people just i mean there's so many people that obviously move there for that but wait i have to go back to this character susie i'm not over it yet i'm not over just because when you say you've got these little characters i'm like i always wanted to be in comedy i always wanted to do stand-up i always wanted to be good at impressions i'm not i'm not good at impressions i'm like i can be funny once in all but i'm not good at impressions yeah you're hilarious well thank you i i try it really hard um but i did have this one character and his name was Rick. And that was the one thing I've had to really like grieve in breaking up with my fiance from before from like when I was on The Bachelorette

and I got engaged. I had this character that we did called Rick and Donna and we flipped faces. Like you know that app where you can flip faces. And I just was like I look like such a Rick. And I started doing this whole Rick voice. And it was like this character that I became obsessed with. And when we broke up, we couldn't do it anymore because obviously I needed his face to swap it. And that was one of the hardest parts of my breakup. And that's how I knew it was time to break up. I was like, I can't leave Rick. I didn't break up with Rick at the same time.

It's so true. And I feel like there, I mean, I was married. So I, and I'm not anymore. And there's still times where there's this little voice that I want to do that's related to that relationship. And then I have to like bite my tongue because I never want to blend the two relationships. but I'm like but I also miss doing that voice what do I do you can still do I mean I don't know maybe we reframe it I kind of did it before if I like had drinks I would go into this voice

and that's kind of how the Rick voice came to be anyway so sometimes that voice comes out and you started on the app Vine which obviously you know Ariel and Matt right used to do yeah i was talking to arreal this morning really yeah she she just sent me messages yeah because we're gonna make sketches when she i know she's the best her and matt i'm i started with i met actually she was the one that introduced me to matt which is so funny because him and i went on to create so many videos and then her and i barely did but we'd always talk about all our ideas and then we wouldn't do it which was really sad we still will but i was good save there's still time yeah there's so much time it's never ending especially with social media like that's what's so great

about it is like you have your platform that you get to do whatever you want for as long as you want except when it dies which it did well that's that's the that's the shitty thing about vine because you had like what over 1.6 billion loops on vine which is insane billions like what that's isn't that's like unheard of in the instagram world billions yeah i mean they're so short videos so maybe like even if you know one person watching it 10 okay yeah thank you so much three million followers down the drain trying to get them to find me elsewhere it was really sad but I didn't process it until like a year later where I was like oh oh so those followers are gone like I have to rebuild oh right which is a lot of work especially because that

was like your business that's your job it's not like it was just like hey I'm in this for just the attention give me the likes it's like oh that becomes a business and that's like your stage and your platform so to lose that many eyes that you've been making people laugh and like obviously making a career out of it to lose that like that'd be like my my Instagram going down the drain when that's like how I just like wait imagine that imagine they just shut down Instagram I've thought about that many times and it keeps me up at night and really envision how does it feel losing Instagram and all those follows that's like really scary meditation into real life yeah yeah it was it's messed up it's really it's because I didn't tell people. I wasn't like, hey, go follow me because this, this app is going to crash. So just make sure you find me elsewhere. So if people don't see you, they forget about you, you know? And that's kind of a weird thought. Like, thank God for TikTok, because I grew on that way faster than Instagram. Instagram, I'm like, eight years later, like, let's pick this up. But Instagram is hard

to grow. I, it's, yeah, TikTok is easier. I, I wonder why. Is it because it's a newer app or does Vine have anything to do a TikTok? No. No. Why did I? Not. I feel like I heard somewhere that they like bought into it or so I don't know. So Vine's completely done. Yeah, it's been done, I think, since 2016. Oh, wow. What do you prefer? TikTok or Instagram?

TikTok. And why is it? Well, Caitlin. It's because I have more followers. No, because I just feel like there's, it's just so much more friendly. Like it's user friendly, meaning like you can make. three videos and then all of a sudden you have a hundred thousand followers and that propels they really want you to create so they'll do whatever it takes to like feature you which I think is really

nice they're not just featuring you know whoever they're like open to all platforms I feel like it's more friendly maybe I don't know what it's more inviting it's more like hey we see your side like there's more that there's more content there than that they allow I guess than Instagram Instagram's really monetary that's true they are I like all the trends you know you do you do Okay, I was going to ask if you like those because I know before you joined, giant, before you joined TikTok, you were like, you were like worried it was, you know, lip syncing and just dancing, which is definitely all that I do on it. But you, so now you love it because of the trends.

So I was going to ask you that because I would, I would imagine you wouldn't like the trends. Well, I didn't. I was really, I just was really judgy and I was like, nothing's original. Like, get your own, blah, blah, blah, blah. Just high and mighty comedy snob. whatever. I don't know. Just limiting myself, basically. Yeah. And then when the pandemic hit, I was like, I guess I'll just do it. And instead of resisting it, I just embraced it. And I just, you know, I'm like, well, everyone else is kind of doing it. And they're not, they don't seem

limited. They're having fun. They look like they're having fun. I want to have fun too. And so when I stopped resisting it and accepted it, it started going really well. And I just made it okay for me to copy people, which is always so weird. I was always so afraid of that. I was like, I never want to steal content, but that's what it is. Like, that's the app. That's, yeah, because that's, but you make it your own. Yeah. That's the thing in the comedy world is, you know, you don't steal other people's material. But really at the end of the day, we're all just stealing everybody's material all the time. Like, yeah. Now it's becoming like a form of flattery. It's, it's more like,

if you start a trend, you're like, oh shit, and everyone copies it, that's like ideal. Yeah. I just did, and I saw yours with the wine. But that's crazy-ass song that's so funny. That song is so funny on its own. On its own. Without anything. And then I saw a TikTok and I was like, I'm going to make my own. And had I not seen that one, it wouldn't have inspired me to do my own.

And so for that, I'm so grateful because watching it and doing it, it's just so fun to create stuff. And I know you know that because you do that as well. Yeah. It's so fun. Did you see my tit fly out on that one? No. I'm going to show you a screen. shot that I took. I'm leaving it up because there was no nip, but I was reading through the

comments and people started being like, oh my God, nip slip. And I was like, what? And I went back and looked and I'm like, oh, you fully, my boob is fully out at one point because I'm wearing a crop top and I wasn't wearing a bra and I went like this or something. Oh my God. Yeah. It's fully out. And I was like, how did TikTok not remove this video? Like, literally it just slips out for one second. But I was like, you know what? I don't care. This video is so good. I'm not redoing it. And so I left it up there. Good, good.

Yeah. I think, I mean, that happens. I feel like I'm being more. I don't know if I'm older. I just don't care as much as I did about my image, if that makes sense. Yes. Like, obviously, I'd never want to be unkind, but like, you know, not wearing makeup or not looking good or, you know, saying the wrong thing or spelling thing. Like sometimes I'll, so I'm really quick when I post.

Yeah. So I'll, like, I'll put a title and then misspell. And I'll be like, dang it. and then I'm like well I'll just leave it because it's doing well and then I yeah so like I misspell things a lot but I'm just like who cares you get the just so funny Jason my fiance is like so like everything has to be spelled correctly and he thinks about this post for so long and he'll redo stories and I'm like oh my gosh just do just do it and put it out and I always do that and same thing I'll like misspell but why can't you edit on TikTok I don't know I don't know I think you should tell them we should tell them we should probably We should, do you know, TikTok's number? No. We should have Rick and Susie have a conversation. Oh my gosh.

I can't tell you. I could, I could just get a new Rick face. Like I could swap with somebody like that could possibly look like Rick and then just continue this journey on my own. My best friend, Travis, looks like your ex, but Burnett. Oh, so he could be my new Rick. I'll just send him on. over you should have put the phone on him and he'll be like what am it what no just have him send me a

selfie just have him send me a selfie and then I'll use that on the face so I'll just use that as my face and I'll be Rick and then I'll send a love letter to Susie thanks I'd love that Caitlin Bristol I'm hungry I'm hungry hoping you would go into character but I didn't want to pressure you that's okay I always pressure me always whatever you want I don't like to be on the spot I don't well I do well sometimes on the spot but I feel like you your impressions like what's that when you do of the girl that wants a hot dog real bad oh Jennifer Coolidge you sound better than Jennifer Coolidge people used to say that about

and Stewart back in the day. They're like, you do a bit of Chris and Stuart and Susan Stewart. And then I would have dreams that I would meet her. And then she was like mad at me for doing. I always get afraid like they're going to see it and be mad at me. It's so sad. People have to be flattered by that because I always want people to imitate me or do an impression of me because I'm like, what do I do? Like what's my thing that I don't even know? Same. Same. I love it. And they always, anytime anyone does an impression me, they always are like, hi hi oh my god like they do this high pitched voice i can do your laugh you can yeah when you were the bachelorette i would always do impressions of you but no one saw them no me no one like no one i knew like i would do it by myself wait that's what i do i'm well i i have to hear you laugh this

was like years ago when you were the bachelorette if it comes out naturally it's really it's really good i have a um what i like to call like an overweight man's chuckle Like, it sounds, like, if you didn't see me and you heard me laugh, you'd think it was a very overweight man. Okay. Why? I don't think it's like, it comes from like my belly. And it's like cackly and like sometimes you get that like horsiness to it where it sounds like I can't breathe and it's just like sounds like something that would come out of a fat man. Yeah.

I have kind of like a devil alien laugh when it when there's no voice to it. It's just noises like or I can't even do my own. pressure my own like oh my laugh and there's and there's certain words that you say oh is it the ours ours yeah water wait that's so funny my niece makes fun to me for that all the time

she's like she always gets me to say great say great yeah great great great we're doing great I never realized I did that until like maybe last year my niece started calling me out all of since she turned 13 and became a little like oh firecracker like firecracker and she was calling out for making fun of things for me and I was like and I was like made I do do that and now I hear it all the time yeah it's so great it's great it's great I love when people make fun of me It's, I see it because I, that's what my family and I did growing up. So I see it as love, but not everybody does. And I see it as love too.

I agree with you. Because Jason doesn't like, if I make fun of him. But really, I'm just like, it's like my way of flirting. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Same. I dated someone when I was 23. But I remember it was like the second week or something.

And I really liked him. And he was like, yeah, when I was young, I used to talk a lot. And I was like, not much has changed. And he was like, what? what do you mean by that and he got so upset and then i learned oh i can't joke and then that's when i lost my humor for a while because i was like because i never want to hurt anybody's feelings but i was just like i don't even know why i said that i was just trying to be funny don't you think it's cute no okay he like never talked to again that's wait has

jennifer anison because i saw that she liked one of your photos has she ever seen you do an impression of her? No, uh, maybe. I mean, I think I've done one impression. I posted it. Um, she's, she like, she's been following me since 2019. It's the best day of my life. Yeah. We, she, we, her and I talk this morning as well. Stop it. Well, because I, well, we'll message you. She brought my book. I wrote a book and she bought it. Gosh. And I was like, wait, no, I'm going to send you one. She's like, no, I want to support you. And then she took a photo. She's the best. She's so sweet. she's so sweet yeah that's all i've heard about her is that she's just the nicest human being she she responded to me once on instagram and i like peed my pants like fully it's it's it's a lot

yeah are you a friends fanatic like i am too i yeah i know every single episode every like i i can watch it on tv right now and be like oh that's season six like episode probably like 12 yeah same same you know which so i was in the audience for season seven with the one with the one with Denise Richards. I was in the audience when I was 12 and I had this oversized friends t-shirt and I went to go see it live and it was incredible. Oh, that's so cool. It was the one to where Rachel answers her phone in a blooper and then there's someone actually on the phone. Do you remember that one? Yes, I do. Yeah. I watch the bloopers sometimes to Paul's sleep. I know. They're so comforting. They're so funny. The bagpipes one where, oh, I also say bag weird. But the bagpipes

Oh, yeah, Canadian. Yeah. I have family and Whistler. You do? Yeah. Oh, I love Whistler. That's like one of my favorite Christmas. Every Christmas.

I'm there. It's the magical, most magical place on earth at Christmas time. It is. It really is. Yeah. My uncle designs the ski slopes there and other places, too. So I've been going there since I was a little baby. Do you ski?

I used to ski. Now I snowboard. I used to snowboard and now I want to learn how to ski because I had a bad accident. Oh, no. Did you hurt your wrists? Weirdly. hurt my ass and I still have like like a chunk of scar tissue that if like when I'm really dehydrated I could like see it in my butt. It's like a lump of tissue in my butt from falling

snowboarding. Yeah, it's it's rough for sure if you fall on your butt. But I want to learn to ski as well because I feel like it's a lot safer and easier. I don't want to keep bending down and clicking in. It's getting annoying. It's very inconvenient. Wait, Ross. Backpipes. Oh, the bagpipes. everybody plays a bagpipes and Phoebe is like can't hold it in and they're all like yeah and she started singing with it that's my favorite one that's my favorite one what is your favorite impression to do so just because you said you liked it I'm taking the dog dumb ass oh wow you look like the 4th of july so I'll just do that one that's my favorite one But I'm just doing that for you.

Holy shit. That's what I'm saying. It's, you literally sound more like her than she sounds like herself. It really freaks me. When you did the one of her against Kristen Stewart, like at a drive-thru or something, I was like that sounds like you're doing a TikTok moment. A dub. Yeah, a dub.

It sounds like you're doing a dub of her voice. That's how good it is. Thank you. Yeah. That's so nice. I used to like doing Anna Ferris, even though she never had any words. she was always just like she just makes noises

but I never could get a sentence out because she's like beads like I love scary I love all those parodies so much I miss them I just watched it actually like three weeks ago because I think it's so friggin funny like every part of it

same I always say this because I feel like no one watched it I went to theaters and every I literally just talking to my boyfriend, because I have a boyfriend, which nobody really knows about. But I was telling, I was like literally going scene by scene of what's funny about it. Tell me your favorite parts.

Okay. So one of my favorite parts is when the hat just keeps getting bigger when he's getting into the car and just gets like comically large. And she's trying to get in and she's like, the sun will surely set as the, and he's like, looking at her. I love that part so much. And then the, he's like, I'm going to need a ride. home. Do you remember what he's the hot dog? You cut your hot dog in half? Or it was always like,

she's cut in half down the middle? Yeah. And he has all the like crops to like do it with. Oh my gosh. That's so funny because my girlfriend and I were out for dinner like a couple months ago. And she was like asking me like some of my favorite moves that I could just quote nonstop. And so we played a game with each other at dinner where she would bring up the lines from Scary Movie 3 and she would start the sentence and I would finish it. And I would get every single one right because I like cannot get enough of that movie okay I mean we can definitely play that game I'm the same what about did you so first of all Kevin Hart in it is adorable because he just keeps jumping and oh so when he go yeah yeah he's like yeah yeah come on but do you know what he's

like you know when you're living up here and you really just want to live down here then but what if you live over here and you want to move over there man my Aschenico is over there Just the way that they talk, like it just go off in tangents. I love it so much. It's brilliant. And I get annoyed when people don't find them funny. I'm like, how do you not find that funny? Like, it is so, even to this day, I've seen it so many times.

And like I said, I just put it on a few weeks ago. And I was like, this is hilarious. I, I, when people say they don't find stuff like that funny, like airplane and stuff or friends, I let, I get deeply offended. Like, I feel like, I, I don't I don't get it I don't get it because my brain can't like access what that would feel like yeah to just watch it and just be like seems sad and what about when he throws up in the stall and the guy's like math up I can never watch throw up parts though because I'm like I'm very

sensitive to throw up that I'll like like it's my number birds and throwing up are like two of my biggest fears in life so I'm I'm like that with whales really yeah they I think they're size and just my biggest fear is to be in the ocean and just see this big dark thing come under me and then feeling like I'm just going to get taken and nobody and I'll just be like dying in the whale. I can see that. I have nightmares about whales a lot actually

but then I realized I had a dream expert on my podcast and realized that that actually means spirituality and like better things than I thought it was and now I'm like I dream about whales like at least once a week but I'm always so terrified of them in my dream but I pretend like I'm not So I just keep swimming with them like it's it's fine, but I'm actually really scared of them.

That's a good. I mean, that's how you get through life is just acting as if. Right. You know, like anytime I don't want to do something, I'm just like, okay, I guess I'll just do it as if I do want to do it. I say do it scared. If you do anything, if you're scared of doing it, just do it scared. Just do it. Yeah.

It's one of my favorite things, ways to live is just doing it scared. Like everything that I do that is outside of my comfort zone has always propelled me into something. that I've wanted to be in like later in life like going on the bachelor or like certain things that I was always afraid of doing I'm like just do it scared and then it yeah we don't I don't think we knew that that was an option or I didn't as a kid I thought oh if you're scared then you have to like run from it or yeah just avoid it or it's like oh like what if it was okay that you're nervous it's like it's charming actually it is charming we don't have to be so perfect all the time no one wants that anyway it makes you human yeah I was part of this

group for 12 weeks. My girlfriend runs non-for-profit, but it's called raw beauty talks. And it's basically like celebrating all different bodies and like intuitive eating and all the stuff. And and we were just like talking about like our wins the week for the week and like times where we felt low. And I was like, wow, I like, it was really crazy to go back on TV on that last season because everyone has just been commenting on my looks or how old I look or like I just went on like a tangent about it. And she was like, there's hundreds of people in this group and they said, raise your hand if you like Caitlin because she's perfect on TV. And everyone's like, no, we actually like her because she's like quirky and weird and like not perfect and shows her flaws. And I was

like, oh, yeah. Okay, good reminder. Good reminder. Oh, that's so amazing. That's so true. That's why I like you. Oh, thank you. That's why I like you too. You remind me of me sometimes. Yeah. Like quirky and funny and real. I told someone that I was going to be on here, and they were like, oh, that's perfect. You guys are the same. And I was so honored to even be in the same category of goofiness. And now we realize we really are the same because we're both obsessed to scary movie three. The fact that you said three is insane.

It's my favorite one. It's definitely my favorite one. And when you were doing the Ana Fara stuff, I was like, oh, my gosh, that is so her in scary movie three. Yeah. I'm now, like, looking at other parts, too, but... It's so funny because I forgot we were even podcasting for a second. I did, too. I thought I was just FaceTiming you for a second.

I was like, I wonder if, is this part of it, like, is she... Is this a bit? Is this like part of her? I was like, wait, is this recording? We were talking about, like, how you can exist of being, like, funny and, real and all those things and you you did speaking of insecurities and you wrote a book about your insecurities and struggles and you released it a year ago called funny how it works out would encourage you to write a book because that's being very vulnerable and sharing those

kinds of things is really hard and to write a book is a lot of work so what encouraged you or inspired you to do that oh man well i kind of thought about it for a few years because I got on this like spiritual journey, I don't know, nine years ago where I realized that I used humor as a defense and I was like, I got to just get real. I just like the truth is I just always want to connect to people, but I'm afraid that if I show them who I really am or that I'm scared or whatever it is that they're going to leave or they won't like me, but I got to take the risk because then once I show you who I really am and you stick around, then I earned it or whatever.

I didn't manipulate all these things. So I would talk about it going Facebook live and then people would always say you have to write a book or whatever. I was like, oh, I definitely will. And then when I got married and then divorced, that was like my whole life flipped upside down in a really negative way. I like met the man of my dreams, literally had the wedding of my dreams. We were together nonstop, 24-7. And like to the point where people in my life, including my parents, were like, you met your, you met your perfect match. like you know there was no no one on the outside being like what beware you know right so a month after our wedding i i bought us a house on weddington street five days we moved in before the wedding

which was so interesting just like weird stuff like that i like and then a month after the wedding i got the wedding photos and they were gorgeous and my friend the one that looks like your ex Travis yeah um he called with his girlfriend and they said hey we want to take you to coffee and we went to coffee and then they basically I was like oh do you want to see the wedding photos they're like well hold on just a second and they both like grab my arm and they were like well we're about to tell you just know that you're not alone and we're going to be right here for you and I was like what I thought they're going to tell me that someone passed away like just the feeling I got I don't know if you've ever had it where you know exactly what you're talking about who yeah and they said that

someone a girl messaged them saying man and is going to need a friend because her husband has been sending me nude videos, nude photos, saying things like, Manon's nothing, she's useless, she's boring, she's my, yeah, you're my true love, like, I won't be with her forever, that's for sure. This is a man who has my name tattooed on his chest that moved across the world to be with me and we were together every day and he treated me like a queen. He was so kind and warm to me, to animals, to everybody, like, completely blindsided by this. So when that happened, it shook me to my core because I couldn't believe it, but then I was

like, but I'm looking at this. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I know exactly how he texts. And that is his body. Right. Naked, naked body with photos. Oh my gosh. So it was like my reality was just like completely shattered. I don't, I don't know how to explain it. And so I spent a few months dealing with it, you know, only to learn that this wasn't the first time and that it had happened pretty much on and off the whole relationship. Holy shit. And it was that experience and going through therapy and getting all the signs and learning and basically learning like how to get through that because that could really take somebody

down. That could really like I could have made the decision men, all men suck and I'm going to close my heart forever, which is I think what a lot of people do. and thankfully I'd been on that spiritual journey so I kind of had some tools in my tool belt to be like to not take it personally and to really like look at hurt people hurt people right like to like look at it as like oh he's in pain and he's he's suffering and he's doing whatever he can to fill this void in him and has nothing to do with me now the choice is mine whether I want to be with this person or not right but how do I not close my heart off because I really

want love and I I do believe that I deserve it and then I have a lot to give So it was that when that happened I was like now I'm ready to write a book like I have more to share again not to share because the way we bet was like a complete fairy tale I don't want to like it's a very long story but like it was a complete fairy tale. So I thought I was like the lucky one. I thought I had done all this hard work on myself that I finally got the fairy tale that I just wanted. So when this happened it was so devastating. And then you know the pandemic happened and I was just like oh this is a good time to write. I wrote it. I wrote it very quickly. Like, there's a lot of mistakes in it. A lot of smelly nerves. Definitely. But I just, and I did the audio book for it as well. I just wanted to get it out there.

You know, I just, I was like, if I wait, I can either do this take 10 years or I just throw it out there now and that helps some people great. You know, I don't just talk about that. That's like one or two chapters. I talk about addiction, heartbreak, social media fame, date my dating life, sex life. And then at the back I have like 30, 30 lessons of how to like uplift your energy and, you know, clear your mind and all that fun stuff. Well, yeah, I can't wait to get the book. I'll send it to me.

No, don't send it to me. Why? Because I'm good. You sent me. You sent me. And I want to support you. You are, Jennifer Aniston. That's want to be supportive.

That's really sweet. Oh, for real though. That's, wow, that's, I mean, to write that quick. A book like that means you had a lot to share, and that must have been therapeutic in a way to write all of that and talk about it and know that you'd be helping other people as well. Yeah, not to mention the backlash of women that wrote to me saying, oh, yeah, he did it to me too and me too and me too. No.

So this is the craziest part. So the second day, the moment I met him, I was like, oh, that's the man I'm going to marry. And then it happened because I just knew. although I didn't say that's the love of my life which is interesting. It was like I knew I'd marry him and I just assumed that meant he would be the love of my life because I take marriage seriously but he showed me this

song. He said hey listen to this song just listen and tell me what you think and I heard the song and within like 10 seconds I was like oh that's our wedding song and I texted that to him and we didn't know like this was day two of like talking so for me to write that was very it could have been looked at as like okay crazy lady but for some reason I was like

this is fine just say this and he immediately wrote back. I know it is. That's why I haven't shared it with a single soul. I've saved it for us. And I was like, yep, this guy and I, we understand what's going on. Maybe people won't get it. We get it. So this, you know, we were long distance for a little while, like the first like four to six months. And I would listen to the song missing him so much. And I would just cry. And then on our one year anniversary, we listened to it together and we just cried. And it was just like our song. And so it is the song that we danced to at our wedding. That being said, actually, if I tell you, like I, I, Anytime I hear I start sobbing because, you know, whatever. Well, yeah, music triggers a lot of things, smells in music and yeah. Totally. It's crazy. It's like you're right back there, which I love. That's why I love music so much.

Me too. Have you ever, like, heard someone say they don't like music? No. Okay, because I have and it's really awkward. It seems like they're joking. That's like you don't like puppies, which also concerns me. But like music is, how could you not like music? if you're not like a music fanatic how can you not like music yeah yeah i don't i don't know he just

drives without music and i'm like i'm like do you not like music he's like not not really i'm i that is that's some serial killer shit that's so weird that's so weird yeah what do you mean no yeah i've never heard that i know anyway so then i married him no then so my my book came out and this girl wrote to me and she was like hey reading your experience with this guy was like reading my exact experience with him I dated him for a year everything that you wrote is exactly what we went through and by the way I know the song you're talking about and she named it in the I don't name it in the book oh my gosh she goes she goes that was to be our wedding song oh wait what wrong with this person like mental stuff just like yeah yeah i would say kind of i don't mean it i mean

mean it i mean it like a little psychopathic predator stuff like dirt i don't know if you've seen dirty john but people kept telling me to watch it and i watched it and i was like oh yeah other than like the murdering stuff right this was all very similar like he kind of had a calculated thing but i had a lot to learn you know like i don't yeah like yeah he i have my part too where i was like so oh my god i believe everything he's saying when really like my gut at times was telling me stuff and I didn't listen, which I needed to learn how to like trust my intuition a lot more and like hold boundaries and be like, hold on. This is very moving very fast. Let me just process rather than let's go. Yeah. It's probably because you just want to believe in love. But it is so hard. I've, I've had this one

therapist on so many times on the podcast. I think three times now. And she talks about boundaries. That's like her whole thing. I've learned so much from her about. boundaries and it's like changed my life to have them and you should actually follow her name's viana farron and she's on instagram she does quotes about this stuff all the time and it's really incredible you should follow her i will yeah i love it's all that stuff me too me too it's i love that you've been on like this spiritual journey because i kind of have in the last probably four years and same thing with like just like realizing that i've always kind of been spiritual but not never really paid attention to that or like dove into it or realized how spiritual I was and

same thing with like the manifesting and the like paying attention to signs or listening to your intuition and your gut like it's so crazy if you start paying attention to those things what can happen and you call the man infestations right yeah that's amazing man infestation that's my like spiritual account oh on instagram yeah because i for a long time i just kept it separate. I was like, funny, people that follow me for comedy don't want me hear me talk about, you know, the way to talk to yourself and how to incur, like, I don't know. But then I had a coach be like, well, why? Why not just blend them together? That would be true courage. And I was like, ah, shit. So then I just did it. So I don't know. I have a lot of coaches and therapists and all

the whole team of people that help keep me together. I love that though. Those are the people that evolve and grow and become who they want to be are the people that have a team that keeps them together i swear i've got a i've got all the same team and then i've got a work team and that's just what you got to do to um you know i've had three girlfriends who have um like come out of relationships or marriages and they always say it's they're like i don't understand and i'm like well you've been in therapy and the other person hasn't when somebody grows and evolves as a human and does the work on themselves it exposes the people who haven't and i feel like if those people aren't doing their work, you can't grow together.

And I just think we're in a place where women are like brave enough to, you know, not stay or to believe in themselves enough or to have the enough self-love and self-power to walk away and know they're going to be okay. Yeah. And trusting that something, it's either this or something better. Like it's not like we hold on to something because we think we're never going to get better than what we have now and just thank you for loving me, you know, like thank you for at least just being here may not be what my wildest dreams are, but, you know, we settle or

whatever. I remember really struggling with the decision, like, do I stay or do I go? And everyone thought I was crazy. They're like, what are you talking about? You just got married and he's doing this. Like, this is not good. And I can see that now in hindsight. But at the time, I was like, but I married him. Like, if he's wanting to go to therapy and fix it, you know, we all have our flaws. That being said, like, I kept getting, I kept asking the verse, like, tell me what to do because I'm hanging on by a thread. Like initially I don't trust this person and how can I be open? How can I open my body up to this person that I don't trust?

Like once the trust is broken, it's really hard to build on that. And so, but my friend Laura, she would always say it's either this or someone better. Like trust, you have to just trust the universe that it's got your back and that it's going to bring you something far better than, but you have to like empty your cup. Like if you have dirty water in your cup, you'd like empty it for new clean water. You can't just be like, maybe both will get in there. It's like, you have to make room. That's such a good point.

I like that because you have to sometimes hit that rock bottom or your cup is empty to fill it back up. Like, that's like when the most magical things happen for me is twice in my life. I can remember feeling like I hit rock bottom and both times something incredible happened afterwards. But it took my time of being rock bottom, healing from it, doing the right things to like build myself back up first. And then that's when the other thing came to me. But it's so crazy. That's such a, I like the dirty water one.

Yeah. I like also that when you hit rock bottom, it makes you so appreciate what does come after. Mm-hmm. Do you know what I mean? Like I feel like my life is so different today than it was and that I almost like look back and I'm like, that happened.

That's crazy because now I've like all the let like we all, it's all just lessons. It's all just experiences. That's all life is is a series of moments and experiences. And you either learn or you don't, and then the same thing keeps happening. But once you learn the lesson, it stops happening. It's crazy. It is crazy.

It is crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. Oh, my God. I love it. I'm like, yeah, do more. Do more. Crazy.

You also have a podcast called Serious But Funny. And I know you took a little break from it, but you're starting it back up again. So what can people expect when they listen to your podcast? Kind of everything we just talked about. Yeah. same exact content that we just shared. I'll just be getting it from your computer and putting it on my podcast. So yeah, serious but funny because I like to combine the seriousness with humor and it's going to be getting more in touch with the audience and getting stories and people

sharing about like trauma and then finding the funny in it. If that makes sense to kind of heal it because like I said earlier, it's like once you find once you can change your story and find the humor it really dissolves that tension yeah so and then we do a lot of improv which is cool is it you're your best friend still johnny johnny carlson johnny carlson he's on it carlson carlson carlson he used to be a football player but now it just oh and and my my dog russell's on it as well he has a little appearance every episode really that's yeah we talked to him He kind of, he's like, I want to talk to him. Yeah, he's, oh, he's great.

You'll get to talk. I'll have him call you. Oh, my gosh. I miss my dog so much. I'm like, I realize how much I talk to my dogs from not being with them. I'm like, I usually wake up and talk to them through my day, talk to them at night, talk to them. And now I'm like, so alone in my hotel room. I don't, I don't know if I could be away from Russell that long.

It hurts. It hurts. The love I have, it hurts so bad. Like, I, I sometimes will, like, cut to 15 years and start sobbing and then my boyfriend will film it because he thinks it's ridiculous that I'm crying over my dog that I lost. I'm like he's like he's like like I just I can't and then I hear having a baby is even like crazier which I can't even imagine it being any crazier but that's what I want more than anything in the world this would be a mother can't I hope

I know yeah I feel the same way like I'm always like looking up I'm like please let that happen for me. I mean, it's, I feel like this exact same way that you feel about the dog. Like, when I left the dogs, like, I was not okay. And I was like, I don't know how I'm going to do this. Like, I looked into getting private jets and like spending stupid amounts of money just to like get them here because I'm like, I don't think I can do this. And now I'm like, I got the countdown. And Jason facetimes me like every day with them. And he, he says the same thing. Like, he's like, why do you think into the future about when they're not here and like start crying. And I'm like, because I know I won't be able to handle it. And I wake up in the

middle of night and cry about my unborn children and have anxiety over them. And I don't even have them yet. Maybe that's like a maternal thing where we're just like trying to prep ourselves for something so that when it doesn't happen, we're thriving. But then when it does, it's like, well, we knew it. Or I don't know. I have no idea. I do think it's, it's a maternal and protective mechanism. Like, I'm like, it's like I have to start processing now. Otherwise, I think I might die when happens yeah that's what it feels like it feels like why would i continue on with that like i cannot it's just crazy to think about how i didn't have wrestle yeah and then i do now and i can't imagine like even just being led like i wasn't even going to get a dog just that whole day was so

divinely inspired it's just nuts i love them so much it's such job they're such hard openers and they're just like a constant uh they are hard openers that's a good word to describe them little hard openers they are so precious and like sweet and nothing is wrong with them ever like they just they don't understand anything but love and it's the most magical thing in the world i know and they just love you so much do you ever wake up oh this is what i do this is my problem and i need i want it to stop but i also feel like i need to protect it like in the middle the night i'll just check to make sure he's breathing do you ever do that all the time all the time oh that makes me feel so good and if like he's like having like

like a long like pause before his breath i'm like oh god like i freak out and then i'm like okay okay okay i always look to see if they're like bellies moving if they're laying somewhere other than beside me yeah that's what i i feel his belly to make sure it's rising and then again my boyfriend's like you think he's just going to drop dead if dogs don't do that i'm like well maybe this one time and then i'll blame you yeah because i will listen to you and i could have saved his life. Yeah. Exactly.

I'm the exact same person. Okay, I can't end the podcast without hearing a confession from you. So I peed my pants. Ten minutes ago. Just kidding. During this podcast. Remember when we were talking about. And this.

second part of that is Russell's licking it up. No, sorry, that's disgusting. Because he loves me so much. Well, I guess one of the confessions I was going to say is I have a boyfriend because nobody knows that, but that's not juicy at all. I mean, it's juicy, but it's pretty juicy. It's pretty juicy. Yeah. I'm going to announce it at some point, but you, I don't, you probably relate to this. Like, well, maybe you don't. I don't want to post about my boyfriend because I was so embarrassed about the last time where I was just flaunted it all over the dang place and I just wanted to make sure that there's no fluff on this one. It's been like an almost a year and a half and I've yet to share it. Oh my gosh. Oh, that's good for you though for

you know taking that time on your own to like process it and know that it's right and before you start sharing it. I love that for you. Thank you. Yeah. I'm excited for when it does happen because I feel like it's going to add this whole other like, whoa, like now we can do different kinds of content or whatever but totally yeah so in fifth grade i asked to use the bathroom it was picture day i was wearing a green dress and and white tights and mr rome said i couldn't go to the bathroom and then i raised my hand again he's like you can wait till recess and then i was like i looked over at alex richardson and i just peed in the seat what was the teacher's name mr rome you mr rome you mr rome start peeing and looking him in the eyes like a dog like a dog does when they're shitting

They look it up at you. And then he goes, oh, my God, man and man, and I didn't know. Here, you can go to the bathroom. He was like, I don't have to go now. I just did. It's all on the seat. Did you have to sit through photos? No, the photos, thank God, were that morning.

Oh, okay, okay. And I never wore a dress, so it just didn't make any sense. And then I went to the bathroom and I was so mortified. And everybody, all the students had to clean it up. No. Why? I don't know. And I wanted to say

Like it seems like an Annie orphanage or something That's what it feels like So weird Mrs. Canagan is Mr. What's her name, Rome? Miss Hanigan. Miss Hanigan, yeah. I just watched the Friends episode last night

where Rachel's having a baby. Oh. Not to, hopefully that's not a spoiler alert. 21 years later. Who is it? Jason. My fiancé isn't into friends and it really made me question a lot of things.

What do you? Like he's never seen it? Or like he watches it and he still doesn't like it. He doesn't like it. Oh no. What? I don't understand. Do you have to therapy over that? Yeah. I don't blame you. I would do the same exact thing. It scared me.

What does he say? We didn't have the same like sense of humor and he I don't know. He's just like, I just don't find a funny. And I was like, I'll just never understand. And he thinks that's okay. He's like, and that's okay that we don't. And I'm like, no, it's not.

It's not. It really bothers me. I feel like they like taught me everything I know about cadence and humor and rhythm and like delivery. Like I feel like they taught me humor. Yeah. They each have taught me something very specific and special that I've taken into my everyday life. What about when Joey says paper, snow, a go. A ghost.

My girlfriend and I do that all the time. Like, well, do you know the app Marco Polo by any chance? I've heard of it. I don't have it. Well, I talk to her every day on it because she's in Canada. And that always comes up in our conversation. I'll be like, oh, God, what was it? And if I can't think of it, I'll be like, a ghost.

It's so good. There it was. I swear I had it when you were, when I, like, witnessed you more. I would literally sit there and do impressions and I crack myself up. And then I was like, well, no one will ever know. Except Caitlin when I interview with her in four years. Exactly. Then she'll know. Now I do. And now I feel like good about it. Like I feel like that's just solidified. You have a, yeah, it did. You have a goofy laugh. I have the goof. That's all anyone makes fun. I used to have a really loud cackle like in movie theaters. Like it was always like there's

man in laughing. Like it was very distinct because I copied my dad growing up. Now it's just like, my laugh is so different now where it just sounds like there's no like voice in it. It's just like aliens. Yeah. I don't know. That's a weird impression, but like. No, I know exactly what you mean. It's not attractive is what I'm saying.

Like you know, like some girls are like ha ha ha. And you're like, wow, you just so effort like you seem like a model laugh. I don't have that. Wait. I don't have that either. And okay, wait, now I have to show you something. And then I'll leave you alone. but do you ever watch Family Guy?

Yeah. Okay. This is us. Hang on to something, because this ride's about to get rough out and dating a hot girl with a bad laugh. I really like you, Sandy. I really like you, too, Peter. Yeah? You like it when I kiss you here?

Yeah. How about here? Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, stop, Auntie. That's awesome. That's so true. That's so true. Oh, gosh.

Nothing better than a hot girl with, you know. The fat man laugh. Yeah, exactly. Or an ugly walk or like, you know. Thank you so much for being on here. I could have be here all day. I love you. I love this.

It's so fun. I love you right back. And I'm really glad we got to do this. And now I will stalk you because we're friends. I'm going to stalk you too. Yay. Okay. Well, tell it.

where they can find your TikTok and your Instagram and your book and everything that you have going on in your podcast. Yeah, all of that. At Manon-M-N-N-M-A-T-H-E-W-S can find me on Facebook. My podcast is serious but funny with two T's. And my book is called Funny How It Works Out. And you can find out on Audible as well or Amazon anywhere you find books, all the things. That's awesome.

Well, congratulations on everything you have going on. and you're just such a funny, delightful human being. And I'm going to go follow your little spiritual page now, too. Oh, you're so sweet, Caitlin. I love that stuff. Okay. I'm going to respond to Ariel right now, and I'll tell her you say hi. Yes, please.

Because I know you two love each other as well. She's the best. Yeah, tell her that. And I'll talk to you soon. Okay. Okay, thank you. Bye, bye. Bye.

I'm Caitlin Bristow. I'll see you next Tuesday. Thanks for listening to all. Off the Vine with Caitlin Bristow. Get new episodes every Tuesday exclusively on podcast.1.com, the Podcast One app, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts.