The Bossticks - Whitney Cummings - How To Build Self Esteem, Heal Trauma, Self Reflect, & Manage Challenging Enviroments

Episode Date: September 2, 2024

#747: On today's episode we're sitting down with Whitney Cummings, a comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur, and host of the hit podcast "Good for You". From adrenaline addiction, to carving her path to become one of today's most notable female comedians, Whitney tells us how she used her challenging environment to positively empower the successful woman she is today. In this episode, we will discuss growing up in a dysfunctional household, healing trauma, building self-esteem, and how to achieve your dreams.  To connect with Whitney Cummings click HERE  To connect with Lauryn Bosstick click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE To Watch the Show click HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential Head to the HIM & HER Show ShopMy page HERE to find all of Michael and Lauryn's favorite products mentioned on their latest episodes. This episode is sponsored by Pique Head over to Piquelife.com/skinny to get up to 15% off and a free cup and frother + free shipping FOR LIFE when you start on any of my Pique favorites.  This episode is sponsored by Hiya Health Receive 50% off your first order. To claim this deal you must go to Hiyahealth.com/SKINNY. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace Go to Squarespace.com/SKINNYto save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code SKINNY. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp Visit BetterHelp.com/SKINNY today to get 10% off your first month. This episode is sponsored by First Aid Beauty Don't wait, get 20% off with promo code SKINNY at FirstAidBeauty.com/SKINNY. This episode is sponsored by Farmers Dog  Get 50% off your first box of fresh, healthy food at TheFarmersDog.com/SKINNY. Plus, you get FREE shipping! Produced by Dear Media

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A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you alone for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. Jealousy, you know, I like to think of this healthy competition. You know, I come from playing sports. For me, jealousy or whatever that means, always makes you better, you know. And if it doesn't make you better, what are you doing?

So to me, like, things that are a waste of time, I just have a really hard time processing why other people would waste time being jealous of someone when they could just use that energy and that time spent too. Because I think that when you look at someone that has something you want, you go like, wait, hold on. This person got it. Like that means it's possible. All right. So we record a lot. We have all different kinds of guests. This podcast is like a buffet. You never know what you're going to get. But this episode surprised me. Her intensity, Whitney Cummings, matched mine. It was a match made in heaven. This episode has me on the edge of my seat the entire episode. I was laughing. I was tearing up. I was just excited

about the frequency and vibration in the room. I would send this to all your friends. This is one of those episodes that you just can't stop listening to. Whitney Cummings is a fucking pro on the mic. She knows what she's doing. On today's show, we sit down with Whitney Cummings, a comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur, mom and the host of the hip, podcast, good for you. She really does it all. And there's an Easter egg in here where you get to meet her new man, like on the mic. She brings him on. On that note, Whitney Cummings, welcome to the show. This is the skinny confidential, him and her. Out of every single one of his books, which is the one that you resonate. Art of Seduction. Yeah. That's the only one I haven't read. Really? Ooh, we can tell.

You're kind of awkward if I was like really studying that one highlighted. Right and then you got that pre-up. I feel like you could brush up on that one. What if you came in? I was like highlighting the hell out of it. I'm like, oh, this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, dark. Oh, no, mine, if anyone were to find my copy of Art of Seduction

with the number of marks and many different color pen, like put me in, take my child from call child services. Honestly, I got to say mastery is pretty good too. I like 33 Strategies of War, I think is the best one. Yeah, that's great. Michael tries to do like the one that's like, No one does. I love the history shit. But like also it may or may not be true, but fine. Okay. Do you what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need to get a little background on you. I need to know more about like your childhood where you grew up. Set the foundation. I know this is annoying, but we just want to know like what, what Whitney was before she was Whitney Cummings. Oh, wow. Yeah. Thank you. I'm going to try to just answer this in a way that isn't boring and that I think because I'm a fan. I'm a fan. And knowing sort of how.

your fans are, I'm going to try to answer this in a way that they would get something out of, given where I think that we might be going with this conversation, is I grew up in an alcoholic home with a tremendous amount of stress. I think I was born addicted to adrenaline. I've thought a lot about epigenetic imprinting and looked a lot into that. And, you know, the chemicals that are emitted to the fetus in utero, they're born addicted to. So if you do crack when you're pregnant, your baby's going to be addicted to crack, right? But if you're doing the internal drug cabinet, you know, of adrenaline and cortisol, my mom was, you know, pregnant with me and going through a bad divorce and in a super acrimonious situation with my dad. And I think,

you know, she was producing a lot of adrenaline and cortisol. And I think I was just born, addicted to it. And I was just always on super high alert. Alcoholic homes, you're super hypervigilant. You become a people pleaser. You become a, you know, chameleon obsessed with shape-shifting in order to try to diffuse chaos. You try to like, you know, figure out how to break up fights. You become like a parentified child type thing. So I think I just had a lot of stress and chaos in my childhood, not trying to get pity. Any of that. It's just helpful for me to know. like neurologically, you know, what I came from. Because a lot of my health stuff now has to do with trying to course correct or get the pendulum to swing back the other way, knowing that I have an addiction to adrenaline.

So do you feel uncomfortable if things are calm in your life? Not anymore. I used to. I used to definitely feel alive in a time of crisis. And when things were smooth, it was like the Damocles sword was hanging. And it was always like, when is the shoe going to drop? So when things were calm, that's when you get anxious? Absolutely. But now I'm at a point where, you know, I can actually just. I relate to that a lot. Because she's all, what do you call it, looking for the saber team? It's called Sabretooth. Love it. Where's the Sabretooth? It's like nothing's wrong and I'm just like look at like what's going to like a cat on a tin roof.

Sure, sure. And then, but also do you think that that mentality ends up manifesting that or, you know? It's weird how I. Do you think you get what you expect? Well, I think you have a couple of choices if you're wired certain ways. Like I try to look at the things that it's brought me in my life. Like I think like being hypervigilant in some situations is good. But as I get older and I'm kids.

to be. You have to be. We're going to war soon. But also, you think that your, your childhood has helped, I mean, obviously you think this, it's helped shape you to become so successful. There's got to be so many positives out of what you went through. Yeah. I love that you're saying that, you know, I call it trauma privilege. And because if you're able to just accept what happened and know that you cannot change it and realize that you actually got some superpowers out of it, you know, I think it's the only way to move through life. You know, we forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because we deserve peace. So once I started going, like, everyone thinks that I work really hard and I feel like I had a lazy day. What's up with that? You know, I just had this psycho work ethic, you know, because I had to be perfect in order to get

attention and to get love. I had to earn love. I had to work really hard to get attention. Achievements were really big. I defined myself through my achievements. I got myself esteem from my achievements and productivity and usefulness to others, you know. And so to me, like my sort of tolerance for, you know, hard work is so. much higher than other people's, you know, because I had to work so hard for approval. You know, I was a prentified child, so I was sort of like managing my own life and organizing myself. I had to get myself to school. I had to pack my own lunch. I had to get my permission slip. From what age? Oh, seven, six, seven, yeah. It was like parents hung over, couldn't get me

to school. I had to, like, go to the neighbor's house and, like, con them and charm them and mcgile them into taking me to school and getting me, you know, food. So it's like I had this ability to just kind of charm people. You know, look, charisma is a red flag. And, let's be honest. I definitely used it. You know, here's the trick. And I'm in a program called Al-Anon-A-C-A, which is like the sort of sister program to A-A. So in A-A, you're addicted to alcohol, and N-A you're addicted to narcotics and sex addiction, you're addicted to sex, whatever. Al-Anon, when you come from an alcoholic home, the sort of character defects slash superpowers that you develop to survive it, you know, really helping you when you're young.

But then when you move into the world and you have employees and stuff, it starts backfiring. You know, they become liabilities. You're carrying around a bunch of weapons, even though the war has been over for 30 years. you know. So I had to really figure out which ones were serving me and which ones were obstacles and limiting me. So is that helpful? No, it's, I mean, it's, it's crazy how self-aware you are. And I remember reading one of your books, like, I want to say like 10 years ago. Oh, what? And I remember reading this and being like, there's a self-awareness that a lot of people don't have. How do you think that you develop that? That's a really good question. And I actually have an answer. I think

that being a comedian really helps with that because the audience doesn't let you be delusional. And hold on. Are you getting a pictures? Is this a video? I will pause the podcast if you're taking a photo. Yeah, let's get the Nashville filter, Hefe, please. Okay. Yes, thank you so much. I don't give a shit. I just, I do like get distracted easily, so I just had to acknowledge it and now I can move on. But being a stand-up, you know, the way that I came up, especially, you know, at the comedy store, you know, beginning with, you know, doing three-minute open mics at 1 a.m. for five German tourists in the audience and just bombing my ass off. And, you know,

you really figure out who you are really fast because the audience is, you know, you're looking for an reflexive reaction, involuntary reaction. And if you're full of shit, it makes people uncomfortable. If you're not self-aware, if you're delusional, unless you're like super delusional confident and that's its own art form, you know, like the Robin Williams is of the world or whatever, but, you know, for the way that I do it, if you're not telling the truth or if you're saying something that you don't really believe or saying something that's contrary to your essence, and they don't buy it, you know, if you're, what you're saying is in Congress with the ethos you're giving off, you know, they just call bullshit on you. So you have to kind of figure out

who you are really fast and what you can pull off, what you can get away with, and you have to learn how to not lie. You know, one thing that I think, you know, was a character defect that I did get as a child that doesn't serve me today, that isn't a trauma privilege, is the ability to manipulate and lie. You know, it's something I had to do a lot in order to, you know, get my neighbors, to give me food. And, you know, when you have alcoholics and addicts and chaotic people raising you, you end up having to cover up their lies a lot. So it was a lot of like, no, my mom has a black eye because of this. Or I wasn't able to make it to school because of this. Like, I had to lie a lot as a kid because I was just always so embarrassed, you know. And it's something I think people don't

talk about a lot from chaotic homes or, you know, growing up without money or growing up around alcoholism is that you are embarrassed and you're trying to lie to people to hide what's going on. You just want your friends to come over and think that your house is cool. You know, like they come over. There's like no food in the fridge. There's like no hot water. Like it's just like a chaotic mess, you know? I never had the permission slip sign. I never had the check. I never had the whatever I, the uniform. I never had the right uniform. I'm the kid that showed up in the wrong uniform. So I really had to like get a hold on that. And then so when I first started doing stand-up, I was like, oh, I'm just going to be this person that, you know, everyone's going to want me to be.

and, you know, this worked as a child. I was able to be, like, perfect and funny and say what my mom wanted me to say so that she didn't get offended or histrionic or say what I needed to say to my dad for him to, like, give me attention and love me. And then you get on stage as a comic. And I was like, what are you doing? Like, I don't buy it. Those alcoholics that raised you, drunk people bought it, but like, we don't get this. You know, so I really had to figure out who I was.

And then also, I was going to sound boring and dorky, but therapists didn't work for me. 12-step programs have. But, you know, as Phil Stutt says, like, when you go into a, a room with a bunch of people and admit all your secrets, like, you're able to have grace, you know, to like release that shame. That really helped me because shame is what was driving my inauthenticity so much and my lack of self-awareness, you know, they say that when you're an active addiction, you know, even if it's the internal medicine cabinet of adrenaline, because adrenaline turns into dopamine, so it's a drug. You know, when you see, you know,

people that are always just in a dramatic relationship. They're always rescuing people. They're always like, you know, if they need to be somewhere at four o'clock and it takes half an hour, they leave at 4.30. I'm sorry, at 3.30, you know, just to, like, get that almost like subconscious self-sabotage. Oh, well, it's not affecting you at all. I mean, you know, it's affecting me. But go on. So, you know, for me, like therapists, like I would even try to charm therapists, you know, my mom took my behavior very personally and my, you know, she was, you know, it's tricky. Like, and I, you know, again, like, I have no anger towards her. But if I, like, wasn't doing well in school or was like, hey, can we get some food? She would get very defensive.

Like, she was very insecure. She had eating disorder. She was an alcoholic. Like she was, you know, so I never wanted to like hurt her, upset her. So when I started how it reflected on her. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. And I don't want to be the person that throws around words and I'm not a doctor like narcissism and gaslighting and borderline and all that. Although I was, you know, told she was borderline by police officers, but they're not psychiatrists either, you know? And those definitions change a lot. So I try to just really not bring that stuff up. But we go to therapists and I would lie to them because I didn't want them to tell my mom that I wasn't okay, you know?

Like, so I was so protect, so I would like, you know. You were protecting, like, sort of the abuser. Yeah, yeah, but I would just, I was a kid. I also didn't want someone to tell, you know. It was like, I didn't want to have to keep coming. What is your mom thought of you being so honest? I mean, I think it's amazing and it's, it is what it is. What does she feel when she hears all this stuff?

She's dead. Okay. What did she hear any of it? She died like a year and a half ago. I don't. She had a stroke like 10 years ago from drinking and, you know, she was in facilities and, you know, ICU's and stuff on all kinds of drugs. Did she get to see the success you've had?

She got to see it. Yeah. And it was confounding to her. You know, it's so funny, like the way that moms, like, I'm sure you guys have like a version of this, like where your parents, they either don't understand that you're successful and or they overcomplement you to the point to where you have to feel bad. Like, by the time she figured out, I had like two or three specials and I'm on HBO, she'd call me and she'd be like, how come you're not on Grey's Anatomy? She'd be like, did you see this Wonder Woman movie? How come you're not Wonder Woman? And I'd be like, I just, you know what? I forgot to call them back. I, you know what? Like, you know, so it's almost this like, she'd be like, like, outraged by the injustice that I, she's like, the Golden Globe nominees just came out. How come you're not? Okay, they overlooked you. Wow. Wow. This is corrupt. And you're like, mom, thank you for the...

I mean like this middle ground that you just refuse to acknowledge. Did you have a relationship where she like was maybe jealous in a way or no? Or was it like she was supportive? You know, that's a really interesting question. I have a hard time understand that anyone would be jealous of me and people say that a lot. Especially your parent, right? Yeah, it's kind of... My mom is very beautiful. You know, she worked in fashion. she actually I found out when she passed that she had you know Jewish ancestry but she was also like pretty anti-Semitic which is a very good tell if you're trying to figure out if you have any

ancestry for anything if your family like hates Armenians you might be Armenian secretly you know it's like it was like internalized anti-Semitism or something so she she had a lot of anger you know she was in a really bad marriage like we're you guys are this is like the first generation where marriages are good like this is like this is like Do you mean? I'm sure a lot of people listening are like, no, my grandparents were, you know, really happy. Yeah, that was before Facebook and social media. Like, they met three people of the opposite gender like a year and they live like 17 miles away. Like there was no concept of what you were missing. There was no concept of like I could do better, you know. So I feel like, you know, the generation before, you know, it was like there was a lot of just like, you know, chaos. There was, you know, they just weren't meant for each other. And I think that ultimately my parents were love addicts, which I've studied a lot of and I've gone to those meetings and stuff. It's sort of when you're in a toxic. relationship and you cannot extricate yourself because it's such an addictive chemical adrenaline and drama and you just can't get out. I don't think that's talked enough about about how addicting adrenaline and chaos is. It's like that that almost needs to be up there with

alcohol and drugs. I love that you're saying this. I'm sorry to cut you off. I'm just I think that what we're seeing on social media as well, all this like like negative comments, what's going on with politics. I think it's all an adrenaline addiction. And I think it's like the number one addiction because, you know, you can get it without, it's why the food addiction and the OA thing is so hard because, like, drugs and alcohol, you're completely abstemious, you know, but adrenaline and food, you have, like, you're going to get it sometimes if someone cuts you off in traffic, you know, you don't always control when you're going to get it. You can't see it.

It's not tangible. Your next special should be called adrenaline addiction. You know, I was talking to an Uber driver the other day and he was an older gentleman, super nice guy, and he was talking about his kids or getting on social media and he was trying to, like, you know, he doesn't use him. He's like, why is everything so crazy? I was like, I think it's what you're talking about. People are so, there's so much more interested in the chaos and the drama and the anger. Addicted too, I think. You just have a normal, calm conversation. It's not enough for them to get riled up. Yeah. It's, it's also something that helps me is the addiction to

self-righteous indignation. Self-righteous indignation addiction is super real. And I think that that's what we're seeing on social media. I think we're going to look back in 50 years the same way we look back at how we people used to smoke inside and kids used to work in factories. We're going to be like, remember when you can just go on social media and just fight with anyone whenever you wanted and get that hit of adrenaline? You know, we're all in total fight or flight mode, not only because we're, you know, in a constant state of adrenaline and, you know, making enemies constantly being at war emotionally, but it's also, we're hunched over the screen, which is like, you know, your vagus nerve is like completely cut off. And this is a defensive stance that makes adrenaline and cortisol because, you know,

thousands of years ago, if you were in this stance, you were either getting attacked or you were hiding and you needed to protect yourself. I'm advocating for people to just go back to straight up street fistfights. I talk about this all the time. Chris is in. Well, I, yeah. I mean, when I was a kid and you'd have to get a little anger out, you just go bite some stranger.

There was a consequence to your behavior in some way. I mean, Mike Tyson always talks about it. It's the problem with society today is people, you know, talk shit without getting punched in the face, you know. Yeah. I think it's the quickest way to learn not. to talk shit. It's interesting that you just said that you don't think that people are jealous of you. That's wild to me. With what you do, you're one of like the top female comedians. And it seems like it's, it's not a huge pool. I can't imagine that that's not, that there's not jealousy involved.

But like the way you have to get there is so brutal that people are like, you could have it. You know, I think in my brain, I just, that's something that I guess I just think you understand the way to get, but a lot of people that don't understand how hard it is to get there? They think, oh, that's, it's like anything. Totally. And I think for me, jealousy is, I think ultimately, because workaholism is my primary addiction and jealousy is such a waste of time. It's not particularly effective. Sometimes you can, you know, sublimate it into fuel to work harder, you know, jealousy. You know, I like to think of as healthy competition. You know, I come from playing sports. And I think for me, jealousy or whatever that means always makes you better. Yeah. You know, and if it doesn't make you better, what are you doing? You know, so to me, like things that are a

waste of time. I just have a really hard time processing why other people would waste time being jealous of someone when they could just use that energy and that time spent. Because I think that when you look at someone that has something you want, you go like, wait, hold on. This person got it. Like, that means it's possible. I feel like this is exactly how I feel. It's like a waste of my capacity to focus on the jealousy. But like, I get what you're saying. You use it as maybe a little driver, but it's a waste. It's a you're using so much bandwidth to be jealous. I'm like, I could be using this energy to be creating the life that I want that would make me not be jealous anymore. You know, but you're both wired. Not a lot of people believe when they see somebody else that

has something that they have the capacity to go get it themselves. I think that's like the fundamental thing is people will see the success you've had or you've had and they like they don't believe it's possible for them where you will look at someone else like, I can go do it. If they can do it, I can go do it. Right. Right. I mean, it's interesting. Like I think for me, I used to be so jealous of people that had really quote unquote easy childhoods or had money or had loving parents that like read to them and now I'm kind of not. You know what I mean? Because I'm like, you have no life skills.

You have no grit. Like, you know, they're so sensitive and they're, you know, they like can't handle negative Instagram comment, you know. And so I'm just like, oh, like my like YouTube comments or like compared to what I grew, I'm like, stop flirting. Like what? Like, I'm a cut. I'm going to go, thank you.

You know, and so it's like all the negative shit you're saying, like I agree with you. Like for soulmates, you know, so it's like to me, the more you go through life and the harder shit gets, I think the more great. you are for a rough childhood, but it took a lot of acceptance, a lot of forgiveness, a lot of like dissolving, like crystallized resentments and bad habits and stuff. But the adrenaline thing is super real. I agree. Not enough people talk about it. I think, you know, adrenaline, you know, makes dopamine. That's kind of all you need to know, you know. Yeah. So do I take from that that you,

for our children, Lauren and I should just start drinking a lot more? Look, if it, okay. You know what my friend calls it measured adversity. This is a whole. She goes, Lauren, you know, your kids need a little measured adversity. And she gives her kids measured adversity all the time. It's fine. I mean, yeah. Not with yours. Not talking about with what you went through. I'm talking about like giving my

kids little things to brush up on their resilience. These days, I gotta say I'm joking because the soft people that just got triggered by that comment. I just learned about mom social media because I just had a baby. I have an eight month old. Congratulations, by the way. I thought the in-cell

community was rough. That mom Mom community. I had, I really wanted to have my baby, not naturally. I'm not animal in the woods. I'm not a barbarian. I just wanted to have it vaginally. And I induced it 39 weeks because I didn't want to do cesarean. I just, personal preference, because I wanted to have the option to have another one more quickly. And it takes longer to heal with a cesarean, whatever. I'm allowed to not want that. You know what I mean? Unless it's necessary. And I almost had to have one. But I posted on social. media something, I was like, ideas for like playlist songs for my labor playlist or something. And it was like just like, I said like torn by Natalie and Brulia like live the song.

You know what I mean? So torn. You know what I mean? Like what's the one? What's the live one? Lightning crashes. You know, it was like kind of that. And to push it, salt and pepper.

What are just like kind of. And then the C-section moms came in and they were like, you know, not everyone could have it vaginally. and you talking about labor is shaming the women that had cesareans. And I was like, how did you get there? Like, how did you even get there? Like, you are going out of your way to get a hit of adrenaline. Like, you're going out of your way to intentionally misunderstand something in order to justify being offended, like, if that's not addiction.

They just want acknowledgement. Sure. That's what they're looking for you to acknowledge that. Yeah. I think, which is, you're right, a hit of adrenaline. Mm-hmm. Totally. I want to go back a little bit more.

And I want to ask you when your first, like... We went to utero. How much further back can we go? No, not further back than that. But I just want to know when your first, like, hit of success was. And I'm not talking about, like, your first, like, hit special. I'm talking about, like, when you first started to see that you could become successful, like, your first taste of it. I have been doing this for so long, and I still don't have a good answer to that question.

I will... I'll try. I think for me, my goals were so impossibly high that... Because I just figured that there's the higher your goals, the less competition there will be up there. And when did you set these goals? Like before you had a career? Oh, I was making vision boards when I was 17, cutting things out of magazines. I was having fake conversations with Oprah. Like I was fully, I mean, I was a mental patient. You know, because look, my first drug was fantasy, you know, to check out of myself.

situation as a child. You know, I would pretend I was living with other families. I would pretend I was a celebrity. I would pretend I was in commercials. That was a big disassociative thing I did. I would like, it's so weird that I had such high goals later because in the beginning my dream was just to be in commercials. Like I'd watch commercials of kids like eating like cold cuts. And I'd be like, how did that kid? And I would practice like in the mirror. Like I was like, I want to be commercials. Like I would drive by a billboard like a McDonald's commercial. And I'd be like, how did they find him? Why him? You know, and I always wanted to like, you know, I guess I just wanted to be seen or I wanted attention or something.

And then my dad would watch Ronnie Dangerfield in SNL and I would watch him laugh. And I was like, okay, that's, I got to do that. So yeah, my goals were so delusionally high that I think that by the time I was getting little tastes of success. I was just like, we got to keep going like that's not even enough. I think when I first did the roasts, I did the Comedy Central roasts, like, I don't know, that was like 13 years ago or something. That was probably the first time I was like, whoa, like people coming up to me

and recognizing me, you know, because I did punked on MTV, which was like mattered on some level, you know, and people would kind of recognize me. Also, like, the first time I could pay my bills, like I was able to pay off my debt, stuff like that. I think for me, what makes me feel successful as stuff like that. I remember when you did those roasts. Right. Yeah. Do you think that, boring answer? Boring answer. No, that's great answer. Do we have this conversation? When my family members started suing me, is that, could that be when I knew I was successful? Shit, maybe we're not successful yet. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, no. You haven't made it until. one of your family members tries to sue you.

And say you stole the idea. Wait, what do you do when you get a piece of paper that says one of your family members is trying to sue you? What's your reaction? I'm shocked that this didn't happen sooner. You know, like my, like, you call them up or text them? Or you just like? Well, I pay their phone bill, so I just cut the phone bill. I mean, yeah.

It's like, you just texted me on the phone I paid for to sue me. Okay, so now do you need to borrow money from me to sue me? How does this even work? Yeah, there's a lot of, I have a lot of mental illness in my family. I mean, that is, that's gnarly. Yeah, I just shut down. You know, this is one of the sort of gifts of having trauma. I do have the ability to completely shut down and disassociate when, you know, whether it's

Stockholm syndrome or PTSD, whatever it is, it kind of serves me when it comes to that kind of stuff. I can kind of just like shut down. Do you think, whenever we interview a woman who's really successful and driven like you, I ask this question, I think sometimes, and you could speak more eloquently on this, that it's very hard to attract a man because they're intimidated. And you're a perfect mix to me. You have a lot of masculine energy, but I can tell you also have feminine energy too. But it's heavy on the masculine with your career.

Is that been like... And can I just... I'm not trying to nitpick. Can I... Can you just say that again in a different way? Sure. Like, because is what's masculine about it? The fact that I do stand up and I'm like commander...

It's a male-dominated field. That's actually not how I... No, she has. masculine energy. Because you know what it is? It's interesting to me because, yes, stand-up comedy is a male-dominated field, but to me, it's a very feminine arts or whatever it is. It's like people getting... It's not that. It's this energy. But like, isn't it interesting, though? Because it's like, you know, stand-up is like going on stage, complaining, talking about your feelings. I'll give you an example. And so when the men do it, I'm like, you know this is our thing. It's a little kind of like a little bitch, maybe. Kind of. Let me give you a different take on this. A lot of my, like, more and I've known each other for a long time, I've dated other women. If she... What? Ew! You said fuck. I can leave her with all my girlfriends.

She's like, oh, she's like one of the guys and they're all just going to hang out. Like, that's, you have the same energy. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking about. It's actually not the comedian thing. You know what's interesting about this and sorry that this is going to go where it's going to go, but I do, I come from sports and I do have sexual abuse in my history. And a lot of times, from what I understand when you have that, you do neuter yourself a little bit. And I was able to kind of, I really tried to make myself like not.

sexual at all when I went into doing stand-up. I, like, wore a hoodie. I was trans before any of you. I was had a hoodie. I was wearing sneakers. Like, I had my hair back. Like, I just really didn't want to come off like a girl at all or have any sexual energy, if that makes any sense. And then I also wanted to, you know, my dad always told me as toxic. He was always like, you're going to have to work twice as hard to get half as far. Life is not fair. And people are not going to respect you. He really wanted a son. And I think he was really freaked out that he had daughters. And he was just like, you know, I think he had trouble with women and is, you know, projected that everybody did. And he made it very clear to me early on. Like, you cannot leave with this. I know I'm not answering your question. But in terms of,

yeah, I always felt it's almost like me working really hard, even though it seems masculine is almost a feminine byproduct. Because because I'm a woman, I had to work twice as hard to get half as far, you know, and I don't want anything I don't deserve. And I, and I, you know, my perfectionism, which is, you know, I've worked on a lot in ACA Al-Anon, but I had a lot of like really debilitating perfectionism for a long time and my self-esteem was derived from my, you know, success, my productivity. So I think that's also part of when people are like, your works are hard. And I'm like, because I hate myself, you know, and then I had to figure out an engine that was actually healthy later. How have you gotten out of hating yourself? Because I don't feel like when I'm sitting

with you that you hate yourself at all. Oh, yeah. No, I don't know now. I mean, look, here's what, and I don't have to tell you about this. Having a child has been so healing for me in this area because I realize, you know, the narcissism of what we do is just so. suffocating and I realize that when I'm thinking about myself 24 hours a day I hate myself when I'm thinking about myself like two hours a day I'm like you're kind of sick you know it's just the all day self-obsession of the like hey guys I'm touring and hey guys I'm on my podcast and hey guys ask me anything I'm traveling and me me me me me me me me me you know it's just I think that I was just you know you have to kind of be like that I know in order to be successful in what we

do and kind of shameless like that but I started I'm just getting kind of sick of myself. And then the not, then the hating myself earlier, I'll just say low self-esteem, you know, I think had more to do with that just primary wound of when you're like, my own parents don't love me. Like I was sent away as a kid to live with my aunts. Like, you're kind of like, I must be wrong. And it's too psychologically annihilating to think my parents are crazy. You know, you can't handle it. So it must be me. And I have to work so hard to get attention. I have to worked so hard to get love, I must just be useless. And my accomplishments are what is, you know, valuable about me, you know? And then later, after getting into program, I learned that, like,

in order to build self-esteem, you have to engage in esteemable actions, you know, which is, like, service to people without keeping score, without manipulating, without trying to make them like you, with clean motives. And that's when I think I started building, like, actual self-esteem. Alon seems very, very, very interesting. It's brain school. It's just like, it's- The therapy I've never connected to, but the Al-Anon seems interesting. It's, okay, so Al-Anon, first of all, it's free medicine, it's free. Number one. Number two, you know, it is basically the ability to tolerate the discomfort of others, you know,

is one of the things that we learn instead of being, you know, addicted to alcohol drugs, whatever. It's people pleasing the 3M's, mothering, micromanaging and martyring, you know, before you solve a problem, first make sure it's your problem. Like, I do really well with these, like, aphorisms and stuff. And when you ended up being a parentified child and having to caretake your parents, either emotionally, literally, you end up thinking you have to caretake people and you waste a lot of time and energy caretaking adults, rescuing people, dating people. You have to rescue being, you know, attracted to someone who's a victim,

confusing love and pity, just all this like nonsense. So, you know, once I realized like, oh, this is, I didn't do anything wrong. Like we're all doing what we were programmed to do unless we actively deprogram ourselves. So it's kind of just like, you know, it's a program, but I call it like a deprogram, because you're just deprogramming the things that you learned in order to deal with, you know, your family of origin. like, you know, Harville Hendricks, I don't know if you've ever read Getting the Love You Want, Stupid Name for an Amazing Book. You know, he talks about how we're attracted to people with the negative qualities of our primary caretaker until we heal that shit, you know? So I found myself just dating people that were my mom and dad remixed, you know.

And then do you stay attracted to the person? It was familiar. No, you have to like deal with it. You know, you have to change your adrenaline addiction. You have to, you know, I did something called on meta practice, but this guy, George Hoss, he's amazing. And you sort of like go through just sort of rewiring your brain to, you know, it's also, I love that you said that, you know,

Love addiction is way more common than, you know, we talk about. And like, also just in our society, like the way that we have managed to have these, like, toxic synonyms for, like, butterflies. Like a pit in your stomach is butterflies. It's passion. It's like, no, it's your body saying get away from this person. Like, this is scary. There's something off about this, you know? And we now take a pit in your stomach. That's how disconnected we are from our intuition as like love, like soulmate. Like you shouldn't be nervous meeting someone. But usually when you walk into a room and you just vibrated a different frequency of someone, you know, they're called, we call them Christmas trees when you're just like, you. Like, I used to be able to walk in a room that was broken, you know, recently separated, you know, breathe tattoo, V-neck, you know, Eagles jersey. Penis down the leg. Pops it out of his cup. Penis down the leg. I hate you.

Person, and you're just like, boom. And then we have good chem. We call it chemistry, but actually it's just familiarity, toxic familiarity, you know. So it took. be a long time. Like, part of what I go to and program for is, like, to be okay with being a little bored in a relationship, you know, it shouldn't be this, like, high-octane con- because that's just addiction, you know, so. The word bored scares a lot of people who love chaos. It's a scary word. And I was sort of told by, you know, my sponsor wants, like, it's like, she was like, oh, you, what you think is boredom is actually just serenity. Oh. My tolerance for chaos was so high That if there wasn't like an active fight or there was, you know what I mean? I was like, I'm bored, you know?

She rebranded it for you. Yes. I was like, oh, yeah, words are a big deal to me. Like, I don't say, that's not healthy. I say, like, that's not helpful, you know, because that's like pathologizing and judgmental. There's a lot of things that you sort of learn and program of like the way that you talk about yourself, you know, did not cast a negative spell by saying like, well, because I'm crazy and I'm such an idiot. Every night, like clockwork, I do the same two drinks.

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I've been married a long time. Sister wives? No, no, no. But I've heard some women say like men like the drama or they like the crazy. And I'm like, I don't, I think maybe there's like periods we do, but I don't know a lot of people. Some men do. Come on. Come on.

Yeah. For period. I don't think they like it. I think it's a subconscious attraction that they probably don't get to choose. But most of the long-term relationship, I mean, at some point, it's like, no. You got to kind of. You like a little match that I throw sometimes in one way. But you tell yourself that.

I'm like, maybe like a little, but not all the time. You like a little zing and then pass the ketchup. You like it sometimes. No, sometimes I'm just like. But that's not drama. That's like charming. Yeah, right? That's just flirting. No, it's not big drama. It's just keeping things spicy.

But if I see my sisters dating that way and like behaving that way and I'm like, hey, that's not going to, it's not going to end well for you. No, but there's just, and something that helps me in program is like we just have to give people the dignity of their own experience and we can't save people from themselves. Like, they have to learn for themselves, unfortunately. It is hard, though, when you start learning all these tools that you're learning to not want, I find this hard in my own life, to not preach maybe. Yeah. I get like, sometimes I'm like, I need to like stop. Yeah. You want to be an evangelist.

Like, you want everyone to be as happy as you. It's like when you find your person and you start setting everybody up. Yeah. It's totally. It's like hard not to share. What are the other sort of like wellness, health, maybe like self-care guides, people that you look to, meditation, things that you do? We have a mutual friend in the Conover, so we know you know your shit on this. Dr. Conover is my guy.

Dr. Craig Conover. Kelly Conover does my old fairer on my face. She's the best. Yeah, so couple things. I'm feeling overwhelmed, so I'm just going to break this down to bite-sized pieces, and this might not be perfect. Why you overwhelmed? Because of the wellness thing. Well, this is so much. What's that?

Because there's so much. It's a lot. It's a lot, but it's also kind of simple. And I just, I, I... We're ready. I'm going to tuck it. I was dealing 10 years ago with, like, adrenal fatigue. I had coscochondritis in my chest from, like, not breathing properly, like inflammation in my cartilage of my chest. Like, I was septic from, like, drinking juices all the time. Like, you know, because of the, you know, I'm not going to say the brand, but you probably know it.

You know, whatever. I was, I was always sick. I used to have really debilitating migraines. You know, a lot of it was the stress from my parents being sick and just the chaos of my family, you know, and I'm not taking care of myself. I did have produce for eating disorders when I was a teenager that runs in my family pretty wild. I ate like sugar-free smuckers jelly for like a year. I like, you all say to fast. I was fast.

And maybe it worked because I was fasting like before anybody. I don't know. I'm kind of like maybe that that ended up being healthy in some weird way, but a lot of disordered eating for a long time. And so, you know, after going to program, you know, ACA Alon, doing a lot of like inner child work. Like my self-care stuff is like the sleep. I don't.

I don't not sleep. I just, I don't. I used to kind of glamorize not sleeping. I had really bad insomnia stuff. which by the way, it's so funny to me that all these like high performing like podcasters are like men just get $8 million for being like

you need to sleep eight hours. It's like bitch, I think we know, we know. So I'm not going to, you guys know that. You know. We know. We got it. We got it. We just had a sleep expert on the show. Matthew Walker. It's pretty good actually. We know Matthew.

Everyone knows you have to sleep eight hours. This isn't new information. If you cut this out, I will sue dear media. You've silenced a woman. That actually is good headline. Whitney Cummings, Sue's Dear Media. I just like, I, like, you talk about it so much, it has put me to sleep, so thank you.

We just met, but maybe we could start our relationship. Why are you pretending like no one knows we're supposed to sleep? By the way, I like nine hours instead of eight. I'm just saying. I love you for that. I like nine. Love you. I mean, that's clinical depression.

But, you know, so for me, sleep is big. I think a lot of people think, like, comedian, busy. You probably don't sleep. Like, I'm a psycho about sleeping. You know, I, you know, I, you know, After being pregnant, I really kind of change the way that I look at my body in eating. I'm very simple with the way I eat. Now, I don't like to think about food.

So I kind of just, you know, I really do, I don't do tap water. You know, I just do meat, eggs, sourdough bread and butter. Oh, my God, we have the same diet. Are we the same person? Same exact diet. Same. I just, whatever my. A little crunchy salt on the sourdough.

Whatever my, like, high functioning autism is, is like I don't like too many options. I'm same way. Decision fatigue is like a big thing for me. So I break the days down until, like, energy. and I don't want to spend my energy dollars. I mean, like, what should I eat? I just kind of eat the same thing all the time. Fine.

Works for me. I know there's a lot about NAD and NMN and all this. What worked for me was, this was Dr. Conover recommended this to me years ago, and I ignored him like an idiot. And it's called true niogen, and it's an NAD booster. And that completely, it helps with, like, cellular energy. There's also a- It's not the IV?

There is a niogen infusion. I can't do the IV, so what can I do? I can't do an IV. You're thinking N-A-D-I-O. Oh, well, there's an N-A-D-I-V, which I was like, nope, not doing this. Because I think there are a lot of things, and I know you're a cold plunge person. I'm happy for you. Not for me, because I love sauna.

I'm like a hardcore sauna has really helped, change my skin. Infrared or barrel? Big fat. Infrared. Hot air. The barrel. Infrared is too much. It's too.

You have to get way too much of it, I feel like for it to work. Yeah, she's saying she likes the barrel. I don't have time. It's like, here's my, okay. The one with the coals or without the coals? Coles. Yeah, okay. Beryl.

Coles. But the infrared thing, who has time for, this whole thing where all these high performers, like, I'm going to live forever. But this is your life. All you do is sauna and cold plunge and fucking get into ketosis and just you stink. Like you're fat, you're starving for, no one. I'd like to enjoy myself a little bit too and maybe not live forever. Like this motherfuckers who's like taking his son's blood to like be younger.

Oh, but he's done on the show. We had a, Lord hosted a dinner with them. You guys have got to... Next time you're coming to the dinner, we'll change your life. I would love to. I have thoughts for all these people. It's a Jefferson-in-style dinner.

You go around, nobody's... It's actually, you'll like it. Okay. But some, I'm not, I'm just saying, there's... We'll bring you, we'll bring Robert Green. Wait, me, I love Robert. It's to the NAD. The NAD, right.

So, true Nijian, I got pregnant naturally at 40 years old. I mean, at a time where infertility is like, I mean, I don't know, the frogs are gay and taints are shrinking. babies taints are shrinking. I don't know. Love you, Joe Rogan. He has a... Which, by the way, can we not?

Like, what are we... I love how we just, like, throw out these studies and we don't, like, go, like, whoa, whoa, whoa, who did this study and why? Who's measuring the baby's taint? They didn't. By the way, who, the non-binary scientist? It's like, no, no, no.

A hundred years ago, babies taints were this big, and now they're this big. Everything said on a podcast as a fact. Don't... Wait, so you were measuring taints this whole time? You just have a database of... It's like the statistics that drive. The official taint and measure.

The statistics that drive me nuts, the one like women mature faster than men, girls mature faster. Like what pedophile was like, we need to prove that 18 year olds, 18 year olds are mature enough to date 35 year old men? Yuck, dude. No. The answer is no. So here's the thing with all these studies. Like we got to chill on like everyone throwing out these studies. Like it's all white people.

It's usually people at universities. It's usually students. I used to do studies. When I first moved to L.A. I was broke as hell and I would do studies. It would be like UCLA like, are you depressed? I'm like, probably. Like if I wasn't before, I will be by the time I go to UCLA to get 50 bucks for a study to pretend I'm depressed.

Like, I'm definitely depressed now. And I would lie in the study because the more you'll keep you in longer and they'll pay you more. Well, I also get to your point. You got to wonder who's participating in these studies. You know who it is. We know. It's like college students. dance that are on fentanyl. You know what I mean? So yeah. So studies are, I used to do studies for

products and stuff. You get $50 cash. It was me and a bunch of like shaky meth addicts because you get 50. I did it for, I probably shouldn't say the brands, but like skin ones and stuff like that. And I would show up. And if you were good in the study, they would bring you back for more studies. So I would always be like, well, here's the thing about the hair and the da-da, and I would just make shit up. And by the way, studies, here's another thing, sorry, is that it's kind of a group of people. Like, it's like 12 people that are kind of like, you know what I mean, like, and you would get to know them. You kind of agree with everything. Well, no, you just know them. There's like a, like a jury.

It's, yeah, it's like this rag tag group of, you know, the bad news bears and we're just going from study to study. And like, someone would be like, you know, yeah, it made me drowsy. I'm like, no, Jocelyn's always drowsy, dude. Like, it's not because of the pill. Like, she's, I've seen her at Starbucks between studies. Like, she's always like a little sleepy. Like, you know what I mean? Like, and so take it all with a grain of salt. Okay, so the NAD. Caldic salt. I need to go back to the NAD.

It's a miracle. It's changed my life. I got pregnant naturally at 40. Is it an injection? Okay. So you can do it in pill form. Okay. And then you can also do niogen infusion, which is not uncomfortable.

You can't do needles? I can't do IV. She can do needles. Why not? She doesn't like IV. You gave birth to two children? I'd rather give birth than do a needle. But why my dude is like this.

But you how... There's a Vasco-Vagal. I forgot what is how you said. say it. I have the pill. She passes out. Let me see the pill. Let me see the pill. What do you mean? Can I just take it right now? Yeah, you probably could. It'll give you like a wild amount of energy though. Oh, yes. No, don't give it to her. Please. Give it to Michael too.

Oh, I do. So I do true nitrogen. This is, by the way. Can I take one? How many do I take her two? Take two? Dr. Conover does a patch of it. But this. No, I want to see it. I want to see it. This I am completely obsessed with sports cellular energy. I hope I'm saying all of this right, I don't want to get in trouble, has totally changed my life. Like, I was dealing with sort of postpartum, like super low energy. Like, that got me back. I took it while I was pregnant. Is it because it's NAD? NAD. It causes... So does this increase the NAD production naturally in your body? Yes, which is the thing that we lose over time, right? Why did you just said it that way? I would have been like,

oh, got it. Okay, well, sorry, I'm not a man that knows everything. I'm just a dumb lady. Just a dumb lady. Hold on, let me take my alpha brain so I can get through this interview without you... What's the alpha brain? This is Joe Rogan's thing. Oh, I'm trying to. Yeah, Joe Rogan's my friend, and it's, you know, probably mushrooms and I don't know what's in here. Is it intimidating going on Joe Rogan's podcast?

Or you just used to it because you guys are friends. It's kind of tricky because it's like going on Howard Stern used to be very intimidating. I was a love when you went on Stern. Oh, really? I used to listen to them all the time because I drove back and forth between Arizona. I'm at your great on Stern. Oh, really? I feel like I was like unhinged on there.

I was always so... He loves you. That's so nice. Thank you. The thing about Howard is like, okay, I might not be funny, I might not be, like, but at least I'm going to be authentic. And I would always, like, go on there and, like, cry and shit. And I was just like, why is this happening? But thank you for saying that.

Rogan, it's more like, to me, it's the opposite. I've known him for so long and he feels like such a friend. And when you go in there, it's like, I'm not going to, like, tap dance because you know me. Do you know what I mean? I'd rather be boring to his 50 million listeners than him think I'm, like, being corny. you know, so it's kind of this tricky thing. And Howard, I feel like you almost kind of like, you kind of have to do the tap dance.

It feels like an environment where you're... A little bit. I usually come in with, like, rose jokes. I'll come in with like a couple stories. I'll come in with like, you know. Okay, so go back to your wellness routine. I'm not done. I know that there's all these things you do.

So the alpha brain you take every day? I'll take it before something where I have to use my brain a little bit. I'll take creatine too. I know you're super into that. I like creatine. But this and the niogen IVs, which we can fit. I mean, we got, can you can just put numbing cream on or something?

So you think that I should really do it. It's that good. It is, it is, I mean, I don't know what I was doing before. Like, I don't know what I was doing before. Do you do it? So she makes you do it. So you guys, like, you'd love it. I love it.

I mean, but I also, I, look, I'm, I don't know if I'm getting out in trouble if I say it. But again, I got pregnant naturally at 40 years old. And Dr. Amy, who works with them, this fertility expert, you know, prescribes it as a part, like their fertility. protocol. Wow. Interesting. What else? Any other wellness things? Yeah, so I do a couple of pills that I'm not going to be able to tell you what they are. Andrew Huberman is our friend and he just tells me what to take. And I take it. N-A-C-S-A-M-E, same I'll do, right? I don't know that one. These things. I'll do iron sometimes, but else do I do? Are you saying you're taking these based on like the labs that you have and they're saying, okay, like you should take these ones or you're just saying that there's certain things.

Andrew Huberman told me to. What more? People should. should get like a what would Jesus do bracelet Andrew Huberman told me to because I feel like that so many people are just like you know what we're in for the Huberman's protocol stop he's like stop taking turmeric or you're going to get prostate cancer or something like that and I stopped

I feel like I don't know if that's true enough but also turmeric it's dumb and you know it yeah it's dumb it's stopped and he would be like every time he took it he'd be like I'm taking my turmeric in a long time like what are we doing like can we be adults about this? Is there any other beauty health? Yes I'm

I'm coming. You're overwhelming. I'm overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed. It's a lot of stimulus in here. So, okay, so that there's more, okay, so sometimes I'll do peptides. I've been a little inconsistent as of late, but Dr. Conover gives me the peptides that are the BPC something something. I also take metformin, which I'm sure is polarizing to people see in the comments, but it's that diabetes medication where people that took it in the studies. Why did you start taking it? Because Dr. David's Claire talked about it in lifespan. I had them on the podcast a couple times. Yeah, the way to reverse the resveratrol thing, I don't know about anymore, but I'm

not the person that's like, grapes are going to save us. Like, I just, it doesn't feel true. You know what I mean? I just don't buy it. So what does metformin do? It helps with insulin resistance? Maybe. I don't know.

What I do know, I don't know if this is the same thing, but you process, it's for diabetic, so you don't process sugar the same way. So when cancer eats sugar, it's better, you know, your skin, I think my skin. I think my skin looks better than it was before I was taking it. I stopped getting Botox because I just, for a lot of reasons. And I just, yeah, for its skin health and basically you're just not processing sugar the same way. A lot of people have stopped getting Botox. Is that a decision that you made just because you're a mother now?

What's the reason? I just was attracting pedophiles. And I think, look, I was sort of prescribed by like a network television person to get Botox when I was on a TV show. And I was just like, okay. Like, I was very young. It's in my forehead. And then I was, and I look back and I'm just like, could all of my failed relationships be because I couldn't communicate with micro expressions? Like, I have gone through life being like, nobody understands me.

I thought I was being clear when I said that. But like, why did I even think I'm a bitch, you know? Now that I like, you know, stop getting Botox and like, I communicate so much better. I've been this amazing relationship. I was like, could that have been it? I mean, between birth control, which hot take, I know, you know, messes up who you're attracted to. and then Botox and you can't even communicate with the person. Birth control is going, I think, be something

that we look back on like cigarettes. Birth control pills. Yeah, maybe. I'm hearing so much shit off air, on air about birth control. I'm not touching this fucking topic with a 10-foot pole. It's tricky because of this. You have a 10-foot pole. I think that it's tricky because, you know,

I think a lot of people listening are like, but our reproductive rights are being taken away, you know, whatever. But, you know, I'll just speak for myself, which is that, you know, birth control. I talked about this in my third special, my HBO special. It makes you your body think it's pregnant. So you smell pheromones differently. So you're attracted to a different kind of man when you're pregnant than when you're not pregnant.

So they say that if you're taking birth control and you get engaged, make sure to go off it for a year and see you're still attracted to that person. Oh, this makes so much sense now. I got you when you're on it. I got you. Women that are birth control are attracted to more feminized faces, stuff like that. Listen, I already anchor baby did you twice. You're stuck. What's anchor baby?

I got her pregnant twice. I got to, she's stuck now. Yeah, but you never know. I could change my mind. I change my mind all the time. So be careful. You know? How long have you two been together? We've known each other since we were 12 years old. And we since we were 20. Fucked around from 12 to 15 and then we got back together later when we were in college.

Way later. Yeah. It's been a journey. But we've known each other for 25 years. It's a long time. So it seems like you feel like now this is a really healthy relationship. He gives off really good frequency by the way. Yeah, you give off a good frequency. I think I tell Michael I'm a clairvoyant. with that and there's like a frequency that you give off that's calm it's very calm yeah calm and calming it's a good mix yeah i mean look i mean i think that like we'll talk about in a second like the energy conservation stuff you know being in a good relationship is the ultimate energy conservation the

life hack you know um wait can we just go back to the pill what was it before that and then we'll get to the famous skateboarder who wants to steal my thunder yeah where what is it birth control okay birth control going off birth control okay Botox so oh yes tell me then i get pregnant And, you know, I'm like four months pregnant and I'm like, oh, God, like what's happening? And I go to my dermatologist and I'm like, you know, can I just get a little Botox? And he's like, oh, well, you're pregnant. You can't get it. And I was like, that's what the placenta's for.

It's fine. And he was like, no, no, no, there's something. It's called gray baby syndrome where sometimes women that get Botox, the baby comes out gray. And I was like, okay, but just like a, like if we could just get, like a touch here. And he's like, no, I'm, you can't. And I'm like, okay, fine. And then I just liked, it was, it was, I almost think like wrinkles are a sign of youth at this point, you know. Like, I just, it was nice to just see my face again and just be able to, you know, have micro expressions.

Like, I definitely want people to know when I'm in a good mood or a bad mood. It's healthy and now I have a baby and I don't want my baby to like not be able to attune to me because I'm just, you know, a robot. That's interesting that you say that about Botox because I kind of have the same thought on filler too. Filler, if you overfill your face, you look older. Yeah. Like I, you just do. Because it looks like you can almost afford a bunch of filler. Interesting.

That's such an interesting, like, way to look at it. I also have this other theory. This is off on a tangent. That's the subconsciousness. I think that when you wear so much jewelry, like tons of jewelry, you look older. Because it feels like you can afford it. or your husband has cheated on you a bunch of times. You have a bunch of bracelets.

That's really funny. You know when people were bracelets up their arm to hear it's like, how many times did he cheat? Also, you don't shower? Like, how do you have this? How do you have the kind of time to? It's a lot. It just feels like it may.

How much attention do you need? A lot of jewelry makes you look older. I look at it as like when you see a really, really, really young guy and a really, really expensive car. It just looks like, it, it's signal it gives off to me. It's like, oh, your dad bought it for you or something. Of course. Well, it's like my thing of one of guys.

in like insane shape physically. I'm just like, oh, you're unemployed. Or you're bored. Yeah, you have this kind of time to do, you know what I mean? That's what you thought about me, I like, I mean, you're very in shape, but you're not ridiculous. I got a little bit. I got the, I got the, a little fluff.

That's good. I like a little fluff. A hard body is just too much. It's too much. I already told you this. We don't want that. Whitney Cummings agrees of me. I only want to be able to carry my kid strollers and shit around at this point.

That's my thing. I just want to be strong to be able to like, you know. Okay. So Chris. But hold on, hold on. Hold on. There's more self-care. I mean, the skin is a whole ass thing, but we can get. No, we got to get into skin first. You got to tell us about the skin because that's the first thing that I noticed about you when I met you is your skin. You have beautiful skin. And it's not, it's not easy to have beautiful skin. You have to work at it. Yeah, so I'll just say everything. People ask me a lot about this and I get overwhelmed.

So I think the best place to do it is your podcast. Obviously, you talk about it so much and your fans are into it. So I read a book when I was 21 called The Rinkle Cure by Dr. Perricone by some weird miracle. Someone told me about it. My mom worked in fashion. She worked at Neiman Marcus in Bloomingdale's. I grew up at cosmetics counters. They were my toys.

She was very vain. She had all the La Perrie and the Lancombe and all the stuff. Like I was obsessed with skincare at a very young age. and but I was doing it all wrong. Also, I grew up, I'm a horse person and I grew up like, you know, taking care of saddles and leather, you never want it to be in the sun and you never want to let water touch it and it always should have oil on it and it's skin, right? So I always just like treated my skin the way I would treat a saddle or a piece of leather. Same thing, right? So when I wash my face, I never washed my face and let it dry. I would put oil all over my face and then exfoliate or

use the gloves or whatever and then get out of the shower and then hydrate. So I never let my face like be just water and air. You know, I did go on acutane when I was in high school and then again later, just feel the need to say that because I used to get really bad cyst exists and that I think dried out my skin a lot. But I also learned later that, you know, we're always going like, don't put oil on your face. But like actually what happens is that, you know, oil, you know, the production of oil is what makes these cyst exists. I know it's genetic, you know, as well. But when you put oil on your skin, your oil glands stop needing to produce as much, right? So you actually stop breaking out, even though it's very anathema to like what you would think you would do. So I learned

all that. I read the wrinkle cure by Dr. Perricone. He's got a line of cosmetics. I do not use. They're overpriced. Trash. I'll say it, don't care. promo code Whitney. Promocode Dear Media. And I just, I'm not paying. If stress is the worst thing for your skin, I'm not going to spend $180 for an eye cream. Like that undoes the whole point of it. being anti-aging, but DMAE, alpalo-lipoic acid and DMAE were the things that were found to, you know, be good for the skin. I found a serum and I sometimes make it myself of those things and I've been using it since I was like 21. And then also eating blueberries, salmon and cantaloupe. Why cantaloupe? Oh, no.

Wait, you should do your own serum. I know, I want to. Why don't you do your own? I was going to because I make my own. And then I do grape seed oil and tomato seed oil. and then I do the derma roller probably like every other day. You should do your own. I feel like people would go crazy for that.

I think it would shock you how crazy it was. That's the thing I get asked most about. When we met you in Texas briefly, the first thing she said to me was like, wow, great. She doesn't say that about everybody. Oh gosh, that's so nice. I also sleep on my back only. Ew, I would never dare sleep on my side.

Agreed. Oh, yes. I mean, but also when you're applying your product, people pull down. You have to push up only. Only up, only, only, only, only. Obviously, I've sort of chilled with the sunscreen a little bit. I used to go hardcore with it.

I think a lot of it is poison unless you want to do a paid partnership with me, in which case you are amazing and I only use that product. But I do now the super goop, it's like a mineral powder, and it's just a powder that I do. And do you stay out of the sun a lot? Not as much anymore. I just, I think again, like, you know, the stress of trying to not do something that's bad for you is sometimes as bad for you.

Yeah. So, you know, I remember this woman came to my house and she comes and tells you everything in your house that's killing you. Like the cleaners and the carpet and the formaldehyde is in decaf coffee and all the things. And I was like, what do I do if I'm like in the airport and there's no healthy food? And she's like, just have a burger. Like just literally go to McDonald's. It's better for you than being like, I can't find anybody.

I need some kale. I need some cow. Who is this woman? I will give you the name after. because it's escaping me, but she is very worth talking about. Actually, she got into all this because she had a Botox addiction, which is fascinating. And then she wanted to undo, I don't know the ramifications of Botox. Also, one thing I will say is that the person that sold me on getting Botox the first time said it's preventative.

So maybe the preventative worked. Like, I'm the first to say that, like, I did. Maybe it froze you in place for a long time. I just mean, like, you know, like the wrinkles might be, you know, way, I might look like fucking Whistler's mother. I got the fucking Grand Canyon up here. That's good. That's good.

You know? But like so I'm also the first to say maybe that it's impossible to tell if it benefited me in terms of that. But I also do Al Thera once a year, which is a laser. Okay. Do you like that? I do with Kelly. I don't know.

Here's the other thing. It's impossible to isolate the variables because it'll be the fact that I'm doing sauna. Could be the fact that I sleep a lot. Could it be genetic? Could it be the Althera? But when you go to Kelly Conover, you do the Al Thera. Al Thera. Yes.

Okay. Yes. Have you tried salmon semen on your face yet? You know what? I have it at home. It's hard to get. And yeah, I mean, maybe not for you. No, no, no, no. I don't know. I do it in Austin, so I don't know if it's hard to get in L.A. Okay. I mean, I think there's this one Joan Dangerfield, Ronnie Dangerfield's widow is a good friend of mine. And she got me a bunch of it. And I tend to think topical stuff isn't that effective. How could it be unless it's like acidic or something? But so I tried the capsules. And it was just, it annoyed me.

But if you're using it, I'll start. I do the micronealing. Yeah. Isn't it called exosomes? Why do you always call them semen? Isn't it just the exosomes? I prefer salmon semen. What's an exosome? I think that's like what is. Yeah, see, exactly.

We know what salmon semen. Mansplained me. I thought it's called exosomes that you put on your face, but it's extracted from the... She doesn't know. No one knows what an exosome is. Either do I, but it just sounds like...

I just try to explain NAD. I mean, the bar is low for... Michael didn't explain what an exosome is. No, I don't know, isn't that what's cool? You all say, like, I got sammenges on my face. I'm like, what you talk about? Do you do the derma roller and then you do it? That's what I like.

I like the microneedling and then it going into my skin. Yeah, because, I mean, we have so much dead skin on our face that most of our product doesn't even get to our, we just put it over dead skin and it doesn't absorb anyway. So I do the micronealing. The micronealing works. Mm-hmm. Agreed. Everyone whose skin I like micro needle. You should listen to what Whitney was saying about not being neurotic because Lauren will get in one of those cars with like a Christmas tree hanging.

No, no, no. She'll act like she's like getting killed. What do you mean? Like she can't handle like the smells or the parabins from like a colored Christmas tree from 19. from the gas station that smells like fake cherry. I don't want to sit in a car that smells like that. I just don't. I'll roll the window down.

So you, okay, so I don't touch receipts anymore. Thank you. I don't touch receipts. She's like me. Yeah, but I'm also, I'm not, I saw that fridge out there. I don't do oat milk. I don't do almond milk. I don't do whatever just was happening in your fridge.

I was appalled. Okay. First of all, that's not my choices. My choices would be a cow. Okay, good. I'm just saying that's like some GMO nonsense. If there was one thing that I could get a, under control on this business. Taylor, I don't know

what you guys are doing for snacks in this office. The snacks are the worst. Literally the fucking worst. Texas, like, it's like, we've got a fucking meat locker over there. I don't know what's going on here. Yeah, it's, you know, but anyway, but I think it took, I ate so much artificial shit. I mean, like, I'm probably embalmed, frankly. Like, I ate equal in Aspartame for truly 15 years.

Well, Smokers Jelly's intent. Oh, yeah, no, I'm embalmed. Like, I definitely did so many chemicals for so long, and I was such a zombie. But, yeah, now I kind of try to stick to, like, real food. You probably feel amazing, though, now that you've made such a drastic switch. Yeah, I mean, also a lot of it is the internal stuff, too. You know, my parents passed, and with that, a lot of anxiety and stress and shame and guilt passed. You know, guilt will get you.

Guilt will age you. Friendships will age you. Bad relationships will age you. And I was doing a lot of things that were aging me. One thing I will just say really quick, since we're doing tangents anyway, is a part of my self-awareness stuff was working with horses. I grew up with them, so it's not like I'm some, you know, rich, like, you know, you know, training them or riding or competitive riding? No, no, no, no, no, that's not for me.

You know, I grew up with horses like on a farm. They're grounding. Yeah, I had such a hard time understanding adults because I grew up with drunks and liars and people that were like, no, I'm fine. Everything's fine. But your guts like, you don't seem fine. Like, it was just confusing, you know, like the way someone said something was in Congress with how they were saying it.

But horses, prey animals aren't confusing. They're very direct. They're very clear. They're not codependent. So I spent most of my time with them. And as an adult now, I rescue horses. And I do something called Liberty Training with Horses. That really helps you be self-aware because they're a mirror to your energy.

And everybody right now is like, did I do this on twice the speed? I'm just trying to like blow through this. But horses like, you know, they tell you if your energy is bad or anxious or neurotic. Because when you're kind of like, no, I'm fine, everything's good. But you're giving off this like neurotic. It's what you're talking about with the clairvoy thing. Have you brought him around the horses? Yeah, of course.

That's what you got to do. That's how I, if I had a horse to gauge a guy, that's the hot tip. You bring the guy around the horse. Yeah. Who did that time? That's a good tattoo. Oh, he did all my tattoos. Oh, nice.

No way. Different styles, though. But yeah. Really? Yeah. Back when he was a chamrock? Yeah, with Mark Mahoney. Oh, wow.

Yeah, he did mine. He doesn't have a tattoo of me, but he has a tattoo of a coffin. That's you. You're in there. That's for you, Lauren. Mahoney did this one and then Dr. That's right. You know, having a Mark Mahoney tattoo not to go on a tangent, that's like a...

This one and this one, yeah. You know, that's like a... I know. You know, because, you know, he's a legend. He's a legend. Yeah, he just different styles mostly for me. I love that. I would not have thought that was Dr. Wu. Yeah. Like he did this.

That looks like Freddie Negredi. Yeah. Well, because I love his detail, obviously, but I wanted him to do more like traditional. That's why. So you can ask that. He did everyone. Every single one. How long ago was that? 2013, 14. Okay. He does such fine line now. Before he was over in the hot, his spot. Yeah, Roosevelt.

Yeah. My buddy Weston actually helped him build out that spot. I have to ask you about your tattooed boyfriend, Chris. Please. So our producer freaked out when Chris walked in. absolutely lost his shit. Yeah, your producer just came out of the closet, like right then. My producer's always coming.

He jacks out four times a day. We have to manage it and work it into the schedule. The only person he's ever freaked out and wanted to take a picture with on this show is Chris and a porn star. Just because if you talk, it's not going to come up on the thing. I mean, don't outshine me, but just be near a mic.

Don't outshine the master. It's just a double Virgo thing. I like how you position me. Well, because when you were over there talking, I was like, he's not, I mean, you guys are really cute. You guys are really, really cute. I know, it's weird. It's going to be like ghost.

It's really cute. We just, we literally just, we talked about that 20 minutes ago about doing pottery together with one thing. That's like ghost. Yeah. You're going to Patrick Swayze here. Yeah. Have you ever done pottery with me? Don't wake this about me.

It's about them. Do you guys have like things you do like date night or? Yeah, we do Pilates together. We just do this podcast all. Yeah, totally. We like to work out every single day together. Okay, we try that. We have stuff that we read together.

Our life together when we're not doing this stuff is actually like pretty boring. It's like a home together a lot. That's good. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, I got you on that front. How did you guys meet? You want to take it? No.

Okay. She wants your perspective, your explanation. Taylor, is this coming through? Okay, so she made a joke on Instagram on her story. Wait, start. Okay, so he used to follow my stories. Well, you can't tell the story? I got this.

Here's the thing. I love him. He just goes straight to the middle. It's like there's a beginning. Oh, you know what? That drives me nuts too. I need that too, Chris. Lauren doesn't know how to tell a story.

She just goes beginning and end. No, no, no, no. I know how to tell a story. But I would see him on, like, you know what you can see who's watching your stories? And I would see, it always stood out to me because his photo, if you guys want to get attention from a girl on social. Let's see this photo. Make it black and white.

Make your profile, because you see all this color. And his was black and white, and it was just this sweet face. What's the Instagram? What's the Instagram? Chris Cobra Cole. I just have a white background, and Mike Boyback shot the photo. And so it's just a... So I would, like, see him.

I'd be like, like I would register, but I didn't know who it was. So he was, you were watching my stories for a long time. Yeah, totally. And then I did a story somewhere where you had seen me on Raya. Just give the backstory. Okay, so I had seen her on the dating app Raya and liked her a bunch of times, but she never liked me back. I don't do professional athletes.

And she always said on her, on like her stories and podcasts and stuff that she doesn't, she doesn't date professional athletes. I thought that was kind of funny. She posted this woman who is kind of like. What does it say about you that you're like, I'm going to get her? Well, she does not want to date me. What's even funnier about that is that never registered until you pointed it out. Like, what does that say about you?

I was like, oh, I never even thought about it. Okay. Like, I knew that you said that and just didn't think it applied to me or something. I just love that you're like, yeah, but I'm me. Yeah, like, I didn't even. apply to me. Like it's not like vain. I just, it's stupidity. So she posted this, this woman who was like, who would like run and then stop and kind of like walk and run again. And then she turned around and started back. You know when you see someone on the run, make the U-turn? It was so weird.

Like it was a weird clip. And it was like me saying, I'm never dating again and then re-downloading Raya. And I made a joke. And I made a joke about it because I would often go on, go on riot at almost like a like oh this is fun and then do nothing with it and then be like a video game to like it's like a weird video game to feel like you're participating and trying yeah right you're kind of that's exactly what it was and then i'd be like not on it forever because it was just some weird like i'm swiping to see like what this person's song is going to be and so i made i made i made well um i made i go to riah for the music it's like i go to playboy for the other guys yeah i don't I didn't mean to like pass it like that, but whatever.

So I made a joke back to her. And then we started talking back and forth. And then she was like, you know what? Like here's my number. Just text me because I don't want to have to like go on the app all the time. So I went to text her. And it turns out that I had texted her a year prior to that because I worked for liquid death. And I was trying to get liquid death sent to her house.

Trying to get me wet. right wait wait wait did you not know you had text her a year before no I knew oh I just didn't respond I we had to like text it whatever and this is and and fair enough she goes wait let me look at that date and then showed me her calendar from that date and every single 15 minutes was taken up the whole entire day it was like Jimmy Kimmel arrived car service and it was just it was it was a boss move but it also wasn't the right time we weren't fair enough today show or tonight show was on. It was not.

Joe Rogan or Huberman was on this day. Well, it was, yeah, we were not meant to be back then. But the short stories we met on Instagram and at a wild time, I was, you know, eight months pregnant. And I was just like, I'm into, like, he was just so, you know, like, to your point, I think men do tend to think I'm a little bit scary or something. The skinny confidential him and her podcast is sponsored. by BetterHelp. Better Help has been a long-term partner of this show, and it's because Lauren and I are huge believers in platforms like online therapy and just therapy in general. We have done over 700 episodes of this podcast, and one of the common denominators that we see in many of the high-performing

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A lot of men are intimidated by somebody who, both of you are like it's, you have such a, like, a point of view. No, not just a point of view. Just you. A personality. I think it's not. account. Yeah, no, I think

there's a lot of things. I think it's... Self respect. Waity! No, no. I think it's a lot of strength. Goodellate. Dignity.

No, no. I like what he said. It's a lot of strength. And I think it's like, a lot of guys are used to the dynamic where it's like, they're the strong one. And I talk about this, like, a lot of my friends kind of be like, oh, I want a woman that's like got a career and is focused and like has their own thing.

They mean like who works at a flower shop. But then they say, but also is nurturing and tender and all this. And I'm like, you're kind of asking for like everything in one bucket. and maybe some of the types of women you're asking for, maybe don't have some of those tendencies. But if I may, women are very lost too. Women, this thing, they go home and they have to be like, what was that supposed to mean?

And I don't cook and I don't clean. It's like, what do you do? I'll give you a better perspective. So you're just a hungry, filthy bitch. A lot of guys grow up in a dynamic where the father was the breadwinner and the mother was at home. That's just times of change. And all of a sudden you're dating a successful woman

that is maybe doing more than you and bringing home more than you. And I think it does something to the power dynamic. For that particular person that's not able to handle But think about it. If the woman is making all the money, you have all the power. No, I love the dynamic. I would say, I would be, like, listen, I would love to just kick back. His mother was, like, very strong, like, boss.

And I appreciate this conversation, and there's, we can go a million ways with it. But I think that for me, like, almost the more, whatever, strong, successful I'm in my professional life, the softer I get in my personal life. You know what I mean? Like, I, in my personal life, I'm very beta. I do not want to be the predator. I do not want to be in charge. do not want to be the boss.

I'm the same way. He's like, what do you want for dinner? And I'm like, no, but what I'm saying is some men can't make peace. And then also with, with, I'm sure you're like this with your,

with your child. Like I, I noticed I'm like a totally soft with my kids compared to how I am. Yeah, but I'm not even commenting that. I'm just saying some men can't make peace with not being the main breadwinner.

So it's more about money. It's just like, it's the power thing. It's like a lot of men can't make peace with like if you're, if I'm dating you and you're going on the tonight show, a lot of guys can't make peace the facts like you're...

But I do think I will say something. I do think that each of you guys have your own lane and your own... You're very successful in your own right. So there's a confidence that comes along with that. I think what you're referring to is maybe a guy that doesn't have that independence and making his own money. It comes down to like, are you comfortable and confident in your own skin? And men and women, a lot of people just aren't.

And I think you're nailing it because to me, I think part of the reason that we click so hard is I realized that I needed somebody that had nothing to prove because I never want a man to feel emasculated. I don't get off on that. It's not hot to me. I never want to disrespect a man I'm in a relationship with. It makes it feel maternal and then it turns an incest. It kills the relationship. I want someone that I'm completely in awe of. I know that about myself. Like respect to me is the hottest thing. And I didn't realize that like in relationships I would like make myself smaller, like minimize my accomplishments because I didn't want them to ever be. That makes it worse though. And I'm just being fake. And I mean, you're ultimately just being a lot.

And it's totally. So it's like to me like, you know, Chris like kind of has nothing to prove and I had never experienced that. And then maybe for me, I subconsciously because of my, you know, unrecovered codependence at the time attracted to people that were insecure that I could caretake and pity and try to fix and all that kind of stuff. And that just morally, I'm sorry, further demoralizes them, whatever. But I think to me it's like power is such an interesting conversation because when people are like,

well, she's so powerful. You know, she makes the money and he doesn't. And it's like, well, if you're making a lot of money and working a lot, you don't have as much power because you don't get to control your schedule. You're kind of like at the mercy of your crazy career. You're the elf. I mean, you know, I do lots of rescue stuff. And there's a place called Wolf Connection in Palmdale. And it's rescue wolves.

A lot of psychopaths breed wolves with German shepherds and fight them or get wolves and fight them and have them. And, you know, you're in Texas. You guys have more tigers privately owned than Africa, huh? And bears. Yeah. Disgusting. You know, so exotic animal. rescue is kind of like a big part of my life. And so they do these programs with kids where the kids

will show up and there's all these rescue wolves that are in their, you know, enclosures. And there's, you know, 15, it's a pack of wolves, right? And, you know, the first thing they ask is which one, you know, to the kids, you know, kids that use violence to solve problems, sexual assault survivors, kids that are struggling in school, whatever high risk at risk youth. I don't know what you would say. The first thing they ask is, which wolf do you think is the alpha, right? They're looking at these like 15 wolves. You know, one of them is digging. One of them is, you know, eating. One of them is, you know, circling. One is howling. One is sleeping. One is pissing. One is shitting. You know, one is like barking, you know, really loud at the other, you know, one's like scared. And they say which one is the

alpha. And they'll answer. What do you think? I think it's the one who's circling. I think it's just the one that's probably just sitting back, relaxing. Oh, you come on. You give a, it's a silly trick. Look at his vulture on his arm. Damn it. No. Vultures help solve crimes. And so crazy, insane red flag to have a tattoo of it.

That's interesting. But there's a great TED talk about it. Yeah, but you knew it. Like, you knew it. I was intentionally tricky about it. You can cut that out. And so the alpha sleep. So when like, you know, like something I also love about Chris is like I can be running

around working and whatever and he'll just be like playing Zelda. I'm like that is the most alpha shit. Hell yeah, which one, the one on the wee? Tings of the King's of the Kingdom. I'm going to get back in my right. The second Michael sits down to play video games, I'm like, what are you doing? I'm the alpha. Go work.

Go make more products. Go book some guests. Go do more conference calls. Mrs. Bigshot. Like Mrs. Big Shot. Is that your fucking Volture sitting down. Ask her why? What?

Why is it not embarrassed? Oh, no. Michael will tell you. No, you know, actually, Dr. Conover told me. He looked at all my stuff. He was like, hey, man, I didn't know what he was going to pursue. from me. He's like, I actually need you to go and do things like play video games because you're so wired and you need to like get into your paracympic where you're not thinking about anything. You're

just kind of like... But not like Call of Duty. No, no, no. Just like do something where you're like actively participating, but also zoning out and not like... Do you know that Austin has a toy museum of vintage video games? No. I didn't know that. I know they have that toy store right there on Congress. It's right off of 6th Street. It's got like Oregon Trail. It's got like old school Nintendo pack What's that? Not only that, like, it is so racist. It's like, you know, did you behead a native? Four points.

You're like, Jesus. Like, and I don't think they said native. But, like, older video games I really like, too. Like, for my son, I want to get, like, the old school, like, Game Boy, Tetris, stuff like that. Those games were, like, pretty harmless, to be honest. I grew up on those things. Now it's gotten a little crazy. How do you like being a mom?

I mean, I feel so unoriginal because everyone sort of says the same thing, you know? Like, does anyone ever say I hate it? I don't, like, isn't one child services just show up? No, I mean, it's a miracle for me. You know, it's the only, I don't think I was ever present before having a kid. I don't think I knew what present even meant, you know? It was just like so, I was always in the past or the future. And I was like, it kind of, to me, feels like what drugs were supposed to feel like.

It's like what I wanted drugs to do and never worked. When you have to leave with your schedule. is one of the main questions I wanted to ask you and you have to go do things and you have your son. How do you manage that? Because I have such a problem with it. I walk out the door. I know, but don't. Do you feel guilty? I don't feel guilty. Here's only because, again, it's not helpful or useful. And I don't want my son to feel my guilt and think it's his fault or something. You know, I think that, like, as adults, it's our job to take care of our emotional needs and not make our kids take care of our needs. So sometimes it's, and I think you're just beating yourself up for no reason. It's just like self-flagellating.

like, you know, your kids have an incredible life, like incredible life. And you said the thing about, you know, what is it, intentional adversity? Like, there it is. It's right there. You know, fine. Like, you have, we have nepo babies. I mean, someone said that to me the other day. They're like, how do you feel about having a nepo baby?

I was like, oh, that was, like, terrifying to me. What is a nepo baby? It's a baby that comes from someone that has, you know, money, success, influence, and they benefit from that privilege in life, you know? There's like a big backlash against nepo babies right now. You know, so for me. Yeah, but it's also I know that if I leave and go make this money on the road, his life is going to be better. Because I'm more flexible now. I can stay home more with him. And when I'm with him, I can be more present. So like I just try to do the sort of, to mention Tetris again in my head of I'll feel way guilty if I don't go do this thing because then I'm going to be stressed about money when he's old enough to really notice that I'm gone.

That's actually very smart that you have to go kill the tiger so you can free up space to be with him to be more flexible. You know, yeah, exactly. So it's like, you know, but I think that the mom guilt. thing like it's it's really hardwired you know i mean i'm like honestly he has none he says he's none but also like a thousand years ago in the woods guilt is mom's feeling guilty is what kept the babies alive i'm not going to go do this thing and then a tiger eats you know or like you go and you don't feel guilty that was darwinism you know i think it's like you know only the most anxious survive which is why we're seeing so much and you know everyone's got anxiety only the guilty survive only the guilty mom's babies survived you know so i think it's like sometimes just a matter

of going like oh this is like a primordial reptilian you know instinct that served my ancestors really well, but like not helpful here. I don't feel guilty because to her point earlier, like I had a mother who I remember from a very young age working and sometimes working really late. And I do remember at times being a kid and like waiting for her to come home. But as I've gotten older, I appreciate that. And I think it's also informed what I'm attracted to in a woman. And I don't, like I don't, I look at, I look at it as it's a good thing for our children to witness both of us doing productive things and then contextualizing it to them later. It's like okay to not always feel great.

You know, the thing is about program is, you know, they say alcoholics. And by the way, for my thing, codependence, you know, unrecovered Al-Anon, we say in order for alcoholism to be present, alcohol doesn't have to be present. So the word alcoholic is, you know, kind of a bigger metaphor, symbolism. You know, something they say in there is alcoholics are the only people that think they deserve to be having fun all the time. And so it's taking me a long time to just like, I feel guilty about leaving my son. Like, it's just like, okay, you're a little, you have discolvent. comfort from all the amazing blessings you have. You get to drive away from your son.

Oh, no. Michael's going to play this for me. In a car to your job from your house that you get to live in. You know what I mean? I'm sorry. I don't need to like. No, it's 100% right. You're so right.

Look, my son could be drowning in my pool right now for all I know. So maybe this is, let's see how today goes. But like to me, I also am really big on. I was raised by people that weren't my parents, but also I was like around people that weren't my parents. So I also come from like a kid needs a lot of people to love, you know. So I have someone that, you know, watches him when I'm gone. I have someone, you know, I have a bunch of people that watch him when I'm not around. And I think that's good for him. Yeah. Because I never want him to see me like, overwhelmed either. Yeah. No, I think that's good.

Before you go, you, you to me seem like a very avid reader. What are you reading? What are you consuming? That's a very nice thing to say. Well, I always feel like you're like reading something or highlighting something. whenever I listen to your podcast, like you seem like you read a lot. I try to. Yeah. Also, your vocabulary is phenomenal. Oh, thanks.

Well, I noticed these things because a lot of people's vocabulary is absolutely atrocious. Wow. Well, I'm being honest. That's a big compliment. Thank you. How can I never say that to me? You got to stop reading biographies about old Hollywood. What do you read?

I'm kidding. She reads a lot. I'm actually reading like a fiction right now. What do I read? I read everything. He's saying I just read biographies. That's so not true. No, I'm joking. I'm reading the last Miss Parish and it's really good. What's it about? It's juicy.

No. What's it about? You have to read the first one, which is the next Miss Parish. It's just like a very like juicy, easy read. I like to flip-flop. I'll go from that to like something like crazy. My next book is Michael really wants me to read this, Victor Frankel. Okay. So completely opposite. I like, I like K.L. And the way I read. Love it. Yeah. Do you, is that like, would you consider that like a hobby or do you do it because you know

you have to talk for a living? Like, like, I love to read. See, I'm obsessed with, you know, and this is an ACA thing, but when I try to do a hobby, like I can't not turn it into a business, I'll start reading and I'll be like, my Instagram story book club. And I'm just like, how do I just do this without, look at me reading? Like, it's so hard to not turn it into a business because my workaholism will get me. That makes sense, but it's productive.

But I'm glad that you just, you're just able to just, read. See, fiction, this is very toxic. I've never been a big fiction guy. You got to read good, like, intense fictions that are not like beach reads. But I'm just like, this didn't happen. Michael wants you to read like Shogun. That's what you want to read. You know what I mean?

I feel like that too. But you guys didn't. I like historical fiction. But that might not have happened either. But Michael likes how someone can be that creative with their mind to make that up, right? Totally. But also, like, even history that's nonfiction. I'm like, I don't even know if this

happened. That's true. Everything I learned in school, I thought Columbus and the Pilgrims had a fun dinner. Well, I think it's like if it's good writing and not like just like kind of frivolous, mindless things. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard. I do a lot of, I have a lot of recovery reading. I mean, I'll just throw out things that I like and I try to reread the body that keeps the score. It's a good one I'm sure you know about. I'll just throw out the ones, the wrinkle cure. I just said it, you know, really worth reading. I love getting the love you want, which I mentioned. I'm just going to sale. I'm just going to throw out the ones that like impacted me. All of Robert Green's books. I love Marina Abramovic's autobiography I loved. She's a performance artist who's just a gangster.

Like I read Steve Jobs out of it. I love reading kind of that sort of stuff. Babe, what do I like? Who am I? What's that book that you're reading right now? I'm reading a biography about Kurt Corcorian. That sounds good. See, he's like one of the, the way they describe him in the book is the, but this is not a good example. But they were saying, and this is pre-presidency, so keep that in mind. He was basically one of the richest men in the United States that you've never heard of. He's the exact opposite of Donald Trump. He owned almost all of Vegas. He owned MGM for a while.

He donated to a shitload of charities. Does he talk about how he built Vegas? He never talked about, he never wanted his name on a building, his name on anything. He was very shy, very quiet. And he was really hard to write the book, but he was one of the most successful entertainment, real estate. That sounds good. Ooh, I've, Zen Mine, Zen Horse is a big one for me. I started reading Coyote America.

Dr. David Agus did a book about, it was like, ancestral animal wisdom. A lot of it's sort of like studying animal stuff. The New Wright I read recently, the Michael Malice book, The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray. But yeah, I guess I'm a little. I'm a big reader. I try. I'm really trying. You know what's a good book?

This is a biography. I can't get enough of Hitler. The guy was a star. Like, I cannot. I haven't read anything on him. Really? You probably have, right? No, I'm not sitting around with Mindcom, Lauren.

No, I'm not. I go on eBay and just buy these Hitler books. Like about him? Yeah, one is called I'm Hitler's, I was Hitler's doctor. It's like the doctor that gave him all the methamphetamines and stuff. That's a little too dark for it. Is it good? I don't know.

Yeah, that's a lot. You're just saying it's like fascinating. I'm fascinated by these weird. I also got really into collecting Elron Hubbard books. Going to Scientology? I'm not in Scientology. They said no to me. They said no, they rejected me.

When I first moved to LA, I tried so hard, and they were not interested. Why? They couldn't mold you enough. They're interested now. I have a big, call me. You were going to tell. Show up. I'm telling you, I went, a girlfriend of mine was recruited.

She was becoming, like, famous at the time, and that's who they would sort of target. And so Helena Christensen invited her to, like, a brunch. Okay, I'm 20 years old. I'm living in a studio apartment. I'm literally making money at Buffalo Exchange. I went to an acting class with Sean Lennon, and he was a friend of mine, and he was a friend of mine and he would leave like really valuable vintage t-shirts at my house and I would sell them at Buffalo Exchange for money. I have told him that I did this and that's how I would make money.

And so I was like $40,000 in debt and then I would do my focus groups. And then I went to the Scientology Center. It is, you know, have you seen it on Franklin? I mean, it's, it's magical. It's Narnia. And we pull in and Jenny's like, oh no, oh no, my friend that I was with, I should probably blur that out. Who gives a shit? And I'm in there and I was like, I'm in. Like I was like, this is what I thought Hollywood was. Hollywood was just like, shithole. I'm in this horrible apartment. I was like, this is what I came for.

Like, I want to live in a castle with a bunch of actors. The guy from Lost was there. Giovanni Ribisi's there. Having brunch. I'm like, yes, where do I sign? Where do you do the retinal scan? What do you want from me? And they would, they were just not interested.

Why? I was like, I would like to enroll in this. They just said, no. Psychiatry sounds like a scam. I will say, in that particular field, I feel like if you're a, a star or an actor or a comedian or like somebody with a platform like they really take care of you. Okay. Don't you feel that?

But I'm a snitch. I'm not I'm a big man. I'm not someone that they want. They must have thought they couldn't control you. Yeah, no. I mean, because I have since now, I'm obsessed. If you reject me, your life is going to get tricky. I have now looked into all the maritime law stuff like their boats and shit.

Like I'm, I'm kind of obsessed with it. Her book's Lea Remedy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good book. I'm just kind of obsessed. It's also I'm a little bit like look, I feel like if you're susceptible to that cult, you should do it. I kind of get what you're saying. What would they, the people that think that's a good idea, if they were loose in the streets, what would they be doing? Yeah, if you think it's a good idea, you should join it.

I don't want you out, you know what I mean? I don't want you on hinge. I don't, we don't, go do that. I think people want a community some people so bad that there's, that's attractive. That's my biggest fascination right now. This is what I'm sort of working on for my next special adrenaline junkie or whatever it is. Is how we fill the God's size whole. It's been interesting to see as religion has sort of gone out of vogue or whatever it is.

I mean, religion serves the purpose of like productivity, cooperation, makes dopamine, people cooperating, having community. And that's gone away. And I'm fascinated by these other religions that we kind of make, whether it's like yoga, whether it's astrology, whether it's ketosis, whether it's I'm taking blood from my son. Carnivore diet. Carnivore diet. Like all of these other religions that we kind of don't see that way. All these atheists that are like, screw religion. And then they're like in Soul Cycle every day.

So I'm fascinated by the ways that we kind of fill the God size whole. Whitney Cummings, you are damn good on a mic. You have an open invite to come on our podcast whenever you want anytime. You can, you know what? We'll kick Michael off. You can come on with Chris. Come on any time you want. I know you're busy.

But honestly, you're really great on a mic. Where can everyone find you? Pimp yourself out. I'm Sarah Silverman.com. No, I am touring right now, so I'm coming to Austin soon. Dallas Houston, Austin. Yeah, I'm at the Moody Theater at the live. What is it called? Austin City Limits live.

Oh, when? September 6th, I think. And then I'm doing a bunch of tour dates and stuff. And then, yeah, I'll shut up. I can't believe you stand on stage and you make people laugh. That is not a fucking joke. When you grow up in alcoholism and you're trying to make alcoholics laugh all your childhood, it's kind of the same thing. I mean, that's what you're doing. You're making people drinking laugh.

You go to Pilates. I don't know how you do that. Lotties, traditional Pilates, it's quiet. It lowers my cortisol. But is it, it's like hard, right? Pilates is not really what I focus on. I focus on weightlifting. That's changed. Okay, Pilates looks like a prank. It's more for mobility. Okay. It's more for like stretching and opening my posture. Yeah. Yeah. Just like.

And you're on that like thing that you're, you're, But I just do that like one hour a week. Okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, the weightlifting is one. You're mostly, yeah, that's my thing too. Do you do like cardio? I do a little bit of cardio, but mainly weightlifting.

Okay, I love that. Yeah, I do like Andrew's like zone. We listen to a human episode and that's what we do now. Zone one, zone two, whatever it is called. Oh, okay. Whatever I'm supposed to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then he was like, make sure to sleep eight hours.

What I do without you? Whitney, thank you for coming on the show. Thank you, Whitney.