WHOA That's Good Podcast - The Return of John Crist | Sadie Robertson Huff & Christian Huff | John Crist

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

John Crist is back with Sadie and Christian for a hilarious and deep conversation about love, fear, commitment, and learning how to trust God with the biggest decisions in life. John opens up about why the right next step can still feel scary, how he’s growing into a new season before marriage, and what it really looks like to keep showing up in relationships even when things get hard. Plus, he tells the unreal story behind his Tonight Show debut, the most awkward DoorDash mix-up ever, and why laughter can make even the serious moments feel a little lighter.  This Episode of WHOA That's Good is Sponsored By: http://shop.taylordukeswellness.com/whoa — Get 15% off sitewide anytime + for the next 48 hours, you can also unlock free U.S. shipping on orders over $49! https://fastgrowingtrees.com — Get 20% off your first purchase when you use the code WHOA at checkout! https://gominno.com — Get your first month FREE when you use code WHOA at sign up! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Whoa That's Good Wednesday. I hope for having a great week. But per usual, it's not to get so much better because we have one of y'all's favorite guests back on the podcast. I'm not even hyping him up too much because last year he was one of the biggest, Well, That's Good podcast episodes we had. Y'all loved hearing his story. And so we have John Chris back on the podcast and co-host Christian. Hey!

Let's go. We're back. And I should say this right before we turned on the cameras. you did say, whoa, that's good to your own comment. Wow.

Don't help me like that. You're not supposed to... I thought it was for other people when they say something. Yeah, normally. That was a time

I did hit me with my own tagline. Sometimes we'll be in the house she'll say something and then she'll say, well, that's good. I never do that.

You can't say that about your own advice. This is what happened. I said something. It was like crisp when it came out. What did I even say? It was pretty clean.

It was pretty clean. Oh, I said some advice you get from doing things the right way, but most advice you get from doing things the wrong way. Like, I wish I would have done that better. So when I said it came out, like, boom, period, stamp it.

And I was like, well, that was quick. Because I'm like, do I not? I have a problem with this. I don't say things that are like clipworthy. Like, I don't say things in like... I don't either. Ah. And so then my team's like, dang, like, you know... And I also don't think it's healthy to structure things

in a way that you know, you know this is going to be clen. How do they do that? I don't like that. I don't know. How do pastors do that? Do they think they have it like in their bank? Well, back in the day, I would go like, oh, that's...

It's an inflection. They know this is going to hit home with somebody. Do you know God's going to bring you to it because he brought you through it? And you're like, ah, how do they? I don't know how they do. Do they think they have a written down? They stamp it so well. Yeah, you know, they had that one loaded.

They full sent it. And then the social media team's like, that's the clue. This is going to hit. And then they're looking right. the camera would they do? My audience is loyal. They got to wait for like minute two in the social clip to hear what I was actually going for. Oh, they go.

She's going to get to it. She'll get to it. Just give her some time. What we could do is you know how sometimes people put the punchline at the beginning and then it flows into the clip. Yeah. We should be taking notes over here. With all those like pastors we follow online, but do you think they get off and then they go to the camera guy and they're like, hey.

Hey, when I said this. Hey, minute 42. I don't know. Would they do that or no? I mean. Or the guy, like, who's going to decide what clips of this? Him or you? Oh, well, they'll, they're going to clip, like, ten things. And they'll send it to our social media team, and they're going to look through it.

And nine out of ten times it's going to be something that someone else said, I don't know how I guess, because it came out so much better than how I said it. That's good. That's what the whole thing is. I know it is. And I always love to elevate others. So today, when I had a great saying that was, you know, 10 seconds long, I went, whoa, that's good. That's good.

But this is not about me. This podcast is not about me. Christian's on the pod now. Yeah, Christian's a co-host. This is a big day. I'm a co-host. He earned a co-host status because he was pretty much on every episode now. Okay, see, the biggest episode of my pod last year is when I got engaged.

And then, like, I just, we talked about this before because you asked for me and Lydia to come on the pod. I was like, I don't know if we're like Christian influence or a couple of people. status yet. I don't know how you get there. But you also said you don't know if you want to get there. No, I just like a content couple. I don't know if we're, I don't know if that's what we yeah. She also had to work today. But then

I go back and forth on whether I should have had, I never had her on the pot. But the engagement, but maybe after we get married. I searched your podcast today to find an episode with y'all. And I was like, oh, she hasn't been on. And then I was like, okay, so then what did I watch? episode, which was great. But I watched it because this podcast, like, we are suckers for our relationship story. And the last time you were on the podcast, you were sharing a lot of your

hard journey. And it's really cool to see how far God has brought you, how much work you've done to be where you're at. And then also that you're in this beautiful relationship. So, so cool. Like, that was only last year you were on here. And wasn't engaged? No, now you're engaged. You were dating. We FaceTimed her. Yeah, that's right. She's so great. I'm writing a book about, I'm just kidding, I'm not. Yeah, it is, it is like, I think what's unique about, is like I always, as a man, I think you always want to be, we talked about this a little bit a second ago about,

you want to be the guy that the woman follows, right? So there's this, and I have been in times where I haven't been being the leader. Or like, whether it's my personal life or whether it's like just, like, well, you want to be the guy that you're not, like, sometimes like you have difficult conversations with your family. You're like, hey, I'm in, if you want to be the leader, act like you're in charge of this or like, like, we had a, we're looking for a house to buy any of this real estate agent. Like we just wasn't kind of meeting our needs.

And we're like, she's found somebody. And you go, hey, she's like, call him. And you know, it's like a difficult thing to, you're like, hey, you're the leader here. And it's like a little bit financial, but like you need to call. Like if you want, I also want to be the guy that deserves to be followed.

Yeah. So that, that seems like too much advice. No, it's not too much. It's not too much. It's not too much. We're five minutes in. Break the ice.

I don't like to, yeah. No, here's the thing. You have the same thing. We've literally just had these conversations. But I just want to say to you, and that's what I was saying before when I was, the reason I gave that great advice, that whoa, that's good moment,

it's because I was saying to you, like, to be a Christian influencer couple that really is worth following, it's to just be authentic and to share those wrestles. I think it's a disservice to the world and to people who are following you to act like you have it all together.

People do not need perfect influencers. I need people who are honest and are like, hey, I'm struggling with this because, yes, like when you say that we're like, same, we've had those talks, we've had those wrestles. I mean, recently we were on the podcast and Christian shared about this argument we had

and everyone was, like, everyone was like, thank you for sharing. Oh, I got you, I got you. Not like, here's how to do it, but like here's what we're doing it. And we just fumble our way through it. Yeah, the hospital argument. Which argument? The hospital argument, which actually everyone was taking up for a Christian because they were like,

Christian struggling. I'll say actually as if that never happens. I know. Everyone was like, no. Because in the argument we had, he basically said to me like, tells me what you want bro and walked down on me. It was bad. in a really bad moment with like our daughter.

Ro is tough. Brutal. And then everyone's like sticking up for Christian. Like he has feelings too. I know he has feelings. No, the worst part was, I didn't share this on the thing, but we were at this hospital and I opened the door because I was so mad. And the nurse was standing out there and I was just looking around.

And she was like, where are you trying to go? And I was like, I just need to go on a walk. I'm mad. And then she was like, you can go this way. we were in this close quarter so it was like 50 feet 50 feet so I just took two laps and I was just like I'm still mad

and made another little loop so you just got to share where you're out but we're you wrestled with that we both talked about that a lot I think like for us one thing we talk about is like the man's role to lead but then sometimes as like women

you have a leader type person personality, whereas like, I'm sure Lydia does. Like, she's a news anchor. She's like, go for kind of personality. And I am too. And, like, for me, it's like, I'll just make the call. I'll just do the thing. Right.

But then it's like, okay, but I want to respect you. And I want you to lead this. And, like, sometimes we get it right. Sometimes we get it wrong. But we ultimately, like, have to come back to having these conversations of, like, I love how Bob Gough says it. Bob Gough will, like, randomly just, like, clap out of nowhere. And you're like, why did you just do that?

And he told me, he said, because sometimes I need to, like, sink up in my life. And he's like, I'm going, like, I'm saying something that's not going right. He's like, stop, like reset. And it's kind of like that with us. We're like, okay. And I said this to you recently. I'm like, I am trying to take the reins of this. And I'm trying to delete it.

And I'm doing all this. And I'm like, I'm syncing up because I'm exhausted. I don't want to carry this. And this is me saying, like, can you do this? And then Christian's like, yes. Like, I'm sorry. I haven't seen that yet. And, you know.

Yeah, I think it's just. constant dialogue. Because I think the pendulum can swing so far the other direction to where it's like that masculine machismo it's like I'm leading everything. And then it's like, you don't feel any autonomy to

take it to take action. There were some big words. I wasn't trying to. I wasn't trying to use it. I like sometimes I don't like to like I made a mistake on something right or I made a and I go

I'm nervous to like say something non-consequential, but I don't want this to be used against me. Like I, let's say, driving, you made the wrong turn. And you go, well, if I don't feel safe enough to be like, hey, I want to be the guy that navigates, but I also screwed that up. So if I, this is going to be used against me for the next 10 years, I'm not going to admit. it you know because we I think all of us see examples I go who do we know this is sad really you go who do we know that's like has a good one marriage and I count I like four or right it's like

a lot you're like well I don't really like we see examples of like when it does get switched where like the one where the guys just my therapist says like needless wantless like he's not going to say he's just going to, yep. Yeah. And then you're like, well, I don't want one like that. The man or the woman, I don't think. And then you go, well, and then something happens that kind of, and then you're scared of where your future could end up

or like, I don't want to be like that. Yeah, no, that's so real. I think, like, I'm so grateful that we have such legacy of, like, long-lasting good marriages in our food because I'm like, that's so rare. And that's why I, like, love having my parents on the podcast my grandparents on the podcast, just to show that because you really don't see that. A lot of people don't see that in their homes model.

A lot of people don't see that on the Internet model. And like, if you don't have that within your family, I encourage people, like, get planted in a church because there's hopefully more of that, you know, as people are trying to follow the Lord that hopefully it would be modeled on their marriage. That's not always the case. Hopefully it would be. But it's so true. No, that's so real.

Horrific advice on the Internet. Terrible. If you're just like scrolling. Terrible. I'm talking, we try never to like send like see memes. You know, like if you're scrolling TikTok, you'll be like, well, when he's acting this way, that means he or when she's or when what. And you go, you could find anything to justify your way of thinking. Yeah, it's so true.

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like download on our phone. We only have. I've never had TikTok probably. But we don't think about it that much. But I hear this being like a common thing of like just seeing other marriages on TikTok and how they operate and everything. And it's like you're not seeing other marriages.

You're seeing a clip in a moment and a thought process or whatever. But it really does interfere so much. I think you do have to have, like, wise counsel. And that is actually why this podcast is called, whoa, that's good. When we first started the podcast, we had a, whoa, that's bad segment. Really? Yeah, and we, like, read stuff we saw on the internet.

A perfect example. Because we're like, not every piece of advice should be taken. There's bad advice. Like, and you have to be able to discern when something's good and bad and go, that might work for you, but not for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put in my life or that is something I am not going to live by. So I think that's wise.

Or validate. Yeah. So take us back. How did you and Lydia meet? Okay. I made a video in 2020, maybe 21 about it was a prank video about, not a prank video, like a sketch video about newscaster has a meltdown. So I was like in the snow.

The video was like, why am I out here reporting on the snow? You can see it snowing. Like, why does the guy, I paid $80,000 for, it's my biggest viral video ever. It's like a, back when eight years ago, the news, you're like, is this real news? Now it's everything's AI. It's, there was like, I was like, this is ridiculous. I got to play, I've spent $80,000 on a meteorology degree to play I spy out here. And I got to, and I'm going to sit out here in the snow for five hours.

And at the 10 o'clock news, I'm going to tell you it's still snowing. And everybody was like, this meteorologist got fired. I can't believe he did this. And so Lydia, who worked on the news, not a meteorologist, but went out and reported on that. That video. No, on when it's snowing in her. She does it sincerely. So I was like making a joke about it.

And somebody sent me, look at this girl. Oh, no. Like doing what you're doing. You're kidding. But being serious about it. But being serious about it. You're kidding. I thought she was hot.

So I started following. her, which is the absurd. That is the funniest. That's how we met. How you met story of her. That's how we met. What? So then you DM her?

Yes. Yeah. She was like kind of, you could tell she was like kind of in like the like circles. Like she would go into like, you know, D now or like those like, oh, like her a passion. You were like, oh, this seems like somebody that's with, it's the same as me. And then we kind of started following her. And then we started talking. Oh, my gosh.

So what did you all? Yeah, I was going to ask you if you had done any, like, like, news, like skits. Tons. Tons. Every, the news, every time the cancel flights, the news, every time the gas prices go up, it's always. Does she give you some material? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Well, I started in the, I started before I was a comedian, I was in the news. Oh, no way. Like I, yeah, I wanted to be a sports broadcaster, but I was failed. It could have been great at that. Okay. So many people who are speakers wanted to be sports broadcasting. Oh, yeah, I've actually heard that a lot. And whenever I was like a sophomore and I was thinking about college, I was thinking about going.

I was thinking about college. No, I know, because I didn't end up going to college. But that's actually their route I was thinking of taking too. So it's interesting. I think like public speaking and this kind of thing and that is the route a lot of people take. But that is hilarious. So when did you all start dating? And let's see.

we did in three, four years in Valentine's Day. That's awesome. Yeah, so then I, okay, all she ever wanted to do, all, we've been dating for like three years. And we are like, obviously, we had a couple, a while that were long distance. So then it was like, all right, you're trying to do this. All she goes, I want to be surprised for my engagement.

Surprise. I want to be surprised. I want to be surprised. So I go, all right so I was like we like did this whole this entire like we ran it out the symphony and like had you gotta tell the story it's really sweet

well that's good listeners I do a short version this kind of thing they do oh my gosh so I love this yes okay so we're I was like all right so my the first time I go I want to go look at like a

a ring which was like scary because you're like, I feel like every stage you're like, we started casually dating and I was like, I want to officially date. So once you start officially dating, you're like, well, we have to end this. If it, there's every step of no return, I feel like,

not of no return, but like it gets more stakes. Yeah. More stakes. So you go, we're dating and I go, I think I want to go like look at a race. So our friend Ashley who like, she's like, I'll go with you. So we like,

I'm sitting in the I go if I go in here you know what I'm saying you probably had the same feeling like if I go in here and then when I bought it you're like

we were kind of just doing this little dance of like I don't know what it is but she was trying to give me hints about with the ring and all this stuff so we do it in downtown I didn't want to go on the road I didn't want to go like

and I have a lot of memories at the symphony so I called up because I've done shows there I called up the symphony I was like hey can I like ran out the symphony, like on an off night. Yeah.

They go, yeah, yeah, we can do it? And I go, well, can I get the symphony, like still on this? Can I get this? They were like, how many? I go, I don't know. How many, how many symphony? Or how many people? It's like, a hundred.

So I was like, we'll get a sharpened up little. And then I, and I, so I'm trying to, oh, she wants to do is to be surprised. So I go, how am I going to get her to the symphony? So I came up with this idea that I was receiving an award. like a Nashville's comedian of the joke was a Nashville's comedian of the quarter

yeah because if it was comedian of the year they'd be like why isn't it Nate Bargazzi she would be like that's it she wouldn't why you laugh at it that's so funny

I was like comedian of the year and she's like you're the comedian of the year she would believe it is hilarious it's like Nashville's comedy impact

of the quarter or something like that that is so and she believed it I go we got it it's the first because here's what I was going to do

she's on the news I go, I'm going to fake like a murder. And then like, no, hold on, Sadie, say, hey, wait, wait, wait, wait. Not, not, not me, but like, no. We lost the plot. Symphony Orchestra. Let's fake.

No, okay, so her like GM at the station. Yeah, I forgot. She's about to get off work. This makes sense now, yeah. Hey, you got to go out to whatever address. There's been a murder. Oh my gosh. This is so great.

And I was like, well, that's like probably going to work because she would like look up the police scanner or like, that would be, you wouldn't go in blind to that. They could have done it, but I was like, I should do it while she's doing the news, which I'm not, that just seemed very insincere to me to like do it live. Yeah, yeah. It's like, he's proposing while you're doing the pod. Yeah.

All right. So I was like, all right. And she would obviously not be dressed if she's going out to cover the murder. So. And like, to cover a murder. It's like, it's insane. It's double homicide. Because it's like.

Also, like the emotion that carries to cover a murder and then like, I'm engaged. You're the body bag. I go, yeah, it's great idea. Where were you, dude? I don't know. So I go, all right, this is like it to work. It's like the, it's like the body bag. I'm in the body.

Oh, gosh. Okay, so I go, so I go, hey, a couple of her friends, like, Nate Bargazzi's wife. And, like, I go, hey, text Lydia to be like. like, what are you wearing to the awards? So everybody's like, we're all going. That's natural, yeah. Three of my friends that were in comedy

or like comedy wives or managers were like, what are you wearing, what are you wearing? And then I called one of my buddies, I go, hey, dude, I'm going to be at Lydia's house in 10 minutes. This is like two weeks before. I go, I'm going to act like I'm going over my speech. So just help me.

This is so great. It's like, help me with my speech. So she's sitting there, like I'm telling you. And then we had my publicist to be like, here's the run of the show. Like, we do a lot of appearances together. Send all the, send the email. Here's when you need to show up.

Here's the schedule. Here's what table you're at. Like, all this. I'm telling you, if we were driving there and somebody was like, John's proposed, she wouldn't even, she's like, there's like, there's like, there's. She's like, there's no way. Wow. It was so many. It was so many layers.

If somebody was like, hey, this is all made up, John's proposing tonight, she would not even would have believed it. That's incredible. So many people were involved. at that point. So many people were involved. And so then we were trying to get her in this outfit because you're like, how am I supposed to be a surprise? But then you also like have your nails done. And I like always think outside the box. I ask people in my team, I go, hire the girl from the nail salon to come. And then she can just do her. They were like, that's not how. I don't know how nails work, but they got not like that. So we had some. That's really sweet that you thought of that. I go, where she get her nails done?

hire that person for like four hours, bring the colors. And then... Bring the colors. They're like, that's insane. And then I go, well, have some press-ons. I could think somebody was like, you should have some press-on nails there. I go, good idea. She didn't have her nails done.

But if I go, if there's anything, get your nails done related, it's over. Oh, yeah, it's true. Right? That's actually true. Yeah. Over. Yeah. Okay, so we get into my tour manager was there.

He was like waiting at the dock, at the loading dock. And he's like, you're on stage right here, and you're about to be on stage there. So we walk all the way in and I go like, okay, you, at somebody goes, you have to take her purse. Or you got to get her purse away from her or something like that before you walk in because the photos, you don't want to have a purse. Which I was like. This is so thought out. My heart is beating fast telling it. Because I just going back to like, I was out of my mind.

and like there was like people that were like invited but you're like several of her friends and this is the generational thing I'm a little bit older than her but like have her locations oh yeah and we I flew them in

oh yep and I was like if she checks your location and you're in Nashville it's over you can't stop your location and then people know because it tells you like I mean it was like so that's a bad feature that is a hard feature to work with

and I was like so you're like random friend from college knows where you're at all the time. She goes, yeah, I go, we just, me and her just started sharing locations since we got engaged. I go, I don't, we don't, I don't do that. So we got all of it figured out, flew everybody in. And then we opened it.

So we're walking down the back hall. And she goes, she was thinking like, I don't hear anybody. Like in the. Did she say that? there's nobody there's nobody there there's nobody in there she thinks it's an award show

yeah it would be packed there would be thousands of people in there so it's the symphony they have weddings there so they cleared out all the chairs so there's no it's just the whole like wooden floor

and we had like the you open the door and it she was like out of her and I just started bawling because it was so much of a release like I did it yeah I like did it

so cool And we were just like, it was unbelievable. The symphony was playing, goodness of God. Oh my gosh. I know. It's so powerful. It makes me emotional.

That's so powerful. Goodness of God. And then Ben Rector, steady love, which is one of our favorite songs. And then the theme song for How to Train Your Dragon, which is like our favorite movie. I go, hold on, wait, one more song, one more song.

And then she goes, this is how to train your dragon? I was like, it was unbelievable. And then we went down to re, we rented out the pontoon saloon. which is like, because I wanted to do like very like private. I wanted to, I want to propose alone. So just me and her. And then all the family, we can go.

And we, it's like a kind of a, not trashy, but like we, it's a pontoon boat. And it was kind of like, this is what? Yeah, it was a party. But it was also very, very like, I knew the photos that we're going to do. There's something so fun about making your home film more alive. So whether you're adding something beautiful inside, planting something outside, or just creating a space where your family actually wants to spend time. One of my favorite things about fast green trees is how it turns planting something simple into a family experience. We actually planted an apple tree from last summer

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apprehension about her. I was like maybe she's not the right one. You know, you have all this like the, I was scared. It's like I was scared to go on the Tonight Show, but I was like, nobody needs to be on the, it's not a good comparison, my wedding to the Tonight Show, but you're like, you weren't, you were scared. You know, like, hey, God's maybe not,

no, you're scared. It's terrifying. It's terrifying. It's terrifying. To start like to start the I told her I go every part of it for me, whether I'm very independent,

I go every part was scary. And my dad called me early on. He goes, because he loves her and my family loves her. And he goes, every part of this is going to be scary. Because it was for me too. We're asking her to be a girlfriend,

scary. Then she's like, my contract's up with the news. Should I move to Nashville? and I wanted to, but I was like, well, that's another level of like, introducing her to your family. It's all scary, but it wasn't, I misinterpreted that as like. Yeah, that's so good. Does that make sense?

Oh, it makes so much sense. Yeah, it's like, what's peace, what's fear? Like, you shouldn't. Yeah, what's fear of like apprehension versus fear of like, this is a bad choice and you're sitting there trying to like, yeah it's the biggest also decision of your life it's the biggest decision of your life it makes so much sense first of all I wish we had a live audience for like best proposal ever

yeah all my buddies are like thanks what am I supposed to do but like that was so intentional so kind like so great and then the emotion you can tell like you really put your heart in like your heart and soul into it and there's so many things about her that she was like going to smile and feel it well loved and when you think about like how like Christ loves the church and the bride of Christ and all that. I just feel like you see so much of that throughout engagement and wedding and ceremony and like it's so beautiful. So I love it.

I like to do. Yeah. Sorry. Go ahead. No, no, no, I just love it. And I want to say like, back to, we talked about this actually not on this podcast. So I hate to back to our listeners like what? We talked beforehand about Sean Andrew's book, The Courage to Commit. And it's like, it takes courage to commit because it's scary because commitment is scary. Because there's so much unknown. You're human and you're going to make mistakes and it's not always going to be perfect and ideal. And your heart's involved and you're all in it. It takes courage. But if you think about every time God was calling people into things and he said, do not be afraid. And he said, do not be afraid, not because he was like, you shouldn't be afraid. He said

he don't be afraid because whatever he's about to say go do is going to be scary. And you're going to have to step in knowing that like, even though I feel afraid, I don't have to be afraid because God is with me in it. And it's like to commit to something like marriage, such a God, you know, God's design. That's the will of God. And so, yeah, it's scary. But like, there's courage to commit knowing this is the person for me. We have done all the things to get to this point.

Is it still scary? Yes. That doesn't mean it's wrong. And I do think that people think, if I feel fear, fear is a bad feeling. so I don't want to be afraid. So I'm not going to get married, or I'm not going to do the tonight show, or I'm not going to go do the thing

that kind of makes me scared. But that's where faith comes in. If you never do anything that scares you, then you never have a reason for faith. And I think that's why it's like, it's a leaning on, not on your own understanding, but leaning on God and his vision and like your future.

So I totally get interesting. Like if we are in a, we've had disagreements, obviously, are gone in different, I go, I've never wanted to stop doing it. Like I never was like maybe, like, I was never like, we should not do it anymore. There's like tremendous difficulties or things to kind of navigate through. Like you're your person, I'm my person.

I've never done this before, but I never wanted to, like I've thought about, it's crazy. You know what that is? What? That is crazy. It's three o'clock news. Aw. That was not planned. That's crazy.

She does this three o'clock news and I got to watch it. But I can't watch it today. I'm on the people on this. Hey, we can pause. Is that right? We watch the news. Yeah, you go, I've like in stand-up, you go, I never wanted to, or like in my family, you go, yeah, we have difficult.

I never wanted to not be in this family. I wanted to figure out how to be in this family better. I never, maybe I wanted to take some time, but I never wanted to. I'm done with y'all. Yeah. Like they say, they've said in like, in like, when we were in,

when I was in rehab in 2019, they would have like, family week. And usually the husband or the wife or the kid or the family would come after he's been in rehab for like a month or something to kind of figure out how they're going to move forward. And, you know, whatever the wife's going to be upset or,

and they always were like, if the woman is furious, that's better than her being like, hey. If you're showing up with emotion, you want, you're trying to, versus like, hey, do whatever you want. Yeah. If you're, if you're like in a like emotional, like, it's a sign that that person is either trying to be heard or trying to get some reconciliation because you, they want to still do it. Yeah. versus, hey, I read this book about how I can, hey, good for you. Yeah. I'm talking about somebody that's like divorcing.

If somebody's still showing up that it's like, I'm so angry. Yeah. I never heard that before. They're like, it's a great sign. That's cool. It's a great sign. That's really cool. Somebody's showing up.

It's because some guys, they were trying to repair their marriage or their, and the wife's like, I'm not. You've been hurt too much. I'm not going to fall for this again. So it's like the hard is okay as long as you're willing to stay in it. The scariest place to be is like, hey, when you don't care. Do whatever you want. Yeah. Ooh, that's really insightful.

That's not for me. It's empathy, yeah. Yeah, that's so good. My mom always says, like, never get to the place that, what did she say that one time about being hopeless? And the therapist was like, that's the scariest thing you can say. Like, don't get to the point where you think, like, something is hopeless. Like, you always have to, like, hold out hope for something so that you're willing to, like, keep believing it, keep showing up for it.

I was thinking what Matt Chandler said, too. He said, you're going to argue with one person for the rest of your life. Choose who. Yeah, yeah. You're going to argue with the rest of your life. Just choose who you want to argue with. Who's choosing you want to argue with? I know.

That's a wild way to say that. That was really good. Well, that helps. It's true. He's like, you're going to argue with somebody. It's like, do you want it to be this person or do you want to, you know. They just kind of have rule or like you can't, you can't say, you can't argue with somebody how they felt.

Mm-hmm. So you're like, oh, I showed up. this time or I'll shut up at that time or if you say hey when you said that in front of everyone all of our friends about me that made me feel sad or this it felt like that made me you can't argue what yeah you can say I didn't mean it I didn't argue about the scenario but you can't say you didn't have that feeling yeah and then we don't have any obviously no like personal attacks yeah where you're gonna have to you resolve it and you go but you still said, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was just thinking about your Tonight Show bit with you talking about her saying some, one of your friends did a 360. And you were like, oh, I can't wait to get in the car because I am bringing this one up. Oh yeah, oh yeah, you're going to bring it up. Kind of like the joy of

arguing sometimes. Did she actually say the caterpillar coming in, what was it out of the cocoon? Oh, yeah, at 360? I don't tell that joke anymore. You said, it's like a butterfly coming out of a No, that part's exaggerated. That was hilarious. She got a complete 360.

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podcast but people look at people like you who have done so many things and you know your career is taken off so far. You don't think you'd be scared to do it and you're like of course I'm scared to do it. What was that like being asked to do it and going on? Well they go you know that's like every comic's dream and we like a musician goes on the Tonight Show is not as big as one. A comedian, especially making his debut on the night show, Tonight Show is like the, that's like the Super Bowl.

Wow, that's cool. And you get like four and a half minutes, maybe like mine was like to the second, like four, 31 or something like that. We knew because they go week, week. And when you do, if I did five minutes at the show, you just go out and kind of, oh, what's up everybody? And they just, they go, you got to walk out. They hand you the microphone.

I mean, this is after months of sending clips, send it back, send it, they go, you can't say that. How do you prepare? Like, how do you? At the local comedy club, and you film it and you send it to them. Wow. Not Jimmy himself, but the staff. Yeah. And you go, hey, what do you guys think about this?

And they go, we like it. Just change that one joke about, if you, like, I think I mentioned DoorDash and DoorDash sponsors. NBC, like, we can't. We can't use that. Wow. So you switch it and then I had one joke, and they go, we can't, politically. there we go that's not we can't use that months and months of like trying to and they finally go

I was sitting in my the island at my kitchen and email popped up from my manager and I said you got to confirm it June 21st How many times do you practice it after? Oh after? Well after it starts a new a new round of like deciding about the timing of it how you intro and every night I go on stage you got to practice

to sit and send it. Wow. I mean, sending it back, and then you've got to go to New York City and do it four times. No, four times at the local comedy club with their team. In New York?

Yes, which was like, what's wild about it? It's like, I go, they go, you can't warm up the crowd, but you just got to go up. Ladies and gentlemen next, John, Chris, start. No, like, what's up?

I'm from out. You know how I would warm up the crowd and make it go, he's like, just go. So I go, the first line is, I got invited to my, girlfriend's family group chat. And four times in a row at the comedy cellar,

it bombed. Because it's like a local comic being like, you were the three train to go out to, and it was killing. And I was like, and the guy that was in, he's like, this is perfect.

I go, are you sure? Because it wasn't working in front of the crowd. But he's like, it's going to be on TV, it's going to be perfect. And I go, okay.

Do they have a, like a crowd pump rapper in the audience? So it's like, like, gets the crowd good. Okay, that's a disrespectful thing to ask because you think it's not going well? No, no, no. No. I'm joking. I'm joking.

I'm joking. Dancing with the stars. Like, there is a guy who's hired. And he is awesome. And he's like, everybody, we're going to go crazy whenever they come out, you know. And then he like stands up and he's like, boop, bo, bo, bo, and then everybody collapsed. I just didn't know if the tonight show is like that. In the commercial break.

If he was like, hey, it's going to work and we're going to have your back. Like, we're going to make sure. Well, Jimmy Fallon was like, did the, so I know I'm close with Nate Bargazzi, and he knows Nate well. And he goes, the commercial happens, right? I'm standing backstage holding the mic, and he comes out, he comes away from the desk, comes out to the crowd, he goes, hey, we got a guy coming out. This is his first time, which is like, I've been doing comedy for forever. Yeah. It's the first time at tonight show, and he goes, and his friends are here.

And I brought Lydia and my director of operations and my tour manager. He goes, so make him feel cool. in front of his friends. Which is like, that's awesome. That's awesome. The nicest thing that anyone could ever, he's like,

dude, make him look like the man. Which maybe it's like a schick or he does that, but it was no reason to do that. Everything I've ever listened to from him is like the biggest cheerleader of people. Yeah.

Elevator of people. So that is so cool. And he's hilarious. And I go, so I go, I'm like, like kind of like I feel just so like, just like the engagement.

You're just overwhelmed with, but I had done it. Like, I practiced everything about the engagement. Practiced everything a thousand times. Holding the microphone, and they come back from commercial break. And then he goes, you're next, this is, we have a comic coming up. I'm sitting there holding the microphone and I go, does anybody ever? And I realize the two people that had gone in front of me were going to sit on the couch. And Jimmy's so engaging.

You could be, say nothing on the couch. and Jimmy could carry it. Going out there with a mic. By yourself. And you're not going to the couch. You're going to that little shamrock. Like you stand, he goes, he goes, you're going to walk out. You're going to turn to the left and wave to the roots.

You're going to take two more steps. Look to the right. Acknowledge Jimmy. Walk up three more steps in that little shamrock. Just stand on that. And then you're going to deliver your first joke to this camera and then this camera. Wow. camera and you're like

I mean I just done it so many times that I go I was still terrified but I get the first whom laughter and I go I'm in it I'm in it and I did one piece of what they call like crowdwork crowdwork is like acknowledged something I go I forgot what the joke was I go oh my

the 360 I go my fiance's friend got a DUI this lady goes ooh oh yeah that was funny I go that wasn't the joke I go, okay, that threw me off a little bit. I never... That was funny. And they were like, no one's ever done that.

That threw me off. No one's ever acknowledged the crowd on their first Tonight Show set. That's awesome. And it was... Which is like the best part of your shows when you like start talking to the guy in the front and like the thing.

Well, everybody goes, it seemed like that was you. You still were you on the tonight, which is, that's awesome. That's so cool. I love it. My dad's hit. My dad's a preacher. He goes, so I go, that 360 joke, I go, we were at dinner, and then we were fighting on the way home or whatever.

And he goes, so I dropped my girlfriend back off at our apartment. And I did the 360 thing. And then he calls me after he goes, dude, you know what? Made me the most proud of that whole thing. He goes, you said, you told the whole world that you don't live with your girlfriend. And I didn't even like, I didn't even think that that was like, that wasn't the point of it, obviously. I was that's, we don't live together. Yeah.

So we go. That's cool. Oh, in a way that somebody's like, well, that guy. And then I go back to my house. I thought of it when you said that. Yeah, I didn't even think. That's just, it would be part of my show. Yeah.

That's awesome. And he guys, I was very proud of that, which I thought that was cool. That is so cool. That's awesome. It is so cool. And I'm sure, like, from a dad and just your family and Lydia and everybody, like, seeing you be who you are in that moment. Because, like, we've talked about today, it's so easy.

whenever you get to that point to, like, cater to what you think will work or what people will like. But, like, to stay authentic yourself is so important in those moments. She has to, she has to make sure that she goes, I don't use a voice for me that I'm not, I don't talk like that. My fiance is like, when are we going to be home? Or like, you know what I'm saying? Do you're like, you're like, I try to run the jokes by her. They'll be like, because sometimes a comic you like listen to him. You're like, oh, I think he hates his wife.

You know what I'm saying? if it's like, or like, I think he, if you make a one joke about a race or about a political, so you're like, oh, I think. Yeah. It's like a little too like bite, you know what I'm saying? You're like, you're trying to make a story about him. You're going to make sure it's like honoring to be, or if it is on the line of maybe ask her about. Yeah.

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I have one that might top it. And this just happened last week. This is better? It's better. I don't know if it's better. But it's very interesting. Mine was just, I was in, like, okay, if it's around the south, people say hi all the time in the airport or we're in El Paso, Texas. I don't know where we were.

Way out there. I order DoorDash. I go down to the lobby to get it from the girl. Because if they don't bring it to the room, you got to mean the lobby. And she goes, she hands it to me. She goes, can I get a photo? And I put my arm around her. So brutal.

Because it's just like Latino girl. And she goes, what? And I go, what? And she goes, I meant of the food. That's so bad. But I try to explain everybody. I go, I already said yes to this six times today. Yeah.

Like I've already done, can I get, I've already, why would I think? And then somebody said, at least it wasn't the opposite. No, I don't do photos. Or like it wasn't, like, you know, at least that was nice. Nice. Yeah, like, oh well, she's like, silver lining. Hold on. She goes, what?

You said, sorry, I'm famous. Tough. I go, oh, what? She goes, what? I go, she goes, of the food. I got to get it of the food. I go. And on your real, you include the picture of your caves.

I bet. Yeah, really got it. Oh, it's so funny. I was holding. I had an arm around her and I held the. That is so funny. So, yeah, we were in Nashville. It was actually for the K-Love Awards.

and, yeah. So we've been there for like four days and all of our kids were sick. So Sadie had dooredashed numerous things throughout the weekend, like nebulizer. At Opryland? No, we were at... That's tough to doordair.

No, we're at the W. Yeah. And we... You asked where we were. You asked where we were. We were at the W. And we were door dashing, which, like, door dashing is a funny thing to me

because, like, we don't live in a place where we door dutching. stuff. And so whenever, like, where we live. There are places in Monroe you can't, but we live outside of the limits. And so when I'm in Nashville, I'm like, oh, I can dooredash anything I want. So I love it. Oh, yeah. So I'm like, ooh, I need a no sucker. What's it? You got to go to go. You got to do the valet. You got to get no suction for the kids. So I was doordashing everything I needed for their sickness. That's not how, that's newbie doordash. She was doordashing all this medicine and stuff. So the last day were there, she door dashed something

that morning and we were gone the whole day. You know you still have to pay for it, right? Oh, yeah, but it's like, they bring us everything. I know. It's a good thing I don't live where we can dooredash everything. So she doordashed something that morning. We're gone all day and we get back at like 9 o'clock that night. We get up to the room and say, oh man, I forgot to get our door dash from downstairs. I'll run down and get it real quick. Nice.

So I go down to get it and the whole time I'm in the elevator, I'm like, what did she order? I cannot remember what she ordered. So I get down, I go to the desk. And I'm like, hey, man, I got something delivered earlier. And honestly, I cannot remember what it is. And he was like, you know, I was like, I really don't. He said, would it be maybe from Walgreens? And I was like, yeah, that sounds about right.

Because everything else had been from CVS. And so he goes back behind. He brings me the Walgreens package. And my man, thank you so much. I'm about to have a good night. And I start walking to the elevator. And I'm like, what did Sadie Ordergan? I forget.

And I look down and it's an at-home, cocaine drug test. You're lying. And I'm like, so I do a 36, I do a 180. And I'm like, this is not mine.

That was a thing. No, and then he said, oh, are you the baby formula? I was like, yes. Yes, yeah, dude. So there's two options. So that one day, he's like, I don't know what I ordered.

It's either cocaine. This is the drug test. It's either cocaine or baby formula. That's a bad look. I guess they just assumed that was the cocaine test. 50. Is that brutal?

That's a tough look. Yeah. But then they're so funny. Yeah, but then it was a baby formula. That's the baby formula. But I was, it was, yeah, it was hilarious. What is it at home cocaine test? I know, trust.

We've had many comments about this. I didn't even know that was a thing. And also that's when you might just want to go pick up yourself. Yeah, go get that. It's in a dash. This door dhers is like, check it out at CVS. Like, you promise I'm picking up for someone else. Like, that's crazy.

Yeah, I would go say when you go, I used to have a joke about. going in the CVS and you get the at-home cocaine test or like a pregnancy test. And then you also get like a Coke and like the chips. They go, they know what you came. Don't try to get other stuff. It's like diarrhea medicine. You're like, yeah, but I also need to get like a bag of chips. And they're like doing a magazine and a Red Bull.

We know why you came in here. I'm sure they have all kinds of stories. No, my brother was like, this is a good one from here and I've had to pick up something embarrassing, you want to be like, I'm door dashing. They also have paternity tests. You can buy a paternity test from Morgan's. Yeah, okay. Yeah, you can? I don't know that, yes. You can.

We've learned a lot since this recent experience. No, they know everything. I know. Okay. You can't say you're door dashing. That's not how it works, is it? Me? No, anybody. No, I mean, that's what my brother was saying. He's like, okay, next time I have to pick up something embarrassing. I'll just be like, sorry, I'm door dashing for someone.

But what do you have to do the disclaimer, so you must know. Exactly. So you must know. Why? They don't, they probably, they probably looked the devil in the eye at CV. They know, they probably don't care. Oh my gosh. I'm saying they've seen some things is what I'm trying to say. That's so funny.

Oh my gosh. It's not for me. Okay. Okay, yeah, heard that one. Okay, I'm sure. So, you're on tour right now, right? Yeah. What's your?

One more week. One more week? Oh, so whenever people are listening, we missed it. What's been? Well, I go back out in the fourth. Okay, good. Tell us about what's coming up next. Man, we, okay, so, well, I have a, well, I can't say, we haven't, we haven't, can't announce it yet. You're writing a book?

No, no, no, yeah, yeah. I've written one book. Okay. The second book. Will you be married before your fall tour? Can you say? Can you say that? Yep.

Okay. Part of it. I mean, there's like a, there's like an eight-week gap in the tour, which I'm sure people are like, okay, that's, why is he not? from September to November, why is they not touring? I get married. Yeah, how to get married? Well, I always, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I got to go to,

it's like a lot of the bits start to become, because you just write what you know about. A comedian is right what I always know about. So like when I was, every time I come through, like, I don't come here on tour, but let's say every time I come to Alabama, Birmingham, it's going to be,

I don't come back to a city until it's new. The whole show's got to be turned over. Yeah. So, like, if you go to all. all three shows this weekend. It's probably going to be pretty close to similar. But I'll throw in some new things. But next year.

I started making jokes about like whatever that was in like 2018 or whatever that when we became friends was like youth group. That's kind of how it started, right? And then it was like college ministry. And then it was like, you could see it grow. And then you're like, are you starting to like pay a lot in taxes? And you're like, oh, I kind of care about. Yeah. what's going on in the world a little bit.

I want to raise a family in this world, then you kind of have more concerns than you did when you were a kid. And now you're like, your brothers and sisters start having children. And you kind of talk about that, a family group text. And then now your parents are kind of getting older

and you talk about that. And then the next time I come to town I'll be married. So it's like, we've seen kind of, but they've seen you through all these different, they want to see how you go into the next one. day of life. That's cool. That's exciting. The 97% heterosexuality maybe laughs over. Wild.

Why do you look over there? I don't support that. Yeah. What is? It is you have to you go, all right, this is. I've never heard that be a follow-up question. Also, yeah, who's asking that? Is that a real therapy question? Like what percentage? What do you guys with? FBI? Are these jokes real?

The, no, when I was in rehab, they asked me that for real. It's a little bit more, uh, it's a little bit more, um, people are on the, people look the devil in the eye over there. Yeah, yeah. It's a little bit more playing for keeps. It's not a Christian. I get it. They're like, hey, so they go, I'm not going to do the bit, but they go, are you attracted to men or women? And I go, women.

And then they go, so you're heterosexual. I go, yes, it was on a chart. And she goes, what percent? That's the joke. and I go, I don't know, like 97. Sorry, Sadia. And it was just a funny idea because I was like, I don't know,

I didn't think, I thought it was an all or nothing. I just love that you shared that on stage. That was so funny. Well, I can't wait to hear your marriage bits. I can't wait. Well, you have to run, well, just know that Lydia has approved. Oh, yeah. Lydia approved marriage bits.

I'm excited for you all to get married. Thanks for sharing your story. It's super cool to hear where you're at. All the things going on. She loves you. She's been a fan of you every time she wears your, your merch all the time. That's so sweet.

I should get credit for her because I gave it to her from, you gave it to me to give to her. We'll send her more. She's like, Leveraginal. I go, yes. We'll have to have you back on because you have the most epic engagement story.

I'm sure you're going to have the most epic. And when you're ready to full send on your couples, influencer status, and bring her on the podcast. Give me some of a couple influencer advice. because Lydia Yeah Well she you go

Or somebody on your team's like Do you want to bring Lydia And I go I go hey She's never even been on my podcast You're not the only one We ask a lot of people Like do you want to bring your girlfriend

Or like? Girlfriend is allowed? No You have to be Yeah Oh so you You knew that she Well you should just have her on by herself

No we do You can tell the truth about me She goes I want to correct I want to correct I want to correct the story. It's so funny. I never said the cocoon.

I didn't say that. And I don't sound like that. Yeah, I said there's a joke now where she goes, we're disagreeing about something. And she goes, I don't know, I'm just playing devil's adversary. And I go, what? He's like devil's adversary. I go, I don't think that's how you play.

Or like, did you mean devil's advocate? But everybody, all couple. are like we do or like she's like I got to keep all my I'm just trying to keep all my eggs in one nest I go what you know what eggs in one basket you're like that's a duck in a row yeah our ducks in a row what do you're trying to say my sister she always messes up the the sayings but she also is from Taiwan her first language is you know not English so yeah what's the thing she said that so like instead of saying like a little birdie told me she said one down I got birds.

So then she wanted to start this this t-shirt line called Lit, Lost in Translation. And she, because she does it all the time. I got birds. It's just one of her. I got birds is fantastic. I know.

Well, thanks for coming on the podcast again. It was a joy. It's a pleasure to always come down to Westmore. I feel like I've been here a lot of times. You really have. You really have. I know.

I love it when you come to me. And you're out to hop on over to another podcast.