Name: Mayim Bialik | You Made It Weird!
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Mayim Bialik | You Made It Weird!' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-11-05. Transcript available.

Mayim Bialik | You Made It Weird!

You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made it weird. You made it weird with Pete
Holmes.
Yes, you did. You made it weird. What's happening, weirdos? Mayim Bialik is
here. I am thrilled.
I just did her podcast, which is called Mayim Bialik's Breakdown. I had a
wonderful time,
and I'm so glad that she decided and agreed to come on to this podcast. And I'm
so glad you
guys are here. You know Mayim from Call Me Cat, maybe from Blossom, if you're
like me,
maybe from Big Bang Theory, if you're like my parents, or Jeopardy. I mean, she's
everywhere.
She's amazing. She's brilliant. And I'm so glad y'all are here to hear our
conversation.
Only a couple of things to plug up top, just my tour dates. They're all at PeteHolmes.com,
Raleigh, North Carolina, Indianapolis, Seattle, Portland, and Phoenix, Arizona.
Go to PeteHolmes.com
for all of those. And in the meantime, enjoy this chat with my new friend, Mayim,
and check
out Mayim Bialik's Breakdown another time. You're listening to another podcast.
In the meantime,
enjoy this one. Get into it.
Can we talk about this? Can this be where we start? Because, okay, so-
Do I hold this?
Yeah, my-
Did we just start?
Yes.
Oh.
But you can take all of this out. It's always your episode, and you're always
safe.
You can.
Well, I would, on your behalf.
Thank you.
Yeah, of course.
But I don't know that we need that.
What do you mean? Yeah, we can leave it.
This is your podcast. You decide what you edit out.
Yeah, but it's your episode. You don't ever tell your guests that? Sometimes
the only way
to get someone comfortable-
This is why I'm doing it all wrong?
No, no. But we always say, like, sometimes in the pitch, not with you, but I'll
say,
it's not a gotcha show.
Right.
Like, if you accidentally-
And we've had it. We've had people accidentally say something, and they're just
like, duh.
We've had a couple-
Take that out.
We've had a couple cases. I won't name. But we've had a couple cases that have
been impacted
by news things-
After the fact?
That required them to say, please remove that.
I've had that with jokes. I've had people die, and I've said somebody's-
Yeah, it's a bummer. It's a bummer. Have you ever not released an episode? This
is podcaster
to podcaster.
One.
We're up to four, I think.
Two.
Yeah, we got a couple. It's pretty juicy. Five? Katie just said five. I want to
sell them
as NFTs.
Welcome to episode six, that you will be not airing. Let's do this whole
interview knowing
I'm going to cut everything.
What I always want to do, and I know when I did your podcast, and I really
loved it, and
I loved meeting you-
We had a great time with you.
I really- Well, we talked a little bit about it. It felt like a fast friends.
No pressure.
You'll never see me again. Don't worry.
I said sibling that I never knew I needed.
There you go. But it felt like that.
Something weird happened.
One of the ways I felt instantly ingratiated towards you was that you said-
Your first thing
you said was you're an Enneagram four, and you're an Enneagram four. And my
mind was really blown,
because I know people throw that expression around, but I really mean it. I was
like, "Ah, it'll be." We talk about this. You went right-
Deep.
Not just my personality type. Look at, there's the Enneagram book right there.
Yes, it is.
There's like- It's like knowing what I am, but also knowing that that's a
language that I speak was a very nice way for you to start.
And you're an Enneagram four. I'm trying to return the compliments.
I am. Thank you.
Or the welcome-
I feel seen in my specialness and my uniqueness, which is important for fours.
Well, your frames are an Enneagram four's frames.
Thank you.
That's one of the ways- The Enneagram four for everybody is the individualist.
Now, I'm guessing you're not an Enneagram four, even though you have peach-colored
hair. See, I wouldn't think you were an Enneagram four.
She's not a four.
Right. What are you?
I'm six.
Yeah, six. All right.
She did this on our podcast.
Yeah, I always diss the six.
And I'm quick to call anyone I don't like an eight, which is just troublesome.
Trump.
Yeah, Trump's an eight. Trump's an eight.
Trump's an eight.
And I'm pretty sure every dad is an eight. I'm not positive.
No, that's not true.
But I think all dads just atrophy into eights as they get older.
No, that's not true.
No, I don't think so either.
But you're an individualist.
That's why I say your glasses frames are like a way of saying, "Hey, here I
come."
But also constantly wondering if they're the right frames because-
Yeah, changing them.
Not quite fine.
Exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Also part of my fourness.
Valerie, who's sitting on that couch, does our-
Not my Valerie.
Not your Valerie.
Not that I own a person.
Valerie does-
But there was a dowry.
Valerie does extensive research for guests.
Oh, you did that.
Well done.
And so she does lots of research and she pulls out things that in particular
will resonate.
She probably put that there just so I would feel less alone.
Oh, yeah.
Meaning it's a comforting thing.
She knows me well enough to know I'd want to know that.
Yes.
So I'm just happy to open that up for you to share about because I think you
are very eloquent
about your stuff.
Preach.
In ways that sometimes fours can struggle.
Fours aren't great.
No.
I love being a four, but when I talk to a four, I tend to be like eyeing the
exits.
Yeah.
You got to get out of there.
In that book, Richard Rohr's book about the Enneagram, you'd call that an
unhealthy four,
which is so condescending, I know.
But I did a lot of work to try to, like, I'm out here.
Well, fours-
Try them.
And just to review, you know, fours, when you look at, like, who are the
celebrities
who have been fours?
Yeah.
Most committed suicide.
They're all dead.
Yeah.
Like, true story is that it's a very, I mean, I don't like the term melodramatic.
Yeah.
Deeply feeling.
Deep feeling.
Highly sensitive.
Yeah.
And feelings are very meaningful.
And other people not understanding those feelings is catastrophic.
Is a declaration of war.
My wife is a nine.
Okay.
So she's the peacekeeper.
And I love it.
I think four is nines.
I think we do well with nines.
I think if you don't love a nine, you're insane.
It's someone who wants to get a pedicure.
Someone who would love to turn our phones off and watch Love Actually.
You know what I mean?
Like, and that's, but it's not just laziness.
It's a, it's a passion for comfort.
Yeah.
It's like a hobbit.
It's an intentional laziness.
It's an intent.
That's right.
It's a mindful laziness.
That's like, let's build the Shire.
Big round doors.
And I come in and I am Gandalf.
I'm hitting my head.
I don't exactly vibe with it.
And if I do it for too many days, I'll get really itchy and uncomfortable.
Like I need, I start to vanish is what it is.
Val doesn't vanish in comfort.
I think she'd be pretty just fine if we lived in Maui.
Anywhere.
Yeah.
Pretty much anywhere.
Yeah.
That's actually absolutely right.
What's that like?
What is that like?
Anywhere.
But do you identify with your discomfort?
Like, are you, like I do, I love being like, this isn't, and Val knows that
about me.
Oh, I'll write like a book about it.
I'll have a thesis.
I'll do a painting.
I'm going to wedge this in because we feel similarly about sleeping with our
kids.
That sounds weird.
Letting our kids sleep in our beds.
Yes.
Okay.
And when I heard you-
Bed sharing.
Bed sharing.
Thank you.
Yeah.
That's why they made that phrase.
So you don't say-
Because you don't have to keep saying all these things.
Sleeping with our kids.
I sleep with my children.
No, wait, hold on.
My, but-
I share a sleeping service.
I feel like as a four, that made instant sense to me.
Oh, yeah.
Because I seem to remember the indignity and the injustice of being sleep
trained.
And I'm like-
Yeah.
And there's still this righteous-
It just feels like abandonment.
It is.
Because we've talked about it before you've come on where I'm like, as a mammal,
you think
there's a wolf.
Well-
Why would you be chill?
I mean-
Laying in the dark alone?
Not to put my scientist Enneagram 4 hat on.
No other animal likes to sleep alone.
And most adults don't like to sleep alone.
That's right.
It's actually not evolutionarily beneficial.
Agreed.
To sleep separate.
And just the magic of-
What if Hugh Hefner just loved-
He just hated sleeping alone.
That's what it was.
I would-
That is exactly what it was.
He wasn't-
He didn't-
He got through the sex.
He's kind of holding his nose through the sex.
He built an empire because he was just wanted to cuddle.
Bunnies love cuddling.
Yeah, that's-
That is true.
Young people like cuddling.
Is there a scandal I'm not aware of?
Well, maybe.
Oh, no.
I just meant like if someone's 60 years younger than you-
Oh, I see.
Just looking for the riff area.
I wanted to join you, but I didn't know if there was a scandal.
There probably is.
Sorry.
No.
No.
I don't want to be quoted as Mayim Bialik says there's no scandal.
We don't know.
We don't know.
Let's be fair.
Probably a scandal.
But yes, too.
It's funny.
I also-
That kind of stuff makes me a little nervous when people are like, "Oh, people
like attachment
parenting," or people like attachment parenting, or people like attachment
parenting.
Or people like attachment parenting, or people like attachment parenting, or
people like attachment
to attachment parenting, or people like attachment parenting.
And I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know that.
People like attachment parenting, or being close or nice to children because of
their
own wounds.
Yeah.
And it's like, well, maybe people who were wounded are just more in touch with
kind of
what feels good.
That's exactly right.
And comfort and safety feels good.
And maybe I just know it more than you do because I didn't feel safe at one
point.
Isn't that-
In a way that you did.
That's the alchemy of suffering.
Because you had that lack, you know what it feels like.
That's like my whole life.
But we don't want to over identify or what's it called, you know, transfer.
Yes, that's right.
Or over identify.
You don't want it to get grotesque.
Correct.
Yeah.
Or incestuous emotionally.
Or incestuous, that's right.
Just to bring up that word.
We're both victims of that.
Are we both victims of that?
What?
Emotional incest?
Yeah, actually, you talked about it when you came on our podcast.
Yeah, I seem to remember that.
It's a phrase I like to pretend doesn't exist.
Emotional incest?
Yeah, it's just like, it's very loaded.
It's a rough one.
But yes.
It's a rough one.
Jonathan actually was very, very dialed into when you were talking about that.
So yeah.
You did that.
I find that it's one of the weirder things that, like when I go on instant pictogram.
Oh, yes.
Instagram.
See?
I like that.
That's how a four says Instagram.
I can't just say it the way you say it.
No.
Instant pictogram.
Which I try not to.
I'm sure as a neuroscientist you...
Also try not to.
Well, yeah.
Have a great, the Las Vegas quality of that.
But anyway, I went on it recently and I was shocked at how many posts were
about boundarylessness.
And my feed doesn't know me.
It doesn't like have enough data.
No, but it knows most of Western culture.
Exactly.
And the stuff about parents and all these things that are difficult to address.
Wait, everybody's talking about if you're a child of emotionally immature
parents.
Is that the thing?
It's like the thing.
And everybody keeps sending me these things.
And I mean, it tracks for a lot of people, but I'm kind of like, what if we're
not just children of emotionally immature?
What if that's just being human is that no one really figures it out.
Right.
And grownups are just babies in grownup suits.
Yeah.
Pretending like they know, but we're all kind of just muddling through and your
parents are just kids.
Right.
Unfortunately, yes.
And some of them are more immature than others.
I hold out hope that there is a type of, again, Richard Rohr coming up, but he
wrote Falling Upward.
And it's about the second half of life