Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2144 - Chris Distefano
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2144 - Chris Distefano' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-02. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2144 - Chris Distefano

I never know what's going on with you if this is like an act or if this is part
of the fun of being
Chrissy D I mean no well Chrissy D was all fun in games was was third person
now we're coming
into a part with two two major things have happened here okay one I've uh refound
my love for Christ and
I'm back believing I'm back being Catholic I'm back in nice got two feet in
Catholicism okay we're back
baby and then the other thing is is I made I I uh six months ago I had this
beautiful house Staten
Island right everything we wanted sold the house because I was having anxiety
about doing a show at
Radio City swear to God I my brain couldn't process it that way but through
therapy the therapist figured
out and it's right because I checked on this with my girlfriend and she was
like that's exactly what
you did God was very nervous about Radio City didn't know where to put that
energy because
there's a big show I'm a New York guy big biggest weekend of my life so I said
about two weeks before
Radio City came home I said we're putting up the house for sale I want to be
able to walk to a bagel
store we can't walk to a bagel store at this house on Staten Island I need that
for my creative process
and my girl was like what are you doing we just renovated our kitchen deliver
we just you just poured
money into this is our home I was like I can't walk to a bagel store and I'm
like it's going to
my comedy up but it will and she yeah and and then you know if and then people
if you knew my address
back then you would know that there's a bagel store 0.9 miles away um that I
didn't know about but
but you had a dream house I had a dream house that I that we put to our liking
and I said I couldn't
didn't understand it then I said we're selling the house and I convinced my
family because that's
what we can do right as comics I convinced them I've had them buy this story
convinced my girl
my family what's going to be better for us is to sell this five-bedroom house
here's what we here's
the move we're going to sell this five-bedroom house for about three hundred
thousand dollars
under asking price we're going to get out of this puppy we're going to sell
that we're going to move
to Queens where we can walk to stuff and bagel stores and be in civilization we're
going to temporarily
live in a two-bedroom apartment um and and and then we're eventually going to
move into a condo and life's
going to be better because uh you know we won't have to I won't have to care
for these grounds anymore
I won't have to throw out the garbage we'll be safe in an apartment people can't
come in the back window
of our home and this will be the move and um I did that and then the apartment
that we had lined up fell
through uh we we left the apartment we were living in because it had roaches uh
jasmine almost left me
she was almost like I can't be a part of your chaos and self-sabotage anymore
and I had to kind of really
just say what the hell did I just do how what figure this problem out went back
into therapy
turned back into religion starting to find some answers and now we're living in
a home that we're
renting that we like and we're kind of settling in but that I learned the
valuable I learned the
lesson of self-sabotage the hard way the hardest that it's weird what's going
on in my career right
now selling the most tickets I've ever had financially the best I've ever done
getting all these opportunities
was the worst version was the worst version of me as a human being but not
because I was just
self-sabotaging after self-sabotaging and I couldn't didn't know why do you
have friends that
you could talk to about this stuff yeah but they're you know not they call me
gay you know what I mean
like they're old school New York guys that are like I don't know dude get a
therapist and I'm like
well yeah I I what I had to do what I I really felt like nobody could really
help me with this I was
like I got to just turn to professional therapist and then I go into and then I
turned to back to going
to church and I was like well at least I have like if anything for me church is
just an hour a week to
just meditate and sit there and I have nothing I have no thoughts I have no
technology I'm like
it's just me and whoever I think God is that that's how I feel about it but
that chaos stuff that you
know because people always you know Chrissy chaos I was actually living in it
and I was like okay now
what I've done now I've like hurt my family now I've now I've done a thing that's
like not funny now I've
like taken things from my kids because I thought my kids would be like oh yeah
dad like like my
eight-year-old we had that you know this moment that kids are just kids I'm
like telling them like
isn't this great baby like we can walk to the bagel store now we can go to the
park we're not like
living off the side of a highway and she was like well I love that we had a
pool and I was like yeah but
isn't it better that we can you know don't have a pool now we can go to like
the pool club and
she was like you know no she was like honestly she was like we did it for you
so I'm happy that
you're happy but I I miss my friends and then I was like oh my god what the did
I do so so I kind
of have been like backtracking as much as I can little by little to try to like
re-correct these
mistakes and now my family is more on board now my family's like hey we're on
we're with you we're
we you you know we're with you but we got to figure this out so now we're
settled finally in a place
and we're kind of falling in love with the neighborhood we're living in as time
has went on
um and my kids are finding friends and all that and we're not gonna I'm not
gonna take that from
them I'm not gonna you know be like well you know wherever we are now we're
gonna stay for years so
they can build the bonds and the friendships that they need that I inadvertently
took away from them
without me even realizing hmm can I have those edibles so this uh anxiety ramped
up when success
ramped up yes so here here I sound like a therapist here but are you is it
because you're worried it's
going to go away is that the anxiety like what is the anxiety no what is the
fear no it wasn't any of
that it was it was I believe I have confidence I believe that I'm in this
business I can do it and
I believe that like we're all together now especially how comedy is now I feel
like we're all like this
big brother sisterhood like we'll help each other if one of us is falling like
we we got each other I
believe in that but I think that the actual anxiety of the day of you know
again being a new york guy
one night radio city the next night the theater at msg all these for me a lot
of tickets you know
10,000 plus tickets which is you know that's huge for me right I I was like how
am I going to balance all this
what if I don't do well what if what if what if one of these 10,000 people
realizes that I'm thinks that
I'm some kind of fraud thinks that like hey you know one is going to right
always right there's always
people that are going to find some negative thing in anything so now now I've
gotten to that point to
accept that I'm wildly different not wildly different but I'm much better now
than I was
in September when all this stuff was going on because I've just kind of
accepted that I don't
really have control of what others think maybe you need a thing others other
than just comedy
that you do that's not like career oriented like a hobby like some some kind of
other interest that
you really enjoy that you could focus on so what I did I'm getting I'm trans
people that's yes trans
feed I'm really into wiki feed for specifically trans women and um so no what I
think is well what I've
done because I haven't gone to the hobby yet what I've done is I've really I
thought I was always
focused on my kids always being a father is everything to me but I said what
you just said I said I'm going to
really just focus on being a dad being home coming off the road a little bit
just just temporarily
doing my thing in New York keeping my podcast going keeping my name out there
but not going on this
national tour getting away from that for now I've shot a special it's going to
come out at the end of
the year I'm like be home be with the kids be picking them up be at the park
with them focus on like
give yourself a schedule I'm a comedian from nine to five and there are nine to
three when you pick
up your and then when you pick up your kids just for now you just be with them
and then and that's
really helped and now like last night I was at your club which is awesome I was
at your club and that
was the first time I was on stage in about six weeks since I shot the special
oh really and I felt
so I did some of the same material that I was because I've been writing but I
was like I don't want
to try a brand new thing right here I did one new thing but I was like oh wow I
felt like that little
mental experiment helped me like I was so excited to be on stage again I've
found like reconnected
and you something that you do that I noticed last night and I was like huh you
you know how much
there's real there's really nothing more you can do in comedy right I mean you've
done everything
the biggest you can get is you've achieved which is beautiful but I still saw
you yesterday
obsessing over your hour and thinking about like how do I make that joke better
which is
why you've gotten here and I've had that question in my head yesterday when I
got back to the hotel
I was like do I have that do I is it okay that I don't have it like Joe does
that mean I'm gonna not
be successful does that mean I does that kind of uh are we all just different
because I love comedy
but I was like I don't know like I just shot a special and was like you know
what I need some time
off where I don't know that you've ever done that right I mean you've never
taken a big break from
stand-up well I took a big break during COVID right but but other than that you've
always been
like you have a love and a passion that's if you're not worried about like you're
never looking at your
watch being like is an hour up yet you know when your podcast you never be like
I gotta get an hour
you just flow you're just free in the moment flowing with passion which is very
admirable and and I and
I look at that sometimes and I question myself for I'm like do I have that I
know I've been relatively
successful in this and I do love it but I'm like do I have that I wonder if
therapy is not a good thing
for a person like you okay why do you think because I've never heard that I
wonder if like obsessing
about your problems makes your problems bigger and that maybe you just need
another thing to focus on
that maybe alleviates anxiety like some kind of a like a hardcore workout thing
okay do you work out yes
what do you do uh well yesterday yesterday I did hot yoga that's great yeah
just because I was like
I was on the plane wanted to do the hot yoga drip and sweat that's crazy and
then today today I did uh
I ran uh two miles and then I did um with 30 pound dumbbells I did uh one burpee
one press 10 times
ramped that up to five so you know went all the way up to one two three four so
it was a lot a lot of
burpees with that then I did farmers carries ball slams thing I was dripping in
sweat I was trying to do
that does that help you it does I always feel I always feel after a workout
great because I was
an athlete I played basketball my entire life to the point where my friends
from home are like you
never mentioned basketball and that's the thing you were known as in the
neighborhood everybody
knew you as basketball they used to call me gums because I have big gums so
they would call me gums
but they would call me dirk you know little dirk like basketball was my whole
life big gums see how
they're see how they're kind of vague no you're doing that I could do that no I
know but when I
smile like they're just I have gingivitis let me see smile no that's normal no
the