Name: Joe Rogan Experience #866 - Christine Hassler
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #866 - Christine Hassler' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-10-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #866 - Christine Hassler' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-10-26. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #866 - Christine Hassler

um Christine we're live all right how you doing we talked a lot before this
podcast we even said
we weren't going to talk we're like I don't want to talk to you too much a lot
of stuff to talk
about but damn we got into everything Christy Brinkley Fibonacci sequence Tony
Robbins Tony
Robbins we covered a lot of ground crime crime um boyfriends as dogs as
protective dogs yes
how did you get to become a life coach oh gosh it's a wasn't the worst no no no
no it's just a long
it's not I never planned on it and I don't really even like that that name what's
a good name I
haven't come up with a better name for it let's come up but maybe by the end of
the show we'll
come up with something better so that that's that's your job Joe okay figure
out my new title by the
end of the show so I started out in Hollywood actually I moved out after
college to LA because
mainly because growing up I was teased a lot I was massively insecure and if
you've got something
to prove Hollywood's a great place to come do it so you came out here to like I'll
show you yeah I'll
show you yeah since I didn't fit in I didn't have a lot of friends and boys
didn't really ever like me
unless they wanted to cheat off my paper I became addicted to achieving and I
was like what can I be I
want to be somebody like if only I was somebody how old were you how old was I
yeah oh gosh when
it started 10 8 something like that that's when you started like wanting to
prove yourself well
that's when the teasing started happening and that's when I started to feel
like I didn't really fit in
and I needed to find a way to feel worth something so overachieving kind of
became my way to do that and
then at 10 I was diagnosed with depression and put on Prozac at 10 what I know
that's we'll bookmark
that combined and so from a very early age I really thought something was wrong
with me I didn't fit in
and so I had to come up with these compensatory strategies to feel worthy to
feel validated to
feel like I mattered and so I just became like straight a student addicted to
achieving went out
to college I grew up in Texas went to Northwestern graduated early and was just
committed to moving
to Hollywood and working my way up as an actor I mean as a kid I was an actor I
tried that for a
little bit and then I was like whoa this is way too much rejection I can't deal
with this I want to go on
the other side of the camera and pursue this career in Hollywood and I didn't
know what exactly I was
going to do I thought I was going to be a producer or something like that but I
came out I was 20 years
old and I applied at the William Morris agency to you know be an assistant they're
like you have to go
through the training program which is like pushing mail carts around and I did
not want to do that so
somehow I got a desk like really early and started working for the head of tv
packaging and quickly
learned I did not want to be an agent like I just didn't like it it was crazy
long hours
I was treated poorly it was just a hellish job and it was a lot of selling I
didn't really like that
either so I left and actually went and worked on the man show you did I did I
was thought maybe I'll
like production so first season of the man show I was there which was kind of a
blast and also just
crazy it was a crazy show to work on I mean Jimmy and Adam were always like
super awesome to me
but I was you know a young girl PA running around the juggy dancers were
everywhere like I just I was
like what am I doing here so I quickly got out of production and then started
in comedy development
at Paramount and started scouting comedians and going to comedy clubs and
finding people that I could
represent and bring in maybe get deals for them and that quickly transitioned
to moving to another
company where I was doing comedy development and then I quickly fell back into
being an agent so that
was like my first career was like going to comedy clubs late at night um Eddie
Ift who I think you
know was my first client that was your first client that's fine I know Eddie
very well yeah he was my
very first client we still keep in touch he says hi and that was like my life
so here I am now 24 25
working at a big agency representing clients I was the youngest female agent
like in the department maybe
even in the city at that time I don't know I was really young got promoted
really really super young
and I was dating the head of a movie studio and I was living this amazing
Hollywood life like making
a lot of money going to the Oscars and Golden Globes private jets hanging out
with celebrities like I
totally had it all but I still wasn't happy it was like I'd achieve one thing
and then there had to be the
the next thing and then I'd achieve this and then there had to be next thing
you know I'd get the guy
I still wouldn't be happy I'd get the promotion still I was on that constant
chase and nothing ever
was like doing it so about two years I did this job I'm still on antidepressants
I'm also taking
anti-anxiety pills at the time and just like trying to like manage my life and
I was one of those people
that I could really look good from the outside like I could seem like I had it
all together
and the inside was a totally different story it's kind of like a duck on water
you know looks smooth
but underneath it's like that's that was what I was like and you know a lot of
people asked me about
how did I achieve all this and still like suffer from depression and I was a
very functional depressed
person like a lot of people think if you're depressed you just lay in bed all
day and watch you know
soap operas or something but that's not the that doesn't you know summarize all
depression like
there's different ways it shows up and so I was able to live my life but I
always felt like something
was missing I always felt like I wasn't enough and I just had this heavy heavy
energy and then and
nothing I could achieve was ever filling that gap so let me keep going yeah
yeah so uh one day I was
riding up in the elevator to work and I had basically a mini panic attack I
just I couldn't breathe I got
off the elevator and I just couldn't catch my breath and was looking at there
was a lot of weird
painting and art in our office and I was looking at the weird photos and the
one outside of my desk was
this woman in a negligee who was nine months pregnant in this huge yard sale
with a ufo light shining down
on her about to take her up and I'm looking at this painting and I'm like I
feel like that's me how
did I get here and I just I went back down the elevator walked around Beverly
Hills and then came
back upstairs and I just wanted to quit all I wanted to do was quit I thought
that was the answer was
just I could quit my job and reinvent myself and start over but I needed
someone to give me permission
and so I called my dad because you know my dad is has always been there for me
and I'm like dad I
really want to quit this job can I and he did a really good dad thing really
pissed me off at the
time but it was a good dad move you want to guess what he did he told you to
get your together
that's what I would do close no he said I love you but I can't make this
decision for you that is a
good dad thing yeah good dad thing and he hung up and I quit the next day and
that was the first
really big risk I ever took why did you feel like you were the pregnant woman
with a ufo about
to take you off in a flying saucer that I just felt confused and lost and like
I didn't fit in and
like chaos and it's all wrong and how did I get here and what is happening isn't
it crazy that
Hollywood has so many stories I mean not obviously not exactly like yours but
so many stories of people
who were rejected and who have decided they're going to come here to prove
something or to get the love
that they need and what do they run into they're in the business of rejection
exactly for every most
people don't really think about it because most people don't act but if you try
to act you have to
audition if you audition you're going to audition with hundreds of other people
that are all trying
to get the same job and they treat you like hundreds of other people trying to
get the same job yep it's
the weirdest thing and people leave and they're just devastated they're so
confused they get nervous
before the thing and then they leave the thing and they feel so helpless it's
the it's a strange
strange business it really is and it's it's so often not based on talent no it's
so often not based on
who's the best person for the job and that's what frustrated me as an agent and
also one of the
reasons I left I had a deal that I put together Eddie was actually involved in
it and my boss made me
attach a showrunner who like nobody wanted and but he needed to please that
client and it killed the
show and it killed these guys that happens all the time all the time that
happened to us when I took over
the man show there was a showrunner that there's this this weird incestuous
sort of fucking business
in Hollywood of connecting people it's almost more about being social than it
is about anything else
it's about making these relationships almost like politics you become beholden
to these people and
you get them jobs and they get you jobs and you all just feed off of each other
and you all suck
it really happens a lot it happens a lot with comedy writers yeah there's a lot
of comedy writers that
are just you know they're they might have even been on Seinfeld or something
like a great show
and there's a few brilliant writers and there's a few that are like what in the
is this
guy doing here well his agent is this guy's agent and that guy's agent forced
this guy in
if you get that guy you get this guy too and they make these deals exactly and
that's what
was so frustrating for me is i'd have these really talented people and i couldn't
i couldn't get them
jobs why did they put you on prozac at 10. were you an only child no no i was
the oldest you're the
oldest how many kids just two and i think you know my my parents loved me a lot
and they just were doing
the best they could and they were listening to doctors you know it was a time
when if a doctor tells
you something you listen what was bombing you out like like what what was it
the point where they
were willing to put you on medication well i think i went from when i was
little i was really outgoing
and and talkative and happy and then when the teasing and bullying started to
happen
i completely just shut down like i shut off was it a particular group of people
that did it to you
or one girl yeah and then like where is that bitch well she's the one i wanted
to mention when i won
my oscar that was the whole thing oh you wanted to get up there and say that in
the speech this is
for you no eventually eventually i got over that uh but i just i i really just
shut down and withdrew
and so it's just like did you move to a different school or was it just one
particular kid they wanted
me my parents were like go to a different school honey like yeah and i just
wouldn't i was i was stubborn
and i wanted to stay and i think i was just scared you know that's the thing
like oftentimes what we
know that's un that's bad is safer feel safer than what we don't know that
might be better i had a
comfort zone in where i was like even though i wasn't really happy like i knew
that school i knew
i was afraid that if i went to new school i would just have to deal with the
same thing so i was just
like i'll stay where i am isn't it crazy that you could run into the wrong
person when you're 10 years
old and it could you up for a decade or two yeah yeah but i think we i mean i
don't know any human
who hasn't had something in childhood or adulthood or whatever that is we can
call bad jamie look at
him it's perfect nothing's ever went wrong nothing's ever gone wrong with you
just wait it's coming kids
smooth and calm young jamie's collected yeah no everybody's had difficulties it's
it's unavoidable
but the the the b