Joe Rogan Experience #2144 - Chris Distefano

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I never know what's going on with you, if this is, like, an act or if this is part of the fun-

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... of being Chrissy D.

I mean, no, well, Chrissy D was all fun and games.

Was?

Was.

Third person.

Now, we're coming into a part we're c- two, two major things have happened here. Okay?

Okay.

One, I've, uh, refound my love for Christ and I'm back believing. I'm back being Catholic.

Okay.

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, (snaps fingers) sold the house because I was having anxiety about doing a show at Radio City. Swear to God, I, 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." I was very nervous about Radio City, didn't know where to put that energy 'cause it was a big show. I'm a New York guy, big, biggest weekend of my life, uh, so I said, about two weeks before Radio City, came home and said, "We're putting up the house for sale. I wanna 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, the living... We just, you just poured money into... This is our home." I was like, "I can't walk to a bagel store and my, uh, it's gonna fuck my comedy up. I, I, I- it will."

What?

And, 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 ba- there was a bagel store .9 miles away, um, that I didn't know about, but...

(laughs)

(laughs)

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, 'cause that's what we can do, right, as comics? I convinced them. I had them buy this story. Convinced my girl, my family.

Mm-hmm.

What's gonna be better for us is to sell this five bedroom house. Here's what we're... here's the move. We're gonna sell this five bedroom house for about $300,000 under asking price. We're gonna get out of this puppy. We're gonna sell that. We're gonna move to Queens where we can walk to stuff and bagel stores and be in civilization. We're gonna temporarily live in a two bedroom apartment, um, and, and, and then we're eventually gonna move into a, a condo and life's gonna 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 and 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 ha- we left the apartment we were living in 'cause 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 a valuable le- I learned the lesson of self-sabotage the hard way. The hardest, the... 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 vers- was the worst version of me as a human being. Be- not because I was just self-sabotaging after self-sabotaging, and I couldn't, didn't know why.