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Jackie Tohn Returns

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Jackie Tohn Returns

Jackie Tone opens up about her personal experience with BRCA1-positive genetic testing, which revealed an 85% lifetime risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Despite the fear and anxiety, she walked through the journey with resolve, undergoing preventative double mastectomy and reconstruction with a supportive medical team. She emphasizes how the process transformed her from a person overwhelmed by fear to one of self-empowerment, noting that facing reality—such as undergoing surgery, bleeding post-biopsy, and managing phantom pain—built confidence rather than despair. Jackie shares how her experience of anxiety and catastrophizing, common in high-risk individuals, was ultimately mitigated by taking action. She reflects on the broader human tendency to fear the unknown, especially in health-related domains, and argues that such fears are often disproportionate to actual risk. The experience also helped her reframe her relationship with her body, self-worth, and mortality. She highlights the emotional strength found in community, citing a friend who showed her her own perky, natural breasts as a powerful moment of connection and healing. Jackie concludes with a message of resilience: even when facing life-altering medical decisions, one can maintain hope, agency, and joy. Her story underscores that confronting fear through proactive action leads to personal growth, and that the fear of death or illness does not have to define one’s life. Ultimately, she embraces her journey not as a tragedy, but as a testament to strength, sisterhood, and the power of living with purpose.

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Welcome welcome welcome to armchair expert. I'm Dak Shepherd. I'm joined by Lily badman. Hi. Hi. We have a friend in today. Our friend is here. She's returning. Yes, returning guest. Jackie tone. Jackie tone is an actor and a musician. Nobody wants this. Glow the boys, Jen V. What do you even talk about the boys with her? I love seeing her on the boys because I'm obsessed with the boys that forget she's on it. Yes, so she pops up and it's a pop out and I love it. Yeah, and she's here today and she's telling a very, very personal story that she's gone through simultaneously to all this wonderful stuff. And it's a heroine tale. Please enjoy Jackie tone. (upbeat music) - This is not a beef. - This is not a beef. - Hi. - Hi ladies. - Hi sir. Is that a new shirt? - It's an old shirt. - Oh my God, it's a new old shirt. - It's a new old shirt. - It's explicitly not a new shirt. - No. - But it's new to me. - That's right. - Do you have a new shirt on? - I do have a new shirt on. - You always have a new shirt on. - And you guys have very similar shirts on. - I know, did you have any similar costumes today? - I almost didn't have a bra under mine. And then I thought, we were talking about the new Yitters. Maybe I should have a bra. - Well, or maybe you should have it. - You know, I kind of feel like you should have gone wrong. - You should have gone wrong. - Actually, well, there's still time in the middle. Feel free. - Never know. Although it is yours, it's the almost exact same material. It is see through. You will see them. - Oh great. - It's not just like if I wore that shirt, you'd see the nips. Well, we want these numbers. - We want to see them. - We want to see the brats. - We want to see your brats. - I have to apologize, guys. I made a huge mistake. Nobody coming here, but by, yeah. - What's funny is there was a half moment where you were saying we have the same and you're about to see material. - Tamanaka, but I was like, hold on. What is she about to say? We have the same breasts now. - No, mom. - But I was wondering if that's where he's going. - No, well, there's a bit of a size dip. Are we D, we double D, we double, yeah. - Are we doubling our Ds? - Yeah, I used to be a 32D, but now they're a B. - Wait, hold on. - They're smaller. - Okay. - You and 32D, we've known each other for-- - Here's what's crazy. - Yeah, big, yeah. - 18 years. - I will say. I make me want to cry and feel excited at the same time. - What, 18 years? - Yeah. I don't know what you're talking about. That's not a real number. I'm 17, so having known someone 18, the math sort of doesn't. But my titties were from here. - Okay, from the side of your ribcage for the listener. - Actually. - Oh, recording? - Oh, yeah. - Oh, I live. - Yeah. - Okay. So my titties go from under my arm into here. And so in order for underwire not to dig into me, it had to be a D size underwire. So it was a big, and then when I was getting my reconstruction, the doctor was like, if we went with your same width, your tits, your implants would be enormous. - Really, because my, 'cause it started to show fire, the literally was under my arm to here. And so I had these like nice, wide, and they were perky forever. - Yeah. - Oh, do you think the width has to do with the perkyness? - I do because there's so much, it's not like a little lateral support. - There's so much lateral support. - Yes, it's you for the lateral support. You have the whole ribcage sort of getting right behind you. This is science. - Counter-theory. - Please. - You look at people, look at Monica's face. She's like, okay, what? - Yeah, what's this gonna be? - To the sides, Jackie, just showed us. - First of all, you guys are probably right. So I'm not saying that this would invalidate that theory. It's just, you see humans, we come in a lot of variety, and there's just taut skin and loose skin. I've been fortunate enough to be able with enough nude ladies. I've seen a lot of different body types. - I have seen so many news. - I wonder if it's just like an elasticity in your skin that you have a lot of where you don't. - I don't know the answer, and I don't think that that's invalidating what we're saying at all. - Maybe a some combination of both. - Yeah, I will also say, of course, I already knew, I was like, I'm gonna come on this podcast and say too much 'cause these are my people, but the doctor said to me, she was like, well, the good news is, you're in your 40s, you'll get a little lift, they'll be perky for the rest of your life, and then I took my shirt off, and she was like, okay, so not as much for you. - We're not gonna get as much vertical lift. - That's a complex, huge compliment. - Yeah. - She thought they were gonna droop to the floor. - And I was like, no, the girls have stayed put. God bless them. - I know. - There's a lot of things genetically I was not gifted with. - And a lot, you were. - Yeah, you're very attractive, you're very witty, you're very fast, you're a good boy, since in fact, as we make this list, it's almost hard to feel bad for whatever. - Wow, that's true. - It feels like you kind of tricked us and they give you a lot of cops. Okay, I did, and we're staring into each other's eyes, and I'll have it no other way. I'm gonna put my lip on. - Okay, put your lip on. - Since you love physics. - Uh-huh, I do. - So much. - Yeah, yeah, I'm a physics nerd. - It looks really nice. I think Jackie's theory really makes sense. I believe it, 'cause mine is all so wide. - I believe it. - I remember doing a play years ago, and you know, like you don't know what your friends, I mean, you have an idea what your friends do, it looks like, but you really don't know. - Yes. - And then I did a play and all the girls backstage were like, I can't believe those are your tits. - Oh, people were really stopping it. - I was like, yay. - Definitely nice. - Yeah. - And in my 20s, like, oh, and then I saw everyone else's, and they were gorgeous to me. - Sure. - But definitely shaped differently than my personal yitters. - Is it so stressful or body parts? Like at first you're a girl and you're like, I must and must, I must increase my bus. You want knockers. But now, how boy and are the knockers? What are the areola's sizes? How long are they like, there's a million bananas. - How misshapen are they? They're all going to be a little asymmetrical. Yeah, those are great. So we call them ski slopes or bananas. It's great. It's where the breast kind of just naturally comes up at the end. - Yep. - That's fun. - That's exciting. - Super really exciting. - Yeah, a lot of guys I know. Covid ski slopes. I don't even know why ski slopes work 'cause if you think about a ski slope just down, it should be ski jump. - Sure. - Yeah, down how long jump? - Of course. Catch you way to call it is a downhill long jump. That's right, that's right. - I think it's a respect. - I think it's the respect. - Jump from that chip. - The horses are rock. - They're respectful, but the amount of stress we all have over our body parts. 'Cause it's like, you have a penis. Of course there's a boy you want the biggest one among your friends. Immediately you understand that's the goal. No one sits you down and tells you to have those penises come out and everyone's like most drawn like backstage at your play. - All eyes go to the biggest penis. - And he's like, oh. - Guys are pumped, yeah. Wow, look at this, you know. And then you have the shape of your erection. That's its own. - Oh my God. - It's its own journey. - Also balls. - Balls. - Oh my God, I remember when I was a teenager, I had a friend with like enormous balls. - Oh yeah, chimp. - And his name was Brandon and he showed everybody all the time. We look back and obviously I think this would all be very not okay now. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But it was like someone to be like, "Yo, you gotta show everybody your balls." And he would just open up his zipper and take him out of his zipper and put him in his hand. - Oh, he was good at it. - He was good at bigger things. - Fucking you. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - Really big ball. - Wow. - Okay, now when he asked me, yeah. Does that do anything to you, it doesn't, right? - No. - Like it doesn't. You don't think there's a primitive level. - No. - Let's just start with age. - 'Cause there's so much cement in there. - Great age. - Yeah. - If you're in a competitive reading situation like chimps are, they don't know who's who's. They're all competing and everyone's fucking. The balls are enormous. They have the biggest balls mass ratio of any priming, right? The gorilla, which is enormous, can't even find them. They're too little peas because he's not competing with any other males. He's in charge, he has access to all the females. And so that predicts the balls is how much competition there is. So do you think in some primitive level, when you see those, well, this is what we were hoping as guys, but I'm learning now is not the case. You would see those enormous plums and go like, well, there's a fit. - There's a lot of babies in there. - You know what though? - This cement could be fragmented right in the end. - Could it just be all, you know? - But we could come. - It could come. - Yeah. - It's a good decision. - Completely that way. I'm really good at it. That's so sad. - Direct straight to your asshole. - He's in you. Yet you're like, God, I'm getting my hair. - Yeah, yeah. - Get my hair. - Get your hair. - Oh my God, this episode is a mess. - But on the flip side, too tiny pea-sized balls then, like the gorillas also then kind of is high status. It's like, my balls are so small, I get to pick. - I don't have to compete. - These guys are all shooting it out, like the old west from the hill. - Sure 'cause they're hot. - They have to. - They have to. - Well, I covered that guy's balls. What was it in Brandon? - Brandon. - Yeah, I wonder how they've held up. - I would say they're probably like, don't you feel similar to T-no, similar to T-no? - Oh, sad. - I feel sad. - I feel like he's got that weight on that scroll and it's gotta be pulling them back. - Sure. - And the scroll's so interesting 'cause like, scroll's all over the place. It decides how long it wants to be whatever the temperature is. So you don't even know if you have perky or saggy balls. It's like, ask me to temp. - Yeah, the temp. - Where am I Colorado or am I feeding? - Am I in Hawaii? - Truly. - They're long. - It's calling nipples, I guess. They change. - But isn't it sad? I feel bad for all of us. The stress over your ariolas and the perquemists and the size and you even said de-cup thing, but maybe you're. And my whole life people were like, there's no way you're a D. I'm like, check my brought tag. I don't know what to tell you. But you could just wear a G, right? Me like, check my broth. The front fabric is like a sale. It's just like so bad. Yeah, exactly. You have a Birkenback in your bra. Sure. Oh, I can very pop in, bitch. We were fast forwarding. So let's catch up because that actually was one of my questions and you've kind of already answered it. But Alas, tell us how you even discovered that you had the BRC one. Okay, my friends. Thanks to see you both. And I think while we can start recording now, I'm we can go ahead and just turn the hit the record button and the button that records and go ahead and start that now. Yeah. Well, thank you guys so much for having me here today. You know, I think it's really important that I spread this message of healing and journeying in my health. That too. And why is that? Let's start with your parents. Okay. That seems like the appropriate phrase to start. We've had you have many times and I'm sure we covered them a little bit, but both physical ed teachers. Yes, in Long Island. They were teaching in Brooklyn. They were teaching in Brooklyn, but I grew up on Long Island. So my parents are the best and unlike so many Jewish families, cancer wasn't in the genes. We didn't think heart disease. We've talked about this. Our dad's heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure. Any number of psychosomaniaconditions. Oh, please. An actually psychokondition. Yeah. And so last year, my dad found these lumps under his arm, which my mom, for the first few months, only called nodules. I think Jews have an aversion to saying the thing with this scary name. She was just like, and so daddy has these daddy found these nodules. They're back. We got a call this morning. Who was it? Your father's nodules. They called on the phone. So my dad found these bumps under his arm. And then by the time they were like, let's just get them out and we'll buy off. See them. It turned out they were metastatic carcinomas. And we were like, what? Okay. Metastatic means the cancer's traveled away from the original site of origin, right? And what's crazy is to this day, they cannot find the original site of origin. So he's some medical enigma where he has metastatic carcinomas that they do not know where they metastasized from. Oh, I love medical models. Why don't they think it's just breast cancer? They kind of do now. Okay. Okay. Okay. Also, if it's breast cancer, then they're not metastatic. It's just breast cancer. Yeah. But for some reason, they know it's metastatic. And that must look different or something. I don't know. Can I have a weird interesting thing? You better. We talked to someone recently about extra nipples. And what we found out is that when people have those extra nipples, they often grow in the armpit. They're not like on your pack or your breast. They're generally in your armpit upper arm. This person is like, you're talking about breast tissue. Yeah. It's just like additional breast tissue. Exactly. Yeah. And they lactate. Yeah. That's where the nipples grew and their functional. They're functional. Yeah. So anyways, so he finds this out. They can't figure out where the primary cancer is. And so he does this panel of genetic testing, because if he's positive for this, it more likely would be pancreatic. If he's positive for this, it more likely would be colon. And he came back as Brocka positive, BRCA one positive. Tell us what that is. Brocka is a genetic mutation. And you are positive. So I believe everybody has the Brocka gene. But I'm positive for a mutation of the Brocka gene that then, unfortunately, gives you a very high predetermination, very high chance of getting Brocka for women, breast and ovarian cancer. My dad tests positive. They say to him, tell your kids to get tested. Yeah. Because if you have a daughter, that's really where the problem is, men often, it doesn't even materialize. Really? There's an increased chance. But we don't have ovaries or breasts, except for your father who might have actually nipples on his arm. Did he get his nodules removed? He did. Then he was fine. Well, then he did radiation. I have a little video of him ringing the bell. And so he was like, they did a full cat scan, pet scan, all the scans cancer-free range. And yet it metastasized somewhere strange. I get tested. I'm Brocka positive. And then I'm like, all right, I don't Google. I'm not Googling. I'm a hypochondriac. I'm an erotic. Yeah, let's pause for half a second because, yeah, we need to know your disposition a little bit. We, you know this famous story. Monica and I were watching Kristen read her results from her 23 of me. She misread it, but she truly believed this. She's like, oh, I have early onset Alzheimer's thing. Okay. And then oh, I have the Brocka gene. And then oh, yeah, mostly Polish. There was another one, too. There were. She just rattled off. Yeah, the one you almost don't want to take the task. Oh, we, oh, in case you find that Alzheimer's. Oh, I have Brocka. Oh, I have palsy. Yeah, and the next thing. And then oh, man, I do that cilantro thing. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. We've never seen anyone take news like this in our lives to this day. She was non-plus. Is she really Brocka positive? No, no, she misread her thing, but she sincerely thought she was. Yes. And we got to see the real reaction. We were like, oh, my God. We're kind of bracing. We're like, wait, we're going to lose you in 18 months. So Parkinson's Alzheimer's. That's what we have a couple months. Yes, let's start planning. Oh, my God. It was so anyways, girls come in here. I said, her is like the far end of a spectrum. Yes. Right. Where are you at on that spectrum? Well, I'm very proud of myself because I realized as I think a lot of us do, when you are imagining something happening to you, you can catastrophize. You can have anxiety about it. You can be hysterical, crying about it. And then the thing happens to you. And I was a machine. Yeah. And I was supposed to go to England, Ireland and Scotland last summer. And we canceled the trip. And I went on a tour of Los Angeles meeting the doctors that this oncologist told me I would need. I say that it's like someone handing you a nail and being like, build the house. And you're like, who? When? Yeah. Where is the plot of land? Where's the world? Where's the, how? Yeah. So that's basically what happened. They were like, you are a block of positive. I found out good luck. And then a couple days later, the doctor's office calls to schedule a surgery. And I'm like, what surgery? I just have this gene. My dad got the nodules. My dad got the medicine. Of course, I'm almost removed like what surgery? Then I start really crying. Right. And then I find out that I need a gynecological oncologist, which is not a combination of terms I'm interested in. Right. Yeah. A regular oncologist to holistically look at the whole thing. A breast surgeon, a breast plastic surgeon, because those are two completely different jobs. The person that removes the tissue and the person that does the reconstruction. Did they leave you open while they just clock in? It's like tag team wrestling. It is like tag team wrestling. I just don't want them opening you up twice. This is a very interesting thing that I actually am excited to talk about, which is you can do the surgery two different ways. Then the fifth doctor, because of course there is more than four. The fifth doctor is a genetic counselor. And it was the genetic counselor, this rad woman at Providence, who she looked at all my genetics and everything that they tested for. And she was who deemed that I had an 85% chance of breast cancer and a 65% chance of ovarian cancer, some doing the ovaries soon. But I haven't done them yet. And I did the boobs first. Top down. Top down. Yeah. That's why they called me a convertible in high school. You didn't know why. They knew this time would come. That was good. That was really good. That's your asset. I love you guys. I love you guys. It's just genetics. So then I get these numbers. And now, well now I understand why the doctor's office called and said, when do you want to schedule your surgery? Your girl has a hundred fucking percent chance. Yeah. I get chills every time. And I start to sweat 85%. It's not a great number. Even 50/50 you go like, all right, I got to get this done soon. 85. You're like, but glass half full. It is a number that you can't ignore. That makes me want to cry. That was exactly how I looked at it. Wait, repeat that. I got distracted six months ago with your convertible joke because it was so good. Thank you. And I thought there was another version of it. And then I was distracted by that. I'm owning it and I'm apologizing. I appreciate that. I was going to say that. I thought they called you gas pump because you like the top off. Oh, wow. I'm sorry. Well, we got that out. We just wanted to get it out. A bit, a bit, a bit, you know, a bit. Well, as you know, that's terrible. No, I just said, glass half full is 85 is a number that you can't ignore. Yes. You can't just be like, oh, maybe I'll deal with it. Maybe not now. You're dealing with that. That's exactly the overlining I looked at because I said with my neuroses and my mental shit, you're giving me a number like 45. Yeah. I'm going. Oh, you could go crazy. I could do advanced screening. Three years. They said before we do the double mastectomy, we want to make sure you don't already have cancer. So we're going to give you an MRI. And then I found out that they didn't like what the MRI looked like on my way to present at the Creative Arts Emmy. So I'm in the car. You shouldn't be picking up the phone. I shouldn't have been picking up the phone, but these doctors are really hard to reach. Oh, true. Yeah. She said she'd call either way so I didn't think it was the thing of only calling with bad news. Also, if I saw I missed a call, I would have been so fucking preoccupied. So I was like, I just answered. And she was like, I think everything's gonna be okay, but I don't know. And there are some suspicious cellular groupings. And I think we want to do another MRI. So I was scared. And then I went and presented. How'd you present? Where are you good? I think I smashed it because I might be a psychopath. Yeah, I asked my therapist. You're a compartmentalizer. I mean, that's great. Compartmentalizer though, I've realized during this journey to a point of like, sociopathy. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure you're right. So I don't even know looking back how I did it. Yeah, I just did it. I just was like, these are the doctors I'm going to. And I am a machine and I am getting these surgeries and I am doing this. So come back to I get the MRI. She doesn't like it again. And she's like, we're going to buy. She's so fussy this. Yeah, I don't like it. We're going to like about it. Standards are so hot. And that's the other thing. I'm like, get off my back, yeah. So then she doesn't like it again. And now she's like, we're going to do a biopsy. Can I ask quickly? Yes. Why? We're getting in there and we're moving everything. That is a good question. Just so that we would know to start chemo as well. I think maybe I actually don't know the answer. But what I think the answer is is that if you have cancer, a double mastectomy is sufficient, but sometimes you can't keep your nipples. Depending on where the cancer is, if it's right there by your nipple, you're going to lose your nipples. And if the cancer is here, they have to really focus on getting that tissue out and getting everything out. And also, then you have to be starting with the PET scans and cats can't see if it's anywhere else. Yeah, okay. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. With ovaries, the challenging part is there's no good screening for ovaries. It doesn't exist. It's 2026. And the screening does not exist. Meaning they can give you an MRI on your ovaries or no? They can do an ultrasound, a pelvic ultrasound. And they put the wand in and they do the diagnostic. The problem is your ovaries, speaking of gorilla balls. They're these little tiny grape-sized things in your body. And they just don't have the advanced surveillance. Like with breasts, when you get an MRI in a biopsy, you can find out if you're stage zero, stage negative one. You can find out if there's a grouping of cells that they don't like, that they're going to keep an eye on, that they're just going to get them out of there before you're even stage one. Right. My breasts surveillance is best of the best in cancer land. I want to tell everybody about the whole journey I want to expect because it's crazy. And I somehow made it to my 40s without anyone talking to me about Braka. I'd vaguely heard that it was maybe that thing that happened with Angelina Jolie, but I remember thinking like, oh God, that's so extreme. How her, how do you like, you know what? I'm getting them taken off completely, which is what a lot of people thought was very extreme when I was doing it. Do you think the underlying current of that is like somewhere Jelsey over where it looks like, oh yeah, you're so hot. You don't even care if you cut off your boobs. Like do you think that was driving the anger? Very possible socially, but my thing was more like, you know, she wears like, Billy Palm Thornton's blood around her neck. Yes, like she's so extra edgy. But like it turns out you have a hundred percent chance of getting cancer. What are you going to do? Leave them there exactly. It turns out she wasn't edgy. She was super safe. Correct, yeah, yeah. She's just brilliant as she is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So basically, when I got the MRI, then I went back for a second, and then I had to go back for a third one. And then when I got my breast biopsyed, I was just unlucky. And I was waiting in the biopsy office afterward. They numb your breast, and it was my right breast. And so I'm sitting there. And then I feel something soaking wet at my stomach. And I let it down. It is not good. I am bleeding from the biopsy. Oh my god. And they had already stitched it and closed it. And am I crazy in thinking that that's a very controlled procedure? It's done with a scope. And it seems like not something that would lead to great bleeding. That's right. And I'm out of it because I took a Xanax before the third MRI. Because you're in the machine for 45 minutes. Closter phobic, the crazy loud noises. You're laying on your stomach. Your tits are in like a hole in the MRI. I got a trough. A trough. Yeah, hitters are in a trough. And a minute, a trough, of course. The other nickname, and I'm in the tit trough. And they do the biopsy. I don't feel anything. Everything's fine. I'm sitting in the waiting room because this is another crazy thing. They give you a mammogram right after you get a breast MRI with a biopsy. So they're squishing it all. We should flip that order. So I'm waiting in the room to do the mammogram. And that's when I realize. And I am like out of it. And I'm on a chill pill. And I'm terrified. And I like an episode of Grey's Anatomy. I just like run into the hallway and I'm screaming. Oh, I'm not on screen. This is me. It's loud all the time. But I'm not screaming. Yeah, yeah. And I'm just going like, is there a nurse? I'm bleeding. And a woman comes by with like a trash can. She runs over to me. And I'm like, I need a nurse. Thank you so much. And she starts laughing a little bit. She's like, I am a nurse. These are soiled linens. I'm not a janitor. And I was like, OK. And then she takes me into some woman's office. She was like, excuse us. The nurse in the office leaves. And she's like opening this thing. And someone has to come up from downstairs and restitch. And it was like a whole guy in our office. In somebody's office. Oh, wow. Yeah, it was wild. It just wasn't stitched correctly. They were asking if I took like Advil the five days prior, because my blood was me. And I was like, I didn't. I'm a student. Yeah, you tell me Dara's student. Don't take Advil, I won't. Also, I'm always insulted when the first line of inquiry is like, I fucked up. I know. Like, I didn't sew my own breast. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I didn't have the needle in my head, right? You must have had aspirin for breakfast. Oh, yeah. Didn't you? You little piggy. You love your aspirin. Exclusively. And I added milk. And cereal. Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch. So after that experience, even though I was already set on the surgery, I was like, well, I'm not doing more of these. I'm not doing more of these MRIs, biopsies. We think we find something. We don't find something. Those weeks where I was months, because you have to wait weeks in between that time of chills again, was the worst time of the whole thing, except the recovery was tough. But that time was the worst, because I was like, oh, no. What I'm out here waving my flag about is I partnered with the genetic testing company, Myriad, that discovered the rocket gene. This company is unbelievable. And you literally spit in a tube. And it comes back. It's not even a blood test with your historical from your family, your genetic mutations, and these cancer risks. Yeah. And you had multiple things going on, right? Also, Ashkenazi Jews are one in 40. So you had a lot of compounding genetics, right? So this is what is nuts. So Myriad, or any of these genetic testing companies, insurance will cover your test. If you have these three things, young, rare, multiple. So if someone in your family has cancer, young, your mom or dad, you can get this covered by insurance. If there's multiple cancers, you also qualify. And if you have a rare, like my dad, male breast cancer is considered rare. Obviously. First time I've ever heard of it. Yeah. Alan. And they're still not even saying it. I think they're like, you know, someone is interesting. They don't want to emasculate them on top of that. My mother does that enough. They'd rather lie and say it's a metastasized cancer, like not at all. 100%. Sounds so manly. Your cancer roading on a hard list goes by the name of a metastasized. All of this to say there's a fourth sort of unspoken reason that you should obviously get genetic tested other than rare, multiple, and young is Ashkenazi Jew. So less than, I don't want to say the exact number because I think it changes. Forgive me. Are the Askenazis mostly the Russian, the Aspera? Eastern European. And so what's crazy is, don't quote me on this, but the point is, the number is unbelievably small of the number of people who test positive for the broken mutation. It's like between 0.2 and 0.3% of the population. Oh, wow. Very rare. Nobody has this. One in 40 Jews. Wow. One in 40 Ashkenazi specifically Jews. Whoa. Which is two and a half percent. I don't know if it even is. One in 40 is two and a half percent. So if you're out, your, your, your national average is 0.2, this is 10 fold. Yeah. 10 times. That's exactly right. I thought you were saying Ashkenazi Jews are 2.5% of the population. And I was like, oh, there's about 18 of us left. Yeah. I know. I know. I know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Stay tuned for more armchair expert. If you dare, we are supported by all state, checking all state first could save you hundreds on car insurance. Not checking what the warning light means before pulling out of your driveway. 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I know. I will tell you a couple of things. The doctors that I used for the double mastectomy and the reconstruction, not only are they just such bad asses, amazing women because of them and because of these genetic counselors and this amazing team that I was able to put together, I do actually feel the gratitude. Oh wow. As impressive. I feel real relief when I have my ovaries out and then all of the surgeries are behind me and I'm good to go. Even though I did already do the breasts, I am in between the two. Okay, so to make this trivial and not as important as it is, I am curious. If you came to me at one point and you said, okay, we're going to remove your penis and you're going to design a new one. That's a very interesting proposition. What's that experience like? For so many women who messaged me because I now talk to everybody on Instagram asking who my doctor was and what size I went and what kind of implants I did. And the thing I think that's really, really oppressive about the whole diagnosis is there are 100,000 decisions. Every single thing is 5,000 to everything. So it's like, what doctor you're using is so many decisions. Then you go with them and then it's like, when's the surgery? How long is the, do I do straight to implant while I'm asleep? Do I do two separate surgeries? Do I do expanders? And then, do when do I do the, I mean, that's the part that I think is fatiguing. Every day, the amount of questions. So then I talk to a person who got the straight to implant and then I spoke to somebody who did the two separate surgeries. How long do they wait in between if they wait? A while. For the two separate surgeries, my understanding, I didn't do this. My understanding is you get your breasts removed and then what they put in, you wake up with expanders in your skin flap because there's no breast tissue there. And then they just keep adding, I think it's either air or water or silicone, whatever they're adding to the extender to fill out your boob. But I think there are these like plastic things that are in there and they feel interesting from what I understand. You're also apparently with the expanders, they're not like cute round, like it's like an interesting thing. Yeah. I hear it's like a little bit, why would anyone do that? I am afraid, I don't want to be judgmental at all. No, there's not. I don't know. Right. I don't know what the pro is. What the pro is, my understanding is that the pro often comes from doctors who say, because doing the two and one is not new, but within the last 15 years, like it's not what they used to do. They used to absolutely be two surgeries. And then in fact, my doctor, this amazing woman, Dr. Castleiff, she wrote the paper. She was like the head of plastics at Cedars for a couple of terms and she was like, this is doable. We don't need to be giving women two separate surgeries. Yeah. And then there are other doctors who are like, my experience is that the healing is better and there's less chance because there's a lot of things that can happen when you get a double mastectomy. So when you're looking into it, like necrosis is something which is terrifying. You're getting, your tissue removed so close to your skin, that like if they go too close to your skin, that piece of your skin dies, you could possibly need skin wrapping. There could be pain, I mean, the chronic pain afterwards, there's a phantom, there's something called an iron bra, so I'm looking all of this up before hand. Your tits are so heavy. Everything is like heavy, but it's not heavy. It just feels heavy. Oh, wow. So it's like a phantom limb. Like a pain expert. Fantastic. Absolutely. Yeah. You're the best of the year. Oh, I can't wait to listen. There's so many things that could happen. And speaking of gratitude, none of it happened. Yeah. You look adorable. Yeah. None of my skin is necrotic. The size was exactly right, Dr. Castellith and Dr. Richardson, they said, when they were looking, she goes, we're going to prop you up when you're out and we're going to put them in and it's three women. Oh. It's her nurse and it's Dr. Richardson and Dr. Castellith and we're going to look at your boot and we're going to be like, and we tried this bigger size and they just looked huge on you. Yeah. So then we went with this size. When I woke up, she was like, I hope you're happy. We made them a little bit smaller and you know how many friends I have that said, especially with male doctors, they wake up and their tits are bigger than they agreed to. But also, I think the norm is in my wrong, women want bigger boobs, but you're in a unique situation. I was going to stop you earlier when you said it. You said, you know, girls are like, I must, I must say when they're kids, they're kids. That is not, not even my personal experience, but my experience with women have not heard that. I have a thought. Yeah. When did you start growing boobs, young, seventh grade? I didn't get my period till 10th grade. So I wore a padded bra and stuffed a little bit in ninth grade because I was a board. Right. It was embarrassing. I was absolutely a plywood. Yeah. And it wasn't even real wood. It's so sad. And it was just like bat. And then I remember I wore the padded bra and boys started saying like, oh, you got boobs over the summer. Uh-huh. Sure. And I was like, okay. Yeah. There we go. I always wanted boobs because I never had them. Then there was a girl in my high school who had like triple D, exactly tiny as you. I don't know if I've ever seen it again in life. Yeah. And 16 years old. It's like if you are a woman or a girl who's flat, you're like, oh, I want some boobs. And if you have boobs, you're like, oh, I don't have less. Right. That's just the way it goes. But also most people, I think, who get, well, I shouldn't say most, I don't know any of these percentages. Most people who get implants aren't getting double Ds. They're getting around Bs or Bs. Yeah. Definitely now and in LA. Correct. It's changed. We had 30 years where actually everyone got double Ds. Yeah. The only reason to get implants was like if you're just going up a size, what's the point? Yeah. But now the other thing that's challenging is when you get breast implants, I was showing them pictures of the boobs that I liked and the sizes of the- Okay. So where did you find those pictures? Oh, it's really funny. Is there's a drag queen named Bosco who's a trans woman. And she wore her real tits out on the runway of drag race. Oh, okay. And I said, I have never seen fake boobs like this in my life. So I DMed her. Oh. And I was like, I love your breast. She wrote me right back and she sent me a picture. This is the other thing about this fucking journey. It makes me cry. The sisterhood. She wrote me right back. She sent a picture of the back of her implants card. Then when I spoke to my doctors about it, they were like, totally, we love that. I'm not sure how a teardrop would be on you and this. And just like we talked all through it. And the other thing was I have friends who have breast implants. And my concern was that because I don't have breast tissue. And when you put a breast implant, you would never. But if you did, it would go seamlessly in because you have plenty of breast tissue to go around it. Smooth out the edges. I could look like I have two half canelopes just around totally. And I was like, oh, Gaggi. But there's nothing they could do. It doesn't look like that. If it does, it's because on your skinny and your ribcage, your chest bones are there. Right. This is ribs, right? Yeah. I'm not right. Well, one of us has made it to the semi-finals on Jeopardy. That's right. That's right. You can only. I was so confident. I was like, your ribs. And then I thought, oh, God, Dax is going to know that's not. No, that does feel high up for ribs, right? Yeah. Like collarbone. Right. But it's like that whole. And so now I'm just like a genetic testing person where I'm like, we have this opportunity to find this out. Can someone just ask their normal GP, I want this test? Or do you go online and order it? The myriad one, you go online. Okay. It's learnmyrisk.com. Okay. Go on there and you order it, you spit in the tube, you send it out, they send you back. Yep. And there's an app. I had my information right on the website. Oh, God, it's devastating. But, you know, there's a big red plus sign in a circle and you're just like, oh, boy. I have this. Oh, that's the iconography you feel positive on that. Sure. Like a sunshine. You can do you imagine? It's a smiley face. It's a cry-tearing. So happy, it's a hysterical laugh, it's so happy. I know that certain people, I guess, want, I don't know, they have a different theory of just like, I don't want to know, I'll deal with it when I get there. And that's just not me, especially given that when I got my breast tissue removed, they found stuff in there. I have a screen grab of the pathology test results and the words are terrifying, pre-carcinomic this and that. And when the doctor, Castle called me, with those results, she was like, almost not shrieking, but almost like, we did it, we did it. So sometimes we take people's breast tissue out and there's nothing in there and that's wonderful. And who knows if in 10 years it would have been something. Also with the RCA, they recommend you get your ovaries out before 40 and your breast moved before 40. Whoa. And I'm 45. And so it's like, you know, it becomes a borrowed time situation. Yeah. Because the numbers increase at the 40, obviously. And so she was like, there was stuff in there. We did it. That had to be one of the best days of my life, even though I had to go through all this. I'm like, yo, that's crazy, dude, you're just living with it. And we talk about this too, which is so scary. My dad is the greatest, but my dad has been through so much shit. You know, he said, I made it this far so you could find out he felt so bad about the BRCA. I feel so bad. You got this from me. Like he went shopping for it. Yeah. I regret buying that. The impulse buy. I regret purposefully putting that gene in you. Yeah. So he was just so upset. And then when we look at the bright side, it's like, dude, you absolutely say. to my life. Yeah. What's your anxiety level out of 10? Do you feel like that took it to zero, or do you feel like, oh, I just don't like that. I have that gene. Well, here's something which is crazy because you both know how neurotic I am. I have a friend who years ago, every single thing that ever happened to her. She had cancer in her brain. She was like, oh my god, I have cancer. She had a really sore throat for a long time and she was like, it's a hundred percent cancer. Everything was cancer. I don't know why. Neither of her parents had cancer. I just was never that. Not with cancer. I was just like, you know, I have nuts and I catastrophize, but it was never cancer. And so this happened. I had to recalibrate all of my mental bullshit of like, wait a minute. Now I have this thing that people get scared of their whole life. I don't god forbid of cancer, but I have this, you know, predisposition. I mean, it is a proclivity. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, god forbid. I love you that every time I knock you knock, I know it's going to make me cry. I know. I'm a knocker. I'm a knocker too. I know. I know at all the time. But if I see you knock, I have to be making my heart explode. So you guys are, yeah, you're knockers. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. It's all, you know, synthesized perfectly. Yeah. Sometimes you call it that. Do you guys want to think about a side podcast called knockers? Yeah. Of course I do. Oh my god. That'd be great. Just like the sisterhood of the traveling tits. Yeah. Of it all. One of my best friends, Ilsi, I told her about this diagnosis. And she was like, oh, my friend has this. Do you want to talk to her? And I was like, yeah, more than anything. So my whole life became, I met up with this woman, Nina. We sit down at Alfred on Ventura Boulevard. And I am kind of hysterical. And I don't know what to expect. But now I've learned my numbers. And I'm like, oh, I got to do this. So now I'm looking for a medical team. I'm past that weird month where I didn't know if I was just going to do advanced surveillance as they call it. And I'm sitting down and I have tears in my eyes. And she goes, let's go to your car. And I go, okay, because I'm crying. And she goes, no, I'm going to show you my boobs. And I think it'll make you feel better because they're outrageous. You're going to love what you see. Maybe you're going to like the way you look. You're going to like the way you look. So we went to the car. She lifts up her shirt and they're gorgeous. And they don't look fake at all. And they're just perky. And her nipples work. And I was like, you got to keep, I didn't know. Yeah. And she goes, oh, yeah. If you're getting preventative, double mastectomy and you don't have cancer, which is why they do the testing, then you can largely keep your nipples. Yeah. So my boobs look the same as they did. This is very personal. But sensitivity. Have we lost any sensitivity? We have. But that could return. It could return. I had a facial a couple days ago. And the woman was at my house. And I felt her pull the sheet up and my tits were out. I didn't know. This could lead to all kinds of funny future. Wild wardrobe malfunctions that you don't know about. I asked Kristin, whatever press we just did. I had a low-cut thing. And I said, let me know if my tits out. I won't know. Yeah. I will not know. Okay. We're just going to need to be using a lot of the tape. The lot of the tape and a lot of friendship of just being like, even the nipple, you can't know. No, no, especially the nipple. Nothing. So if we punched you, baby, let's go. If you had to get punched, but I bet many surgeries as you know, yeah, my whole shoulder was completely dead. Like the whole left upper quadrant of my body was just like zero feeling from all the nerves that were cut. They've all come back. Unfortunately, now I need to get one cut, but they all came back. So you might be shocked. And these doctors, they're out of this place called the Bedford Breast Center. That's all they do. They're just boobs all day. They're not at a hospital. And there's like random plastic surgery they do. It's the Bedford Breast Center. Yeah. And so not that it's experimental, but not all places do this. They do nerve sparing. There's an extra hour and a half added to my surgery because they reconnected nerves after they were cut. And I was like, is that going to equal phantom pain? And they were like, no, it actually lessens the chance of phantom pain. And so I can feel like here a little bit now and it'll be exciting when I'll be like, oh, and this girl, Nina, who famously showed me her boobs immediately said she was so excited like a year later. She was like, I ran into the kitchen and I told my husband, I'm like, Evan, I feel my nipple. Yeah. Okay. I have a question. So overall anxiety. This could go either way because you are an anxious person as am I queen. I feel like I always thought, you know, something could be wrong or something might be wrong. And then when I have my seizures and I got diagnosed with epilepsy, I'm on the edge today. Everything's going to make me cry. Well, it's so hard. I know it's hard. Okay. But it really helped my anxiety. Because I was like, oh, the fuck is wrong with me. It was like, oh, for one, it was like, I knew something was wrong. And then now it's vindicated. And then it's like, oh, but that bad thing, like the idea of having a seizure. And then it's like, oh, I did have it. And I'm fine. This is exactly what I was saying before. That is catastrophizing in life that we do when you actually have the thing that you're terrified of. And you figure out the steps to get through it. And you're better on the other side. If someone told me a year and a half ago that you're in a 85% chance again, I don't know what I would have done. But then when you just tell me there's not a, you have it. Go ahead. Figure it out. There was no anxiety at that point. There's no time for any of that. It kind of makes you realize kind of how indulgent anxiety and fear is because I know what I say this all the time. It's like all these things you fear. I've walked through many of them now. And they're fine. They're weirdly fine. You show up. You arrive at the thing. You pick your dad up. You take him to the chemo. You're there. You talked to the person while you're there. You make that person laugh. You just walk through it all. Yeah, when you think about it, it seems completely insurmountable, completely undoable. And now what is the fucking utility of it? Like why do we have such an outside? So fucking annoying. I think to prevent us from getting ourselves in situations, yeah, I think you pickles, but it's too much. But don't they say like the reason we have it, we have anxiety and fear is like from the times when a lion would attack you. And now you have that level of anxiety, but it's because you don't know which cold medicine to buy. Yes. I do think in the absence of real threats, all the mechanisms are still there. But there's nothing real to focus on. I mean, we're worrying about whether you're going to die at 80 or 90. It's like, what? Yeah. I think we have all this architecture for it and no outlet for it. So we just start searching. To me, there are some things like I started that doc. Have you guys seen the doc about the girl who like drove the car into a crash or something? Yeah, yeah, exactly. I haven't watched it. Is it good? Of course. So this girl drove a car into a wall or something with her boyfriend and a friend and those two died. And she survived. And now she's being like charged with murder or something. So, okay, I couldn't actually finish it because I started it. And because it was clearly about teenagers in car accidents and dying, I felt so anxious. And I was like, there's too many teenagers in my life right now. I started to really have some panic. I don't think I can watch this because that's a real fear. These kids out on the road driving around these like little baby drone con mushrooms. They shouldn't be out there. I don't like that. But because those are real premium fears, I think your brain can't really handle that level of like these teenagers might end up in these horrible situations. So it's like, yeah, cough medicine. It like funnels into. Yes. The dumbest shit. Of course. Sort of handle. Does that mean? Yes. How would certain you to say this all the time? But like your brain can't even focus on dying for any length of time. You'll think of something else because your brain is not going to let you sit there and really focus on it. It's not a good zone for us. Yeah, I've been thinking this a lot lately. And I guess the reason I've been thinking about it a lot is because of the fervor of anger and how upset everyone is politically and just kind of country wide. And some part of me just keeps going, yeah, dude, you're on this planet for a minute and you literally get to think about whatever you want and you get to get angry or upset or in love. You're just on this right and you're going to be gone. And we're here for some period and we'll be gone. And this planet was here for a minute and it'll be gone. It's like on some level, I think it's healthy to zoom out a bit and go like, yeah, all your concerns, although they are valid, there's a reality of how you're spending your time on this trip on this planet, which also needs to be evaluated and balanced. There's a old Bob Newhart sketch. This is reminding me of and he was a therapist on his show and people would come in to his, I feel like I may have told you this already, but people would come into his office on the sketch on the Bob Newhart show. And he was a therapist and he would sit there with his paper and pen and they would start saying all the things and he would go over to them and shake them and go, stop it. Yeah, but my mother and my father and I didn't, and it wasn't good, but they did to myself, stop it. Yes. Yeah. And you just go like, stop it. Yeah. This whole country just needs someone to grab by the shoulders and just go stop. Exactly. And I have to say it to myself and I think of that sketch and Jackie, stop it all the time. But what's really crazy is that this whole journey has not been an anxiety riddles journey. Yeah. It's the antithesis. It's like, I am a machine who handles things. Yeah. I just handle. It's really confidence building. Who's she, bitch? I know it's crazy. That's so cool. - I want to get really philosophic. - Okay. - Death. - Yeah. - Even if you walk through all of that. - Jackie, step in that coffin. - 'Cause the whole thing says, Rob's gonna pull out a subcompact machine gun. - I'm lying. - Hey, we're not gonna help. - Even if you work through, like so much of the catastrophization, right, of everything is like you stop at the big event and then you don't walk beyond that. Okay, someone died in a car accident. What's after that? And I think you have our own death to think about, which is like truly, you're not gonna know. - Right. - You're figuring something you can't experience. - So what a waste, right? 'Cause you're not gonna know, and that's that. So there's nothing to feel bad about on your behalf. 'Cause you're not gonna suffer. There's no moment you're gonna be reflecting and going, oh, I wish I was still there. That's not what's gonna happen. So, okay, I don't need to feel bad for me 'cause I'm not gonna experience any discomfort. So now we're just talking about the sadness of death is for the people that are left there, right? But even that, you need to think about all that. I've lost people. I've lost my father. I kind of love my dad more now than I ever have. I don't know. I don't know if that's where we would've gotten to if he made it to 100. I don't know. The love and the infusion of the people that are here, that's not going anywhere. You can't take that from me. I can miss my day-to-day interaction with you, but I think the best version of me would be like, fuck yeah, I got to meet that person on this trip. So it's like even if you start working through, what it'll really look like on the other side of these things are so afraid of, it's like, well, the person that died, there you got no issues. It's the people that are alive. But then there's also all kinds of beautiful ways that the people who are then living get to channel that person and talk about the person like, you know, it's all manageable. We're not so fucking fragile. - I know. That is my takeaway. People ask all the time, they're like, so are you now like, don't sweat the small stuff? And I was like, (laughs) - Did you get that bumper sticker in your car? - Yeah, I was like, are you sick? Are you either sick or dumb? No, I'm going to sweat the small stuff for fucking ever. - Don't sweat. - Yeah, I know I am still just as upset about minutia as I was before this whole thing. But the big difference is that exact thing. There's this perspective shift where I'm not that fragile. I got it. Like, I am a, you know, I think in our lives we're always told, you don't say good things about yourself. That's conceded. That's this, that's that. But I am a fucking badass warrior. - Yeah. - You could do these crazy, difficult things. And I just did them. And if you are going through this, you can do that. - You'll just do them. When I'm DMing with anybody that's going through it. My first thing is I'm always just like, you got this. Even if you don't think you got, you do. You'll be on the other side of this. I was DMing with one girl who was like, I'm two weeks out and I'm so miserable. Am I ever going to feel better? And I was like, queen, you will be dancing a soft shoe without having breast cancer. I mean, truly in three weeks. - Yeah. - But two weeks sucks, so it sucks. Yeah, it sucks. And you don't want to talk about that because I want people to do what they need to do. - But it's part of it. - But it's like, it sucks. The recovery is rough. - I will say the most eye-opening part of my dad's cancer thing was taking him to chemo. And in that room was almost 100% women in their 30s. - It's scary. - And I was like, whoa, this is not what I was expecting. That was going to be a bunch of old men who smoked cigarettes hooked up to these machines. And I was like, oh, there's a real epidemic. I know people have been saying it, but like to see it in person. - The chemo rooms is full of women with breast cancer. It's crazy. - It's like the numbers of people who get breast cancer. It's like 20,000 people per state per year. - Oh my goodness. - I mean, it's just a massive, that's an ish. So that's where it's 10 or 11. It's crazy. And I always say this too. But I'm a doctor person. I got a doctor for every part of my body. I go to the doctor for something like this to get past me. - Right. - It's not like I'm my head in the sand person. - Exactly. - I have a girlfriend who was helping me with some interior design stuff. And she was like, "Hey, my mom has it." But I just haven't been tested. And I was like, "Your mom has Brocka?" - Yeah. - And you're just raw dog in it. - Yeah, yeah. - I can judge. In my mind, I did. I didn't out loud judge. But it's like, you got to, I do really have trouble understanding whatever you do with the information, I guess is your choice. It's just really hard for me to wrap my brain around. You know me. - I'm not that way, but I totally get it. And I'm fine with it. - Not which way. - My way is, I'd rather know. - I thought you were saying not know. And I was like, bro. - No, but I understand. - I'm shaking. - I understand people who choose to not know. I think it's fine. And I think I have that feeling because with my dad, I really tried to get him to do certain things. And after he was gone, I was like, "Hey, what a waste of time." That was to be, it was tension we didn't need. And guess what? That was his fucking journey to do however he want. Guess what? It wasn't my fucking business or my choice. And so when my stepdad got it, he made some nuts decisions. I became the spokesperson for the Prostate Cancer Foundation so I could get him into a trial. I get him into this trial. No one can get into. He goes, "Oh, one appointment." He's like, "Yeah, I'm gonna do it." And because I had already had my dad, I was like, "Cool, man. This is yours, dude. This is your ride." And I totally honor it. And I wasn't resentful. So I do totally respect people who are like, "Oh yeah, it doesn't interest me. I'm on the journey. I'm on a cool with it." I'm fine with that. That's not what I would do. It doesn't bother me too much 'cause I do think that's all you have for your autonomy. Is really you deciding and whether that to me makes no sense or not, it's like it's the one thing you have. - Yeah. And you decide if you don't want an apparently, I mean, thank God a million times. Again, I don't know about chemo, but it's not uncommon for people to say, "I think I'm all set." Oh, it's gonna make me cry. I think I'm all set. - Yeah, I've done it. I've already done it. - I don't wanna do this anymore. - In the tool Gwonde way, you really do have to evaluate is this a quantity play or a quality play? In both our legitimate-- - What are we talking about for three weeks? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I mean, even if you think it's years, but if you're gonna be in a bed the whole time, exactly. - Let's compare 18 months to nine months, but nine months I can go on walks with my family in Europe and the other version I sit in a bed for 18 months and people come and cry next to me. Who's to say which one is-- - And look at me like I'm already gone. - Oh, that's right, I mean. Everyone gets to decide. Everyone gets to make their own decision. - You occasionally hear these stories or it's like the dad didn't tell anyone he had a kid. - Oh! - Sturdy, everyone's so mad. - So mad. - And everyone's so shocked by that, but I did say to Chris and I'm like, you know, I'm not ruling that out because I don't wish to spend the last year of my life breaking everyone's heart I'm in love with. - So sue me. I don't want my last year of my life with my girls looking at me with total sadness and I'm ruining their existence versus I'm still dying on the same day. And I might tell you three months before so you can do whatever closure you want. It doesn't seem as crazy to me as when I would first hear about it. Like guess what, it's my last year of life. Motherfuckers. - Uh-huh. - How do I want to spend a bean pitied? That's my most hated fucking feeling. - Thank you. - So I don't know. - It's so fucking tough ones. - If it's for them, you might want to ask now. - Well, I brought up the other day and didn't go well. - How would you want them? - It was like I prefer having time. Being on the other side. Like my grandfather was basically dying for so long. - Too long. - Too long and it was hard, but I'm glad it happened that way. Because I did get to mourn his death before his body died and that was good for me personally. - Right. - Because then by the time he died, I really could feel gratitude for him that at the time you were able to spend with him, giving you the information. - I really say goodbye and really feel all the feelings. So if it's for the people in your life, you might want to give them the option. - I'll just say for the record, I don't currently have any terminal diagnoses. - Right, right, right, yeah. - Huge. - And there might be a day when you ask me, if I have that when I say I'd rather not answer that, 'cause I would choose to lie to you. - No. - And then you'll get on the other day. - God damn it. - I have to carry around a piece of wood. - I'm exhausting. - My poor nose. - My poor, good damn, that. - I have a good question. - Yeah. - Please, when you got the diagnosis, did it do anything, or even when you got the surgeries, did it do anything to your identity? Did it do anything to your female identity? - I love that question. Believe it or not, it really didn't. - Good. - It didn't at all. - I'm so glad. - And I'm also speaking with people who are very worried about that. And I feel for them because my boobs are not why I feel like a woman. I mean, no part of me is really like a woman. I don't know. I've never been classically feminine in a lot of ways. We're like, a wedding doesn't really speak to me. - Right. - When you wear a tux at your bucket spot. - I wear a tux at my bucket. I had to learn from a friend the hard way, how to celebrate when someone has an engagement ring. 'Cause I was like, "Oh, it's so pretty." And they just called me later and was like, "I don't even know how to have this conversation with you." Everybody but you screamed and went crazy. - Okay, but that's on, I'm sorry. - I don't know who that is, that's on that. - It is a little bit, but it's also like, I get it. I'm reacting to it in a way that I don't really want an engagement ring. I don't really care. - Yes, yes. - It's not something that ever meant anything to me. And I think similarly, I've never been a woman who is like my sexuality and my femininity. You know, what would make me lose my sense of self is if I woke up and I wasn't funny tomorrow. - Yes. - I would jump off a bridge. - Yeah, totally. - But if I have to get a life-saving surgery. Also, I remember going on a carpet truly way too soon after the surgery, 'cause I'm disturbed. And I went to one of the award shows and a girlfriend of mine who was at the award show who'd been through the whole thing and was who actually recommended the doctors to me. She DM me afterwards and was like, "Oh my gosh, you look amazing, so excited. "Let me know when your surgery is." Because she was like, You obviously didn't get it yet. You're in the wardrobe doing amazing with new perky tits. And I was like, oh no, I did it already. - Yeah. - And so because of things like this and because of what an amazing job they did, I think I'd feel differently if I was like, oh my God, I gotta get hatched it. - Yeah, and you're valued with some place there. But for some people it is. I know a lot of people are ready to be me too, being like, I'm not getting the reconstruction. I don't wanna do it. It sounds like a headache. I'm like, okay. - Okay. - Again, everyone makes too. - Teach them. (upbeat music) - Stay tuned for more armchair expert if you dare. (upbeat music) - Okay, I wanna transition to a couple professional questions. - Please. - What is it? I don't think we've talked about in your previous trips here. But when you're 18 after a semester at Delaware, you and Aggie Gold, your agent from fresh face talent. - I hate you. - And your mother- - Never hated you more? - Came out to LA on a break after the first semester and you meet Jessica Biel and you end up living with her and her family in Calabasas. But the thing that was- - Integative. - There's so many interesting things to that. - I don't know how you could possibly have a question about such an obvious thing. - The one I'm most obsessed with is it said, you guys met at a TV guide. - Awards. - Okay, so just explaining me what the award show was that you met at and why you would have been there if you were a student at Delaware. - The answer to the question is yes. So, when I was 18, I came out on this break and I was friends with Ben Salisbury who was the son on the nanny. And I had been on the nanny twice, yeah. - Plain to remind everyone. Young friend, Drescher. - Yes. - And then sort of young friend. - Sort of young friend. - Yeah. - So first, I played her second cousin and then I played a girl in the classroom that was supposed to be - The flashback. - Basically exactly like her. I'm friends with Ben. He's one of my only California friends and he knew that I loved Jessica Beale. And he was like, just, you know, a people call her Jessie. Like, okay, I hope one day to be able to utilize that. So he was invited to the TV guide awards, which were hosted that year by Drew Carey, of course. But it was the most, I mean, low rent doesn't even cut it. I would have to Google what a TV guide award even looks like. - So you were his date. - I was like his friend date and our moms were friends. And so it was me and Ben, I believe his mom and my mom. And then Jessica Beale was there, who I loved. - Was she nominated for a TV guide award? - Probably. - She must have been there. - Yeah. - And that was probably nominated for the nanny 'cause that was still on. So maybe it was like, you know, best kid, the TV guide awards, like best kid actor. They used to also have like the young Hollywood awards. And that I coveted, oh, I coveted. - Oh, they're so bad. - Oh, he really wanted to be involved, but I wasn't getting hired at that time at all. So I was Ben's plus one. And then I met Jesse Beale there. He was like, Jackie, this is Jesse. And I just was immediately like, oh, dude, I love you. I'm a bit obsessed with you. And she was like, oh, thanks to what she is deeper voice than me. Just crazy. - Yeah, great. - Thanks so much, dude. And then we became immediate friends. - Okay. - But really quick, that's already a rare event. - She's already on TV, I mean, she goes to the TV guide awards. She meets you and she's like, yeah, I have space to start hanging out with you. Is weird, no? - Weird. - Yeah. - But we were immediately like, our personalities. Similar to me and KB were like, you wouldn't necessarily think, but then it just works. - There's a symmetry. - Similar thing with KB. I mean, she wasn't a TV star yet, but when we met, we were like, oh, there was like an immediate game recognizing, like funny snarky. - But very complimentary. You guys are in very defined lanes that are not the same. - Correct. I, for example, am not America's sweet heart. - You need a neuron, yeah. - We however are in similar lanes. - Yes. - So Jess, we became super fast friends. We exchanged numbers. And then the next day, I was leaving on like four days and I was like, oh, what are you doing? And she was like, oh, let's go. I'm going to Ty Bo. - Oh. - Remember Ty Bo. - Oh, Ty Bo Boxing. - Billy Blanks. - Billy Blanks, BB. - I have not heard the term Ty Bo in 20, 30 years. - Truly. And then she was who convinced me, I don't know that she admits this, but she is who convinced me to drop out of college. - Oh. - And it wasn't a hard convince. - Right. - It was literally, I was like, I can't live here. I have nowhere to live. She was like, live with my family. And I was like, see you Delaware. - So that part is the interesting. So she was on seven, having, what ages were you guys? - I was 18, she was 17. - Okay, so that's why she lived at home. And her parents were like, absolutely. Invite your friend, you just met to live in our home. 'Cause I gotta be honest, when my girls come home from the TV guide or show, and they tell me someone's living in, I'm gonna go, that's not happening. - I think we're not gonna say, it is happening, Kristen. - Of course. - Yeah, I'm gonna go to Nashville, I guess, and ignore the whole situation. - I mean, when I first met Kristen, there were seven people living in her home, like at a minimum. - Yeah. - Same, one at a time. - And I was just like, do I dare broach this? I mean, any of these seven folks paying rent? - I know. - No, no, not one of them. - And it paid off because those people are Ryan, and Amy, and other people. - Jetted it out. - Yeah, exactly. - That's right. - Yeah, of course. - Yeah, right, yep. - Did you feel awkward living in a family's home or did you drop right in? You're no problem for you. - Right, you already know. - I am a person. - Can you bring me soup? - Kind deal, Jess's mom taught me how to write a check. - Oh. - 'Cause I've moved out of the house. So literally, taught me how to pump gas. I moved out of the house so young. I went to college for one semester. I'd barely had my driver's license for a year. I was so young, and my parents to their credit, well once they knew I was moving in with this, like TV stars family, and my parents met her parents, and everything was super sweet. And I wasn't gonna stay for long. It was just till, like, get me on my feet and get me out here. - All on you to say three years? - For seven years, it's coming up on seven. It's coming up on 25 at the end of this month. It was like less than six months. - Were you guys just out on the town together? - Always. - Oh, that's really funny. - We were like putting on wigs and dressing crazy and going to friends parties at like UCLA. - That's so cute. - That's what it takes chairs from that time are crazy. Also when she invited me to typo, this is so good. - I think it's gonna be a typo class. Like it's like taking a Pilates class, and they're like, this is Joseph Pilates. You're like, no, it was Billy Blanks who taught the class. And in the class was Brandy, Sinbad, me and Jessica Beale. - Oh, yeah. - I thought there's a picture from that. - That's a better, terrible word. - Then was that the TV guy? - TV guy for sure. - No, another thing I wanted to say about your career is I think it started with the question, I was gonna ask the question, you've toured both as a musician and you've toured as a standup. I just want to confirm my hunch, which is, is it easier to do music? - Oh, by a million miles. - Like you can even enjoy your free day before you perform that night. - If I was still playing, I'm not doing standup as much anymore, hardly ever. And I'm not playing music as much anymore. And it's a little weird. I remember when I was a kid in my aunt was like, I was learning guitar and I was like 18. And she was like, I used to play guitar and I remember thinking like, you used to. You play guitar, you play guitar. I haven't picked the guitar off the wall in a long time. My guess is I was, as you've known for 20 years, clawing. My whole career has just been this absolute. I was gonna say grift, but I wasn't pulling one over on anyone. It just was like, I'm touring as a musician, I'm touring as a standup, I'm trying to get on TV. I have an agent, my agent dropped me. I'm on American, I'm just like, what can I do because all I wanna do is make art and be a professional personality. Yeah, so why do I monetize this? Yeah. I got on, nobody wants this. And like, I just calm the fuck down. Even on glow, I was like, hey, how do I get? How do I get, what do I get? How of all the people on this show can I be the one who pops, there's 15 of us? How do I maximize this opportunity? 'Cause it's the last one I'm ever gonna have. I don't know, well of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was for a while and I lost my health insurance for years after glow. And then finally got a weird energy commercial campaign, which was literally California only, which made me got my health insurance back in like 2022 or three. Yeah, so what started as a question about touring? God, sad. No, it got quite good. That makes me think of, I think the first time I ever cried on the show was Gordon Keith. We were interviewing him live in Dallas and he was telling a story about he was staying in our house, we were out of town. And he just went through my big book of alcoholics anonymous. And in the first page are like all these different dates that have been scratched out. I got sober this time. Then I got sober again this time. And so it's funny as I look at that page and I'm a little bit like, oh my God, it's such a failure. I just can do it right? Oh, it's a great name. Yeah, and Gordon Keith's like, I looked at this thing and I was like, dude, this is a guy who won't quit. And I was like, oh, fuck. That gets it out. Yeah, it was for fuck me up. 'Cause I will never give myself that kind of pat on the back. But yeah, throughout all things, I'm a dude who won't give up. And there's a date that isn't crossed out. Oh, you know. It's beautiful. I mean, it's a smudge. Yeah, yeah. 'Cause I did lines of coke off it. But it's not crossed out. But I'm looking at this long road you've been on. Now you're touring. And again, I did the same thing where I was just like, dude, I'll do whatever things are working slightly better than the other things. Like, I write, okay, or I direct. Or I do this or I do stand up. Like, oh, that's what it is now? Okay, I'll sing now. Yeah, so I look at your thing and I'm like, this fucking bitch wouldn't quit. It's so hard. This bitch wouldn't fucking quit. And that makes me freaking feel so good. That's something to be more proud of than having succeeded right away. Yeah, I agree. Oh my God. Understatement not succeeded right away. Yeah, and it's kind of like a testament to it. It is a war of attrition. Also, most people have moved home by now. And we've talked about this. And I talk about you often in interviews where I talk about how the first time I did your pod, you set a similar thing to me, similar to what your boy said about the crossing the dates out. There was a turning point for you where when you're 37 and you still haven't gotten the job and you're in your one bedroom apartment with your 15 year old RAV4, no one's high-fiving you for your persistence. No, they feel they're worried about you and they feel bad for you. No one's congratulating you. And then the next year I get glow and then I'm doing all this press and everyone going like, your persistence is so admirable and good for you. But six months prior, it was like, we hang it up. We get to be ready. And you pointed that out to me and I was like, oh, yeah. That's crazy. And the other reason when I talk about it in therapy, I'm like, I might be like, something's broken. Maybe in a good way. Probably in a good and bad way. We're like a lot of people just, they're not going to, I have family members that went on two job interviews and it's too much. They were told no both times and they're switching careers now because it's just, but not in a saturation. And now they're doing something else because the first job didn't work out and now I am putting a fucking garlic and a cross to that whole career. One rejection? I couldn't count them with a gun to my head. You can't survive here with that. Yes and no, because what I admire about you and I think it's what I did as well, which is like, I just kept pivoting. Also, you were like, I'd be happy being a singer of the tours. You want to invite me to that party? I'm there. 100%. You want to invite me to the acting party? I'm there. 100%. I also think, yes, you shouldn't give up after two. But I also think a lot of people just are willing to keep trying different things. You're like so hell bent on this one version and it has to be. The other thing is it's impossible to say if you're not getting hired because you're just not good. That's hard to know. Hard to know. Yeah, really hard to know. And then it's like, well, it is a little psychotic if you're like, okay, you're almost 40 and you still haven't been really hired in any meaningful way. That means. With any security. Yeah. With any stability or security. So it's like that same thing happens to people who just don't have the goods. I know. Yeah. But with me, I was lucky because I was getting enough validation from big people that were like, we're going to give you a development deal. We're going to make you a show. Exactly. And then just the show didn't go. So I was like, well, somebody thought I was cool enough to like try and make something with. You had bites. It's not like my opinion. I'm like taking in the feedback of this business. And you're the advantage of performing live, which is very encouraging. That's the ticket, too, is when I started really doing stand-up. There's probably a couple of years before, well, five years before glow. That changed my whole life, too, because speaking of pivoting, I was no longer waiting for the phone to ring. I'm a joke machine. Yeah. I'm just going to call the pitching for people. So I'm out. I'm on the town. Managers. Comedy people saw me. I went and did Montreal. You're an actor. I'm an actor. Yeah. And that's the number one piece of advice I give. Then pivoting is really good, too. But the number one piece of advice I give is like diversify your portfolio, bitch. Do not sit there and be like, I'm an actor. I'm waiting. You can't wait for the phone to ring. And if you're an actor, you better start writing and directing and make your own shit, because no one's looking for you. Especially now, there really is no excuse. You can make stuff all day long. Put it on YouTube. And we will dismiss you as influential. Yes, exactly. And I think you're going to have to get used to that, thicken that skin, because it's happening. Okay. My very last question. Oh. I think about this often. I mostly think about it when I'm at my men's meeting, because there's a bunch of men on different rungs of the ladder. Of the success ladder? The Hollywood success ladder. Yes. In the financial ladder. There's many status ladders. And I can see for some of these guys, I can feel that they think their position on that rung is important to me, or that I even evaluate it. But when you're having those feelings, you're certain other people have decided you're not high status enough for them. And just on the other side, I lucky enough now to be on the very high rung event ladder. And I've been on a very low rung in the ladder. And I now realize from the high rung, I don't think about what anybody has accomplished or how much money they have. Like it's all in our own heads. A hundred percent. So I'm just wondering, have you had any kind of reckoning with that? Because like you and I have been friends for 18 years. I'm not more friends with you now that you're on Nobody Wantsons. No. And I'm not less friends with you. It has no impact. I'm not less friends with you because you're busy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the only thing. I'm kind of swamped. She like hanging out. But do you know the thing I'm talking about? A hundred percent. And then once you get it, you're going to go like, oh, I will say what it has afforded me is more of a calm. I'm not so fucking thirsty. I don't have to be funny in all situations. That's very self-aware of you to say, by the way. I'm impressed by that. Thanks. You know, I've been with you for years ago. Meeting like some of my favorite comedians. Feeling this need to rise to the occasion. Yeah. Because I know they're funny. They don't know I'm funny. And there's that thirst of like, you don't even mean to. And I'm not over there like doing a soft shoe. But I'm being like real bitty. And you just get to a point in your life. And you're like, well, it's just nice to, you know, who's a really great inspiration in this way is Sarah Silverman. If you guys had this genius on. Yeah. Anytime. Or is like, she's never been a bitty person. It's one of the best to ever do it in my opinion. She's absolutely a genius and a trailblazer. And she's so calm. Yeah. Tig is another example. You realize that the grates are fucking chilling. What are you doing? And then when I'm somewhere now. And someone's like, bit city. I'm like, oh, okay. But I get it. And similar to what you were saying a second ago. It's like, they feel insecure. So I don't fault them for that. Oh, yeah. Like if someone's guessing on nobody wants this. And they're doing a lot of bits in the hair and makeup trailer. It's like, yeah. Yeah. I see it. I hear you. That's me. Yeah. And I'm not like, okay, try hard. It's like, yeah. You want people to remember you. Yeah. And I get that. You have one shot. You keep having this one shot. And it's like, ah, this industry. I know. It's a nightmare. It's an absolute psychological warfare nightmare. And I think that for me is what. Now that I'm here and I'm moderately successful. And I feel I'm doing well. And I have my health and all the things. I'm just like, oh, I don't. You know, it's really interesting. I went to acupuncture. This woman recommended this amazing acupuncturist. She and her daughter, they're this tall. They have black, like Bob hair. They look like that woman from the Incredibles. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. They're Korean. I mean, thick Russian accent. Oh, wow. And they are fascinating. And they are acupuncturists in silver. Like the mother daughter team. Okay. And you want to talk about crying. I went in there. And the woman was like the first thing. She was asking me about my ailments. And I was telling her about the breasts and everything. And she goes, you need to. She's just going like this. That's a wavy nerve. She's like, calm your nervous system in her thick Russian accent. Calm your nervous system. And I was telling her this whole story. And she gave me a hug because when just met me. And she goes, you don't have to entertain anybody. Oh, wow. Well, then I'll have no value. Truly. Well, then one of those fucking seaweed people that Ursula turns the mermaids into, the big eyes. And I'm just fucking. And I was like, what is what? What's the point? But I just like, it was. Wow. She saw right through you immediately. Yeah. So I was probably like, well, I did this. And I had to do this. And I did the mistake. I did have to do the boobs. But I'm going to do the art. Like you know how I'm like trying to lighten it for someone else. So they can handle it. Yeah. So she's like, what have you been going through? And I'm doing the song and dance. And she said, you don't have to entertain anybody. Yeah. And I was a very sweet way to say it, too. Yeah. Yeah. Because what have you been like, just knock off the dance? Literally. Enough. Enough, enough, enough. I got all off. Enough. Just so rude. Stop it. Stop it. Yeah. But it was just so profound. And like, even though now I'm sitting here being like, so I don't have to do this thing anymore. That was a month ago. Yeah. At the acupuncturist, I was like, do you want a soft shoe number four? Wow. Because I just was telling her about my trauma. So I was trying not to make it heavy. I could just as easily have like, taken a breath. And calmly just given her, she's like, you need to have a new mantra. And it's this. And you have to say it like this. And it sounds so trite. It's whatever. I don't care. In that, like, breathy. Also, Joan, I were talking about, like, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. Like, how many times do my life people have been like, you want to calm the fuck down? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But this time, you could hear it. I just was like, oh, yeah. I need to breathe, bro. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. Well, Jackie, I love you. Jackie, I love you. Jackie, I love you so much. Okay. Everybody, the four reasons that you should be getting genetic tested. Rare cancer, repetitive multiple cancers, young cancer. Or if you're an Ashkenazi Jew, get your test at learnmyrisk.com. I'll probably do it anyway. You should. You should. Why not? Yeah. Exactly. I spit them all day long just for fun. Julie, you really did. You loved it. You loved it as a dipping. Yeah. You and Tim. I love you. I love you guys. This was so special. Thank you for having me. I love you. I love you guys. This was so special. I love you guys. This was so special. >> I was right again. >> Oh, wow, great. >> Yeah. good to be right, doesn't it? - Yeah, so remember when I said you were right about my period and I gave you a whole thing about that you were wrong. - Oh, okay, so it was a bad day for me and a good day for you. - And I was right the whole time. The day I said is the day with just today. - Congratulations. - Thank you, it came. - So now we still don't know why you had your clothes on backwards, but it's still a big question. - The original mystery remains. - My mom liked me and right so much she made up a song and you'd hear singing it occasionally throughout the house and it was, it's such a good feeling to know that you're right. - Wow. - Yeah. - There were more lyrics, but that's the, I guess the chorus, that's what I remember. - Do you think you've really like, 'cause you grew up hearing that, you really embodied it? - I just know it feels great to be right. - Yeah, but it's like, do you know because of the song or do you know? - I heard the funniest thing once, from an editor, a film editor, who had cut some, a couple movies from an actor. And he said, yeah, you know, his thing is if he, if he has his way, his character's arc is that, he'll find out he was right the whole time. (laughs) - Instead of learning a lesson. - Yeah. - 'Cause the lesson will be he'll find out, he'll find out he was right the entire time. - That's really funny. - It does feel good to be right. - It does. It's just important not to gloat, you know? I guess that's all you can do. - And I guess it's good to tell other people when they're right, like I do. - Yeah. - Even though you were wrong. - I was wrong, yeah. You know, this was just a topic last night in a 12-step meeting, which was in the book, it said something about big shotism, you know? Like. - What's it say? - You know, just like that we have to avoid big shot. - Don't be a big shot. - Yeah, yeah. And I was thinking maybe the best you can do is just don't say anything. Like you're gonna think things. I don't know that you can control whether you think something. It's just like the thought pops into your head. And really, again, the space between your thought and your actions, therein lies peace or whatever the saying is, freedom, therein lies freedom. So I was thinking like, no, I still have some pretty grotesque thoughts. I've just gotten good at not saying them. And that's, I feel like that's all I can, I'm capable of and I'm proud enough of that. - Yeah, I mean, yes, I don't think we can control our thoughts, but we can control everything else. After the thought. - So we must. - Yeah, increase our bust. We must, we must. - We don't have to do that. Everyone's doing our great. - I'm trying to increase my bust pretty regularly. I'm doing bench press, which is for the pectoral's. - Yeah, but you don't have to increase. No one has to increase their bust. No, it's not a must. - No. - It's a choice. - But it is from Greece. - No wonder I hate it. - Oh yeah, that's right. I don't like Greece. - I don't know if I'm allowed to say that. - The only person in the world who did it, 'cause I don't like musicals. And even I am like, that's fine. - Really? - We made out under the doubt. - Please stop. (laughing) - Is that song in particular one you hate? - I don't like any of the songs. You know, my brother when he was just a young baby boy, he would be crying in the car. He was a baby. And my mom put the grease soundtrack on. - To sue them? - Yes, and it worked. And especially this one song. And so we, I had to listen to it on repeat. - Okay. - To keep him from crying. - I got it. You've associated it with your brother's annoying behavior. - It's separate. - No. - I already hated it. - That's what's going on. You know, it's so funny when you think back like, my brother also was obsessed with the backstreet boys. - Interesting. - As a little boy. - Oh, that's cute. - It's so cute. And I'm sure I was mean to him about it. - Of course you were. Does he want to go to the sphere? Aren't they? - Exactly. I thought about it recently. I was like, oh, he should go to that. That's his favorite pants. - Yeah, when he was six. I still like everything I liked when I was six musically. I never came to hate anything that I once loved musically. - Right. - Have you? - I'm trying to think. I mean, I just like to so much top 40 that I'm sure. I mean, it's hard to say. Now if I heard it, I'm associating it with that time. So of course, I'll like it. - Yeah. - But do I like it? - Probably not. - Well, this brings up an update for me. So my deepest superstition, as you already know, do you know what's my deepest superstition? - Putting hats on. - There's one worse than that. Where it really is like, it's, oh, I'm like, oh my god. - Can you give me a hint? 'Cause I do want a guess. - It's musical. - Oh, you have to listen to a song. There's a certain song you have to listen to twice. - If I hear it accidentally, I have to admit. - And which one is it again? - My stepdad used to play this song like at full volume and it was like, again, it's associated with maximum chaos. - Yes. - My brother and him fighting and that song was always playing and I just got it in my head that, like, if I heard it once, I had bad luck and then I had to hear it again. But I was not allowed to touch his record player and he had the album. So I had no control over it. The song is jump by Van Halen. - Well, jump. - Yeah. - So I was in Nashville and because I'm in my old cars, and they don't have any way to play my phone through some of them, I was listening to the radio a ton. - Oh. - So I was driving down the road by myself and all of a sudden jump came on. - Did you slam? - My first thought, well, my trick is if I hear it on the radio, I know this is a total workaround that everyone will call bullshit on, but I'll turn the channel to another channel, then turn it back and I try to count that as a second. - Oh. - Which is, well, no, that's bullshit. But that's the best I can do. - Okay, listen, there's no rules because it's all made up to your head. - It's all outside nine, yes, yes. I don't know why, but this song came on when I was in Nashville and I go, we're done with this. - Good job. - We're done with this. - Yeah. - And I'm not gonna try to listen to it twice. And then I go, and in fact, I'm adding it to my liked songs. So now it is in my liked songs, which I listen to all the time and it comes on once and I'm like, it's a great fucking song and you're gonna get over it and you're gonna love it. - Immersion therapy. - You're gonna enjoy it. So I've been listening to it one time, randomly, a lot. - And does your nose slowly bleed when you listen to your only ones? - No, my eyes tear black like Wednesdays. - And has you had any bad luck since you started this? - No, nothing discernible. No, in fact, I feel like I'm on good luck. I'm on a good luck wave. I've discovered this documentary, the Cowboys documentary, not the cheerleading one, which is also great, but a history of Jerry Jones buying the Cowboys. Are you watching it, Rob? - I am not. Buddy, I haven't liked to dock this much since last dance. - You don't, what? You just asked Rob because he's a boy. - 'Cause he loves football. - 'Cause he loves football, not 'cause of the boy. - Man, can you admit that you could have just asked everyone? - I could have, but I would, if there was a row documentary, I wouldn't ask Rob. - Rob does like football, that's fine. - He loves football. - Also, he might love to watch the dock on the row, it's probably great, it's probably gonna be great. I'm gonna make it and produce it. - I had a really strong feeling you hadn't watched the Cowboys documentary. Unfortunately, I was correct. The America's team, the gambler and his Cowboys. - The gambler and his Cowboys, it's awesome. - I do think you should watch it. This was all to encourage you to watch it. I'm not leaving you out. I just wanted to see if I could get a two-way encouragement to you to give it a shot. - Yeah. - Because you do not need to care much about football. - But you know I don't like peer pressure. - Okay, so, you don't want me to do that. - Okay, so just, just be regular. - You wanted me to ask if you've watched it and then, no, not recommend it. - That's not what happened. I just didn't want you to specifically ask the male in the room about a dock. - Football. - When you just equated it to last dance. So we know it's not just for, I don't like basketball. - You don't like basketball, yeah. - And the last dance is basically my favorite show that it's ever happened. - I know, it's a great one. - Anyhow, okay, so you want me to watch it. - Yeah. - Or I think everyone should watch it. - It's incredible. - Okay. - What characters? Jerry Jones is such a character. He has to give you a taste of what happens. So he is a very young guy and he is, I guess a wild cat they call, maybe that's not the right term, but he is buying oil fields, hoping to strike oil. - Okay. - He is so over leveraged, he's like $50 million in debt as a young man and he just keeps gambling. And when he describes the oil well he hits, the noises it was making and when it just started gushing and then that one oil well made him a $100 million. - Wow. - And then he immediately took that money and bought the cowboys. - Wow. - And the cowboys are the most valuable sports team in the world. - Yes, I knew that. - Every sport included, like a $13 billion value of that team. - Wild. - Yeah, and then he grabs this coach out of college, Jimmy Johnson and it's just a great story. - It's because he has two J's. - It makes it really great that the alliterations there. - But like he has two J's. So he's like the only people like and higher. It's like a small pool 'cause it has to have two J's. - They were on a championship college football team together and they knew each other forever. And did you ever watch the U? - Yeah, the 30 for 30. - You did. - So he was the coach that was like, "Yeah, you died." - Wronged you? - I did not know. - Well, well, well, look at that. If you remember, Jimmy Johnson. Was the one that was like, yeah, be black don't listen to this bullshit that you're a thug right is cool Yeah, he's cool. Yeah, and those two The owner and him, you know, yeah, tough to share glory It's tough to share glory. It's tough to share glory. I'm not done with it And I don't ever want to end that's why I love when there's a show like that. Yeah, that was too much for me The show too much on Netflix. Oh, I did start it for your recommendation, and I love it, right? It's great. It's it does give me anxiety. Okay. Tell me Because she's so fragile like anything could She could unravel over almost anything and so it does trigger my like oh my god If I was around someone who was oh, like I don't know if they're gonna unravel at this moment. Yeah, very stressful to me I don't know how far you're in but it's it's interesting the way they I love him He's so hot He's so hot so hot. I listened to this one thing on it that I thought broke it down really really well where they were like this show does such a good job of highlighting the highest Or like the most manic parts of a relationship the beginning and the end because she's come she has this other relationship She has come out of yeah, but she's she's making some really wild isn't she so funny. Oh, she's she's incredible Oh my god, she's incredible in lean as great and she's on. Yeah, it's it's it's a really good show But really great cast really great station Well, that's when I was we watching girls and I was seeing all these people that she that they cast before I was like God. Yeah, some people just really have that neck I have been like Mike white. Yeah, Mike white Mike white head will sharp and Megan Fahey on the same season of white Lotus Which means he's a genius. He is a genius anyway cowboys. You love him. I'm gonna watch. It's so good It's so good now I am coming off of some good luck as well you are okay because it's But they love still. Yeah, I still have birthday luck and People who listen will remember that at the bowry I got a tassel 11 11 the room. This is incredible. Yeah Wow big story tassel For my birthday, we went to the four seasons and went to the pool. I had to get a room for that. Yeah, so Guess what my room number was you already know 11 11 12 11 11 again. Oh my gosh This should be your first tattoo. I actually thought that I already thought it which is why I can't get it because I guess it's a cliche do a lot of people have 11 No, but it's like if you thought and I thought we all thought it Or is just so on brand for you. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not gonna get any tattoos But if I was Um, I think it might be that you could get XI XI And wouldn't be so obvious. I know you know, I'm not really in the wrong numerals. Those that's pretty that's pretty basic stuff It's not even it's just like it's basic. It's not for me. It is basically. Oh my god Wait, is this real. I think so okay, so for the listener Rob just put up a photo of Jennifer Aniston Jen Aniston and and seemingly she has a 11 11 tattooed on her wrist. Oh Or maybe oh my god. Yeah, now you can't because if she if we ever interview her and you have the same tattoo as her But now I have to That tipped it. It was always meant to be. Yeah. Oh my god Should I get one like because I since I don't really want anyone to see you think I could just get a really tiny one in between my Big toe and my second toe toes are rough the skin rubbed off a lot of fingers digits They can be tough like my Bells not holding up like the rest of my tattoos I've never gotten one in here. It's hard. Yeah, I guess that skins It's hard for the tattoo to stay there for whatever reason. I don't know why Stay tuned for more armchair expert if you dare Do you want to hear my maximum sim of end of my entire life other than when I guess the song you were you had made up Santham gum. Yeah, that's still is like that can have happened. I know Santham gum Okay, so I wrote this script called send lawyers guns and money right and it was about my last week of drinking and Kauai uh-huh and While I was writing it I'm just like swimming in the Warren Z Vaughan song send lawyers guns and money. Do you know that song? No, okay, I'll cover my face and say I see you. I took home the bar made Like I always do How was I to know She was with the Russian - hey, and it's send lawyers guns and money Okay, it has hit the fan so eyes. I'm writing this script and it's about my last week and Hawaii of using I decide I should learn to play that guitar I should learn to play that song on the guitar So I go on YouTube and I'm trying to find some footage of him playing that so I can look at the chords Uh-huh, and I find this video of him in Small venue and he's talking to the crowd and he says I wrote this song after Oh, I got to add my last week of of drinking and and and Hawaii was I was taking a vacation between movies because I was exhausted and I needed a break Okay, it didn't try out to be a replenishing trip as you can imagine. Yeah, so he goes Yeah, I wrote this song after a couple years of Hard work and I decided to take an aisle I tripped down to the islands of Hawaii and after a week of improbable danger and Something I decided I shouldn't take vacations. I took home the bar made and I was The fuck this song is about his week in Hawaii. That's wild. I thought it was gonna evaporate into the clouds at that point. My dad was Helping your Sim even before we met. Well, it's all been orchestrated from 1987 You don't even we don't even know if I existed before Yeah, because even for you. That was the best year of your life. Yeah, so like Yeah, it's all real Just staking really staking here. Anyway, so birthday luck is continuing. Yeah, um birthday weekend weekend was really nice Ended up at the oh, I wanted to Check something maybe another sim moment. Okay. Um, can I look up when war dogs was I'm gonna I already did 2016 dang oops one year off. Okay, because in 2016 it was my birthday And Kristen planned you're turning 29 I guess no Yeah, I was turning 29 and Kristen planned an escape room party for me and her and you and a group of people it was It was really exciting. We get there go inside ready to escape And she had accidentally booked it for the wrong day Which was fine. It was like what are we gonna do now? It is this is kind of her move. It happens. Yeah So you know, it's like what are we gonna do now and we pivoted plans? It was your idea You said let's go to the chateau and have dinner have one a's I had never been there and I've been Trying to go for a long time sure and it was really exciting and fun. Then we saw war dogs That was like a big birthday. I remember and it was a good pivot and I the bullenays was so good and it was very exciting um and on my birthday it was a lazy day Uh, I stayed at the four seasons so then I like woke up and I was just lazy Cali told me I should order a milkshake and in my robe Serves I didn't oh, okay, that's a rough way to start your day That's why I was like it's too early downhill for it also sounded nice, but yeah anyway, and then um I went to sunset tower Oh, I went shopping. I got myself a cute outfit and I went to sunset tower And then sense a tower turned into the chateau where I had bullenays for dinner I did and I thought oh my god No, I don't think so I don't really you don't see very well. Yeah, I don't have good eyes um And I thought it was it's 10 year anniversary, but I guess it was it's nine year anniversary Right, so that is not as sim as I wanted it to be okay. It's still great still great. Yeah, that's a fun tradition It is a fun tradition. Maybe y'all maybe that'll be a new tradition. Yeah Yeah You want to ask me Monica out? Oh, yeah speaking of this okay, I probably shouldn't do it like this with this like long This like long face. Yeah, sounds like bad news is coming. It's not bad news. Great news. It's great news for the world Travis and Taylor are engaged. Oh, right. Yeah, and everyone is happy and I'm so happy happy. She seems so happy. It makes me feel really fuzzy like she got it all and she deserves it and I I love it and it's hopeful. Yeah great. You know Lincoln said that they like announced it. They either announced it or like a teacher. The teacher came like into the classroom and told everything. Oh really? It's all girl school. Girl school is incredible. Anyway. But I I forgot that the whole reason they're together is their podcast. New heights. He so he went to the concert to try to give her a phone number. Yes. But he didn't. He couldn't see her. So then on the show, his brother asked, how's the concert? He said, well, I kind of butt her because I really wanted to talk to her. But she doesn't talk to people before after shows and I wanted to give her my bracelet. Has my phone number on it. Yeah. Okay. That's okay. Oh, did he put his phone number in the bracelet? Yeah. Oh, that's adorable. Yeah. Yeah. And look, that got him a wife. Yeah. And here we are. One of the more coveted wise out there. Yeah. Yes. And here we are. I'm almost eight years in to this show. And I have zero husbands. Yeah, but, but, but. Okay. So what she did is she heard that. Yeah. And then she reached out and he said, yes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. There's a lot of people in the comments that are saying you're hot. They want to meet you. But see you. Go ahead. You have said many times you don't want a data listener. Unless they're Taylor Swift. Okay. Okay. Also, she wasn't a listener. Just got back to her. Okay. Okay. So who, like, I mean, I could on here, you know what's unfair? I would look crazy and he didn't look crazy. And that's well, he had a lot going for him. No, it's not going for me. What do you mean? No, it's, it's, it's inherently adorable that this enormous football player, this gruff bone crusher made a Taylor Swift bracelet. Yeah. So you have to do something as completely out of the boxes. That's what made that so adorable. It's like, oh, wow. That guy made a bracelet with his number of Taylor Swift. Yeah. It was really cute. There's a lot to the product. You know, it's what am I supposed to do? Like go beat someone up. Well, we got to have scars on and like talk about that. You know, I mean, get good with a butterfly knife and pull a butterfly knife. Like you got to, you got to put the same effort you put into it. It takes like four minutes to make a friendship bracelet. You have to start by pursuing someone which he did. Yeah. So yeah, you're going to have to pursue like he did. And then he got the woman of his dreams. Okay. You're, yes, that is all true. This is all to correct. But and I'm kidding. And I do think maybe I'm wrong. But I want to be honest. Feeling that you're right. I want to be honest. I think if a girl did that, did that exact thing he did. Yeah. When to Chris Martin's show. Mm hmm. Wanted to give him a thing. Didn't get to when on her podcast and was like, oh, like I didn't get to give him my phone number. I'm sad about that. I don't think people would think it was as cute as what happened. Again, you're trying to frame in his female male. I'm just asking. I'm not trying to say it's sexist. But I'm really trying like, I'm being honest. Well, you said of a girl did that. Yeah. Yeah. So you are framing it as if there's a double standard between men and men. But I'm not trying to make it. I'm just being honest about the fact that I think I even would be like, that's not cute. He had gone to a shaniah twain concert, hoping to bump in during a given number. That's not what it was. You're you're really ignoring the fact that it was a huge NFL player that was a swifty. That was such a that that's such a unique thing. That's what's happening there. It's not that he's male or female. It's that here's the last guy you expect to be a swifty is a swifty. Well, then okay. So then that's so that'd be like you going and find some grungy punk rock dude and you come and bring them flowers or something. You know, that's that's just not my tie. Right. But that's why that's not a story. But it's not because you're a woman. It's because it's not this crazy first time you've ever heard this. Yeah. Was he a swifty or was he just wanting to date her? I think he's a swifty. Well, now he knows to make the bracelet. Now he's a swifty. I bet he's a lot of Andrew Schultz a huge swifty. I know. So then if a lot of people are swiftees, then why would it be mostly women are swiftees? I've been to a show. It's nine plus percent female. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. It's very female. Okay. Well, whatever. I guess this is getting twisted. So if you were like, if there was like some punk band that only dudes liked mega death, ew. See this. I don't even know what that is. But I'm never going to date a death guy. Pro death. Not even pro. We're trying to make this apples to apples. So you would have to have entered into the most masculine scene and people go like, oh my god, this cute little girl. Okay. Like these. Oh my god. That guy kind of looks like you on the right. Oh boy. That's not flattering. No. Different hair. What do you mean? He's not. He's not unattractive. That's a story. That's my point. Is you showing up at that show? Is it you showing up at a slayer show? And you're in love with the drummer is hilarious. This is them now. So there may be a little older. You know, yeah, you got to find the equivalent of mega death or Metallica of this era. And people go like, oh, that's super cute liberal little podcast host loved that crazy maniac rocker. That's a story. But I'm going to push on back on that like it's not it's not crazy for any man to like Taylor Swift. She's a she's a very cute blonde pretty girl with a talent. I think it's crazy. And the reaction would substantiate that that one of the most gruesome NFL players was a swifty. That is that's why it was so contagious versus wanting to go on a date with her. Yeah, I'm saying swifty. Yeah. When I heard it's like this guy knows about the bracelets. He made her a bracelet. He's a swifty. Okay. They're saying it so like you know 100% and we don't because he went there. He said he went there because he was a swifty is in love with her. You want to give her a number and he wanted. Yeah, he wanted to give her. You're saying he just wanted to fuck her. No, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying he liked her. Like he was like, I want to date that girl. That girl seems awesome. She's pretty. She's talented. She's cool. I want to date her. Like I think a lot of men think about Taylor. I will say and I don't know about the mega death community, but my guess is great backstory. Dave Mustang was in Metallica in left. He got kicked out of the band and then started that band which became their big rival. Oh, right. Rob is that so yeah, he's in a doc talking about how it haunted him. Yeah. Even though he stole 15 million records. Oh, wow. Still thought about getting kicked out of Taylor. Yeah. Well, I'm sure a lot of women want to date and marry them, marrying mega death. I'm going to just say as a whole is a real choice. Yeah, you don't want to. And I don't know. I never met them. So maybe I'd love them. They're also way older. I don't care. Again, I'm saying the equivalent of megabit. I know, but I'm just saying I think that's like a real choice. And I think dating Taylor is like dating Bradley or like Timmy or like someone huge in the popular zeitgeist, not me. Okay. They're enormous. They sold 50 million. They're not in Metallica's not niche at all. No, I know. But no, it's still niche today. What I think we have a different opinion. I think what was charming about the entire Travis Taylor story is that this big NFL player was a sweetie at heart because he was a swifty. And I think an equally big story would be that this sweetie liberal little girl is into this crazy off the chain band. That's the story that I'm saying other people would also find that charming. And the members would be the guys, the women that came to shows, I've been to these shows, the ones that came that were attracted to Magadev, they looked like they were in Magadev. Yeah, exactly. You don't. If you shut up in the role with flowers, that's a story. Yeah, but I just know what no one think you're crazy. They be so charmed by how unexpected this obsession is. Right. I guess you're right. There's an element of unexpected I'm just the problem is I'm not unexpected. Yes, you are in areas that you don't have any interest in. What do you mean? You don't like Metallica. That's what I'm saying. That's expected. I'm saying I'm not I'm saying the problem is I'm not unexpected. The things I like are expected. Right. So this is the problem. It's my point. Yeah, you'd have to. So I'm not going to be able to because you're going to give it. You're going to give flowers to the same guy. Every girl likes already. Should I say it? That it's Joshua. I don't know where I'll be back. But he is dating. Because he's not always gonna be dating someone. Maybe he is and I wish them well if that's true. Josh O'Connor is extremely attractive and I find him very cute and endearing and fashion and he is exactly expected for who I would like. That's right. So it's not gonna come as a shock. But I guess I'm calling it in, but I'm not because that's actually rude because he's dating someone. Like if you tried to date Ben Shapiro. Dax. I'm saying if you tried to date Ben Shapiro. You're putting me in a tough sit. He would absolutely notice that happen. He'd be like, you're kidding me. She wrote me a letter and likes me. But another right wing wouldn't break through the clutter. Yeah, that's fine. I'm not, I can't go against my values. I don't think Travis went against his values. And I don't think you, I mean, it wouldn't be going against my values from Megadeth either because I don't know well unless, again, I'm not really pro-death so maybe it is against my values. But I think about it a lot and so today. So that's a good match made in heaven. They're just more mega of what you already are. That wouldn't be a good match. I need someone to tend for the death talk, you know. That's true. Should we do some packs? Sure. You should date the singer of ghost. That's, that's an equivalent or if Monica hit on one of the. Oh, I was going to say guar. Guar. Guar. Guar. Guar. I think they're older. Joe, bitch. Yeah. I know they're too old, but that guy doesn't look terribly young either. This is creeps, Rob. What do you see? Guar. Yeah. I got a good one. You'd stop the whole show. If you got up on stage during guar and presented one of them with like a axe, like a custom engraved axe. Oh, my God. I'm going to have nine hairs about that. People that would make national news. Oh, my God. I take that down. That is truly scary. They like shoot blood. That's my penis. Oh, yeah. They have like. Here we go. I got one more spikes on the whole band. Wait, wait. That was a little intense. Oh, this guy, his penis is out. Oh, he's got several penis. Yeah. He's got several. He's got several. He's got several. He's got several. I mean, it's not written out of his real penis. No, the prosthetics. But shoot like blood. Yeah. And he's got two of them. You guys. Oh, there's the whole gang. This is so unfair. I have to date. Guar. No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying if you want it to be the same story, but it's so unfair. It's got to be that crazy where people go like, I can't believe Monica likes. Guar. I don't think it's going to work out with me and Guar. Oh, let's put it another way. Now, he's turned a corner. But there was a period where Marilyn Manson could have been the thing because he, right after bowling, Kelly and Bine, and all we really knew is like, wow, this guy's way fucking smarter and more thoughtful than we knew. And you were super into it and you came to us, little good girl from a podcast and you approached him. A good girl. It would, it would, it would, it would catch his attention. I am not interested in people who like to scare other people. Okay. Yeah. So it's not going to happen. Okay. Okay. So he has nasal polyps, unfortunately. Jason? Yeah. That sounds rough. Nasal polyps are soft, painless, non-cancerous growth that develop in the lining of the nose or sinuses. They are often associated with chronic inflammation and can cause nasal congestion, a runny nose and impaired sense of smell. Do you think I have nasal polyps? I thought I had allergies, but maybe I have some, I doubt I have polyps because I get the screen all the time, the, the butt exam, colonoscopy and they've never found a polyp. So I don't think I'm pal, are they looking in your nose? No, but I'm, I'm thinking if you're a pal will be person, you're a pal will be person. I don't want to make that connection. Everyone get a colonoscopy. Um. Wow, though, that's those are all my symptoms. No, you have a, you can smell things. I don't know, remember I smelled your shirt the other day and I couldn't smell anything. No, you walked in and you were like something smells funny that no one else smelled and then I assumed it was my, maybe I was smelling my polyps. Maybe they smell musty. Well, that's possible. Well, anyone can get them there more common in adults, particularly those with conditions like asthma or allergies. Treatment options range from medications to surgery depending on the size and severity of the polyps. So he want, he needs surgery, but he doesn't want to get it. Scary. And when you're, that's your career. I know. Getting in there and messing around, bunking around. Although, you know, it's funny speaking of surgeries and people getting plastic surgery. Yeah. You know, it is like people are really willing, really with their, their face and their face is what got them there in the first place. It's the money maker. Yeah. It's tricky. I think facelifts have evolved. But I think they too have gone through the same radical progress all medicine has. I think they're different than in the 70s when rentals was getting them, you know. Yeah. More people are getting them. That's perfect. I think that they're different now too. I think there's like different versions that you can get that aren't just like, you know, the burnt rentals kind of. I don't know. I think it's still like, it's still in a 10 surgery, I think, but yeah, like you've got to be careful. Yeah. I keep hearing they're very common. Are you hearing this too? A lot of people apparently. Yes. Apparently. Have them. I. Have you had one? No. Okay. No. But then. I would love one. But when could I do it? When would I be able to recover? Yeah. Yeah. Every day of the year. Yeah. Um. I don't think you should get it. I know. I'm not good looking enough. Like, that's not my brand. You know, if I was like a pretty boy or gorgeous, I'd have to. That's my thing. No. And I'm just kind of like someone wrote, uh, in a poem, a comment, I, oh, because I talked to camera to explain why the episode wasn't up and a guy wrote, your face looks like a scrotum. Okay. But that's that's also because. Is that accurate? No. It's not. But I did watch the video and I was like, why is he holding it like that? Like, you thought it looked like a scrotum too. I did not think that, but I did think, um, he, he is putting zero effort into like making himself look how he actually looks like it was like held at kind of a weird angle. Yeah. You know why? And then you're like rubbing your eyes. Yeah, you know why? Why? I was on the couch and I'm like, I got to address this. It's so frustrating that people think we just didn't put an episode out. Right. And then I'm in my house and my kids are running around and like, I'm not trying to show too much of my internal personal space. So I'm like trying to find an angle where you know, kids are running by that, you know, and I so I think it was a, it was a function over fashion. I understand. I understand. I understand. But the problem's been fixed and it's down now. Anyway. The episode. Oh, it's you took the. Yeah. It didn't no longer was relevant. Oh, wow. Well, then no one can see what we're talking about. You were a little disappointed with the angle. Well, I was like, he's really gotten reckless. I wish he could have talked to me about this before he did it and then also like we could have held the camera a little different or something. Anyway. Yeah, because people find everything like what's funny is so I kept seeing in the comments like, yeah, shut the door, the AC's on and then I immediately get defensive and I'm like, the door was open. They think that we had the door open, the AC was on. No, they're talking about a little piece of paper that says on the door, shut the door, the AC's on that they're reading backwards. It's not lit. Oh, wow. I had to dig in this video to see what the hell they were talking about. Oh, wow. And that's what it was. That's why like I had to hold it. We're just, you know, you can see anything. And you should have just come in here and done it. The space space is already exposed, like, so just like check, you know, just like maybe check in with me. I have a lot of, I have a lot of experience in, um, your, okay, broken, bow records. We said he joined in 20, oh, three, 2003, 20, oh, three, 2005, 2005, according to the internet. Did Whalen Jennings have a history of cheating? Yes. He had a reputation for infidelity during his marriage to Jesse culture while they were a couple known for their strong partnership in love both in life and music Jennings also struggled with substance abuse and infidelity, which was openly discussed in Jesse culture's autobiography. Oh, I should read that. Yeah, you should. Um, okay. The Vegas shooting, I was really grateful that he talked about it. Two because that's a really vulnerable, hard thing to talk about. Yeah. And I was happy that he didn't impress that he did. Yeah. It was in 2017. It was really bad, deadliest mass shooting, uh, by a lone gunman in American history. Oh, horrendous, horrendous. And I can't imagine being at the show, yeah, being the person that has all these people here. And I'm happy that our alive event, the guilt I have over, oh my god. But then we talked about him doing SNL. And then he was saying that he wrote his own, like he was like, I'm not having anyone write anything for me for that. Um, so he wrote with those people, I guess, and he said this, "I'm Jason Aldeen. This week, we witnessed one of the worst tragedies in American history. Like everyone, I'm struggling to understand what happened that night, how to pick up the pieces and start to heal. So many people are hurting. There are children, parents, brothers, sisters, friends, and they are all part of our family. So I want to say to them, "We hurt for you and we hurt with you." You can be sure that we are going to walk through these tough times together every step of the way because when America is at its best, our bond and our spirit are unbreakable. And then he played Tom Petty's, "I won't back down," because he had just passed away. Yeah. Lot happened. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, oh, and it was Gal Gadot. Was the host? Mm-hmm. Um, okay. Well, that. Is that it? That's it. All right. Love you. Love you. [MUSIC]

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Jackie Tone shares a deeply personal journey of genetic predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer, highlighting her BRCA1 mutation and the emotional impact of receiving an 85% risk assessment.
  2. She recounts the medical and psychological challenges of navigating cancer screening, surgery, and reconstruction, emphasizing how her experience fostered resilience, clarity, and a shift in mindset.
  3. Jackie reflects on the broader human experience of fear, anxiety, and catastrophizing, arguing that confronting real risks through action leads to empowerment, not despair, and that such experiences build confidence rather than vulnerability.

Summary:

Jackie Tone opens up about her personal experience with BRCA1-positive genetic testing, which revealed an 85% lifetime risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Despite the fear and anxiety, she walked through the journey with resolve, undergoing preventative double mastectomy and reconstruction with a supportive medical team. She emphasizes how the process transformed her from a person overwhelmed by fear to one of self-empowerment, noting that facing reality—such as undergoing surgery, bleeding post-biopsy, and managing phantom pain—built confidence rather than despair.

Jackie shares how her experience of anxiety and catastrophizing, common in high-risk individuals, was ultimately mitigated by taking action. She reflects on the broader human tendency to fear the unknown, especially in health-related domains, and argues that such fears are often disproportionate to actual risk. The experience also helped her reframe her relationship with her body, self-worth, and mortality.

She highlights the emotional strength found in community, citing a friend who showed her her own perky, natural breasts as a powerful moment of connection and healing. Jackie concludes with a message of resilience: even when facing life-altering medical decisions, one can maintain hope, agency, and joy. Her story underscores that confronting fear through proactive action leads to personal growth, and that the fear of death or illness does not have to define one’s life.

Ultimately, she embraces her journey not as a tragedy, but as a testament to strength, sisterhood, and the power of living with purpose.

FAQs

The BRCA mutation is a genetic mutation that significantly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. People with this mutation have a much higher chance of developing these cancers, especially if they are women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, where the prevalence is about 1 in 40.

Jackie discovered she had a BRCA mutation after undergoing genetic testing through Myriad, which involves spitting into a tube. The test revealed she was positive for a mutation that greatly increases her risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Women with a BRCA mutation are often advised to undergo preventative surgeries such as double mastectomy and removal of ovaries, especially before age 40, to reduce cancer risk. These decisions are typically made with a team of specialists including oncologists, breast surgeons, and genetic counselors.

Yes, many women can maintain a natural appearance after double mastectomy with reconstruction. Surgeons often use techniques like nipple-sparing mastectomy and implants to preserve the look and feel of the breasts, and some patients report feeling confident in their post-surgery appearance.

Learning about a high cancer risk can cause significant anxiety and fear, leading to catastrophizing and emotional distress. However, many people find strength and resilience through the process, realizing they can take control and make informed decisions, which often leads to a sense of empowerment.

People may choose these procedures to prevent cancer development, especially if they have a high genetic risk. The surgeries are often recommended before symptoms appear, offering peace of mind and a proactive approach to health.

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