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Whitney Cummings

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  1. “Yeah, she was like a, I was on a plane yesterday. I was way too deep into the news. But yeah, I would say look at what offends you and it'll probably help you with some self-awareness.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Interesting, the original Rachel Dolazal. Was that her name? The girl who just pretended to be black, the end of ACP woman?”

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  3. “I like that. I like that. I love, I have a huge poster of May West in my office. But who a lot of people think was a man and a lot of people think she was whack.”

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  4. “I think that there's I think it's Look at what offends you. If something offends you, watch Richard Pryor, watch Daniel Tosh, watch the most incendiary comedians, Bill Burr, maybe Louis CK's monologue that he just did on SNL that there was this outcry because he talked about pedophiles or something. If something offends you, look inward. That's a sign that there's something there. What offends someone says a lot about them?”

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  5. “This is so provocative, unlike using parts of my brains I never use. If I could ask the audience to do one thing, what would it be? God, that's a really deep question. I have so many thoughts. I mean Do you Do your thing Live out loud, be authentic. I don't know. Is that, did you ask that question? I haven't heard you ask. I haven't heard you ask that”

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  6. “My tour dates and stuff are all WhitneyCummings.com. And then I have Twitter, Whitney Cummings. My Instagram is Whitney Acummings because Whitney Cummings is a 15-year-old black aspiring singer. Who is pretty talented actually and has a lot of followers thanks to me.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Whitehouse. I literally got this call the other day. My lawyer was like, hey, we need to buy your dot porn. And I was like, are we changing the game plan? Is there something I don't know? Yeah, you're like, I'm not sure. But the dot porn is about to come out.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “I was destroyed over it, you know, and I didn't realize, oh my God, in a couple years. I dodged a bullet. So I wish that I had kind of, I would have saved a lot of time and energy and anguish.”

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  9. “was in bed like crying my eyes out for like a week because I didn't get a job as a VH1 like host of a countdown I mean something that would just be so embarrassing if you saw my Wikipedia page daddy be like you really not talk about that it would have been a thing that I said please don't talk about it on the podcast it would have been so embarrassing now but at the time it was like I was just the”

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  10. “Rerouting you to your dreams, you know, and they're not, I hate the word failure because I always think it's just like a step in the right direction, you know? So all the things that I agonized over the jobs I didn't get, I mean, I like.”

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  11. “Vintage New Balance sneakers, bell bottoms, and a hoodie with a backpack. You know, I was very That was my uniform, which was kind of like my shield of please don't see me as a sexual being like when I did stand up. You know, I tried to really like neutralize my gender. And stop drinking Daya Coke, stop drinking aspartame. I feel like I just missed the new thing of that was like my early 20s in college was all artificial sweeteners and crap that I feel like I'm going to be, that's why I'm drinking the stupid beet juice And I think it really compromised my productivity and my who knows what that was doing in my brain chemistry. And I think maybe the main thing is. Those mistakes are actually getting you to exactly where you want to go.”

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  12. “twenty five There's so much advice I would say don't wear any of what you're wearing right now which was what which was you know it's funny I dressed like a boy from the 70s until I was like”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “I also think that donating to animals is just my drug of choice, I guess. I don't drink. I mean, I drank, but I'm not, you know, not like to excess and I don't do drugs. Like when I give money to animals, I feel as good. So I just feel like a lot of people like once they start, you feel good if you give 20 bucks to whatever, you know. It's like. I think everyone would be everybody wins.”

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  14. “That was a nice political move. Yeah, that was great. It's like, I'm glad you asked that question. Let me answer it a different way, meaning.”

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  15. “No, no. Donate just to me. I just got this to get your attention. I just wanted to bring this to your attention. I just wanted to capture your heart so that I could then manipulate you into buying me a vacation home.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “Dog Meat Festival. But whenever I tell people, whenever I'm like doing, I think a lot of people want to help dogs. It's just such an, or animals or cats, anything. It's too broad. Too big of an issue. And like as soon as they hear that, like, beagles are the most people like, how do I help? And a lot of people don't even know they're getting tested on. Got it. So it could be like.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “So, you just wake up and your dogs are gone, and then there's a dog meat festival. Wow. I mean, here's the thing with China, they don't treat their people that great either, much less their dogs or their children. So that's a bigger issue that I'm not really qualified to talk about”

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  18. “Oh my god, the Yulin Dog Meat Festival. Yeah, so this obviously means you don't follow me on Instagram, which is Stop Yulin 2015 is my big obsession right now. But yeah, there's a dog meat festival that's going on, I think, right now in China, where they actually kidnap people's domesticated dogs.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  19. “Heartbreaking. So once I heard that, I was like, I'm in, you're praying on the weakest, sweetest. And so I got involved in that. And, you know, I think that if you don't have kids, you know, any of your busy, like you and I are and you travel a lot, dogs is just a really sort of easy, rewarding. Sort of healthy thing and those two. So I feel like I would just put those on billboards maybe.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  20. “So, yeah, that's something that sort of, when I was always kind of trying to do dog rescue and I didn't really know how. Once I got that statistic, I felt kind of emboldened to be like, all right, I know exactly where my energy can go. It was very empowering to learn that. And another thing is I work with this charity called the Beagle Freedom Project that's Beagles that are tested on in labs that the tests are usually inane and like don't do much. It's just you can say a product is tested on an animal and that it's safe. And this statistic kind of blew my mind, which is that beagles are chosen to be the dogs tested on in labs because they're the most forgiving. Of all dog breeds. So you can hurt them a bunch of times and they'll still give you the benefit of the doubt, and they'll still keep forgiving you.”

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  21. “Crazy math. Yeah, it should be don't make me do this math. Yeah, 14 a year are bought. That should just be the statistic, right? Right. So that was something that just hearing that, I was like, God, that is such a waste. That's just so much death. And it's just so karmically bad for just this species. And so.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  22. “Wow, this is a really good question. You should have a podcast. If I could, well, everyone's got their things, right? Their thing causes and my cause is dogs. Everyone's got their thing, and I'm sure that when something else touches me, that will be my thing, you know, and cancer touches my family or whatever. Alcoholism has touched my family, but I haven't been compelled to get super in the trenches of that. A statistic that really affected me, too, statistics that I just sort of wish people knew was that 3 million dogs die a year in shelters and 17 million a year get bought. So it's just like”

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  23. “You're not the celebrity. I mean, there's a celebrity two feet in front of them, and they're taking a picture of themselves. I mean, it's just like. You know, it was crazy.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  24. “I want to say Ellen's in front of me, but Ellen had gone on stage. So this is actually, so, but there's all these seat fillers. Beautiful. I can't tell who the, I mean, the seat fillers are more attractive than celebrities. I mean, it's like, And so on stage, I want to say Ellen and Chris Pine, who's that, you know, whatever actor, famous actor. And I see these people holding up their cameras. And I'm like looking over them, and I see that they're taking selfies. Of themselves, and I'm like, no, the celebrities are that way”

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  25. “Oh no, they absolutely did. That's so funny. Yeah, no, I didn't know that. I love you and I've reference points are so different. Yours are so much more impressive. And so they get paid 50 bucks to dress pretty and look good because they're going to be on camera maybe in a pan and shot or something. And so I'm sitting in front of.”

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  26. “Seat fillers is like there's all the celebrities there, but then everyone else that's in the audience are like paid seat fillers who are super attractive.”

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  27. “And when one person gets one, then all of a sudden everybody Wants one, and then you're gonna, you know, so I think he just, you know, whatever, for whatever reason, I'm sure he has a, you know, a dignified reason for it, but nobody ever, he's like, I mean, to talk to Louis CK for five minutes could be the best five minutes of your life. And people are like, no, thanks. I just wanted to Instagram it and show off that I met you. This is about me. It's not about you. I mean, this culture of narcissism, I remember I was at the People's Choice Awards, which is like a really silly award show. But, you know, they have seat fillers.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  28. “Hypercarbon? The hypercarpet. And so I think that, yeah, I think he just felt like he feels like, you know, you feel kind of violated. Someone just ambushing you. And I mean, he's with his kids and he's, you know, I think.”

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  29. “Let's have an exchange. If you want to connect, let's really connect. I think, I mean, I'm sure he has a really interesting reason why he doesn't. But I mean, because also it's like there's no, you know, I always say getting your picture taken is just so weird. I mean, especially on like a press line, like, you know, an actresses have to go down a press line and just like pose. I said, I've stopped kind of doing it because I'm like, unless someone gives me a healthy inner monologue to recite while I'm doing that, I'm not going to do it. Because what do you, you're just like, look at me. Am I sexy? Am I thin enough? Do you want to say like it's just such unhealthy things that you're thinking?”

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  30. “Broke up with The other week I was in the airport, you know, people were asking for pictures. And my dad had just had a stroke and I was like, I'm just sorry I can't. And I'm sure that those people are going, she's such an asshole. I'm sure they were, you know, but it's just not, you know.”

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  31. “You know, and I'm like, why is it difficult to say I think we can do better I think we can beat this joke. I'm just like, I want this to be good. All of our names are on it. You're getting paid a tremendous amount of money to be here. Why am I such a jerk? You know? And I think that through the lens of people's egos and feelings and stuff, it just ends up being like, oh, he's crazy. He's an asshole. You know, I've yet to meet or know of one successful person who everyone doesn't think is crazy.”

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  32. “A lot, I'm sure. Well, because, yeah, and it was interesting because everybody always, I think the reason I sort of latched on to him, I mean, it's obviously a pretty hacky unoriginal. Inspiring figure, but I think when I was the boss for the first time, I think I for some reason looked up to him in a way because everyone was like, oh, he's an asshole. He's crazy. And I was like, I just maybe everyone who's the boss is crazy because no one likes their boss because they're telling them to do work. You know, and I remember people like, oh, he was such a dick. Like he would, you know, if something wasn't perfect, he'd make them fix it. And I'd be like, what's so wrong with that? Is that what you're supposed to think? I mean, that sounds like a great boss. You know, he sounds like a great leader, you know, and I hear all these horror stories and I think that I started getting paranoid that people thought I was difficult and I do.”

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  33. “Yes. So I don't know, Alan or Steve Jobs is what it cost them emotionally, family-wise. So I'm a little bit naive about it. So”

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  34. “Like how Bill Bob to get because it's interesting because I want to, all these comedians came to mind. Like I was thinking of Richard Pryor and Louis C.K. and Jerry Seinfeld and all these comedians were coming to mind. But I think for me, because I've seen what the success has cost them.”

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  35. “You know, time has fun when they're not working, they're actually not working. So that's why I was thinking about her. Drew Barrymore, this is really weird when I follow her on Instagram. She really seems to go to the beach a lot. She's got a cosmetic. She has two kids. She seemed to have kind of nailed it. I was just like, God, it's just, that must be nice. Steve Jaws and Drew Barrymore, that's you know, and Cheryl Sandberg, that's a trifecta.”

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  36. “It has to be the tip of my brain, doesn't it? I'm overthinking it. Well, I was just going to say something that is just going to open up a weird can of worms because I was going to say Cheryl Samber because I feel like she had this well-rounded life and a personal life also, which recently imploded, which is not funny. But like someone who has, I think I used to define success as someone at the top of their field professionally only. And now I also view it as someone who has balance a good relationship with friends and family.”

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  37. “Ninja, I got a ninja on it approved. Hashtag On It. And then you know that's where you should buy heroin because that's the purest stuff because it killed someone.”

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  38. “Apparently, it's because you know, like you'll see a phone line, you'll see a pair of sneakers hanging in bad neighborhoods. Apparently it's where someone died of heroin.”

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  39. “That means Wait, okay, I always think of bad shoes in the neighborhood when I think of waiting for other shoe to drop. That's the vision that comes to mind.”

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  40. “Blue is really confusing to me. Interesting. Well, because you know what I always think of when I think of waiting for the other shoe to drop? shoes on a phone line. In a bad neighborhood.”

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  41. “Looking around instead of enjoying the moment, I'm just waiting for the catastrophe. You know, so it was sort of about all that.”

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  42. “I thought you were going to say X. I was like, uh Equine therapy recommend that. We were talking about attachment, I think, and we were talking about like, oh, the horse, like, I didn't have trust that the horse was going to follow me or something. Like I was like kept checking in and she's like, you keep, because equine therapy is so fascinating because of what comes up, the way that we relate to horses. It just says so much about how we try to run businesses, marriages, relations. It's just a metaphor for everything because the way you do anything is the way you do everything. Everything, right? So I kept checking in and doubting that the reality that the horse was following me. I was like incredulous that it was happening. And she's like, you really question reality. You always doubt yourself and you think that your perception is wrong and that, you know, the damicly sword is going to fall. You're always looking for the catastrophe. And so she was like, read this book. And I did to kind of get an understanding of like, oh, something must have happened that maybe constantly be like, and it's true, I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop and something.”

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  43. “Continuum concepts. And oddly, it was recommended by my equine therapy teacher. And it's about essentially the reason we, there's all sorts of chemical reasons like dopamine and oxytocin that are given off when we touch each other. Essentially, their expectations for the rest of their future.”

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  44. “So I've been giving those. Another good one because a lot of my friends are having kids is called the continuum concept, and it's about sort of attachment parenting.”

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  45. “Yeah, all my face Yeah, so we were on tour together last summer and he was reading it. And I was sort of, I think things come in your life exactly when you need them kind of thing, like this book, the drama the gifted child, maybe there's something someone obviously the universe wants you to read this book, I guess. But I was just in a receptive moment and he was reading it and I was like, boom. And it was just the perfect time. Like, you know”

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  46. “The fantasy mod. It's Firestone, Robert Firestone, maybe. It's, yeah, it was recommended by Mark Marin actually. The epitome of mental health.”

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  47. “Because I read this book, I took like a year off of being on TV because I didn't need that anymore. I wasn't like, I just need to be seen as much as possible by as many people as possible. That's not a healthy compulsion. And it backfired in some ways. So I was able to kind of take control of my.”

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  48. “About, you know, I think when you're, I think I have a lot of shame around the fact that I'm almost like an attention seeker, if that makes any sense, like being a comedian. There's just a little bit of shame for me. And it's like, why do I have this much of a compulsion to be seen and heard? Like, what is this? And once I got a handle on the fact that as a kid, I wasn't seen and heard enough and I had this, I was trying to get these childhood needs met as an adult through my work. Once I got a handle on that understanding, it made me need it less. You know, I was like, oh my God, I don't want to be famous. What am I doing? This is horrible. Like, you can't undo this, you know? So I feel like.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  49. “The drama of the gifted child. It's a drama of the gifted child. It's very much, yes, if you're a creative person, if you have any kind of anxiety or discomfort or just read it, it's hard to sum up. Another one I give a lot is the fantasy bond, which is incredibly dense and clinical, but it's about essentially what happens between ages one and three sort of ordains your whole life. It's kind of about attachment, like our attachment strategies based on how much eye contact we got as a child, how we were breastfed, how much physical contact we got, what our dynamics we walked into as a child, and how we see the world according to those formative years, which is pretty fascinating stuff.”

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  50. “As I read fiction, guys, I'm so erudite. I'm so cultured, and as a pat on the back, but I don't want to mislead you into thinking I actually read fiction. I'm not that normal. I give the drama of the gifted child a lot to people.”

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