97: The Wayback #97 | Cristina Mariani - I Crashed into My Crush

The Wayback with Ryan Sickler

Comedy Interviews, Stand-up, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

4.8 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Cristina Mariani slides into The Wayback as we span the globe in the early 00s from Stockton, California to Corfino, Italy. (Check out her tour dates at cristinamariani.com). Cristina gets nostalgic about living in Italy as a child, how she first got into playing the accordion, and her childhood obsession with dinosaurs. We also talk about the agony of being humiliated in front of your crush, the time she stole her parents car in high school, and the martini preferences of her drunk alter ego.

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0:00.0	Guys, it's been, I think, a little over a week now, and I can't thank you enough for all the
0:06.8	kind words and the great feedback on this special. I am going to sit here and pat myself on
0:12.2	the back. I went from almost being killed to releasing this special. And it's been a two and a half
0:18.0	year labor of love. And we crushed it.
0:21.1	I found every single person to work on this within a single dad budget living in this expensive-ass city of Los Angeles.
0:29.5	And I'm going to say we crushed it.
0:31.8	We did.
0:32.2	This is nothing like my last special.
0:34.2	This special is special.
0:36.5	It's a bit of a one-man show, a retelling of a near-death
0:40.4	experience, live and alive, streaming on my YouTube now, and go give it some extra love,
0:46.0	because YouTube demonetized it. Within two days, somebody complained about it. They took it out of
0:50.6	the algorithm. We fought. They got us back in there, but it's already killed the momentum. So it is what it is. Go over there. Tell everyone, share everyone, like, comment, help to get back in that algorithm, all right? And while you're there, go to the store, all right? Go to Ryan Sickler.com. Click on the merch. We've got a fall clear in sale going on right now. You're going to get a free t-shirt and three free gifts with every apparel purchase. We got $10 T's and hats. We got $20 hoodies and pants. That's joggers. That's night pants. I'm telling you, you're not going to find this sale anywhere else. Get it now.
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1:40.1	Hey, baby. We're going to be here all day. We're going to be here all day, baby.
1:44.8	I like this kind of party.
1:46.3	Welcome back to the way back, everybody.
1:48.8	Ryan Sickler over here, Ryan Sickler.com.
1:51.2	Ryan Sickler on all your social media and starting this episode like I start
1:55.0	them all by saying thank you.
1:56.4	Thank you for watching this show.
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