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Pints With Aquinas

Comedy, Rehab, and Going on The Tonight Show (John Crist) | Ep. 547

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Education, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.8 โ€ข 6.2K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 22 October 2025

โฑ๏ธ 151 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Matt interviews comedian and podcaster John Crist. The conversation focuses on comedy, what it was like getting on Jimmy Fallon, going to rehab, shame, speaking out in public when you see injustice, and what it means to be a man.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

That's all comedy is. I love that. That's all it is, is he go, hey, do you notice this too?

0:05.4

Government, culture, parenting, families, and you go, and they go, it's into my kitchen counter,

0:14.5

middle of June and I got an email that said, you're confirmed for the Tonight Show, June 16th.

0:19.9

What was that like? Oh, my, I mean, I got, I got, because you've been doing this for years. June 16th. What was that like?

0:21.3

Oh, my.

0:22.5

I mean, I got, I got... Because you've been doing this for years.

0:24.1

It's funny.

0:24.6

He said that music is the same. Every time you're, you are sad, you do go to art. You don't get to statistics. You don't go to math. You go to art. like in rehab the place I went to at least I don't know about other rehabs. There's no escaping.

0:40.5

So like not from, it's not prison. You can physically, there's no drugs, alcohol, there's no televisions.

0:46.7

There's no, dude, listen to this.

0:47.9

There's no sugar.

0:50.3

There's no caffeine.

0:51.9

There's no fiction books.

0:54.5

There's no, if you get a runner's high from working out, they don't even let you do that.

0:59.6

So no, when you feel an uncomfortable feeling, sadness, depression, not good enough, there's nowhere to go.

1:13.1

Goody, everybody, welcome to Pines with Aquinas. I just had a really beautiful conversation

1:16.7

with John Christ. I've admired his comedy for a while. I've obviously been on his show.

1:21.9

Well, maybe to obviously, but I've been on his show. And when he was coming on today, I didn't

1:25.8

really know what to expect. If you watched

1:27.9

my show with him, it was basically him and his friends telling jokes and me not really getting them.

1:32.9

And I just kept being serious. So I thought, well, I hope we can kind of go deep here. And we really

1:40.6

did. I mean, we started talking about comedy and there's so many great insights there. And then we went really deep and I thought it was beautiful and I think it'll be a blessing to you. So I hope you enjoy it. Before you do anything else, would you do me a favor if you appreciate Pines with Aquinas? Just click subscribe. It's free. It's a great way to support the channel. Click thumbs up, leave a comment. And if you think this is beneficial to people, you're going to have to watch it first, obviously. Here I am telling you to like it before you've watched it. Do that. But watch it. If you think it's beneficial, would you please share it with one person? I think it really will be a blessing to many folks. Thanks. How old are you? Can I just turn 41?

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