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This is Star Talk. On your host, you're a personal astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson. I'm here with Chuck Knice.

Yes, that's right. Chuck Knice comic. That's right, sir. Tweeting at Chuck Knice comic. Love your man. Love you too. Thanks for your man. You're here when I need you. Absolutely. That wouldn't work if it went any other way.

You're always here when I don't need your job. I don't know what it is about you. Get the hell out. Every time I look up, you're here and I don't need you.

You got a very good point. Today's show. We titled it wrestling with mental health.

Okay, so yeah, so what we have here is we're featuring my interview with AJ Mendez. A professional wrestler.

Yeah, she's a professional wrestler. Right. And like, WWE, WF. It's got all I know is that begins with WWE. I forget what's ever the next one is.

She's a professional and what would one have to do with the other? She wrote a book called Crazy is My Superpower. Nice. And in it, you know, she struggles with her bipolar disorder. Right.

And tried to find how to take control of that or possibly exploit the fact that it exists in some way that can serve her life. And so I just thought this was a fascinating story and a fascinating case.

Absolutely. And my notes say she's WWE. WWE. That's super star under her stage names AJ Lee. Yeah. AJ Lee. So I sat down with her in my office to discuss. Nice.

Just who she is and what she's about. Okay, let's check it out the first clip.

How did you navigate a path into the professional wrestling ring?

When I was growing up, I tried to find solace. When I was physically missing.

Pretty much the size of a large cabbage vegetables. I tried to find solace and escape in the world of fantasy and fiction.

And so that was comic books. That was anime. That was video games. But I found such an escape in these worlds of fantasy where there were superheroes that were strong and fighting crime.

And the good guy would win at the end of the day. And then I found professional wrestling. And these people were flesh and blood superheroes in Spanish.

They're bigger than life. They're bigger than life. And so from a young age, I saw that it just spoke to me. And I saw a place for me that wasn't represented.

It was a superhero you wanted to be.

I loved and in the book, I kind of shout out the dark phoenix saga in X-Men. I thought that was a time when Chris Claremont was making women stronger and more of the leaders.

And then to have this character that was a good guy, but then could change and was the bad guy, I related to that duality. And so I was so obsessed with that version of Jim Gray.

Did you want to be the good part of the bad part of both?

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