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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lisa Lampinelli is not a licensed therapist or life coach.
She is a meddling advice giving yanta. I know it all,
and her words come from her head, her heart, and
often out of her ass. This podcast should not be
misconstrued as therapy. I should be taking with a huge
strain of salt for entertainment purposes only.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
These.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
You need help, You're the problems.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Come on, come do.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Go leab take a pill. I think you're insane. Do
what I say, dumb ass, listen to me. You do
I start now? Cool? Guess what, everybody, I thought you
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were getting a break from Lisa Lampinelli, Well in no
fucking way. My huge insecurity of being forgotten is driven
me back after season one wrapped, and we're gonna give
you a little taste of l L every week until
season two starts in January. So I have decided that
shrink this will take one letter that we ignored brutally
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during each episode last season, and we're going to address
it now in a tin ol te bad. If you
want your letter answered, send it to shrink this show
at gmail dot com. That shrinked this show at gmail
dot com to help me as my lovely and talented assistant.
He's a teacher with me, a teacher, a professor emeritus,
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an professor emeritus with no master's degree or PhD like myself. Sucked,
but I don't care. It's Chris O'Neill. Hello, Chris. Are
you a big fan of shrink this?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Say? I love it?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Oh, You're such a liar.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I can't believe I'm in here. This is so this
is like crazy to me.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
That's cool. Thanks for doing this. Tell people where they
can find you.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
You can find me at Chris O Show, just anywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Listen, let me tell you something about Chris. We are
going to do a future episode with him. We're going
to talk all things therapy, because Chris and I teach
school together at the normal Conservatory of the Arts or
for the Arts or whatever the fuck they're calling themselves
these days. And he was a very nice guy, put
all over the place, and I said, this guy needs therapy.
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Well he thought of it on his own and he
went and now he is the better for it, and
I feel our friendship is the better for it. And
I would argue therapy is for everyone. So thank you.
We're going to do that full episode in the future.
For now, let's revisit the episode we did on Alone Time.
I believe it was episode two and we called it Me,
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Myself and my Bullshit or some shit like that. And
I don't care because I don't memorize stuff. I kind
of like just live it. Okay, that's my thing. So, Chris,
we have a letter that we sadly ignored. Oh boy,
would you please.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Absolutely it's a little bite on this one. Oh maybe,
Dear Lisa.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
As a mother of four young kids, my alone time
is almost non existent. By eight o'clock at night, when
my oldest goes to bed, I'm fucking done. I don't
want to talk to anyone. I don't want to see anybody.
I just want to lie in bed and play with
my phone. Then my husband gets home from work.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And wants to talk life.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So second he walks in, then he wants to watch
a show with me. How do I give him the
attention he needs but at the same time allow myself
the alone time that I crave with my phone?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Thanks so much, Dana.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Oh my god, this is why I'm not married. Seriously,
I don't think I was ever built to live with
someone and have a conversation with somebody at their bidding.
I enjoy and knowing that about yourself, I think is
important because then it helps you stray from the areas
that are not a fit for your life. So sometimes
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I'll sit there on the couch with my three little
let's just call them not right in the head rescue dogs,
and They'll be sitting there breathing, and I'll be like,
thank God, I don't have to talk to you. I
could just pet you. I could say nothing more than
who's a good boy? Who is a good girl? And treat?
Because if a guy came in, or even a friend,
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suppose I had some down on their luck, ne'er do
well friend who needed a place to live, and they
would come in and they'd say words to me. I
don't want to hear those words. I want to hear
the one word that every woman wants to hear, treat.
That's it. So how do you, Chris? You have a wife,
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she's real nice. I say, keep her because she's an
earner they than you do. She's You're a sugar, she's
a sugar mama. So you have a nice wife. Do
you ever struggle with that?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So one thing wife and I do, which has been
the greatest thing for our relationship. We will have the
tough talks. We'll sit down and go, this is gonna suck,
but let's talk. I didn't like the way this happened,
and bah blah blah, and we just open it up
and afterwards we're like, wow, we feel a lot better.
So we also have our own little personal sessions like that,
and it's it's really great. And one of the things
she says sometime like this hit home to me, this letter.
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Really she goes, there's times where I just I need
my own time, and I go for all the shit
you do at work and with the kids and all this,
and she's the she schedules this and budgets this, and
I go, you take all the fucking time you want.
So sometimes she just wants to sit and be and
I go, I couldn't respect that more.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Me too. I just feel so like, I don't know
what's hopeful when you hear that a couple talks to
each other about these things instead of feeling so, oh
my god, I can't bring up that I need alone time.
They'll take it personally, sure, but it's a I think
the point is if this what's this Clam's name again, Dana,
Dana Clam. If you you actually have chosen correctly, you've
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chosen an adult male to build your life with, you
can withstand those conversations. So if you pick badly like
I have in the past, like I've picked, and they
weren't bad people, it was just a bad match. There
wasn't that openness to say, hey, man, you know what
I feel like every time you talk to me, touch me,
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or look at me, I want you to die. I've
wanted to say that, never did. I just remember it
is a little bit of a red fire, maybe the
pink one, maybe more crimskin magenta. I remember once I
was living with somebody and I looked at me and
wouldn't leave the house, and I said.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Why are you here?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It should have probably been a calm discussion, but the
screaming wire you here probably isn't great. So I think
you're right. If she can say to the husband, honey,
I need a half hour. I need an hour to
scroll in my dumb phone. Don't judge what I'm scrolling,
don't judge what I'm watching. You can do whatever you
want in the other room. Can we just take that
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cute little hour a day to do that.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, And we've and it's been a work in progress
over the years because there's times where I'd walk down
and she's watching some you know, bullshit dumb show or something,
and I'll just I can't help but comment of course,
now she just stops it and I'll go, I'm gonna leave.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
This is your time.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
She'll just stop and wait for me to leave. And
I'm like, okay, I know that about myself now, and
I'm gonna work on that. So when we have these conversations,
I really take them the heart. If I ever get
if I talk to someone that I love and respect
and they go, you're really fucking up here or doing
this wrong. I genuinely, even if I'm like defensive at
first to some degree, I really take it home and
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think about it and go, all right, let me how
do I work this out?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
How do I figure this out? And it sure be better?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
But what is the thing too, that about this letter?
Doesn't she say something? Give my husband the attention something?
What does she say?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
My husband gets home from work and walks wants to
talk the second he walks in, then he wants to
watch a show with me.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
So how do I give him the attention he.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Needs, but at the same time allow myself the alarm
time that I cray with my phone.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I think the problem is I as someone who catered
a lot to my parents, you know, I always felt
responsible for them as they got older. Yeah, I'm lucky
enough I had a brother and sister to help, but
it's still a lot of responsibility with aging and dying parents.
I finally felt free of having someone need something from me,
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and I'm not romantic about it. Where it's that thing.
What's that song from Company Someone to hold Me Too Close?
You know that day ass bullshit Bobby sings in the
second act, and it's such a crescendo. Is that the
eleven o'clock number? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I know a lot about it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I do know way too much about that. No, but
it's like I get that that's I guess maybe that's
something to work on internally, like me not wanting to
be needed or need anyone. Yeah, because that's a block too.
But also sometimes after four kids are pulling on youre I.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Have two kids. Yeah, and I don't know, she said,
young kids. It's oh god, I mean, it.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Is a lot of work. It's the greatest thing in
the world. Holy shit, there really is very little time
for yourself. And there's times where.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I talk to my wife and go it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We're just constantly like sprinting and it's for everyone else,
and we're trying to do this and put up this
fire in this fire, and every once in a while,
if we ever get the chance to go to dinner,
we're like, wow, we really I still love you, we
have I still have a question you. We have these
great little moments that's cute. So but a lot of
it is just putting fires out and doing this and
then and my wife is amazing with like she's constantly
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make sure the kids are in camp and doing this
and extra curriculars. And I'm like boo, yeah, okay, you
tell me where to go, and you know, she tells
me I need to just I just need a sit.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Well, you're right, because you know a lot of women
they did I heard a podcast on mental labor, so
they're like remembering which doctor's appointment did disappointment all this.
So the amount of mental load that the primary parent
has is a lot, and it's stuff you don't see
and that you can only sort of go, oh, she
needs the hour on TikTok Great, no judgment. I'll see
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sometimes couples I know, I'll be like, what are you doing? Like, oh,
he did this and I did this, And at first,
because I'm older, a little judgment comes up where I'm like,
why aren't they just hang out together? Like shouldn't they
be together? It's like, no, no, no, you need what you need. Yeah,
and if it's an hour, I mean, some women go
away for the weekend with their friends, some guys going
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it's a gay thing called golfing. I don't like that.
That's a weird little black balls. Oh no, wait, that's
a different that's a different podcast altogether. But you need
what you need and as long as you can come
to some kind of compromise and agreement, I think with me,
I always go, I compromise it enough already.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, I have to fill the tank.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And that's what that's like the metaphor that my wife
and I always talk about.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You can't drive a car.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
We want to drive to every stop and drop people
off and pick them up and this that, But you
need to refill the tank. And a lot of times,
even if it's just doing something mundane, like I'm just
gonna scroll on TikTok for an hour or whatever it is. Yeah,
it fills the tank to some degree, or at least
it's just like, you know, just turn the car off
and you get to just relax.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
So I totally get that.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yo. What bothers me?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Though?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
People think TikTok is a waste of time, and I'll
tell you why it's not. I didn't discover TikTok as
the audience knows until like a year ago January. I
think January February around the Golden Globe Super Bowl kind
of thing. And I find it fricking educational. They think
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I'm a black man, I think because I get lots
of social justice stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Then I think there was things I'm a gay man
because I got a lot of Jonathan Bailey content, which
is rare. But you do learn a lot about issues.
You learn a lot about what's going on in the
world politically and everything. So I heard someone say TikTok
is like live theater because you never know what's next
and you're always kind of That's why you don't go
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to sleep with it because it's too heightened. It's like
watching a little play. So whatever way someone chooses to
have their little downtime. I think it's fine.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, I think it's necessary. I don't think it's just fine.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I think you need that because then you start like
resenting the other person.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
And then when he comes home and.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
He's like, hey, let's go sit and watch a show,
and she's just like okay, and she's grinning through it, and.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
She's like, I kill you.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
She hate to, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So like being you know, who knows what kind of
relationship it is. I'm sure it's fine. You have four
wonderful children talk to each other to say I love you,
but I just need to just be by myself for
a little while.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
It's nothing against you, it's not about you.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It's literally only about me in this moment because everything
else is I'm putting out to everyone else. I'm trying
to make sure everyone else is okay, and it's just
refilling that tank. And I think the husband should be like, yeah,
I totally understand that.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And if not couples therapy for sure, nothing wrong with that.
I know plenty of good couples who are in couples
therapy just to keep it on track. And also the
fact you said she probably has four wonderful children. They're
probably four shitty kids. Let's be honest. Every kid is
be beautiful and wonderful. And that is what Lisa Lampinelli
has to say about that. Thank you, Chris for helping
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me with this interim little tidbit to tide people over
to season two. If you haven't yet listened to the
full season one of Shrink This, please go back and
listen and catch up. You'll be titillated. We'll see you
next week. Oh and don't forget to listen on your
iHeartRadio app. I know that sounded phony, but I'm sincere
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