July 15, 2025 • 48 mins
In another characteristically unhinged episode, Lisa Lampanelli asks the hard-hitting question: when does a harmless hobby turn into a full-blown obsession? She and Nick take a look at the weird little fixations that help us survive modern life—whether it’s binge-watching “Cobra Kai,” collecting Fiestaware like your life depends on it, or gambling away your rent money on the couch while your girlfriend scrolls Instagram next to you.
Along the way, they read letters from listeners with obsessions that range from cute to “please seek help.” If you’ve ever found yourself crying over a Hallmark movie marathon or buying five versions of the same T-shirt because you “just need them,” this episode’s for you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lisa Lambinelli is not a licensed therapist or life coach.
She is a meddling advice giving yana and 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
grain of salt for entertainment purposes. Only these.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
You need help, You're the problems. Come on, come down,
go lamb take a pill. I think you're insane. Do
what I say, dumb ass, listen to me. You fuck
(00:46):
all you people. I'm a wounded for Barnick. Yea, Yeah,
Missess is Lisa Labinelli on my and only my show.
Else counts except Lisa, sweet and lovely Lisa. No, this
is Lisa Lappinelli. Welcome to shrink this my talented, lovely
(01:09):
and very titified hostess. Next scope Leddya's here? Say hi?
Next Hi?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Where's my camera? Where am I?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Gay? Find your like? Good angle? So your boobs look
bigger than your nose. I love how you get older
as an Italian man. And the nose in the ears
just explode.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Started noticing that. Yeah, it's really upsetting.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It doesn't for us women to mine exploded and about
the same age, So don't worry really well, and like me,
you'll never get laid Againnyhare. We're also here with Celia
Celia whatever she invented Copenhagen. Look in the show notes
for that reference. We don't have show notes. We don't
care because that's like for a real podcast. I feel
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like our podcast, Shrink This, it's kind of like not real,
it's ethereal. And that's why we're talking about something very
unreal today, which dawned on me a few months ago
because the last season of Cobra Kai on Netflix came
(02:11):
out and I had a deep sadness and I said
to mine south Lintha, why is this obsession with Cobra
Kai in your life? And why do people obsess on
certain things that are by the way, way too young
or old for them. It takes over their life. When
(02:32):
does an obsession go from a healthy hobby, if you will,
a little happy pastime and becomes a full blown obsession.
So we are today going to take letters from people,
and by the way, if you want to get a
letter to us, absolutely send it to us at Shrink
This Show at gmail dot com. That's Shrink This Show
(02:53):
at gmail dot com We're going to take letters from
people who have obsessions that are bored unhealthy. Now, obviously
we're not talking about addiction, but uh, it's like a
kind of seemingly harmless things that may get out of control. Now, Nick,
when I mentioned this weird the terms weird obsession, what
comes up for you?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Sopranos.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yes, you literally have a Sopranos like. It's not even
like a hobby anymore. It's like you ruin my TikTok
fun because every time you send me a freakin' video
from TikTok, it's a Sopranos one. And then my whole
algorithm thinks I'm an Italian who like the Sopranos, which
I do, but not as much as I am a
black woman who loves black videos. So I'm just like
(03:38):
on Nick stoperating my algorithm. And also, you are the
type who I think every every literally I'm not gonna
say every time, it's an exaggeration. Every other time we
go to the diner once a week, I'm doing a
Sopranos rewatch, and I'm like, you've watched no other show
in your life?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
No what else? A comfort show?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Comfort?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I go back to shows that if I'm like where
I'm stressed, I will go back to a show that
I've seen a million times so that I just know
what's coming. I don't have to think, I don't have
to whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So like, what to you would make the so you
feel your obsession with the Sopranos and you do know
it by heart, which I think is fantastic. It's really
fun to listen to you. When would it, in theory
become oops, this is really unhealthy. I gotta look at that.
I think that's what we need to talk about today.
(04:32):
What what tips it over into a Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
If I'm having this, I can do this pretty well.
If I'm having text conversations with people who we're talking
about situations, I know, an exact Sopranos clip and or
a thing that yes, is it close to that? Like
or like pretty? You know, like something funny? Right? I
know exactly? And then I'm like, there's part of me
that's like, man, you really are into deep.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I mean because the reason I even liked the idea
of an episode about weird obsession is I was listening
to a different podcast and they were talking about Hallmark
Christmas movies and it was all fun in games to hahaha, jokey, jokey.
But then the thing that landed with me was these
some of some of these women who are obsessed with
these Hallmark movies. It's a way of them literally checking out.
(05:23):
It's a way of them like not knowing what's going
on in politics, well, not knowing what's going on in
their family or in the world. And they are just
all of those forty days before Christmas or whatever it is,
they're just like watching this and buying into this artificial
world and kind of like, good for you, white girl
that you have the privilege of opting out of knowing
what people are going through. But it seems a little
(05:46):
like it gets to where it's irresponsible, Like if my
Cobrakai watching was like making me not know what's going on,
not making me really have a life outside that or
caring about anything, and kind of traveling to like these
amecns and things to like stalk Johnny Lawrence. Like, then
I think it becomes a little ridiculous. But so I
(06:06):
think that's the line or one of the indications of like, uh,
maybe you should get out of that bubble and be
in the real world.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, I don't want to though, Yeah, too bad. I
was like, when all when politics and things are, I
just go watch the West Wing and I'm like, can't,
can't Martin Sheen just be our.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Presence right And guess what, No, he can't. But this
is the thing I always know when my full blown
over I won't say upsession but over occupation with someone
is when I have to buy the shirts. So I'm today,
but not only I true Cobra Kai fans will realize
(06:43):
this is a Cobra Kai shirt, but it's so inside
baseball that I have to buy the one that only
true fans on the street would be. Like Eagle fang Man.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, I knew that first.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's like in season three or something where Johnny Lawrence
creates this other offshoot of a So I had to
track down the Eagle fang shirt and I had to
have five, and I had to help all the colors,
and I have to have two different sizes depending on
how I wanted to style it. I have, of course
my Johnny Lawrence air freshener in the car, which says
no mercy and I don't know what it smells like,
(07:17):
but I hope it's him. I also have said that
I the way I coach comedy is Johnny Lawrence how
I just yell at people to be quiet. And just
as we started to take this, I literally looked at
my phone and go, oh my god, I got a
Cobra Kai phone case. Like it's so that's when I
know to like look at it. I think we need
signs to look at things because I think the first
(07:38):
obsession I remember recent in recent years was Hamilton. I
had for some reason, and again, trust me, I was
a minor celebrity for three minutes. I somehow got invited
to the Hamilton premiere, which was the hottest ticket to
go to opening night. I could not believe it. So
I'm there. Every celebrity, big, huge stars are there, and
(08:03):
of course I see it. I'm totally like, WHOA. This
resonates with me. It's about you can't control what people
think of you and your legacy. You know who lives,
who dies, who tells your story? So I go in
hard and I have to find you would not believe
the shirts that I had to buy. It didn't It
wasn't just Hamilton, it wasn't just Oh. All the thoughts
(08:25):
that I hadn't been replaced by Hamilton lyrics. It wasn't
just young, scrappy and hungry. It was so inside, like, hey,
ask me, I know all the raps from uh Da
da da and own to. Only those people would get it,
and they like give you a look on the street,
like I get you, dude. So I think for me,
my little indicator is like when I'm that obsessed with
(08:46):
the merch. Yeah, maybe it's not. Maybe it's just to
be looked at no judgment. Maybe this is getting in
the way of my real life. Like if I'm on
a treadmill and I'm sob bing to George Washington's retirement song,
maybe I should look at why, Like why what is
(09:06):
my problem about retirement?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
George Washington had a retirement song.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's so good. It's such a tear jerker, it's really beautiful.
So I think those things I just got to go.
All right, Let's make sure I'm also involved with other things.
Let's make sure I'm not isolating and just being like
no one understands me but Lynn Manuel Miranda by the way,
I want to hear like a funny lin Manroe. This
is the best. I dated a guy early on who
(09:32):
said to me, listen you don't have any TV credits yet.
But if someone comes up to you at a club
and says you were really great on Comedy Central, say
thank you because you don't want them to feel stupid
like you want to go no, I was never on,
and then they'll feel like an because just say thank you.
It's fine. You'll get TV credits someday. I did. He
didn't anyway. No. So I was at the Hamilton Tony
(09:55):
party Humble Bragg at Tavern on the Green. It's really
rarefied air. It's really fun. So Lynn and Moreel Lynn, Manuel,
Miranda and the outher writer come in to the party
after they win every Tony that night, and I'm like,
I just have to get up the nerve to say
hi and just say how much to show means to
(10:16):
me without crying like that kind of thing. I go
up to him and I go, hey, Lenn. He goes,
oh my god, Lisa, we love you. You're so funny.
Remember that time you roasted us. You really kicked our ass,
didn't she? Tommy, He says to the director. I had
never met him before, I had certainly not roasted him before.
(10:37):
I'd never done a joke about him. But I went
with it. I go, I know, right, just you gotta
run with it. So I was like wow. Then it
became really obsessed with it because I'm like, well, me
and Lynn are truly friends. I'm like, who the fuck
roasted him? By the way, who do you think he
might have got me? Mistaken by Kathy Griffin?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Maybe Kathy Griffin.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
In the ground, I think, yeah, funny, maybe it it
was from the grave. But I was like, just run
with it. So it's funny. How like if I look
at it, it's like my obsession with Hamilton sort of
started coming down, and then the Cobra Kai THNK car
started coming up, and I like to even think, like,
why do these obsessions take hold of us? So with
(11:22):
Cobra Kai, it was I mean, with Hamilton, it was
definitely the retirement thing. George Washington leaving his legacy and
I was retiring at the time. Makes sense. Cobra Kai,
it's definitely a nostalgia for the years that The Karate
Kid first came out. Johnny Lawrence was always just the funniest,
greatest character. But it's the first episode of Cobra Kai
(11:45):
is his redemption story. It's this guy who's misunderstood and
down on his luck and making a comeback. So I'm like,
I identify with Johnny Lawrence. I have to do something
with my life after retirement, and I'm just like obsessed
with this guy's story. So is it unhealthy A little? First?
(12:06):
I mean it's almost just the age is inappropriate, like
sixty three and still into that, like, come on, kids
are fighting each other in a school yard, like is that?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I think it's great. You did forget to mention your
text notification you're your ring?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Oh shit, Oh my god, Yeah, it's Johnny Lawrence. Whenever
I get a text it goes quiet my Netflix little emoji,
Like when you go on Netflix, it says your picture,
then kids, and then other people who are loved by you.
I have none, so I have just in said the
(12:41):
kid's picture. A picture of a dog comes up, so
the dogs have their own playlist, and then of course
whose picture is me? Johnny Lawrence? So I think I
overidentify with a character. But it doesn't like carry on
as much to my real life. I'm not. I will
yell it straight guys a lot. Quiet it me too,
and my comedy students. But I don't think on the
(13:03):
street I'm like as volatile. I mean, I hope no.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I yellustraight guys when they won't kiss me back.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It is right now?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
When do you think so? You would say, like, my
little weird obsessions, despite age, inappropriateness or whatever, are not
unhealthy to the point of neglecting other things. Have you
ever had an obsession that like drove you insane, that
like got to weigh onhealthy proportions?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Bold? Yes, I mean you can't tell now you sure can.
The camera adds forty five pounds.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Five cameras are pointed at your.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Truly you think about it right?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Back me up?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yah, it's cameras.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Twenty seven make him feel good about.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Them later in real life.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You're beautiful the way you are girl. You're thick with
three c's.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Was it okay to teach me those things building? I
used to compete in bodybuilding, and that's it's you neglect everything, food,
going out, social exp Wow. I was lucky enough though
that like I say lucky, but I had friends that
like understood it and guys that were athletes, so they
were like, we'll chill with you. Like it wasn't completely
(14:16):
but for me. It was the extremes of the body
stuff like gaining a bunch of weight to bulk up,
so like I could tell you right now again, I
went up to two fifteen, and then I lost.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Hold on Celia's very rude see her ringtone. If it
was Johnny Lawrence yelling quiet, we would have laughed. Is
fine now she's just never Oh I'm glad it could
be our podcast. Oh I'm glad you don't let that happen.
Durio really important? Why I hate her? Text Elvis tex
(14:51):
my uncle, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
No.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
But I went from like two hundred and fifteen pounds
to one hundred and seventy something pounds in like a
two month peer. Wow, lost all the weight, got on stage,
did well whatever, took a diuretic on top of it,
like a psychopath that week. So I remember that show
was on a Sunday, I think it was March tenth.
A week later, I was in New York City for
(15:13):
Saint Patty's Day and on stage I was like one
seventy eight in New York City that Saturday or Sunday
for Saint Patty's Day, I was two zero five. Wow,
I had like pregnant woman ankles. It was I was
blowning in my stomach was killing me, and I couldn't
stop eating. Like I literally was like white Castle this
sure sure didn't even drink. And that's when I got
to the point of like all good exercising and being healthy,
(15:37):
but like bodybuilding is not that, Like I regret yeah,
looking back, like I don't regret it, but at the
same time, I'm like, man, I really, for lack of
a better term, I fucked my shit up.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, real bad. Well, you're you know every time, you know,
with diet culture too, even in a smaller sense, for
every restriction, there's going to be a binge. That's why
yo yoing exists. That's why diets work. And it's like, oh, okay,
so with bodybuilding, you had that other shit, and would
you like not would you be very regimented, and like
(16:10):
I can eat this amount at this time? This amount?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, it was. I knew every day it was the
same thing. It was six eggs in the morning, and
then three hours later it was a protein shake, and
then three hours later it was chicken with rice and
like a salad, and then three hours later it was
another protein shake, and then three hours after that was
steak and something else.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's almost like though, like you you joke out your
weight a lot now and it's funny, but like you're
not that big. What I think it is, I'd rather chubby,
non weird obsessed Nick than that guy, because that guy
I wouldn't probably have liked it all.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
No, Yeah, there's a middle ground too, Like when you
met me even at my you know, I was I
was lighter than this, but like that was a healthy
middle ground where I was like, I'm not gonna be like, no,
I can't have it. Wasn't that guy like that. I
it righted itself. I want to too far this past
couple of years, but now we're coming back to a
middle point where it's.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Like, yeah, I think everything is like noticing when it
tips to the wrong side. I say, if I'm binging
a show like a Cobra Kai or oh yeah, I'll
tell you how I got it, sort of a little
(17:25):
hint that I think it's maybe I'm a little unhealthy
with this is because clearly take or leave the show.
There's funny moments, it's cute, it's nostalgic, it's there's little
tearful moments when it's like about you know, their high
school moments and things. But I remember I have a friend,
one of my best friends. Her boyfriend is a very
(17:46):
elite well he's an acting teacher at a very elite school,
so he's no joke. I remember he said to me
once we're talking about Cobra Kai and he goes, oh,
he goes, it's so much fun to watch. He goes, boy,
that guy, boy, that guy Zabka can't act, and that's
like Johnny Lawrence and I go, hey man, no, I
(18:06):
literally it was like it was like I was his protector.
I go, hey man, don't make me hate you. So
whenever I have a don't make me hate you as
my first response, I go, oh, let me look at
like why I would hate him because I go his opinion, Look,
is William Zabka the best actor in the world. Definitely not.
(18:27):
He's not the worst either. There he also has an
Oscar nomination for a film he did like, so like,
there's no way he's horrible. Yes, And this acting teacher
friend of mine, we both admit that we have to
be the smartest people in the room, that we think
we have the best taste, So we kind of joke
about it now. So I said to him, I said,
remember the time I almost hated you because you hated
(18:49):
Johnny Lawrence And he goes, no, he goes, I feel bad.
And so for Christmas this year he got me a
Johnny Lawrence wind up Donald that you pull his back
and he says quiet. So I'm like, okay, so we
solved our little problem. But like when I get really defensive,
like there's some shows that I'm obsessed with that I
won't even tell my friends, I like, because if they
don't like them. I got in the friendship. That's extreme
(19:10):
and that's maybe a different episode about my being an
opinionated bit who thinks say no it all. But that's
like for another day. Yes, So when we come back,
we're going, well, actually, wait, I want to say. One
other thing there's certain was that she's leaving and with
(19:30):
her fucking she'll be on the phone. Yeah, she's obsessed
with her phone. Maybe she'll look into that. There are
certain deal breakers though, because I remember when I was
dating I really and I kind of stand by this,
like there's certain things and this isn't political or anything.
There's obviously deal Burger's there. There's certain things entertainment wise,
(19:52):
I will not date someone if we disagree. If someone
doesn't love Howard Stern and see how he's grown and
he's like the best interviewer on the planet. Now, I
can't date you because that means you have bad tastes
And I don't know how to even say it.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
You're just dumb, like you just don't.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Oh yeah, just don't. Anyway. There's lots of other reasons,
but like so Howard was always like a deal breaker
to be like, if you don't get it, Like I
remember years ago when online dating started, like it wasn't
even a phone. We didn't have phones, we had rotary phones,
but there was like online, and I had in my
bio like must love Howard Stern, And I just think
(20:33):
there's certain things that are a part of my life
that you have to get and if you don't like
that's that. If you don't love dogs, I would argue,
I'm obsessed. And this is so judgy because I know
some listeners are gonna hate this. I'm obsessed with rescue dogs.
I have a real snobby attitude towards people who buy
(20:53):
a dog, and people are like, yeah, but well, I'm
gonna have to hate you now. I think some of
my obsessions are okay if they're rooted in real heart
and what I think is the greater good. I don't know. Also,
you're I'm really judgy, you're weirdly not as judgy as
I am.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
It depends I can go, I could go. I'm either
I don't care whatever. Yeah, I'm like, fuck this motherfucker right.
There's no middle with me. It just depends. I would
have to think. I don't know what I mean. A
few weeks ago, there was a guy I told you
about this who was on FaceTime with his kid in public,
like being like, so what do you want to eat?
Bud and at our food place publicly that I judge
(21:37):
like that will send me through the roof.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, But would you ever have something that in your life?
I don't care how good the puss it was, that
push it be good, that puts it be nice, pus
it Is there anything that you really like in your life,
like the Gem, like those sopranos, like whatever you're really
(22:02):
into that If a girl said, em, I don't like that,
I don't like Will Ferrell, I don't like stepbrother, would
it would there be anything where you'd just be like,
I don't I hate.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You now, not off the top of my head, to
be honest.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So girl could say she hates the Sopranos and doesn't
see it's about.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
She hates the Sopranos, I'd be like, well, you're wrong.
That's fine, Like, you're absolutely wrong, right, I understand it's
not because you don't have a brain.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
It's not for you.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah, Oh, go watch the Real Housewives, bitch.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well that's the thing. Could a girl ever be seen
with me? A reality show would be a deal breaker.
I would be like, no, you're not allowed, like opt
out of the real world and watch that ship and
all it is is gossip, and that means you like gossip.
So you're a fucking idiot. So I'm clearly judge. Yeah,
And so I can't date someone like that. Thank god.
(22:54):
I don't want to date because there's no guy out
there who would like everything I like. I want just
like a Harbon copy of me. Wouldn't that be great?
I think everyone just like me. Yes, with all my obsessions.
We just watched Cobra Kai. We'd listen to the Hamilton
soundtrack and cry yeah, and we'd meet lin Man, Wuel
Miranda and you'd accuse us of roasting him again? Now
(23:15):
should I? It is this thing on should we? Celia
is fire? Right, Celia push that button? Bitches?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I am fired that I can leave.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Oh, I think someone's obsessed with being me. That's okay.
I've always said she has an undercurrent of hatred. Yeah,
what you what with aggression love?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
The love part is perfectly skipped. I just said to
the aggression.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Aggression just like, if I really like you, then I'm
kind of sarcastic and mean?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Can you go back to not liking us? Just like?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Really?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
N No, I actually agree with you on that because
I if I don't like somebody, I can't be joking
with them because I feel like I'm going to mean it,
like at roasts and things like that. I would always
if there was one person who I truly disrespected and hated,
I go no jokes about them because people sense it.
So I'm gonna take it that you actually like us
(24:21):
because you're a mean cunt exactly. She's obsessed why it's unhealthy?
All right? So, Nick, we have some questions from people
about their possibly weird obsession. Let's hear them girl.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
All right? Our first letter says, Dear Lisa, You'll see
why I'm doing the voice at the end. Okay, my
kitchen fiestaware.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Oh god, shut the fuck up. That is not wear letter,
I swear. Okay, I'll explain to me what that is. Okay,
please please.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
So I have every solid color of plates and balls
in my cabin so when they open it, it looks
like one giant.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Oh girl in high school.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
My roommate hates it so much and says the kitchen
looks like a five year old's bedroom. She wants normal
dishes and is embarrassed, especially when her friends come over.
Is it really that big of a deal? Thanks, Amy
from New York, New York.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh my god. First of all, you're doing a gay
man's voice because I actually have a friend, Frank, and
I'm going to use his full name because he's proud
of this. Frank DeCaro in Los Angeles. He has a
fiesta wor a collection and it drives his husband, Jim Kaluotch,
famous as author of The Golden Girls the Real Biography,
Oh wow, and knows that Bee was not mean. She
(25:39):
just played me anyway. He Jim is like, oh my god,
we have enough fucking fiesta Ware. I know people who
collect corning wear. Do you know what that is? It's
the white with the little blue flower. There's just like
all these things that people want to collect. Collections are
weird because I'm like, if you have a big house, great,
(26:00):
you do whatever you want. And I'm not into this
whole thing. Oh well, you know, suppose if the Nietern
nephew is like, well, what do we do with all
this stuff when he dies, well fucking sell it and
make some money. Don't worry, bitch, and no one's leaving
anything to you. Okay, So this he it sounds like
he has a little bit of a healthy aspect of it.
(26:24):
Also she wait, sorry, I'm still thinking it's a gay man.
Frank wait sol.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Because when I read fiesta were I thought of my
grandmother from Queens.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh yeah, dude.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
We are Italian and Polish, mostly Italian, and she would
decorate for like Saint Patti's Day and she had a veste.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
No, you're thinking different. She doesn't mean.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
That saying that word.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yes, So, Fiestaware is an actual brand. I think it's
from the sixties or something, and it's very colorful, rainbow
colored in all these different really bright ues of it's beautiful, okay,
But the thing is like I don't get like and
I don't have to get everyone's collection, Like I don't
get people who have fun copomp collection. Although I must
(27:07):
admit I do have a Johnny lawnche one I also,
but I also have a Ronnie James di O one didn't,
So I mean, uh I I don't get collections because collections,
to me, is something where you think you're gonna get
(27:29):
quote unquote get the mall and feel fulfilled. But there's
no way, even if it was possible to get the mall,
which say there is, but there actually is in a
way to get all of it. If you had every
single bowl in every single color and all the plates
and everything was perfect, I don't think you feel whole
(27:50):
as a human being. So I think it's attaching. Oh
I'm gonna feel great once I have this in every color,
So that would be the unhealthy part. I think if
it's just like, oh, oh my god, I went to
like we go on the weekends to get like flea
markets fines and we bought a little plate here and
it's we have like twenty Just when it becomes like
where your house is exploding and looks terrible and looks hoarding,
(28:15):
or it's your roommate's really pissed off. Her argument? What
was her argument? The roommate's argument is that it looks
like something. Yeah, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Who hasn't Nick you wanted to be in a five
year old boys bedroom.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
And make it a woman.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, that's true, So I think he'll know when it's unhealthy.
But people, if you're thinking about collecting anything, realize you'll
never have it all. It'll never be enough, and you'll
always hate yourself. If you hate yourself without all the shoes,
you're gonna hate your You're gonna have a bit. You're
(28:52):
gonna bitch with sore feet who still hates themselves. So
work on that internal stuff. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Next letter, Next letter, Dear Lisa, I'm thirty four years
old and I spent at least an hour a day
on TikTok watching get Ready with Me video, Oh watch
one and that I can't stop. I know it's stupid,
but there's so much fun. Do you think this is okay?
Or am I wasting my life? Thanks Stephanie.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Okay, Stephanie. Wait, so thirty four? How long does she spend?
What does it say?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
An hour a day?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Okay, con Celia as the young millennial ish, whatever the
fuck this brought is, explain to me concisely and not
in your overly lengthy way of sharing. Can you only heart?
We only make fun of the ones we love? No,
can you tell me really what a get ready with
me is? In a nutshell?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Basically, it's somebody setting up their phone and filming themselves
getting ready to like go out or do something.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
So does it make a up and skincare.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Skincare, getting dressed, adding their accessories and then like they're
like okay bye?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Do they then? So the point isn't to show you
the outfit. It's not. It's not that the point is
listen to me while I'm getting ready. But it's not
like and I've styled my they're not all stylists.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Well, there's a couple of factors to this. There can
be a silent get ready with me, which is.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Like THEE I'm so happy.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, thank you get ready with me?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Either you're not talking and we just hear what you're doing,
which is like can be like as Mr O that's
another thing.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I hate that ASMR ahead.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
There's another silent get ready with me where you can
put music over it, and so you just don't hear anything,
like they don't talk.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Well, could I just ask? No, no judge, no judgment.
But like, so these broads on the internet, I think
they're interesting enough looking that we want to watch them.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Get ready and there's an are there un get ready
with me? As well? People do that, there's an un
get ready with me?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
So they take off their shit.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
I'm getting ready for bed.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I remember once after a premiere of a of a
movie premiere, I was so this is when I was,
I would say, in a bigger body, as they say
these days, I in a diner did an unready with
me without knowing it. My fucking corset popped right the
fuck off. I decided to commit to it, pulled out
the extensions right at the table, took off the nails,
(31:32):
took off the fucking eyelashes, and I was like, here
we go. So that's my fucking nun get ready with me?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Hot?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
But see, yeah, I could. I So it's not unhealthy,
it's just weird. Like why I don't understand watching someone
get ready? I watch a lot of stylists because I
want to like put outfits together and it's quick. They're
just like I do this this, this boom here, and
you take a screenshot and you know what you're gonna
put together. But watching some broad I don't know get
(32:00):
ready is really I don't get it. I wonder what
she is getting out of it? Like does she say
she has nowhere in that letter? She just says there self? Fun?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
They're probably fun. Plus some of these influencers correct me
if I'm wrong. A little millennial to my left here, Yeah,
they probably go on live and do it and people
watch them and they make money off.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Of it, right right, that's what they get out of it.
What does the watcher get out of it?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Cell Ya, I unfortunately spend more time than little Stephanie
here watching Ready with me? Get Ready with me?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Really? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:33):
To me, it's just like really satisfying.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I think wait, wait, say different word than satisfying. What
is the feeling.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Satisfying?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
That's not a feeling like I mean.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Like I get I think maybe I'm motivated to get
up and get ready.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
So you need how about I just call you on
the phone and say get up, cunt? Like see. I
think have always said, Johnny Lawrence, go just scream in
your ear that I think we could combine our sessions
and this would all work out.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
My hatch doesn't even work like those videos.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
That sounds dirty. My hatch doesn't watch tell us about
your snatch. Oh that hatch alarm waste a fucking time.
Let's not talk about that. The hatch, the obsession with
products that are trendy and influencers talk about this ridiculous
ship that you don't need literally will never need.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I need as when I get ready, I know, but.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I get that. But if you're staring at another girl,
how are you getting ready?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I'm not I'm getting hard.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Okay, get it up for you. Okay, I don't like it.
Just because I don't like it and understand it doesn't
mean it's not valid. If this is not getting in
the celia, you're obviously a extreme case and need mental
health case. But I don't know what that means. The
lip gloss yet you're sitting there with nothing on her
(33:59):
fucking lips. Yeah, you know, are we on a podcast
that has visuals? Maybe bring your a game, moon Boot
listen to the other episode. You'll understand no, but long
is the one with just an hour a day, if
it's not like making her late for work, if it's
not making her neglect herself and not put her own
(34:21):
face and makeup. Gun, Cause girls, I'm sick you'll leave
in the house without makeup and thinking it look cute
cause you never do get it together together, bitch as
we're not pretty naturally, And I love the whole like
trope of like, why don't men wear makeup? Oh, because
no one ever told them they look bad without it. Yeah, well,
guess what it's called reality. It's called misogyny. That's the
(34:41):
world we live in. Look pretty?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Fuck yeah the patriarchy dog yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Oh boy? All right, next letter, so watch your damn
get ready, but also you get ready to bitch?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, get ready? All right? This next one's long. Oh no, okay,
it starts off LEAs.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Finally someone mentions me in a letter. I thought people
dropped the ball.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
I am so excited to be writing to you.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Well should be.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I'm excited about writing, but not what I'm writing about.
Oh boy, my name is Craig. I'm thirty six years old.
I even Athens, Georgia with my girlfriend to make a
long story short. I focused on getting into law school
after college graduation, went to law school, but then I
lied about graduating in my process with the bar because
I was embarrassed about how behind I was. In the
(35:28):
past couple of years, I found myself loving gardening, flipping houses,
and sewing. Nope, I have I try to show my
girlfriend that I'm serious about this by making her thoughtful gifts. Oh,
I can't even finish this obsession is cat, You're a
(35:50):
secret gay. I also redid our backyard. Oh wait, holds
I like that thoughtful gifts like an embroidered pillow with
your cat on it.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I can't. Nope, nope, nope, nope nope.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Also redid our backyard the exact way she wanted. But
every single day she makes fun of me of being
obsessed with sewing. It feels shameful that I am not
sure if it's because it's sewing isn't manly, or because
I'm doing it too much. Sorry, this is long.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
He says the guys he meets on grind.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yes, yeah, oh man, I think we're glossing over the
most important part of this letter, not that sewing is
a feminine thing, which it shouldn't be. I think that's fine.
I full disclosure. A lot of Italian men in the
old days would learn tailoring and then pass it on
in their family. My father could tailor anything. Oh my god,
all you've seen my house, all the curtains my father made.
(36:40):
My father actually though he had made those because he yeah,
because he learned from his Italian uncle. But here's the
thing with my father too, he had like shame around it,
and where I didn't think he should like. I remember
once he made me and my sister like dresses for
something fancy, and he goes, don't tell anyone I made
them because back then, I mean he's talking about the sixties,
people would have been like home o. You know. So
(37:03):
I don't much care about this guy liking sewing. I
think it's great. Gardening I think is great. Also, I think,
I mean, you ready did the bitch's backyard. Let her
calm down. I mean a lot of women would be thrilled.
And by redoing her backyard, he meant he shaved her ass.
That's what I'm thinking. But I think that's really like
the hobbies themselves. I don't mind. I mind two things,
(37:26):
and I feel bad for him that he lied about
the law school thing, and he's carrying that around because
I if I lie about something, I cannot shake it
for a minute, Like you'll try to shake it for
a day, and it sneaks back in at night, like
you have a secret shame that you have to tell someone,
And you know in AA and all those programs, it's
(37:47):
like you're only as sick as your secrets. He must
feel sick all the time about that, And it sounds
like he's channeling that shame and energy into this other stuff.
And while those other hobbies clearly aren't her anything, what's
probably digging at him is that lie.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
That would bother me too. Did he finish law school
or none?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
We lied that he didn't finish it. That's like so sad.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
What's going on with.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I don't know. Let's give his full name, so we
out him, Craig. Poor thing didn't pass the bar? Like
it just like and those are things too. I didn't
finish grad school. I have no shame about that. But
if if you have shame about not finishing something because
society puts more pressure on men to finish the degree,
or your parents really wanted you to be a lawyer,
(38:34):
but you didn't like, I could see where that would
weigh this poor guy down. I will say, though, the
other red flag is pillow cat because I have a
friend who's a great knitter. My friend Bonnie is a
really great she's actually an artist. All these half ass
knitting bitches who try to give me a gift, it's
(38:56):
not good, it doesn't come out well. But with her,
I said, Bonnie, you're the only one who who has
permission to do this for me. And she made me
a pillow with flowers on it. And it's like, yeah,
because I'm a girl and she's a girl, and oh no,
oh well, this was so funny. It was supposed to okay,
it was supposed to look like all vines and stuff.
And she showed and with flowers. She showed it to
(39:19):
her daughter first and she's like, mom, the way you
did the vines, it looks like a swastika. And she
ripped it all out and she did it again. And
Bonnie's Asian. She knows I'm really not into Hitler. She knows, yeah,
come on, that's not one of my guys. She did
it over. It's beautiful, But so even that I let go.
(39:42):
It's just I don't know. He doesn't sound like he's
giving her what she wants as a gift, though. No.
I think like if she said, oh my god, I
would love a pillow with my cat on it, then
she probably wouldn't make fun of you. So maybe look
at what your not even though there's nothing to do
(40:02):
with the subject. Look at what she might be giving
you hints that she does want. Yeah, you know, well
not everything's about that. I was never comfortable with the oral.
It was too distracting. I don't discand too much is
going on. God forbid, we's sixty nine. There's a parents
(40:23):
down there. What's going on? Anyway? I say, come out
of the closet about your not finishing law school, because
it's got to be a huge burden to you. If
someone breaks up to you, breaks up with you because
of that, then they're not the right person. And I
think then your energies will be channeled a little more
evenly across the board. God, these people are exhausting, Nick.
(40:47):
Do you have any easy ones?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Crazy man? Listen, Craig. If it doesn't work out, I'm single.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Go to the next letter. Stop pitching dating.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
I love pillows.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yeah you have too, writ just big kittd bitch.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
All right, last letter here, Dear Lisa. Two weeks ago,
my friend introduced me to FanDuel, and now I'm booked
for all you. Yeah, there's a lot of gay men
and women that listen to this. FanDuel is a sports
betting website.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Okay, okay, that makes it a lot.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Every want to know?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (41:20):
I know this shit. I bet on games every single night,
doesn't even matter what sport. I win some, I lose some,
but I'm not betting enough money to make it an issue.
My girlfriend, of course, hates it because I'm always checking
my phone for scores to be It's no different than
her checking Instagram. Do you see a problem with my
new hobby brad and Tampa.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Florida, Tampa home of Hitler. Just kidding, I just have
to have two of those references. Yeah, okay, this got
two levels, Steward. Have you ever met a guy who
bets a lot of money or bets and does not
eventually become obsessed with it? Have you ever met anyone.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Most of my friends bet. I'm the only person who's like,
no way.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
So do you you can answer this? Are is one
able to bet? The way? This guy is saying without
becoming obsessed and in debt where he doesn't have the
gene that will make him be like going to gamblers anonymous,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Know how much money he makes. I mean a lot
of the guys I know that do gamble, like they
make a lot of money, so like if they lost
two grand on a game, it's not gonna they can't
not pay the rent or the mortgage that one.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
No, it sounds like this guy's just sort of like, hey,
I make a hundred here, lose a hundred. It's all
So it sounds like a hobby at this point.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Definitely could get obsessive though, Like I've seen the most
you know, straight and narrowed type guys will get into
betting one of my friends who you know well, and
he'll be like, he'll get it. Gets his juices flowing
for sure.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Yeah, Which I don't think there's wrong with a hobby
getting your juices flowing, because I think that's what a
hobby's supposed to do. Either that or it's supposed to
calm you down. Like I like the hobbies that calm
you down, like intuitive paint, which I just discovered, which
is a way of meditating, just painting badly with music.
(43:07):
We don't cry, we don't even have time to think.
It's like meditative. So I mean a hobby that colms
younown sounds nice to me, but other people like exciting things,
So it sounds like if it's really where he's telling
the truth and he's not losing huge amounts of money, fine,
because I don't think we all take one drink and
become an alcoholic or all bet a few times and
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become a gambling addict. I think it's a certain mental makeup.
The thing is, though, what I hate about both him
and his girlfriend these phones. I forbade a friend of
mine to wear their Apple Watch ever around me because
I just go, look, man, it's just gonna spoil our friendship,
(43:51):
is it. I would I would prefer when we hang
out that you leave it at home. Ends up, He
returned it because I'm that fucking important. So he was like,
I don't even need it, Like I'm so obsessed with
my phone. That's bad enough. So it's just the comparing
with Instagram, Like they both suck you and your girlfriend
both suck as people, Yeah, Tampa, Yeah, so suck on
(44:15):
Hitler's cop so I would say, maybe both of you
look at this phone stuff, because I'm not the big
fan of the phone thing, and I don't think it's
just my age. I think it's just like, I don't know,
can anybody be present? That would be great.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Yeah, it's it's I know. For me, it's like, I
don't need another reason to look at my phone. There's
enough reason. So if this is adding to, like, if
the FanDuel is adding to the Instagram stuff you already
do and the TikTok stuff you already do, then maybe, yeah,
take a look at it.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
It's gonna be like a cumulative whole bunch of like
is your life all on a screen? And it is
not like some like oh oh boomers they don't like phones.
I love TikTok. I just literally I never went on
TikTok until like four months ago. Ever, yeah, and I'm like,
this is cool. You get access to information you wouldn't
have and thank god, even when they wanted to delete it,
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mine didn't go away. And I was like, oh, so
it's not bad. It's just like, why are you checking
these things so much? So maybe the obsession and weird
obsession isn't a weird one. It's that everybody seems to
have it lately.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
Right, It's it's super entertaining, and it's also social to
a certain degree. Like I know my buddy and his
brothers I was talking about earlier. They all bet together
and they're like, do you put money on the game.
I went to a baseball game with them and they
were on the train and his brother was like, add
more to your bet and he's like all right, and
they're like. It's a social just like sending tiktoks to
people is a social thing.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Yeah, reaching out right.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
They're friends from college and we do talk through text,
but like there's some guys E've ben talking six months
or just sending each other as sopranos things back and
forth and memes and gifts and all this shit.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
It is a way of connection. Which that's no problem.
I think, you know when it comes too much. But
if him and his girlfriend are sitting at the dinner
table and she's on her phone looking at Instagram and
he's looking at FANDLE, I say, this is a shit couple. YEA,
So I stick by my advice. Suck Hitler's cock. We
(46:17):
usually do. Like a third segment called Lisa's weekly fuck up.
But guess what. I was searching my head going, I
didn't fuck up this week. I honestly don't think I
did anything wrong and good thing because Selia informed me, Oh,
we're already at time, so I'm like, bitch, I say,
what time it is? You? Don't you love Hitler? Fuck?
(46:39):
So there's no fuck up for me this week. It's
just me and Nick Scobel Eddy saying, guess what if
you have a question for us, email us at Shrink
This Show at gmail dot com. That's Shrink This Show
at gmail dot com, and we try to get to
your letter, even if it is about Fiesta ware, which is,
by the way.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
Pretty good. I'm perfect. I never fucked up in thirty
six years of life.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
That's that's not true. It is you have many fuck
ups this week. We'll talk when we get off the air.
Now read the disclaimer at the app. Seriously, thank you
for listening to Shrink This with Lisa Lambinelli. You can
find me on Instagram at Lisa Lampanellie and.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
And thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
No, that's your first fuck up of the century.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
Make sure to listen to Shrink This on your iHeart
radio app or wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
You know what's funny. I always kind of goof on
that a little because we always kind of say it wrong.
I got the iHeartRadio app, and I said, this is good.
So I do not feel I don't stand behind this.
I fully stand behind this, right, Get your fucking iHeart
Radio app, get your head, your ass, and quiet. See
(47:55):
you next week or whenever. I don't know how often
do we post. I don't care about it.
Lisa Lambinelli is not a licensed therapist or life coach.
She is a meddling advice giving yana and 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
grain of salt for entertainment purposes. Only these.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
You need help, You're the problems. Come on, come down,
go lamb take a pill. I think you're insane. Do
what I say, dumb ass, listen to me. You fuck
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all you people. I'm a wounded for Barnick. Yea, Yeah,
Missess is Lisa Labinelli on my and only my show.
Else counts except Lisa, sweet and lovely Lisa. No, this
is Lisa Lappinelli. Welcome to shrink this my talented, lovely
(01:09):
and very titified hostess. Next scope Leddya's here? Say hi?
Next Hi?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Where's my camera? Where am I?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Gay? Find your like? Good angle? So your boobs look
bigger than your nose. I love how you get older
as an Italian man. And the nose in the ears
just explode.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Started noticing that. Yeah, it's really upsetting.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It doesn't for us women to mine exploded and about
the same age, So don't worry really well, and like me,
you'll never get laid Againnyhare. We're also here with Celia
Celia whatever she invented Copenhagen. Look in the show notes
for that reference. We don't have show notes. We don't
care because that's like for a real podcast. I feel
(01:50):
like our podcast, Shrink This, it's kind of like not real,
it's ethereal. And that's why we're talking about something very
unreal today, which dawned on me a few months ago
because the last season of Cobra Kai on Netflix came
(02:11):
out and I had a deep sadness and I said
to mine south Lintha, why is this obsession with Cobra
Kai in your life? And why do people obsess on
certain things that are by the way, way too young
or old for them. It takes over their life. When
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does an obsession go from a healthy hobby, if you will,
a little happy pastime and becomes a full blown obsession.
So we are today going to take letters from people,
and by the way, if you want to get a
letter to us, absolutely send it to us at Shrink
This Show at gmail dot com. That's Shrink This Show
(02:53):
at gmail dot com We're going to take letters from
people who have obsessions that are bored unhealthy. Now, obviously
we're not talking about addiction, but uh, it's like a
kind of seemingly harmless things that may get out of control. Now, Nick,
when I mentioned this weird the terms weird obsession, what
comes up for you?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Sopranos.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yes, you literally have a Sopranos like. It's not even
like a hobby anymore. It's like you ruin my TikTok
fun because every time you send me a freakin' video
from TikTok, it's a Sopranos one. And then my whole
algorithm thinks I'm an Italian who like the Sopranos, which
I do, but not as much as I am a
black woman who loves black videos. So I'm just like
(03:38):
on Nick stoperating my algorithm. And also, you are the
type who I think every every literally I'm not gonna
say every time, it's an exaggeration. Every other time we
go to the diner once a week, I'm doing a
Sopranos rewatch, and I'm like, you've watched no other show
in your life?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
No what else? A comfort show?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Comfort?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I go back to shows that if I'm like where
I'm stressed, I will go back to a show that
I've seen a million times so that I just know
what's coming. I don't have to think, I don't have
to whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So like, what to you would make the so you
feel your obsession with the Sopranos and you do know
it by heart, which I think is fantastic. It's really
fun to listen to you. When would it, in theory
become oops, this is really unhealthy. I gotta look at that.
I think that's what we need to talk about today.
(04:32):
What what tips it over into a Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
If I'm having this, I can do this pretty well.
If I'm having text conversations with people who we're talking
about situations, I know, an exact Sopranos clip and or
a thing that yes, is it close to that? Like
or like pretty? You know, like something funny? Right? I
know exactly? And then I'm like, there's part of me
that's like, man, you really are into deep.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I mean because the reason I even liked the idea
of an episode about weird obsession is I was listening
to a different podcast and they were talking about Hallmark
Christmas movies and it was all fun in games to hahaha, jokey, jokey.
But then the thing that landed with me was these
some of some of these women who are obsessed with
these Hallmark movies. It's a way of them literally checking out.
(05:23):
It's a way of them like not knowing what's going
on in politics, well, not knowing what's going on in
their family or in the world. And they are just
all of those forty days before Christmas or whatever it is,
they're just like watching this and buying into this artificial
world and kind of like, good for you, white girl
that you have the privilege of opting out of knowing
what people are going through. But it seems a little
(05:46):
like it gets to where it's irresponsible, Like if my
Cobrakai watching was like making me not know what's going on,
not making me really have a life outside that or
caring about anything, and kind of traveling to like these
amecns and things to like stalk Johnny Lawrence. Like, then
I think it becomes a little ridiculous. But so I
(06:06):
think that's the line or one of the indications of like, uh,
maybe you should get out of that bubble and be
in the real world.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, I don't want to though, Yeah, too bad. I
was like, when all when politics and things are, I
just go watch the West Wing and I'm like, can't,
can't Martin Sheen just be our.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Presence right And guess what, No, he can't. But this
is the thing I always know when my full blown
over I won't say upsession but over occupation with someone
is when I have to buy the shirts. So I'm today,
but not only I true Cobra Kai fans will realize
(06:43):
this is a Cobra Kai shirt, but it's so inside
baseball that I have to buy the one that only
true fans on the street would be. Like Eagle fang Man.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, I knew that first.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's like in season three or something where Johnny Lawrence
creates this other offshoot of a So I had to
track down the Eagle fang shirt and I had to
have five, and I had to help all the colors,
and I have to have two different sizes depending on
how I wanted to style it. I have, of course
my Johnny Lawrence air freshener in the car, which says
no mercy and I don't know what it smells like,
(07:17):
but I hope it's him. I also have said that
I the way I coach comedy is Johnny Lawrence how
I just yell at people to be quiet. And just
as we started to take this, I literally looked at
my phone and go, oh my god, I got a
Cobra Kai phone case. Like it's so that's when I
know to like look at it. I think we need
signs to look at things because I think the first
(07:38):
obsession I remember recent in recent years was Hamilton. I
had for some reason, and again, trust me, I was
a minor celebrity for three minutes. I somehow got invited
to the Hamilton premiere, which was the hottest ticket to
go to opening night. I could not believe it. So
I'm there. Every celebrity, big, huge stars are there, and
(08:03):
of course I see it. I'm totally like, WHOA. This
resonates with me. It's about you can't control what people
think of you and your legacy. You know who lives,
who dies, who tells your story? So I go in
hard and I have to find you would not believe
the shirts that I had to buy. It didn't It
wasn't just Hamilton, it wasn't just Oh. All the thoughts
(08:25):
that I hadn't been replaced by Hamilton lyrics. It wasn't
just young, scrappy and hungry. It was so inside, like, hey,
ask me, I know all the raps from uh Da
da da and own to. Only those people would get it,
and they like give you a look on the street,
like I get you, dude. So I think for me,
my little indicator is like when I'm that obsessed with
(08:46):
the merch. Yeah, maybe it's not. Maybe it's just to
be looked at no judgment. Maybe this is getting in
the way of my real life. Like if I'm on
a treadmill and I'm sob bing to George Washington's retirement song,
maybe I should look at why, Like why what is
(09:06):
my problem about retirement?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
George Washington had a retirement song.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's so good. It's such a tear jerker, it's really beautiful.
So I think those things I just got to go.
All right, Let's make sure I'm also involved with other things.
Let's make sure I'm not isolating and just being like
no one understands me but Lynn Manuel Miranda by the way,
I want to hear like a funny lin Manroe. This
is the best. I dated a guy early on who
(09:32):
said to me, listen you don't have any TV credits yet.
But if someone comes up to you at a club
and says you were really great on Comedy Central, say
thank you because you don't want them to feel stupid
like you want to go no, I was never on,
and then they'll feel like an because just say thank you.
It's fine. You'll get TV credits someday. I did. He
didn't anyway. No. So I was at the Hamilton Tony
(09:55):
party Humble Bragg at Tavern on the Green. It's really
rarefied air. It's really fun. So Lynn and Moreel Lynn, Manuel,
Miranda and the outher writer come in to the party
after they win every Tony that night, and I'm like,
I just have to get up the nerve to say
hi and just say how much to show means to
(10:16):
me without crying like that kind of thing. I go
up to him and I go, hey, Lenn. He goes,
oh my god, Lisa, we love you. You're so funny.
Remember that time you roasted us. You really kicked our ass,
didn't she? Tommy, He says to the director. I had
never met him before, I had certainly not roasted him before.
(10:37):
I'd never done a joke about him. But I went
with it. I go, I know, right, just you gotta
run with it. So I was like wow. Then it
became really obsessed with it because I'm like, well, me
and Lynn are truly friends. I'm like, who the fuck
roasted him? By the way, who do you think he
might have got me? Mistaken by Kathy Griffin?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Maybe Kathy Griffin.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
In the ground, I think, yeah, funny, maybe it it
was from the grave. But I was like, just run
with it. So it's funny. How like if I look
at it, it's like my obsession with Hamilton sort of
started coming down, and then the Cobra Kai THNK car
started coming up, and I like to even think, like,
why do these obsessions take hold of us? So with
(11:22):
Cobra Kai, it was I mean, with Hamilton, it was
definitely the retirement thing. George Washington leaving his legacy and
I was retiring at the time. Makes sense. Cobra Kai,
it's definitely a nostalgia for the years that The Karate
Kid first came out. Johnny Lawrence was always just the funniest,
greatest character. But it's the first episode of Cobra Kai
(11:45):
is his redemption story. It's this guy who's misunderstood and
down on his luck and making a comeback. So I'm like,
I identify with Johnny Lawrence. I have to do something
with my life after retirement, and I'm just like obsessed
with this guy's story. So is it unhealthy A little? First?
(12:06):
I mean it's almost just the age is inappropriate, like
sixty three and still into that, like, come on, kids
are fighting each other in a school yard, like is that?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I think it's great. You did forget to mention your
text notification you're your ring?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Oh shit, Oh my god, Yeah, it's Johnny Lawrence. Whenever
I get a text it goes quiet my Netflix little emoji,
Like when you go on Netflix, it says your picture,
then kids, and then other people who are loved by you.
I have none, so I have just in said the
(12:41):
kid's picture. A picture of a dog comes up, so
the dogs have their own playlist, and then of course
whose picture is me? Johnny Lawrence? So I think I
overidentify with a character. But it doesn't like carry on
as much to my real life. I'm not. I will
yell it straight guys a lot. Quiet it me too,
and my comedy students. But I don't think on the
(13:03):
street I'm like as volatile. I mean, I hope no.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I yellustraight guys when they won't kiss me back.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's true, that's true.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It is right now?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
When do you think so? You would say, like, my
little weird obsessions, despite age, inappropriateness or whatever, are not
unhealthy to the point of neglecting other things. Have you
ever had an obsession that like drove you insane, that
like got to weigh onhealthy proportions?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Bold? Yes, I mean you can't tell now you sure can.
The camera adds forty five pounds.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Five cameras are pointed at your.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Truly you think about it right?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Back me up?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yah, it's cameras.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Twenty seven make him feel good about.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Them later in real life.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
You're beautiful the way you are girl. You're thick with
three c's.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Was it okay to teach me those things building? I
used to compete in bodybuilding, and that's it's you neglect everything, food,
going out, social exp Wow. I was lucky enough though
that like I say lucky, but I had friends that
like understood it and guys that were athletes, so they
were like, we'll chill with you. Like it wasn't completely
(14:16):
but for me. It was the extremes of the body
stuff like gaining a bunch of weight to bulk up,
so like I could tell you right now again, I
went up to two fifteen, and then I lost.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Hold on Celia's very rude see her ringtone. If it
was Johnny Lawrence yelling quiet, we would have laughed. Is
fine now she's just never Oh I'm glad it could
be our podcast. Oh I'm glad you don't let that happen.
Durio really important? Why I hate her? Text Elvis tex
(14:51):
my uncle, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
No.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
But I went from like two hundred and fifteen pounds
to one hundred and seventy something pounds in like a
two month peer. Wow, lost all the weight, got on stage,
did well whatever, took a diuretic on top of it,
like a psychopath that week. So I remember that show
was on a Sunday, I think it was March tenth.
A week later, I was in New York City for
(15:13):
Saint Patty's Day and on stage I was like one
seventy eight in New York City that Saturday or Sunday
for Saint Patty's Day, I was two zero five. Wow,
I had like pregnant woman ankles. It was I was
blowning in my stomach was killing me, and I couldn't
stop eating. Like I literally was like white Castle this
sure sure didn't even drink. And that's when I got
to the point of like all good exercising and being healthy,
(15:37):
but like bodybuilding is not that, Like I regret yeah,
looking back, like I don't regret it, but at the
same time, I'm like, man, I really, for lack of
a better term, I fucked my shit up.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, real bad. Well, you're you know every time, you know,
with diet culture too, even in a smaller sense, for
every restriction, there's going to be a binge. That's why
yo yoing exists. That's why diets work. And it's like, oh, okay,
so with bodybuilding, you had that other shit, and would
you like not would you be very regimented, and like
(16:10):
I can eat this amount at this time? This amount?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, it was. I knew every day it was the
same thing. It was six eggs in the morning, and
then three hours later it was a protein shake, and
then three hours later it was chicken with rice and
like a salad, and then three hours later it was
another protein shake, and then three hours after that was
steak and something else.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's almost like though, like you you joke out your
weight a lot now and it's funny, but like you're
not that big. What I think it is, I'd rather chubby,
non weird obsessed Nick than that guy, because that guy
I wouldn't probably have liked it all.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
No, Yeah, there's a middle ground too, Like when you
met me even at my you know, I was I
was lighter than this, but like that was a healthy
middle ground where I was like, I'm not gonna be like, no,
I can't have it. Wasn't that guy like that. I
it righted itself. I want to too far this past
couple of years, but now we're coming back to a
middle point where it's.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Like, yeah, I think everything is like noticing when it
tips to the wrong side. I say, if I'm binging
a show like a Cobra Kai or oh yeah, I'll
tell you how I got it, sort of a little
(17:25):
hint that I think it's maybe I'm a little unhealthy
with this is because clearly take or leave the show.
There's funny moments, it's cute, it's nostalgic, it's there's little
tearful moments when it's like about you know, their high
school moments and things. But I remember I have a friend,
one of my best friends. Her boyfriend is a very
(17:46):
elite well he's an acting teacher at a very elite school,
so he's no joke. I remember he said to me
once we're talking about Cobra Kai and he goes, oh,
he goes, it's so much fun to watch. He goes, boy,
that guy, boy, that guy Zabka can't act, and that's
like Johnny Lawrence and I go, hey man, no, I
(18:06):
literally it was like it was like I was his protector.
I go, hey man, don't make me hate you. So
whenever I have a don't make me hate you as
my first response, I go, oh, let me look at
like why I would hate him because I go his opinion, Look,
is William Zabka the best actor in the world. Definitely not.
(18:27):
He's not the worst either. There he also has an
Oscar nomination for a film he did like, so like,
there's no way he's horrible. Yes, And this acting teacher
friend of mine, we both admit that we have to
be the smartest people in the room, that we think
we have the best taste, So we kind of joke
about it now. So I said to him, I said,
remember the time I almost hated you because you hated
(18:49):
Johnny Lawrence And he goes, no, he goes, I feel bad.
And so for Christmas this year he got me a
Johnny Lawrence wind up Donald that you pull his back
and he says quiet. So I'm like, okay, so we
solved our little problem. But like when I get really defensive,
like there's some shows that I'm obsessed with that I
won't even tell my friends, I like, because if they
don't like them. I got in the friendship. That's extreme
(19:10):
and that's maybe a different episode about my being an
opinionated bit who thinks say no it all. But that's
like for another day. Yes, So when we come back,
we're going, well, actually, wait, I want to say. One
other thing there's certain was that she's leaving and with
(19:30):
her fucking she'll be on the phone. Yeah, she's obsessed
with her phone. Maybe she'll look into that. There are
certain deal breakers though, because I remember when I was
dating I really and I kind of stand by this,
like there's certain things and this isn't political or anything.
There's obviously deal Burger's there. There's certain things entertainment wise,
(19:52):
I will not date someone if we disagree. If someone
doesn't love Howard Stern and see how he's grown and
he's like the best interviewer on the planet. Now, I
can't date you because that means you have bad tastes
And I don't know how to even say it.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
You're just dumb, like you just don't.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Oh yeah, just don't. Anyway. There's lots of other reasons,
but like so Howard was always like a deal breaker
to be like, if you don't get it, Like I
remember years ago when online dating started, like it wasn't
even a phone. We didn't have phones, we had rotary phones,
but there was like online, and I had in my
bio like must love Howard Stern, And I just think
(20:33):
there's certain things that are a part of my life
that you have to get and if you don't like
that's that. If you don't love dogs, I would argue,
I'm obsessed. And this is so judgy because I know
some listeners are gonna hate this. I'm obsessed with rescue dogs.
I have a real snobby attitude towards people who buy
(20:53):
a dog, and people are like, yeah, but well, I'm
gonna have to hate you now. I think some of
my obsessions are okay if they're rooted in real heart
and what I think is the greater good. I don't know. Also,
you're I'm really judgy, you're weirdly not as judgy as
I am.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
It depends I can go, I could go. I'm either
I don't care whatever. Yeah, I'm like, fuck this motherfucker right.
There's no middle with me. It just depends. I would
have to think. I don't know what I mean. A
few weeks ago, there was a guy I told you
about this who was on FaceTime with his kid in public,
like being like, so what do you want to eat?
Bud and at our food place publicly that I judge
(21:37):
like that will send me through the roof.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, But would you ever have something that in your life?
I don't care how good the puss it was, that
push it be good, that puts it be nice, pus
it Is there anything that you really like in your life,
like the Gem, like those sopranos, like whatever you're really
(22:02):
into that If a girl said, em, I don't like that,
I don't like Will Ferrell, I don't like stepbrother, would
it would there be anything where you'd just be like,
I don't I hate.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You now, not off the top of my head, to
be honest.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So girl could say she hates the Sopranos and doesn't
see it's about.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
She hates the Sopranos, I'd be like, well, you're wrong.
That's fine, Like, you're absolutely wrong, right, I understand it's
not because you don't have a brain.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
It's not for you.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah, Oh, go watch the Real Housewives, bitch.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Well that's the thing. Could a girl ever be seen
with me? A reality show would be a deal breaker.
I would be like, no, you're not allowed, like opt
out of the real world and watch that ship and
all it is is gossip, and that means you like gossip.
So you're a fucking idiot. So I'm clearly judge. Yeah,
And so I can't date someone like that. Thank god.
(22:54):
I don't want to date because there's no guy out
there who would like everything I like. I want just
like a Harbon copy of me. Wouldn't that be great?
I think everyone just like me. Yes, with all my obsessions.
We just watched Cobra Kai. We'd listen to the Hamilton
soundtrack and cry yeah, and we'd meet lin Man, Wuel
Miranda and you'd accuse us of roasting him again? Now
(23:15):
should I? It is this thing on should we? Celia
is fire? Right, Celia push that button? Bitches?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I am fired that I can leave.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Oh, I think someone's obsessed with being me. That's okay.
I've always said she has an undercurrent of hatred. Yeah,
what you what with aggression love?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
The love part is perfectly skipped. I just said to
the aggression.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Aggression just like, if I really like you, then I'm
kind of sarcastic and mean?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Can you go back to not liking us? Just like?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Really?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
N No, I actually agree with you on that because
I if I don't like somebody, I can't be joking
with them because I feel like I'm going to mean it,
like at roasts and things like that. I would always
if there was one person who I truly disrespected and hated,
I go no jokes about them because people sense it.
So I'm gonna take it that you actually like us
(24:21):
because you're a mean cunt exactly. She's obsessed why it's unhealthy?
All right? So, Nick, we have some questions from people
about their possibly weird obsession. Let's hear them girl.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
All right? Our first letter says, Dear Lisa, You'll see
why I'm doing the voice at the end. Okay, my
kitchen fiestaware.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Oh god, shut the fuck up. That is not wear letter,
I swear. Okay, I'll explain to me what that is. Okay,
please please.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
So I have every solid color of plates and balls
in my cabin so when they open it, it looks
like one giant.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Oh girl in high school.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
My roommate hates it so much and says the kitchen
looks like a five year old's bedroom. She wants normal
dishes and is embarrassed, especially when her friends come over.
Is it really that big of a deal? Thanks, Amy
from New York, New York.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh my god. First of all, you're doing a gay
man's voice because I actually have a friend, Frank, and
I'm going to use his full name because he's proud
of this. Frank DeCaro in Los Angeles. He has a
fiesta wor a collection and it drives his husband, Jim Kaluotch,
famous as author of The Golden Girls the Real Biography,
Oh wow, and knows that Bee was not mean. She
(25:39):
just played me anyway. He Jim is like, oh my god,
we have enough fucking fiesta Ware. I know people who
collect corning wear. Do you know what that is? It's
the white with the little blue flower. There's just like
all these things that people want to collect. Collections are
weird because I'm like, if you have a big house, great,
(26:00):
you do whatever you want. And I'm not into this
whole thing. Oh well, you know, suppose if the Nietern
nephew is like, well, what do we do with all
this stuff when he dies, well fucking sell it and
make some money. Don't worry, bitch, and no one's leaving
anything to you. Okay, So this he it sounds like
he has a little bit of a healthy aspect of it.
(26:24):
Also she wait, sorry, I'm still thinking it's a gay man.
Frank wait sol.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Because when I read fiesta were I thought of my
grandmother from Queens.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh yeah, dude.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
We are Italian and Polish, mostly Italian, and she would
decorate for like Saint Patti's Day and she had a veste.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
No, you're thinking different. She doesn't mean.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
That saying that word.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yes, So, Fiestaware is an actual brand. I think it's
from the sixties or something, and it's very colorful, rainbow
colored in all these different really bright ues of it's beautiful, okay,
But the thing is like I don't get like and
I don't have to get everyone's collection, Like I don't
get people who have fun copomp collection. Although I must
(27:07):
admit I do have a Johnny lawnche one I also,
but I also have a Ronnie James di O one didn't,
So I mean, uh I I don't get collections because collections,
to me, is something where you think you're gonna get
(27:29):
quote unquote get the mall and feel fulfilled. But there's
no way, even if it was possible to get the mall,
which say there is, but there actually is in a
way to get all of it. If you had every
single bowl in every single color and all the plates
and everything was perfect, I don't think you feel whole
(27:50):
as a human being. So I think it's attaching. Oh
I'm gonna feel great once I have this in every color,
So that would be the unhealthy part. I think if
it's just like, oh, oh my god, I went to
like we go on the weekends to get like flea
markets fines and we bought a little plate here and
it's we have like twenty Just when it becomes like
where your house is exploding and looks terrible and looks hoarding,
(28:15):
or it's your roommate's really pissed off. Her argument? What
was her argument? The roommate's argument is that it looks
like something. Yeah, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Who hasn't Nick you wanted to be in a five
year old boys bedroom.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
And make it a woman.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, that's true, So I think he'll know when it's unhealthy.
But people, if you're thinking about collecting anything, realize you'll
never have it all. It'll never be enough, and you'll
always hate yourself. If you hate yourself without all the shoes,
you're gonna hate your You're gonna have a bit. You're
(28:52):
gonna bitch with sore feet who still hates themselves. So
work on that internal stuff. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Next letter, Next letter, Dear Lisa, I'm thirty four years
old and I spent at least an hour a day
on TikTok watching get Ready with Me video, Oh watch
one and that I can't stop. I know it's stupid,
but there's so much fun. Do you think this is okay?
Or am I wasting my life? Thanks Stephanie.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Okay, Stephanie. Wait, so thirty four? How long does she spend?
What does it say?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
An hour a day?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Okay, con Celia as the young millennial ish, whatever the
fuck this brought is, explain to me concisely and not
in your overly lengthy way of sharing. Can you only heart?
We only make fun of the ones we love? No,
can you tell me really what a get ready with
me is? In a nutshell?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Basically, it's somebody setting up their phone and filming themselves
getting ready to like go out or do something.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
So does it make a up and skincare.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Skincare, getting dressed, adding their accessories and then like they're
like okay bye?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Do they then? So the point isn't to show you
the outfit. It's not. It's not that the point is
listen to me while I'm getting ready. But it's not
like and I've styled my they're not all stylists.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Well, there's a couple of factors to this. There can
be a silent get ready with me, which is.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Like THEE I'm so happy.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, thank you get ready with me?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Either you're not talking and we just hear what you're doing,
which is like can be like as Mr O that's
another thing.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I hate that ASMR ahead.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
There's another silent get ready with me where you can
put music over it, and so you just don't hear anything,
like they don't talk.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Well, could I just ask? No, no judge, no judgment.
But like, so these broads on the internet, I think
they're interesting enough looking that we want to watch them.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Get ready and there's an are there un get ready
with me? As well? People do that, there's an un
get ready with me?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
So they take off their shit.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
I'm getting ready for bed.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I remember once after a premiere of a of a
movie premiere, I was so this is when I was,
I would say, in a bigger body, as they say
these days, I in a diner did an unready with
me without knowing it. My fucking corset popped right the
fuck off. I decided to commit to it, pulled out
the extensions right at the table, took off the nails,
(31:32):
took off the fucking eyelashes, and I was like, here
we go. So that's my fucking nun get ready with me?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Hot?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
But see, yeah, I could. I So it's not unhealthy,
it's just weird. Like why I don't understand watching someone
get ready? I watch a lot of stylists because I
want to like put outfits together and it's quick. They're
just like I do this this, this boom here, and
you take a screenshot and you know what you're gonna
put together. But watching some broad I don't know get
(32:00):
ready is really I don't get it. I wonder what
she is getting out of it? Like does she say
she has nowhere in that letter? She just says there self? Fun?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
They're probably fun. Plus some of these influencers correct me
if I'm wrong. A little millennial to my left here, Yeah,
they probably go on live and do it and people
watch them and they make money off.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Of it, right right, that's what they get out of it.
What does the watcher get out of it?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Cell Ya, I unfortunately spend more time than little Stephanie
here watching Ready with me? Get Ready with me?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Really? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:33):
To me, it's just like really satisfying.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I think wait, wait, say different word than satisfying. What
is the feeling.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Satisfying?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
That's not a feeling like I mean.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Like I get I think maybe I'm motivated to get
up and get ready.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
So you need how about I just call you on
the phone and say get up, cunt? Like see. I
think have always said, Johnny Lawrence, go just scream in
your ear that I think we could combine our sessions
and this would all work out.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
My hatch doesn't even work like those videos.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
That sounds dirty. My hatch doesn't watch tell us about
your snatch. Oh that hatch alarm waste a fucking time.
Let's not talk about that. The hatch, the obsession with
products that are trendy and influencers talk about this ridiculous
ship that you don't need literally will never need.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I need as when I get ready, I know, but.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I get that. But if you're staring at another girl,
how are you getting ready?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I'm not I'm getting hard.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Okay, get it up for you. Okay, I don't like it.
Just because I don't like it and understand it doesn't
mean it's not valid. If this is not getting in
the celia, you're obviously a extreme case and need mental
health case. But I don't know what that means. The
lip gloss yet you're sitting there with nothing on her
(33:59):
fucking lips. Yeah, you know, are we on a podcast
that has visuals? Maybe bring your a game, moon Boot
listen to the other episode. You'll understand no, but long
is the one with just an hour a day, if
it's not like making her late for work, if it's
not making her neglect herself and not put her own
(34:21):
face and makeup. Gun, Cause girls, I'm sick you'll leave
in the house without makeup and thinking it look cute
cause you never do get it together together, bitch as
we're not pretty naturally, And I love the whole like
trope of like, why don't men wear makeup? Oh, because
no one ever told them they look bad without it. Yeah, well,
guess what it's called reality. It's called misogyny. That's the
(34:41):
world we live in. Look pretty?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Fuck yeah the patriarchy dog yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Oh boy? All right, next letter, so watch your damn
get ready, but also you get ready to bitch?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, get ready? All right? This next one's long. Oh no, okay,
it starts off LEAs.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Finally someone mentions me in a letter. I thought people
dropped the ball.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
I am so excited to be writing to you.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Well should be.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I'm excited about writing, but not what I'm writing about.
Oh boy, my name is Craig. I'm thirty six years old.
I even Athens, Georgia with my girlfriend to make a
long story short. I focused on getting into law school
after college graduation, went to law school, but then I
lied about graduating in my process with the bar because
I was embarrassed about how behind I was. In the
(35:28):
past couple of years, I found myself loving gardening, flipping houses,
and sewing. Nope, I have I try to show my
girlfriend that I'm serious about this by making her thoughtful gifts. Oh,
I can't even finish this obsession is cat, You're a
(35:50):
secret gay. I also redid our backyard. Oh wait, holds
I like that thoughtful gifts like an embroidered pillow with
your cat on it.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I can't. Nope, nope, nope, nope nope.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Also redid our backyard the exact way she wanted. But
every single day she makes fun of me of being
obsessed with sewing. It feels shameful that I am not
sure if it's because it's sewing isn't manly, or because
I'm doing it too much. Sorry, this is long.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
He says the guys he meets on grind.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yes, yeah, oh man, I think we're glossing over the
most important part of this letter, not that sewing is
a feminine thing, which it shouldn't be. I think that's fine.
I full disclosure. A lot of Italian men in the
old days would learn tailoring and then pass it on
in their family. My father could tailor anything. Oh my god,
all you've seen my house, all the curtains my father made.
(36:40):
My father actually though he had made those because he yeah,
because he learned from his Italian uncle. But here's the
thing with my father too, he had like shame around it,
and where I didn't think he should like. I remember
once he made me and my sister like dresses for
something fancy, and he goes, don't tell anyone I made
them because back then, I mean he's talking about the sixties,
people would have been like home o. You know. So
(37:03):
I don't much care about this guy liking sewing. I
think it's great. Gardening I think is great. Also, I think,
I mean, you ready did the bitch's backyard. Let her
calm down. I mean a lot of women would be thrilled.
And by redoing her backyard, he meant he shaved her ass.
That's what I'm thinking. But I think that's really like
the hobbies themselves. I don't mind. I mind two things,
(37:26):
and I feel bad for him that he lied about
the law school thing, and he's carrying that around because
I if I lie about something, I cannot shake it
for a minute, Like you'll try to shake it for
a day, and it sneaks back in at night, like
you have a secret shame that you have to tell someone,
And you know in AA and all those programs, it's
(37:47):
like you're only as sick as your secrets. He must
feel sick all the time about that, And it sounds
like he's channeling that shame and energy into this other stuff.
And while those other hobbies clearly aren't her anything, what's
probably digging at him is that lie.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
That would bother me too. Did he finish law school
or none?
Speaker 2 (38:07):
We lied that he didn't finish it. That's like so sad.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
What's going on with.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I don't know. Let's give his full name, so we
out him, Craig. Poor thing didn't pass the bar? Like
it just like and those are things too. I didn't
finish grad school. I have no shame about that. But
if if you have shame about not finishing something because
society puts more pressure on men to finish the degree,
or your parents really wanted you to be a lawyer,
(38:34):
but you didn't like, I could see where that would
weigh this poor guy down. I will say, though, the
other red flag is pillow cat because I have a
friend who's a great knitter. My friend Bonnie is a
really great she's actually an artist. All these half ass
knitting bitches who try to give me a gift, it's
(38:56):
not good, it doesn't come out well. But with her,
I said, Bonnie, you're the only one who who has
permission to do this for me. And she made me
a pillow with flowers on it. And it's like, yeah,
because I'm a girl and she's a girl, and oh no,
oh well, this was so funny. It was supposed to okay,
it was supposed to look like all vines and stuff.
And she showed and with flowers. She showed it to
(39:19):
her daughter first and she's like, mom, the way you
did the vines, it looks like a swastika. And she
ripped it all out and she did it again. And
Bonnie's Asian. She knows I'm really not into Hitler. She knows, yeah,
come on, that's not one of my guys. She did
it over. It's beautiful, But so even that I let go.
(39:42):
It's just I don't know. He doesn't sound like he's
giving her what she wants as a gift, though. No.
I think like if she said, oh my god, I
would love a pillow with my cat on it, then
she probably wouldn't make fun of you. So maybe look
at what your not even though there's nothing to do
(40:02):
with the subject. Look at what she might be giving
you hints that she does want. Yeah, you know, well
not everything's about that. I was never comfortable with the oral.
It was too distracting. I don't discand too much is
going on. God forbid, we's sixty nine. There's a parents
(40:23):
down there. What's going on? Anyway? I say, come out
of the closet about your not finishing law school, because
it's got to be a huge burden to you. If
someone breaks up to you, breaks up with you because
of that, then they're not the right person. And I
think then your energies will be channeled a little more
evenly across the board. God, these people are exhausting, Nick.
(40:47):
Do you have any easy ones?
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Crazy man? Listen, Craig. If it doesn't work out, I'm single.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Go to the next letter. Stop pitching dating.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
I love pillows.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Yeah you have too, writ just big kittd bitch.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
All right, last letter here, Dear Lisa. Two weeks ago,
my friend introduced me to FanDuel, and now I'm booked
for all you. Yeah, there's a lot of gay men
and women that listen to this. FanDuel is a sports
betting website.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Okay, okay, that makes it a lot.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Every want to know?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (41:20):
I know this shit. I bet on games every single night,
doesn't even matter what sport. I win some, I lose some,
but I'm not betting enough money to make it an issue.
My girlfriend, of course, hates it because I'm always checking
my phone for scores to be It's no different than
her checking Instagram. Do you see a problem with my
new hobby brad and Tampa.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Florida, Tampa home of Hitler. Just kidding, I just have
to have two of those references. Yeah, okay, this got
two levels, Steward. Have you ever met a guy who
bets a lot of money or bets and does not
eventually become obsessed with it? Have you ever met anyone.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Most of my friends bet. I'm the only person who's like,
no way.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
So do you you can answer this? Are is one
able to bet? The way? This guy is saying without
becoming obsessed and in debt where he doesn't have the
gene that will make him be like going to gamblers anonymous,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Know how much money he makes. I mean a lot
of the guys I know that do gamble, like they
make a lot of money, so like if they lost
two grand on a game, it's not gonna they can't
not pay the rent or the mortgage that one.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
No, it sounds like this guy's just sort of like, hey,
I make a hundred here, lose a hundred. It's all
So it sounds like a hobby at this point.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
Definitely could get obsessive though, Like I've seen the most
you know, straight and narrowed type guys will get into
betting one of my friends who you know well, and
he'll be like, he'll get it. Gets his juices flowing
for sure.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Yeah, Which I don't think there's wrong with a hobby
getting your juices flowing, because I think that's what a
hobby's supposed to do. Either that or it's supposed to
calm you down. Like I like the hobbies that calm
you down, like intuitive paint, which I just discovered, which
is a way of meditating, just painting badly with music.
(43:07):
We don't cry, we don't even have time to think.
It's like meditative. So I mean a hobby that colms
younown sounds nice to me, but other people like exciting things,
So it sounds like if it's really where he's telling
the truth and he's not losing huge amounts of money, fine,
because I don't think we all take one drink and
become an alcoholic or all bet a few times and
(43:29):
become a gambling addict. I think it's a certain mental makeup.
The thing is, though, what I hate about both him
and his girlfriend these phones. I forbade a friend of
mine to wear their Apple Watch ever around me because
I just go, look, man, it's just gonna spoil our friendship,
(43:51):
is it. I would I would prefer when we hang
out that you leave it at home. Ends up, He
returned it because I'm that fucking important. So he was like,
I don't even need it, Like I'm so obsessed with
my phone. That's bad enough. So it's just the comparing
with Instagram, Like they both suck you and your girlfriend
both suck as people, Yeah, Tampa, Yeah, so suck on
(44:15):
Hitler's cop so I would say, maybe both of you
look at this phone stuff, because I'm not the big
fan of the phone thing, and I don't think it's
just my age. I think it's just like, I don't know,
can anybody be present? That would be great.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Yeah, it's it's I know. For me, it's like, I
don't need another reason to look at my phone. There's
enough reason. So if this is adding to, like, if
the FanDuel is adding to the Instagram stuff you already
do and the TikTok stuff you already do, then maybe, yeah,
take a look at it.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
It's gonna be like a cumulative whole bunch of like
is your life all on a screen? And it is
not like some like oh oh boomers they don't like phones.
I love TikTok. I just literally I never went on
TikTok until like four months ago. Ever, yeah, and I'm like,
this is cool. You get access to information you wouldn't
have and thank god, even when they wanted to delete it,
(45:11):
mine didn't go away. And I was like, oh, so
it's not bad. It's just like, why are you checking
these things so much? So maybe the obsession and weird
obsession isn't a weird one. It's that everybody seems to
have it lately.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
Right, It's it's super entertaining, and it's also social to
a certain degree. Like I know my buddy and his
brothers I was talking about earlier. They all bet together
and they're like, do you put money on the game.
I went to a baseball game with them and they
were on the train and his brother was like, add
more to your bet and he's like all right, and
they're like. It's a social just like sending tiktoks to
people is a social thing.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Yeah, reaching out right.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
They're friends from college and we do talk through text,
but like there's some guys E've ben talking six months
or just sending each other as sopranos things back and
forth and memes and gifts and all this shit.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
It is a way of connection. Which that's no problem.
I think, you know when it comes too much. But
if him and his girlfriend are sitting at the dinner
table and she's on her phone looking at Instagram and
he's looking at FANDLE, I say, this is a shit couple. YEA,
So I stick by my advice. Suck Hitler's cock. We
(46:17):
usually do. Like a third segment called Lisa's weekly fuck up.
But guess what. I was searching my head going, I
didn't fuck up this week. I honestly don't think I
did anything wrong and good thing because Selia informed me, Oh,
we're already at time, so I'm like, bitch, I say,
what time it is? You? Don't you love Hitler? Fuck?
(46:39):
So there's no fuck up for me this week. It's
just me and Nick Scobel Eddy saying, guess what if
you have a question for us, email us at Shrink
This Show at gmail dot com. That's Shrink This Show
at gmail dot com, and we try to get to
your letter, even if it is about Fiesta ware, which is,
by the way.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
Pretty good. I'm perfect. I never fucked up in thirty
six years of life.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
That's that's not true. It is you have many fuck
ups this week. We'll talk when we get off the air.
Now read the disclaimer at the app. Seriously, thank you
for listening to Shrink This with Lisa Lambinelli. You can
find me on Instagram at Lisa Lampanellie and.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
And thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
No, that's your first fuck up of the century.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
Make sure to listen to Shrink This on your iHeart
radio app or wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
You know what's funny. I always kind of goof on
that a little because we always kind of say it wrong.
I got the iHeartRadio app, and I said, this is good.
So I do not feel I don't stand behind this.
I fully stand behind this, right, Get your fucking iHeart
Radio app, get your head, your ass, and quiet. See
(47:55):
you next week or whenever. I don't know how often
do we post. I don't care about it.
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