February 17, 2026 • 47 mins
In this episode of “Shrink This!,” Lisa is joined by Nick and returning producer Celia to tear apart the feel-good phrases we all love to hide behind. From “give yourself grace” to “manifest it” to toxic positivity disguised as wisdom, Lisa asks the real question: Are platitudes helping you grow or just allowing you to avoid your life? With stories, sarcasm, and a little hard truth, the crew breaks down when clichés comfort us—and when they quietly keep us stuck. If you’ve ever slapped a “good vibes only” sign on a bad situation, this one’s for you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lisa Lampinelli 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 strain of salt for entertainment purposes only.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
These. You need help, You're the problems. Come on, come down,
go lamb take a pill. I think you're insane. Do
(00:37):
what I say, dumb ass. Listen to me, everybody. It
is a festive, wonderful day in studio. This is Lisa
Lambinelli with Shrink. This the podcast because gosh darn it.
(00:58):
The reason we're so happy he is our little producer.
Celia is back from the near dead. Remember a week
ago it was super scary because Celia had the flu
that was killing everyone and I don't mean the bird
flu that's just for the Asians. Well, Celia is back
and she looks better than ever. I have to say
(01:20):
the flu is great for weight, ma and n'sn loss.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I've actually gained weight and oh well that's good.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Then you were too skinty girl, and I do like
your your little look you've got your makeup done. You
look very much like I'm fully recovered and ready to
stop making mistakes.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Which is the theme for today.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yes it is, and so welcome back. I want to
say we missed you, but I can't. Okay, we did
miss you, but then I don't want like Stephanie r
fillin second rate loser. Stephanie Field did. She did a
fine job, but there's only one.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Celia Celiah, sweet and lovely Cela. She's a little county
and a shrinks us because.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That drinks a dyke. I don't know. Also, here vibrator
in hand is Nick scope. Lady, say hi Nick, everyone, Nick,
why do you have a telephone next to you? Is
about to take caller?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yes, this is clearly from the morning show. I don't
have this, and one time I picked up the phone
and Celia yelled at me.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Don't can't do that.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So this is what I'm talking to today because.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
We look, this is where Elvis Durant tapes his morning show.
So for some reason, there's two purple vibrators on chairs.
I'm imagining they weren't up someone's ass already because Nick's
talking into one right yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Oh no, smells like a fish market on this thing.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's getting cut right out. Okay, put it down this
camera stop. I have a question, Sya. Do you own
a vibrator? No, you don't. Neither do I and I
don't because I joked with you before. I was like, oh,
I'll take that one home. I don't know, because I'm
from the era we didn't do that. I don't know
(03:13):
if i'd know how to use it. I don't know.
Does that go up oneself?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I couldn't tell you. I don't know why. That's so like.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Bulbous, so big.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
This looks like an which is so big.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You're clearly only been with white guys.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's like that's like my forearm. But I can't understand.
Why would the handle.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
We're clearly asking questions of the wrong person because Nick
seems to have verbiage around this. So Nick, I don't
want anything too dirty, but just yes or no. So
you have used something like that with some with a partner, Yes,
as the expert, so you would say that, and again
not to be graphic, so that is used externally basic.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I would say you could probably go a little internally.
But Celia's talking about the whole handle here.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What are you mental Charles and stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'm saying that that part goes inside of you. I'm
saying that that part is unnecessarily long and large.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Well, you got to reach and you don't know what's
going on.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know, it's not unnecessarily long and large. Nicks penis incorrect,
it's small, Nick. Where can people find you?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
If you can find me at Stephanie Lane Underscore, you
can find me at nick Scopes on Instagram and TikTok.
And I know all about this sex stuff you do.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You don't post about that, though, which I'm very grateful for. No, no,
darn it.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I don't put my talents out there requested.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Clearly, you put no talent on the show. So welcome back, Celia.
We're happy to have you sitting there texting other people
the old days. I think she's actually texted she's GBT, going,
how do I use a vibrator? Let's see how I
get why my generation of people doesn't have them because
(05:09):
we just didn't grow up that way. How is someone
of your generation not have a vibrator or is it
just something that doesn't occur to you?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, honestly, for me, it doesn't occur to me. Most
of my friends do, and like they are obsessed with theirs. Yea,
like they just rave about it and they don't understand
how like some of my other friends and my friend
group don't have one. Yeah, I just am not. Like
I'm not going to go out of my way to
buy one. In my personal humble opinion, what.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
If you were gifted one, I'm not going to. But
if you were gifted one.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I've seen that happen with my friends too. I don't
think that I would really like that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Because I was gifted one once by one mister Gabriel
Fluffy Iglecias. Why because we were doing this big show
years ago at some massive place in LA and he said,
I think I was joking with him one night backstage
about like I don't need that. I don't need a
vibrator and he reps one up, brand new one. He
(06:08):
goes with a note on just says this one changed
my wife's life. And I literally took it. I was
so embarrassed because you can't throw it away because then
the maid in the hotel is going to be like, oh,
she's dirty. You can't give it away because you kind
of have to own it. You have to then oh,
I have this. I remember once I kept it at
(06:32):
a house that I owned. I have many houses, as
you at Canyon Ranch. Else by, I owned a house
and I needed a dress that was there. Did I
tell you this story? Nick? I needed to dress that
was out there for a TV thing. So I sent
this is this sounds like I'm classy and moneyed, but
I don't care, do it? Okay? So I flew my
(06:53):
assistant to get the dress in Tucson, and I said,
while you're there, stay in the house. Obviously, while you're there,
please just list off what's in the closet to see
if you should bring anything else home. And she was
this little adorable like almost like not a cliche, a
(07:15):
stereotype of the little assistant in the black dress, like
right out of college, really sweet with the little pixie cut.
And she's like going through the clouds. I go, well,
what's on the top shelf. What's on She goes, Oh,
there's some shoes. And she goes and there's like this thing.
I'm like what. She goes It's in a box. And
I'm like, oh, I go, Jackie, no, I go, I
(07:39):
promise you I've never used it. It's her manically sealed.
I never took it out, and Gabriel Iglacias said it
to me, and she's like, I know this is all lies,
and she I go, do my favorite, just throwing a
dumpster because I'm not there. They'll think it's yours. And
she's like, okay, now that's a good assistant. Well, they'll
fall under a bus onto a vibrator. For you. Life
(08:02):
is good.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
You got me a smell of an assistant yet vibrators
in the studio.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yes, exactly, all right, put it down so you take
it away from him. Honestly, I'm about to, okay.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
And take it home Tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Tonight today we're going to talk about not cliches. I
had this idea to do a show about platitudes. Do
you know what a platitude is?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It's like an animal, like a platypus.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
No, it's a saying.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
It's an animal with the water.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Platitude is a saying that it's possibly become a cliche
and is possibly annoying everyone around you a lot. Sadly,
when I printed out a list of common platitudes that
people say often, I was like, wow, I used to
don't I used to do I used to know I
used to don't.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Now welcome to the folk fucking context. Okay, I didn't
used to believe a lot of these things, But in
my older age, I am definitely feeling like they're true.
Like if I had heard one more time in my youth,
if you have got your health, you have got everything,
I was like, I have no perspective. I'm thirty, I
(09:14):
don't care. I don't feel like I have everything just
because I have good blood work. But as you get older,
you're like, oh my god, that is true. Like if
you've got your health, you've no other problems stack up
when you have a health issue. I mean, Nick, you
know your mom got sick early on five years old.
You were probably when she first got diagnosed. Your mom
(09:36):
would have just killed to have her health.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, and she was. She was thirty years old when
she got diagnosed, right Jesus. And that's a thing too
that not to get too down the route hole, but
like that's a thing where it sends shockwaves through the
family and it kind of sticks with everyone. When someone
that young gets that sick and then passes away, it
makes like it just like sends my dad. I remember
(10:01):
the first like there wasn't whole foods back then, but
there was a grocery store called Missus Greens oh yeah,
in Larchmont and we lived in Amernich. And when she passed,
I mean my dad, the whole diet everything changed.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Like for a while he was like, we're not eating,
We're doing this and vegetables and blah blah blah. And
you know, I don't get me wrong, we had our
cheat days, but now it is a cheat dair. But yeah,
I mean, it just it changes. It changed the whole
culture of our family and how everyone looked at things now.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Now my dad's like.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Similar to you, religious about his blood work, loves going yeah,
if he has a test coming up and we're out
to eat, he goes, I can't have that test two days.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I've been become the chick who at this age I
brag about how easily they can find vain, Like I'm
all excited when I go and like the big lady
at the quest goes, oh, you have good brains. I'm like,
I know, girl, they're the best. I'm like, skinny yeah.
And then I love when they're like your blood work
is perfect, I'm like, oh, you give me r right now.
But so and even my friend Anthony, who survived of
(11:08):
real tough cancer, He's always like, every time I think
I have a real problem, I'm like, I had cancer,
I have my health. I don't have any problems. So
I think you come to realize a lot of these
platitudes are true. Like I do a lot of coaching
now because I only a highly elite coach, oh for
people who have no life. So I honestly really feel
(11:33):
if it's meant to be, it's meant to be. Now
people will argue with me, I'm like, no, can't just
keep pushing harder and get more, you know, better jobs
and bigger castings and all this. I'm like, if it's
not meant for you, you're not getting it. So people
can get mad hearing that. I just think, with my age,
I know that is true. Everything I got is what
(11:54):
I was supposed to. Everything I didn't get is stuff
that I wasn't meant to have, and I would have
been even worse shape than I am now. So what
do you think, Nick, when you hear you're going to
get everything you need or if it's meant to be,
it's meant to be. Do you believe that or do not.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
It's weird. Yes, to a certain degree. I also think
platitudes when I hear some of them, I think they
provide comfort.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Like and you hear something like, oh yeah, if it's
gonna happen, it's gonna happen, which I think is true.
But also there's a part of me maybe that feels
like and this may sound nuts, but like sometimes people
will say that it's like their excuse for giving up
or their excuses.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So like I'm I'm honestly very torn on the the
subject of platitudes and whether they they work or not. Yeah,
there's some truth to some of them, but I feel
like it's some degree you could you can also like
you know, uh, pick the future you want and try
different things and do things, not just like what it
is what it is.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well, no, it's all of like it's meant to be,
or you'll get everything you're supposed to. It doesn't mean
dot dot dot and this will happen if you just
sit around and be lazy and twiddle you're twelve. Like
it's like, yeah, audition for every show that speaks to you,
go on every job interview where you think there's a
(13:21):
spark or whatever, but at the end of the day,
you're like, if it's meant to happen, it's gonna Like
I don't know, but I think it's again because of
my age and realizing, oh that all worked out, it's
easier for me to believe it than like a thirty
year old. Also like, I'm really over anyone using the
(13:42):
word manifesting because I don't say it, but if I did,
I'd use it correctly, which is I'm manifesting like a
beach body. No, I'm at my age. The one wants
to see that on the beach.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So if I'm manifesting a happy okay, you know what,
I'm manifesting. My mother's old friend uh passed away. It
was the last one who was live, Missus O'Keefe of
their friend group. She was I think ninety, passed away
about two months ago. I have manifested through action. That's
(14:19):
the key, being like Missus O'Keeffe when I get old,
because she was so easy to be around, didn't complain,
she was lighthearted, she lit up when you'd walk in
the room. People wanted to go visit her. I am
manifesting through action, meaning therapy, self help, coaching, being someone
(14:44):
someone wants to see when they're old. So I want
younger people. I want old Celia. But when I'm eighty,
how old will you be, Celia? Sixteen years you will
be oh the man, Oh that was quick math. So
when you're thirty nine, I would love for you, like
(15:05):
you know my old Remember Lisa, that gal who was
on that failure of a show that I produced and
didn't and they replaced her with someone more famous. I
want to go see her because she was fun and
she has a lighthearted disposition. Like I think you can manifest,
but you have to manifest with action. Like if I
(15:25):
want to manifest that and sit there and think about
it and look in a mirror every day and go,
you are a pleasant old cunt. That's not going to
happen unless I work to become a pleasant old cunt,
right like that? Those idiots, oh it sounds so mean.
But the people with the vision boards, how dare you?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I made my last name?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Of course you don't. Oh my, I don't mind that
you have a vision board. But how about you then,
which I'm sure you're like this, work to get that.
Have a plan. The problem is a vision board without
a plan is jerking.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Off scrap photography.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Jerking off what's on your vision board?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I honestly have so much stuff, but like like what
is on there? No, Like personal trainer okay, I have
like pictures of that, and then I have like pictures
of you want.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
To get a personal trainer? Okay?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
And then like I have pictures of mountains and stuff
because I really want to go hiking this this year.
And then I have pictures of like Saturday Night Live
because I really want to go, and like that stuff
I think is achievable. That's nice to be able to
like look at it and be like, oh wait, I
need to plan to do do the things that I
really want to do this year, which are like hiking,
(16:42):
Saturday Night Live, getting a personal trainer, like getting fit.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And well so those things. If you're a visual learner,
which most people on the spectrum like you are. If
you're a visual learner, that's really helpful. Like I kind
of like that aasionally to have a picture of going
oh yeah, but again, the I'm shitting on the vision
board without the plan, so clearly then you need little
(17:08):
steps to get there and break it down into bite
science chunks like, so basically SNL, let's take one. What
would you then have as a plan for you want
to be in the audience? Correct? Yeah, okay, so what's
the plan?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Well, connections.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Okay, that's like the little a little too vague. So
what would be a way of what's the first step?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Harry Styles as the musical guests and you go and
bang them?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Okay, other than banging the bisexualt.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Is my presentation and not is like the motto to
my years. That's what I want. I just want to
go to Well, I would go to any SNL show,
But I mean when Harry Styles is going to be
the musical guest and the host that I need.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Okay, girls, stop with the fantasy. Let's get back to
what I ask. What's step one? See that's what where
these people with these vision boards, they get stopped up constant.
I paid it. Hell, don't do no like they don't
do no training, they don't do no fitness, and no
Harry Styles banging. So you say you almost do this.
(18:12):
Here's a good coaching tool for you. You can do
this if you want. You don't have to, It'll just
improve your life. You're a smart gal. You're no dummy.
In my opinion, there's this cool exercise. I have had
a lawyer do it and she is doing awesome. She
really has a vision for her life but doesn't know
how to get there. I'm like, just like pretend like
(18:32):
as an exercise. Don't shut up and listen. I'm giving
you fucking thirteen thousand dollars worth of gold here, all right,
so random number picked out, so I will tell you. Okay,
imagine you're writing a book about yourself, even if it's
a children's book, because you're a little remediagal. It would
(18:53):
be Celia goes to SNL. What would the chapters of
the book be called? Because if you break it down
to the chapters, you will get to know, Oh that's
my first step. Okay, then I'll try this. Then I'll
try this, then I try this. So at least you'd
have a visual and also sort of a I don't know,
an intellectual way of looking at it and going, this
(19:14):
is my plan for getting in that SNL audience. For me.
That would help you because you'd have it all written out.
There's no fantasy involved. It's going contact you know anyone
from my college, who's any alumni who happened to be
working there. Okay, contact someone, see if anyone on Elvis's
(19:37):
staff knows and will introduce me. So you would have
like a lot of ways in so do that. You
got to take action. You can't sit there and be
like I don't think that's like you. I don't think
you're like that. But there's some of these vision board
cunts which I call them. When is that vb c's
vbc's All these vbc's got to figure out how to
(20:00):
put that vision board from the wall into their lives.
I agree.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I think a lot of people, not that I was asked,
but I think a lot of people make their vision
boards yeah and are just like, oh yeah, if I
look at it every day or if I see it
and it's like it's in my twenty twenty six plan,
then it'll happen. But that's not the truth. I agree,
Like you need to have a concrete plan of how
you're gonna get to those goals. So like what you
(20:25):
were saying, like the first step would probably be just
to enter the lottery.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And yeah, that's like an easy one to do every
week exactly. It's like literally the check done.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, So that's like the first step obviously, try to
get it on my own out of pure luck. Because
my new thing is lucky girl syndrome. That's what I have.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I'm diagnosing myself with lucky girl syndrome, which means like
everything that I work towards, Like you know what, that's.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Just really it's wait wait wait wait no, it's it's
like girls, please, yeah, focus on me. I wasn't laughing. Okay,
it's lucky girl syndrome a thing now.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
No, it was like get ready with me and all
that ship it was did this?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
No, it was like of a thing like last year,
And I was like, that's actually so stupid because I
was just angry that all these people were like actually
achieving what they wanted, and I was like, what the
heck what about me? I've adopted the mentality because in
the new year, I think it's really really harmful to say,
(21:34):
like in the new year, I'm going to rebrand or whatever,
because you're you're kind of treating yourself like a product,
which might sound a little woke, but I think that
that's very true, right, And so I'm rephrasing it like, no,
I'm gonna be lucky this year, like I'm gonna I'm
I'm gonna work, but also everything's gonna work out for
me because.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I believe that it will.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Well, here's like, no, no, no, it's not bad at all, Excel.
Some of that luck might not come in the way
you want it to, and if you get the lesson,
that's what you need. So oh wow, I didn't get
the SNL tickets. I what was the lesson I learned?
(22:17):
Okay that I got to keep working hard. The time
isn't right, It's meant to be, it will happen whatever,
whatever lesson you learned, or oh I took the wrong channel,
I have to try again a different way.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
So as long as you get the lesson, that's the luck.
The luck isn't going to come as the poticle rainbow
harms lucky girl. You know that is I I think
that's a not a terrible way to look at things,
but it's also a terrible way to look at things
if you're not working at being finding your own luck.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yes, And I think that's kind of what I was
trying to say, Like, I'm not expecting myself to just rebrand.
I'm just gonna work hard to get the things that
I would want if I were to say that I'm rebranding.
That's kind of complicated what I'm trying to say, but
it's okay.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Maybe, well, just one of the side effects of lucky
girl syndrome. Just ramble on.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Wow, listen, well, I'm going to use as many cliches
or as many platitudes about you guys. No, Nick, she's
just giving one hundred and ten percent. No, we need
to circle back sometimes with what she's saying, and sometimes
she just like we needs us to hold space and say,
(23:31):
that's balent girl. But I do have a boundary which
I'm going to set, which is that your stories have
to have a point. So just as long as you
do the work and honor where you're at, and you
give yourself some grace, you just know that you're exactly
where you're meant to be. And seen, see now that
(23:52):
I don't mean any of that. Yeah, but see, Nick
was just being mean and yeah, so you focus on me.
I want to hold space for you right now to
tell you that you're fine. It's enough. Focus on the negative,
the ball, the fat in the room, Focus on the
gal with the good veins and the lack of a
vibrator who you know has the best life ever and
(24:16):
really fantastic tits.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Follow on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Listen, I love that song, and you guys say you
don't like it, you have just heard it too often.
I don't listen to the radio. I listened to the
forties station, so I hear this Golden and I said, well,
these little Stephanie's as I'll call them, are terrific and
I really enjoy that song. So anyway, we are back
(24:52):
shrink This with les Lambinelli. If you have a letter
for us, send it to Shrinkthshow at gmail dot com.
Here with Nick Scopes on Gmail. No, what is it?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Gmail?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Nicks chubby Chaser?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Everyone sent him chain mail?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, chubby Chasers dot com. Backslash, Stephanie Lee Underscore, Instagram
Lane former producer. Okay, I'm sorry, shut up.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I'm the boss, and I say to follow Nick Scopes
on Instagram and TikTok, follow Celia at Watch This, Celia Underscore,
Underscore Robano, and don't follow Stephanie because I forgot it
and I don't need your bullshit. Man, I heard your
(25:44):
fucking sympathy. Okay, Nick, do.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
We have let us we do? Hell girl, all right,
here we go, Dear Lisa. Next weekend, I'm going to
my sister's house to celebrate my father's ninety second birthday.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Celebrate for burium. You're not wrong.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Plan the procession all right, and I was like a
birthday with the whole family. I'm in the middle of
going through a bad divorce. Here we go, and when
you walk into my sister's house, there's a big sign
that says good vibes.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh no, nope, nope, nope, no.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
No, right now, my vibes are shit. I feel like
all my vibes should be welcome, All vibes should be
welcome anywhere, no matter what. My sister is one of
these fake positive people that presents everything is great even
when it isn't. Should I just play along and not
say anything negative? Or do you think if I'm honest
with my family, they will ask me how I'm doing.
(26:38):
When they ask me how I'm doing? Sorry, what's this person?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
A man or a woman?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
It's Melissa from Portland, Maine.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Melissa, First of all, I'm sorry you and your wife
as going because she's from Portland. That's the deal. Portland,
Maine or Portland, Oregon. Let's most Central Jesus City. Now
I think this Good Vibes Only is disgusting. I never
(27:08):
liked it. I never like positive thinking. I don't like
positive toxic positivity. It's a way of just covering up
the trauma. And it's buying a sign from bed, Bath
and Beyond for an old reference from home Goods, buying
a buying a driftwood sign from home Goods. It says
it doesn't make you a better person, and it doesn't.
(27:30):
I mean, it's like prescribing this band aid on top
of a fucking gaping asshole wound. Same thing. So I'm
not a fan at all of Good Vibes Only. However,
this person, Melissa, she's going through something. She's a bit
of a sad seck. There's also another cliche I think
(27:54):
she should actually adhere to, which is, don't make your
problem there problem. Yes, you cannot go into a ninety
second this is probably the last birthday for this old
son of a bitch who hates you both because you're
lesbians and your sister's a closet one. So I say,
your poor father go there for him if you have to,
(28:15):
and your family annoys you, go out in your car
and call your friend. Go drive to the coffee shop
and call somebody invent, call your shrink, have a session
scheduled for the weekend so that you can talk. But
you can't make it their issue. They're not the one
going through the hard times. And if your family's not
the type you've always been honest with about stuff, it's
(28:37):
not going to start this weekend at poor almost dead
dad's funeral preemptive funeral party. Am I right?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
One hundred percent? I was waiting for you to say
all of that and no notes, but yes, not making
no notes for Lisa, no notes, not making other shit.
Everyone else's problem, Like you said, fucking book a therapy
appointment before, figure out tools, going the car, going to
walk whatever. I don't know what the deal is of
this neighborhood. Okay, talk to your dad, hang out with
(29:05):
your dad. He's gonna fuck die, yeah any minute, Just
shut up.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I'm gonna be a cliche from TikTok if I could
have one last dinner with my father and scene. But
they're always just like like when it's an old person video,
like oh well, but it's kind of true. It's like,
oh man, are you gonna waste this fun time? Potentially
fun time with your father. That can be meaningful by
(29:32):
attacking your sister's sign, or that'd be really funny to
make a TikTok of you literally getting an axe and
cutting the sign down and burning it. Could go viral,
could be a rebrand, as Celia mentioned in the first, but.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
More importantly, your dad could go viral because he's old,
and then he could just die. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That got dark and fast, but no pay to any
where you're Yeah, I get she wants to be true
to herself. Just pick a different weekend to start being
true to yourself if we do it after Dad's celebrated.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Okay, yeah, that's an important birth.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Well, so I'm reading between the lines of this one.
She don't like her sister, Oh yeah, she don't.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
I wonder how she feels about dad too. I have questions.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, well you know that we don't know. But it
sounds like she's like my sister's always did. She says
something like she's always fake or something, or I'm sick
of her.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
She's one of those fake positive.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Oh yeah, I mean there's always fake things she doesn't
like about her either, Yeah, so keep it in your pants.
Shut your mouth. Use the vibrator on your dad alive. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Next letter, Dear Lisa, I do yoga six days a week.
I love my instructor. Ooh until the very end of
class when she gets all spiritual. Then she tells us
(30:59):
to manify everything we want in our life. Now I'm
gonna stay these tits of mine at home. She says. Whatever.
I don't know, she says, to make that up. Yeah,
I did. She says, whatever we want, we should repeat
it ten times every morning and every evening. I think
it's so stupid. I don't understand how saying I am
rich twenty times? What is gonna make me any more money?
(31:22):
Should I just tune out when she does? What do
you think about manifesting? Thanks Bridget diagnosed with Lucky Girl syndrome.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
By the way, By the way, listen, listen girls. Here's
how I feel. This letter isn't really manifest about manifesting,
It's about affirmations. Here's the deal. First of all, God
bless you. You do yoga six times a week. That's great.
Yoga is inherently spiritual. It was created. It's in the
(31:54):
Eastern practice. We in the West have just bastarded it
to mean burning calories and getting fit and sweating. No,
it's really about spirituality. But anyway, she clearly goes some
fucking hot, fucking yoga nonsense and they throw in this
cliche at the end. Well, these affirmations talk about useless
(32:14):
shit saying in the mirror I am rich. I am this. No,
because it's just another thing to feel you failed at.
So say I'm poor, Say I'm nick and I live
in a tiny, tiny apartment. I keep it clean, you know,
I straighten it out before I leave. Everything's fine, But
(32:37):
it is not rich people. What's for me? Because I
grew up in poverty.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
But if say a guy with an average income, you
know great, looks in the mirror and says I am rich,
you basically are telling yourself a lie. So why tell
yourself lies. I used to have a bit where I
would say, if you have to tell your youse, look
in the mirror and tell you yourself. I'm pretty. Chances
are you're not. If no guy has bought you a drink,
(33:06):
it happy? Are you better?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Right?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I'm pretty and lipstick big enough to cover your whole
ugly face, because you're fucking ugly. So it's just gonna
make you feel like more of a failure. Celia, as
you're aghast, answer this question. What would be a more
helpful affirmation than I am rich? What would be something
(33:29):
that would actually be a nice manifestation and an affirmation
of one's soul versus a product.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Like pertaining to finances. Kind of okay, yeah, I would
be like, I am in a career that gives me
financial stability and that I enjoy.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
See, that's gratitude. That's great because it is saying, wow,
I'm looking at mirroring knowledging, I'm fucking lucky, like to
really walk around going thank god I get to do No,
I'm never using a word like again, I'm sorry I
had to use it now, but I okay, okay, shutty.
I'll point to you when I want to hear something.
(34:08):
Huh up. That is kind of funny. Okay, but you're right, like,
it's that's giving it gratitude. That's like being welcoming more
riches quote unquote in spirit to you because you're actually
grateful for what you've been given. So for me, if
it was for me, i'd be like instead of I
(34:29):
am rich. Well though I can say it, it's true.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
So that's not fa.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
No, But for Nick, somebody who's like a normal guy
who wants other things, who might want to not stay
in the day job forever or whatever, it could be like,
I welcome any change in my in my career, in
my life that is meant for me. So it's welcoming
the change in if it's supposed to happen. It's not
(34:57):
being like I'm rich, I'm pretty. Never look in the
mirror and say I'm not fat. It's not true.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I usually mush my tits up against my mirror and
I go, you like that fatty?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Okay, you know what. I think that's manifesting at his best.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I have FBS fat boy syndrome, which is which is
when you're just like you're girthy, but people fucking love you.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Okay, next you have another one.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
We do have one more, another bitch from Portland.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
We switch one.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
You're gonna say this one's Oregon. I think it is
d Day over here, and it's for dykes because they
keep brighten us. I backed out follow me at Stephanie
Layne Underscore. All right, Lisa, huge fan, I'm Ava definitely
gay thirty three from I cannot hear myself, say give
(35:54):
yourself grace one more time.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Oh so she says it, yes to her else.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Yeah, I used it last week when I forgot my
friend's baby shower.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Oh honey, it's called a calendar. Look at the fuck up.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
By the way, who's thirty three year old adull? You
forget stuff? Event?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I forgot my friend's event. If it's important to you,
you're gonna remember, like you're gonna remember to keep looking
at your phone about Harry Styles tickets. Guys, do you
know what he's doing thirty nights New York, baking out
to every one of them. I'm gonna get a vibrators
Harry Style. Okay, but if it's an event that's important
(36:37):
to you, you're gonna remember. Nick In sixty four and
a half years, I could honestly tell you I've forgotten
one event. I forget what it even is now because
it probably like they weren't even like mad at me
or something. But that's ridiculous. Okay, So she had it
gets worse.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
It gets worse because I just read ahead and this
drives me fucking nuts. Oh no, I forgot my friend's
baby shower. That's when she used the phrase, and again
when I venmoed my landlord four days late.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Nope, it's called the first.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Pay the rent. Stay in Connecticut. By the way, you
do have ten days to pay your landlord for the
first time.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
We are Connecticut loosen.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I mean, we got a lot of them, but I
only know that state law. But like then she said,
and then she sai, I'm sorry to think it's not grace.
It's just I don't feel like doing better. At what
point does a platitude become a crutch? Well, Ava, a
platitude is actually an animal, so you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, it's so stupid from when I see some of
the platypusses could use crutches because it's waddling around like
a little fat Nicks.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Okay, I'm gonna be the penguin next season for Colin Farrell.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
You should should wait. So she what's great about what's ava?
Is it? Ava?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Ava?
Speaker 2 (37:55):
One thing? I already know she's on the road to change,
because she said, how do I know when it's become
a crutch? She is already aware, and the awareness is
what she needs to go to the next step, Like
giving yourself grace is obviously fine, but she's recognizing she's
abusing it and saying it to herself a lot. How
(38:17):
About she practice has given that landlord some grace, and
by grace I mean the three grand a month she
owes him. How About she gives that baby shower cunt
which BSc, that BSc some grace by sending an apology.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Written out with a nice gift.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Of course, the gift two gifts, once for forgetting. See
if she if ava. If you're listening, you send one
for forgetting, and then you send the original and a
handwritten card. None of this email shit, a handwritten lovely card,
and you apologize and own it. So I like that
she recognizes it has become a crutch. I think, say,
(38:57):
give other people grace more than you give it to yourself.
Am I right? Am I right? But there's some instances. Yes,
you have to give yourself grace while changing. So she's
gonna make these mistakes. But as long as she's working
on it, then you're How about for every little step
forward you take, you give yourself a counterir of.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Grace, one cun hair of grace at.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
One step, one counterre that's the fucking rules. You get grace,
bite the content.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
What if this baby's name is Grace, middle name Conterre.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
I mean, I'll count there. Counter. Do you know that's
a real thing. By the way, did you know that.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
It's my favorite airline?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
No, it's count She comes off with a good one
once in a while. Area die. She got all cute
on it. That'll get you in that audience in SNL.
There you go, you're throw in something nice. Somebody's listening.
They go, hey, that producer, we need her in the audience.
You never know, just put yourself out there. But anyway,
(40:02):
countare I You heard the expression first when I an
ex boyfriend who worked construction and he's like, yeah, move
that thing to countaire to the left, and I just
started laughing and I go, is that what he goes? No,
it's in building, Like when you're building, it's like the
smallest little amount to move something. And then I looked
(40:23):
up you can buy and I have it at home.
A count hair ruler literally is the tiniest. It's a
big ruler, but it's it's it's divided into counts. So
you say, move a five contres to the left might
be a half an inch. I don't know. I didn't
do to translation, but all I know is it's a
(40:44):
great expression and it's a real thing.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
The more you know the rainbow when you years from now,
long time from now, when you pass, I am breaking
into your house and stealing that cun hair already.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Yeah, a show off Broadway. I used to use that
word a lot. You're not allowed to see a little
woke in the theater industry, but they allowed it because
it was me. I'd say, I'm moving to conter over there.
Light me a conterear line I ordered for the entire
crew and cast opening night as part of their gifts
conterear rulers. I have several at home, and I'm going
(41:23):
to gift you one on your birthday. I know it's
so exciting. I'm so why are your birthday's coming up? Girl? Yeah,
I'm thirty eight. Here we go.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
Yes, I'm the HB cun hair boy.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
So Nick, before we close, I'm gonna we're gonna do
a big thumbs up and thumbs down. You can say it,
don't don't do it because like we won't be able
to see. So yes or no, both of you if
you agree with these clatitudes, do the work. Yes, Yeah,
thumbs up, honor where you're at No.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Okay, honor, what about enter.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Give yourself grace? Yes sometimes okay, good, It's all happening
for a reason. Yes, yes, Yes, you're exactly where you're
meant to be. No, she's meant to be on Harry
Styles Cack. I fully believe we're meant to be here.
Heal you're in her child one hundred and fifty percent true.
(42:20):
And I am not hearing any of your shit because
Nick you I know you believe it because of the
trauma work. We're done. They become a cliched phrase. But
unless you heal yourself historically, you are not moving forward.
I don't care what anyone says. Listen to your body.
I say yes, unless it's screaming for the vibrater, name
(42:42):
it to tame it. What the fuck is that?
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Like, I'm a bad boy.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
It's more like if, well, how are you feeling? Sad? Okay, well, angry?
So I guess if you identify the feeling, then you
can work on it. But I don't like that saying
I don't need Okay, let's just cross it up out
then wait, oh yeah, let me get a pen.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
It doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Okay, this word that's valid?
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Oh I say that all of I know you do.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
That's why I was happy you had the flu and
couldn't come in. That's valand work smarter, not harder. I
mean that I think I like a.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Joke now, like work smarter, you know, like when somebody
does something, how do you do it? Work smarter?
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Could you want? What's more, We're smarter catch. I do
hate circle back, I really do. That's just a way
of saying, hey, Hunt, you didn't answer me. I don't
like that to do give one hundred percent. I'll tell
you why. I particularly hate this because if you ever
go back and you watch my season of Celebrity Apprentice
(43:55):
Lou for Rigno and I'm not please people take this back.
Then you could make fun of deaf people and get
away with it. And I know it's wrong now, but
he would always say I'm not gonna imitate him. He'd say,
give so, but I would always go on, you know,
meanly during the confessional, go so, I remember this and
(44:22):
I apologize. I don't apologize to lou for Igno because
he was an asshole to me, but I am sorry
that I did Deaf Voice Jeff Community Deaf Voice. I
apologize to the deaf community. But you can't hear me.
So okay, one last one, I'm gonna throw up. Romanticize
your life. No, no, no. If I want to be
(44:45):
romantic with my life, I got a little lavender.
Speaker 4 (44:49):
If you want to romanticize your life, follow me and
Stephanie Lee, which is my hibachi cooking. I know it's fun. Exactly,
She's Asian, but she's not.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
This is, of course, Stephanie Lane, our producer from last
week and the week before and the week before, because boy,
does Celia know how to stretch out an illness.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
Recording.
Speaker 4 (45:16):
God, we did three episodes that yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
We nick you're you're taking you're exposing the veil from
our who cares, don't know? People go in a podcast
studio and tape four episodes a day, sometimes three because
we have lives people. Okay, that's not a platitude, that's
a saying of truth. We got lives. And Stephanie Lane
(45:41):
filled in, Yes she did. Yes, Celia, you're terrific. Could you,
once again before we close, tell people where to find
you on the social media? Celia, Oh me, I'm romanticizing
my lucky girl.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
Exactly. Celia underscore underscore Romano.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Wait dude, though you're on Instagram, are you also on.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
TikTok I'm private on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Okay, that's what I thought, because I was like, oh, okay,
where can they find you, asshole?
Speaker 4 (46:13):
You can find me at lavenderloveboy at gay forpay dot com.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
Okay, now you.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
Find me a Nick Instagram and TikTok a lease lamp.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
An alley, wherever the fuck you want. I don't care.
What are you gonna do? What this shit? Oh my god,
it broke my pant. I and also Nick give us
our famous outro. We'll be back next week.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
But guys, what if you want to write into the show?
Email us at shrink this show at gmail dot com.
That is, shrink this Show at gmail dot com. Follow
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on your iHeartRadio app or wherever the fuck you get podcasts.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
I can't believe you didn't say the most important part,
which is thanks for listenings for this was so funny
because that was always your at your most insincere. Yeah.
I truly believe someday you will be a great actor.
But boy, thanks for listening. Do it? Okay? Give us
a thanks for listening like you you took acting class,
like with some gravy toss.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Go ahead, guys, thanks so much for listening. We really
appreciate you. Wow, welcome right into the show. Please email
us an
Speaker 2 (47:25):
I gotta go, goodbye, we gotta go, stupid bye
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(00:58):
The reason we're so happy he is our little producer.
Celia is back from the near dead. Remember a week
ago it was super scary because Celia had the flu
that was killing everyone and I don't mean the bird
flu that's just for the Asians. Well, Celia is back
and she looks better than ever. I have to say
(01:20):
the flu is great for weight, ma and n'sn loss.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I've actually gained weight and oh well that's good.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Then you were too skinty girl, and I do like
your your little look you've got your makeup done. You
look very much like I'm fully recovered and ready to
stop making mistakes.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Which is the theme for today.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yes it is, and so welcome back. I want to
say we missed you, but I can't. Okay, we did
miss you, but then I don't want like Stephanie r
fillin second rate loser. Stephanie Field did. She did a
fine job, but there's only one.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Celia Celiah, sweet and lovely Cela. She's a little county
and a shrinks us because.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That drinks a dyke. I don't know. Also, here vibrator
in hand is Nick scope. Lady, say hi Nick, everyone, Nick,
why do you have a telephone next to you? Is
about to take caller?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Yes, this is clearly from the morning show. I don't
have this, and one time I picked up the phone
and Celia yelled at me.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Don't can't do that.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So this is what I'm talking to today because.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
We look, this is where Elvis Durant tapes his morning show.
So for some reason, there's two purple vibrators on chairs.
I'm imagining they weren't up someone's ass already because Nick's
talking into one right yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Oh no, smells like a fish market on this thing.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's getting cut right out. Okay, put it down this
camera stop. I have a question, Sya. Do you own
a vibrator? No, you don't. Neither do I and I
don't because I joked with you before. I was like, oh,
I'll take that one home. I don't know, because I'm
from the era we didn't do that. I don't know
(03:13):
if i'd know how to use it. I don't know.
Does that go up oneself?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I couldn't tell you. I don't know why. That's so like.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Bulbous, so big.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
This looks like an which is so big.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You're clearly only been with white guys.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's like that's like my forearm. But I can't understand.
Why would the handle.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
We're clearly asking questions of the wrong person because Nick
seems to have verbiage around this. So Nick, I don't
want anything too dirty, but just yes or no. So
you have used something like that with some with a partner, Yes,
as the expert, so you would say that, and again
not to be graphic, so that is used externally basic.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I would say you could probably go a little internally.
But Celia's talking about the whole handle here.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What are you mental Charles and stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'm saying that that part goes inside of you. I'm
saying that that part is unnecessarily long and large.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Well, you got to reach and you don't know what's
going on.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know, it's not unnecessarily long and large. Nicks penis incorrect,
it's small, Nick. Where can people find you?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
If you can find me at Stephanie Lane Underscore, you
can find me at nick Scopes on Instagram and TikTok.
And I know all about this sex stuff you do.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You don't post about that, though, which I'm very grateful for. No, no,
darn it.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
I don't put my talents out there requested.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Clearly, you put no talent on the show. So welcome back, Celia.
We're happy to have you sitting there texting other people
the old days. I think she's actually texted she's GBT, going,
how do I use a vibrator? Let's see how I
get why my generation of people doesn't have them because
(05:09):
we just didn't grow up that way. How is someone
of your generation not have a vibrator or is it
just something that doesn't occur to you?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, honestly, for me, it doesn't occur to me. Most
of my friends do, and like they are obsessed with theirs. Yea,
like they just rave about it and they don't understand
how like some of my other friends and my friend
group don't have one. Yeah, I just am not. Like
I'm not going to go out of my way to
buy one. In my personal humble opinion, what.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
If you were gifted one, I'm not going to. But
if you were gifted one.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I've seen that happen with my friends too. I don't
think that I would really like that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Because I was gifted one once by one mister Gabriel
Fluffy Iglecias. Why because we were doing this big show
years ago at some massive place in LA and he said,
I think I was joking with him one night backstage
about like I don't need that. I don't need a
vibrator and he reps one up, brand new one. He
(06:08):
goes with a note on just says this one changed
my wife's life. And I literally took it. I was
so embarrassed because you can't throw it away because then
the maid in the hotel is going to be like, oh,
she's dirty. You can't give it away because you kind
of have to own it. You have to then oh,
I have this. I remember once I kept it at
(06:32):
a house that I owned. I have many houses, as
you at Canyon Ranch. Else by, I owned a house
and I needed a dress that was there. Did I
tell you this story? Nick? I needed to dress that
was out there for a TV thing. So I sent
this is this sounds like I'm classy and moneyed, but
I don't care, do it? Okay? So I flew my
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assistant to get the dress in Tucson, and I said,
while you're there, stay in the house. Obviously, while you're there,
please just list off what's in the closet to see
if you should bring anything else home. And she was
this little adorable like almost like not a cliche, a
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stereotype of the little assistant in the black dress, like
right out of college, really sweet with the little pixie cut.
And she's like going through the clouds. I go, well,
what's on the top shelf. What's on She goes, Oh,
there's some shoes. And she goes and there's like this thing.
I'm like what. She goes It's in a box. And
I'm like, oh, I go, Jackie, no, I go, I
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promise you I've never used it. It's her manically sealed.
I never took it out, and Gabriel Iglacias said it
to me, and she's like, I know this is all lies,
and she I go, do my favorite, just throwing a
dumpster because I'm not there. They'll think it's yours. And
she's like, okay, now that's a good assistant. Well, they'll
fall under a bus onto a vibrator. For you. Life
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is good.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
You got me a smell of an assistant yet vibrators
in the studio.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yes, exactly, all right, put it down so you take
it away from him. Honestly, I'm about to, okay.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
And take it home Tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Tonight today we're going to talk about not cliches. I
had this idea to do a show about platitudes. Do
you know what a platitude is?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It's like an animal, like a platypus.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
No, it's a saying.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
It's an animal with the water.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Platitude is a saying that it's possibly become a cliche
and is possibly annoying everyone around you a lot. Sadly,
when I printed out a list of common platitudes that
people say often, I was like, wow, I used to
don't I used to do I used to know I
used to don't.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Now welcome to the folk fucking context. Okay, I didn't
used to believe a lot of these things, But in
my older age, I am definitely feeling like they're true.
Like if I had heard one more time in my youth,
if you have got your health, you have got everything,
I was like, I have no perspective. I'm thirty, I
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don't care. I don't feel like I have everything just
because I have good blood work. But as you get older,
you're like, oh my god, that is true. Like if
you've got your health, you've no other problems stack up
when you have a health issue. I mean, Nick, you
know your mom got sick early on five years old.
You were probably when she first got diagnosed. Your mom
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would have just killed to have her health.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, and she was. She was thirty years old when
she got diagnosed, right Jesus. And that's a thing too
that not to get too down the route hole, but
like that's a thing where it sends shockwaves through the
family and it kind of sticks with everyone. When someone
that young gets that sick and then passes away, it
makes like it just like sends my dad. I remember
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the first like there wasn't whole foods back then, but
there was a grocery store called Missus Greens oh yeah,
in Larchmont and we lived in Amernich. And when she passed,
I mean my dad, the whole diet everything changed.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Like for a while he was like, we're not eating,
We're doing this and vegetables and blah blah blah. And
you know, I don't get me wrong, we had our
cheat days, but now it is a cheat dair. But yeah,
I mean, it just it changes. It changed the whole
culture of our family and how everyone looked at things now.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Now my dad's like.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Similar to you, religious about his blood work, loves going yeah,
if he has a test coming up and we're out
to eat, he goes, I can't have that test two days.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I've been become the chick who at this age I
brag about how easily they can find vain, Like I'm
all excited when I go and like the big lady
at the quest goes, oh, you have good brains. I'm like,
I know, girl, they're the best. I'm like, skinny yeah.
And then I love when they're like your blood work
is perfect, I'm like, oh, you give me r right now.
But so and even my friend Anthony, who survived of
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real tough cancer, He's always like, every time I think
I have a real problem, I'm like, I had cancer,
I have my health. I don't have any problems. So
I think you come to realize a lot of these
platitudes are true. Like I do a lot of coaching
now because I only a highly elite coach, oh for
people who have no life. So I honestly really feel
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if it's meant to be, it's meant to be. Now
people will argue with me, I'm like, no, can't just
keep pushing harder and get more, you know, better jobs
and bigger castings and all this. I'm like, if it's
not meant for you, you're not getting it. So people
can get mad hearing that. I just think, with my age,
I know that is true. Everything I got is what
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I was supposed to. Everything I didn't get is stuff
that I wasn't meant to have, and I would have
been even worse shape than I am now. So what
do you think, Nick, when you hear you're going to
get everything you need or if it's meant to be,
it's meant to be. Do you believe that or do not.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
It's weird. Yes, to a certain degree. I also think
platitudes when I hear some of them, I think they
provide comfort.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Like and you hear something like, oh yeah, if it's
gonna happen, it's gonna happen, which I think is true.
But also there's a part of me maybe that feels
like and this may sound nuts, but like sometimes people
will say that it's like their excuse for giving up
or their excuses.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So like I'm I'm honestly very torn on the the
subject of platitudes and whether they they work or not. Yeah,
there's some truth to some of them, but I feel
like it's some degree you could you can also like
you know, uh, pick the future you want and try
different things and do things, not just like what it
is what it is.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well, no, it's all of like it's meant to be,
or you'll get everything you're supposed to. It doesn't mean
dot dot dot and this will happen if you just
sit around and be lazy and twiddle you're twelve. Like
it's like, yeah, audition for every show that speaks to you,
go on every job interview where you think there's a
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spark or whatever, but at the end of the day,
you're like, if it's meant to happen, it's gonna Like
I don't know, but I think it's again because of
my age and realizing, oh that all worked out, it's
easier for me to believe it than like a thirty
year old. Also like, I'm really over anyone using the
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word manifesting because I don't say it, but if I did,
I'd use it correctly, which is I'm manifesting like a
beach body. No, I'm at my age. The one wants
to see that on the beach.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So if I'm manifesting a happy okay, you know what,
I'm manifesting. My mother's old friend uh passed away. It
was the last one who was live, Missus O'Keefe of
their friend group. She was I think ninety, passed away
about two months ago. I have manifested through action. That's
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the key, being like Missus O'Keeffe when I get old,
because she was so easy to be around, didn't complain,
she was lighthearted, she lit up when you'd walk in
the room. People wanted to go visit her. I am
manifesting through action, meaning therapy, self help, coaching, being someone
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someone wants to see when they're old. So I want
younger people. I want old Celia. But when I'm eighty,
how old will you be, Celia? Sixteen years you will
be oh the man, Oh that was quick math. So
when you're thirty nine, I would love for you, like
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you know my old Remember Lisa, that gal who was
on that failure of a show that I produced and
didn't and they replaced her with someone more famous. I
want to go see her because she was fun and
she has a lighthearted disposition. Like I think you can manifest,
but you have to manifest with action. Like if I
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want to manifest that and sit there and think about
it and look in a mirror every day and go,
you are a pleasant old cunt. That's not going to
happen unless I work to become a pleasant old cunt,
right like that? Those idiots, oh it sounds so mean.
But the people with the vision boards, how dare you?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I made my last name?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Of course you don't. Oh my, I don't mind that
you have a vision board. But how about you then,
which I'm sure you're like this, work to get that.
Have a plan. The problem is a vision board without
a plan is jerking.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Off scrap photography.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Jerking off what's on your vision board?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I honestly have so much stuff, but like like what
is on there? No, Like personal trainer okay, I have
like pictures of that, and then I have like pictures
of you want.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
To get a personal trainer? Okay?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
And then like I have pictures of mountains and stuff
because I really want to go hiking this this year.
And then I have pictures of like Saturday Night Live
because I really want to go, and like that stuff
I think is achievable. That's nice to be able to
like look at it and be like, oh wait, I
need to plan to do do the things that I
really want to do this year, which are like hiking,
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Saturday Night Live, getting a personal trainer, like getting fit.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And well so those things. If you're a visual learner,
which most people on the spectrum like you are. If
you're a visual learner, that's really helpful. Like I kind
of like that aasionally to have a picture of going
oh yeah, but again, the I'm shitting on the vision
board without the plan, so clearly then you need little
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steps to get there and break it down into bite
science chunks like, so basically SNL, let's take one. What
would you then have as a plan for you want
to be in the audience? Correct? Yeah, okay, so what's
the plan?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Well, connections.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Okay, that's like the little a little too vague. So
what would be a way of what's the first step?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Harry Styles as the musical guests and you go and
bang them?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Okay, other than banging the bisexualt.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Is my presentation and not is like the motto to
my years. That's what I want. I just want to
go to Well, I would go to any SNL show,
But I mean when Harry Styles is going to be
the musical guest and the host that I need.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Okay, girls, stop with the fantasy. Let's get back to
what I ask. What's step one? See that's what where
these people with these vision boards, they get stopped up constant.
I paid it. Hell, don't do no like they don't
do no training, they don't do no fitness, and no
Harry Styles banging. So you say you almost do this.
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Here's a good coaching tool for you. You can do
this if you want. You don't have to, It'll just
improve your life. You're a smart gal. You're no dummy.
In my opinion, there's this cool exercise. I have had
a lawyer do it and she is doing awesome. She
really has a vision for her life but doesn't know
how to get there. I'm like, just like pretend like
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as an exercise. Don't shut up and listen. I'm giving
you fucking thirteen thousand dollars worth of gold here, all right,
so random number picked out, so I will tell you. Okay,
imagine you're writing a book about yourself, even if it's
a children's book, because you're a little remediagal. It would
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be Celia goes to SNL. What would the chapters of
the book be called? Because if you break it down
to the chapters, you will get to know, Oh that's
my first step. Okay, then I'll try this. Then I'll
try this, then I try this. So at least you'd
have a visual and also sort of a I don't know,
an intellectual way of looking at it and going, this
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is my plan for getting in that SNL audience. For me.
That would help you because you'd have it all written out.
There's no fantasy involved. It's going contact you know anyone
from my college, who's any alumni who happened to be
working there. Okay, contact someone, see if anyone on Elvis's
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staff knows and will introduce me. So you would have
like a lot of ways in so do that. You
got to take action. You can't sit there and be
like I don't think that's like you. I don't think
you're like that. But there's some of these vision board
cunts which I call them. When is that vb c's
vbc's All these vbc's got to figure out how to
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put that vision board from the wall into their lives.
I agree.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
I think a lot of people, not that I was asked,
but I think a lot of people make their vision
boards yeah and are just like, oh yeah, if I
look at it every day or if I see it
and it's like it's in my twenty twenty six plan,
then it'll happen. But that's not the truth. I agree,
Like you need to have a concrete plan of how
you're gonna get to those goals. So like what you
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were saying, like the first step would probably be just
to enter the lottery.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And yeah, that's like an easy one to do every
week exactly. It's like literally the check done.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, So that's like the first step obviously, try to
get it on my own out of pure luck. Because
my new thing is lucky girl syndrome. That's what I have.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I'm diagnosing myself with lucky girl syndrome, which means like
everything that I work towards, Like you know what, that's.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Just really it's wait wait wait wait no, it's it's
like girls, please, yeah, focus on me. I wasn't laughing. Okay,
it's lucky girl syndrome a thing now.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
No, it was like get ready with me and all
that ship it was did this?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
No, it was like of a thing like last year,
And I was like, that's actually so stupid because I
was just angry that all these people were like actually
achieving what they wanted, and I was like, what the
heck what about me? I've adopted the mentality because in
the new year, I think it's really really harmful to say,
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like in the new year, I'm going to rebrand or whatever,
because you're you're kind of treating yourself like a product,
which might sound a little woke, but I think that
that's very true, right, And so I'm rephrasing it like, no,
I'm gonna be lucky this year, like I'm gonna I'm
I'm gonna work, but also everything's gonna work out for
me because.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I believe that it will.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Well, here's like, no, no, no, it's not bad at all, Excel.
Some of that luck might not come in the way
you want it to, and if you get the lesson,
that's what you need. So oh wow, I didn't get
the SNL tickets. I what was the lesson I learned?
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Okay that I got to keep working hard. The time
isn't right, It's meant to be, it will happen whatever,
whatever lesson you learned, or oh I took the wrong channel,
I have to try again a different way.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
So as long as you get the lesson, that's the luck.
The luck isn't going to come as the poticle rainbow
harms lucky girl. You know that is I I think
that's a not a terrible way to look at things,
but it's also a terrible way to look at things
if you're not working at being finding your own luck.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yes, And I think that's kind of what I was
trying to say, Like, I'm not expecting myself to just rebrand.
I'm just gonna work hard to get the things that
I would want if I were to say that I'm rebranding.
That's kind of complicated what I'm trying to say, but
it's okay.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Maybe, well, just one of the side effects of lucky
girl syndrome. Just ramble on.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Wow, listen, well, I'm going to use as many cliches
or as many platitudes about you guys. No, Nick, she's
just giving one hundred and ten percent. No, we need
to circle back sometimes with what she's saying, and sometimes
she just like we needs us to hold space and say,
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that's balent girl. But I do have a boundary which
I'm going to set, which is that your stories have
to have a point. So just as long as you
do the work and honor where you're at, and you
give yourself some grace, you just know that you're exactly
where you're meant to be. And seen, see now that
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I don't mean any of that. Yeah, but see, Nick
was just being mean and yeah, so you focus on me.
I want to hold space for you right now to
tell you that you're fine. It's enough. Focus on the negative,
the ball, the fat in the room, Focus on the
gal with the good veins and the lack of a
vibrator who you know has the best life ever and
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really fantastic tits.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Follow on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Listen, I love that song, and you guys say you
don't like it, you have just heard it too often.
I don't listen to the radio. I listened to the
forties station, so I hear this Golden and I said, well,
these little Stephanie's as I'll call them, are terrific and
I really enjoy that song. So anyway, we are back
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shrink This with les Lambinelli. If you have a letter
for us, send it to Shrinkthshow at gmail dot com.
Here with Nick Scopes on Gmail. No, what is it?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Gmail?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Nicks chubby Chaser?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Everyone sent him chain mail?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, chubby Chasers dot com. Backslash, Stephanie Lee Underscore, Instagram
Lane former producer. Okay, I'm sorry, shut up.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I'm the boss, and I say to follow Nick Scopes
on Instagram and TikTok, follow Celia at Watch This, Celia Underscore,
Underscore Robano, and don't follow Stephanie because I forgot it
and I don't need your bullshit. Man, I heard your
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fucking sympathy. Okay, Nick, do.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
We have let us we do? Hell girl, all right,
here we go, Dear Lisa. Next weekend, I'm going to
my sister's house to celebrate my father's ninety second birthday.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Celebrate for burium. You're not wrong.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Plan the procession all right, and I was like a
birthday with the whole family. I'm in the middle of
going through a bad divorce. Here we go, and when
you walk into my sister's house, there's a big sign
that says good vibes.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh no, nope, nope, nope, no.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
No, right now, my vibes are shit. I feel like
all my vibes should be welcome, All vibes should be
welcome anywhere, no matter what. My sister is one of
these fake positive people that presents everything is great even
when it isn't. Should I just play along and not
say anything negative? Or do you think if I'm honest
with my family, they will ask me how I'm doing.
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When they ask me how I'm doing? Sorry, what's this person?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
A man or a woman?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
It's Melissa from Portland, Maine.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Melissa, First of all, I'm sorry you and your wife
as going because she's from Portland. That's the deal. Portland,
Maine or Portland, Oregon. Let's most Central Jesus City. Now
I think this Good Vibes Only is disgusting. I never
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liked it. I never like positive thinking. I don't like
positive toxic positivity. It's a way of just covering up
the trauma. And it's buying a sign from bed, Bath
and Beyond for an old reference from home Goods, buying
a buying a driftwood sign from home Goods. It says
it doesn't make you a better person, and it doesn't.
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I mean, it's like prescribing this band aid on top
of a fucking gaping asshole wound. Same thing. So I'm
not a fan at all of Good Vibes Only. However,
this person, Melissa, she's going through something. She's a bit
of a sad seck. There's also another cliche I think
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she should actually adhere to, which is, don't make your
problem there problem. Yes, you cannot go into a ninety
second this is probably the last birthday for this old
son of a bitch who hates you both because you're
lesbians and your sister's a closet one. So I say,
your poor father go there for him if you have to,
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and your family annoys you, go out in your car
and call your friend. Go drive to the coffee shop
and call somebody invent, call your shrink, have a session
scheduled for the weekend so that you can talk. But
you can't make it their issue. They're not the one
going through the hard times. And if your family's not
the type you've always been honest with about stuff, it's
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not going to start this weekend at poor almost dead
dad's funeral preemptive funeral party. Am I right?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
One hundred percent? I was waiting for you to say
all of that and no notes, but yes, not making
no notes for Lisa, no notes, not making other shit.
Everyone else's problem, Like you said, fucking book a therapy
appointment before, figure out tools, going the car, going to
walk whatever. I don't know what the deal is of
this neighborhood. Okay, talk to your dad, hang out with
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your dad. He's gonna fuck die, yeah any minute, Just
shut up.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I'm gonna be a cliche from TikTok if I could
have one last dinner with my father and scene. But
they're always just like like when it's an old person video,
like oh well, but it's kind of true. It's like,
oh man, are you gonna waste this fun time? Potentially
fun time with your father. That can be meaningful by
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attacking your sister's sign, or that'd be really funny to
make a TikTok of you literally getting an axe and
cutting the sign down and burning it. Could go viral,
could be a rebrand, as Celia mentioned in the first, but.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
More importantly, your dad could go viral because he's old,
and then he could just die. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That got dark and fast, but no pay to any
where you're Yeah, I get she wants to be true
to herself. Just pick a different weekend to start being
true to yourself if we do it after Dad's celebrated.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Okay, yeah, that's an important birth.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Well, so I'm reading between the lines of this one.
She don't like her sister, Oh yeah, she don't.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
I wonder how she feels about dad too. I have questions.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, well you know that we don't know. But it
sounds like she's like my sister's always did. She says
something like she's always fake or something, or I'm sick
of her.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
She's one of those fake positive.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Oh yeah, I mean there's always fake things she doesn't
like about her either, Yeah, so keep it in your pants.
Shut your mouth. Use the vibrator on your dad alive. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Next letter, Dear Lisa, I do yoga six days a week.
I love my instructor. Ooh until the very end of
class when she gets all spiritual. Then she tells us
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to manify everything we want in our life. Now I'm
gonna stay these tits of mine at home. She says. Whatever.
I don't know, she says, to make that up. Yeah,
I did. She says, whatever we want, we should repeat
it ten times every morning and every evening. I think
it's so stupid. I don't understand how saying I am
rich twenty times? What is gonna make me any more money?
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Should I just tune out when she does? What do
you think about manifesting? Thanks Bridget diagnosed with Lucky Girl syndrome.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
By the way, By the way, listen, listen girls. Here's
how I feel. This letter isn't really manifest about manifesting,
It's about affirmations. Here's the deal. First of all, God
bless you. You do yoga six times a week. That's great.
Yoga is inherently spiritual. It was created. It's in the
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Eastern practice. We in the West have just bastarded it
to mean burning calories and getting fit and sweating. No,
it's really about spirituality. But anyway, she clearly goes some
fucking hot, fucking yoga nonsense and they throw in this
cliche at the end. Well, these affirmations talk about useless
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shit saying in the mirror I am rich. I am this. No,
because it's just another thing to feel you failed at.
So say I'm poor, Say I'm nick and I live
in a tiny, tiny apartment. I keep it clean, you know,
I straighten it out before I leave. Everything's fine, But
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it is not rich people. What's for me? Because I
grew up in poverty.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
But if say a guy with an average income, you
know great, looks in the mirror and says I am rich,
you basically are telling yourself a lie. So why tell
yourself lies. I used to have a bit where I
would say, if you have to tell your youse, look
in the mirror and tell you yourself. I'm pretty. Chances
are you're not. If no guy has bought you a drink,
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it happy? Are you better?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Right?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I'm pretty and lipstick big enough to cover your whole
ugly face, because you're fucking ugly. So it's just gonna
make you feel like more of a failure. Celia, as
you're aghast, answer this question. What would be a more
helpful affirmation than I am rich? What would be something
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that would actually be a nice manifestation and an affirmation
of one's soul versus a product.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Like pertaining to finances. Kind of okay, yeah, I would
be like, I am in a career that gives me
financial stability and that I enjoy.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
See, that's gratitude. That's great because it is saying, wow,
I'm looking at mirroring knowledging, I'm fucking lucky, like to
really walk around going thank god I get to do No,
I'm never using a word like again, I'm sorry I
had to use it now, but I okay, okay, shutty.
I'll point to you when I want to hear something.
(34:08):
Huh up. That is kind of funny. Okay, but you're right, like,
it's that's giving it gratitude. That's like being welcoming more
riches quote unquote in spirit to you because you're actually
grateful for what you've been given. So for me, if
it was for me, i'd be like instead of I
(34:29):
am rich. Well though I can say it, it's true.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
So that's not fa.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
No, But for Nick, somebody who's like a normal guy
who wants other things, who might want to not stay
in the day job forever or whatever, it could be like,
I welcome any change in my in my career, in
my life that is meant for me. So it's welcoming
the change in if it's supposed to happen. It's not
(34:57):
being like I'm rich, I'm pretty. Never look in the
mirror and say I'm not fat. It's not true.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I usually mush my tits up against my mirror and
I go, you like that fatty?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Okay, you know what. I think that's manifesting at his best.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
I have FBS fat boy syndrome, which is which is
when you're just like you're girthy, but people fucking love you.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Okay, next you have another one.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
We do have one more, another bitch from Portland.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
We switch one.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
You're gonna say this one's Oregon. I think it is
d Day over here, and it's for dykes because they
keep brighten us. I backed out follow me at Stephanie
Layne Underscore. All right, Lisa, huge fan, I'm Ava definitely
gay thirty three from I cannot hear myself, say give
(35:54):
yourself grace one more time.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Oh so she says it, yes to her else.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Yeah, I used it last week when I forgot my
friend's baby shower.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Oh honey, it's called a calendar. Look at the fuck up.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
By the way, who's thirty three year old adull? You
forget stuff? Event?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I forgot my friend's event. If it's important to you,
you're gonna remember, like you're gonna remember to keep looking
at your phone about Harry Styles tickets. Guys, do you
know what he's doing thirty nights New York, baking out
to every one of them. I'm gonna get a vibrators
Harry Style. Okay, but if it's an event that's important
(36:37):
to you, you're gonna remember. Nick In sixty four and
a half years, I could honestly tell you I've forgotten
one event. I forget what it even is now because
it probably like they weren't even like mad at me
or something. But that's ridiculous. Okay, So she had it
gets worse.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
It gets worse because I just read ahead and this
drives me fucking nuts. Oh no, I forgot my friend's
baby shower. That's when she used the phrase, and again
when I venmoed my landlord four days late.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Nope, it's called the first.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Pay the rent. Stay in Connecticut. By the way, you
do have ten days to pay your landlord for the
first time.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
We are Connecticut loosen.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I mean, we got a lot of them, but I
only know that state law. But like then she said,
and then she sai, I'm sorry to think it's not grace.
It's just I don't feel like doing better. At what
point does a platitude become a crutch? Well, Ava, a
platitude is actually an animal, so you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, it's so stupid from when I see some of
the platypusses could use crutches because it's waddling around like
a little fat Nicks.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Okay, I'm gonna be the penguin next season for Colin Farrell.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
You should should wait. So she what's great about what's ava?
Is it? Ava?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Ava?
Speaker 2 (37:55):
One thing? I already know she's on the road to change,
because she said, how do I know when it's become
a crutch? She is already aware, and the awareness is
what she needs to go to the next step, Like
giving yourself grace is obviously fine, but she's recognizing she's
abusing it and saying it to herself a lot. How
(38:17):
About she practice has given that landlord some grace, and
by grace I mean the three grand a month she
owes him. How About she gives that baby shower cunt
which BSc, that BSc some grace by sending an apology.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Written out with a nice gift.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Of course, the gift two gifts, once for forgetting. See
if she if ava. If you're listening, you send one
for forgetting, and then you send the original and a
handwritten card. None of this email shit, a handwritten lovely card,
and you apologize and own it. So I like that
she recognizes it has become a crutch. I think, say,
(38:57):
give other people grace more than you give it to yourself.
Am I right? Am I right? But there's some instances. Yes,
you have to give yourself grace while changing. So she's
gonna make these mistakes. But as long as she's working
on it, then you're How about for every little step
forward you take, you give yourself a counterir of.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Grace, one cun hair of grace at.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
One step, one counterre that's the fucking rules. You get grace,
bite the content.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
What if this baby's name is Grace, middle name Conterre.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
I mean, I'll count there. Counter. Do you know that's
a real thing. By the way, did you know that.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
It's my favorite airline?
Speaker 2 (39:40):
No, it's count She comes off with a good one
once in a while. Area die. She got all cute
on it. That'll get you in that audience in SNL.
There you go, you're throw in something nice. Somebody's listening.
They go, hey, that producer, we need her in the audience.
You never know, just put yourself out there. But anyway,
(40:02):
countare I You heard the expression first when I an
ex boyfriend who worked construction and he's like, yeah, move
that thing to countaire to the left, and I just
started laughing and I go, is that what he goes? No,
it's in building, Like when you're building, it's like the
smallest little amount to move something. And then I looked
(40:23):
up you can buy and I have it at home.
A count hair ruler literally is the tiniest. It's a
big ruler, but it's it's it's divided into counts. So
you say, move a five contres to the left might
be a half an inch. I don't know. I didn't
do to translation, but all I know is it's a
(40:44):
great expression and it's a real thing.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
The more you know the rainbow when you years from now,
long time from now, when you pass, I am breaking
into your house and stealing that cun hair already.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Yeah, a show off Broadway. I used to use that
word a lot. You're not allowed to see a little
woke in the theater industry, but they allowed it because
it was me. I'd say, I'm moving to conter over there.
Light me a conterear line I ordered for the entire
crew and cast opening night as part of their gifts
conterear rulers. I have several at home, and I'm going
(41:23):
to gift you one on your birthday. I know it's
so exciting. I'm so why are your birthday's coming up? Girl? Yeah,
I'm thirty eight. Here we go.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
Yes, I'm the HB cun hair boy.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
So Nick, before we close, I'm gonna we're gonna do
a big thumbs up and thumbs down. You can say it,
don't don't do it because like we won't be able
to see. So yes or no, both of you if
you agree with these clatitudes, do the work. Yes, Yeah,
thumbs up, honor where you're at No.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Okay, honor, what about enter.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Give yourself grace? Yes sometimes okay, good, It's all happening
for a reason. Yes, yes, Yes, you're exactly where you're
meant to be. No, she's meant to be on Harry
Styles Cack. I fully believe we're meant to be here.
Heal you're in her child one hundred and fifty percent true.
(42:20):
And I am not hearing any of your shit because
Nick you I know you believe it because of the
trauma work. We're done. They become a cliched phrase. But
unless you heal yourself historically, you are not moving forward.
I don't care what anyone says. Listen to your body.
I say yes, unless it's screaming for the vibrater, name
(42:42):
it to tame it. What the fuck is that?
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Like, I'm a bad boy.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
It's more like if, well, how are you feeling? Sad? Okay, well, angry?
So I guess if you identify the feeling, then you
can work on it. But I don't like that saying
I don't need Okay, let's just cross it up out
then wait, oh yeah, let me get a pen.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
It doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Okay, this word that's valid?
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Oh I say that all of I know you do.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
That's why I was happy you had the flu and
couldn't come in. That's valand work smarter, not harder. I
mean that I think I like a.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Joke now, like work smarter, you know, like when somebody
does something, how do you do it? Work smarter?
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Could you want? What's more, We're smarter catch. I do
hate circle back, I really do. That's just a way
of saying, hey, Hunt, you didn't answer me. I don't
like that to do give one hundred percent. I'll tell
you why. I particularly hate this because if you ever
go back and you watch my season of Celebrity Apprentice
(43:55):
Lou for Rigno and I'm not please people take this back.
Then you could make fun of deaf people and get
away with it. And I know it's wrong now, but
he would always say I'm not gonna imitate him. He'd say,
give so, but I would always go on, you know,
meanly during the confessional, go so, I remember this and
(44:22):
I apologize. I don't apologize to lou for Igno because
he was an asshole to me, but I am sorry
that I did Deaf Voice Jeff Community Deaf Voice. I
apologize to the deaf community. But you can't hear me.
So okay, one last one, I'm gonna throw up. Romanticize
your life. No, no, no. If I want to be
(44:45):
romantic with my life, I got a little lavender.
Speaker 4 (44:49):
If you want to romanticize your life, follow me and
Stephanie Lee, which is my hibachi cooking. I know it's fun. Exactly,
She's Asian, but she's not.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
This is, of course, Stephanie Lane, our producer from last
week and the week before and the week before, because boy,
does Celia know how to stretch out an illness.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
Recording.
Speaker 4 (45:16):
God, we did three episodes that yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
We nick you're you're taking you're exposing the veil from
our who cares, don't know? People go in a podcast
studio and tape four episodes a day, sometimes three because
we have lives people. Okay, that's not a platitude, that's
a saying of truth. We got lives. And Stephanie Lane
(45:41):
filled in, Yes she did. Yes, Celia, you're terrific. Could you,
once again before we close, tell people where to find
you on the social media? Celia, Oh me, I'm romanticizing
my lucky girl.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
Exactly. Celia underscore underscore Romano.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Wait dude, though you're on Instagram, are you also on.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
TikTok I'm private on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Okay, that's what I thought, because I was like, oh, okay,
where can they find you, asshole?
Speaker 4 (46:13):
You can find me at lavenderloveboy at gay forpay dot com.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
Okay, now you.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
Find me a Nick Instagram and TikTok a lease lamp.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
An alley, wherever the fuck you want. I don't care.
What are you gonna do? What this shit? Oh my god,
it broke my pant. I and also Nick give us
our famous outro. We'll be back next week.
Speaker 4 (46:34):
But guys, what if you want to write into the show?
Email us at shrink this show at gmail dot com.
That is, shrink this Show at gmail dot com. Follow
all of us on Instagram. Please listen to this podcast
on your iHeartRadio app or wherever the fuck you get podcasts.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
I can't believe you didn't say the most important part,
which is thanks for listenings for this was so funny
because that was always your at your most insincere. Yeah.
I truly believe someday you will be a great actor.
But boy, thanks for listening. Do it? Okay? Give us
a thanks for listening like you you took acting class,
like with some gravy toss.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Go ahead, guys, thanks so much for listening. We really
appreciate you. Wow, welcome right into the show. Please email
us an
Speaker 2 (47:25):
I gotta go, goodbye, we gotta go, stupid bye
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