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November 4, 2025 13 mins

In this mini-episode of the pod, Lisa, Nick, and Celia tackle the world’s hardest skill: taking a compliment. From fake humility to “I try” syndrome, Lisa shows everyone how to stop ruining nice moments and just say thanks!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lisa Lampanelli is not a licensed therapist or life coach.
She is a meddling advice giving yanta. I know it all,
and her words come from her head, her heart, and
often out of her ass. This podcast should not be
misconstrued as therapy. I should be taking with a huge
grain of salts for entertainment purposes only.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
These.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
You need help, You're the problems.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Come on, come down, go lamb, take a pill. I
think you're insane.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Do what I say, dumb ass, listen to me. You
in order to tide you over. Every week that we
are waiting to season two launches in January, we're gonna
do one letter from every episode from our past season
with me. Is the lovely and talented Nick Scopi Eddie

(01:01):
say Hi, nak no no okay. Now you can find
him at Nick Scopes and I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
It Instagram and TikTok.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
He's trying to be all sexy. I don't know what's happening.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
He's like trying to be all like sexy. Stop being sexy.
Speaking of sexy, who else is there? Miss Cilia, Celia,
our lovely producer.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
You can fight Celia Ware Oh wow, Cilia, Everything's a chore.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
Celia Underscore Underscore Romano.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
Is it like awful? Can I just change it for you?
Ce l I a underscore.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Approval?

Speaker 6 (01:46):
Everyone's calls it wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Well, okay, boy, you are you a sweetheart today? All right?
So this week we are going Oh, by the.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Way, if you have a letter for us, send it
to Shrink this Show at gmail dot com.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
Drink this show at gmail dot com.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
We will try to get to it if it's appropriate
for our conversations. In season two, so this week we
are revisiting the episode called just shut Up and Take It,
which was an episode of people having a difficult time
taking compliments and also wanting to give sincere compliments. We

(02:25):
had many letters coming about that subject and we are
hoping to revisit a few today.

Speaker 7 (02:29):
Go ahead, and Nick, dear Lisa, my mom drives me crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, I got her last week.

Speaker 7 (02:37):
She cooked the whole family dinner and it was really good.
When I said, Mom, this chicken is delicious, she said
I tried. I can't stand that she didn't try it.
She didn't try, she did it. Why can't you just
say thank you?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Thanks? Sam? And Nashville, Tennessee, what is.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
That I try, because so I've never said that. Tell
me the chicken is delicious.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Go hey, mom, Hey hey mom. Okay, oh hine.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
If i'd been your mother.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
She has the same name, you'd be fucking name as fuck.
And you were born four months apart.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Okay, so same year you would have turned out so
much better.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
Maybe probably. Okay, So tell me here's how I think.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Il So, I've slaved all day.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Mom.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Wait wait, I'm in the kitchen. I've slaved away.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I've made this delightful chicken, and I hear.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Mom.

Speaker 7 (03:43):
Yes, darling, this chicken is fantastic.

Speaker 8 (03:48):
Oh try, but sometimes I'm such a disappointment.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
So that's if you're Jewish to do that. That's to Italian.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Go ahead, this chick is fucking good.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah, it's so fucking good.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
I slave away in here and your god damn brothers
and fucking fathers can't even figure right out.

Speaker 9 (04:10):
Kill me.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Okay, do it if you're Irish. Ooh, mother, aes.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
This chicken tastes like shite.

Speaker 8 (04:19):
I oh, it's a good recipe from the old days.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
With the famines.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
What happened and we couldn't get your potata, We couldn't
get one potata.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
So we got a chicken, no potato, just just a chicken.
Why are we obsessed with potato?

Speaker 3 (04:34):
And I'm dead because they all end up dead because
they're all next.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
To do it as no no.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
No, because they don't eat chicken, So you.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
Do it as a non binary.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
Non binari Asian.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
So I do not like the I tried, because it's
so down playing the compliment that makes the other person
feel like shit.

Speaker 5 (04:58):
Like I've had people do that, like I'll say to.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Nick sometimes, ye know, that was really funny, and you
actually don't say the I try. Or there's a guy
I follow on Instagram. It's a really great activist and
he is literally reviving I won't mention the city in
Connecticut that he's really trying to rejuvenate and revive and
have a lot of cultural programs. And I always go,

(05:21):
you're doing such great work, man, I'm so happy for
you and impressed by you, and he goes, I try,
and I almost want to go try not be in
a fucking compliment to flecting douchecock. I mean, it's just
terrible to not even be able to absorb one nice thing.
So maybe what tell me the chicken is no, no,

(05:42):
why did you give me a sincere compliment that's real
about myself? Because we all know I'm very good at
a lot of things. And then I'll show you how
it's done. Go ahead, Yeah, I know, right.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
But that's how I think. Like, what am I going
to act a pro? Okay?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
How about something another one?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Okay, that's not that could be surprising, Lisa.

Speaker 7 (06:06):
Yeah, you are really good at hiding those sneaky big TITSI.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
I know, right, Maybe all the compliments you should just say,
I know, right, because really I am good at it.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
I push him down where the.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Sports bro I don't want to be leading jugs out there,
so give me a compliment. I might not necessarily feel
that secure about and scene.

Speaker 9 (06:34):
Lisa, Yes, Nicholas.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Lisa, yes, you are try, can't Lisa?

Speaker 9 (06:46):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (06:48):
After you take ships? So, yeah, the bathroom never smells.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
You know why? It is wild?

Speaker 3 (06:55):
You get this spray called pot purri, everyone's called it's
poop pirie, and your spray at first and then you
dump and then you come out of the bathroom and
nobody knows.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I always thought rich people should smell like roses.

Speaker 10 (07:07):
Yeah, mind the you're fucking quick, No, so I just
think like I would rather someone comes off almost half
cocky than the I try.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
Why does that rub me the wrong way?

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Do you fucking hate that? I? Uh, it depends I think.
I think like I want Celia to take compliments, but
she takes them as insults. Sometimes I feel it's weird.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
I'll say, well, hi, you look so good, and she's like, what.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Exactly?

Speaker 6 (07:37):
I can't say you're wrong?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, I can't.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
I don't know how to accept what here?

Speaker 9 (07:42):
You give me a compliment? I'm Celia.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
I'm gonna like, wait, first, wait, let me place myself
really far away from.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
The mic, even though I know I'm about to be
asked something.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Celia, I really like that orange sweater with the chick.

Speaker 9 (08:02):
About me.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
What. So, let's teach you how to take a nice
compliment because you can't say I try, because I'll give
you actually a very sincere compliment, Celia. I really and
this is literally sincere, Celia, I really enjoy working with

(08:27):
you as a producer.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Wow, thank you.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
I enjoy working with you.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
No, you don't have to give one back because you
don't mean it.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
I did what I was supposed to know, you did it,
but then you fucked it.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Up by also giving me a compliment to distract from
your own discomfort of getting a compliment.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
No, I was just telling the truth.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
But you don't have to.

Speaker 9 (08:49):
Well I know, yeah, I try.

Speaker 6 (08:53):
Well I think for like that, I try. Yeah, what
is that in the situation with the chicken?

Speaker 5 (08:58):
That's bullshit.

Speaker 6 (08:59):
But like if somebody is saying to you, for example,
like oh, like you look good, like you've been like
slimming down or whatever, I feel like it's fair to
be like, well, I've been trying, you know, But.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's almost like then begging for a second compliment, because
watch here's how it never stops escalating.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
Okay, Nick, you b u, I be Celia.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
You give me a compliment my slimming down figure today?

Speaker 9 (09:25):
Well, yeah, I try.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
I like the sweater, I mean the pants, the hair
is good.

Speaker 9 (09:39):
Trying, I keep trying.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
Wait, that's not what I meant.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Okay, what the fuck did you mean?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Like?

Speaker 5 (09:45):
How about you trying to explain yourself better?

Speaker 6 (09:47):
I thought you were gonna end up using me as
the example said I could play it off better. So
basically I was saying.

Speaker 9 (09:55):
Why compliment?

Speaker 3 (09:56):
You're never gonna get your great on the mic. That's
just oh I love you. You're no, but it is
weirdly I tried to me, feels either like it's fishing
for more. Now give me a compliment about how hard
I'm trying. So it's like, oh, you made the chicken
well tonight, mom?

Speaker 5 (10:12):
I try? Oh well, no, no one is really good.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, it took me twenty five hours and I basted it, which,
by the way, what's a fucking bast I don't know.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
And oh no, no, mam.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
No worth every fucking second. Yeah, you know, it really
took all the time out of my day. I was
going to get a facial and.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Buy a new puffer vast. So that's like, I.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Just think it sounds like it's milking it. But there's
a lot of self hate there and it will never
be enough. So, ladies and gentlemen out there, when you
get a compliment, you say thank you, and then you
shut the fuck up and you punch nick in the clit. Okay,
go ahead, see you raised her hand. As if we
are in high school or grammar school.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
I have a question, what if somebody said a compliment
and you were like, oh, like, I worked really hard
on it.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Well, well give me a compliment. I lost forty pounds.
Nobody ever seems to compliment me. Fuck yeah, okay, okay,
so wait no, I didn't work hard on that.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Let me see what did I work on? What did
I work really hard on your career?

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Not?

Speaker 5 (11:15):
It's very natural, terrific.

Speaker 9 (11:19):
I'm fantastics hard work.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Oh how about my makeup always looks good?

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Okay, so go ahead, Okay, I didn't like that little
makeup looks good and choos Wait no, my mouth was shot?
Yeah but that yeah, that was good?

Speaker 6 (11:36):
Way okay, go ahead, Okay, Lisa, your makeup always looks fabulous.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
One to know what I would actually say?

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Really, okay, do it again, Lisa, your makeup always looks fabulous?

Speaker 10 (11:48):
I know.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Do you know?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Dude?

Speaker 3 (11:49):
It is so hard because like I had to literally
take lessons because as you get older, like it's like,
oh my god, it's so hard to like cover up
certain things and just try to look natural enough. But
thank you God. I'm so glad somebody noticed because Nick
sure doesn't you know, he's really mean?

Speaker 9 (12:10):
How dare you?

Speaker 5 (12:11):
I think we've learned a lot.

Speaker 9 (12:13):
I think so too.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
I'm so Nick. Good episode today.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Great job you're getting over there, Great job, Nick. Oh
thanks I appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (12:27):
Cecilia, Cecilia, Cecilia, good job.

Speaker 9 (12:36):
You said, Cecilia.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Oh whatever, I don't know who.

Speaker 9 (12:40):
Cecilia is, hard.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Sweater with a cherry titsl correct names.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Say I'm sorry and thank you and whatever I say,
and we're sorry for the episode. We'll never come back again.
But if we do, where should they listen?

Speaker 7 (12:58):
Nick, guys, listen on iart radio app or wherever you
get your podcasts.

Speaker 9 (13:05):
Thank you Out
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