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Speaker 1: Good morning, Lisa. How are you doing good? How you

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doing Buddy? Absolutely fantastic. And i'll tell you what. You've

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been playing hell on my heart for the past week

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because I've been waiting for this podcast, and then I

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love your title, The Weight is Over, except it's the Weight. Yes,

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well that's the.

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Speaker 2: First episode which dropped today. The name of the whole

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podcast is Shrink This, because I think we all need

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our head shrunk, especially by someone as knowledgeable as me.

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So it's called Shrink This and it's on iHeart Podcasts.

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And hopefully this one about weight is going to resonate

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with people because I don't know, man, sixty three years old,

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I'm still struggling with it, and I know so many

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people who are.

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Speaker 1: Well, i'll tell you what. You had my wife's attention

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right off the bat because she is so fascinated with

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that show My six hundred pound Body, and she watches

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these people go through these surgeries. How did you deal

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with the dieting afterwards?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god? Okay, so wow, I go into all

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that on the podcast. You're gonna love it. Okay. So

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I unfortunately got a little underweight, but they say to you, Okay,

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you're going to gain the weight you're supposed to and

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sort of stay there, hopefully for life. But then the

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pandemic hit, so I gained about ten or twenty pounds

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and I said, oh, this is a slippery slope for

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somebody like me. I love food. I love deflecting with food,

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comfort eating and by the way, comfort eating is fun.

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It's why we call it comfort eating.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I had to sort of reassess where do

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I want to be? How am I going to be happy?

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And we sort of explore that on the first episode.

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So it's really interesting. It's always a balance.

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Speaker 1: Your show and the podcast itself is so interactive with people.

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I mean, you and Nick are reading letters from people

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who can write to you at shrink this show at

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gmail dot com.

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Speaker 2: Yes, correct, and honestly they're pretty bright. So far, we

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haven't gotten a lot of letters from people who don't

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get it and get right to the point. So usually

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they give me a little compliment first. I always say, hey,

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you're more likely to be read if you tell me

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how beautiful I am. Okay, because you know me, I'm

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a tasty piece. So once they get my attention, then

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we get to give them some advice. So I just

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love reaching out to people and seeing that we're all

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just trying to work on ourselves as much as we can.

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Speaker 1: And you clearly state in the very beginning of the

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show this is for entertainment, and yet while listening to

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and experience in it, Lisa, come on, there's some stuff

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here that's very wise.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know, I got to be pretty dumb

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to have gone through sixty three years of life and

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forty years of therapy to not have picked up a

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few things. But I think it's important people realize, like,

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I don't have a degree, I don't have a PhD,

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but I got a PhD in life, and I also

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have a PhD in telling people what they should do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I turned sixty three in one week, and I

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know what you mean by trying to get back to

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that weight than when you know in your younger years.

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And so I mean, I've been down twenty seven pounds here,

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it's just this year alone, and so I'm really trying

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to get back to one sixty nine. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And you know what's funny, it's such a weird struggle

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because we have such emotion around it. We feel, you know,

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we step on a scale and we could be up

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a pound and feel worthless the whole day.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it's awful.

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Speaker 2: So it's almost trying to take the judgment of ourselves

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and of other people out of the equation and just

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accept where we are, which is very tough. Acceptance is

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always the answer to any problem, and it's hard to

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Speaker 1: So what's your secret food? Mine is olives and sauerkraut

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mixed with tomatoes.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that is ridiculous, and I have to expect you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, okay, I feel you.

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Speaker 2: No anything chocolate. I've always loved the chocolate and anything

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dessert full or sugary. But I try to balance it,

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and you know what, some days, what's great about it

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all is some days I fail, and that's okay. The

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point is not to beat ourselves up after and not

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to let ourselves off the hook completely either. So it's

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that balance between oh my god, I really screwed up

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and I hate myself versus, hey, it's okay, you can

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kind of have a day where you screwed up. Let's

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try to redirect the next day.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of balance, how is it that you and Nick

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soon like you've been the best of friends for years

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and decades.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, we've been friends for five years. This guy.

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I'm shocked. I'm friends with a straight guy who's half

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my age. Honestly, it's almost like I feel like he's

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a nephew or something from her previous life. And it

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does help that he's a comedian. His name's Nick Scopoleti.

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He's super funny naturally. He has that gift of just

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like rolling with conversation and not trying to shoehorn funny

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things in which I totally hate. So yeah, I think

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it's a real blessing that I met this guy and

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he was doing an open mic at a club. I

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was just watching, and I was like, I like that guy.

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And we see each other and a bunch of friends

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every Tuesday and write together. So it was just a

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natural fit.

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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Lisa Lampanelli coming

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up next. Hey, we are back with comedian and now

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podcaster Lisa Lepinelli. Don't you love the way that when

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doing a podcast, the creative muscles that are required because

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it's still a live stage. It's still that performance, and

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you've got to bring it to that microphone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I'm not a fan of the whole. Oh wait,

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let's cut that out or oh me, nope, I want

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it to be just there, unfiltered, raw, and it's fine. Yeah,

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I think it is. It is pretty much like a stage,

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but with the luxury of not having to ugh, sit

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in front of a bunch of people and you know,

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put on hair and makeup and figure it out.

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Speaker 1: As you get into podcasting, are you going to become

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addicted to the analytics and check out those numbers? No?

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Speaker 2: That Wow, it's weird you mentioned that because I just

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said to the producer. I said, I'm not going to

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look at numbers. I'm not going to look at reviews.

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I'm not looking at downloads. All I want is the

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letters from the people. And we're going to do this

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thing for as long as people enjoy it and as

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long as the network wants to do it, and if

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it's just fun.

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Speaker 1: For a year, then that's what it is.

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Speaker 2: I'm really lucky that I kind of just enjoy the

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moment and then move on. So no, thank goodness, I'm

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not going to look at the numbers, although probably Nick will,

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but I'll tell them to shut up a bit.

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Speaker 1: And once again, for listeners, it's shrink this show at

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gmail dot com. Now you you bragged about how you

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love AOL, but yet you've got a Gmail address here.

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I sat there and I went, whoa, whoa, whoa, Wait

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a second, But that's how we are at sixty three.

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We're very aware of everything. Yes, it's so funny with

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the AOL.

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Speaker 2: I just kept mine because it's kind of nostalgic. And also,

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like everyone has that email address of mine. How am

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I going to tell people I haven't talked to in

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forty years to change? So I'm like, okay. But with

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the show, they made me be modern and so we

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gmailed at whatever.

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Speaker 1: How did you deal with the art of roasting yourself?

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roast ourselves and sometimes you know, the receiving side of

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that is going, well, what did I do wrong? Well?

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Speaker 2: I think the thing is if you have if you

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want to make fun of everybody, it has to include yourself.

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So pretty horribly self absorbed to be like, well, here's

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all the stuff that's wrong with them, but I'm perfect.

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So I was very comfortable with people making fun of me.

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I think some of the best jokes on the ros

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were about me. I still laugh when I see them,

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I'm like, wow, that's pretty cool. To be able to

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laugh at yourself is a big gift. And it's hard though,

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but then once you get past the hump, it's all right.

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You're getting included. And isn't that what counts.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that you've nailed with Nick is

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the fact that the commercial timing, because I mean, it's

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just enough time for you to take a break, for

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us to take a break. We go to a couple

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of commercials, we come back to the show, and we're

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all refreshed again. So now who's in control of Are

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you sitting there in front of a walk clock?

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Speaker 2: No, we, thank goodness, have a producer who will give

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us a little signal which I'll usually ignore and then

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you'll have to give it bigger.

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Speaker 1: Because I remember doing shows.

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Speaker 2: I was never one of those comics who do like

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three hours of material, but I'd go over, you know,

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I'd do like two hours and seven hours and a half.

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So she's learning to become more firm with us, even

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though she's gen z and I'm elderly.

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Speaker 1: So now what is that like for you then? I mean,

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because in reality, are you not relinquishing a lot of

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control to other people, and you have to trust them

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as well.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, you wouldn't believe how untrusting I am.

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I am. You know, they send me the video, they

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send me the audio. I'm like approved, you know, they

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send me the social media clips. I just like want

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to see what's going out. I don't ever want to

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be the person who is surprised by something online. So yeah,

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to give up all the engineering stuff to them because

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they know what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: I like the way that the show is described putting

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yourself on a podcast that tolerate that does not tolerate BS.

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I mean, you're we're just going and we're going to

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talk about it. We're going to hit that subject hard.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean some people write in and there they

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want the truth, you know, if you can read between

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the lines and see what people are really saying. Because

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trust me, I'm used to dealing with delusional people and

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have been delusional about issues in my life. And I'm like, ooh,

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they're trying to do. Let's just try to get cut

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to the real manner and get going. So I really

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enjoy kind of doing that with the letters.

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Speaker 1: You know, this podcast it's got to lead to a

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book because everything that you're doing in this podcast belongs

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on a page where people can sit there and hold

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onto that book cover.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, if someone will just transcribe it and

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put it out there, do it. But I wrote one book.

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I will never write a book again. It is the

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hardest thing because it was all like dredging up the past.

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Speaker 1: Dude.

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Speaker 2: Autobiographies are tough. So if someone wants to type this out,

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go for it, sell it. Give me ten percent. I'm cool.

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Speaker 1: I got a secret for you. Your iHeartRadio app. It's

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all transcribed right there on that app. I will sit

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there and read it and then I go, okay, now

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let's go listen to her voice. I want to hear

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her pitch, volume and tone.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I love that. See I got to

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go to that app. I've been hearing all good things,

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so I trust you.

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Speaker 1: It's quite journey. And I can't thank you enough for

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being that person that's sitting in the front seat of

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my car with me.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're the best. Thank you so much. Man.

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You're a real sport.

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Speaker 1: I like it. Please come back to this show anytime

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in the future. The door is always going to be

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open for you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Will you'd be brilliant today? Okay, Lisa, okay, godless.

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Speaker 2: Take care