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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi. What's going on? Chelsea? Catherine? Chelsea Here,
- 0:05Speaker 1: Catherine here, Hi, It's nice to meet you.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Well, hello and goodbye because you're off to Spain.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Hey, estado, precticondo mi espanol, toto por semana. I am
- 0:17Speaker 1: in the thick of it. We be in Chelsea.
- 0:19Speaker 2: You have been preparing for this for some time.
- 0:22Speaker 1: A few months.
- 0:23Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like I've been pregnant or
- 0:25Speaker 3: something something like that. Drastic has happened to me. I'm
- 0:29Speaker 3: carrying a lot of weight on my shoulders and I'd
- 0:31Speaker 3: like to drop it. So that's what I'm going to do.
- 0:35Speaker 3: But I'm having a very Some of my niece and
- 0:37Speaker 3: nephews have arrived and we've already had some really good laughs.
- 0:41Speaker 3: So we're off to a good start. And my brother
- 0:44Speaker 3: is really a lot more fun without his wife. So
- 0:47Speaker 3: I'd like to make sure I put that out there
- 0:49Speaker 3: on record.
- 0:50Speaker 1: I'll bet.
- 0:50Speaker 4: So.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Have you been up the mountain yet on your e bike?
- 0:53Speaker 1: You know, I have sister, you know what. That's how
- 0:55Speaker 1: I test for COVID. I take a really long bike
- 0:58Speaker 1: ride and then if I feel better, it will feel
- 0:59Speaker 1: good after I'm like, all right, I must be I
- 1:01Speaker 1: must not be.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Set exactly a long bike ride and then you come
- 1:04Speaker 2: back and have a little apparel.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Spring surprise, surprise. We ran out of beer on the
- 1:07Speaker 1: very first day with my nephews, so they're clearly going
- 1:11Speaker 1: to cost me about ten thousand dollars just with alcohol.
- 1:14Speaker 1: I'd rather give that to some charity, you know what
- 1:16Speaker 1: I mean?
- 1:17Speaker 2: Well, and how long is your drug stash going to
- 1:19Speaker 2: last this time? I mean you got to corrupt your
- 1:21Speaker 2: nieces and nephews somehow.
- 1:22Speaker 3: Oh, I have a supply for a long time, and
- 1:24Speaker 3: I have a drug dealer in Spain, so it's not
- 1:26Speaker 3: a problem. And now my Spanish is so good, I
- 1:28Speaker 3: can just get um if I need them.
- 1:30Speaker 2: Ooh, that's drug us, Master Goss, Is that what it is? Well,
- 1:33Speaker 2: let's talk about our very exciting guests we have today.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Well always, it's always an exciting guest, and we always
- 1:38Speaker 3: say that because it is exciting, because otherwise they wouldn't
- 1:40Speaker 3: be here.
- 1:40Speaker 1: We wouldn't be talking to people that didn't excite us.
- 1:42Speaker 3: Our guest today stars as the inimitable Susie Green on
- 1:46Speaker 3: Curb Your Enthusiasm. Please welcome actress and comedians Susie es
- 1:50Speaker 3: Men I'm sitting with Susie s Men, this is a
- 1:54Speaker 3: late stage marriage.
- 1:55Speaker 1: That you You got married when you were fifty three
- 1:56Speaker 1: years old. Yeah, I met him at forty eight. Forty eight, OK,
- 2:00Speaker 1: I just want to follow this trajectory. Here's what I'll say. Now,
- 2:03Speaker 1: I don't know you well at all, barely, but I
- 2:06Speaker 1: just know from what I've read, you've choose people that
- 2:10Speaker 1: I would never go out with, like at work, executives,
- 2:12Speaker 1: comedian rapper. Here's my theory. There's it's not my theory.
- 2:19Speaker 1: It's like a known thing. There's the gardener, and there's
- 2:21Speaker 1: the flower. You're a flower. You need a fucking gardener.
- 2:25Speaker 1: I do need a gardener. Yeah. And these high powered
- 2:28Speaker 1: guys they want to be flowered all the time. Like
- 2:30Speaker 1: most men, they want to deflower.
- 2:32Speaker 3: They want to deflower, and then they want to be
- 2:34Speaker 3: the flower exactly. But some high powered men are very
- 2:36Speaker 3: good at gardening because that's why they're in the position
- 2:39Speaker 3: in the first place. Like if they're an executive, they're
- 2:41Speaker 3: used to dealing with talent and they know how to
- 2:43Speaker 3: deal with like personalities a large person.
- 2:46Speaker 1: There's still an ego.
- 2:46Speaker 3: Absolutely, Absolutely every person I've dated was a mistake.
- 2:51Speaker 1: Yeah, so now we have to find you like a guy. Guy.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Okay, I want to know about your guy. I want
- 2:55Speaker 3: to know you met him when you're forty eight.
- 2:57Speaker 1: Break it down. What happens? Okay, he was the brother
- 3:01Speaker 1: of We're good. It was a mosquito? Was it really
- 3:05Speaker 1: a mosquito? Because they love me? Man, they just eat?
- 3:08Speaker 1: What do you think this is on my forehead? Susie's
- 3:12Speaker 1: looking at a boulder. But I've noticed though, there used
- 3:15Speaker 1: to be no mosquitoes in La and now this mosquito.
- 3:17Speaker 1: That's right, they're all be warming. I met him his
- 3:21Speaker 1: gay brother was one of my best friends, so we
- 3:24Speaker 1: had references. You need references. I don't sleep with his
- 3:27Speaker 1: gay brother ever. No, No, I'm not attracted to gay men.
- 3:30Speaker 1: I like a man who, like you know, wants to
- 3:32Speaker 1: be with women's Yeah, you know, you can always tell
- 3:35Speaker 1: when a man is not into a woman's body. I know,
- 3:37Speaker 1: I know it's really disappointing.
- 3:39Speaker 3: And I can also tell when you know how men
- 3:41Speaker 3: are supposed to be like butt men or boob men.
- 3:43Speaker 1: I'm boobs. I don't have a butt.
- 3:45Speaker 3: So when a man is a buttman with me, I'm
- 3:47Speaker 3: very confused because I think i'm like giving them this
- 3:49Speaker 3: great present, Like.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Yeah, well you are looking at the gorge and they're.
- 3:52Speaker 3: Real, they're natural, they're up, they're ready to rumble. But
- 3:55Speaker 3: what's more interesting is that you are now a stepmother. Yeah,
- 3:59Speaker 3: I raised the kids for how long did you raise
- 4:01Speaker 3: those Well.
- 4:02Speaker 1: I mean they were like when I met them, they
- 4:03Speaker 1: were ten, twelve, fourteen, fifteen. You know, now they're adults.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Now they're thirty thirty three, thirty five, thirty six like that.
- 4:11Speaker 1: Now you know I had them for all those good
- 4:13Speaker 1: teen years. Oh yeah, I never wanted kids. I don't.
- 4:17Speaker 1: I don't agree with it. I never wanted kids, and
- 4:19Speaker 1: I never you know, I mean I was the thing
- 4:22Speaker 1: about a relationship when you're a comedian, is I think
- 4:26Speaker 1: that men are intimidated by funny women. Yes, so you
- 4:30Speaker 1: need a really secure guy, right, and you need a
- 4:32Speaker 1: guy like my husband. He just loves all the attention
- 4:36Speaker 1: I get, like annoyingly so that he like brags about
- 4:40Speaker 1: me too much. Well, that's adorable. It's very cute. He's
- 4:43Speaker 1: very he's also cute. I'm also you know, I'm only
- 4:46Speaker 1: attracted to good looking guys.
- 4:47Speaker 3: I know, I know I have I have a history
- 4:50Speaker 3: of Yeah, my history is all over the shop. But
- 4:52Speaker 3: I think that's also a good thing because I'm pretty
- 4:54Speaker 3: open minded, like I'll try anything for a.
- 4:56Speaker 1: Little bit and then I'm like, oh no. But but also, Chelsea,
- 4:59Speaker 1: the paper thing, Fuck the paper? What paper?
- 5:01Speaker 4: You know?
- 5:01Speaker 1: What are they good on paper? That bullshit?
- 5:03Speaker 3: Oh no, I don't have attention to it. Yeah, I
- 5:05Speaker 3: have paying attention to my feelings, my instinct. You have
- 5:07Speaker 3: to be attracted in the beginning, well, you have to.
- 5:10Speaker 3: You can build attraction to someone. I wasn't attracted to
- 5:12Speaker 3: my last long term boyfriend in the beginning and over
- 5:15Speaker 3: time when you became friends and it just like hit
- 5:17Speaker 3: me one day, and that has something that was something
- 5:19Speaker 3: that never happened to me. Because I believe that too,
- 5:21Speaker 3: that you had to be instantly attacked, and I feel
- 5:24Speaker 3: like that can develop when you have a very close
- 5:26Speaker 3: friendship with someone, although I prefer to be instantly Yeah.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Well, but there's got to be attraction when you sleep
- 5:32Speaker 1: with them, Well, when you have sex with them, yes.
- 5:35Speaker 3: But if you're hanging out with someone as a friend,
- 5:37Speaker 3: it can develop into romantic feelings without having had slept together.
- 5:40Speaker 1: That's probably true. It's never happened.
- 5:42Speaker 3: It never happened to you. Yeah, so when you met
- 5:44Speaker 3: your husband, you knew he had kids. Your your friends,
- 5:47Speaker 3: I believe, were a little hesitant to even introduce.
- 5:49Speaker 1: His brother was hesitant. But his brother's now husband and
- 5:52Speaker 1: boyfriend was a casting director, and he said, you're gonna
- 5:56Speaker 1: like this guy. And I thought, well, he's in casting,
- 5:58Speaker 1: he knows how to do that, right, that's a good point.
- 6:00Speaker 1: So I listened to him and I made sure to
- 6:02Speaker 1: meet him, and then I thought he was so cute.
- 6:04Speaker 1: And then I thought I was just gonna have a
- 6:05Speaker 1: fling with him because he had four kids and he
- 6:07Speaker 1: lived up state, and it was like, you know, he
- 6:09Speaker 1: was totally horrible on paper. But I used to have
- 6:12Speaker 1: a bit in my act but I would say, but
- 6:13Speaker 1: you know, you can't fuck paper, so you know. But
- 6:16Speaker 1: so I just thought I was going to have a
- 6:17Speaker 1: fling with him. And then I don't know what happened.
- 6:19Speaker 1: I guess I was time. It was I was ready
- 6:21Speaker 1: for something different. So I raised kids. I know, that's amazing.
- 6:26Speaker 3: I know, teenage where they girls and boys men three
- 6:29Speaker 3: girls that have boren But like now, I really like
- 6:31Speaker 3: having an adult relationship with them.
- 6:33Speaker 1: But the teenage thing. And then we had a house
- 6:35Speaker 1: in the suburbs, and I don't know who I was,
- 6:37Speaker 1: but then I was. I was still back and forth
- 6:39Speaker 1: to LA and doing curb and doing stand up, and
- 6:42Speaker 1: they gave me all new material that.
- 6:44Speaker 3: Was the beautiors of course. Yeah, kids are really they
- 6:47Speaker 3: give you a lot, they do. I mean, they take
- 6:50Speaker 3: a lot of energy and stamina, you know, when you're
- 6:53Speaker 3: on the road, like I have a lot of friends
- 6:55Speaker 3: kids that I hang out with, my ex boyfriend's kids
- 6:57Speaker 3: I'm very close with. Yeah, and when I have them
- 7:00Speaker 3: with me traveling, you are forced to do way more
- 7:04Speaker 3: than you would do.
- 7:04Speaker 1: On your own life, and pay more attention and get
- 7:07Speaker 1: up out of bed. But I see never sitting on
- 7:09Speaker 1: toddlers and little kids. No, Oh, that's just diper No, No,
- 7:13Speaker 1: why did you never want to have kids? I have
- 7:15Speaker 1: never had the inclination.
- 7:17Speaker 3: I just too, I love my life, and I just
- 7:19Speaker 3: always saw myself as like this woman who was never
- 7:23Speaker 3: going to be.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Tethered to a man or to a child.
- 7:26Speaker 3: Probably just a direct reaction to my own childhood because
- 7:29Speaker 3: there were so many kids in our family, six and
- 7:32Speaker 3: I was like, either I'm going to do that or
- 7:34Speaker 3: I'm going to do the opposite.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Did you have good parents? Well, I mean.
- 7:37Speaker 3: They meant well, you know, they weren't terrible, but they
- 7:40Speaker 3: weren't ideal.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Yeah, well ideal, what's ideal? Exactly? There was a lot
- 7:45Speaker 1: of love.
- 7:45Speaker 3: My dad was Jewish, my mom was Mormon, so there
- 7:48Speaker 3: was a lot of nonsense. But we had a pretty
- 7:51Speaker 3: happy childhood. There was a lot of happiness, a lot
- 7:53Speaker 3: of love in our family were very close. Speaking of families, though,
- 7:56Speaker 3: I have to ask you about Bruce Springsteen and your
- 7:59Speaker 3: scenes with him, because that was so fucking funny with
- 8:02Speaker 3: Bruce on Curb.
- 8:03Speaker 1: You know, he was amazing. He is he was amazing.
- 8:07Speaker 1: I mean, okay, he does write all his own Bruce
- 8:11Speaker 1: Springsteam we're talking about. Yeah, he does write all his
- 8:13Speaker 1: own songs, and he did do a one man show
- 8:15Speaker 1: on Broadway. But he's never been in any kind of
- 8:18Speaker 1: TV or film ever. He told me he's never done
- 8:21Speaker 1: something like this before. And he was incredibly relaxing, you know,
- 8:24Speaker 1: as you know, we're all improvisedes. No, he couldn't learn dialogue.
- 8:28Speaker 1: He just had to sit there and he just picked
- 8:30Speaker 1: it up so quickly, and it was you know, you
- 8:33Speaker 1: just never know how somebody It was not a comic
- 8:36Speaker 1: is going to improve, it's going to improvise. And he
- 8:38Speaker 1: was great. And you know he said to me before
- 8:41Speaker 1: I before I left, he said to me, can I
- 8:43Speaker 1: take a selfie with you? I was like, no, I
- 8:46Speaker 1: don't take selfie. He was so humble.
- 8:50Speaker 3: I know he's so I mean, have you seen him
- 8:52Speaker 3: per formats? And of course he's so fucking awesome to watch.
- 8:56Speaker 1: I saw him before for the first time last summer,
- 8:58Speaker 1: this past summer in and then again in Hyde Park
- 9:01Speaker 1: like in two weeks apart, and I will Hide Park
- 9:04Speaker 1: in London, Yes, and I will forever be a Bruce
- 9:06Speaker 1: Springstein family. That guy fucking plays for three hours and
- 9:10Speaker 1: sometimes four hours. He's seven and four youngster. I know
- 9:13Speaker 1: people talking about that who went to the Stones last weekend.
- 9:16Speaker 1: They were saying they were like, you know they what
- 9:19Speaker 1: are they in the nineties now, No, the eighties, but
- 9:22Speaker 1: they said they were like, you know, on stage forever
- 9:25Speaker 1: and just energy and I can't do that. Well, what
- 9:28Speaker 1: is Mick?
- 9:29Speaker 3: Mick Jagger is like a live carcass dancing around on
- 9:32Speaker 3: the stage. I mean, have you ever seen a body
- 9:34Speaker 3: that looks that frail, that is able to move in
- 9:37Speaker 3: such with such volocity, sterity.
- 9:40Speaker 1: No, I haven't, and not to mention the abuse of
- 9:44Speaker 1: all those years of abuse. I know they say they
- 9:46Speaker 1: get dryed.
- 9:47Speaker 3: I've heard multiple times that they get some sort of
- 9:49Speaker 3: blood transfusion, going, oh yeah, all the meds are like,
- 9:52Speaker 3: the medics are there.
- 9:53Speaker 1: This is when the Eagles play too. There's always like
- 9:55Speaker 1: they're realer doctors just in case something, you know, they
- 9:58Speaker 1: get like they pass out or whatever.
- 10:00Speaker 3: But stand ups should happen, no kidding, I mean we
- 10:03Speaker 3: need something because we're traveling.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Just what's the longest show you've ever done? Probably like
- 10:06Speaker 1: an hour and forty minutes. That's long, but that's the longest.
- 10:10Speaker 1: That's long. The difference is you're up there all by yourself.
- 10:14Speaker 1: I mean, they got musicians, and you know, it's very
- 10:17Speaker 1: different being a musician than a comic. But I also,
- 10:20Speaker 1: we're not dancing. We're not singing, and we're not Some
- 10:23Speaker 1: comics are dancing, well, I wish I.
- 10:26Speaker 3: Wish they would stop as well, but dancing singing like,
- 10:30Speaker 3: it's definitely easier to do stand up.
- 10:33Speaker 1: You're just I don't think so, Chelsea, Really, I don't
- 10:36Speaker 1: think so. I think you're yees yes, physically you're up
- 10:39Speaker 1: there standing with the mic in your hand. You know,
- 10:41Speaker 1: I've never been one of these physical, you know, comics.
- 10:45Speaker 1: But I just think stand up is so much harder
- 10:48Speaker 1: than doing music because you got to get that laugh
- 10:51Speaker 1: and you're by yourself. When you go to like a
- 10:53Speaker 1: cafe or something, you see a combo, people are talking
- 10:56Speaker 1: and they're just singing. They're all playing. They don't care
- 10:58Speaker 1: if that was up on stage and they're all talking.
- 11:01Speaker 1: We can't handle that. No, No, you're absolutely right, and
- 11:04Speaker 1: you got to get that left what every fifteen twenty seconds?
- 11:07Speaker 1: I was. I was on stage the other night at
- 11:09Speaker 1: a show, and I remember thinking, I can't believe I'm
- 11:12Speaker 1: supposed to be I'm the only one here to entertain
- 11:14Speaker 1: this exactly, like it's completely on my shoulders. If this
- 11:18Speaker 1: doesn't go, well, I don't do it anymore. You don't know,
- 11:21Speaker 1: you don't do stand up anymore. I didn't know that. Yeah, Oh,
- 11:25Speaker 1: why are you over it? Yeah? Really, it just stopped.
- 11:29Speaker 1: You know a lot of things. I think that I
- 11:30Speaker 1: was too addicted to the killing, and I got stale,
- 11:35Speaker 1: and then I just wasn't that interested. It wasn't that
- 11:38Speaker 1: creatively interesting, And it's just you know, I suffer from
- 11:41Speaker 1: stage fright, and it was just so hard and if it
- 11:43Speaker 1: wasn't creatively interesting. You know, my manager hates it because
- 11:47Speaker 1: he's like, you can make a lot of money now,
- 11:49Speaker 1: you know.
- 11:49Speaker 3: I once quit stand up and all they did, I
- 11:51Speaker 3: mean I took a break for like six years, and
- 11:53Speaker 3: all they did was my reps, like you need to
- 11:56Speaker 3: go back.
- 11:57Speaker 1: You're leaving money on the table.
- 11:58Speaker 3: It's so much money to leave on the table, exactly,
- 12:00Speaker 3: And I was like, I don't have anything to say.
- 12:02Speaker 1: I felt very sad. That's how I were saying right now.
- 12:04Speaker 1: Maybe it'll change, but that's how I feel right now.
- 12:06Speaker 3: I think creative stuff comes in bursts, you know. I
- 12:09Speaker 3: think we all have bursts of creativity when we feel
- 12:11Speaker 3: really like passionate about doing stuff, and then there's a retreat.
- 12:15Speaker 1: You know a lot of times I'm retreated right now.
- 12:17Speaker 1: I get it, and I feel I feel sad about
- 12:20Speaker 1: it a little bit because there is something so great
- 12:22Speaker 1: about it.
- 12:23Speaker 3: Well, you're providing joy, yeah, and the most nicest way
- 12:27Speaker 3: to describe it as you are providing a joy and
- 12:29Speaker 3: a reprieve for other people. And I feel like for
- 12:32Speaker 3: me when I went back to stand up, it was
- 12:34Speaker 3: because I felt like I was helping, you know what
- 12:37Speaker 3: I mean.
- 12:38Speaker 1: I used to think that, you know, all those nights
- 12:40Speaker 1: when you don't want to go on and I remember
- 12:42Speaker 1: standing backstage and I'm just like, all right, I'm gonna
- 12:44Speaker 1: go unclog some arteries now, you know. That would like
- 12:47Speaker 1: get me going. But the thought of having not done
- 12:49Speaker 1: it for like five six years, the thought of getting back,
- 12:51Speaker 1: how did you get back? I did a book I
- 12:53Speaker 1: did I wrote like my last book, and I did
- 12:56Speaker 1: a speaking engagement tour, yeah, where I had different celebrities
- 12:59Speaker 1: and all author's interview me on stage. Yeah. And then
- 13:02Speaker 1: if you have a podium, it's a thing of yes yes.
- 13:05Speaker 3: And while I did that, I just collected the material
- 13:09Speaker 3: through the conversation for my stand up, you know what
- 13:12Speaker 3: I mean.
- 13:13Speaker 1: That's just smart, that's really smart.
- 13:14Speaker 3: It was actually really a good way for me to
- 13:17Speaker 3: get back in because I also was scared to get
- 13:19Speaker 3: back on stage.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Of course, if you haven't been on stage for rights,
- 13:22Speaker 1: I'll do the evening with thing where somebody's in I
- 13:25Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, of course, you know it takes it's
- 13:27Speaker 1: the onus is off you exactly. Yeah.
- 13:29Speaker 3: I want to go back to kurb because it's my
- 13:32Speaker 3: one of my favorite shows, and it's so fucking funny
- 13:34Speaker 3: and I love I remember auditioning for Larry once when
- 13:37Speaker 3: I was like twenty five, and I was so excited
- 13:40Speaker 3: because improv is all I want to do.
- 13:41Speaker 1: I love improv. I hate scripts.
- 13:43Speaker 3: I hate you know, it's so much easier just to
- 13:45Speaker 3: fucking like what you do on the show, which is
- 13:47Speaker 3: go off on whatever.
- 13:48Speaker 1: It is that you don't have to. You don't have
- 13:50Speaker 1: to lie in bed the night before and go over
- 13:52Speaker 1: your lines and be nervous that you're not going to
- 13:54Speaker 1: remember them, because I'm horrible about that. And it's not
- 13:57Speaker 1: just that you don't have to learn a line, it's
- 13:59Speaker 1: that you get to you get to be part of
- 14:01Speaker 1: the creative process. I mean, you get to write your
- 14:04Speaker 1: own material, right, which is what we do exactly. And
- 14:08Speaker 1: you've called Larry a genius. Yeah, you think he's a genius.
- 14:11Speaker 1: I do. I do because when I read, you know,
- 14:14Speaker 1: we have an outline, as you know, there's like a
- 14:16Speaker 1: very detailed outline. You know, every paragraph correlates to a scene,
- 14:19Speaker 1: and so you know what the scene is about. And
- 14:22Speaker 1: when I read the outlines, I can't figure out how
- 14:25Speaker 1: he did it. It's transcendent. And I have a comic
- 14:27Speaker 1: brain and I can't figure out how he did it.
- 14:30Speaker 1: And it's just he's a genius at story. He's a genius.
- 14:34Speaker 3: It's pretty interesting to talk to anytime I see him
- 14:36Speaker 3: in public. He's always just very interesting to listen to,
- 14:40Speaker 3: you know, to ask questions too well.
- 14:42Speaker 1: His brain works in a different way, and that's what
- 14:44Speaker 1: I think is genius. And you've been on the show
- 14:47Speaker 1: for twenty plus years? How many? Four years? Twenty four years?
- 14:50Speaker 1: Twelve seasons?
- 14:51Speaker 3: WHOA, yeah, and you were a day player when you started.
- 14:55Speaker 3: So when did you start? When did you get a contract?
- 14:57Speaker 1: Season eight?
- 14:58Speaker 4: Oh?
- 14:58Speaker 1: Godb yeah? But you know what I was. I mean,
- 15:02Speaker 1: I was guest star. I was like day scale for
- 15:06Speaker 1: like the first three seats. I made no money on
- 15:07Speaker 1: that show for like the very beginning. But they made
- 15:10Speaker 1: up for it. It's fine. Oh they did it because
- 15:12Speaker 1: we can always sue them. No, no, no, it's fine.
- 15:14Speaker 1: They love to say they've been very good. HBO is
- 15:18Speaker 1: a great place. The HBO treats their talent really well.
- 15:21Speaker 1: And they've treated me in the in this last incarnation beautifully.
- 15:25Speaker 1: I have no complaints.
- 15:26Speaker 3: And so you guys just must sit on set and
- 15:27Speaker 3: laugh your fucking at you.
- 15:29Speaker 1: You show up on set and there's all the people
- 15:31Speaker 1: that I came up with and stand up, you know,
- 15:34Speaker 1: I mean Larry and John Hayman and Carol Leafer and
- 15:37Speaker 1: you know, everybody's on set. I've been working with these
- 15:40Speaker 1: people for twenty four years or whatever, and we just laugh.
- 15:43Speaker 1: And Larry loves to laugh, and he just you know,
- 15:46Speaker 1: whenever he gets yelled at, he just gets the giggles.
- 15:49Speaker 1: We just laugh all day. We laugh and we eat.
- 15:53Speaker 1: It's the greatest. And for me, I show up and
- 15:56Speaker 1: I tell everybody to go fuck themselves, and then they
- 15:59Speaker 1: love me for it, and then they give me money
- 16:00Speaker 1: and I go home and you get to yell at, Yes,
- 16:02Speaker 1: you get to yell at Jeff Garlic. Yea yell at
- 16:06Speaker 1: It would be a pleasure for me as well. I'm
- 16:07Speaker 1: very invidious of your situation. Yeah, that's exactly the kind
- 16:10Speaker 1: of gig I would respect. You would love it.
- 16:13Speaker 3: No script, outline, improvise, yell at people and go home.
- 16:18Speaker 1: But also it's like more than just yelling at people.
- 16:20Speaker 1: There's there's story. You have to push forward. And what
- 16:24Speaker 1: Larry sets up with Jeff Schaeffer who's are the ep
- 16:27Speaker 1: who writes all the outlines with Larry and he directs
- 16:29Speaker 1: almost all the episodes. It's a true situation comedy in
- 16:33Speaker 1: the sense that they set up these situations that like
- 16:36Speaker 1: in the beginning of the season, I read the outlines
- 16:38Speaker 1: that I'm just like, I can't believe what they have
- 16:40Speaker 1: me doing this season. Oh I have I have to
- 16:42Speaker 1: have vaginal rejuvenation surgery this season. It's like the ship
- 16:45Speaker 1: that they get. They give me the funniest shit to do,
- 16:49Speaker 1: and I just it's like, I can't wait to get
- 16:51Speaker 1: to set and and act out these scenarios. You know.
- 16:56Speaker 1: It's just it's like, whatever it is. You know, I
- 16:58Speaker 1: guess I'm gonna have to learn signline, which is you know,
- 17:00Speaker 1: I just read the outlanes is like I have a
- 17:02Speaker 1: caftan business this season. Whatever it is, it's just they
- 17:05Speaker 1: give me the funniest stuff to do.
- 17:07Speaker 3: On that note, we're going to take a break and
- 17:09Speaker 3: we're going to be right back to meet with some
- 17:10Speaker 3: callers so Susie can dish out what she's so famous for.
- 17:14Speaker 3: No pressure to be a bitch, though, Susie.
- 17:20Speaker 5: This week, we're looking for relationship advice. If you're having
- 17:23Speaker 5: a problem in your relationship, want to know how to
- 17:25Speaker 5: do better or need Chelsea to weigh in on whether
- 17:27Speaker 5: you're right about something. Right into Dear Chelsea podcast at
- 17:31Speaker 5: gmail dot com and we're back.
- 17:33Speaker 1: With Susie s Men. We are back, Catherine. What do
- 17:35Speaker 1: we have going on?
- 17:37Speaker 2: Well, we've got some women behaving badly, We've got some
- 17:39Speaker 2: men behaving badly.
- 17:41Speaker 1: So let's start.
- 17:42Speaker 2: With a workplace conundrum. Maria says, Dear Chelsea. I work
- 17:46Speaker 2: at a small office with six other women. I'm struggling
- 17:49Speaker 2: with this one issue that's come to light in the
- 17:51Speaker 2: past few months. One of my colleagues, whose single, late forties,
- 17:55Speaker 2: beautiful woman, started dating this guy in his mid fifties
- 17:57Speaker 2: who claims to be separated from his wife. The guy
- 18:00Speaker 2: lives in a different city and he and my coworker
- 18:02Speaker 2: only see each other every once in a while. Neither
- 18:04Speaker 2: of them are on social media. At first, I was
- 18:07Speaker 2: so happy for her, but as time went by, I
- 18:09Speaker 2: started noticing that the only time she would see him
- 18:12Speaker 2: was when he went to a conference. He would pay
- 18:14Speaker 2: for all of her expenses. She'd have the best time,
- 18:16Speaker 2: but a few of us in the office started wondering
- 18:18Speaker 2: why she was never invited to his city to hang
- 18:20Speaker 2: out with him at his place.
- 18:22Speaker 1: Well, we know why, we know why.
- 18:24Speaker 2: That's when my other colleague asked her what his last
- 18:26Speaker 2: name was. I'm not proud to say we looked him
- 18:28Speaker 2: up and it didn't take us more than five minutes
- 18:30Speaker 2: to find his adult daughter's Facebook, where she had posted
- 18:33Speaker 2: photos of the most recent family cruise, where he seemed
- 18:36Speaker 2: pretty cozy with his wife. We wanted to give him
- 18:38Speaker 2: the benefit of the doubt and thought, maybe they have
- 18:41Speaker 2: an amicable relationship and still vacation together post separation, or
- 18:44Speaker 2: maybe it's an open marriage. But if this is the case,
- 18:47Speaker 2: then why wouldn't he just disclose this to my colleague?
- 18:50Speaker 2: My question is do I tell my friend. I'm very
- 18:53Speaker 2: much struggling to believe that she doesn't know about this
- 18:55Speaker 2: because it took me so little time to find the
- 18:57Speaker 2: photos online, so I'm not sure I'm ready to tell
- 19:00Speaker 2: her and confront the fact that she already knows and
- 19:02Speaker 2: just agrees to continue to see him. My gut feeling
- 19:05Speaker 2: tells me to leave this alone because it's none of
- 19:07Speaker 2: my business, But as a feminist, I find it very
- 19:09Speaker 2: hard to ignore the fact that this man's actions are
- 19:12Speaker 2: hurting his wife and honestly my colleague too, who clearly
- 19:15Speaker 2: doesn't think she deserves an available partner. I'm a huge
- 19:18Speaker 2: fan and would love to hear your thoughts on this, Maria.
- 19:21Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I think. Well, hold on, Maria's here,
- 19:24Speaker 1: hold you marisus Susie, Maria would I the most beautiful
- 19:28Speaker 1: sound I ever heard? Susie is chomping at the Beria.
- 19:34Speaker 1: Where are you there?
- 19:35Speaker 2: You are?
- 19:36Speaker 1: I understand your concerns, but kill the messenger. I would
- 19:43Speaker 1: mind your own business. I would tell her, Yeah, you would.
- 19:45Speaker 3: I would because I just as a woman, this is
- 19:48Speaker 3: my philosophy. I feel like, since women are so fucked
- 19:54Speaker 3: and men are almost fucking us over, if we don't
- 19:56Speaker 3: have each other to rely on for the truth. And
- 19:59Speaker 3: I understand you are gonna it is troubling to be
- 20:02Speaker 3: the messenger, and she might be pissed at you, but
- 20:04Speaker 3: I would want someone to tell me.
- 20:06Speaker 1: Yeah, but she doesn't know anything firsthand. She just knows
- 20:10Speaker 1: what she found online, right Maria, that's right?
- 20:13Speaker 4: Yes?
- 20:13Speaker 1: Yeah, So this so the girlfriend could find the same
- 20:16Speaker 1: information online. Who goes out with somebody doesn't google them? Well,
- 20:20Speaker 1: lots of people actually, Well they're dumb. Yeah, I don't
- 20:22Speaker 1: google people ever.
- 20:23Speaker 3: Really, the less I know the better, Otherwise I'll find
- 20:26Speaker 3: some ick to be like, forget it. I don't want
- 20:27Speaker 3: to meet you, you know, if I see a belt
- 20:29Speaker 3: or like the rum shoe, you know, or if I
- 20:32Speaker 3: see them walk funny have you because you're.
- 20:34Speaker 1: A superficial Chelsea.
- 20:38Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it took me all of eight minutes
- 20:40Speaker 6: to find this information she wanted to know.
- 20:43Speaker 1: If she wanted to know, she could find out. If
- 20:46Speaker 1: you knew this personally, like you knew the guy and
- 20:48Speaker 1: knew the wife would be different to me. But it's
- 20:51Speaker 1: your friend, it's her friend.
- 20:53Speaker 3: Like, I think you should tell your friend what you
- 20:55Speaker 3: found and let her see it, Like, yay, I just
- 20:58Speaker 3: want you to know.
- 20:59Speaker 1: This is what's the situation is. She's probably gonna stay
- 21:01Speaker 1: in the situation. I mean, but she might not. She
- 21:04Speaker 1: m might know about it already. Do you think she might?
- 21:07Speaker 1: That's it?
- 21:08Speaker 6: That's my like, And then it'd be super awkward for
- 21:10Speaker 6: me to be like, I don't know. I'm struggling with
- 21:12Speaker 6: telling her and her being like uh huh, And I'm like, oh,
- 21:16Speaker 6: all right, I guess we think differently about this, you know.
- 21:19Speaker 1: Can you anonymously tell her, oh, there's a thought. I
- 21:22Speaker 1: mean we're a very small office. I mean, yes, splip
- 21:26Speaker 1: her a note.
- 21:26Speaker 3: You could get a fake email address and send her
- 21:29Speaker 3: the link to his Facebook account or whatever you found
- 21:33Speaker 3: from someone else, right, like from Susiesamon at gmail dot com.
- 21:39Speaker 1: Or can you just like dig around and to figure
- 21:43Speaker 1: out if she knows? Yeah, I mean if she doesn't know,
- 21:47Speaker 1: then she's kind of dumb, you know. I mean from
- 21:50Speaker 1: what you describe that, the red flags are all there,
- 21:53Speaker 1: which is why you and your other coworkers are looking
- 21:55Speaker 1: into this. Correct, that's right, That is correct.
- 21:57Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's the thing too.
- 21:59Speaker 6: It's just the last conference they went to, there was
- 22:02Speaker 6: a dinner and she wasn't invited to the dinner. Of
- 22:05Speaker 6: course she wasn't because she's not the white you know, like.
- 22:07Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, how do you not see this? You know,
- 22:10Speaker 1: how old is she? She's forty nine? I think no,
- 22:13Speaker 1: forty eight. She's not a kid. That's not that's not
- 22:16Speaker 1: good either. No, and you're right, maybe she does know.
- 22:19Speaker 1: Like how close to a girlfriend is it? Is it
- 22:20Speaker 1: a really close girlfriend or just like more of a
- 22:22Speaker 1: work colleague friend. No, she's just my colleague we don't
- 22:25Speaker 1: have to know, So maybe she's happy just to get
- 22:27Speaker 1: laid every now and then and go to different conferences.
- 22:30Speaker 3: I still think you should send her an anonymous link,
- 22:33Speaker 3: get a fake email address and send it to her.
- 22:35Speaker 1: If she's not a really good friend. I think it's
- 22:37Speaker 1: awkward to say something. I do too. That's why the
- 22:39Speaker 1: anonymous thing is better.
- 22:41Speaker 3: Because she does deserve to know the truth, but you
- 22:44Speaker 3: don't have to be the one giving it to her.
- 22:46Speaker 3: That way, you don't have to get to deal with
- 22:47Speaker 3: any of the reverberations of that true.
- 22:50Speaker 1: And I don't want to make it awkward.
- 22:51Speaker 6: You know, if she goes on and she knows I know,
- 22:53Speaker 6: and it's like yeah, every day walking into the office, it.
- 22:56Speaker 2: Would be I do wonder if there's some digging around
- 22:59Speaker 2: the topic that you can do, like where do you
- 23:01Speaker 2: see your relationship going? Do you think you might marry
- 23:03Speaker 2: him one day or that sort of thing, or is
- 23:05Speaker 2: it just for fun?
- 23:06Speaker 1: At that age, I think it's completely reasonable to say,
- 23:09Speaker 1: has he been married? Does he have kids? I mean,
- 23:11Speaker 1: the guys know what in his fifties, Yeah he is,
- 23:14Speaker 1: and she knows he has kids. She knows Okay, he
- 23:16Speaker 1: had a wife that he just says he separated. Well,
- 23:18Speaker 1: maybe he is. Who knows? I would go ahead with
- 23:21Speaker 1: the anonymous and an anonymous email. I think that's a great idea,
- 23:23Speaker 1: and I'm going to start giving that advice to more people. Actually,
- 23:28Speaker 1: I think that's a really good idea.
- 23:29Speaker 4: I hadn't thought about that.
- 23:31Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a forty nine year old woman. You're
- 23:32Speaker 3: not dealing with a twenty two year old girl. You're
- 23:34Speaker 3: dealing with a woman that might be fine with her.
- 23:36Speaker 3: It might be okay with her, that might be all
- 23:38Speaker 3: she wants that. You know, it's kind of nice not
- 23:40Speaker 3: to have any full commitment to someone who has another family.
- 23:43Speaker 6: I just think about the wife though, Like, you know,
- 23:45Speaker 6: he's not in my business.
- 23:46Speaker 1: But I know that's the thing I feel like all
- 23:48Speaker 1: women's businesses, all of our business, I know, we don't
- 23:51Speaker 1: know the information. Maybe the wife can't stand him. Maybe
- 23:54Speaker 1: the wife does is fine with having him, living with him,
- 23:57Speaker 1: but doesn't want to have sex with him. You know,
- 23:58Speaker 1: who knows, who knows? They've been together a long time.
- 24:01Speaker 1: Probably you know. The heat doesn't last. No, the heat
- 24:04Speaker 1: does not last.
- 24:06Speaker 6: And social media lized too right the photos I seen,
- 24:09Speaker 6: she like, they're like very cozy with each other.
- 24:11Speaker 1: But social media social media, right, so well, I don't know.
- 24:15Speaker 3: I mean, that's not a lie necessarily if you're hugging
- 24:19Speaker 3: someone in a photo, I know, and your other colleagues
- 24:22Speaker 3: like coworkers, are on the same page. Yeah, okay, well,
- 24:26Speaker 3: I think you do the anonymous email and then let
- 24:28Speaker 3: us know what happens, let us know what the fallout is.
- 24:30Speaker 1: I will for sure use my initials.
- 24:33Speaker 3: Ch Okay, it's a lot of great Maria, thank you
- 24:38Speaker 3: so much. By have a good stop interrupting the caller, Susie, Okay, sorry, Maritt,
- 24:43Speaker 3: Oh my god, the heat doesn't last.
- 24:46Speaker 1: What do you do in your relationship to keep the firebird?
- 24:49Speaker 1: You just you kind of You make sure that you
- 24:52Speaker 1: have sex well. Also, you know i'm posting an old lady.
- 24:55Speaker 1: Now I'm post metapausal. That changes things too, But you
- 24:59Speaker 1: make sure that you may have dates, and you make
- 25:02Speaker 1: sure to make it happen. It's still enjoyable. It's just
- 25:05Speaker 1: not like it was, you know, in the beginning. I
- 25:07Speaker 1: know that's why I'm always reluctant to spend a long
- 25:11Speaker 1: period of time with a man when I'm sexually attracted
- 25:14Speaker 1: to him, because I know it will wane, and I
- 25:16Speaker 1: want to keep those juices going. Yeah, so I like
- 25:19Speaker 1: three days on and then like two weeks off and
- 25:21Speaker 1: then a vacation. I think that's good.
- 25:23Speaker 3: It just in general that keeps the fire burning, right,
- 25:26Speaker 3: because once you're living with someone, it's over.
- 25:28Speaker 1: But the important thing is to keep the familiarity with
- 25:32Speaker 1: to keep the intimacy without being overly familiar. You know,
- 25:37Speaker 1: when you're overly familiar and then you're infantilized, you become
- 25:40Speaker 1: mommy and daddy and you're on the toilet. Yeah, exactly right, no, right,
- 25:44Speaker 1: you know, you have to keep a little mystery. You know.
- 25:46Speaker 1: It's like if I'm not in the mood, all right,
- 25:48Speaker 1: you know, I'll take a little gummy and I'll make
- 25:50Speaker 1: I'll get in the mood and I'll enjoy myself. It's
- 25:53Speaker 1: just not the way that it was.
- 25:54Speaker 3: It's like pizza, like you know, I think David Tel
- 25:57Speaker 3: says that all the time. It's like pizza, pussy Santa, like,
- 25:59Speaker 3: all of those things are going to be good once
- 26:01Speaker 3: you go.
- 26:02Speaker 1: And who would go better than David Tell about relationships.
- 26:08Speaker 1: Take relationship advice from David Tell. Okay, what's next? Cotherine?
- 26:15Speaker 2: All right, Well, Our next question is also a caller,
- 26:18Speaker 2: and this question comes from Jess Dear Chelsea. I just
- 26:22Speaker 2: moved to Montana from Maryland. I randomly thought of the
- 26:25Speaker 2: idea after Christmas, when my dad and I got into
- 26:28Speaker 2: a huge argument. I finally decided that I want nothing
- 26:31Speaker 2: to do with him or my biological sister. They were
- 26:34Speaker 2: some of the last people I cut off from my
- 26:35Speaker 2: life in twenty twenty three. I'm pretty sure I've cut
- 26:38Speaker 2: ties with ten to thirteen people in the last year.
- 26:41Speaker 2: I have trauma from my past, but I'm not sure
- 26:43Speaker 2: if that's the reason I've been cutting people off or
- 26:45Speaker 2: if I'm just done with the fuckery. I feel like
- 26:47Speaker 2: I hit a breaking point where getting close to people
- 26:50Speaker 2: is more.
- 26:50Speaker 1: Annoying than not.
- 26:52Speaker 2: I've always had a lot of friends since grade school,
- 26:54Speaker 2: but now I'm thirty one and I feel like I
- 26:56Speaker 2: just don't have the space to hold for tediousness. People
- 26:59Speaker 2: just don't like an a a female. I even cut
- 27:01Speaker 2: off my therapist after one month because I felt like
- 27:04Speaker 2: she was just a yes man. The thing is everyone
- 27:06Speaker 2: I've cut off for my closest friends, and it feels
- 27:08Speaker 2: like I hit a switch and suddenly gave no fucks
- 27:11Speaker 2: about maintaining any friendships with them. My question for you
- 27:14Speaker 2: is am I the problem because I've cut so many
- 27:16Speaker 2: people off? Or is this just a part of life.
- 27:19Speaker 2: Is running away quietly across the country the right solution?
- 27:22Speaker 2: Or do I need to find closure with everyone. I've
- 27:24Speaker 2: always been the person in my relationships to step forward
- 27:27Speaker 2: and ask to have the awkward conversations. But I'm kind
- 27:30Speaker 2: of sick of being the bigger person and saying I
- 27:32Speaker 2: understand why you did this after they explain themselves and
- 27:34Speaker 2: say sorry. But having cut so many people off, I
- 27:37Speaker 2: have to ask, am I actually the problem?
- 27:39Speaker 1: Jess? It's an interesting one. Mm hmmm, yeah, Hi Jess, Hi,
- 27:44Speaker 1: how are you? We're good? Hi, how are you? This
- 27:46Speaker 1: is our special guest Susie today.
- 27:48Speaker 4: As Hi, Susie. Nice to meet you.
- 27:51Speaker 1: Has Montana.
- 27:52Speaker 4: Oh, today's like one of the first warm days, so
- 27:55Speaker 4: I can't complain.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Oh nice. My girlfriends in Montana. She just sent me
- 27:58Speaker 1: a video of a rushing river.
- 28:00Speaker 3: I was like, oh, she's on the set of Yellowstone
- 28:02Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, this looks like Yellowstone.
- 28:04Speaker 1: Oh nice, beautiful minus all the Republicans.
- 28:07Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
- 28:09Speaker 3: So you move from Maryland to Okay, so what's give
- 28:11Speaker 3: us some idea what happened with your sister and your dad?
- 28:14Speaker 4: Okay, sister and my dad. So my dad is pretty
- 28:17Speaker 4: much a con artist. So like sometimes he'll get his
- 28:22Speaker 4: car stolen quote unquote just to get the insurance money back.
- 28:27Speaker 4: He's fallen in stores before, so those are like the
- 28:31Speaker 4: bigger deals, and my sister just chooses to ignore it.
- 28:34Speaker 4: Some other things that my dad has done, like on
- 28:37Speaker 4: a smaller scale, would be me coming home. I'm a
- 28:40Speaker 4: massage therapist, so coming home from school with all my
- 28:43Speaker 4: books and him telling me that I'm not going to
- 28:45Speaker 4: make it through school. And then when I bring it
- 28:47Speaker 4: up in the future, he's like, I didn't say that's
- 28:49Speaker 4: pretty much like gas lighting. He was not encouraging, not
- 28:53Speaker 4: encouraging whatsoever. So I just didn't invite him to my graduation,
- 28:57Speaker 4: you know, things like that. And when I do bring
- 28:59Speaker 4: things up to him, he pretends like he never said it.
- 29:02Speaker 4: Not only that, I got a call from one of
- 29:04Speaker 4: my friends saying that my dad was going around offering
- 29:09Speaker 4: to suck a guy's penis out of work where a
- 29:14Speaker 4: lot of my friends have worked at. Right, So like
- 29:17Speaker 4: I brought it up to his attention he denies the
- 29:19Speaker 4: whole thing.
- 29:20Speaker 1: Well that I understand him denying. And his daughter, do
- 29:24Speaker 1: you know that he's gay or you?
- 29:25Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, he oh he is gay. Yeah, but his
- 29:28Speaker 4: partner passed away after twenty years due to an alcohol addiction,
- 29:34Speaker 4: and he's just kind of gone off the reels.
- 29:36Speaker 1: So he's emotionally unstable. Yeah, your dad is a hot mess.
- 29:41Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. And my sister's excuse is that he's somewhere
- 29:44Speaker 4: on the spectrum so he doesn't know any better.
- 29:47Speaker 1: Well, she might be right about that, but that doesn't
- 29:49Speaker 1: matter if it makes you feel uncomfortable.
- 29:51Speaker 4: Right, And like, I mean, I have fifty years old,
- 29:53Speaker 4: you should know better by now, you know?
- 29:56Speaker 1: Well, I know a lot of fifty year olds who
- 29:58Speaker 1: or sixty or seventy year old who don't know better.
- 30:01Speaker 1: But you know, I think the cutting off of the
- 30:05Speaker 1: family is a little bit of a different issue than
- 30:07Speaker 1: cutting off of the friends.
- 30:08Speaker 3: Yeah, talk to us about that, Like why are you
- 30:11Speaker 3: cutting off so many friendships?
- 30:13Speaker 4: I'm cutting off my friendships and a lot a lot
- 30:15Speaker 4: of them are my long term friendships because I feel
- 30:18Speaker 4: like I'm giving, given, giving, and then when I pull back,
- 30:20Speaker 4: I don't get anything in return. Whether it's like materialistic
- 30:25Speaker 4: or like emotional support or anything like that. Some of them,
- 30:29Speaker 4: I'm just like, you're e fin stupid, you.
- 30:33Speaker 1: Know, Jess. How old are you?
- 30:35Speaker 4: Thirty one?
- 30:36Speaker 1: Thirty one? Okay, so yeah, on that kind of And
- 30:39Speaker 1: have you made some friends in Montana?
- 30:41Speaker 4: Now, I've been here for about two months and I've
- 30:44Speaker 4: been mingling. I've gone out with a couple of people.
- 30:47Speaker 4: But I'm kind of having a problem of trying to
- 30:50Speaker 4: figure out what I want to accept as friendships and
- 30:54Speaker 4: how much I want to give of myself to other people,
- 30:58Speaker 4: you know, you.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Know, I mean, remember a point in my life where
- 31:02Speaker 1: anybody who made me feel icky, I just cut out.
- 31:08Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where I are.
- 31:08Speaker 1: That wasn't everybody, you know, it wasn't.
- 31:11Speaker 4: You know.
- 31:12Speaker 1: You get to a certain point your life and as
- 31:15Speaker 1: you move along and you change, and whether it's success
- 31:18Speaker 1: or whatever, people start treating you a little bit differently.
- 31:20Speaker 1: You know. But if you're cutting off, if it's like
- 31:24Speaker 1: across the board everybody, I think you need to look
- 31:27Speaker 1: within a little bit.
- 31:28Speaker 4: Yeah. And I've kept like a few close friends, but
- 31:32Speaker 4: I have had like a big broad spectrum of friends
- 31:35Speaker 4: as well. Everyone always says Jes knows everyone, and so
- 31:39Speaker 4: I've kind of been like that people pleaser of like
- 31:41Speaker 4: what do you need? And I think I've kind of
- 31:44Speaker 4: like taken a step back to be like, well what
- 31:47Speaker 4: do I need? You know, and like why are you
- 31:49Speaker 4: guys not giving it to me? And so now I'm
- 31:51Speaker 4: getting pissed off that, like they aren't able to give
- 31:54Speaker 4: me what I need.
- 31:55Speaker 1: I think that's a very valid kind of place to be.
- 31:58Speaker 1: But maybe you're going a little ex d but maybe
- 32:01Speaker 1: you need to, maybe she needs to.
- 32:02Speaker 3: I think it's a question of you know, when you're
- 32:04Speaker 3: thirty one years old, you are transitioning into a different
- 32:07Speaker 3: decade of your life, and you are becoming more mature,
- 32:09Speaker 3: and you're becoming less tolerant, as we all know, as
- 32:12Speaker 3: we age, we become less tolerant of the nonsense. Yeah,
- 32:14Speaker 3: you don't want to surround yourself with people that don't
- 32:16Speaker 3: appreciate you or that are only taking from you.
- 32:18Speaker 1: But do you like speak with a therapist. Do you
- 32:20Speaker 1: have a therapist that you talk to about this?
- 32:23Speaker 4: Yeah, that was another thing. I try to talk to
- 32:25Speaker 4: two therapists.
- 32:25Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you fired her too, right, Yeah, Well, finding
- 32:28Speaker 1: the right therapist is very difficult. It's very difficult to
- 32:31Speaker 1: find the right is that's true, they might not have
- 32:34Speaker 1: been the right people. So that's that's you know, not
- 32:36Speaker 1: necessarily on you.
- 32:37Speaker 4: Yeah, but then that's where I am like, how do
- 32:40Speaker 4: you start the therapy session without like spilling everything out?
- 32:44Speaker 4: You know, like I've already done with you guys, Like,
- 32:47Speaker 4: where do I hold back? Where do I give?
- 32:50Speaker 3: Well, that's what therapy is for, is to vomit out
- 32:52Speaker 3: all of your That's what the person is sitting there
- 32:55Speaker 3: to listen to you tell them everything, and then hopefully
- 32:57Speaker 3: they can help you digest it and figure out a
- 33:00Speaker 3: way forward. I understand what you're saying. There's been a
- 33:02Speaker 3: lot of people that I've nixed out of my life.
- 33:04Speaker 3: There's a lot of people who've nixed me out of
- 33:06Speaker 3: their lives, you know what I mean. Over the course
- 33:07Speaker 3: of forty years, fifty years almost you know, that's happened
- 33:10Speaker 3: a lot. I think you have to have a degree
- 33:13Speaker 3: of self awareness, and it sounds like you do because.
- 33:16Speaker 1: You're aware that you're cutting, you're asking the questionships. Yeah, exactly,
- 33:20Speaker 1: And so from two Jewish women who've spent a lot
- 33:22Speaker 1: of time in therapy, a lot of these are all
- 33:24Speaker 1: good signs.
- 33:26Speaker 3: These are signs of life. Okay, but I think it's
- 33:30Speaker 3: good that you're questioning yourself. I wouldn't beat yourself up,
- 33:33Speaker 3: but I would show grace to yourself while also showing
- 33:36Speaker 3: it to the new people that you meet in your life.
- 33:38Speaker 3: When you're meeting someone or you're forming a friendship with someone,
- 33:41Speaker 3: it's it's not a competition about who's giving more. You know,
- 33:45Speaker 3: you're getting a sense of who a person is, and
- 33:47Speaker 3: over a period of time is when you really get
- 33:49Speaker 3: to know somebody. So I would be graceful in your
- 33:52Speaker 3: new relationships, knowing that you had a pattern of ending
- 33:56Speaker 3: a lot of relationships or picking the wrong people to
- 33:58Speaker 3: be close to you. Right, like moving into this new
- 34:01Speaker 3: you have a whole new like life now right you're
- 34:04Speaker 3: in Montana. You just got there. This is exciting and
- 34:07Speaker 3: it's a whole new chance to paint like a great
- 34:09Speaker 3: picture for yourself or a life. And I think you
- 34:13Speaker 3: should show yourself grace, and you should show everyone you
- 34:15Speaker 3: meet grace and just be a little bit less, you know,
- 34:19Speaker 3: like expectant of what you're getting in return, what.
- 34:22Speaker 1: Your expectations are. You know what your expectations are in
- 34:25Speaker 1: a relationship and maybe you're expecting too much from people.
- 34:28Speaker 1: And I also think that there's a big difference between
- 34:31Speaker 1: friends and family. You know, family you're stuck that you
- 34:34Speaker 1: don't choose them. Your friends you choose, so you know,
- 34:37Speaker 1: if the family feels toxic to you in some way.
- 34:40Speaker 1: I think it's okay to take a break from family too,
- 34:43Speaker 1: I really do. It's not easy.
- 34:46Speaker 4: See, I was nervous because Chelsea normally says, like, your
- 34:49Speaker 4: family is your family, and like you have to work
- 34:51Speaker 4: towards it.
- 34:53Speaker 3: Well, not when your dad's offering has suck dick at
- 34:55Speaker 3: a party, Like, no, that's not acceptable behavior.
- 35:00Speaker 1: That's so awful to hear as a child that your
- 35:03Speaker 1: father's it's really inappropriate.
- 35:06Speaker 4: But to my friends, okay, So not only not only that,
- 35:09Speaker 4: but then what do I do about my sister because
- 35:11Speaker 4: now I feel like she kind of holds her children
- 35:14Speaker 4: as currency and our friends or like in our relationships,
- 35:17Speaker 4: so like she doesn't reach out to me whatsoever. She
- 35:21Speaker 4: waits until I reach out to her. She'll pay attention
- 35:23Speaker 4: to like my Instagram or my Snapchat stories, but other
- 35:27Speaker 4: than that, like she doesn't like anything, She doesn't ask
- 35:30Speaker 4: me how anything is.
- 35:31Speaker 1: Sometimes you just need time, though, just sometimes you just
- 35:35Speaker 1: need time. You left two months ago, it's not a
- 35:38Speaker 1: lot of time. And sometimes these relationships, I mean, I've
- 35:42Speaker 1: taken breaks with different members of my family because I
- 35:46Speaker 1: just had to. And sometimes you just need that.
- 35:49Speaker 4: How long is a break for you?
- 35:51Speaker 1: You don't have to put a time frame on it.
- 35:53Speaker 3: I think the most important thing to recognize is what
- 35:55Speaker 3: Zusie said is totally right.
- 35:57Speaker 1: First of all, you're very good. You can tell that
- 35:58Speaker 1: your mother.
- 35:59Speaker 3: Susie, you're very good at You drew a boundary, you
- 36:03Speaker 3: moved to Montana, you got away from your family. Your
- 36:05Speaker 3: sister and your nieces and nephews aren't necessarily the problem
- 36:08Speaker 3: that you're expressing that you have with your father.
- 36:10Speaker 1: That's a different, you know.
- 36:11Speaker 3: I mean, they're there, but I think you give that
- 36:14Speaker 3: time and you just stay in communication for the sake
- 36:17Speaker 3: of the children obviously, and your relationship with your sister.
- 36:20Speaker 3: And when she comes around, she comes around, but don't
- 36:23Speaker 3: punish her, you know what I mean. Like, it's nice
- 36:25Speaker 3: to just keep any line of communication open. If she's
- 36:29Speaker 3: checking your stories and she's checking your snapchat, she cares
- 36:32Speaker 3: what you're doing.
- 36:33Speaker 4: Right, Okay, yeah, I think So what do you.
- 36:35Speaker 1: Think she's checking it for I think she's spiteful.
- 36:38Speaker 4: I think she doesn't agree with my lifestyle and she
- 36:41Speaker 4: thinks that I'm very judgmental towards her lifestyle.
- 36:44Speaker 1: What's her lifestyle?
- 36:46Speaker 4: You know, feeding the babies candy right when they wake
- 36:49Speaker 4: up in the morning and Gerber's pack.
- 36:51Speaker 3: That's not your problem though, that's not your business. Yeah,
- 36:53Speaker 3: you can't be judgmental of that because you're not their parent.
- 36:56Speaker 1: I also think that you should be careful about being
- 36:59Speaker 1: too hard on yourself because what you've done is very brave.
- 37:03Speaker 1: You've moved across the country on your own, You've cut
- 37:06Speaker 1: ties with people that are hurtful to you, and it's
- 37:10Speaker 1: not an easy thing. And I think the fact that
- 37:12Speaker 1: you're asking the question is it me or them? Shows
- 37:16Speaker 1: that you're evolved enough to ask that question.
- 37:19Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 37:20Speaker 1: I agree like an narcissist.
- 37:22Speaker 3: I was told this in therapy when I asked my
- 37:24Speaker 3: therapist if I was a narcissist that he said, typically
- 37:27Speaker 3: narcissists aren't looking for Feedback's right, that's right, right.
- 37:32Speaker 4: That's like my question sometimes, like do I have like
- 37:35Speaker 4: these narcissistic tendencies that make me push people away or.
- 37:40Speaker 1: Well, you might you know that that this is something
- 37:43Speaker 1: that needs to be explored with a good therapist. I think, yeah,
- 37:46Speaker 1: you got to keep trying to find your new therapist.
- 37:48Speaker 3: But I think asking all these questions is a very
- 37:51Speaker 3: strong identifying factory that you are on the right track,
- 37:55Speaker 3: you know what I mean. You're not just blowing through
- 37:56Speaker 3: people and you're thinking twice about it. You're going, Wow,
- 37:59Speaker 3: I just lost a lot of friends, or I cut
- 38:00Speaker 3: off a lot of friends. Maybe I'm the problem, you know,
- 38:03Speaker 3: And maybe maybe you are part of the problem. I'm
- 38:05Speaker 3: sure you're an element of the problem. But who's to
- 38:08Speaker 3: say that it is a problem. Maybe you're just getting
- 38:10Speaker 3: rid of the fat in your life and at thirty,
- 38:12Speaker 3: you're coming of age in a different way, and you're
- 38:15Speaker 3: more discerning about who you're going to spend your time
- 38:17Speaker 3: with and what you're looking for in friendships.
- 38:19Speaker 1: And I think that's good, that's not a bad thing.
- 38:21Speaker 1: And but one thing I would be careful of, because
- 38:23Speaker 1: I agree with everything that Chelsea just said, But one
- 38:26Speaker 1: thing I would be careful of is expecting too much
- 38:29Speaker 1: from people. And it sounds as though I don't know
- 38:32Speaker 1: about your mother, but it sounds as though your father
- 38:35Speaker 1: was damaged in a way that could not give you
- 38:37Speaker 1: what you need. And maybe you're looking for that in
- 38:40Speaker 1: other people and that's not their job.
- 38:43Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you one hundred percent.
- 38:45Speaker 1: That's not the job of a friend. So you have
- 38:48Speaker 1: to be careful of what you expect from other people. Also, Okay,
- 38:52Speaker 1: that's good advice.
- 38:53Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for that. Yeah, it's true, because you know,
- 38:56Speaker 4: I've always been mad at my dad for like not
- 38:59Speaker 4: being the quote unquote dad that he should be. But
- 39:03Speaker 4: I mean, if you guys haven't called on he is
- 39:05Speaker 4: gay and he had to be a gay.
- 39:08Speaker 1: Paar quote on when he when you mentioned the dicksie.
- 39:11Speaker 4: Yeah, who knows?
- 39:17Speaker 1: Where's your where's your mom? Is she in the picture?
- 39:21Speaker 4: She actually ran away from my father when we were toddlers.
- 39:27Speaker 1: Yeah, So you you have stuff there of abandonment and
- 39:31Speaker 1: and all this stuff, and you might, I don't know,
- 39:33Speaker 1: but you might be expecting too much from your friends. Yeah,
- 39:37Speaker 1: because there's there's the hole to fill, you know, and
- 39:40Speaker 1: the only person who could feel that is you. The
- 39:42Speaker 1: only person who can fill your hole is you.
- 39:44Speaker 4: That this is very true.
- 39:47Speaker 1: It's an inside job.
- 39:49Speaker 3: And then when you are full, you don't you're not
- 39:51Speaker 3: looking for people to show up in ways that you
- 39:54Speaker 3: have been abandoned in the past or let down in
- 39:57Speaker 3: the past, because that's not anyone's responsibilit but your own
- 40:00Speaker 3: to kind of fix that. So I think you really
- 40:03Speaker 3: have to be consistent or determined to find a good therapist.
- 40:07Speaker 3: And now that everything's on zoom anyway, it's not like
- 40:10Speaker 3: you have to find someone in my tentat you know
- 40:12Speaker 3: what I mean. You could find someone anywhere in the
- 40:14Speaker 3: world or in the country. At the very least that
- 40:16Speaker 3: you can do. You know that you try and get
- 40:18Speaker 3: a connection going with and someone you feel safe with
- 40:21Speaker 3: and unpack all of this because it's a lot.
- 40:24Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, that's good advice too, and just keep it.
- 40:27Speaker 4: Is like shopping.
- 40:28Speaker 3: Yes, it's like shopping. Just stay at it. Once you
- 40:31Speaker 3: find someone, it'll be worth it. It's like finding your soulmate.
- 40:34Speaker 3: Look at Susie. She waited until she was forty eight
- 40:36Speaker 3: years old and then she got married to or she
- 40:38Speaker 3: got married at fifty three.
- 40:39Speaker 1: You met him at forty and you got married at
- 40:41Speaker 1: fifty to three, efty three for the first time. But
- 40:42Speaker 1: you know, with therapists also, I had several therapists that
- 40:46Speaker 1: were not the right one till I found the right one,
- 40:49Speaker 1: and then she saved my life really because she was
- 40:51Speaker 1: you know, she was the right person. So it's important
- 40:54Speaker 1: to find the right person.
- 40:55Speaker 3: And how many sessions do you go with someone before
- 40:57Speaker 3: you realize it's not working?
- 40:59Speaker 1: Well, you know, I mean it depends on how in
- 41:01Speaker 1: which way it's not working. Like there was one who
- 41:04Speaker 1: was she was lovely, but she was just you know,
- 41:07Speaker 1: And there was another who was hostile who I ended
- 41:09Speaker 1: very quickly, So it depends on how it's not working.
- 41:13Speaker 1: And then I found, you know, a great woman who
- 41:16Speaker 1: saved my life.
- 41:17Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm waiting for. I think I just
- 41:19Speaker 4: get a little anxious, like tell it.
- 41:21Speaker 1: But just Chelsea, here in your background, you need to
- 41:25Speaker 1: be in therapy because there is early damage there that
- 41:28Speaker 1: needs to be looked at. Yeah, and a very common thing.
- 41:32Speaker 3: I mean, not only is your dad a disappointment and
- 41:34Speaker 3: your mother abandoned you, so there's a lot of abandonment
- 41:37Speaker 3: going on there. So the lot of the things that
- 41:38Speaker 3: you might be expecting from your friends is a combo
- 41:40Speaker 3: of the abandonment and the you know, and the I
- 41:43Speaker 3: mean your poor father had to raise you alone, you know,
- 41:45Speaker 3: which many women have to do.
- 41:47Speaker 1: But that's hard too, So he's sure struggling.
- 41:50Speaker 3: It doesn't mean you have to hang out with him,
- 41:52Speaker 3: and you know, but you have to understand that he
- 41:54Speaker 3: has his own life too, and he had to deal
- 41:56Speaker 3: with something that wasn't planned and he's gay and he
- 41:58Speaker 3: had to deal with that being married.
- 42:00Speaker 1: You know, it's at what age should he come out?
- 42:02Speaker 4: Uh? He came out before I was born, and his
- 42:05Speaker 4: father forced him to be with my mother, who had
- 42:09Speaker 4: had my sister. Yeah, and it gets even messier from there,
- 42:14Speaker 4: but like, we don't need to go into that.
- 42:16Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's got his own stuff. He's got his
- 42:19Speaker 1: own stuff for sure. One of the things you start
- 42:22Speaker 1: to realize as you get older is you start to
- 42:24Speaker 1: see your parents as human beings and not just your parents.
- 42:27Speaker 1: And everybody comes by their own shit, honestly, you know.
- 42:31Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, and I know this is his I always
- 42:33Speaker 4: joke around and say, if we've lived many lifetimes, this
- 42:36Speaker 4: is his first. But as far as like my sister
- 42:41Speaker 4: and I go, she thinks therapy is a joke. And
- 42:45Speaker 4: if I've brought up therapy to her for a couple
- 42:47Speaker 4: of different reasons, and she gets really offended by it.
- 42:50Speaker 1: I've dealt with that with a sibling.
- 42:52Speaker 4: Yeah, So how are you to go about like your
- 42:55Speaker 4: relationship if they don't think that they could be helped.
- 42:59Speaker 1: It's a problem. You're living in two different worlds, really,
- 43:02Speaker 1: and you could either just accept it. You're not going
- 43:05Speaker 1: to change her, that is one thing I've learned. Also,
- 43:09Speaker 1: you're not going to change anybody. So you could either
- 43:11Speaker 1: just accept who she is and her belief system or
- 43:15Speaker 1: stay away.
- 43:16Speaker 4: Okay.
- 43:17Speaker 1: The other thing is I mean she had the same
- 43:19Speaker 1: mother and father, so she needs therapy also, so you.
- 43:22Speaker 4: Know, right, but she chooses to ignore it.
- 43:25Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but that's a lot of people. That's
- 43:27Speaker 3: also not your issue. Your issue you're focusing. I think
- 43:31Speaker 3: one of the problems here, which is very common for
- 43:33Speaker 3: all of us, is you're outward focusing on other people
- 43:36Speaker 3: and what their shortcomings and their issues are, and really
- 43:39Speaker 3: the main issue is you and how you're going to
- 43:41Speaker 3: be healthy and how you're going to heal from all
- 43:44Speaker 3: of this childhood stuff, because it's a healing process and
- 43:47Speaker 3: until you get with the right person that speeds up
- 43:50Speaker 3: and expedites everything that you're talking about. I think you
- 43:53Speaker 3: should work on your judgment because you seem like you're
- 43:57Speaker 3: judging a lot of people.
- 43:58Speaker 1: So you got to stop that. And that's another thing
- 44:00Speaker 1: you're going to learn in therapy.
- 44:01Speaker 3: That's what I learned. I'm super fucking judgmental. I am
- 44:04Speaker 3: so judgmental if someone doesn't do so you know, people
- 44:07Speaker 3: are sloppy drunk. I love alcohol.
- 44:08Speaker 1: I mean all I do.
- 44:09Speaker 3: Is drink and smoke pot. But when somebody is sloppy,
- 44:12Speaker 3: I have no tolerance right that. I'm like, no, no,
- 44:15Speaker 3: no no.
- 44:15Speaker 1: And people are like, what are you talking about. You're
- 44:17Speaker 1: a miss party on them all.
- 44:18Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, but I keep my fucking shit together
- 44:20Speaker 3: and I need you to keep your shit together.
- 44:22Speaker 1: So I understand the judgment and that is a work
- 44:25Speaker 1: in progress. You really have to work on that with
- 44:27Speaker 1: your therapist. But yeah, keep going. Thank you for calling.
- 44:31Speaker 1: I think you're adorable and.
- 44:33Speaker 3: You're brave, like Susie said, for moving to Montana. And
- 44:36Speaker 3: this is a new beginning, which is just I want
- 44:38Speaker 3: you to think of everything moving forward as a new, fresh,
- 44:41Speaker 3: positive beginning.
- 44:43Speaker 4: Okay, I appreciate that.
- 44:44Speaker 1: And when you catch yourself judging someone, just catch yourself.
- 44:48Speaker 4: And take a step back. Yeah yeah, all right, Well,
- 44:51Speaker 4: thank you ladies. I appreciate all of you.
- 44:54Speaker 3: Thank you, honey, take care, good luck, bye bye. Okay,
- 45:02Speaker 3: Susie just expired six I know we got to get
- 45:07Speaker 3: her out because I was late to this episode. So
- 45:08Speaker 3: it's all my faults, listeners.
- 45:10Speaker 1: But we had such a good time. I know we
- 45:11Speaker 1: had a great time. We'll do it again. It's really
- 45:13Speaker 1: upsetting that you have to go, but you have to
- 45:15Speaker 1: go to the airport. I do you live here in
- 45:17Speaker 1: New York? Yes, but I do have a thing called zoom. Okay,
- 45:20Speaker 1: well no, I'm gonna come in.
- 45:21Speaker 3: We're gonna do it in person. We're gonna do it
- 45:23Speaker 3: again because you You were great by the way.
- 45:25Speaker 1: I love giving it. I love it.
- 45:28Speaker 3: And have a safe flight, all right, try not to
- 45:30Speaker 3: get monkey pocks. Oh god, it's back.
- 45:32Speaker 1: I'm wearing a mask. Okay. So upcoming shows that I
- 45:37Speaker 1: have you guys, Auckland, New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, Melbourne, Australia,
- 45:41Speaker 1: Brisbane and Australia, Sydney, Australia. We've added second shows to
- 45:45Speaker 1: places that have sold out the first and then I'm
- 45:47Speaker 1: gonna be in Hawaii on Maui, Ka Hulue and Honolulu.
- 45:51Speaker 1: I will be there in July.
- 45:53Speaker 3: Also in July, I'm coming to Niagara Falls on July
- 45:55Speaker 3: twenty seventh. I'm coming to Hollywood, Florida for my only
- 45:58Speaker 3: show in Florida on twenty eighth. I'll be in Auburn,
- 46:01Speaker 3: Washington on August first, and then Santa Rosa, California for
- 46:05Speaker 3: my second show August second. August seventeenth is the Santa
- 46:08Speaker 3: Barbara Bull You do not want to miss that. And
- 46:10Speaker 3: then I will be all over Maine, Charlotte, North Carolina, Charleston,
- 46:16Speaker 3: South Carolina.
- 46:17Speaker 1: I'm coming to Texas. I'm coming to Saint Louis and
- 46:19Speaker 1: Kansas City.
- 46:20Speaker 3: I'm coming to Brooklyn, New York at the King's Theater
- 46:23Speaker 3: on November eighth, and I have tickets on sale throughout
- 46:28Speaker 3: the end of the year in December, So if you're
- 46:31Speaker 3: in a city like Philadelphia or Bethlehem, or San Diego
- 46:35Speaker 3: or New Orleans or Omaha, check Chelseahandler dot com for tickets.
- 46:40Speaker 1: Okay, if you'd.
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