Episode 189: Lance L

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Relationships, Sexuality, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2014

⏱️ 135 minutes

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The pansexual Iraqi war veteran talks about his plans to come out to his homophobic family, growing up with a mother who picked terrible men, his deadbeat dad and meeting a half-brother & doing a joint road trip to confront the father that abandoned them both. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 189 with my guest Lance L. I'm Paul Gilmarton. This is the metal illness
0:08.0	happy hour. Honesty about all the battles in our heads from medically diagnosed conditions
0:13.2	past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive negative thinking. This show is not
0:19.0	meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling. It's not a doctor's office. I ain't
0:24.0	no therapist. It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck. The website for this show is
0:29.0	mentalpod.com. A mental pod is also the Twitter handle. You can follow me at do not try reaching me
0:37.0	through CB radio with the Twitter handle. Mental pod. You will get nothing but angry truckers.
0:44.0	And hi out there to some of our trucker listeners. I know we got a listener named Brian who was a
0:50.5	long haul trucker. That sounds like a cool such a cool I'm a long haul trucker. I'm getting
0:57.0	more masculine than that. Although I'm sure there's some some tough ladies who are long haul truckers
1:04.3	and that didn't sound condescending at all. And speaking of condescending, I want to read a email
1:14.1	I got from a listener who is her name is Jody and she took exception to an interview I did a
1:25.0	couple of people ago the interview with Susanne Lee and she write type Paul. I'm a frequent listener
1:31.7	and appreciate very much how much the podcast seems to help provide comfort to a lot of people
1:37.2	who are struggling. And the interview with Susanne Lee however I felt anger for the first time
1:42.0	since I began listening. I know that you can't make everyone happy all the time and for me
1:47.3	and for every time and for every me there is probably someone who thinks the opposite but here goes.
1:54.4	I was upset regarding your comments about strip clubs and feeling cheated by not having the stripper
1:59.2	quote take the mask off. Here's the thing Paul as a customer who pays to have a stripper wave
2:04.1	or crouch in your face. You don't get to also demand her thoughts and feelings by being in a
2:09.2	situation where you are commodifying someone in this way. You must know that she is allowed to do
2:14.7	her job and protect whatever parts of herself. She needs to in order to get through her shift.
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