Dr. Lisa Gives A Sh*t

Alexandra Torres won a therapy session with Dr. Lisa. We talked about what's important in her life that she's missing that's essential to her happiness—her art practice. Like me—most of us, she has obstacles of her own making. We identify them together and make a plan to move forward productively. We'll check in with her next month to see her progress! Alexandra was terrific at expressing herself and this session was very satisfying!

I knew Jonathan is host of a very popular RFB show, THE NEXT BEST THING which airs every Monday, 10-midnight. I thought I knew him pretty well from our station, but now I think I really understand him. There's a lot here—I also learned Jon has an amazing voice! Jon is a super talented guy - check out more about what Jon does HERE His range of talent and experience is massive!

Dr. Lisa compares and contrasts the industries of comedy and psychotherapy with a licenced therapist and comedian, Wilson Mc Dermut. Checkout his comedy and more HERE! About Wilson (Dr. Wil): Wilson McDermut has a PhD in psychology, and lives and works in New York City, where he performs regularly in clubs and anywhere else that will let him. He is a regular at Broadway Comedy Club and The Comic Strip Live (Late Night) in New York City, and has performed across the country from Maine to Missouri. An active member of the Gotham Comedy Foundation (a non-profit organization affiliated with Gotham Comedy Club), Wilson runs a monthly comedy show for patients and their families at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on Manhattan's Upper East Side. In addition to performing at most of the major clubs in New York City, he appeared on BBC America's Crash Course in Comedy with Richard Hammond.  In collaboration with New Media Comedy, Wilson performs under the name Dr. Wil. New Media Comedy and Dr. Wil post comedy

Eric Doeringer is a close friend of mine and an accomplished, prolific artist whose work has been widely reviewed, exhibited and collected worldwide. He and his wife, Cathay have been talking about leaving New York for a while, but the pandemic pushed them to take action. It was quite a ride but now that they've settled into a nice warm home in a sunny location... and a yard...well you know how it goes. Good things don't come easy tho. Check out Eric's work HERE: https://www.ericdoeringer.com/ Eric Doeringer Bio (excerpted from Wikipedia-read in full HERE.) : (born July 1, 1974] is an artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Brown University in 1996 with a B.A.[2] and received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999.[3] Doeringer is on the faculty at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts. Eric Doeringer's "Bootlegs" are small copies of work by eminent contemporary artists including Richard Prince and Lisa Yuskavage. Doeringer reproduces the artworks

Jack and Casper are BEEZLORD, a young up and coming hip hop rap team. These guys met in high school and have spent more time together than they would normally because they are in New York due to Covid-related circumstances. They have some amazing rap music that has taken off fast! We play some on the show and you can see/listen to more in the links below. We get into some pretty real discussions involving the lyrics in their music and their own lives. These guys are just getting started and moving fast. Their track "Flexin" has 140,325 listens on Spotify! Listen/watch BEEZLORD on Spotify Soundcloud TikTok Twitch

You may be familiar with Andrew Ohanesian's work and you may have met even Andrew, but he does his best in life to not let his physical self get in the way of his work, which has a unique, thought-provoking, hilarious, innovative and SOCIAL quality. It's as if he socializes through the work—and in saying that, Andrew, personally is someone who you would have a great time hanging out with and has a lot of friends. Andrew's work is conceptual. He creates environments for people to experience, but in a way that they may not even realize they are experiencing art. Check out his work on Pierogi's site so you can see what I mean. Here's one example: House Party, where Andrew built Ohanesian built an insanely detailed replica of a suburban house in the middle of a Pieogi's Boiler room. It was up for about a month and people could hang out and party there. Here's a video of it. All of Andrew's work gets a ton of press-do your own research! Besides getting a view into the mind of Ohansian's creative process, we got a

First off. Dr. Lisa announces the winner of the audience voter contest for the winner of the "Who's More Annoying?" competition. The winner is the lovely Alexandra T. and she joins us on air to accept her award which is an on-air Dr. Lisa Therapy Session which WILL BE BROADCAST MARCH 18, 2-3pm on Dr. Lisa Gives A Sh*t. If you want to know which couple, Jen Catron + Paul Outlaw OR Harkness + Marina Granger, was voted more annoying, well then listen to the episode right here! Harkness Granger is hilarious plus doesn't present a lot of boundaries which makes for a fascinating conversation. We talked about comedy, but mostly his sexual development along with his first relationship in high school, where Dr. Lisa is relentless about getting the details. Check out Harkness Granger HERE

Deadline extended!!! By popular demand—there will be a rebroadcast Thurs. Feb. 18, 2-3pm on Dr. Lisa Gives A Shit! So you can wait or listen here now and VOTE for the MOST ANNOYING COUPLE. Email "Jen &Paul" or "Marina & Harkness" to drlisa@radiofreebrooklyn.org or click this link! Win Weird Prizes-you will automatically be entered in the raffle: • A free therapy session with an official Dr. Lisa prescription written just for you! • A t-shirt that says, "Please don't judge me by the people I'm with." • A boomerang with the words, "I'd like to get rid of my insecurities." Listen to the episode and you will discover: • Marina who is SO sophisticated, her favorite TV show is 90 Day Fiance. • Harkness collects toilet paper rolls. • Jen wears her high school gym shorts to bed way too often. • If it were up to Paul, he would eat the most gross Chinese food every night. These are two very glamorous, successful art world couples and they are just as basic as your partner is/will be! Learn more about them here. Mari

Noah is always entertaining and as publisher of Whitehot Magazine very plugged into what's happening in a variety of art scenes. I was loving his hilarious Instagram/twitter combo posts with some great art/artist/artworld insights so I thought I would have him on Dr. Lisa in order to find out more about what these thoughts of his directly. This session did NOT disappoint! Check out Noah's Instagram posts I refer to @whitehotmagazine See his fantastic paintings and more @newyorkbecker and on his website.

I've known John as a fellow host from 2015, so when he expressed interest in being on my show, I invited him right away. He's a serious music business guy and I was thrilled to be able to get to know him. John is a father of a 12 year old boy who is deep into SHOW music and OPERA. We do a deep dive and find out how the love of music has translated through generations of Rasos. John's show, This Music Hour is live every Monday at 5pm on Radio Free Brooklyn. More about John Raso John has been a denizen of NYC rock shows since he convinced his older sister to take him along to first rock show at the age of 8. This experience eventually lead to a career in the music industry doing publicity and marketing for labels including SST and Atlantic Records as well as a stint at LiveNation. Today, John is an executive at music rights administrator, The Harry Fox Agency. Four decades later, he still believes that a week without live music is just not a week worth having.

Emily Flake is a hugely successful New Yorker cartoonist, MOTHER, wife and so much more. She is inspiring but in the best most real way. She breaks down motherhood for me in a manageable way. Emily Flake began cartooning for The New Yorker in 2008 and has had more than a hundred cartoons published in the magazine since. Her cartoons, essays, and illustrations have also appeared in Mad, the New York Times, the New Statesman, the Wall Street Journal, the Globe and Mail, and in many other publications. Her most recent book is “That Was Awkward: The Art and Etiquette of the Awkward Hug.” More about Emily HERE: https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/emily-flake

A close friend of mine, artist Sharilyn Neidhardt was describing watching the debates with her parents while visiting them at home in California, so I knew they were Trump voters AND nice people. In the spirit of we all need to understand each other better, Carole generously agreed to come on the show and have a frank, honest discussion about the president, how she feels about voting for him....the insurrection, you name it. I think we got a lot done!

Marielina is a New York native, LaGuardia School graduate and accomplished actress. Likely you've seen her on TV. Marilena is the only child of a doctor (dad) and a trained nurse (mom) whose high level job involved running a hospital. The emotional machinations that Maralina has gone through with her parents, her mom in particular, (her dad died when she was 9) has likely contributed to her skills and success as an actress. The circumstances around her mom are emotionally confusing—I don't want to say more here as it would be out of context, but it is uplifting to hear how Marilena has negotiated her life to have a successful career and marriage. More about Marilena HERE.

This is the third year in a row that Ben has been my first guest of the year. Ben is 30 now, and if you follow Ben's story, this year is a triumph! Through hard work and going back to school, Ben has taken his beginnings as a volunteer at Radio Free Brooklyn 3 years ago to a dream job at Sirius XM. Recently, Ben was actually one of 4 people from Sirius to be on a Zoom with LL Cool J! Although personally I am sad to have seen Ben leave RFB for a great career move, I am secretly proud and THRILLED. But that's not all, Ben has improved his relationship with his family and "the ladies." Ben is in a healthy, supportive relationship which he is very satisfied and happy in. It is nice, (inspiring, really!) to see someone progress in their life in such a positive way, through their own honest hard work and efforts, But let's not get too idealistic here—he was late in getting our management reports filed a few times. If you're interested in a deep dive on Ben's up's and down's (our first episode includes a break-up),

I have been a long time fan of Guy Richards Smit and his work, so I was thrilled when he asked for a therapy session on my show. Guy has a myriad of talents and accomplishments which range from painting to music to comedy to performance. How does he even focus on one thing—or does he really want to? We dig into Guy's childhood and there is a really complex person in there. We discuss his most recent monograph, A Mountain of Skulls (and Not One I Recognize) Available HERE. More about Guy and his work HERE.

Jeanette is a professionally UCB, Second City, trained improvisor/comedian, etc. She met her husband when she was living in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles 2.5 years ago, to pursue comedy et al. She was getting going and then the pandemic hit. The pandemic has made all of us rethink a lot, but for Jeanette the situation has moved her into other areas of performing that are satisfying for her, including writing, producing and performing in this one: Livin' Notoriously Notorious RBG. In this therapy session, Jeanette reviews her thinking about why she moved to L.A., what that's been like and why she is seriously thinking of moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Check out more about Jeanette and her work here.

Anthony Haden-Guest (episode DLG249), author of The Last Party, email introduced to Myra Scheer—Myra was Steve Rubell’s assistant during his explosive years running the club that changed nightlife forever, Studio 54. Therefore, she had a front row seat. Myra talks about her growing up in Georgia and what motivated her to come to New York where she found her way into one of the most crazy and glamorous scenes in history. I talked with her about the feeling of what made "Studio" a moment in time. Myra has seen a lot but is not a bit jaded. She has a Sirius XM Radio show with Marc Beneke, the doorman/gatekeeper there:  Among other things, she is also devoted to working with The Felix Organization—a brilliant organization that helps children in foster care. Personally, I became interested in Studio 54 at this time because of a project I did in 1978. After experiencing my own rejection at the club, I made and sold Studio 54 REJECT t-shirts to the “rejects” outside of Studio 54. When I found out the Brooklyn Museum

In case you live in a part of the world with no news coverage, on October 3, 2020, Radio Free Brooklyn erected the “Wall of Lies,” a 50-foot by 10-foot outdoor mural with the 20,000+ lies told by Donald Trump (so far) while in office, documented and fact-checked by The Washington Post. The project was conceived and executed by RFB Executive Director Tom Tenney and Bushwick artist Phil Buehler. I know Tom Tenney (our RFB station Executive Director) and Phil Buehler (my very own husband) all too well, so when I did this session with them to unpack the process of them collaborating together and how they felt/managed the global coverage, positive results, and just the logistics of this extraordinary project, I was personally invested in finding out how they seemingly worked so well together. Turns out they really were a well-matched team that worked well without any of the friction I've experienced working with each of them separately. So the common denominator there is me-hmmm.

I don't usually talk about my own work that much, but I besides hosting this spectacular radio show I also have a visual art career! I have been showing my text painting series, The Thoughts in My Head for the past few years at a terrific gallery, VSOP Projects. The gallery owner/director is one of the best—Jonathan Weiskopf. The exhibition at the gallery currently is 4 solo shows, each in individual rooms. Fearing that I was the most neurotic of the group, I thought it would be fascinating to talk with the other artists making their shows at the same time to find out what each of their experiences were. I'll break it down for you: Chiaozzo—That's Terri Chiao and Adam Frezza. They are a couple that have a large, professional grade studio practice. Like creating store windows around the world for Hermès professional. As Dr. Lisa, I've decided they have it all, a great marriage/art collaboration, a beautiful child that goes to the studio everywhere with them and a highly successful art practice. Plus—they're SO

Kalup Linzy Is a genuine famous artist with his work in the collections of MoMA, The Whitney, Met, Studio Museum of Harlem, a teaching gig at Harvard as well as a Kalup's’ personal dream come true: his guest appearance on General Hospital, arranged by an admirer his admirer, collaborator, and fellow actor on the show, James Franco. I had the good fortune of meeting Kalup at the recent Satellite Art Fair. The more research I did about Kalup, I became curious about how someone from a tiny town without even a movie theater, let alone an art gallery or museum as well as having a schizophrenic mother, could become someone so respected and recognized in the art world where people are visiting museums before they can walk. So in this session, Kalup describes directly his growing up and difficulties he was faced with, but what comes through most clearly, is that Kalup had a lot of beauty in his life because he felt loved and cared for by family and community. This is a powerful demonstration of recognizing what real