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Then Shut Up!

• EEK • Season 1 • Episode 24

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EEKshow Episode 24:  Then Shut Up!


Most people hear things when they're growing up, as kids, as friends, and even when you get older as you get married, as adults (from your spouse), or even from your current family, your own kids.  They even hear catch phrases or repetitious ticks on repeat that come from you, and or they deliver themselves.  We call them isms in our family, we all have them (but luckily, no real negative ones to speak of).  My past family also had several of them, predominately coming from my dad, and ALL of them were negative ones (at times even, very negative)...  None more repetitive than the two words he said to us all, and especially to my mother, over and over and over and over and over again... SHUT UP!  He would also somehow manage to throw a set up word like preposition into his repetitous statement, "THEN, Shut UP!"  Usually it would follow him doing something or watching TV,  "Are you gonna let me watch this, THEN SHUT UP!"  

There's no best way to describe my father's communication style, or who he truly was, how he was, and or how he spoke to my mother, brother, and me.  It's simply a way of life that we all learned to accept, live with.  I even turned it into impressionism, humor, and in a unique way…  continuosly re-enacting all the negativity to keep others/I laughing.  Recounting and impersonating fatherly stories from when I was a child right on through to this very day has helped shaped my entire life.  

I'm thankful for the EEKshow, I'm thankful for the past, as it has led me to how and why I am who I am today.  

So please, are you gonna listen to the EEKshow?  Then, SHUT UP (and lock in)! 

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