WEBVTT - GECKMAIL: “I HAVE A FETISH FOR SICKNESS” 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.160 Hello, Hi, Welcome to gek Mail. For those who have 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:09.399 not listened to this before, this is me ranting and 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.800 reading viewer mail. It's a solo podcast. A lot of 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:20.280 podcasts are conversations between two people, but this particular episode 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.919 is a mon no log, it's a monologue. It's a 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.120 one log, one person. That person is me, and I'm 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.920 gonna try to make words come out of my mouth 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:39.120 for an hour based on emails that people are sending me. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.440 Normally I take phone calls from people, but you know, 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:45.760 I like to throw in these little gek mail episodes 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.720 from now and then and just now, just now, I 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:54.760 was like, what the I'm gonna just fucking start recording 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.160 and I don't even know what I'm gonna say. I'm 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.040 just gonna have to rant. There's a like I'm having 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.600 a thought right now. That's like, oh my god, I 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.480 have to keep talking, just making words come out of 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.520 my mouth for the next ninety minutes. It's only been 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.959 like one minute, but I learned. But here's the thing. 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.840 When you're climbing a mountain, you can't be looking at 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:22.200 the peak. You gotta look at the your shoes. I 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:28.360 read that on Reddit somewhere I'm a crazy person. Okay, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:35.080 all right, I am alive. I have escaped my existential 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.360 crisis for today. Who knows when demons will visit me 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.360 once more, But in this very moment, which is all 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.040 I have and all I know for sure, the demons 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.680 are at bay and I'm ready to motherfucking pod. So 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:55.120 let's do that. Let's talk to some people telepathically via email. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.600 So let's do that. Okay, this first one, they said, 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.640 keep it anonymous, So I just I guess I could 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.000 just make up names for all the emailers, all right, whatever, 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.320 all right. The subject line is guys in relationships liking 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:14.040 thirst traps on Instagram. Uh okay, this person says, Hey, Geck, 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.440 please keep this email anonymous. How do you feel about 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:23.280 guys who are in relationships liking obvious thirst traps on 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:28.079 social media? Do you find that disrespectful towards their partner? 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.520 Social media has really blurred the line of flirting. If 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.760 a guy is taking a second to like a post 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.080 with sexual photos, it's an obvious I'm interested and I 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.919 like what I see point blank. I don't see why 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.079 some men don't see this as a problem when they're 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.280 in a serious relationship. What are your thoughts. I mean, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:50.280 the funny thing, Well, here's the thing is, like, I 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.320 guess I'm curious if this person is talking about like 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.240 I'm gonna assume this person is talking about like Instagram 0:02:56.280 --> 0:03:00.800 models and shit like I mean, I mean, Instagram just 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.440 throws porn at you. Life just throws porn at you, 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.320 as you, as you, as you, you, just constantly. I 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.320 mean maybe I don't know, maybe it's just me, maybe 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.960 it's my own algorithm, but yeah, that's that's that's I'm 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.840 sure a lot of people's algorithms. Is you go to 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.840 your explore page and it's just, uh, it's just thirst traps. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.239 I get, like, look, it's Here's the funny thing is 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.600 that it's like obviously it's like natural and inherent to 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.520 like look at it, you know. But I guess what 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:31.760 I don't get is liking it. Like what's the point, Like, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.880 what is the point? I mean, I guess what's the 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.680 point of of a like on anything? Now I'm getting nihilistic, 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:44.040 but like, yeah, if some lady is like an Instagram 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.480 model and she has a eight million likes on her photo, 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.280 I guess I don't I don't understand what the like 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.720 is I guess I don't understand. I mean I could 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.000 say that about a lot of things. To be honest, 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.760 I don't understand what there I mean some here's the thing, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:04.680 Mark Zuckerberg and his his homies, uh created the like 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.880 in a lab with psychologists to make us feel inclined 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.600 to do it for some reason. But I mean, what 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.040 do I think? I don't see why some men don't 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.240 see this as a problem when they're in a serious relationship. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:25.200 Relationship boundaries are are kind of like there's no I mean, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.200 this is just my opinion is that like these are 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:33.120 things that are like worked towards with other people. So look, 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.200 if you're if you're dating somebody worked, you know, they're 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:41.520 they're they're they're imagine, they're imaginary. So I mean there's 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:45.080 some of them are obvious and implied. But it's like, look, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:51.000 if you're with a guy and you don't want him 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.359 to like sexual photos on you know, wanting to like 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.200 Instagram models photos, you know, an ideal world, you tell 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.840 him that and he decides whether or not that you know, 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.560 that's a that's a deal breaker for him. And if 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.479 it is, then cool, you guys were meant to be 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:09.760 And if it's not then great. You know, I'm not 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:16.359 a good relationship advice person. This does remind me of 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.560 a I'm gonna tell this story. This is the fun. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.400 This is one of the hardest times I've ever left 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:27.120 in my life. My I was with my friend and 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.080 we we were like, we were just hanging out and 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.359 we noticed that I think I I'm like friends with 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.720 my friend's dad on Facebook. And I was like, dude, 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:44.359 your dad commented on this. There's like these Okay, So 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.440 there was this like Facebook group and I think it 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.480 was called Beautiful Tits or something like that, and there 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.760 was like a hot lady who posted a photo and 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.320 it's like, you know, it's clearly not the lady's profile. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.280 It's just like a post. It's like a it's like 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.920 a profile, uh that like just posts these kinds of photos. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:10.720 And my friend's dad like commented on it, being like 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.040 where do you live? And I brought this up to 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.640 my friend and we were laughing about it, and we 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:22.000 Uh so, my my friend calls his dad and his 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:28.320 dad answers and he's like he's like, uh, He's like, Devin, 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.720 what do you want, I'm I'm his My friend's dad 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.040 is like a like a like a he's very into yoga, 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.719 and he was like, uh, Devan, what do you want. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.640 I'm trying to teach a bun. I'm trying to teach 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.640 a class on how to become a beam of light. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.400 This better be an emergency. And uh my friend Devan 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.760 is like, uh yeah, it actually is an emergency. And 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.840 he's like, so you know when you comment something on Facebook, 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.240 everyone can see it, right, And he goes and my 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:00.400 friend's dad goes, oh fuck, oh no, oh no, oh no, 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:01.960 oh no. And then we and then me and my 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.560 friend just we walk his dad through how to how to. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.480 He's like, he's like, so you mean like your cousins 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.640 and like aunts, like they can all see that. And 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.600 I'm just laughing my ass off while my friend coaches 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.760 his dad on how to delete uh those Instagram comments. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.600 And then eventually my friend's dad cools down and he's like, look, 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.600 I just wanted to know where that lady lived. She 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.960 was pretty hot, and I was like, I you know, 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:32.480 I respect that. All right? Moving on, all right. This 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:41.200 is from fish Hat subject line funny Gecko Man. Okay, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.280 Hello Lyle. I am a fella who likes watching movies 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.280 and playing videos, and I'm gonna assume that means video games. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.480 I am a fellow who likes watching movies and playing 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.960 video games and doing nothing. I just finished high school 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.680 and now I am in Uni. I haven't got a 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.680 driver's license or a job, so I just feel like 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.400 a lazy bum. Most of the time. I'm constantly rotting 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.800 in my room and watching slow I've got three friends 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.680 I hang out with, and I have only made two 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.960 friends in university. My course is filled with too many 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.280 odd people that I don't know how to interact with 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.800 because so many of them got weird Reddit humor, and 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.080 I don't know how to interact with those people anyway. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.240 Any advice on how to make life more fulfilling, I'm 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:24.040 quite bored. I have a lot of thoughts about this. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.800 I mean, look, at the end of the day, man, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:37.960 it's like the the world I think like, in the 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.000 most part kind of reflects back whatever you put into it, 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.840 you know, and you also kind of like tend to 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:50.600 find what you're looking for. So if you're like, oh, 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.400 these people are weird and I'm not gonna get along 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.439 with them, well, then yeah, those people are weird and 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.280 you're not gonna get along with them. But if you're 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.679 kind of like all right, maybe, uh, by the way 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:04.199 you sound, by the way you're on your computer all 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.680 the time watching weird shit, I'm sure you're not you. You. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.640 Here's the thing, fish hat is, you're too chronically online, 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:17.400 I think, to other yourself from from other chronically online people. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:20.960 You know. I mean, I don't know. I don't know you, 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:25.000 but I don't know. I think. I mean, you just 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.440 gotta do shit, that's the thing. You just gotta do 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.640 things like what do you like? You're in university, You're 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:37.440 on a fucking walkable campus with thousands of other people. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:43.440 I assume you gotta find something to do. I don't know, kickball, uh, 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:50.760 start a movie club? Yeah? Again, all this ship, all 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.280 this shit just reflects back whatever it is that you 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:55.760 you put into it. So I mean, you just gotta 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.280 do shit. I don't. I don't have a better I think. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.360 I feel like I've talked about this a and by 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.360 the way, funny thing about this is a lesson I 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.800 keep having to relearn in my own personal life because 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.960 there's been plenty of times where I'm like, you know, 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.680 in my room, rotting and being like I'm just rotting 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.440 and you know, I've had I've had a lot of 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.760 iterations of things in my life where I have put 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.640 out into the world, whether it's like, you know, I mean, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.760 just doing the fucking whole Gecko thing, or doing stand up, 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.880 or like going on a trip or fucking you know, 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.000 joining a club, or like joining an email list that 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.960 has events going on and going out like to a 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.360 thing or talking to someone I have talking like you 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:43.680 have to exert your like you have to like exert 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:50.400 yourself upon the universe, you know, because nothing, nothing will 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:55.880 just like come to you naturally. But that's but that's 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.800 kind of like by the way, I like that. I've 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.760 had had that thought and it scared me a lot. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.439 You know, I've had that thought, and it's recently recently, 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.680 like in the last week actually, I had that thought, 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.840 the whole thought of like nobody's coming to save you. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.560 And I had that thought at a time where like 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.440 during a like emotional period where I felt very physically weak, 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.720 and so the idea that nobody is coming to save 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.640 me was like kind of fucking terrifying because it's like, well, 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.320 if nobody's coming to save me, I know me, I 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.080 know how my executive functioning works. I know how my 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.640 brain works and my body works and all that shit, 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.920 and if I'm my only hope were fucked. You know, 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:45.560 I've had that thought and had it be depressing, right, 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:50.760 But I've also had that thought and had it be 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.200 the opposite where it's like, Okay, well, if no one's 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:54.880 coming to save me, that's good because I can look 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:59.800 at you know, there's like there's very e this is 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.400 a by the way, this is all just like armchair 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.320 philosophy shit that I'm just diarrheaing from my mouth because 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.080 I've been just thinking about it in my own life. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:15.000 Is like, the actual actions that I think you have 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:22.480 to take to create some form of change are not 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.800 like crazy, like you don't have to climb Mount Everest 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.400 to make a friend. You know, they're they they're kind 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.560 of like I think there are interactions that are like 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:42.200 process wise quite simple, but like emotionally difficult and like 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.679 uh scary, you know, like talking to new people are 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:52.680 going out to do new shit. But it's it's a 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.240 good thing, right because if the whole idea of like, oh, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.160 no one's coming to save you, and it's just just 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.760 if you looked because and the reason I say it's 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.000 a good thing is because if you looked into your 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.920 soul and you look at yourself in the mirror and 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:14.200 you were like, I have literally tried fucking everything, and 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.080 you know, God blessed. Some people can do that, and 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:22.560 they I don't haven't found a salvation of any kind. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.120 But if you can, like look at yourself in the 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.160 mirror and honestly go, I can try everything, and most 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.959 I don't. I don't even think that's even physically possible, 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:34.200 because nobody can. Physically. There's not enough life, there's not 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.439 enough years in our life span to literally try everything. 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.280 But it's good because it means there's still It means 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.400 that there's probably still shit you haven't tried that might 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.920 work for you to make friends and enjoy your life. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.920 And I'm gonna talk about a little thing. I'm going 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.280 a little crazy here, but I'm gonna tal about a 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.240 little thing called it's called the eighty twenty principle. I 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:55.600 think about it all the time. Hold on, I'm gonna 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.760 google this. It's called the Piratio principle. It changed my 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.600 fucking life. I learned about it from this guy Tim 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:05.720 Ferris back when I was in like high school, Okay. 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.119 The eighty twenty principle suggests that eighty percent of results 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:18.520 come from twenty percent of causes, which means that you 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.880 might think that the like making a bundant, making friends 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:29.200 and creating changes is like going to be this crazy endeavor, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.600 but it might just mean changing like literally five percent 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:37.280 of your routine, you know, like you could like you 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.840 could do one really small, like even just like going out, 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.240 like for this guy in college, Like just go start 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:47.040 going to a club. How fucking easy is that? Take 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:51.520 your body and move it into a room once a week. 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:57.400 You know, it's not you don't have to or I 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:58.960 don't know, I don't know. These are just this is 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:03.320 just all This is just suggest and thoughts and philosophies 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.240 that I'm I'm kind of working through because yeah, I 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.760 have I have these same thoughts. But yeah, think about that. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.560 The eighty twenty principle research that fucking shit, all right? 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:19.560 Eating eating warm? All right? This is from CJ subject 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.600 line eating warm versus cold meats? Hi GEK, I'm wondering 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.080 if you have an opinion on warm versus cold, as 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.400 in DELI meats warm versus COLDAI meats. My sister thinks 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.280 it's extra fucked up to eat cold meat because the 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.760 animal's body is warm, so it's creepier for humans to 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.160 kill them and then cool down their bodies before eating. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.000 Hold on, there's more to this email. But to your 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:46.040 sister's point in terms of like the creepiness of like 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.560 eating a thing that was alive, I feel like the 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.720 opposite is creepy. Oh okay, wait, okay, okay, hold on, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:57.240 I like my I skimmed the rest of this email 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.800 and it's okay. I'm gonna read the rest of the email, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.280 screaking for them to. But I think eating worm eating 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.479 warm meat is weirder because it's closer to the experience 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.200 of taking a bite out of a living animal. I 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.320 love to eat a nice cold turkey sandwich. Thoughts. Thanksgk Okay, 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.320 I was about it agree. I was about to agree 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.280 with you before even knowing that we were on the 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:22.200 same page. But if we're talking strictly, uh, in terms 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:28.360 of like what's fucked up or like what's like creepy, Yeah, 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.600 it's definitely creepier to eat the warm one because it's like, oh, 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.280 this is like what the chicken's body, this is what 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.280 the chicken felt like. When it was still in the body. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.520 But I don't really think about my meats in terms 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:44.000 of creepiness, in terms of just the pleasantness of eating them. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:50.240 I'm gonna go warm, Yea, I'm gonna I'm gonna go warm. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.840 I like my ass some some chicken parmesan sandwiches. I 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.640 was this is a dumb observation, but I always forget 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.200 that it's like a like a living thing. Any time 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.760 I eat chicken, I'm like, oh, yeah, this thing was 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.439 sort of conscious and then I now I'm eating it. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.159 I've had that thought a bunch of time. I'm not 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.439 going I'm not going vegetarian. Don't please don't comment on 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.720 this being like you need to go vegetarian vegetarian because 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:22.800 I'm not doing it. Yeah. I mean, there's thoughts and 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:27.080 philosophies and beliefs and whatnot, and then there's like and 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:33.159 then there's the human brain that I have that's like, 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.840 I want to eat a fucking chicken parmesan sandwich, and 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.200 that usually whatever. I don't I don't know anything about 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.040 neuro jiz, but that part of that part of the 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:47.000 brain is gonna win. It's gonna win pretty much every time. Okay, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:52.200 this is from Eli. Subject line, I have not watched 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.800 anything from you, Hey, Lyle. I have never watched a 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.359 single video of yours, listened to a single podcast, or 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.359 watched more more than a few clips from you. I 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.240 stay following, though, because I think you bring something special 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.439 to this blue ball that I'm compelled to keep my 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.720 eye on. I don't know exactly what that is, but 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:13.600 I know it's there. Have a good one, Lyle, sayonara here, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.520 but that's hold on. If you follow me, you have 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:21.560 to have at least watched something you In the body 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.919 of the email, you just you the you contradict the 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.399 subject if you had said you have literally don't have 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.879 any idea of like you don't even know what this 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:35.360 email is and it was just whatever. Well, well, all right, well, 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.440 thank thanks for the thanks for the premonition, Eli, it's nice. 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:49.560 All right. This is from Simone uh okay. Subject line 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:54.200 is vosecto me for a PlayStation five couple from Uckland. 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.199 Hey Lyle, hope you're well wondering if you remember us 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.840 from your show at the Tuning Fork in Uckland, New Zealand, 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:01.879 couple of years ago. I remember that show. It was 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.240 a fun show. My partner Liam was the first guy 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.600 to be brought up, and our submission was trading a 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:12.560 PS five verb asectomy. Okay, I vaguely remember this. I'm 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.159 gonna I vaguely remember this, but I'm gonna fill in 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:20.560 the vagueness with context clues and say that you promised 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.760 that you would buy your partner a PlayStation five. We 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.719 got of a sectomy. Okay. We are now happily married. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.639 Our one year wedding anniversary is in October. At the 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.280 wedding we had a picture of you, me and Liam 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:36.359 all together pulling peace signs printed and stuck up. That's cool, 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.720 God damn. However, for this submission, I will explain a 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:44.000 recent fight we had over a chair. Driving along in 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:51.040 Avondale parentheses a suburb of Uckland for all the non Ucklanders, which, okay, Evandale. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.760 I spot a beautiful old chair on the side of 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:59.560 the road, bright yellow, my favorite color, wooden handles and 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:04.080 leg mid century modern design. We immediately pull over and 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:11.040 I claim this chair is mine. Liam is immediately not pleased. 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.160 To be fair, it is slightly tattered on the bottom 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.640 and in need of a sand, but perfectly fined after 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:18.919 a bit of tidying up, and I am an Avid 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:23.719 dia wire. The argument pertained to him feel like I 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.280 never let him pick up random things off the street. Okay, 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.840 I'm gonna assume is you're if the rest of this 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.360 email is gonna be hilarious to me, if your boy 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.080 Liam is like a taxi thermist, and by the way, 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:37.679 and I ever read the rest of the email, by 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.720 the way, if your boy Liam is a taxidermist, he's 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.119 fucking right. I don't know what the rest of his 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.320 email is, but he's fine. I'm just gonna I'm gonna 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.520 answer an email that you didn't send me based on 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:51.680 facts about your life that aren't true, because I want 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:55.879 to make this statement because it's because because whatever is 0:20:55.960 --> 0:21:03.119 I think If I think Uh picks up furniture from 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:06.639 the street to fix it up, wife, and picks up 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:11.480 dead animals from the street to tax or demise them husband, 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.919 I think that's a fair thing. I think that's a 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.560 fair thing. I don't think that that's what this I 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:20.560 don't think that's the direction this email is going. But 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:22.600 oh my god, what if it is I was writing 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.320 on the last time. All right, let's see what direction 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:29.320 this email is going. Okay, he feels like I never 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:31.000 let him pick up random things off the street, and 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:32.399 the fact that we have a small place that is 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:34.720 already struggling with the amount of stuff we have. My 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:37.119 POV is this is a quality piece of furniture that 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.120 I will hold on to for years to come. These 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:42.160 kind of roadside finds are rare. We often dream about 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:45.280 having in our funiture. We often dream about having in 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:49.119 our future home a grandma and grandpa chair each in 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:53.240 the lounge, and this is to be my grandma chair. Bro, 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:55.560 how old are How old are you that you're like, 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:59.280 I mean, this is it's sweet. That's actually a sweet thought. 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:01.639 How old are you that you're like, this is the 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:06.480 chair I'm gonna be in when I'm ninety, by the way, 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:08.800 you're gonna by the way, by the what year is it, 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:13.960 twenty twenty five? Let's say you're no older than thirty. 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:19.080 I'm gonna assume by twenty eighty five. Holy shit, yeah, 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:25.280 by twenty eighty five. Wait, no, I'm an idiot. Ninety 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.639 How fucking old will I be when I in twenty 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:33.600 eighty five? Sixty? Let's say you're ninety, yeah, whatever, I'll 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:36.040 say you're ninety, I fight twenty eighty five. No, that 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:39.120 math is still wrong. No, twenty eighty five. Twenty eighty five. 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:44.240 They're the chairs that they're gonna have. Are you're gonna 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:47.120 hate them. We're gonna have chairs that like can talk 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.520 to you. I don't know why I said that, Like 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:55.359 it's cool whatever. Anyway, the fight is now over and 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:57.520 we've arranged the house and bargained the deal that Liam 0:22:57.560 --> 0:22:59.240 gets to pick the couch we get in the future. 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:01.840 But what is your take on this fight? And more importantly, 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:04.040 whose side are you on? Look forward to coming and 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:05.960 seeing your next show in Uckland. Love and miss you. 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:08.320 Ghek cheers Simon and Liam. I gotta yeah, maybe I'll 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:12.320 do another. I want to do another down under run. 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:16.400 Uh Okay, what the fuck was I going to say? 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:20.399 I mean, I kind of get I kind of get it. 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:23.000 Here's the thing is, I don't have enough information about 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:27.280 his side of the argument. I although I'll say this 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.919 if if there has been yeah, actually, hold on, I'm 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:34.000 kind of if I have to fill in the blanks 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:36.840 on the information here, I'm going to say that I 0:23:36.920 --> 0:23:40.360 agree with Liam because I'm gonna let's assume my boy 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:43.880 Liam like saw like an HD saw like he saw 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:45.520 like a TV on the side of the road and 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:47.360 he was like, babe, let's babe, stop, let's let's pick 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:48.720 up this TV. And you were like, no, We're not 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:52.280 picking up a TV from the side of the road, okay. 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:54.400 And then later down the drive you're like, oh, oh, 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:56.600 let's stop, let's pick up this chair, and we pick 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:58.879 up the chair, and I'm Liam, I would be pissed. 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:01.560 I would be like, what the fuck? You can just 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:04.000 pick up shit from the side of the road and 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:08.520 I can't. I still think maybe he's I still think 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:10.679 he wants to pick up dead animals from the street 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:14.280 and by and look, I if that's what he wants. 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:15.880 I I still I think that's fair. I think that's 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:18.960