Speaker 1: Hello, Hey, can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What's up? What's your name?
Speaker 1: My name is Evan.
Speaker 2: Evan. How's it going, dude?
Speaker 1: It's going all right, it's going all right. How are
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 2: How am I doing? Yeah? Bho cares? What's U? What
Speaker 2: can I help you today? Evan? What's going on?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Nothing, I was just calling to uh talk about how
Speaker 1: I might have to get a camera put up my
Speaker 1: pan Oh your dick hole.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard about the camera up the dick hole.
Speaker 2: You know what, I have a you know what I
Speaker 2: have a refined answer to my question of how I'm doing.
Speaker 2: Is the second you said uh, I was like doing fine,
Speaker 2: and then the second you said that you have to
Speaker 2: get a camera put up your dick hole, I got
Speaker 2: like a little shock to my brain that was like,
Speaker 2: oh no, some people have to get cameras put up
Speaker 2: their dick holes. And all of a sudden, I'm actually
Speaker 2: doing pretty great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I wish, I mean, I might not
Speaker 1: have to get it done, but I I'm really hoping
Speaker 1: that I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why what's going on with your penis?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Like about a year ago, I uh, around Christmas time
Speaker 1: last year, every time I would pee it would feel
Speaker 1: like I had to pee again, like right afterwards, like
Speaker 1: like like I really had to pee, And I had
Speaker 1: no idea what that was. So all my friends were
Speaker 1: telling me that it was a bladder infection, and even
Speaker 1: my doctor said, like, yeah, it's probably just a blader infection.
Speaker 1: But then I got it four more times, and I
Speaker 1: just went to the doctor's office today and he was
Speaker 1: saying that there could be like some sediment like broken
Speaker 1: up kidney stones and my bladder. Oh and then I
Speaker 1: might need to get a camera put up there, and
Speaker 1: I'm pretty nervous about that.
Speaker 2: Oh god, oh man, yeah, uh, did you did you
Speaker 2: do something to really like, did you do something morally unjust,
Speaker 2: either in this life or a past one that caused
Speaker 2: you to deserve this? Do you think?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, everybody makes mistakes in life. I
Speaker 1: probably probably did something in one of my last lives,
Speaker 1: but you know, it could also just be an unlucky thing.
Speaker 2: M oh man, how old are you?
Speaker 1: I am twenty one.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's so that's young. I feel like kidney stones
Speaker 2: is something happens like old guys.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought too, But I guess, like the
Speaker 1: doctor said that that's really the only thing could probably
Speaker 1: be unless he says, like cause I my girlfriend was
Speaker 1: telling me that it could possibly be like a urinary
Speaker 1: track inspection. But then the doctor said, like, guys don't
Speaker 1: get those often at all, so it's most likely not that.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry that you have rocks in your dick. Dude,
Speaker 2: I hats off to you, but yeah, I'm oh, man,
Speaker 2: can I do anything for you? Do you want like
Speaker 2: a piece of candy or something?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sure, yeh sure?
Speaker 2: Do you where do you live?
Speaker 1: I live in Michigan.
Speaker 2: Okay, next time in Michigan, you can just toss it over. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I'll forget. I'll forget how to get you a piece
Speaker 2: of candy. Man. Gods damn, they should make a you know,
Speaker 2: all the like cancer kids and they get there's like
Speaker 2: make a wish for the cancer kids. They need to
Speaker 2: make a wish. They need to make a wish for
Speaker 2: guys like you, like give. I would donate to a
Speaker 2: fund that gives a PlayStation five to every twenty one
Speaker 2: year old guy who has to have a camera put
Speaker 2: up his dick hole.
Speaker 1: That'd be pretty cool, honestly, you know, I hope no
Speaker 1: other guy has to go through that the doctor said
Speaker 1: that it should be painless because they put you to
Speaker 1: like sleep for like ten minutes. But somehow I don't
Speaker 1: believe that for some reason, like I'll still feel it
Speaker 1: in my dreams, that I'll be dreaming within those ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Oh god, that would suck if when they put you
Speaker 2: to sleep, you just have a dream that like a
Speaker 2: snake is biting your cock or something.
Speaker 1: And you can still feel it, and you're like, ius, help,
Speaker 1: You're supposed to help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man, oh god, oh this is probably my Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: I you know you say that, but I feel I
Speaker 2: get this feeling that my reaction to everything you're telling
Speaker 2: me is not helpful. It's probably making I assume, is
Speaker 2: it making this worse?
Speaker 1: No, Actually, if you think about it, like everybody always
Speaker 1: tries to calm your worries. So I have somebody actually
Speaker 1: like say, like, you know what, that does suck, and
Speaker 1: like I wouldn't want to go through that. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know what you're because everybody around me doctors like
Speaker 1: it's pain with everyody's like happens in your life. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, Gecko's actually telling me that
Speaker 1: it does suck, So it does suck everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh wait, people are telling you that having a
Speaker 2: fucking camera shoved up your dick doesn't suck.
Speaker 1: Well, they're just I think they're just trying to be
Speaker 1: like calming because they obviously pretty nerve wracking. But a
Speaker 1: lot of people are saying like, hey, you'll be asleep,
Speaker 1: like you don't even feel it. It's no big deal.
Speaker 1: But like, come on, let's let's be realistic people.
Speaker 2: No, oh my god, if a doctor told me they
Speaker 2: got to put something up my dick, I would just
Speaker 2: be like, you know what, whatever I have, just let
Speaker 2: it kill me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I uh, I think I'm a little
Speaker 1: too young to have kidney stones, but I guess anything
Speaker 1: can happen.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that'd be crazy if like you're, like your
Speaker 2: girlfriend was like going down on you and then she
Speaker 2: like sucked a rock out of your pollness.
Speaker 1: Oh man, well, I mean my girlfriends tonslestone, so it
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be that different.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: That'd be crazy if like she like one of your
Speaker 2: kidney stones went into her mouth and then one of
Speaker 2: her tonsilstones like fucking mashed together with the kidney stone
Speaker 2: and it like exploded.
Speaker 1: Man, I don't even know what. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that'd be enjoyable or not. I don't know how it
Speaker 1: would be, but I guess you know, you never can't
Speaker 1: say no one taken.
Speaker 3: Try it.
Speaker 2: That sounds like a science experiment.
Speaker 1: Yea, my girlfriend's making disgusted faces while she's right next
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: You guys just over, I just heard your girlfriend go ugh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she was actually uh you did a show in
Speaker 1: Detroit and May at some point she actually was. She
Speaker 1: got I forgot one of the executives. I think it
Speaker 1: was like two years ago, but she actually got called
Speaker 1: on the stage because I told her to write out
Speaker 1: a little prompt for you, and you talked to her
Speaker 1: on stage. And I have actually have a picture with
Speaker 1: you and my phone of you and her and then
Speaker 1: me and you.
Speaker 2: Wait, do we talk about her parents getting divorced or something?
Speaker 1: You talked about how her her stepmom had sex with
Speaker 1: her stepmom's nephew, kind of like an situation.
Speaker 2: Ah, yeah, I remember that. I remember that. Yo. How's
Speaker 2: she doing.
Speaker 1: She's doing good. She actually has a much better relationship
Speaker 1: with that mom. And she does not tell them about
Speaker 1: therapy Get Go because she's afraid that they'll find that
Speaker 1: somewhere out on the internet, or.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I mean that's on my I have that,
Speaker 2: I have our conversation on a hard drive or something
Speaker 2: like that. But they can get it.
Speaker 1: You can use that as blackmail, you know, I think the.
Speaker 2: Man, Yo, do women get kidney Do women get kidney stones?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Can you get like a stone in your vagina?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Can you can women get kidney stones?
Speaker 3: Elli?
Speaker 1: She says yes, All right, then I guess that's our answer.
Speaker 2: Wait, why would she know? I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean she knows a lot about female anatomy obviously.
Speaker 2: Wait, can't handle the phone. She's saying someone.
Speaker 1: There, you go?
Speaker 6: Wait what?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, Hello, Hey, what's up? You were saying something your
Speaker 2: friend got a kidney stone on her vagina?
Speaker 6: Yeah, my friend. She was like, fot team Jesus. She
Speaker 6: kept talking about how she has kidney stones.
Speaker 2: That's horrible.
Speaker 6: I honestly feel bad for anybody whose I have to
Speaker 6: go through that.
Speaker 2: Yo, give your boyfriend a piece of candy, dude, he
Speaker 2: just he deserves a piece of candy or something.
Speaker 4: You want candy.
Speaker 6: He texted me to get your candy camera.
Speaker 2: God, damn, what did you so because your boyfriend said
Speaker 2: that everyone's been telling him that it's not going to
Speaker 2: be that bad. When he told you that he had
Speaker 2: to have a camera shoves off as a dick hole.
Speaker 2: What did you say?
Speaker 6: I mean, oh man, he told me to be honest,
Speaker 6: I told him it was gonna be fine. But then again,
Speaker 6: I also understand like the fear because I you know,
Speaker 6: I don't have a dig, but I would have want that.
Speaker 2: Oh God, sounds awful, but you don't.
Speaker 6: Hopefully he has good dreams, and yeah, I have have
Speaker 6: good dreams.
Speaker 2: All right, well let me can you hand the phone
Speaker 2: back to him? Wait? Wait, wait, wait before you do that,
Speaker 2: before you do before you do that? Wait are you
Speaker 2: still there?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What's going what's going on with you? Everything good? Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything is great.
Speaker 6: Been in been finally doing school, which is wild. That's
Speaker 6: something I didn't think whatever happened to me in my life?
Speaker 6: But you don't start in college?
Speaker 3: Yeah? How have you been?
Speaker 6: Are you doing good?
Speaker 2: I'm doing good? I was saying earlier that, like, uh,
Speaker 2: I think I think anyone listening to this, if you
Speaker 2: don't have a rock in your penis or vagina or
Speaker 2: whatever you got, I think you're doing pretty good. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take that perspective right now as the answer
Speaker 2: to that question. I agree, Okay, I just want to
Speaker 2: make sure. I just want to make sure you were
Speaker 2: doing good. Thank you.
Speaker 6: I'm going to hand the phone back.
Speaker 1: Is that okay?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 6: Of course.
Speaker 1: I'm back.
Speaker 2: Damn man, you really have a rock and you have
Speaker 2: rocks in your penis. Man, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I know, I know it sucks. But hopefully that situation
Speaker 1: can get sorted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully. But what do you want to do with
Speaker 2: your life? If you make if you live, if you
Speaker 2: make it out.
Speaker 1: Well, preferably the track that I'm on right now, I'm
Speaker 1: looking to be an electrician, so hopefully I can still
Speaker 1: make it there somehow. If I get these rocks, that.
Speaker 2: Could be cool. Yeah, because I feel like it's like
Speaker 2: beating cancer, where it's like, oh, I can do anything.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: You know you did the hardest thing. If you piss
Speaker 2: rocks out of your dick, I think that you can.
Speaker 2: There's no other there's no other worldly challenge that I
Speaker 2: don't think you can do.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean, if I if I get
Speaker 1: through this, I mean, it's been let's think it's been
Speaker 1: going on since well about three two and a half
Speaker 1: weeks ago, this session of this feeling started again, and
Speaker 1: then just today I heard that I might have to
Speaker 1: get a camera put up there. So, I mean, we're
Speaker 1: making our way through, we're climbing the mountain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you get to keep do you get to
Speaker 2: keep the footage?
Speaker 1: You know, honestly, I don't know that'd be pretty I've
Speaker 1: always I thought about that earlier, Like, I wonder, what
Speaker 1: because if you've ever seen like cameras being put somewhere
Speaker 1: in a human body, it kind of like you don't
Speaker 1: really know what you're looking at, but the doctor does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it kind of just looks like a bunch of squishy,
Speaker 1: pink stuff. I wonder, like, I wonder if i'd actually
Speaker 1: be able to be like, hey, that's the inside of me,
Speaker 1: and I know where this is because I felt it.
Speaker 2: Yeoh, if they if you do get the footage, you
Speaker 2: should make an only fans and put the footage there.
Speaker 2: Because if you think about how much money people are
Speaker 2: making posting photos of the out side of their of
Speaker 2: their private parts, you know, you could probably make some
Speaker 2: money post on the inside of yours, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's people like a lot of things.
Speaker 1: There's probably somebody out there who would die for something
Speaker 1: like that. And you know, it doesn't seem like a
Speaker 1: market that's doing touched very much. So maybe I'll be
Speaker 1: the be the kingpin of footage from inside the body
Speaker 1: who knows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that. I like that. All right, there
Speaker 2: we go, Okay, there we okay. I feel good about
Speaker 2: this call because I feel like we took this. We
Speaker 2: took this, uh and we and we changed the perspective
Speaker 2: to make it a good thing.
Speaker 1: I agree on one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Agree.
Speaker 1: You definitely made me feel better about the situation.
Speaker 2: Good good. What's your name again?
Speaker 1: My name is Evan.
Speaker 2: Evan. Is there anything else you want to say to
Speaker 2: the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody should watch the show Dexter. That's what I
Speaker 1: have to say. Best show.
Speaker 2: Never seen it.
Speaker 1: You should. You should see it?
Speaker 2: All right, Take care, man, take have a good night, goodbye.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. I'm sorry. I'm sorry anytime I ever
Speaker 2: said I'm sorry for every time I was ever upset
Speaker 2: about anything in my entire life. That's really how I
Speaker 2: feel right now. I feel just so. I'm just so
Speaker 2: happy that I don't have rocks in my penis. I
Speaker 2: feel like such like every time like whatever, like the
Speaker 2: bus was late and I'm like, the fucking bus is late.
Speaker 2: It's like I don't have rocks in my penis right now.
Speaker 2: I don't care. That's how I feel about stuff. Like
Speaker 2: anytime you're pissed off about something like oh, the bank
Speaker 2: is closed and they said they we're going to be open,
Speaker 2: It's like all right, Well, it's like like, you know,
Speaker 2: I think I think about it like that, Like, next
Speaker 2: time you're upset about something, take the thing you're upset about,
Speaker 2: like uh, oh man, uh you know what if you're
Speaker 2: like if you're like, oh man, this girl won't text
Speaker 2: me back, is pissed off about that? You know, imagine
Speaker 2: like an angel comes down from the sky and they're like, well, okay,
Speaker 2: how about this. The girl will text you back, but
Speaker 2: you have to have rocks in your penis. You're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'll take I'll take the Yeah, I'll take my thing.
Speaker 2: I'll take the thing i'm upset about over over that,
Speaker 2: you know, times a billion. You know, a man you
Speaker 2: call customer service and then you get a robot and
Speaker 2: you're pissed off. Angels like, all right, well we'll we'll
Speaker 2: have them connect you to a human to solve your problem.
Speaker 2: But after the phone call is over, you have to
Speaker 2: piss rocks out of your deck. You're like, I'll talk
Speaker 2: to the robot. It's fine. Life's not that bad as
Speaker 2: long as except for the caller we just talked to.
Speaker 2: His life is currently is currently he has rocks in
Speaker 2: his penis, but he's gonna be fine because he didn't
Speaker 2: seem that. But I was way more upset about it
Speaker 2: than I think he was, at least as much as
Speaker 2: he was letting on. He seemed okay, So I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's a warrior, and hopefully hopefully he gets a pizza
Speaker 2: party after all this. Hello, Yes, Hey, what's your name?
Speaker 4: Hey, my name is Carson.
Speaker 5: How are you today?
Speaker 2: Carson? I'm doing good. Have we ever spoken before, Carson?
Speaker 4: We have not. I'm a long term listener, first time calling.
Speaker 2: Kick ass Man. It's it's it's cool to me that
Speaker 2: the show is entering its fifth year, starting in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, and we're still getting new callers. I think
Speaker 2: that's uh, that's sick. What's up with you, Carson? How
Speaker 2: may I get you today?
Speaker 4: You know what. I got a lot going on in
Speaker 4: terms of stress and anxiety, new jobs and moving going on,
Speaker 4: and I'm just looking for, not necessarily therapy, but just
Speaker 4: some opinions from someone on the outside.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I you know, I'm I'm no good at life,
Speaker 2: but I'll try my best to you know. I wish
Speaker 2: you would have come in here with something a little
Speaker 2: bit more fun, but it's okay. No, I'm just I'm messing.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm messing with you, man. What's up? What's
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 4: Not much? Just I'm one of your older listeners. Probably
Speaker 4: I'm over thirty five years old. I have a habit
Speaker 4: of smoking cannabis mostly all day every day, and I'm
Speaker 4: starting to figure out that it's influencing my family and
Speaker 4: personal relationships, and I'm having trouble with that as well.
Speaker 4: But mostly more than anything, I'm gonna I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: honest with you. My wife and I are thinking about
Speaker 4: having a second baby here, and it's really hard because
Speaker 4: I'm wanting one and she's kind of not. So just
Speaker 4: just a lot going on.
Speaker 2: I can't relate to you on smoking weed all day
Speaker 2: every day because I've never touched the stuff before. For no.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is I've actually I actually typed
Speaker 2: into chat GPT like yesterday, you know what, you know
Speaker 2: what literally this I'm gonna tell you something that literally
Speaker 2: happened to me is I typed into chat GPT. I
Speaker 2: was like, is it bad to smoke weed every day?
Speaker 2: And then it wrote here are some of the pros
Speaker 2: and cons of smoking weed every day? And it generated
Speaker 2: this big list of cons and I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna look at that. It's probably fine. And then
Speaker 2: I just never thought about it again. And I continued
Speaker 2: to smoke weed every day all day, and you know,
Speaker 2: forget my fucking friend asked me. I hung out with
Speaker 2: him one evening and he was like, what'd you do today?
Speaker 2: And I was like, I don't remember and he was
Speaker 2: like really. I was like yeah. He was like Jesus
Speaker 2: christ Man.
Speaker 4: So it was just about my every day at this point.
Speaker 4: So I feel you, hear you loud and clear.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you that. Yeah, So I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I've also been smoking weed all day every day and
Speaker 2: it's not you know, it's probably not good. But I
Speaker 2: don't know what, Well, why do you think you smoke
Speaker 2: weed every day?
Speaker 4: I started pretty long time ago, when I was in
Speaker 4: my early twenties. I thought I was doing myself a
Speaker 4: favor in terms of anxiety and mood and just all around.
Speaker 1: It was helpful.
Speaker 4: But I've I'm figuring out slowly as the years are
Speaker 4: passing by. The positive outcomes are positive influences or positivity
Speaker 4: that's coming from you. Smoking is coming down less and less,
Speaker 4: and the negativity is growing more and more. So it's
Speaker 4: kind of like this inverse thing going on, really confusing
Speaker 4: to me. But what I'm figuring out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh, I don't know, well I have I
Speaker 2: don't Well, let me ask you this, Okay, so you,
Speaker 2: I mean, we can totally just free flow shoot the
Speaker 2: shit on this. But uh, you said you said you
Speaker 2: wanted an outside opinion, and what specifically do you want
Speaker 2: an outside opinion.
Speaker 4: On a couple things? Mostly your opinion on what you
Speaker 4: think about Just if you were in my situation. I
Speaker 4: live in California, in Central California. I have a home,
Speaker 4: a wife, and a two and a half year old child.
Speaker 4: I got a job offer that's three hours away. It
Speaker 4: doesn't pay more than the job I have now, but
Speaker 4: it's in a much better location. I don't know if
Speaker 4: it's worth it to uproot my family for the job.
Speaker 4: I've weighed out the positives, negatives and even making lists
Speaker 4: trying to make decisions. I just can't come to a decision.
Speaker 4: And I don't know how to make the decisions.
Speaker 2: So why is this a better location?
Speaker 4: I'm currently living in Fresno and it's kind of a
Speaker 4: for lack of better word, ship place, Lots of crime,
Speaker 4: lots of dirt and grime here, you know, for lack
Speaker 4: of better term, it's it's not a good place. I
Speaker 4: get a job in San Luis Obispo, which is like,
Speaker 4: you know, the inverse of that, which is really nice place,
Speaker 4: great people, clean, And I don't mean anything negative by
Speaker 4: it by my comments here, just being real about it.
Speaker 2: You know, why would so when you say uproot your family?
Speaker 2: I mean, you guys got a house, right and you
Speaker 2: have to sell the house and then go buy a
Speaker 2: new one. And then how old is your kid?
Speaker 4: Two and a half not in school yet.
Speaker 2: So that's okay, Your kn't say your kid doesn't get
Speaker 2: your kid has zero emotional attachment to Fresno, California. And
Speaker 2: you're what about your wife? Does she care her family
Speaker 2: is here?
Speaker 4: My family is here, so it's it's kind of the
Speaker 4: family leaving the family, leaving everything we were born and
Speaker 4: raised here. So it's when I say uprooting, I think
Speaker 4: it's just moving everything that's comfortable, that's known, that I
Speaker 4: feel good with, and kind of heading to the unknown.
Speaker 4: You know, I know I should, and I know it's
Speaker 4: probably something I uh huh, It's just it's just so hard.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing, man, you're not moving. You're you're
Speaker 2: not moving to China. You're moving three hours away within
Speaker 2: the state of California. I think three hours is a
Speaker 2: three hours is a perfect distance from your family. It's
Speaker 2: actually I think you should definitely. I'm you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm coming into a new era with this podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna just tell people what I think they should do.
Speaker 2: You should totally move because you're moving away from your family.
Speaker 2: It's three hours. You know, three hours is a great
Speaker 2: distance to be from your family because you know you
Speaker 2: can live your own fucking life and not live in
Speaker 2: a place that you say yourself as a shithole, and
Speaker 2: then when you want to, you can go be with
Speaker 2: your family. I mean, if you hate you really sound
Speaker 2: like you hate Fresno and it's probably gonna be a pain.
Speaker 2: And then he asks to sell your house and buy
Speaker 2: a new one. But you can figure that out. So
Speaker 2: if you want, if you want to move, just move.
Speaker 2: You've provided, in my opinion, if you want my opinion,
Speaker 2: opinion capital low opinion, you've provided no reason whatsoever to
Speaker 2: not move, except for the fact that it would be
Speaker 2: kind of annoying, just logistically.
Speaker 4: Whise, when the get speaks, I listen, so I'm hearing
Speaker 4: you're loud and clear, one hundred percent. The only thing,
Speaker 4: you know, I can think of off the top of
Speaker 4: my head, it would be financially, it's quite more expensive there.
Speaker 4: So the quality of life or that the way we're
Speaker 4: living life would definitely need to change. But it's nothing
Speaker 4: that's you know, and I can definitely do it and
Speaker 4: put it into actions.
Speaker 2: What do you need to what do you need to change?
Speaker 4: So housing prices are substantially more there, rent is substantially more, food, daycare,
Speaker 4: it's just all of it. So it's just going to
Speaker 4: be a lot more, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go give it a shot, man, I know, I
Speaker 2: know it. Well, it's funny because to me, I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, like why yeah, Well, because to me, it's
Speaker 2: like it's a three hour move. It's kind of nothing.
Speaker 4: Right, right, you know what when you say it out,
Speaker 4: when you say it to me, it sounds ridiculous, But
Speaker 4: when I'm working it out in my head, it's such
Speaker 4: a different problem. I don't know how to explain that.
Speaker 4: Me talking to myself about it sounds so much different
Speaker 4: than you speaking to me about it out loud. Kind
Speaker 4: of realizing that now, mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: That's what a lot I realize. That's a lot of problems.
Speaker 2: Like if you have something that you've been stewing in
Speaker 2: your head about for a long time. This happens to
Speaker 2: me all the time. I'll be stewing in my head
Speaker 2: about something and I'll talk to somebody about it, and
Speaker 2: just talk to somebody about it. I'm like, wait, I'm
Speaker 2: making a way bigger deal out of this than it
Speaker 2: actually is.
Speaker 4: And one other thing I wanted to talk to you about.
Speaker 4: You know, just a lot of the reason I listened
Speaker 4: to your podcast. I relate to you on many in
Speaker 4: many ways. A lot of the things you say, a
Speaker 4: lot of your opinions, I think the same way. I
Speaker 4: would say many of the same things you say to
Speaker 4: your listeners. So I feel like listening to you is
Speaker 4: almost not literally but almost figuratively, like me being there
Speaker 4: giving people advice.
Speaker 2: What what opinions do we agree on? Do you think.
Speaker 4: We agree on the opinions of being open minded? Like
Speaker 4: I noticed that a lot of times you're open minded
Speaker 4: with people, You're not really closed. If they have an
Speaker 4: idea or they have something that they're not sure about,
Speaker 4: you'll actually let them are out their ideas, think of
Speaker 4: different perspectives, and go from there. I'm also the same way.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, cool, cool.
Speaker 4: But I guess what I wanted to talk to you
Speaker 4: about was kind of the cannabis marijuana thing. I know
Speaker 4: we've already kind of touched on that a couple of times,
Speaker 4: but you know, I worked in the cannabis industry for yikes,
Speaker 4: seven or eight years. I kind of got out of
Speaker 4: it when I had my son, But there's this there's
Speaker 4: this attachment that I have, and I'm trying to figure
Speaker 4: out what it is. I tried to kind of let
Speaker 4: this go and move away, but for some reason, it's
Speaker 4: like I'm emotionally drawn back and it doesn't make sense
Speaker 4: to me to marijuana.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, oh, I mean, well.
Speaker 4: Strange thing. I know, strange thing to say.
Speaker 2: I know. Okay, well let me ask you, all right,
Speaker 2: let me phrase it like this, just to make make
Speaker 2: it easier for me to respond to this is is
Speaker 2: there anything specifically about marijuana that you wanted my opinion on,
Speaker 2: not as a medical professional and not as a psychologist,
Speaker 2: but as a factor that smokes wheeze all day? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: Do you think you're going to reach a point in
Speaker 4: your life where you're going to finally say enough enough,
Speaker 4: turn away?
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is when I think about the
Speaker 2: point in my life where I finally stop smoking weed.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I have no good reason to stop,
Speaker 2: I don't think, except for the fact that it's destroying
Speaker 2: my brain. But that's it's not good enough for me yet.
Speaker 4: How about if you had a health condition, like let's
Speaker 4: say you started your lung started hurting, or you started
Speaker 4: coughing up like really nasty black stuff, or you know,
Speaker 4: you started waking up at night noticing your chest wasn't
Speaker 4: feeling right.
Speaker 1: Stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Every day on the front page of Reddit you see
Speaker 2: some fucking thing that says like marijuana actually prevents lung cancer,
Speaker 2: which is probably not true, but right for you want
Speaker 2: to choose my real thing is. I kind of think
Speaker 2: for me, the point I would stop getting high all
Speaker 2: the time would be if I had a kid, cause like,
Speaker 2: I'll get high and do everything. I'll get high and like,
Speaker 2: you know, go places where I'm like, I shouldn't have
Speaker 2: gotten high before, like you know, go doing this, but whatever,
Speaker 2: it only affects me, who gives a shit? But if
Speaker 2: I have a kid, I don't want to be high
Speaker 2: around my kid. So yeah, so I think that would
Speaker 2: that would be the time in which I would quit.
Speaker 2: But right now, the main reason I wanted to stop
Speaker 2: smoking weed is because I was anxious all the time
Speaker 2: and it gave me like severe uh like I went on,
Speaker 2: I binge eat a lot when I get stoned. But like,
Speaker 2: for the past month that I've been I've been getting high,
Speaker 2: like pretty much every day, and I haven't been binge
Speaker 2: eating as much as normal. I've actually been able to
Speaker 2: keep that under control, and I've been able to keep
Speaker 2: my anxiety under control. So I've just been going at
Speaker 2: it hard. So I don't have a good reason to quit.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think that would be the point where
Speaker 2: I would say enough is enough for me personally, is
Speaker 2: like if I had a kid. Although, although blowing smoke
Speaker 2: in a child's face does sound fun, and I might
Speaker 2: do it at least once, that.
Speaker 4: Might be the most wild thing I've heard in a while.
Speaker 4: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: It does sound like it would be fun. It sounds
Speaker 2: like it would be I don't know. It sounds like
Speaker 2: it would make me feel powerful.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'd love to jump off topic here, if you
Speaker 4: don't mind, go ahead. How do you feel about all
Speaker 4: these drones that have been popping up everywhere?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't have You've I've run out
Speaker 2: of opinions to give you once we've started talking about
Speaker 2: drones in the sky. Here's my here's my opinion is
Speaker 2: we're gonna all blow each other up. China's gonna blow
Speaker 2: us up, We're gonna blow them up. We're all just
Speaker 2: gonna blow each other up and die and that. And
Speaker 2: when we do that, it'll be what we did. And
Speaker 2: uh uh, maybe a billion years later, some new form
Speaker 2: of life will evolve and they'll do stuff and they'll
Speaker 2: just keep happening infinitely, and uh, you and I won't
Speaker 2: have to care because we'll have been dead for truly
Speaker 2: billions of years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a that's something I think about often. Everything
Speaker 4: I'm doing, everything i'm saying, thinking everyone I love in
Speaker 4: another fifty sixty years. None of it's gonna matter. That
Speaker 4: hits hard sometimes that's a big one. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 2: Was this a helpful conversation?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be okay good.
Speaker 4: I've been dying to talk to you for a couple
Speaker 4: of years now, and I saw you posted online that
Speaker 4: you were online about fifty five seconds, so I said,
Speaker 4: now today's day.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, cool, I'm glad I got to talk
Speaker 2: Carson from Hey.
Speaker 4: I appreciate your time. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Well, Hey, thank you Carson. You seem like a nice guy.
Speaker 2: I wish you good luck and whatever it is you do.
Speaker 4: You as well, you have good day.
Speaker 2: I take care.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Oh I liked that guy who's a nice guy. It
Speaker 2: is funny. It's funny though, it's just I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's funny with like my you know, he's like, I
Speaker 2: smoke weed every day and what do I do? And
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know. I also smoke weed every
Speaker 2: day and wonder if it's a bad idea. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've been liking it. Lately, I've been liking getting really high.
Speaker 2: But it's there's no there's no such thing. I just
Speaker 2: here's the thing. I just know. There's no such thing
Speaker 2: as free lunch, you know what I mean. Like, nothing
Speaker 2: enjoyable comes for free, and so I don't, like, you
Speaker 2: don't nothing. There's nothing in life where it's like you
Speaker 2: just get this pleasure, you get to feel really good
Speaker 2: and euphoric, and there's no drawbacks whatsoever. Either. It's like, like,
Speaker 2: if you feel good and you fork from like exercise, right,
Speaker 2: you still have to like do a bunch of work
Speaker 2: to fucking get to that point. Or if you feel
Speaker 2: good and you fork from eat a bunch of cookies,
Speaker 2: it's probably bad for you. If you feel good and
Speaker 2: you fork from smoking a bunch of weed, it probably
Speaker 2: fucks up your brain. So there's a cost to everything.
Speaker 2: So I don't that's I just offer that math. I'm
Speaker 2: thinking that smoked weed every day is probably bad, but
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep doing it because, uh, because it's nice. Hello. Hey, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's your name, mister? Yeah, what's your name?
Speaker 5: Eddie?
Speaker 6: Eddie?
Speaker 2: Eddie Eddie? What's up? Eddie?
Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 3: Gek?
Speaker 5: I want to say, uh, it's been a long time listener,
Speaker 5: finally get to talk to you. I work at I
Speaker 5: work at Amazon right now, I'm a driver and every
Speaker 5: day I always always listen to your podcast. Actually right
Speaker 5: now is listening to the gek No while you're online.
Speaker 5: I was like, I was like, I'm just gonna call
Speaker 5: this guy. Why not cool?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks for listening to pod Eddie. You see, I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know why. I like your vibe though.
Speaker 2: You got a nice vibe to you.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you? What's up with you?
Speaker 2: What's up with you?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: How's Amazon? Is it? Is it horrible? You can tell
Speaker 2: you we're not, there's no sponsor. What you can say it?
Speaker 2: You can say if it's horrible. I want to know
Speaker 2: if it's horrible, and I want to know how horrible
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 5: Oh man, so yeah, i'd say it's horrible. I think
Speaker 5: a lot of it. Like since right now it's like
Speaker 5: pink season, it's just been like, well it's kind of
Speaker 5: over now. But when when the whole rush was happening. Shit,
Speaker 5: Like I don't know whoever works in Amazon in the chat,
Speaker 5: but like you're averaging at least like five hundred and
Speaker 5: thirty packages and then like almost like two hundred stops
Speaker 5: and then you're doing that by yourself. Which sucks is
Speaker 5: because like like I see FedEx drivers and I see
Speaker 5: upas drivers like driving in the neighborhood too, and then
Speaker 5: they have helpers. But for Amazon drivers don't. We don't
Speaker 5: have helpers. We have to do this ship by ourselves.
Speaker 2: So I'm curious, like, if Amazon sucks, is there a
Speaker 2: path for you to jump ship and move over to
Speaker 2: like FedEx or UPS?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think like that's a that's what
Speaker 5: people usually do. Like for example, like we had an
Speaker 5: employee that work with us. He just like he was
Speaker 5: working in his route and then I don't know where,
Speaker 5: like a FedEx driver came up to him like, hey,
Speaker 5: like do you want to work for us? Like sometimes
Speaker 5: it's like that or it's just like people you know.
Speaker 5: But obviously, like if you're a driver and you have experience,
Speaker 5: you can just you could just like I don't know,
Speaker 5: you're you're more than likely to get hired in those positions,
Speaker 5: except for UPS. I feel like UPS you have to
Speaker 5: like make your way up to be the driver because
Speaker 5: for them it takes a lot longer, uh to become
Speaker 5: a driver.
Speaker 2: Well, uh, before we continue, I wanna if you if
Speaker 2: you want to give you the chance, if there was
Speaker 2: a particular thing that you wanted to talk about that
Speaker 2: maybe that maybe we could talk about it.
Speaker 5: Uh, it's just about the city Pixie then for sure,
Speaker 5: Like I would say, it's just that, like like there's
Speaker 5: people that work like six days straight, Like I only
Speaker 5: work four days because usually with Amazon, with like the
Speaker 5: hours like they're not like like accurate, they're more you
Speaker 5: work for ten hours and then like you get three
Speaker 5: days off, which is which is pretty cool. But then
Speaker 5: when it comes to peak season, it's like you you
Speaker 5: can either work more and make more money, but then
Speaker 5: like your body is like drained as hell, or you
Speaker 5: could just stay like I only worked four for this season,
Speaker 5: and like I feel like my body's it feels like
Speaker 5: a forty year old. I'm only twenty seven right now.
Speaker 5: My knees are shitty right now. So so yeah, that's
Speaker 5: pretty much. Yeah, but I'm trying to get out of
Speaker 5: this this place. Like that's okay. I've been working here
Speaker 5: for like six years now, so now it's just trying
Speaker 5: to like have better opportunity and and whatnot.
Speaker 2: What is getting out of this place. Look like.
Speaker 5: Uh, working for like the county, either the county or
Speaker 5: doing like anything I t I was, I was going
Speaker 5: to school for cyber of the kiddie, but I feel
Speaker 5: like everybody was doing that ship so I was like, nah,
Speaker 5: I'm like I want to do something else, like maybe
Speaker 5: do I don't know, like something working with servers, networking
Speaker 5: and whatnot?
Speaker 2: Very nice. What do you do? You have any hobbies?
Speaker 2: What do you do outside of working? Uh?
Speaker 5: Usually just build computers a game a lot? Uh I play.
Speaker 5: I've been playing a lot of pickleball daily. It's been
Speaker 5: been pretty fun. But it's a really popular spart right now.
Speaker 2: You said you build computers. Yeah, how do you build
Speaker 2: like computer? That's a stupid question. But uh, like like
Speaker 2: from from scratch, like you build like you use like
Speaker 2: sand and you build a computer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so usually you have to. You know. So there's
Speaker 5: a store I live in Soco, so like Orange County area.
Speaker 5: So there's a store called micro Center. So over there
Speaker 5: they just have a bunch of like PC parts and
Speaker 5: then like you can like I don't know what your budget,
Speaker 5: like it depends what your budget is. Like you can
Speaker 5: go like people spend like I don't know if you're
Speaker 5: familiar with like PC's GEG. But there's like there's people
Speaker 5: that spent like ten fifteen thousand dollars on a computer,
Speaker 5: and like they'll ask me, like, oh, can you build
Speaker 5: this for me? I said, yeah, sure, Like sometimes I'll
Speaker 5: do for free because I just love building computers. But
Speaker 5: then like, but then there's that likelet's like the hustle,
Speaker 5: you know, mentality of like let me just make a
Speaker 5: couple of couple of bucks out of this, you know, Yeah, is.
Speaker 2: That something you would want to pursue as like a
Speaker 2: job like making computers for a living?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean overall, like just anything in tech, you know, I.
Speaker 3: Feel like.
Speaker 5: I feel like I should, uh, just if I'm surrounded
Speaker 5: by it and I love it, and I feel like
Speaker 5: if I can. I know, there's a lot of career
Speaker 5: in it nowadays as far as like our technology progressing,
Speaker 5: it's I might as well just step more into it.
Speaker 5: That makes sense.
Speaker 2: I'm a Mac guy, so I've never experiment experimented with
Speaker 2: like building a piece or a thing like that. Are
Speaker 2: you not a You're not a Mac guy?
Speaker 5: I never had one, but I know my a lot
Speaker 5: of my friends that work in the like it industry,
Speaker 5: they use mac So there's that.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. Have you ever experienced anything, Uh you're like
Speaker 2: seeing any naked people when you're delivering for Amazon? Uh?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 5: Well, you know it's funny. Oh shit. Okay, So there
Speaker 5: was this one time I was working in the hills,
Speaker 5: like like freaking like millions dollar mansions, right, and so
Speaker 5: what happens was that. Okay, So I pulled up to
Speaker 5: the house and I noticed there was a steed tail.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh shit, okay, so I have to
Speaker 5: I have to walk this and that's another downside of
Speaker 5: my Madmazon obviously there's a lot of walking. But going back.
Speaker 5: So yeah, so I got the package. I was like, okay,
Speaker 5: I'm going to go up to the front door. So
Speaker 5: I go up to the front door and like, at
Speaker 5: the corner of my eye I see a guy walking
Speaker 5: with two buckets in his hands. I was like, just
Speaker 5: the corner of my eye, I say, okay, like that's
Speaker 5: the customer. I turned my head and this guy is
Speaker 5: literally like his big is out, like everything is out.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh shit, and he's like it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: like I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Uh like he said something
Speaker 5: kind of weird. He's like, and I'm sorry, like I'm
Speaker 5: cleaning my my hotel right now, Like I don't mind,
Speaker 5: if you don't mind.
Speaker 6: I'm like.
Speaker 5: I said, okay, I'm just gonna put this. I'm like,
Speaker 5: I look at my phone. And the worst part of
Speaker 5: the get was like, Okay, I look at my phone.
Speaker 5: He's like, you can set the package there. And I
Speaker 5: look at my phone and I look at the house number.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh shit, this is the wrong house.
Speaker 5: So I had to turn it back around and just
Speaker 5: be like all right, serious.
Speaker 1: See you later.
Speaker 5: And I just ran out of there. And and yeah, that
Speaker 5: was only the one time for sure that it was
Speaker 5: just that one time I've already seen someone naked. Sadly
Speaker 5: it was a guy, not a girl.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's funny that he wasn't even
Speaker 2: expecting a package.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sure it was the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I guess. So, I guess he was just
Speaker 2: happy that someone could come and look at his penis
Speaker 2: for the first time in forty.
Speaker 5: Years something like that. Yeah, I'm just like shit, But yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, Eddie, what's your I guess before we before we go, uh,
Speaker 2: what's your dream? What's the ultimate Eddie beautiful life look.
Speaker 5: Like the dream. The dream honestly, I'll just say the
Speaker 5: dream is just to be able to just first have
Speaker 5: a home and then family and then kids. That's it.
Speaker 5: Have a good job of course too. I think that's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's pretty much it. I mean, hopefully one day see
Speaker 5: you in person. I didn't even get to to go
Speaker 5: to one of your your live tours, but I don't know,
Speaker 5: do you plan on going soon, because I think you
Speaker 5: said you were going to take a year off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm planning to take this year off, but I
Speaker 2: you know, just I think I'll go back out again
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. It just kind of depends on
Speaker 2: what the demand looks like, like if people, if people
Speaker 2: want to come, I'll go out again. But you know,
Speaker 2: I gotta see.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, it's more just like your mental health,
Speaker 5: you know, I think that's the most important thing. And
Speaker 5: you're already in the right path when it comes to
Speaker 5: working out, because I think working out plays a big
Speaker 5: part of just having that good mental health.
Speaker 2: You know, because man, you say you know you I
Speaker 2: fully agree with you, and I fully appreciate you, but
Speaker 2: you saying this just now is making me realize that
Speaker 2: I've told way too many people that I was going
Speaker 2: to do this, which is which is good because by
Speaker 2: the way I am going, Like I know I've said
Speaker 2: before that, uh, I'm gonna do it, but this I
Speaker 2: really have no reason to not do it this time.
Speaker 2: But I am going to feel like a piece of
Speaker 2: shit if I don't. I'm not even I'm one hundred
Speaker 2: percent going to do it, Like I'm so, I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'm gonna like have abs or whatever, but
Speaker 2: like I do plan, I mean, I whatever, I want
Speaker 2: to weigh as much as I did when I first
Speaker 2: started doing this show. At least, it's like I sacrificed.
Speaker 2: I feel like I sacrificed a lot of my physical
Speaker 2: health to kind of get to a certain point. And
Speaker 2: now that I've enjoyed the uh the ride of that,
Speaker 2: I'm like, Okay, let me uh get back to a
Speaker 2: certain level. Let me let me a stop abandoning my
Speaker 2: like health and shit. So you know I'm excited about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if I may ask, how much did you weigh
Speaker 5: before when like all this, like before you started, I
Speaker 5: probably it.
Speaker 2: Was like I probably was like one seventy or something
Speaker 2: like that, And I think you're so, I was like,
Speaker 2: I'd like to get to a I'd okay, I help.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm getting into too much detail, but I don't care.
Speaker 2: I a healthy BMI for a man. In order to
Speaker 2: achieve a healthy BMI for a man of my height,
Speaker 2: I need to weigh like one hundred and fifty five pounds.
Speaker 2: So I'm about I'm about forty five pounds away right
Speaker 2: now from a healthy BMI, and I think I can
Speaker 2: do that in a year. We'll see, We'll see, I
Speaker 2: might eat my own shit. I'm so, I'm like annoyed
Speaker 2: at myself that I'm putting this in the podcast, but
Speaker 2: I need It's like the It's like the main thing
Speaker 2: I care about in life right now, and so I
Speaker 2: naturally am talking about it a lot, but I think
Speaker 2: I'm giving myself a year to do it, and I
Speaker 2: think I can do it in a year. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not a crazy thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course you can do it. I mean obviously,
Speaker 5: it's just like the discipline. I feel like they say
Speaker 5: that like eating is like eighty percent of like the
Speaker 5: like I guess was either way, It's like I remember
Speaker 5: one time my brother he was in that same path
Speaker 5: and he spoke to a guy that was like, you know,
Speaker 5: he wasn't jacked, but he was like he was pretty good,
Speaker 5: like he was lean, and he asked him like, hey,
Speaker 5: like how did you like how'd you do it?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: How did you get so lean? He's like he's like, honestly,
Speaker 5: he's like eighty percent diet. I could be wrong, Okay,
Speaker 5: So he says like eighty percent diet twenty percent of
Speaker 5: the workout, and I'm like thinking, I'm like that kind
Speaker 5: of makes sense because like overall, like you want to
Speaker 5: intake food that not only uh makes you feel good,
Speaker 5: but gives you that good energy, you know, like if
Speaker 5: you have a bunch of shit, like you know what
Speaker 5: I've been eating a lot lately. But it's it's it's
Speaker 5: understanding you know what them is? Right now? Like with
Speaker 5: with Christmas, Like I mean like shit like like three
Speaker 5: every night, have you at the malis before get?
Speaker 2: Uh? I? What are tomorrow? Are they a sweet thing
Speaker 2: or savory thing?
Speaker 5: It's a it's a it's a it's it has poor
Speaker 5: either has poor chicken. It's it's a Mexican dish. It's
Speaker 5: like it's rolled up like in a flower and then
Speaker 5: for you to eat and you have to like take
Speaker 5: it out of the flower or I think it's called
Speaker 5: a flower but ship. But anyways, Yeah, so it's more
Speaker 5: of just like the die apart. I don't know, how
Speaker 5: do you like plan to like do that the just
Speaker 5: meal prep or do use Well.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, I'm counting calorie every so the set
Speaker 2: the day I like, the morning I finished my last
Speaker 2: show of the last tour, I started like counting calories
Speaker 2: of everything that I eat and I've been doing that
Speaker 2: every day since and I don't plan to stop. And
Speaker 2: it's really just I mean, it's like calories in this
Speaker 2: is all boring shit, but it's like, you know, you
Speaker 2: go on a website, you enter in your height and
Speaker 2: your weight, it tells you how long you have left
Speaker 2: to live, and then it tells you, uh your how
Speaker 2: many calories you burn a day, and then you just
Speaker 2: have to eat uh you know, less than that and
Speaker 2: then you lose weight. So that's kind of what I'm doing.
Speaker 5: Thank Gothic technology.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I upt that there's like an AI thing where
Speaker 2: you can like take a picture of food and then
Speaker 2: like send it to the AI and then it will
Speaker 2: tell you how many calories are in the food. It's
Speaker 2: pretty cool. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's crazy. I mean that's good. Do you are
Speaker 5: you gonna like have a like for like the gym,
Speaker 5: or are you just gonna like have a trainer. He's
Speaker 5: gonna do all your own.
Speaker 2: I'm doing it. I don't like trainers. I don't like
Speaker 2: having like some I liked, I like, I'm I'm I know,
Speaker 2: I don't. I've never liked uh regimented ship like classes
Speaker 2: or whatever. So you know this, You do the compound lifts,
Speaker 2: You do your squat, and you bench in your pull
Speaker 2: and your shoulders, and you do some auxiliaries, and you
Speaker 2: try to lift more than you did the day before
Speaker 2: the last time. And you know, that's kind of what
Speaker 2: I'm doing. Let's make it sure. I hit the compound lifts,
Speaker 2: trying to go three times a week, trying to lift
Speaker 2: a little bit more than I or trying to do
Speaker 2: a little bit more than I did the last time.
Speaker 2: It's been going well, it's really truly, I'm saying, I
Speaker 2: mean this like it. This has been like doing this
Speaker 2: kind of shit has been kind of like the best
Speaker 2: development in my life recently, and I intend to keep
Speaker 2: doing it.
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, yeah, well you could do it. GEK, for sure,
Speaker 5: you can do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, thanks, buddy, I think.
Speaker 5: I mean, I know, like everyone's New Year's resolution and whatnot.
Speaker 5: Like John, your friend might be talking at the gym, GEX,
Speaker 5: so be careful. We might have the wait on line
Speaker 5: for for certain jim equipment.
Speaker 2: Are you are you jacked? Are you? How are you.
Speaker 5: Doing to I'm like, I'm not fat, I'm not skinny.
Speaker 5: I'm all right with eating a whole lot and then
Speaker 5: doing this job, so like it creates a balance.
Speaker 2: Well, Eddie, is there anything else you want to say
Speaker 2: to the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 5: I just want to say thank you GEX for just
Speaker 5: just every day committing to this podcast to just listen
Speaker 5: to people and just being able to give your best feedback.
Speaker 5: You know. And I know you're not a therapist, but
Speaker 5: I have a question for you.
Speaker 2: Get if you don't go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 5: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: How am I doing?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: You know, this morning I was doing pretty great. Uh
Speaker 2: I'm doing I'm really enjoying I truly, I know, you know,
Speaker 2: we just talked about all this stuff, like I like,
Speaker 2: I'm really I went on like a five mile walk today.
Speaker 2: It felt fucking great. I'm you know, I drank a
Speaker 2: diet mountain dew before this and a Celsius so I'm
Speaker 2: on two hundred and fifty million caffeine so that doesn't hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm fucking uh. I think in general, you know, I'm optimistic. Man,
Speaker 2: I'm doing I'm doing all right, I'm doing okay. I
Speaker 2: appreciate you asking.
Speaker 5: Right on, right on. I think I'll enjoyed the rest
Speaker 5: of your your stream and.
Speaker 2: The next buddy, you take care, take care mane bye.
Speaker 2: You know it's you know what, Eddie is like a
Speaker 2: really nice sweet guy. He asking me all these he
Speaker 2: he therapy geckoed me. I hate I I have a
Speaker 2: love hate relationship with telling people what I what I'm
Speaker 2: doing because right because when you tell people like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna go lose weight or whatever, your brain
Speaker 2: gets like a thing from it. But I'm also and
Speaker 2: also like there's a weird like virtue signaling thing about
Speaker 2: it that I don't like doing. You know, I prefer
Speaker 2: to just do it instead of like because that's what
Speaker 2: most fucking people. Most people don't have a podcast, so
Speaker 2: they if they want to do something, they just do it.
Speaker 2: They don't announce it to a bunch of people. But
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe it's good to share, maybe it's
Speaker 2: good to talk about. Maybe other people will want to
Speaker 2: do it. And also Eddie's a sweet guy and he's
Speaker 2: asking me questions and I'm not just gonna be like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to talk to you about this right now.
Speaker 2: You know. I did that with my family a little bit,
Speaker 2: like when my family asked me about, you know, food,
Speaker 2: and they're like, so you're doing what now, You're doing
Speaker 2: a fast? That sounds unhealthy. I'm like, I don't want
Speaker 2: to talk to you about this, but you know, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 2: I'm excited about walking, that might just be what I
Speaker 2: do is just go on walks forever. I can't think
Speaker 2: of anything better to I've been in a real weird
Speaker 2: existential place in my life where I'm really trying to
Speaker 2: figure out, like what's worth doing, and I think the
Speaker 2: I think walking. I think really if you, I think
Speaker 2: if you just walk around and look at stuff and
Speaker 2: then die, I think you did, Okay, Like you eat food,
Speaker 2: do whatever you can. In twenty twenty five, under the
Speaker 2: capitalist system we live in, to procure food and not
Speaker 2: die and just look at stuff and then succumb hopefully
Speaker 2: to natural causes and die and you did a good job. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with that.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hi, can you hear me?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 2: I can. What's your name?
Speaker 3: My name is Carol. Nice to meet you, Gek. This
Speaker 3: is like my first time calling kick ass.
Speaker 2: What's up, Carol? How's life life?
Speaker 3: You know, it's been great? And feeling kind of homesick.
Speaker 3: I'm doing an internship out of state, and I'm like
Speaker 3: feeling a little out of place, you know, kind of
Speaker 3: growing up, and I don't know, I miss home, you know,
Speaker 3: it kind of sucks being away for a while.
Speaker 2: Where what is your internship?
Speaker 3: I worked at a very large art museum.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, I I don't know. This is like my
Speaker 3: first time, you know, kind of being an adult and
Speaker 3: kind of living by myself by myself, if you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 2: By yeah, I mean, do you have roommates or do
Speaker 2: you live by yourself?
Speaker 3: I do have roommates, but they're like all really old,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I'm not like in the same kind
Speaker 3: of age group as they are.
Speaker 2: They're like in there, what's really old to you?
Speaker 3: Really old too? Yeah? Five, I know, I'm kind of
Speaker 3: like carbon dating like, well, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I say that again. You cut out?
Speaker 3: Oh oh, they're like thirty five and twenties. I'm twenty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you is this?
Speaker 3: Are uh?
Speaker 2: Are you in a good state? What state?
Speaker 3: I'm in New York?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Are you in like New York City?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I'm in like I in like Manhattan? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 2: So what what artmies? What armies am we work at?
Speaker 2: Or is that too much information?
Speaker 3: Uh tm? I just imagine.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty sick that I'm gonna I got.
Speaker 2: I guess you could probably take your pick of a
Speaker 2: few of them. That's pretty sweet. Are you enjoying New York?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. Yeah, it's been really nice, like being
Speaker 3: able to just do shit by myself. You know, I
Speaker 3: have a I mean I have a pretty good like
Speaker 3: family situation, which is why I kind of like, I
Speaker 3: feel like a little bit of a bitch and just huh,
Speaker 3: I kind of miss home. But yeah, it's been really great.
Speaker 3: I love where I work and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sick.
Speaker 2: Wh uh Well what's your favorite kind of art?
Speaker 3: Uh? That's a great question. Yeah, I'll ask you what
Speaker 3: what kind of art do you like?
Speaker 2: Uh? I like? Uh, I guess it's called contemporary art, Like, okay,
Speaker 2: I like random bullshit. Where it is this place in
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh that I go to every time in Pittsburgh. It's
Speaker 2: called the Mattress Factory. It's a contemporary arty um and
Speaker 2: they have like a room where it's just a fucking
Speaker 2: red light on a wall and then this plaque next
Speaker 2: to it, and it's like, here's a he and then
Speaker 2: the plaque is like here's a fucking red light on
Speaker 2: a wall, and you're like yeah, and then they're like yeah,
Speaker 2: you know yeah. Like I like, I like random weird bullshit.
Speaker 2: I like, I don't like a renaissance art or anything
Speaker 2: like that. I like random weird, stupid bullshit that you
Speaker 2: look at and you're like, oh, this could be anything,
Speaker 2: you know. Like it's funny like if you like, if
Speaker 2: you took a video of a dog walking around and
Speaker 2: you posted it on YouTube, nobody would look It would
Speaker 2: be like a trash YouTube video that no one give
Speaker 2: a fuck about, you know what I mean. But if
Speaker 2: you took a video of a dog walking around and
Speaker 2: then you like rented out a white room and you
Speaker 2: projected the video of the dog on like a white wall,
Speaker 2: and you put a plaque on it that said dog
Speaker 2: walking around. You could be like that's art, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. You just reminded me. I went to a
Speaker 3: museum the other day and they had a big ass
Speaker 3: like snowshovel just hanging from the ceiling, and I was like, wow, right,
Speaker 3: that's great. Right, I think he's liked that. It was
Speaker 3: pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my kind of shit. I like, I like
Speaker 2: stupid things like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great. Well, I mean my favorite kind of
Speaker 3: art is like really old art. I like, I fucking
Speaker 3: love old art. It's like so weird. It's weird too.
Speaker 3: You know. There's there's these really like interesting ceramic vessels
Speaker 3: from like Peru, and it's like erotic art, Like it's
Speaker 3: just you know, a guy with his dick out or
Speaker 3: a guy getting head. It's like really crazy how people
Speaker 3: thousands of years ago just made really erotic art like that.
Speaker 2: It's just really there's a lot of art that's just
Speaker 2: like some guys stick or some ladies tits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, you just got to I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think I studied art history and that was something
Speaker 3: I did not expect from like like a thousand year
Speaker 3: old civilization. But it's it's great. You know, there's tits out,
Speaker 3: there's you know, vagina out. Of course, there's always stick out.
Speaker 2: But nice, this might be you know what I want
Speaker 2: to do. Like, I'm gonna do a more formal announcement
Speaker 2: of this, but I'll casually drop it into this conversation.
Speaker 2: This year, I'm going to do an art gallery.
Speaker 3: Ah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: It's my like big I'm trying to It's gonna be
Speaker 2: the first big thing that I do that has nothing
Speaker 2: to do with the Gecko, but I'm going to use
Speaker 2: the Gecko audience to promote it. I'm doing it this year.
Speaker 2: I think I'm doing it in March in Brooklyn, and
Speaker 2: I will have more detail soon. But I'm like, I'm crazy,
Speaker 2: crazy excited about it. I've been I've been planning, I've
Speaker 2: been wanting to do it. I've been wanting to do
Speaker 2: something like this since before I started doing the Therapy Gecko,
Speaker 2: like I like, I started writing down ideas for shit
Speaker 2: like in twenty nineteen. But I'm finally executing it in March.
Speaker 3: That's fucking amazing. I'm very happy. Awesome, that sounds really great.
Speaker 2: I should.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll be there so I'll definitely come through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, I like, I like, I like, uh, it'll
Speaker 2: it'll be along the lines of the ship that I like,
Speaker 2: like the dumb crap like like like how uh like
Speaker 2: how how someone paid like a billion dollars and not
Speaker 2: a billion dollars someone paid like a million dollars for
Speaker 2: that stupid banana tape to a wall.
Speaker 3: Ye, yes, yes, yes, I like that kind of shit. Yes,
Speaker 3: you should have at least one work up where it's
Speaker 3: kind of reminiscent of the banana on the wall.
Speaker 2: I think, oh, it's oh, it's all going to be
Speaker 2: reminiscent of a banana on a wall. Like I don't
Speaker 2: I don't draw or anything like that.
Speaker 3: No, that's great. I think you should maybe put I'm
Speaker 3: trying to think of like a banana kind of shaped
Speaker 3: like vegetable, like hmm, maybe like an eggplant or something.
Speaker 3: I think that'd be cool, but it's kind of heavy,
Speaker 3: so I think you need more duct tape. But anyways,
Speaker 3: I think you'll you'll figure it out. You've got a
Speaker 3: great mind.
Speaker 2: What's your name again, Carol? Carol? Well, Carol, good luck
Speaker 2: on your your continuing art journey and being a and
Speaker 2: and and congratulations on your transition into a cosmopolitan a
Speaker 2: person of culture.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Bet.
Speaker 3: I hope you have a great rest of your Monday.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Carol. Have a good night, good bye. Oh hello, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's up? Man?
Speaker 1: Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 2: It's going good? How are you? How's life?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 1: Life is just lovely And I have big questions that
Speaker 1: I'm curious to hear your thoughts on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Why do you think people humans seek romantic relationships.
Speaker 2: I think it's like it's a fundamental biological thing, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean there's like a science to it, right.
Speaker 6: Sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, humans are social creatures and they get
Speaker 2: horny and.
Speaker 1: Valid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so all those things. What's making you want to
Speaker 2: ask this question? Is is there something to this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, people are always like, oh,
Speaker 1: the second you don't want a relationship, that's when it'll happen.
Speaker 1: That's not But I feel like, yeah, exactly, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm in a state of life right now where
Speaker 1: things are just like going well. I'm enjoying it, you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if I even really desire one
Speaker 1: right now, just because I feel like I'm getting like
Speaker 1: a lot of happiness for my friendships and family.
Speaker 2: It's great. Yeah, so are are you like you think
Speaker 2: you need one? But just because you people are telling
Speaker 2: you you do, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, and that's that's you know, it's the holidays
Speaker 1: right now, and like I feel like going home for
Speaker 1: the holidays. There's a lot of pressure for sure. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: like when you're gonna get into a relationship. It's just
Speaker 1: interesting that like it's part of society.
Speaker 2: It is part of society. Are you like, is this
Speaker 2: something you've ever wanted?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I feel like throughout the years, I definitely have wanted it,
Speaker 1: and like I have like gone out of my way
Speaker 1: to seek it. But just lately I just kind of like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Things are just things are just going.
Speaker 2: Well, cool, good, what's going well?
Speaker 1: I have a job that I really like. I just
Speaker 1: I have a group of friends that like we have
Speaker 1: common interests, which is like has it always been the
Speaker 1: case growing up? I don't know, just going.
Speaker 2: Good man, cool? Cool? How old are you twenty five?
Speaker 2: Twenty five? Very nice?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Yeah. The whole thing of like it'll happen when you
Speaker 2: least expect it, and it happens when you don't want
Speaker 2: it is wrong, it's not true. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't even I don't know why people say that.
Speaker 1: I don't know either.
Speaker 2: Things tend to happen mainly as a result of intentional
Speaker 2: effort towards them happening.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: So if you don't put forth any intentional effort towards
Speaker 2: something happening, why the fuck would it just happen?
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 1: I talked with my sister about this, and she's a
Speaker 1: little older than me, and her her thoughts were like that,
Speaker 1: as you get older, your friends become less accessible because
Speaker 1: they're in relationships. Definitely, yeah, and that's why she started
Speaker 1: seeking a relationship. But I don't know. It just it.
Speaker 1: I find it just weird.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're lucky if you're if look, man, if
Speaker 2: you think your life is good, then you're lucky, and
Speaker 2: you should. You should just keep enjoying all the things
Speaker 2: that are good about your life instead of thinking you
Speaker 2: need something else.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, Lyle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, yes, is
Speaker 2: that it?
Speaker 3: That's it?
Speaker 2: All right? Well, god damn, you don't want to say
Speaker 2: say some cuss words, say something, say give me you
Speaker 2: know what? No, never mind, Sorry, I don't know why,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm crazy today. Is there anything else you
Speaker 2: want to say to the people of the computer before
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 3: Live life?
Speaker 2: There we go, see you letter, cheers, never goes on
Speaker 2: the line, taking your phone calls every night. Deaconess teaching you.
Speaker 3: Your life
Speaker 2: An expert