Speaker 1: Hello, what's up? Welcome back to gek Mail. Gek Mail
Speaker 1: is what I am calling the version of this podcast
Speaker 1: where I don't take any phone calls and I just
Speaker 1: rant alone for an hour or so and read emails.
Speaker 1: It's been a new development in my podcasting journey. I
Speaker 1: felt like I should switch it up a little bit again.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm probably not gonna do this every
Speaker 1: single week, but I'm having fun with it, and so
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep going. I guess before before we start,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say I, if you live in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: I am coming to your city to do my final
Speaker 1: Therapy Gecko show of the year on November twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: and before that I will be going to Europe and
Speaker 1: the United Kingdom to do Therapy Gecko shows in Amsterdam, Berlin,
Speaker 1: manch Esther, London, Cologne, Dublin, and Glasgow. And if you
Speaker 1: want to get tickets for any of those, you can
Speaker 1: do it at Therapy Gecko tour dot com. That's my
Speaker 1: only little plug. So we let's let's start talking about stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to start these episodes by just talking about
Speaker 1: like things from my life for my week, and I
Speaker 1: only only have two of them. So the first one
Speaker 1: is I was so I was watching porn last night.
Speaker 1: I was watching porn last night and a little I
Speaker 1: was on Pornhub and a little ad came up. And
Speaker 1: the ad it said, like, watch fat, ugly guys fuck
Speaker 1: hot girls. And it showed a picture of a guy
Speaker 1: naked next to a hot girl. And I swear to God,
Speaker 1: the guy, I swear on my life. The guy in
Speaker 1: the picture had the exact same body as me, exactly
Speaker 1: the same. His hair was placed the exact same way,
Speaker 1: his belly looked the exact same And it was a
Speaker 1: bit of a wake up call for me if I
Speaker 1: literally I took a screenshot of it so I couldn't
Speaker 1: refer back to it. So you know, listen, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be on the record saying that my weight
Speaker 1: loss journey is starting soon, because then people will shove
Speaker 1: it in my face a year later if I get fatter.
Speaker 1: But it just that did that shocked and appalled me.
Speaker 1: I will say, but it's good, it's a good Actually
Speaker 1: it didn't. It more, it more so motivated me. It
Speaker 1: confirmed There's something kind of nice about like an objective
Speaker 1: confirmation that, like you know, you got you do something,
Speaker 1: you gotta do something anyway. Uh that's one thing. The
Speaker 1: other thing is this was today. You know, I try
Speaker 1: pretty hard to not be judgmental on this show and
Speaker 1: in my I try in my real life to not
Speaker 1: be judgmental. And this is a recent thing. This is
Speaker 1: like since I've started. I mean, I think throughout my
Speaker 1: life I've tried to be judgmental, but I think now
Speaker 1: that it's become like, uh, you know, literally not like
Speaker 1: what this podcast is about, but like, you know, I
Speaker 1: just try. I try not to be judgmental, but it's
Speaker 1: but it's it's a if you don't if you're not
Speaker 1: always actively it's a thing you have to actively do
Speaker 1: because as a human being, I think your default is
Speaker 1: to be judgmental and be like, you know, fuck that guy,
Speaker 1: And so I judge people all the time because it's
Speaker 1: the human default. I'm I can be as judgmental as
Speaker 1: any other person. And I was in an elevator to
Speaker 1: get to my apartment. But I was in my apartments
Speaker 1: elevator and I got on and this girl pressed too,
Speaker 1: and I was looking at her with a lot of judgment.
Speaker 1: I was like, what are you, What the fuck are
Speaker 1: you doing? Taking the elevator to the second floor. There's
Speaker 1: just literally one set of stairs. It's not like the
Speaker 1: whole thing we have to go up multiple sets of
Speaker 1: stairs to get to the second floor. Just one set
Speaker 1: of stairs. And I was really judging this lady for
Speaker 1: taking the elevator to the second floor, and then I
Speaker 1: realized I live on the third floor. That's all it
Speaker 1: took for me to feel like I was better than
Speaker 1: this person. It's just one floor. It's like, well, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, being lazy. I live on the
Speaker 1: third floor. You live on the second floor. There's a difference.
Speaker 1: That's all it took was one floor to get to
Speaker 1: step to make me a true, much better person than
Speaker 1: this lady taking the elevator to the second floor. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get better at doing this. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: better at externalizing like this. But uh, we're gonna We're
Speaker 1: gonna keep let's keep trying. Someone in the chat said,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I agree with humanity's default setting being judgmental.
Speaker 1: I kind of think that it is, though, I kind
Speaker 1: of think that it is, like it's definitely well because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of reasons why I think it is
Speaker 1: I think, well, one, it's fun, It's really fun. It
Speaker 1: feels good. It feels good. Like it's in the same
Speaker 1: way that like eating candy feels good and smoking weed
Speaker 1: feels good and all these other like you know, fucking
Speaker 1: hating someone and and thinking that they suck and you're
Speaker 1: so much better than them. There's like it. I think
Speaker 1: it like sainifically, probably releases a lot of dopamine in
Speaker 1: your brain. And also you just you need something to
Speaker 1: grab onto, like you need to. Kind of life is
Speaker 1: a weird, abstract thing. It's intangible, and when you can
Speaker 1: feel like you're better than someone else, you feel like
Speaker 1: you exist more. And that's I think we all want
Speaker 1: to kind of feel like we exist. And so it
Speaker 1: helps to make someone to look at someone else and
Speaker 1: be like, you suck. That's why I do it. I guess,
Speaker 1: all right, should we take some emails? Should we look
Speaker 1: at some stuff? Let's do that. Let's do let's do
Speaker 1: some Let's do some emails. All right. This is from
Speaker 1: Steph subject line advice slash opinion. Okay, I can do
Speaker 1: an opinion. Steph says love your show been subscribed on
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts since twenty twenty one. You have the ability
Speaker 1: to squeeze honesty out of people with your excellently timed responses.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Steph. And by providing comfort through your own honesty,
Speaker 1: you're able to unlock more interesting conversations. Thank you, Steph. Okay,
Speaker 1: quick question, how should I tell my five year old
Speaker 1: his dad is in prison? Or should I tell him
Speaker 1: at all? Oh? God, oh man, I'm not the right
Speaker 1: uh hm, I'll let me think about this. Should I
Speaker 1: wait until he understands more when he is older, or
Speaker 1: waiting cause something emotionally irreversible. Thanks. I'm trying to debate
Speaker 1: if I have an opinion on this, because I don't have. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember what life was like when you
Speaker 1: were five, Like when I was let's see, I think
Speaker 1: let's see, my parents got divorced in like two thousand
Speaker 1: three or one, and I was like five or seven,
Speaker 1: and it kind of I think, because I understood it
Speaker 1: so young, it was just like a part I like,
Speaker 1: like it was something I I can't remember life before that.
Speaker 1: And so maybe if you tell your kid now, like
Speaker 1: your kid will always like that's the reality that they'll
Speaker 1: grow up in. And I mean, it's the I guess
Speaker 1: it's the reality that they'll grow up in whether or
Speaker 1: not you tell them. God, I have to admit I
Speaker 1: don't have I don't have advice for this person at all.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Well, he's gonna find out eventually, do I
Speaker 1: I get this is one of the ones where I'd
Speaker 1: want to talk to them because I'm curious if the
Speaker 1: if your son, I mean your son probably asks about
Speaker 1: his dad, right, what are five year olds like? Do
Speaker 1: they talk? Do they have thoughts and opinions about, do
Speaker 1: they observe stuff? Are they real people? Kind of? I
Speaker 1: guess there's probably a way to explain it. I could
Speaker 1: see an episode of Sesame Street where like Elmo's father
Speaker 1: is in jail for embezzlement and uh and and like
Speaker 1: some celebrity has to come in and gently explain to
Speaker 1: him that. So I bet I five A five year
Speaker 1: could probably handle it. I don't know, let's get but
Speaker 1: what someone said, well, she also said, will waiting cause
Speaker 1: something emotionally irreversible? I don't think so. I don't think
Speaker 1: that will cause something emotionally irver irreversible. I think if
Speaker 1: you hit him or deprived him of food, that would
Speaker 1: be emotionally irreversible. But just telling him that reality of
Speaker 1: his dad being in prison. I mean, it's not your
Speaker 1: fault that his dad is in prison. Do the I don't.
Speaker 1: I want to let I I guess my opinion. If
Speaker 1: I had to give an opinion on this, I would say,
Speaker 1: you're clearly you're a person who is acting with your
Speaker 1: child's best interest, and so I think as long as
Speaker 1: you as long as that's your priority, you're not going
Speaker 1: to cause emotional, emotionally irreversible damage to your kid. I
Speaker 1: think as long as you do that and give them food. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is from Sean subject line. I know it's the check.
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me see what the chat thinks. Someone
Speaker 1: says there's five year olds that shoot guns. That's true.
Speaker 1: Someone said children themselves are known for telling the truth
Speaker 1: without sugarcoating it. So there it's a possibility that so
Speaker 1: you're really if you just say, hey, your dad's in prison,
Speaker 1: maybe that maybe that's well, we'll give him the uh uh.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're speaking his language there. Okay. This is from
Speaker 1: Sean subject line the BBW issue. Sean says, hey, there,
Speaker 1: my g straight to the point. I couldn't tell I'm handsome,
Speaker 1: but like I'm really all right, I do sports. I'm
Speaker 1: six foot one tall. Thing is I'm really into bbw's
Speaker 1: for the layman that stands for big beautiful women, And like,
Speaker 1: I broke up with my recent girlfriend because she wasn't
Speaker 1: fat and ugly enough and all so shorts. I forgot
Speaker 1: to mention the ugly factor. Now, when I date fat
Speaker 1: chicks that most guys will rate as a three, they
Speaker 1: like ask, they ask, why would a guy like you
Speaker 1: even call me on a date? And that's always the trap? Okay,
Speaker 1: And then he writes, Then he writes, I am very
Speaker 1: very very very very sorry if someone finds this offensive. Well,
Speaker 1: here's what I don't understand about. Here's the I guess
Speaker 1: the main thing that I understand about this email is
Speaker 1: what do you What is your issue here? I guess
Speaker 1: in your own brain what there? You could observe other issues,
Speaker 1: but that's for I don't know what is the issue
Speaker 1: in this email. I'm really into bvdwas I broke up
Speaker 1: with my recent girlfriend because she wasn't fat and ugly enough,
Speaker 1: And now women will ask, why would a guy like
Speaker 1: you even call me on a date? And that's always
Speaker 1: the trap. Why is that a trap? You don't sound
Speaker 1: I mean everything else aside I was I was just
Speaker 1: I don't really, I don't, I only really, I only
Speaker 1: within the last two seconds did it come to me
Speaker 1: that this person might be fucking with me. But I
Speaker 1: part of me thinks they're not. I mean that's cool.
Speaker 1: I mean try to why is this surprise? Wouldn't it
Speaker 1: be like this is like kind of a good because
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be worse for you if like you were,
Speaker 1: like I really can only be attracted to like really
Speaker 1: really really attractive people. Wouldn't that make your life more difficult?
Speaker 1: This is like a good thing. I guess yeah, because
Speaker 1: when you say that's a trap, I don't understand how
Speaker 1: what why you're referring to this as a trap anyway, Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean that's cool this this guy's got a good life. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: what does the chat think? Just tell the woman that
Speaker 1: she's your type. I'm sure a lot of women would
Speaker 1: appreciate that. What I guess so well, I don't is
Speaker 1: that like when someone when you when if someone says
Speaker 1: to you this is a this is a question for
Speaker 1: the people, for the people listening, if you're dating someone
Speaker 1: then they say that you're like physically you are their type.
Speaker 1: How does that make you feel? Do you feel good?
Speaker 1: Do you feel good about that? Or are you like
Speaker 1: me personally? Me personally? I have had experiences before where
Speaker 1: someone has told me they're like, I am into hairy
Speaker 1: Jewish guys and maybe this is like a guy thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But when someone says that to me,
Speaker 1: I'm like that cool, sick. I'm honored to be the
Speaker 1: hairy Jewish guy in your life at this moment. I
Speaker 1: take no issue with that. But that maybe that's not
Speaker 1: a universal Maybe that's not universal. All right? What else
Speaker 1: does the chat say? He sounds like he doesn't think
Speaker 1: he deserves someone attractive. I didn't get that feeling from
Speaker 1: them at all. Someone in the chat says, I am
Speaker 1: an ugly guy and beautiful women like me. Lol. That's
Speaker 1: really nice, all right? This is from spin Top, subject
Speaker 1: line boyfriend wants to move out. I don't. I'm unsure
Speaker 1: if you're still reading emails, but here's mine. You didn't
Speaker 1: really need to include that. My name is Daniel and
Speaker 1: I'm currently in a relationship with another man. We both
Speaker 1: live in South Florida, and after dealing with Hurricane Milton,
Speaker 1: which fortunately did not hit us, Both my partner and
Speaker 1: I have learned and come to the conclusion that due
Speaker 1: to climate change growing worse over the years, things will
Speaker 1: get worse in the state of Florida and we will
Speaker 1: soon be living underwater. So my partner wants to move out.
Speaker 1: I've lived in Florida my entire life. I'm twenty two
Speaker 1: years old, so moving out to a new tour moving
Speaker 1: out is new territory for me. And secondly, I'm currently
Speaker 1: in two growing punk bands. That's pretty cool. I'm really
Speaker 1: into the punk scene, and I know people who know
Speaker 1: larger artists me. Moving out would mean me leaving behind
Speaker 1: everything I've built and having to start all over. Music
Speaker 1: is my passion. I want to be like the theoc's
Speaker 1: and perform in front of large audiences and make music
Speaker 1: for a living. Okay, I'm gonna finish reading this before
Speaker 1: I get my thoughts. I've told him that if I
Speaker 1: were to move, I'd be interested in checking out Philly, Chicago, Jersey,
Speaker 1: or Seattle, all great cities. He's okay with Seattle, mainly
Speaker 1: because all the other cities I've mentioned to him are
Speaker 1: He's okay with Seattle and all the other cities I've
Speaker 1: mentioned to him are quote unquote get it to him
Speaker 1: except his home state of New Jersey. I am really
Speaker 1: unsure how the music scene is like and how the
Speaker 1: city looks over in Seattle. I'm just overall scared that
Speaker 1: I'll be leaving behind everything and end up in another
Speaker 1: city with nothing for me. I'll be losing all my
Speaker 1: friends that I have here, and I'm scared I'll end
Speaker 1: up having to give up on my dream. One Currently
Speaker 1: I'm building up closer to achieving my dream. Please Green Gecko,
Speaker 1: give me your wisdom. Sincerely, Daniel Oh, I actually I
Speaker 1: really like this email. There's a lot to think about here,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I have some experience, first of all,
Speaker 1: as your fucking boyfriend been to these cities, because if
Speaker 1: he's it would kind of piss me off if he's
Speaker 1: just saying that they're ghettos without being there. Chicago and
Speaker 1: Philly are awesome cities. There are the two cities. I
Speaker 1: live in New York, but I'm I'm constantly thinking about
Speaker 1: leaving one day, and Chicago and Philly are like next
Speaker 1: up on my list. Both like great walkable cities with
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, public transport and culture. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure Philly and Chicago have Here's the thing, dude,
Speaker 1: you live in South abround Broward County. Where the fuck
Speaker 1: is Broward County? I guarantee Chicago Philly both have much
Speaker 1: better scenes for for what you want to do than
Speaker 1: Broward County, Florida. Okay, you're like, yeah, you're in You're
Speaker 1: like near Miami. I don't know what to Miami. When
Speaker 1: I think Miami, this is completely I mean, I've been
Speaker 1: to Miami a bunch of times. But when I think Miami,
Speaker 1: I don't think grungey punk. I think like pristine like
Speaker 1: DJ club people. If you want to get into some
Speaker 1: grungey like punk shit, then I mean, yeah, Philly Jersey
Speaker 1: are are the way to go. But here's what this
Speaker 1: really comes down to is I suppose a you're currently
Speaker 1: into growing punk bands like you Okay, So basically, you
Speaker 1: have a community already where you live, and you really
Speaker 1: like your community where you live, and you're afraid of
Speaker 1: having to leave it behind and start and new. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of ways to think about this. Wanting to
Speaker 1: leave Florida because it's going to be underwater is a
Speaker 1: good idea. I think, I don't know. Wanting to leave
Speaker 1: Florida because it's going to be underwater soon. Is is
Speaker 1: is not a bad idea. I mean, I'm sure that
Speaker 1: the other people, there's a bunch of people who live
Speaker 1: down there, they're probably going to figure it out.
Speaker 2: But I think if you really want to like, listen
Speaker 2: to what you want to do, right, listen to what
Speaker 2: you want to do, If you.
Speaker 1: Really want to leave Florida, and you really believe that
Speaker 1: the future of your life is outside of Florida, then
Speaker 1: we can go further into reasons why you should feel
Speaker 1: confident in your decision. But if the only thing that's
Speaker 1: driving you out of Florida is your boyfriend and you're
Speaker 1: twenty two, it's not like you said, fucking married and
Speaker 1: you have kids and a whole thing, then I wouldn't
Speaker 1: do this just because your boyfriend wants you to. I'm one.
Speaker 1: I remember I grew up. I would grow up. I
Speaker 1: didn't grow up in Philly. I went to college in Philly,
Speaker 1: and I had a little comedy club in my base
Speaker 1: mint in Philadelphia. It was called Cave I ran it.
Speaker 1: I ran like a little comedy club out of my
Speaker 1: basement for three years in Philadelphia. And I remember when
Speaker 1: I left Philadelphia to go to Atlanta. I was feeling
Speaker 1: of and I was twenty two. I was feeling very
Speaker 1: very similar way as you feel that I had a
Speaker 1: community and I had built so much up already, and
Speaker 1: I was like, should I should I leave and pursue
Speaker 1: further objectives or should I foster the growing community that
Speaker 1: I already have, and blah blah blah. And here here's
Speaker 1: what I ultimately think is that you got to operate
Speaker 1: from an abundance mindset, especially when you're fucking young. You
Speaker 1: don't want to just be like, all right, we settled,
Speaker 1: we did it. When you're twenty two, yeah, operate from
Speaker 1: that abundance mindset and like, oh the Philly punks. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take over the Philly punk scene. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: out to shows seven nights a week. I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: to strangers. I'm gonna start putting on my own shows.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna form a new band, I'm gonna get involved.
Speaker 1: Because any using you can go to any of these
Speaker 1: fucking cities, and if you just keep showing up and
Speaker 1: putting on your own things that other people go to,
Speaker 1: you'll be fine. Right, You'll be fine because you're operating
Speaker 1: from a mindset that there's always gonna be more opportunities
Speaker 1: for you. But if you're just doing this because your boyfriends,
Speaker 1: who kind of sounds I was about to say he
Speaker 1: sounds like an asshole, but you all you've said is
Speaker 1: that he said that these places are ghettos. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say he's an asshole because I don't know him,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't sound it from everything I know about him,
Speaker 1: which is limited. It sounds like, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you need to make major, major life decisions
Speaker 1: based on what he wants to do. But that's my
Speaker 1: ultimate feeling about this is that whatever wherever you do,
Speaker 1: wherever you go, just take have an abind have an
Speaker 1: abundance mindset that there's actually a lot more things to
Speaker 1: do and people to meet, and bands to play in
Speaker 1: and music to create, and you'll be fine no matter
Speaker 1: what you do. What's the chat say? The chat just says,
Speaker 1: why are you so Harry? Are you Italian? All right?
Speaker 1: Someone said, if you've got money, just move already. The
Speaker 1: world is too nice to just stick to one location.
Speaker 1: I feel that way in a sense. I feel like
Speaker 1: if you just grow up. I feel like if I
Speaker 1: mean this person would they say, they say that they
Speaker 1: lived Did you grow up there? Oh yeah, I've lived
Speaker 1: in Florida my whole life. You've lived in Florida your
Speaker 1: whole life. If you've lived here your whole life. In
Speaker 1: twenty two I think I think it helps the soul
Speaker 1: to see what life is like in other parts of
Speaker 1: the country, in the world. Someone said, modern society tells
Speaker 1: you that you need to settle somewhere, build roots, establish
Speaker 1: a four oh one k. People all over have very fulfilling,
Speaker 1: non traditional lifestyles. I agree with that very much. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: what did someone say that I'm in I live in
Speaker 1: Tampa and the punk scene is way better here than
Speaker 1: in Broward, But it's even better in Seattle. Yeah. All
Speaker 1: those places that you mentioned, bro, Yeah yeah, dude, all
Speaker 1: those places that you mentioned are gonna be way cooler
Speaker 1: than Broward County, Florida. Go go, God, have an adventure, man,
Speaker 1: Go have an adventure. Maybe who knows, maybe you'll find
Speaker 1: a new boyfriend or you can or keep the one
Speaker 1: you have. I don't know. I don't know why I'm
Speaker 1: railing on your boyfriend. Maybe he's nice, I don't know him. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on. Okay. This is from Ebbie, subject line
Speaker 1: poolboy woes Hi GEK, love you, thanks dog. I work
Speaker 1: at a hotel with some friends. I'm the pool boy
Speaker 1: slash maintenance worker. It's a nice job when it's not
Speaker 1: insanely busy, but I'm the evening worker, so I'm in
Speaker 1: charge of closing the pool, cleaning and restocking. I got
Speaker 1: called in one morning after closing the previous night and
Speaker 1: the pool was a mess, dirty towels, water all over
Speaker 1: the floor, bathroom lights were on, and the pool room
Speaker 1: lights were on. Turns out the hotel front desk night
Speaker 1: shift let their buddies. Wait, okay, hello on these an
Speaker 1: evening work. I was too busy reading the actual like
Speaker 1: I was too busy saying the words to actually comprehend
Speaker 1: what I was reading. Okay, he's in charge of cleaning
Speaker 1: and restocking. He got called in in the morning after
Speaker 1: closing the previous night. Okay, all right, So he closes,
Speaker 1: comes in in the morning and everything's fucked up. Turns
Speaker 1: out the hotel front desk night shift let their buddies
Speaker 1: in after hours to the pool, and they didn't clean
Speaker 1: up after themselves. I had told my supervisor because if
Speaker 1: they saw that on camera, they'd think I forgot to
Speaker 1: lock the door. It's fucked up. About half the front
Speaker 1: desk workers talk down to me now and treat me
Speaker 1: like shit. My family tells me I'm a party pooper,
Speaker 1: but I was just doing my job. Your family told
Speaker 1: you you're a party pooper. To be fair, they could
Speaker 1: have cleaned up after themselves and I wouldn't have known
Speaker 1: they were there. Is this deserved? Bro would have gotten
Speaker 1: chemical burns if it was being super chlorinated for fecal contamination.
Speaker 1: The story is funny to me now, except it's not
Speaker 1: fun when I'm on shift with those front desk workers.
Speaker 1: Levey again, ghek, you make this hell job a lot better? Wow,
Speaker 1: Oh that's fucked up. Your family told you you were
Speaker 1: being a party pooper. Damn did an? I'm I feel
Speaker 1: bad for you. Did anybody in this situation have your back?
Speaker 1: Do you confront the front desk worker? Why do they
Speaker 1: talk down to you? That sucks man? BRO would have
Speaker 1: gotten chemical burns if I was being if it was
Speaker 1: being super chlorinated for yeah right, yeah? Did you have
Speaker 1: to clean up that morning on the clean the fucking pool?
Speaker 1: Clean up after these people? Is this does walkay. The
Speaker 1: main question you said is is this deserved? Is what deserved? Like?
Speaker 1: Is the is your anger? Are your feelings valid? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Of course, But the question becomes like what do you
Speaker 1: what do you actually do about it? Which is an
Speaker 1: interesting one. Do you do you have you? Have you?
Speaker 1: I assume you stood up for yourself and you told
Speaker 1: them that, uh, they can't. They can't be fucking around
Speaker 1: with you doing this anymore unless you didn't. Man, I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like a piece of ship because this
Speaker 1: is one of this is one. This is one of
Speaker 1: those emails where I want to what what and Ebbie,
Speaker 1: if you, ebb, if you you? If you? If you
Speaker 1: hear this, this is a two week old email. If
Speaker 1: you hear this, call in. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: this story because I have questions for you. I want
Speaker 1: to know how you responded to this, because like we
Speaker 1: can here's here's my here's my here's my thing with Like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Reddit posts out there about like
Speaker 1: am I overreacting? Or are my feelings valid? And they're
Speaker 1: the question of whether or not one's feelings are valid
Speaker 1: is like, it's an interesting question because I look, if
Speaker 1: you're asking me my perspective are your feelings about fucking?
Speaker 1: Of course? Yeah, of course there are These people were
Speaker 1: fucking with you, right, But the question of whether or
Speaker 1: not your feelings are valid, I guess only matters if
Speaker 1: it leads to an action of some kind, right, like
Speaker 1: like did you what did you say to these people
Speaker 1: the way you tell your boss? Are you in a
Speaker 1: position where you can where you really feel like you've
Speaker 1: been disrespected enough that you can go look for a
Speaker 1: job somewhere else? Are you in that financial position to
Speaker 1: be able to do that? So that's the question of like,
Speaker 1: are your feelings valid? Of course they are, but that's
Speaker 1: not the question. The question is what should you do now?
Speaker 1: And those are all the questions I have for you.
Speaker 1: Is are you in a position where if you really
Speaker 1: feel like you're in a place where everywhere, your family
Speaker 1: and your coworkers and your boss are all just like
Speaker 1: out for you, Like at a certain point, when do
Speaker 1: you kind of stand up for yourself and go either, well,
Speaker 1: you stand up to yourself for them, and you go, hey,
Speaker 1: I can't be treated this way. And then if they
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck, when are you like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: need to leverage myself somewhere else And are you in
Speaker 1: a position to do that? Can you save until you're
Speaker 1: in a position to do that? Yeah? Call in, man,
Speaker 1: these are questions I want to I want to ask
Speaker 1: you about the situation. But uh but no, you're not
Speaker 1: You're not crazy for uh not for having somebody else's
Speaker 1: mess blamed on you. Oh wait, is he in the chat? Oh?
Speaker 1: He's in the chat? Oh? Okay, hold on, Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know how this is gonna work. They're all friends,
Speaker 1: he said. The funniest thing is the manager hates them.
Speaker 1: But nothing was really done. Okay, call, he said, I'll call,
Speaker 1: he said, I'll call in when I can. But management
Speaker 1: fucking sucks here. All right, Well, now he's in the
Speaker 1: he's in the chat. Okay, let's keep going. This is
Speaker 1: from McKenzie. This is from McKenzie. Subject line should I
Speaker 1: transfer schools? Mackenzie says, Hi, I get. I transferred to
Speaker 1: university this semester. I have been taking classes in person
Speaker 1: and I absolutely love the program I am in. With
Speaker 1: that being said, I have been considering transferring to a
Speaker 1: different schools online program for a couple of reasons. One
Speaker 1: is that it's a two hour commute to my school
Speaker 1: one way. Oh, Jesus Man. That's four hours. This program
Speaker 1: is only in person and only offered on specific days
Speaker 1: at only one time. Next semester. They wanted me on
Speaker 1: campus four days a week, which I can't do because
Speaker 1: I have a job that is directly related to my degree.
Speaker 1: It's the same degree, same cost covered by FASTPA. The
Speaker 1: only difference is it's online versus in person, and I
Speaker 1: have fomo. What do you think I should do? Well?
Speaker 1: The court? Well, you say you have fomo, Well, I'm
Speaker 1: curious about it. If you, what do you what do
Speaker 1: you have fomo about? I've been taking class, this is
Speaker 1: in person, and I absolutely love the program I'm in. Well,
Speaker 1: I here's the thing I can't really like. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to answer what I think you should do, But
Speaker 1: the questions I would have are what do you love
Speaker 1: about the program? And what are you afraid of missing
Speaker 1: out on? And are the things you love about the
Speaker 1: program things that specifically are about being in person? And
Speaker 1: are and is that? And are the things you have
Speaker 1: fomo about specifically related to being in person? Here? Because
Speaker 1: if you have fomo about, just like you just naturally
Speaker 1: want to be around other people. If you have fomo
Speaker 1: that you just naturally want to be around other people
Speaker 1: who are in your field and connect with them. If
Speaker 1: you choose to do the online route, I feel like
Speaker 1: there's creative solutions to do that, like a fucking discord
Speaker 1: with the other classmates, or like weekly in person meetups
Speaker 1: or something like that. There's there's I think you can
Speaker 1: kind of have your cake and eat it too, if
Speaker 1: that's what you want to do. So I guess I
Speaker 1: would say that. That's what I would say if I
Speaker 1: had to kind of think critically about this, is that
Speaker 1: I would look at what is if you decide if
Speaker 1: you go through all the logistics and you're like, I really,
Speaker 1: if you go through all the logistics and your really
Speaker 1: you are trying to make in person work, but you've
Speaker 1: you've landed on like I fucking just can't make it work.
Speaker 1: I have to do the online thing. I wouldn't And again,
Speaker 1: you have to do your exhaustive pros and cons list
Speaker 1: before you make that decision. But if you go down
Speaker 1: the path of like, you know, I just have to
Speaker 1: do this shit online, I wouldn't completely give up the
Speaker 1: things that you love about it. I would be like,
Speaker 1: how can I hybrid this? How can I take the
Speaker 1: things I love about being in this in person program
Speaker 1: and find a way to sort of fulfill those vessels,
Speaker 1: sort of fulfill those desires while also doing this online
Speaker 1: program and kind of, I guess, get creative with how
Speaker 1: you can do that. Yeah, call in about this too,
Speaker 1: call it about everyone, call in. You know, when I
Speaker 1: first started doing these emails, these email things, I was
Speaker 1: really just like, I want to Well, it's fun to rant,
Speaker 1: it's fun to talk on the podcast. But now I'm
Speaker 1: now I'm like, oh man, I feel like I'm sometimes
Speaker 1: I'm doing the phone call podcast and I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: letting the callers talk too much. I'm not getting I'm
Speaker 1: not able to talk. And then I do this one
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is a lot of me. This
Speaker 1: is a lot of me talking. But it's fun. They're both,
Speaker 1: they're both interesting, they're both I'm having a good time.
Speaker 1: This is from Ethan subject line I was on stage
Speaker 1: with you. Oh shit, I know exactly who this guy is.
Speaker 1: After yeah, I know exactly who this guy is. Hello, Lyle,
Speaker 1: hope you're doing well. I went to your Philly show
Speaker 1: in September of twenty twenty three, and we talked about
Speaker 1: how I am the main interpreter for my deaf brother.
Speaker 1: I do remember you. I wanted to let you know
Speaker 1: that was a big weight off my shoulders, just getting
Speaker 1: it out there that I'm stressed about it. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Now my family has been making more of an effort
Speaker 1: to communicate with my brother and making it less my job. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I remember this guy Ethan came on stage in
Speaker 1: my Philly show a year ago and he talked about
Speaker 1: how he's the main interpreter for his deaf brother and
Speaker 1: that he was stressed out about having all of this
Speaker 1: uh responsibility and kind of like what he should what
Speaker 1: he should do about it. Yeah, I remember that conversation.
Speaker 1: I'm also in the process of getting certified to be
Speaker 1: an interpreter, so I can possibly be able to relieve
Speaker 1: some other family members of the stress of constantly being
Speaker 1: the closest interpreter. See. We talked about that because I
Speaker 1: was like, because he was the main interpreter for his brother,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, can you can your brother
Speaker 1: or I don't know what government shit you can get,
Speaker 1: or like, is there a way to have like some
Speaker 1: other like someone who's whose job is deaf interpreting to
Speaker 1: you know, be with your brother so that you can
Speaker 1: go and live your own life. Yeah, we talked about that. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's cool that you're like, Oh, I'm gonna go be
Speaker 1: that guy for someone else. I like that. All of
Speaker 1: this is to say thank you for providing the platform
Speaker 1: where anyone can say anything free of judgment and at
Speaker 1: the very least be heard. Thanks man, Love you. Lyle
Speaker 1: from aka couch dot pdf on Instagram. If you want
Speaker 1: to send this guy something on Instagram, PS, I hope
Speaker 1: you eat food and drink some water. No, like really,
Speaker 1: I hope you actually do that, because you tend to
Speaker 1: joke about it. I do also eat a Reese's mini
Speaker 1: cup for me. What the fuck is it? You want
Speaker 1: me to eat real food and drink water? You want
Speaker 1: me to eat candy? Because you can't say those two
Speaker 1: things in the same email, all right? And then he
Speaker 1: sent a picture of himself. That's cool, Ethan, Uh, that's cool.
Speaker 1: This is a roundabout thing for you because you're you're
Speaker 1: using your freedom that your family is giving. You're using
Speaker 1: your newfound freedom from being your brother's main interpreter to
Speaker 1: give other people the freedom of from being their family's
Speaker 1: man interpreter. That's cool. That's noble. I fuck with that. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see we have more things, we have more Okay.
Speaker 1: This is from Megan, subject line street change. Hi, Gek,
Speaker 1: I know you have been to many cities all over
Speaker 1: the world, and I wonder how you negotiate the sometimes
Speaker 1: awkward interaction of a random person asking you for money.
Speaker 1: This is interesting. I know there are a lot of
Speaker 1: different reasons why someone might ask for some spare change,
Speaker 1: and it's probably even harder now since people simply just
Speaker 1: don't carry cash as much. If you walk or take
Speaker 1: public transportation in a city, you will inevitably encounter it more.
Speaker 1: But now that I drive, it doesn't happen as much.
Speaker 1: But I'm still approached by people every now and then.
Speaker 1: In most cases, if I had some dollars or change,
Speaker 1: I would pass it on. I'm not rich by any means,
Speaker 1: but at least I can pay my bills and sleep
Speaker 1: in a warm bed at night more often than not. However,
Speaker 1: I declined the request simply because I didn't have any
Speaker 1: money on me, but because I felt like I was
Speaker 1: also broke and struggling myself, even though, like I said,
Speaker 1: I can pay my bills and have a warm bed
Speaker 1: to sleep in at the very least. I'm sure there
Speaker 1: are many people who don't think about this at all
Speaker 1: because it really happens to them. But when you're a
Speaker 1: white girl walking home with a bag of groceries, you
Speaker 1: feel like you can barely afford yourself, and then someone
Speaker 1: asks for money and you don't have it because you've
Speaker 1: been using your card to buy groceries. But the person
Speaker 1: asking you for money probably can't even get a credit card.
Speaker 1: It can send you into a mind spiral. Love you
Speaker 1: get stay green, look listen. I don't know, I'll say this.
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to I don't think you
Speaker 1: have to feel bad. I don't think you have to
Speaker 1: take personal self uh. I don't think you have to
Speaker 1: be mad at yourself and take responsibility for the existence
Speaker 1: of all the poverty that exists in the world. You
Speaker 1: sound like you help out when you can, which is like,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's that's I mean most I don't
Speaker 1: you know, most most people will just walk right the
Speaker 1: fuck on bay and not even think about this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So again, it's the noble to me that
Speaker 1: you even care a little bit. You sound like you can.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Megan is you care way more than
Speaker 1: like the baseline amount that you need to care to
Speaker 1: like not be a sed stick piece of shit, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, like the the baseline is
Speaker 1: that you there's people out there who like people ask
Speaker 1: them for money and then they punch them in the face.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like the baseline is so
Speaker 1: low and your skyrocketing past it by giving even a
Speaker 1: little bit of a fuck about these these people. Uh
Speaker 1: So I don't. I don't think you need to take
Speaker 1: full I don't think you need to mentally be taking
Speaker 1: full responsibility for the existence of of of of poverty
Speaker 1: because it's hard. It's hard enough to like make sure
Speaker 1: because in life it's it's hard enough. I think it's
Speaker 1: for most people to make sure that like you have,
Speaker 1: you got your own ship. You know, if if you
Speaker 1: ask here's how I know. Here's how I do it
Speaker 1: is if people ask me for money, I punched them
Speaker 1: in the face. No, that's not what I do. I
Speaker 1: I don't I feel kind of weird giving people. Here's
Speaker 1: what I Here's what I'll do if I'm like at uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, in New York City, you get asked for
Speaker 1: you know, every time you walk out the street. You
Speaker 1: get asked for money in New York City, if I'm outside,
Speaker 1: if somebody's I don't like to give people like money,
Speaker 1: but like if I'm standing outside, if I'm about to
Speaker 1: go into seven eleven, or like a food place, or
Speaker 1: like a McDonald's or a boat the place. This is
Speaker 1: the places that I eat. If someone asks me for money,
Speaker 1: I'll be like, I don't have any cash, but I'll
Speaker 1: buy you some food if you want. If you want food,
Speaker 1: I'll buy your food. And sometimes they say no, and
Speaker 1: sometimes they say yes, but I'll that's I'll do that.
Speaker 1: Not everyone can do that. I get it. I'm that
Speaker 1: doesn't make me. I honestly feel kind of lame that
Speaker 1: I even said that I do that. Sometimes that makes
Speaker 1: me feel lame that I said that. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm There's nothing about me doing that or anyone who
Speaker 1: doesn't do that that makes them a better or worse person.
Speaker 1: I might even cut this from the podcast because I
Speaker 1: feel it always makes me feel like someone I don't know.
Speaker 1: People saying that I'm a good person makes me feel weird.
Speaker 1: This is a weird. I don't I'm not gonna cut
Speaker 1: it from the podcast. We're gonna keep this in. But
Speaker 1: you're fine, dude, you're fine. Don't kill anyone, don't embezzle
Speaker 1: money from the government. Uh, don't. You don't have to
Speaker 1: hate yourself because of this. Let's keep going. What does
Speaker 1: the chat say? Uh, let's see here. Someone says, I
Speaker 1: will give a homeless person some food or drinks, but
Speaker 1: not money because I don't know if they're going to
Speaker 1: use it to buy drugs. I thought that for a
Speaker 1: long time myself, but then I heard someone be like, well, shit,
Speaker 1: that's just what I'm going to spend it on. And
Speaker 1: that's true, that's true. What else is in the chat
Speaker 1: right now? I almost never have cash. I'm honest and
Speaker 1: say sorry, I wish them a nice day. Cheat people
Speaker 1: like people goes a long way. It's not lame, gak,
Speaker 1: you're helping people. Yeah, it feels lame to talk about.
Speaker 1: Someone said, I hate to ask for money, and it
Speaker 1: feels weird to give money, though I do it, especially
Speaker 1: when I'm kind of broke. Someone says, what else to
Speaker 1: What are other people saying? I donate regularly to a charity,
Speaker 1: so I feel that means I don't have to donate
Speaker 1: to any others. All right, Uh, let's keep going. Someone said, okay,
Speaker 1: this is from King Fro subject line longing and despair.
Speaker 1: Hi Gecko, I recently had a month long tolerance break
Speaker 1: from weed because I traveled to Japan and did not
Speaker 1: have access to weed. I've been a smoker for three
Speaker 1: years and taking tolerance breaks before, but this time I
Speaker 1: came back. I thought it'd be the same as before,
Speaker 1: smoked a fat bowl and then had the most intense
Speaker 1: three hours of anxiety and deep thinking into everything. I
Speaker 1: get thoughts about how everything is meaningless and yet there
Speaker 1: is meaning in the meaninglessness of my life. I talked
Speaker 1: to my therapist about this, and he was lost for
Speaker 1: words because I made him think the same way. And
Speaker 1: then he told me I stumped him. Maybe asking a
Speaker 1: gecko will turn out differently. Uh, you stump? Well, what's
Speaker 1: you stumped him on? What what's the Here's what? I
Speaker 1: what's the question in this? Hi Geko, I recently had
Speaker 1: a month long tolerance bak from weed because of travel
Speaker 1: with Japan didn't have weed. I got anxiety about how
Speaker 1: everything is meaningless. Oh, okay, here it is. Everything is meaningless,
Speaker 1: and yet there is meaning in the meaninglessness of my life.
Speaker 1: You stumped him? This isn't it's you're You're You're not.
Speaker 1: He's not like a troll under a bridge. You're This
Speaker 1: is just a thought that you're having. Yeah, everything is
Speaker 1: meaningless and you kind of get to decide your own meaning.
Speaker 1: And I fuck you stumped me? Ain't that's but this
Speaker 1: isn't a stump. This isn't a stump. This is like
Speaker 1: a a stub. Like it's you. It's just you've completed.
Speaker 1: This is a complete thought. Weed is so funny because
Speaker 1: you'll like smoke to get rid of anxiety, but then
Speaker 1: smoking will just give you much more anxiety. Uh, someone says, okay.
Speaker 1: This is from Jillian. Subject line, I popped the wrong ZiT.
Speaker 1: There was a ZiT on my inner thigh. It was huge.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe popping it would bring that instant satisfaction,
Speaker 1: so I queezed. So I squeezed the body of the
Speaker 1: pustel and pressed in with pretty smooth force. To my surprise,
Speaker 1: the white head was just a small pimple next to
Speaker 1: a surface level cyst. The cyst emptied under my skin,
Speaker 1: and the texture between the squeeze was crazy. Have fun, untour.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing, Chilian. All right, this is from
Speaker 1: Jordan subject line my roommates won't let my homeless girlfriend
Speaker 1: come over. Hello, Lyle, I've been dating my girlfriend for
Speaker 1: about three months now. One month into the relationship, my
Speaker 1: roommate and his girlfriend, who recently moved in with us,
Speaker 1: sat me down and expressed that they are not comfortable
Speaker 1: with having a stranger being at our house. Does she
Speaker 1: live with? Does your girlfriend live? Is the They also
Speaker 1: accused her of stealing tampons from the bathroom and claimed
Speaker 1: that her taking showers at our house using the bathroom, etc.
Speaker 1: Would be an issue as she does not pay utilities.
Speaker 1: I pointed out the hypocrisy in the fact that my
Speaker 1: roommate's girlfriend would come over quite often when they first
Speaker 1: started hanging out and eventually moved in with us, which
Speaker 1: I was hesitant about but ultimately cool with. The kicker
Speaker 1: is that my girlfriend is literally homeless or unhoused. She
Speaker 1: lost her job, her roommate went to jail, and she's
Speaker 1: temporarily staying with her mom, but her mom is kicking
Speaker 1: her out. I'm going to get my own place now.
Speaker 1: I guess my question is should I shit on the
Speaker 1: floor before I leave? No? Short, Uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: have a few I have a few thoughts about this, Well,
Speaker 1: what I was I mean, here's the thing, this is
Speaker 1: all moot. Here's here's here's the main thought about this
Speaker 1: is it's all moot because you're gonna get your own place.
Speaker 1: So who gives a fuck about the situation at all
Speaker 1: because you've you've already made the decision about what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do. So yeah, whatever do I guess if this
Speaker 1: is the situation? Like you sound like you're pissed off
Speaker 1: still of these people by saying, should I shit on
Speaker 1: the floor before I leave? So why don't you just
Speaker 1: get your own place, live with your girlfriend, shit on
Speaker 1: your own floor that you if you really need to
Speaker 1: shit on a floor, and just let the emotions of
Speaker 1: it be in the past, and just fucking be with
Speaker 1: your girlfriend and hang out. That's what I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: get your own place. I mean, honestly, by the way,
Speaker 1: I kind of see what you're I mean, your your
Speaker 1: roommate and his girlfriend did have a point, and I
Speaker 1: get that there's a hypocrisy that you're saying of like
Speaker 1: your roommate's girlfriend would come over, but but it's the
Speaker 1: room the roommate's girlfriend now lives in. I mean, none
Speaker 1: of this matters that you're moving out, But the roommate's
Speaker 1: girlfriend now lives in the house with you guys, and
Speaker 1: I assume pays for the rent and utilities. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they sounded like they had a point of some kind,
Speaker 1: and that's a bummer. It's a bummer that your girlfriend
Speaker 1: was dealing with a lot of problems. I feel for that,
Speaker 1: but it's totally not your roommate or your roommate's girlfriends
Speaker 1: responsibility to like I get to deal with that. I guess,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, it doesn't matter. You're getting
Speaker 1: your own place, shot on your own floor. To pick
Speaker 1: the ship up from the floor and grab it and
Speaker 1: smell it and rub it all over yourself and eat
Speaker 1: it and put it back into your asshole, just for fun,
Speaker 1: just to see what it's not. That has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with anything that you've said in this email, But
Speaker 1: just do it for fun, just to see what it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, just to see just to see what what
Speaker 1: would happen? All right? Ummm let's keep going. Hello, mister Gecko,
Speaker 1: this is from Nathan. I just learned that fighter jets
Speaker 1: can hover in place. Crazy. Have you considered doing gaming
Speaker 1: streams or videos? Or with that dilute the persona. I
Speaker 1: don't really think I have a persona, honestly, Like, let me,
Speaker 1: can I just rant for a second? Kay, just ran
Speaker 1: for a second. I really think like expressing opinions on
Speaker 1: the internet makes me feel so uncomfortable, like just now,
Speaker 1: like like this is one of the this is one
Speaker 1: of the reasons. Every time every single one of these
Speaker 1: email podcasts, after I record them and I send them
Speaker 1: over to Brandon who edits the podcast, uh, and like
Speaker 1: we schedule them to post them, I really get nervous
Speaker 1: and anxious, and I'm like, what did I say on
Speaker 1: that podcast? Because like I like, I don't because I
Speaker 1: don't want to give takes. I kind of don't, but
Speaker 1: I know I do naturally. That's if you have a
Speaker 1: podcast and you're talking and people are asking you things
Speaker 1: and they're telling you about their lives, It's it's impossible
Speaker 1: to not give a take. I and I don't mind
Speaker 1: having takes and thoughts and opinions, it's just when you
Speaker 1: when you write them an ink on the internet, it's
Speaker 1: like they're there forever and you you know, ninety nine
Speaker 1: percent of the time when I think something, someone will
Speaker 1: tell me something and I'll be like, oh, all right,
Speaker 1: whatever you know. So I don't like I'm putting like
Speaker 1: a lot of words out there on the internet, which
Speaker 1: makes me, it deeply makes me feel uncomfortable. But the
Speaker 1: only other option would be to never say anything ever,
Speaker 1: which was kind of boring to me. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I professionally create this podcast that I've been and
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for four, four or five years,
Speaker 1: so it's too late number one. But then number two,
Speaker 1: it's like, how do I how do I have a
Speaker 1: podcast but not say anything? That's my dream? Can I
Speaker 1: figure that out? How do I have a podcast where
Speaker 1: I talk to people about their lives but just not
Speaker 1: say anything? And I do have a lot of podcasts
Speaker 1: where I just don't say anything. And then I was like,
Speaker 1: let's let me just start doing one where I say
Speaker 1: all everything, all the things, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'll regret it, but like, also, what's the worst is
Speaker 1: gonna happen is someone is like I didn't like what
Speaker 1: you said about that guy's life, and then I just
Speaker 1: you know what I'll do, I'll just go outside. Dude,
Speaker 1: isn't that anytime you want? Anytime you want? Anytime really,
Speaker 1: anytime you want, you can just go outside and it's
Speaker 1: all there. You do you ever? Is it crazy that,
Speaker 1: like you forget that sometimes anytime you want you can
Speaker 1: just you can just turn off your computer and go outside,
Speaker 1: and it's like nothing on your computer was ever ever existed.
Speaker 1: It's really crazy. It's a crazy thing. I'm not even
Speaker 1: saying this facetiously. I'm saying this. I want with utmost
Speaker 1: utter sincerity. Whoever wrote me that, whoever, if anyone, by
Speaker 1: the way, just if, just so I'm clear, If anyone
Speaker 1: is listening to this podcast and I responded to your
Speaker 1: email and you didn't like what I said, I'm side
Speaker 1: probably didn't mean it. I don't know. I'm crazy. Keep going,
Speaker 1: let's keep talking to people. Uh oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Why do I go on that rant? Would that dilute
Speaker 1: your persona? I don't really have a persona. I'm just
Speaker 1: a I don't have a persona. I have a costume.
Speaker 1: And I guess I do have a persona. I guess
Speaker 1: if you speak publicly on a podcast or a video
Speaker 1: or something, you are doing like a heightened version of
Speaker 1: of how you would normally speak. But I don't think
Speaker 1: it's different. I just think it's like amplified. I would
Speaker 1: do a gaming stream. I think that could be fun.
Speaker 1: Play some melee. Okay, let's let the whole email. I
Speaker 1: think it would also for these ret I think it
Speaker 1: would also for these rant episodes. You could make a
Speaker 1: po box to get real mail from people. That would
Speaker 1: be kind of cool. I just don't. I'm just too
Speaker 1: lazy to do that. They make crazy stuff from the
Speaker 1: videos I've seen. But then you also have to say
Speaker 1: everything is really good, and some of it might be
Speaker 1: like not or something. Do I have to say everything
Speaker 1: is really good? I don't have to. I'd probably be
Speaker 1: inclined to. I'd probably be feel guilty if I didn't,
Speaker 1: But I don't have to. Do you have any game
Speaker 1: recommendations for me or anyone? Uh? What have I been
Speaker 1: playing lately? Well? I just finished Links Awakening on the Switch.
Speaker 1: I played a little bit of the Last of Us,
Speaker 1: and then I got stuck and didn't care about it anymore. Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna download Echoes of Wisdom and then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get Mario and Luigi Brothership. Those are the next
Speaker 1: two on my list. I kind of want to get
Speaker 1: the new Mario Party. There is no way this is
Speaker 1: making this to the pod is there? Well, buddy, guess what, Nathan.
Speaker 1: Guess what, Nathan. All you had to do to make
Speaker 1: it to the podcast was to ask me questions about
Speaker 1: myself and I would go, I'm much of BLI will
Speaker 1: happily talk about myself forever as people as people love
Speaker 1: to do. Well, thanks for emailing me, Nathan. Okay, high Lyle.
Speaker 1: This is from Cooper high Lyle. I don't have much
Speaker 1: to say except there are two crackheads living under the
Speaker 1: breache like a minute away from my house. It started
Speaker 1: as one like two months ago, but recently another has
Speaker 1: moved in two. They aren't causing problems besides the occasional
Speaker 1: schizophrenic episode where the original yells at himself Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Not looking for advice, don't This is why this is weird, Cooper.
Speaker 1: I don't like this the original. They're not fucking Pokemon,
Speaker 1: They're human beings, not looking for advice, just giving support
Speaker 1: from the shit filled holler of Kentucky. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: that sucks. I don't know, I feel bad for they're
Speaker 1: living under a bridge. Dude, like that sucks? You know,
Speaker 1: once you go talk, why don't you go hang out
Speaker 1: with them for a second. Why don't you go hang
Speaker 1: out with these guys? You clear you you clearly don't
Speaker 1: view these people as remotely human beings. So go you
Speaker 1: should go under the bridge and just talk talk to
Speaker 1: these people and just see just see if they'll speak it,
Speaker 1: if they'll say anything to you. You could learn something,
Speaker 1: who knows, I don't know, or you could maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you'll start doing crack with them. You know what can happen?
Speaker 1: You know what I really want to happen. I want
Speaker 1: you to go to the bridge. You meet these two,
Speaker 1: these two guys, and they offer you a little bit
Speaker 1: of crack and you're like, you know what, sure, I'm
Speaker 1: being open minded, I'm gonna take some crack. And you're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, tracks actually pretty awesome. I get why
Speaker 1: you guys are living under this bridge, and then you
Speaker 1: become addicted to crack. And then now there's three of
Speaker 1: you guys. Now there's now you there's three uh crackheads
Speaker 1: living unto the bridge, and you guys have a good
Speaker 1: you can you'll just just you know, maybe maybe it's
Speaker 1: maybe it'll be good for you to do crack with
Speaker 1: these guys and just learn a little bit about them.
Speaker 1: That's what I would do if I were you, I
Speaker 1: would go talk to these guys and see what's going
Speaker 1: on with them. All right, I'll do how long have
Speaker 1: I been going for I'll do one more. I'll do
Speaker 1: one more. What do you guys think of this party?
Speaker 1: Let me know in the comments if Okay, I've done
Speaker 1: three of these so far now, and like I said,
Speaker 1: I get nervous every time I do these. I really do,
Speaker 1: I really I feel like nervous. I'm nervous right now
Speaker 1: about this, not even be like yeah. So let me
Speaker 1: know in the comments if you enjoy listening to this,
Speaker 1: if you have thoughts, all right, let me do one more.
Speaker 1: Email okay, okay, this is from Duplex seeking advice on
Speaker 1: job advancement. Okay, Hey, mister GHEK, I hope this message
Speaker 1: finds you well. About a year ago, I applied for
Speaker 1: a manager position on a whim. Honestly, I never expected
Speaker 1: to get it, especially since I lacked the experience at
Speaker 1: the time. I regretfully admit that I may have exaggerated
Speaker 1: my qualifications on the application. Now, having spent a year
Speaker 1: in this role, I have gained valuable knowledge and skills. However,
Speaker 1: my boss has recently approached to me about moving up
Speaker 1: to a general manager position, which comes with increased responsibilities.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling quite overwhelmed, as I know I'm not fully
Speaker 1: prepared for this role. While I recognize that this opportunity
Speaker 1: offers better pay and growth potential, I'm apprehensive about taking on.
Speaker 1: So it's a significant change. I'd greatly appreciate any ofvice
Speaker 1: you have on how to best navigate the situation. Totally
Speaker 1: take the job. I don't even have to think about this.
Speaker 1: Take the job, and you'll grow into it. It's like scared.
Speaker 1: This is a classic shit like. I mean, look, bro,
Speaker 1: you went into the original job lacking experience, and you've
Speaker 1: been there for a year and you're fine. You grew
Speaker 1: into it. That's how like growth works, man, is you
Speaker 1: got it. You go out and try to do something
Speaker 1: that you didn't think you were prepared to do or
Speaker 1: able to do, and you face yourself with it and
Speaker 1: you you grow. Yeah, this is kind of a classic
Speaker 1: classic thing. What'd you think I was? What's the alternative?
Speaker 1: Never do anything? Actually, that sounds awesome. You could totally
Speaker 1: do that too. That sounds great. Never doing anything? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what? You know what I know I just
Speaker 1: said a bunch of like motivational shit, but I take
Speaker 1: it all back. You should not. You should just quit
Speaker 1: your job and see if you can live with your
Speaker 1: parents and see if they'll make you food and stay
Speaker 1: just play video games all day and get high. That's fuck.
Speaker 1: That sounds awesome. I'm not even being facetious. That really
Speaker 1: sounds great. Okay, so I'll say this. I'll say this,
Speaker 1: you could. You should go and take this job. I
Speaker 1: think you'll grow into it. I think you'll get the
Speaker 1: right I think you'll grow into it. But worst case scenario,
Speaker 1: if you get fired, Like you know, living with your
Speaker 1: mom and eating chicken nuggets and playing video games is
Speaker 1: pretty awesome. So your life's gonna be great no matter what.
Speaker 1: I hope you take solace in that. All right, Well
Speaker 1: that was That was my third try at gek mail.
Speaker 1: That was my third try gak mail. I don't know
Speaker 1: how it went. I'm actually nervous about it. So let
Speaker 1: me know if this was any enjoyable to you as
Speaker 1: a listener of this podcast. Let me know if you
Speaker 1: have thoughts, feelings, and sentiments about anything, And thank you
Speaker 1: guys for listening. Once again, I'm about to go and
Speaker 1: do a bunch of live shows. I'm in Minneapolis on
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth. I am in Berlin, Manchester, London, Cologne, Dublin,
Speaker 1: Glasgow also in November, and you can get tickets for
Speaker 1: all those at therapy geckotour dot com. Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: Thanks for humoring me while I make attempts to do
Speaker 1: a new thing. Thanks for bearing with me, Thanks for
Speaker 1: having some faith in me. I'm going to try to
Speaker 1: have faith in life as well. And you know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I was, uh, it's so funny. The first time I
Speaker 1: did this, the get mail thing, I was like, I
Speaker 1: might just never do calls again. I might just do this.
Speaker 1: I'm having so much more fun doing this. And then
Speaker 1: I think my like optimism faded a little bit, and
Speaker 1: now I'm like, oh, you know, I kind of want
Speaker 1: to go back to doing phone calls. But uh, I'm
Speaker 1: glad I tried something and I will do more of this,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, anyway, all right, it's been an hour
Speaker 1: and fifteen minutes. I'm sick of myself. Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and I'll see you guys around the universe. Never again
Speaker 1: goes on the line taking your phone calls. Every night
Speaker 1: never be acon goes out, and I was teaching you
Speaker 1: Cloud in the mean of your line. He's not an expert.