Speaker 1: Hello, what's up? Welcome, Welcome to the Therapy Gecko podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm Lyle, I'm a Gecko. This is Viewer Mail, Part two.
Speaker 1: So last week I did a little experiment. I went
Speaker 1: on Instagram and I asked people to send me mail,
Speaker 1: to send me words, and I wanted to see if
Speaker 1: I could do a podcast just talking alone with no
Speaker 1: phone calls. And I did it, and I had an
Speaker 1: awesome time. I hope you guys liked that episode two,
Speaker 1: but most importantly, I enjoyed doing it. I had a
Speaker 1: good time. So we're definitely gonna make this again. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's a weekly thing, but it's definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be a thing. It's definitely gonna be a thing.
Speaker 1: I only I got sent like eighty something emails and
Speaker 1: I only read like twenty of them. So today I'm
Speaker 1: just going to read more for like an hour slash
Speaker 1: until I get bored and don't want to do it anymore.
Speaker 1: But first I'm experimenting with some other I want to
Speaker 1: talk about a couple things from my week. One thing
Speaker 1: I really want to talk about is a magical thing
Speaker 1: that happened as a result of doing this Viewer Male episode.
Speaker 1: So last week, I spoke about how I have this
Speaker 1: weird thing where I look myself up on Reddit a lot.
Speaker 1: It's a bad habit. I hate it. It's not productive,
Speaker 1: it's indulgent. I don't like it. It's bad thing to do,
Speaker 1: but I do it. And I told the story about
Speaker 1: how one time I was looking myself up on Reddit
Speaker 1: and I found this post from this lady who like
Speaker 1: posted in my subreddit being like I met the Gecko
Speaker 1: in Austin after his show and I told him it
Speaker 1: was my birthday and he didn't say happy birthday, and
Speaker 1: now I don't like him anymore. And she wrote this
Speaker 1: like big, like essay, long rant about how like she
Speaker 1: about how Piste off at me she was. And in
Speaker 1: last week's episode, I talked about that and I said
Speaker 1: I kind of was. I was like, I read that,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, you know, fuck this person.
Speaker 1: I was mad, and I expressed that I was mad
Speaker 1: at this person for writing this thing on Reddit even
Speaker 1: though it didn't really matter and anyway, so I talked
Speaker 1: about that in the episode, and then I was listening
Speaker 1: to the episode like the next day before I posted it,
Speaker 1: and I was listening back to me telling this story
Speaker 1: that I'm realizing how it's saying this all is. But
Speaker 1: I'm listening back to the story of me talking about
Speaker 1: this lady's Reddit post and expressing that I pissed me off,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know if I should
Speaker 1: keep this part in. I don't know if I should
Speaker 1: keep this part in because like, if she's hears it
Speaker 1: and then she makes another thing, she just gets pissed off.
Speaker 1: And I was gonna take it out. I was about
Speaker 1: to take it out, and then I said to myself,
Speaker 1: you know what, No, I'm keeping it in. This is
Speaker 1: I'm trying to authentically express my feelings more on this thing,
Speaker 1: because you know, if I'm not, then I guess what's
Speaker 1: the point. And so I was like, you know what, No,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving it in. I don't think I was that
Speaker 1: mean to this person. I left it. When I was talking.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, we're cool. Me and this
Speaker 1: reddit lady are cool. If she ever, you know, whatever,
Speaker 1: she hears this, we're cool. I said that. So I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna leave it in. I post the episode,
Speaker 1: I get a comment on YouTube on the episode, I
Speaker 1: get a comment, and this is what the comment says
Speaker 1: hold on, let me pull this up. Let me pull
Speaker 1: this up real quick. I should have had this just
Speaker 1: ready to go, but hold on. Okay, sorry, uh reading room. Okay,
Speaker 1: here it is. I get a comment and the comments
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just read this verbatim. This comment says lmfao hi.
Speaker 1: This is this is I'm reading this verbatim. It says
Speaker 1: lmfao Hi. I was the bitch who complained about the
Speaker 1: birthday thing. I was just super excited to meet you
Speaker 1: and go on stage. But let me just say, I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry for being extra about that. I actually had
Speaker 1: a great time at the show despite that. LMAO. Love
Speaker 1: you Lyle. When I tell you, I was so happy
Speaker 1: to read that comment. Shout out this Reddit lady. Shout
Speaker 1: out a this lady who left this comment. I wrote back,
Speaker 1: I said, I said, thank you for apologizing. I really
Speaker 1: do appreciate it. Happy late birthday. It's so First of all,
Speaker 1: if this lady's listening again, thank you for leaving that comment.
Speaker 1: That really made me. I really appreciate it, and it
Speaker 1: was interesting to me because sometimes like it's just so rare,
Speaker 1: because we all have like weird social interactions that we
Speaker 1: like regret or feel weird about either because like we
Speaker 1: were being an asshole or someone was being an asshole
Speaker 1: to us or whatever whatever it was, and and you
Speaker 1: kind of just a lot of these things you just
Speaker 1: don't get closure on and you just have to kind
Speaker 1: of internally resolve. And so it's kind of a nice
Speaker 1: healing thing. That is totally rare to read this comment
Speaker 1: and have this girl be like, I'm sorry. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I was upset about this. I liked the
Speaker 1: show and I appreciate you, and I got to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I thank you. I'm not mad. I appreciate you saying
Speaker 1: that happy fucking birthday, you know. So, I don't know,
Speaker 1: that was just a cool thing. I don't There's got
Speaker 1: to be something to be gleaned from this about life.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's that, Oh I don't know, but I just
Speaker 1: really appreciated that interaction, and maybe maybe there's something to
Speaker 1: be gleamed about. I don't know. I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I don't want to I want to take view or mail.
Speaker 1: I don't want to sit here and think about what's
Speaker 1: to be gleamed of that. But I just wanted to
Speaker 1: share that I thought that was cool. Anyway, I have
Speaker 1: one other thing to share. I wrote down two things
Speaker 1: I wanted to share. This is random from my week
Speaker 1: I was. I was like, just fuck it. I was
Speaker 1: in my apartment just being like stressed and annoyed and upset,
Speaker 1: as is sometimes my like default state and rand you ever,
Speaker 1: like randomly remember something and start googling about it. I
Speaker 1: randomly remembered this news story that I heard back in
Speaker 1: twenty like five years ago, back in twenty nineteen, about
Speaker 1: this dude. His name is Kendrick Norton Junior. You can
Speaker 1: look this guy up, Kendrick Norton Junior. This is a guy.
Speaker 1: This is an old news story. This is you know
Speaker 1: how some people have like podcasts where they talk about
Speaker 1: current events. I'm gonna do the same thing, but I'm
Speaker 1: only gonna talk about things that happened at minimum five
Speaker 1: years ago. I'm gonna do the slow poke current events podcast. Anyway,
Speaker 1: there was this guy. I just randomly remember this new story, guy,
Speaker 1: Kendrick Norton Junior. He was a football player twenty two
Speaker 1: years old. He got like drafted to the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and uh, I don't know exactly if he got to play,
Speaker 1: but if maybe he played like one game. I don't
Speaker 1: know the exact thing of it. But he gets drafted
Speaker 1: to the Miami Dolphins. Huge, you know, set to make
Speaker 1: a bunch of money, set to have an amazing career,
Speaker 1: set to be on the national stage playing for his city.
Speaker 1: The dream, the dream. He gets into a car accident
Speaker 1: and he fucking loses his entire right arm. I remember
Speaker 1: I remembered hearing about this five years ago and just
Speaker 1: being like, that fucking sucks. That's all. I just remember.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I just remembered this guy, and
Speaker 1: I remembered hearing about him because he was all over
Speaker 1: the news, like when it happened, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what's this. I was just like I want it. What's
Speaker 1: this guy? I just randomly remember this. I'm like, what's
Speaker 1: this guy up to? So I googled him. I found
Speaker 1: his instagram and uh, I was looking at his Instagram
Speaker 1: and I saw a post from like a month ago
Speaker 1: or something like that, and he's standing there with no arm,
Speaker 1: huge smile on his face. He like started a career
Speaker 1: in real estate, and he in his comments he's talking
Speaker 1: about like, uh, you know, you gotta live life positively,
Speaker 1: and you know, there's all these pictures on his Instagram
Speaker 1: of like you know, him with uh with with friends
Speaker 1: and him doing stuff and being around and it's just
Speaker 1: he just seemed happy and I was like, it made
Speaker 1: it really made me think about all the you know,
Speaker 1: things that I'm afraid of in my life and things
Speaker 1: that stressed me out. And I'm like, god, damn, dude,
Speaker 1: this guy lost his whole fucking arm. Not only did
Speaker 1: he lose his whole fucking arm, he lost like his
Speaker 1: dream job. And he's happy and he's living his life
Speaker 1: and he's not letting it, you know, destroy him. It
Speaker 1: didn't let it. He didn't let it destroy him. He
Speaker 1: lost his whole fucking arm. And I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just I saw that and I was I was very
Speaker 1: inspired by this guy and me think about my own life.
Speaker 1: Let me look at let me look at it at
Speaker 1: this again. Just to this. I'm I'm this is my podcast. Now,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm doing. I'm reading viewer mail and
Speaker 1: talking about things that I'm thinking about. Is fun. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's yeh? What's this guy doing on Instagram? Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: he's got a real estate company, He's got fucking he's
Speaker 1: got a cool shirt he's doing well. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just I'm inspired by this guy. I just want
Speaker 1: to share that. Okay, let's look at some of these emails.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see here. Uh, okay, this is from
Speaker 1: This is from Finn. The subject is cross faded Halloween Party.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, this is way too long. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to read this. Uh, folks, just if you're ever gonna
Speaker 1: for the future, for the ref for reference, just for reference. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you send me an email, if it's more than
Speaker 1: like two paragraphs, I'm probably not gonna read it. So
Speaker 1: if I'm going to keep doing more of these, and
Speaker 1: if you want me to read your email, just keep
Speaker 1: it to like, you know, a couple paragraphs and that'll
Speaker 1: be more likely to read it. Okay, anyway, let's get
Speaker 1: into all right. This is from Noah. Subject viewer mail
Speaker 1: episode dash Noah. That's a good that's good. Okay. Hi.
Speaker 1: My name is Noah. I am twenty. My addiction to
Speaker 1: Pokemon cards got to the point where I could not
Speaker 1: pay rent anymore. I used my credit card to buy
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in very cool Pokemon cards, thinking I
Speaker 1: would figure out how to pay rent later. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I sold a bunch of them to afford to have
Speaker 1: a roof over my head. My girlfriend is furious, my
Speaker 1: parents are disappointed, and my cat just got her lady
Speaker 1: parts removed and the other cat was violently throwing up.
Speaker 1: So the vet bill was like two grand or some shit. Also,
Speaker 1: my cars transmission blue, so I have to walk to
Speaker 1: work now. I still have cool cards left, though. Here's
Speaker 1: my favorite. That's very funny. Hold on, let me he
Speaker 1: sent an attachment. Oh holy fuck, he's got a Charsar.
Speaker 1: Oh what the fuck? All right, these actually are some
Speaker 1: pretty good cars. He's got a two thousand and two
Speaker 1: Charizard Ex and he's got a dark Charizard. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much money either of those are.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he wrote, we actually spoke like six months
Speaker 1: ago about how your podcast helped me join the Pokemon
Speaker 1: card community. It has almost ruined my life. That's oh no,
Speaker 1: I remember you? Noah, yeah, I literally yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: we talked on the podcast and you were like, I
Speaker 1: want to get more involved in my community, and I
Speaker 1: told you to join the Pokemon card Oh no, did
Speaker 1: I fuck? Did I fuck your life up? He? Okay,
Speaker 1: he wrote, not your fault, though, love you, Lyle. God
Speaker 1: damn man, I mean you're twenty. I don't you can.
Speaker 1: I mean, how much are you in debt? Look? If
Speaker 1: you blew all your money whatever, how are you in
Speaker 1: Let's see? Is he in debt? I use my credit
Speaker 1: card to buy thousands of dollars? All right? Whatever? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess this is a situation where I
Speaker 1: love going Dave Ramsey on people. It's fun, it's fun
Speaker 1: to talk about this kind of stuff. But this guy,
Speaker 1: if you just like had some money and you blew
Speaker 1: it and now you're in debt, you're probably doing better
Speaker 1: than I mean, what, Okay, so the vet bill was
Speaker 1: two grand? What's the okay, he's twenty years old. Let's
Speaker 1: google this. What's the average net worth fridge net worth
Speaker 1: of twenty year old? I think the average net worth
Speaker 1: is like negative. I think it's most people. Okay, it
Speaker 1: says here that's seventy five hundred dollars. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's not true. I feel like when you're like twenty,
Speaker 1: I think that most people in twenty who are like
Speaker 1: twenty years old are like in debt. So whatever, as
Speaker 1: long as you're not like if you lost all your
Speaker 1: you have all your life to you're only twenty, you
Speaker 1: have all your life to build your financial universe to
Speaker 1: some degree. You know, I don't know you. Well, it
Speaker 1: looks like you didn't go to college, so you're actually
Speaker 1: in less debt. I just I'm gonna say you're with
Speaker 1: Pokemon cards and this vet bill. Let's assume you're in
Speaker 1: like ten thousand dollars of debt, but you didn't go
Speaker 1: to college. You're probably in like less debt than a
Speaker 1: lot of other twenty year olds. So you're gonna be fine,
Speaker 1: just like, don't just I guess this is something to
Speaker 1: learn from. Wait, I'm gonna read this email again and
Speaker 1: see if it seems like he learned from it. My
Speaker 1: addiction to Pokemon card, I used my credit card, I
Speaker 1: sold them to uh he maybe he learned. As long
Speaker 1: as he learned from it, he'll be fine. Now, if
Speaker 1: you're listening to this, go on YouTube and listen to
Speaker 1: like fucking financial YouTube people and just try to get
Speaker 1: your shit together. If you don't go and buy more
Speaker 1: Pokemon cards, if you go and buy more Pokemon cards
Speaker 1: after this, you're you're fucked. But if you use this
Speaker 1: as a learning experience, I think you're gonna be okay,
Speaker 1: I know. All right, let's move on, dear caffeinated gecko.
Speaker 1: This is from Patrick. By the way, I'm not on
Speaker 1: a sell I did drink a Celsius this morning. But
Speaker 1: oh wait, Noah's in the Hold on, hold on, hold on, Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the chat. Noah's in the chat. Apparently
Speaker 1: I'm streaming live on Twitch right now. I am Noah,
Speaker 1: No you're in the chat. How much debt are you in? Noah,
Speaker 1: what's your Are you in debt? All right? Well, he
Speaker 1: answers that question, and I'm gonna read this email to
Speaker 1: your caffeinated gecko. By the way, I'm I'm on about
Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety one milligrams right now. I had
Speaker 1: a mountain I do diet mountain dew, and I do Celsius.
Speaker 1: I do a Celsius in the morning and then a
Speaker 1: diet mountain dew before the stream. You know, if you're
Speaker 1: wondering if you wanted any health tips from me? All right,
Speaker 1: this is from Patrick. Hello, Celsius gecko, man, I am
Speaker 1: wondering if you drink coffee. I'm not a huge coffee guy.
Speaker 1: I own a coffee roastery with my dad and I
Speaker 1: want to gift you a custom get Glicious coffee blend.
Speaker 1: If my mourning juices can touch your lips, I don't
Speaker 1: know how I feel about that one. I would be
Speaker 1: eternally grateful. Also, I love you. Thanks Patrick, Crazy Goku
Speaker 1: hair guy at your last Arizona show. Well, thanks Pat,
Speaker 1: thanks for offering to send me stuff. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't want to take any of your things, only because
Speaker 1: I appreciate your offer of them, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to take your things because I'm I'm not. If you
Speaker 1: send me coffee beans, I'm not going to use them.
Speaker 1: I'm just I don't want to take your coffee beans
Speaker 1: as a nicety and then let them decay in my
Speaker 1: apartment until I eventually throw them away. That's what would
Speaker 1: realistically happen, Not because I don't think they're great coffee beans,
Speaker 1: but because I just so I'll use if you can say,
Speaker 1: if you send me a cureag even if you send
Speaker 1: me a cure a cup, I'm just not gonna use it.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna decline your offer. But good, I hope good. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's cool that you own a coffee or astray. Keep
Speaker 1: keep doing your thing. Let me look at it. He's
Speaker 1: he's got a website. Oh he doesn't really. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: there he is. Okay, No, he's a good guy. He's
Speaker 1: a good guy. All right, let's move on. This is
Speaker 1: from Caleb uh subject line one thousand plus calls from Boise, Hello, therapy, Gecko.
Speaker 1: I hope this email finds you well. As my subject
Speaker 1: line suggests, I have called you over a thousand times
Speaker 1: and have yet to hear back from you. This guy's
Speaker 1: also put he's putting an emoji after every sentence. He
Speaker 1: put a phone. He put a phone emoji after I
Speaker 1: have called you over a thousand times. Anyway, the first
Speaker 1: night I ever tried, I called five hundred and four
Speaker 1: times in one night. The second time was only fifty.
Speaker 1: The next few equals one thousand. Okay. So I once
Speaker 1: I sent a reply to a live saying Okay, once
Speaker 1: I sent a reply on your live stream saying come
Speaker 1: to Boise, Idaho, and you said, quote, it's not a
Speaker 1: real place. I'm sure I did say that. That hurt
Speaker 1: my feelings, but I'm over it now. Jin know. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of what I mean when I say
Speaker 1: that's not a real place. You know what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: you know what, Caleb, I sincerely, I mean this sincerely.
Speaker 1: I want to take that back. I'm in a better
Speaker 1: state of mind, I think, in this current moment than
Speaker 1: in the current moment in which I said that. And
Speaker 1: I want to take back saying that Boise, Idaho is
Speaker 1: is not a real place. It is a real place.
Speaker 1: There's people living there who say stuff and eat things,
Speaker 1: and that's just and that's that's a microcosm of what's
Speaker 1: going on in every other place in the entire planet Earth.
Speaker 1: And I my true feeling is that every place is
Speaker 1: equally as real and not real, because every place is
Speaker 1: kind of the same, because every place is just people
Speaker 1: saying words and eating So I take back saying that
Speaker 1: Boise is not a real place. Okay, you said, I'm
Speaker 1: over it. Now I exist here, so it is real
Speaker 1: to me. I do know if three venues you could go, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. I don't I'm probably not
Speaker 1: gonna do a show there. I know of three venues
Speaker 1: you could go to if you ever want to discover that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know what, I would you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what? I'm sorry. I take
Speaker 1: that back. I can drive you around and show you
Speaker 1: the city. I'm an avid, I'm an avid explorer of
Speaker 1: the city. I take that back. I would do a
Speaker 1: show in Boise, Idaho. Why not? Why not? What venue?
Speaker 1: Uh do you think a Caleb? By the way, what
Speaker 1: did you by the way? That's the end of his email.
Speaker 1: You called you, that was it? You called a thousand times,
Speaker 1: and there was another thing you wanted to All right, man,
Speaker 1: well I can drive you around and show you the
Speaker 1: city US. I'm just gonna use this as my own
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use these viewer mail podcasts as my own
Speaker 1: therapy session. I've been on these two. I just went
Speaker 1: on pretty much two back to back world tours, and
Speaker 1: I actually I love doing stuff like this. I really
Speaker 1: like Caleb. If you Caleb, Okay, let me finish my thoughts.
Speaker 1: I feel like I do this. I have like a
Speaker 1: thousand thoughts once I tried to express them all. I've
Speaker 1: been on two back to back world tours, and I
Speaker 1: actually love doing stuff like this. Like like if I'm
Speaker 1: in a random place and I'm doing a show there
Speaker 1: and I meet some dude at a show and he's like,
Speaker 1: you want to get in my car and I'll drive
Speaker 1: you around Boise. I like doing shit like that. I've
Speaker 1: done shit like that. I did like I was in Sydney, Australia,
Speaker 1: and this group of folks after the show were like, Hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to come to our house and jam
Speaker 1: with us? And I was like, yeah, that sounds cool.
Speaker 1: So I just went to these stranger's house and muttered
Speaker 1: nonsense into a microphone while they like played guitar. It
Speaker 1: was a good time. I'm trying to give other I
Speaker 1: went to the strip club with some people after a
Speaker 1: show in Miami a few a few months ago. I
Speaker 1: liked I liked doing shit like this, So if I
Speaker 1: ever do, if I ever do, go to Boise, Idaho
Speaker 1: and we're hanging and I'm like packing all my shit
Speaker 1: up at the end of a show, and you say, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to get in my car and I'll
Speaker 1: drive you to this mountain in the middle of Idaho.
Speaker 1: There's a I'm not gonna I don't like to promise things.
Speaker 1: I don't like to promise things. There's a non zero
Speaker 1: chance I would get in that car with you. But
Speaker 1: like I said, I've been on two back to back
Speaker 1: world tours. I'm pretty tired. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tour. It's gonna be a little bit before
Speaker 1: I get back on the road after I finish these
Speaker 1: Europe shows. But if I do, I'll if I do,
Speaker 1: I'll look in the Boisadaho. Anyway, I don't know that
Speaker 1: was too long of a rant. I'm sorry, thanks for
Speaker 1: your email, Caleb. Okay, okay, let's see here. This is
Speaker 1: from Kate. Uh sorry, this one is also a little
Speaker 1: too long. Sorry, Kate. This all right, this is firm.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start looking at the emails first before I
Speaker 1: read their names, because I know a few of these people.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing if I by the way, if you
Speaker 1: are listening to this and you think I said your name,
Speaker 1: by the way, there could be two Kates, maybe three.
Speaker 1: If you think I said your name, just send me
Speaker 1: the email again, but just keep it to two paragraphs
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna keep doing these anyway. This is from Dan.
Speaker 1: Hey man, I just wanted to say I'd be all
Speaker 1: in for calling in and discussing the current situation of
Speaker 1: modern dating that come with the trials and tribulations social
Speaker 1: media brings to the table. Would be an absolute pleasure
Speaker 1: to shoot the shit with you. I watch your shit
Speaker 1: whenever I'm at home with a bottle of wine and
Speaker 1: soaking in the introspective, weird and wonder full conversations you're
Speaker 1: blessed to experience all my love Dan. Oh, and I'm
Speaker 1: from the UK, so I guess that adds extra goodness
Speaker 1: to shooting the shit with you, because politics and violence
Speaker 1: is almost as fucked over here as it is in
Speaker 1: the US. Is that true. I don't know shit about
Speaker 1: UK politics, but if it's as fucked up as it
Speaker 1: is here, that's pretty wild. Yeah. I don't know what
Speaker 1: is dating like in the UK? What I don't Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I guess that's a phone call conversation to have.
Speaker 1: But just social Someone says, Okay, let me talk about this.
Speaker 1: He says that the come okay, basically, you want to
Speaker 1: talk about how social media has affected dating. I think
Speaker 1: it's if he has pros and cons. I mean, people
Speaker 1: who would have never ever met each other have now
Speaker 1: met each other because of the Internet. It used to
Speaker 1: be for like all of I mean, think about this,
Speaker 1: for all of human fucking history before like twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: Think about it, all of human history compared to twenty
Speaker 1: meager years. That's nothing. For pretty much all of human history.
Speaker 1: You just you had sex with whoever was next to you,
Speaker 1: and you married them, and that was it. It was whoever
Speaker 1: was next to you. It wasn't people are getting into
Speaker 1: relationships with folks across the planet from them. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is just whoever was next to you. It didn't matter
Speaker 1: if you guys got along. I mean, you probably did
Speaker 1: get along because you were probably very similar people because
Speaker 1: you lived, you had the same exact influences. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was easier back Maybe it was easier back then. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to debate if it was easier or not. You
Speaker 1: could say it was easier because back then you just
Speaker 1: got with whoever was right next to you. But it
Speaker 1: was a pretty good shot that they were compatible with
Speaker 1: you because they had the same upbringing as you and
Speaker 1: the same cultural view of the world as you. Because
Speaker 1: there was no internet, there was no anything. Maybe and
Speaker 1: that probably you know what, that probably made it a
Speaker 1: lot easier. I'd give it to that. But in like
Speaker 1: I don't know, the fifties or whatever, I felt, who knows.
Speaker 1: You just also kinda had your pick of the people
Speaker 1: who were around you. And maybe in that situation, maybe
Speaker 1: the people around you during that time is a possibility
Speaker 1: that they weren't as good for you as some lady
Speaker 1: three one thousand miles away that you are never ever, ever,
Speaker 1: ever ever gonna meet without the Internet. But I also
Speaker 1: this is a paradox of choice, and social media gives
Speaker 1: you infinite options and maybe that's not good. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: but you live in the UK. And also everyone you
Speaker 1: meet probably has a British accent, which is cool, all right?
Speaker 1: This from Jaden subject I'm having issues with my masculinity.
Speaker 1: Jaden says, Dude, my prostate is so fucked it's leaking
Speaker 1: green fluid and I don't know what to do about it.
Speaker 1: My partner this is a one run on sentence. There
Speaker 1: is no periods in this. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: do about it. My partner keep saying I should go
Speaker 1: to a doctor, but it's too gross for me to
Speaker 1: even show them. Are you are you twelve? Dude? It
Speaker 1: looks like a greasy plane from Lord of the Rings
Speaker 1: swarmed with locusts. I think there's all right. I don't
Speaker 1: care about this. This from Jonah. Jonah says airplane sink
Speaker 1: or airplane urinal question mark question mark question mark in
Speaker 1: all caps. You decide two exclamation points. Dearest Lyle, I've
Speaker 1: wanted to ask your opinion on this for literally years.
Speaker 1: Every time I fly, I opt to pee in the
Speaker 1: airplane sink instead of the toilet. Oh, thank god, we're
Speaker 1: getting into some real shit with these emails. This is awesome.
Speaker 1: Thank I this more of this, and thank you so
Speaker 1: much for sending you this, sending me this email. Jonah,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to read the rest of this email.
Speaker 1: Every time I fly, I opt to pee in the
Speaker 1: airplane sink instead of the toilet. I fully believe this
Speaker 1: is the best course of action when confronted with the
Speaker 1: airplane bathroom A I usually sit to pee, But three
Speaker 1: hours into a flight, the seat is already cut in
Speaker 1: p of the less considerate. This guy's complaining that that
Speaker 1: other people pee on the toilet seat, and so it's
Speaker 1: But dude, you're peeing where other people are washing their hands,
Speaker 1: he says. There, he says, three hours into a flight,
Speaker 1: the sea is already covered, The seat is already covered
Speaker 1: in the pee of the less considerate. There is simply
Speaker 1: no way I'm opting to put my ass on that,
Speaker 1: bro Jonah. Okay, hold on before I'm gonna read the
Speaker 1: rest of this email. Listen, Jonah, we have all in
Speaker 1: public bathrooms, had to wipe the piss of another man
Speaker 1: off a toilet seat. And look, we have all in
Speaker 1: our days maybe accidentally pissed a little bit on the
Speaker 1: toilet seat. This is what we call the circle of life. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's like, if you're peeing in a public bathroom, you
Speaker 1: might have to wipe another guy's piss off the toilet seat.
Speaker 1: Just just use multiple layers of toilet but don't use
Speaker 1: one layer of toilet paper so that your fingers is
Speaker 1: kind of the piss bleeds through and you get another
Speaker 1: guy's piss on your hands. Just layer it up, wipe
Speaker 1: the pee, and quit and quit fucking bitching. There is
Speaker 1: simply no way I'm gonna put my ass on that. Okay.
Speaker 1: Then he says, not only is the seat covered most
Speaker 1: of the time, but so is the floor. I have
Speaker 1: sympathy for those who can't aim because of turbulence, but
Speaker 1: it's still nasty, he says. You know what solves both
Speaker 1: of these problems pissing in the receptacle which is high
Speaker 1: enough to properly what is this word ensconce you're Johnson
Speaker 1: preventing my pee from getting all over the cabin, even
Speaker 1: though the sink is the obvious. I feel guilt that
Speaker 1: I am so far ahead of the rest of society.
Speaker 1: Please absolve me, great Gecko with love, plain sink pisser,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for sending me this email. Jonah.
Speaker 1: This is awesome, but I disagree with how you I
Speaker 1: disagree with this, Jonah. You're listen, Jonah. I understand that
Speaker 1: you are attempting to find a creative way to opt
Speaker 1: out of the public restroom dance, but I'm not so
Speaker 1: sure that pissing in the sink is that much. Hold on,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna attempt to be open minded about this. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna really think about it. Peeing in the sink, peeing
Speaker 1: in the sink? Do you wash the sink afterwards? Do
Speaker 1: you make sure there's no piss left in the sink?
Speaker 1: But so do you like, do you thoroughly wash out
Speaker 1: the sink shit. I'm a little bit of the opinion
Speaker 1: that it doesn't matter where's that water go. I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit of the opinion that this guy peeing in
Speaker 1: the sink at versus peeing in the toilet achieves the
Speaker 1: same result as long as he cleans the toilet. But
Speaker 1: I let me ask, Jonah, why are you so above
Speaker 1: the public bathroom dance. I encourage you, Jonah. I encourage you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that, Jonah. I encourage you to humble yourself.
Speaker 1: I encourage you to look at the experience of using
Speaker 1: a public bathroom as something that grounds you as a
Speaker 1: there's something that grounds you to society, because we all
Speaker 1: need to be humbled every now and then. Jonah, no
Speaker 1: matter how great your life is going, how much money
Speaker 1: you make, you know, if your relationships are good, if
Speaker 1: you feel if no matter who you are, occasionally you
Speaker 1: gotta wipe a little bit of piss off of a
Speaker 1: toilet seat. And it's good. It's good to have those
Speaker 1: moments in life that humble you. Jonah. So don't. I
Speaker 1: would actually say that by pissing in the sink, you
Speaker 1: are skipping what is a great human life experience to have.
Speaker 1: It's like trying to cheat death. Basically, you're trying to
Speaker 1: opt out of a natural human experience, and that's not good.
Speaker 1: So I think you should continue. I think you should
Speaker 1: stop peeing in the sink and learned to be okay
Speaker 1: with wiping another man's piss off of a toilet seat.
Speaker 1: It's not the worst thing in the world. Where's the
Speaker 1: chat think? The chat says, uh, it all goes to
Speaker 1: the same place. I agree with that. I don't really
Speaker 1: think that this guy pissing in the sink matters that much,
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I mean, as long as he
Speaker 1: cleans the sink, all right, let's move on. All right.
Speaker 1: This is from Megan. Subject line is freezing my neighbors
Speaker 1: with magic. I'm excited to read this. Hi, Gak, I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell you about how I recently moved in
Speaker 1: with my boyfriend. Our neighbors have been slightly irritating, and
Speaker 1: this is how I decided to resolve the issue. We
Speaker 1: moved in about two months ago, and I person only
Speaker 1: have been loving it. It's quiet and peaceful. However, we
Speaker 1: noticed a habit taking place where our neighbor will park
Speaker 1: in the handicapped spot without having any license to do so.
Speaker 1: The handicapped spot. All right, I guess this is like
Speaker 1: a okay, this is like an apartment building that has
Speaker 1: handicap spots. We ignored it at first because we were new,
Speaker 1: but eventually we started to complain to management because these
Speaker 1: spots are right in front of our apartment entrance. I mean,
Speaker 1: are you are are you? Are you like disabled and
Speaker 1: they're they're they're keeping their parking in your spot? Or
Speaker 1: is it just like you don't like the principle of it.
Speaker 1: We ignored it at first because we were new, but
Speaker 1: eventually we started to complain to management because these spots
Speaker 1: are right in front of our apartment entrance. They've also
Speaker 1: used our spots, which I don't think is a huge deal,
Speaker 1: but when you pay money is to get in as
Speaker 1: signed place, it feels disrespectful. Why are you not mad
Speaker 1: that I would be mad about that? Why are you
Speaker 1: not mad that you're mad about the principle that they're
Speaker 1: using the handicapped spots, but you're not mad that they're
Speaker 1: in your spot. They've also used our spots, which I
Speaker 1: don't think is a huge deal, but when you pay
Speaker 1: money to get in the signed space, it feels disrespectful. No,
Speaker 1: that's fucking annoying. We've heard people scream fuck your neighbors
Speaker 1: late at night, and so the next day I started
Speaker 1: thinking how we could maybe stop some of the reckless
Speaker 1: behavior interfering with our home. Is it all right? I've
Speaker 1: got very religious roots, but some of these New age
Speaker 1: trends have inspired me. Over the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: I've become very open minded when it comes to mixing
Speaker 1: my beliefs, regardless if they contradict. I decided that I
Speaker 1: would freeze my neighbor in hopes that it would lows
Speaker 1: some of the problems we've been having, and to my
Speaker 1: what the fuck, And to my surprise, it's worked absolutely
Speaker 1: fantastic so far. Once I created the freezer spell, it
Speaker 1: took about a day to see some results. It started
Speaker 1: with her car getting towed and fined. Needless to say,
Speaker 1: if you have immature neighbors who refuse to hear reason,
Speaker 1: I'd recommend you freeze them. I really don't know if
Speaker 1: I should give my real thoughts on this email. I
Speaker 1: really don't know, dude, it's so much because I'm removed.
Speaker 1: You know, what is the main difference between doing this
Speaker 1: and doing the phone calls if this woman? If I
Speaker 1: were talking to this woman right now, I would probably
Speaker 1: be more open minded to her side of the events,
Speaker 1: and I would probably not as authentically express how I
Speaker 1: feel about this email. Oh God, I really, I really uh,
Speaker 1: oh god, what's the chat think. Oh god, bro, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Here's okay. I have a few thoughts. One
Speaker 1: somebody else parking in the handicaps parking parking space. Dick move,
Speaker 1: Dick move. I'm kind of like, like, do I need
Speaker 1: to like tell on them to management? Do I care
Speaker 1: that much? Probably not if they're parking in my space
Speaker 1: or if I'm handicapped, I understand telling them to management,
Speaker 1: But like a freezer spell, I don't know. Man, I
Speaker 1: just this is a person. Oh god, oh man, I
Speaker 1: really want to tell them all right. I here's why
Speaker 1: I actually believe And Megan, I think. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're a bad person. I don't want to start any
Speaker 1: fights with you, but like, I think there are probably
Speaker 1: better things you could do with your time in life
Speaker 1: than coming up with spells to get your neighbor. Like
Speaker 1: what do you do? Like do you have a family,
Speaker 1: do you have a job or do you have children? Like?
Speaker 1: Is there anything better you can be attempting to do
Speaker 1: with your life than any of the things that you're
Speaker 1: talking about in this email? You're here with your boyfriend?
Speaker 1: How's your relationship with your boyfriend? God? Has he doing?
Speaker 1: How are you guys doing? Like just is there what
Speaker 1: else is going on in your life that could use
Speaker 1: more attention than your than your neighbors or spells? Ah fuck,
Speaker 1: now she's gonna put a spell on me. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's my thought. It's just I would
Speaker 1: just audit my life and I would audit my priorities
Speaker 1: and see if maybe there's something something of higher priority
Speaker 1: than this to be uh putting your putting your time towards.
Speaker 1: That's it, That's all I think. All right, let's keep going. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is from Nicholas. Subject is Halloween. Happy Halloween, Gecko.
Speaker 1: I have two questions for you. Question number one, are
Speaker 1: you going trigger treating? If yes, what are you dressing
Speaker 1: up as? Uh, I'm gonna talk. I'm gonna say something
Speaker 1: that's pretty depressing. But it's also a true feeling that
Speaker 1: I have, which is that I'm at an age now.
Speaker 1: I'm about I'm about to be twenty seven, and at
Speaker 1: twenty seven years old, you know, I'm not in college,
Speaker 1: I'm not in high school. I'm not like a little kid,
Speaker 1: and I'm not old enough that I have little kids
Speaker 1: of my own. So at twenty if you're a twenty
Speaker 1: seven year old single guy, the holidays are just like
Speaker 1: kind I just who gives a shit? Really, Like I
Speaker 1: don't really care about Christmas or Halloween. I I just
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck about holidays. I like, when I
Speaker 1: was a little kid, trick or treating was exciting and
Speaker 1: Halloween was exciting, and like, if I had kids, I'd
Speaker 1: be excited to like do Halloween shit with them, But like,
Speaker 1: I don't give I just don't give a shit about holidays.
Speaker 1: They're they're kind of like annoying to me now, like
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve and Halloween, and they're just like they're
Speaker 1: just stressful. It just adds stress to my life to
Speaker 1: like think about what am I gonna do? Or like,
Speaker 1: oh if I don't like do something cool, I'm a loser.
Speaker 1: I don't care about thinking about a costume. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I know it's depressing me. That's how I feel about
Speaker 1: holidays is I just don't They're just like nuisances to
Speaker 1: me right now. I don't care. I don't care about
Speaker 1: like doing a Halloween episode of my show. I don't
Speaker 1: care about coming up with a cons It's just it's
Speaker 1: just kind of a nuisance right now. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I don't even even Honestly, even back when I was
Speaker 1: in college, it was like an or high school. It
Speaker 1: was a nuisance, right because like everyone's putting together their
Speaker 1: their New Year's plans, everyone's putting together their Halloween plans
Speaker 1: or whatever, and you're you're there's just some stress to
Speaker 1: there about like, oh, I gotta I gotta make sure
Speaker 1: I'm like I have cool plans for these holidays, and
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway. Number two, Uh, if you had
Speaker 1: to choose between saving twenty dogs and saving the McDonald's corporation,
Speaker 1: which would you choose? If you had to choose between
Speaker 1: saving twenty dogs and saving the McDonald's corporation, which one
Speaker 1: would you choose? Answer? Honestly, love you gecko, What do
Speaker 1: you mean by saving the McDonald's Corporation? Like, I really
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't know if I can answer this question,
Speaker 1: only because I like, I don't know what does that mean?
Speaker 1: Like when you say saving the McDonald's corporation, do you
Speaker 1: mean like, if I choose the twenty dogs, every McDonald's
Speaker 1: on Earth explodes. Uh, that would kill a lot more
Speaker 1: people than the twenty dogs. So I'm unfortunately going to
Speaker 1: abstain from this situation only because I don't know what
Speaker 1: saving the McDonald's corporation means exactly. If it doesn't mean that, uh,
Speaker 1: does it mean I can't eat McDonald's anymore? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: save McDonald's. Fuck the No, I'm just kidding. I don't
Speaker 1: if if you here, I'll say this, if you told
Speaker 1: me that if I ever rate McDonald's again, twenty dogs
Speaker 1: would die, I would I would stop eating McDonald's. I'll
Speaker 1: say that, But uh, I don't know what breed? What
Speaker 1: kind of dogs are they? Are they like tiny annoying
Speaker 1: dogs or are they like like cute fluffy dogs? What
Speaker 1: kind of dogs are they? All Right, I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep going. Let's see here. Uh all right? This
Speaker 1: is from Ashley. Hey Lyle, we saw your show in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And couldn't be more excited, so we got
Speaker 1: my mom to make these I Love Therapy gecko shirts
Speaker 1: are Remember you, Ashley, I know, I know exactly who
Speaker 1: you are. Her business is Craft Light Craft Life, LLS see,
Speaker 1: we love you. And then she posted these, yeah, these
Speaker 1: two folks at my DC show, uh war war shirts
Speaker 1: that said I love therapy, Get go. That's so nice.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ashley. I hope you guys are doing well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember you guys. That was a fun show. All right.
Speaker 1: This is from This is from Joey. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: from Joey. Subject line feeling guilty after one of your
Speaker 1: live shows. All right, Joey says, Hey, GEK. A few
Speaker 1: years ago, my girlfriend at the time and I went
Speaker 1: to see one of your LA shows. Oh this is
Speaker 1: oh yeah, okay, yeah, I'm looking at the picture from
Speaker 1: the show. This is from two. This is two years ago.
Speaker 1: This is May of twenty twenty two is when this
Speaker 1: show was Okay, a few years ago, my girlfriend at
Speaker 1: the time and I went to see one of your
Speaker 1: LA shows. You absolutely killed it and we had a
Speaker 1: great time. Thank you, Joey words. You did a meet
Speaker 1: and greet outside in the lobby, and I was so
Speaker 1: excited to ask you a question that I had been
Speaker 1: formulating for months prior. The question was in the shower,
Speaker 1: do you wash your feet first or your asshole first?
Speaker 1: You and I went back and forth for a solid
Speaker 1: amount of time deciding which would be worse, shit on
Speaker 1: your feet or dirt in your ass. We got to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the answer, parentheses of which I've since
Speaker 1: forgotten parentheses. That doesn't really matter, y'all. You get washed
Speaker 1: no matter what. And afterwards we took a picture together
Speaker 1: and we went about our night leaving the venue. My
Speaker 1: girlfriend was very upset with me. I was so caught
Speaker 1: up in my question to you, as well as being
Speaker 1: starstruck meeting you for the first time, that I completely
Speaker 1: blanked on the fact that I had asked her to
Speaker 1: take the picture of us, disregarding the fact that she
Speaker 1: also wanted to be in the picture. Ah ah man.
Speaker 1: She was the one who introduced me to the podcast
Speaker 1: after all. Suffice to say, I felt horrible afterwards. I
Speaker 1: was extremely apologetic, and she ultimately understood that my mind
Speaker 1: was going a million miles an hour. But I've never
Speaker 1: been able to escape the guilt of that night. We
Speaker 1: are no longer together, but we remain good friends to
Speaker 1: this day. I'm not sure why I felt the need
Speaker 1: to share this with you, but maybe you can help
Speaker 1: me find some closure. Thank you, kind sir, Joey Damn.
Speaker 1: First of all, listen, listen, listen. Here here's like a
Speaker 1: few things. A few things. One. I get you, man,
Speaker 1: I get you. You were probably you were probably it
Speaker 1: was I don't think that you did that. I don't
Speaker 1: think that you snubbed your girlfriend out of like ignorance.
Speaker 1: I am willing to believe you were just like, ah,
Speaker 1: you you know you feel bad about it. You were
Speaker 1: just like, ah, fuck, I forgot. I'm so sorry. I
Speaker 1: didn't mind fucking mean to do that. Where's your You
Speaker 1: guys are still friend? Like? How good of friends? I'm
Speaker 1: doing a show in La in like two weeks. Why
Speaker 1: don't you come to that one we can all take
Speaker 1: a picture together that she wanted to be in the picture.
Speaker 1: Why didn't did I take a picture with her too?
Speaker 1: Why didn't she ask to take a picture. I would
Speaker 1: have taken a picture with both of you, guys. I
Speaker 1: guess I don't understand. Okay, I'll say this. I guess
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Like if you two you asked her
Speaker 1: to take a picture, but then why wasn't she just like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's all take a picture. I get I get where
Speaker 1: she's coming from. It would have been nice if you
Speaker 1: if you in your leading, it seems of the interaction
Speaker 1: had been considerate of her. I understand that, I understand
Speaker 1: where she's coming from on that, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Does she still listen whoever, whoever your girlfriend is while
Speaker 1: I'm coming, I'm gonna be in l A. I'm doing
Speaker 1: two shows November eighth and ninth. Tell her to come through.
Speaker 1: We can, we can take a picture. I don't know.
Speaker 1: What's the chat say? I agree? Why didn't? But why
Speaker 1: didn't she? Why didn't she? She's not like you're not
Speaker 1: here's what I say. You're not like her, like care
Speaker 1: taker like she? Why didn't she just ask me to
Speaker 1: take a picture if she wanted a picture. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I get where I I get where she was coming from.
Speaker 1: But also I don't I don't know, I don't whatever.
Speaker 1: Tell her to tell her to come through.
Speaker 2: We'll take a picture, we'll do it. What does the
Speaker 2: chat say? The chat says, uh uh, she probably got flustered.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, this is a good point made by nervous
Speaker 2: goblin in the chat. She probably got flustered by thinking
Speaker 2: he didn't want her in the picture.
Speaker 1: Okay, I understand. No, no, I'm not, by the way, I'm
Speaker 1: not discounting why this lady was mad. I understand why
Speaker 1: she felt the way that she felt. Someone says, you
Speaker 1: are an intimidating figure. GEK, I really don't want to
Speaker 1: be I really anyway, all right, let's keep going. All right,
Speaker 1: this is from Lyle. Subject line greeting's fellow Lyle. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this. Hello Lyle, my name is also Lyle.
Speaker 1: What's up, Lyle? I am just curious how many other
Speaker 1: people you have met named Lyle? Not a lot? Not
Speaker 1: a lot. I am thirty one years old and in
Speaker 1: my life I have met two other people named Lyle,
Speaker 1: one of them being my dad. I am Lyle. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna read your last name, one of them being
Speaker 1: my dad. Uh, that's crazy that your dad just gave
Speaker 1: you your name. I feel weird if I named my son Lyle.
Speaker 1: I just think I was talking to myself the whole time.
Speaker 1: Sort of a weird story. But when I was seventeen,
Speaker 1: I broke my ankle really bad playing basketball, and my
Speaker 1: orthopedic surgeon was named doctor Lyle. At one point, I
Speaker 1: was sitting in surgery consultation and in the room was me,
Speaker 1: my dad, and doctor Lyle. The doc is explaining to
Speaker 1: us some jargony medical explanation for my injury, and out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, my dad cuts him off and says, you know, doc,
Speaker 1: The three of us in here is probably the highest
Speaker 1: concentration of Lyle's on Earth. I was sicking that too.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Your dad is right, I don't meet a
Speaker 1: lot of Liles. Hold on, I have to sneeze shop.
Speaker 1: I don't meet a lot of Liles. And you and
Speaker 1: doctor Lyle, you and your dad were probably the highest
Speaker 1: concentration of Lyles in one room on Earth. Dude. There's
Speaker 1: this thing called like the Ryan meet Up where like,
Speaker 1: but there's obviously tons of Ryan's. What if I did
Speaker 1: the lot where like a bunch of people named Ryan
Speaker 1: all got together and they had a party and there
Speaker 1: I think there's a Facebook group or some shit like that.
Speaker 1: What if I did a Lile party? I was like,
Speaker 1: all Lyles are invited to this thing? How many Liles
Speaker 1: are there? Can't be that many. If I threw a
Speaker 1: Lile party in New York City, I bet only like,
Speaker 1: if I got two other people to show up that
Speaker 1: were named Lyle, I'd be impressed. Is anyone else listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast? Maybe I would? That be an insane idea.
Speaker 1: Who who listens to this podcast? Asked in their name
Speaker 1: is Lyle? Are there a lot of Lyle's? Are there
Speaker 1: a lot of us out there that probably the three
Speaker 1: of you guys probably was the highest concentration of Liles
Speaker 1: on earth. Anyway, I hope all is well. Love to
Speaker 1: see a fellow Lyle out there doing his thing best Lyle, Well, God,
Speaker 1: a damn Lyle. I'm honored to uh, this is a
Speaker 1: nice story. Tell your dad and your orthopedic surgeon. I said,
Speaker 1: what's up? This is from Rebecca, subject line the little stuff, Hey, Lyle.
Speaker 1: Not really too sure what a viewer male episode is
Speaker 1: or what it would even be like. Honestly, I'm not
Speaker 1: too sure what a lot of things are, but I
Speaker 1: like that about the universe. I've tried calling him before,
Speaker 1: but all I want to talk about is the little stuff.
Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes I have bad anxiety over stupid things,
Speaker 1: and then I try to force myself out of it.
Speaker 1: This can be seen as noticing how the sunlight hits
Speaker 1: the walls of my apartment, or even having a night
Speaker 1: deep breath, occasionally taking a walk and finding some trash
Speaker 1: on the ground that just so happens to look cinematic
Speaker 1: in that moment. It can be a good It can
Speaker 1: be good to reframe, and I find it challenges me
Speaker 1: in the best way. Hold on I want to actually comprehend.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I have bad anxiety over stupid things, and I
Speaker 1: try to force myself. Okay, these are this is how
Speaker 1: she forces herself out of anxiety. Okay, I got it.
Speaker 1: I love this, this is great. Anyway, I'm an illustrator.
Speaker 1: I had just done that drawing of you and m F. Doom. Yo.
Speaker 1: I'm literally looking at that right now. Yeah yo, fuck yeah, Rebecca. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gave that to me in fucking Boston. I remember you.
Speaker 1: I totally remember you. What's up, Rebecca. Yeah, this person
Speaker 1: drew a drer rendition of me and m F. Doom
Speaker 1: as if MF. Doom was a gecko on my show,
Speaker 1: and I have it framed here in my in my office.
Speaker 1: Fuck yeah no, I literally have that framed right next
Speaker 1: to me. That's awesome. I was also wearing the Aquatine
Speaker 1: Hunger Force shirt. Yeah, I remember you, were, Becca. I
Speaker 1: sent to me and my high school friends are all
Speaker 1: big adult swim fans. I sent a message to my
Speaker 1: group chat that night, and I was like, and I said,
Speaker 1: a lady I sent, I sent, I sent a picture
Speaker 1: of the print, and I was like, a lady in
Speaker 1: an Aquatine Hunger Force shirt gave this to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was awesome. I totally remember you. What's up? It
Speaker 1: was awesome seeing you in Boston, and I hope you
Speaker 1: come back soon. If you ever need design work or
Speaker 1: an illustration, feel free to reach out at any time.
Speaker 1: Thanks man, peace and love. Yeah, this is no. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing about the little stuff is it's real, right,
Speaker 1: Like I often think a lot about like I'm in
Speaker 1: a big I'm really really trying to figure out how
Speaker 1: to how to find like lasting happiness, and I do
Speaker 1: think a lot of it is in the little stuff.
Speaker 1: I was taking a I had like a brief windows
Speaker 1: a week or two where I was really really happy
Speaker 1: and I was just walking around and I was just
Speaker 1: saying to myself, like, fuck, I love life. I love
Speaker 1: looking at the sunlight on the walls of shit. I
Speaker 1: love breathing and being like, oh my god, I can breathe.
Speaker 1: This is awesome. It's finding trash that looks cinematic. This
Speaker 1: is this person. The person who wrote this email is
Speaker 1: gonna be fucking happy forever. I love the person who
Speaker 1: wrote this email that they're gonna be happy forever. That
Speaker 1: nothing is gonna fuck this person up because she figured
Speaker 1: out how to be happy looking at sun hitting a wall?
Speaker 1: What a this person's a genius. That's like, that's that's
Speaker 1: really it. If you can figure out how to there's
Speaker 1: there's really there's really two ways I think to be
Speaker 1: happy in life. Maybe this is a work. This is
Speaker 1: something I just thought about. You either achieve and hoard
Speaker 1: as many relationships and you know, romantic or otherwise, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, relationships and and experiences and achievements and just
Speaker 1: you know, what are the classic stuff? Right, You fill
Speaker 1: your life with as much of that shit as possible
Speaker 1: and and it makes you happy. Or you take the
Speaker 1: baseline of what makes you happy and you put it
Speaker 1: all the way down to breathing. You're like, all I
Speaker 1: need to be happy is the ability to fucking breathe.
Speaker 1: And I'm good. And I'm like, and I think you
Speaker 1: can live a life where you're kind of again, this
Speaker 1: is the thing I think about a lot and talk
Speaker 1: about a lot in the podcast, is like balancing how
Speaker 1: much of your happiness is just having a good perspective
Speaker 1: on your life and kind of like internal work versus
Speaker 1: like actually having a good life like external work, and
Speaker 1: when you can get the baseline of your happiness down
Speaker 1: to just like I'm just happy to breathe and look
Speaker 1: at the sun. You're doing great, so I'm stoked for you. Rebecca.
Speaker 1: If you have any advice for me on how to
Speaker 1: how to notice the sunlight more instead of thinking about,
Speaker 1: you know, how the stock market is doing, please let
Speaker 1: me know. And thank you again for the MF doing print.
Speaker 1: I love that shit. All right. This is from This
Speaker 1: is from Lucas. Oh, this one's too long. Sorry, Sorry Lucas.
Speaker 1: It was a different Lucas. It was a different Lucas. Okay.
Speaker 1: This is from Finlay. Subject line spray painting and uh
Speaker 1: fear of something line spray painting and fear of people.
Speaker 1: This is from Finlay. Hey, gek, I'm eighteen years old
Speaker 1: and I live in Atlanta. But apart from that, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get into the whole graffiti thing. But the
Speaker 1: main issue is that I'm not really the best I
Speaker 1: have been practicing, but I was invited to go do
Speaker 1: this stuff with some pretty cool guys. These guys are
Speaker 1: like really cool though, and I don't know how to
Speaker 1: talk to them. Also, my name is Finlay. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: I love this email. Well, okay, a couple of things.
Speaker 1: Here's a couple of things. One, don't get arrested just
Speaker 1: you know, I mean graffiti whatever, who gives whatever I mean,
Speaker 1: don't get arrested. Just be careful, don't I don't know,
Speaker 1: don't get arrested. But anyway, aside from that, if we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about if this wasn't a graffiti, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be your fucking dad about it. But let's talk
Speaker 1: about this. You're a nervous for two reasons that you've expressed.
Speaker 1: Reason number one is that you think you're not good
Speaker 1: enough at art to be there. And the reason number
Speaker 1: two is these people are really cool and you don't
Speaker 1: know how to talk to them. You're afraid maybe you're
Speaker 1: not cool enough to hang out with them. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about that first. Here's the thing, Finlay, remember this for
Speaker 1: the rest of your fucking life. If someone really is
Speaker 1: that cool, they'll be easy to talk to and you
Speaker 1: won't need to impress them because if they're really that cool,
Speaker 1: they'll just be nice to you and cool to you,
Speaker 1: regardless of like how you are, regardless of how you're
Speaker 1: like presenting yourself. You know, as long so if in like,
Speaker 1: as long as you're approaching your interactions in your life
Speaker 1: with like good faith, you know what I mean. You're
Speaker 1: trying your best to not be an asshole. You have
Speaker 1: good faith intentions. As you move through the world and
Speaker 1: you go out and you talk to people and you
Speaker 1: do things, you're fine, you know. And then if these
Speaker 1: people really are that cool, they'll be inviting to you.
Speaker 1: They'll be easy for you to talk to, they'll be uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you won't feel on it. If these people
Speaker 1: are really that cool, you won't feel on edge with them.
Speaker 1: If you think these people are cool because they like
Speaker 1: dress a certain way, or like they're good at art
Speaker 1: that you know, who gives a shit about any that stuff?
Speaker 1: That doesn't fucking matter. So if these guys really are
Speaker 1: that cool, they'll be easy to hang out with and
Speaker 1: you won't need to worry about presenting yourself as some cool,
Speaker 1: fancy fucking art kid. So don't worry about that. And
Speaker 1: then the whole thing about like I'm not that good
Speaker 1: at art. Bro, you're eighteen and you're about to go
Speaker 1: to this weird graffiti tagging event. Who gives a shit?
Speaker 1: If you're good at art, you're there to get into
Speaker 1: You're there. You're not going there to be good at ar.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you are, but you're really going there
Speaker 1: to like fucking get into a weird experience and socialize
Speaker 1: and get build community. Got into the universe. So whether
Speaker 1: or not you're good at the art doesn't it doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter to me. Good on you for getting out
Speaker 1: there and uh doing some shit. Fear of people, you
Speaker 1: wrote in your subject line, good on you, I liked
Speaker 1: I like this guy a lot. I really do. I
Speaker 1: like this guy a lot because he's afraid of people
Speaker 1: and afraid of social interaction, it seems. But you know what,
Speaker 1: he's gonna go anyway. That's what I like about. That's
Speaker 1: what I like about Finlay. He's gonna go no matter what.
Speaker 1: Hopefully as long as you go, just go, Finlay, just
Speaker 1: go approach your interactions with good faith and with the
Speaker 1: intention that you want to meet people and have fun
Speaker 1: and do your ship and uh and you're good man.
Speaker 1: All right? Holy shit? Uh this are this is way
Speaker 1: too long? Yeah? Once again, I didn't specify this, but
Speaker 1: try to keep your email between you know, uh, like
Speaker 1: maybe like two paragraphs. Subject line this from Ryan subject
Speaker 1: line therapy Gecko Hates Canada, GEK love you Man, love
Speaker 1: your podcast. Thank you, Ryan, Canada is a all caps, huge
Speaker 1: ass country with many many cities and towns from west coast,
Speaker 1: and on this current tour, you only have one Canadian city.
Speaker 1: He wrote a bunch of other stuff that I'm not
Speaker 1: going to read. But what is it, Gek is the
Speaker 1: ketchup chips driving you away from my country? I love
Speaker 1: ketchup chips. I love Ketchup Chips, Ryan. I don't hate Canada.
Speaker 1: I'm just i'd like I would like to do like
Speaker 1: a whole ass like real Canada tour and go to
Speaker 1: like Montreal and Vancouver and Winnipeg and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just kind of tired. But thank you Ryan,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening to the show. And I don't hate Canada.
Speaker 1: I actually like Canada a lot. I walked across. I
Speaker 1: had a great time when I went to Toronto. I
Speaker 1: walked across the Canadian border from Buffalo to Canada. I
Speaker 1: just I was like standing with my little suitcase of
Speaker 1: T shirts. I might have told this story on the
Speaker 1: podcast already, but I'm gonna tell it again. I was
Speaker 1: walking across the Canadian border from Buffalo into Canada, and
Speaker 1: I was in like the I was just I was
Speaker 1: just had a backpack and a duffel bag full of shirts,
Speaker 1: and I'm like standing in line with a bunch of cars.
Speaker 1: I'm the only pedestrian. It's like very much meant for cars.
Speaker 1: And I get to the border agent and he's like
Speaker 1: he looks at my big ass stuffel bag and he goes,
Speaker 1: are there any drugs or weapons in the bag? And
Speaker 1: I was like, uh no, and he was like, all right,
Speaker 1: cool man, Well enjoy Canada. He didn't even check. And
Speaker 1: that is why Canada Okay, I know, you know why. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know how I said, boyse wasn't a real place. Canada.
Speaker 1: I don't hate Canada, but it's kind of not a
Speaker 1: real place because I'd feel like in a real place,
Speaker 1: they like check your bag if you're crossing from one
Speaker 1: country into another. So Canada, I mean, Canada's kind of real.
Speaker 1: I like Canada. I like Canada, but it's only kind
Speaker 1: of real. Thank you for listening to the show. Ryan. Okay.
Speaker 1: This is from Evan subject viewer male episode. Evan says,
Speaker 1: my girlfriend that I live with has dyspraxia and struggles
Speaker 1: to know left from right. I'm the driver in the relationship.
Speaker 1: What is dyspraxia. I've never heard of this in my life.
Speaker 1: Dyspraxia is a neurological development disorder that affects a person's
Speaker 1: ability to coordinate physical movements. Okay, you said my girlfriend
Speaker 1: has all This is a two sentence long My girlfriend
Speaker 1: has dyspraxia and struggles to know left from right. I'm
Speaker 1: the driver in the relationship. First of all, that's a
Speaker 1: weird sentence. I don't like that sentence. I'm the driver
Speaker 1: in the relationship. Oh okay, hold on, Oh okay, I'm
Speaker 1: an idiot. I thought he meant like. I thought he
Speaker 1: met like metaphorically. I think he literally just means he
Speaker 1: drives the car. Unless if he means like he's the
Speaker 1: metap he's the like top dog in the relationship. That's
Speaker 1: why I thought he meant I think he literally means
Speaker 1: he drives the car. Okay, uh okay, in that case,
Speaker 1: that would make sense. All right, I don't really know
Speaker 1: what else to do with his email, so let's move on.
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, this email is stupid. Okay. This is from
Speaker 1: Matt subject line my Hedgehog story. Dear mister t Gecko,
Speaker 1: I like that. Thank you for taking the time to
Speaker 1: read my email. Attached is a story for you and
Speaker 1: your viewers. We have to go back to nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: six when I was in kindergarten. It was winter vacation
Speaker 1: and I got to take the class pet home over
Speaker 1: the break. It was a hetchhog, and we didn't know
Speaker 1: it to feed it. My parents gave it a bunch
Speaker 1: of mealworms and it ate them like all you could
Speaker 1: eat shrimp. We found it the next morning and it
Speaker 1: was dead. We thought the mealworms poisoned the hetchhog, and
Speaker 1: we had a private burial in our backyard. Not so fast, now, Sonic,
Speaker 1: that was stupid. I wish I didn't say that, but
Speaker 1: I'm leaving it in uh. For years, when I encountered mealworms,
Speaker 1: I would reflect that they're poisonous to hetchhogs. Until very recently,
Speaker 1: I didn't know the truth. Hedgehogs hibernate. They gorge themselves
Speaker 1: on insects before hibernation, and that big mealworm probably oh okay,
Speaker 1: and that big mealworm meal probably triggered its hibernation. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. We accidentally buried that poor head chog six
Speaker 1: feet deep in the backyard alive because we thought it
Speaker 1: was high. Because we thought it was dead when it
Speaker 1: was really hibernating. Oh no, that's really sad. That's really
Speaker 1: fucked up. That's a crazy story, he says. Imagine, he says,
Speaker 1: Imagine having a really big meal like hot pot or
Speaker 1: all you can eat shrimp and taking a deep nap
Speaker 1: and waking up buried underground. Big yikes, Jesus, that's a
Speaker 1: fucked up set. That's a really fucked up story. Goddamn.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that sucks. At least I guess at least
Speaker 1: he dies. Well I was gonna say at least he died,
Speaker 1: you know, having a big meal. But he didn't die.
Speaker 1: He died suffocating in a box. By the way, six
Speaker 1: feet do you really bury that motherfucker? Six feet? Six
Speaker 1: feet is a little deep for a hedgehog. That sucks.
Speaker 1: It sucks to be that hedgehog. Yeah, it's a fucked
Speaker 1: up story. Well, thanks for thanks for telling it. I
Speaker 1: guess I hope you don't go to hell because of that,
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Maybe you Maybe you die and
Speaker 1: you go to the gates of Saint Peter and Shadow
Speaker 1: of the Hedgehog is there and he banishes you to
Speaker 1: hell forever. All right, I'll read one more. All right,
Speaker 1: here's one. This is Alec subject line sad a wrapper.
Speaker 1: Hey man, I hope this email finds you. I like
Speaker 1: that it's very neutral. I am a musician from Massachuset.
Speaker 1: I spent all of high school playing saxophone to get
Speaker 1: into Berkeley College of Music, which is considered one of
Speaker 1: the most prestigious contemporary music colleges in the world. And
Speaker 1: I got in, but after four years of playing sax
Speaker 1: in college, I lost my love for it. Practice in
Speaker 1: sax became a chore that I never wanted to do,
Speaker 1: and I ended up resenting the instrument. I have recently
Speaker 1: found a new passion comedic rap. I love it, but
Speaker 1: I am worried that I don't have the social media personality,
Speaker 1: the connections, the looks and age, or even the actual
Speaker 1: skill to do it. And I feel like a piece
Speaker 1: of shit for wasting my college years and putting myself
Speaker 1: in debt just to never play the sax again. I'm
Speaker 1: afraid now to go all in on this since it
Speaker 1: is a big risk considering the subject matter. My question
Speaker 1: for you is, would you listen to my very first
Speaker 1: rap song that I ever wrote? And then he sent
Speaker 1: me a link. I'll listen to it later. I can't
Speaker 1: listen to it right now. And then he says, and
Speaker 1: is this something you think I should pursue? Thank you
Speaker 1: for reading. I hope my song brings a smile to
Speaker 1: your face, mister best Wait, Alec, have we talked before?
Speaker 1: Did we talk on the podcast? Anyway? I will listen
Speaker 1: to your song later, but I don't want to listen
Speaker 1: to it right now. And truthfully, my response to this email,
Speaker 1: I don't need to listen to this to respond to
Speaker 1: the things that you were saying in your email of
Speaker 1: whether or I think this is something you should pursue.
Speaker 1: I empathize with your struggle, man, I really do. I think.
Speaker 1: I think I definitely understand. You know something that you
Speaker 1: that you really like and have passion for, like becoming
Speaker 1: a chore, and then you end up resenting it. I've
Speaker 1: been having a lot of life epiphanies lately, Alec, And
Speaker 1: one of the life epiphanies that I've been having lately
Speaker 1: is that nothing really fucking matters except what you are
Speaker 1: actually doing, like the literal process of what you are
Speaker 1: actually doing, and then like who you're around, like who
Speaker 1: you're doing, what you're doing with, and so the question
Speaker 1: of should you pursue it. If you like doing this,
Speaker 1: like you simply enjoy the process of wrapping, you should
Speaker 1: do it until you don't fucking like doing it anymore.
Speaker 1: If you're put, if you're in a whole thing of like, oh,
Speaker 1: I I'm just doing this to like fucking like because
Speaker 1: you're put, you're putting a whole thing on it of like,
Speaker 1: oh I need to make money doing this, I need
Speaker 1: to be successful doing this. You're just gonna end up
Speaker 1: presenting it again, dude, You're just gonna endpresenting it again.
Speaker 1: Like if you really if you really want, dude, go
Speaker 1: fucking do something else for money and then make raps
Speaker 1: because you like making raps. You're not gonna suddenly like
Speaker 1: it more because it's successful. You have a baseline of
Speaker 1: whether or not you like it. So if if you're
Speaker 1: if you're enjoying doing it, keep fucking doing it, keep
Speaker 1: fucking doing it. I also don't think that you what
Speaker 1: what else has you read in this email? I don't
Speaker 1: think you wasted any I mean, you wasted a bunch
Speaker 1: of money. You totally, you totally did waste a bunch
Speaker 1: of money, But you didn't waste any time you didn't
Speaker 1: waste any time because you liked playing the sax in
Speaker 1: the moment that you were doing it, and maybe you
Speaker 1: had fun in college. Maybe you I don't know, did
Speaker 1: cocaine once or something and you had fun. Uh So, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course you should keep doing it. I don't need
Speaker 1: to listen to this to know if you should keep
Speaker 1: doing it or not. Just do things that you like
Speaker 1: and then die. I think that's how life works. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm also, by the way, a huge
Speaker 1: fucking hypocrite. Just so you know, I do things I
Speaker 1: don't want to do for in life all the time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, anyway, just keep going alec huh. Well that's it.
Speaker 1: This is the end of the episode. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I hope this was good. I hope this was good.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this was good. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I I'm I enjoyed it. I enjoyed ranting, and
Speaker 1: I hope it was of value. That's all. That's what
Speaker 1: I really care about. Two things with this podcast. I
Speaker 1: really care about, like if I'm enjoying doing it, and
Speaker 1: if the people who are listening are getting value out
Speaker 1: of it. I hope the people listening are getting value
Speaker 1: out of it. I hope that if you if I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're here, if you're still here, this is the
Speaker 1: end of the episode. This is We've been recording for
Speaker 1: how long, like an hour and twenty minutes or something
Speaker 1: like that. I just hope you enjoyed listening to this.
Speaker 1: I hope it was worth it. So yeah, thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: I don't know how often I'm gonna do this. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna probably do this. I'm there might universe exists where
Speaker 1: I do this once a week. But let me know
Speaker 1: your thoughts and the comments. I read every comment. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say that because then whatever, but I do. I
Speaker 1: read every comment. So just let me know what you
Speaker 1: think in the Spotify comments or the YouTube comments of
Speaker 1: this Viewer Male episode. I hope you enjoyed it. I
Speaker 1: got some shows coming up in Europe and in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and Minneapolis, and then I'm probably gonna take a
Speaker 1: break from the road for for a long time. But yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it, and uh,
Speaker 1: take care, good luck bye everyone a week and goes
Speaker 1: on the line taking your phone calls every night every week,
Speaker 1: and goes to just teaching names about line, An expert