WEBVTT - GECKMAIL: “I’M CASTING A SPELL ON MY NEIGHBOR” 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.360 Hello, what's up? Welcome, Welcome to the Therapy Gecko podcast. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.920 I'm Lyle, I'm a Gecko. This is Viewer Mail, Part two. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:16.840 So last week I did a little experiment. I went 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:22.320 on Instagram and I asked people to send me mail, 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.479 to send me words, and I wanted to see if 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:29.560 I could do a podcast just talking alone with no 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.199 phone calls. And I did it, and I had an 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.880 awesome time. I hope you guys liked that episode two, 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.720 but most importantly, I enjoyed doing it. I had a 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:45.120 good time. So we're definitely gonna make this again. I 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:46.840 don't know if it's a weekly thing, but it's definitely 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.040 gonna be a thing. It's definitely gonna be a thing. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.600 I only I got sent like eighty something emails and 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:57.200 I only read like twenty of them. So today I'm 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:02.880 just going to read more for like an hour slash 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.319 until I get bored and don't want to do it anymore. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.400 But first I'm experimenting with some other I want to 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.800 talk about a couple things from my week. One thing 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.839 I really want to talk about is a magical thing 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:25.119 that happened as a result of doing this Viewer Male episode. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:32.679 So last week, I spoke about how I have this 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.640 weird thing where I look myself up on Reddit a lot. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.399 It's a bad habit. I hate it. It's not productive, 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.640 it's indulgent. I don't like it. It's bad thing to do, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.280 but I do it. And I told the story about 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.279 how one time I was looking myself up on Reddit 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.320 and I found this post from this lady who like 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:58.800 posted in my subreddit being like I met the Gecko 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.760 in Austin after his show and I told him it 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.280 was my birthday and he didn't say happy birthday, and 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.760 now I don't like him anymore. And she wrote this 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:14.960 like big, like essay, long rant about how like she 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.640 about how Piste off at me she was. And in 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.000 last week's episode, I talked about that and I said 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.240 I kind of was. I was like, I read that, 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:25.959 and I was like, well, you know, fuck this person. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.679 I was mad, and I expressed that I was mad 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.680 at this person for writing this thing on Reddit even 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.919 though it didn't really matter and anyway, so I talked 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.440 about that in the episode, and then I was listening 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.680 to the episode like the next day before I posted it, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.760 and I was listening back to me telling this story 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.760 that I'm realizing how it's saying this all is. But 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.600 I'm listening back to the story of me talking about 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.640 this lady's Reddit post and expressing that I pissed me off, 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:01.359 and I was like, I don't know if I should 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.000 keep this part in. I don't know if I should 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.600 keep this part in because like, if she's hears it 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.640 and then she makes another thing, she just gets pissed off. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.160 And I was gonna take it out. I was about 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:15.880 to take it out, and then I said to myself, 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.480 you know what, No, I'm keeping it in. This is 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:24.760 I'm trying to authentically express my feelings more on this thing, 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.720 because you know, if I'm not, then I guess what's 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.720 the point. And so I was like, you know what, No, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.440 I'm leaving it in. I don't think I was that 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.640 mean to this person. I left it. When I was talking. 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.960 I was like, you know, we're cool. Me and this 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.000 reddit lady are cool. If she ever, you know, whatever, 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.000 she hears this, we're cool. I said that. So I'm like, Okay, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:50.160 I'm just gonna leave it in. I post the episode, 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:57.880 I get a comment on YouTube on the episode, I 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.839 get a comment, and this is what the comment says 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.120 hold on, let me pull this up. Let me pull 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.200 this up real quick. I should have had this just 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:15.400 ready to go, but hold on. Okay, sorry, uh reading room. Okay, 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:19.400 here it is. I get a comment and the comments 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:25.440 I'm gonna just read this verbatim. This comment says lmfao hi. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.640 This is this is I'm reading this verbatim. It says 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:32.240 lmfao Hi. I was the bitch who complained about the 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.800 birthday thing. I was just super excited to meet you 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.680 and go on stage. But let me just say, I'm 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.920 so sorry for being extra about that. I actually had 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:48.479 a great time at the show despite that. LMAO. Love 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.920 you Lyle. When I tell you, I was so happy 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:58.240 to read that comment. Shout out this Reddit lady. Shout 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:03.040 out a this lady who left this comment. I wrote back, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.880 I said, I said, thank you for apologizing. I really 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:13.320 do appreciate it. Happy late birthday. It's so First of all, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.360 if this lady's listening again, thank you for leaving that comment. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:20.080 That really made me. I really appreciate it, and it 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.680 was interesting to me because sometimes like it's just so rare, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:28.880 because we all have like weird social interactions that we 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.599 like regret or feel weird about either because like we 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.640 were being an asshole or someone was being an asshole 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.760 to us or whatever whatever it was, and and you 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:39.720 kind of just a lot of these things you just 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:44.120 don't get closure on and you just have to kind 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:48.440 of internally resolve. And so it's kind of a nice 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:53.640 healing thing. That is totally rare to read this comment 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.479 and have this girl be like, I'm sorry. I don't 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.880 know why I was upset about this. I liked the 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.640 show and I appreciate you, and I got to be like, oh, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.520 I thank you. I'm not mad. I appreciate you saying 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.039 that happy fucking birthday, you know. So, I don't know, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:10.880 that was just a cool thing. I don't There's got 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.880 to be something to be gleaned from this about life. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:20.919 Maybe it's that, Oh I don't know, but I just 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:26.479 really appreciated that interaction, and maybe maybe there's something to 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.520 be gleamed about. I don't know. I don't know what. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.599 I don't want to I want to take view or mail. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.400 I don't want to sit here and think about what's 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:35.760 to be gleamed of that. But I just wanted to 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.800 share that I thought that was cool. Anyway, I have 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.680 one other thing to share. I wrote down two things 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.760 I wanted to share. This is random from my week 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:49.839 I was. I was like, just fuck it. I was 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:56.160 in my apartment just being like stressed and annoyed and upset, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:02.320 as is sometimes my like default state and rand you ever, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.560 like randomly remember something and start googling about it. I 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:10.640 randomly remembered this news story that I heard back in 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:15.400 twenty like five years ago, back in twenty nineteen, about 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.760 this dude. His name is Kendrick Norton Junior. You can 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.840 look this guy up, Kendrick Norton Junior. This is a guy. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.080 This is an old news story. This is you know 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.560 how some people have like podcasts where they talk about 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.920 current events. I'm gonna do the same thing, but I'm 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:35.040 only gonna talk about things that happened at minimum five 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.840 years ago. I'm gonna do the slow poke current events podcast. Anyway, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.360 there was this guy. I just randomly remember this new story, guy, 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.760 Kendrick Norton Junior. He was a football player twenty two 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:51.000 years old. He got like drafted to the Miami Dolphins, 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:57.520 and uh, I don't know exactly if he got to play, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.680 but if maybe he played like one game. I don't 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.240 know the exact thing of it. But he gets drafted 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.640 to the Miami Dolphins. Huge, you know, set to make 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.120 a bunch of money, set to have an amazing career, 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.520 set to be on the national stage playing for his city. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:20.160 The dream, the dream. He gets into a car accident 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:27.280 and he fucking loses his entire right arm. I remember 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.120 I remembered hearing about this five years ago and just 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:35.440 being like, that fucking sucks. That's all. I just remember. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.080 I don't know why. I just remembered this guy, and 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:39.880 I remembered hearing about him because he was all over 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.760 the news, like when it happened, and I was like, 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.000 what's this. I was just like I want it. What's 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.600 this guy? I just randomly remember this. I'm like, what's 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.080 this guy up to? So I googled him. I found 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.840 his instagram and uh, I was looking at his Instagram 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:55.960 and I saw a post from like a month ago 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.760 or something like that, and he's standing there with no arm, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:05.560 huge smile on his face. He like started a career 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.120 in real estate, and he in his comments he's talking 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:14.080 about like, uh, you know, you gotta live life positively, 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.400 and you know, there's all these pictures on his Instagram 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.160 of like you know, him with uh with with friends 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.679 and him doing stuff and being around and it's just 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:27.720 he just seemed happy and I was like, it made 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.760 it really made me think about all the you know, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.600 things that I'm afraid of in my life and things 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.840 that stressed me out. And I'm like, god, damn, dude, 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.880 this guy lost his whole fucking arm. Not only did 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.720 he lose his whole fucking arm, he lost like his 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.440 dream job. And he's happy and he's living his life 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.360 and he's not letting it, you know, destroy him. It 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.560 didn't let it. He didn't let it destroy him. He 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.320 lost his whole fucking arm. And I don't know. I 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.520 just I saw that and I was I was very 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.720 inspired by this guy and me think about my own life. 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.040 Let me look at let me look at it at 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.439 this again. Just to this. I'm I'm this is my podcast. Now, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.080 this is what I'm doing. I'm reading viewer mail and 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.680 talking about things that I'm thinking about. Is fun. Okay, 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.920 what's yeh? What's this guy doing on Instagram? Yeah, dude, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:27.199 he's got a real estate company, He's got fucking he's 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:32.640 got a cool shirt he's doing well. I don't know. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.280 I just I'm inspired by this guy. I just want 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:38.120 to share that. Okay, let's look at some of these emails. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.439 All right, let's see here. Uh, okay, this is from 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:54.480 This is from Finn. The subject is cross faded Halloween Party. 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.360 Oh okay, this is way too long. I'm not going 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.880 to read this. Uh, folks, just if you're ever gonna 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:03.120 for the future, for the ref for reference, just for reference. Uh. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.200 If you send me an email, if it's more than 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:12.120 like two paragraphs, I'm probably not gonna read it. So 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.360 if I'm going to keep doing more of these, and 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.720 if you want me to read your email, just keep 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.800 it to like, you know, a couple paragraphs and that'll 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.440 be more likely to read it. Okay, anyway, let's get 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.760 into all right. This is from Noah. Subject viewer mail 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:37.640 episode dash Noah. That's a good that's good. Okay. Hi. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.800 My name is Noah. I am twenty. My addiction to 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.200 Pokemon cards got to the point where I could not 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.600 pay rent anymore. I used my credit card to buy 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:53.440 thousands of dollars in very cool Pokemon cards, thinking I 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.880 would figure out how to pay rent later. I didn't. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.880 I sold a bunch of them to afford to have 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.520 a roof over my head. My girlfriend is furious, my 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.560 parents are disappointed, and my cat just got her lady 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.719 parts removed and the other cat was violently throwing up. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.959 So the vet bill was like two grand or some shit. Also, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.120 my cars transmission blue, so I have to walk to 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:23.120 work now. I still have cool cards left, though. Here's 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.959 my favorite. That's very funny. Hold on, let me he 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:30.480 sent an attachment. Oh holy fuck, he's got a Charsar. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.599 Oh what the fuck? All right, these actually are some 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.560 pretty good cars. He's got a two thousand and two 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:41.200 Charizard Ex and he's got a dark Charizard. I don't know. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:42.839 I don't know how much money either of those are. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.840 But anyway, he wrote, we actually spoke like six months 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.959 ago about how your podcast helped me join the Pokemon 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:55.080 card community. It has almost ruined my life. That's oh no, 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.679 I remember you? Noah, yeah, I literally yeah, I remember 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.480 we talked on the podcast and you were like, I 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:07.920 want to get more involved in my community, and I 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.920 told you to join the Pokemon card Oh no, did 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.960 I fuck? Did I fuck your life up? He? Okay, 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:17.439 he wrote, not your fault, though, love you, Lyle. God 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.720 damn man, I mean you're twenty. I don't you can. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.480 I mean, how much are you in debt? Look? If 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.760 you blew all your money whatever, how are you in 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.960 Let's see? Is he in debt? I use my credit 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.679 card to buy thousands of dollars? All right? Whatever? I 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:36.480 don't know. I guess this is a situation where I 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.560 love going Dave Ramsey on people. It's fun, it's fun 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:44.240 to talk about this kind of stuff. But this guy, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.960 if you just like had some money and you blew 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.480 it and now you're in debt, you're probably doing better 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.520 than I mean, what, Okay, so the vet bill was 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.520 two grand? What's the okay, he's twenty years old. Let's 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:06.959 google this. What's the average net worth fridge net worth 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:14.600 of twenty year old? I think the average net worth 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:19.440 is like negative. I think it's most people. Okay, it 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.080 says here that's seventy five hundred dollars. I feel like 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.720 that's not true. I feel like when you're like twenty, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.440 I think that most people in twenty who are like 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.280 twenty years old are like in debt. So whatever, as 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.680 long as you're not like if you lost all your 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.520 you have all your life to you're only twenty, you 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:41.520 have all your life to build your financial universe to 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:46.280 some degree. You know, I don't know you. Well, it 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.480 looks like you didn't go to college, so you're actually 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.960 in less debt. I just I'm gonna say you're with 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.520 Pokemon cards and this vet bill. Let's assume you're in 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.280 like ten thousand dollars of debt, but you didn't go 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:03.240 to college. You're probably in like less debt than a 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:09.360 lot of other twenty year olds. So you're gonna be fine, 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:13.560 just like, don't just I guess this is something to 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.880 learn from. Wait, I'm gonna read this email again and 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.640 see if it seems like he learned from it. My 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.360 addiction to Pokemon card, I used my credit card, I 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:30.520 sold them to uh he maybe he learned. As long 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.680 as he learned from it, he'll be fine. Now, if 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.600 you're listening to this, go on YouTube and listen to 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.920 like fucking financial YouTube people and just try to get 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:46.880 your shit together. If you don't go and buy more 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.920 Pokemon cards, if you go and buy more Pokemon cards 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.360 after this, you're you're fucked. But if you use this 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.320 as a learning experience, I think you're gonna be okay, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:59.840 I know. All right, let's move on, dear caffeinated gecko. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.920 This is from Patrick. By the way, I'm not on 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.640 a sell I did drink a Celsius this morning. But 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.240 oh wait, Noah's in the Hold on, hold on, hold on, Sorry, 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:14.560 I'm looking at the chat. Noah's in the chat. Apparently 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:20.640 I'm streaming live on Twitch right now. I am Noah, 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:24.880 No you're in the chat. How much debt are you in? Noah, 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.080 what's your Are you in debt? All right? Well, he 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:31.440 answers that question, and I'm gonna read this email to 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:35.440 your caffeinated gecko. By the way, I'm I'm on about 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.280 two hundred and ninety one milligrams right now. I had 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.360 a mountain I do diet mountain dew, and I do Celsius. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.640 I do a Celsius in the morning and then a 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.480 diet mountain dew before the stream. You know, if you're 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.880 wondering if you wanted any health tips from me? All right, 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:56.280 this is from Patrick. Hello, Celsius gecko, man, I am 0:16:56.280 --> 0:17:01.360 wondering if you drink coffee. I'm not a huge coffee guy. 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.080 I own a coffee roastery with my dad and I 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:08.199 want to gift you a custom get Glicious coffee blend. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:14.840 If my mourning juices can touch your lips, I don't 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:16.119 know how I feel about that one. I would be 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:23.240 eternally grateful. Also, I love you. Thanks Patrick, Crazy Goku 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.840 hair guy at your last Arizona show. Well, thanks Pat, 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:34.000 thanks for offering to send me stuff. I don't. I 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.560 don't want to take any of your things, only because 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.040 I appreciate your offer of them, but I don't want 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.040 to take your things because I'm I'm not. If you 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.640 send me coffee beans, I'm not going to use them. 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.880 I'm just I don't want to take your coffee beans 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.040 as a nicety and then let them decay in my 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.879 apartment until I eventually throw them away. That's what would 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:03.080 realistically happen, Not because I don't think they're great coffee beans, 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:07.439 but because I just so I'll use if you can say, 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.360 if you send me a cureag even if you send 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.040 me a cure a cup, I'm just not gonna use it. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.280 So I'm gonna decline your offer. But good, I hope good. Uh, 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.680 that's cool that you own a coffee or astray. Keep 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:21.520 keep doing your thing. Let me look at it. He's 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:26.399 he's got a website. Oh he doesn't really. Oh wait, 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.120 there he is. Okay, No, he's a good guy. He's 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.199 a good guy. All right, let's move on. This is 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:43.080 from Caleb uh subject line one thousand plus calls from Boise, Hello, therapy, Gecko. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.560 I hope this email finds you well. As my subject 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:51.800 line suggests, I have called you over a thousand times 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.240 and have yet to hear back from you. This guy's 0:18:55.240 --> 0:19:00.119 also put he's putting an emoji after every sentence. He 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:04.720 put a phone. He put a phone emoji after I 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.920 have called you over a thousand times. Anyway, the first 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.280 night I ever tried, I called five hundred and four 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:17.080 times in one night. The second time was only fifty. 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:25.280 The next few equals one thousand. Okay. So I once 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:30.520 I sent a reply to a live saying Okay, once 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.800 I sent a reply on your live stream saying come 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.879 to Boise, Idaho, and you said, quote, it's not a 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.080 real place. I'm sure I did say that. That hurt 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:48.360 my feelings, but I'm over it now. Jin know. I'm 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:49.840 trying to think of what I mean when I say 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.520 that's not a real place. You know what I'm gonna 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.879 you know what, Caleb, I sincerely, I mean this sincerely. 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:59.000 I want to take that back. I'm in a better 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.520 state of mind, I think, in this current moment than 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.399 in the current moment in which I said that. And 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.480 I want to take back saying that Boise, Idaho is 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.399 is not a real place. It is a real place. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:15.720 There's people living there who say stuff and eat things, 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:21.359 and that's just and that's that's a microcosm of what's 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:25.000 going on in every other place in the entire planet Earth. 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:31.080 And I my true feeling is that every place is 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:35.520 equally as real and not real, because every place is 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.879 kind of the same, because every place is just people 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.919 saying words and eating So I take back saying that 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:45.480 Boise is not a real place. Okay, you said, I'm 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.960 over it. Now I exist here, so it is real 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.119 to me. I do know if three venues you could go, oh, 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:52.960 I'm not gonna do it. I don't I'm probably not 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:57.240 gonna do a show there. I know of three venues 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:58.879 you could go to if you ever want to discover that. 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:00.479 Maybe you know what, I would you know what, I'm 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:02.080 you know what, you know what? I'm sorry. I take 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:05.760 that back. I can drive you around and show you 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.879 the city. I'm an avid, I'm an avid explorer of 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:10.680 the city. I take that back. I would do a 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:16.080 show in Boise, Idaho. Why not? Why not? What venue? 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.080 Uh do you think a Caleb? By the way, what 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.119 did you by the way? That's the end of his email. 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:26.679 You called you, that was it? You called a thousand times, 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:30.080 and there was another thing you wanted to All right, man, 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:33.359 well I can drive you around and show you the 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:37.720 city US. I'm just gonna use this as my own 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.760 I'm gonna use these viewer mail podcasts as my own 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:45.640 therapy session. I've been on these two. I just went 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:51.280 on pretty much two back to back world tours, and 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:53.480 I actually I love doing stuff like this. I really 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:57.840 like Caleb. If you Caleb, Okay, let me finish my thoughts. 0:21:58.320 --> 0:21:59.359 I feel like I do this. I have like a 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:02.200 thousand thoughts once I tried to express them all. I've 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:04.000 been on two back to back world tours, and I 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:07.120 actually love doing stuff like this. Like like if I'm 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:11.120 in a random place and I'm doing a show there 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.240 and I meet some dude at a show and he's like, 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:17.520 you want to get in my car and I'll drive 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:19.960 you around Boise. I like doing shit like that. I've 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:25.639 done shit like that. I did like I was in Sydney, Australia, 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.760 and this group of folks after the show were like, Hey, 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:32.800 do you want to come to our house and jam 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:36.240 with us? And I was like, yeah, that sounds cool. 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:40.480 So I just went to these stranger's house and muttered 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.520 nonsense into a microphone while they like played guitar. It 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:47.320 was a good time. I'm trying to give other I 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:49.600 went to the strip club with some people after a 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:54.080 show in Miami a few a few months ago. I 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:56.000 liked I liked doing shit like this, So if I 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:58.840 ever do, if I ever do, go to Boise, Idaho 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:04.800 and we're hanging and I'm like packing all my shit 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:07.880 up at the end of a show, and you say, hey, 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:11.560 do you want to get in my car and I'll 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:15.679 drive you to this mountain in the middle of Idaho. 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:18.679 There's a I'm not gonna I don't like to promise things. 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:23.960 I don't like to promise things. There's a non zero 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:27.639 chance I would get in that car with you. But 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:31.040 like I said, I've been on two back to back 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:35.280 world tours. I'm pretty tired. I don't know how much 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:39.639 I'm gonna tour. It's gonna be a little bit before 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:43.120 I get back on the road after I finish these 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:47.720 Europe shows. But if I do, I'll if I do, 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:50.000 I'll look in the Boisadaho. Anyway, I don't know that 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:51.600 was too long of a rant. I'm sorry, thanks for 0:23:51.680 --> 0:24:03.119 your email, Caleb. Okay, okay, let's see here. This is 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:11.880 from Kate. Uh sorry, this one is also a little 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:15.200 too long. Sorry, Kate. This all right, this is firm. 0:24:15.200 --> 0:24:17.359 I'm gonna start looking at the emails first before I 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:19.359 read their names, because I know a few of these people. 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:22.080 Here's the thing if I by the way, if you 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:24.600 are listening to this and you think I said your name, 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:27.440 by the way, there could be two Kates, maybe three. 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:29.679 If you think I said your name, just send me 0:24:29.720 --> 0:24:33.720 the email again, but just keep it to two paragraphs 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:36.040 because I'm gonna keep doing these anyway. This is from Dan. 0:24:36.480 --> 0:24:38.320 Hey man, I just wanted to say I'd be all 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:41.919 in for calling in and discussing the current situation of 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:47.360 modern dating that come with the trials and tribulations social 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:51.479 media brings to the table. Would be an absolute pleasure 0:24:51.520 --> 0:24:54.920 to shoot the shit with you. I watch your shit 0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:57.239 whenever I'm at home with a bottle of wine and 0:24:57.280 --> 0:25:01.320 soaking in the introspective, weird and wonder full conversations you're 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:06.160 blessed to experience all my love Dan. Oh, and I'm 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:08.679 from the UK, so I guess that adds extra goodness 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:12.160 to shooting the shit with you, because politics and violence 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:15.720 is almost as fucked over here as it is in 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:18.320 the US. Is that true. I don't know shit about 0:25:18.400 --> 0:25:23.000 UK politics, but if it's as fucked up as it 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:28.760 is here, that's pretty wild. Yeah. I don't know what 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:34.920 is dating like in the UK? What I don't Uh, yeah, 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:37.120 that's I guess that's a phone call conversation to have. 0:25:38.080 --> 0:25:42.840 But just social Someone says, Okay, let me talk about this. 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:46.560 He says that the come okay, basically, you want to 0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:49.920 talk about how social media has affected dating. I think 0:25:49.920 --> 0:25:54.320 it's if he has pros and cons. I mean, people 0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:58.240 who would have never ever met each other have now 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:02.520 met each other because of the Internet. It used to 0:26:02.560 --> 0:26:06.159 be for like all of I mean, think about this, 0:26:06.359 --> 0:26:13.840 for all of human fucking history before like twenty years ago. 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:18.800 Think about it, all of human history compared to twenty 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:24.679 meager years. That's nothing. For pretty much all of human history. 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:30.960 You just you had sex with whoever was next to you, 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:35.360 and you married them, and that was it. It was whoever 0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:39.840 was next to you. It wasn't people are getting into 0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:45.399 relationships with folks across the planet from them. Okay, this 0:26:45.520 --> 0:26:47.680 is just whoever was next to you. It didn't matter 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:51.560 if you guys got along. I mean, you probably did 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:55.000 get along because you were probably very similar people because 0:26:55.040 --> 0:27:00.359 you lived, you had the same exact influences. Maybe it 0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:02.840 was easier back Maybe it was easier back then. I'm 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:04.639 trying to debate if it was easier or not. You 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:08.760 could say it was easier because back then you just 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:11.720 got with whoever was right next to you. But it 0:27:11.800 --> 0:27:14.560 was a pretty good shot that they were compatible with 0:27:14.600 --> 0:27:18.479 you because they had the same upbringing as you and 0:27:18.520 --> 0:27:24.359 the same cultural view of the world as you. Because 0:27:25.680 --> 0:27:28.359 there was no internet, there was no anything. Maybe and 0:27:28.400 --> 0:27:30.720 that probably you know what, that probably made it a 0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:35.280 lot easier. I'd give it to that. But in like 0:27:35.359 --> 0:27:41.040 I don't know, the fifties or whatever, I felt, who knows. 0:27:41.640 --> 0:27:45.800 You just also kinda had your pick of the people 0:27:45.840 --> 0:27:49.160 who were around you. And maybe in that situation, maybe 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:53.160 the people around you during that time is a possibility 0:27:53.200 --> 0:27:57.880 that they weren't as good for you as some lady 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:02.920 three one thousand miles away that you are never ever, ever, 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:06.840 ever ever gonna meet without the Internet. But I also 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:10.720 this is a paradox of choice, and social media gives 0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:15.440 you infinite options and maybe that's not good. I don't know, man, 0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:19.080 but you live in the UK. And also everyone you 0:28:19.119 --> 0:28:21.959 meet probably has a British accent, which is cool, all right? 0:28:22.000 --> 0:28:28.200 This from Jaden subject I'm having issues with my masculinity. 0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:33.200 Jaden says, Dude, my prostate is so fucked it's leaking 0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:35.479 green fluid and I don't know what to do about it. 0:28:35.560 --> 0:28:37.959 My partner this is a one run on sentence. There 0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:41.440 is no periods in this. I don't know what to 0:28:41.440 --> 0:28:42.960 do about it. My partner keep saying I should go 0:28:43.000 --> 0:28:45.080 to a doctor, but it's too gross for me to 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:49.560 even show them. Are you are you twelve? Dude? It 0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:52.280 looks like a greasy plane from Lord of the Rings 0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:55.240 swarmed with locusts. I think there's all right. I don't 0:28:55.240 --> 0:29:01.920 care about this. This from Jonah. Jonah says airplane sink 0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:08.040 or airplane urinal question mark question mark question mark in 0:29:08.080 --> 0:29:15.880 all caps. You decide two exclamation points. Dearest Lyle, I've 0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:18.800 wanted to ask your opinion on this for literally years. 0:29:19.640 --> 0:29:23.360 Every time I fly, I opt to pee in the 0:29:23.520 --> 0:29:28.800 airplane sink instead of the toilet. Oh, thank god, we're 0:29:28.880 --> 0:29:31.840 getting into some real shit with these emails. This is awesome. 0:29:31.880 --> 0:29:34.080 Thank I this more of this, and thank you so 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:37.960 much for sending you this, sending me this email. Jonah, 0:29:38.000 --> 0:29:40.880 I'm so excited to read the rest of this email. 0:29:41.920 --> 0:29:44.080 Every time I fly, I opt to pee in the 0:29:44.120 --> 0:29:48.120 airplane sink instead of the toilet. I fully believe this 0:29:48.200 --> 0:29:51.240 is the best course of action when confronted with the 0:29:51.280 --> 0:29:57.200 airplane bathroom A I usually sit to pee, But three 0:29:57.240 --> 0:30:00.400 hours into a flight, the seat is already cut in 0:30:00.560 --> 0:30:09.520 p of the less considerate. This guy's complaining that that 0:30:10.480 --> 0:30:15.080 other people pee on the toilet seat, and so it's 0:30:16.680 --> 0:30:19.840 But dude, you're peeing where other people are washing their hands, 0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:24.560 he says. There, he says, three hours into a flight, 0:30:24.640 --> 0:30:27.040 the sea is already covered, The seat is already covered 0:30:27.040 --> 0:30:29.920 in the pee of the less considerate. There is simply 0:30:30.000 --> 0:30:32.600 no way I'm opting to put my ass on that, 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:36.600 bro Jonah. Okay, hold on before I'm gonna read the 0:30:36.640 --> 0:30:41.520 rest of this email. Listen, Jonah, we have all in 0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:46.000 public bathrooms, had to wipe the piss of another man 0:30:46.520 --> 0:30:51.719 off a toilet seat. And look, we have all in 0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:54.840 our days maybe accidentally pissed a little bit on the 0:30:54.880 --> 0:30:59.440 toilet seat. This is what we call the circle of life. Okay, 0:31:00.200 --> 0:31:03.240 that's like, if you're peeing in a public bathroom, you 0:31:03.400 --> 0:31:08.000 might have to wipe another guy's piss off the toilet seat. 0:31:08.600 --> 0:31:12.880 Just just use multiple layers of toilet but don't use 0:31:12.880 --> 0:31:16.120 one layer of toilet paper so that your fingers is 0:31:16.240 --> 0:31:18.680 kind of the piss bleeds through and you get another 0:31:18.720 --> 0:31:22.720 guy's piss on your hands. Just layer it up, wipe 0:31:22.760 --> 0:31:27.280 the pee, and quit and quit fucking bitching. There is 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:30.080 simply no way I'm gonna put my ass on that. Okay. 0:31:30.120 --> 0:31:32.600 Then he says, not only is the seat covered most 0:31:32.600 --> 0:31:35.600 of the time, but so is the floor. I have 0:31:35.720 --> 0:31:39.640 sympathy for those who can't aim because of turbulence, but 0:31:39.760 --> 0:31:44.160 it's still nasty, he says. You know what solves both 0:31:44.240 --> 0:31:48.360 of these problems pissing in the receptacle which is high 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:53.800 enough to properly what is this word ensconce you're Johnson 0:31:55.360 --> 0:31:58.640 preventing my pee from getting all over the cabin, even 0:31:58.680 --> 0:32:01.720 though the sink is the obvious. I feel guilt that 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:04.840 I am so far ahead of the rest of society. 0:32:05.240 --> 0:32:09.640 Please absolve me, great Gecko with love, plain sink pisser, 0:32:10.000 --> 0:32:11.960 thank you so much for sending me this email. Jonah. 0:32:12.040 --> 0:32:15.960 This is awesome, but I disagree with how you I 0:32:16.080 --> 0:32:22.120 disagree with this, Jonah. You're listen, Jonah. I understand that 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:25.360 you are attempting to find a creative way to opt 0:32:25.480 --> 0:32:32.200 out of the public restroom dance, but I'm not so 0:32:32.520 --> 0:32:37.120 sure that pissing in the sink is that much. Hold on, 0:32:38.280 --> 0:32:40.680 I'm gonna attempt to be open minded about this. I'm 0:32:40.680 --> 0:32:48.880 gonna really think about it. Peeing in the sink, peeing 0:32:48.960 --> 0:32:52.800 in the sink? Do you wash the sink afterwards? Do 0:32:52.840 --> 0:32:54.920 you make sure there's no piss left in the sink? 0:32:55.560 --> 0:32:57.880 But so do you like, do you thoroughly wash out 0:32:57.920 --> 0:33:05.360 the sink shit. I'm a little bit of the opinion 0:33:05.400 --> 0:33:10.280 that it doesn't matter where's that water go. I'm a 0:33:10.280 --> 0:33:12.800 little bit of the opinion that this guy peeing in 0:33:12.880 --> 0:33:17.320 the sink at versus peeing in the toilet achieves the 0:33:17.360 --> 0:33:26.520 same result as long as he cleans the toilet. But 0:33:26.680 --> 0:33:30.960 I let me ask, Jonah, why are you so above 0:33:31.800 --> 0:33:36.000 the public bathroom dance. I encourage you, Jonah. I encourage you. 0:33:36.120 --> 0:33:38.400 I'm gonna say that, Jonah. I encourage you to humble yourself. 0:33:40.880 --> 0:33:44.960 I encourage you to look at the experience of using 0:33:44.960 --> 0:33:51.160 a public bathroom as something that grounds you as a 0:33:51.720 --> 0:33:57.320 there's something that grounds you to society, because we all 0:33:57.400 --> 0:34:02.360 need to be humbled every now and then. Jonah, no 0:34:02.400 --> 0:34:05.080 matter how great your life is going, how much money 0:34:05.120 --> 0:34:09.960 you make, you know, if your relationships are good, if 0:34:10.040 --> 0:34:13.680 you feel if no matter who you are, occasionally you 0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:19.040 gotta wipe a little bit of piss off of a 0:34:19.120 --> 0:34:21.040 toilet seat. And it's good. It's good to have those 0:34:21.080 --> 0:34:23.840 moments in life that humble you. Jonah. So don't. I 0:34:23.880 --> 0:34:29.759 would actually say that by pissing in the sink, you 0:34:29.840 --> 0:34:39.960 are skipping what is a great human life experience to have. 0:34:41.920 --> 0:34:47.560 It's like trying to cheat death. Basically, you're trying to 0:34:47.600 --> 0:34:54.120 opt out of a natural human experience, and that's not good. 0:34:55.080 --> 0:34:58.800 So I think you should continue. I think you should 0:34:58.800 --> 0:35:04.560 stop peeing in the sink and learned to be okay 0:35:04.600 --> 0:35:06.919 with wiping another man's piss off of a toilet seat. 0:35:08.800 --> 0:35:11.880 It's not the worst thing in the world. Where's the 0:35:11.960 --> 0:35:17.759 chat think? The chat says, uh, it all goes to 0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:20.080 the same place. I agree with that. I don't really 0:35:20.120 --> 0:35:24.319 think that this guy pissing in the sink matters that much, 0:35:24.360 --> 0:35:25.440 But I don't know. I mean, as long as he 0:35:25.520 --> 0:35:36.600 cleans the sink, all right, let's move on. All right. 0:35:36.640 --> 0:35:42.320 This is from Megan. Subject line is freezing my neighbors 0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:45.239 with magic. I'm excited to read this. Hi, Gak, I 0:35:45.280 --> 0:35:47.239 wanted to tell you about how I recently moved in 0:35:47.280 --> 0:35:54.480 with my boyfriend. Our neighbors have been slightly irritating, and 0:35:54.560 --> 0:35:57.879 this is how I decided to resolve the issue. We 0:35:57.920 --> 0:36:00.480 moved in about two months ago, and I person only 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:03.960 have been loving it. It's quiet and peaceful. However, we 0:36:04.080 --> 0:36:07.920 noticed a habit taking place where our neighbor will park 0:36:08.000 --> 0:36:12.520 in the handicapped spot without having any license to do so. 0:36:13.320 --> 0:36:15.279 The handicapped spot. All right, I guess this is like 0:36:15.320 --> 0:36:17.920 a okay, this is like an apartment building that has 0:36:17.920 --> 0:36:22.600 handicap spots. We ignored it at first because we were new, 0:36:23.000 --> 0:36:26.480 but eventually we started to complain to management because these 0:36:26.520 --> 0:36:31.480 spots are right in front of our apartment entrance. I mean, 0:36:31.600 --> 0:36:37.759 are you are are you? Are you like disabled and 0:36:37.880 --> 0:36:42.600 they're they're they're keeping their parking in your spot? Or 0:36:42.640 --> 0:36:45.799 is it just like you don't like the principle of it. 0:36:48.600 --> 0:36:50.319 We ignored it at first because we were new, but 0:36:50.360 --> 0:36:53.080 eventually we started to complain to management because these spots 0:36:53.120 --> 0:36:56.920 are right in front of our apartment entrance. They've also 0:36:57.080 --> 0:36:59.720 used our spots, which I don't think is a huge deal, 0:37:00.640 --> 0:37:02.080 but when you pay money is to get in as 0:37:02.120 --> 0:37:05.160 signed place, it feels disrespectful. Why are you not mad 0:37:05.200 --> 0:37:07.600 that I would be mad about that? Why are you 0:37:07.719 --> 0:37:11.080 not mad that you're mad about the principle that they're 0:37:11.160 --> 0:37:17.919 using the handicapped spots, but you're not mad that they're 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:20.080 in your spot. They've also used our spots, which I 0:37:20.120 --> 0:37:21.560 don't think is a huge deal, but when you pay 0:37:21.560 --> 0:37:23.800 money to get in the signed space, it feels disrespectful. No, 0:37:23.920 --> 0:37:28.080 that's fucking annoying. We've heard people scream fuck your neighbors 0:37:28.200 --> 0:37:31.840 late at night, and so the next day I started 0:37:31.840 --> 0:37:34.400 thinking how we could maybe stop some of the reckless 0:37:34.440 --> 0:37:41.000 behavior interfering with our home. Is it all right? I've 0:37:41.040 --> 0:37:45.280 got very religious roots, but some of these New age 0:37:45.400 --> 0:37:48.280 trends have inspired me. Over the past couple of years, 0:37:49.160 --> 0:37:51.600 I've become very open minded when it comes to mixing 0:37:51.680 --> 0:37:56.080 my beliefs, regardless if they contradict. I decided that I 0:37:56.080 --> 0:38:00.440 would freeze my neighbor in hopes that it would lows 0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:03.759 some of the problems we've been having, and to my 0:38:04.120 --> 0:38:08.080 what the fuck, And to my surprise, it's worked absolutely 0:38:08.200 --> 0:38:13.520 fantastic so far. Once I created the freezer spell, it 0:38:13.560 --> 0:38:17.320 took about a day to see some results. It started 0:38:17.320 --> 0:38:21.160 with her car getting towed and fined. Needless to say, 0:38:21.640 --> 0:38:24.880 if you have immature neighbors who refuse to hear reason, 0:38:25.280 --> 0:38:32.960 I'd recommend you freeze them. I really don't know if 0:38:32.960 --> 0:38:35.560 I should give my real thoughts on this email. I 0:38:35.600 --> 0:38:40.360 really don't know, dude, it's so much because I'm removed. 0:38:40.360 --> 0:38:42.400 You know, what is the main difference between doing this 0:38:42.440 --> 0:38:45.080 and doing the phone calls if this woman? If I 0:38:45.120 --> 0:38:49.240 were talking to this woman right now, I would probably 0:38:49.280 --> 0:38:52.520 be more open minded to her side of the events, 0:38:54.160 --> 0:38:57.040 and I would probably not as authentically express how I 0:38:57.080 --> 0:39:10.120 feel about this email. Oh God, I really, I really uh, 0:39:10.600 --> 0:39:25.200 oh god, what's the chat think. Oh god, bro, I 0:39:25.239 --> 0:39:27.239 don't know. Here's okay. I have a few thoughts. One 0:39:27.480 --> 0:39:31.879 somebody else parking in the handicaps parking parking space. Dick move, 0:39:32.880 --> 0:39:40.399 Dick move. I'm kind of like, like, do I need 0:39:40.440 --> 0:39:43.200 to like tell on them to management? Do I care 0:39:43.239 --> 0:39:47.560 that much? Probably not if they're parking in my space 0:39:48.760 --> 0:39:51.600 or if I'm handicapped, I understand telling them to management, 0:39:51.640 --> 0:39:57.000 But like a freezer spell, I don't know. Man, I 0:39:57.120 --> 0:40:04.120 just this is a person. Oh god, oh man, I 0:40:04.200 --> 0:40:05.600 really want to tell them all right. I here's why 0:40:05.600 --> 0:40:07.839 I actually believe And Megan, I think. I don't think 0:40:07.840 --> 0:40:10.120 you're a bad person. I don't want to start any 0:40:10.160 --> 0:40:14.560 fights with you, but like, I think there are probably 0:40:14.600 --> 0:40:16.640 better things you could do with your time in life 0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:22.080 than coming up with spells to get your neighbor. Like 0:40:22.080 --> 0:40:23.720 what do you do? Like do you have a family, 0:40:23.840 --> 0:40:28.600 do you have a job or do you have children? Like? 0:40:29.680 --> 0:40:32.680 Is there anything better you can be attempting to do 0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:36.040 with your life than any of the things that you're 0:40:36.080 --> 0:40:40.120 talking about in this email? You're here with your boyfriend? 0:40:40.160 --> 0:40:42.319 How's your relationship with your boyfriend? God? Has he doing? 0:40:43.120 --> 0:40:46.440 How are you guys doing? Like just is there what 0:40:46.480 --> 0:40:50.280 else is going on in your life that could use 0:40:50.360 --> 0:40:56.239 more attention than your than your neighbors or spells? Ah fuck, 0:40:56.320 --> 0:40:58.440 now she's gonna put a spell on me. All right, Well, 0:40:58.880 --> 0:41:01.680 I don't know, that's my thought. It's just I would 0:41:01.760 --> 0:41:04.800 just audit my life and I would audit my priorities 0:41:04.840 --> 0:41:10.000 and see if maybe there's something something of higher priority 0:41:10.120 --> 0:41:15.200 than this to be uh putting your putting your time towards. 0:41:15.280 --> 0:41:19.319 That's it, That's all I think. All right, let's keep going. Uh. 0:41:19.560 --> 0:41:25.680 This is from Nicholas. Subject is Halloween. Happy Halloween, Gecko. 0:41:26.000 --> 0:41:29.799 I have two questions for you. Question number one, are 0:41:29.840 --> 0:41:33.360 you going trigger treating? If yes, what are you dressing 0:41:33.480 --> 0:41:37.160 up as? Uh, I'm gonna talk. I'm gonna say something 0:41:37.200 --> 0:41:41.799 that's pretty depressing. But it's also a true feeling that 0:41:41.920 --> 0:41:47.160 I have, which is that I'm at an age now. 0:41:47.760 --> 0:41:50.960 I'm about I'm about to be twenty seven, and at 0:41:51.000 --> 0:41:56.360 twenty seven years old, you know, I'm not in college, 0:41:57.120 --> 0:41:59.720 I'm not in high school. I'm not like a little kid, 0:42:00.480 --> 0:42:02.759 and I'm not old enough that I have little kids 0:42:02.760 --> 0:42:06.240 of my own. So at twenty if you're a twenty 0:42:06.320 --> 0:42:12.759 seven year old single guy, the holidays are just like 0:42:13.200 --> 0:42:15.400 kind I just who gives a shit? Really, Like I 0:42:15.440 --> 0:42:21.480 don't really care about Christmas or Halloween. I I just 0:42:21.480 --> 0:42:24.719 don't give a fuck about holidays. I like, when I 0:42:24.760 --> 0:42:27.279 was a little kid, trick or treating was exciting and 0:42:27.320 --> 0:42:30.640 Halloween was exciting, and like, if I had kids, I'd 0:42:30.640 --> 0:42:34.600 be excited to like do Halloween shit with them, But like, 0:42:34.680 --> 0:42:37.239 I don't give I just don't give a shit about holidays. 0:42:38.040 --> 0:42:40.279 They're they're kind of like annoying to me now, like 0:42:40.360 --> 0:42:43.560 New Year's Eve and Halloween, and they're just like they're 0:42:43.600 --> 0:42:47.040 just stressful. It just adds stress to my life to 0:42:47.120 --> 0:42:49.600 like think about what am I gonna do? Or like, 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:52.280 oh if I don't like do something cool, I'm a loser. 0:42:53.600 --> 0:42:57.560 I don't care about thinking about a costume. I'm sorry, 0:42:57.600 --> 0:42:59.160 I know it's depressing me. That's how I feel about 0:42:59.160 --> 0:43:04.520 holidays is I just don't They're just like nuisances to 0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:09.200 me right now. I don't care. I don't care about 0:43:09.280 --> 0:43:12.319 like doing a Halloween episode of my show. I don't 0:43:12.320 --> 0:43:14.879 care about coming up with a cons It's just it's 0:43:14.920 --> 0:43:21.759 just kind of a nuisance right now. Yeah, I mean 0:43:22.000 --> 0:43:23.880 I don't even even Honestly, even back when I was 0:43:23.880 --> 0:43:27.560 in college, it was like an or high school. It 0:43:27.600 --> 0:43:31.640 was a nuisance, right because like everyone's putting together their 0:43:31.480 --> 0:43:35.440 their New Year's plans, everyone's putting together their Halloween plans 0:43:35.520 --> 0:43:38.000 or whatever, and you're you're there's just some stress to 0:43:39.040 --> 0:43:41.640 there about like, oh, I gotta I gotta make sure 0:43:41.640 --> 0:43:45.160 I'm like I have cool plans for these holidays, and 0:43:46.000 --> 0:43:49.239 I don't know anyway. Number two, Uh, if you had 0:43:49.239 --> 0:43:54.680 to choose between saving twenty dogs and saving the McDonald's corporation, 0:43:55.239 --> 0:43:58.040 which would you choose? If you had to choose between 0:43:58.080 --> 0:44:03.520 saving twenty dogs and saving the McDonald's corporation, which one 0:44:03.520 --> 0:44:10.480 would you choose? Answer? Honestly, love you gecko, What do 0:44:10.520 --> 0:44:16.400 you mean by saving the McDonald's Corporation? Like, I really 0:44:16.400 --> 0:44:18.960 I can't. I don't know if I can answer this question, 0:44:19.040 --> 0:44:22.440 only because I like, I don't know what does that mean? 0:44:22.840 --> 0:44:25.160 Like when you say saving the McDonald's corporation, do you 0:44:25.160 --> 0:44:28.680 mean like, if I choose the twenty dogs, every McDonald's 0:44:28.719 --> 0:44:38.040 on Earth explodes. Uh, that would kill a lot more 0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:42.440 people than the twenty dogs. So I'm unfortunately going to 0:44:42.480 --> 0:44:45.200 abstain from this situation only because I don't know what 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:54.000 saving the McDonald's corporation means exactly. If it doesn't mean that, uh, 0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:58.680 does it mean I can't eat McDonald's anymore? I'm gonna 0:44:58.680 --> 0:45:05.520 save McDonald's. Fuck the No, I'm just kidding. I don't 0:45:06.200 --> 0:45:08.720 if if you here, I'll say this, if you told 0:45:08.760 --> 0:45:13.600 me that if I ever rate McDonald's again, twenty dogs 0:45:13.600 --> 0:45:17.040 would die, I would I would stop eating McDonald's. I'll 0:45:17.080 --> 0:45:22.200 say that, But uh, I don't know what breed? What 0:45:22.280 --> 0:45:24.760 kind of dogs are they? Are they like tiny annoying 0:45:24.840 --> 0:45:31.000 dogs or are they like like cute fluffy dogs? What 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:32.719 kind of dogs are they? All Right, I'm sorry, I'm 0:45:32.760 --> 0:45:42.920 gonna keep going. Let's see here. Uh all right? This 0:45:42.960 --> 0:45:47.400 is from Ashley. Hey Lyle, we saw your show in Washington, 0:45:47.480 --> 0:45:49.399 d C. And couldn't be more excited, so we got 0:45:49.400 --> 0:45:51.760 my mom to make these I Love Therapy gecko shirts 0:45:51.800 --> 0:45:55.279 are Remember you, Ashley, I know, I know exactly who 0:45:55.320 --> 0:46:00.239 you are. Her business is Craft Light Craft Life, LLS see, 0:46:00.680 --> 0:46:03.239 we love you. And then she posted these, yeah, these 0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:08.000 two folks at my DC show, uh war war shirts 0:46:08.000 --> 0:46:10.720 that said I love therapy, Get go. That's so nice. 0:46:10.920 --> 0:46:12.680 Thank you, Ashley. I hope you guys are doing well. Yeah, 0:46:12.680 --> 0:46:18.160 I remember you guys. That was a fun show. All right. 0:46:18.200 --> 0:46:23.279 This is from This is from Joey. Okay, this is 0:46:23.280 --> 0:46:29.279 from Joey. Subject line feeling guilty after one of your 0:46:29.360 --> 0:46:35.520 live shows. All right, Joey says, Hey, GEK. A few 0:46:35.600 --> 0:46:40.680 years ago, my girlfriend at the time and I went 0:46:40.719 --> 0:46:45.120 to see one of your LA shows. Oh this is 0:46:46.040 --> 0:46:48.359 oh yeah, okay, yeah, I'm looking at the picture from 0:46:48.360 --> 0:46:50.319 the show. This is from two. This is two years ago. 0:46:50.400 --> 0:46:52.840 This is May of twenty twenty two is when this 0:46:52.920 --> 0:46:55.319 show was Okay, a few years ago, my girlfriend at 0:46:55.320 --> 0:46:56.360 the time and I went to see one of your 0:46:56.480 --> 0:46:58.279 LA shows. You absolutely killed it and we had a 0:46:58.280 --> 0:47:00.759 great time. Thank you, Joey words. You did a meet 0:47:00.800 --> 0:47:03.960 and greet outside in the lobby, and I was so 0:47:04.120 --> 0:47:06.440 excited to ask you a question that I had been 0:47:06.480 --> 0:47:11.520 formulating for months prior. The question was in the shower, 0:47:12.080 --> 0:47:16.520 do you wash your feet first or your asshole first? 0:47:17.400 --> 0:47:19.240 You and I went back and forth for a solid 0:47:19.239 --> 0:47:22.480 amount of time deciding which would be worse, shit on 0:47:22.560 --> 0:47:25.680 your feet or dirt in your ass. We got to 0:47:25.719 --> 0:47:29.200 the bottom of the answer, parentheses of which I've since 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:32.439 forgotten parentheses. That doesn't really matter, y'all. You get washed 0:47:32.800 --> 0:47:35.440 no matter what. And afterwards we took a picture together 0:47:35.640 --> 0:47:38.920 and we went about our night leaving the venue. My 0:47:39.080 --> 0:47:43.160 girlfriend was very upset with me. I was so caught 0:47:43.239 --> 0:47:45.719 up in my question to you, as well as being 0:47:45.800 --> 0:47:49.200 starstruck meeting you for the first time, that I completely 0:47:49.239 --> 0:47:52.279 blanked on the fact that I had asked her to 0:47:52.320 --> 0:47:55.920 take the picture of us, disregarding the fact that she 0:47:56.080 --> 0:48:01.839 also wanted to be in the picture. Ah ah man. 0:48:02.560 --> 0:48:05.120 She was the one who introduced me to the podcast 0:48:05.640 --> 0:48:10.319 after all. Suffice to say, I felt horrible afterwards. I 0:48:10.400 --> 0:48:13.960 was extremely apologetic, and she ultimately understood that my mind 0:48:14.040 --> 0:48:16.560 was going a million miles an hour. But I've never 0:48:16.600 --> 0:48:20.160 been able to escape the guilt of that night. We 0:48:20.239 --> 0:48:23.759 are no longer together, but we remain good friends to 0:48:23.840 --> 0:48:26.640 this day. I'm not sure why I felt the need 0:48:26.680 --> 0:48:28.919 to share this with you, but maybe you can help 0:48:28.960 --> 0:48:32.840 me find some closure. Thank you, kind sir, Joey Damn. 0:48:33.960 --> 0:48:36.840 First of all, listen, listen, listen. Here here's like a 0:48:36.840 --> 0:48:41.680 few things. A few things. One. I get you, man, 0:48:41.880 --> 0:48:46.160 I get you. You were probably you were probably it 0:48:46.239 --> 0:48:47.879 was I don't think that you did that. I don't 0:48:47.920 --> 0:48:52.640 think that you snubbed your girlfriend out of like ignorance. 0:48:54.680 --> 0:48:56.880 I am willing to believe you were just like, ah, 0:48:56.920 --> 0:48:58.759 you you know you feel bad about it. You were 0:48:58.800 --> 0:49:01.120 just like, ah, fuck, I forgot. I'm so sorry. I 0:49:01.160 --> 0:49:05.800 didn't mind fucking mean to do that. Where's your You 0:49:05.880 --> 0:49:08.279 guys are still friend? Like? How good of friends? I'm 0:49:08.320 --> 0:49:12.680 doing a show in La in like two weeks. Why 0:49:12.680 --> 0:49:14.239 don't you come to that one we can all take 0:49:14.239 --> 0:49:20.840 a picture together that she wanted to be in the picture. 0:49:23.160 --> 0:49:25.439 Why didn't did I take a picture with her too? 0:49:26.960 --> 0:49:29.560 Why didn't she ask to take a picture. I would 0:49:29.560 --> 0:49:33.640 have taken a picture with both of you, guys. I 0:49:33.640 --> 0:49:36.279 guess I don't understand. Okay, I'll say this. I guess 0:49:36.280 --> 0:49:38.799 I don't understand. Like if you two you asked her 0:49:38.840 --> 0:49:44.120 to take a picture, but then why wasn't she just like, hey, 0:49:44.200 --> 0:49:47.399 let's all take a picture. I get I get where 0:49:47.440 --> 0:49:50.640 she's coming from. It would have been nice if you 0:49:51.040 --> 0:49:54.520 if you in your leading, it seems of the interaction 0:49:56.400 --> 0:49:58.920 had been considerate of her. I understand that, I understand 0:49:58.920 --> 0:50:02.440 where she's coming from on that, but I don't know. 0:50:03.200 --> 0:50:06.200 Does she still listen whoever, whoever your girlfriend is while 0:50:06.200 --> 0:50:08.480 I'm coming, I'm gonna be in l A. I'm doing 0:50:08.480 --> 0:50:12.520 two shows November eighth and ninth. Tell her to come through. 0:50:12.560 --> 0:50:15.400 We can, we can take a picture. I don't know. 0:50:15.400 --> 0:50:22.719 What's the chat say? I agree? Why didn't? But why 0:50:22.760 --> 0:50:27.520 didn't she? Why didn't she? She's not like you're not 0:50:27.640 --> 0:50:31.759 here's what I say. You're not like her, like care 0:50:32.000 --> 0:50:36.200 taker like she? Why didn't she just ask me to 0:50:36.200 --> 0:50:39.279 take a picture if she wanted a picture. I don't know. 0:50:41.239 --> 0:50:43.560 I get where I I get where she was coming from. 0:50:45.200 --> 0:50:48.080 But also I don't I don't know, I don't whatever. 0:50:48.640 --> 0:50:49.759 Tell her to tell her to come through. 0:50:49.760 --> 0:50:53.719 We'll take a picture, we'll do it. What does the 0:50:53.800 --> 0:51:09.400 chat say? The chat says, uh uh, she probably got flustered. 0:51:09.480 --> 0:51:11.480 Oh okay, this is a good point made by nervous 0:51:11.480 --> 0:51:15.000 goblin in the chat. She probably got flustered by thinking 0:51:15.120 --> 0:51:17.000 he didn't want her in the picture. 0:51:17.040 --> 0:51:18.879 Okay, I understand. No, no, I'm not, by the way, I'm 0:51:18.880 --> 0:51:23.239 not discounting why this lady was mad. I understand why 0:51:23.320 --> 0:51:27.640 she felt the way that she felt. Someone says, you 0:51:27.719 --> 0:51:30.320 are an intimidating figure. GEK, I really don't want to 0:51:30.360 --> 0:51:39.839 be I really anyway, all right, let's keep going. All right, 0:51:39.880 --> 0:51:46.279 this is from Lyle. Subject line greeting's fellow Lyle. All right, 0:51:46.320 --> 0:51:50.440 I'm excited about this. Hello Lyle, my name is also Lyle. 0:51:50.560 --> 0:51:53.239 What's up, Lyle? I am just curious how many other 0:51:53.280 --> 0:51:56.279 people you have met named Lyle? Not a lot? Not 0:51:56.400 --> 0:51:58.920 a lot. I am thirty one years old and in 0:51:58.960 --> 0:52:02.720 my life I have met two other people named Lyle, 0:52:03.239 --> 0:52:06.839 one of them being my dad. I am Lyle. I'm 0:52:06.880 --> 0:52:10.839 not gonna read your last name, one of them being 0:52:10.880 --> 0:52:15.839 my dad. Uh, that's crazy that your dad just gave 0:52:15.880 --> 0:52:19.720 you your name. I feel weird if I named my son Lyle. 0:52:20.000 --> 0:52:22.000 I just think I was talking to myself the whole time. 0:52:22.520 --> 0:52:25.160 Sort of a weird story. But when I was seventeen, 0:52:25.320 --> 0:52:28.319 I broke my ankle really bad playing basketball, and my 0:52:28.480 --> 0:52:32.880 orthopedic surgeon was named doctor Lyle. At one point, I 0:52:32.920 --> 0:52:36.200 was sitting in surgery consultation and in the room was me, 0:52:36.800 --> 0:52:40.480 my dad, and doctor Lyle. The doc is explaining to 0:52:40.560 --> 0:52:44.319 us some jargony medical explanation for my injury, and out 0:52:44.360 --> 0:52:48.160 of nowhere, my dad cuts him off and says, you know, doc, 0:52:48.320 --> 0:52:51.160 The three of us in here is probably the highest 0:52:51.239 --> 0:52:55.279 concentration of Lyle's on Earth. I was sicking that too. 0:52:56.960 --> 0:53:00.719 That's crazy. Your dad is right, I don't meet a 0:53:00.719 --> 0:53:04.040 lot of Liles. Hold on, I have to sneeze shop. 0:53:05.880 --> 0:53:09.399 I don't meet a lot of Liles. And you and 0:53:09.600 --> 0:53:14.120 doctor Lyle, you and your dad were probably the highest 0:53:14.120 --> 0:53:18.720 concentration of Lyles in one room on Earth. Dude. There's 0:53:18.760 --> 0:53:22.520 this thing called like the Ryan meet Up where like, 0:53:22.640 --> 0:53:24.960 but there's obviously tons of Ryan's. What if I did 0:53:25.000 --> 0:53:26.920 the lot where like a bunch of people named Ryan 0:53:26.960 --> 0:53:28.759 all got together and they had a party and there 0:53:28.840 --> 0:53:30.839 I think there's a Facebook group or some shit like that. 0:53:32.160 --> 0:53:34.880 What if I did a Lile party? I was like, 0:53:35.080 --> 0:53:39.000 all Lyles are invited to this thing? How many Liles 0:53:39.000 --> 0:53:42.480 are there? Can't be that many. If I threw a 0:53:42.560 --> 0:53:45.080 Lile party in New York City, I bet only like, 0:53:46.200 --> 0:53:50.279 if I got two other people to show up that 0:53:50.360 --> 0:53:54.160 were named Lyle, I'd be impressed. Is anyone else listening 0:53:54.160 --> 0:53:58.120 to this podcast? Maybe I would? That be an insane idea. 0:53:58.239 --> 0:54:00.759 Who who listens to this podcast? Asked in their name 0:54:00.840 --> 0:54:03.239 is Lyle? Are there a lot of Lyle's? Are there 0:54:03.239 --> 0:54:05.759 a lot of us out there that probably the three 0:54:05.800 --> 0:54:07.840 of you guys probably was the highest concentration of Liles 0:54:07.840 --> 0:54:09.719 on earth. Anyway, I hope all is well. Love to 0:54:09.719 --> 0:54:13.279 see a fellow Lyle out there doing his thing best Lyle, Well, God, 0:54:13.320 --> 0:54:17.920 a damn Lyle. I'm honored to uh, this is a 0:54:18.000 --> 0:54:21.759 nice story. Tell your dad and your orthopedic surgeon. I said, 0:54:21.760 --> 0:54:32.040 what's up? This is from Rebecca, subject line the little stuff, Hey, Lyle. 0:54:32.440 --> 0:54:35.000 Not really too sure what a viewer male episode is 0:54:35.120 --> 0:54:37.719 or what it would even be like. Honestly, I'm not 0:54:37.760 --> 0:54:40.560 too sure what a lot of things are, but I 0:54:40.719 --> 0:54:44.440 like that about the universe. I've tried calling him before, 0:54:44.520 --> 0:54:46.600 but all I want to talk about is the little stuff. 0:54:46.600 --> 0:54:50.160 You know. Sometimes I have bad anxiety over stupid things, 0:54:50.440 --> 0:54:52.160 and then I try to force myself out of it. 0:54:53.480 --> 0:54:57.040 This can be seen as noticing how the sunlight hits 0:54:57.080 --> 0:54:59.960 the walls of my apartment, or even having a night 0:55:00.520 --> 0:55:06.440 deep breath, occasionally taking a walk and finding some trash 0:55:06.520 --> 0:55:09.759 on the ground that just so happens to look cinematic 0:55:10.280 --> 0:55:13.279 in that moment. It can be a good It can 0:55:13.280 --> 0:55:16.360 be good to reframe, and I find it challenges me 0:55:16.920 --> 0:55:22.200 in the best way. Hold on I want to actually comprehend. 0:55:22.640 --> 0:55:24.960 Sometimes I have bad anxiety over stupid things, and I 0:55:25.000 --> 0:55:26.839 try to force myself. Okay, these are this is how 0:55:26.840 --> 0:55:31.320 she forces herself out of anxiety. Okay, I got it. 0:55:31.000 --> 0:55:34.239 I love this, this is great. Anyway, I'm an illustrator. 0:55:34.719 --> 0:55:37.799 I had just done that drawing of you and m F. Doom. Yo. 0:55:38.080 --> 0:55:42.839 I'm literally looking at that right now. Yeah yo, fuck yeah, Rebecca. Yeah, 0:55:42.840 --> 0:55:45.239 you gave that to me in fucking Boston. I remember you. 0:55:45.280 --> 0:55:48.520 I totally remember you. What's up, Rebecca. Yeah, this person 0:55:49.160 --> 0:55:53.800 drew a drer rendition of me and m F. Doom 0:55:53.920 --> 0:55:57.240 as if MF. Doom was a gecko on my show, 0:55:57.640 --> 0:56:01.720 and I have it framed here in my in my office. 0:56:02.040 --> 0:56:05.600 Fuck yeah no, I literally have that framed right next 0:56:05.640 --> 0:56:08.719 to me. That's awesome. I was also wearing the Aquatine 0:56:08.760 --> 0:56:11.319 Hunger Force shirt. Yeah, I remember you, were, Becca. I 0:56:11.440 --> 0:56:14.120 sent to me and my high school friends are all 0:56:14.120 --> 0:56:17.080 big adult swim fans. I sent a message to my 0:56:17.160 --> 0:56:20.399 group chat that night, and I was like, and I said, 0:56:20.440 --> 0:56:23.440 a lady I sent, I sent, I sent a picture 0:56:23.680 --> 0:56:27.480 of the print, and I was like, a lady in 0:56:27.520 --> 0:56:31.399 an Aquatine Hunger Force shirt gave this to me. Yeah, 0:56:31.400 --> 0:56:33.239 that was awesome. I totally remember you. What's up? It 0:56:33.320 --> 0:56:35.440 was awesome seeing you in Boston, and I hope you 0:56:35.480 --> 0:56:38.319 come back soon. If you ever need design work or 0:56:38.320 --> 0:56:40.399 an illustration, feel free to reach out at any time. 0:56:40.520 --> 0:56:44.000 Thanks man, peace and love. Yeah, this is no. Here's 0:56:44.040 --> 0:56:48.560 the thing about the little stuff is it's real, right, 0:56:49.200 --> 0:56:54.080 Like I often think a lot about like I'm in 0:56:54.120 --> 0:56:57.160 a big I'm really really trying to figure out how 0:56:57.200 --> 0:57:00.560 to how to find like lasting happiness, and I do 0:57:00.680 --> 0:57:03.400 think a lot of it is in the little stuff. 0:57:04.440 --> 0:57:07.680 I was taking a I had like a brief windows 0:57:07.719 --> 0:57:10.240 a week or two where I was really really happy 0:57:10.440 --> 0:57:14.480 and I was just walking around and I was just 0:57:14.520 --> 0:57:17.760 saying to myself, like, fuck, I love life. I love 0:57:17.840 --> 0:57:21.840 looking at the sunlight on the walls of shit. I 0:57:21.880 --> 0:57:24.800 love breathing and being like, oh my god, I can breathe. 0:57:24.880 --> 0:57:29.560 This is awesome. It's finding trash that looks cinematic. This 0:57:29.640 --> 0:57:32.240 is this person. The person who wrote this email is 0:57:32.280 --> 0:57:35.840 gonna be fucking happy forever. I love the person who 0:57:35.840 --> 0:57:39.720 wrote this email that they're gonna be happy forever. That 0:57:39.920 --> 0:57:46.240 nothing is gonna fuck this person up because she figured 0:57:46.280 --> 0:57:51.280 out how to be happy looking at sun hitting a wall? 0:57:51.600 --> 0:57:57.560 What a this person's a genius. That's like, that's that's 0:57:57.560 --> 0:58:01.840 really it. If you can figure out how to there's 0:58:01.920 --> 0:58:06.240 there's really there's really two ways I think to be 0:58:06.320 --> 0:58:09.240 happy in life. Maybe this is a work. This is 0:58:09.280 --> 0:58:14.440 something I just thought about. You either achieve and hoard 0:58:15.320 --> 0:58:21.880 as many relationships and you know, romantic or otherwise, uh, 0:58:21.960 --> 0:58:28.520 you know, relationships and and experiences and achievements and just 0:58:28.560 --> 0:58:34.320 you know, what are the classic stuff? Right, You fill 0:58:34.400 --> 0:58:37.080 your life with as much of that shit as possible 0:58:38.240 --> 0:58:43.160 and and it makes you happy. Or you take the 0:58:43.200 --> 0:58:47.160 baseline of what makes you happy and you put it 0:58:47.920 --> 0:58:53.840 all the way down to breathing. You're like, all I 0:58:53.920 --> 0:58:57.080 need to be happy is the ability to fucking breathe. 0:58:57.280 --> 0:59:02.680 And I'm good. And I'm like, and I think you 0:59:02.720 --> 0:59:06.920 can live a life where you're kind of again, this 0:59:07.000 --> 0:59:08.240 is the thing I think about a lot and talk 0:59:08.240 --> 0:59:11.640 about a lot in the podcast, is like balancing how 0:59:11.720 --> 0:59:14.480 much of your happiness is just having a good perspective 0:59:14.520 --> 0:59:17.920 on your life and kind of like internal work versus 0:59:17.960 --> 0:59:22.240 like actually having a good life like external work, and 0:59:22.280 --> 0:59:25.560 when you can get the baseline of your happiness down 0:59:26.440 --> 0:59:29.120 to just like I'm just happy to breathe and look 0:59:29.160 --> 0:59:36.720 at the sun. You're doing great, so I'm stoked for you. Rebecca. 0:59:36.960 --> 0:59:39.600 If you have any advice for me on how to 0:59:42.400 --> 0:59:45.360 how to notice the sunlight more instead of thinking about, 0:59:46.040 --> 0:59:49.320 you know, how the stock market is doing, please let 0:59:49.360 --> 0:59:51.320 me know. And thank you again for the MF doing print. 0:59:51.320 --> 0:59:57.560 I love that shit. All right. This is from This 0:59:57.600 --> 1:00:02.560 is from Lucas. Oh, this one's too long. Sorry, Sorry Lucas. 1:00:02.600 --> 1:00:10.959 It was a different Lucas. It was a different Lucas. Okay. 1:00:11.080 --> 1:00:18.080 This is from Finlay. Subject line spray painting and uh 1:00:18.520 --> 1:00:21.680 fear of something line spray painting and fear of people. 1:00:22.400 --> 1:00:25.080 This is from Finlay. Hey, gek, I'm eighteen years old 1:00:25.120 --> 1:00:27.520 and I live in Atlanta. But apart from that, I'm 1:00:27.560 --> 1:00:31.160 trying to get into the whole graffiti thing. But the 1:00:31.200 --> 1:00:34.960 main issue is that I'm not really the best I 1:00:34.960 --> 1:00:38.840 have been practicing, but I was invited to go do 1:00:39.000 --> 1:00:42.880 this stuff with some pretty cool guys. These guys are 1:00:42.920 --> 1:00:45.240 like really cool though, and I don't know how to 1:00:45.280 --> 1:00:50.439 talk to them. Also, my name is Finlay. Oh wow, 1:00:50.480 --> 1:00:53.400 I love this email. Well, okay, a couple of things. 1:00:53.440 --> 1:00:59.280 Here's a couple of things. One, don't get arrested just 1:00:59.520 --> 1:01:03.560 you know, I mean graffiti whatever, who gives whatever I mean, 1:01:03.600 --> 1:01:09.880 don't get arrested. Just be careful, don't I don't know, 1:01:09.920 --> 1:01:14.120 don't get arrested. But anyway, aside from that, if we're 1:01:14.160 --> 1:01:16.400 gonna talk about if this wasn't a graffiti, I'm not 1:01:16.440 --> 1:01:19.360 gonna be your fucking dad about it. But let's talk 1:01:19.400 --> 1:01:25.760 about this. You're a nervous for two reasons that you've expressed. 1:01:26.880 --> 1:01:28.800 Reason number one is that you think you're not good 1:01:28.880 --> 1:01:33.120 enough at art to be there. And the reason number 1:01:33.120 --> 1:01:37.280 two is these people are really cool and you don't 1:01:37.320 --> 1:01:39.120 know how to talk to them. You're afraid maybe you're 1:01:39.160 --> 1:01:42.040 not cool enough to hang out with them. Let's talk 1:01:42.080 --> 1:01:46.480 about that first. Here's the thing, Finlay, remember this for 1:01:46.560 --> 1:01:52.280 the rest of your fucking life. If someone really is 1:01:53.320 --> 1:01:58.800 that cool, they'll be easy to talk to and you 1:01:58.880 --> 1:02:03.600 won't need to impress them because if they're really that cool, 1:02:04.480 --> 1:02:07.240 they'll just be nice to you and cool to you, 1:02:08.040 --> 1:02:14.280 regardless of like how you are, regardless of how you're 1:02:14.720 --> 1:02:19.640 like presenting yourself. You know, as long so if in like, 1:02:19.840 --> 1:02:25.800 as long as you're approaching your interactions in your life 1:02:26.720 --> 1:02:30.760 with like good faith, you know what I mean. You're 1:02:30.960 --> 1:02:35.600 trying your best to not be an asshole. You have 1:02:35.720 --> 1:02:41.760 good faith intentions. As you move through the world and 1:02:41.800 --> 1:02:43.640 you go out and you talk to people and you 1:02:43.720 --> 1:02:48.640 do things, you're fine, you know. And then if these 1:02:48.640 --> 1:02:52.240 people really are that cool, they'll be inviting to you. 1:02:52.920 --> 1:02:58.600 They'll be easy for you to talk to, they'll be uh, 1:02:59.400 --> 1:03:02.200 you know, you won't feel on it. If these people 1:03:02.240 --> 1:03:05.040 are really that cool, you won't feel on edge with them. 1:03:05.360 --> 1:03:07.360 If you think these people are cool because they like 1:03:07.600 --> 1:03:11.640 dress a certain way, or like they're good at art 1:03:12.280 --> 1:03:16.640 that you know, who gives a shit about any that stuff? 1:03:16.640 --> 1:03:19.640 That doesn't fucking matter. So if these guys really are 1:03:19.680 --> 1:03:21.880 that cool, they'll be easy to hang out with and 1:03:21.920 --> 1:03:26.920 you won't need to worry about presenting yourself as some cool, 1:03:27.120 --> 1:03:33.560 fancy fucking art kid. So don't worry about that. And 1:03:33.600 --> 1:03:35.720 then the whole thing about like I'm not that good 1:03:35.760 --> 1:03:38.600 at art. Bro, you're eighteen and you're about to go 1:03:38.640 --> 1:03:42.480 to this weird graffiti tagging event. Who gives a shit? 1:03:42.520 --> 1:03:44.800 If you're good at art, you're there to get into 1:03:45.040 --> 1:03:48.720 You're there. You're not going there to be good at ar. 1:03:48.760 --> 1:03:50.640 I mean, maybe you are, but you're really going there 1:03:50.680 --> 1:03:55.640 to like fucking get into a weird experience and socialize 1:03:55.680 --> 1:04:01.439 and get build community. Got into the universe. So whether 1:04:01.480 --> 1:04:03.600 or not you're good at the art doesn't it doesn't 1:04:03.600 --> 1:04:09.360 really matter to me. Good on you for getting out 1:04:09.400 --> 1:04:15.600 there and uh doing some shit. Fear of people, you 1:04:15.640 --> 1:04:18.960 wrote in your subject line, good on you, I liked 1:04:19.040 --> 1:04:20.640 I like this guy a lot. I really do. I 1:04:20.720 --> 1:04:25.400 like this guy a lot because he's afraid of people 1:04:25.480 --> 1:04:29.400 and afraid of social interaction, it seems. But you know what, 1:04:30.720 --> 1:04:34.000 he's gonna go anyway. That's what I like about. That's 1:04:34.000 --> 1:04:36.160 what I like about Finlay. He's gonna go no matter what. 1:04:37.440 --> 1:04:40.680 Hopefully as long as you go, just go, Finlay, just 1:04:40.800 --> 1:04:45.400 go approach your interactions with good faith and with the 1:04:45.440 --> 1:04:48.160 intention that you want to meet people and have fun 1:04:48.200 --> 1:04:50.760 and do your ship and uh and you're good man. 1:04:52.520 --> 1:05:00.760 All right? Holy shit? Uh this are this is way 1:05:00.760 --> 1:05:04.480 too long? Yeah? Once again, I didn't specify this, but 1:05:04.560 --> 1:05:12.040 try to keep your email between you know, uh, like 1:05:12.080 --> 1:05:20.120 maybe like two paragraphs. Subject line this from Ryan subject 1:05:20.160 --> 1:05:25.360 line therapy Gecko Hates Canada, GEK love you Man, love 1:05:25.360 --> 1:05:29.480 your podcast. Thank you, Ryan, Canada is a all caps, huge 1:05:29.640 --> 1:05:36.120 ass country with many many cities and towns from west coast, 1:05:36.200 --> 1:05:39.040 and on this current tour, you only have one Canadian city. 1:05:40.320 --> 1:05:45.560 He wrote a bunch of other stuff that I'm not 1:05:45.560 --> 1:05:50.600 going to read. But what is it, Gek is the 1:05:50.720 --> 1:05:53.800 ketchup chips driving you away from my country? I love 1:05:53.880 --> 1:05:59.440 ketchup chips. I love Ketchup Chips, Ryan. I don't hate Canada. 1:05:59.520 --> 1:06:04.440 I'm just i'd like I would like to do like 1:06:04.480 --> 1:06:08.600 a whole ass like real Canada tour and go to 1:06:08.680 --> 1:06:12.120 like Montreal and Vancouver and Winnipeg and all that stuff. 1:06:12.160 --> 1:06:15.800 I'm just I'm just kind of tired. But thank you Ryan, 1:06:15.920 --> 1:06:18.280 thanks for listening to the show. And I don't hate Canada. 1:06:18.320 --> 1:06:21.720 I actually like Canada a lot. I walked across. I 1:06:21.760 --> 1:06:24.000 had a great time when I went to Toronto. I 1:06:24.160 --> 1:06:30.240 walked across the Canadian border from Buffalo to Canada. I 1:06:30.320 --> 1:06:33.280 just I was like standing with my little suitcase of 1:06:34.040 --> 1:06:36.560 T shirts. I might have told this story on the 1:06:36.560 --> 1:06:38.880 podcast already, but I'm gonna tell it again. I was 1:06:39.040 --> 1:06:44.240 walking across the Canadian border from Buffalo into Canada, and 1:06:44.320 --> 1:06:46.600 I was in like the I was just I was 1:06:46.680 --> 1:06:49.920 just had a backpack and a duffel bag full of shirts, 1:06:52.280 --> 1:06:56.080 and I'm like standing in line with a bunch of cars. 1:06:56.400 --> 1:06:59.480 I'm the only pedestrian. It's like very much meant for cars. 1:07:00.840 --> 1:07:04.160 And I get to the border agent and he's like 1:07:05.440 --> 1:07:08.600 he looks at my big ass stuffel bag and he goes, 1:07:09.280 --> 1:07:13.200 are there any drugs or weapons in the bag? And 1:07:13.240 --> 1:07:15.920 I was like, uh no, and he was like, all right, 1:07:15.920 --> 1:07:22.280 cool man, Well enjoy Canada. He didn't even check. And 1:07:22.320 --> 1:07:24.680 that is why Canada Okay, I know, you know why. Okay, 1:07:24.720 --> 1:07:27.720 you know how I said, boyse wasn't a real place. Canada. 1:07:27.760 --> 1:07:29.560 I don't hate Canada, but it's kind of not a 1:07:29.600 --> 1:07:33.800 real place because I'd feel like in a real place, 1:07:34.880 --> 1:07:38.040 they like check your bag if you're crossing from one 1:07:38.080 --> 1:07:44.080 country into another. So Canada, I mean, Canada's kind of real. 1:07:45.760 --> 1:07:48.360 I like Canada. I like Canada, but it's only kind 1:07:48.360 --> 1:07:50.440 of real. Thank you for listening to the show. Ryan. Okay. 1:07:50.520 --> 1:07:57.160 This is from Evan subject viewer male episode. Evan says, 1:07:57.280 --> 1:08:03.040 my girlfriend that I live with has dyspraxia and struggles 1:08:03.040 --> 1:08:07.200 to know left from right. I'm the driver in the relationship. 1:08:07.680 --> 1:08:16.040 What is dyspraxia. I've never heard of this in my life. 1:08:16.240 --> 1:08:21.240 Dyspraxia is a neurological development disorder that affects a person's 1:08:21.280 --> 1:08:29.719 ability to coordinate physical movements. Okay, you said my girlfriend 1:08:29.800 --> 1:08:33.080 has all This is a two sentence long My girlfriend 1:08:33.120 --> 1:08:36.160 has dyspraxia and struggles to know left from right. I'm 1:08:36.280 --> 1:08:40.479 the driver in the relationship. First of all, that's a 1:08:40.520 --> 1:08:43.920 weird sentence. I don't like that sentence. I'm the driver 1:08:44.120 --> 1:08:49.840 in the relationship. Oh okay, hold on, Oh okay, I'm 1:08:49.880 --> 1:08:52.000 an idiot. I thought he meant like. I thought he 1:08:52.040 --> 1:08:56.840 met like metaphorically. I think he literally just means he 1:08:57.600 --> 1:09:03.360 drives the car. Unless if he means like he's the 1:09:03.400 --> 1:09:08.800 metap he's the like top dog in the relationship. That's 1:09:08.800 --> 1:09:11.799 why I thought he meant I think he literally means 1:09:11.920 --> 1:09:17.479 he drives the car. Okay, uh okay, in that case, 1:09:17.520 --> 1:09:20.720 that would make sense. All right, I don't really know 1:09:20.720 --> 1:09:23.160 what else to do with his email, so let's move on. 1:09:32.360 --> 1:09:39.439 Uh Yeah, this email is stupid. Okay. This is from 1:09:39.520 --> 1:09:45.799 Matt subject line my Hedgehog story. Dear mister t Gecko, 1:09:45.960 --> 1:09:49.240 I like that. Thank you for taking the time to 1:09:49.240 --> 1:09:52.400 read my email. Attached is a story for you and 1:09:52.439 --> 1:09:56.000 your viewers. We have to go back to nineteen ninety 1:09:56.040 --> 1:09:59.040 six when I was in kindergarten. It was winter vacation 1:09:59.400 --> 1:10:01.679 and I got to take the class pet home over 1:10:01.720 --> 1:10:04.360 the break. It was a hetchhog, and we didn't know 1:10:04.400 --> 1:10:06.920 it to feed it. My parents gave it a bunch 1:10:06.920 --> 1:10:10.120 of mealworms and it ate them like all you could 1:10:10.160 --> 1:10:13.040 eat shrimp. We found it the next morning and it 1:10:13.200 --> 1:10:18.800 was dead. We thought the mealworms poisoned the hetchhog, and 1:10:18.880 --> 1:10:24.719 we had a private burial in our backyard. Not so fast, now, Sonic, 1:10:24.840 --> 1:10:26.360 that was stupid. I wish I didn't say that, but 1:10:26.400 --> 1:10:30.960 I'm leaving it in uh. For years, when I encountered mealworms, 1:10:31.000 --> 1:10:35.440 I would reflect that they're poisonous to hetchhogs. Until very recently, 1:10:35.520 --> 1:10:42.320 I didn't know the truth. Hedgehogs hibernate. They gorge themselves 1:10:42.400 --> 1:10:50.120 on insects before hibernation, and that big mealworm probably oh okay, 1:10:50.160 --> 1:10:55.439 and that big mealworm meal probably triggered its hibernation. Oh 1:10:55.439 --> 1:11:01.360 my god. We accidentally buried that poor head chog six 1:11:01.560 --> 1:11:06.200 feet deep in the backyard alive because we thought it 1:11:06.320 --> 1:11:09.040 was high. Because we thought it was dead when it 1:11:09.080 --> 1:11:17.639 was really hibernating. Oh no, that's really sad. That's really 1:11:17.680 --> 1:11:24.960 fucked up. That's a crazy story, he says. Imagine, he says, 1:11:25.479 --> 1:11:29.439 Imagine having a really big meal like hot pot or 1:11:29.479 --> 1:11:33.559 all you can eat shrimp and taking a deep nap 1:11:33.920 --> 1:11:43.560 and waking up buried underground. Big yikes, Jesus, that's a 1:11:43.680 --> 1:11:47.760 fucked up set. That's a really fucked up story. Goddamn. 1:11:54.560 --> 1:11:57.479 Oh yeah, that sucks. At least I guess at least 1:11:57.479 --> 1:11:59.320 he dies. Well I was gonna say at least he died, 1:12:01.880 --> 1:12:04.120 you know, having a big meal. But he didn't die. 1:12:04.160 --> 1:12:10.200 He died suffocating in a box. By the way, six 1:12:10.280 --> 1:12:14.120 feet do you really bury that motherfucker? Six feet? Six 1:12:14.160 --> 1:12:18.040 feet is a little deep for a hedgehog. That sucks. 1:12:18.040 --> 1:12:23.679 It sucks to be that hedgehog. Yeah, it's a fucked 1:12:23.720 --> 1:12:28.280 up story. Well, thanks for thanks for telling it. I 1:12:28.320 --> 1:12:30.920 guess I hope you don't go to hell because of that, 1:12:31.000 --> 1:12:34.800 But I don't know. Maybe you Maybe you die and 1:12:34.840 --> 1:12:37.360 you go to the gates of Saint Peter and Shadow 1:12:37.400 --> 1:12:39.320 of the Hedgehog is there and he banishes you to 1:12:39.360 --> 1:12:44.000 hell forever. All right, I'll read one more. All right, 1:12:44.040 --> 1:12:50.679 here's one. This is Alec subject line sad a wrapper. 1:12:52.120 --> 1:12:55.720 Hey man, I hope this email finds you. I like 1:12:55.760 --> 1:12:59.960 that it's very neutral. I am a musician from Massachuset. 1:13:00.920 --> 1:13:04.120 I spent all of high school playing saxophone to get 1:13:04.160 --> 1:13:07.720 into Berkeley College of Music, which is considered one of 1:13:07.720 --> 1:13:11.880 the most prestigious contemporary music colleges in the world. And 1:13:11.960 --> 1:13:15.919 I got in, but after four years of playing sax 1:13:16.040 --> 1:13:20.240 in college, I lost my love for it. Practice in 1:13:20.400 --> 1:13:23.479 sax became a chore that I never wanted to do, 1:13:23.920 --> 1:13:28.480 and I ended up resenting the instrument. I have recently 1:13:28.640 --> 1:13:33.960 found a new passion comedic rap. I love it, but 1:13:34.080 --> 1:13:37.440 I am worried that I don't have the social media personality, 1:13:37.880 --> 1:13:41.559 the connections, the looks and age, or even the actual 1:13:41.680 --> 1:13:44.599 skill to do it. And I feel like a piece 1:13:44.600 --> 1:13:48.160 of shit for wasting my college years and putting myself 1:13:48.200 --> 1:13:51.679 in debt just to never play the sax again. I'm 1:13:51.720 --> 1:13:54.400 afraid now to go all in on this since it 1:13:54.479 --> 1:13:58.400 is a big risk considering the subject matter. My question 1:13:58.560 --> 1:14:01.160 for you is, would you listen to my very first 1:14:01.240 --> 1:14:05.880 rap song that I ever wrote? And then he sent 1:14:05.920 --> 1:14:07.679 me a link. I'll listen to it later. I can't 1:14:07.680 --> 1:14:12.200 listen to it right now. And then he says, and 1:14:12.320 --> 1:14:14.760 is this something you think I should pursue? Thank you 1:14:14.800 --> 1:14:16.880 for reading. I hope my song brings a smile to 1:14:16.920 --> 1:14:24.719 your face, mister best Wait, Alec, have we talked before? 1:14:24.760 --> 1:14:29.040 Did we talk on the podcast? Anyway? I will listen 1:14:29.040 --> 1:14:30.320 to your song later, but I don't want to listen 1:14:30.360 --> 1:14:33.599 to it right now. And truthfully, my response to this email, 1:14:33.680 --> 1:14:36.320 I don't need to listen to this to respond to 1:14:36.400 --> 1:14:38.240 the things that you were saying in your email of 1:14:38.240 --> 1:14:40.840 whether or I think this is something you should pursue. 1:14:41.479 --> 1:14:43.720 I empathize with your struggle, man, I really do. I think. 1:14:45.439 --> 1:14:49.560 I think I definitely understand. You know something that you 1:14:49.880 --> 1:14:52.920 that you really like and have passion for, like becoming 1:14:52.960 --> 1:14:58.920 a chore, and then you end up resenting it. I've 1:14:58.960 --> 1:15:03.360 been having a lot of life epiphanies lately, Alec, And 1:15:03.560 --> 1:15:06.320 one of the life epiphanies that I've been having lately 1:15:06.800 --> 1:15:11.080 is that nothing really fucking matters except what you are 1:15:11.160 --> 1:15:15.280 actually doing, like the literal process of what you are 1:15:15.320 --> 1:15:19.439 actually doing, and then like who you're around, like who 1:15:19.520 --> 1:15:25.599 you're doing, what you're doing with, and so the question 1:15:25.680 --> 1:15:29.960 of should you pursue it. If you like doing this, 1:15:31.120 --> 1:15:36.360 like you simply enjoy the process of wrapping, you should 1:15:36.439 --> 1:15:39.679 do it until you don't fucking like doing it anymore. 1:15:41.439 --> 1:15:43.920 If you're put, if you're in a whole thing of like, oh, 1:15:43.960 --> 1:15:51.679 I I'm just doing this to like fucking like because 1:15:51.680 --> 1:15:53.400 you're put, you're putting a whole thing on it of like, 1:15:53.439 --> 1:15:55.559 oh I need to make money doing this, I need 1:15:55.600 --> 1:15:59.080 to be successful doing this. You're just gonna end up 1:15:59.080 --> 1:16:01.920 presenting it again, dude, You're just gonna endpresenting it again. 1:16:02.479 --> 1:16:05.439 Like if you really if you really want, dude, go 1:16:05.560 --> 1:16:09.439 fucking do something else for money and then make raps 1:16:09.520 --> 1:16:14.600 because you like making raps. You're not gonna suddenly like 1:16:14.680 --> 1:16:19.680 it more because it's successful. You have a baseline of 1:16:19.680 --> 1:16:22.200 whether or not you like it. So if if you're 1:16:22.360 --> 1:16:26.920 if you're enjoying doing it, keep fucking doing it, keep 1:16:26.960 --> 1:16:34.680 fucking doing it. I also don't think that you what 1:16:34.680 --> 1:16:38.639 what else has you read in this email? I don't 1:16:38.640 --> 1:16:41.800 think you wasted any I mean, you wasted a bunch 1:16:41.800 --> 1:16:45.160 of money. You totally, you totally did waste a bunch 1:16:45.200 --> 1:16:49.320 of money, But you didn't waste any time you didn't 1:16:49.320 --> 1:16:52.599 waste any time because you liked playing the sax in 1:16:52.640 --> 1:16:55.760 the moment that you were doing it, and maybe you 1:16:55.920 --> 1:16:59.200 had fun in college. Maybe you I don't know, did 1:16:59.200 --> 1:17:04.880 cocaine once or something and you had fun. Uh So, yeah, 1:17:04.920 --> 1:17:06.559 of course you should keep doing it. I don't need 1:17:06.600 --> 1:17:08.680 to listen to this to know if you should keep 1:17:08.680 --> 1:17:13.200 doing it or not. Just do things that you like 1:17:13.400 --> 1:17:17.600 and then die. I think that's how life works. But 1:17:17.680 --> 1:17:19.559 I don't know. I'm also, by the way, a huge 1:17:19.640 --> 1:17:24.640 fucking hypocrite. Just so you know, I do things I 1:17:24.640 --> 1:17:29.479 don't want to do for in life all the time. 1:17:32.439 --> 1:17:40.040 But yeah, anyway, just keep going alec huh. Well that's it. 1:17:40.160 --> 1:17:42.640 This is the end of the episode. I don't know. 1:17:42.720 --> 1:17:45.720 I hope this was good. I hope this was good. 1:17:45.760 --> 1:17:47.160 I don't know if this was good. I don't know 1:17:47.200 --> 1:17:52.559 if I I'm I enjoyed it. I enjoyed ranting, and 1:17:52.560 --> 1:17:54.600 I hope it was of value. That's all. That's what 1:17:54.640 --> 1:17:57.439 I really care about. Two things with this podcast. I 1:17:57.439 --> 1:18:00.840 really care about, like if I'm enjoying doing it, and 1:18:00.920 --> 1:18:05.360 if the people who are listening are getting value out 1:18:05.400 --> 1:18:09.439 of it. I hope the people listening are getting value 1:18:09.439 --> 1:18:11.880 out of it. I hope that if you if I mean, 1:18:11.920 --> 1:18:13.519 if you're here, if you're still here, this is the 1:18:13.600 --> 1:18:15.679 end of the episode. This is We've been recording for 1:18:16.280 --> 1:18:22.040 how long, like an hour and twenty minutes or something 1:18:22.040 --> 1:18:30.280 like that. I just hope you enjoyed listening to this. 1:18:30.400 --> 1:18:39.160 I hope it was worth it. So yeah, thanks for listening. 1:18:40.120 --> 1:18:41.680 I don't know how often I'm gonna do this. I'm 1:18:41.680 --> 1:18:44.360 gonna probably do this. I'm there might universe exists where 1:18:44.360 --> 1:18:46.640 I do this once a week. But let me know 1:18:46.800 --> 1:18:49.200 your thoughts and the comments. I read every comment. I 1:18:49.200 --> 1:18:51.479 shouldn't say that because then whatever, but I do. I 1:18:51.520 --> 1:18:56.360 read every comment. So just let me know what you 1:18:56.400 --> 1:18:58.840 think in the Spotify comments or the YouTube comments of 1:18:58.880 --> 1:19:04.320 this Viewer Male episode. I hope you enjoyed it. I 1:19:04.400 --> 1:19:08.400 got some shows coming up in Europe and in Los 1:19:08.400 --> 1:19:10.680 Angeles and Minneapolis, and then I'm probably gonna take a 1:19:10.720 --> 1:19:16.000 break from the road for for a long time. But yeah, 1:19:16.120 --> 1:19:21.040 thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it, and uh, 1:19:21.400 --> 1:19:26.200 take care, good luck bye everyone a week and goes 1:19:26.280 --> 1:19:30.040 on the line taking your phone calls every night every week, 1:19:30.160 --> 1:19:36.120 and goes to just teaching names about line, An expert