WEBVTT - “I HOOKED UP WITH MY COUSIN” 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:03.640 Is this the gag? 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:05.120 Yes? Who is this? 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.560 Uh we'll just we'll just we'll just call. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.480 Me tea Tea. How old are you, Tea? 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:12.240 Eighteen? 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:14.680 Well, what's up, Tea? 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:17.360 Not much. I was just about, uh, just about a 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:17.960 load of bowl. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:22.000 How can I get you today, sir? 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.040 Uh, I kind of got this. Uh, I kind of 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:33.440 got a really weird story. So fuck it's weird. I've 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:38.400 never told anybody this before. So when I was uh, 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.519 when I was fifteen, I went to this hotsprings with 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.800 my dad and like right as my parents were getting divorced, 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:47.919 so he just kind of wanted to like take us 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.400 out and do stuff. And uh, like fucking we go 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.920 to this hotsprings with my with my cousins and uh, right, 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:01.200 my female cousin that we have, she's like she like 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.560 we went with them or whatever. We were like fucking 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.520 We're like, you know, it was like a hot sping 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:07.959 was like a pool and like a hot from next 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:09.240 to you and all the kids was like going to 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.440 the fucking pool. And I was so kind of you know, young, 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.240 and she was fucking she told me I looked hot, 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.480 and I was so like brought off by that, and 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.640 like it took me back a little bit, and I 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.280 just fucking like, I don't know, thought about it for 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:30.280 a minute, and fucking like twenty minutes later, she came 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.200 back up to me and like told me she wanted to, 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:40.120 you know, do the deed, and uh basically short story, 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:46.280 short story, later that night, we uh, you know I 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:47.280 did the deed. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:54.680 All right now, Well it's her tea t Yeah yeah, look, 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.760 look he's I'm more than happy to have this conversation 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.880 with you, but I just like human being the human being. Yeah, Like, 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:04.920 I just really really need to ask you if you're messing 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:06.720 with her right now, because it's like the number one 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.800 thing that people to talk about is having sex with 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.560 their cousin. It's like, I don't know why that's like 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.040 the time, it's like the boy who cried cousin fucking like, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:20.280 it's the number one thing that people call in to 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.519 like make up. But I'm sure there are and I 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.200 feel and if I feel bad for the people who 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.880 actually did fuck their cousins that want to talk about 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:29.800 it because of all the people who make who like 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.799 make up stories about fucking their cousins. And I don't 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.440 know if you're which of those two people you are, 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.360 but I'm gonna trust you whichever of those two people 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:37.000 you say you are. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.760 Well, like I'm I definitely did not make the story 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.960 of it. I feel like I've regretted it my whole 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:48.720 fucking life. Like there's like like I feel like I 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.840 just like suck my whole Like I feel like I 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.600 don't necessarily fuck my life though, but like kind of 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.960 fucked my sexual life because a little bit, because like 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.600 it's just you know, that's like what I especially like 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.000 when I listen to uh, this is kind of weird, 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.840 but like every time I listen to that one fucking 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:07.560 not jo is it a cool? 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:08.280 Uh? 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.560 That one song where he you know, he loses virginity 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.040 and they like passed the note through school and like 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.680 that every fucking time that song comes up on my playlist, 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.520 that like that instant just fucking pops in my head 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.520 that my first time was fucking my cousin. I just 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:25.280 feel like I'm so like just so fucked. I should 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:25.720 see the chap. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.359 I don't don't what what don't? First of all, I 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:35.280 don't like the chat. Second about so tea A couple 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:40.760 of questions mm hmm, first cousin or second cousin. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:48.160 Uh. So she's my my dad's first cousin's kids. I 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.880 think that makes for my seconds. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:58.760 Okay, so she's not like your dad's brother's daughter. No, no, no, no, no, okay, 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:05.040 all right, So she was your dad's cousin's daughter. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:07.440 Yeah, yep. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.720 Okay, and this was three years ago, yeah. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:12.160 About four. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.920 Well it happened. I think it happened. Well, my parents 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.279 got divorced in twenty late twenty twenty, at the end 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:20.240 of summer twenty twenty. 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:27.080 Okay, all right, I mean, look, you know, I mean 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.440 a second cousin. I'm not gonna I don't think that's 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.839 I don't think it's good. I'm not I'm not gonna 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:42.640 sign off. Yeah, look, I look, well I don't look. Ideally, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.960 if you're gonna have sex with someone, they would not 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:52.359 be your cousin. But if but second cousin, at the least, 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.840 it's at least it is better. It is better than 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:58.039 first cousin. It could be worse. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.080 Yeah, I did, I did. I wouldn't. I did wrap 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:08.359 it before I tapped it, you know, so there wasn't like, uh, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.320 you know, I wasn't direct skin contact. You know what 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:11.760 I'm saying. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:18.640 Okay, but it was there. Can I how I see 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.400 you were what you were fourteen and fifteen? 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:22.240 Yeah? 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.680 Yeah, how old? 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.080 Well we're the same age. She's born like a couple 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:28.680 of months before. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:33.359 I am okay, you're yeah. Do you ever like, do 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:38.240 you ever see her like at like stuffy? 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.520 So she's on my dad's side, so and my parents 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.719 got divorced, and I don't. I don't see my dad anymore. 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.400 So I don't see her at all, Like I haven't 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.599 seen her. We used to go to the same high school, 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.560 and even everyone time I did seear, I just fucking 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.479 turned the hallway. I would have voiter as well as 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.440 like fast as I could. 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.839 Just you're being one hundred percent serious, right, yeah, I 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.000 swear to God. Okay, I believe you. I really do. 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.280 I I I try not to have this sounds real 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.640 like you. I feel like i've anyway whatever you're telling 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.719 the Chews, I believe you. Have you ever told anyone 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:10.240 else about this? 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:11.200 No? 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.240 I feel so like I'm so shaky right now, like 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.320 I I've never told anybody this, And I like even 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.039 when people ask me what my first time was, I 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.200 just told him I met some girl at Hotspring, like 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:22.920 I told him. I just met some girl at Hosprings 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.080 and it was random girl I met at Hot Springs. 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.440 We just hooked up, and that is that the first time? 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.400 Was that the first time you ever met her? 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.279 No, we known each other for a little while before that. 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:40.040 Okay, do you ever you ever go to a therapy 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.120 to talk about this or you've literally this? 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.559 Yeah, No, you're the first kind of therapy. I've brought 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.640 this the first time I've ever gotten it off my chairs. 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.760 Okay, well let's I mean, I have a few questions, 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.280 But how does it feel to get it off your chest. 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:57.839 Better? 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.000 I think I feel a little little more. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.479 Okay, first of all, I mean, look, you're not the 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:11.280 first guy to have sex with uh, their second cousin. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:17.560 They do that. These that there was a time in 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.200 in America. This is I'm making this up, but I 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.160 also I'm making this up, but it comes from a 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.600 place that is is there's a kernel of truth. I 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:31.920 think there was a period of time in human society 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:39.560 where more people's sexual partners were their second cousins than not. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.360 Right, I got to keep it in the bloodline. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.920 I think. I don't know if that's true, and don't 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.160 I don't know if that's true. It see. It sounds 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.760 like it makes sense though, because people didn't used to, 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.600 you know when back when people like you know, and 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.480 they lived in like tribes and stuff. Like when people 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.840 would hang out in tribes, everyone was having sex with 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.680 their cousins all the time, you know, right, So you're 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.680 not the first guy to do that, so you know, 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.680 don't you don't have to feel that weird? 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.120 Yeah, not the first guy in history, I guess. And 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.560 maybe I mean, like the you know, royals used to 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.800 you know, like trade off their cousins and shit. So 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.240 me and I maybe my ancestors are proud of me 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:19.840 or something. 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.760 But I don't know. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:23.280 I don't know. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:24.680 I feel like you're making this up. Are you making 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:29.200 this up? No? Okay, right, I believe I believe you. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:30.720 I believe you. No, no, no, you don't be sorry. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:31.120 I believe you. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.440 But yeah, I don't know. It's just I don't know, 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.520 it's fucking I feel like I just I don't know. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.120 I feel like I fucked up my first time, Like 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.040 I like now, looking back at it, I wish I 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.760 just never I mean I wish I didn't do a 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.160 lot of stuff in my life. You can't really be 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:48.880 regretful about it, but I didn't. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.040 You're you're you're only eighteen, man, You're it's too young 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.560 to have so many crazy regrets. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:00.760 Yeah, yeah, I don't know. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.440 It's just it's because weird, you know, talking to somebody 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:04.880 about it. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.040 Tell me why, you let's get into this real quick, 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.600 I mean what, so tell me why this seats awagh 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.880 at you? Like obviously you know it's not a socially 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.400 acceptable thing, like, but but let's let's let's really get 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.480 into it. I mean why, let's get into your feelings 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.640 about it, and maybe we can find something. You know, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:24.920 like what, tell me more about your feelings about this. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:27.600 I mean, I don't know. I came up from like 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.559 a more I mean, I moved around a lot when 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.080 I was a kid, but for the most of like 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.880 my high school years, I lived in like this smaller town, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.760 and you know, like anything like uh drama related like that, 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.720 especially if the cot wind just the slides, everybody would know, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.720 like everybody in the whole fucking town would know what 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:46.080 you did. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:46.920 Mm hm. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:53.280 So it could be some of that, but I'm not sure. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.560 Look, man, you know, first of all, I mean you 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.520 were four. First of all, I don't I kind of 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:12.600 think anything that you did with your life before, anything 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.640 you did with your life before you I mean you 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.359 were fourteen when this happens. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:19.280 Yeah. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:25.320 Look, unless if you like killed somebody, kind of anything 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:30.600 you did with your life before you were eighteen, you're fine, 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:31.400 you know what I mean? 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:33.000 M hm. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:38.000 So you know, I think you can. You can, you can, 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:39.720 you can get you can get it, you can get it. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.800 I think you can have a clean slate with this one. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:44.880 Yeah. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.240 Yes, I mean it's kind of not been eating me 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.320 as much, especially because I moved out of the state 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.560 that where she lives at and stuff like that, and 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.080 I'm like, I'm like six hundred miles away from her now, 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.160 and it's not like it's kind of in the back 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.760 of my mind. But just like like I said, like 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:01.720 some times, like especially when I'm at like work, I 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.559 have my music in like that, I'm pretty sure it's 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.960 that Jake Cole. I'm kind of nervous right now, so 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:07.880 I'm just kind of my mind is kind of racing 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.800 a little bit. But I fuck, I forget what it's called. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.559 Like you know what I'm talking Like that one song 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.720 where he's like passing notes with his fucking chick or whatever, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.000 and he's talking about his first time. Like every single 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.120 time that song comes up, or like anybody talks about 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.040 their first time having sex, it always just like pops 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.520 in my head. It's like, damn, you fucked up for 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.839 your first time. Like you you know that you can 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.920 never tell anybody about your first time because they're just 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.880 gonna think, you know, you're a fucking cousin fucker or 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:33.000 something like that. What Dreams, Yeah, that's the song I'm 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:33.360 looking for. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.080 Yeah, well, don't you don't have to listen to Jake Cole? 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:39.400 What's that I said? 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:40.720 You don't have to listen to j Cole? 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.280 Yeah, yeah, it's a good just block. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.800 J Cole, just a good block. Jake Cole on Spotify. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:57.319 I guess I should. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.240 Well listen, man, I I don't don't. Don't let this 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.680 ruin your life. You know, go ahead and you will 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.839 have you will eventually have sex with people who are 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.000 not your cousin. You will eventually. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.440 I've done other things. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.200 That's cool, whether whether you did or your day, it's fine. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.599 You're you're, you're you're gonna you're gonna be fine. T 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.080 all right. If if you haven't told anyone this and 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.559 I'm the first person you've told let I'm telling you 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.520 you're gonna be fine. I'm telling you shouldn't forget about this, 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.439 and I'm telling you to stop listening to J Cole. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:33.720 Yeah, I think I'm gonna pick that song off. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.400 Taking off the playlift. Why is it still even on there? 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.680 If you're if it's making you, I'm just gonna say that. Look, 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.760 I'm just gonna say this. T if I had a 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.360 song that reminded me of fucking my cousin, I would 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:46.880 I wouldn't have it on my playlist. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:49.640 Yeah. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:58.000 Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Yeah, I probably I 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.439 should probably take that song. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:12:59.920 Off off. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:05.600 Tee. Is there any other way that I can help you? 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.760 This evening? Was this helpful? 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.040 I think this one was very helpful. Okay, honestly, I'm 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.959 surprised because I literally saw your like live notification and 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.559 I texted you and I didn't think you were gonna 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:20.959 call me and I which is pretty surprising. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:29.079 Well, here we are, and just here we are, just 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.640 two guys who are gonna be okay. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:34.880 Thank you. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:38.600 Is there anything else want to say to the people 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:39.520 in the computer before we go? 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.679 Uh, just keep it real and Uh, don't suck your 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:45.400 cousin because. 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:45.760 You'll regret it. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.000 All right, take care of man. 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:50.160 You too. I love the show. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:51.560 Thank you, Thanks brother, Thank you. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:52.560 Have a good one. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:14:00.320 You too. I lost my virginity a two to my 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:06.520 first girlfriend when I was eighteen years old, and like 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:12.400 six years later, she sends me a text and it's 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.959 a picture of her wearing a Therapy Gecko T shirt 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.160 and she says, my friends found out that I lost 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.880 my virginity to the Therapy Gecko, and so they bought 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:30.120 me this T shirt. I hope you're doing well. It 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.840 was actually very very kind. Hey, folks, this is Lyle. 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.760 I am very excited to announce that I am going 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.640 back on tour in twenty twenty four to do Therapy 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.840 Gecko Live all across the country. If you've never been 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:49.000 to one of my live shows before, they are extremely fun, unpredictable, 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.600 wild evenings that involve a mix of group Gecko therapy 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:58.800 sessions as well as some material and presentations from myself. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.120 And if you've been to the sh show before, I 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:05.560 have new presentations and will of course be interviewing new people. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.920 If you're a fan of the podcast, you're gonna have 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.240 a great time at the live show, so I hope 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.600 to see you guys there. Go to therapy geckotour dot 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.880 com or check the link in the episode description for 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.800 a full list of cities where tickets are available. Also, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.440 if you don't see your city on the list of cities, 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.720 please still click the link and RSVP with your phone 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.360 number so I can contact you when tickets go on 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.360 sale for your city, because I'm going to announce a 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:40.320 bunch more dates very soon. Gek bless Hello. Hi, what's 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:40.960 your name, sir? 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.920 Oh? This is Mike. Who's this? Uh? 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:45.920 It's the Gecko guy. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:46.640 Oh? 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.800 Hey, man, what's up Mike? How you doing, buddy? What's 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:50.600 what's going on? 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:57.200 Not much, man, I'm just you know, chilling out calling 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.120 in the gek you know. Well, wow, I got nervous. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.880 I didn't realize I was going to get nervous. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.080 You know what's funny. I'll tell a story real quick. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.600 So back I first, I used to do this show 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.080 on uh Reddit. That's how the show first started. As 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.520 there used to be this thing called the Reddit Public 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.920 Access Network where people would like live stream themselves to Reddit, 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.960 and if enough people were watching your stream, Reddit would 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.840 actually put your stream to the front page of Reddit. 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.760 And so that's kind of how I got started doing this, 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.760 is like my streams kept getting to the front page 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.400 of Reddit, and I, you know, there'd be like forty 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:44.600 thousand concurrent viewers on my Reddit streams, and I, for 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.640 some reason, I just never got nervous. I really, like, 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.960 I don't know why. I couldn't really like feel the 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.560 presence of those people, and it just my my central 0:16:55.600 --> 0:17:01.440 nervous system never spiked or anything like that. But here's 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.640 what's Interestyle, Well, hold on me. Let me just restressing though, 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:12.359 is that there occasionally would be other streamers who would 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.560 do call in shows. And I remember there was this 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.679 other streamer. I don't remember what their name was, but 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.520 I was bored one night and I was watching this 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.399 other streamer who like had a call in show and 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:27.600 they maybe had like fifteen people watching their stream. But 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:32.320 I called in and they picked up, and for whatever reason, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.960 I got nervous when I was on the phone. It 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:38.639 was so weird to me. I was like, why am 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:43.560 I nervous calling in to somebody else's stream but I'm 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.560 totally fine on my own. It didn't make any sense 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.600 to me. It kind of made me like realize what 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:49.840 it was like to be on the other side of 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:50.240 the phone. 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:55.920 Yeah, yeah, man, that is kind of funny. And I'm 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:00.240 used to, like, you know, I've like done singing in 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.320 theater and stuff like that, and I should be used 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.480 to talking to people live. But you know, when you're 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.800 on you know, your hero's phone line is pretty cool. 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:13.800 I'm not. There's no way I'm your hero. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.199 I have literally, oh honestly, you know what, I have 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:23.240 discovered a new like interesting path because not only of you, 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.119 because of other streamers too. Like I didn't even realize 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.800 it was a thing, you know, and I here, I am, 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.040 like this old dude hanging out on the internet, just 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.320 found lyle you know, well. 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.200 Hold on, so what what's this new path that you 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.480 found as a result of like streamers. 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:47.080 You know, I was really tired of working for big 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.240 corporations and stuff like that, and I just like went 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.320 off and did my own business thing because I saw 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.840 a lot of people just kind of doing the the 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.720 their own thing, you know. And now the internet is 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.520 so cool you can pretty much do whatever you want. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:04.560 I mean, you could always do whatever you wanted to 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.879 within reason, right, but now it seems like a little 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:13.000 bit safer and more fun, you know, and I don't know, 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:14.360 it's gonna dig in your thing. 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:16.800 Well, what tell me, what's this? What's this thing that 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.120 you're doing? What's this biz? 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.960 Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I'm just I'm I'm working 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:23.919 on computers, you know. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:25.080 I uh. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.199 I help people with their uh with their computers, you know, 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:34.000 recovering data, doing you know whatever, helping their website. Just 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.280 you know, I do all the discourse. I'm a tech guy, 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:38.720 you know, so I spend a lot of time doing 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:44.400 tech stuff, and just I don't know, decided one day 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.199 I was tired of do I'm tired of doing it 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.000 for everybody else except for myself, you know, and like 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.200 I wanted to do a project for myself. I wanted 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:52.440 to do a project for myself. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.440 I like that. I like that, I think I I mean, 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.199 is that like uh or I'm I'm not a future 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.800 ologist or an economist or anything, but that seems to 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:08.320 me like a utopian world. Like everybody's a freelancer. You know, 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.000 there's no like nine to five corporate shits kind of 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.800 work when there needs to be work done, you know. 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.159 Yeah, yeah, I kind of like that, you know, like 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.400 we can all kind of be ourselves and you know, 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.639 do our thing. By the way, I was at the 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:30.040 Syracuse Show, dude, and it was so much fun experience. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.840 I didn't. I didn't, I really like and my wife, 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:35.760 you know, she was like a little skeptical, you know, 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:40.000 because with Nana fifty, you know, not not and you're 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.040 pretty young, right, you're like in your twenties, dude, So like, 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.560 you know, but I get along with I get a 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:48.320 lot of the stuff that you guys are doing. You know, 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.359 I saw you actually the first time I saw you 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.800 was in an interview with the guy from AFN or 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.560 you know, at the av EN the AVN. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:00.000 Oh who wait, somebody was interviewing me. 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:08.120 Yeah, who dude was interviewing you on YouTube on the ABN. 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:10.080 So I was like, who's this get go guy? And 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:15.320 who a rabbit hole? Some porns to meet some porn 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.000 star or wanna be porn guy? 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:18.480 You know. 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:24.080 Okay, So I inspired you to create a computer repair business. 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:31.080 Well it's repair business, but yeah, I mean yeah, yeah essentially, yeah, yeah, 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.080