Speaker 1: Hey, what's up. How's it going. My name is Lyle
Speaker 1: a Gecko sometimes and this is gek Mail. I made
Speaker 1: an Instagram story where I asked people to send me mail,
Speaker 1: not like literal male, but email with stuff with words.
Speaker 1: You know. It's kind of will be like the regular podcast,
Speaker 1: except it's just me. You know how. Normally there's a
Speaker 1: lot of podcasts out there where it's two people having
Speaker 1: a conversation, and that's what a lot of my podcast
Speaker 1: is normally. But today my podcast is going to just
Speaker 1: be me ranting a lot while looking at things that
Speaker 1: other people have said. It's gonna be like a monologue podcast,
Speaker 1: but I will be reading viewer mail. It's almost like
Speaker 1: like like reading those Reddit stories, except instead of posting
Speaker 1: them to Reddit, people email them to me. That's what
Speaker 1: people used, That's what people used to do before they
Speaker 1: could post their stories on Reddit. They just said them.
Speaker 1: They didn't they emailed them to people, or they just
Speaker 1: said them. I'm off one right now, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: on a rant today. I'm not holding it. I've decided
Speaker 1: this this episode of gek Mail, I'm not holding anything back,
Speaker 1: all right. I'm gonna give my true opinions on things. Normally,
Speaker 1: I'm scared. Normally, I'm like, I don't want to give
Speaker 1: my opinions because not even because I'm afraid of people
Speaker 1: getting mad at me. Serious, seriously, not even because I'm
Speaker 1: afraid of people getting mad at me, but more so
Speaker 1: because I think as time has gone on, I just
Speaker 1: developed this like deep agnosticism towards fucking everything, you know,
Speaker 1: towards everything. There's some things that that agnosticism hasn't touched,
Speaker 1: but it's touched a lot of stuff. The older I get,
Speaker 1: the more I learn through my own personal experience, the
Speaker 1: less I feel like I fucking know about it anything.
Speaker 1: That's the main reason why I don't give a lot
Speaker 1: of strong opinions, or at least try out to give
Speaker 1: a lot of strong opinions. But I'm not gonna do
Speaker 1: that today. I'm gonna not be agnostic today. I think
Speaker 1: the world needs a little bit more agnosticism in a
Speaker 1: sense is but that's an opinion in and of itself.
Speaker 1: All right, Fuck this this is That was that was
Speaker 1: too long of an intro. Thanks for listening to this podcast.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be like an hour and a half
Speaker 1: of me rambling, and I think it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have a good time. I drank
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee, and we have some good emails
Speaker 1: that we're gonna listen to. So let's do a gek mail. Okay,
Speaker 1: This first one is called this is from soup Corn
Speaker 1: and the subject line is I don't like my home
Speaker 1: country of Japan. Hello Therapy Gecko. I met you one
Speaker 1: time in Shibuya a show. It was a fun experience,
Speaker 1: so thank you for coming. Yes, I did a show
Speaker 1: a couple times in Shibuya, Tokyo. That was fucking fun.
Speaker 1: All right. Anyway, this is just a dump about what
Speaker 1: I thought about today. I don't know what I should
Speaker 1: do with my life. I'm an architecture student from Japan
Speaker 1: and I am on study abroad. I don't like Japan
Speaker 1: in terms of the work culture, the people who are
Speaker 1: too shy to talk to each other, having to play
Speaker 1: the mind games, read the room, who's greater and better
Speaker 1: every single minute? Yeah, in I've talked about Japan. I
Speaker 1: feel like a bunch on the show. Japan has a
Speaker 1: crazy work culture and it also has ah fuck, there's
Speaker 1: a name for this, dude. Hold on, there's a name
Speaker 1: for this I'm gonna google this Japanese term for outword
Speaker 1: verse in word expression. There's a word for this, Okay,
Speaker 1: here it is, I think. I think it's called tatame
Speaker 1: the public facade what you say and do outwardly to
Speaker 1: maintain social harmony and expectations. And then honey, which is
Speaker 1: like your true inner feelings. And so I think, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: in Japanese, uh uh, like work culture from what I understand,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a fucking white American guy, but from
Speaker 1: what I understand is that there's a very strong culture
Speaker 1: of like, do not say what you feel and keep
Speaker 1: it inside to maintain social harmony. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of I think what this emailer is talking about is, yeah,
Speaker 1: having to play those mind games and having to like
Speaker 1: and also like social hierarchy and order, like there's this
Speaker 1: is more important over there. Like there's this thing when
Speaker 1: you go out to drinks with your boss, Like it's
Speaker 1: expected that you go out to drinks with like your
Speaker 1: coworkers and the people you work with, even after work hours.
Speaker 1: And there's a weird thing where like when you clink
Speaker 1: your glass you're superior. You have to make sure that
Speaker 1: if your boss's glass is like above yours like you
Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for hierarchy and whatnot. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I don't like the work culture. I don't like
Speaker 1: having to play these mind games. But I love the designs,
Speaker 1: some music, fashion, and the architecture that the Japanese produce.
Speaker 1: They're so funny, diverse, elegant, chaotic yet orderly. I want
Speaker 1: to get out of Japan, but I like Japan. I
Speaker 1: want to live doing design, but I also want money,
Speaker 1: and being an architect isn't the best choice if you
Speaker 1: want to be rich. Is that true? I thought architects
Speaker 1: make a lot of money. Is that not true? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess this person is it's true. Okay. I
Speaker 1: just want to live my life reading books, watching movies,
Speaker 1: going to museums, travel sometimes, learn new things, and design stuff.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just the work life, the adult life that
Speaker 1: I'm scared of. Not Japan necessarily interesting. Interesting, that could
Speaker 1: be true. I guess that I tend to compare myself
Speaker 1: with other people, especially people from high school. I get
Speaker 1: anxious when I'm talking to the people who went full business.
Speaker 1: I feel their ideology is fit for society. They have
Speaker 1: a clear goal, a motive, and already starting up the ladder. Interesting. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this person gets anxious when they talk to people
Speaker 1: who kind of went straight up, you know, they were like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna go to school, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: the job, I'm gonna respect my elders. I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: fit into the way that society is wants me to conform.
Speaker 1: I'm still deciding on which ladder to take. I might
Speaker 1: be too scared or too greedy to decide what to do.
Speaker 1: The study abroad is hard, but so fun for me.
Speaker 1: I am having a great experience in the city I
Speaker 1: am studying at the moment. The people are usually helpful
Speaker 1: and easier to talk to than in Japan. But I'm
Speaker 1: different here as a guest. Wait, ah, this person. I
Speaker 1: don't think this person put where they are studying. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get where. I'm gonna guess they're studying in America.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, maybe they could be studying
Speaker 1: in Europe or Australia or Canada or whatever. That's just
Speaker 1: me being fucking America bias. It's like, yeah, they're studying abroad.
Speaker 1: Of course, if you're what, you're gonna go to another country.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go some place it's not America. Okay. The
Speaker 1: people are usually helpful, easier to talk to than in Japan.
Speaker 1: But I'm here as a guest. My chances to get
Speaker 1: a job here after study abroad are very, very low.
Speaker 1: I have not heard about it. I think being a
Speaker 1: guest and being I think being a guest versus being
Speaker 1: a resident gives you different lenses. Or maybe I am
Speaker 1: in that period where you can oversee someone's flaws because
Speaker 1: they are your crush or something. Okay, this seems more
Speaker 1: American now, yes, this seems now more American. That's that is,
Speaker 1: I guess a little bit of America as you kind
Speaker 1: of fall in love with it. I guess why did
Speaker 1: I say that? You fall in love with it. You
Speaker 1: go over and you're like, oh, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: cool stuff here, but it is a honeymoon phase. And
Speaker 1: then you're like, oh, wait, there's actually a lot of flaws.
Speaker 1: But it's like that way everywhere. I mean, shit, for me,
Speaker 1: it was like that with Japan, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: you go to Japan and it's like, Wow, everything's cleaner,
Speaker 1: everything's nicer, everything's fucking sick, And then you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: why is it like that? And then you start to
Speaker 1: start to learn about all this kind of like societal
Speaker 1: conditioning and whatnot. Okay, or maybe I am in that
Speaker 1: period where you can oversee someone's flaws because they're or
Speaker 1: crush or something. Nah, Japan is still kind of shit. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the whole email from Soupcorn. I don't know. They
Speaker 1: bring up a lot of interesting things. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of information that's missing from this email that I'm that
Speaker 1: is would be important to ponder it, like where did
Speaker 1: they go? But you know what I'll say this Soupcorn,
Speaker 1: is that the first of all, you're not alone. You're
Speaker 1: not alone at all, and everyone everyone knows you're not
Speaker 1: alone in the desire to do like you're not alone
Speaker 1: in the sense that you see this path ahead of
Speaker 1: you that all your like classmates are taking and friends
Speaker 1: are taking, and you see what's up right, especially in
Speaker 1: a culture like Japan, and you see this traditional route
Speaker 1: and you look at it and you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: is this is this? It is this what I gotta do?
Speaker 1: And you're like, is there anything else? And you're and
Speaker 1: it's not only that, right, It's not only that. It's
Speaker 1: that you see other people, not not that you see
Speaker 1: other people who feel the same way as you but
Speaker 1: submit to it. You fucking see other people who don't
Speaker 1: question it and don't think about it and are fine
Speaker 1: with it. And that is I think what makes you
Speaker 1: anxious is you're like, fuck, you know, I'm I'm Why
Speaker 1: am I? Why am I cursed with wanting something more?
Speaker 1: And my friends are totally down to just like you know, uh,
Speaker 1: suck up to a boss and and take to take
Speaker 1: the traditional route. And let me tell you something, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a blessing and a curse. And you know,
Speaker 1: I've I've never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever ever in
Speaker 1: my life, you know, from I mean from like fucking
Speaker 1: elementary school man like thought that I was gonna get
Speaker 1: go into science or or medicine or law or like
Speaker 1: anything traditional. I'm a I'm This is a hard one
Speaker 1: to draw from my personal experience because I just feel
Speaker 1: like I got I feel like I got really uh
Speaker 1: lucky with a lot of ways that my life turned
Speaker 1: out in this kind of regard. But also if I
Speaker 1: hadn't gotten lucky, I would have I probably would have
Speaker 1: just kept trying different shit until I got lucky. But
Speaker 1: it's tough. There's lots and lots and lots of times
Speaker 1: in my life and I'm not even and you know,
Speaker 1: I mean take career out of it, right, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean look at like life in general, there's a
Speaker 1: certain kind of brain that just is like, I want
Speaker 1: more out of this. Although this person, they said they
Speaker 1: just want to read books, watch movies, go to museums,
Speaker 1: travel sometimes, learn new things and design stuff. Can you
Speaker 1: not find just like some job. I I don't know
Speaker 1: what is available in Japan. Maybe you would have to
Speaker 1: leave Japan. And also, this person's probably young. This person's
Speaker 1: probably like nineteen twenty twenty one. Try going somewhere. I
Speaker 1: don't know where you can go. I don't know where
Speaker 1: you can go, but you could go somewhere America. I
Speaker 1: know America is what sucks and it's hard to get
Speaker 1: into and is expensive. But like, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: up in Canada? Do they let people go to Canada?
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm not being helpful to this person
Speaker 1: at all, but I have a lot of thoughts about it.
Speaker 1: If all you want to do is read books, watch movies,
Speaker 1: go to museums, travel sometimes, learn new things and design stuff.
Speaker 1: As you said, you can totally totally be like okay,
Speaker 1: Like it's like, sit down, do some googling, do some research,
Speaker 1: and just be like, what fucking job can I do
Speaker 1: that makes the most amount of money with the least
Speaker 1: amount of work, Like how many? There's gotta be some
Speaker 1: bullshit jobs out there that you can just like do
Speaker 1: your bullshit thing for money and then live your life.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a big thing is that you don't
Speaker 1: have The thing you do for money doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be your fucking life and your how you define yourself.
Speaker 1: So you probably have a lot of friends who are
Speaker 1: like I, I it's really important to me to climb
Speaker 1: the corporate ladder and to succeed and to do a
Speaker 1: good job. And that doesn't have to be you. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be you. You can just you can.
Speaker 1: You can work at some fucking coffee shop for as
Speaker 1: little hours as you need to to pay some humble amount,
Speaker 1: some humble lifestyle. You live with roommates, you know, live cheap,
Speaker 1: and just fucking live your life. Man, if that's what
Speaker 1: you want to do, If that's what you want to do, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know, if any I don't know if that
Speaker 1: was helpful at all. Let's keep going. Oh, this is
Speaker 1: from the same person. Okay, this person sent me multiply.
Speaker 1: All right, this is from the same person, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. Okay, this is also from soup Corn.
Speaker 1: I told my Muslim friend her favorite cake has alcohol. Hi,
Speaker 1: So my friend decided to buy some cake and said
Speaker 1: I can have some. I take some and went home.
Speaker 1: Later that day, I had a bite and realized it
Speaker 1: had an alcoholic flavor. So I thought this was her
Speaker 1: first time eating it. Maybe she doesn't know about this.
Speaker 1: So I call her, telling her that there is some
Speaker 1: alcohol zero point nine percent wine. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: she already had a bite. In fact, it was her
Speaker 1: favorite cake to buy at the supermarket. She didn't know
Speaker 1: there was alcohol in it before, but now that she knows,
Speaker 1: she probably feels guilty religiously she can't eat her favorite
Speaker 1: cake anymore. I feel so bad. Should I have not
Speaker 1: told her about this? Or was this the right thing
Speaker 1: to do? What can I do to make it up?
Speaker 1: Is this? Okay? So this is the same guy who
Speaker 1: from Japan who was talking about wanting to leave. I
Speaker 1: feel bad for this person because this guy's soupcorn is
Speaker 1: the name of this emailer. This guy's mind is so
Speaker 1: I feel bad. This is this guy's brain. If this
Speaker 1: is a guy, I'm gonna just say it is. This
Speaker 1: guy's brain is so anxious that he thinks that it's
Speaker 1: that it's somehow his fault that this cake has alcohol
Speaker 1: in it's that this his friend bought like he it's
Speaker 1: almost like like he like he's acting as if he
Speaker 1: fucking like gave her the cake without knowing she bought him.
Speaker 1: He's acting like he gifted her cake and that had
Speaker 1: alcohol in it and he fucked her up. But he's
Speaker 1: just informing her as a friend that the cake has
Speaker 1: alcohol in it, and now he feels bad about informing
Speaker 1: her of reality. That is helpful for her. Soup corn.
Speaker 1: If you're listening to this podcast, you got I think
Speaker 1: you need a strong internal mindset shift because you're if
Speaker 1: you're doing this with cake, you're probably doing this with
Speaker 1: the rest of your life of just believing that you're
Speaker 1: somehow guilty of all everything, which is you can't live
Speaker 1: life like that. It's gonna fuck you up. Yeah, you have.
Speaker 1: There's no reason all to feel bad about this. You're
Speaker 1: in You're helping your friend by informing her that this
Speaker 1: cake has. I mean, it's a bummer for her, but
Speaker 1: it's not your It's a bummer for her, but it's
Speaker 1: not your fault. It's like it's like it's like if
Speaker 1: you told your friend that it was going to rain
Speaker 1: today and then you felt bad that it was going
Speaker 1: to rise, if you fucking made it rain. Can't be
Speaker 1: so hard on yourself, supercorn. All right. This one is
Speaker 1: from Gabby, subject line my dad can't stop marrying women
Speaker 1: he meets off the internet. Hi, gek, my name is Gabby.
Speaker 1: I am twenty one and uh my father is on
Speaker 1: marriage number four since twenty twenty two. For some context,
Speaker 1: his first wife was an arranged marriage and he ended
Speaker 1: up leaving her and their daughter three years in for
Speaker 1: my mom. Him and my mom met through the internet
Speaker 1: in two thousand and three. Wow, that's pretty early for
Speaker 1: meeting on the internet. My dad was disowned from his
Speaker 1: family because of the divorce and moved from India to
Speaker 1: the US to be with my mom. They were together
Speaker 1: for seventeen years, but he cheated on her a lot
Speaker 1: and they got divorced like three times throughout my childhood.
Speaker 1: My mom unfortunately passed away in twenty twenty and the
Speaker 1: dating started immediately with no concern for his grieving children.
Speaker 1: He is a pattern of finding women that do not
Speaker 1: live close to where he's living at all, talking to
Speaker 1: them for weeks to a month, and flying us all
Speaker 1: out to meet them for the first time. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you get hopefully, hopefully these women
Speaker 1: live in cool places that you get to go to,
Speaker 1: bringing them expensive gifts, buying them cars, apartments, paying for
Speaker 1: their children's college, and then proposing to them, only to
Speaker 1: get heartbroken. Months after, the most notable wife he had
Speaker 1: lived in Chicago, he flew out to meet her for
Speaker 1: the first time by himself after two weeks of talking
Speaker 1: to her, and that weekend he was there, he got
Speaker 1: her an apartment in downtown Chicago. Jesus Christ, And as
Speaker 1: soon as he got back he told us she was
Speaker 1: moving in with us the following week. Wait, he got
Speaker 1: her an apartment and then fucking but if you got
Speaker 1: her an apartment where First of all, what does your
Speaker 1: dad do for a living? Dude? Your dad is anyway,
Speaker 1: as soon he's got has he moving in with you? Guys?
Speaker 1: If he got her an apartment in Chicago and I'm
Speaker 1: going to speed run the rest of the story, but basically,
Speaker 1: this woman and her daughter moved in did not speak
Speaker 1: to any of us, unless if it was to ask
Speaker 1: about our dad's dating history. Two weeks in, they both
Speaker 1: went to Chicago for the weekend and came back engaged
Speaker 1: without any of our knowledge, and then they eloped at
Speaker 1: the courthouse the same week. Anyway, I really don't like her,
Speaker 1: and my dad was forcing us to be extra nice
Speaker 1: to her and her daughter and give them special treatment
Speaker 1: and just kind of would go do things without us
Speaker 1: to make them feel more welcome. And then the fighting
Speaker 1: started and they started a divorce. Like three months in,
Speaker 1: she moved back to Chicago to an apartment he was
Speaker 1: paying for with her car. Okay, I'm gonna just keep going.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna skip a lot of this. He was tracking
Speaker 1: her in her car and got a second apartment in
Speaker 1: Chicago to be close to her, and it was awful.
Speaker 1: He was heartbroken and a mess for months. I can't
Speaker 1: be He would say things like, I can't be a
Speaker 1: good dad to you guys if I'm not happy. He
Speaker 1: would leave my siblings alone in the house for weeks
Speaker 1: and tell them to just door dash. I was living
Speaker 1: on my own at that point because I could not
Speaker 1: take it anymore and had no knowledge of him leaving
Speaker 1: them anyway. His other marriages don't go so great either.
Speaker 1: But yeah, hope this helps, love you gek, hope this
Speaker 1: helps you? What helps? This helps? Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: what you mean by I hope this helps, but okay,
Speaker 1: Yeah that's a loaded thing. That's yeah, your dad, God,
Speaker 1: I hope that's I really hope this isn't me when
Speaker 1: I'm fifty. I really hope it's not me when I'm fifty.
Speaker 1: It might be It might be me when I'm fifty.
Speaker 1: This might just be me when I'm fifty years old.
Speaker 1: Is like just you know, being like being being like now,
Speaker 1: I don't think I would abandon my kids, but if
Speaker 1: I had, like if I was like fifty, if I
Speaker 1: was like if I was like in my sixties and
Speaker 1: I had like grown kids that were on their own
Speaker 1: and I had a dead wife, I'd probably I would
Speaker 1: also probably just start meeting marrying women from the internet
Speaker 1: randomly at sixty when you get to lose it's sixty anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Your dad sounds like, I mean, that's crazy, right,
Speaker 1: because if your dad's bear like twenty one. Your dad's
Speaker 1: probably in his like fifties sixties. Can you fix your
Speaker 1: life that? Your dad's probably been that guy forever. That's
Speaker 1: the weird thing about getting older. That's a weird thing
Speaker 1: When you meet people who are like in their fifties
Speaker 1: and sixties, you know, they just like that. They're they
Speaker 1: They have been that way for most of their life
Speaker 1: and will probably continue to be that way forever. But
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're out of the house at least and
Speaker 1: you're not like dealing with all this bullshit. I feel
Speaker 1: bad for your siblings. I don't I don't have advice
Speaker 1: on any of this, but it was interesting to read. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is from Doug. Subject line baloney and cake. Hey, Gek,
Speaker 1: I just ate an entire ice cream cake and now
Speaker 1: I'm feeling sick, but I kind of want to do
Speaker 1: it again. I also just smoked and fried. I also
Speaker 1: just made a smoked and fried baloney sandwich and it
Speaker 1: smells great. Also, I saw you in Dallas last year.
Speaker 1: That's the whole email. It sounds awful, Actually, it sounds awesome.
Speaker 1: That's the thing, man, That's what sucks about food is
Speaker 1: fucking great in the moment. And then afterwards it's like
Speaker 1: this was a horrible decision. Man ah God eating it
Speaker 1: into I that's the thing. I could do it. I
Speaker 1: could eat an entire ice cream cake easy. I could
Speaker 1: do it easily if you put an entire ice cream cake.
Speaker 1: If you put an ice cream cake in front of
Speaker 1: me right now, could eat the thing easily. You know,
Speaker 1: I could eat a whole pieces. I could just keep
Speaker 1: going until there would be no stop. That's the problem
Speaker 1: with food your bodies is. I think my body has
Speaker 1: evolved to a point where it's and it won't tell
Speaker 1: itself to stop. You have to manually stop. You have
Speaker 1: to use your higher human consciousness to stop. But I
Speaker 1: don't know. This guy seems like he's doing it pretty.
Speaker 1: He's he's taking it in the stride. Okay, let's see.
Speaker 1: This is from uh Subha Sebba. Subject line is so antsy. Hello,
Speaker 1: dearest Lyle. I'm feeling so antsy all the time, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do about it. I've always
Speaker 1: been pretty introverted and enjoyed my time alone, but now
Speaker 1: I can't do it anymore. I've met such cool people
Speaker 1: this summer, and now all I want to do is
Speaker 1: meet people, because isn't that the point of life to
Speaker 1: make connections. I mean, I'm still autistic and thus socially inept,
Speaker 1: but I do enjoy meeting people. But now when I'm
Speaker 1: alone in my room or alone in general, I get
Speaker 1: so lonely and feel the need to get a tattoo
Speaker 1: or piercing, or take a risky walk down a dark alleyway,
Speaker 1: or text someone I shouldn't text, just for some kind
Speaker 1: of feeling. It's so lonely being alone. And I don't
Speaker 1: know how I suddenly became uncomfortable being alone. I don't
Speaker 1: like it when I'm alone. I feel like I'm unlovable
Speaker 1: for some reason. I DeKay why, man, it's weird and irrational.
Speaker 1: Any words of wisdom of words in general will be nice.
Speaker 1: Thanks man. By the way, I'm a colleged aged woman
Speaker 1: for context. Well, first of all, you know, I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I think meeting people and making connections is
Speaker 1: one of the biggest points of life. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: know what you mean, and I you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: everyone has their own thing when it comes to like
Speaker 1: how they cope with loneliness. You know, I mean I've
Speaker 1: sat comfort and you know, food and pot and you know,
Speaker 1: porn and all these things, or yeah, we're texting someone
Speaker 1: I shouldn't text or something like that, And how do
Speaker 1: you deal with it? I mean, I think it's a
Speaker 1: question of It's just this is a question of putting
Speaker 1: yourself out there, right. I mean, you said you've met
Speaker 1: such cool people this summer. How did you do that?
Speaker 1: How did you meet these cool people? Do more things
Speaker 1: that put you around in spaces with other people. There's
Speaker 1: a lot. That's the thing, right is I'm like, life
Speaker 1: rewards you for just doing things. Really, you don't even
Speaker 1: have to this. This is this is honest, honestly, this
Speaker 1: is one of This is one of the main lessons
Speaker 1: I've learned and I and I need to apply this
Speaker 1: in my life more often. This is key is that
Speaker 1: life doesn't reward you for making the right choices, because
Speaker 1: there's no such thing as the right choices. But life
Speaker 1: for war ords you every time for doing stuff. It doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's you don't need you don't need to do the
Speaker 1: right stuff. You just have to do stuff. If you
Speaker 1: sit at home alone and and jerk off and do nothing,
Speaker 1: you will there will be no rewards to you. But
Speaker 1: if you do anything, you don't have to do the
Speaker 1: right thing. You don't have to meet the right people,
Speaker 1: but you don't have to make the right If you
Speaker 1: just fucking do anything you get, you'll just get rewarded.
Speaker 1: So you have to just do something. I don't know
Speaker 1: where you live or where you are, but there's probably
Speaker 1: other people there, So just think of something you can do,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, you know, we've talked about this a
Speaker 1: bunch on here, Like go to a fucking event. I
Speaker 1: would avoid the dark alleyways. I don't know, you said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess that you're like a alt kind of
Speaker 1: a lady. You know what about going to go to
Speaker 1: go to show, go to the fucking dark carnival or whatever,
Speaker 1: go to the d V and art to meet up,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, go to something, go to something. There's
Speaker 1: plenty of, like AULTI autistic young people in wherever city
Speaker 1: that you are, that you can meet up with and
Speaker 1: hang out with. But you just got you gotta go
Speaker 1: to where they are, and you got to find that out,
Speaker 1: and you gotta do the the truly minimal amount of
Speaker 1: work that is required to figure out where those places are.
Speaker 1: The real work is in the hole, is in the
Speaker 1: you know, put them on clothes and getting outside and
Speaker 1: going doing the thing. But the more you put yourself
Speaker 1: out there, the less time you spend in your room,
Speaker 1: and the more time you spend out in the fucking universe,
Speaker 1: you'll just get rewarded naturally. Naturally, you don't even have
Speaker 1: to worry about, like doing the right shit, So you
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about saying the right things. Even when talking to people,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about saying the right things.
Speaker 1: You have to worry about the fact that you're trying
Speaker 1: to say anything at all to anyone. You know, That's
Speaker 1: how I feel about relationships and friendships and dates and whatnot.
Speaker 1: You have to you just have to keep throwing yourself
Speaker 1: out there and eventually you'll get rewarded. So I mean,
Speaker 1: that's my that's my advice, man, is just to leave
Speaker 1: your house. You know, don't it's good that you're uncomfortable
Speaker 1: being alone. You should be, right, The point of life
Speaker 1: is you want to make connections, and you want to
Speaker 1: live a life that you're proud of and happy with,
Speaker 1: and you know, you don't want to look at the
Speaker 1: highlight reel of your life that you're sitting around not
Speaker 1: doing anything, So just leave the house. There's so many
Speaker 1: opportunities to leave the house. Get out of the get
Speaker 1: out of the house. Man. Okay, let's see here. This
Speaker 1: is from Francesco. Subject line words dear Gecko. I am
Speaker 1: a listener whenever my podcast backlog gives me some time
Speaker 1: to listen to the other listeners ramblings. I really appreciate it,
Speaker 1: even if sometimes I wish the episodes were a little
Speaker 1: bit shorter, so that they could be around the ballpark
Speaker 1: of thirty to forty minutes per episode. I people, you
Speaker 1: make the episodes short, and people want them long. You
Speaker 1: make them long, people want them short. Folks, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: do whatever you want with your fucking life. People will,
Speaker 1: people will complain about whatever you do. There's no right an.
Speaker 1: That's why that's literally to add on to what I
Speaker 1: just said, just do something because people are always there's
Speaker 1: always there's no right thing to do. That's why you
Speaker 1: can never ask your That's why you can't ask your
Speaker 1: audience what kind of episodes they want to listen to
Speaker 1: or what kind of content they want, because this is
Speaker 1: always gonna be do. You always have to just do
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you want to do anyway, that's
Speaker 1: I'm rambling. Okay, anyway whatever, I'm gonna skip this. My
Speaker 1: life is a mess. I guess I'll thok Okay, my
Speaker 1: life is a mess. I guess I lost my dream
Speaker 1: as I was going, and then I somehow got back
Speaker 1: on track. But it's not the same thing, and I
Speaker 1: can't seem to be able to let go of the past.
Speaker 1: Every time I feel down, I tend to do these things,
Speaker 1: boil and remorse for previous bad life choices, work mindlessly
Speaker 1: to forget my problems, and then, at the peak of
Speaker 1: stress and self loathing, I treat others poorly. The effect
Speaker 1: is that every day I sink deeper in mud and
Speaker 1: then regret how poorly I behaved to others, repeatedly, every
Speaker 1: day for months on end, blaming myself for everything and
Speaker 1: fearing the consequences of my actions, sometimes even after I
Speaker 1: said I'm sorry, and I truly am, Because broken things
Speaker 1: can never be fixed to their original state. Now, you
Speaker 1: might be saying, if you are aware of this, why
Speaker 1: don't you just stop? Apparently it's not something that I
Speaker 1: can control entirely. If you have any advice for me,
Speaker 1: it will be welcome, and I thank you in advance
Speaker 1: for it. Have a great day and good luck for
Speaker 1: the future of your project. Keep up the good work.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Francesco. Okay, hold on, I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: digest this real quick because this is very vague. My
Speaker 1: life is a mess. I lost my dream as I
Speaker 1: was going and got back on track. I can't seem
Speaker 1: to be able to let go of the past. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we got remorse for bad life choices, forgetting problems. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of stuff here, right. What
Speaker 1: are you doing when you mean you're poorly behave poorly
Speaker 1: to others? I'm curious what you're doing. And we've all
Speaker 1: had that happen, like you. You your emotional state drives
Speaker 1: your actions and you're like, oh fuck, I was just
Speaker 1: being a dick, you know, And then you and then
Speaker 1: you work harder on controlling your emotions and controlling your
Speaker 1: fucking you know, to the best of your ability, and
Speaker 1: you you try to you kind of try to wrangle
Speaker 1: it all in, right, But yeah, you can't. You can't
Speaker 1: boil in remorse. You can't do that. You can't do that, Francisco.
Speaker 1: You you there's so much opportunity in the world. For again,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this the theme of the episode. Just
Speaker 1: do things. Life rewards you for just doing things. And
Speaker 1: there will always, forever, no matter what previous bad choices
Speaker 1: you made in your life, there will always be an
Speaker 1: infinite amount of things to do. There will always be
Speaker 1: an infinite amount of things to fucking dwell on from
Speaker 1: the past. So Francesca, I mean, just you can't dwell
Speaker 1: on the past. You can't. You just can't dwell in
Speaker 1: the past. Also, nobody ever does Nobody ever does everything perfectly.
Speaker 1: Nobody ever does anything perfectly. Nobody, nobody ever fucking did
Speaker 1: everything perfectly. And by the way, a few people and
Speaker 1: here's the thing, actually that's not true. A few people did.
Speaker 1: A few people have been perfect and amazing. There's a
Speaker 1: few ned flanders Is out there who just they were
Speaker 1: awesome the entire time, and they made all the right choices,
Speaker 1: and they're rich and amazing, and they've never done anything.
Speaker 1: They never said anything bad to anyone or done anything
Speaker 1: bad to anyone, and they made all their perfect life choices,
Speaker 1: and they sleep well at night, and they never all
Speaker 1: their thought The quality of their thoughts is amazing. Those
Speaker 1: people totally exist, but that's they're good. Good for fucking them.
Speaker 1: It's not the majority, it's really not the majority. The
Speaker 1: majority of people probably live with some regret or remorse
Speaker 1: over actions in the past, over whether over how they
Speaker 1: hurt other people or how they hurt themselves, or like
Speaker 1: people are reminiscent about what life could have been, or
Speaker 1: they live life. Lives are quiet desperation. It's part of
Speaker 1: the human experience. You're not alone in this, right, So
Speaker 1: what you're experiencing is life. This is do You're not
Speaker 1: You were never gonna do everything perfectly. That's not that's
Speaker 1: not within you. That's that's that's like, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's why people love Jesus is because he apparently was
Speaker 1: amazing and did it was awesome and he uh turned
Speaker 1: water into wine and shit and fucking was everyone everyone
Speaker 1: liked him. But that's not you. You're not Jesus. None
Speaker 1: of us are Jesus, and we were never going to
Speaker 1: be We were all gonna be fickle, weird, imperfect people
Speaker 1: in a fickle, weird, imperfect, complicated world. And you have
Speaker 1: to accept that none of your choices were ever gonna
Speaker 1: be the perfect ones. You knew you did what you
Speaker 1: could with the knowledge you had at the time. So like.
Speaker 2: Fucking just just stop bathing and like masturbating in the
Speaker 2: shame and the fear and the guilt and the just
Speaker 2: stop stop.
Speaker 1: You're like showering in it every day for no reason.
Speaker 1: It helps no one, It doesn't help. It doesn't help
Speaker 1: you become a better person for yourself or for the
Speaker 1: other people around you. And it's just like why, like
Speaker 1: why why, By the way, I totally bathe in shame
Speaker 1: and guilt and self loathing all the time. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm able to go on this rant to you. I
Speaker 1: feel really good in this moment, and in general, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good at I think like moving on and
Speaker 1: you know, for like just you know whatever, if I
Speaker 1: was like, ah, fuck, I should have done differently in
Speaker 1: that situation, or I should have done differently in that situation.
Speaker 1: I've gotten over the years, I've gotten pretty good at
Speaker 1: not dwelling too hard on things, because as life goes on,
Speaker 1: I realize that you only have the information that you have,
Speaker 1: and you got to you gotta be quick to forgive
Speaker 1: yourself for bad life choices. I mean, don't be too
Speaker 1: quick that you don't learn your lesson. You want to
Speaker 1: learn your lesson and you want to not do you know,
Speaker 1: repeat ship that to keep harming yourself. I do that too,
Speaker 1: I've I have plenty of lessons that I refuse to learn.
Speaker 1: I guess but every but every year of my life,
Speaker 1: I I I it's it's it's like a stock. It
Speaker 1: like goes up and down and up and down up,
Speaker 1: but it trends upwards as I get, as I get
Speaker 1: older and live and do more things that I noticed
Speaker 1: that I'm I'm better at what what? What is the
Speaker 1: term for this error correction? Life is error correction? And
Speaker 1: as I get older and as I do more things,
Speaker 1: I get better at the error correction. So life is
Speaker 1: error correction, meaning you do things and then you see
Speaker 1: how the things that you do affect you and affect
Speaker 1: other people. And as you do things, you you err.
Speaker 1: To err is human and then you correct those errors.
Speaker 1: So you have to allow you have to understand that
Speaker 1: these errors that you made are not bugs. They're part
Speaker 1: of the process of being a human being. Is you?
Speaker 1: You you you error and then you correct and you
Speaker 1: learn and sometimes you get If you're someone who you
Speaker 1: let your emotions really fucking take hold of you. You
Speaker 1: forget all of your error correction, and you admit to
Speaker 1: the desires of the emotion that is currently possessing your
Speaker 1: body like a demon. And that's something to wrangle if
Speaker 1: you're if you're someone that lets emotions possess your body
Speaker 1: like a fucking demon. But life, life is just error correction.
Speaker 1: So when you look back at your life, Francesco, at
Speaker 1: the errors, just just flip the mindset because right now
Speaker 1: you're looking back at the errors and you go, oh,
Speaker 1: I committed all these errors. I fucked up. I made
Speaker 1: all these bad choices, and I fucked up, which means
Speaker 1: that I'm I'm I'm done, and I was never gonna
Speaker 1: be anything. And I because you know, because the best
Speaker 1: version of me would have never made those errors. And
Speaker 1: so you do well, and you dwell, and you dwell
Speaker 1: and you dwell, and you the error because the errors
Speaker 1: were inevitable, because you're a human being doing things. The
Speaker 1: errors were inevitable. Okay, so understand that they were inevitable.
Speaker 1: But then now what's in your UH agency is to
Speaker 1: is to correct them and learn from them and also
Speaker 1: understand that they're gonna keep happening. They're gonna make bad
Speaker 1: choices until you die. You're gonna make bad choices until
Speaker 1: you die. Probably you'll get better at making at you
Speaker 1: at having them be less bad and probably less frequent.
Speaker 1: But you'll never be perfect. You'll never be James Bond.
Speaker 1: You'll never have the right. You know what I hate?
Speaker 1: I saw this movie. I'm gonna go on such I'm
Speaker 1: on such a rant whatever, I don't care. I hope
Speaker 1: people are enjoying listening to this. I saw this movie,
Speaker 1: the F one movie. I wasn't gonna see it, but
Speaker 1: there's some people go and I went, and I hated
Speaker 1: it so much. Has anyone has anyone seen the F
Speaker 1: one movie? I fucking hated that fucking movie so much.
Speaker 1: I promise is related. It's by that guy Jerry. I
Speaker 1: think Jerry Bruckheimer, right, Jerry Bruckheimer. He made Top Gun Maverick,
Speaker 1: Did he make the did he make the original Top Gun? Too?
Speaker 1: I never saw the original Top Gun, but I saw
Speaker 1: Top Gun Maverick, and I saw F one, and I
Speaker 1: and and but before I know that the point is
Speaker 1: that the movies are supposed to not be realistic. But
Speaker 1: I fucking hate those movies because in those movies because
Speaker 1: I hate those movies because they're perfect. I know that's
Speaker 1: the point. I know that's the point. I'm gonna spoil
Speaker 1: the F one movie. If you were gonna watch the
Speaker 1: F one movie, then you can skip ahead. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna spoil it because who care? Okay? In the F
Speaker 1: one movie, everyone just has the perfect thing to say.
Speaker 1: You know, every character enters the room at the perfect time.
Speaker 1: Everyone has there's no awkward there's no like, you know,
Speaker 1: someone mumbles and they said what and then someone goes, oh, sorry,
Speaker 1: I didn't hear you. Do you think should we No,
Speaker 1: everything's perfect. Everything's written so that it was a perfect
Speaker 1: thing that is said, and you know what happens. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing I'm here's the spoiler. They win the race,
Speaker 1: because of course they win the race. There's this part
Speaker 1: of the F one movie where the Brad Pitt's character
Speaker 1: is like talking to the love interest and he's like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't even care if I win this race anymore.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I used to be so obsessed with the trophies. I
Speaker 3: used to be so obsessed with, you know, getting the
Speaker 3: accolades and the money. But then I realized all it
Speaker 3: was about is the racing. It doesn't even matter if
Speaker 3: I win, which.
Speaker 1: Would have been great. You know, if it weren't the
Speaker 1: fact that he wins the fucking race at the end
Speaker 1: of that have him not win the race then anyway, Okay,
Speaker 1: I knew that this was really okay. This is why
Speaker 1: this is related because life is not a Jerry Brockheimer movie.
Speaker 1: That's why I talked about this. Life is not a
Speaker 1: Jerry Brockhimer movie where everything is perfect and you always
Speaker 1: say the fucking right thing and you always win the race.
Speaker 1: Life is weird and gross and awkward and uncomfortable, especially
Speaker 1: if you're a person who thinks and feels in some
Speaker 1: deep sense, and that's a blessing and a curse. He
Speaker 1: embrace it. So embrace the u the uncomfortability of your errors.
Speaker 1: You don't want want to be Brad Pitt. That's soulless.
Speaker 1: You don't want your life to be the F one movie.
Speaker 1: That's a shitty movie. We all know people whose life
Speaker 1: is like the F one movie. And maybe this is not.
Speaker 1: You know, the the F one movie. It looked good,
Speaker 1: it had good cinematography, and you know, Brad Pitt, that's cool.
Speaker 1: I guess that's a cool life. But you don't want
Speaker 1: your life to be the F one movie. You want
Speaker 1: you want, you want something deeper than that. You want
Speaker 1: something that people will that will be remembered. You know,
Speaker 1: I people will forget about the F one movie. So
Speaker 1: so in feel honored to live in imperfect human existence
Speaker 1: and embrace it and try your best. That's my rant, Francisco. Okay,
Speaker 1: that was a lot? How long was it? How long
Speaker 1: was I ranted for? That? Was? I?
Speaker 2: Was?
Speaker 1: I rant? Was it? Did I spend forty five minutes
Speaker 1: on that? One can email? This is from Keith, subject
Speaker 1: line feeling weird. Hey, Lyle, hope you're well. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to email you to talk about how weird life is,
Speaker 1: or at least I've been feeling weird about it recently.
Speaker 1: So many people that I feel I have put a
Speaker 1: lot of time and effort into a friendship or some
Speaker 1: sort of relationship with have been disintegrating lately as I'm
Speaker 1: twenty three and everyone seems to be moving on and
Speaker 1: creating new lives that I am no longer a part of.
Speaker 1: I still live with my parents, only have a part
Speaker 1: time job, even though I've graduated college six months ago.
Speaker 1: Now I have no motivation to do anything other than
Speaker 1: hang out with old friends like I did in the past.
Speaker 1: But none of them have time, it seems. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess this is kind of a whole lot of nothing. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It makes a lot of sense. Hopefully it
Speaker 1: makes you ponder. Okay, yeah, I feel like I recently
Speaker 1: talked about this on the show. But it's something I've
Speaker 1: been thinking about a lot. Is like, as you get older,
Speaker 1: your friends and your family all like start to have
Speaker 1: their own lives. I'm twenty seven. My my I used
Speaker 1: to live in a house when I was a boy
Speaker 1: with my mom, my mom, my dad, and my sister.
Speaker 1: We all used to live in a house together for
Speaker 1: like fucking seven years something like that. Maybe the longer eight,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But for a long time we all
Speaker 1: lived in a house together and we all had we
Speaker 1: all meet meet. Those the four of us, my mom,
Speaker 1: my dad, and my sister. We all lived and we
Speaker 1: all had a life together. And you know, then my
Speaker 1: parents got divorced, they got remarried. I grew up, my
Speaker 1: sister grew up. Now, me, my mom, my dad, and
Speaker 1: my sister all live in different states and we all
Speaker 1: have our own lives and we used to have you
Speaker 1: know this, we were all we were all in each
Speaker 1: other's lives and we check in on each other and
Speaker 1: I call them and we talk and I you know,
Speaker 1: I love them and they love me, and but you know,
Speaker 1: we're I don't see them every day. They're not in
Speaker 1: my They're not a part of my daily, daily, true
Speaker 1: daily life. You know, my high school friends. I talk
Speaker 1: to them in a group chat every day, which is awesome,
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't. It's not like I was
Speaker 1: in high school where I saw them like all the
Speaker 1: time in class. And you show up to class and
Speaker 1: you have your friends and everyone's like a You're like,
Speaker 1: you have people in your life, right, Like That's kind
Speaker 1: of how this ship goes. Is as you get older,
Speaker 1: everyone starts to develop their own lives and you less.
Speaker 1: You find yourself less and less. Uh you have people
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, you have friends and you
Speaker 1: have family, but the less people like in your life.
Speaker 1: It's and a lot of people are lucky, you know,
Speaker 1: they have really nice they have really great relationships like
Speaker 1: spouses and families and people they work whether you know,
Speaker 1: some people are lucky enough that they have people in
Speaker 1: their life like in in their life. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about like having friends. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: having family. I'm not I'm talking about like you know,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Whoever wrote this email, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So you're twenty three, which is
Speaker 1: a pivotal age because you graduated college and you're seeing
Speaker 1: your friends move on and they are creating their lives
Speaker 1: that you're not a part of. But that's that's again,
Speaker 1: that's natural. It's to be accepted. But the good news
Speaker 1: for you, Keith, is that because you're only twenty three,
Speaker 1: you have a lot of time to create your own
Speaker 1: life that can have people in it. How do you
Speaker 1: create a life that has people in it? Well, it's
Speaker 1: kind of the running theme of the episode a little bit.
Speaker 1: You just do things, you know, you do things that
Speaker 1: get you around other people. Develop yourself as a person
Speaker 1: so that you know someone will want to be in
Speaker 1: a relationship with you. That person can be in your life.
Speaker 1: Do pro social things, you have hobbies, leave your house,
Speaker 1: create shit that other people want to be a part of.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's there's ways in which you can
Speaker 1: if you feel a lack of people in your life,
Speaker 1: there's ways in which I think you can be creative
Speaker 1: and throw yourself into the universe two again, attract people
Speaker 1: into your life. So for you, specifically, I would say, uh,
Speaker 1: go ahead and more, you know, take your time to
Speaker 1: mourn a little bit. This is this is a bit
Speaker 1: of a grief to getting older, but there's also a
Speaker 1: it's also there's a bit of there's a bit of
Speaker 1: a grief to getting older, but it's also I think
Speaker 1: it's a perspective thing, and I deal with a lot
Speaker 1: of this stuff myself. I think it's a perspective thing
Speaker 1: because if you there's inherent grief to it, but if
Speaker 1: you look at it as like like people I hate
Speaker 1: when people say getting older sucks. It's like things only
Speaker 1: suck if you decide that they do. So, Uh, look
Speaker 1: at this as a challenge, as opportunity and take it
Speaker 1: and take it on with with some excitedness. Like you
Speaker 1: you're you're challenged now to create your own life. It's
Speaker 1: fucking insanely fucking hard. And we all know that we
Speaker 1: live in a crazy world. We all know we live
Speaker 1: in a crazy economy. We all know we live in weird,
Speaker 1: uncertain times. We've kind of always lived in uncertain times
Speaker 1: in a way, because you know, when the fuck was
Speaker 1: anything ever certain but you. But these if you have
Speaker 1: to just embrace it, embrace this challenge that you have
Speaker 1: now two build your own life. Keith, you graduated college
Speaker 1: six months ago. What for? What? What do you do?
Speaker 1: Figure out a way to throw yourself into the universe
Speaker 1: and get other people around you. It's doable. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity. Man. I've been on a lot of
Speaker 1: emotion I've been on a lot of motivational rants today.
Speaker 1: But I'm into it. I like it. I like thinking
Speaker 1: about life, and I think it's something that a lot
Speaker 1: of people are struggling with. It's the like loneliness and
Speaker 1: feel like they don't have other people like in their life.
Speaker 1: But uh, this is so much opportunity, you know, if
Speaker 1: if we truly live in a world where so many
Speaker 1: people are struggling with this, and there should be so
Speaker 1: much opportunity for you to figure out how to get
Speaker 1: those people together. Okay, this is from THEO subject line
Speaker 1: cracking girlfriend. Hi. I love to crack my girlfriend's fingers
Speaker 1: all ten a couple times each. I also love to
Speaker 1: crack her back, and I often do it even after
Speaker 1: finishing or during sexual intercourse. She had never done this before,
Speaker 1: and she doesn't do it alone. I wants to ask
Speaker 1: her if she lets me do it because she likes
Speaker 1: it or just to please me. She answered the second one,
Speaker 1: and it made me very pleased, but also made me
Speaker 1: doubt my sanity. Sometimes it can hurt, and I'm seriously
Speaker 1: sorry when it happens, but every time we laugh at it,
Speaker 1: and then she lets me continue. We have been together
Speaker 1: for almost three years, and I stop myself from asking
Speaker 1: too many questions, and I enjoy the luck I have
Speaker 1: in finding a person who lets me do such strange
Speaker 1: things to her body. Greetings from Italy. THEO, they are
Speaker 1: really doing some weird shit over there in Europe. They
Speaker 1: are really testing the limits of the human experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I cracked my own fingers a lot.
Speaker 1: I've had a time. I've had a time or two
Speaker 1: I was holding hands with someone and did a little
Speaker 1: bit of a crack, you know, because it does. It
Speaker 1: feels good. If it feels good to crack your it
Speaker 1: feels good, like because when you do it to yourself
Speaker 1: right like that feels good, like the cracking, but also
Speaker 1: like because you when you do it to yourself. You
Speaker 1: experience both sides. You do the cracking and you get
Speaker 1: the cracked. But just doing the cracking satisfying too. What
Speaker 1: is your girlfriend? Let you gotta you gotta let your
Speaker 1: girlfriend do something weird to you, though I don't know what.
Speaker 1: Maybe she can Yeah, maybe that's what I would do
Speaker 1: if I was in the situation. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: thanks for letting me crack your fingers because I'm weird.
Speaker 1: What can I What can I do for you? Do
Speaker 1: you wanna? Do you want ten dollars? Do you want?
Speaker 1: You can lick my I can't think of a single
Speaker 1: thing that would be a good trade for this. Just
Speaker 1: be nice, Just be very very nice to this lady.
Speaker 1: Just be just be extremely nice to this lady forever
Speaker 1: and do whatever she tells you. Okay, this is from Brody.
Speaker 1: Subject line read mine please you got it? Hello, Lyle.
Speaker 1: Love the podcasts. I always listen to them while I'm
Speaker 1: at work. I do refrigeration and heating and air and
Speaker 1: while I'm doing a job, I have your podcast in
Speaker 1: my ear. It's really entertaining. But that one guy that
Speaker 1: had an obsession with Reese's cups, he don't know real game.
Speaker 1: I know exactly. I remember exactly the caller that you're
Speaker 1: talking about. I know what you're talking about. He doesn't
Speaker 1: know the real game about eating them while they're still dressed.
Speaker 1: I'm talking peel that skirt back a little bit and
Speaker 1: take a few nibbles. Now that's real game. I don't
Speaker 1: do that. I just rip the whole thing off. Also,
Speaker 1: what's your thoughts on mastering a craft? Okay, that's a
Speaker 1: subject change so far. I'm in I'm a year in
Speaker 1: my current job, which is refrigeration heating air, and I'm
Speaker 1: nineteen years of age. Male. This person writes interestingly, do
Speaker 1: you think it would be best for me to stick
Speaker 1: with it and try to make a company? Or stick
Speaker 1: with it for a few years and try to learn
Speaker 1: a new skill? Wait, so both options are to stick
Speaker 1: with it. I'd love to make a lot of money
Speaker 1: and buy nice materialistic things and all that, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to get myself tied down trying to operate
Speaker 1: a company and not be able to live my life again.
Speaker 1: Love the podcast. I hope to hear myself on here
Speaker 1: while at work. I well, okay, I'm trying to understand
Speaker 1: with this person is asking, so I think they're saying,
Speaker 1: do you think it would be best for me to
Speaker 1: stick with it and make a company or what? Brodie,
Speaker 1: I have no idea what the fuck you're saying in
Speaker 1: this email. I have no fucking idea what you're saying
Speaker 1: in this email. Man, I don't know what you're saying
Speaker 1: in this email, but I, for some reason reading it,
Speaker 1: I just think you're going to be fine. Don't buy
Speaker 1: a bunch of crap that ties you down to your job.
Speaker 1: I'll say that. I'll say, you're nineteen, like, buy fucking
Speaker 1: stocks or some shit. Don't buy dumb bullshit. That's all
Speaker 1: I'll say to you, Brody, honestly, honest, honestly, Brodie, I
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna listen to a single thing I
Speaker 1: would say anyway. I'm sorry. I'm sorry because I know
Speaker 1: you're actually going to listen to this. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what. Yeah, stick with heating refrigeration air. I do
Speaker 1: feel like in the AI universe that's one of the
Speaker 1: most like real real shit, like real blue collar shit
Speaker 1: is what will make most money. So yeah, keep doing that,
Speaker 1: Keep doing that, and try not to get yourself killed.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're gonna like get into a like
Speaker 1: motorcycle accident or something. Don't do that. Just don't do
Speaker 1: anything stupid. Brody, You're gonna be okay. Just don't don't
Speaker 1: do anything stupid. I don't know why I'm worried about
Speaker 1: this guy. Something about it, something about this email. There's
Speaker 1: nothing blatantly concerning about this email, but something about the
Speaker 1: way it's written concerns me. You'll be okay, Brody, You'll
Speaker 1: be okay. All right. This is from buzzsaw Kill. Subject
Speaker 1: line in all caps desperation. Hello, therapy, get go. I
Speaker 1: know you're a therapist. I'm not a therapist. Do people
Speaker 1: really think I'm a therapist? Hey, therapy, get goo. I
Speaker 1: know you're a therapist, So I'm assuming that means you
Speaker 1: know how I can get hella bitches, which I am
Speaker 1: in desperate need for. Here is my situation. I love primus.
Speaker 1: I'm all caps fat, I'm a ginger. How am I
Speaker 1: supposed to pick up women like this? And then they
Speaker 1: put four question marks? How? And then they put six
Speaker 1: question marks. First of all, if they get past the fatness,
Speaker 1: then they look up a little and see the orange
Speaker 1: disdain on my head, which is a turn off for
Speaker 1: some right, and even if they can look past all
Speaker 1: of that. I play them something like John the Fishermen,
Speaker 1: which is an entry level primus song, and I can
Speaker 1: see in their faces they're getting drier than a raisin
Speaker 1: in the Sahara. I mean, really, people tell me I
Speaker 1: just got to find the right woman, but it seems
Speaker 1: like nobody around me is the right woman. Like I'm
Speaker 1: a clam in a sea of muscle. My favorite shark
Speaker 1: is the hammerhead shark. Now you might read this and
Speaker 1: think it's a personality problem. Okay, wait, you just put
Speaker 1: this is the most ADHD email of No, it's definitely
Speaker 1: not the most DDHD email. But it's just funny to
Speaker 1: me that you put. It's just funny to me that
Speaker 1: in the middle of this email, I'm like kind of
Speaker 1: glancing over the rest of it. I'll read the rest
Speaker 1: of it, but just in the middle of this email
Speaker 1: you just randomly put what your favorite shark is. Keep
Speaker 1: being you buzzsaw kill. Okay, I'm glad you put that
Speaker 1: in there. It's good. I'm glad I know that about you. Now,
Speaker 1: now you might read this and think it's a personality problem,
Speaker 1: but it all caps totally isn't. I am friends with
Speaker 1: a lot of women, and they love me, but like
Speaker 1: as a friend obviously, you know. And I've been told
Speaker 1: that I'm a little weird, but like, I'm not weird
Speaker 1: to the point where I'm repulsing women, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe I say a weird thing here or there, but
Speaker 1: it's not creepy weird. I'm not saying your tits look
Speaker 1: real squeezable, honey. I'm saying something like, do you ever
Speaker 1: think if eating come is vegan? Okay, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. That's a bit of a bad example for
Speaker 1: things I say, but that's just off the dome. It's
Speaker 1: actually a perfect example of a thing that you say
Speaker 1: because you just said it. If you can, please give
Speaker 1: a word or two, or maybe even three, if you're
Speaker 1: feeling serendipitous for this Primus fan, I would appreciate it. Thanks, Okay,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of thoughts. I gotta get him together.
Speaker 1: First of all, shout out Primus. They did the south
Speaker 1: Park theme song. There's an epic this is fucking sick
Speaker 1: concert video. I think the whole thing's on YouTube. It's
Speaker 1: Matt Stone and Trey Parker doing songs from South Park
Speaker 1: with Ween and Primus and it's at fuck in Red
Speaker 1: Rocks and then Ween and Primus also do some songs.
Speaker 1: It's so fucking sick. You gotta check it out if
Speaker 1: you're a fan of South Park or Ween of Primus anyway,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna call you a buzz because that that's
Speaker 1: your thing. Listen, buzz. Here's the thing I'm a. I'm
Speaker 1: The idea of be yourself is one that is tricky
Speaker 1: because you want to you want to be you don't
Speaker 1: wanna You don't want to dilute your essence such that
Speaker 1: you are palatable for others. Right, you know that's not
Speaker 1: a good thing, but you can't. But some part, but
Speaker 1: but but maybe some parts of your essence could be
Speaker 1: formed a little bit, right, Like like like you take
Speaker 1: a big thing, a marble, and you carve it to
Speaker 1: make a statue. Right, you shaved away a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff and you refined it and you made something that's
Speaker 1: beautiful and was better than when the marble was just
Speaker 1: a brick. But it's still the marble, right, the essence
Speaker 1: is still there. So, uh, if I were you, I
Speaker 1: don't think you should dilute who you are to be
Speaker 1: palatable to other people. But you should probably learn how to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, take it down a notch, you know, because
Speaker 1: here's the other thing that's also Here's like the subject
Speaker 1: line of the email is desperation in all caps. And
Speaker 1: let me tell you, if you are going into this
Speaker 1: with desperation, it doesn't and I'm not I'm telling this
Speaker 1: from experience. If if you go into the dating universe
Speaker 1: with desperation, I don't care how slick you think you're being,
Speaker 1: they know, they know, they know. It doesn't matter how
Speaker 1: slick you think you're being. If you're desperate, it comes off.
Speaker 1: You can't you cannot prevent your subconscious feelings from coming
Speaker 1: out in your behavior. So if subconsciously you're desperate, it'll
Speaker 1: come out in your behavior, no matter how fucking slick
Speaker 1: you think you're being. So you have to kind of
Speaker 1: rid yourself of the desperation, which is hard. It's hard
Speaker 1: to it's you know, it's hard to not want things
Speaker 1: that you want. But just know that it comes how
Speaker 1: you feel about yourself, how you feel about the world,
Speaker 1: how you feel about your situations. They all come out
Speaker 1: in your words and actions, whether you want them to
Speaker 1: or not. They just do. They just bleed out naturally. Also,
Speaker 1: you seem to be upset about being fat. I get
Speaker 1: upset about being fat myself. You can always lose weight
Speaker 1: that's within your control. You know, start going to the gym,
Speaker 1: Start you know, doing do a little bit. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna go Hubermen on this because I'm the last guy
Speaker 1: to give any of this kind of advice, but you know,
Speaker 1: do a little bit of fasting, do a little bit
Speaker 1: more walking. Don't do it to get attention from women,
Speaker 1: but do it because you clearly don't like the way
Speaker 1: that you look and feel in your body. And that
Speaker 1: comes off right, So do it for yourself. So a that.
Speaker 1: And then here's actually here's an here's another thing I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw throw at you. Buzz. This email is very
Speaker 1: you focused, right, Like when you say things like do
Speaker 1: you ever think eating cum is vegan? And you start
Speaker 1: playing a Primus song. Right, Here's the thing when you
Speaker 1: if you're hanging out with a lady and you just
Speaker 1: start being like, hey, check out this fucking YouTube video.
Speaker 1: Hey check out this thing, and you're just taking yourself
Speaker 1: and you're like throwing it at them. You're not really
Speaker 1: gonna connect, you say, I'm just gonna make this observation
Speaker 1: but it seems like when you're meeting these women that
Speaker 1: you're throwing yourself at them instead of trying to connect
Speaker 1: with them by showing interest in them and their lives. Like,
Speaker 1: here's the thing you like Primus, that's cool, but that
Speaker 1: and your favorite shark is the hammha tried shark. That's great,
Speaker 1: But who gives the shit? Right, if you're on a
Speaker 1: date with someone, If you're meeting someone, you gotta you
Speaker 1: wanna get to know them. You gotta ask them questions
Speaker 1: about themselves. You got. Connecting with someone means you learn
Speaker 1: about them and their content, the context in which they live,
Speaker 1: the things that they like, who they are as a person,
Speaker 1: and you interact with that. Because if a girl goes
Speaker 1: to hang out with you and you're just you're just
Speaker 1: a brick wall of yourself and you're putting on this
Speaker 1: Primus song and you're talking about sharks and you're talking
Speaker 1: about come and like, there's no connection this. This this
Speaker 1: woman is gonna be like I might as well have
Speaker 1: gone on a on a date with a with a
Speaker 1: you know, a TV that is just one side. This
Speaker 1: is a one sided thing, right, it seems I'm just
Speaker 1: gathering from your email that you might be having a
Speaker 1: lot of one sided interactions. And so if I were you,
Speaker 1: I would just I would take all of the ego
Speaker 1: out of this process. I would take all of the
Speaker 1: I you start. Here's you say in this email you
Speaker 1: have it. This is how the email is formatted. It says,
Speaker 1: here's my situation. And then you wrote you wrote this
Speaker 1: in like numerical list. You wrote one, I love Primus, two,
Speaker 1: I'm fat, three I'm a ginger. It's the the format
Speaker 1: of the email is like, there's a lot of ego
Speaker 1: in it, and I'm and I'm I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: mean ego in the way of like egotistical. I mean
Speaker 1: ego in the way of like the self Like this
Speaker 1: is like it's just it's about it's like me, I'm fat,
Speaker 1: I'm ginger, I love Primus, I like, I'm I'm this,
Speaker 1: I'm that, I'm the other thing. And it's not there's
Speaker 1: no you gotta you gotta drop all of the ego
Speaker 1: you got, drop all of the understanding of yourself and
Speaker 1: go into these things completely flip it, like why are
Speaker 1: you like, why are you pulling out your phone to
Speaker 1: play John the Fisherman? Why are you doing that you
Speaker 1: don't be don't do that. Not because you could play
Speaker 1: you could play the cool you could play the coolest
Speaker 1: music or whatever that, but like you, it's it's a
Speaker 1: signal to me that you're not actually engaging with these
Speaker 1: people that you're meeting, and you're just throwing the ego
Speaker 1: of yourself at them, and people hate that, and people
Speaker 1: and that leads to no connection. So you could be fat,
Speaker 1: and you could be ginger, and you could love primus,
Speaker 1: and you could wonder if eating cum is vegan, and
Speaker 1: you know, look, if you're those are all things within
Speaker 1: you that aren't necessarily gonna repel other people from you.
Speaker 1: But if you're lead, and and and but if you
Speaker 1: lead with all of that, and that's like your fucking
Speaker 1: north star or whatever, you're not connecting. So next time
Speaker 1: you go on a date with someone or you meet someone,
Speaker 1: take don'ty, don't mention primus, don't think, don't even think
Speaker 1: about yourself, take like literally, strip the ego from it,
Speaker 1: strip the self from it, and focus one hundred percent
Speaker 1: on the person you're attempting to connect to, and attempt
Speaker 1: to connect with them by showing genuine interest in who
Speaker 1: they are. Right and if in the process of doing that,
Speaker 1: you can find connection through things like the music you
Speaker 1: like and your life experiences, and you know your your
Speaker 1: curiosity about come then bring them out. But first and foremost,
Speaker 1: you want to go in there with the idea of
Speaker 1: seeing if you can connect with this person, not about like. Also,
Speaker 1: dates are not about trying to get people to like you.
Speaker 1: They're about seeing if you connect with people naturally. They're
Speaker 1: not They're not things that you win or lose. So
Speaker 1: go into these So I've i've I've been repeating myself,
Speaker 1: but go into these seeing if you connect with people,
Speaker 1: and not see and not being like. And now, because
Speaker 1: you're going onto all this shit with this mindset of like,
Speaker 1: I'm a weird, fat ginger guy who loves this weird music.
Speaker 1: No one's gonna like that shit, where it's like that's
Speaker 1: all that's left field, that's not You're so far away
Speaker 1: from the mindset that you want to be going into
Speaker 1: this with. You want to be going into this with
Speaker 1: an egoless mindset that has nothing to do with you,
Speaker 1: that goes like, Huh, I'm gonna see if I like
Speaker 1: this person, see if I find them interesting, see if
Speaker 1: I can connect to them and then you know, try
Speaker 1: to lose weight if that's what you want, if you
Speaker 1: want to feel better about yourself. And uh yeah, primus
Speaker 1: is cool. You should. You should check out check out
Speaker 1: that fucking Red Rocks concert with the South Park guys.
Speaker 1: It's so sick. All right, let's see what else i'll read.
Speaker 1: I'll read another one. This is from Rambunctious Rampage, subject
Speaker 1: line airplanes and growing up. Hello, mister gecko. I've been
Speaker 1: listening since twenty twenty two when I started going to
Speaker 1: trade school to work on airplanes. Three years later, now
Speaker 1: I am a full time mechanic working on executive jets.
Speaker 1: I always thought you would think my line of work
Speaker 1: is pretty cool, and honestly, I enjoy bragging about it
Speaker 1: because how many people have you met that'll work on airplanes?
Speaker 1: Sure it's cool. Sorry, I'm sorry, sorry, No, it's cool.
Speaker 1: It's cool to work on airplanes. I like being in airplanes.
Speaker 1: I use airplanes to get places. It's good someone has
Speaker 1: to work on them. If they don't, then they don't exist.
Speaker 1: When I graduated school, I got engaged to my fiance
Speaker 1: of seven years. We moved four hundred miles away together
Speaker 1: for work. I landed my dream job right out of
Speaker 1: school and was promptly fired three months later after the works.
Speaker 1: After the worst two weeks of my life applying to
Speaker 1: jobs and playing Fallout New Vegas, I got my current job,
Speaker 1: which is going better than I ever could have expected.
Speaker 1: We have two cats and have been thriving in our
Speaker 1: big apartment twelve hundred square feet. This guy really likes
Speaker 1: to brag. I built a gaming PC in March, and
Speaker 1: we each have a bookshelf full of our own books.
Speaker 1: You should try reading. Okay, now, fuck you, Thanks for
Speaker 1: your time, sir. Sorry you Actually you seem like a
Speaker 1: cool guy. Rambooks just rampage. I'm jealous. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to try reading. I'm happy before I really am. I'm
Speaker 1: happy for you. That's why I was being a dick,
Speaker 1: is because I'm actually I'm jealous because you seem happy
Speaker 1: about life, which is nice, and I'm happy for you.
Speaker 1: I'm happy for you that you got You went from
Speaker 1: the worst two weeks of your life too to live
Speaker 1: in to enjoying life. It's good, man, it's good. I
Speaker 1: like it. I like it. You know what we get
Speaker 1: a lot of I think it's good. It's good to
Speaker 1: know that I feel like a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fucked up shit going on in
Speaker 1: the world. So anytime I read an email of someone
Speaker 1: being like, oh, I actually enjoy life and things are
Speaker 1: going good and I'm happy, especially, I love it. I
Speaker 1: love a good story. I love this. I love a
Speaker 1: good comeback story. Worst two weeks of your life? Now
Speaker 1: you got books. I've read a couple of times. I
Speaker 1: tried reading, but I I I don't have the I
Speaker 1: don't have the patience for it. I like I like
Speaker 1: playing video games, though I'm not a fall out New
Speaker 1: Vegas guy. I don't like games that are too complicated
Speaker 1: or like feel like work. You know. I feel like
Speaker 1: I was a dick to this guy, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he told me to try reading the nerve the nerve. No,
Speaker 1: thank you for sharing a re extrous rampage. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for making airplanes? Who do you what? What you work on?
Speaker 1: Executive jets? Like for like, like do you make like Bezos'
Speaker 1: rocket ship? And ship? That is pretty cool? Or I
Speaker 1: guess it's cool. Have you ever seen the movie Airplane?
Speaker 1: She watched the movie Airplane. Remolxirous Rampage. Okay, let's read
Speaker 1: another email, all right, This is from Skip subject line
Speaker 1: I hiked across Spain. Hey, Lyle, love the show. You're
Speaker 1: a real g Thank you Skip. In twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: I hiked from the bottom of France all the way
Speaker 1: across the top half of Spain on the Camino de Santiago.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to do that. Shit, that's cool. Then
Speaker 1: I went to and spent weeks recovering on the beach
Speaker 1: in Lagos, Portugal. I hiked the Camino because I was
Speaker 1: feeling dead for years, no purpose, had gone through a
Speaker 1: breakup and a pill addiction, and had no aim in life.
Speaker 1: So I found out about the Camino from a friend
Speaker 1: and spent two years bartending to save up to do it.
Speaker 1: When I had the money, I quit my job, bought
Speaker 1: the plane ticket, packed my shit, and off I went.
Speaker 1: I ended up meeting six other hikers, all Europeans who
Speaker 1: became my close, close friends. It's been two years since
Speaker 1: that trip and we all still talk in our WhatsApp
Speaker 1: group almost daily. Spain and those people made me feel
Speaker 1: life again. Magic is real. It's out there, you just
Speaker 1: have to find it. Skip. Ooh, what a great email
Speaker 1: to end on. Thank you for sending this skip. I
Speaker 1: love this, this so so so. This the theme of
Speaker 1: the episode today, The motherfucking theme of the episode today
Speaker 1: that life rewards you for just doing shit. And look
Speaker 1: at this guy, right, this guy fucking he he he
Speaker 1: didn't have any money, he spent two years, Barty saved
Speaker 1: up for it, and then he fucking went and he
Speaker 1: did it and he got rewarded. Life just rewards you
Speaker 1: for doing shit. He doesn't. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta,
Speaker 1: I gotta apply this more to my own life. You know,
Speaker 1: life just rewards you for doing shit. It really does.
Speaker 1: It's not a it's a less and less and less
Speaker 1: feel like you gotta make any sort of like right
Speaker 1: decisions or whatnot. But it just rewards you for doing shit.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a perfect example. This guy fucking breakup,
Speaker 1: pill addiction, no aim in life recovery, just fucking you know.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. I believe heavily in serendipity, Like this,
Speaker 1: fucking shit just finds you. This is why I first
Speaker 1: started like doing my solo travel shit when I was, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, in my early twenties. I was solo traveling
Speaker 1: because the more you go and do things and put
Speaker 1: yourself out there and try to talk. Just life just
Speaker 1: rewards you for doing shit. I love it. I love it. SKIP.
Speaker 1: Thanks for this was a great email to end on
Speaker 1: this guy's friends now, because yeah, we had a bunch
Speaker 1: of other emailers who were like, I don't know how
Speaker 1: to make friends. I don't know what to do. Do
Speaker 1: do something crazy, you know you're gonna die, should do
Speaker 1: something anyway? Well, okay, I kind of I feel like
Speaker 1: I black out when I do these, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: now I'm and I'm like, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: the hell I just record, and I'm gonna put on
Speaker 1: I don't know what I just recorded, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to put on the internet, but I it's too late.
Speaker 1: So that was gek mail. Thank you guys for listening.
Speaker 1: I'm about to go. I'm actually I'm in a half hour.
Speaker 1: I'm going to the airport because I'm going to the
Speaker 1: gathering of the Juggalos to do some interviews, do my
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a Gecko i RL episode there, and
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna try to make another I made
Speaker 1: I made. I made that Japan video, I made my
Speaker 1: Tijuana video. I'm working on another video and then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna shoot something at the gathering that I'm excited for
Speaker 1: that'll be awesome. See, I'm That's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do shit. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: if I just keep doing ship and making I'll tell
Speaker 1: you guys something. My all my like Gecko views or
Speaker 1: whatever are like down, which is like, and it's been
Speaker 1: five years. It's not like the craziest thing in the world.
Speaker 1: But so I'm like, okay, you know, what do I
Speaker 1: What do I do now? I want to keep doing shit?
Speaker 1: So I swimming. I'm just gonna keep doing shit. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to the gathering of the Juggalos, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to Kenya, I'm gonna go to Alaska. Just do shit.
Speaker 1: Interview people, just make videos, put them on the internet,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean when I made that, I made
Speaker 1: this like video about having an existential crisis in Japan,
Speaker 1: I didn't think people would resonate with it. I thought
Speaker 1: it was just gonna kind of, you know, be me
Speaker 1: whining for a bit and die. And then I posted
Speaker 1: it and a bunch of people were really into it.
Speaker 1: So and I would have never known and It was
Speaker 1: the first video I posted in a while that was
Speaker 1: not Geko related. It was just me and there was
Speaker 1: I didn't have a strategy behind it, and it was
Speaker 1: just just doing things.
Speaker 3: You just do.
Speaker 1: Shit in the Universe awards too. So anyway, thank you
Speaker 1: guys for listening. I hope you enjoyed this. I hope
Speaker 1: you like. Uh. I hope. I hope you're doing all right.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope. I hope this was beneficial to
Speaker 1: listen to. If you want to be on the next
Speaker 1: get mail, send me an email at therapy geckomail at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. And if you sent me an email
Speaker 1: and I didn't read it in this episode, I just
Speaker 1: have a backlog of emails, so I might get to
Speaker 1: your email, I might read an I might read your
Speaker 1: email in seven months if you send it right now.
Speaker 1: But I you know, I try to read read all
Speaker 1: of them. So Therapy Gecko mail at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: I'm a gecko. I'll be back. What let's see if
Speaker 1: this gets posted on Sunday, the next episode will be
Speaker 1: an I r L. Yeah, that's it. I'm a gecko
Speaker 1: or or a person or a thing. Thanks for listening. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shut up. Bye, thank you, thanks for listening.
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