Speaker 1: Hello, how you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing. I'm actually like pretty calm right now, which
Speaker 2: is great. I don't know what it is. I don't
Speaker 2: know what it is. Man. You ever get really calm
Speaker 2: and then you're like, all right, I need to backtrack
Speaker 2: and make note of all the variables of this situation
Speaker 2: so I can reverse engineer the calmness at all times.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: It makes sense, But you're gonna hate my answer. Whenever
Speaker 3: I'm like in that state, I'm just like, oh, this
Speaker 3: is nice, and then I just kind of let it
Speaker 3: ride out.
Speaker 2: That's the funny thing.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe I take note of, like here the things
Speaker 3: going on around me, and like maybe you know, this
Speaker 3: is the thing that's making things feel cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But otherwise I'm just you know, trying to live in
Speaker 3: the moment. Let it, Let it be cool.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 2: That's the funny thing is I think when you're calm,
Speaker 2: if you then start to go okay, I need to
Speaker 2: reverse engineer the variables that got me to this state,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, bam, you're anxious again. Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's it's putting too much thought into like being calm.
Speaker 3: It's like, all right, let's just enjoy being calm. Let's
Speaker 3: let's enjoy like, you know, the day and kind of like.
Speaker 1: The state that you're in.
Speaker 2: I will say, there's probably all There probably is elements
Speaker 2: to why I'm feeling more calm, but I don't know
Speaker 2: what they are.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can like show up, be anything you
Speaker 3: could have just like slept well the night before, and
Speaker 3: that just does enough to like bring chemistry to just
Speaker 3: like oh, or feeling good today because I stowed up.
Speaker 3: Think like, whenever I have a day where I'm feeling
Speaker 3: like exceptionally well, I think it's like just the smallest
Speaker 3: thing that happened to go right in your day that
Speaker 3: kind of sets you up for having like a good
Speaker 3: rest of your day. So I think sometimes it's just walk.
Speaker 2: I uh, well, I have a I'm doing a poker
Speaker 2: game tonight, so I'm excited about that. I feel like
Speaker 2: that's I like, that's that's the thing for me. Is
Speaker 2: I feel like I like having something to look forward to.
Speaker 3: Now, are you looking forward to like hanging out and
Speaker 3: being with people. Are you looking forward to like gambling
Speaker 3: and like losing all your money?
Speaker 2: No, it's just like no, I I like I actually, well,
Speaker 2: I really like I like I've started getting into poker,
Speaker 2: very low sticks, like twenty dollars poker, just because it's
Speaker 2: like I like being around a table of people and
Speaker 2: like hanging out. But and and but like you don't
Speaker 2: necessarily are You're not necessarily obligated. It's not like a
Speaker 2: fucking dinner party where you have like this weird obligation
Speaker 2: to talk. But it's the it's my here's the poker. Actually,
Speaker 2: here's what it is. Is it fulfills my dream scenario
Speaker 2: at all times. My dream scenario at all times is
Speaker 2: to be in a group of people who are all
Speaker 2: like talking and have the option to join in on
Speaker 2: the conversation, but also the option to withdraw and just
Speaker 2: simply be around people without the pressure of having to
Speaker 2: keep up a conversation. Actually, I take back that that's
Speaker 2: my dream at all times, because actually there's a lot
Speaker 2: of times where I do enjoy having a one on
Speaker 2: one conversation. But there's a lot of times where I
Speaker 2: feel that way, where I'm like, I want to be
Speaker 2: around people, but I don't really want to have to
Speaker 2: talk to anyone, and poker is like the perfect scenario.
Speaker 2: I actually don't like gambling, like you know, that's why
Speaker 2: I like playing like very like low stakes things like
Speaker 2: I went to I mean, I've been to Vegas a
Speaker 2: bunch of times, but I put like ten dollars in
Speaker 2: a Willy Wonka slot machine once and then I lost,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I think that's the end of
Speaker 2: my gambling. See that's I don't like like the slot
Speaker 2: machines and stuff, because that's all the opposite of what
Speaker 2: I was just talking about. Like I like just like
Speaker 2: being around Oh yeah, folks.
Speaker 3: I get like that same kind of like interaction to
Speaker 3: like concerts, Like I go to like a lot of
Speaker 3: like hardcore shows, like you know, small like shit, like
Speaker 3: fifty people in like a and everyone's so chill that
Speaker 3: it's like all right, I can like talk and engage
Speaker 3: in conversation. But the really one thing that I really
Speaker 3: really like about it is that, like you know, we're
Speaker 3: all everybody's talking, canking, go out whatever you want, but
Speaker 3: as soon as the band comes on, everybody just needs
Speaker 3: to kind of be quiet for a sec and then
Speaker 3: you enjoy the band and kind of beat the fuck
Speaker 3: out of your friends. And that's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, oh wait, you know what the best
Speaker 2: feeling in the world is, Okay, when You're at like show,
Speaker 2: whether it's like comedy or concert or whatever, and you're
Speaker 2: like talking to someone and not necessarily because you don't
Speaker 2: enjoy the conversation that you're having, but just because ending
Speaker 2: a conversation in general can be difficult. Right, You're having
Speaker 2: a conversation with somebody and then the thing starts, like
Speaker 2: the lights go down, yeah, and then that naturally ends
Speaker 2: your conversation for you. It's like that's like a chef's
Speaker 2: kiss moment.
Speaker 3: Oh dude, you don't even know. There's so many times
Speaker 3: like I feel like I'm all right with having like
Speaker 3: having a conversation, but starting it and ending it are
Speaker 3: like my nightmareson I know, because I never know how
Speaker 3: to end it. Just having like the natural cutoff of
Speaker 3: like we're done with this conversation can sometimes be a
Speaker 3: lfesaver in like just in a situation.
Speaker 2: Right right, I'm very I got a weird thing socially
Speaker 2: where like some some times I truly feel like I'll
Speaker 2: I'll be out some nights or like you know, doing
Speaker 2: this podcast or like whatever, I'll be out some nights.
Speaker 2: And sometimes I'm like, dude, I'm like a fucking genius.
Speaker 2: Like I feel like I can talk to anyone. I
Speaker 2: feel like I can hold a conversation great. I feel
Speaker 2: like I can. I've been like, like, i I'll like
Speaker 2: learn how to end conversations gracefully by just like citing you.
Speaker 2: I think I think the key to all of Like
Speaker 2: sometimes I'm like like that and I'm like, dude, I'm
Speaker 2: like I'm like butter today. And the other times I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh man, I'm like whacked out right now. I can't
Speaker 2: do any of that, And it goes It goes back
Speaker 2: to the beginning of the conversation we were having about
Speaker 2: the variables and the cocktail that needs to be creating,
Speaker 2: not the you know, alcohol, but like the cocktail that
Speaker 2: needs to be created of different variables to get to
Speaker 2: that point. What were you gonna say?
Speaker 3: I do just think the exact same thing. Like it.
Speaker 3: It feels like luck. Sometimes it feels like, oh, I
Speaker 3: just woke up in the day where I'm able to
Speaker 3: just be on and you know, have this conversation and
Speaker 3: you know, move in in and out like it's nothing.
Speaker 3: And there are times where I'm like I'm slipping over
Speaker 3: every single word that comes out of my mouth, and
Speaker 3: the ability to make friends today is just non existent.
Speaker 2: You know, there's one I was watching some stupid YouTube
Speaker 2: video or I guess it wasn't stupid because it was
Speaker 2: I thinking about it and it was actually smart and
Speaker 2: not stupid at all. But what anyway, it said something
Speaker 2: like like like socially, just start meaning like meaning me
Speaker 2: meaning oh no, no, no, not start. I'm sorry, starts
Speaker 2: the wrong word. Go first is the right word. Like
Speaker 2: if you're like add a fucking thing or whatever, and
Speaker 2: everyone's being weird and no one's talking to each other,
Speaker 2: or even if people are talking to each other, like
Speaker 2: go be the first one to be like, hey, how's
Speaker 2: it going. What are you guys doing? Hey, my name
Speaker 2: is whatever, or like if you walk by someone on
Speaker 2: the street, like go first to smile and wave. You know,
Speaker 2: if if you're having a conversation and you don't necessarily
Speaker 2: know how to end it, go first and being like, well,
Speaker 2: hey man, it was nice to meet you, and I'll
Speaker 2: see you around the universe, you know, just like h
Speaker 2: like realize that in actually, weirdly, in every single social situation,
Speaker 2: you always have the power to like do that, to
Speaker 2: go first in whatever, whether it's wanting to talk to
Speaker 2: somebody or wanting to not talk to somebody or wanting
Speaker 2: to feel connected in some way like that. When that
Speaker 2: kind of hit me, I'm like, oh, I should just
Speaker 2: always go first.
Speaker 1: Mm.
Speaker 3: So let's say, like you're at a place you want
Speaker 3: to talk to somebody you don't know, you don't know them,
Speaker 3: Do you just go up and talk to them? Because
Speaker 3: for me personally, I just try to think of the
Speaker 3: weirdest thing I could point out that's going on around
Speaker 3: me and then try to like create a conversation off
Speaker 3: of that. Do you do something like that or you
Speaker 3: just see?
Speaker 2: I like that. I like that because it's a great
Speaker 2: litmus test, right because if you go up to somebody
Speaker 2: and you say something weird there, if that person is
Speaker 2: you know, keeps the ball rolling with you, yes, and
Speaker 2: you that's a great person to talk to. That's the
Speaker 2: person you want to be in a conversation with. But
Speaker 2: the person goes, what what do you fucking Oh? I
Speaker 2: don't really get it. Then you're like, great, I don't
Speaker 2: have any interest in being in a conversation with this
Speaker 2: person anyway, So yeah, you know, that's that's the way
Speaker 2: to do it. What do I do in that situation?
Speaker 2: It depends sometimes, Like I went out the other I'm
Speaker 2: trying to like, I have this I have this thing,
Speaker 2: like I need to leave my fucking house every day
Speaker 2: or else I go insane. And I there's this venue
Speaker 2: around town that I wanted to go to. I just
Speaker 2: wanted to check it out and see what's going on.
Speaker 2: So I just I just went and they were having
Speaker 2: like a little fundraiser party for an indie film that
Speaker 2: someone working at the venue was making, and so I
Speaker 2: just started I was just you know, it was it
Speaker 2: was kind of an easy thing to uh, you know,
Speaker 2: go up to somebody and be like, hey, what do
Speaker 2: you have something to do with the film, and you know,
Speaker 2: then we just start talking from there. And I also,
Speaker 2: I'm also late recently, I've gotten pretty good as well
Speaker 2: at recognizing with recognizing when somebody doesn't want to be
Speaker 2: talking to me and accepting that and moving on. It's
Speaker 2: very It's it's an important skill to learn whether or
Speaker 2: not somebody wants to talk to you, because if someone
Speaker 2: if you're engaged in a conversation and you're asking someone question.
Speaker 2: If here's the key, if someone wants to be talking
Speaker 2: to you, they will ask, they'll let you know, they'll
Speaker 2: fucking let you go, they'll ask you questions back, they'll
Speaker 2: be like oh what or like, you know whatever. But
Speaker 2: if someone does not want to be talking to you,
Speaker 2: they will just be giving you nothing. And if someone's
Speaker 2: if you're talking to somebody and they're giving you nothing
Speaker 2: and they don't want to talk to you, there is
Speaker 2: something graceful about being just like all right, well, good
Speaker 2: to see you.
Speaker 3: Right one nd. And I feel like there's a decent
Speaker 3: ont of like social situations where uh like and also
Speaker 3: just like if it doesn't go like a one hundred
Speaker 3: percent perfect like just not letting it ruin the rest
Speaker 3: of your time at that event and just like all right,
Speaker 3: well that was what it was and let's move on.
Speaker 3: Uh is also like decently important to you know, like
Speaker 3: ensuring that you're the rest of your night go as well.
Speaker 2: All this all this fucking shit is in your fucking brain.
Speaker 2: It's all in your mind, I know, the confident and
Speaker 2: whatever you know, and.
Speaker 3: The best play the game of the conference is just
Speaker 3: not like just doing it, which is you know, easier
Speaker 3: said than done. But you know, just like with like
Speaker 3: I heard somebody like describe it as like working out.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, you know, if it's not if it's not
Speaker 3: a muscle you flex constantly. You're gonna struggle with it,
Speaker 3: but the more you do it, the more it will
Speaker 3: come natural.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you if you hold yourself
Speaker 2: up for too long or you stay alone for too long,
Speaker 2: you like you just forget how to talk to people.
Speaker 2: Same thing as like being out of the gym for
Speaker 2: too long, you know, and then the other consequentially, Right,
Speaker 2: if you get used to going up to you know,
Speaker 2: you're at a party, like hey, what if a is
Speaker 2: you know, uh, you get better at doing that, and
Speaker 2: you get better at kind of like handling the rejection
Speaker 2: of you know again that moment when you realize that
Speaker 2: somebody just doesn't want to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now that being said, a good night alone. I
Speaker 3: don't just like pretending like the world doesn't exist every
Speaker 3: once in a while, nothing better.
Speaker 2: I Uh, I did that last night. I normally I
Speaker 2: try to, like I go on fucking meet up and
Speaker 2: I go on uh uh all them. I'm on all
Speaker 2: these email lists of like stuff to do, and I
Speaker 2: try to just go out and just be out of
Speaker 2: my house because I just I can't. I don't like
Speaker 2: staying you know, home and with my thoughts. But yesterday
Speaker 2: I did that and it actually was pretty nice. I
Speaker 2: have this thing where I think because on the podcast
Speaker 2: I have all these like, uh kind of more esoteric
Speaker 2: conversations about life, and you know, uh, I get a
Speaker 2: Oh lately at least, I've been getting very existential and
Speaker 2: talking about brain stuff, and I just whatever the fuck.
Speaker 2: My favorite fucking thing is I want to watch I
Speaker 2: just want to watch something that has nothing to do
Speaker 2: with the world or the brain or whatever. Like yesterday
Speaker 2: I just sat on the couch and I watched an
Speaker 2: hour long video ranking all of the Warrio games.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Was like, this is exactly what I need in my
Speaker 2: face right now, is not I don't want to read
Speaker 2: the news. I don't want to you know, some stupid
Speaker 2: psychology video about why you know your brain whatever. Just
Speaker 2: let's rank the Warrio games. I mean, that's what's great
Speaker 2: about video games is a deep sense of escapism.
Speaker 1: And like.
Speaker 3: I've heard you talk before about like escapism and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, and you know, sometimes it's used, and I
Speaker 3: think escapism personally is like super necessary, like for some
Speaker 3: parts of the day just to like forget about, you know,
Speaker 3: things existing and just doing something that like you just
Speaker 3: just enjoy and just uh like I don't want to
Speaker 3: see like mentally fuck off, but almost like mentally fuck
Speaker 3: off because like you know, life is short, Uh, I
Speaker 3: don't you don't need to be spending the whole time
Speaker 3: like learning things. As much as I love learning, I
Speaker 3: love learning, but like sometimes just mentally fucking off. It's
Speaker 3: just beautiful. I do it at least for like an
Speaker 3: hour a day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to just turn the brain off mentally, I think
Speaker 2: there's a bad. Yeah, there's gotta be a good there's
Speaker 2: a good balance. You don't want to you don't want
Speaker 2: to escape too much that you're far gone and you
Speaker 2: have forgot how to talk to people. But then also
Speaker 2: if you stress your f and I do. I do
Speaker 2: this a lot, stress yourself out so much about like
Speaker 2: existing in the real world and trying to like make
Speaker 2: something of yourself in the real world and trying to
Speaker 2: you know, push forward. You just you just stress out
Speaker 2: and you spiral. See this is good. This's got to
Speaker 2: be a fucking h good balance of that. I guess
Speaker 2: that's the Yeah, that's my balance is trying to go out,
Speaker 2: trying to talk to people, trying to do things, trying
Speaker 2: to be a human being and then uh being like
Speaker 2: all right, I I uh, I have stressed myself out
Speaker 2: too much. I'm gonna watch ranking all the Yoshi. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna watch this fucking uh YouTube video about
Speaker 2: the history of the virtual boy.
Speaker 3: Now with a video with where they're ranking uh the
Speaker 3: Warrio games. Did you did you have like a firm
Speaker 3: opinion on it or were you there like just to learn?
Speaker 3: Like were you did you hear his number one ranking
Speaker 3: and you're like, fuck, yeah, you nailed it, or you're
Speaker 3: like you're full of shit, you don't know anything.
Speaker 2: I was a big I'm a big fan of uh oh,
Speaker 2: warrior Ware Touched. I want to say, was he ranked
Speaker 2: all the games with Warrio in them, so he hed
Speaker 2: cross pollinated the Warrior Were games and the Warrior Land games,
Speaker 2: and which is a bit of is you know? I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess they're all warrior games, but I think I
Speaker 2: think Warriorwear Touched was at the top of at least
Speaker 2: his warrior ware list, and that I agree with. But
Speaker 2: I'm biased because I grew up with It's what's your
Speaker 2: what's your name again? Tony?
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: This has been nice chatting with you I'm enjoying this.
Speaker 2: This is I gotta say, I I while I do love.
Speaker 2: While I have had a lot of fun with a
Speaker 2: lot of the different kinds of genres and calls that
Speaker 2: this podcast has taken form of, I've been enjoying this
Speaker 2: new one lately of simply just chatting with folks. So
Speaker 2: thank you for simply just chatting with me today, Tony.
Speaker 3: Okay, of course, weather anytime?
Speaker 2: Anything else you want to say to the people of
Speaker 2: the computer before we go?
Speaker 3: Uh? No, I love you all.
Speaker 2: Picker later, Tony yep. Hello, Hey, Hey, what's your name?
Speaker 1: Chris?
Speaker 2: Chris? What's up? Chriss?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Has it gone?
Speaker 4: I'm blessed man, but I've still got some struggles in
Speaker 4: my life. How about you, mister, getto.
Speaker 2: Tell me what's uh? What's blessing you? These days?
Speaker 4: Always say I'm blessed because you know, I could walk,
Speaker 4: I could talk, I speak and breathe. Man, you know,
Speaker 4: not a lot of people have that, well, not everybody
Speaker 4: at least.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really that's I think the meaning of I've
Speaker 2: speculated often on what the meaning of life is. Maybe
Speaker 2: there's multiple of them, but that's definitely one of them.
Speaker 2: I think is like getting your baseline of happiness down
Speaker 2: to that, right, you can either have you can either
Speaker 2: you can either get yourself to externally meet your internal
Speaker 2: requirements for happiness, even if they're a fucking lot, or
Speaker 2: you can just lower the bar to the ground and
Speaker 2: be like, all I need in my life is to breathe.
Speaker 2: But that's hard. You know that's hard, right, Neither do
Speaker 2: I not a lot?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I say I'm blissed because I acknowledge that least
Speaker 4: out of that, But I'm always stressing out man, always NonStop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, just the thing of like, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: if you can, if you can be happy with not
Speaker 2: a lot, you're probably gonna be happier. But some people are.
Speaker 2: I'm not. I don't think I'm wired to be that way.
Speaker 2: I'm not wired to be happy, uh, sitting alone in
Speaker 2: a room like if I were like alone, Like here's
Speaker 2: the thing, right, is like if I were like alone
Speaker 2: in an empty white room and I was naked and occasionally, uh,
Speaker 2: someone slid in apple and some water under the door,
Speaker 2: and that was like my entire life. I don't think
Speaker 2: I could get to a point where I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: at least I'm breathing you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no.
Speaker 2: More.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's part of the human condition though,
Speaker 4: it's like we always want more. Yeah, Like, even when
Speaker 4: do you go into the gym, I'm sure every time
Speaker 4: you go in there, it's like, man, I don't look good. Man,
Speaker 4: if only whether it's cant so cautious, like, man, I
Speaker 4: wish I look like this dude, when reality that dude,
Speaker 4: you wish you looked like, wish you looked like somebody else.
Speaker 4: Like it's yeah, even with the even with the wealthiest people,
Speaker 4: man like, they don't they're not happy with their wealth.
Speaker 4: They just looked at other wealthy people and kind of
Speaker 4: get discrowned by it.
Speaker 2: Actually, I will say I've whenever I do curls in
Speaker 2: the mirror, I do look at myself and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I think I look pretty sick.
Speaker 1: Fuck, yo, bro, curls up, they do.
Speaker 2: That's what that's doing, curls and looking at your biceps
Speaker 2: and being like, yo, I'm kind of actually awesome. This
Speaker 2: is a great feeling today.
Speaker 4: Boys, I'm him what.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, that's that's the feeling. So what's well,
Speaker 2: I'll ask you this. I haven't asked anyone this episode this,
Speaker 2: but uh, is there a specific thing that you wanted
Speaker 2: to talk about today or just kind of wanna wanna
Speaker 2: dick around?
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I call it men because, uh, Griosy
Speaker 4: told I've been feeling lonely lately.
Speaker 2: Man, Well let's talk about this. Why are you feeling lonely?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: I just realized, like a lot of the friends I have,
Speaker 4: like truthfully man, like they have helped me before, but
Speaker 4: nowadays it just feels like it feels just really one sided.
Speaker 4: Like I I could sit here and listen to my
Speaker 4: buddy's issues, you know, and try to help talk them
Speaker 4: through it and be there for him, but it's like
Speaker 4: when it's so the way around, it's usually like, oh,
Speaker 4: that's not.
Speaker 1: A big deal, man, why are you worried about it?
Speaker 4: And me and him actually had a little falling.
Speaker 3: Out recently, so now it's kind of been me. You know.
Speaker 4: Obviously I've got friends at church and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: but whenever I get off of work and I go home,
Speaker 4: it's just me and it's a little nerve rattling.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So you go to church, yeah, and do
Speaker 2: you meet people at church?
Speaker 4: I mean it's a small church, so I know, everybody there.
Speaker 4: But it's a weird dichotomy, man, Like the kids my
Speaker 4: age all go to school because I'm twenty three.
Speaker 2: You know, you're twenty three, little mall. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 2: you were like forty eight years old. This changes everything,
Speaker 2: This changes completely. You're twenty three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I thought you were.
Speaker 2: Like fucking fifty. Oh my god. Okay, hold on, it's changes.
Speaker 2: This is okay.
Speaker 1: This.
Speaker 2: I thought this was going to be a way more
Speaker 2: depressing conversation. But this is great. This is great. Okay,
Speaker 2: continue continue.
Speaker 4: Please, So, like you know, I don't make a long
Speaker 4: story short, man, I've had to provive for myself about eighteen, right,
Speaker 4: I basically grew up in the equivalent of a crackhouse,
Speaker 4: so I had to get the fuck out of there
Speaker 4: as soon as I could. And so, tom Bean, I
Speaker 4: can't really go to college. So all the college kids
Speaker 4: that are around, I don't know how they really view me.
Speaker 4: They don't treat me bad or nothing, but it's like
Speaker 4: they don't. They also don't invite me to ship either,
Speaker 4: and it feels like they're just kind of nice to
Speaker 4: me because we all go to church and they want
Speaker 4: to be nice. So really, like the majority of my
Speaker 4: friends are all older than me, Like they're all thirty plus.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, what so? What so? What's what state are
Speaker 2: you in? Can I ask?
Speaker 4: I live in Georgia, South Georgia.
Speaker 2: South Georgia. How close are you to fucking Atlanta? Ship?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: Like three hours?
Speaker 2: Three hours? What do you do for work?
Speaker 4: I build grills, lawnmowers and patio furniture for lows and
Speaker 4: home depots and.
Speaker 2: Your main your main problem is that you're lonely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and like really, man, no, go ahead. I don't
Speaker 4: know what to be true, but I just feel like,
Speaker 4: one of these days I'm going to have a group
Speaker 4: of people, because you know, I DJ but also like
Speaker 4: making beaks, like I don't want to actually have a
Speaker 4: click of people. We all come together and make our
Speaker 4: little hometown of the hot spot.
Speaker 2: Dude, dude, dude, Oh my god, what's your name again?
Speaker 1: Chris?
Speaker 2: Chris? Chris? I I I feel I so deeply want
Speaker 2: to go I I I know maybe it's out of place,
Speaker 2: but I so deeply want to go. Life coach on
Speaker 2: you right now because I have just I have just
Speaker 2: so many ideas about your life. It's fun to have
Speaker 2: ideas about what other people should the best, the coolest
Speaker 2: thing ever is to have ideas about what other people
Speaker 2: should do with their lives because you just give it
Speaker 2: you just because you don't have to do them yourself.
Speaker 2: You know, that's just so it's way more fun. It's
Speaker 2: so fun too. This is one of the things I
Speaker 2: think I like doing about this podcast is it's so
Speaker 2: fun to come up with ideas for other people to
Speaker 2: do with their lives. Because that's the fun part is
Speaker 2: the coming up with the idea is the actually doing
Speaker 2: it is the hard part. But I have I have
Speaker 2: so many ideas for your life.
Speaker 4: Man, go ahead, I'm all theres.
Speaker 2: I mean, well all right, let's you know, if we
Speaker 2: can get into the weeds of it here. What where
Speaker 2: do you live? You live alone?
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Just in like and what do you pay for your apartment?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I live in a it's like a quadruplex.
Speaker 1: But it's just like.
Speaker 4: My own little apartment. No one else can get in there.
Speaker 2: It's all about what do you pay for it?
Speaker 4: It's like seven and fifty a months?
Speaker 2: Seven fifty a month? Okay, what and this job you
Speaker 2: have making grills and shit? What could you get a job?
Speaker 2: Because if his can, I can? I just Can I
Speaker 2: just tell you what I would do if I were you?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, okay, if I were you, Chris, If I
Speaker 2: were you, and I know you're not supposed to tell
Speaker 2: people to do by just some so like fired up
Speaker 2: about this, If I were you, I would just fucking
Speaker 2: move to Atlanta, Okay, get go live with like six
Speaker 2: fucking roommates so that you can still be paying seven fifty,
Speaker 2: and then just start, you know, find some fucking bullshit
Speaker 2: fucking job like as you know, tending bar or fit,
Speaker 2: just some fucking what you could like if you really try,
Speaker 2: you can find some fucking bullshit fucking thing to do,
Speaker 2: and then live in Atlanta with like six roommates, go
Speaker 2: out to DJ events, start your own DJ night at
Speaker 2: whatever bar that you end up bar attending at, or
Speaker 2: whatever the fuck place will have you, Start some fucking
Speaker 2: meetup group of like you know, beat makers who get
Speaker 2: to get their every Wednesday at whatever the fuck, and
Speaker 2: just do live that life like is that does that?
Speaker 2: That doesn't even sound that hard when you do that.
Speaker 1: No, it wouldn't be.
Speaker 4: But here's the dilemma.
Speaker 2: Mis tell me the dilemma. I want to know the dilemma.
Speaker 4: I would be out the fucking town in a heartbeat.
Speaker 4: But my sad job with the jan is actually a
Speaker 4: family owned business, and so the guy who runs it
Speaker 4: has been doing this for over forty years, and so
Speaker 4: essentially where I'm at right now. Okay, so just number wise,
Speaker 4: per gig, I get about four hundred minimum in Atlanta
Speaker 4: and in Savannah, Like, I really appreciate the scene up there,
Speaker 4: and one day I will like, I really do want
Speaker 4: to go up there and just explore. But everybody is
Speaker 4: having to work twice as hard as me to get
Speaker 4: half as much money as me, and they're not learning
Speaker 4: from a guy who's been doing.
Speaker 1: It for forty years. Sure, so he's sixty right now.
Speaker 4: He says he's gonna restire he turns seventy, so ultimately,
Speaker 4: which I appreciate you telling me this, but.
Speaker 1: The dilemma is, I.
Speaker 4: Want to learn as much as I can from this
Speaker 4: guy because he really knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2: Well. Man, Look look, look I respect that. I respect
Speaker 2: that well. So then I guess, Look, if if you
Speaker 2: don't want to move to Atlanta, which I know is
Speaker 2: like a whole big life thing, you know there, I
Speaker 2: guess I guess what I'm saying to you is that
Speaker 2: there are ways, I think, and look, this is what
Speaker 2: I'm trying to fucking do in my own life. There
Speaker 2: are ways to I think, create more community where you
Speaker 2: already are by just like going first, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, Like being the guy to invite people over,
Speaker 2: or like if you want to be in a thing
Speaker 2: with a bunch of people doing a fucking thing, you
Speaker 2: gotta be the You gotta be the guy to go
Speaker 2: first and be like, hey, there is there one other
Speaker 2: person who DJs in wherever the fuck Georgia you live in.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you telling me that, man, because I do
Speaker 4: have some people in snapchat from around here that you know,
Speaker 4: a lot of people in my age, I don't know
Speaker 4: if it's the age of social media or what, man,
Speaker 4: and a lot of people are afraid to talk to
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 2: A lot of people are afraid to talk to each other.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't want to leave their house.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, here's the crazy thing, And this
Speaker 2: is what I've noticed is that within all those people
Speaker 2: who are afraid to leave their house and afraid to
Speaker 2: talk to people whatever, I think genuinely that there is
Speaker 2: some fucking yearning that everyone has and this, Bro, there's
Speaker 2: a yearning and everyone's afraid to go first. But when
Speaker 2: you go first, the people who have the yearning will
Speaker 2: join you.
Speaker 4: Bro, I'm giving you a virtual I thought right now, Man.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to fall Look, I'm gonna try to
Speaker 2: follow my own advice. I mean, that's kind of the
Speaker 2: era that I'm in right now.
Speaker 4: If you move to Atlanta, I'll come with you.
Speaker 2: I am Unfortunately, I love Atlanta. I've been in Atlanta
Speaker 2: a bunch of times. I've lived there a couple of times,
Speaker 2: but I'm I am not going to move to Atlanta
Speaker 2: anytime soon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for having me on, mister get y'all
Speaker 4: have a blessed God, bless America.
Speaker 2: They take care of him.
Speaker 4: Bye bye, all right, see Russy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm on. That's kind of my arc right now.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm It's fun. I feel like it's it's
Speaker 2: fun when I talk Sometimes when I talk to callers,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm just kind of like and a lot
Speaker 2: of the times on this podcast, I'm just like kind
Speaker 2: of working out a lot of my own issues. And
Speaker 2: as I'm talking to somebody about there, as I'm coming
Speaker 2: up with solutions for myself, and that's kind of that's
Speaker 2: I think one of them, you know, in the call
Speaker 2: that we just had, is like, yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: if you're kind of lonely and you want to do
Speaker 2: a thing, you just got to start at yourself. Hello, Hi, can.
Speaker 5: You hear me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What's your name?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: I'm Sam and today's my birthday?
Speaker 2: Oh, happy birthday? How old are you turn in?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: You know what, we don't even have to you know
Speaker 2: what I've thought about, Sam, is I've thought about there's
Speaker 2: no way I'm going to actually be able to do this,
Speaker 2: But could you imagine how much better life would be
Speaker 2: if you just forgot how old you were?
Speaker 5: That'll be cool.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: One day, I guess I would look in the mirror
Speaker 5: and I have all these wrinkles, and I really could
Speaker 5: be any age. The mind is the age, right, The
Speaker 5: age is your age. Your mind is your age. So
Speaker 5: I'm literally about to wash this chemical out of my hair,
Speaker 5: and I was like, let me call one more time,
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna turn off the water and let the
Speaker 5: chemicals just stay in my hair a little bit longer, because.
Speaker 2: Oh here here, I was gonna actually this is perfect
Speaker 2: I was going to go on a rant, So if
Speaker 2: you want to wash the chemicals out of your hair,
Speaker 2: I'll go on my rant and then we can reconvene afterwards. Okay,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 5: What's what's your rent about? Right now?
Speaker 2: My rant is about this idea of like age being
Speaker 2: in the mind. And I'll tell a quick tidbit. There's
Speaker 2: this guy. So I just I spent two months in
Speaker 2: Japan uh at the beginning of this year. And there's
Speaker 2: this guy. His name is Dave Bull I think is
Speaker 2: his name, and he's like seventy something and he has
Speaker 2: a he lives in Japan. My friend sense Martian shout
Speaker 2: out him he and she introduced me to this guy
Speaker 2: Dave who he lives in Japan and he's been living
Speaker 2: there for a while and he has this like wood
Speaker 2: print shop that does like a traditional like wood printing stuff.
Speaker 2: And I met this guy. He's like in his seventies
Speaker 2: and he's running this shop. And the guy is running
Speaker 2: his shop like he's fucking twenty three years old, running
Speaker 2: a startup like he's He's running around and he's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're doing We're getting these shipments. We gotta do this,
Speaker 2: we gotta do that and know, we're doing content and
Speaker 2: we're doing this, and you know, he's got this whole
Speaker 2: studio where he does his Twitch streams and he makes
Speaker 2: YouTube videos and he's shipping out orders and he's got
Speaker 2: this team and he's like he's really working. It's really
Speaker 2: and you talk to him and he's sharp, and it's like, dude,
Speaker 2: I'm this guy's seventy four fucking years old. I was
Speaker 2: so inspired by the way that he ran his business,
Speaker 2: in the way that he was being because I'm like
Speaker 2: twenty seven and I'm you know, you meet a lot
Speaker 2: of people who are, you know, younger, younger than me,
Speaker 2: even are people in the thirties or whatever who just
Speaker 2: feel done and they feel old, right, and then you
Speaker 2: meet a guy like this, this guy in Japan, and
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, it's all you're really just at any
Speaker 2: given point in your life about as old as you
Speaker 2: decide that, y'all are. You know? I just thought that
Speaker 2: was interesting. So that's my rant. How are How are
Speaker 2: the chemicals in your hair?
Speaker 5: You know they're doing good? I think, uh, I think
Speaker 5: a few more minutes won't really kill them, because it's
Speaker 5: gonna be a little more lengthy process. To get them out.
Speaker 5: So I'm just gonna let him be for a bit.
Speaker 5: But I totally know what you mean. And I went
Speaker 5: to this workout class today and the instructor he's like
Speaker 5: this really old guy, but uh, the energy he had.
Speaker 5: He's like, all right, we're going yes, yes, baby, go oh,
Speaker 5: get to get a little bit lower perfect. Yeah, And
Speaker 5: he's running around like enthused, and and I was like, man, like,
Speaker 5: he came to be the coach today. Sometimes you have
Speaker 5: a workout coach and they're just really like they could
Speaker 5: care less about what's going on. You can tell, but
Speaker 5: that guy was like super into it. And and he
Speaker 5: was older, probably one of the older coaches I've had.
Speaker 5: But it was really cool. Also, I I've been following
Speaker 5: you for a little bit, as in, like, I know
Speaker 5: you guys are walking around Japan watching their live stream
Speaker 5: a little bit because I'm so enthused about Yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: so dused about traveling. And bro, I'm about to go
Speaker 5: to Hawaii on my first solo trip next week.
Speaker 2: I'm really sorry, kick Guss, kick ass, how long are
Speaker 2: you be there for?
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be there for a week and then when
Speaker 5: the flight lands, like the Tuesday after I'm gonna go
Speaker 5: to work like from the airport, so we'll seeah that goes,
Speaker 5: but I think I can troop through it. I'm really excited. Uh,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go to like the Honolulu area and stay
Speaker 5: in the school hostel for the first time and see
Speaker 5: how awesome it is. I'm really, really really excited.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna ask, is if you were
Speaker 2: doing the hostel route, dude.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so the one that I'm going to stay at.
Speaker 5: It has like daily tours and like all these events
Speaker 5: where you can meet travelers, and it has h like
Speaker 5: they transport you places and they're like here we can
Speaker 5: go see this and that, and they have like a
Speaker 5: daily schedule and I'm really excited. There's also like an app, dude,
Speaker 5: So the hostel has an app where you and talk
Speaker 5: to all these other travelers like plan things and meet people.
Speaker 5: It's so awesome. I'm really excited.
Speaker 2: H Yeah, I mean what yeah, what you're talking what
Speaker 2: you're talking about is awesome.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shot free advertising too, Hostile World.
Speaker 5: Dot com Yep, that's the one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They have. Yeah, they have these group chats where you
Speaker 2: can like meet people and hostels and yeah, there's you
Speaker 2: know what's it's so it's a it's interesting. So what
Speaker 2: you're talking about these hostels, they exist like all over
Speaker 2: the world, and there's a culture of like people I've
Speaker 2: met like I would I I've I've done a lot
Speaker 2: of like hostel traveling, and you know, there's all the
Speaker 2: You'll meet somebody and they'll be like, yeah, I've been
Speaker 2: on the road for nine months, just like you know
Speaker 2: that whatever. They they maybe have some kind of online
Speaker 2: job or like a lot of people just like waitress
Speaker 2: or or or do some kind of odd job for
Speaker 2: like six months out of the year and they just
Speaker 2: live super humbly and with a bunch of fucking roommates
Speaker 2: or whatever, and they just save up all that money
Speaker 2: and then they go for six months and run around
Speaker 2: all these hostels or they have a remote job or something.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it's interesting, dude, there's people out there who
Speaker 2: are who are really living that lifestyle for extended periods
Speaker 2: of time. I'm excited for you. It's not like the
Speaker 2: first time you go when you solo travel and you
Speaker 2: kind of experience what it's like to just throw yourself
Speaker 2: into that ocean. It's really cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm really I can't wait because I've traveled a
Speaker 5: lot since I was younger, but it was always to
Speaker 5: a destination or like to a family member, Like like
Speaker 5: a destination is in like, oh, I'm going to this festival,
Speaker 5: like I'm not going to explore the city or whatever, like,
Speaker 5: and I'm usually with a group of friends. So this
Speaker 5: is like the first time I'm going just just because
Speaker 5: And it was so cheap dude too, so I'm excited.
Speaker 5: And of course I'm going through like a little breakup,
Speaker 5: and that's just of course like helping me, you know, blossom,
Speaker 5: because I love I've always loved traveling, and you know,
Speaker 5: like there's sometimes when you have a person and they're
Speaker 5: they're I don't know, Like Mix was a little more
Speaker 5: conservative as far as like, uh, being able to spend
Speaker 5: anything on anything, so it was kind of like a
Speaker 5: guilt trip if I wanted to go somewhere, like I
Speaker 5: had to front for both of us and then he
Speaker 5: paid me back later and it's kind of like freeing
Speaker 5: just like hey, I want to go. I'm going to go.
Speaker 5: I'm going to meet people, and this is like the
Speaker 5: start of a new end, new chapter. So it's great.
Speaker 5: What's the favor like, what's your favorite place that you've
Speaker 5: traveled like out of the US.
Speaker 2: My two favorite cities out of the US are Amsterdam
Speaker 2: and Tokyo. Uh. Amsterdam's great. Amsterdam's got this hostel called
Speaker 2: the Flying Pig that was one of the first hostels
Speaker 2: I stayed in when I was doing like so travel stuff.
Speaker 2: And it's cool because yeah, they have like a bar
Speaker 2: and they're very like, you know, social hostile. And then
Speaker 2: I also there's I don't know if it's still around,
Speaker 2: but there's a hostel in Amsterdam called Cocoa Mama, and
Speaker 2: that one's a little bit more like chill vibes, like
Speaker 2: a communal living room. People are playing board games and
Speaker 2: watching TV and stuff. That's one of the really cool
Speaker 2: things about like hostels is that they have like varying vibes.
Speaker 2: Like if you want to go meet a bunch of
Speaker 2: strangers and go out and get fucked up and you know,
Speaker 2: do all that stuff, there's places where you can go
Speaker 2: do that. And then if you just want to chill
Speaker 2: and play board games as places to do that too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a cool. It's a cool scene. I really like
Speaker 2: if you're if you're like young and you're out of college,
Speaker 2: you have a gap or whatever, or you just have
Speaker 2: no fucking idea what you're doing. I highly recommend given
Speaker 2: that shit a shot because it's also like you said,
Speaker 2: it's like it's a really cheap and fun way to travel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was so surprised. Like hotels versus hostels are
Speaker 5: are freaking crazy. And then I know people are worried
Speaker 5: about the safety and a lot of hostles, But I
Speaker 5: feel like if you look at the reviews and you
Speaker 5: look at the like, people will complain more about things
Speaker 5: they don't like than leave great reviews. So if there's
Speaker 5: a lot of great reviews, you're probably gonna be okay,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So this is your first solo trip.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like completely by myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah at school? Are you Are you nervous? Are you excited?
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 5: I'm not really nervous at all. I'm I'm just excited
Speaker 5: and I'm I'm waiting to see how this one goes.
Speaker 5: Because I'm actually going to come to New York in
Speaker 5: May and then i have a week in October. I'm
Speaker 5: trying to figure out where i should go next. I'm
Speaker 5: not really sure what's.
Speaker 2: On your You have a list of like places you
Speaker 2: might want to go.
Speaker 5: I really want to go to New Zealand and walk
Speaker 5: the like you know, the Mortar and the Shire and
Speaker 5: all that stuff. But yeah, yeah, that's like a dream
Speaker 5: of mine. But I think that that's going to need
Speaker 5: a bigger tonk of time. My work is super picky
Speaker 5: about vacations there. I'm like a manager at a place,
Speaker 5: like a retail place, and they're like, you can only
Speaker 5: take the vacation Saturday to Friday. And I'm like, but
Speaker 5: it's cheaper to travel like Monday and Monday, Like that's great,
Speaker 5: but we allow you to go Saturday to Friday. So
Speaker 5: it was just really strange. I get a lot of PTO,
Speaker 5: but they're just very picky about how I use it.
Speaker 5: So although I want to go to New Zealand, I
Speaker 5: think that's like probably something I can't do in just
Speaker 5: like a seven day period, so I need to be
Speaker 5: like fourteen days or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: New Zealand's tricky. Uh Yeah. I went to I did
Speaker 2: a little Australia tour like a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: and then when I came back, it was a full
Speaker 2: like ten days of like I couldn't sleep. I was
Speaker 2: like up until six o'clock in the morning every night
Speaker 2: and sleeping until two pm some crazy shit. Damn, what's
Speaker 2: going on in your life besides uh traveling?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm starting to paint again. I used to paint
Speaker 5: like all the time and do resin art and stuff,
Speaker 5: but I just kind of moved away from it. Uh,
Speaker 5: But like now that I have more time, I'm getting
Speaker 5: back into it. And I just did my first three
Speaker 5: resin pieces like a couple of weeks ago. I'm I'm
Speaker 5: really happy about. And I just got a new position
Speaker 5: at words that's pretty cool too. Yeah, and uh, I
Speaker 5: don't know, just getting back into the gym, you know,
Speaker 5: getting back into the swing of things pretty much. But
Speaker 5: but it's really fun. Do you ever do Do you
Speaker 5: ever paint or anything?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 5: Do you ever do art? Arts and crafts kind of stuff?
Speaker 2: Well, I successfully got a bunch of people to look
Speaker 2: at a bunch of trash that I put behind glass
Speaker 2: is part of it. And uh, that was that was fun.
Speaker 2: It It made me wish that I did have some
Speaker 2: kind of artistic talents. Do I ever do are I'll doodle?
Speaker 2: I doodle, I doodle, I doodle to get out like
Speaker 2: none of my doodles are good. They're they're they're mainly
Speaker 2: just like schizophrenic like adhd uh fidgets more than they
Speaker 2: are any anything that attempts any sort of artistic value.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know so much if I if
Speaker 2: I do any yards as I do just fidget with
Speaker 2: a pen making little uh circles and squares and stick
Speaker 2: figures and.
Speaker 5: Ship Hey, well, you know, beauty is in the eye
Speaker 5: of the beholder. There's some stuff I see in the
Speaker 5: museum and I wonder, like why it's there. So, like,
Speaker 5: you know, everyone has their own perception. You never know
Speaker 5: someone could fall in love with your ADHD squiggly art.
Speaker 2: You have no idea, bro, it's there because some fucking
Speaker 2: douchebag got some fucking email and was like, all right,
Speaker 2: this is you know, things are the way they are
Speaker 2: because some person decided that it was supposed to be
Speaker 2: there or whatever. And you know, they own the museum
Speaker 2: so they can do whatever they want. And I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's why stuff is there.
Speaker 5: You know, how was your your art exposit? What is
Speaker 5: our effort? I was saying the word and I like
Speaker 5: the expression. Yeah, yeah, I was not received like by
Speaker 5: people who weren't sure of what they were looking at exactly.
Speaker 2: I think everyone had a good time, man. I actually
Speaker 2: it's funny. I so I auctioned off the pieces at
Speaker 2: the end, I kept.
Speaker 1: Two of.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, I kept two of them, and then
Speaker 2: one of them, the guy who bought it just didn't
Speaker 2: show up to get it, which I thought was gonna
Speaker 2: happen for all of them, to be honest. But so
Speaker 2: I took the remaining three pieces and I stacked them
Speaker 2: all up and I put them in my room, and like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I know it's trash, but like I know it's trash,
Speaker 2: and I know I'm the one that made it. So
Speaker 2: maybe this is a little bit selfish to say. But
Speaker 2: something about the empty water bottle in the glass, it
Speaker 2: does look cool. It looks cool when you display it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I look at it, and I'm like, I
Speaker 2: like that. I would have that, So I at least
Speaker 2: feel good that, even though it is putting trash behind
Speaker 2: a glass box, I feel like I made something that
Speaker 2: I myself would would and do display currently in my
Speaker 2: living space. So I feel good about that. Yeah, what's
Speaker 2: your name again? My name Sam, Sam uh Sam. Good
Speaker 2: luck on your solo. Chip. I love I love hearing
Speaker 2: people do shit. I love that people are doing things
Speaker 2: and excited. I often I feel often too jaded, and
Speaker 2: it makes me feel good too. I'm living vicariously through
Speaker 2: your joy in this moment. So good luck to you.
Speaker 5: But I have a great day.
Speaker 2: Thank you too. Bye bye, Sam Bye.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hey, what's your name?
Speaker 1: My name is Tim. Tim. We talked a while ago.
Speaker 1: I'm the guy that got the colonoscopy with.
Speaker 2: The guy that got the colonoscopy? How long ago was this?
Speaker 1: This was a while ago. Yeah. You said if I
Speaker 1: had a good colon, you'd come to Portland, and if
Speaker 1: I had a bad colin, you'd destroy Portland with your death. Right.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, what so what happened? Do you have the
Speaker 2: good colin to the bad solid?
Speaker 1: My colon is good, so you have to come back.
Speaker 2: I've been to port I wouldn't it. I've been to
Speaker 2: Portland a bunch of times.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, but the deal was you'll come back.
Speaker 2: I would no. No, if I do, I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do. Yeah, I I need. I kind of
Speaker 2: needed to take this year off, but I'm gonna try
Speaker 2: to do. If if there if there remains interest in therapy.
Speaker 2: Gecko live around the country. I absolutely will go to
Speaker 2: Portland again if people wanted.
Speaker 1: To come back.
Speaker 2: Friend, and you know, it's f I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm always like again, we're getting to the summer. It'll
Speaker 2: be five years of of geckoing, and I'm every year,
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's crazy, this keeps lasting this long.
Speaker 1: Man, I've been here all five years.
Speaker 2: Fucking crazy. Man, I'm blessed. I don't know why. I
Speaker 2: don't know why I go crazy all the time. This
Speaker 2: is a it's a it's a real it's a real blessing,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I gotta zoom out every now and then.
Speaker 1: I feel like we got to talk about more than
Speaker 1: Mike Colon this time.
Speaker 2: What do you want to talk about? What do you
Speaker 2: want to talk about?
Speaker 1: Oh? Man, we can. We can just talk about life.
Speaker 1: I like the life stories. It feels weird giving a
Speaker 1: life story, you know what I mean? It almost feels
Speaker 1: self centered.
Speaker 2: Uh God, please do it. I don't well, Uh, what
Speaker 2: is your life story? Who are you?
Speaker 1: Oh? Well, I'm twenty five right now. I'm from Arkansas,
Speaker 1: but I live in Oregon. I moved here when I
Speaker 1: was nineteen. Yeah, damn, now that I'm now that I'm
Speaker 1: ready to tell you my life story, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to tell you my life story.
Speaker 2: That was a paradoxical thing you just said. Are you are?
Speaker 2: Do you feel ready to tell me your life story?
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm not ready to tell you my life story, Lyle?
Speaker 2: Is it because can I ask you this? Is it
Speaker 2: because you're uncomfortable with whatever the subject matter of your
Speaker 2: life story is? Or is it because you literally do
Speaker 2: not mechanically know how?
Speaker 1: No, I think I'm just nervous.
Speaker 2: Would you watch pressure? If I helped walk by the
Speaker 2: way that you don't have to if you don't want to,
Speaker 2: if I helped walk you through it, do you think
Speaker 2: you could do it?
Speaker 1: I think I think that would help. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you were born in Arkansas?
Speaker 1: I was yep. I was born in a Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Speaker 2: And how was your childhood?
Speaker 1: My childhood was pretty good up until up until I
Speaker 1: was twelve, I lived, you know, with my whole family.
Speaker 1: I had my my cousins right across the street and
Speaker 1: my my grandparents right down the street. After that everything
Speaker 1: got split up a little bit, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I went I lived in a really small town and
Speaker 1: that's why I moved to Oregon. Not really a much
Speaker 1: bigger place, but you know, a little a little different
Speaker 1: as far as m hmm. There's less of ignorance here
Speaker 1: than there is an Arkansas. You know, ignorance is very
Speaker 1: prevalent where I'm from.
Speaker 2: Although is it what's the big city in in Arkansas?
Speaker 1: Little?
Speaker 2: Is it? Little Rock?
Speaker 1: A Little Rock is the capital, but I think probably
Speaker 1: say it though, is probably the biggest place because that's
Speaker 1: where the college is at.
Speaker 2: Is it. I feel like all these like red states
Speaker 2: and they all of them have these like I don't
Speaker 2: know you would call them big cities, but these like
Speaker 2: kind of like more uh like like little like blue
Speaker 2: liberal dots, like like an Austin, Texas kind of a thing.
Speaker 2: Is that they have that in Arkansas.
Speaker 1: I mean, Fayebelle is becoming more liberal, you know. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it's a college town. So it's like a
Speaker 1: younger generation, like a specifically educated younger generation that's seems
Speaker 1: to be changing things a little bit. But it's definitely
Speaker 1: an overwhelmingly red state. I would say Arkansas is one
Speaker 1: of the few places that's like there's not there isn't
Speaker 1: really a big city there. Like, I don't know what
Speaker 1: the population of Fayebelle is, but it's pretty small and
Speaker 1: it's the biggest one. I think it's the biggest one
Speaker 1: at least. Yeah, but I moved to I moved to Eugene.
Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of funny, Like what made me
Speaker 1: you move to Eugene, Oregon? Is I made like music
Speaker 1: videos in high school and I was on acid one
Speaker 1: night in my bedroom and saw a music video that
Speaker 1: was really it was really shitty, but I thought it
Speaker 1: was really good while I was on acid, you know,
Speaker 1: And I ended up moving to Eugene to live with
Speaker 1: the people that made that video like a week later.
Speaker 2: How did you get in touch with them?
Speaker 1: I just found them on Instagram through the through the
Speaker 1: music video. Like the description on YouTube, it was like
Speaker 1: a bunch of dudes. They were about the same age
Speaker 1: as me and just happened to also be wanting to
Speaker 1: get roommates and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's pretty sick. And why do you still live
Speaker 2: with them?
Speaker 1: No? I don't. They turned out to be like much
Speaker 1: bigger drug heads than I was, you know, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: I haven't done psychedelics since like all the way back then,
Speaker 1: but I never did, like, no hate to anybody that
Speaker 1: does coke or anything, but I did like coke or
Speaker 1: cat or any of those things. And all my roommates did.
Speaker 1: And so we're in this like three bedroom apartment with
Speaker 1: like eight people, all of them off of coke besides me.
Speaker 1: Pretty much.
Speaker 2: Cocaine is Cocaine is good a couple times a year,
Speaker 2: special occasions.
Speaker 1: I can imagine. I think I'm too anxious of a
Speaker 1: person to try, he said. I think I'm just too
Speaker 1: anxious of a person to do coke in general.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, I mean no do it. I mean doing
Speaker 2: it every fucking day or weekend?
Speaker 4: Is.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say probably bad, but I think I
Speaker 2: can confidently say just bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I was gonna say probably too. I'm no doctor,
Speaker 1: Yeah I think bad. Yeah yeah either.
Speaker 2: Do you do any drugs?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Are you a weed guy?
Speaker 1: Do you do? I mean I smoke weed, But same
Speaker 1: as you've mentioned many times, and trying to cut back, yeah,
Speaker 1: trying to cut back. I just I was I was
Speaker 1: talking to somebody about this the other day. I really
Speaker 1: like to take like a full year, like or even
Speaker 1: a little bit shorter, just fully sober off of everything.
Speaker 1: I mean all I do is weed, and I like nicotine,
Speaker 1: and then I'll drink occasionally. But I think it'd be
Speaker 1: cool to like see what my headspace is like just
Speaker 1: completely sober, because it's like, I mean, I've had nicotine
Speaker 1: since like fifteen and weed since like sixteen, so I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever gone honestly a full like few
Speaker 1: days without one or the other at least. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's cool to see, what, see what my
Speaker 1: mind is like, you.
Speaker 2: Know, withdraw I don't know if this was a withdrawal thing,
Speaker 2: but yeah, when I went you know, uh, when I
Speaker 2: kind of went through like a weird period of like
Speaker 2: uh like depression, anxiety, shit, I wasn't smoking weed because
Speaker 2: I was afraid, because I was afraid that like weed
Speaker 2: was gonna actually like exascerb exaterbate masturbates those uh uh feelings.
Speaker 2: I thought it was gonna make them worse, and so
Speaker 2: I avoided it. And then I just I had this
Speaker 2: one night. This was within the week or whatever the fuck,
Speaker 2: it's maybe a couple of weeks ago where I was
Speaker 2: like or I kind of felt like I dude, I
Speaker 2: felt like I was fucking drowning, Like I felt like
Speaker 2: I was in a pool, Like I mentally felt like
Speaker 2: I was in a pool that had the fucking pool
Speaker 2: cover on it, you know, and I was I was driving.
Speaker 2: It's a bad feeling. And then I took a really
Speaker 2: big hit of a weed pen and I and I went,
Speaker 2: oh my god, and I felt like the feeling when
Speaker 2: you I felt a feeling like like when you've been
Speaker 2: like submerged underwater for too long and you you get
Speaker 2: you rise back up and you catch your breath. And
Speaker 2: I just had that feeling. I was like, oh my fuck,
Speaker 2: Holy Jesus Christy, just a big is a huge just relief.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's healthy, but I did experience that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I'm not that's what I was about to
Speaker 1: get into. I'm not. I'm not sure if like that
Speaker 1: that feeling of relief coming from a substance is a
Speaker 1: good thing. But like it's it's interesting because you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I'll get that that feeling of relief after like
Speaker 1: taking a hit, but other times, like it's like you're looking.
Speaker 1: It almost feels like if I'm looking to get that
Speaker 1: feeling of relief by smoking, then I don't. But if
Speaker 1: I'm just like if I just happen to be like,
Speaker 1: oh I'm gonna smoke, then I do get it. Does
Speaker 1: that make sense?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like if i'm if I know I'm using it
Speaker 1: as an escape, then I don't think it serves that purpose.
Speaker 1: But if I like my ideal, my ideal use of
Speaker 1: weed is like get through my whole day, do everything
Speaker 1: I need to do, and then like end of the day,
Speaker 1: when all of my responsibilities are done, I can kick
Speaker 1: back and relax and smoke some weed.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But if I do it too sorry, Yeah, no.
Speaker 1: You're good. I think. Pretty much any other circumstance, it
Speaker 1: does the opposite for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: I I used to and I still do some times,
Speaker 2: like with weed, like use it to separate the day,
Speaker 2: like a have a period of time where I am
Speaker 2: in fucking reality, I am deep in the matrix, I'm
Speaker 2: getting my work done, I'm going to the gym, I'm
Speaker 2: doing whatever the fuck I need to do, and then
Speaker 2: at night, getting high for me was always always like
Speaker 2: a symbol of like you're done for the day, You're good.
Speaker 2: You know, I've talked about that. I've probably talked about
Speaker 2: this on the podcast eight hundred billion times, but like
Speaker 2: I meet these people sometimes who they can who they
Speaker 2: don't have that, and it's just like constant like wake
Speaker 2: and bake, like fucking let me get high and go
Speaker 2: do stuff all the time and that shit. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know, and they don't. And they're not these people
Speaker 2: that I meet that do this. They're not like a mess.
Speaker 2: They like get their shit done. But I just the
Speaker 2: fact that their brain can do that always amazes me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It is interesting. It makes me makes
Speaker 1: me wonder if there's some like does that mean that
Speaker 1: our brain chemistry is like flawed in some way or
Speaker 1: is it or is it simply we just have different
Speaker 1: brain chemistry? You know, this is weird.
Speaker 2: I not I'm gonna get esoteric again, but isn't it
Speaker 2: weird that we all have different brain chemistries and personalities?
Speaker 2: Like wouldn't it make sense if like a human beings
Speaker 2: there was just okay, it's just a human being and
Speaker 2: every human being comes equipped with standard brain And it's like,
Speaker 2: I mean like ants, you know, like ants, don't I
Speaker 2: mean dogs have personalities? Yeahs are big enough for that.
Speaker 2: But like, yeah, once your brain gets to a certain size,
Speaker 2: it starts to morph and have different stronger variations and
Speaker 2: personalities and chemistries. And I'm sure there's some Harvard scientists,
Speaker 2: douche who could tell us why these things are the
Speaker 2: way they are. But it's interesting to ponder about them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it is interesting. I read this this book
Speaker 1: not too long ago called seven and a half Lessons
Speaker 1: about the Brain. It's not it's not like a self
Speaker 1: help book. It's more of like a like a neurology
Speaker 1: like like essays kind of. It's kind of just about
Speaker 1: how your brain develops. And yeah, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: going to try and explain it because I'm not smart
Speaker 1: enough to. But maybe maybe someday you'll check it out.
Speaker 1: It's pretty small, so I think you'd find it interesting.
Speaker 2: Uh, Tim, is that your name?
Speaker 1: That is my name? Well that's not Yeah, that's my name.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad your colon is going good. I'm glad
Speaker 2: that they don't need to shove a camera. But they
Speaker 2: put it in. They put a camera in your ass.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah they did. They did put a camera in
Speaker 1: my ass.
Speaker 2: Isn't it crazy? But no matter who you are, you
Speaker 2: have to I think mainly, I think it's mainly men
Speaker 2: and women get colon asks.
Speaker 1: Right, I think so, Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm I'm maybe I'm mistaking it for like a prostag.
Speaker 1: No matter who you are, at some point in your life,
Speaker 1: you'll probably have a camera in your ass. Yeah. God,
Speaker 1: at least I wasn't like the guy that called after
Speaker 1: me and had to get it like in my penis.
Speaker 1: That would have been I would have been more scared
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 2: What a burden it is to be alive, and yet
Speaker 2: what an honor as well.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of it. All the horror and the
Speaker 1: end of the excitement. You know, it goes hand in hand.
Speaker 2: Tim, Is there anything else you want to say to
Speaker 2: the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 1: Can I answer you one more question and then I'll
Speaker 1: and then I'll get my find It's just have you
Speaker 1: still be going to the gym?
Speaker 2: Man o more time?
Speaker 1: Have you still be going to the gym?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I'm not. I'm not going like as uh
Speaker 2: stringently as I was. Yeah, lost like thirty pounds since
Speaker 2: my last.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's sick. Yeah months as well, say what I
Speaker 1: started a few months ago as well. So it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's cool to kind of like like, I mean, I
Speaker 1: know other people makes me sound like I don't know anybody.
Speaker 1: It's cool to have you as well going to the gym,
Speaker 1: and it's nice to hear you mention it every now
Speaker 1: in the podcast. You know, I had a little bit
Speaker 1: where it was was getting a lot harder for me
Speaker 1: to go, and my goal helped me get back in there.
Speaker 2: So okay, good good, good, good good. My my goal
Speaker 2: is to be I want to be as skinny as
Speaker 2: I was before I started doing this. I think here's
Speaker 2: what here's what happened to me is this is exactly
Speaker 2: what happened to me is a couple of things. Is
Speaker 2: so once I, once I started doing this and it
Speaker 2: started like popping off A is I just cared about
Speaker 2: nothing except doing this and making sure that this was
Speaker 2: that this kind of the therapy Gecko universe was trudging forward,
Speaker 2: and so I was kind of like, as long as
Speaker 2: the Therapy Gecko universe is trudging forward, nothing else looking mattered.
Speaker 2: So I would And then so there was that A.
Speaker 2: It was that mindset, and then B was the thing
Speaker 2: of B was this thing of just like oh, I
Speaker 2: had a routine where I would stream and then the
Speaker 2: stream would be over at nine pm and I would
Speaker 2: smoke weed and just eat an extra literally like four
Speaker 2: or five thousand calories of like bullshit, you know, because
Speaker 2: I felt like I had earned it really and then
Speaker 2: and then I had this mindset. This was a crazy
Speaker 2: mindset I had where I was like, Okay, I've become
Speaker 2: successful now on the Internet. I don't have to take
Speaker 2: care of any other aspect of my life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, like that reward mindset can get dangerous.
Speaker 2: Say that one time.
Speaker 1: That reward mindset can get pretty dangerous where it's uh, right,
Speaker 1: like you you're trying to reward yourself with things constant.
Speaker 1: I would do that a lot where it's like, right,
Speaker 1: I'm stressed out, but I've been doing a lot, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna reward myself by not doing shit this entire day,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a productive way to do.
Speaker 2: No, it's it's not I thought. Yeah I thought. I
Speaker 2: I was like, uh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Once it was it was really stupid because it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I got a million views on TikTok, I don't I
Speaker 2: no longer have to work on improving myself as a
Speaker 2: human being in any way, shape or form ever. Again,
Speaker 2: that was I mean I was twenty two when that happens,
Speaker 2: so mm hmmm, yeah, but it was that so oh god.
Speaker 2: So now I'm trying to get back to at least
Speaker 2: what I was before the Gecko happens.
Speaker 1: So I before the get go happened. Well that's a
Speaker 1: good goal, man. You'll get there, I can. We can
Speaker 1: all tell you're working hard.
Speaker 2: So thanks, Thanks, I'm excited. I'm going to do another
Speaker 2: I always post these like shirtless pictures to promote the tours,
Speaker 2: So when I do another one i'm gonna do, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna hopefully be ripped by then we'll see what happened.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, is there anything else you gonna say to
Speaker 2: the people of the computer before.
Speaker 1: We go, I'll reiterate the last the last thing I
Speaker 1: said last time. Take care of your colon, treat it right,
Speaker 1: take care of brother. Yep, you too. Bye.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's up? What's your name?
Speaker 6: I'm Tony.
Speaker 1: It's nice to meet.
Speaker 2: You, Tony. Nice to meet you too. I met a
Speaker 2: guy named Tony the other day, but that has nothing
Speaker 2: to do with you at all. What's up, Tony? How's
Speaker 2: how's life?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 6: I'm doing good. What's your name?
Speaker 2: My name is Lyle.
Speaker 1: I used to know a bunch of killer name lyle are.
Speaker 3: You are you?
Speaker 2: Are you? Are you fucking with me right now? Or
Speaker 2: did you really used to know?
Speaker 3: I'm just.
Speaker 2: Am I a killer? I kill? I killed a plant
Speaker 2: the other day?
Speaker 1: What was it?
Speaker 2: I don't even remember. I killed it now. I didn't
Speaker 2: actively kill that. I indirectly killed it, Uh, via negligence.
Speaker 2: It was given to me as a gift. That's actually
Speaker 2: the second time someone has given me a plant as
Speaker 2: a gift and I through negligence, which I know it's
Speaker 2: which is such a bummer. I know people love plants.
Speaker 2: But yeah, anyway, I feel like I've been talking about
Speaker 2: myself too much lately. What's up with you? Tony?
Speaker 6: For sure? Uh, I've had a a I've had a
Speaker 6: ton of stuff going on recently.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: Every time I've I've tried to call in, I've tried
Speaker 6: to call in. I've always had something like specific that
Speaker 6: I've wanted to talk about. But I guess I don't
Speaker 6: really have anything today today. For the first time in
Speaker 6: a long time, I feel like I don't necessarily have
Speaker 6: to work, you know, I don't have to worry for
Speaker 6: a little bit, so you know, it's a it's a
Speaker 6: pretty good day today.
Speaker 2: That first of all, that's six. Second of all, why
Speaker 2: don't you have to worry today? What changed?
Speaker 6: So, I mean it's a minor celebration, but you know,
Speaker 6: I really take these things close to heart. I have
Speaker 6: all my bills paid and I just finished my like
Speaker 6: psychology essay for my second semester, so you know, I
Speaker 6: don't have work to do, Like I don't have to
Speaker 6: go to work, I don't have things to study. What
Speaker 6: I do in my free time, like outside of that
Speaker 6: is I like to, like I go to concerts or
Speaker 6: I go to comedy shows. I'm from California and there's
Speaker 6: this little group I don't know how popular they are.
Speaker 6: They're called Offline Comedy. And the entire idea is that
Speaker 6: you go with a bunch of people and the kind
Speaker 6: of socials that geist is that no one's really supposed
Speaker 6: to have the air phone out. I mean you can,
Speaker 6: no one's gonna stop you, but it's meant to create
Speaker 6: a very more social environment.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: And I thought that was really cool. So I went
Speaker 6: to that. There's this place called the gallow Center where
Speaker 6: they host a lot of shows like I know, Whirred
Speaker 6: Al Yankovic has played there a few times. I volunteer.
Speaker 2: I'm curious about offline comedy because it's it's very funny
Speaker 2: to me because the default of a comedy show is
Speaker 2: already that you're not supposed to be on your phone.
Speaker 2: So what is the point? What's what is what is
Speaker 2: the whole offline aspect of that You're already not supposed
Speaker 2: to use your phone during a comedy show.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I think this happens to a lot
Speaker 6: of people. Yeah, And I don't know if it's you know,
Speaker 6: held mainly by just a younger demographic, but a lot
Speaker 6: of people automatically resort to just like going to their
Speaker 6: phones if they ever feel like socially awkward, you know,
Speaker 6: people that are trying to get out into this kind
Speaker 6: of very abrasive, loud scene, you know, may it might
Speaker 6: be helpful to have like a little bit of a
Speaker 6: of a reminder, you know. I appreciate this as a
Speaker 6: concept exists.
Speaker 2: So it's just a normal comedy showcase.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's there are a few people from like Comedy Central,
Speaker 6: you know, a few people that have done hours on there.
Speaker 3: And it was pretty cheap.
Speaker 1: It was like twenty six bucks.
Speaker 6: I don't really go to comedy shows very often, but
Speaker 6: I do go to a lot of concerts. Uh, and
Speaker 6: it's usually a bit more expensive than that.
Speaker 2: Who do you? Uh wait, so twenty twenty six bucks
Speaker 2: felt cheap to you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean at least in California because all of
Speaker 6: the like all of the shows that are out here
Speaker 6: are in like San Francisco or like, uh, like Sacramento.
Speaker 6: You know these places that are that are really expensive,
Speaker 6: really high cost of living.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you go to like what is it
Speaker 2: any said, you go to like a like a real
Speaker 2: comedy club, like a comedy seller or a fucking like
Speaker 2: an improv or something, you uh, they you have to
Speaker 2: pay for a ticket, but then they also make you
Speaker 2: pay like a two drink minimum and then after the
Speaker 2: tip and everything, you yeah, you kind of get out
Speaker 2: of there at like, you know, seventy bucks or something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 6: That's crazy. I didn't know that what's it called. I'm
Speaker 6: not twenty one yet, so I'm not allowed to like
Speaker 6: like like do.
Speaker 2: Anything, allowed to go into those places.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm nineteen.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: One thing that I was doing while I was working
Speaker 6: because okay, I've never had like a real job, So
Speaker 6: while I was trying to do this volunteer work.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they had me work in the cash register, but
Speaker 6: no one asked my age, and I guess they just
Speaker 6: didn't know, and I didn't know that I wasn't supposed
Speaker 6: to be back there. But they're like, wait, so how
Speaker 6: old are you? And I'm like, you know, I'm nineteen.
Speaker 1: I'm about to turn twenty.
Speaker 6: And they're like, oh, you can't like touch the alcohol
Speaker 6: like at all, and I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. So
Speaker 6: that just really flowed me down, you know, really hindered
Speaker 6: my efficiency for how old I am? Really importunate.
Speaker 2: Well, Tony, I'm glad that that's good. You don't have
Speaker 2: to worry or do anything.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I guess if I had to, I guess I guess
Speaker 2: I guess if I had to do Gecko therapy, if
Speaker 2: I had to do Gecko therapy upon you right now
Speaker 2: that you didn't ask for, only because it's what's present
Speaker 2: in my mind right now. I will say this, doing
Speaker 2: if you, if you, if you get to the point
Speaker 2: if you stop doing, it's good. The best thing you
Speaker 2: could do is like do a lot of things and
Speaker 2: then go into rest mode and then enjoy your break
Speaker 2: from doing things. But if you never but it's if
Speaker 2: you're never doing things ever, you will start to question
Speaker 2: the meaning of existence and your own death. You'll go crazy.
Speaker 2: Oh man, so don't do that.
Speaker 6: Tell me about it. When I was younger, I feel
Speaker 6: like I was kind of like super sheltered. So I
Speaker 6: just spent a lot of time thinking. And now that
Speaker 6: I'm older, I've gone into like philosophy and the humanities
Speaker 6: and you know, just just things that are like and
Speaker 6: also comedy for a large part of it, that are
Speaker 6: filled with with those kinds of questions that don't have answers.
Speaker 2: What was he gonna say? Is he gonna say? Oh? Yes, uh,
Speaker 2: thinking is bad? Question nothing. Do what you're told, fall
Speaker 2: in line, and you actually you'll probably actually have a
Speaker 2: much better life than if you, uh start to question stuff,
Speaker 2: because once you start questioning stuff, you'll you go into
Speaker 2: the abyss and then you can't get out of it.
Speaker 2: Why why am I always do this?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Who are your favorite comedians? By the way, Oh?
Speaker 5: My favorite comedians.
Speaker 6: It's hard to say.
Speaker 3: I grew up with like.
Speaker 6: With John Mulaney, I grew up with Joe Cooy, Gabril Clesis,
Speaker 6: you know, basically anyone that was on Netflix and Big
Speaker 6: at the time when I was like thirteen, I was
Speaker 6: on I was watching that. Uh you know, I really
Speaker 6: I really like those guys. They have a special place for.
Speaker 2: Uh, Tony, is anything else you want to say to
Speaker 2: the people of the computer before we go?
Speaker 6: Uh no, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: Have a good day.
Speaker 2: Life you bye bye. But well, folks, thank you guys
Speaker 2: for listening. That was a fun time. A lot of
Speaker 2: I liked being able. This was a good episode of
Speaker 2: just chatting with folks.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: That felt good. It's it's I continue to feel a
Speaker 2: great honor that people are still listening to this podcast.
Speaker 2: I thank you all very much for being here. And folks, also,
Speaker 2: by the way, if you're listening to this, I am
Speaker 2: going to be doing a therapy Gecko live in New
Speaker 2: York City this coming Sunday, and I'm gonna leave the
Speaker 2: link to buy tickets in the episode description. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: try this is kind of this is a very minimum
Speaker 2: viable product version of this. I'm trying to kind of
Speaker 2: I want to My goal ultimately is to just start
Speaker 2: doing a regular therapy Geck go live here in New York.
Speaker 2: So this is gonna be the most bare bones version
Speaker 2: of it. Tickets are gonna be like five dollars. Uh, So,
Speaker 2: if you live in New York and you're free, I
Speaker 2: think this episode was gonna come out on a Wednesday,
Speaker 2: So if you're free the Sunday after this, the next
Speaker 2: Sunday from when this episode airs, check out the come
Speaker 2: Come hang at the link in in the bio. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you for listening to this podcast. Good luck, Gek
Speaker 2: bless and uh, that's it. I don't have any more
Speaker 2: words to say. Thank you, beak and goes on the
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