Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to gek mail. It is a show about
Speaker 1: a gecko reading mail. I have no further explanation to
Speaker 1: offer than that it is a show about a gecko
Speaker 1: reading mail. I'm all right, I'm gonna talk about myself
Speaker 1: for two seconds and then we're gonna read mail. I
Speaker 1: am in a room in the country of Japan right
Speaker 1: now recording this podcast. Next week, I'm gonna go on
Speaker 1: a like a fifty mile walk on the Nakasendo trail
Speaker 1: in rural Japan. I'm gonna live stream it on twitch
Speaker 1: dot tv slash lyle forever. I don't know exactly when,
Speaker 1: but next week, that's my that's my promo. This is
Speaker 1: my promo for it is uh and it's such sometime
Speaker 1: next week I will be live on twitch dot tv
Speaker 1: slash lyle forever. You know how like today's the super Bowl, right,
Speaker 1: and you know how when usually when people promote events,
Speaker 1: so they promote things they're doing, they're like, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: on March fifteenth at two pm, tune in too. You
Speaker 1: know Fuck that all right, Look sometime next week, if
Speaker 1: you go to twitch dot tv slash lyle forever, I
Speaker 1: will be walking around rural Japan with my friend sense Martian. Actually,
Speaker 1: if you guys remember a podcast that I put out.
Speaker 2: A few months ago, I think.
Speaker 1: Called I Walked Across Japan. I talked to a to
Speaker 1: a gentleman named sense Martian, and we we you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about him walking all across Japan. And I
Speaker 1: am now meeting up with that gentleman and we are
Speaker 1: going to go on a little walk across Japan at
Speaker 1: some point next week. We will be live streaming it on.
Speaker 2: Twitch dot tv slash lyle forever. So it's what.
Speaker 1: I don't know when this episode is gonna come out,
Speaker 1: but I think it will come out on a Wednesday
Speaker 1: and so on, like Monday or Tuesday. Just go to
Speaker 1: Twitch dot tv slash law Forever. Follow me on there,
Speaker 1: and I'll be walking. I'm not gonna do it in
Speaker 1: the Gecko suit. I thought about doing it in the
Speaker 1: Gecko suits, and then I decided that I thought about it,
Speaker 1: and I said I didn't want to because because I
Speaker 1: don't feel like it. All right, let's read some emails,
Speaker 1: shall we. Let's read some emails and then we'll talk
Speaker 1: about them. Okay, this is from Natasha. Subject line walks
Speaker 1: and SpongeBob really do improve your day.
Speaker 2: Hello Gek.
Speaker 1: My name is Tash and I am an artist and
Speaker 1: yoga teacher in Copenhagen.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: What a thing to be. What a thing and a
Speaker 1: place to be in. What a thing to be and
Speaker 1: a place to be in.
Speaker 2: I have a nice.
Speaker 1: Little story to share with you about your last podcast.
Speaker 1: I was feeling a bit low about myself, which is
Speaker 1: a hard cycle to have when you're a yoga teacher
Speaker 1: because you want to give the best energy you've got.
Speaker 1: But I've been sick for weeks and today my emotions
Speaker 1: really got to me. I've struggled with anxiety my whole life,
Speaker 1: and yoga has always been a core value of mine
Speaker 1: to help me feel centered again. Teaching has been one
Speaker 1: of the greatest joys in my life so far. In
Speaker 1: these moments where I feel a bit anxious, I try
Speaker 1: to remind myself that I'm human and these are just
Speaker 1: human emotions. I try to do something simple like go
Speaker 1: on a walk and the sun started to shine, which
Speaker 1: means a lot in Scandinavia in winter. I really enjoy
Speaker 1: listening to your podcast because there's a nice blend of humor,
Speaker 1: humility and insight. Your last podcast resonated well with me
Speaker 1: on different topics.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, A.
Speaker 1: Funny little part of my walk happened when you were
Speaker 1: talking about SpongeBob with a caller. I remember that I laughed,
Speaker 1: and about thirty seconds later I looked up and saw
Speaker 1: this mural around my neighborhood. Okay, and it's a picture
Speaker 1: of SpongeBob. Thanks for reading and creating an email format.
Speaker 1: Have a great rest of your day, Tash. This person
Speaker 1: is so nice. This is a really nice, wholesome person. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is a nice person. This is a nice person
Speaker 1: who wrote me this email. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: have anything else to say about this email except that
Speaker 1: the person who wrote it seems like they are nice.
Speaker 2: Let me.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is a nice person who wrote this email.
Speaker 1: This is a nice picture of SpongeBob. And yes, it's
Speaker 1: very nice. This is from Ali, subject line death anxiety.
Speaker 1: All right, Here we go, Here we go, Dear Ghek,
Speaker 1: I've been having really bad death anxiety lately. Tell me
Speaker 1: about it, all right. The thought of not existing for
Speaker 1: eternity after my death freaks me out like crazy. I
Speaker 1: used to not think about it much, however, now what
Speaker 1: is all I think about? I have been thinking about
Speaker 1: multiple theories of what else could possibly happen after death.
Speaker 1: I am not a religious person and am agnostic. I
Speaker 1: have a theory that we spawn into the next phase
Speaker 1: of existence and move on with a whole new life.
Speaker 1: I don't see this as an afterlife, just as the
Speaker 1: next phase. Do you ever feel afraid of the thought
Speaker 1: that there is a more than likely chance that we
Speaker 1: cease to exist for eternity after death?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that scares me, But it's kind of nice.
Speaker 1: Because it's everyone right, Like, you could have lived the
Speaker 1: most beautiful life ever, and you can you achieve the
Speaker 1: heights of your indusy in your career, and you can
Speaker 1: raise ten beautiful children with your beautiful wife or husbands.
Speaker 1: You can travel to every country on the earth, and
Speaker 1: you can have be respected and admired and loved by all.
Speaker 1: Or you can play a lot of video games and
Speaker 1: kill people and be horrible. And I don't know why
Speaker 1: I combine. I don't know why I combined playing video
Speaker 1: games and killing people. I'm about this whole episode just
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm this is gonna be a sloppy episode,
Speaker 1: just so everyone knows. But I just I trust the
Speaker 1: people listening to this and that were all along for
Speaker 1: the same ride.
Speaker 2: So just buckle up, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 1: Okay, So video game killing guy and Nelson Mandela good person.
Speaker 2: We all die.
Speaker 1: Everyone dies, and so it's an equalizer. And so what
Speaker 1: it means is that nothing you do matters. But that's
Speaker 1: not true too. I told you, just give me a
Speaker 1: sloppy episode. Yeah, but you're not alone. I want you
Speaker 1: to know something, Ali, is that the alternative is way worse.
Speaker 1: The alternative for you is the loneliest thing I could
Speaker 1: possibly imagine, Because Ali, think about this.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're going to die.
Speaker 1: And you're going to cease far all of eternity, but
Speaker 1: it's so beautiful. You're part of the whole community of
Speaker 1: not just human beings, but you know, plants and hamsters
Speaker 1: and everything that we all die. Imagine the alternative, Ali,
Speaker 1: imagine if just you.
Speaker 2: Lived forever. That would be awful.
Speaker 1: That would be the That would be the loneliest fucking
Speaker 1: thing that I could possibly imagine.
Speaker 2: That's the worst fate of all times.
Speaker 1: So if you had to pick between that and what
Speaker 1: you've got right now, which is this beautiful thing, which
Speaker 1: is that you're participating in the most communal experience you
Speaker 1: could possibly have as a living creature. You would absolutely
Speaker 1: want that over, you know, living forever. I think death
Speaker 1: would suck more if, like you know what suck is,
Speaker 1: if everything that was ever born inherently lived forever, but Ali,
Speaker 1: But what if just you died?
Speaker 2: That would suck?
Speaker 1: Right if you were endowed with this gift of if
Speaker 1: if the general experience of all life forms were that
Speaker 1: you live forever until otherwise noted, but just you, Ali,
Speaker 1: just you died, that would suck. That would be something
Speaker 1: to be afraid of. But that's not the case. That's
Speaker 1: not what's happening to you. What's happening to you is
Speaker 1: that you are joining the rest of not only humanity,
Speaker 1: but also every bug and every dog and every octopus.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna never be anything. And that's that's good.
Speaker 1: That never being anything is way better than being too
Speaker 1: much forever. So I hope you take solace in that.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: This is from Tom, subject line this sucks. I'm interested
Speaker 1: in this email, Hi, Lyle. I'm a big fan of
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Thank you, Tom, God bless you Tom.
Speaker 1: About a year ago, I became vegan after watching a
Speaker 1: documentary about animal agriculture. I was a little high on
Speaker 1: LSD when I watched it, and I realized for the
Speaker 1: first time that every animal, just like us, experiences the world.
Speaker 1: They don't have the same shape or intelligence as us,
Speaker 1: but they do feel and they can suffer. People kill
Speaker 1: one point two trillion animals per year.
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 1: It sounds it sounds more one point two trillion. Do
Speaker 1: we really kill one point two trillion animals per year?
Speaker 2: You know what, let's roll with that.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna fact check it because this is a
Speaker 1: podcast and so we don't have to fact check anything here.
Speaker 1: This spiraled me into a depression thinking about it every day.
Speaker 1: I wanted to stop, but there was nothing I could
Speaker 1: do but focus on my contribution. This was the hardest
Speaker 1: mental challenge I ever had to overcome. I still get
Speaker 1: sad when I think about it, but it's nowhere as
Speaker 1: bad as it was. Anyway, much love from Chechia. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this guy, this guy's upset that one point two
Speaker 1: trillion animals per year die or not.
Speaker 2: They don't die either're killed by uh people who love
Speaker 2: eating delicious animals. That's that. You know. It sucks. It
Speaker 2: sucks more than animals.
Speaker 1: I think it would it would suck more if animals
Speaker 1: weren't so delicious, because then it would be.
Speaker 2: More black and white.
Speaker 1: If people were just killing animals for no reason, you know,
Speaker 1: then maybe this is gonna be situ whatever I'm putting
Speaker 1: this on the internet. If animals weren't so delicious, I
Speaker 1: think it would be easier to be upset that were
Speaker 1: killing so many of them, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Because like, if there was just some guy out there
Speaker 1: who was like killing chickens for no reason, he just
Speaker 1: wanted to, he just thought it was fun, that'd be
Speaker 1: fucked up. But there's lots of guys out there killing
Speaker 1: a lot of chickens because chickens are so delicious, and
Speaker 1: so it's not as black and white as as the
Speaker 1: situations with the situation would have you think.
Speaker 2: I do find it.
Speaker 1: I've gone on this rant so many times to people
Speaker 1: in my personal life, and I'm sure I've gone on
Speaker 1: it on the podcast. But found it quite interesting the
Speaker 1: very arbitrary lines that we draw between what animals are
Speaker 1: okay to kill in mass versus not like like if
Speaker 1: you kill and eat a dog, you're a you're an
Speaker 1: awful crazy person in in in modern society, killing and
Speaker 1: eating a dog is frowned upon, but you can kill
Speaker 1: and eat infinite chickens and no one cares, and there's
Speaker 1: no And here's the thing that's weird about that is
Speaker 1: there's really there's no real, honest, god reason why. Because
Speaker 1: Tom in this email is correct, every animal, just like us,
Speaker 1: feels can suffer. All those chickens suffered immeasurable pain when
Speaker 1: we killed and ate them. Does that mean we should
Speaker 1: stop prop Probably? Probably, But I'm still gonna eat chickens
Speaker 1: because they're so because they're good, and I don't have
Speaker 1: to kill them. I think if I had to, if
Speaker 1: every time I wanted to eat chicken, I had to
Speaker 1: look at a baby, I had to look at a
Speaker 1: chicken and I had to stab it with a knife
Speaker 1: and I had to kill it, I don't think I
Speaker 1: would eat chicken anymore.
Speaker 2: But we there's.
Speaker 1: Like, there's people who kill who do that, who like
Speaker 1: I think they like it.
Speaker 2: They probably like it. They love killing chickens, And so.
Speaker 1: We let we have a beneficial relationship with the people
Speaker 1: who love killing chickens because we don't we because like
Speaker 1: we as in you know, people like me, people who
Speaker 1: like eating chicken but don't like killing them.
Speaker 2: Have a.
Speaker 1: We have a beneficial relationship because I like to eat chicken,
Speaker 1: but I don't like kill it. So I rely on
Speaker 1: someone out there who loves to kill to kill the
Speaker 1: chickens so they don't have to do it, but I
Speaker 1: can still eat them. And you know what, Tom, You're right,
Speaker 1: this is probably fucked up. It's probably fucked up. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, like, why is my life so much
Speaker 1: more important than a chicken's life? I don't have a
Speaker 1: good answer to that question. It makes me depressed too.
Speaker 1: I don't have a good answer to that question.
Speaker 2: The truth, the truth is.
Speaker 1: The answer is that it's not my life, and your
Speaker 1: life and the life of everyone listening to this podcast
Speaker 1: is not inherently, for some fucking reason, that much more
Speaker 1: important than the life of a chicken. It's a little
Speaker 1: narciss I think it's a little narcissistic to think that
Speaker 1: you're that much more important than a chicken.
Speaker 2: But we do.
Speaker 1: We just I think that's our brains are hardwired to
Speaker 1: believe that we as human beings are superior to chickens.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like, what, like human life is inherently value.
Speaker 1: We've kind of decided societally. What am I doing right now?
Speaker 2: What am I?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: This is? You know what?
Speaker 1: You know? I'm gonna kep you know what. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep going. Whoever is If you're listening to this in
Speaker 1: your car right now or while you're folding laundry and
Speaker 1: you're still with me, I really love you. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you for for giving me your time to go on
Speaker 1: this aimless rant that doesn't make any I'm gonna keep going. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what I was talking about it anymore,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna try to see if I can keep going.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this a three hour podcast about chickens.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not. I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, but anyway, the whole point, the look, the
Speaker 1: point is is that chicken lives don't matter, but also
Speaker 1: neither do humans, and so I'm just we should all
Speaker 1: kill and eat each other.
Speaker 2: Let's read another question. Let's read another email. All right,
Speaker 2: This is.
Speaker 1: From Aiden. Okay, this is from Aiden. Subject line is girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Aiden says, I really want a girlfriend, but I don't
Speaker 1: know how to talk to women. I also happen to
Speaker 1: have autism, so I tend to miss out on social cues?
Speaker 1: Is there any way I can get a girlfriend sent
Speaker 1: from my iPhone?
Speaker 2: There? You know? Aren't here's aren't there also.
Speaker 1: Women out there who who don't, who also similarly tend
Speaker 1: to miss out on social cues? Is there a way
Speaker 1: for you to find them? I think didn't they made?
Speaker 1: There's a whole TV show about this, like love on
Speaker 1: the Spectrum? Couldn't you theoretically find somebody who also is
Speaker 1: not great at social cues and you guys can be
Speaker 1: happy together on and.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know, aiden I don't. I feel
Speaker 2: like you only gave me three sentences to work with.
Speaker 1: But I think I even with these three sentences, I
Speaker 1: do I think you can find a girlfriend. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you can find a girlfriend. I don't know anything
Speaker 1: about your life, but you know, uh, brush your teeth,
Speaker 1: be employed, try your best to not be you know,
Speaker 1: to not say anything like completely utterly insane, and you
Speaker 1: can probably like missing out on a few social cues
Speaker 1: is not is not going to be the worst thing
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You only give me three sentences to work with, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume you're not like an evil insane person,
Speaker 1: and so as long as you're not, I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: even if you were an evil, insane person, you could
Speaker 1: probably also even if you if this email didn't, if
Speaker 1: this email said I really want a girlfriend, but I
Speaker 1: am an evil, insane person.
Speaker 2: Is there any way to get a girlfriend?
Speaker 1: I would also I would still say yes, because you
Speaker 1: could just find another evil insane person to date. And
Speaker 1: whatever kind of person you are, you can there's another
Speaker 1: there's an opposite gender version of you or same gender
Speaker 1: whatever you know you're looking for.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you can.
Speaker 1: I think you'll be okay, I think you can find
Speaker 1: a girlfriends. Yeah, I believe in you. Aiden Okay. This
Speaker 1: is from Wesley Anderson, subject line therapy. Gecko made me
Speaker 1: dress up in blackface?
Speaker 2: All right, I don't. I don't read.
Speaker 1: I just I don't read these emails before I read
Speaker 1: them live on the show.
Speaker 2: I probably should. I don't.
Speaker 1: I used to screen the phone calls. I don't really
Speaker 1: do that anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm this whole thing.
Speaker 1: If you're listening to this right now in your car
Speaker 1: and you're still here with me, I just God, bless you.
Speaker 2: I really love you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being here, and thanks for letting me continue
Speaker 1: to remain in your brain, in your ear. Let's see
Speaker 1: what this email says, Hey, GEK, Long story short, I
Speaker 1: dressed up as Therapy get Goo for Halloween. But the
Speaker 1: face pant I used was too dark and I couldn't
Speaker 1: make the color lighter and.
Speaker 2: So it looked like blackface.
Speaker 1: But I didn't make you do that, by the way, Okay,
Speaker 1: and he sent the picture. It looks fine. You look,
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like it doesn't look like that. It
Speaker 1: doesn't look like that. Let's keep going. You know what,
Speaker 1: I realized. I'm feeling a little bit more powerful because
Speaker 1: I realized that I can stop reading an email halfway through.
Speaker 1: If I'm like a couple of sentences into an email
Speaker 1: and I don't want to read the whole thing, I
Speaker 1: can just keep going.
Speaker 2: You ever realized there's no rules? Isn't that crazy? I
Speaker 2: don't know why in this.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this podcast for four years and I
Speaker 1: have this rigid way that I feel like I have
Speaker 1: to do it. And now I'm like, why don't I
Speaker 1: just I can do whatever I can. I'll be okay,
Speaker 1: all right. Uh. This is from Carson. Subject line life sucks.
Speaker 1: Carson says, why does life suck? It feels like I'm
Speaker 1: stuck in the same loop over and over again. I
Speaker 1: go out places and try to socialize. I just feel
Speaker 1: like an outcast anywhere I go. I just IDK. What's
Speaker 1: the point of socializing, and what's the point of life anymore?
Speaker 1: Deck shit seems pointless anymore when you're already down and
Speaker 1: keep getting screwed.
Speaker 2: I just isolate. It sucks.
Speaker 1: I just want to figure shit out, but I don't
Speaker 1: even know where to start. Fuck all right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about this. Let's talk about this, Carson, Let's talk about this.
Speaker 1: You feel like an outcast anywhere you go. I have
Speaker 1: I could go on a rant about this. I have
Speaker 1: like advice, I guess because I'm with you too, like
Speaker 1: any you go like, cause you kind of inherently are,
Speaker 1: and like no matter you know, whatever, whoever you are
Speaker 1: or whoever you think, I'm not talking to you specifically,
Speaker 1: I'm just talking to people whoever you are, or whoever
Speaker 1: you think you are, whatever you think you are, Like
Speaker 1: if you have this image in your brain of like,
Speaker 1: why would anyone want to talk to me? I kind
Speaker 1: of suck and I'm not that interesting in all these things.
Speaker 1: And you and you kind of walk around like that.
Speaker 1: It becomes like a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy.
Speaker 1: But you are inherently an outcast wherever you go, Like
Speaker 1: if you go to a bar and you try to
Speaker 1: start talking to people and you like talk to a
Speaker 1: group of friends, You're like, you are an outcast inherently,
Speaker 1: And so what's the antidote to that. The antidote, at
Speaker 1: least to me, this is I'm just speaking from my
Speaker 1: own life experience because it's all I have is you
Speaker 1: gotta kind of find a way to create your own
Speaker 1: cast to be in. We've never lived in a world
Speaker 1: where it was easier to do that. The tools are available, Carson,
Speaker 1: Now I'm speaking to Carson. For you to create your
Speaker 1: own thing, you gotta like some And I don't know
Speaker 1: what you like. I only know what you hate. I
Speaker 1: only know that you're depressed. But I don't know, dude,
Speaker 1: Maybe you fucking like legos and maybe you just start
Speaker 1: the Lego discord. You don't even have to go outside
Speaker 1: to do this now, because I was gonna say, you
Speaker 1: could go to the local community center and start start
Speaker 1: the Lego club and then have a bunch of lego friends.
Speaker 2: You don't even have to leave your fucking computer to
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: Now, you don't even have to leave your computer to
Speaker 1: go on go make friends, So why don't you. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you were into, Carson, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: assume you're into Legos, because I'm just the only way
Speaker 1: for me to, I think, talk about this is to
Speaker 1: assume things about you. So I'm gonna assume you love Legos,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna suggest that you start the Lego Lover's
Speaker 1: Discord and you go on the Lego subreddit and you're like, hey, everyone,
Speaker 1: I started a discord channel for people who love Legos,
Speaker 1: and some fucking some other guy who hates his life
Speaker 1: is gonna be like, Hey, I hate my life and
Speaker 1: I love Legos. And then all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be in a cloud. You're gonna start You're gonna
Speaker 1: be in the DMS with some fucking guy who hates
Speaker 1: his life and loves Legos, and then you're gonna be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not alone in hating my life
Speaker 1: and loving Legos. There's other people out here.
Speaker 2: Who hate life and love Legos.
Speaker 1: And all I had to do was start the Lego
Speaker 1: lovers Discord, and now here I am and I have
Speaker 1: a friend to enjoy the suckage of life with, because
Speaker 1: that's if you have, If you ever can find other
Speaker 1: people to commiserate with, that's the only hope when uh
Speaker 1: you have I think, when the world is ending around you,
Speaker 1: what am I talking about? Go start Go start a
Speaker 1: lego Discord Carson. That's I guess what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2: I believe in you. I really do. I really all that.
Speaker 1: I just just while I'm while I'm in this headspace,
Speaker 1: just I really feel like I can't. One of the
Speaker 1: one of my downfalls I think as a person is
Speaker 1: that I am optimistic for all people. I try to
Speaker 1: be because I can't because I want to. I so
Speaker 1: deeply want to be optimistic for my own personal life
Speaker 1: prosperity and my own personal like I want to be
Speaker 1: optimistic for myself. I want to believe that my life
Speaker 1: will continue to be good and that all of my
Speaker 1: that because I have problems as a human being, as
Speaker 1: all human beings do, and in order for me to
Speaker 1: believe that my life problems are gonna continue to are
Speaker 1: going to improve, I have to believe the same thing
Speaker 1: for literally every single other human being on the planet Earth,
Speaker 1: which I'm beginning to realize is unrealistic, right, Because if
Speaker 1: I can't be optimistic for Carson, how am I going
Speaker 1: to this is gonna be optimistic for myself. I think
Speaker 1: that's a bit of a faulty way of thinking, though,
Speaker 1: because you can't just assume you can't be optimistic for everything.
Speaker 1: You can't truly believe that everything is going to work
Speaker 1: out for every single person on the planet Earth. It's
Speaker 1: just not realistic. But you can, but you can. You
Speaker 1: can still do it. Yeah, fuck it, you can still
Speaker 1: do it even if it's not realistic. I'm optimistic for Carson.
Speaker 1: Let's keep going, all right. This is from Jonas. The
Speaker 1: subject line is met a beautiful girl. All right, Jonah says,
Speaker 1: Hey Geck, anonymous mailer, hero an anonymous mailer here, anonymous
Speaker 1: mailman here. I have a matter i'd like your opinion on.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm necessarily looking for advice, but just
Speaker 1: a different perspective. I go to art school and last
Speaker 1: fall I caught the most beautiful girl I've ever seen
Speaker 1: staring straight at me on.
Speaker 2: The first day of class. La la.
Speaker 1: I've only really felt this way with one person, ever,
Speaker 1: so I had to go say what's up. We slowly
Speaker 1: got to know each other and even started studying together
Speaker 1: at a coffee shop once a week. Oh that's cute.
Speaker 1: Then Halloween came around. I asked her where plans were
Speaker 1: because I obviously wanted to get drunk with this person
Speaker 1: on Halloween.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: We go to school in Savannah, Georgia, which is an
Speaker 1: extra spooky southern town.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: It was then revealed to me that she had a boyfriend,
Speaker 1: frownie fan. This fucked me up bad for a few weeks,
Speaker 1: on top of other life things. Honestly still kind of
Speaker 1: fucked up about it. Okay, he wrote a bunch of
Speaker 1: other things, but then he wrote, am I cooked?
Speaker 2: Geck? Uh yeah, a little bit? If you are you cooked?
Speaker 2: Hold on?
Speaker 1: That was I'm I'm going. I'm saying the first thing
Speaker 1: that comes into my brain instead, which is not always accurate.
Speaker 1: You know you're not cooked? Jonas, Go what what are
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 2: Jonas? Uh? Yeah, this person has a boyfriend. Go go
Speaker 2: go meet another lady.
Speaker 1: You're in college, You're surrounded You're in college, You're surrounded
Speaker 1: by tons of other people. Go talk to some of them.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: There's nothing that I don't have any I don't I
Speaker 1: could sit here and try to force myself to say
Speaker 1: more words about this email, but that's this email doesn't
Speaker 1: need more words than that. Let's go talk to someone, man,
Speaker 1: go talk to some other people. That's all I got.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is from Philip, subject line twitch stream copyrights.
Speaker 1: Philip says, Hey, Lyle, I hope you're doing well. I
Speaker 1: listened to your podcast a lot while I game. I
Speaker 1: also stream on Twitch, and I was wondering if I
Speaker 1: could play your podcasts on my stream while I'm live
Speaker 1: on Twitch. Sure, sure, go ahead, Yeah, go ahead, you
Speaker 1: can do that this, Yeah, go ahead. That's legally, by
Speaker 1: the way, that's legally binding. That's legally, that's legal permission.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Oh this is a long email, but I'm gonna try. Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh oh, okay, all right, all right, this is okay.
Speaker 1: Ok Does anyone remember last time, last time I did this,
Speaker 1: I called a guy and who was like obsessed with
Speaker 1: his ex and plotting to destroy his ex's new boyfriends.
Speaker 2: You guys, remember that guy I called you? Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: if you don't.
Speaker 1: Remember, I called someone on the phone who was plotting
Speaker 1: to destroy their ex's boyfriend, and I was a little
Speaker 1: concerned for him. And now he's back and he's he's
Speaker 1: he's he has an update. So let's read. This is
Speaker 1: a this is a huge paragraph.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna read.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read every other sentence of this paragraph.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Uh. This is from Oscar, subject line over my ex
Speaker 1: now and I can't talk to boring people.
Speaker 2: Lyle, Hello, it's Oscar. I remember you. Oscar.
Speaker 1: I wanted to give you the news that I'm over
Speaker 1: my ex and I deleted all the notes of my
Speaker 1: plan to destroy her new relationship. That's good. I'm feeling
Speaker 1: more confident, that's good. Okay, I'm gonna skim this email.
Speaker 1: I am feeling numb sometimes but trying to get everything
Speaker 1: out of my feelings and enjoying each moment more than ever.
Speaker 1: That's good. This is okay, it's just good. I feel
Speaker 1: good about this. Okay, I I all right, fuck, I'll
Speaker 1: just okay.
Speaker 2: I can't. I don't think I can skim read this.
Speaker 1: I am somewhat feeling numb sometimes still, but trying to
Speaker 1: get everything out of my feelings and enjoying each moment
Speaker 1: more than ever, and not being embarrassed of being me. Uh, okay,
Speaker 1: I this sorry, this is kind of a whole run
Speaker 1: on sentence.
Speaker 2: I can't really read this, but I hope.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, this is good. I'm sorry, I'm I'm noticed.
Speaker 1: I'm realizing now that the people listening to me read
Speaker 1: these emails or don't have the same amount of information
Speaker 1: that I do, because I'm looking at the email and
Speaker 1: I'm kind of filtering the information that I'm giving to
Speaker 1: the people listening to this because I have more.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? It was a good email. Let's
Speaker 2: move on.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is from Elena. Okay, this is from Elena.
Speaker 1: Subject line, the world is so full of hate? Why
Speaker 1: Elena says?
Speaker 2: What's good?
Speaker 1: Lyle My name is Elena. I'm twenty six, and I'm
Speaker 1: tired of existing in a world where so many people
Speaker 1: are ignorant to the way I live my life. While yes,
Speaker 1: some of the ways I present myself to the world
Speaker 1: may be considered unconventional, it doesn't hurt anyone, and it
Speaker 1: contributes to my overall happiness. Why can't people just see
Speaker 1: me as a person who wants to live a healthy,
Speaker 1: happy life. Well, Elena, listen, this all the email says
Speaker 1: I fucking well, look, Elena, I mean you have uh uh,
Speaker 1: you can't control the way that other people see you.
Speaker 1: You can't. You just can't. You really can't. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't make anything. You just instead, I think truthfully,
Speaker 1: if I were you, and I don't want to be
Speaker 1: a fuck I don't want to be a hippie guy,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna do it for just this moment. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go, this is a little moment of this podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna carve out to be a little hippie douchebag.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you, Alana that why don't you
Speaker 1: stop focusing or giving a fuck about the people who.
Speaker 2: Don't like the way you live your life? You can?
Speaker 2: You have the option to just.
Speaker 1: Ignore them and focus completely on people who are accepting
Speaker 1: of your way of life.
Speaker 2: Don't you have that option?
Speaker 1: And you know, if you want to be a pessimist
Speaker 1: and say that you don't and you have to and
Speaker 1: what you can, but you can you have the option
Speaker 1: to mitigate it at some point there is you, I just.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: The option exists to mitigate the amount of attention.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you like are at a job that you have
Speaker 1: to work, and there's people around that are annoying that
Speaker 1: you know you don't want to.
Speaker 2: Have to deal with. But you have the option to mitigate.
Speaker 1: In your own brain the amount of resource and attention
Speaker 1: and energy that you give to those people. And I'm
Speaker 1: just letting you know that you can mitigate that if
Speaker 1: you want to. Okay, what have you learned about Okay?
Speaker 1: This is from Aiden subject line what have you learned
Speaker 1: about humans over time on your show? What is the
Speaker 1: most interesting thing you've learned about humans? They smell bad?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: This is from Melanie subject line being in love with
Speaker 1: a fictional character helped me better myself as a person.
Speaker 2: Hey gek.
Speaker 1: As the subject line suggests, I've been in love with
Speaker 1: a fictional guy for over a year now and it
Speaker 1: shows no signs of stopping. I'll try not to go
Speaker 1: into his character too much, but essentially the guy I
Speaker 1: like is extremely nihilistic and due to the fact that
Speaker 1: he worked academically hard like society expected of him, but
Speaker 1: got screwed over and ended up in a place and
Speaker 1: job he hates. Because of that, he blames society for
Speaker 1: all his problems, yet doesn't take any action to better
Speaker 1: his life. Or make any deep connections. Basically, he's a
Speaker 1: total loser, but he ended up being extremely relatable to me.
Speaker 1: When I first played the game he was in. His
Speaker 1: character showed me that if I didn't try to get
Speaker 1: out there and actually do things, I'll end up as
Speaker 1: a person I wouldn't want to be and would likely
Speaker 1: blame outside circumstances for it. In essence, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to end up like him. Since then, my life has
Speaker 1: genuinely changed for the better. I'm more open about my interests,
Speaker 1: which led me to finding my best friend, reconnecting with
Speaker 1: old friends, and I even got a girlfriend. This character
Speaker 1: motivates me to get up and do the boring life,
Speaker 1: and I'm generally a more positive person now. I get
Speaker 1: so much joy out of seeing fan art of this
Speaker 1: character and drawing him, and those things help me get
Speaker 1: through life. There are times where I still feel like
Speaker 1: my life is miserable, but thinking about this character makes
Speaker 1: me recognize that I don't have to drown and sorrow,
Speaker 1: and I can make deal with what I have. If
Speaker 1: anyone is wondering who the character is, it's Toru A
Speaker 1: Daci from Persona four. I always find it extremely ironic
Speaker 1: that the fictional guy I love so much is objectively
Speaker 1: a bad person, but he's not real, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Melanie.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Interesting, you know, I'm gonna say, you know, look,
Speaker 1: I think having a character from a video game inspire
Speaker 1: you to be a better person. Good, dear God, good good.
Speaker 1: This is why they make stuff. This is why we
Speaker 1: this is why fiction exists.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have that.
Speaker 1: Right, like, like I think would like I've talked about
Speaker 1: this story on the show a lot, like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: deeply inspired by Woody from Toy Story. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: on this rant because I'm gonna I've gone on it before,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on it again. I'm deeply inspired by
Speaker 1: Woody from Toy Story because in Toy Story three, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, lots so hugging Bear. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys know the plot of Toy Story three, but basically,
Speaker 1: in Toy Story three, the toys are banished to the
Speaker 1: Sunshine Daycare Facility and it's ran by uh, lots so
Speaker 1: hugging Bear and I don't remember any I don't remember
Speaker 1: the movie at all, but basically, in it, lots of
Speaker 1: hugging Bear.
Speaker 2: He fucks over the toys.
Speaker 1: And he gets he basically arranges for them to be
Speaker 1: thrown in the trash, but somehow lots of Hugging Bear
Speaker 1: himself also gets thrown in the trash, right, And so
Speaker 1: lots of Hugging Bear and Woody and Buzz, light Year
Speaker 1: and all the other toys, they're all in the trash system.
Speaker 1: I think I've told this story at least four times.
Speaker 1: I think I tell I think I do at least
Speaker 1: one podcast episode a year where I recap my favorite
Speaker 1: scene of Toy Story three.
Speaker 2: So we're getting this one out of the way early.
Speaker 1: And so they're all in the trash room and they're
Speaker 1: about to be like incinerated, and Woody is like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: if we grab a metal object, we will magnetically float
Speaker 1: above the incinerator and we will escape death. And so
Speaker 1: Woody grabs a spoon, Buzz grabs a little metal ball,
Speaker 1: and everyone escapes from the incinerator.
Speaker 2: But then Woody looks down.
Speaker 1: And he sees the lotso Hugging Bear, who is the
Speaker 1: reason they are in this mess in the first place,
Speaker 1: is tracked underneath a big can or something right whatever,
Speaker 1: And so what does Woody do does Woody does what
Speaker 1: he look at lots of hugging Bear and he goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: serves you, right, you motherfucker you. Yeah, you does what
Speaker 1: he watched with glee as lots of hugging Bear burns
Speaker 1: to death as retribution for what he has done to
Speaker 1: Woody and his friends.
Speaker 2: No, that's not what wood he does.
Speaker 1: You know what he does what He climbs back down
Speaker 1: to the incinerator and he lifts the can of chocolate
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck it was, he lifts it off of
Speaker 1: lots of hugging bear and they both grab a spoon together,
Speaker 1: and he say he saves lots of hugging bear, even
Speaker 1: though lots of hugging bear is the reason they're fucking
Speaker 1: down there in the first place. And I thought I
Speaker 1: always thought that that was admirable of Woody. Later, lots
Speaker 1: of hugging Bear betrays Woody again, even after that, which
Speaker 1: is fucked up wood He probably should have let lots
Speaker 1: of hugging Bear die.
Speaker 2: But the point is that, you know, whatever you.
Speaker 1: Can get in life to make you not feel like
Speaker 1: a piece of shit, you take you take it. If
Speaker 1: it's you know, if it's drugs and alcohol, just take it.
Speaker 2: It's good. Those are things are good. For you.
Speaker 1: No, if it's a character from a video game, just
Speaker 1: take it whatever you can get to make yourself feel
Speaker 1: not miserable and insane in what is by default a
Speaker 1: slightly insane experience, the experience of being alive. If Toro
Speaker 1: Adaci makes you feel like a better person than then
Speaker 1: run with it to the fucking bank.
Speaker 2: Dude. That's what I think.
Speaker 1: Someone in the chats at how is this going to
Speaker 1: relate to this girl masturbating to Toro. I don't think
Speaker 1: she talked about masturbating. All right, Uh, this is I'm
Speaker 1: not going to reread the email to see if she did, though.
Speaker 1: This is from Kelsey. A subject line is office Baby.
Speaker 1: Hey GEK, you can call me a Rose. All right, well,
Speaker 1: I already called you the other name. I wanted to
Speaker 1: call in and tell you how grateful I am for
Speaker 1: your podcast.
Speaker 2: Thank you Kelsey.
Speaker 1: It has been or I guess Rose, Thank you Rose.
Speaker 1: It has been motivating to hear about people living their
Speaker 1: best life while working a typical jobs like running an
Speaker 1: ice cream truck or handing out free monster beverages. I
Speaker 1: also loved those two episodes. I loved those two callers.
Speaker 1: They were sick. It gives me hope that there are
Speaker 1: endless ways to live a happy life. That fucking gives
Speaker 1: me hope too. That being said, I am struggling postgraduation
Speaker 1: to find a career that sustains and satisfies me. I've
Speaker 1: been working real hard to pursue a job in furniture design,
Speaker 1: and I am almost there. A trial run at a
Speaker 1: furnish and design firm is nearly complete, but I'm worried
Speaker 1: about what to do next if they don't accept me,
Speaker 1: or even worse, if I get the job but don't
Speaker 1: end up happy. I have two questions for you, okay.
Speaker 1: Number one, I am the youngest person at this four
Speaker 1: person firm by decades, and I could easily be my
Speaker 1: coworker's child at the age of twenty two. How can
Speaker 1: I connect better with the older generation? Why would I
Speaker 1: know that too? If I don't get the job, I
Speaker 1: will be devastated. However, I hope it will also give
Speaker 1: me the final push I need to move out of
Speaker 1: my home state of Michigan. As a person who has
Speaker 1: traveled all around the US, where would you recommend an outdoorsy, artistic,
Speaker 1: snow loving person like me to live?
Speaker 2: I'll answer question number two.
Speaker 1: I've never been here, but I've heard that Asheville, North
Speaker 1: Carolina is pretty cool. Asheville, North Carolina, I've heard is
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Portland, Maine. Fucking Baltimore, Maryland. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: go you sound like a like a hippie ish artsy
Speaker 1: granola lady, you might. And I've heard that Ashville, North
Speaker 1: Carolina is like that's that's where, That's where all those
Speaker 1: kinds of people migrates.
Speaker 2: Is from what I've heard.
Speaker 1: So if you if you want to take a if
Speaker 1: you want to take a recommendation of of uh where
Speaker 1: to move your entire life from uh, from a podcast
Speaker 1: from a guy you've never met who's never been to
Speaker 1: the place he's telling you to go, then you should
Speaker 1: go to Asheville, North Carolina. How do you connect better
Speaker 1: with the older generation? Talk to them about Sudoku?
Speaker 2: All right, this is.
Speaker 1: From UH Terry. The subject line is Chubb Rubb hey gak.
Speaker 1: I was listening to your episode on The Guy with
Speaker 1: Drones where you talked about not having a and walking
Speaker 1: around to New York City.
Speaker 2: You then went on to rant about your quote.
Speaker 1: Big fat thick dowe piggy thighs that chafe when you
Speaker 1: walk This hurt to hear that you think about yourself
Speaker 1: like this. But I get your pain. This is not
Speaker 1: how I think about myself. This is the reality of
Speaker 1: my body. It is okay, it's fine, it's dude, it's
Speaker 1: the reality of my body. Is that my thighs are
Speaker 1: It's not a self image thing.
Speaker 2: It's this. This is reality.
Speaker 1: My thighs are dowe and the chafe when I walk.
Speaker 1: It is a problem that I is a thing I
Speaker 1: don't like about my body that I am act that
Speaker 1: I am happily actively working on fixing.
Speaker 2: Oh crap, I fucked up the microphone.
Speaker 1: It is a thing about my body that I have
Speaker 1: accepted as a reality, and I'm actively working towards fixing anyway.
Speaker 1: As a lady from the plus sized community. Also, with
Speaker 1: thick thighs, what you're experiencing is called chub rub. We
Speaker 1: all get them, especially during summer. But there are solutions.
Speaker 1: Most of us wear little shorts. You can also put
Speaker 1: deodorant on your thighs or vasilene on you I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna try to lose the weight. That's that's by the way,
Speaker 1: just so everyone knows, I'm not I have no interest
Speaker 1: in ever telling anyone else what to do with their lives.
Speaker 1: But for me, I think, well, I'm just gonna lose
Speaker 1: the weight. That's my that's what I want to do.
Speaker 1: So that's my plan.
Speaker 2: We'll see how it.
Speaker 1: I'll let you know in a year if it actually worked.
Speaker 1: And thank you by the way, Terry. Just so you know,
Speaker 1: I want you to I really appreciate you. You are
Speaker 1: clearly a very sweet, kind person who is attempting to
Speaker 1: be helpful to me right now. And I'm being a
Speaker 1: jerk and dismissing your help. But I want you to
Speaker 1: know I recognize the thought behind this email, and I
Speaker 1: use it's very sweet and very kind. So I I
Speaker 1: appreciate you, Terry. And what this email says something else.
Speaker 1: Love your podcast. Hope you do a live show in
Speaker 1: Switzerland sometime, are you for? Do you live in Switzerland?
Speaker 2: That sounds pretty cool? Thank you, Terry. You're sweet. You're
Speaker 2: sweet person. God bless you. All Right.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is from Brodie. Subject line should I keep
Speaker 1: doing drugs?
Speaker 2: People? This has become a recent I very very recently.
Speaker 1: People have been because I talk a lot about smoking
Speaker 1: weed almost every day, and people recently have been calling
Speaker 1: me and they've been like Hey, man, I also smoke
Speaker 1: weed every do you think I should stop? And my
Speaker 1: answer to that question is the same my answer to
Speaker 1: that my answer to the question of whether or not.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna call.
Speaker 1: The show and you're gonna ask me if you think
Speaker 1: you should stop smoking weed every day, my answer to
Speaker 1: you will be the same as the answer I give
Speaker 1: myself when I ask myself should I stop smoking weed
Speaker 1: every day?
Speaker 2: And the answer is probably, Hello, gecko.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to think of something to write about,
Speaker 1: but it feels like my brain is turning to mush
Speaker 1: as I think about what to write. Anyways, I met
Speaker 1: someone that has completely changed my life. I used to
Speaker 1: smoke weed every day and sometimes do shrooms, but ever
Speaker 1: since I met this person, they have been telling me
Speaker 1: to stop smoking and quit drugs. In all, it's been
Speaker 1: two months since I laugh smoked, and I feel it's
Speaker 1: been two months since I last smoked, and it feels
Speaker 1: like my life is worse.
Speaker 2: See, there we go.
Speaker 1: This is why I try not to tell people what
Speaker 1: to do with their lives, because maybe this particular person
Speaker 1: is reporting that's smoking weed every day made their life better.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it did. Actually, I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 1: I'm a crazy person. I think I was happier when
Speaker 1: I did drugs. Well, yeah, of course, even though it
Speaker 1: felt like I was going crazy from time to time,
Speaker 1: it kind of felt like my life had more purpose,
Speaker 1: which I know sounds dumb, but that is the way
Speaker 1: I feel. What do you think I should do? Should
Speaker 1: I keep smoking like a boss? Should I keep smoking
Speaker 1: like a boss or just give up on it for
Speaker 1: the sake of my mental health? Oh man, oh god,
Speaker 1: this is too much personal, This is too much responsibility
Speaker 1: to read these emails. Let's see. Let's see, should this
Speaker 1: person stop smoking weed? The answer is probably. Every single
Speaker 1: time I asked. The answer to myself, the answer to you,
Speaker 1: the answer to anyone else who's wondering if they should
Speaker 1: stop smoking weed, The answer is pro probably, probably, probably, probably,
Speaker 1: yeah probably, I don't know. I don't The answer is
Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, probably, I don't know. Do
Speaker 1: you think, yeah, probably.
Speaker 2: You should probably stop doing drugs? Okay?
Speaker 1: This is from Matthew. Subject line I want to do
Speaker 1: a backflip. Hey, gak, you can call me Maddie.
Speaker 2: What's up, Maddie.
Speaker 1: I decided a few days ago, I want to do
Speaker 1: a backflip off a ski jump. But then a couple
Speaker 1: of days after that, it turns out I'm not going
Speaker 1: skiing this year like I thought.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 1: I decided this after seeing a bunch of skiing stuff
Speaker 1: on Instagram, including a few cool crashes.
Speaker 2: Dude, what hold on? What?
Speaker 1: You saw a bunch of people? You saw a bunch
Speaker 1: of ski crashes, and then you were like, I want
Speaker 1: to also get horrifically injured. Why. I realized then that
Speaker 1: having a bad skiing accident would be the coolest fucking thing,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be mad at myself if my life
Speaker 1: went to shit because it looks cool. Okay, you're a
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I really.
Speaker 1: You look people people know. I think the people who
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast know. Hopefully they assume about me.
Speaker 1: I try, I really really, it's really important to me.
Speaker 1: I think that the universe, I really think. I mean
Speaker 1: this so much. The Internet is filled with like podcasts
Speaker 1: and YouTube videos of people, you know, being like, Hey,
Speaker 1: this person's a fucking idiot and like fuck you and whatever.
Speaker 1: And I try to be non judgment I try to
Speaker 1: be non judgmental, and I try to be open minded.
Speaker 1: But Maddie, you're one of the biggest fucking idiots I've
Speaker 1: ever encountered in my entire life.
Speaker 2: You're a complete idiot, and no what I think you're
Speaker 2: Are you trolling? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: You want to have a bad skiing accident because it
Speaker 1: would be cool, Matthew, I'm telling you this because I
Speaker 1: value your life as a human being that I think
Speaker 1: you are one of the dumbest people I have ever
Speaker 1: encountered in my entire life. Okay, hold on, okay, you
Speaker 1: said I will Okay, I'm gonna reread this. Having a
Speaker 1: bad skiing accident would be the coolest fucking thing, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be mad at myself if my life went
Speaker 1: to shit because of.
Speaker 2: It, because it looks cool.
Speaker 1: By comparison, you could break your pelvis from falling down
Speaker 1: the stairs and this or break your pelvis by falling
Speaker 1: fifty feet out of the air on a jump. This
Speaker 1: is why I want to do a backflip, because I
Speaker 1: like risky shit. Thanks, Lyle, have a great day. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think you're an idiot. But here's the thing, matt
Speaker 1: Mattie is I think you're an idiot, but I also
Speaker 1: fundamental I think in like a libertarian sense, I think
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of my life beliefs.
Speaker 1: Are works in progress, and that's why I hate recording
Speaker 1: them and putting them on the internet forever.
Speaker 2: But I think, in this.
Speaker 1: Very moment, on February tenth, twenty twenty five, as I'm
Speaker 1: recording this email, I kind of almost feel like I
Speaker 1: support your right to be a fucking complete idiot and
Speaker 1: do a backflip and destroy and essentially you're essentially you
Speaker 1: want to kill yourself by doing a backflip off of
Speaker 1: a ski jump. But not in like I'm depressed and
Speaker 1: I want to kill myself kind of way, but more
Speaker 1: in like I think it would be cool. I think
Speaker 1: it would look cool to kill myself. I don't think
Speaker 1: you should do it.
Speaker 2: I really don't.
Speaker 1: If you ask me my opinion right now, I don't
Speaker 1: think you should do it. I really don't, Matthew. But
Speaker 1: I think you're beyond my reasoning. I hope you don't.
Speaker 1: That's the best I can do for this email, Matthew,
Speaker 1: is I hope you don't attempt to kill yourself by
Speaker 1: doing a backflip on a ski thing. All right, let's
Speaker 1: keep going here. Chat am I insane? I feel like
Speaker 1: I've been I feel like I've been being a crazy
Speaker 1: person for this entire podcast. I need you all to
Speaker 1: tell me if I'm acting like a crazy person. All right,
Speaker 1: let's keep going. All right, this is from John. All right,
Speaker 1: this this person is annoying, and we're not gonna bleep
Speaker 1: out his name. We're gonna put in his real name.
Speaker 1: This okay, This person's okay, all right, you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna dox this person against I'm gonna dox this person.
Speaker 1: This person said, this person's real name is Johnny, but
Speaker 1: they said, please don't use my real name, call me John.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you Johnny. I'm gonna dox you. You're
Speaker 1: getting doxed. This person's name is Johnny, and they're like,
Speaker 1: please don't use my real name, call me John. All right,
Speaker 1: you're getting docs Johnny. All right, Hello, mister gecko man,
Speaker 1: Please don't use my real name, call me John. My
Speaker 1: name is John and I am from the UK. My
Speaker 1: partner and I are big fans of your stream. Recent
Speaker 1: saw you in London at the Clapham Gram and the
Speaker 1: show was fucking awesome.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That was one of my favorite live shows that I
Speaker 1: have done. That show is fun. I am a big
Speaker 1: fan of your viewer mail streams and really wanted to
Speaker 1: write in to ask the wise Green Man for some advice.
Speaker 2: So here goes.
Speaker 1: I feel like I work lots at my job and
Speaker 1: never make time for what I actually liked doing. I
Speaker 1: used to play music all the time, playing in bands
Speaker 1: and recording my own tunes. It was always something that
Speaker 1: put me in the flow state. I left the band
Speaker 1: about three years ago now to do my own thing.
Speaker 1: The band was a bit of an ego fest and
Speaker 1: I didn't like the vibes and I always wanted to
Speaker 1: front my own band, So I left and had a
Speaker 1: bit of a wobble at the same time having some
Speaker 1: therapy but not getting much out of it. I haven't
Speaker 1: done much at all since anyway. Fast forward to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, and the older I have got, the more
Speaker 1: I've realized I needed to just do what makes me happy,
Speaker 1: which is playing my guitar and writing songs about whatever
Speaker 1: comes to mind at the time.
Speaker 2: GHEK.
Speaker 1: The question is how do I make more time for this? Okay,
Speaker 1: this email, Okay, here's the thing, john Johnny, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: look Johnny John, Okay, John, John, Johnny, listen, you have
Speaker 1: the time to write this email, right like, here's what
Speaker 1: you Here's what you, dude, I mean, just like, stun on.
Speaker 1: I don't I'm I'm such a hypocrite. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go into major, major hypocrite mode. I'm truly only
Speaker 1: beginning to realize, after a decade plus of being addicted
Speaker 1: to the fucking Internet, how much time I'm giving to it?
Speaker 1: Right Because John, I'm gonna assume you had you had
Speaker 1: at least enough time to write this email. You have
Speaker 1: time to make music. Just never go on Reddit, Never
Speaker 1: go on Twitter. Never look at Instagram, never look at Facebook.
Speaker 1: Get off your phone. You have, you know, sleep fucking
Speaker 1: eight hours that you have time. I'm I assure you
Speaker 1: that you have time. Do you have kids?
Speaker 2: Like you have a job, and then what like.
Speaker 1: I just just just cut out, cut out the bullshit,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. It's just such a hypocrite
Speaker 1: thing to say, because I love bullshit so much. I
Speaker 1: love doing bullshit. I love looking at Reddit. I don't
Speaker 1: I hate somebody in the chat sad ignore your kids
Speaker 1: and skip work. You could do that too, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, man. I just feel like the fact you
Speaker 1: had time to write this email means you have time
Speaker 1: to make some music, you know, just make the time.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Thank you John that John.
Speaker 2: Thank you're a nice person. John.
Speaker 1: I can tell you're a sweet man. But just just
Speaker 1: get off of the internet.
Speaker 2: Just go just block all all of the you have.
Speaker 1: If you have time to write this email, you have
Speaker 1: time to make music, all right, all right? This is
Speaker 1: from finn uh subject line I want to do cool stuff.
Speaker 1: Dearest Gecko. You can read my name if you want to.
Speaker 1: I don't really mind. I d k if you remember me,
Speaker 1: but I'm the guy you met at your double show
Speaker 1: who gave you the dairy milk chocolate bar. Oh shit, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was really good. I don't really have
Speaker 1: any stories to tell you or nothing, but I want
Speaker 1: to say the advice you gave on one of your
Speaker 1: gech Male episodes change my perspective on a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Oh shit's yeah, what was it? I think it was
Speaker 1: about some guy who wanted to live in the wild
Speaker 1: for a TV show, and you said to just do
Speaker 1: things for yourself and don't ask others for permission to
Speaker 1: live your dreams.
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 1: I remember that your advice put the wind of my
Speaker 1: sales to go and do things for myself rather for
Speaker 1: other people. I'm really enjoying the process of making music
Speaker 1: and drawing, and I'm excited for the future. See this
Speaker 1: might be more like Finn, dude, be more like Finn.
Speaker 1: Finn's making music, he's drawing, he's living life. He's just
Speaker 1: doing it. Finn at Finn, you know. And they're both
Speaker 1: And you guys are both in the UK, Finn and John. Oh.
Speaker 1: I wish finnin Joel. Maybe Finn and John should start
Speaker 1: a band together.
Speaker 2: That could be cool. Thank you, Finn. Finn's a good guy.
Speaker 2: I like I. I appreciate my UK homies out here.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: This is from Evan subject line Lufa, what up?
Speaker 2: Lyle?
Speaker 1: Love your vides, but could never get on the show
Speaker 1: to tell you this. I'm gonna scold you now, so apologies.
Speaker 1: I have a random memory from an episode where a
Speaker 1: girl said her roommate threw her loofah on the floor
Speaker 1: and you were like, oh, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1: I just use my hands to put soap on my body.
Speaker 1: And here's what I have to say about that. You
Speaker 1: gotta lather bro It's most efficient to use a loofah
Speaker 1: or sponge to lather up soap until it gets all
Speaker 1: sudsy first. You could possibly be saving thousands of dollars
Speaker 1: on soap. Okay, I'm I'm not dude, Evan, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be saving thousands of I do not spend thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars on soap a day. I mean not a
Speaker 1: day a year. I spend less than one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: on soap a year for sure. Anyway, I'm just messing
Speaker 1: with you. Man. People talk about you saying you don't
Speaker 1: brush your teeth before bed sometimes, but I do that too,
Speaker 1: so I empathize with you in many ways.
Speaker 2: Have a good one, gexter.
Speaker 1: I brush my teeth before bed at least sixty five
Speaker 1: percent of the time.
Speaker 2: Pretty good ratio. People. I think brushing brushing your teeth,
Speaker 2: by the way, is.
Speaker 1: Rather new phenomenon in human history. I think, hold on,
Speaker 1: when did I'm gonna google this? When did people start
Speaker 1: brushing their teeth?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: If you fucking go on Google and you just type
Speaker 1: in when did people start? It will auto fill When
Speaker 1: did people start brushing their teeth? People began cleaning their
Speaker 1: teeth with twigs as early as five thousand BC. All Right, fuck,
Speaker 1: all right, I can't use this as the excuse anymore.
Speaker 1: M all right, let's keep going. All right, Let's answer
Speaker 1: a couple more. Let's answer a couple more of these. Alright,
Speaker 1: This is from Julia. Subject line GHEK, I am so
Speaker 1: fucked Hi, Lyle, thank you for a great show in
Speaker 1: Toronto last year. It was so fun. You're the best
Speaker 1: kick ass. Thank you Julia that those were fun shows. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I have kind of a I have kind of fucked
Speaker 1: up my life. Not in a way that can't be fixed.
Speaker 1: I haven't killed anyone or had a child or something
Speaker 1: to that degree. But I'm stuck in an industry I hate,
Speaker 1: with no way out and barely any money, struggling to
Speaker 1: find a path toward my dream career because I have
Speaker 1: no experience, I have no social life, and I've never
Speaker 1: had a relationship. In my late twenty I am at
Speaker 1: square one. I feel like I have nothing at a
Speaker 1: time when other people my age have families and fulfilling careers.
Speaker 1: What would you do if you were me? It kind
Speaker 1: of feels like I can do anything. Since I'm starting
Speaker 1: with nothing, But I don't know where to begin. So
Speaker 1: maybe someone else's perspective will help, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Julia, it's here.
Speaker 1: Look, it's hard for me to really answer this question
Speaker 1: because I don't. You said you're struggling to find a
Speaker 1: path towards your dream career. But I don't know what
Speaker 1: your dream career is.
Speaker 2: But like I mean, you have, I don't. I you
Speaker 2: know what? You know what?
Speaker 1: Sure, I'll go on a conventional emotion emotional I'll go
Speaker 1: on a conventional motivational rant and say that late twenties
Speaker 1: is pretty young. I am also late twenties, and I
Speaker 1: feel pretty young. I feel pretty not fucked, and I
Speaker 1: feel like you were also pretty not fucked. You didn't
Speaker 1: kill anyone or anything like that, so why are you?
Speaker 1: I just don't know why you're fucked. I just I think,
Speaker 1: Oh God, I hate I hate saying Just everyone, everyone
Speaker 1: listening to this podcast, just please know I hate saying
Speaker 1: this and I want to die when it escapes my
Speaker 1: mouth because I don't. I don't want to be a
Speaker 1: guru and I don't and I just know that life
Speaker 1: is hard and fucks you in the ass repeated, I
Speaker 1: just know, So it feels disgusting to say this, but
Speaker 1: I just this little thing in my gut just believes
Speaker 1: it for myself, and so I believe it for for
Speaker 1: Julia or right now and just I. But I just
Speaker 1: fucked a little bit, and yell at me about the economy,
Speaker 1: yell at me, But.
Speaker 2: I believe a little bit. Sue me.
Speaker 1: That perspective is very important and that if you think
Speaker 1: you're fucked, you are fucked. Right, So the first step
Speaker 1: is believing that you are not fucked and that you
Speaker 1: were optimistic. It is the one indicator. It is the
Speaker 1: one because there are people who just think about Julia.
Speaker 2: Think about it.
Speaker 1: There's somebody out there who did have a child and
Speaker 1: did kill someone. Maybe there's people out there who had
Speaker 1: a child and then they killed twelve people and they're
Speaker 1: in their brain like, oh, I'm gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: You know. So it's moy I think, I really, genuinely do, in.
Speaker 1: My soul believe that a lot of this shit is
Speaker 1: about your perspective. And if you think you're fucked, then
Speaker 1: you're fucked. And if you think you're not fucked, then
Speaker 1: you've got a chance. So what would I do if
Speaker 1: I were you? I would stop thinking that I'm fucked,
Speaker 1: and I would start thinking that you have time to
Speaker 1: do things with your life. You're probably gonna live another
Speaker 1: fifty years. You know. If you had terminal cancer and
Speaker 1: you were eighty three, then yeah, you're probably done. But
Speaker 1: you're not.
Speaker 2: So why are you saying why you fucked? All right?
Speaker 2: M let's see.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna do one more and then I'm
Speaker 1: then I think. Then I think we're good. Why do
Speaker 1: people hate when someone says it's about perspective because I
Speaker 1: think every I think perspective is I don't know. I ah, fuck,
Speaker 1: I don't. Let's read this email. Okay, this is from John,
Speaker 1: not Johnny John. Subject line GEK travels Lyle. I hope
Speaker 1: this message receives you well. I like the new GAK
Speaker 1: mail platform. Thank you, John. I'm currently listening to your
Speaker 1: new gek mail and it sounds like you're starting to
Speaker 1: do travel streaming. I'm looking forward to hearing about and
Speaker 1: seeing your new adventures. Yes, I will be streaming live
Speaker 1: on twitch dot tv slash forever walking through rural Japan.
Speaker 1: I just moved to Arizona about a year ago, and
Speaker 1: a camp seless travel a lot around the state. If
Speaker 1: you're getting into streaming adventure stuff and you're in Arizona.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of cool spots and places to suggest.
Speaker 1: I've been listening for a few years now, and I
Speaker 1: like the way your platform has evolved. Good luck to
Speaker 1: you and continued success.
Speaker 2: Thank you. John. You're sweet band. John, good guy.
Speaker 1: You're a good guy, John, John's a good guy.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, this is the final email. All right.
Speaker 1: This is from IG subject line High Lisle, and it
Speaker 1: just says, can you do a gecko impression?
Speaker 2: I think do geckos make a sound? I think they
Speaker 2: go like this.
Speaker 1: Ah, all right, all right, this is well, that was it.
Speaker 1: This was a podcast, you know what, you know what, listen, listen.
Speaker 1: I think this was a little bit of an unhinged
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I'm being too self critical or whatever,
Speaker 1: but okay, look, I've released at least three hundred something
Speaker 1: of these podcasts. This is just one and we tried it,
Speaker 1: and I think this was I you know what, I
Speaker 1: had fun. I had fun reading these emails talking to
Speaker 1: people living life.
Speaker 2: I drank too much coffee today. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: There's an optimal amount of coffee to drink, and I
Speaker 1: went a little over that and I'm suffering for it.
Speaker 1: Not suffering, but I my yeah, we're gonna we drank
Speaker 1: a little too much coffee today. There's worse things to do,
Speaker 1: like uh like do You could do Heroin and die,
Speaker 1: But even that is not that bad because human life,
Speaker 1: as we've established, is worth a objectively as much as
Speaker 1: a human as a chicken. Yeah, I mean an ant
Speaker 1: and a human are basically the same size if you
Speaker 1: zoom out long enough. So use that as a reason
Speaker 1: either to never kill ants or to kill a lot
Speaker 1: of them. Okay, go do Twitch dot tv, slash lyle forever.
Speaker 1: At some point next week, I'll be live streaming myself
Speaker 1: walking with sense Martian through rural Japan. This is I
Speaker 1: don't have any details on this yet, or actually I do,
Speaker 1: but I'm kind of keeping a secret. But if you
Speaker 1: live in New York City in mid March, I am
Speaker 1: putting on an art gallery. That's all I have to
Speaker 1: say about it for right now. But if you live
Speaker 1: in New York City, I will be putting on an
Speaker 1: art gallery in Brooklyn, New York in mid March. I
Speaker 1: think next week I'll have more details about it, but
Speaker 1: I I it's the thing I am the most excited
Speaker 1: about in my life right now, so I'm very looking
Speaker 1: forward to giving you guys more details about it. But anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, that was Gakmail. I felt a little weird
Speaker 1: about it, but hopefully you enjoyed it, and if you're
Speaker 1: it's if you're still listening right now, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you. Be well and see you around the universe. Okay, bye.
Speaker 1: Every week, it goes on the line taking your phone
Speaker 1: calls every night every week and goes to just teaching
Speaker 1: you your line.
Speaker 2: An expert