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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it's Lyle. I'm dropping in to let you

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Speaker 1: guys know that I'm going on a gigantic tour across

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Speaker 1: like forty five cities around the US, Europe, the UK, Canada,

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Speaker 1: and Australia to do my Therapy Gecko Show Live and

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Speaker 1: tickets are on sale right now at therapy geckotour dot com.

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Speaker 1: A lot of you might be wondering what exactly is

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Speaker 1: this live show. I don't do stand up comedy anymore.

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Speaker 1: I don't play music. I don't recite lizard poetry, although

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Speaker 1: that would be an interesting idea. Basically, how these shows

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Speaker 1: work is it's me bringing folks from the audience up

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Speaker 1: on stage and talking to them, just like I do

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Speaker 1: on this podcast. So before the show starts, there's a

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Speaker 1: phone number up on a screen, and people who want

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Speaker 1: to come on stage and talk text the phone number

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Speaker 1: with their name and what they want to talk about. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: I'm backstage reading the texts and kind of screening out

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Speaker 1: who might be interesting to talk to. And we bring

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Speaker 1: those folks up and we talked to them for about

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Speaker 1: an hour or so, and that's the show. So every

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Speaker 1: show in every city will be completely different and for

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Speaker 1: each one. I have no idea what I'm getting into,

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Speaker 1: I have no idea what people are gonna want to

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Speaker 1: come up and talk about. And it's been kind of

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Speaker 1: terrifying but also the most fun part of the whole experience.

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Speaker 1: Last year I did about fifteen of these shows around

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Speaker 1: the country, and they were all incredibly fun and surprising,

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Speaker 1: and the crowds were great and supportive, and the energy

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Speaker 1: was immaculate. And you know, this format of doing my

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Speaker 1: fucking gecko therapy thing live in front of an audience,

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Speaker 1: it became my favorite way to do it. You know,

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Speaker 1: I was having more fun doing this than even with

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Speaker 1: the phone calls or the street stuff. You know, crazy

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Speaker 1: things would happen. Man, a girl brought a cake and

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Speaker 1: sat on it in front of everyone. I made these

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Speaker 1: two twin brothers arm wrestle each other. I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: this story, which I might have told on here before,

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Speaker 1: but at the show in Philly, this guy came on

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Speaker 1: stage and told a story about how he came out

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Speaker 1: as gay to his girlfriend of six years, and it

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Speaker 1: was a fascinating story. He really kind of built up

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Speaker 1: the emotion of it. He was talking about how they

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Speaker 1: were gonna buy a house and have kids and all

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Speaker 1: that stuff, and he knew he had to tell her,

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Speaker 1: but he couldn't do it. And then he took acid

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Speaker 1: and that made him realize that he had to, and

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Speaker 1: so he did. And then things were rough at the beginning,

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Speaker 1: but they stayed friends afterwards and all worked out. And

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Speaker 1: now he goes to these orgy parties in the woods

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Speaker 1: and has a great time. And he told that story.

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Speaker 1: And then I do these meet and greets after the show,

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Speaker 1: and the guy who came up on stage came and

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Speaker 1: met me during the meet and greet and he told

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Speaker 1: me that. After he got off stage and the show ended,

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Speaker 1: another guy came up to him and was like kind

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Speaker 1: of crying and was like, dude, that story that you

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Speaker 1: told up there, that same thing happened to me, and

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Speaker 1: it was kind of like a bonding moment. And I

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Speaker 1: was like, oh, my holy shit, that's amazing. And I

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Speaker 1: don't even I don't even have anything to do with that.

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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of facilitating this whole thing. But anyway, amazing, crazy, wild,

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Speaker 1: weird things like that have happened at all of these

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Speaker 1: shows so far. And if you're a fan of the

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Speaker 1: podcast and you're near by a city, that I'm doing

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Speaker 1: one of these things in you should come. I am

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Speaker 1: ready and excited and kind of terrified for the challenge

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Speaker 1: of doing forty five of these this year, and I

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Speaker 1: would love to have you on the journey. Tickets are

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Speaker 1: available now at therapy geckotour dot com, along with a

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Speaker 1: full list of all of the cities I'm going to,

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Speaker 1: which include Phoenix, Vegas, Salt Lake City, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Columbus, Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, San Diego, Nashville, Atlanta, Tampa, West

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Speaker 1: Palm Beach, Denver, Colorado, Oslo, Norway, Copenhagen, Denmark, Berlin, Germany, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Sweden, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Speaker 1: Who listens to this shit? In Portugal, Dublin, Ireland, Belfast, Glasgow, Scotland, Manchester, Brighton, London, Vancouver, Canada, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington,

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, Honolulu, Hawaii, Toronto, Canada, Charlotte, North Carolina, Greenville,

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Speaker 1: South Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, my hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, Philadelphia, Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: New York, and Los Angeles, California. Unfortunately, we do not

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Speaker 1: yet we have tickets available for any Australian dates, but

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Speaker 1: we will soon. Please stick around for that once again.

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Speaker 1: If you want to get tickets to any of those dates,

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Speaker 1: you can go to therapy geckotour dot com and get

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Speaker 1: them now before they sell out. Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for listening to this rant. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: listening to this podcast. This is a fucking crazy thing

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Speaker 1: that I'm doing, and it's been an honor to be

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Speaker 1: able to do it, and I truly do hope to

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Speaker 1: see your face soon. Catch you there,