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Speaker 1: Hello, what's up? How's it going? How is life? Uh?

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Speaker 1: This is gek Mail. This is a segment of my

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Speaker 1: show that I do where I read viewer mail and

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Speaker 1: talk about it. You know, people send me words, they

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Speaker 1: send stuff to therapy Gecko mail at gmail dot com,

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Speaker 1: and I respond to it. In the last gek Mail,

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Speaker 1: I took phone calls while I was doing emails, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that today. And the reason is

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Speaker 1: that I don't feel like it. This is I'm this.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this podcast in particular, This episode in

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Speaker 1: particular is gonna be a selfish endeavor, and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be the only voice that you will hear for

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Speaker 1: the duration of the episode. Maybe next episode I'll bring

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Speaker 1: calls back. I don't no, it depends on my mood.

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Speaker 1: And today I'm actually in a chill mood. Today. I'm

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Speaker 1: in Tokyo. Right now, I'm in Tokyo. I'm just hanging

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Speaker 1: out here and it's pretty sweet. It's pretty great. I

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Speaker 1: am in a hotel room wearing a Gecko costume, speaking

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Speaker 1: I was on the phone yesterday with my mom for

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Speaker 1: like forty five minutes. It is great. You should call

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Speaker 1: your mom. If you're lucky enough that your mom is

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Speaker 1: around and you guys have a good relationship, you should

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Speaker 1: call your mom. I called my mom and I found

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Speaker 1: out apparently my grandfather. I was talking to my mom

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Speaker 1: about like Japan, and my mom randomly was I didn't

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Speaker 1: my mom was like, Oh, your grandfather would be super

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Speaker 1: happy that you're running around in Japan. And I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. So I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I feel I feel I feel good, and I feel relaxed,

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Speaker 1: and I feel happy, and I'm ready to just kind

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Speaker 1: are in the world listening to this, I hope you're

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Speaker 1: feeling chill too, And let's have a chill time reading

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Speaker 1: some emails, shall we. Okay? This is from Jamie. Subject line,

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Speaker 1: Hey Lyle, what color is your pee? Oh? This is

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Speaker 1: a long Okay, this email is too long for me

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna just read this until I don't want to anymore. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is from Jamie. Sorry for the intrusive question, but

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Speaker 1: I've had the color green on my mind lately, and

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Speaker 1: I was wondering why the color of my pea has

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Speaker 1: such a significant impact on my mood. All right, I'm intrigued,

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Speaker 1: all right. Line by line, I'm gonna decide whether I

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Speaker 1: want to keep reading this email, and after that line,

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Speaker 1: I'm down to keep reading a bit about me. My

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Speaker 1: favorite color is sage. What the fuck is sage? Because

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Speaker 1: I like that shade of green and I recently quit

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Speaker 1: except I'm gonna okay. Except I'm in a fortunate position

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Speaker 1: job front. I have a step mom who works slash

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Speaker 1: manages in a company responsible for local recruitment. It's mostly

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Speaker 1: factory work, but her clients are always outsourcing. What Okay,

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Speaker 1: this has nothing to do with pe Okay, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to keep reading this email. Let's do another one,

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Speaker 1: all right. This is from N eight, subject line I

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Speaker 1: Ghek I did a dun Three weeks ago. I was

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Speaker 1: Was that really? You know, I have a lot of

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Speaker 1: You know, Nate, if you're listening to this, I have

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Speaker 1: degrees is that it was funny. That's a good way

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Speaker 1: It is funny. Okay, anyway, have you ever broken a bone?

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Speaker 1: if I could give you this advice, Nate, whatever it

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Speaker 1: guy's gonna be okay. This is from Michael. Subject line

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Speaker 1: terrifying mushroom trips with a talking snake. All right, we

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Speaker 1: got Harry Potter calling in. Hey, Lyle, I am Michael.

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Speaker 1: I have been a long time listener. About a year ago,

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Speaker 1: had a terrifying trip in my apartment. At first, it

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Speaker 1: googling this. Hold on pausing the email here. Flower of Life.

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Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm about I'm about to be a bummer.

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Speaker 1: Can I be a bummer? Michael, I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: But look, man, here's the thing. I'm not super duper

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Speaker 1: this serpent is just you. You're not You're not contacting

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Speaker 1: This this snake? Okay? And so what did the snake

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Speaker 1: I'm Everything I'm saying is probably just something you were

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Speaker 1: to me. Hello, ghek, I am uncircumcised, and I found

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Speaker 1: All right? This was this? This is from Jeremiah. Subject

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Thanks for sharing that, Jeremiah. That's really cool, man. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: This is from Heather. Subject line, I turned my best

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Speaker 1: friend into a frog. Okay, hello Ghek. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: We had been friends since high school, and nothing really

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Speaker 1: they put okay. Basically, they just like fucking throw your

424
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: body in a river and throw it on fire. I

425
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: think when his mom offered me and his other close

426
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: friends some of his when my friend's mom offered me

427
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: and his other close friends some of his ashes, I

428
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 1: knew I had to do something off brand but still respectful.

429
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: After hours of research, I found a website that had

430
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: a frog necklace for cremate for cremaines. So that's what

431
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: part of him was, turned into a jeweled frog with

432
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: a quote from one of our favorite animes. He knew

433
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: I loved frogs and was a mutual weirdo, so he

434
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't be the least bit surprised. He was the ultimate nerd.

435
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,239
Speaker 1: He loved anime and cosplaying, played D and D, and

436
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: streamed Persona five and other video games. To honor him,

437
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: I will be taking his froggy remains to anime cons

438
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: this upcoming year, and two concerts that he always dreamed

439
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: of going to, My Chemical Romance and Ato. Death is crazy,

440
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: but life is crazier. Take the time to be weird.

441
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: With your friends. Thanks for anything, Gek. Let me see

442
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: is did she put a picture of the frog? Neflix?

443
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: Oh she did. That's cute. Oh I like that. We

444
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: got a little picture of the frog. That's really cute.

445
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: Oh thanks for showing the story, Heather. This this is

446
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: really really cute. I like this a lot. Yeah. I

447
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: like the idea of unhinged funeral ideas. Yeah, I don't

448
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: know if I have one myself. I'm a little scott

449
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,479
Speaker 1: because you know, all right, so you know how I

450
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: was just went on a whole fucking rant about how

451
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: we die and our body gets put into stuff or whatever.

452
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: Can you just where where do all the hot people live?

453
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 1: Can you bury me? Like, like, if you could do

454
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: me a favorite, bury me in the ground somewhere in

455
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: in Scandinavia by just bury me in the in the

456
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: dirt somewhere in Scandinavia. Not because I have any ties

457
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: to it, but just because, like I I want to.

458
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: I think, like, Okay, if I get buried in the

459
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: ground in Scandinavia, I'll like my body will like go

460
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: into the food there or whatever, and then I'll be

461
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: reborn to a Scandinavian family and I'll be like pall

462
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: and blonde and have like a chisel jawline and shit.

463
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: So I think that's like the optimal place to be

464
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: buried if you know you want to you want to

465
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: be hot in your next life. So that's that's what

466
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: I want, uh them that you guys to do to me. Well,

467
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: not you guys, I don't whoever's listening to this is

468
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: not gonna be the one in charge of this, but

469
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: I mean, also don't do this, okay whatever. Thank thank

470
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: you for sharing this, Heather. This was good. I liked

471
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: this a lot. Okay, here we go. This is from Cedar,

472
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: subject line gay Luigi fan fiction. Hi, Lyle, my name

473
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: is Cedar, and we've actually met twice after both of

474
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: your Saint Louis live shows kick Ass. The first time

475
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: I met you, you told me I reminded you of Roxis.

476
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: I actually totally remember you. The second time, I had

477
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: green hair and was dressed as punk rock punk rock

478
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: Luigi with my spiky black and white crocs. I actually

479
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: totally one hundred percent do remember you. After that second

480
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: time we met, I told you that I almost texted

481
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: in saying I write gay Luigi fan fiction. So I

482
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: want to expand on that have you ever played Mario

483
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: and Luigi Superstar Saga. I have played Mario and Luigi

484
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: Superstar Saga. I played that one, and I played Brothers

485
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: in Time, where you play as baby Mario baby Luigi

486
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: and Mario and Luigi. I really want to This is

487
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: going to alienate people who don't give a fuck about

488
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: video games, but I don't care. I really want to play.

489
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: There's a new Mario and Luigi game. It's called Mario

490
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: Luigi Brothership. I really want to play it, but it

491
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: got like pretty shitty reviews, and so I don't like.

492
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: Like I'm very particular about my video games, I don't

493
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: want to play a video game. Like video games you

494
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: fucking invest like ten hours of your time into. I

495
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: only want to play a game if it's good. So

496
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone's listening to this and they

497
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: played that game and it's good, let me know. Anyway,

498
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume you have played it. And in that game,

499
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: there is a character named Prince Peasley, and that is

500
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: who I ship Luigi with in my fan fiction. For

501
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: those of you who are not chronically online, the worship

502
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: is short for a relationship and in the fan fiction, universe.

503
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: When you ship two people, it means that you are

504
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: literarily forcing them to be in a relationship. I know

505
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: this because when I was in eighth grade, I was

506
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: friends with these girls who were really into writing one

507
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: direction fan fiction, and I think they wrote something where

508
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: I was gay with Zaane Malik. Okay, anyway, I don't

509
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: have anything else to say about that. Prince Peasley is

510
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: one of the only characters in the Mario and Luigi

511
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: series to acknowledge Luigi and dismiss Mario, calling him mister

512
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: Red Mustache while referring to Luigi by his actual name.

513
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: He is always flexing trying to impress Luigi, and Luigi

514
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: is blushing the entire time they interact. I think it's

515
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: gay and cute as hell. That's pretty much it. You

516
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: may also remember when we last spoke, I had a

517
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: partner who dressed as a mushroom with me. Okay, I

518
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: don't remember that. I dumped him this year because it

519
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: wasn't treating me well. And now I'm very happy in life.

520
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: Great to hear, I am enjoying my alone time and

521
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: pouring my love into fan fictions that make people smile

522
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: instead of men that make me cry. Well, that's nice.

523
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: That's nice. Okay. PS. I think Luigi x Daisy is

524
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: a bit of a forced ship, meant to give Luigi

525
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: a princess peach because Mario always had her as a

526
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,359
Speaker 1: love interest. I feel like Luigi and Daisy would date,

527
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: break up amicably, and become bisexual besties who hype each

528
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 1: other up in life. You know, maybe Shagiro Miamoto is that.

529
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what he thinks too. I don't know. Yeah,

530
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want. I'm pretty sure Luigi

531
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: is in the public domain, so you can make him

532
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: gay with Mickey Mouse or whoever you want. Okay, all right,

533
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 1: let's look here. This is from Diego, subject line trail

534
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: running adventures and pooping complications. Over the past year, I've

535
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: got into trail running, and your podcast has been a

536
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: formidable companion, helping me escape the thought that a serial

537
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 1: killer or a bear is chasing me. I hope that

538
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: my podcast doesn't help you escape that thought in the

539
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,240
Speaker 1: event that one of those two things actually is happening.

540
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: But anyway, thanks to you, I have an easier time

541
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: enjoying my runs instead of constantly looking over my shoulder

542
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 1: and being very paranoid. Why I'm concerned that you're always

543
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: paranoid that a bear or a serial killer is chasing

544
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: you every time you're in the woods. But you know,

545
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: teach their own anyway. Trail running has introduced a new challenge.

546
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: I often face a choice between shitting my pants or

547
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: pooping on the trail. My decision is clear, and honestly,

548
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: I've been getting pretty good at it, and I just

549
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: felt you should know. What the fuck? That's the whole email?

550
00:35:54,520 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: What are you getting good at? What this how? I'm

551
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: so mad that that's the whole email. This email leaves

552
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: it ambiguous as to whether you what's the What is

553
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: the clear decision? Is the clear decision to shit your

554
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: pants or poop in the trail. I'm gonna assume that

555
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: the clear decision is to poop in the trail. And

556
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: I don't know what getting good at it means. I

557
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: guess maybe that means that you've just been good at

558
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: finding the right leaves. Yeah, I get. Here's the thing.

559
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: If you have, like h if you are a carry

560
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: and a backpack, right, and you got some toilet paper

561
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: and some hand sanitizer, you're you're in business. You can

562
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: shit anywhere you want, Okay, well cool, I'm glad that

563
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad that you learned new skill. Diego,

564
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: good for you. Okay, this is from Jude, subject line

565
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: the shredded carrot incident. Hi, GEK, call me bug. I'll

566
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: skip the how much I love the podcast paragraph and

567
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: get straight into it the story. You didn't really skip it,

568
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: you kind of if you had taken out this line,

569
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: you would have skipped it. But that's okay. I only

570
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: thought for about two seconds before deciding what to write,

571
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: and my first thought was this, Okay, that's not getting

572
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: straight into it. I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm

573
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 1: being a dick about this, but I'm just I don't

574
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 1: know why I'm being a dick about this. I'm alone

575
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: in a room right now reading these emails, and so

576
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: there's no other human beings. It's like when I do

577
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: the phone call podcast, there's another human being on the

578
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: line who I think can give me feedback as to

579
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: whether or not I'm being a dick. But here it's

580
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: just I'm just stream of consciousness. My thought, my stream

581
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 1: of consciousness, honest to god, thought, is that it bothers

582
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: me that this person like to say saying I'm gonna

583
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: get straight into it is paradoxical because you can't say

584
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: I'm just going to get straight into it, because getting

585
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 1: straight into it would require the omission of you saying

586
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: let's get straight into it, and then saying that you

587
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: thought about what you were going to get into and

588
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: then writing that is not getting straight into about None

589
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: of this about way, none of this matters. I'm just

590
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: I'm just having a lot of fun doing this. I'm

591
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: just having a lot of fun ranting about how much

592
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: and by the way, what I'm doing right now, I'm

593
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 1: the fact that I'm taking all this time, the fact

594
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: that this is what caught my attention, the declaration that

595
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,919
Speaker 1: you're going to get straight into it, while not getting

596
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: straight into it, is causing me to also do the

597
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: exact opposite of getting straight into it, because we haven't

598
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: even started reading this email. We've just we haven't even

599
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: gotten pasted whether or not we're going to get straight

600
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: into it. So let's get straight into it. Uh. For

601
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: some background, I'm from the UK, and at the time

602
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: of the incident, I must have been around eight or

603
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: nine years old. So we're on a beautiful island in

604
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: the Maldives, staying at a five star hotel as a family.

605
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: One morning, we head down to the buffet style breakfast

606
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: to start the day. After grabbing an omelet, I noticed

607
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 1: one of the waiters grating some cheese. Naturally, I walked

608
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: over and asked him to sprinkle some on top of

609
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: my eggs before starting. He said, tell me when to stop.

610
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: After a few seconds, there was enough, so I said

611
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: that's okay, and he smiled but kept grating. So I

612
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: said that's okay again, a bit louder this time, and

613
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: with a big grin on his face, he continued. I

614
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: stood there watching as what felt like an eternity passed

615
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 1: while the pile on my plate grew higher and higher.

616
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 1: Finally he stopped. I walked back to my table, feeling

617
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: slightly confused, and as I sat down, my dad and

618
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: brother burst it out, laughing, and they pointed out that

619
00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: it wasn't cheese at all, it was a shredded carrot. Embarrassed,

620
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: I tried to eat it, but I couldn't, and to

621
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: this day, I still can't stand shredded carrot. Maybe he

622
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: was a language barrier, or maybe the waiter just really

623
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: wanted me to eat a carrot. Love what you do,

624
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: and I hope to see you next time you do

625
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: a gig in the UK. I'm twenty five, and I

626
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: wonder if you had a similar experience growing up, something

627
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: that embarrassed you as a kid but stayed with you

628
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 1: into adulthood. Fuck, I'm on the spot now, I'm sure

629
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 1: I do. Okay, I'm gonna think about that and if

630
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: something comes to me, I'll I'll circle back to this.

631
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: But no, I've never done anything embarrassing as a kid.

632
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: That's not true, all right, Yeah, sure. I remember when

633
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: my parents got divorced and my dad moved out into

634
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Speaker 1: a townhouse. I would spend like we had like a

635
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: custody thing where like I would spend like every other

636
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: weekend and like every Tuesday or Thursday at my dad's

637
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: house or whatever. And one night I'm like, I don't

638
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: know how I am even I'm like ten, and my

639
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:21,760
Speaker 1: asshole starts to really itch, really bad, and my dad

640
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: has this like carpet on in the townhouse, and for

641
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: some reason, I don't like I don't know why I

642
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: didn't just use toilet paper, but for some reason to

643
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: like scratch my asshole, I just like wiped my ass

644
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: on the carpet, like I like a dog, Like I

645
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: just like got naked and like I was. This wasn't

646
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: even just like in my room. This was like in

647
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: the carpeted hallway of his house. I just put my

648
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 1: ass on the floor and like dragged it around to

649
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: scratch it. Felt it. By the way. By the way,

650
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: it stays with me, not as much because it was embarrassing,

651
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: but mainly because it was just fucking amazing. I might

652
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: after I'm done recording this, I might go do that

653
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: right now on the on on the floor of of

654
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 1: this hotel. I might do that right now. I'll pay

655
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: the fine whatever they like. Yeah, I'm whatever the fine is,

656
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: I'll pay it right Yeah. Now that I'm thinking about it,

657
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that was that felt really good. If

658
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 1: you're listening to this and you have a carpet, I

659
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: really recommend you wipe your asshole on it. Like I'm

660
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: being one hundred percent serious. You should. If you have

661
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: a if you wherever you like, wherever you are right

662
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: now when you're listening to this, look down. If you

663
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: see a carpet, you should get naked and wipe your

664
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: asshole on it and thank me later. Uh yeah, And

665
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: then my dad, but I usually I just left the

666
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: I didn't like clean it. I just fucking left it.

667
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: So my dad comes out and he sees that there's

668
00:42:55,760 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 1: a bunch of just diere shit on his car, and yeah,

669
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: and he yells at me and he's like, what the

670
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: fuck are you doing? So yeah, that was that was embarrassing,

671
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: but mainly it just felt really good. Uh, okay, let's

672
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: keep going, all right. This is from John. Subject line,

673
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,800
Speaker 1: I don't know how to use my laptop for anything

674
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: other than porn. Good day, mister Gek. I hope you

675
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: are enjoying the first week of the new year. The

676
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,240
Speaker 1: problem I have that I would like to discuss today

677
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: is exactly as the subject line portrays. I practically only

678
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: use my laptop exclusively to watch porn on the Internet.

679
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: I do, of course, know how to surf the web

680
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: and use Google and whatnot, but ninety nine percent of

681
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: that activity is conducted from my smartphone. When it comes

682
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: to my laptop, porn Hub, Chatterbait, and the works are

683
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: among my most frequently visited pages. There are plenty of

684
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: things that I would like to learn how to do,

685
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 1: and there are lots of more productive things that I

686
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: would like to utilize my laptop four aside from watching porn.

687
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: For example, I am an aspiring novelist and it is

688
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: a dream of mine to one day publish a graphic novel.

689
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,479
Speaker 1: I would also like to get into becoming a video

690
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: game streamer, and I have ideas for my own podcast

691
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 1: that I would like to put into fruition. However, I

692
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: feel as though there's a block preventing me from pursuing

693
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: these endeavors. I am pretty badly technologically inept, and whenever

694
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: I attempt to start a project or teach myself something new,

695
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: I am thwarted by some sort of issue that needs troubleshooting.

696
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 1: I become easily frustrated in trying to figure it out.

697
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: I give up, and I don't touch the project again

698
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: for a long period of time until it randomly pops

699
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: back into my head and I reattempt and review the

700
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: project process. Now, this is coming from like a big

701
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: This guy says he's a big porn guy. And you

702
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: know what's funny is like if I put the effort,

703
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: like like if you're a porn person, you know, like

704
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: if you know the effort that we're all familiar with

705
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: the effort that one may put in to find the

706
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: name of a person in a porn video, like you're

707
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: on You're on like the fourth fucking page of Google,

708
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 1: trying to find this person's name, trying to find more

709
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: videos with them, and like if there's a video that

710
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: you want to download, you know, you know, you're downloading

711
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: fucking you're on like mega upload whatever the fuck dot com.

712
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: Like you're your your your sexual your lust is propelling

713
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: you to get this detective work done. So I'm gonna

714
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: assume you're familiar with with that, John, I'm gonna assume

715
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: you have that, so I maybe maybe consider I don't

716
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 1: know how you do this, but maybe just consider figuring

717
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: out how to like harness that energy and push it

718
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: towards figuring out how to write a novel, you know

719
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: what I mean. M So that's what That's what I

720
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 1: would say, John, That's what I would say is take

721
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: take the energy. Like notice, notice when you're able to

722
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: get things done, uh, when they involve you being able

723
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,240
Speaker 1: to find find the porn videos you want to find,

724
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: and figure out how to transmute that energy into into

725
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: not jerking off stuff. All right, all right, this is

726
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,720
Speaker 1: from Onyx subject line I am a depressed drag queen.

727
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,919
Speaker 1: Hey GEK, longtime listener and avid fan. I'll just get

728
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,359
Speaker 1: down to it. Okay, I'm not gonna go back. I'm

729
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: not gonna go on this rant again, but about getting

730
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: straight into it. Okay, all right. Sorry, I'm a horrible writer,

731
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: so bear with me here. Like the title said, as

732
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: I'm a professional drag queen with ten years of experience.

733
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,439
Speaker 1: I've been fortunate enough to be quite a successful drag

734
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: queen at that I performed all over the country and

735
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,919
Speaker 1: was on a drag competition television show. Oh very cool.

736
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:15,800
Speaker 1: I unfortunately fell victim to the gods of reality TV

737
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 1: and did not place very well on the show. This

738
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: crushed me. I know I'm an amazing artist and I

739
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: am fortunate enough to make a decent living doing it,

740
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:25,800
Speaker 1: but this does not change the fact that this show

741
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,439
Speaker 1: mentally destroyed me. It's hard because the show has given

742
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: me a platform, but it also did me dirty in

743
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: many ways. Long story shirt, long story short. It became

744
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: apparent that I was casted as an early out, and

745
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: well I was. I spent thirteen thousand dollars on costumes

746
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 1: that never aired. I can't emotionally move past this show.

747
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: I feel like I fucked up my big break. I

748
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: know thousands of drag artists that would kill to have

749
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: this opportunity, but I can't move on from what it

750
00:47:54,960 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: has done to me mentally. Oh my god, on it.

751
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: I have so much to say about this, you know,

752
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: first of all, just I mean, look, you're the fact

753
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: that you're doing drag for a living. I'm going to

754
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: assume that you have some kind of social media presence,

755
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: right the world we live in, just so, just so people,

756
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: it's so crazy to me that people haven't like fully,

757
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:39,360
Speaker 1: fully fully caught on and understood just how little gatekeepers

758
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: there are in the like arts entertainment industries. Right, so, like,

759
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: you know, it used to be like whatever in the

760
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: fucking like nineties or eighties or whatever. It's like there's

761
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:57,839
Speaker 1: a fucking guy at a desk and the guide decides

762
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: whether or not you have a career. Right, That's how

763
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: it used to be. But now we have the Internet

764
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: and you can take those like, dude, those fucking you

765
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: spent thirteen thousand dollars on costumes that never aired, fucking

766
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: make your own videos with the costumes, like fuck this

767
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: TV show? Who cares you have the costumes. Watn't you

768
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: make your own fucking tiktoks and Instagram reels and then

769
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:32,240
Speaker 1: YouTube videos with this shit? I hate TV, also saying

770
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: I can't emotionally move past this. I feel like I

771
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: fucked up my big break. No, you didn't fuck up

772
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 1: your big break. You're big. They're also sorry. I'm I'm um,

773
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: I'm stuttering, but uh listen, Onyx. Just keep doing the work.

774
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,400
Speaker 1: Clearly you enjoy doing it. Clearly you probably have. I

775
00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 1: don't you know. I don't have a lot of information

776
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: about who you are, how you make your living, but

777
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume that you have a social media presence.

778
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:08,319
Speaker 1: If you are are making a decent living doing this,

779
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: just keep doing the work. Literally, just keep fucking doing

780
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 1: your your stuff and keep fucking making videos of it

781
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:23,760
Speaker 1: and putting it on the internet. And you're good. Also,

782
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: if you're doing it for a living like you, you

783
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: don't have, there is no what do you mean, big break?

784
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: You've broke. If you're doing something that you really like

785
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: doing and you're doing it for a living and you're

786
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: getting to do it, you've broke. You know you've broke.

787
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: So I would I would move on from this stupid

788
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 1: TV show would never if I I would just never

789
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: think about it again and I would go, well, that

790
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: was kind of dumb, and then just keep doing your

791
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: fucking drag. Man, Yeah, I think it. I think it's

792
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: super silly to let this this a TV show get

793
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 1: to you, So just keep doing the work. I remember

794
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: when I was eighteen years old, there was a video

795
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: of me doing stand up comedy that like went to

796
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: the front page of Reddit, and like I got like

797
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: this like fucking manager person reached out to me and

798
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: I was having a conversation with him, and I was like,

799
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: oh shit, this is like my big break. Like I'm

800
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:43,240
Speaker 1: gonna be like a young, hot shot stand up comedian.

801
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to like get on Comedy Central and

802
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: do all this stuff. And then nothing really happened with it,

803
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 1: and I went to college, and like the first like

804
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: about a year, the kind of the year following my

805
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: like viral stand up video, I felt really very similarly.

806
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, I fucked up my big break.

807
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: I was like so genuine I was so regretful that

808
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 1: I didn't capitalize on this opportunity that I had with

809
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: this stand up video going viral, and you know. Cut

810
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: to four years later, I just keep making stuff and

811
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:27,760
Speaker 1: I'm fucking around and I get in my gecko suit

812
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:29,839
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I'm on the front page

813
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: of Reddit again. And I learned. I learned from that

814
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: experience and I capitalized on it. And now now I'm

815
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:43,760
Speaker 1: reading your email, and you know, I don't know, and honestly,

816
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess while I'm talking about myself.

817
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: It's like this whole like I think one of the

818
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 1: things I've learned, and I think I've talked about this

819
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,879
Speaker 1: on the show before, but one of the things I've

820
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: learned over the course of like my little gecko career

821
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: and kind of life career in general, is that, like,

822
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,240
Speaker 1: you know, if as long as you're able to make

823
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:10,880
Speaker 1: a living, as you're telling me that you're doing, and

824
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: as I've been lucky enough to do, as long as

825
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: you're making a living, like once you once you start

826
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: making enough money that like you can pay your rent

827
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:25,760
Speaker 1: and you know, eat food and not have to worry about,

828
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: you know, getting a burrito at Chipotle, and you know,

829
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 1: your friends invite you to go see a movie, you

830
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: go see a movie. As long as you have it,

831
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: like it's just enough money. You just fucking live life.

832
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: Everything beyond that is like, who gives a shit? Like

833
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: you fucked up your big break to do what you know,

834
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,799
Speaker 1: If you make enough money and you're doing what you

835
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: love and you're enjoying the actual creative work that you're

836
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 1: doing and you have enough of people who can appreciate it,

837
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: that it's satis fighting to you. That's it. You've broke.

838
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: Just enjoy fucking life and enjoy doing your work. Just

839
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 1: get obsessed with your work. You know, who fuck I

840
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: gives a shit about this TV show? You know, so

841
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:17,479
Speaker 1: keep going onyx on Dix. Maybe let me google maybe

842
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:20,280
Speaker 1: google this, let me google this. Maybe this is your

843
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,439
Speaker 1: drag thing. Oh yeah it is. There we go, Oh,

844
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 1: there we go. Pretty cool? Pretty cool. Oh I don't

845
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:35,839
Speaker 1: know if you didn't want to be doxed, but pretty cool,

846
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: pretty cool. You know, I'm I'm gonna you know what,

847
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: you're a You're a uh, you're an Internet personality. You like,

848
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, i'll, i'll I think maybe some people will,

849
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: maybe some people will want to follow your ship. So yeah,

850
00:54:49,840 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 1: onyx on Dix, go follow onyx on Dix. Okay, all right, uh,

851
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: let's see how much all R. Yeah, let's keep going.

852
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: Let's keep taking a few more emails, subject line I'm

853
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: scared to fuck things up? Goodmorrow? GEK, what does that mean? Goodmorrow?

854
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 1: I'm googling that. Hold on all right, interrupting me email

855
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: to google? What goodmorrow means? Does that mean good tomorrow?

856
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:28,320
Speaker 1: Hold on goodmorrow? Uh? Ifmorrow means what is good? Okaymorrow

857
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 1: is the current day? Oh? Holy shit? Whoa do you

858
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: guys know? Whoa? Okay, whoa? This is crazy? All right?

859
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 1: Somorrow means the current day, so tomorrow is the next day.

860
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: And then get this ship. I've never seen this word

861
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 1: in my life. Do you guys know that? Overmorrow is

862
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:55,839
Speaker 1: the day after the next day? So overmorrow is tomorrow

863
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: times two? Is that a real I've never heard that

864
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: in my life. Yeah, over holy shit. Overmorrow is an

865
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 1: archaic word that means the day after tomorrow, and it

866
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:12,840
Speaker 1: is not commonly used in modern English. Folks. Okay, okay.

867
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: Listeners of the Therapy Geico podcast, we are bringing back overmorrow.

868
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 1: I challenge you to you to just start using the

869
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: word anytime you want to say, like if, like, okay,

870
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: what today is? Where I am and recording this it's Friday,

871
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:35,800
Speaker 1: and this episode will come out overmorrow, so on Sunday.

872
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 1: But instead of saying Sunday, I'm gonna just say overmorrow. Okay.

873
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: Everyone tried to all right, we're gonna, We're gonna all right,

874
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:49,799
Speaker 1: Therapy Gecko podcast listener petition to bring back Overmorrow. All

875
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 1: right anyway, Goodmorrow, gak you can call me Fenton. Recently,

876
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: I started talking to a girl again who I had

877
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: a talking stage with back in June. We ended up

878
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: stopping talking because she said I smoked weed too much,

879
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: and at the time I was basically like, ah, well,

880
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: me a real bad man and I'm gonna keep blazing

881
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 1: the ganja. Okay. Over that summer I did a lot

882
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: of acid. I'm pretty sure it wasn't acid and was

883
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: in fact some other chemical, but oh well, I survived. Okay.

884
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: What's the thing? This acid made me realize that this

885
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: girl is really special because she's the only girl I

886
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 1: know who likes the band Madness and music taste is

887
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: really important to me. How old is it, I'm gonna

888
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 1: are you sixteen? Anyway? I cut down on weed and

889
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 1: nick and alcohol because of her, and started working out

890
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: pretty okay, pretty good, pretty good, Henry. Pretty good. Cut

891
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: to the start of December, and we catch each other's

892
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: eye in the hallway of my college. All right, you're

893
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: like twenty like or like nineteen like two or three times.

894
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: We have been talking every day since the seventeenth of November,

895
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: and I'm worried that this whole thing is built on

896
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 1: a lie because the only reason I improved myself was

897
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: because of acid. Thank you, ghak, I love you and

898
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: all that you do. Okay, let me I need to

899
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: I need to understand how this person's brain works before

900
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 1: I continue responding to this email. Okay, I'm worried. Okay,

901
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: So the acid made you realize that the girl was Okay, Okay,

902
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: you say that the acid. Okay, you say the only

903
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: reason you started improving yourself was because of acid. But

904
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 1: you're saying the acid made you realize the girl is special,

905
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 1: and so you started improving yourself to be with this girl,

906
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: and the whole thing is built on a lie. I

907
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: I listen, Henry, I hate everything you wrote in this email,

908
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 1: no offense, but I'm gonna just say this to you.

909
00:58:55,000 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: Just keep improving, bro, improve yourself because it's good. Just

910
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: like I'm assuming that cutting down on weed and nicotine

911
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: and alcohol and working out has made you feel good

912
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: and that you're enjoying it. So Henry, listen, don't don't

913
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: be a why. And also you didn't really include in

914
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: this email why you're afraid to fuck things up, Henry.

915
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 1: I want to make things really simple for you. Take

916
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: stock of your life of what is improving it, what

917
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: you wish was different. Things you want to start doing,

918
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: things you want to stop doing. And it sounds like

919
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: you've done this already because you're cutting down on drugs

920
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: and you're working out and you're improving, and that's great.

921
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 1: And then when it comes to this girl, right, if

922
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: you like her, you know, fucking do things for her

923
00:59:53,960 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 1: that you think will make your presence and her life

924
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 1: better for her. Okay, continue to take stock of whether

925
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: or not this girl's presence in your life is good

926
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 1: for you, and keep it fucking simple. Those three things

927
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: I think I said three things. Yeah, keep stock of

928
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: the things you want to do to improve your life

929
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: and do them. You know, make sure that you're being

930
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: valuable to this woman's life if you really like her,

931
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: and make sure that this woman is valuable to your

932
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: life and that you're not just doing things because you

933
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 1: fucking don't want to, you know, be alone and jack

934
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 1: off like that, like the guy with the laptop thing,

935
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: which isn't It's not that bad jerking off, It's fun. Sorry,

936
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 1: all right? Uh, let's take one. Let's take one more email.

937
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 1: Let's read another email somewhere, all right. This is from Jesse,

938
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 1: subject line I am in love with my step aunt. Hello, Geko.

939
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: My name is Jesse, and I live in the great

940
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:14,360
Speaker 1: state known as Miami, Florida. About five years ago, my

941
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: then single mother met a man, her future husband, in

942
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: a bar. This man is now my stepfather. I've met

943
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: his side of the family quite a few times, and

944
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 1: I feel fairly comfortable with them. My stepdad has a

945
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 1: sister who is eighteen as am I. At first I

946
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: didn't feel much, but as the years have gone on,

947
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: I've developed a deep admiration and attraction to her as

948
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 1: a person. We're basically just friends that happened to have

949
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 1: these labels laid upon us. I truly have no idea

950
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:43,959
Speaker 1: if she feels the same way or not. I'm telling

951
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 1: her how I feel could go really well or really badly.

952
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 1: If she was simply just a friend that I had,

953
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: I probably would have confessed my feelings to her by now,

954
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 1: but since she's technically my step aunt, I've refused the

955
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 1: idea because of how badly the consequences could be among

956
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: our families. I don't think my attraction to her is

957
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 1: weird or bad because we're not biologically related at all.

958
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: But I've tried time and time again to forget it.

959
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: But I genuinely feel love for her, and I've grown

960
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: to accept it. This is a lot. I don't expect

961
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: a clear cut solution to my problem, but I thought

962
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,440
Speaker 1: it'd be nice to hear your solutions on, to hear

963
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 1: your thoughts on my situation. Love your gecko. Yeah, you

964
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: know this is interesting. You know actually I can really tell, Jesse,

965
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 1: by the way that you wrote this email that you

966
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 1: have a pretty mature thought process around this. I think

967
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 1: you've really thought about it. Yeah, I don't think your

968
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 1: attraction to her is weird or bad because you're not

969
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: biologically related. And I mean, shit, I don't know. You

970
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 1: guys aren't bodling. You guys aren't really bought. Is it

971
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: is it weird if they start dating? I don't is

972
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 1: it is it weird if they start dating? Maybe it's

973
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:54,200
Speaker 1: weird if they start dating, just because like if you're

974
01:02:54,360 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 1: if your stepdad and your mom break up, then yeah,

975
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: but uh, your step how old your stepdad that he

976
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 1: has a eighteen year old sister and he's dating your mom.

977
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: I'm very I am very curious how old your mom

978
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:18,959
Speaker 1: and how old your stepdad is. But anyway you feel

979
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 1: like it'll complicate the families, I mean, I you know what,

980
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:23,720
Speaker 1: look whatever, I here's the thing. I don't think it's

981
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 1: that weird if you tell this girl how you feel.

982
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:28,240
Speaker 1: I really don't really, I don't think it's that weird.

983
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: And is it going to complicate things with the family.

984
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:34,800
Speaker 1: Not really. You seem like a mature person, Jesse, just

985
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,080
Speaker 1: but I don't know. Just the way you wrote this email,

986
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,320
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, saying I feel love for her,

987
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: ab I've grown to accept it. I think what would

988
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:46,240
Speaker 1: make I think if you really, like your gut is

989
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:51,240
Speaker 1: telling you to like have a conversation with this girl

990
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 1: about it not necessary, not necessarily be like, I'm in

991
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 1: love with you and we need to you know, I

992
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 1: know that it's weird that you're my step on and

993
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck, but like let's get married. Just you know,

994
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: I think something. I think your gut seems like it's

995
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 1: telling you to just bring it out into the open

996
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 1: and have a conversation with it. And what would make

997
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 1: it weird is if you were weird about it and

998
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: you didn't accept whatever the results of that conversation were.

999
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 1: But I don't. I'm not getting that vibe from you.

1000
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 1: So you know, look, if I were you and you

1001
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:33,600
Speaker 1: really kind of had this stirring in your gut and

1002
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: you wanted to get it out in the open, I wouldn't.

1003
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 1: I don't think it would be the worst thing in

1004
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 1: the world to have a conversation with this girl and

1005
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 1: bring your admiration and attraction to her in the open

1006
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 1: and see how it's received and if it's not a

1007
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 1: mutual thing, or if it just proves to be too

1008
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 1: complicated for you. Guys, you know you can accept that outcome,

1009
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 1: and I think think that, I think you'll be okay. Yeah, okay.

1010
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:10,600
Speaker 1: I finally know who they're making all the stepsister porn

1011
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 1: for it's it's several of the people who have emailed

1012
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: in today are the reason why they make so much

1013
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: so much stepsister porn. I don't know what's the chat say,

1014
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:29,919
Speaker 1: Chat says he should keep this to himself. Uh, this

1015
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: Chat says it'll complicate it. Okay, Chat does not agree

1016
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: with me, but whatever, I don't know, give it a shot.

1017
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:47,440
Speaker 1: Life life is short. Uh, life is short. Tell your

1018
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:51,240
Speaker 1: step on that you love her. All right. That's it.

1019
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:55,680
Speaker 1: That's the podcast that was gak mail. I hope you

1020
01:05:55,720 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 1: guys enjoyed it. I hope that you had a good time.

1021
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 1: I had a good time. I enjoyed taking these emails.

1022
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:09,760
Speaker 1: We're at the end of the here's okay, you know

1023
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 1: what the thing is. We're at the end of this episode.

1024
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: So if you were I'm gonna do this is the

1025
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 1: end period. Okay, So everything I say after this, I'm

1026
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: normally when I'm doing this podcast, I'm like, Okay, I

1027
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 1: want it to like be of good quality. I want

1028
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 1: to make sure that the things that I'm saying are

1029
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:32,640
Speaker 1: like worth I want to make sure that this podcast

1030
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 1: is worth listening to. But at this point, it's the end.

1031
01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 1: You know, we've already done like at least an hour

1032
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:42,440
Speaker 1: of a podcast that I've like, for the past hour

1033
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 1: of podcasting, I've had a thing in my brain that's

1034
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 1: been like, Okay, let me make sure that this is

1035
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:51,480
Speaker 1: listened to a bull. But now that we've gotten an

1036
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:54,640
Speaker 1: hour of what I've considered listened to a bull, I'm

1037
01:06:54,680 --> 01:06:56,880
Speaker 1: throwing all out the window. This part of the podcast

1038
01:06:56,960 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 1: can just be shit. This can just be me ranting

1039
01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 1: in circles. And I don't feel bad because we already

1040
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: did an hour of competent I guess, in my opinion,

1041
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:13,080
Speaker 1: competent podcasting. So now I'm just gonna rant. And if

1042
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:15,439
Speaker 1: you and you don't have to be here, you can

1043
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: move on to the next episode or go to the

1044
01:07:17,480 --> 01:07:20,880
Speaker 1: previous episode. If this isn't working for you, if you're

1045
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 1: just like, oh, this is just literally just ranting with

1046
01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 1: the zero substance. But I'm just challenging. I'm genuinely just

1047
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:34,120
Speaker 1: challenging myself right now. It's not stop talking for as

1048
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,920
Speaker 1: long as I can. I for no reason, there's no

1049
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 1: reason for me to be doing this, Okay, send an

1050
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 1: email to therapy Gecko mail at gmail dot com. That's

1051
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 1: therapy Gecko mail at gmail dot com. Uh, and you

1052
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 1: can follow me on Twitch dot tv slash Lyle forever.

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Speaker 1: But you can follow me on Instagram at Lyle the

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Speaker 1: number four ever if you wanna, you know, keep up

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Speaker 1: to date. On when I'm streaming and when you can

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Speaker 1: call in. What else I just want? I don't. I'm

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Speaker 1: I drank. I drank an energy drink before this. I

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Speaker 1: wish I typically tend to do, so I guess I'll

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Speaker 1: just keep ranting for a little bit, or I won't.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I feel like I delivered the I

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Speaker 1: delivered the hour of competent podcasting that I set out

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Speaker 1: to deliver, and the rest can just be dog shit

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Speaker 1: because it's all extra. It's just bonus. It's literally this

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Speaker 1: is honestly. I don't if you're still listening at this point,

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Speaker 1: right now, this is the end, Okay, if you're still

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Speaker 1: listening at this point, I I don't really know why.

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Speaker 1: There's not gonna be I'm not gonna say anything else

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Speaker 1: of substance. From the very moment until the end of

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Speaker 1: the episode, there will be nothing else of substance. There's

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Speaker 1: just gonna be me ranting and seeing how much longer

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Speaker 1: I can keep talking for. And I'm feeling a little tired.

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Speaker 1: So it's I think I think I'm gonna stop talking.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna stop talking in a second. But

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Speaker 1: before I stop talking, I'm gonna talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: more like I'm doing right now, and I think that

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Speaker 1: now that I've now that I don't really want to

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Speaker 1: keep talking, I'm gonna stop talking and end the episode

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Speaker 1: right now. So thanks for listening, and praise our Lord

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Speaker 1: and savior Jesus Christ. Okay, thank you again, goes on

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Speaker 1: the line, taking your phone calls every nine. Everything again

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Speaker 1: goes and I was teaching you loud and mean to

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Speaker 1: be line. But he's not really an expert.