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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome, good evening, Hi, welcomed or good whatever time

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Speaker 1: it is that you're watching this, Welcome. This is a

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Speaker 1: special episode of the Therapy Gecko podcast. This is a

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Speaker 1: special episode. There will be no callers in this episode.

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Speaker 1: It will just be me alone, ranting into a microphone.

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Speaker 1: I've been wanting to try something new. I've been wanted

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Speaker 1: to try something different. I've been doing this podcast for

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Speaker 1: about four years now, over four years now, and it's

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Speaker 1: mainly just been me and occasionally someone else talking to

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Speaker 1: people on the phone. And I wanted to challenge myself

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Speaker 1: to see if I can do an entire hour just

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Speaker 1: ranting to myself. I mean, it's technically there's more than

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Speaker 1: that I have, all right, So I yesterday I went

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Speaker 1: on Instagram and I made it Instagram story and I

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Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna do a viewer mail episode of

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Please send words. That was all I specified,

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Speaker 1: was words. I said, please send words to therapy geckomail

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Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. And so I'm gonna read as

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Speaker 1: many of the emails that people sent me as i can.

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Speaker 1: I'm streaming live on Twitch while i'm recording this, so

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Speaker 1: maybe i'll talk to the chat but Uh, basically, this

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Speaker 1: is good. This is kind of like it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a little bit of my therapy session in a way.

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Speaker 1: I might talk about my life, or I might not,

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Speaker 1: or I might just delve into what the people email me.

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Speaker 1: It's funny because I've I've always been kind of bad

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Speaker 1: at like the Dear Abby format. I don't consider myself

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Speaker 1: like an advice guy, like a like a like a

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Speaker 1: you know, but dear Abby. It's like it's like, here's

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Speaker 1: my long thing and then here's Abby's long response. I

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Speaker 1: don't really do that. I like to get into the

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Speaker 1: conversation with folks. I find that makes me more comfortable.

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Speaker 1: But I want to get into I want to try

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Speaker 1: something new. I want to I want to challenge myself.

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Speaker 1: I've been bored and uh, I've no you know, Look,

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Speaker 1: people like to talk about themselves. That's why I think

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Speaker 1: so many people call into this show. It's because they

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Speaker 1: want to talk about themselves. They want to be here,

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Speaker 1: they want to be heard. And I thought to myself,

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Speaker 1: hour uninterrupted by anyone or anything. It's so weird because

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Speaker 1: I think that's most podcasts, like I only live in

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Speaker 1: the universe of my own podcast. So like, to me,

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Speaker 1: podcasting is like synonymous with taking viewer calls, because it's

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Speaker 1: what I do. But I realized, like, you don't, Actually

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Speaker 1: you don't have to do that for every episode. Most

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Speaker 1: people have a guest, but sometimes you can. You really

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Speaker 1: can just rant for an hour. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it'll be good, but I don't know. I don't really

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Speaker 1: even care about that. I just care that I tried.

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Speaker 1: That's all that matters to me. So I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: get into it. I'm sitting in front of my laptop

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Speaker 1: right now. Let's start. Let's look at some viewer emails here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's see, all right, As of now, I have eighty

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Speaker 1: seven emails. I have eighty seven emails. Let's start at

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Speaker 1: the very first one. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: read people's name. Maybe i'll read their initials. Okay. The

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Speaker 1: first one is from Lyle Dresher. It says, Hey, that

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Speaker 1: was me testing to see if this email worked all right.

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Speaker 1: Next one is from JG a highlight. Hey, Hey, j G.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little nervous. I don't really know what to say.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of the podcast and stream. You've

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Speaker 1: helped me get through many long and strenuous work days.

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Speaker 1: Your podcast has made me realize that we all really

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Speaker 1: do live similar lives, deal with similar problems, similar thought patterns, etc.

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Speaker 1: You have reinforced my love for psychology and have helped

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Speaker 1: me gain an appreciation of life. Thank you, Gek. That's

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Speaker 1: so nice, that's so kind. It is it's a little

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's psychological and anthropological aspects to what

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Speaker 1: I do, but I really I don't. I'm not a

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Speaker 1: not even like trying to pretend like I do. But

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Speaker 1: I'm happy that podcast helps people. I'm trying to get,

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Speaker 1: get better at, like, uh, receiving praise because I sort

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Speaker 1: a dick, and then be you're just reinforcing low self esteem.

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Speaker 1: I don't like them. So I'm trying. So I really

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Speaker 1: am trying to cultivate a proper amount of like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let me like love myself enough that my it's I

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Speaker 1: But let me hate myself just enough that I'm still

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Speaker 1: feel like a like a regular human being. Okay, thank you, Jared.

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Speaker 1: I'll just y'all use first names. I'm just gonna this

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Speaker 1: guy's Jared whatever, No one, there's a million Jared's all right.

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Speaker 1: This is from Angie. Subject is I am dating someone

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Speaker 1: as old as my stepdad. Hold, let me make sure

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Speaker 1: me check on twitch. All right, this looks all right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this looks like it's working. All right. I am dating

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Speaker 1: someone as old as my stepdad. Also, I'm not putting

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Speaker 1: gonna read it, okay. From Angie. Hello, Gek, I feel

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Speaker 1: I have been keeping a secret from most of my

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Speaker 1: friends and family. I met a guy on Reddit a

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Speaker 1: really well. The thing is, he lives in Poland and

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Speaker 1: I live in America. He is also twenty years older

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Speaker 1: to visit him in November, when I will be staying

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Speaker 1: in Poland for two months. I'm even thinking of moving

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Speaker 1: all right, Uh, I don't plan on telling my family

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Speaker 1: My boyfriend makes me feel happy and is supportive. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So this when she said my boyfriend. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I think she's referring to the older dude in Poland. Okay,

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Speaker 1: my boyfriend makes me feel happy and it's supportive, but

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Speaker 1: him could work? Oh? Geez? Oh? Man, Okay, I have questions.

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Speaker 1: See this is why all I'm gonna challenge myself to

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Speaker 1: It's like I have no I have no problem with

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Speaker 1: But it's like they haven't even I get that we

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Speaker 1: and dear God, meet him in public. Don't go to

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Speaker 1: his fucking house, all right? Uh? Kobe Craft says hi

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Speaker 1: subject line, Hi, Hey gak listener from Belgium here really

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Speaker 1: like your podcast? Keep it up, Mail me back and

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Speaker 1: I'll send you some chocolate. Maybe should I just send

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Speaker 1: this guy my home address. Should I just completely dos

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Speaker 1: myself so I can get some Belgian chocolate from Kobe Craft.

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Speaker 1: Let me see what let me see what the chat

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Speaker 1: thinks about that angie thing.

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: All right, everyone in the chat seems to completely agree

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Speaker 1: with I don't think I don't think it's a controversial.

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Speaker 1: I don't think she's necessarily about to get murdered. But

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Speaker 1: like play like like I don't. I'm not like, I'm

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Speaker 1: not like, don't ever do anything or meet anyone ever

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Speaker 1: because you might die, But like, play it safe, play

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Speaker 1: it cautious anyway, all right, No, don't send me. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can send me chocolate, but I'm trying to I

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Speaker 1: This is from Samantha. Hi Gek, My boyfriend and I

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Speaker 1: met you recently at your show in Toronto. We drove

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Speaker 1: a total of eight hours to be there and it

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Speaker 1: was totally worth it. Thank you. Very much. I was

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Speaker 1: good interaction, though, I'm promise you. I promise you it

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Speaker 1: Green bean, oh green gecko, you were never meant to

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Speaker 1: I'll give you that that's true. So now I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna now I'm just it's part of my self love journey.

425
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be like, thank you, thank you. I

426
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Speaker 1: will accept in this very moment that I'm not a

427
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,679
Speaker 1: piece of shit, and then I'll hate myself later. But

428
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Speaker 1: let me let me I can. I really I'm believing

429
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Speaker 1: more and more in the duality of life, like I

430
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Speaker 1: can humbly hate myself and confidently love myself on the

431
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: same day. I think I can do that. I think

432
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Speaker 1: I can have a nice balance. I can be enough

433
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Speaker 1: and I can be ambitious. I'm holding space for all things.

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Speaker 1: All right, whatever, Sorry, all right, sorry. I love your

435
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: streams and you've made my life so much better. I

436
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:21,880
Speaker 1: listen to you almost every day, and when you post

437
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: a new episode, it makes me really happy that I

438
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 1: get to listen to stories and advice. Thank you for

439
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: everything that you do, and thanks for not making me

440
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,199
Speaker 1: feel so alone. Thanks Andrea, I love you, Lyle. Thank you.

441
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: Here's a pick of my dog. That's a nice dog. Oh,

442
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: that actually is a nice dog. Here's what happens just now.

443
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 1: I just scrolled down and I prepared myself to say

444
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 1: that's a nice dog, just like as a blanket statement,

445
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 1: and then I actually looked and I was like, oh wait,

446
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: that actually is a nice dog. It is. It's a

447
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,400
Speaker 1: nice dog, and it's a nice photo of the dog.

448
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I don't have the technology to like

449
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: post this on a thing, but it's a nice dog.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to take my word for it. Thank you, Andrea.

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00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: All Right, Albert subject, I want you, Lyle. Body of

452
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: the email says so bad dot dot dot. Well, I

453
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it's you could have that's if you

454
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. If you want to fuck someone, that's

455
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: a bad email to send them. If the if this

456
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: guy really wanted to fuck me, he could have he

457
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 1: could have slid in my DMS a bit better, a

458
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 1: little bit more subtle. I think I don't think this

459
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: guy actually wants me. I think he just wanted to

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Speaker 1: be crass. All right, Liam subject male, episode spelled m

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Speaker 1: M A I L all right, Hi, Lyle, longtime listener,

462
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: first time mailer, slash caller, huge fan. I'm hoping you

463
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: come to Canada, monied Toba, specifically, Where the fuck is that?

464
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 1: Hold on? Let me go on maps, Male, Manitoba. Where

465
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Speaker 1: the hell is Manitoba, Canada? Oh, that's a whole continent,

466
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: it's a whole problem, that's a whole that's a long

467
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Speaker 1: where in Manitoba. I guess Winnipeg. If I was going

468
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,719
Speaker 1: to go, I could. I could reasonably see myself one

469
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 1: day going to Winnipeg. I was about to say, if

470
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Speaker 1: it's like some random place in northern Canada, I'm never

471
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: going to go there, but I could go to Winnipeg

472
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Speaker 1: one day. Who knows? Anyway? All right, Uh, The only

473
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: advice I can give is asking about how to get

474
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Speaker 1: over the nerves of applying for university the only advice

475
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Speaker 1: I can give? Oh, you mean like asking the only

476
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: advice you can ask for? How can I get over

477
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Speaker 1: the nerves of applying for university and moving away from home?

478
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: I've been looking forward to it for as long as

479
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: I can remember, but now that it's time, I am scared.

480
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: How can I get over the nerves of moving away

481
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: from home? Okay, I assume this person is like seventeen

482
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: or eighteen or something, probably eighteen, because they're applying for

483
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: university and moving away from home. Well, look, look, Liam,

484
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: here's the thing. If you really want to, if you

485
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: really want to, you can live in your mom's basement forever.

486
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: You don't have you don't have to. You can just

487
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: live in your mom's basement for I mean, I don't

488
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Speaker 1: know your mom. I don't know if she's gonna kick

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Speaker 1: you out, but it sounds like I'm just gonna make

490
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Speaker 1: assumptions about your life. It sounds like your mom would

491
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Speaker 1: be okay with you living at home forever. But she

492
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: probably I mean quietly, I mean probably quietly, she would

493
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: be pissed off at you and want you to get

494
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Speaker 1: the fuck out of her house. But you could if

495
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Speaker 1: you wanted to. You could be a burden to your

496
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Speaker 1: mother forever. But you don't rip a Liam, I do.

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Speaker 1: I don't know you, Liam, but you're you're a nice

498
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Speaker 1: Canadian fella. I assu. You're eighteen. You're gonna you got

499
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Speaker 1: uh you got a good sixty two years, probably until

500
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Speaker 1: you're dead, maybe even more if you're If you don't,

501
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,239
Speaker 1: I mean you have free health care, so you're probably good.

502
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: You got sixty more, don't. I don't you want more

503
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: out of your life? Don't. You'll want to move out

504
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: of home, but you'll want to have an adventure. You'll

505
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: want to get out of there. This is those nerves.

506
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: This should be it should be excitement. I mean everyone's

507
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: wired differently. Some people they just like their familiar comforts.

508
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: But I don't know Liam' jo oh wait wait, hold on,

509
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Speaker 1: I'm an idiot. I didn't even I'm stupid. I have

510
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: been looking forward to it for as long as I

511
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: can remember. Okay, so you do want it, you've been

512
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Speaker 1: looking forward to it, but now at this time, I'm scared.

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00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: That's good though, That's good. If it wasn't scary to you,

514
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: then it wouldn't be a change and then what what

515
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: you you'd be looking forward to. Nothing, the nervousness and

516
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: the scariness, that's what you've been looking forward to. It's good.

517
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: It's good. It's good to have things in life that

518
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: you're nervous about. Well maybe not maybe not anxious about,

519
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: because some things that in life that you're anxious about,

520
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: but maybe even anxious, maybe even anxiety. Maybe even that's

521
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: good because it just it means that you still care.

522
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: It means that you still give a fucking shit about

523
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: any because it's so easy to just fucking not care

524
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: about anything and get strung out on heroin and whatever.

525
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: It's good. It's good to be nervous. It's good to

526
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: be eighteen and nervous that things might not work out,

527
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: because it means you still care. If you were telling

528
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Speaker 1: me if this email was like, hey, Lyle, longtime listener,

529
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Speaker 1: I watch your Twitter stream every day from my mom's basement,

530
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: where I plan to stay and be comfortable and not

531
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,719
Speaker 1: nervous for until I die, I'd be like, well, this

532
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: guy's fucked, so you're good. I'm not. I'm not worried

533
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: about you, Liam, all right. This is from Puggle Guests.

534
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: This is from Puggle guests. That's a cool name. The

535
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: subject this viewer male episode Hi Therapy, Gecko. I wanted

536
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: to talk because have you heard of Scrappy Brian. He's

537
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: like scrappy do but Brian from Family Guy. I have

538
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: not heard of that, but that's that's cool. This is

539
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: from Sam. There's a picture of me and Sam. Oh

540
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: I met Sam. This is from Richmond, Virginia. I want

541
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, hell yeah, Okay, I remember that. I

542
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: remember that background. Okay, Gek. I sincerely appreciate the energy

543
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: you've put into your endeavors and therefore the world. Thank you.

544
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate that because I really sometimes feel like I

545
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: just sit around and eat food all day. You make

546
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: my eighty minute commute so much easier. What the fuck

547
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: are you commuting eighty minutes for? And I especially want

548
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: to thank you for taking my call back in August.

549
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: I'm Shep from the episode Love Makes Me Impulsive. Okay,

550
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: I don't remember names, but let me go to Love.

551
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: Let me go to the episode because I want to

552
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: remember is this oh crap? Is this crap? I don't which?

553
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: Hold on, Shep, Let me hold on. Let me go

554
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: into my Google drive and look for Shep, because I

555
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: have notes notes on all the podcasts. Ah Shep or Shep?

556
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: Hold on, oh Shep? Oh okay, okay, wait, hold on,

557
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: Maybe I do remember this guy Shep? What like, I crap,

558
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: there were three callers in that episode, and I just

559
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: don't I can't tell which one you are based off

560
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: of just the name. Let me look on the chat,

561
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: this chat, remember any of that? All right?

562
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 2: Well?

563
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: Were you? Were you the caller? All right? Whatever? All right,

564
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: I'm Shep from the episode Love makes Me Impulsive? Were

565
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: you the first caller? Why is this bothering me so much?

566
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: Just for future? I don't remember, I really like, I

567
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: really can't remember anyone based off of just names. But

568
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: if you were, like I'm the guy from the episode

569
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: who talked about this, I'll definitely be able to remember.

570
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: I was an eighty percent chance I'll be able to

571
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: remember it. But anyway, all right, whatever, I'm okay. I'm

572
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 1: Shep from the episode Love makes Me Impulsive. I found

573
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: a job and life is a little better now. If

574
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: we're doing questions in these things, sure, I'd like to

575
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 1: ask if you have any advice on trying to find

576
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: up partner when you live in a small pond. Small

577
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,240
Speaker 1: town romance is not easy at twenty eight years old. Anyway,

578
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: keep being amazing, and I hope I'll see you again.

579
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 1: Meeting you in a Richmond, Virginia as a blast, I

580
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: knew I recognized the background. I attached a pick from

581
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: the meet and greet. I'm proud to report I've lost

582
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 1: forty pounds since this pick. Oh that rocks. Best wishes shep. PS.

583
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: Don't listen to the haters. Your face was not meant

584
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: to be read. All right, Okay, listen, shep I'm just

585
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:42,959
Speaker 1: gonna you what why is move? You've listed multiple things,

586
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you've listed multiple things about where you live

587
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: that sound bad. You have an eighty minute commute, You

588
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: live in a small town where you can't are having

589
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: trouble meeting anyone. Why don't you go somewhere else? Do

590
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: you live in rich Well? Okay, okay, we met at

591
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: the Richmond Virginia show. I'm gonna assume you don't live

592
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 1: in Richmond, Virginia. I'm gonna assume you live eighty minutes

593
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,240
Speaker 1: outside of Richmond, Virginia. When he just moved to Richmond, Virginia,

594
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: there's what's the fucking population of Richmond, Virginia. Richmond's Virginia

595
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: population population. We had an episode. I don't know if

596
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: you guys remember this. Okay, this is a population of

597
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,479
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty thousand people. All right, that's fine.

598
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: We had a fucking episode like a few months ago

599
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: where this woman talked about how she moved to Richmond,

600
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: Virginia and started like a pinball league and started meeting people.

601
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: And I thought that was awesome. So this is move

602
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: that's my suggestion. Just move nothing you've it sounds like

603
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: the small town you live in is bad for your life,

604
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: so wanted you to move. Which caller was it? God?

605
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: Damn it was it? The first one? Was it? The

606
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: one who? Okay, there's three callers. There's one. I remember

607
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 1: the first caller, and that was a guy who almost

608
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: joined a cult. There was a guy who tries to

609
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: say positive after getting fired, and then there was a

610
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: caller who ripped his penis. And you could be any

611
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 1: one of those people. All right, I hope you're doing good, chep.

612
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: Let's keep going all right? Uh, this is Rona. This

613
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: is rona subject line intimate relationship with Zebras. This is

614
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: definitely a troll, but I'm gonna I'm gonna indulge. I'm

615
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: gonna indulge. Hello, therapy Gecko, I need your advice. Me,

616
00:37:54,719 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: a fifty seven year old man on schizophrenia medication, have

617
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: recently developed feelings to zebras I have felt for my

618
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: ex wife, Susan. All right, I'm gonna read this exactly

619
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Speaker 1: as it's written. I don't know what makes me feel

620
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: like it. Maybe it's their stripes that seduce me. In

621
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Speaker 1: my country, what's your country? What's your country? Does anyone

622
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: guess what country this is where they where they have

623
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: sex with zebras. In my country, we have zeos that

624
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: allow people to pet animals, including zebras. Last Saturday, I

625
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: had a fantasy of a zebra saying she will let

626
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: me lick her stripes. And I couldn't help myself. But

627
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Speaker 1: see what it really do? I need to read?

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Speaker 3: I'm I all right.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna read the I'm gonna read you know what.

630
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna finish reading this email because I read the

631
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: rest of it in my head. I'm gonna finish reading

632
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: it aloud so that you all have to read the

633
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: same thing I had to read. Last Saturday, I had

634
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: a fantasy of a zebra saying she will let me

635
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: lick her stripes, and I couldn't help myself. But see whatever,

636
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: it feels like needles to say I am only half

637
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: man now since she kicked me in the balls. I

638
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: think that meant to say, I'm only half man now

639
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: since she kicked me in the balls. But worse, I

640
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 1: got put on the do not enter the zoo list since,

641
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: as they said, I caused a traumatic event to a

642
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: minor by watching, by having him watch me put the

643
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: zebra stripes in my mouth. I don't I have to,

644
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: all right, on this platform, I would like to say

645
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: sorry to my ex wife, Susan Baby, I'm sorry I

646
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: said I would microwave your hamster if he spoke to

647
00:39:55,120 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: me one more time. Thank you, dearly Rona. I this

648
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: could be. This could be a man with schizophrenia. This

649
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: could very well be a man in a foreign country.

650
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: This could very well actually be a fifty seven year

651
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: old man in a foreign country with schizophrenia. I'm let

652
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: me tell you guys something, because let me tell you

653
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: guys something, and this is I'm gonna overall just clarify

654
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: my opinion on trolls in general, because That's one of

655
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: the questions I get a lot, is like, do you

656
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: think that people who call into your show and say

657
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: crazy shit are trolling? And I'm just as the guy

658
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: in the driver's seat who is listening to all this

659
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: stuff and taking it all in and like listening to

660
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: people and sometimes you know, whether life it's a live

661
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: show or a street thing, like looking people in the

662
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:49,280
Speaker 1: eye while they're telling me, I really, I sincerely believe

663
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: there is a greater chance. I don't think this guy

664
00:40:54,800 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: actually like licked a zebra or whatever. There might be

665
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: a half truth. I sincerely believe there's a stronger chance

666
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: that this is a fifty seven year old man with

667
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: schizophrenia and a foreign country. Then it's like a sixteen

668
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: year old in Minnesota who's just bored and fucking with me.

669
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: I feel the I think people tend to air on

670
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 1: like I think people on the Internet tend to air

671
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: on the side of like we're being trolled because they

672
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:35,439
Speaker 1: because they're defensive, because the worst thing that could ever

673
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: happen to someone because for them, the worst thing that

674
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: could ever happen is that they got trolled, is that

675
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 1: someone took them for a ride. You know, I don't

676
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,280
Speaker 1: give a fuck. I will take you at face value

677
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: because I don't really care. If you're taking me for

678
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: a ride. I'm gonna care a little bit. I prefer

679
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: you to not the show works. The best encounters that

680
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: I have doing this are ones where people are completely

681
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: being you know, real and authentic. But I generally err

682
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: on the side of this person is being sincere with me.

683
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: I think ninety six percent of the people I interact

684
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: with doing this are being sincere with me. That's just

685
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: from my perspective in the driver's seat. I believe that

686
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a sixty forty on this guy

687
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: is a fifty seven year old schizophrenic man in a

688
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 1: foreign country. Sixty percent that he is, forty percent that

689
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: he isn't all right, Let's move on. This is from

690
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: Willis subject line, Hey mister Gek, Hey Gek. Hope you're

691
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: doing well. I'm currently procrastinating on my college work, but

692
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,720
Speaker 1: I saw your post and decided to write you an email.

693
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:02,439
Speaker 1: I've been having major imposter syndrome running a club at

694
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: my college. It's a fairly big club, and this is

695
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: my first time doing any form of extra curricular activities.

696
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: That rocks in high school, I never did anything except

697
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,240
Speaker 1: focused on the school rock and Roll. In my freshman

698
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: year of college, I became an intern for the club,

699
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: and this year I took up the president position. Moving

700
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: on up, Willis Is, moving on Up. I took it

701
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: because when me and my fellow interns were picking executive

702
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: board positions, nobody wanted to be president. I mean, I

703
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: don't know why anyone everyone would want to be the

704
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: president of anything. I personally didn't care what position I

705
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: had as long as it wasn't creative based. I decided

706
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: to take one for the team and decided to be president.

707
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: So far, it's been al right, but at times it

708
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: could be stressful. Do you have any forms of advice

709
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: in how to go about this pressor I skipped a

710
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: little bit. I have these phases of feeling good about

711
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, and then other days I feel an

712
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: imposter syndrome, as if I don't belong in the position

713
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: I'm in since I have literally zero leadership experience under

714
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: my belt, and sometimes I feel lost. But everyone says

715
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: I'm doing a great job, although I hope they aren't

716
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: lying to me. Do you have any form of advice

717
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: in terms of how to go about this problem. Overall,

718
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: this is my first time balancing multiple things on my

719
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:18,320
Speaker 1: plate at once, school, extracurriculars, taking care of myself, friends,

720
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: and to this day, I'm still learning how to balance

721
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: this position. By the way, I sorry for my sniffls.

722
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: I'm a little sick. So this is a good time

723
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: to be doing this episode because this way I won't

724
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: get any of the callers sick. I want to be

725
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,760
Speaker 1: able to look in the mirror confidently and be proud

726
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: of where I got to today, but it is hard

727
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,720
Speaker 1: to do when I have no idea what I'm doing

728
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: in a big power position. This I listen, Willis, I

729
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 1: don't what. First of all, Willis, I really appreciate your

730
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: sincerity and I appreciate your problem, But what are you

731
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: the president of? You're like like that, what do you

732
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: what do you first? Okay, as a freshman in college,

733
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,240
Speaker 1: I just need you to know you, as a freshman

734
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: in college, there was no club that you could be

735
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: the president of that you could sincerely refer to as

736
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: a big power position. And I don't mean that to

737
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 1: be offensive. I'm hoping to me, I really mean that

738
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 1: as like I really mean that as like, uh, you know,

739
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: it's just relax, man, It's all good. You're gonna be okay.

740
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: I just don't what are you the president of where

741
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: you're making giant positions as a freshman and where you're

742
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 1: making like giant decisions. Also, I hope you can come

743
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: back to Charlotte, North Carolina. One day I met you

744
00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: and wish I got to talk to more, but I

745
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:42,399
Speaker 1: was too nervous. Love the show last year, didn would

746
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: come to the one this year, and he sent a

747
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: little picture what's up? Willis? I guess? Well, okay, I

748
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: mean that's my one thing is like, listen, Brot, you're

749
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: the you're a freshman in college and you're the president

750
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 1: of some club. You're fine. If you're the president of

751
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: the United States, maybe you would have a little bit

752
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: improcess syndrome. Maybe there's a little bit more room to

753
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: be feeling crazy. But like, you're fine. I'm just reading

754
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: this and I'm like, dude, you're fine. You're fine. How

755
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,760
Speaker 1: do I balance school, extracurriculars, taking care of myself, relationships, friends?

756
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 3: I have?

757
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: Okay, I have some real advice. Actually, because I'm thinking

758
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: about this, just identify, like you got an eighty twenty

759
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: your life dude, you got a eighty twenty your life,

760
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: so like think about you. Guys, know what the eighty

761
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: twenty principle is. I've been thinking about it a lot.

762
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: It actually is like fucking genius. It changed my life

763
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: when I started thinking about it. Twenty percent of the

764
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 1: work that you do in your life is responsible for

765
00:46:55,960 --> 00:47:00,040
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the actual results in your life. But

766
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is, let's say that, like

767
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: you like feel stretched thin by like all of your

768
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: like relationships and all your friendships and like people fucking

769
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: texting you and whatever. Just pick like the few people

770
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 1: that you really fucking like and just like make sure

771
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: you're keeping in good contact with them, and you're fine.

772
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: Let's say you have a bunch of schoolwork and a

773
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: bunch of extracurriculars and a bunch of whatever. Just pick

774
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: the like twenty percent of the It basically means, like,

775
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: of all the bullshit that you fucking put yourself through

776
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, only twenty percent of it like

777
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: really matter, like really, just like just boil it all

778
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: down to what really fucking matters, what really moves the

779
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 1: needle forward in your life, and when you really like

780
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: when you ask that question scathingly. You strip everything away.

781
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: You're kind of like, oh, it's not that much. So

782
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 1: I would do that. I would go, uh, what's what's

783
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,839
Speaker 1: his name? Willis? If you're Willis, look up the eighty

784
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: twenty principle. Also, just you fine, dude, fucking he didn't

785
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:19,760
Speaker 1: even say what this club is. I hope him listening

786
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: to me saying that he's fine and that this thing.

787
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I feel like he's like I'm in this

788
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: club and I'm just sitting here like what you care

789
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: about doesn't matter. But I'm not saying that from a

790
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:34,400
Speaker 1: place of like like how do I put this? I

791
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 1: think I put it? Okay, you get me? Fine, dude,

792
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: just live your life. Just be happy, don't be stressed

793
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: out all the time. I know that that's such blanket

794
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: fucking bullshit advice, but look up, look up the eighty

795
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: twenty principle. Just take twenty percent. I do this with

796
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: my like, like, I'll give you an example, like I was,

797
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: you know, I want to maintain I have a goal

798
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: of maintaining my gecko thing that I do. And it's like,

799
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: what of all the like random bull crap that I

800
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: could be running around doing to like do my job.

801
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: They're they're really only like twenty percent of what I

802
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: do is like actually important, And I've noticed the things

803
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: that are actually important in my job is anything that

804
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: involves like actually making stuff like this podcast. Like the

805
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: only things that really matter are like having interesting conversations

806
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: with people and making sure that the podcast is good

807
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: and like posting clips of it so that people can

808
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,320
Speaker 1: find out about it. Everything else is kind of bullshit,

809
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:51,720
Speaker 1: Like having a like like having like a funny twitch

810
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: notification background thing is like it's like it's stupid. Like

811
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: I've just focused on the things that actually matter, and

812
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: that's like me being present when I'm doing this and

813
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 1: uh me caring about uh the the actual like creative

814
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: what I'm doing and like answering random emails and like

815
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: looking at looking my and looking myself up on Reddit

816
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: are things that don't actually fucking do anything. So I'm

817
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,760
Speaker 1: just relegating it to the only the things that matter,

818
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: all right, anyway, Okay, let's Smooth's keep going. How long

819
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: have I been going? For fifty one minutes? It seems

820
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: I could keep I'm just I mean, I don't think

821
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get through all the emails. Should I do this.

822
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 1: Should I do this in two parts? Let's see how this,

823
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: Let's see if people like this, and then maybe I'll

824
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: do this. I mean, I like this. I'm people I

825
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: want to keep doing. This is fun. I've only got

826
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: through like a few of these emails, and I have

827
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: a billion more. All right, Oh, this one's fun. Joey.

828
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: This is from Joey. Subject line you interrupted me having sex?

829
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: Joey says, about two years ago, me and my girlfriend

830
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: were trying to get into your show, so we called

831
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: and we were waiting for some time, I don't remember

832
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: how long, probably an hour or so. While we were

833
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: on hold. We were in bed chillin' watching TV with

834
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: the volume low so we could hear you if you

835
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: picked up. Eventually, we forgot we were on hold, and

836
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 1: we ended up having sex, and probably like six to

837
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: seven minutes and two positions in, you answered the phone,

838
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 1: and we heard the voice and stopped, and it took

839
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: a few seconds for us to remember that we called,

840
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,320
Speaker 1: and my girlfriend hopped up and answered the phone. Since

841
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: she was the one calling with the story, I don't

842
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: want to tell you who the caller was because it

843
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: was a pretty personal story of hers. That's kind of

844
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 1: funny that she wanted to talk to me more than

845
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 1: she wanted to have sex with you in that moment.

846
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:18,439
Speaker 1: Moving on, this is from Cain. Have you ever played

847
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 1: The Binding of Isaac? I have? If so, let me know.

848
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: If not, you should try it out. Love Kin from

849
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 1: the UK. What's up, Kine, I have played The Binding.

850
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 1: I played it a long time ago. Fuck. I must

851
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: have played that game when I was in middle school.

852
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: How old is that game? Let me look it up?

853
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: The Binding of Isaac twenty eleven. Yeah, I played this

854
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: when I was in middle school, like on the Xbox.

855
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: It's a roguelike rogue let me I'm an now, I'm

856
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 1: at ale. Wikipedia page for roguelike you have like procedural gennera.

857
00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:05,280
Speaker 1: I guess I played Hades Hades and I played Hades

858
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: and that game was I didn't like it. I didn't

859
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: like that game. I don't really like roguelikes, and I

860
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: don't really remember loving the Binding adviser either, But thank

861
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: you for asking me if I have played this video game,

862
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: and thanks for messaging from the UK. Kane all right,

863
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: this is from Brian or Briah. Words for you to

864
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: read is the subject line, Hello Gek, I am nineteen

865
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: and from the UK. I'm not sure how these email

866
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: things work. Yet you're talking like you're from the fucking

867
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:43,720
Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds, as you just posted as you only posted

868
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: it on your Instagram. But I've been listening to you

869
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,800
Speaker 1: for years, every single episode besides the gek legend ones

870
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: because I don't know how to transfer Oh okay, they're saying,

871
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: because I don't know how to okay. I've listened to

872
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: every episode except the bonus ones because I don't know

873
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: how to transfer pounds to dollars online. I don't know

874
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,919
Speaker 1: how to do that either. Anyway, I suppose I wanted

875
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 1: to talk about my struggles and seek your advice. I've

876
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: been home bound for three years now. I suffer from

877
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: horrible anxiety that I've always had since I was little,

878
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: and I find it really hard to get a job,

879
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: as my panic attacks can lead to vomiting, and that's

880
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: not very good out in public. Since I've been alone

881
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: and away from everything for so long, I've probably become

882
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: even worse. I don't have any friends, and I don't

883
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: know how to make them. I live on a small

884
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: island and don't talk to anyone from school anymore, so

885
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: it's hard to make friends. I just wonder if there's

886
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: any hope for me to be honest. Each day that

887
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:41,319
Speaker 1: goes by lowers my mood and I'm getting lonelier every day,

888
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:43,239
Speaker 1: and I just don't know what to do. I'm in

889
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,720
Speaker 1: counseling and take medication for mental health already. Okay, getting

890
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: a job is super hard, but I've been pushing myself

891
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 1: and trying my hardest. I really want to be able

892
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: to move out in the future, as my household can

893
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: be toxic sometimes, but I have no idea how I

894
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:58,480
Speaker 1: will get money in this economy. Any thoughts side note,

895
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,399
Speaker 1: I'm going to your November show, Clapham. I'm a massive fan.

896
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: Love you well, Briah. Well, okay, I mean, have I

897
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: have some thoughts? I mean, just over I feel bad

898
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: for this person. It's a tough like just health issues

899
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:19,840
Speaker 1: fucking suck. I know that's not the most poignant takeaway

900
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: from this, but that's just what I feel. Is like, man,

901
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 1: fucking hmm. Okay, so you're going to my show in life, Okay,

902
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 1: so you can leave the house. I'm curious. This is

903
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 1: what I'm curious about. So so you're you You're going

904
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 1: to my show, So you can leave the house enough

905
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: that you can like go to a show. I'm gonna assume,

906
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: because you're saying you're going to my show, that you

907
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:47,439
Speaker 1: can leave the house enough. You can leave the Okay,

908
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: you can leave the house and go to a crowded

909
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: like event a theater. Do you have You're saying that

910
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,319
Speaker 1: you have ability to do that? So like, do you

911
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: are you? You say, I'm pretty home bound. This is

912
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,360
Speaker 1: why I want to follow up questions for this person.

913
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: And I'm just trying to make inferences from what they're

914
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:14,439
Speaker 1: saying to me. And the inference is that they're going

915
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: to my show, which means that they can leave the

916
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: house if they want to. I guess that's just hard.

917
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,439
Speaker 1: That's what I'm wondering. That's what I got it. Damn.

918
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:29,400
Speaker 1: If I could talk to this person, I'd be like,

919
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: that's what I don't get. If they're coming to my show,

920
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:37,319
Speaker 1: it means that they can summon the energy occasionally to

921
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,879
Speaker 1: leave the house. Okay, I'm gonna assume that they can

922
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: do that. So my here's my thought. Sorry I still

923
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: have the sniffles. My thought is, I mean, you're nineteen,

924
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 1: you have sixty one years until you're dead, maybe more

925
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 1: because you're in the UK. I feel like in the

926
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:04,280
Speaker 1: UK there's a lot of like ninety year old British people.

927
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,720
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of British people are old.

928
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 1: All right. If I were you, I would summon whatever

929
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: energy you can, even if it's not a lot, even

930
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: if it's once a month, whatever energy you can summon

931
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: to leave the house and do some shit. Just try

932
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: just like take it like audit audit your energy, Audit

933
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: what you feel like you audit like the bare minimum

934
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: of what you feel like you can do, and just

935
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 1: start doing that. My panic at taxically developmenting. That's not

936
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: very but I'm like, what triggers your panic that I

937
00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: want to man, this is this is one of the

938
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: one where I wish I could talk to because I

939
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: want to know what your real therapist says how to

940
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: get money in this economy. I don't know. The economy

941
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: is fucked. I mean maybe it's better in the UK.

942
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 1: It's that you can move out when you're only nineteen.

943
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 1: You can you can probably live at your parent's house

944
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: for another five years and just save up money and

945
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 1: get some kind of whatever fucking job. I live on

946
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: a small island, do they have little jobs on the

947
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: little islands that you can you can work while you're

948
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 1: living in your parents house, while it's save up some money.

949
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: I don't I can't get over the fact that, like,

950
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 1: this person's going to my show, which means that they

951
00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 1: can leave the house when they want to. It seems

952
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: even if it's like even if it's like it takes.

953
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that in a sense of like, oh,

954
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 1: they're fucking lying. I'm saying that in a sense of,

955
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: like this we have evidence that if this person, this

956
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 1: person can hold it together enough to go to a

957
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: thing if they want to. So I'm like, how often

958
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: can they do that? Can they do that? Like Malta?

959
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 1: Can you can you go? Can you leave your house

960
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: once a week and go to a show, go to

961
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: an event? I mean, I'm doing this ship in London.

962
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 1: You can leave the house and go to London to

963
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 1: go to my show? Can you do that once a month?

964
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: Go to London and go to like a fu? Like,

965
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: what do you like? Do you like music? Do you

966
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 1: like comedy? Do you like art? I mean you're near,

967
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: You're you're near enough to fucking London, like a major,

968
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:43,479
Speaker 1: major city. Can you get out can you put how

969
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: often can you realistically put yourself out there? I don't know.

970
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what's the chat. Think someone said you

971
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: can go to a park or your front yard for free.

972
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: But that's by the way, that's a real fuck, that's

973
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: so real. What this person like like, Okay, you know,

974
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: make sure maybe I'm just like maybe I'm on the

975
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: thing of like, uh oh, you got to go into

976
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 1: London and go to like a crazy thing, but you

977
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 1: should literally just try getting out of the house and

978
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 1: walking around your neighborhood often, just like leave, just leave,

979
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 1: Just walk outside as much as you physically feel like

980
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: you can. That's the best I got. That's the best

981
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 1: I guy. That's what I do when I'm going in Sands,

982
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 1: I just leave. And I'm trying to make I'm trying

983
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:33,479
Speaker 1: to make more friends too, and that's what I just leave.

984
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 1: Just leave the house because sometimes because sometimes a lot

985
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 1: of these issues, like even if you leave the house

986
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 1: and you don't make any new friends, you kind of

987
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 1: just feel better that you tried, right, You just feel

988
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: better that you tried. So again, if you can leave

989
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: your house in November to go to my show in London,

990
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: just just keep leaving in your house. Just keep them

991
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:06,479
Speaker 1: in your house. Briah, good luck. What's the chat say?

992
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 1: London is mad expensive? I'm sure it is. I'm sure

993
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 1: it's a whole I was thinking that too. I was like,

994
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 1: it's probably a crazy money thing. But what the other

995
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:15,960
Speaker 1: person in the chat said is accurate. Where it's like

996
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 1: you can also just walk outside. All right, how long

997
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 1: have I been going? For an hour? Okay, I kind

998
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: of want to keep going. Let's see. I'm checking Twitch.

999
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: I want to see how many people are watching this live.

1000
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,439
Speaker 1: I want to see if it's less that's about the same.

1001
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: I'm having fun. I'm enjoying doing this. I'm gonna keep

1002
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: making episodes of your male if I Even if this

1003
01:01:55,840 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: gets less downloads, I'm still gonna do it. Or maybe

1004
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: I won't, I don't know, but uh, I'm having fun.

1005
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: I'm having fun. That's what matters. I'm having fun. I'm

1006
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: feeling like this is good, this is a good thing

1007
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:14,760
Speaker 1: to do. Let's keep let's keep doing it, all right?

1008
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:19,760
Speaker 1: All right? All right? This from Liam. I'm a bartender,

1009
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 1: and I have been for quite a while now. People

1010
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: often don't realize how often bartenders in general are on

1011
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: a substance and how often we fuck with annoying customers drinks. Jesus.

1012
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: I've had multiple co workers who most of the time

1013
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 1: are either drunk, high, or in some kind of mind

1014
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 1: altering shift. Mind are some kind of mind altering state

1015
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 1: on a shift. One of them once took a tab

1016
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: of acid the night before a morning shift, and he

1017
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 1: was slightly feeling the effects when he came into work.

1018
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 1: Wasn't good, I'll tell you that. Also, if you're a

1019
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 1: rude customer like the five percent, then there's a chance

1020
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:06,200
Speaker 1: you've drank something watered down with spitting it or a

1021
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: dirty glass. Oh my god, I wish I'm forwarding this

1022
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: email to John Tafford because this is not cool. Uh.

1023
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: I mean whatever, you want to water something down, but

1024
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: don't fucking spit in it. Jesus. All right, Connor, This

1025
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 1: is from Connor. Subject line Hell yeah, right now, dear lyle,

1026
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 1: right now. I'm supposed to be at work installing appliances

1027
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:30,560
Speaker 1: in an old folks home, but instead I am writing

1028
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:34,640
Speaker 1: to you. What are your top three least favorite candies?

1029
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 1: Thank you for asking this question. By the way, loved

1030
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,320
Speaker 1: meeting you at the show in Pittsburgh. You killed it,

1031
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir Lisle. Oh then he wrote me a poem,

1032
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 1: Lile Isle crocodile, hope your name is not on file Jesus,

1033
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: I hope you find a very nice rock to live

1034
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 1: out your gecko life. That's not what I thought he

1035
01:03:55,680 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: was going to rhyme rock with and fold neatly your

1036
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:05,640
Speaker 1: gecko's socks gek bless love connor uh least favorite candies.

1037
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go licorice? Uh red vines. I think redvines

1038
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:20,600
Speaker 1: are disgusting. They're like they're like Twizzlers but with no flavor.

1039
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:24,479
Speaker 1: Uh black? Oh wait? What was what did I first saying?

1040
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 1: Uh wait? What? Red vines? Black? Licorice and maybe like

1041
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: hard butterscotch still gets too much in your teeth? It

1042
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 1: is from Eddie subject line would you be mad? It

1043
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:48,440
Speaker 1: is from Eddie? Hi, my name's Eddie. Would it piss

1044
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:52,080
Speaker 1: you off? If I wore a penguin costume and broke

1045
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 1: bad news to people on like stream and stuff? No?

1046
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 1: Seeing you do this stuff really motivated me to want

1047
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:01,680
Speaker 1: to do something similar, But I wouldn't do it. I

1048
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to do it if it would make you

1049
01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:06,960
Speaker 1: upset or make me make you think I'm copying you.

1050
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: Let me know, because I wanted your opinion before I

1051
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 1: started doing it. No, this wouldn't make me mad. This

1052
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: is I get a dude. I get emails like this

1053
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 1: sometimes where people are like, hey, man, I love what

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01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 1: you do. I was wondering if I could start a

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01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: call in show. I don't really want to like encroach

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01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 1: on your turf. And it's like, guys, people have been

1057
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 1: doing First of all, people have been doing call in

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01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:35,720
Speaker 1: shows since like the forever they've I did not invent

1059
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 1: doing call in radio. You know, that's been a thing

1060
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 1: since like the I'm making this up. That's been a

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01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 1: thing since like the seventies. But probably I don't know,

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01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 1: I don't know who. I don't know who did the

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01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 1: first call in the show, but I did not create it.

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01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 1: And then the whole thing of like doing it in

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01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 1: a costume. Uh, dude, here's the thing at this here's

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01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 1: the thing at this point in my journey of doing this,

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01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:06,880
Speaker 1: I don't if you, dude, if you want to dress

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01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 1: up as a gecko, and if you want to make

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01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: a YouTube channel and dress up like a gecko and

1070
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:18,640
Speaker 1: call yourself therapy gecko and start taking phone calls and

1071
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:21,920
Speaker 1: saying I'm the therapy gecko. I'm it's not gonna change

1072
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 1: my day to day life. I don't care. I really don't.

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01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 1: It's really not gonna change. I'm still gonna do my podcast.

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01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 1: Whoever's listening to it is still it's still probably gonna

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01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: listen to it. Maybe maybe they'll like yours too. I

1076
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't care. It's not I'm not like,

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01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect me if you also wear a animal

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01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 1: costume and take phone calls. I don't. I don't care.

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01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:51,480
Speaker 1: I have here's the thing, and I'm gonna I'm gonna

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01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:55,000
Speaker 1: get pretentious for a second. I have my own personal

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01:06:56,520 --> 01:07:02,920
Speaker 1: methodology of conducting this show. I have my own brain

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01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: and lived experience that I use to do it. As

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01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:11,520
Speaker 1: do you, As do you, Eddie. You have your own

1084
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:14,680
Speaker 1: methodology to how you want to do your penguin shit.

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01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 1: You have your own lived experience, You have your own brain.

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01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:20,520
Speaker 1: And those are the things. The fucking the costume and

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01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 1: the phone calls, those aren't the things they're gonna make

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01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:28,440
Speaker 1: people wanna listen to your shit. It's it's it's you,

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01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 1: you know, and you and you can't be me. I'm

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01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: the only guy who's me, and I can't be you.

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01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:36,840
Speaker 1: You're the only guy that's you. So I don't give

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01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 1: a fuck if you wanna. I mean, other people might

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01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 1: get mad. Other people might be like, why you like

1094
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: not the penguin thing? Do the penguin thing. Don't care.

1095
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 1: But if you dress up like a geck and you

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01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:46,720
Speaker 1: call yourself therapy Gecko, other people might get mad at you.

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01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 1: But I won't go ahead, I'll do it. I'll be like,

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01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 1: this is a fucking it. Just it just won't affect me,

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01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 1: I don't think. So, I mean, go ahead, Eddie, do

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01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 1: whatever you want. Wear a penguin costume, go where where?

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01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 1: I seriously. I also, I hope I mean this. I

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01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 1: hope that your penguin costume stream makes you happy and

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01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 1: it's fun, and I hope you make a lot of

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01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:15,120
Speaker 1: money doing it, and I hope you get really famous,

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01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:19,639
Speaker 1: and I really and I all of those things could

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01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 1: happen to you, and none of them would affect me

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01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:24,519
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, and I would be

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01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: I would be stoked for you, Eddie. So so please

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01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:41,960
Speaker 1: do your penguin show. All right, Uh, let's keep going.

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01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:45,160
Speaker 1: What's how long? Maybe I could do like if it's

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01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 1: been an hour and nine minute, I could do Like, yeah, fuck,

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01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:50,040
Speaker 1: I'll keep I'll do a few more. I'll do a

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01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:55,799
Speaker 1: few more. All right, where are we at? Uh? Okay,

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01:08:57,439 --> 01:09:00,680
Speaker 1: this is from ABD subject line. I saw my grandma

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01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:06,640
Speaker 1: pleasuring herself body. It was fucking terrifying and scary and

1116
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:09,679
Speaker 1: low key. My life ain't going to be the same anymore,

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01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:15,840
Speaker 1: all right. So there's more of a chance that the

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01:09:16,360 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 1: fifty seven year old schizophrenic guy who wants to fuck

1119
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:23,519
Speaker 1: Zebras is telling the truth than this person is telling

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01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 1: the truth. If this person wrote more than one sentence

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01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:33,519
Speaker 1: about it, maybe I'd believe them. But fucking maybe they did.

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01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:36,439
Speaker 1: Maybe they saw their grandma pleasuring herself. You know what,

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01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this at face value. I'm gonna actually

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01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 1: answer this. This is they just called themselves a b D. Listen, ABD,

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01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:46,479
Speaker 1: your grandmother how old your granda? Your grandma's probably like

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01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 1: eighty seven, seventy eighty. You should be happy for your

1127
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:56,360
Speaker 1: grandma that she's still because your grandfather, your grandma, and

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01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: your grand I don't know anything about your grandma. Your

1129
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: grandfather might be dead and your grandmother might have been

1130
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 1: dead for a long time, in which case, your grandma

1131
01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:06,920
Speaker 1: has not had sex for a long long time. And

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01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:10,040
Speaker 1: as much as we'd like to believe that when we

1133
01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 1: get older we stop being horny, I don't think that's true.

1134
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:16,280
Speaker 1: I think if you're horny, you're just fucking horny forever,

1135
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 1: and it never fucking goes away. And so your grandma

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01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,679
Speaker 1: is horny, and she's she's jerking to let her fucking

1137
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:28,200
Speaker 1: jerk off. Dude, she raised your parents. She probably helped

1138
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 1: you out a little bit, raise you, I used to you. Okay,

1139
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 1: so you guys probably live in the same fucking house.

1140
01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:35,280
Speaker 1: She probably helped you out in some way, shape or form.

1141
01:10:35,360 --> 01:10:37,840
Speaker 1: Let your grandma jerk off. Why do you care if

1142
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:41,519
Speaker 1: your grandma's jerking off, Let it jernk off. You know,

1143
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:47,760
Speaker 1: hire her a like an escort or something if you

1144
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: really want to not watch her jerk off? All right? Uh,

1145
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 1: this is from Audrey. Hey, uh pissed story. That's what

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01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 1: the That's what it's says. Hi. My name is Joy.

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01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well, hi Joy, my name is Joy. I

1148
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:12,519
Speaker 1: am so over COVID. Oh wait, no, no, no, no, that's

1149
01:11:12,560 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 1: not what it says. That's not what it says. Hi, Okay,

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01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 1: I thought it said I am so over COVID. What

1151
01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 1: she meant to write was, Hi, my name is Joe

1152
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:23,320
Speaker 1: so over covid comma. Okay, Hi, my name is Joy

1153
01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:27,400
Speaker 1: so over covid Comma. I worked at FedEx. I was

1154
01:11:27,439 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 1: only there two months, but I made a mark. So

1155
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 1: I was on the belt lines where you got to

1156
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 1: load trucks and shit, and the drivers don't have bathrooms,

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01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 1: so they're pissing in gatorade bottles and shit. It grossed

1158
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:41,719
Speaker 1: me out. It's one thing to piss in a bottle,

1159
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:44,800
Speaker 1: but to not throw it away is gross af You

1160
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 1: know what, I'll give you that, as a guy who's

1161
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:48,920
Speaker 1: pissed in many bottles and kept them for no reason,

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01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:52,240
Speaker 1: I'll give you that. I'd complain to my manager basically

1163
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:54,200
Speaker 1: every day, and I'd be told to either ignore it

1164
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:58,720
Speaker 1: and work in close proximity to the piss or to

1165
01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 1: dispose of it myself. That's fucked up. Your boss was

1166
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 1: just like, if you don't like it, why don't you

1167
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: throw them away yourself? Goddamn all right? That shit made

1168
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 1: me mad. This one faithful day, I came across a

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01:12:14,479 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 1: huge plastic strawberry Kiwi Snapple bottle completely filled with piss.

1170
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: So I kicked the bottle off the platform and wedged

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01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:27,799
Speaker 1: the bottle beneath the tire of a truck I was loading.

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01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:33,280
Speaker 1: The trucks leave like an hour after we load. The

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01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 1: next morning, I noticed all the drivers were in meetings.

1174
01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:38,840
Speaker 1: Mind you, there were like six hundred people working at

1175
01:12:38,880 --> 01:12:46,160
Speaker 1: this facility. Everyone was talking about the mysterious piss plosion. Okay,

1176
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:51,559
Speaker 1: So she strategically kicked the bottle of piss underneath the

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01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 1: tire of a truck so that the truck would explode

1178
01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:57,800
Speaker 1: the piss bottle. The last few weeks I was there,

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01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:59,840
Speaker 1: I didn't see a single piss bottle. Okay, So Base

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01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 1: she caused a piss explosion that was kind of like

1181
01:13:03,680 --> 01:13:10,760
Speaker 1: the uh, the Oppenheimer bomb that ended the war. Essentially,

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01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 1: she she dropped a war ending nuclear piss bomb on

1183
01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: this situation. That just got everyone to be like, we're

1184
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:23,640
Speaker 1: not playing around anymore with the piss. Also, I love you,

1185
01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:30,000
Speaker 1: Lyle Greenheart. You know I uh, you're taking matters into

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01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 1: your own hands. Joy. I respect that this is from

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01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:45,400
Speaker 1: Jade uh subject line final words uh, Hello Gek. I've

1188
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:47,200
Speaker 1: wanted to call in to talk to you, but I

1189
01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:52,280
Speaker 1: don't understand time zones with my busy schedule. Once I'm

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01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:58,200
Speaker 1: home from work, my brain is soup. I have a funny,

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01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 1: sad story of one of the fire conversations with my

1192
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:05,720
Speaker 1: grandfather that many listeners would love. Most of us have

1193
01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 1: been hit with the financial hardships of twenty twenty four,

1194
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 1: and I was feeling it early on in the year

1195
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:13,640
Speaker 1: as my family was getting together to celebrate yet another Christmas.

1196
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:16,880
Speaker 1: Growing up, I was always encouraged to be artistic by

1197
01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:20,719
Speaker 1: my grandparents. My grandmother was always showing me new crafty tricks.

1198
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:23,759
Speaker 1: She thought it would be worthwhile to share her party

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01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 1: trick with me at a young age. I was about

1200
01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:28,800
Speaker 1: five when I discovered I could do her party trick

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01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 1: as well. Oh God, I hope it's not the same

1202
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:36,240
Speaker 1: party trick as the other guys, Grandma. This trick being

1203
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:42,479
Speaker 1: writing people's names using my feet. This on its own

1204
01:14:42,520 --> 01:14:44,799
Speaker 1: can get some good laughs from everyone. But as an adult,

1205
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 1: I've thought about how I could turn that into a business. Oh,

1206
01:14:47,640 --> 01:14:50,640
Speaker 1: you can turn that into a business, all right, you

1207
01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:57,360
Speaker 1: can definitely turn that into a business. I don't know

1208
01:14:57,360 --> 01:15:01,640
Speaker 1: if it'll be the kind of business, but if your

1209
01:15:01,680 --> 01:15:04,479
Speaker 1: answer if the question is can you turn that into

1210
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 1: a business? The answer is is definitely a yes. There's

1211
01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 1: lots of websites where people will pay you to write

1212
01:15:12,560 --> 01:15:21,960
Speaker 1: their name with your feet. Uh. Okay uh. I'm joking

1213
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: with my grandpa about selling feet picks since my art

1214
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:27,599
Speaker 1: business hasn't been gaining traction like I thought it would.

1215
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 1: My boyfriend chimed in and said he'd buy the camera

1216
01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: for it and help take the videos. That's a that's

1217
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:39,679
Speaker 1: a that's a that's a good boyfriend. Everyone was laughing

1218
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 1: about how they'd helped support me and my feet pick endeavor,

1219
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:46,479
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't look at my content. Well. Flash forward

1220
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:48,599
Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks and I get the heart

1221
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:53,640
Speaker 1: wrenching call that my grandpa had unexpectedly dropped dead. Is

1222
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 1: this a story about a woman who starts off foot

1223
01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 1: only fans to honor her dead grandfather? I have to

1224
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:05,639
Speaker 1: read the rest of the email at the time. I will.

1225
01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:08,400
Speaker 1: At the time, I wasn't reminiscing on our last conversation,

1226
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:11,919
Speaker 1: but once the memorial came and I was around my cousins,

1227
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:14,160
Speaker 1: I figured that would be a great time to share it.

1228
01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 1: Sure put a smile on our faces during such a

1229
01:16:16,360 --> 01:16:23,360
Speaker 1: crappy time. Moral of the story is, you never know

1230
01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 1: when it will be your last time seeing someone, so

1231
01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:27,559
Speaker 1: make sure you give them something to smile about. Side note,

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01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 1: can you ask chat if they'd buy personalized feet names.

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01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:34,600
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ask Chat. The answer is yes. The

1234
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:38,120
Speaker 1: answer is yes. If you really want to do this,

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01:16:38,960 --> 01:16:41,880
Speaker 1: there will be a market for it. Thanks for having

1236
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:48,880
Speaker 1: a great show. I've listened almost every podcast. Thank you, Jade. Yeah,

1237
01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:51,040
Speaker 1: this is a market for this. This is an established

1238
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:58,000
Speaker 1: market for this. Someone in the chat said personally, no,

1239
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:04,599
Speaker 1: but I bet someone will. I I double that sentiment.

1240
01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 1: All right, this is from Finn. How much? How long

1241
01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 1: have I been doing this? Maybe I'll do a few more.

1242
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll go up to an hour and a half.

1243
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:17,600
Speaker 1: By the way, please please let me know in the

1244
01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:19,880
Speaker 1: comments if you want me to do more of these.

1245
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 1: I want to do more of them. I'm having fun.

1246
01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,880
Speaker 1: I have sixty six unready emails that I got to

1247
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:28,160
Speaker 1: get to and maybe I'll just do this. I kind

1248
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:32,719
Speaker 1: of want to do a part two of this because

1249
01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:35,280
Speaker 1: I have a bunch more emails to read, and so

1250
01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: maybe I'll do Maybe I'll do like once a week.

1251
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: It would be cool. I could do like, you know,

1252
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:41,240
Speaker 1: I put out two of these a week. Maybe I

1253
01:17:41,240 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 1: could do one solo one and one one kind of

1254
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:50,799
Speaker 1: dear abby ish viewer mail one and then one phone

1255
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:54,760
Speaker 1: call one per week. Maybe not every week, I don't know.

1256
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:56,320
Speaker 1: Let me know what you think, let me know what

1257
01:17:56,360 --> 01:18:01,080
Speaker 1: you'd listen to. All right, hold on, this is kind

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01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:03,920
Speaker 1: of a long email, so oh crap, I say the

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01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:10,599
Speaker 1: person's name already. All right, alright, This from Gene, subject

1260
01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:17,559
Speaker 1: line how to get over bisexual men. Hello, I am

1261
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:21,240
Speaker 1: addicted to bisexual men. I don't know if I can

1262
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,160
Speaker 1: go back to straight men? Please? How do I get

1263
01:18:24,200 --> 01:18:26,960
Speaker 1: over these bisexuals? All they know how to do is lie?

1264
01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 1: This is stupid. Why just be whoever you're whoever? You

1265
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:41,160
Speaker 1: fucking you're fine. I don't I know this person. I

1266
01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 1: feel like such a lame o because a lot of

1267
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:45,720
Speaker 1: these I know that they're joking, and I don't want

1268
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: to come in being like I know that these people

1269
01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:52,080
Speaker 1: are joking, but I don't want to come in being

1270
01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:58,640
Speaker 1: like whatever, I'm gonna do it anyway, okay, obviously not

1271
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 1: all No, it's so annoying this person's joking. I don't

1272
01:19:02,040 --> 01:19:04,000
Speaker 1: I'm never mind, I'm not gonna do this because when

1273
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:08,200
Speaker 1: you my only retort is going to be something sincere

1274
01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:13,520
Speaker 1: and I can't fight someone joking with someone with sincerity.

1275
01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, this is from Jorge or George. Sorry,

1276
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:28,320
Speaker 1: all right? The subject line is peak season. Hello. I

1277
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:30,439
Speaker 1: already hate my job and how boring it is and

1278
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:34,120
Speaker 1: how worse it got after a year of being here.

1279
01:19:34,360 --> 01:19:36,000
Speaker 1: I don't talk to anybody at all, and I just

1280
01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:38,320
Speaker 1: fester in my thoughts most of the time. I hate it,

1281
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:41,880
Speaker 1: but I start getting bored of podcasts and music at

1282
01:19:41,880 --> 01:19:43,479
Speaker 1: this point, and I don't know what to do about it.

1283
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:46,920
Speaker 1: Peak season might be the end of me. I decay.

1284
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 1: It depends how I feel, But most of the time

1285
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:51,040
Speaker 1: it's this, Do you have any advice so I don't

1286
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 1: go insane in my head during peak season November to December,

1287
01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:58,400
Speaker 1: I might start relying on weed. But it's a dumb

1288
01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:06,719
Speaker 1: fucking idea. As someone who does drugs to get through life,

1289
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:10,240
Speaker 1: it's not a good idea. I don't. I have so much.

1290
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:12,240
Speaker 1: I really actually want to help this person, but I

1291
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:15,439
Speaker 1: don't I have I don't know if I can give

1292
01:20:15,479 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 1: this person accurate feedback, if without knowing what their job is,

1293
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:25,559
Speaker 1: or if they have any savings or where they live

1294
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:35,320
Speaker 1: or what they like or any of that shit. Yeah,

1295
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:43,720
Speaker 1: Do I have any advice so you don't go insane? Well,

1296
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:46,519
Speaker 1: ideally you're living a life that doesn't drive you insane

1297
01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:49,280
Speaker 1: all the time, but you do need money to live,

1298
01:20:51,400 --> 01:20:53,679
Speaker 1: and so I'm just like, how can you make money

1299
01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:57,000
Speaker 1: to live while not going insane all the time? But

1300
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,040
Speaker 1: in order to answer that question, I feel like i'd

1301
01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 1: have to talk to you. I'm optimistic, though, I think

1302
01:21:03,840 --> 01:21:07,920
Speaker 1: it's possible, So I don't know. I'm gonna skip this one.

1303
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: Do you have any vice on not going insane? I'm

1304
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:14,799
Speaker 1: gonna skip this one. Just smoke weed and you'll be fine. No, don't, actually,

1305
01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:18,880
Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna do it. So hang in there, George.

1306
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: Sorry that one was bad. All right?

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01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:25,240
Speaker 2: Uh?

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01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:37,439
Speaker 1: What does anyone that chad have thoughts? All right? Whatever? Alright?

1309
01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:43,280
Speaker 1: This is from Charlie. Subject line high Lyle. Charlie says,

1310
01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:45,879
Speaker 1: Hey Lyle, I'm a longtime listener. I love your podcast

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01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:49,480
Speaker 1: and videos. Thank you, Charlie. My name is Charlie. Hi Charlie.

1312
01:21:49,920 --> 01:21:51,640
Speaker 1: I am twenty two years old and I'm having this

1313
01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 1: issue with myself. Recently, I lost my dream job over

1314
01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:59,839
Speaker 1: me being irresponsible. I had moved out of my mom's

1315
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:01,400
Speaker 1: because I was making enough money to pay for my

1316
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:03,320
Speaker 1: own place, and I felt like I gained some freedom.

1317
01:22:03,680 --> 01:22:05,800
Speaker 1: So I started to smoke a lot more pot than

1318
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:08,120
Speaker 1: what I used to, which led to me over sleeping

1319
01:22:08,120 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 1: a couple of times and being late to work, which

1320
01:22:09,880 --> 01:22:12,240
Speaker 1: they didn't tolerate, and they fired me. For now, I

1321
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: don't see any purpose in life. I don't know what

1322
01:22:14,080 --> 01:22:16,439
Speaker 1: else to do, how to be happy with myself in

1323
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:25,120
Speaker 1: my life. Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. Hmmm mmm, Charlie.

1324
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:30,759
Speaker 1: Sometimes in life you fucking fuck up. Sometimes in life, yeah,

1325
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:35,879
Speaker 1: fucking yeah, just fuck up. It's so weird. Like I've

1326
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:38,280
Speaker 1: been thinking a lot. I've been thinking about this a lot.

1327
01:22:38,439 --> 01:22:40,760
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about how much of life is deterministic

1328
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:43,240
Speaker 1: versus in our own control. And I think back to

1329
01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:45,120
Speaker 1: all the times in my life in which I was

1330
01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:49,680
Speaker 1: fucking stupid and fucked something up, and looking back at

1331
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:53,320
Speaker 1: those times now, I'm like, I don't know if a

1332
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:58,840
Speaker 1: universe existed where I didn't fuck that up, because I

1333
01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:08,839
Speaker 1: only had the emotional intelligence and perspective and in general

1334
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:13,560
Speaker 1: intelligence that I had at that time, which was unfortunately

1335
01:23:13,680 --> 01:23:17,640
Speaker 1: not a lot. It was unfortunately not enough to not

1336
01:23:18,040 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 1: fuck up. You can. I think I've been talking a

1337
01:23:21,479 --> 01:23:24,280
Speaker 1: lot about duality and like holding space for both things,

1338
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: and I think you can kind of hold space for

1339
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 1: like I was kind of gonna not like not like

1340
01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:33,639
Speaker 1: I was gonna fuck that up anyway, so who cares,

1341
01:23:33,760 --> 01:23:37,639
Speaker 1: but like you can like a little bit of that.

1342
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:40,479
Speaker 1: But also, you know, you gotta kind of you gotta

1343
01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:44,040
Speaker 1: like don't hate yourself into like, oh I suck and

1344
01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:46,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be shitty and I don't know what else

1345
01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 1: to I have no purpose in life. I mean, you're

1346
01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:52,400
Speaker 1: twenty two. You know you can. You can. You have

1347
01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:55,920
Speaker 1: a lot of room to learn from your mistakes and

1348
01:23:55,960 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 1: not fuck up next time, you know. So that's what

1349
01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:04,200
Speaker 1: I would do, Charlie is I would try to adopt

1350
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:09,320
Speaker 1: an abundance mindset. I'm gonna get I'm gonna get motivational

1351
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:15,080
Speaker 1: speaker with you, adopt an abundance mindset. Just don't like

1352
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:19,160
Speaker 1: you'll get what's what's what's the dream job, Charlie, what's

1353
01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:21,720
Speaker 1: the dream job? I want to know what this job was,

1354
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:23,439
Speaker 1: and I want I want to know why you can't

1355
01:24:23,439 --> 01:24:29,439
Speaker 1: find a similar job or why you can't like if I, like,

1356
01:24:30,439 --> 01:24:32,400
Speaker 1: if I had to place a bet on whether or

1357
01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:38,439
Speaker 1: not I felt like you could find employment again, I

1358
01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:43,759
Speaker 1: would bet that you could. So look at your life,

1359
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:46,599
Speaker 1: So look at So why don't you look at your

1360
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:49,360
Speaker 1: life from the way that I'm looking at it, which

1361
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:51,720
Speaker 1: is I don't know you at all. You're just a

1362
01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:58,160
Speaker 1: random twenty two year old who was employed and is

1363
01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:02,200
Speaker 1: now not. And I believe I'm optimistic you will find

1364
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:05,560
Speaker 1: you can. You're fucking you can find purpose and happiness

1365
01:25:06,160 --> 01:25:09,680
Speaker 1: in life. You didn't like like, you didn't like, you're

1366
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:13,839
Speaker 1: not like in jail, you didn't like, get someone pregnant,

1367
01:25:13,840 --> 01:25:15,240
Speaker 1: and now you have to take care of a kid

1368
01:25:16,160 --> 01:25:19,200
Speaker 1: you're not you didn't like kill like you're You're fine,

1369
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:21,559
Speaker 1: You're gonna be fine. Just do just keep going, just

1370
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:24,599
Speaker 1: keep moving forward, Like if you need to take it,

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01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:27,800
Speaker 1: if you need a day to go, I'm such a

1372
01:25:27,800 --> 01:25:31,280
Speaker 1: fucking dumbass that I did this, and this I fucking suck.

1373
01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:34,680
Speaker 1: Take it. Take your day to hate yourself if you

1374
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:37,679
Speaker 1: need it, But don't do it. If you just don't

1375
01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:41,559
Speaker 1: do it forever, because then you're just throwing away your youth.

1376
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:46,040
Speaker 1: You have so like the like when I just look

1377
01:25:46,040 --> 01:25:49,120
Speaker 1: at your life, just by the fact that you're twenty

1378
01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:53,400
Speaker 1: two and you're not in jail or dead or seriously injured,

1379
01:25:54,240 --> 01:25:57,160
Speaker 1: You're I'm like, oh my, you have so much to

1380
01:25:57,280 --> 01:26:01,960
Speaker 1: your advantage. So just take just take inventory of everything

1381
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:07,599
Speaker 1: that's at your advantage and work off of that instead

1382
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:11,120
Speaker 1: of being like, I'm a piece of shit for you know,

1383
01:26:11,240 --> 01:26:13,880
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, take a little bit of time, examine it,

1384
01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:17,280
Speaker 1: don't don't you don't maybe don't move on so quickly,

1385
01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:20,200
Speaker 1: you know, be like, hey, you know, I probably shouldn't

1386
01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:21,960
Speaker 1: have done that. That was probably a little stupid. I

1387
01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:25,520
Speaker 1: won't do it next time, you know, learn, examine, analyze,

1388
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:29,080
Speaker 1: But don't you know, you don't have to. You don't

1389
01:26:29,120 --> 01:26:36,519
Speaker 1: have to fuck yourself forever. You can get another job, Charlie,

1390
01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:39,120
Speaker 1: What was this job? This is I actually I'm actually

1391
01:26:39,160 --> 01:26:45,080
Speaker 1: really enjoying like reading people's reading stuff, but I I

1392
01:26:45,120 --> 01:26:51,320
Speaker 1: am kind of like some details that would make this easier.

1393
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:54,280
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna read literally one more and then

1394
01:26:57,800 --> 01:27:03,200
Speaker 1: and then I'm going to stop, and then I'm going

1395
01:27:03,280 --> 01:27:23,479
Speaker 1: to conclude this. Uh okay, let's see here. Uh okay,

1396
01:27:23,520 --> 01:27:27,839
Speaker 1: this is from Dylan. Subject line, I broke my foot

1397
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:32,960
Speaker 1: back in April and have done nothing about it. Like nothing,

1398
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:35,680
Speaker 1: You just didn't go to the hospital. Okay, let me

1399
01:27:35,680 --> 01:27:38,400
Speaker 1: read the email. Hi gak currently writing this on the

1400
01:27:38,439 --> 01:27:41,280
Speaker 1: toilet at work. Very nice. So yeah, pretty sure I

1401
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 1: broke my foot back in April this year. Go to

1402
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,920
Speaker 1: a fucking doctor. I was at a wedding and we

1403
01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:50,200
Speaker 1: were dancing. Freebird came on, shout out free Bird. That

1404
01:27:50,320 --> 01:27:54,240
Speaker 1: was the uh like final boss song of Guitar Hero too.

1405
01:27:55,040 --> 01:27:57,280
Speaker 1: Free Bird came on, and I have a dance mood

1406
01:27:57,560 --> 01:28:03,519
Speaker 1: and I have a dance move called the country high step.

1407
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:07,519
Speaker 1: Do you know how sumo wrestlers do their big sweep

1408
01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:10,160
Speaker 1: step before they fight, Well, it's like that, but if

1409
01:28:10,200 --> 01:28:12,920
Speaker 1: you grab your belt buckle and jump while you're slamming

1410
01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:16,120
Speaker 1: your foot on the ground, that's that sounds bad. Picture

1411
01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:18,960
Speaker 1: a gold miner in the eighteen hundreds doing a little

1412
01:28:19,040 --> 01:28:21,880
Speaker 1: jig because he found a nugget and you got it.

1413
01:28:23,080 --> 01:28:26,439
Speaker 1: That's very specific. Anyways, I was doing that and I

1414
01:28:26,479 --> 01:28:28,679
Speaker 1: slammed my foot down one good time and I felt

1415
01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:31,840
Speaker 1: a pop. Immediately thought, oh, this isn't good, and sat

1416
01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:34,400
Speaker 1: down for the next few weeks, I couldn't put pressure

1417
01:28:34,439 --> 01:28:36,799
Speaker 1: on the left side of my right foot. My solution

1418
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:40,120
Speaker 1: was to wear slippers everywhere. Go to a fucking doctor.

1419
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 1: So it's been six inch months and now there's a

1420
01:28:43,200 --> 01:28:44,920
Speaker 1: twinge in it when I step wrong, and I have

1421
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:49,960
Speaker 1: a slight permanent bump where my left foot has none.

1422
01:28:50,680 --> 01:28:53,400
Speaker 1: All right, pretty sure. My manager is standing outside of

1423
01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:57,439
Speaker 1: my stall. So that's it. Have fun with gecking, take care,

1424
01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:02,000
Speaker 1: have a great day. Dylan. PS. I'm the cowboy from

1425
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:04,639
Speaker 1: the Seattle Show in twenty twenty two. I extra points

1426
01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:08,080
Speaker 1: if you remember that. I absolutely remember that. I absolutely

1427
01:29:08,120 --> 01:29:11,040
Speaker 1: remember the cowboy from the Seattle Show in twenty twenty two,

1428
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:14,479
Speaker 1: because dude, I'm gonna try to tell the story. Cit

1429
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 1: there was a guy who came on stage at my

1430
01:29:16,640 --> 01:29:21,679
Speaker 1: Seattle show at the Crocodile shout out the Crocodile Great venue, yeah,

1431
01:29:21,680 --> 01:29:23,400
Speaker 1: two years ago, and he just wanted to talk about

1432
01:29:23,400 --> 01:29:28,759
Speaker 1: being a cowboy. And then uh, I think some girl

1433
01:29:28,920 --> 01:29:32,360
Speaker 1: like asked him a question like if he was single,

1434
01:29:32,400 --> 01:29:33,800
Speaker 1: because like there's a part of the show where I'm like,

1435
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:36,160
Speaker 1: does anyone have any questions for the guest? And some

1436
01:29:36,240 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 1: girl asked him a question like if he was single

1437
01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:43,680
Speaker 1: and like they got like I just remember seeing them

1438
01:29:43,680 --> 01:29:47,000
Speaker 1: like talking after the show, and I think either him

1439
01:29:47,240 --> 01:29:51,280
Speaker 1: or like somebody else wrote like a post it note

1440
01:29:51,560 --> 01:29:55,720
Speaker 1: to me that said the Cowboy scored and I was like,

1441
01:29:55,800 --> 01:29:59,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what that. I was like, what, oh,

1442
01:29:59,240 --> 01:30:03,040
Speaker 1: I remember you? I do remember the Cowboy anyway, Dylan. Okay,

1443
01:30:03,240 --> 01:30:06,960
Speaker 1: here's what bothers me about this. You wrote, all right,

1444
01:30:07,040 --> 01:30:09,760
Speaker 1: pretty sure on my manager is standing outside of the stall.

1445
01:30:10,000 --> 01:30:14,519
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're employed, Dylan. It sounds like you're employed.

1446
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:19,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of I don't know what

1447
01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:22,559
Speaker 1: you do. I don't know if you're actually a cowboy.

1448
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:27,639
Speaker 1: Do you have health insurance? Go see a fucking Even

1449
01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:31,000
Speaker 1: if you don't have health insurance, go see a doctor, Dylan,

1450
01:30:32,240 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 1: Why are you asking me for advice? You don't even

1451
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:36,600
Speaker 1: think you're asking me for advice in this. You're just

1452
01:30:37,600 --> 01:30:40,479
Speaker 1: you're just sharing. You just want to share that your

1453
01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:43,880
Speaker 1: foot is about to fall off, Dylan, go to a doctor.

1454
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:50,120
Speaker 1: All right, I do remember you you wrote extra points.

1455
01:30:50,200 --> 01:30:52,559
Speaker 1: If you remember that, I'm gonna can I cash in

1456
01:30:53,200 --> 01:30:55,080
Speaker 1: the extra points that you're giving me to get you

1457
01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:57,559
Speaker 1: to go to a doctor, cause if I can that's

1458
01:30:57,560 --> 01:31:00,000
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do to go to a doctor, Dylan.

1459
01:31:05,240 --> 01:31:07,000
Speaker 1: I broke my foot back in April and I've done

1460
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:10,120
Speaker 1: nothing about it. How do you not? What do you?

1461
01:31:12,560 --> 01:31:14,760
Speaker 1: Just because you like dressing up as a cowboy doesn't

1462
01:31:14,800 --> 01:31:17,040
Speaker 1: mean you have to literally live like it's the eighteen

1463
01:31:17,120 --> 01:31:20,559
Speaker 1: hundred's where you just break your foot and die. We

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Speaker 1: live in twenty twenty four. Go get your foot fixed,

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01:31:25,640 --> 01:31:28,160
Speaker 1: all right. That's it. I have sixty three unread emails.

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01:31:28,200 --> 01:31:29,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. I want to read them. I want

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01:31:29,720 --> 01:31:32,840
Speaker 1: to read all of these emails, but I just don't have.

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01:31:34,200 --> 01:31:36,000
Speaker 1: You know, an hour and a half feels pretty good

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01:31:36,560 --> 01:31:40,640
Speaker 1: podcast length to me, folks. Let me know what you

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01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:43,920
Speaker 1: thought about this. Spotify has comments now. Spotify is a

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01:31:43,960 --> 01:31:48,920
Speaker 1: comment section, So go ahead and hit that Spotify comment section.

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01:31:49,960 --> 01:31:56,439
Speaker 1: Go ahead and hit that fucking YouTube comment section. Thanks

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01:31:56,479 --> 01:31:58,840
Speaker 1: for letting me try this. I'm really I'm excited about it.

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01:31:58,920 --> 01:32:01,080
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun doing this. I kind

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01:32:01,080 --> 01:32:03,679
Speaker 1: of want maybe maybe if people like these, I might

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01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:09,240
Speaker 1: spruce them in amongst the phone call episodes, kind of

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01:32:09,280 --> 01:32:12,800
Speaker 1: maybe do like one of each a week or something

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01:32:12,880 --> 01:32:16,080
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know, whatever, maybe maybe just phone

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01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:17,760
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't decided yet. Maybe I'll just

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01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:20,120
Speaker 1: do this once a month. I don't know, Just let

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01:32:20,160 --> 01:32:25,559
Speaker 1: me let me know what you think. Anything else. My

1482
01:32:25,760 --> 01:32:31,280
Speaker 1: tour is almost over. I go to therapy geckotour dot com.

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01:32:31,320 --> 01:32:34,400
Speaker 1: I have a few tickets left and like literally like

1484
01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:38,080
Speaker 1: less than ten left for my show in Los Angeles

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01:32:38,120 --> 01:32:41,559
Speaker 1: on November ninth. I'm about to go to Europe. I'm

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01:32:41,560 --> 01:32:49,919
Speaker 1: going to London, Berlin, Manchester, Amsterdam, Cologne, Glasgow, and Dublin,

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01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:55,320
Speaker 1: and then I'm ending in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And you can

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01:32:55,360 --> 01:32:58,160
Speaker 1: get tickets to all of those shows at therapy Gecko

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01:32:58,640 --> 01:33:01,200
Speaker 1: tour dot com. And then I'm probably going to take

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01:33:01,240 --> 01:33:03,639
Speaker 1: a very long time. No, I mean, I don't again,

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01:33:03,640 --> 01:33:05,920
Speaker 1: I haven't decided yet, but I'm probably gonna take a

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01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:11,000
Speaker 1: fairly decent amount of time off of streaming and no, no,

1493
01:33:11,080 --> 01:33:13,360
Speaker 1: not streaming. I'm gonna take a fairly decent time away

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01:33:13,360 --> 01:33:18,639
Speaker 1: from touring. I feel so lucky and grateful and happy

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01:33:18,720 --> 01:33:22,120
Speaker 1: that I did. I pretty much did like two back

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01:33:22,160 --> 01:33:26,720
Speaker 1: to back world tours twenty twenty four and twenty twenty three,

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01:33:26,760 --> 01:33:30,240
Speaker 1: and it was awesome and I had a fucking great,

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01:33:30,360 --> 01:33:36,680
Speaker 1: fucking time. I'm ready to enter a phase in my

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01:33:36,800 --> 01:33:41,640
Speaker 1: life where I'm going to try to prioritize my physical

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01:33:41,680 --> 01:33:48,280
Speaker 1: health because it ain't good. So, uh yeah, come see

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01:33:48,280 --> 01:33:51,479
Speaker 1: me while while I'm still alive. That was dark, but

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01:33:52,640 --> 01:33:55,639
Speaker 1: it's true. Come come, come see me that. I'll probably

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01:33:55,640 --> 01:33:57,640
Speaker 1: tour again, maybe like a late twenty twenty five or

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01:33:57,680 --> 01:34:00,400
Speaker 1: early twenty twenty six, but for now, if you live

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01:34:00,439 --> 01:34:03,880
Speaker 1: in Europe or Los Angeles or whatever. The other place

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01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:07,479
Speaker 1: I said was Minneapolis, Minnesota, come come to those shows

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01:34:08,439 --> 01:34:12,960
Speaker 1: anything else. This was fun. I liked this format. I'm

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01:34:12,960 --> 01:34:16,400
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing shit like this. I have more to

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01:34:16,520 --> 01:34:21,160
Speaker 1: rant about. I'm always thinking about life, and I'm always

1510
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:23,960
Speaker 1: and now and now I have a stupid I have

1511
01:34:24,000 --> 01:34:26,960
Speaker 1: a thing where I can share all my stupid thoughts

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01:34:27,720 --> 01:34:31,160
Speaker 1: to a really a nice group of people. I'm really

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01:34:31,200 --> 01:34:35,400
Speaker 1: happy that. I'm really happy with the audience that I have.

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01:34:35,520 --> 01:34:39,320
Speaker 1: It's like the perfect Yeah, it feels perfect. Like I

1515
01:34:39,320 --> 01:34:41,800
Speaker 1: don't want to be like like a Joe Rogan guy

1516
01:34:41,840 --> 01:34:45,120
Speaker 1: where like everyone listens to it to that's too many

1517
01:34:45,200 --> 01:34:47,719
Speaker 1: people listening to what you have to say. That's too many.

1518
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:51,320
Speaker 1: I don't think any one person should have that many

1519
01:34:51,360 --> 01:34:56,840
Speaker 1: people listening to what they have to say. You know,

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01:34:57,000 --> 01:35:00,240
Speaker 1: I feel like the amount of people that I have

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01:35:00,360 --> 01:35:02,280
Speaker 1: listening to what I have to say is it is

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01:35:02,320 --> 01:35:07,720
Speaker 1: a perfect amount. No more, you know, no less, it

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01:35:07,920 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 1: is a perfect thing. So thank you guys, and I

1524
01:35:13,960 --> 01:35:16,439
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm crazy. Thanks for listening to my thing

1525
01:35:17,479 --> 01:35:23,599
Speaker 1: and share it with your friends, share it, make a make,

1526
01:35:23,920 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 1: leave a review on Apple podcasts. All right now, I'm

1527
01:35:27,120 --> 01:35:31,639
Speaker 1: just yeah, do all that stuff, all right? Thanks, bye,

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01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:37,200
Speaker 1: see you again. Soon goes on the line taking your

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01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:38,599
Speaker 1: phone calls every night.

1530
01:35:39,000 --> 01:35:41,680
Speaker 2: Ever, be goes do and he's teaching you

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01:35:41,720 --> 01:35:45,120
Speaker 1: A loud in them of your Life's not really an

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Speaker 1: expert