Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome, good evening, Hi, welcomed or good whatever time
Speaker 1: it is that you're watching this, Welcome. This is a
Speaker 1: special episode of the Therapy Gecko podcast. This is a
Speaker 1: special episode. There will be no callers in this episode.
Speaker 1: It will just be me alone, ranting into a microphone.
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to try something new. I've been wanted
Speaker 1: to try something different. I've been doing this podcast for
Speaker 1: about four years now, over four years now, and it's
Speaker 1: mainly just been me and occasionally someone else talking to
Speaker 1: people on the phone. And I wanted to challenge myself
Speaker 1: to see if I can do an entire hour just
Speaker 1: ranting to myself. I mean, it's technically there's more than
Speaker 1: that I have, all right, So I yesterday I went
Speaker 1: on Instagram and I made it Instagram story and I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna do a viewer mail episode of
Speaker 1: the podcast. Please send words. That was all I specified,
Speaker 1: was words. I said, please send words to therapy geckomail
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. And so I'm gonna read as
Speaker 1: many of the emails that people sent me as i can.
Speaker 1: I'm streaming live on Twitch while i'm recording this, so
Speaker 1: maybe i'll talk to the chat but Uh, basically, this
Speaker 1: is good. This is kind of like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit of my therapy session in a way.
Speaker 1: I might talk about my life, or I might not,
Speaker 1: or I might just delve into what the people email me.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I've I've always been kind of bad
Speaker 1: at like the Dear Abby format. I don't consider myself
Speaker 1: like an advice guy, like a like a like a
Speaker 1: you know, but dear Abby. It's like it's like, here's
Speaker 1: my long thing and then here's Abby's long response. I
Speaker 1: don't really do that. I like to get into the
Speaker 1: conversation with folks. I find that makes me more comfortable.
Speaker 1: But I want to get into I want to try
Speaker 1: something new. I want to I want to challenge myself.
Speaker 1: I've been bored and uh, I've no you know, Look,
Speaker 1: people like to talk about themselves. That's why I think
Speaker 1: so many people call into this show. It's because they
Speaker 1: want to talk about themselves. They want to be here,
Speaker 1: they want to be heard. And I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, what if I just talked for an
Speaker 1: hour uninterrupted by anyone or anything. It's so weird because
Speaker 1: I think that's most podcasts, like I only live in
Speaker 1: the universe of my own podcast. So like, to me,
Speaker 1: podcasting is like synonymous with taking viewer calls, because it's
Speaker 1: what I do. But I realized, like, you don't, Actually
Speaker 1: you don't have to do that for every episode. Most
Speaker 1: people have a guest, but sometimes you can. You really
Speaker 1: can just rant for an hour. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it'll be good, but I don't know. I don't really
Speaker 1: even care about that. I just care that I tried.
Speaker 1: That's all that matters to me. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: get into it. I'm sitting in front of my laptop
Speaker 1: right now. Let's start. Let's look at some viewer emails here. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see, all right, As of now, I have eighty
Speaker 1: seven emails. I have eighty seven emails. Let's start at
Speaker 1: the very first one. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: read people's name. Maybe i'll read their initials. Okay. The
Speaker 1: first one is from Lyle Dresher. It says, Hey, that
Speaker 1: was me testing to see if this email worked all right.
Speaker 1: Next one is from JG a highlight. Hey, Hey, j G.
Speaker 1: I'm a little nervous. I don't really know what to say.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of the podcast and stream. You've
Speaker 1: helped me get through many long and strenuous work days.
Speaker 1: Your podcast has made me realize that we all really
Speaker 1: do live similar lives, deal with similar problems, similar thought patterns, etc.
Speaker 1: You have reinforced my love for psychology and have helped
Speaker 1: me gain an appreciation of life. Thank you, Gek. That's
Speaker 1: so nice, that's so kind. It is it's a little
Speaker 1: weird to me because I don't feel like I really
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's psychological and anthropological aspects to what
Speaker 1: I do, but I really I don't. I'm not a
Speaker 1: scientist or anything like that. You know, I'm just chatting
Speaker 1: with people. I don't have a degree in any I'm
Speaker 1: not even like trying to pretend like I do. But
Speaker 1: I'm happy that podcast helps people. I'm trying to get,
Speaker 1: you know, what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get better at, like, uh, receiving praise because I sort
Speaker 1: to eat like I'm so appreciate like a lot. I'm
Speaker 1: so appreciative that people are are listening to this crap.
Speaker 1: But I get like really uncomfortable when I get a
Speaker 1: lot of praise, you know. So I'm trying to be
Speaker 1: but I also think like if people are praising you
Speaker 1: and you're like, nah, I suck whatever, you're kind of
Speaker 1: a you're kind of you're being a little bit of
Speaker 1: a dick, and then be you're just reinforcing low self esteem.
Speaker 1: So I've been trying to think of myself more as
Speaker 1: like a person who maybe does have some form of
Speaker 1: value to offer to other people, maybe through my lived
Speaker 1: experience and stuff. But I don't want to get too
Speaker 1: up my own dick hole, because that's I hate those people.
Speaker 1: I hate people, but anyone who when you meet someone
Speaker 1: and they don't hate themselves at least a little bit,
Speaker 1: I don't like them. So I'm trying. So I really
Speaker 1: am trying to cultivate a proper amount of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let me like love myself enough that my it's I
Speaker 1: don't I'm don't hate life, and I feel confident and
Speaker 1: competent because that's a good way to go through life.
Speaker 1: But let me hate myself just enough that I'm still
Speaker 1: feel like a like a regular human being. Okay, thank you, Jared.
Speaker 1: I'll just y'all use first names. I'm just gonna this
Speaker 1: guy's Jared whatever, No one, there's a million Jared's all right.
Speaker 1: This is from Angie. Subject is I am dating someone
Speaker 1: as old as my stepdad. Hold, let me make sure
Speaker 1: this's recording. All right, This looks like it's recording. Let
Speaker 1: me check on twitch. All right, this looks all right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this looks like it's working. All right. I am dating
Speaker 1: someone as old as my stepdad. Also, I'm not putting
Speaker 1: any of this shit on on the screen. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna read it, okay. From Angie. Hello, Gek, I feel
Speaker 1: I have been keeping a secret from most of my
Speaker 1: friends and family. I met a guy on Reddit a
Speaker 1: little over a month ago, and we hit it off
Speaker 1: really well. The thing is, he lives in Poland and
Speaker 1: I live in America. He is also twenty years older
Speaker 1: than me. For context, I am twenty three. I plan
Speaker 1: to visit him in November, when I will be staying
Speaker 1: in Poland for two months. I'm even thinking of moving
Speaker 1: in with him after this time if things go well. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, I don't plan on telling my family
Speaker 1: much about my trip to Poland since I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'll be coming back home. My boy my home.
Speaker 1: My boyfriend makes me feel happy and is supportive. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this when she said my boyfriend. I was like,
Speaker 1: is there a boyfriend that you're like? You have a
Speaker 1: separate boyfriend? But okay, this is when she says a boyfriend,
Speaker 1: I think she's referring to the older dude in Poland. Okay,
Speaker 1: my boyfriend makes me feel happy and it's supportive, but
Speaker 1: I get anxious thinking about what other people will think
Speaker 1: of us together. To add to this situation, I also
Speaker 1: have a six month old daughter who will be coming
Speaker 1: with me. Oh my god. Her father isn't involved, so
Speaker 1: I would really like my boyfriend to be a dad
Speaker 1: for her. Am I crazy for thinking a future with
Speaker 1: him could work? Oh? Geez? Oh? Man, Okay, I have questions.
Speaker 1: See this is why all I'm gonna challenge myself to
Speaker 1: give thoughts, even though I feel like i'm I normally
Speaker 1: would have a situation I would ask questions. I get
Speaker 1: all right, So I guess I have a few thoughts
Speaker 1: about this. One is like, I mean, look, man, it
Speaker 1: sounds from this that you've never met this guy. I
Speaker 1: met a guy, and you met him a little over
Speaker 1: a month ago. Ah, you're twenty three. I have no like, Okay,
Speaker 1: A couple of things. One you know, like, I guess
Speaker 1: It's like I have no I have no problem with
Speaker 1: this person, like going to Poland to like meet this guy,
Speaker 1: do it in a do it in a public place, preferably,
Speaker 1: uh for the first meeting. You know, maybe maybe not
Speaker 1: go to his house immediately, but uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't have a problem with meeting this guy.
Speaker 1: I do think this person seems like they're putting a
Speaker 1: lot of expectations on this initial meeting. You know, like
Speaker 1: we met this I met this guy a little over
Speaker 1: a month ago, and I already want him to and well,
Speaker 1: he's already her boyfriend. She's always he's calling him her boyfriend.
Speaker 1: But it's like they haven't even I get that we
Speaker 1: live in a fucking digital universe and people are getting
Speaker 1: together on discord and stuff, But you should meet a
Speaker 1: guy before you we put we call him our boyfriend.
Speaker 1: I'm anxious thinking about what other people will think of
Speaker 1: us together. That's my I think what other people think
Speaker 1: of your relationship is the last problem that I have
Speaker 1: with this. The problem I have with this is that,
Speaker 1: a AA, it seems like you're putting a lot of
Speaker 1: expectations on this person that you've never met. A you
Speaker 1: want to move in with him and then be you
Speaker 1: want him to like be a dad for your daughter.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess if I had to like give advice
Speaker 1: to this person, I would be like, I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anything wrong with like going to Poland and having
Speaker 1: a little weird Polish adventure with a weird Polish guy,
Speaker 1: but don't don't don't don't expect to move in with
Speaker 1: him or have him be the don't expect anything from
Speaker 1: this guy. Just I would go into I don't have
Speaker 1: a problem with going to Poland and meeting him, but
Speaker 1: I just think there's too many expectations that we're putting
Speaker 1: into this situation right now. And also just I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't, I wouldn't. I mean a month ago. I
Speaker 1: get if you've been dating for like two years and
Speaker 1: you've never met but you want to call him your boyfriend. Maybe,
Speaker 1: but like you know, just meet the guy first, and
Speaker 1: and dear God, meet him in public. Don't go to
Speaker 1: his fucking house, all right? Uh? Kobe Craft says hi
Speaker 1: subject line, Hi, Hey gak listener from Belgium here really
Speaker 1: like your podcast? Keep it up, Mail me back and
Speaker 1: I'll send you some chocolate. Maybe should I just send
Speaker 1: this guy my home address. Should I just completely dos
Speaker 1: myself so I can get some Belgian chocolate from Kobe Craft.
Speaker 1: Let me see what let me see what the chat
Speaker 1: thinks about that angie thing.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: All right, everyone in the chat seems to completely agree
Speaker 1: with I don't think I don't think it's a controversial.
Speaker 1: I don't think she's necessarily about to get murdered. But
Speaker 1: like play like like I don't. I'm not like, I'm
Speaker 1: not like, don't ever do anything or meet anyone ever
Speaker 1: because you might die, But like, play it safe, play
Speaker 1: it cautious anyway, all right, No, don't send me. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can send me chocolate, but I'm trying to I
Speaker 1: was gonna say I'm trying to lose weight, but I
Speaker 1: don't want to publicly say that I'm trying to lose
Speaker 1: weight because then when I when you guys watch the
Speaker 1: podcast and I look fatter six months from now, you
Speaker 1: can all you're gonna use that against me. All right?
Speaker 1: This is from Samantha. Hi Gek, My boyfriend and I
Speaker 1: met you recently at your show in Toronto. We drove
Speaker 1: a total of eight hours to be there and it
Speaker 1: was totally worth it. Thank you. Very much. I was
Speaker 1: cool and chill until you said hi, and then I
Speaker 1: blocked blocked out from nervousness. I think it was a
Speaker 1: good interaction, though, I'm promise you. I promise you it
Speaker 1: was a good interaction. I'll tell a story real quick.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm insane, So occasionally i will search myself up
Speaker 1: on Reddit because I'm insane. It's a thing I'm trying.
Speaker 1: It's a thing i'm trying to really stop doing because
Speaker 1: it's just such an insane thing to do to go
Speaker 1: on Reddit and search therapy, get go and see if
Speaker 1: people are talking about me. It brings truly nothing productive
Speaker 1: or beneficial to my life, and as a habit I'm
Speaker 1: trying to stop doing as part of my general social
Speaker 1: media refrigerator checking. But anyway, I was, I fucking searched
Speaker 1: myself and I found this post from this girl who
Speaker 1: was like she might I think she posted in like
Speaker 1: r slash anxiety or something like that, and she wrote
Speaker 1: something like, oh my god. I'm so she was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I feel like so shitty because I
Speaker 1: met the Therapy Gecko at one of his live shows
Speaker 1: and I think I said something weird and I think
Speaker 1: I totally embarrassed myself, and I walked away from that
Speaker 1: interaction feeling like so embarrassed. And I was reading this
Speaker 1: and I was like I I it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't remember that. And b
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not, You're totally fine. You came to
Speaker 1: my fucking show and you wait and you paid me
Speaker 1: thirty dollars and you waited in line to talk to me.
Speaker 1: I don't like fucking We're good, dude, thank you, thanks
Speaker 1: for coming to my thing. I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm never like, oh, that person sucked. Even if I
Speaker 1: meet somebody and they and they and they actually are
Speaker 1: kind of weird to me, I still don't care. I
Speaker 1: don't what it's like last like two seconds. Thanks for
Speaker 1: coming to the show. It's fine, you know. So I
Speaker 1: felt bad. I really felt bad because I I've been
Speaker 1: in like little I've been in like on the other
Speaker 1: end of it, like situations like that where I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh no, I that was a weird social reaction that
Speaker 1: I can never fix. And I fucking hate that feeling.
Speaker 1: And I would never want to give that feeling to
Speaker 1: another person. The same thing, by the way, the same
Speaker 1: thing happened to me in reverse. I went on I
Speaker 1: this is this is, these are more adventures and looking
Speaker 1: myself up on Reddit. I looked myself up and I
Speaker 1: found a post from this girl being like I met
Speaker 1: the therapy Gecko at his meet and greet in Austin
Speaker 1: and I told him it was my birthday and he
Speaker 1: didn't say happy birthday. So I'm not a fan anymore.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm really disappointed in him and I and
Speaker 1: that I was that one. I was a little bit like,
Speaker 1: you know, fuck you, come on, but anyway, whatever, all right, sorry, anyway,
Speaker 1: maybe this rant episode was a bad idea, but you
Speaker 1: know what, no, it's not. I just you know what,
Speaker 1: these are real you know what, No, these are real
Speaker 1: feelings that I am. I am expressing and it's okay.
Speaker 1: So okay, I'm trying to I have a friend and
Speaker 1: was She told me she's like she's trying to be
Speaker 1: angry more often because it's okay to express anger. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I like that. I resonate with that.
Speaker 1: I take back the fuck you. If the person who
Speaker 1: I forgot to say happy birthday with is listening to this,
Speaker 1: we're cool. We're cool. Ever, we're cool everyone, We're cool.
Speaker 1: There's no one I'm not cool with. All right, back
Speaker 1: to this email. I was cool and chill until you
Speaker 1: said hi, and then I blocked out from nervousness. I
Speaker 1: think it was a good interaction, though. I wanted to know.
Speaker 1: Do you keep recording the pods while you're on the road. No,
Speaker 1: I record them before I leave and then I kind
Speaker 1: of blocked and I kind of batched them out. Or
Speaker 1: do you backlog episodes and release them? Is it a secret? No,
Speaker 1: it's not. If that's cool. If so, that's cool, Keep
Speaker 1: your secrets. You just seem like a very bus gecko. Ps.
Speaker 1: When you asked the Logan Paul look alike if he
Speaker 1: had any prime I laughed harder than I had all year.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that there was a guy in
Speaker 1: Toronto who did. He did look like Logan Paul. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I feel very busy and then other times I feel unemployed.
Speaker 1: But I think that's okay. I think like, like there's
Speaker 1: a weird thing in like nine to five. This has
Speaker 1: a weird thing in like work culture in general, where
Speaker 1: it's like where there's a weird thing in work culture
Speaker 1: in general where it's like you have to work forty
Speaker 1: hours a week, and it's like, there's the there's whatever
Speaker 1: your job is, and just do that job and it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter how long it takes you, Like that's
Speaker 1: how much. That's how work I think should work. It's like,
Speaker 1: just do your whatever your fucking job is, and if
Speaker 1: it takes you ten hours, that's cool. And if it
Speaker 1: takes you forty hours then okay. But you know, the
Speaker 1: whole thing of like you need to work specific amount
Speaker 1: of hours is I think overplayed. Thanks Samantha, thanks for
Speaker 1: coming to the show. I appreciate it. That was really fun. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is from Elias. The subject line is hello, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see here. Hey GEK, love listening to your show.
Speaker 1: Think you're a super great guy and just about one
Speaker 1: of the realist people on the internet. Thanks man, I
Speaker 1: know you get that a lot. I've always wanted to
Speaker 1: call in, but Twitch banned my account? Why did the witch?
Speaker 1: Where is this going? After someone stole my email and
Speaker 1: I never got around to making a new one, so
Speaker 1: I never know when you're on. I always listen to
Speaker 1: the podcast, though you should do a live show in Albuquerque,
Speaker 1: New Mexico. Sometimes I did a college show in Albuquerque
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago at the University of New Mexico.
Speaker 1: That was really fun. Shout out. I don't remember the
Speaker 1: name of the of the of the college kid who
Speaker 1: booked me, but there were there was a good gang
Speaker 1: of folks. Shout out. Shout out whoever does student events
Speaker 1: at unm UH. I know a lot of people here
Speaker 1: that love your stuff, and I think you get a
Speaker 1: hell of a kick out of the town. I got
Speaker 1: a hell of a kick out of the town. Like
Speaker 1: the mountains. It was cool. I'm going to college. I'm
Speaker 1: in college right now, and I'm chronically addicted to cheating
Speaker 1: on my boyfriends. Okay, I'm in college right now and
Speaker 1: I'm chronically addicted to cheating on my boyfriend of two years.
Speaker 1: It's kind of becoming a big problem because he wants
Speaker 1: to move in together, but it's just not as fun
Speaker 1: being with him if I'm not cheating on him. Jesus,
Speaker 1: let me read that again. I'm I'm chronically addicted to
Speaker 1: cheating on my boyfriend of two years. It's kind of
Speaker 1: becoming a big problem because he wants to move in together,
Speaker 1: but it's just not as fun being with him if
Speaker 1: I'm not cheating on him. That part of me think
Speaker 1: is this this person might be fucking I. That's such
Speaker 1: a blatant statement that I really believe that this person
Speaker 1: is fucking with me. If this person is, if this
Speaker 1: person's listening to this and they're not fucking with me,
Speaker 1: Just break up with your boyfriend. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Break up with bro, Break up with your boyfriend and
Speaker 1: see a therapist. Man, I hope you're having a great day,
Speaker 1: and keep on getting sent from my iPhone. All right, well,
Speaker 1: I don't how are you What do you mean you're
Speaker 1: chronically addicted, like to the thrill Jesus Christ? All right,
Speaker 1: I'm just break up with your boyfriend. Man, let him,
Speaker 1: let him be, all right. Mackenzie a poem. Oh crap,
Speaker 1: I read their last We'll cut out their last name. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna cut out their last name. All right,
Speaker 1: it's from Mackenzie. This is a poem for the ghek
Speaker 1: Green leaves. Hold on. I'm reading the chat. Someone said
Speaker 1: that's rage bait. I think that's rage bait. I think
Speaker 1: that that's not real. But I don't know the fact
Speaker 1: that she wrote chronically, or it could be a guy
Speaker 1: Elias anyway, all right, I think it's raise bait, but whatever, mackenzie,
Speaker 1: this is a poem for the Ghak. Green leaves bask
Speaker 1: in the sunlight, swaying ever so slightly. Green trees lined
Speaker 1: the sidewalks, standing tall, strong and united. Green stripes scattered
Speaker 1: amongst the rooftop. Are you guys getting a visual of
Speaker 1: this from a green hand? A human hand emerged the
Speaker 1: hand of the Gek. To gek or to be gecked
Speaker 1: is the question, gek oh, holy Ghek. I don't know
Speaker 1: I feel about holy Ghek. But rise above the adversity.
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm trying to rise above the adversity. Rise
Speaker 1: people of Gak nation, Rise to the curiosity that Gek inspires.
Speaker 1: Green bean, oh green gecko, you were never meant to
Speaker 1: be green, only loved. Holy shit, you were never meant
Speaker 1: to be green, only loved. That. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that means. I mean, I have an idea of
Speaker 1: what that means. But that's that's powerful. I am tired.
Speaker 1: You can finish the poem. Sorry that it got kind
Speaker 1: of weird. That's fine, that's okay. Here is a link
Speaker 1: to the website that has different shades of green. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll click this. Oh well, it's a website with a
Speaker 1: bunch of shades of green. That's nine. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the poem, Kenzie, that's that's very nice. You were never
Speaker 1: meant to be green, only loved. That's an interesting debate
Speaker 1: if humans are in hear worthy of love, people love.
Speaker 1: People like to say that, but I don't know how
Speaker 1: true it is. I'm not saying it's not true, but
Speaker 1: like I don't know, what about like what about like Hitler?
Speaker 1: You know that's the that's the like, Okay, anytime, this
Speaker 1: is what I always think. Anytime somebody like what goes
Speaker 1: on like a kind of a spiritual thing where they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, everyone deserves love, everyone deserves kindness, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm I go in there immediately with the hard questions.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what about Hitler? Does he deserve to be loved? Maybe?
Speaker 1: I don't know? Are we I just I'm saying, do
Speaker 1: we have exceptions? I think like in the when I
Speaker 1: think about these things, when I think about like I
Speaker 1: guess I have I have gone down my own mental
Speaker 1: rabbit holes of like these these things of like we
Speaker 1: all deserve love, we are all each other you are
Speaker 1: every I really do think about these things, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't just be convenient about it, you know,
Speaker 1: like you know those guys, you know, the like when
Speaker 1: there's a story on the news about a lady who
Speaker 1: like leaves a baby in a hot car and the
Speaker 1: baby dies, Like, do we should we love her too? Maybe?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know, probably if that's we just
Speaker 1: I don't just don't think we can we can just
Speaker 1: pick and choose if we're gonna be all, you know,
Speaker 1: holy about it. I don't know. I'm sorry. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I'm being I don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the poem. I don't know why I had
Speaker 1: to make that into a whole thing. All right, what's
Speaker 1: the chat say? Someone says, Uh, if Adolph had been
Speaker 1: loved properly, I don't think he would have killed anyone. Lol.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. I'm all right, that's I'm no,
Speaker 1: I am not. I am committed to not talking about
Speaker 1: Hitler for the rest of this. Uh stream all right,
Speaker 1: this it might be a long for This might be
Speaker 1: a long podcast because A because I'm having fun doing it,
Speaker 1: and be because we have eighty one more emails to read. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is from Andrea. Dear Gek, I love your streams
Speaker 1: and you've made my life so much better. Thank you, Andrea.
Speaker 1: I'm trying a new thing. I have a sometimes when
Speaker 1: people are praising me and being nice to me, I
Speaker 1: say to them, I'm trying. I say, like, someone will
Speaker 1: say like, oh, I really like what you're doing, and
Speaker 1: I'll say I'll say this, I'll say I'm trying my best.
Speaker 1: And I have a friend and she was like, you
Speaker 1: got to stop saying that because it implies that you're
Speaker 1: not doing it. And I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'll give you that that's true. So now I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna now I'm just it's part of my self love journey.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be like, thank you, thank you. I
Speaker 1: will accept in this very moment that I'm not a
Speaker 1: piece of shit, and then I'll hate myself later. But
Speaker 1: let me let me I can. I really I'm believing
Speaker 1: more and more in the duality of life, like I
Speaker 1: can humbly hate myself and confidently love myself on the
Speaker 1: same day. I think I can do that. I think
Speaker 1: I can have a nice balance. I can be enough
Speaker 1: and I can be ambitious. I'm holding space for all things.
Speaker 1: All right, whatever, Sorry, all right, sorry. I love your
Speaker 1: streams and you've made my life so much better. I
Speaker 1: listen to you almost every day, and when you post
Speaker 1: a new episode, it makes me really happy that I
Speaker 1: get to listen to stories and advice. Thank you for
Speaker 1: everything that you do, and thanks for not making me
Speaker 1: feel so alone. Thanks Andrea, I love you, Lyle. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Here's a pick of my dog. That's a nice dog. Oh,
Speaker 1: that actually is a nice dog. Here's what happens just now.
Speaker 1: I just scrolled down and I prepared myself to say
Speaker 1: that's a nice dog, just like as a blanket statement,
Speaker 1: and then I actually looked and I was like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: that actually is a nice dog. It is. It's a
Speaker 1: nice dog, and it's a nice photo of the dog.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I don't have the technology to like
Speaker 1: post this on a thing, but it's a nice dog.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to take my word for it. Thank you, Andrea.
Speaker 1: All Right, Albert subject, I want you, Lyle. Body of
Speaker 1: the email says so bad dot dot dot. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it's you could have that's if you
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. If you want to fuck someone, that's
Speaker 1: a bad email to send them. If the if this
Speaker 1: guy really wanted to fuck me, he could have he
Speaker 1: could have slid in my DMS a bit better, a
Speaker 1: little bit more subtle. I think I don't think this
Speaker 1: guy actually wants me. I think he just wanted to
Speaker 1: be crass. All right, Liam subject male, episode spelled m
Speaker 1: M A I L all right, Hi, Lyle, longtime listener,
Speaker 1: first time mailer, slash caller, huge fan. I'm hoping you
Speaker 1: come to Canada, monied Toba, specifically, Where the fuck is that?
Speaker 1: Hold on? Let me go on maps, Male, Manitoba. Where
Speaker 1: the hell is Manitoba, Canada? Oh, that's a whole continent,
Speaker 1: it's a whole problem, that's a whole that's a long
Speaker 1: where in Manitoba. I guess Winnipeg. If I was going
Speaker 1: to go, I could. I could reasonably see myself one
Speaker 1: day going to Winnipeg. I was about to say, if
Speaker 1: it's like some random place in northern Canada, I'm never
Speaker 1: going to go there, but I could go to Winnipeg
Speaker 1: one day. Who knows? Anyway? All right, Uh, The only
Speaker 1: advice I can give is asking about how to get
Speaker 1: over the nerves of applying for university the only advice
Speaker 1: I can give? Oh, you mean like asking the only
Speaker 1: advice you can ask for? How can I get over
Speaker 1: the nerves of applying for university and moving away from home?
Speaker 1: I've been looking forward to it for as long as
Speaker 1: I can remember, but now that it's time, I am scared.
Speaker 1: How can I get over the nerves of moving away
Speaker 1: from home? Okay, I assume this person is like seventeen
Speaker 1: or eighteen or something, probably eighteen, because they're applying for
Speaker 1: university and moving away from home. Well, look, look, Liam,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. If you really want to, if you
Speaker 1: really want to, you can live in your mom's basement forever.
Speaker 1: You don't have you don't have to. You can just
Speaker 1: live in your mom's basement for I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know your mom. I don't know if she's gonna kick
Speaker 1: you out, but it sounds like I'm just gonna make
Speaker 1: assumptions about your life. It sounds like your mom would
Speaker 1: be okay with you living at home forever. But she
Speaker 1: probably I mean quietly, I mean probably quietly, she would
Speaker 1: be pissed off at you and want you to get
Speaker 1: the fuck out of her house. But you could if
Speaker 1: you wanted to. You could be a burden to your
Speaker 1: mother forever. But you don't rip a Liam, I do.
Speaker 1: I don't know you, Liam, but you're you're a nice
Speaker 1: Canadian fella. I assu. You're eighteen. You're gonna you got
Speaker 1: uh you got a good sixty two years, probably until
Speaker 1: you're dead, maybe even more if you're If you don't,
Speaker 1: I mean you have free health care, so you're probably good.
Speaker 1: You got sixty more, don't. I don't you want more
Speaker 1: out of your life? Don't. You'll want to move out
Speaker 1: of home, but you'll want to have an adventure. You'll
Speaker 1: want to get out of there. This is those nerves.
Speaker 1: This should be it should be excitement. I mean everyone's
Speaker 1: wired differently. Some people they just like their familiar comforts.
Speaker 1: But I don't know Liam' jo oh wait wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: I'm an idiot. I didn't even I'm stupid. I have
Speaker 1: been looking forward to it for as long as I
Speaker 1: can remember. Okay, so you do want it, you've been
Speaker 1: looking forward to it, but now at this time, I'm scared.
Speaker 1: That's good though, That's good. If it wasn't scary to you,
Speaker 1: then it wouldn't be a change and then what what
Speaker 1: you you'd be looking forward to. Nothing, the nervousness and
Speaker 1: the scariness, that's what you've been looking forward to. It's good.
Speaker 1: It's good. It's good to have things in life that
Speaker 1: you're nervous about. Well maybe not maybe not anxious about,
Speaker 1: because some things that in life that you're anxious about,
Speaker 1: but maybe even anxious, maybe even anxiety. Maybe even that's
Speaker 1: good because it just it means that you still care.
Speaker 1: It means that you still give a fucking shit about
Speaker 1: any because it's so easy to just fucking not care
Speaker 1: about anything and get strung out on heroin and whatever.
Speaker 1: It's good. It's good to be nervous. It's good to
Speaker 1: be eighteen and nervous that things might not work out,
Speaker 1: because it means you still care. If you were telling
Speaker 1: me if this email was like, hey, Lyle, longtime listener,
Speaker 1: I watch your Twitter stream every day from my mom's basement,
Speaker 1: where I plan to stay and be comfortable and not
Speaker 1: nervous for until I die, I'd be like, well, this
Speaker 1: guy's fucked, so you're good. I'm not. I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about you, Liam, all right. This is from Puggle Guests.
Speaker 1: This is from Puggle guests. That's a cool name. The
Speaker 1: subject this viewer male episode Hi Therapy, Gecko. I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk because have you heard of Scrappy Brian. He's
Speaker 1: like scrappy do but Brian from Family Guy. I have
Speaker 1: not heard of that, but that's that's cool. This is
Speaker 1: from Sam. There's a picture of me and Sam. Oh
Speaker 1: I met Sam. This is from Richmond, Virginia. I want
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, hell yeah, Okay, I remember that. I
Speaker 1: remember that background. Okay, Gek. I sincerely appreciate the energy
Speaker 1: you've put into your endeavors and therefore the world. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that because I really sometimes feel like I
Speaker 1: just sit around and eat food all day. You make
Speaker 1: my eighty minute commute so much easier. What the fuck
Speaker 1: are you commuting eighty minutes for? And I especially want
Speaker 1: to thank you for taking my call back in August.
Speaker 1: I'm Shep from the episode Love Makes Me Impulsive. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't remember names, but let me go to Love.
Speaker 1: Let me go to the episode because I want to
Speaker 1: remember is this oh crap? Is this crap? I don't which?
Speaker 1: Hold on, Shep, Let me hold on. Let me go
Speaker 1: into my Google drive and look for Shep, because I
Speaker 1: have notes notes on all the podcasts. Ah Shep or Shep?
Speaker 1: Hold on, oh Shep? Oh okay, okay, wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: Maybe I do remember this guy Shep? What like, I crap,
Speaker 1: there were three callers in that episode, and I just
Speaker 1: don't I can't tell which one you are based off
Speaker 1: of just the name. Let me look on the chat,
Speaker 1: this chat, remember any of that? All right?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Were you? Were you the caller? All right? Whatever? All right,
Speaker 1: I'm Shep from the episode Love makes Me Impulsive? Were
Speaker 1: you the first caller? Why is this bothering me so much?
Speaker 1: Just for future? I don't remember, I really like, I
Speaker 1: really can't remember anyone based off of just names. But
Speaker 1: if you were, like I'm the guy from the episode
Speaker 1: who talked about this, I'll definitely be able to remember.
Speaker 1: I was an eighty percent chance I'll be able to
Speaker 1: remember it. But anyway, all right, whatever, I'm okay. I'm
Speaker 1: Shep from the episode Love makes Me Impulsive. I found
Speaker 1: a job and life is a little better now. If
Speaker 1: we're doing questions in these things, sure, I'd like to
Speaker 1: ask if you have any advice on trying to find
Speaker 1: up partner when you live in a small pond. Small
Speaker 1: town romance is not easy at twenty eight years old. Anyway,
Speaker 1: keep being amazing, and I hope I'll see you again.
Speaker 1: Meeting you in a Richmond, Virginia as a blast, I
Speaker 1: knew I recognized the background. I attached a pick from
Speaker 1: the meet and greet. I'm proud to report I've lost
Speaker 1: forty pounds since this pick. Oh that rocks. Best wishes shep. PS.
Speaker 1: Don't listen to the haters. Your face was not meant
Speaker 1: to be read. All right, Okay, listen, shep I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna you what why is move? You've listed multiple things,
Speaker 1: I mean, you've listed multiple things about where you live
Speaker 1: that sound bad. You have an eighty minute commute, You
Speaker 1: live in a small town where you can't are having
Speaker 1: trouble meeting anyone. Why don't you go somewhere else? Do
Speaker 1: you live in rich Well? Okay, okay, we met at
Speaker 1: the Richmond Virginia show. I'm gonna assume you don't live
Speaker 1: in Richmond, Virginia. I'm gonna assume you live eighty minutes
Speaker 1: outside of Richmond, Virginia. When he just moved to Richmond, Virginia,
Speaker 1: there's what's the fucking population of Richmond, Virginia. Richmond's Virginia
Speaker 1: population population. We had an episode. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys remember this. Okay, this is a population of
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty thousand people. All right, that's fine.
Speaker 1: We had a fucking episode like a few months ago
Speaker 1: where this woman talked about how she moved to Richmond,
Speaker 1: Virginia and started like a pinball league and started meeting people.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was awesome. So this is move
Speaker 1: that's my suggestion. Just move nothing you've it sounds like
Speaker 1: the small town you live in is bad for your life,
Speaker 1: so wanted you to move. Which caller was it? God?
Speaker 1: Damn it was it? The first one? Was it? The
Speaker 1: one who? Okay, there's three callers. There's one. I remember
Speaker 1: the first caller, and that was a guy who almost
Speaker 1: joined a cult. There was a guy who tries to
Speaker 1: say positive after getting fired, and then there was a
Speaker 1: caller who ripped his penis. And you could be any
Speaker 1: one of those people. All right, I hope you're doing good, chep.
Speaker 1: Let's keep going all right? Uh, this is Rona. This
Speaker 1: is rona subject line intimate relationship with Zebras. This is
Speaker 1: definitely a troll, but I'm gonna I'm gonna indulge. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna indulge. Hello, therapy Gecko, I need your advice. Me,
Speaker 1: a fifty seven year old man on schizophrenia medication, have
Speaker 1: recently developed feelings to zebras I have felt for my
Speaker 1: ex wife, Susan. All right, I'm gonna read this exactly
Speaker 1: as it's written. I don't know what makes me feel
Speaker 1: like it. Maybe it's their stripes that seduce me. In
Speaker 1: my country, what's your country? What's your country? Does anyone
Speaker 1: guess what country this is where they where they have
Speaker 1: sex with zebras. In my country, we have zeos that
Speaker 1: allow people to pet animals, including zebras. Last Saturday, I
Speaker 1: had a fantasy of a zebra saying she will let
Speaker 1: me lick her stripes. And I couldn't help myself. But
Speaker 1: see what it really do? I need to read?
Speaker 3: I'm I all right.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read the I'm gonna read you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna finish reading this email because I read the
Speaker 1: rest of it in my head. I'm gonna finish reading
Speaker 1: it aloud so that you all have to read the
Speaker 1: same thing I had to read. Last Saturday, I had
Speaker 1: a fantasy of a zebra saying she will let me
Speaker 1: lick her stripes, and I couldn't help myself. But see whatever,
Speaker 1: it feels like needles to say I am only half
Speaker 1: man now since she kicked me in the balls. I
Speaker 1: think that meant to say, I'm only half man now
Speaker 1: since she kicked me in the balls. But worse, I
Speaker 1: got put on the do not enter the zoo list since,
Speaker 1: as they said, I caused a traumatic event to a
Speaker 1: minor by watching, by having him watch me put the
Speaker 1: zebra stripes in my mouth. I don't I have to,
Speaker 1: all right, on this platform, I would like to say
Speaker 1: sorry to my ex wife, Susan Baby, I'm sorry I
Speaker 1: said I would microwave your hamster if he spoke to
Speaker 1: me one more time. Thank you, dearly Rona. I this
Speaker 1: could be. This could be a man with schizophrenia. This
Speaker 1: could very well be a man in a foreign country.
Speaker 1: This could very well actually be a fifty seven year
Speaker 1: old man in a foreign country with schizophrenia. I'm let
Speaker 1: me tell you guys something, because let me tell you
Speaker 1: guys something, and this is I'm gonna overall just clarify
Speaker 1: my opinion on trolls in general, because That's one of
Speaker 1: the questions I get a lot, is like, do you
Speaker 1: think that people who call into your show and say
Speaker 1: crazy shit are trolling? And I'm just as the guy
Speaker 1: in the driver's seat who is listening to all this
Speaker 1: stuff and taking it all in and like listening to
Speaker 1: people and sometimes you know, whether life it's a live
Speaker 1: show or a street thing, like looking people in the
Speaker 1: eye while they're telling me, I really, I sincerely believe
Speaker 1: there is a greater chance. I don't think this guy
Speaker 1: actually like licked a zebra or whatever. There might be
Speaker 1: a half truth. I sincerely believe there's a stronger chance
Speaker 1: that this is a fifty seven year old man with
Speaker 1: schizophrenia and a foreign country. Then it's like a sixteen
Speaker 1: year old in Minnesota who's just bored and fucking with me.
Speaker 1: I feel the I think people tend to air on
Speaker 1: like I think people on the Internet tend to air
Speaker 1: on the side of like we're being trolled because they
Speaker 1: because they're defensive, because the worst thing that could ever
Speaker 1: happen to someone because for them, the worst thing that
Speaker 1: could ever happen is that they got trolled, is that
Speaker 1: someone took them for a ride. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck. I will take you at face value
Speaker 1: because I don't really care. If you're taking me for
Speaker 1: a ride. I'm gonna care a little bit. I prefer
Speaker 1: you to not the show works. The best encounters that
Speaker 1: I have doing this are ones where people are completely
Speaker 1: being you know, real and authentic. But I generally err
Speaker 1: on the side of this person is being sincere with me.
Speaker 1: I think ninety six percent of the people I interact
Speaker 1: with doing this are being sincere with me. That's just
Speaker 1: from my perspective in the driver's seat. I believe that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a sixty forty on this guy
Speaker 1: is a fifty seven year old schizophrenic man in a
Speaker 1: foreign country. Sixty percent that he is, forty percent that
Speaker 1: he isn't all right, Let's move on. This is from
Speaker 1: Willis subject line, Hey mister Gek, Hey Gek. Hope you're
Speaker 1: doing well. I'm currently procrastinating on my college work, but
Speaker 1: I saw your post and decided to write you an email.
Speaker 1: I've been having major imposter syndrome running a club at
Speaker 1: my college. It's a fairly big club, and this is
Speaker 1: my first time doing any form of extra curricular activities.
Speaker 1: That rocks in high school, I never did anything except
Speaker 1: focused on the school rock and Roll. In my freshman
Speaker 1: year of college, I became an intern for the club,
Speaker 1: and this year I took up the president position. Moving
Speaker 1: on up, Willis Is, moving on Up. I took it
Speaker 1: because when me and my fellow interns were picking executive
Speaker 1: board positions, nobody wanted to be president. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know why anyone everyone would want to be the
Speaker 1: president of anything. I personally didn't care what position I
Speaker 1: had as long as it wasn't creative based. I decided
Speaker 1: to take one for the team and decided to be president.
Speaker 1: So far, it's been al right, but at times it
Speaker 1: could be stressful. Do you have any forms of advice
Speaker 1: in how to go about this pressor I skipped a
Speaker 1: little bit. I have these phases of feeling good about
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, and then other days I feel an
Speaker 1: imposter syndrome, as if I don't belong in the position
Speaker 1: I'm in since I have literally zero leadership experience under
Speaker 1: my belt, and sometimes I feel lost. But everyone says
Speaker 1: I'm doing a great job, although I hope they aren't
Speaker 1: lying to me. Do you have any form of advice
Speaker 1: in terms of how to go about this problem. Overall,
Speaker 1: this is my first time balancing multiple things on my
Speaker 1: plate at once, school, extracurriculars, taking care of myself, friends,
Speaker 1: and to this day, I'm still learning how to balance
Speaker 1: this position. By the way, I sorry for my sniffls.
Speaker 1: I'm a little sick. So this is a good time
Speaker 1: to be doing this episode because this way I won't
Speaker 1: get any of the callers sick. I want to be
Speaker 1: able to look in the mirror confidently and be proud
Speaker 1: of where I got to today, but it is hard
Speaker 1: to do when I have no idea what I'm doing
Speaker 1: in a big power position. This I listen, Willis, I
Speaker 1: don't what. First of all, Willis, I really appreciate your
Speaker 1: sincerity and I appreciate your problem, But what are you
Speaker 1: the president of? You're like like that, what do you
Speaker 1: what do you first? Okay, as a freshman in college,
Speaker 1: I just need you to know you, as a freshman
Speaker 1: in college, there was no club that you could be
Speaker 1: the president of that you could sincerely refer to as
Speaker 1: a big power position. And I don't mean that to
Speaker 1: be offensive. I'm hoping to me, I really mean that
Speaker 1: as like I really mean that as like, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just relax, man, It's all good. You're gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: I just don't what are you the president of where
Speaker 1: you're making giant positions as a freshman and where you're
Speaker 1: making like giant decisions. Also, I hope you can come
Speaker 1: back to Charlotte, North Carolina. One day I met you
Speaker 1: and wish I got to talk to more, but I
Speaker 1: was too nervous. Love the show last year, didn would
Speaker 1: come to the one this year, and he sent a
Speaker 1: little picture what's up? Willis? I guess? Well, okay, I
Speaker 1: mean that's my one thing is like, listen, Brot, you're
Speaker 1: the you're a freshman in college and you're the president
Speaker 1: of some club. You're fine. If you're the president of
Speaker 1: the United States, maybe you would have a little bit
Speaker 1: improcess syndrome. Maybe there's a little bit more room to
Speaker 1: be feeling crazy. But like, you're fine. I'm just reading
Speaker 1: this and I'm like, dude, you're fine. You're fine. How
Speaker 1: do I balance school, extracurriculars, taking care of myself, relationships, friends?
Speaker 3: I have?
Speaker 1: Okay, I have some real advice. Actually, because I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about this, just identify, like you got an eighty twenty
Speaker 1: your life dude, you got a eighty twenty your life,
Speaker 1: so like think about you. Guys, know what the eighty
Speaker 1: twenty principle is. I've been thinking about it a lot.
Speaker 1: It actually is like fucking genius. It changed my life
Speaker 1: when I started thinking about it. Twenty percent of the
Speaker 1: work that you do in your life is responsible for
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the actual results in your life. But
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is, let's say that, like
Speaker 1: you like feel stretched thin by like all of your
Speaker 1: like relationships and all your friendships and like people fucking
Speaker 1: texting you and whatever. Just pick like the few people
Speaker 1: that you really fucking like and just like make sure
Speaker 1: you're keeping in good contact with them, and you're fine.
Speaker 1: Let's say you have a bunch of schoolwork and a
Speaker 1: bunch of extracurriculars and a bunch of whatever. Just pick
Speaker 1: the like twenty percent of the It basically means, like,
Speaker 1: of all the bullshit that you fucking put yourself through
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, only twenty percent of it like
Speaker 1: really matter, like really, just like just boil it all
Speaker 1: down to what really fucking matters, what really moves the
Speaker 1: needle forward in your life, and when you really like
Speaker 1: when you ask that question scathingly. You strip everything away.
Speaker 1: You're kind of like, oh, it's not that much. So
Speaker 1: I would do that. I would go, uh, what's what's
Speaker 1: his name? Willis? If you're Willis, look up the eighty
Speaker 1: twenty principle. Also, just you fine, dude, fucking he didn't
Speaker 1: even say what this club is. I hope him listening
Speaker 1: to me saying that he's fine and that this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I feel like he's like I'm in this
Speaker 1: club and I'm just sitting here like what you care
Speaker 1: about doesn't matter. But I'm not saying that from a
Speaker 1: place of like like how do I put this? I
Speaker 1: think I put it? Okay, you get me? Fine, dude,
Speaker 1: just live your life. Just be happy, don't be stressed
Speaker 1: out all the time. I know that that's such blanket
Speaker 1: fucking bullshit advice, but look up, look up the eighty
Speaker 1: twenty principle. Just take twenty percent. I do this with
Speaker 1: my like, like, I'll give you an example, like I was,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to maintain I have a goal
Speaker 1: of maintaining my gecko thing that I do. And it's like,
Speaker 1: what of all the like random bull crap that I
Speaker 1: could be running around doing to like do my job.
Speaker 1: They're they're really only like twenty percent of what I
Speaker 1: do is like actually important, And I've noticed the things
Speaker 1: that are actually important in my job is anything that
Speaker 1: involves like actually making stuff like this podcast. Like the
Speaker 1: only things that really matter are like having interesting conversations
Speaker 1: with people and making sure that the podcast is good
Speaker 1: and like posting clips of it so that people can
Speaker 1: find out about it. Everything else is kind of bullshit,
Speaker 1: Like having a like like having like a funny twitch
Speaker 1: notification background thing is like it's like it's stupid. Like
Speaker 1: I've just focused on the things that actually matter, and
Speaker 1: that's like me being present when I'm doing this and
Speaker 1: uh me caring about uh the the actual like creative
Speaker 1: what I'm doing and like answering random emails and like
Speaker 1: looking at looking my and looking myself up on Reddit
Speaker 1: are things that don't actually fucking do anything. So I'm
Speaker 1: just relegating it to the only the things that matter,
Speaker 1: all right, anyway, Okay, let's Smooth's keep going. How long
Speaker 1: have I been going? For fifty one minutes? It seems
Speaker 1: I could keep I'm just I mean, I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get through all the emails. Should I do this.
Speaker 1: Should I do this in two parts? Let's see how this,
Speaker 1: Let's see if people like this, and then maybe I'll
Speaker 1: do this. I mean, I like this. I'm people I
Speaker 1: want to keep doing. This is fun. I've only got
Speaker 1: through like a few of these emails, and I have
Speaker 1: a billion more. All right, Oh, this one's fun. Joey.
Speaker 1: This is from Joey. Subject line you interrupted me having sex?
Speaker 1: Joey says, about two years ago, me and my girlfriend
Speaker 1: were trying to get into your show, so we called
Speaker 1: and we were waiting for some time, I don't remember
Speaker 1: how long, probably an hour or so. While we were
Speaker 1: on hold. We were in bed chillin' watching TV with
Speaker 1: the volume low so we could hear you if you
Speaker 1: picked up. Eventually, we forgot we were on hold, and
Speaker 1: we ended up having sex, and probably like six to
Speaker 1: seven minutes and two positions in, you answered the phone,
Speaker 1: and we heard the voice and stopped, and it took
Speaker 1: a few seconds for us to remember that we called,
Speaker 1: and my girlfriend hopped up and answered the phone. Since
Speaker 1: she was the one calling with the story, I don't
Speaker 1: want to tell you who the caller was because it
Speaker 1: was a pretty personal story of hers. That's kind of
Speaker 1: funny that she wanted to talk to me more than
Speaker 1: she wanted to have sex with you in that moment.
Speaker 1: Moving on, this is from Cain. Have you ever played
Speaker 1: The Binding of Isaac? I have? If so, let me know.
Speaker 1: If not, you should try it out. Love Kin from
Speaker 1: the UK. What's up, Kine, I have played The Binding.
Speaker 1: I played it a long time ago. Fuck. I must
Speaker 1: have played that game when I was in middle school.
Speaker 1: How old is that game? Let me look it up?
Speaker 1: The Binding of Isaac twenty eleven. Yeah, I played this
Speaker 1: when I was in middle school, like on the Xbox.
Speaker 1: It's a roguelike rogue let me I'm an now, I'm
Speaker 1: at ale. Wikipedia page for roguelike you have like procedural gennera.
Speaker 1: I guess I played Hades Hades and I played Hades
Speaker 1: and that game was I didn't like it. I didn't
Speaker 1: like that game. I don't really like roguelikes, and I
Speaker 1: don't really remember loving the Binding adviser either, But thank
Speaker 1: you for asking me if I have played this video game,
Speaker 1: and thanks for messaging from the UK. Kane all right,
Speaker 1: this is from Brian or Briah. Words for you to
Speaker 1: read is the subject line, Hello Gek, I am nineteen
Speaker 1: and from the UK. I'm not sure how these email
Speaker 1: things work. Yet you're talking like you're from the fucking
Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds, as you just posted as you only posted
Speaker 1: it on your Instagram. But I've been listening to you
Speaker 1: for years, every single episode besides the gek legend ones
Speaker 1: because I don't know how to transfer Oh okay, they're saying,
Speaker 1: because I don't know how to okay. I've listened to
Speaker 1: every episode except the bonus ones because I don't know
Speaker 1: how to transfer pounds to dollars online. I don't know
Speaker 1: how to do that either. Anyway, I suppose I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about my struggles and seek your advice. I've
Speaker 1: been home bound for three years now. I suffer from
Speaker 1: horrible anxiety that I've always had since I was little,
Speaker 1: and I find it really hard to get a job,
Speaker 1: as my panic attacks can lead to vomiting, and that's
Speaker 1: not very good out in public. Since I've been alone
Speaker 1: and away from everything for so long, I've probably become
Speaker 1: even worse. I don't have any friends, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how to make them. I live on a small
Speaker 1: island and don't talk to anyone from school anymore, so
Speaker 1: it's hard to make friends. I just wonder if there's
Speaker 1: any hope for me to be honest. Each day that
Speaker 1: goes by lowers my mood and I'm getting lonelier every day,
Speaker 1: and I just don't know what to do. I'm in
Speaker 1: counseling and take medication for mental health already. Okay, getting
Speaker 1: a job is super hard, but I've been pushing myself
Speaker 1: and trying my hardest. I really want to be able
Speaker 1: to move out in the future, as my household can
Speaker 1: be toxic sometimes, but I have no idea how I
Speaker 1: will get money in this economy. Any thoughts side note,
Speaker 1: I'm going to your November show, Clapham. I'm a massive fan.
Speaker 1: Love you well, Briah. Well, okay, I mean, have I
Speaker 1: have some thoughts? I mean, just over I feel bad
Speaker 1: for this person. It's a tough like just health issues
Speaker 1: fucking suck. I know that's not the most poignant takeaway
Speaker 1: from this, but that's just what I feel. Is like, man,
Speaker 1: fucking hmm. Okay, so you're going to my show in life, Okay,
Speaker 1: so you can leave the house. I'm curious. This is
Speaker 1: what I'm curious about. So so you're you You're going
Speaker 1: to my show, So you can leave the house enough
Speaker 1: that you can like go to a show. I'm gonna assume,
Speaker 1: because you're saying you're going to my show, that you
Speaker 1: can leave the house enough. You can leave the Okay,
Speaker 1: you can leave the house and go to a crowded
Speaker 1: like event a theater. Do you have You're saying that
Speaker 1: you have ability to do that? So like, do you
Speaker 1: are you? You say, I'm pretty home bound. This is
Speaker 1: why I want to follow up questions for this person.
Speaker 1: And I'm just trying to make inferences from what they're
Speaker 1: saying to me. And the inference is that they're going
Speaker 1: to my show, which means that they can leave the
Speaker 1: house if they want to. I guess that's just hard.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm wondering. That's what I got it. Damn.
Speaker 1: If I could talk to this person, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: that's what I don't get. If they're coming to my show,
Speaker 1: it means that they can summon the energy occasionally to
Speaker 1: leave the house. Okay, I'm gonna assume that they can
Speaker 1: do that. So my here's my thought. Sorry I still
Speaker 1: have the sniffles. My thought is, I mean, you're nineteen,
Speaker 1: you have sixty one years until you're dead, maybe more
Speaker 1: because you're in the UK. I feel like in the
Speaker 1: UK there's a lot of like ninety year old British people.
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of British people are old.
Speaker 1: All right. If I were you, I would summon whatever
Speaker 1: energy you can, even if it's not a lot, even
Speaker 1: if it's once a month, whatever energy you can summon
Speaker 1: to leave the house and do some shit. Just try
Speaker 1: just like take it like audit audit your energy, Audit
Speaker 1: what you feel like you audit like the bare minimum
Speaker 1: of what you feel like you can do, and just
Speaker 1: start doing that. My panic at taxically developmenting. That's not
Speaker 1: very but I'm like, what triggers your panic that I
Speaker 1: want to man, this is this is one of the
Speaker 1: one where I wish I could talk to because I
Speaker 1: want to know what your real therapist says how to
Speaker 1: get money in this economy. I don't know. The economy
Speaker 1: is fucked. I mean maybe it's better in the UK.
Speaker 1: It's that you can move out when you're only nineteen.
Speaker 1: You can you can probably live at your parent's house
Speaker 1: for another five years and just save up money and
Speaker 1: get some kind of whatever fucking job. I live on
Speaker 1: a small island, do they have little jobs on the
Speaker 1: little islands that you can you can work while you're
Speaker 1: living in your parents house, while it's save up some money.
Speaker 1: I don't I can't get over the fact that, like,
Speaker 1: this person's going to my show, which means that they
Speaker 1: can leave the house when they want to. It seems
Speaker 1: even if it's like even if it's like it takes.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that in a sense of like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're fucking lying. I'm saying that in a sense of,
Speaker 1: like this we have evidence that if this person, this
Speaker 1: person can hold it together enough to go to a
Speaker 1: thing if they want to. So I'm like, how often
Speaker 1: can they do that? Can they do that? Like Malta?
Speaker 1: Can you can you go? Can you leave your house
Speaker 1: once a week and go to a show, go to
Speaker 1: an event? I mean, I'm doing this ship in London.
Speaker 1: You can leave the house and go to London to
Speaker 1: go to my show? Can you do that once a month?
Speaker 1: Go to London and go to like a fu? Like,
Speaker 1: what do you like? Do you like music? Do you
Speaker 1: like comedy? Do you like art? I mean you're near,
Speaker 1: You're you're near enough to fucking London, like a major,
Speaker 1: major city. Can you get out can you put how
Speaker 1: often can you realistically put yourself out there? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's the chat. Think someone said you
Speaker 1: can go to a park or your front yard for free.
Speaker 1: But that's by the way, that's a real fuck, that's
Speaker 1: so real. What this person like like, Okay, you know,
Speaker 1: make sure maybe I'm just like maybe I'm on the
Speaker 1: thing of like, uh oh, you got to go into
Speaker 1: London and go to like a crazy thing, but you
Speaker 1: should literally just try getting out of the house and
Speaker 1: walking around your neighborhood often, just like leave, just leave,
Speaker 1: Just walk outside as much as you physically feel like
Speaker 1: you can. That's the best I got. That's the best
Speaker 1: I guy. That's what I do when I'm going in Sands,
Speaker 1: I just leave. And I'm trying to make I'm trying
Speaker 1: to make more friends too, and that's what I just leave.
Speaker 1: Just leave the house because sometimes because sometimes a lot
Speaker 1: of these issues, like even if you leave the house
Speaker 1: and you don't make any new friends, you kind of
Speaker 1: just feel better that you tried, right, You just feel
Speaker 1: better that you tried. So again, if you can leave
Speaker 1: your house in November to go to my show in London,
Speaker 1: just just keep leaving in your house. Just keep them
Speaker 1: in your house. Briah, good luck. What's the chat say?
Speaker 1: London is mad expensive? I'm sure it is. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's a whole I was thinking that too. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's probably a crazy money thing. But what the other
Speaker 1: person in the chat said is accurate. Where it's like
Speaker 1: you can also just walk outside. All right, how long
Speaker 1: have I been going? For an hour? Okay, I kind
Speaker 1: of want to keep going. Let's see. I'm checking Twitch.
Speaker 1: I want to see how many people are watching this live.
Speaker 1: I want to see if it's less that's about the same.
Speaker 1: I'm having fun. I'm enjoying doing this. I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: making episodes of your male if I Even if this
Speaker 1: gets less downloads, I'm still gonna do it. Or maybe
Speaker 1: I won't, I don't know, but uh, I'm having fun.
Speaker 1: I'm having fun. That's what matters. I'm having fun. I'm
Speaker 1: feeling like this is good, this is a good thing
Speaker 1: to do. Let's keep let's keep doing it, all right?
Speaker 1: All right? All right? This from Liam. I'm a bartender,
Speaker 1: and I have been for quite a while now. People
Speaker 1: often don't realize how often bartenders in general are on
Speaker 1: a substance and how often we fuck with annoying customers drinks. Jesus.
Speaker 1: I've had multiple co workers who most of the time
Speaker 1: are either drunk, high, or in some kind of mind
Speaker 1: altering shift. Mind are some kind of mind altering state
Speaker 1: on a shift. One of them once took a tab
Speaker 1: of acid the night before a morning shift, and he
Speaker 1: was slightly feeling the effects when he came into work.
Speaker 1: Wasn't good, I'll tell you that. Also, if you're a
Speaker 1: rude customer like the five percent, then there's a chance
Speaker 1: you've drank something watered down with spitting it or a
Speaker 1: dirty glass. Oh my god, I wish I'm forwarding this
Speaker 1: email to John Tafford because this is not cool. Uh.
Speaker 1: I mean whatever, you want to water something down, but
Speaker 1: don't fucking spit in it. Jesus. All right, Connor, This
Speaker 1: is from Connor. Subject line Hell yeah, right now, dear lyle,
Speaker 1: right now. I'm supposed to be at work installing appliances
Speaker 1: in an old folks home, but instead I am writing
Speaker 1: to you. What are your top three least favorite candies?
Speaker 1: Thank you for asking this question. By the way, loved
Speaker 1: meeting you at the show in Pittsburgh. You killed it,
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir Lisle. Oh then he wrote me a poem,
Speaker 1: Lile Isle crocodile, hope your name is not on file Jesus,
Speaker 1: I hope you find a very nice rock to live
Speaker 1: out your gecko life. That's not what I thought he
Speaker 1: was going to rhyme rock with and fold neatly your
Speaker 1: gecko's socks gek bless love connor uh least favorite candies.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go licorice? Uh red vines. I think redvines
Speaker 1: are disgusting. They're like they're like Twizzlers but with no flavor.
Speaker 1: Uh black? Oh wait? What was what did I first saying?
Speaker 1: Uh wait? What? Red vines? Black? Licorice and maybe like
Speaker 1: hard butterscotch still gets too much in your teeth? It
Speaker 1: is from Eddie subject line would you be mad? It
Speaker 1: is from Eddie? Hi, my name's Eddie. Would it piss
Speaker 1: you off? If I wore a penguin costume and broke
Speaker 1: bad news to people on like stream and stuff? No?
Speaker 1: Seeing you do this stuff really motivated me to want
Speaker 1: to do something similar, But I wouldn't do it. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to do it if it would make you
Speaker 1: upset or make me make you think I'm copying you.
Speaker 1: Let me know, because I wanted your opinion before I
Speaker 1: started doing it. No, this wouldn't make me mad. This
Speaker 1: is I get a dude. I get emails like this
Speaker 1: sometimes where people are like, hey, man, I love what
Speaker 1: you do. I was wondering if I could start a
Speaker 1: call in show. I don't really want to like encroach
Speaker 1: on your turf. And it's like, guys, people have been
Speaker 1: doing First of all, people have been doing call in
Speaker 1: shows since like the forever they've I did not invent
Speaker 1: doing call in radio. You know, that's been a thing
Speaker 1: since like the I'm making this up. That's been a
Speaker 1: thing since like the seventies. But probably I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know who. I don't know who did the
Speaker 1: first call in the show, but I did not create it.
Speaker 1: And then the whole thing of like doing it in
Speaker 1: a costume. Uh, dude, here's the thing at this here's
Speaker 1: the thing at this point in my journey of doing this,
Speaker 1: I don't if you, dude, if you want to dress
Speaker 1: up as a gecko, and if you want to make
Speaker 1: a YouTube channel and dress up like a gecko and
Speaker 1: call yourself therapy gecko and start taking phone calls and
Speaker 1: saying I'm the therapy gecko. I'm it's not gonna change
Speaker 1: my day to day life. I don't care. I really don't.
Speaker 1: It's really not gonna change. I'm still gonna do my podcast.
Speaker 1: Whoever's listening to it is still it's still probably gonna
Speaker 1: listen to it. Maybe maybe they'll like yours too. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't care. It's not I'm not like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect me if you also wear a animal
Speaker 1: costume and take phone calls. I don't. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I have here's the thing, and I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get pretentious for a second. I have my own personal
Speaker 1: methodology of conducting this show. I have my own brain
Speaker 1: and lived experience that I use to do it. As
Speaker 1: do you, As do you, Eddie. You have your own
Speaker 1: methodology to how you want to do your penguin shit.
Speaker 1: You have your own lived experience, You have your own brain.
Speaker 1: And those are the things. The fucking the costume and
Speaker 1: the phone calls, those aren't the things they're gonna make
Speaker 1: people wanna listen to your shit. It's it's it's you,
Speaker 1: you know, and you and you can't be me. I'm
Speaker 1: the only guy who's me, and I can't be you.
Speaker 1: You're the only guy that's you. So I don't give
Speaker 1: a fuck if you wanna. I mean, other people might
Speaker 1: get mad. Other people might be like, why you like
Speaker 1: not the penguin thing? Do the penguin thing. Don't care.
Speaker 1: But if you dress up like a geck and you
Speaker 1: call yourself therapy Gecko, other people might get mad at you.
Speaker 1: But I won't go ahead, I'll do it. I'll be like,
Speaker 1: this is a fucking it. Just it just won't affect me,
Speaker 1: I don't think. So, I mean, go ahead, Eddie, do
Speaker 1: whatever you want. Wear a penguin costume, go where where?
Speaker 1: I seriously. I also, I hope I mean this. I
Speaker 1: hope that your penguin costume stream makes you happy and
Speaker 1: it's fun, and I hope you make a lot of
Speaker 1: money doing it, and I hope you get really famous,
Speaker 1: and I really and I all of those things could
Speaker 1: happen to you, and none of them would affect me
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, and I would be
Speaker 1: I would be stoked for you, Eddie. So so please
Speaker 1: do your penguin show. All right, Uh, let's keep going.
Speaker 1: What's how long? Maybe I could do like if it's
Speaker 1: been an hour and nine minute, I could do Like, yeah, fuck,
Speaker 1: I'll keep I'll do a few more. I'll do a
Speaker 1: few more. All right, where are we at? Uh? Okay,
Speaker 1: this is from ABD subject line. I saw my grandma
Speaker 1: pleasuring herself body. It was fucking terrifying and scary and
Speaker 1: low key. My life ain't going to be the same anymore,
Speaker 1: all right. So there's more of a chance that the
Speaker 1: fifty seven year old schizophrenic guy who wants to fuck
Speaker 1: Zebras is telling the truth than this person is telling
Speaker 1: the truth. If this person wrote more than one sentence
Speaker 1: about it, maybe I'd believe them. But fucking maybe they did.
Speaker 1: Maybe they saw their grandma pleasuring herself. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this at face value. I'm gonna actually
Speaker 1: answer this. This is they just called themselves a b D. Listen, ABD,
Speaker 1: your grandmother how old your granda? Your grandma's probably like
Speaker 1: eighty seven, seventy eighty. You should be happy for your
Speaker 1: grandma that she's still because your grandfather, your grandma, and
Speaker 1: your grand I don't know anything about your grandma. Your
Speaker 1: grandfather might be dead and your grandmother might have been
Speaker 1: dead for a long time, in which case, your grandma
Speaker 1: has not had sex for a long long time. And
Speaker 1: as much as we'd like to believe that when we
Speaker 1: get older we stop being horny, I don't think that's true.
Speaker 1: I think if you're horny, you're just fucking horny forever,
Speaker 1: and it never fucking goes away. And so your grandma
Speaker 1: is horny, and she's she's jerking to let her fucking
Speaker 1: jerk off. Dude, she raised your parents. She probably helped
Speaker 1: you out a little bit, raise you, I used to you. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you guys probably live in the same fucking house.
Speaker 1: She probably helped you out in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: Let your grandma jerk off. Why do you care if
Speaker 1: your grandma's jerking off, Let it jernk off. You know,
Speaker 1: hire her a like an escort or something if you
Speaker 1: really want to not watch her jerk off? All right? Uh,
Speaker 1: this is from Audrey. Hey, uh pissed story. That's what
Speaker 1: the That's what it's says. Hi. My name is Joy.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well, hi Joy, my name is Joy. I
Speaker 1: am so over COVID. Oh wait, no, no, no, no, that's
Speaker 1: not what it says. That's not what it says. Hi, Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought it said I am so over COVID. What
Speaker 1: she meant to write was, Hi, my name is Joe
Speaker 1: so over covid comma. Okay, Hi, my name is Joy
Speaker 1: so over covid Comma. I worked at FedEx. I was
Speaker 1: only there two months, but I made a mark. So
Speaker 1: I was on the belt lines where you got to
Speaker 1: load trucks and shit, and the drivers don't have bathrooms,
Speaker 1: so they're pissing in gatorade bottles and shit. It grossed
Speaker 1: me out. It's one thing to piss in a bottle,
Speaker 1: but to not throw it away is gross af You
Speaker 1: know what, I'll give you that, as a guy who's
Speaker 1: pissed in many bottles and kept them for no reason,
Speaker 1: I'll give you that. I'd complain to my manager basically
Speaker 1: every day, and I'd be told to either ignore it
Speaker 1: and work in close proximity to the piss or to
Speaker 1: dispose of it myself. That's fucked up. Your boss was
Speaker 1: just like, if you don't like it, why don't you
Speaker 1: throw them away yourself? Goddamn all right? That shit made
Speaker 1: me mad. This one faithful day, I came across a
Speaker 1: huge plastic strawberry Kiwi Snapple bottle completely filled with piss.
Speaker 1: So I kicked the bottle off the platform and wedged
Speaker 1: the bottle beneath the tire of a truck I was loading.
Speaker 1: The trucks leave like an hour after we load. The
Speaker 1: next morning, I noticed all the drivers were in meetings.
Speaker 1: Mind you, there were like six hundred people working at
Speaker 1: this facility. Everyone was talking about the mysterious piss plosion. Okay,
Speaker 1: So she strategically kicked the bottle of piss underneath the
Speaker 1: tire of a truck so that the truck would explode
Speaker 1: the piss bottle. The last few weeks I was there,
Speaker 1: I didn't see a single piss bottle. Okay, So Base
Speaker 1: she caused a piss explosion that was kind of like
Speaker 1: the uh, the Oppenheimer bomb that ended the war. Essentially,
Speaker 1: she she dropped a war ending nuclear piss bomb on
Speaker 1: this situation. That just got everyone to be like, we're
Speaker 1: not playing around anymore with the piss. Also, I love you,
Speaker 1: Lyle Greenheart. You know I uh, you're taking matters into
Speaker 1: your own hands. Joy. I respect that this is from
Speaker 1: Jade uh subject line final words uh, Hello Gek. I've
Speaker 1: wanted to call in to talk to you, but I
Speaker 1: don't understand time zones with my busy schedule. Once I'm
Speaker 1: home from work, my brain is soup. I have a funny,
Speaker 1: sad story of one of the fire conversations with my
Speaker 1: grandfather that many listeners would love. Most of us have
Speaker 1: been hit with the financial hardships of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and I was feeling it early on in the year
Speaker 1: as my family was getting together to celebrate yet another Christmas.
Speaker 1: Growing up, I was always encouraged to be artistic by
Speaker 1: my grandparents. My grandmother was always showing me new crafty tricks.
Speaker 1: She thought it would be worthwhile to share her party
Speaker 1: trick with me at a young age. I was about
Speaker 1: five when I discovered I could do her party trick
Speaker 1: as well. Oh God, I hope it's not the same
Speaker 1: party trick as the other guys, Grandma. This trick being
Speaker 1: writing people's names using my feet. This on its own
Speaker 1: can get some good laughs from everyone. But as an adult,
Speaker 1: I've thought about how I could turn that into a business. Oh,
Speaker 1: you can turn that into a business, all right, you
Speaker 1: can definitely turn that into a business. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it'll be the kind of business, but if your
Speaker 1: answer if the question is can you turn that into
Speaker 1: a business? The answer is is definitely a yes. There's
Speaker 1: lots of websites where people will pay you to write
Speaker 1: their name with your feet. Uh. Okay uh. I'm joking
Speaker 1: with my grandpa about selling feet picks since my art
Speaker 1: business hasn't been gaining traction like I thought it would.
Speaker 1: My boyfriend chimed in and said he'd buy the camera
Speaker 1: for it and help take the videos. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a that's a that's a good boyfriend. Everyone was laughing
Speaker 1: about how they'd helped support me and my feet pick endeavor,
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't look at my content. Well. Flash forward
Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks and I get the heart
Speaker 1: wrenching call that my grandpa had unexpectedly dropped dead. Is
Speaker 1: this a story about a woman who starts off foot
Speaker 1: only fans to honor her dead grandfather? I have to
Speaker 1: read the rest of the email at the time. I will.
Speaker 1: At the time, I wasn't reminiscing on our last conversation,
Speaker 1: but once the memorial came and I was around my cousins,
Speaker 1: I figured that would be a great time to share it.
Speaker 1: Sure put a smile on our faces during such a
Speaker 1: crappy time. Moral of the story is, you never know
Speaker 1: when it will be your last time seeing someone, so
Speaker 1: make sure you give them something to smile about. Side note,
Speaker 1: can you ask chat if they'd buy personalized feet names.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ask Chat. The answer is yes. The
Speaker 1: answer is yes. If you really want to do this,
Speaker 1: there will be a market for it. Thanks for having
Speaker 1: a great show. I've listened almost every podcast. Thank you, Jade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a market for this. This is an established
Speaker 1: market for this. Someone in the chat said personally, no,
Speaker 1: but I bet someone will. I I double that sentiment.
Speaker 1: All right, this is from Finn. How much? How long
Speaker 1: have I been doing this? Maybe I'll do a few more.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll go up to an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: By the way, please please let me know in the
Speaker 1: comments if you want me to do more of these.
Speaker 1: I want to do more of them. I'm having fun.
Speaker 1: I have sixty six unready emails that I got to
Speaker 1: get to and maybe I'll just do this. I kind
Speaker 1: of want to do a part two of this because
Speaker 1: I have a bunch more emails to read, and so
Speaker 1: maybe I'll do Maybe I'll do like once a week.
Speaker 1: It would be cool. I could do like, you know,
Speaker 1: I put out two of these a week. Maybe I
Speaker 1: could do one solo one and one one kind of
Speaker 1: dear abby ish viewer mail one and then one phone
Speaker 1: call one per week. Maybe not every week, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let me know what you think, let me know what
Speaker 1: you'd listen to. All right, hold on, this is kind
Speaker 1: of a long email, so oh crap, I say the
Speaker 1: person's name already. All right, alright, This from Gene, subject
Speaker 1: line how to get over bisexual men. Hello, I am
Speaker 1: addicted to bisexual men. I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: go back to straight men? Please? How do I get
Speaker 1: over these bisexuals? All they know how to do is lie?
Speaker 1: This is stupid. Why just be whoever you're whoever? You
Speaker 1: fucking you're fine. I don't I know this person. I
Speaker 1: feel like such a lame o because a lot of
Speaker 1: these I know that they're joking, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to come in being like I know that these people
Speaker 1: are joking, but I don't want to come in being
Speaker 1: like whatever, I'm gonna do it anyway, okay, obviously not
Speaker 1: all No, it's so annoying this person's joking. I don't
Speaker 1: I'm never mind, I'm not gonna do this because when
Speaker 1: you my only retort is going to be something sincere
Speaker 1: and I can't fight someone joking with someone with sincerity.
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, this is from Jorge or George. Sorry,
Speaker 1: all right? The subject line is peak season. Hello. I
Speaker 1: already hate my job and how boring it is and
Speaker 1: how worse it got after a year of being here.
Speaker 1: I don't talk to anybody at all, and I just
Speaker 1: fester in my thoughts most of the time. I hate it,
Speaker 1: but I start getting bored of podcasts and music at
Speaker 1: this point, and I don't know what to do about it.
Speaker 1: Peak season might be the end of me. I decay.
Speaker 1: It depends how I feel, But most of the time
Speaker 1: it's this, Do you have any advice so I don't
Speaker 1: go insane in my head during peak season November to December,
Speaker 1: I might start relying on weed. But it's a dumb
Speaker 1: fucking idea. As someone who does drugs to get through life,
Speaker 1: it's not a good idea. I don't. I have so much.
Speaker 1: I really actually want to help this person, but I
Speaker 1: don't I have I don't know if I can give
Speaker 1: this person accurate feedback, if without knowing what their job is,
Speaker 1: or if they have any savings or where they live
Speaker 1: or what they like or any of that shit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Do I have any advice so you don't go insane? Well,
Speaker 1: ideally you're living a life that doesn't drive you insane
Speaker 1: all the time, but you do need money to live,
Speaker 1: and so I'm just like, how can you make money
Speaker 1: to live while not going insane all the time? But
Speaker 1: in order to answer that question, I feel like i'd
Speaker 1: have to talk to you. I'm optimistic, though, I think
Speaker 1: it's possible, So I don't know. I'm gonna skip this one.
Speaker 1: Do you have any vice on not going insane? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna skip this one. Just smoke weed and you'll be fine. No, don't, actually,
Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna do it. So hang in there, George.
Speaker 1: Sorry that one was bad. All right?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: What does anyone that chad have thoughts? All right? Whatever? Alright?
Speaker 1: This is from Charlie. Subject line high Lyle. Charlie says,
Speaker 1: Hey Lyle, I'm a longtime listener. I love your podcast
Speaker 1: and videos. Thank you, Charlie. My name is Charlie. Hi Charlie.
Speaker 1: I am twenty two years old and I'm having this
Speaker 1: issue with myself. Recently, I lost my dream job over
Speaker 1: me being irresponsible. I had moved out of my mom's
Speaker 1: because I was making enough money to pay for my
Speaker 1: own place, and I felt like I gained some freedom.
Speaker 1: So I started to smoke a lot more pot than
Speaker 1: what I used to, which led to me over sleeping
Speaker 1: a couple of times and being late to work, which
Speaker 1: they didn't tolerate, and they fired me. For now, I
Speaker 1: don't see any purpose in life. I don't know what
Speaker 1: else to do, how to be happy with myself in
Speaker 1: my life. Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. Hmmm mmm, Charlie.
Speaker 1: Sometimes in life you fucking fuck up. Sometimes in life, yeah,
Speaker 1: fucking yeah, just fuck up. It's so weird. Like I've
Speaker 1: been thinking a lot. I've been thinking about this a lot.
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about how much of life is deterministic
Speaker 1: versus in our own control. And I think back to
Speaker 1: all the times in my life in which I was
Speaker 1: fucking stupid and fucked something up, and looking back at
Speaker 1: those times now, I'm like, I don't know if a
Speaker 1: universe existed where I didn't fuck that up, because I
Speaker 1: only had the emotional intelligence and perspective and in general
Speaker 1: intelligence that I had at that time, which was unfortunately
Speaker 1: not a lot. It was unfortunately not enough to not
Speaker 1: fuck up. You can. I think I've been talking a
Speaker 1: lot about duality and like holding space for both things,
Speaker 1: and I think you can kind of hold space for
Speaker 1: like I was kind of gonna not like not like
Speaker 1: I was gonna fuck that up anyway, so who cares,
Speaker 1: but like you can like a little bit of that.
Speaker 1: But also, you know, you gotta kind of you gotta
Speaker 1: like don't hate yourself into like, oh I suck and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be shitty and I don't know what else
Speaker 1: to I have no purpose in life. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: twenty two. You know you can. You can. You have
Speaker 1: a lot of room to learn from your mistakes and
Speaker 1: not fuck up next time, you know. So that's what
Speaker 1: I would do, Charlie is I would try to adopt
Speaker 1: an abundance mindset. I'm gonna get I'm gonna get motivational
Speaker 1: speaker with you, adopt an abundance mindset. Just don't like
Speaker 1: you'll get what's what's what's the dream job, Charlie, what's
Speaker 1: the dream job? I want to know what this job was,
Speaker 1: and I want I want to know why you can't
Speaker 1: find a similar job or why you can't like if I, like,
Speaker 1: if I had to place a bet on whether or
Speaker 1: not I felt like you could find employment again, I
Speaker 1: would bet that you could. So look at your life,
Speaker 1: So look at So why don't you look at your
Speaker 1: life from the way that I'm looking at it, which
Speaker 1: is I don't know you at all. You're just a
Speaker 1: random twenty two year old who was employed and is
Speaker 1: now not. And I believe I'm optimistic you will find
Speaker 1: you can. You're fucking you can find purpose and happiness
Speaker 1: in life. You didn't like like, you didn't like, you're
Speaker 1: not like in jail, you didn't like, get someone pregnant,
Speaker 1: and now you have to take care of a kid
Speaker 1: you're not you didn't like kill like you're You're fine,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be fine. Just do just keep going, just
Speaker 1: keep moving forward, Like if you need to take it,
Speaker 1: if you need a day to go, I'm such a
Speaker 1: fucking dumbass that I did this, and this I fucking suck.
Speaker 1: Take it. Take your day to hate yourself if you
Speaker 1: need it, But don't do it. If you just don't
Speaker 1: do it forever, because then you're just throwing away your youth.
Speaker 1: You have so like the like when I just look
Speaker 1: at your life, just by the fact that you're twenty
Speaker 1: two and you're not in jail or dead or seriously injured,
Speaker 1: You're I'm like, oh my, you have so much to
Speaker 1: your advantage. So just take just take inventory of everything
Speaker 1: that's at your advantage and work off of that instead
Speaker 1: of being like, I'm a piece of shit for you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, take a little bit of time, examine it,
Speaker 1: don't don't you don't maybe don't move on so quickly,
Speaker 1: you know, be like, hey, you know, I probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: have done that. That was probably a little stupid. I
Speaker 1: won't do it next time, you know, learn, examine, analyze,
Speaker 1: But don't you know, you don't have to. You don't
Speaker 1: have to fuck yourself forever. You can get another job, Charlie,
Speaker 1: What was this job? This is I actually I'm actually
Speaker 1: really enjoying like reading people's reading stuff, but I I
Speaker 1: am kind of like some details that would make this easier.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna read literally one more and then
Speaker 1: and then I'm going to stop, and then I'm going
Speaker 1: to conclude this. Uh okay, let's see here. Uh okay,
Speaker 1: this is from Dylan. Subject line, I broke my foot
Speaker 1: back in April and have done nothing about it. Like nothing,
Speaker 1: You just didn't go to the hospital. Okay, let me
Speaker 1: read the email. Hi gak currently writing this on the
Speaker 1: toilet at work. Very nice. So yeah, pretty sure I
Speaker 1: broke my foot back in April this year. Go to
Speaker 1: a fucking doctor. I was at a wedding and we
Speaker 1: were dancing. Freebird came on, shout out free Bird. That
Speaker 1: was the uh like final boss song of Guitar Hero too.
Speaker 1: Free Bird came on, and I have a dance mood
Speaker 1: and I have a dance move called the country high step.
Speaker 1: Do you know how sumo wrestlers do their big sweep
Speaker 1: step before they fight, Well, it's like that, but if
Speaker 1: you grab your belt buckle and jump while you're slamming
Speaker 1: your foot on the ground, that's that sounds bad. Picture
Speaker 1: a gold miner in the eighteen hundreds doing a little
Speaker 1: jig because he found a nugget and you got it.
Speaker 1: That's very specific. Anyways, I was doing that and I
Speaker 1: slammed my foot down one good time and I felt
Speaker 1: a pop. Immediately thought, oh, this isn't good, and sat
Speaker 1: down for the next few weeks, I couldn't put pressure
Speaker 1: on the left side of my right foot. My solution
Speaker 1: was to wear slippers everywhere. Go to a fucking doctor.
Speaker 1: So it's been six inch months and now there's a
Speaker 1: twinge in it when I step wrong, and I have
Speaker 1: a slight permanent bump where my left foot has none.
Speaker 1: All right, pretty sure. My manager is standing outside of
Speaker 1: my stall. So that's it. Have fun with gecking, take care,
Speaker 1: have a great day. Dylan. PS. I'm the cowboy from
Speaker 1: the Seattle Show in twenty twenty two. I extra points
Speaker 1: if you remember that. I absolutely remember that. I absolutely
Speaker 1: remember the cowboy from the Seattle Show in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: because dude, I'm gonna try to tell the story. Cit
Speaker 1: there was a guy who came on stage at my
Speaker 1: Seattle show at the Crocodile shout out the Crocodile Great venue, yeah,
Speaker 1: two years ago, and he just wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: being a cowboy. And then uh, I think some girl
Speaker 1: like asked him a question like if he was single,
Speaker 1: because like there's a part of the show where I'm like,
Speaker 1: does anyone have any questions for the guest? And some
Speaker 1: girl asked him a question like if he was single
Speaker 1: and like they got like I just remember seeing them
Speaker 1: like talking after the show, and I think either him
Speaker 1: or like somebody else wrote like a post it note
Speaker 1: to me that said the Cowboy scored and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that. I was like, what, oh,
Speaker 1: I remember you? I do remember the Cowboy anyway, Dylan. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's what bothers me about this. You wrote, all right,
Speaker 1: pretty sure on my manager is standing outside of the stall.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're employed, Dylan. It sounds like you're employed.
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of I don't know what
Speaker 1: you do. I don't know if you're actually a cowboy.
Speaker 1: Do you have health insurance? Go see a fucking Even
Speaker 1: if you don't have health insurance, go see a doctor, Dylan,
Speaker 1: Why are you asking me for advice? You don't even
Speaker 1: think you're asking me for advice in this. You're just
Speaker 1: you're just sharing. You just want to share that your
Speaker 1: foot is about to fall off, Dylan, go to a doctor.
Speaker 1: All right, I do remember you you wrote extra points.
Speaker 1: If you remember that, I'm gonna can I cash in
Speaker 1: the extra points that you're giving me to get you
Speaker 1: to go to a doctor, cause if I can that's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do to go to a doctor, Dylan.
Speaker 1: I broke my foot back in April and I've done
Speaker 1: nothing about it. How do you not? What do you?
Speaker 1: Just because you like dressing up as a cowboy doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you have to literally live like it's the eighteen
Speaker 1: hundred's where you just break your foot and die. We
Speaker 1: live in twenty twenty four. Go get your foot fixed,
Speaker 1: all right. That's it. I have sixty three unread emails.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I want to read them. I want
Speaker 1: to read all of these emails, but I just don't have.
Speaker 1: You know, an hour and a half feels pretty good
Speaker 1: podcast length to me, folks. Let me know what you
Speaker 1: thought about this. Spotify has comments now. Spotify is a
Speaker 1: comment section, So go ahead and hit that Spotify comment section.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and hit that fucking YouTube comment section. Thanks
Speaker 1: for letting me try this. I'm really I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun doing this. I kind
Speaker 1: of want maybe maybe if people like these, I might
Speaker 1: spruce them in amongst the phone call episodes, kind of
Speaker 1: maybe do like one of each a week or something
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know, whatever, maybe maybe just phone
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't decided yet. Maybe I'll just
Speaker 1: do this once a month. I don't know, Just let
Speaker 1: me let me know what you think. Anything else. My
Speaker 1: tour is almost over. I go to therapy geckotour dot com.
Speaker 1: I have a few tickets left and like literally like
Speaker 1: less than ten left for my show in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: on November ninth. I'm about to go to Europe. I'm
Speaker 1: going to London, Berlin, Manchester, Amsterdam, Cologne, Glasgow, and Dublin,
Speaker 1: and then I'm ending in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And you can
Speaker 1: get tickets to all of those shows at therapy Gecko
Speaker 1: tour dot com. And then I'm probably going to take
Speaker 1: a very long time. No, I mean, I don't again,
Speaker 1: I haven't decided yet, but I'm probably gonna take a
Speaker 1: fairly decent amount of time off of streaming and no, no,
Speaker 1: not streaming. I'm gonna take a fairly decent time away
Speaker 1: from touring. I feel so lucky and grateful and happy
Speaker 1: that I did. I pretty much did like two back
Speaker 1: to back world tours twenty twenty four and twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: and it was awesome and I had a fucking great,
Speaker 1: fucking time. I'm ready to enter a phase in my
Speaker 1: life where I'm going to try to prioritize my physical
Speaker 1: health because it ain't good. So, uh yeah, come see
Speaker 1: me while while I'm still alive. That was dark, but
Speaker 1: it's true. Come come, come see me that. I'll probably
Speaker 1: tour again, maybe like a late twenty twenty five or
Speaker 1: early twenty twenty six, but for now, if you live
Speaker 1: in Europe or Los Angeles or whatever. The other place
Speaker 1: I said was Minneapolis, Minnesota, come come to those shows
Speaker 1: anything else. This was fun. I liked this format. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing shit like this. I have more to
Speaker 1: rant about. I'm always thinking about life, and I'm always
Speaker 1: and now and now I have a stupid I have
Speaker 1: a thing where I can share all my stupid thoughts
Speaker 1: to a really a nice group of people. I'm really
Speaker 1: happy that. I'm really happy with the audience that I have.
Speaker 1: It's like the perfect Yeah, it feels perfect. Like I
Speaker 1: don't want to be like like a Joe Rogan guy
Speaker 1: where like everyone listens to it to that's too many
Speaker 1: people listening to what you have to say. That's too many.
Speaker 1: I don't think any one person should have that many
Speaker 1: people listening to what they have to say. You know,
Speaker 1: I feel like the amount of people that I have
Speaker 1: listening to what I have to say is it is
Speaker 1: a perfect amount. No more, you know, no less, it
Speaker 1: is a perfect thing. So thank you guys, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm crazy. Thanks for listening to my thing
Speaker 1: and share it with your friends, share it, make a make,
Speaker 1: leave a review on Apple podcasts. All right now, I'm
Speaker 1: just yeah, do all that stuff, all right? Thanks, bye,
Speaker 1: see you again. Soon goes on the line taking your
Speaker 1: phone calls every night.
Speaker 2: Ever, be goes do and he's teaching you
Speaker 1: A loud in them of your Life's not really an
Speaker 1: expert