WEBVTT - READING VIEWER MAIL (aka ranting alone) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.880 Hello, Welcome, good evening, Hi, welcomed or good whatever time 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.560 it is that you're watching this, Welcome. This is a 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:13.520 special episode of the Therapy Gecko podcast. This is a 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.200 special episode. There will be no callers in this episode. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:22.160 It will just be me alone, ranting into a microphone. 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.680 I've been wanting to try something new. I've been wanted 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.440 to try something different. I've been doing this podcast for 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:33.200 about four years now, over four years now, and it's 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:39.440 mainly just been me and occasionally someone else talking to 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.800 people on the phone. And I wanted to challenge myself 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.920 to see if I can do an entire hour just 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.800 ranting to myself. I mean, it's technically there's more than 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:57.960 that I have, all right, So I yesterday I went 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.400 on Instagram and I made it Instagram story and I 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.200 was like, I'm gonna do a viewer mail episode of 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:10.320 the podcast. Please send words. That was all I specified, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:16.960 was words. I said, please send words to therapy geckomail 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:22.399 at gmail dot com. And so I'm gonna read as 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.360 many of the emails that people sent me as i can. 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.720 I'm streaming live on Twitch while i'm recording this, so 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.640 maybe i'll talk to the chat but Uh, basically, this 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.320 is good. This is kind of like it's gonna be 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.000 a little bit of my therapy session in a way. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.160 I might talk about my life, or I might not, 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.959 or I might just delve into what the people email me. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.680 It's funny because I've I've always been kind of bad 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.760 at like the Dear Abby format. I don't consider myself 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.480 like an advice guy, like a like a like a 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.520 you know, but dear Abby. It's like it's like, here's 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:03.520 my long thing and then here's Abby's long response. I 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.720 don't really do that. I like to get into the 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:11.320 conversation with folks. I find that makes me more comfortable. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.000 But I want to get into I want to try 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.640 something new. I want to I want to challenge myself. 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:23.360 I've been bored and uh, I've no you know, Look, 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.079 people like to talk about themselves. That's why I think 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.480 so many people call into this show. It's because they 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.240 want to talk about themselves. They want to be here, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.519 they want to be heard. And I thought to myself, 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.920 wait a minute, what if I just talked for an 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:43.640 hour uninterrupted by anyone or anything. It's so weird because 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.840 I think that's most podcasts, like I only live in 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.920 the universe of my own podcast. So like, to me, 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:56.839 podcasting is like synonymous with taking viewer calls, because it's 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.919 what I do. But I realized, like, you don't, Actually 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.959 you don't have to do that for every episode. Most 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.480 people have a guest, but sometimes you can. You really 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.960 can just rant for an hour. I don't know if 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.040 it'll be good, but I don't know. I don't really 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.000 even care about that. I just care that I tried. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:19.320 That's all that matters to me. So I'm just gonna 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.120 get into it. I'm sitting in front of my laptop 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:27.960 right now. Let's start. Let's look at some viewer emails here. Okay, 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:35.200 let's see, all right, As of now, I have eighty 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:40.640 seven emails. I have eighty seven emails. Let's start at 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:46.400 the very first one. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.360 read people's name. Maybe i'll read their initials. Okay. The 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.480 first one is from Lyle Dresher. It says, Hey, that 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.000 was me testing to see if this email worked all right. 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:02.280 Next one is from JG a highlight. Hey, Hey, j G. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.480 I'm a little nervous. I don't really know what to say. 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.320 I'm a big fan of the podcast and stream. You've 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.960 helped me get through many long and strenuous work days. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.400 Your podcast has made me realize that we all really 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:21.200 do live similar lives, deal with similar problems, similar thought patterns, etc. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.239 You have reinforced my love for psychology and have helped 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.760 me gain an appreciation of life. Thank you, Gek. That's 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:37.720 so nice, that's so kind. It is it's a little 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:42.239 weird to me because I don't feel like I really 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:52.640 I mean, there's there's psychological and anthropological aspects to what 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.280 I do, but I really I don't. I'm not a 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.560 scientist or anything like that. You know, I'm just chatting 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.600 with people. I don't have a degree in any I'm 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.479 not even like trying to pretend like I do. But 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.680 I'm happy that podcast helps people. I'm trying to get, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:07.839 you know, what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.799 get better at, like, uh, receiving praise because I sort 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.640 to eat like I'm so appreciate like a lot. I'm 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.840 so appreciative that people are are listening to this crap. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.440 But I get like really uncomfortable when I get a 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.600 lot of praise, you know. So I'm trying to be 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.040 but I also think like if people are praising you 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:28.920 and you're like, nah, I suck whatever, you're kind of 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.160 a you're kind of you're being a little bit of 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:36.480 a dick, and then be you're just reinforcing low self esteem. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.200 So I've been trying to think of myself more as 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.960 like a person who maybe does have some form of 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:50.479 value to offer to other people, maybe through my lived 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.280 experience and stuff. But I don't want to get too 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.080 up my own dick hole, because that's I hate those people. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.640 I hate people, but anyone who when you meet someone 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.080 and they don't hate themselves at least a little bit, 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.520 I don't like them. So I'm trying. So I really 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:14.040 am trying to cultivate a proper amount of like, Okay, 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.159 let me like love myself enough that my it's I 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:21.400 don't I'm don't hate life, and I feel confident and 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.680 competent because that's a good way to go through life. 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.920 But let me hate myself just enough that I'm still 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:33.360 feel like a like a regular human being. Okay, thank you, Jared. 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.680 I'll just y'all use first names. I'm just gonna this 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.640 guy's Jared whatever, No one, there's a million Jared's all right. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:44.160 This is from Angie. Subject is I am dating someone 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.760 as old as my stepdad. Hold, let me make sure 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.480 this's recording. All right, This looks like it's recording. Let 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.880 me check on twitch. All right, this looks all right. Yeah, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.280 this looks like it's working. All right. I am dating 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.120 someone as old as my stepdad. Also, I'm not putting 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.680 any of this shit on on the screen. I'm just 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:06.360 gonna read it, okay. From Angie. Hello, Gek, I feel 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.080 I have been keeping a secret from most of my 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.280 friends and family. I met a guy on Reddit a 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.360 little over a month ago, and we hit it off 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.600 really well. The thing is, he lives in Poland and 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:23.560 I live in America. He is also twenty years older 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.680 than me. For context, I am twenty three. I plan 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.200 to visit him in November, when I will be staying 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.960 in Poland for two months. I'm even thinking of moving 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:39.800 in with him after this time if things go well. Okay, 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.800 all right, Uh, I don't plan on telling my family 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.040 much about my trip to Poland since I don't know 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.800 if I'll be coming back home. My boy my home. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.000 My boyfriend makes me feel happy and is supportive. Okay, 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.120 So this when she said my boyfriend. I was like, 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.040 is there a boyfriend that you're like? You have a 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.800 separate boyfriend? But okay, this is when she says a boyfriend, 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.160 I think she's referring to the older dude in Poland. Okay, 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.320 my boyfriend makes me feel happy and it's supportive, but 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.080 I get anxious thinking about what other people will think 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.280 of us together. To add to this situation, I also 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.040 have a six month old daughter who will be coming 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:20.000 with me. Oh my god. Her father isn't involved, so 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.280 I would really like my boyfriend to be a dad 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.800 for her. Am I crazy for thinking a future with 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:30.840 him could work? Oh? Geez? Oh? Man, Okay, I have questions. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.760 See this is why all I'm gonna challenge myself to 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.760 give thoughts, even though I feel like i'm I normally 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.679 would have a situation I would ask questions. I get 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.559 all right, So I guess I have a few thoughts 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.520 about this. One is like, I mean, look, man, it 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:51.320 sounds from this that you've never met this guy. I 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.360 met a guy, and you met him a little over 0:08:53.440 --> 0:09:01.439 a month ago. Ah, you're twenty three. I have no like, Okay, 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.080 A couple of things. One you know, like, I guess 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.320 It's like I have no I have no problem with 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:14.360 this person, like going to Poland to like meet this guy, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:19.000 do it in a do it in a public place, preferably, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.640 uh for the first meeting. You know, maybe maybe not 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.599 go to his house immediately, but uh, you know, I 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.480 don't I don't have a problem with meeting this guy. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.800 I do think this person seems like they're putting a 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:36.679 lot of expectations on this initial meeting. You know, like 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.320 we met this I met this guy a little over 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.920 a month ago, and I already want him to and well, 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.320 he's already her boyfriend. She's always he's calling him her boyfriend. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.319 But it's like they haven't even I get that we 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:55.240 live in a fucking digital universe and people are getting 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.160 together on discord and stuff, But you should meet a 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:03.920 guy before you we put we call him our boyfriend. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.120 I'm anxious thinking about what other people will think of 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.920 us together. That's my I think what other people think 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:14.040 of your relationship is the last problem that I have 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:15.880 with this. The problem I have with this is that, 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.000 a AA, it seems like you're putting a lot of 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.120 expectations on this person that you've never met. A you 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.080 want to move in with him and then be you 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.600 want him to like be a dad for your daughter. 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.439 Uh. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.640 Yeah, I guess if I had to like give advice 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.520 to this person, I would be like, I don't think 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.439 there's anything wrong with like going to Poland and having 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.560 a little weird Polish adventure with a weird Polish guy, 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.360 but don't don't don't don't expect to move in with 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.280 him or have him be the don't expect anything from 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.040 this guy. Just I would go into I don't have 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.800 a problem with going to Poland and meeting him, but 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.079 I just think there's too many expectations that we're putting 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:03.000 into this situation right now. And also just I don't, 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.440 I don't, I wouldn't. I mean a month ago. I 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.760 get if you've been dating for like two years and 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.320 you've never met but you want to call him your boyfriend. Maybe, 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.280 but like you know, just meet the guy first, and 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.080 and dear God, meet him in public. Don't go to 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:22.439 his fucking house, all right? Uh? Kobe Craft says hi 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:28.480 subject line, Hi, Hey gak listener from Belgium here really 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.720 like your podcast? Keep it up, Mail me back and 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.000 I'll send you some chocolate. Maybe should I just send 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.200 this guy my home address. Should I just completely dos 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:42.400 myself so I can get some Belgian chocolate from Kobe Craft. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:45.640 Let me see what let me see what the chat 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.160 thinks about that angie thing. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:49.840 Uh? 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.320 All right, everyone in the chat seems to completely agree 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.640 with I don't think I don't think it's a controversial. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.400 I don't think she's necessarily about to get murdered. But 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.320 like play like like I don't. I'm not like, I'm 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.080 not like, don't ever do anything or meet anyone ever 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:15.200 because you might die, But like, play it safe, play 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:21.000 it cautious anyway, all right, No, don't send me. I mean, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.240 you can send me chocolate, but I'm trying to I 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:25.719 was gonna say I'm trying to lose weight, but I 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.320 don't want to publicly say that I'm trying to lose 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.880 weight because then when I when you guys watch the 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.640 podcast and I look fatter six months from now, you 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.320 can all you're gonna use that against me. All right? 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:41.640 This is from Samantha. Hi Gek, My boyfriend and I 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.120 met you recently at your show in Toronto. We drove 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.200 a total of eight hours to be there and it 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.280 was totally worth it. Thank you. Very much. I was 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.720 cool and chill until you said hi, and then I 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.760 blocked blocked out from nervousness. I think it was a 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:02.679 good interaction, though, I'm promise you. I promise you it 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.880 was a good interaction. I'll tell a story real quick. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:13.120 I'm I'm insane, So occasionally i will search myself up 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.839 on Reddit because I'm insane. It's a thing I'm trying. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.319 It's a thing i'm trying to really stop doing because 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.920 it's just such an insane thing to do to go 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.080 on Reddit and search therapy, get go and see if 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:29.239 people are talking about me. It brings truly nothing productive 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.400 or beneficial to my life, and as a habit I'm 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:35.560 trying to stop doing as part of my general social 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.240 media refrigerator checking. But anyway, I was, I fucking searched 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.440 myself and I found this post from this girl who 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.680 was like she might I think she posted in like 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.240 r slash anxiety or something like that, and she wrote 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:55.360 something like, oh my god. I'm so she was like, 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.440 oh my god, I feel like so shitty because I 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.920 met the Therapy Gecko at one of his live shows 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.280 and I think I said something weird and I think 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.800 I totally embarrassed myself, and I walked away from that 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:11.640 interaction feeling like so embarrassed. And I was reading this 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.640 and I was like I I it was like, hey, 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.079 I don't, I don't. I don't remember that. And b 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.120 it's like, I'm not, You're totally fine. You came to 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.160 my fucking show and you wait and you paid me 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.280 thirty dollars and you waited in line to talk to me. 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:33.560 I don't like fucking We're good, dude, thank you, thanks 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.200 for coming to my thing. I'm not. 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:36.520 I'm not. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.840 I'm never like, oh, that person sucked. Even if I 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.760 meet somebody and they and they and they actually are 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.640 kind of weird to me, I still don't care. I 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.000 don't what it's like last like two seconds. Thanks for 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.120 coming to the show. It's fine, you know. So I 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:58.520 felt bad. I really felt bad because I I've been 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.400 in like little I've been in like on the other 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.240 end of it, like situations like that where I'm like, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.680 oh no, I that was a weird social reaction that 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.480 I can never fix. And I fucking hate that feeling. 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.840 And I would never want to give that feeling to 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:17.040 another person. The same thing, by the way, the same 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.320 thing happened to me in reverse. I went on I 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.560 this is this is, these are more adventures and looking 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.240 myself up on Reddit. I looked myself up and I 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.200 found a post from this girl being like I met 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.040 the therapy Gecko at his meet and greet in Austin 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.480 and I told him it was my birthday and he 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:40.160 didn't say happy birthday. So I'm not a fan anymore. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:45.200 And uh, I'm really disappointed in him and I and 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.240 that I was that one. I was a little bit like, 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:53.640 you know, fuck you, come on, but anyway, whatever, all right, sorry, anyway, 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.560 maybe this rant episode was a bad idea, but you 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.120 know what, no, it's not. I just you know what, 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.880 these are real you know what, No, these are real 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:05.640 feelings that I am. I am expressing and it's okay. 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.920 So okay, I'm trying to I have a friend and 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:14.120 was She told me she's like she's trying to be 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:18.400 angry more often because it's okay to express anger. And 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.200 I was like, I like that. I resonate with that. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.080 I take back the fuck you. If the person who 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.800 I forgot to say happy birthday with is listening to this, 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.400 we're cool. We're cool. Ever, we're cool everyone, We're cool. 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:36.320 There's no one I'm not cool with. All right, back 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.120 to this email. I was cool and chill until you 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.400 said hi, and then I blocked out from nervousness. I 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.680 think it was a good interaction, though. I wanted to know. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.720 Do you keep recording the pods while you're on the road. No, 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.440 I record them before I leave and then I kind 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.840 of blocked and I kind of batched them out. Or 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.960 do you backlog episodes and release them? Is it a secret? No, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.960 it's not. If that's cool. If so, that's cool, Keep 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:04.440 your secrets. You just seem like a very bus gecko. Ps. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.159 When you asked the Logan Paul look alike if he 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.320 had any prime I laughed harder than I had all year. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.560 Thank you. I appreciate that there was a guy in 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:18.040 Toronto who did. He did look like Logan Paul. Sometimes 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.520 I feel very busy and then other times I feel unemployed. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.080 But I think that's okay. I think like, like there's 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.360 a weird thing in like nine to five. This has 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:34.080 a weird thing in like work culture in general, where 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:39.480 it's like where there's a weird thing in work culture 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.720 in general where it's like you have to work forty 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:46.240 hours a week, and it's like, there's the there's whatever 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:51.080 your job is, and just do that job and it 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.760 doesn't really matter how long it takes you, Like that's 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.679 how much. That's how work I think should work. It's like, 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.520 just do your whatever your fucking job is, and if 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.280 it takes you ten hours, that's cool. And if it 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.920 takes you forty hours then okay. But you know, the 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.600 whole thing of like you need to work specific amount 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:13.000 of hours is I think overplayed. Thanks Samantha, thanks for 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.680 coming to the show. I appreciate it. That was really fun. Okay, 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:21.720 this is from Elias. The subject line is hello, Okay, 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:31.280 let's see here. Hey GEK, love listening to your show. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.240 Think you're a super great guy and just about one 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.879 of the realist people on the internet. Thanks man, I 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.159 know you get that a lot. I've always wanted to 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.639 call in, but Twitch banned my account? Why did the witch? 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.800 Where is this going? After someone stole my email and 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.280 I never got around to making a new one, so 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.960 I never know when you're on. I always listen to 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.760 the podcast, though you should do a live show in Albuquerque, 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.000 New Mexico. Sometimes I did a college show in Albuquerque 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.639 a couple of years ago at the University of New Mexico. 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.280 That was really fun. Shout out. I don't remember the 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:09.240 name of the of the of the college kid who 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.080 booked me, but there were there was a good gang 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.920 of folks. Shout out. Shout out whoever does student events 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.800 at unm UH. I know a lot of people here 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.159 that love your stuff, and I think you get a 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:20.600 hell of a kick out of the town. I got 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:21.919 a hell of a kick out of the town. Like 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.280 the mountains. It was cool. I'm going to college. I'm 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:28.400 in college right now, and I'm chronically addicted to cheating 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:36.199 on my boyfriends. Okay, I'm in college right now and 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:40.280 I'm chronically addicted to cheating on my boyfriend of two years. 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.720 It's kind of becoming a big problem because he wants 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.639 to move in together, but it's just not as fun 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:51.000 being with him if I'm not cheating on him. Jesus, 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.480 let me read that again. I'm I'm chronically addicted to 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:00.120 cheating on my boyfriend of two years. It's kind of 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.680 becoming a big problem because he wants to move in together, 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.280 but it's just not as fun being with him if 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.120 I'm not cheating on him. That part of me think 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:13.840 is this this person might be fucking I. That's such 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:18.040 a blatant statement that I really believe that this person 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:22.119 is fucking with me. If this person is, if this 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:24.320 person's listening to this and they're not fucking with me, 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.800 Just break up with your boyfriend. What are you doing? 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.600 Break up with bro, Break up with your boyfriend and 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.640 see a therapist. Man, I hope you're having a great day, 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:40.479 and keep on getting sent from my iPhone. All right, well, 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.480 I don't how are you What do you mean you're 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:53.080 chronically addicted, like to the thrill Jesus Christ? All right, 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:56.280 I'm just break up with your boyfriend. Man, let him, 0:20:56.560 --> 0:21:03.359 let him be, all right. Mackenzie a poem. Oh crap, 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:05.800 I read their last We'll cut out their last name. Well, 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.760 we're gonna We're gonna cut out their last name. All right, 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.080 it's from Mackenzie. This is a poem for the ghek 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:16.280 Green leaves. Hold on. I'm reading the chat. Someone said 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.280 that's rage bait. I think that's rage bait. I think 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.400 that that's not real. But I don't know the fact 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:23.760 that she wrote chronically, or it could be a guy 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:32.080 Elias anyway, all right, I think it's raise bait, but whatever, mackenzie, 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:35.399 this is a poem for the Ghak. Green leaves bask 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:41.120 in the sunlight, swaying ever so slightly. Green trees lined 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:47.919 the sidewalks, standing tall, strong and united. Green stripes scattered 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:50.600 amongst the rooftop. Are you guys getting a visual of 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:55.000 this from a green hand? A human hand emerged the 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:59.439 hand of the Gek. To gek or to be gecked 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:04.280 is the question, gek oh, holy Ghek. I don't know 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.040 I feel about holy Ghek. But rise above the adversity. 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.800 I'm trying. I'm trying to rise above the adversity. Rise 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:13.280 people of Gak nation, Rise to the curiosity that Gek inspires. 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:18.560 Green bean, oh green gecko, you were never meant to 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:22.760 be green, only loved. Holy shit, you were never meant 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:27.639 to be green, only loved. That. I don't even know 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:29.600 what that means. I mean, I have an idea of 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:33.800 what that means. But that's that's powerful. I am tired. 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:36.120 You can finish the poem. Sorry that it got kind 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:38.240 of weird. That's fine, that's okay. Here is a link 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:43.120 to the website that has different shades of green. Okay, 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:47.080 I'll click this. Oh well, it's a website with a 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:48.600 bunch of shades of green. That's nine. Thank you for 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:51.320 the poem, Kenzie, that's that's very nice. You were never 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:58.159 meant to be green, only loved. That's an interesting debate 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:03.200 if humans are in hear worthy of love, people love. 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:05.000 People like to say that, but I don't know how 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:08.960 true it is. I'm not saying it's not true, but 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:13.840 like I don't know, what about like what about like Hitler? 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:18.280 You know that's the that's the like, Okay, anytime, this 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:20.800 is what I always think. Anytime somebody like what goes 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:24.760 on like a kind of a spiritual thing where they're like, oh, 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:28.000 you know, everyone deserves love, everyone deserves kindness, I'm like, 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:30.840 I'm I go in there immediately with the hard questions. 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:34.359 I'm like, what about Hitler? Does he deserve to be loved? Maybe? 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:37.600 I don't know? Are we I just I'm saying, do 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:41.840 we have exceptions? I think like in the when I 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:44.119 think about these things, when I think about like I 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:46.680 guess I have I have gone down my own mental 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:51.080 rabbit holes of like these these things of like we 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:53.360 all deserve love, we are all each other you are 0:23:53.359 --> 0:23:55.280 every I really do think about these things, and I'm like, 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:59.920 you can't. You can't just be convenient about it, you know, 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:03.960 like you know those guys, you know, the like when 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:06.560 there's a story on the news about a lady who 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:08.359 like leaves a baby in a hot car and the 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:12.240 baby dies, Like, do we should we love her too? Maybe? 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:15.159 I don't. I don't know, probably if that's we just 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:18.399 I don't just don't think we can we can just 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:21.280 pick and choose if we're gonna be all, you know, 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:23.880