Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome, Hi, Welcome to gek mail. It is a
Speaker 1: thing that I started doing recently where instead of having
Speaker 1: a two way conversation with another person anonymously on the phone,
Speaker 1: which is what I typically do on my show, I
Speaker 1: have a one way conversation with myself. How lonely, how desolate.
Speaker 1: But you know what, It's fine because I also have
Speaker 1: emails that I'm going to read. A lot of people
Speaker 1: have sent me emails. I made an Instagram story I said,
Speaker 1: everyone sends an email to therapy geckomail at gmail dot
Speaker 1: com with whatever, with the stuff that's going on. And
Speaker 1: I am excited today to read these emails. I got
Speaker 1: so many notifications which gave my brain a lot of opamine,
Speaker 1: and so I'm ready to read some people's emails. Before
Speaker 1: we do that, I want to say thank you to
Speaker 1: everyone who came out to my tour in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: I'm finally done. I have no pending tour dates. I
Speaker 1: don't know when I'll go back on the road. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'll go on the road in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. I might take a long break to kind
Speaker 1: of reevaluate what the hell I'm gonna do. With my life.
Speaker 1: But if you came and you said what's up, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, thank you very much for doing that.
Speaker 1: And I actually I'm inspired to keep doing this get
Speaker 1: mail segment because a lot of people when I do
Speaker 1: like a meet and grade after all my shows, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people came up to me at the
Speaker 1: meet and greets and told me that they like the
Speaker 1: viewer mail thing and to keep doing it. And so
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, and that felt good because normally,
Speaker 1: when you're recording a podcast or doing anything on the internet,
Speaker 1: it's just all youse his numbers, and you kind of
Speaker 1: use those numbers to determine whether or not people like something.
Speaker 1: But then you know, a guy named Jeff with like
Speaker 1: a face and stuff will say out of his mouth
Speaker 1: to you, hey, I listen. Hey, I am a human
Speaker 1: being and I listen to your viewer mail thing, and
Speaker 1: you should keep doing it. And I'm like, oh, look
Speaker 1: at this guy. He's made of flesh and bone and
Speaker 1: he listens to the viewer mail segment. So thank you
Speaker 1: Jeff listening to this viewer mail segment. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Anything else, I'm feeling good, I'm off a normally I'm
Speaker 1: off a Celsius, but today I'm off a diet Mountain dew.
Speaker 1: It's got about ninety one milligrams of caffeine, which is
Speaker 1: enough to which is enough to read these emails. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna read these emails. Let's
Speaker 1: start reading some emails, all right. First email is from Ashley.
Speaker 1: The subject line is words for the geck. Am I
Speaker 1: a whore? Okay? I have wanted to call in and
Speaker 1: I would love to chat about my current love life situation.
Speaker 1: I have been with a guy for ten years, and
Speaker 1: before that I was only with one person who broke
Speaker 1: my heart. I never got the chance to be single. Really,
Speaker 1: now fast forward. I've wanted him to propose for so
Speaker 1: long and it hasn't happened, and now should I leave
Speaker 1: the situation? But it's oh, this is a run on sentence. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a really long run on sentence. Hold on. Look,
Speaker 1: if you send an email, try to include like periods
Speaker 1: and commas and stuff. Boss whatever, I'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: I'll figure it out. You did your best with this email,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna figure it out. I'm gonna just put
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put in my own comma commas and periods
Speaker 1: into this email. Okay, where was it? Now? Fast forward?
Speaker 1: I've wanted him to propose for so long and it
Speaker 1: hasn't happened. Now should I leave the situation? But it's
Speaker 1: hard to find someone. Plus I don't know if I
Speaker 1: could find someone again that will love me. And recently
Speaker 1: I've met someone who is a friend with other friends.
Speaker 1: He is straightforward, blunt, and is just looking for a FBW.
Speaker 1: It stands for friends with benefits. I've never done that before,
Speaker 1: but took the leap, and now I know he doesn't
Speaker 1: want a relationship. I'm not sure if he just thinks
Speaker 1: of me as some type of whoror with all the
Speaker 1: things that happened. But also I like being his friend,
Speaker 1: but would maybe be curious if he would ever be
Speaker 1: into me in a relationship since before him, I fell
Speaker 1: in love with my girl best friend, and we both
Speaker 1: have significant others. But every time we come together we're
Speaker 1: like peas in a pod and too Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's pretty much the thing here. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to formulate what my thoughts are for this girl. One.
Speaker 1: You're not a whore, Okay, You're not a whore. There's
Speaker 1: even if you were a whore, there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: being a whore, not that you are one. I don't
Speaker 1: believe that you are one. So don't beat yourself up
Speaker 1: for that. Don't call yourself that you're fine, totally fine, Ashley,
Speaker 1: don't worry. Okay, this second, here's the thing. Here's what
Speaker 1: I'm getting out of this run on sentence. I think
Speaker 1: this is one sentence. It's got a lot of comments,
Speaker 1: it's got a lot of commas, but no periods. Look,
Speaker 1: first of all, Ashley, Look, if you're just if you
Speaker 1: just want to have sex with people and that's what
Speaker 1: you want, that's fine. And if you find other people
Speaker 1: that that's what they want, that's cool too. And if
Speaker 1: you find other people and and and ideally, in an
Speaker 1: ideal world which I'd love to live in, which we'd
Speaker 1: all like to live in, people would be perfectly aligned
Speaker 1: with each other upon meeting. Now, we do not always
Speaker 1: live in an ideal world. But I don't know. You
Speaker 1: said you're curious if he would ever be in a
Speaker 1: relationship with this guy, Why don't you just talk to him?
Speaker 1: I feel like ninety nine percent of these things are
Speaker 1: just like, just talk to him. Okay, you're having sex
Speaker 1: with this guy, you're like, oh, I kind of like
Speaker 1: him from more than just having sex with him. Maybe
Speaker 1: he would be into something more. And then ask him
Speaker 1: and he'll either say he'll either say he'll say something
Speaker 1: on the spectrum between yes and no, anything besides anything
Speaker 1: on that spectrum that's not yes kind of means no.
Speaker 1: And then after you have that information you you can
Speaker 1: use it to determine what you want to do moving forward.
Speaker 1: This okay, I'm sorry, Ashley, I'm sorry to keep making
Speaker 1: fun of you for this, but I I by the
Speaker 1: nature of the fact that there are no periods in
Speaker 1: this paragraph, you are striking me as not being highly
Speaker 1: experienced with communication, which is fine. You will. I believe
Speaker 1: that there is hope for you to become more experienced
Speaker 1: with this. So why don't you just why don't you
Speaker 1: just ask this guy if you like him, if he
Speaker 1: likes you in that kind of way, and if he doesn't,
Speaker 1: then you can make your own decision as to whether
Speaker 1: you want to keep seeing him. And also, by the thing,
Speaker 1: you also are like, I don't know if I'm ever
Speaker 1: gonna find someone who will love you again. You will.
Speaker 1: I'm confident you will. I'm positive you will. Well, I'm not,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I I.
Speaker 1: Guess. Life a lot of the times feels like it's
Speaker 1: just a choice between optimism and pessimism, and with pessimism
Speaker 1: you get nothing, and with optimism you get maybe. And
Speaker 1: so take your maybe, Ashley, and be optimistic that you
Speaker 1: will find love again. What is this? What do you
Speaker 1: I'm trying to read more into this email to see
Speaker 1: if I missed anything. I fell in love with my
Speaker 1: girl best friend. But every time it sounds like you, like,
Speaker 1: like your girl best friend, but you don't know if
Speaker 1: she's gay. I guess, but she also has a boy.
Speaker 1: You don't know if she's gay. And she also says
Speaker 1: we both have significant other I fell in love with
Speaker 1: my girl best friend and we both have significant others. Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe that's not I don't know. It sounds like it
Speaker 1: sounds like you could use some uh some some self esteem, Ashley.
Speaker 1: You gotta stop. You got and you can't be beating
Speaker 1: yourself up like this saying that you're not gonna you
Speaker 1: don't know if you can find someone that will love
Speaker 1: you again. I think you will. I think you will.
Speaker 1: At least. I think you probably will if you're optimistic
Speaker 1: about it, because whatever whatever you seek, you shall find,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if. I don't know if
Speaker 1: any of this, I don't know if this was helpful,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying. All right, let's move on. Uh okay,
Speaker 1: dealing with a porn addiction in a relationship. That's the
Speaker 1: subject line of an email from minecraft man, hey Lyle. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: A large web of lies I've been spinning for a
Speaker 1: little over a year came undone and resulted in my
Speaker 1: girlfriend of three years finding out about the porn addiction
Speaker 1: I suffered with at the start of our relationship. I
Speaker 1: was subscribed to multiple OnlyFans pages while telling my girlfriend
Speaker 1: how deplorable and gross I thought porn was. Ah ah,
Speaker 1: We're going to try and work it out. She has
Speaker 1: some pretty severe mental health issues and the thought of
Speaker 1: her hurting herself due to my actions is so painful.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I feel quite lost, but I also feel
Speaker 1: good in not having to continue this lie thanks to
Speaker 1: minecraft Man twenty four hundred. Was it Minecraft porn? What
Speaker 1: kind of porn was it? That doesn't really matter at all?
Speaker 1: Oh fuck, that's heavy. This is heavy? Sort of yes,
Speaker 1: oh man, Okay, all right, Well, I don't know, minecraft Man.
Speaker 1: I think maybe I was I was telling her how
Speaker 1: to gross and deplorable is. I think it's funny. It's
Speaker 1: funny because I think it's one thing to like hide
Speaker 1: a secret porn stash, but then too or like I
Speaker 1: like if you're like, like, like if your girlfriend's going
Speaker 1: on a rant about like how gross she finds porn,
Speaker 1: and you're like, it's kind of sitting there like, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of I guess that's what That's
Speaker 1: probably not great, But that's one thing. I guess. It's
Speaker 1: the other thing to like actively bring it up that
Speaker 1: you think porn is horrible. Well, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you seem like a younger guy. I'm only I'm judging
Speaker 1: that by your your email minecraft Man, twenty four hundred.
Speaker 1: I think maybe as you get older, you become a
Speaker 1: little bit more comfortable with yourself, right, Like I guess,
Speaker 1: I look, I'm I'm I myself indulge in pornography from
Speaker 1: time to time. By from time to time, I mean
Speaker 1: probably every day. Maybe I don't know, sometimes I just
Speaker 1: do thoughts, but you know, it's probably like every other
Speaker 1: day porn versus thoughts. But I would hope that like
Speaker 1: my girl. I don't have a girlfriend, but like if
Speaker 1: I had one, that she I could talk to her
Speaker 1: about these things, you know, like if you're gonna have
Speaker 1: it like that, like a relationship would be a thing
Speaker 1: where you would really you want to trust this person.
Speaker 1: You want this person to know you, not you don't
Speaker 1: want to like it's already to have. You gonna have
Speaker 1: some things that you keeping to yourself. If you're super
Speaker 1: into minecraft porn or you watch porn way too where
Speaker 1: you watch porn all the time, like from like you
Speaker 1: watch it at work or whatever, and you don't wanna
Speaker 1: you're not maybe ready or comfortable to share the extent
Speaker 1: of your thing. That makes sense some things, I think
Speaker 1: it makes sense to keep close to the chest. But uh,
Speaker 1: I guess your partners, you be a person you feel
Speaker 1: comfortable talking to about this kind of stuff. But when
Speaker 1: you say also, when you said she had some pretty
Speaker 1: severe mental health issues in the thought of her heart
Speaker 1: herself to my actions is painful. I but look, man,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear that your girlfriend is dealing with
Speaker 1: this stuff. But another nobody, you fuck, dude, No nobody
Speaker 1: hurting themselves. Is that's the that's something's going on in
Speaker 1: their own brain, right, And I don't think you can
Speaker 1: blame yourself for something like that. I'm gonna move on,
Speaker 1: but I like but I hope you watch less porn
Speaker 1: and replace it with with with video games or or
Speaker 1: cigarettes or something. Okay, let's see here. Uh this is
Speaker 1: from Evan. Subject line is pizza, Hey goeck o Evan again? Crap?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if you listen to this podcast, Evan,
Speaker 1: but I'm really bad at first names. I have one
Speaker 1: more question. He's hey, got go Evan again? I had
Speaker 1: one more question. If you see this, does anyone remember An? Evan? Evan?
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you gave me I swear my life, Evan,
Speaker 1: if you gave me any other context to who you
Speaker 1: are besides your first name, and if we if we
Speaker 1: talked and you give me any other context to yourself
Speaker 1: about aside from just your first name, like what we
Speaker 1: talked about or whatever, I would remember you. But I
Speaker 1: for first name, you know what? Whatever? Fuck it good
Speaker 1: to hear from you again, Evan. How you doing? Hey
Speaker 1: gock go Evan again? I had one more question. If
Speaker 1: you see this, what's your favorite pizza place? Personally? Mine
Speaker 1: is Domino's Parentheses. I know, hot take. What a great
Speaker 1: question this is.
Speaker 2: I like this.
Speaker 1: This is. This is easier to answer than what should
Speaker 1: I I do if my partner is harming herself. Let's see,
Speaker 1: let's see my favorite pizza place. My favorite pizza place, Evan,
Speaker 1: thank you for asking. My favorite pizza place is the
Speaker 1: ninety nine cent or I don't even know if it
Speaker 1: exists anymore. At nine I think it's a dollar fifty,
Speaker 1: but I like the dollar fifty pizza in New York
Speaker 1: and everyone is like, oh, it's shitty pizza, but it's not,
Speaker 1: and people are I'm not a food snob. Whatever. I
Speaker 1: think that some pizza you go to at a fancy
Speaker 1: place and it's like nineteen dollars for one slice, is
Speaker 1: you're gonna have the same experience as if you just
Speaker 1: have the ninety nine cent place. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of those ninety nine cent pizza places. And I hope
Speaker 1: you're doing well, Evan. I forgot what we talked about
Speaker 1: because he didn't give me any information about it, But
Speaker 1: whatever it was, I hope you're doing better with it now. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, let's keep going. Uh, all right, this is hell. Okay.
Speaker 1: Someone said hello from Africa, high Ghak, my name is Okay.
Speaker 1: They said, hi Ghak, my name is and then they
Speaker 1: wrote their name, and then they wrote parentheses. Please don't
Speaker 1: mention my name. I'm afraid someone exposes me. If okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you George. That's not the name you
Speaker 1: gave me, but George. If you don't want me to
Speaker 1: mention your name, don't put your name in the email, okay,
Speaker 1: because I would have wrote because the way you structure
Speaker 1: your email is that you wrote right. Don't mention my
Speaker 1: name before writing your name, because I don't. I read
Speaker 1: from left to right, so I would have read your
Speaker 1: name before reading. Not to mention. Okay, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you George, high Gak. My name is George.
Speaker 1: Please don't mention he he wrote, high Gak, my name
Speaker 1: is George. Please don't mention my name. I'm afraid someone
Speaker 1: exposes me. Okay. I listened to every episode of your
Speaker 1: show in twenty twenty four on Spotify. I literally fall
Speaker 1: asleep to this every night. I'm twenty four and I
Speaker 1: am engaged. I should get married in seven months. But
Speaker 1: the thing is I don't feel financially and mentally ready
Speaker 1: to take the step, but never had the courage to
Speaker 1: tell this to my fiance. I've applied to a visa
Speaker 1: to Portugal behind her back, and my trip might happen
Speaker 1: in February. I used her money from her car that
Speaker 1: she sold to afford all the costs involved, which is
Speaker 1: around four k. This money was supposed to be used
Speaker 1: for the marriage, and I don't know how to tell
Speaker 1: her this. What the fuck? I really love her to
Speaker 1: death and I don't really intend to run away. I
Speaker 1: just want to work in Europe, get money for the wedding,
Speaker 1: rent a house, and later come back to my country
Speaker 1: to marry her and take her with me to Portugal. Buddy,
Speaker 1: if you stole four thousand dollars from this woman and
Speaker 1: ran away from her behind their back, she's not gonna
Speaker 1: be there. She's not gonna be there to marry you later.
Speaker 1: She's gonna be fucking pissed. I later come back to
Speaker 1: my country to marry her and take her with me
Speaker 1: to Portugal. We've had conversations about moving to Europe or
Speaker 1: the US, but she always tells me that she doesn't
Speaker 1: want to leave her family and blah blah blah. However,
Speaker 1: life is tough out here as a young self employed
Speaker 1: man that doesn't belong to a wealthy family. I see
Speaker 1: no future here for our family. Should I tell her
Speaker 1: about my plans now? Or just do it when I
Speaker 1: arrive in Portugal and then we'll see? And then he wrote,
Speaker 1: He literally put twenty exclamation no twenty question marks. He
Speaker 1: also sent me this email five times. Okay, George, George,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? George? What are you doing? George? Okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, let me read, let me reread this again.
Speaker 1: I applied for the visa. Okay, so you already did
Speaker 1: you already spend this money? Okay, George? If you already
Speaker 1: spent this money, you're fuck Okay George, if you already
Speaker 1: spent this money, you have you know, I think if
Speaker 1: you already spent this money, you have no fiance and
Speaker 1: you also owe her four thousand dollars. If you already
Speaker 1: spent this money, then this woman is probably done with you,
Speaker 1: and you you should pay her back to four thousand.
Speaker 1: Fucking What do you? What do you do? I don't
Speaker 1: or you could run away? Sure, you could just keep
Speaker 1: running away and just be on there. I don't know
Speaker 1: if she I don't she probably she probably can't get you. So, yes,
Speaker 1: you just stole four thousand dollars from this lady and
Speaker 1: ran away. What are you doing, George. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say your first name, but I should get married in
Speaker 1: seven mother. You you're not getting married. You're you're this
Speaker 1: lady by the because here's the thing this lady you don't.
Speaker 1: I can tell you don't like this lady that much
Speaker 1: by the way that you're talking about it. And if
Speaker 1: you don't like this lady that much and you don't
Speaker 1: want to get I'm gonna just tell you. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to you as if you hadn't spent
Speaker 1: this woman's four thousand dollars. If you don't like this
Speaker 1: lady that much and you're not ready, don't fucking get married.
Speaker 1: Don't fucking get married. Why do people do? Why do
Speaker 1: people make these like giant life decisions that they don't
Speaker 1: want to make what I'd love her to death? Why then? Why?
Speaker 1: Why did you? Well? Okay, George, here's what I'll say.
Speaker 1: If you want If you're like, okay, I already, if
Speaker 1: you if let's say you hear this. I assume you're
Speaker 1: going to hear this because you said you listened every episode,
Speaker 1: and so let's say you hear this and you go, oh, fuck.
Speaker 1: The gecko guy told me I shouldn't have spent I
Speaker 1: shouldn't have stolen four thousand dollars from my fiance, which is,
Speaker 1: I guess what you did? What do you do now?
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess, I guess go to porch. If
Speaker 1: you really want to be able to sleep at night,
Speaker 1: better you go to Portugal and make your money and
Speaker 1: pay her back when you owe her, and then leave
Speaker 1: her alone and start a new life and do whatever
Speaker 1: you're going to do. And also, like so many things
Speaker 1: about this email, George, the fact that you put your
Speaker 1: name before putting don't mention my name. I'm worried about you, George.
Speaker 1: I don't cause why let me I'm worried about I'm
Speaker 1: worried about you because I genuinely think that you didn't
Speaker 1: I'm willing to I'm gonna give you some plausible deniability
Speaker 1: that you didn't realize what you were doing when you
Speaker 1: stole this woman's money. Like I don't think it. I
Speaker 1: don't think that the fact that you put your real
Speaker 1: name before writing don't mention my name. Makes me feel
Speaker 1: as though you were not good at coming to logical
Speaker 1: conclusions about things, both on micro levels, like how you
Speaker 1: structured this email and on macro levels like stealing four
Speaker 1: thousand dollars from your fyance. I don't I'm willing to
Speaker 1: believe that you didn't know what you were doing. And
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't know there there's a sum
Speaker 1: circuit is loose in your brain that I don't know
Speaker 1: if this podcast, this me answering your email on this
Speaker 1: podcast could be the last line of defense. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what your life is like. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you have people in your life that
Speaker 1: can help you re solder together that exposed wire in
Speaker 1: your brain that's causing you to live this way. But
Speaker 1: if you don't, and this is it, I implore you, George,
Speaker 1: to well go talk to a real therapist and just
Speaker 1: try to understand the logical conclusions of things. Try to think.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how I can get
Speaker 1: you to think. But this is maybe you just I
Speaker 1: don't think you're like a bad guy. I don't well,
Speaker 1: maybe I I don't think you view this as you
Speaker 1: stole four thousand dollars from your fiance. I think you
Speaker 1: view it. You've viewed it as, Oh, I'm just taking
Speaker 1: this so that I can give her more money in
Speaker 1: the future, which is still stealing. But try to understand stuff. God,
Speaker 1: that's a terrible response to this email. But I I
Speaker 1: don't know if I can yourself. What do you self?
Speaker 1: You said you're a young self employed man. What are
Speaker 1: you self employed doing? Okay, George, call into the show
Speaker 1: I stream live, Go follow me on twitch, dot tv,
Speaker 1: slash lyle forever and hit the follow thing and then
Speaker 1: you'll get a notification from when I'm live, and then
Speaker 1: or follow me on Instagram and when you next time
Speaker 1: you see them live. Call me because I want to
Speaker 1: talk to you about this, because I'm I this. I
Speaker 1: want to help you because I think you're something is
Speaker 1: some some neurons in your brain are not firing correctly.
Speaker 1: And I don't actually think I can help you. I
Speaker 1: think I'm insane, and I don't. I don't. No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't think i'm actually am equipped to help you
Speaker 1: at all. But I want to go. I'm curious. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I can help you I don't know, but
Speaker 1: call in and give your If you didn't spend the money,
Speaker 1: just give it back immediately. Okay, all right, let's move on.
Speaker 1: What does the chat have to say? What does the
Speaker 1: chat have to say? Someone in the chat said he's
Speaker 1: ashamed and secretly wants you to dox him. That's interesting. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, whatever, let's keep going. Okay, uh oh.
Speaker 1: I love the subject of this email. This is from Andrew.
Speaker 1: The subject line is masturbation and existential dread. Hi, Lyle,
Speaker 1: I am a fairly average person and I am mostly
Speaker 1: content with my life. What a beautiful sentence. However, I
Speaker 1: do think there is one thing that sets me apart
Speaker 1: from most others, being that I have never pleasured myself.
Speaker 1: It's not for religious or moral reasons. I've just never
Speaker 1: bothered to jerk off? Are what? You've just never bothered
Speaker 1: to do it? I've just never bothered to jerk off?
Speaker 1: Would you say I'm missing out? I'm twenty one. Also,
Speaker 1: how do you deal with the fact that, no matter
Speaker 1: what you're doing? That Also, how do you deal with
Speaker 1: the fact that, no matter what you do, you're going
Speaker 1: to die someday? That's my That's the Okay, so these
Speaker 1: are these are two separate questions. One I'm significantly more
Speaker 1: interested in, you've never bothered to jerk off? What would
Speaker 1: you say you're missing out? Andrew? Here's what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you. I don't. I don't think you're missing out,
Speaker 1: or I don't think you're missing out. And here's why
Speaker 1: I don't think you're because, well, well if look, here's
Speaker 1: here's why. Here's why I'm gonna be so honest with you, Andrew.
Speaker 1: You're not missing out because you're telling me that you
Speaker 1: are content with your life. And every time I jerk off,
Speaker 1: it's longing. It's like a longing for a sexual satisfaction
Speaker 1: that I am trying to address via jerking off, and
Speaker 1: then the longing. It's a constant cycle. It's a longing,
Speaker 1: and we satisfy the longing briefly, we push it down
Speaker 1: with jerking off. I think that's what jerking off might
Speaker 1: be for a lot of people, is you have a
Speaker 1: longing and then you jerk off, and then the longing
Speaker 1: comes back, and then you jerk off. But you're content
Speaker 1: with your life, Andrew, So it kind of makes sense
Speaker 1: that you never bothered to jerk off. People who jerk
Speaker 1: off typically want things. That's why you jerk off, because
Speaker 1: you want some I don't know. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I'm imagining you just sitting in a white, blank room
Speaker 1: in a chair staring content. That's a bit how I'm
Speaker 1: imagining you. I guess that literally, I guess if you
Speaker 1: have an office job, that is kind of literally what
Speaker 1: you do. But yeah, I don't think you're missing out
Speaker 1: on anything. You're doing life way better than everyone who's
Speaker 1: ever jerked off. That's how I truly feel about this.
Speaker 1: I'm just surprised. I'm like nothing's ever I've never in
Speaker 1: my life been like Oh, I would have gotten so
Speaker 1: much more work done, and my relationships would have been deeper,
Speaker 1: and I would have had a greater breadth of life
Speaker 1: experiences had I only jerked off a lot. I've never
Speaker 1: had that thought in my life. So do with that
Speaker 1: as you will, Andrew, Okay, how do you deal with
Speaker 1: the fact that, no matter what you do, you're gonna
Speaker 1: die someday? I have not yet figured this out. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you ever will. How do you deal
Speaker 1: with the fact, no matter what you're gonna do, you're
Speaker 1: gonna die someday? You know, Andrew, I don't are you?
Speaker 1: Are you lying to us about being content? How do
Speaker 1: you deal with the fact that, no matter what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do, you're gonna die someday. I'm gonna tell story, Andrew, Andrew,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell a story to you. It's not a
Speaker 1: story about jerking off for those who thought it may be.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell a story about a hilarious thing
Speaker 1: that happened to me at the Mall of America. Nothing
Speaker 1: really happened. It all happened to my own mind. But
Speaker 1: I was at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and I saw at the Mall of America they have
Speaker 1: an amusement park. They have a Nickelodeon themed amusement park,
Speaker 1: and they have a sponge roller coaster. And I saw
Speaker 1: the roller coaster. I thought it looked cool, and I
Speaker 1: was about to buy a ticket to ride this roller coaster,
Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, you know, I might have
Speaker 1: fun on this roller coaster, but you know, I'll just
Speaker 1: ride it and then it'll be over, and then there
Speaker 1: won't even ever been a point of riding it. So
Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna ride it. And then I didn't
Speaker 1: ride it. Is that not the most depressing fucking thing
Speaker 1: you've ever heard? What's happened to me? That was? I
Speaker 1: felt so sad that I that I eored myself out
Speaker 1: of riding this roller coaster. And I think it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of a metaphor for life. I wish I regret
Speaker 1: not riding that roller coaster. I wish I would have
Speaker 1: written that roller coaster. So yes, had I ridden the
Speaker 1: roller coaster, nothing about my life would be remotely different.
Speaker 1: But I don't know it would have been fun. So
Speaker 1: ride your roller coaster and stop worrying about the fact.
Speaker 1: Stop don't be in Like when I had that thought,
Speaker 1: oh it's just gonna be over, I wanted to punch
Speaker 1: myself in the face because I was It's just such
Speaker 1: a stupid way for me to have looked at that situation.
Speaker 1: And so if you were to kind of pinch in
Speaker 1: on that, you could say that that's a metaphor for
Speaker 1: a life as a whole. So ride ride your roller coaster, Andrew.
Speaker 1: That's all I That's all I have to say. All Right,
Speaker 1: let's see here. Someone in the chat said, uh, well
Speaker 1: did you go back? No? I didn't. Someone said, uh,
Speaker 1: Someone said, if he was really content with his life,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have sent the email. That's pretty funny. I
Speaker 1: guess that's kind of true. Let's see. Someone said, if
Speaker 1: he doesn't masturbate, he has a higher chance of developing
Speaker 1: prostate cancer. Uh the body, lets you know what you miss? Okay.
Speaker 1: Someone said maybe they're a sexual. Well they could be
Speaker 1: a sexual, I guess, But do do asexual people masturbate.
Speaker 1: If you're a sexual and you masturbate, chime in. I
Speaker 1: don't know what chiming in looks like. Maybe just maybe
Speaker 1: just yell. Maybe just if you're listening to this podcast
Speaker 1: and you're a sexual and you masturbate, maybe just yell
Speaker 1: out your window. I'm a sexual and I masturbate, and
Speaker 1: maybe I'll hear it. All right, let's uh, don't actually
Speaker 1: do that or do I don't know why I told
Speaker 1: you to not do it. It doesn't affect me in
Speaker 1: any way, and I don't think it will bother anyone.
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep going. Someone wrote, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: from Dharma. The subject line is I will be disappointed
Speaker 1: if my story is not included in the episode. You
Speaker 1: know what, fuck you? I'm not gonna read that one.
Speaker 1: Uh okay. Hold on, I'm still scrolling through these. Um
Speaker 1: uh okay. Someone wrote, got okay, this is from Victor
Speaker 1: subject line got scammed out of eighteen dollars on Facebook,
Speaker 1: but became friends after high lyle. Yesterday, I took a
Speaker 1: gamble and tried to buy third party tickets for a
Speaker 1: concert on Facebook. The account was a lady with kids
Speaker 1: in the profile pick and it looked sketchy, but it
Speaker 1: was only eighteen dollars for the ticket, so I decided
Speaker 1: to risk it to get the biscuit. That's a triple rhyme.
Speaker 1: After I had already sent the scammer the money for
Speaker 1: the ticket, she requested another ten dollars to change the
Speaker 1: name on the ticket. It was a scam. I didn't
Speaker 1: get the biscuit. I sent her a message saying I
Speaker 1: forgive her for stealing my money and I laughed about it.
Speaker 1: Any Wait, what I didn't get the biscuit. I sent
Speaker 1: her a message saying I forgive her for stealing my
Speaker 1: money and I laughed about it. She replied admitting it
Speaker 1: was all a lie and is extremely sorry for hurting
Speaker 1: me out of my eighteen dollars, and also tells me
Speaker 1: her name is David. We end up chatting about tough
Speaker 1: times and how it's sometimes shitty for everyone out there,
Speaker 1: and we bonded over stuff. He asked me how I've
Speaker 1: found it in me to forgive him. I told him
Speaker 1: I listened to a gecko on the internet who says
Speaker 1: life is fucking crazy. David and I are friends now,
Speaker 1: thank you for all you do. There's no way that's real.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is God. There's gotta be no way.
Speaker 1: There's no way that this is a real thing. If
Speaker 1: if it is real, I I Victor. I must ask
Speaker 1: if this is true, If this is true, did they
Speaker 1: give you back the money I'm putting I'm throwing this
Speaker 1: on r slash. I'm I'm I'm putting this on r slash.
Speaker 1: That happened. I don't think this happened. And you guys
Speaker 1: know me, I'm pretty uh. I believe most stuff. A
Speaker 1: lot of people are. They comment on the show band
Speaker 1: like this is all fake. I believe most stuff. I think.
Speaker 1: I don't believe in this. Send me screenshots, Victor, Victor,
Speaker 1: if you Victor, if you send me screen and I
Speaker 1: also want a Venmo screenshot of them sending you back
Speaker 1: The twenty eight dollars. I will believe this story. Let's
Speaker 1: move on, all right. This is from AVA subject line
Speaker 1: hypnotherapy parentheses. I'm scared. Good day, Gecko. Please assign me
Speaker 1: a name of your choosing. All right, I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: call you by AVA people. When you send an email,
Speaker 1: Google goes like, oh, we'll just put your first and
Speaker 1: last name, but also to AVA no one. You're fine.
Speaker 1: I guess, all right. Whatever. Yesterday, I attended my very
Speaker 1: first hypno therapy consultation. Therapy alone has not been enough
Speaker 1: for me to fully move forward from my past experiences,
Speaker 1: so I've officially become desperate enough to try anything. Hypno
Speaker 1: Therapy is categorized as alternative medicine and hoeless, which is
Speaker 1: funny because I'm working toward becoming a registered nurse. I'm
Speaker 1: on the fence about if this hypnotherapist is a quack. Hmm.
Speaker 1: Our one hour free consultation became a one and a
Speaker 1: half hour conversation. She told me that she quote works
Speaker 1: with the government as needed, has a team of military
Speaker 1: men who have never faced a single loss, that she
Speaker 1: has been shot and was told she would lose her
Speaker 1: arm but didn't and beat me in an arm wrestle
Speaker 1: to prove her strength. She preached the power of the
Speaker 1: human mind and that the government cannot replicate the strength
Speaker 1: of human brain vibrations, and that anyone who tries writing
Speaker 1: about these findings has gone missing. She also told me
Speaker 1: that someday I will walk around knowing that I am
Speaker 1: far more badass than anyone around me that hasn't struggled
Speaker 1: in life, and she feels sorry for those who haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't been the tized, but I am scheduled to
Speaker 1: be in a week. What do you think about this?
Speaker 1: Is it a bad idea to let her hypnotize me parentheses?
Speaker 1: I'm going to anyway? So she actually, by the way,
Speaker 1: by the way, for anyone who's like, oh, well, if
Speaker 1: you're going to anyway, then why the fuck you send
Speaker 1: the email? I'm so glad that you wrote that you're
Speaker 1: going to anyway because that takes the pressure way off
Speaker 1: of me, and now I can just be like, great,
Speaker 1: you're gonna do whatever you're gonna do anyway. So I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say why whatever? Do you know what? Look, well,
Speaker 1: I here's my question. Here's my question. Okay, as you
Speaker 1: had a one hour free consultation, how much money is
Speaker 1: are you gonna pay this lady to hypnotize you. Here's
Speaker 1: what I would say, Just I don't know how much
Speaker 1: is you're gonna pay this lady. But if you're completely
Speaker 1: utterly okay with the idea that you paid a lady,
Speaker 1: that you paid a crazy lady two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars to scam you, which is fine, you're not. I
Speaker 1: don't think you're an idiot for doing that. I actually
Speaker 1: think you're smart for accepting that that could be the
Speaker 1: case before doing it, right. That's smarter than going in
Speaker 1: and being like, oh, this is really gonna be a thing.
Speaker 1: Just I think going into it being like I fully
Speaker 1: accept both the possibility that this might be helpful and
Speaker 1: the possibility that I have been scammed out of two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars, that's smart. If you do that,
Speaker 1: I think you're golden. You're not setting yourself up for disappointment?
Speaker 1: Is it bad as you let her hypn's? But yeah, go,
Speaker 1: I mean go ahead, what's she gonna do? I mean,
Speaker 1: the worst thing that you could do in this situation
Speaker 1: is waste a bunch of money and be fooled. But
Speaker 1: you're not really being fooled. If you're subjecting yourself to
Speaker 1: a ski am knowing, fully accepting the risks that you're being,
Speaker 1: that you could be scammed, you're maybe less. Are you
Speaker 1: still a fool? I don't think so. You're just you're
Speaker 1: You're an optimistic person being financially taken advantage of which
Speaker 1: is not a horrible thing to be, not a horrible
Speaker 1: thing to be at all. That's so funny that she
Speaker 1: arm wrestled you. You know what, I like this. I'm
Speaker 1: actually gonna, uh, next time I have any therapist of
Speaker 1: any kind, I'm going to make sure that they can
Speaker 1: beat me in an arm wrestling before they treat me
Speaker 1: any Actually, I'm gonna I'm gonna actually extend that to
Speaker 1: any healthcare provider of all time. My doctor, my therapist,
Speaker 1: my dentist, all of them need to beat me in
Speaker 1: an arm wrestling competition before I give them any sort
Speaker 1: of credibility. Because if you can't beat me in arm wrestling,
Speaker 1: I'm weak as fuck. And if you can't beat me
Speaker 1: in an arm wrestling you you have no business treating
Speaker 1: my mental or physical health. I'm curious. I'm curious how
Speaker 1: this works. AVA therapy alone has not been enough for
Speaker 1: me to fully move on from my past experiences. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It's funny
Speaker 1: with the show because sometimes I'm like, uh, you guys
Speaker 1: just get therapy, and sometimes I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Some problem. I just this is me thinking aloud. This
Speaker 1: is not me declaring anything. By the way, that extends
Speaker 1: to everything I ever say on this fucking podcast. Uh,
Speaker 1: just thinking aloud here. Sometimes you have a problem and
Speaker 1: you try to attack it with therapy or walking or whatever.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes some problems, some things you just have
Speaker 1: to fucking accept some shit in life. Some shit in
Speaker 1: life we just gotta accept. And there's things that you
Speaker 1: can do to there's always there's I swear on my life,
Speaker 1: there's always things that you can do to change your
Speaker 1: situation and change the way you think about stuff. But
Speaker 1: maybe before that, you just have to accept some shit.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I might be completely wrong about that,
Speaker 1: all right, I might be completely right. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, But whatever, Let this lady hypnotize you
Speaker 1: and turn you into a chicken. That sounds fun. Let's
Speaker 1: move on, Let's do another thing. How long have I
Speaker 1: been recording this for forty three minutes. That's pretty good. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's keep going. Okay, this is from Brenda. The subject
Speaker 1: line is Buffalo Bill. Hello, ghek. I've been wanting to
Speaker 1: ask you about this for a while, but I didn't
Speaker 1: think it constituted an entire phone call. I like that
Speaker 1: word constituted several times starout your podcast, you've mentioned Buffalo Bill.
Speaker 1: Really have I I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Can someone make a compilation of all the times I've
Speaker 1: mentioned Buffalo Bill on the podcast, because I this is
Speaker 1: a foreign idea to me that I mentioned Buffalo Bill
Speaker 1: on the podcast a lot. I honestly, look, here's the
Speaker 1: thing I could see. I could see it slipping through
Speaker 1: the cracks in my brain right now that I've mentioned
Speaker 1: him once or twice. But you say several times you
Speaker 1: mentioned Buffalo Bill, all right, several times start your podcast
Speaker 1: you've mentioned Buffalo Bill and referenced him when talking about
Speaker 1: serial killers. I wanted to make sure that you know
Speaker 1: he was not a real guy. He's a fictitious serial
Speaker 1: killer used in the Silence of the Lambs. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you guys what happened to my brain just
Speaker 1: now as I as I read what I just read
Speaker 1: in my brain, neurons were firing off my gut. I
Speaker 1: was about to say, I fucking knew that he wasn't real.
Speaker 1: That's what I was about to say. Of course I
Speaker 1: knew he wasn't real. Why like I was about to
Speaker 1: attack this lady for insinuating that, I what do you
Speaker 1: mean I didn't think he was of course I know
Speaker 1: he's not real. And then a tenth of a second past,
Speaker 1: and I immediately realized that I did think he was real.
Speaker 1: I did not. I didn't think he was real, but
Speaker 1: I I maybe he could have maybe moved. I didn't
Speaker 1: think he was real, but I didn't know he was
Speaker 1: fake for sure. That's what happened. That's why you got
Speaker 1: That's why you got to wait at least a tenth
Speaker 1: of a second before you say stuff, because you might
Speaker 1: prove yourself a fool. He's a fictitious serial killer used
Speaker 1: in the Silence of the Lambs and then spoofed in
Speaker 1: Joe Dirt. The real guy who did the human skin
Speaker 1: stuff was Ed guyin Gain g e. I N I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say Gain was Ed Gain. He inspired such movie
Speaker 1: killers as Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and thus also
Speaker 1: inspired Buffalo Bill. It's important to me that you know that.
Speaker 1: I'm a little suspicious as to why it's important to
Speaker 1: you that I know that, Brenda. But whatever, Maybe you're
Speaker 1: just a true crime gal. Have a great day and
Speaker 1: eat lots of candy. I will not, I will not.
Speaker 1: I will not eat any candy. I am off the stuff.
Speaker 1: Ps IDK if you remember me, but I was on
Speaker 1: stage at your first live show in Vegas and talked
Speaker 1: about catfishing older men online when I was eleven years old.
Speaker 1: I also met you again after your second Vegas show.
Speaker 1: Thanks for always being cool and nice. Thanks Brenda, thanks
Speaker 1: for coming to those shows. So those are a fun show.
Speaker 1: Those are fun shows. Okay, all right, okay, Jenny subject line,
Speaker 1: I am an actual witch. Well, she wrote, Hi, I'm
Speaker 1: an actual witch. Hi, Lyle. My husband and I started
Speaker 1: watching early twenty twenty. We saw the guy who had
Speaker 1: too many brownies and had to go meet God. I
Speaker 1: hope that guy was Okay, I know exactly who you're
Speaker 1: talking about. I think that guy's name was Kyle. If
Speaker 1: I hold on, I actually have to look this up
Speaker 1: because if I remember that guy's name correctly. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of a genius dude. That's the thing is, I won't
Speaker 1: remember the first hold On. I'm scrolling through my TikTok
Speaker 1: to see if I remember that guy's name. I won't
Speaker 1: remember a person's name the second they tell it to me,
Speaker 1: but I might remember a person's name five years later.
Speaker 1: So let's se if I got there. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: this guy's name is Kyle hold On. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm wasting time on this show. I mean, what is
Speaker 1: wasting time? We can make this as long. I could
Speaker 1: do this for four hours. I'm not going to, but
Speaker 1: I theoretically could. There is no I could this could
Speaker 1: be I could do this for Oh, here we go.
Speaker 3: I've been suspicious of my roommate kind of getting with
Speaker 3: my girlfriend recently, so I kind of decided to get
Speaker 3: back at him. He hates it when I steal his food,
Speaker 3: so I went into his room when he wasn't there,
Speaker 3: and I found from the brownies they tasted a little off.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of.
Speaker 3: Feeling a little off because of it, but I feel
Speaker 3: like I'm Lucky's in it because I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 3: God's Ryan. I'm about to meet it, jue Ka like four.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I don't I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys could hear that at all. But his name was
Speaker 1: Kyle Brandon. Maybe we can boost it in post or not.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if that'll I don't
Speaker 1: know if that works. Don't don't kill yourself trying to
Speaker 1: boost it and post it could just be shitty. All right.
Speaker 1: That was a very very very very long way of
Speaker 1: proving that I remembered a guy's name.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Back to this email. We saw the guy who had
Speaker 1: too many brownies and had to go meet God. I
Speaker 1: hope the guy was okay. His name is Kyle, and
Speaker 1: we do not know if he is okay. Anyway, we
Speaker 1: love you. My husband is a therapist and has called
Speaker 1: a lot but hasn't gotten through yet. He loves how
Speaker 1: you help people, especially the guy who was living with
Speaker 1: his grandma and working at Taco Bell. You gave them
Speaker 1: the slice of the real that they need. I remember
Speaker 1: that guy too, don't remember his name. I am a
Speaker 1: four real witch. I've been doing all sorts of things
Speaker 1: that give me peace and freak out my neighbors for
Speaker 1: the past few years. Now. I think you are a
Speaker 1: magical being? Two? Have you considered that yet? Um? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna read the rest of this email before I give
Speaker 1: any thoughts food for thought. Every time I watch your stream,
Speaker 1: I give magic blessings on you and chat because listening
Speaker 1: to you feeds the soul. You're like millennial Delilah, but
Speaker 1: on twitch instead of the radio. I can tell. I
Speaker 1: can tell I definitely am millennial Delilah because I don't
Speaker 1: know who Delilah is. What's Delilah? Is that? From the
Speaker 1: song Hey there, Delilah? We saw you in austin twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three and I asked the Wiener mobile guy if
Speaker 1: he ever did it in the car. I wonder what
Speaker 1: he answered to that. I forgot about that. PS. If
Speaker 1: you need anything, let me know. Okay, If I want
Speaker 1: to put a curse on someone, I know what emails
Speaker 1: to respond to. Have I considered that I am a
Speaker 1: magical being. I was in the shower today and I
Speaker 1: was reflective. I had a slow morning. It was nice.
Speaker 1: I was reflective in the shower. I was looking at
Speaker 1: my body and I felt very grounded upon the earth.
Speaker 1: I was like what I was like? I was looking
Speaker 1: at my body, like how Spider Man looked at his
Speaker 1: body after once he realized that he had like spider powers,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, I am like
Speaker 1: a thing. I felt in that moment that I was
Speaker 1: indeed a magical being, and therefore we all are magical beings.
Speaker 1: You know, if you want to get a little fruit
Speaker 1: through up in this bitch, we all are magical beings.
Speaker 1: You know how magical it is to pick up a
Speaker 1: glass of water and drink it. You don't need to
Speaker 1: I don't think you need to cast spells on your
Speaker 1: neighbors to be a magical being. You can just walk
Speaker 1: around and you're doing a pretty good job. You're doing
Speaker 1: better than actually dogs, I was gonna say you're doing
Speaker 1: better than dogs. But dogs are magical beings too, look
Speaker 1: at them, they're walking around. Humans are a little bit
Speaker 1: more magical because we can use the computer and look
Speaker 1: at porn and read it, which is a little which
Speaker 1: is sort of magical. Were we created porn and read it.
Speaker 1: We didn't create sex. Sex has been around for longer
Speaker 1: than humans, but we created filming it and putting it
Speaker 1: on the internet, and that's pretty magical. I will let
Speaker 1: you know if I eat anything. Jenny all right, um,
Speaker 1: hold on, uh, this is from Sarah. Subject line, my
Speaker 1: boyfriend bought me a twenty three carrot gold Pokemon card.
Speaker 1: Hi gek. My boyfriend and I have bonded over many things,
Speaker 1: one of those things being Pokemon cards. We've both been
Speaker 1: collecting for years and just started playing the Pokemon trading
Speaker 1: card game. That's actually not what she wrote. She wrote
Speaker 1: playing the Pokemon TCG Parentheses trading card game. It fucking rules.
Speaker 1: Life is great. Highly recommend finding a partner you can
Speaker 1: do nerdy shit with. You Know what I'm realizing is
Speaker 1: I forgot that I'm on video. I thought I forgot
Speaker 1: that there's a video version of this podcast, and I've
Speaker 1: just been digging in my belly button. I've just been
Speaker 1: fidgeting with my belly button throughout the whole podcast, thinking
Speaker 1: that nobody could see it. Well, all right, anyway. Attached
Speaker 1: to this email as a photo of the vintage twenty
Speaker 1: three care gold played a Pokemon card that he gifted
Speaker 1: me recently. The economy in the nineties was so rich
Speaker 1: Burker came gave out real gold plated toys to kids. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is an audio thing, so you're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to see the card. But it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Is that real gold? Is a golden jigglypuff? Is that
Speaker 1: real gold? That's pretty cool. That's really nice. I highly
Speaker 1: recommend finding a partner you can do nerdy shit with.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you know that's nice. But uh just
Speaker 1: saw everyone out there is listen. Just for everyone out
Speaker 1: there is listening. You can also do nerdy shit sadly
Speaker 1: and alone, which has been a popular way to do
Speaker 1: it for years. If you can do it with, if
Speaker 1: you find a partner to do it with, that's great.
Speaker 1: But people have been doing nerdy shit alone in their
Speaker 1: basement depressed for a long time too, And if that's
Speaker 1: how you want to do it, that's a perfectly legitimate
Speaker 1: way to live life. Okay, hold on, uh okay. This
Speaker 1: person also wrote please do not read my name, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call them erin m okay. Aaron wrote, the
Speaker 1: subject line is just to throw off my chest or
Speaker 1: I guess get the I think they meant just to
Speaker 1: get this off my chest. Okay, all right, hi GAK
Speaker 1: love your show. Please do not read my name. But
Speaker 1: I was too lazy to make another email for this. Well,
Speaker 1: I all right, I'm I already chewed that other guy
Speaker 1: out for this, and so just take what I said
Speaker 1: to him and replace your name. I want to say
Speaker 1: life kind of sucks right now. First, in the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year, I found out my boyfriend of two
Speaker 1: years watched porn. Then two months ago I saw he
Speaker 1: had a secret Reddit where he traded nudes with people,
Speaker 1: and finally two weeks ago I saw he had an
Speaker 1: only Fans where he messaged women. Is that like he
Speaker 1: had like he was posting on only fans or he
Speaker 1: it like is just messaging people in there. Every time
Speaker 1: I found out Slash brought something up, he just lied.
Speaker 1: Still love him, though, and I want to trust him.
Speaker 1: We're going to a work Christmas party tonight, so yeah, lol,
Speaker 1: I'm very pissed off. Anyway, I love your show. Get bye. Okay.
Speaker 1: You know you wrote just want to throw this off.
Speaker 1: You wrote, I just want to get this off my chest.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna assume that you don't want my opinion
Speaker 1: on this, but also I'm gonna give you my opinion
Speaker 1: on this. I mean, look, say what you will about
Speaker 1: your boyfriend like doing all this stuff is like I
Speaker 1: want to trust him. There's a horny man who is
Speaker 1: watching does all this stuff, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: he I don't know if he's gonna stop. And if
Speaker 1: you don't like that he does all of it, I
Speaker 1: probably would get out of there. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: just funny to me. I can't tell if you guys
Speaker 1: like each other. See, this is one of those I
Speaker 1: say this every time I do gek mail. But this
Speaker 1: is one of those things where I would really like
Speaker 1: to talk to Aaron about this because I don't know
Speaker 1: if Aaron I don't I feel like I don't know
Speaker 1: why Aaron is staying with this person if their values
Speaker 1: are unaligned, and there might there might I might get
Speaker 1: an answer to that by talking to Aaron, But I
Speaker 1: don't know. Enjoy your work Christmas party. I hope your
Speaker 1: boyfriend does not get a boner. Oh I said that
Speaker 1: that wasn't funny. All right, I'm gonna read the chat
Speaker 1: real quick. Uh. Someone said, uh, is that the girlfriend
Speaker 1: of the guy that has the porn addiction from earlier? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Could be? Could be? Could be? Someone said, smell your finger.
Speaker 1: Does your belly buttons stink? Because there's bacteria in the
Speaker 1: belly button they can't find anywhere else. On earth besides
Speaker 1: in people's belly buttons. No, I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think that. I don't think there's anything in the thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I smelled. I don't know. I got distracted. I smell.
Speaker 1: I did smell my finger. I did smell my finger.
Speaker 1: Someone said that you should check out some porn and
Speaker 1: see what the fuss is about. He shouldn't be talking
Speaker 1: to other girls if he's with you. But porno has
Speaker 1: been around since we could draw a voluptuous silhouette on
Speaker 1: the walls of a cave with a stick of ash.
Speaker 1: Is that something you've done before? Okay, uh, this is
Speaker 1: from Aarin. This guy's name is actually Aerin, and the
Speaker 1: subject line is leaving alone. What's up? Gek love the
Speaker 1: gek male thing? Thank you, Erin. I'm reaching out because
Speaker 1: i just started living on my own for the first
Speaker 1: time in my life. I just got out of a
Speaker 1: four year relationship, and before that, I had another four
Speaker 1: year relationship, so I'm not very used to being single,
Speaker 1: let alone living without roommates. It's definitely the first time
Speaker 1: I've had to spend so much time without other people around.
Speaker 1: On top of this, I work entirely remotely, so I
Speaker 1: spend most of my time alone in my apartment with
Speaker 1: my cat. Otherwise, I spend time making music or playing
Speaker 1: gigs with my band, so I'm not doing absolutely nothing
Speaker 1: with my life. However, the extensive alone time is feeling
Speaker 1: pretty weird. Just wanted to get your advice on how
Speaker 1: to handle extensive alone time and how to not feel
Speaker 1: like I'm a total piece of shit on my nights
Speaker 1: off with nothing to do. Lol. Thank you, my lizardly friend, Aaron.
Speaker 1: You emailed the right guy, not necessarily for advice, but
Speaker 1: at the very minimum for commiseration. I too live alone
Speaker 1: and work remotely doing my gecko shit, and brother, I
Speaker 1: struggled severely with it. I've always wondered if like living
Speaker 1: alone is uh not the best way to do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, human beings are very communal, and you should
Speaker 1: I person if you wanted, just to give you where
Speaker 1: a sense of where I'm at. Aaron is like my
Speaker 1: number one goal for this year. I mean, I have
Speaker 1: a few goals for this year, but one of the
Speaker 1: big big ones is to do something where I am
Speaker 1: constantly surrounded by people. You know, I did my tour
Speaker 1: for the past two years and that kind of scratched
Speaker 1: that itch. But now that that's over, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I gotta find I really need to find something that
Speaker 1: gets me out and about with other people. And so
Speaker 1: I'm super on that wave of trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what that shit is I and I want it to
Speaker 1: be something that I create and that I do. But
Speaker 1: in the meantime, I'm like, Eh, let me just go
Speaker 1: out to shit. So I've been going out to shit.
Speaker 1: I fucking I go to a super smash brother's melee
Speaker 1: ornament once a week. I go to yoga. That's nice.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you live, but just go out
Speaker 1: to shit, go out and do stuff like premeditate it,
Speaker 1: like like at the beginning of the week, write every
Speaker 1: day of the week down and and feel as many
Speaker 1: of those things as you can up with, like places
Speaker 1: to go to leave your house. That's it. I know
Speaker 1: it's not great. I know. I know saying just leave
Speaker 1: your house lol is not great advice, But that kind
Speaker 1: of just leave your house lol is kind of the advice.
Speaker 1: But I'm curious because you said you actually weren't asking
Speaker 1: me about how to minimize your alone time. You were
Speaker 1: asking me how to handle it. You wrote how to
Speaker 1: handle extensive alone time. Well, I gotta know, there's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of peace with being alone. I think it's good.
Speaker 1: I think, I think for you, since you've you're not
Speaker 1: used to being alone, I think I think if you're not,
Speaker 1: if you're not used to being alone, and you've always
Speaker 1: had a fucking partner and you've always had roommates, you've
Speaker 1: always had all this shit, then I think it's good
Speaker 1: to learn how to be alone. But if you're always
Speaker 1: alone all the time, you're probably gonna be fucking miserable.
Speaker 1: So I don't know where you fit in that category,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to handle it, or if you're trying
Speaker 1: to be around other people but go on like meetup
Speaker 1: dot com or Facebook groups or Google or I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you live in like a small town in Nebraska,
Speaker 1: in which case you really are fucked. But I don't
Speaker 1: you most places that have people and buildings, you can
Speaker 1: find a place to go at night. So just do that.
Speaker 1: Go out, leave your house. Lol. That's my advice to you, Aaron.
Speaker 1: And you're not alone and living alone and being alone. Uh,
Speaker 1: music is good, Playing gigs with your band is good.
Speaker 1: Why don't you go out? Why don't you just dive
Speaker 1: into the music scene. You just where do you well?
Speaker 1: If you're okay, if you're in a band and you
Speaker 1: play gigs, I assume you live in a major American city,
Speaker 1: so just want to go instead of playing your own
Speaker 1: I mean, instead of just playing your own gigs, why
Speaker 1: don't you go out to other like local concerts and
Speaker 1: talk to ladies with big, big gauge ears my name? Okay,
Speaker 1: this is from Bruna. Subject line, I kicked my mom's
Speaker 1: boyfriend in the nuts. Okay, sup gek you can call
Speaker 1: me bp AM. I in the wrong. I was having
Speaker 1: dinner with my family and at the time I was
Speaker 1: like a rebel teenager who hates the world. Once I finished,
Speaker 1: I asked to leave the table, and I do so.
Speaker 1: I got to my room to watch something on my
Speaker 1: computer and my mom's boyfriend starts yelling. His name is Paul.
Speaker 1: He starts yelling from the kitchen, your daughter is useless.
Speaker 1: She's a bitch. I already didn't like him, but all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Paul yells, I'm gonna whoop her ass.
Speaker 1: And as the rebel teenager I was, I yelled back,
Speaker 1: touched me and you'll see expecting Paul to ignore, as
Speaker 1: he usually did when we argued. Bro, I am telling you,
Speaker 1: I've never seen that man run so fast in my life.
Speaker 1: He kicks the door open, looks dead in my soul
Speaker 1: and says say that again, which I did, and he
Speaker 1: got ready to slap me. So as a defense, I
Speaker 1: punched him in the nuts. I thought you said you
Speaker 1: kicked him in the nuts. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: believe this story anymore, Bruna, because you said you kicked him,
Speaker 1: and now you're saying you punched him, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if I believe. I don't I mean a punch
Speaker 1: in then this guy must have been pretty tall for
Speaker 1: you to punch him in the night nuts. Maybe you
Speaker 1: meant maybe you meant kick, all right, whatever, I punched
Speaker 1: him in the nuts. My brother's trying to hold him,
Speaker 1: and my mom's losing it completely. He tried to grab
Speaker 1: my foot, but instead of grabbed the computer and broke it.
Speaker 1: In the aftermath, I was grounded for three months. Paul
Speaker 1: went to his parents' house for a while and paid
Speaker 1: for the computer. My mom and Paul are still together.
Speaker 1: It's been five years and we just learned to tolerate
Speaker 1: each other's existence. Have a great night, gek love you
Speaker 1: keep doing what you do parentheses come to Portugal. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: so this is you're in Portugal. So maybe if English
Speaker 1: isn't your first language, maybe I'll chalk up the kicking
Speaker 1: punching contradiction. What would you call it? Conflict controversy, the
Speaker 1: kicking versus punching controversy. I can maybe it's because maybe
Speaker 1: it's that I don't know. Were you in the wrong, Well,
Speaker 1: it's been five years ago. It sounds like you guys
Speaker 1: just hated each other. That's the thing is, Were you
Speaker 1: in the wrong doesn't really matter because time time has
Speaker 1: time doesn't really I guess give that much of a
Speaker 1: fuck as to whether or not you're in the wrong,
Speaker 1: because what I don't even know what me answering this
Speaker 1: question would even do at this point? Were you in
Speaker 1: the wrong? I mean shit, it sounded like it sounded
Speaker 1: like he was about to hit you and you defended yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm not a jury, but uh, do you still live
Speaker 1: with these people? Paul? Sounds crazy? I don't know, BP.
Speaker 1: I hope you get some peace. That sounds like a
Speaker 1: very not peaceful situation. I don't know what it's been like.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's like nowadays, but I hope
Speaker 1: you get some peace. That sounds kind of crazy. Uh okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right. This is from Ahmed and he just kind
Speaker 1: of keyboard smashed and wrote ah as the subject line. Hello, Lyle,
Speaker 1: hope you're doing good. This is Isaac from the Sultana.
Speaker 1: How do you pronounce that word? The sultan Nate of Oman.
Speaker 1: I'm googling this. What is the sultan Nate of Oman? Oh? Fuck?
Speaker 1: This is in the Middle East. No, it's near Dubai,
Speaker 1: the Sultanate of Oman. Okay, that's cool, Okay, anyway, this
Speaker 1: is Isaac from the sultan Nate of Oman. This is
Speaker 1: fucking cool that people are listening all the way over there.
Speaker 1: I've been a long time listener. I remember the first
Speaker 1: time I watched you. You were talking to the mushroom lady.
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you my secret. Here goes the story.
Speaker 1: I know exactly who you're talking about when you say
Speaker 1: the mushroom lady. There's an old lady who was talking
Speaker 1: about how she wanted to be a mushroom after she
Speaker 1: did a lot of blasts from the past calls in
Speaker 1: these emails. I used my college Okay, I wanted to
Speaker 1: tell you my secret. Here's the story. I used my
Speaker 1: roommate's college account to drop out of college from the website.
Speaker 1: Oh so you dropped out of He logged into your
Speaker 1: roommate's college account, and then you dropped out of college
Speaker 1: for him. That's crazy. I used my roommate's college account
Speaker 1: to drop out of college from the website because it
Speaker 1: always bothered me that he masturbates like eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the time while we were in the apartment. See that, Okay?
Speaker 1: For the person was that guy Andrew, who was content
Speaker 1: with his life and was a wonder your feature to
Speaker 1: try masturbating. Masturbating has never I don't that just masturbating
Speaker 1: led to this guy dropping out of college, and it's
Speaker 1: probably led to lots of people across the world dropping
Speaker 1: out of college. So back to that old email, Just
Speaker 1: keep not masturbating. It's gonna your life's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot better. All right. We were in the apartment, and
Speaker 1: he never washed the dishes or contributed anything to the
Speaker 1: chores we had to do to keep the place decent.
Speaker 1: He always cat called girls in public every time we
Speaker 1: were in the car when we drove to get dinner
Speaker 1: after I made him drop out. He just accepted it,
Speaker 1: and now he's in the military and I haven't heard
Speaker 1: anything after that since I kind of feel bad about
Speaker 1: it now and don't at the same time, Wait a minute, Okay,
Speaker 1: you logged in to your roommate's college account dropped out
Speaker 1: of college by hitting a button. Can you even? I
Speaker 1: guess I was gonna say, can you even do that?
Speaker 1: But I guess how else would you do it? You
Speaker 1: do it? You enroll in this shit online. I guess
Speaker 1: you'd drop out online too, But then you need to
Speaker 1: you don't You have to verify something. And see, it's
Speaker 1: just funny to me that it's that easy. I also
Speaker 1: believe you that it's that easy. It's also it's hilarious
Speaker 1: that he just accepted it. Okay, this guy wanted to
Speaker 1: drop out of college easily. This guy did not want
Speaker 1: to be there. If what stopped this guy from going
Speaker 1: to college is the fact that you he could have
Speaker 1: easily gone to the administration and said it was a mistake,
Speaker 1: but he didn't, so you can probably feel less bad
Speaker 1: about the fact that he didn't want to be there. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this guy was jacking off the entire time and not
Speaker 1: do this. Guy didn't want to be in college, so
Speaker 1: it wasn't right to drop out for him. But you
Speaker 1: didn't ruin his dreams. He didn't really have any. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it sounds like the military is better
Speaker 1: for him. He'll jack off way less of the military,
Speaker 1: or maybe more. I don't know. I'd love to join
Speaker 1: the show one day and call you, but it costs
Speaker 1: so much money and usually when you stream it's like
Speaker 1: four am for me. But just to clarify, it is
Speaker 1: free to call into the stream, but it's less free
Speaker 1: if you live in a foreign cunt tree. Not because
Speaker 1: I hate people who live in foreign countries, but because
Speaker 1: the cell phone companies do. And by the way, they
Speaker 1: don't pay me. I don't make people who call in
Speaker 1: and pay it just they get billed by their phone
Speaker 1: for international calls. Anyway, whatever, I love the jazz music
Speaker 1: between the calls from the old podcast episodes. Just want
Speaker 1: to say I miss them. We still have the jazz
Speaker 1: music in there. I wish you'd come over here in
Speaker 1: Oman one day and get to talk to strangers. I
Speaker 1: think that'd be pretty awesome. Love you, man. Hope the
Speaker 1: Lord brings our souls together in the Kingdom of Heaven
Speaker 1: when we die. I hope you take care, dude. I'll
Speaker 1: go to Oman. I really, I I'm just to tell
Speaker 1: you where I'm at. Ahmed Is. I really want to
Speaker 1: do more like I want to like, uh, travel filming,
Speaker 1: gecko shit in like interesting places, like I love to
Speaker 1: go to the Middle East and do it. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna I'm just kind of like, I just got back
Speaker 1: from doing these this two years of crazy touring and
Speaker 1: I'm a little tired. But once I kind of eventually
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get bored. I'm going to the gym, I'm
Speaker 1: taking walks, I'm eating salmon, and that's gonna last about
Speaker 1: two weeks and then I'm gonna get really bored and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like, you know what, I want to
Speaker 1: go to the Sultanate of Oman. And when I do that,
Speaker 1: you will be receiving an email from me because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show up and be like, hey, what, I don't
Speaker 1: even know. I couldn't pronounce this place two days ago,
Speaker 1: and now I'm here, So can I sleep on your couch?
Speaker 1: And if I do, I promise not to masturbate? All right,
Speaker 1: how long have I been going on this for Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see, let's we can take a couple more. This
Speaker 1: is an update. Okay, so this is from Noah sect
Speaker 1: Lion Pokemon card guy update. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys remember in the last gek mail a guy called
Speaker 1: in about how he fucking and a guy called in
Speaker 1: about how he went into debt buying Pokemon cards, and
Speaker 1: he's given us an update. Hey Gecko, I am Noah.
Speaker 1: Here's an update. I am not broke, my car is fixed,
Speaker 1: cats are healthy, I'm getting a raised soon, and my
Speaker 1: girlfriend is hot. So life is cool. Here's more pictures
Speaker 1: of my favorite card. Also was wondering, I'm it's funny
Speaker 1: that multiple people are sending me Pokemon cards today. Also,
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you tried Zelda Echoes of Wisdom.
Speaker 1: I loved it, and you talked about Zelda a bit
Speaker 1: and you might like it, you know. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: did play Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, and here's my review.
Speaker 1: I just want to I just here's what's said about
Speaker 1: this is gonna. I know, like ninety nine percent of
Speaker 1: people who are about to hear this, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: give a fuck. But the one percent that played the
Speaker 1: Zelda games might. Here's my thing about Zelda. Echoes of
Speaker 1: Wisdom all I want. First of all, I think Breath
Speaker 1: of the Wild and Tears of the King them are
Speaker 1: overrated and everyone dick rides them. They're not Zelda games.
Speaker 1: They're like trying to make a They're like, it's like
Speaker 1: a new kind of a game. It's not Zelda. It's
Speaker 1: like a RPG thing in the Zelda universe, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like a Zelda game. I want a boring,
Speaker 1: linear Zelda game like we had with Twilight, Princess, Ocarina
Speaker 1: of Time, Win Waker. Just I want the boring game
Speaker 1: where you're like, holy shit, I got the boomerang, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, I got the bow and arrow, that's I
Speaker 1: want a boring linear Zelda game. I don't want to
Speaker 1: do chores in your fake universe. I would buy fucking
Speaker 1: Animal Crossing if that's what I wanted to do, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to play Animal Crossing. I don't want
Speaker 1: to play Final Fantasy. I want to play the Legend
Speaker 1: of fucking Zelda. And all these games are all the
Speaker 1: Breath of the Wild and anyway, So Echoes of Wisdom
Speaker 1: so many people just don't care about this. You can
Speaker 1: fast forward through this if you don't care, Okay. Echoes
Speaker 1: of Wisdom is like it's like somewhere in between. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: we've here's all the here's all the like, oh, open world,
Speaker 1: whatever you can, you have magical power shit from Breath
Speaker 1: of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom and like
Speaker 1: Linear Zelda. It's a nice in between. And it was
Speaker 1: a fun game. I I what happened was I was
Speaker 1: playing it and then I got bored, and then I
Speaker 1: stopped and I didn't finish it. That's my review anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, Sorry, I don't know why I ranted about Zelda. Well,
Speaker 1: actually I do. It's because someone asked me, all right,
Speaker 1: let's see here what else we got going on? Uh?
Speaker 1: Someone said questions for you. Uh. This is from Starfruit
Speaker 1: stir Fry. They wrote, how are you doing, GEK? I
Speaker 1: thought i'd send you an email with some questions since
Speaker 1: the past episodes seemed to be a little challenging on
Speaker 1: some emails when you don't have any additional input from
Speaker 1: the center about their issue slash problems. Thank you for
Speaker 1: thinking of me, Starfreod Sturfry As of now, I'm doing
Speaker 1: great for myself, but I have some questions for you.
Speaker 1: I left some of my responses in case you're curious
Speaker 1: as well. What's your favorite color of all time? Either
Speaker 1: black or green? Something between there and Okay? So she
Speaker 1: asked me the question and is also putting her oh all,
Speaker 1: his name is Evan. Okay, this is a guy? Sorry
Speaker 1: all right here? Mine is green. I specifically love the
Speaker 1: newer hue of green Lego that has been using that
Speaker 1: is on the Minecraft that they use for Minecraft's glass.
Speaker 1: What is an album you can turn on and not
Speaker 1: skip at least one song? I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know a lot of food, not food, a lot of
Speaker 1: music stuff. Mine is Ride the Lightning by Metallica. What
Speaker 1: are your top four foods? Pizza U, chicken tenders, chicken, parmesan,
Speaker 1: sanwich and ramen, mine a lasagna, chili dogs, apple pie,
Speaker 1: and noodles. What is your favorite Marvel movie or a
Speaker 1: movie in general that is your best of all time?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like pulp fiction. I guess mine
Speaker 1: is iron Man one and the sonic Ova from the
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight. What the fuck is the sonic Ova?
Speaker 1: I'm googling that Sonic OVA. Oh this, Oh, it's a
Speaker 1: Sonic movie. Oh okay, I'm gonna watch that shit today.
Speaker 1: What does OVA stand for? Oh? Original Video animation? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch this. So I'm gonna watch the Sonic
Speaker 1: movie tonight. Not that no, not no, not that Sonic movie.
Speaker 1: That one's bullshit. I'm gonna watch the Japanese animated one
Speaker 1: from the nineteen nineties. That sounds way better, all right,
Speaker 1: Oh crap. I listened to every podcast while I build Legos,
Speaker 1: Star Wars ships and while playing Stardu Valley or Minecraft.
Speaker 1: Thanks Evan, I hope you're enjoying. You sound like you're
Speaker 1: living a chill life. Let gonna keep going. Uh. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is from Matthew. Subject line M's Magical Adventure to Florida. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is from Matthew. Hello, I was once an exterminator.
Speaker 1: My life was miserable. Those are three distinct sentences, each
Speaker 1: with their own period, which I really like. Hello, I
Speaker 1: was once an exterminator. My life was miserable. Then my
Speaker 1: girlfriend gave me the option to move to Florida with her.
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to lose her, so I obliged. I
Speaker 1: got all ready to move. This guy loves this. You guys,
Speaker 1: remember in the very beginning, when that lady sent an
Speaker 1: email with no periods. This guy has the opposite problem.
Speaker 1: He uses too many periods. He uses only periods. This
Speaker 1: guy wrote, you could take half the pyramid. You could
Speaker 1: take pyramids. You could take half the periods of this
Speaker 1: that are in this guy's email and give them to
Speaker 1: the lady from the very beginning, and it would balance
Speaker 1: it out all right. Anyway, I got all ready to move.
Speaker 1: I also told one of the office members that I
Speaker 1: watched killer clowns from outer space five times a week.
Speaker 1: Then I asked him for five hundred dollars to start
Speaker 1: a cane toad farm to then summon the clowns to Earth.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, I'm just gonna keep reading. I had a
Speaker 1: few of the other guys passively bring this up to
Speaker 1: him and express how weird it was. My goal was
Speaker 1: to have him think I had lost my mind, because
Speaker 1: extermination is a terrible job, and it will do that
Speaker 1: to you. I think if you're trying to convince people
Speaker 1: that you lost your mind by asking them for money
Speaker 1: to start a cane toad farm, you may very well
Speaker 1: have already lost your mind. He never fully bought into it.
Speaker 1: He normally hit me with I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: about your damn toads. I think he called on and
Speaker 1: would ask me about the clowns. What the fun? Don't
Speaker 1: what is this email? He was a cool guy. So
Speaker 1: with that, I move. Okay, So that was something that
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with any of what the actual
Speaker 1: email is about I. And with that, let me tell you,
Speaker 1: Florida is the worst place in the world. The people suck,
Speaker 1: the layout sucks, the driving sucks, everything sucks. It took
Speaker 1: me a month to find a job. It's an hour
Speaker 1: away from my house, and I hate it endlessly. It's
Speaker 1: a place called Moe's. Think Chipotle, but a little more depressing. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna jump in here. I know Mo's, Uh, Moe's
Speaker 1: big around Atlanta, so I guess it's a big Southern thing.
Speaker 1: All right. Look, I know you're complaining, but Moe's of Okay.
Speaker 1: Between Moe's, Chipotle and Couidoba, Moe's clear winner. First of all,
Speaker 1: it comes. First of all, every comes with chips. Some
Speaker 1: people are like some people who've never been to mos
Speaker 1: and have only been to Chipotle and Guidoba. Just heard
Speaker 1: me say that, and they're like, impossible, not real, what
Speaker 1: do you mean? It comes with chips, It comes with
Speaker 1: every order at Mo's comes with chips. The case is
Speaker 1: a lot better at Mo's. And also the vibe is
Speaker 1: less pretentious, like Chipotle is a very pretentious brand and
Speaker 1: Moe's is a little bit more fast food vibes. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I think I work at a place called Mo's. It's
Speaker 1: Chipotle but a little more pressing. The customers are terrible,
Speaker 1: and I spend my days watching NBA and football on
Speaker 1: TV and sports betting because that's all Florida has been
Speaker 1: able to do for me. I am up on that. However,
Speaker 1: maybe soon I'll have my sports millions. It has breathed
Speaker 1: new life into my otherwise blah existence. I miss my
Speaker 1: friends and family and want to start never and I
Speaker 1: want to start never seeing Florida again. Don't live in Florida.
Speaker 1: Only bad things happen in Florida. Anyways, I hope you
Speaker 1: have a good day and get a good pizza soon.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the hours of entertainment you've provided us.
Speaker 1: All Okay, it sounds like you're going to leave Florida.
Speaker 1: You absolutely should. I anyone who hates where they are
Speaker 1: this badly needs to leave. What's the deal? I guess Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is one of those things where I wish I could. Uh. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: I'm very I'm content with this just being an email,
Speaker 1: But if I were to be on the phone with
Speaker 1: this guy, I'd be curious what his girlfriend's deal is
Speaker 1: and why she can't move with them, Why you know
Speaker 1: they can't go live? And does she like Florida?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Do they both fucking hate Florida. I like Mo's. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry it makes me like Mo's less that I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about you working there and hating it. It actually doesn't.
Speaker 1: I love Mo's a lot, and I'm gonna keep going there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I hope you leave Florida. I've only heard
Speaker 1: bad things about Florida. I mean, I've been to Florida
Speaker 1: billions of times, but most of the people who live
Speaker 1: there say that they don't like it. Florida is where
Speaker 1: old Jewish people usually go to retire. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I used to. When I was growing up, I
Speaker 1: thought it was a Jewish thing, but I actually think
Speaker 1: it's just like a general old person thing to retire
Speaker 1: to Florida. My dad just got back from Miami. He
Speaker 1: said he had a nice time. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's fine that you don't like Florida. But my dad
Speaker 1: said he went, he had a good time. So I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know who to believe, you or
Speaker 1: my dad. You know what makes me optimistic? You opened
Speaker 1: this by saying my life was miserable, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: assume that maybe things have gotten better. Send us a
Speaker 1: follow up email when you leave Florida and see if
Speaker 1: anywhere else is better. Uh. Okay, I have the ability,
Speaker 1: I think, to read one more of these before I'm
Speaker 1: going to go smoke weed and stare at a wall
Speaker 1: for a very very long time. All right, let's do
Speaker 1: all right, let's do this. Let's do this. Let's do
Speaker 1: You made me addicted the Panda Express. Okay, it's from Michael.
Speaker 1: Subject line, you made me addicted the Panda Express. Hello, Lyle,
Speaker 1: been watching you for two years now. We actually spoke
Speaker 1: on the phone a few months ago about my pepsi
Speaker 1: addiction and pro wrestling journey. I remember that. I think
Speaker 1: that I think the name of that episode is called
Speaker 1: the Pepsi Quest. Happy to say I no longer drink pepsi,
Speaker 1: and the wrestling has been going very well. Wait, I
Speaker 1: thought that you were hold on. I thought that the
Speaker 1: pepsi quest was a quest to drink more pepsi, which
Speaker 1: is probably bad because pepsi will kill you. I say
Speaker 1: that as someone who drinks a lot of pepsi. A
Speaker 1: few months you, guys ever seen that clip of Britney
Speaker 1: Speak years talking about pepsi. It makes the word pepsi
Speaker 1: fun to say. Okay, a few months ago, you released
Speaker 1: an episode where you discussed Panda Express with someone, which
Speaker 1: made me curious because I've never tried it before. Long
Speaker 1: story short, I now get the double orange chicken plus
Speaker 1: fried rice plate three to four times a week, and
Speaker 1: I hold you partially responsible. What should I do? What
Speaker 1: should you do?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Are you trying to quit? What you should do? What
Speaker 1: you should do is you should email Panda Express and
Speaker 1: tell them that they should give me money to talk
Speaker 1: about them on my various platforms. Or they don't even
Speaker 1: have to give me money, if they just gave me
Speaker 1: like a gold card that I could just you. I
Speaker 1: actually would do an advertisement for Panda Express just for
Speaker 1: like a golden Panda card or something like that. What
Speaker 1: should you do? Why would you get double orange chicken?
Speaker 1: Michael do this? Why would you get double orange chicken?
Speaker 1: Why would the whole point of getting two proteins or
Speaker 1: two entrees? I think it's thet The whole point of
Speaker 1: getting two entrees is that you can mix it up
Speaker 1: a little bit. Oh, why would you go double orange chicken?
Speaker 1: Go orange chicken? Well, here's what I uhould do. I
Speaker 1: go orange chicken taraoki chicken. But sometimes I mix it up.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I get the honey nut glazed shrimp, and that's
Speaker 1: pretty good too. So I would suggest you try a
Speaker 1: few more of those entrees. I sound like I'm doing
Speaker 1: an advertisement for Penna Express, but this is my genuine
Speaker 1: advice to this man is to try the honey nut
Speaker 1: lazed chicken. It won't change your life. It won't even
Speaker 1: it's not even good for you. It's not healthy, it
Speaker 1: won't it's a it's got protein. I guess, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't have any advice for how you can make your
Speaker 1: life better, but you are. You said that you don't
Speaker 1: drink pepsi and the wrestling is going well, So maybe
Speaker 1: you don't need your life to be better. Maybe your
Speaker 1: life's good as it is. Do you have any advice
Speaker 1: for me on how to stop drinking PEPSI right, I
Speaker 1: think that's it. I think that's the end of this podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for listening, Thank you all for being here.
Speaker 1: This I felt good about this one. I felt good
Speaker 1: about this one. This This was powered by diet Mountain Dew.
Speaker 1: I genuinely feel as though if I didn't have caffeine
Speaker 1: coursing through my veins, I wouldn't be able to speak
Speaker 1: the way I'm speaking right now. That's probably a problem.
Speaker 1: I really don't like giving advice. I like, well, I
Speaker 1: like reading these emails, and it's fun to express myself.
Speaker 1: But sometimes when I give advice, I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: know about that, But I don't know. People say it,
Speaker 1: people have the fact that people still listen to this
Speaker 1: show and that they enjoy it, I guess is indicative
Speaker 1: of me that my advice has not done significant harm
Speaker 1: or damage to society, which I guess is all one
Speaker 1: can hope for when one gives advice. Anything else, Oh
Speaker 1: a lot of okay, I guess I'll just a lot
Speaker 1: of people ask how they can call into the show.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing I don't have a stream schedule anymore.
Speaker 1: I stopped having a stream schedule long ago because because
Speaker 1: I didn't want to. But I stream at least twice
Speaker 1: a week at random times. I usually do it at
Speaker 1: like in the mornings. So if you want to call
Speaker 1: into the podcast, go to twitch, dot tv, slash lyle
Speaker 1: forever and hit follow and I may or may not
Speaker 1: go and then you get like a notification when I'm
Speaker 1: live anything else. Give the podcast a good review on
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts or Spotify, tell your friends about it. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening. Thank you again for everyone it came out
Speaker 1: to my live show tour. That was fun. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what to do next with my life.
Speaker 1: I don't want to If anyone has suggestions for things
Speaker 1: I should do with my life, I'm all ears I'll do.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a yes man. Uh So, if if anyone
Speaker 1: has suggestions for anything I should do with my life,
Speaker 1: got let me know, reach out on whatever. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was at a super Smash Brother's melee tournament. Shout out
Speaker 1: to the Nouns Vitational. I went to the Nouns Vitational
Speaker 1: yesterday and I was like, there was like top players
Speaker 1: walking around and I wanted to talk to some of them,
Speaker 1: and I got a little nervous. I got a little nervous.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't want to bother them, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of funny. I like not to be
Speaker 1: like a douchebag, but like it's funny because when I
Speaker 1: do my live shows and like people are like when
Speaker 1: I meet people, like as the get go, like I
Speaker 1: can tell I guess that they're like a little bit
Speaker 1: nervous to meet me, and I'm like, I'm just a
Speaker 1: fucking doucheb Like I don't I don't get it. And
Speaker 1: then it's cool to kind of be on the other
Speaker 1: end of that being like, uh oh, this guy who's
Speaker 1: really good at playing Marth in Super Smash Bros. I'm
Speaker 1: like kind of nervous to go talk to them, you know.
Speaker 1: I felt humbled by that. It was good. It was
Speaker 1: good anyway. All right, that's it. I have no more
Speaker 1: words to say. Thank you. Continue to fold laundry, continue
Speaker 1: to do stuff. Okay, go listen to some other podcast
Speaker 1: or do something else or talk to someone. Bye, hello, folks,
Speaker 1: it's Lyle here. That's the end of this episode. But
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Speaker 2: Just got stop couch surfing after six years of doing so.
Speaker 2: So I'm just trying to kind of move on with
Speaker 2: my life after being in survival modes for so long.
Speaker 1: Over the course of these six years, what do you
Speaker 1: think was the biggest hurdle for you to find a
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Speaker 2: A lot of getting kicked out after six months. Usually
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