Speaker 1: Hello, how is everyone doing today? Thank you for tuning
Speaker 1: in to this podcast. Thank you for being alive and
Speaker 1: not dead. You chose to wake up again for another
Speaker 1: morning of life, and I hope you're happy with that decision.
Speaker 1: I know, I am. I know it's a good day
Speaker 1: to be alive. I hope that you all had a
Speaker 1: good holiday season, and blah blah blah that stuff. Listen. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut to the chase here. I am here
Speaker 1: today to read viewer emails. This is a new thing that
Speaker 1: I've been doing recently, where normally I have a two
Speaker 1: way conversation with someone where I talk to them and
Speaker 1: then they talk to me. But I decided, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is my goddamn podcast, and I'm going to put
Speaker 1: out an episode sometimes where only I talk. It is
Speaker 1: a lonesome, brutal endeavor, but I can think of about
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand more brutal and more lonesome endeavors than
Speaker 1: reading emails, which I guess is most people's jobs in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four is reading emails. Sorry, that was inappropriate.
Speaker 1: Okay in the past. For those of you who've listened
Speaker 1: to these episodes before, I think I get a little
Speaker 1: self con You probably know I get a little self
Speaker 1: conscious when it comes to talking to when it comes
Speaker 1: to talking about these emails, I think I get a
Speaker 1: little self conscious about giving my opinion, which is I
Speaker 1: think a bad thing for a podcaster to do. I
Speaker 1: think part of having a podcast is you say opinions,
Speaker 1: but maybe not necessarily. That's I kind of think. That's
Speaker 1: that's why I like the podcast that I do, is
Speaker 1: that I get to just kind of learn from other
Speaker 1: people's lived experiences and let them talk and I don't
Speaker 1: have to give my opinion. But you know what, I've decided,
Speaker 1: I'm making a firm decision. I am going to give
Speaker 1: my opinion on all of these emails. I'm going I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not gonna hold back. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: my real opinion on these emails because I just I
Speaker 1: don't know what the fucking point is of doing this show,
Speaker 1: or of doing any of this if I'm not going
Speaker 1: to really say how I feel about things. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try my best to uh to not hold back
Speaker 1: and but also be fair to about these emails. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to be fair. That's why the main reason
Speaker 1: I don't let you know, the the diarrhea of my
Speaker 1: own opinions flow out of my mouth or whatever is that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm trying to be fair, and you know,
Speaker 1: i might say a bunch of stuff and then someone's like,
Speaker 1: well what about this, and I'm like, ah, here probably
Speaker 1: writes but uh, anyway, let's just let's just read some
Speaker 1: GAK mail, shall we. Let's read some gek mail? All right?
Speaker 1: This is from grim subject line situation happening in real time. Hey, Gek,
Speaker 1: you said you were going to read some of these
Speaker 1: emails tomorrow. If that's the case at this time that
Speaker 1: you are reading them, I'll probably be going through some
Speaker 1: shit emotionally while trying my best to hide it. Basically,
Speaker 1: I've come to realize within the last month that I've
Speaker 1: grown feelings for a close friend who earlier this week
Speaker 1: told me they started seeing someone. I'm supposed to go
Speaker 1: hang out with them all day tomorrow, and we were
Speaker 1: both looking forward to this. I want to show up
Speaker 1: and just be business as usual, but I've been dealing
Speaker 1: with this lump in my chest for the last couple
Speaker 1: of days and it's not getting easier. Past me would
Speaker 1: have done my best to swallow these feelings immediately. Part
Speaker 1: of me now is wanting to say something, just because
Speaker 1: we've grown to be more open to talking about certain
Speaker 1: stuff lately, and we talk on the phone all the time.
Speaker 1: They don't no I feel this way, and I feel
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need to step back for a bit. But
Speaker 1: I'm also worried about what I might say in the
Speaker 1: spur of the moment and how I will make them feel.
Speaker 1: I don't want this friendship to end, and despite everything,
Speaker 1: I still care for them. So yeah, that's where I'm at.
Speaker 1: We'd love to hear your thoughts on what I should
Speaker 1: be doing right now. Whether you read this or not,
Speaker 1: this is my attempt at therapy and thinking it through.
Speaker 1: Wish me luck, garm parentheses. Yeah, let's go with that name.
Speaker 1: Uh Well, here's the thing. I think if your friends
Speaker 1: started seeing it, sounds like you want to stay friends
Speaker 1: with this person, but it's hard to just be friends
Speaker 1: with them because you have, you know, you got romantic
Speaker 1: feelings for them. And I think I think in a
Speaker 1: situation like that, if you have to take a step
Speaker 1: away from a person because it's too painful to be
Speaker 1: around them with these unrequited romantic feelings. I think that's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit confused at what you mean by
Speaker 1: you're worried about what you might say in the spur
Speaker 1: of the moment and how they might make them feel.
Speaker 1: I mean, you sound like you like this. I don't
Speaker 1: think that. You don't sound like you're about to be
Speaker 1: like you know, you're a fucking piece of shit for
Speaker 1: not liking me back and fuck your you know, boyfriend
Speaker 1: or whatever. You don't sound like you're about to go
Speaker 1: don't do that, don't go off on them. But you
Speaker 1: don't say and I know there's not a word in
Speaker 1: this email that makes me think you're gonna do that.
Speaker 1: So I'm not particularly worried about what you might say
Speaker 1: in the spur of the moment. Maybe what you mean
Speaker 1: by that is you're gonna like express your feelings and
Speaker 1: they won't be requited and you'll be sad. But that's okay,
Speaker 1: there's there's that's a that's a normal human experience to have.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think I think you're actually
Speaker 1: handling this pretty maturely, to be honest with you, garm.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how you are or where you
Speaker 1: are in your life, but I think you're handling this
Speaker 1: pretty maturely. And look, I don't know, everyone to each
Speaker 1: their own. I think that if you need to take
Speaker 1: some time away from the friendship to kind of let
Speaker 1: yourself be detached romantically so that you can actually genuinely
Speaker 1: be friends and don't here's another thing, is like don't
Speaker 1: try don't like. I think people will sometimes like force
Speaker 1: themselves to be friends with someone even though they like
Speaker 1: it's just hurting them deeply because they are like attracted
Speaker 1: to them or like romantically feel a certain way about them.
Speaker 1: And I think that's like worse for both people, right
Speaker 1: because no one wants to like because that's what because
Speaker 1: that's bad for this person because then they feel bad
Speaker 1: that you like them and they don't. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just not a good dynamic for friendship. But I think
Speaker 1: if you want to have a friendship, just like, I
Speaker 1: think similarly in the way that like, if you feel
Speaker 1: romantically about someone, you should like be honest about those
Speaker 1: feelings and come at it from an honest place. I
Speaker 1: think if you want to be friends with these persons,
Speaker 1: you have to come at that from a very honest place.
Speaker 1: And right now, if you're like, oh, I want to
Speaker 1: be friends just because you know, I don't want this
Speaker 1: person to leave. It feels, I think a little dishonest,
Speaker 1: But I don't know. You seem like you're going about
Speaker 1: this in a good way. Yeah, good luck. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Navigating relationships and dealing with other people is h is
Speaker 1: kind of kind of kind of crazy. What's the chat? Say?
Speaker 1: Thahia eighty eight says you should express your feelings regardless
Speaker 1: because no matter what. Sadly, even though you might not
Speaker 1: like it, you have to be okay with their decisions
Speaker 1: and able. There's a lot of spelling errors in this
Speaker 1: comment from the chat, but you know what, there's actually
Speaker 1: an appropriate amount of spelling errors in this message in
Speaker 1: the twitch chat. I feel like I feel like to
Speaker 1: express I feel like thinking about perfect I feel like
Speaker 1: perfect grammar is not to be expected in the switch chat.
Speaker 1: So that's okay. All right, Let's take another email. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is from William subject line talk to the Hand, Hey, Lyle,
Speaker 1: big fan, I wanted to get your opinion and assistance
Speaker 1: on a live stream slash podcast I'm trying to make.
Speaker 1: The show is called Talk to the Hand, where I
Speaker 1: dress in a full body hand costume, and talk to
Speaker 1: people like you do that. I just want you to
Speaker 1: know that this idea is about twenty times better than therapy. Getcko.
Speaker 1: I really I really like this. I love psychology and
Speaker 1: allowing people to be listened to. This gives me great
Speaker 1: joy and it's something I do in my everyday life.
Speaker 1: What platform do you recommend I stream on to get started?
Speaker 1: And do you have any tips? Slash advice ps. I
Speaker 1: came and saw you in Perth, Australia. My girlfriend and
Speaker 1: I had an excellent time and we have one you're
Speaker 1: Plush toys kick ass. What platform do I recommend you
Speaker 1: get started on? I mean, look, here's the thing, and
Speaker 1: I could I enjoy getting in depth on like the
Speaker 1: business of like trying to turn a live stream or
Speaker 1: a podcast into a job. I think it's fun to
Speaker 1: talk about, especially when people are still getting started. But
Speaker 1: for right now, if you've never even streamed before, if
Speaker 1: you've never taken a phone call and put on the
Speaker 1: costume at all, and you're just starting out, that what
Speaker 1: platform you stream on doesn't really matter that much? Are
Speaker 1: because are you asking for tips or advice on how
Speaker 1: to like grow your stream or just about like the
Speaker 1: general journey of doing something like this, I mean, okay
Speaker 1: to actually to give a non bullshit answer the question.
Speaker 1: I mean, like for discoverability, YouTube is best. But dude, like,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. If you can like make a living
Speaker 1: doing some shit like this, then that's awesome. But if
Speaker 1: you can't and you're just like talking to who and
Speaker 1: you're just like talking to whoever, not if you can't.
Speaker 1: But let me rephrase this, the most important thing is
Speaker 1: that you're actually doing it and you're enjoying doing it.
Speaker 1: That's what I've learned. That's not what I would have
Speaker 1: told you. I think, like three years ago, when I
Speaker 1: was like in the middle of really really really trying
Speaker 1: to grow this thing, I would have gone on a
Speaker 1: rant to you about short form content versus long form content,
Speaker 1: and we could have we could go deep on platforms
Speaker 1: and whatever whatever. But now that I've been doing this
Speaker 1: for a little while, I all of that stuff is like,
Speaker 1: the number one thing that really, honest to god, will
Speaker 1: fucking matter is that you really, truly, honestly enjoy doing
Speaker 1: this and are having fun with it. And from the
Speaker 1: way you're talking in this email, it says that this
Speaker 1: gives you great joy, So you know you could stream
Speaker 1: on fucking you porn to zero people, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a good life because you actually like what you're doing.
Speaker 1: So this is from a crisp rat subject line. I
Speaker 1: really hate texting and it affects my relationships. Hello green Man,
Speaker 1: I've been getting frustrated at my own inability to text,
Speaker 1: and I have come to you to rant I am
Speaker 1: a really bad texter. I often overthink my responses, say
Speaker 1: things that come off in the wrong tone, or honestly,
Speaker 1: just forget to reply to people mid conversation since my
Speaker 1: mind wanders easily. Most of my issue lies in how
Speaker 1: it has made online dating a lot harder. I feel
Speaker 1: like once I'm in person having a conversation, or even
Speaker 1: just on the phone with someone, I can keep a
Speaker 1: conversation flowing pretty easily, but I can't, for the love
Speaker 1: of God, hold a conversation over text. It's gotten to
Speaker 1: the point where I'm intentionally delaying even opening someone's message
Speaker 1: because I dread having to respond to it. I'm almost
Speaker 1: twenty one years old, Gecko, this shit is embarrassing. I
Speaker 1: just started talking to this one girl who seems pretty cool,
Speaker 1: and I'm afraid my brain's self sabotage is gonna blow
Speaker 1: it for me. I know this is a dumb problem,
Speaker 1: but I still can't get over it. Idka, if you
Speaker 1: have any advice I haven't heard already, but you seem
Speaker 1: to have a nice way with words. Ps. Here's a
Speaker 1: picture of a cool frog I found. Oh this is
Speaker 1: a cool frog. Okay, I you know what this is.
Speaker 1: I think this is good. Let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: Chris Bratt. I am so happy to hear that you
Speaker 1: have this problem and not the opposite problem, because I
Speaker 1: feel like not I'm gonna good. I'm gonna sound like
Speaker 1: a I grew up in the sixties or something, But like,
Speaker 1: I think most people have the opposite problem, right, most
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, text is great because I can.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna into a We're getting into a
Speaker 1: dangerous universe where like, you know, you're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: to somebody on a on a dating app or something,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be able to tell that they're just
Speaker 1: asking an AI to fucking respond to every one of
Speaker 1: their messages and stuff. But yeah, this is not a
Speaker 1: This is way way better than the opposite problem of like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm good at texting because I you know, am able
Speaker 1: to send the fucking text to my group chat and
Speaker 1: get fifty different messages and uh, you know take the
Speaker 1: time to overthink it and stuff. But I can't talk
Speaker 1: to people in real life or on the phone. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is easy, man. Why don't you just, like, if
Speaker 1: you're talking to a lady on a dating app or something,
Speaker 1: why don't you just like, after after a couple of messages,
Speaker 1: you know, be honest about it and be like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm more of a phone call kind of a guy.
Speaker 1: Because I think a lot of people, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: women on the dating apps are probably not gonna want
Speaker 1: to like meet up with you immediately after like a
Speaker 1: couple of messages. But if after a couple of messages
Speaker 1: you're like, hey, let's do a facetimed, let's do a
Speaker 1: phone call, and you know, I think I should think
Speaker 1: people will be refreshed by that because I think most again,
Speaker 1: you have what I think is the opposite problem of
Speaker 1: most people. So I mean that's what I would do, man,
Speaker 1: Just like be you know, be fresh with it. Just
Speaker 1: be like, hey, I'm not much of a texter. I'm
Speaker 1: a phone call guy. I think I think people will
Speaker 1: be into that. So I just started talking to this
Speaker 1: one girl who seems super cool? Is what you wrote
Speaker 1: in this email? Have you? I? Why don't you call her?
Speaker 1: Just be like, Hey, you seem cool. Let's talk on
Speaker 1: the phone and get coffee and fall in love. Crisp
Speaker 1: rat Okay, let's take another's tick another thing. Hey, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: The subject line is worried if I can't wipe my
Speaker 1: ass after surgery. Hey, you can call me beck. I'm
Speaker 1: planning on getting top surgery in the summer so I
Speaker 1: can get rid of some boobs that I don't want.
Speaker 1: I'm not nervous about the end result of the surgery,
Speaker 1: but I'm nervous about recovering and how bad I will smell.
Speaker 1: When you are recovering, you cannot shower for like ten days,
Speaker 1: at least six days, and your arms are basically stuck
Speaker 1: to your sides, so I'm gonna be smelly. Other trans
Speaker 1: folks have said that they smelled bad too during that time.
Speaker 1: My biggest fear is that if my arms are stuck
Speaker 1: are my sides, how am I going to wipe my ass?
Speaker 1: I don't want my parents to wipe my ass. I'm
Speaker 1: twenty two. That's supposed to happen when you're eighty. They're
Speaker 1: writing this in all caps. By the way, can you
Speaker 1: give me hacks on how to wipe my ass or
Speaker 1: comfort me? Because I'm scared? Look, let me tell me. Look, beck,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Let me tell you something. I really
Speaker 1: I can I can I say can I can? I
Speaker 1: This is this actually is my real opinion. This is
Speaker 1: my real opinion. All this and not to be like
Speaker 1: if I were you, genuinely, if your parents, like there's
Speaker 1: so many people who's like parents would be like fucking
Speaker 1: like pissed off at them forgetting top surgery or like
Speaker 1: just in general, like don't support them or not like
Speaker 1: not even like with with transitions or this like life
Speaker 1: in general. Like, here's the thing. If your parents are
Speaker 1: willing to wipe your ass to help you with your
Speaker 1: top surgery, that should be an excite. That should be
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. That's a good uh development in
Speaker 1: your life. I think so, Like the fact that you
Speaker 1: have parents who are so supportive of you that they're
Speaker 1: willing to wipe your ass is a good thing. So
Speaker 1: this this is a reframing of perspective. Okay, now, if
Speaker 1: your parents, if your parents seem like excited to wipe
Speaker 1: your ass, then that's there's something maybe that's not good.
Speaker 1: But if they're willing to wipe your ass for you,
Speaker 1: instead of instead of thinking like, oh, I'm twenty two,
Speaker 1: I don't want my parents to wipe my ass, think oh,
Speaker 1: I have such wonderful parents that they are willing to
Speaker 1: get within centimeters of my diarrhea because they love me
Speaker 1: so much. So that's that's that's how I would think
Speaker 1: about this, all right. Someone in the chat said, Lyle,
Speaker 1: do you pay your face green or is this a filter?
Speaker 1: I paint my face green. I've got it, by the way,
Speaker 1: I've got it down. I haven't timed myself yet, but
Speaker 1: I've got it pretty down to where I think I
Speaker 1: can do it in under a minute. I think I
Speaker 1: haven't time myself, but I think I can get it
Speaker 1: in under a minute. All right, let's keep going. This
Speaker 1: is from Van subject line that one time my mom
Speaker 1: went to prison. Hey Gek, this is Van, longtime listener,
Speaker 1: first time contributor. I saw you recently in Houston. Shout
Speaker 1: out to the secret group in Houston. What a kick
Speaker 1: ass venue. Thank you so much for everything you do.
Speaker 1: Really love the gek mail segment. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: it back to my senior year of high school. My
Speaker 1: mother was a longtime addict. To spare details and make
Speaker 1: this haste. I get called to the principal's office to
Speaker 1: be told my mother had been arrested. To my shock,
Speaker 1: I do get home. You guessed it, my house empty,
Speaker 1: mother nowhere to be found. Turns out she had stabbed
Speaker 1: her boyfriend's sister parentheses her drug dealer in the neck,
Speaker 1: chest and arms. Jesus, it was a drug deal gone wrong.
Speaker 1: I think my mom was just super broke and thought
Speaker 1: she could rob this woman. My mom was also wearing
Speaker 1: my clothes and I never got them back. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that you were victimized in all of this.
Speaker 1: The lady did survive. They both got arrested, and they
Speaker 1: both went to the same jail. Present day me is
Speaker 1: very okay and doing well and has moved far from
Speaker 1: where this happened. My mother served seven years in prison,
Speaker 1: and she is actually doing surprisingly well with sobriety. I
Speaker 1: am proud of her. Changing your ways. I am proud
Speaker 1: of her changing her ways. Thanks gex stay cool. My
Speaker 1: mom served eight years of prison. She's doing well. Okay,
Speaker 1: well that's good. That's good, she's doing well. Well, is
Speaker 1: this a happy story? I mean I went not happy
Speaker 1: in the moments, but is I think it's happy like
Speaker 1: it ended well, no one died. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: she got stabbed. You know, your mom stabbed this lady
Speaker 1: in the neck and she didn't die. That's a happy ending.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. And then your mom is out of prison.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you guys are hanging out, she's sober, and
Speaker 1: this is I actually kind of like the story because
Speaker 1: life is just so insane and so I like that. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes like in a situation like your mom
Speaker 1: like stabs the fucking guy and goes to prison, and
Speaker 1: you're like, all right, well that's that's it for mom.
Speaker 1: And then uh she comes back and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: that's not it for mom. We get a second act.
Speaker 1: She also attacks the picture of a dog. So this
Speaker 1: this lady's hanging out with a dog and her mom.
Speaker 1: So that's good. This is that's a nice story. Thank
Speaker 1: you for sharing. Okay, let's see here. Uh this is
Speaker 1: from Daniel subject line, I saved my dad's life by
Speaker 1: breaking his back. Hey, mister ghek, I have a long
Speaker 1: story about how I broke my father's back and saved
Speaker 1: his life. First, I wanted to say how your podcast
Speaker 1: helped me figure out something I needed to restart. Let's
Speaker 1: dive into it. So, back when I was in first
Speaker 1: for second grade, I used to do some wrestling and
Speaker 1: gymnastics that my parents put me in. My dad and
Speaker 1: brother always helped me train for wrestling at home, and
Speaker 1: we always did it with no issues. One week, I
Speaker 1: remember we were going at it in the living room
Speaker 1: and me and my brother and my dad were all
Speaker 1: grappling each other and jumping around. Okay, like fifteen minutes in,
Speaker 1: I jump on my dad's back and he yells out
Speaker 1: in pain. He gets up, walks into the kitchen, sits down,
Speaker 1: and the call nine one one. The ambulance comes and
Speaker 1: takes him away. You guys were doing like fucking WWE
Speaker 1: in the house. The kicker is this part. Later at
Speaker 1: the hospital with me and my mom and my brother,
Speaker 1: the doctor comes out with a somber face and pulls
Speaker 1: my mom aside. She starts crying. Then the doctor tells
Speaker 1: us to come over and looks at me and points
Speaker 1: at me and says, you saved your father's life. By
Speaker 1: jumping on my dad's back, I broke it. But when
Speaker 1: they took X rays where I jumped and broke his back,
Speaker 1: they found cancer. They said, if I hadn't jumped on
Speaker 1: his back, he would have died within a couple of
Speaker 1: years because of the size of the mass. He passed
Speaker 1: away back in twenty sixteen, but he had more life
Speaker 1: thanks to me. Wow. Pretty crazy. I mean, okay, not
Speaker 1: to discount the story, but like, couldn't your dad had
Speaker 1: just gotten a check up once a year. Did you
Speaker 1: have to break his back for him to figure this out?
Speaker 1: I don't. Oh, you know what? Never sorry, never mind? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you saved your dad's life. He always called me his
Speaker 1: guardian angel. I'll end it here. I tried to call.
Speaker 1: I tried to call and tell the story because it
Speaker 1: has way more to it, but I can never get through.
Speaker 1: Love your show, Love you all, stay safe and healthy.
Speaker 1: I you know what I this hopefully this conversation. I
Speaker 1: feel like now that I like reading this, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I should get an X ray once? Uh once a year,
Speaker 1: just do a physical once a year. That should be enough, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I guess why why did he have to be in
Speaker 1: severe injury for them to get an X ray. I
Speaker 1: said it at the beginning of this I was gonna
Speaker 1: give my real opinion on all this stuff, and I
Speaker 1: have to hold myself to that. But uh I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope you're doing better, Daniel. I hope you're still
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I hope you're still wrestling, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. Wrestling is kind of dangerous, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe you like it. Maybe you like wrestling.
Speaker 1: That's good. Okay, well let's move on all right. This
Speaker 1: is from uh Nick subject line I am a corporate
Speaker 1: drone Hello, Senior GEK. I work as an engineer at
Speaker 1: a good company with great benefits and one that cares
Speaker 1: for its employees. I studied and worked really hard to
Speaker 1: be in this position, but I fucking hate it. I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily hate what I do, but I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: the career path I've chosen will never allow me to
Speaker 1: achieve my goals. I've always wanted to race cars, not
Speaker 1: even professionally, just for fun, but I want to be
Speaker 1: able to do consistently, which takes money and time. I
Speaker 1: work eight to five every day, not including the commute,
Speaker 1: and I make about seventy five thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for that, but those hours and that salary
Speaker 1: are not anywhere near enough to support racing consistently. And
Speaker 1: I really struggle with waking up every day to work
Speaker 1: a job that restricts me from doing what I love.
Speaker 1: Thanks Nick? Interesting, hmm Okay, I feel like that. Well, you,
Speaker 1: you're you fucked up a little bit because you picked
Speaker 1: a really expensive hobby and I'm not I don't even
Speaker 1: blame you for it, because I think our hobbies pick
Speaker 1: us more than we pick them. And you happen to
Speaker 1: fall in love with uh a, really, you're happen to
Speaker 1: fall in love with race car driving, which is objectively
Speaker 1: logistically a horrible hobby to have. You picked a very
Speaker 1: logistically bad goal. But I only say that because it's
Speaker 1: the truth. But what is also But okay, don't don't don't, Nick,
Speaker 1: if you're listening, don't pause and throw your phone away. Okay,
Speaker 1: that is the truth. What I also believe to be
Speaker 1: the truth, Nick, is if you is that there probably
Speaker 1: exists a path for you, a plan for you to
Speaker 1: work less than e race cars, or at least like
Speaker 1: get another job or a different job that allows you
Speaker 1: some more, some more benefits? What is what is it
Speaker 1: that you work as an engineer? Is there any way
Speaker 1: that you can I don't know, can you get a
Speaker 1: job or like what what can you get a job
Speaker 1: in race cars? I feel like that's a that's a
Speaker 1: question that a seven year old asks, can you get
Speaker 1: a job in a race car? But seriously, can you
Speaker 1: get a job in race cars? Does that exist? I
Speaker 1: don't know? This is like I don't I genuinely here
Speaker 1: if I had to give like what my gut is
Speaker 1: telling me about this. My gut is telling me that
Speaker 1: neither I nor you have really done enough research and
Speaker 1: thought into what a plan to allow yourself to race
Speaker 1: cars and not be homeless might look like. And I
Speaker 1: guess I encourage you to kind of like like like
Speaker 1: be a little insane and decide for yourself that it
Speaker 1: is possible and see if a path, if a career
Speaker 1: path exists where you can do something like this. Because
Speaker 1: you said here, you're like, I make seventy five thousand
Speaker 1: year and I'm grateful for it. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: gratefulness is an interesting little bug because if you don't
Speaker 1: have enough of it, Because I think there's like an
Speaker 1: optimal amount of gratefulness to have in life, because I
Speaker 1: think if you don't have enough of it, you will
Speaker 1: literally never ever, ever, ever, ever be fucking happy with
Speaker 1: anything you ever do ever. But if you're like too grateful,
Speaker 1: then like life walks all over you, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. If you're just sitting there like I'm just
Speaker 1: glad I have arms, and you know, every other, every
Speaker 1: waking moment of your life is hell, and you hate
Speaker 1: where you live, and you hate your job, and you
Speaker 1: hate your family, and you hate you hate yourself, and
Speaker 1: you're just like, well, at least I'm grateful I'm not dead,
Speaker 1: you know. I think there's something good to that. But
Speaker 1: but also I think the optimal thing is like, you know, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for what I have, I'm grateful for where
Speaker 1: I am, but I want more out of my life.
Speaker 1: I want to do this thing. Pretty soon. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be dead forever and I'm not gonna be able to walk,
Speaker 1: let alone race a car. So let's figure out something.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm I really I feel like I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm saying a ton of fluff right now,
Speaker 1: but all of everything that I'm saying makes some sense
Speaker 1: in my head because we could sit here and get
Speaker 1: logistical about how you could do this, and I'm actually
Speaker 1: trying to think about how you could do it. I
Speaker 1: mean like, could you could you work, could you look
Speaker 1: for different jobs that allow you to have more time?
Speaker 1: Could you go into business for yourself, which you know,
Speaker 1: over the course of a few years, maybe get whatever
Speaker 1: business to a point where you could have more time.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm like, I'm optimist again. You picked
Speaker 1: a hard thing because I think if you were like,
Speaker 1: I want to play frisbee golf, I'd be like, you
Speaker 1: can do that tomorrow. But racing cars, I have no
Speaker 1: idea how that works. But I'm kind of guessing that
Speaker 1: you don't either, And I'm kind of guessing that if we,
Speaker 1: instead of fully denying that this was ever possible from
Speaker 1: the jump, we went into it and we were like,
Speaker 1: you know what, what could that look like? We did
Speaker 1: some more research, maybe options would open up. I hope
Speaker 1: any of what I just said was was remotely helpful.
Speaker 1: Let me you know what I have Google, Let me google.
Speaker 1: Let me google how to become a race car driver? Okay,
Speaker 1: how to become a race car crap? I just all right,
Speaker 1: I googled how to become a race car That would
Speaker 1: require some biological engineering. Okay, how to become a race
Speaker 1: car driver? Okay, to become a race car driver, you
Speaker 1: have to attend a racing school. Yo? Are the race
Speaker 1: hold on? What hold on? Race car driver school? Can
Speaker 1: you can you fucking major in race car driving? Yo?
Speaker 1: They have race car driving school? It's probably it's okay,
Speaker 1: they have race car driving school. It is almost certainly
Speaker 1: really fucking expensive. But I don't know. Maybe you could
Speaker 1: work at one of these tracks. Okay, I'm just okay.
Speaker 1: The gist of what I said in my whole rant
Speaker 1: is like, look, do a Google, look at shiite, see
Speaker 1: what's out there. Maybe it'll spark some ideas. Well. What
Speaker 1: is it? What does the chat have to say? Does
Speaker 1: the chat know anything about race cars? Lots of people
Speaker 1: I know share cars. They kind of just have their
Speaker 1: cars sitting around as a project. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: All right? All right, let's keep going. All right? This
Speaker 1: is from g subject line. Am I still a monkey? Hey? GEK?
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm g I'm gonna be twenty five
Speaker 1: in five days and not gonna lie. I'm terrified. I
Speaker 1: finished my bachelor's degree last year, and now I'm doing
Speaker 1: all sorts of things to fill my resume and go abroad.
Speaker 1: I like none of the things I do. I like
Speaker 1: no profession or jobs. I have no passion in my
Speaker 1: life rather than being comfortable and eating great food. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, being unemployed and useless makes me terribly depressed.
Speaker 1: So I tempt myself to do something money wise just
Speaker 1: to decrease the pressure. But then again I am always annoyed.
Speaker 1: I want to go back to bed. Am I a
Speaker 1: pathetic lazy animal or IDK? What am I? Will I
Speaker 1: ever feel satisfied and happy with anything? You know? Ge genuinely,
Speaker 1: I really I empathize with the plight of like being
Speaker 1: fucking depressed and being like, oh, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: want to do anything. Like like somebody asks you, like, well,
Speaker 1: what are your goals and what do you want to do,
Speaker 1: and You're just like, I don't wanna fucking do anything.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like this is like kind of
Speaker 1: like classic motivational bullshit, But it makes a lot of sense,
Speaker 1: and I hope it like speaks to you in some way,
Speaker 1: because I I've actually the problem that you're talking about
Speaker 1: in this email. I have a very similar problem where
Speaker 1: I'm just like, well, I don't know what the fuck.
Speaker 1: I don't know if anything is like worth doing. I've
Speaker 1: learned this, Like, so when you're like in bed and
Speaker 1: you're at home and you're not doing anything, and you're
Speaker 1: depressed the idea and you're thinking in your head about
Speaker 1: the idea of doing anything, you're whatever, Like whatever you're
Speaker 1: imagining you're going to feel like in your head when
Speaker 1: you're thinking about doing something is always going to be
Speaker 1: like ninety seven percent different than how you're gonna feel
Speaker 1: when you're actually fucking there. So you can't really make
Speaker 1: any kind of honest judgment call on any experience or
Speaker 1: anything at all unless if you're actually there, because you're
Speaker 1: just making the judgment call on how you think you're
Speaker 1: gonna feel, and you know, you can make judgment calls
Speaker 1: on how you think you're gonna feel all fucking day long,
Speaker 1: but they're they're wrong because because you won't know any
Speaker 1: of this shit until you're actually there. So like if
Speaker 1: I were you, if I were going to give you advice,
Speaker 1: I would say to just like try your best to
Speaker 1: think of like a couple things that could maybe And
Speaker 1: I'm not even By the way, I'm not even talking
Speaker 1: about like big things. I'm not talking about like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying right down like be a doctor. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about like go on a walk or fucking volunteer
Speaker 1: or something like just something like what's something you can
Speaker 1: just fucking do to just get out of the house.
Speaker 1: Because once you're actually I there's a chance that once
Speaker 1: you've tried something and you're like actually fucking there, you
Speaker 1: you your brain chemistry just changes. But when you're not
Speaker 1: doing anything and you're just like imagining what doing things
Speaker 1: is going to be like, then uh yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 1: fucking hate it because you're it's there's a lot of this.
Speaker 1: There's you gotta physically be there. I think that made sense.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try doing this too again. I empathize strongly
Speaker 1: with this email because I'll get depressed all the time
Speaker 1: and be like, I don't know if it's worth it
Speaker 1: to pursue or do anything. There's a lot of times
Speaker 1: when I'm recording this podcast where I'm like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I really want to do this
Speaker 1: right now. And then I show up and I'm here
Speaker 1: and I'm doing it, and now that I'm actually sitting
Speaker 1: in this fucking chair right now talking me to this microphone.
Speaker 1: I feel great, So I don't know, you have to
Speaker 1: kind of get yourself to that point where you're in
Speaker 1: the fucking chair on the street doing whatever the thing is.
Speaker 1: You're not crazy, though, and you're not pathetic because these
Speaker 1: are these are legitimate feelings that I've had before. So
Speaker 1: I get you. Let's see yan. Okay, this is from Lily.
Speaker 1: The subject line is kind a weird TMI, but not horrible. Hey, gek,
Speaker 1: my boyfriend wants to go sleep with other women with
Speaker 1: his best friend like he like he wants to like. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me read the whole email. I told him I
Speaker 1: would be okay with that if I could go sleep
Speaker 1: with other people, and then he got mad at me
Speaker 1: and said that I could only sleep with women. I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is fair or not. I'd k
Speaker 1: why I am asking a gecko for advice about this,
Speaker 1: but here I am happy New Year's don't drink too
Speaker 1: many diet mountain dews, and don't you tell me what
Speaker 1: to do? Uh. This is not related to the like
Speaker 1: crux of what this email is about. But when your
Speaker 1: boyfriend says he wants to go sleep with other women
Speaker 1: with his best friend. Does he mean like he wants
Speaker 1: to go with his best friend, like out to the
Speaker 1: bar and like look for women, or does he mean
Speaker 1: like that he wants to have threesomes with his best friend.
Speaker 1: Either way, whatever, that's not important. Look, Lily, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, Uh uh you know relation relationships, uh,
Speaker 1: and these boundaries and stuff. It's it's whatever you're down with.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're down with your boyfriend going out
Speaker 1: and doing whatever he wants. But the parameter of that
Speaker 1: is that you can do whatever you want, then great.
Speaker 1: And if he's not on board with that, then uh,
Speaker 1: an agreement has not been come to. You said, I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is fair or not. I kind
Speaker 1: of Look, when two people in a relationship are like
Speaker 1: deciding some shit, the idea of like fairness is completely
Speaker 1: utterly subjective, So it you don't you don't not know
Speaker 1: if it's fair or not. You get to decide for
Speaker 1: yourself if it's fair or not. So ask yourself if
Speaker 1: it feels fair to you, if it feels like it's
Speaker 1: what you want to do, and if it is, then great,
Speaker 1: and if it's not, it's not but if you're looking
Speaker 1: for some kind of like objective measuring stick of fairness,
Speaker 1: you will not find it. Because this is the question
Speaker 1: of whether or not this is fair is up to you.
Speaker 1: So that's how I would reframe thinking about this. This
Speaker 1: is from mister V. Subject line Motown Blues Tales from
Speaker 1: the assembly line. Hey, GEK, my name is mister V,
Speaker 1: and we spoke three years ago where we discussed how
Speaker 1: I quit my teaching job and took a job on
Speaker 1: the assembly line in Detroit. I actually genuinely do remember you,
Speaker 1: mister V. I don't remember a lot of details about
Speaker 1: our conversation, but I remember talking to a teacher named
Speaker 1: mister V. I felt my brain was turning into mush,
Speaker 1: similar to the FedEx man. My union gave me a
Speaker 1: great raise, and I'm enjoying a great standard of Livingtionately,
Speaker 1: my brain is no longer turning into mush, as I've
Speaker 1: rediscovered my passion for reading and writing. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: My job seems to interfere with my dating life. I'm
Speaker 1: drawn to intelligent, independent women, and the feelings are mutual.
Speaker 1: At first, things start fiery and passionate, but eventually fizzle
Speaker 1: out when they grow resentful of my blue collar life. Wow,
Speaker 1: you're like uh Johnny Cash or something. You're like Hank
Speaker 1: Williams junior. No, not Hank Willimes Junior. Like Hank Williams,
Speaker 1: I can clock in and clock out, enjoy great books,
Speaker 1: good food, and a comfortable lifestyle, and be an attentive lover. Ooh,
Speaker 1: but TikTok slash Instagram. Hustle culture seems to make them
Speaker 1: want to want a partner with a cool job like
Speaker 1: teaching or getting a PhD. Paths I see as financial
Speaker 1: suicide at twenty nine. Maybe I'll revisit those at forty,
Speaker 1: but not now. Okay, I have thoughts, but I'll read
Speaker 1: the end of this email. I have a love hate
Speaker 1: relationship with Detroit in my job. The costs of living
Speaker 1: and benefits are great, but the city's environment is not
Speaker 1: exactly ideal. I'm torn should I stay or should I go.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of replaying this goodwill hunting scene over and
Speaker 1: over again. I would like your thoughts, as you have
Speaker 1: spent time in the Midwest and know how mid it
Speaker 1: is ps last year when you came to Detroit, I
Speaker 1: wanted to go to the show in the Rave, but
Speaker 1: I was dating a psychologist at the time who didn't
Speaker 1: believe in your art and banned me from going. That's
Speaker 1: really funny safe to say we split up. I hope
Speaker 1: you can come back to the three one three as
Speaker 1: I will be attending. Thank you for generously calling this art.
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you? I'm confused at what this email
Speaker 1: is asking, because you're asking this is okay. This is
Speaker 1: a two part email. One is about if you should
Speaker 1: leave Detroit or not. I'm not I I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you should leave Detroit wherever you
Speaker 1: go here, Okay, let me. I'm gonna answer you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna speak to the thing you said about like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, women wanting a guy with the cool job
Speaker 1: or whatever, but about like moving places. Here's the thing
Speaker 1: I really, truly, genuinely believe when it comes to like
Speaker 1: moving the actual location in which you live, like where
Speaker 1: on the earth you are set, there's elements of it
Speaker 1: that are I would be lying if I said that
Speaker 1: I don't think about the place itself, Like I like
Speaker 1: a walkable city, you know, I like a major city.
Speaker 1: But other than that, once you get like a few
Speaker 1: key things going where the quality of where you live
Speaker 1: is going to be dependent upon and how much you've
Speaker 1: actually invested in being there. So if you're if you
Speaker 1: stay in Detroit and you're like, oh, I want to
Speaker 1: get involved in the you know, I want to start
Speaker 1: a fucking book club in Detroit. Right, you start your
Speaker 1: little book club because you love reading and writing. You
Speaker 1: start your little poetry club, and then you have all
Speaker 1: these poetry friends in Detroit. Right, whatever it is, you're
Speaker 1: gonna like Detroit because you have a whole community, you
Speaker 1: have a whole scene that you like. Places, Okay, there's
Speaker 1: a difference between a place and your life in that place.
Speaker 1: Your life in that place is way more important than
Speaker 1: the place itself. Places are just everywhere you go. There'll
Speaker 1: be food and people and you can walk around and stuff,
Speaker 1: and you can probably get some fucking job doing something.
Speaker 1: You can do that anywhere on the planet. Well, not
Speaker 1: anywhere on the planet, but some places do. Some places
Speaker 1: do suck a lot, some places are horrible and everyone
Speaker 1: there wants to leave. But in most in a lot
Speaker 1: of places, it doesn't matter. So whether you stay in
Speaker 1: Detroit or you go to Tampa, you just have to
Speaker 1: invest in your life as it is, So that doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter, right, Because if you wanted to do your
Speaker 1: little poetry club and you know, book club or whatever
Speaker 1: the fuck it is, like, you could move to you know,
Speaker 1: Tampa and do it, or you can move to California
Speaker 1: and do it. You could move to fucking Texas and
Speaker 1: do it, or you stay in Detroit and do it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't really matter. You should think more about you know,
Speaker 1: how you actually want to invest in wherever you are.
Speaker 1: And then this thing of let me read this part again.
Speaker 1: Women are resentful of my blue collar life. Do me
Speaker 1: a fake? Just look, do me a fair? I don't
Speaker 1: know how many women it took for you to grow
Speaker 1: this heuristic? Is that the word I'm gonna google, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna if I am I using this word right? Heuristic?
Speaker 1: What is a heuristic? I think I'm using the word
Speaker 1: heuristic right, I'm I'm mainly I think I'm using the
Speaker 1: word heuristic to just mean belief. Okay, I don't know
Speaker 1: how many women it took for you to develop this
Speaker 1: storyline that you have that women are resentful of your
Speaker 1: blue collar life. But if I were you, I would
Speaker 1: ditch that storyline. I would really like kind of try to.
Speaker 1: I would try your best to examine all the storylines
Speaker 1: that you have about what you think women are attracted to,
Speaker 1: and I would ditch a lot of them because, like
Speaker 1: what you know, maybe you met a couple people who
Speaker 1: were like, oh, I don't like that you work in
Speaker 1: a factory. But that doesn't mean that every woman you
Speaker 1: meet is gonna care that you work in a factory.
Speaker 1: And if you go in to your dating universe thinking
Speaker 1: that everyone is gonna be resentful of your blue collar life,
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna come off and I don't think it
Speaker 1: would be good for you. So I would try to
Speaker 1: challenge that belief. Ah God, I need to think of
Speaker 1: something funny to say. I've just been saying, and I've
Speaker 1: just I gotta think of something funny to say. No,
Speaker 1: that's stupid. All right, let's move let's move on, let's
Speaker 1: let's talk to let's read more emails, shall we? Oh? Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: This is from Khalil, subject line university struggles. Hey gak,
Speaker 1: my name's Khalil. I'm from Morocco and my first semester
Speaker 1: of UNI just ended. I moved about seven hundred miles
Speaker 1: from my hometown to pursue my higher education. I'm very
Speaker 1: introverted and quiet and don't speak unless spoken to. I
Speaker 1: started feeling the effects of this much worse since I
Speaker 1: live alone now and almost have zero human contact. Needless
Speaker 1: to say, that took a huge toll on me, and
Speaker 1: I want to do a lot better in the second semester.
Speaker 1: I guess I just need someone telling me to stop
Speaker 1: the bs and go talk to people. But that just
Speaker 1: feel so agonizing. It makes me so anxious. I've basically
Speaker 1: had the same group of friends back home my whole life,
Speaker 1: so I never developed social skills. Maybe I just need
Speaker 1: one of those goals that are like go out and
Speaker 1: say hello to twenty people today or something. I think
Speaker 1: I have a very deep fear of rejection, especially social rejection,
Speaker 1: so I just need some way to face it. PS.
Speaker 1: You have fans all over the world, mister Ghek. The
Speaker 1: amount of places you can actually sell out a show
Speaker 1: will surprise you, especially here in North Africa. Much love, Gek, blessed.
Speaker 1: There's no way I could. Maybe I could sell if
Speaker 1: I could find a one seat venue, and you come,
Speaker 1: I could sell out a show in North Africa. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe yeah, if I can find a one
Speaker 1: seater venue in North Africa. I'll do a show if
Speaker 1: you come, all right, I mean, Khalia, listen, man, everything.
Speaker 1: I don't have much for you except the Nike. Just
Speaker 1: do it, right, because this whole email is you. This
Speaker 1: whole email is you came up with the answers to
Speaker 1: all of your problems. While you were writing this email,
Speaker 1: you were like, I need to stop the BS. Maybe
Speaker 1: I need one of those goals that are like stay
Speaker 1: hello to twenty people. You know, I'm trying to develop. So,
Speaker 1: like you have all the answers that through in this email,
Speaker 1: you just have to do them. And you're only you know,
Speaker 1: you're only in your what so you probably your first
Speaker 1: semester UNI just ended, so you're probably like, what nineteen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: now's the time to try to develop some social skills. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a deep fear of rejection. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I really don't. I really don't have anything for you, Khalil,
Speaker 1: except to just go and do it. Try to talk
Speaker 1: to people. Also, nobody gives a fuck about it. Also,
Speaker 1: just Khalil, just Khalil. Just remember that nobody gives a
Speaker 1: fuck about anything. Nobody gives a fuck about anyone except
Speaker 1: for like themselves. So nobody like nobody cares if you
Speaker 1: come up and say hi to them. And I don't
Speaker 1: I mean that in a good way, like I mean
Speaker 1: that in like you think that people are gonna think
Speaker 1: something about you, but they're not. Either they're not gonna
Speaker 1: want to talk to you, or they will want to
Speaker 1: talk to you. And them not wanting to talk to
Speaker 1: you is literally nothing. It's it's not I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say it's not the worst thing in the world because
Speaker 1: it's not even anything. It's like a nothing. It's nothing,
Speaker 1: and it affects your life in no way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: Whereas the best case scenario they do want to talk
Speaker 1: to you, you make a friend or or or or
Speaker 1: a romantic friend or something like that. And so I
Speaker 1: just give it a shot. Man. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: wish I had something better for you than just give
Speaker 1: it a shot, man. But that's that's that's really what
Speaker 1: it is, all right. Okay, this is from Coal subject
Speaker 1: line the color brown. Cole says, did you know that
Speaker 1: the color brown is just dark orange? There's no way
Speaker 1: that's true. I'm gonna type the hold on, let me
Speaker 1: google this. Wait is the color brown? Orange? Brown is
Speaker 1: a dark orange color made by combined combining red, yellow,
Speaker 1: and black. Yo, I never knew that. Damn. The more
Speaker 1: you know, that's cool. I mean, all colors are just
Speaker 1: combinations of other colors, right, except the primary ones. What
Speaker 1: are the primary colors? Red, yellow, and blue? Right? Everything
Speaker 1: else is just a fake? What's green? Green? Is yellow?
Speaker 1: And blue? You know? Colors are crazy? Man? All right,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's all I have to say about that.
Speaker 1: But all right, let's see here. All right, Uh, this
Speaker 1: is from Jeremy, said Jack Line. I want to be
Speaker 1: on Survivor. Jeremy says, Hey, Gek, I'm Jeremy and I
Speaker 1: listened to your podcast frequently. I also went to your
Speaker 1: live show in the Los Angeles. Hell. Yeah, thank you, Jeremy.
Speaker 1: I really want to be on the reality TV show Survivor.
Speaker 1: I've yet to submit an audition tape to the casting team,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure what I want the audition tape
Speaker 1: to be, or really how I want to express myself
Speaker 1: as a would be character on Survivor. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I will read the rest of this email,
Speaker 1: but I don't know fucking anything about sir. I don't
Speaker 1: know anything about the show Survivor. So I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be helpful to you, but I'll read the rest of
Speaker 1: this email. My concern is that the show has been
Speaker 1: going on since like a two thousand and one. I
Speaker 1: can imagine that thousands of people have applied to be
Speaker 1: on the show, and with that, almost every way the
Speaker 1: game can be played by a person has been done before.
Speaker 1: So how do I stand out among other contestants. Here's
Speaker 1: a few things about me, twenty five year old white.
Speaker 1: Thank you for including that. Jewish, la born and raised.
Speaker 1: I am a very analytical person, but very socialable. I
Speaker 1: have a pet cat. I'm not very athletic, but in
Speaker 1: the moment I can rise to the occasion. I'm a virgo.
Speaker 1: I work in music. Thanks for your help. GEK can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear this on the pod. Do you wonder
Speaker 1: my Okay, here's my actual I said. I said I
Speaker 1: was going to tell the truth on this fucking thing,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna do it. Hold on, I gonna take
Speaker 1: a sip of my energy drink. Jeremy, here's what I
Speaker 1: would actually do. You know, I'm gonna be very honest
Speaker 1: with you, Jeremy. Thousands of people apply to be on
Speaker 1: Survivor and you have like a you pretty much have
Speaker 1: no chance of being on the show. This is the truth.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to tell you why that's not depressing
Speaker 1: if you if we were on the phone right now,
Speaker 1: I would be like, well, what do you want to
Speaker 1: get out of being on Survivor? Right? And then ask
Speaker 1: yourself that what do you want to get out of
Speaker 1: being on Survivor? Did you did you mention that in
Speaker 1: this email? No? Not really, it didn't really mention what
Speaker 1: you want to get out of being a Survivor. But
Speaker 1: so I would take whatever it is you want to
Speaker 1: get out of I hate things. I hate things that
Speaker 1: involve like applying, you know what I mean. I hate
Speaker 1: things that involve like, oh I need to ask for
Speaker 1: permission from this amorphous entity, and the amorphous entity sits
Speaker 1: in a throne above me and goes, hmmm, are you
Speaker 1: worthy of being on my show? I just think it's lame,
Speaker 1: you know, Whereas like Jeremy, I'm dead serious. If you
Speaker 1: want to if you want to just make a YouTube
Speaker 1: channel where you fly to a deserted island and try
Speaker 1: to survive. To do that, that's way, first of all,
Speaker 1: way more interesting than being on Survivor. Second of all, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's your choice, Like if, if what you
Speaker 1: really want is to see if you can survive on
Speaker 1: a desert island, just go do it. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't need to add, you don't need to fucking send
Speaker 1: an email to someone to do that. You don't need
Speaker 1: you don't need permission to go be stranded on a
Speaker 1: desert on a desert island, Jeremy, just go do it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this guy killed by doing that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get this guy killed. But uh, I do mean
Speaker 1: what I'm saying though, Like whatever it is you're hoping
Speaker 1: to get, just do something that doesn't involve having to
Speaker 1: ask someone to let you be on their stupid TV show,
Speaker 1: Like fucking go make your own. Go make your own.
Speaker 1: Go make your own fucking reality show on YouTube where
Speaker 1: you have a phone. Just make your own fucking survivor.
Speaker 1: Like what you're gonna put together on audition tape? Right?
Speaker 1: Instead of putting together on audition tape, when don't you
Speaker 1: just make a fucking thing and put it on the internet.
Speaker 1: And that way you did it, you didn't have to
Speaker 1: ask anyone for permission, and you got whatever it is
Speaker 1: you wanted out of it. So that's that's my that's
Speaker 1: my true recommendation. Having never ever seen the show Survivor.
Speaker 1: Someone in the chat said he probably wants money and fame.
Speaker 1: You can get money and fame by going on the
Speaker 1: internet instead of you don't have to ask, You don't
Speaker 1: have to send an email to some motherfucker to get
Speaker 1: money and fame. All right, let's keep going. Pretty sure,
Speaker 1: someone said he pretty sure he wants to win a
Speaker 1: million dollars. If if, if you, if, Jeremy, if we
Speaker 1: had a conversation and you were like, genuinely honest to god,
Speaker 1: the one thing I really want, the main reason I
Speaker 1: want to go on Survivors to win a million dollars,
Speaker 1: I would go, that's one of the stupidest ways to
Speaker 1: achieve that goal. And then I would say, let's set
Speaker 1: you up with a roth Ira at Vanguard, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna contribute one hundred dollars a month to it until
Speaker 1: you're sixty years old, and by the time you're re tire,
Speaker 1: you'll have a million dollars. I don't actually know if
Speaker 1: that math is true, but that was I'm so lame.
Speaker 1: Now I'm the lamest. I'm the fucking lamest guy of
Speaker 1: all time. I'm so fucking lame now I'm fucking Oh God,
Speaker 1: I'm so fucking lame. Why I am soone asked why
Speaker 1: I'm naked. I'm not naked, but I am shirtless while
Speaker 1: I'm recording this, because because I can do whatever I want.
Speaker 1: Did it? Did it? Did it? Did? Uh? Uh? Okay uh.
Speaker 1: This is from Diego subject line serious discussion about the
Speaker 1: best flavor of twigs. And then in the body he
Speaker 1: wrote another subject and he wrote outdoor pooping and other
Speaker 1: train running adventures, and then he wrote, Dear Gek, I lied.
Speaker 1: We're not here to discuss twigs or what the plural
Speaker 1: of twigs is even. Instead, I'm writing to seek your
Speaker 1: opinion on a more pressing matter. You know what. Fuck No,
Speaker 1: I'm not reading this. I'm not No, I'm not reading
Speaker 1: this email. I thought I was clicking on an email
Speaker 1: to talk about twigs, and you did it to trick
Speaker 1: me and lie to me. How dare you? No, I'm
Speaker 1: not reading your email. Maybe send me, if send send
Speaker 1: whatever you were gonna send me again with the fucking
Speaker 1: honest subject line, and maybe I'll read it, but I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not putting up with this uh fake out. Subject
Speaker 1: line bullshit that you're trying to pull. I don't know
Speaker 1: how you thought you were gonna get away with that.
Speaker 1: The best flavor of twigs, uh is is? I don't
Speaker 1: TwixT is actually not that good of a candy. All right,
Speaker 1: m let's see here. Uh okay, hold on, sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: looking for I'm sorry. I was a little rattled by
Speaker 1: this guy. Let's see all right. This is from Jim.
Speaker 1: Subject line the stop and chat. Hey, gek, Jim from Syracuse. Here,
Speaker 1: hope all is well. Just wanted to ask if I'm
Speaker 1: wrong for feeling some sort of way when I encounter
Speaker 1: a group of people stopped dead in their tracks at
Speaker 1: the grocery store during peak shopping hours to talk about
Speaker 1: whatever it is they want to talk about. For curb
Speaker 1: your enthusiasm, fans, it's better known as the stop and chat.
Speaker 1: For example, Wegmans in Syracuse on a Sunday is the
Speaker 1: most anxiety filled store, with shitloads of people flying past
Speaker 1: each other to get their overpriced groceries for a week
Speaker 1: or even just the day. But for you to get
Speaker 1: your pasta noodles or cured meats and cheese, you have
Speaker 1: to say excuse me and reach around people that are
Speaker 1: posted up talking about how their son is mediocre at
Speaker 1: basketball or daughter had a dancer cell or some other
Speaker 1: bullshit like get the fuck out of my way and
Speaker 1: don't even think about giving me a side. I like,
Speaker 1: I'm being the rude one. Get your shit and tell
Speaker 1: your friends that Braden and Caiden are fine and keep
Speaker 1: it moving. Not gonna lie. It makes steam come out
Speaker 1: of my ears like some old bugs Bunny cartoon. Let
Speaker 1: me know if you have encountered a similar situation. Have
Speaker 1: a good holiday, Go Bills. Come to Syracuse for a
Speaker 1: show soon please. I was actually in Syracuse earlier this year,
Speaker 1: back in April. That's a good time. That's a good time, okay.
Speaker 1: Uh Jim from Syracuse, Uh yeah, No, people are people
Speaker 1: have Look look, people have very low situational awareness. I
Speaker 1: think the way that you are handling this is perfect,
Speaker 1: unapologetically being like hey, you know, you're not being rude
Speaker 1: about it. You're not like, uh well, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you could, like, you know, stab these people to death.
Speaker 1: That'd be very rude, but you're not that. You're a
Speaker 1: decent enough guy and not do that. You you're understanding
Speaker 1: the social contract, You're doing your best Jim to abide
Speaker 1: by the social contract of society. And I want you
Speaker 1: to know that me and the other listeners of Therapy
Speaker 1: Gcal podcasts stand by you in your efforts to abide
Speaker 1: by that social contract. But alas you live in a
Speaker 1: world inhabited by other human bodies and brains that are
Speaker 1: not cognizant of the space that they take up or
Speaker 1: give a fuck. You know, just don't let it. Don't
Speaker 1: stab these people to death because that will affect your
Speaker 1: life negatively. It's like that, Like there's a guy who, like,
Speaker 1: there was some like protesters blocking a road and he
Speaker 1: pulled out a gun and he killed them. Don't do that,
Speaker 1: but you can ask him to move. And if they
Speaker 1: give you the side I you could, don't you. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you know what, if they give you the side
Speaker 1: eye and you want and it makes you feel good
Speaker 1: to yell at them and you really feel like they
Speaker 1: deserve it. I'm trying to think if I would do that,
Speaker 1: Like if I like, I'm going into the Wegmans and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get some shit and these two people
Speaker 1: are like talking about their son and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: can you guys have I's like, hey, excuse me, and
Speaker 1: they're like, ugh, no, I'd probably yell at them. It
Speaker 1: depends on It depends on how uh aggressively they were
Speaker 1: appalled by me asking them to move. If it was
Speaker 1: just a side eye, I'd let it go. But if
Speaker 1: they made some kind of noise when I moved past them,
Speaker 1: I would go off. What do you get at Wegmans?
Speaker 1: Wegmans is sick? All right? Uh, let's steal a couple.
Speaker 1: Let's do a couple more right here. This is from
Speaker 1: it's even subject line, I'm sleeping with a guy forty
Speaker 1: years older than me. Hey Lyle, I was showing your
Speaker 1: podcast at a very uncertain time in my life a
Speaker 1: few years ago. It was one of the main things
Speaker 1: that helped me shift my mindset on not only my
Speaker 1: own problems, but the problems of others around me as well.
Speaker 1: I've always known I was gay and had to come
Speaker 1: to terms with it a long time ago. What I
Speaker 1: struggled to accept was that I'm attracted to older men.
Speaker 1: Overwhelming guilt and fear clouded every thought I had about
Speaker 1: finding a partner or even just a hookup. I was
Speaker 1: hard on myself and shut down any and all feelings
Speaker 1: I had of love. It's like there was a second
Speaker 1: closet to come out from a friend of mine shout
Speaker 1: out to Cam. Showed me your podcast and I started
Speaker 1: listening at work. Hearing all the amazing stories from your listeners,
Speaker 1: as well as your outlook on most things, helped me
Speaker 1: take a step back from it all. I found a
Speaker 1: real therapist and it changed my life. Okay, so now
Speaker 1: I'm sleeping with a guy forty years my senior. I'm
Speaker 1: twenty six, he's sixty six. It's cool. Sorry, there's not
Speaker 1: a whole lot to the story, but I just wanted
Speaker 1: to say thanks for all you do. Am. I Are
Speaker 1: you implying that I somehow led to you sleeping with
Speaker 1: this sixty six year old guy. I don't think you are.
Speaker 1: I don't even know why I said that, because I
Speaker 1: really don't think you are. But uh, let's see. We
Speaker 1: saw your show in Melbourne and it was awesome. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you live in Australia and you've been sleeping with
Speaker 1: a sixty six year twenty six I mean she I
Speaker 1: mean at twenty six, fucking go crazy, sleep with it,
Speaker 1: go to a If you're twenty six years old, I
Speaker 1: mean by then, you know, if they're if you're twenty
Speaker 1: six and your horny, and you go to a nursing
Speaker 1: home and that you meet like a seventy nine year
Speaker 1: old man and he's horny, and you guys want to
Speaker 1: have sex with each other, that's fair game, entirely fair game.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a beneficial that seems to be a
Speaker 1: uh beneficial transaction for both parties. I mean, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: you seem like you like this guy, or at least
Speaker 1: you like having sex with him, and he probably likes
Speaker 1: having sex with you, so whatever, I mean, don't let
Speaker 1: him like kill you. I don't know why he said that.
Speaker 1: Maybe are you trying to get money from him? Sixty
Speaker 1: six is not that old. You got along if you're
Speaker 1: trying to get money. If I will say, if you're
Speaker 1: trying to get money from him, you're probably in it
Speaker 1: for another. They have pretty good healthcare in Australia, I think,
Speaker 1: so you're in it for another. If this is a
Speaker 1: money ploy, you're in it for at least another twenty years.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, yeah, I'm gonna say at least another
Speaker 1: twenty years. That's cool. Does he have an Australian accent?
Speaker 1: I don't have a. I don't have a good bit.
Speaker 1: I'm not good at bits. Ah. Well, good, I'm glad
Speaker 1: that you, uh, you seem happy about this. This is good. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's do let's see what's how long have
Speaker 1: you been going? What do you? What do you? What
Speaker 1: do you? What do you guys think? What does the
Speaker 1: chat think about this? I'll ask the chat. Oh, someone said,
Speaker 1: does he spank you with his cane? That's good? Someone
Speaker 1: said seniors are dangerous? That also might be kind of true.
Speaker 1: All right, let me read one or two more. This
Speaker 1: is from Missy, subject line high lyle with four exclamation points.
Speaker 1: I listened to your podcast a lot at work while
Speaker 1: I am beautifying the produce department at my co op.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I fantasize about calling in, and it's thrilling to
Speaker 1: just imagine maybe someday. I have been enjoying the email
Speaker 1: episodes as well. Here's my contribution. I loved to read
Speaker 1: when I was younger, but fell out of the habit
Speaker 1: and just recently picked it up again. I'm now thirty one.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to detox my screen addicted brain. I agree
Speaker 1: that reading is generally no more virtuous than playing video games.
Speaker 1: Or watching movies. I did say, just for context. On
Speaker 1: an earlier podcast, I went on a rant about how
Speaker 1: I don't think that reading is inherently more virtuous than
Speaker 1: playing video games or watching movies because they kind of
Speaker 1: have the same result. But anyway, but there is something
Speaker 1: incredibly satisfying about finishing a good book that I don't
Speaker 1: feel with other media. It's a uniquely calming experience to
Speaker 1: sit in silence and read. I think there's something special
Speaker 1: that happens in your brain while you let the words
Speaker 1: wash over. You would recommend to anyone feeling overwhelmed by
Speaker 1: this increasingly overstimulated life. We all suffer your fan Missy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I'll go on my rant again.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I think that if in general, whether
Speaker 1: it's a video game or a movie or a book
Speaker 1: or whatever, if you can do something that's not that
Speaker 1: like without where you're going long periods of time without
Speaker 1: being on your phone, that's great. It's I this is
Speaker 1: a bad way to end the show, But we live
Speaker 1: in a horrifying world. Like if you're listening to this,
Speaker 1: when if if the people listening to this, when's the
Speaker 1: last time you went a full day morning till bed
Speaker 1: without looking at your phone or the internet. For me,
Speaker 1: it was probably probably two thousand and two, I would say,
Speaker 1: is the last time I did that. Probably do it
Speaker 1: in two thousand and two. For most of the Like
Speaker 1: when you think about all the time that human beings
Speaker 1: have been alive, they were doing that for virtually one
Speaker 1: hundred one hundred percent of the time. Human beings with
Speaker 1: your same biology. We're just going about life without the Internet.
Speaker 1: And now we're on the Internet like all the time
Speaker 1: for like twenty four hours or except when we're sleeping,
Speaker 1: and it's fucking scary. So if you can do anything
Speaker 1: that detox yourself from it, that's a good thing, even
Speaker 1: if it's just playing video games or watching the movies.
Speaker 1: I'm not the screen part of it. I'm not so
Speaker 1: obsessed with as much as I am like the constant
Speaker 1: checking and like ADHD crap. I feel less bad about
Speaker 1: what I do because it's a podcast, and and you
Speaker 1: know it, it feels less ADHD to listen to a
Speaker 1: podcast than you know, I don't know, like a mister
Speaker 1: Beast video whatever, But even even a Mister Beasts video
Speaker 1: is good. I don't know. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I said that. I don't know why that
Speaker 1: came into this rant. But yeah, all right, you know,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, all right, you know I'm missy. Fine,
Speaker 1: I'll read a book. I'll read a fucking book. I'll
Speaker 1: buy a book and I'll read it. Okay, let's do
Speaker 1: one more email. Okay, Yeah, we can't end like that.
Speaker 1: We gotta do one more. We gotta do we gotta
Speaker 1: do one more. All right, great, all right. This is
Speaker 1: from Robert. Subject line help, I'm becoming a nerd. Hey Lyle.
Speaker 1: This is Robert from the Netherlands. I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 1: this is like an all time thing that artists struggle
Speaker 1: with all over the world all the time. When I
Speaker 1: was little, I went out to play with my friends
Speaker 1: and brought a small iPod with me, and I'd record
Speaker 1: everything and make small scenes where we would pretend like
Speaker 1: we were cops catching a drug cartel and shit like that.
Speaker 1: I kept making videos showing it to my family. I
Speaker 1: knew I had some sort of talent when I made
Speaker 1: a World War video for a middle school assignment. In
Speaker 1: this video, there was the scene where someone threw a
Speaker 1: grenade and it actually had an explosion. The faces that
Speaker 1: my classmates had were priceless. Anyhow, four years later, I
Speaker 1: am studying at UNI for being a director, and I'm
Speaker 1: getting into it big time. Making movies is all I
Speaker 1: think about. I have this class called film History, and
Speaker 1: bro I have been extremely invested, Like I go to
Speaker 1: museums and go to every film exposition there is. I
Speaker 1: feel ashamed to go out and tell people this because
Speaker 1: it makes me feel like a nerd dude? What Like
Speaker 1: I think I'm driving my family and friends nuts with
Speaker 1: my bullshit? Do you have any advice on this? Like
Speaker 1: how I deal with this? Also? Do you think directors
Speaker 1: are artists or just bossy cunts? I like to know
Speaker 1: what your favorite movie is minus Fallen Angels nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: directed by Wong car Wi. I don't really watch movies. No,
Speaker 1: you're not a nerd. Why do you feel a sh Robert?
Speaker 1: Why do you feel a shame usually proud of this?
Speaker 1: Do you know how many people like don't have just
Speaker 1: don't care about fucking anything? I don't know, Robert, I
Speaker 1: don't know why. I feel bad that you live still
Speaker 1: in a world. I mean you you're at I how
Speaker 1: old are you? Probably? Like let's see, all right, so
Speaker 1: you were in like high school. You're probably like eighteen
Speaker 1: nineteen something like that. Okay, so you probably you're you
Speaker 1: are old enough at eighteen or nineteen to realize that, uh,
Speaker 1: caring about things is it is no longer cool to
Speaker 1: not care about things or have interests. It is not
Speaker 1: a lame to give a fuck about things in life.
Speaker 1: It's actually kind of sick. It's actually not even kind
Speaker 1: of sick. It's sick. You know so many people, I just, Robert,
Speaker 1: I just want you to be, uh proud of this.
Speaker 1: So many people I just fucking depressed because they don't
Speaker 1: care about anything. And I just think having this thing
Speaker 1: that you have, I'm not even I honest, I Robert,
Speaker 1: I'm I mean this. I think what you have right now,
Speaker 1: where you are so passionate and you give a fuck
Speaker 1: so much and you're extremely invested in what you are doing,
Speaker 1: is more valuable than like being a majorly successful filmmaker.
Speaker 1: I really believe that, because that what you have right now,
Speaker 1: having a thing that you love and that you care
Speaker 1: about and that you can reasonably do for the rest
Speaker 1: of your life until you don't want to do it anymore,
Speaker 1: is like a valuable, beautiful amazing thing, and you should
Speaker 1: feel really proud to have it. You know, you said,
Speaker 1: I'm driving my friends and family nuts with my BS.
Speaker 1: I mean, you should learn how to talk about things
Speaker 1: that aren't just making movies. Maybe that's it. I think
Speaker 1: it's beautiful that you have. You should develop, though, you
Speaker 1: should develop well rounded social skills, if that's kind of
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. But no, you should be happy
Speaker 1: that that you care about something, especially at eighteen. It's
Speaker 1: harder as you get older, I think, to care about shit.
Speaker 1: So just be excited and grateful and immersed in not
Speaker 1: only what you care about, but be excited at the
Speaker 1: pure fact that you care. Don't let anyone tell you
Speaker 1: it's lame. Do you think directors are artists are just
Speaker 1: bossy cunts? It depends on the person. Also, I don't
Speaker 1: really know many directors. I don't. I never met Alfred Hitchcock,
Speaker 1: but he's probably a cunt. Yeah. Anyway, okay, Fallen Angels
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. I'm gonna go watch that. I wish
Speaker 1: I had something funny to say about any of these emails. Instead,
Speaker 1: I just gave advice based on what I feel in
Speaker 1: my gut, which is fine too, I'm just I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna this can be a part of the podcast too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna does the chat have any questions that they
Speaker 1: want to say before we go? Someone says, we love
Speaker 1: a good war? Want gar why movie? Okay? Uh? Someone
Speaker 1: said I like boats. That's cool. I'm gonna wait. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wait two more seconds. If if there's any more chats,
Speaker 1: am I gonna go? See no stafaru uh no s
Speaker 1: faratu No. I don't really like making I don't really
Speaker 1: like watching movies. I get too bored. I love playing
Speaker 1: video games. I'm playing a little update on the video
Speaker 1: games I'm playing. I'm getting into I'm a little late
Speaker 1: on it, but I'm getting into Little Nightmares. If I
Speaker 1: think I might start, I'm gonna start casually reviewing video
Speaker 1: games on this podcast a lot. I highly recommend Little Nightmares.
Speaker 1: I have it on the switch, and uh, it definitely
Speaker 1: looks better on like you know, PlayStation over the fuck.
Speaker 1: But it's a sick game. It's a pretty stealthy, pretty
Speaker 1: I don't like video I hate like so many video
Speaker 1: games just waste your fucking time. And they're just like,
Speaker 1: go here, do this, and they don't and this this
Speaker 1: video game really like creates an awesome atmosphere and it's
Speaker 1: linear and it's rewarding and it's immersive and it's it's great. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Little Nightmares one and two highly recommend. I just
Speaker 1: beat one, so I'm gonna play Little Nightmares two. Okay,
Speaker 1: anything else, well, uh, thank you guys for listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast. This is I am Lyle, I am a
Speaker 1: gecko And do I have anything else to say? No?
Speaker 1: Not really enjoy life. It's the end of the year,
Speaker 1: Happy New year. Next soon, and thank you guys for
Speaker 1: listening to my podcast. Here's to let's see. I'm doing
Speaker 1: this twice a week in twenty twenty five. I'll probably
Speaker 1: put out one hundred and four of these podcasts. So
Speaker 1: if we have not talked on the phone yet or
Speaker 1: have not read your email yet, I'm gonna need enough
Speaker 1: phone calls and I'm gonna need enough phone calls and
Speaker 1: emails to complete at least one hundred and four more
Speaker 1: podcasts in twenty twenty five. So if you want to
Speaker 1: be a part of gek Mail, send an email to
Speaker 1: Therapy Gecko mail at gmail dot com. I just kind
Speaker 1: of keep a rolling. I just kind of sort by
Speaker 1: unread and I just kind of keep a rolling whatever
Speaker 1: of emails. So if you're listening to this and you
Speaker 1: want to submit an email, send it to therapy geckomail
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. I have a my streamings. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people want to call in to
Speaker 1: the show. My streaming schedule is random. I kind of
Speaker 1: just do it when I feel like it, well, not
Speaker 1: really when I feel like I do it like twice
Speaker 1: a week usually like Mondays and Fridays. But the best
Speaker 1: way to get on the phone is if you go
Speaker 1: to twitch dot tv, slash Lyle forever and you subscribe,
Speaker 1: you can get a notification for when I'm going live,
Speaker 1: or if you follow me on Instagram, Instagram, dot com,
Speaker 1: slash Lyle the number four Ever I usually post on
Speaker 1: Instagram when I'm live and taking calls. Uh, thank you
Speaker 1: guys for listening. Ghek bless you all and UH have
Speaker 1: a great rest of your life. Ever goes on the line,
Speaker 1: thank you your phone calls every night. Everything can goes
Speaker 1: to staging loud in the mean live is not really
Speaker 1: an expert