November 6, 2024 • 67 mins
Hello. I am reading viewer mail and ranting again. On this episode people write about life changes in a relationship, parenting, being a pool boy, FOMO, being asked for money, shitting on the floor, and other stuff. I try very hard to say a lot of words and talk for an hour. I will do more of these. I am a gecko.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, what's up? Welcome back to gek Mail. Gek Mail
is what I am calling the version of this podcast
where I don't take any phone calls and I just
rant alone for an hour or so and read emails.
It's been a new development in my podcasting journey. I
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felt like I should switch it up a little bit again.
I don't know, I'm probably not gonna do this every
single week, but I'm having fun with it, and so
I'm going to keep going. I guess before before we start,
I'm just gonna say I, if you live in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
I am coming to your city to do my final
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Therapy Gecko show of the year on November twenty fourth,
and before that I will be going to Europe and
the United Kingdom to do Therapy Gecko shows in Amsterdam, Berlin,
manch Esther, London, Cologne, Dublin, and Glasgow. And if you
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want to get tickets for any of those, you can
do it at Therapy Gecko tour dot com. That's my
only little plug. So we let's let's start talking about stuff.
I'm trying to start these episodes by just talking about
like things from my life for my week, and I
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only only have two of them. So the first one
is I was so I was watching porn last night.
I was watching porn last night and a little I
was on Pornhub and a little ad came up. And
the ad it said, like, watch fat, ugly guys fuck
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hot girls. And it showed a picture of a guy
naked next to a hot girl. And I swear to God,
the guy, I swear on my life. The guy in
the picture had the exact same body as me, exactly
the same. His hair was placed the exact same way,
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his belly looked the exact same And it was a
bit of a wake up call for me if I
literally I took a screenshot of it so I couldn't
refer back to it. So you know, listen, I don't
want to be on the record saying that my weight
loss journey is starting soon, because then people will shove
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it in my face a year later if I get fatter.
But it just that did that shocked and appalled me.
I will say, but it's good, it's a good Actually
it didn't. It more, it more so motivated me. It
confirmed There's something kind of nice about like an objective
confirmation that, like you know, you got you do something,
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you gotta do something anyway. Uh that's one thing. The
other thing is this was today. You know, I try
pretty hard to not be judgmental on this show and
in my I try in my real life to not
be judgmental. And this is a recent thing. This is
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like since I've started. I mean, I think throughout my
life I've tried to be judgmental, but I think now
that it's become like, uh, you know, literally not like
what this podcast is about, but like, you know, I
just try. I try not to be judgmental, but it's
but it's it's a if you don't if you're not
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always actively it's a thing you have to actively do
because as a human being, I think your default is
to be judgmental and be like, you know, fuck that guy,
And so I judge people all the time because it's
the human default. I'm I can be as judgmental as
any other person. And I was in an elevator to
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get to my apartment. But I was in my apartments
elevator and I got on and this girl pressed too,
and I was looking at her with a lot of judgment.
I was like, what are you, What the fuck are
you doing? Taking the elevator to the second floor. There's
just literally one set of stairs. It's not like the
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whole thing we have to go up multiple sets of
stairs to get to the second floor. Just one set
of stairs. And I was really judging this lady for
taking the elevator to the second floor, and then I
realized I live on the third floor. That's all it
took for me to feel like I was better than
this person. It's just one floor. It's like, well, no,
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I'm not, you know, being lazy. I live on the
third floor. You live on the second floor. There's a difference.
That's all it took was one floor to get to
step to make me a true, much better person than
this lady taking the elevator to the second floor. Okay,
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I'm gonna get better at doing this. I'm gonna get
better at externalizing like this. But uh, we're gonna We're
gonna keep let's keep trying. Someone in the chat said,
I'm not sure I agree with humanity's default setting being judgmental.
I kind of think that it is, though, I kind
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of think that it is, like it's definitely well because
there's a lot of reasons why I think it is
I think, well, one, it's fun, It's really fun. It
feels good. It feels good. Like it's in the same
way that like eating candy feels good and smoking weed
feels good and all these other like you know, fucking
hating someone and and thinking that they suck and you're
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so much better than them. There's like it. I think
it like sainifically, probably releases a lot of dopamine in
your brain. And also you just you need something to
grab onto, like you need to. Kind of life is
a weird, abstract thing. It's intangible, and when you can
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feel like you're better than someone else, you feel like
you exist more. And that's I think we all want
to kind of feel like we exist. And so it
helps to make someone to look at someone else and
be like, you suck. That's why I do it. I guess,
all right, should we take some emails? Should we look
at some stuff? Let's do that. Let's do let's do
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some Let's do some emails. All right. This is from
Steph subject line advice slash opinion. Okay, I can do
an opinion. Steph says love your show been subscribed on
Apple Podcasts since twenty twenty one. You have the ability
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to squeeze honesty out of people with your excellently timed responses.
Thank you, Steph. And by providing comfort through your own honesty,
you're able to unlock more interesting conversations. Thank you, Steph. Okay,
quick question, how should I tell my five year old
his dad is in prison? Or should I tell him
at all? Oh? God, oh man, I'm not the right
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uh hm, I'll let me think about this. Should I
wait until he understands more when he is older, or
waiting cause something emotionally irreversible. Thanks. I'm trying to debate
if I have an opinion on this, because I don't have. Okay,
I'm trying to remember what life was like when you
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were five, Like when I was let's see, I think
let's see, my parents got divorced in like two thousand
three or one, and I was like five or seven.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It kind of I think, because I understood it so young,
it was just like a part I like, like it
was something I I can't remember life before that. And
so maybe if you tell your kid now, like your
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kid will always like that's the reality that they'll grow
up in. And I mean, it's the I guess it's
the reality that they'll grow up in whether or not
you tell them. God, I have to admit I don't
have I don't have advice for this person at all.
I'm sorry. Well, he's gonna find out eventually, do I
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I get this is one of the ones where I'd
want to talk to them because I'm curious if the
if your son, I mean your son probably asks about
his dad, right, what are five year olds like? Do
they talk? Do they have thoughts and opinions about, do
they observe stuff? Are they real people? Kind of? I
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guess there's probably a way to explain it. I could
see an episode of Sesame Street where like Elmo's father
is in jail for embezzlement and uh and and like
some celebrity has to come in and gently explain to
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him that. So I bet I five A five year
could probably handle it. I don't know, let's get but
what someone said, well, she also said, will waiting cause
something emotionally irreversible? I don't think so. I don't think
that will cause something emotionally irver irreversible. I think if
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you hit him or deprived him of food, that would
be emotionally irreversible. But just telling him that reality of
his dad being in prison. I mean, it's not your
fault that his dad is in prison. Do the I don't.
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I want to let I I guess my opinion. If
I had to give an opinion on this, I would say,
you're clearly you're a person who is acting with your
child's best interest, and so I think as long as
you as long as that's your priority, you're not going
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to cause emotional, emotionally irreversible damage to your kid. I
think as long as you do that and give them food. Okay,
this is from Sean subject line. I know it's the check.
Hold on, let me see what the chat thinks. Someone
says there's five year olds that shoot guns. That's true.
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Someone said children themselves are known for telling the truth
without sugarcoating it. So there it's a possibility that so
you're really if you just say, hey, your dad's in prison,
maybe that maybe that's we'll we'll give him the uh uh.
(11:23):
Maybe you're speaking his language there. Okay. This is from
Sean subject line the BBW issue. Sean says, hey, there,
my g straight to the point. I couldn't tell I'm handsome,
but like I'm really alright, I do sports. I'm six
foot one tall. Thing is, I'm really into bbw's for
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the layman that stands for big beautiful women, And like,
I broke up with my recent girlfriend because she wasn't
fat and ugly enough and all so shorts. I forgot
to mention the ugly factor. Now when I date fat
chicks that most guys will rate as a three, they
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like ask, they ask, why would a guy like you
even call me on a date? And that's always the trap? Okay,
And then he writes, Then he writes, I am very
very very very very sorry if someone finds this offensive. Well,
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here's what I don't understand about. Here's the I guess
the main thing that I understand about this email is
what do you what is your issue here? I guess
in your own brain what there? You could observe other issues,
but that's for I don't know what is the issue
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in this email. I'm really into BVWS. I broke up
with my recent girlfriend because she wasn't fat and ugly enough,
And now women will ask, why would a guy like
you even call me on a date? And that's always
the trap. Why is that a trap? You don't sound.
I mean everything else aside I was, I was just
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I don't really, I don't, I only really, I only
within the last two seconds did it come to me
that this person might be fucking with me. But I
part of me thinks they're not. I mean that's cool.
I mean try to Why is this surprise? Wouldn't it
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be like this is like kind of a good because
wouldn't it be worse for you if like you were,
like I really can only be attracted to like really
really really attractive people. Wouldn't that make your life more difficult?
This is like a good thing. I guess yeah, because
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when you say that's a trap, I don't understand how
what why you're referring to this as a trap anyway? Okay,
I mean that's cool this this guy's got a good life. Okay, yeah,
what does the chat think? Just tell the woman that
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she's your type. I'm sure a lot of women would
appreciate that. What I guess so well, I don't is
that like when someone when you when if someone says
to you, this is a this is a question for
the people, for the people listening, if you're dating someone,
then they say that you're like physically you are their type.
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How does that make you feel? Do you feel good?
Do you feel good about that? Or are you like
me personally? Me personally? I have had experiences before where
someone has told me they're like, I am into hairy
Jewish guys and maybe this is like a guy thing.
I don't know. But when someone says that to me,
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I'm like, that cool, sick. I'm honored to be the
hairy Jewish guy in your life at this moment. I
take no issue with that, but that maybe that's not
a universal Maybe that's not universal. All right? What else
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does the chat say? He sounds like he doesn't think
he deserves someone attractive. I didn't get that feeling from
them at all. Someone in the chat says, I am
an ugly guy and beautiful women like me. Lol. That's
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really nice. All right? This is from spin Top, subject
line boyfriend wants to move out. I don't. I'm unsure
if you're still reading emails, but here's mine. You didn't
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really need to include that. My name is Daniel and
I'm currently in a relationship with another man. We both
live in South Florida, and after dealing with Hurricane Milton,
which fortunately did not hit us. Both my partner and
I have learned and come to the conclusion that due
to climate change growing worse over the years, things will
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get worse in the state of Florida and we will
soon be living underwater. So my partner wants to move out.
I've lived in Florida my entire life. I'm twenty two
years old, so moving out to a new tour moving
out is new territory for me. And secondly, I'm currently
in two growing punk bands. That's pretty cool. I'm really
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into the punk scene, and I know people who know
larger artists me. Moving out would mean me leaving behind
everything I've built and having to start all over. Music
is my passion. I want to be like the theoc's
and perform in front of large audiences and make music
for a living. Okay, I'm gonna finish reading this before
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I get my thoughts. I've told him that if I
were to move, I'd be interested in checking out Philly, Chicago, Jersey,
or Seattle, all great cities. He's okay with Seattle, mainly
because all the other cities I've mentioned to him are
He's okay with Seattle and all the other cities I've
mentioned to him are quote unquote get it to him
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except his home state of New Jersey. I am really
unsure how the music scene is like and how the
city looks over in Seattle. I'm just overall scared that
I'll be leaving behind everything and end up in another
city with nothing for me. I'll be losing all my
friends that I have here, and I'm scared I'll end
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up having to give up on my dream. One Currently
I'm building up closer to achieving my dream. Please Green Gecko,
give me your wisdom. Sincerely, Daniel Oh. I actually I
really like this email. There's a lot to think about here,
and I feel like I have some experience, first of all,
as your fucking boyfriend been to these cities, because if
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he's it would kind of piss me off if he's
just saying that they're ghettos without being there. Chicago and
Philly are awesome cities. There are the two cities. I
live in New York, but I'm I'm constantly thinking about
leaving one day, and Chicago and Philly are like next
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up on my list. Both like great walkable cities with
a lot of you know, public transport and culture. And
I'm sure Philly and Chicago have Here's the thing, dude,
you live in South abround Broward County. Where the fuck
is Broward County? I guarantee Chicago Philly both have much
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better scenes for for what you want to do than
Broward County, Florida. Okay, you're like, yeah, you're in You're
like near Miami. I don't know what to Miami. When
I think Miami, this is completely I mean, I've been
to Miami a bunch of times. But when I think Miami,
I don't think grungey punk. I think like pristine like
DJ club people. If you want to get into some
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grungey like punk shit, then I mean, yeah, Philly Jersey
are are the way to go. But here's what this
really comes down to is I suppose a you're currently
into growing punk bands like you Okay, So basically, you
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have a community already where you live, and you really
like your community where you live, and you're afraid of
having to leave it behind and start and new. There's
a lot of ways to think about this. Wanting to
leave Florida because it's going to be underwater is a
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good idea. I think, I don't know. Wanting to leave
Florida because it's going to be underwater soon. Is is
is not a bad idea. I mean, I'm sure that
the other people, there's a bunch of people who live
down there, they're probably going to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
But I think if you really want to like, listen
to what you want to do, right, listen to what
you want to do, If you.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Really want to leave Florida, and you really believe that
the future of your life is outside of Florida, then
we can go further into reasons why you should feel
confident in your decision. But if the only thing that's
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driving you out of Florida is your boyfriend and you're
twenty two, it's not like you said, fucking married and
you have kids and a whole thing, then I wouldn't
do this just because your boyfriend wants you to. I'm one.
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I remember I grew up. I would grow up. I
didn't grow up in Philly. I went to college in Philly,
and I had a little comedy club in my base
mint in Philadelphia. It was called Cave I ran it.
I ran like a little comedy club out of my
basement for three years in Philadelphia. And I remember when
I left Philadelphia to go to Atlanta. I was feeling
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of and I was twenty two. I was feeling very
very similar way as you feel that I had a
community and I had built so much up already, and
I was like, should I should I leave and pursue
further objectives or should I foster the growing community that
I already have, and blah blah blah. And here here's
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what I ultimately think is that you got to operate
from an abundance mindset, especially when you're fucking young. You
don't want to just be like, all right, we settled,
we did it. When you're twenty two, yeah, operate from
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that abundance mindset and like, oh the Philly punks. I'm
gonna take over the Philly punk scene. I'm gonna go
out to shows seven nights a week. I'm gonna talk
to strangers. I'm gonna start putting on my own shows.
I'm gonna form a new band, I'm gonna get involved.
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Because any using you can go to any of these
fucking cities, and if you just keep showing up and
putting on your own things that other people go to,
you'll be fine. Right, You'll be fine because you're operating
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from a mindset that there's always gonna be more opportunities
for you. But if you're just doing this because your boyfriends,
who kind of sounds I was about to say he
sounds like an asshole, but you all you've said is
that he said that these places are ghettos. I'm not
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gonna say he's an asshole because I don't know him,
but he doesn't sound it from everything I know about him,
which is limited. It sounds like, you know, I don't
know if you need to make major, major life decisions
based on what he wants to do. But that's my
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ultimate feeling about this is that whatever wherever you do,
wherever you go, just take have an abind have an
abundance mindset that there's actually a lot more things to
do and people to meet, and bands to play in
and music to create, and you'll be fine no matter
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what you do. What's the chat say? The chat just says,
why are you so Harry? Are you Italian? All right?
Someone said, if you've got money, just move already. The
world is too nice to just stick to one location.
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I feel that way in a sense. I feel like
if you just grow up. I feel like if I
mean this person would they say, they say that they
lived Did you grow up there? Oh yeah, I've lived
in Florida my whole life. You've lived in Florida your
whole life. If you've lived here your whole life. In
twenty two I think I think it helps the soul
to see what life is like in other parts of
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the country, in the world. Someone said, modern society tells
you that you need to settle somewhere, build roots, establish
a four oh one k. People all over have very fulfilling,
non traditional lifestyles. I agree with that very much. Oh wait,
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what did someone say that I'm in I live in
Tampa and the punk scene is way better here than
in Broward, But it's even better in Seattle. Yeah. All
those places that you mentioned, bro, Yeah yeah, dude, all
those places that you mentioned are gonna be way cooler
than Broward County, Florida. Go go, go have an adventure, man,
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Go have an adventure. Maybe who knows, maybe you'll find
a new boyfriend or you can or keep the one
you have. I don't know. I don't know why I'm
railing on your boyfriend. Maybe he's nice, I don't know him. Okay,
let's move on. Okay. This is from Ebbie, subject line
poolboy woes Hi GEK, love you, thanks dog. I work
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at a hotel with some friends. I'm the pool boy
slash maintenance worker. It's a nice job when it's not
insanely busy, but I'm the evening worker, so I'm in
charge of closing the pool, cleaning and restocking. I got
called in one morning after closing the previous night and
the pool was a mess, dirty towels, water all over
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the floor, bathroom lights were on, and the pool room
lights were on. Turns out the hotel front desk night
shift let their buddies. Wait. Okay, hollo, lot of these
an evening work. I was too busy reading the actual
like I was too busy saying the words to actually
comprehend what I was reading. Okay, he's in charge of
cleaning and restocking. He got called in in the morning
after closing the previous night. Okay, all right, So he closes,
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comes in in the morning and everything's fucked up. Turns
out the hotel front desk night shift let their buddies
in after hours to the pool and they didn't clean
up after themselves. I had told my supervisor because if
they saw that on camera, they'd think I forgot to
lock the door. It's fucked up. About half the front
desk workers talk down to me now and treat me
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like shit. My family tells me I'm a party pooper,
but I was just doing my job. Your family told
you you're a party pooper. To be fair, they could
have cleaned up after themselves and I wouldn't have known
they were there. Is this deserved? Bro would have gotten
chemical burns if it was being super chlorinated for fecal contamination.
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The story is funny to me now, except it's not
fun when I'm on shift with those front desk workers.
Levey again, ghek, you make this hell job a lot better? Wow,
Oh that's fucked up. Your family told you you were
being a party pooper. Damn did an? I'm I feel
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bad for you. Did anybody in this situation have your back?
Do you confront the front desk worker? Why do they
talk down to you? That sucks man? BRO would have
gotten chemical burns if I was being if it was
being super chlorinated for yeah right, yeah? Did you have
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to clean up that morning on the clean the fucking pool?
Clean up after these people? Is this does walkay. The
main question you said is is this deserved? Is what deserved? Like?
Is the is your anger? Are your feelings valid? Yeah?
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Of course, But the question becomes like what do you
what do you actually do about it? Which is an
interesting one. Do you do you have you? Have you?
I assume you stood up for yourself and you're told
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them that, uh, they can't. They can't be fucking around
with you doing this anymore unless you didn't. Man, I
kind of feel like a piece of ship because this
is one of this is one. This is one of
those emails where I want to what and Ebbie, if you, ebb,
if you you? If you? If you hear this, this
is a two week old email. If you hear this,
(30:04):
call in. I want to talk about this story because
I have questions for you. I want to know how
you responded to this, because like we can here's here's
my here's my here's my thing with Like, there's a
lot of Reddit posts out there about like am I overreacting?
Or are my feelings valid? And they're the question of
(30:30):
whether or not one's feelings are valid is like, it's
an interesting question because I look, if you're asking me
my perspective, Are your feelings about fucking of course? Yeah,
of course there are. These people were fucking with you, right,
But the question of whether or not your feelings are valid,
I guess only matters if it leads to an action
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of some kind, right, like, like did you what did
you say to these people the way you tell your boss?
Are you in a position where you can where you
really feel like you've been disrespected enough that you can
go look for a job somewhere else? Are you in
that financial position to be able to do that? So
(31:13):
that's the question of like, are your feelings valid? Of
course they are, But that's not the question. The question
is what should you do now? And those are all
the questions I have for you. Is are you in
a position where if you really feel like you're in
a place where everywhere, your family and your coworkers and
your boss are all just like out for you, Like
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at a certain point, when do you kind of stand
up for yourself and go either, well, you stand up
to yourself for them, and you go, hey, I can't
be treated this way. And then if they don't give
a fuck, when are you like, Okay, I need to
leverage myself somewhere else, and are you in a position
to do that? Can you save until you're in a
(31:57):
position to do that? Yeah, call in, man, these are
questions I want to I want to ask you about
the situation. But uh but no, you're not. You're not
crazy for uh not for having somebody else's mess blamed
on you. Oh wait is he in the chat? Oh?
He's in the chat? Oh? Okay, hold on, Well, I
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don't know how this is gonna work. They're all friends,
he said. The funniest thing is the manager hates them.
But nothing was really done. Okay, call, he said, I'll call,
he said, I'll call in when I can. But management
fucking sucks here. All right, Well, now he's in the
(32:41):
he's in the chat. Okay, let's keep going. This is
from McKenzie. This is from McKenzie. Subject line should I
transfer schools? Mackenzie says, Hi, I get. I transferred to
(33:01):
university this semester. I have been taking classes in person
and I absolutely love the program I am in. With
that being said, I have been considering transferring to a
different schools online program for a couple of reasons. One
is that it's a two hour commute to my school
one way. Oh Jesus man, that's four hours. This program
(33:24):
is only in person and only offered on specific days
at only one time. Next semester, they wanted me on
campus four days a week, which I can't do because
I have a job that is directly related to my degree.
It's the same degree, same cost covered by FASTPA. The
only difference is it's online versus in person and I
(33:44):
have fomo. What do you think I should do? Well?
The court? Well, you say you have fomo, Well, I'm
curious about it. If you, what do you what do
you have fomo about? I've been taking class, this is
in person, and I absolutely love the program I'm in. Well,
(34:05):
I here's the thing I can't really like. I'm not
going to answer what I think you should do, But
the questions I would have are what do you love
about the program? And what are you afraid of missing
out on? And are the things you love about the
program things that specifically are about being in person? And
(34:29):
are and is that? And are the things you have
fomo about specifically related to being in person? Here? Because
if you have fomo about, just like you just naturally
want to be around other people. If you have fomo
(34:52):
that you just naturally want to be around other people
who are in your field and connect with them. If
you choose to do the online route, I feel like
there's creative solutions to do that, like a fucking discord
(35:14):
with the other classmates, or like weekly in person meetups
or something like that. There's there's I think you can
kind of have your cake and eat it too, if
that's what you want to do. So I guess I
would say that. That's what I would say if I
had to kind of think critically about this, is that
(35:35):
I would look at what is if you decide if
you go through all the logistics and you're like, I
really if you go through all the logistics and your
really you are trying to make in person work, but
you've you've landed on like I fucking just can't make
it work. I have to do the online thing. I
(35:55):
wouldn't And again, you have to do your exhaustive pros
and cons list before you make that decision. But if
you go down the path of like, you know, I
just have to do this shit online, I wouldn't completely
give up the things that you love about it. I
would be like, how can I hybrid this how can
(36:18):
I take the things I love about being in this
in person program and find a way to sort of
fulfill those vessels, sort of fulfill those desires while also
doing this online program and kind of, I guess, get
creative with how you can do that. Yeah, call in
(36:41):
about this too, call it about everyone, call in. You know,
when I first started doing these emails, these email things,
I was really just like, I want to Well, it's
fun to rant, it's fun to talk on the podcast.
But now I'm now I'm like, oh man, I feel
like I'm sometimes I'm doing the phone call podcast and
(37:02):
I'm like, I'm letting the callers talk too much. I'm
not getting I'm not able to talk. And then I
do this one and I'm like, this is a lot
of me. This is a lot of me talking. But
it's fun. They're both, they're both interesting, they're both I'm
having a good time. This is from Ethan subject line
I was on stage with you. Oh shit, I know
(37:23):
exactly who this guy is. After Yeah, I know exactly
who this guy is. Hello, Lyle, hope you're doing well.
I went to your Philly show in September of twenty
twenty three, and we talked about how I am the
main interpreter for my deaf brother. I do remember you.
I wanted to let you know that was a big
weight off my shoulders, just getting it out there that
I'm stressed about it. That's awesome. Now my family has
(37:45):
been making more of an effort to communicate with my
brother and making it less my job. Yeah. So I
remember this guy Ethan came on stage in my Philly
show a year ago and he talked about how he's
the main interpreter for his deaf brother and that he
was stressed out about having all of this uh responsibility
and kind of like what he should what he should
(38:06):
do about it. Yeah, I remember that conversation. I'm also
in the process of getting certified to be an interpreter,
so I can possibly be able to relieve some other
family members of the stress of constantly being the closest interpreter. See.
We talked about that because I was like, because he
was the main interpreter for his brother, and I was like, well,
(38:27):
can you can your brother or I don't know what
government shit you can get, or like, is there a
way to have like some other like someone who's whose
job is deaf interpreting to you know, be with your
brother so that you can go and live your own life. Yeah,
we talked about that. Uh, that's cool that you're like, Oh,
(38:49):
I'm gonna go be that guy for someone else. I
like that. All of this is to say thank you
for providing the platform where anyone can say anything free
of judgment and at the very least be heard. Thanks man,
Love you. Lyle from aka couch dot pdf on Instagram.
If you want to send this guy something on Instagram, PS,
(39:11):
I hope you eat food and drink some water. No,
like really, I hope you actually do that, because you
tend to joke about it. I do also eat a
Reese's mini cup for me. What the fuck is it?
You want me to eat real food and drink water?
You want me to eat candy? Because you can't say
those two things in the same email, all right? And
(39:35):
then he sent a picture of himself. That's cool, Ethan, Uh,
that's cool. This is a roundabout thing for you because
you're you're using your freedom that your family is giving.
You're using your newfound freedom from being your brother's main
interpreter to give other people the freedom of from being
(40:01):
their family's man interpreter. That's cool, that's noble. I fuck
with that. Okay, let's see we have more things, we
have more Okay. This is from Megan, subject line street change. Hi, Gek,
(40:27):
I know you have been to many cities all over
the world, and I wonder how you negotiate the sometimes
awkward interaction of a random person asking you for money.
This is interesting. I know there are a lot of
different reasons why someone might ask for some spare change,
and it's probably even harder now since people simply just
don't carry cash as much. If you walk or take
(40:51):
public transportation in a city, you will inevitably encounter it more.
But now that I drive, it doesn't happen as much.
But I'm still approached by people every now and then.
In most cases, if I had some dollars or change,
I would pass it on. I'm not rich by any means,
but at least I can pay my bills and sleep
in a warm bed at night more often than not. However,
I declined the request simply because I didn't have any
(41:14):
money on me, but because I felt like I was
also broke and struggling myself, even though, like I said,
I can pay my bills. And have a warm bed
to sleep in at the very least. I'm sure there
are many people who don't think about this at all
because it really happens to them. But when you're a
white girl walking home with a bag of groceries, you
feel like you can barely afford yourself, and then someone
(41:34):
asks for money and you don't have it because you've
been using your card to buy groceries. But the person
asking you for money probably can't even get a credit card.
It can send you into a mind spiral. Love you
get stay green, Look listen. I don't know, I'll say this.
(41:56):
I don't think you have to I don't think you
have to feel bad. I don't think you have to
take personal self uh. I don't think you have to
be mad at yourself and take responsibility for the existence
(42:16):
of all the poverty that exists in the world. You
sound like you help out when you can, which is like,
I mean, that's that's that's I mean most I don't
you know, most most people will just walk right the
fuck on bay and not even think about this kind
(42:36):
of stuff. So again, it's the noble to me that
you even care a little bit. You sound like you
can Here's the thing, Megan, is you care way more
than like the baseline amount that you need to care
(42:56):
to like not be a sed stick piece of shit,
you know what I mean, Like, like the the baseline
is that you there's people out there who like people
ask them for money and then they punch them in
the face. You know what I mean, Like the baseline
is so low and your skyrocketing past it by giving
(43:19):
even a little bit of a fuck about these these people.
Uh So, I don't. I don't think you need to
take full I don't think you need to mentally be
taking full responsibility for the existence of of of of poverty,
(43:40):
because it's hard. It's hard enough to like make sure
in life. It's it's hard enough. I think it's for
most people to make sure that like you have, you
got your own ship. You know, if if you ask
here's how I know. Here's how I do it. Is
if people ask me for money, I punched them in
(44:01):
the face. No, that's not what I do. I I don't.
I feel kind of weird giving people. Here's what I
Here's what I'll do if I'm like at uh this,
I mean, in New York City, you get asked for
you know, every time you walk out the street, you
get asked for money in New York City. If I'm outside,
if somebody's I don't like to give people like money,
but like if I'm standing outside, if I'm about to
(44:23):
go into seven eleven, or like a food place, or
like a McDonald's or a boat the place. This is
the places that I eat. If someone asks me for money,
I'll be like, I don't have any cash, but I'll
buy you some food if you want. If you want food,
I'll buy your food. And sometimes they say no, and
(44:43):
sometimes they say yes. But I'll that's I'll do that.
Not everyone can do that. I get it. I'm that
doesn't make me. I honestly feel kind of lame that
I even said that I do that. Sometimes that makes
me feel lame that I said that. I feel like
I'm there's nothing about me doing that or anyone who
(45:06):
doesn't do that that makes them a better or worse person.
I might even cut this from the podcast because I
feel it always makes me feel like someone I don't know.
People saying that I'm a good person makes me feel weird.
This is a weird. I don't I'm not gonna cut it.
From the podcast. We're gonna keep this in. But you're fine, dude,
(45:27):
You're fine. Don't kill anyone, don't embezzle money from the government. Uh, don't.
You don't have to hate yourself because of this. Let's
keep going. What does the chat say? Uh, let's see here.
(45:57):
Someone says, I will give a homeless person some food
or drinks, but not money because I don't know if
they're going to use it to buy drugs. I thought
that for a long time myself, but then I heard
someone be like, well, shit, that's just what I'm going
to spend it on. And that's true, that's true. What
(46:24):
else is in the chat right now? I almost never
have cash. I'm honest and say sorry, I wish them
a nice day. Cheat people like people goes a long way.
It's not lame, gak. You're helping people, Yeah, but it
feels lame to talk about. Someone said, I hate to
(46:48):
ask for money, and it feels weird to give money,
though I do it, especially when I'm kind of broke.
Someone says, what else to What are the people saying?
I donate regularly to a charity, so I feel that
(47:09):
means I don't have to donate to any others. All right, Uh,
let's keep going, someone said, okay, this is from King
Fro subject line longing and despair. Hi Gecko. I recently
(47:33):
had a month long tolerance break from weed because I
traveled to Japan and did not have access to weed.
I've been a smoker for three years and taking tolerance
breaks before, but this time I came back. I thought
it'd be the same as before, smoked a fat bowl
and then had the most intense three hours of anxiety
and deep thinking into everything. I get thoughts about how
(47:55):
everything is meaningless, and yet there is meaning in the
meaninglessness of my life. I talked to my therapist about this,
and he was lost for words because I made him
think the same way. And then he told me I
stumped him. Maybe asking a gecko will turn out differently.
Uh you stump? Well, what's you stumped him on? What?
(48:21):
What's the Here's what? I what's the question in this?
Hi geko, I recently had a month long tolerance bak
from weed because of travel with Japan didn't have weed.
I got anxiety about how everything is meaningless. Oh okay,
here it is. Everything is meaningless, and yet there is
meaning in the meaninglessness. Of my life. You stumped him.
(48:41):
This isn't it's you're You're You're not. He's not like
a troll under a bridge. You're This is just a
thought that you're having. Yeah, everything is meaningless and you
kind of get to decide your own meaning and I
fuck you stumped me? Ain't that's but this isn't a stump.
(49:02):
This isn't a stump. This is like a a stub
like it's you. It's just you've completed. This is a
complete thought. Weed is so funny because you'll like smoke
to get rid of anxiety, but then smoking will just
give you much more anxiety.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Someone says, okay, this is from Jillian subject line. I
popped the wrong ZiT. There was a ZiT on my
inner thigh. It was huge. I thought maybe popping it
would bring that instant satisfaction, so I queezed. So I
squeezed the body of the pustel and pressed in with
pretty smooth force. To my surprise, the white head was
(49:49):
just a small pimple next to a surface level cyst.
The cyst emptied under my skin and the texture between
the squeeze was crazy. Have fun untour. Thank you for
sharing Chilian. All right, this is from Jordan. Subject line
my roommates won't let my homeless girlfriend come over. Hello, Lyle,
(50:13):
I've been dating my girlfriend for about three months now.
One month into the relationship, my roommate and his girlfriend,
who recently moved in with us, sat me down and
expressed that they are not comfortable with having a stranger
being at our house. Does she live with? Does your
(50:33):
girlfriend live? Is the They also accused her of stealing
tampons from the bathroom and claimed that her taking showers
at our house, using the bathroom, etc. Would be an
issue as she does not pay utilities. I pointed out
the hypocrisy in the fact that my roommate's girlfriend would
come over quite often when they first started hanging out
(50:54):
and eventually moved in with us, which I was hesitant
about but ultimately cool with. The kicker is that my
girlfriend is literally homeless or unhoused. She lost her job,
her roommate went to jail, and she's temporarily staying with
her mom, but her mom is kicking her out. I'm
going to get my own place now. I guess my
(51:15):
question is should I shit on the floor before I leave? No? Short, Uh?
You know, I have a few I have a few
thoughts about this. Well, what I was I mean, here's
the thing, this is all moot. Here's here's here's the
main thought about this is it's all moot because you're
(51:38):
gonna get your own place. So who gives a fuck
about the situation at all because you've you've already made
the decision about what you're gonna do. So yeah, whatever
do here? I guess if this is the situation, like
you sound like you're pissed off still of these people
(52:00):
by saying, should I shit on the floor before I leave?
So why don't you just get your own place, live
with your girlfriend, shit on your own floor that you
if you really need to shit on a floor, and
just let the emotions of it be in the past,
and just fucking be with your girlfriend and hang out.
(52:22):
That's what I was gonna say, get your own place.
I mean, honestly, by the way, I kind of see
what you're I mean, your your roommate and his girlfriend
did have a point, and I get that there's a
hypocrisy that you're saying of like your roommate's girlfriend would
come over but you, But it's the room, the roommate's
girlfriend now lives in I mean, none of this matters
that you're moving out, but the roommate's girlfriend now lives
(52:45):
in the house with you guys, and I assume pays
for the rent and utilities. So yeah, they sounded like
they had a point of some kind, and that's a bummer.
It's a bummer that your girlfriend was dealing with a
(53:07):
lot of problems. I feel for that, but it's totally
not your roommate or your roommate's girlfriends responsibility to like
I get to deal with that. I guess, I don't know.
I mean, it doesn't matter. You're getting your own place,
(53:27):
shot on your own floor. To pick the ship up
from the floor and grab it and smell it and
rub it all over yourself and eat it and put
it back into your asshole, just for fun, just to
see what it's not. That has nothing to do with
anything that you've said in this email, But just do
it for fun, just to see what it's like, you know,
(53:54):
just to see, just to see what what would happen?
All right, ummm, let's keep going. Hello, mister Gecko, this
(54:17):
is from Nathan. I just learned that fighter jets can
hover in place crazy. Have you considered doing gaming streams
or videos or with that dilute the persona. I don't
really think I have a persona honestly, Like, let me,
can I just rant for a second? Can just ran
(54:38):
for a second? I really think like expressing opinions on
the internet makes me feel so uncomfortable, like just now,
like like this is one of the this is one
of the reasons. Every time every single one of these
email podcasts, after I record them and I send them
(54:59):
over to Brandon who edits the podcast, uh, and like
we schedule them to post them, I really get nervous
and anxious, and I'm like, what did I say on
that podcast? Because like I like, I don't because I
don't want to give takes. I kind of don't, but
(55:19):
I know I do naturally. That's if you have a
podcast and you're talking and people are asking you things
and they're telling you about their lives, it's it's impossible
to not give a take. I and I don't mind
having takes and thoughts and opinions, it's just when you
when you write them an ink on the internet, it's
like they're there forever and you, you know, ninety nine
(55:40):
percent of the time when I think something, someone will
tell me something and I'll be like, oh, all right, whatever,
you know. So I don't like, I'm putting like a
lot of words out there on the internet, which makes me,
it deeply makes me feel uncomfortable. But the only other
option would be to never say anything ever, which was
(56:04):
kind of boring to me. And you know, I'm I
professionally create this podcast that I've been and I've been
doing this for four, four or five years, so it's
too late number one. But then number two, it's like,
how do I how do I have a podcast but
(56:25):
not say anything? That's my dream? Can I figure that out?
How do I have a podcast where I talk to
people about their lives but just not say anything? And
I do have a lot of podcasts where I just
don't say anything. And then I was like, let's let
me just start doing one where I say all everything,
all the things and I don't know if I'll regret it,
(56:47):
but like, also, what's the worst is gonna happen is
someone is like, I didn't like what you said about
that guy's life, and then I just you know what
I'll do, I'll just go outside, dude, isn't that anytime
you want, anytime you want, anytime, really, anytime you want,
you can just go outside and it's all there. You
(57:12):
do you ever? Is it crazy that like you forget that.
Speaker 2 (57:15):
Sometimes anytime you want you can just you can just
turn off your computer and go outside and it's like
nothing on your computer was ever ever existed. It's really crazy.
It's a crazy thing. I'm not even saying this facetiously.
I'm saying this. I want with utmost utter sincerity.
Speaker 1 (57:40):
Whoever wrote me that, whoever, if anyone, by the way,
just if, just so I'm clear, If anyone is listening
to this podcast and I responded to your email and
you didn't like what I said, I'm side probably didn't
mean it. I don't know. I'm crazy. Keep going, let's
keep talking to people. Uh oh yeah, oh yeah. Why
(58:04):
do I go on that rant? Would that dilute your persona?
I don't really have a persona. I'm just a. I
don't have a persona. I have a costume. And I
guess I do have a persona. I guess if you
speak publicly on a podcast or a video or something,
you are doing like a heightened version of of how
you would normally speak, but I don't think it's different.
(58:25):
I just think it's like amplified. I would do a
gaming stream. I think that could be fun. Play some melee. Okay,
let's let the whole email. I think it would also
for these ret I think it would also for these
rant episodes. You could make a po box to get
real mail from people. That would be kind of cool.
(58:46):
I just don't. I'm just too lazy to do that.
They make crazy stuff from the videos I've seen. But
then you also have to say everything is really good,
and some of it might be like not or something.
Do I have to say everything is really good? I
don't have to. I'd probably be inclined to. I'd probably
(59:10):
be feel guilty if I didn't, But I don't have to.
Do you have any game recommendations for me or anyone? Uh?
What have I been playing lately? Well? I just finished
Links Awakening on the Switch. I played a little bit
of the Last of Us, and then I got stuck
and didn't care about it anymore. Uh. I'm probably gonna
(59:35):
download Echoes of Wisdom, and then I'm gonna get Mario
and Luigi Brothership. Those are the next two on my list.
I kind of want to get the new Mario party.
There is no way this is making this to the pod,
is there? Well, buddy, guess what, Nathan. Guess what, Nathan.
All you had to do to make it to the
podcast was to ask me questions about myself and I
(59:58):
would go, I'm much of BLI will happily talk about
myself forever as people as people love to do. Well,
thanks for emailing me, Nathan. Okay, high Lyle. This is
from Cooper high Lyle. I don't have much to say
except there are two crackheads living under the Breache like
(01:00:20):
a minute away from my house. It started as one
like two months ago, but recently another has moved in two.
They aren't causing problems besides the occasional schizophrenic episode where
the original yells at himself Jesus Christ. Not looking for advice,
(01:00:40):
don't This is why this is weird, Cooper. I don't
like this the original. They're not fucking pokemon, They're human beings,
not looking for advice, just giving support from the shit
filled holler of Kentucky. Well, I mean that sucks. I
(01:01:02):
don't know. I feel bad for they're living under a bridge. Dude,
like that sucks. You know, once you go talk, why
don't you go hang out with them for a second.
Why don't you go hang out with these guys? You
clear you you clearly don't view these people as remotely
(01:01:25):
human beings. So go you should go under the bridge
and just talk talk to these people and just see,
just see if they'll speak it, if they'll say anything
to you. You could learn something. Who knows, I don't know,
or you could maybe maybe you'll start doing crack with them.
You know what can happen? You know what I really
(01:01:46):
want to happen. I want you to go to the bridge.
You meet these two, these two guys, and they offer
you a little bit of crack, and you're like, you
know what, sure, I'm being open minded. I'm gonna take
some crack. And you're like, you know what, tracks actually
pretty awesome. I get why you guys are living under
this bridge and then you become addicted to crack. And
(01:02:06):
then now there's three of you guys. Now there's now
there's three uh crackheads living unto the bridge, and you
guys have a good you can you'll just just you know,
maybe maybe it's maybe it'll be good for you to
do crack with these guys and just learn a little
bit about them. That's what I would do if I
were you, I would go talk to these guys and
(01:02:28):
see what's going on with them. All right, I'll do
how long have I been going for? I'll do one more.
I'll do one more. What do you guys think of
this party? Let me know in the comments if Okay,
I've done three of these so far now, and like
(01:02:50):
I said, I get nervous every time I do these.
I really do. I really I feel like nervous. I'm
nervous right now about this, not even because like yeah,
so let me know in the comments if you enjoy
listening to this, if you have thoughts, all right, let
(01:03:15):
me do one more. Email Okay, okay, this is from Duplex,
seeking advice on job advancement. Okay, Hey, mister GHEK, I
hope this message finds you well. About a year ago,
I applied for a manager position on a whim. Honestly,
I never expected to get it, especially since I lacked
(01:03:36):
the experience at the time. I regretfully admit that I
may have exaggerated my qualifications on the application. Now, having
spent a year in this role, I have gained valuable
knowledge and skills. However, my boss has recently approached to
me about moving up to a general manager position, which
comes with increased responsibilities. I'm feeling quite overwhelmed, as I
(01:03:58):
know I'm not fully prepared for this role. While I
recognize that this opportunity offers better pay and growth potential,
I'm apprehensive about taking on. So it's a significant change.
I'd greatly appreciate any ofvice you have on how to
best navigate the situation. Totally take the job. I don't
even have to think about this. Take the job and
you'll grow into it. It's like scared. This is a
classic shit like I mean, look, bro, you went into
(01:04:20):
the original job lacking experience, and you've been there for
a year and you're fine. You grew into it. That's
how like growth works, man, is you got it. You
go out and try to do something that you didn't
think you were prepared to do or able to do,
and you face yourself with it and you you grow. Yeah,
(01:04:43):
this is kind of a classic classic thing. What'd you
think I was? What's the alternative? Never do anything? Actually,
that sounds awesome. You could totally do that too. That
sounds great. Never doing anything. Yeah, you know what, you
know what? I know. I just said a bunch of
like motivational shit, But I take it all back. You
(01:05:04):
should not. You should just quit your job and see
if you can live with your parents and see if
they'll make you food and stay just play video games
all day and get high. That's fuck. That sounds awesome.
I'm not even being facetious. That really sounds great. Okay,
So I'll say this. I'll say this, you could. You
(01:05:28):
should go and take this job. I think you'll grow
into it. I think you'll get the right I think
you'll grow into it. But worst case scenario if you
get fired, Like you know, living with your mom and
eating chicken nuggets and playing video games is pretty awesome.
(01:05:50):
So your life's gonna be great no matter what. I
hope you take solace in that. All right. Well that
was That was my third try at gek mail. That
was my third try gak mail. I don't know how
it went. I'm actually nervous about it. So let me
know if this was any enjoyable to you as a
listener of this podcast. Let me know if you have thoughts, feelings,
(01:06:15):
and sentiments about anything and thank you guys for listening.
Once again. I'm about to go and do a bunch
of live shows. I'm in Minneapolis on the twenty fourth.
I am in Berlin, Manchester, London, Cologne, Dublin, Glasgow also
in November, and you can get tickets for all those
(01:06:36):
at therapy geckotour dot com. Thanks for listening, Thanks for
humoring me while I make attempts to do a new thing.
Thanks for bearing with me. Thanks for having some faith
in me. I'm going to try to have faith in
life as well. And you know, it's funny. I was, uh,
(01:07:03):
it's so funny. The first time I did this, the
get mail thing, I was like, I might just never
do calls again. I might just do this. I'm having
so much more fun doing this. And then I think
my like optimism faded a little bit, and now I'm like, oh,
you know, I kind of want to go back to
doing phone calls. But uh, I'm glad I tried something
(01:07:24):
and I will do more of this, but uh yeah, anyway,
all right, it's been an hour and fifteen minutes. I'm
sick of myself. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you
guys around the universe.
Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
Again, goes on the line, taking your phone calls every night.
Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Never beacon goes out, and I was teaching you Cloud
in the mean of your line. He's not an expert.
Hello, what's up? Welcome back to gek Mail. Gek Mail
is what I am calling the version of this podcast
where I don't take any phone calls and I just
rant alone for an hour or so and read emails.
It's been a new development in my podcasting journey. I
(00:21):
felt like I should switch it up a little bit again.
I don't know, I'm probably not gonna do this every
single week, but I'm having fun with it, and so
I'm going to keep going. I guess before before we start,
I'm just gonna say I, if you live in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
I am coming to your city to do my final
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Therapy Gecko show of the year on November twenty fourth,
and before that I will be going to Europe and
the United Kingdom to do Therapy Gecko shows in Amsterdam, Berlin,
manch Esther, London, Cologne, Dublin, and Glasgow. And if you
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want to get tickets for any of those, you can
do it at Therapy Gecko tour dot com. That's my
only little plug. So we let's let's start talking about stuff.
I'm trying to start these episodes by just talking about
like things from my life for my week, and I
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only only have two of them. So the first one
is I was so I was watching porn last night.
I was watching porn last night and a little I
was on Pornhub and a little ad came up. And
the ad it said, like, watch fat, ugly guys fuck
(01:52):
hot girls. And it showed a picture of a guy
naked next to a hot girl. And I swear to God,
the guy, I swear on my life. The guy in
the picture had the exact same body as me, exactly
the same. His hair was placed the exact same way,
(02:13):
his belly looked the exact same And it was a
bit of a wake up call for me if I
literally I took a screenshot of it so I couldn't
refer back to it. So you know, listen, I don't
want to be on the record saying that my weight
loss journey is starting soon, because then people will shove
(02:34):
it in my face a year later if I get fatter.
But it just that did that shocked and appalled me.
I will say, but it's good, it's a good Actually
it didn't. It more, it more so motivated me. It
confirmed There's something kind of nice about like an objective
confirmation that, like you know, you got you do something,
(02:57):
you gotta do something anyway. Uh that's one thing. The
other thing is this was today. You know, I try
pretty hard to not be judgmental on this show and
in my I try in my real life to not
be judgmental. And this is a recent thing. This is
(03:18):
like since I've started. I mean, I think throughout my
life I've tried to be judgmental, but I think now
that it's become like, uh, you know, literally not like
what this podcast is about, but like, you know, I
just try. I try not to be judgmental, but it's
but it's it's a if you don't if you're not
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always actively it's a thing you have to actively do
because as a human being, I think your default is
to be judgmental and be like, you know, fuck that guy,
And so I judge people all the time because it's
the human default. I'm I can be as judgmental as
any other person. And I was in an elevator to
(04:02):
get to my apartment. But I was in my apartments
elevator and I got on and this girl pressed too,
and I was looking at her with a lot of judgment.
I was like, what are you, What the fuck are
you doing? Taking the elevator to the second floor. There's
just literally one set of stairs. It's not like the
(04:25):
whole thing we have to go up multiple sets of
stairs to get to the second floor. Just one set
of stairs. And I was really judging this lady for
taking the elevator to the second floor, and then I
realized I live on the third floor. That's all it
took for me to feel like I was better than
this person. It's just one floor. It's like, well, no,
(04:45):
I'm not, you know, being lazy. I live on the
third floor. You live on the second floor. There's a difference.
That's all it took was one floor to get to
step to make me a true, much better person than
this lady taking the elevator to the second floor. Okay,
(05:08):
I'm gonna get better at doing this. I'm gonna get
better at externalizing like this. But uh, we're gonna We're
gonna keep let's keep trying. Someone in the chat said,
I'm not sure I agree with humanity's default setting being judgmental.
I kind of think that it is, though, I kind
(05:29):
of think that it is, like it's definitely well because
there's a lot of reasons why I think it is
I think, well, one, it's fun, It's really fun. It
feels good. It feels good. Like it's in the same
way that like eating candy feels good and smoking weed
feels good and all these other like you know, fucking
hating someone and and thinking that they suck and you're
(05:51):
so much better than them. There's like it. I think
it like sainifically, probably releases a lot of dopamine in
your brain. And also you just you need something to
grab onto, like you need to. Kind of life is
a weird, abstract thing. It's intangible, and when you can
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feel like you're better than someone else, you feel like
you exist more. And that's I think we all want
to kind of feel like we exist. And so it
helps to make someone to look at someone else and
be like, you suck. That's why I do it. I guess,
all right, should we take some emails? Should we look
at some stuff? Let's do that. Let's do let's do
(06:38):
some Let's do some emails. All right. This is from
Steph subject line advice slash opinion. Okay, I can do
an opinion. Steph says love your show been subscribed on
Apple Podcasts since twenty twenty one. You have the ability
(06:59):
to squeeze honesty out of people with your excellently timed responses.
Thank you, Steph. And by providing comfort through your own honesty,
you're able to unlock more interesting conversations. Thank you, Steph. Okay,
quick question, how should I tell my five year old
his dad is in prison? Or should I tell him
at all? Oh? God, oh man, I'm not the right
(07:22):
uh hm, I'll let me think about this. Should I
wait until he understands more when he is older, or
waiting cause something emotionally irreversible. Thanks. I'm trying to debate
if I have an opinion on this, because I don't have. Okay,
I'm trying to remember what life was like when you
(07:43):
were five, Like when I was let's see, I think
let's see, my parents got divorced in like two thousand
three or one, and I was like five or seven.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It kind of I think, because I understood it so young,
it was just like a part I like, like it
was something I I can't remember life before that. And
so maybe if you tell your kid now, like your
(08:26):
kid will always like that's the reality that they'll grow
up in. And I mean, it's the I guess it's
the reality that they'll grow up in whether or not
you tell them. God, I have to admit I don't
have I don't have advice for this person at all.
I'm sorry. Well, he's gonna find out eventually, do I
(08:47):
I get this is one of the ones where I'd
want to talk to them because I'm curious if the
if your son, I mean your son probably asks about
his dad, right, what are five year olds like? Do
they talk? Do they have thoughts and opinions about, do
they observe stuff? Are they real people? Kind of? I
(09:09):
guess there's probably a way to explain it. I could
see an episode of Sesame Street where like Elmo's father
is in jail for embezzlement and uh and and like
some celebrity has to come in and gently explain to
(09:29):
him that. So I bet I five A five year
could probably handle it. I don't know, let's get but
what someone said, well, she also said, will waiting cause
something emotionally irreversible? I don't think so. I don't think
that will cause something emotionally irver irreversible. I think if
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you hit him or deprived him of food, that would
be emotionally irreversible. But just telling him that reality of
his dad being in prison. I mean, it's not your
fault that his dad is in prison. Do the I don't.
(10:14):
I want to let I I guess my opinion. If
I had to give an opinion on this, I would say,
you're clearly you're a person who is acting with your
child's best interest, and so I think as long as
you as long as that's your priority, you're not going
(10:37):
to cause emotional, emotionally irreversible damage to your kid. I
think as long as you do that and give them food. Okay,
this is from Sean subject line. I know it's the check.
Hold on, let me see what the chat thinks. Someone
says there's five year olds that shoot guns. That's true.
(11:03):
Someone said children themselves are known for telling the truth
without sugarcoating it. So there it's a possibility that so
you're really if you just say, hey, your dad's in prison,
maybe that maybe that's we'll we'll give him the uh uh.
(11:23):
Maybe you're speaking his language there. Okay. This is from
Sean subject line the BBW issue. Sean says, hey, there,
my g straight to the point. I couldn't tell I'm handsome,
but like I'm really alright, I do sports. I'm six
foot one tall. Thing is, I'm really into bbw's for
(11:47):
the layman that stands for big beautiful women, And like,
I broke up with my recent girlfriend because she wasn't
fat and ugly enough and all so shorts. I forgot
to mention the ugly factor. Now when I date fat
chicks that most guys will rate as a three, they
(12:10):
like ask, they ask, why would a guy like you
even call me on a date? And that's always the trap? Okay,
And then he writes, Then he writes, I am very
very very very very sorry if someone finds this offensive. Well,
(12:37):
here's what I don't understand about. Here's the I guess
the main thing that I understand about this email is
what do you what is your issue here? I guess
in your own brain what there? You could observe other issues,
but that's for I don't know what is the issue
(12:58):
in this email. I'm really into BVWS. I broke up
with my recent girlfriend because she wasn't fat and ugly enough,
And now women will ask, why would a guy like
you even call me on a date? And that's always
the trap. Why is that a trap? You don't sound.
I mean everything else aside I was, I was just
(13:25):
I don't really, I don't, I only really, I only
within the last two seconds did it come to me
that this person might be fucking with me. But I
part of me thinks they're not. I mean that's cool.
I mean try to Why is this surprise? Wouldn't it
(13:49):
be like this is like kind of a good because
wouldn't it be worse for you if like you were,
like I really can only be attracted to like really
really really attractive people. Wouldn't that make your life more difficult?
This is like a good thing. I guess yeah, because
(14:14):
when you say that's a trap, I don't understand how
what why you're referring to this as a trap anyway? Okay,
I mean that's cool this this guy's got a good life. Okay, yeah,
what does the chat think? Just tell the woman that
(14:44):
she's your type. I'm sure a lot of women would
appreciate that. What I guess so well, I don't is
that like when someone when you when if someone says
to you, this is a this is a question for
the people, for the people listening, if you're dating someone,
then they say that you're like physically you are their type.
(15:06):
How does that make you feel? Do you feel good?
Do you feel good about that? Or are you like
me personally? Me personally? I have had experiences before where
someone has told me they're like, I am into hairy
Jewish guys and maybe this is like a guy thing.
I don't know. But when someone says that to me,
(15:27):
I'm like, that cool, sick. I'm honored to be the
hairy Jewish guy in your life at this moment. I
take no issue with that, but that maybe that's not
a universal Maybe that's not universal. All right? What else
(15:51):
does the chat say? He sounds like he doesn't think
he deserves someone attractive. I didn't get that feeling from
them at all. Someone in the chat says, I am
an ugly guy and beautiful women like me. Lol. That's
(16:15):
really nice. All right? This is from spin Top, subject
line boyfriend wants to move out. I don't. I'm unsure
if you're still reading emails, but here's mine. You didn't
(16:35):
really need to include that. My name is Daniel and
I'm currently in a relationship with another man. We both
live in South Florida, and after dealing with Hurricane Milton,
which fortunately did not hit us. Both my partner and
I have learned and come to the conclusion that due
to climate change growing worse over the years, things will
(16:56):
get worse in the state of Florida and we will
soon be living underwater. So my partner wants to move out.
I've lived in Florida my entire life. I'm twenty two
years old, so moving out to a new tour moving
out is new territory for me. And secondly, I'm currently
in two growing punk bands. That's pretty cool. I'm really
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into the punk scene, and I know people who know
larger artists me. Moving out would mean me leaving behind
everything I've built and having to start all over. Music
is my passion. I want to be like the theoc's
and perform in front of large audiences and make music
for a living. Okay, I'm gonna finish reading this before
(17:40):
I get my thoughts. I've told him that if I
were to move, I'd be interested in checking out Philly, Chicago, Jersey,
or Seattle, all great cities. He's okay with Seattle, mainly
because all the other cities I've mentioned to him are
He's okay with Seattle and all the other cities I've
mentioned to him are quote unquote get it to him
(18:01):
except his home state of New Jersey. I am really
unsure how the music scene is like and how the
city looks over in Seattle. I'm just overall scared that
I'll be leaving behind everything and end up in another
city with nothing for me. I'll be losing all my
friends that I have here, and I'm scared I'll end
(18:22):
up having to give up on my dream. One Currently
I'm building up closer to achieving my dream. Please Green Gecko,
give me your wisdom. Sincerely, Daniel Oh. I actually I
really like this email. There's a lot to think about here,
and I feel like I have some experience, first of all,
as your fucking boyfriend been to these cities, because if
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he's it would kind of piss me off if he's
just saying that they're ghettos without being there. Chicago and
Philly are awesome cities. There are the two cities. I
live in New York, but I'm I'm constantly thinking about
leaving one day, and Chicago and Philly are like next
(19:05):
up on my list. Both like great walkable cities with
a lot of you know, public transport and culture. And
I'm sure Philly and Chicago have Here's the thing, dude,
you live in South abround Broward County. Where the fuck
is Broward County? I guarantee Chicago Philly both have much
(19:28):
better scenes for for what you want to do than
Broward County, Florida. Okay, you're like, yeah, you're in You're
like near Miami. I don't know what to Miami. When
I think Miami, this is completely I mean, I've been
to Miami a bunch of times. But when I think Miami,
I don't think grungey punk. I think like pristine like
DJ club people. If you want to get into some
(19:51):
grungey like punk shit, then I mean, yeah, Philly Jersey
are are the way to go. But here's what this
really comes down to is I suppose a you're currently
into growing punk bands like you Okay, So basically, you
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have a community already where you live, and you really
like your community where you live, and you're afraid of
having to leave it behind and start and new. There's
a lot of ways to think about this. Wanting to
leave Florida because it's going to be underwater is a
(20:38):
good idea. I think, I don't know. Wanting to leave
Florida because it's going to be underwater soon. Is is
is not a bad idea. I mean, I'm sure that
the other people, there's a bunch of people who live
down there, they're probably going to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
But I think if you really want to like, listen
to what you want to do, right, listen to what
you want to do, If you.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Really want to leave Florida, and you really believe that
the future of your life is outside of Florida, then
we can go further into reasons why you should feel
confident in your decision. But if the only thing that's
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driving you out of Florida is your boyfriend and you're
twenty two, it's not like you said, fucking married and
you have kids and a whole thing, then I wouldn't
do this just because your boyfriend wants you to. I'm one.
(21:50):
I remember I grew up. I would grow up. I
didn't grow up in Philly. I went to college in Philly,
and I had a little comedy club in my base
mint in Philadelphia. It was called Cave I ran it.
I ran like a little comedy club out of my
basement for three years in Philadelphia. And I remember when
I left Philadelphia to go to Atlanta. I was feeling
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of and I was twenty two. I was feeling very
very similar way as you feel that I had a
community and I had built so much up already, and
I was like, should I should I leave and pursue
further objectives or should I foster the growing community that
I already have, and blah blah blah. And here here's
(22:37):
what I ultimately think is that you got to operate
from an abundance mindset, especially when you're fucking young. You
don't want to just be like, all right, we settled,
we did it. When you're twenty two, yeah, operate from
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that abundance mindset and like, oh the Philly punks. I'm
gonna take over the Philly punk scene. I'm gonna go
out to shows seven nights a week. I'm gonna talk
to strangers. I'm gonna start putting on my own shows.
I'm gonna form a new band, I'm gonna get involved.
(23:19):
Because any using you can go to any of these
fucking cities, and if you just keep showing up and
putting on your own things that other people go to,
you'll be fine. Right, You'll be fine because you're operating
(23:40):
from a mindset that there's always gonna be more opportunities
for you. But if you're just doing this because your boyfriends,
who kind of sounds I was about to say he
sounds like an asshole, but you all you've said is
that he said that these places are ghettos. I'm not
(24:06):
gonna say he's an asshole because I don't know him,
but he doesn't sound it from everything I know about him,
which is limited. It sounds like, you know, I don't
know if you need to make major, major life decisions
based on what he wants to do. But that's my
(24:31):
ultimate feeling about this is that whatever wherever you do,
wherever you go, just take have an abind have an
abundance mindset that there's actually a lot more things to
do and people to meet, and bands to play in
and music to create, and you'll be fine no matter
(24:53):
what you do. What's the chat say? The chat just says,
why are you so Harry? Are you Italian? All right?
Someone said, if you've got money, just move already. The
world is too nice to just stick to one location.
(25:14):
I feel that way in a sense. I feel like
if you just grow up. I feel like if I
mean this person would they say, they say that they
lived Did you grow up there? Oh yeah, I've lived
in Florida my whole life. You've lived in Florida your
whole life. If you've lived here your whole life. In
twenty two I think I think it helps the soul
to see what life is like in other parts of
(25:36):
the country, in the world. Someone said, modern society tells
you that you need to settle somewhere, build roots, establish
a four oh one k. People all over have very fulfilling,
non traditional lifestyles. I agree with that very much. Oh wait,
(25:59):
what did someone say that I'm in I live in
Tampa and the punk scene is way better here than
in Broward, But it's even better in Seattle. Yeah. All
those places that you mentioned, bro, Yeah yeah, dude, all
those places that you mentioned are gonna be way cooler
than Broward County, Florida. Go go, go have an adventure, man,
(26:19):
Go have an adventure. Maybe who knows, maybe you'll find
a new boyfriend or you can or keep the one
you have. I don't know. I don't know why I'm
railing on your boyfriend. Maybe he's nice, I don't know him. Okay,
let's move on. Okay. This is from Ebbie, subject line
poolboy woes Hi GEK, love you, thanks dog. I work
(26:45):
at a hotel with some friends. I'm the pool boy
slash maintenance worker. It's a nice job when it's not
insanely busy, but I'm the evening worker, so I'm in
charge of closing the pool, cleaning and restocking. I got
called in one morning after closing the previous night and
the pool was a mess, dirty towels, water all over
(27:05):
the floor, bathroom lights were on, and the pool room
lights were on. Turns out the hotel front desk night
shift let their buddies. Wait. Okay, hollo, lot of these
an evening work. I was too busy reading the actual
like I was too busy saying the words to actually
comprehend what I was reading. Okay, he's in charge of
cleaning and restocking. He got called in in the morning
after closing the previous night. Okay, all right, So he closes,
(27:29):
comes in in the morning and everything's fucked up. Turns
out the hotel front desk night shift let their buddies
in after hours to the pool and they didn't clean
up after themselves. I had told my supervisor because if
they saw that on camera, they'd think I forgot to
lock the door. It's fucked up. About half the front
desk workers talk down to me now and treat me
(27:52):
like shit. My family tells me I'm a party pooper,
but I was just doing my job. Your family told
you you're a party pooper. To be fair, they could
have cleaned up after themselves and I wouldn't have known
they were there. Is this deserved? Bro would have gotten
chemical burns if it was being super chlorinated for fecal contamination.
(28:12):
The story is funny to me now, except it's not
fun when I'm on shift with those front desk workers.
Levey again, ghek, you make this hell job a lot better? Wow,
Oh that's fucked up. Your family told you you were
being a party pooper. Damn did an? I'm I feel
(28:34):
bad for you. Did anybody in this situation have your back?
Do you confront the front desk worker? Why do they
talk down to you? That sucks man? BRO would have
gotten chemical burns if I was being if it was
being super chlorinated for yeah right, yeah? Did you have
(28:59):
to clean up that morning on the clean the fucking pool?
Clean up after these people? Is this does walkay. The
main question you said is is this deserved? Is what deserved? Like?
Is the is your anger? Are your feelings valid? Yeah?
(29:22):
Of course, But the question becomes like what do you
what do you actually do about it? Which is an
interesting one. Do you do you have you? Have you?
I assume you stood up for yourself and you're told
(29:42):
them that, uh, they can't. They can't be fucking around
with you doing this anymore unless you didn't. Man, I
kind of feel like a piece of ship because this
is one of this is one. This is one of
those emails where I want to what and Ebbie, if you, ebb,
if you you? If you? If you hear this, this
is a two week old email. If you hear this,
(30:04):
call in. I want to talk about this story because
I have questions for you. I want to know how
you responded to this, because like we can here's here's
my here's my here's my thing with Like, there's a
lot of Reddit posts out there about like am I overreacting?
Or are my feelings valid? And they're the question of
(30:30):
whether or not one's feelings are valid is like, it's
an interesting question because I look, if you're asking me
my perspective, Are your feelings about fucking of course? Yeah,
of course there are. These people were fucking with you, right,
But the question of whether or not your feelings are valid,
I guess only matters if it leads to an action
(30:52):
of some kind, right, like, like did you what did
you say to these people the way you tell your boss?
Are you in a position where you can where you
really feel like you've been disrespected enough that you can
go look for a job somewhere else? Are you in
that financial position to be able to do that? So
(31:13):
that's the question of like, are your feelings valid? Of
course they are, But that's not the question. The question
is what should you do now? And those are all
the questions I have for you. Is are you in
a position where if you really feel like you're in
a place where everywhere, your family and your coworkers and
your boss are all just like out for you, Like
(31:36):
at a certain point, when do you kind of stand
up for yourself and go either, well, you stand up
to yourself for them, and you go, hey, I can't
be treated this way. And then if they don't give
a fuck, when are you like, Okay, I need to
leverage myself somewhere else, and are you in a position
to do that? Can you save until you're in a
(31:57):
position to do that? Yeah, call in, man, these are
questions I want to I want to ask you about
the situation. But uh but no, you're not. You're not
crazy for uh not for having somebody else's mess blamed
on you. Oh wait is he in the chat? Oh?
He's in the chat? Oh? Okay, hold on, Well, I
(32:18):
don't know how this is gonna work. They're all friends,
he said. The funniest thing is the manager hates them.
But nothing was really done. Okay, call, he said, I'll call,
he said, I'll call in when I can. But management
fucking sucks here. All right, Well, now he's in the
(32:41):
he's in the chat. Okay, let's keep going. This is
from McKenzie. This is from McKenzie. Subject line should I
transfer schools? Mackenzie says, Hi, I get. I transferred to
(33:01):
university this semester. I have been taking classes in person
and I absolutely love the program I am in. With
that being said, I have been considering transferring to a
different schools online program for a couple of reasons. One
is that it's a two hour commute to my school
one way. Oh Jesus man, that's four hours. This program
(33:24):
is only in person and only offered on specific days
at only one time. Next semester, they wanted me on
campus four days a week, which I can't do because
I have a job that is directly related to my degree.
It's the same degree, same cost covered by FASTPA. The
only difference is it's online versus in person and I
(33:44):
have fomo. What do you think I should do? Well?
The court? Well, you say you have fomo, Well, I'm
curious about it. If you, what do you what do
you have fomo about? I've been taking class, this is
in person, and I absolutely love the program I'm in. Well,
(34:05):
I here's the thing I can't really like. I'm not
going to answer what I think you should do, But
the questions I would have are what do you love
about the program? And what are you afraid of missing
out on? And are the things you love about the
program things that specifically are about being in person? And
(34:29):
are and is that? And are the things you have
fomo about specifically related to being in person? Here? Because
if you have fomo about, just like you just naturally
want to be around other people. If you have fomo
(34:52):
that you just naturally want to be around other people
who are in your field and connect with them. If
you choose to do the online route, I feel like
there's creative solutions to do that, like a fucking discord
(35:14):
with the other classmates, or like weekly in person meetups
or something like that. There's there's I think you can
kind of have your cake and eat it too, if
that's what you want to do. So I guess I
would say that. That's what I would say if I
had to kind of think critically about this, is that
(35:35):
I would look at what is if you decide if
you go through all the logistics and you're like, I
really if you go through all the logistics and your
really you are trying to make in person work, but
you've you've landed on like I fucking just can't make
it work. I have to do the online thing. I
(35:55):
wouldn't And again, you have to do your exhaustive pros
and cons list before you make that decision. But if
you go down the path of like, you know, I
just have to do this shit online, I wouldn't completely
give up the things that you love about it. I
would be like, how can I hybrid this how can
(36:18):
I take the things I love about being in this
in person program and find a way to sort of
fulfill those vessels, sort of fulfill those desires while also
doing this online program and kind of, I guess, get
creative with how you can do that. Yeah, call in
(36:41):
about this too, call it about everyone, call in. You know,
when I first started doing these emails, these email things,
I was really just like, I want to Well, it's
fun to rant, it's fun to talk on the podcast.
But now I'm now I'm like, oh man, I feel
like I'm sometimes I'm doing the phone call podcast and
(37:02):
I'm like, I'm letting the callers talk too much. I'm
not getting I'm not able to talk. And then I
do this one and I'm like, this is a lot
of me. This is a lot of me talking. But
it's fun. They're both, they're both interesting, they're both I'm
having a good time. This is from Ethan subject line
I was on stage with you. Oh shit, I know
(37:23):
exactly who this guy is. After Yeah, I know exactly
who this guy is. Hello, Lyle, hope you're doing well.
I went to your Philly show in September of twenty
twenty three, and we talked about how I am the
main interpreter for my deaf brother. I do remember you.
I wanted to let you know that was a big
weight off my shoulders, just getting it out there that
I'm stressed about it. That's awesome. Now my family has
(37:45):
been making more of an effort to communicate with my
brother and making it less my job. Yeah. So I
remember this guy Ethan came on stage in my Philly
show a year ago and he talked about how he's
the main interpreter for his deaf brother and that he
was stressed out about having all of this uh responsibility
and kind of like what he should what he should
(38:06):
do about it. Yeah, I remember that conversation. I'm also
in the process of getting certified to be an interpreter,
so I can possibly be able to relieve some other
family members of the stress of constantly being the closest interpreter. See.
We talked about that because I was like, because he
was the main interpreter for his brother, and I was like, well,
(38:27):
can you can your brother or I don't know what
government shit you can get, or like, is there a
way to have like some other like someone who's whose
job is deaf interpreting to you know, be with your
brother so that you can go and live your own life. Yeah,
we talked about that. Uh, that's cool that you're like, Oh,
(38:49):
I'm gonna go be that guy for someone else. I
like that. All of this is to say thank you
for providing the platform where anyone can say anything free
of judgment and at the very least be heard. Thanks man,
Love you. Lyle from aka couch dot pdf on Instagram.
If you want to send this guy something on Instagram, PS,
(39:11):
I hope you eat food and drink some water. No,
like really, I hope you actually do that, because you
tend to joke about it. I do also eat a
Reese's mini cup for me. What the fuck is it?
You want me to eat real food and drink water?
You want me to eat candy? Because you can't say
those two things in the same email, all right? And
(39:35):
then he sent a picture of himself. That's cool, Ethan, Uh,
that's cool. This is a roundabout thing for you because
you're you're using your freedom that your family is giving.
You're using your newfound freedom from being your brother's main
interpreter to give other people the freedom of from being
(40:01):
their family's man interpreter. That's cool, that's noble. I fuck
with that. Okay, let's see we have more things, we
have more Okay. This is from Megan, subject line street change. Hi, Gek,
(40:27):
I know you have been to many cities all over
the world, and I wonder how you negotiate the sometimes
awkward interaction of a random person asking you for money.
This is interesting. I know there are a lot of
different reasons why someone might ask for some spare change,
and it's probably even harder now since people simply just
don't carry cash as much. If you walk or take
(40:51):
public transportation in a city, you will inevitably encounter it more.
But now that I drive, it doesn't happen as much.
But I'm still approached by people every now and then.
In most cases, if I had some dollars or change,
I would pass it on. I'm not rich by any means,
but at least I can pay my bills and sleep
in a warm bed at night more often than not. However,
I declined the request simply because I didn't have any
(41:14):
money on me, but because I felt like I was
also broke and struggling myself, even though, like I said,
I can pay my bills. And have a warm bed
to sleep in at the very least. I'm sure there
are many people who don't think about this at all
because it really happens to them. But when you're a
white girl walking home with a bag of groceries, you
feel like you can barely afford yourself, and then someone
(41:34):
asks for money and you don't have it because you've
been using your card to buy groceries. But the person
asking you for money probably can't even get a credit card.
It can send you into a mind spiral. Love you
get stay green, Look listen. I don't know, I'll say this.
(41:56):
I don't think you have to I don't think you
have to feel bad. I don't think you have to
take personal self uh. I don't think you have to
be mad at yourself and take responsibility for the existence
(42:16):
of all the poverty that exists in the world. You
sound like you help out when you can, which is like,
I mean, that's that's that's I mean most I don't
you know, most most people will just walk right the
fuck on bay and not even think about this kind
(42:36):
of stuff. So again, it's the noble to me that
you even care a little bit. You sound like you
can Here's the thing, Megan, is you care way more
than like the baseline amount that you need to care
(42:56):
to like not be a sed stick piece of shit,
you know what I mean, Like, like the the baseline
is that you there's people out there who like people
ask them for money and then they punch them in
the face. You know what I mean, Like the baseline
is so low and your skyrocketing past it by giving
(43:19):
even a little bit of a fuck about these these people.
Uh So, I don't. I don't think you need to
take full I don't think you need to mentally be
taking full responsibility for the existence of of of of poverty,
(43:40):
because it's hard. It's hard enough to like make sure
in life. It's it's hard enough. I think it's for
most people to make sure that like you have, you
got your own ship. You know, if if you ask
here's how I know. Here's how I do it. Is
if people ask me for money, I punched them in
(44:01):
the face. No, that's not what I do. I I don't.
I feel kind of weird giving people. Here's what I
Here's what I'll do if I'm like at uh this,
I mean, in New York City, you get asked for
you know, every time you walk out the street, you
get asked for money in New York City. If I'm outside,
if somebody's I don't like to give people like money,
but like if I'm standing outside, if I'm about to
(44:23):
go into seven eleven, or like a food place, or
like a McDonald's or a boat the place. This is
the places that I eat. If someone asks me for money,
I'll be like, I don't have any cash, but I'll
buy you some food if you want. If you want food,
I'll buy your food. And sometimes they say no, and
(44:43):
sometimes they say yes. But I'll that's I'll do that.
Not everyone can do that. I get it. I'm that
doesn't make me. I honestly feel kind of lame that
I even said that I do that. Sometimes that makes
me feel lame that I said that. I feel like
I'm there's nothing about me doing that or anyone who
(45:06):
doesn't do that that makes them a better or worse person.
I might even cut this from the podcast because I
feel it always makes me feel like someone I don't know.
People saying that I'm a good person makes me feel weird.
This is a weird. I don't I'm not gonna cut it.
From the podcast. We're gonna keep this in. But you're fine, dude,
(45:27):
You're fine. Don't kill anyone, don't embezzle money from the government. Uh, don't.
You don't have to hate yourself because of this. Let's
keep going. What does the chat say? Uh, let's see here.
(45:57):
Someone says, I will give a homeless person some food
or drinks, but not money because I don't know if
they're going to use it to buy drugs. I thought
that for a long time myself, but then I heard
someone be like, well, shit, that's just what I'm going
to spend it on. And that's true, that's true. What
(46:24):
else is in the chat right now? I almost never
have cash. I'm honest and say sorry, I wish them
a nice day. Cheat people like people goes a long way.
It's not lame, gak. You're helping people, Yeah, but it
feels lame to talk about. Someone said, I hate to
(46:48):
ask for money, and it feels weird to give money,
though I do it, especially when I'm kind of broke.
Someone says, what else to What are the people saying?
I donate regularly to a charity, so I feel that
(47:09):
means I don't have to donate to any others. All right, Uh,
let's keep going, someone said, okay, this is from King
Fro subject line longing and despair. Hi Gecko. I recently
(47:33):
had a month long tolerance break from weed because I
traveled to Japan and did not have access to weed.
I've been a smoker for three years and taking tolerance
breaks before, but this time I came back. I thought
it'd be the same as before, smoked a fat bowl
and then had the most intense three hours of anxiety
and deep thinking into everything. I get thoughts about how
(47:55):
everything is meaningless, and yet there is meaning in the
meaninglessness of my life. I talked to my therapist about this,
and he was lost for words because I made him
think the same way. And then he told me I
stumped him. Maybe asking a gecko will turn out differently.
Uh you stump? Well, what's you stumped him on? What?
(48:21):
What's the Here's what? I what's the question in this?
Hi geko, I recently had a month long tolerance bak
from weed because of travel with Japan didn't have weed.
I got anxiety about how everything is meaningless. Oh okay,
here it is. Everything is meaningless, and yet there is
meaning in the meaninglessness. Of my life. You stumped him.
(48:41):
This isn't it's you're You're You're not. He's not like
a troll under a bridge. You're This is just a
thought that you're having. Yeah, everything is meaningless and you
kind of get to decide your own meaning and I
fuck you stumped me? Ain't that's but this isn't a stump.
(49:02):
This isn't a stump. This is like a a stub
like it's you. It's just you've completed. This is a
complete thought. Weed is so funny because you'll like smoke
to get rid of anxiety, but then smoking will just
give you much more anxiety.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Someone says, okay, this is from Jillian subject line. I
popped the wrong ZiT. There was a ZiT on my
inner thigh. It was huge. I thought maybe popping it
would bring that instant satisfaction, so I queezed. So I
squeezed the body of the pustel and pressed in with
pretty smooth force. To my surprise, the white head was
(49:49):
just a small pimple next to a surface level cyst.
The cyst emptied under my skin and the texture between
the squeeze was crazy. Have fun untour. Thank you for
sharing Chilian. All right, this is from Jordan. Subject line
my roommates won't let my homeless girlfriend come over. Hello, Lyle,
(50:13):
I've been dating my girlfriend for about three months now.
One month into the relationship, my roommate and his girlfriend,
who recently moved in with us, sat me down and
expressed that they are not comfortable with having a stranger
being at our house. Does she live with? Does your
(50:33):
girlfriend live? Is the They also accused her of stealing
tampons from the bathroom and claimed that her taking showers
at our house, using the bathroom, etc. Would be an
issue as she does not pay utilities. I pointed out
the hypocrisy in the fact that my roommate's girlfriend would
come over quite often when they first started hanging out
(50:54):
and eventually moved in with us, which I was hesitant
about but ultimately cool with. The kicker is that my
girlfriend is literally homeless or unhoused. She lost her job,
her roommate went to jail, and she's temporarily staying with
her mom, but her mom is kicking her out. I'm
going to get my own place now. I guess my
(51:15):
question is should I shit on the floor before I leave? No? Short, Uh?
You know, I have a few I have a few
thoughts about this. Well, what I was I mean, here's
the thing, this is all moot. Here's here's here's the
main thought about this is it's all moot because you're
(51:38):
gonna get your own place. So who gives a fuck
about the situation at all because you've you've already made
the decision about what you're gonna do. So yeah, whatever
do here? I guess if this is the situation, like
you sound like you're pissed off still of these people
(52:00):
by saying, should I shit on the floor before I leave?
So why don't you just get your own place, live
with your girlfriend, shit on your own floor that you
if you really need to shit on a floor, and
just let the emotions of it be in the past,
and just fucking be with your girlfriend and hang out.
(52:22):
That's what I was gonna say, get your own place.
I mean, honestly, by the way, I kind of see
what you're I mean, your your roommate and his girlfriend
did have a point, and I get that there's a
hypocrisy that you're saying of like your roommate's girlfriend would
come over but you, But it's the room, the roommate's
girlfriend now lives in I mean, none of this matters
that you're moving out, but the roommate's girlfriend now lives
(52:45):
in the house with you guys, and I assume pays
for the rent and utilities. So yeah, they sounded like
they had a point of some kind, and that's a bummer.
It's a bummer that your girlfriend was dealing with a
(53:07):
lot of problems. I feel for that, but it's totally
not your roommate or your roommate's girlfriends responsibility to like
I get to deal with that. I guess, I don't know.
I mean, it doesn't matter. You're getting your own place,
(53:27):
shot on your own floor. To pick the ship up
from the floor and grab it and smell it and
rub it all over yourself and eat it and put
it back into your asshole, just for fun, just to
see what it's not. That has nothing to do with
anything that you've said in this email, But just do
it for fun, just to see what it's like, you know,
(53:54):
just to see, just to see what what would happen?
All right, ummm, let's keep going. Hello, mister Gecko, this
(54:17):
is from Nathan. I just learned that fighter jets can
hover in place crazy. Have you considered doing gaming streams
or videos or with that dilute the persona. I don't
really think I have a persona honestly, Like, let me,
can I just rant for a second? Can just ran
(54:38):
for a second? I really think like expressing opinions on
the internet makes me feel so uncomfortable, like just now,
like like this is one of the this is one
of the reasons. Every time every single one of these
email podcasts, after I record them and I send them
(54:59):
over to Brandon who edits the podcast, uh, and like
we schedule them to post them, I really get nervous
and anxious, and I'm like, what did I say on
that podcast? Because like I like, I don't because I
don't want to give takes. I kind of don't, but
(55:19):
I know I do naturally. That's if you have a
podcast and you're talking and people are asking you things
and they're telling you about their lives, it's it's impossible
to not give a take. I and I don't mind
having takes and thoughts and opinions, it's just when you
when you write them an ink on the internet, it's
like they're there forever and you, you know, ninety nine
(55:40):
percent of the time when I think something, someone will
tell me something and I'll be like, oh, all right, whatever,
you know. So I don't like, I'm putting like a
lot of words out there on the internet, which makes me,
it deeply makes me feel uncomfortable. But the only other
option would be to never say anything ever, which was
(56:04):
kind of boring to me. And you know, I'm I
professionally create this podcast that I've been and I've been
doing this for four, four or five years, so it's
too late number one. But then number two, it's like,
how do I how do I have a podcast but
(56:25):
not say anything? That's my dream? Can I figure that out?
How do I have a podcast where I talk to
people about their lives but just not say anything? And
I do have a lot of podcasts where I just
don't say anything. And then I was like, let's let
me just start doing one where I say all everything,
all the things and I don't know if I'll regret it,
(56:47):
but like, also, what's the worst is gonna happen is
someone is like, I didn't like what you said about
that guy's life, and then I just you know what
I'll do, I'll just go outside, dude, isn't that anytime
you want, anytime you want, anytime, really, anytime you want,
you can just go outside and it's all there. You
(57:12):
do you ever? Is it crazy that like you forget that.
Speaker 2 (57:15):
Sometimes anytime you want you can just you can just
turn off your computer and go outside and it's like
nothing on your computer was ever ever existed. It's really crazy.
It's a crazy thing. I'm not even saying this facetiously.
I'm saying this. I want with utmost utter sincerity.
Speaker 1 (57:40):
Whoever wrote me that, whoever, if anyone, by the way,
just if, just so I'm clear, If anyone is listening
to this podcast and I responded to your email and
you didn't like what I said, I'm side probably didn't
mean it. I don't know. I'm crazy. Keep going, let's
keep talking to people. Uh oh yeah, oh yeah. Why
(58:04):
do I go on that rant? Would that dilute your persona?
I don't really have a persona. I'm just a. I
don't have a persona. I have a costume. And I
guess I do have a persona. I guess if you
speak publicly on a podcast or a video or something,
you are doing like a heightened version of of how
you would normally speak, but I don't think it's different.
(58:25):
I just think it's like amplified. I would do a
gaming stream. I think that could be fun. Play some melee. Okay,
let's let the whole email. I think it would also
for these ret I think it would also for these
rant episodes. You could make a po box to get
real mail from people. That would be kind of cool.
(58:46):
I just don't. I'm just too lazy to do that.
They make crazy stuff from the videos I've seen. But
then you also have to say everything is really good,
and some of it might be like not or something.
Do I have to say everything is really good? I
don't have to. I'd probably be inclined to. I'd probably
(59:10):
be feel guilty if I didn't, But I don't have to.
Do you have any game recommendations for me or anyone? Uh?
What have I been playing lately? Well? I just finished
Links Awakening on the Switch. I played a little bit
of the Last of Us, and then I got stuck
and didn't care about it anymore. Uh. I'm probably gonna
(59:35):
download Echoes of Wisdom, and then I'm gonna get Mario
and Luigi Brothership. Those are the next two on my list.
I kind of want to get the new Mario party.
There is no way this is making this to the pod,
is there? Well, buddy, guess what, Nathan. Guess what, Nathan.
All you had to do to make it to the
podcast was to ask me questions about myself and I
(59:58):
would go, I'm much of BLI will happily talk about
myself forever as people as people love to do. Well,
thanks for emailing me, Nathan. Okay, high Lyle. This is
from Cooper high Lyle. I don't have much to say
except there are two crackheads living under the Breache like
(01:00:20):
a minute away from my house. It started as one
like two months ago, but recently another has moved in two.
They aren't causing problems besides the occasional schizophrenic episode where
the original yells at himself Jesus Christ. Not looking for advice,
(01:00:40):
don't This is why this is weird, Cooper. I don't
like this the original. They're not fucking pokemon, They're human beings,
not looking for advice, just giving support from the shit
filled holler of Kentucky. Well, I mean that sucks. I
(01:01:02):
don't know. I feel bad for they're living under a bridge. Dude,
like that sucks. You know, once you go talk, why
don't you go hang out with them for a second.
Why don't you go hang out with these guys? You
clear you you clearly don't view these people as remotely
(01:01:25):
human beings. So go you should go under the bridge
and just talk talk to these people and just see,
just see if they'll speak it, if they'll say anything
to you. You could learn something. Who knows, I don't know,
or you could maybe maybe you'll start doing crack with them.
You know what can happen? You know what I really
(01:01:46):
want to happen. I want you to go to the bridge.
You meet these two, these two guys, and they offer
you a little bit of crack, and you're like, you
know what, sure, I'm being open minded. I'm gonna take
some crack. And you're like, you know what, tracks actually
pretty awesome. I get why you guys are living under
this bridge and then you become addicted to crack. And
(01:02:06):
then now there's three of you guys. Now there's now
there's three uh crackheads living unto the bridge, and you
guys have a good you can you'll just just you know,
maybe maybe it's maybe it'll be good for you to
do crack with these guys and just learn a little
bit about them. That's what I would do if I
were you, I would go talk to these guys and
(01:02:28):
see what's going on with them. All right, I'll do
how long have I been going for? I'll do one more.
I'll do one more. What do you guys think of
this party? Let me know in the comments if Okay,
I've done three of these so far now, and like
(01:02:50):
I said, I get nervous every time I do these.
I really do. I really I feel like nervous. I'm
nervous right now about this, not even because like yeah,
so let me know in the comments if you enjoy
listening to this, if you have thoughts, all right, let
(01:03:15):
me do one more. Email Okay, okay, this is from Duplex,
seeking advice on job advancement. Okay, Hey, mister GHEK, I
hope this message finds you well. About a year ago,
I applied for a manager position on a whim. Honestly,
I never expected to get it, especially since I lacked
(01:03:36):
the experience at the time. I regretfully admit that I
may have exaggerated my qualifications on the application. Now, having
spent a year in this role, I have gained valuable
knowledge and skills. However, my boss has recently approached to
me about moving up to a general manager position, which
comes with increased responsibilities. I'm feeling quite overwhelmed, as I
(01:03:58):
know I'm not fully prepared for this role. While I
recognize that this opportunity offers better pay and growth potential,
I'm apprehensive about taking on. So it's a significant change.
I'd greatly appreciate any ofvice you have on how to
best navigate the situation. Totally take the job. I don't
even have to think about this. Take the job and
you'll grow into it. It's like scared. This is a
classic shit like I mean, look, bro, you went into
(01:04:20):
the original job lacking experience, and you've been there for
a year and you're fine. You grew into it. That's
how like growth works, man, is you got it. You
go out and try to do something that you didn't
think you were prepared to do or able to do,
and you face yourself with it and you you grow. Yeah,
(01:04:43):
this is kind of a classic classic thing. What'd you
think I was? What's the alternative? Never do anything? Actually,
that sounds awesome. You could totally do that too. That
sounds great. Never doing anything. Yeah, you know what, you
know what? I know. I just said a bunch of
like motivational shit, But I take it all back. You
(01:05:04):
should not. You should just quit your job and see
if you can live with your parents and see if
they'll make you food and stay just play video games
all day and get high. That's fuck. That sounds awesome.
I'm not even being facetious. That really sounds great. Okay,
So I'll say this. I'll say this, you could. You
(01:05:28):
should go and take this job. I think you'll grow
into it. I think you'll get the right I think
you'll grow into it. But worst case scenario if you
get fired, Like you know, living with your mom and
eating chicken nuggets and playing video games is pretty awesome.
(01:05:50):
So your life's gonna be great no matter what. I
hope you take solace in that. All right. Well that
was That was my third try at gek mail. That
was my third try gak mail. I don't know how
it went. I'm actually nervous about it. So let me
know if this was any enjoyable to you as a
listener of this podcast. Let me know if you have thoughts, feelings,
(01:06:15):
and sentiments about anything and thank you guys for listening.
Once again. I'm about to go and do a bunch
of live shows. I'm in Minneapolis on the twenty fourth.
I am in Berlin, Manchester, London, Cologne, Dublin, Glasgow also
in November, and you can get tickets for all those
(01:06:36):
at therapy geckotour dot com. Thanks for listening, Thanks for
humoring me while I make attempts to do a new thing.
Thanks for bearing with me. Thanks for having some faith
in me. I'm going to try to have faith in
life as well. And you know, it's funny. I was, uh,
(01:07:03):
it's so funny. The first time I did this, the
get mail thing, I was like, I might just never
do calls again. I might just do this. I'm having
so much more fun doing this. And then I think
my like optimism faded a little bit, and now I'm like, oh,
you know, I kind of want to go back to
doing phone calls. But uh, I'm glad I tried something
(01:07:24):
and I will do more of this, but uh yeah, anyway,
all right, it's been an hour and fifteen minutes. I'm
sick of myself. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you
guys around the universe.
Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
Again, goes on the line, taking your phone calls every night.
Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Never beacon goes out, and I was teaching you Cloud
in the mean of your line. He's not an expert.
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