July 28, 2025 • 18 mins
This was originally uploaded as a video on my YouTube channel but I am putting it here too. I flew to Tijuana to meet up with a caller from this podcast and dance battle him at a park. It was a lot of fun.
Watch this as a video here: https://youtu.be/dspvl4n4tGM?si=EdpVsO87panX3WIP
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, folks, this is Lyle. So this is a little
bonus episode that was originally made as a video for
my YouTube channel because I'm trying to get more into
like documentary travelogue kind of content, but I also wanted
to share it on here with my podcast listeners. However,
if you're hearing this right now, it means that you're
(00:22):
listening on a platform that isn't Spotify that I can't
upload the video version on. So I highly highly suggest
that you either go watch on Spotify video or go
into the description of this episode and click the link
to watch the video on YouTube. But if you can't
(00:43):
do that, or if you just don't fucking feel like it,
I have tried my best to make edits to the
original version of this so that it can somewhat function
as an audio episode.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Two.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
So with that disclaimer in mind, let's get into it.
I went to mex to dance, battle a stranger and
also use their bathroom. I host a podcast called Therapy Gecko,
where I dress up like a gecko and talk to
strangers on the phone about their lives. One day, I
got this call from a breakdancer in Mexico named Diego.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I am a bee boy in Tijuana, and I promote dancing,
but my style is barely just one year old, and
so it's been tough.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
After our call, Diego DMed me and invited me to
come down to Tijuana to attend one of his breakdance events,
and I told him I'd love to do that someday.
But after I sent that message, I realized that someday
is based on the false premise of a future that
never comes and is simply the present in disguise. So
(01:49):
I decided to go to Tijuana, meet this complete stranger
and make a video about whatever happens. I told Diego
I was coming down to Mexico, and in response, he
put together a gek dance event where I would be
a special guest alongside eight other dance battlers. I asked
if I could formally battle anyone at the event, and
(02:09):
so Diego planned an exhibition battle between him and I.
It was going to be crazy. I took a plane
to Tijuana, and after six hours of playing Grand Theft
Auto San Andreas, I finally landed. I thought it was
pretty funny that I actually came here, but it also
made me feel very empowered and good. I got into
(02:31):
a taxi and the song Como Lafleur by Selena was playing.
I remembered having to study the lyrics to this when
I was in middle school Spanish class, and that one
kid was so moved by the song that he started
to cry in the middle of class. In this moment,
I may be feeling a bit of what he felt.
I also saw that they have a new flavor of
(02:54):
Doctor Pepper here. It is amazing to travel and experience
new cultures. In the past, I'd done most of my
adventuring alone, but this time my friend Kevin came down
from Los Angeles to help me film stuff, and we
took a cab over to Diego's house to meet him
in person for the first time.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
What's up, man, How you doing good?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Little fifty lineup?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
How's it going?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I love the I love the Ninja Hurdles shirt in
the back.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That looks awesome. I re listened to our podcast. I
was like, yeah, maybe one day I'll come.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And then and now in this moment, we are actually here,
We're gonna do. I also met his wife and child.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I was getting home when I heard him on the phone.
Then he hang up and like, what think you told me,
like you know, Gecko, and I.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Was like, oh yeah, sure, Like Alma was.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Talking to him, how's the family life going.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
We're learning every single day and like to be patient,
like to be doing our stuff and still like taking
care of him. I think it was the hard part bro.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
On our phone call, right, I remember we were talking
about like like the balance between like like family life
and life doing doing your own life you have, you guys,
feel like you've been able to strike a nice balance
with that.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
But I think that's the main thing, like when you
prioritize not losing yourself while also being emparas.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Diego really wanted to show me this view from the
top of his steps.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
This is like my pelv. Every single time I come home,
I just stare.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I love it here. I'm like fuck ground blast.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Like just by this point it was really nice to
talk to someone who loved their life this much. In
anticipation of our dance battle later that day, Diego tried
to show me some moves.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Had on the other side.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
All right or out of the front.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Even though Diego was at a slightly higher skill level
than me, I assured him I did not want him
to hold back in our battle, Like, you don't hit
people right if you're in the moment and you're like,
this is gonna be a great move, but it requires
me to punch Lyle in the face. You can do
that if you want. We had some time to kill
before the Gek Dance event, so we walked around the
(05:19):
neighborhood and chatted a bit. What are your favorite kinds
of sodis Doctor Pepper? Definitely?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I was.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I was in a cab on the way over here
and I saw they have a new flavor of Doctor Pepper.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They have a blow blue fuck. I forgot what it's called,
but it was like a blue raspberry something.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Maybe they've been doing a lot of flavors lately, but
I don't know if I were like any other Doctor
Pepper flavor rather than the original.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So today you and me are going to be doing
an exhibition battle. Is there any danger that I should
be like cognizant of or aware of? They could anything
horrible happen?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, if if you win against me in my in
my exhibition battle, I'm gonna knock you out. Now. I'm
just kidding, Brom, I'm just kidding. I'm just so kidd
um no that I think of. The floor is not slippery.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Unfortunately, while Diego was showing us around, the sky went
gray and it started to pour down rain. This was
concerning because it meant that we might have to cancel
the gek dance that I flew all the way out
here for.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Let me just call my guy real quick.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
We went back to Diego's house and he put on
some lo fi hip hop with rain sounds while we
waited out the actual rain. I asked if I could
use his bathroom, and he told me a funny joke
that is local to the region.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Whenever you're like, hey, dude, I'm sorry of a kind
iss your bathroom, They're like, yeah, but just something that
has pretty coming out here.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I don't know why, but.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
While I was on the toilet, I journaled on my
phone for a bit. I was a little worried that
the event might get rained out and I wouldn't be
able to reschedule it before I leave. But I also
did tell myself that this video would just be about
whatever happened as a result of me coming here. So
if the title of this video ends up being I
went to Tijuana to use the bathroom, that would be
(07:28):
fine too, not everything has to be perfect. When I
got out of the bathroom, Diego showed me his anime collection.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I got many main things I cherish. I got freaking
Neon Genesis, Evangelium, full modal alchemists, like all this years
that you can think of. I loved him.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
He also showed me this award that he got from
a break dance competition. So this is one of the
prizes from the.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Prices that I got for a second place here in
TJ Open style battle the first. But he's got the
one in cold, so I think it's even better. But hey,
silver is good.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
After a while of waiting, we were able to confirm
that the rain had stopped for good and the Gek
dance event was back on, so I painted my face
and got suited up to go. One thing I forgot
to mention is that before I left for Mexico, Diego
asked me if he could also be dressed as a
gecko for our battle. So I told him I would
bring an extra suit. It would be a Gecko versus
(08:27):
Gecko dance off.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You put on over or under your clothes over okay.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So I helped Diego finish transforming and we called a
cab to the main event.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
The ulverdriver is gonna be pug.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It's true, he did, ask Lizard Lardica. Yes, I said,
it was very, very important to understand that I am
not a frog. Hey, I'm recording some extra lines for
this audio version here. So when we got to the event,
(09:03):
it was this big circle of dancers all hanging out
around this park, and I started to interview a few
of them. What do you think is the meaning of life? Okay,
I'm going to read this out because she answered in Spanish,
but she said that to her, the meaning of life
(09:24):
is to live in the moment, enjoy it, and.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Be with the people you love.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Do you feel like dancing is a good way to
be in the moment? See you said it's therapy. Do
you feel like you sometimes work out life issues on
the dance floor? Koka, I think that one of my
main problems is anxiety. But when I'm dancing, all of
(09:52):
my thoughts are simply in the present moment. If you're
not doing anything, you start getting anxious and you start
going crazy, and so you and when you're dancing, all
you're thinking about is the body, is the moves, and
so you're not You're not like going You're not going
crazy when you're dancing and stuff. I took to the
(10:12):
circle and started dancing a bit myself.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Where do you think we go when we die?
Speaker 6 (10:24):
That's a good christ I don't know, to the ground.
I don't know, Like I believe in something else, Like
you do love, you receive love. If you hate, you
have hate.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, I'm gonna be doing an exhibition match later with
the other Gecko.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Do you do you have any like advice for me?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Just like let the music guy?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Do you get personal? What is that? What does that mean?
Get personal?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Look him in the ice, try to intimidate him.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Other than that, it's just frets out, Like whatever comes out,
just express it. We have a special guest for the
exhibition battle, Lile.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yes, it was time for me and Diego to finally battle.
I was up first, and I had forgotten virtually everything
that Diego taught me this morning, so I just started
going crazy. So again, this part of the video is
very video heavy, but just imagine that I'm flailing my
(11:34):
arms around, jumping like a frog, and doing push ups.
The crowd seemed to enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Also.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It may not look like it in this footage, but
after like five seconds of that, I was absolutely on
the brink of passing out. Diego was up next, and
he was pretty good okay in this part. Just imagine
another guy in a gecko suit spinning on his head
doing the work I like really good and just generally
being like really good at break dancing. We went back
(12:07):
and forth a few more times, and at this point
I was almost ready to die. By now I had
run out of ideas for how to move my body,
so I just started running around in circles. And I
also did this thing with my finger that I know
how to do. Another note for the audio listeners, I
(12:32):
can't really describe this finger thing, but it is pretty cool.
You should watch the video version at some point to
see it. I think it's pretty cool. After our dance
battle was over, Diego handed me the microphone for me
to give some sort of message to the folks at
the park, and I tried to speak in my shitty Spanish.
(13:00):
Grass pair had poor.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
For having me in Tijuana.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Tijuana, esta mucho bien? How did you think I did
really good?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You don't have to just say that if you know me.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
You didn't even look tired. I was really tired. I
was about to pass out halfway. Were you being facetious
just now? Did you think I looked tired? You didn't
look You're being serious?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Serious?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Who do you think one between me and the other guys?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I think it was a tie? Do you really believe that?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I think are you being serious? He does? He does
have some training.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So after our battle, I gave out awards to the
winners of the main tournament. Congratulations on being a finalist.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Hey, thanks for so you saw our our battle?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Who do you think one between him and me?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Was you are? Are you being serious?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Because I don't want I really don't want you to
lie to me, like if you if you think I'm
like no, if if you think he won, I want
you to tell me if I think it's It almost
hurts my feelings a little more when people you know
tell me congratulations on the big win. Did you happen
to catch me and his battle between us? As an expert?
(14:34):
Who do you think one?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Well, I will say this, get go, but I really could.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, thank you, diego, And I found a quiet spot
to reflect and decompress from the action.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
That was awesome. That was great.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Thank you, dude, Thank you so much for a fucking
having this.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This went great.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I went in this being like, uh, fuck it, I'll
just fly to Tijuana, and I have no idea what
this is going to be.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But this went. This was really fun.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
This is great now that it's over. It was it
like a little bit of what you were expecting.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I actually did have some expectations before I came here
that I haven't really talked about yet. Before I came here,
I knew that Tijuana had a reputation as one of
the most violent cities in the world, and when I
went to look it up, I saw that Tijuana and
the entire state of Baja California had a Level three
(15:35):
reconsider travel advisory from the US government. Granted, I only
got to see very little of the city, and I
don't want to be reductive, but despite what I saw online,
I do think it's worth something that at least in
this fifty foot radius, there are people dancing and chilling
and a guy who loves Doctor Pepper and anime and
(15:57):
tries his best to be a good father and live
a good life. And that's what's happening down here, just
as much as anything else. Is happening down here. So
next time someone says I heard it's pretty crazy down
in Tijuana, I can be like, yeah, it is pretty crazy.
There's a guy spinning on his head. The only evil
person I did meet down here was this guy.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Have you ever flown a Spirit?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, I love Spirit Airline.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
I used to be customer service for a Spirit for
like two years.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Really. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
If people were like, hey, you guys fucked up, can
I get my money back? Would you be like, yeah, no.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Of course not.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
I've had to see the reasons why their flight fucked up.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
You're not gonna be a homie about it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
No. That was a fun part of that job that
I wasn't like cool was That was the fun part. Yeah,
other than him, everyone else I talked to was pretty cool. Hey,
thank you guys very much for listening to this. I
hope it sounded okay as an audio log. And again,
if you want to watch the actual video this was
meant to be watched as a video, you can go
(17:01):
into the description of this episode to find the YouTube link.
And if you really enjoyed it and you want to
help support my ability to make more of these highly
produced adventures in the future, I have put a full
hour and forty five minutes of uncut interviews from this trip,
plus the entire Gecko dance battle, on patreon dot com
(17:22):
slash lyle forever. You can find the link in the
episode description and on this Patreon, I will be putting
all of the uncut interviews from any long form adventure
videos that I make in the future. I've already got
one queued up where I'm going to be interviewing people
about whether they would rather be a human or a
lizard at a lizard zoo. And if you're already a
(17:44):
member of the Supercast for this podcast that I am
not gonna charge you twice, you can find a code
on the supercast page that gives you a free membership
to this Patreon for a year. Anyway, that's it. I
hope you enjoyed this little bone because I have a
lot more of these that I want to make. Gak
bless see you with a regular episode again on Wednesday.
(18:06):
Thank you very much.
Hey, folks, this is Lyle. So this is a little
bonus episode that was originally made as a video for
my YouTube channel because I'm trying to get more into
like documentary travelogue kind of content, but I also wanted
to share it on here with my podcast listeners. However,
if you're hearing this right now, it means that you're
(00:22):
listening on a platform that isn't Spotify that I can't
upload the video version on. So I highly highly suggest
that you either go watch on Spotify video or go
into the description of this episode and click the link
to watch the video on YouTube. But if you can't
(00:43):
do that, or if you just don't fucking feel like it,
I have tried my best to make edits to the
original version of this so that it can somewhat function
as an audio episode.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Two.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
So with that disclaimer in mind, let's get into it.
I went to mex to dance, battle a stranger and
also use their bathroom. I host a podcast called Therapy Gecko,
where I dress up like a gecko and talk to
strangers on the phone about their lives. One day, I
got this call from a breakdancer in Mexico named Diego.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I am a bee boy in Tijuana, and I promote dancing,
but my style is barely just one year old, and
so it's been tough.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
After our call, Diego DMed me and invited me to
come down to Tijuana to attend one of his breakdance events,
and I told him I'd love to do that someday.
But after I sent that message, I realized that someday
is based on the false premise of a future that
never comes and is simply the present in disguise. So
(01:49):
I decided to go to Tijuana, meet this complete stranger
and make a video about whatever happens. I told Diego
I was coming down to Mexico, and in response, he
put together a gek dance event where I would be
a special guest alongside eight other dance battlers. I asked
if I could formally battle anyone at the event, and
(02:09):
so Diego planned an exhibition battle between him and I.
It was going to be crazy. I took a plane
to Tijuana, and after six hours of playing Grand Theft
Auto San Andreas, I finally landed. I thought it was
pretty funny that I actually came here, but it also
made me feel very empowered and good. I got into
(02:31):
a taxi and the song Como Lafleur by Selena was playing.
I remembered having to study the lyrics to this when
I was in middle school Spanish class, and that one
kid was so moved by the song that he started
to cry in the middle of class. In this moment,
I may be feeling a bit of what he felt.
I also saw that they have a new flavor of
(02:54):
Doctor Pepper here. It is amazing to travel and experience
new cultures. In the past, I'd done most of my
adventuring alone, but this time my friend Kevin came down
from Los Angeles to help me film stuff, and we
took a cab over to Diego's house to meet him
in person for the first time.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
What's up, man, How you doing good?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Little fifty lineup?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
How's it going?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I love the I love the Ninja Hurdles shirt in
the back.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That looks awesome. I re listened to our podcast. I
was like, yeah, maybe one day I'll come.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
And then and now in this moment, we are actually here,
We're gonna do. I also met his wife and child.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I was getting home when I heard him on the phone.
Then he hang up and like, what think you told me,
like you know, Gecko, and I.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Was like, oh yeah, sure, Like Alma was.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Talking to him, how's the family life going.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
We're learning every single day and like to be patient,
like to be doing our stuff and still like taking
care of him. I think it was the hard part bro.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
On our phone call, right, I remember we were talking
about like like the balance between like like family life
and life doing doing your own life you have, you guys,
feel like you've been able to strike a nice balance
with that.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
But I think that's the main thing, like when you
prioritize not losing yourself while also being emparas.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Diego really wanted to show me this view from the
top of his steps.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
This is like my pelv. Every single time I come home,
I just stare.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I love it here. I'm like fuck ground blast.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Like just by this point it was really nice to
talk to someone who loved their life this much. In
anticipation of our dance battle later that day, Diego tried
to show me some moves.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Had on the other side.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
All right or out of the front.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Even though Diego was at a slightly higher skill level
than me, I assured him I did not want him
to hold back in our battle, Like, you don't hit
people right if you're in the moment and you're like,
this is gonna be a great move, but it requires
me to punch Lyle in the face. You can do
that if you want. We had some time to kill
before the Gek Dance event, so we walked around the
(05:19):
neighborhood and chatted a bit. What are your favorite kinds
of sodis Doctor Pepper? Definitely?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I was.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I was in a cab on the way over here
and I saw they have a new flavor of Doctor Pepper.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They have a blow blue fuck. I forgot what it's called,
but it was like a blue raspberry something.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Maybe they've been doing a lot of flavors lately, but
I don't know if I were like any other Doctor
Pepper flavor rather than the original.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So today you and me are going to be doing
an exhibition battle. Is there any danger that I should
be like cognizant of or aware of? They could anything
horrible happen?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, if if you win against me in my in
my exhibition battle, I'm gonna knock you out. Now. I'm
just kidding, Brom, I'm just kidding. I'm just so kidd
um no that I think of. The floor is not slippery.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Unfortunately, while Diego was showing us around, the sky went
gray and it started to pour down rain. This was
concerning because it meant that we might have to cancel
the gek dance that I flew all the way out
here for.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Let me just call my guy real quick.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
We went back to Diego's house and he put on
some lo fi hip hop with rain sounds while we
waited out the actual rain. I asked if I could
use his bathroom, and he told me a funny joke
that is local to the region.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Whenever you're like, hey, dude, I'm sorry of a kind
iss your bathroom, They're like, yeah, but just something that
has pretty coming out here.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I don't know why, but.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
While I was on the toilet, I journaled on my
phone for a bit. I was a little worried that
the event might get rained out and I wouldn't be
able to reschedule it before I leave. But I also
did tell myself that this video would just be about
whatever happened as a result of me coming here. So
if the title of this video ends up being I
went to Tijuana to use the bathroom, that would be
(07:28):
fine too, not everything has to be perfect. When I
got out of the bathroom, Diego showed me his anime collection.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I got many main things I cherish. I got freaking
Neon Genesis, Evangelium, full modal alchemists, like all this years
that you can think of. I loved him.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
He also showed me this award that he got from
a break dance competition. So this is one of the
prizes from the.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Prices that I got for a second place here in
TJ Open style battle the first. But he's got the
one in cold, so I think it's even better. But hey,
silver is good.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
After a while of waiting, we were able to confirm
that the rain had stopped for good and the Gek
dance event was back on, so I painted my face
and got suited up to go. One thing I forgot
to mention is that before I left for Mexico, Diego
asked me if he could also be dressed as a
gecko for our battle. So I told him I would
bring an extra suit. It would be a Gecko versus
(08:27):
Gecko dance off.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You put on over or under your clothes over okay.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So I helped Diego finish transforming and we called a
cab to the main event.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
The ulverdriver is gonna be pug.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It's true, he did, ask Lizard Lardica. Yes, I said,
it was very, very important to understand that I am
not a frog. Hey, I'm recording some extra lines for
this audio version here. So when we got to the event,
(09:03):
it was this big circle of dancers all hanging out
around this park, and I started to interview a few
of them. What do you think is the meaning of life? Okay,
I'm going to read this out because she answered in Spanish,
but she said that to her, the meaning of life
(09:24):
is to live in the moment, enjoy it, and.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Be with the people you love.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Do you feel like dancing is a good way to
be in the moment? See you said it's therapy. Do
you feel like you sometimes work out life issues on
the dance floor? Koka, I think that one of my
main problems is anxiety. But when I'm dancing, all of
(09:52):
my thoughts are simply in the present moment. If you're
not doing anything, you start getting anxious and you start
going crazy, and so you and when you're dancing, all
you're thinking about is the body, is the moves, and
so you're not You're not like going You're not going
crazy when you're dancing and stuff. I took to the
(10:12):
circle and started dancing a bit myself.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Where do you think we go when we die?
Speaker 6 (10:24):
That's a good christ I don't know, to the ground.
I don't know, Like I believe in something else, Like
you do love, you receive love. If you hate, you
have hate.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, I'm gonna be doing an exhibition match later with
the other Gecko.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Do you do you have any like advice for me?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Just like let the music guy?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Do you get personal? What is that? What does that mean?
Get personal?
Speaker 6 (10:56):
Look him in the ice, try to intimidate him.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Other than that, it's just frets out, Like whatever comes out,
just express it. We have a special guest for the
exhibition battle, Lile.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yes, it was time for me and Diego to finally battle.
I was up first, and I had forgotten virtually everything
that Diego taught me this morning, so I just started
going crazy. So again, this part of the video is
very video heavy, but just imagine that I'm flailing my
(11:34):
arms around, jumping like a frog, and doing push ups.
The crowd seemed to enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Also.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
It may not look like it in this footage, but
after like five seconds of that, I was absolutely on
the brink of passing out. Diego was up next, and
he was pretty good okay in this part. Just imagine
another guy in a gecko suit spinning on his head
doing the work I like really good and just generally
being like really good at break dancing. We went back
(12:07):
and forth a few more times, and at this point
I was almost ready to die. By now I had
run out of ideas for how to move my body,
so I just started running around in circles. And I
also did this thing with my finger that I know
how to do. Another note for the audio listeners, I
(12:32):
can't really describe this finger thing, but it is pretty cool.
You should watch the video version at some point to
see it. I think it's pretty cool. After our dance
battle was over, Diego handed me the microphone for me
to give some sort of message to the folks at
the park, and I tried to speak in my shitty Spanish.
(13:00):
Grass pair had poor.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
For having me in Tijuana.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Tijuana, esta mucho bien? How did you think I did
really good?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You don't have to just say that if you know me.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
You didn't even look tired. I was really tired. I
was about to pass out halfway. Were you being facetious
just now? Did you think I looked tired? You didn't
look You're being serious?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Serious?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Who do you think one between me and the other guys?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I think it was a tie? Do you really believe that?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I think are you being serious? He does? He does
have some training.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So after our battle, I gave out awards to the
winners of the main tournament. Congratulations on being a finalist.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Hey, thanks for so you saw our our battle?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Who do you think one between him and me?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Was you are? Are you being serious?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Because I don't want I really don't want you to
lie to me, like if you if you think I'm
like no, if if you think he won, I want
you to tell me if I think it's It almost
hurts my feelings a little more when people you know
tell me congratulations on the big win. Did you happen
to catch me and his battle between us? As an expert?
(14:34):
Who do you think one?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Well, I will say this, get go, but I really could.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, thank you, diego, And I found a quiet spot
to reflect and decompress from the action.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
That was awesome. That was great.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Thank you, dude, Thank you so much for a fucking
having this.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
This went great.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I went in this being like, uh, fuck it, I'll
just fly to Tijuana, and I have no idea what
this is going to be.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But this went. This was really fun.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
This is great now that it's over. It was it
like a little bit of what you were expecting.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I actually did have some expectations before I came here
that I haven't really talked about yet. Before I came here,
I knew that Tijuana had a reputation as one of
the most violent cities in the world, and when I
went to look it up, I saw that Tijuana and
the entire state of Baja California had a Level three
(15:35):
reconsider travel advisory from the US government. Granted, I only
got to see very little of the city, and I
don't want to be reductive, but despite what I saw online,
I do think it's worth something that at least in
this fifty foot radius, there are people dancing and chilling
and a guy who loves Doctor Pepper and anime and
(15:57):
tries his best to be a good father and live
a good life. And that's what's happening down here, just
as much as anything else. Is happening down here. So
next time someone says I heard it's pretty crazy down
in Tijuana, I can be like, yeah, it is pretty crazy.
There's a guy spinning on his head. The only evil
person I did meet down here was this guy.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Have you ever flown a Spirit?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, I love Spirit Airline.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
I used to be customer service for a Spirit for
like two years.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Really. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
If people were like, hey, you guys fucked up, can
I get my money back? Would you be like, yeah, no.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Of course not.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
I've had to see the reasons why their flight fucked up.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
You're not gonna be a homie about it.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
No. That was a fun part of that job that
I wasn't like cool was That was the fun part. Yeah,
other than him, everyone else I talked to was pretty cool. Hey,
thank you guys very much for listening to this. I
hope it sounded okay as an audio log. And again,
if you want to watch the actual video this was
meant to be watched as a video, you can go
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into the description of this episode to find the YouTube link.
And if you really enjoyed it and you want to
help support my ability to make more of these highly
produced adventures in the future, I have put a full
hour and forty five minutes of uncut interviews from this trip,
plus the entire Gecko dance battle, on patreon dot com
(17:22):
slash lyle forever. You can find the link in the
episode description and on this Patreon, I will be putting
all of the uncut interviews from any long form adventure
videos that I make in the future. I've already got
one queued up where I'm going to be interviewing people
about whether they would rather be a human or a
lizard at a lizard zoo. And if you're already a
(17:44):
member of the Supercast for this podcast that I am
not gonna charge you twice, you can find a code
on the supercast page that gives you a free membership
to this Patreon for a year. Anyway, that's it. I
hope you enjoyed this little bone because I have a
lot more of these that I want to make. Gak
bless see you with a regular episode again on Wednesday.
(18:06):
Thank you very much.
Host
Lyle Drescher
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