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Gemma Spag
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Lyle (Therapy Gecko Podcast host)
Hello listeners of the Therapy Gecko Podcast. Welcome to Geck Mail. This is a type of episode that I do sometimes when I don't want to take phone calls and I want to read emails and I want to rant for a while in response to these emails. I have had people email me at therapygeckomailmail.com and sometimes I get more emails than I can fit into an episode. So I just have. I just have a rolling Rolodex of emails. So I might read some emails in here that are 13 years old or at least, you know, a few months old. But so that's this. This is Geck mail. Do I have anything that I want to rant about before we get started into Geck mail? Not really. Not particularly. But I am going to challenge myself once again to to see if I can take an hour of time in which I force words to come out of my mouth. And that's this. This is Geck mail. Let's get started. First mail is from Pokemon Subject line Feeling down in Japan Hey Lyle. You can call me Rob. I've decided to seek your Gecko wisdom about my sorrows in the East. I'll try and keep it brief. I came here as an English teacher from Canada in 2022 and I'm now living in my fourth city. I moved for a better job and things are pretty good there, but I've been dealing with loneliness and doubts about my life in Japan. When it comes to the aspect of loneliness, I feel like I can't make meaningful relationships socially or romantically with anyone, especially locals. The few times I've joined social meetings, I get a list of contacts that never turn into anything, and I've gone on dates with people only to be ghosted. The most recent one hit me hard because after four dates and telling this person how much ghosting hurts, they still went and did it anyway. It feels like no matter what I do, where I go, what I join, it all ends up the same. This leads me to wanting to go home since I could have my social network again. But if I do that then I'm not likely to get a sustainable job since the economy and job market is a total hellscape. For what I understand, I'm going back for Christmas this year since it's been so long. But I do fear that when I go back I might not want to come back. But if I pull the trigger and go through with going home, I need to deal with the what if of did I make the wrong decision? I genuinely like Japan and the life here and feel like I should keep living here, but the feeling of exclusion is getting hard to bear. I feel like I should appreciate my life of adventure since this kind of thing is something Only a few people get to do and I'm wasting it feeling bad about myself. Which is why I'm writing you. As someone who also travels and lived away from home from long periods of time, how do you deal with these feelings? Do you have any advice on learning to love time alone? If it helps with your answers. I'm 29. I have OCD and depression and I'm taking medication for them. I've talked with real therapists about my mental health before. I work 46 hour weeks with days off every Monday and Friday. I speak Japanese at a high level and I live close to Tokyo. Sorry if this is long, but I hope to hear your thoughts on this, Rob. Hmm. Okay. Well, this is a meaty one. And, you know, I've talked about on this podcast before, but I lived in Japan myself for about two months and also, you know, considered living there. But none of this feels like it's particularly Japan centric, especially if you speak Japanese at a high level. I mean, yes, there is, like. I mean, I don't know, man. Like, I guess my experience there was almost like it. It seems like it's easier in some ways to make friends because there's so many, especially in Tokyo. There's so many, like, expat hubs and there's so many events and whatnot that are geared towards foreigners. I want to say this, and this is something I just went on a whole rant on about the. This is something I just went on a whole rant on the last episode. And so I don't want to go too crazy about it, but you said that you joined social meetings and you get a list of contacts that never turn into anything. And the reason why is that, like, the, the premise that you're gonna go to a social meeting and meet someone, at least from a friend point of view, or honestly, also even from a romantic point of view, in a lot of cases that you'll meet someone and then you'll get their email or phone number or whatever, and then that'll spark a friendship. That's too much. I mean, you gotta kind of. You said you've only joined a social meeting a few times. I mean, you gotta find a thing, you know, like, for example, you know, I did a bunch of shows at the Tokyo Comedy Bar, you know, and they have a whole community there of people who are like expats doing comedy. And I went to like a poker night while I was there. I went to like some jazz sessions and whatnot. And, you know, I went to some Smash Bros. Tournaments There. And at all these places, they have, like, you know, recurring groups. So you need to find a place where you're gonna be recurringly. You really can't just show up at some social meeting and expect to, like, instantly make friends, you know, it doesn't really work like that. You gotta find a community that you're gonna recurringly be a part of romantically. Shit, man. I mean, listen, that's the game, unfortunately. Whether you're in Japan or you're in New York or you're in fucking whatever. I mean, that's the game. Dating is for people who are lucky or patient. And if you are one of those two things, then there's a chance of things working out for you. I'm going back for Christmas this year, and since it's been so long, I do fear that when I go back, I might not want to come back. So, like, what's in your gut, man? Right. Like, you know, I was thinking about moving to Japan, and I went back home to New York slash Baltimore. And, you know, my gut, it was. It was really hard. It was really hard to commit to a decision. But I went with my gut, and my gut told me to stay. And I'm really glad I went with my gut. And I've. I've done certain things to make it so that the decision I made was the right decision, but the path kind of felt like it naturally led me to just stay. And so the point that you wrote in this email, I fear when I go back, I might not want to go back to Japan. I mean, if that's what your gut is telling you to do, then it's okay to follow whatever your gut is telling you to do. Did you mention okay, you came. You've been. So you've been in Japan for about three years now. I don't really know what your life is like in Canada. It sounds like you have a social network of some kind. I don't know what city you live in in Canada. If it's like a Toronto or a Vancouver or someplace that you is like a big place that has stuff. But. And also the whole thing of, like, I should appreciate my life of adventure, since this kind of thing is, though, something only people get to do, and I'm wasting and feeling bad about myself. Part of a life of adventure. Everything what you're experiencing is part of the life of adventure. That's you. You. You have to understand that if you're gonna try to do weird things with your life and make weird decisions that most people don't make like moving to a foreign country or, you know, trying to find a relationship that aligns with you instead of whatever just kind of shows up, right? If you're gonna kind of go out of your fucking way to get the most out of life instead of just like settling for whatever the fuck you know, comes to you, you're gonna get depressed and you're gonna. It's gonna suck tits. And so that's part of it. That's part of the life of adventure, I suppose. Those are, those are my main ponders, I would say, on your situation. Also, I don't think, also the thing of, like, I need to deal with the what if. If I did make a. Make the wrong decision. I don't. I mean, this is, I mean a lot of things to that. It's like one, you can always go back to Japan if you really want to. You can always go back there. And then two is like, you'll never know. You have to make peace with the fact that you'll never fucking know. You're never gonna. You'll never fucking know if you made the right decision. So I mean, it's like ask. It's like, it's like being like, I don't have a funny analogy. But it's not a thing that is within your mortality is to know whether or not you made the right decision. So the sooner you surrender to that, the easier you'll have. The easier of a time you'll have just existing. But yeah, you know, I mean, the fact that you speak Japanese at a high level is cool. Yeah, go back, hang out. I mean, I'm not saying go back permanently, but I'm sure you'll. Your gut will steer you in some way, shape or form when you go back to the States as to what you should do. Okay. This is from Greta. What is your favorite bug? Hi, Geck. I am cleaning my bathroom right now and feeling positive about it. Cleaning is hard and not fun, but lately I've been hard, not fun things. And I think if I continue to do them, they will get easier. Maybe. Okay, I think this person meant I've been trying to do hard, not fun things. Okay. I'm 20, which is very strange because I still feel 17 and I don't know how to adult. What should I incorporate into my life to get me to that adulty checkpoint? When did you feel adult? And also, what is your favorite bug? My favorite bug is probably a caterpillar. I don't know why, they just look nice. When did I start to feel like an adult? Umm, I have a lot of thoughts on that question. When I started to feel like an adult, I mean there's a lot of like, I mean there's a lot of markers of adulthood. One is like the actual age of 18, one is financial independence from your parents and there's having a kid and there's doing, you know, getting married and all that stuff. When did I feel like an adult? I think, I think I only felt. Started feeling like an adult recently, but I still don't really feel like an adult. I don't think I'll feel like a real adult until I have kids. I think that's when I'll feel like a real adult and even then I'll still feel like, like I'm, I have, I don't think, I don't think any of my like deep seated personality and things are going away at least hopefully not the, I mean here's the thing. A lot of the deep negative parts of my personality are probably here to stay. They're probably here to stay. But so are a lot of the positive ones. I only, I'm only, I only have information up to 27 years old, but I feel more adult now than I did before. But you're 20, I mean 20. It's like, what the fuck? My bathroom is dirty as shit right now. My bathroom is disgusting. It's neat, but it's not, it's like dusty and gross. But that's not what I think of when I think of the things that make me an adult. I don't know if anyone's an adult, I guess, but when did I feel, I don't, I guess recently I felt a little bit more adult. The most adult that I have here. I'll say this, the most adult that I've felt has been. It's always gonna be in relation to other people. Like you know, if I'm in a relationship or if I'm in some other situation where I'm like, you know, helping someone out or providing something for somebody in some kind of a servitudinal, servitudinal way is when I feel like the most adult. And in a sense when you clean your bathroom, you're like providing a, an act of service to yourself. Which makes, which is why it kind of feels adult, you know, in my life. Yeah, I'm better at like doing shit for people that I care about, I think than for myself in terms of like, like I don't, I'm not a good cooker or cleaner or whatever, but you know, I would do it if. For. If someone else. To make somebody else happy. And I think that that kind of is when I felt more adult, you know, putting on clothes that don't have cartoon characters on them, shit like that. But yeah, I like caterpillars. Let's see here. This is from James. Subject line, I sexed artificial intelligence. Hello, Lyle, longtime listener here. Thank you for all you do. Thank you, James. I have recently started using AI chatbots to help me masturbate. This is interesting. I've never. And by the way, I'm not gonna shame this guy because, look, we all live in the world, okay? We all live in the world. I'm gonna read the rest of his email, but I'm just. I've never tried that. I don't know why I think it would make. It's kind of like. Like, you know, like with only fans, how it's like you're supposed to be able to, like, chat with the lady, but, like, you know that it's not them. Right. I've always wondered. I feel the same way about the AI chatbots. Like, you know that the thing that you think is behind this thing is not the thing and that. I don't think I could get past that knowledge. Can you? I don't think you can sext chatgpt. Uh, but I know that there's, like, ones that exist that you can. It's a weirdly sinister business. The like, AI friend chat. I know that AI. I'm hopeful, and this is just me being optimistic and I'm gonna read this guy's email, but I'm just ranting to myself, I'm optimistic, or I'm trying to be optimistic that AI could create like, okay, there's two ends of the spectrum. There's like. One is AI somehow reduces labor in a way that allows more like, in person connection, or it's somehow like, fosters more in person connection in some direct or indirect way. But the way that it's being used, where it's like, use. Use this to talk to someone that's not a person, I don't know how I feel about that. Uh, okay. I've been on a journey to quit watching porn forever. Because I know that excess porn use is bad for my brain. Tell me about it. Ideally, I would have sex to relieve my needs. However, I have been struggling to find a partner. So in looking for outlets for my sexual desires, I found chatbots that stim. That simulate sexual role plays. At first it was so addictive that I used it to masturbate every night. But lately I have been trying to use it three nights a week and no external stimuli. Any other night that I want to get off. Interesting. I don't pay money to use it. And although my data is probably being stolen, I wonder if this is a good alternative to watching porn. My thinking is that using a text chat has to be better than watching and listening to porn as that stimulates the brain much more. The downside to using AI is that it's easy to roleplay for a while. With porn, I would watch 20 minutes at, at most in one sitting. But with AI, I could shout for a couple of hours and end up going to bed much later than planned. None of this is affecting my daily functioning or responsibilities, but it does weigh on my mind. What are your thoughts on this? I am curious about what the people of the computer think. Man, I. James, I really. James, if you're listening to this, call into the show at some point, please or like send me a text on the Gecko Lion 401472 Geck because I want to talk to you about this because I, I find this subject interesting and I have, I'll do my, I'll do my one sided monologue on it, which is, you know, I also, I also have, you know, troubles with porn and I've found myself like, you know, spending too much time watching it and really noticing the ways in which it fucks with my brain and it fucks with porn. Like super fucks with like your perception of, you know, women in real life and it just, it fucks you up. It's obvious, it's very clearly not good. And yeah, I don't know what the science would say about this theory that you have, which is an interesting theory. I get where you're coming from on this theory, James. I get where you're coming from on this theory that like using it jerking off to just text is less bad for the brain than porn. I don't, I don't know the science behind that, but that makes a lot of sense to me. Why are you having trouble finding a partner? I mean, everyone who's ever tried to have sex knows the answer to this question, but. Hmm. I'm trying to ponder this. Yeah, I'm trying to ponder this. I think that, you know, I mean, I don't know, man. Are you using, what are you trying to do to like find a partner? Are you going out to talk to people? Are you going on the hinges and the tinders and the whatnot? Because the problem with the texting the bot is like, you just. You don't. Don't want to get too. You don't want to get, like, emotionally attached to computer. But I'm. I really can't talk about this without being a total hypocrite because, like, I feel like when I'm using porn, it's there. You subconsciously, yeah, I'm getting attached. I'm subconsciously. Whether I like it or not or admit to it or not, I'm getting subconsciously emotionally attached to, you know, whatever I'm jacking off to. So it's probably not that different from the AI Porn in that sense. I don't know if my rant about this was helpful in any way, shape, or form. Please call in because I am very curious about what your personal experience has been with kind of navigating this. This sphere of life, but good on you for at least, like, capping it three nights a week. Also, when you said, none of this is affecting my daily functioning or responsibilities, that's the. That's the most dangerous thing. I know that. I know that vibe, too. When you have, like, an addiction of some kind, and you're like, yeah, but this isn't the worst thing is when you have an addiction of some kind and you're like, this is not negatively affecting me enough in the short term that I want to do anything about it or that I can even see me stopping it having a positive effect on my life or just returning my life to some vague, uninteresting, neutral baseline. So, I don't know, maybe you need to. You need to have a. Have a. Maybe you need to have. I can't think of a funny thing to say. I don't care. All right, let's keep going. Let's keep going. I. You know what? I used the thing I've been listening to. I know that this is a comedy pod. This is labeled as a comedy podcast. And it's sometimes funny, and I sometimes have funny things to say, but I'm not. I'm just not good at making stupid jokes, at least right now. Okay, whatever. I'm sorry. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. Let's keep going. All right. Okay. This is from Jacob. Subject line, meth made me a cross dresser update. For those who don't remember, there was a gentleman who called in to the show to talk about how smoking meth got him into cross dressing. I want to say this was about a year ago or so, but yes, Jacob, I remember you. Hey, Geck, it's me, the guy who Thought meth made him a cross dresser. I wanted you to know how my life has changed in the past year and a half. Or so. Last August, I ended up losing my apartment due to some reasons which at the time I was still a full blown meth addicted cross dresser. And I moved in with my longtime best friend who had at that point very recently become my girlfriend. And when I moved in with her, I basically gave up the cross dressing because I felt that it would be weird to do it in front of her. And I felt like someone who has the title of boyfriend shouldn't be dressing up as a chick. But I will let you know that it was so bad at one point that I literally thought I was a girl, which isn't a bad thing. I totally understand dysphoria now. But with that being said, and little did we know at the time, but we had gotten pregnant basically whenever I moved in in August. We didn't realize we were pregnant until about December. And at that time I had still been using all the time, very heavily. I was not cross dressing all the time, but I did when she was out of town. I don't know if she knows that, but it's okay. Lol. But once I found out we were pregnant, I quit everything on the spot. So I've been sober since Christmas. Oh, okay. Wow. See, you know what to directly to what I was just fucking saying. It's like you need a thing, dude. I'm not. Don't go. Don't go have a kid to stop watching porn. That's a stupid idea. But just in general, it's always easier to quit the addiction when you have like a. Some. Some sort of a thing. Um, let's see here. My life is flip flopped 100%. I am a hundred percent different person. She gave birth to our son on April 18. He gave the full name of the son. I'm not gonna read your son's name. Uh, and since then, life has just been so good. Getting to watch my son grow up and learn to do things has been amazing. I honestly can't get enough of him. But yeah, life is perfect. I just got the job I've been looking for for a long time. I did spend a long time jobless because the job market's been really difficult. But I finally landed a job working for FedEx. And yeah, I don't know, I just can't say how much better my life is without the dope and without the cross dressing. I want to thank you for everything you've done in my life. Man, listening to your conversations and the way you handle your life has helped me out a lot. Anyway, this has been great to update you. Hope you get the chance to read this piece. If.
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TikTok Live Music Finals Announcer
I'm glad to hear about this, Jacob.
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Lyle (Therapy Gecko Podcast host)
That's cool, man. This is inspiring. This is good. Yeah, I remember our phone call and I'm like, glad you. I'm glad everything worked out for your kid. I'm glad you're getting sober, you know, See, that's the thing. You gotta have a reason. You gotta what? You know, life just does it. You just need. You just need motivation to do things. It is true. You need some form of, like, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation if you're going to fucking do anything, you know, you can't just do a thing. Because I think. I think if they. If you just like. If you're like addicted to porn and then you see some Reddit thing that's like, hey, do you know porn is bad? You're not going to be like, oh, shit, all right, I guess I better stop watching it. It's got to be like, hey, did you know your wife is going to leave you if you stop. If you don't stop watching porn? You need something like that. I'm speaking to the previous emailer. It's. That's. That's. That is one of the. I'll say this, man. That is one of the fucking funny things about just being like to. Yeah, to you, James, who is addicted to sexting artificial intelligence. If you're just like a single guy, the pro, there's. If just like a single guy, the pros. Cons are exactly the same, which are you can do whatever you want and it doesn't affect anyone but yourself. Which has its pros and its cons. I'll say. But yeah, man, I'm glad. I'm glad. Back to James. I'm glad that things have. No, wait, no, not James. Jacob. I'm glad. Thanks for that. For you, man. Hey, folks.
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TikTok Live Music Finals Announcer
The finals of TikTok's newest music competition. Next up, live music is finally going down. 12 aspiring musicians will gather to give the biggest performance of their career and lay their souls bare on the stage. It will be the biggest night in live music and they've got a true powerhouse of judges on the panel, including.
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Lyle (Therapy Gecko Podcast host)
Tom Pullman, chief programming officer at iHeartRadio, Beata Murphy, program director of 102.7 Kiss FM, Justina Valentine from MTV's Wild N Out, and viral guitarist John Dreddo.
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TikTok Live Music Finals Announcer
The judges will crown the next up Live Music winner. But get this, there's a democratic process where you have the power to put in your vote and decide who takes home the People's Choice Award. So don't miss a second and watch it all unfold live on TikTok on September 26th from 7 to 9pm Pacific Time only on the official TikTok handle at TikTokLive. Underscore us again. That's @TikTokLive. Underscore us together, let's witness the birth of the next music superstar.
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Gemma Spag
Spagh from the Psychology of your 20s. So you can't get the trip out of the group chat. We have all been there, but did you know there may be an easy solution. EF Ultimate Break is a group travel company for 18 to 35 year olds with over 140 itineraries all over the world. Just sign up and recruit six or more friends for a trip. You will save hundreds or even thousands of dollars. You could even travel for free. Learn more@efultimatebreak.com that's efultimatebreak.com and turn the group chat into a group trip.
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Lyle (Therapy Gecko Podcast host)
Uh okay. This is from Hank. Subject line I have a successful fart fetish. Hey Geck. Please keep me anonymous. Maybe call me Hank. Since being 16 years old I've had a fetish for suffering but without liking physical pain during sexual activities. So thi so this manifests to being made to smell or taste unpleasant things, usually foods. I hate being farted on by a beautiful girl turns me on more than anything else. You know what? I. I gotta say, I know that it's, like, a little funny, but in my head, I'm genuinely so fucking curious. I'm like, why? Why did this happen? Because, listen, this guy, Hank, in no way, shape, or form did he choose to be this way. He did not choose to be this way. Of course he didn't choose to be this way. That's how I think. Sexual. I don't think anyone with any sexual anything chose to have it. I think it just happened or something. But what is that, dude? Is anyone. Is anyone a psychologist? Does anyone know? Don't they. Don't we spend money on this shit? Haven't. Isn't there a budget in the US Government to do lab tests to discover why people have fart fetishes? Like, I want to know, like, empirically, like, what's the deal? Like, what neurotransmitters or whatever are firing it, you know, what precise angles to make it so that this guy gets turned on by farts. It's such a weird thing to me. It's so abstract. I'm fascinated by it. Okay. I have asked eight different girls to fart on me. Seven have agreed. What? Wait, that's awesome. That's so sick that you had. You've asked. You've gotten seven out of eight different girl. You've gotten seven different girls to fart on you, Hank. That's crazy. That's amazing. Whoa. As this fetish is weird, I was embarrassed at first, But I've found that when you're with someone you trust, you can be honest with them. And usually they'll try new things to make you happy. Some even get really into it. The key is honest communication and only doing things both parties are comfortable with. So my message to the wonderful people of the computer is that if anyone has a strange fetish they're closeted about, just have that chat. Don't live in fear and embarrassment. Thanks, Geck. Stay awesome, Hank. Bro, this guy. That's where you're gonna leave the email at. We gotta talk, Hank. Call me on the podcast. Seven out of eight. That's incredible. Um. Dude, that's the thing. You know what? That's why you gotta live honestly. That's why you gotta live honestly, because there's some miserable guy out there who wants nothing more than to get farted on by his girlfriend. But. Or. Or by anyone, I guess. But he's never gonna fulfill that because he just. He's too. He's too nervous About. He's too embarrassed to ask. But look at this guy. Look at Hank. Hank asked eight different girls to fart on him. Seven agreed. Sometimes you just gotta fucking shoot your shot, man. Okay, let's see here. Who do we have next on the docket? This is from LA. The subject line is First 9 to 5 Relationship as an E girl. He doesn't understand I wear backpacks like Xavier. So based. What the fuck is that? Oh, okay. He's like a rapper guy. He. He pioneered the Internet based micro genre. Jerk. What the fuck dude? All these guys are like every. All these guys are like so young, man. This kid's like 21. That's crazy. All right, anyway, okay. Hi Geck, My name is La. I'm a big fan from London. It's the summer I finished uni. I did a stem degree but was always in the art circles and being a scene girl making music and such, I naturally always dated boys who were a bit older and living off music. This summer I started dating my first 9 to 5 boy. I like him, he's corporate, but we get on really well. House on Fire style. What the fuck does that mean? House on Fire style. Is this a. Okay, because this girl is both like I have no idea how old she is, but she's also British and she's also like online so being. Oh, okay. House on Fire style is an idiom meaning two people instantly become good friends. Okay. So I don't. In this girl's email, I don't know what's just like her being on TikTok or her being British, you know, cuz like, like take the mickey out of you or whatever. Like that's a British thing. Okay, anyway, whatever. Things seemed good. Been about two months in and then the other day we were on the way to grab a beer with my friends and I stepped out thinking I had aura. Freshly straightened hair, mew mew boots with wound dressing I wrapped around one. Okay. She describes her outfit. We walked around 10 meters when he made the joke. Frick, everyone thinks I'm a pedo. My heightened ego shattered. Dude, what the fuck? I think, please, please tell me this guy didn't actually say Frick, everyone thinks I'm a pedo. That's something you never want to have come out of your mouth, man. Frick, am a pedo. After heading back to my hello Kitty adorned room, he apologized over and over. But then he let it slip that sometimes my outfits made him feel uncomfortable. I immediately started crying. Frick, man, I thought I was dope. I thought my Backpack was gangsta like Xavier, but no one views me like that. Does everyone see me as a fat baby? I always dressed a bit childish and I get id'd a lot. How old is okay, if this person. It's the summer I finished uni. Okay. I'm gonna assume if this person. This person's like 22. That seems like a proper assumption. If they just graduated college. Okay. Or unique. I always dress a bit childish. I get told I look really young. It upsets me. Why don't I stop wearing kids clothes then? Well, I have, but I immediately bought a supreme backpack after the incident. What? Okay, I don't want to be seen as a child or fatherless, but I just find cartoons and bows and iconography swag. I don't want to change my whole shtick for a boy, but I guess I also don't want someone who sees me as a child and is attracted to that. Since then, I felt super insecure. I've been showing pictures to chatgpt of myself every day, asking if I'm fat and chopped. Anyway, I do think this is a reflection of myself attempting to join society, coming to terms with how I am really viewed and what an outsider and how weird I really am. Another catalyst for my spiral has been his lack of obsessiveness. In my usual relationships. We would have ended things by now or they would have said they were in love with me. And this is after two months. Okay, it's been neither. Almost like he's preoccupied most of the time, not even thinking about me. Do you have any advice or thoughts or. Or. Or. Yeah, she ended with saying three ores. I. Yeah, I have some thoughts. I have a lot of conflicting thoughts, I think. Listen, I mean, look, because here's the thing, right? And this is my whole thing and I do believe it is. I do believe in being yourself. I don't think you should change for someone else unless if you believe that that change will be good for you and positive for you. But I don't know. This is like. But you. You clearly just by the way, you wrote this email with a bunch of references and things that I don't have. I. I have no fucking idea what they are. You're clearly in. Ingrained in a certain kind of aesthetic. You know what? Actually, fuck it, I'm real talk this one la. You're clearly ingrained in a certain type of aesthetic and I know that people. I might piss some people off, but I don't care. I know that people take aesthetics and music and fashion and these things. To like become part of their identity, especially when you're young. But I would take like a step back if I were you from all the fucking brands and the Xavier whatever and the you know, the, the like aesthetic and culture and shit and just be like, you know, who the fuck. Who am I? What do I actually care about? Right? Like it's, it's cuz you're, you're, you're more than just like an aesthetic, right. That's only gonna last so long as like something that you can cling to as an identity. And so I'm not going to tell you how to dress or what to do or you know, whether or not you should change. But it does sound like you're taking and it's a popular thing to do, especially when you're younger of like taking you know, aesthetics and onlines and like very like external things and like making that your identity. But like I don't know, take a step and figure out like who you actually are as a person. You're not. You're more than just Xavier so based, whatever that is. So yeah, that's what I would say. Also this guy also listen, if you're like, if you're gonna date an older guy, he's gonna want to approach his relationships from a more mature place, which probably means that he's not going to like love bomb you so, so closely in. And if that's what you want then it sounds like you, you should, you know, date a guy your own age who also might be, you know, mature. I mean. Yeah, who also might be mature and wanting to not, you know, approach relationships from a toxic place. But that's my, that's my ponder, I would say about this. Good luck la. Alright. This is from Adam. Subject line My life this year. Hey Lyle, I've talked to you a couple times before, but they were years ago and I wouldn't hold it against you for not remembering I called before I joined the military and again after I had been in for a little bit. That doesn't matter now. What I want to say to you is that I've had one of the worst and best years of my life. I have met and spent a lot of time with some of the best people I've ever known. I got to go home and officiate my brother's wedding. I found out I'm being promoted after working my ass off with no help from anyone. And I've accomplished a lot overall. What is really bothering me though is that I can't stop thinking about my ex Girlfriend. We spent a year together and all my friends and family couldn't stand her from what she did to me. But I can't stop thinking about her. I'll be on dates and she's on my mind. I'll be alone or with people and she's all I think about. I know I wasn't the best boyfriend, but I also know that I didn't deserve what she put me through. I struggled because I knew the whole time what was happening wasn't okay. But I tricked myself into believing I could handle it. I couldn't. She was my first serious girlfriend and the first person I gave my whole heart to. I feel like I won't ever feel that way for another person. And it sucks. I won't go into more detail than that. I love you, Lyle. You've been there for every part of the growth of my frontal lobe. I've been tuning in since the Reddit live streams. Nothing but love, Adam. Thank you, Adam. I appreciate that. Okay. Sorry for doing that into the microphone with my nose. Let me think here, let me think here. Cuz I do have thoughts. It's a hard one. I mean, so much has been said about breakups, right? And about the power of love. You know, it's what every song and piece of art has ever been written or made about. And you know, it may very well be true. It may very well be true that you won't ever feel that way for another person, but you will feel new ways for new people that you didn't even think were possible. I mean, you're never going to go back to high school. You're never going to. I don't know how old you are, but you're never going to fucking be seven years old again. You know, if you had a job and you left that job and you went to a new job, you're gonna be at that job again. Life is transient inherently, and it's hard and it almost doesn't feel like it's supposed to be. It's weird. We set our lives up thinking that they're not supposed to be transient. Does that make any sense? You know, we live these like, routines. If we're gonna kind of like, live forever and we hold on to people as if they're gonna be in, in our lives forever and like just is just transient. It just is. But I think that's something to be embraced. And you know, you grieve that which you trans, but you don't want to. You. You don't want to stop it, allow it to Stop you from moving forward into new epochs of life and meeting new people. Because get this, I'm going to assume this woman cheated on you because that's what I'm. That's what is the easiest thing to infer from this. Get this, Adam. You actually haven't met all of the women that you're ever going to be romantically or sexually interested in for the rest of your life. And you may meet one who won't cheat on you, which is exciting. Keep that in mind, Adam. So yeah, you know, people are one of one. This is true. But that's great. It means that you'll meet new, more different people and just. See, I think the sooner you can accept the transient nature nature of life and allow yourself to be open to new shit, you'll find yourself at a better place. Also, I don't know how long it's been since you broke up, but I do think that time heals those wounds. Alright, this is from Jared. Subject line. Two months clean from opiates. What's up, Geck? For the past year, I was heavily addicted to fent and kept trying to get clean on my own and was failing miserably. But my sister knew about this place in Mexico that does ibogaine treatment, which is basically a psychedelic that reverses opiate addiction but is illegal in the states. Ooh. Anyway, I went there and it's a 14 day program. The second day they have you do kambo, which comes from a poison tree frog, and they burn it into your arm and it makes you puke. I've heard of this. That was one of the very first fucking calls I took on this show was about the combo ceremony. It helps with the detox process. Then leading up to the 10th day, you're just detoxing and getting blood work done and a nurse checks on you a bunch. Oh, and ivy drips of minerals and nad. I don't know what that is. Anyway, it's hard to explain. The ibogaine trip mine wasn't very profound. Best way to describe it is it's like a meditative, dreamlike state. But it like really fucking worked. The thought of using heroin or fentanyl is no longer appealing to me. When I think of my time spent using, I just think, wow, I can't wait to never do that again. Like, when I got home from that place, I swept up drug scraps off my floor and happily threw them away. The old me could never. Then the day before you leave, they have you do ayahuasca. Oh, jeez. This this. What the fuck? This is like a. A four course medley or something. I was nervous to do it, but I'm so glad they included me in this treatment. It finishes all the work the ibogaine started because it helps your brain produce more serotonin in the long run. But that trip was insane. While I was tripping, I relived all the shitty things I've done, things I feel shame about. I kept yelling, I'm so sorry. Haha. Also, I couldn't stop singing the same song for four hours straight. I had zero control over what was coming out of my mouth. The song is called I'm Getting Out While I Can by Kristin Michael Hader. Anyway, despite all that, since I did the ayahuasca, I have felt so much happier. Like, happier than ever before. I bartend at a cocktail bar and shit. That used to ruin my whole day now doesn't faze me. The world feels so much less hostile. All my friends and coworkers keep commenting on how much happier I seem. Sorry for the word mommit, but it felt like sharing. Have a nice day. Ooh, very interesting. Okay. All right, well, there we go. That's a good endorsement of a. Of a. Of a Mexican illegal drug thing. That sounds cool. That sounds cool. Thanks for sharing that. I don't know if I have. I don't know if I have ponders on the app. I don't know if I need to have them. I just liked reading that story. I took a little bit of Molly like a week ago. Not enough to really roll, but I took a little bit of it. I didn't feel anything. And then I went home and I watched TV for three hours. And then when I turned the TV off, I realized I was rolling. And so I went into my bathroom and I laid down on the bathroom tile, like, prone. Like, I mean, upside down. Like, I laid on my back on the bathroom floor tile. And I just had a conversation with myself for about an hour about how great my life is. It was really nice. Drugs are nice. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna endorse Drugs. Yeah, whatever. Let's go ahead and endorse Drugs. Drugs are cool. Okay. Hey, folks.
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This is from Ray Subject Line the toenail sandwich hi Geck. When I was 14 I worked in a hair salon. On weekends I mostly make cups of tea, swept hair and shampooed old ladies. But My God. Some of the tales I heard from clients were wild. To keep it short, I'll regale the most burned one into my memory. The toenail sandwich. Jane was in her late 40s and would often complain about her husband to the extent you wondered why they didn't just divorce already. One day the hairdresser just asked her how she puts up with all her issues and why she stays. She says she had a secret strategy to prevent them from arguing more. I shit you not. Jane sincerely told us that she would offer to make him a sandwich and then clip her toenails and sprinkle them into the sandwich. She said she would watch him eat it and all her anger would melt away, absolutely unhinged. Apparently he never noticed and never knew she'd been doing it for years. I just wanted someone to know. I still get my hair cut with the hairdresser I worked for and we talk about it every time I go to the salon. There are many more stories, some from Jane, some from her cocaine loving daughter who worked as a nail tech there, and many tales of ongoing affairs and a gruesome set of tales from a gynecologist. Let me know if you want to hear them. Ray. P.S. i came to your Manchester show in November. There was a guy talking about asking out a pharmacy employee to go watch Sonic 3. I remember this. I remember that my boyfriend never heard the podcast before but he loved the show. You told him he looked like Jason Momoa. I do remember that. I don't remember what he looked like, but I remember telling a guy he looked like Jason Momoa. And I remember the guy who was gonna ask the pharmacy employee out to go watch Sonic 3 and I don't know what happened to that guy. Maybe. Maybe they went to go watch Sonic 3. That would be cool. I would. That's one of the. That's one of these things I would like to get a follow up on. Sean Subject line Starting all over. Hey Lyle, hope you are doing well. I'm a big time fan. Seen you when you were in Reddit live and when you had a show in Arizona. Fuck yeah, that was fun. Anyways, I wanted to get your thoughts on the idea of starting over again. I just came back from teaching English in Spain for almost a year. I am back in the US and I feel like I'm rebuilding my life again. I want to become an electrician and it seems like it's hard as fuck to find work in the field. Now I am trying all available avenues so the shitheads on the computer don't say I didn't look into school or anything like that. I'm 29, I have a college degree and I don't know, I feel like I'm existing and all that good stuff. And I'm kind of free. Like I don't have to go back to school or reach for a goal or a dream. I just did that for about a year. So I have to make new goals and dreams. Idk if what I said makes sense. But yeah, have a good one. I think I've seen some TikToks about this. I don't know why my feed is all like. My TikTok feed is all just like, I'm 20, whatever, and this is my. Or I'm 30, whatever. And here's what I wish I knew when I was whatever, that kind of shit. And I think as you get older and as you do more stuff, I mean, you just went and taught English in Spain for a year, right? Like, you lived what is a dream for many people. And I know this because, you know, I've lived a lot of things that I feel like have been, you know, dreams for many people. And also at a lot of times where I felt like, you know, I didn't really even need to reach for a goal or a dream. And it does feel kind of boggling. But I think as you get older, you just become. You become a little bit more okay with just existing. Like, I think when you're young, you're afraid of what your life is going to turn out like. And then the more of your life that you unravel, especially if, you know, especially if, like, listen, especially if you've gotten to do cool things like go teach English in Spain for a year and you've made the jump at a young age to achieve a lot of your dreams and you've, you've done a lot of those things. You kind of like, stop, you know, like, I'm not gonna say stop caring, but you, yeah, you stop caring. You stop getting like stressed out. So enjoy. Enjoy the freedom, honestly, is what I would say. Take it in. When you're young, you think that you're gonna like, discover some amazing. You're gonna live some amazing dream that's gonna lead to your infinite ascension beyond your human form and you're gonna be amazing forever. And I don't know, I don't think that happens even if you do reach those dreams. So maybe what, maybe what's happening for you is that you've achieved your dreams already and you realize that they don't Allow you to ascend. So you're just like living normal human being life. Which let me tell you, sir, is more than an honor of a thing to get to do, I'll say that much. Okay. This is from Connor, 28. And my parents got a divorce. Hey, Lyle. My parents recently got divorced and I'm stuck in the middle. To keep a long story somewhat short, my dad has been an asshole to my mom for years while keeping it hidden from everyone. He's controlling, threatened physical violence and generally just been mean. My mom finally had enough, filed for divorce and moved far away. We are all so proud of her. He has refused to take any responsibility and is blindsided that she'd ever leave. He blames everything on outside forces, like the literal devil. He's been extremely controlling and can't handle when things are out of his control. He'll call me bawling, asking why she left him and genuinely doesn't understand what he did wrong. The hardest part is my mom still wants to be there for him even after everything. She understands why I've pulled away, but asks me to help him and not cut him off completely. I could go into more detail about things he's done, but I don't want this email to get too long. Just know he's not the nicest guy. My wife and many of my friends think I should cut him off completely. I would like to cut him out of my life as I like to focus on raising my daughter. But it's difficult because no matter how much I want to hate him for everything he's done, he's still my dad. It leaves me feeling like no matter what I do, I'm letting someone down. I know some listeners probably have more experience hating a parent, but this is new to me. Hope all this makes some kind of sense. Thank you for reading and being a gecko on the Internet. Whoa, man. Yeah, that's very tough. I mean, I'm. I'm. I'm so sorry, Connor. I don't know if I have any. I don't really have good advice for this one. I. I would just say that, you know, it's up to you. I mean, you don't have. Why. Why, I guess do you have to. Here's. Here's actually what I would. What I would say is, do you have to fully, fully cut him off or can you just be like, listen, you can be in my life, but like, I'm setting boundaries and you got to like. Like, we can talk occasionally, but like, you can't call me every day. And you can't. I can't talk to you every day. That's what I would do, I think, if, if I were you, Connor. Not that I. Whatever. Yeah, that's what, that's what I think I would do is I think you. You don't really need to. This doesn't need to be like an all or nothing thing if it pains you to cut off your dad. But I think setting some kind of boundary such that he's not like fully taking up 100% of your time and energy, like, don't let. Don't set. Make. Here's what I'd say. Set a finite amount of energy that you are willing to dedicate towards that relationship and do not let that finite amount of energy be drained past its finiteness in any small way. Don't do that. But make sure you. Because if you don't set an amount of energy, it's going to just drain infinitely. So you don't have to fully cut them off if that doesn't feel right to you. But you also can't let them infinitely drain your energy. So, you know, I think you just kind of need more defined boundaries on that. Okay, let's see. This is from Rachel. Subject line. Little things are truly life's joy. Hi, Geck. I don't really have anything of super importance or lore material to share, but one time I was having a really bad week and I was just bummed out for an entire day. I was working that day and when I left, there was this huge white dog on a walk and it was rolling in the grass and it brought me so much joy. I feel like life is truly comprised of the simple things that can bring you so much happiness. Even if it's a dog rolling in grass or having someone let you merge in front of them. Anyways, which ice cream flavor is the best? I'm lactose intolerant, but. But I really like ice cream. Rachel. Yeah, I agree, man. Not. I don't want to get all like fucking wholesome doggo on here, but I do like looking at dogs. It makes. It makes me very happy to look at dogs. You know, this happens to me too. Yeah. I'll. I'll walk around and if I see like a little Sheba or a big fucking white dog or a nice dog, I'll look at it and be like, it's a good dog. This is why we like. Because dogs are. Are pure. They have no evil in them. They don't have the capacity to make decisions that we do. And so they're helpless, beautiful creatures, and for some reason they make us happy to look at. I don't know what the psychology is behind that, but I'm gonna go ahead and say that my favorite ice cream flavor lately has been the peanut butter s' mores flavor of Ben and Jerry's. It's insane. It's got like a marshmallow ice cream base with marshmallows, graham cracker and peanut butter cups. Fuck. I might go get one right after I'm done recording this. This is from Andrew Subject Line I have a seething hatred of iPad babies Hi Lyle, I am Andrew and I have a very strong distaste for seeing kids with touchscreen tablets and or phones. I'm not talking about teenagers with cell phones, I mean actual toddlers with devices at such a young age. It fills me with an anger that feels only slightly irrational, but the more I dig into the thought of it, it only makes me angrier. I'll give some context behind my feelings. I have two younger sisters, both of whom I don't live with anymore and they are obsessed with their tablets. They are both on the autism spectrum and have their own developmental problems. I don't remember specifics on how, but the oldest of them was eventually given her own Amazon Fire Kids tablet. She was very prone to wrecking them and eventually we had to get backups to prevent meltdowns. She eventually discovered that we had more than one tablet in the house and she lost her lid having meltdowns if she didn't have more than one at a time and not understanding that they had to be charged to work. It was a constant chore and struggle to keep them all decently charged without swiping them away. She would sit there with like three of them surrounding her, all playing different shit at Once slot from YouTube, PBS Kids, Etc. This sight bothered me to my core. Our one on one interactions got fewer and fewer as she grew more glued to her devices. She would push us away and sometimes got violent when we bothered her. So eventually we got used to giving her more alone time than playtime. Getting her out of the house is also a struggle. It's rare that she even goes outside the front door without two tablets in tow. It's been a couple years since I moved out and the times I visit home and see her I find it hard to see any developmental change from when I moved. Always staring at her screen, always hardly paying attention to the rest of the world around her. I genuinely believe that if she had never been given that first tablet, she'd be in A much better place developmentally. Nowadays, when I see young kids with their nose deep on a screen, it fills me with a fiery hatred at the parent for not doing better to keep their kids occupied with something in the real world rather than the digital world. Do you feel what I'm saying? I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I'd like to hear your piece on this. I hope if I ever have a child, I'd be more engaged with them more than anything else and teach them one on one. Maybe with a little bit of Sesame street on tv, but it'd be better than a phone in their face. You know, I've been thinking a lot of. I don't think I'm gonna have kids anytime soon, but I'd like to in my life at some point and you'd know. I think about shit like this because it's weird, man. I mean, I. I grew up and like my whole thing when I was a kid and I don't really. I guess, I don't really know how old you're sisters are. I'm gonna guess. I'm gonna guess your sisters are like in middle school age or high school age. Maybe I'll go ahead and guess. I'll go ahead and assume like middle school age. But I mean, yeah, when I was growing up, I was a like video games for my fucking thing, dude. Like the Game boy Advance, the GameCube, the Wii. And you know, I got my first iPhone when I was like 13 and I was playing games on it and shit and you know, I turned out okay. And I think actually even like, you know, the fact that I had those things is. Allows me to kind of be, you know, I mean, a lot of my job and a lot of my life has been technology based and I think, you know, it's like, it's tricky. All this is to say is that it's tricky, man, because I also think if I have a kid, I'd like to, you know, I think it would be unrealistic to say that if I had a kid I would completely keep them off of all. Any things. I think that it's just like unrealistic. But you gotta have a conversation and you gotta like, if things are getting too crazy, you gotta. Yeah, I agree. You gotta kind of monitor it. But I don't know, I mean, I'm talking out of my ass right now, man. I'm single, I don't have any kids. So maybe my. I'm curious how my thoughts on this will evolve if I have A family one day. But, yeah, I agree. It's. It's. It's weird because we all did grow up with, like, screens, like, you know, again. Yeah. I mean, people, my age group, the Game Boy, the fucking TV and all that stuff, but it's so different now because you the, like, the shit is so much more stimulating than it was to just, like, have a tv. It's kind of crazy. I mean, also, I. You know, both of your sisters being on the autism spectrum, I think is probably, you know, a contributing factor to this. And I don't know. I mean, maybe it's helpful to them. I don't know. I'm not like, a child psychologist or whatever, but I'm sure if I was, I'd probably be like, yo, this shit is not good. So I'm with you on that, Andrew. I'm with you on that. Okay, I'm gonna do one more email. This is from Jason. Subject line, profanity time is the only replaceable. Time is the only irreplaceable resource. Thank you for your time. I have recently found your show on iHeartradio. I've listened to three episodes. I enjoy your discourse, but I do not understand the overwhelming use of profanity. Try using these words as alternative to filth. Okay. And then this person wrote a list of about 30 different words that they suggest me use besides words like cunt and dog and lizard tits. But I'm not going to read any of the. Any of these words. Okay, I'll read a couple of them. Zoinks. Jeepers. Great Scott. Yeah, this person wrote just, like, a whole list of these words, but I like cunt and shit and dog fucker better than these words. But I. But I appreciate the sentiment that you shared, Jason. Thank you. Thank you very much for your feedback and thank you for listening to the show. That's it for geckmail, folks. I hope you guys had a good time. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm working on a bunch of stuff right now, man. You know, I. I'm making one. This is. This is kind of the. The. The Gecko. Where the Gecko arc is in my life right now is that I am, like, steadfast focused on making one documentary a month. I'm working right now on my documentary of the gathering of the Juggalos. Uh, I have a crazy trip planned in two weeks to go to a very interesting place and talk to people. As a Gecko, I'm not gonna say where it is yet, but you guys will find out at the end of October, when I get that video finished. Um, but yeah, that's what I'm working on. So I'm trying to make one solid documentary a month. Please go check out the three that I've made so far. They're all on my YouTube channel, YouTube.comlylefore. i might change the name of that soon. Yeah, that's. That's what's going on in my life. I'm just trying to make these documentaries. I think you guys will like them. I'm trying to evolve this thing into, like, you know, making more videos on the ground, in the world. And I hope you guys like them. I always take them and I put them on this podcast feed. I just put on my existential lizard video and my dance Battle in Tijuana video. And I'll be putting on the gathering of the Juggalos video and this next secret one that I'm very excited about, but that's it. Thanks for listening to this podcast. Thanks for being here. If you want to be on the next Geck mail, send an email to therapygeckomailmail.com if you want to call into the podcast. I know it's a little bit confusing as to how, but the way I do it is that I go on. I go live on Twitch tv, Lyle Forever, and whoever fucking joins and calls at whatever. I don't have a stream schedule anymore. I haven't for a while. I just kind of go randomly when I. When I, you know, I make sure I put out two of these podcasts a month. I mean, a week. I put out two of these podcasts a week. I've been doing that for. For years. And I just kind of go live to make them whenever I have time. So go to Twitch tv Lyle Forever. Follow me and make sure that you have notifications enabled for when I go live. And then whenever I go live, you'll get a notification and then you'll find out when you can call me to take the phone call. So that's the main way to call into the show. Other than that, I'll be back on Sunday with another episode of this show. My name is Lyle. I'm a gecko. Thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting the show, and I'll see you guys around the universe. Bye, everyone.
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Ryan Seacrest
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Gemma Spag
This is an iHeart podcast.