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Hello people of the computer or the phone. Whichever one of those two or mediums you're using to listen to this. Or maybe you're listening in your car. Or maybe you're listening inside the belly of a whale. Although probably not. You're probably maybe you're walking. Maybe you're on a train. Maybe. Maybe you have this podcast playing in like another room to no one. What? And you like left it on and you forgot and I'm just speaking into this void of an empty room while you're off, you know, doing something else, not even knowing that I'm speaking. Maybe that's where this podcast Is going right now, but. What's up, everybody? How's it going? This is geckmail. I'm gonna fucking shoot the shit with myself for a little bit and then I'm gonna read some viewer mail. So I guess what's going on with. With me real quick is I am in Japan right now. I've been here for two months. It's been a beautiful, beautiful experience. I'm sad to go back, but I think it'll be good. I think it'll be grounding, you know, at the end of the day. At the end of the day, right, it's like, you can go on. I've had been fortunate enough in my life to go on many, many crazy, beautiful adventures, both thanks to the therapy gecko and also just thanks to like, you know, something in my brain, for better or for worse, requires me to fucking have like some. Some sense of novelty going on. So I'm always running around and doing stuff. But it's been good. But the old. What's that song? Been all over the world. Only place left to go is home. Something like that. Who does that song anyway? Yeah, the song is good. So, yeah, man, I'm excited to return back and see my family and my friends and it'll be good, you know. That's the meaning of life, I think, is one of the things I've learned over the past. I'm not even gonna say two months because I knew it kind of before came here, but the quality of your life is always gonna be the. The quality of the people around you at the end of the day, I think for me, at least, I don't know, you might. You might be able to go into the wood. Everyone's different. Everyone's brain is wired differently. So you might be able to just go into the woods and live there forever and it's awesome for you. So actually, I take back everything I said. I don't fucking know the meaning of life. I don't even. I regret even pretending for a second like I did. Um, but I guess it's the meaning of. I guess my life and probably the meaning of a lot of people's lives is to just be around folks. You know, Life is like tremendously scary and lonely and frightening. Bizarre experience and, you know, it's. Everything is cope. But it's good. Cope is good. Cope is, you know. Yeah. Your friends sending you a meme. It's good cope. So, you know, whatever. Connect with other people. It's good. I think this was a whole. I don't know why this is. This is a whole motivational rant. I'm never trying to tell other people what to do, but I'm just. This is just me working on my own brain. This is the. This is the therapy for me portion of this show, and I'm enjoying it. It feels good. And if you have me in your ear right now, God bless you. Thank you very, very, very, very much. I am honored to have your listenership. And I'm ready to. To take. To read some emails. Let's get into it. Although, before we get into it, I do want to say I am hosting my very first art exhibition in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on. Well, it's gonna. We're having a gallery exhibition opening on March 14 from 7pm to 10pm at the Kaleidoscope Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn. And if you live in New York City, if you want to come, you can check the link to the episode description. I put a little thing that you can enter in your phone number into, and then you'll get a little text where that says, hey, just a reminder that we're doing this thing. And also, I might do other things in New York City. This might. I might do other stupid art exi. Oh, I didn't even talk about what the exhibition is. I'm taking eight. It's called Lyle Forever Presents Trash from Around My Room. And I'm gonna be taking eight pieces of trash from around my room and displaying them. And you can. You can come check it out. It's a free event. It's a free event. I don't know why I decided to. I had this. I had this event written down in my notes app, like two years ago, and I was like, you know what? We just have to do it. If not now, then when? Let's just do it. Let's just do the fucking trash exhibit. And so we're doing the trash exhibit. It's free to come and to hang out. There'll be a bar there. I'll be there. I'll be hanging out. So come through. March 14, Kaleidoscope Gallery, 7pm 10pm and the link to RSVP is in this episode description. So come hang out and look at my stupid trash. All right, let's. Let's look at some emails here. This is from Ash. Subject line. I told my instructor I'd make him come. Okay. Hi, Geck. I had my first driving lesson today and accidentally sexted the instructor two minutes before he got to my house. On the driving app, it has a section saying bits out them. What does that Mean, it has a section saying bits out them and it just filled them all with coming soon. So. Okay, I sent who I thought was my boyfriend a screenshot of his driving profile and a text saying I'm gonna make him come. Then almost canceled my driving test when I saw who I sent to. Oh, okay, so this person took a screenshot of their instructors driving profile and then meant to send the screenshot to their boyfriend with the. With the phrase I'm gonna make him come, but they accidentally sent it to the driver. Okay. He was actually a good sport about it and we had to laugh, so it wasn't weird. Anyway, odd first driving lesson. Guess I'm stuck till I graduate. Help your driving instructors come. Well, I hope I don't have anything funny to say about this, but this, it is a funny situation. Let's. Let's see here. This is from Austin. This is a rant. The subject line is rant on life. Hey, Geck. I graduated almost two years ago and I've been with the same company since. They've shown me the corruption and greed that drives capitalism. I can't do this anymore. My job, which involves providing and educating patients on medical equipment, has taken a severe toll on my mental and emotional health. And I started therapy because of it. I understand patients anger due to pain, but the treatment I receive from hospital staff and colleagues is unbearable. They don't care about patients, they only want to milk money from them. Management even told me not to pick up equipment from a patient until they called to ask why it hadn't been done so they could continue billing them. I've been applying for my dream career for an entire year, but the constant rejections are overwhelming. Life feels bleak and I'm struggling to find meaning in anything. This repetitive cycle is a never ending hellscape. I am unable to escape from Austin. Well, Austin, hey, man, you know what? Here's the funny thing is like normally I think I would get an email like this and I would be like, oh, crap. I don't know how to respond. But, you know, let's. I don't know, man. I'm in the mood to give it a try. I've also been feeling like a little, A little hellscapey here, Austin. So I'm just gonna tell you how I, you know, I'm feeling in the hellscape land. I mean, look, man, I think all of my theories and all of my quote unquote advice or whatever, it's all just theories that I'm testing and trying. I have no, you know, hold on. There's a fucking. In Japan, they make it. They do a bell every day at 4:30. I don't know if you guys can hear this bell. Why 4:30? It only goes off at 4:30. Does anyone know why there's a. Why is a bell always go off in Tokyo at 4:30? Hold on. It's about a. It's about to end. That's another good thing to get you out of Hellscape is just distractions. Donkey Kong Country Returns is all. Is they really. This is not an advertisement, but Donkey Kong Country Returns is. They released it in HD on the Nintendo Switch, and I'm gonna use that to help me cope with the void. But anyway, I don't know, Austin, man, you seem like. When. Well, I'm curious. What? You said you've been applying for your dream career, right? So what is your dream career? I don't know what that is, but let's say whatever your dream career is, I'm sure it's your dream career for a reason, right? So instead of the one thing I've always felt is that, like, there's kind of motivations and then there's vessels for those motivations, I suppose. And so it's like, why is your dream career your dream career? Is it because it puts you around people? Is it because it lets you travel? Is it because it lets you help people? You know, what is it? Right? And so instead of chasing after this specific thing that is kind of a thing that is like a rejection, acceptance thing, and you're kind of like allowing other people to tell you whether or not you'll be able to achieve those vessels. Like, why don't you just take whatever the fuck it is that you like about this career and see if you can, you know, see. See what all your options are for kind of satisfying those life desires? I suppose that's what. I guess that's what I would do. That's what I'm trying to do. It's funny, man. Talking about this shit on the podcast is helping me kind of reinforce things for myself. So. So that's good. That's what I'm trying to do. Let's keep going. Let's keep going. Okay, this is from. This one's a little too long. Hold on. Okay, this is from someone who told me not to use their name. Don't use my name, please. My boyfriend of five years has a baby. My story. Hi, from Canada. I've been watching your show a lot lately, and I doubt this will even get anywhere. Well, here we are. My story. So I'm 21 and my now ex is 23. We started dating in 2020. We broke up in October of 2023 because I found a lot of porn on his phone and it was pretty disturbing. I found pictures of his cousin on there. Okay, fast forward. During the time we broke up, I started seeing someone and he did also. He was with this emo mentally ill girl who has a list of disorders. Okay, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, fast forward again. We got back together in the end of February 2024, and we were doing good. He was decent, was working on himself and I saw some change. Oh, she got back together. Then on April 1st, she the. Oh, okay. Then on April 1st, the girl that he was seeing while we were broken up posted that she was pregnant and tried to play it off as an April Fool's joke. She didn't even say anything to my ex and she blocked us both on social media. When I confronted her about it, she was playing this big game of guess for nine months and now it's February. And I finally broke up with him because she came out and said, yeah, this is your baby. The whole situation is fucked. She even tried to say that we could all be one happy family and have a three way relationship. Which just proves how messed up she is in her head. But yeah, living life to the fullest right now, I guess. That is a crazy dude. That's such a crazy situation considering how fucking young all you guys are. I mean, God damn. I mean. Well, shit, you got out of that one pretty good. Yeah, I mean that's, that's, that's, that's gnarly. That's gnarly. I'm not gonna. I need something to refer to you as. So I'm just gonna call you Rachel. That's gnarly. Rachel. Good luck. That's all I got. I'm gonna start. Sometimes I have things to say and sometimes I don't. And this one, this one, I'm just a little speechless. Good luck, Rachel. That one's. That one's pretty, pretty messed up. I mean, I guess. I guess it's good that you guys didn't have a baby, you know? All right, let's see here. Okay, this is from Sam. Subject line just turned 20 and I'm overwhelmed. Any advice? Hey, Geck. My name is Sam. I just turned 20 this past December and the spring semester has just started. Over the winter, I did some research which has gotten the green light to continue throughout the semester as a one credit independent study course. Kick Ass. I'm also in another independent study course to be doing four different projects. I love research and it's what I want to be doing. But I'm doubting my abilities to be able to manage my time well and produce good work. Not only in those projects, but also my normal classes. I'm taking chem and calc 2 and I'm struggling a bit and I'm afraid to burn out so early. Do you have any advice as someone who is older? Thanks. Wishing you the best. I'm terrible. I have. I'm kind of terrible for this because I studied film in college and I maybe did work two fucking hours a week as a film major. My roommate was a biology major. He fucking hated me because, you know, he was doing real stuff with his life and his, you know, he always had a bunch of work to do and my. You know, I was like getting high and listening to lo fi beats and not doing anything. So I'm not good at school. I've never been a big school person. But I guess we could. I guess if we were to go a little bit deeper and get into like the emotions of it. Right. Is like, you know, I don't know, it's hard to say. Cuz part of me is like, well, if you're only 20 and this is what you really want to do, like, you know, give it. God, dude. I guess give it your best shot. I know that that's not. I know that that's not great advice, but give it your best shot. And if you end up falling short of whatever your best shot is, just take solace in the fact that you tried, you know, so. So that's. I think that's what I got for you, Sam, is just. Just take solace in the fact that you tried. That's all I think you're gonna ever really care about is that, you know, when you go to bed at night, you tried your fucking best to do the things that you wanted to do with yourself for whatever the hell that is worth learning. Okay. This is from Andrew. Subject line learning to be alone. He says, I think you got to be alone, single and with no friends for a part of your life, even if it's just a couple months. It's a necessary character development arc and I recommend it to everyone. If you read this, you're awesome. Keep going. You know, it's interesting. I definitely. I think I'll be up. I'll be a little open on this. This year episode. I'm in the mood for it. You know, I think over the years that I've. I think over the years I've all. I've been a very like, kind of, you know, wanting to be alone and do things on my own kind of vibe. And I. And if you're gonna do that, right, if you're gonna learn to be alone. I actually agree with this email. I agree with this email that you should try to learn how to be alone, especially if you're young. Like, dude, if you're in your fucking. If you're in your, like, early 20s or something like that, you got it. It's. It's okay to learn how to be alone and go on a little solo trip. And it is, I agree, and necessary character development arc. And I think through all the times that I've gone on a solo trip or been alone or struggled with loneliness, I agree it's been like a big character arc for me. But also, you know, over, I think over the years, if you do it too much, you kind of wake up and you're like, oh, this is not. I mean, again, it's, it's. It's what I was saying earlier. Everyone's brain is fucking wired differently. And so, you know, I personally think that having quality social connections in your life is probably the most important fucking thing on the. You could possibly fucking do for yourself. Right? Some people aren't as lucky to have those things come. Some people are really fucking lucky and those things just come naturally to their lives. Other people aren't and they have to kind of work a little bit harder for them. But, you know, I agree with this, the spirit of this email. And like, it's okay to learn. You gotta. You gotta kind of learn how to be alone. But, you know, don't drag it on too long or else you will go insane. Trust me. This is from Jane, subject line, touring musician struggling with daily life after. Hey, Lyle. I'm a musician parenthesis DJ who just went on tour last year in Asia and now I'm doing Latin America. I do longish tours where I stay in the city, I perform for a few weeks to really get a feeling for what it's like and to connect with the people here. I'm also commissioning a 3D artist, so that helps me pay the bills on the go. It's hard for me when I head back home to cope with daily life. I just kind of stare at my wall, like, why, why do I have a space when I could just be on the move all the time? I can't slow down, even though I feel like I should sometimes. As someone who also tours a bunch, how do you handle the comedown afterwards? Thank you, Jane. Finally a fucking email where I feel like I can speak on it. Dude. So, yeah, I mean, I've been touring. I've been lucky enough to tour as the therapy gecko for like basically on and off for two and a half years. And yeah, you know, Jane, I'm in the same boat here because I'm taking this year off of touring, which I think was a necessary thing to do because I had to, you know, kind of take the time to evaluate a lot of life things and kind of kind of deal with them. But I'm with you too. Like, when I, when I'm on the road, life feels really like there's a weird linear thing to it where like, when I'm on the road, all I have to worry about is the show I am doing tonight in St. Louis, Missouri. It's a very present thing when you have a show and you're performing and going all around because. Because you're focused on the present moment and where you are. And it kind of gets you like this linear aspect to it where it's like, okay, I have this many shows to do and let me walk in this straight line. And life is a little scary in the fact that it doesn't often have straight lines, especially if you're a musician or a gecko or something non traditional. You know, life doesn't have a lot of straight lines to it. And so touring gives you a bit of a straight line. And when you get off a tour yet you don't have a straight line anymore. And that's fucking spooky. So how do I handle the comedown afterwards? The truth is, Jane, I haven't been doing a great job of handling the come down afterwards, but I think it's, it's probably. And actually I'm happy to be reading this email because it's making me have to find an answer to this question. And so I think in this very moment I'm just kind of like, you probably have to establish some kind of routine. Because when I was on the road I felt calm and I felt like I had a routine. It was like, you know, go to the airport, do fucking this shit, set up the show, do meet, meet with people, smoke weed at 2:00 in the morning and go to bed and wake up and do it again. And so I think, I think again, yeah, from person who tours to person who tours, it's like touring established a routine for me. And then when the routine went away, I just started to kind of falter. And so I think the answer is gonna be like coming up with another routine for yourself, for myself. And so hopefully you can find a routine that makes you feel some level of excitement, right? Some level of excitement for what you had when you were on tour. And yeah, it's hard, you know, man, if you're the kind of person where you want, you want a lot out of life. You want a lot out of, you know, you live in crazy rock star land. You're in Asia, you're in Latin America, you're, you're talking to this person. You're doing this. I mean, it's, it's, it's beautiful. It's, it's the kind of, you know, it's, it's, it's a beautiful existence, but I don't know if it's sustainable to live it forever. Or at least you can live it forever, but I don't know if it's sustainable to live it constantly. And so, yeah, you need to kind of build some kind of routine, I guess do push ups or something. All right, that was a rant. That was a whole rant. But I guess this whole podcast is a whole rant. So let's keep going.