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Teddi Mellencamp (0:00)
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Teddi Mellencamp (1:40)
Hello. Hi, what's up? Welcome to Geck Mail. It is a show where I, a gecko, read mail and rant to myself. It's a lonely, desolate single person podcast. Normally on my podcast I talk to other people. I talk to strangers on the phone and there's a back and forth, there's a dialogue, but here there's a monologue and I'm just gonna rant and read viewer mails. If you want to send an email, you can send it to therapy geckomailmail.com I just kind of keep a rolling bunch of emails that I check. I I really like doing this version of the show. I've realized that I'm really, I'm trying to have, I think, the least controversial podcast that exists. I want no hot takes. I want to talk as little as that's What I've been enjoying about the way that I normally do my show is that I get to talk as little as possible. I just kind of get to sit there while other people talk. And I don't know, I guess it's because I don't want to say anything, because if you say stuff on the Internet, people, like, get mad at you and stuff. And I don't know, that's a more peaceful way to live. Not doing. I. I really struggle with this. Not doing anything or saying anything ever is definitely the most peaceful way to go. It's definitely. If you want to maximize your peace of mind, you just, throughout your life, never do or say anything to anyone ever. That's the way to do it. And so that's what I. That's what I've. That's kind of the train that I've been on, is maybe I should just stop doing things or saying things. But then again, I don't know, what kind of life is that? That's a PR version of yourself, and you're kind of diluted down to nothing. But I don't know, I think the optimal way to live, it's probably somewhere within that. It's probably somewhere within saying stuff and not saying anything. That's what I'm trying to figure out. I'm. I'm trying to figure out what's the optimal amount of things to do and say where you're putting yourself out there. You're put. You want to put your. I want me. I. This is for. This, for me. I want to put myself out there just enough so that I can. Meaningfully so just enough so that I can have, like, just meaningful enough of a life without being too vulnerable. That's all. It's probably a stupid thing to do. Don't listen to anything that I ever say. I'm. I'm. Uh. Go listen to. Fucking. Don't listen to anything anyone else ever says either. Never listen to anything everyone says. Don't listen to this podcast. Don't listen to any other podcast. Go outside and just look at the sky and eat grilled chicken and then die. That's the final piece of advice I will ever give on this podcast. Or maybe not. Okay. All right, let's read some viewer mail, shall we? All right, this one comes from Daniel, and the subject line is urgent. I know this isn't the best way to find out, but I just wanted you to know that arch nemesis Basketball Dan has passed away on May 5th of this year. What the fuck? I am now just Dan. Sometimes Daniel Professionally, I love you. And I hope the memory of Basketball Dan disappears from my memory because he's dead now. Okay? I'm not. I. I'm. I don't have time to give context to this. Let's do another one. All right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. No one died. I don't think. I think this is. I think this guy Daniel used to be Basketball Dan, and now he's just Dan. So no one died. No one died. All right. This is from Odyssey. Subject line. I tricked my ex friends into giving me asmr. Hey, Geck. So, like, this one time last year, I randomly remembered the egg that my mom used to do when I was little. What is the egg? It's where you tap on someone's kneecap a couple times with your fist and then spread your fingers and push lightly down on their knee. And it feels weird. So I did it to my friend, and he thought it was weird. So it started this whole thing of us randomly doing it to each other, but I think we all secretly liked it and didn't want each other to know. They have since become racist. And I move. I moved states because nobody liked me, because I still hung out with them even though they were racist. And I didn't realize until they learned slurs. Okay, whoever wrote this email is probably in middle school. I have no idea what this is, and I'm gonna read a different email. You know what I've noticed is that here's another thing about Geck mail, for those of you who listen to the whole show, is that I, like. I'm thinking about starting to do it once a week. Because, you know, in the regular show where I'm talking to people, I'm a. I'm. I think you guys could probably tell I'm a lot spicier. I'm a lot of. I'm a much spicier version of myself in Geck mail. I think it's because, like. Like, I don't want to. First of all, I don't really, like, get off on being mean. I don't really, like. I don't want to be, like, a mean guy. But even if, like, I wanted to. It's like when you're. When you have feedback from another human being, it influences the way that you act. So, like, if somebody. If I'm talking to somebody on the phone and they say something, and I think in my head, that's really fucking stupid that you just said that. I'm not gonna. I'll think that in my head, and then I'll take a second to take that thought and push it through a more. Filter it through a more productive lens. Because I don't. I actually. Genuinely, in my soul, I don't think just saying to this person, you're a idiot is helpful. I don't think it's helpful. So I filter it and I'm like, okay, what's a helpful. What's a more helpful thing to say? I don't do that because I don't want to hurt their feelings. I do that because I want. I want. If I'm having a conversation with this person, I want to be genuinely helpful in that moment. But here I'm just a truly, truly, truly alone in a room. And so saying that's fucking stupid is something I'm more likely to say. But I also don't. I also am. I also don't like that because I say and think and do so many stupid things that I don't like. Being judgmental. I know, for a lot of reasons, but one of them just being that any judgment I can make upon someone else, they could easily make on me. So what the. Why am I. Who am I to sit on my podcast and call someone, say that someone is stupid? But then again, it's cathartic. It feels good. That's the problem with. With judgment. I genuinely think we live in a very judgmental society, and it's a problem, but it. We do. We live in this judgmental society because it feels so good to call someone a idiot. It really like something in the central nervous system, the dopamine just gets released. But this, you know, same thing happens when you do heroin. So I don't know. I'm gonna. I'm. Let's just. Let's keep reading emails, and I'm just gonna keep saying stuff. Okay. This is from Steven. Subject line, A question on my mind. Dear Therapy Gecko, is everything one thing? Sincerely, Steve. Okay, I was about to say, no, everything are different things, but now I'm thinking about it, because if everything. Because a group of things could be considered one thing. Like if you have a bag of stones, the bag is one thing, but all the stones are several things. Okay, if. So by that logic, I'm gonna say if you put everything in a bag, it would be one thing, but everything on its own is a combination of a bunch of things. So if you put it in a bag, it's one thing. Okay, this is from Mario. Subject line. I'm. I'm in love with a poly, but I'm mono. Hello, Mr. Geck. I have strong Feelings for a girl that is poly. She was in an open relationship, but she ended it a couple months ago. That's when she started dating me. She told me from the beginning that she is Polly, but I was really drunk and I didn't think much of it. We've been dating for three to four months. I chose to take a break from her because I was getting really overwhelmed and insecure. She says she has strong feelings for me too, but I've began to develop trust issues. I start therapy tomorrow because of this and other things. There's more to the story, but I'm trying to keep it short. What are your thoughts on this and what I should do? Best regards, Ben. P.S. don't use my real name. Just say Ben, please. All right, well, okay, from now on, if you want me to use your real. To not use your real name, email me from an account that is. That doesn't have your real name in it or say it. Or say they use a fake name in the beginning of the email and not in the end of the email. Because if you say. If you don't. All right, what should you do? Well, ah, here's the thing is if you. This girl being poly, this seems to be a. This seems to be a fundamental thing about the way that this girl views her relationships and wants to live. And I chose to take a break of the day because really, really insecure are you. I mean, what's your feelings about Polly? Because you don't. I think the idea of you forcing yourself into a polyamorous relationship just because you like this girl, I don't know if I. I don't know if that's a good idea because that's like a very fundamental value that is off between you two. We've been dating for three or four months, so I'm curious what those three to four months have been like. So I would say, what should you do? Oh, well, you can't ask her to. Not. Here's the thing. I don't think you could ask her to be monogamous with you. And I don't think you can ask yourself to be polyamorous with her. If you really, really wanted to, you could start dating other girls and see how you feel. But I did. You're not. I'm not even getting a sense that you want to do that. So that's all I would say, is that you can't. Just. Just in the way that I would say that you can't force this girl to be monogamous. You can't force Yourself to be polyamorous. And next time, if you have a fake name, put it in the top of the email, not the front. What's the chat think? Let's see. Oh, someone in this chat. Someone in the chat says, I had this exact scenario. I accepted it to begin with, but it was the worst few months of my life. We ended it eventually, and it was the best decision I made. Split up. Well, there we go. Someone said, what's a poly? All right, let's see here. This is from Georgia. Subject line is roller coasters. Hi, Geck. I met you in Manchester last year, and we had a great talk about roller coasters. Thank you for taking the time to indulge me. I wanted to share that I finally reached my dream of being a roller coaster engineer, and I design new ride systems now. That's awesome. I'm not gonna lie. I've never experienced a greater existential crisis because I no longer have a goal to strive for that powers me through the burdens of life. I only ever dreamed of getting the job, but I never thought about after because I really didn't think I would get this far. My job is cool, though. What do I do to find purpose again? Thanks, Georgia. This is a fascinating query. First of all, congrats on becoming a real life roller coaster tycoon. That's awesome. This is something I'm struggling with myself. I mean, I. I have other goals. My goal now is to get jacked, which I don't actually like talking about on the podcast because I think you get a little hit, a little hit of dopamine or whatever every time you tell someone your goals, and then that kind of makes you want to do them less. But whatever. I'm getting jacked. It's happening. Anyway, enough about me. What do I do to find purpose again? Well. Well, don't. Don't you find purpose in doing the job? Do you not have a roller coaster that you've been dreaming up in your brain that you want to do? Can you not? Like, are you like, I want to make a triple loopdy looper dup and eventually get there. What's a roller coaster tycoon's career path look like? Open. You open up your own roller coaster. A kid dies on one of your things and you go bankrupt. That could be you. You could have something. I'm just saying you will have more events happen in your life. You know, what do I do to find purpose again? Do you have any friends? Friends provide purpose? Yeah, I guess I would say. I guess I would say that you can get into Ferris wheels, maybe. Why don't you. Well, you design new ride systems now. Doesn't. Okay, so here's what I. Here's the thing. As a roller coaster engineer, and you're constantly making new roller coasters. Isn't each roller coaster in and of itself a goal? Isn't each project present itself with a goal? Because the purpose, it's like, it's like when you get like, like when comedians get Saturday Night Live, right? And like, getting Saturday Night Live, getting the roller coaster engineer job wasn't the, the hard part. The hard part is now that you're in the role, how are you. You got to get your sketches on the air. You got your roller coasters in, in Disneyland or however the. That works. And so why don't you just focus on thriving within the job Once you, I don't know how old you are, but why don't you see what other ever. You know, the people you work with who are in their 50s or whatever, what are they doing? Can you ascribe to that? And then you just keep ascribing to new heights and purposes and achieving goals, and then you die. And it's great. That was really sad. I've. I think I've been feeling existential lately, and it's bleeding into everything that I do. I'm really trying to find, you know, Georgia. I'm trying to find purpose. Again, depressing. I'm like, gee, I'm, like, talking to people. Not on the show, but just in real life. Like, I, I, I'll talk to someone. I think I told. I think I did I tell. I think I told the story already of how I was gonna ride a roller coaster, and then I didn't because I was like, oh, it's just gonna be over. That's. It happens now with people now. Like, I'll be at a bar and I'm talking to someone, and I'll be like, I don't. Why am I talking to you right now? It's, it's, it's exhausting, and I don't know if I'm ever gonna see you again. Don't, don't let, don't let any of this happen to you. Georgia. Georgia. You know what, Georgia, please, dear God, you're. Don't, don't let, don't let yourself become existential and crazy. Find joy in the little things. Move on to Ferris wheels. Ferris wheels are good too. What's the chat say? Someone said, that's just your midlife crisis talking, Geck. Well, I'm about. I'm 27, so hopefully I don't die at the age of 52. I think that math sounds right. Someone said. Yeah, a bunch of people are saying that's just depression. Is that depression? Oh, shit. All right, maybe I'm depressed. All right, well, okay. Well, that's. That's fine. All right. This is from Tucker. Subject line, lyle, I need your sage wisdom. Tucker says, lyle, since you're such a model of men's health, are there any tips you can share for losing weight? I think listening to you has made me a better person. Thank you for being you. I truly hope. I hope you are truly being you. Thank you, Tucker, for asking me how to lose weight. Even though I am probably about 40 pounds overweight. But I'm trying. I'm actually act genuinely. I'm. Yeah, fuck it. I'm just gonna. I said I wasn't gonna talk about. I'm talking the now, so. So I've been doing the gecko for, like, four and a half years. And for those four and a half years, I really. I was looking at a picture of myself when I first started, and I was really skinny. And over the four and a half years that I was doing gecko, nothing in my life mattered to me other than being a gecko on the Internet, you know, trying to be Internet famous, trying to, you know, get people to listen to my show, you know, making sure I upload three clips a week. Streaming and clipping and selling tickets to my tour and doing my tour and traveling all around and. And embracing a life of novelty and this and that and the other thing, and just every. Everything career wise and novelty wise mattered to me and way more than my health. And as a result, I gained like 50 pounds, something crazy like that. And now that I've gotten to a point with this show where I'm like, if the amount of people that currently listen to this is the same amount of people that currently listen to it for. For as long as it exists, I am so happy about that. And I have successfully completed two and a half tours around the world. And so my. My drive for more and more and more and more and more of that is dissipating. And now my drive is like, fucking counting calories and going to the gym and all that stuff. And, like, that's what I really care. Care about the most right now is doing that stuff. And I mean, tips for losing weight. I don't know. I'm like, I'm fasting and exercising. That's it. That's all you do, you eat less and you go to the gym and hopefully it makes you better. But I guess caring. Any tips you can share for losing weight? Giving caring. The only time I ever lost weight is when I cared about losing weight all the other times. Why? You know, that's the tip on how to do anything. You can apply that to anything. Anything that you actually genuinely care about doing, you'll do. And then the stuff that you don't, the stuff that you don't really care about and sub your subconscious will tell you what you actually care about. You can consciously pretend like you care about certain things, but your actions throughout your life will tell you what you actually care about. And so just I don't know, man. Pay attention to what you care about and if you give a shit about losing weight, then you know, eat less and move more and then you lose weight. I'll let you know if it works for me. Someone said I've lost 30 months. I've lost 30 pounds in three months and I eat tons and tons of low calorie foods. Is 30 pounds in three months? Three months. Is that healthy? I don't know. This is not the, this is not the. What's the name of that, what's that guy's name? Andrew Huberman is not the Andrew Human podcast. But I don't know. Anyway, okay.