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Therapy Gecko

"GECKING OFF"

Therapy Gecko

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9951 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

A caller confides to me that he puts a great deal of effort into scripting his conversations beforehand in order to avoid "failed social interactions.” We get into why he’s always felt this pressure, how he discovered he had autism during a trip on mushrooms, and his obsession with flags.
 After that a caller tells me about his experience masturbating in the bathroom of the Vatican City museum as a form of religious retribution, which led to a larger goal of masturbating in as many different countries as possible. Then a caller tells me his wild story of getting arrested in the Middle East for kissing another man, what it’s like in Jordanian jail, and how he ended up escaping to the US. A lot of you guys sent pictures of tennis balls to my Instagram DMs (@lyle4ever) last week. Thanks for that. This week I would like pictures of folding chairs. I don’t know what I’m going to do with them but hopefully it’s something productive. Thanks for reading these descriptions. I am a gecko.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi is this Franklin hello how you doing Franklin you know I'm doing very good how you get

0:10.1

I'm doing good myself I love your voice you have a great diaphragm

0:18.4

yeah I've worked a lot on it in my lifetime I guess so that's very nice of you to say.

0:25.0

Really you've worked on your voice this is not a natural thing you were born with this is

0:29.2

something that you had to put active effort into? Well, I mean partly yes and partly no, you know, like I feel like compared to most people,

0:39.9

I have to make quite a conscious effort as to what I'm saying, you know, like I've always said that most others are on like a driving an automatic when it comes to communication whereas I'm driving a manual car, but also you know like I've been told since I was like 13

0:56.0

that I'm a deep voice so that's one thing I actually am British I'm not like

1:00.7

faking my accent that's not one way that I've worked on my voice.

1:03.6

So I like what you said just now.

1:05.8

You said that most people are when they're talking they're driving an automatic, but

1:10.0

you're driving a manual.

1:11.4

So you're putting a lot of effort and thought behind each

1:16.9

enunciation of each letter of each word exactly not only that but like I used to be a big theatre kid and like all the time my drama teacher would she just like be so serious about enunciation and stuff and like I definitely indoctrinated that and an enunciation is

1:35.2

something that's quite important to me. Isn't that get exhausting though having to

1:39.9

think so much about every single thing that you say? Oh very tiring. It's like so

1:46.2

unbelievably tiring like scripting is a really bad thing for me because I literally

1:50.4

can't go into a conversation without like preparing what I'm going to say and what I think the other person is going to say.

1:57.8

Hmm. Okay, let's dive into that here.

2:01.1

Scripting, so you script out to the best of your ability using the knowledge that you have

2:06.9

available to you, almost all of your interactions.

2:09.7

Yes, definitely. And like a lot, it's really bad because a lot of the time I will just try and script the conversation and if I can't, if it doesn't go the way that I want it to in my head, I would just completely avoid the interaction overall, and it leads to not the best of communication.

2:29.0

But so much of conversation is not just preparing what you're going to say beforehand,

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