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Therapy Gecko

“THE NAVY RUINED ME”

Therapy Gecko

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9951 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

A caller reflects on his experience as a veteran living with schizophrenia. Then a caller prepares to confront his wife after learning about her affair, and a final caller talks about how hard it is to maintain a diet while working at a fast food restaurant. There is always a catch. I am a gecko.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Call from John.

0:01.0

To accept press 1 to send a voicemail, press 2.

0:05.0

Hi Lyle.

0:07.0

Hello, who is this?

0:09.0

This is John.

0:10.0

John.

0:11.0

How can I get you today, man? What's going on? Well I'm just calling in to talk about some stuff that's happening or has been happening in my life post-military.

0:24.0

I was working for the Navy, the U., on a submarine back in the 2010s and pretty much I feel like my life is in shambles afterwards and the government's response to that stuff was just like,

0:52.0

okay, we see what happened here. It's fucked up. Here's your money. But now I can't pursue like a career, education, and like, stuff like that.

1:07.0

It's kind of like on a permanent hiatus.

1:09.4

I'm basically forced to be in this retirement in such an early life that I'm lost because of a typical, you know,

1:18.4

bureaucracy fuckups.

1:20.1

Sorry, can I curse? I don't know if I can. You can say whatever the

1:26.7

fuck you want on here John. All right. So yeah that it's just a rough bag to get.

1:39.4

You know, I'm only 27 and I'm basically living life like I'm 56.

1:45.0

Wait a minute, so you were, uh, you were in the military in 2010?

1:54.6

No, no, 2015, 16 afterwards.

1:59.8

2015.

2:01.0

Okay.

2:02.0

Um. Okay. Now, if you want to go into it, you can, if you want to go into it, you can, if you don't, that's fine. But what was it about being in the military that left you, that left you, that left you, that left you fucked up, yeah.

2:18.0

Well, they don't have a really efficient pathway for like really serious like stuff that could happen to the people they recruit.

2:30.0

For instance, like they try to recruit from like young ages right but they don't really

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