Smosh Mouth - S2: #54 - Hold My Leash (Smosh Advice)

Episode Date: March 11, 2020

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From tires to auto repair, we're always there. TreadExperts.ca Ramble. ramble at least voice how you're feeling to that person about hey i want to be your friend i really enjoy spending time with you what what's up with this why do you keep blowing me off nothing wrong with hanging out with a couple there's no such thing as necessarily being the third wheel when you're all adults you're just hanging out and having fun. Sounds like this person might not want to come to terms with it, but you might

be emotionally detached if you're thinking about this. Do you guys know the rock is 80? Stop. He's an actual rock. He's graphite. Lightning struck a boulder and out of it he walked. If you're like a superhuman and you could hear really, really well like this.

If. Do you think you could always hear people farting? And how awful. Like you could probably hear so many disgusting sounds. I think most superhumans would just go absolutely insane. I would do that. Somebody's like gut just like. But then. Because it drives me nuts when someone's like chewing gum straight up mouth open

courtney was doing it for a bit the other yesterday during try not to laugh but even then i was like i want to die yeah i want to die what if you could just hear that and surround sound from like 10 feet away yeah i'll die like a cafeteria would just be the word well hey hey hey howdy folks uh welcome to the smosh cast gosh it's been a while since i've it's been a hot moment been on here uh today i am joined by the illustrious the elusive the illest damien haas and mari takahashi wow. Were they illustrious? Yeah, were the Illuminati. The Illuminati. Making the triangle.

It is real. It's funny. We are, as most people say in Smosh lore, we are the big three. Uh-huh. I don't know. I said that in a meeting when they said that we were going to be working together.

I was like, oh, the big three, which I say about everything. And then for some reason, that was the time people were like, wow, you just gave yourself like a title. I'm like, no, which I say about everything. And then for some reason, that was the time people were like, wow, you just gave yourself like a title. I'm like, no, I say it about everything. This is another episode of the advice cast where you guys sent in your advice and we're going to give you the most expert advice that's totally backed up.

We are board certified expert advice givers. But before we get to that, hi Mari, how are you? I'm good. I'm good. What have you been doing? Where have you been going? What crazy lands have you explored recently? I've actually been local.

Like I haven't gone anywhere lately. And I think this year I'm really going to work on staying here. Because I was everywhere last year. That's hilarious. Because I feel like most people are like, I want to travel more. I don't want to leave my house. Yeah. I'm on a really great creative kick right now.

And I feel like I've been in a creative rut for a while. And it's kind of a long story, but something hit me in December. I was following my mom around when she was doing her last Nutcracker shows. And I realized while following her around, I really have not like done a good job documenting her and like our experiences together. And so I was following her around with the camera just because I wanted to like get these moments. And it's something stuck in me and where I'm like, I want to make content with my mom. Whoa. That's my mom. Whoa. That's so cool.

Yeah. So I've been on this creative kick since then. That's great. Yeah. That was back in December. And so I'm excited for doing stuff this year. What exactly are you filming with your mom? Is it like kind of like a figure out like who she is as a person?

Yeah. So I want it to be, Damien,ien you'll like this it'll be just an interview show but we'll be speaking japanese with it subtitled um because that's how my mom and i communicate yeah or you can just guess what we're talking yeah i'd be like okay so this is the part where they both are seeing if they're caught up on the bachelor and who they like i I don't know. This is where they fight. This is where they fight. You're like full on smiling. I'm like, yeah. Can Papa Takahashi jump in for occasional like comedic relief?

I really want to do a segment with him called Beer with Dad, which means beer with dad. I just get some beers with my dad. I don't even drink beer. Yeah, I was going to say, you're not a some beers with my dad. I don't even drink beer. But I'll drink. Yeah, I was gonna say, you're not a drinker. I know, I don't drink alcohol.

But I think I'll just maybe have non-alcoholic beer and my dad can have some beers. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love your dad. He's a character.

He's adorable. I don't think I've met your dad. Really? I don't think so. Oh, dude. He's gotta come by the studio. He'll wanna look at all this radio equipment. Oh yeah, cause he's a big ham radio guy. Yeah, he's got to come by the studio. He'll want to look at all this radio equipment. Oh, yeah, because he's a big ham radio guy.

Yeah, he is. Yeah. He's got a ham shack in the house, which is my old room. Okay, I know it's for radio, but just let me imagine what I think that is for a moment, just for me. Yeah. Ham shack.

Because ham radio is like you just tune to a random frequency and then you hope that you get somebody else that's on a ham radio yeah and they could be completely on the other side of the world right yep and you know how my dad talks he's just like hello this is teru you know he's just kind of like just really out there and super unabashed but he's really proud because he is uh if there's any emergencies that take out like telephone poles and stuff in our city, or no,

in our county, my dad's the go-to person. That's cool. And he's just, I don't know if he's prepared, but he like, he's really proud of it. That's really cool.

Well, that's cool. We need people like that. Hell yeah. We need a Tarot. Yeah. Everyone needs. We stand Tarot. Everyone needs a Tarot.

That's the next t-shirt. Well, okay. let's uh well damien how have you been i've been pretty good thanks man the floofs the floofs the floofs are good um they were definitely happy to see me after tour um they're gonna be missing me once uh we're filming this right before we go uh to australia so australia so it's been it's been a lot of uh fun the past month but it's also been a lot of like life maintenance. You know, I haven't been really starting anything new because, you know, we're in between these long periods of travel. So it's once again just been I've got a couple of voiceover job, one that I'm doing tomorrow, which is cool.

Been doing the normal like we film some days I stream and then some days I record voiceover auditions. Then I go to bed like it's very like business as usual right now. I think, I think it's easy to kind of like lose track of like all the things we're sort of doing when you're doing so much stuff. And then, and then if you're not doing anything, it's like,

gosh, like I wish I was doing something. Yeah. You know, you're never going to find that balance, but I think it's, I think it's important to, to,

you know, try to not let everything blow by without acknowledging kind of the the awesome opportunities that we have and oh totally i mean yeah stray is gonna be awesome oh for sure i sure hope i didn't come across that way like yeah i'm going to australia like no it's incredibly exciting it's just you know when it becomes part of your day-to-day um it is your day-to-day yeah like i i've been doing a lot of like a major cleaning of my room like i just want to feel more comfortable in my space and i've started finding all this like video game merch kind of

stuff that has just piled up some of it hasn't even opened and i remember being a teenager watching things like e3 and just seeing a t-shirt with a video game title on it. I'm like, I want that. That's all I ever wanted. Like, that'd be so cool. And now it's my day to day life. And I'm like, oh, I need to start giving this away to friends. I don't have room for all this stuff. So it's like, it's not like you're not grateful.

It's just like, it becomes your life. We're like constantly adjusting that bar. And sometimes it's hard to like just step away and look at where you are. Cause I remember at the end of last year, I'm like, oh man oh man i did nothing this year like i was so down in the dumps and then i started writing like what i did last year and by the end of it i had this list of like things that i you know moments that i that really meant a lot to me and um you know accomplishments or whatever and then i look back and i'm like man i get I get so stuck in my head. Like, I feel like I do nothing. And then if I actually write it down, I'm like, okay, I did

stuff. I think the tricky thing about that is it's in a way your superpower or like it's the superpower of a creative individual that actually gets to have a creative job where like you're not satisfied with what you've done. It doesn't feel that special right away. So therefore you're always striving to do the next thing and do more. And that's what pushes you to actually do it. I feel like I would have a tendency to like rest on my laurels if I really sat down and was like, wow, what an awesome thing I did last month. And that was just last month. I've got all the time in the world.

Like, you know, yeah. Yeah. It's definitely a double edged sword. It is. It's about that balance. Like you said. Maybe it's impossible to find true balance between the two, but I think you should always strive to do so.

Yeah. Well, let's get to the advising, shall we? Let's do it. Advice. How do I fix a contact that is screwing up? Oh, no, baby. Just take your finger and just swish it around. Rip it clean out. Bare hands.

Just take your whole eyeball out. Sorry. Wait, do you wear contacts more? Not anymore. I got LASIK like 11 years ago. That's cool. Still good. Still good.

Don't you have to redo it like every 45 minutes? I hope not because it's a horrifying surgery. For some people it deteriorates. I know with Ryan Higa. Yeah, he was complaining about it. His LASIK starting to like get a little so-so. Mine's good still. That's good. I've been thinking about it his lasik starting to like get a little so so mine's good still that's good i've been thinking about it sorry anyway this first one comes from super super superist shane superist superist shane uh they said i had a really frustrating conversation

with a friend about him not voting yesterday how can i help encourage him without being a total butthole i think a lot of people get so caught up with they they think voting is just voting for the next president and voting is so much more than that yes you know your local elections it's your local council members it's i mean the big ones the things that are most important to me are like the propositions like of like, you know, oh, we want to build a road here or, oh, we want to fund schools more. Oh, we want to, you know, do this and this and that. And those are the things that encourage me to go out and vote because I actually feel like I can have a say in my community. Voting for president, some people feel very disaffected because they're like, oh, well, you know, electoral college like in California, they're like, well, it's not really going

to make that much of a difference. I still think people should vote for who they want to be president. Yeah. I think that's very important. But what's, you know, even more important is things of the local level, things that actually will affect you. For instance, in 2008, there was a proposition called Prop 8, which you may remember, Mari, which wanted to ban gay marriage in California. And it actually passed banning gay marriage.

Oh, because like everyone thought like there's no way that's going to pass and they didn't vote. There was a very large campaign funded largely by a certain organization. Chick-fil-A. No, but you're getting warm. So I think a lot of people just kind of went along with it. And there was a lot of these like commercials

and they kind of seem to be alluding to like, well what if there's like like gay parents like you don't want your gay you don't want gay parents spreading gay the gay agenda you know and all this the sanctity of marriage was a huge yeah debate of like well if if it's not you know if it's not sacred anymore then what is marriage then your marriage to a man and a woman means nothing now. And there's a lot of fear. A literal contract of property. Oh, yeah. And I remember because I remember some people being like, well, if we're just going to let two men marry, what's next?

We can marry our dogs? Yes. I remember that. And it's like, I don't know, man. Is that something you are actively wanting to do? And if so, we should talk about that. Yeah. no man, is that something you are actively wanting to do? And if so, we should talk about that. But how do you deal with that and explain those kinds of things to people

and not be a jerk about it? My thought would be you straight up just don't be a jerk about it. Like don't let yourself get too emotional and upset as they're talking to you. Every like, if you're trying to convince someone and they're throwing it like things at you, like, ah, it doesn't matter.

Give them a counterpoint as calmly as possible and be like, what do you think about that? What I've just said. And if they're setting their ways, just being like, well, no, no, I just know it doesn't matter. Then maybe that's a wall you can't budge. But my thought about it is then afterwards, that friend is not allowed to complain about literally anything ever again. Be it like a president or a situation or they're like man there's a pothole in this road you have to look at them and be like shut up because we could have fixed that for measure m well that's fixing all the potholes yeah no sorry that's literally

i had a lot of conversations for the last presidential election like it's it's a matter of you know people are like well it's not going to matter it's just really not like i don't i don't like either person i'm like well then shut up forever shut up forever well i think things are so politically charged right now and it weighs really heavily on people as soon as you start talking about are you voting are you not voting people feel really defensive all of a sudden it's kind of like you know talking about really charged things like religion or your lifestyle. It's like you're asking somebody to do something that they had not done before. If you go at it in an attackful way, they're going to run away. And ultimately, that's not what we want. I think you're really right. We have to

empower people to understand that they have the power to make a difference. And I think for me, it took a long time. I'd always voted since I was 18. But until I started really like marching around like Congress in Washington, D.C. and like talking to legislators, which I never thought that I had any sort of responsibility, power, nor like audacity to do, I didn't realize just how much power we do have as citizens. They're elected officials who work really for their people and for their constituents and for us. And I think if that's the conversation you can have with people, it's like, no, the power is in your hands. You get to do this.

It's your choice and you make changes. I think that's a better conversation than like, why aren't you doing it? You're not being responsible enough. And if they're not convinced, we should, we should just, you know,

ship those people to a country where your voice isn't heard. Yeah. Cause there are a lot of those still. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think we take it for granted.

That's true. And I think you brought up a good point by saying everything is so like politically charged nowadays between like multiple sides or just two sides it's sort of now more than ever become like a team sport where it's no longer you don't even know what you think about a certain topic until you hear what does my team think ah yes that's what my team and i think that too like people i'd have so much more respect for politics in general if people would take a specific topic and talk about both sides and let you sort of figure out what you think. But now it's literally about like, hey, they want to take this from you. We got to beat them.

It's like, well, they want to turn everything into this. So we got to beat them. And nobody's actually talking about fixing anything. Like it must suck to grow up right now and think, oh, that's what politics are. Of course, you're disillusioned it doesn't make any sense so it's a good idea to remind them hey this is what it's actually about like you were saying yeah but it's also but it's also more than just it's more than just the president it's yes it's it's your congress people it's your it's your representatives like sorry senators it's your representatives like it's that is so in a lot of ways more important

than the president because they're the ones that are passing the bills and laws yeah the president can they have veto power but yeah and then and then the the senate says in the senate in the house they say yes or no to it it's so much more important to vote on things beyond the presidency and i know a lot of people just get really hyper-focused on like, no, it's the big guy at the top. And it's like, well, government is structured in a way that, you know, as long as we keep voting and as long as we keep staying engaged in politics and staying engaged as citizens, we can't lose it yeah yeah but but the thing is we have to stay engaged and we have to stay informed i think it's really easy for it to feel too big to change there's a john mayer song and like the it's called body is a wonderland close it's waiting on on the world oh that. Oh, that's right.

And it's like, it feels too big to actually make any impact. So you just kind of sit back and like, someone else will take care of it. Yeah. And that's how you lose your freedoms. Yes. Democracy is really fragile and we have to always keep fighting to keep it. And the moment we stop fighting to have the rights that we have right now, we can lose it very quickly. So I think as long as, I mean, I think it's kind of a,

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local tread experts all right let's move on to something uh much happier um melissa joyce said, would you stay or leave a 10 year relationship even if you love the person so much but you're not as happy like you used to or do you think there's a way to make things work? That's way happier. Thank you. Yeah.

Appreciate it. Well, Mari, I mean, you're the only person that made it past a 10-year mark, right? Almost. March 15th will be our 10-year. You got married on the Ides of March? No, we got married April 5th, but our 10-year is March. And what is that?

What's the Ides of March? It's a thing with the beware the Ides of March, and it's when the Julius Caesar stands. All right. I'm not Greek, so. Wait's when the Julius Caesar. Oh. All right. I'm not Greek. Wait, is that Julius Caesar? I'm having a brain fart. I don't know.

Shakespeare? Is it Roman? Roman. I don't know. I don't know. I think it's a Shakespeare thing. Beware the Ides of March. I have half a theater degree.

Sorry. My previous relationship, I was in for seven and a half or eight and a half. I forget which one. I think it was eight and a half. And we were on track to get married, do the whole shebang. And walking away from that relationship was surprisingly the, but you might be emotionally detached if you're thinking about this. If you're not happy, that's a really, really good time to readjust and recalibre. long because there's so much pressure. Everyone around you, your whole life, everyone knows you as you with this person. There's probably just so much history behind it. And without it, you feel like you can't stand up on your two legs, but you can. People say life is too short. I say that life is too long for you to be unhappy. Wow. that's good. I would say though that, you know,

this person says, you know, even if you love the person so much, but you're not as happy like you used to be. So it's like, are you to be expected to just be like super happy forever with this person or do the benefits outweigh the negatives? You know what I mean? Like I'm kind of? I don't really

sit on either side of this because I can see both sides. I feel like after 10 years, your sort of objectives might also change in a relationship. Maybe you were madly in love with this person, you were obsessed with something about them. And then over those years, things changed. They changed, you changed. Is it so much about being as happy as possible always? Like that's, we all know that's not possible. Well, but you should, you should strive for it though, I'd say, right? Like the very fact that you're asking this question means that you are not happy where you're at right now. So at the very least, that should be your goal to change somehow, whether with this person or not with this person. I'm like you, it could go either way. I think the important thing is if you're recognizing this for yourself, it might be a good idea to as hard as it is,

communicate it and maybe see if you can go to couples counseling, like see if you guys want to work through that together because you do deserve to be as happy as you can be. If something lies within your power to change. And if there's no change that happens, then you go from there. It's not the craziest thing in the world to leave a 10-year relationship, I would assume. It's, you know, like you said, you've built your life with this person. All the memories you have of recent years involve them too. So you don't necessarily know who you are outside of that.

But like, you're not happy right now that sucks and and i think you can still love a person for the rest of your life and not be with them absolutely that's something we don't hear often enough or it's like you can you can love all of your past you know people that you've been with it doesn't take away anything from the current status of anything. I truly believe that, but it's scary to think it that way as well. So you also have to define like what you're looking for relationship wise, because like, I'll be honest, I'm a pretty like classic guy. Like I would like to be married one day and it would be nice to like have that partner forever.

But at the same time, we are sort of conditioned in a way like that's a social thing to be married one day and it would be nice to like have that partner forever. But at the same time, we are sort of conditioned in a way, like that's a social thing to be like, you will marry one person and be with them forever. And that's whatever. That's not necessarily how we're wired all the time. And not some people might be, but some people aren't. So sometimes if you have a partner for 10 years, that's fantastic. What an awesome 10 years. Thank you for that gift. But like trying to conform your happiness to, you know, I've been with you for 10 years and that's the normal, maybe detrimental. Figure out what relationship ideally would look like to you. I don't know. Yeah.

And recalibrating what that happy is. Yeah. If it's labored every single day then it's something that that can change or and if it can't then it might be time to make that hard decision it's also okay to be alone too it is okay that's normal we're we're at a time where we're rewriting everything about what social constructs were what relationships were what jobs were we're literally rewriting everything. This generation is bananas. Love it. We're taking everything and just being like,

nope, wiping it clean. We're starting over. And if you don't want to be alone, it's just a swipe of a phone. Yeah. That's true. It's kind of crazy. Yeah.

It's literally, if you don't want to be alone right now for the next hour, then it's a swipe of a phone, right? Like it's it is the freedoms that were never talked about, never allowed. It was always just this stigma to it. And so don't be afraid to rewrite it. 10 years is a long time and it's a time to cherish for sure. That's a good run. But I mean, yeah, it's not really about the length. If you're not happy, if you're not completely happy, I just, people define happiness and fulfillment in different ways. If you have a kid, like maybe that's where the happiness is directed and not towards your partner. I mean, I was talking with my friend about like,

is a forever relationship something that we think is possible? And they were talking to their friend who's married with a kid and like about like passion between like partners and if that's important. And the woman was like, no, not really. Like we have our child and that's the focus.

And we understand that and like we get along great and like it's great, but like the passion between us is not important to us. And I was just like, whoa. So I mean- I think things shift when you have a child. Probably. Maybe, sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.

Sometimes they don't. Some people are just have a child. Probably. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. Sometimes they don't. Some people are just shitty parents too. Sure. But again, I think you can draw that back to like you define what a relationship, what your desire is, what everything is to you. Also, I think it's very important to know that the Ides of March thing could have also come from King Lear or Oedipus. I forget. Thank you. Beware the sexy mom.

Yeah. That's Oedipus. Yeah forget. Thank you. Beware the sexy mom. Yeah. That's Oedipus? Yeah. All right. On that note. That's going to make no sense for anyone that doesn't know what Oedipus is. That was it, right?

It was like guy that was attracted to his mom? Okay, just make sure. Well, yes and no. Oh, okay. He was tricked into like- He was abandoned as a baby due to a prophecy that he would like screw a bunch of things up and then found by a different couple

and then became king through doing that and married the current queen. And then it turns out, oh, that's the couple that abandoned him. So he ended up accidentally marrying his mom. But like you can view that as like that type of theater is like all about punishment by the gods and all that stuff because of all these things.

But God timeline doesn't work the same way as people timeline is. So he was punished for getting together with his mom and the punishment was being abandoned by a baby and then having to stab out his eyes later. So literally the thing leads to the thing. It's kind of like back to the future. A little bit. The punishment led to the thing that he did that made him be punished. And that's the logic of the thing. It's kind of like Back to the Future. A little bit. The punishment led to the thing that he did that made him be punished

and that's the logic of the gods. You cannot run away from destiny. That is Doc Brown. Because destiny is pretty good and they keep updating the game. Oh, I thought

destiny is a band. She had a kid. Did you hear about that? Destiny had a kid? Yeah. And they formed a band that's called Destiny's Kid. What are you guys talking about? I don't know. Yeah. And they formed a band. It's called Destiny's Kid.

What are you guys talking about? I don't know. We're stuck in a bit. So on to the next question. Leave it in. Danvers D'Amato said, one of my friends has been blowing me off

for a few months and talks to me less, which obviously upsets me, but I'm always happy when talking to her and don't want to end the friendship. What should I do? Communication.

I think most times when people ask advice, the answer is always communication. First of all, your friend might need some space, and it's okay to give your friend some space, but it's also okay if you're comfortable enough in the friendship to check in about it and be like, hey, you know, I've noticed I've seen you a little bit less lately. I would love to see you more if that's okay. And also if you want a little space, whatever, but just know that if there's something I'm

doing and you want to talk about it, I'm always here. Like, and mean that earnestly. Don't say it with any expectation of you have to come back and fix this problem. Just let them know like, hey, this is where I'm at. It's simple as that, I think. I think it's also one of the hardest things to be like, here is my gift to you. I expect nothing back because we're human. Yes.

So it's a trial and error. And I think for me, I didn't really start communicating with people until very late in my life. It just wasn't a part of my MO of growing up. Communication with my parents was like, I was told what to do and I do what I do. And so I grew up with that for a long time where I just didn't communicate. And so, you know, everyone's very different with where that is.

And so take it, take it day by day. I think it's also like, I don't know how long this person's been friends with this person, but people change and you're not required's been friends with this person, but people change. And you're not required to stay friends with somebody. And if that person is less interested in being your friend and doesn't want to spend the time with you, then maybe take a hint and say like, okay,

is this where I'm thinking this is where we're at? Like, are we not really friends anymore? Because that's kind of what this sounds like. It sounds like this person's way more into their friend than their friend's into them. And if their friend is not giving them the time, then forget about them. Like, not forget about them. Well, yeah. Forget about it.

Forget about it. I think that's a fair point, though. But that also brings me back to, like, if that's where you're at and the friendship really is ending because that person wants their space, then at this point, you don't really have anything to lose by checking in and being like, hey, let's clear the air.

And worst case scenario is they voice that and then you don't have to wonder anymore. It's the same thing when people are like, I don't know whether or not to ask out my crush. I'm like, well, you're miserable right now. Check in about it. I think communication is a superpower. I like i was at an event and people are like really taken aback by it like i was at an event recently where um i ended up running into this guy where like we

had like a little bit of like minor i wouldn't say beef but there was just like a little bit of like weird energy between us from the last time i'd seen him it was just like oh weird how you said that no we didn't really connect on this thing. So I literally just like, when I saw him, I was just like, hey man, last time we saw each other, this happened and this happened. Like, I just want to say no hard feelings. And it was literally a moment of like, oh yeah, well that's where this was coming from.

And that's what this is coming from. We ended up talking for like an hour and just being buddy about it. Like it's so hard to mentally break down those barriers, letting yourself know that that's something you can do, but that's something you can do. And people are like shocked when you just talk. Yeah. And I mean, some, some of the most growth comes from having an uncomfortable conversation. Like you have to have those uncomfortable conversations if you want any sort of, like, this is, this is clearly

bothering this person. So yeah so yeah just have the conversation and if they're like yeah then fuck them i feel i feel like if you if you always tackle things especially communication with a level and cool head and don't try to put too much pressure on anybody else basically be like as good a version of yourself as possible in that, then you don't even have anything to lose in terms of like reputation. Like if you were just like, hey, I'd really like to talk about this.

And that person goes like, did you hear such and such tried to talk to me about that? They're crazy. Like that's not something that's gonna happen. Also don't expect complete honesty from the person when you confront them. Because if somebody confronted me like, hey, like are we not really friends?

It's really hard to be, I wouldn't expect the person to be completely honest back, but to at least voice how you're feeling to that person about, hey, I wanna be your friend. I really enjoy spending time with you. What's up with this? Why do you keep blowing me off? Like at least put it out there,

put your cards out there and see, see what they throw back. Yeah. And just make sure you're not accusatory either. Like you have been canceling plans. Just be like, I feel like we haven't seen each other as much. If there's something you want to talk about,

I'd love to. Also, there's a lot more people out there that'll probably treat you right. That's true. And it's hard to divorce friends. It really is. But sometimes it's time. That's a thing.

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think this is something that that i've kind of learned over over time like don't don't think of yourself as like like oh but i want to be like the nicest person like oh i have to like come out being like the good guy it's more about just being honest and if you want to break up with somebody just break up with them be honest about about how you feel and say like this isn't working for me obviously like yeah don't be an asshole but you can't be vague for the sake of being nice right like don't don't think of yourself as like this nice, like, oh, but I have to be the good guy

out of this. Yeah. That's not really possible. You have to be a version of yourself that you can be proud of. Be as kind as possible, but be as straightforward as possible. But you also have to remember

it's a breakup. And if the other person still wants to be in the relationship, there is not a single version of how you can say a thing, where you can do it, when you can do it, that's going to make them stoked about it, right? It's sort of like, how do I tell someone their loved one passed in a way that they're actually going to be super chill with it? Like you can't, it's a really hard thing and you're starting a grieving process for them. So do what you can, be as honest as possible and then move

on because you know,'s it hurts breakups suck it's gonna hurt the person a little bit but you can't stay in something forever just because you don't want to have that conversation i remember my friend didn't break up with uh his girlfriend at the time for like six months because the girl was going through a hard time she was having like she had like her exams at school and all these things and so he kept making excuses for continuing the relationship because he wanted to be the nice person and not put on more stress for her and then years later i realized that wanting to be nice is more selfish than anything you like you said you want to be seen as the nice guy or the

nice girl and that's why you're not doing the hard thing but i think it's important to remember not how you think you would want to be treated but how you think that that person wants to be treated and that person probably wants honesty not a sham relationship for x amount of months because you're trying to be the nice guy you're not doing them a favor by pretending to still be happy and and i'm sure those six months in that relationship were probably not that great right no like it's just like them just being miserable being like oh but i should do it is now a good time no like kind of like a lie super selfish you're just stringing you're you're screwing No. Kind of like a lie. Super selfish.

You're just stringing, you're screwing that person over of like six months of their life of that sort of process that they're going to have to go through much later. That's, yeah. It's not easy. We acknowledge that it's not easy, but you got to do it.

And it goes back to communication, right? I think a lot of these answers are going to be just communication. And, you know, like we've gone through a good amount of our life and it's still hard we still like it's still it's still a thing where it's like it's not the immediate action you have to you're like okay i should communicate this all right i'm going to pump myself up i'm going to communicate here we go we're going to communicate and then you know you you bust out the question but you know it's it's a it's a journey

and I think everyone goes through it. The breakup might not be a list of things that they did wrong. It might just be a feeling. Yeah, I don't feel this. A gut feeling. And you don't have to be prepared with a list of reasons and excuses

of why you want to break up. It's this doesn't feel like something that I can continue. And this doesn't feel like something that I can continue. And this doesn't feel right to me. Like it's okay to end something on a feeling. You know, this goes back to the 10-year relationship one too. But a lot of the times I had a hard time letting go of relationships because I felt like I failed.

Like there was something wrong with me that I couldn't keep a relationship together like I had done something terribly wrong that I need to continue trying to fix it and fix and fix it and it's okay to not be able to fix something I think it's you know especially I think it's just so human to want to be like no you know like I can I can put it back together and it's a thing that holds together and it's beautiful. And sometimes it's okay to just leave it. Speaking of fixing things, Jorthyn Ronald asked,

if you're in the same job with the person who was a bully in high school, would you be friends with or not? How do you do it in this situation? Wow. I mean, I think it's also like a thing where it's like how many years out of high school is this i mean people people are entirely different people from high school out like i would i would give the person a chance i guess but that's tough if they're just

like a big piece of shit in high school yeah I would say you're not required to be friends with somebody at a job. And in many cases, it could be detrimental. And if you already know that they were a bully, I don't know. You don't need to be friends with somebody at work. It also depends, I think, on what kind of bully we're talking about. Bullying of any kind is not okay but there are some people that like actively go out of their way to like ruin your life and be like hey what's up whatever nickname i've come up for you know for you every single day and then they like push you down or there's someone who's just like yeah that dude was kind of like weird

to me in high school i would consider them a bully Sometimes the latter people don't realize they're doing it. Teenagers are just awful in so many ways. And so for that very reason, if it's that kind and they weren't actively going out of their way to ruin your life, I would give them a chance. Like you said, at the same time, like you, like you said, Ian, it's okay to not be friends with people at your job. But I think the thing I would want to avoid is treating them a little bit less properly than you would with another employee, because then it falls on you, unfortunately. Like if you say to someone at a job, like, like, why are you treating Greg weirdly? It's like, oh, well, he bullied me in high school. You're going to come across as like, um, okay, do we need to talk about this with hr like

it's unfortunate but sometimes bullies don't always get what's coming to them you just have to be as uh you can only control yourself in that situation and i think you know that they found you know a lot of bullies are bullies because of things that are going on back at home. Sure. Maybe they escaped a not great environment after high school. Maybe they're better people. Maybe they've come to terms with their behavior. They've improved. And I think it's good to give somebody the benefit of the doubt. Doesn't mean you immediately have to forgive them

because I know when someone is mean to you in high school and does whatever they do, that affects you like it's it sucks it really does and it it sticks with you but you do have control over what you do now and hopefully hopefully they've changed somehow yeah it's got to be that's a difficult one that's a tricky one i i think it's just uh an exercise of can you rise above it? Can you lead by example? Can you be bigger than that, you know, that event and that experience and that person? And can you lead with compassion? It's hard. I mean, we're not all the Dalai Lama, you know.

It's like I think it's an exercise and I think it's nuanced because we don't understand what the relationship is like now. But just know that there are layers. And, you know, who knows? Maybe that person feels really guilty about it and they aren't ready to communicate and say sorry just yet. So there's probably a lot of layers to it. Interesting. You know? Yeah.

What if our next tweet is like, hey, how do I apologize to a coworker who I used to bully in high school? Yeah. Like that's an interesting thought. And it goes back to communication, right? It's just asking the hard question. All your life's problems can be solved with communication. Surprisingly, a lot of these are just solved with just being honest and communicating.

I mean, that's most problems in this gosh darn world. Well, what can we take from that though? Like the fact that everybody's problems are so different, but it all boils down to that one thing. Like how do you day-to-day work on that as a muscle and build that? Like, I'm honestly asking. Yeah.

Well, here's one that maybe can't be fixed with communication. Hannah M, bunch of numbers. This one's funny. I mean, funny for me. I'm constantly third wheeling one of my best friends and his girlfriend, and it's really uncomfy. Like literally right now, I'm just sitting on my phone while they are canoodling help.

Oof. Oof. I think we can gauge from this question that you are most likely in high school. And if not, then your friends are a little bit immature. Nothing wrong with hanging out with a couple. There's no such thing as necessarily being the third wheel when you're all adults. You're just hanging out and having fun. But if they're just like, hey, I'm proud of you.

I'm proud of you. Like, that's gross and weird. So it might be who of you to communicate that you would love that your time with them is, oh, what was that? No, nothing. Oh, sorry. You looked up like a, like a bush baby. No.

So it might, it might behoove you to, I don't know, communicate that when you're with them, you'd love it to be a little bit more involved for everybody. And then you'll give them more space and more time for them to be on their own when that time comes but again if you're on the younger side they may not take that properly they're gonna be like can you believe hannah she's acting so crazy i'm sorry i don't know i wish i had more for this i just started talking now no i think it's it's it is good advice that it's like it does get better right for sure i i feel like i've been a third wheel on many many dates and it doesn't feel like the date and a third wheel on many many dates and it doesn't feel like the date and me like it feels like three people hanging out yeah they might be

in a relationship but it's not like they're making out in front of me yeah and so yeah like you said that's an adult three-wheel relationship totally last time i went to japan it was with kevin and his wife lacy and me and it wasn't like oh yeah i'm going with my buddy and his wife, Lacey, and me. And it wasn't like, oh yeah, I'm going with my buddy and his wife. It was like three friends. And you know, that's an adult way to do things. I mean, yeah, Lacey was a third wheel on that one. Let's be real. That's true. Well, we kept holding hands, you and I.

But then at a point you broke off. Right. But it wasn't because they were like smooching and being like, hi, honey bear. Like it was because i desperately enjoyed my alone time and wanted to explore the world alone in an incredibly safe country maybe hannah if if you if you think this is uncomfortable maybe you should just stop third wheeling like they maybe they don't have a problem with it but if but you're if you're uncomfortable by it you don't need to hang

out with them when they're both together like if you want to just hang out with your friend be like hey what are you doing today and he's like oh i'm hanging out with my girlfriend we're probably gonna like canoodle for you know watch a movie and canoodle you're like okay cool just let me know like when you want to hang out just like you and me like if you want to do something just you and me be like well you know if it's like the three of us is am i intruding. Do you guys want a little bit of space? Yeah. Maybe they're like newly dating. So they're just like all over each other.

And I love you. No, I love you. And yeah, I don't want to be around for that. Of course not. I'm going to be reminded of my singleness. Yucky. Ew, they're smooching. So I think Hannah Hannah the ultimate advice

is to get yourself a partner and out canoodle your friend no no no over canoodle him and that's coming from licensed marriage and family counselor Ian Thin from Smosh that's right right when you want to bet on sports played on a field or iso course bet rivers is the place

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Whoa. Alex Phasma said, I just got a dating app for the first time and I'm not that great at convos. Any advice? Take it away, my dude. Yeah. So Mari, you've never used a dating app ever before

because the internet didn't exist when you started dating Peter. No, 64 years ago when we started dating. Yeah. Yeah, no, it didn't exist. Just stuck out of time, ageless being. That's the new lore around Mari. Just two time lords.

Just two time lords. Damien, have you? Yeah, actually. I was in a two and a half year relationship with a girl that I met on Tinder. And other than that, I've used dating apps a little bit, but never went on more than a couple dates

with any girl that I met on there. So it was literally either the longest relationship I've ever had or just like didn't go anywhere. Got nothing against them. It's tricky to get a conversation started for sure. I've ever had, or just like, uh, didn't go anywhere. Um, got nothing against them. It's, it's tricky to get a conversation started for sure. I think for me,

it's like, if the conversation starts, if you know, you connect with the person, make a little funny conversation, whatever, but really like get down to like core values for, for me,

it's like, I kind of get a couple things out of the way, but I don't want to have a 30 message long conversation. If I think that their values sort of line up, then I just want to meet them. Interesting. Conversation over text is not a real conversation. I agree. And you can't get a real feel for the person until you actually meet them face to face. I think that's a big issue. Some people just continue to text on there

and then they meet the person and then they have all these like sort of like preconceived notions of who the person is or maybe they're like, well, I already put this much time into it so I need to like see it out. Like, no, you just need to like go, like just make the conversation as short as possible

and be like, hey, do you wanna meet up? Like,, do you want to get some coffee? Do you want to get a drink? Do you want to get some food? Do you want to, you know, do this, I probably should have done that. But at the same time, I always feel like for the safety of both parties, like I imagine, especially as a woman being on the internet, being like, hope this guy's not a murderer or whatever, like jumping into that quickly. Like, do you want to meet up?

Like, how do you not come across spooky? Well, you, you pitch a public place. Well, yeah. Yeah.

I mean, like I'll generally I've've i've left it up to the woman to decide where i'm like i'm like hey do you want to like do like i always pitch a coffee in case they're you know drink sounds a little too you know there's a implication yeah exactly um mooching women aren't dumb they, they can do their own research. Like if, if they want, like I've,

I've, you know, gone on dates with, with the girls that are like, Oh yeah, I looked you up to like, make sure you weren't a psycho. And I was like,

okay, yeah. Like, I think that's, that's just what you have to do. Although there have been a couple of people that have like, we can go to this place near, near my place,

just show up at my place and we'll just walk over there. And I had to be like, hey, don't do that. That's not safe, because you don't know who I am. Like I could be a creep and you just gave me your address. So that's the biggest advice I can give. Ladies and men, don't give a stranger your address. That's very true. You don't know who they are, really.

Unless they're the murderer and they're trying to lure you in. Yeah, I know. That's true. But I didn't go into their place. I stayed outside. Like, that's funny. This looks an awful lot like an abandoned warehouse. And they're like, ha, yeah, I get that, hipster, right?

Anyway, come on in. I think, yeah, for me, like, it also weeds out the people that aren't serious about it. Like some people, they're just playing a game on apps. Like they just want to have the conversation and get the endorphin rush of like, ooh, this person is interesting. So there's been times when like, I had like a fun little teeny tiny conversation.

I'm like, hey, like let's meet up and then silence. I'm like, cool. That actually, the one bit of advice, cause that all actually is great advice. The one bit of advice I can also contribute from my limited time on dating apps is whatever stigma you have about dating apps, like don't people just want to always hook up?

Don't people always want to whatever? There's every type of person on dating apps and they all want different things and something will line up with what you want. Yes, there are people that only want hookups, but if that's not what you want, there are also the people there who are like, maybe just like you,

like they've never had a dating app before. Their friends are like, come on, Bethany, just download Tinder for a minute. Okay, maybe I'll meet someone nice. And then you're both there being like, hi, this is so weird, right? I don't know. But you would both ideally like a relationship.

Like someone exactly like you is on there. Don't be afraid of recognizing when someone's going to want something different and moving on that's that's the thing um man i'll get off it uh get off it get off it come on now get off it i'm ready for australia oh england in it oh would you would your head be turned love i don't know it's like early days in it love island yes australia no not australia so nat v 97 asked how to motivate yourself to go back to the gym i used to go a lot currently i haven't gone in five months i need to go back i'm there myself i think a big a big part of it's building a routine like

like she said she used to go a lot and she hasn't gone in five months it's it's so much like once you start going and you build a routine for yourself, as humans, we're very like habitual kind of routine animals. So once you kind of like start to build that, I think it's a lot easier to go if you just commit to going. For a lot of people, like eating better also encourages like that cycle of going to the gym as well. That's me. But I'm at the same point where like I was traveling, going on dates instead of going to the gym as well. That's me. But I'm at the same point where like I was traveling,

going on dates instead of going to the gym. So I've been out of the loop as well. We got to get back to the gym, boy. We got to do it, my dude. Because that's the thing. Like everything Ian just said, you know the answer. That all makes sense. Everyone's like, eat better, sleep well, go to the gym.

But like there's advice that you hear and you's like, eat better, sleep well, go to the gym. But like there's advice that you hear and you're like, yeah, I know. But sometimes you actually have to let yourself hear it. Like really, you have to in that moment be like, hey, right in this exact moment, I have the power to go to the gym. I am tired. I don't feel like I had a good meal. I had such a long day at work. In that moment, that is the time where you have to do it. How do you start going back to the gym? You do it once because once you show yourself, oh wait, I can go even though I'm tired. I can go even though I'm a little bit hungry and my tummy's a little off. Like that's when you get back into the routine and it is very much a routine.

I used to be at the point where if I missed going to the gym a couple days a week, I would be like, oh, I feel awful. It sucks. Now I haven't been in the gym in a few months and I have no problem with it, but I just need to decide, hey, today's the day I go. Maybe today, maybe after work today, we're going to film like seven videos today. I'm going to be so tired, but that's always going to be my life. So I'm just going to go. I think also find a gym buddy, find a friend that is in the same position as you. No one goes to my gym. Find like, find somebody that can hold you accountable.

If you're going to find like a gym buddy, you don't have to like work out next to them. Just be like, hey, meet you there at this time. Great. Maybe I'll pick you up. Maybe you'll pick me up. And you guys just go there. You don't have to see each other while you're there.

You just need to get there. And once you're there, you kind of have to work out. Yeah. Shane and I used to go to the same gym and it was so much easier. Now you'd be like, oh yeah, I'll see you there at like four. And then we would never work out together because Lord knows he's way stronger than I am. But it would still be this moment of like, hey, good to see you. Well, I'm going to get back to my set.

Also, the gym isn't the only way to get exercise. Like you can, and Mari, obviously you haven't said anything yet. And I know that there's a lot you can say, cause you've done a lot of different things, but it's, you know, I don't know if you live near the ocean, but surfing is like probably one of the best workouts

you can get. Rock climbing, aerial, you know, there's a million different ways of getting an exercise, pole dancing. The best, so dancing. The best. So good. And you could speak to all those things. It's really about finding your sort of like flow, like finding something that you're excited to do. And maybe you just haven't found that specific thing.

Yeah. Because the gym is something I hate the gym. I absolutely despise it. I get so bored within minutes. I feel like I don't know what to do with a kettlebell. If someone's not telling me what to do with it, I have to play. Like that's the, I have to trick myself into working out. And that's me.

And everyone's different. There are people who can go to a gym and be like, all right, I'm doing 25 sets of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And they know they have a regimen. And if you work that way, work that way. If you don't, there's so many other options you can get. Just try out a class here and there. And maybe you're going to really like exercise hip hop classes.

Maybe you just want to go on TikTok and find a ton of dance videos and do it that way. Maybe you just want to do just dance. Maybe you just want to do 10 dance. Maybe you just want to do 10 pushups and 10 burpees in the morning. It takes you less than five minutes and that is a start. But I think it's a journey. And we've all been on very different journeys. And for me, I went from dancing eight to 10 hours every single day, well, except for weekends. So like six days a week to an extremely sedentary life when I was at Smosh Games and I was perfectly happy

just sitting around for eight to 10 hours at work. And now I've found a balance where I sit around and play video games a lot still at home. I like to move. I just, I want to. And sometimes if I don't want to go, you know, like workout, workout, then I'll go to a park. That's cool. And then there's a jungle gym and it makes you really tired after like 10 minutes on the jungle gym. That's funny. But yeah,

it depends on the type of person you are. Sometimes, you know, if you're really analytical and strategic, you can just print out like a regimen and just stick by that and it'll be dope. I'm on this like cult fix for a place called F45 right now because they don't have a mirror. You just work out to like the window. How do you stare at yourself? I can't. I hate it. You don't like looking at yourself at the gym? I don't. That's the whole point of going to the gym. So you can just sort of like check yourself in the mirror a little bit. Too many years of ballet and just looking at myself and judging.

I can't imagine. I can't do it. I actually can't imagine. Kevin, what's your workout advice? Yeah, because you're the shredder for multiple reasons. Right, of course. Workout advice is the body knows. Always listen to the body.

So when you go and you're going hard, if it feels like you don't need to go as hard don't go as hard because you don't want to hurt yourself uh and form over weight yes that's the big one form is so big because you could go lift big weights but if your uh form is bad you'll break your body uh case in point example i just uh deloaded my weights recently because my form I felt was off so I'm not lifting as heavy as I was but my form is on point hell yeah I think that is a big thing a lot of people especially

people that are getting back into working out they're like I need to get I need to lose weight I need to get ripped and they just go freaking hard for like a week and then they injure themselves and then you stop't do it. And then you stop working out for six months. Yep.

I'm very guilty of that. I think we've all kind of been there where we get a little too excited, we want immediate results, and we're not thinking instead of like, I need to look hot by summer, I think it's probably better to think, I want to be hot by summer. Like, I think it's probably more, I think it's probably better to think, I want to be mobile at 60.

You know, like I want to be able to still be able to run, not have bad knees when I'm 60. I want to be able to travel when I'm 70. Like we should be thinking longevity, like just the long game, not I need to have gigantic biceps and be able to lift a car. A thousand percent agree with you. It's not how you look. We should be thinking about how do we feel? That's true. That's true. And you know,

even if you do have a little bit of a vanity goal along with that, that's only human. That's only natural, but it all comes with it. You can have it all by focusing on the health and how you feel and if you feel healthy odds are you're probably going to look a little bit more uh trim or healthy as well but i want to look like j-lo at 50 dude yeah right dude she's a dancer do you guys know the rock is 80? Stop. He's not an actual rock. He's graphite. He's literally lightning struck a boulder and out of it he walked. And that is how he was born.

So that does it for the advice cast. I want to finish off the podcast with a fun little thing that we're calling Shoot Dude, where you guys have submitted some some stories that may that make us go shoot dude um so this one comes from a uh former spencer's employee and i'm just going to read this one spencer's the store the store spencer's gifts so so spencer's gifts if you if those that are not are not in the know is like a novelty store, has a lot of gag gifts, just silly stuff. Also like lava lamps and everything that's lava lamp adjacent, like that circle plate that has like lightning

going across it. And if you press it, it's like, oh, the lightning's going to my finger. It's like that, the store. A lot of like irreverent shirts, like your mom's hot and stuff. Yeah, Stacy's mom has got it going on. I'll bang your mom.

It's also the place that you know Ace Family went to And thought it was funny to have their Little tiny toddler daughter Suck on like a penis lollipop Or whatever What? Yeah they thought it was funny Ace Family

Yeesh Anyway so this person used to work at Spencer's So it goes like this. So the story begins a few years ago when I was but a naive 22-year-old working at Spencer's Gifts as a manager. I was by myself when a woman walks in with a man on a leather dog leash casually trailing behind her. To say I was caught off guard is an understatement,

but hey, I'm not one, I guess, to kink shame. So it was a man on a leash. Okay. I don't know if he's on all fours, but I'm assuming he was. Their visit was pretty normal until it came time to pay when the woman said, oh, I forgot my wallet. Would you care to watch him for me while I went to the car and grab it? And proceeded to hand me the leash. Everything went in slow motion in my head.

I thought customers are always right. And I just said, sure. And I took it from her. So she took the leash. So now she is in possession of a man in a leash. Then she goes on to say, she left and this man is just staring me down, not saying a word, but I can't stand the silence.

So I offer him some cookies i hid behind the register oh that's when more customers decided to walk in they get up to the register and all they see is me holding a man's leash while he gives me a what the fuck you're crazy look while i'm feeding him oreos i have zero filter and tell ladies, if you give me a minute to tie him up, I can be right with you. That's really funny. Needless to say, they didn't want help and left because that's the normal thing to do in that situation. The man's owner comes back soon after and thanks me for watching him and asked if he was good like he was her poodle i tell her he was because i wasn't gonna lie to her

and he was very well behaved because my experience with leash men is limited and i thought he was you're not supposed to give oreos to poodles that's true who's cleaning that up oh my god um look that's a great story well that's a big old shoot dude i'm not one for kink shaming but don't make someone else do something don't make them can you hold on to my my man pet? Yeah. It's like, you're the Dom now. Wow. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Wowie zowie. Okay. Working retail sucks.

I feel like it really does. That's one takeaway we can have. Working retail sucks. Yep. You know, I think a Spencer's store is probably the best place that that could have happened. Or Hot Topic. Or Hot Topic. Yeah.

I feel like Hot Topic would be worse. Imagine being in a Walalgreens and you're like this is happening now i like i hate the obsession with the like the customer's always right because that's never been used to anyone's advantage who is not a total piece of crap like it's literally like when i worked retail this woman was trying to like return shoes that had a stain on them that were like two years old and she was literally just constantly like, well, I'm customers always right. I demand speech. Do I have to get corporate on the phone?

It was like Karen energy times a thousand. We need to get rid of the customer is always right policy. It's like, hey, maybe sometimes they're wrong. And maybe it's okay to look a customer in the eyes and say, hey, I'm not doing that. And then they don't have power to do anything. And when they call corporate, corporate goes, you were going to try to make them hold a man on a leash. Maybe don't do that, you piece of garbage.

I would have said yes. I would have held them. Just for the story? No, I mean, I'm just too nice to say no. I would say yes too. I don't know if I'd feed them Oreos though. That's really funny. I think I would just ask, what's going on?

I would be like, sure, I can hold can i can do that for you and then be like so is she your dom what's this like yeah you know i think i would just ask questions yeah i would say i our store has a pet policy and i understand that if this is your service animal you're gonna need to take them with you because if they're not with you they're no longer a service animal bring out a vest and they wear and they're like now i'm on duty yeah oh my gosh well um that was the advice cast let us know um if you guys want to see more of this also um the next time we do it please submit your advice questions mari damien thank you so much for for delivering some wonderful advice you got it yay if somebody ever hands you a leashed person,

maybe say no. Just say, no, I'm not doing that. And also, if you want to submit your shoot dudes, all you have to do is email shootdude at smosh.com. You got more weird people on leash stories? Yeah. Too bad, we already did one. If we started there, where is this column going to go?

Where is this segment gonna be like you think you gotta shoot dude submit it alright well thank you so much my favorite coffee still exists

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Bye. Bye. Bye. Almost passed out. Me neither.