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Talking to Strangers
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let's pretend you get on the bus and it's SUPER crowded, the only spot that's open is between two strangers. ( don't talk to them )
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So you sit down between two people you never met and everyone is fine. Everyone's keeping to themselves. ( or is it??)
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No one's making eye contact, ( do they have glasses?)
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It's perfect. ( nothings perfect)
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Sure, your shoulders are touching but that's just what happens, that's part of the bus going experience, ( and show your in hell)
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YOUPOORPERSON
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But then at the very next stop, Aisle Seat Guy to the fghfjcfcuc gets off. What do you do? Jump off the bus!
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So now you and Window Seat Guy are sitting right next to each other. ( dont flirt)
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But since you're in the middle, you have to be the one to decide... do you move or not?
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I honestly don't know what the right thing to do in that situation is but lay on both seats
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I'm conflicted. Because if you move it would be silently telling the other person, "HEYYOURDISGUSTING
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"ICANTSTANDHAVINGOURSHOULDERSTOUCHINGANYLONGERANDIMGLADTHATIFINNALYGOTAWAYFROMYOUUGH!"
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But on the other hand, if I was the Window Seat Guy,
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I would want the Middle Seat Guy to become the new RU7DRNFJKFC Seat Guy. I wouldn't see moving as rude,
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I would just want his gross, disgusting body as far away from me as possible.
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That's not rude, but on the other, OTHER hand...
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Maybe I'm overthinking everything and most people don't even mind being this close to another human and
1:02
they aren't struggling socially,
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I don't know. Now imagine that same situation...but with urinals. If you're in the middle urinal, ( GIRLS DONT KNOW DA HECH WAT DAT MEANS)
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Do you move halfway through to the other urinal?
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Because I would. Are you supposed to talk to people when you're sitting two inches away from them?
1:15
I always felt like I should say something like "hey, did you see the game last night?"
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...I didn't-- I was too busy drawing cartoons. But I realized that this is a two-way street.
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I'm worried about not talking to someone but they're not talking to me either. (OF COURSE NOT.)
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We both agree that there's this unwritten contract between us that we're not even going to look at each other.
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It got me thinking about strangers and specifically, how I treat them. And how I can make money off of them and get famous.
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Heyo! --- I'm just kidding,
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I'm just kidding. That was a joke.
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For most of my life,
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...I would go out of my way to avoid talking to people. I would stay in my lane mind my own business
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No eye contact if everyone's using a urinal, I'd have to pee tomorrow. Yes, I'm lonely. (Sad.)
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But now that YouTube's the thing, I'm interacting with strangers more often than I've had to in my entire life.
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So I've been thinking a lot about strangers and first of all, I think the word "sTrAnGeR"
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is already an insulting label for someone just because you don't know their name. "Oh, I don't know this person?
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They're a 'Stranger,' they're ~strange~. I'm the normal one. They're the freaks. They probably murder people
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with an axe!" (bold of you to assume I murder people with an axe)
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That's always the go-to profession of a stranger, an axe murderer.
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But, the people you see throughout your day are all
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humans with their own hopes and dreams and some of them may hope to kill you
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But, you'll never know because you didn't ever take the time to get to know them! (Become friends with people you know, kids.)
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So I think that the people you see throughout your daily life aren't strangers.
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They're potential friends. Except for the weird ones obviously, stay away from them. (EW)
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And yes, I'm telling you to judge people based on their appearance. They're the ones that chose to wear anime(Thats mean :( )
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shirts in public, okay?! So, back to the bus scenario. I'm sitting right next to this fellow human being so far
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there's not a single reason why I should dislike this person.
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But I don't know why if you put him and me on a bus next to each other
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I want him as far away from me as possible. ( thats mean, James)
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Just stop touching my shoulder!
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So that was the last time I took the bus.
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Unfortunately, that's not the only place you meet strangers... (You got Social Media.)
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One time, I was at Home Depot and I was looking for jumper cables
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And I couldn't find them anywhere. And I don't know if I'm the only human that's like this
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But I will try everything in my power to not talk to a sales associate. (same James, same)
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I guess it's cuz I know they get paid minimum wage and their life sucks and I just want to leave them alone and
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not make their job any harder than it has to be. But asking employees for help isn't even bothering them that
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much. In fact, I think it's part of their job? Like what's the worst thing they're gonna say?
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UGH!
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You don't know where one specific item is?! Everyone else knows! Did you even look?!
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They're in the jumper cable aisle! Idiot!" (OOF)
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(SLAP!)
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No one's gonna think that.
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So feeling desperate I mustered up what little courage I had and swaggered up to someone wearing an orange
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vest and said "Excuse me. Do you know where the jumper cables?"-- I don't work here. Oh, you don't work
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here...?
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And then he walked away...
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(To the tune of The Duck Song) And then he waddled away, waddle waddle. (MEMORIES)
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And then the very next day, BUM! BUM!! BUM!
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So I think the logical thing to do in that situation would have been to find someone who DOES work there?
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But I left the store because I didn't want to run into that same guy again.
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But I also bought a hammer because I didn't want people to think that I stole something.
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so...
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(starting engine)
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Oh yeah...
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And by the way, if you wear an orange vest to Home Depot, (Their construction workers.)
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Just expect people to ask you for help. Same goes for people who wear red shirts at Target.
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You'd think I'd learn from my mistakes, but no! I have a bunch more examples. When my book came out (I have the book and its the best book ever)
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My publisher said that it was going to be carried at Barnes & Noble.
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And I thought that was
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Super Duper cool and wanted to see my book in the wild. Not to buy or anything just to have a look at it.
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So I took my friend Adam from SomethingElseYT, and we went to the local Barnes & Noble and started
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our search. We looked in the humor section, didn't find it. Then we checked the new release section,
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It wasn't there either. Then we looked at the best-selling section then the religious section, but we couldn't
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find the book anywhere. So either the publisher lied (NANI!?)
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or they had already sold out, but just to be sure I asked one of the workers
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Hey, do you guys have a book by...?
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TheOdd1sOut? He kind of looks like this. And the worker typed something out on his computer and said, oh, yeah
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We got those in the back. We just haven't put him out yet
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So then he went to the back room brought out a copy and handed it to me saying here you go kid
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And I thought well, frick. I can't just hand it back to the guy and say "oh, no, that's okay,
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I didn't want to buy it. I just wanted to have a look at it." Do you know how inconvenient that would be?
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So the only less awkward
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option I could think of, was to buy my own book and you know what? (Awkwardly...)
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I'd get a couple cents back from this purchase. So it wouldn't have been a total loss
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But Adam, being the more sensible one, said:
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Adam: Dude, this is ridiculous. You-you have to come clean.
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James: So then he went to the worker and said: Adam: So he actually uh, wrote this book.
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He just wanted to get a look at it like in the wild. James: And the worker said "Oh, that's so cool,"
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(pen clicks)
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"Do you want to sign our copies?" And then I thought, well, hold on. You're not even going to ask me for my ID?
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How do you know I actually wrote this book and I'm not some guy trying to deface someone else's?
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And then the guy gave me a whole stack of my books and I signed them all. Last story before I go
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I was in the hallway of a building and me and this potential friend crossed paths,
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he said "Hello", and I was going to respond with Hello, and how's it going?
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But I combined the two and ended up saying, "How?" and then I jumped out a window and fell to my death (OOF)
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I can't rationalize that behavior. Maybe I spend too much time on the computer
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I'm not used to looking at real people's faces
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But I'm trying to change. Don't get me wrong, going to conventions and meeting fans has helped me a lot with
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talking to people. Granted, those conversations are usually one-sided and a real stranger won't already know
6:41
who I am, but they've still helped me. Now, you might be expecting me
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to give you advice on overcoming social anxiety,
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but if you watch this video, you know, I'm not the most qualified to give that advice, but I'll try my best.
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I know it's hard to feel confident and I'm still working on it,
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But you have to understand that we're ALL people and we ALL have things that were struggling with.
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And in reality, we're not all watching or caring about every little thing
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that other people do. We're all too busy worrying about what other people think of us.
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So with enough practice and believing in yourself,
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You can show the world your true colors.
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And, I think you'll find that people are a lot nicer than you think.
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So if you're the middle seat guy on the bus and you have to decide whether or not to move
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Do whatever you want. No one cares. Just stop touching my shoulders!
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End Card James: Hey everyone. I know it's been a while.
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Thank you for being patient with this video. May has been a really busy month because some of you might...
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...know that May is my birthday month and I don't work on my birthday month so...
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If there's a lesson you should take away from this video, is don't worry about being awkward.
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Because everyone is weird.
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And if anyone makes you feel bad for being awkward, then not only is that person...
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...more weird than you,
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but they're also an a-hole.
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I have some events coming up very soon
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I have VidCon, and chessboxing. And then I'm also going on tour with a bunch of people that you might recognize
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Like Jayden, and Ross, and Domics, and Egoraptor...just uh, to name drop a couple people.
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So if any of these events look interesting, you can buy some tickets in the description...
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...or through the event tab on my website.
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And if you're yearning for more Odd1sOut content,
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I just wanted to remind you all that I have a second channel and either today or tomorrow
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I'm going to be uploading a video where I answer some math questions with my friend Pat.
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Please watch it. (please :( )
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As always, thanks to everyone who worked on this video and a big, big thanks to YOU dear viewer...
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for wearing your seat belt. (BUSSESDONTHAVESEATBELTS)
