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How Do You Feel About Bromances?

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0:00 when you tell your next funny joke which will be really soon we're all going to kiss you what you guys say about that we're all going to take we're all going to come over there and we're all going to kiss say something funny guy but then at at as you guys are coming over I'll like that's not funny that's not funny this is assault this is what happened this is how Diddy starts [Music] dude welcome back to careful boys today we're talking about romances okay we're going to debate romances okay cuz there's an article in Metro magazine that says like metrosexual metrosex what's Metro magazine metro metro magazine does it teach guys how to dress Metro sexually I don't know people don't use that phrase it's not even a thing no more I don't think what's okay I thought metrosexual just meant a man

0:50 that groomed himself but he's a city man so he's into fashion and when you're into fashion back in the day people thought you were good flamboyant basically just Ryan Secret yeah that that's metrosexual right it's cuz Ryan secr exists but what is it now um transport I think this is just Metro magazine just gay all right real so when I think of Metro magazine I think like I think um calr okay I think like the trucks y infrastructure guys that are working on lights cuz it's metrop Metropolitan the Metropolis needs to be worked on you like trucks you have a truck yep I'm pretty Metro yeah you could be so the they're saying that straight men and bromances quote kiss cuddle and stand around naked together that's not a thing

1:40 you don't think that's a thing I oh that's like people in India or the Vietnam yeah they're more comfortable they're more comfortable a about kiss this thing is next level but like in a lot of those countries a lot of countries oh like like in India don't they walk around like this yeah they do that that's okay a lot of countries they just like this and they're like this is fine guys do that yeah it does feel nice hey did you know in um 1800s America right late 1800s America AR they no but then the thing is men used to you know how like um um put your put your arm down like that all right homies used to walk like this for real like one guy would be like this and then the other guy would be like it's kind of like that's his ████ are they like carrying something wait his ████ or thez heing about he talking about bromance though

2:31 that's not that's not no no they're homies not b███████ like holding his pocket kind of thing no they're homies you'll see like guys that look like Charlie Chaplain mustache ████ whatever or like cowboys and they're walking down the street with arms like this yeah yeah they're W they're walking AR like they're walking in arms like together fancy city city person I I can't I can't visualize can you can you guys like I'll show you okay stand up Ryan it's like this and they're homie they're equal homies I have a bad imagination and then so one guy can you back it up for framing back it up for framing all right one guy is standing like normal right like just like chilling like that and then the other homie is like this and which one's the ████ in this one Joe no he said they're equals he said they're equals it's kind of hard to see no no no you got your arm straight and then we're walking down

3:21 like this oh I'm not I'm just I'm just trying to walk no the way you tuck your arm I can't can you do the walking motion though we need to if you're hugging his arm like this like this like this okay and then and then a regular walking Guy this is the lops side of power Dynamic Ryan looks like very Indian very let with the pinkies you know why I feel like a lot of Indian dudes do that normally right but this is in America like Macho Cowboy America and then um Cowboys I've never seen Cowboys do that yeah yeah cuz there's this guy that you know like you know no no you know you know you know you know how I you how I know is you have you guys watched those uh videos where they hand crank right and it's black and white and then the guys like now they color it and

4:11 then they make it like with AI they fix everything right so you'll see the old one gay they don't put the arm on after it's on there in black and white so I follow these Instagram pages and then you'll see it from ████ LA to Hawaii to like everywhere dudes be walking down the street like that and that was a normal ████ that was a normal homey way to walk down why why did we get so homophobic men in the Western World stop walking arm in arm ████ Steve you better not be trolling me right now no I'm I'm I'm looking at it I'm looking the most passionate Joe's been all day I got you I got you so they were it's real wait but then is that so every ████ real so everywhere you guys thought I was tripping we thought we weren we were listening and I was trying to I was about to back you up right now that

5:01 means back then there was a unified culture of that no matter what class well I don't know if it was what class but they were in suits so they couldn't be low class or they could to me cuz then like I feel like back then there there had to be differences in how people behaved because there was no ████ unified how would they why would they all be acting the same they don't even see each other I think back then everybody like it's a high class thing yeah maybe it was like that's the fancy way to walk cuz I can't I just can't imagine like a a higher of like this guy's acting the same as that guy so this this post says I'm not sure exactly how it happened in the western world but someone who comes from a culture Indian where men linking arms is common it I I would suggest it's not a rise in homophobia but rather the reverse the reason two Indian men linking arms is not commented upon though that's changing rapidly is not because of a lack of homophobia but because suggesting that the men might be gay is

5:52 so beyond the pale it's not even considered that's what I think so it's like we're so not gay we could do whatever the yeah that's what I think that's how you end up getting called Gay though wait but then did they answer when it stopped in a in in the Western World it doesn't say they don't know when it stopped in the western but it was it was common in the late 1800 there there is that culture in our Bromance in America today where like the more down you are to be with your bro in a gay way it's like telling people you're not gay dude but walking and holding anybody is just like very intimate but that's like we do that sometimes out here especially with we're not linking arms and we're doing it as a joke we're doing it as a that's what I'm saying you do it and then it's like you're not gay for I don't sincerely like skin on skin contact with Nick but you touch him the most you touch I like here my take is that there was just a lot more guys who

6:42 were closeted like I think there's always just closeted guys everywhere No Matter What er time just like stroking his ear like you guys definitely do the most physical skin un skinn touch like off camera as well and you and you hid it behind the veil of Jiu-Jitsu Jitsu it's cuz we're Grapplers you know you guys wrestle a lot and that's how we get our G that's guy ████ ji- Jitsu probably was birthed from like the most opposite homophobia yeah take that back take that back fight me for it grapple me for it you want to scissor our legs together but then like is homophobia like when you make jokes about how two guys look gay cuz they're walking arm and arm you don't really believe they're gay right but they look like a couple but some people do I guess no if they're walking arm and arm in a serious way like I think you subconsciously are not going to be like they're both for sure heto I immediately think they're gay but but then not only

7:33 if it's not your culture though right like if you're looking at from the outside you don't just go to a different culture in another country and just start calling people gay I do all the holding hands is more about being a in my eyes it's more about being in a relationship with a person rather than being gay or not like it's more about like that's what you do with someone who you love or significant other with you know but then like if you see two Indian guys with gay they just gay 100% gay before anything but I think some people would see two Indian guys like hey what are you doing unlock your arms right now but like in India it's like okay if that's a cultural thing and that's what the guys do I don't care about your goddamn anybody happen to know about like gay laws in India I think just like the gays don't exist it's like Russia yeah we have no gays here that's funny that gays don't exist to deny gays in your country

8:24 that's a red flag brother that means the closet the closet population is wild big closet stadiums yeah for sure walk Walking closets um especially with all these documentaries I've been watching about gay guys then there's just that like social your your society's understanding too right like let's say hypothetically if your country doesn't allow gays then if men culturally are walking arm in- arm you would just never even be allowed to assume that they're gay that's true that's true so it's like yeah that's true what if you got two dudes walking arm and arm and then kissing is just so like oh they just so comfortable but Europeans kiss yeah lips no but when they say hi you I'm talking about on the lips is different they're not scamming in can you kiss in the middle of your hanging out see that's where it's like all right well you can say hi and goodbye as many times as you want right

9:14 hello goodbye hello goodbye but like if Nick said like a a really funny joke we just all go over there and just think they're not gay we're just kissing that was just a funny so apparently there's there's a bunch of references to this behavior in old books like there's a book called Brides shed Revisited which I think is from the early 1900s and they talk about how two dudes famously link arms when they go visit the botanical gardens if that's not gay that's so gay my wife guys visiting the botanical gardens together is kind of funny linking arms to go to Botanical Gardens but that's where like two FBI agents like kind of link up in order to like trade secet you know what I mean really it's really cool all check this out right suitcas is being overover by your foot Joe's got the whole gay history of his phone you see this dude uhhuh look at these two

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11:48 that though like was it was it just guys just hanging with each other like where the ladies at they they maybe they had to stay at home so that's why they were like let's just oh back then oh no the ladies don't go out Asia in Asia a lot of women like as friends they always walk on linked yeah but that's that's that's lady stuff but they got to walk by themselves though yeah okay back to the modern ████ right so according to a research published in sex roles a journal of research there is a strong desire to cuddle and hug between romantic friends while kissing is just another way of showing affection one of the students involved told the authors you can quote lie in bed with your Bromance have a cuddle and just talk while another said he understood it as [Laughter] a cuddle buddy the third thought cuddling hugg hugging and sex jokes were a core part of they romantic friendship

12:39 dude cuddling with your boy is in a bed is wild okay honestly though sometimes if you get hard dude sometimes it feels really good to be little spoon but you just need a bigger than you guy to be youri is nah dude I don't know about that let me ask you this you like cuddling right with the dude that's what he just saying is that the question or is that just the pref I don't know I I want to make sure I got what you said correctly if this then that you said you said hey cuddling with your boy in bed is kind of tight I didn't say that I said being a little spoon sometimes is very nice you need a bigger person spooning is synonymous with what according to Ry though it could just be a Tor okay how about this what for those of you guys who are comfortable with cuddling with the guy I'm not going to cuddle with any guys in a bed I'm it depends on why what what and on a couch

13:30 I'll be like like this go for 10 seconds let's do that let's do that let's do that that's enough no no do do that right now what is what is off limits if someone just stroked your penis twice yeah is that off why you go straight for the dick of course how do we get to the dick wait only twice is not that big a de you got to like work your way up there cuddling in a bed very intimate I think some people don't care that's intimate stuff that doesn't count for you Mr I'mma act like I'm sleeping I'm just so tired look face delete the video delete the video my buddy uh said that when he when he first moved to Vietnam um he wasn't like he didn't know about this whole bro like it's more comfortable there right and he was like watching some ████ on his um laptop and

14:20 he was laying down and then his friend got out of the Sher and then he was passing by his room and he's like oh what are you watching and he ████ jumped on the bed with him on top and then went like this and then my friend was like dude what the ████ you GNA ████ just bow me right here like he felt them on top of him and he was like what the ████ and he goes what are you watching bro and you know you know Japanese people is different though like cuz you know like Koreans they got the Korean Spas like it's culturally acceptable for a bunch of boys to go together get butt naked in these spa and touch each other's dicks yeah so I was I was working with a a Japanese as a goof Japanese people are gay as hell yeah we Japanese pop group by the time like we finished like the job and stuff we we all went out to go eat together and drink and stuff and then they like chose to show me a video of and it's their buffest Dude too like

15:12 they they got drunk they were at one of these spas and everybody's butt naked and then they literally while he was trying to take a nap they they grab him by his penis and they're like pulling him around he's like they do a lot of Jackass ████ they're like borderline white boys but it's not not a gay right that's just a joke yeah but they do like some guys will say that's gay though not horsing around yeah but honestly in a different country I just feel like the rules are different though you know like it's just kind of to take with the difference so we're talking about America as a country what are the rules here with bromancing cuz we all SE that Justin Bieber and Jaden you know Smith like you know little dancing kissing and people are like that's gay but it's like no theya but then again you know what the the difference is is that societally it's it's people looking from here up oh yeah you know what I mean like if you get the

16:03 richest ████ dudes they're doing whatever the ████ they want they're getting called Gay by people outside the building I do but inside the building with them nobody's gay like that that's true if you are a gay if you're a rich powerful guy I think your likelihood of messing around with that stuff is very I think it's still C you think Jeff Bezos is like making out with dudes but I feel like he's a pretty but I think if he did no here's the thing if he did make out with dudes in the right room no one's saying ████ that's a fact nobody's even Sni only calling him gay the socioeconomic ladder you think the lower you go the more homophobic it is the higher do I do think that as well the higher up you are in society you don't have to worry about that ████ cuz this is this is this is just horse horing do you think this is hores and around I think it's hor and around oh oh oh what the Yeah I mean that is that's that's who that's just that's just like Jen Z

16:54 Brotherhood yeah that dietr does that ████ to me all the time that ████ doesn't look like nothing cuz he didn't see him he's like hey who the ████ is oh it's Jaden bro he's grabbing him by his hip bones I don't think that's very uh horing around I think that's but I think like if you go to like a blue like let's say you go to a room full of long shoreman it's like a blue collar area the rate of being called Gay is much higher than if you were at ████ sax Fifth Avenue you're not just getting called Gay in there you're you're gay just walking in yeah also when you see stuff like that that is Bromance but it's also gay but that's also okay that's the whole point of bro too right like it's not that it's like no it's not gay we're we're you know what I mean it's like no it's everybody's on the spectrum of gay and that's okay plus you got to watch who you're you got to be close enough to somebody too you can't just like think that's level one friendship if you're defending yourself all the time saying like you hanging out with your boy and like hugging him is like not gay you might be a little gay I you really think so yeah how how do I get Nick to be more

17:47 comfortable uncomfortable or comfortable how do I get Nick to be more comfortable with me you get get black belt and Jujitsu I guarantee you guys going to be rolling all the time the problem is is that this guy's doing it to to make me feel uncomfortable if I want to watch movie with yeah I know I sat there yesterday he didn't touch me the whole time I would to watch cool intentions with them I'm not going to watch cool intentions with you I'll watch the second one with you I like that one much I think you put honest intention with Nick he's he's going to like it if you honestly put intention into Nick I think he's honestly going to like it to what what you mean no he's too homophobic he doesn't like it I'm not homophobic when when you tell your next funny joke which will be really soon we're all going to kiss you all right cool oh ████ what you guys to say about that we're all going to take we're all going to come over there and we're all going to say something funny guy but then at at as you guys are coming over I'll like that's not funny that's not funny Isa this is what happened at this

18:38 how Diddy starts dude hey Nick you want to see what my what I what they did to me at a Japanese company I know say let's say and the funny thing is I barely knew this guy but they ████ around so much and then they do gay gay stuff a lot culturally he was kind of gay too so then like um let's say you're like on the computer and then you're and I'm coming over cuz you got to show me something God I got to be preoccupied I can't I'm like oh ████ really hold on I can't see and then he would go like this and then he would be you like you want to show me now see that's not that bad that's not that bad it's not that bad cuz I know Joe is probably the most homophobic out of everybody so I was surprised he even did that that's just called the AO yeah that's fun that's a fun time Joe's the most homophobic out of everybody's f i

19:30 do wonder I do Wonder though why that why that exists how in classism homophobia is more here than here yeah right like why is there a need to be more like Macho maybe because you got more problems when you're when you're in this study 29 out of the 30 men who took part in the study said they had cuddled with their romantic partner that's what the hell do you doing not the food it's not the food head oh what's up hey think about bromances come on here what's up come in come in no come in come in suddenly the video's less gay yeah finally jeez let's ask her let's ask her how we doing how are you how are you come on in okay who do you think Kristen who do you think is the most homophobic person here we're having this

20:22 debate right now it's not really the debate it's the debate we've been talking about it for 20 minutes it's not really the debate who do you think based off who who you know know come on I think I think Nick you think Nick you mean the guy who rolls around with other men all day I know and that's why not all day you think he's the most you think I'm closeted you might be a little right oh yeah that's a good TOA you think he's the most okay who do you guys think is the most I think it's Joe we think it's Joe I think it's Joe too but we also think it's because he's the most G I didn't even recognize Jo I'm the most I'm the most I thought this was the new guy hey do you think okay if do you think that guys in bromances do you think it's normal for them to cuddle kiss and and snuggle each other mhm no

21:12 that's that's not what about what about docking is that cool wait what's crossing the line the kissing part or the hugging or the hugging or I mean you're cuddling in bed I yeah I think that's and you're bricked up really hard no no no no how about this how about this this this is real this is real this is realistic okay how about you go to like your boyfriend's house and he's in a dog PT with like four other dudes just watching a movie on the floor that's cool right or no a dog pie like are their legs touching yeah they're interwin inter interwin and they're sharing a big comfy blanket you can't tell whose legs are who and they're com they're sh I think it makes it less gay when there's more guys but if it's just two of them that sus let me ask you this let me ask you this what if your buddy tells a really funny joke is it normal for all his buddies to give him kiss real quick just a little smooch as a

22:02 celebration like good job I think that's okay positive re yeah all that's cool I honestly that was kind of fun I I hope I hope I have another funny joke later hey I said later hey stop one kiss one kiss one kiss come on happen or you're homophobic isn't it funny how everyone just calls Nick either the gayest or the most homophobic can't win you can't win

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