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Off The Record: What's the Cringiest Thing You've Ever Witnessed

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0:00 cuz in his mind he probably thought she's going to say yes put on that rainbow colored ring and and start flashing it around during dinner yeah the way that he was doing it and again I couldn't hear anything I could just see it it was like one KNE like heartfelt speech for a promise right we've been together for 10 years and that's why I made you this friendship [Music] bracelet welcome back to careful boys Where We Are are currently talking uh freely oh good about what is the creep cringiest thing you have ever witnessed cringiest yeah cringiest thing oo got you good right there in the gut right that one like I feel like if I

0:50 witness it I immediately go get out yeah yeah yeah so it's not something that's like you shake your head and try to forget it yeah damn yeah it takes a lot to get that cringey too yeah cringe and it can't be yourself it's got to be relationship if you want to make it yourself you can you can yeah it's got to be like some sort of relationship based thing that's hard Anthony surely you have like of like just look at just like personal stories about yourself no I'm pretty cool with myself dude look at those sunglasses my bad those long take that guy doesn't really cringe that much huh for some reason this comes to mind I remember there was a I think it was a high school party and uh I wasn't at this party but this

1:40 story got passed around and so the next week every everything was just like really awkward around this person and I felt so bad about it basically this person uh got really blacked out drunk and then apparently like sh himself at this party oh a girl too yeah it was a girl girls that's the worst yeah and so like how did you do that people had to people just blacked out yeah and then and then people a couple people had to like change her and like wash her while she's like black down the tub type stuff like a baby yeah and I just heard this stuff but then the crazy thing is like whether you know it's true or not when and you're in high school mode right the second like you go to school like that next Monday or stuff like the energy just gets so awkward around them and you can feel because like there's story that's just got passed around and if like that person tries to talk to you

2:30 you feel all weird as if like there's some sort of ████ Scarlet Letter or black s sh yeah low key e gross or your friends will even clown you too like I saw you talking to ████ girl during lunch like no I wasn't I was just walking by or if it's your friend you're like I can't talk to you right now cuz you're a poopy pants oh dude that's s everyone's going to associate me with you that's a hard one I don't know why it came to my mind but I just remember feeling so like bad about it dude pooping your pants is pooping your butt's hard it's hard to come back girl in that happens way any stage of Life pooping your pants that's a big L dude that's a big L you can't be doing this brother especially chicks cuz when they poop their pants it's like through a thong it's like splits it up yeah and it makes it double com out directions directionally holy ████ I thought about it not good bad day at the office it's like the Chinese factories

3:21 that just oh bro the Lacy joints imagine the Lacy joints getting poop in your lace oh man it makes the lace shape that one's not coming back like a Play-Doh you know like a ████ doily o you've probably seen a lot of bading like like but I enjoy that ████ that's my ████ I could stroke it to that my no my cringe I think the one that I witnessed the most the what that I come back to the most often in my brain is uh I was on a cruise with some friends and uh I I'll never forget I was sitting there with Nikki and um my my friend is like telling me he's like uh he's like about about to make a big move or whatever and I'm like you know what are you going to do he's been telling me he's going to make a big move like all weekend or whatever I'm like what are you going to

4:11 do and then finally uh he he he tells me that he is going to give his chick that he's been with for a decade a promise ring what the 10 years bad choice he's been with her for 10 years and what's up what's a promise ring that's not an engagement what's a I thought promise ring was for like high school kids yeah it's for high school kids who are religious who like basically have to do anal sex because they can't technically ████ or else it'll be anti-religious that's going to be such a fake out for her dude so what's the so the promise ring is before the engagement or what's the difference between it shouldn't even exist it's not even a thing not 10 kids that are cosplaying marriage it's almost like so insanely bad that it's like on the simp scale it's like so bad it's almost like it's a ████ joke like is this a

5:01 well especially to a mature woman who like you might as well do the shoe who by the way who by the way had been in a previous marriage oh ████ not not a first relationship no so then it's just like she's already given him hell for it so then I'm just sitting there and I'm like I have to stop this I have to stop it I'm going to stop it so why because it's so bad dude because I knew that she would not react well because sa that's a good friend I was like I got to stop it cuz he already left and I was like I can't believe he's going to ████ do this ████ and so I go up to the top deck of the cruise ship where he told me he was going to be and I'm too late I see he's already down on one knee oh ████ and he's he does it like that does it like that like it's a prop and I saw it from the stairs I'll never forget it this is what makes me so cringe so bad is I see him doing it and he's like

5:52 doing like that heartfelt ████ and I can't really hear him wait were they privately together yeah it's like in the dark of the Cru was like a weird face did you see her face her face was like her face dude was everything her face was everything her face was like like that ████ where the chicks are just like internalized ████ rage and then they're just trying yeah exactly not trying to let it out cuz it wasn't an engagement it was a will I Pro can I promise you yeah promise you pointless ████ gesture so then we I go back down and I told N I was too late I ████ up I was too late and then um cuz he's too ████ dumb to know on his he's too dumb on his own he goes to a store he buys a promise ring he has this idea concs his head juices it to me for 2 days before telling me what it's going to be and then goes and executes the plan he's too dumb to know and I should

6:42 have told him right but well you didn't know it was a promise I didn't know a promise to the buzzer and then I was just like oh ████ this is going to be crazy so then they come down after like 30 minutes and they're and she immediately just goes so blank gave me a promise ring and it's fine guys it's going to be fine it was like that it's going to be fine and he's just sitting there like complete wounded puppy like oh my God bad boy in timeout are they still together no ████ no no way of course not you knew the answer who does that in their ████ mid 20s if they weren't on F boat she would have broke up with them but I think she should wanted to make it like like harmonious nobody can go anywhere did you think he was going to be like I'm going to get some anal sex [Music] tonight thought he I he definitely thought it was going to be a really huge

7:32 romantic gesture damn man that Bo is and his brain had too many holes for him to understand that that was not going to happen damn it really is your fault though you know me I'm I'm a wrer you think he would argued you your your aha moment was just too late that was too late it was like a movie man it was like so crazy how fast it happened and how he was already up there on one knee I was just like but after that though you don't go man I got dumbass friends like I don't want oh oh I knew you were like I don't want you in my circle no more no it that took a while but but I wouldn't say I don't even dislike the person but I was like dude you your judgment is out of out of this world yeah that's hard when your friends have like really bad calls on something and you just can't really and look if I'm ████ up I want my friend to tell me so it's the same idea it's like maybe he maybe they somebody else has the they can fill the

8:22 gaps of knowledge that I don't have I expect that from my friend but then I was like I think he he's blindsiding her and the worst most embarrassing way in front of all of her friends on This Crew oh no damn that's such a good one man that's cuz in his mind he probably thought she's going to say yes put on that rainbow colored ring and and start flashing it around during dinner yeah yeah I think the way that he was doing it and again I couldn't hear anything I could just see it it was like one knee like heartfelt speech for a promis we've been together for 10 years and that's why I made you this friendship bracelet how the ████ can she stay with the guy for 10 years that dumb uh it was a a project I think she enjoyed the she enjoyed the project and like you know

9:12 cuz he was a project and he would talk about that and I think it was like that he would talk about how he's a pro himself yeah he would talk about how he like you know he's working on himself and yeah yeah rough dude rough damn dude kind of made me really sad I mean some of the funnest things though is like watching those uh proposals or like those um prom like asks and they just go south like it's all extravagant and then the girl's like No And everyone's like no and then the guy walks away and I'm like this guy's an idiot cuz you know propal half court proposals with the mascot yes and then the mascot's like oh no so good though and then there dancing covered his eyes cuz you know he did that ████ and ambush pushed her to trap her because he was losing her or he

10:03 wasn't sure it feels like or he's too stupid to even read this yeah I think it's just stupidity like they're not even going on dates and ████ the chick's probably to her friends she's like I don't know I'm pretty I'm pretty out of it but he wants to take me to a basketball game so I've never been to one we'll I'll just go like that kind of ████ yeah kind of fighting he's talking to the announcer he's like okay at this time you know yeah be ready damn man that is cringey though it's the best that's just the best cuz I don't know anybody you know what I mean and it's your butt it's like it's a whole it hits from a whole another angle yeah jeez still a promise ring is crazy oh you know one I got this just came to mind one of the cringiest things that happened to me recently this is probably within the last year or two um I recently connect reconnected with a friend from long time ago like this era

10:56 a long time ago oh ████ wow is it that guy no no no not that guy I wish and uh just cuz we have a bunch of mutual friends and then so the group that kind of split apart this guy was kind of like always a little bit neutral and he was also like a really close friend and he still hangs out with with my other buddy so oh this might be cool maybe we can start growing this group a little bit more so and and it's something that my my friend in the middle is always trying to encourage and suggest like ah it's been so long you know you guys can probably you know like revisit where the relationship is at or whatever I'm okay cool I'll reach out to him so we meet up at this F place in monre park and uh we we uh sit down and we're just we eating and then the conversation that we're having felt like two complete strangers and not like picking back up where we left off oh wow and it felt like I was

11:47 just talking to a person I don't even know like someone that was just stuck in this weird corporate world and he's like trying to it's been so many years yeah like over 10 years he was explaining to me how like the like um Macy's corporate like has like shoe quotas and then if he doesn't meet it or whatever then like and I'm like dude we haven't talked 10 years and you're complain to me about ████ Macy's ████ and then he goes oh hold on a second pulls up his phone starts FaceTiming some chick Oh weird he goes hey you want to talk to my girlfriend I'm like no I'm I'm I'm I'm good you know and you can clearly tell there's like a accent like and like static like this is not this person doesn't even live in this country and then you could start hearing them like baby talker a little bit and like all this like sweet stuff that I'm like I I don't know if I should be around for this stuff W meanwhile knowing that this guy

12:41 in the 10 years that we had a gap he went on like a horor mongering face like like prostitutes oh wow indulge in in he was a John yeah yeah yeah and then so I'm like okay if I put two and two together that chick sounds like a prostitute and then he hang and then he hangs up and goes oh that was my girlfriend and I'm like oh your girlfriend like she lives here was no she lives in the Philippines and I was like oh he's a passport bro and I'm like how often does she come visit and she's like oh we've been this something we're still working out and I'm like how long have you guys been like together and then she he was like oh 2 years now it's getting pretty serious and I just remember like going like oh what the ████ like where are you in life this feels ████ weird like it's just felt like we were all these normal dudes and

13:31 then there's this guy that just like I don't know found like the craziest catacombs of mankind and it's like yeah yeah it it was I was like this is just being around them um felt so weird it's almost as if like you meet a friend and then now they're like into like I'm into crystals are you into crystals you know like that from more mongering to cryst because the amount of like cuz it's different if you're like if your boy like yo I can't wait to go Rica smash some ████ ████ come back I'm going to do Coke you know it's like it's that's a different feeling versus like oh yes my ████ wife and I'm like dude I don't know how many other phone I mean how many other dudes she's talking to like that plus if you even met her one time in the room that's the thing I question that you paid her 500 bucks for or whatever so it was like that that

14:21 relationship that like oh she's on a ████ pedestal you know like marriage is for sure around the corner like that kind of ████ it just felt it felt so weird we were talking about earlier it's that save me ████ where like she's like hey like I'm in trouble right now he's like yeah send you 200 bucks like that's my chick yeah you'll send her money what you do what send her money all the time hero dude hero hero Cape total Cape yeah and I was like dude this is full that is kind of cringy to see that kind of downfall in your full yeah and so after I'm like like my other friend was like oh so how'd it go I don't know if I'm going to ████ have any more dinners with this guy yeah ████ cuz it just felt weird that is weird that makes you not want to hang out with old friends again huh like that's always my fear is like when you hang out with some old friends they like yeah cool and you start hanging out and then it gets really weird really quick yeah it is it is

15:11 crazy when you don't gauge correctly the amount of time that can pass and change somebody is like you're probably both so different oh man thank God most of my old childhood friends aren't that c that's ████ sad this one's not like a big one but it it for some reason I I keep thinking of it so like I had this one homie and this is gonna be weird because he watches this ████ so sorry give the full name then hit him hit him I want to give him the benefit of doubt that it's not him so like one day we were uh we had just eaten that like Pickup Sticks or some ████ or like P something like that right and then he had we were both we both drove so we're going to like split up and he like had his uh Leftovers on top of his car and we were like chatting and ████ and then like uh when I said bye to him he got in his car and forgot to to take the food off and then he drove off

16:01 and the food just went like on the ground and then uh and then like he realized it and got out of the car and I was like yo bro that's ████ funny and then he was just like looking at it and then he he looked up and he was crying why was he crying like he needed that food or something or so like or he felt ashamed so like here here's here's a little context this dude he's like ████ I don't know like 63 he's like a big like dude he's not like a whiy like guy I had never seen this happen to him that's even funnier and he's like a he has like a sense of humor like me we're just the normal ████ we think that s███'s funny but then he was looking at it he got out his car and just looked at it I was expecting him to be like ████ bro but like this is like we were in high school still and he looked up and he just had tears in his eyes he his yeah and then

16:51 and then I was like yo like what if that was his ████ dinner and tomorrow it was barely any food it was like leftover you know you have that little spring in your step little twinkle in your eye about how later on you're plug in your favorite movie twinkle in your eyes to heat up that Pickup Sticks and you're just you know you know you got a good night ahead of you I think like and then that's all gone it's it's funny cuz I was the first of that like thing but it was trippy because I was like yo like are you okay and then he was just like and ████ this ████ dude and then he just he just like left and and he left it on the ground yeah he just left and then like after that is when like I started to realize like he had issues with like really beating himself up over every little thing but I just never seen it oh he's like you're a ████ idiot you're a piece of ████ prob Dro pick a sticks like 30 times out

17:42 week yeah cuz that was that was in like that was in like 1999 and then like I hung out with him last year and did you bring it up at Shadow Oak Park yeah just yeah we're kicking it and then uh he like I've known this guy so ████ long and then finally he's like he goes you know man I'm in a really good place now and I was like what do you mean and then he's just like he's like check this out he throws food on the floor no tears he was like yo to be real like he's like I've always dealt with like demons and like treating myself like ████ and hating myself I was like really and it just reminded me of like that was the first time I saw that and then I couldn't stop seeing it but then it was the the awkwardness of like what do you say like imagine if I just start crying right now like the rest of you

18:33 guys would be like um what the what's happening yeah like if I fell off my chair the wheel broke and I get up and I just have tears in my eyes that'd be crazy like I would have been like what the ████ what are you hurt something zoom in zoom in zoom inom in right but then it was that feeling of like he just was like looking at his spilled food and just was like this wa yeah it was rough but I'm glad you're doing good I am happy a better place thank God that was Pitch move but you you came out on the other side yeah do you think things are cringe when it's very pathetic yeah like when you look at someone you're just like ████ you're pathetic well I mean sometimes yeah sometimes you just feel sorry for them you don't know what's going on I think it's cringe when they think what they're doing is dope and

19:23 it's pathetic oh that's rough too yeah like my friend that thought he would ████ was about to get this fiance yeah like the promise ring you know what I mean it's like you think what you're doing is dope you guys ever been to a ████ Q&A of a film Nobody saw Yes yes and I would go anytime and if anybody invites me I'm in I'm always in when you go no when you go to a Q&A for a ████ independent movie where there are more people on stage than in the ████ theater yeah because that's because even if there were more people they all don't give a ████ cuz their your movie did not land bro and so they're just like up there and the mic down they're like well here's what it was like for me and it's like no one's here bro no one gives a ████ it's the best that's right that's like the that's like a super good example of a circle jerk yeah yeah it is kind of if I had a

20:14 monthly subscription to that I would use the ████ so many of those I've been to so many of them it's the best dude yeah those are those are really hard especially if your friends up there it's like really really tough yeah s█████ film screenings yeah it's really tough it's so good though that's the right kind of cringe that we're talking about and then the director usually like really egotistical and they think they made a breakthrough piece of art that what we really mean here it's like dude nobody gives a you you're just like a student who just showed running water for like 10 seconds they always do that they got to show running ████ sink water that's all true right dude it's like ped almadovar movies man I I I don't know if you guys know who that is i' I heard you reference so many times I looked it up I have a very rich film uh yeah but no he he does a lot of that ████ sink ████ watching and like I

21:05 don't know ████ black and white graveyard scenes and ████ like like you're just looking at a mailbox that doesn't open or close or anything for like 10 minutes long shots with no they're just trying to be like Andy Warhol or something but they're just stupid you think you're so cool when we're done with this uh video on our lunch break I'll show you some cringe Dance videos of who you nah not real cringe real cringe the social justice one I'm k.com stuff k.com stuff.com as [Music]

21:58 well

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