0:00 [Music] okay since uh Gucci's here I think you'd be the perk person to ask about this we got a lot of JK fans that were messaging uh with this exact request I thought it was very interesting we may not be the perfect person to help with this but I think you would the question was uh it was a very Earnest and innocent very uh nice question yeah they had asked H how how do I cure my conversational awkwardness don't it be awkward bro it's much better I love it but when people some people are so awkward don't you want to backhand them you ever run into weird people like that that's what we you're just like you're so awkward shut the up get the away from me you know it going to help to have that balance I did go to the theater uh with
0:52 I saw a movie the other day with a homie and I walked up with my ticket and I was just like I was like hey how you doing man he didn't say anything I said all right I go myself he was checking my ticket he was like oh my bad like where are you bro like yeah bro some people are really like in their own world I never take it personally you know I don't think people will take it personally either sometimes I'm awkward way the dude's like she's going to but like listen to that the fear that like that you never forgot that I think is pretty scary too oh yeah no I I'm never going to forget that I'm going talk ████ about him for the rest of 2025 also a comedian where you know she's observing everything memorizing everything it's like it's all part of like her job yeah I like to make people uncomfortable like I went to go see sing sing the other night and um it's a movie fantastic movie Coleman Domingo uh stars
1:43 in it and um uh I I go get the ticket I'm checking in with this guy maybe it's only at theaters but he looked at me before I even showed him my ticket he said sing sing and I said cuz I'm black and he said I said don't worry about it man I would have been dying if you said that I love ████ with people yo it's so no it's not what it looks like what about what about if somebody's like uh they just have like an awkward flow when they're talking to you where it's just kind of like they stop and don't know what to say there's this one guy yeah there's I know it's crazy they got a Vietnamese flow I don't know what to say be what you
2:36 said and it sound cuz it sounded like supposed to be I don't know what to say I don't know what to say Islam poetry they all the same oh yeah yeah yeah they're just on a different Rhythm yeah they're just hesitating I know a guy like that who runs a a long running show in um uh the Hermosa Manhattan Beach area just to make it wide enough and he's so awkward like that like he'll bring the radius bro yes like like ask me like a regular question like a what have you uh what sites have you seen in Los Angeles yeah yeah I've seen um yeah uh I've been to Hollywood Boulevard wow that's the conversation it's so weird he stares for a like he buffers it's like yeah it's like he's processing he PS5 damn bro it's like he's
3:27 processing it's so ████ weird a loading screen I had to ask yeah cuz I was introduced by another homie I said heyo he autistic he good he's like I think he's just like that he just like that just his style yeah so ████ weird yeah a lot of a lot of kids we interview now they're like that what you mean this new generation this new gener they just answer like they literally take ████ 30 seconds to answer one word cuz they're processing job interviews like when you're doing the yeah at the cafe be like what do you do for fun I don't have much fun damn straight up like a depressed person you don't go right into your double hand you know there's a difference between like quirky awkward and it's
4:18 like oh you're just a little off and then there's like awkward where it's like why are you so weird I want to hit you like not everybody's Aubrey Plaza when they're doing it yeah no some people are annoying like yeah that's a is some people are just like they don't know boundaries they're like M it's too much and you're like hey I don't mean to be weird but I want to ask you about this personal ████ and I'm like no you're being weird and don't do that that's ████ weird weird so there's like that level of like yeah to like they're reaching in but then when they're awkward but they're just kind of shy and kind of weird I like those guys where where do to where do you think we were taught those things though those social cues we got yelled at we got ████ up like yeah I don't I don't know I think that's right looking at you like who's me no I mean we did get no I think
5:10 that's true we talk about that with like online comments right like online comments people go crazy today because back then we didn't have online so you would say something and then you just get your ass beat in the bathroom during like break we live socially paranoid like we we go like oh we not say that that's fair we might offend somebody and you know what happens when you offend somebody right yeah it's like they're going to ████ us up growing up when you have that paranoia you first treat everybody with should I say this or he's going to beat me up I think that's better oh when there was like physical yeah that's why Joe's got this in his mind to in the back pocket well when you moved from uh Texas right what was your personality in terms of like how you interact with people socially any different um no I think I was kind of ████ so I I cuz I was like from a
6:00 completely different part of the country yeah and so I was like really Southern and they made fun of me for that they called me Sandy Cheeks for like years because my mom didn't know how to do my hair and I buck teeth and uh I had southern accent um cheeks so my that's why I'm like I don't know if I'm the best person for advice for this cuz my way of getting people off my back was pretending that I knew I was a black belt in karate and I would do kicks in like random ████ on the ████ playground like they don't want to ████ with me and they were just like she's she's just mental slow yeah she's ████ slow she's like the homeless man always doing Kung for no ass always was doing crackhead ████ I I think people are awkward when they're just not experienced so I feel
6:50 like if you like have some sort of food service or retail job it will help you out a lot cuz you'll learn to talk with so many different walks of life yeah it forces you or else if you're just stuck talking to your same loser ass friends or whatever or you feel like you're just behind the bleaches during high school trying to avoid all eye contact and all conversation you're just going to be even more and more Awkward this this example shows that like food or retail where you have to like talk to the person is better than like movie theater where you just have to like yeah yeah you don't have to talk to anybody question to this ████ is how do you know you're awkward before you move forward like I feel like you know how some countries like you're mandated to serve like a year or two in the Army I feel like our country you need to serve one or two years maybe even three in
7:41 some kind of service industry job I that's a platform if I ever run that's my platform that's a good that's a good because yes I feel like that will 100% solve a lot of your in your first year no tips no tip no tip whack that's whack that's whack I want more for you well if you're coming you're just getting into the work force like I I my first Ser well I did retail 15 years old I was at uh abomi and Fitch that's a that's a cool job for 15 yeah and that means that you were cool cuz they only hired cool kids yeah they only hired cool kids we didn't make that wasn't cool though then you looked something then you looked cool like you must have had the glow cuz that's cool I don't know they wouldn't hire me they would hire my but I was black so they kept putting me in the back so I didn't get to see many oh yeah they were racist that was the
8:31 thing like all the black people were in the back and I was like wait a minute they would put me in the floor go fold clothes over there first of all I did work for ABI in the back I wasn't allowed on the floor I was Stu yeah you weren't allowed on the floor either yeah well I was that was the job stock you're ref ████ of the of the store just like whereas Asians are meant by the laundry room oh you were just steaming clothes Asians are me to opium selling opum Latinos got you beat I've never smelled the Latino that didn't smell like tide they took the they took our jobs they took yo before the Latinos came they did yo strawberry picking that was Japanese okay you guys didn't want to do it no more gardening that was Japanese you guys quit construction that was Japanese again got
9:22 too good for it I well stick to video games in porno yeah yeah we're better at that Japanese board is always censored though yeah pixel you click uncensored uncensored you click en I'm not a ████ it I think the reason people were asking specifically with you is because they thought you your conversational flow was so natural and that was a real compliment that you go to the comments of any of the videos you on and that's what they're saying about you wow yeah and if you've never heard that before then I mean that's what people do like how do you get high social IQ like ta How do talk like her like how do I speak like her been in a lot of situations with a lot of different kinds of people so like I know like I've had some really weird ████ happen to me um like I talked about working at the bank last time I was here one time bro like you want to talk about
10:14 awkward people like old people are so ████ it they've lost it like I swear to God one time I'm sitting at my desk with some clients and I'm I don't know what we're doing business this old man unprovoked walks up to me he goes here you go buddy and he Pats me on the head like a dog and then he gives me a a gold coin with Ronald Reagan's face on it I was like this has to be a hate crime this this is this what denomination coin is that it was a dollar coin with Ron Reagan face on it expensive as check the value I don't know what I did with it I think I just what if it was $2 million that would have been crazy and I ████ lost out uh is it $700 what w or is it $4.95 it could be any of $3,000 oh my god oh I
11:04 should have kept that ████ ████ I was so mad at the situation that I couldn't see past the value oh my God it could be worth anything yeah there's 35 there's some people are selling it for over $500 1500 yeah he's got so much dementia that coin what if he thought getting on the head unprovoked like no conversation especially by old dude yes did he rub it in a little bit he literally went condescending that is so he thought that he was at the bar you can condescend me all you want if you give me a $500 coin you can spit on me if you like yeah but hey ching chong take this but thank you you you know it really uh it really helped me when I had a a a job that paid commission only yeah cuz you're forced to do it or you don't get paid anything for real oh like Insurance well I did
11:54 the uh it was in 2001 and I did the mall kiosk cell phone sales you ever seen that I'm trying to remember they outlawed them basically but like in the middle of the mall in the early 2000s they'll have these kiosks where like let's say you like Verizon T-Mobile whatever and uh this is back when not everyone even had cell phones and you just had to stand there in the middle and as people were shopping and passing by you you would just go hey you got a cell phone and then yeah they would walk up to you go let me get one cell phone man come here what do you got startat calling and if they already have one then you tell them why you they should get one that's better with better coverage with better minutes and then you just try to sell them and if they don't then you just explain like how can you not have a phone at this time and if they're an adult you explain why their kids should have one and you if you don't sell anything you get nothing you you can
12:45 work for two weeks with zero if you sell a phone and you don't even have to actually sell it you just got to get them a sign and if you turn in the sign sheet it's $49 that you get paid per person that signs oh sick yeah that's illegal as ████ that should be illegal they don't do that anymore they made it illegal to even you can't even speak to people until they talk to you CU that's like soliciting maybe or it made the mall unwalkable people solicitor when I was selling like baseball tickets and stuff like businesses to business in a suit in 200 ████ you sold baseball tickets yeah that's why that's how I got my first dog because like I ended up it was all commission too and we used to do these Dodgers coupon books and then one time I went to Home Depot cuz at the end of the day you're trying to get last minute sales and you're like where's foot traffic so you go go to the parking lot Home Depot and I was at Riverside this Mexican dude was selling ████ Chihuahua out of the back of his truck
13:35 that's tight and then I was like I was like waa this guy's got dogs I was like you selling this and I was just a curious boy I was like how much he's like 150 bucks and I was like damn that's crazy and then I was like I saw the sticker on his car and it's a Dodgers right cuz you know that's how it is out here I was like you a Dodgers fan he's like he's like yeah why you got tickets wait was he holding a Chihuahua yeah he's holding a Chihuahua I was like I was he's like yeah why I was like yeah I got tickets and then I just thought it was a really good story so I ████ I was like let's go and I showed them the thing and then we traded and then I took that that dog home I named it Dei for Dodger Dog but then the funny thing is like I just was looking for a good story but then like 15 minutes later when like my sensed had come to me and there was a dog in my backseat like crying and stuff I called my sister and I was like I think I ████ up like what I was like I had I
14:25 have a dog now what do I do he's like I got a girl pregnant no I got a dog so that was my chihuahua I had a dog you kept it or you gave it I kept it oh yeah what happened to the dog now passed away pass I gave I gave her to my mom eventually yeah uh and like brought my mom so much life brought my dad so much anguish but uh but it was when I was in China in 2014 I got the saddest call of like just like no not even old just like a a liver or kidney problem she passed away away at age like five ████ was there I wasn't there and I I hated life yeah RP DD yeah DD but I traded Dodger tickets for and same thing if you if I didn't sell anything you would go you go back to the office and You' would
15:15 have nothing how much was the ticket worth so you'd sell the certificate for like 50 bucks but you would there would be like two automatic free tickets for like the outside seats like all at Dodger Stadium and then you also have like 50% off tickets for like the rest of the season certain days so you just gave it to them yeah I just traded that commission based jobs work because you have to figure out someone else's communication style and you got to adapt on the spot so it's not even about how you talk it's like more about how they speak and I think that broadens your like whole communication it does and and when it comes to sales too like you they gamified it the way you would train there they would just be like talk to 200 people a day if you talk to 200 people a day on average you're going to get 10 people down to buy your stuff if you walk yeah if you walk up to somebody and they're like they're not about your energy don't worry about him just move on to the next person otherwise like crap but like that taught me so much
16:05 about like how people are it also made me kind of like ████ up in the head socially for a little bit because like everybody had a dollar sign on their forehead and if you didn't have a dollar sign like you were a waste of my time but like that teaches you so much about like how to interact how to like read people like what gets people ticking how to like how to get people like you would always grab somebody's business card and you'd be like yeah yeah Johnny down the street over here at Big O tius and he bought like three of them cuz you know that they might buy it if they thought somebody else did so you just be lying to people all the time professional con artist that's great SCH that's why I was never good at sales cuz I'm so bad at lying you could tell on my face I get like a crooked smile it's bad I Tails like a ████ I did try to get a couple sales jobs and I was just like they're like oh but why do I need it I'm like well you don't need it immediately fired I was not good at
16:56 those jobs are you bad at covering for friends then like if they're like don't tell the cops I'm here I I don't have friends that need that but I probably would be probably would be but yeah I think that is that is probably the best advice is telling them to get a job get a job whatever you're not good at immerse yourself more in that situation have to like get better communication going yeah Join one of those Toast Masters Toast Master I just heard about this I just heard about it's like a speech Club yeah a speech Club yeah yeah it's like they get together and they ████ make a toast and then they they they do like speeches so is it like a drinking Club I don't know maybe they drink an's interested now's like I'm there like I don't need to talk they help each other
17:46 ████ do speeches and all that and toasts and it's like I didn't I found out what that was through a friend of mine that did it and she actually became like a really successful business woman through that cuz of the network cuz the network yeah it's like not just the networking but the ability to speak like she just became like a wizard at like making network connections wow outside of that the way that she like talks and stuff do it dude I'm going be obnoxious with the toast man I already sound like an idiot I'll be like I'd like to make a toast you bring your own goblet I'd like to make a everywhere you go here here they like Joe you just went you can't do it again like it's so inappropriate everywhere he goes but why is it all Shakespearean like your not reg not even alcohol in your goblet I don't know more wine I just want to get
18:36 Joe it's Wednesday meetings are on Thursdays go home the idea too of like relishing in whatever awkwardness you do have like don't lose that charm either yeah that's great yeah but if you're awkward and you consistently overstep boundaries and you ████ are annoying dude I'll grab both of it and back hand and go bot like a scissor man yeah you know where you have those like random awkward situations like uh I just like sit in it now if like someone's like oh yeah you know you buy something and then they're like oh enjoy and you're like you too just ████ go with it you know ████ weirdo fan ████ weirdo was like Hey man Joe not to be weird I was like you're already being too ████ weird like way before this that is ████ weird he wait what's the rest of it what
19:28 did he say we were at we were at a cafe and this fan went up to him and we were all there he start FaceTiming his friend and all this fan just started talking to him and he literally has no qualms about telling a person like right away that they're being weird and it was so wasn't he talking about like religion or something right off the bat actually really don't start there tell he not to be weird and anything but like whatever but he was being so weird already that I was like n this is ████ weird it's a th% weird get the ████ out of here sh that not that's not any new information for her oh oh I forgot to be honest I forgot maybe you could tell the story this guy walked up this guy walked up to us and he goes like Joe what's up man Joe's like hey huh and then he's like yeah remember me I was in the truck and I said hi to you that one time remember he's like I W you oh yeah and I was like why the ████ would I remember that why
20:19 the ████ would I remember that and then but then the guy was like unfaced by that like he didn't read the room that that was like weird so he just kept talking that's how you know he is weird yeah cuz that's would have been immediate like oh out back out already you're not reading you say like yeah but not to be weird or anything and he wanted to talk about Jesus Christ and stuff yeah he just kept getting close to you talking and then and then he randomly was like hey can I just want to talk to you a little bit like would you be willing to accept Jesus Christ into your life right now like randomly randomly right now and he was like JJ like in the middle of eating yeah we're like about to sit down and eat and he's like he's like hey I'm going to be honest you're being really ████ weird right now and then his homie called him I love that and then Joe tells the homie like hey man your friend is being ████ weird so he's telling everybody so that
21:10 guy that guy calls on face boundaries bro that's lit he calls his own friend on FaceTime and goes yo I'm with Joe right now and Joe gets the phone hey your homie is being really ████ weird and he like tries to get all close to stuff and Joe has to like push him off like yo was really really odd was restraining myself that's like total unawareness though but that's the backhand kind of awkward that's not you that's not you guys don't do that yeah yeah that's not you guys that's a social unawareness there a lack of cues you can't read like I'll do the pepper steak fries you said the uh orange lemonade the orange iced tea is good yeah my family's pretty awkward I got an awkward family cuz they don't like have friends that's such a horrible thing they don't they don't no they have friends but like not really no my mom is
22:01 like so awkward she doesn't know that she's doing it though she's so cute but like she gets away with it cuz she's like cute and little Asian so people don't think it's weird but I think it's weird so like she'll talk to somebody right and I think it's like usually a um like a language barrier thing so if she doesn't understand what you're saying she'll like lean in like really close and she'll keep going I've had to pull her physically back from people cuz they're like yeah cuz they're like this and they don't know what to do cuz she's coming so close is she coming in for for a kid just cuz she can't understand yeah what if she's trying to read lips too I canot understand but the oh this sounds like a that word is that is that a Japanese thing to do that no that's not Japanese to lean in no it's not I feel like Japanese like stay stays far away like like maintain distance right damn so
22:53 hand shaking we bow yeah yeah right yeah what Japanese people do is they'll make hella ████ sounds while you're talking yeah they'll be like oh yeah I catch myself doing that all the they'll be hyp Manning your conversation you it's in your DNA dude yeah yeah yeah I literally had a thing with like like I don't know if you're like this with food but like when I'm eating food and it's good I'm constantly like so good and I had I was like dating one person you're like why the ████ do you do that and I was like do what I had no idea no awareness of this until I went back out I went to dinner with my family and it's just all three of us going and I was like oh my God this us it's it's genetic that's got to look so
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