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Off The Record: Do You Change Anything When You Walk Past Women?

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0:00 [Music] do you guys watch uh ABA and preach he like sometimes yeah they're ████ great they're great so they had they had this like um interesting talk they were like discussing what it's like when as a guy like when you walk past like a woman that's by herself like let's say on the street or anywhere do you change anything about how you like to make her not feel threatened I try to I try to put my phone in my hand on this I'm not kidding when I say this on whatever side is coming to her I put my phone in my hand almost like hey I couldn't attack you and she's like why are you recording me if it's ni if it's night time no I look her up up and down up and down and up and down like yeah I go I go stupid and that makes her feel not threaten you start whistling well she knows that I am

0:50 giving her attention and I am honoring her presence okay so I'm giving her the space to exist I get two mirrors and I glue it to the top of my shoes yeah and try to go like this yooo underneath there she's wearing a jumpsuit how about you tall ass Anthony dude I'm the one who's under threat of getting beat up man I try to oh yeah it's like putting your belly up being like I'm the victim here you and then they feel rela safe and secure but honestly I do try to move away try to make sure she feels safe though I try to walk I try to get I walk really fast behind them so I get in front yeah and then I just walk and then when they're right when they're next to you're okay right when they're next to you you put your we didn't ask you as soon as they're next to you you put your hips up Glides that ass

1:44 R hey this guy gets it that's what I do on airplane flights I purposely sit on the aisle and when the girl has to go yeah come come sorry sorry yeah can I get a little more space yeah that's right there all right dude you can sit down yeah and then after if there's that empty seat then I unbuckle my seat Bel this one even say anything he goes to the middle I prefer the middle and he just widen he up have you ever like had a situation where you you noticed somebody like switched to the other side of walking to like get farther away from you I've seen ladies like clutch their purses when I walk by them really why because you're Aladdin like what are you if she's across the street and I'm walking this way she walks to me and and tries to talk to me that makes s she's like yo what's up she hits on what does

2:35 she usually say Joe hiachi I'm lying she like what that's it she says I'm white I'm lying lying he admitted to lying I when I'm when I'm walking on the street like with nah yeah uh and then there's like another stranger on the other side obviously a dude she immediately will come to my other side or I will have to so she you'll be like the and it's just like the rule in La we're really used to that cuz every other person you pass is a crazy homeless guy yelling so you always have to like be the buffer yeah it's probably just an LA train thing it's like subconscious La is ████ crazy though cuz like even when I'm like jogging around if I'm in downtown like if I pass someone that looks crazy I immediately go to the other side of the road and I turn around and see if they kind of like

3:26 busted a year just cuz La is full of crazy and you're just getting yelled at anyway so it's like yeah you got to have your head on a slow water you kind of see when you live in the city though you know who's like there and who's not you you see guys ████ dude one time I was walking just like to I used to live right by this Mexican restaurant and they made bomb tacos I was walking right there one time and then I'm just walking there it was like 7:00 at night and then I'm walking by this guy completely normal looking dude and all of a sudden he just goes and I was like what the ████ yeah that's crazy yeah you just don't know yeah I don't trust anybody man it's funny cuz like uh I can't I can't forget who it was that did this but it was really genius so like uh I've been preached they're both black so their experience with this is probably a lot different than you know guys like me or something but uh this this one black dude on Instagram was pointing out if you want to look nonthreatening to

4:17 people he said he was like talking to other black guys it's like just hold the Starbucks cup he said that immediately makes you look like you're not a threat dude Patagonia vest oh yeah oh yeah and you know honestly phone sometimes helps like you got some like airpods or something but not the big ones the little ones he got like he got like a group of like four black dudes and they all got together hoing cups and it does look really like oh what do you think what do you think that is like oh they're real estate agents I think it's like I don't know something about if you go to Starbucks you're just like kind of like a more of a neutered individual you're not really like I feel like when you're sipping on a drink you're not very threatening yeah unless it's a beer can that ████ crazy round bag and it's 11 but if you have like one of those Apple Store lanyards I think you're good you could yeah dude you could take the

5:07 hardest looking guy who like just got out of prison you put a ████ Apple lanyard on one of those like t-shirts with the Apple logo oh he's a hipster or you wearing like Lululemon well yeah do W do you guys wear that specifically or aloe or some ████ any of the high-end Fitness stuff if you're like wearing that you're like not a threat that's true cuz it looks so like streamlined I think we're giving advice to people who are threats and how they want to look not suspecting oh yeah we should probably BR bring it in but yeah it is a it is an interesting thing that like you kind of live with that I feel like social normaly where like if if there's a woman that shows a clear sign of like uncomfortability at a distance and like adjusts to your path you accept it you're not like and I expect them to yeah like cuz at the end

5:57 of the day it's better safe than sorry I don't take it personal if they do walk across the street or they just are staring at me and like I don't give a ████ I'm just like at the end of the day I can kill you and you can't kill me are you are you guys that same way when it comes to other groups of guys for other groups of guys I'm the one walking across the street for sure when I see a dude I cuz I got we had a bunch of um car robberies in my old apartment uh every every time now I see a guy cuz we also saw the camera footage every time I see a guy with a backpack on now and it's nowhere near School I'm like you're a ████ thief you're a car thief I I just I just had an incident recently um I woke up went to the gym in uh Hawaii and I was passing by the city hall area and sometimes there's like junkies out and then this one guy was just smoking a cigarette and wandering around kind of

6:47 wobbling right and I was like ████ well there's a major Street and it's hard to just cross those it's one of those like multiple Lane ones busy streets so I was like all right ████ I just got to walk around this guy and then as soon like he's just smoking his cigarette as soon as I walk by talking to himself talking to me whatever whatever and then I'm walking and then like you know I have to look over my shoulder I have to make it obvious cuz like I'm not going to be like well I don't want to hurt his feeling I don't want to be play yeah well he said what's up to me so I just looked at him and I just kept walking and and then he's like talking to himself and then he goes I see you looking back I see you looking you're looking back at me yeah you want to fight you want to to fight me and he's like walking like and I'm on the phone with my cousin I'm like hold on and I like look and I turned around I'm like

7:37 what the ████ is this guy doing cuz I don't like people standing behind me and he just kicks this like traffic cone and he starts fighting with like a pole and ████ and I'm just like dude if I was a lady like I think he'd be not afraid to attack me oh yeah for sure and so I'm just staring at this guy and I'm like like between like this kind of distance and I'm just like what the ████ is this guy doing good thing you you look like like a guy from behind I know I didn't have my hair down did you guys see that video of uh the dude in New York it was like 3:00 a.m. he's walking with his wife he was like a big he would organize protesters for like the BLM organization or whatever he's walking down the street and there's a black dude he has a knife and he's just breaking ████ in the street he's like he's he's going through an episode or something like he's manic or something right and the dude with this girl is at 3:00 a.m. they're on the

8:28 same street they're walking he does decide to cross the street he stays on the same sidewalk and he keeps walking I saw this and the guy goes up trying to attack his girl tries to stab him and he's walking up to the guy with a knife trying to stab him the guy trips on a ████ bench falls on the ground the guy goes on top of him stabs him kills him oh my God all because he didn't cross the street why didn't he cross the street polite boy he want to be he want to be a nice guy he was an activist he's an activist he was an activist oh so he was like I'm not racist yeah let me walk into ████ a night wielding man Lally just going crazy close to him I think it was that thing too where like you know when um when when this happens to activists they even see that as a chance to go we don't want to prosecute we want him to like be free it's not his fault I think that's what happened after that

9:18 didn't it yeah I think so I had a girl I had a girlfriend her mom her mom used to tell her and me this story about how she was like at a mall one time and she noticed this guy kept on every time she turned around this guy was like looking at and then she's started getting that weirdo feeling right and instead of doing the poite thing she started to hurriedly walk towards like the parking garage and once she got in the parking guardar she started running and then that guy started running right after her and she got in the car and like literally just hits the lock at the same time he grabs the handle and like and she got away because of it but that's the only reason she made it is cuz she wasn't ████ play yeah that same day that the the crackhead wanted to fight me Hannah was like a block away getting coffee right and she told me that she was waiting and this guy was like um do you see that bag with like camera equipment and all that and she's like

10:08 why you talking to me like what the ████ and then so she think she just felt like this guy was trying to get her to look cuz like oh was over there it was over there to so she would go this way and he would grab so she said that instead of doing that she just looked straight at him and just said I'm I'm not going anywhere but like I don't know where your cameras are or whatever he goes oh I lost my camera do you know where the security is and then she just like something was so off it just felt like he was trying to get me to like help him find it or whatever and she was I don't want to talk to him but like I was like sitting there and then so she's like well I didn't want to get up and move and not turn him so she just stared at them the whole time and then she was just like I don't I don't know what that is I'm not going there whatever and then she was like yeah if I didn't stare at him and like like I think if I turned around he probably would have grabbed my

10:58 bag and ran cuz she had those kind of feelings dude yeah but I'm like that's the whole thing of like if you're not street smart if you're too polite you're just like if that guy's like hey is that the security guard it's like don't ████ ask me go go go ████ talk to him yourself I don't know you know like that's always a thing Nikki told me she she I think her and a lot of girls they have to sometimes smile at dudes to like almost disarm the situation for real for so they they do that smile thing but then the guy thinks that they're interested after that and sometimes that happens too and then she says that sometimes she has to like make out with a random guy because like she's super nervous about it or whatever and like sometimes they go home together and like you know they do stuff because she feels scared and threatened like I'm like that's fine babe it's more like um that's like a it's like a it's like a

11:48 attack before you get attacked exactly exactly you're diffusing them yeah diffusing the situation I think deescalation I think that's a funny thing too for like a lot of it sucks that like girls have to live like that all the time yeah yeah and obviously like I don't think we should be offended if they ████ think that like oh I'd rather Play Safe and go always do the the cheesiest like uh most platonic smile in a wave just let them know like if we're that's terrifying like just let know I'm okay I'm not going to hit on you but I'm a friendly and I I move out the way and then they're like there's this crazy guy right he keeps smiling at me I'm friendly I'm a friendly like we're playing a ████ game PVP same team same team yeah the funny thing is that like I think a lot of the time uh people don't realize that guys deal with that from other guys since you are a child like as a kid when you go out on

12:38 your bike other guys are going to ████ with you like it's nonstop like so we're also trained to have that like I don't want to be polite I just want to get the ████ out of this situation you know because there's times when you are polite and then you get ████ over Dude legit yeah absolutely it's almost like we have the same ████ problem cuz dudes be smoking each other too all the time yeah or even if you pull up into like a gas station sometimes in like a like a bad shady area and there's like those weird guys are just lingering around too right you know you just don't know so I always still do the thing yeah and then uh you wave to like groups of guys that are at the gas station always yeah I just always do it um cuz I think bark can like deadlift them so cuz what I'm looking for is a reaction too some either I let them know I have like if there's like the weird guy with the backpack by me going like this I let

13:29 them know if he was a perpetrator yeah I see you have eyes on you even if I have weird eyes but I have eyes on you and a lot of them are just kind of like you just like I'm oh ████ I was being ████ prejudiced again I thought you were going to rob me but then I go inside and buy a ████ Twix or whatever but I I usually just let people know cuz then most crimes I think are uh prevented if you just let them know like I see you you know like most most altercations yeah big awareness yeah yeah yeah even guys are like I can't wait to sneak up on this guy and ████ rob this ████ if you're like if you just have a guy that's really watchful they're already like ████ solid yeah I'll ████ pick someone else that works too I do that I do the ND up you got to do the down nod you can't do the up nod I see somebody I go cuz people that like avoid the eye contact if they're just like I'm just going to go inside this place look so ████ scary yeah you also give off prey Vibes too

14:20 and you want to bully that guy that's true you know so it's just it's just way easier just to like Hey Bully that guy hey buy me hey buy me this gun real quick buy me that just see that's true see what I had a standoff with a tweaker at the park I was working out and um at the park standoff you guys are just like this no like I was working out at the at the park at the pullup benches all that pull up at the alamana Park yeah and then um I have my fanny pack and I just hung it on one of the monkey bars so as I was like going around this tweaker started hovering around like bro I know exactly what the ████ you're doing like you're getting closer and closer to see if you could grab that ████ right so so like when he was like a foot away I just ran up and I just went like this and I was staring at him and then he was like that's tight you started doing Kung

15:11 Fu what was your counter what did you do I was like go get out of here and then he went and he walked away it reminds me of the that yeah makes me I am no longer your master go I literally shoot him like a pigeon I was like go go get out of here have you guys seen the meme of of Bane going like this and then that guy in the ████ pink clown suit like doing that on the opposite side where their legs are like his legs like crossed yeah his legs are crossed it's ████ Joi is that like filthy Frank oh yeah I think yeah like this I I rather deal with a um actual Thief than a crazy person though like crazy people actually scare the ████ out of me cuz it's so unpredictable dud right yeah like I don't know if they're going to bite me or like they think I'm the devil there's no reasoning like a thief you get they

16:02 just want money the wall they're just going to do their thing right but like yeah like when I run into Tweakers and like they're just like having their moments and they're not in this world and they're talking to themselves I'm just like ████ dude like I don't know what the what's going to happen next like some of them might not have any fear they might be like God told me to kill you you know and they'll fight to their death true yeah it could be something totally Looney dude if they really believe God told them to kill me that's ████ yeah I'm dead I'm dude well dude the the MMA guys who always talk about how if they're at a bar or something there's always drunk guys who are like hey you want to ████ fight you I got I got skills and ████ yeah think about that see those guys get laid out though is like kind of TI but think about that though you made yourself a fighter you built your body up all this ████ like to look intimidating and then people want to attack you more because of it holy

16:53 stupid it's like you're more of a magnet now yeah do you ever get that Nick happening when I was walking my dog some some drunk guy came up to me yeah but see you're dealing with crazy you're not dealing with a I think he has a 9 five that guy he I see him consistent do you remember the old thing where people would ask you for a light back in like the ████ and that was always the clear sign that you were about to get jacked you remember that ████ really yeah you got lighter and it's like they you reach in your pocket or whatever and they start yeah and even in movies that's how they it was a stereotype and the guns yeah there's always like a thing that happened to me I think it was like El like way back in the day I had to go to a prayer at like this lady's house and then I it was a badass neighborhood and then I was parked and right when I parked and opened my door there was this ████ like hood ass cholo guy right there and he was like what are you doing here and I was like oh I'm I'm here for

17:45 a and before I could answer he's like you have a light and I was like oh ████ I'm dead and then I was like I was in my Civic which doesn't have um it's it's like not the kind that you has a cigarette lighter there it's a cigarette lighter but the car has to be it's like weird it's like the it's not the yeah it's not the kind that like is the old school push it it gets H so then like uh I I went to look at it and then I looked back and then he had like juked a little and I was like oh ████ I'm going to get jacked so I was like I stayed looking at him and I tried to find it with my hand and then I flipped that thing open and I was like it's not the kind that has the the thing it's like the newer one and he was like oh okay but why are you here and I was like I have I have a prayer with your with your neighbor uh Alicia I was like trying to be all nice and he's like oh okay that's cool that's cool then and I was like these guys are probably about to ████ kill my lights

18:35 next to my AK-47 yeah I tried to like prayer boy Jesus Christ it was literally it was like she was like went to we were in the same prayer group so it's like I had to go there but she didn't say that she lived in the ████ GH like that well he could have been a paranoid like hey where you from F yeah yeah but just to see him like go like this like that he was about to like do something when I looked away is ████ terrifying my advice to everyone guys or girls or senior citizens if you're in a bad area make as much eye contact as possible cuz I think a lot of times people are like oh if I just get in and out of the situation it's good but then you actually become the target yeah that's true so like girls or guys it's like they don't just when you just go through the alley like this after you come out of the club it's no good like even if you're scared as ████ giving eye contact

19:25 is like the first deter don't stare cuz then they'll get mad too but like let people be know that I am watching be like Bart said eye contact don't don't look too quick either because that's also very very pray like perfect amount of time I feel like there's no real way out of like you know that you see it in public a lot especially if you back when you were like going out to parties and clubs this formula of like what's up girl and then no response and then what the ████ what you think it's too good for me like that ████ is crazy you there's what do you do cuz you know you feel rejected you feel hurt ████ stupid you're like I like you I really like you I'm saying something to you I'm talking to you I'm trying to get your attention this is a sign of love I might even love you one day yeah like you're not going to you can't say hi you can't even be great we could be great you're just going to look at the

20:15 ground I don't know that just you you ain't even that hot anyway yeah you're a ████ ugly ████ ████ is what they say now you're getting closer to me I think now you're ugly so what's your advice to the guy then the guy yeah don't put out there unless you know man yeah you drop all your heart dude it hurts dude wait for the one wait for the one yeah you can't you can't you never found your you never find your wife we could be great we could be great you never find your wife yelling at the girls that's actually so much better than like hey baby all ████ we could we could be great yeah it's so ████ neutered you have to be you have to have a more specific compliment if you are if you're trying to cat call it has to be something specific that you think that the girl might no but it's like what does he do once he's already mad is what I'm saying like when he's mad yeah the

21:05 cat call already failed she wasn't responding she just kept walking like this said let me smell that ass yeah well ████ you then that's a good one you always do that turn around kick some rocks kick some rocks and walk away what do you do if if if it's a guy trying to hit on you as a guy and he's having this same thing the same thing that girls go through happening to you what do you do if if a guy's hitting on me I'll kind of like I I'll Flo back a little bit bite your lip and what if he's like I feel like you ain't even gay you're fronting and I'll be like I'm not gay but like thank you I'll say that and he goes I can make you gay and I'll be like I don't think you can but I don't think so I've tried I'll say something like that all time yeah yeah like well ████ you then yeah ████ you I'm like I'm like you you know I'm cute no walk away you I know you think I'm cute it's good what the hell you ain't lying yeah you just got to play the games yo you got to play the games there was this guy at the

21:55 front desk that this gamm I used to go to and he was like he was this black dude that was clearly into the Asian guys and he'd always be like and he was like really in the anime too and ████ you know uh and he would like always try to talk to me and like flirt with me and ████ but he was like such a nice guy he like oh Nick you are just so you know you're just so cute walking sometimes that's just a compliment it's not like but then he he would he was like you know like kind of touch me and ████ you want to come over and watch Cowboy bpop yeah no I'll be like but he knew I was a little g a little gay he knew I was a little gay he knew he knew I would have cold feet though he trying to turn you dude he knew he knew like I wouldn't yeah I I'd ████ out

22:50 eventually

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