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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, So BuzzFeed is one of my favorite websites
- 0:03Speaker 1: to go to, and they got something that's trending right
- 0:05Speaker 1: now and causing a little bit of fun. They ask
- 0:09Speaker 1: people to share the most baffling words of wisdom they've
- 0:13Speaker 1: ever received, like essentially unhelpful advice. So I'm gonna go
- 0:18Speaker 1: over this list, but also want to hear from you
- 0:20Speaker 1: eight seven seven nine three seven one oh four seven.
- 0:23Speaker 1: We want to hear some of the I guess worst
- 0:26Speaker 1: advice I ever got, unhelpful advice, like, hey, less than
- 0:31Speaker 1: three cigarettes a day and you're.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Okay, Well it rhymes. Let's be helpful.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Don't worry about whether you can afford kids. There's never
- 0:40Speaker 1: a perfect time. I've heard that many many times. Spend
- 0:45Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars on your wedding, because that's what people do.
- 0:50Speaker 1: If you, guys, have any unhelpful advice eight seven seven
- 0:53Speaker 1: ninety three seven one four seven anybody ever giving you
- 0:55Speaker 1: guys unhelped.
- 0:56Speaker 3: Yeah, I got some pretty unhelpful advice from John j
- 0:58Speaker 3: Once for me. Yeah, well, Kyle, I'm glad you asked.
- 1:01Speaker 2: John.
- 1:02Speaker 3: Jay and I were at this volleyball tournament. I believe
- 1:05Speaker 3: it was the Crocs. One yes, and the owner of Crocs,
- 1:09Speaker 3: they just came out and he said, you know, we
- 1:12Speaker 3: talked and we were like laughing, we're having a good time.
- 1:14Speaker 3: And the owner of Crocs like, I'm just getting started.
- 1:16Speaker 3: If you guys just put in a little bit of money,
- 1:18Speaker 3: I'll make you part owner of Crocs. And so we
- 1:21Speaker 3: walk away and John Jay's like, nobody's gonna everwear like
- 1:29Speaker 3: it might like it might be a good sports thing.
- 1:31Speaker 3: Maybe they will like after they get off the sand.
- 1:34Speaker 3: Maybe it's a really good thing for He's like, no,
- 1:36Speaker 3: those are ridiculous. Do not waste your money on a
- 1:39Speaker 3: Crock investment financial rocket.
- 1:43Speaker 2: I've learned not to take financial advice to me. You've learned.
- 1:46Speaker 1: I've learned to not take it for myself. Whenever I
- 1:48Speaker 1: want to do something, now, I don't do it. Why
- 1:50Speaker 1: I had to close two pizza places?
- 1:52Speaker 2: We could have been Kroc Kingpins, all right?
- 1:54Speaker 1: Unhelpful advice eight seven seven nine three seven one o
- 1:57Speaker 1: four seven. If you're short on rent, just ask the
- 2:01Speaker 1: landlord to lower.
- 2:01Speaker 2: It for a while. That's yeah, that's what I'm saying.
- 2:05Speaker 2: That's not going to happen.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Just out, Okay, this is really bad. Advice This next one.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Find someone you can tolerate. Start a family and you'll
- 2:15Speaker 1: eventually fall in love.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Like you just gotta get along. It doesn't matter if
- 2:22Speaker 3: you're in love. Basically, start a family and you'll eventually
- 2:24Speaker 3: fall in love.
- 2:25Speaker 2: Terrible advice.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're starting a company, it says here start
- 2:30Speaker 1: change your startups name so it starts with an A
- 2:33Speaker 1: and appears first in the phone book.
- 2:35Speaker 2: Yeah, who looks at a phone book?
- 2:37Speaker 1: If you got to start up, you're probably not on
- 2:38Speaker 1: the phone unless your startup is the phone book. Buy
- 2:43Speaker 1: a starter home in an expensive part of town. These
- 2:47Speaker 1: are all bad advice.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't like that either.
- 2:51Speaker 1: Walk into a business, hand the manager your resume and
- 2:54Speaker 1: you will get hired.
- 2:57Speaker 4: I don't know, but it works that way.
- 2:59Speaker 3: Somebody told Joe that he should go offer to work
- 3:01Speaker 3: for free for somebody for a week, and then after
- 3:04Speaker 3: a week they'll be like, well I need to hire you.
- 3:05Speaker 3: He's like, nobody lets you do that. Hr all that stuff.
- 3:08Speaker 3: Nobody's gonna let somebody just work for free anymore.
- 3:11Speaker 4: Yeah, that is not outside that.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Jenny, you got unhelpful advice, Yes, I did.
- 3:16Speaker 5: I got her from my ex grandmother when my ex
- 3:21Speaker 5: would go out and not come back to the next day.
- 3:24Speaker 5: She told me, when you're married, you should be the blind.
- 3:29Speaker 5: And in other words, you don't have no say in
- 3:32Speaker 5: whatever he does from the door out is none of
- 3:35Speaker 5: our business. And whatever as long as he treats me
- 3:38Speaker 5: out in our home, that's what That's the ice I got.
- 3:42Speaker 5: And that was kind of shocked and mortified.
- 3:44Speaker 2: I don't understand.
- 3:46Speaker 3: So don't don't pay attention to whatever he does outside
- 3:48Speaker 3: of the house.
- 3:49Speaker 2: None of your business.
- 3:52Speaker 5: Yeah, well, in other words, what you know once he
- 3:54Speaker 5: steps outside the door of our home, whatever he does,
- 3:58Speaker 5: I have no sake, like I should be blind.
- 4:01Speaker 6: And yes, yes, John, great advice from grandma.
- 4:19Speaker 4: Not my grandmother, his grandmother, Christina, you got unhelpful advice.
- 4:27Speaker 6: Yes.
- 4:29Speaker 7: I was nineteen, so a little immature, and my friend
- 4:33Speaker 7: had told me if I'm ever out of oil to fry,
- 4:38Speaker 7: I was brying some food and if I'm ever out
- 4:41Speaker 7: of oil, I can just add some water. So that
- 4:43Speaker 7: was always stuck in the back.
- 4:44Speaker 6: Of my head.
- 4:45Speaker 7: I didn't know. I still haven't spoken to her about that,
- 4:50Speaker 7: so I don't know if she was ever joking. I
- 4:53Speaker 7: think she was. That's probably why I haven't brought it
- 4:55Speaker 7: up to her because it's a little embarrassing. But it exploded.
- 5:00Speaker 7: I had like a robe on and it got all
- 5:05Speaker 7: over my back, burned through my robe. I immediately threw
- 5:09Speaker 7: my robe off. I immediately tried to unplug it from
- 5:13Speaker 7: the wall. It was still, I mean, exploding out of
- 5:18Speaker 7: the friar, very scary, and my mom. My mom was
- 5:25Speaker 7: so frugal. I told her what happened. She was immediately
- 5:28Speaker 7: coming over to make sure I was okay, And she
- 5:33Speaker 7: went into the dumpster to get this friar because it
- 5:37Speaker 7: was brand new and super expensive, and she cleaned it
- 5:43Speaker 7: out and gave it to my aunt. But I wanted
- 5:45Speaker 7: nothing to do with that.
- 5:46Speaker 2: Friar after that. Who gave you that advice?
- 5:51Speaker 7: That was my friend. She's actually an r and at
- 5:55Speaker 7: at like an emergency room in Kentucky, so that advice
- 5:59Speaker 7: came from her Kentucky.
- 6:01Speaker 2: I get it. Okay, thanks so far, Paul.
- 6:09Speaker 1: You got unhelpful advice from someone, Paul.
- 6:15Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I used to tell my friends who were dating.
- 6:20Speaker 7: I said, every woman over forty have issues.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Just find the ones who's issues you can live with. Yeah, oh,
- 6:27Speaker 2: that's advice from you, not a pessimists.
- 6:32Speaker 6: Acknowledging his own advice.
- 6:34Speaker 2: It's so terrible, but people all the time, we got it.
- 6:36Speaker 1: Posted on our Facebook, Douglas says, don't be afraid to
- 6:39Speaker 1: fart when you pee.
- 6:40Speaker 2: There's never lightning without thunder. Oh my god, gambling laws people.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Jocelyn on our Facebook says advice that she got stay fat,
- 6:52Speaker 1: you'll keep looking young.
- 6:55Speaker 2: Why so if you have a round her face, it
- 6:57Speaker 2: doesn't I.
- 6:58Speaker 4: Feel like there is something to that, because like when
- 7:03Speaker 4: you see like a like an elderly person, if they're
- 7:07Speaker 4: like withering away, it's sad and they look older. But
- 7:09Speaker 4: then if they're like a little they've got a little
- 7:11Speaker 4: more fluff, I feel like they look a little more
- 7:14Speaker 4: like youthful and joyful.
- 7:15Speaker 3: And like they're literally injecting collagen into our face to
- 7:18Speaker 3: create this.
- 7:20Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:21Speaker 1: Dolly says something about soaking my feet enlistering to remove
- 7:25Speaker 1: all the toxes in my body.
- 7:26Speaker 2: I had cold feet for days. Oh my gosh, I
- 7:29Speaker 2: would have hate that.
- 7:30Speaker 3: It would be so such a weird feeling.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Anyways, Also, just stop going to the movies and you'll
- 7:36Speaker 1: be able to buy a house. That is some of
- 7:39Speaker 1: them today, The helpful advice,