You dislike the stuff that gets uploaded by my fingers clicking upload? Are you just a h8er boi? I say see you l8er, boi. Don't watch the stuff that gets uploaded by my fingers clicking upload anymore. Your dislikes are damaging my good good GOOD reputation. I am a superstar, dear hea
As far as I know America pronounces it differently than basically every other English speaking country so technically we're the ones saying it wrong LOL
I’m only two podcast episodes in and I realized I cannot listen to this while I’m at the office because it’s too difficult to not scream with laughter. I just moved to Kurtistown but I’m already looking at property with a 30-year mortgage. Love u Kurtis
I miss that feeling of being new here lol. I've seen almost all of his videos (only everything 4 years ago and sooner, anything before that still feels like Kurt getting used to UA-cam and I can't stand to cringe through that lol). I'm always waiting in anticipation for another video.... Anyways, I hope you enjoy everything! I recommend you check out his best friends as well (Jacob Sharpe especially, hilarious guy) if you like Kurtis's humor.
On one hand, I'm happy for Megan. Hollywood treated her horribly for years, so it's nice she found some happiness with an other person On the other hand, everything about Mgk makes me vomit.
Sorry I'm not up to date.. can anyone tell me what's so horrible about MGK? I don't really know or heard of him as a celebrity that much where I'm from
@烏龜 Both are horrible people. MGK has said some incredibly racist things about black women (with a biracial daughter too smh). He used racial stereotypes about black women for laughs (as a grown man) and then called a black lady a “n-r bitch” for getting offended. He made gross comments about wanting to date an underaged Kardashian/Jenner (I can’t remember her name, but I’m pretty sure she’s a runway model). When someone pointed out that she was underaged, he said the in the celebrity world, age doesn’t matter as well as praising another celebrity for “dating” a minor. As for Megan, she is a bisexual hypocrite. She has made comments about how bi women who have been with men are “dirty.” Like wtf Megan, you’re also bi and have been with men before. *(She also said that she believes everyone is born bi. Which I don’t agree with and is not a solid reason to dislike someone, but I thought I would just point that out for people. Especially because her reasoning was that everyone is born bi, but society changes that. Which is nonsense because there are people who grow up in homophonic environments and still come out as gay.) So yeah… basically, if you dig further than just surface leather, that ship is sinking with everyone on board. Yikes
kurtis's advice on grief in the advice segment was honestly really genuine and touching. i lost my boyfriend of 3 years to cancer on this day six months ago. it's still hard every day and time might not heal all wounds, but it can make it easier.
Same here, I lost my grandma (first time losing someone close to me ) a few months ago and it kind of took me aback. It still doesn’t at all feel real, and I feel like I’ll go back to her house and see her there doing her new book of word puzzles. Sucks man :/ I hope you’re doing okay.
Hey Kurt! Friendly neighbourhood Canadian highschooler here. They don’t tell us that it’s a snow day because we don’t get them anymore. We literally just continue with classes online.
out here in quebec we have to go back in person, i don’t really agree but it’s not really up to me lol. (also we had a snow day monday 😎) gl with school y’all, i believe in you :D
I’m 20 so I can remember the transition from snow day alerts being on the radio/news to being posted online on the schools’ social media pages. BUT more interestingly, there’s a guy in New Zealand whose whole thing on Twitter is tracking the weather in a small area of mid state New York and giving out predictions for likelihood of closings and delays for schools in that area. so my whole school would just listen for what ben noll, in new zealand, would say about our random small town 400 person school.
Sure but smoking weed can actually lead to more problems depending on the person lol. Probably some of the worst advice honestly. That's like saying "take medication instead of fixing the root cause of the problem".
@@nomoretwitterhandles as someone with autism and extreme anxiety my whole life i would not have been able to even go to the shop by myself if i hadnt started smoking weed. it can be very grounding and calming and helped me get to the stage where i could address the root of the problem so i would say its great advice but obviously its not the same for everyone
@@mayafallon301 I don't think that negates my point. Medication CAN help, but it's not the permanent solution. As you said, it helped you get to the point you were able to address the root. Good advice would be "seek out a medical professional to see if these methods are right for you". Not "lol smoke weed 420". There are lots of people who DON'T need to smoke weed (they smoke it recreationally), and it does more harm than good (can mess up sleep, smoke is still smoke, some people can become reliant on it). In addition to that advice, he should've added "and if you are in the position to seek out a therapist or psychiatrist, please do." Anyways, I'm really proud of you for being able to get through such tough anxiety. I'm the exact same way (though I stray away from things like weed and alcohol etc due to trauma). I hope you can continue living life in the best way possible
when i was in high school they’d just release a mass phone call to parents in the division and say that school is closed. now im in college and they just email us like “pleek dont show up”
Kurtis playing a half second of any of the noises on his soundboard makes me laugh SO hard every time. Pls never stop doing that The air horn is my absolute fucking favorite
when my old school would announce snow days, they’d call us. it was a pre recorded thing and everybody in the county gets a call *that or everybody’s mom is posting about it on facebook*
FOR THE PERSON ASKING ABT COMMITTING EGO DEATH: my first warning is you probably shouldn't do it considering your mental illnesses. as someone who accidentally committed an ego death (also dealt and deals with extreme anxiety), it was terrifying and i will never view reality the same way. i used to be very connected to the world and myself, and it was lovely, but after i went through that ego death i lost myself (my personality, my interests, my mental health progress, etc), i wanted to end my life, i felt paranoid and terrified at every turn, and felt like i shouldn't exist. I'm doing better now, thankfully, but reality will never be the same for me. if you REALLY want to commit an ego death, DONT do it while you're experiencing crippling anxiety and other mental illnesses, OR, if you have a really fantastic support system that can keep you standing afterwards, then it's up to you. the only reason why I'm still alive today is because of my support system after my ego death. it's not fun. in time, it'll lead you to become a better/stronger person, sure, but it's hard and painful and it takes years. it's not an " easy way out", but i wish it was. for me, it only made my struggles worse. i hope you get the chance to read this before deciding, and if you have any other questions about it I'm willing to share :)
@@lyrielswaine7466 it's a little different for everyone I think. But for me, it was a really positive experience where I felt like a small speck of dust floating around the universe. I hope that makes sense lol. I felt really insignificant, like my life was so small and unimportant compared to the vastness of the universe. But in a good way, like in a "life has no meaning cuz it means whatever we want it to" kind of way. For some people it's in the "life has no meaning and everything is terrifying" kind of way. But yeah it's like feeling really small and like nothing really matters but also feeling this strange connection with nature and your surroundings. It helped me realize that a lot of the things i worry about in life don't truly matter. But again, it can go good or bad for anyone it just depends.
To the person who lost their uncle, my heart goes out to you, sending love 💖. I went to grief counseling when my grandma died. She had Alzheimer’s but it still really broke me inside. That was 4 years ago. My counselor told me “we often think our grief shrinks over time, but really we just grow around our grief.” And that really helped me process. You know I’ll always miss her. Sometimes I’ll be going about my day, and something reminds me of her and I’ll cry a bit. But then I continue on with my day. At one point it would just leave me to my bed for days. But I grew around my grief. It didn’t shrink. It’s still there. But I’m “bigger” than it now. If that makes any sense. Much love, take care of yourself and allow yourself to feel however you feel- grief is hard.
on the Ego Death topic, i have not experimented with psychedelics myself, but it is in my field of study and imo "Ego Death" or dissolution can certainly feel very real and have lasting changes on the way a person thinks. there is a lot of research being done about therapeutic uses for these drugs. HOWEVER i think the concept is a bit idealized and people think that if you just take some mushrooms, that you will come out of the experience a whole new, better person and that everyone who uses psychedelics experiences Ego Death. this is not necessarily the case. depending on your setting and substance of choice, it can add to the anxiety of an already anxious person. this isn't medical advice or anything, but i would hope this viewer (if they choose to use psychedelics) does them in a safe space and with a lot of free time. if you have a trusted sober person that could help you during this time, i would also suggest that.
agreed. And if it's specifically to manage anxiety, maybe try microdosing with psilocybin. You can microdose lsd as well I think, but I've not tried it and I'm not sure how available it is in that form in Oregon. I know that in Canada you can basically order it online. It's not regulated, which is good and bad but I've found dosages to be fairly consistent.
HELLO I CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THIS. I have experimented alot with psychedelics and whilst I havent personally had Ego Death happen to me I've seen it happen to my now Ex boyfriend and another very close friend of mine. Dear EgoDeath person. DEAR GOD DON'T DO IT. Whatever you think ego death is, that it'll be a "transcendant" thing that will make life seem small and your anxiety slip away, you are badly mistaken and misunderstanding. Ego death kills all sense of self. You won't be "floating through the cosmos" you will still very much be trapped in your body, scared and afraid and without any sense of being at all. Not in a free spirited way, in a Hollow prison trapped in a body you don't know, in a world that doesn't make sense. If you have mental disorders already ego death is NOT what you want. You will literally forget what speaking is for and will have to relearn how to write. My ex boyfriend spent three months in intense psychological care and he never recovered fully and has intense psychological problems and onset paranoid psychosis triggered by EgoDeath. My other friend is doing well for himself now thank God, but he couldn't have proper conversations for a year and was scared of people. Please for the love of god. Don't. 😭 It's not glamorous. It won't fix your anxiety. It isn't an "escape". It's a prison.
As someone who has lost loved ones to drug addiction and had to move away from home because of my family getting into the same shit, nothing pisses me off more than people who think it's cute to glamorize and hype up drug usage. While testing should absolutely be done on drugs like marijuana and psychedelics, the amount of people who are fine with TELLING people to try psychedelics is disgusting. Drugs are drugs. They help some people, they can utterly destroy others. Thankfully most psychedelics aren't super hard drugs like heroin or meth or cocaine, but they can still have long-lasting, brain-damaging effects that could ruin your life. Fuck drug culture, honestly.
@@nomoretwitterhandles I don't like drug culture or think any of it is particularly glamorous. I have lost friends and family to overdoses, alcoholism etc. I think harm reduction is a good thing. So I think the suggestions were meant to be more of a "go minimal, research, etc" if they're going to do this at all. At least for my comment. I don't think psychedelics are the panacea some make it out to be but I do know people who have had some success with microdosing for depression.
@@richardsonIII Sorry if my point wasn't clear, but I said I do agree that drugs like marijuana and some psychedelics are worth researching. The problem is that people take "research" and translate it to "go the hell ahead and try it! see what happens!" No matter what the drug is (even prescribed), it is completely necessary to thoroughly understand what it does, what its side effects are, if the side effects are long term, and if the side effects are worth risking. Regardless, many of the reasons people take these drugs are purely mental. Medicating yourself can help you in the short term, but healing your brain will help you in the long term. I used to take a medication for my MDD, but it didn't do much, and given my trauma with drugs, I refused to raise my dosage. So I weaned off the medication and went to therapy. Lo and behold, I feel a lot better and a lot stronger (mentally). Mental problems cannot be fixed with physical solutions. I wish more people wouldn't give up so easily.
Last year when we had a few snow days they just told us by email but I wish my principal was an EPIC vlogger... PS ur podcast is awesome and makes me look forward to Wednesdays :D
About the snow day question, I was directly in the middle of the transition between having to watch the news to see what school was closed and what we do now. Basically schools now have e-mail forums like a school specific forum where you receive e-mail from the teachers or the school news. So basically they would call or email you an automatic message. But also they still show it on the news sometimes if it's an especially big snowstorm.
when texas had that snow storm, i found out that school was shut down through instagram. once they opened back up again they made another post and all of the comments were full of people hoping they would step on legos or a puddle with socks on
Watching you now while I have COVID, and remembering when you did is giving me the strength to keep isolating. It’s so hard hearing the family laugh and have a good time and me just be stuck up here. But at least I have someone to laugh with now for a bit at least. :)
to the last person, i’ve had a depersonalization/derealization experience that sounded somewhat like what you described. it was awful and i never want to feel that way again. i didn’t know who or what i was. like kurtis said there’s nothing wrong with experimenting but yeah if i were you i’d start with the smaller stuff lol
@Pinnacle Weirdo that's essentially what it is. I think the person had a completely false idea of ego death. My bf has experienced it and said it was horrible. The effects are also not permanent like what I felt like the person thought.
💯 depersonalization/derealizarion and disocciation are so hard to overcome. it can take years to recover, and then you still have all of the original issues to deal with anyway.
For the young person dealing with grief. I went through the same thing at your age. I lost an uncle and we were a very tight-knit family. The most important thing is to feel your feelings, give yourself and those grieving around you some grace. Grief is complicated. Sometimes you are emotionally wrecked. Other times you can be openly happy filled with good memories. Keep your uncle a part of your life and family with good memories. Save a place for him at holidays and family get-togethers. Eventually, the sharpness of the pain lessens, and only the warm memories remain. Hang in there, I am so sorry for your loss.
For the first advice segment, I relate. I lost my mom to cancer almost a year ago as a young adult. Your advice Kurtis is amazing. I agree that time doesn't heal anything but makes it hurt less. Beautifully said :)
I feel like Megan Fox is just coping the stuff Angelina Jolie used to to back in the day lmao. She was hella edgy, wearing a blood vial necklace and shit.
Seeing your county on the news for snow days was like the equivalent of my team winning fantasy football for me… idek what fantasy football is but everyone gets all excited so yeah…
I’m in high school and we don’t have “snow days” anymore because online work is a thing (from covid lockdown lol) so they just make us do our work from home online and expect it to be turned in by the time we come back. Also they tell us we have a “snow day” by sending out a mass voicemail to all our parents.
i suffer from pretty debilitating mental illness that doesnt seem to be curable through normal treatments and ive always wondered about microdosing MDMA for it. ive only tried it once but i had never felt better in my entire life. even after the high i felt like i was cured for about a month afterwards until things started to go back to normal. drugs can truly change the way mentally ill people view the world and its so scary but also so interesting. the studies done are insane. to the 2nd person in the advice seg - i know exactly how you feel. i would take kurtis's advice on talking to people who have similar mental struggles as you do and also have gone through the treatment, but also just trust your gut. i trust my gut in never trying acid or any hallucinogens even though i wish i could, i know its too dangerous for my mental state right now. i /would/ trust my gut on trying MDMA treatment if i had the chance. its so personal and i think trusting your gut is really the way to go. if you feel hesitant in anyway thinking it could potentially go wrong, id personally wait til you feel 100% confident. its a huge decision to make and you need to be in the right headspace for it, especially with hallucinogens.
for snowdays when i was little, we would wait by the TV for the news reporter to say our school was closed, or our district would call the parents and let them know. Now, in college, they post on social media and send an email out to students if the weather is too severe to have in-person class.
I'm an american highschooler, well what they used to do for snowstorms at least in my district, is they put it on the news, parents get a phone call, and they email you like 2 hours before school starts. Unfortunatly we don't get snowdays anymore bc we just do online classes now and it sucks.
my principal when i was in high school was very active on social media and would post on twitter and snapchat about stuff it was Weird… like students would message him on snap to ask if it was early release or like a free dress day like WHAT…
Kurtis seemed so proud of himself with the capillaries 💀💀💀 Capillaries are the microscopic blood vessels you have throughout your entire body Kurtis 💀💀💀
For schools here in Chicago, the rural schools call or email, city schools email and tweet it. You can also find out on the news. Colleges email you and if you don't see the email you're walking to school and finding out it's closed lmao
I’ve had a The Gus & Eddy Podcast size hole in my heart since they stopped the show, but you do a good job of filling that hole, thanks for filling my hole.
@@KuJayCools long story short, it was an amazing podcast with two really funny guys, but news came out that one of them was being manipulative/abusive to his gf during a really dangerous pregnancy. the show is cancelled like that and eddy doesnt associate anymore. its sad bc they were clearly so close
that ego death question is interesting and i think it’s different for everyone, i did it on accident and it honestly changed nothing but everyone is different and i love that someone asked “hey Kurtis should i do a metric fuck ton of psychedelics”
I’m in high school and my principal usually streams on twitch for an hour every morning before school, and if her led lights are blue then we know it’s a snow day. So you just have to pop in and check
1. we still get snow days from the tv 2. IN WHAT WORLD DOES THE MIC LOOK LIKE AN ICE CREAM 3. it’s so funny hearing kurtis mispronounce capillaries for like a minute straight
To the person dealing with the loss of a loved one- I was 13 when my uncle died in a motorcycle accident as well. I am 23 now and I am happy, I just want you to know experience will not be the end of you or your happiness ❤️
I live in colorado and it snows a lot during december-mid march, my high school is very against having snow days because it slows down "learning", everyone in my district is force to come to school even if there's like a blizzard outside.
Yeppp same here. For me, we didnt have buses at our school so they just expected us to walk if we or our parents couldn't drive. I only remember getting one day off at CM.
megan and mgk are the couple at school that raw dawgs it in the staircase and you can occassionally see with one wearing a dog lease while the other holds the lease
i can relate to that feeling of realising how long you’ve live somewhere, i’ve been in australia for almost 4 years and it still feels like i moved here just yesterday. i get those mini existential crisis weekly
Give yourself some credit dude! You didnt do anything? Look at all the work you've put into your youtube. That's why people are picking up on it. It's good content. Trust yourself!!
i’m in saskatchewan & in high school “snow days” weren’t really a thing, teachers were always there, but in university we just get an email or sometimes nothing! and if you get to class there’s usually just a paper on the door that says “haha you’re stupid you didn’t check ur email” and then you cry
I’m in high school and from Toronto. Since the recent snow and shit we had 2 snow days (not really because we had to do virtual classes still) . We have apps to talk directly to our teachers and they messages us about snow days. Also on social media, like either your school’s or school boards account. That was just my experience and what i’ve seen.
TW: ew. Weird, but I have a story that somehow combines Canadian snowstorms and drinking blood 😬 We had a lot of snow two days ago at the place I live and I had to go to the pharmacy at that day. The pharmacy was just about under 10 minutes to walk from my house but because of the snow it took me much longer. Pharmacy (it’s a relatively small family business) was closed because nobody was able to get to work (I called them but stupidly only after getting there). Sad and alone, I started my journey back and slipped miserably on the freshly frozen ice under the snow, fell flat on my face, my nose started bleeding and I accidentally swallowed a lot of blood. After I came home, I got an upset stomach (because *blöd* ) which made me nauseous and my nose started bleeding again 😬
snow days from a current high schooler! they’ll usually post on the school/board website. usually the boards twitter/facebook will make a post too so that’s how most parents of younger kids find out.
great podcast as always kurt! also about the snow day thing, im in high school and usually my parents get a phone call or i just go on the local news website and they have a list of all the cancellations in the district
my old principal had an instagram where he would tell us about snow days, and he would post vlogs and do asmr during lunch in the cafeteria, 10/10 great dude
hi from a high school sophomore! for snow days they send out like automated texts and phone calls and idk if it’s the same for everyone else but my school emails like “daily news” about the school to us every day (so like information about clubs, schedules, basically morning announcement stuff) so they’ll put “snow day!!” on that sometimes too HAHAH
I’m in 12th grade, usually they just call me or I call in and ask if the wheather is too bad to leave the house. Then I drive to the nearest gas station and buy 3 monsters and 6 coconut Red-bull and chug them in thirty minutes strait without taking a breath while I’m taking a hard dookie in the restroom listening to this podcast.
About the snow days, they still run it on the news but that’s not where most people find out. In my county, there’s a guy that basically sends a voicemail to everyone’s parents that plays a message telling us that’s school is cancelled. We also use Schoology for our schoolwork and they send an announcement through there as well. You made a joke about them tweeting about it, funny thing is they actually do that too. There’s a Twitter page with that voicemail dude where they announce snow closings.
My old superintendent straight up had a UA-cam channel. Whenever it was a snow day he would make skits about the "snow day fairy" where he literally dressed up as a fairy and told kids it was a snow day
I have listen to this podcast for a year and half now the guest are always interesting the topics amusing and the jokes are very funny listening to ever episode every week without fail and have never gotten bored and never will
Americans are the only ones who emphasize the first syllable, every other English speaking country does the opposite. I grew up in Canada and we pronounce it like the Brits do (ca-PILL-ary)
Imagine being MGK and having to keep up that personality ALL THE TIME. Dude can never just be like, "Damn, I really want a chill weekend in Boca with the boys where we just play Scrabble and have a cookie bake-off. Maybe catch-up on Drag Race." I don't sympathize with him by any means, but that sounds exhausting to keep up.
if Megan Fox and MGK get divorced Megan is gonna post “she was a poem, but he couldn’t read” I can feel it in my bones
he was soup, i was fork
He was type A type blood. I was O negative. We were biologically incompatible.
I'm not good at this.
@@sarafrikinbeara LMAOOO
she was a bed but he was an insomniac
wait i think word too big
BAHHH IM CRYING
Someone on Twitter said Megan & MGK are the high school couple that meows at each other just to be edgy and weird, and they were 1000% right
@@princepark1013 As in actress Megan Fox
@@princepark1013 wow
@@princepark1013 did you even watch the video?
@@ObeyLucifer they probably hadn't reached that part of the video yet, it's okay
They’re just a tad too hot though
everything that i have learned about mgk and megan fox was involuntarily
You dislike the stuff that gets uploaded by my fingers clicking upload? Are you just a h8er boi? I say see you l8er, boi. Don't watch the stuff that gets uploaded by my fingers clicking upload anymore. Your dislikes are damaging my good good GOOD reputation. I am a superstar, dear hea
@@AxxLAfriku reading that gave me heart palpitations
@@l1z4rd67 thank god you said something I thought I was having a stroke.
@@AxxLAfriku w-what ?
@@AxxLAfriku for real yo 💪
“I 69’ed her heart” is the kurtis quote of the year omg, MGK thinks he’s romantic and punk rock but this is the energy it actually gives instead lmao
Mgk is totally not a punk and just a poser trying to rebrand
Like check
once people realize actors are just grown-up theatre kids, the Mgk and megan fox thing makes sense
He's the band kid to her theater kid
kurtis being so proud of himself being right about capillaries but saying it completely wrong is a vibe
I thought it was a canadian thing 😶
Both pronunciations are correct. It just depends on the regional dialect
CAP-ill-aries
As far as I know America pronounces it differently than basically every other English speaking country so technically we're the ones saying it wrong LOL
@@bun1932 21:32 my man!!
drinking eachother's blood is like soft core cannibalism
It's also a form of blood bonding, I'm pretty sure Megan is a witch so it's a very fitting activity.
I’m only two podcast episodes in and I realized I cannot listen to this while I’m at the office because it’s too difficult to not scream with laughter. I just moved to Kurtistown but I’m already looking at property with a 30-year mortgage. Love u Kurtis
Kurtistown veteran here, welcome
Welcome to Kurtistown :)
I gross cackle every single time
Welcome!!!!
I miss that feeling of being new here lol. I've seen almost all of his videos (only everything 4 years ago and sooner, anything before that still feels like Kurt getting used to UA-cam and I can't stand to cringe through that lol). I'm always waiting in anticipation for another video....
Anyways, I hope you enjoy everything! I recommend you check out his best friends as well (Jacob Sharpe especially, hilarious guy) if you like Kurtis's humor.
On one hand, I'm happy for Megan. Hollywood treated her horribly for years, so it's nice she found some happiness with an other person
On the other hand, everything about Mgk makes me vomit.
she’s dating a horrible guy so I’m not happy for her LMAO
Sorry I'm not up to date.. can anyone tell me what's so horrible about MGK? I don't really know or heard of him as a celebrity that much where I'm from
@@PlasticDoll. check Kurtis Conner podcast #135
@烏龜
Both are horrible people.
MGK has said some incredibly racist things about black women (with a biracial daughter too smh). He used racial stereotypes about black women for laughs (as a grown man) and then called a black lady a “n-r bitch” for getting offended.
He made gross comments about wanting to date an underaged Kardashian/Jenner (I can’t remember her name, but I’m pretty sure she’s a runway model). When someone pointed out that she was underaged, he said the in the celebrity world, age doesn’t matter as well as praising another celebrity for “dating” a minor.
As for Megan, she is a bisexual hypocrite. She has made comments about how bi women who have been with men are “dirty.” Like wtf Megan, you’re also bi and have been with men before.
*(She also said that she believes everyone is born bi. Which I don’t agree with and is not a solid reason to dislike someone, but I thought I would just point that out for people. Especially because her reasoning was that everyone is born bi, but society changes that. Which is nonsense because there are people who grow up in homophonic environments and still come out as gay.)
So yeah… basically, if you dig further than just surface leather, that ship is sinking with everyone on board. Yikes
@@ochacha4567 SURFACE LEATHER PLS
Megan and MGK behave like they are a emo teenage couple in 2008 but without myspace and hottopic
Instead of MySpace, they have the national tabloid as their platform... so you can't run from their cringe forced edginess
Hearing the phrase "Awko taco" for the first time in many years has taken time off my lifespan
the mic looks like one of those british guards who never smiles. like the hat
It's Danny's little nutcracker buddy
kurtis's advice on grief in the advice segment was honestly really genuine and touching. i lost my boyfriend of 3 years to cancer on this day six months ago. it's still hard every day and time might not heal all wounds, but it can make it easier.
im so sorry, youre so strong and i hope you can continue to heal
I’m so sorry. You are so strong.
Wishing you the best, Kurtistown has your back 💕
thank you all for the support :') this is such a great community
Same here, I lost my grandma (first time losing someone close to me ) a few months ago and it kind of took me aback. It still doesn’t at all feel real, and I feel like I’ll go back to her house and see her there doing her new book of word puzzles. Sucks man :/ I hope you’re doing okay.
Hey Kurt! Friendly neighbourhood Canadian highschooler here. They don’t tell us that it’s a snow day because we don’t get them anymore. We literally just continue with classes online.
Yeaaa it’s pretty lame now. Where I live they just do a late start and then we still have to go in person.
That’s so sad I’m so sorry
true but IK my brothers exam still got delayed cuz it was supposed to be in person
We have never had snow days
out here in quebec we have to go back in person, i don’t really agree but it’s not really up to me lol. (also we had a snow day monday 😎)
gl with school y’all, i believe in you :D
I’m 20 so I can remember the transition from snow day alerts being on the radio/news to being posted online on the schools’ social media pages.
BUT more interestingly, there’s a guy in New Zealand whose whole thing on Twitter is tracking the weather in a small area of mid state New York and giving out predictions for likelihood of closings and delays for schools in that area. so my whole school would just listen for what ben noll, in new zealand, would say about our random small town 400 person school.
what 😂 how does that even happen lmaooo
new zealanders do some weird shit dude - a new zealander
Hail Ben Noll
That’s fucking awesome hahahah
he works as a meteorologist in NZ but is originally from the hudson valley
Having his response to this extremely existential question literally being : “try smoking weed and eating nachos” is *precisely* why I watch VRG
Sure but smoking weed can actually lead to more problems depending on the person lol. Probably some of the worst advice honestly. That's like saying "take medication instead of fixing the root cause of the problem".
@@nomoretwitterhandles as someone with autism and extreme anxiety my whole life i would not have been able to even go to the shop by myself if i hadnt started smoking weed. it can be very grounding and calming and helped me get to the stage where i could address the root of the problem so i would say its great advice but obviously its not the same for everyone
@@mayafallon301 I don't think that negates my point. Medication CAN help, but it's not the permanent solution. As you said, it helped you get to the point you were able to address the root.
Good advice would be "seek out a medical professional to see if these methods are right for you". Not "lol smoke weed 420". There are lots of people who DON'T need to smoke weed (they smoke it recreationally), and it does more harm than good (can mess up sleep, smoke is still smoke, some people can become reliant on it). In addition to that advice, he should've added "and if you are in the position to seek out a therapist or psychiatrist, please do."
Anyways, I'm really proud of you for being able to get through such tough anxiety. I'm the exact same way (though I stray away from things like weed and alcohol etc due to trauma). I hope you can continue living life in the best way possible
whenever I think MGK and Megan cannot get any weirder, they’re like *_SYKE_*_ brb just gonna devour each other’s souls real quick_
just gonna get married with satan as our witness and god as our unborn child brb
@@konkeez 😭😭😭
Kurtis's stache and mullet are becoming so lush
Puberty is finally hitting the stash😂💀
This actually made me laugh out loud thank you
the short little air horn kills me every time i am crying from laughing so hard
It could be any noise. So long as its mad short. Its so funny to me
I relate to the fact that Kurtis forgot Justin Timberlake's character's name in the Social Network, so he references him by the actor's name instead
when i was in high school they’d just release a mass phone call to parents in the division and say that school is closed. now im in college and they just email us like “pleek dont show up”
PLEEK
i’m shitting at pleek
pleek
Glee moment
Peek 😭
Kurtis playing a half second of any of the noises on his soundboard makes me laugh SO hard every time. Pls never stop doing that
The air horn is my absolute fucking favorite
I feel like MGK and Megan Fox get weirder every day. Lmao😭
when my old school would announce snow days, they’d call us. it was a pre recorded thing and everybody in the county gets a call
*that or everybody’s mom is posting about it on facebook*
EXACTLY all they do is like the county posts it on facebook or moms respite it lol
FOR THE PERSON ASKING ABT COMMITTING EGO DEATH: my first warning is you probably shouldn't do it considering your mental illnesses. as someone who accidentally committed an ego death (also dealt and deals with extreme anxiety), it was terrifying and i will never view reality the same way. i used to be very connected to the world and myself, and it was lovely, but after i went through that ego death i lost myself (my personality, my interests, my mental health progress, etc), i wanted to end my life, i felt paranoid and terrified at every turn, and felt like i shouldn't exist. I'm doing better now, thankfully, but reality will never be the same for me. if you REALLY want to commit an ego death, DONT do it while you're experiencing crippling anxiety and other mental illnesses, OR, if you have a really fantastic support system that can keep you standing afterwards, then it's up to you. the only reason why I'm still alive today is because of my support system after my ego death. it's not fun. in time, it'll lead you to become a better/stronger person, sure, but it's hard and painful and it takes years. it's not an " easy way out", but i wish it was. for me, it only made my struggles worse. i hope you get the chance to read this before deciding, and if you have any other questions about it I'm willing to share :)
Can you explain a little more about what the process involves, out of curiosity?
@@lyrielswaine7466 it's a little different for everyone I think. But for me, it was a really positive experience where I felt like a small speck of dust floating around the universe. I hope that makes sense lol. I felt really insignificant, like my life was so small and unimportant compared to the vastness of the universe. But in a good way, like in a "life has no meaning cuz it means whatever we want it to" kind of way. For some people it's in the "life has no meaning and everything is terrifying" kind of way. But yeah it's like feeling really small and like nothing really matters but also feeling this strange connection with nature and your surroundings. It helped me realize that a lot of the things i worry about in life don't truly matter.
But again, it can go good or bad for anyone it just depends.
To the person who lost their uncle, my heart goes out to you, sending love 💖. I went to grief counseling when my grandma died. She had Alzheimer’s but it still really broke me inside. That was 4 years ago. My counselor told me “we often think our grief shrinks over time, but really we just grow around our grief.” And that really helped me process. You know I’ll always miss her. Sometimes I’ll be going about my day, and something reminds me of her and I’ll cry a bit. But then I continue on with my day. At one point it would just leave me to my bed for days. But I grew around my grief. It didn’t shrink. It’s still there. But I’m “bigger” than it now. If that makes any sense. Much love, take care of yourself and allow yourself to feel however you feel- grief is hard.
Just got rejected from a really good university and these pods really help me relax, thank you, Mr Mayor
megan fox should really be a YA fantasy writer because she would be amazing
kurtis: capillary *_valve_*
also kurtis: *epic biology moment*
me, a bio student: (o_o)
let’s gooooo! bio supremacy
@@hannahbloom lol ikr
You just unlocked a memory for me watching the news to see if we had a snow day
I got covid and now I'm just trying to get over the pain with this podcast thank you kurtis
get well soon!
hey I'm sick too!! gonna get tested tomorrow. get well soon friend!❤️
just now recovering from it, stay safe man!!
Damn I was seek two weeks ago. Feels awful for a little but hope you’re feeling better by now
Same 💖
on the Ego Death topic, i have not experimented with psychedelics myself, but it is in my field of study and imo "Ego Death" or dissolution can certainly feel very real and have lasting changes on the way a person thinks. there is a lot of research being done about therapeutic uses for these drugs. HOWEVER i think the concept is a bit idealized and people think that if you just take some mushrooms, that you will come out of the experience a whole new, better person and that everyone who uses psychedelics experiences Ego Death. this is not necessarily the case. depending on your setting and substance of choice, it can add to the anxiety of an already anxious person. this isn't medical advice or anything, but i would hope this viewer (if they choose to use psychedelics) does them in a safe space and with a lot of free time. if you have a trusted sober person that could help you during this time, i would also suggest that.
agreed. And if it's specifically to manage anxiety, maybe try microdosing with psilocybin. You can microdose lsd as well I think, but I've not tried it and I'm not sure how available it is in that form in Oregon. I know that in Canada you can basically order it online. It's not regulated, which is good and bad but I've found dosages to be fairly consistent.
HELLO I CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THIS. I have experimented alot with psychedelics and whilst I havent personally had Ego Death happen to me I've seen it happen to my now Ex boyfriend and another very close friend of mine.
Dear EgoDeath person. DEAR GOD DON'T DO IT. Whatever you think ego death is, that it'll be a "transcendant" thing that will make life seem small and your anxiety slip away, you are badly mistaken and misunderstanding. Ego death kills all sense of self. You won't be "floating through the cosmos" you will still very much be trapped in your body, scared and afraid and without any sense of being at all. Not in a free spirited way, in a Hollow prison trapped in a body you don't know, in a world that doesn't make sense. If you have mental disorders already ego death is NOT what you want. You will literally forget what speaking is for and will have to relearn how to write.
My ex boyfriend spent three months in intense psychological care and he never recovered fully and has intense psychological problems and onset paranoid psychosis triggered by EgoDeath.
My other friend is doing well for himself now thank God, but he couldn't have proper conversations for a year and was scared of people.
Please for the love of god. Don't. 😭
It's not glamorous. It won't fix your anxiety. It isn't an "escape".
It's a prison.
As someone who has lost loved ones to drug addiction and had to move away from home because of my family getting into the same shit, nothing pisses me off more than people who think it's cute to glamorize and hype up drug usage. While testing should absolutely be done on drugs like marijuana and psychedelics, the amount of people who are fine with TELLING people to try psychedelics is disgusting. Drugs are drugs. They help some people, they can utterly destroy others. Thankfully most psychedelics aren't super hard drugs like heroin or meth or cocaine, but they can still have long-lasting, brain-damaging effects that could ruin your life.
Fuck drug culture, honestly.
@@nomoretwitterhandles I don't like drug culture or think any of it is particularly glamorous. I have lost friends and family to overdoses, alcoholism etc. I think harm reduction is a good thing. So I think the suggestions were meant to be more of a "go minimal, research, etc" if they're going to do this at all. At least for my comment. I don't think psychedelics are the panacea some make it out to be but I do know people who have had some success with microdosing for depression.
@@richardsonIII Sorry if my point wasn't clear, but I said I do agree that drugs like marijuana and some psychedelics are worth researching. The problem is that people take "research" and translate it to "go the hell ahead and try it! see what happens!"
No matter what the drug is (even prescribed), it is completely necessary to thoroughly understand what it does, what its side effects are, if the side effects are long term, and if the side effects are worth risking.
Regardless, many of the reasons people take these drugs are purely mental. Medicating yourself can help you in the short term, but healing your brain will help you in the long term. I used to take a medication for my MDD, but it didn't do much, and given my trauma with drugs, I refused to raise my dosage. So I weaned off the medication and went to therapy. Lo and behold, I feel a lot better and a lot stronger (mentally).
Mental problems cannot be fixed with physical solutions. I wish more people wouldn't give up so easily.
Last year when we had a few snow days they just told us by email but I wish my principal was an EPIC vlogger... PS ur podcast is awesome and makes me look forward to Wednesdays :D
About the snow day question, I was directly in the middle of the transition between having to watch the news to see what school was closed and what we do now. Basically schools now have e-mail forums like a school specific forum where you receive e-mail from the teachers or the school news. So basically they would call or email you an automatic message. But also they still show it on the news sometimes if it's an especially big snowstorm.
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when texas had that snow storm, i found out that school was shut down through instagram. once they opened back up again they made another post and all of the comments were full of people hoping they would step on legos or a puddle with socks on
@@eden6646 oh thats horrible
Watching you now while I have COVID, and remembering when you did is giving me the strength to keep isolating. It’s so hard hearing the family laugh and have a good time and me just be stuck up here. But at least I have someone to laugh with now for a bit at least. :)
Thank you, Kurtis. Truly an inspiration.
i’m sick right now and this podcast probably cured me
Hope you get well soon 💌
@@yourtypicalloser404 thank youu ❤️
@@ayahlahlou8440 Welcome
You were trending in Australia too! I was so excited for you ♡
Little factoid, Machine Gun Kelly was a wild west outlaw, and MGK the musician just kinda highjacked it :/
hes like Im NaMeD AfTeR GaNgStEr but like didn’t he give himself that name? 😭
to the last person, i’ve had a depersonalization/derealization experience that sounded somewhat like what you described. it was awful and i never want to feel that way again. i didn’t know who or what i was. like kurtis said there’s nothing wrong with experimenting but yeah if i were you i’d start with the smaller stuff lol
@Pinnacle Weirdo that's essentially what it is. I think the person had a completely false idea of ego death. My bf has experienced it and said it was horrible. The effects are also not permanent like what I felt like the person thought.
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depersonalization/derealizarion and disocciation are so hard to overcome. it can take years to recover, and then you still have all of the original issues to deal with anyway.
Loving the Berenstain Bears mug you got there Kurtis
For the young person dealing with grief. I went through the same thing at your age. I lost an uncle and we were a very tight-knit family. The most important thing is to feel your feelings, give yourself and those grieving around you some grace. Grief is complicated. Sometimes you are emotionally wrecked. Other times you can be openly happy filled with good memories. Keep your uncle a part of your life and family with good memories. Save a place for him at holidays and family get-togethers. Eventually, the sharpness of the pain lessens, and only the warm memories remain. Hang in there, I am so sorry for your loss.
I unironically passed out while listening today. Kurtis, you have so much power that your voice can nearly blind people. Keep it up Kurtboy!
For the first advice segment, I relate. I lost my mom to cancer almost a year ago as a young adult. Your advice Kurtis is amazing. I agree that time doesn't heal anything but makes it hurt less. Beautifully said :)
I feel like Megan Fox is just coping the stuff Angelina Jolie used to to back in the day lmao. She was hella edgy, wearing a blood vial necklace and shit.
The tiny airhorn caught me way off guard I haven't laughed that hard in a while
Wednesdays are my days off work and i love being able to watch right away when you post the pod :)
Lolol Kurtis mispronouncing capillaries is the highlight of my day
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT
In Canada it is a proper pronunciation. We pronounce it like the Brits do
He says it right? In the UK and I assume Canada that's how it's pronounced 🤷♂
Seeing your county on the news for snow days was like the equivalent of my team winning fantasy football for me… idek what fantasy football is but everyone gets all excited so yeah…
I’m in high school and we don’t have “snow days” anymore because online work is a thing (from covid lockdown lol) so they just make us do our work from home online and expect it to be turned in by the time we come back. Also they tell us we have a “snow day” by sending out a mass voicemail to all our parents.
i suffer from pretty debilitating mental illness that doesnt seem to be curable through normal treatments and ive always wondered about microdosing MDMA for it. ive only tried it once but i had never felt better in my entire life. even after the high i felt like i was cured for about a month afterwards until things started to go back to normal. drugs can truly change the way mentally ill people view the world and its so scary but also so interesting. the studies done are insane. to the 2nd person in the advice seg - i know exactly how you feel. i would take kurtis's advice on talking to people who have similar mental struggles as you do and also have gone through the treatment, but also just trust your gut. i trust my gut in never trying acid or any hallucinogens even though i wish i could, i know its too dangerous for my mental state right now. i /would/ trust my gut on trying MDMA treatment if i had the chance. its so personal and i think trusting your gut is really the way to go. if you feel hesitant in anyway thinking it could potentially go wrong, id personally wait til you feel 100% confident. its a huge decision to make and you need to be in the right headspace for it, especially with hallucinogens.
“I would stand in the woods and deer would feed me pinecones”😂😂😂
everytime you do that little .2 second blip of the air horn I literally laugh out loud please never stop doing that
I'm halfway through and this episode is a killer!
for snowdays when i was little, we would wait by the TV for the news reporter to say our school was closed, or our district would call the parents and let them know. Now, in college, they post on social media and send an email out to students if the weather is too severe to have in-person class.
listening while doing schoolwork! awesome pod, kurt :]
I'm an american highschooler, well what they used to do for snowstorms at least in my district, is they put it on the news, parents get a phone call, and they email you like 2 hours before school starts. Unfortunatly we don't get snowdays anymore bc we just do online classes now and it sucks.
my principal when i was in high school was very active on social media and would post on twitter and snapchat about stuff it was Weird… like students would message him on snap to ask if it was early release or like a free dress day like WHAT…
Kurtis seemed so proud of himself with the capillaries 💀💀💀
Capillaries are the microscopic blood vessels you have throughout your entire body Kurtis 💀💀💀
For schools here in Chicago, the rural schools call or email, city schools email and tweet it. You can also find out on the news. Colleges email you and if you don't see the email you're walking to school and finding out it's closed lmao
10:04 that was like the exact same tone of "um" as the beginning of the advice segment jingle
I’ve had a The Gus & Eddy Podcast size hole in my heart since they stopped the show, but you do a good job of filling that hole, thanks for filling my hole.
Ugh me too, I don’t support Gus anymore but holy shit losing the podcast was hard , they were so great together
@@megczaban6814 i have no clue who these ppl are. did they do smth wrong or get into bad drama ?
@@KuJayCools long story short, it was an amazing podcast with two really funny guys, but news came out that one of them was being manipulative/abusive to his gf during a really dangerous pregnancy. the show is cancelled like that and eddy doesnt associate anymore. its sad bc they were clearly so close
that ego death question is interesting and i think it’s different for everyone, i did it on accident and it honestly changed nothing but everyone is different and i love that someone asked “hey Kurtis should i do a metric fuck ton of psychedelics”
I’m in high school and my principal usually streams on twitch for an hour every morning before school, and if her led lights are blue then we know it’s a snow day. So you just have to pop in and check
omg legit??? that's genuinely pretty cool
1. we still get snow days from the tv
2. IN WHAT WORLD DOES THE MIC LOOK LIKE AN ICE CREAM
3. it’s so funny hearing kurtis mispronounce capillaries for like a minute straight
Kurtis when he gets booed:
🌲🧍♂🌲
To the person dealing with the loss of a loved one- I was 13 when my uncle died in a motorcycle accident as well. I am 23 now and I am happy, I just want you to know experience will not be the end of you or your happiness ❤️
hey kurtis ur videos are awesome and you are a very creative and intelligent guy!! you should be proud of your work
I live in colorado and it snows a lot during december-mid march, my high school is very against having snow days because it slows down "learning", everyone in my district is force to come to school even if there's like a blizzard outside.
Yeppp same here. For me, we didnt have buses at our school so they just expected us to walk if we or our parents couldn't drive. I only remember getting one day off at CM.
megan and mgk are the couple at school that raw dawgs it in the staircase and you can occassionally see with one wearing a dog lease while the other holds the lease
Tf kinda school did you go to?
So weirdly nostalgic I had that Bernstein bears mug as a kid!! I remember having soup in it when I was sick
MGK just revealed that the bands on the engagement are actually thorns so it hurts when she tries to take it of because "Love is pain!"
They usually call for snow days at like 5 am and also send out an email and put a banner up on the website
To answer the snow day question: Our high school usually tweets it from their twitter and the middle school like calls all the parents
i can relate to that feeling of realising how long you’ve live somewhere, i’ve been in australia for almost 4 years and it still feels like i moved here just yesterday. i get those mini existential crisis weekly
I love this podcast.
omg this podcast is literally my comfort zone cause his voice is so soothing
Give yourself some credit dude! You didnt do anything? Look at all the work you've put into your youtube. That's why people are picking up on it. It's good content. Trust yourself!!
i’m in saskatchewan & in high school “snow days” weren’t really a thing, teachers were always there, but in university we just get an email or sometimes nothing! and if you get to class there’s usually just a paper on the door that says “haha you’re stupid you didn’t check ur email” and then you cry
If the day ever does come where you're boo'ed I hope you don't quit and you bounce back in no time except Kurtis Time. 💪🏾💪🏾
I’m in high school and from Toronto. Since the recent snow and shit we had 2 snow days (not really because we had to do virtual classes still) . We have apps to talk directly to our teachers and they messages us about snow days. Also on social media, like either your school’s or school boards account. That was just my experience and what i’ve seen.
fellow Toronto ARMY 👀💜
@@samanthaGmusica hello to u too!!
TW: ew.
Weird, but I have a story that somehow combines Canadian snowstorms and drinking blood 😬 We had a lot of snow two days ago at the place I live and I had to go to the pharmacy at that day. The pharmacy was just about under 10 minutes to walk from my house but because of the snow it took me much longer. Pharmacy (it’s a relatively small family business) was closed because nobody was able to get to work (I called them but stupidly only after getting there). Sad and alone, I started my journey back and slipped miserably on the freshly frozen ice under the snow, fell flat on my face, my nose started bleeding and I accidentally swallowed a lot of blood. After I came home, I got an upset stomach (because *blöd* ) which made me nauseous and my nose started bleeding again 😬
Thank for that gross but very relevant anecdote lol
oh my!
snow days from a current high schooler!
they’ll usually post on the school/board website. usually the boards twitter/facebook will make a post too so that’s how most parents of younger kids find out.
doing my morning yoga to vrg is the most relaxing thing
great podcast as always kurt! also about the snow day thing, im in high school and usually my parents get a phone call or i just go on the local news website and they have a list of all the cancellations in the district
Megan and MKG are the equivalent of the middle school couple that said stuff like “I made you a cookie but I ated it” to each other
lmao ca-pill-ery. lmao.. CAP-ill-Airy, my man. i just laughed way too hard at that
Episode 175: the quarter quell
my old principal had an instagram where he would tell us about snow days, and he would post vlogs and do asmr during lunch in the cafeteria, 10/10 great dude
Please apologise for making me listen to anything MGK related LMAO I’m so tired of that man
hi from a high school sophomore! for snow days they send out like automated texts and phone calls and idk if it’s the same for everyone else but my school emails like “daily news” about the school to us every day (so like information about clubs, schedules, basically morning announcement stuff) so they’ll put “snow day!!” on that sometimes too HAHAH
I’m in 12th grade, usually they just call me or I call in and ask if the wheather is too bad to leave the house.
Then I drive to the nearest gas station and buy 3 monsters and 6 coconut Red-bull and chug them in thirty minutes strait without taking a breath while I’m taking a hard dookie in the restroom listening to this podcast.
9 energy drinks in a row, daily?
I'm surprised your heart hasn't straight up given up on you.
About the snow days, they still run it on the news but that’s not where most people find out. In my county, there’s a guy that basically sends a voicemail to everyone’s parents that plays a message telling us that’s school is cancelled. We also use Schoology for our schoolwork and they send an announcement through there as well. You made a joke about them tweeting about it, funny thing is they actually do that too. There’s a Twitter page with that voicemail dude where they announce snow closings.
I am a senior in high school and this is how we’ve done it in my area for as long as I can remember
My old superintendent straight up had a UA-cam channel. Whenever it was a snow day he would make skits about the "snow day fairy" where he literally dressed up as a fairy and told kids it was a snow day
I have listen to this podcast for a year and half now the guest are always interesting the topics amusing and the jokes are very funny listening to ever episode every week without fail and have never gotten bored and never will
“yeah caPILLary” wait is it not pronounced CAPillary 😂
Americans are the only ones who emphasize the first syllable, every other English speaking country does the opposite. I grew up in Canada and we pronounce it like the Brits do (ca-PILL-ary)
@@rebeccafossmusic oh ok glad to know it’s not the only way it’s said!! thank you
The way Kurtis talked through grief was really reassuring.
Imagine being MGK and having to keep up that personality ALL THE TIME. Dude can never just be like, "Damn, I really want a chill weekend in Boca with the boys where we just play Scrabble and have a cookie bake-off. Maybe catch-up on Drag Race."
I don't sympathize with him by any means, but that sounds exhausting to keep up.
Side note the event u just described sounds amazing
I like the idea of a Comedy Horse. Just a horse telling jokes, maybe someone should make a show about that, maybe animated or something.
As a fellow Canadian, I'm also tired of shoveling snow😅
this was my favorite episode of the podcast you've ever done