WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Part of me wanted to film this video from the inside of a closet, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so then it could be "Awkward stories from the closet, from the closet!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but then I thought that'd be too much effort. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I'd probably get a leg cramp 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I'd get claustrophobic 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, please just appreciate the thought. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I made a video where I talked about what it was 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like growing up as a young, secret, gay. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And all the awkward moments that came with that 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and a lot of you in the comments where like "MORE!!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, I've delved into my brain, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 found some truly cursed memories, that I'd repressed 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I'm here to share them with you them- you- you- them- them to you!! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 music 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hypnosis 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Ok, so I was about 13 and I had a friend 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (A friend! Remember what that was like?) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We'll call him "Dwayne", or if I was up North 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he would be (in northern accent) Dwayne. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He was one of those kids, who would always bug me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to go stay over at his house for a sleepover. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I'd always think of excuses like, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "My horse is pregnant." Horse nosie 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Eventually, he whittled me down 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I was like "Fine, Dwayne." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "I'll stay at your house." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What's the worse that could happen? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Famous last words. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So after a school day, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I trundled over to..."trundled?" is that a word? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I went over to Dwanye's house 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and that's when things got weird. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He told me that on the internet 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he'd found a completely real way 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to hypnotise people. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yep. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Let's just let that sink in 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that's one of the first things he said to me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 when I got to his house. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Not like "Do you want some toast?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Deep and slow "I found a true way to hypnotise people." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm the kind of person if you told me 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you'd written gullible on the ceiling, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'd look up. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So at that age, course I believed him! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 100 percent 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But before we began, he looked at me and said: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "When I'm hynotised, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you can make me do anything." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Like you could make me kiss you or something, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which would be SO GROSS 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but I'd do it cause I was hypnotised 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I wouldn't remember anything." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Ok? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So being the completely... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 clueless, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "gulibeast" that I was. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I didn't realise he was shooting his shot, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and hoping for a cheeky kiss 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and this was his weird way of getting 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 through the gay barrier. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I was like "Yeah fair enough." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "I could make you do anything." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Cause this is totally real." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So then we got to the hypnosis part 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which was super weird. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I don't know if he'd written this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or actually found something weird on the internet. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think it started with just 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 staring at each other for 5 minutes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which was kinda awkward 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and then it was like, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Imagine you're at the seaside, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 imagine you are a sandcastle, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 imagine you are a sand." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So Dwayne, great actor actually, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 started to go a bit crosseyed like, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Ooo Phil, I think it might be working." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And then after a few more sandcastlely words 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 he just stood in the middle of his bedroom 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with his eyes closed pretending to be hypnotised 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In his head probably thinking 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "This is the moment, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm gonna get my kiss!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I said... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "Be a sheep." 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yep, laughs I said get down on all fours 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and pretend to be a sheep. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So props to him, he went full into this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He was just going around on all fours 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in his bedroom just "Baa-ring" into the sky 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 for about 5 minutes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Probably in his head thinking: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "This isn't what was supposed to happen!" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So yeah, I don't think that was what he 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 was going for laughs with the hypnosis game. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I didn't stay at his house again. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Wonder if he still thinks about that? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Maybe he'll watch this video. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hi Dwayne. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I fell like that was more of an awkward closeted story for him. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Rather than me laughs 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Maybe he should be making this video. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Train Guy 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So this was in the early days of Youtube 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and I was on a train home from Manchester to York, going back to Uni. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And towards the end of the journey, it was just me and some 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 cute, alternative looking guy left in the train carriage. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We'll call him...Blaine. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 All I remember