 oh whoa whoa whoa we're changing things up a little bit in a different area of the house russ come on man you okay russ no bar no bark no barking so russ hasn't had a haircut in a really long time look at him he's a little shaggy getting a haircut on wednesday right boy okay so i'm going to read an email for everyone i think i like this format so usually the videos that i make i get the ideas and topics from emails i receive from everyone and all these questions and and things so i'm just going to read the email word for word not say the gentleman's name and we'll go from there gives you a bit more perspective a bit more background on on what i'm talking about when the issue is here and with so many of these emails i can relate to a lot of these i'm sure you can relate to a lot of these you know when uh when you're in class and the teacher's like make sure you ask a question because most likely the question you're going to ask someone else has the same question about the all right uh dear scott i sometimes have slurring speech not always but if i talk too long or when i'm tired my speech sucks and in turn i get anxiety i do have social anxiety but not always it just comes all of a sudden especially when i have this slurred speech i've improved a lot yeah you have but i'm going to have the first day in college my first day at college next week and i just don't want my social anxiety to play spoil sport first of all my friend congratulations on going to college the next step in your education good for you it'll really help you get a job but university and college is not just a means to an end no no no the end is in itself it's it's great meeting people learning new things living on your own or away from home if you're doing that um you're gonna have an amazing time let's talk about slurred speech you know i've had this happen to me so many times before so many times especially when i'm doing videos i try not to do any cuts but when there are cuts it's either i say something offensive and then think about it again and say i'm not going to post that online or the other reason is i just really mess up you've heard me say social situations those two words together man they kill me they kill me so you have an issue with slurred speech as many many people do i don't know how bad it is and what kind of level you're at but i get that all the time i remember there was this interview i had years ago and i made the stupid mistake of of going to this interview is at 10 in the morning woke up at nine o'clock got to the interview and the first words that came out of my mouth were to the interviewer that is not smart so what happened just like you said i was tired my brain wasn't warmed up or your brain tired either in the morning or you're exhausted from a day of talking and then you get that slurred speech and that then you know gives you that social anxiety because you're like oh my god everyone thinks i'm a loser and i can't speak english oh my god what happened at that interview was again it was my first time speaking during the day i wasn't warmed up the vocal cords weren't warmed up my brain was still done it was it was still like asleep basically and i bombed that interview that was so bad learning experience next interview i had this was for uh for a summer job or no a job during focus baby a job during the school year and um the next time again interview was in the morning what did i do i called my mom and on the way to the interview while i was walking i spoke with my mom on the phone get the vocal cords warmed up she asked i'm just like mom just ask me random questions just let me let me speak let me just talk about things let my brain warm up let me get some you know thoughts going and you know warm up my tongue in my throat and whatever now that's one tip so if you're tired in the morning make sure before you go out into these social situations or before you meet people that you're kind of trying to you know i may be impressed if it's your close friends they don't care um make sure you warm yourself up second thing i would do is if you've been you said when you're tired too if you've been talking all day i get that too i get that too many people do um if you've been talking have you ever given like long speeches or presentations and after a while you just really pay attention to what you're sounding like and how your voice sounds and how you're moving your mouth and if it's dry you're like and like oh my god everyone can hear that shit i get that sometimes and i understand this is not this is like a lid from a um a spray bottle don't worry it's just vinegar in the spray bottle i usually use a wine cork um honestly if you need to carry a wine cork around just carry a wine cork around or something this size what happens when you're talking all days your jaw can lock up and it just gets so tired because it's always active the only time your jaw is not active is when a you're sleeping or it's propped up by something and i've shown this in other videos is if you've been talking all day and then you start slurring take a five minute break if you can say i gotta go to the bathroom that feels so good it feels so good because it's stretched out and therefore not being used and it just relaxes your jaw muscles that's one thing i would really recommend another thing actually let's make it three things act like a fool sound like a fool really before you're before you're going and speaking with whoever you need to speak to and you're afraid you're gonna slur your speech remember the warm up i talked to my mom you can talk to whoever really pronunciate certain words to get warmed up talk like this do it it helps it helps warm up the lips and the face and everything you need to speak and do some of these just really it's about warming up i used to go to the gym and i just started bench pressing what an idiot i used to be that is not smart now i warm up my shoulders for like 20 minutes and then you go do bench press into your exercise you need to warm up before you do something that can just be talking it doesn't need to be physical exercise this is your body this is your body warm it up baby so i really hope that helps my friend um you know i totally understand how that can trigger your social anxiety because you know when something like like that happened hey just hear that that was that was a little slurrage when something like that happens when you're slurring your speech you can think oh my god everyone's everyone's paying attention um but do the warm-ups and if you do slur this is maybe the biggest point if you're slur i should have said this at the beginning if you're slurring your speech who gives a shit come on who cares who cares who cares i know you care but don't care because they don't care if you're like hi my name is just be like sorry let me try that again hi my name is kind of make fun of it go with the flow poke fun in yourself say hey it's been a long day i've been speaking all day now go have some fun with it i hope that helps take care of that helps other people as well who are who are slurring a little bit pronunciate warm up and have some fun