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What's up guys! Welcome back to Madeline's videos! Wait, what's your- what's your channel called? Guys, welcome to the video zone! Today I'm here with my guest, Madeline RG. You've been pranked for the last 19 videos, all being bad. What's up guys! Welcome back to the video zone. Today I'm here with my guest, Madeline RG, and she is here to speak about her friends. What?
For context guys, for context, we were talking about friends and how they get allocated in people's lives and how people view friends because I think I don't make friends the same way people, normal people do. And Madeline explained to me that you have best friends, close friends, friends, and acquaintances. Sure, sure. Okay, sure. Okay.
You know what I have? All of that. I knew that. Very, very well balanced. But yeah, we were speaking about allocation. No, the way friends get allocated in different people's lives. Well, you asked me to draw your diagram. I never did. Oh, did I? I asked you to do it on that iPhone thing. I was going to get my iPad and my Apple Pencil, but I couldn't do it.
I see friends as some... Friends to me are just wholesome. I have a cutting off problem. That lock button is calling my name every two seconds. But I think that you have actually had a bad run of luck with friends. So that's the other thing. I would literally... I'm blind to people. But you're not though because you have that one talent where you read people in front of their faces. I can't see anything. I can't see anything.
Yeah, I can read people but then like for example like that friend of mine that like we spoke about and I was like guys do you think this is bad? And you guys were like yes, she doesn't like you. That was the worst part because some people are like mean and horrible and then some people actually fucking hate you. Yeah. Like my one friend that I told you about the one that I always say that you're one reminds me of. She fucking hates me. She's always hated me. I think.
I think one thing that nobody speaks about is the fact that it's hard to make friends, especially as adults. Oh, yeah. That's the one thing that I'm like, okay, why does everyone have friends? Like, and then...
They're like, oh, we just met. Well, to be honest, how did we meet? That's the story. Should we tell it? Yes. You guys, I have this hobby. I have no shame in this hobby. Where I go around the streets of London and I just cry. I have a performance. And once upon a time, Madeline was... I was in Oxford Street. I was crying on a bench.
and I was looking at my phone and this was way way before. This is years ago. Weirdly. Like 2022. I was still in school. Me too. Were you on a blanket or something ridiculous? That hoodie. I got rid of it. I'm not saying it wasn't cute. No. I got rid of it. I have gotten a lot of comments about that hoodie. It's got a gun. It wasn't in too many. I don't know.
I looked for it the other day. Where did it go? I threw it away. Well, I'm confident about the city. Anyway, I see there's like a crowd of people and a mountain is within this crowd and these white blue eyes
are staring at me amongst this crowd. I look up and she's looking at me and I message her. Why were you staring at me? No, but you messaged me, but we don't know each other. She Instagram DM'd me in my DM request. We did not have any connection. It's literally because her TikTok was on my phone. I'm crying. I'm watching. But this is, by the way, this is the first video of mine that anyone's ever seen. I'm looking at this video. It's so unflattering, the whole video.
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I go on our trips. You know what the funniest part is that I always... Do you want to think about this interaction? I don't know if I have this right, but was I coming around a bend and then you were on a bench? Or was I walking straight, straight, straight, straight, straight? Because I always think I came around the bend and then you were on the bench and then I walked straight past you. No, because you know how like Oxford Street, the further down you go, it bends all the way through, but it's not a strong turn. Yeah.
I didn't come from an off street. I don't know. I just saw you in the crowd. But I just know that that street has a band. Do you know like when you walk all the way from the top, like from, like you know where Microsoft is? I know where we were. Yeah. And I know why I was there with my mom at Dashcam. I know why I was there. I was crying. I was having my performance. We were both having a pretty good day. When two worlds collide. Anyway, I saw her across the crowd. Looked at my phone. It's the same girl. I'm looking at her.
I click on her TikTok. I click on her Instagram. I asked her why she was staring at me. And she says, sorry, I have a staring problem. And we followed each other. But you were also the first person to ever, like, see me in real life and know me from the internet. So I was like, oh, crazy. Yeah, wild. The big leagues. So I responded. She was like, oh, yeah. And then she just kept inviting me to dinner parties. I went like, let's leave.
supper clubs guys supper clubs and i never have i've still this day never go i'm sorry i i literally messaged her and i was like no i remember when i did i put um i put up with my story i'm having a supper club who's down she votes yes next time you know i'm hosting the supper club and it was the first one it was a thanksgiving and um
I have a time for like hey like I'm hosting the supper club like you asked if I'm like so calm and she's like I don't know how to cook and I was like that's fine you can you can clean and then she was like okay cool it's now time to go to the supper club uh the supper club she sends me a voice note this is the first time I've heard her voice was I screaming I don't still we don't know each other in
And then what happened after that? And then I think she said, she posted, this was the start of our friendship. She was like, oh, where should I look, guys? No, I posted something about wanting to violently attack all of the estate agents in London. No.
I was like, I was like, I'd want to kill all the estate agents in London, something like that. I was like, I'm so frustrated. You asked like, oh, should I live in Canary or should I live in? No, I DM'd you to ask where you live because I had like never seen the inside of like a bougie flat in my life and you posted your kitchen table. I was like, what restaurant is this? I said, my house. You said, this is my house. Oh, got it. But,
And then I've written my story something like "I'm so frustrated with the estate agents in London because they kept like fucking me over" and then you were like "Oh my god, I'll help you look for a flat, it's my hobby." It's literally my hobby, you're good. I will find a flat for anyone I want. You actually never found me a fucking flat. Exposed. My career is over again. It's not a hobby, she's just really bad at it. I just don't have a flat. I'm gonna buy me a house, it's just like, you know, I'm not tangible for anybody to live in. That's why I moved out. It was not livable. How do you find yourself a fucking flat? This bitch.
She goes to a flat viewing, looks out the window and sees railroads. And she says to the estate agent, "Lal?" He goes, "No, no, no. You won't even hear it." She's like, "Okay, I'm gonna wait in the flat until the train goes by so I can, like, test this theory." And then she goes to look in the toilet. And when she comes out, the estate agent goes, "Yeah, one actually just went by. You just, like, didn't hear it, did you?" She's like, "Oh, no. Oh, perfect. I'll move in." You guys see trains? And for 30 seconds... You're like...
They're screeching. They're screaming. It's like, he's like, he pranked you. It's so funny. They pranked you. It's so great of them to do because what if one went by obviously? I would have looked up like, what? I don't know what that was. What was that? You guys, like, where I live as well, there's a tunnel.
Underneath this tunnel, the only outdoor club in all of Europe, completely illegal. You guys, there's police that shuts it down. That's how often it would happen, because everyone would be like, who is performing outside of my house? Because it's a birthday. Skeptics! I was like, in a tunnel, completely exposed. I was like, what is happening? What could I do? It's horrible. I literally get the heebie-jeebies thinking about that flat. I haven't been there for like a month now.
Yeah, she was living at my flat, which I hadn't moved out of because it's too loud for me because there's a hum in the walls. That's it. It's just a slight noise. By the way,
There is no noise at all in her brain. No, guys, you don't understand because someone has been drilling... Okay, no, this is fucking hilarious because there's, like, a construction site next to my bedroom wall and I've never gone over there to, like, see what's going on on the other side. But she's so impatient. So she's been staying in my flat. She broke into the construction site and then go... She sent me a video of...
This is a building with not one single piece of infrastructure on the inside. Not one wall. Nothing. And they told me they were going to be done in February. It's very... There's no walls. There's no stairs. It's just a big hole and then scaffolding. The only way to go and see this flat is to collide on her roof, which I did. And then we got in. No way. I showed your mom. She was like, how did you find out?
The ladder. Also, she posted an Instagram story about stood on the roof of my flat. What did you get there? The ladder, babe. Is that a real one? Yeah. No way. I, like, literally, there was a ladder up there, so I just, like, put it up. Climbed all the way up. Trespassed. Went over. And it is...
Her landlord just lied to her. There is... I got the impression that what? That they're just refurbishing someone's flat? I was told that they're refurbishing the interior. They have knocked down everything. It is completely empty in there. It's gray. It's cement. They are going to have to put in every single piece of internal hardware. Stairs, walls, ceilings, windows. There's nothing. There's just walls. There's just walls.
They're retiling the ceiling right now. It makes me fucking insane. And you know what the worst part is? They go in there at 6 in the morning, drill directly into my bedroom wall and then stop at about 8am. Then they just go up and do something else and it happens every day. Do you have to do the drilling? And also, why my wall? It's no sense if I could show you. What are you putting in the wall? You're maybe drilling in a unit or putting in brick. What the
I'm just drilling holes and then filling them back with cement I'll be back tomorrow they are doing this on purpose to her I swear so the worst part is is I was going fucking insane because of the noise and then I had the trip to LA that I've like just come to New York from
And I had two weeks in LA. I get into my hotel room and Tama had already joked to me like, babe, what if I stay in your flat and there's no drilling and this is all in your head? And I was like, don't fucking play with me. I get to London, LA. I put my bag of chandler in my room. I'm like, man, it's a gorgeous room, beautiful hotel. I'm like, oh, peace and quiet. I'm like, from the flat. And she said, there. And my jaw dropped. I was like, this is in my head. This is no fucking way. She messaged me immediately. She's like, you'll never believe it. I don't believe it, actually.
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I'd say like, I guess five is a lot. Yeah, that is a lot of five. But I only really hang out with you. Yeah. I don't hang out with you. Actually, I only hang out with you. I don't hang out with anybody. Like, I used to have a lot of friends. She's gone like for like about ten and a half months out of the year. That's a bunch of minutes.
It's true. It's true. It's so true. I used to have a lot of friends, but I think as I grew up, I just realized that there was a massive imbalance between me and my friends. It just never made sense to me how people can take and not give on a level. For example, I think my biggest epiphany is I think I told you about my birthdays. Did I not tell you? Yes. This is insane. I would pay so much money.
for my friends to have fun on my birthday. And I didn't realize, like, also, like, from where I come from and stuff, hospitality is a really big thing. Like,
Like, to be hospitable and to make sure that everyone around you is having fun. And also for me, in my mind, I was like, I don't want people who maybe are on the same, like, financial level as other people to feel jealous around other people, feel like they can't be out on a date that I want everyone to have fun on. And finances are so old at this age because everyone's in such different places. Exactly. And I just, like, basically delete that whole conversation by taking care of everyone. But then it came to a moment where, like, the last two birthdays I had,
I would like literally like sit in my bed and be like, did I even enjoy my time? And then I cut everybody off. No middle ground, no conversations. We just cut people off. And I feel like also like for me, and I think this is something like that I was asking you about.
Because I'm just genuinely so confused on what friends are for or what they're meant to be because in my mind I think I have like a picture of a friend someone that you hang out with Companion that enjoys some things the same as you they have to be different They have to be funny like they have to be all these things because otherwise I don't think I could ever like somebody That's half of these things. Yeah, that's how I view it and then I learned that I
from you, from that conversation that we had on what friends are and how friends are allocated or compartmentalized in people's lives is just so bewildering to me. This friend is good for like, I don't know, going out together and this friend is good for being a shoulder to cry on. And I'm like, how can you be all these different people? Like, it's just not consistent. I feel like a lot of people fake it. Like,
You know those people that have, like, relationships back to back to back? Like, there's always those guys that are always with a boy and, like, chronic dangers. You think, how do you find someone that you're always happy with? Because they're not. Like, they're not actually looking at the person that they're with. It's just, like, company to them. I've actually never met someone like that. Have you not? Mm-mm. They're all around you. I know people who, like, to this day, haven't been single since they were, like, 15 years old.
Like, what do you mean, like, they're in relationships all the time? Like, not at all. Like, people just, like, need a body. So I feel like a lot of people, they, like, have so many friends because they don't actually really care what their friends are like. But then would that mean that, like, people are, like, secure? Like, within, like, how, like, lacking a friend is? This is the thing that I told you, I think, like, I genuinely have a problem because my standards are too high and, like, I actually, like, I've been told
you will not have a good life by my parents, by friends I had, by people around me that, like, my standards need to be lower. Otherwise, I will never be happy. And I'm like, I'm a problem. Have I not told you this? Yes, I, I've,
You have? I've always been told this, and I'm like, I don't understand what you mean, but my standards need to be lower. It's what I would want. It's either I'm unhappy or I'm unhappy, because either way, I'm unhappy. True. That's why I was telling you, holding people to the standard that you think they can be on. Yeah. But then would you ever hold yourself to the same standard? Yes. You would? 110%. All of the time? Yeah, because I think it's the bare minimum. Yeah.
What even is your... Okay, so, like, you always tell me you have high standards and blah, blah, blah, blah. You've never actually... I don't think I have. No, but you tell me that you find it hard to, like, actually have proper relationships with people because the second you feel let down, which is most of the time, then the second that happens, it's, like, a done deal for you. Like, you can't go back. Yes, because what I... Like, my done deals are a lot to go... Like, it's about loyalty and betrayal and stuff like that.
It's about being like consistent and kind and not mean and not weird What could I do something that you would view as like betrayal? Betrayal it would probably be like bully bullying I think betrayal with from a friend is like when you confide in someone and you find out they told other people about it You know how curious you've ever done?
I only ordered me two pastas just in case one didn't pop properly New word guys, buzzin' I've been living in London for six years and this line that I have is a book and I genuinely thought I would never ever like learn new words and I get surprised. Buzzing was the last one. Actually I think there were two other ones that I learned the other day. Buzzing
But you used it so wrong. No, because basically, obviously, there is... Can I speak about gangs on here? I have a party trick where I literally can... My head is flat. Let's start with that. My head is fully flat. It's a role of my headstands. I can do amazing headstands. I can do shapes. While I'm on my head, I can go completely flat with no arms.
I can hold my hands. I can go like crouch like this. And whenever I go into Malin's house, because she's like five minutes away from me, I ask her to look at the camera every single time. I'm doing a headstand. I don't even know she's in my fucking house. I'm like, look. Stand on your camera. Stand on your camera. Stand on your camera. She's like, I know how to lie in my face. She's like, no, you're upside down right now. It's me turned away because I'm so embarrassed. She's like, you see?
She just said something earlier, you really know, like, we got the keys away, ran back into the room, by the track, we got back out of the way, she was on her head, legs like this in the air, but for once, to me, it was the fucking scariest thing I've ever seen in my life. That neck was strong. That was one of the first times we ever had, like, a funny conversation, which I was sending you a video. She made her friend the one for her.
It was really a pandemic, I was losing my mind. In the corner of her room, and I was spelling the letters with my head on the floor. I'm not the singing video when you're butching Zicolette. So shy. You guys, I sing only in secret. And I was performing for my friend for the first time ever, and I was so shy. I just...
Oh my god! Oh my god! Okay. I have no time. Just go in that slur. I think the next one should be anyway. And then it's you going, oh my god. We're trying to film this friend episode and we're talking about everything about friends. Sorry guys. This is my first public appearance on the internet. Well maybe not bitch because earlier we were in a fur store. Fur of course. And...
And me and Tim have put on these big hats. Breakdancing in the corner, I turn around, this girl's directly filming us. Really? You saw her? I saw the other guy. There was a girl. She was hiding behind one of the wig sections and she was like filming us. Breakdancing. I tried to signal you. And then I said, I said,
Like to make sure that you weren't like in a fucking thing. Because she had her gun with the retina going to us and just started brain tossing in the corner. Okay babe, this is when this hits up. I've been learning how to duck eating, but I don't know how to do it so I just... I don't know how to dance this in my life. I only know that one dance. There was a fish halfway down the road and I started laughing and it came.
You guys, every time I'm with Madeline, the laughing gas just starts happening everywhere. We cannot get one conversation out. No, no, we got one out. And then the rest of it... I can't even tell you one funny thing we said the entire fucking time I was at the West Park. What did we even talk about? What, that day? I don't even remember. No. I just remember you literally slapping my floor, leaving a dribble pool on my floor from laughing. So, and I do not know what anybody said to cause that to happen.
It's way too much. When Daniel was talking about like that Turkish barber shop, I thought that was the funniest fucking thing I've ever heard. It's the vibe that he complained about in five minutes. Jason, I look so fucked up. And I was like, but that was the first time. They fucked me up. Like, look at these other particulars. He's like crying, mopping things. That was the first time. Can we talk about that again? What is wrong with you? Is it your brain? It sounds familiar. There's lots. You know that?
Yeah. I was literally at the end and they gave me like a punch hole in the face. I laughed really hard. I can't close my mouth anymore so I just drool. I'll be on the floor. And I cry as well so like I get up. I'm like I literally cannot even control my body anymore and it's like tear, tear, pool of saliva because my mouth is like wide open like on the floor. It sucks.
Yeah, whatever. I'm not even that serious. Ugh, my stomach hurts. I think like, I genuinely think hanging out with Madeline is like a whole entire workout. I think we use weight- Controversial. I apologize for the video. Second video.
Guys, it's hard to make friends. Don't bother. Literally, don't. Just cry in the streets and hope for the best. Stare at strangers. But you know what? I was staring at the stranger outside earlier and she was nice. Yeah. And she was like, oh my god, did you see that? Yeah, a little bit of human connection. Yeah. Made me feel good. Yeah. Anyway, leave some comments down below. Coming up in our next video, how to not make friends. She did a tutorial. She threw on the look of make friends.
I feel like it's really easy here though. Oh, we have other plans actually for New York. Yeah, we have a lot of plans. Right, guys. Oh, that's a thumbnail. Love you. Love you.