I’ve got seven steps to help you stop mumbling good mythical morning today we tackle the teenage mumbling crisis is it a crisis it’s an epidemic really it’s been diagnosed now I mean the CDC it’s it’s I mean we’ve all mumbled at some point not just teens you know so what what did you say it’s it’s embarrassing but it happened so I’m a mumbler I will I will confess that I’m a mumbler I was a big mumbler as a kid right and like I get tired I really you ought to see me when I’m tired what you’re like this room okay so I’ve done some more research but– uh mainly on wikiHow okay well best source out there there’s lots of steps you can take to improve your ability to not mumble but I’ve taken my favorite steps and I’ve turned this into a workshop for you right I think you can benefit from at home or wherever you happen to be I hope you’re not driving a car and watching this what are you doing it through the glass unless you’re doing it unless you’re not mumbling not illegal yeah as long as you’re not mumbling that’s all I care about at this point so I’m gonna walk you through this workshop these seven steps and I want you to channel your inner mumbling teen oh I’ve got that and I can find him really easily let’s see if we can learn something okay one of the root causes of mumbling is being afraid of saying the wrong thing so before I give you this step why don’t you just kind of demonstrate that yeah use the word chicken instead of kitchen or vice versa that happens a lot like if you’re mumbling get words jumbled I don’t think I’ve ever actually done this oh I’ve done it give it a shot mom wanted me to tell you there are some kitchen and the chicken if you want any there was what some chicken what sorry what son I can’t understand you you got to stop mumbling okay so you burst I think it was somewhere in there the point is everybody makes mistakes you jumble up words sometimes you can’t be afraid you just got to own it and just just call it like it is okay so this time say it again but you just need to come right out and just own the fact you said it wrong correct yourself and move on the mom wanted to let me know let you know that there was some kitchen in the chicken Oh I mean chicken in the kitchen did you do what I said I got chicken and kitchen mixed oh I did sign there’s chicken in the kitchen not chicken kitchen in the chicken so I did mom said you can get some that’s good you owned it a little bit that’s fine you could have owned it even more like did you I said chicken when I was supposed to sick no I don’t overdo it how much you don’t want to overdo my teenager okay machine words together is obviously kind of the definition of mumbling you know when you here’s what I want you to do I want you to make a conscious effort to articulate now I have written a sentence on this on this card and it’s an opportunity to articulate but first just read it in team mumble voice on today Savalas really taste like Vogon doesn’t above you okay I didn’t quite understand that but I know what you’re trying to say because I wrote that so now make sure you stop and deliver the tea’s and the bees and the consonants and really differentiate between the vows try to articulate make a concerted effort that tasty barbed wire certainly tastes like bubblegum doesn’t it Bobby why are you eating barbed wire wait what do you what are you trying what are you getting at this has never happened on earth it hasn’t but I thought those words will be fun to enunciate and it also seems like you’re eating barbed wire and it tasted like bubble gum but the point is you articulated and I could understand it whether it makes sense or not feels whether it makes sense or not is beside the point right okay you just have to be understood okay bye now and I don’t and don’t call me Bobby okay link um keeping your mouth closed while you’re talking is a problem that that creates mumbling well I have a little mouth uh compared to yours especially now that you have a big mouth like yeah but proverbial but you have a very large mouth kind like a Mick Jagger mouth like ask me to borrow the car have like a Keith Richards mouth well you know ask me to borrow the car like I’m your dad Oh they died I wanted to borrow the coracle eggs nothing wrong your mouth I’m gonna tuck sure a little dude I need to Cheryl sure Lulu Cheryl the girl didn’t interested to know what a tutor Oh to the inner core okay no you get not if you’re gonna your mouth is gonna be shaped like that make ice and now open your mouth and give me the same requests again it’s as big as it gets uh yeah hey Dad I want to take Cheryl out in the car look how big my can get I please just keep it to yourself hey Dad I want to take Cheryl out in the car so on a date can we can I borrow the car cuz Cheryl it’s a girl that I’m interested in I’m saying her name is Cheryl which is like a retro name for a teen girl that’s why I like her dad cause she’s different than that then the Amanda’s like backing away slowly you know that to Amanda’s that I dated last year your son you can have me yeah Mary keys she’s in every piece her name is on my mouth take Cheryl the date and never never come back okay uh was that good people done my learning it was weird but yeah I knew what I wanted I wanted to take Cheryl out in the car yeah and you never come back share what I was there a teen girl named Cheryl please comment on this episode a lot of mumbling comes from being nervous which leads you to talk too fast so we can demonstrate that before I ask you to slow things down share a problem you’re having as a teen mumbling teen problems they don’t hate to tell you this but I lost my retainer today they had chicken nuggets it recovered to you and I was eating chicken nuggets and I took out my retainer so I wouldn’t get a minute chicken nuggets and then when I went to throw it at tray I forgot about her and I put this thing in the trash and I’ll do retainers in the trash him I got it you hope you’re not mad chicken nuggets retainer too much okay trust I got it right okay Trevor Tyson slow down make a conscious effort to slow down and give me that again son hey Dad yes today they served chicken nuggets at the cafeteria and I took out my retainer in order to enjoy the Nuggets I put on to the tray and then in a moment of excitement and forgetfulness when I was throwing away my tray I put the retainer in the trash and that is where it currently is I hope you’re not mad at me you if I’m going concerned that if you if you uh if you apply my stuffs you’re gonna become the weirdest teenager on the planet especially you got to know how to channel it if you’re in your mid-30s that makes it even awkward okay lots of mumbling comes from having a low volume that’s not great you can barely be heard you need to raise your voice don’t change the pitch of your voice now just seems a volume you need to bellow okay so tell me a teen accomplishment you want me to give the problem you want me to give you the solution me a little problem to give me a little solution for contrast hey Dad I got voted most likely to work at it what I did I got voted most likely to work at speak out I got in a yearbook I got voted more volume to work at a convenience store okay give me give me that again and really bellow it out hey Dad I got voted in the yearbook most likely to work at a convenience store I think that’s a good thing dad and just I hope you’re not mad at me and just add you shut up I found my retainer at the end of it you show not pause that’s right basically chanter you’re in old inner gandalf channel alright i said i don’t know what words i said but i’m gonna try to own it but i don’t know what it can are your channel check channel let see a no you’re not moving your dismiss channel your inner gandalf i’ll do an episode for you alright here’s another sing try this one on for size tell me about an embarrassing situation but sing this actually helps you learn to use air and control your articulation your breath your phrasing singing goes a long way to counteract mumbling dad the other day when you drop me off i got embarrassed cause you were playing John Cougar Mellencamp really loud in your convertible it’s a Chrysler dad it’s not cool it’s a Chrysler convertible and nobody cares about John Cougar Mellencamp anymore but don’t ever do that to me again I found my retainer I hope you’re not mad okay that was that was great all right last one right quick practice trouble words if there’s words you know you’re gonna get hung up that will lead to mumbling you need to practice them in your spare time now I’ve written some words that I know you have trouble with I want you to say these this is not as a team this is as Rhett words that Rhett has trouble saying practice them first one wolves wolves wolves is I say wolves wolves wolves that’s better that’s good don’t say wolves here’s another one oh I have a lot of trouble with this guy’s name Channing Tatum you can’t say Channing – Channing Tatum how do you normally say Channing Tatum’s if I’m guessing here if I’m guessing in a conversation like Channing Tatum Channing Tatum that’s a weird name man this one may be more pronunciation but I wanted to throw it in there anyway donut but that’s not how you say it I don’t say it doll not what donut donut donut donut donut yeah that’s what you say that’s not right donut donut y’all not oh it was an L in it right oh there’s no no no sorry all right uh clearly this is very helpful for Rhett and I’m ready to speak to the world I have I have given you the seven steps to success use at your own risk you’re welcome thanks for liking and commenting on this episode you know what time it is I’m Sophie and that’s George and Pippa from hartfordshire England and it’s time to spin the wheel of mythicality follow us on Instagram so you can see we’ll be cooked up for a waffle Wednesday we cooked it up because it’s a waffle also click through to good mythical more where we discussed the personal side of mumbling in our own lives and some theories surrounding that a little competitive botanist good to see you again George oh yeah die again this year let’s see you that hun you’ve got some sort of horticultural our horticulture yeah that’s what they call it more like hate occult here so over here look I’m I’m doing some final pruning on my award-winning plant well hopefully it’s a cantaloupe because that’s what the competition is this year ha cantaloupe cantaloupe and that’s another thing is my voice carries further because of my height so I don’t feel I would be as loud it’s gonna get to your ears it’s going every bugger everybody else is hitting mouthing off though sealing in the walls