0:00 [Music] The odds were good, huh, bro? good. They were juicy this morning. Damn. Cuz they were the underdog. Yeah. I know we saw that line, too. Welcome back to another but Nick stopped us. I thought we were only sticking to fighting and football. We're going to go to basketball now? Basketball. We'll go where the money is, baby. You making up sports? Basketball. You guys have all been here a pretty long time at JK News. That's a Wait, that fan who came on here Shame on her. You saw that? That was funny. Well, no, of course, cuz you put it on Twitter. That was funny, though. What's it called? X. Elon dick sucker. Elon dick sucker. No, that was funny,
0:51 though. I I actually loved her. She was great. No, she was. But, total ████ No PvP. Go look up Evy Lee, how many videos he's been in versus me. Shut the ████ up. Oh, is it by quantity? He's changing the configuration. What a classic guy. He admits it to me privately. [Laughter] All right, so my question is what's something valuable that you've learned from being here? Oh, Jesus. From being in JK? JK News? Yeah, like or or what's something that you we've learned from each other? Can we pause and like go meditate? Yeah, can we can we write down to my top five top answers? Can can I tell you what I think it is? What I think it is from me
1:42 is like um when we go on our when we used to go on our walks Yeah. I would always like imagine like what other people think. Cuz we're all butt naked sometimes. Well, with like we all look different. You know, like Quest Crew, you guys all look the same. Right? Kinjaz kind of like all look the same. Well, yeah, but that's true. Like we all look from like different we're into different ████ or whatever. And it's cool that like a group of people from the outside don't look like they blend but what keeps us so compatible and harmonious is what is on the inside. And I feel like as long as you have like really similar core values, you connect with anybody. I actually love that. That's true. That's cute, but I bet you a bunch of
2:32 people out there would be like, we all look the same. You look the same as us? Because sometimes I'm walking around a gold tracksuit. Exactly. That's what I mean. It's like And dude, I see people drive by like, what the If we if we are the most us Yeah. like in the in the like in your crazy tracksuit or whatever like if we're walking on the street people would see us six and go, that doesn't even make sense. You don't think people would like if Joe's walking on the street with a ████ cape, no shirt on. He's in a ████ crazy tracksuit. Like all of us are the most us of of ourselves, they'll be like, what the ████ way, everyone thinks you're Indian, everyone. You're definitely Indian. I'm not kidding, everyone. But from far away, they might think you're Mexican. Side note. It's it's a fact. Hey, it just gives you feeling Filipino right now. Every time I meet a JK normie, they
3:23 think you're Indian. It's hilarious. Well, that's cool, cuz then you cover that area. The odds are high that I would be Indian. It's just because your name is Ryan. [Laughter] Okay, good. Ryan That's one of the valuable things I learned, I think. That's cool. I like that a lot. Yeah. I do honestly thought of that walking around. I know that we do a lot of bits on this show but honestly, what I've learned is that honesty is sometimes my favorite part about this place. Because a lot of the bits are inspired by honesty, but sometimes we bore in deeply on real ████ and I think those are my favorite videos. Every time that we go Why do you think we ████ around so much and we don't do those more? Because we don't want to go deep cuz like life sucks, right? But but but when we actually man up and
4:14 like read read between our legs and just go ████ it I think we do do some quality ████ when it comes to real ████ and I think that's what well, we're not going to I'm not going to give any anything away, but Bart's kind of tilting us towards something cool that I think is a really good idea. No teasers, but how about tease? And uh I do think it's a great idea to to do more things in that direction not taking away from the spice of like what we do, but just like kind of just allowing us to have that space to just like talk openly about ████ The same way that like Bart was just openly talking about his dad and nobody was like coming in with like ████ tag team and bits or whatever. Oh, he wanted to, though. Oh, we thought about it and I especially me. But no, but that's the thing is like we know how to read the room and I like that about this
5:04 particular room. Cuz we don't have as much stand-ups in here who are trying to like just work their own material out and not engage. Well, yeah, that happens, too. And that's fine. That happens. People get nervous, but I do appreciate the boys when we're when it's the boys. I really do. Yeah, let me get my bits in, man. One of the other things that made me think of is if this place had a list of core values I think one of them is ████. Which is top Why would we ever get this? Oh, dude. When I see I just ████ there's a lot of great words that can still be used in parallel. This is under People thought this was fake. ████ is one of the biggest core values of this place, I think. All right, dude, I tell me I always forget I have it even.
5:54 Cuz people do all the the normal stuff, right? Honor, loyalty, whatever. Ours is like Well, that's cheesy. and ████ Let's get some Let's get ████ valor together, guys. The worst part in ████ val It's like, come on, dude. The worst part of my day is when I wear shorts and somebody asks me, what does that tattoo mean? And I'm like, well, here's the thing, I I'm on this You mean the best part of your day, bro. No, but me having to explain it and then their face afterwards going uh Dude, I was on a cruise, the the the cruise I was on, the Parker cruise, and this chick, she was like a drunk Japanese chick and she comes to me, she's like that's incorrect ████ whatever and I was like, ████ I don't ████ First of all, I don't owe you anything. I've never met you in my life. I don't owe you anything. But she's sitting there, oh, it's incorrect. What she say? cro cry cryon cra
6:46 incorrect what the kanji cryon cryo cryon But I was like, ████ I don't ████ know. All I know is this MEANS I'M BADASS. AND SHE WAS SO MORTIFIED. And the fact I think the best part of it is we don't have to explain it to you. AND IT'S LIKE, I KNOW IT'S WRONG, YOU STUPID ████ EXACTLY. That's why we got it. She's like, that's I think that's incor that's incorrect kanji or whatever and I'm like The best part is explaining it to everybody. No, no, no, you're wrong. It's a story. It's a story of it. Well, if you were a white like me, you would take particular delight in telling people, oh, no, it means I'm A ████ BADASS. HE GETS TO REALLY LEAN into the role.
7:37 You get to be a living ████ Dude, I'm like I'm a Georgia white. Yeah, I'm I'm like, hey, dude. Ask me about my tattoo. That's what That should be my ████ bumper sticker. And I'll kick your ass. And then you top it off He's a hard ass, dude. The fact that you could say there's a guy with two of them. Somebody told me this means Trump 2024. [Laughter] You can do There's so many ways you can play that. Oh, dude, it's infinite end endless endless. I mean, it's nice to know that I have five other guys that are willing to jump off a bridge with me and do something stupid as ████ Like I was in disbelief when we were getting it done. ████. Stupidity. I was like
8:29 Kind of parallel. Oh, Nick ain't coming. Nick's going to fight. I know, I didn't believe it. And then when you when you played that, I was like, oh, that's so good. Dude, remember me yelling at Nick on the phone? Remember me fake yelling at Nick on the phone? Nick's in the ████ closet. All the way over here, I was like, I can I can just leave. I just won't show up. Well, the craziest thing is, you have no tattoos. no tats. He was going TO DO IT FOR THE WHEN HE SAYS HE'LL DO SOMETHING, he'll do it for the bit. You have zero tattoos. And now your wife thinks you're stupid for it. Oh, she know Yeah, yeah, she knows what's up. She's used to it now. But the fact that we all just went for it and I'm like, this is ████ dope. That's why this is the best room ever, seriously. We would commit to something so dope. Oh, I knew it. I knew it. I mean, that's like us going to the Trump Tower. We Cuz we made a joke and the fans were like, yeah, dude, film at the Trump Tower.
9:21 To keep Steve, you have to go film at Trump Tower. He said that's the one condition he'll come back on the show. That's so dope. And we could have filmed anywhere. Right anywhere. have done I don't know why we did it. Dude. We just thought it was funny, but then we just we didn't get to show any of the Trump Tower. I didn't even get to stay IN THE ████ PENTHOUSE. RYAN GOT TO STAY THERE. But the thing is He gets some good whiskey, right? think how far we go to have a good time Let's keep going. That's it's just a good like a lot of people don't get that. No, yeah, yeah. know. Especially like the older we get, like how many guys are That's it. For the story. Like Well, that's that's the thing that down ass ████ are there? That's where that that's one thing I learned too was that like for me, my personal reason is that and for those of you who are like 30 and up and are guys, you've realized
10:12 now how hard it is to see your own friends. And I think like as life goes, you know, it's it's so difficult and it's such a spoil to know that like it's scheduled and it's going to happen. But it's like we're going to have these intervals where like it almost helps your own individual life knowing that like there's a check-in that's coming. For real. Every single time. Oh my god, like that stability. Like I wasn't that stable with my circle of friends when we all didn't have jobs, you know, what I mean? Like things still brought people apart. But then to have something like this, you can't manufacture this like in the real world anywhere. And when you look at the call sheet, like for example, tomorrow and you see Anthony's not on it, it's like euphoria Euphoria bliss. Hallelujah. It's like holy ████ we're going to
11:03 really do something special here. Can't wait till That's also tight that we get to meet someone new a lot of the time because we meet Tulsi Gabbard like Yeah, what the ████ is that? That's ████ crazy. Have these experiences like we're experiencing these things together. It's so sick. That was so fun. That was so fun. I was on a cruise ship with a bunch of old people too who like watch Fox News and ████ Like I was getting them all horny. Like I was like, all right, I talked to Tulsi last week and ████ And these people are just like, no way. And I'm I pull up the video barely with Wi-Fi barely chugging or whatever. But like they could see they could see me in the video with Tulsi I'm like holy ████ That's some crazy guy with a ████ kanji tattoo like talking out of your ████ Asking if she's a Russian asset.
11:55 But no, the the old people does that's like elevated here. But like my own neighbor who's like just he's like early 40s. I was like, hey dude. I was like you're semi political. I'm going to be on with Tulsi Gabbard tomorrow. If you have any questions, let me know. I'm like compiling ████ cuz Bart gave me no notice. And he he's he's ████ high as ████ I call him. And he's like who the ████ is Tulsi Gabbard? That's the answer I got from him. So I was like, okay, yeah, all right. That's about how it's going to be our age wise, but if you go up 10 years like on the demos, everyone knows who she is. It's wild. Cuz they're all into politics. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Go ahead, Anthony. Your rebuttal, sir. Rebuttal? All right, what's something you learned, Mr. Deep Man? We already all know good times with people
12:46 obviously brings you closer. It's when you suffer through hard times that that's when you truly bond. We haven't suffered very much here. Another bar, dude. Dude, if I never would have met ████ Steve, I never would have lost 1 and 1/2 million dollars. That's kind of fire. You wouldn't have made that much either. You didn't put a million dollars in, did you, ████ time to talk. You're welcome. It's my time to talk. If you could just shut up and just do your all Steve day tomorrow, everybody's going to end at 9:30 p.m. Um People can't wait. Everybody everybody already knows cuz I've said this theme before, but being able to come into a space and just express yourself, you know, there's no there's no glitz and glamour. This place is the cockroach of YouTube.
13:37 There's there's definitely no glamour. You know what I mean? I don't have to faint my artistry here and like, you know, put on some act. If anything, I get ████ this is really bad for my branding to like be here all the time. Well, but the honesty and the vulnerability is it makes you feel grounded. It just like gives you a space to just be real about stuff. There's actually genuinely moments just poetry again. There's moments when you actually forget and don't give a ████ that the camera is there because you're just in routine of doing your weekly therapy. And and I find I find So true. learning learning about life through other people's opinions about the articles that we're bringing up because it changes it affects how you feel or how it affects how you believe
14:29 in things too. And I feel like I've learned so much from all y'all here just on how you perceive life through the most extreme and shallow stories to the actual real ones concerning like real life to like raising children to like how we treat our parents to like our our national culture to politics to whatever. Like I've been able to sit here and just be an actual like sponge to like other people's belief systems and they've affected me and it's learned I've I've been able to become a more evolved person because of your guys' experiences through life. Um least of all Joe's, but very much so Joe's. Like the the more different we are with each other, the more we learn from each other. You know what I'm saying? But do you know when I'm lying? All the time. I don't. I still haven't learned that.
15:20 No, I I I remember I remember when the camera's off, we already know who Joe is. I I I said that that last time, too. Okay. I remember No, I remember knowing you through Tuberscum ████ So I was like, oh, he's just a ████ tuber, right? And then like you came on here cuz like I've been on here for many years newer. But no, no. But no, no. You have to join one our team here. Yeah, apparently. Apparently. But no, it's crazy to think that like even you, too, cuz you I remember you coming in and you coming in, but like you didn't even ████ you were here, but like for not really a year and a half. But then you you started talking. Yeah, a year and a half later cuz these guys are so ████ nice and generous. And I'm glad that they did, by the way, cuz I I didn't understand early what they saw in you. I'm not like No, straight up, me neither. Me neither. I'm not saying ████ Nick or
16:10 like No, it's okay if you No, no, I say that about I wouldn't say that about you. Is this good content? No, no, exactly. But that's what I mean. It was like it was just like it's like hanging out with Colleen where I'm like, when are we going to ████ hear about our real ████ Please, for ████ sake. Can we hear some real ████ And it but it takes time and it's worth it. It's worth the wait. And I didn't I don't I I think I was too harsh earlier because I was just about, hey, is this good content today? But these guys are like, let's slow beat it and give good content in 2 and 1/2 years. And I was like, these guys have vision I don't have. Every cast needs a long game, yeah. Yeah. But no, I always liked you from jump, but it was funny to watch you like come into your own and find your voice. And you obviously have that now. It's like not even a question. Everyone knows that. And you're a gem. But knowing you the way that I do now is
17:01 hilarious. You're one of my best buds. I love you. I love all you boys. You're all my best buds, but it's just funny cuz I knew knew you just as a guy from Tuberscumness. Where it's like Yeah, I know, but he's like the kinjas guy or whatever. And I remember him coming on here and like being just like, ah, whatever. Who who ████ cares? Plus you hate dancers. Yeah, I hate dancers from jump. But no, it's just Get to the good part. perspective is so beautiful. This room is truly, thanks to you cats, this room is unbelievable. You But you guys had to protect it the whole time. Like you guys had to keep it, you know, cuz there was time where we were And you had to still do it when it was financially stupid. Yeah, legit. In a really tough time. We hit a peak and then we probably lost money for like 3 years after the peak. Waiting for Nick to open up. And it finally
17:51 I'm going to do it, dude. Finally when this dude opened up He finally he did the he did the the the um the Mark Mark Mark rate story. And I was like, oh, well, there he is. Yeah. But it was worth the wait. He broke the Mark rate story. Was the catalyst. Honestly, I thought I was like I'm probably not going to come back after this week and I kept coming back and I was like, yeah, this is it after this one. Kept coming back. This is it. That was just in my mind like that's what I was really thinking. Um but going back to the question, I feel like this has been the craziest internship of all time in my eyes. Cuz what when Bart asked me to do the show, I was like, you sure? All right, maybe. And I was like, anytime any you guys ask
18:41 me to do a show, I'm like, they must not have anybody. You know, and that was like genuinely what I thought. And I would have conversations with Tiff about this all the time. They don't. You know, absolutely. Absolutely. And at the time, you guys really didn't have anybody and you were like, hey, I'm we were training one time and you were like, hey, you want to come on JK News? And I was like, you sure? I literally said that to you. And you're like, yeah, come on. So anyways, but being in this room, I've just it's a lot of what Anthony said. It's like I've never been in a room where I get to be with people who are you know, who's seen so much life different than mine. Like I spent my whole life in a ████ gym. Like my first like early 20s is like just in a gym training with dudes and like fighters all the time, you know, teaching kickboxing classes. And you know, in that world I get to meet a lot of cool people, but I've never been in a
19:32 room consistently around people like you guys like and I always said this and you you guys might think this is a joke, but like industries like you know, giants of your industry is a lot of ways. So it's like I get to hear about you know, just your stories of how you guys became who you are today. And for someone at my age at the time, I I like, holy ████ this is pretty nuts. And then on top of that, we get to have all these guests that like Thatch, like Tulsi Gabbard, where you're just like, "I'm going to shut the ████ up and just listen to what you have to say and be a sponge because, you know, when else who else would ever be in a position like this?" So, um yeah, I just feel like anything you guys talk about, I'm like, "Oh, that's interesting. That's interesting. You talking about you being a dad, you talking about running your guys' companies all the time." I'm like, "Oh, that's how you do it. Oh, that's how you file your ████ taxes." You know, so it's like it just these all
20:23 these gems from just being a fly on the wall and then also learning how to do this ████ bro. You think I'd ever I never thought I would ever No, I appreciate it. So, that's not really a natural, really. No, but uh teaching me to be funnier. Well, then ████ you, dude. Um but no. Just having to Man, ████ you. To see how you guys produce this show and to be on a ████ you know, a wildly popular YouTube channel is pretty ████ crazy, I think. Watching this guy become a dad, too, is the only reason I maybe will become a dad one day because you have evolved, my friend. Really? As a person? Cuz at first, you made him not want to have kids cuz you're like, "F███ this I was like, "We don't need more of this guy." Yeah. And then he made another one and
21:14 he actually like raises him as little him robot and I'm like, "Dude, I see it. I see it. I never seen you love anything like you do Taika and it's beautiful." Yeah, hearing your thought process of how you raise Taika and like all the how much thought that goes into it, I'm like, "Oh, s███." It's the most genuine thing I've ever seen, honestly. Like you loving Taika, seriously. You complain about fitness, you complain about barbell, you complain about Geo, you complain about Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You're like a real ass dad, dude. Outside of the seizure thing, he jokes about that a lot. I mean, it's inconvenient. He says he has weak genes. I do want to see Usher. Adding to the whole honesty of this group and how everyone just does ████ talk and open up and
22:05 from family to like personal things and you know, when other people do it, it sounds like they're almost bragging about their pain. And it's this performative thing, right? Whereas here, I think like we actually don't want to ████ do it. But then it's like, well, it's either I'm honest with my boys or ████ I got to just do it, right? And then we're kind of like easing into it. But the benefit of that is the people that are watching that feel alone and they might be going through something similar to that, they see how we handle it. Like Bart's bad passing, us going through crazy things, right? And then like we're able to process, joke, and just like move on in life and still like not let it define us or whatever. And I think there's a lot of people out there. Every ████ meet and greet we do, there's always someone like, "I was going to kill myself."
22:55 There's so many people that were going to kill themselves. Or they were in the hospital or they were in a dark time. We did a story of what's her name, she had a car accident, almost paralyzed. And everyone goes, "JK's that spot where I can laugh about my trauma or I could just be in a different mood because you guys are having such a good time like and it changes that." You've saved more lives than the people who than EMTs, doctors. We're ████ lifesavers, you could say. But the people don't say that, though. But the coolest thing is when I get to meet them face to face and then it's like there's this um already like comfort of like, "Oh, you're ████ cool." And then over the years, you know, I think like it it's beyond this room. So, now we
23:45 built a community. So, then that's probably one of the biggest thing is that being able to connect with a lot of people outside of this space and there's familiarity because of the years of stories and like growth that Some people be like, "Dude, you raised me. I ████ been watching you guys since I was 12." So, like things like that. 30 people got saved by search and rescue today and we saved 3,000. ████ yeah. Our numbers are way bigger. Total number of people watch our videos, 3,000. That many people watch us that want to kill themselves. I don't know why. EVERYBODY NEEDS A HERO, OKAY? I don't know why, but there's always someone that's about to ████ kill themselves. I'll be ████ working at Jamba and passing out drinks and then this dude's telling me he's about to ████ off
24:35 himself and I'm all like, "All right, dude, enjoy your boba." But he takes a sip and he goes, "Never mind." ████ I WAS ABOUT TO KILL MYSELF, BUT I DRANK JAMBA AND I FEEL SO much better. He's like, "I got to be real, I was going to kill myself when I saw you cleaning the sinks in the bathroom and I was like I feel bad. I feel so bad for you. You know what the coolest thing is, too? One thing I learned is that like you you hear it so much when you look at other people's content or channels and they always say the same ████ like, "Oh, I don't do I don't do this for the money. I do it for the love of it." This is the only thing I've ever seen that truly doesn't do it for the money, man. I just suck ████ Do we really do it for the money or we just suck ass at business? Probably the latter, but we're not going
25:25 to say that. You're good at business, you don't APPLY IT HERE. THAT'S TRUE. THAT'S A FACT. IT'S A ████ GOOGLE IT. GOOGLE IT, YOU DUMB ████ GOOGLE IT. HE'S SO GOOD AT BUSINESS, WHY DOESN'T HE JUST APPLY IT HERE? SPEND 10 MINUTES on it. I bought a cheap house. That's why I'm like I really respect it for that because I ever since like Ever since I could see the actual revenue, I'm like, "Oh, yeah, these guys don't do it for that." The proof is in the pudding. It's never been like that. Anyone who thinks that about these cats are nuts. Yeah. And when we do when we do get bread, we spread it like We don't Yeah, yeah, it's never been about that. It's been about the lifestyle and everything around it, but Right. Yeah. I mean, there's going to be a point where we we we got to do it for
26:15 a little bit of money cuz god damn, dude. Someday. Like we can't keep suffering. We got to get more tats, dude. I got a whole shin that's empty. Look, if you guys think you ain't been face ████ by merch yet, just wait. It's it's coming. Just get ready. The hour of our need is coming. And honestly, some of our best videos go to Patreon only and it's usually because we ████ up on a video we didn't want to go on Patreon and then we said something we shouldn't have said. Yeah, but we laughed so hard, we're like, "We got to still release this video." Subscribe because it's too fun. And there might be something nice coming for people who've been there for a minute. Especially when it comes to Anthony Lee and the Twin Towers, but I'm not going I'm just saying, I'm not saying anything much more. Yay!
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