0:00 [Music] welcome back to careful boys we have with us mr chad miatay [Applause] we were talking about this mildly i think a few weeks back and uh i'm still curious about it what's the biggest amount of money that you guys have declined over a job over any kind of work that you just said like no i'm not gonna do it that's easy for me what's that what's that so verizon hit me up to do a promotional video about facing your fears and i had to jump out of a plane i was offered twenty five thousand dollars i said no that's all you do is skydiving because you have to stay awake yeah that was gonna pass out oh you mean you wanted to take a sediment i get vertigo so i didn't think that i would be able to stay awake because if i pass out and i'm a big guy it's an issue so they're like you have to stay awake and i'm like
0:50 so you can't tandem jump with another dude they're going to tandem jump with you but i'm at that time i was almost 300 pounds ain't nobody doing that for 25 dollars dude you need like four extra parachutes probably number one i need i need you to take off your shirt right now hey have you guys ever seen a ████ polar bear just sit on an ice cube that's what it is with no fur ████ like the meme ████ i was going through you know youtube will suggest videos every now and then just give me 80 days and it was the hawaii video and i'm looking at this video i'm like who's this fat ████ in this video and it's this guy i didn't realize how much weight he gained i've never been able to call somebody else shut the ████ up you walked in last time ████ hot and you're like aunt you were fat that's different
1:46 you're confusing things right now it wasn't the fact that you were fat that was the the topic it was that you were fat and ugly because you can't be fat and ugly you're a very good looking skinny guy but when you how's joondi in hawaii going it's going great actually fantastic but let me go back to that when you get fat you look like a child that would have been left and chopped and never picked up that's what you look like right now hey let me tell you this right now i was left in china hey me too there we go i love that nick put his hand around nobody high five that was the air force roll photo he's yeah when did you see him fat i saw this random photo popped up google searched it was like who's this ████ back order cut this whole dancing just really chubby and i started dying laughing by myself
2:37 that was great but you look great now you also he looks because when he gets through all the songs had his stages that's true he still looks the same but when you got big you were unrecognizable are you [Laughter] the ugly house yeah the thatch you doing thing where you used you to illustrate his point i hate how brilliant you are that's all it's disgustingly brilliant that's all found footage you look great now speaking of jobs you declined i think the biggest one that i and maybe this one was the same as bar but we both did an audition for in living color they're bringing it back it's probably like twenty twenty eleven maybe twenty both ████ nailed it and um the wayne's brothers wanted both of us on and during that time they were offering
3:28 about what was it like 15 grand a show it was like 15 grand an episode an episode for the first season guaranteed 13 episodes or something so then depending on how many episodes were on but they said that they liked us so much i thought they would only be room for one asian but then they picked us both showed pilot tanked after that didn't ████ reshoot it they hated the talent on there and we decided to keep jk because at the time they saw youtube as a competition so they was like you guys gotta quit your youtube your jk film ████ we don't want that ████ on there you guys got to come a part of the in living color brand and i'm like dude that's a big ████ deal but we have this team which most of them aren't even with us anymore what the ████ is what i'm saying in the moment i was
4:18 loyal to that ████ no it never went through anyway right yeah the crazy thing is the juxtaposition so like this is during a time where we're still doing like you know those asian shows so we were coming back we we got ████ like five scripts that we had to memorize because we were flying directly in to get the audition from a college asian show yeah and if so we're like ████ we're trying to memorize on the plane try to pull all-nighter we get there and then we see all the other comedians that were like uh performing during that time like you would like katie tatara like at the lab factory improv whatever right so we're like oh ████ we're going up against actual stand-up comedians in the casting room then we see keenan wayne walk by and we're like oh ████ this motherfucker's here so we hear from the casting director uh because they're missing a couple of like key parts he's directly involved in casting this time so me and joe are ████ ████
5:08 bricks pacing out it was my first audition i never had an audition we're shooting bricks outside of the uh the audition room and then the ████ lady comes out you know what he just wants to see everyone improv so all the stuff we've been ████ memorizing we're like we're just gonna ████ throw this ████ out the window and uh we both did our audition and i think both me and joe made and he had not only him he had his family there so that he wanted to see like if his kids could laugh so both me and joe made him and his family laugh and then that's when the casting director called us the next week they said uh we got it and then so we had to go all of a sudden to like some high-rise like um la like lawyer entertainment lawyer person that person like represented i don't know like the ████ twilight people because they're the biggest at the time and they showed us the contract from fox and it was yeah 15 grand an episode
5:58 guaranteed 30 uh 13 episodes possibly eight seasons we're just looking at it just doing the numbers like wow this is ████ crazy because it was like there was like 300 g's when our youtube channel was making like four grand you know we're like oh this is ████ crazy and we really got to talk this out so we go back to uh our house which is where we're working out so that that's the juxtaposition like going on to into beverly hills to me to our office in the living room living room good old days with our ████ free interns what should we do guys [Laughter] ████ entertainment console for his tv with cinderblocks you know what this dog would piss on all the time we are so poor it was it was because this one was trying to be an industrial look
6:49 like he was trying to be artistic so this food went to home depot bought cinder blocks and a plywood because he thought that ████ was like oh i got the ████ art walk look you know yeah chipotle yeah yeah i think the funniest part when i saw his dog pee on it that ████ killed me dude he goes hey did i take my old tv console and literally his dog tries it all the time starts pissing on it as he showing me the console i cried london because it's a raw cinder block you just soaks it yeah it soaks it and you see the pea traveled up the cinder block right like the wet it's so funny it soaks into it [Laughter] god we were so poor but yeah so we kissed and we so we kissed but we were saying yeah we were so loyal and then fox was like they didn't see youtube as a benefit they saw it as uh competition they saw it as threats so
7:39 they're like you have to shut your youtube channel down for like seven years or some ████ like that so mirrors are like ████ i don't know about that but then it was 300 g's which is an enormous amount of money to us at the time and then so we ended up uh saying no they shot their first season i guess keenan wasn't happy with this so never even aired damn they didn't like the talent that they had and we would have been shut down for seven years if oh it would have still oh yeah that was crazy to like audition in front of like one of your idols and there wasn't like a signing bonus where like oh even if the show doesn't go you still get this they would have guaranteed mitchell barely ████ knew how to read back then i don't know that's true i just learned how to read like a like a year prior well signing at the top like the ████ news i don't know how to read if they took your channel they would have guaranteed money for sure there's no way absolutely not back then nah they
8:30 ████ treated entertainers like a bunch of ████ pieces of ████ they're like you're lucky to lick my boots so this is how crazy it was um no one had our number we didn't get any contacts from anyone in hollywood right the minute we they heard that we're gonna be on the show not even like officially we started getting phone calls from ████ everywhere wme caa all this crazy ████ right so we had a meeting at caa we go there and there's like hey i'm a booking agent oh i'm at this agent so we're me like eight agents everyone's all happy sitting in this big conference room then this guy walks in he sits on this oh ████ that guy with no shoes yeah he comes in sits like this with ████ highlights in the hair and he goes so who are these guys and then they're like oh they're uh upcoming youtubers they're like thank you and he just walks and then now it's left to the other like junior agents to clean that ████ up we'll be in contact we'll be in contact
9:20 we'll definitely contact you and uh we'll see you later exactly how it is yeah and we're like oh what's up guys ████ this one started blasting him on site y'all didn't know why i'm bang though did you homie it is 10 a.r.s today's video is brought to you by upstart saying goodbye to high interest credit card debt is one of the first steps towards financial independence but the interest month after month can feel like you're never ending hamster wheel and that's where upstart comes in upstart powered personal loans can help you pay off high interest debt all online with simple and easy to understand payment terms upstart has helped over 1.8 million customers on their path to financial freedom whether it's paying off credit cards consolidating high interest debt or funding personal expenses upstart can
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11:02 in in the future we went back to pitch shows completely ████ different tone but but that was like the beginning of the year west yeah it was like that for a very long time though like even before that before i did my my uh the film ████ i did that film because i couldn't get a um i couldn't get casted at any agency unless they wanted to keep me for new media so they said oh you can't act i was like oh i can't act ████ so i made this ████ movie but we got this digital product yeah exactly so literally you do that film it goes to sundance every ████ agent in hollywood will knock in my door and they're like oh i was like i had a meeting with you dude you said i wasn't good enough but see that's like the weird thing you just have to show these people what they're missing how do they get your number out or nowhere else i don't know they were at my house they straight called your address not your number they got your chest i get phone calls they're like hey i'm
11:52 whatever tony tran from caa whatever the ████ [Laughter] who turned you down recently yeah you got something yeah i mean probably the most amount of money we turned down was as periodics we turned down the vegas show at cosmopolitan when they were first opening oh ████ wait you mean like a residency yeah how much i don't remember so you guys could have been like the jabberwocky show yes yes so at that time i'm so mad at poriyati i know we're ████ dumbasses but at that time at that time yeah constant pollen hit a set and they're like yeah we want a show
12:42 a vegas show because we're opening up this place called cosmopolitan and you guys would like be a show to rival the jabberwockies and we're like ah they're the homies we don't really want to rival them and at that time we were about like 20 21 year olds yeah so nine worst business decisions worst business decision and at that time we were traveling the world we're going to germany we're going to russia we're just like hella traveling you guys want a ████ huh yeah you don't want helen a ████ [Music] we wanted to overseas and at that time yeah we were just like traveling it's like do you want to stay locked down or do you want to travel and now that i look back and i was like damn i should have stayed longer i just pictured you sitting there and then two thought bubbles one was a lot of cash and another one was naked ████ and you went pop what was the what was the deciding factor with saying no to that well i mean other than like
13:32 half the team wasn't 21 yet so we didn't know what vegas was like and we didn't see it and we didn't see what money was disappointing and we were just like yeah we're a bunch of 19 or 20 year olds traveling the world that was something too because i remember what that ballpark number was do you remember what that ballpark number was 30 million something like that we would end up like that yeah we'd probably still be there yeah but hey look at the price sign you're here now baby look at the bright side [Laughter] you said you shot a pilot yeah because at the same time we were also shooting like a possible reality tv show with like wayne brady oh and so that was going to go hand in hand with it and i think he just freestyles asian jokes at
14:22 you guys a little bit yeah ████ dance though yeah he's cool yeah he's great i remember i was so jealous of dancers back in the day because i remember like telling bar like man it was so well because one uh well i mean comedians we have a longer lifespan of uh careers so i'm not jealous about that but when it comes down to it but when it comes back in my youth you guys were traveling to all the cool countries with all the hottest girls because language was dance and physical you know what i mean so you get the ████ tango and ████ where it's like we we're stuck at the asian shows at the asian club in ████ english-speaking universities with these ████ nerds and ████ hey shout out to the kids who
15:12 brought us up all right shout outs we need your money still for the fundraisers you guys held to pay for it and thank you for showing me the best chinese restaurant in your city every single time dorm it's the worst chinese food ever dude i just did a bad spot and i'm like bro you live out in wichita i don't think your chinese food here is good it's always like that like just the best dinner in ithaca but dancers are going a ████ what russia brazil all these places with the hottest women russia's really dope right now i think that's the caveat is as a dancer you can also latch on to a music artist's benefit as well which is hard now like our career got ████ super uh lengthened from being attached to lmfao it got the lifespan ████ got stretched yeah but that wasn't really us
16:02 you know like it's you got an opportunity from red yes how did that happen i mean that was just almost like half luck half opportunity you didn't say nah bro we're dancing no it's it's like it literally came from making the judgment call you know sometimes when you're doing work there's a chance to do something for free that's gonna suck but could open up a door it's like that we said there's a good opportunity yeah because we we were doing uh abdc and we used their song and that was like the first time that lmfo's music got featured on mtv as like uh someone was performing to it so they were watching it we didn't know that but then we go to wango tango to just be we were like a b-side throw away outside of the gate performance in this small-ass stage and then as we were there uh this other artist named mad khan who did the remix of beggin back then he was on his way in and he was like an opener of the inside show at the actual stadium and he goes
16:53 hey i don't have no one on my team like would you guys want to come in and just do a dance because i got like there's no crowd and i just want more people on stage and that was the judgment call of like do we just do this real quick for nothing everything you'd be like what are you gonna pay me ████ no yeah because because the the exchange was it would get us into the real stage we were like let's ████ do it so we did it i think didn't we perform toronto mad khan song on the show too yeah we did but i mean it was a popular break-in song like by far so we go in and we're in the we're now in the main stadium which we didn't even have access to and then there we run into lmfao and then they go they were like yo you're the guys that use our ████ and we were like we're gonna sue you yeah yeah you used our ████ up ████ here's the paperwork it's for me for free or here's the paperwork you're a question
17:44 so we just were like tripping out that they even saw it and we had a cool conversation took a photo didn't have any discussion about working together at all and then uh by chance this fool runs into them two other times by total coincidence just randomly it's like um in life like a movie theater or what i forget what the other time was and then i think it was nice that we were both coming up together you know we did the tv show and they they were getting their heads with a little john and stuff and i think we were just talking about oh it would be great we don't know how but you know let's do something together and so a lot of the quest members started working with lmfao at their live shows it was all kind of like in one big bang because we were always talking about it with them and then they go hey let's do a dance thing of some sort and then out of nowhere they we were just fresh on their minds because he kept running into them and then uh lmfo hits
18:35 him up and goes hey we got an idea for a dance thing uh maybe it's like a shuffle thing and they sent the song and it was every day i'm shuffling we were like what the ████ this is a banger yeah that was coco actually that was the first thing we did with them yeah was uh ragnan and it was like the biggest at first when um so it was their wardrobe stylist coco that sent me the track and at first i was like this sucks it's horrible you know you hated it you liked it way different from this one this was like mind-blowing and then i think though also i came from a mindset of you know they wanted to do shuffling and back then you know we come from like a battle background and making all these shows and we wanted to do something new and different that people couldn't do so to make something that everyone could do
19:26 it's like what what's the value in that what's the point you know oh you're too ████ artiste man we were classic people inclusivity but then it's like you start realizing it's like oh if you can actually make something and everyone could potentially have fun and you're stopping it like who's the ████ bad guy in this you know so it's like tick tock like all these tick tock dances people enjoy it because everybody can do exactly so it's like okay let's let's do it and see how it goes and yeah we had no idea it was going to help us as much as it did the thing we never told anybody though is that uh we were we were good at shuffling already because we were ████ making fun of it before practice like ████ around that's half the dance community we would do it ironically all the time to just clown on it and then when they were like oh we're gonna do it for real we were like okay sure we're ready so like that the whole music video we're
20:17 doing it we want to crack up at ourselves practically yeah all over us layman's are like how cool all of us were like wow i'm trying to practice it i couldn't do it i can't show you the whole time we're like ████ sentences yeah even when the video first came out i was in korea at the time and i called him from korea and be like did you watch it yeah it's like damn it sucks let's see that's crazy though like you guys won the vma awards no is that it's because you beat us [Laughter] that was really good that was really good yeah that was good oh it hash it out now dude all right get it all out did you guys get to go to the vma because of that yeah we did wow see that's cool sick man you guys weren't
21:07 yeah we were there for that yeah yeah i thought so you guys ever look back and kind of see like how crazy your life is because of dance because dance wasn't like this before like especially money opportunities it's so ████ nuts because this was this was the career that everybody's like you do this on the side for your fun ████ you're not going to make a career out of this and then you guys literally made this into a business which blows my ████ mind yeah and yet we still ████ ended up here no we went like this and then went like this listen come on you went from bmas to jk news you're gonna be like yeah yeah that was the most hybrid when you say it like that it doesn't sound so bad
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