0:00 That's how That's how you're going to fight them back. >> [laughter] >> You're going to do your part? You better get off your white horse. >> He won't change sides, but he'll jerk [laughter] off to them. Welcome back to another episode of The Careful Boys, where 2026 is the new 2016. What does that mean? Is that what that is? I want 2016 back. Yeah, that's the whole trend, right? I think the trend was it's supposed to be when the days were great, this whole pre-COVID, pre-pre-political split, pre-polarizing everything, everything was chill. ████ was brewing, but it wasn't full blast. >> a light simmer. Yeah. I don't think we should look back in the past. I think that's not good for us. For real. >> I think it makes us more sad. Cuz we're comparing to the better days, and you look at now, it just feels >> Isn't that what you got to do sometimes
0:50 when you're like trying to grow, though? You got to ████ hunker down and ignore it and just keep >> How do How do we bring 2026 >> That's back to the 2016 vibes, where everyone is I think those days are over, dude. 2016 is over. It was COVID, and then post-COVID. That's what I think it is. It's like having experienced something as of late, and then being like, you know what? That's been whack. You know, like just trends and just changing mentality and stuff like that. It's like actually experiencing the pits, and then being like, all right, you know, I'm I'm down for the Back then, I was complaining, too. Probably. 2016, we're all probably still complaining. I was having the time of my life. >> having the time of my life. I was looking at all those pictures. I was like, ████ dude. >> We were all so happy in those pictures. Every picture, I'm smiling. I'm like living life, you know? But I don't know if that's cuz I was like a college student. >> With Like [laughter] it didn't feel like
1:41 a normal decade because 5 years feels like it was robbed from me. That's why. The COVID years felt like 1 year or 2. It didn't feel like 3 4, right? That messed with us, for sure. Because previously, I feel like 2006 to 2016, I felt like I had a full decade. But it could be because I was growing up. So it was my uh coming of age era, you know? Yeah. Yeah, 2006 to 2016 feels way different than 2016 2026. It feels like this. That felt like a full-on I got every single year. But then this I felt like where it went, oh yeah, it was great, and then 2019, and then 2020, and then it How did it turn to 2026? What the ████ It was 2020 just yesterday. And 2016, if we were if we had our own struggles or whatever, it felt like we were all going through it together. Now it feels like if someone
2:33 is having their own struggle, it's that person's fault. Yep. You know, it's like left blames right, right blames blames left. It's that versus before it was just, okay, we're all in this economy together, you know? It's not like the other person is the reason why my life sucks. Have you felt that in like your actual personal circles, like those things have changed? Yeah, that's the part that I I don't like. Like sometimes I'm like I love I have close friends that we talk about, and everything is so cool. And the minute we talk politics, I'm like, ████ I wish you didn't know I didn't hear that ████ thing you just said. And then now I'm like, I have to like erase that part because everything else about this guy is ████ awesome and they're really loyal and everything, but then now I know how unformed uninformed you are. And then And it's And And both sides does it, too, cuz after that Renee Renee good when she passed, like nobody on the right was like sympathetic at all. And then when Charlie Kirk
3:24 passed, nobody on the The left was like she Yeah, he deserved it. And then the right was like, yeah, she deserved it. And I'm like, can't we just be human, and that's an unfortunate thing that shouldn't happen? Anyone that dies sucks, yeah. And instead of blame I don't know, man. I just think that's where we're at now, because back then it was more like, oh, you're still American, right or left, it doesn't matter. But now you're like, you're ████ ungodly evil human being if you are on the other side. And I'm like, god damn, what the ████ >> Like 2016, the American flag was still the American flag. 2026, I feel like the American flag is a Confederate flag. That's what it feels like. You know, I feel like pro-America, they're like, you ████ racist piece of ████ Oh, that's true. Like you mean everyone flew the American flag. >> [snorts] >> Yeah, everyone was just proud. Like if we would have the Olympics or whatever, you know, it's like Now it's like, oh, you ████ kneel during the anthem. It's just like It's crazy. It's like now
4:15 America it's has taken on some other meaning. That's why the Olympics is going to be huge for us, guys. >> I hope so. Hope so. Maybe it brings it together. The Olympics is going to be huge. That's where you get to just do this with >> Or we need another 9/11. We need another 9/11, and then we'll be like It'll bring us together. >> Bring us together again. Dude. Well, I found the new title for the video. Let's have another 9/11. >> Another 9/11. >> [laughter] >> Another 9/11. >> To be fair, this is like the 25th anniversary. It's like the s- Are you saying we're due for one? Is that what >> that like a 9/11 would really bring people together this time, though? No, it's going to be more of a blame. Cuz guess what? They're going to They're going to probably blame it on another group, and guess And we're going to be mean to that group. >> the enemy doing it, though? If it's another like, you know, inside job, you know, How do How do we make it where it brings people together? >> [laughter] >> IT STRAIGHT-UP HAS TO JUST be like
5:05 Russia. Yeah, it needs to be like a bad guy. >> It would have to be someone who's already the bad guy. Yeah, like Who's the biggest bad guy right now? >> North Korea. Or China. It's got to be like China, Russia, or North Korea. It's got to be something where the the dick on the other side is also just so huge. >> There's also like on both sides, there's sympathizers for all those countries. >> Yeah, it has to be aliens. It has to be aliens. Space force. It has to be Thanos. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's We have to have some sort of crazy global threat. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where humanity must bond, and suddenly treaties are being signed and ████ because of the alien force. That's our best bet. >> Even within the two political parties, everyone's splitting, too. So like there's like even within the left and the right, they're like pro-Israel, pro-Palestine. >> Aliens also have a war plan, right? Aren't they going to come down and just
5:55 just immediately eradicate all the leaders? If it's like Independence Day Yes. But there's also a lot of people now that believe in the theory of they're doing they're going to fake this alien invasion to control us. One world government. Yeah, but that's the minority. You think so? >> Let's focus on just like an actual war. Let's just think about If it really happened Okay, if it really ████ happened, there's going to I think the way it's going to split is humans there's some of them are going to be pro-alien, and some of them are going to be like anti-alien. >> to be There's going to be pro-aliens, for sure. So people are going to Defectors. I'll be your slave. I'll be your ████ Oh, yeah, yeah, traitors, traitors, yeah. That's what they say is going to happen with the with the robot ████ singularity. They go, some people are going to be like, robots, you win. Make me your ████ And then other people are going to be a part of the resistance. All right. Honest question, though. What if the aliens are like,
6:46 fine? Oh, I'mma jerk off to them. You mean three the those three-titty ones? Yeah, whatever >> That's how That's how you're going to fight them back. [laughter] You're going to do your part? You better get off your white horse. >> He won't change sides, but he'll jerk off [laughter] to them. Have you Have you guys uh heard or read about like what like John Adams and like Thomas Jefferson used to say about each other? What did they used to say? >> So like right now, it feels like there's a huge political divide, right? And then it feels like it's worse than before. But then before, when they were like running, they would be like, if you vote for the other person, your daughters will be ████ There'll be like ████ chaos in the streets. So I'm like, kind of called it, dude. I'm like, has it always been like this? Has it always been like this, and then we just kind of like wised up to it cuz of internet? I think Cuz they've been talking ████ since day one like that. It was probably hardcore, like they meant it back then, because they would fight in when they
7:38 would They would fist fight, and they would shoot each other, and they would like call each other out for duels. >> Like Chinese Like the time when these parliament So to me, I don't know if that was fake or not, but it was real. Like at least politicians fought for it. Now I feel like it's all constructed like as a as a corporation, and it's it's fake. Like it's it's like, let's rile people up, and we're using these peasants. And then they're fighting our wars, versus the politician being like, man, I'll you know, like I'll ████ challenge you, ████ John Adams. John Adams to a duel. ████ Aaron Burr, you know? Let's go. >> My My daughter won't be a ████ You know what probably still is the same, though? I feel like they probably did still do that tactic of let's rile everybody up over the side they're choosing, while we sneak in other things that we don't want them to look too closely at. I think
8:28 that's always been the deal. Like how they fit different, like you're like, when did that law happen? How come now I have to pay money to receive my parents' home? Like they slid that into a freaking firefighters bill. It's like that stuff they they do a good job of making people so like upset about other ████ you don't see the really important stuff. I think hella people now are more awake to even like, doesn't matter what political party you are, they're more awake to like to like war. Of like, oh, you're I'm just making you guys rich. You know? I was watching this thing where after World War I, that's when peasants fought for the royals. Before that there was the samurai class, there was the warrior class. The peasants were like, thanks for doing all the fighting, cuz I don't really have to fight. And then they would go like the knights would go out to war, right? So like World War I, all these prestigious families like in Europe it
9:19 was like their duty of like, okay, we're going to send our son to war, right? And then they would go, and then but like the tech was so good that everybody just died. So there were too many like prestigious royal people that were dying too quick, and that's when they had to start sending peasants, and that's when ████ changed. But I'm like, imagine if that was today, where like all of our politicians were like, all right, we're going to Ukraine, and I'm sending my son. And they're not just like >> Damn. Dude, imagine our Hunter Biden out there, dude. >> [laughter] >> He might be a beast on the field. >> Mormon wives' kids. Wouldn't you feel more like, all right, cool. Like at least they're sending their people. >> Scientology frontline. Dude. >> Sent Barron Trump to Iran. >> [laughter] >> In Venezuela. Dagestani people fighting for America. You see Barron Trump ████ going in ████ >> Yeah, the wars would end a lot quicker.
10:10 Yeah, cuz they don't want their kids to die. >> They'd probably find ways to not fight. >> out. Let's let's work this out. >> Come on, man. My son's out there. I think they should do >> a high network. >> the children. Do you guys have favorite MOMENTS FROM 2016? >> [laughter] [laughter] >> HOW THE ████ DID IT GET THERE? Completely butchered. >> [laughter] >> Can we retry this video? >> the world's going to end so like >> [laughter] >> Maybe maybe with Yeah, it was better back then, huh? My mind wasn't thinking about ████ Armageddon, dude. But what you But you can't help [laughter] it though when you look back at 2016, you're like, "Bro, everyone is smiling in all these pictures." It's almost obnoxious how much we're smiling in these pictures. >> Well, okay. It's like we're showing off. >> What what what was like on your guys's
11:00 minds in 2016 like your goals, your dreams, all that stuff? So I got I got married in 2015 and then 2016 we were really seriously on planning to have have kids. >> Wow. >> was my mindset. I was okay, cool, family starting time. That was 2016. >> When did When was Taika born? 2017. Oh. >> was technically I guess made made Yeah, he's made in 2016 and then born in 2017. >> Oh, cuz in between those from your marriage to Taika, that felt That era to me felt like a long time. That's a year. That's a crazy year for you to have like a child. That's insane. You know what makes time feel slow, they said? Novelty. Wow. Thank you, warrior poet. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, I'm like, "Whoa, that's deep." Samurais. You're supposed to You're supposed to have novelty in your life. 2016 for us
11:51 was like the year after ABDC and the year before NBC World of Dance. Oh, so you guys were like on a high, huh? Well, So he lost both. We started from like so like out of nowhere in a sense. >> two losses. And it just kept like taking another level up when you thought that that might be the apex of your experience. And then like we opened the studio, you know, like the everything just felt >> When did you guys open the studio? At like the very very beginning of 2016. Wow. So it's like that >> of growth and hope. >> Cuz we had to after ABDC's when we Indie GoGo we crowdfunded for the Dojo. And then we like built it, we got the spot, and then like opened it to classes 2016. So that whole year was like That's a quick turnaround, man. That was a dope year, man. >> Wasn't just a feeling of like going for ████ It was like
12:41 the recognition of the dreams that you were going for years prior. Felt like the manifestations of them. 2016 was when we were building our LA office. I was looking at the pictures. I was like, "Damn, I remember thinking about the finances back then." We must have felt invincible. We spent like we were invincible. What the ████ dude? I think every meal after we shot JK News we used to eat at Shin-Sen-Gumi and it was like $400 plus. Damn. I was like, "Damn, that was a crazy time." >> [laughter] >> We were we were pitching to TV, remember? Like we were going to all these different And then back then, you know, like TV was crazy, right? So like now it's like, "TV? What the f███?" But back then it was like, "Oh my god, we're being recognized as real ████ artists and creators and all that." So like you guys being on ABDC and it was like the
13:33 Asian era. Like it was it was the first time when everyone was like, "What the ████ are all these Chinese dudes dancing and ████ and ████ being funny and doing dope s███?" You know? And then going pitching pitching at MTV at these how how it works in Hollywood and ████ That was like, "Whoa, this is ████ crazy, dude." We were just ████ We just came up from a bedroom doing stupid ass videos. But now that's normal, you know? 2016 was like, "Oh, we're going to we're going to create more content than we ever created." But we're like pumping thousands of videos a month and we're still trying to pump more videos out. That was like That was crazy. Damn. Yeah, you guys had like four or five channels that were over a million subscribers. And then you guys were like all doing like vlogs and personal channels. >> Vlogs and channels. That was really crazy. But you know what? It It felt
14:23 like so It was just so fun. I bet that's how the streamers feel right now. Oh, yeah yeah yeah. >> Cuz um That's why I feel like that's that that's that hustle for that era. Yeah. >> Can't do that as like a 50-year-old. I don't know, dude. I think we can. >> [laughter] >> I think Rampage is doing it. There's some guys that are doing it. >> There's some guys that do it. >> Rampage gaming. He's also 25 though. Dude, imagine if you guys started streaming. No, cuz his kids are grown. So once your kids are grown, I think you're back in that like whatever Different era? You follow up We follow Joe in Hawaii just buying up all the milk on the island. >> That's so funny. Just He's a chatting people up. >> As long as he's got a body cam, I'm following that whole ████ conversation. Yeah, Silent Mike was there with Agent and everybody. And then they went to my friend's like card shop and all that ████ Yeah. But I um I do think it's a different era
15:13 though. Like you ain't got to be doing ████ but just that. >> That's that phase of life you have to be in. Yeah. But I'm down I'm down to do it when we're like 50 and it's all played out. >> Yeah. That's >> [laughter] >> No one's ████ doing it no more. >> Start later. There's some other ████ >> to have kids? Maybe. If you had a kid when you're 50, your kid's going to be like six while you're trying to do this. >> [laughter] >> Perfect. I have a cast member. Cuz you guys will probably all be gone. >> Automatic cast mate. [laughter]
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