0:00 [Music] welcome back to another episode of the careful boy hey we got sway here today again what's up swag hello hello thanks for having me what's your last name tran now you see your face bro it's wing wing that's how you really pronounce it it's not nuan when right nagayan your last name tran anthony oh you know my last name dog i know but i wanted to be tran how did they get new yen from i heard it was a king yeah um the wind dynasty the wind dynasty yeah they he made like everyone change their last name or and if they didn't they're
0:50 that's correct that's why there's so many of yes that's why that's why is it technically n g u y y e n the same as h-y-u-n-h is that the same last name no you're saying h-u-y-n-h win yeah no no it's different oh when it's actually my mom's name oh really yeah oh damn what's what's inside here about a book yeah so i just got a book deal with um simon and schuster i ████ hate you why the ████ ████ you get is ████ oh all right so this let me before you guys you guys got a new place right this is what rick was telling me so blame him if you hate his ass before she got this new place
1:40 and then she was like i need to get some interior design and some ████ and like and get hook it up for some furniture so you know rick's like okay let's figure out what the budget is and then bam ████ furniture sponsorship comes out of nowhere and they just hook your whole ████ up and they came and designed it you know what's so crazy about that it's supposed to be like a show right like a makeover show they were in the middle filming it something went down i didn't want to really get into it but something went down production ended up canceling the show but i was still able to keep the furniture and the money on top of that so i'm like i don't even have to do anything literally they just gave you ████ and interior design toy's just a win she's just a winner because that's even crazier than the furniture because when the interior interior designer touches your place it boom next
2:31 level right so that to me is even crazier than the furniture because we could all go out and buy whatever we want but the fact that they put something together and go i can't even get a walmart sponsorship i know like i can understand the interior design in the furniture because they've already done that stuff but it's like you got to keep the money as well that's pretty cool because already signed oh you know what the converts extremely well because we sent over a mushroom care for toy and although it is my company she outperforms me on my own product oh ████ thank you thank you that's what it is i've already told you this before but it's easy to sell a good product oh thank you thank you thank you thank you it works out probably because your fan base watches you exactly for that reason yes like my family they don't watch me for mushroom growing and cooking what they watch me for is
3:21 they're hoping that i will one day fail and cry about it and talk publicly about it what a great family yeah they're waiting for that moment i think they all joined my instagram like they followed me because they're like oh who's this disabled guy trying to make it in entertainment who's this disney who's this mentally disabled human they're like oh satisfied for the last eight years [Laughter] so now you got this ████ book thing what the hell dude so yeah what is this is it a cookbook yeah it's a cookbook so um to get a cookbook you kind of have to like form like a basic idea of like what you want like how the format's gonna be um and all of that stuff and you submit it to the publisher and then they review it they see if they like it and they offer you some um they offer you a deal badass paper yeah
4:12 she doesn't cuss in her videos either that's why that's why we failed damn that's hard cuss i mean i it's not really what happens if you started cussing say something right now i don't think there's an effect right now or something some real mean no i'm not a cuss anymore stop cussing the next video right all right till the next video see we need to take notes from twig because we've been on longer and we should be more successful but we're not you are though one no we when we find this book where can i find this oh no well it's not out yet like i have a whole year to work on it they give you a year yeah do they pay you and say just go to work this is a legit book deal like publisher search of simon schuster how did how did this come about like did they approach you you've been pitching like how does that work working with a literary agent to work
5:02 how do you even find a ████ named literary agent no cuz i'm trying to make an erotic novel but i don't know anybody that wants to sponsor me but yeah how did you find the literary because honestly i've been looking for a literary agent too i don't even know how to find one um it's honestly through my manager like i i just like how you find a manager i tell him like all my goals that i have in the beginning when i signed with him he sat me down he's like what are the some of your goals that you have i just wrote down like my biggest like most i guess unreasonable goal and i'm just like this is unattainable at the time and i was like this is what i want to do and he's like okay and then actually does we had like three managers that we had to fire because they didn't work we never had any sit downs like that yeah yeah they told us we had a network that was like give me your list of goals and then they ████ just took our money yeah yeah yeah shout out to the rn rhm team like
5:53 they do work damn see we work with the wrong people they brought in a lit agent they brought in the agent and then i was working on like the i guess like the idea of the book and then out of nowhere um the publisher simon schuster they reached out to me that an editor that reached out to me and he was like like i don't know if you're looking to do a cookbook but we'd love to sign you and then here we are wow that's amazing man is it vietnamese food of course of course it's vietnamese food but it's more than like they're just they're looking for a different type of cookbook because they love the fact that like i do like actual cooking and then they i'm also like into fashion and all of that stuff so they want like a different take on a cookbook like a lifestyle cooking yeah like there's with swag it's like a noodle shop and a sweatshop put together it's like let me let me make a skirt and some fur at the same
6:45 time the idea yeah like a skirt steak with a schoolgirl skirt it'll be kind of like um you know those shoe books like those like hypebeast um like fashion books it will kind of be like that format but with recipes and food that's so ████ cool dude that's me the first of its kind the hell if it's your brand too yeah that's dope and it's the fact that like they really enjoy like just me as a whole like as a creator um they're like yeah just we trust you we trust your vision so i was like okay cool that's fine with me when is rick gonna be in it he's gonna be a picture of him probably lucky breaks in the background just with a bowl of foam i definitely want to go to vietnam to take photos for the book though i think that would be really cool they got that kind of budget it's either that or a little psychonaut so it wasn't like like
7:35 200 bucks or 250. oh it's like it's a it's a book deal what does that mean we don't know what that means a major book deal i hate myself i don't even know what major book deal means my peasant ass never touched such a thing she's ████ walking on red carpet you know what happened i don't have any red carpets i've been on ████ nine only gray and ████ this is what happened okay jk news is like the asian immigrant that came to america and opened up a liquor store in the ghetto yep and we stayed there is like that but turned it into 7-eleven and sold it to all the indians ████ family and ████ dude that's worldwide ████ man i love being here [Laughter] doesn't it make you feel great that you're surrounded by people that are
8:25 going someplace like the guests always progressive over here bring on people that are like man i used to look up to you guys but we certainly and i surpassed the ████ out of you today you motivate us well honestly like like i said earlier to you guys i'd rather put in 100 hours of work a week and then retire by 30 than work 40 hours a week for the rest of my life yeah but that's we have that mentality but we're still stuck 40 we're 40 hours plus a week and we're living we're going to start working and we're not going to stop working we're still going to retire when i'm 70. yeah because we want that life but we suck at it [Laughter] um so when is this book coming out then well i have a whole year to work on it so i guess we're looking at like um fall of 2023 what happens if you deliver
9:18 too early because i think i would say you have great work ethics and you might finish it too early because you're so excited do they go let's release it just has to be that day oh it's part of their plan well no i i don't think so because i want to i want to utilize all that that time since it's like a my first ever book like a really good job yeah what if you what if you're like super duper lazy and then you don't even ████ do it what happens what do you get in trouble um yeah but i feel like i uh i could hire a team to like just also do that work too next level i know see i hired a team but i got this ████ and this ████ and that ████ i realize i don't need to be in charge of everything like i don't need to take photos like i can hire somebody to do that for me i don't i can hire a ghostwriter i can like there are so many
10:09 tasks that i can delegate so i'm just like okay like i just want to make sure that my vision is on track like that's that's my job michael man why don't you ████ teach us this ████ dude i hired for you i don't i don't know ████ wasting all this money seriously so i think that's really obviously ████ awesome congratulations thank you you're getting a book deal like that you said that you were you were putting down with your manager some just your wildest dreams and like you know maybe a book deal was like one of those what else is on that okay so like right now i've like throughout this whole year i feel like my career has been like crazy but like rubbing it he's gonna pull his eyelids off [Laughter] every time i reach a goal i'm just like okay next goal yeah and right now my next goal really realistically is to open up a restaurant in vietnam so i can
10:59 provide jobs for my family over there wow that's ████ cool is it like saigon or hanoi or what that sounds familiar is it like south of saigon yeah it is it's south of saigon is that because your family is unhirable they don't have they need you no like they're they're good but it's just like we don't have anything that's our own and we don't have anything that we're in charge of and like my cousins are having babies over there so i want them to have something like that and i want to be a part of that well what if they're like part of management and stuff like that and then i can hire my staff i can hire people come on now i know the owner of 24. why so gangster like that and the um and the in the the that big coffee one highland yeah okay yeah
11:50 what's up i'll introduce you okay yeah they're real and they also own all the um hard rock cafes out there too yeah that's they're pretty cool finally met them once i wouldn't call them homies so if they ████ you over it's not my fault i'll introduce you how did you do shoot okay hey i don't know anything about them but we talk on whatsapp we talk about all right and we hung out but that's all i'm gonna say gotcha does your t-shirt say calabasas it does it does say calabasas well he's from calabasas no i'm not i'm not from calabasas okay calabasas calabasas mike that's what we call gotcha quarter ranch so close by but not quite the same that's like 20 minutes probably 30 minutes 30 minutes that place is developing like a ████ yeah it's this guy it is
12:40 were you looking in that place to move out too no like uh one of the most famous builders toll brothers they're crushing it over there they have like some some sick uh we're talking about some dad ████ man hello [Music] [Laughter] this isn't las vegas okay you can't put a casino anywhere you want tall brothers go back to the vietnam well i did i went back like every single year before the pandemic oh i went right 2019 was my first time going there i love it so much i love it yeah i want to go cause the uh i don't know if i told you last time you're here but what blew
13:30 my mind was i was out there for like a month and i didn't eat the same dish twice ever like every day was something different like for breakfast lunch and dinner different food and i was just mind blown at the variety like i didn't i didn't even see that much ████ on a vietnamese restaurant yeah yeah there's so much food over there it's crazy and like if you go to different regions there's always something new to try mm-hmm what's the next thing for you here i know the book deals obviously like you got that well you're working on that the whole year what's like the next thing you're working on right now though um i love doing pop-ups i love doing dinners so i think i'm just um gonna focus on that because i mean like i love doing content videos but like being able to like feed people in real life and like being in the kitchen and all that stuff is so fulfilling what do you mean when you say i love
14:20 doing dinners like i love serving like i love cooking for people like private dinners and events and like stuff like that you ever do private like who's somebody interesting that you did a private dinner for well yesterday i just did a private dinner for hate is a virus oh for the whole organization the gala how many people made like pastries in the shape of coven and stuff or yes exactly did you that's what it yeah that's what ████ lioness cake i think the vaccine inside weren't you at an ada rising and boozing out there too no it was complex complex con yeah styling food duh let's see like that's how you build the brand yeah yeah that's really cool so i i have a question so you um you told your manager that you wanted to eventually have a book and then the
15:10 publisher contacted you like what was that meeting like when you went to because you flew to new york is what you said right they had this meeting yeah well i had a meeting um every time i hear this story it just adds a zero to the deal oh ████ new york damn a year oh shoot the ████ you try our team it's a ten figure deal drop my eyelids again you should just man why did you want to do ████ comedy business partner you could have told me at any time yo we should do ████ fabrics fabrics i'm just saying dude if we stab into the dark stop doing comedy i know dude we could have done anything but comedy makes the least ████ money it really did try dancing
16:01 oh ████ you got a ████ empire bro we had studios in china and ████ we don't got studios nowhere besides here chefs cooks the restaurant industry we don't make a lot of money so i think this is just like tell that to gordon ramsay okay well david one percenter literally literally literally i can name like 10 famous chefs right now okay those are famous shout outs but think about all the other people that aren't famous i can't even name 10 famous comedian youtubers yeah i bet you could i bet you could joe everyone else is ████ broke now i don't know everyone spent all their money yeah jk tim and david that's it
16:52 everyone else is whack that that's 40 4 out of 10 right there yeah where the ████ is ray william johnson i don't know where the ████ he is he cashed out yeah he's number one at one point i don't know where did they all just cash out that's probably why yeah cause everyone becomes successful like tway here and then they go you know what it's time to just relax in my nice house and then we have to keep working because we blew our money on stupid ████ what was the dumbest thing yeah i was gonna ask that each other that was like the dumbest thing me yeah i just stupid he's like reckless there was that one year we spent probably like 70 g's on guns that ain't dumb maybe they're worth more now though so they're like an investment because yeah that's pretty tight all the guns i sold they sold for a profit but i only made like 20 or 30 above but still it's a profit
17:44 still the plus buy 70 g's get 70 g's and 20. i made a japanese tea room a custom japanese tea room for 20 grand oh yeah i forgot about that do you remember that what do you mean you bought that at the office no he custom built it in his office at their office carpenter that's some ████ i would do i love that ████ that's pretty now it's in my friend's house it's traditional japanese carpentry like nail this carpentry though it was sick toy's gonna make five of them for her house because she can afford it good to know that it's 20 g's and we bought a samurai we spent 10 g's on the samurai suit yeah oh my god but the samurai suit and the case we got it custom made the case it was like three grand itself why did you do that that's just pretty cool though it is really it's called new money you know it's called new money
18:34 i think we spent like ████ half a mill plus on the other office that it's just just building it just building it and then what what happened to it started from the bottom we still here start from the bottom we came back we have ████ like 40 oh how many of those lights do we have professional ass lights that ████ go like this and ████ got like 40 of them yeah there's 40 of them and then each one was like about the sound stage 1000 plus dollars yeah and obviously when you buy it new it's really expensive but when you sell it it's like nowhere close and now we still we still pay for a storage to store all that ████ right it's all gone no it's done that's i know somebody that wants to i thought we have 40 of those ████ lights they've been giving them away no no they all got sold to random people so i just have petty cash that i'm just collecting oh oh that's amazing did you handle the sell out of this because i got a bunch of extra stuff i need to sell too from
19:24 our old studio i i don't i don't know if i can help you with that unfortunately i don't know yes ████ ton of mirrors i don't know what to do you should put them on offer a valuable dude yeah they're a thousand dollars each plus how many of them are awesome i still got like 15. okay sit on the gold mine come to another person who wants to start a dance studio yeah i ain't trying to like hook another dance studio i'll ████ make them yeah a gym shelter industry picture of them send it to me photos why is so salty because that's how you stay up you keep others down that's right you know send me a picture and support all the other cookbooks out there vietnamese swag style what's up yes i might be the seller for you oh watch out about it yeah i got a bunch of ████ that sent it to me this has just become a jk meeting facebook like 26. you saw this i saw this for you
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