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Off The Record: Welcome to 2025

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0:00 [Music] welcome back everybody to another amazing episode of the careful boys here we are in 2025 202 2025 but you're probably getting this video in March that's not an old joke all right I just heard it but we're changing we're changing this year I think hey welcome back everybody this is our first time getting back together officially January 2025 feels like it's been a minute since we've seen some of you cuz some of you guys weren't invited to the Christmas party y I know well another bummer another bummer I wasn't invited to my own company party the full team wasn't there so it's Su I didn't even know we're trying to stay positive hey thanks and Shout Out Ryan for helping to organize that people through we don't have parties unless Ryan organizes them so that's very didn't go look mid dude dude they didn't invite

0:50 you either because I was just like wait what is this like JK Christmas thing going on everyone's having a good time and I'm just like I had so many parties to go to that day I couldn't squeeze couldn't squeeze couldn't squeeze it in Kevin 's party dude in the Hills yeah Steve's too busy ████ with those Diddy parties whoa Jesus that's old that's you can say that that's old cuz he's not around doing it anymore he's locked up he's apprehended is he actually locked up 2024 I don't know I saw I saw a video of uh Diddy and uh like a jail and he's on a motorcycle but I don't know if that was AI or not what yeah he just they they gave him like a little dirt bikee and he's like going around really I couldn't tell if that was real but it yeah he looks very happy that's crazy looks like Jail's kind of French

1:40 prison when they had a go-kart team in the French prison yeah I think it was just him it was Mike Tyson had a big screen TV in his room wow or Martha Stewart was like super hooked up too right yeah I heard uh speaking of jail news I heard uh Luigi I heard Everyone likes him in jail they're giving him free haircuts for his press conference I heard about that yeah people like them in there girls like them a lot too heal insurance guy health insurance guy the CEO dude I think that's one of the scariest thing about women is that all you got to do is be an attractive dude you they can know that you threw a kid into a lawn mower and they don't care like they don't give a ████ cuz you're a sexy boy and they will rationalize it and like what did that kid do but it was for a good cause like right but don't we do the same to hot women absolutely well I mean that's they're throwing Sydney under the bus

2:31 right Bo are not that big not that big they're trying to tear down every day right not that big they're trying to take they're trying to take her down St one of them why do you think they're doing that I think cuz it's news to do that I don't know I think it gets the clickies yeah cuz everyone that's like no no way they're ████ they cck it and they're like I've never seen such bigger bus than that yeah that's what I mean yeah they just neg them into clicky exactly yeah you're Ste in your car you just in your car and you're steam like no way they're ████ huge man they got me that's me it's like saying like F1 is it really that fast you know like what are you talking about what are you talking about let me see what this idiot has to say yeah but the difference with that article title is I wouldn't click it just to be like no it's for sure fast whereas like cityne screen boobs aren that n aren't they aren't they huge I'm I'm just like looking at them

3:21 like objectively like not like sexual baby it's news come on yeah come on it's in the news baby yeah we we host news and stuff I got to be on doing my job baby I'm doing my job I'm working for you right now I'm working for you what you been up to Nick man uh actually December was kind of nice cuz I kind of was chilling a little bit harder I kind of like did not that much I was working kind of I was doing like a little bit of less of everything cuz we weren't here at JK right and then other pods we weren't doing anything so I got to you know hang out with the fam a little bit more was is nice I got to hang on my mom wow you know help her move kind of not really I really help her that much but uh yeah it was good it was just like a lot more family time for the you're very family orientated it's cuz I got these two dogs dude I'm a dad together no low key though we have this ongoing joke

4:11 about whenever I bring my family members that don't like each other all we got to do is bring the dogs over and everyone gets along it's a it's a nice they want to fight in front of them yeah they don't want to they don't want to set a bad example yeah are you also in the boat where like too much family time is like anxiety and stress that's his sometimes sometimes yeah like if definitely my if I if I hang around two uh some of my family members a little too long you're like okay this is a little this is like bringing up old memories when we were kids and it would stress me out and i' be like oh you guys argue way too much you guys got CH you never scream in their face and tell them to shut the ████ up and have a good time you know no now I just kind of I just leave for a little bit I leave I scream into a pillow why can't you just get along and then I wash my face get the get the redness out of my eyes from crying and I'm good and I go back out and I'm like hey what's what's up guys like that

5:01 that's how I handled my situation I got I got a big burden off my chest uh in December oh wow so so since my Dad's passing he's been in China with taica right oh where's grandpa he's he's in China you know it's kind of hard news to break to like a little kid oh but it feels bad because every time we're like referencing or any family conversations we're kind of like dancing around it and then we always got to give people the look like we don't break that stuff up you know cuz I I don't know how to break it to him and then so during the uh holidays we visited Gio's brother at Rose Hills and um I was like ████ I don't want to keep feeling like I'm holding this like lie it feels like even though it's not really age appropriate but you just never know right like there's no like parenting manual so you just kind of wing it the whole time and I was like hey babe I think I'm going to tell him she's like you are and I was like yeah I just don't cuz like I remember when I was 15 and I dug through

5:52 my my family photo album I found out my mom's name wasn't her name like I saw her school ID and I was like what the ████ is this you lying ████ ████ and then I found out like like all this other ████ drama that happened to my mom right and it always felt like I don't know this like Gap or like she's been lying to me I do feel like that's like regular like Asian household stuff they lie a lot h no it's you never directly you never directly tell a person anything anything is discovered or heard through like gossip you'll gossip about everybody's stuff but nobody will ever say it out loud well they use lawyers that's rich no no no I'm saying like family members like lawyers right cuz they'll they'll be like they'll like let's say like I vet to Ryan in the hopes that they send this yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah cuz you never said it so you're like not as they middlemen middlemen are always ████ too so they do a bad job if

6:43 they're in a bad family yeah okay back to your back to your father so so um so I was like okay cool uh we're going to break the news to him so I told taica I was like hey taica um I have some sad news so like I kind of like BRAC yourself a little bit and then he was like okay what is it I was like um grandpa passed like to recently and he goes oh he did and then in China yeah and then he's like oh like what happened I was like oh just in China he got sick and you know he's old he passed away so you just built a second live what do you what do you want to do it's kind of like you you got to you give him a jalapeno and then you give him the habanero later you can't go straight to the habanero you give him the jalapeno he made it more complicated this is our government by

7:34 the way lying to us about everything give mahalap and give maano later way later like 60 years later they can't handle it they can't handle what am I going to do what would you do what would you do you know exactly what happened how would you break it to I don't know if I would like add details details but I wouldn't add new details finally equ I'd be like let's put a story together let's bu Our Own Story bu oh ████ yeah so you got to say it like how he would have told you I I wouldn't I don't have any judgment I'm just laughing objectively hearing a news story being told Mar just say he's winging it as a dad you know what sucks dude that ████ is kind of like autistic with dates and ████ uh so he'll remember D like he'll be like oh I realized uh John Moran was basketball player he's born during the Coline shooting like he just ties ████ like

8:26 no way dude he said that like dates like he's like a ████ like a C him Coline that's what he looks up game a jalapeno wait for no no his his free time he's like man I really love jalapeno I need when his free time he goes on like Google and it's like when was the watermelon invented like that's what he looks up I actually looked that up cine shooting no but that's what he likes right so the Coline shooting NBA play the same birthday where was Joseph con born so this fool this fo is like on the spectum when it comes to dates we go to the tombstone and then it says like 2022 or whatever right he goes wait a minute this happened two years ago and I was like oh ████ I forgot

9:16 about that part I was like you're not supposed to be looking at dates and ████ like that oh it's cuz you waited so long he's smart enough to see the timeline guy who's like yeah but if you tell a family member and they tell him like they tell him all ████ probably how I'll would do it I you should have had me I would have done it what was your rebuttal how' you get your way what was the jalapeno for that one was what did I I think I was like that ta it's actually 2022 right now he has to change all the calendars that's the move that's the move I think my eyes got like I could we could have go cuz of Co I think my eyes just got hella big and I looked at GI I was like oh ████ you go you go and I was like oh he just I think it happened a while ago but I just got the news now and then he's like oh okay you just got the news now he wasn't

10:08 dumb enough for the first one he's dumb enough for the second one loopholes yeah loopholes that's it it's scary breaking tough news to kids is scary man in a couple days he's going to be like why did they tell you so late that's what he's going to ask in a couple years he's going to be like they're someone's going to be like hey we want to take a trip to China he's like no I'm good cuz it's like how do you take a rated R story and then make it g you know that's like the it's like that's the parental filter you write a new story that's true take out the rated R things about it yeah you Disney it yeah and it's still weirdly dark anyway a black guy make him a lesbian yeah so Grandpa was actually a lesbian like what yeah yeah I don't know how you

10:58 that's like taking the habanero and going ghost peppering it yeah I don't know there's no other way did you like consult with Gio about like the manner in which you were going to say or were you like I got this no it was just like Hey we're going to break this she like okay well this is your thing so I'm going to stay out of it and then he was just asking the ████ hard questions I was like oh how old is he now like seven he's seven now yeah oh ████ in your opinion who do you think between you and Gio does a better job explaining complex things to him I'm guessing Gio I think it depend no no if it's emotional stuff I think Gio if it's more like logical things I think me this is a pretty emotional thing isn't it so I probably was the wrong person cuz he just stacked it all with another line wait he's treating him like he's like he's four cuz it's 2022 still I know wait a

11:51 minute damn you weren't expecting him to figure that one but now it feels good because now like if we you know if we have to go to like rolls Hills or whatever we can visit everyone and then we can talk openly about stuff so it feels good it'ss like a big it does feel like a big burden lifted off my chest but what if somebody like brings up a tiny detail and his autistic self like really really hones in on it like some mentions like your mom's house in America that's going to be tough that's the GE that's where Geo steps in honesty is the best policy honesty is the best posi cuz you know I think Tao would have done the act like if he was explaining it to you he would have done act out that's true yeah but dude but honesty is the best policy and then you suddenly get summoned to school and the principal's like hey you don't want to know what te has been

12:41 drawing you know what I mean and then you're like but he's been acting out in the bathroom and showing all the kids yeah yeah you don't know man he shouldn't have to know that that's why I'm homeschooling cuz you know I'm going to have weird kids you're going to have weird kids but now it's like ta has a problem learning about China for some reason but he knows a lot about watermelons and Coline shooting yeah I like that he knows about Coline though I'm going to quiz that kid about watermelons when I see him I'm going to I'm going to really look up and do my ████ on watermelon ask him about dates he'll ████ you up dude he knows like when cotton candy was invented you know when cotton like dude he knows all kinds of crazy ████ dude who's a savant that was little mini rain functional Rainman dude like just ran over the be driving like hey papa do you know when ginger ale was inent just snacks it's mostly snacks he's a foodie huh he's going to be so good at trivia yeah that was going to win Jeopardy yeah

13:31 dude he's going to be a millionaire just on Jeopardy look up the dates of jelly beans go ahead but what everybody do for New Year's ████ f with you a little bit what' you guys do what did the Vegas chapter do little party at my house was oh cool little gentle Suare oh ████ yeah you know Steve actually uh now I've seen like multiple holidays like they're very festive like it's like fullon decorating stuff like putting the Halloween decorations on the lawn or taking them all down and putting all Christmas decorations on the lawn even though they look terrible it's not true he liked them that stuff's fun though yeah I love that ████ as soon as I'm allowed to I do it as soon as right away go is it already down or you leaving there just piss off HOA I'm leaving there piss off hway yeah well we had we were it was so windy I didn't want to take him down yet like he went across the street to his neighbor's uh

14:22 spot to like help him like tie like a 7ot like air blown like what is it nutracker 18t 18t Santa he actually blew away during the rainstorm not kidding during the Windstorm thing he blew away and uh my buddy Mormon the poker guy he's like he's like hey hey he's like did you save my Santa is that why he's not on my lawn I'm like no brother he's gone he's hoping that Steve Steve yeah cuz cuz I'll I'll go out there and deflate him if it's like really windy or something cuz he's not always around but then uh so then the neighbor one of our neighbors like across the street is like like hey I have your Santa he blew into my backyard he's 18 ft Dam that means he went all the way across the street in over a lady's roof into her backyard Ian he does it to every kid's house every year but wouldn't true wouldn't that

15:13 that's like the sickest ring camera video you could ever find is a 18t sand just going ████ yeah flying through the sky but you you decorated your house a little bit too didn't you didn't you have like some uh Christmas stuff yeah but like a wreath on the door come on you didn't even visit when I was there you only visit to take care of my cats good and we had the little Mickey Mouse hand in the front it was it was sick like the tree was nice yeah the tree good good the Garland on the Beautiful You beautiful tree see I got to back myself up yeah but like you have like a gold theme everybody wear gold for like New Year's party Nicki spent like hours like putting food together and something like this is really festive cuz he seems like a just a kind of rag tag piece of ████ DJ right doesn't do anything never showers where the same all time I never thought that never showers is a hell of a statement I'm the cleanest guy in the room dude I know a whistle Joe's cleaner than you

16:06 yeah I'm clean in different ways so different ways Joe what you do for New Year man I've been working since Thanksgiving wow this is my first little break so you started working on the holidays finally no I put you to work on the holiday dude well the the politically correct correct thing to say is oh you know what um uh uh my I just wanted to make sure that my employees can all have uh holiday break so I just I just took it for the team but in reality dude this year was ████ crazy like there would have been days if my family didn't come work to shop with me there would have been days would it would just been me or Hannah ████ wow damn how long how long are you guys open for from 900 to 9 so

16:56 we're literally opening it most of the past I would say 30 days the past 30 plus days has been me um opening up the shop at 8 and then closing it at 10:00 wow do do you guys perform way better when you guys are there though does the shop perform hella yeah we made the most we ever did the holid but it's so it's like not only were we short staff but it was a busy ████ season man it was crazy so then I mean that part it it wasn't like last year we're like we're working but also we're like losing money this year it's like crushing it and everyone's happy W's back all of my friends their businesses were rescued during the holidays everyone was like I don't know if I can survive another month we're going to freaking like yeah that's lit yeah so it was like celebration all around I think everybody

17:48 you know the memories of lahina is kind of like not there anymore everyone's enjoying Hawaii now so like yeah but 20203 man that was a ghost town but this year and I think it was just getting out of Co too and I think it was just a weird time but new year was crazy like um everything was just it was popping it was like yeah so like in between like I would have fun like I would walk over and all of my the funny thing is this this happened to like everybody there like you would see all the owners of every single shop just hanging out they're happy finally probably well there's no employees oh ████ everyone's just go goes like so like let's say if that's crazy if you're like a minimum wage you know you're you're usually like a college student a high school student or like whatever right so half of my

18:40 team's from the mainland so they went back to do holidays with them the other half is like it's it's Christmas I'm not coming to work D so it was just like that's it and then you have a combination of everyone on break right and then a hell of tourist cuz they're on break so everyone's spending everyone's having a great time but then there's not enough people to work so every shop was like there were lines and lines out the door like people waiting to eat but there's not enough staff everywhere so everywhere you go you just see the owners if you knew who the owners were they're just working it and we're just like oh ████ so it's been a tradition every year that my family just comes and we just work the shop that's cool it's not ████ cool it ████ sucks it ████ sucks it ████ sucks I do think that sucks let's go out for next year boys that's true you do see the other families

19:30 they're like actually having Christmas but then everyone's like working and ████ you guys can't have political debates we work in the job [Laughter] dude yeah no I mean my my my my nephew came from Texas all the way he goes oh you guys he's like you guys need help and I'm like yeah he goes I'll be there and then yeah he was here yeah then everyone just kind of came through but um it's it's it's just weird during the holidays now for the past 3 years it's been like okay it's time to actually kick it into gear for me but now I'm like all right I can't wait till the day that like I get to be a normal person again yeah oh like how like David has all his Christmases all the time family and stuff he's over there just chilling and feed up he went to all of his fam Christmases building families our family

20:21 house for Christmas too yeah were you were you at the shop when uh at at the Christmas party once we were putting all the chairs back and I was stacking him up over there no so the funny thing is I was getting a little fomo cuz you guys were doing the Christmas thing and I was like a ████ I wonder how they're doing so um I got back yeah and it was like 10: for me and then I was looking at the camera right here and I saw this guy in smack like folding tables or something yeah we were putting the tables in and I scamming on the table I started talking to him on the security cab and he looks up like what the ████ I just hear him go Merry Christmas Christmas I like how he he sent Merry Christmas to group he says merry Chistmas cuz it sounds like christas

21:12 yeah yeah then it was what it was you Steve trata Stacy you guys were all out there and I was like oh Steve toata right here my Instagram handle baby yeah we were justan I know it's not you I would have flown in just for that and then F flew back yeah but it was Christmas Eve the next day cuz it was you guys had the party on the 23rd so I was like oh man that would have been really rough yeah yeah I didn't know the shop was going to be that that nuts during the holidays what did you guys do cuz you you had the party on Christmas before Christmas Eve right so then everyone just did family stuff on the next day yeah pretty much yeah yeah it was so close to Christmas a lot of the um a lot of people couldn't come to the JK

22:02 Christmas thing cuz it was they had already been out of town by that point cuz it was like right before Christmas many still showed up pretty packed I kept on finding myself just being like deeply gratuitous that people were willing to show up gratuitous huh that's a hell of a word for that that was drunk it was gratuitous well was crazy to me is like so you usually get all the guests right and then getting them all together in one room room I was like damn dude that this is like hell of people but if you think about previous to 2025 and if you brought everybody together dude that's in the hundreds oh my God yeah yeah yeah if this is something that if this tradition was like since the beginning of JK news that would be crazy that would yeah yeah yeah but it was cool to square up with some of them

22:52 [Laughter] dude dude if people had like wrestling entrances oh my God entr music that's what I would love to do next year I would love to do next year the theme is like we would have like an entrance door and then you'd have like a mic and we would like announce people every time that would be really funny see I'd come to that don't come early though you don't Hanukkah themed hanuk or huk yeah

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