0:00 Welcome back to a very crucial episode of JK News. Uh we are here with Bar Quan. We're going to figure out different reasons that would cause him to end JK News. >> Oh ████ >> So uh what if Gio had said you're spending too much time over there? I don't like it. >> I spend less time over there. [laughter] >> What if Joe said I quit? >> Oh ████ That would be crazy, man. If he he just says I quit. He says, "I can't do this anymore. I'm out of here." >> That's ████ crazy. I would cuz like I feel like I would quit before Joe would quit. [laughter] >> So, I'm like, for him to say he quits, it's ████ It's >> That might be it, dude. >> Dude, that caught me off guard. >> I would probably Yeah. figure out why. What happened? Is this something where
0:50 he's like, I want to quit now? Like, we're pulling the plug tomorrow, or is it this like a one-year transition type thing? Like, what the hell is going on? He's basically saying he's out and you can do what you want with it. Would you end it or would you do it? Would you pick up the weight and on your own back? >> Now that we're getting better views, I'm going to continue it. [laughter] >> Sucker. What a sucker Joe is. [laughter] >> All right. What if the average view What if the average view count >> drops under 10K? The average view count. >> Yeah. I mean, that's like real, right? Like if if that's like if the business financial part doesn't make sense, then that's a huge conversation cuz that's like, >> okay, >> running the family doughnut shop >> and not only is it not paying for the family, but if people constantly have to
1:41 put money back in and it's taken away from then you Yeah, you got to have that hard conversation then. Like, >> okay, what about if Wong Fu is going to pay you to stop? >> Oh, dude, are they really going to pay us? >> [laughter] >> Is that the deal? Wait, you got us a deal? If Wong Fu is just like this getting too offensive to Asians, >> dude, if they're going to pay us, they'll take it, dude. I'm like, yo, they're going to ████ pay us. Awesome, >> dude. We'll take that 10 grand. >> Yeah, we'll take it. >> 10 grand. 10 grand. >> Take 10 grand. Split across the board. Bada bing, bada boom. [laughter] >> What if every one of us except you moved back to LA? >> Oh ████ that's crazy. [laughter] Like, dude, it's so convenient to shoot in LA again. [laughter] >> Everyone move back to LA. Still shoot in Vegas.
2:31 >> You know, like the silver lining part of my brain uh might try to make that work because I do miss seeing Gio's mom. That's one thing I kind of miss. Like I I get to be way more in Taeka's life now. I don't have to be gone and ████ like kidnapped for a couple days and coming back. >> That is a very silver lighting way of seeing it. >> Yeah. But then the other thing now I'm like damn I kind of miss all those like almost forced interactions that we have to come and then because I come then Gio and Tao will also come and so because JK was in LA Gio and Taika saw grandma way more too. So >> true. Okay. What about if Anthony was trying to pass through and he tripped and a domino effect all the equipment fell over and everything broke. Every light, every camera. Clumsy Anthony did >> had an error. Everything we have here
3:23 destroyed. >> I think that's the easy problem. >> Oh, damn. >> Because I think if it's like equipment or money, that's easy, right? I mean, Anthony will just owe me like $2 million now. But [laughter] >> you would owe me to >> He will raise his hand if you ask who did it. [laughter] >> It was me. But that would be like he's honorable. >> What if What if Anthony says, "I want triple the salary." >> Oh, we got to shut it down. We got to shut it down. [laughter] Double. How about just double? Just double. [sighs] >> I think it's going to be like a maybe four person show now. [laughter] >> All right. What if you and Joe's old gang member friends found out you're talking about him on here and they threatened you and said, "We're going to retaliate if you don't delete the channel." I'm like, "Shut the ████ up, dude. What the [laughter] f███?" Like,
4:14 "Don't you got ████ kids you need to raise? Get the ████ out of here, dude. [laughter] Yeah, get the ████ out of here before I ████ rat on you. Put you in jail some more. >> What about if operation costs have risen by 10% every week that we're running it? >> That's a hard conversation, too. Then we got to figure that out. [laughter] That's tough, man. Cuz cuz almost like, you know, every time we had that algo change, we have to reassess the whole business operation. Yeah. >> And so anytime it's like the real money aspect of it, that's like cuz everything else like oh creatively where are you passion-wise or whatever vision wise like all all of the like more fluffier creative fulfillment things. I think that's a separate conversation because you know you can always view things or
5:05 frame things differently, right? >> Yeah. But with money, you can't like there's no other way of framing it. If you're if it's you're doing Google spreadsheets and it's ████ all red, [laughter] just see it different. >> What's What's this positive spin on this? >> Change your perspective. >> Yeah, you can't just change your perspective on it. >> All right. What about if YouTube changed its rules and you can no longer cuss at all or make sexual innuendo jokes? >> Is it worth Is it worth still doing for you? I would try it because me and Joe did a bunch of church shows before and I think >> What the hell, dude? Excuse me. >> What the You son of a ████ >> I'm allergic to ████ [laughter] >> No, he just goes, >> "No, I think like with more parameters actually comes more creativity." >> You know, when you go like, >> "That's true. >> What do you want me to design?" And the
5:55 guy goes, the worst thing you can hear is like anything. Like for real, ████ Yeah. >> But if you're like, "Oh, can you do something that's like kind of black and white from like, you know, like that 50s era, whatever, >> and you're like, "Oh, boom. I already have like a confinement." And I >> It gives you a lane. >> Yeah. >> It's just like, >> yeah. So, if they're like, "Oh, you no sexual noendo, no cussing, blah blah blah blah blah." Then I think we can find other ways around it. >> No sexual innuendo, no cussing, no gay topics, and no racial topics. >> Racial. >> Yeah. You can't say anything racial. [laughter] We're all basically one race now. Like you can't say >> we're dead. We can't do Asian military topics. >> Nope. You can't do that. >> We're ████ dead. >> You can't do that. >> Racial is hard. I think that's such a big part of our like from from JK Films to now. It's always been part of like what we love. It's like telling Dave Chappelle you can't do racial stuff.
6:46 Like from beginning till and he's going to do racial stuff, you know? That's like that's his his stuff. >> All right. But what if it was Taika's birthday and he's blowing the candles and you hear him say, "I wish dad would stop doing JK News." >> What the ████ That'd be crazy. [laughter] >> You're getting real reactions, dude. You keep saying the complete opposite of what I'm expecting cuz you know what Tao told me this morning? He's like, "Are you doing JK News? Can I come?" So, it's the exact opposite. He wants me to keep doing JK News and he wants JK News to be 10 million subscribers so he can come and do even more of it. >> He's like, "We're eating breakfast." And he's like, >> "You're just going to like be able to cuss all day today, aren't you?" >> Oh, [laughter] yeah. He's so jealous that you
7:36 cuz this must be his ultimate verbal safe space, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> And he knows people are laughing and it's entertaining. Oh, dude. He's He might be built for this, man. >> Cuz it's like I think JK News to him is like the bad boy classroom. Like, oh, you're getting paid to be in detention. What the ████ That's crazy. Fine. You want opposite? I'll give you opposite. What if Joe, we start doing well and Joe's like, "Hey, Bart, I want to buy you out and we're going to keep running JK without you." [laughter] Dude, Ja News. Yeah, [laughter] JJ News partnering with JJ Hong Kong Cafe. >> It's going to [laughter] make even more. >> Look how opposite I got him right now. A bad opposite. Buy you out is crazy. I would entertain it. It would catch me crazy offguard, but I would entertain it. Um, because I do I think as an artist, I do have other creative things.
8:28 You know, everything's always opportunity cost. >> You have a non-compete. You have to sign a non-compete, though. >> I think that's fine. I think that's fine. >> You can't do any creative things. >> What the [laughter] nothing recorded on YouTube. >> You can't even cook anymore. [laughter] >> You can't do YouTube or Instagram. [laughter] >> Oh, >> and no workout videos. social media. >> Joe B. [laughter] >> No capable nothing. >> That's crazy. >> You're not allowed to go take your class. [laughter] >> Drink your delts. >> Buy you out is an actual thing you would consider if he said that. >> Yeah. >> I mean, if especially if so, like me and relationship, me and Joe's relationship are like brothers, right? >> So, if he proposed something, I already know he probably thought the fairest way to do something. >> Okay. just because I know how he is. >> So, he's probably thinking of like this
9:19 is what he his idea is. He's already considered my situation and I'd be like, "Oh ████ okay." And I'll probably talk it through with him. And uh uh there's as I guess like a creative person, there's always other creative things that you wanted to do but you haven't done. So, I think it would be like, "Oh, cool. This is one of those times where like one door closes, the other one opens situation." So, I wouldn't be opposed to it cuz I also have done JK News for ████ over 10 years. What if when you get that uh he gives you that uh document to sign about being bought out >> and the document says >> I Banan hereby agree to be bought out of just kidding news and in exchange take over June Biki. >> What the hell? Hell no. [laughter] Cuz he wants to trade places with you. He goes, "You stop June JK and you do June." >> I'm the one who told him not to do June B. [laughter] What the hell?
10:09 >> Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, because I ran barbell. It's ████ hard, right? Like if you do a brick and mortar, I'm like, "Dude, the first 5 years cuz uh you remember when we used to do our walks up and down?" This is before Jumbi. He was telling me he uh he's going to do and I actually advised him against it. I was like, "I honestly I don't know cuz I also know him, right? He's a free spirit." I'm like, >> "You're going to be [clears throat] like locked down to a place. I hope you know." >> And I know that's not his style. >> Of course. He said it and forget it, man. >> Yeah. And I was like, you know, like I was like the first three years of barbell, like the actual gym, I'm like your HR, janitor, you're like everything, you know, and you're every you're that go-to person for every single thing. And there's going to be weird ████ that happens that you never even thought of that's unrelated to the business, you know? No, but he's got David. Like a pipe's going to burst and you're like, "Oh, ████ I guess I'm a
11:00 plumber today." Like there's like just >> different ████ that's just going to happen. or like um like there might be a ████ fire in San Bernardino Mountains and then there's ash coming in and then now you're going to have a member that's going to complain like, "Oh, you're just going to keep the gym open while there's like a toxic air or something." And then like you have to know how to like pull ████ out of your ass to address that situation, you know? >> It's just like and I just know he's not going to like it. So when we used to do those walks, I did advise him. But I as a brother though, if he had asked you for this and was like, "Will you please take care of Jumbi Wy Ki for me?" >> He pulls the brother card, >> "Would you do it?" And he's like, he he's never been more serious in his life. And he's like, "As a brother, please, I need you for this." >> How long? >> Five years. [laughter] >> What the hell?
11:53 [laughter] >> I say as a brother, I can't. >> One straight year. One straight year. That's realistic. Well, >> you have to be in store every day. >> You have to be in store. Yeah. And you got It's meet and greet every day. [laughter] >> You got to be dressed in a giant >> June B cup. >> One year. Eddie needs you. He needs you. >> And he was like And it's his I'm I can feel him on his emotional knees. >> I would have to talk it over with Gio. >> That's not Hey, honestly though, you're Oh, dude. Having to talk over We got to live in Hawaii for one year. The thing [laughter] would be I would be like, "Hey, what's pull ta out of school? How can we make >> make it the best out of it? You you guys will just be in Hawaii for a year. >> You're not going to see me that much, but at least you guys are in Hawaii. I guess we'll be in Hawaii and I'll Joe and my brother's asking me like in a in a way I've never asked me before.
12:44 Making June seem like a ████ 24-hour a day hard as hell, dude. Like it's I'm sure he'll see his family if he's in Hawaii with them." >> Oh, no. Not with a drink. If he just he's just got to do Joe style hard. If he does joe style then Gio and Tiger are working at you every day too. >> No, but like running a shop like that in that area like >> it's tough. >> The people he hires is this. Can you put like a pound of sugar into here? And then it was like one teaspoon. >> Oh my god. [laughter] >> Bree likes that kind of ████ Like ████ >> So I'm going to be there all day [laughter] like give me the ████ sucker, dude. >> All right. as the last as a very last one. Okay, YouTube calls you up, right? We're doing great, by the way. Channel's doing amazing. Uh, views are up all the time and they're still climbing. YouTube gives you a call and they say,
13:35 "Everyone's making good money, but YouTube calls and says, >> "Uh, Bart Quan, we are going to delete your channel." >> This channel or another channel? >> This channel. They're going to delete it unless you bring back everyone from the old cast and integrate them to the current cast. How much more are they going to pay me? >> They're not going to pay you anything. They're just going to delete your channel if you don't do it. >> Well, I got to delete it then. [laughter]
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