0:00 Cuz her personality's probably hella dope, and she sounds hella cute over the phone. >> Yeah, yeah. >> And then you see the photo like >> And uh I don't think I've ever told this story on here, but my very first, I would consider the probably like my first serious relationship, was a girl I MET ON AOL. >> WHAT? [screaming] >> DID YOU GUYS EVER uh like in the early years of uh internet, did you ever like chat with like a girl online? >> All the time. >> Like some like somebody you didn't know? >> Somebody you didn't know? >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> Yeah, but not like build a relationship. >> never like >> No, you go to AOL, and then you have different categories. You go to Japan, and under Japan, all the Asian chat rooms were there. >> Yeah, I would talk to people, but I I would only get like I was younger than you guys, so I'd only get like maybe like so much so much time before I got
0:51 kicked off by my sister or some ████ >> Oh, okay. >> So, I could only do other things like try to >> So, you never met somebody online that you ended up knowing offline as well? >> Wow. >> Yep. >> Never at all? >> The closest I got was to the phone. >> Oh, yeah? >> Yeah. >> How'd that happen? What? >> Uh so, it was like I you know how like I would go on those chat rooms, and most of the time I try to uh pretend like I was a girl and I was trying to seduce dudes cuz I thought it was so funny. >> You cybersex guys? >> cybersex guys. They'll be like, "ASL?" Whatever. >> ASL? >> like, "Oh, I'm 15." >> You could make real money right now doing that. >> I know. I'll be so good. I'm like, "Oh, I'm 15, whatever." Uh like, "What are you wearing?" I'm just wearing like lingerie walking around the house. >> And you're laughing your ass off? >> I'm laughing my ████ ass off. And then uh but then somehow I started talking to this girl, and uh as my
1:42 normal self, >> you know it's a girl? What what if it's just another guy? >> on the getting on the phone. They had getting on the phone. That's how I knew. And then it was like we we were like trying to pinpoint where we lived, and she she knew about Cerritos a little bit. I found out she was in Anaheim. And then eventually we got to the point we started talking uh on the phone everyday. >> Yeah. But we were like 13, 14. So that was just kind of like our limitation. Like we just I couldn't get anyone to drive me to Anaheim and she >> So it just ended there. >> It just ended there. >> Oh dang, I wonder who that girl is. >> But it was almost like the the thought of it and the imagination and the fantasy of it was probably even better than what real life was. >> Probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Could have given you head, dude. You don't know. >> That's true. >> [laughter] >> That's true. Or it could have been a guy. >> Yeah. >> You don't know.
2:32 >> She could have given you head, dude. You don't >> been a 28 year old man. >> I would go in those chat rooms, start off ASL, and then they would type back higher cap higher cap lower cap higher cap lower cap >> So Asian? >> W U Z U P What's up? >> [laughter] >> Where you from? >> What's up? >> You know. >> Oh, just chilling. >> And then you start chatting. >> And then I was quite the online pimp because I would get them to send me pictures to my house. >> In the mail? Like photographs? >> Cuz they didn't have scanners. >> Oh, you talking about they would send like the wallet size photos? >> Like the mall photos, dude. I had a collection of them. >> Oh, hell yeah. >> I have a collection of girls I was macking on when I was 14 years old.
3:22 >> That's tight. >> And then they were It's for sure they're the same age. >> Yeah. >> I had girls in Orange County, San Gabriel Valley. >> But you never like you could never meet up with them or anything? >> I met up with some. >> Oh, hell yeah. >> It was pretty cool. Went on dates and stuff. Yeah, got with some of them. >> You just got to like >> Yeah, got with some of I We got We got We went to the movies and we kissed. My mom would drop us off at the movie theater. >> That's so cute, dude. >> That's dope. >> Your mom drops you off being like you you her like I just met this girl online? >> No, no, no. I I plan out like a hangout, like a group hangout thing with my friends. And then like back then, it was normal to just get dropped off at the mall. So then like you'll be like >> time you was already selling weed? >> No. I was barely getting into it being a bad boy. It was like 13 or 14 years old.
4:13 That was like I was starting to like maybe I'll smoke a cigarette, you know? Like [laughter] But then I remember begging my parents for a for a a scanner because like I was getting tired of sending pictures in the mail. >> [laughter] >> Bro, I'm like ████ writing a letter and ████ And I'm licking the ████ envelope. That's what everyone did before they >> I never thought about that though. I never thought people were sending the the actual physical photo through the mail. >> Yeah, if you hit it off, eventually you want to see what they look like, right? So then like there's been times though where like I'm like, ████ I spent months talking to this girl and then you're like, I don't really like her ████ [laughter] photo. >> Oh, no. >> But I mean like what do you do? You're 13 and you're just like, I don't want to talk to her anymore. >> Cuz her [laughter] personality's probably hella dope and she sounds hella cute over the phone. And then you see
5:04 the photo like >> No, what it was is that obviously like we're 14 or 13, right? And then like Asian girls, they still look hella young. And then their mom dresses them until they're like a high schooler, right? So like >> Unless they're a rebel. >> So I I I be I be feeling like a pedo because like >> Oh. >> She's like my age. >> 14-year-old pedo. So you have to bat higher than that. >> Yeah, well like I wanted ABGs. >> Yeah. >> And then you want the Honey Boo Boo Knights. >> But some of these girls speak like they are ABG. Like cuz they're online persona, they're like a bad girl, right? They're ████ talking. And then they send over a picture and it's like a quinceañera like celebration or whatever. I'm just like, you look like you're 12. >> were hoping for like the lip liner Asian chick. [laughter] >> Because that's actually >> Drawn on eyebrows. >> Looking like you're 12 and 14, that's
5:55 such a big gap, right? Like like a 14-year-old is already like a teenager. And then like if she's looking like she's like anywhere from 9 to 12, I'm like, nah, this girl's a baby. Like I can't get with her. >> You look nuts. >> I don't yeah, I wasn't attracted at all. And then so like I would just ghost them and ████ and then >> [laughter] >> It was easier to ghost back. They just turned the computer off. >> And I would just get like a letter of of a goodbye letter and I'm just like, ugh, I should write back but I don't know what to say. >> You just keep it a waste that is always you're actually ghosting. >> And my cousin's like, dude, these girls you're you're going to regret it one day. Like you you're you're going to get older and you're going to look back and be like, oh man, they were they like they could have been like basically you got to invest in them cuz they're going to they're going to become older, too. And in a couple years it's nothing, you know? But in the moment I'm like, I want Sasha Singleton.
6:45 >> God damn, dude. >> Like you know what I mean? Like you want a fancy D looking girl, you know? You don't want a like nerdy Asian girl that's like, yeah. >> That's true. >> Then we would start scanning the photos after and then people would like email each other the photos. And then so it it would like it was way quicker. >> Way more streamlined. >> Yeah. Still takes 30 minutes to download, though. >> Yeah, it takes a long time. >> There's so like I know nowadays like people are probably who were, you know, 10 years younger than us probably this sounds like foreign language but now it's like super normal to be on dating apps, meet people, you know, online dating probably is is such a norm now and not even like a taboo thing. Back in like the 90s it was very weird. It was like super novel. And I don't think I've ever told this story on here but my very first I would consider probably like my first serious
7:35 relationship was a girl I MET ON AOL. >> WHAT? AND THEN DID it turn out to be like a 50-year-old man? >> No. >> How did you guys meet? >> So like literally in the >> [laughter] >> in the in the Pinoy Pinay chat room. Yeah, which was where like which is funny because it sounds so Filipino, but it's super like Filipino-American like white-washed kids, you know? And then she had a she I thought her screen name was like super hot. It was Pinay Mischief. >> Oh. >> Hell yeah. >> Was it uppercase, lowercase, uppercase? >> Yeah, of course. So was mine. My ████ was all uppercase. It was like that. And then it was already at the point where like scanners I guess like we just both had scanners. So it was easy to like exchange photos and just talk and just chat and stuff. And then you know, I I found out oh she lives really far away. She lives all the way in ████ Oxnard.
8:26 >> Oh ████ >> Which we're both 15 years old. So at that point we're like we'll never see each other. Oxnard? That's crazy. So then like after talking to her for almost like maybe like five or six months I get one of my buddies who was like his first first friend to have his license. And I'm like let's go to ████ Oxnard doc. And then so like we planned this thing me and my my friend Ben from high school. We got all of our boys like in high school like six of us. We in his little ass 88 Sentra. We drove all the way to Oxnard and I told her like hey get your like get all your girls together. We're going to like ████ party all of us together. And I and then the whole time we're like dude, what if they're like super ugly and whack and annoying. And then [snorts] not that we're the ████ you know, bell of the ball ourselves, but we drive all the way there to Oxnard which we ████ had to like you know, print the directions out
9:17 and ████ We don't know where we're going or whatever. We go there and >> Was this pre MapQuest days? >> It's like probably right at MapQuest. Like turn of yeah, when it start to be a thing. >> Thomas Guide days. >> Yeah, remember [laughter] you always used to have that book in your car? It may have even been like like Yahoo or something like before that. So we go we get out there which feels like hell of far to us. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And uh it's like one of her girlfriends' houses, which which was like the parents weren't home. So, we meet up with there's like six of them, and they're like banging, like all [laughter] of them. >> Hell yeah. >> And we're just like, "Yo, what?" And then the girl that I was like talking to, she like was She was ████ beautiful, and I was like hell of stunned that it actually like worked out. And um and then yeah, like we I actually like asked her to be my girlfriend, and we were together for
10:07 like almost a year. >> Wow. >> Yeah. So, then like when >> How often did you guys see each other? >> ████ barely ever. We only got to see each other maybe like uh ████ probably not even 10 times. >> So, you just did a lot of calling? >> What are you doing? >> I got busted several times by my parents for phone bill ████ I had to buy the calling cards. >> Plus the Oxnard, that's long distance. >> Yeah. And so, if she was ever in town for something, like we would, you know, try to meet up, or I would actually see her because I was on the choir for San Gabriel Academy, and sometimes we would have to sing at a church that was Camarillo or closer to her side, so I'd be able to see her. And this is like the girl I lost my virginity to, everything. Like she >> Wow. >> Damn, you saw her 10 times, you guys were able to do it? >> Yeah. We uh >> Was it that night, that six-on-six night? >> Hell no, it wasn't that. But that wasn't that That was a I did get head that day,
10:57 which was ████ insane to me. >> Were your friends like, "Thank you, Ryan. >> [laughter] >> Thank you, there's all these beautiful girls." >> They never like hooked up with any of her friends, but they We were just all like cuz like we were dorks, and I thought like they were like >> Yeah. >> like a level above us, you know. >> Were they like the Remix Twins? >> Kind of like that. But But they were like the Premix Twins. They were like almost that. You know what I mean? So, it was like uh >> The younger, not too ABG. >> And they were clearly like the popular girls of their school, which was like Channel Islands at the time or whatever. So, I was like, "That's tight." And then um and then uh >> Channel Islands got that good dance team. >> Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. So, I would actually see her whenever that dance team would uh have to perform or something. I'd go out there and watch it. >> Oh, she's a dancer, too? >> No, but Channel Islands, they were like pretty big on their dance team like competitively like doing stuff. So, then yeah, we were together for quite a
11:47 while. And then like obviously we broke up because the realistic nature of not being able to see each other was insane. And then just so happens, which is the craziest coincidence. So, we [clears throat] we basically grow up as friends after that. We stay we stay in contact. We're cool and everything. Um you know where she lives now? >> Vegas. >> Downey. >> What the Wow. >> So, she lives literally 5 minutes away from my childhood home now. >> Wow. >> Wow. What brought her back over down to Downey? >> She was chasing him. >> She became a nurse. She became a nurse and then just kept like transferring to different hospitals. >> Getting closer and closer to you. >> ended up working at the same hospital my mom retired from. >> What the >> She like works like can see my aunt at work. >> That's the one that got away from you. >> But it's so crazy like and and the crazy thing is like she never tells anybody that that's how we met cuz she's so
12:37 ████ embarrassed about that. >> Why? >> Cuz I think back then it was so weird. It was so like risky and odd. >> Back then, but I think it's so cool now to be one of the pioneers of doing it. >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. >> That's true. >> But it's funny cuz like we would she would I like the only people that knew were like her friends that were there that day, but everyone else thinks we met at like a Channel Islands dance thing. >> [laughter] >> Or like one of those like we just say like oh, Filipino event. >> That's right. Everyone always lied about like meeting someone online. They're like oh, mutual friends. >> Yeah, because it was super weird. It was like very it was very novel. And like >> And it was also the thing that like at that time people were also like dude, be careful who you meet online. So, it was like a weird thing to be like I really met this person online. >> Right. But the the only people that did kind of get it and it wouldn't be weird were other people that were in the know about the online AOL Asian scene. Like
13:27 the AZN AOL >> a lot of friends in there. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was That was cool. But like if you were telling a white guy in the '90s that that's how you met your girl, they would be so confused. Yeah. They'll be like, "On what? On AOL? Like how do you even find another person?" >> [laughter] >> Yeah, but that's She's also the girl that I told the story and nobody believed me about how the condom got stuck in her vagina for like months. >> Oh, ████ Jesus. >> Yeah. >> Damn. >> ████ dog. Dude, you ████ dog. >> But that's my ████ first time. I didn't know what I was doing. >> What's her name? >> I can't say her name. >> [laughter] >> But she has the same name as like a very popular music artist, so it's her SEO is really funny. >> Björk? >> [laughter] >> If she's Filipino, she probably got a dope name. >> [laughter] >> Probably
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