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Off The Record: All The Cities We Will NEVER Visit Again

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0:00 yeah yeah oh you know what city I don't like at all is Hiroshima is it tied with Nagasaki it's close [Music] hey you know be honest we're off the records hey uh we're off of the record let loose okay I won't what are some cities you hate and why cities yeah whole cities you got good prompts man why do you hate these things full cities whole cities oh and Sonata you hate incidents I agree you could bomb Ensenada I'll be fine what bomb that place because it's a tourist hellhole yeah like like Hollywood Highlander and Rosarito bomb both of them I can understand that now but man in college that ████ was so fun you know what I don't like about Ensenada though it's the ████ constant Hawking yeah

0:52 that's what I mean it was kind of like that in um playo Del Carmen it was a little bit like that but the Ensenada is just on crack dude I just left puertoverte it was ████ Thai so nobody was hounding you no not one time it was sick but yeah Ensenada is like it's like being on Hollywood Highland which I hate already I'd never want to go there I only had to go there for work stuff like if I was trolling or whatever like other than that I don't want to be there yeah but it's the same idea it's the same exact place it looks the same same everything same like come get a tour of like something ████ that you don't want to see and like oh cool maybe I'll see that wow that's you know ████ Michelle Pfeiffer's house you're like okay I'm like like Hollywood Highland right so they shot they shot this dealer there kind of like

1:43 for 30 seconds yeah it's like that what is there to do in Ensenada like nothing it's this that's what it's Anonymous you go over after a cruise you buy ████ weird non-stick like churros um you get conned into going up to like some third ████ story restaurant and they ████ poor tequila in your mouth you have to pay for everything you get to like pet a tiger and ████ but then the Tiger's drugged no really it's it's just oh they got zebras walking around but really they're just donkeys painted like zebras he's bound down they grab Nikki and my friend jessal Zama so I'm there I'm there with like her husband at the time right he's my boy and then we're there and you guys met jessal Zama and then so like they just grabbed Nikki and Jess and they just start marching them through like blowing whistles and ████ and then me and my buddy Joe we're like chasing our chicks down and then like

2:33 they're like grabbing Nikki's shorts and like opening them up and like pouring a navel shot for me to take and then yeah exactly like that like now you guys got to pay for everything it's like ████ hey this is crazy wow that's not against you that's how they get you I saw they get the Commerce over there yeah with your outfit though I would totally grab you and your wife and baby he looks like a good tourist smart you look like a good Mark I could Pat I could picture him with the glasses every new year that has the the the sign the 20th to 2023 yeah yeah two two yeah I wouldn't I wouldn't grab ████ a Mark I know he's not paying for ████ I'm not that much of a mark after all yo that's on you any other cities you guys don't like Beijing oh why I buried everybody in Beijing maybe not Beijing now but Beijing 2006

3:25 it was so there was so many con artists and pickpockets and like it was just a poor country than what it is today and so like you can't when you're when you're just like looking over your shoulder and the type of people I was with they weren't street smart and I was just relying on them to take me everywhere and we were getting ████ jacked and conned left and right and I was sitting there like ████ man what the ████ like yeah it was it was it may be like not the city but just the things that happened because there were great times that happened too your experience dictates your per yeah bury the city there were great time to vote it was the best it was the one what about like it is it is super crowded there yeah when I went it was winter so it was around New Year we did we spent New Year's in Hong Kong and

4:15 then January 2nd we went to so this was 2005 2006. we went to uh Beijing that's where you went wrong it was went from Hong Kong to Beijing oh why is that wrong no it's because they're both like for a foreigner for a tourist they're both Chinese but they are completely different you know what I mean like for example uh weather especially he's talking about January time you know the weather and then two it's like food food is way different Hong Kong Foods against opinion but it felt like Mother Russia you know what I mean where what about the general behavior of people there's Hong Kong people everybody in Hong Kong speaks English yeah but Hong Kong people were meaner I thought oh wow because they knew you were Japanese they could smell it yeah [Music] mind you this is 2006. the way that

5:07 Beijing looked at the time was it looked apocalyptic because all the buildings were half built so like everything like skyscrapers were just all like some of it looked empty and and built like it was just weird and then there were all these massive roads with like three cars or like a guy with a ████ donkey car like so then and then it's definitely not Beijing now that's what I'm saying is like back then it was a bit it looked poor and then so like how dare you look poor because now when I see pictures of Beijing that's not what I saw more Rich it's like it's like bustling with people and cars and whatever but back then it felt like it felt like a former Soviet like Wasteland area because the security guards too they would wear the red star in their like like warm fuzzy hats in the

5:59 uniforms and stuff and then so you would see like like like dudes do like 15 hour shifts like I would I would come into the hotel like six in the morning we're like playing sleeping whatever we go out it's the same door man for like I'm like he was there like earlier wait when does that guy sleep that's because they're allowed to sleep out their post they also look alike you know what city I don't like but uh this is definitely a hot tape because I know a lot of people who like live here who would not be happy I said Los Angeles ████ Bakersfield Long Beach I got family there I was just there for Christmas Long Beach is pretty sick I actually enjoy Long Beach as a city but I've been pulled over by cops there like four times okay oh yeah because you're parking in handicap spots no no no that's Glendale oh yeah yeah Glendale is a stickler bro but straight up dude like ████ the way that cops just treated

6:49 me up they're just mean to you and four times too you just you just build a relationship with the city being pulled over a bunch of sucks yeah in one city why do they pull you over like how would they treat you stupid ████ like I was like breaking law like whatever regular stuff that's like speed how's it going 85 into 15. oh Justified whatever pass a crossing guard get away with it in other cities it's a smooth ride I didn't know it was not that fast I wanted to go to Long Beach so much there's always a lot of dance events there the convention center yeah oh oh you know what city I don't like at all it's Hiroshima is it tied with Nagasaki it's close wait why Hiroshima well they just wouldn't stay down geez stupid always pissed me off so it's slightly different reason for Ensenada no honestly Germany bro the

7:42 whole country Germany I'm from there too apparently like ancestry whatever the ████ partially but no I when I was there was creepy but I was there in the middle of winter but it's ████ creepy yeah yeah it is the thickness like the building style um is it the war crimes and stuff yeah Berlin No we're the I was actually staying at this hotel that had like the biggest aquarium in the world River this ████ Radisson blue it just blew up oh yeah oh that was that place yeah because of the one in the middle yeah because they had this thing about Heating in the winter and so they they made them turn off the heat in the lobby and then this ████ giant aquarium like the biggest ████ oh the biggest aquarium ever that one yeah yeah me and Nikki stayed there and I met my brother Nate there well she met my brother Nate there um he was in the military at the time and then yeah that thing blew up and then all these dead fish all over the ████ place it

8:32 was crazy but yeah there's is a heaviness thickness in that City very odd I was in Munich and it's such a like Germany is a different country compared to all the every everywhere else has like I feel like a little bit of flamboyant or like like flared to their buildings colorful yeah like Italy or like well I've never been there but just the look of like France and there's just some color when you're in Germany their buildings are just like structured great big stone structures that's kind of cold out there or some gargoyles yeah it looks like weird like dark and I went to this place called the reichstag which is supposed to be a museum and I was like this is a bummer [Laughter] Anne Frank's house or something

9:25 swag not even nothing like the book he's like what is this where's the ████ Modern Art I do enjoy Germany's uh uh only maybe only Germans will get the schlaga culture it's like they're um I was choreographing for this like uh uh this pop star out there named Helena Fisher she's basically like their their number one ████ German pop star thing right careful we still got a Hasselhoff around yeah no matter what song every ████ concert was sold out and no matter what song she was saying if if all the audience members if all of them can go like this the whole time it's a good song If you can't do that during the song it's like a ballad or something like that you're kind of like I know what that looks like you can't hold your beard during Oktoberfest and do this you know what I mean but when yeah but when you everybody can do this you're like

10:15 this is kind of fun this is kind of tired and then that's why you understand things like Oktoberfest or the boot or whatever you know you have the ████ water I mean the beard just spilling everywhere and you just doing this this kind of tie honestly I would have buried London too but I had a great experience recently so my neighbor he's like this poker King and ████ but he's like a Brit and we I was watching the world cup with him and they were you know it was it was the UK versus like Paris or France yeah France and I went to this place in Vegas that was like a British pub and it was like every Brit in Vegas was there and and I had this moment with him where we were getting beers in the bar and he's like so packed like you couldn't even I couldn't even move my arms at all but the we're holding beers and we're watching the screen and uh they score like the UK scores and I have never been

11:06 around anything more electric like in a long time like everyone in the whole bar exploded I got a beer bath like get ████ getting dressed and beer and ████ and nobody cares I didn't care especially UK versus France yeah that's a big one dude and I used to hate soccer so much that was so boring but that like woke me up to a little bit I was like oh man being around the fans like the people who ████ love this ████ I was like all right I get this sport a little bit more so did you know that out there you're born into the team you're not you don't choose teams so like wherever your parents are from or like because you know how like it's generational or like if you're like if you're from a city like Liverpool or whatever right like that's your team World Cup wise yeah yeah or like World Cup I think is in it connected you're talking about like football club regions like you're part of the football club against ████ yeah

11:56 that's just kind of time it's fun you know it's you know it's a pretty wax City that whenever I explain to other people and people from this country they agree uh Blackpool where's that Blackpool England really why is it so whack sounds like a cool name starting with the people wise it's sort of like a holiday place to go that's sort of like the budget choice I think it's like a lot you'll see a lot of stag parties you see a lot of you know those like when you go to another country and you see a group of British guys and they're super Rowdy and they're stalking each other and they're vulgar and and just like the worst it's all of them together so like everywhere you go so it's like Tampa Bay yeah you're just running into a bunch of those guys Phil it's like Philly and it's kind of like a sad looking like it kind of just looks like a decrepit like if California Adventure was abandoned for 700 years

12:48 yeah it just looks very cool so not spare Farm yeah true just less funnel cake less Jam yeah it we went there for a dance competition like in the early quest days and here's a funny story actually we went there with um it was a competition and the only two American teams was Quest Crew and jabbawockies and this is before either of us was on TV or anything and then we went out there they lost Java's luggage on the flight or whatever we were like a tiny um there was like a the regular division which is like crew versus whatever showcase none of us won but then they were like hey you know there's a battle where teams can battle other teams and then us and Jabba combined would make up the required number you needed to do it that big yeah it was like 15 or something so we're like yo let's link up

13:38 and smoke everybody and we immediately lost really good to what crew no a no-name like British crew because was it rick are they good it's not rigged we didn't understand the rules so like people had known for I guess like months what the music was gonna be they prepared all these like routines and all these things and it was like You Got Served live like they had prep so they had routines to their music yeah yeah exactly so they had people had pieces and then we went out blind thinking we could just like battling and it just wasn't scoring the criteria so they were like you guys aren't doing any of the like you're just being doing backflips out yeah yeah exactly cocky American like I went out by myself I took a whole like two minutes killed it and they're like that's not you're not supposed to do that it sucks and we

14:28 hated it oh that's so cocky I love it jabbered Quest together the only time we had the lights we lost instantly and then it's back to warland in Blackpool battle time Blackpool England that's ████ hilarious Ryan's like I ████ hate this scene yeah criteria is stupid when Jabba loses her luggage is it like all masks they had to go buy new masks yeah new Gilligan hats did you look in hats in math am I wrong is that crazy um they're called kangels but that's very funny I don't know what else to call they're called kangels Gilligan hats so do you hate Norwalk or something me no I don't know if there's a city I actually hate Detroit why do you say Norwalk I don't

15:18 know just naming some random of all people you don't want to be controversial about a whole city you don't want to slander a Commerce I'm not a fan of like Ethan Allen or whatever well we know that whole cities dude I can't think of a city that I don't like either like like Glendale or something what's Pasadena's rival San Marino no does anyone like Glendale by the way I kind of like Glendale I like Barry blender I just don't like Armenians that's why I like Glendale my dad was born that whole area got so much better by the mo by the Americana that whole area they're trying to turn that into the Grove oh the American is incredible that whole area got so cool because like any City with hills I love and then you got all that dope ████ over there you like movie theater ████ stores and stuff everything you got everything you

16:09 need yeah it was a dope City they just got some dumbass cut cops what's with that I've always I don't know I just like Hill I like cities with hills it just feels like there's like movement so I like the landscape yeah so like Diamond bar or Apollo Verdes I've always just liked cities that have Hills Chino Hills yeah like even like Monterey Park compared to Alhambra I like Monterey Park more than Alhambra because Alhambra is just flat and the Monterey Park has Hills yeah yeah yeah I just always liked Hills so anywhere with hills good dude likes Hills anywhere no Hills you ████ suck all right bro you could die you can't live in Florida it's a valley below those places up make Hills yeah I guess yeah we're in like Orlando once you go on like just like the fourth floor you can see to the Horizon because

16:59 everything is ████ flat yeah I also did it like Atlanta really only because it's and it's not it's unfair to the city but like I that's the most racism I ever experienced like like Atlanta like Point Blank roasting like you're just walking in the mall and then dudes are just like yo what the ████ look at this pool like like that like they've never seen a Filipino before I think it's just because we were just a group of Asians like I we're asking for it a little bit because that's Quest Crew in that year we would stand out a little like because of our ████ because you're coordinating all the purple and oh the anime here yeah just how we looked it was just like out here it's ████ normal but like there it's and you're walking you're just I think with that type of like rougher groups you're gonna you're asking for it a little bit Yeah so they would just like rip on and they would rip on Hawk hella bad they'd be

17:49 like what the ████ is he Native American okay but just so vocal and out and like like as if we're being heckled on stage yeah and we're just trying to go to a freaking you know Urban Outfitters there's a Native American but he sounds like he wants to order fish and chips and it would happen like it would happen a lot so we're like dude this place sucks man Atlanta the land of relics I've never been to Atlanta I've never been there I've been to San Antonio San Antonio it's like I don't think I because every time I go to certain cities it's like I'm there for a couple of days like I went there specifically to coach someone to fight and we were there for like a couple days and then we just leave and we get like the worst of it so it's like it's hard for me to really like give it a good shot like oh we got to do this like we just stayed on the Riverwalk and Riverwalk sick yeah it was cool it was

18:40 cool but then like it was just it was like neutral some guy called me a ████ I told that story I like that part I was like what dude I started laughing yeah yeah but other than that it was like it's all good dude damn did you meet a ████ night like 18 20 ████ gold miner or something hey remember he met a 49er and ████ we were we were walking on the Riverwalk and it was one of those restaurants where they talk ████ to you okay and like he was trying to Hawk us to get inside the restaurant oh yeah then he like got shot yeah because he said something about like oh hey see the guy was like oh I like your shorts and he said that to I thought he was saying it to my friend and I was like oh he likes your shorts and he goes no I'm talking to you ████ and I look over and he goes uh he's like he immediately like took it back he was like ah I just started laughing and I looked at my homie and I was like yo he

19:31 called me a shot of it have you seen your ears and he's like oh ████ he knows bro I was like 115 pounds too like it don't matter that's where I'm kind of glad like being Filipino you don't they don't know what the term is I've been called like every other Asian slur yeah but there's just what's your favorite one they call you I've been called Google growing up I got called ████ by Mexicans a lot oh really you don't even look you look more Mexican than me it's just it's not it's not how I look it's the limited knowledge they have on how they don't know what to say yeah they can't profile this guy they just don't know how to hurt my feelings so they're just like say yo what the ████ is pretty crazy because I don't even know what the ████ that's one of the craziest ones I've ever heard yeah like he just blew their brains yeah there are some funny roasts but like like once I'm like walking around like these dudes were like oh ████ yo are you about to break out blue

20:21 eyes white dragon because it look like Yu-Gi-Oh because my hair was like spiky ████ like if it's if it's funny then um did you go to the same high school as I did no that wouldn't happen in high school that's what it sounds like it happened in Atlanta yeah yeah yeah those guys went to my high school did you see that guy the fighter who came out dressed as Sapphire Roth recently sephiroth really what I thought you would like that why would that I don't know some fighter came out dressed like sephiro please tell me he was like black or something though I don't know that would be tight yeah that's what I'm saying like a black stuff broth what he comes out with the ████ long hair wig too before he takes off and fights I immediately thought of you though I was like usually it's like cities you hate is mainly the experience you had there but in terms of like actual like municipalities I don't think I hate any City other than Blackpool no black people San Diego kind of sucks yeah yeah you

21:11 think it sucks you're gonna have beautiful places do you think it's because it's kind of sleepy you get sleepy it's retirementy yeah it's like yeah if you're 65 it's great yeah Escondido yeah ████ Escondido San Diego I live there you did yeah I lived there you think it's the best weather in all of America it's the most boring easily so blue sky every day Blue Sky every day I think they got a really great Mexican food they have really good fish tacos they do but ████ Escondido who said that ████ Escondido he did he did he did I lived there dude that's where I lived and you didn't like it it's ████ Tom I don't even know where that is near San Diego it's the hottest part of San Diego probably easily is it more Inland well it's like up it's like normal geez just because they don't have a Gaslamp district well The Gaslight

22:01 District sucks too I had to go there for a buddy's um bachelor party one time and like oh my God the misery I do think a bachelor party in gas lineup is pretty weak it's weak bro exactly and no but the best part oh you're by the zoo you the BET oh yeah exactly now the best part was that the the best man put together the idea right so we'll go to the Gas Lamp we'll like you know do a beer crawl or some ████ right but then the best man lived in San Diego so he didn't have to ████ pay to go anywhere he's got to hang out there so then the poor groom had to ████ deal with this ████ we could have gone to Vegas by the way but no that's just pushing the logistics onto someone else exactly you know you went you and um Nikki both come from uh a little bit of uh like not Central Coast culture but

22:51 like off of a major city but California like Coast culture yeah well I'm from all over but she definitely is from Santa Barbara or Beach culture escondido's a little I got like affected as a child by like weather and seasons and ████ so when I moved out here it was very bitter that I didn't have anymore so I ████ always hated California because they're like where's that now yeah I missed like weather Seasons nothing ever felt real even Christmas day didn't feel real for me for like 20 years so yeah coming from that I could totally see that yeah yeah you're just being robbed basically yeah California dude it does it's like blue skies and it's like 80. it was 80 degrees this year during Christmas yeah it was the hottest day of December it was on Christmas I mean you guys could go to Big Bear take that back dude I Like Big Bear besting fun you gotta

23:41 drive forever dude yeah forever enjoy the fire and then you gotta drive back it's only an hour for us this is like kind of like a great conversation for us but like maybe kind of a boring video for people it's just who come on man take that back take that ████ back man hey look at that bag we'll see if he's right [Music]

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