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Oliver Tree Dies in Helicopter Crash in Brazil

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0:00 And welcome back to another episode of The Careful Boys. Hey, did you guys hear about the musician Oliver Tree who just died in a helicopter collision in Brazil with another helicopter? >> Jesus. >> So sad, man. >> They did say there was six or something that or like I don't know what the total deaths were, but they were just he was on tour in Brazil and then they just boom, [snorts] like one with another and then like that's it. >> Yeah, so the the helicopter manifest for was Lucas Brito Chaves Vingale and Pastor three on one helicopter and then on the second aircraft lists only the pilot. >> And then the crazy thing is he's 32, right? So you guys know about the 32-year-old like deaths of all the musicians? >> No, is that like Avicii or something? >> Avicii, yeah. So like type in, dude,

0:53 32-year-old >> So it's that specific number? >> Yeah, and there's a whole conspiracy behind it. >> Is it all flight flight um related to or no? >> No. >> Oh, okay. >> That'd be crazy. >> I thought it would be like like DJ AM, remember that one? I thought it was like that, like all flight related. >> No, I think I think it's actually the the more conspiracy one is age 27. >> That's the one with like Kurt Cobain, right? >> Yeah, let me see. >> Amy Winehouse, I think. >> That's the one with Jimi Hendrix. >> Kurt Cobain. >> I got the numbers mixed up, but aren't there other musicians that were >> Aren't there other birthdays? >> Aren't there other times that people die? >> Don't people die at different ages? >> No, yeah, the 27 club is like Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, uh Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse. >> That's what happens when you deal when you read comments as news. Because when

1:46 I saw this like there was a comment like, "Dude, the 32 like all these musicians dying at 32." And I'm like, "Oh, shoot, like that's like Jimmy and everybody." And I thought I found some profound things. >> Bruce Lee died at 32. >> All right, we'll see. Maybe that's what it is. >> Bruce Lee did. >> Cuz he was he was sacrificed, too. They're saying that he >> Jesus died when he was 33. >> Um yeah. Yeah, but >> One year too late. >> But if you're like if you're like Korean, then maybe he was 32. >> Yeah, that's true. >> You know what I mean? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, cuz the zero thing. >> That's true. >> A zero. >> Korean Jesus. >> This does suck like whether it's a conspiracy or whatnot like an assassination or whatever, right? If you think about If you guys could think about being 32 pursuing your like like entertainment career or whatever. Do you think you'd be like at the peak or do you think you're like

2:37 you're just getting started or like what point would you guys be at? >> Well, in my relative actual dance career, I was like for sure at peak. Yeah, like we would >> That 32? >> 32 is what like 8 years ago? We're talking about like 2018. I just come off of NBC World of Dance. >> Damn. >> most artists is peak 30 to 35. >> Yeah. Yeah, even athletes, too. >> And that's also and that's also right before like getting like tied down to things like marriage and or like kids and stuff like that, too. So, you're at the peak the apex of your single kind of like liabilities and res- >> Free ████ everywhere. >> Sign me up, brother. >> And then okay, so you let's say like if you go, you think you would go a legend at that point? >> If I died at that time You know what's ████ You know what's ████ up about that? It's like there's the

3:27 um organic slowly fizzle out make way for the next generation. Thanks for your time, OG. Um that person was a like in back in my day and then there's that. Or there's there's like the dying a legend. >> Yeah. >> Right? There's the like in your prime. >> Yep. >> Maybe you only have ████ like three songs, but like they were really hitting that summer and like you knew that the the the possibility was far. >> That's like Amy Winehouse. She only has a handful of songs. >> And then you die right there and it's like you're a legend forever. Like there there's a ████ up difference. >> you rather have? Would you rather die a legend or or sizzle out and no one cares? >> Sizzle, nobody cares as long as it's not a ████ also s█████ sizzle. >> That's true. >> Cuz there's also the s█████ sizzle, right? Like It's like this first this person was a legend and now at like 79

4:17 years old they're homeless on the street, broke as ████ their family ousted them, and they're estranged, and it's like you know, they don't know who they are type stuff and you're like, "Whoa, that's crazy, too." >> You know when I hear news like this, I'm like isn't there only two helicopters in the air? Like can't you guys see ████ each other? Or is it one of those like, you know when they walk into someone in the hallway and they're like this and they follow you and you go like this and they follow you and then they just go >> That's why people think it's a conspiracy assassination. >> are they related? Why would they Why What's the conspiracy between getting like a musician? >> Oh, it's sacrifice. The music industry needs to sacrifice some people once in a while. >> Some people are saying record deal stuff. >> That's dark, but that also kind of makes sense though because in that same ████ up version of becoming a legend, imagine how much your music means more.

5:09 Maybe you were like a good artist. Maybe they had those are good songs. And now you're a legend and the lyrics hit different. You know what I mean? And suddenly it becomes the whole like wait a >> minute. >> If you want to put on crazy like conspiracy like those type where you're like a studio executive don't give a ████ about lives, it could be where you bought his publishing rights for cheap and then you kill the ████ and you like two and you two x your ████ Ooh, that's like what they did to Michael. >> That's a move, bro. That's a move. >> Then you have the random helicopter smash into the ████ in Brazil cuz I'm like this isn't an intersection where you got beautiful trees and ████ There's nothing in the way. Like you guys can't see each other? >> Damn, and you're the beneficiary. >> buying the poor visibility thing, bro. I don't believe it, dog. >> Like Kobe?

5:59 >> Yeah. >> That was poor visibility. >> the one in DC. Remember the one that happened over DC? >> But the Kobe you hit the mountain. He didn't hit the That was poor visibility. >> The airplane hit a helicopter. >> Airplane hitting a helicopter, yeah, that's a Blackhawk. >> Don't they even fly at different heights? Like what the ████ >> And it's like how does that even happen unless they want someone dead on one of the >> I thought you were going to say woman pilot, but I'm glad you said that one. >> Would never say woman pilot. >> Woman Asian pilot. >> They get lost. They don't hit They don't hit things. >> [laughter] >> They get lost in the Bermuda Triangle. >> time that's all it is. >> Good luck everybody else. >> Damn, what if it was two Asian helicopter pilots in Brazil? >> Women, you have to say women. >> And women. Damn, that makes all the sense. That's no conspiracy. >> Asian men will drift in those helicopters. >> Whenever [snorts] I see someone drive like ████ and I drive past them, I always look into the passenger. And if I

6:49 do see like a Asian woman, I'm like, I ████ knew it, dude. >> Do you feel like when you look in is the part where you also make a mistake on the road? >> I could. [laughter] >> Cuz I go I go I go I look I look and I go Oh, ████ Oh, ████ Oh, ████ Oh, ████ Thank god those were there. >> And then now that with that Asian woman's looking at you like Asian man. >> I ████ knew it, man. >> Just like my son. >> Yeah. >> Dude, I think I think the conspiracy theories about like people dying off for like contracts and money actually make more sense than two helicopters running into each other. Like you got to put odds on that ████ >> Especially high-profile people cuz they're not like chartering Joe Schmo. They usually have like high-level pilots. >> Yeah, we're not like this this dude Oliver Tree. We're looking at his Spotify numbers right now on his most played bangers, right? Life goes on, 700 million. Miss You >> But if it's on Spotify, he probably only made like $5,000.

7:39 >> True. Alien Boy, 330 million. Word not 370 million. These are like hundreds of millions. >> Crazy numbers. >> But he's got a crazy fan base, too, right? >> His fan base is pretty insane, I think. >> And I feel like his his music's probably even like video games and stuff. >> Yeah. >> Like it's like in the next generations culture, it's like woven into their the the fabric. >> All right, here's here's you brought this up earlier, the details of his will. Oliver Tree explained that he did not view the wealth generated by his art as rightfully his under the terms of his estate plan. Family inheritance, his family will not receive a penny of his wealth, though he made an agreement to pay for his children's college education. >> Oh, he has kids? >> Kids. >> Damn, that sucks, man. >> The foundation, all residual earnings from his music catalog and intellectual property will funnel directly into his foundation, Dr. Oliver Tree's Art Grants

8:30 for Baby Geniuses. It's for future artists. It's for baby geniuses, Bart. >> Yeah, didn't you read the >> Have you ever seen the movie? >> It's for future baby geniuses, though. >> Made for ants. >> They know. >> He should have made it for a Dr. Oliver Tree's for Asian Driver Foundation. >> Driving school. >> [laughter] >> He should have done it for Oliver Trees. >> He's so passionate about Asian driving, huh? >> Do olives grow on trees? They do, right? >> I used to have one. >> You really? >> Yeah, but it was black olives. >> Dude, imagine Oliver Tree ████ had olive trees. Yeah. >> the logo for his >> baby >> for his baby genius foundation? >> No, it's for future artists, Bart. >> Well, that was a missed opportunity. >> Funding rules, the money is strictly designated for the physical creation of art by emerging creators. It cannot be used to purchase equipment or pay for schooling. >> What? >> That's really good. >> So, what is it for then? Dancing?

9:21 >> What the ████ >> Like stipend? >> I just said everything it was for. >> thought you said you it it can't be for school or >> It can't No, no, no. It's strictly designated for the physical creation of art by emerging creators. It cannot be used to purchase equipment or pay for schooling. So, So means like if this guy's talking about music specifically and somebody's like I want to create this song but it costs me as like a person to jump in the studio and to do this and blah blah blah then like that might be it. >> Oh I thought it meant like nah dude you can't buy no MPC you just got to go AND LEARN HOW TO ████ >> WHERE'S HE GOING TO GET THE microphone and speakers? >> He just got to do organic. That would be my school. My school be like Joel's School of Music right? And then like but the caveat is you can't buy nothing. >> Okay keep going. Keep going I'm still intrigued.

10:12 >> You got to find organic ways to do it right? So like >> You got to beatbox in a hallway? >> Beatbox you get you steal some spoons from someone's kitchen and then you go So yeah I just want to I want people to be like peak creativity like you invent some crazy ████ >> Like a homeless man the other day on the corner I saw him with a ████ sink and a straight up dish and that ████ was drumming. I was like damn how did you get that sink there that's sick. >> Yeah but don't you think like the kid like two blocks down at Guitar Center playing with the regular set is going to make sick music? >> It is for baby geniuses not homeless with sinks. >> [laughter] >> You got to read the rules dude. >> Yeah you got to read the rules baby you want to do Foley artist that's what you want. >> [laughter] >> I want them to invent a guitar like a

11:04 new guitar like I don't want them to just go to Guitar Center and get >> Joel's going to be like so dude get some wood get some string and then get a hole >> make your own guitar. >> Like how come we can't just get the guitar like why I got to re No he's like no I want you to invent a guitar. >> to sound better. Get a cantaloupe. >> I can't invent a guitar it's a guitar. >> That's why it's called a guitar. >> Once it becomes a guitar isn't it already a guitar? >> Yeah you're not inventing it. Sounds like you want an engineering school. >> No oh yeah I do. Or you want like a >> But no money and it's not schooling. >> No. Or you want a sound school. Like Skrillex, like he's just >> School of innovative creativity. So, I want you to come out with new ████ that's never been done before. So, it like instead of a guitar, we we call it a beastar or something. >> going to provide the resources though?

11:54 There's no money. There's no nobody's paying tuition. How you even going to be committed? >> YOU GUYS CAN DONATE NOW TO JOEL'S creative beastar school where you invest in the future inventors and innovators of creativity. >> You become a star. Beastar. >> Please, leave in the comments below if you want this school to happen.

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