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Off The Record: Cockroach Asians Trauma Bonding

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0:00 matching cats baby I feel like these are siblings dude what the welcome back to another episode of careful boys today we got nectar heart szer courtesy of under the influence sir very delicious damn wait which flavor are you having Anthony leing Elixir what you wow I got the POG one I got the Red Bull they also do I I drank some and I didn't get a headache so I took these beforeand I did two I did two you guys are better at promoting other people's products than your own stuff I know right why are we like this why we like we like our own stuff yeah wait until you see Joe promote our t-shirts though comes in hard do you guys have a speaking of

0:59 pedophiles that's how Joe comes in that's something that actually happened earlier where we were like all right we're going to promote this thing and then somehow the video just became all about pedophilia and we're like we can't post this video now can't you're one ad plug that video like like that's it I just deleted maybe that's the beauty maybe it's so bizarre that it works like it I think so is that a thing do you guys ever try stuff like that make something so bizarre that it works we've done that to like promote meat and I feel like we'll do like a weird Trend unrelated to what we're doing and then like just because it's trendy at the time it'll blow up and then just the caption is like come party with us yeah yeah yeah have you guys done anything as bizarre as this put up your right leg matching ta

1:49 [Applause] baby all right all right Brandon for that's fire I feel like these are our siblings dude what the ████ that's nice that feels good how does it feel it's like a bizar alternate reality good to to be Asian trash royalty honestly great honestly great cuz you know what comments we get all we're not going to be invited to the gala dude come on the G we never get invited the issue I've had is literally every time like Tik Tok does like oh uplifting Asian creators I'm like I'm never on that dude we never were either ever if it weren't for our buddies at Wang fu who always puts us in like they had a ████ Asian entertainment history book they put us in all this stuff right so shout outs to Phil but um

2:39 we we never get invited to any of those events because I feel like we're in embarrassment that's how we feel yeah but you know Bobby hundreds did a event too that because he was like yo the Cockroach Asians of you uh of entertainment we never get invited so he he did a whole thing he throws his own we're not wholesome enough yeah we're super really we keep it real yeah we're super not wholesome but that's why we ████ with you guys I feel like it's the same Vibe and we get these comments all the time where it's like they're breaking every Asian stereotype there's like let's like people can't think all Asians are smart after this one it's like the bad way yeah yeah yeah it's like these are the Asian kids that they don't let hang out like at church or some ████ like it's always like what what happened to these guys my favorite is um when they say like yeah every Asian parents worse nightmare you

3:29 know but it's also true like Asian parents would hate if if their son look turned out to look like me it's still my mom's worst nightmare it's still beef every ████ day is it about the tattoos or what no like she keeps bugging me with ████ like ████ like so she's getting her house like renovated whatever and she keeps sending me like I don't want to I don't give a ████ about your shower door send me like 20 of those pictures I'm like cool bro that's really why that's the worst nightmare cuz you know what his mom's trying to show him his bathroom renovation and he's like you abusive ████ ████ you I think I'm traumatized with my childhood but I think I think she's trying to build a relationship back with me he's like cool bro cool

4:20 bro yeah I think she's trying to build a relationship and look at my new sh but then you guys are generally you guys got good relationships with your parents yeah with my mom yeah Mom Mom's always chill man have my dad's the chillest stuff really St D ask him why his dad's the chill why why is your dad the chillest he just hasn't breathed in a long time oh man I had a feeling it was going to go that way that's not funny that was crazy not Nick give me a kiss dude only if you don't make you feel my dad's also very chill too oh you got chill dad he doesn't say anything cuz he um he ran away to Korea we are alternate universe chill parents in the house today dud you guys have some cool D there's a lot of Bonnie going

5:10 on a lot of trauma boxing that's so crazy to hear because I always thought like your guys' podcast like compared to us like you guys are so nice and and like nurturing to each other you guys are very normal you talk about like real like like mental issues and the dollar store therapy concept all that ████ we're just like toxic normal we want to be like that but we're not allowed because people these days are so sensitive that's what I think it is I always was curious if you felt like that yeah honestly we're we're Millennials so like we grew up on saying a lot of words that we're not supposed to say now you know what I mean you can say them all right now too say it so I can trust you on three whatever comes up say it first what it comes to mind actually that's actually my my whenever I meet someone new that I think will stay in my life I I tell them say a slur so I know I can

6:01 trust you yeah that was the right opacity Gateway a Gateway word here I think is ████ that's a good one you guys bleep that that's nothing too dude guaranteed that won't be bleeped yeah really I you know when I first came here and the first time I started hearing them say ret talk I was like that's crazy no you said it first I did not say it I did not hey off camera he'd be like we should start saying it more and we like no Anthony we shouldn't you were a clean Channel you were a clean Channel he's like I'm bringing it back no and guy was randomly just dropping the other F we were were CLE Channel and he kept saying Osama for some reason yeah yeah AMA Bin Laden how how many times have you guys gotten cancelled like four five I don't know we been this is our 16th year so it's like I mean the the odds are good the people that try to cancel you they don't watch

6:52 you in the first place our fans are been once in a while your ████ gets popular goes viral and then like a new audio audience gets it and then there's a whole bunch of people with different color hair coming at you yes and then or something gets pulled out of context it's always the colored hair know the outside Watchers they don't know it's almost like we're getting attacked by ████ snow cones and binko and ████ dude Shave Ice 4 five is not that bad honestly I feel like we've been canceled like four or five times really for what the like one that stands out to me cuz I was fearful for my life during this was uh when we said beyond say hadn't had a hit in the last 10 years Wasn't Me by the way I didn't say it oh Jeremy said that yeah Jeremy said that beehive came after we're going to clip that right there and we're going to repost it Beyonce hadn't had a hit in the last 10 years that's different that's crazy

7:42 though you don't say stuff we don't even say ████ like that it was crazy cuz literally they were it was like going super viral on Tik Tok hella duet stitches and they were calling us like KKK members it's like three Asian dudes sitting and we're like we're talking about like hits and in the same clip we say yeah like Rihanna like as an example of somebody who has had like recent like Banger albums and then they're like they're racist keep black women's name out your mouth I'm like all we said was Beyonce hadn't had a hit and and it's not like we didn't say she was a legend we just said in the last 10 years and it was just like it was a crazy that is Blasphemous though and you should apologize we deleted it we apologized you start calling us rward after the show I'm going to call you Rihanna from now on dude oh my God why we get a pass is because when you look old and

8:32 irrelevant they don't care when you're young and hip but when you're young and hip yeah they go you should know better going down cuz you guys are so like now that I'm sure some people can't wait to catch you doing something saying something you know what I mean I will say when I first blew up the the the nature of how I blew up I had a lot of liberals in my ████ and I'm I'm I'm the type of person where it's like I know what's right and wrong I always fight for what's right I also believe in jokes though so like yeah yeah I want to make a drunk driving joke sometimes and you're you trying to cancel me for that I'm going to call you stupid yeah oh yeah dude we were just making fun of some guy that got mangled in a car accident not too long ago we were laughing so guaranteed nobody will bat an ey also any anytime I do they do try to cancel me i' fully just actively fight back he double down you're in there you're in the trenches like Trump

9:23 style yeah you stupid ugly ████ you think I you think I give a ████ what you say to me who are you to me yeah yeah he started he's done like 18 video series on one person like replying to every comment that's how we were when uh we made fot of Dolly Lama for like uh that kid we did the same thing all of the like Tibetans came after us there's 20 people with the name tenzen in our Tenzin dude when we talk about the event we talk about the tenens where it was literally like different five different accounts making videos they're all named tenen mad as ████ and then we we're like listen we're sorry we didn't really know that y'all be doing that like that's what you guys said basically like my bad keep that ████ to yourself if you're like sucking on tongues and ████ we kind of just doubl down on it we're like n it's still not

10:14 cool a little weird you know what I liked about um some of the con content I remember now um it wasn't on your guys's Channel but I think it was it was Viet on Jimmy's Channel and then it's kind of I think it's kind of similar how you guys like talk about your issues and stuff that's a little bit different from the way we bury it and laugh about everything and not ever be serious you guys actually address certain traumas and things you went through and I'm like we do the same stuff but the difference is I think like the way maybe we're kind of the same generation but the way you guys will Express it is there's more like um knowledge now in Psychology and just like things that are more better terminology too right cuz like I think we're like have you heard there's like Millennial a millennial B right so Millennial a is like us where we're closer to Gen X and then there's Millennial B that's closer to uh gen Z

11:06 and then the there's slight differences in the two where like for us you know I think we were called Gay for everything or trying to say anything um that was about feelings or whatever and then true Millennial be is more comfortable with a lot of those things and and talking about it yeah I it literally is like you said I think it's like um like we're entering this age of like most emotional awareness where like people have there's like a lot of like literature that dropped a lot of thought leaders that talk about it and like as they talk about it you realize like oh ████ like it is emotional intelligence that brings most people to like where they want to go in life not IQ and I feel like Millennial a up it's like it's like the almost like the toxic like learn more work harder shut up stop b███████ which at times is necessary but overall like even you know research proves that the

11:57 most successful people are the more emotionally intelligent ones also crying is cool now so I cry on that ████ all the time you know it used to be embarrassing but now I'm like damn that ████ is views every time you guys start crying you guys first time he cried our editor cut it out and we yelled at him like why you cut or he turned the camera off he goes I didn't want you guys look like a ████ yeah yeah yeah he's like are you sure Millennial a right he's the editor of millennial a that's why we keep the lights on so like bright we look at it and we're just like all right are you ready are ready you know do not you that what ████ cry because of the cameras really oh he would fake cry one of our homies from Super Crew on on this dance show we were on U he would be like he be like all right got to get my tears on because ████ TV way so good at it he was so good crazy guy she's so good

12:47 though do you think it's it's it's because like they feel more connected to you or what is it cuz when I see someone cry I turned the channel really makes me uncomfortable even in the middle of like a series you're watching that's why if you cry right now everyone's going to buy our merch dude Joe you got to cry a little bit Hey try try to cry for real that's just coffee cfee fear everyone I don't even know why he's crying coffee in his eyes coffee dude that was coffee shirt he put coffee in his eyes that was coffee coffee that's just Brown as ████ that's hot coffee that's Black Tears some dirty ass tears dude June B March are so good it makes you cry cry brown tears that was

13:37 insane was there what what were the I know that like you took a a pretty decent break recently oh yeah yeah but the contributing factors I know you you said you're working a lot and it was like stuff was piling up what do you mean a break you stopped posting um I stop I like took a break from the podcast for a bit so yeah I have like three including the podcast I have three businesses that I have to actively run and manage basically and it's a lot of work one and then like you have to make content for for five channels right so it's like and then what it was was like there's like a whole team but then like I'm like if I'm this busy and yet I can make sure like I'm doing my ████ and then I'll ask for like a very small thing for from somebody and then they just like show me that they don't care it was like why am I doing this you know what I mean like it's like it felt like the all the pressure was coming in and at times you're like I can handle the pressure cuz it's like they need me but

14:28 at times if you're like you don't even respect that I'm doing this ████ for you then that's what like kind of made me feel like I was collapsing and a lot of it was my own brain I think like it was like letting my this negative energy that possessed me like kind of like Fester but uh but yeah I defeated it and it felt good to like take a break what did you do on your break like what how did you spend it oh it was ████ it was mainly just like it was it was pretty it was pretty dark I was like it was it was a struggle for a bit like a couple weeks it was just straight negativity like straight no matter what I looked like I could only no matter what I looked at I could could only see the the the bad in it like Kirkland peer life ████ ████ or like or even like the loving relationships in my life I'm looking at them but I'm like only looking at when they've hurt me rather than thinking of like that's like cuz your own voice and how you talk to yourself yeah yeah yeah oh yeah this is filtered oh they poison me but uh but no yeah exactly so it was

15:20 like and then I part of it part of me realized that a lot of it was just me and like it literally felt like I was possessed like I didn't know how to and then this book I was reading we actually had the author on our show like taught me a lot of like emotional tools like how to like navigate emotions like that and I do have like these like very turbulent emotions like I was diagnosed with bipolar when I was going to juvie I kind of brush it off cuz like I lied in a lot of ways to like get that diagnosis but you feel like it was a real diagnosis no I don't because when I look up paranoid bipolar disorder I'm like I don't do any of those things but it was like I do have like these turbulent emotions so that what are some of the tools that you you were top so one of them that I actually have been doing unknowingly cuz I Journal is writing a letter to the person like in in your most heated like most like delusional state of mind I wrote letters to all of

16:10 them and it was like vile like it was like very angry so I wrote this letter and like what it feels like is like getting out your negative thoughts on paper and then Rec consuming it through another medium so while it's in your head it's just thoughts but if you're reading it it's like it's like words right it's like you've created a new medium to like consume your own thoughts in and then I woke up the next day read the letter again and it was like even I was like this is this is OD and I was like if I was to talk to you guys in this state of mind I would have probably reflected her onto you rather than realizing like taking the time to like kind of like reread my own thoughts and organize them better and then pinpoint like why do I feel this way what's my fault what's y'all's fault and like be vulnerable and that's very emotionally intelligent I think so you journal every day not every day it'll be like months in between and then I'll just like try to like it's basically like I'm writing my own story so that and it's cool like

17:01 what I've realized I like about it is like I'll go back to like what I wrote 7 months ago and I'm looking at the struggles I had 7 months ago that were like top of mind they were like ruining my life whatever right and I'm like oh damn I I'll beat that ████ and like where am I now compared to the S months ago and I'm literally it's like telling your future self it's like I don't even know how to explain it's very cool to read back good I'm just curious but what were the top three things that you said that were really mean on I was like's old as ████ I was like she's never going back Jeremy eats too much tahen yeah she be eating too much tahen is wonderful right on watermelon I have like a huge bottle of T and I literally just like just chug it so you guys don't know anything that he wrote in those letters have seen it did you burn it I mean I did kind of I did kind of say it to them in person like it wasn't it wasn't like it wasn't anything that I didn't say but

17:51 it was just in the most like aggressive way possible oh okay can I tell you something as an unlicensed psychologist I got a Bachelor's in thy uh uh you don't got bipolar bro you if anything hypomania and that's wonderful uh and it just sounds like you just got ADHD like and and When You're vulnerable you just hyperfocus on the wrong ████ which is negative ████ and then you know if you channel that in good stuff like multiple businesses or whatever we all got that and and the ████ that you're talking about it's like a hell guys got that that are high performers that love to get into 10 different projects but they wi those 10 projects are all your negative past things and things that piss you off that's what happens yep yeah he just diagnosed no I mean he's exactly as an unlicensed psychologist that got a bachor I was like damn that sounded licensed to me

18:41 like hey I went to Cal State LA bro Eagles baby you guys all go to college or no yeah man yeah all of us did huh wait you you went too you went took me like eight years a guy like you guy with a face like that wait what does it mean by guy like you cuz he thinks I'm the no I thought he dedicated his life to fighting cuz he was professional fighting no I wasn't I don't I don't think any of us are using our degrees except for him really yeah that's true what was your degree in I got mine in kinesiology ah so I never even useless meet head degree yeah honestly we all we all dropped I was a film major and I'm on camera right now hey what's up brother do you use anything you learned in the film major well the only problem is technology advance is so quick it's

19:31 like all useless everything that we were using is like dinosaur ████ now that fo learned on a camera like this and ████ like I was a horse major and now they got cars so Horse Major it was so old a horse M where are they offering that you went to University UCI you graduated no I have one more semester oh you didn't graduate I dropped out for ████ dance yeah oh for ABDC right cuz you always bring up U something oh he graduated for sure no I didn't I I had literally one actually one quarter you think would you ever finished no it's useless I was in uh literary journalism but you're a very good writer though were your parents mad when you when you dropped out oh dude yeah I broke their heart they're still mad I had to finesse my mom I was like I'm taking some time off to make money to go back to race are you Filipino Indian we should we should have made you

20:22 guess I know what were you thinking I don't know I couldn't tell top three guesses what were your top three oh yeah he looks like a Pakistani biker yeah he's like a Bollywood ████ henchman yeah Bollywood henchman is yeah that's wild dude I ever since I have a beard then people think I'm I was looking at you I saw the beard I'm like as just don't grow beards yeah there's like a small small set of Filipinos at for some reason Japanese people too they have colonization hit just right I've been growing this for 3 years dude D getting new news careful boys is a brand just kidding news is the man of smart people the people of just kidding news careful boys they are very smart just kiding news the number one podcast in the [Music]

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