0:05 Amazing episode of the cable boys where it's very very special moment y'all. What's so special about it Anfernee? Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Joseph. Happy birthday to you. What's the um Japanese happy birthday song? Happy birthday to you. >> They don't have like Happy birthday to There's no like Japanese version? If there was, my parents always sang it to me. Happy birthday >> [laughter] >> to you. Happy birthday. Birthday. To you.
0:56 >> birthday. Birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. I just Does everybody know how old you are? I'm a 42, baby. Damn, Jackie Robinson year. I don't know. It doesn't feel like normal. What does that mean? When I think about the number, I'm like sometimes I'm like I'm 35 OR 30 SOMETHING. >> [laughter] >> AND I'M LIKE >> DAMN. OH ████ No way. I'm I'm 42. Oh you feel 35? I can see how you've been stuck at 35 for a I've been stuck at 25, but like sometimes uh I look at myself and I'm like, "You're not the 42-year-old that I thought you'd be." No, okay. Are you talking about in a picture, in a mirror, or like just your thought or your concept of
1:46 yourself? >> My 20s. Yeah. Well, first of all, I didn't think I'd live that long, so every day is like lucky. >> Congratulations, yeah. A plus already. >> A plus. But then uh Yeah, when you guys pictured someone in their 40s, right? Didn't you picture like a guy in a suit and then like just older looking and like more like serious? Yeah, 100%. >> I think your body in like a older suit. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> So, he's saying, "Yeah, you are you are 42." No, but like >> [laughter] >> Well, like what I'm wearing is like I didn't I didn't picture like I I just picture like my um 40-year-olds being like like a like old style. Like how my parents dressed.
2:36 I didn't think cuz millennials are just dressing like millennials, but they're just older. Yeah, oh yeah, 30-year-olds 30-year-olds in the '90s look like 50-year-olds today, right? >> thought our styles would look at like our parents' styles when we're 40. Mhm. But I don't see you ever changing from being a fresh beast hype beast guy. A fresh ████ >> [laughter] >> You call yourself a ████ I didn't call you a beast. A fresh a fresh hype yeah. >> Happy Basuda. >> [laughter] >> I think our clothes is like it's it like you're going to be that's old man style, right? But then it's still young. I don't know how to explain it. Like it's not like Yeah, I know. I get it. Yeah. The biggest change for me would be cuz I I totally feel you on that and if I could, I would want to dress older,
3:26 but I feel like because we have like uh taste and we like style like that, you wouldn't just put on like a suit that you got at like Suit Supply or something every day, you know, and just like try to be corporate. But if you were going to wear something, you wear something ████ fresh. But it's also like where your life is. I think if we were like normal people, we'd be going to ████ parent-teacher conferences dressed like old people. But then you're going to probably go to parties or concerts looking like fresh. >> No, not by the time I have a kid, but that'll probably be way later. All of Taika's like friends, classmates, I mean, all of his friends uh parents, they're all like um rest stop souvenir clothes guys. Like, you know what I mean? Like, Grand Canyon hat, dad shoes, like everyone looks like
4:16 a parent. And I mean, there's like cool parents out there now, especially way more than before. But there's a lot of the stereotypical what we imagine a 40-50 year old to be, there's a lot of those. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Cuz I also think what makes it stereotypical >> Yeah, yeah. Well, we're just not that, but there's a lot out there. >> sure. Cuz we Okay, so like doing creative work, right? We never develop like the corporate style. So if That's what I pictured. By the time I'm already I'm probably always I was thinking like I probably look more corporate. >> [laughter] >> I probably like dress more >> [snorts] >> corporate. And I probably act more corporate. Patagonia. Like North >> blue collar than ever. I know. >> [laughter] >> And I didn't think I would.
5:07 If you told me, "Hey, dude, at 40 Even at 30, if you told me, you're going to ████ own a boba shop and you're going to work with a bunch of teenagers, I would have never ever believed you." I would have been like, "No." >> How about if we told you your boss would be David So? I would have never believed you. [laughter] Never. Cuz I was watching David David So's YouTube videos like, "Look at this small little funny Korean guy." I thought he was short. Like, I thought he was 5'2. [laughter] He thought he was short. >> And then I saw him in real life, I'm like, "You are a big ████ What the hell?" >> [laughter] >> But it's the way he used to angle his camera. I thought he was a fat, 5'2", short, like opinion You know like those Danny DeVitos? Yeah. [laughter] Loudmouth fat friend, you know, like Like a Bobby Lee or something.
5:58 Yeah, like but sassy, you know? And then you meet him, you're like, "You are a big motherfucker." >> [laughter] >> So, 42, huh? 42. Yeah, so that's one thing is I thought by this time I thought I'd look with way different. I thought I'd dress different. Do you like that you don't match what you thought or you like what that you don't match what you thought? I'm glad I didn't turn into that. >> The corporate guy? Yeah, nothing wrong with it. I just think like your idea of maturity is really narrow when you're young. Yeah. You think like maturity is acting and looking a certain way. It's not like real maturity is taking care of ████ business, right? And it's like who the ████ cares how you I guess you can as long as you're not acting in violation of other people's like whatever, like you're not being you're
6:48 you Yeah, it's it doesn't matter. Yeah. That's what I I think that was the biggest one is um I I didn't I didn't realize how fun it would be the older you get, too. Cuz like I thought that the age-appropriate time to have fun was in your 20s. And then from the 30s, it's just like what is fun changes. That's all it is. It's like the best way I can put it is when you're a kid, you know those little Hot Wheels cars is like ████ sick, right? And then you get like a remote control car. And then you actually buy a real car. And it's the same level of childlike excitement, but it just evolves into something realer. And I think that's that's something that I wish someone told me of like I thought life was like done for after like 20-something.
7:39 Like I I really thought like in my 30s, okay, time to be an adult now. You got to be serious. And to me, serious meant like you're just working. Cut the fun. Cut the fun out of your life. Just Yeah. Yeah, you're just Yeah, you're you're just serious. You're having boring conversations. Everyone around you is just like miserable. And I was like, "F███, I don't want to do that." So >> That's how adults look to us when we were kids, though. Yeah, they look miserable. >> miserable, yeah. They really did. They really look like they don't have no fun. Even though they're probably having a blast. >> Yeah, they must be, right? Cuz why are they getting together? But then they really have a blast when there's no kids around. Probably. >> why you don't see it, cuz they're happy to be away from you. Yeah. >> [snorts] >> Yeah, I don't know. Did Did you guys have any weird ideas of what growing up and maturity was?
8:30 >> The only example you have is your parents, realistically, when it comes to like, okay, like number one, my dad had me when he was like 32 or something like that. So everything past like 32 of me not having a kid, I'm already in new territory. I'm already in like, okay, this is different, you know? But like they were they were when they were young, they was wearing ████ bell bottoms and like V-necks and crazy stuff and like you know, and and and their idea of having a good time, you know, was was yeah, like you said, not being with the kids and Those ████ just look old. You know, our our family our parents just look super old for being 30-year-olds. And then we did that whole thing where when you're young, you want to look old to be cooler. When you're old, you want to look young to be hipper. And then
9:20 when you get old, now you just want to be comfortable and not give a ████ >> [laughter] >> You know, but still sit well in your own skin. And it's like completely unlike maybe what our parents already went through, cuz I feel like they were only focused on practicality. Style was not a choice for my my dad, at least. I know there's some swaggy older people, for sure. Um but like style was never like it was like what was affordable was cheap. My dad's still rocking the same shoes that I gave him like 4 years ago and he just said, "Don't buy me new shoes, cuz these ones still work." And I'm like I'm like, "What the f███?" >> [laughter] >> You know, like they're just different. So for us we we just have like that privilege where we're like, "No, I'm going to choose how I'm going to look or how I'm going to present myself or like what I want to value." Especially because I don't have to show up and an employer is telling me, "Here's my dress code." Yeah, I think they sell you the image big time though. Cuz like we In my
10:12 family, there's this one dude growing up, he was like the pinnacle of who to be like. And um all the cousins my age would always look to this guy who was like I think he was like 8 years older than us. He went to do his pre-med. He was going to have a amazing life like set up for him, cuz he was doing all the work. Everyone said, "Be like this dude. He's so serious, so mature, so like poised." Perfect guy, right? And uh yeah, he ended up becoming a a really like well-known surgeon to this day. Really great dude. And then like one time I got to connect with him. He came to one of my shows like when I was doing LMFAO and stuff. And then we were just talking and I got to talk to him like a like man-to-man, you know, cuz I'm older. And I'm just [snorts] like, "Bro, like is your life really as perfect as like we all were like led to believe?" And he's like "Motherfucker, I almost lost my medical
11:02 license." Oh, ████ >> addicted to his own ████ prescription drugs." Holy ████ >> to like a tribunal court or whatever to see if he could keep his ████ medical" >> Oh my god. >> "away from him, cuz he was ████ addicted to meds." >> Wow. Cuz so much stress and like Yeah, but he's like he's he was doing drugs for ████ ever. But you don't see that because he whatever his image is, our families are just like, "Look how perfect he is. Like be like this." But it's like everybody has like some real ████ going on. Like nobody's truly that perfect, right? The more you know someone, the more you like every everybody that you know real close, you know all their demons and ████ you know? It was kind of like that where I was like so relieved because like my whole life like me and my other cousins my age who actually live in Vegas, we were always like, "We'll never
11:52 be like that fool. He's too ████ perfect." But he's like, "Nah, dude, I'm He's like, "I'm going through a divorce now. The divorce is finalized. He doesn't have custody over his kids. Like it's messy, but then that's real ████ life. You know what I mean? Like it's just real life, but you know, as you get older you just you you get closer to that, I think, where you're like, "Okay, I got I got I got Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> No one's like perfect. Mhm. Yeah, and then the people that they idolize, it's kind of like, "Wait a minute." And what's wrong with that generation, too? How come they weren't able to see a lot of ████ But maybe they just lived in the Lulu world. >> I think [snorts] like it's one of those things, too, where my family doesn't even know what he's going through, but they're happy to just not know. They're like, "We just want your image to sell to the younger kids. We don't want to ████ know if you're happy. We just We Yeah, we're like we just need that symbol." I'm like, "Damn, dude, that's crazy that it was that bad."
12:42 >> another bad example. Dad got ████ me for that ████ You know what else? Right. I was just This is going to I was going to say something some completely different. What I was going to add on to what you guys are saying, which is like I think me getting older, dope becomes less and less visual, and it's more so how your life is the way you planned it to be. You know what I mean? Like I feel like when you're a kid, it's like you got to have the freshest shoes or the the dopest ████ pants or whatever. And then like maybe later on you have the dopest ████ car. And then you have it gets Everything's so visual. And then the older I got, it became less visual. And like like so now like Tyco's like in school, he's like, you know, full-blown kid. Like every Wednesday me and Geo, we can go down to like mothership and grab a coffee and walk around and like we own
13:32 our time, right? I'm like this is dope. I I don't give a ████ what I wear. It could be the worst clothes in the world but the fact that I own my time right now we can do whatever we want like that's ████ dope. Even to me is still ████ dope. Like to look at your life from my life I'm like that's ████ tight. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> But no one aims for that in their 20s cuz you got all the time in the world so you don't think about time cuz you think it's like that freedom is endless. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but you are right. That is the more the stronger point of pride. Like I think it's a point of pride to just be able to know that whatever I think I want to eat I can just go get it. Instead of like I don't care I can't afford a ████ Quiznos. That's that's the first >> [laughter] >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like I'll spend 20 bucks on a meal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
14:22 yeah. That's a luxury, dude. >> what do you want to eat today? Anything I want? I didn't get to ask that question. >> is my diet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't get fat. Yeah, exactly. >> That's crazy. That you have to choose to not eat something rich. >> Yeah. >> [laughter] >> It's funny, right? That is cool. Yeah. >> Crazy when you're young can eat anything and stay skinny but you can't afford anything. Bro. That's what I'm saying, dude. >> One thing and it's like douche. ████ ████ ████ I know. ████ ████ man. >> Man, ████ tell One really cool thing about 40s that I think I didn't know about in my 30s is how you can expand your friend group because now you can go 20 years above or 20 years below and you can still relate with both. Mhm. So
15:12 So you got 62-year-old friends? >> [laughter] >> And you're introducing to YOUR 22-YEAR-OLD FRIENDS? LOOK AT MY HOMIES. One's 60, one's [laughter] 20. And I'm the bridge. >> [cough] >> Jebediah, meet Blitz. >> [laughter]
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