0:00 what the I'm just this innocent chinese vietnamese guy try to find myself in the world this angry Korean guy angry Korean guy comes out of [Laughter] around Anthony never [Music] forgives and welcome back to a very KES episode of the careful boys where today we finally have Miss a little bit Quest Crew sorry yeah me and hey Ken can you cut that out porotic sky welcome back to a very kindes episode of the careful boys shout out Quest Crew I got I want to be inclusive thank you what's up Ken behind the camera doing the anyways and we have Mr Michael Song
0:51 WoW the one and true founder of thank you the only founder of kja can't believe there was only one what was it like when that when the idea for kenas just hit you in the head like what was it how what walk us through that walk us through the whole thing it's so refreshing I've always wanted to like be in this space to like you know like on the k no well just on the kja side Anthony's usually like ragging on everyone right so to come here and instantly feel that and I just I just wanted to have like be an eyewitness and see it in person oh wait Anthony is ragging on everybody he Rags on everybody yeah yeah yeah he is the habitual line Crosser yeah I don't know such a big bully over there when he comes here he gets set straight we give you guys payback but I I feel like you guys also sharpened his knife I got to give him props too too that's really
1:42 sweet like he's he's a bad boy he's a bad boy huh he be talking have strengthened him as well no you bully do you think do you think he's come a long way since like guys can we make this about Mike huh let's let's talk about this here to give the beans has he come has he come in pretty long way since he first got into kjas and you let him in yeah like his dance and his roasting and everything got better uh honestly I think since he came to JK I have to give him mad props oh really cuz he's more disciplined now huh dude look Anthony's quiet he don't like it dude this is uncomfortable I'm just busting a Nick dude I just want to deflect everything about the situation D we don't cuz I'll say this when we come on the show we don't really get to have anyone say nice things to Anthony yep you know what I mean so this is nice yeah except for in bar too yo you're the
2:32 one that ████ started the roast Fest on Anthony yeah so it's like it's nice to you know have someone that's very close to Anthony give him flowers why was the one that ████ started he really has gone sharper as I was thinking about this last night he was hosting Vibe which Ryan oh yeah and I and I'm seeing each progression of his hosting and I'm like oh snap it's like gradually turning more into like a standup yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah oh I agree I agree and I'm like oh this one there was like some material prepped a lot of on the spot stuff for reflexes yeah yeah it's sharp when I saw the stories of him holding the mic and he had like a card in his hand or a phone in his hand I was like this guy whatever dude I was like this guy looks like a standup like the way he's holding the mic and I was like standups have have iPads in their hand sometimes they do when they're reading like all right let me try this joke and then you know he does his that's interesting yeah I I do agree with that cuz I'm a big fan of his solo
3:22 hosting on stage and it is you are becoming like a like a conate Entertainer if you will yeah I like it when I'm just a host and not a comedian cuz then people expect too much like Ryan always gets me all nervous cuz every single time I'm about to host he's like I can't wait for that standup monologue I'm like is there even a monologue that you do in the beginning no I just read info I just try to read it in a way that I would want to consume it no you had some material prep though like yesterday was the first time where I felt like I was like oh you came in hot with some jokes like some of those some of unless that was all on the spot like what the mingers like I don't remember which jokes he's so good now that it feels like it's pre but it's I'll be impressed real talk did you have nothing prepared no jokes nothing who I wasn't
4:16 there then that's more props to JK straight up like cuz that was all us not [Laughter] him we I do think this is some sort of training grounds he comes back with more a sword I'm impressed so I'm giving you all props thank you you know that story that um when Anthony when you tell this story about how you you guys first met it's that dance battle on campus right yeah yeah has he come a long way since then wait have you guys talked about that story here we've never heard it from you which is what I would love to do cuz from him from him it's like this random guy comes up and ████ wait wait hold on he's like what the ████ I'm just this innocent chinese vietnamese guy try to find myself in the world this angry Korean guy this angry Korean guy comes out of
5:10 ████ what's your perspective oh I see yeah what's yourp I see this is great so what's the Mike song version of that story yeah when how did you guys meet at UC Irvine okay so at Irvine there's a a Summer Orientation for all the freshmen MH and back in the day I UCI it was 3 days right and is this by the way this is ████ 2004 summer of 04 God summer of 04 damn 10 years ago yeah and and [Laughter] we um and uh you have a choice to do a long one and the long one like you go ham you do this whole like it's like almost CT esque in the best way right everyone gets super close emotions are high everyone's hyped on going to college and there's a dance to close it all off right and like I'm going into to
6:00 UCI like obsessed I was already dancing I was like very obsessed with dance I was like trying to connect with any other dancers I was on Zenga looking at like incoming class of freshman UCI looking stalking Zena is like who's the dancer who's the dancer I'm trying to make dancer is this post your performance at collaboration already uh yes for those of you who don't know the viral video of this freaking guy he's the other guy he's this guy giant dick yeah which was the move back in the day yeah age well um I think it's it's time to bring it back anything I might have even done it at orientation but anyways there was a dance and um there was a circle and I was like oh snap there's a circle like I want to get down right and like I go to the circle and when I go to the circle I see this dude like floppy hair no gel in it I think you already had like a UCI
6:50 sweater super lanky and just like see walking reing his hood they would say reing his hood right Born a park yeah Park and um and so instantly I'm like Oh my call this F it's black cuz this was just like in high school I love just like you know but was he actually whack or did you just oh I was actually whack hard to believe but go but the I think it's important to know that I was also whack we were all whack but you're probably the best two people there at that moment in that moment yes cuz he created the circle so clearly you how did you do that were you like come on everybody oh did you throw the lasso oh
7:40 oh I do the qti yeah and mind you it's UCI so I'm imagining half of those kids are just nerdy Asians just standing there not knowing what the ████ is happening but it well actually because it was kind of cult a cultes weekend people are hype it's like I feel like they like massaged every everyone to like basically their inhibitions are loose and everyone's like I'm ready to leave home I got new friends I got these counselers that I trust right and that's when Anthony strikes get him buted up cry luy yeah wipe those tears everybody gather around start seaw walk and so he's seaw walking this is a dangerous com go and so like see walking and I go in and then
8:31 like I I think I might have even tapped uh you on your shoulder which is also like you you nearly broke my shoulder okay which is also super whack like why would I tap him on the should be like hey check this out we it was a really weird thing to do check this out and so I T you got surfed bro literally like that was the era that was the same year it just came out everybody was serving everybody nobody was safe out there no one was safe and so exhibit was hot do you say anything you just like I tap him on the shoulder and then I just start getting down in his face right getting down his face and I'm like exactly how he described it story is exactly I'm just doing my thing right did you look at his face as you were getting down was he like yeah yeah yeah cuz I was just like what is this and I was like boom I was like boom and I was just like doing whatever I was do right I I don't even
9:22 remember what his reaction was and you know this guy's face when he's just R an angry Kore especially at that age so I was like oh ████ mik in the zone is a is a really cool thing eyebrows go anime like right I already have it another animator starts drawing the cells yeah it's just and so like uh I was going and then like my shoe falls off while I'm right and like I'm just used to like you know in high school and I battle like people would take my hat or do something with it and it's just like that's something that they could use that's the prop for them and battle over they ████ won right my shoe falls off but I'm still like I Ain fazze I'll like figure out a way to get it back yeah but as I do that seaw walking guy comes in and like grabs my shoe and as he goes in to grab my shoe I'm thinking oh ████ he's about to do something with my shoe right and so as he like goes down to grab it I
10:12 ████ kick it out of his hands right sick like that though yeah I did Michael Jackson Ki cuz if you just kick it mad that's like oh dude he's in his head but you kick it with the move that's like oh dude this Billy Jean came on it's a ████ shoe who's exaggerating now no right he kicked it right when the song goes shoo he did a backflip kick went in the crowd got rid of it sorry continue no and so um clearly we were both whack cuz now I know that Anthony to his account was actually like going to give it back to me he was really going to be a nice guy well I only know that for a fact because I also have never danced with a prop oh so you wouldn't have even thought of yeah I didn't I wouldn't have known how to you know what I mean it's not like I would have had the skill to like like pick it up and like you know what I
11:03 mean that's a clear example of him bringing his past trauma into your guys's new relationship you're right you're absolutely right hurt people hurt people oh ████ wow so then your your shoe goes flying off so I I I kick it out of his uh out of his hand and then I don't know what happened after that like to make it get broken up right I don't know if it continued for a little longer cuz I don't think it immediately got broken up no okay correct me if I'm wrong this is 20 years ago now still talking about this stupid story it lives forever all right 10 years ago um but Chris stank was the one who like stopped it right who's Chris stank dude who's that oh she's do Chris stank she's from his former uh they would be no they wouldn't be teammates but yeah it's a sick name and she was one of the spot counselors the orientation counselors that's a she she
11:53 freaking uh she breaks it up like yo yo yo you guys are doing and in my mind I'm like yo we're just getting started like I was like still so hype right yeah in my mind I I was looking like we're getting started but I was like thank you for saving me here's your shoe I'm getting smoked but I wanted it to look like there was friction it's like that holding back homie how do you do that if someone holds you back in a dance is as they're holding you back it's not worth it it's not worth it I still got moves coming out don't even do it don't those moves don't count yeah like that exactly there's a part two to this story though did you guys tell them about uh the through the glass what you no he didn't no I don't know this tell us this part so this is what this is what sets the contrary to your Bel I don't come on here and rag on you
12:43 or anything like that okay yeah anthonyy is a gentleman he's a he's a very this is where I I I I first felt the the true ████ inside of Anthony even though there's like a a a loving side to ant uh-huh uh in that moment this by this time in the circle he really won that so the score is 1 Zer and I'm only Shing this CU clearly I was the aggressor in the circle okay I'm admitting that I was the ████ in that moment right cuz I Didn't Know I Was Naive I was I was the I carried my trauma and I and I kicked it out of his hands right your K trauma yeah school battle trauma right uh and so um after the dance late night it's like super late night um where all the counselors everyone's like tighter than ever now right everyone's sharing their stories even the Wallflower that hasn't spoken all weekend is part of the circle like
13:34 talking everyone's in it and we go on scavenger hunt perfect time to send us on a scavenger hunt all the different Halls right and we got to get ████ from other Halls so I was in a different Hall than an right and so like I go and then um did you get your shoe back at this point I got my shoe back I got my shoe back I had to ask I ask he's just running around with one sh but I need to get something else from Anthony actually now on the scavenger hunt and I open up right uh there's a door and then I was going to go to their door uh to get something and then Aunt we're sitting in a circle and we're talking this is what happens I was about to knock on their door I leave cuz they're all they're all going and then Aunt opens the door right cuz I was about to get I needed something from that Hall I'm like kind of far away from him though right and I'm like oh thank you and then I tell him what we need from his hall and then he goes oh okay cool yeah and I was like all right and
14:25 so I start walking over and then he lets go of the door and it slowly closes and I'm like walking over right and I'm walking over that's Anthony dude that's our guy slow closing doors so I don't even think like that this guy is going to do anything remotely ████ we're in lovey-dovey mode everyone's friendly what do you need for the scavenger hunt like yeah right community community Vibes right I'm walking over and it's times out like a ████ movie like I go up the stairs cuz I'm like oh ████ ████ maybe he's going to like hold the door right and then it just closes and I swear to God I'm like right here and it closes and he's right behind the glass door and we're just looking at each other and he's like and I'm like you're just staring at him yeah like through the glass all the our whole Hall still right there was it it was clearly a joke
15:17 oh it wasn't like ████ this guy but it was like ████ you for earlier and in that moment it was truly just like we just had the acknowledgement no other like we didn't talk to each other ever again until we saw ran into each other at welcome week and it was like were you guys just breathing on the glass and there's just Ste did you turn around and walk away no what what it really was is my hall which is sitting I I I got up cuz it was like oh it's that guy from earlier so I get up cuz he knocks on the door I go over there once he's farther away I open it I'm like oh yeah yeah come by and then with them all still watching this entire interaction I let it go and then right when he gets there and he can't open it and I'm looking at my Hall's laughing that's better than than winning the dance battle one he got the last laugh he got the last laughe if you had a quote like as it's
16:07 closing if you're like Anthony never forgives just in the third person yeah Mike's like who's that I can't hear what he said who's that open the door yeah what the ████ my name's Mike you win the battle but I win the wall and I closed the door when's your guys's first moment of like friendship then after that was that the moment where you like no so we were enemies cuz I was like oh ████ this guy but like I had shared earlier I was so desperate to find dancer friends I didn't have that many dancer friends in high school so me calling out people honestly I was trying to find other dancers this is my like childhood trauma right I was like I want to find people that love dance I no people I didn't find homies that loved it I would show it to my friends and they' just like watch it for 5 seconds be like cool nice
16:59 whatever so when I see him at welcome week I'm like dude this guy's a dancer hopefully he still likes dance after what you did to him but it doesn't even register that interaction like what really happened in that interaction I don't even view myself as an aggressor or nothing I'm just like oh we had a battle like cool but he did something mean afterwards right you know but I went up to him afterwards cuz I was still like there's a dancer and I'm trying to freaking dance with people and so that's so like that se walking qualified how come you never told that part of the story that part's even funnier dude first of all I don't want to just without my here talk about how I won the war that would that was that was that was Joe's spin to it you know what I mean and and honestly sometimes yeah I
17:49 put that in the back of my head sa for rainy day you know what I mean it's trivia it's a deleted my low that's my ass Anthony story it's the good sandwich of like he's an ████ but he's a smart ████ that's a very so what point changed your like view of like I want to be friends with this guy was it just cuz like there were no other dancers and you guys it was just that it was literally in the you would see him dance in the beginning I was like ████ I need homies that dance and I'm like down and just like still chat and then we chat we're like just naturally organically oh ████ it's natural and then we just chilling and he wasn't like really serious about dancing yet he was just like I dance and so I feel like I was also kind of like dude let's ████ do this let's do that let's that and then I was just like super hype and then youd be like so there was never a point where you actually were like why'd you
18:40 close the door on me and you guys had to address it no like I feel like I didn't even that only Circle I feel like we like that resurf resurface later like we kind of forgot that that happened we so funny we're like oh yeah like wait we did do that and I think when we recounted even the door part yeah I didn't put two and two together like it was you didn't look at that as round two of the fight I was more just like I was like wait you're the guy I closed the door on like I didn't even process so you just want to bully some poor regular Korean yeah he just he just doing that to every Korean yeah yeah yeah and he kated he's like oh I didn't know it was you I another Korean something happened to me I needed to do it back to the whole nation you got to get them you got to get them got get I deserved it I deserve that I don't think I think was a really strong
19:31 foundation for a long lasting friendship though I think and then but then there was a thing called Kasa dance off which is like basically all like the Korean American student associations of like the different schools they have like their freshman uh go to a club one night and then you got served battle it out it's all the uc's uh mainly uc's but there there was a couple other like USC was probably there UCLA it's basically like C allal all you see but but yeah so there was a Korean one for freshman and then like Mike said he just wanted ████ get dancers down and stuff and he he was he knew Victor was a sick B boy and I was hanging out with Victor how are you hanging out with Victor by the way cuz me and Victor also met that same weekend at that spot orientation the crazy is I never met Victor that weekend what you didn't even meet him and so he got down
20:21 in the circle too oh that he probably made the circle then see why would I see walk my way and make a circle piecing it together piecing it together for sure4 I see more people gathering over a seaw walking Chinese guy but it's Victor so uh so the way I met Victor was uh I came late for the orientation so like the one staffer had to wait behind while everybody went to the hall to go like uh eat or whatever right so then I came in late and then there was only one other dude who also came in late and that was Victor M oh Victor so Victor comes in late and then I'm wearing a ████ Taking Back Sunday te t-shirt he loves that and Victor loves Taking Back Sunday right so he's like he's like you listen to Taking Back Sunday and I was like I do it's like I love Taking Back Sunday so I was like cool so we got cool real fast but I
21:12 didn't know he was a sick ass B boy right so then later on Mike finds out he's a sick ass B boy and this freshman Dance Off thing happens so he's like yo you got to get down for C of freshman dance off but I was hanging with Victor so he's like you should do it too but I didn't ████ ever do Coro before anything like like that but I was like ████ yeah I'm rolling with these two sick ass dudes damn and then because we went through this whole like and it's so funny because we I think we were so cocky the whole time we're like yeah we're going to smoke these other schools but then we got our asses whooped oh you guys didn't win yeah we got UCLA got destroyed they got good dancers over there at the time they had better coaches yeah it's all about the coaches but the thing is like I think it's also one of those when you go through like trauma with people you Bond yeah that's true yeah you have lose because that was like our first
22:03 true core experience after that it was like ride or die basically SI you guys lost a lot together a lot yeah thank you Jo cuz eventually he stopped seaw walking for the shows somehow still all ended up at this ████ hole huh
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