0:00 for breakfast, like she just had like two dozen donuts. And I was like, "Wait, this is our breakfast? Like, what were you eating for breakfast? Like, ████ miso soup and a fish or some s███?" >> [laughter] >> And a mackerel. >> Eat your koi fish. >> Fresh tuna. >> Welcome back to another episode of Bart from the Heart, where we take some deep-hitting questions. >> Bart from the Fart. >> And we take our time with them for a change. And each member of the Care for Boys can kind of let these answers stew in their mind before sharing their thoughts on these very, sometimes difficult to answer questions. Mostly difficult, okay. Uh let's let's ask Joe one of these. Okay. So, Joseph Jitsukawa, I'm going to guess A.
0:51 >> [laughter] >> You think it's multiple choice? All right. If you could reconnect with your very first best friend, what would you say? What would you want to know about them and what would you share? And then paint a picture of who they are. >> I had hella best friends, dude. I never had one. >> Do you remember the very first one? >> I remember >> Or the first one that made an impact. >> most meaningful one. Yeah. Um Raymond. Raymond's one of my closest best friends at the time. >> This is growing up where? >> In Gardena. His uh he had a really hot mom. >> Oh, Raymond. Let's go. >> She was like those like young moms. >> Is he Mexican? >> Yeah, he was Mexican. And then she she looked like she could be a like one of uh
1:42 uh what's her name? Um >> Selena? >> No, the Not Peggy Bundy, the daughter. >> Kelly Bundy? >> Kelly Bundy's friends. >> Oh, like the cameo girls that walk in. >> She looked She was like that. >> Dang, okay. >> And then um I don't know. So So, not only was she young, she was cool. And everyone was just like his parents, I mean, his grandparents, uh they owned a Mexican restaurant. Super cool, right? So, like I I like going there and then like just dropping off food to different people's tables and ████ >> You're food runner? >> Oh, yeah. >> I Well, they're like you're not supposed to, but I just wanted to do ████ Like I thought it was so cool. >> That's tight. >> Yeah. And then um yeah, it was just there was just so much fun ████ like good memories, but I think like in third grade or something he moved to Palmdale. >> Oh.
2:32 >> Damn. >> Yeah, and >> We act like it's a death sentence. >> Is it Well, I mean, if you don't have a if you don't have a car >> At that time was it like uh he just bounced or did he announce it? Like yeah, I'm going to move. Or was it just one day you go to his house and it's just empty? >> No, no, we I knew. Like he was moving and then I was just like, "Oh, man, but we're supposed to be like like bros till like I you know, like high school and all that." >> What age did he move? >> Man, I Yeah, I forgot what grade, maybe like yeah, third, fourth, or fifth or something like that. But during that time though, what was really cool is that like we stayed friends when he moved and then like sometimes I would come visit um during like summer. And then I would stay with them. Huh? >> Go all the way to Palmdale? >> Yeah. >> Pretty dope. >> And then his uh his stepdad or someone at the time, he uh we when we when we had a sleepover, we
3:22 watched Reservoir Dogs together. >> Woah. >> was like fourth or fifth grade. >> That's heavy. That's so early to watch that. >> But he had young parents, like they were cool. Like they dressed cool, like and then like like I remember like she for the uh for breakfast like she just had like two dozen donuts. And I was like "Wait, this is our breakfast? Like no ████ way." Cuz like one, you know, you see like in the movies like like cops eating donuts with coffee in the morning or like people getting donuts before they go to work or that would have never flew flown in my family. >> What were you eating for breakfast? >> Like ████ miso soup and a fish or some ████ >> And a mackerel. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, like a donut is a treat. Like it's like >> Dude, as a kid you're like, "Aw, this >> Eat your koi fish.
4:12 >> [laughter] >> Fresh in the morning. >> But I think like donuts are like You I don't know. I just think it's like very American. >> It is very American. >> Like a birthday party, it's a special treat, right? You don't get that ████ It's a big deal. >> Yeah, I'm like, "Dude, you got ████ donuts?" And then like Yeah, I think that was really cool and like, you know, I would go visit him and sometimes when he's at his grandparents' place, like he'll let me know and then like we'll we'll come hang out. >> That's so cool. >> Hella sleepovers and yeah, I just and then like I just remember like a lot of cool like moments like watching like a Mariah Carey music video and then both crushing over her and then like imagining like, "Dude, what if like we're like all at the carnival?" You know like that music video? She's at the carnival, the the the she's on the Ferris wheel and ████ and I'm like, "Yeah, but like what if she was like our girlfriend? But like, you know,
5:02 >> Our girlfriend? >> Yeah, making up all these things and ████ >> [laughter] >> Yeah. And I I I just remember dope ass ████ like that. Dude, I I I remember he um one time picked up dog ████ and chased me with it like a ████ >> With his bare hand he picked it up. >> Bare hands. And then like, you know when you're a kid, you get too into your ████ Like like you're you're having so much fun you can't stop and I was running for my life and I tripped and fell and when I got to the ground he >> Oh, ████ >> put the dog ████ on my back and smeared it. >> What? Dude. >> And I was walking around >> Can't reconnect with this guy, dude. >> ████ caca skid mark. >> That's >> [laughter] >> crazy. >> Went back and his mom was like, "What did you do?" And then like, he was crying. He goes
5:52 all like, "I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop." >> got too hyped. Yeah. >> like threw my clothes in the laundry, and then like, "Oh, that's cool." And then like, so I'm just wear I'm just like in like a big oversized concert tee or some ████ just chilling. Some Menudo t-shirt. >> Menudo? >> [laughter] >> Yeah, and then his grandma's like feeding us menudo. We're just sitting there watching TV. >> You actually are eating menudo? >> Yeah. And then um yeah, so I I had a lot of cool like ████ memories like that. And then Oh, I remember um one time he moved back, but he moved to like Downey or something. So, I went to go visit him, did another sleepover. And he had this like girl neighbor who I got my first kiss from. >> So >> Yeah, she was like She was from Yemen. I remember till this day. Like, she's like Middle Eastern.
6:42 >> From Yemen, wow. >> And then he's all like, "Hey." I was like, "Hey, Joe, guess what?" I'm like, "What?" He goes, "Shh, I got I got my first kiss." I'm like, "By who?" And it was that girl. And then I'm like, "What? No way." He goes, "Yeah, and um I asked if she uh she finds you if she thinks you're cute, and if she does, she'll give you a kiss, too." And I'm like, "No ████ way." And he goes, "Yeah, uh but then I was like too nervous. I wanted to get to I ain't got I ain't going to ████ on the first date, you know? Like, I'm like, "Let me get to know her. She's not even my girlfriend." You know, but like, there was like, you know in the old school apartments, like there's that courtyard in the middle where like there's like a pool, and it's like like the Karate Kid apartment. Yeah, it's a Karate Kid apartment. So, we had that area, and it was like me, him, his sister, it was her, a bunch of just kids. Like, back then
7:32 you just you saw kids, and you just became friends. >> That's so tight. >> So, like we're ████ playing and ████ And then I remember like like he went and talked to her, and she was like, "Yeah, like that." And then like and then and then he was like, "Yeah, she wants to go meet at like the the laundry room or whatever." And I'm like, "Are you serious?" So then like I went over there and then she was like waiting there. >> Oh ████ It's real. >> Yeah, and then she she kissed me on the cheek and then I was like, "OH MY GOD!" AND then and then that was like my first like kiss, right? Like I didn't I didn't I don't know how to ████ smooch. >> But that was it and she blushed and she ran away. And I was just standing there like, "What?" And then he came in and he was all like, "Dude, how was it?" And I'm like, "I feel like electricity in my body." >> Damn, that's tight. You guys are talking
8:23 you're detailing it out. >> The end of the the the thing like she would just drive-by kiss me and then at the end we got like I got like a kiss on the lips and then that was really cool. Barely ████ know this girl, by the way. She thought it was probably hilarious just to like kiss boys and run away. >> Yeah. >> But like yeah, ████ like that. I was like, "It's ████ cool." >> dad, dude? That's crazy. >> Huh? >> Where's your dad? >> In Yemen. >> [laughter] >> I don't know. If her dad caught us, that would have been like some crazy ████ But I mean being an unsupervised kid and like that was normal. >> mad normal back then, yeah. >> You just see a bunch of 15 kids running around, ████ around, jumping in a pool, whatever. Yeah, so after that like Yeah, I don't know what happened, but I I wonder where he is today. Sometimes I still think about ████ Like we had a lot of help we had a lot of fun. Um
9:14 But I completely lost contact. Don't even have didn't have his number anymore and I and then like we just stopped talking. It wasn't because of bad terms or anything like that. >> It's just life. >> Yeah, he just disappeared. Yeah. And I feel like there was a lot of that back in the day where people would just move and then it's kind of like your story where like you don't got their number. >> You don't have a car. >> You don't have Yeah, and then like that's it. Yeah. But I I think after this though, I'm I'm going to see I'm going to look him up. I'm going to try to see him on on >> Do you remember Do you remember his last name? >> Yeah, but I don't want to say it online. Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Maybe he tried to look you up, but your last name's different. >> name is different. Yeah. That is crazy though. >> Yeah, he might he might have at least tried at some point. >> remember his mom's name? Let's find her first. >> [laughter]
10:04 >> Let's see what she's up to. >> Why she sees this video, man, shut up, Joe. >> Do you remember his mom's IG? >> [laughter] >> Damn, man. >> But most of Okay, but but but in his defense though, most of the moms that I went to like the all of them were young. They were like Dude, I went to school in a ████ ghetto, like half of the kids had like teen pregnancy moms. You know what I mean? Like So that's why everyone was young, and when my parents came through, they were like, "Oh, your grandma's here?" I'm like, "Motherfucker." >> Dude, that's messed [laughter] up. >> And my mom's not that old. She just had me in her late 20. No, my mom No, does she actually have me in her late late 30s? Yeah, so she would have been their grandma's age, but she wasn't old. I mean, Mexicans do be getting the jump on the rest of us. Yeah, cuz it's like a lot of the Mexican and black kids, their
10:54 parents were like barely 20. You know, 20-something. So I'm like, "Yeah." So if my mom's like in her late 30s, 40s, they're going to be like, "That's my grandma's age." >> It's also SoCal in general still leading the nation in in teen pregnancies, I believe. Yeah. >> Shout out. Shout out. >> [laughter] >> I had a couple of best friends that I lost contact with, and I'm wondering how they've been. >> Yeah, what do you think he's doing if you had to guess, based on his personality and stuff? What do you think he got into? >> If he followed in his stepfather's footsteps, um he probably works some like something in like blue collar. Oh, cuz I remember picking like we went to go pick up his stepdad or whatever. Um he he was working for like water like the
11:45 water treatment plant. >> DWP? >> Yeah, like the D like you know like by the beach there's that >> Oh, in El Segundo? >> Yeah. >> He would go there and then he would you know he would be working there. And then um yeah, and then all of his family members I think his uncles everybody they worked in like some type of construction or like that kind of stuff. Yeah. And then um I know yeah, I think eventually I heard something about his grandparents they sold and then they retired back to Mexico. So then he that's another thing too he stopped coming back to Gardena the neighborhood that we were in >> Cuz they didn't live there no more cuz his cuz his grandparents moved away. Yeah. >> Yeah, man, but yeah. >> Look him up right now. If you're if you're watching you're rating hit up Joe. His number is >> [laughter] >> I don't know what he thought Joe was
12:35 going to be. Uh I bet he's going to be in some blue collar thing or >> sushi chef probably. >> But that dude's got ████ on his back right now. >> [laughter] >> Pooper scooper. >> Dude, that's a crazy thing to do though. >> Well, we used to do stupid ████ like that all day, dude. >> What a funny kid. All right, that's another episode of Bar From The Heart. If you guys have any other questions that you like us to answer for the next series just put it in the comments below. >> Bar through.
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