0:00 We were like huddled, literally screaming right there. And everybody's like, "Our lives are going to change." >> Oh, it changed. >> It changed for the worst, but it changed. >> Oh my god. >> What are you doing, dude? [Music] >> Why do you have that shirt? >> Unlock your phone. He's trying to fix space. >> No way. >> You done face work. >> That's crazy. That's hilarious. >> All right. >> And uh >> you opened it. >> Look, welcome back to the 18th last episode in LA of the Careful Boys. We have Hannah with us today, y'all.
0:50 >> Yay. Blackpool. >> Blackpool represent. >> Blackpool. >> I'm not from Blackpool. >> I thought you were from Liverpool. I really need people to understand that. >> Understand that. >> Understand that, please. >> Understand? >> Ma's accent is better than yours. >> Oh, it's better. >> UKa. >> British. >> The fact you said UKA. >> UK. >> I like how he thinks it's a language. >> Yeah, >> cuz I want to learn British and English. He's like He speaks British and English. >> That's a good British and English. >> He wants to learn English. >> British and English in it. and Joe hat it when I do this, but I'm going to do it anyway. Huh? We're going to get sentimental. God. >> Oh, come on, man. It's Robo Day. >> Boohoo. >> All right. Hey, come on. What are you What are you guys' favorite memories from this office? >> Dang. Before you guys were here. No, I'm
1:42 just kidding. I'm just kidding. It's >> probably the best times. >> I think Okay, I don't I keeping up the math, >> but I think it's like 18 or 17 years in this office. Dang, dude. And we had it's just so many different phases and memories. It's just been like such a long time of like laughs and tears and we saw people break up. We saw people get married. We saw people like >> steal. >> We saw people w water fake plants. And I think like the wildest stuff that we've done was probably the destruction while in the middle of the game things get heated and we just punched the wall. And then the moment we found out how flimsy the wall was, I think was one of the happiest times of our lives
2:34 cuz it's like doesn't even take that much work to go boom and then the whole wall just crumbles. >> Oh, we see that. >> Yeah. Do you >> use a stud finder before you punch? No, we just go for it. right there. >> And it would escalate too like and every single one of these is memories, you know, like we would play. >> Seems like a lot of new memories. >> What was that? Beer pong and then getting mad because they were making too much noise. That little hole up there is because um Gio wanted to see if I can if I can um if she throws a spear at me, if I could knock it down with my new sword. And then what ended up happening is she just she she tossed a spear, but it didn't go at me. It just went to the wall and it went inside. And that was that one. >> Obviously, the new one right there. The perfect freaking dumbbell.
3:25 >> Oh, I love >> from you and the wrestler. >> That one's good. >> Oh, yeah. I wasn't even here for that. >> Heart missed out, dude. Look at this. Perfect. >> Perfectly in there. >> Perfect dumbbell. >> That's great. Damn. The wrestler threw a dumbbell at the wall. >> Yeah. And it went inside >> and it and it was perfectly flat, too. Like you could level that thing. >> Oh my god, that's crazy. >> After they did that, they paused a little bit, though, cuz I think they were surprised at like, oh ████ >> that's a good wrestling wall. >> And um I stabbed I have a pirate sword. I have a rapier and I stabbed it through the wall because I wanted to see if there was a bad guy on the other side of the wall and um if Yeah. And if I'm if I'm like here, then I can just if I could just stab through them, >> I can, but it takes a long time and they would move out of the way by the time
4:16 >> it won't directly go through the drywall both sides. >> And then you would hear the knife going. >> You have to be an idiot to get >> I think that's a coming through the wall. >> I think someone's trying to stab us. Do we have pirate neighbors? >> We have Sriracha stains across this wall cuz we played a game. I remember this. And I started just spraying it, but I was spraying it so hard that most of it got in my own eyes. That was pretty stupid. I remember seeing that when I had to repaint it. Yeah. And then the Sriracha just never left the walls, but you painted over them. You know, you want to know something funny? Uh cuz you know, I had Michael come in and I'm I gave him the whole like script. them like, "Yeah, come in at the end of that video and just get mad at us for how messy it is and how you got to clean up for the next shoot." But he said that when he came
5:06 in, he was like ready to say it. And then he had never seen this new office. >> Oh, right. >> It's beautiful. >> So he came in, he was like, "What? Clean up." Like he was like, >> "Oh, I didn't even think about >> I didn't think about that either. >> Holy s███." He was like, he was like, "Yeah, I could I couldn't think of what to say because compared to how messed up it used to be, this is actually clean." So, he was like, "I had to just ████ and make up like >> Wait, you guys need a >> Yeah. >> Really? Good job, guys." >> Yeah. I I didn't realize that at all. Yeah. >> That's awesome. >> Cuz he's so used to seeing it after you guys would do party in here. Yeah. We had a lot of I don't know how you made it this beautiful, though. That's how shocking it was to me, too. when you turned this around, I was like, "Wow, >> that was a crazy moment." I remember. >> Yeah, that was one of my favorite memories of this place, just like the
5:57 change. >> Cuz you know, I've been here so long, longer than Steve. Um, so I really >> You have You have been I really have history with what it once was. >> Uh, and all the JK parties and Michael yelling at us for ████ cleaning stuff, too. And and smacking Ryan really freaking changed our You know what they did? They gave us hope. >> Changed the energy, too. >> Yeah, you guys crushed it. They gave us >> You think Do you think Tulsi Gabber would have came if it was a old office? >> Bro, I mean, she would have came, but I definitely would have been like she would have been like, "What the ████ >> dude?" You know what? We also missed out on an opportunity with Ste Steve. So, we did a Steveoke video. Um, >> yeah. At the at the LA car show, I remember that. >> And then his team was like, "Yo, Steve actually liked you guys a lot and he's down to do it again." So, I was like, "Sick." And then me and Bar were like, "Oh s███." like our office is ████ but
6:50 the LA office is being built right now, right? So, we're like, "All right, all right." Um, so we were just talking to I was just like calling them up and I was like, "Hey, like um yeah, we want to do it. Uh, we're just waiting for this other one to be built. It's going to be so cool." And they're like, "Yeah, it's casual." And then, um, what ended up happening was like the fans hated the new office, right? Yeah. >> And I think just at the time so many things were just going on that like we just never followed up. And I think we were too embarrassed to bring him on as a guest at our s█████ office >> that I was like looking back I'm like who ████ cares? That was who we were. We should have just had him. >> Yeah. At the end of the day, no one really cares. >> No one really cares. But then I I just felt like Steve Aayoki is Japanese Jesus and you need to you can't treat Japanese Jesus this way. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I guess that's true. Yeah. You know what's another one of my my
7:40 favorite memories from this office is when uh Joe's uh Luna account hit a million dollars and then we all like got up. >> Dude, we were all like jumping up and down and screaming for each other. >> Way more funny now. >> It's all gone. >> Funny. >> Wait, I thought you had a similar stack to mine. Yours >> you hit it first and so we started jumping up and down with you. We were like huddled, literally screaming right there. >> And everybody's like, "Our lives are going to change." >> Oh, it changed. >> It ████ changed for the worst. But it changed. >> Oh my god. Oh my god, dude. >> Yo, but that moment was dope, though. >> That moment was crazy. >> And then it dipped and it happened again when we were at the Trump Tower. Remember >> us celebrating? >> Well, not it. The numbers went bust. We were like, "Oh my god." >> But that was the first time that it
8:30 crossed crossed the threshold. >> You're right. And it crossed quickly cuz it was like half a mill and then all of a sudden that's so crazy, dude. >> That was such a crazy time. >> That was a >> And then everything went downhill. >> Yeah, I know. >> What about you, Bart? I think one of our first moment my one of my favorite moments might have to be when we first got the office cuz I feel like you know when you're like um when you're trying to do something that there really is no path for you like during if you think 2007 2008 2009 YouTube there's no like real channels it's just people either talking out of their bedrooms or you know it's like everyone's YouTube is different and you're barely connecting with people and people don't even know that you can monetize. There's not this giant industry or have like a YouTube studios
9:21 or even Google like ████ spaces and stuff. We were just shooting things out of our bedroom slowly scaling and learning and then going we need a space where we can dedicate um our work to and then also being able to continue to grow. And I think like being able to earn your own workspace so that you can use that space to grow even more kind of gave at least myself the confidence like, "Oh ████ we're on to something and we could actually build something." Cuz I think as much as like Asian-American as I am and I believe that like we're in America, we could do whatever we want. Half of me is still Asian and a lot of it's like you're making the wrong choice. You don't know what the ████ you're doing. And so I think I also needed just that uh that like actual
10:12 physical presence validation to show that we can do it. And then without having gotten here first, I don't think there would be like Barbara Brigade or June or any of the other things, it was kind of like this was the blueprint and kind of like the step by step of what to do and then being able to adapt that to like everything else. So, I feel like that was like one really crazy moment, like signing a lease, like just doing like these like quote unquote big boy things and we're kind of like in our like middle to late 20s and we don't know what the ████ going on. >> I remember looking at like it was like a little bit over a,000 bucks or something for the lease a month. >> I'm sorry. >> That's so crazy. >> But then, no, but we had a serious discussion and we were sweating and we were like, >> "All right, dude. That means if we can't pay rent, we have to get jobs. We got to pay out of pocket. Are you ready for
11:04 this? It was like that. It's like, it's not just the rent, too. We got to think about electricity. We got to think about We were like, "F███, that's that could be like 1,200 a month." And we're like, "F███, dude. That's this is crazy." But at the time, >> to be fair, I was paying like $3 to $400 a month for my room. >> Yeah. >> So, these numbers are just so big. It's massive, you know? >> And I think that was like the big like commitment of like, are you ready to do this? >> And what's the rent now? >> It's like five grand. >> Yeah. >> But I know the numbers though, like >> like it's just it starts at a,000. That's your your big number. And then it just keeps going up. >> Cuz most people you pay like your rent, right? And then you pay your car payment. And those are like the two major payments that you have. So
11:56 anything outside feels like gambling or you're feels like you're like funding this random playhouse. >> So it's just not like a accounting concept that your brain could even grasp. >> And a a commercial lease is longer. So like >> Yeah. >> Um most residentials you you get a year-long lease, right? But commercials like standard is five. Yeah. >> So we're just sitting there going 5 years. And at 20 what? Four? What were we something like that? 5year lease is crazy. >> Yeah. >> I'm like, dude, that means we're going to be ████ 29. I probably have grandkids and ████ What the ████ >> Cuz the only long committing things you do is like four years at a time if you think about it. cuz of schools. >> Yeah. >> So, you're just like 5 years, that's longer than college, dude.
12:46 >> Yeah. >> That we have to commit to and it's like, what if this fails and we got to keep paying rent and ████ >> Yeah. >> And we ended up ████ stupidly paying monthtomonth where they jacked up our rent for >> just kept going up and up and up. >> And what's funny is like this is us talking about that situation now as two like 40 year olds back when it was two early 20 year olds. Our real conversation finding out what the rent was was probably like, "Hey, you know what? That ████ cracker ass dude wants us to pay." It was probably >> the way that you talked back then. >> The way we talked probably like cracker ass like he wants ████ first and last month's rent ████ trying to rip us out of cracker ass >> cuz he wants cuz he wants first and last month's rent. >> You know the problem? >> That's too much. >> You ever heard of some ████ like that before? >> Yeah. Yeah. Like imagine two really low IQ guys that never done things crazy and
13:37 then we're like just >> trying to figure this ████ out >> and all of its typical like normal stuff. >> And then the only way I know how to bargain. >> Yeah, normal stuff. >> Only way I know how to bargain is Chinatown, right? So in Chinatown they go, >> "How much is those pants >> for you, my friend? $15." And you're like, "Nah." And then you do the walk away trick like I don't want that ████ They're like, "Okay, okay. For you I give you $13, man." And I'm like, "All right, 13. That seems that seems like a fair price, right? You can't do that ████ Like you can, but it's not the same style. You walk away, they're like, "Okay, guess you don't want it. >> Where you going? >> Don't work that way." And you call back and you go, "Actually, I think I want it." All right. >> Yeah. It's so different. We learned so much though. I think Yeah, we grew like crazy like from the way we spoke and thought and our business sense. And this is definitely one of those places too
14:28 that it's really become a second familiar home. Like I can't even imag Like I haven't lived even in an apartment or a house longer than I had this stable place. >> That's true. >> Yeah. And yeah, we had our other office and you know, we didn't really like we kept this one because we still film news here. And then it was such a weird like I don't know at the time it was cheap to just keep it. It was like ████ it, we'll just keep it cuz we were making enough to to just it was easier to do that. But yeah, I've never committed to anything in business or rent this long. This is Yeah. >> Makes me want to just keep it for no reason. No, >> we shouldn't. >> We'd be tied if we could >> and make it the JK Museum.
15:18 >> That'd be crazy. But I don't know. I don't know how are we going to >> We'll just keep eBaying stuff every month. >> Five grand a month. That's >> Oh, five grand a month for you. >> I know. That's insane. >> And that's with us renewing it and getting a discount. We can't sell enough of the drywall to keep up with. >> We're running out of drywall. >> Sell enough drywall. There's no more office. >> There's no more wall. Maybe I am pro- Newsome cuz if he trashes LA enough, the rent might actually come down finally. >> Come on. I'm voting for fingers crossed. Let's go. >> Hey, it doesn't matter. We're locked in a contract. We have to pay high rates no matter what. >> He hasn't learned anything. >> Cracker ass fool. >> We got a crack ass high ████ >> ████ cracker ass ████ >> Cracker ass dude. Oh my.
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