0:05 Welcome back to Care for Boys. Today, Anthony Lee would like to invite you guys to be treated like one of the boys. >> What? [cough] >> This is like what happens when we go to Anony's house. >> Oh my god. >> What's this? >> What do you What is this? >> Samsung J84. >> What do you think this is, dude? >> Is this a compilation? >> It's a compilation. >> Why did that performances? Do we have time for this? >> Yeah, we have time. >> We don't have music rights or time for this. What are we doing? >> All day. We have all day. >> So, like anytime we're in a group setting, Anthony just puts this stuff on and he just makes us watch it. >> Watch it. So, >> this is the stupid. >> What's like to hang with Anthony? [laughter] Just inviting you in. Do you remember all this stuff? Like, well, Anthony, >> hello. >> Actual question. Actual question. >> Remember what? >> Like all this stuff. >> I remember it all happening. Yeah, I
0:56 remember the experience. >> He's in the middle right there. What do we Yo, what are we doing right now? >> What do you think we're doing? I want to We want to talk about this stuff. >> Okay, so this is what happened. All right, Ryan invites us over to a barbecue. >> Oh, come on. >> What? Oh, come on. What? No messes over to a barbecue. We're all hanging over at his house. >> And then Aerys is his buddy suddenly thinks it's funny to like hide the remote and then start putting on Kra's videos. And then when I go, "What the f███?" Everybody starts yelling. And these there's a bunch of people at this party that I've met for the first time >> and people are started booing. They started booying like crazy. >> Relax, right? And then they start going they start going, "Anthony, why are you making us watch this right now [laughter] >> and I don't have the remote. It's in Azer's pocket and he just keeps putting it on from the ████ kitchen or whatever." >> Looks like he's putting [laughter] it on >> and Anthony and Nina are sitting on the couch together and it looks like they're like both watching this [laughter]
1:46 >> and he just gave up. He didn't want to fight anymore. He just You just seem watching him ████ it. >> He just started taking it eventually. [laughter] >> But yeah, let's ask him some questions about it. No, genuinely. Okay, so that's a setup funny. Haha. But actually, like this stuff is kind of crazy. Like like can you want to talk about some of this stuff? >> That is really cool. >> Ask some specifics, bro. [laughter] >> You guys, >> why? >> Okay, first of all, every look, do you do you ever go home and watch all your standups? >> Every day. >> You're a piece of ████ >> You review your own standup. He's with a notebook. He's just like, >> didn't you have to edit your own special? >> Yeah, [snorts] >> that's a lot of watching. No, I I actually at the end I gave it to somebody and then the the notes was too crazy. I couldn't do it. Even the notes Yeah. that I couldn't do it. Seriously, >> watch this stuff though. Like cuz we all have early videos and stuff where I'm like, "God, I I don't like that one."
2:37 >> The perfect right context of experience. I'll go back and just like watch stuff because I feel like that's the joy of why you created content. It's And this is like this is, you know, again, I'm not trying to be on a high horse, but like this is like you're trying to make art. you're trying. Whether or not somebody perceives it as that, it's not it's not the same. It's not like I'm going back and watching like all of our JK News videos where we're talking about ████ you know? Yeah. Like this like we actually put our lives on the line and this is like a very dear to our, you know, life experience things that like made us who we are. >> Well, when you watch your own video, do you which part do you enjoy? >> I fast forward to only me. Just me? >> No, no, no. >> Uh but which part do you get the joy? Like is it the chore choreography that you enjoyed or is it like what when you review it when you or is it the whole thing like wow like we did this?
3:29 >> Uh all of it? None of it. Everything. >> How about the fame and fortune? >> You never see fame and fortune when you watch the dances and stuff like that. Um what it is >> we spent so much money on costumes. Holy ████ >> It we did. It's just reflection. >> It's just reflection. Right. >> There's Anthony. They in I would say like from our perspective they invested like a remarkably high amount of money on how they look and their branding which was very impressive. >> Our branding was better than our dance skills. >> I wouldn't say that, >> you know, but like that's what that's what we had go that's why I can cringe at it now though, right? Because when I'm in like my 20s, I know why I'm doing this. One is because we're younger. We're not like focused on the same things that we have grown up to focus on nowadays. like we can we can dive deeper into characters in anime into storytelling and stuff like that because it's smarter for the brand and that's
4:20 what took off. We were able to work with like different like corporations, companies, um we were making like a anime, a comic, like we we got to make toys and stuff because that was what our branding led ourselves to do. We made plushies, we made action figures, we collabed with Bear Bricks, like we we were able to do that because our brand lended so deeply into it versus like these guys are just Asian dancers. We focused on ████ like ninjas and samurai and stories and swords and blah blah blah. >> Two questions. Why? Why the cringe? And who is like the branding? Who who had the idea? Was it you that who had the idea was like, "Hey, let's make this brand new." >> It's not a deep cringe. It's not like I hate what we did. I love this stuff. It's just more like I wouldn't do that today because like I'm just older and moved past it, you know? I don't play with toys as much. I don't watch as many. Bye-bye. You know, >> how do you see through the blindfold? >> That's the trick, baby. Oh,
5:10 >> you can't. They memorize all that ████ [clears throat] >> That's like Bam. >> Yeah, exactly. >> And the thing is also the extra cringe is that what you remember as a performer is not what people remember in the audience. What people remember is what you gave them and all they get is the what like the 90 seconds of this. What you remember is what it took to create it and the hilarious moments or the stupider ideas that didn't make it to the stage or the mess ups or the whatever, you know, like. And Ryan knows the exact same stuff. Like what what people see on stage is like the final product and that's just the presentation. But the process is like way more hilarious. >> You know, I remember uh for example when we were doing that blindfold one. Uh dude, this is going to be so gay, but this is honestly one of our funniest favorite moments of this entire show when we did that blindfold one, right? We had the serious conversation and
6:00 remember our lives are on this is like our whole life in that moment, right? So we we had this whole conversation about how we're always always covering our faces, our mouths and stuff with our masks and we always see with our eyes. So we know how to perform with our eyes, but we forgot what it is perform with just our mouths, no eyes. So what did we do? We had to practice doing facials with each other with just our mouths. So it's just a bunch of grown ass dudes trying to be all ████ sexy with our mouths and lips and ████ like that in the back rehearsing. >> Wo. And like that's so stupid and gay, [laughter] >> but at the time it's so serious cuz we actually have to be good at something that we're not doing that often. >> What the freak? >> The brand. >> Why do you have that prepped? >> I don't know what you're talking about. [laughter] >> Freak. >> Did that just come on next, man? >> Just came on next. I have no idea. >> Stupid.
6:50 >> But I was curious about like who was like brand driven like who was brand dri and the costumes and stuff. >> Director. >> Yeah. All of us were very very artistically involved. Um the company and the brand itself was like me and Mike built it, but like me and Mike aren't the kind of masterminds that like we sat down and we like navigated and mapped out this entire thing. Everything organically developed and we just rode what we thought was >> What about the mouth stuff? >> They're like, who came up with it? They're like, "Hey man, if we're going to be blindfolded, we got to show expression through the lips." >> Yeah. one one of our other crew members who's like a really like one of the best directors in the game like for like dance team ████ and like competitive team stuff. >> Um but that that those particular clips are from NBC World of Dance. So we had already been on like ABCDC with like Quest Crew and stuff like that two or three years prior. So we had already gone through like this TV show
7:40 experience of like okay like this is what it kind of feels like. This is what's valuable to us. How do we do it again a little bit more efficient and a little a little bit more like catered toward what's going to give us success? >> Do you know who the judges are going to be before so you can like kind of cater it to that too? >> We do. But like for example, this is me for the first time. This is this is NBC World of Dance presented by JLo or ex executive produced by JLo, right? And honestly at the time going into the show it's like JLo's Jenny from the block. She's badass. She's she was a dancer who made it. Blah blah blah blah. She's freaking dope. By the end of the show, we're like, "F███ JLo, dude. She's a b████." [laughter] Oh, really? Yeah. She got a for sure. She's a boss. But like the way that she just treats everybody around her, her energy. >> What does she do? >> She's just a She's reputably a bad person. >> Really? [laughter]
8:30 >> That's why she was with P. Diddy. >> That's why I'm not saying I know firsthand. I'm just saying reply from people I know that have worked with her or worked under her or been at the mercy of her. I never liked her. She came in and then like her hula hoop earring fell off and then the way that she like looked at like one of her like staff members. >> It was it was just the weirdest feeling. But then she was really nice to us. >> So you're just kind of like wa this is crazy. She's just a boss down for the aura. Whatever. But then later on, you know, again, this is on some alleged stuff, but you know, based off our experience, I just remember watching like her judging like Kion and Mari and stuff like that and like le twins u in in this final category of their their their category. We were more in like the larger crew one and they were in like the solos and duos and stuff. And you got like Derk Huff and Neo, the other two judges that are like arguing with her like no, like they really believe Kim Mar should have won and she's just
9:20 in sitting there like and then you could tell it's like a this isn't really a dance competition which duh, like we can't be that naive. It's you hope for the best but it's it's a reality show. >> It's cuz they're her friends or whatever >> or like she knows them. >> She gets final say. >> Yeah. She just she just has that power and she gets to pull that power. So like all all respect like she earned that right and and she's really smart at wanting something else for her her network her show type stuff. So it's like all the power to you. It's just more like a man like for dancers by dancers type stuff. You you being a dancer it's just that integrity is just gone. I can respect you for like whatever you inspired me for in the past but like with what it is here I don't have to respect it or like it >> like it is what it is. So it it it's it's different. Those judges I think were a lot more credible than the ABDC judges that we had. >> You had zero dancers for the ABDC.
10:10 >> Our judges were Tay, Frankie Grande, and Tayiana Taylor. >> Tiana Taylor. Yeah. >> I don't think T pay dances that much. >> But Tay is a really cool person. >> He's really >> And he was a great judge, I would say. But >> yeah, but World of Dance had like some freaking mega stars in in dance currently. >> Yeah. What is what this might be a stupid question, but what would a dancer see that like maybe somebody like T Payne wouldn't see? >> Well, he's [laughter] he's a he's a really really high level entertainer. So, he probably understands entertainment in a way that a dancer who's so nuanced. We're hyperfocused in just the dance. >> He's making fun of us. >> I'm not a genuine question. >> I think I think it's a good question. Even if he's MAKING FUN OF >> I'M NOT making fun of it. When you when they're judging though, do you do you go like [laughter] if it's a if it's a judge like somebody who you might not respect because they
11:01 don't know the nuance of dance, do you still go like oh like do you still oh thank you so much or do you go like ████ all right? >> We're Asian, dude. Everything's thank you so much. >> Okay. Okay. >> You can slap us in the face and we go thank you for your time. >> Is it like the synchronicity of it that people are look that that somebody's looking at or is there something I'm missing? I still think like if you're a dancer then you're you're appreciating stuff that maybe someone like T pay doesn't see but if you can't entertain T pay you're ████ up like you have to be able to entertain everyone and the dancers see bonus ████ >> I don't think it's like only dancers see it and regular people don't get it that's a fail >> example of a bonus thing that you would see >> that somebody did something really creative that hasn't been done but it wasn't even highlighted >> it's just like a little swoop and you go oh the other way, you know, like or or or they did something that your dancer
11:52 mind is supposed to predict is going to go a certain direction and they flip it because they know dancers are watching. >> Do how and do you guys do that a lot? And who >> Yeah, we try and that that's the goal. I think we try to Yeah. You try to appeal to dancers at the same time, but it's like the first level is just anybody. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah, if I'm in like a non-elevised dance competition, >> I'm trying to like >> like Yeah. like take up like bring up the culture and the and the bar of what dance is. >> I think if I were to ever be on a TV show again, I don't give a ████ about the dancers. I'm trying to be like, how am I going to win in life? >> Yeah. Like, how do I appeal to enough of audience? Right. >> Yeah. Like, am I going to sell merch from this? Am I going to get brand deals from this? >> Because you can use it. You can leverage it. up the respect because you already satisfy your artist creativity side in
12:43 like a very like like integrity driven artistic space. This is a different platform and and recognizing that is what makes you a little bit I mean it's sad to say but that's because I spent two different seasons of being on dance TV shows where we were just trying to represent our our art and we lost >> and I'm like I don't blame anybody. I'm just more like if I did it again I don't give a ████ Like that's not the space for just regular art. >> It's like it's like Nor McDonald, >> you know, Nor McDonald to comedian is the funniest ████ thing on the planet. But then regular people are like that was horrible. >> Cuz I've been I've been to dance shows or like competitions where dancer to dancer, they'll be like, >> "Oh my god, you see how he ████ isolated that thing and whatever." And then I was like, "That guy just went like this." >> Well, they might just be glazing, too. You never know. >> But like Yeah. Like but then like it goes over my head cuz I'm all like,
13:35 "What? Did I miss something? Like I'm a normie, >> but for but I just saw a guy go, >> you know, like it wasn't even like next level, but a guy has seen a backflip done a million times, but it still wows a normal guy. >> This would be tight if the music that was playing is a song that you heard a million times, but this guy did it on a little that you never heard until he did that. >> That's where it blows it up. niche. >> Wait, that's in the music, but that guy knew and he went like I don't know. That's like when you see that you're like the littlest thing could be like so >> to me it's like Oscar movies sometimes where like I'm watching a ████ corn field for like 8 minutes and I'm like ████ [laughter and snorts] this >> like jacking up like I never seen it in sepia, you know? [laughter] >> What is it? The guy that you like >> Pedro Almadovar. Yeah, ████ that guy. Or
14:25 or that's like in cinema where like if you really really like movies or like you're behind the camera or you're whatever and then you see like a one shot that's like hella long. Yeah. >> Right. But then if you're a regular Josh audience you might not have realized that that was one shot at all. >> Yeah. Exactly. >> And they don't care like Yeah. >> Didn't somebody do that for like eight 15 minutes or whatever? The longest thing ever or something? >> Oh, you're talking about the war movie where the whole thing's one shot. >> Oh yeah, that one too. >> Like a Yeah, theoretical one shot. F.
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