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Off The Record: Bart Discusses His Father's Passing

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0:00 thank you [Music] welcome back everybody to another very powerful episode of the careful boys we have Steve joining us again no big deal no big deal I just say that as a formality I don't actually care we do it who whoever's in this chair we just do that because because you're you're trying to buy time yeah but more importantly we know the game more importantly Bart has returned after a short Hiatus what's up Bart hello he doesn't know how to do it yeah I don't know how to do it I wasn't caught up uh you know since uh last time last time we were chatting with Bart things were like all gravy and funny and cool

0:50 and you know it was all exciting and the next time I'm jumping in different because you're just dancing around a weird subject man the dancer Can't Stop Moving just say it you don't have to cut the hole at the bottom of the popcorn exactly the chick to jack you off okay you can just say can you jack me off we want to Jack you out for anything just whip it out just whip it out just whip it out get to the point I just don't think 911 happened there it is since your dad's funeral home all right yeah he actually hasn't had a funeral but uh since his passing since his passing yes this is passing yeah it's been nuts why are you laughing Nick this is a ████ serious topic I'm not

1:41 laughing at that I'm laughing at you dude you made me laugh wait what are you talking about dude we're talking about serious stuff that week that you were filming JK news and when I was in here did they even know that you got the news of what happened and then you just did a whole three days of JK news yeah yeah um I don't think the the fans know but pretty much what happened was I was planning on making a trip back to LA because we were going to shoot three days of JK news um I think it was going to be was like Sunday Monday Monday Tuesday it was like one of those weird days because that was the only time that uh everyone's schedules fit and um I was gonna come in like pretty much Sunday morning and I already had booked my flight and everything and then on Saturday which is literally the day before um I get a text from my mom and then she

2:32 texts me and she was like hey your dad just killed himself and then I was like what the ████ like what does that mean like are you like is that Google translate gone wrong or is it an exaggeration like did he eat something spicy like sometimes like like it like in you know like it's like uh what's the word self-preservation yeah like you say something crazy like oh right like your dad went crazy it doesn't mean it was like cuckoo like literally yeah bought the watch you shouldn't have bought or something right like some some ████ like dude I gotta talk about nachos he just killed himself exactly what the ████ am I but that's so weird it's like call my mom and then my mom's like um yeah all the cops are here your dad passed away uh take care of a bunch of stuff and I was like what the ████ I was like that's ████ crazy we hang up I'm literally like in the bed like my hand's kind of shaking because like it's just

3:23 the craziest news I've ever heard I've never expect anything like that and then I'm like staring at the wall I'm like did that just happen or did I have a dream like what's going on I go see Geo and I'm like hey um I just I just laid it out hey are you busy no like I don't even know how to like I don't know how to massage the information I was just like I my dad killed himself that's it and she's like you need to go to your mom right now and then so pack my ████ drove straight to La how did you stay awake what do you mean it was like midday Oh I thought you were in bed sleeping no no like it was like like three like 2 p.m 3 P.M it's like 3 P.M dude how did you stay awake 8 P.M be very hard but um yeah so as I was driving I was like you know when your adrenaline kind of chills a little bit and I'm starting to think I'm like none of this ████ makes sense I'm like

4:13 is this one of those ████ Antics that my mom's pulling because my mom like ever since I've grown up she has like the craziest Antics where I was like maybe this is one of those things where she's like oh I wonder if my son would come to me at the drop of a dime you know so I'm gonna make up some crazy ████ that would be so ████ wild if she made that up because I'm used to weird ████ I mean this is pretty dream but she's like hit like around this level you know so I'm like oh man this better not be it because I was gonna see them anyways the next day like literally on Sunday I was supposed to have a dinner with me my mom and my dad so I'm driving uh I get a phone call and I pick up and then like hey this is detective whatever from LA Sheriff's Department just want to let you know and I was like oh ████ this is real um so I was like oh ████ this ████ crazy so I drove

5:03 um when I showed up at my mom's house I see my dad's car there and that's like ████ chills again and I see her ████ I might see his ████ I see my mom I don't know what to say I just hug her and um yeah it was just like a great crazy news to find out that he pretty much was like I'm uh I'm done living like I don't have anything else to live for or whatever so that's pretty much like what happened and ever since then it's just you know there's like kind of like you know when they don't teach you anything about like taxes or buying a home or anything like like that in high school there's like the whole other side of ████ like when someone passes away there's actually a lot of things you have to go through so for example like the body gets taken to the coroner's office and it's up to you to like go to the mortuary arrange with the mortuary

5:54 and they give you these case numbers and then they get the body over there and then you have to request death certificates um to like stop payment from my dad subscribed to only fans or some ████ I have to like damn unsubscribe like you don't get charged for that yeah do you think the only fans model is like I don't know what I did he canceled do you think the only thing as well is like oh man I killed another one ████ yeah ████ like that so I'm still going through all of that stuff um he's gonna get buried literally in about like a week or so which is cool so I feel like that is like in any spiritual or religious play his body's at rest and then I just have to get like all his other paperwork and like close accounts close credit cards you know so how does that stuff work if he just abruptly did it without a will or anything and it's just like you just

6:44 have to be like I'm his son and this is so good for him or good for me actually you know my dad's kind of like a ████ Doomsday prepper but not really so like just to catch you guys up my dad ████ like five years ago he would he showed me that he has like eight pairs of Kirkland shoes so he's a very like he's like it's gonna last till my death laughs you told me that I remember the Fairy like um what's the word brain yeah yeah practical like anticipate the N type of guy yeah very practical very very when I was 20 something he already wrote a will with all this stuff oh wow so and then he gave it to me we had a meeting I went to the notary like when I was 20. so I remembered exactly what to do so how many Kirkland shoes do you get who knows I think he threw them all away he probably ████ got older they lost them all

7:34 that's a very important thing to do yeah so I have I have everything that's like what's crazy is um on his will there was ████ 10 plots of land that he bought at Rose Hills because like the place that you bury people it's almost like real estate they go up in value and stuff so I call Rose Hills I'm like hey there's like 10 plots of land um I guess if you can name them all off to me I'll find whichever one is the closest to where my grandpa's buried and I'm assuming that's probably what my dad would want to be as close to Grandpa as possible so they go through the computer and they go actually nine of them have been given away to some lady oh my damn is my mom and my dad have hoes on the side that I didn't know about or that's a ball or move I'm like what the ████ so there's only one that was available so it's just crazy like after something ends um there's just more questions than ever

8:25 because then I heard a name I've never heard of before I'm like I don't know who the ████ that is and then while my dad was living with me in Vegas he was visiting some other person in Utah and I look on his phone and that person's name is under the name Little Flower it's his nickname where yeah it was just like more and more questions so it's like you can go down this endless Rabbit Hole of like investigating his life yeah but there's like no point you know because it's just like like even I texted my dad's uh has six brothers and sisters I texted his closest brother because they're the the two youngest uh in the family and they're closest in age and they grew up together and I'm like hey I have like some horrible news to tell you and then the first thing his brother told me was like Hey if you have any guilt or anything like that don't feel that um we've had I've had many talks with

9:15 your dad in the last uh two months and your dad's a very stubborn person and he has only one perspective and he can't change his mind so if you have any energy to apply to this just apply it to the next Generation make sure you raise the Next Generation good and I was just like that's really good advice yeah deep is fun and that's your dad's older brother or younger brother older brother my dad's a younger you say don't you ████ talk about my dad like that no you keep his ████ Dave about yourself again I don't care if he's your brother what'd you say about my pop yo ████ that's wild yeah it's just crazy it's just it doesn't even feel real yeah we were just doing the the Bart's dad and mom story update and then now we have this ████ abrupt ass and ending to it out of nowhere which is just Steve was cracking Bart's dad jokes the whole time

10:07 although while your dad was dead the whole time the whole time dude like I can't ████ believe you came in here and still shot JK with us for like three days and didn't mention anything and just for everybody I don't want to ruin the vibe no dude I believe you yeah for sure you know that was your attention you know you weren't trying to you know like definitely doesn't you know discount the fact that I think everyone would understand don't go man just find a replacement yeah seriously yeah and then all he said is he didn't ████ want dancers to run the show which is a great one you said that and I ████ died like I can't leave Steve hanging I can't leave he's like I can't he wasn't even here for that week I can't have more dancers on the show than us that's really good that's a ████ love I love that it's such a it's such a petty ████ line just for comedy's sake and not for what's going on it says so much especially in the heat of all that right

10:57 it's really good and then on top of that you got to leave on Monday right because we filmed Sunday oh now you gotta go back to deal with the house stuff that's a nightmare yeah the minute we Finn yeah I left that leaves Sunday or Monday you left Sunday night I think oh Sunday night book a flight because I'm still in the middle of handling the whole house ████ and they finally have the time I can go sign so I go fly in there and then uh so I'm just still dealing with my Dad's passing two days ago I'm still dealing with uh house signing and Anthony calls me he goes is this a prank yeah I was like what what the ████ going on but then I came back everything was cool full context because can't just leave me in the dust like that we were all a part of it I just had the cajones to actually call my lawn care expert yeah all of us are here with another one of Bart's ████ real estate people and none of us ████ know ████ to do with

11:47 this guy talk about anything and we're like dude we were nervous we were just nervous like we're like maybe this is a test yeah because we've never had full rank like well yeah it was just it was just me and Dick and Ryan basically we thought it was we thought it was a test yeah yeah we went to Jamba Juice and I wasn't here is this a test we call him is this a test like what are you talking about yeah like I guess it's not a test I mean it wasn't so much that he's a realtor it's that we've never had a guess that no one knows oh right yeah there's no like Bridge yeah yeah yeah and this is like the first weekend that both Bart and Joe aren't here at one point or like and also to be fair too we just missed you guys we wanted to FaceTime be like half of us hey dude come on you were you missed part two bro yeah I was not the mission you guys are ████ you guys what are you talking about and I straight up just didn't ████ know because I wasn't here the day where he pulled you guys aside and told you yeah so oh you want to hear that it was the group text I wasn't the group text set me off because like we

12:37 have a host group text for like stupid technical ████ which is super boring so I mostly skip it um but then he deletes it but um but Michael's like hey we got a family emergency so we're gonna have to um cancel like these patreon posts we're gonna do and then Ryan immediately is like oh well uh we're we already sent out the promo like we're ready to go and then uh Michael's like oh well Bart's dad died and I was like what the ████ I was like what the ████ oh yeah and then I was just I mean what did Michael's humor get so dark yeah I mean and I immediately text Bart and I'm like Yo dude I just found out like you know this is ████ crazy and then Bart says I haven't seen him till today but he's like he's like man yeah it's crazy thanks man but he's like the story is so ████ crazy I can't wait to tell you in person and here I am yeah so again it's been that long yeah

13:29 and then I come into I come into JK and I'm ████ you know lighting fireworks in here oh he's got his ████ sunglasses on he's ████ he's ready to roast I'm ████ going ham on me it's back because yeah me and Joe were ████ barbing about some ████ and then yeah I I luck I let one rip real quick and then I was like wait and then during the break they're like Bart's dad killed himself okay first of all before before that even gets he he lets one rip and he just he just makes some joke about about your dad but no I made a joke about Joe's parents and then I was like lucky Bart's not here because then I would have gone you know like that was that was I didn't even say out of contest in context of double down it just made it like a very like uh hot off the press yeah through a joke about that particular thing it was a curveball but but all of us who were more in the know of even how it went down they're all doubled over it was like a 911 joke on 9 12. yeah yeah but then I'm crying dude I'm crying

14:21 because I'm laughing so hard as well and then but he didn't know that's why and I didn't know I'm thinking you know I'm thinking because Bart's like this story is so ████ crazy I'm thinking the guy went to Red Lobster and choked on shrimp or something I have no ████ he didn't know how he went he didn't know that I didn't know like because I can't wait to tell you the story's crazy and I know Bart too like Bart kind of um like is the first person who would make the jokes yeah probably lighten them up on his end so I was just like once I found out about that and the the way that your mom found him I was like this is ████ real ████ like I had no idea so we backed it up we were like hey maybe we should cut that out Steve was like hey whose idea was that that was my idea it's like a day later it was like Hey I was like I was thinking about it I slept on it and I think we should cut it out well because to me I'm like man like because like you know even just never having met your dad but always hearing all these stories about him for so long I I can't imagine

15:11 what like the audience who like feels like they know your dad too they're green too so it's like you know you have to think about that too yeah because they've seen them in Vlogs for like so many years yeah yeah yeah and the most recent uh update video that everybody's gotten a chance to hear about this like ongoing thing as well this whole Saga was at um you know you he basically uh moved in with your mom then got kicked out again so that was like all the information that was let out you know what I mean and it wasn't until fans started commenting on our videos hearing about the full story on your podcast part and Geo yeah that I was like okay now the fans do know yeah so you know just felt a more appropriate time for us to come together and uh one obviously for for a very very loving and adoring fans and supportive fans to just get like you know our little talk about it because it

16:01 would also be weird to like fully give every detail about the Saga and then just drop off and never discuss it as if we weren't close friends I feel like like are you are you okay I don't know I think I am I feel like I am okay um I mean I was there when Jill's dad passed away and then so the way she dealt with it I think was very similar to me where it's like you're trying to you're more focused on like is everyone else okay and then like whatever um procedures has done the correct way so that it's like nice and buttoned up and so Geo never really like like mourned and who knows if it's like five years later she just randomly breaks down one day I don't know if that'll happen to me but so far it's it's been okay I guess and I think for me like I'm a very

16:51 um what's the word like like I let people like I feel like everyone has their own decision to life and what the choices they want to make in their life so I'm a very like if that's how you wanted to do it then that's how you wanted to do it you know like I'm like it's it's not on me to go oh you have to stay alive or whatever or you know just like yeah like if this is how you wanna do anything like if you want to I don't know sleep at 10 or sleep at three or do whatever like that's you and so I don't I feel sad I'm like because we were the whole like whole Saga started with trying to create a really cool life for my dad in Vegas post pandemic where the family didn't really see each other finally my dad and uh taika can have a really cool

17:41 relationship so it just felt like we were building momentum in a certain direction for him to go you know what Side Track I'm gonna go talk to your mom and then so I'm like wait what that was wild I'm like what the ████ like to even get my dad's house so I think initially the day of and maybe the week of I was actually ████ pissed at my death because I was like ████ I'm like I'm already a busy person when you tell me you wanted to move to Vegas like I I checked out like 20 homes for you right and then so we got you at home and you told him not to come yeah I told you not to come I was like wait I might be in the honeymoon phase like I might move back who knows so I was like chill out and then he's like no I really have to be with you guys I'm like all right fine if you really have to do it then let me check out 20 homes for you try to find something that you like we got everything set up for him to go you know what I got another thought and he goes

18:31 to do to be with my mom and I already told him I don't think that's a smart move and I'm like you should approach it as if like it's probably gonna fail but if it if it um succeeds that's a miracle and I told my dad I was like we actually like the the last day before we moved out of that house had a heart to heart with my pops and I told him I was like logically moving in with mom is probably like the stupidest thing in the world um but I was like but emotionally I support you because I was like when me and Joe started JK 99 of people thought we were the dumbest ████ ever so logically doesn't make any sense not 100 of them do it Regrets by the way yeah remove the needle yeah so I told the mother so if you believe in this if you believe in this and this is like what is your life's purpose I was like don't let don't let anyone stop you don't even let

19:22 me stop you so in that regard I support you so he's like okay cool he's gonna go he went to go do what he needed to do and then the way that like and also as an Asian Daddy's always harping on I should have a second kid you know or like they always paint all these dreams of like I want to hang out with tiger and do all this so when he ended his own life I'm like bro like all the requests you wanted where you're like I would love to see Tyco get married one day or I want to see a second kid I'm like how the ████ are you gonna see any of that ████ you know I'm like that's so like so I was actually really pissed uh the first week and then the second week I think as you're trying to like when when you have questions then you try to like put yourself in their place and try to like understand like what is going on then I think the empathy comes in more and I'm like damn my dad must have been in a really really bad place for him to

20:13 um feel like he ran out of options and he had to do it the way he did you know yeah so I was like so now I'm in a um what you call like uh more empathetic and not so mad and just like well if that's the way he felt like he had to end his pain and that's I just I respect it that's big that's honestly big yeah yeah and it's less painful for you if you could see it that way I think just understanding his own story and how his stubbornness got him there but it's also he didn't see other options because he didn't accept other options too how's your mom doing so my mom's actually in Vegas right now um she's like super religious so she had to do like a whole month of religious practices to cleanse out him huh to cleanse him out or something or yeah to like cleanse him out or cleanse the house or whatever and then so right after my mom's I really need like every

21:03 Thursday through Sunday my mom's been staying at a hotel because she would just feel like like the Luxor or some ████ no no I mean that back back in L.A oh okay yeah it should be staying at hotel shut the Bally's it's like at the park MGM yeah I'm just so curious you know which one because her house has such bad energy you know yeah that's what I was thinking and she's probably going to want to sell that spot so after the I want to move her out way sooner but she just has to do her ceremony so like I support you whatever so now she's um in Vegas right now living with you guys yeah she's been there for like a week and uh Geo says that she seems like way happier right now really yeah which is because I think she's not reminded by constant oh yeah there's no triggers everywhere finishes with new energy is she planning on selling that place and getting something oh yeah she's gonna she doesn't know where to move to yet but

21:54 she's gonna sell it for sure I had a just being in this room for so many years as like when I found out about it you know I'm just trying to like process through it in my own brain and like accept it or whatever I immediately had a thought of I heard Joe's voice too of him finding out about what happened to your dad and then Joby and I man why couldn't that happen to my dad it's so true it's so true probably it honestly brought me so much light just thinking about Joe saying that oh my God flips the table oh man

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