0:00 and our accountant has um gave us digital files of every year in a CD. >> So just seeing like like it teleported me into that time, you know, >> 200 freaking nine or something. >> Yeah. And I seen our old meet and greet flyers. Just all of that put together. I was just like >> I can form tears. >> I know why you cry. [Music] >> What's up guys? I'm Ry. This is Suben Choy. We have Jojitsu. We got Steve Green. We have Ryan Hagawa and Barcoin. It is our pleasure to uh welcome you guys to the official JK News in Vegas. [Applause] And if you guys noticed, you the angles might have changed enough for you to see that we have four cameras here and we got a lot of brand new equipment, new
0:51 lenses. Uh we are now heavily in debt. Yeah. >> So, uh, yeah, the quality of the show has been raised, >> but the debt ceiling. >> Yeah. As well as the debt ceiling and the challenges to come, but we're very happy to welcome you guys finally here to the place you've been waiting on. This is the new set. Welcome to the new digs. >> Man, I'm so freaking like, oh my god, Ryan, you did such an amazing job. >> Smack is Well, it's mostly smack actually. I heard she built this and you were just supervising. I hold her nail. >> I hold the nail. She hammers it. >> Yeah, she hammers your >> She She's up on the ladder and you're holding her ass. >> Yeah. Support. >> Have you ever done that? Actually, >> hold her ass like this. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I do that a lot actually. That's awesome. >> When Nikki's doing Christmas tree ornaments, I'm just all up on her ass the whole time. >> Yeah, we do that a lot. >> Like, I'm helping.
1:41 >> Yeah, this set is a combination of like old and new, as you guys can see. Um, I wanted to try something fresh as well. You did such a great job cuz when we did our first JK News like upgrade, we ████ up so bad cuz it was just a complete 180. >> I heard about that. >> And I think the ability to take like what people love from the old but then also sprinkle in the new and show what the new direction is is freaking amazing. >> Does it still feel at home? >> This makes it feel at home right here. >> Do you like seeing this wall again? >> It's really cool. I really do. It blends it well. Yeah. You You guys have such good taste. It's crazy. cuz I have actual trash taste. Like >> really, you know, all love, but I really do not have very good taste. Like I I really do. Like I was talking to Hagawa earlier about how like I'll see a gun and I'll see like it
2:31 has like a American flag handle and I'll think that's tight. >> Wait, that's not tight. >> Like I know I have bad taste, but this blends so well. Like I could never do this in a million years. You did a great job. Eagles American Eagles everywhere. Like even this carpet like just your color choices like just putting things together like you're able to take a bunch of things that like I think if people saw them separately. >> Yeah. They don't go together but then the way you put it together you're like what the hell >> and it's all it's all thrifted. >> That's the other thing too. >> Yeah. >> Oh my god. The money we spent in the past for the ████ that we did. >> Oh yeah. >> I wish it all went to you, man. Cuz you brought way more real personality. Cuz in the past, I think when we worked with uh what do you call it? Professionals, >> they didn't really do it for us. I was like, "This is not JK. What the ████
3:21 You didn't listen to any directions." But with you, like you get it and then you I think because you are a part of JK. So when you >> I have to be here. Yeah. >> Yeah. So you feel understand >> the whole like vibe and then you capture it perfectly but also evolve it. Yeah. Yeah. It's nice to see that. I mean, we were able to use a lot of stuff from the old set, thankfully. So, I mean, it kept with the budget. So, all this was done uh 2K, $2,000. >> Wow. >> So, it cost him 200, but he I pocketed 1,950. >> Damn. Smart. >> And you get to write off. >> Wait, budget. >> How's it feel to finally be in Vegas shooting for once and you don't have to drive down the 15? >> If I had to drive down the 15. >> Oh, sorry. He did. Yeah. How's it going? Thankfully, he's here with us today just to hang out. >> How the tables have turned.
4:12 >> How the turntables. Yeah. Give me >> It feels awesome to be able to like kiss my son in the morning. >> Oh yeah. >> Kiss him and he gets to go to school and then I'm like, "Oh, cool. I get to film JK versus usually it's like me packing my bags and I'm like, I'll see you guys in like 4 days." >> And he'll be like all grown up when you return. >> No ████ >> Like when you have a kid, it's like having a puppy. Like you when you have a puppy, you know, every week it's like growing another like 4 in. It's no ████ When I see him, I'm like, "What the ████ Something's different about this guy. I missed that. >> Welcome home, father. >> And he's Mexican, so he probably got a 5:00 shadow at 5:00. >> I know. Dang. >> Damn. Yeah. It's nice that you can be closer to your family. >> That's me now. >> I know. You go back. >> I'm kissing him. I love you. My god. I got to go. >> Have you been gone for a few days and not see him yet? >> Yeah, I have. >> And he changes a lot. Huh? >> Yeah, he does. >> Yeah. He came back and he's smoking cigarettes.
5:02 >> Yeah. >> Interstellar true Korean. Where's my dad? My dad's not ready. He He's puking now. So, >> right where you leave. God. >> Did you ever imagine like from when you were doing JK News back in the day that you would ever be shooting that channel in Nevada of all places >> outside of LA? No. Ever? >> Yeah. >> Like it's just crazy to me how everything's just evolved. I I mean I would I didn't even think that I'd be flying back and forth from Hawaii just to shoot. >> That's true. That's pretty >> And I did that for like two almost three years now. What was your original dream for JK News? >> Just the JK office like the Cuz when we were filming at Bart's house, that was like a that was like, "Oh man, we get to use this living room. >> We are we're a business. We have desks, you know, >> and then from there
5:52 >> that our our standards were hella low." But then when we were like, "Dude, we're going to get an office." And I believe the rent was like a,000 bucks a month. >> Damn. >> And we were looking at each other like, "What if we can't make rent? What are we going to do? >> Well, we got it 15 years ago, so the prices were way cheaper. >> Now it's like 4,000 almost five with utilities or whatever, right? >> Shout out Black Rock. >> Yeah, ████ Black Rock. >> Thanks for taking over. >> But at the time, I remember having that conversation with Bar like ████ like what are we going to do if we can't afford a,000 bucks a month? >> And then we're like, are we going to take maybe we'll like work some side jobs and we'll be able to take care, but no matter what, it's about growing this ████ We need an office. >> As long as Gio keeps working at the bank. >> She'll payroll. >> Yeah. >> Oh, that's another thing that's cool. Now that we're in Vegas, we'll have a different selection of guests, but also
6:42 we we'll have like Gio around, too, which is really cool. >> The fans love the OG cast as much as possible. >> And we'll try to get the OG cast like and and people from our Careful Boys cast here as much as possible. >> They're excited to come, too, actually, which is pretty cool. >> Oh, that's dope. Yeah, it'll be cool to get Jason Chenny who now lives in Vegas. >> Oh, wow. Um Nick who still lives in Pasadena >> will never leave. >> We could have more TA updates too. People love that. >> Yeah, dude. Yeah, there's lots of What other possibilities you think have opened up now that we're like finally situated? >> Uh in Vegas? >> Yeah, just here in general. >> Possibilities. I think like us being able to have a maybe a more flexible like work schedule. >> Yeah, >> cuz I think before like everyone's coming from a different place >> so we only have a limited time to shoot. And like if you guys don't know our schedule, it' be like we'll shoot one or two or three days and then we try to slam pack it because we don't have any
7:33 time to like jump on maybe another current event that popped off or something like, "Hey, is anyone free? Let's jump let's jump on and just shoot an hour on Monday or whatever." We couldn't do any of that stuff before >> um cuz everything was pre-scheduled. So if any big events happened outside of our schedule, we couldn't really cover it. >> Yeah. >> Like live or or um or like in a timely manner. So, I think that'll be pretty cool where it doesn't have to feel like a marathon as Anthony calls it. >> As Anthony calls it. Oh, we're going to get Anthony Leaf sometimes, too. >> Oh, really? >> Hopefully. Yeah, that'd be really cool. >> I don't know about that, but >> do you miss do you do you actually like miss has it hit you that the old office is like gone now? cuz that was in your life when >> So when me and Ryan were cleaning up the office, remember I told you like at first I think during the day he said, "Do you feel sentimental about this?"
8:24 I'm like, "No, I'm not. I'm kind of a robot." >> And then as we were slowly like taking stuff away and then the junk people would come and go, "Can I have that?" >> Like slowly we're like passing stuff. And I think seeing things slowly disassemble and get passed out. I feel like I'm taking one big cookie and like breaking up the crumbs and passing away. And slowly you see the cookie disappear and you can just see in about two more hours the cookiey's gone >> forever. And that's when I told you I'm like Ryan, I think I'm getting sentimental. >> Yeah. >> I can feel something. >> I like how that was just like chat GPT. Write me something sentimental and use a cookie as sure. >> For sure. >> No, dude. That was from the heart. >> Okay. >> No, cuz I started seeing all these like like >> you know it's like 15 years, right? So it's almost like fossils where there's
9:14 ████ >> the crustation era or whatever the Jurassic era and the whatever era and then so it's like layers upon layers. So the the where we're living it's surrounded by what's the most nearest future or past of us. >> So everything feels like up to date. >> Then we get rid of the cameras and we go back one layer. I'm like, "Oh ████ that's the that was the uh Julia layer." You know, like, "Oh ████ that was the guy that stole our camera layer." Pretend that it was And then you just And then that was the Oh, that was the guy that like did this layer. And then you start pulling all the way back and I was looking at the one that really got me. I pulled out our tax returns from like 2010. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And uh this is prequickbooks, pre like all the sophisticated like stuff that we do now. It was just Gio writing on like college notebook paper the expenses and
10:06 then our debits that she had to turn in to our accountant >> and then it said that like January we made like 2,300 and then I'm like as a company you know and I'm like ████ that's how far we came that's we made 2,300 but our expenses were like 1,500 so I'm like holy ████ the whole company split between six people was like $800. Yeah. >> I'm like, "This is ████ crazy." And to see her handwriting cuz I forgot Gio's part of the company, too. >> I'm just like, "Oh, damn. She was there from the start." That's crazy. She's also part of the marriage. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> I remember when he looked at that, I was like, "Bart's Bart's turning human." >> He like picked up this notebook and he was like, >> "Oh my god, >> single tear." >> And he was just like, he was just looking at I was like, "What happened to this guy?" >> He looked at tax returns, dude. >> That would do it to Bart. He looked at a
10:57 tax return. Pinocchio turns into >> I know because it was like it was it was so like but also the technology of it. >> Yeah. Yeah. Cuz like cuz our accountant >> pencil and paper she had her little chola handwriting too. >> What is that? What is it like? >> It's old English. And our accountant has um uh gave us digital files of every year in a CD. >> So just seeing like like it teleported me into that time, you know, >> 200 freaking n or something. >> Yeah. And I seen our old meet and greet flyers. Just all of that put together. I was just like, >> I can form tears. >> I know why you cried. >> To give you guys context about how it was moving out. Um, so we had a lot of stuff in the office to get rid of, like not stuff that you guys would have wanted in the auction, but just a bunch of stuff. And uh, >> those junk guys are
11:47 >> Yeah. A junk guy like who frequents the business park saw us putting stuff out and was like, "Hey, you guys getting rid of that?" We're like, "Yeah." And then he's doing that and another junk guy comes and sees that junk guy. I guess they're buddies so he stands out front and then a third guy comes and he stands out front. Every time we bring something out to the front they negotiate with each other who gets to take what. >> Like this guy he'll smelt iron so he's like if it's metal I'll take it. This guy he wants furniture. It was like a it was like avengers of >> Yeah. It's like we're taking it to Agriba and we're like giving it to like like vendors and it actually worked out really nice. But a lot of big things we just like gave away, you know. cuz we just simply don't have room in the new office for like all of that stuff. >> What's something that you wanted to keep that you couldn't? >> Um I know that you really wanted to keep one of those giant safes that you guys got.
12:37 >> Yeah, that was the JK safe. We had shotguns in there, all of our cash and documents. >> To give you context, there's a there's two really big safes in the old JK office. One of them we could move. The other one, four of us could not move it and it broke the dolly it was on. Yeah, it was so heavy. >> So, you just left it. >> It was over a ton for sure. >> Yeah. >> We couldn't do anything. >> But now it's Subin's He's >> Why is surprised? It's yours. >> What? I know. Yeah. Yeah. I still got paper. >> It's heavy. >> It's still there. >> Well, well, you telling me it's that heavy. You're not You're going to have to get like professional equipment or a forklift or something. >> Really? >> Or hire professionals, but then you save it. You save on the safe. >> I was going to I was just going to hire the homies, but Yeah. >> Oh, the homies will work. But um I was like the last person with Hannah to kind of like close up. >> So watching it empty was kind of crazy
13:30 cuz I was like dude this is I haven't seen it this clean in so long. You know it's been ████ dirty as hell. She was like are you getting sentimental? And I'm like you know it's it's it this is dark but this is hilarious because um >> see your robot too. Robot. >> No he's feeling humor. He's feeling humor boy. No, I said this is dark, but this is pretty funny because >> all I could think about is this office being a part of my life longer than my dad. >> Wow. >> Yeah, it's pretty real for 15 years. >> I'm like, bro, this is the most consist. That's some sad ████ This is the most consistent thing I've ever had for this long. >> And you get to leave the office. The office doesn't leave. >> Full circle. Full circle. >> And she's like, "Oh my god, I'm not going to leave." I'm like, "Oh, yeah. I know you won't. You bet." >> She thought it was a >> You can't.
14:20 >> And you got to beat the office up. The office didn't beat you up. >> That's true. >> Did you Did you see the um Did you see the reel that I edited for the when they were walking out of the office and it's like spliced with all the footage of them moving? >> That was crazy. >> No, I was watching football, dude. >> Yep. >> You didn't see your the thing I put a view on there and Nikki? >> I was watching hell of hella football. >> Oh my god. >> You know this was so I loved I actually got very misty during all that. That little scene of you and Nikki hugging. >> Yeah, >> that got me. I wasn't even there. >> I like that. >> I like that's I was like that's a B move. >> See, that was pre Ryan period. >> Cuz the Ryan was like you did the whole office over there. That was like before you came in. >> Yeah, that was that was I think the craziest part cuz I was scrubbing for like footage of you guys casually going through the office when it was the old gen and just seeing how like lively and packed the office was at times back then
15:10 cuz you guys had so many people in the company. >> Yeah. back then it was like a really fun hangout spot. >> We would have barbecues and like all kinds of things like because also we didn't have like spaces to invite people. We had really small like we were renting rooms and whatever. >> So at that age it was such a good kind of spot where everyone can get together but once we all had homes I think everyone started just having potlucks there. But we would have jam sessions and like bust out the music and then like start grilling some steaks and and all of our neighbors were like, "What the ████ do these guys do?" We were one of the first. >> You're one of the first to do it, too. >> I I remember. >> So, I think like uh that's what made it also really cool cuz I remember like um because other people were like shooting vlogs or whatever out of their own room. So, David would stop by all the time just to hang out or just to be in that
16:01 space full of other creatives. I remember when uh Fousey's manager came and brought Fousey down from because he's from NorCal. It's like this is what YouTube is in LA. What you what can happen you know before >> to plant a seed in his brain. >> Yeah. Before he went all cuckoo. But I remember I remember like the super like green come uh Fousey coming in and going wow. I remember uh Batch coming around before he blew up. So it was just a cool like small little breeding ground of all these other like cuz there was a lot of parallel universe like Maker was doing it but they did on much bigger scale but it was like a lot of little >> it started very similar to JK this place called Abbott Kenny it was like a small house that everyone kind of did the same stuff. >> Yeah like that where it's like uh all these small little parallel universes and it was cool that ours was just like on the east side of LA and how that became like a breeding ground for a lot of other creators later on. >> Well that's a big deal too. I always
16:51 thought it was respectable that you guys opened up shop in a place you grew up where everybody was just getting stuff in North Hollywood or >> town or something. But you guys >> cuz those people don't like to drive. That's true. Yeah. >> I do think there's like a huge sentimental attachment that we had that we don't admit because we actually had a way bigger and better office at one point. >> That place was a giant >> and that one >> that was the Kinjas complex for you guys, >> right? And that was like what 15 grand a month or something. Good >> Jesus. >> But we still kept the JK office because the fans liked um JK News just like the OG way. >> They liked all the memories and everything that happened there. >> And I think we pretty much agreed and that's why we kept it for so freaking long. >> Yeah. >> Cuz looking back that was like not a logical decision. A logical decision
17:42 would have been like uh you guys deal with the new set. We paid for this. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, cut it out and we're moving to the downtown LA thing. >> But I think at the time we probably didn't admit it, but we were probably attached to that place where we didn't want to let it go. >> Interesting. Yeah. >> Well, when I wasn't here, cuz I was very bummed I couldn't make it. I was doing my fantasy football thing in Austin, Texas with my boys, right? But but man, >> it's so much more important. >> It was pretty important. I but I was telling Nikki I was like man like when I think back to that office and all the memories I just think about how many laughs bounced off these ████ walls. You know what I mean? Like genuinely and I got very choked up thinking about that. Like how I I'm never going to see it the same way again. Like but >> but the amount of laughs and like we also cried in there. We also like um >> I don't know man. Like a lot of good stuff. So >> yeah, dude.
18:32 >> Really love you guys dude. This is really cool. >> You better >> I do feel like you guys ever uh You guys ever like drive by your the the house you grew up in just to see what's happening? >> I feel like I would still do that with that office. >> Yeah. >> If I remember in that area, you know, the drive by and like >> the warehouse people are just like this guy keeps driving by. >> You got more junk. >> It's probably going to be all ICE detention by that, right? >> What's it for you Hagawa being like part of every generation? What's >> not everyone? I I came in after they stopped doing skits, so I didn't have that initial portion of it, but I was definitely >> So you're after Anthony Lee? >> Technically, yeah, technically. Yeah, technically has been involved longer than I Yeah, cuz I >> I came in as editing 2015, my senior year of college. Yeah. Yeah. So then Yeah. 10 years, but still like you guys
19:22 had five before that, right? >> Yeah. >> At least if not more. So >> 2007 when we started. >> Yeah. So I mean Yeah. So I was like maybe in the middle, I guess, of everything that's happened so far. But yeah, it's been it's cool. It's cool to see like kind of evolve and like take different shapes over time cuz I was there when we were just in that first office and then moving to the huge big one and be like, "Wow, this is like this is bigger than anything we've done so far." And then going back to the old office and then being like, "Okay, this is familiar." Yeah. And then and then now being in Vegas and I'm like, "Okay, cool. This feels this feels very homey and feels very like natural. It feels like this is kind of always what it was kind of the the mood it was circling and intended to be." Um, but yeah, I mean incremental increases like the cameras and stuff. Like I was asking for years to get cinema cameras so that way we didn't have to replace them every two. >> Hey, we were sentimentally attached to the old cameras and then we replaced
20:12 them with the same s█████ cameras. >> Yeah. And then they broke again. Like I said, >> I know the funny thing is we probably spent more money on >> That's what I told you cameras which Yeah, you were right. I love this. >> But yeah, now now we now we did it. >> Yeah. Well, one la one last question. What was um comparatively for you guys moving out of the giant office? Did Did that feel >> that was meaningless? >> That really >> I it was the big office. It wasn't meaningless. I I I was so relieved. >> Relief >> because of how ████ expensive that place was. I see. Okay. >> But also we we we kind of seated we had we couldn't get out the lease too cuz it was during co >> right we ended JK party right at that moment before co started. >> Okay. >> I was going to say the move out was slow too because no one was there even. So it
21:02 was like we weren't in office and then we started subbing like certain sections. So it was like little by little >> like parts of it would disappear but no one was going there anyway. So >> So there's no sadness moving out of it at all. >> Not really. Yeah. So because I think if what it feels like it's like imagine like you're this martial artist and you love martial arts, right? >> And then so you love this small dojo you trained at >> then one day you become a UFC champion and there's like this glitz, glamour, red carpet, all that stuff and it becomes this big thing. >> So I think we it went from living our dream and passion to building this thing that's bigger than what we thought and then I think it actually took away from that. So this feels much more like home and like what we like to do, which is just shoot the ████ >> and and clown on Anthony as much as we can. >> Yeah, I like that. >> And also the bigger office didn't
21:52 actually continue our true brand and personality. Like we mentioned >> we we hired people to do it and they didn't really it's just a job for them. >> So I liked how JK set came out and and that was that was really cool. >> That set was was dope. But I I think everything else like from our office space to everything, I just felt like that really wasn't 100% us. So that's why it was >> the Japanese tea room. >> That room was mine. Yeah, that was mine. Yeah, that was mine. But but that's cuz I came up with it. So it's mine. >> You came up with all the Japanese cultural history behind it. >> But everything else, it just didn't it it dismissed so hard. So it was just like >> So you weren't attached as closely as the >> No, it didn't feel right. It didn't Yeah. I just felt like a big ass space with a big ass waste of money, but we we committed so we got to see it through. >> Cool. >> But mostly because of the bill. >> Yeah. But I do want to take a minute
22:43 though to thank everybody out there who um basically rode with us and also came to the meet and greet, was a part of the raffle, was a part of the auction. All this, it really helped us relieve some of the uh moving costs and a lot of the pain and suffering that, you know, we're going to be in debt >> for. But because of them, you know, we could keep this going and have this kind of community. >> Yeah. >> And so >> everybody who uh bidded on the auction items that paid for the move. Everybody who bought raffle tickets that paid for the set. So everything Yeah. >> Completely. >> Paid my mortgage. >> Um and uh yeah, so you guys are responsible for JK even making it this far. So just uh thank you to everybody who contributed their time. >> Thank you guys. and everyone who uh also donated during the live stream. >> Oh, dude. Yeah,
23:34 >> there was a lot. Yeah. >> Yeah, that's crazy. All you guys, the the amount of like I guess like how active the audience has been the past uh couple weeks has been really crazy. So, even all the uh old guests that we've had on in the past, they showed so much love in the comments. >> Like people I haven't talked to in years like uh like Wes from Wong Fu was like, "Oh, this is the chapter." And then Shannon, like people that have like gone on to do huge things that I'm like, "Oh, I'm never going to talk to you ever again." But they all come back and they're like, "Oh, that was such a that was like a a special period." That's really cool. >> Damn. That's sick. >> I did I did hit up uh Phil from Wong Fu to come do the >> Wes is better. Wes is better for the record. >> I hit up um Phil, but he couldn't make it because of his baby. >> Cuz his baby. Yeah. >> And then I also I also hit up uh Josh,
24:24 >> but he just didn't respond. No, he didn't respond. >> Well, maybe his new new number. >> I think it was an old number cuz I got the green bubble. So, unless he's just Android like that, but I asked him to uh I was going to have him. >> He's pretty androidy. >> I was going to have him come like as a as a mo with a motorcycle helmet in a full suit and just >> act like a motorcyclist and then you wouldn't know who he is the whole time kind of ████ And then he would just start watering a plant. >> Oh. >> And he goes like that. That would have been great. >> It would have been cool. But yeah, it's um thank you guys for supporting the channel. Uh there's going to be a lot of new stuff, a lot we're going to be experimenting a lot more because now we have the time and capacity to do it out here in Vegas. So please in the comments, let us know some stuff you would like us to do out here with the kind of format and the quality that we're running currently. Uh thank you guys again for all the support. >> Thank you. [Applause]
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