0:00 [Music] welcome to a very reflective episode of the careful boys y'all where we are going to reflect we're going to get thoughtful about this past year because we are at the end of the year this is actually our last shooting schedule of 2024 even though this video is coming out in 2026 and years end of year video when this comes out I'm going to be 43 that's crazy so uh what would was the craziest thing that happened to y'all this year craziest the craziest ████ not to bring it down but my my grandma passing away was pretty crazy damn when when did she pass it was uh in springtime yeah and it was just kind of well she actually died last year but we put her in the wall in springtime so
0:51 it's like finally saying goodbye I guess what mean put in the Wall family tradition put her in the wall so drywall Marine Corps Cemetery um they have like a section for like the people who are created and just shove them in the wall oh it's like a shelf it's like a shelf yeah she actually died last year but we put her in the wall I thought you like replastered dry water like stay in here ████ yeah well it just is very weird cuz like we opened up where my grandpa is and you see him just chilling there and then they just shove her in there so she got cremated last year and where was she chilling before she was chilling on my on on the bar which is ironic cuz that's what killed my grand grandfather oh ████ yeah she's chilling in the bar at my grandma's house your ability to keep a ████ straight I'm I'm dead serious so strong so that it was like we
1:41 were just waiting on that cuz like waiting a year for a funeral was kind of crazy was this was this mom's mom or dad's mom mom's mom yeah were you closer to one or the other uh I only knew my my dad's mom died when he was a kid so oh yeah she like died in a b so she was like your grandma she died in a bank she died in a bank yeah during a robbery no not a robbery she she just had a heart attack she just like what maybe she saw the amount of money she had and she goes man I won the lotto yeah probably no she had scarlet fever when she was a kid and Scarlet that's some great depression ████ and and and then she had chalera damn that's like organ Trail ████ she had scar fever and it did damage to her heart apparently and that's what that's what they determined when she died broke so I don't think that happened that's organ Trail dude that's way earlier so then my dad you know he I never my grandparents uh but then uh yeah so I
2:33 was very close with my grandma and so that was like saying goodbye shov her in the wall it was like closure wow did she have any like last words before she passed she said Trump 2024 yeah she was right you know I should have bet it I should have bet it that's the biggest Gambler sign ever yeah and I didn't bet it what did where did she leave you like did she will you anything uh she gave me my grandpa's cuffing the his Marine Corps cuffing no way that's sick that's tight how much did you get for those I got I got I got 200 how much Rood did you get I got 6,000 that's a come up 6,000 definitely a come up I can't believe it's it's at the end of the year 2024 went by so ████ fast man it's so quick it was
3:24 pretty fast I think the craziest thing that happened to me is probably shutting down barbell this year Liberation it in the wall that was great yeah yeah cuz it's something we started in 201 2013 so we ran it for 11 years and then it's like you know like a husband and wife team so it's almost like our first baby it feels like and it just become so integrated into your life that it's like you know like and it's part of what I love to do which is Fitness so every part of it from what I eat drink supplements to what I wear to like the train that I like to do to a lot of the friends that I met the last 10 11 years A lot of it were through kind of that Medium this ble Brigade medium and then for us to make the decision to shut it down um because we
4:14 have a real kid and what we want to do with our family it's it was cool and it was cool to like shut it down and then like CU you never know what's on the other side of what your big decisions are so it was cool that after we shut it down that we're like oh cool like this this is what we were looking for and uh we really enjoy what we have now heck yeah for knowing Bart this long though I think like after barbell Bart is like back to the BART that I knew before he took on 10 businesses the Sleepy guy bar spontaneous oh it's like fat Bart like we like fat Bart moreat fat was cool it's like it's not it's like it's like pck 2025 B it's almost like responsible College bar that you guys didn't know where he would actually hang out oh like dude when we did the live
5:05 stream and ████ like I was like damn this guy is actually still here and he's like he's all sleeping goes are we going to order Prince Street eat the pizza pizza tag ourselves that's true even in college I was sleeping at 10 yep wow like but he would hang though the difference is like I just KN got on the couch while everyone's still partying you guys can keep partying like we would all be hanging out and Bart's like on the couch and he had like half a neck of beer and he's red as ████ and he's knocked out but he's hanging with us right and then but then like you know when he got busy bar is just he's gone he hang 30 minutes I got to go man I got barbell ████ yeah he's like Nick yeah going to take the torch now of busy boy Bart I'll fall asleep at parties dude I could do that I'm probably good at that it's probably the best thing if you go
5:55 to parties yeah if you get me there yeah if you could trick me to going open Buffet okay I'll go do you feel more relaxed now since kind of it's like you're way more relaxed because there's not all this crazy noise and bandwidth that takes up like your brain that you have to think about but then um because both me and Gio got our incomes from that company we did reduce like double income so that part is like that part is kind of like a little bit stressful but then we did plan it out where we can probably take like 6 months off and just relax recalibrate and figure out what we want to do just get e true yeah yeah you do okay hooked up than you that's 6 months off I think that'd be torture for you I like it so far I like
6:46 it so far yeah he maybe because it's all like he accumulated sick leaves from all the years he just added like I've been uh for like almost like three or four weeks straight I didn't miss a single like take a basketball game or swimming or whatever and I'm like dude this is ████ rad whereas before they'll be like random ones I have to miss oh I have a scrimmage this week and I can't be at that one there's always that moment where he finally hits his free throw and he looks over and just mom's there sitting by even she didn't even get this ████ just no one for anyone and it must be nice to not have to feel like a random bad surprise can happen anyes like some guy from I didn't make your shorts right or whatever and you're like what the ████ I gave you all the directions man what do
7:36 you mean make you have to do it in my voice I cannot understand you no they're saying like Millennial dads are the most involved fathers in like the history in just in in history ever that's pretty cool well probably cuz they have so much Trauma from like their dad's not being at anything yeah you know what I mean I remember uh I mean our fathers and grandfathers probably never even had that but do you think period no way do you think we're going to breed weaker children yeah what do you think Al every ████ generation thinks the younger On's weaker I mean that's saying right hard time breed like good men or whatever the ████ unless there's like a war when they're like teenagers and they get drafted I mean well yeah dude my dad used to work with my uncles right and
8:26 this is a story my mom told me later cuz I I was just b███████ up a storm about how my dad never went through any of my stuff and uh my my mom was like did you know that you know when cuz my dad worked with my uncles she's like did you know that when um your uncles were at the baseball game for your cousin and then you were there too obviously cuz we played Little League together she's like Dad was at the store he was working the store and then your uncles came back and told him about how cool the game was and all that ████ and it pissed your dad off like crazy like you know stuff like that you don't that's you know you don't think about like you don't when you're a kid you're just like oh cool my uncles are there but but not my dad yeah but he was holding down to Fort so the uncles can go exactly yeah he's pissed yeah he's pissed that's then you want to hear that that's still a core ass memory I remember like my parents had to watch the store so they couldn't make it to my eighth grade promotion but my auntie showed up so that like gave me a dope
9:18 bond with my auntie because I'm like what the ████ are you doing here yeah that's cool but at the same time you still live forever with the cor memory like oh my parents weren't there and it's not a big deal but you just can't never forget yeah that's all yeah yeah yeah yeah you just think about it every day you look in the mirror I wish my parents didn't go to mine so you can relate to us no cuz that's the day that's the day that I ████ my pants remember I told you that story I ████ myself in my eighth grade promotion that's press and I blamed it on my friend's dad who was the limo driver hey what's up guys just in case you've noticed some of these lovely Jade pieces on some of our men here uh just know that you can get some for yourself over at thej jewelers.com o uh visit our friends here at this site and check out some of the pieces they've got the selection is massive you can find all kinds of different designs and they even
10:09 do some custom work so if you want to check them out uh we'll be very grateful we love these guys over at J Jewelers and uh we're happy for you guys to be able to get the same stuff I have to say though as as an adult man right now thinking about going to an eighth grade promotion sounds like absolute dog ████ I would never want any excuse I could find like ta that be tight I'd be like I don't know man it was kind of raining a little bit I was worried dude when I was in e8th grade and we got like we graduated even my head I was like we're going to have another one in high school why are we doing now look at that already with that attitude that's how he was able to get married right away honly I was like I was like why are we doing this I was like 8th to nth grade that's not that big of a deal bigest thing that happened to you 2024 uh probably probably Tiff having to go through these surgeries oh yeah your
10:59 guys ████ is so sad man this year's been this year's been kind of wild bro it's no that's happy cuz she found that doctor oh yeah yeah that's the good stuff proc make me feel better the process of her going through the surgeries like that's been kind of hard for her and you know it's just taking a lot of adjustment but we're just thankful that we have like a path to treatment right but it is just like you know people on it though you that's good you have the best people on it yeah no we're very ████ lucky man said she could like go on short hikes now too yeah like she started no ████ she can hike huge nah not too crazy but like you know she's still in a treatment it's still early she just had surgery yeah she just had surgery so but the fact that there's like a path now and there's like some type of clarity I think that must be such a big relief for sure for
11:49 sure cuz when I think the worst is when you just don't know I I hate like not knowing like what the strategy is dude that ████ kills me yeah and you got your black belt you said what you got your black belt was that this year last year was that was this year was this year this year that was4 oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it was it wow that's a big deal yeah it does I feel like you've always been a black belt that's a big deal we're in here all the time you know um yeah you deserve the black belt no it was yeah that was a big moment that that one caught me off guard for sure um I wasn't expecting that at all uh but big deal big deal why is it such a big deal they just give him away honestly can I say something now this is kind of a hot take they kind of give them away now they kind of give them away now you Jiu-Jitsu well you know the more popular things get it just starts to become a little I started I started
12:40 regular out this year and then this is how I feel the Journey of Jiu-Jitsu is when you're a white belt you're a sheet of paper right like a 8 by1 every class you go to where you get your ████ ass kicked it's taking a black marker and doing a dot ah and then think about how many dots you need to make it black you skip two weeks one of the dots gets erased because you go backwards you forget so that's why it's ████ hard like even for me I just only been doing it for 10 months I'm like sometimes I'm like something happens I get busy and I'm like okay I accomplished this much I'm like no where did it go start going away and so when I look at the people that are in the room that have achieved it I'm like dude everyone has adversity their ████ family member dies kid has a graduation someone gets sick but the people that got there they ████
13:30 navigated through all of it let me do this go made how it's made black belts that's exactly how it black belt they make so many they're ████ making sheets of them and sheets of them cutting them upack packaging them right they got a guy with a forklift he's taking all the black and there's a guy in his ghee outside like come on I got to go ████ come on let's go got to go got a match at six yeah they got a big picture of everyone the warehouse like we just made1 100,000 today and it gets to the place it's so special we're like oh it's like a ████ Diamond industry isn't it and and we're behind those are the best margins of the black belts the most money on those a lot of them all these gyms are like we got a couple more black belts for you no I think I'm thinking about just buying one so I can like fake
14:20 it till I make it and I can just see myself in the mirror but I'll never take it out you visualize it yeah visualize it everywhere everywhere just for fun I I I wouldn't wear it like here what I would do is I would wear it over my shoulder like I just got out of practice but I'm going to the market still got my ghe on you know oh I forgot it was on my shoulder right I was getting changed yeah just like I had to rush cuz I'm a busy Jiu-Jitsu guy what about you buddy oh man craziest thing was the definitely the the the Paul Abdul job was the craziest because of this one specific thing I don't even think I talked about it here but but like something had happened like towards the end where like I had to change the format in which I did everything so that when you when you make like a tour if you're music director for a tour and you
15:11 have to produce everything you got to do it in a really specific format where all of the all of the different layers that you create have to correspond to all of the uh changeable dials on the console at the shows wow so you have to do it a very very specific way you can't just like make a bunch of ████ and be like done you have to like correspond all of your specific sounds and levels to what this guy's thing is and what that one is what that one is you got to know what like model they have to yeah and initially I had thought somebody else was going to do that so when I thought I was done I actually wasn't done and they needed they needed it done in that way uh ASAP and I had wrapped myself so I went on a 36-hour bender and redid every one of my like tracks hard and it was
16:02 the craziest thing I ever had to do music wise that was the most work hardest work I ever did in my life Red Bull Red Bull Red Bull yeah because I had to I had to what what it is is like I had to deconstruct certain areas where there's some songs where I don't have the stems from 1989 you know like they just don't have them so I had to like uh basically reproduce like so much of the old music and I had to have them like I had to do my own mastering for all that stuff and it was like it was the hardest hardest thing I ever did yeah cuz harder than your ████ troll Marathon honestly I was I bet it is because I I was laughing that whole time but this I was like really ████ I was likeing ████ that's well and at the same time you I have like people down my neck that are like hey we need it let's go let's go if you just are like I can't deliver that that's ████ crazy what what would have happened um you never
16:53 work in this town again like that I don't think it would go that far but it would it would be I would be ████ over everybody that I worked with even the people I like so it's like it's a thing where like they're waiting on me to do it and and then like towards the end everybody was like holy ████ dude you ████ you're a hero because like I didn't have to do it like that but I if I didn't do it no they wouldn't be able to get a guy in to learn all of my waves and do it uh himself so let's say you you're not as cool as you are and then they got a regular dude let's say they got a regular dude let's say they got a Korean producer what would he have done well even if let's say you let's say you get a guy who's 50 times better than me and is like experienc in the IND he's Korean and he doesn't he doesn't give a ████ about anybody else like what would they do the people that can do it better than me would say no to it because it's
17:44 too high of an ass so what would they do they would just have to find someone last minute and then like push back to tour dates or something they no well I mean hopefully not but they would have to find somebody who's I don't know so super successful but also has open time like you know what I mean like that doesn't make sense it's like the guy that can do it won't do it and the guy that can't do it won't get it done in time so I'm you got to have like someone in between and plus no matter what he's going to have to learn everything I did in order to do it so there's no way he's not going to know what he's looking at if he just jumps into my project at the 90% point you know so it was like it was 36 straight hours no sleep just redid every one at a time sent them did this one sent it did this one sent it and it was I was dead dude yeah that's a crazy that was a crazy how long did you sleep for crazier than running a marathon with training oh yeah that's way crazier than that one is like physically like you know you're not nothing's at stake this
18:36 one's like this is also physical way that in the way that my mind was so zoned cuz like I was awake so long and um and I still have to work as if I'm like aame brain so it was and I I raw dog everything I don't like have like you know everything that's right I don't take drugs or anything so so it was ████ tough yeah way harder than the marathon I'll run I'll I'll do an Iron Man before I have to do that again W that's crazy hurt your brain after huh yeah because no one cares when you're doing the marathon you versus yourself this there's there's like 10 people that are like waiting for me and they're all they're not talking to each other they're all hitting me up they're like Hey where's it at I need this section just send me this how about that did you do this level is this level that's so annoying what if the first track you sent them was just how about that F noises for like ████ minute and a half he's still at
19:26 36 hours he still has time to make one troll TR track must troll them I think I I think I learned more production-wise in that 36 hours than I have in the past 5 years wow do you think that is going to change how you do these types of projects absolutely yeah absolutely he's like I working on I working on these no more ████ that crazy how that so it's so specific man like it's it has nothing to do with like music ability it's just like you they don't I I'm sure they teach you this if you go to some school but like for me it was like I never had to do that part there's always another person that that Masters it and just does all that stuff but then this one they're like wait no you're supposed to do that I was like that's not no one told me that dude if you ever took Aderall you would solve the time space equation or you would just troll way harder or or I would just ████ my
20:17 pant it's either and blame it on the limo driver dude that's fcking crazy what about you Joe time's up bro D you didn't say anything how about grand openings in China you're more important about your proposal that happened at J Jewelers why was that counter so hard
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