0:05 to a very aged episode of Careful Boys where we discuss What's something recently that has happened where you notice you just don't mesh with the youngest generation? I learned what cap was a couple days ago. That was pretty cool. Cap? Cap? Bro, you're late to the You know what cap is, dude. Cap is like It's like It's like, "Hey, you know, don't lie." Don't lie. Yeah. I I That's a I am identifying that as a lie. Yeah. That's That's what cap means. No cap. No lies. He's He's still young enough to still be in that gen. I learned No, I tell Nick all the time. She's like, "Where did you Where did you learn this word?" I was I said, "Nick." I was just I was at JK. I I She's like She's like, "You never say that's gas. Where did you say I Where did you get that from?" I'm like, "Oh, well, Nick." I'm like, "Nick." No, I don't think Nick Nick keeps me up with the younger generation. I don't think I'm I'm
0:56 I think I'm too old to be saying that, actually. I just started saying it. Isn't Zubin the closest? Yeah, Zubin probably is. But then he makes up his own. I think I got that from Zubin. Zubin's like having a robot around. But way better than that. I don't learn that much. Look at his face. Cuz I don't understand it. I don't know what you talking about. I'm a dad now, all right? Do you feel like Come on, dog. Hello. Do you feel like there's a disconnect between you and the young gen? The YNs? Yeah. Okay, hold on. What's a YN? You guys don't know You guys don't know what YNs mean. The word Young and new. Right. The word YN means We just say that instead of the full term. That's for us to say. Young and Young and Young and new. I didn't know that. Young Young Young new. Can I use that around my wife and sound cool? No, it's just People just say YN is like
1:46 cuz they you know it's young dudes that get active. And they're crazy. Like they're gang Gang gang, yeah. Yeah, gang related. My friend has a son in high school. And then he told me that like his friends were like oh you know Joe man he is pretty cool for an old guy. That's that's actually probably the best compliment. That's pretty big. So I'm like At our age it's good. That's good. That means you're I'm a really cool for an old guy. That's tight. That's pretty So that's how I knew yeah. You know. High school kids see me as I'm that uncle status. That's sick. No, that's a great compliment. He's so cool for an old guy. say my nieces and nephews all think I'm pretty cool for some reason mostly cuz Nikki's pretty cool and I and I'm with Nikki so like I get love by proxy.
2:36 Yeah, yeah. Cool by proxy. Cuz they all love Nikki. Everyone in my whole family loves Nikki and then like so they're like all the little kiddos when we come over they want to play makeup with Nikki, they want to do stuff with Nikki and then I'm just sort of like hey and they just ████ off with Nikki. Do you think they think you're extra cool cuz of all the cool jumpsuits you wear? And they're like I usually it's weird. I usually don't wear them when I see my nieces and nephews. Yeah, I know. You guys can't picture me without them. Yeah, they wouldn't appreciate the humor. No. I think I the the point when I felt like I got old is when I couldn't tell the difference between a high schooler and a college student. Dude, ages are so hard for me. Cuz when I was in college I I was like clearly these are high school kids, you know, you can't tell the you you can tell the difference or you probably thought you could, right? But then
3:27 I don't know like into my 30s I'm like dude, they look the same in age. reality TV with Nikki. She's like how old do you think that chick is right there? And then I know immediately oh no, it's like I'm on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and then it's and I'm like oh no cuz like right now if I say the wrong thing she's going to be so ████ mad at me. So oh no. So I just try to go high. I just go high now. He's over being not as you know, not as young as you, babe. Just something like that. I'm like 39. And then she's like, "No, she's like 28." And something like that. No way, she looks so old. She's old-looking lady. Look at those bags under her eyes. Exactly. And then Reggie says like, "You got it." And I'm like, "Oh, thank god." Relief. I feel like takeovers, you know, like the street takeovers, that's like a very direct way that I feel so distant from
4:17 the young generation cuz I'm like, "What ████ idiots?" Yeah. But if I was that age, I would be there. Yeah, that's true cuz you would be at the street races. Yeah. That's the same ████ to admit that like it like I hate it so much as an adult, but like if that was around and we had access to that and they were doing that Yeah. There was a group chat you could read like why wouldn't we be there? I feel like if there's kids watching this, they all would vote you as the coolest one. Yeah, 100%. Ryan is the coolest one. How does that make How did that make me the coolest one? Stuck at a certain age. You just kind of you just kind of seem like you know like cool stuff. Cuz I'm immature. No, but you don't seem immature. You're not immature, Allen. I think they look at me as a crazy uncle. They look at you as the guy they aspire to be. Yeah. So they're like know, that's more Anthony then. Joe just seems like he could take his dick out and start jacking it at any time. He's a wild card. What a trait to have.
5:08 That's what I'm saying. He's like a wild man. Trait. No, my neighbor my neighbor's wife watches JK and she's like, "Joe is just out OF HIS MIND." WELL, THAT'S WHAT did that with Jackson Wang said about you. That Joe He said that I was his favorite because I make him laugh the most or something like There you go. You're crazy. I'm crazy, Gideon. It's cuz nobody knows You know how like if you watch enough stand-up, you know where the punchline's coming from. You can kind of hear it baked into the taco. With you, nobody knows what the ████ you're going to even say next. Yeah, that's why And you've known me for years and you continue to surprise us. You blow me away all the time. You know what? That's my fun game is that I always try to get a surprise out of you guys cuz at this point it gets harder and harder and harder. But then when a new guest comes, they're like
5:58 they're laughing and their mind's blown, but you guys are so used to me that like the average ████ doesn't work. So I have to be even more next level every single time. It's the best. That's my favorite. My favorite's when you you play so stupid. What do you mean playing stupid? I am. Like you really convincingly will act like you don't know what someone's talking about. Yeah. But you'll hold on to it the whole video. He'll hold on to it sometimes for days. But people don't think that you're clever enough to do that, which is my favorite. The thing is I I think it's like so funny when someone actually I mean it's kind of like how you were playing that game with Nikki and then you're kind of like Uh was it the color blind thing? Yeah, yeah. And it's just the inside thing, but it gave you so much satisfaction.
6:48 It's like the a little it's trolly, right? But then cuz there's stories that people still tell of me of the day where I'm like That was the That was an act when you believed it. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they I just let them go cuz I think to me why would I why would I take that away from them and just be like actually I'm actually ████ smart and that wasn't me and what really happened was I was playing you the whole time. And I'm like no, dude. Remember you kept saying you were homeless for the longest time? And people were like dude, that dude's homeless. They were like Joe Joe fell off. Joe was like sleeping in a truck I heard in a truck bed. And he's like I I'm doing that not cuz I'm poor, I'm just like sleeping in a truck bed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuz I'm an entrepreneur. It's like fun for me. But it does it literally does hurt my brand sometimes when I want to do something like I'M JUST LIKE
7:41 LIKE IT'S WORTH IT. YEAH, I don't know because it's like I'm playing so hard to the game that it's too believable now that the wild card is too crazy. So even if I'm doing something seriously, I'm not being taken legitimately cuz I I ████ my brand so hard. So then when people do like meet me like outside of JK They won't know the context of why you're jerking off. So it's wasted. I got too horny. I was thinking about this video. By the way, I will laugh at that a million times before some ████ convoluted advanced comedian or whatever the ████
8:32 Every time. Every I got too horny. Yeah, dude. So even though you're the youngest, do you feel like you're connected at all to like Do you feel distant from like the youngest gen when they're talking? The music, the shows, like It's for It's to you, by the way, Sue. To Sue. That was to Sue. Yes, I'm aware. I don't know, man. I don't even pay attention. You just have a kid now. You got to Yeah, you got a baby. He's a He's a man now. No, it's just like Can I be honest? Like a lot of my friends are you guys' age. Yeah, weird. So it's like How old are you? I'm 29. 29? He's a young lad. Yeah, he's a lad. Dude, when I met you, I think you were 27. Yeah, like 31? I was like 30. I'm
9:22 like 32. 32? 32. What's up, my boy? I thought you were I thought you were like 35 or 9. Well, yeah, I guess 29's hella old. You were literally 27 when I met you. ████ Hanging out with you guys, I notice like majority of my homies and the guys I really do kick it is you guys' age and at the same time Dinosaurs? Even all the people who I work with is same thing. You guys' age. Stunt guys you know are like Stunt guys or YouTube partners and then next thing you know, I think that's what stresses me the ████ out. Why? Cuz you see what they're Cuz you guys are like leveling up. You guys got business. You guys got You got like two decades on you. I know. I know. But that's that's the thing. It just It just still low-key pressures me for some reason because I got to keep reminding myself you guys are old as ████ Dude, when I was 28, like no, I was
10:12 STILL KILLING IT. YOU SEE? I'M TALKING BIG CHECKS. YOU SEE? LOOK at I got the hugest check. But But here's the thing Here's the thing also. It's just not It's not like I don't want you guys saying Take your time. Oh, you're ████ youngster. I don't want to hear that. We never will tell you that. All right. Do you want us to tell you the secret? We'll tell you the real ████ No. No. It's just It's just dope. It's just dope that you guys are getting houses. You guys have businesses. You guys are suppressing a certain level. It just makes me hyped as ████ but it also just gives me stress. You know what I mean? That's all it is. I'm not saying I hate it. I'm just saying I'm just like, "Yo, I really want to catch up with you guys so I can be your guys' level at my age." He's hungry. That's all. That's all.
11:02 Dude, you'll be fine. Any yeah. Any direction you look though, like there's some kids that I used to teach class to when they were children and them fools are on their third house. You know what I mean? Like any direction you look you can find that, but for the most part by the way. Put your money in real estate. As fast as you can. That's what it is now. Now Now every The hype is about property owning. Airbnb. You know what I mean? Business. Like that's that's even more stressful cuz you see that all the time, but Um But you still have more jobs than I did at your age, for sure. Yeah, but not all consistent, you know what I mean? And then, uh, but keep on taking the cop test? That could be pretty good one day. Bro, I took already took like How many? Uh, Seven? one pellet B for LAPD. Now I got to take one for the National Guard, you know.
11:52 Wow, really? And ASVAB test, which is grammar and Ah, ████ They got us there. ████ me on that one. God damn, dude. They got us there. Can you just say you speak beep beep boop? No, I bought the book, ASVAB for dummies. You got it, bro. You got it. Oh, you got that? I'm not worried, but I'm getting used to it. I'm getting very used to ████ taking tests and he's like articulate Oh, man, what if he comes in here? He comes back a scholar and ████ Honestly, if you come in here all smart and ████ you're out of here, dude. If Tubby comes in here with like a ████ scar here to be dumb, dude. You come in here talking proper and being like, you know, with your your tie all high. Turtlenecks, and glasses, and blue jeans. And then I had to I took that security test, which was like 98 98 questions of penal codes and grammar. Yeah. Dude, I've been taking so many of these tests.
12:43 That was for my guard card. How many are we passing? Huh? You're taking tests, but are we passing? I passed the LAPD pellet Let's go, baby. Let's go. Let's go. Which is hell of vocabulary and hella uh, what do you call reading comprehension? these tests. I do, but it still stresses me to ████ up. Yeah. Like how many times like a guy robs a subway? Do you shoot him 80 times or 90 times or what? Choices. You got They're all right answers. You got to choose the best answer. And those are And then D is all of the above. So the answer was like 360. Yeah, it's a trick question. Quick math. ALL OF THE ABOVE IT'S A MATH QUESTION. ALL OF THE above means add them together. But yeah, so with your question being asked, I don't know what the young genera- think about it. So, I don't give a ████ about it.
13:34 Except when I'm with Sasha's little sister, and then I'm hearing what she's going through in high school. It's just the funniest ████ I have a boyfriend. What up, gang? And she's like I was like, "What the ████ What do you mean, what up, gang? What is this?" You know what's funny, too, is I also forget how like I got so used to being old and grumpy about so much ████ that I forgot how much of a ████ I used to be about a lot of things. You know what I mean? Like cuz I I look at these young kids that are always talking about depression and talking about like like self-help and all this ████ I'm like, "What a bunch of ████ pussies?" But then I remembered me and my first breakup and how much of a ████ I was. Like we all were those people. You just ████ forget because you don't give advice to be like that anymore. We didn't even have books and ████ back then to teach us anything. Oh, yeah, we did. Yeah. record ourselves and put it online. That's another thing, too. Yeah. Yeah.
14:24 WE WERE LIKE OH, ████ MY HEART MY HEART MY HEART. Hold up. I saw this ████ BOY. I ████ GOT BROKEN UP WITH TODAY. WORSE. I SAW A grown man crying about Zelensky Trump White House meeting, and I was like, "Dude." He was crying? Where was this? I was like, "Kill yourself." Like that was rough. The on in it on the Oh, he posted it? Yeah, he posted it. He's a grown man. He's wearing like a ████ I don't know. He had a the Major League Baseball hat on or some ████ But he was like really upset. He's like, "I wish I could be with Zelensky right now." I'm like, "What a ████ That's gayest thing." That's the gayest thing. I like That's just mental. Grown man. Grown man, by the way. That's mental problems on parade, though. Oh, yeah. You know who started that, though? The leave Britney Spears alone guy. I know. I like that guy. No, I don't know that guy. Oh, really? I don't know. I just assume anyone from YouTube uploaded that year is his homie.
15:15 I think he goes, "I know that guy." I don't know that guy. I thought it was like a lady when I saw the video. Oh, really? Boys is a gaming. Yeah, it's a gaming. kind of huh? But We kind of I mean Oh, was that the dude that was crying under the covers? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I heard. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's ancient. That's like Wow. I think he's under the covers cuz like his his dad would have heard him or some ████ and be like you stop ████ doing this ████ Quit that gay ████ boy. Yeah, you know what I mean? Why did he do that in his house? Go do the dishes. I think he was in so so much in turmoil. He just felt like he needed to like his safe space. Yeah, thank you. Safe space. Like musical like do you ever hear any like music that's new that's obviously not for your demo and you just can't ████ feel The Kendrick halftime Super Bowl thing. I don't know. I couldn't do I couldn't
16:05 do anything with That's racial. Tate McRae I couldn't do ████ with it. Tate McRae I can't. That's cool that she's from she's a dancer though. Yeah, but I love that he ████ all over Drake cuz I think that's all funny. So I like that. Oh, okay. That's that is up there. Cuz I'm petty and I like all that. But I and I would do a whole halftime Super Bowl commercial just to ████ diss one guy. You know what I mean? I think that's tight. But like as far as the rest of it, I don't know his stuff. So that's a It just makes me laugh how their slang today is a mix of like kind of like ghetto hip hop but also drag queen talk. think there's that much new slang. 90s stuff like I remember like 90 it was a 90s thing to say crash out. And now it's back and like way bigger than ever. People say crash out about everything.
16:55 Things get recycled. What's the usual It's like it's like when you it's like when you have a freak out like where you just like you have an outburst. Oh, yeah. You just go crazy. A manic episode. This guy's crashing out. Yeah. All right. But that's like that was like in 90s hip hop times back then. But most of them just Yeah, it's a mixture of drag queen slang that started in the what 70s, 80s? Yeah. And then a lot of it is like I don't know. Like the hip-hop stuff is a little different. Colleen, do you know any cool ████ I'm not cool enough. How about when you work with I mean she's she's cool. I like it. She's really popular amongst that generation. I'm just I it's not for me. You worked with like a like lately have you had to shoot or direct somebody that's really young?
17:45 Or work with someone's vision that was younger? Not recently. No. You haven't been doing any birthday party videos or anything? No, no, no, no. I I kind of gave that up for a while. You know what? I I do think though after a certain age you should start to learn how to speak English. Like properly. The official language, right? Yep. All of America, ████ No, I agree. I agree. For professionalism? No, I mean you should your your vocabulary should expand over the years. So even if you have a slight like regional accent ████ agree. Or like No, that's true. Think about it. If your vocabulary is on fleek the whole time, you don't have to go take a ████ grammar test. You you don't even need to study. You just be smoking that ████ The only person that I think are fleek
18:37 that I think passes is E-40. Cuz E-40 he'll be a 50-year-old man like making up words and you still understand what he's saying. Yeah. I don't know who that is. Who's that? He's a rapper. OG I don't know ████ bro. I swear to God I'm not cool. I'm not cool. No, he'll just be like, "Yo, man, it's all up in the cuttle off against, you know what I'm talking about?" And you're just like, "I don't know what that word is, but it makes a lot of sense." Context is there. Context is I like it when they use it in a sentence. Yeah, yeah. And then they spell it afterwards. E-40 You probably have no interest in this, but like what would it be like if you went to watch like a UCB like freshman ████ Like do you know the new cats that are just on stage for the first time?
19:28 a better question. Like what Could you predict what their bit would be? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, because I everybody's well, I don't know how it is anymore these days, but back in in my day and do an improv stuff, everyone was offensive as hell at all times. Right. I don't know what they're doing now. Like trying not to offend each other, I have no idea. Maybe maybe I'm wrong. way they're offending each other. have no idea. Yeah. Comedy scene got what? Cuz when I when I was going to like UCB parties and ████ like that, people were dressed like 9/11 and ████ So like now It's coming back. I mean, they're not censoring yet. I don't know. If it's there, is it there or is it like something like it's not Yeah, they were dressed like 9/11 like legit. Maybe in the stand-up open mic world, it's it's coming back. But then like Yeah, like I don't even know anything about improv, character work, like the
20:19 stuff that we were into. I don't see any of that stuff, but maybe they don't go online. That's kind of the whole thing. And it doesn't record well either. Yeah. So that that Cuz you have to you have to it's like a audience participation thing, like it grows with the participants. So it's not like a like a user you watching experience like that, yeah. medium. It looks like At least cuz sometimes I still have to go to some of those shows like either UCB stuff or like Elysian Theater stuff. And it looks like they all if I had to assume it looks like they look at offensive humor like it's too easy. It always kind of has been, right? Like like if you think about it. But I'm just saying like can you Like the idea is that we can explore ideas and like heighten things. Without being restricted. Right. And so can you do that?
21:09 This is all going to go south. Right. I think you It looks like younger comedians feel like it's funnier to them to dunk on offenders than it is to be offensive, if that makes sense. if you're dunking on offenders, you're not having their backs. Yeah. So, that's the whole thing too. It's And I see that's I just said probably the gayest thing I've ever said. You can't win. Can't win. So, that sucks. We need to clip that and send it to Nikki.
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