0:00 I was like looking around everyone else's MySpaces and I was like, people always use quotes from like, you know, famous quotes. I'm like, I'm just going to do quotes from me. And every time I think back to it, I'm like, oh my god. I actually put the quote and then I put dash me. It was like, you know, like um like in your future you'll see it was me the whole time. Me or whatever it was. Oh, yeah. [Music] All right, welcome back to Careful Boys. Today we're talking about things we're ashamed of now that we thought was dope before. Oh, things that make us like cringe when we think back. Got too many of those in my life, dude. I'm the worst at that. Like if I am even walking near Pokemon cards, I'm like, uh, really? But that's a bigger craze than it ever was.
0:50 I know it's huge. It's actually really cool now. I I It's right here. But I'm always like, "Ah, is it cool though?" I don't know. See, you don't think you don't feel ashamed for wearing an upside down visor? I never really did, but my friends did. But that era But that era, I would say that would probably be the most cringiest style era. But then the style, the crazy thing is they knew that it was cringe then when Kent Hardly Wait was making fun of it. Yeah. Remember the dude with the goggles on his head? They already knew they green, right? Yeah. But then like we still thought it was Yeah. That's weird. How do we not get the memo? But it's like it's just a sign. You're doing it to like basically look at the next guy and be like, "Oh, we're in the same like culture." Yeah. You show up and everybody's wearing that stuff, you know? That's true. We all were cringy together. Mhm. I've had people come up to me and be like, "Seth Green." And I'm like, "Yep, come on.
1:40 Let's get the picture. You're way taller in person. Seth Green." They just don't remember that my name is Steve and not Seth. And they're like, "Seth." It's like hilarious. I remember um when we first started doing Just Skating Films, we wanted like to be known for these certain skits, right? And then we just as a throwaway, we did a parody uh pretending to be two babies in diapers. Mhm. And that one actually skyrocketed like it it was like our number one video for a minute. And then we were being interviewed about that. And I remember specifically me and Bart being so like embarrassed of that video that we were like, "No, no, no, no." And I think the cringier thing was to not take ownership in that video and be like, "But we have these other masterpieces that take us take us seriously." And I'm like, "It's a comedy channel. No one's going to take us." Two guys were just dressing in
2:30 diapers seriously. Yeah. And it's like, "Oh, but that's that's not what we want to be." We're deeper artists. That's rough. And how ████ serious we took ourselves as stupid YouTube comics was like, it was so deep. And that happens to everybody, you think? Well, you're young, right? trying to like make a mark on your Yeah. But like looking back I'm like I wish I wasn't. Yeah. You know what's pretty cringe? When you look back at all the any time almost any time that you were visibly mad at something. Yeah. Yeah. For real. You know, like in public or something where people saw you angry, that's probably not something that you're like, "Yeah, I was right to be ████ steaming." Yeah. Most of the time it's like you could have just kept your cool when when I ever and again I think I'm going to bring up uh people meeting me in public. Uh again when people I guess when people see me
3:21 they're like you looked like you were very angry so I just didn't say anything. So you got a resting ████ face. They'll tweet me instead. But no, I just can't see very good. So I'm always looking Yeah. Yeah. And like that's it. Glasses on. I'm squinting and then and then I think they're just like oh I'm glowering. I'm like ████ So, how would you do it for SKH sketches or for like movies when you had to not have glasses on and you had to I could see better back then, dude. Oh, really? A lot better. Yeah, dude. You know, my ████ s███'s going too, dude. Really? Yeah. I had I had to wear I have to wear glasses now. Yeah, I've been wearing Starting this year. Yeah. Get some contacts. I went to go get my license changed to the Nevada license and they were like, "Whoa, something's wrong with your right eye." When I was doing the eye test and they were like, "You got to go get uh go to the optometrist and then come back." And then I went to optometrist and they were like, "Yeah, your right eye is way off." So you got you developed a stigmatism. Yeah. And
4:12 it's and it's even worse now than it was when I got my So I think that glasses actually make your eyes more lazy because I've had glasses since I was 17. And my my vision's only like minus one or whatever. It's not not a big deal. Like if you talk to some seasoned glasses wear out there, they'll say that I'm ████ ████ Like I'm in the Coast Guard. I'm negative six. There you go. Right. Like that's a Marine, right? I'm I'm in the Coast Guard. They don't give me guns. Still haven't seen combat yet. Minus 2.25. Exactly. But I think that my eyes are so lazy cuz I've been wearing for for so long that they're they've adjusted to that, right? Exactly. Yeah. It kind of got petrified with that being the standard. 100%. That's my theory. Dude, my glasses are Coke bottles, dude. Really? They're ████ thick as ████ My eyes get bigger when I wear them. You got contacts in right now? Yeah. Yeah. I'm blind as a ████ bat, dude. Do you cringe over any of the stuff that you were 100% responsible for making that you were in? I cringe over the length.
5:04 Oh, because you could cut it down videos. Yeah, I cringe over the length. I'm like, "Wow, really? You needed 8 minutes of this?" Really? The world changed. I know. I know. But that but when I'm But when I'm un, you know, and when I'm in an unfortunate situation where somebody's like, "Put put your videos on. I don't want to watch them." And I'm like, "No, please no." And then I'm saying I'm there and I'm like, "Okay, we got it by 4 minutes. Why are we waiting for eight?" Like it's like, "We got it. We got it. We got it." You know what I mean? I have to suffer through it. I see. I cringe. My dead set beliefs for every stage growing up. Yeah, for real. For real. I was a communist in high school and I believe that was the only and best way in the world, you know? And then like you have these phases of like this is the next thing that I discovered. No one else knows. And I see this in like woke kids
5:54 today where they think they're the ones that came up with this ████ And it's like, ████ this ████ thing came out in 1965. People were annoying in the '60s, bro. It was pissing off everybody. And then I was like, "And you think you're the person that discovered this and you're like, "Oh, nobody knows." And I see everybody doing that now. It's like now like they have to ████ be the one to tell you. And I'm like, "I was that, dude." Yeah. I never thought I revolutionized or trailblazed anything, brother. I'll tell you that right now. I had the self-awareness to not think that. Thank God. I got to set the record straight. You cringe about like how when you were like witnessing for Christ to somebody I actually wasn't um very devout like that. Like I never Yeah. Even for the missionary trip, dude. I feel like I'm going to go to hell. I just went for the free vacation just to hang. Nice.
6:47 Yeah. Like I don't think you were alone. I played along, but like like all your boys are going, right? That's your community at the church. Everyone's going. You're like, "F███, I'm going to go too." Like Bart represented our nation's national defense and said he's Korean. That's ████ hilarious. That is really cool. That is so funny. Mark cringes at that probably. Yeah. Don't you guys cringe at every time that you were like heart aching or like heartbroken over a girl? Oh, yes. No, I still think about them. Well, we talk about it so much on this ████ channel. I'm like, "Oh, I got to relive this." Well, like the way that you chose to vent it is the cringeworthy part, right? You just think about like what a little ████ ass you are. I'm so glad I couldn't do a a phone camera thing in my car or whatever. Yeah. Oh, dude. Me, too. I'm just glad the internet wasn't as accessible for us to immortalize how
7:37 that felt. Yeah. Like when I was bombing high school relationships, like I I I'm so glad I didn't have any. Imagine like writing a blog post about it, having it live on your website. Well, that I did. That definitely happened. Got some poems up on MySpace. Luckily, some of those sites just completely disappeared. They tanked. Oh, I do remember. I do remember this always makes me cringe when every time I'm in the shower I'm like oh when I think about it was when we were all on MySpace and I'll never forget like I was like I was like looking around everyone else's MySpaces and I was like people always use quotes from like you know famous quotes. I'm like I'm just going to do quotes from me. And every time I think back to it I'm like oh my god. What's a Steve Green original? I don't even remember. I swear to God I don't remember. What's a Seth Green original? It was just like, you know, um it was probably something really ████ gay that I knew that if the girl I like saw,
8:27 she would maybe think is about her. Like that kind of stupid. Everybody did that. Of course. But but I would but I actually put the quote and then I put dash me and I think that's you did that. That's insane. But that's like 15y old. I was whenever my space so I was like yeah 16 or something. So anti Steve Green thinking of you quote me. Green is just anti- me when I was a soft ass ████ like that cuz he cringes so hard. Soft ass ████ but but that was crazy. Quote, I know you're reading this end quote me. It wasn't that bad. It was worse. It was like It was like, you know, like um like in your future you'll see it was me the whole time. Me or whatever it was. Oh yeah. Been there, been there. Been there. Been there. Been there. I'm on MySpace. I would just write cryptic ████ sentences cuz that was cool. And I think
9:18 like for my tagline thing, I just wrote, "I'll be where you need me." Just doesn't mean anything. I was like, "That's pretty cool. Whatever. Leave it on there." And then Steve Torata got on my computer one day when I wasn't in my room and he changed a bunch of ████ And like way later, I looked at my profile. I'm like, "I'll be where you need pee." That's sick. I don't know how long it was there. And I was like, "I'll be where you need pee." I was like, "What the f███?" And then on the bottom of it, you know how you can do a long bio after the short line? It might I I think I started by saying like, "Oh, I fear only God." A bunch of ████ He changed God to Zod. And it was like that for the longest time, bro. So, you were getting in trouble probably. Well, nobody said anything. Ryan's praying to Zod. I don't know who that is. I fear only Zod. That's hilarious. A very serious guy back then. So, like my ████ wasn't It
10:08 wasn't sarcastic. It was very like cultivated, right? The same guy who said, "I'll be where you need pee is afraid of Zod." Sick, dude. I wrote stupid things, too. I wrote like I think for like my Facebook page for a while, I wrote like like Brad Pitt's doppelganger or something. Oh, that's pretty cool. That's not bad. That's just funny. Yeah, because I'm clearly not Asian dude who's like your shirt that said I was born ready. You got to bring that back. You got to bring that back. The era is college parties, though. So far, I'm not ashamed of anything. It was a big black tea with a white text. It was a green one. So far, I wish I was you. I just love that I have a video of you wearing that shirt, dude. Dude, this is the era where like everything was about like, can you double down? Like at a party, it's like, yo, dude, you're not down. It's like,
10:58 hey, take this shot. Fine, take double shot, dude. It's like, you ready? I was born ready. So, I would just come in with this shirt just, you know, I feel like you do this now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You do this now, right? This guy's walking into Pacers game one like, "All right, dude. I'm ready." Dude, that's such a It's such a stark contrast from like now you just like have these limited Kith X Balenciaga ████ and back then it was just I was born ready. Hey, to be fair, Nina got me this and it's from a thrift shop for $4. This is sick. It looks sharp. That looks rich. I will say looks like it's rich. I wouldn't have known that. But I will say these sweats are kick. All right. Anyways, I was born right. I should bring that shirt back. ████ dude. You should bring that self back. I was born ready, JK. Bro, I had a fauxhawk. I did too. I did too. I couldn't I couldn't do it. Fhawk was a good era. You have like
11:48 a fhawk right now, basically. Yeah, I guess I do now. Yeah. Thanks. Thank you. I wonder if people are going to cringe about the um thing right now how some girls Have you seen that thing where like if they have like a zit, they put like a shape like a star or like a pimple popper. Sounds interesting. Like a lot of girls are doing that. I wonder if that's going to be one thing they look back on. But doesn't that like is doesn't have like some kind of juice in it or something? I use that ████ sometimes. I use that ████ It's not a star. I don't think it's as bad as like patch cuz like the only alternative is you walking out there with just that clear pimple and just being insecure about that band-aid. Yeah. Oh, the Nelly thing. That's cringe, dude. I I was wearing a pimple patch the other day and I was teaching class and one of the the female students was like, "Are you wearing a pimple patch?" And I got really insecure. Yeah. That made me cringe. I was like, "Oh, yeah." No, no, no. Oh, I fell down and something got stuck to my face. Yeah. Yeah. It's
12:38 actually abandoned. I actually got cut. It was It was like that. And I don't know why I got uh Bro, if I if those things existed when I was a teenager, I would have been a star child, dog. Just ████ But they do get rid of zits. They get rid of zits pretty nice, actually. I I cringe at the way I used to talk to cops when I was a teenager. Really? Why? You were mad aggressive. Yeah, because you wanted them to start something with you so that you could be cool. Whoa. If they were asking you regular questions, you would be like a little ████ all the time. Don't be the ████ smart ass. What was one of your lines? And then by the time I after I got arrest and had actual probation officer and I had to go see him like every now and then with my p with my mom and dad. I was talking ████ to him to his face so much. And he's like, I know what you're doing. Stop. And I was like, okay. Sorry, sir. Sorry, sir. I apologize. He's like, there's nothing. You can't even get in any more trouble than this. He's like, nothing's going to happen. You're Sorry, sir. Sorry, sir.
13:28 You're not hard. I see. Yeah. He's like, "You're not hard. You're not s███." Uhhuh. Yeah. And I was like, "Okay." I cringe at that ████ man. Would you ask for your supervisor for their supervisor? Yeah. I'm going to speak to supervisor. No, you just give him a hard time. You just be difficult. It's not worth it. Dude, he actually placed it. He did it. He placed the bet. Out of baby Bart. He placed UFC bet. Did he do it right? Did he did it for Morab? He gave it. Oh, he Bart put in our bets at the casino. Let's go, baby. I was like, "Just do Rob." Hey, is his new name Bookie Bart? Yeah, Boogie Bart. Bookie Bart. I got some help now. He's like He's like, I missed the fourth quarter of the soccer game for this. Yeah. Right. Oh, yeah. Nobody cares. Do you Do any of you guys cringe at how you used to drive? Yeah. No. I wish I could go back to those days. It was fun. Honda Accord Coupe stick shift V6 like seat
14:20 back here onehanded. I think that's why every single time I went to the doctor or too, he was like, "Your left pec is bigger than your right." And it's because you're always doing this. What? That's funny. Cuz I was like, "Why is that possible?" Every single time with the doctor or chiropractor, they would say that. And I was like I'm like, "Oh, yeah. Cuz you're trying like this." You know what I'm talking about? Like I swear to God, my seat was like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." Just stick shift like this. I was so bad. And I was like, I used to do that. And this is before like you had like a navigation system. So it would be like maybe a navigation on your phone. So you're looking at your phone for directions. You're eating while you're driving stick. And also for me, I was like packing bowls of weed and stuff like that. Oh my god, dude. I was I thought I was pro, dude. I was I was always flooring it all the time. Was I
15:11 just thought like I thought I was such a racer. I wanted to be a racer so bad. So I was just so annoying. I got so many tickets. I was in traffic school all the ████ until my dad was like, "I'm sick of you being in traffic school. I'm going to pay the receptionist at the X-ray department to just have her son do it for you." So then every time I had to go to traffic school that once it was like online and you could do the computer one, they would just do it for me. Wait, why was your dad reinforcing your poor behavior? He wasn't. He was just trying to like cuz I would use that as excuses why I can't go to class and ████ Oh, I was He didn't want me to have any more outs cuz I'm like, "Well, looks like I got in trouble. Well, I can't go to community college today. Dang, your dad was just like the lesser of two evils. Legit. Yeah, cuz then he just had like the receptionist had a kid that would just hang out there and like, "Hey, do my son's traffic school." Would you tailgate people? No, I would always
16:01 everything you could think of. I was just always everybody knows that that was my reputation among my friends. I was an idiot driver like on purpose. Like I had something wrong with me. Are you the guy who's like doing four lane switches and like But I would do it for to be stupid. Like if I had people in the car, I would do it to scare them. Oh Jesus. I thought it was funny. Yeah, it's a dumbass thing to do. I feel scary. That makes me nervous right now thinking about that. You know I think about right now grandma now cringe at I remember just like u getting the hand hand me down Honda Civic like four-door white Honda Civic for my sister when she like graduated. I was like dude I got a car now dude I'm so sick. How is that cringe? That's so cool. So sick. So then I would like have the windows down just blast like Jay-Z like can I get up what what then any single time like anybody rolled up next to me I I like turn down the
16:51 volume like really I used to do that same way I'm the same way cuz I feel obnoxious not I'm not actually about it like I like it but you don't want the attention no me and my buddy are playing Night at the Rockberry soundtrack and laughing really hard and when we were in neighborhoods we're like turn it down turn it down it's too loud we giggle 7:00 ████ Cuz I also think now as an adult, like if somebody's blasting music while they're driving in like a residential area, I'm like, "Yeah, it's just it's a loser." Yeah. What is wrong with you? Just kid, right? Roll your windows up. At least I wasn't a hypocrite. These people are ████ dude. I would get I I think about the times where I would yell in my car while Tiff was in the car and then like the look that she gives me like, "What the ████ is wrong with you?" and you go like like once you come down to your senses, you feel so like justified for getting angry. It's like he's the one, right?
17:43 But then afterwards, you're like, "Oh, you just look so ████ dude. You just look like you can't control your own emotions." That is the man who made the board traffic decision. Not Not I Yeah. I didn't do it. He did. He forced my hand. Yeah. And then the way she would look at me like, "Can you just stop doing that?" You're like, I will continue when you're not in the car. Yeah. Yeah. You know what's kind of cool? Uh how cringey like us with these matching tattoos are. That's really cringy cuz like we all of us are still talking about these stories of like a ████ right? We catch ourselves with each other especially. Oh yeah. But like 20 30 years from now, I'm dreading summer, bro. I'm dreading summer. This is the intentional cringe that I love. I love it, too. But it's going to it's going to solidarity. It's going to be like fine wine cuz the older we get and the more we give less ████ the more funny it's going to get. The cringe now just comes
18:35 from such a like it strikes fear in my heart to see how unaware I was at one point and I really thought I was cool. It strikes a deep fear that like that's how oblivious you were. You think we're unaware of how cool this is? I think we're leaned into how awful of an idea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's what makes it amazing. That's cool. That's what I love about
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