0:00 Another thing I really wanted as a team was to date an import model. Hell yeah. But they were the peak of women. That's the peak of like queen of ABG. I felt like mainstream America was sleeping on that image. And I'm like, dude, this is like a treasure for us. Dating a poor model is likeing finding out someone like watches TV with their pet tiger. [Music] Today we're going to think back and like see if you can name certain things that you really wanted really really badly and really mattered to you a lot when you were a teenager and now you don't even care. For me like Ksw Swiss shoes were so important to have and I don't I don't think I ever K Swisses are cool. I don't think I ever got any but like I wanted them so bad I can't I don't even
0:50 like it's nothing to me now. You know, like that. Like I wanted tear away warm-ups so badly in high school. Never got them. I remember uh watching like MTV Cribs cuz you know, like when when we're growing up like white shoes staying white was like the dream, right? And I remember uh watching MTV Cribs and then like Fat Joe having like 20 pairs of Air Force One so they all stay white. It was like and I'm like, damn. He has 20 pairs of one shoe, so they're always white. Wow. I didn't even think that was possible. Yeah. I was like, how? I thought everyone just had one pair of shoe for that and then maybe they had like one sport, one like soccer cleat. Yeah. And if you want to go out on a date, then
1:40 you bring out the toothbrush and scrub the shoe. I didn't know there were like multiple shoes. You just had church shoes and you had your daily shoes. You know what else I really really wanted? I wanted um because at the time this was like 2000 1999. I really wanted uh like an import like a rice rocket that had a swap front end and rear end. You know, people had they had preludes with the Integra front. Yeah. JDM swap. They were just making Frankenstein weird cars and I thought it'd be so sick to have that and now that is the dumbest thing to have. I think mine was um the Acura Legend. I would look at the like car like Autotrader. Remember when Autotrader was just a magazine and I would just look at it and I'm like one day I'm going to buy a ████ Acura Legend cuz I was a luxury one too. It's the four-door sedan one. Did you ever have any teen cars
2:30 like that? You wanted that integra man. Oh, you wanted a Type R. Oh, but see that's sensible. If you got a Type R back then that would be worth a lot today. Yeah. I remember like walking on the street and then you see a Type R or any of the JDM cars and then it was right-hand drive. You're like, "Oh, the steering wheels on the other side." Oh my god. Those people were like gods to me. Anyone who had that stuff, I'm like, "How do you have that?" Or the rare occasional skyline. Yeah, that was super rare. But there was like one Supra at our school and I used to think that was just insane cuz I made a model of it. Remember when ████ people were making model cars and ████ and I just thought that was so out of touch. It would be impossible to have one. So out of Yeah. It would just never happen in your mind. But now I look at right-hand drive cars. I'm like, how hard is that to drive on a regular? Yeah. The impracticality of it.
3:20 Why would you have that? How do how do you make a left? How do you get a drive-thru? Yeah, exactly. On the pass through the passenger. Please get in get in with me. That that sucks in um getting the ticket from the when you go into a parking garage and then the ticket I literally have to get out of the car and grab the ticket, come back. So you need the thing that's like the little extend. Same thing with a lifted truck. Like you think it's all cool until you're like, "Dude, I got to get up in it and out of it." kids like after a while I was like another thing I really wanted as a team was to date an import model so badly so stupid hell yeah but they were the peak of women that's the peak of like to me those were better than like or the peak of desire import model was better to me than like a white celebrity woman like
4:12 seriously you know what I mean that was way ████ higher unless you ab like mainstream America was sleeping on that image and I'm like dude this is like a treasure for us. That's true. Dating an import model is like ████ finding out someone like watches TV with their pet tiger. What? They're like, "How did you domesticate one of those?" You know, like they're like, it's like it's this wild like how did you having a pep even do watching TV with But dating an import model is like celebrity status though. Like to me, you put them Yeah. You put him like right there with ████ uh Oh, this is Yeah. movie stars. It's like Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Like people are like obsessing over like Rachel A. Cook at the time and I'm like dude, nah, man. Sasha Singleton. What's wrong with you? What
5:02 is wrong with you, bro? Like that was plain to me cuz the style, import model, like clothing style, none of that was on mainstream or anything. It was like so like relegated to this scene. I wonder what our parents thought of us if like I showed my dad, I want to marry Francine D. Your dad would have high five to you. Show your mom. That's a funny thing. Like, and now that doesn't even exist anymore. Have you know where are they now? Kyla U has a lot of good ones. Well, she she'll like explain like where a lot of them are and it's pretty interesting. I like Kyla U's like little reels and Tik Toks cuz she's like the aen encyclopedia of the '9s and 2000s. She's great. But the Oh, sorry. Go ahead. I was going to say the where are they now of the ones that I ended up knowing. They a lot of them just married rich white guys. Damn.
5:53 That's the most anti-JDM thing you can do. They sold out. Did you guys ever have those silver cumid linked uh bracelets with like your name like engraved on like like ID bracelet? Yeah, like one of those. I remember. You know what I'm talking about, right? I got one for my girlfriend. Yeah. I maybe you had to have like a really cool girlfriend. What did that cost back in the day? I don't know. That's the thing. I never got one, but it was like 15 bucks. You got to go to just silver. Nothing but silver. Nothing but silver. Like at Montabella Mall. And I remember like it would be like I thought it was a hell of money and then uh you could get in their name engraved. It was like 15 bucks or something. It's pretty good. But I think you had to like like have a girlfriend to get it from. You could have just getting it for yourself was not the same. You know, he engraved Sasha Singleton on this so low and then you step on like why did I get such a long straight
6:44 you didn't have like a domesticated tiger watching TV with you. My girl got me one of the name plate buckles. Remember those? You get them all where it's like you can it's like five letters max. Yeah, I remember I had that. That was cool. You could put like a B C or something. Yeah. Yeah. Do you guys remember like hooking up like those Noia phones, the 5190s where like you could like get different cases or different keypad plates and Yeah. Now it's like, man, that ████ was gay as ████ All the phone accessories. Beavers, dude. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted the smaller one. Remember how there was like you had the Motorola regular size, but then once the cool guys got the tiny ass one? Did you ever see that? The pager the ████ thing was like this big. Yeah, it was like a little egg. Do you guys you guys all have pagers? Yep, I did. I still got them here. ████ I saved it. Yeah.
7:37 It's in my box. Go get it. Call it. Call it. When I was in high school, when I was in high school, all the cool kids had sidekicks. Oh, and they had sidekicks. They had a sidekicks on their hip. And I never got one cuz I would always I'd always get handme-downs for my sisters. Even my clothing as well. What were the phones you had? What phone do you have? It was like flip phones. ████ like the my coolest phone I had was a Blackberry Pearl. Remember those? Hit me off BBM. I did have a Razor. I had one of those. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, dude. B, but everyone had a sidekick. And the way they would just flip it open and be like, "Hold on, let me" and just chat and have aim on it. You're like, "Bro, that is next level." I could talk to everybody, but it's like I wasn't even on aim like that anyway, you know? But you everybody I wanted one so bad. In elementary school, I remember I wanted a leather basketball composite.
8:28 Yeah, cuz like cuz everyone just had a rubber one and you knew that was for like outdoor or whatever, but you indoor composite leather basketball. But you know, like in the NBA they played on the leather one and then so whenever a kid would show up with the leather one, you're like, "Oh, dude, what's the cost difference between I don't know now it's probably five or 10 bucks, but when you're a kid got the leather one, the leather ones are nice, bro. They're premium. Like they're like the other the rubber ones are like 10 15 bucks probably. It's not about the cost. It's the fact that you can't dribble those on the black top, bro. Some of these are like 500 bucks for 500 bucks. What the heck? The leather basketballs are expensive. The leather ones are like they're like 50 bucks, bro. Yeah. 50 to 60. Yeah. But I remember when I was a kid, it would it was like, "Oh, dude, this one has a leather one as well." And it would bounce so it would bounce so nice on like hard. This guy's never jamming his
9:18 fingers. Way easier to to to grip. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, is it easier to actually like palm it? Cuz mine was like rubber and then like it was about to start cracking on the side. You play for an hour. The rubber balls, they ████ go to ████ They go to ████ immediately. The black top though. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You know what I really wanted? The ████ Iverson questions. Is this shoe? Are those the ones with the things on the side? Yeah, those are clean. Oh, I was thinking, but I wasn't getting any basketball shoes if it wasn't on sale at Big Five for my mom. Yeah, I thought the the the Reebok pump was good. Like, you just have to pump it so much. The pump, too. I never got the pump. I got a like a bad bootleg of it called the Eliminator or something. The eliminator. Yeah. Oh, no. Regulator. Regulator. But it was like it was a wannabe pump from Pay Life. Hey, you got it, Joe. Or what? No, but look at what I
10:09 found. What the ████ was that? Tick tick tour celebrity backstage pass lanyard. Yeah. Put it on. That's hella funny. Go to the bathroom. Yeah, I think to find to find a pager. Oh, you went to the bathroom. Bro, this is 12 years old now. Damn. No. 2011. 14 years old. This is 14 years old. Holy ████ Cuz it feels kind of like 5 years ago. That's crazy. Did you find anything? This is crazy, bro. This is 14 years old. That's crazy. I like collecting and holding on to stuff. You did find it. Wow. The chain on it, too. Holy ████ I got another one. But is that the three button one? Look at my
11:00 old cell phones. Can I just wear this today? Look at my old cell phones. Those are burner phones for sure. You know, you know when I first when I first met Joe, Joe had a pager. Yeah. cuz he was a pharmacist. Yeah. Oh yeah. Joe wasn't a Yeah, Joe was a licensed pharmacist. Holy ████ dude. Yo, this I had one of these phones. Hey, what's up, bro? Hey, hit me up later. All right. Oh my god. CD player. I just going to I saved all of it cuz I never like crazy. I bet I had another pager, but I can't find it. Damn. Look at this iPod. Can't go with that thing. This thing right here. This is this. Did you ever Is this the iPod Nano? Nano. See, that was the one too when the when the iPods were able to watch videos on it. I remember I wanted one of those so bad. Those were Hey, did
11:52 you see how I uh put a crayon inside the Motorola? You can melt crayon. Wait, what do you mean? What' you do? Yo, you got to show them what that was my first pager in high school. Dude, people used to work out with this ████ Hell yeah. On their arm. The ones we had was just radio. That was the ones we had with the with the yellow little head earbuds. Show up to bies like that. We used this is what we started YouTube with. That's so crazy. Oh yeah. We're still using those cameras now. Yeah, bro. A year older than these. Damn, dude. They say everything. You see the You see the crayon? That's made with crayon. What you mean it's made with crayon? Oh, you like filled in the the engraving on. Oh, that s███'s from high school, dude.
12:43 Damn, dude. Yeah, I remember that. Put a battery in. See if it'll turn on at the back. Wa. So, the Motorola logo, that's white crayon. What the heck? That's crazy. Yeah, this three button ████ Totally remember that. Three buttons. And in pager codes. You guys remember still doing pager codes? Yeah. Yeah. What was your code for your name? 703. Cuz it's Joe. Yeah. My I would just do one two for R. Bro, the little sliders though. Oh, you know what else I wanted that I didn't get until way later? I always wanted those um CD folders. It had four on each page. You remember that? And then people would put the case or the paper on one side. The lyrics. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I thought that was so cool. I I had one of those and then got ████ jacked for real. Don't sell your CDs. Well, cuz like all your CDs got jacked up. Yeah. Like um That's terrible. when when I
13:34 first got out of boot camp, like in the military, like you get paid, right? Uh and in boot camp, you don't spend any money. So, you come out of three months and then you have like 1,700 bucks or something in your bank account and you're like, and you're 19, you're like, "F███, I'm ████ balling, dude." So, I remember going I'm like, "Dude, we need to go to ████ Good Guys cuz I'm going to buy like about buy 10 albums right now." Good guys. Good guys. go and you just ████ or Tower Records wherever and buy and you buy all of them and I had the whole thing and then my car got broken into and they took the whole This guy's got some good CDs. These are brand new CDs. They got Space Jam. Casey and Jojo. Casey and Jojo. You know the white one that everybody had the white Casey Jojo album. God damn it. That's dope. Is there any more um Circuit City good like all those anymore? Best Buy. Is it just
14:25 Best Buy? the only one standing. Yeah, even fries aren't around. Yeah. Did all fries? Yeah, fries are gone. It was gone for a while. Oh, Tai Lopez bought fries. He tried to make do a comeback, I think. Really? They just they just tore down the Burbank one. Wow. With the spaceship on it. Damn. Yeah, it's gone now, dude. Ross Dress for Less just filed bankruptcy and they're closing out nationwide, I think. I thought that was April Fools. Was it? Yeah. Oh, you got I thought that was April Fools. I actually got sad. Ross is a staple, bro. We need Ross as America. That's what I don't like about Instagram's algorithm. Fake news. Yeah, cuz it's not like by chronological. So, I've been getting crazy news recently and I'm like, "What the ████ No way." And I look and it's just like Yeah. I'm like, "God damn it." April Fools is stupid. Oh, you know what? I don't understand why I wanted I can't remember what even made this like attractive to me, but in high school, I
15:15 really wanted Georgetown Hoya's gear. What was that? Georgetown Hoya. You know, like uh the bulldog, right? Yeah, the bulldog. You know, like when you get like jerseys at Champs. Oh yeah. Yeah. Is that why? Cuz I cuz Cholos wore Raiders, Dodgers, Georgetown. Hoya. Yeah. It was like a navy blue, dark gray. Not as aggressive as Raiders. It kind of look No. Yeah. Not as aggressive. It looked cool though. Kind of like how everyone had Charlotte Hornets like warm warm-up thing. I wore Charlotte Hornets cuz I like the color way. I like the color. Yeah, it was good. I wanted loafers. Loafers is what you wanted. The corduroy loafers? Corduroy. I eventually got them like later, dude. Mexicans made like just house clothes look so ████ cool. So you liked going to structure? Oh my god. I mean I like going to the swap meet express. Oh really? You didn't go to express? Did you cologne to carry your
16:05 pocket? I never had water. Cool water for sure. ████ yeah. I could only afford whatever my dad was using. Draor. And then and then my girl got me uh smell like my girl bought me Aquadeio for my birthday. Damn, that's some ████ And I was like, I bet I smell like Jodicy. Why you doing this with your hand? Do you guys have a go-to cologne now? No, I don't wear cologne. Yeah. All right, dude. What's your go-to cologne? Gucci. Jakard. No. Izzy Miyaki. That's crazy. That smells nice. What is it? What did you say? Was that Miyaki? What's that? The ████ guy that made Spirit Away. Japanese barbecue. The last cologne I owned was Kenneth Cole Black. Damn. Okay. They got that at Ross, huh? But I feel like I do too. High school it was a mixture of cigarettes and cool water.
16:56 Cool water. I think um like name brand clothes were big and like you wanted that now it's like ah let's go to right. Yeah. It don't really matter as much. But back then you had to have like What are some things though that were like your you still got it as an adult to make your childhood happy? Oh dude freaking the fixing on my 2001 Civic which I still do to this day. Hell yeah. And you keep that around? Yeah, dude. It's on third engine, man. That thing is going to run forever. Wow. Cuz I want to do everything I wish I I had done when it was new. I always got to I always wanted a Jeep Wrangler, but I got a Jeep Grand Cherokee because it was way more practical than a Wrangler. But I think if I had ████ you money, you still do allow Wrangler eventually. Well, that's not I mean, at least it's sensible. Like a Wrangler is not too high up in the You know, you're not going to go broke on it. Yeah, you're not going to go broke, but it's just like when you look at the mileage, you're in the repairs. Man,
17:47 this is this is kind of not that sensible. I think uh the simple thing is like ordering whatever you want to eat on a menu before when you go with your parents, you're like, man, I'm just going to order on the left side or you go with your friends parents like you can't order the stuff on the right like you want. I'm ordering everything on the bottom right. Yeah, that's when I know I was like, I made it cuz I could get anything on this menu. Me too. That's that's how I knew I made it, too. When you get an appetizer and and a dessert, mozzarella sticks. Also, one day one day I always wanted this as a kid. supremely impractical. Uh, I want to get all my favorite swords from like the movies and ████ bro. Like the blade sword. What's the first one you're going to get? Which one? What What swords did you like, dude? There was even the green destiny from Crouching Tiger. There's the shards of Narcil from Lord of the Rings. There's the blade sword that has the ████ you know, like the blade one was nasty. There's there's like things like He-Man sword. There's just so many
18:38 He-Man random swords that would be so sick to have, but it's like zero practicality. My wife would be like, "You're stupid." Um, I would be like, "You're kind of dumb if you're not putting If you go to um Franken Sons, there's a place that has every one of those." I know. I used to go to those cutlery stores, right? It's got samurai swords and ████ Dead coke. If I get too many swords, Gio's going to call me gay. I know. I get it. It's gay. It's super gay. I have I have like three swords right now still. I think I could have maybe two or three max. Somebody as a gift gave me a samurai sword with my name like on the ████ samurai sword on the hilt. On the hilt. Was that a Hattorii Hanzo? Cuz I had to kill Bill Hattorii Hanzo. Yeah, it was a Hattorii Hanzo. But it's crazy cuz I'm like, bro, where am I going to put a ████ sword in my house? Like on the wall. You just display it. You You
19:28 get one of those Asian stands, you know, where they put it on. It's on my desk and I always almost knock it over. I'm like, a ████ Every day nunchucks. watching Bruce Lee and getting nunchucks until you actually hit yourself like never mind. Until you hit the couch and it hits you back in the ████ head and you're like, "Okay, I'm chilling." Watch all the Bruce Lee movies and then you have to buy a yellow and you bought one of the yellow outfit. I had it for Halloween one time. It looked like a bus. Did any of you guys ever in in your high school days like a bus? Did any of you guys ever buy concert tickets to anything? Could you Cuz I couldn't afford one concert. I never went to one. I saw Thrice and Dashboard Confessional. Do raves count? Warp Tour? No, not raves cuz raves some some rave tickets like the masses are like 40 50 bucks. Were they that cheap? Cheap? That's expensive as ████ I thought those raves were like 300 bucks nowadays. You never bought
20:18 tickets to see like one artist kind of a deal. Oh, one ticket to see one. You had to see DJ and stuff back then, but like but I think my first concert was Bone Thugs and Harmony. You got to go to Bone Thugs and Harmony in high school. No, no, no, no. It was probably after high school. Oh, that was Dude, that would have been crazy. That was like at the peak. But the cool thing was um this was in Pomona and just because it was like in the area like Nate like Nate Dog showed up. He was still alive at the time. There was like Wow. There was like um like a bunch of people that were just like, "Wait, what the ████ They're not even on the list." Oh. They didn't perform. They just came to hang out. Wow. Yeah. So, we got to see him and I was like, I didn't realize how big that guy was. Nate Dog is like a huge guy. Yeah. And then it's
21:09 funny cuz his music's all like chill. Yeah. And and he's singing. Yeah. He was the only person that could sing gangster. Yeah. Sing like a man. Sing like a man. But he was huge. Yeah. Damn. That's tight, man.
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