0:06 Welcome back to another episode of Care for Boys. We have Mr. Nicholas Dunn. >> Woohoo. >> Charlie O Nicholas >> expert. He's very nice. [applause] >> And we have Miss Melissa >> criminal. >> Here's a funny question. What are some really major positive things in your life that actually had a super tiny percentage of happening? >> Huh? Like a winning the lotto type thing? >> Yeah. Like like good things that that occurred in your life that when you really look at it that had all the odds stacked against it. >> Like if this didn't happen, >> like if Mike Song didn't tap me on the shoulder and battle me while I was seawalking, I would never be a dancer. >> Yeah. >> Damn. >> No, I was thinking about even the start of JK. I think probably the JK
0:56 >> almost like it was like >> No, it's just like if you think like if you just think about the odds of things happening or like making something out of nothing and being successful enough to like run an operation for that long like when I think back cuz like now I like when people ask me about uh what can I do to get started on social media or whatever I'm like honestly it's like just blind faith like more so than any algorithm or And yeah, blind faith and confidence is what I think me and Joe had. And we just couldn't see failure and he just kept going >> cuz most logical people would be like there's this, there's this, how are we going to do this? Or you know, but me and Joe just kept going and it just somehow ████ happened >> for barbell if you hadn't done JK at all. >> There's no barbell 100%. >> No any kind of gym >> for sure. No. >> Wow. cuz it was because there's JK and
1:47 then because there's a following and more so because of the confidence of having been able to do something that I had like a vision for it made anything else after that possible. >> Would there have been a Geo in you? You think in any chance if JK hadn't been a thing? >> There' be a Gio because we got together before JK like blew up. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. >> So like JK was 2007. We got together 2008 and we're still ████ duct taping cameras to like lamps. >> So there's an alternate path where you would have been a doctor and she would have just been in the bank still. >> I would have said the the catalyst is going to East LA College. If it was you went to East LA College, I went to Gio went to East LA or no, she was working at the bookstore, >> right? And then um if I didn't join the
2:40 MMA gym with our mutual friend that was recruiting everybody uh that would have it just we wouldn't be a group of friends. >> I see. >> If he didn't go to e East LA College after the military, right? So I think that >> so you can say MMA changed your life. >> Yeah. >> Sick. >> And at that time Joe was a rapper. So his music buddy that he was making music. >> Look what's happening here. Why are you doing that? Why? Yeah. Why did you reck like that? [clears throat] >> What does that reckon me? >> No, but no, his Arcadia homies would be like, "Dude, this new guy named Bart ████ pulled Joe away from rapping to go make weird videos." [laughter] >> Arcadia homies >> cuz she's from Arcadia. And you know what's funny? Toki Monster is made one of my tracks back in the day. >> No. just just just one day she was just
3:31 making beats with one of my friends and and then they used to we all used to hang out at this one house and it was my friend producer and um she was just like how do you do that and then you know she just kind of went off and did it and and then she she had a beat and I was like can I rap on that and then like yeah >> every time he says that what is this when he says rap you just start laughing what happens >> I just can't >> why >> I don't know I just I don't just >> one for money too for the show. Let's all go. My name is Joe. [laughter] My name is Joe. >> It's a Joe that I know. So, I just can't with the like gangster Joe. >> It doesn't exist. >> Alternate universe. >> It is alternate. Yeah, >> that's crazy. >> Do you know what would be funny is if you were able to see the alternate reality if if you just didn't go to Elac and then JK completely exists, but it's
4:22 just him and Gio. >> That would be so funny. >> There would be no way. That'd be impossible. >> It would be called JG or something. No. No. Joe Kuan just call Gio. >> I don't think I would ever be online if Joe never sent me the Mr. Chin 45 video. >> Damn. >> I would never have made a video in response to >> It just started with you sending videos to each other online purely for yourselves >> and people basically like nosed in and saw them, right? >> We didn't know that. We thought YouTube was like uh Vimeo where you just upload stuff and you send it >> a private person >> or like photo bucket. It was a it was a new version of mega upload.com. >> Yeah. >> No, we thought it was or at least what I thought. >> But we didn't know like people can watch like the public can watch it. Like we thought it was private videos. >> So it really started with Joe sending me that video and then I sent or else I
5:12 would never be online. >> Dang. >> That's nuts. What about for What about for you Anthony? Is it your moment of Mike Song >> tapping you on the shoulder? >> There's a million of those moments put together that like make up a situation. It could have it could have been the fact that me and Victor both showed up late to spot which was our incoming freshman orientation. So that's how we met. Um it could be >> what if you never went to UCI cuz that's kind of where it all went down with the dance and all. >> Yeah. If I never went to UCI, I don't know if I'd be a dancer. But but I would e I would if I ended up at another school that also had like a prominent dance scene >> as high as Cabba Modern though. >> No, here's I think here's the true true unique biggest difference. It's not that like UCI just had like dope dance teams. It's that you had a guy who's incredible
6:02 like a Mike Song who desperately so bad wanted to be a dancer and have dance friends that he would go around all of Torrance to try and seek other dancers when all the Koreans during that era were trying to too busy trying to be gangster, right? And he'd be like, "Yo, I just want to like dance though." And he would just try to find anybody. So he looked at a loser dancer like me and was like, "He likes it. ████ it. [laughter] You want to hang out, man? ████ it." And he just like pied the fool. And then if I >> He pulled you here like this. >> Yeah, that fool. No, even that's whack. Imagine worse. >> Worse than that. >> I know. It gets crazy. >> So Mike's like a real like influencer influence. Like he like pulling people together type person. >> Um I think Well, yes, absolutely. But I think he just like was like the number one influencer for me specifically. I'm
6:53 sure he influenced everybody generically >> or like pulling people together. That's crazy. Just trying to find people to dance with. >> Dance tonight. >> I just think me specifically who had like maybe no business dancing was just like, "Oh, I was I always liked it." But then a really dope guy who was also randomly like uh internet famous through the Elsewhere clip on IM's World. That's right. You know, it's also a very unique variable. >> He was the guy after the white. >> Of all the guys to dance with, it's him. That's crazy. And I didn't even know for the first year. >> It's so crazy that there that you have so much footage of you dancing in your earliest earliest year. >> Yes. >> And I watched that and I don't even recognize who that is. >> Just stop watching it. Maybe that's fine, too. >> Yeah. Is it good that you have that much footage from that time? [laughter] >> I think the point is the point is when I
7:44 was starting I started so late. I started dancing at 18. Like it's literally started in college. Usually people are like finding their footing and their profession already, right? >> Wait, you hadn't danced before you were 18? >> No. >> Wow, that's wild, Anthony. >> He's a natural, dude. I'm telling you. >> Wow. >> I've been trying to tell you. >> Very talented. >> That's crazy. >> But again, if I would have had just like, let's say Joe was the guy who tapped me on the shoulder and he was like, "Yo, man, I really love dancing. Come dance with me." I'd probably just be like working in sales right now. >> Dang, I'm not Mike's song. >> He's not as good. I think the fact that like the dude who tapped me on the shoulder also happened to be somebody who became like world famous in his craft >> and highly influential and then that guy ended up being my best mate. I'm like ████ >> Best mate, huh? >> You talking about Victor or >> the guy who tapped me on show is technically my song. Yeah man. Oh, another crazy one cuz I if if I were to
8:36 reverse engineer a moment. So, you know the Korean translator video that a lot of people like, the only reason that ever happened is because in my senior year in high school, me and my buddy, the guy I joined the military with, we were racing another uh another car in Monabello, our car spun and then smashed into a light pole and both me and him got hospitalized. And the reason why that's important is because we had a different shipping date to boot camp. And when you're joining the reserves, your ship date matches up with a certain unit because they're trying to uh meet quotas. [snorts] >> Oh, this unit needs like two more Marines. So, this this shipment the these guys are going to go there. >> So, we we both got hospitalized. So, we had to ship on a different date. But had that uh car race never happened and we didn't get hospitalized, we would have shipped out sooner and we would have
9:26 gone to another unit which didn't have that that opportunity to go to Korea. >> Wow. So all those things had to line up for that whole thing to happen. >> Wow. Okay. >> It's crazy, right, >> dude? Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. >> So you would have never went to Korea and then you would have never had the idea. >> I would have probably been at one of my other buddies units that, you know, didn't go to Korea or whatever. >> Damn. >> Now we have these cool tattoos. Look at us now. >> Damn, that affected us really bad. Wow. >> What about you guys? Some crazy ████ >> For me, it was the failing of algebra my freshman year was the whole reason I got into dance, which was like so like odd. >> Yeah, because >> algebra specifically, huh? >> Yeah. Because I got kicked out of uh algebra class because I was talking back. I I was like having so much trouble with it. I'm an idiot and I was I had a bad attitude about it. So the teacher uh kicked me out of class and
10:17 said she told the principal I can't take it there at that school anymore in high school my freshman year. So I had to take it at summer school which meant I had to go to Don Bosco Tech was where I met my first breaker friends like dancer friends >> and that's when I we started a crew and that was the whole like I would have never gotten into dance >> cuz you never danced before then. >> Not really. I I knew about that. I just thought it was like a funny thing, but I never I didn't know a single other person, nor did I have a motivation of anyone to beat or be better than or anything. I just thought it was like something out there. But then that was when it like really uh you know, everything that we started together. And then every summer after that, I had to keep going back cuz I kept failing it there too, [laughter] >> too. >> Yeah. And it was because of of being like ████ at algebra. Like if I was good at math, which I which I probably was. I just didn't apply myself, whatever, I
11:08 would have never thought of it. I would have just been like, "Oh, okay. I'll just, you know, keep being an academic and then end up at a nice college and just be an X-ray tech or something." Yeah. Completely wouldn't would have been a whole different road. 100%. I think for for me it was at the moment like when we graduated, it was during the recession. It was 2009. So then um it was so hard to find a decent job. So I think at the moment I felt like damn this sucks. I can't get a job and I have a college degree and I was told that I can have a way better job. And then like that really pushed me to go ████ man well if it's going to be like this then what? Let's just do YouTube. And I think [laughter] up until that point I think we both were like oh this is fun but it feels like a college thing. you can't do this as an
11:59 adult. And then like Bart I I think still had the mentality of like >> he's gonna be a doctor, but then I think because of the recession, because we couldn't find jobs, it was just like, well, ████ it. Let's just do this full-time. But I I think up like even though we started JK years before, I think that was actually the moment when we're like, "All right, we're going to do this seriously." >> Yeah. Where it was like, "We're going to commit actual time to it." Yeah. >> And then make it a career. But I think at any moment before that, >> if things worked out and we had like serious jobs and stuff and then we could pay the bills and be an adult, I think we would have quit. I think if we actually became cops or whatever, like we would have quit. >> I think that's probably the best point of all is that a lot of the best stuff that happened was because something really didn't work out, >> you know? That's why I'm like, if you guys think something temporarily just
12:50 ████ sucks and you didn't get what you want, sometimes I don't know if it's the universe telling you, but it's not what you ████ want, dude. >> It's the universe telling you. [laughter] >> Sweet. Cuz imagine if you got what you wanted or you thought you wanted at the moment. >> Yeah. >> Imagine if Bart was your freaking doctor. [laughter] >> What the hell? >> Yeah. See, shots fired. >> What the hell? I don't think I'd be a good doctor. [laughter] >> And he leaves the when he does surgery, he leaves the tools in your belly and ████ >> He periscopes your ████ Just prescribes you >> seahorses. I don't think that you wouldn't know your stuff. I just because of how I know you, I can't take you seriously. >> He'd be a goofy doctor, dude. You would like crack jokes with people [laughter] >> and people would be like, "Uh, >> if you didn't know anything about him though and you just walked in, you saw this like Asian looking dude, you'd be
13:41 like, okay, >> why just Asian?" >> Yeah, for sure. Oh, >> if he's just wearing a white coat. >> Yeah. Asian Asian doctors look trustworthy. >> Yeah, for sure. For sure. >> That hairstyle. I'm like, yeah, okay. >> N dude, I'd be like, that guy's a scam artist. >> What the hell? [laughter] >> Scam artist. >> I think we were trying to be cops. Remember the last year we're like, hey, it doesn't seem like we're going to be able to graduate. >> You look like a retired cop now. [laughter] >> With no pension. [laughter] >> I got fired for corrupt ████ You know, >> we should get you those holsters that you sling across. You put on your jacket. It'll be perfect. >> You look like you would be a detective. >> Really? >> Why'd you laugh, dude? >> He's actually the pitbull on the detective crime squad. >> Why'd you laugh like that? And why are you looking at me laughing? >> It's so random. [laughter] >> I don't know. He has like the detective
14:31 voice. >> Oh, yeah, he does. I kind When I was a kid, I wanted to be a cop. A detective. >> Yeah. I was like, that's what I want to be. >> Do you think you almost didn't get into fighting? >> Nah. There was something that like just drew me to it because I think after high school like I just kind of wanted to like be a man, you know what I mean? Like I wanted to like do something that because I was really Why you laughing? Uh I was very uh >> I know, right? >> No, it was cuz I was like I need to I felt like I lived my whole life with ladies, you know, all the time. And I was like, I got to go do something. >> His sisters. His sisters. He's not like some pimp or something. >> No, no, not a pimp. Not a pimp. Uh, but it's crazy because there was this dude on my water polo team who randomly joined this gym and it was called Fight Academy. That was the first gym I started training at. And I remember being like, "Hey, how's that gym? I was thinking about looking for a place to train." And he's like, "Dude, come on
15:21 in." I started training. He quit like two months later. And then I was just training there since I was 17 until I was like 28. 28 is >> Dang. The same gym. >> Same gym. I was there for so long and I started working there and pretty much like everything I've all the people I've met, all the connections I've ever had was all through training. So, it was just like once I started that, it just kept going because it like the thing about martial arts is like it's weird because you get all kinds of people from every walk of life that is seeking like the discipline or just the training aspect, the exercise. So I got to meet so many different people from all walks of life from entertainment to high level business and I got to just meet all these people and I don't think I would have ever had a situation like that where they were like looking at me and I
16:11 was like some like you know I was like 20 20 years old and when I started coaching they looked at me as like like a I want to say like a like a mentor for them for coach for training you know. So, it was like a weird role where I'm like talking with these grown ass dudes and they're teaching me about so much other things in life that I had no idea. And you know, I got to meet a lot of crazy people like you ████ guys. You know, I if I probably wouldn't be here >> if uh I didn't train David. >> Yeah. If I didn't train David how he found me or >> how I met Gilbert and all that, like I probably wouldn't have met none of you guys. >> Shut up, BONOS. SHUT THE ████ UP, BONOS. [laughter] THERE'S THAT detective voice. >> And it all started from him not wanting to be a girl anymore. [laughter] >> I got to learn how to defend myself. >> Yeah, for real. I was like, I got to learn how to fight.
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