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What Would You Gift to Your Younger Self?

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0:00 You ready to end the video? You ready to end the video? Dude, if I had the sickest Magic the Gathering card deck, >> you would have ruled the school. >> You would have been principal. >> I'm the last person here that even bought Magic the Gathering cards. >> Want to play? You want You want me to come over play? >> Are you good at it? >> Yeah, >> nerd. >> I know. I know. There's not too much we complain about in terms of like who we were in high school, you know? or I guess we're generally pretty satisfied with that because we turned out okay. But if you could go back and give the high school you something, it could be superficial, whatever. >> I slap it. I'm proud of myself. >> Something cool like an item. Like if you had that in high school, what would it be? For me, it would just be like a Civic with a body kit. >> Oh my god.

0:51 >> Oh, are you trying to be the emperor? >> What the ████ bro? Dude, body kid. >> Like like the the kind of item I'm talking about is not something that's cool later. >> It's only cool to the high school you. >> But then all the ████ are going to be dripping wet in high school. >> That's what I'm saying. I think I think that life would have been insane for me. >> All the ████ at Gabalina High School be dripping wet. >> Dude, I go to Ngalas High. I would go to Ngalas High and get get chlamydia instantly. >> Dude, that's crazy. >> Soon as you get out of your car, >> like >> which what was your guys's like dream car in >> Yeah, we'll do that. Let's do that. What was your dream car? >> Mine was a ████ Acura Legend with a body >> with the body kit. >> You like you like sedans? Sedans was your >> the way that it looked. >> Oh, so is that what you give? >> And Ludicrous had it during his uh >> Yeah. >> when you know when he had his uh cribs

1:43 episode. >> I saw that one. Champagne one. >> That was really dope. But >> I'm either going Supra or M3. >> It would it would be a car too for you. >> No, no, no. He said he said dream car in high school. We'll get back to your prop. We'll get back to your dude. >> This guy's fake, bro. M3 picking up college chicks, dude. >> I thought we were just talking here. >> Okay, fine. All these rules. >> Okay. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Not Joe's prop. Brian's prop. >> No, no, no. You can do it. You can finish up. >> You know what mine was? That every time I saw one, I almost bust a nut. >> It's so prelude. >> A hot mom. >> It's the uh the Integra Type R from Japan. The JDM one with the right. >> Hell yeah. >> And the ste the steering wheels on the other side. I would see it on the Oh, hell yeah. >> The first time I saw a skyline that was right right blew >> my mind. >> I was like, why is it on the right? >> Seeing a skyline is like seeing a

2:34 unicorn in real life in high school. >> I saw Lancers. I was like, why? What? >> Oh, the Mitsubishi Lancers. Yeah, the Evos. >> They whoop. >> Those are beastly >> CRXs. Those are sick, dude. >> You had You told that >> Honda Civic. >> Oh, no. CRV. No, the one I told was a CRV. >> My mom. It was my mom's car. >> CRV. Speaking of CRX, just yesterday freaking this dude cut out his back window of CRX to put all his tools in it. >> Mexican dude CHP put him over and no Hezi, bro. He just took it tow his car. >> Wa. >> Yeah. He was just like, I'm pretty positive they're like, "This is not safe." But in his mind, the CHP is like, "This is ████ ghetto. We tow in this b████." >> Damn. He cut the whole back out, >> dude. as a as as a truck bed. >> That's cool. >> I was like, you can't just buy a Tacoma or something. They're cheap with those

3:25 four-cylinder. Anyways, CRX, Honda CRX. >> I was I was really simple back then because in terms of like what I was into at that time, like I wasn't dancing in high school, but I was playing like the guitar. >> Oh, >> but I would have just loved a really nice acoustic either Martin or Taylor guitar that just sounded good. >> Wow. That would high. >> Yeah. >> All this guy was doing was crushing, brother. I didn't even know the good brands ever done has to do with that. >> Too easy. >> In high school, I didn't know the good brands >> for guitars >> for everything. >> I only knew them because at the high school I was at, everybody had the good stuff except me. I was at Sunny Hills. All these Koreans are rich. >> Yeah. >> What the hell, >> bro? Everyone was ████ loaded. That's why everybody's just pulling up in Beamers M3s and ████ like that. >> And so when my dad was picking me up in a 1989 Vanigan Twinkie mobile,

4:15 >> damn. with no handle on the outside. I was I felt like for real like just the worst. >> Yeah, it's hard, man. Freaking uh we had one kid with an M3 in my high school. Chinese kid. >> We had like four kids with M3s. >> I even one was like blew our minds. We're like, "No ████ way." >> That's crazy for an adult to own an M3. Now imagine a 16-year-old kid. >> Yeah, cuz I thought someone with a 3 series at 16 was a baller. >> That's crazy. Isn't it crazy how we think it's crazy for an adult to own a 3 series because how expensive and how much bills you got and you still can afford the M3 series. >> Yeah, >> but it was mostly their ████ parents that did it. >> Yeah, >> it wasn't them >> for sure. >> Well, that's Well, that's why I wasn't tripping too hard cuz I was like, "Oh, that's your parents for sure." >> Yeah, but it don't even matter at that point. Like >> as an adult, >> if you if you earned your own Civic CRX

5:07 versus a kid whose parents bought the M3, he's still winning in front of everybody, man. That's crazy. >> I never like the luxury cars. >> You can't make all of Gabino wet with your car you bought. >> It's too much attention. >> If Yeah. Just for me like the simple like just to have a cuz you know like we used to read import tuner all the time. We used to go to hotport nights. used to go to import show off and it would we would just stand around and dream and we just look at these cars and go dad to roll up in school in something customized >> cuz you can't just buy it. You got to like get the stuff and put it on and then then you got to do the molding and the paint and body and everything. I'm like that's a tunnel to be like I did all that myself. Like that would be a crazy flex. >> Mhm. >> And then you think all the ████ are going to be what it's just a bunch of dudes around your corner. >> Yeah, >> that's true. Hey, all it takes all it takes to get all the girls to like you is the most popular girl liking you.

5:59 >> That's true. Cuz they just want they just want to take you away. >> Hell yeah. >> Yeah. Other than cars though, did you Is there anything else you could provide your high school self that would be like the flex of that era? >> A treehouse. >> A treehouse in high school. >> House in high school. >> What the hell? >> What the For what? >> What? >> A treehouse in high school, bro. You think your friends in high school would think it's sick to have a treehouse? >> I was comfortable in my own skin, you know? Like I like things that were kind of out of this world, but also >> I did what I love. I graffiti. I ████ sold drugs, >> but I still I still I still would have really liked a tree house. >> Really? >> Damn. >> So gangster ass Joe Mama from back then just wanted a tree house >> and I would invite all my friends to come in. >> What the heck? >> How big would you make it? No, like the

6:50 real like the good ones, you know, like a hideout like like you know when you could you could rent where it's like there's different bedrooms in a ████ bridge connect >> lamping house >> like Robinson Caruso. >> Yeah, like that. Like a like >> like the Tarzan tree house at Disney. >> Yeah, like a hideaway style. Yeah. >> Damn. >> Well, I guess you did have kind of like a a crack den room. Yeah, but like not like a little cute one in the backyard, but like like if if if I >> like a lost boy treehouse >> like come over here with a freaking skateboard track. >> Yeah. Like I run into my little like like younger me and then they're like you're not going to molest me, right? And I'm like nah chuck just come this like you're you're going to love this tree house. >> You said that to older guys. >> Yeah. And then it's like you're in a forest and then you're just like you climb up there's a house there. This is the kitchen. You go to the next bridge.

7:40 That's the bedroom. It's just sick. >> That's a That's a full-on tree compound. >> That's a house. >> This This is really small, but uh this during this era, like all the cool guys had this. >> I could never get it, but like for some reason, I'm pretty sure you guys remember when guys that just had those silver Cubans, but like it had like your ████ name tag almost. >> I still Yeah, they still have that ████ at the mall. Yeah, but at the time like >> it reminded me cuz I saw it the other day and I was like, "Wo, that's classic." I think they're doing that in necklaces now. >> Oh, really? Like the ID bracelet? >> Pretty braces plus like the puka shell combo ████ dude. >> Damn, that was fly. >> Spiky looking like ████ big fish or >> Cali was different, huh? >> Yeah, we're little zesty back in the day. >> Oh, okay. Now rockar. never got on it,

8:30 but I also thought I never could afford it. So, whatever, dude. >> What about What about you, Nick? Do you got >> Mhm. >> I'm trying to think like for us it was more about like having a little spot that all the homies could come >> like a tree house or like a like a real house. Like a real house. >> Yeah. Not even like or just like cuz we used to always congreate at like our one homies house and that's where everybody would pull up and there would be and like at this dude's house like five or six other dudes lived on the same block. Oh, >> so that would be the house where everyone would kick it at >> all like smoke house. There's a pool table. >> Come on, dude. >> But like people would make music, right? >> Having like a clubhouse like that. >> That's what I'm saying. Like like cuz a bunch of the homies I kicked with in high school, they were really into like making music. So it would be like a spot where >> a music studio. >> Yeah, something like that. Like I remember like that was like, "Oh dude, we got to have a spot where we can go

9:20 kick it. >> That's overkill." >> And they would like smoke pot and all that ████ you know? Like they would just do that all the time. And I remember cuz they would always do like they would have like little makeshift computers. They have like little soundboards and then they'd ████ around. But having like, you know, like a really dope built out like spot would have been ████ awesome. >> Did any of those guys end up doing music to >> Yeah. One of my buddies, he actually made it pretty far. But he kind of just stopped. But he was so talented. He was really, really good. >> What kind of music did he do? >> He would do like he would do rap. Actually, like three of those dudes. Three of those dudes became pretty like popular rappers, especially like coming out of Pasadena. But I think they just stopped, man. They stopped and they they they built some pretty big followings, like 100k following. >> Wow. >> They were they were pretty big. That's really Did they Did they stop after they're with their girlfriends? >> Oh, we're trying to say girls be ruining

10:10 ████ >> Well, some of them got pregnant like they got they had to have a kid and they they kind of stopped making music. And that was the homie that I was like, "Man, if you stay with it, bro, he could be like one of the next big guys." >> Like, he is hella good. >> Like, cuz we went to high school with like one of the Odd Future guys, >> which his name was uh ████ ████ Beats. >> Oh, ████ >> ████ Daddy's that guy. >> I I think. Yeah, I think so. But like, you know, cuz he was like a couple grades older than us and he was like the cool guy. So, everybody was like, "Yo, bro, like we just got to follow his his track and you know, we could." And they were all like kicking with Tyler Creator and all those guys. All the LA dudes and they all kind of knew each other. >> That was the coolest camp on earth. >> Yeah. So like those dude and everybody was like, "Yo, we're we're going to be like just like those dudes, you know, but >> should have stuck with it. >> This guy stopped." >> Did Did you have tattoos in high school? I can't remember. >> No. >> None of you guys had high school tattoos? >> I did.

11:00 >> You did? >> I got a 17 my tattoo on my chest. >> To have a a tattoo in high school would have been freaking overkill. >> What' you get ████ stamp? just to hack anything just cuz it was so like not allowed in our school that like if you showed up with that it would break the freaking >> You also know you have to be 18 to get one. >> Yeah. So how did you like hack that? >> I got 17. >> How'd you do that? >> Garage. >> I hung out when I was underage there. It's the same place where we got our ████ fear everyone but I can't tell the world what it is. >> And I I built rapport. I I built rapport. And he goes, "Bro, I'll I'll do it for you, but this is not something I do on a regular." And it's like kind of looked down upon, you know, like in the world >> in the tattoo world. >> Yeah. But I spent a whole year just hanging around and drawing >> and then like >> and and then hanging and he was just

11:50 like, "All right, >> come here. >> That's crazy. So dope that you got your clip pierced, too. >> You ready to end the video? You ready to end the video, dude? If I had the sickest Magic the Gathering card deck, >> you would have ruled the school, dude. You would have been principal owned them all, dude. last person here that even bought Magic the Gathering cards. >> I got it. I got that deck, the Final Fantasy deck that just came out. >> Hell yeah, dude. >> You did? I did see that >> because it collabed with my favorite Final Fantasy game. I was like, I don't even play Magic, but I got to have this. >> You want to play? You want You want me to come over and play? >> It looks complicated as I can't even understand it to be honest. >> Which one did you play? Fire or like that's what I >> had every day. I play Explain it to me. I don't even understand. I can. You got fire, earth, water, and some the yellow one. >> Are you good at it? >> No, kid.

12:40 >> No, being good is a matter of like your like what cards you have. >> If you memorize the ████ out of your cards and you know that the strategy is good, you're going to be good. But then at the same time, it's like if you're playing against like your weakness, >> then like that's complicated. >> Yeah. >> Nerd. Let's end the video. Defa.

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