0:00 [Music] and welcome back to a very again reflective episode of the careful boys where we're all finally back here and 2020 fall we had just talked about this is part two what is the craziest thing that happened this year this guy's grandma died the year prior but they put her in a wall or something like that put the old bird in the wall I can say barbell Brigade closed down and now Bart's fun again Bel U but more importantly there's a path there's a path to success for the healing of the wonderful wow that's really good good summary found out about that g away for free sh his pants grade Ryan didn't want to mention the fact that he ran a marathon because more importantly he spent a 36y year
0:51 Bender 36h hour Bender fixing Paul abdel's tracks yeah uh in order to get it right for everybody else cuz he was a hero and there's only a perfect person like him who could do it and now we're going to listen to Anthony's craziest car lock grand opening that he did for 2024 EV vehicles in China quickly though is the average Paula audience person like some old lady no it's like people my age oh really okay Millennials an old lady really I didn't know she was popular when we were she was popular when we were kid I'm just picturing him doing all these sick beats and working his ass off and then all these old AG are just sitting there blinking well she was popular but I thought it was a Gen X thing I think Gen X and Millennials okay cuz she was still huge when we were there's a when I went
1:42 to the concert there's a lot of people that are just into throwback stuff so it was like there were there was actually more like people I think most people were my age or or like within 10 year range plus she stayed relevant being like a judge on TV shows like she she's been pretty relevant I would say yeah worked out yeah so uh yeah grand openings for carlot yeah yeah yeah that's exciting wait did you buy your house this year I did wow that's is that is that a big one for you You' been the the most crazy cuz it wasn't just about buying houses it was moving to Vegas so like buying a house in Vegas and finding the cheapest one you could possible uh got and then still haggling and right it could always be cheaper you know [Laughter] cheapest house I could find cheapest
2:34 house I could find yo why are the haters saying that you cheaped out on the house though cuz didn't you no it's not me no no that's the best part started it just points at Steve somebody somebody said he came in here one day and said people say I cheat done on my house oh no fool it was Jason channy's bit yeah exactly yeah he comes up with the funniest things here one random person said it and it's it's so off that it's hilarious but he brought it up to us and then I was like never ever talk wait Jason chenny I thought I thought I thought someone was hating on you and we thought it was hilarious he's he's doing he's trying to get his bit what you about cuz Jason Ken chenny came up with the 911 thing Jason chenny comes with the funniest ████ he did the would you rather ████ your mom or dad yeah that one too and the and he named the careful boys old enough for kisses yeah Jason chenny chn's the brains so moving was
3:24 your big thing huh moving and getting a house out there um cuz I think that was also like and I'll never ever be able to like discount how crazy this is even though I discounted the house yeah um nice it it was it's different also to like ask your partner to like quit their job and then move and then find a new job cuz like for me right being a uh having my own business or independent contractor or like traveling to to do work outside of the state I it didn't matter what state I was in like technically your job's the flexible one so usually you would wrap the flexible one around the one that's like stuck but then the youth guys flipped it yeah so for her to be willing to and then even at her old job which was a like in clinic um she was also there with one of her closest friends too so just like leaving that work and then also she
4:15 because she had gone to grad school in order to get that job as an OT you know you also have to spend a certain amount of time like at least a year working before you get a certain type of benefits for like your 401 or whatever so like she had earned all these new benefits and stuff like that too working there with one of her close friends and then still being like okay cool let's quit my job and then just find something yeah wow well good for her for being r or die like that for real conversation go though well it was a three-year conversation so like it wasn't like something that was so out of the blue I think we had always been talking about it and then like me and her always go out to Vegas just like for fun or for events or whatever anyway we spent like our anniversary there for the last like x amount of years so we would always talk about it but to and you guys have see me talk about Vegas all the time too and to the point where I'm always like trying to convince myself I'm like do I mean it um but yeah I think for her it
5:07 was just finally a moment of us me and her going like all right like let's do this let's actually do it yeah is she happy with her decision she's super happy great awesome she's super happy I mean I think in general it's we also just like needed kind of like a life refresher you know when sometimes like no matter like where you're at in your hustle or how Progressive might feel for your career or whatever sometimes you just need things to change in order to like enjoy whatever it is you're doing doesn't doesn't need to be easier it just needs to be fresh yeah I think that was huge for us um even me personally like just like doing like what I've been doing even in like the dancing for like however long um I feel more inspired in my career now than I'm like farther away from everybody I do stuff with isn't it
5:57 like crazy to wake up in the morning and see where the ████ your money is like you know what I mean like you can see you have your view and you have like your house and all ████ and like you're surrounded by where you put your money instead of like renting and all this other ████ this like conceptual are you complimenting my house in my he's setting you up for a punch line I'm not no cuz that that's what that's what happened when me and Nikki made the jump from from renting to like actually having our condo in La it was like wow I see where my money is and even then in La it's like you're not stretch you're stretching your dollar so hard and it's like it looks like ████ whereas in Vegas you actually see where your money is you see you see clean streets your view is amazing it's awesome yeah you got big old Trump flag right in front of your house and you wake up in the morning you go ah and then you have a big Trump flag flying off of your
6:47 balcony I do love I do love our view uh that's a that's cool though was it the first time leaving your like Southern California comfort zone and Nest cuz I just been you know I grew up in Orange County the last 15 years I've been jumping around La so that's like Southern as much as like you travel the world and whatnot like Southern California is all I've known even going to college like I stayed in Southern California everything like that but you've seen the world though yeah yeah t but it's different kind of oversee in the world live when you live somewhere it feels completely different it is cuz now that when I go to Vegas or California it feels like I'm going home mhm both places you know that feeling yeah it's weird right and it's also really weird when you fly into Vegas and you just got nothing but ████ slot machines everywhere this this used to be associated with like Bachelor parties and just like B now it's like my home
7:38 and it just feels tight it feels like going home is like your vacation every time they say that on the on the intercom they're like um if this is like your connection you're in Vegas and then if if you're home welcome home I'm like wa this is my home that's cool yeah it's mindblowing so it's really really fun uh and exciting right now that's definitely clearly the craziest thing that happened um but I have some like for the sake of dress dring this ████ video out don't don't drag don't your F just to BU them there was one really crazy moment that was like a blip that happened and it was when I was uh I was in I was in chy to performing with Jackson and uh I get a message from my sister like hey I need you to like call me back whenever you get the chance and anytime I get that message I get ████ scared for my life um because uh in 2014 she did the same thing she was
8:29 trying to reach out to me and then when when I was in China again and then it was I I couldn't get back because we were doing all this work and then finally we like get internet down and like some hotel lobby in the small ass City and then she reaches out to Mike via Facebook and Mike's like yo aun your sister's trying to get a hold of you and that's when I knew it was tough what the f and this is in 2014 and then I I get her on the phone and then she tells me that my my dog passed away remember that just being like the toughest thing to swallow cuz it obviously it's already a s█████ thing to happen it feels way s███████ when you're like on the other side of the world out there yeah and everything I know that feeling exactly so she messaged me this year she's like hey like I need you to call me back but everything's okay but even then you're still like what another dog dad's gay come home he wants to see you first D came
9:20 out the closet get her quick but uh come home it was about my dad I ended up calling her back right away and it turns out my dad had to get rush to the ER because he had a um a heart problem where he was he was at like one of our Boy Scout camps and stuff like that and uh he whether it was like heat or overworking himself uh his heart started palting like crazy and then he just he had to get rushed via ambulance to an ER and they had to do some tests on him and then he eventually got more cardiac testing throughout like in the last couple months we're still waiting on some results for some other testing and stuff but even though he's okay I mean the guy's crazy too like he didn't want to spend another night in the hospital because he he was going to get charged for it so he literally snuck out he like ripped up all his ████ and he just walked out with I don't think he's gay at all actually um cuz they didn't get the results back fast enough
10:10 they were like delaying stuff and he's like I don't want to stay here and pay for another night he knows the game do you get charged for not checking out like a hotel like a hotel yall leave your card at the cter yeah they're like I already left hey what's up guys just in case you have seen some of these lovely pieces on some of our gentlemen here these awesome Jade pendants or you may have seen the recent JK Adventure where we went to J Jewelers just remember that the sale is on now if you want to visit the jj. you can even find some of the stuff that our guys have had and way way more the selection is huge so make sure to visit the J Jewelers and check out what they've got check it out let's go but yeah even though he's okay just having that moment of like knowing that same thing just that fear that PTSD of like being across the world not being there and like my dad he just turned 70 we just went on a ████ cruise for a 70th birthday they like oh yeah yeah this
11:02 guy's this guy's a old man now you know after that ████ happened where you're like Dad I really love you and he's like [Applause] okay like all right anth okay right just chill out just chill out too much too much shut up okay okay emotional Spike yeah d did you try it again sneak attack on the cruise dude on the cruise okay I know how to get that guy so soft now and so so like I I did the cheesiest thing right for 70th birthday I did the cheesiest thing I went on Amazon bought one of those like dad's stories books oh yeah yeah yeah where you like ask them stuff and you know did you end up feeling it out I did some of it but the best way for me to do that without him feeling all like cuz
11:52 he's going to think I'm gay if I'm just asking these questions so yeah so I got my was a gay cruise I got my niece AKA his Grand daughter to sit in my lap and I had her ask the question hack hack and dude seeing him actually want to answer these things because she's asking and then she can't read a couple words too so I'm like helping her so it became a trigeneration bonding experience your niece was just like she has no idea what's going on what's your body count what your body oh man are you an ass man or a boo man mom or dad mom mom or dad would you suck on a p to completion or taking in the butt to completion Fu these are all the you a dick in your
12:43 mouth or in your butt which one do you back up on which direction are you going we should make that book how to bond with your parents the JK book The Ultimate the Ultimate Experience ultimate brain teasers I can't believe we just rapid five like six questions right now that were out of the book easy they're pretty easy D just imagine your niece asking that ████ that's my one regret to tulsy is that we didn't ask mom or dad I know someone yeah Anthony kind of wiggled around iared I feel like the butterfly effect of that she wouldn't have become the freaking director of T dude we would have ruined her whole ████ ████ we probably ruined it already she probably was supposed to be VP and then we ████ it up some you know her uh the video that we did where we're asking the dumb questions that one's actually picking
13:33 back up that's funny right it's a PR nightmare for her she's like she's going to call us to ask us don't get it too many views we don't want to hear anybody from the White House tell us to take it down please please please can't afford it we need to add Revenue that's awesome dude so so did he have you ever thought about like it's like hey Dad can you just read off that Q card he's like I love you Anthony and like got you ████ he's like you do and he goes horce code I'm like hey read can you still read this who's Anthony damn it's ████ up right it was a moment does he call does he call you Anthony it's more like Anthony I knew it that's really what he said he said your name he doesn't call you by like your Vietnamese name or Chinese name or something dude that's what we're going
14:23 to call you what's your Vietnamese name what's your what's your Vietnamese name Lian lii Lee that's my last name Lee be like tan maybe that's what my sex H son all right Joe what about you man I I don't know I think I just been focusing on one thing and um cutting your hair no dude like turning Juni and Hawaii around was probably one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do because after the fire happened in Maui oh yeah Hawaii got ████ cuz you know tourism is like the biggest uh like
15:14 that's the only way they make money literally so when the I don't think anyone they happened in August and no one could predict what was going to happen next because October and all fall of 2023 tourism went down by like 50% and it by December a lot of businesses were like we can't ████ pay rent and then the spring of 20 this year we were like what the ████ is happening because our numbers went down by like 40% can you feel like the whole island feel less populated like traffic hell it was bad because like well we already opened during lockdown right so it's not the same when we used to go and then like 2018 I mean 2017 18 Wy ke was cracking
16:05 like there was hell of people plus some people online were like don't goact exactly that was a big one ████ them man so that was a big one because like the thing is um a lot of people the locals there were like we need y'all to come more than ever now because I have a lot of uh employees that had to leave Maui cuz the economy went really bad on Maui and then they're like there's no more jobs we don't know what to do like I had like there were people in Lina that couldn't even stay in Lina because their areas uh were fine like you know their areas didn't get burned down but everything basically became a ghost town right so no one was going there no one was spending money people didn't want to be shamed all this ████ happened so they had to come to our Island which is
16:56 aahu and that's where Honolulu is that's where the you know actual jobs are so they came and then they were just like yeah like we we just couldn't survive out there like you can only stay at your relatives for so long and then all of the jobs there disappeared wow so then and then they had the trickle effect right and so we were just like what's happening with the numbers like what happened like and then um yeah every year there's like a tourism like statistics thing they Japan was bad everything was bad so we were just in like we were just losing money every month we just had to keep working and spending money to keep it alive and then so I was like maybe it's going to close cuz dude Apple closed they're in my hallway right Apple left the building my um some of the tenants I saw
17:49 like four or five businesses leave on my hallway so like I was like ████ we're going to be next we're going to be next like we're going to we're not going to be able to make rent it was tough right and then um one of my neighbors was like I don't think we can I think we might have to shut down I'm like what is your numbers like he goes dude in uh when we got in here in 2021 he was like we were making a quarter Mill a month and he goes now I can't even make rent a month that's how big of the yeah he was making a quar mil a month and people were like it was fine it was I mean cuz we were in a really good spot like we're in the most busiest foot traffic um spot like it was people who have never started a business before on Reddit would say that he should have just saved the quarter Mill a month he was getting before idiot you're making so much ████ money yeah I don't feel bad for
18:40 you sir our our building that we're in it's um actually it well preall of this it was the top 5 foot traffic place in America wow so it went from there in America in America wow wow it's one of the most expensive retail centers in America so that's the effects of of what the fire did so yeah like apple left which is a company that has unlimited cash right and so like the foot traffic went and then the hotels they were at like 50% capacity wow so it was really bad and then they were giving out hella deals people were coming but also the economy was bad so like people weren't spending and then so we were just like I don't know if we could survive 2024 and um at the same time my managers like were like like yeah you know what I
19:30 want to go move to California so then we were manager list and then like just it was a bunch of it was a huge mess so me and Hannah were like all right we're just going to be way more like Hands-On and we were but more like not in the store right so we're like kind of like build like working on it not in it but now I had to go in it and actually like be there every day 10 hours a day like fixed ████ and and that it was pretty rough and then um I learned a lot and it was proba it's dude it's way harder than YouTube for sure because it doesn't end like with YouTube it's like you can film for a couple hours you can do things offsite whatever but when you have a business that's open from 9: to 9 so much can go wrong every single day we're a 365 business so like there's a
20:21 lot of wear and tear right so every week we have something breaking and then so to save money because we're losing so much ████ money I had to learn how to be a handyman so I'm like plumber today tomorrow I'm a tech for the ice you know I learned so much ████ about fixing things and I probably Sav thousands of dollars doing it that way but before when we had a budget I could just call someone and then someone will come in and then they'll fix it for a couple hundred bucks but that was pretty ████ crazy and then um as time went on you know like people are starting to go like okay well looks like um you know I won't be shamed to to go to Hawaii so they'll start trickling in we I started learning a little bit more about like pricing and how I should price things better Market it better and it was just these little kind of
21:11 small tweaks that I made um that started to kind of pick back up learned about I don't know I just I just think I I became a little bit better in business but it takes like it was a hard ████ lesson and then now we're doing amazing but man that was like one of those things too that you don't really like the hard part about I think business too is while you're in the fight you don't want to complain about that cuz like we're also the face of the business right so like you don't want to be like oh my God we're ████ dying here we need you guys to come over here and help us out like cuz it's not about that nobody wants to go to that yeah and it's not a charity like I'm not here for you to ████ fund this like this is something it's it's it's something I wanted to do do it for JK though please true but I think at the end of the day
22:01 man it was it was like um one of the toughest things I've ever done and I didn't know if I was going to get out of it alive and um yeah we were able to kind of turn it around it's it's doing good now um and it's just one of those things and afterwards I made a lot of friends with uh locals that are entrepreneurs out there and everybody says P I can't believe you opened up in W ke I'm like why he goes it's one of the toughest ████ places and these guys are like eight figure earners these guys are guys that like I would never go into there and I'm like well I wish I ████ knew and he goes yeah he goes it he's like w is one of those P like it's one of those places where he's like it's it's like you're ████ a billionaire one day and then tomorrow it'll take it'll go away because of how crazy the the the the swings are yeah wow you like to gamble
22:52 though perfect for you yeah bro I feel like that is your style though if you were to I think if you were if if someone was like this is the most stable location it's not the never high traffic never low traffic You' be like boring loser you're like this location's like this you're like side me yeah and then the the the waves are like that dude it's like from 50% to 100 like it's just crazy damn ████ Hawaii's coming back huh Hawaii's coming back I think um tourism's coming back I think people don't feel shamed anymore to to travel to Hawaii and post pictures impact that made man those idiots they don't know they never know what they're ████ up it's the worst well also
23:43 still I I think still not a lot of people are going to Maui though yeah I mean didn't you have family members that lost businesses but they moved over to aahu right so that there was a big ex they need people to go right to keep funding those businesses or else everyone's just going to leave Mau to ghost town it's going to be so sad yeah we that can't happen dude we're going to save Maui yeah and I think that's kind of yeah one of the hardest things I've ever done in life period is to turn something around that was like I don't even know if there's this is like going to work but blindly you just have to do it 12 hours a day you're pumping more money into it and you don't have that much money anymore and you're just like ████ all right and when you first started it you got robbed basically in the beginning before he was even open yeah and it's crazy cuz like um I've met
24:34 other people who who basically lost out and we started around the same time and there's this other guy who opened up about two Boba shops and he's like dude I had to like let go of one the other one I kept I kept losing so when you have that kind of comparison to go by you just feel a little bit better like not like not like yeah and then there's trauma Bond cuz you're like bro you lost that much yeah and goes I yeah I yeah it cost me this much and I didn't even make a scent off of it and then like you're like okay we're all in the same boat here and there's a community behind like yeah dude we all got screwed pretty hard versus like your business sucks you suck as a businessman you yourself like fa I think there's a little bit of that like of like okay it was unforeseen like things that happened we all were
25:25 fighting the same fight and then you're like man was it it was tough yeah well you were composed the whole time every time we hung out with you you were ████ normal seriously yeah cuz coming here is a that's the at at the end of the day this is the blessing is like I get to escape from that while Hannah's like what the ████ yeah but this is the place where I feel so much better and I'm super grateful for it so to end the 2024 it's like this place even though we all ████ lose money coming here it's like the best therapy ever it's like the best place to kind of come back to and just like all right ████ at least I have this you know to be fair you usually have to pay for therapy so that's true true you're getting a deal yeah yeah we've just been doing therapy for a few years now and we're not solving our for and for hours and hours and hours a day
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