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Off the Record: Putting Christian a.k.a. "Frugal Aesthetic" in the HOT SEAT!!

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0:00 [Music] welcome back to careful boys everybody we got with us christian today finally we got christian in the hot seat we're gonna get to learn a lot about him as always we like to start things off cold and then progressively the questions get way way more personal and intrusive i'm anti-mask you can start with that what else are you anti he doesn't like the jabberwocky's mask i'm actually anti-people join the club dude all right that eliminates half the questions let's start it off with uh with the bart's coldest ice cold question if you could redesign oh the pine cone oh how would you make it look make them hot pink hot pink is that your favorite color yeah since when

0:50 since oh man i don't even know is it would you consider pepto-bismol hot pink yeah that's like a pale pink that's yeah that's like a that's an easy pink that's a warm see my elementary school was painted that color really yeah and so was bart's dad's house but imagine if like pine cones were just hot pink though in the wild that'd be kind of fun well that'd be pretty cool like just randomly it'd be way more eventful you'd like to be like oh look what's hot pink like like a fuchsia like uh like it's a good rebrand like that like the donut right there that's light pink you gotta like turn up the saturation huh yeah i think is like uh maybe like this but it's like more pink it's like yeah how do you how do you know joe um i know joe through uh through jump cut you remember that yeah he was a student yeah a very successful one and now a very successful channel the whole origin of my channel was i was

1:41 watching in high school i was water was in college it was one of those i was watching jk news in the background and i remember the specific video it was a top five most paid youtubers i don't know if you guys remember doing that one but it was like it was just actually just going down the list of like the hottest youtubers at the time and everyone was making like an absurd amount of money and it's like well you can get paid that much doing youtube this is like during like uh ryan higa michelle fan days or no it's in 2016. it's like pewdiepie so we're talking about the the mega successful youtuber i see okay you're like pewdiepie and all them and at the end of the video i just had playing in the background when i was doing homework and at the end of the video you guys were talking about like oh we're actually joining forces with kong and jesse to do the jump cut course and i was like in the middle of doing my homework like oh man that sounds so much

2:32 more fun than this so then i was like i'm just gonna do that now that's gonna be my life like i kind of just in that moment kind of dedicated like when an athlete picks that so it's like homework or youtube ████ i'm just gonna do that and then i did and then that was that's the whole thing so this is kind of like a full circle moment wow that's so like cool life came from like that episode now i'm on jk news it's kind of like a cool full circle moment what do you do on your channel now i know men's fashion but it's funny ████ though dude he has a lot of comedy oh yeah he he did one about how to dress like a ████ dad how to just oh yeah how do you rate bart's uh fashion santa barb give him a give him a circle around just so we can inspect you what kind of t-shirts and cargo pants but look at that fatty

3:22 though look at that fatty yeah but for a dad though it's like popping not for a dad vibe is pretty good all right dad vibes is kind of like that's a that's a uh that's like inspo for a lot of people right now yeah yeah like norm core is like a huge really cool what's that you know like what the hell is norm core like you know when people wear like dad shoes like the new balances the white ones and like wearing like a button-down shirts like big button-down shirts and like dad you know jeans that don't like necessarily fit too well yeah like wranglers or some ████ the original levi's people's muses right now are their dads in new york come full circle that's hilarious so like young kids or young like hipster kids would dress like that they if they dress to look like they're not trying to dress

4:13 but still look kind of cool but yeah but it's like their shoes are balenciaga and it's just like that's kind of like lauren's cow huh shout out what got you into fashion uh i think it was freshman year of high school i was like man all my friends are cool and hot i need a personality or something and then you decided to make this your personality i was like really fat in high school and i was like man all my friends are like hot they play football and they surf i'm like i need a cool thing dude like i need to keep up somewhere so i was like i'm just going to dress better than everybody was this when you lived in hawaii yeah this is what i look like because that's a weird place to start fashion because the fashion out there is like bikinis and good bodies yeah yeah like there's a board shorts and ████ tank tops you know what i mean like there's a big like b-boy scene out there yeah so like a lot of us there's a lot of street wear like people like dunks and like sb's and all

5:04 that back then so i was like let me just take see where this goes so it started with like supreme and like nike shoes and all that and then slowly started realizing oh there's so much more to this like rabbit hole so i'm like on the internet just doing deep dives i'm like going to school talking about brands that people like who is that person like who is that who's christian deol yeah like who's that like why do you care about that guy what's some crazy brands that like are beyond the surface that most people don't know about but like if you're in the in crowd oh yeah like you're really into streetwear there's a there's this rick owens is like a big one like that one's actually pretty mainstream now a lot of people know about that one yeah i know rick owens just hang on rico ████ no rick owens rick owens was one that i was like man i can't wear this in public why why just cause like if you like hopefully the editor puts a picture

5:55 right now like like a rick owens runway show like it's like really it's almost like art it's like how do i wear this like how do i find an excuse as to why i'm wearing it's like high fashion stuff do you have any rick owens clothing yeah like in new york i have a i have a pair of heels that like they're like huge like six inch heels for like guys and are they hard to watch yeah you get used to them they're not that bad really do you think you could like run like 20 feet in them oh they i don't think i've actually i've tried to run in them they're not that bad they're like the there's like it's like wearing a really tall shoe as opposed to like a stiletto like a like oh it's like those shoes they used to sell that help you dunk yeah yeah yeah but yeah fashion was definitely like i don't know i think getting into that

6:46 was a was that was my angle onto youtube isn't that a very expensive thing to get into oh definitely good write-offs though huh everything's a write-off what's the most embarrassing porno you ever jacked off to [Laughter] speaking of fashion and what were they wearing in it like what did you jack off to you're like oh man why did i do it to this one definitely moments where like can't be i didn't have like you know back then when your phone didn't have internet or you're just like man i gotta use my imagination yeah there's definitely been times right of make-believe yeah i've been using my imagination and there were times where i was just like nutted to nothing nothing you're like zen mud nutty introspective i just gotta get a nut off i'm like why did i do that you're just not into like memory that's worse than what you've seen that's pretty creepy

7:36 though i don't think i've ever seen anything weird though i'd rather watch a girl suck a horse's dick really did nothing yeah because you're just jacking off into space there's no inspiration you know what i mean i think i would choose space over horse though space to each of their own yeah don't yuck each other's yums that's what we have here i mean some of the weirdest porn to jack off to stuff that's not porn at all yeah like what like a shape like yeah like a sesame street episode yeah like a like a podcast inauguration speech i wonder if that's what designers valedictorians yeah they just ████ they just jack off to a sculpture of abstract art or some ████ like yeah i mean for sure it's like oh that spherical shape isn't that a universal rule everything's porn to

8:26 someone out there something a little bit warmer for your space yeah uh in in your in your opinion which designer is overrated it's overrated overrated oh man let's see it man i'm about to get heat there's a bunch of people they're just gonna be like bless you designer yeah there's no brand or anything yeah that you're just like something you shouldn't you can't say eddie bauer okay yeah yeah yeah i'm just oh phillip klein you guys know phil phillip is like the butt of the joke in all of fashion right now why what's the what's this he sucks what kind of stuff does he make oh man he made a i'll tell you this this is probably something that you guys like maybe have heard about but like remember when like when kobe died he made like a tribute a tribute like line to kobe and

9:18 he and he like flew in on a helicopter why to make a statement yeah oh no that's really bad like a helicopter or something around the it was like part of the design thing and people like oh i get it it's to commemorate but it's like dude what do you do bad taste i don't get it did he consciously do that to like i don't know he probably thought it he probably thought he snapped dude he was popping off he's like oh they're gonna get this one oh i love people like that though they just don't get it and they just ████ i'm gonna ████ blow their minds phillip line's like the butt of the joke in fashion right now so we're cool if we make fun of him what a loser dude today's video is brought to you by upstart saying goodbye to high interest credit card debt is one of the first steps to financial freedom but the interest month after month can

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11:48 bird's nest for a hat or like something wild you know you got any birds nestled hats that's what the question is that's pretty as high fashion baby you know i mean that's kind of like ████ i think i'm kind of just all over the place now because the nature of my videos is i kind of talk about everything so i kind of brush up on all the genres of fashion and at this point i'm kind of i like wearing ironic stuff like like this is a this is the shirt i'm wearing right now what does it say i just can't and it's an upside down nike i just get

12:38 business too i love like boardwalk t-shirts like stupid t-shirts i love them forever like souvenir shirts yeah fbi female bodies exactly that like like i went back you get it gift shop t-shirt ████ what makes you like those so much because it's like yeah people think that it's ostensibly bad fashion like oh it's like s█████ like i like wearing it now ironic like i started wearing weed socks again yeah i was about to that was my number two being a ████ troll i love so everything you could get at hot topic is like that's where you yeah man like are you gonna bring back ed hardy though dude ed hardy's like already on the way back really sequin shirts what about von dutch

13:30 dude dutch hats are like popping right now i feel like meme culture has a lot to do with current fashion yeah i think i think it's just cycles yeah and i think the cycles are coming back faster and faster every time what's the next fashion trend that you think is like your fingers on the pulse what's gonna be the new hot ████ the 2000's like uh like um like when you when you see like paris hilton you used to wear and stuff like that like and localized jeans yeah like what nsync used to be wearing like rocks like you're gonna see frosted tips coming back like should have kept my damn baggy pants you can hardly wait like all the fashion there should we frost our tips as a collective crew bro ████ man the next three years you're gonna see like frosted tips coming back like it's already in new york upside down visors and goggles oh dude in new york i'm starting to see like oh what about

14:20 collars popped is that 2000's the band-aids oh like a polo shirt yeah we should all dress like our raving days in high school like people wear oakley shades now oh are coming back you guys got to take it one step ahead and start wearing the i love boobies bracelets oh yeah how can we find something we gotta mass produce something crazy where were they the lance armstrong oh i started i started i don't have them on me right now but i started wearing those power balance bands again oh hell yeah where do you find those now amazon i bought a dude they used to be so expensive i bought a pack of like six for 10 bucks yeah they used to be like 20 bucks do people ever wear the uh like the uh i've fallen i can't get up bracelets as

15:11 fast life alerts that's a necklace i'm going to make a life alert chain i'll send all you guys dude honestly that'd be ████ awesome that would be so ████ awesome with that right with the red nuke button right in the middle it doesn't call 9-1-1 it calls your friend how like damaging would that be if like rape whistles became like an accessory oh my god honestly i don't think it's a bad idea honestly i mean it functions if it functions it's like why not just keep it on yeah just keep one on you i think so like do you guys like all my friends carry like pepper spray in new york we just carry guns bro i think you should carry a knife what's the deal with fanny packs people make fun of me for wearing a fanny pack how are you feeling and i've been wearing that ████ before it started it's so straight in the middle i don't know i just made that up

16:02 it's two right down there you gotta wear it hip-hop to this just a little bit to the side dude i like wearing on my head i love fanny packs so it's okay you you approve i get the christian these fanny packs like not a thing in new york now people wear them but people like wearing them actually in new york right now like actual just side bags are big just like how do you feel about that what's your take on sidebacks i love them yeah guys wearing like purses is big in new york right now yeah i've been seeing that a lot wow fashion is so androgynous like yeah it's like not so defined you know do you go to like the new york fashion week paris fashion week like all those yeah i if i get invited i like sometimes i'll get invited sometimes they're just like actually he talks too much ████ when you see the met gala what do you think of when you see that do you think that's too much or do you think it's like yeah what would be your met gala outfit my at

16:53 is actually vans at the met gala because i want to go because you know it's like people wearing crazy ass ████ i want to pull up wearing vans authentics what is your take on the current fashion trends in albuquerque new mexico that's the hottest question of the night dude like the jesse pinkman yeah okay bounder rvs the jed the people in new york are actually starting to dress like jessie pingman oh yeah that's like 2 000 oh yeah guys that actually like out of style because people are like running that down oh they're just going overboard with it yeah with like the osiris shoes oh yeah the big ones the big goofy ones green steve's going to be in style soon you've got the oscillations would you say uh new york is america's fashion capital oh definitely why not anchorage alaska

17:44 you know what they probably got some rare vibes out there that's true it's very very different i thought it was temple city was it difficult for you to uh leave uh the island and go to a big city and and and explore did you feel like a farm girl moving to the big ████ city honestly i was surprised at how the big ████ city do you feel like a little farm girl we do a big city big ████ city [Laughter] i was surprised how seamless the transition was yeah really yeah like i just pulled up and within the first day i was like oh ████ like because i was here at the time before i moved to new york i was in alhambra and i was like oh la's cool you know i'm like not crazy over but i'm

18:35 like i guess the whole fall in love with the city thing is like a myth or whatever that's like all in movies and then i visited my friend in new york and i was like oh this is how it's supposed to come that's a city la's not really a city ellie's a big f███-off suburb yeah too big yeah it's massive and like in new york you can do like multiple things in a day you can like meet up go get lunch whatever go work out whatever in la it's like you pick one thing and you commit to that yeah that's all you do that's true you gotta come you gotta drive an hour there you might as well stay there for like four hours because yeah for 30 and take an hour back in new york it's like oh yeah i'll be there in like 15 minutes you know so it's like i think the pacing is different and the lifestyle is different but i feel like they're special in their own way are you gonna stay in new york for the rest of your life you think definitely until

19:25 like definitely until i'm old or something until i like settle how do you feel being away from all your ohana on the island i try to visit once a year oh really whenever i go back at least now i'm like realizing oh it's when i visit my parents it's harder to leave them every time my business oh my gosh they're getting to that age where i'm like man there's only be so many of these left you know when i go yeah that's true damn being so far is definitely becoming more and more of a like a liability than i thought it was because when you're young you're like dude ████ them whatever yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm away from my parents but now i'm like they just visited me so they came to new york yeah what's the most disappointing thing you did in your parents eyes most disappointing thing dude it's still dropping out dropping out of college do they still complain about that what was your major when you dropped like i don't care if you're a millionaire

20:15 oh okay yeah i was you dropped out of community just first semester i finished my first semester and i was like i'm not finished you could show them the video and be like mom these are the guys that helped me drop out oh yeah i'd be like they support it did they go to college yeah yeah uh both my parents graduated also they're not hypocrites then all right they're not hypocrites i wanted to drop out too my dad even go to high school i'm a ████ you finished high school then that's why i tell my parents yeah you could have finished high school you got kicked out trying to make me do something you didn't even do yeah no i still also get the question they still mention like oh are you gonna go back oh dude oh do they think you're just ████ around and hanging out in new york and not doing ████ with your life they're just like so like after this youtube thing like what's up i'm like i don't know why don't you become a doctor oh no oh wow yeah like you're going to run out

21:05 of money i'm like dog i hope not that's the whole thing that's the whole plan mom i hope did you think you're just buying taco bell all day and ████ just ████ doing nothing with your life you're like are you okay i'm like yeah i'm fine i'm fine they still ask me like do you need money i'm like no i'm good i promise guys just gotta open up your bank account and be like mom do you want to go on a vacation yeah dude i asked him i was like i always ask him like we'll go to the north shore have you ever been there they have this thing where it's like they think [Laughter] they think i'm broke and i'm rich at the same time oh that's what does that mean they're like are you okay to eat money i'm like no i'm good so when are you gonna fly us out it's one of the it's a test dude it's a

21:57 test they have they have to always ask if you have money or not i think you do you have any major regrets of of of life yeah decisions you've made or now we got to turn up the heat at the very last moment i don't think so because i always think like oh that happened so that this could happen and without i always like in my head try to convince myself whenever something's bad but you kind of know some of those didn't need to happen huh and what were they but like did you ever have a friend give you a ride and like six people die [Music] yeah ever yeah that ever happened we're just asking all your friends are in life ████ serious i regret not taking part in that what the ████ that's a anime story yeah that's right maybe you're one of my curses i heard a

22:47 bunch of small ████ that i can't find excuses for him like if i lost a like if i lost like a watch or something like ████ bro there's no life lesson here i just ████ misplaced it yeah like like if i do something bad like if i miss a huge opportunity i'm like all right well that's probably needed to happen so that something cool could happen but if it's some small ████ like i forgot to like forgot my wallet i'm like this there's no life lesson here it's time to get a chain wallet so it's stuck to you yeah yeah two thousands fashion yo come on full circle get it with the metal beads and ████ you know i regret like small things though definitely not the big stuff what are some small things yeah like losing my wallet that's pretty regretful move yeah like why did i do that or like getting my getting like my order wrong at starbucks or something your own order yeah

23:38 you got your own order this is stupid or like when you get something you try something for the first time in its ass and you're like oh why did i do that that's that's a true regret or barista's telling you uh that's wrong why did you say that that's not what you get that is the ultimate regret your life seems pretty good man [Music] you

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