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Off The Record: What Games Actually Teach You About Life?

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0:00 but everyone was like on it like all right you gonna be the dog all right I'm gonna do this like I'm going to work today you know what did what did it teach you about life you think sometimes your homies just want to kiss you that's true that's so true [Music] welcome back to another awesome episode of the careful boys hey where we're currently off the Record anybody ever say anything wait a minute yeah Twitter's now X can I can't uh can we do an unboxing of a thing real fast yeah an unboxing where's that somebody sent this to us and I think you're gonna like it a lot it's not even a box do you know what it is yes you want to guess what it is based off the shape it's for Bart the way you're feeling it I want you to guess what US you need a knife or something

0:50 the clothes but don't but be careful when you if you're slicing it is it close oh no be careful does it feel like fabric you guys want to guess what it is be really careful if you're gonna cut okay I felt like it was closed for somebody I think it's a puppy Hey look look at that it's a dead puppy puppy it's like some sort of like fleece material where's the carpet it's the rug you posted about it what rug I actually follow us wow good job yo this is sick this is gonna be so late it's a JK rug the cameras never catch the floor in here so it doesn't matter dude why do I even wear I wear woo pants why dude Bart loves rugs so this is really cool they made a JK rug yeah dude how do you know I like Rooks I know what you like dude that is from raw rugs [Music]

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2:32 not nobody's ever going to see it ever dude I don't want to step on this it's so nice yeah no it's all white you gotta hang it don't put it in the bathroom even for a second put in the glass case or it could fit on that purple keep it for a second what you know that purple wall like right above the stack of waters probably fit back there too yeah but dude who's gonna see that let's see it and you guys see it you can't even tell it's a rug at that distance then I'll put it we'll put it here I can't wait to do this office thank you thank you thank you that's amazing and if you have any amazing arts and crafts and want to dedicate a s███████ of your time and skills to us please yeah and it's a great way to just get free promotion because you know if you guys want you know people to buy your products is probably just genius move that was the best deal

3:23 for you what games did you play as a kid that helped you in your opinion really learn about life oh that's a good question fight to get out of the room fight to get out of them that's the classic game what game is that it's it's called Fight to get out of the room so like all we do is we just lock the door and then if you're the last one out you're gay so everyone's just trying to not be the last one such a 90s game in our school how long are you gay for I think for the rest of your life okay and then we'll have to register with the Democratic National Party no one wants to be gay so everyone's trying to rush out of the room huh but what it taught me is that the first person to the to the door is not necessarily the first one out oh cause you're in the worst position by getting there first because people will

4:13 drag you because everyone will pull you back and then you end up in the back and it's usually like the third or fourth guy that gets out first has it ever been a moment where the last person comes out and goes all right now I gotta make out with you yeah or do they just get married to a man immediately it wasn't legal then so we couldn't oh I said damn good point I had a friend when we played house he always wanted to be the wife and I was like that's interesting because we usually want to be the brother or the dad or the dog only brothers and wives like you don't assume the role of a girl even when you're pretending right but he always wanted to be the wife that's cool and then later we find out that he came out of the closet and he was you know he became gay or he was always gay we didn't ever do married couple things with him in the game yeah the husband like sometimes we I mean everyone would

5:03 play house he'd rotate different roles and I remember like taking him to work and then he ████ kissed me on the cheek and played the role because we're I mean he's the wife right so because my brother would fix all these cars and we would just have like cars all over my ████ driveway whatever and then so I'm just pretending and taking him to work and goes okay see you see you at uh see you later honey and then like like he kissed me and then but he's my wife yeah of course it's fine because he's your wife yeah he's going to keep going more details but no one we didn't even think about like we were just like yeah he's I don't know he likes to play that all the time we're like seven or six would he watch Kevin Costner movies and get all excited on that era I think Kevin Costner was like the hot guy oh yeah dude it was like him and Mel Gibbons right

5:54 [Laughter] yeah all the chicks were hot for them right yeah I feel like playing pretendo was one of my ████ favorite things to do like whether you're like just doing like mimicking adults like working yeah like it's just acting right taika just entered into this face as my favorite phase because now he leaves me alone for an hour and he's just pretending the whole time because before he constantly needs you right because he's like a baby yeah but now he's entering his face where he can imagine and he can play and then like he just goes in his room and I just hear he never did I think you have to get to a certain age before you start like your imagination takes over and then so now he can go into his room and he is just preoccupied for like a whole hour by himself and I'm

6:44 like yes some peace and you know what probably happened is he meant his imaginary friend and it's a ████ ghost dude good okay give me some peace get a ghost yeah I remember like when we're on the playground and some ████ stranger ass kids would pull up and they'll be like you guys want to play pretend and we'll be like oh ████ game on dude pretend and then like everyone knew how to play house or everyone knew how to play like okay we're working or whatever it is yeah and then like you just make up the game as you go and I was like that's ████ sick I think those were this it's like self-taught improv kind of yeah but everyone was like on it like all right you gonna be the dog all right I'm gonna do this like I'm going to work today you know what did what did it teach you about life you think

7:35 sometimes your homies just want to kiss you that's true that's true that's so true and then you go you just gotta you know just pay attention yeah let's be real though the true homies don't want to kiss you yeah yeah that's true he was a nice guy he was a nice person kind of shady dude kind of shady can't really trust him yeah don't trigger your motives or else you're not a real friend that's true you never played like like rough housing games when you were a kid me and my sister we used to play um speed I don't know like uh well you'd act like Keanu Reeves what like if you if you go under a speed you're dead yeah like we would play we'd like pretend to play it on uh on like like uh car rides what you pretend to play Speed what's that so you're just playing pretend yeah just

8:25 playing pretend how do you play it it's a variation of what you I'm trying to remember are you deflecting on your speed story no no I just thought it was funny so what the how did we play speed we want to play right we would act like the car can't go under a certain yeah like I just I'm trying to think about it actually were you Sandra Bullock yeah I think I was Sandra dude um no I think we were just me and my sisters would like just pretend that like we can't have the car go under 60 so you just rip dialogue and there'd be moments in the car would be like everybody get on the right side yeah yeah yeah yeah like I forgot what we would cholo with the gun show up to they're like we just had a I remember my mom used to have like a a Windstar van and we would like when we would drive to somewhere far we would ████ around and pretend a place because we would watch speed did your dad work on speed I think

9:16 he did actually your dad did the sound for Speed yeah then you did this not for Speed so we would just pretend to play Speed is your sister like pop quiz Hot Shot we pretend to be on the phone like what we needed that's right we give you a hostage or whatever remember in the beginning of the movie or I think Dennis uh Hopper keeps on saying Pop Quiz Hotshot and then at the end of the movie Kiana's like pop quiz Hot Shot that's a ████ class shaved head white T-shirt I feel like playing like you know at that age you learn a lot about um how not every like some like how people cheat how they like play unfair oh for sure but then like even freeze tag no yeah people be ████ cheating and then you're like okay no matter what every single time you play this game so someone's gonna cheat today's video is brought to you by DraftKings college

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11:48 yeah and like when you're running the characters running because it's like moving being as fast as you are oh tight I remember playing against my little brothers all my both of my brothers are younger than me by three years so like my youngest brother Kenny's like seven years on younger than me or whatever and that doesn't add up like yeah like seven years just about I think and then um so we we would play this game and but both of them didn't understand that when we do the long jump game I would run on the on the track I jump off the mat and then my character is like and he's like flying like Superman across the whole house and then I jumped back on just before the end so he doesn't fall over yeah and then my other brother like jumps and he just goes jump down up down like because he just doesn't know what I'm doing yeah yeah and I'm cleaning their ████ clock and I don't want the best I didn't care yeah I would just beat them but but I couldn't just beat

12:39 them I had to destroy them but he would just never tell them why yeah I'm just like I'm like well my guy just went way farther because I jumped way higher than you and they're all watching the TV to see when he comes out exactly they don't know because they're excited they're like like whoa how come he's jumping so high yeah yeah what's the secret that game is amazing I feel like that was huge that's less than the idea of even like taking your Nintendo or your PlayStation and getting mods on them or game sharks or games just the idea that there were loopholes to like break rules in order to like get high scores so cool I feel like that was a real lesson in life like I wasn't that deep ever works the way the rule of the game is there's always a hack or a cheat or a loophole yeah there's always a code and if you understood how to break that then you're really winning you're not cheating you're winning I remember when I was a kid I used to do that with video games and then get bored immediately I would get all the cheat codes I'll play it

13:29 I'll be like 100 yeah yeah and I just turn it off after like an hour I ruined the Sims with that I got the infinite money hack oh yeah it was boring as ████ yeah I remember a lot of games being based on violence yeah like you know like like slug bug what's like to see like Volkswagen oh yeah someone just sucks you or like dead arm like you just sock each other because there has to be a negative consequence that's boys games man bloody knuckles quarters remember ████ quarters on the table scene where you're like what's this one called white power like you kids still play those games because it was just random acts of violence no I don't think so I feel like a parent will complain and actually it's called bullying now dude when we were in middle school we did the Midwest they do at middle school we used to play this game called uh well they called it I didn't call it this they called it this

14:19 they call it smear the queer you guys know what that came wow Nick dude I'm a world champion how do you play that so it'll be like kill the game it was uh you just throw a football in the middle of the field it's like 20 dudes whoever picks up the football has to make it to the other end zone and everyone just has to smash that guy oh ████ why would anyone want to pick up the football because it was just like a thrill like I'm gonna be the guy that could ████ do it it's Alpha ████ I'm I'm the ████ I use my pure will to get to the other end and what did that teach you it taught you that ████ if there's a will there's a way baby you know what I mean like some and sometimes when you pick up that ball and you're just getting smashed out it's fine but you just pick it back up I feel like at that age it also teaches you like uh where people are in the pack you know what some

15:09 people would consistently stand out and be like dude that guy's good at this game you know what I mean you all like Jamal and you'd be like no because we had we had in fourth grade Jamal we all know Jamal that was the first Chinese uh I think so yeah there's a Cambodian Chinese cattle we had a Jamal Mash bird and I remember this is one when you first started going like wait a second there's something special about this guy you got Nitro in your boots this guy yeah you got nitrons this ████ turbo at his caps I was just like this is this is something else but then you'd watch a kid get props if they like made it and then you'd be like oh dang I want a props but you never understood that concept before you know what I mean and I had asthma so I'm trying to keep up with Jamal but doesn't really work dude I play you ever put Four's lava ████ yeah floors lava taught me to just keep

15:59 moving just don't look back that's what I found out ████ Tiger's a cheating ass ████ when I play floors lava with them all right because like floors lava and then then I might see him stepping on living room oh no that's ocean now hitting rules at the last minute man drowning them tiger you're drowning being a guilty Catholic ████ made me like I would call myself out it's like my ah I touched it I'm dead it's all over pissed about it all over I'm angry because I I know I can't cheat because God's watching me like I watch I love watching Tycoon like his cousins play because you see all the ████ cheating like they're playing tag right I tagged you and you clearly

16:51 didn't even you didn't even touch them yeah I attacked no you didn't yeah you did and they're like this and I'm like damn this cheating starts early you gotta beat it out of them you know hide and sock was funny hiding socks so when you find the guy you finally you suck the ████ out of him yo hide and seek was one of my favorite games I did also learn from hide and seek like how were people's limits are yeah [Music] some people's like this you went to the next city they said people are like this and they're like okay like like where people are how far people are down ago some people are down to ████ climb on the roof get in the chimney some people are down to ████ dig a hole in the ground cover themselves up like you see like oh wait this is that guy this guy's like uh he's playing in the Marines for sure this guy's a quarter Asser this guy's ████ 200 percenter yeah you're

17:43 like oh this is crazy this guy jumping the neighbor's lawn yeah people will go to that length and then you find out when people go really far then it's almost being you're also lame like there's a sweet spot yeah like when they leave yeah if a person comes with the ████ like brick house t-shirt so that he can Mash into the brick house you're like oh this guy's like that's not lame ████ playing like pogs and Slammers oh yeah I feel like that was the first that's like gamble I was like trading yeah gambling and training I feel like gambling was also marbles back in the day but like pogs and slams that's when you would really see like damn that's where did you get that sandwich like I got to set the swap me it's like well I'll trade you this much red like no this much like no I want that from you

18:33 it's like no I'm not giving you know what I mean like really starting to learn what you valued even though they're really all the same things my first lesson in scam getting scammed was through pogs because I had a bunch of Slammers and then um this guy wanted one of them and he goes uh I'll give you I'll trade you like some pogs for that and I was like nah not you can't even give me enough pogs and whatever he goes I'll give you a hundred pops and I was like ████ a hundred pogs that sounds like a lot right so I was like all right for sure let's do it and then they started busting up and he started giving me the dirtiest most ████ up pop that he didn't want and then they were like hey you said a hundred and then I'm just sitting there going no and they put it back out I was like I

19:23 don't want it anymore they're like no no you already said yes you already said yes and then I was like ████ and then one of his other buddies was like with your Slammer he could win a hundred pogs now and I was like oh why why did I agree and that's when I was like I gotta be careful with the words and be specific with the deal yeah dude rights he gave me like a hundred it was like peeling the graphics not even and I gave him a pristine ass Slammer because I imagined like brand new pogs 100 brand new ones for that Slammer you gotta say show me the pogs first that's a real life lesson dude but yeah and I couldn't go back on it and I was begging them I was like please like I didn't know that's what was gonna happen and he goes nope we already agreed and I'm like that guy's a sheisty ████ yeah definitely

20:13 more effective lesson than the ████ guy who shows it with a brick wall t-shirt yeah I like how the brick wall t-shirts like is like a hat yeah I was a third grader and I can't see his head or his arm it's also good you experience that young because there's people that get ████ sheisted by timeshares and ████ like when they're like 20 or 30. oh yeah it's good that these things happen to you young yeah yeah and I mean like was it bullying like I made a deal right and then yeah he did kind of fool me was he an older kid they were laughing at me yeah but I actually took responsibility because I said yeah I did agree and I try to do a take back you know I try to do a please like I didn't know like did he say no take backs at the beginning yeah if he said no it's over nah but he was like you already said yes and I was like ████ it that feels a healthy

21:03 skepticism and he was at the same grades I was scared of him and his buddies so I was like ████ but you know he did take it the strong armed you yeah I learned that a lot of kids don't really play the games they like to collect the ████ out of stuff like I never played the Pokemon card game but I collected those things yeah that's fine never ████ played it one time ever really not really I played it once and I hated it that was boring it's almost too nerdy to play it yeah what did you get to do like add a bunch of math and ████ like who wants to do that yeah dude ████ that same with magic the Gathering some people just collected the cards ████ off dude I love magic did you play it yeah I did by the way in the magic the Gathering they recently did collab with the Lord of the Rings out of all the cards they made only one of one uh uh pop ring of power and it's like hologram and stuff this guy who pulled it just sold his post alone for two million dollars yeah we're gonna do that article tomorrow but I guess you ruined it

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