0:00 doing it in the back is your yeah getting it done to me in the back the back getting it from the back getting it hard in the [Music] back welcome back to another exciting episode of the careful boys where today we get a little bit maybe opportunistic that's the word we're thinking opportunity okay here's the question what was the best opportunity you ever received what I know I got a good one I was just talking about it I love the quickness of that so I had uh it's cuz it just like worked so I had a uh what made me think of it is I had a intern this week from my old high school as a basketball player I played basketball my whole life and so him and I are sharing stories his coach was still my coach Etc ET so we had a lot of TI in one of my best opportunities that I ████ up cuz
0:50 I was an idiot 17-year-old uh I had the chance and basketball was my whole life I had the chance to um work out with a guy who worked for Duke which is the best best basketb program in the world and he basically raided me uh on what I need to improve etc etc to get to call cuz you're trying to get to Pro the next level yeah and obviously I knew I wasn't like Duke level but he was at that level so he could rev it all up so I work out for him and he was like kind of a dick but um he was like Stern with it you know like hey man you got to work on all this but he was real with it find out later like 6 months later he recommended my name and got me into like a Nike Elite Camp which is actually made for like allamerican level ████ and I wasn't at that level but I I was good can you dunk I used dunk but these are like the pipelines where like like LeBron james' kids Dwayne Wade's kids they would go to these camps so they and the scouts are already there and that's how you would like kind of work especially back in the
1:41 day now there's aou which is little there was aeou then but it wasn't as big it was still a thing but Nike Elite Camp was like it man like 200 best in the nation and then I'm a knucklehead and if you don't go to those you're not going to the pros why didn't you go H I had like a bunch of like I was just an egotistical kid my best friend died that year like a bunch of crazy ████ happened and then like some of it for sure was like feeling like imposter is you know like oh man I'm going to go and I'm going to get ████ dunked on I'm going to look like an idiot like I'm actually not that good like fear of failure all tied in which you don't know when you're 17 but that would have changed like trajectories like not that I'd be LeBron James but I could be playing in Europe I could be I could could have gone to a division one school instead of junior college cuz some people wish they had a r it was like the Wily Wonka ticket for basketball sure can you backwards dunk no that was never there no no I was not bro can you do a one hand Jordan from Theo line no okay that's hop no I'm like
2:34 I'm slip I'm 5'9 Italian I'm slipping them over the r what about off the back where 360 can you do that oh 95 I could probably do a barbell right now all right in terms of your play style what would be like a similar NBA like Jau or I was a Jason kid Steve Nash no way yeah yeah I I led the nation in assists that's tight yeah my senior year yeah yeah sick yeah that's pretty ████ cool yeah we're in it that was definitely a Willy Wonka ticket you just burned up yeah burned it yeah that was all that's like literally your question opportunity I ████ what was the first year or first time you had a chance to even look back at and go damn I ████ that one up like the next day probably the next year cuz then I'm at Junior College and I was really lucky to have a good coach and he's like so good about like team building and like just hard work and work I think like he's just philosophically so good so then I go to Junior College in Vallejo if you guys
3:24 know where that is not a great place and like everyone's just there for themselves everyone's like Knuck head they're all right in yeah no bro I'm a team player oh let Nation assists thanks Steve got it well he just said he was a knucklehead and egotistic I was but like not with the team like more just internally just being a teenager you know so like even that year is when I quit uh and I just kind of knew like man I I chose the wrong direction I'd rather be the worst player like I had opportunities to play Same Mar's which is really good at the time and I would have sat at the bench but I would have been like in March Madness sitting the bench wow you know what I mean like they made it to the Sweet 16 and I would have sat at the end of the bench high five and handed towels but it would have been ████ dope Duke is the best basketball program in the world University of Kansas probably University of Kansas is probably historically always top five though yeah but Duke's always their their coach did just retire who was like
4:14 the most epic coach of all time but they're they're top yeah Coach K yeah I don't know ████ about him just yeah top five they're they're definitely top five more epic than John Wood no no maybe John Wood and Coach K are the best of all time oh I see hands down so like not for this to be like a super depressing video and stuff like that but what's the Silver Lining that you feel you got out of not going to the Willy Wonka golden ticket not getting your dream probably like probably like the taking more opportunities like all right I'll show up and suck like even the first time like Bart brought me here like I knew yall's channel was huge first time I was here Joe what 2013 no huge was huge biggest channel in the game I'm saying what I was but I had like no YouTube I didn't have my YouTube channel and I'm 2013 we just kind of lifted weights a couple times he's like hey you want to come I'm like oh ████ you've been here way before 2013 maybe 2012 that's way before yeah that's a long time ago but same idea I was nervous as ████ I was probably 23 years old like damn I don't
5:05 even know what YouTube is like we were doing Fitness content but no one cared about that like you guys were legitimate YouTube and I was like all right well here we go and I was just like all right ████ it I'll show up stuff like that I'm a pretty shy dude to begin with I'm comfortable with y'all cuz I know y'all but that's why your name is silent mic yeah literal even though you're like pretty loud in the once you know me yeah you're ████ hey thank you for sharing thanks class thanks thanks and now you got a popcorn somebody I don't know what that oh who's next yeah I remember popcorn class what's that mean you say popcorn and then the next person popcorn I didn't even think I didn't even think about Mone I don't think we had popcorn dude that I thought you would live a life of a lot of regrets for me yeah why that's a ████ stab that is why but it's kind of good cuz Nick has a forlorn look on his face of all times for La as if he's sitting
5:56 on a dock looking on in the Horizon and he's like Ah that's where that's the that's the Catalyst of his pessimism because I ████ that up and I ████ this up and I ████ that no that's that's kind of true though I feel like that a lot yeah in a lot of ways this is serious but as far as like I want to say opportunity man but when I started fighting I thought that was I really thought I was going to do something with that as far as like going pro and I was like a big dream of mine but like uh when I started getting those concussions I just was like dude I'm ████ I just kept telling myself like ████ dude I'm not built for this I can't do this but that's a smart move that's yeah no 100% but as far as like what my heart wanted at the time and what like my mindset and now I'm like dude it was kind of a good opportunity I'm so glad that that happened to me cuz you know what
6:46 fighting is great and it's cool but it's definitely not there's so many different ways to make money you know and at that time like it was definitely a passion but I think it it just forced me to be creative with uh what I did with my life afterwards like I didn't think I I just kept following things that I like doing like coaching and just working with people and I think that was just better for me for the sake of the prompt was there something that was specifically like what you would consider the best opportunity that you received in that I I think I think when I when I left my the gym that I was at for like 10 years that was like the opportunity for me where I was like oh ████ there's like the world just seemed like it got bigger and it was like a forced opportunity it was more of like they kick you out no well not really no what's your opportunity I got kicked out my kind of
7:36 though no it wasn't it wasn't like I got kicked out it was just more of like my time here is done I think did you did you come to that understanding because like a something else was offered to you no it was more of like me realizing that like it hit a wall yeah there's nothing here and and and it forced me to create a new opportunity that I didn't think I could ever do like I thought everything my whole life was in that gym everybody I knew was in that gym my family like I I looked at it as like my my family uh like my main family and then when I left I was like I was like super scared I was like ████ kind of depressed a little bit and just like not knowing what the ████ was going to happen and I didn't know if I had the ability to like make a living once I left that place uh and as far as like my community was was all tied in there so when I left I was like just really scared and um just unsure
8:28 about the future but I think that opportunity forced me to to create new ones for myself you know yeah you have brought that story up before and that feels like a very ████ pivotal moment of your journey that's big how old were you then like 25 okay so not even that long AG actually no not even I was I was I was older I was like 27 20 25 27 so like last week yeah yeah basically sick but now I'm like now what the ████ am I going to do that's the silver lightning I wake up every day thinking that though yeah no but but it's fine cuz you you realize like okay I did it before I could do it again World opened yeah the World opened up a lot it was a lot bigger for me cuz I was very insulated I think was it money based it was money based cuz I never once thought about how I was going to make money as an adult as a kid or just even now yeah well that a privileged mindset no I'm a lucky dude
9:18 for sure like I do make money like you've been obviously I work but like I've never been like oh I'm going to be a lawyer or whatever like all I knew is I loved basketball and then all I know now is like all right well I you were interest based I do this yeah kind of like well I kind of know how to do this I hope you're reincarnated into an Asian family when you get reborn I don't know how you probably don't do things that's risky to get you in situations where you're like oh I need money now yeah yeah yeah but you feel that like you feel your back against the wall and you just feel like hey just go that that anxiety is like oh what the ████ am I going to do you're waking up in the middle of the night like freaking the ████ out having panic attacks and then you realize like oh yeah you're tripping about ████ not like in the grand scheme things it's not that big of a deal it doesn't matter what up guys this episode of off the Record is brought to you by Factor meals I know we are all
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11:02 thec 50 at Factor meals.com off thc50 to get 50% off get fed get some flavor and stay healthy how we've been broke is different than like broke like I know if my world explodes I can sleep on Bart's couch I can sleep on my mom's couch you know what I mean that kind of makes me feel couch too right you know what I mean like that kind of gives me confidence to kind of just ████ around did you just skim over the fact that you have panic attacks yeah but I think that's normal I think everyone has that ████ I don't think so how many do you get well at that time I would just like I would just like freaking the ████ out cuz it was it was it was just everything I do with ears like you saying that a little scary bro no but like you know I would I would just be just super I'd wake up in the middle of night just like cold hot sweats yeah that no no not everybody I've been there but not everybody does that yeah that's think been there but at a time of high stress
11:53 in a time where you just everything's uncertain I think that is normal like I think that does happen it does happen so how' you get past the panic attack just suck it up dude you suck it up and you just ████ that's inspiration pulling Bo bootstraps but but no no not just your bootstraps but I feel like packs for him when you feel like that's your means of survival and then that's I don't want to say taken away from you it just force it just puts fire under your ass and it makes you move for I like it that's the fighter we know you take you take a deep breath and then you go oh I'm up it's 3:00 a.m. let me do the ████ emails cuz I'm afraid about money and then this is going to get me money yeah or or you just go okay I'm ████ up I'm going to go back to sleep tomorrow but tomorrow I'm going to ████ get all the ████ done I need to get done or whatever I don't like Panic ta I don't either I used to have them so much in waking up just wake up like 3:
12:45 in the morning 400 in the morning like something's chasing you like yeah like what the ████ like just feeling having like weird dreams about ████ you know well it's only bad when you wake up and it's still bad oh boy right like in those situations like you're actually broke or something's bad and you wake up you're like oh ████ it's real cuz you do that with a nightmare and then you're like oh that was a vampire I get nightmares yeah yeah that's scary but when you wake up and you're like ████ the problem's still there that's not but also in the grand scheme things too like I I was still living at home like I didn't really have like it it was I was fine it was just my own ████ that I created in my own head so it's like well I mean that's real for you yeah definitely definitely but I think it made me better for it like it taught me how to be more of a man and less of a boy I think hey you almost said woman huh I'm a little bit of a woman D I think we that's okay little um yeah what's up popcorn somebody huh uh
13:35 Anthony Lee what about you you got to say popcorn and then popcorn you Anthony Lee oh man all right lost opportunities no it wasn't it could be a good one it could be I started negative yeah it supposed to be a good one I literally said what was the best opportunity this this has been a dark video yeah my bad female what uh last opportunity best opportunity best opportunity I just heard opportunity oh yeah it was the best opportunity that I ████ up I just happened to ████ no it was yeah Wily I was right lost opportunities it just went it was really good no but the it's we're going for the best opportunity was the best opportunity you received even if you burned it and threw it away and regret it for the rest of your life and I think opportunity maybe people think different when I think opportunity I think like luck in a sense like it just it happens to like to you like I didn't do it it happens for you cuz yeah yeah other good things happen that I like
14:25 made happen yeah you know what I mean so much but that's still an opportunity a lot of work like I ████ built that ████ but that one just kind of happened for me well they all they all working the same cuz even like getting a a promotion at your job is an opportunity but you earned that right let talk about the definition for the rest of the video popcorn Steve yeah hit his ass you got to go you got to go you got to go I popcorn you you got to respect my popcorn this whole conversation no you got to give your example best opportunity that you ████ squandered that was not the prompt Brew down the drain okay well I had a I had a an answer for the first prompt but squandered is different oh just go back to we want you to win yeah we want you to win hurry up all right first thing that comes to mind actually is when uh I got booked to be the choreographer for a
15:17 Chinese TV show called Hot blood Dance Crew it was a dance reality competition and then uh preas during kjas during kjas this is like 2015 or some ████ like that and this is actually the event where I met both both Luhan and Jackson went guys that I've talked about on the show they're like Superstars Mike in China yeah like Justin Bieber level right yeah super huge um musicians artists artists yeah but they also danc cuz they were part of like K-pop groups and stuff like that and then they they broke out and did their own like solo careers and stuff and got like super huge and whatnot Chris Breezy types yeah more like JT typ beating ████ and more like like take leaving NC making your whole career I'm a big JT fan yeah and then uh from there because I went on that show I was a choreographer I was actually supposed there's two dance teams that go like head-to-head and then they were the captains of one team with like other dancers and then there's
16:08 these two other artists and I was supposed to be these two artist choreographers but they're losers no I won't say that they're more like Back Street Boys they're just different flavor right uh one of them uh is a chick the other one uh just is not my flavor did you know these people as you go in I kind of knew of these two I didn't really know these two but I've heard of them and I came in I was supposed to be their choreographer because the choreographer that was supposed to be for these two had worked with one of them before already so there was already a relationship right so we all brought our teams I brought some other kindas with me this guy brought some of his like dance with him and then we go there and then the first episode is all four of them work with a different choreographer just to do initial showcase the artists before like the dancers come in as a team and we were the choreographers and then I remember watching and then like uh super amazing but like gay dude was choreographing for the chick over here
16:58 and then the other dude did this other collab and these two did some badass hip-hop routines with these other two like guest choreographers and I remember being like man that's our flavor I don't know how I'm going to work with this so I went slide and I went back to the producers and I was like hey I think you guys should switch the choreographers for these two teams because if you think about it this group and what who they brought is going to work really well mes with this talent and then I think what we do in our specifics are going to match really well with this so if you want a really bomb show that that brings out the best I think we should switch and it worked but the crazy thing is we won that show after we switched we ended up going through that season and winning that show and since then I've worked with those guys every single year up until this day one of those guys I just finished the tour with in China this past year the other guy joined our crew and we're like super super close homies
17:48 I have a matching tattoo with the guy just did the tour with I have a matching tattoo with the other dude and we like so this is not that special not that special not that special wow who else you have a match have to with you Nick big deal whatever whatever ours ours is bigger but that sounded like you made the opp Happ it sounds like you pulled some strings and then you gave yourself hey I received the opportunity and I did my best with it it's awesome but it I I never would have thought one we' win and two we would actually go on to become hella good friends and continue working every cuz a lot of people get presented an opportunity and they don't optimize it they just take it for face value you got something and you somehow made it even better yeah were you nervous doing that that kind of ████ makes me nervous I wasn't I don't think nerv like to bring up that conversation to bring that up right here yeah no no no no there
18:39 like hey man I need to work with that dude and to make that happen make to be completely honest I feel like that's one of my random skill sets to do that in the back you know what I mean like more than just being a talented individual that can get the job done I feel like figuring out what the right job to do is is one of my things doing it in the back cuz your yeah getting it done to me in the back the getting it from the back getting it hard in the back yeah popcorn and Steve while we still got twoes okay easy no problem um which time right so my whole life is about being early to things I think like I um in 200 ████ 8 but you're late to JK all the time but and so is he but no being being early to like you know like like YouTube when it was first coming up right like I had just come
19:29 from improv and I was like I don't know how like I'm trying to get into the like the actor business stuff and I was like I don't know how that's going to work out but I I met a bunch of people like doing tubes early days and so I just kind of like found myself in with like some of the biggest people on YouTube like really early because nobody like really knew about YouTube back then and so um yeah I'm like working with like all these big tubers and they offer to hire me they're like hey come work for us like Studio yeah we need a writer like come work for us and I was like I was like you know what ████ it my girlfriend's dad at the time he's like you'll never make money writing ever cuz he was a a failed actor oh ████ bitter as ████ yeah about it so he's you'll never make money writing in Hollywood and ████ and so he's the first ████ I call when I got that gig right took about the dinner I wasn't making much I wasn't making much right
20:19 but I was I was like you got a job this my job ████ deal with it suck my dick all right so then um nice yeah so I'm early the tubes and then I remember I was tubing it and tubing it right and um helping all these tubers write their s█████ ass content right and it's garbage stuff right real trash stuff we're putting out there and um and then um I got in with all these really cool people I met CM I met hron I met like you know Mike Gallagher all these people that I've been working with forever and then um you know couple years into that they they were like hey we want you to just come on here fulltime no more making stuff for your channel just work for us and I was like ████ you I'm doing my own channel I'm betting on myself so I was like give me Fridays give me Fridays on Friday I'm going to go film with my crew and like I'll be yours from
21:09 Monday to Thursday and they're like fine and so every Friday I would just go and like get George camel and like we would just go to the ████ um Venice boardwalk and I'd just figure out what I'm going to do the night before and then I was doing that and doing that and finally it just it took a long time dude I was probably getting like I don't know I was getting like no views on my videos couple thousand right and then all of a sudden it just started to click it just started to hit started like uploading every time I uploaded I got a million views eventually and that was like insane and then during that I was like okay this is scary unsustainable as ████ there's no way I'm going to get a million views every time I upload what am I going to do next how do I pivot into the next thing so then I started writing movies me and Mike were writing movies like at his place for free nobody's paying us we're just doing it we're writing movies on spec and we just kept on writing movies we wrote like
22:00 ████ I don't even know how many movies right and then got lucky there like we're you know using parlaying tuber s█████████ with meeting Hollywood people they were interested in our numbers right so like we don't care what's on your stupid script give us the numbers and so then that's when I sold my movie internet famous right and they were like cool who's going to be it and I'm like me ████ you know what I mean like ████ like that just like stepping out and being like I it's me and then like being like did that work and they're like sure okay and I'm like who that worked holy ████ and then during that even I was like okay I was like remember my mom was visiting me one time and she's like stepen there's no plan there's no plan Stephen he's like when she's like when when Grandma goes like your dad's idea she starts crying she's like your dad's ideas we're going to move into a Motel 6 Stephen and I was like ████ I got to figure a way I got to figure a way to
22:50 make sure that my m is not going have to worry about money and then I was like oh yeah I bought this thing called Bitcoin in 2013 I was like wonder what like the newest s███'s going on with crypto stuff so then I found ethereum when it was like ████ five bucks and ████ right and I was like dang I really think this is sick so I I put like probably 15K into it back then and that was like ████ maybe the move of my life right like unbelievable that was like that was like 3 months before it broke out and like went to ████ like insane amounts right then I got a little bit wrecked there right got a little got a little wrecked um parlay into another crypto from ethereum should have probably just kept my ethereum stack had a big old boy stack right f um then I was in this other crypto right called OMG we were riding we rode it um that was the first
23:41 time we made it Mill that was it it was the first time we made just to about a Mill and hold on to too much then yeah we learned to not hold for too long right then we got wrecked on that one for a little while but then hey we kept buying the lows we were smart we kept buying those lows up right Scoopy Scoopy Scoopy season so so then you know sure enough we go into snx we get into well first of all OMG comes back then we get into snx then we get into like ████ Luna and ████ we ride that ████ to $1.2 million from a $28,000 investment that was fun quite a ride you were at what 35 uh I started 110k and I went to 1.6 million but when it when it came back after 1 point oh no no no when it came back you what was your lowest amount you at like 110k oh uh at at I was under that yeah under like $60,000
24:33 60,000 right into 1.6 that was fun so then now here we are right the precipice the dawn is coming right been been scooping and Scoopy in for ████ 20 months right now right and you feel the same energy oh buddy I got I'm dialed in you're tingling I can feel it I can feel it I'm ready I'm dialed into the ████ game dude get ready cuz I'm about to blow everyone's ████ mind again we're going to do it again that's what I say at the end of every one of my crypto Corner episodes we are going to do it again Watch What Happens Next and we're wooing we're wooing and we're cooing baby coochi kuira that's his baby yeah two of them you're sponsored no I'm not sponsored I make this ████ myself I don't take a dime from these ████ yeah he made that necklace he made the Hat he made everything yep I wonder when they're going to send a ceas
25:23 and toist I got woo shoes on no dude they love me they got he's got woo socks on we're going to do it again crypto Corner baby that's dedication that's opportunity that's making opportunity damnn right always I'm always early maybe I get wrecked for a little while but I I'm always on to the next one we'll do we'll redo this prompt in a couple months dude and all our story is going to be about woo be fun give be a ride give be a ride I got to buy more woo I need some [Music] woo St
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