0:00 literally did that when you walked in you're like ████ you Dad and you hung up dude no no no no my oh my God why you got to do that what did I miss what did I [Music] miss and welcome back to another Stellar episode of the careful boys and today we have Giani here hey Rock going rly okay we're going to get deep okay in your butthole all right what single event again I'm sorry toize you're an ████ okay here we go what single event or decision do you think most affected the rest of your life and was there a turning point in your life I told you it was deep um yeah when I moved to Los Angeles yeah when did you move to LA uh on my 19th birthday oh really yeah when
0:52 we met and you were like producing uh with at the time how old were you then 22 wow 22 oh so you were like when you moved out here how many years until you started working in the industry was it immediately yeah immediately I got like an agent and started auditioning but like um I'd say about 22 was really like when I started 2122 was like took me a couple years to like get into it but um yeah I was playing I was a hockey player my whole life and I was you know drafted in a semi-professional league and you know I had college offers and I was like I don't want to do this anymore I knew that when I was young I knew what I wanted to do but when I like made the decision to move out here and never play hockey again like that was like a a total left field Turning Point like everyone's like what the ████ like but I just I mean it's like from athleticism to acting it's still entertainment right it's not like you went like engineer
1:43 yeah or something do I look like do I look like an engineer dude you could be an engineer bro of what you know mechanical stuff I think I don't think so you look like you could be a blue color worker in the factory yeah if I cover all the bling cover the ████ ice dude and add a uniform for yeah was that a hard decision to make to move clear across the country I just wanted to do it I I actually dude I it was not hard at all I just couldn't wait to do it like oh you've been you've been needing to so it's like the second I got here it's like when um it's like what he feels when he gets to an airport he's like like me I'm like dude I'm here baby was that something you always wanted to do like all your life it was in the back of your head or was there okay mhm there you go see I envy that what want doing something that you always wanted to do since a kid don't you always do what you want to do yeah but I don't have like
2:34 one thing I have like 20 things so it's spread throughout so many things what a problem yeah that's even better what you have all these goals ████ you and then I can't do any of them good shut the ████ up that's a good one that's a good one moving to that's that's a huge that's probably so many other people's dreams you know what I mean the idea of being like yo I want to pursue my one dream and maybe it takes uprooting their entire life and and going to La is kind of a very Hollywood cliche but at the same time but he did it f yeah that's huge crazy how like we don't have to work so hard for some something because we grew up right next to it yeah yeah and other people come here well we got to think think about our parents immigrating that's totally different they they had the different coming to La version you know what I mean they're not actors so I don't
3:24 care my my parents have not been any movies bro my dad wasn't in good luck tomorrow what the ████ is that we should lecture our parents on like dude you traveled all the way to America you wasted away working at this s█████ job yeah you couldn't try to be an actor what the ████ yeah and it's funny cuz your dad's in entertainment my parents had a music school wait your dad is isn't he was a sound engineer he was like a sound but he did all the biggest movies though yeah his his uh filmography is pretty crazy does he still do it no he's at the game but he started like he started working the mail room Indiana at like at like Paramount or something and then he just worked his way up and then became a sound does he have some crazy have you had him on here you think he was like moving the mail cart and just like making sound effects and somebody was like this fool he came home from school and there was Keo Reeves just sitting on his couch you know the guy from The Matrix you just
4:14 saw that movie he took a piss in my bathroom really dude did you save it you cued it he flushed it he flushed it he knew he a ████ veteran he knew you were going to go for it he sniffing around dude what that's you should have your dad on the show and don't bring up ████ ever just have him on and talk cool stories we're going to bring up ████ have him react to the video yeah he'll probably bring it up you say to him you're like Dad who would you ████ me or my brother and that was the 17th call back in one video yeah dude I got enough of the call backs no it's fine now the people know they know what's your question again what's the biggest pivotal moment in your life something about ████ I forget uh what single event or decision do you think most affected the rest of your life and what was a turning was there a turning point in your life biggest affect of your life dude life the biggest oh mine's easy
5:04 what is it mine is when I said ████ you to my parents oh didn't you do like 12 times no like a real one though you literally did that when you walked in you're like ████ you Dad and you hung up dude no no no no oh my God why you got to do that mine's a uh this one's a real ████ you cuz like I think like what did I miss what did I miss my dad's not alive a hisult it's his fault it's his fault what did he do it was a Steve call back it was a Steve call back you know what I mean it's a bit but anyways what were you saying Bart so like growing up like in school I think in my brain I've been uh I've been trying to be a good kid and been trying to go okay this is what my parents want for me so even though I did get in a lot of trouble and stuff it was still like let me try to get back on the
5:55 track of what my parents want for me what did they want you what did they want for you be [Laughter] and then in college me and Joe started doing uh JK films I was like dude this is like the first time that I'm like making decisions for myself and I really enjoy this and even then I still didn't really have the confidence to go you know what I'm just going to go YouTube full-time and kind of like take my life into my own hands it was still like okay what do my parents want me to do and I've kept trying to find this compromise and then when I graduated I just realized you can't really have a compromise kind of like with the LA thing right you can't live on the east and west coast you got to go like what am I going to do and I was like you know what I've done or I've tried to do what they wanted me to do my whole life and it's made me very unhappy I'm just going to go try to do something that makes me
6:45 100% happy and then that's when I was like all right ████ this both me and Joe got part-time jobs and then from that point on I remember like we were the really really broke but I was happy every ████ day cuz every decision was made by me and even if it backfired it was because I made it for me so it wasn't like you make a decision and if you made it for someone else if it backfires you kind of hate the other person you know well it's because you made me do this but now it's like everything was on me and I think that was the biggest turning point for like the way I viewed the rest of my life I'm like dude I'm just going to keep start doing every single thing that makes my gut feel excited and I'm going to keep pursuing that and I was like the the biggest thing and then now I can't wait to rub it in one of my parents face every single day yeah follow that one up Nick Nick's like oh when I did Jiu-Jitsu it was
7:36 cool ████ how did you know my thing dude how did you know it was my thing that is a Nick answer oh ████ he goes when I first submitted someone uh I thought that was sick wait what's what's with the hand I don't know yeah I don't do that with my hands I know your hands just kind of look like that I you D dude well I can't go now because the already went for me I can't I can't stop someone stop me I don't want to actually is that is that the new Nick impression yeah uh well like that oh well jiujitsu blank I feel like me me and my friend always do that to each other like when we Mak it funny each other so just scks it just sticks got that Raptor arm dude my strong hand yeah so Nick so he's thinking he's thinking
8:26 the first time I did jiu-jitsu anything other than but honestly it's so ████ funny but for me um I think it was there I'm not going to say there was one ████ main thing right there's always at every stage of my life there was this one point where I was really conflicted by something and I had to make a decision and you go and you kind of eat ████ for a little bit and then you figure it out and I think that was what was really important for me um for me when I first started when I first started fighting and I wanted to be a fighter and I was like dude I'm going to be ████ so good dude I'm going to be ████ sick the first 6 months of me training was the hardest ████ thing I've ever had to do going from where I was which was mentally I wasn't there physically I wasn't there so I was going through a big change in everything I did my
9:17 routine I was in pain all the time and I was like dude this is I don't know if I could do this and that was like the first hard part was like the first month I was like dude I was eating ████ I was getting beat up all the time and I just felt like there was no success for the first like 3 4 months so for me it was having to deal with all that ████ and then being like well I made it this far I might as well just keep going what made you stick it through because I knew that I was like this is what I want to do I know I want to do this but this is so ████ hard and I I was battling every day single day to go train or do anything physical was a battle for me mentally and I felt like I did it on Monday I got to do it again on Tuesday and I just today's video is brought to you by Uncommon Goods you know what's dope about Uncommon Goods what a lot of times during the holiday season you're like
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10:58 get a unique gift and you help the world to get 15% off your next gift go to uncommongoods.com offthe that's uncommongoods.com sloff theere for 15% off don't miss out on this limited time offer un common goods cuz we're all out of the ordinary there was days where I would just not show up the train I just wouldn't go I would avoid it completely but I felt so ████ bad and I felt like I was letting myself down so I was like well that was the only main motivation for me to move forward because I felt so s█████ about myself but at the same time every time I did that I over I I prove to myself that like okay I could do this I didn't think I could do this 3 months ago but now I'm 6 months in so I might as well just keep going and just keep tripping away and then that was like the big moment for me
11:48 and then later in my career was like when I left the gym that I was at for like 10 years so it was everything wow my business was tied into it so me leaving that was like really scar what the ████ I was going to do I thought I was going to be poor and during the same time I actually moved in with Tiff and I got engaged that year which was kind of crazy so a lot of like big stuff that happened for me that kind of had to prove myself that like okay I could I could be an adult I could go through some hard ████ and be okay so that was like my version of that so yeah I guess Jiu-Jitsu is a big part of that sorry dude I didn't know I godam put your hands right here yeah do the hand thing so jju was a good time for me follow that oh you already went damnn it yeah Colleen mine was I had a really bad injury when I was dancing um in my like
12:40 early te 20s and that was a catalyst for me to explore other avenues as far as what I wanted to do professionally so I went into production so editing picked up a camera then started directing and now I have a production company so if it wasn't for that injury I wouldn't had explored other op is it cuz you were pursuing dance and then you didn't have any other thing that you were looking to kind of yeah yeah yeah what what was the injury I ripped my hamstring in a half during a performance no ████ way during a performance oh ████ and then when you hear the whole audience just go and then you're on the floor and you're like oh this is me and I have like maybe like four eight counts left and you're just trying to get up and do like just the the arm choreography and then curtain's closing you're like ████ this
13:32 doesn't feel right wait can you give me more details just because I'm curious like what what was the performance like what was the it was actually in high school oh ████ so what kind of was it like Grease the musical or something it was exactly gree musical was it like Conan the Tango version or yeah no it was a we had a um take us back we had a dance performance for the whole school um so we had different so there were like different tiers of people in the class that we had so like beginners or intermediates your advance and we would put on a showcase for the school kind of like a recital correct and then kind of like that and then um I had maybe eight different pieces in the the Showcase and it was the seventh one
14:25 and we were doing like a a trick that we had done countless times no problems the girl that lifted me this time she was off by like maybe a half count and just pulled my leg at the wrong time what was her name first last name yeah what's she doing right now she's ████ loser what if she Nancy carrian you and she's a star now because she was the lead in Greece okay it wasn't me dang what a good play though like I was her like that's a good move accelerator career and then I just remember dropping to the floor I hear a pop first drop to the floor hear the audience and I'm like oh ████ like did something happen I'm like oh it's me did it hurt like immediately or no the adrenaline kicked in enough to where you don't feel it um you just in in your mind you just go
15:15 just get through it just get through it um and then when you get off stage that's when the pain really hits oo that was pretty so you continued the dance yeah were you wobbling around cuz you were like injured oh you just went through the wow The Show Must Go On dang that's crazy like how long did that push you out I was on crutches my whole sit in your ear dang a fully torn hamstring fully torn like from the back of my kneecap all the way to the bottom of my butt fully ripped damn that's like a rubber band that snapped and you were like mentally you were like I want to pursue dance as a career that's crazy that must have been devastating yeah it was like a whole identity you you're not a dancer though cuz like look at all the dancers like they're not really going anywhere I know it was best decision ever man you got saved right yeah but if
16:06 you think about it like as high as you can get as a dancer is kind of like touring with a big artist and that's probably one of them oh my God am I wrong let him go am I wrong just let him go like the highest you get his Dan is like touring with with an artist it's tough it's tough in the new generation the highest you can go in general is getting to JK news which is pretty ████ low out there hey hey hey you could work on Circ look at the end of the day we're all in the same place this is like when like the smartest kid at your school and you still end up in the same college and you're like haha didn't ████ matter did it and then after you all get the same tattoo too yep sure also true and now you can't escape so we're all at the same plan valid dictorian ████ damn damn that's crazy yeah but if
16:56 it wasn't for that who knows it's always like that though right where like something is like you think it's a tragedy and it's a catalyst to something else and you're like wait I found my true love well it felt like that for a while right until you start exploring like okay well what else is there what made you go like editing like it was like um well I couldn't do anything like athletic at the time oh you need something that you could just sit down so the I had met people who were filming a lot of dance and music videos at the time and for me being a dancer I was like oh I get I just don't know the tools to execute the thoughts that I had in my mind in the editing program so learning that was like okay I could build the bridge between knowing dance and making sure that it's executed the proper way and then editing those types of projects I see and then that just
17:47 kind of led into everything else did you do it on Final Cut uh no I I started on Premier oh okay started on Premier started old school that's cool CS that's crazy then once my leg started to heal I was like I'm I can't sit here for like 10 hours editing it's not ████ for me so I put the camera if you're active person it's like I need to move and then I get even more crazier if I don't move which is why dping is so much more you're more in the action doing like stunts and filming stunts now and stuff like that you're like you take the footage and edit it yeah you got to pay someone I'll record it so I'm just like making noises the whole time they're like they can hear the noises stop doing that no I got to add it I got to add it we add that in later damn what about you Anthony Lee
18:37 did we ask you yet um yeah probably it all all comes down to after our first you know technical kindas performance we call the U Black Ops at the time that was when I was quitting Dancing and I was going to move to Arizona for my sales job uh and then what year was this this is 2010 Dam you were going to quit Dancing I told you before no I just remember you were going to quit to become a you a YouTube dance group I thought you were going to quit your job never said that I remember that oh yeah well yeah I was I was working a sales job in like 2009 and 2010 after college and then I was getting promoted so I was going to get my own office in Arizona so I hit up Mike song and I was like Yo dude uh I'm about to quit Dancing cuz I'm about to move out of state so let's let's get down together one last time and we had never really gotten down together especially in like uh with all of our homies cuz we always competed
19:27 against each other so we're like all right ████ it let's do it and he like postponed all of his jobs and stuff cuz he had just come off the heels of ABDC Season 1 with cabba and so he he was ████ doing he was the man he was doing the thing you know what I mean um and just traveling everywhere so he just was like all right I'll chill out on jobs for the month and then we'll prep a show and that show was the entire thesis of that show the entire premise of it was just do everything we always wanted to do so it was like a ████ college boy like we we brought all of our like fraternity College homies who don't even dance on stage cuz we're like yo you want to get on stage we drank on stage we wanted to smoke on stage but then and our homie who runs the show was like no that's a fire hazard so can't do that so we just danced Cuz I Got High um and we like kind of jacked off on stage his a whole thing um point is circle jerk big old circle jerk big old Circle sick dude you join next time but uh we do this show as like a like kind of like the martini glass end off but afterwards it
20:19 was the craziest Standing Ovation I've still to this day ever gotten in my life it was the best performance still to this day like best feeling ever and that Thursday I went and I basically quit my job I'm not ████ leaving I'm not ████ leaving yeah that is a huge like pivotal moment I'm not ████ leaving hands down the biggest moment were the standing ovations because all the guys had their pants around their ankles and they were had a bone or two so as a standing that we and it was impressive yeah um but no that you know like Bart it's like when you make a decision even though you don't necessarily have or know the runway but you're just like I'm going to start making these calls for myself you know what I mean like it wasn't like the more stable or like you know traditional route of doing something and it was like actually if anything frowned upon and not really accepted version that like your you know
21:10 your peers or your your parents might understand but you're like ████ it I got to do this because there's something weird about like ending the thing I love and beginning the thing I don't love you know what I mean mhm that's tight thank you for sharing that's pretty good that was the same year I ripped my hamstring oh ████ oh really what year is this 2010 damn that was the year I started training dude wow that was the year I started at high school ████ you get the ████ out of here [Music] dude
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