0:05 Welcome back to another episode of the Careful Boys. Hey, let's give it up for Nick, guys. >> Hey, yeah, checking in with Nick. What's that face? Nick the Dick. You know I'm uncomfortable whenever you look at me? Any episode >> I'm not really known for my penis, though, so uh I would not like to be called Nick the Dick. Is that fair to say? It's better than Nick the Ear. You [laughter] could be the Ear the Ear. Dude, Nick Nick the Dick actually has a nice ring to it. >> Right? Cuz he got the Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, as a when I was in fourth grade, I really didn't like that name cuz kids would always rhyme my name with dick. Oh, see? >> Can you um >> Traumatizing to me. Can you give each of us names like yours? You know how you're Nick the Ear? Can we each have a thing like Anthony the something? My vocabulary is not very good, so I'm the Alec >> The words I choose have nothing to do with your personality at all. This is just my lack of vocabulary is just going
0:56 to show. So, Lion Ryan. Boom, right there. I don't want it to rhyme. Oh, you Oh, >> No, it kind of has to rhyme, though. >> Nick the Ear doesn't rhyme. I want one like that. >> Nick the Ear doesn't rhyme and it's also one of those when you go like, "Oh, that's Nick the Ear?" Everybody goes, "I understand." >> But like, yeah, yeah, yeah, give us a thing where where the thing is something that we a physical, yeah. >> beard or something, you know what I mean? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, give us a physical trait one. >> What was the one you said earlier? Anthony sexually? >> [laughter] >> Sexually. Sexually is probably perfect. And I can't take credit for that, but I'm going to. I'm going to I'm going to If you If you called me that they didn't know me, they'd be like, "Ah, I get it." What the Anthony [snorts] sexually. ALL RIGHT, ANYWAYS, let's get back to some obviously better talking.
1:46 Uh hey, what's a compliment you guys got once? Maybe even like a long time ago that you still think about. It just stuck with you. Head. Yeah, something that was like, [laughter] "Dude, Time we were doing something like this on JK at the old location and Ryan said something that ████ me up and I kind of want to punch him at that moment. >> What the ████ Me? It was weird cuz I wasn't expecting it. Right? Ryan was just like, "You know, I like Nick's smile." And I was like, "What the ████ dude?" >> [laughter] >> I was like a deep I was deeply offended. I was like, "What the f███?" I was just I wasn't expecting to say that and it just took me it took me back. >> What's wrong with that? >> He's been thinking about it ever since. Very nice of you. But at the time I was like, "What the ████ dude? I'm going to have to beat Ryan's ass, dude." Yeah, [laughter] yeah. I'm like, "What the ████ Oh, this guy is hitting on
2:36 me?" >> I feel like I give you a lot of compliments. Yo, you do. You do. And Ryan gives all you guys actually give me very nice compliments. I don't like it. I really don't like it. That doesn't happen often at Jiu-Jitsu. I Generally I just get uncomfortable when people compliment me. >> [laughter] >> I just I don't know what it is. >> [laughter] >> Worse is that I'm older, too. Let's talk about me for a little bit. [laughter] Why do you think that is? Your turn, Anthony. Tell me why I think Tell me why I'm like this. >> Tell me why I think [laughter] You're relatably humble so you're like a man of the people. I really don't think it has anything to do with humbleness. >> Reflect hard on in you're on a talk show. You're really smart. Hey, why don't you ████ accept >> I do. I think you >> complimentaries. >> I think you're hella good at remembering ████ ████ Yeah, why don't you Why
3:28 don't you just say ████ thank you and ████ >> a really good >> Receive the gift and ████ You have good processing power. You I As soon as you do that, I don't want to make eye contact with you. It's fine. I don't care. I like when you But what does that mean, though? What does that mean? Someone break me down. >> [laughter] >> better part, I think. The brown part of the middle, not so good. >> [laughter] >> Do you get bashful? Do you go, "I don't deserve." No. >> [laughter] >> Maybe that's like the guilty Asian boy. Yeah. I mean, that's not I think that's not already. That's the normal way. You guys relate to that, though? Yeah, that's I think that's the normal way to receive compliments. So, I have I just have to not be as weird cuz I feel like everyone you guys feel it, but you guys don't have a reaction. >> you're setting a good standard because I think it's weird to be other way. Yeah. The more you accept it I think you're more normal. >> less cool it becomes and then the more
4:19 people do accept compliments, it's like yeah, that's weird. >> [laughter] >> We got to make sure it does, though. He's ████ Asian uncle, dude. >> [laughter] >> Yo, Vegas is so dry. I my whole skin gets so itchy here. >> eczema, man? I have I need one of those cuz I can't reach parts of my back anymore. What happened to your >> too strong. >> What happened to your S thing that you used to massage your back? There's no scratchy feature. Just put a ████ knife [laughter] on the back. You ████ I'll put some sandpaper on the back. 30 grit. Yeah, yeah, 30 grit. But yeah, so all compliments make me feel weird in general. Um what's a compliment that you like, Anthony? >> [laughter] >> Yeah, Anthony complimentarily. That was so bad. No, I thought you would like that. Complimentarily. >> [laughter] >> That ain't even a ████ word.
5:13 Lee. >> Anthony complimentarily. Like a serious answer you want or a dumb one because No, the real one. You guys trash on it anyway, so I don't give a ████ We'll trash on the dumb one, too. No, we'll trash both. An honest answer. I gave you an honest answer. >> you all I have a real one for you that'll make your real one sound pretty gay. I mean, no, mine will sound >> You sound gay right now. >> [laughter] >> No, mine will. No, mine will. All right, go. No, mine's going to sound really gay. Let's out-gay each other. We're a bunch of guys talking about compliments. Everything we talk about is going to be gay. Yeah, but go ahead. All right, go. Go. Really gay, though. All right, let's hear it. Cuz it's like too real. Just say it, dude. Okay, so You can make me want to make fun of >> No, basically basically so, you know, I think and a lot of students ask this kind of thing. So, I think this is actually something serious. See, this I start ████ talking serious, you start laughing already. Okay, what is this? This is the part where we riff. We're just riffing.
6:03 >> Give us the preamble. JUST SAY IT. >> [laughter] >> YOU'RE LIKE SAYING DON'T LAUGH. >> IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. GOT IT. WHAT HAPPENED? >> [laughter] >> THIS IS WHY WE MAKE FUN OF YOU, DUDE. THE SPRING winds were blowing through the trees. All right, what happened? >> information. >> [laughter] >> So, it was it was like a Wednesday, right? You just got to ████ know. >> [gasps] >> Point is when you when you're like trying to find yourself, especially as an artist like or as a dancer, at the end of the day everybody like starts with foundation. Everybody's learning your ABCs. You're just trying to learn stuff, which means even if you get really good and you have good work ethic, you're getting really good at maybe looking like people who are teaching you. And there everybody needs a breakout point where you have to they figure something out. But, the thing is it's really easy when you're learning, especially with friends or teachers, of it's super easy to point out what you could do better and what you're not doing right. Ironically, it's
6:54 in those pivotal moments when somebody gives you a compliment, that might be the thing that you run on. It's not about thinking about all the things you don't do well. So, my crew started everything starts with a joke, but it's it's interesting how things stick with you. That's all ████ point of this is that they started calling me in the crew and kids just started calling me iso-motional as my style of dance cuz I would only use like iso-animations and I'll always ████ dance to these ethereal or emotional tracks. >> Yeah. Which you don't know cuz you're just naturally doing what just kind of feels right until somebody actually paints a picture. I didn't know what ethereal meant until I saw Anthony dance, honestly. Or until you explained to me what that meant and I go, "Oh, okay." >> [laughter] >> No, but like but you know, that that vibe, you know? But like I just turned a compliment into a an insult just now. That's how you do it. I know what iso
7:44 like emotional is, but what is if you could break down is it like isolating moves? And then you're emotionally iso Basically also to like certain types of movements so that It's actually really ████ hard it's actually do it to certain types of songs and emote while using like animation versus like contemporary stuff you know. The point is again I don't get mad at the point is it's like when they At first you take it as it's like a like they're making fun of you. The screen's all blue behind Oh you thought they were making fun of you? Well it's just the idea of calling someone iso emotional is kind of gay right and like ████ choreo scene. OH. I THOUGHT THAT'S A PRETTY good definition though. The compliment that you would expect other like guys to give you know. Yeah or like To a dancer at the time. down like everybody's like trying to like name each other's style and everybody's like dude you're like ████ killer it's like oh dude you're like beat master it's like what are you my ████ iso emotional you know what
8:35 I'm saying? So it's so it's it's funny at the time but it's it's ironically those things when somebody has to break it down and like hey dude you're really good at this thing. And so suddenly you start running with it cuz it's the only thing you know how to run with. You have like a home emotional style. Yeah. Home emotional. >> Like that? Home [laughter] emotional. You're like well thank you I've been actually trying to put those the ideas into words and now like you nailed it. >> you like a nickname identity. I think it's one of those things where if if you're trying to like find yourself in something any skill or craft it's very easy to be like you're doing this wrong you could do this better. But the second somebody's like hey you're kind of good at this. Running with that's what's going to make you special versus hearing it and being like cool I'm good at this I need to work on these. Actually you could you could actually suck at all of these and be a master of one thing and you're going to be more successful than somebody who's good at everything. You
9:26 really cornered that market though. Yeah. I don't see anyone else doing that. Not to that level. >> No. You it's you and Mike song. But even Mike's very different from how you do to untrained eye. to a trained eye. >> [laughter] >> very yeah. I think that's a really good word for you actually. It's pretty cool. Who thought of that? Who said Tony? Oh, see that now you know what that now that I know Tony said it that means much more because coming from Tony who's like a ISO ████ god yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, say that part. You should have told the whole story. I was trying to but he's like okay, we get the context. >> [laughter] >> SO I ████ JUMP CUT THE STORY. >> Tony was born in 1980 like I could have been like so from ISO God like Tony but you know, I cut the line because he said >> That's like that that that makes sense cuz you're getting a compliment from someone that's a master of the thing
10:17 that he's telling you you're good at which is cool. >> Yeah, leave that part out jerk dude come on man. Yeah. Tony sucks actually. Tony's actually not good at that kind of dance I think. >> [laughter] >> That's a that's a really great compliment though. That I I would think about that forever too. But I I can see how like yeah a world master gives you that compliment and you're like oh that's Yeah. Yeah, that fool is That fool is unnaturally good at that. Yeah, he's the best. He's the like well like so so I've known him a long time too and in his earlier earlier days of dancing he's already ████ way better at ISOs than anyone I've seen like years and years later. We stopped calling him a popper and we started calling him an isolator because what he was doing was just on a different level. I could never like even pull up a clip dude. imitate him satirically.
11:07 And he actually is really good at imitating satirically. >> Yeah, and I'm pretty good at I'm even better when I'm joking and this I can't even make fun of this guy. I can't do anything that you remotely looks like how he moves. It doesn't make sense. Very true. Yeah, you you are very good at that. Go ahead Joe. Your turn. What's the compliment you got? He wanted to go first. >> No, I didn't want >> [laughter] >> We go we go like this. That's true. It means nothing. I got nothing. No, no. >> [clears throat] >> The one time someone actually believed in me. And and and and it blew my mind because at the time >> [snorts] >> not only did the world call me a ████ but I was convinced myself. >> The world called you ████ >> Yeah. Like like my I had a I had a teacher that called my parents and really pushed them to like put me in like special ed and ████
11:58 >> Wasn't even JK days. This is straight up like the world was calling you ████ before JK days. For real like I was just yeah. When you were like nine or 10? >> But also I didn't do any I didn't do any favors for the perception because one of my friends was actually ████ and I would I wanted to be in his class cuz I didn't want to be separated. I don't know. He was ████ enough to be in a special class. >> Oh, you were trying to act dumber to be in class with >> I wanted to really be in his ████ class. So you were putting it on? >> Stop calling >> [laughter] >> Kind of. Wow. But this went on for years. >> That's ████ right? But that went on for years. THAT WENT ON FOR YEARS, OKAY? IT WENT on for years. She's like, "The kid is saying he has a need and we need to fulfill that need." >> [laughter] >> He needs to be in this class. His teacher, he like he would like he was calling my parents and they're like he was really pushing for it. All that.
12:48 I wasn't performing well in his class anyway. And [snorts] then So like yeah, I was just like I just I just said, "You know what? I'm just ████ stupid, bro. Like it is what it is." >> unique man on the planet Earth. That's funny as hell. You're the most unique man on >> [laughter] >> And I I I I feel like for two years straight I really wanted to go to his special class cuz one I knew it was going to be easier. So it's like I like and then I could hang out with them. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, standards are lower in there, too. Yeah. You're like, "All you guys are doing >> Wait, hold on. The compliment >> [laughter] >> The compliment better not be another teacher saw you went, "This guy's NOT ████." >> [laughter] >> HIS COMMENT IS LIKE, "HE DOESN'T BELONG IN this class." No, okay. >> [laughter] >> Or he does belong in the class and and
13:38 and the teacher's like, "He's He's DOING PRETTY GOOD." >> [laughter] >> YO, IF THAT'S THE COMPLIMENT. THIS KID'S not a ████ >> The compliment was my math teacher Uh-huh. Oh. "This is where you belong." >> [laughter] >> So, I I actually started my algebra teacher I started applying myself. Like, I actually started going, "You know what? I'm bored. I'mma actually do the work now." So, I progressed and I and I finished and then um she actually like wrote me a letter on my assignment and she goes she was like, "I'm so proud of you like applying yourself." Um my husband basically he he's like >> He's out of town. [laughter] That would have been the best. >> [laughter] >> NO, SHE WAS LIKE, "AND THAT'S WHEN I
14:28 KNEW." >> [laughter] >> He's like, "My My husband is uh is also ████ >> He's a >> [laughter] >> He He basically is a boss at a bank. I can't do this. And won't be back till Monday. >> [laughter] >> AND I WANT YOU TO ████ MY BRAINS OUT. YOU ████ >> [cough] [laughter] >> I WISH, RIGHT? >> SORRY, I can't ████ breathe. It's okay. It's okay. That was worth it. Okay. >> That was worth the joke. >> [laughter] >> I want you to finish. So So, basically she was so excited about me and proud of me. She told me she told she told her husband about me. And she says that I think you would do really well uh if you want a job at the bank one day. >> you a job? He runs a bank. He was a manager at a bank. >> What grade are you in? Uh at this time I
15:20 was in high school. So, I've been >> Wait, hold on. >> [snorts] >> Wait, this So, I WAS PULLING OFF the ████ stuff for a while to the special class in Yes. >> okay. >> [laughter] >> All right. All right, HOLD ON. HOLD ON. LET ME LET ME EXPLAIN TO YOU WHY. Let me explain to you why. No, I understand why. I think it's genius. >> [laughter] >> I I was always hacking the system and I wanted to do zero >> Yeah, no, I get it. I told That's why I think it's the smartest plan ever. >> [laughter] >> He's ████ And you know why I know he's ████ >> said you're trying to get in his class. I didn't know he was a part of the special class, but we got into a fight. >> This is the bus story. I punched him in the face. And after I punched him in the face, he ran away into the special ed class. And then I And everyone looked at me and said, "You beat up a ████ riri." And then I was like, >> the same class.
16:10 >> [laughter] >> ████ And then we made up again. I was like, "I'm so sorry, but you can't you call me ching chong, dude. Like, that's ████ up. You can't be calling me ching chong. I'm going to smack you in the face." And then so I >> He's like, "I'm special." I didn't know he was. >> Was he a ching chong, too? He was black. And then his his nickname was Holyfield cuz he looked He looked like Evander Holyfield. Dude, that's a good friend to have. So, they're calling [laughter] you ching chong and you're calling him Holyfield, but you get all mad. >> one of my first friends I made in high school. >> Oh, wow. >> So, but he wasn't full special, though. He was like Forest Gump. So, like, Was he big? No, no, no. He wasn't huge. Yeah, damn. But, his face was like Holyfield. But, basically, we had some classes. Like, where That's how we became friends. We had similar classes, right? And he brought me into his friend group. And I was super grateful for him. And then so yeah, like I I don't know. People just fight, right? But, we made
17:01 up. We became friends. And then once I found out he went to the special class and I felt so saw what kind of work they were doing, Shaves. I wanted to be in that class so I didn't have to do any work. >> [laughter] >> So, that's that's the real reason why. So, I I up an act. And like like I said before, I said it at the beginning and I stand by it. Genius. That's so smart. To not get to get out of work She was you're actually smart. If you want to you know, I told my husband about you. If you want a job at the bank. I was like, at the bank? I'M GOING to be a ████ rapper. ████ that. So, that's That is kind of ████ you know, at the end of the day. >> That's a That is a really cool compliment, though. She just dropped a bunch of dollar bills in front of you to see if you can Yeah, that's actually really I've never heard a compliment like that at all ever. Where they're like the teachers telling you, "Hey, this would be a great job for you." That's cool.
17:52 And be all, "My husband doesn't come back to me." >> [laughter] >> ████ me. ████ ME, PLEASE. SO, HE DIDN'T EVEN DID HE GET TO SAY HIS real story? No, I don't need to. We're out of time. We're out of time. That's better than anything I could have said.
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