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Off The Record: What's The BEST Fan Interaction You've Ever Had?

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0:00 [Music] welcome back to another great episode of careful boys we are hearing from one of our fellow careful boys in the jkdm say hello to squid hi squid squid uh he had a really good question he was like man I've heard so many bad fan interactions from you guys and how they don't go so well but just to put a positive spin on things what are some of the best fan interactions you guys have ever had wait we have had bad fan interactions not that bad not really yeah I mean there's like weirdos sometimes but like a weirdo and we fixed it yeah but I mean I don't think they know about that one though oh well my my favorite ones are the personal ones like they'll come up to me and they go hey this is like the time I in my life whether in college or whatever this is when I came across your

0:50 content this is how like this content affected me and then we have like a conversation about it like to me that's like the best where it's just like like just a normal human conversation huh yeah there's like some crazy fandom or whatever it's like how you would connect with any one of your friends you know like oh you know like yeah everyone always makes fun of me about this TV show I like this and they're like you like that TV show too and boom there's that instant connection I like that like person the coolest thing I think is like well I don't even know I wouldn't even consider them fans but like a lot we were like iconic you know High School memories like cuz it was just like us and Wang Fu and a couple of other YouTubers in the Asian Community right so like they watched our video but what I call them fans I don't know like they watch it in passing but the coolest I think is that now everyone is of a age that's like a

1:40 working professional so I would run into them in a professional setting and immediately like it turns unprofessional you know I mean like you're like in a boardroom or like a zoom call and then you're just like wait a minute you look familiar oh my God are you JK you know and then like we're just like m Joe we're like in an investor meeting or like whatever but the coolest thing though is it breaks the ice to where like you know how like formal corporate meetings are with the jargon and ████ small talk ████ boom it goes out that's and then immediately like there's this level of trust of like familiarity yeah there's not there's no like there's no like hey I'm going to get one on you I'm going to get the best ████ prices this and that it's more like oh ████ hey let me hook you up with this and this and this and then we just

2:30 immediately go into doing business so I'm like that's the coolest fan interaction where it just breaks the ey so quickly and then it's like the the that whole like you know that weird like stranger is disgu sa phase it goes away immediately and then we're like a lot of the people that I'm working with now are people who either watched it once or they watched it religiously but they don't give me the weird fan Vibes they just you know or it's not even like they're hooking you up it's like you guys just hook up absolutely yeah those are pretty sick those are good fans good fans I was I was at a um a car dealership in Vegas recently just taking like Nikki's car in cuz I don't have a car cuz I'm a ████ loser sold my car for crypto cuz you're

3:21 a ████ Legend cuz no cuz I'm a loser Legend don't have a car my wife's car in right um and then as I was yeah I was thank you as I was getting it like as I was paying or whatever this guy's like oh ████ you're Steve you're from JK he's like dude I've been watching you guys forever holy ████ he's like you live in Vegas I'm like you been watching us that ████ long that's F but um then he's like oh he's like next time let me take some off the bill for you and I'm like wow I'm like but you could have done it right now next time next time next time that is honestly that is honestly like the really really ████ sickest quick surprise because it's not just like love it's like a little bit of product too you know what I mean like anytime like maybe like a server or somebody's waiting you or somebody's working at a

4:11 shop and and like gives you a discount hooks you up with the free dessert or whatever it's such a purely a gift you do ████ in that M you didn't even exchange the photo they just chose to you didn't even promote them nothing shout outs to Romeo in Vegas Cu uh every time we take like Gio's car in like for oil chain or whatever I'm okay cool thank you I'm like and then oh what are you going to do stay here no I'm just grab a uber he goes you don't got to grab an Uber and they'll get us like the most expensive car on the lot I'm like just take this as a laner I'm like ████ cuz it's like twice as expensive as gi's car we like oh my God but it's so tight though yeah damn yeah I think that's like the the coolest it makes me feel so VIP like you'll be eating and then I'll be like oh check please and they're like it's been covered I'm like bye who and it's like by that man and then it's like

5:03 a cook just waving and I'm like what the ████ this is amazing I I mean I just eat here cuz I'm a regular I love eating this stuff and then they'll be like oh I've been watching you since a kid man and this and that and I'll go back I'll ████ Shake all the ████ hands of all the cooks and I'm like thank you guys so much yeah and I I mean I always leave a tip because it's just I'm so thankful right but like the surprises like that I'm just like damn you guys are willing to give me ████ and I don't even know who the ████ you are that's the I want to emphasize I don't know you I don't know you I don't even know you I was at the Vegas buffet waiting in line with it was like two going to be two hour wait or some ████ with Nikki and then this guy comes up he's like hey Steve ████ watching you a long time dude he's like and he like took me all the way to the front just walked me right in ████ VIP sick and I was like

5:54 I don't want to ca him Stampede don't make a big fooot sign I was like I pull my hat down extra tight make sure myng have you guys ever been to Anaheim packing yes Anaheim packing on the upper level there's these two restaurants that kind of are facing each other there's a Japanese handroll sushi place right across from that there's the Boba place like probably the only Boba place in that whole like District thing both sides have people that work to counter that are JK viewers wow and every time I go like uh the dude will won't let me pay for any of the Boba always a really cool guy the girl that works on other side super cool too have you thought about going in and be like I'll get 700 orders just stretch the MZ stretch that M see how long you can stretch it oh

6:44 shout outs to T brick too t brick on Garvey shut up yeah every time I go there I go there maybe like once every couple of months to buy B for my mom and every time I come in he was always like like I I'll phone in a phone order so I don't want to wait and then he'll tell me to order but then once he sees me com man he goes oh that's on us a shut up wow for barbell fres though yeah that's what the hell talking about seg segregated I actually get I could read the signs dude I I like I get I get uncomfortable when they keep doing it cuz like there's places that I actually love eating at but then since I never pay when I'm there just take us then you'll feel more comfortable I don't want to go anymore cuz like they give you too much ████ no it just feels like like okay for me I'm like if it's the first time right and then it's like hey what's up oh thanks cool next time I

7:35 come back I want to pay and then I don't want special treatment and then I'll hook him up I'll do a video all that stuff but I actually like the food and I want to go regularly but if I go and every ████ time they're giving me a spread of a ████ Prince and not like letting me pay I'm just like you can't go back I feel like a freeloader at that point that just goes for free meals every single time you got to make it Mutual right every single time you're like hey I'm back get but I don't want to work I just want to ████ eat you know it's working i' rather oh god oh why couldn't I been an oil rig worker I should have worked in the co minines a Cobalt Miner I want to work on a deep sea oil rig I'll I'll tell I'll tell you guys uh I'll tell you guys a really cool fan

8:25 hookup like one of the coolest I ever had and just know that after I tell you this there's one that's even ████ better really the why don't you tell us the other one yeah tell us the other one first I want I want to tell build it up build it up so um so I was flying to Singapore 200 uh6 oh ████ and then um has to be airline based and then the freaking uh flight attendant dude knew me from So You Think You Can Dance and he's like hey I voted for you no way I was like no way that's so cool thanks man and he goes you're first class now put me in ████ first class what the ████ what they have the power to do that yeah cuz there's no one in the seat they could just just let you go there that's so sick ████ all the way to Singapore dude did you start ordering like a mad man I didn't even know you could order I was happy to sit there I've never had thats dude that's the the difference of like that's peek bro yeah so I thought that's the best that I could possibly

9:15 gety the closest I got to that was me getting off of a flight after sitting economy the whole time and then the guy was like this is right after my bodybuilding show he was like good job at your sh and I walked off yeah like cool thanks man we have the same story same same so the the thing the thing that's better than that yeah escalate this is this is way better than that so uh this was in like 2 I want to say I better be careful about what year this is basically it's during when I was touring with lmf is it when we were still about to say ████ or there's um we had a residency we had a residency at Marquee in Vegas so we'd have to go there every month and do this one party this one night there's this one this one girl came up with like a there's like these

10:05 three girls and they were all excited about this one of their friends like meeting me and they were like oh talk to him talk to him I was like oh cool okay she was like banging like I will I can say that now I'll get in trouble for it but it's worth saying how big were the titties show us how big those titties why would you get in trouble for saying she's banging not nice to do but I I have to admit the truth she was banging and she came out to me and she was talking to me like really like I was like what are you saying and then she just starts making out with me like without any context and then you don't need it and then she Whispers in my ear and goes we were zanga friends no way do you know what that is of course I don't know what that it's like pre- Tumblr right zanga was one of the oldest like social media things but it was mainly for like journalistic stuff it was like a it was like a t yeah like a tum the best thing is you can ████ put music on it so when people

10:56 read your ████ they can have your soundtrack whole vibe it's like pre mypace too right and I guess like back when back when we were like kids yeah back when we were like 17 or 16 like we were buddies on zanga and we would just write each other she missed you so hard and oh you were like pen pal kind of yeah yeah yeah like we she was on my buddy list like we were on like and we would just read each other ████ all the time like uh did you see pictures of her too no well she looked completely different we were we both look like we both looked super different but then I guess blow loads on each other after I guess she like had followed I guess she like had followed my whole thing up until that point and then you know finally caught up to me in Vegas that specific night that might like it might be a hot what's the what's the what's the prize what's the swallow your what sorry what the ████ you called yourself

11:47 he had it all queued up ████ was that dude first class sounds better dude go ahead Anthony wait wait wait did you guys what happened did you get the ████ final release the destination did you get first class or not go ahead Anthony cuz no no no no no no cuz finish the quest the Singapore the Singapore thing is better monetarily it is a better deal Singapore I think is better what if the the way that they are reading each other's Zas like that was the whole buildup you know what I mean exactly that a foreplay but unless 10 years of worth of foreplay unless she gave you a voucher what no that's not for that that's I'm just saying it's like you know uhhuh it was cathartic hey Ryan that's amazing but dude for zanga though that's the that's what makes he had a zanga groupy dude

12:38 ultimate dream come true because they were friends it like a relationship the Ultimate Dream Come True is when both of you guys are like not very sexual organisms yet so you really connect as spirits to see that they've developed into a ████ porn star you're like oh yeah holy ████ that's ████ crazy we're back we're back baby inside outside sex at the same time inside out yeah and it's mutual she's like banging he's like banging beats it's crazy you know what I mean it it's also sad because I don't I don't know what ever happened her name after that cuz you put her in a suitcase after think it's s wherever you are I hacked her up and put her in a fck luck escaping that's crazy I don't know what happened to her after that's so strange the best fan interaction ever was when we were at Trump Tower and that black lady came up to us oh my God are you guys Jabba walkies and then right after

13:28 she goes was that racist we didn't even get a chance to answer that's the best and the funny thing is like you're not wrong some of these guys might be like you're you're way closer than you think anon's close anon's close you have no ████ idea how close you are diagram is right on such a two years ago thing can we drop it oh no that was one of the best highlights ever my favorite memories ever Anthony Lee Dude I can't top first class Anga that's all I got to say but you've you've definitely been you definitely Zing your you've definitely been to the Czech Republic you're doing that with your mouth I see it hey check yourself man the wallpaper's on there dude oh I got a really good one that helped me out of a sticky

14:18 situation you're welcome Anthony Jesus it's hot in here I was in Austria and um this is at the height of like country shutting down so I took the last train from Germany to Austria and Germany was shutting down this sounds like a movie yeah they were cuz they were shutting down all transportations right like I guess like people from Italy weren't allowed to go into other countries cuz that's where the epicenter was and then um when everything was going down we actually took a trip to Germany cuz Germany was still open where Austria was like you can't walk around or whatever so then uh I guess um we were told Germany's going to shut down you need to leave now so we left to Austria and then after that I saw my plane tickets and all this stuff and I was like oh ████ planes are ████ shutting down too and

15:09 then I had a fan who reached out to me who worked for Austrian Air and then he goes Joe like I know you're out in the country right now um like I'm not like like weird or whatever I just want to make sure that you're going to get home and I was like here's my ticket thing and it says he was right like when I checked the route one of the flights were cancelled but on my boarding thingy on the app it said that I was still on so he was like actually what's happening is you have a connector from Austria to Portugal or whatever and then back to the US your second flight is cancelled so you would have been stuck in the second country that's a pretty massive hookup yeah so he swapped my flights to I think it was Dublin and then so I was like ████ dude that's ████ pretty pretty awesome I

16:00 got to the airport he ████ helped me out with all this ████ and then I put him in a vlog and then I was able to go to Ireland and then from Dublin the the flight got all ████ um delayed so by the time I got to Chicago I missed my other flight but another fan from United Airlines hit me up got me on a flight to La wow so how would you get anywhere without your fans dude this is crazy well cuz I was documenting and vlogging and like thank God I was Crea like doing story right so people that were watching were like I work for the airport let fans basically coordinated an extraction for you basically get Joe back to the States that's ████ crazy wow it was the last it was the last flights out cuz you know remember when Chicago was like crazy packed for like people were like delayed for 8 hours when I went in there

16:50 it was the scariest ████ right they had like a quarantine room so you had to go in and then the quarantine room had like you know when you walk go into those walk-in fridges those like plastic oh like curtain things curtain things right you go in everyone's in a full hazmat suit wow they it looks like the zombie apocalypse and then you walk in they have these stupid ass surveys they don't do ████ it just all like looks crazy and then you get out and I was like that doesn't solve any ████ disease issues but anyways looks like it it should looks like maybe would yeah and I was like stuck in Chicago and I was like how the ████ am I going to get back to LA and then me and the the United Airlines guy were friends now and like he hooked me up with like a buddy thingy for the United Airlines that guy oh that I've been hearing about him for a long time can I get access to the lounge in a

17:41 couple of weeks be on United so I would love to go but yeah it's like because of the whole fan base ████ like if I didn't know any of that I would have been stuck in Europe you still be there yeah not a bad place to be stuck at though imagine you asking the just the go hey can you help me out I don't watch any of your channels sorry I don't watch JK thank you I used sorry I used to watch [Laughter] JK

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