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Off The Record: Putting Lawrence Kao in the HOT SEAT!

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0:00 [Music] welcome back to another episode of the camera boys well today we got the hot seat with the hottest question in the world and even i've seen the hotter guests lauren's cow everybody [Applause] [Music] everyone sits in this chair yeah don't shake it around okay it's more high quality okay guys don't jiggle i want to try to kill you don't do that no please no it doesn't look as cool we like to start it cold oh there's no bar and then turn off the heat we like to start with the least interesting stuff and then let the interesting the interesting stuff for later yeah so people click away in the very beginning that's what we're trying to do right it's about engagement all right so engagement later okay that's the new

0:50 youtube model in in honor of bart's cold questions all right i'm going to try to muster up all right what is your favorite kind of office chair hmm it's really good that's a good bar it's a really good cold question yeah i don't i mean i don't really know like specifically you don't know the brand i do like office chairs that um can like drop really quickly yeah they have to have like like hydraulics yeah yeah yeah yeah so so if like if they can come up high like how high oh it's like a hydraulic is that fast enough yeah was it yeah how would you rank that actually that's pretty good those are pretty cool can i try no just stand and stay in there i gotta say in the chat it was a safe answer yeah there's alright really no like office chairs that well okay let's get right into it so you

1:40 obviously just uh starred in a movie just full of vengeance yeah on netflix yes yeah what did you really think about scale of one to ten yeah i thought it was ████ awesome i really did so you know like okay i i really did like i watched i watched it and i was like this is ████ good but we've been getting a lot of ████ haters the movie is a ████ party and there's a bunch up there there's all good party poopers there's always gonna be there's always gonna be haters what could they be hating on yeah people take it so they take it too seriously they like they want like depth they want like i'm like it's just a popcorn flick it's like an action movie you know just action from beginning to end they're like oh it wasn't like saving private ryan what they were like i'm like what the ████ do you want you know we're just trying to give you action we're just trying to keep you entertained but yeah i i enjoyed the movie and i enjoyed the process and it was hey to all the

2:30 dedicated fans here uh help us with the party poopers go out there leave five-star ratings and then while you're at it make sure you get on kindergarten noodles on amazon do the same thing thanks oh my god he's snuck in a plug look at that i haven't done it a long time like 80 videos haven't done a lot he's wearing a kitchen shirt oh thank you i always support you he does always support do you have any kendra's gear absolutely i heard all of it i wore a kitchen jacket the day that you couldn't come yeah in memory of you yeah i hot seats for lawrence but thank you these gingers too hey lawrence um how many how many films and tv shows that are like notable have you been in because like when people are like oh you know there's an asian guy um ████ walking dead i'm like yeah he's my friend and they're like no no no i'm talking about glenn no not that guy yeah i know i know but i know the other guy

3:21 who was the ████ governor's homie that was the right hand man for the governor and they're like who is that guy hey did they do did they do glenn dirty yeah did they ████ him over did they do glenn dirty um i didn't even continue watching so i don't even know how they did glenn all i know is they killed him right that's doing dirty he was supposed to die earlier he shouldn't die no but he was supposed to die earlier they kept them on longer he wasn't supposed to die that late do you guys feel like he was he was done dirty i didn't watch it either did you ever did you ever look at glenn on set and think to yourself like that should have been me yeah my coming god going back decided man i was just happy to be there i'm like ████ this is crazy besides the walking dead what else have you done um don't tell him about honey four we gotta get that off are you on honey four holy ████ you're a honeymoon

4:14 [Laughter] what's your favorite thing you've been in and why is it the bring your own balloon party because bring your own balloon is ████ awesome hang on for for like all of us in the world who don't know what that is can you maybe backfill that what the ████ is that dude it's just my favorite sketch that he's written so lauren says uh did something i pitched it to you guys and you guys are like wait what the ████ is this remember yeah so lawrence did a studio 64 comedy with canals come later today uh they did use youtube comedy sketches and stuff like that really just short sketches and they shot this video called bring your own balloon and it still doesn't make sense i don't know how to explain it but it if you watch it you'll understand things about lawrence and you're like i get it i had to take it down what because i feel like racist a little bit

5:05 but that's the best kind of agent yeah oh it's like it's not it's because the way you're talking to the girl no it's not that it's just like what we're wearing and stuff the froze yeah i feel like i feel like that just went in like come on i mean i think it's hilarious but we're wearing afros we're wearing afros in the video oh but you guys are so racist i ████ hate you guys that's right what honest first impression of joe ████ crazy come on man you're nuts when was the first time no we met in australia what did i do that was so different in australia look you're the same you're the same now yeah no come on man you're a wild man

5:56 it's not a negative thing it's like man this guy is he's on something he's awesome you're funny you're ████ funny you see how high his voice is getting every time he says it yeah you're funny really yeah yeah you're great oh i have a question can i ask it yes yeah thank you for raising your hand though i forgot the ████ format all right there's there's a there's a youtube uh video that that lauren's put up before where it's like um i'll post part two when this video gets this many likes and then it looks like it's almost there it's like been years would you make it part two if it reached that number um i want to say no because i don't want to make this thing but if it gets there you know what what is this thing i don't even know what it is yeah backfill that too please sorry go ahead go ahead and he doesn't know the context neither

6:46 do i i don't know i was making these like um i could i wouldn't even call them sketches they were just like little small short film things and then i i told p the audience like if i get to a specific the specific amount of views i'd make another one all right let's ████ get it there yo and you totally don't want to make it but what year was that but what year was that wasn't that like ages ago like 12 11 dude oh whoa yeah and but the numbers are get it's almost there you know my favorite ████ from you is when you did jeremy lin ████ playing oh dude that's legendary he made a viral um wait that was you yeah like the paranoia you're derek fisherman oh my god i can't believe that was you yeah holy ████ so context for that one uh jeremy lin was going crazy during that

7:36 once insanity yeah that's the time of my life you know i made this video uh under studio 64 comedy called superior intellect so you take highlight clips from jeremy lin and then he would like freeze frame it and he would like draw mathematic equations and use his uh quadratic formula yeah the quadratic difference when i look back on it right now i feel a little bit bad i'm like man this is like this is this mean no that was the best i'm like but then i'm like this is hilarious you're saying he's smart jeremy lin loved it he's calculated it was so good it's great dude it was better than when they they when the new york times put like ████ in the armor and then put a picture of jeremy lin like that was way worse that's pretty ████ insane terrible that what you did was ████ hilarious okay out of everything that you've learned and experienced in in hollywood right what

8:26 is like one of the biggest lessons that you have for an aspiring actor out there biggest lesson um it doesn't matter if it's depressing too make it depressing if you can i mean i i guess it's just to like not take anything too seriously just to just uh just to keep going if this is what you want to do if this just this is your job then you have to treat it like this is your job and not think of it as like something that's so like something that you can't reach because like like to try to become a doctor you still have to like go through you have to go you have to go to like ████ medical school and then you gotta do all this ████ that i don't feel i can do but if you treat it like it's like this is your work and you know the necessary steps to get to where you need to get to then it won't be as daunting because i feel like people just put it on such a high pedestal that they they feel like oh it's so hard to ████

9:16 achieve but if you think about it like oh it's just it's just a ████ normal job it was really beautifully put can you do it again but not wiggle the chair so much this chair is supposed to be like sturdy it's a lawn chair uh no that's great that was a great answer so as an as an actor like you do you find um if you're researching for something do you ever have you ever put yourself into somebody else's shoes like actually drop there to try to like understand them more or yeah the method are you more like the type of i could just show up and i just like to hit my marks and nail the lines and the intentions uh no yeah i i feel like i have to try to understand like i feel like you have to get your head space in the you know in the in the right head space of the character for sure like i can't just show up and be like okay i'm gonna say my lines you

10:06 know there's not gonna be enough like depth or meaning into like the delivery or anything you know it's like all about building the subconscious of that kind of character and letting things come out whenever they come out so it's not really necessarily memorizing the lines but it's just like understanding the character and then just going on set when they call action you already have the lines and it's just like hopefully the things that come out will be stuff that you've worked on do you have a specific memory like as a child that makes you go like oh yeah i remember that that's why i wanted to act um it's a good question i mean i hate telling the story but this is like just like it's like that typical it would i keep repeating this story a lot but it's like when i was in high school i got falsely accused of something i was trying to be an actor at that time and i was i had to go i was in jail for

10:56 attempted murder and then um well i don't know this story i just don't want i just hate talking about it so i'm talking about so interesting why are you not giving me the juice bro i gotta hear about the ████ balloon video yeah you should have brought up attempted murder from the joke ten thousand people clicked the wave before they got to this juices this is why we start really cold why don't we do it to ourselves i just started acting in high school and i was it was the opening night of a play that i was supposed to do and then i get falsely accused of attempted murder on the opening night of the show and i get arrested do they think you're an asian gang member yes and you look like someone else they thought they thought i was someone else but then murder mystery dinner no no no because then you have weapons on you and you're like oh no no no dinner theater

11:48 but yeah so i spent i was in jail and then this is high school this was in high school and then i was i was in there for over 72 hours holy ████ 72 hours today's video is brought to you by dipsy emails laundry groceries the list goes on there's a lot on your to-do list but what should be number one the answer is you this year put yourself first with the help of dipsy dipsy stories is an app full of sexy audio stories and now they even have brand new written stories no matter who you're into or what turns you on dipsy helps bring stories to life anytime anywhere close your eyes and let yourself get lost in a world where only good things happen and where pleasure is your only priority explore your fantasies in a safe and shame-free way

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13:32 you're you've been in here for long enough so i feel like they have enough evidence on you and i'm like how how long am i going to be in here and they're like probably at least 40 years holy ████ at that point at that age i was just like it wasn't at least i was still 17 so it was juvie it wasn't anything crazy but i turned 18 while while i was in jail and um you spent your birthday in jail yeah holy ████ how long were you in drew before a week oh damn and so did your inmate friends give you a birthday yeah what's birthday in jail birthday was uh open the door happy birthday close the door oh that's nice that was pretty nice actually though i thought they would jump you have a schizo like like uh cell mate though oh which was pretty insane because he was like talking to me we had a good conversation and all of a sudden he was just like who the ████ are you whoa and then i was just like oh ████ he

14:22 forgot he just didn't know who i was just be like well i'll tell i was talking to you well i guess i'll tell my story again yeah this is me but anyways i was in jail and i really thought i was gonna stay there for like a long period of time and i was freaking out and then i was thinking about ████ what i want to do when i get out and i was thinking like i i love acting and i thought to myself that that's what i'm gonna do when i ████ get out of here and luckily enough i get released um you know five six days later and it was the closing night of the show that i was supposed to be in and your understand's killing it at her yeah yeah ████ that understudy guy they replaced you right name that guy's name by the way he's glenn on the walking dead [Laughter] ████ that guy but then yeah when i was

15:12 on stage and i was able to perform i it was that moment where i told myself yeah this is what i want to do for the rest of my life because i was just like ████ i was about to like not be able to do that and so why do you hate that story because i've been telling it for so long yeah but not here goddammit our audience don't ████ know it's a great story i didn't even know we knew your favorite office chair before we knew i liked it better when you ended with we still don't really i like it better when you end my saying and i sent it to myself to a life of acting he's never said that but all i know about all i know about this fool is you don't like to wear underwear that's it yeah i heard that too yeah right now ████ wore underwear today dad you're growing fool do you wear underwear wait how falsely accused were you about the underwear thing no i was living with him no underwear i i actually don't a lot

16:02 don't i don't know i like it i like just i like it to be just there's more air there's less things on i don't wear underwear when i wear shorts it's like when you guys sleep sometimes you guys just want to sleep like with nothing on yeah you're wearing shorts right now wait did they have underwear did they ever catch the real guy no what the ████ um there was just not enough evidence it wasn't it wasn't just me it was probably me and other people no no i didn't do it but there was a group there was a group of people that got caught up your high school friends too yes yes damn and there was like there were some people that were still in jail for like three months oh ████ they didn't do ████ and they had to like sell their homes oh my god money to like bail the guy out it was bad i actually

16:52 got sued in college i got served papers because i i guess the people that um that got severely messed up were like yeah you guys caused trauma in my life or like what you like yeah like a civil suit later why why you because he was a kid that was cause that was part of that well how would they sue you if you didn't do ████ that's correct i guess they see it everywhere america civil yeah wow oh my god what a ████ mess bro and the police like that that handled the whole situation they were just so ████ up man it's like i was in a cell and um some um some kid needed a to use a restroom and they wouldn't let him so he had to pee on the floor and they made him take off his clothes and like wipe up his own piss whoa i saw an officer just like choke somebody it's pretty nuts goddamn it we're in the show

17:45 like just straight up jokes i'm choking kid i'm like what the ████ is going on it was pretty intense yeah cops are pretty ████ up yep yeah they're pretty bad so so fast forward now that uh you went through that traumatic traumatic experience and then you're like you ascended to your acting career after that you know it was crazy go so so to do to do woo assassins i had to get through the canadian border right oh and when i was going through the canadian border they said oh what is this thing on your record we're not letting you in you can't you can't do this you can't work you had a record oh because you're 18. it whole between u.s and canada it holds a long time they didn't expunge it so then i was a juvenile ████ my pants because i was like man the thing that that made me want to do this in the first place was now preventing me from like like doing what i would love to do and then i was like ████ you have to tell that whole story at the border is that why you don't like

18:35 maybe so many times yeah all the canadian officials did you start with it's not what it looks like don't worry i was accused of attempted murder it wasn't me though but i've been acquitted of all charges i'm acquittable of our all charges they say they were gonna call they they were gonna call uh a court in la and if if no one picked up and explained what was going on they wouldn't let me through the border holy ████ and so i was just chilling there ████ in my pants thinking like well i guess i'm not gonna ████ work anymore did they make you wipe the ████ with your own clothes so then they called and then think wonder if that's why we we sort of got stopped too in australia if that's why and you put me through that i'm gonna sue you we already determined it was victor's fault

19:25 yeah so somebody picked up and then what happened they called someone picked up and then uh ████ luckily and uh you're like it's expunged yeah it's expunged and so i had to so now i have to carry this piece of paper i went back to the courts to get like to get it all taken care of so that whenever i'm traveling i need like this piece of paper with me to show that it's it's been expunged yeah i had to go to the to the court to it's like a bait did you go downtown l.a yeah or it's at the basement right and then you have to ask the desk wait don't ████ gloss why the ████ do you have to go to court oh i have some i had some i have juvenile records oh just nothing like just like murder not like like graffiti and like theft and like so art like yeah like graffiti art yeah yeah like whatever we have we have a lot of actors come on to the show we always

20:15 want to get to like the nitty-gritty and really ask like the serious questions that really define people's characters so like um if you were like casting a movie and then you were cast with a a co-star that you could just have a beautiful beautiful sex scene with who would be who would you ████ that ████ out of dude who would you ████ get flesh-colored underwear over your pants and just grind on it's okay everybody everybody it's just flattery you know whoever you say unless it's awkward and you've already worked with them and i'd say like 90 percent of all act act actors right now that's who you would ████ take 90 percent yeah he's saying everyone's hot except for britney spears apparently this ████ guy i swear to god she's gross [Laughter] britney spears it is then we'll never fight against the same

21:06 oh ladies well really that's right i'm dating sorry like i don't know i'm just trying to think like you don't have a celebrity crush in the acting who makes know what makes you horny i don't have a celebrity card i have i i've had celebrity crushes when i was younger okay tell me that shannon saw semen oh yeah she's great who's that who's that there's a short hair like he's been forty nights girl oh yeah okay yeah we've reached the 20 minute and 12 second part of the show this is the part of the show we're like turn the heat so can i ask do you have any regrets regrets rag rats uh yeah yeah yeah i i do i think i have he's just like killing that guy [Laughter] i killed him i killed a

21:57 oh man [Laughter] editor don't cut that out please don't leave it anywhere i think i regret like when i got away with murder that would be so shocking then they use this video and ████ put them back in imagine no i don't want to no falsely accused twice because jk news yeah they reopened the case they're like well there was that jk video it was on a legitimate news let's take another look joe's the witness they bring in he's like yeah i mean he said it he was on the hot seat man i always lie for you lawrence nobody lies over here he didn't do it he didn't know anybody y'all lord did not commit any crimes

22:47 okay back to the regret um i think i think i would go back and like try to enjoy um like all the america's dance crew stuff that happened afterwards i think i always talk about this like i don't think i was really present in that moment in time i was just trying to like not dance anymore at that time and i feel like if i could go back in time just to enjoy all the travels and be like yeah this is ████ dope this is great wait you were you were on abdc he was on top of modern season one oh what and they ████ like that was that was what 2008 2008 right so how did you not enjoy it though they actually got beat by jabbawockeez you was trying to act more i was trying to act more and then and then i just graduated college and then um you know i wanted to immediately start to like you know like auditioning for things and just start my

23:37 career but then dance was just the only thing that was paying me a lot of money and then so we we would just travel all the time and i felt like it was taking away from what i what i just really wanted i remember you you said that too back then and i was like what but you guys are doing everything i know that's crazy and then just like doing like uh meet and greets and stuff i was like oh but it but if i could go back in time i would just try to be present and enjoy you know that but if you're killing that acting you'd be immediately still ████ traveling and doing stuff you know you should have thought about that nobody's wanted it's like getting a ████ when you wanted to get your dick ridden that's exactly what it's like exactly it's pretty nice but still like but what do you want it though way better than getting your dick right

24:28 yeah i think it's just like what your heart desires is what your heart desires the cool thing is i remember when when you guys are traveling a ton and like they they pretty much like pave the way for like the crews after to do the same types of tours because we really just did the same places they did because after they toured all of those venues and those companies believed that oh dance crews are a good thing to hire for these things now so it was like a proven model they really did pave like the way for that ████ and i remember talking to you when i was in costa mesa living there and you were like man i'm trying to do more acting and stuff yeah i was like dude i would love to do what you're doing no like i hate myself like i want to punch myself in the face because like i was just like hey but australia was fun though and if it wasn't for that we would and them all met australia was ████ fun right yeah that was really cool take the tour too

25:18 there it is again we should do a tick tick tour without poriotic he points points to the foot because chad's in there have him come and record us oh my god i thought the ████ path can record you guys but then he can do his hand things in front of the camera like that that's really good i know right i watch him i want it [Music]

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