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Off the Record: First Time You Got Into a Fight!? (ft. Walter Hong)

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0:00 [Music] welcome back to another awesome episode of the care for boys and we got walter hong here today walter a little prompt we're talking about during the break we're going to talk about the first time you either got into a fight or you got your ass beat um um first time i got into a fight and what do they count if it's just like elementary school fights it better that's when it first yeah because that's the only thing in elementary that's when i first started the first time i ever got my ass beat um was in first grade so like it was really shocking because you know when you're a kid you don't even even know what violence is like you might mess around with your friends you're just kind of going like this whatever i remember um i was playing with uh i was playing at my friend's house he went inside this is

0:50 his little brother actually his little brother is pretty big we got into like a pushing kind of match and then he just kicks me in the face and i remember my lips just burst open and blood just starts coming out but i've never experienced violence from anyone outside of my parents before you've never been punched by anybody who wasn't your dad for example he's like this is so weird i just stood there i didn't even know what to do and he kept kicking him in the face over and over and over and over so you're just standing there yeah boom oh my god i just froze i didn't know what the ████ to do and then i went home and i was just crying i was balling and ████ and that was like the first time that i was like holy ████ that sex is crazy and in all seriousness did your dad kick your ass because you got your ass kicked no my parents were divorced already but my aunt who's my mom's little sister was staying with us at the time and she was like if someone ever touches you you hit them back i was okay i understand that's

1:40 a good ant have you have you seen have you seen that kid she died in a fight have you seen that have you seen that kid since then no no no oh you don't want to look him up and find him do the same thing i don't even remember his name this is like when i was six i am that petty the walter i'm just as pretty as you are my friend yes i don't yeah i don't even remember the kids it's like i don't remember his name goes to his house giant shrine dude every ████ news clip with ████ thread everywhere on push pins it's like magruber kfbr of 392. and what sucks is he was the rich kid in our neighborhood so he's already the kid all right that family is already the kid that had everything you know he was a kid that like their family had like the 200 000 rv parked in the drive like they just that was like the the family in the neighborhood had everything and he whipped my ass well you could have nowadays you just sue that kid then you guys are ████ gucci yeah that's right you give me the rv yeah thanks

2:30 we'll take the rv let's go to uh fights in the category i wish you were conscious and understood the experience and like you know what i mean like the emotions and the nerves so my friend had a sleepover i must i don't even ████ know i was in virginia at the time so i was like fourth grade and like it was super cool because like there's a sleepover and we're all at his house and like there's there's girls there right it's like they don't get to stay for the sleepover but they're for his birthday okay so yeah in the in the basement versus where we all got to hang out like we organized like some fights or whatever the ████ and like dude fourth grade kids fighting is not real fighting ever but i had done taekwondo and ████ so i was like dude i got some moves and ████ i said i could do a front flip because i i could do a front flip not kidding i could because i think my legs were long enough i could just do a ████ front flip um is it the ones where you touch your hand and you flip forward that's a handspring

3:21 yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm not a gymnast dude are you talking about when you go on your side walter i will fight you right now bro i'll do one on your ████ body right now are you talking about where you're rolling i was trying to match what you give me hey but if we if we fight don't kick me in the balls because i might get hard [Laughter] so no so i was like dude i got the moves to show off these stupid chicks right and then yeah we're in the basement and dude it's the best part about it is it's just dudes throwing each other down ████ yeah you throw the other guy down and he's like yay yeah yeah and like you're trying to show off in front of the girls exactly and then my friend joel he wiped his butt on the american flag and i'll never forget it because we're all like that's ████ up but he's just like yeah there's american flag in the basement and he like took it

4:11 and wiped it on his butt but you thought that was a real fight like you guys were like doing it well no this is that's the fight it was his party so we're all like white people are crazy because like no minority would ever dude joel was jewish dude don't even worry about it don't even worry they're white too i haven't heard that lately oh yeah though they're they're white oh whoopi ever since whoopee i haven't heard that yeah ever since what's known as the black israelite can you believe she's a goldberg and like people are like yo that's ████ up what you said that's like all right leah goldberg bro she's like she's fine she's fine she's not anticipating i'm actually homburg but we shortened our name to hong kong walter homburg jerome greenberg no i'm not i'm a loser greenberg's would be very successful though very successful name so i have a story picking back off that but it was i was a freshman summer

5:01 chilton no no front flips high school no yeah i was a freshman i had like gotten in fights a little bit here and there but it was always like someone ████ with me and then like i would like we would kind of fight but it was always there were always like kind of ████ about it so it was like i never really got in a fight this is before you started training this before i started training um so i was my freshman year was a water polo team i guess my water polo coach at the time would like box i don't know if he was any good i don't think he was he a real boxer he wanted a shadow boxer i think he was one of those guys like i think he was one of those that's like because i would see him later in my years actually fighting and he would actually come in the gym and i was like oh i don't think this guy used to box so and so he would get the varsity team i was on the junior varsity team the freshman team he would make us go in the weight room and like box each other and i remember at the time i was like yeah and i had a box like a senior or

5:51 something his name was austin he was like a really nice guy but he was like he was like really quiet but kind of like strong and dude i was like 112 pounds oh ████ i was like nothing you know and i was like oh yeah i got in like some fights in middle school like i'll be fine i'm gonna like beat this dude's ass and i was like yeah dude i just do karate like man i'ma kick this dude's ████ ass we square off all i remember was i have my gloves up i just got hit once and then i woke up from the floor wow dude and then i don't really actually i i the first one i got hit like on my face and then i was like whoa and then i just remember waking up a couple weeks ago i made fun of you saying the expert in this room on getting knocked out is this man and you're like i never been knocked out yeah and actually when you brought this prompt i remembered this right on the spot but

6:41 as far as like in my in my training career i haven't but i was like a freshman probably i just wake up and i just see all these faces around me they're like hey man good job and i was like yeah you guys think so cool man all right cool and then that was it good job on getting knocked the ████ out hey nice job getting laid out dude the way i fell you felt gracefully through the first memory of like a legit fight for me was probably third grade right or fourth grade but anyways i was in san francisco because my um uncle is a pastor of a church out there so i made friends with one of the kids that went to that church and so there was uh it was at a house like they they built a church where you know one of those like full house house looking places and in the backyard we would just play and he had a ████ truck that he was messing with and something happened where we were

7:31 like fighting over it right and then we went we started shoving we started like scrapping and stuff and he grabbed my head ████ kneed me in the face oh my god he started crying and running away after he did that and i was like pissed because i'm like i didn't get to ████ really fight like i didn't even you just grabbed me and ████ kneed my face my cousin was watching the whole thing and i thought he was gonna come over here and he was gonna like lay the smack down like don't ████ with my cousin and all this stuff right and he just goes man i'm so disappointed in you oh ████ you started scolding me like you didn't even ████ you let him ████ you let him knee your face dude kind of ████ up and that's probably one of the biggest things that i just i was like ████ man i let him down like i looked up to my cousin and i'm like damn he's not

8:21 gonna take me to ████ hate street anymore dude [Laughter] looking up to cousins is such a mistake by the way yeah for real what a letdown hippies are man don't ever look up to cousins ever so we don't end on a s█████ you know story or anything like that i'll all go next wait this is careful boys we're halfway through what is it is it because you have you won you actually won or something no because i've actually i have a lot of fights i've never been in a fight in my life what never been i've been in like push-arounds and then like it's about to happen how come we never been in a fight dude i'm a ████ dancer man like we ████ fight we battle with music and then hug afterwards you've been a dance fight to have your back right now yeah no i've really never been in a fight i feel like i was always like either a ████ or a pacifist either or depend depends on who you talk to what if someone like steps

9:11 to you just talk your way out of it you're ████ way he's smooth how smooth this guy is i honestly i don't think anybody's ever wanted or needed to beat my ass for i'll beat your ████ ass bro he was an eagle scout i'm so surprised no one tried to kick your ass did other eagle scouts protect you is that what it was in our era right in our era you walk down the hallway someone shoulder bumps you that's a fight a lot of that did happen but i always ended up just either like walking away from him just moonwalk away or what the ████ he gets hit and then just keeps going that's crazy a lot of a lot of random pushing and shoving where it seems like it's about to escalate or like talking ████ to the next guy regardless or standing up to somebody who you know is gonna beat your ass yeah and then getting stopped in some way but like i for some reason just never got into it were you ever in a parking garage though

10:01 and you guys like basically his ████ war dude i can't believe you even know how to snap your fingers by the way thank you it's like am i the jet or are you the shark i don't know which one you guys didn't ████ tie your arms together and ████ dance with a knife and ████ i didn't realize how ████ entertaining this was gonna be i was like i've never been in a fight let's move on everybody here just like wow today's video is brought to you by feels cbd isn't about what you feel it's about what you do not feel such as stress anxiety pain all the nasty feelings in your heart sometimes at night you know you're trying to go to sleep and you're like oh man i'm still amped either from a workout or i had a stressful day or you just want to chill and if you're like me you drink a little bit of alcohol and start throwing up all over the place you're like how can i chill with this person i call my wife hmm she seems to drink alcohol okay maybe i'll take a little cd so we could

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11:43 shipping were you always tall like people scared or something no actually in high school i was five two in the beginning wait did you go to all girls school because even girls will fight you [Applause] there were more girl fights in my high school than guy fights you know you ever see girls fight and they just go right at it they go to the hair and they tear the cl they take off the clothes girls will punch and they'll go in punching because they don't understand how hard they because they don't hit hard but guys will like dance around because we know how hard guys hit but like girls don't know like i've seen a girl fight where one her friend's holding the girl and she you know they don't have accuracy so she's punching her friend if it was a guy doing that like if one of you guys were hitting me i'd be like knocked out well not him anthony be like [Laughter]

12:35 dude this girl's like starts laughing let me see her front flip steve hey i'll do it actually don't don't tempt me dude don't tempt me ████ do it i'm tough to you you gotta pay for my hospital bill i'll give you a little right now nikki's gonna get pissed we're gonna take these to the hospital yeah yeah yeah we still need a couple more days with steve yeah i'll do it on sunday ████ sunday 5 30 p.m let's go i want someone to understand how long legs help a front flip i would think short legs help a front foot because there's less i'm very i was very very very thin right and so long legs uh could propel me upwards but then the yeah the the uh the landing was always a ████ always a ████ i'm like a cricket but uh you know i don't have the the other uh appendages to land with that's what i was thinking but i'm like is this dude right now trying to tell us he's better than us because he's white and he has long legs we have short legs because if you do a

13:26 front flip long legs it is a detriment no no the the power the power yeah helpful he's now you say white people are stronger than we are this is at least you're not uh you know bringing your own insecurities into this meanwhile there is one famous white guy with short legs like asian people michael phelps does he have short legs he has long torso he seems very tall like tyrion lannister like ian edwards has this ian edwards has this great joke about it he's like you know you ever notice like you know asian dudes have short legs and then like when they they're sitting down and when they stand up they're the same height as when they were there that's pretty spot on i like freaking ian dude but yeah michael phelps is the same way long torso short legs yeah ████ michael phelps what about your fights yeah

14:16 what's your fight so i was like up to i think third fourth grade i was bullied a lot like physically um and then my parents put me in um there was a they didn't put me taken first they put me in um tiger yang muya dough what is that yang used to be a martial art actor but he created his own martial art muya do and he said he's tempted to be black belt and people started complaining there's no such thing so he lowered it to ninth degree so but i learned from him like but so were you were you learning stunt fighting it's like fake fighting a mixture of all the different martial arts that he allegedly was excelled at you know and then um so i remember in fourth grade this tall dude i remember his name still david ragsdale uh it was this tall white guy shout out that's why you have a problem with tall white guys this guy could actually flip and he had long legs it was weird and so you know we got in the pushing match and then

15:06 like i you know i thought i'm gonna get my butt kick but whatever but i threw a kick right at his face but i didn't kick him though it was right at his face and then we just kind of stopped whoa he was like what's going on you mean like one of those like he had a cigarette and you put it out yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like one of those things morning shot yeah it was like more like a warning shot because this is like in fourth grade but you meant to hit but you actually missed but it worked out actually you know as i don't know if i meant to hit him i think i just meant i'm just gonna do this and let's just see what happens yeah yeah and then usually that scares people though and then i later i got the taekwondo and then i got better at it and then i remember i think it was like in fifth grade because i was small and fifth grade i was the fourth smallest in class like i don't mean just boys i mean like boys and girls wow and i was waiting in line for handball and then this dude comes over i remember his name jonathan derby he pushes me out of line and he takes my foot he takes my

15:56 place and then so i gave him a front kick right in the stomach and he tried to hit me he and then that's that's when his breath caught up to him he's like and then i was like teacher came we both got in trouble yeah i was like i love that yeah sixth grade or seventh grade oh ████ front kick to the stuff yeah i'll give it a fight that'll do it girl knock her honestly because you know they do the push kicks now yeah the push kick is more for hollywood because it looks cool but that doesn't do much it just pushes them away but a front kick with the toes right right in the little snapback honestly very underrated very underrated defense tactic so in sixth grade or seventh grade i'm gonna bet you know the first and last you're a petty ████ walter and i like that about you you know petty's a strong word oh i'm petty i own it i just remember everything yeah people don't forget

16:46 i just remember everyone i'm not like bart bart's a forgiving man he doesn't remember the kid's name i don't remember his name i got ████ lists yeah no bart's too insecure now he he actually built on his insecurities and he built out like his own his own form yeah turned it into muscle yeah no me glass house i gotta write down all the names i gotta remember this ████ wait we're where's steve buscemi in um is it billy madison um um is billy madison where they had the list and he was knocking off oh like he was assassin and then he was like oh cause he had a list of people that offended him yeah yeah was that billy madison no no and then he said sorry and then he came back and then yeah and then he adam sandler said sorry and he took him off the list yeah um yeah and then i think in sixth or seventh grade i got to fight playing basketball with this guy he was one of the rich witcher kids and he was smart too rich and smart and so he kind of threw that in everyone's face

17:36 i remember his name too alberto and um i remember and then like i took him to the ground and i remember smashing his head on the concrete oh ████ oh ████ not too wear like you know the only what made it worse was um his friend was trying to like pull me off of him and then i was one of the first kids that were boxers so i got made fun of they're always wearing boxers that's a cool thing though but back then when i was a kid like you know it was a cool thing but if you're the first one to do anything oh you know and then so that made me more mad and then like um i think he was trying to like scratch scrunch my face or whatever but that made me more mad and then um then like i think something like in junior high and junior high like yeah i but i never like i beat everyone but like in high school yeah i beat everybody up but in high school because koreans stopped growing between eighth and ninth grade like we just stopped there's anomalies of course

18:26 but we stopped growing but when i got to the highest i realized yo none of this taekwondo stuff's gonna work because this dude is six two and he's the same age as you and they're huge you know and they're benching like three of you yeah and so like yeah that my fighting career i had i don't think i've been into a fight i don't think i fought oh you just you just walk out of it i'm sorry i just do it just kidding and then like you know and then in college i think i got into some scraps but it was more intimidation than anything else like i'm fighting and then as an adult i just i asked like open-ended questions like so like let's say like you wanted to fight with me i'll be like are you serious which that forces him to explain you know like that's a great de-escalation yes just keep asking questions what's the following you say are you serious yes

19:16 then what why why not like what's this gonna do because you're a dick and then i'll say you know what i guarantee you if we fight one of us is gonna end up in jail and one's gonna end in the hospital that's so reasonable wow i don't wanna end up in any of those you're a peaceful man you're a piece of man of peace and then a fighter told me he goes dude if you think you you might get into a fight like always have your hands by your face no that's wrong you could block easy you could block easier you got to pull your pants down that d is clear and then you go and then you just run after them and they run but what i can't take is the laughter that that's it hurts no i'm not not beard oh okay so i went too far i went too far take down your pants and go i play for keeps dude if i win you lose ████ if i win guess what happens next dude you don't yeah i give you two guesses the first one doesn't count steve taught me that yeah that's true dude that's true i didn't think about that but i don't know

20:06 i'm afraid if i pull everything down they're like hey why do you have a vagina but then that's another open-ended question but the key i think is asking open-ended questions i think so you know because you know like i asked it sometimes on stage like who's a who's a tough guy and you know guys always raise their hand who the ████ who raises there right here this guy ████ let's go exactly the people you think of raise your hand exactly who you think of right and then i always say that and then i'll say like dude okay like you know i don't know when the last fight you were in you know but who's fought in the last year people some people raise their hand and then you know you guys train there yeah you know we train but why though like why like if you're living your life where you're getting into fights regularly you need to change something especially and there's always gonna be someone tougher than you like a fight better

20:56 than you and once you get your butt whipped you know i don't wanna fight no more i won't do anything you know and like now i can't kick high like i can kick someone's knees but that's about it you know it's pretty good that's all you got to do i know if i do i'll miss like i'll just miss my accuracy this is the best guys this is the clobber technique that's it man i'll tell them i made up my own martial art called wanango it's all it's about circular motion right yeah so like if you punch everything you block and you turn it it was all circular and then the guy my friend goes okay let me do it fast no no no this is how fast we go because this this is it this is all slow dude and then people like this guy's crazy that works i heard almost everything you said but i was just picturing myself doing front flips the whole ████ time landing them

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