0:00 [Laughter] it's looking directly at the camera too [Music] welcome back to careful boys we are very careful boys and today we're talking about who was your greatest inspiration what for what for whatever Focus so defensive oh I don't know because I have a lot of inspiration for a lot of different things so it depends what's your name I so there's this composer named nobuo umatsu and he's like uh he he's credited for doing like most of the music for the final fantasy series from like the very first one but he I don't think he does
0:50 them now or maybe he does little bits but uh he also did some of the earliest like Nintendo games kind of like some of the chiptune old school ones like rad Racer and just like stuff in the 80s and I didn't even know that I was listening to him for um a lot of my early time when I first started getting piano lessons as a kid and then I was learning like his songs and then throughout life like I a lot of his music always stood out to me but I didn't know that it was the same guy how did you learn his song like you had a cool teacher no I just would like listen to him and like try to like piece them out because my piano teacher brought ████ whack ████ me too Beethoven or like the Spree the Saints cold Marching In Like Beethoven that was a banger though the Saints Go Marching that's the closest thing to like something that was catchy did you Moonlight Sonata that
1:40 ████ though what is that one I think you still gotta learn those just so you can I think that's like the how you learn how to piece music together just learning a lot of music and I had to learn all that stuff too but then when it was off time I wanted to like figure out those things and then uh so this dude was never in America like he's from Japan and then the first time he had a concert here in America it was like impossible to get tickets for it's like at the bowl and everybody's like it like sold out immediately the people dress up in Final Fantasy outfits yeah they did do a lot of that stuff but it wasn't it wasn't like it didn't look like like a cosplay con right now but it was uh is that the bowl he had an orchestra and all this stuff and uh I got to go because by chance one of my really good friends got hired to be in
2:30 his Opera chorus wow just as like uh was he playing an oboe oh the Opera course and then uh and then yeah he came out and did all of his music from Final Fantasy all the stuff he composed for all the old games fully orchestrated in Philharmonic and it was like a dream come true you get chills yeah you cry I did yeah I actually did yeah I I have a confession I I never played Final Fantasy oh that's okay I have your confession was I don't have any inspiration I inspired myself when I look at my baby pictures but yeah the the reason he's an inspiration is because if like my default style of playing is is a ████ derivative of of his style of composing it's very like like you could tell like oh that everything I play if I'm just
3:21 autonomously playing by myself you'll if you know his ████ you'll go oh it sounds like his ████ not that it's as good but it's like yeah it's like it's like a copy of it in a way that's fine that's like me and drums like oh that's just some Nick Cannon s█████ do you have a favorite Final Fantasy uh six six yeah you know when I was a kid I played Final Fantasy like ████ one two three and four with my friend and then for Halloween one year he wanted to be ████ Mages he was like let's do red manges and I kind of just said okay but I was kind of thought I was kind of whack and then just before Halloween like by like nine days before Halloween I told my mom I was like I don't want to be a ████ he's just kind of lame and then my mom asked me to help me get a Ninja Turtle costume and then I had to go to my friend's house and tell him that I was going to be Raphael and not be a Red Mage that's kind of dumb to all
4:12 of you be red Pages why now that doesn't make sense well it's like everyone being Raphael yeah it is I think I think he was gonna be a black mate oh okay and so we had even gone as far as like going into the woods and getting sticks and then painting them red and black but then I was like this feels so whack red Mages are kind of whack dude major Spirit are whack if you're amazing who plays who picks Mage like when you have a who gets healer yeah that's ████ weird that's the weakest one yeah it's being a Bard dude but when you're playing in a squad someone needs to be a Healer that's true I know but like it's always like the guy who is like ah ████ you know whoever's last last Pickens do you have an inspiration growing up we were talking about him earlier but obviously like Bruce Lee was like my guy
5:03 he was like Hey dude dude from like four and on Wow and so I was like in what probably like Middle School like everything was Bruce Lee I remember one year for one fourth to like sixth grade I was like Bruce Lee like every ████ year and my parents were like oh Jesus Christ again let's be Bruce Lee again which Bruce Lee though dude ████ all of them though yellow tracksuit boostly return to the dragon Bruce Lee bro they never told you to be something else yeah they did like what the ████ is wrong with this kid dude they were like worried about me were you shirtless oh yeah dude I'll wear wife beaters all the time and have I try to keep nunchucks on my back pants all the time it was ridiculous like it was just it was nonsense but um as I got older you know and I wanted to start fighting and stuff I really GSP was like a huge inspiration
5:55 I love GSP is the man dude he's such a like martial artist yeah dude you know and like at the time he was he was just so the way he talked about um training and all that stuff just trying to be a professional in that way I just really looked up to him a lot he was he was he was a big reason why I was like oh I want to start fighting oh cool you like how he talks like Karma the Frog yeah yeah I was like man I wish I was French Canadian is that what he is yeah my friend was in a hot tub with him hey is that what my friend has a picture in a hot hot tub with him what oh it's because she's a girl oh oh yeah nice it's easier to get I heard GSP loves the ladies if you know what I mean he's single I think he's I've never seen him with their wife got a real ████ Hound so did Bruce Lee yeah yeah yeah so did Mr Braithwaite I like ladies too but then I like I also
6:46 like being committed to one okay [Laughter] that's cute though not me expect that I respect that smash what's your inspiration do you have a respiration Leonardo from ████ Ninja that really good inspiration it's a good answer what he was he was such a suck up to Splinter though well because good leaders have to be good followers [Music] Michelangelo was the funniest one that I liked a lot Raphael I was like why do you keep this negative ████ leave this bit this he's a hater I hate him yeah Leonardo and
7:37 Donatello even though they fought a lot I like in between the two I'm like Donatello you're a ████ nerd but I you're always right he is the right he's the voice of reason oh he's ████ right did you guys hear about well there's a a turtle's comment called the last Ronin yeah you guys know what that is oh wait did you I think you told me before what happens there they're ████ dead yeah so then what happened all four of them well no so um ████ them dead turtles all over there I told you yeah I told you about they killed Donatello in a book yeah but this is different yeah they killed Donatello too I guess he could die a lot of these books this is based off of Steve's fishing trips it's a true story I'll take it so um yeah there's there's a book called The
8:27 Last Ronin and basically the idea behind it spoilies right is that all the turtle brothers are dead except for Michelangelo who survived and then which is kind of great because he's like the least serious one and he has to be the most serious one and then he has all of his brothers weapons and like he's like fighting yeah it's really crazy it's pretty hardcore can he just bring it back to life by grabbing the scepter and going back in time yeah well dude there's I haven't read the book yet I was just looking at some of the stuff about it and ████ the comic is pretty gory it looks sick yeah it looks very dark yeah but the um they have a really good method of like still using the brothers where they're like come to him in spirit form all the time balls and ████ be like you ████ up and we're dead and ████ it's pretty ████ a lot of people don't know the original Turtles was a little grittier like it was like definitely it was meant to be
9:17 the original Eastman stuff where they all had like the red um yeah they're all they're all red yeah all red Mages do you have a human inspiration um oh animal based because I knew it was going to be non-human really he's like Air Bud the soccer one not the basketball ones yeah yeah he's a ████ hack yeah I think fictional characters and I think um oh you don't have any like real life Inspirations Sunny Chiba when I started having uh real life Inspirations they weren't really good Inspirations like I started to really deep diving into uh woke ████ like in like I wouldn't even stay at smoke ████ today like in today's terms but like when you're thinking like um as a ninth grader and you're reading like Communist Manifesto and then you're
10:08 really getting deeper into um anti-capitalist ideas and then you're you're you start thinking like oh Che Guevara is pretty sick and so is um Hugo Chavez and so is uh Malcolm X and so is and you start reading all these things and then um they become like oh these guys are fighting against the big giant America and then so it's like this Underdog Story and communism does a really good job of creating like good propaganda that young people can like follow and I think those things were kind of in my mind at the time like oh yeah these guys are badass I want to be like that for some reason ninth to tenth grade and then those were my first uh people that were like oh these guys fought against they're like David against Goliath like human being
10:58 Inspirations you didn't have just like a regular one like Tony Hawk is pretty cool that's how it started it all started with like that's kind of a brand with a joke what about Michael Jackson my God yeah no but Michael Jackson I knew they would be out of this world yeah yeah yeah Michael Jackson was like I wanted to him to be my friend like he was my age you know like when we I don't know if you guys saw Michael that way but I saw Michael as like he's like he's like an adult that's a kid that understands and he's like a little bit older that's how I saw him you know what that's called oh Michael Jackson's desire but then I didn't see him as like like to me I saw him as Robin Williams like in hook he's like he has an adult's body but he's like one of us you know so like
11:49 when I watch hook and all that but they weren't like oh when I grow up I want to be an adult right do you think that you think Michael Jackson was like oh he's an adult but he's like he's like he gets it he's in kid world he can get it right Neverland I thought he was tired I never thought that he could ████ me though or anything no I never said that I thought that's what you're saying sorry he could ████ me so hard as long as he keeps making that music man those hitters no I never saw I never saw him as like oh when I grow up I want to be like this person never thought that yeah yeah it doesn't seem like you're trying to be like Michael Jackson too much I think it is I wanted to be like him at the moment but I think you're a pop culture Sensational but I don't I don't think I have any person just even up until College where
12:41 I was like this human being is who I want to be when I become an adult oh I see or like qualities that you like or who you want to be like oh I had people that were human like around me like one of them was my Bible teacher he was cool I had humans around dude I chose the ████ most roundabout answer this is like SBF being interviewed he's looking deflecting everything it's not a deflection oh yeah no I do you know quality because he kept said cartoons and ████ well like okay so so someone who inspired me I would say is one of my um Junior High teachers he's a Bible teacher Mr Gonzalez he was cool as ████ dude that was weird dude that's sick
13:33 because I'd say like he was the first he was the first teacher that broke that like he's a cool teacher oh it's not like all about rules it's hard to do yeah and then and then like people like you can you come to him and ████ and you're like well that's a good human being he cares about the students that's hard to do yeah and it's it's a topic like Bible [Laughter] so he's just a sick dude he's a real Chill Bill that looks all right Anthony weird what about you bud yeah what kind of Inspirations do you have that's dude [Laughter]
14:27 tell your story tell your story it's looking directly at the camera too it's like the actual person right there your eyes are too far apart this is Joe and we have a new guest and they've been talking for four minutes um this is a good technique right here yeah that's why I got it for all Steve today hey easy I feel like to answer this question maybe Daft Punk really you can't even see them you can't even see me so like about back in high school or later on inspired by these two robots I feel like right at the beginning of college oh yeah but but I think the uh the time frame of like falling in love with them was synonymous to the time frame of falling in love with dance uh so I think that's why it's like it holds
15:18 such a heavy spot in my heart what's your favorite song mine was around the world I love that song I love that song got to that one too I think the most uh most like at that time maybe like harder better faster stronger was so fun to hear great and just uh to to dance to and pretend like I was really really sick Dancer too um I didn't ████ directing and dedicating an entire like showcase to them called Daft Funk head cold shock do that for like a like a 13 minute set or some ████ where we just did a bunch of their songs and medleys um just ████ love them you know they're they're Aura their Motif the the way they just want to bounce up the reason why they named themselves that funk was because somebody was talking ████ on them calling their music Daft Punk you know so they're like oh we'll call ourselves Daft Punk
16:08 um ████ like that that was kind of a coin on it what does that mean Daft Punk is that German or some ████ though no no no punk no it's British actually I think right is it isn't it French they are French or maybe it was a translation but some somebody calling something Daft is usually what like you're a Daffy Duck it's like British people yeah it feels like British people say it's just like Daft Punk that's stuffed they're like it's like weak yeah and then they just took that and they are they're kind of in the way that people like you know see Bruce Lee as the forefather of like MMA they're like the forefathers of EDM so like before it got to just like you know the stereotype idiom it's like they really were like the ones that brought electronic dance music to like the scene right you Bert uh when I was a kid for sure Bruce Lee no I said that you got a picture
16:59 you can't pick mine say Tony Hawk dude but it was for real Bruce Lee because kung fu is like Chinese skateboarding and then like I was literally yeah I would practice that ████ in the backyard like I loved it I practiced my Sidekicks yeah and I'm like oh man I gotta ████ turn the toe down and ████ did you read his books ████ practice but he's not as good as Ninja Turtles no they were way better more flips I would actually read his books even though I was Dumb and I don't know how to read I'll pretend like I'm reading type of Rhythm and then my parents were divorced so like when I would go to my stay at my dad's house the thing he would do is we'd go to the Chinese like video store and we would just rent a stack of ████ movies so like Jet Li's in there Donnie yam uh Bruce Lee of course and then I think from one of my birthdays I got a Chinese connection or like Mr Fury and I would just watch that
17:50 thing on repeat over and over and over and over and then when I got a little bit older I would say um changes no I think maybe like in junior high I think probably Tupac I just loved how like he just spoke his mind I was like like maybe because I grew up as a ████ your ████ you fat man yeah I grew up like in a very Asian like oh you gotta think of it you gotta stay like this is an origami in your house or whatever and then like I just like that I just liked how I was just like ████ you and he would just say crazy ████ to the like ████ the D.A or whatever I'll go oh this guy's very expressive like I'm so impressive and then when I got into music oh man um I would say freshman sophomore years
18:40 when I really got into music Beethoven that was a good no hell no it's a that's a good one Beethoven uh one of the guys is his name's uh Chad here we go no not Chad Sexton who's Chad Hugo from the Neptunes oh I don't know yeah ████ I forgot if it was Chad Sexton or Adrian young um but he played drums for No Doubt oh is it the Indian dude no no that has a basement but I thought it was really tight that um I think Chad sex does 311 and Adrian young is uh no doubt but I I thought it was dope that he was just self-taught and he just auditioned for a band and he got in and then he musically like upped his level to be where the band was at and I just thought that was fun that's cool that was really really cool um because I felt like I was like
19:31 classically trained as a percussionist and I wasn't as good as this guy that was just I'm about it and I'm gonna just learn learn that stuff and then when I got into like comedy with Joe for sure Dave Chappelle I just loved his like storytelling and just yeah for sure one and like his his jokes are like hits you in the in the soul he's so good yeah it's almost like Soul comedy and that's it I think no fictional characters in yours yeah Master Splinter was pretty sick though he was he was pretty gangster dude yeah he's too old I couldn't believe it maybe Captain Planet because he cares about Mother Nature in my school you got your ass beat for liking Captain Planet that was like when you had when you had really controlling parents and they didn't want you to watch ████ content they made you watch that though my best
20:23 Halloween costume of all time was Captain Planet with the green wig I swear I was walking down Hollywood Highland I got the most compliments I've ever gone to any other costume a Captain Planet muscle suit with the ████ group yeah that's just gangster I loved it wow do you pay your face silver do you paint your face silver nah dude that's racist yeah you're right good call but there was one useless one the useless one in there was the one that goes hard oh yeah oh yeah you mean the most important one Joe that is the most important you got no ████ that guy he's a necklace wearing little ████ what was his power like yeah but what would he do though it makes people have the compassion necessarily Save the Planet if you watch it back he was mostly driving the van and ████ he was there a personal assistant you would get him coffee before he was formatting the cars making sandwiches he wasn't doing
21:13 anything all I remember is there's an episode where they're all like they go to like the dystopian future and they all still have their rings but like the planet's ████ and then um he's like he's like broke and he has like a mug the heart kid and then a ████ Guy Walks Behind he goes heart and the guy goes puts a coin in his cup and that's all he could do yeah he made people feel compassionate yeah that's tight and that guy's like damn I really needed that coin I can't buy bread though ████ would I do that that's the only thing I remember heart doing do that oh my wife's gonna kill me we're gonna tell her yeah Steve agreeing what about you uh Limp Biscuit which which Grand wizard which Grand wizard
22:09 is he still performing I don't know is it about the is that all about that he said she said though oh ████ uh no for me it's Bill Murray I think I've said that yeah you killed me yeah oh ████ that's funny I watched Ghostbusters like non-stop as a child and like you know I would always my parents said I watched that movie for like five years straight he's so funny that guy I smell all the drummers of all the bands really yeah from the biscuit the drum is John Otto I was super into drums so that was your thing huh yeah for a while yeah and then I found drugs and ████ that's like how for some reason I remember all the capitals of South American countries I don't know Bogota Colombia Quito Ecuador Lima Peru it was a song yeah I think that's what it was oh yeah why do I know that too
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