0:00 [Music] welcome back to careful boys uh one of my favorite ways that ryan likes to open the show is he goes welcome back to careful boys well we are currently off the record oh it's like it's like we're on a ████ 60 minutes i like that pause dude i like i like to make it a little naughty it's just dramatic no i ain't no not a boy and you don't even talk like that ever but for some reason when you do that intro he's like but we are currently off the record oh he goes like this you should start doing this yeah very cool yeah when the cameras are off he's just an italian voice i do feel more uh comfortable when you say that though really yeah because i'm off director i say what the ████ i want yeah that's why because we are bombs on it and this is going on youtube but you know what though off the record like pre-2019
0:50 was much different because we weren't scared of ████ like getting canceled and we weren't scared of like youtube taking us off but hey at least now we're really nice and fearful that's why we're the careful boys hey right now dude we just got to get fear everyone tattoos are you guys down do you guys want to get money like that dude i will actually get one get mine in english everyone all right how about this if we survive one more year should we all get fear everyone tattoos absolutely it sounds like the worst idea we've ever are we down i'm in if we survive one more year starting when today like like we like 2023 you know what i'm so confident we won't survive another unit [Laughter] august 2023 we're all gonna get ████ matching tattoos especially if you guys are still here oh ████ it seems even less likely yeah no matter what me and
1:40 far we're we're gonna ████ end to the end the funny thing is there's gonna be another member that you guys never met with the same matching tattoo i can't wait and i know who this guy is i haven't talked to him in ages that's right because it's sports party yeah yeah yeah all right maybe we could do like a like a reunion video or something with them with our tattoos honestly i've been thinking about that yeah i was thinking about like all the people that like uh either we had beef or whatever with or passed with it'd be cool to do like some sort of mini documentary on jk news where people like like they walk you know from opposite sides of like the ████ street and they meet and see if they hug or ████ kiss or whatever if they hug to experiment that is the most soft thing you've said in a long time yeah i love softy i want to be there for like the before we start shooting that like how weird that is yeah yeah yeah i want to be there for pre-production yeah like what the ████ you have to get them on the both sides of the street hey
2:31 just wait for it's like we got to wait hold on we got lighting i want to get a b camera that's hiding behind the bushes trying to get all the candid stuff camera blocking for that that's like when you're watching i would love to get yeah xjk members or anybody just have them get out of their car and like walking around while we do a voiceover like ████ 2020 and ████ yeah that'll be so funny speaking of the office i guess that's kind of where this is leaning anyway yeah what a ████ mess right yeah no um what about so why do you think we might not survive another year candid talk to be completely honest with you guys full disclosure okay we are off the record okay so be real dude all right so um um the recession hardcore like uh we actually started jk during the first recession 2007. well that was right before right
3:21 and then at that time youtube wasn't monetizing and and the any money we were getting were like college students we didn't have a company right but just recently um me and a bunch of other friends and many companies uh they lost a lot of their sponsorships we lost about over 50 of just income from sponsors so when you watch the off the records you're gonna probably not see us tell you that you know this video is brought to you by fields yes yeah no but it hurts us it's good for you guys in the middle yeah that was the only way we were able to kind of keep going um you know because uh once we were suspended on youtube what ended up happening was uh we couldn't post for like a month so we're like ████ what are we gonna do thankfully we had the
4:11 support of our fans that wanted us to keep going so we're like you know what we'll just go on patreon and patreon to me was just like a bandage because ultimately if you don't stay on youtube you don't get access to the eyes that see you every day so you only have like a select few of people and we had like what about 5 000 people that were solidly supporting us but eventually you know if people are used to going on youtube every day they're not going to open another app just for one creator or maybe like they're supporting two but life always happens and even me like you know i'm subscribed to things but every six months i'll probably cancel all of them and then eventually it'll start dwindling especially if you don't show premium content once we got back on youtube um
5:01 there was no real point to go on patreon unless you wanted to see the most exclusive ████ that we're afraid of being canceled for on youtube so on patreon you're gonna get like all the more 2018 previous jk vibes right whereas now we have to be the careful boys on youtube and so all these different things kind of shifted and um so with the combination of adsense going down plus the sponsorships going down so it's like okay it might be a point in jk where me and bart might have to just funnel money from other things to keep this thing going yeah damn that's super dark yeah total ████ bummer and that's why i was like yo man did we will we survive another year i mean ████ i don't know dude at the end of the day the way i see this place is like hey if
5:52 other things pop off for me like i'm putting money back in here so we can keep going because this is great like i don't know i don't know like there's nothing to complain about like this is we're getting paid to get up like meet up and like talk and hang out and it's like how many times a month do we do this i don't know we just need all jumpsuits that's what it really is trying to get that going but um so far it's a lonely operation steve has to finance jk because he's the only baller here he finances his own uh wardrobe and on top of that his own trip to jk pretty much he loses money to come here i do it's fun i like it i like looking at the balance sheet i like looking at the budget i like all of it i like being the negative oh no honestly i really do like i love coming here always have um so yeah even though yeah i do pay a lot
6:42 of money to come here i pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to come here [Laughter] who told you to fly private though all right dude i'm telling you i only saved the best hotels [Laughter] no it's been interesting it's been hella interesting just because um yeah like post you know ████ careful boys it's been really fun like very very very fun this new group i ████ i'm loving it dude so i like to i would like to keep doing whatever this is exactly for as long as we can yeah yeah so yeah you know i feel like we're just getting on a roll too you know what i mean um we're gonna start really just having fun you know even get into a space where even off camera we're looking at each other we're like hey man forget some of the guests sometimes man let's just like let this vibe you know be what it is especially for guys like
7:32 me and nick and ryan who you know just became regulars in the last like year and stuff you know to constantly well i thought you're on the show forever though before you yeah but uh you haven't put too much time so that's not no but yeah you know it's just like finally catching the flow and and getting into like a momentum that is not just like dope i think i really do think the content is ████ sick as ████ because it's hilarious but also just the vibes right it's always just dope coming in every day the nuances the the attitude the energy whether it's you getting crazy off of a ████ cafe whether it's like ryan always bringing in donuts you know whether steve's always showing up late so we always never come home on time or like messes up our relationships at home and stuff like that and nick's finally just started to open up right after like six thousand videos that's it no i'm done cut you guys off
8:22 ever so the idea is that that we're like just getting to that place where i'm like i feel like the momentum and the chemistry is like ████ sick um yet to have such macro socio-economic things that are making a little bit more tough is is to be humbled you know what i mean it's it's challenging it ████ sucks yeah it's dark to think about you know when we got earlier this year when the when we got together and then like created this careful boys crew right we were actually going back on track we were getting more sponsorships everything was like on the up and up and then it's like we got rug pulled by the sponsors hey we got rug pull multiple times bro let's be honest that's christ you got rugby we got rug pulled that's kind of where we
9:14 um the way i feel about it is like i love this group and it's ████ fun and i do feel like we definitely hit a stride and you know like anthony was saying like there's times where like you know we're excited to see the guest and the guest comes in and i'm like damn it was kind of funny without the guests like who specifically yeah what name name them top three oh like davis so yeah like davidson especially david's this comes in ruins the vibe yeah yeah it makes fun of all of us he just bullies everybody so it does kind of suck to like have uh factors beyond your control like the recession and like the ads pulling out or even adsense paying less and ████ like that so i think that's the part where it's like i think me and joe have to go back and like be actual business people and really brainstorm a lot of things rather than just being content creators uh but outside of that i really enjoy
10:06 the direction that we've been going it's like it's it's really really really fun i do have to thank you guys though because after like we all like met up and had to break the ████ news like because you guys all know this and we're playing for camera that like you guys didn't know but like you guys know and um when we did have those meetings though i was like talking to bart like dude isn't it ████ cool how like ride or die or just team is in general because even for you steve you you said like you're like um if you're here for the ups you got to be here for the downs and i was like dude there's so many people in the past oh that's deep bro hey dude riders got to ride riders got all right dude because there's so many people in the hills go up and down but you got to stay on the bike dude in the past they've they've taken ████ uh bonuses they've got the ups and then when the downs came they turned on us and ████ ran or like whatever
10:57 and i was like dude like this is not a two-way street for you it's like you're here when we're giving and giving and giving and when ████ hits the fan it's like you bail and i was like dude ████ ████ like i thought that we were on the same page dude i remember i remember i was on a plane from costa rica i had kidney stones and i was literally on a ████ little like puddle jumper uh where i could see everything around me and i was like dude if this engine fails it's ████ over we're just going into the drink right and i remember getting a text from bart and joe like just like 15 minutes like after takeoff and for some reason i got i actually got the text because we're so low to the ground and it was like hey this sounds fake but 100 true and it's like hey just so you know like we had a bunch of excess funds for this year we wanted to give everybody bonuses so yeah
11:47 you go it's just like one of those things where i was like about to go home and and try to figure out like oh man okay so like i do have insurance but you guys know how insurance is in america it's like yes you have insurance but also good news you have to pay like a little bit of mortgage payment to do to get your medical bills treated right yeah so it's just nice to it was like crazy like like to know that like i had that little bit of a more of a buffer that i didn't even expect at all coming from these guys coming from the show that i love doing already so i'm like man i'm so lucky i have i have jk or like i have other things i'm doing but i'm so lucky that i also have these guys like just to help that was like so great for my morale like coming back even though i was on ████ pain and ████ but that's what i mean though is like i have i have seen you guys give generously like during the the ups and so now yeah we you know sometimes i feel like we gave too much bro if that's true it'd be nice to have some of that back i
12:38 know so now that we're getting our paint drastically reduced dramatically oh the truth hurts i can only i can only just go hey dude i that's not why i do the show i'm not like who when's that coming it's never been like that it will never be like that so it is what it is and plus if we're gonna ride luna to zero we're gonna ride jk to zero [Music] that was really awesome of you guys because um after every meeting me and joe would have to like debrief because we just don't know how how um it's gonna go and we also know that like you know once you start depending on income um like the like the from a realistic point of view you live off of it right like there's expenses and stuff like that so
13:29 as much as you want to do something for fun like even like your favorite ████ toy bike or car if it's like costing you thousands of dollars if i got to sell it even though this is like my favorite car in the world so like after every like before every meeting me and joe are nervous like ████ how people are gonna take this and then after being like ████ man everyone's so ████ cool to be like dude it's not even about the money um we just really want this is super fun and we totally get it and we're gonna ride with you guys i'm like oh man it's ████ awesome now let's have a conversation about michael yeah yeah mike so we all get texts that are my scary texts will be from corporate michael never texts us this place has no corporate but there might as well be from corporate it's like um steven joe and bart bartholomew would like to meet with you [Laughter] follow me bro and i got that text i'm
14:21 like oh my god i'm like okay so it's over i'm like it's over yeah we're fired yeah we're done oh ████ he's gonna fire he had like punctuation and ████ there was like capital letters commas and periods he ████ actually presented like information it was like crazy first of all i was just talking to these ████ like literally eight minutes ago in the group ████ so now it's like now it's like hey um so is it cool to meet with them at this particular time in this particular place what's the meaning about the meeting is just about like you know how great everything's going how great everything is it was like it was like oh we're going to share some company updates and see how you're doing exciting updates yeah and then when they said exciting updates
15:13 when he said that in my head well when i was reading the message i was like oh i'm getting fired yeah yeah yeah i didn't know you guys got the same text i was like oh bart and joe can't say this to my face yeah i'm like what i'm literally just they just just facetime me right now what that ████ was so funny michael is professional he's professionals our ████ me mike like in our finance meetings or whatever this fool got ████ pie graphs and ████ so it's like see how many ████ ads we're getting in the last six months now the pie is like this you ████ know mike we're only doing one battery every ████ time just wants it to hurt i love michael it's professional as ████ which is dope because it's the like immediate like counter balance to me and joe and i think is what we need you know because remember yesterday julia was like you know what i noticed um what i learned that what jk doesn't do is they
16:03 have no sheets and we're like what do you mean like there's more sheets every company i go to and i'm like a lot of paperwork oh yeah michael's our sheets man if we didn't have michael it would just be like me and bar going remember that thing yeah all right let's go do that thing all right yeah cause we saw our ████ budget we're like holy ████ a thousand dollars on ████ vietnamese coffee i'm like how do you know that he goes i ran out of the banking statements and i saw all these these coffee orders i was like oh ████ someone's doing actual business work okay we don't need where'd you get that ████ number from he's like he's actually like you know like ████ balancing what's going in and out of our ████ bank like normal ████ yeah regular business businesses do yeah never heard of it dude my the call that i have with them was so ████ funny because these dudes go yo so we're going to have to be reducing everybody's pay
16:55 you actually were already getting paid lower than everyone so yours is the same shut the ████ up dude they have no tax i love it and they're like i don't know if you knew that but but now you know oh my god corner cam baby let's go honestly me and joe are honest as ████ dude well why aren't you honest as ████ that he wasn't getting paid more before no because he didn't earn it we have so in our own timeline we have it where if someone's been on for a year they get the year bunk he hasn't got it yet i just didn't know about any of those things i didn't really even think about it but it's funny that they were like we're gonna be reducing but the good news is years stays the same it's now like more people are getting paid more what you're being paid
17:46 i never got a yearbook you did you did everyone does yeah yeah oh you got your bum remember when jill was ████ pregnant or something ████ that's how we came up with it yeah so when you stepped in we gave you the the full member pace started that's when we that's where we came up with that well i granted i never ████ look at that ████ because nikki always looked at this ████ so i didn't even know i was like okay he takes his paychecks and ████ track suits i say attach it to my body yeah no on our end nikki is your oh yeah on our end like what we try to do is like you know obviously it's not for the money or whatever but then we always like we we want to be able to reward people that are down a ride with us we also give silent bonuses and raises without telling people yeah so for us we kind of have our own like little pastry yeah we have our own little pay structure on the back end but we just don't really announce so we don't make
18:36 it feel like it's like oh it's something i'm trying to strive for right right you know yeah oh ████ this person's been here for a year oh dude they're like that much closer to being like like regulars now you know so does the clock start now it's like go reset go it resets that means a year from now it's going to get lowered yeah it gets lower like i said if we're still here a year from now we're getting matching tattoos and you're getting back the pay that you used to have let's go hey one of the better one of the one of the more fun internal bits that we had leading up to this was that me and and nick and anthony uh and uh and our boy our boy uh ryan we're joking we're joking about his name got me i didn't want to say right anime um we're joking about how we wanted to
19:26 unionize a jks for better pay more health care all this ████ and then and then like that's the week after out of a bit and then the week later it's like hey dude we're union busting your asses big time someone sold us out basically we got a mole amongst the three of us dude you know we used to give so we try to sign up everybody for health care no ████ like three years ago really oh no uh five years ago yeah but um basically the nature of the work is it's not like a salary kind of thing right with the 401k and all these things so then what we did was we're like well you know what like health insurance is hell expensive so like for full coverage it's like what 400 300 bucks a month extra we'll just give you that and then you can go buy it and we added that into
20:16 everybody's pay and then so after that we just stopped telling people we just gave an extra 300 bucks yeah so everyone knew that kind of stuck around and they they were on the system where they were just like on for that classic case of the poor decisions of your past are affecting the uh present yeah the president the core members of your president but you know we can look past that you know it's a recession but you i mean like the the thing that sucks though i think is like sometimes you know it's like you learn from your past relationship right and then you learn like oh ████ like i kind of gave too much but then maybe this new person you're with deserves a lot of that because you can appreciate them more and you're just like i wish you know i gave all those things to my new people yeah you're like why did i give my diamond ring to the
21:07 ████ last ex-girlfriend this one's just the one that deserves it yeah this one this one got the cracker jack box ring yeah it's like this girl i had to cut her paint it's like this girl's even better but i can't even give her the same ████ i gave the last one this is like probably the most legit video we've done in like a year honestly we should have more business meetings on camera the michael set up and then the us calls on camera because i all this i would have said on camera dude these guys on my call they were being so ████ weird in the jump i was like what the ████ i was like oh in my head the whole time i'm like i'm for sure being fired how are we coming up because you guys were like so like how's everything with you nick like how's your mental health yeah
21:58 like everything's belt's still brown and we wanted to make sure we did we had this call on a friday just in case they were being all normal and ████ and i was like what the ████ is this it's because you're not used to our business side because we never have to do that being all normal and then i had to ask i was like are you guys firing me or not i had to ask i was like am i the last one you're talking to i need how did they all respond i was surprised you guys didn't go ahead and start talking as soon as you found out no we have our own text where we talk ████ on you guys yeah the union text right yeah with all the extra jk members we're all we have one text thread yeah i texted him right away it was like you were being paid more the whole time and i was like i was like what are you guys talking about i was like i got another bump i got a bump just for my awesome crypto
22:48 advice hey we're still here babies i would have definitely ████ with him if i knew the order because if if i was first i would have texted anthony when like hey it was fun man thanks that's funny like i would have ████ with him so he's like waiting to get the call so good damn it would have worked i would have believed it i can't believe we're still here let's go to the wheels following but i'll tell you what till the ████ wheels fall we're running this ████ to zero all the way to zero i'm not leaving like we do yeah i love how our content is our company
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