0:00 Any of your parents still can't explain what you guys do for a living? >> Like all of our parents almost, right? >> Your mom can't explain what you do for a living? >> No. >> So when she's talking to like relatives, what does she say? >> She can't say like my son's a soldier. >> She does, but she doesn't know what I do. >> tattoo parlor? >> I know that you do do security. >> Oh, she knows what I do because I told her, but she doesn't know what I actually do. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Or like what your day-to-day looks like. >> this? How about this? When she's talking to like her Chris D'Elia ████ What what is she What is she saying? >> My son, he's like a general. >> He guard the Cricket Wireless. >> I'm pretty sure my mom goes, "Ah, he do too much thing. I don't know." >> He's a car head today. >> true. That's actually accurate. You do do too much things. >> Would your mom prefer you to have just one job so it'd be more digestible? >> she just Why you have so many jobs? >> have a good job. Whatever it is. >> Stable job.
0:50 >> Army, security, barber >> photographer >> tattoo shop owner >> videographer >> You follow firemen around and both bother them. >> But it's true, you know, like it's the whole jack of all trade, master of none, but good, you know, better than none. You know what I mean? >> I never heard of that second part. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, yeah. I'm at a I'm at a >> Better [laughter] than none. >> Jack of all trades, better than none. >> We got we got 19 years of JK now. >> Right. >> Like can your mom explain what you do? >> He's a clown. >> It was easier when uh when I like when I leveraged into other things. So like when I was just doing JK it was like, "Oh, he's a online like you too. I don't know. You have to ask him." >> [laughter] >> And then I think when I like open Barbell, "Oh, my son is a gym owner." >> Yeah. >> Uh >> It's digestible, you know? And then like let's say sold the gym, then it's like, "Oh, he's
1:40 >> [crying] >> www.com. I don't know." >> [laughter] >> Wait, do your parents not know what a comedy show is? Like they don't have comedy shows >> Well, I think because Well, they do, but then it's once the format changes, they don't know how to pitch it. >> Yeah, that's different. >> It's also think about who they're explaining it to. Like is it is it in for to other Korean people like older aunties and ████ Do would they get it? >> Yeah, cuz that presents a whole two. Yeah. >> Oh, that is weird. >> Also you don't want to say something where the Korean auntie she's going to be like what did you >> I want to watch it. >> Right. Right. >> my mom was to go like oh yeah my son has a comedy show. Her friends would be like oh so they travel and they eat the noodles they go up and down town. No I don't really travel they're kind of in one place. Oh they what oh so it's like a stand up a comedy. No it's not really like you know what I mean it's like like what their concept of a comedy show it doesn't like have a direct connection.
2:31 So it's just too hard to like draw that line. So it's just easier to go I online something. He's a fitness he's a fitness guru. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. >> That's easier. >> That is easier. >> Like oh yeah he trains >> He trains people. >> If your parents were to explain what you do >> They get it. They've got it for years. >> But like what would they say? >> Tuberscum. >> What? They don't know what tuberscum means. >> My my dad uses it affectionately. >> No what like explaining it to like another layman. >> Yeah like let's say they were on a flight with someone a stranger and they >> He'll he'll just he'll just be like oh my son does YouTube. That like that. And everyone gets that. >> No. No. >> Yeah that's also well I think a lot of people get that but then there's still definitely a lot of like Asian parents that like have no ████ idea what that is. >> Cuz they don't understand the monetization so they'll be like so how do they get paid?
3:22 >> I was just in Aruba and I was telling some ████ white Steelers fan about it and he has no idea that people even make money on YouTube. So you just never know who you're talking to. >> It's like those people when they drive by the YouTube space the building and they're like that's where Bot works. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. >> Exactly. >> Yeah. >> Botten. >> It's kind of crazy cuz a lot more a lot more people these days know what streaming is now. They they understand streamers. Like oh you stream okay. Like they know more of that than anything else. >> anything they'll be like you know streamers making like 20 million? >> Yeah. >> You know it's like something so ridiculous. So like there's >> Think about all the times you've been in like an Uber and you have to explain to them like yeah, for every um thousand views we get a certain amount of money for the you know, it's like you nobody gets it really. >> Doing that early YouTube, but now everyone it's almost like the minority that doesn't know what online content is
4:13 cuz every like even boomers are watching online content. >> Right. >> But they're like they don't know the mechanics. >> to be like I'm a content creator. >> Like they they go like my mom would say he has a internet a show. He's a internet a show, professor. Yeah. So then they I guess they know now like it's a internet a show, but when we first started it was like YouTube, what is a YouTube? >> Yeah. >> Mhm. >> Isn't it funny that the estimation of like when you're talking to those Uber guys and if you were to say that you did a YouTube, the ████ what they ask is like so like either they think it makes like no money or they think it makes tons of money. It's never like an average amount. >> They don't know you're hella middle class. >> Yeah, they're just like you make actual money doing that ████ >> Yeah. >> Or they're just like wow, you must be a millionaire. >> Yeah. >> Well, it depends on what class, right? You get into like if you just get into a
5:04 eco mode. >> Oh, you're Uber XL? Yeah. >> Uber black. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Uber black? >> If you're Uber XL Uber black, they're not going to question you. They're just going to be like that's cool. So then as soon as you say I do YouTube >> money, dude. >> Oh, yeah. He makes a lot of money. >> Uber pool? >> Try to pitch you? >> Or the other people in there are asking >> Yeah, you do Uber pool and they'll be like oh, you broke ass YouTuber. Okay, I got you. You know what I mean? That's how it that's how it go. >> That is funny. Yeah, there's already a hierarchy of profiling. What's your order in Uber? >> To avoid conversations, I just say I'm like a coach. I go I'm a strength and conditioning coach. >> But they don't start asking you about diet, fitness and all that ████ >> Give as many one word answers as possible. [laughter] >> Sometimes I just say I'm in production and then they go oh. >> That's too interesting >> I know, but but it but it shuts it down quicker. >> I just say I I I I I sell boba tea. I'm a manager at a boba tea >> Oh, you guys are pretty nice, though. >> Oh, that's so understandable.
5:55 >> Yeah, it's very easy to say. >> It's so easy, it's almost like, oh, that's boring. They're not going to >> I don't really want to talk to this guy. >> But that's already pretty impressive if your mom can say my son owns a tea shop or like owns a business. That's pretty cool. >> Now, yeah. >> You guys do all that? I just come in with headphones. Hey, what's up? And I as soon as he sees me, I go >> Oh, the Uber? >> Some of them they don't read the room. They'll say, "Oh, so where are you going? What do you do?" And I'm and I'm already like this. I'm already like >> That's true. >> Oh, okay. Yeah, tell me after. Like they're like >> I just turn the volume all the way to ████ up and I start laughing. >> ████ >> Really? >> Yeah. >> I JUST GET IF I DON'T want to talk to them, I just I just say I'm going to go I'm going to get on a phone call and then I just get on a phone call. >> Yeah, but then you have to talk on the phone. >> I'm talking to my whoever. >> Oh, okay. Okay. >> If I I don't know, sometimes you just tell them I don't want to talk.
6:46 >> Damn. >> I don't even want to do that. >> I don't do that, though. I usually like talking to them. They're They're They're very interesting. >> In most cases I think they talk to so many people they're interesting or they're just ████ weird. >> Or they're good at stories, I think, cuz they have to talk a lot. >> Well, let's let's reverse it. What do you do to the Uber driver? You know what I mean? >> He's ████ doing Uber. >> No, no, but they're only doing Uber. >> his business. >> Yeah, but they're only doing Uber because they're either artists, singer, dancer. >> Well, in LA >> Oh, yeah. I don't know. >> Here in LA like they're supplementing their income usually. >> Here they want more money so they could go play in the casino. >> Yeah, here. Okay, I get it. Oh, you're right. It's so different in LA versus here for like odd jobs, huh? >> Or there's hella people who thought they were retiring and then they got slammed with something and now they're Ubering. >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> That's why I like the hospitality scene out here better than LA because in LA they're like they can't wait to ████ off
7:37 and do whatever they meant to do. But then here they're actually like devoted to what they're doing a lot of it. >> Yeah, a lot of hustlers. I'll see people like they're in their uniform for their next job, but they have a couple hours to kill, so they're just going to Uber before they even go to the or after their next job. >> Makes sense in Vegas is almost half to shift 24 hours here out here, you know what I mean? >> When you had like more than one job, what did your parents say that you did? Did they always pick the cooler one? >> No, I just told my mom working. She said, "What are you doing?" I'm working. That's all I say. >> [laughter] >> "What job?" I'm Mom, I'm working. >> How do I tell my parent What do I What do you want me to tell my parent? My parent [laughter] always ask, "What do you do?" What do I What do I >> I'm working, Mom. I'll call you back. That's it. >> Oh, so you don't even ask? >> [laughter] >> She said, "Okay, well, when are you off?" I was like, "I don't know, I'm working." >> My boyfriend want to know what you do. My boyfriend want to know when you come
8:27 so he stop up parking me. >> Did your Anthony, did did your mom used to just say that you were a dancer for many years? >> I understand how difficult it >> Is it like a dancing? >> You though, like what we do is so weird because number one dancers is like >> What? >> [laughter] >> For a living? >> And then they're like, "Okay, so we're also traveling so much." And then the first question's like, "Okay, so you got to So you paid to fly out there?" I'm like, "No, no, no, they pay for it." >> Yeah. >> And they're like, "What about like food and like the hotel and >> Those questions are prepared >> You know, and you're like, "No, no, no, they I'm not spending money to go make money. Like I'm They're paying for me to And they're like And then you They're like, "Wait, people are going to like People want to learn how to like dance?" >> Is it like a dancing? >> Yeah. It's like they think it's how to dance instead of like dance like him. So first world that they're like, "Wait, people are paying
9:17 >> You're teaching people that already know how to dance? >> Like, [laughter] what the hell? >> That was That was my mom. >> What about cavities? Like When they have cavities, do they spend the money on like dancing? That's so irresponsible. >> [laughter] >> At least like the what what what we did is a subset of dance as it is. So even other dancers sometimes would talk to me that like I don't really know. And it it the conversation get kind of weird because they'll be like, "Oh, are you are you like touring?" And I'll be like, "Yeah." And they're like, "Oh, who are you touring with?" I'm like, "Me." >> [laughter] >> And then they're like, "What do you mean?" Like cuz you know, to them to them they equate like your value is what artist you work for. Like in most dance economies around the world, they don't really look at it like why would people come see you? Like what the hell? >> That was like us in the YouTube space. We would talk to like stand-up comedians like, "Oh, are you going to do a show?"
10:07 They're like, "Yeah." They're like, "Oh, is it going to be like 50 people?" I'm like, "No, it's going to be like a thousand." They're like, "Wait, what? Who are you?" >> Yeah. >> Right. Yeah, yeah. >> They're like, "I've never seen you on the ████ stand-up circuit ever." I'm like, "Yeah, it's so interesting." >> What are you doing? A comedy set? No, no, no, I'm going to university of whatever. >> Yeah, they're like, "Oh, you're going to do a ████ haha for >> You're doing like a whole arena in the ████ college, yeah. >> It's too difficult to explain. So then you just choose not to sometimes. >> Yeah. >> That's why I just say I'm a bubble shop manager. >> That's tight. >> I just say I'm gay. >> [laughter] >> But what if the driver was gay? And then and he just starts wanting to ████ you off? >> What does What does bot do? >> He's a gay. >> He is gay. >> He's a good gay. Very good [laughter] to gay. >> He is a gay. >> I don't think even when I was like full-time just a dancer, I don't even think my mom really even knew what to say. >> Yeah, I think that that was the see
10:57 same. Exactly the same. >> It's like when I opened a studio, then they could be like, "Oh, he has a dance school." >> Yes, yeah. >> No, it's like that's translated >> But that But and that's just such like a an arm of what we do, but it's like that's the easiest thing to describe to another person. >> Do these things just not exist in like the Philippines or Vietnam or like they don't have dance studios and stuff or like >> have anyone like immediate to them where they've seen them live off it. So they it's it's not real to them. >> Oh. >> like like even if my my parents are watching A$AP or whatever TV show and there's clearly hundreds of dancers, they look at that like that's just something they're doing on the side for fun. >> But also though, like our era and what we do, like like being a YouTuber like when you're a YouTuber, nobody did done it before. You guys doing the version of like comedy on you, nobody was doing that. Same us traveling as ourselves not
11:48 under some artist banner and just being who we are as dancers, like nobody was doing that before us. So it's like innovating at that cutting hair and the um innovating at that time was like a really different thing, you know what I mean? >> Was that a shot? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah, that was a shot. >> Hit him in the gut. >> Cutting hair without a barber shop, that's revolutionary. >> kind of like what what these guys are talking about cuz it's like you're you're a self-made carny. >> Yeah. >> Yeah? >> Like really. >> Like what about you know those like barbers that get so ████ famous they don't even cut hair anymore? >> I know. >> It's ████ insane and they make more than people like hustling. That's so nuts. >> I do that 90 degrees 45 angle. Like that's how they be talking. You're like, what the ████ >> Well, those are the guys who go to like Tom Brady's house, right? >> But then, hey, they they earned it. >> the ones that just do like conventions. They like go and do demos with like hundreds of people in the room learning
12:39 how to be a barber. There's those people, too. >> They're basically just influencers at that point. >> Hundreds of people, $500 each. >> Cutting hair would be like the lowest pay they could possibly get. Like not cutting it like they get more money doing that. It's crazy. But of course they worked their way up to that, but damn. >> See, it wasn't a shot. I was setting you up. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> You were. >> tries to get me to meet her friends when she's not even there. She'll just be like, oh, go have lunch with this person. I'm like, >> Oh, to like get a job? >> What? No. Just cuz she wants them to meet me. >> What, dude? That sucks, man. >> So I have to I'm like busy as ████ Hawaii and she goes, my oh, my friends are coming in an hour. They're coming to say hi. Say hi to them. And I'm all like, what the ████ ████ And then they're like, your mom told us so much about you. >> That sucks. >> Yeah. >> You dealing with that at your age now?
13:30 >> That's kind of cute like coming up to you and go >> It is cute. >> That ████ sucks, dude. No way. >> I don't want someone throwing a grenade into my car. >> Huh? >> That's what's happening. >> It's It's in >> working at Junbie. He's just working at Junbie and it's like, "Hey, my my friend going to come over." What? YOU'RE LIKE, "OH, ████ WHAT THE F███?" >> [laughter] >> AND THEN SO SO THERE DUDE, she be making deals and pulling me in like she's like, "Yo, my friend, she hooked me up with this time share. That's why I'm always like staying at the Hilton. I don't pay anything." And I'm like, "Oh, okay." "Do you want to take you out to dinner? Okay, bye." And I'm like, "WHAT THE ████ BRO?" >> DAMN. >> SO I HAVE TO GO TO dinner because she gets a time share? Like I don't get anything. >> [laughter] >> I don't ████ get any benefits. I have to entertain her ████ friends. She did that ████ to me all the time. >> That's what you get for being her son, dude. >> she just goes in "Oh, so I heard you're
14:22 a celebrity and you're on TV." And I'm like, "What the f███?" >> [laughter] >> So I guess she That's how she sells me >> She probably She probably Yeah, exactly. She's probably >> TV is funny to say that. >> You're a celebrity. >> I'm saying I birthed this ████ and I'm proud of him. Go meet these >> Going around people telling people I'm a famous actor. >> That's Hey, that's funny, dude. >> funny and then I sit down and I'm like I'm a >> How much time you get walked up on in Hawaii? >> I'm a YouTuber and the ice cream machine's broken. >> [laughter] >> And the milk's spoiling.
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