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Stuff We Hated Because We Couldn't Afford It

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0:00 In our heyday, all our JK channels running, our personal First thing we got were the nice cars. >> Which were? >> I got a Porsche, you got a Jaguar. >> Oh, yeah. >> And then I think we spent maybe 30 grand each on guns. 30 grand each. >> All right, what's something that you thought was whack back when you couldn't afford it, but after you got some money you thought it was pretty tight? >> Drugs. >> A wellness spa? >> Oh, you thought that was whack before? >> Hell yeah, dude. >> Used to make fun of wellness? >> Sound bath and like >> What the ████ is >> bath. >> A a a chamber like like a oxygen chamber and then >> What's a chamber? >> Like a like like a >> Hyperbaric chamber, you saying?

0:50 >> Like a oxygen tank chamber and then like >> The the sensory deprivation. >> Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh-huh. >> Electronic ████ It's just >> No, you're a member of a wellness spa. I remember that. >> Look, HE HE LAUGHS AND RICH NOW. >> ANYTHING THAT WAS LIKE PAMPERING, I was just like that is so gay. >> And now you love it, huh? >> Oh, dude, massage me all day. Like I would I would have a spa day. Like hell yeah, like I would go to a sauna and all that. Yeah. Like me and Nick do that like every time he's here. >> And you really think that like the the deciding factor between that was like you just couldn't afford it back in the day, so you made fun of it? >> I never tried it. >> Okay, it wasn't worth It probably wasn't even worth the money. >> I associated it with aunties. Like it's a aunty thing to do. You know, you just What am I going to do there? >> Oh, is it like why are you getting

1:40 pampered type of thing? >> No, I'm just like why are you going to the hair salon to get a perm? Like guys do it, but like >> yeah. >> I'm okay with what I got, you know? And then after I was like oh, this is cuz I mean like you know when you're a kid like you don't take you don't relax. You're like why are adults relaxing? That is so weird. >> jobs. >> allowed to relax in my house. >> Yeah, like everyone's just like why you want to relax? Like what? And I never got it until like later on in life when I >> This year. >> I'll say hot yoga. I'd be like why the ████ would I want to be sweating and bent over? >> You used to make fun of hot yoga? >> And then I I did some hot yoga. I said, "Okay. Yeah, this is good s███." >> Oh, yeah? >> It's very releasing. >> And it's expensive, too? >> You think for Jesus? No, it's not. But I couldn't think of anything. I'm still waiting on my money.

2:30 So when I got money, I'm like, "Let me wait on that." I'll let you know in the in a year or two. >> I thought uh so like throughout high school, I I started cutting my own hair at like 14, 13. And uh cuz I couldn't afford to like keep getting haircuts at the age I had no money. >> Especially if you want it every week. >> Yeah, exactly. So then um I used to say that like people that had like real nice fades where you see the like you know, the gradient. I'm like, "That ████ looks whack, dude." I like a nice hard line. >> What the hell? >> Because I thought that was more like metal. >> He's like, "You ever had a bowl cut?" >> Yeah. Cuz that's how I was cutting my own hair. I couldn't do it very well. So when I see people with like I'm like, "Look at this little store-bought fade." >> That's whack. Yeah, I was like, "Get a hard line, fool." >> Is my fade triggering you right now? >> Residual hatred, yeah.

3:20 He wants the Kim Jong Un. But it's so funny cuz I that's how I equated I'm like haircuts look too fresh. Look too like TRL. That looks too like whack, yeah. But then it were the truth was that I couldn't afford a nice haircut. >> a good haircut. >> Yeah, it feels great. Once I was able to like start doing it, I'm like, "Damn, this is nice." But then I got a little bit better, so I just kept cutting my own hair. But it's funny to front like that. To front that hard on other people that have nice ████ You got a nice fade, get made fun of by me. >> You're ████ rock and roll, that's why. >> That's funny. You probably have a lot of these. >> Honestly, my s███'s basic. It's like clothes. >> Yeah. >> Just clothes? >> the same. >> I remember just thinking like back then when I didn't have any money or anything, it would be like the idea of shopping. Like shopping, why I need to buy clothes, man? Be functional. You wear like one ████ thing over and over. You go to 5 for 10. You get like cargo pants, you know? Or like 5 for 10

4:11 t-shirts and ████ You're like, this is what I wear. You wear your one Chucks. Like it's just like >> Chucks. >> You got your one ████ outfit and your Dickies, you know? And you're like, this is what I do. >> Classic. Yeah, nothing wrong with that. >> do you what do you You're going to go shopping? Like what How much more ████ do you need to buy? It was like so gay, you know? >> Ragging on shopping as a whole? >> Well, it's because I couldn't afford it. So, you just rag on what you don't you you can't do. >> That's great. Yeah, that's very opposite. >> second you you like finally kind of splurge and buy yourself like a nice ████ jacket or something like that, and you're you're just feeling yourself forever. >> Yeah. >> after that, you're like, ████ it. >> Cuz now you're like a connoisseur for that. >> I literally keep saying this. Like I am when I really get my first real bag, I'm ████ the whole thing off. I You got There Oh ████ You will see all the signs. I mean, I got my grill and my bag, and that was my treat for last year. But I'm literally I'm getting a

5:01 ████ chain, iced out. It's going to say Gucci with my logo. I don't give a ████ I'm ████ the bag off. >> The whole thing? The whole thing? >> bag. ████ it. I'll make another one. >> You got You got You got to do that the first time. >> The first one? The first real one? I'm ████ that off. >> one. Yeah, yeah. How how much got to be the first real one? >> I don't know. >> Like if you get a 60k like lump >> If I get 60k, yeah, that's enough to get >> That's enough to get a chain, man. >> like a chain and you know, do some just ratchet ████ >> Yeah. >> Do you was having a heart attack when you said that? He's so financial brain. He's like, the whole thing? No, cuz I get the feeling >> You already did that, though. >> The feeling feels really good. >> Yeah. >> But then uh but it's cool to like relive it through someone else. >> Oh. So, like >> Wait, when did you ████ off the bag on? >> Oh man, when we were uh like in our heyday when I would say like you two

5:52 where we had all our JK channels running, our personal running. The first thing we got were nice cars. >> Which were? >> I got a Porsche, you got a Jaguar. >> Oh yeah. >> And then >> Oh yeah. >> And then the next thing we got, it was like a spending spree. It was almost like every week it felt like we were going to go meet up to spend some money. >> ████ yeah. >> We bought we bought >> didn't got you guys didn't come for much. >> No, we bought Rollies. And then I think we spent maybe 30 grand each on guns. 30 grand each. >> ARE NUTS. OH, THIS it's easy. There's a gun store up the block from you. >> I SAID NO, I said why did we get the guns? Why >> We just love It's just like our child GI Joe brain. You just want more ████ you know? And then you go there and you go, I want I came here for this, but then they go, oh, but this just came in. And

6:42 you're like, oh ████ let me get these two. And then well, in two weeks this is going to come. >> And they was upselling the hell out of y'all. >> Oh man, they just upsell pretty good, huh? >> So yeah, I spent probably like a good amount on And then a lot of it's eating out, we like to eat. So we used to shoot JK News every Thursday and there's this one restaurant, it's closed down now. But this restaurant was shabu shabu sushi and yakitori, which is like Japanese barbecue all at the same place. And every time we ate there, I would say the bill was probably anywhere from three to like $800 or something cuz it's like everyone ordered everything. >> Holy crap. >> But we ate with like 10 people. We ate with 10 people and it was just like every single time we just paid for it and it didn't even matter. >> That was pretty cool. >> Balling out. We ████ our bag off I think that time. >> I definitely get like a new car.

7:33 >> That's good. >> That's so modest. >> That's very modest. >> I'm doing that I'm doing what they did. I'm doing rapper ████ getting guns. We eating out, we going to >> Jewelry. Yeah, jewelry. >> I'm up at Cartier. I don't give a ████ I don't give a ████ I don't give a ████ >> I bought gold coins. >> But Jaz, but Jasmine, what what color Hellcat are you getting? >> I'm not getting a ████ Hellcat. I'm going to get a ████ Prius. That's what I'm going to get. With these gas prices? >> Oh, you're sensible. Okay, that's good. >> Hey, but the newest Prius is pretty fly, though. >> It is. But I can't stand electric vehicles because they be doing that singing ████ The >> Oh. >> That ████ bro. >> It's not even when you backing up. It's when you going forward, too. That's what pisses me off. Like if it was backwards, that's different. Could you imagine getting ran over by that ████ car that's screaming? I hate that.

8:24 My god. >> What else did What did you think was actually like whack before you had money, though? Kind of like Did you think investments were whack? >> Saving money was whack. >> Yeah, saving was whack. I was like, "What are you saving for? The apocalypse?" >> So, you know what else I thought was really whack? Um and then I was like, I think the more money and the more sophisticated your like building brain gets, I thought reading was whack. >> Oh, what? >> I was like, "What am I going to read? Why why why am I going to waste time reading?" And then once you start actually reading and learning ████ >> Yeah. >> you're like, "Wait, this is the key to building >> It's the foundation of knowledge. >> Yeah, that's the way you you're able to expand your ████ >> Look at him trying to convince us. >> No, so I I >> But you know why? It's it's the people that read. It's kind of like, "Man, I really like learning, but I just don't

9:14 like the people at the library." >> be a nerd. >> Oh, you just didn't like You didn't like other nerds. >> Bad PR. They don't have good PR for me. >> My friend will pull out a Kindle at a party. Like she and and curl up, yeah, at a barbecue. >> Non non-performative? >> That's ████ lame. >> They're not selling it to me. >> She said her punishments was she wasn't allowed to read. Like in the only time she ever got in trouble was if she would stay up late reading. >> I wish I had that punishment. >> Not allowed to read? >> She said it broke her heart. Like she would beg her parents like, "Oh my god, can I please read?" >> My sister was kind of like that. She would just read so much that she would like go to the bathroom, sit on the toilet for like ████ 3 hours and stuff. >> jerking off. SHE WAS READING, DUDE. >> TWILIGHT BOOKS. >> YOU still thought she was JUST READING, BRO? 3 HOURS, BRO?

10:05 >> Some girls take a long time. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Oh my god, that's so funny. >> I used to I used to be a performative reader in college. I remember I would >> Does that mean you were just jerking off? >> Is that what you call it? >> Like you just carry books around for no reason? >> Oh, yeah. Like in college because I >> Oh, oh, these are just my books. Oh, always drops them on THE FLOOR. JUST NERD DARK >> YEAH, I would like I would get on the train to go to school and >> Oh my god, dude. >> You're like LeBron James. The first Yeah, only the first page of every book. >> I I've no idea what would happen in them. >> So you just wouldn't read? You but you'd have the thing in front of you? >> No, I would read, but it was very performative, for sure. It was

10:55 So you guys are on your phone? Here's my book. >> Oh, I'm trying to get one of these >> Turn the pages loud as ████ >> Now they they they're trying to do that thing where it's really popular that you know, you don't want to show your your kid that you you're on your phone. So they got those books with the cutouts in them. >> What the hell? >> No, you ain't seen that ████ >> put your phone inside? >> have your phone in your book and and that way it your kid looks like you're reading as well. >> But it but it sees you doing this to the book? >> And then the kid comes and you just flip the one page. >> scrolling your book. >> Starts making Siri noises. >> I'mma to it, dude. Watch. >> That is cool. Yeah, so your daughter just thinks you're smarter than you are? >> I'm just like constantly reading because it's the foundation of knowledge, Bart. >> It is. >> I love that he was like, "Yo, you know you can LEARN S███." >> IT'S ALL HERE. And then I found out

11:47 >> I thought it was >> "Now that I have money, I'm going to read." >> I'm glad he waited. >> I thought it was all nerd ████ I thought it was like, "Oh, it's cuz he's a ████ nerd don't got friends, so they if they got to talk to a book or something." >> Oh, you think they talk to the book? Talk to the book. >> Like, what are you going to share your feelings with? With no some with the book, you know? >> You know how reading works, right? >> Look at this nerd talking to his book. >> I didn't know there were stories in there. I thought it was just math problems. >> But you read full whole books now, right? You read lots of those, yeah? >> last thing you read? >> Uh the one Sudoku. No, right now I'm reading this book called uh Awaken the Giant Within. It's by Tony Robbins. And there's another one. >> Is this fiction? >> No, no. It's like a self-help one. >> How did the giant awaken? What happens to the giant? >> He goes to get a Brazilian wax.

12:39 >> That's a double entendre. Anthony for you. It's a double entendre. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuz the giant >> Oh, really? Oh. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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