0:00 You look like you can hear in men. >> He hears the macaroni and cheese. That's [Music] >> welcome back to another episode of the Careful Boys where sitting over here. I still want to say, "Hey, we got Bono with us today." Bano >> Banoanos. >> Bano. >> Banos. Bananos. >> Banos. Bananos. Banos. Isn't Banos just bathroom? >> Yep. >> Yes. I own all of them. >> She has a potty mouth today. So, she's Boss. >> She's been calling us really mean words. Yeah. >> Okay. So, we're going to start with you. >> Really mean words. >> We're going to start with you. Uh bathroom. >> Yep. >> What extracurricular activity did you wish your parents made you do as a kid? >> Oh, >> besides dance. Yeah.
0:51 probably either pushed me to continue in piano cuz I quit like too early. >> Um or more sports cuz I'm really bad at sports. >> Which sports specifically want to do that? Did you want to do? >> So I did I did soccer. Great. >> Wow. But I was really bad at soccer. Like scared of the ball, running away from everything. Um >> how long did you do soccer for? opposite side. >> Very long, huh? >> Two weeks, >> you know. It was like in AYSO, you know, everyone was in that league. It was probably until I was in maybe [Music] like was I a freshman? I might have been a freshman in high school. >> Wait, so a few years? Like quite a few years? >> A few years. That was really bad. >> That's a long time to give it a try and
1:41 you still suck. I don't think that's a good idea. Parents should have pulled you for now. >> That's crazy. >> That might have been better. >> Yeah, it was bad. But I always wish that I was better. >> Oh, >> is it just like an athletic thing or as an adult now you wish you were better at soccer? >> In other ways I think I'm athlet like I can cuz in the gym it's very different but the like the hand eye foot eye coordination specifically is really bad for me. >> What about What about like field IQ? Do you have good field? Like you can see where it's where it's about to go. >> Oh no. Straight panic. >> So you have no IQ but you're just kind of >> No IQ. >> So it's not really like you're not athletic. It just you were just scared. >> Yeah. I just don't think I was good at Cuz don't you have to like you have to be aware of your surroundings. You have to think on your feet. >> And I'm not good at either of those. >> Really? >> Did you say that to coach?
2:32 >> No. Not from the bench. >> Or I guess I think about it like this. Like even your piano example, cuz I I think I would feel the same even though I was never in piano. >> Yeah. >> But I think as a kid, I understand why kids don't want to do freaking Beethoven all the time or whatever. >> I don't know. But as an adult, you're like, "Dang, I wish I was good at piano now." Sorry, Ryan. You're not a part of this conversation. >> Yeah. Leave. >> Well, they could teach the right way. Like, if they taught me Stevie Wonder as a kid, I would love it. But you're playing ████ for the first 5 years. >> Yeah, it is ████ >> And I didn't last 5 years. And I begged my mom for years to put me in piano. And then like a few months in, I was like, "Hell no, get me out of this thing." She actually used to have to like to bribe me to practice cuz the whole thing is you have to practice, right? >> And she used to bribe me. There was a cup on the piano and she would give me this was back then. It was like 10 cents
3:22 every time I would practice. 10 cents. >> That's good. >> That ████ didn't do. No, it wasn't. That's terrible. Even then, >> you're supposed to practice every day as a kid. >> Yeah. I never did. It didn't work. >> 10 cents a day. >> Yeah. >> I think it's like 10 cents like per hour or something like that. >> What's a better rate for you? You think you've got to renegotiate >> at least in the dollar. >> Oh, you think your piano's that good, huh? You think your piano's that good? >> That was just to get you to try to practice. But imagine being my mom and like having your kid beg you to put you in piano lessons and then to have to bribe your kid to practice. >> I think we we all do that though. But the other thing that parents will talk about is like when you're practicing and your kid sucks, that's awful. Like that's a whole thing. You're like, >> "Dude, that's the worst." >> I'd rather suck at piano than like suck at saxophone. And that's just fill in the house. >> Place that spawn outside. >> Then your neighbors must be pissed to the neighbors.
4:15 >> Bart's ████ red in his face. Played a saxophone. >> I wish I learned guitar. Guitar would be cool. >> Guitar is sick. >> And then everyone says like, "Oh, you can teach yourself." I'm like, "No, you can't. I >> You can. You for sure can. >> I can't do it." >> YouTube or YouTube? >> I didn't have YouTube and I was selftaught and I was like decent at a as a kid. Yeah. >> What was the first song you played? >> Smelly cat from Friends. >> That's hilarious. >> Is that the theme song? >> I love that song. Phoebe song. >> That's the Phoebe song. >> That one? >> Yeah. >> All right. Anyways, >> that one. Oh, yeah. >> Cuz she played guitar, right? No. No. >> She did play guitar. >> So, uh, Suben, you ever play guitar before? >> Whoa. Whoa. When were we still still on her? >> Yeah, I was just joking. I was just messing. I was just goofing off. >> Yeah, I'm listening. >> Well, she explained it already
5:05 basically. >> Well, that's it. >> He's not satisfied. >> Do you want more? >> Yeah. Honestly, >> I thought you I thought you were going to continue and it just prolonged here. >> Yeah, she has she has a smash twist ending right right about now. >> Yeah. >> Not everyone has a twist ending. >> What's the ending? >> There's no ending. >> Oh, okay. >> Fine, fine, fine, fine. I'll read. >> How about this? How much did you make >> after all your rehearsals? >> Oh, I I ended up quitting. I just >> So just 10 cents. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> 10 cents total. >> One time. >> Yeah. One training. Bang. Quit. >> Bang. >> I want that super shirt. B. >> Sucks too that like I I hated practicing the whole way up. >> Why did you stay with it? Because you're uh kind of like a genius now. >> No, I was forced to do it cuz I didn't want to do lessons. I didn't want to do any of that stuff. >> Okay. So, what what do you wish your parents made you do or whatever?
5:57 made me do probably uh ma I wish I was in acting as a kid. >> Oh why why do you say that? >> I think it would have probably just shaped a more confident personality overall. >> You're saying you're not confident now? >> No, not as a kid. Not I mean I have to try. I have to put effort to be confident. I'm not like naturally confident. But I think as a kid like if I had met more people from like a cuz everything I did was Christian based. Even my piano lessons were at the Christian school. Everything like >> Yeah. Yeah, it was all like for the glory of God. I want to do something for myself >> and God's like, "No, you can't, dude. Sorry. That's actually against me. >> I wanted to always be developing my faith." >> That's a freaking line right there. >> Yeah. I thought I thought it'd be cool to meet kids that were not involved in stuff I was doing and just, you know, to get good at like a a very difficult craft that you also um you kind of
6:48 infuse into your personality. I really want to do that. I was I was pretty shy my whole life, like uh decently. I I didn't show it very much, but like I my social battery is like low and it drains quick. >> Doesn't seem like the guy you are now, but maybe that's how it's supposed to pan out. >> I think you just get better at it. But like I I was watching other people that just naturally have charisma or they just like always know what to say and their speeches are so great. I'm like, damn, I want to do that. >> No, I feel it. >> I always thought acting would help or comedy, you know, like as a kid. M >> I think I was really into that as a kid, but then you know instead you resort to just creating makebelief scenarios in your room. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> With different clothes in the mirror and you just look like a total >> Yeah. >> What about you, Nicholas? >> Probably Mandarin. I wish my parents sent me in ████ They gave up on it,
7:38 dude. They gave up on it with me. They didn't really by the time I came around, they weren't really speaking in the house. >> Well, actually. >> So, your sister speak Mandarin pretty good? No, not really. Actually, not >> you. At least you look like you speak and your parents don't. >> That's what I'm going for. >> To each other in Mandarin today. >> They don't even speak to each other in Mandarin. Now I'm thinking about >> You look like you can hear in Mandarin. >> He's in macaroni and cheese. That's >> Can Can you Can you say something in Mandarin? >> No, not really. I could I could pick up like basic stuff. So like for instance, I went to the supermarket. I went to the Chinese supermarket and the lady was speaking to me in Chinese cuz she looked she said I look like I speak Chinese. I understand it. She was like giving me all these directions and I knew like context what she was doing. But then for the like one of the first times in my life I was like ████
8:28 >> I really don't know what she's saying this time around. Like when a kid I was like pick things out. >> Yeah. But now I'm like damn like I don't know what the ████ she's talking about. >> They said gracias and I just kept it moving. You said she was giving you directions. >> Yeah. You know, like, oh, do you want to >> in Mandarin? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Is that how you say it? Do you want it back? >> Yeah. >> Was she just pointing and you're just like, oh, that's why you understood cuz she was pointing. >> No, I it just, you know, the usual ████ you when you go check out the grocery store, you know the sequence of like what they ask. Hey, put your ████ club card paper. You want a bag? >> Do you have a membership? >> Are you single? >> Yeah. >> Are you single? Could you be my Yeah. Could Could you be a >> Can you be my Valentine? >> Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, "No, I can't. I'm sorry. I'm married." >> Oh, ████ >> Oh, sure.
9:20 >> No, I just like that. >> But then I remember as a kid growing up, I was like, "Damn, like >> that's good." >> Like all my friends that were like Mexican or something, they all spoke Spanish. >> Yeah. >> And I was like, "How come we don't ████ speak manager in the house?" And they be like, And then they would always be like, "You never wanted to learn." >> Oh, okay. >> And then that would be it. That would be the conversation. >> Imagine they're just like, "We learned English for you." >> So like with how good your dad is with recording tools and software, you never was interested in learning how to to engineer. >> In high school, I was I had a phase of like doing music stuff with my buddies who would like, you know, produce music and that was like kind of cool, but I never really got into it. Honestly, like stuff like that just makes me >> like computer stuff, huh? >> Yeah. But like I liked learning how to use like ProTools because it was useful to do help my friends. But then like
10:10 after outside of that I was like well ████ I don't really give a ████ you know? That was just it just wasn't my interest. >> It's crazy because your dad's knowledge on even just sound and and like sound boards like that leads to dozens of different jobs you could have had if he's like if he gave you that wisdom >> versus just getting beat up all the time. >> Yeah. Like my Yeah. Like everything that my dad knew was just I'd have to go to school for it. But like, dude, you could just literally be a sound engineer at like a a venue or something based off of that. >> My my my sister wanted to learn or whatever. And then he started teaching my sister for a little bit. >> Yeah. >> And then he was like, I'm just going to get my my my friend to teach you. And then like his friend came and taught her and then she was like >> and yeah, it just kind of fizzled out. Like it just never stuck. >> Like I hoping my dad was going to teach me a bit. >> Yeah. Yeah. I was trying to have some
11:00 time with my dad and then >> he sends his friend. >> Uncle James is here and you're like nice guy and all but you know it's very it's very different I guess but I don't know. Yeah, he never really >> he would always be like yeah you guys never really want to do this ████ That's what he would say. >> Oh >> so either playing back on us. I don't know if that's true or not. Maybe there's >> Did he have a passion for it though? Like >> I don't think he did. >> Oh. So he wasn't a nerd about like check these levels out when I make the sound. He like I think in a way he was for a while but then I think you know sometimes you do a career long enough and then >> you realize the politics of everything just like anything kind of killed it for him maybe. >> Um and then he just kind of was like I don't want to deal with these ████ guys and he kind of wanted to do his own ████ >> But I think he he was in the game for so long he just kind of was like over it. >> Just wanted anything else after a while. Huh. >> Yeah. And then sometimes too it's like you do a job for so long you don't want your kids to do that job.
11:50 >> Yeah. But you know, like sometimes you think it's, you know, obviously to someone else like, "Oh, that's a dream job." But then he's like, "Oh, I've been through all this. You don't want to have to go through this." Well, you go do something else. Type ████ >> The hustle. >> I feel like my mom was the opposite of that. She was always begging me to go do their job. And I'd always be like, "I don't want to freaking work with you." >> What was the job? >> She um both my parents worked for the city of LA as um >> program systems analyst. I don't know, tech stuff. >> Oh ████ >> Yeah. But it's for like it was for the government. So it was it's just it's so boring. >> They want you to do a government like a government job. >> Is it one of those ones where they they can get away with not doing as much work though >> where they're just like facetiming you and they're like I'm at work >> later down the line. Yeah. >> Cuz they had FaceTime back then. >> Yeah. They're like check it out. >> Skype. >> That's basically my mom now cuz she she
12:40 she technically retired and then she went back to work part-time as a contractor. So she just works from home. So she'll have like the meeting on blasting and she'll be downstairs like cooking food. Like what? >> It sounds like one of those like the that job title just sounds so like it could be secretly cush, you know, like where she's like, "Get this job because it's so easy. I don't know what it is." >> That's what my dad does about X-ray technician stuff. He's like, "Bro, you have no idea how easy this is." >> I have heard that's a good good business to go into. >> Absolutely. Yeah. And uh respiratory tech, too. Like that's also RTS. People love RTS. >> Oh yeah. >> And dance. Yeah. People. Everybody wants to be a dance. >> Oh, definitely. >> Best paying job in the world. You would encourage your >> No. End the video. >> Stop it. >> That is so mean. >> So mean, >> Anthony. Editor, cut that out. editor cut that
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