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Off The Record: Everyone Got the Same Christmas Gift (ft. Alex Acosta)

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0:00 [Music] welcome back to another amazing episode of the careful boys and today we got alex in the seat right here oh wow alex good to be back oh wow he's here what's up man how are you doing dude pretty good feeling good i just came off of uh my covid recovery oh ████ how did you enjoy it yeah well how are you going to book him not let us know man you gotta no it was like two and a half weeks ago i was i started testing negative oh two and a half hours over two and a half weeks was it the was that was it the ohmyan version i was telling bart i was dancing in the rain issues i heard that's one of the symptoms of omarion you know anthony what's that a marion like type move like what's

0:50 something you could just do right now that's like all right i could have been part of the team that day i'm telling you i was like coughing yeah yeah get that ice box man he does this a lot too he'd be doing the review like all four you have the like exact same library with like five dance moves like this one the dice we do shaking the dice i do never mind you know you're already innovating what's this thing the wheelchair cat daddy yeah wow oh man changing your back damn i love the jerk i can do this let me see the joker like real life let me see let me see a joke real live right now you're a jerk okay that's the reject jabberwocky that's not the jerk that's the reject oh ████ so how do you do it then what's the difference between a reject and a jerk

1:41 well it's backwards they're just different moves and it's shuffling shuffling yeah like the reject reach i guess i guess if if you're going like this it's almost like you're you're getting rejected so there's like this opposition feeling okay whereas like that jerk has like a totally different grip to it we're getting lessons though i can do that too but he's over 200 pounds during the holidays uh yeah ruin your holidays yeah so i got it on christmas i think so i was at my mom's house merry christmas christmas party family coveted spread party i gave it to my little sister my mom my stepdad didn't get it i'm gonna hit you pretty hard or because he's a step dad yeah exactly yeah you don't matter i'm shocked [Laughter] saturday i felt fine and then sunday i

2:31 like went to work i felt good and then like towards the middle of the day i started feeling like a little weaker i was like oh like if i squeeze really hard i'd probably pass out or something like that got home i was sitting playing video games and then i started just getting like a little like weaker and started feeling like a little clammy you're squeezing the buttons too yeah and then so i was like i'm gonna go to sleep so i started laying down and then i started getting cold and i was like damn i'm like i'm getting really cold so like i stood up and my fan blew wind on me and it sent me like in a shiver like attack i couldn't i couldn't stop shaking so i put on a sweater sweatpants that's the best sound effect i was under covers and i just couldn't stop shaking do you live by yourself uh i i rent a room out of a house so technically yeah cause i don't know anybody you make any noises where the other people like what the hell is going on in there well i have a big-ass fan going on and ████ so they can't hear anything but i was like shaking

3:22 uncontrollably like i was like laughing and then a headache came my eyes started hurting and then i started coughing uh did you lose taste no i didn't oh this is not the delta yeah i didn't lose taste i didn't lose smell um fell asleep i woke up the next morning and felt fine i was just congested for like a whole like maybe a week and a half like the worst congestion i've ever had before so other than that i felt fine i got tested on monday at kaiser and it took him all the way till saturday to give me back my results pcr be taking like five to seven days yeah but why me feeling like i was like oh that must have just been like an allergy attack or something so i was kind of just like i went to work on tuesday because then my boss was like oh do you feel good i'm like i feel perfectly fine like so i went to work tuesday wore my mask the whole time just

4:12 to be safe all the way up till friday and i was like dang i still haven't got this test back let me just go take a rapid test so i paid a paid for a rapid test and it was like positive i could have gave you something for free bro you should have banged my line i didn't know ████ yeah bank is lying next time hey uh everybody knows i'm the kovit plug so that one came back positive then the pcr came back the next day and it was positive but i really only had like one hard night to be straight up so you went to work for a week with coven kind of do one of those huh alex is a coped ████ spreader the new one like i said when i got to work just to be safe i was wearing my mask no one at work got it no no one at my work got it which was cool cool case study huh yeah it was good i started testing negative so i've been negative now for i think

5:02 two and a half weeks but jesse the guy that works with us just got it two days ago so he's sick now so i think it's just it's just common right now you know i work with like i in sales so i'm seeing a bunch of different people all the time so i thought i was like at the at some point i was like it's a matter of time before i get this someone's gonna bring it to you yeah it doesn't aren't medical professionals asked to come back to work even with even with omicron yeah you say mask up and come back but this is this is how like diseases work or like viruses work right like like they don't people don't know a lot of people you know we know that we had like a massive flu like during world war one it was called the spanish flu but it wasn't really from spain originally ████ in the u.s or other places people don't really know right because they kept it so ████ secret right but that one was so ████ deadly that

5:52 like soldiers were getting it during um you know trench warfare and ████ and they would drop dead within hours damn yeah and they would ████ make people blue like ████ it would be crazy right but the flu we have today is because um the way that they got rid of that was the the flu mutated and then um it was able to live but like it was it has a symbiotic relationship with human beings where like viruses they don't want to just destroy a human being because that's their host they got to stay alive they want they want to continue infecting people but then if all the population dies then the virus is like well i basically ████ myself right it has to mutate to being milder and then it keeps spreading i don't know they're that smart ████ but that's how omicron works bro like they're just like i'm too strong

6:45 that does that i know right because they they can't go to another host if the host but then the weaker ones can keep going and then they'll overtake because if you have the weaker version too like you're immune yeah so so or you're you know it's like having the antibodies but it's just that it's like having a vaccine basically but this is the this is the crazy part right is like the the the omicron it's good it's it's it's like this we want it to mutate we want it to be more contagious we wanted to get weaker deaths are going down yeah debts are going down cases are going up right now but it's continuing what's your review how many stars how many stars it was fine that's just the testing i wish i would have got my test back sooner so i didn't have to go to work for a whole goddamn week i could have took all these days off the testing was worse than the symptoms oh yeah no because you blame kaiser more than omicron yeah bro there's a there's a omicron there i went

7:35 to work for a whole week i got one day off from kovid but everybody else like everybody was getting like a whole two weeks off and ████ i was like imagine the pcr test during the spanish food days they're like we're gonna tell you in seven days and like you're positive you're already at the casket but you just had it again uh no no so here's the ████ funny thing right i i got sick again uh earlier this week right and you got sick earlier this week why did you ████ tell us man ████ infected this ████ everyone get some vitamins from here i specifically didn't tell y'all so i could give it to you now uh i got to say earlier this week but you know because we're in like this covid generation it's like every year i get like a cold or the flu during the season right it's like normal everybody gets it around me but nowadays when you get the cold you're like you gotta ████ like double t you gotta

8:26 text everybody you gotta ████ like take tests and ████ like that and it's just this huge ████ deal but i tested negative and now it's gone and now i'm like oh yeah i guess you can still just get a regular cold huh that's still i was thinking about that like even maybe just a few years ago like let's say someone caught a cold or something right and like let's say they still go to the gym they're training hard or whatever he's got a hoodie on you're like oh man full of hardcore is badass or a guy he's like he's back in construction doing whatever when you're sick and you like push through it it was like man that guy's dope everyone's like yeah yeah but now it's like if someone has like what the ████ are you doing here you ████ crazy yeah stay your ass at home yeah it's like whoa it's crazy that the whole thing just flipped it's like now you're irresponsible but back then you're like badass i kind of like it bro if you're sick like and you have active symptoms stay

9:17 away from me that's i like it too kind of like this like that like that's if you're like coughing a bunch cove it or not it's just like i mean i know but you cough the most out of anybody i've ever you know i'll tell you how do i how do i cough that's because i'm about to throw up because we're working out so hard that's what we usually have nick coughs the most out of you he has workout coughs before workout coughs sitting down coughs eating cars i don't even notice his coughs he got okay now i'm gonna check cause he's gonna not so he's going to be self-conscious the whole day i remember when kobe first came around he was coughing so much you know what's crazy though since since uh kobe has been around i'm in the gym working out i have never choked on drinking water more than ever in my life and as soon as i start like

10:07 drinking water start coughing everyone just completely freaks out yeah they look at you like yeah i don't blame them i get it i get it because when you hear it too now you're just like yo what the well that's the thing like i still i'm still coughing from it and it's like weird it's like i'll have to cough like right now i'm having like a cough but then like maybe in two hours i'll stop coughing for like six hours and then it comes back it's just random times same type of cough is it like flammy or dry it's it's dry and it's like an itchy and non-productive cough too right it doesn't feel like there's something that's happening you're just like you have a cough have you tried honey and lemon today's video is brought to you by babble babble is a language learning app that sold more than 10 million subscriptions wow that's a lot of users that is a lot of users but it's also helpful that it's an app because you can have it on phone if you're trying to go to a new country

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12:41 french espanola it's pretty awesome and right now they have a sick ass deal for our fans only go to babel.com be a off the record and when you get three months you get another three months for free that's six months for the price of three go to babel.com off the record to get this special deal and learn some new languages i've tried honey actually i have one i haven't i have a honey bottle like this right on my bed so i'll take it just try pressing your thumb for 10 seconds actually it's gone you guys see how um in the uk i think it's boris johnson who was making all the uh the new mandates and it's all open bro he's lifting it all he lifted it all and and you see everybody who's ████ in that uh in the congress room and ████ like that just being like

13:31 celebrating every announcement he's like no more mandates it's up to the the good judgment of the british people you know what i mean i kind of like that man just lift it and let everyone make their own decisions if you want to stay inside stay inside if you want to go make out with covet patients go make out what sucks with that is that people are saying boris is only doing it because he got caught with controversy like he was at a party and then like it was during lockdown but the thing is real reason people don't know that the uk was already open that's hilarious they were open several months ago and then they had to do shut back down shut back down but then the the the citizens on ground they were like ████ no so no one was following it so then

14:22 the world thinks like oh uk was on lockdown but they're like nah they've been def like you know defiant toward their government and apparently john boris johnson wanted to be like i think it was sweden who was just like nah i heard immunity but then like just you know politics eventually i think the people will just not have the mandate anymore like even now before like you would go in like a restaurant or whatever and they're like you have to go back and get it now like i'm like oh ████ i'm just like wait that's fine so i just look around so i think even the people themselves are just people starting to care less i've seen um remember we're playing ████ at the uh chin diapers circus circus where were we playing roulette oh yeah and the foreman had it like this the whole time yeah and he was asking us to put our masks together the funniest was that there was that other dude on the side who kept dropping it down and the guy would be

15:13 like yo put it back up he told him three times and then the dude started winning and the guy was like that's fine see it's just gonna loosen up by itself like i don't mind i honestly just hate wearing it at the gym that is the worst for me like going to the store and ████ whatever but the gym i'm just like man i'm getting so sick of that ████ you know what's crazy though is like the way how people reacted like politically just like emotionally everything like i wanted to have this conversation in 2020 ████ march but it was so dangerous to openly talk about how you feel about covet and everything just explore an idea emotionally charged it's not like you know it's like wait i thought we lived in a democracy where we can kind of challenge our authority and

16:03 i thought science is when you challenge the belief or just the the you have to you know see and and you have to get proof and i don't know i was like why do you just listen to authority like if march 2020 was a western movie and someone was like hey what do you guys think about the mass but would you say ████ you ████ you and it's like you can't even just have a regular conversation yeah if she is a mexican standoff yeah there's no reason it's just something there's a mexican someone's just posting i'm not a doctor i'm just a ████ goofball that talks about getting rim jobs on youtube like why am i a threat why people kind of makes you a doctor right kind of a threat also because people are like oh you you're pretty tired there's so many people watching you you have

16:53 such a you know you have to like set a good ████ role model i'm like i never did that in my whole entire entertainment career from the ████ start yeah right so why do i have to start now your science news from us yo i know right the ████ that's what blows my mind we're learning what viruses are uh to be fair that uh just kidding films plaque says teaching good things in a bad way so you are teaching we are teaching good things that's subjective bro okay so i'm staying true to you know what jk's always been well we teach other things like friendship and harmony with others that's what we teach right that's pretty good teach that yeah dude through conversation through you know hanging with an indirect lesson right i guess seeing tweets seeing tweets nowadays talking about how you know everybody was like a couple days ago signing up for the usps

17:44 like four ████ copy testing you get for free and ████ right everybody my family's texting me about it like my co-workers and stephen it's like you signed up for this right sounds like a pair i'm looking at tweets about it and ████ where it's like oh next time pandemic rolls around maybe we don't have to wait three years before we get free tests see that's the thing too all right yeah we're all where's the advancements in the testing i feel like it's like some states in the midwest or wherever they don't have testing sites like they can't go get tested within within like a couple hours of them feeling sick or anything so it's just like it's going this is my test oh geez people are hardcore it's crazy i'm negative they're someone from the playing confirm or deny this russian roulette's your test has anyone ever actually scanned your your

18:34 uh qr when you showed it it's happened to me once when i went to a concert oh and they scanned it yeah they actually scanned it oh they skimmed like you're on your backspace yeah because i have it on like on my apple wallet and they they actually like they were only in hawaii yeah hawaii is pretty strict because um i got you know vaccinated and everything and had to do all that because hawaii's getting so expensive to do the test every single time and then um over there you gotta have the records to go eat at a restaurant yeah yeah yeah yeah and then a lot of places they'll you know they'll check when was the last time you got it whatever they're pretty thorough so that's just different state by state you know but it makes sense out there like they don't have enough hospital beds yeah so if all of a sudden the locals get sick and all the tourists get sick like they don't even have like tents to

19:26 set up to deal with people that are sick so yeah but they got beaches and stuff so you know that's kind of a nice place to be seen yeah be in the warm sand this is my cover treatment it's like dude you're sick you need rest and relaxation have you seen people starting to vaccinate their dogs and stuff they vaccinate their dogs yeah there's some people with that you can hate the dogs covet dogs i don't know i think people that's crazy man just worried about you know why couldn't this just be as simple as like hey uh this is the scientific evidence yeah okay never dude and then this is how we're still figuring it out because it's new because the the paper that's printed has the pharmaceutical company right because it's like yo this is evidence this is new this is a this is a ████ we have all these universities that aren't like funding this science by

20:18 pfizer or whatever we just want the people to be healthy and and so they can go back to you know living life and all that ████ but they're so ████ politicized there's so many different people that are like nah if you're on the left you got to do it this way if you're on the right you got to do it this way it's like what the ████ that's that's what sucks the most out of all of this you see the uh the conspiracy that uh bob saget died because of the booster are you serious are you serious did they say he died from a heart attack that's that was that his cause of death i don't even i don't even know well you know what was weird about that is like just the day before he finished up a stand-up show and i was on his instagram i was like what the ████ i'm looking at a ghost bro he performed live and then just died the next day yeah he was out there for a whole weekend to do shows i believe r.i.p dude yeah and i thought like trying to he's a rock star it's an overdose or whatever but

21:11 but yeah i don't know because he said he didn't have any health issues right wow heart disease is a silent killer i think well the booster uh like apparently he was like on a another like podcaster radio show like a week prior and he's like oh yeah i just got the booster i'm about to do some shows and stuff like that and then again there's no physical ailments or anything i had a friend of a friend who was talking about how like when she got the uh the booster what they don't tell you is that like you can ████ with your like in your menstrual cycle what and yeah so it's like you know you'd have you like your period yeah and then suddenly you get the booster the next thing you know you have a heavy period for another week like right after which is uncommon for your menstrual cycle so it's kind of like there there are effects that happen to your body you know what i mean but like nobody nobody tells you what the side effects are in the booster well i don't want what was in the first

22:01 vaccine i don't know i got the ac like the good the actual booster i got the actual antibodies what the ████ is that oh you mean you got sick so i'm fully vaccinated and i got the oh and then i got the delta and then i got the booster and then you got the omicron super saiyan i don't know if i'm gonna go get the next booster like i'm done you got two in the next three years you know what i mean that's the crazy ████ too do you remember when they said that when you get vaccine like vaccinated you won't get sick that's what i thought the beginning and they found out and then people were still getting sick and people were still spreading the disease and it's like the ████ dude like this is the kind of ████ that i think gets people to you know they can't trust the government

22:51 anymore because it's like well you're telling me all this ████ and then and then you're not even like backtracking or fixing what you said and people are still like being duped so it's like what the ████ not everybody's playing by the same rules that's true what the hell did i take it to old school and just make ginger dude ginger ginger tea honey brown sugar and reference i'm like yeah he's like ginger old school you know ████ just get the ████ dude i think that'll help tai chi in the park not to scare you guys but um the creator of this vaccine one of the guys that were a part of the research team that developed this i think it was like in the 90s or whatever um he is actually one of the biggest skeptics

23:41 and speakers of like why we shouldn't be rolling this out and why we shouldn't be taking it he was he did like a three hour interview on joe rogan um one of the most important parts of this is i forgot his name so it's gonna be pretty something but i did see or i did see what you're talking about or something about graham cochran you're close johnny cochran something like that carl malone utah jazz moses malone against the vaccine but let's see how that flow overlaps like wait what happened he just gets catholic you start the headline yeah it's crazy especially from the guy that was a part of the research team and the development of this vaccine level aren't people trying to discredit him yeah but he lays out why they keep blocking him on like twitter which is like yeah

24:31 sometimes you can't like uh i don't know i don't agree with everything that guy says but as far as trying to censor him on these platforms it makes him it makes him seem even more real exactly like it makes it a whole if somebody's spreading misinformation you like give the real information but if somebody's spending telling the truth that's like you know detrimental to like the government narrative you like censor them yeah yeah but he also cites who's trying to discredit him the reasons why and also he ha it's like his reasons aren't like oh they're trying to get me because the government it's it makes sense it's like money motivated and he breaks it down and he even talks about who the writers were that try to discredit them and how it's all tied together so it's not like one of like he's an intelligent human being like and he's very very good looking yeah

25:23 [Laughter] oh my bad i thought that's what you're gonna say [Music] bye [Music]

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