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Off The Record: Jason Cheny's Army Navy Academy Stories (Pt. 2)

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0:00 thank you [Music] we're taking it back to the Army Navy Academy because we have Mr Jason Cheney here today for our off the Record hey yes sir yes sir yes sir yes sir yes sir the captain like Captain you guys really had to do that all the time yes sir yeah yes sir yes sir yes sir you you have to salute the sun is in your eyes this is hell what was that hail Hydra what about if it's one arm how do you do that one arm what if you go like this is that you go yes sir yes sir you actually do have to salute like the officers or other kids how do you do it this when you walk by you you it's just this yeah and it's like it's even the ones you're beefing with yeah like on in the middle of the school yeah like let's say you're a sophomore and that guy's a senior and

0:50 he's an officer you have to when you walk by you have to how do you know how do you know someone's like by their ranking oh how do you do it if you're like passive aggressive with somebody do you like a do you do a face or do you yeah how do you do the ████ one the face yeah do you do it with like where you're like like the like the real one like the real one if you're gonna ████ them up later yeah yeah in public it's just like this and later on is beat their ass so there's no variations you guys don't do so this is never affected Jason have you ever gone to a fight or did you just get beat up I got beat up mostly I got beat up honestly so welcome back to part two we had so much information to cover because these two like Bart so eloquently put in the last video have been a part of something so unique the amount of people that go to boarding school in your life to the amount of people that are Asian specifically that beat up at this boarding school the amount of people that specifically get beat up that are

1:40 Asian at this boarding school that do YouTube and we have 100 of that population in this room so we have to recount more of these Amazing Stories and stuff like that so now now we can bring it back go to the um whether you were fighting and how often did you get beat up a month well the thing not because the frequency of feet that these things happen like you know when most people they talk about fights and stuff in high school yeah they're talking about I'm gonna fight a junior year I gotta fight senior or this thing happened here I stole the car uh my sophomore year like the ████ that the frequency that goes down at these military schools like I've been in like three or four fights in one day before so one day so you were in three or four fights in one day were you in three or four beatings in one day because then I think we can corroborate the stories more better cheers oh no no um well the thing is I was there when I

2:31 was younger it was like eighth eighth grade so there's eighth graders there yeah eight to twelve oh it starts at eight yeah it starts at eight so eight is like super young but uh um but when you say beat up sometimes in the beginning more but um getting hit all the time like like the seniors will come with their ring because they have the senior ring and they'll just like they'll turn it around and then smack you on the head all the time like everybody they'll just and it hurt they did it they didn't do it like oh they like it's going all the way back to make sure and then we'll have like boots and then they'll come they'll you know because then the because we'll have to go to um I forgot all the things but you gotta go to formation and then they just come and they're like stay in formation is attention and then they'll you every day Thiago this guy he will come with their

3:23 oh ████ you were there when Thiago was there yeah the ball boss dude he was buffed here he's bald at his ████ oh wait what okay I know I think he was uh he was a junior and I was there and all two thiagos in the world also at this Academy he's black he's not a Hispanic guy no he almost sounds like he's Brazilian yeah Brazilian or but his face is black was he a Golden Gloves champion in boxing no I don't think so okay never mind this is Thiago two what if that's like a common ass name and then we just think yeah yeah maybe it was just

4:13 Santiago dude I know it's also crazy I was like wait there's two Regulators at the school that are both called Thiago wow exactly is that the prerequisite are you a Thiago okay you're the next one it's for sure the same dude bro what do you know what Chang like he became there's seven thousand chains there's only two thiagos though I love it one Asian guy telling another how many changes there are in the world okay what's Chang he's like what does it look like he was like I want to switch seats with butter I think it was Taiwanese yeah because the editor is going to go crazy editing this back and forth so much work for the editor that's so nice that you thought about that talk to this look him in the eye all right Thiago did he exist so he was black in your eyes wow you're so close in your eyes

5:03 was he black was he his back he was well the thing he's black I think the biggest he's black I think you guys are both right dude it's for sure there are black Hispanics but he either spoke Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese did you probably spoke Portuguese okay he spoke another person okay so the question was how frequently did you get beat up or get into scuffles or oh you were talking about you were talking about boots and being in formation and then Thiago came up yeah boots for Budget because he would just every day he was my uh platoon sergeant and he would just come and do the ring thing and kick me in the shin oh all the time was it just you but getting beat up like getting jumped uh only I you know that was after but getting I got beat up maybe like

5:53 five six times but never getting jumped by multiple people in total yeah in total it wasn't that bad but um but yeah how about 101 fights when you say beat up versus jump does that mean you just got in a fight but you lost yeah okay I'm just trying well to me jump is like multiple but yeah more than one person so I I didn't get jumped till later when I when I'm out of that school how about how about one-on-one fight we gotta get to that but what about what I'm gonna fight like a couple like yeah over nothing do they all challenge you because I don't picture you no I did at first so wait what challenge people yeah I challenge you so this is the thing so this is the very first fight I got into it ended quickly oh so this is the thing um sorry I have allergies but I I was this was I was in U.S history class in

6:43 eighth grade thank you you need Zyrtec I do but right now I'm gonna take a tissue yeah because I don't have a tissue I gotta suck at it okay suck at it okay but so what happened was um I I was in eighth grade U.S history class and uh uh there was a Korean guy and he got held back like two three years because you remember earlier you were talking about yeah another episode yeah it's really common to find a 20 year old seniors 17 year old freshmen it's crazy yeah crazy school he was the oldest guy in eighth grade and you know he was like maybe 16 17 maybe right it's the craziest thing he was the biggest guy like he was the

7:33 um biggest guy in the ████ thank you so much it's like it's like Community College where you have a senior citizen sitting in your ████ economics yeah it's like Community College where it's like different ages the worst delinquents ever right so you guys have to remember that I did not know the Korean culture or any American culture at that point yeah so and I was the I was the ████ around in class guys do you know did you know English a little bit because you know you learned English and I would know enough to be like you know say something your stomach is fat in to the teachers oh ████ because I like to mess around because I was never good in school and then I'll mess around and have a good time I just always want to have a good time and um I remember this Korean guy sang bomb he's like he he was the oldest and big the the 17 year old eighth grader yeah yeah he was really big and uh he's well he's

8:27 like big he's like just naturally big yeah and he wasn't fat he's just a big guy yeah he was a super muscular but he was just big yeah and um I keep on saying stuff in class with this other kid and then he's like hey shut the ████ up right he said that I was like man you shut the ████ up like to him because I didn't know Korean culture he and then he looked at me you know how Korean people when they get mad they always lick their lips they're like he did this okay no no he didn't do that yeah yeah he did that when he was like really angry he's trying to hold him yeah he tried to hold in his anger and then he's like okay after school let's go fight I was like yeah let's go find you ████ ass big ████ are you ████ dumbass

9:18 instead he was just gonna be like let's go fight and then after it was just like ah I'm just kidding yeah to place a context at this school like he's not Chinese you don't even know you don't even need words like at this school like like if some ████ happens like let's say me and Nick or me and like Ryan had had something all we have to do is look at each other and we know later on on site it's either me or him or him or me uh you don't even have to trade meet you at the lockers meet you at whatever we just we look at it and we already know ████ 9pm comes around on site six people on one or six people on one it's just just gonna happen yeah yeah but keep going it was mine wasn't like this but it was super casual he was just like okay after and then after class he literally is like oh let's go and I was like okay and then I didn't think it was for real oh and then he took me the whole time you were like in disbelief like it's not gonna be that because we're gonna go and then we're gonna go where are we going oh we're

10:09 gonna go at the back of Queen hall and then nobody was there it's just super casual or just Queen them all again Queen Hall it was like one of the dorms oh okay yeah and then just behind so that the teachers don't come yeah and then he just starved oh wailing on it he started but he's like take off your belt I was like let's just go you ████ like that oh and then ████ he just beat the ████ out of me I was on the ground like okay no I know now I know you are serious I was trying to punch him I'll try to watch him yeah and I would try to punch him like straight yeah it's okay let me tell you something when you try to find a guy I don't know because I try to fight him twice the

10:59 first time so the first time I would try to punch him I I think my arm was too his punches I just feel like his fist is bigger than mine and he's just punched through my arm onto my face like you guys are just trading but you're the one yeah but and I'm not and I wasn't I didn't I didn't have training I didn't know what the fighting was and I was just trying to go and then he fought before for sure I was watching me I was like he's got experience this guy's good you got a real future in this this is not his first face where you don't understand how you're getting hit you're just like what yeah and then I went on about and he was like still punched me and I was like okay and then he's like okay so ████ don't you know what I mean whatever the thing is I was like all right I know now

11:52 ever so what happened the second time so the second time we just did Body Shop body shots because but why'd you even agree to it if you knew what's gonna happen no I thought I could maybe beat him yeah the second though why did you guys experience yeah how did the second time because that was like um I figured you it was the second time during the same time no no no no another time maybe like a couple weeks later you're like if you want revenge yeah I was like well let's go let's go then let's go how did you do just body shots because I was like let's just do body shots so we don't get we don't see the things so we don't get because oh so you don't get in trouble they have to tell you to go to the wall for like four hours like your nose has a touch of water for like four hours and it's annoying and you get the merits and you can't go outside yeah you can't leave them but use campus on the weekend and you have to sneak in the Casual yes it sounds like prison for real yeah dude yeah like if you get their match like he

12:42 was saying like on the weekend the good kids they get to take the train or the plane or ever go home on the weekends uh if you have the merits Like Me Maybe you did I never got to go out yeah there's this ████ square that they like taped or painted on the ground and you're just marching that ████ for hours the whole ████ day I marched every day dude you're just constantly like in this ████ line like this it's the same ████ it's that small it's like the same no it's like maybe the small in this office and it's just repetitive over and over and over and over yeah but I was like ████ but that was I like that though you like that I was just like ████ it because they're so confused that are ████ around because another thing I didn't like school huh what happened with that body shots fight how did that yeah walk us through that one well it's the same thing oh exactly the same I was in history Classics no no it was another

13:32 class it was I think I forgot exactly what it was but I was like okay let's go again then and then we're like okay let's not have the face so that we don't get and then after um it's just he's so ████ strong I tried really hard but I last a little bit longer but he just so strong and he punched so ████ hard and fast well because it's probably 18 in eighth grade yeah but then I was like okay I lost man did you fall on the ground again no I know now two times did you guys become friends after that yeah we became friends oh that's cool was that the big Korean guy that you were talking about the other story where you said there was top Koreans so the was good at fighting so there's two other Koreans and then it was him but then yeah it was two other Koreans that knows him and then the rest of it so this guy's like ranked number three ranked number I will say two yeah

14:24 because the other guy him and this other guy was equals and then there's one okay yeah so the two guys are a package deal at the time yeah they're tandem yeah but um and then later on you talked about how you got it so funny how did you get jumped by a bunch of people oh that one was um I was not in school that was that was not in school it was my friend he's trying to fight this other Chinese guy this Korean guy he tried to fight a Chinese guy not what do you mean not in school this was out in public yeah it was out in public oh like where like you were at a bar like in Carlsbad no no no this was outside of because he Joe was asking to see if I got in a fight and I was like no I only got jumped once by multiple people by four people but because of Fred was getting jumped they were like okay one-on-one fight and then

15:14 they fought and my friend was winning and I was like Yay but where where was this it was like at a mall at a mall yeah damn it wasn't it was like outside of a mall it was like behind a YMCA and um at first it was just my friend and but there was a bunch of people it was like maybe seven eight people and then it was me my friend and two other guys and then it was just one-on-one and then my friend was winning and then the guy he just grabbed my friend's hair and then hit him in the face and I was like that's not fair another guy not the one-on-one just another another guy and I was like that's ████ up and then I jumped in and then they jumped to me but then I was getting really ████ up how bad did you get ████ up

16:04 um with I got cut and then my back hurt because would you have osteoporosis but if it wasn't because of me he would have my friend would have gotten seven guys on him and then also two of my friends they just watched they didn't help no a whole bunch of ████ I was so sad are you still friends with those guys no the bystanders no what was this did you did you get mad at them after I don't I I was like really I wasn't mad but I was like disappointed and I was like how could you do you remember what the what was the whole thing over what was what were you guys fighting about so it was them they got the AOL they got a they were AOL yeah cotton ████ and then instant message fights gang huh yeah but uh oh everyone was Asian in this whole fight no so it was me my friend was

16:55 Asian and the other guy was Asian and uh the rest of them was our meme oh no Armenian or Middle Eastern and about both of our friends was Asian too bad they just watched that's so sad that is very sad you don't watch you gotta jump in yeah so you sent me some pictures we didn't go over last time okay send me my phone this is over an AOL fight all right so there's some pictures you sent me from military school days yeah but what did but you went as a senior I would love to be that I went in as a junior oh June yeah Junior but you were as a senior because you got held back one grade is it yeah yeah yeah yeah um but you get birthday punches too did you punch people for the birthdays uh oh yeah like yeah yeah yeah that's like everyone though yeah everyone gets birthday bunches and that's when you find out the numbers are pretty high because you're like wait why is that guy

17:45 getting 20 punches in high school that's how you figure out people's ages because sometimes you got to punch them yeah I remember this one time I was in the in the uh watching somebody else get a birthday punch and I was like that doesn't hurt that bad and then I was laughing I was like your face you're getting punch and then the Chipmunk the guy the Japanese guy was like um when's your birthday it was like so at the time it would say it was like March and then he's like when's your birthday my point of me I was like September and he's like okay we're gonna get you right now though oh that's not correct that was like what and then I just gotta and you just have to take it yeah but it was it was cool though do you feel like all of those experiences it sounds crazy Kim is it does it make you a tougher person or do you like look at fights differently or yeah so like

18:37 because I got contact was so often and but they gave me cigarettes so I just want to say that they gave me uh they ████ you up and go here's a sick right here like thank you what is that uh seven not seven star the other one Benson and hedges no it's a Japanese cigarette it was so good because they had charcoal in it oh oh yeah I know Seven Hills or something like that ████ it was mild sevens mild seven I was smoking a thing anyways um but you were saying that oh just like all the fights that you got it as a as a at a young age did it feel like it made you tired because the thing is like you get hit all the time like the contact all the time and so when I went into the public school I got in a fight on the first day but not first that first week oh uh because you started ████ or no he

19:28 so the senior as a senior he would he was like saying something to me and then I was with my friend and he's like oh he's talking ████ and then but I got beat up too is the thing but I didn't mind so you got beat up again at public school yeah so it desensitized you but but I I went up to him but that's something because it's like something you stood up to him yeah he's like the bravest guy that he's really good at taking a beating yeah so you're not afraid of the beating no because in all all of his stories it's like there's no trauma it's just like yeah I tried and I lost he's young Captain America you know before he gets the serum and he's just like I could do this all day it's like keeps on going no no no he's like Rocky on the first one where he keeps getting his ass beat you know but it wasn't like I could do this all day I go okay can you stop now all

20:20 right that's enough yeah but uh but yeah but because of that um it was okay because at that school uh everybody because he was a senior and he was like a football player but um but yeah I stood up to him and because of I think because of a a because everybody was getting and people were just getting ████ up you know yeah anyways time yeah all the time so it was it was okay what was the aftermath though after you got beat up by this uh this guy who nobody probably stepped up to him like was it did you get any respect for that yeah you get some respect no there's no they're just like okay inconsequential got it he got suspended for getting beat up man yeah but uh wow and you just totally fine with all of it that's why he's the man though yeah look at this guy this guy's the man

21:10 no but uh but yeah but that's the thing but I saw in the picture so in the picture you said um one of them you play football too yeah I play football too oh at a yeah yeah so I always like like locker room stuff what does that mean well like towel touching penises or like so yeah I like that I like because I always when I was a kid I always watched like military uh movies like at home and then I'm like man I wouldn't I always would just want to be one of the guys yeah that's so cool yeah it is cool yeah just ████ around and stuff so during the whole process you feel like you kind of enjoyed the rough I loved it the bullying the yeah that was the best did you like it I liked it a little bit too but I think some of it went um

22:02 I feel like it's too much at a young age you know what I mean yeah where it's like where so at the amount that we we got into it was like man it was like sometimes it would be a couple times a day where you get into fights and stuff and he I think has more of like a happy-go-lucky time and I also think it was your approach when you went to that school it was more like oh America's a different place I'm just being curious whatever the time that I went I think I was probably carrying my own baggage where like I already got kicked out of maybe like I don't know four or five schools yeah so when I got there it was like okay ████ it's my last ████ chance it's an expensive school yeah so I was like okay my mom's borrowing money from my uncle so you're trying to be good yeah it's like 16 G's for a semester for high school we still got kicked out though I know so I so so I was like okay

22:52 I'm gonna be a good boy I gotta be a good boy here you know you still ████ up and then the first uh the orientation of like all the new kids that come there like they have new student orientation right and when you're in that group like like you come in and like everyone's already kind of sizing each other up and then like people like oh where are you from and then you already know they're hitting you up even though they're trying to ask it in that way you're like okay this guy's from my Dub C from Frisco all these guys from over here this guy's from 18th Street like you just start you're like okay this is not gonna be a a good scenario you know and then so with that burden of me like it please oh ████ up please don't ████ up um you'll get challenged enough and then so you end up fighting and then and then like I was just never really good at academic like there's some kids that are really really good yeah like you're like oh this guy's going to Harvard yeah so it's so the the spectrum is so wide like

23:42 uh I remember so I've always been good at math there's this kid he was like the Russian ████ Ambassador son or something and uh he saw that I got a really good grade on one of our tests he comes to me after school and he goes hey can I and this is Russian accent because he grew up in Russia he's like can I take you out to eat and I would like to maybe you can help tutor me and stuff so I was like what the ████ this is like the most like professional diplomatic ninth grader ever yeah exactly I'm like dude the worlds are the Collision of Worlds is ████ crazy are you suspicious when he asked you that a little bit but also like I ain't going on a date fool that's gay so we're guys like that getting beat up too no no those guys are Untouchable okay because on the parent-teacher conference diplomatic immunity yeah when

24:32 parent-teacher conferences happen like my mom's driving up in a ████ CRV this fool has like a limousine with ████ Russian flags at the front and then his dad gets out with ████ bodyguards you know it's just you're just like okay this guy's Untouchable it's just so the kids didn't ████ with them because they because they know they know right off the bat there's like famous people like actor actresses son that went there there's like so many and then there would be like you said like I didn't know what that was like dubsy and then Viet boys yeah I think they had that I think now that you said it because I never experienced it as a junior you know I think they had more of that burden because they're like oh ████ I gotta like these people are are not you know I mean I have to like they have to represent I think you had that yeah yeah yeah yeah oh it's like my yeah my people I never had yeah so when I joined I was like yeah like all these guys and like all these delinquent Asians so in

25:22 the beginning okay I'm from the sgb and I represent or whatever right and then actually assimilate into the school I was like oh ████ this isn't really about the Asians it's like little Asian kids probably like this guy is getting ████ punked by like other races so dudes that I was like on the street we would be Rivals even though we're from way different cities I'm like we're actually gonna click up you know so like me and this Asian boy's cat who maybe would have fought over here we're gonna click up to protect our so it's just like a different like like world it is like jail yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's just way way different that's really nice no no that that you that you felt uh protecting you put your territorial differences aside the ecosystem was like that so you're like you can see how things work so you're like okay for this to survive because it's kind of you need

26:13 to do that because it's kind of like you're now your property but you're like you because they them ████ with like the Asian kids is like ████ with your ████ with your ████ yeah yeah then you gotta yeah that's very nice yeah it's not like that now look at all this ████ Asian hate that's happening when the gangs disappeared so did the protection yeah laughs

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