0:00 I'm gonna tell you guys about a moment of privilege that I had. >> Oh. Uh, one moment, huh? >> Only one? >> Like earlier today? >> So, all the time we always talk about how how hard our life was living in America. We we we we live better than the rest of the world, but we had it so tough, right? So, I remember being a kid and I used to watch Nickelodeon like all you guys did. And I would be jealous of kids who had posters on the wall that weren't framed. >> Oh, your your parents made you frame it? All of my posters and every little drawing stupid s█████ thing I ever did got framed because my dad worked at an art store. >> Oh. >> And so I used to see like the s█████ version like I had this like um Mortal Kombat thing that I I got out of Nintendo Power. You know how they always had those posters that came out? >> Yeah. The tear outs >> for Mortal Kombat, the OG one. And like
0:52 I remember having a gold frame on it. It looked sick. But then I remember going I remember watching like Clarissa explains it all and she had like posters on the wall. It looks way cooler when they don't have frames. >> It does. And so I was always jealous of those kids. And like when I went to buddies houses, they all didn't have frames cuz why would >> Yeah. Why would kids put frames on their Yeah, >> but I had frames on ████ everything on literally everything. I had frames on s█████ taekwond do ribbons that I had, [laughter] >> you know, cuz I never got first place like my sister did and I cried that day. I got second place, third place, fourth place, fourth place, fourth place, fourth place. So I my my dad lined all that up and put it in a picture frame and was like, "There it is. It's frame." I was so numb to framing. It was like I was watching hentai porn since I was a little kid. I wasn't able to get hard about it anymore. I was just like we frame everything. >> First world gay answer problem though. I will say >> I wish I had a frame plug nowadays. Frames are so expensive. >> They are. They wait. They've always been
1:43 expensive. >> They've always been expensive. >> Well, now we care enough now that we're older and we don't want the frame listing because we have wives and weird ████ Um but back then I swear there they they had like pick and save where you could probably get like a dollar a frame. Yeah, you can still get them cheap, but if you want real glass and you want the frame that doesn't break, you >> want anti-reflection glass, by the way. >> Yeah, exactly. >> Yeah. And then actual legit frames, too, cuz like a frame is just as important as art sometimes. >> You don't just go to IKEA. >> Dude, that's so funny that you had to have them framed >> cuz that's so dorky, >> right? Cuz like when you watch TV or you watch like Wayne's World or any movie, >> the teen room was like plastered like it was sloppily put on cuz the set decorator also goes, I know what teens like and they just s███████ put it on the wall. >> But they're right. >> I remember my cousin blew my mind one time cuz we would go to like hot and poor nights, right?
2:33 >> And then he would always get two posters of like each place that you can go get two. I like what the ████ fool, dude. Like you're greedy. He's like, bro, you don't think what happens when the first one gets taken down? >> Oh, >> wait. What does that mean? >> Get his parents take it down. >> This hot ass ████ just on the >> parents take it down. Yeah, that's right. That happened to me a lot. >> Yeah. And you always put one up and it get taken down after a little while and you pull it up and it's different. >> I used to put posters over those posters. >> Yes, exactly. >> You can look at underneath. >> I put sexy girls and I put Roger Clemens over it. >> Dang. Smart. Your mom never just randomly rearranged your whole ████ room. >> That happened a lot, too. >> That's why you got to have two posters. I tried to do graffiti on my own wall in my room one time and then my dad, next thing I know, he cleaned it all off >> and I was like, "Oh, my Wuang symbol, >> no gang stuff." >> Yeah. >> I used to come home randomly and I think my mom was severely depressed, but I had
3:23 no idea how to I I didn't know necessarily, but now I know. Um cuz all of a sudden my entire room would be rearranged and she rearranged all the furniture in the living room, rearranged all the furniture in the dining room. And then I was like, "Mom, why did you rearrange everything?" And she was like, [laughter] "You know, Stephen, it was hot today." And I was like, "Oh god, what the ████ going on?" >> She was like doing a manic cope. >> Yeah. >> And you're probably like, "Women, >> I know exactly. I didn't know. I didn't know." But then she would also cut her own hair if she got really frustrated. >> And go bald Britney style. >> No, she just have a ████ up hairdo. >> That is She is coping. >> Yeah. And I didn't But at the time, you're just like, "H, mom's crazy." >> She would rearrange your actual room so the bed would be on the other side. >> Exactly. Yeah. Well, cuz I shared a I shared we had a trundle bed. So, it was me and my brothers in a bunk bed and then we had a trund the third one came out. >> Oh, yeah. Sick. >> Yeah. In the Yeah.
4:13 >> Did you call it a trundle? >> It's called a trundle bed. >> Trundle bed. Oh, wow. >> Well, yeah. If you're going to have a bunch of kids, you better get used to that. But >> I don't know, dude. After one, you're like, man, ████ it. >> I get it. I get it. >> I shared a room with my two brothers for a long long long time. >> That's so cool. >> That is awesome. That's like three ninjas >> with like the bunk beds and they're sharing ████ jelly beans and ████ >> Yeah, it was like that. >> How did you get to sleep with your when you're with three your two brothers? Aren't you always like cracking jokes and saying stuff as you're falling asleep and you stay awake? >> Well, that's why that's why you have to have the red light, the alarm that lets you know the parents are coming, >> dude. I wanted that. >> I wanted that so bad. I You know what else I wanted is I wanted like you know how like in Clarissa explains it all, she had like a traffic light for some reason. >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. >> That worked. I was like, "Did this ████ saw this off?" Like, "There's like a ████ intersection that doesn't have a
5:03 light." >> Those kids had like childhood man cave materials. >> It was It was insane. I'm like, "How do you get that sign?" >> Yeah. You get like road signs. You're like, "What? >> We used to just steal all that ████ I thought everyone just stole it like at construction sites and ████ >> but a a traffic light." >> Like we all had cones or like a somebody always had some like flashlight or something going on. >> You buy You buy it from the guy that stole it, like the Atlantic Avenue sign. [laughter] >> Yeah, dude. >> But that's crazy. kids had that. >> I I don't know any kid that actually had that, but I wanted it. >> Yeah, >> that was so cool. If you just had a see-through phone, that was cool enough. >> Oh, yeah. I didn't have my own room until I was 15. >> You used to sleep with your mom? >> My mom. And then when I had my own room, my mom wouldn't let me put anything on the walls. >> You were sleeping with your mom at 15? >> I was sleeping with my mom up until I was 15. >> Didn't you put flyers on the wall from like parties? >> That's later. I moved in with my dad.
5:54 >> Oh, and you did put them on the wall. So once I moved into with my dad, then it was like rave flyers everywhere. >> His dad's the one who put up the the [laughter] posters. >> Don't be gay, man. >> Hey, Shan. Hi Lee, man. You know her. >> Did you ever put it up any Chinese posters? >> Like what [laughter] the hell? >> Like the red one everyone has to cast off bad >> like like Michelle Ya from Police Story. >> You guys remember when you were started to be able to buy anime on scrolls? >> No, >> my brothers did that. >> You remember that? And you know which one I got? ████ up Chun Lee. >> What? >> It's like there like all over. >> You bought that? >> Yeah. >> How'd you have that in your room? >> How'd you find that, >> bro? You know >> that's so sexual. >> Do you fetishize violence against women? >> Absolutely. You know, first foremost, you you know this poster. You >> Yeah, I do. I know it. But that's like how'd you not get in trouble? >> Okay. First of all, I had to go with my cousin who ran Toys and Joys from Hawaii
6:44 at the time. So, he was scoping out Chinatown, right? So, you'd always get these stupid regular ones just to hide it. So you get like a dragon, tiger, phoenix, random, a Bruce Lee one. You get some cool stuff, too. And then out of like this pack of six, you're praying to God that they don't check all of them. >> And it was the exact same thing as the other bro. I had my Chun Lee one down and then I had my like Bruce Lee one over it. >> And it's only when the homies come into the room, I'm like, >> "Look at this, guys." >> Yo, that one that one I swear it was like the holy grail. That's a crazy one. Wow. I'm jealous. >> By the way, this is what Anthony was jacking to. >> No, it's not [laughter] that one, FOOL. >> NOT THE ONE FROM THE GAME. >> That's this right here. [laughter] >> That's crazy, buddy. Anie's like, "You see that Chun Lee boys [laughter] like?" Oh my god. Couldn't get off.
7:35 >> Hide that one. It's shown all the homies. Yo, I had all the Nintendo Power ones like you though. >> Nintendo Power. They'd have like a Killer Instinct one day and like >> Battle Toads. >> Yeah, Battle. Yeah, there's a Battle Toad. >> I had that one. >> Yeah. It's like they're all on like these parts of the poster. Dude, that's a classic one. >> It was sick. >> Or they the posters that are announcing new games coming out. >> I loved all that. >> It shows the games like flying and the system in the middle. >> Heck yeah. >> Loved putting those up, man. >> Also, by the way, um you guys ever you remember Power Glove? >> Yeah. >> I had a friend who had it. I never had it, but it sucked. >> It's terrible. Really? >> Yeah. >> What? What is that? >> It doesn't work as advertised at all. >> Nintendo. >> Oh, >> they showed you They showed you being able to control Punch Out with it. And in the commercial, the kid's doing all this and hitting the guy, but in reality, the controls are like, "Okay, to do this, you have to put this finger down. To do that, you got to do that. You got to turn it this way to do this."
8:26 It's really lame. >> It's so >> And most of the time it doesn't even detect cuz that's not even showing what you have to put. You have to put an apparatus up around the TV. >> I remember that. >> And it's not even showing it. >> Exactly. And you're you're basically going backwards the whole time. You don't even know what the hell's going on. It's like your character's drunk. >> And then you see how on the side there's buttons? You eventually give up and just start using those. >> That's exactly it. You just treat like a Nintendo controller. It's on your arm instead of like in your hand. >> Super like doesn't read. >> It sucks. >> It super sucks. But the duck hunt orange gun was fire. >> That was tight. That was tight. >> And the power pad. >> Power pad's dope. >> I had the power pad and I we used to do the jump trick. >> So like you jump off the power pad and so the guy >> you did for the track meat game, huh? >> He goes forever. [laughter] It's so ████ >> But they know you're cheating. So if you go too long, the guy in the track beat me just falls. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Because they know you're they know you're ████ with them. Then it would always be like just a a group of little cheating kids against each other who can
9:16 do it the longest before the guy falls. >> Yeah. Before the guy falls >> cuz nobody did the real jump. That was like lame and gay. >> Oh no. It was really Yeah. But that power pad was cool. That was very responsive. >> It was so sick. That was actually intuitive. Yeah. >> Yeah. Cuz it was easy. It's like six blue, six red. >> Simple. This was a piece of ████ >> Piece of ████ And this is like the most overrated peripheral I think of all time. >> They had a worst one called U Force. And that one didn't even have a glove. It was a like it looked like a laptop and you stick your hand in the field and it reads your hand movements. >> Whoa. >> But it doesn't read ████ It can't do anything. So you just look like an ass. [laughter] >> Wow. >> I remember. You remember Virtual Boy? >> Yeah, I had one of those. >> Yeah, for sure. >> What's that? >> So Virtual Boy was like this red thing. >> It was the first VR console >> supposedly, but like you just stick your head in it and it's just everything's red. >> It only had support for the colors red or nothing. >> Like legitimately. And and it actually
10:06 like I think sucked. >> Yeah. It made you sick. >> But because they advertised it nonstop on everything I was watching when I saw it, I was like, "This is the future." Even though I knew it kind of sucked, I just didn't want to admit it. >> Yeah. >> I remember pulling uh those, you know, those 3D like red and blue glasses out of cereal boxes. I remember being at my friend's house. I put it on. I was like, "Wo, the world's 3D." [laughter] And then hit my friend's older brother's like, "The world is 3D, you dumbass." cuz I was like, "Whoa, look at the walls coming at me." [laughter] >> Yeah, that's how it looked. >> Damn. I never I was playing boxer and then that looked at that era though. That was so cool. It couldn't get sicker. If if you if your buddy was like 11 and he had this in his room, you're like, I need to suck this guy's dick. >> They lost a crapload of money on that. It was one of Nintendo's biggest bombs.
10:56 >> Really? >> But they advertised it so hard that I was like, I need >> The marketing on all these were great though. But like >> I think this thing only had like three games, too. [laughter] >> Yeah, they had barely any. I had all of them. >> It was like Sega Saturn. Remember that? >> Sega. >> Saturn was actually pretty good though. >> But it bombed hard. >> It bombed hard, but but technologically it was really good. They had a really good like Road Rash on there was good. Samurai Showdown was good. >> I love Road Rash. Samurai Showdown. I love Samurai Showdown. >> We have Samurai Showdown. >> Yeah, but this was this was ass. Remember Sega 32X, I think. >> 32X. Yeah, the extension for the Genesis. >> My cousins got that. They always got everything cuz they were rich as ████ >> That's crazy that they had 32X as kids >> and they play I remember playing Spider-Man on Christmas Day with them and then I had to leave and I was like I got to go play my s█████ ass ████ Super Nintendo. [laughter] I'm living in the slumps. >> Dude, my my neighbor had Panasonic 3dio.
11:46 >> Oh, what the ████ [laughter] >> Do you remember that? >> What games are even on there? >> Your dad his dad was a drug dealer. >> Similar to the Saturn. Similar to the Saturn. Yeah. Panasonic actually had like all the Japanese games though like that were dope at the time. >> We were always playing Need the first Need for Speed on there. We were playing it. Yeah, >> Panasonic actually had some like really cool things. Or maybe it's because I just didn't have one. So anytime my cousin would bring it over, I'd be like, I want that, >> dude. I would just look at the video game magazine and just act like it was a wish list, >> dude. But then you had more Nintendo games ain't kid in your neighborhood. >> Yeah, but those 8bit, they had to last me forever. I I didn't catch up to the next gen for a long time. I didn't have a Super Nintendo for a long time cuz my dad's like, "Look at all your NES games. Play them over again." And I'm like, "Are you kidding? They're not even 3D." >> I was using Super Nintendo games like they're coasters, brother. [laughter] >> Dab. >> And I was like, "Oh ████ these are
12:36 wobbly ass ████ coasters." I just stop. >> It took me a while. And then even when I had that, it was because my neighbor bought it and didn't like it and he just gave it to me for >> Wait, he gave you a Virtual Boy >> and all the games for free, dude. His privilege beats your privilege. >> Wait, no, no, no, no, no. Hang on. Was it 10 years later? It was not 10 years, but it was a it was several years later. It was after it bombed. >> So that that wasn't it wasn't cool then. >> I'll take that over framed posters, brother. >> But we played it when it was new and we we didn't like it. We were like, "This is s███." And they just gave it to me. >> Not just frame posters, accolades. [laughter] >> Junry. >> Take one. Junry karate. Bro, >> today I will take frames for sure. [laughter] >> Dude, those frames are probably worth a lot of money. >> I know. It's like what a waste. >> Such a thoughtful thing, but you don't even give a ████ It's like sad. Like I doodled one time uh the genie from Aladdin on, by the way, a neon green poster. Made no sense. And so I was I
13:26 was shading in with blue pointlessly and my dad had it framed. >> Wow. >> It was like that. >> The first time I had to go get a frame myself as a adult, I went to Michaels and it was like 400 bucks. >> Excuse me. Yeah. Because I had an awkward sized thing I was framing and they're like, "Oh, we got to make it custom and do all the edging." And I was like, "That's what my parents have been giving me. >> I'll show you edging." That's what you said, huh? That's >> You ever thought about making it yourself? >> Edging frames. >> That's stressful, dude. >> I remember my dad doing it. My dad could do it quick. >> Where am I going to get raw glass? >> Yeah. >> I like my dad. He used to be like, "Do you want glass that glares a lot or do you want it not to do that [laughter] >> as a kid?" >> Yeah, >> that's a good sales tactic. >> But he would do that to cuz he was selling. >> Yeah, that's good. Good. That's >> You want it to like if the lights in the
14:16 room, do you want to see the picture or do you not want to see it? [laughter] >> Why would anyone choose the glare? >> That's exactly it. But it's cheaper. It's cheaper by a lie. >> Or or the room that they're in doesn't have like sun or it doesn't hit. >> Oh, >> but then his son's stupid doodle would have glare proof ████ genie on the wall. Socks ass.
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