Steve Aoki & I'm a Playtapus

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• 2:02Speaker 02

  Control to major tom.

• 2:04Bobby Lee?

  God.

• 2:05Speaker 02

  Commencing. Seven, six. Ground control to major tom.

• 2:15Bobby Lee?

  Are you nervous?

• 2:16Speaker 02

  No.

• 2:17Bobby Lee?

  You don't get nervous?

• 2:18Speaker 02

  Never again, man. Take a book, take a note out of Ari Shaffir's book. Don't be a.

• 2:24Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 2:25Speaker 02

  That gave me more.

• 2:25Bobby Lee?

  You learn something every day. I love it. You absorb one information every day and I love it.

• 2:29Speaker 00

  Probably take my.

• 2:30Bobby Lee?

  One piece of. One piece of information.

• 2:32Speaker 02

  Don't be a.

• 2:32Bobby Lee?

  That's today's information, right?

• 2:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:35Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 2:35Speaker 02

  Don't be scared no more.

• 2:36Bobby Lee?

  What about the tree thing? What was that about?

• 2:37Speaker 02

  Staying still in the river. Don't push me out the riverbank.

• 2:43Speaker 02

  Harry's coming.

• 2:44Bobby Lee?

  Better than Maya Angelou, I'll tell you that right now.

• 2:47Speaker 02

  Everything you're hearing and seeing right now?

• 2:48Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 2:49Speaker 02

  It's not real. It's a dream.

• 2:50Bobby Lee?

  It's a. Dude, that's another quote that you just made up. That's amazing.

• 2:54Speaker 02

  It's not made up.

• 2:55Bobby Lee?

  It's not.

• 2:55Speaker 02

  Only been said.

• 2:56Bobby Lee?

  By whom? No, no, no. Just say you, just say you.

• 3:01Speaker 02

  My book.

• 3:01Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, you don't have to have a book. Can you make up a quote?

• 3:04Speaker 02

  Uh, yeah. Give me something.

• 3:07Bobby Lee?

  What? Okay, um.

• 3:09Speaker 02

  That's one.

• 3:10Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, that's a pretty good quote.

• 3:12Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 3:12Bobby Lee?

  Um, give me a quote about, um, um, procrastination.

• 3:18Speaker 02

  Okay. Man.

• 3:20Bobby Lee?

  Man? Man's the beginning?

• 3:22Speaker 02

  No.

• 3:23Bobby Lee?

  And no, okay.

• 3:25Speaker 02

  Open a pack of Cracker Jacks in 1999, call me twice.

• 3:32Bobby Lee?

  Open up a pack of Cracker Jacks in 1999 and call me twice. Procrastination. That's really good, dude. That's really good, dude.

• 3:41Speaker 02

  Take me to Buffalo Wild Wings and don't pay the bill.

• 3:44Bobby Lee?

  That's not about procrastination, but I like it.

• 3:47Speaker 02

  Hey, we're matching beanies.

• 3:48Bobby Lee?

  I like it. I like when we do the same.

• 3:51Speaker 02

  Same.

• 3:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 3:53Speaker 02

  Do you want me to repeat everything you say?

• 3:55Bobby Lee?

  No.

• 3:55Speaker 02

  We can do a bit.

• 3:56Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 3:57Speaker 00

  We can do a bit.

• 3:58Speaker 02

  You wanna hear my German accent?

• 3:59Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, do your German accent.

• 4:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, we can have like one segarite, two segarite, remember that, we're out.

• 4:06Speaker 02

  You don't remember?

• 4:06Bobby Lee?

  That's not-

• 4:07Speaker 02

  You crazy Americans, you crazy-

• 4:09Bobby Lee?

  That's not your autistic Mexican character?

• 4:10Speaker 02

  No, it's not Mexican.

• 4:11Bobby Lee?

  Okay, okay. With a speech impediment, you don't, it's not that, that?

• 4:14Speaker 02

  You don't remember we did the Little League?

• 4:15Bobby Lee?

  I never, I don't remember. I don't think, I don't remember the things that we do together.

• 4:19Speaker 02

  Why?

• 4:20Bobby Lee?

  I tried to block them out of my mind.

• 4:22Speaker 02

  I called you like twice already and you never pick up.

• 4:23Bobby Lee?

  No you didn't.

• 4:25Speaker 02

  I called you for some ice cream.

• 4:26Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna play the piano again because, I don't know.

• 4:29Speaker 02

  I don't know.

• 4:30Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 4:36Bobby Lee?

  Dreams come-

• 4:38Speaker 02

  True.

• 4:38Bobby Lee?

  True.

• 4:40Speaker 02

  To those who chase them.

• 4:42Bobby Lee?

  You know, can I do the first couple of lines first until-

• 4:45Speaker 02

  I'm trying to help you.

• 4:46Bobby Lee?

  I, I think I had it.

• 4:48Speaker 00

  He didn't think you had it, bro.

• 4:50Bobby Lee?

  Dreams come true for you and me, together in destiny.

• 4:59Bobby Lee?

  Yeah?

• 4:59Speaker 02

  Okay, that's good.

• 5:00Bobby Lee?

  Now you do the next one.

• 5:01Speaker 02

  Alright.

• 5:03Speaker 02

  Take me to Buffalo Wild Wings and leave me with the bill.

• 5:11Bobby Lee?

  Really good. Did that recently happen? I feel like it recently happened.

• 5:15Speaker 02

  Yeah, I did. I did, I did. I did, I did, I did.

• 5:21Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean?

• 5:22Speaker 00

  Why'd you sound like that?

• 5:23Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, why'd you sound like that just now, dude?

• 5:24Speaker 02

  I, I did it. Hey, hey Bobby, don't you hate it when a girl tells you there's someone else?

• 5:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I do.

• 5:36Speaker 02

  Yeah, that happened.

• 5:39Bobby Lee?

  How many cheeks do you have, my little friend?

• 5:43Speaker 02

  Yes, one is enough for me.

• 5:47Bobby Lee?

  You have two.

• 5:48Speaker 00

  You have two, bro. Everyone has two.

• 5:49Bobby Lee?

  Everyone has two.

• 5:50Speaker 02

  Two what?

• 5:50Bobby Lee?

  Cheeks.

• 5:51Speaker 02

  Oh, I thought you chicks.

• 5:54Speaker 02

  Like girls, man. I have one girl, man. I don't have two ch- oh, cheeks. Butt cheeks.

• 6:00Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, not butt cheeks.

• 6:01Speaker 02

  Ass cheeks.

• 6:02Bobby Lee?

  Facial cheeks.

• 6:02Speaker 02

  Oh, facial cheeks.

• 6:03Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 6:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 6:05Speaker 02

  Yeah. You know, that girl told me there's someone else.

• 6:15Speaker 02

  I was talking to this girl. Hey. What's up?

• 6:27Bobby Lee?

  You don't have to shake everyone's hands.

• 6:28Speaker 02

  You can shake my hand. Hey, what's up, Steve?

• 6:34Bobby Lee?

  Dude, bro. Yeah, that's you, Steve, dude. Water coffee. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 6:41Speaker 02

  Dope.

• 6:41Bobby Lee?

  You wear cans or?

• 6:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, I can do that.

• 6:43Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, wear the cans if you want.

• 6:44Speaker 04

  I got gifts for you.

• 6:45Bobby Lee?

  You do? What kind of gifts, dude? I love gifts.

• 6:48Speaker 04

  I don't know when I should do it, but.

• 6:50Bobby Lee?

  Well, we'll, um, we'll do it eight minutes into the pod. Specifically eight minutes. Yeah, specifically eight minutes. I'll know. I have an internal timer. Yeah, yeah. Um, maybe put the cans on and, um, congratulations on everything, my friend.

• 7:04Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 7:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you've, you've been killing it for so many years.

• 7:08Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 7:15Bobby Lee?

  We got Steve Aoki here. He's full Asian, my friend. Steve Aoki, give him a round of applause. Oh, my God, the greatest DJ on planet Earth. A true Japanese king. You know, um, I, I, let me ask you something, Steve, right off the bat. Um, you're Japanese.

• 7:34Speaker 04

  I am.

• 7:34Bobby Lee?

  I'm Korean. Is there a problem?

• 7:38Bobby Lee?

  Do we have, I want to know if there's a fucking problem because if there's a problem, I will adjust my attitude.

• 7:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, slightly.

• 7:44Bobby Lee?

  Really?

• 7:45Speaker 04

  No, no, no.

• 7:46Bobby Lee?

  When's the last time we ran into each, I've only ran into you one time in life.

• 7:49Speaker 04

  Is that when I, I carried, yes?

• 7:52Bobby Lee?

  I carried you.

• 7:53Speaker 04

  You carried me. I do, I do, one of us carried each other.

• 7:56Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I carried you.

• 7:57Speaker 04

  That's a beautiful photo.

• 7:58Bobby Lee?

  It's a great photo. It was in a hotel in Georgia, I think. Oh, wow.

• 8:03Speaker 04

  In, wait, Atlanta, Georgia?

• 8:05Bobby Lee?

  I think it was in Georgia because I was, or it's either.

• 8:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, it makes sense. Atlanta makes sense.

• 8:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. It was in Georgia because I was shooting a movie.

• 8:11Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 8:12Bobby Lee?

  And, um, I saw you in the hallway. You ran toward me. You jumped in my arms.

• 8:16Speaker 04

  You know, you know why I know the year?

• 8:19Bobby Lee?

  Why? Tell me the year.

• 8:20Speaker 04

  Because of the shirt I'm wearing. That's the Dimak. Uh, I, I designed that Dimak shirt. It says 96 on the front.

• 8:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 8:29Speaker 04

  It's a Japanese, um, made in Japan. So that's 20, 2015?

• 8:35Bobby Lee?

  2015.

• 8:36Speaker 04

  Is that 2015?

• 8:36Bobby Lee?

  I don't remember. Yeah, I should know because I only do like two movies in my life, but, um.

• 8:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. But I remember it was a cosmic.

• 8:45Speaker 04

  Ten years ago.

• 8:46Bobby Lee?

  Ten years ago. Wow. Ten years ago.

• 8:48Speaker 04

  Fuck, we're getting old, bro.

• 8:49Bobby Lee?

  I know. Dude, you look good, dude.

• 8:52Speaker 04

  Man, you look great, too.

• 8:53Bobby Lee?

  I know, but you look, your face, when you, when, when Asians go thin face, I love it. Classic thin face. When they go wide like you, I don't like it so much. It's rough. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You've always had a thin face.

• 9:04Speaker 04

  A thin face.

• 9:04Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, long and thin.

• 9:06Speaker 04

  Oh, oh, yeah.

• 9:06Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. You like that?

• 9:08Speaker 04

  I, I didn't, I never thought about it.

• 9:10Bobby Lee?

  I know, but I, it's something I think about because I'm a fat face. I have a big, like a wide face, like a cheeky face.

• 9:15Speaker 04

  Like moon.

• 9:16Bobby Lee?

  Like, yeah, like a moon, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good, like a moon, yeah. Could be other planets, too, you know what I mean, like Mars, but anyway, um, yeah, and you, you've always had a thin face, very handsome.

• 9:26Speaker 04

  Oh, thank you.

• 9:26Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 9:27Speaker 04

  You're handsome, you're really handsome.

• 9:29Bobby Lee?

  You think so?

• 9:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, I do, I do.

• 9:31Bobby Lee?

  No, well, you shook, you shook your head. No, my turn.

• 9:34Speaker 04

  No, no.

• 9:36Bobby Lee?

  Dude, if I'm ugly, bro, what are you?

• 9:38Speaker 04

  You have a nice mustache.

• 9:39Bobby Lee?

  Huh?

• 9:40Speaker 04

  You have a nice mustache, it's, well.

• 9:42Bobby Lee?

  You know, it's so funny that Japanese man says that because he knows that he can, you can grow a beard, you can grow a beard and I can't, and I think that's a diss.

• 9:49Speaker 04

  It's actually, no, I, I feel like it's a very small percentage of Japanese people that can grow beard, I mean, this is kind of a sparse beard.

• 9:57Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 9:58Speaker 04

  But I, I, it's, you know what's really strange is that.

• 10:01Bobby Lee?

  Tell me, tell me.

• 10:01Speaker 04

  That I couldn't even grow a mustache until I was 25.

• 10:06Bobby Lee?

  What?

• 10:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, so it started coming in, in like my mid twenties, and I'm like, did I just hit another period or something?

• 10:13Bobby Lee?

  Okay, well, you were 25.

• 10:14Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 10:14Bobby Lee?

  Were you, were you an unknown person then?

• 10:17Speaker 04

  I was just coming up, you know, I just, I just started DJing.

• 10:20Bobby Lee?

  Did you have money?

• 10:22Speaker 04

  No, no, I wasn't, actually, I was in debt.

• 10:24Bobby Lee?

  Oh, you were in debt?

• 10:25Speaker 04

  I was in debt.

• 10:25Bobby Lee?

  Damn it.

• 10:26Speaker 04

  So the, the money didn't happen.

• 10:27Bobby Lee?

  Oh, my God, look at that. Oh, my God. That's in Sherman Camp Japanese.

• 10:34Bobby Lee?

  That's we gotta lock that guy away. Um, the hair is blonde.

• 10:39Speaker 04

  The hair is blonde.

• 10:40Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 10:41Speaker 04

  I was a hardcore kid, so I like, you know, it's what you do. You, uh, bleached your hair and wear ties and.

• 10:48Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. What's hardcore mean?

• 10:50Speaker 04

  Uh, I was like, it's like punk screaming music.

• 10:53Bobby Lee?

  Like Fugazi?

• 10:54Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 10:54Bobby Lee?

  I'm a Fugazi fan.

• 10:55Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 10:56Bobby Lee?

  DC.

• 10:56Speaker 04

  Ian McKay.

• 10:57Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, you know him?

• 10:59Speaker 04

  Uh, I've, I saw Fugazi.

• 11:00Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, you did.

• 11:01Speaker 04

  Uh, when in the nineties when I was a kid, I was like, yeah, it's one of my favorites.

• 11:05Bobby Lee?

  Minor Threat.

• 11:06Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, obviously.

• 11:07Bobby Lee?

  All the Discord shit. I love that shit too, man.

• 11:09Speaker 04

  You know.

• 11:09Bobby Lee?

  Dude, we're the same, dude.

• 11:10Speaker 04

  You know what's, you know what's so funny?

• 11:12Bobby Lee?

  We're the fucking same, man.

• 11:13Speaker 04

  Are, are you familiar with Revelation Records?

• 11:15Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah.

• 11:16Speaker 04

  So I just.

• 11:17Bobby Lee?

  What do you know about it?

• 11:17Speaker 04

  I, I just came from there.

• 11:19Bobby Lee?

  No.

• 11:19Speaker 04

  I just was down there. I flew to Orange County to go to the Revelation hardcore.

• 11:23Bobby Lee?

  I, I lied. I don't know. I love New Revelation.

• 11:27Speaker 04

  It's like.

• 11:28Bobby Lee?

  What is it? Who's on there?

• 11:29Speaker 04

  So obviously you know Discord and Ian, Ian McKay.

• 11:32Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 11:32Speaker 04

  The whole world.

• 11:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 11:33Speaker 04

  Well, Revelation is, is straight edge hardcore. It's like, it's not straight edge hard, but it's like.

• 11:38Bobby Lee?

  Name me a band that's.

• 11:39Speaker 04

  Gorilla Biscuits, Youth of Today.

• 11:42Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I know Youth, Youth of Yesterday. They're, they're one of my favorites. Oh, here we go.

• 11:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 11:48Bobby Lee?

  Zoom in a little bit. Okay.

• 11:49Speaker 04

  Gorilla Biscuits is, is by far the biggest.

• 11:51Bobby Lee?

  The biggest one.

• 11:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, I, I have.

• 11:52Bobby Lee?

  It's called Gorilla Biscuits.

• 11:53Speaker 04

  On the, on my.

• 11:54Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I'll, I'll tell you a band on there that I'm a huge fan of.

• 11:57Speaker 04

  Quicksand. Yeah, Quicksand, yeah.

• 11:59Bobby Lee?

  Love Quicksand.

• 12:00Speaker 04

  The guitarist of Gorilla Biscuits is the singer guitarist of Quicksand.

• 12:04Bobby Lee?

  Oh, so I'm gonna like, I'm gonna like Gorilla Biscuit.

• 12:06Speaker 04

  I don't know. It's, it's kinda, it's very different. It's not as melodic. It's, it's more like hardcore. It's like.

• 12:11Bobby Lee?

  I can go hardcore, man.

• 12:13Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 12:13Bobby Lee?

  I can go pretty fucking hard, dude.

• 12:14Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 12:15Bobby Lee?

  I can fucking smash, dude.

• 12:17Speaker 04

  Alright.

• 12:17Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean? I can get in the center and fucking stir shit up.

• 12:20Speaker 04

  I definitely can't. I'm like hiding in the, you know.

• 12:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 12:23Speaker 04

  I'm too small. I'm just gonna.

• 12:24Bobby Lee?

  At your shows, is there smashing?

• 12:26Speaker 04

  Uh, not really. There's no mosh pits. I mean, unless it's like. A big festival and like there's some rowdy kids in the crowd that started up, you know, but really it's not like that.

• 12:38Bobby Lee?

  No, I was eating in a restaurant with my mom. And my brother threw out some, a fact, I didn't know if it was true or not, I forgot to Google it, okay?

• 12:47Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 12:47Bobby Lee?

  But it's a little restaurant called Benny Hana. Okay, and my brother was like, you know dude, um, do you know about Benny Hana? I go, no, let's just eat. And he's like, no dude, you know Steve Iyoki's family? They started it, is that true?

• 13:00Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, my dad.

• 13:01Bobby Lee?

  There's no way.

• 13:02Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 13:02Bobby Lee?

  Your dad is-

• 13:03Speaker 04

  It's actually an incredible story.

• 13:05Bobby Lee?

  Wait, wait. Are you, be real with me.

• 13:09Speaker 04

  I swear, I'm not, I'm not lying, I'm not lying. It's a, it's-

• 13:12Bobby Lee?

  Cause my family started Chipotle.

• 13:16Speaker 04

  I didn't know a Korean family started Chipotle.

• 13:19Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, mine's pretty big too. I don't know if you've heard of it, but you know, we sold it to McDonald's or whatever, but. Anyway, yeah, so, tell me the story.

• 13:28Speaker 04

  So, my dad moved, he moved to America.

• 13:32Bobby Lee?

  From where?

• 13:33Speaker 04

  From Japan, from Korea. He's really-

• 13:36Bobby Lee?

  You never know dude, it could be Guam, it could be anywhere. So he from Japan?

• 13:40Speaker 04

  So he came to the US in, uh, in 1961.

• 13:45Bobby Lee?

  Wow, 10 years before I was born.

• 13:49Speaker 04

  Are you serious?

• 13:50Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I said I was 53.

• 13:52Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 13:52Bobby Lee?

  53.

• 13:52Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 13:55Bobby Lee?

  Why would I lie, wait, why would I lie to you?

• 13:58Speaker 04

  I, I was thinking to myself, like, 61, I'm like, what? Like, that's a long time ago.

• 14:03Bobby Lee?

  I know, I'm old, I'm dying.

• 14:04Speaker 04

  Wow, you're like 90 or something.

• 14:06Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, I would never lie to you, I love you.

• 14:08Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 14:09Bobby Lee?

  Okay, so 1960 when he comes here.

• 14:10Speaker 04

  So, so he came to the US in, in 61, and he was wrestling-

• 14:15Bobby Lee?

  No.

• 14:16Speaker 04

  For, uh, for Japan.

• 14:18Bobby Lee?

  Oh, sumo wrestling, he was a big fat guy?

• 14:20Speaker 04

  No, he was, he was like a Greco-Roman style wrestling, so it was-

• 14:23Bobby Lee?

  Dude, I did, I did collegiate Greco-Roman in high school.

• 14:26Speaker 04

  Really?

• 14:27Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 14:28Speaker 04

  So you could throw down?

• 14:29Bobby Lee?

  It was, not right now, but like, it was more like a, it's not pro wrestling, it's real wrestling.

• 14:35Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, exactly. So he was competing for the Olympics.

• 14:37Bobby Lee?

  Look, look, that's me, high school.

• 14:39Speaker 04

  You know, you look just like my dad.

• 14:40Bobby Lee?

  I am your dad.

• 14:42Speaker 04

  You could be. No, but like, go, like, show a picture of my dad. Say Rocky Aoki wrestling.

• 14:49Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 14:49Speaker 04

  He looks just like similar to you, except you look more Korean.

• 14:52Bobby Lee?

  Okay, well then, there he is.

• 14:55Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 14:56Bobby Lee?

  That's your dad?

• 14:56Speaker 04

  Type in like wrestling or something, cause like.

• 14:59Bobby Lee?

  Your dad?

• 15:01Bobby Lee?

  He looks Filipino to me. He looks kinda Filipino. I don't know, dude.

• 15:05Speaker 04

  Yeah, so there's like, there's like a pic of him.

• 15:07Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. There's Rocky right there.

• 15:09Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 15:09Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 15:09Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 15:11Speaker 04

  So, yeah, he's a, he was a wrestler first and then, uh, and, and then he kind of defected from the team because he hurt himself and he couldn't actually compete. Or, I don't know the entire story, but he ended up just.

• 15:25Bobby Lee?

  Why, why wouldn't you ask him?

• 15:27Speaker 04

  He, he passed away.

• 15:28Bobby Lee?

  I'm sorry, but I mean before.

• 15:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, I, I don't know, like, I'm like, my family knows the story better.

• 15:34Bobby Lee?

  Okay, okay, okay.

• 15:35Speaker 04

  My brother's coming here, is he, is he here? Kyle's coming or no? Okay.

• 15:40Bobby Lee?

  But you have a brother coming?

• 15:41Speaker 04

  Somebody, brother's coming here, so.

• 15:42Bobby Lee?

  Is he the half Asian or no?

• 15:44Speaker 04

  He's half.

• 15:44Bobby Lee?

  I can't have half.

• 15:45Speaker 04

  Okay, so we'll just.

• 15:46Bobby Lee?

  I can't have half.

• 15:47Speaker 04

  So on the other side.

• 15:48Bobby Lee?

  It's either for or not.

• 15:48Speaker 04

  Porta potty or.

• 15:49Bobby Lee?

  No, he can't be in the building, but it's fine.

• 15:52Bobby Lee?

  Well, I mean, let me, let me ask you about the half brother. Uh, does he lean more white or Asian?

• 15:57Speaker 04

  You could tell.

• 15:58Bobby Lee?

  Ooh, oh, I'm gonna have to figure it out.

• 16:00Speaker 04

  Yeah, you're gonna figure it out.

• 16:01Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, that's good.

• 16:01Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:02Bobby Lee?

  I can figure it out.

• 16:02Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:03Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. All right, continue. So 1961, he comes here, he was a wrestler, defected.

• 16:07Speaker 04

  And.

• 16:07Bobby Lee?

  He had some sort of injury.

• 16:09Speaker 04

  Yeah, some sort of injury. I think he was trying to.

• 16:11Bobby Lee?

  But defecting is a weird word.

• 16:13Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's kind of.

• 16:13Bobby Lee?

  Why can't he just say, I'm, I'm done, guys, my back hurts?

• 16:16Speaker 04

  So, I, some sort of thing happened, some controversies thing happened, because he actually wanted to wrestle for the US. And they wouldn't, yeah.

• 16:23Bobby Lee?

  Oh, wow.

• 16:23Speaker 04

  Cause he wanted to, he was like, I wanted to stay in the US.

• 16:26Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 16:26Speaker 04

  But that didn't work out.

• 16:27Bobby Lee?

  Oh, he defected from Japan.

• 16:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, he, why would you say he like, he's still a Japanese, uh, citizen, because he actually never became a US citizen.

• 16:35Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 16:36Speaker 04

  But he ended up, you know, his whole, you know, his whole like career actually happened in the US.

• 16:41Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, but where does, where does like, um, Benihana come into play?

• 16:45Speaker 04

  So, so he was in, in New York and, and he wanted to figure out how to start something. So he, before Benihanas, he was an ice cream man in Harlem and.

• 16:59Speaker 04

  You know, just think about this, he's a Japanese immigrant that could barely speak English.

• 17:03Bobby Lee?

  Well, my family started McConnell's. So, so.

• 17:09Bobby Lee?

  Sorry. George, you didn't pay attention to that joke. Go ahead. That's why we got nothing in the room.

• 17:16Bobby Lee?

  They were talking, it was interrupted. Anyway, so what's the Japanese, that brand, so he started being, he made ice cream.

• 17:22Speaker 04

  So he made, he was an ice cream guy.

• 17:23Bobby Lee?

  Like what kind of ice cream?

• 17:24Speaker 04

  Selling ice cream. He was an ice cream man.

• 17:26Bobby Lee?

  Like vanilla?

• 17:27Speaker 04

  Like, you know, just like, you know, you play, play music, you drive down the street and...

• 17:31Bobby Lee?

  Oh, an ice cream man?

• 17:33Speaker 04

  Yeah, he was an ice cream man.

• 17:36Bobby Lee?

  And the kids go, "Ah, yeah!"

• 17:38Speaker 04

  And they run up and they buy it.

• 17:39Bobby Lee?

  And they see the Japanese, "Run, run!" You know what I mean? Okay, let's move on.

• 17:43Speaker 04

  But you guys think this is the 60s, so it's a whole different...

• 17:46Bobby Lee?

  That's what I'm saying. They might, they might be scared.

• 17:48Speaker 04

  They don't get it.

• 17:49Bobby Lee?

  They don't get it?

• 17:50Speaker 04

  I mean, he dealt with a lot of racism, actually.

• 17:52Bobby Lee?

  Me too. Did you?

• 17:54Speaker 04

  Yeah, when I was younger.

• 17:55Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, me too. It's, we'll talk about that later. So anyway, put down racism, but...

• 18:01Speaker 00

  Yeah, let me put a note, racism talk.

• 18:04Speaker 04

  And then he, then he opened the first restaurant in 1964, which is Benihana, which is actually, uh, my grandfather had a cafe in Japan, and it wasn't like teppanyaki style cooking in front of you, it was just a small cafe called Benihana. So, so he worked with his dad and said, "Oh, I want to open a restaurant where Americans can come and eat, you know, and, you know, what we, what I would think would be entertaining."

• 18:34Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I see.

• 18:35Speaker 04

  So this, the idea of cooking in front of someone was, hasn't really been established yet.

• 18:39Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I'm probably sure, it was probably the first Japanese dude to do it.

• 18:43Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was the first, it was the first restaurant to actually do like this hibachi like style table, and you're doing this entertainment cooking thing in front of...

• 18:51Bobby Lee?

  So did he create the volcano?

• 18:54Speaker 04

  Well, he created a lot of this, like that style, the teppanyaki...

• 18:57Bobby Lee?

  How about the shrimp under the hat?

• 18:59Speaker 04

  I mean, a lot of that stuff was like...

• 19:00Bobby Lee?

  Evolved through time.

• 19:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was like kind of the Benihana story.

• 19:04Bobby Lee?

  Right.

• 19:04Speaker 02

  Or like with the egg.

• 19:06Speaker 04

  Yeah, all of that, you know?

• 19:07Bobby Lee?

  The egg too, thank you.

• 19:09Speaker 04

  And then he started that.

• 19:10Bobby Lee?

  From where?

• 19:11Speaker 02

  From Benihana.

• 19:11Bobby Lee?

  Don't say that, Dan.

• 19:12Speaker 04

  You got food poisoning?

• 19:14Bobby Lee?

  I'm sure it's gonna happen.

• 19:16Speaker 02

  Who he is?

• 19:17Bobby Lee?

  I'm sorry, no, I excuse him, right? He's just, you know.

• 19:20Speaker 02

  No.

• 19:21Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, you know.

• 19:22Speaker 02

  I mean, you have no control, but.

• 19:25Bobby Lee?

  I know he does, he wasn't there, but what I'm saying is that. You know what I mean, it's not, you don't just throw that tidbit.

• 19:32Speaker 02

  It's not a bit, it's just.

• 19:33Bobby Lee?

  I had food poisoning.

• 19:34Speaker 02

  I got food poisoning.

• 19:35Bobby Lee?

  I had food poisoning too, but I didn't say anything.

• 19:37Speaker 02

  Tell him.

• 19:37Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I had massive diarrhea from that place, you know what I mean?

• 19:40Speaker 02

  One time.

• 19:41Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, no, me too, one time.

• 19:42Speaker 02

  Yeah, one time.

• 19:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 19:43Speaker 04

  I think you have this more than once.

• 19:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. So, um, and then it became a hit.

• 19:49Speaker 04

  No, it didn't, it was actually struggling in the beginning, like, just didn't really catch on. And it was a, it's just difficult to be, you know, I mean, you know, we, we kind of stick with our people, if you're, if you're immigrant, you're gonna stick with your, your culture, so that's why there's Chinatown, that's why there's Tokyo, Little Tokyo, that's why, you know, and that's how we're able to survive as immigrants.

• 20:13Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 20:13Speaker 04

  So he's, he just is like, fuck it, I'm gonna just open on 56th Street and really market to westerners, like the, you know.

• 20:22Bobby Lee?

  Whites.

• 20:23Speaker 04

  The whites, yeah.

• 20:24Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 20:24Speaker 04

  And in order to do that.

• 20:25Bobby Lee?

  The dirty whites.

• 20:28Speaker 04

  In order to do that, you gotta cook them food that they understand. Because in the 60s, they definitely didn't get sushi.

• 20:34Bobby Lee?

  No, they, they didn't.

• 20:34Speaker 04

  It actually wasn't a thing. The idea of like, like, raw fish was not a thing.

• 20:38Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 20:39Speaker 04

  So I was like, I'm gonna cook them chicken and steak, cuz that's what white people eat.

• 20:44Bobby Lee?

  Wow, so Japanese don't eat that?

• 20:46Speaker 04

  Well, it's just like, that's what white people love, they love a good chicken and steak.

• 20:49Bobby Lee?

  Why do you guys love it so much? Chicken's so dry.

• 20:51Speaker 04

  Yeah, so you have to.

• 20:52Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 20:53Speaker 04

  You have to put a little, like, you know, a little entertainment in that action and, and, uh, you know, one critic came in, blew it up on, in the news. And, uh, and then he, then he had to start, but like, before then, it was about to shut down.

• 21:06Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 21:06Speaker 04

  You know, but like, it was.

• 21:08Bobby Lee?

  It's fake.

• 21:08Speaker 04

  It's a, it's a really interesting story because.

• 21:10Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 21:11Speaker 04

  It's just, it wasn't like, boom, like this idea was success, it just, you know, right people at the right time.

• 21:17Bobby Lee?

  Is this your brother?

• 21:19Speaker 04

  Uh, this is my friend, my friend Brian, that's my brother Kyle.

• 21:22Bobby Lee?

  Kyle? Hello. Just sit.

• 21:23Speaker 02

  Sit on the mic really quick.

• 21:24Bobby Lee?

  Sit down for a second.

• 21:25Speaker 02

  We have a, we have to test you on something.

• 21:28Speaker 04

  I was trying, I was trying to get like, the right information about when dad came to the US.

• 21:46Bobby Lee?

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• 22:25Speaker 00

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• 22:43Bobby Lee?

  I had dermatology issues and, remember, I had skin tags.

• 22:46Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 22:47Bobby Lee?

  And I was like, "How do I get rid of them?" So I found a dermatologist through Zocdoc and zap, zap, zap, zap, zap, zap, zap, zap, zap, zap.

• 22:54Speaker 00

  Healed.

• 22:55Bobby Lee?

  Healed.

• 22:56Speaker 00

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• 23:23Bobby Lee?

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• 23:38Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 23:39Bobby Lee?

  Or Jackson. Exactly dude, you don't have to check that guy.

• 23:43Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 23:43Bobby Lee?

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• 24:10Speaker 00

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• 24:19Bobby Lee?

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• 24:26Speaker 00

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• 24:49Speaker 04

  He was wrestling for the Olympics, for Japan. He got injured, and he was coming to the US, and he wanted to wrestle for the US Olympic team, and then something didn't happen, and then he was like, you know, I'm gonna stay here.

• 25:02Bobby Lee?

  But that's the defection. If he went to the Americans and said, "I defect from Japan," then that would be, that would ring true.

• 25:08Speaker 05

  Well, he definitely like was trying to get on the American team, but because of the Japanese citizenship, they were like, "Sorry."

• 25:18Bobby Lee?

  Let me ask you a question, Kyle. Grill cheese sandwich? Or shabu shabu?

• 25:27Speaker 05

  Shabu shabu.

• 25:28Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 25:29Bobby Lee?

  Bing!

• 25:30Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's why.

• 25:32Speaker 00

  Couple more questions.

• 25:33Bobby Lee?

  Steven Spielberg?

• 25:34Speaker 05

  Uh oh.

• 25:35Bobby Lee?

  Or Akira Kurosawa?

• 25:37Speaker 05

  Uh, Akira Kurosawa.

• 25:40Bobby Lee?

  Bing! Wow.

• 25:45Bobby Lee?

  A beautiful naked Japanese woman? Or a beautiful naked white woman?

• 25:53Speaker 05

  Ooh.

• 25:55Speaker 05

  I choose both.

• 25:59Bobby Lee?

  I don't like the ooh dude, I don't like the ooh. Look at me right now, which one?

• 26:05Speaker 05

  Both.

• 26:07Bobby Lee?

  I'll do the impressions of the women if that would.

• 26:10Speaker 05

  Are we talking Japanese, American?

• 26:13Bobby Lee?

  I'm Stephanie and I'm completely naked Kyle.

• 26:16Speaker 05

  Oh god.

• 26:17Bobby Lee?

  And look at my titties Kyle, and you can insert with no condom and just, you can just unload inside me. Or Cairo.

• 26:30Bobby Lee?

  I have a little Japanese titty. Alright? And I shave my down there, you know?

• 26:36Speaker 05

  They don't shave down there, that's just wild.

• 26:38Bobby Lee?

  Okay, you caught me, I did it.

• 26:41Bobby Lee?

  You caught me, I'm a guy!

• 26:46Bobby Lee?

  I think you would go Japanese woman. Or white woman?

• 26:50Speaker 05

  Uh, Japanese.

• 26:52Bobby Lee?

  Okay, you know what dude, you're more Asian than white, that was the...

• 26:55Speaker 05

  Give him the context, give him the context.

• 26:57Bobby Lee?

  The context was this, I knew that you were half, right?

• 27:00Speaker 05

  But the, the, the, the white girl was like, ooh, that was like scary, I don't know.

• 27:05Bobby Lee?

  Why was it, why is it scary Kyle?

• 27:06Speaker 05

  Kyle, like, these are out, insert in me.

• 27:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 27:09Speaker 05

  Insert in me, it's terrifying.

• 27:11Bobby Lee?

  Well, I don't know how Japanese people have sex, that's how we do it.

• 27:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, I was thinking like, do I have to take a number?

• 27:16Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this is not, no, no, this is the kind of, this is, this is it. You're at his show, okay?

• 27:24Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 27:24Bobby Lee?

  Packed, okay? There's a girl, that's the hottest girl there, and she's kind of dancing by his, I don't know what you call the little cubicle that you're at? What do you call it where you're doing the thing?

• 27:34Speaker 05

  Oh, the DJ booth.

• 27:34Bobby Lee?

  Oh yeah.

• 27:35Speaker 05

  The cubicle?

• 27:36Bobby Lee?

  I call it the cubicle, my bad, right? The musical cubicle, alright, and you're standing, you, do you stand with him sometimes and just pop?

• 27:42Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 27:43Bobby Lee?

  Oh right.

• 27:43Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 27:44Bobby Lee?

  And some chick comes and she goes, hey Kyle, I just want to let you know, you know, I just think your fucking brother is so ugly, but I've always had a crush on you. I'm in room 908, right? At the MJ, what?

• 27:56Speaker 05

  I have too much.

• 27:58Bobby Lee?

  No, she's, you know, he, no. She, do, do, do, do, Kyle, you listen to what I'm saying?

• 28:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, okay, okay.

• 28:02Bobby Lee?

  Right, right. I'm not saying, like, I'm not racist why I wouldn't fuck him, he just has a long, a long Japanese face.

• 28:09Speaker 00

  I'm not racist? He has a long gap in his face.

• 28:12Bobby Lee?

  If I was gonna go Asian, I want the cheeks. I mean like traditional cheeky and you're more the cheeky kind of Asian, you know what I mean? So it's like, you know what I mean? I'll be in my room 908, I'll be completely naked, right? And you could just insert inside me and unload.

• 28:29Bobby Lee?

  Like I'm, I'm 32, I'm 32.

• 28:33Speaker 05

  That scares me a little bit. Only because, like...

• 28:36Bobby Lee?

  What the fuck's the problem? I, I, I, what the fuck? Steve, what's the problem? What, of what I'm saying? May, you might have to die first.

• 28:44Speaker 05

  Well, I mean, if she, if she does it in like more subtly than...

• 28:48Bobby Lee?

  Oh. Oh, like, like, like.

• 28:54Speaker 05

  Like, you're cute.

• 28:55Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no, I won't even use words.

• 28:56Speaker 05

  Okay, oh shit.

• 29:05Speaker 00

  It's still Bobby Lee's face.

• 29:06Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're talking about Gwyneth Paltrow, younger though. Okay. Yeah, yeah, what do you think?

• 29:14Bobby Lee?

  Kyle, I swear to God, is this a yes or no, man?

• 29:18Speaker 05

  I, no.

• 29:19Bobby Lee?

  You wouldn't do it? Well, what do you like, Kyle? You have a girlfriend?

• 29:22Speaker 05

  I, no, I don't.

• 29:23Bobby Lee?

  Okay, so what do you, let's find you one, what do you like?

• 29:26Speaker 05

  I like more demure sort of girls.

• 29:36Bobby Lee?

  Okay, all right. So, stay here for a second, all right? Let's go back to Rocky. So in 1974, is that what you're saying?

• 29:44Speaker 04

  1964.

• 29:45Bobby Lee?

  64, it hits. There was a food critic, he goes, this is the jam. If you want fried, you know, like chicken and steak, dude, this is the place. Tepiaki. Tepiaki, right? And then it blows up, and then what happens? Shame?

• 30:00Speaker 04

  Yeah, so it, it blew, it took a couple of years. And then it blew up, I think, it took maybe one or two years. And then, um, and then he just started scaling it. He started opening more and more. And, uh, learning the ropes of business and, and how to be a marketing guy. That's really like the big part of his success. And he's just, he's a people person at the end of the day, you know, he like, you know, he's just a very hospitable guy, you know, at the end of the day, when you, when you have a restaurant, if you're in that world, it's like you just, you're just, you just gotta be out there.

• 30:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 30:34Speaker 04

  And, you know, it's just uh-

• 30:35Bobby Lee?

  Come on in, come on in, come on in. Right, he's one of those guys, you know what I mean?

• 30:39Speaker 04

  He's just, he's just good at that.

• 30:39Bobby Lee?

  Look at this.

• 30:40Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:41Bobby Lee?

  I learned this, you know, whatever, yeah, yeah, whatever, you know what I mean?

• 30:44Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:44Bobby Lee?

  I wasn't there, but, yeah, yeah.

• 30:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, I just, uh, the, I think the, the incredible part of the story is that in the sixties, this is difficult for any Asian immigrant to actually break through the attention of white people to be interested in what they're doing. You know? So, the fact that he was able to penetrate into that world and be like, yo, we're doing some good shit over here.

• 31:10Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 31:10Speaker 04

  And introduce Japanese cuisine like that, that's a, that's, that's, that's the incredible part of that story, I think.

• 31:16Bobby Lee?

  Look at him. With Muhammad Ali, that's insane.

• 31:19Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:20Bobby Lee?

  That's insane.

• 31:21Speaker 04

  He just knew how to, just, he just became a, like a figure, you know, you know, then, and was able to just cross different cultures and meet with different people and-

• 31:33Bobby Lee?

  Oh my god, look at that. Amazing. Cause I went to the one in, um, Phoenix, Arizona with my mom. It was for, um, Christmas Day and you guys opened. It was packed. And, um, my brother pulled some shenanigans and got me an earlier table. By dropping my name, is that, is that wrong?

• 31:53Speaker 04

  No.

• 31:54Bobby Lee?

  No, have you done it?

• 31:55Speaker 04

  Drop my name? At Benihana?

• 31:57Bobby Lee?

  No, any-

• 31:59Speaker 04

  Sorry, Steve. Yes, many times.

• 32:01Bobby Lee?

  I'm sorry, Steve, I mean, it's a three hour wait.

• 32:06Bobby Lee?

  Are you sure? Yeah, yeah. I mean, so, no, what I'm saying is, is that have you been to, either one of you been to a restaurant? Right, and the wait is a little long and then you wanna be able to pull something? I always feel weird about it.

• 32:18Speaker 04

  Okay, this, this is what I do.

• 32:19Bobby Lee?

  Okay, tell me what you do.

• 32:20Speaker 04

  This might be fucked up, but like, so, I, I'm like, I don't wanna say that. So if I'm like, you know, if I'm, if it's just me and my wife or we're, um, I don't have like my-

• 32:31Bobby Lee?

  Your wife is very beautiful, by the way.

• 32:32Speaker 04

  Yeah, she's amazing. She's uh- This is my best friend. But so when we go out like I'm like, okay, let's just show up and just I'll be the bait. I'll be like, maybe they'll know who I am. And then I'll be like, I don't want to be like, hey, guys, I'm Steve Aoki. Can I like?

• 32:49Bobby Lee?

  But you do get bummed when they don't know who you are.

• 32:51Speaker 04

  I don't get bummed.

• 32:52Bobby Lee?

  I don't know how anyone would not know who you are, first of all. You would have to be living underneath a rock. I swear to God. Me, I can, you know.

• 32:59Speaker 04

  Well, I mean, LA is different, you know, but like if you're like.

• 33:01Bobby Lee?

  Even though even in like, you know, um, Puria, Illinois, if you walked into there, I would think that they would know who you are.

• 33:08Speaker 04

  I don't know. I mean, and maybe different parts of the world I've been where I'm like, you know, I like, you know, for example, where, where, where I forget where we were. I'm like, they definitely like, I could just cruise around. It doesn't like they don't bother. Like China, for example.

• 33:22Bobby Lee?

  Oh, China for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 33:23Speaker 04

  Yeah, like they like, first of all, like there's some cities we go there. The population is bigger than LA, but they, no one speaks English.

• 33:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 33:30Speaker 04

  And I've, I've toured 17 cities in China. Like I've been all across China.

• 33:35Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 33:35Speaker 04

  And like you have to have the like someone walking with you, a translator, making sure they don't.

• 33:41Bobby Lee?

  They don't know.

• 33:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, they don't know.

• 33:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. Yeah. But in America, I can't see you going into like, you know, um, let's think of a restaurant.

• 33:47Speaker 04

  Hooters.

• 33:49Bobby Lee?

  A Hooters. Okay, okay. Give me another one. I'm going to give you another gap there, right? And maybe a restaurant like, I don't know.

• 33:56Speaker 04

  Buffalo Wild Wings.

• 33:57Bobby Lee?

  No, a place where there's like a host.

• 33:59Speaker 04

  Oh, okay.

• 34:00Bobby Lee?

  Let's do it again. All right. A, a place where, you know.

• 34:03Speaker 04

  Olive Garden.

• 34:04Bobby Lee?

  Olive Garden. What an improv game. I don't know, but I like it. I really do like it. An Olive Garden.

• 34:14Bobby Lee?

  So that's happened. So what do you, what do you do? So you go, they don't recognize me. So what do you do?

• 34:19Speaker 04

  Well, if there's, if the line is too long, we're probably going to leave. And, uh, you know, like we went to go eat pizza at Sae.

• 34:30Bobby Lee?

  Oh, Pizza R S A.

• 34:31Speaker 04

  Yeah. The line was long. So I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, we might have to go somewhere else. It was just me and my wife and we're just walked in and then. You know, they pretend, like, this thing about LA is like, they pretend like they don't know you.

• 34:44Bobby Lee?

  I like it.

• 34:44Speaker 04

  But they know you, you know what I mean? That's the thing about LA. LA and New York is, it's like, it's interesting. Out of all the cities and all the places I travel.

• 34:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 34:52Speaker 04

  I get, you know, always people coming to you, ask for a photo.

• 34:55Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 34:55Speaker 04

  LA doesn't have too much.

• 34:56Bobby Lee?

  Never.

• 34:57Speaker 04

  Because they know you, but they do the sneaky, like, kind of like, they, they won't, they're too cool to ask you.

• 35:02Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 35:03Speaker 04

  They're doing the sneaky, uh, the photo thing.

• 35:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 35:06Speaker 04

  Um, so that's kind of interesting.

• 35:07Bobby Lee?

  You know why? They have a dream too. And that's what's, and their dream is never gonna come true. Uh, that's mean.

• 35:17Bobby Lee?

  That was not, that was not. That came out, that came out. Uh, uh, uh, the odds are, you know what I mean? It may or may not, right? But what I'm saying that, I mean, the odds are, they're gonna try, right?

• 35:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, that's why you come to LA.

• 35:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, because they're trying though, right? They think that, oh, we're on the same.

• 35:32Speaker 04

  Right, right, yeah.

• 35:33Bobby Lee?

  You mean, because we both have dreams.

• 35:35Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 35:35Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean?

• 35:36Speaker 04

  But they, so they, they, they got us in. But we did have to wait a bit. And also, I feel like a dick, because there's all these people in line, and I know if like, they get me in, I'm like, I'm gonna have to like, kind of tiptoe and walk away, because they're gonna, they, I mean, I just walked in.

• 35:50Bobby Lee?

  Well, you have an assistant, no?

• 35:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, but like.

• 35:53Bobby Lee?

  You call your assistant.

• 35:54Speaker 04

  Well, usually that's how we do when we prep things, when we go to like, a nice restaurant. We have someone call in and be like, hey, can we get, you know, uh, situated there? And if we, if they can't help us, then, you know, we just go for the next option. But it's, we definitely, if I really want to eat somewhere, we're definitely gonna pull that, that card.

• 36:11Bobby Lee?

  Right.

• 36:12Speaker 04

  You know, if we can.

• 36:13Bobby Lee?

  But my brother did this. I gave him a couple hundred bucks. Right? And I go, can you, you know what I mean, do the old school, hey, I just wanna let you know, right?

• 36:22Speaker 04

  No chance.

• 36:23Bobby Lee?

  My brother did that.

• 36:24Speaker 04

  I don't believe that.

• 36:24Bobby Lee?

  And it worked at Benihana.

• 36:27Speaker 04

  Benihana takes bribes, everyone. Benihana takes bribes. You know, you know one place that I still can't get in, I've been trying to go for like, probably 10 years?

• 36:36Bobby Lee?

  What?

• 36:37Speaker 04

  Is, uh, Jiro Ginza.

• 36:40Bobby Lee?

  Oh.

• 36:40Speaker 04

  In Tokyo.

• 36:41Bobby Lee?

  In Tokyo.

• 36:41Speaker 04

  They won't, they just, because you need like a, it's a one year waiting list. And they don't care.

• 36:47Bobby Lee?

  They should care.

• 36:48Speaker 04

  They don't care.

• 36:49Bobby Lee?

  They should care.

• 36:50Speaker 04

  They don't care.

• 36:51Bobby Lee?

  It's you, Emperor Hirito. Who else is there?

• 36:54Speaker 04

  Like, literally.

• 36:55Bobby Lee?

  Is Emperor Hirito even alive? So I don't even know, you know what I mean?

• 36:58Speaker 04

  I literally can't get in still to this day.

• 37:00Bobby Lee?

  That's, hey, what's it called? I'm gonna give him a shout out now. Iro. Iro Ginza Ginza, right? Let me tell you something.

• 37:05Speaker 04

  Iro Ginza, yeah, the OG.

• 37:06Bobby Lee?

  The OG Ginza.

• 37:07Speaker 04

  The thing is, is that like the chef, the, the main chef, he's like 95.

• 37:11Bobby Lee?

  Oh, well.

• 37:12Speaker 04

  So I wanna go, I wanna go while he's.

• 37:14Bobby Lee?

  Before he dies.

• 37:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, but I don't think he's like there anymore because he's so old. But it's like his first son does that one. And his second son, which is kind of like, you know, that's how it is in Japanese culture, has his own shop. So it's like, you know, the second son, you have to have your own.

• 37:28Bobby Lee?

  Oh, it's Iro.

• 37:29Speaker 04

  So it's another Jiro somewhere else.

• 37:30Bobby Lee?

  Oh, you're talking about the sushi stuff in the subway?

• 37:32Speaker 04

  Yes, that one.

• 37:33Bobby Lee?

  Oh, but can I say something about that guy?

• 37:35Speaker 04

  The old guy.

• 37:36Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, Andrew Schultz went there.

• 37:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 37:38Bobby Lee?

  And he said it, I think on this podcast, maybe. I think it is. Be careful, though. I'll be very careful. This is his opinion.

• 37:45Speaker 04

  Well, is, is, why, why the Japanese mafia can come after you?

• 37:49Bobby Lee?

  I don't know.

• 37:50Speaker 04

  The Yakuza coming?

• 37:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, that place, and he, and he, and maybe it was a joke, but I do, I go, did you go there? And he went, he spit. And he go, that's how I think of it.

• 37:59Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 37:59Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, so, yeah, I know.

• 38:01Speaker 04

  It's definitely hyped, for sure, 1,000%.

• 38:03Bobby Lee?

  Yakuza, if you're gonna kill somebody, kill him. It's Andrew Schultz, New York. I'm just the messenger here, yeah.

• 38:09Speaker 04

  But, okay, so Jiro Ropongi, that's, that's the second shop.

• 38:12Speaker 06

  It'll be just as good.

• 38:14Speaker 04

  It's, it's like, I walk in, I, and I get seated right away.

• 38:17Speaker 06

  What's the, what's the difference?

• 38:18Speaker 04

  I mean, I go there all the time because I go there, and I go there, sometimes I go alone. Cause like, it's, it's so small.

• 38:25Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 38:25Speaker 04

  You can only go one or two people, like, it's like, you can't bring a mob of people.

• 38:28Bobby Lee?

  How mu- hundreds?

• 38:30Speaker 04

  It's actually pretty cheap, it's like 300, 400 bucks for like a full omakase.

• 38:33Bobby Lee?

  Oh, wow.

• 38:34Speaker 04

  I mean, like, think about what an LA omakase is, like, it's.

• 38:36Bobby Lee?

  Now, and no one, if people don't know what we're talking about, there is a documentary called Iro Dreams of Sushi.

• 38:41Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 38:42Bobby Lee?

  Right?

• 38:42Speaker 04

  Jiro Dreams of Sushi, yeah.

• 38:44Bobby Lee?

  What did I say?

• 38:45Speaker 04

  Iro, it's like Spanish, like the Spanish.

• 38:47Bobby Lee?

  You're just like the Iro. No, can I just say something? There's a J there, right?

• 38:51Speaker 04

  Yeah, but it's not.

• 38:51Bobby Lee?

  It's a silent J.

• 38:52Speaker 04

  No.

• 38:53Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 38:53Speaker 04

  I, no.

• 38:53Bobby Lee?

  It's Iro Dream, Dreams of Sushi.

• 38:55Speaker 04

  What, who said it's silent?

• 38:57Speaker 06

  But in my mind, I wasn't always.

• 38:58Speaker 04

  Yeah, but you're, but you're, you're Asian, you're like, you're not Spanish.

• 39:01Bobby Lee?

  Or whatever. Is it a Korean thing, maybe? Oh, maybe it's a Korean thing.

• 39:04Speaker 04

  Oh, Koreans have silent J?

• 39:05Bobby Lee?

  I don't think so.

• 39:08Bobby Lee?

  I think I'm just, I'm drowning. And I'm trying to get out of it, so let's just move on from it. So Jiro, Jiro Drift. Anybody watching, that is a great documentary.

• 39:20Speaker 04

  It's incredible.

• 39:20Bobby Lee?

  It's an incredible documentary.

• 39:21Speaker 04

  So good. He actually, David Gell produced my documentary.

• 39:27Bobby Lee?

  Oh, the one on Netflix, the...

• 39:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.

• 39:29Bobby Lee?

  Sleep When I'm Dead.

• 39:30Speaker 04

  So after this one, uh, my manager's here as well, so he...

• 39:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I met him. A little arrogant, but, um...

• 39:38Bobby Lee?

  Okay, we had a great talk.

• 39:40Speaker 04

  He talked to David Gell about, uh, you know, doing something around my crazy, you know, hectic schedule in life, and he, you know, he dove right in and then made our deck.

• 39:52Bobby Lee?

  Wow. So he did this, and then, um, he did yours?

• 39:57Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 39:57Bobby Lee?

  Then you were the next documentary?

• 39:59Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 39:59Bobby Lee?

  All right, um, Kyle, Jules is here, so she's gonna sit there now.

• 40:03Speaker 05

  Get it for Kyle.

• 40:04Bobby Lee?

  Give Kyle a hug.

• 40:05Speaker 04

  Kyle!

• 40:07Bobby Lee?

  Kyle Iyoki. Iyoki.

• 40:09Speaker 04

  Kyle did not expect this, by the way.

• 40:13Bobby Lee?

  Thank you, Kyle, and you were very entertaining, and you're more Asian than white, and that was a good tag.

• 40:17Speaker 02

  But he has a white name?

• 40:20Speaker 02

  Kyle.

• 40:21Bobby Lee?

  That, you know what?

• 40:21Speaker 04

  To Kyle?

• 40:22Bobby Lee?

  I was thinking about that too, but, you know...

• 40:25Speaker 04

  Cause he's American.

• 40:25Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, but sort of Steve.

• 40:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm, I'm American.

• 40:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, we're American too.

• 40:29Speaker 04

  We're both like, you know, we're very American.

• 40:31Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 40:31Speaker 04

  That's the thing, we're, we're Japanese.

• 40:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 40:33Speaker 04

  But we're culturally American, like, we're, you know...

• 40:36Bobby Lee?

  Dude, I'm culturally Ameri- I'm only American.

• 40:38Speaker 04

  That's why you're Bob.

• 40:39Bobby Lee?

  I'm Bob.

• 40:40Speaker 04

  That was Bob's most American...

• 40:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I'm fuck Bob. Good old Bob, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Jules, did you meet Steve Iyoki?

• 40:48Speaker 06

  Hi, Steve.

• 40:48Bobby Lee?

  Have you, now Jules is from the Philippines. Do you know who Steve Iyoki is?

• 40:52Speaker 06

  Yeah, he went to my school.

• 40:54Speaker 04

  In the Philippines?

• 40:55Speaker 06

  CSUN.

• 40:56Speaker 04

  I didn't go to CSUN. Oh, oh, oh, a DJ there.

• 40:58Speaker 06

  Yeah, you did, last year.

• 40:59Speaker 04

  Yes, that was a great show.

• 41:01Bobby Lee?

  Wait, wait, wait, wait.

• 41:02Speaker 05

  You did a show at CSUN?

• 41:03Speaker 06

  Yeah, it was so cool.

• 41:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 41:05Bobby Lee?

  Oh, you were there at the show?

• 41:06Speaker 06

  Yeah, I went with my friends.

• 41:07Speaker 04

  That was a really fun show. I still remember that show.

• 41:10Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 41:11Speaker 04

  Super fun. It was a daytime show. You got caked?

• 41:14Bobby Lee?

  You got, what, what? You give out cake at your show? What the fuck's going on?

• 41:17Speaker 04

  Wait, hold on a second. You don't, you don't know about this? Bob, it's like so...

• 41:20Bobby Lee?

  I've never been to your show, dude. I got my own show, you know what I mean?

• 41:26Speaker 04

  I thought I was gonna take you.

• 41:28Bobby Lee?

  I'm a pretty big deal too, huh? No, I'm kidding. Uh, well, see, I know, I've seen that you throw cakes out in the audience. My, look at how many people there are.

• 41:36Speaker 00

  Oh, God, dude. Why so hard?

• 41:38Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, why so hard?

• 41:40Speaker 04

  No, you have to throw it, uh, with a certain velocity, or else the cake spins and you want to make sure the cake hits the person.

• 41:48Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, but what if someone really gets hurt?

• 41:50Speaker 04

  Yeah, I've been, you know how many cake, people I've caked?

• 41:52Bobby Lee?

  How many?

• 41:53Speaker 04

  Over 20,000 people.

• 41:54Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 41:55Speaker 04

  Yeah, 'cause I do like a tennis show.

• 41:56Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 41:57Speaker 04

  And...

• 41:57Bobby Lee?

  Amazing.

• 41:59Speaker 02

  You got a good aim, bro.

• 42:00Bobby Lee?

  Is it a good cake or a bad cake?

• 42:02Speaker 04

  The way it tastes? I care more about like how it hits your face.

• 42:06Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, uh...

• 42:07Speaker 04

  And how it looks after. Like, I want that cake to be like super...

• 42:10Bobby Lee?

  But how great would it, if you found the cake that was also delicious?

• 42:14Speaker 04

  I mean, it's very, it's, like, the sugar concentration is pretty high, so it's gonna taste pretty good.

• 42:19Bobby Lee?

  Okay. So, that's a lot of people at your show?

• 42:23Speaker 04

  That was in Dubai.

• 42:24Bobby Lee?

  All right, how many, what's the biggest amount of people that's been in a show?

• 42:27Speaker 04

  Uh, that's my wife caking me. And that's when we found out the gender reveal.

• 42:33Bobby Lee?

  Of your baby?

• 42:34Speaker 04

  Yeah, we have a little baby boy coming.

• 42:36Bobby Lee?

  Oh, congratulations.

• 42:37Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 42:37Bobby Lee?

  Let's clap for that, but...

• 42:40Bobby Lee?

  The sanctity of life.

• 42:41Speaker 04

  It's actually quite important for the Aokis. Because my whole family's all, all girls, which I love girls.

• 42:48Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 42:48Speaker 04

  You know?

• 42:49Bobby Lee?

  Look, Kyle's not gonna meet anybody.

• 42:53Speaker 00

  The family line died to Kyle?

• 42:56Bobby Lee?

  I'm kidding, Kyle! You're a sex machine, come on, dude. Come on, Kyle!

• 43:03Speaker 04

  Yeah, so I, like, I need an Aoki to, you know, for the next generation.

• 43:08Bobby Lee?

  I'm the last of the leaves too.

• 43:09Speaker 04

  So you need a boy?

• 43:10Bobby Lee?

  My brother's not gonna have one.

• 43:11Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 43:12Bobby Lee?

  I'm not gonna have one.

• 43:13Speaker 04

  You're not gonna have one?

• 43:13Bobby Lee?

  It dies here.

• 43:14Speaker 04

  No!

• 43:15Bobby Lee?

  No, dude, I want...

• 43:16Speaker 04

  That's so sad.

• 43:16Bobby Lee?

  Dude, let me say, my his, history with my family, it's not a good history.

• 43:20Speaker 04

  It's all girls?

• 43:21Bobby Lee?

  No, it's just like, we, we haven't accomplished anything.

• 43:24Speaker 04

  What, what are you talking about? You're Bobby.

• 43:25Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, me, yeah, yeah, I, I think I'm like, I'm like the only one that, but it's like, you know, I barely did it, you know?

• 43:31Speaker 04

  What do you mean, you barely did? You're fucking Bobby.

• 43:33Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, okay, maybe, well, maybe, I will have a bit, well, well, no one will fuck me right now, anyway.

• 43:38Bobby Lee?

  I think, I'll, I'll, no one will fuck me right now, it's crazy.

• 43:40Speaker 02

  It's crazy.

• 43:41Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 43:42Speaker 02

  Hey Steve, I actually have a gift for you.

• 43:45Bobby Lee?

  Oh yeah, well, there's a gift.

• 43:47Speaker 02

  For me.

• 43:47Speaker 04

  Yeah, I thought eight minutes, we passed eight minutes.

• 43:49Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, wait. Gift time. Okay, anyway, um, gift time, go ahead.

• 43:54Speaker 04

  I made, you have a gift?

• 43:56Speaker 02

  Yes, I do. This book my grandma Lola, she used to read this to me for a boy.

• 44:03Speaker 04

  Oh, I thought this was like, like a gag prank or something.

• 44:08Speaker 02

  No, I mean.

• 44:09Speaker 04

  This fish is gonna.

• 44:10Speaker 02

  No, you put your fingers in here and then.

• 44:12Speaker 04

  Okay, I thought something's gonna fly out of your. So, is it gonna explode off?

• 44:17Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no. No, we don't do that, we're not that kind of show, man.

• 44:19Speaker 04

  I think we're a prank show.

• 44:21Bobby Lee?

  I mean, I wouldn't touch it because he touched it, that's the only.

• 44:25Speaker 02

  It's a real book.

• 44:26Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 44:26Speaker 04

  Okay, alright.

• 44:27Speaker 02

  It's for me, not for me.

• 44:28Speaker 04

  I'll be scared something's gonna happen.

• 44:29Bobby Lee?

  We don't do that kind of thing.

• 44:31Speaker 04

  Dude, well, thank you.

• 44:34Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 44:35Speaker 02

  Bobby, what's your gift?

• 44:37Bobby Lee?

  He's doing the podcast, no, that is the gift.

• 44:39Speaker 02

  That is.

• 44:40Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, I'm kidding, that's fucking.

• 44:41Speaker 04

  So you're reading this, like, what do you do with it?

• 44:43Speaker 02

  My grandma read that to me.

• 44:45Speaker 04

  Wait, so this, this was like, uh, like a family heirloom kind of thing?

• 44:49Speaker 02

  No, there's a bunch of books out there like that, but.

• 44:51Speaker 04

  Okay, but this, but this is your personal book?

• 44:53Speaker 02

  No, I bought that book.

• 44:54Speaker 04

  Oh, okay.

• 44:56Bobby Lee?

  For you.

• 44:56Speaker 02

  For you.

• 44:57Bobby Lee?

  Is it a boy or a girl? Can we, can we say, or no?

• 44:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's a boy, yeah.

• 45:00Bobby Lee?

  Perfect.

• 45:01Speaker 02

  And she said it's a boy.

• 45:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, it's your podcast.

• 45:05Bobby Lee?

  I didn't watch it, no.

• 45:08Bobby Lee?

  Now, I'm waiting for my gift.

• 45:09Speaker 04

  Okay, you ready?

• 45:10Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 45:10Speaker 04

  I have a lot of gifts for you, you have any gifts for me? Why? Because that's what we do in Asian culture, bro, come on.

• 45:16Bobby Lee?

  I know, but I, you know, can I be honest with you?

• 45:32Bobby Lee?

  Saly for your wifi, wifi. There's nothing worse than landing in a new country. Oh my god. I hate that.

• 45:41Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 45:42Bobby Lee?

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• 46:13Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 46:14Bobby Lee?

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• 46:24Speaker 00

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• 46:43Bobby Lee?

  Saly.

• 46:43Speaker 00

  Saly.

• 46:49Speaker 04

  You should probably start doing that. It's a nice gesture.

• 46:51Bobby Lee?

  I know, I know, I know. Um, you're right. I feel so ashamed. So, um, how about this? Um, I will get you a gift.

• 46:59Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 47:00Bobby Lee?

  The next time I see you.

• 47:00Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 47:01Bobby Lee?

  Growth. Okay.

• 47:01Speaker 04

  So 10 years from now.

• 47:02Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 47:03Speaker 04

  2035.

• 47:04Bobby Lee?

  I think we should do it more often.

• 47:05Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'd like to do it more.

• 47:06Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. And also, can I, before you give me a gift, right? Why are you like that on fucking Warzone?

• 47:11Speaker 00

  You guys played Warzone together?

• 47:13Bobby Lee?

  We played it one time. He's so good demanding.

• 47:16Speaker 00

  Revive me, revive me Bobby.

• 47:17Bobby Lee?

  Behind the, no, you're behind the wall. Why aren't you behind the wall? I'm like, dude, I just started playing with you. Why are you like that?

• 47:23Speaker 04

  Bro, I get so into it.

• 47:24Bobby Lee?

  I know, but why are you, I'm just a casual player.

• 47:26Speaker 04

  I'm just like, if I'm about to get shot, I need my teammates, like.

• 47:29Bobby Lee?

  But it's not real, dude. You act as if it's real. It's, I only played with you one time. I'm like, I fucking, you and Dane Cook are the worst.

• 47:37Speaker 04

  Okay, so when I was all, I was looking for you.

• 47:39Bobby Lee?

  Hey, Lee, get behind that fucking wall.

• 47:41Speaker 04

  I was looking for you on the map and I see your character moving in a circle. I'm like, what are you, Bob?

• 47:46Bobby Lee?

  I'm looking at the fucking flowers and stuff. You know what I mean?

• 47:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm like, come on, I need your help, man.

• 47:50Bobby Lee?

  All right, so, um, would you ever play with me again?

• 47:53Speaker 04

  I mean, there's a reason why I haven't played in like four years.

• 47:55Bobby Lee?

  I know. You're too much dude, and you know what?

• 47:58Speaker 04

  No, I was playing last night too. I'm like still addicted to this game.

• 48:01Bobby Lee?

  It's a great game.

• 48:02Speaker 04

  It's insane.

• 48:03Bobby Lee?

  How many wins do you get?

• 48:05Speaker 04

  I'm still the worst out of my whole crew. So, you know, I'm like, you know, two to five kills.

• 48:11Bobby Lee?

  You have killer crew.

• 48:13Speaker 04

  Yeah, they're like, I mean, they're just, let's say, it's like not actually that fun because I'm just like, I'm their med.

• 48:20Bobby Lee?

  I know, alright.

• 48:21Speaker 04

  I'm just reviving them the whole time, you know.

• 48:23Bobby Lee?

  But let me say something. You got these guys, now they're not your real friends. You got them because of who you are, and they're like, I'm good too.

• 48:29Speaker 04

  That's true. No, because they don't want, they definitely would not play with me.

• 48:32Bobby Lee?

  Exactly. So it's on your skill set, you don't have this crew.

• 48:36Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 48:36Bobby Lee?

  Fuck you, dude.

• 48:39Bobby Lee?

  Fucking, anyway, anyway, so.

• 48:42Speaker 04

  If we play together, we'll just die.

• 48:45Bobby Lee?

  I know, but you have two good guys, right?

• 48:47Speaker 04

  Okay, so, yeah, so if they come in.

• 48:49Bobby Lee?

  I'll be your med guy.

• 48:52Bobby Lee?

  You're their med guy, I'm your med guy.

• 48:53Speaker 04

  But if you're still spinning in a circle while we're playing, it's like not fun.

• 48:56Bobby Lee?

  I learned, I'm learning. Okay, first of all, dude, fuck you, Steve. Fuck you. I wasn't spinning in a circle.

• 49:04Bobby Lee?

  I wasn't doing that. I was probably just going around a building or something.

• 49:07Speaker 04

  Oh, okay.

• 49:07Bobby Lee?

  Like, where are you? Where are you? And going in a circle.

• 49:10Speaker 04

  You still play?

• 49:11Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, sometimes I do, yeah.

• 49:12Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 49:12Bobby Lee?

  And we'll play, but next time, like, ease up.

• 49:14Speaker 04

  I haven't seen you online.

• 49:16Bobby Lee?

  I know, I haven't been playing in years.

• 49:18Speaker 04

  Okay, yeah, yeah.

• 49:18Bobby Lee?

  But I will play again. I want to play again because I'm bored.

• 49:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 49:21Bobby Lee?

  Alright, so I will give you a gift, but give me the gifts.

• 49:25Speaker 04

  Okay. Tools ready?

• 49:26Bobby Lee?

  Help grab them, right behind you.

• 49:27Speaker 04

  It's not the Louis Vuitton bag, it's just carrying it.

• 49:31Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 49:31Speaker 04

  Okay, so first off, I have a bunch of gifts for you.

• 49:34Bobby Lee?

  Bobby, you gotta buy some. I know, dude.

• 49:36Speaker 04

  Okay, so this.

• 49:37Bobby Lee?

  I'm going to one-up him too.

• 49:39Speaker 04

  This is my manga of my intellectual property. It's a story I wrote called Hero Quest.

• 49:46Bobby Lee?

  It's signed?

• 49:47Speaker 04

  I signed it, and it's graded. I don't know if you know about graded.

• 49:52Bobby Lee?

  Don't talk to me like that.

• 49:55Bobby Lee?

  Okay, I know about baseball cards.

• 49:57Speaker 04

  Okay, okay.

• 49:57Bobby Lee?

  I see Antique Roadshow, I see Pawn Stars, I know about grading.

• 50:01Speaker 04

  You know about, have you ever had a-

• 50:02Bobby Lee?

  A knife with tooth, very good.

• 50:03Speaker 04

  Have you ever had a graded manga?

• 50:06Bobby Lee?

  No, no, I have graded manga. Sorry.

• 50:11Speaker 04

  Giving you a gift.

• 50:12Bobby Lee?

  Oh, no, Steve, honestly, you're giving me this?

• 50:16Speaker 04

  Yes, that's yours.

• 50:17Bobby Lee?

  You swear to God?

• 50:18Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's yours, that's the first gift.

• 50:20Bobby Lee?

  This goes into my bedroom.

• 50:23Speaker 04

  Okay, where are you gonna put it?

• 50:25Bobby Lee?

  Where the ladies are gonna see it. Right? And it's gonna be staring right in their little beady eyes.

• 50:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, I think that's not gonna really help in the bedroom.

• 50:33Bobby Lee?

  I know, but it's just cool to think that happens.

• 50:34Speaker 04

  Definitely, it's geeky, you know, it's like geek culture, you know what I mean?

• 50:37Bobby Lee?

  Thank you so much.

• 50:37Speaker 04

  Yeah, for sure. Okay, that's the first one. So, okay, this one right here, you know Pokemon, right?

• 50:44Bobby Lee?

  Stop, before, look at me right now, dude. Let's talk, okay?

• 50:48Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 50:49Bobby Lee?

  I'm a platypus, I'm a, oh, sorry.

• 50:51Speaker 04

  Are you a platypus?

• 50:52Bobby Lee?

  I'm a platypus.

• 50:53Speaker 04

  I'm a platypus.

• 50:58Bobby Lee?

  I'm a human being on planet Earth, right? And I know, listen, I know all the things you know.

• 51:05Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 51:05Bobby Lee?

  Make that assumption, okay? So when you say you know Pokemon, it's insulting because I'm Asian too, okay? So let's get that back over again.

• 51:14Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 51:15Bobby Lee?

  Wait, hold on, hold on, thank you so much.

• 51:19Speaker 04

  Okay, so this is a new set from Pokemon?

• 51:23Bobby Lee?

  It's, oh, they're-

• 51:24Speaker 04

  And we're gonna, I wanna open this with you. Oh.

• 51:27Bobby Lee?

  Oh my God, I love, I've seen that reveals before.

• 51:30Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do it together.

• 51:31Bobby Lee?

  But do you know what the good ones are?

• 51:32Speaker 04

  No, I don't.

• 51:33Bobby Lee?

  But then how we know?

• 51:34Speaker 04

  We need someone here that knows. What's that is that? What's that set called? You know? Yeah. This is Crisomatic Ethel, this is the one that people are literally fighting in Costco's-

• 51:45Bobby Lee?

  Oh, wow, wow, wow, I wanna play this game. So let me ask you something.

• 51:47Speaker 04

  You know, you've seen those videos, like just punching each other to get this box.

• 51:50Bobby Lee?

  If I hit a coveted card, what happens between us?

• 51:55Speaker 04

  We can rip it and keep half. Oh my-

• 51:59Bobby Lee?

  No, but like, let's say I get a really good card.

• 52:01Speaker 04

  You can have it. But I, you know, this is what I wanna do. I wanna, what I wanna do is I wanna open all this.

• 52:06Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 52:06Speaker 04

  And then, I wanna do a scavenger hunt in LA. And, and hide it, and we're gonna sign some cards for some fans.

• 52:14Bobby Lee?

  Wow, that'd be great.

• 52:15Speaker 04

  That's what I'd like to do with it. We can keep a couple. Let's keep a couple.

• 52:18Bobby Lee?

  Well, the really good ones we keep.

• 52:19Speaker 04

  I want a Bobby Lee autographed Pokemon card, too.

• 52:21Bobby Lee?

  Oh, fuck yeah, fuck yeah.

• 52:22Speaker 04

  Yeah, and I'll give, I'll give you a Steve Aoki autographed one, so we'll...

• 52:25Bobby Lee?

  Amazing.

• 52:25Speaker 04

  Let's break this, let's have fun with it. I don't give a shit.

• 52:27Bobby Lee?

  That seems like a long time, though.

• 52:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, so we could do this later. We do, we'll just, we'll save this.

• 52:31Bobby Lee?

  Like, the next time?

• 52:32Speaker 04

  No, no, we'll do it today. We'll, we'll save it. We'll just put it right here.

• 52:35Bobby Lee?

  I know, but you have to leave at 5:30.

• 52:37Speaker 04

  What time is it?

• 52:37Bobby Lee?

  It's 5:00 almost.

• 52:38Speaker 04

  Okay, well, we'll try to do this later.

• 52:40Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 52:41Speaker 04

  Okay, let's keep going with the present. So let's open that up.

• 52:44Bobby Lee?

  No, well, what, no, what...

• 52:45Speaker 04

  I don't even know how to open this.

• 52:45Bobby Lee?

  Let me ask you about this Asian here. There's a couple Asians that came around the car.

• 52:48Speaker 04

  So he's actually Korean.

• 52:50Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, I know, I can tell, I can trust him.

• 52:53Speaker 04

  He's actually, he could be related to you. His last name's Lee, too.

• 52:56Bobby Lee?

  Look, look, look, can I, sir, what's your name?

• 52:58Speaker 02

  Lee.

• 52:58Bobby Lee?

  Jacob. Jacob? Why do you look at me like, like that just now?

• 53:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, Jacob doesn't like me.

• 53:06Speaker 04

  Come on, Jake.

• 53:08Bobby Lee?

  Anyway, um, open that car up. We gotta at least open one.

• 53:11Speaker 04

  So Jacob, you know, he started working for me seventeen, eighteen years ago. So he's been with me, you know, you know, for a long time.

• 53:19Bobby Lee?

  Wow, Jacob.

• 53:20Speaker 04

  Yeah, okay, I got lots, lots of fun stuff for you. It's like a... Okay, I got some more braided stuff.

• 53:27Bobby Lee?

  What is going on, dude?

• 53:28Speaker 04

  Okay, so, this is a Hero Quest card, and I think this character right here looks like you a little bit.

• 53:35Bobby Lee?

  Can we shut the camera?

• 53:37Speaker 04

  So...

• 53:38Bobby Lee?

  Okay, I mean... Hold it next to your face. Let me try to make the, the...

• 53:44Speaker 04

  Look, his face is round like yours.

• 53:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, okay, I'm with it.

• 53:47Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 53:48Bobby Lee?

  Is this a good card?

• 53:49Speaker 04

  It's a great card.

• 53:50Bobby Lee?

  And it's in the thing?

• 53:51Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, so...

• 53:52Bobby Lee?

  Is this mine?

• 53:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 53:53Bobby Lee?

  Oh my god, dude.

• 53:54Speaker 04

  I can sign it for you as well. Okay. Um, this, okay, so, you got the manga there.

• 53:58Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I don't need another one. I don't need another one.

• 54:00Speaker 04

  Actually, you can have this to read it, if you wanna read it.

• 54:02Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I'd love to read it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 54:03Speaker 04

  So that's for you, so you can read that. And this one, just for the collec-, your collector?

• 54:08Bobby Lee?

  I collect everything.

• 54:09Speaker 04

  Okay, so this is, that's the first edition manga. This is the first edition graphic novel. This is the very first copy of Hero Quest 1.

• 54:17Bobby Lee?

  So I have to keep it safe.

• 54:18Speaker 04

  First copy? Yeah, first copy, only eleven hundred of these made, so I

• 54:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, I swear to god, I'm gonna put this in a very safe place.

• 54:25Speaker 04

  So you can keep that. Do you want to hide it in the vending machine? Later? That's kinda cool.

• 54:30Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, let's put it in there.

• 54:31Speaker 04

  I could autograph it and then someone can get the autograph. Leave it out, leave it out, I just need autograph. Okay. And then this is, um, you know, like, you know, those graded cards and graded comic books and manga. Now, there's graded vinyl and music. Oh my god. So you grade everything. So this is a company called Audio Media Grading that I founded. So I founded this company that grades music. You know, I thought that was a whole

• 54:54Bobby Lee?

  It's a pretty cool idea.

• 54:55Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's really interesting. So this is to mock my label, and

• 54:59Bobby Lee?

  So if I had in the sixties

• 55:00Speaker 04

  AMG 10.

• 55:01Bobby Lee?

  The original Velvet Underground banana album.

• 55:03Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 55:04Bobby Lee?

  And you put it in there, it would be worth billions of dollars.

• 55:07Speaker 04

  Yes, well, maybe not billions, but a lot.

• 55:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, a lot, yeah, yeah. That's amazing.

• 55:10Speaker 04

  So you kinda wanna do that with the grails, you know, you don't wanna dig them out, so I think

• 55:14Bobby Lee?

  And so no dust or dirt or anything can get through that?

• 55:16Speaker 04

  Yeah, this is sealed forever.

• 55:18Bobby Lee?

  Wow, amazing.

• 55:19Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 55:20Bobby Lee?

  And it's a grading of ten.

• 55:21Speaker 04

  It's the highest grade possible.

• 55:23Bobby Lee?

  That's mine?

• 55:23Speaker 04

  That's yours?

• 55:23Bobby Lee?

  Holy fuck, oh my god, dude, you're giving me millions of dollars right now.

• 55:27Speaker 04

  And then obviously

• 55:29Bobby Lee?

  I mean, it could technically, theoretically, you know, if he dies or something, hopefully doesn't. Hopefully doesn't, right, but you know what I mean? And they're like, and, and, and the record company burned that to the ground, and I have the one of the only ones? Bro.

• 55:44Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 55:44Bobby Lee?

  What's this?

• 55:45Speaker 04

  This is a pillow.

• 55:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 55:47Speaker 04

  It's, it's for my show, so, like, you can't, I don't cake people in Vegas.

• 55:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 55:51Speaker 04

  So I pillow people.

• 55:53Bobby Lee?

  Oh, wow.

• 55:54Speaker 04

  So I just throw pillows at people in the crowd. Okay, alright, alright. Ready?

• 56:01Bobby Lee?

  With the piano. Wow, that kinda hurt a little bit. Is this mine?

• 56:07Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 56:08Bobby Lee?

  Fuck yeah, man.

• 56:09Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 56:09Bobby Lee?

  Put it in the back.

• 56:09Speaker 04

  That's perfect for your back. Is that all of them?

• 56:12Bobby Lee?

  That's amazing.

• 56:13Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 56:13Bobby Lee?

  I have literally nothing for you. Can I say something, okay?

• 56:17Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 56:18Bobby Lee?

  I think, I think I'm a little offended at my, at my staff. Did you know that he was bringing gifts?

• 56:22Speaker 04

  No.

• 56:22Bobby Lee?

  No. Okay, well then, alright, alright, don't get defensive.

• 56:26Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 56:28Bobby Lee?

  Do, or I got one then too, too.

• 56:30Speaker 04

  I got something else.

• 56:30Bobby Lee?

  I got something. Here's a hundred bucks, Steve. Here's a hundred bucks. Yeah, I got something too.

• 56:34Speaker 04

  Okay, alright, this is gonna be fun, okay? We can do this right now.

• 56:37Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, mine's great. You're gonna love mine. A Benihana stamp card. Alright, here's three hundred dollars.

• 56:47Speaker 04

  Alright, I'm gonna leave it, I'm gonna leave it here.

• 56:48Bobby Lee?

  And you better take it. Because that's rude, or I'm gonna throw your shit out.

• 56:52Speaker 04

  Okay, I'm only, you know what? I'm only gonna take it.

• 56:55Bobby Lee?

  No, take, oh, give it to Kyle.

• 56:56Speaker 04

  You have to sign it.

• 56:57Bobby Lee?

  No, no, give it to Kyle.

• 56:58Speaker 04

  Sign it, yeah.

• 56:58Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, I'll sign it.

• 56:59Speaker 04

  Who's got a Sharpie?

• 57:00Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 57:01Speaker 04

  Get a Bobby Liato. I want Bobby Liatos on all three of these things.

• 57:03Bobby Lee?

  It's, it's not worth anything when I sign it, but it's fine.

• 57:06Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah. Do a nice, write nice little notes to me.

• 57:09Bobby Lee?

  Okay, I will. Okay, um. Later, or now? I wanna do it now, hold on, yeah, keep, keep going.

• 57:15Speaker 04

  Okay, alright.

• 57:15Bobby Lee?

  Alright, yeah.

• 57:16Speaker 04

  So, while you're signing this, I came, you know, I was, I was in Orange County at Rev, Revelation Records, getting like test presses of Minor Threat and Fugazi, got, like, the kinda stuff we're talking about, which is like, kinda interesting that you brought that up.

• 57:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 57:29Speaker 04

  And then I went to Burton Snowboards Store, they're a snowboard shop. Um, and, uh, we did a collaboration with them, that, that we launched today.

• 57:38Bobby Lee?

  Uh huh.

• 57:38Speaker 04

  And we made these Hero Quest Burton Cards. There's only a few of these.

• 57:43Bobby Lee?

  Oh, my god.

• 57:44Speaker 04

  A few of these, so I, I brought you a couple, we're gonna, I wanna, they're so fast, we could rip them right now.

• 57:48Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 57:48Speaker 04

  And if there's a one of one, you know, it's a special card. And they're for you. So, uh, let's, let's rip that when you're done.

• 57:54Bobby Lee?

  Okay, and, hold on, almost done, okay, there we go.

• 57:57Speaker 04

  Cause have you ever ripped a pack of cards, like, live?

• 58:00Bobby Lee?

  Never have, I've always wanted to.

• 58:01Speaker 04

  Okay, let's do it together, okay? There's two packs.

• 58:03Bobby Lee?

  Alright.

• 58:03Speaker 04

  So this is your pack.

• 58:04Bobby Lee?

  So how do I know it's a good one?

• 58:06Speaker 04

  So, well, it'll say one of one, that's huge.

• 58:08Bobby Lee?

  One of one?

• 58:09Speaker 04

  Yeah, one of one.

• 58:12Bobby Lee?

  Are you Catholic?

• 58:13Speaker 04

  Okay, so we'll get the camera on, Bob.

• 58:14Bobby Lee?

  Seen people do on YouTube. Your camera's there. Okay, right, okay. Yours is right here. Yeah.

• 58:18Speaker 04

  Okay, so.

• 58:18Bobby Lee?

  Oh, there's only one card in here?

• 58:20Speaker 04

  It's only one card, so you could get like a base card. You get a number to 50, number to 25, number to 10, number 5.

• 58:25Bobby Lee?

  And I already opened it, but I didn't look at it.

• 58:26Speaker 04

  Okay, all right, so you show the camera.

• 58:27Bobby Lee?

  Yours is right there. Mine is over there?

• 58:29Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 58:29Bobby Lee?

  And do I, how do I face it?

• 58:31Speaker 04

  Um, one side's like.

• 58:32Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I got it, I got it.

• 58:33Speaker 01

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• 59:07Speaker 04

  Ready? One, two, three. Okay, you got a base card.

• 59:16Speaker 04

  It's still, it's still like only like 200 of these. It's only 200 of these, babe, it's so cool.

• 59:22Bobby Lee?

  You gave him $300.

• 59:23Speaker 04

  Okay, here, okay, here's another one, okay?

• 59:25Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 59:25Speaker 04

  We have another chance, ready? What we got?

• 59:27Bobby Lee?

  Base, same, you got the same exact one as I did.

• 59:30Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 59:31Bobby Lee?

  Is that the same exact one?

• 59:32Speaker 04

  So you have to sign this for me, okay?

• 59:33Bobby Lee?

  Okay, I'll sign that one.

• 59:34Speaker 04

  Because it's a special day, we were doing this interview together.

• 59:36Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 59:36Speaker 04

  Hey, you sign it?

• 59:37Bobby Lee?

  All the cards this. All the cards this character?

• 59:41Speaker 04

  It's the two characters, snowboarding.

• 59:43Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 59:44Speaker 04

  Because it's a Burton snowboard promotion.

• 59:45Bobby Lee?

  Oh, okay.

• 59:47Speaker 04

  You know, like, to give you an idea, Bob, the, uh, these promo cards are really sought after. Like, for example.

• 59:55Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, hold on, hold on, I'm gonna listen, so, hold on.

• 59:56Speaker 04

  The, uh, the, like Pokemon, right? It's the greatest, the biggest IP in the world, right?

• 1:00:00Bobby Lee?

  Oh, one of the best.

• 1:00:01Speaker 04

  And the, the first Illustrator promo card, when they launched this, uh, this kind of award for people drawing Pikachus.

• 1:00:10Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:11Speaker 04

  Logan Paul bought that card, PSA 10 version, for 5.2 million dollars.

• 1:00:17Bobby Lee?

  Logan Paul did?

• 1:00:18Speaker 04

  Logan Paul bought a PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator card.

• 1:00:22Bobby Lee?

  For one card for 5.2 million?

• 1:00:24Speaker 04

  Plus, he spent a 1.1 million for a PSA 9 to trade with the guy. So he spent 6.3 million dollars to get that card.

• 1:00:31Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 1:00:32Speaker 04

  For a promo card. And I'm not saying this card's worth like that, but I just, you know, people love these promo cards.

• 1:00:38Bobby Lee?

  He didn't get to impress the nerds? What's going on here?

• 1:00:40Speaker 04

  It's geek culture, man. It's like, you know, on the highest level.

• 1:00:44Bobby Lee?

  See, you know, I'll be honest with you, Steve, the reason why I haven't gotten in that game is because I would be completely addicted.

• 1:00:49Speaker 04

  A degenerate.

• 1:00:50Bobby Lee?

  A degenerate?

• 1:00:50Speaker 04

  I became a degenerate.

• 1:00:51Bobby Lee?

  Because what happened was, remember, I was dating a woman, believe it or not? And she had a child. And her son, it was a huge Pokemon, right? So I got some connections and I would go, you know, I mean, Calabasas.

• 1:01:05Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:01:05Bobby Lee?

  And I'd go to the store and I'd be boxes and boxes of shit.

• 1:01:08Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:01:08Bobby Lee?

  Right? And when I gave this kid these boxes, it was like the, just the, everything. It was everything too.

• 1:01:14Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:01:14Bobby Lee?

  Right? And I thought to myself, oh, I love going out there and like looking at the boxes and I would watch him open up and him get excited about the things that he would get. And I thought to myself, I go, this is gonna be a bad thing for me.

• 1:01:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's, it's a scary, scary journey.

• 1:01:29Bobby Lee?

  Because I'm a recovering alcoholic, you know that, right?

• 1:01:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, so like you need like another dopamine hit. That's the kind of like for me, I never got into drugs. I never got into alcohol like that. Uh, maybe drinking when I was DJing early on. So this is like my thing, my passion is like.

• 1:01:45Bobby Lee?

  Wow, yeah.

• 1:01:46Speaker 04

  Collecting.

• 1:01:47Bobby Lee?

  You still do it?

• 1:01:47Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't buy cards anymore.

• 1:01:50Bobby Lee?

  What's the most expensive, what's the most expensive collectible you have?

• 1:01:52Speaker 04

  Um, well, not art, well, I have the PSA 9 Pikachu Illustrator card, the one that Logan Paul got PSA 10 of.

• 1:02:00Bobby Lee?

  Right.

• 1:02:01Speaker 04

  So that's over a million.

• 1:02:02Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 1:02:03Speaker 04

  But I bought it for 400 grand raw and graded it, and that's a gamble. And it luckily graded PSA 9, so I got really lucky that way.

• 1:02:10Bobby Lee?

  You gambled with it?

• 1:02:10Speaker 04

  And it went up, so.

• 1:02:11Bobby Lee?

  Now, where is this guy? In your house?

• 1:02:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's in a vault.

• 1:02:15Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:02:15Speaker 04

  So like a lot of my cards.

• 1:02:18Bobby Lee?

  It's in a vault in your house?

• 1:02:20Speaker 04

  No, no, no. It's in a vault like in a undisclosed location with PSA. So.

• 1:02:25Bobby Lee?

  What else is in there?

• 1:02:26Speaker 04

  There are 30,000 of my cards.

• 1:02:29Speaker 05

  30,000?

• 1:02:30Speaker 04

  Yeah, so I don't need the physical card anymore. I, cause I could just sell it right away. So like it's in this vault where I just like click a button and it's for sale. I don't have to worry about shipping it. I don't have to worry about anything.

• 1:02:42Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 1:02:43Speaker 04

  So they have responsibility of.

• 1:02:46Bobby Lee?

  But don't you want to see it?

• 1:02:47Speaker 04

  I have a, I have a picture here.

• 1:02:49Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:02:50Speaker 04

  If I want, I can, they can ship it to me for a picture. I don't want to necessarily have these cards in my possession so much.

• 1:02:56Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:02:56Speaker 04

  It's just, I have it, I see it cool. Now it's an asset. Now it's an investment class. So I can just store it, sell it when I want.

• 1:03:03Bobby Lee?

  It's crazy. Wow. Wow.

• 1:03:05Speaker 04

  It's crazy. You know, I like, I spent 400 grand, took a risk and you know, if I want to sell it, I'm, I'll, you know.

• 1:03:11Bobby Lee?

  Can you do me a favor then? Can, can you do me a favor?

• 1:03:15Speaker 04

  What's up?

• 1:03:17Bobby Lee?

  It's not a hard, difficult favor. It's, it's basically, I want you to tell me what boxes to buy one day.

• 1:03:23Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:03:24Bobby Lee?

  No, I'm being right. Like if a new, if a new box drops.

• 1:03:27Speaker 05

  Costco.

• 1:03:29Speaker 04

  But yeah, you'd have to like, you see Bobby Lee in the next video, punch yourself to get a box.

• 1:03:32Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. And, and go, you know, um, this is dropping this date. You gotta get a couple of boxes of this. I will get it.

• 1:03:39Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 1:03:40Bobby Lee?

  Do you promise?

• 1:03:41Speaker 04

  No, we'll, we'll be in touch. I'll be, uh, I'll, I'll, I'll give you the alpha on, on what I, what I would get.

• 1:03:46Bobby Lee?

  What you think it is.

• 1:03:46Speaker 04

  What I would get too.

• 1:03:47Bobby Lee?

  And Kyle, will you make sure that, cause he's gonna forget about me? You'll, I love you dude. I never met you before dude, but I already love you dude, right? And I'm on your side. Okay? So what I'm saying to you right now is that will you push him to do it? Because I don't want to be like five years down the road, like he fucking didn't text me and this box came out, you know? I don't, I don't want that. I want to get into it.

• 1:04:06Speaker 04

  Well, let me sign this card for you too.

• 1:04:08Bobby Lee?

  Which, which one?

• 1:04:09Speaker 04

  The other one.

• 1:04:09Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:04:09Speaker 04

  So you have one and I have one. So you sign me yours.

• 1:04:13Bobby Lee?

  This is the one I signed.

• 1:04:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's mine. Thank you.

• 1:04:15Bobby Lee?

  Here's your $300.

• 1:04:19Speaker 04

  To Steve. Kyle's better.

• 1:04:23Speaker 00

  You gotta frame that.

• 1:04:24Speaker 04

  Oh my god. Okay, I like this one. I love you.

• 1:04:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:29Speaker 04

  Alright, to Steve, fuck you.

• 1:04:31Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:32Speaker 04

  These are fucking great, dude.

• 1:04:34Bobby Lee?

  It was spontaneous.

• 1:04:35Speaker 04

  Where's the other card?

• 1:04:37Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, what happened to the card? Oh, I kept it in the thing, right here.

• 1:04:39Speaker 04

  Okay, let me sign that.

• 1:04:40Bobby Lee?

  Okay, sign that.

• 1:04:41Speaker 04

  Let me sign that for you too.

• 1:04:41Speaker 00

  And then we open the cards for you, the Pokemon cards?

• 1:04:44Speaker 04

  Okay, yeah, we could do that later. I mean...

• 1:04:46Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no, let's do a round.

• 1:04:48Speaker 04

  Cause otherwise I don't wanna waste time.

• 1:04:49Bobby Lee?

  No, we're not. Can we, my two employees here...

• 1:04:52Speaker 04

  We could all open it up.

• 1:04:53Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, so everyone... Everyone get a card.

• 1:04:55Speaker 04

  One pack.

• 1:04:56Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, let's do that.

• 1:04:57Speaker 04

  Wanna do that?

• 1:04:57Bobby Lee?

  That's a fun game.

• 1:04:58Speaker 04

  And then that way it's just...

• 1:04:58Bobby Lee?

  That's a fun game.

• 1:04:59Speaker 04

  Can you pass me that pen?

• 1:05:00Bobby Lee?

  Which one? Okay, the Sharpie. Alright, can you do me a favor though? Give me the packs, cause I'm gonna pick my own pack. Cause, you know, I mean, I have a sense of these things.

• 1:05:07Speaker 00

  Do you?

• 1:05:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I don't think I do, but give it to me, okay? So...

• 1:05:12Speaker 02

  Did you just call us in your employees? We're friends, Bobby. Steve, do you call your...

• 1:05:18Speaker 04

  You wanna read this out?

• 1:05:19Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, it says... "You're not that funny."

• 1:05:24Speaker 02

  That's true.

• 1:05:28Speaker 04

  You know, I didn't get a little jab back.

• 1:05:30Bobby Lee?

  I know, but I didn't get personal.

• 1:05:34Bobby Lee?

  Here you go.

• 1:05:35Speaker 04

  Oh, that's mine. That's yours. What are you gonna want? You're like, I hate this one.

• 1:05:39Bobby Lee?

  I want it. Alright, so I'm gonna pick this one.

• 1:05:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's exactly, you have to pick your pack.

• 1:05:44Bobby Lee?

  Pick your pack.

• 1:05:45Speaker 04

  My wife always picks, which one should I pick?

• 1:05:47Bobby Lee?

  I got two.

• 1:05:47Speaker 04

  One, two, three, four, five, six.

• 1:05:51Speaker 04

  Three? Alright, wife picks three.

• 1:05:55Speaker 04

  We usually win.

• 1:05:56Speaker 00

  And right, it's like you paste all the cards down and left with the last one?

• 1:05:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that. Actually, I don't know, I've never opened this one, but this was the one everyone's fighting in Costco for, so...

• 1:06:04Bobby Lee?

  Wow, here we have it.

• 1:06:05Speaker 04

  Okay, so the Umbreon is the main hit. Yeah, it's like $2,000.

• 1:06:09Speaker 00

  So the rarest one is $1,600 right now, but it'll probably go up.

• 1:06:12Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:06:13Bobby Lee?

  What are the odds, though, of getting one?

• 1:06:18Speaker 04

  Okay, here we go. You guys ready?

• 1:06:19Bobby Lee?

  Hold on, hold on.

• 1:06:20Speaker 00

  Wait, hold on.

• 1:06:20Speaker 02

  It's the last card, right?

• 1:06:22Speaker 04

  Uh, yeah, I don't know.

• 1:06:24Bobby Lee?

  Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

• 1:06:26Speaker 04

  Okay, alright.

• 1:06:27Bobby Lee?

  Is there gum or no?

• 1:06:28Speaker 04

  No gum.

• 1:06:29Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:06:30Speaker 04

  That was like eighty years ago.

• 1:06:31Bobby Lee?

  I got it, I got it, I got it. Alright, okay, wait, wait. So, um, you face it what?

• 1:06:35Speaker 04

  So, this is like-

• 1:06:36Bobby Lee?

  The fuck is this?

• 1:06:37Speaker 04

  That's a shit card.

• 1:06:38Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:06:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, you don't need that card.

• 1:06:39Bobby Lee?

  Alright, so I'm faced now, oh, you go like this first?

• 1:06:41Speaker 04

  So, yeah, so it's like the last-

• 1:06:42Bobby Lee?

  Alright, ready?

• 1:06:43Speaker 04

  One, you just kinda go through.

• 1:06:45Bobby Lee?

  One.

• 1:06:45Speaker 04

  It's not the shiny one.

• 1:06:46Bobby Lee?

  Two.

• 1:06:46Speaker 04

  That you don't care about. Okay, here we go. So.

• 1:06:49Speaker 02

  One.

• 1:06:50Speaker 04

  I got a shit, I got a shit deck.

• 1:06:52Bobby Lee?

  Alright, so-

• 1:06:53Speaker 04

  I got a shit card.

• 1:06:53Bobby Lee?

  Alright, so what's this?

• 1:06:55Speaker 04

  That's not, that's not good.

• 1:06:56Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:06:56Speaker 04

  That's not good.

• 1:06:57Bobby Lee?

  Okay, what's this little guy?

• 1:06:58Speaker 04

  That's not good either.

• 1:06:59Bobby Lee?

  Not good?

• 1:06:59Speaker 02

  You want the one with the star, that's the main-

• 1:07:01Bobby Lee?

  And energy is not good.

• 1:07:02Speaker 04

  That's not good.

• 1:07:02Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:03Speaker 04

  That's not good.

• 1:07:03Bobby Lee?

  Okay, fuck my ass, dude.

• 1:07:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, so you didn't get shit.

• 1:07:06Bobby Lee?

  Fuck my ass.

• 1:07:06Speaker 04

  But hey, let's-

• 1:07:07Bobby Lee?

  I have another, I have another-

• 1:07:08Speaker 04

  Let's like, oh, you got another one? Let's like also-

• 1:07:10Bobby Lee?

  What's that?

• 1:07:11Speaker 04

  Oh! Alright.

• 1:07:13Speaker 02

  Espion.

• 1:07:14Speaker 04

  What's that? What's on the list?

• 1:07:16Speaker 02

  Alright, we got- Flareon.

• 1:07:21Speaker 02

  So mine-

• 1:07:22Speaker 04

  You got the Espion?

• 1:07:22Speaker 02

  I got the Espion, mine's eighty-four dollars.

• 1:07:24Speaker 04

  Alright.

• 1:07:25Bobby Lee?

  Oh my god, congratulations Gilbert!

• 1:07:27Speaker 04

  Okay, so that one- That one, let's both sign that one.

• 1:07:32Bobby Lee?

  Okay. I opened up another pack, cheated. I need another round here, so boom, boom, boom.

• 1:07:38Speaker 04

  That might be the hit of the whole box.

• 1:07:39Speaker 02

  Alright, we got a Silvion from EJ, that one's a hundred dollars.

• 1:07:42Speaker 04

  Okay, that's even bigger.

• 1:07:43Bobby Lee?

  What's an earthen vessel, nothing?

• 1:07:46Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:07:46Bobby Lee?

  Okay, damn it, damn it.

• 1:07:47Speaker 02

  What do you-

• 1:07:48Bobby Lee?

  What about Great Tusk? That's, tusks are always expensive.

• 1:07:50Speaker 04

  No, well, it's like five cents.

• 1:07:52Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:07:53Speaker 02

  Great tusks are always expensive.

• 1:07:55Bobby Lee?

  What about Joltion?

• 1:07:56Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 1:07:57Speaker 04

  Oh, that could be something, let's take a look.

• 1:07:59Speaker 02

  Joltion right here.

• 1:08:00Speaker 04

  No, but that's the wrong one.

• 1:08:01Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 1:08:02Bobby Lee?

  Oh, fuck, man!

• 1:08:03Speaker 04

  You gotta get the right one. Oh, Joltion, seventy-four bucks!

• 1:08:06Bobby Lee?

  Wait, wait.

• 1:08:07Speaker 04

  Oh, this box is banging!

• 1:08:08Speaker 02

  It's banging.

• 1:08:09Bobby Lee?

  This one is, this is seventy-four bucks?

• 1:08:10Speaker 04

  Damn, yeah!

• 1:08:11Bobby Lee?

  Oh, fuck yeah! What do we do with it?

• 1:08:13Speaker 04

  We're gonna, like, actually, let's put them all here.

• 1:08:15Bobby Lee?

  Put them here, give me a here.

• 1:08:15Speaker 04

  And then let's both autograph every one of these things.

• 1:08:18Bobby Lee?

  No, don't autograph, don't ruin it!

• 1:08:19Speaker 04

  No, no, because we're gonna give them away.

• 1:08:21Bobby Lee?

  Oh, okay, okay, okay.

• 1:08:22Speaker 04

  Yeah, so we're gonna do some fun stuff. I'm a great, I'm gonna give them away.

• 1:08:25Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:08:26Speaker 04

  The Bobby Lee, Steve Aoki, Otto, people are gonna want this.

• 1:08:29Bobby Lee?

  Alright, before you go though, I wanna get into, um, because you grew up in the eighties and, wait, in the nineties in high school?

• 1:08:35Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:08:36Bobby Lee?

  So what year did you graduate?

• 1:08:37Speaker 04

  Uh, I graduated high school in-

• 1:08:41Speaker 04

  What fuck, was it ninety-five?

• 1:08:43Bobby Lee?

  Ninety-five. I grew up and I graduated in ninety.

• 1:08:45Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 1:08:46Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:08:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, so.

• 1:08:47Bobby Lee?

  So, um, and you and I experienced racism differently than these younger kids.

• 1:08:53Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:08:54Bobby Lee?

  Um, let me ask you some questions. Back in your day, could you date white women?

• 1:08:59Speaker 04

  Uh.

• 1:09:00Bobby Lee?

  In high school?

• 1:09:02Speaker 04

  I eventually did. I was like the last guy in my friend group.

• 1:09:07Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, but is your friend group mostly white?

• 1:09:09Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:09:10Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, so you were the last guy to lose your.

• 1:09:11Speaker 04

  Well, okay, so I'll just put it this way. Yeah, Newport Beach is ninety-six percent white.

• 1:09:17Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:09:17Speaker 04

  So, and it's funny because like ten minutes away is Irvine. It's like ninety percent Asian.

• 1:09:22Bobby Lee?

  Exactly.

• 1:09:22Speaker 04

  You know, so my mom moved to the wrong city.

• 1:09:25Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:09:25Speaker 04

  She didn't know where she's going. But Newport Beach is still nice. It's a nice city.

• 1:09:29Bobby Lee?

  It's a nice city, yeah.

• 1:09:30Speaker 04

  Um, but it's got a lot of covert racism. It's got a lot of like, uh, you know, I mean, this is also the eight, I was in the eighties. It's just different time period, you know, it's a lot more blatant, a lot more upfront.

• 1:09:42Bobby Lee?

  It's more, it's changed now.

• 1:09:43Speaker 04

  It's more covert now, but like it was, there's covert and blatant racism that was happening and.

• 1:09:48Bobby Lee?

  As a kid, people would come like, oh, you know, and you're like, what the, well, that's a lot, you know?

• 1:09:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's, I mean, yeah, that happened, it happened quite often.

• 1:09:55Bobby Lee?

  Can you see? I'm like, what the fuck?

• 1:09:58Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, it was like the, the two fights I got in when I was a kid were because people were like straight up saying every single racial epithet possible.

• 1:10:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:09Speaker 04

  To the point where I was like, fuck you, I'm charging at this guy who's six foot. Like, I didn't give a shit.

• 1:10:14Bobby Lee?

  Wow, yeah.

• 1:10:15Speaker 04

  You're just so like, like, how do you just get away with just saying all this shit in front of everyone else?

• 1:10:21Bobby Lee?

  They did back then.

• 1:10:22Speaker 04

  Yeah, and especially when people are laughing with that. That's what just triggered me uh, on this, during this one fight that I got, uh, that I had in high school, that it was just so, it was so like upfront and loud and no one was stopping this guy and all his friends were laughing and I'm like, dude, this is fucked. I don't care if I get killed.

• 1:10:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:44Speaker 04

  And I just charged this guy. Um, I won because. Like, he was completely, like, ambushed. Cause I was just like, I was walking away and the guy just started to say more shit and I'm small.

• 1:10:59Bobby Lee?

  No.

• 1:10:59Speaker 04

  So then he said it again, I hear the laughing, like all his eight friends laughing, I'm like, these are all like big, you know, football player kinda guys. And I said, fuck it, I just turn around, I just charged him like screaming.

• 1:11:10Bobby Lee?

  You know what they, we call that? The Pearl Harbor.

• 1:11:13Speaker 04

  Kamikaze.

• 1:11:13Bobby Lee?

  Pearl Harbor.

• 1:11:14Speaker 04

  Kamikaze.

• 1:11:14Speaker 00

  Oh, the Kamikaze.

• 1:11:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, I did a full kamikaze, I will die for this one.

• 1:11:18Bobby Lee?

  Sneak attack, yeah.

• 1:11:19Speaker 04

  I did a fucking full like, and I just charged him like a rhinoceros and I just like, and I didn't know what I was, I was just like this.

• 1:11:26Bobby Lee?

  Oh wow.

• 1:11:26Speaker 04

  I don't think I even hit the guy.

• 1:11:28Bobby Lee?

  Wait, you were like?

• 1:11:31Speaker 04

  And I somehow grabbed his shirt and I was like closing my eyes kinda, cause I'm like, I didn't know.

• 1:11:35Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:11:35Speaker 04

  And I ripped, I ripped his shirt and he was just like, holy shit, this little kid's got some scraps, you know?

• 1:11:39Bobby Lee?

  Oh wow.

• 1:11:40Speaker 04

  And then all his friends like backed away and then I got pulled off, but like there was no like punching really, it was more like kind of scramble, scrambling around.

• 1:11:49Bobby Lee?

  Probably wouldn't fuck with you after that now, huh?

• 1:11:50Speaker 04

  Uh, well then, no, here's like, here's like where it got funny, I guess not funny, but like, at the end, I, I had confidence now. Cause this, I was like, dude, I scared this big guy.

• 1:11:59Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:12:00Speaker 04

  Like, I'm proud of myself, you know? And then, um, we were both sitting in the bleachers after this game. By the way, the, the coaches and stuff, they didn't even give him like a, they didn't have, give him a talk or anything about what he's, what he said or what he did. It just was completely okay.

• 1:12:14Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:14Speaker 04

  And at the end of the, the game, I was a Batman player at the time and.

• 1:12:18Bobby Lee?

  Wait, wait, what?

• 1:12:19Speaker 04

  I, I used to play Batman, which is a very Asian thing to do.

• 1:12:23Speaker 00

  Ping pong.

• 1:12:24Speaker 04

  Um, and, uh, we, we, I followed him to the parking lot.

• 1:12:29Bobby Lee?

  With your Batman racket?

• 1:12:31Speaker 00

  Hey buddy. The lightest racket.

• 1:12:34Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:12:34Speaker 00

  Smallest racket.

• 1:12:35Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:36Speaker 04

  I followed him to the parking lot and I just had this, this like confidence, like I'm gonna beat this guy, he's big and I'm small.

• 1:12:45Bobby Lee?

  You're still doing it. You're still in the ring.

• 1:12:47Speaker 04

  I was just so angry, you know?

• 1:12:48Bobby Lee?

  Right, right, right.

• 1:12:49Speaker 04

  And then I just like, I like got walked up to him like, hey man, you're dick or whatever, I said something. And then he was like, I'm like, you need to like get punched or something. I forgot what I said, something like this, and then he turned around, he's like, alright, let's go. I'm like, oh, I'm fucked now.

• 1:13:03Bobby Lee?

  Why did you do that?

• 1:13:05Speaker 04

  I know.

• 1:13:05Bobby Lee?

  You won already?

• 1:13:07Speaker 04

  I know.

• 1:13:07Bobby Lee?

  So you got beat up after that?

• 1:13:09Speaker 04

  Yes, yes.

• 1:13:10Bobby Lee?

  Oh my god, you doubled down, dude.

• 1:13:12Speaker 04

  I know, it was a stupid.

• 1:13:13Bobby Lee?

  Oh my god.

• 1:13:14Speaker 04

  I just thought, I had this like, you know, this confidence, because this guy was like, stop saying shit, and he was scared of me.

• 1:13:18Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:19Speaker 04

  And he's like, this little ninja is gonna fuck me up, kinda thing.

• 1:13:21Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:13:22Speaker 04

  And then like, when it came down to the real scrap, I was like, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing, and he just, he just like, beat me down, and that was it, and I was like.

• 1:13:29Bobby Lee?

  Did you cry?

• 1:13:31Speaker 04

  No, I cried inside, but, yeah.

• 1:13:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:13:33Speaker 04

  But he walked away, he didn't like, completely demolish me, but he just knocked me down to the point where I was on the ground, and then, and then he, he just bounced, but, um. Yeah, I mean, that, you know, like, you know, racism, it's just.

• 1:13:46Bobby Lee?

  It's changed now, though.

• 1:13:46Speaker 04

  It's definitely changed.

• 1:13:47Bobby Lee?

  It's so much better.

• 1:13:48Speaker 04

  It's definitely, it's a lot, obviously.

• 1:13:50Bobby Lee?

  That's a thousand times better.

• 1:13:51Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:13:52Bobby Lee?

  I haven't had anyone say anything in many, many years.

• 1:13:54Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:13:55Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Do you cry often?

• 1:13:58Speaker 04

  Sometimes, yeah.

• 1:13:59Bobby Lee?

  What do you cry over?

• 1:14:01Speaker 04

  Um, just like, you know, the last one was, I was with my wife, and we're, you know, just talking about my mom, and she's eighty-one, and.

• 1:14:11Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that's hard, yeah.

• 1:14:12Speaker 04

  Yeah, or, like, when we got married, uh, we got married in Montenegro, I mean, I cried like, thirty times, thirty different times.

• 1:14:19Bobby Lee?

  When you were getting married?

• 1:14:20Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, because like, everyone's making speeches about our families, like, her family, and like, it's so like.

• 1:14:27Bobby Lee?

  Sure.

• 1:14:27Speaker 04

  Just, it's just a beautiful moment of vulnerability and, and sharing, and it was like, I, I, I, I mean, I just couldn't stop crying.

• 1:14:35Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 1:14:36Speaker 04

  I know, it's just like, great when you could cry and like, be okay with it.

• 1:14:39Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:14:39Speaker 04

  In front of people.

• 1:14:40Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:14:41Speaker 04

  You know?

• 1:14:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:14:43Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:14:43Bobby Lee?

  I don't, I haven't cried in years.

• 1:14:46Speaker 04

  I feel like you're gonna cry right now.

• 1:14:48Bobby Lee?

  No, I couldn't, no, I cry when I see something on, when I'm scrolling, you know what I mean? Like one of those babies, you know, that, you know, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? No, I don't. Yeah, my algorithm's weird, you know what I mean? Yeah, but I'll have babies in pain like, you know what I mean, whatever, they have a genetic, I had something going on. But my point is, or some random thing like that, or like, you know what I cried over, the Korean crash? The JUAA airlines, that devastated me.

• 1:15:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:15:16Bobby Lee?

  But then my therapist said, you know, she thinks I do it obsessively. And it ruins my day, weeks. Because that's also what I think about, and I just doom scroll.

• 1:15:27Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:15:27Bobby Lee?

  You know what I mean? And it's unhealthy.

• 1:15:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:15:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. Anyway, would you like to?

• 1:15:30Speaker 04

  I think it happens to a lot of people.

• 1:15:31Bobby Lee?

  Did you have fun here?

• 1:15:33Speaker 04

  Yeah, I did.

• 1:15:34Bobby Lee?

  No, how much fun, because we-

• 1:15:35Speaker 04

  I really did.

• 1:15:36Bobby Lee?

  How much fun did we have? This is crazy.

• 1:15:38Speaker 04

  That was cool.

• 1:15:38Bobby Lee?

  That was a great, we, I met Kyle. You know what I mean? What a good guy, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? I met your wife, beautiful. You know what I mean? You gave me gifts, and I gave you $300.

• 1:15:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, man.

• 1:15:50Bobby Lee?

  Put that in your pocket, please?

• 1:15:51Speaker 04

  You know, I'm grading these.

• 1:15:52Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, grade them.

• 1:15:53Speaker 04

  I grade everything, I even like grade myself if I could.

• 1:15:55Bobby Lee?

  Do you want to promote anything, Steve, before we go?

• 1:15:58Speaker 04

  Um, I mean, we talked about HeroQuest, we talked about audio media grading, my company, uh, Nero Mints.

• 1:16:05Bobby Lee?

  Is that you?

• 1:16:06Speaker 04

  Well, I'm a investor.

• 1:16:08Bobby Lee?

  I love that stuff.

• 1:16:08Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm an investor, so I've been, I've been, but I've also like friends with the company for eight years.

• 1:16:13Bobby Lee?

  Oh, wow.

• 1:16:14Speaker 04

  From like when they were giving me like a plastic bag of the first samples, I've been like, I, I just use it a lot, so, when I'm on the road.

• 1:16:21Bobby Lee?

  Shout out to Kent.

• 1:16:22Speaker 04

  Yeah, Kent and Ryan, they're good friends of mine, you know?

• 1:16:24Bobby Lee?

  Also, if, if I moved to Vegas, I was thinking, me and Andrew were thinking, talking about moving to Vegas.

• 1:16:30Speaker 04

  It's the best move you could possibly do.

• 1:16:32Bobby Lee?

  But would we-

• 1:16:33Speaker 04

  Because I'm from LA.

• 1:16:34Bobby Lee?

  Would we see you?

• 1:16:35Speaker 04

  Dude, I want to build the community of friends, like it's, it's a big part of, you know?

• 1:16:40Bobby Lee?

  We've been talking about it, and we want to go somewhere else.

• 1:16:42Speaker 04

  Please move to Vegas.

• 1:16:43Bobby Lee?

  That'd be fun, huh?

• 1:16:44Speaker 04

  Yeah, I, like, we could do cold plunges and-

• 1:16:46Bobby Lee?

  I could plunge with you.

• 1:16:48Speaker 04

  I got five of them in my house, so I'm, I'm ready for you, I'm ready for you and your whole team.

• 1:16:52Bobby Lee?

  I'd love to cold plunge with you, baby.

• 1:16:53Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, do cold plunge, sauna, the whole nine yards, I have it all in my house.

• 1:16:56Bobby Lee?

  Um, Steve, I have to say, um-

• 1:16:59Speaker 06

  Wait, I have one more question.

• 1:17:01Bobby Lee?

  Go ahead.

• 1:17:01Speaker 06

  Is your favorite anime One Piece?

• 1:17:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm wearing the One Piece hat. I got the One Piece jacket. So this is all Dimmox, my brand. So we collabed with One Piece. I remixed the One Piece theme song, uh, We Are. I'm really tight with the Toei Animation team, so...

• 1:17:16Bobby Lee?

  Let's talk about One Piece, okay?

• 1:17:18Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:17:19Bobby Lee?

  Because I'm, I'm watching anime now, again.

• 1:17:21Speaker 06

  You have to watch it.

• 1:17:22Bobby Lee?

  Okay, so I've been watching Solo Leveling.

• 1:17:24Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah?

• 1:17:25Bobby Lee?

  You don't like it?

• 1:17:26Speaker 04

  No, it's awesome!

• 1:17:27Bobby Lee?

  She won't watch it. Um, I, um... There's a new one on Netflix I like, Sokomoku, that, that...

• 1:17:33Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw that. I wanna, I wanna watch that.

• 1:17:35Bobby Lee?

  But I'm, like, One Piece always comes up. Where do I start? Just episode one?

• 1:17:40Speaker 04

  Um, well, it's 1,200 episodes.

• 1:17:42Bobby Lee?

  I know, that's what I'm saying! It's just so much, it might, that's why I won't start, because I feel like I'm buried and I'm so behind.

• 1:17:47Speaker 04

  Yeah, you, you watch it in, in double speed.

• 1:17:50Bobby Lee?

  But is there a storyline? Like, it's a whole...

• 1:17:53Speaker 04

  It's an incredible storyline, but just a lot.

• 1:17:55Bobby Lee?

  And isn't there a, a live action too?

• 1:17:58Speaker 04

  OnePace.net.

• 1:18:00Bobby Lee?

  OnePiece.net?

• 1:18:00Speaker 04

  OnePace.

• 1:18:01Bobby Lee?

  OnePace.net?

• 1:18:02Speaker 06

  But I feel like you have to just watch it without the pace, because I did it for two months and I finished it.

• 1:18:08Bobby Lee?

  Oh my god.

• 1:18:09Speaker 04

  I mean, that's dedication, though. If you don't have that much time.

• 1:18:12Bobby Lee?

  But i- i- it captures your attention the whole time?

• 1:18:16Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:18:17Speaker 04

  I'm, I'm, I'm just a fan of Toei Animation. They, they, that's the company that does Dragon Ball.

• 1:18:24Bobby Lee?

  Oh, alright.

• 1:18:25Speaker 04

  They do One Piece.

• 1:18:26Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, what else do they do?

• 1:18:27Speaker 04

  Sailor Moon.

• 1:18:28Bobby Lee?

  Uh huh.

• 1:18:28Speaker 04

  The classics.

• 1:18:29Bobby Lee?

  Those are the classics.

• 1:18:30Speaker 04

  Yeah, and, uh, I like, work with them, with like...

• 1:18:33Bobby Lee?

  Attack on Titan, do you like that?

• 1:18:34Speaker 04

  Oh, I love Attack on Titan.

• 1:18:36Bobby Lee?

  Why don't they do a TV show on that? I did, they did a movie. It's not that good, I saw it.

• 1:18:39Speaker 04

  Well, just the anime.

• 1:18:41Bobby Lee?

  The anime, of course.

• 1:18:41Speaker 04

  Oh, you're talking about live action?

• 1:18:42Bobby Lee?

  A li- dude, a, a Netflix Attack on Titan TV show would kill it.

• 1:18:50Speaker 04

  With the big, big giants with all the...

• 1:18:51Bobby Lee?

  Oh, it'd be amazing!

• 1:18:52Speaker 04

  Yeah. I think they did something.

• 1:18:54Bobby Lee?

  They did a movie, Japan did, but it's not good, I saw it. Anyway, give Steve Aoki a round of applause, everybody!