on the next stop of our food tour around
L.A we've arranged to meet up with woosa
AKA salmon the legendary lead singer of
The Rose he's a beautiful man
so I for one am excited not because he's
beautiful I don't know that came out
weird I think we're going somewhere
fancy as well I don't have a shirt but I
do have a British accent and that goes a
long way good day to you sir What a fine
gentleman you are
oh my God
this is called inner crew there's like a
Lounge Bar restaurant place that I come
to we got a nice room for us today we've
been filming with YouTubers this whole
time we've gone and we've gone upper
class
the boardroom the VIP treatment the VIP
treatment yes I am ready to make some
corporate decisions oh yes
we've come a long way since Taco Bell
Ollie
have some stuff oh yeah to get a place
like this big and like kind of luxurious
looking in K-Town it was it's hard to
find yeah yeah you have to basically be
a serious Rising Star no no
let's go your ultimate recommendations
so for starters we'll do the broadcast
we'll also do the Caesar salad for the
main we'll do the wagy Bolognese we'll
do how much can I also do the muscles
and the for the bread we have to do the
Fried Chicken we'll do the Japanese
Wagyu sampler we'll do every single one
of the cocktails it's all right wanna
meet one of these guys not messing
around I already have a favorite drink
okay but when it comes out yeah yeah now
we'll find out I don't think I've ever
seen Josh more happy and I was there on
his wedding day you are speaking my
language this is I love that straight to
my heart oh my gosh wow amazing
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it's a great starter it's like it's
tweak
you've never had a lead before have you
I don't know what it is okay oh okay
it's Auntie
is hungry
so it looks like this that's a sea
urchin yeah it's a sea urchin I hate
those guys yeah I stepped on one oh in
common ones they are tasty one of my
favorites I'm gonna enjoy my sweet
revenge on this
that is Rich full of flavor I really
like the taste of uni oh wow yeah nice
good yeah that is really good I'm glad
how can they be that evil in life and
that's tasty is dead it's a giveaway
does that mean you've been a singer for
a while now for a while yeah yeah the
season of KPop star yes that is where I
started
yeah honestly for me music wasn't my
main thing that I was pursuing in high
school I actually wanted to be a
psychologist and that's what I was
hoping that my major would be in college
and then my mom took me to this Korean
church and I got to meet friends that
were my age yeah yeah and they're like
yo Sammy you know K-pop there's this
group called 21 2 p.m big bang and I got
into that and then they were like hey
there's this audition you know we know
how to all play the guitar and sing we
should all go audition it's gonna be
awesome we're gonna meet more friends I
was actually more of a dancer than a
singer you must be so talented if you're
singing is your third
talented this guy I was not that good at
singing though we honestly didn't think
we're gonna make it it was not you know
very serious I just practiced one song
I'm
that's how it all started I passed they
came to my house they shot the whole
thing with my family
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as I got to do the show I built this
relationship with music where I wanted
to actually take it seriously so that
was almost your musical self-discovery
yeah through doing a freaking reality TV
show about making it in music I mean
it's so crazy I mean 18 19 that you're
young at this point gone over to Korea
as a trainee not gonna lie it was a it
was the hardest time for sure in my life
it was very tough going into it head-on
like graduating and going right to Korea
being in this storm you know I didn't
have free time the whole building was
like my jail almost so I I was on the
sixth floor the fifth floor was a
practicing room and then the fourth
floor was where the cafeteria was the
only time I could leave is when I go to
the gym
wow so it became a thing where I started
to kind of lose my purpose and what I
was here for you know I didn't even know
if I was doing music anymore and after
like a year I started becoming really
really depressed
um yeah and I kind of lost who I was
there after that I came out of the
company I was like you know I can't stay
here longer three years I went into
teaching English here and there I wanted
to stay in Korea because I couldn't go
back I felt like I was like a failure in
a way oh my gosh the good thing though
after all these years when I think back
at it is like once I lost myself I truly
got to see who I could be you know I
think you would have been a good
psychiatrist thank you listening to the
way you're talking genuine yeah I didn't
know whether I self-examined my own
thoughts in my entire life as much as
you have in the last five minutes and I
don't want to let's not go though yeah
so much of the Truffle is that smell
there you go I love that smell oh what's
this I didn't even know we ordered this
jumbo shrimp look at the size of that
too that is incredible oh it looks like
the Emoji you're right it does look like
a shrimpy it does was there ever what
you were like you know what this is not
worth it I don't I don't really want to
be a singer actually when I was uh there
to teaching English for a little bit for
six months I wasn't listening to music
at all uh music related things I was not
looking at hearing nothing because I was
so sick of it right I was like listening
to music honestly it hurt me not being
able to make that happen for myself was
really uh it hurt me a lot at that age
and then six month markets and I get an
offer from the from the haguan they're
like hey
uh I think you were you're doing a good
job we're going to give you a raise and
I was like I was conflicted at this
point because then I feel like I felt
like if I took that job that's that's
the end like that's gonna be my you know
it's like a fork in the road yeah that
was gonna be like okay I'm invested
because once I take that job and take
that responsibility there's no going
back yeah there's no way you can be a
psychiatrist yeah after that oh no here
nothing like that nothing like that that
that's the moment that really got me
back to thinking about music I started
listening to music again I bought a
whole new mic a guitar amp yeah
everything so I could record music now I
could make music and I fell in love all
over again wow man this is an incredible
story this is this yeah sorry guys this
is too serious now it's amazing
a little bit of salt guys and a little
bit of Wasabi I think I believe that is
when you started writing music what was
the first song you wrote actually it's
funny yeah I have a video out on YouTube
it's called beautiful girl I wrote it
when I was 20. fast forward and show my
company this song they're like oh you
already have a video Let's Make a video
just like that but now so we put out the
song actually I I was so against putting
out the song because it was like yo I
wrote this like such a long time ago
it's embarrassing it's a beautiful girl
that was my first song that I ever
finished so this is where the rose comes
into the story right yeah this is the
Rose era how did you guys meet
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they were trainees in all different
companies oh they were all trainees in
different companies so you had like this
she had trauma yeah like I mean like
different dramas but maybe yeah yeah
there was something that we could you
know kind of come to made us come
together yeah sojuni and tell me meet
started busking they were like looking
for a singer so then one day we all meet
because we're all drinking together gets
to see my K-pop Star days he hits me up
he's like hey uh
you could sing yeah you could sing you
could play the electric guitar we need
that and they started pitching their
band to me yeah and I heard it I was
like there's no way I was like no
I'm not gonna do it okay I was like
definitely don't want to go back into
doing group things when I finally got to
do some solo things I'm not ready and
then tujini you know being kojini uh he
was like
okay well um then can you help us with
one show one show just we we just need
to do the show at home the classic
rolling house
just one drink yeah just one thing
well you know it's like six a.m there's
one cocktail you're on like freaking big
cha yeah okay yeah one drink guys I go
into practice with them and they're like
okay just play like f like g whatever
blah blah blah and they started it's
like right now F and I and I run that F
I played it
and as I play the F and when all the
sounds came together to my ears it made
sense I was like okay this is what I'm
gonna do I told him right there I was
like let's do it then I did the show
quit my job talked to people that there
were companies I was talking to at that
point and you know we were talking about
solo deals and I was like actually um
I'm only willing to sign if we sign with
the rose wow amazing and then this is an
amazing story yeah I thought we were
just gonna come back and we wouldn't
even call The Rose you know we wouldn't
even call it the rose we're called
wimple we wanted windfall this is a
four-man band it's gonna be like this we
want beatles Coldplay everything this is
gonna be that everybody we met in the
industry like before we debuted
everybody was like hey this is not gonna
work out like you guys have to dance I
was like right right right wow with the
guitar
and we we had to fight our way uh to to
make it Our Song with our debut uh first
debut song we wrote it was called sorry
that song actually uh you know our
drummer hajin we're in the practice room
and he was just playing on the piano
he's like hey I kind of came up with
this melody I was like this is it wow I
was like this we finally have it and
then I wrote the lyrics there 20 minutes
I was like okay it's gonna be called
sorry it's gonna be we shared it we
finished up the song and we knew then
we're like this is it we did it it's
gonna be huge it's gonna be huge and we
we let everybody hear it like it's so
slow we don't care we already had our
mindset I love this it's like a true
creative yeah yeah and it worked right
you know what we got offer our first
tour with having one song out and that
song was sorry you got an offered at all
yeah we're like What do you guys expect
us to do how do we make like one song
cover songs wow but the thing is we we
did write a lot of songs prior to that
we just haven't released them if you're
listening at home just know that that is
the power of a good apology right they
they said sorry to the world we do
yeah exactly 2019 you're back on another
singing competition show yes yeah you
know you're a sucker for punishment man
you know what though I I only did that
because we could go out as a band do you
think there was a part of you that was
like you know what I'm gonna go back
with my band that I'm like confident
with I know who I am yeah on my terms
right yes and you know I was so
confident because we've been touring for
a lot we have already toward like 50
cities with but I didn't know I was
nervous until I went up I started
singing and right when I started singing
I got so nervous I think the trauma came
back of being like an audition and it
was a big pressure that I didn't feel up
until that stage wow I know exactly how
you feel because I've done Naughty by oh
yeah okay full confidence it's all
confidence until you're holding that
microphone yes yes and you've got an
album coming out right moth is an EP for
songs
one of my least favorite insects okay
that's why I called it Ma can I explain
this because I feel really strongly
about me when you kill them they're just
dust like oh my God how does it how okay
how does it fly How does dust fly
the main message is that butterflies and
moths they're the same insects same same
category basically are correct right if
you really look at them very similar
creatures yeah insects uh so my point is
that butterflies fly in the daytime
they're they're they're perceived as
touchable beautiful but as far as moths
they're always flying in the night
everybody's like oh that's gross they're
dirty they try to kill it they try to
crush them and all this when in fact
with the light shining on their print if
they land on a light their prints are
actually as beautiful as butterflies
and and and you know sometimes we don't
notice the true beauty because we're so
covered by all these images and all
these like things in life that clouds
our judgment and I really wanted to dive
into that perspective of you know
anything could be beautiful and anything
has a right to be beautiful wow I I
really look bad for pooping all over the
moths Sammy thank you this has been
amazing was this like the best food
we've had since going to La yeah this is
generally one of the most fascinating
conversations we've had ever on the
channel so seriously thank you for
having me thank you guys yeah I'm glad
you guys enjoyed the food
all right guys
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