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- 0:00SPEAKER_07: Some useful advice for all my Asian American brothers and sisters.
- 0:06SPEAKER_07: Never go paintballing with a Vietnam veteran.
- 0:14SPEAKER_07: I think my husband and I have a huge unspoken understanding between each other because he's half Filipino and half Japanese, and I'm half Chinese and half Vietnamese.
- 0:25SPEAKER_07: So we're both half fancy Asian.
- 0:34SPEAKER_07: And half jungle Asian.
- 0:38SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
- 0:39SPEAKER_07: You guys know the difference.
- 0:41SPEAKER_07: The fancy Asians are the Chinese, the Japanese.
- 0:44SPEAKER_07: They get to do fancy things like host Olympics.
- 0:47SPEAKER_07: Jungle Asians host diseases.
- 0:50SPEAKER_07: It's different.
- 0:53SPEAKER_07: But he grew up on the East Coast, going to private school, playing lacrosse, you know, learning Latin and playing chess and rugby.
- 1:03SPEAKER_07: He grew up like Filipino Carlton, okay?
- 1:06SPEAKER_07: So he didn't know anything about Vietnamese people until he met me.
- 1:12SPEAKER_07: And on one of our first dates, he took me to this restaurant on the west side of Los Angeles called Faux Show.
- 1:27SPEAKER_07: He was like, it's authentic Vietnamese.
- 1:29SPEAKER_07: I read about it on Yelp.
- 1:31SPEAKER_07: I was like, it's not authentic.
- 1:33SPEAKER_07: Okay?
- 1:33SPEAKER_07: You can tell first and foremost by the name, because it don't got a number in it.
- 1:43SPEAKER_07: Second of all, you could tell by the bathroom.
- 1:45SPEAKER_07: If it was legit, the bathroom would double as a supply closet.
- 1:51SPEAKER_07: When I pee, I need to see 10 gallons of bleach, an ATM machine, and a grandma with glaucoma napping in the corner.
- 2:02SPEAKER_07: And the wait step here is too nice.
- 2:04SPEAKER_07: We need to leave this restaurant deaf and emotionally abused.
- 2:25SPEAKER_09: What's wrong with my face?
- 2:26SPEAKER_09: It's like that.
- 2:28SPEAKER_09: What happened to your neck?
- 2:30SPEAKER_09: This is a flashlight.
- 2:33SPEAKER_09: What happened to my neck?
- 2:34SPEAKER_09: What's wrong with my neck?
- 2:34SPEAKER_09: It's like that.
- 2:38SPEAKER_09: This is my girlfriend.
- 2:39SPEAKER_09: Oh, that's your girlfriend?
- 2:40SPEAKER_09: Wow.
- 2:48SPEAKER_09: What happened to the skinny one?
- 2:53SPEAKER_09: I said, that's you're mean, Auntie.
- 2:54SPEAKER_09: I'm not mean.
- 2:56SPEAKER_09: I'm a catolin.
- 2:59SPEAKER_09: She's religious.
- 3:00SPEAKER_09: That's when she gambles, too.
- 3:02SPEAKER_09: She is here.
- 3:03SPEAKER_09: She's at the slot machines in Vegas.
- 3:05SPEAKER_09: She got a long rosary.
- 3:06SPEAKER_09: She just puts it around there.
- 3:07SPEAKER_09: Oh God, please.
- 3:09SPEAKER_09: Oh God, please.
- 3:11SPEAKER_09: Please, God.
- 3:13SPEAKER_09: Better make me win, God.
- 3:15SPEAKER_09: Then she pulls it.
- 3:18SPEAKER_09: Shit.
- 3:20SPEAKER_09: What happened to you?
- 3:23SPEAKER_09: You don't love me.
- 3:26SPEAKER_10: Oh, by the way, you know what my favorite festivity is?
- 3:28SPEAKER_10: I love Chinese New Year.
- 3:29SPEAKER_10: I love Chinese New Year.
- 3:30SPEAKER_10: Love it.
- 3:31SPEAKER_10: Seriously.
- 3:32SPEAKER_10: Firecrackers.
- 3:33SPEAKER_10: Oh, I love it.
- 3:43SPEAKER_10: Then you look at your watch.
- 3:44SPEAKER_10: Wow, 3 30 in the morning.
- 3:49SPEAKER_10: You've been in bed, right?
- 3:50SPEAKER_10: 3 30.
- 3:51SPEAKER_10: Your neighbor is a pr pa.
- 3:53SPEAKER_10: But it's okay as Malaysians, we're like, no, we accept it.
- 3:56SPEAKER_10: We embrace the tradition because we know the firecrackers will end.
- 4:00SPEAKER_10: They will end.
- 4:01SPEAKER_10: You just have to wait for the so you just lie in bed waiting.
- 4:23SPEAKER_08: Why do first generation immigrants come here?
- 4:26SPEAKER_08: Because this is the best, right?
- 4:28SPEAKER_08: This is the best.
- 4:30SPEAKER_08: This is the MBA.
- 4:32SPEAKER_08: America is the MBA.
- 4:34SPEAKER_08: You guys know that?
- 4:35SPEAKER_08: You guys live in the MBA.
- 4:37SPEAKER_08: In Asia, we think of America as the MBA.
- 4:40SPEAKER_08: It's where you go to be the best at whatever you're doing.
- 4:44SPEAKER_08: You come here to do it with other people for the best at what they're doing.
- 4:47SPEAKER_08: Like the Chinese name for America is Mekwa.
- 4:52SPEAKER_08: That directly translates into English as beautiful country.
- 4:56SPEAKER_08: That's the Chinese name for America, beautiful country.
- 4:59SPEAKER_08: That's what we say when you say America in sentences.
- 5:02SPEAKER_08: We say beautiful country.
- 5:03SPEAKER_08: Have you been to a beautiful country?
- 5:05SPEAKER_08: They have unlimited napkins in a beautiful country.
- 5:09SPEAKER_08: They don't give a fuck.
- 5:11SPEAKER_08: They don't even use it.
- 5:12SPEAKER_08: They just take it and then just throw it away.
- 5:15SPEAKER_08: It's a beautiful country.
- 5:17SPEAKER_08: China in Chinese is Tsongguo.
- 5:19SPEAKER_08: That means middle country.
- 5:20SPEAKER_08: It means nothing.
- 5:23SPEAKER_08: We name this place better than we named our own shit.
- 5:27SPEAKER_08: It's a beautiful country.
- 5:29SPEAKER_08: Let's go to a beautiful country.
- 5:32SPEAKER_08: Let's leave the middle country.
- 5:34SPEAKER_08: Let's go to the beautiful country.
- 5:35SPEAKER_08: Risk it all to start from scratch in the beautiful country.
- 5:40SPEAKER_08: And then you finally come here, and everybody hates everything.
- 5:48SPEAKER_08: Verizon sucks.
- 5:52SPEAKER_08: ATT sucks.
- 5:56SPEAKER_08: The TSA sucks.
- 5:59SPEAKER_08: Fuck the TSA, try to keep everyone alive.
- 6:02SPEAKER_08: Fuck that.
- 6:06SPEAKER_08: The New York subway sucks.
- 6:08SPEAKER_08: Los Angeles traffic sucks.
- 6:12SPEAKER_08: Statues suck.
- 6:14SPEAKER_08: Standing sucks.
- 6:16SPEAKER_08: Kneeling sucks.
- 6:19SPEAKER_08: Congress sucks.
- 6:21SPEAKER_08: Republicans suck.
- 6:23SPEAKER_08: Democrats suck.
- 6:25SPEAKER_08: Independents suck.
- 6:27SPEAKER_08: Elon Musk sucks.
- 6:29SPEAKER_08: Netflix.
- 6:36SPEAKER_07: Despite having more money, I keep it real.
- 6:40SPEAKER_07: Okay.
- 6:41SPEAKER_07: I am still a Chinese-Vietnamese person, okay?
- 6:45unknown: Yeah.
- 6:46SPEAKER_07: I literally watched my Netflix special on my sister-in-law's login.
- 6:58SPEAKER_07: To this day, I do not have my own account.
- 7:03SPEAKER_07: After I filmed Baby Cobra, Netflix sent me a Netflix baby onesie and a basket.
- 7:10SPEAKER_07: You know those baskets that white people like to give with the biscotti and the cheese and the caramel popcorn and all the other shit that Asian people have no interest in whatsoever.
- 7:23SPEAKER_06: I was like, give me an account! I don't need this shit that I'm allergic to.
- 7:29SPEAKER_06: Give me an account!
- 7:32SPEAKER_00: I have a nephew, he's five years old.
- 7:34SPEAKER_00: And the other day we were hanging outside Hamley's.
- 7:37SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 7:38SPEAKER_00: We were walking past Hamley's, and I sort of got super excited.
- 7:41SPEAKER_00: I said, Hey Kabir, do you want to go get some?
- 7:44SPEAKER_00: And before I could say anything, my sister jumps in.
- 7:47SPEAKER_00: Do not say T-O-Y-S in front of him.
- 7:51SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh, this is why all the Indian kids are winning all the spelling bees.
- 7:58SPEAKER_02: Because it's survival for them.
- 8:00SPEAKER_02: There's a real show in NBC.
- 8:02SPEAKER_02: There's a real show in NBC about a white kid that gets slapped at a birthday party.
- 8:07SPEAKER_02: Are you fucking kidding me?
- 8:09SPEAKER_02: 13 episodes for this kid?
- 8:11SPEAKER_02: Are you kidding me?
- 8:13SPEAKER_02: Do you know when brown kids get slapped at birthday parties?
- 8:16SPEAKER_02: Every brown birthday party.
- 8:18SPEAKER_02: And usually it's the kid whose birthday it is.
- 8:21SPEAKER_02: And we stand there and we point at him, we laugh, we go, ah, Bijou got slapped on his birthday.
- 8:27SPEAKER_02: And that's what makes us tough and resilient.
- 8:30SPEAKER_02: And it's why we become cardiologists and win spelling bees, right?
- 8:34SPEAKER_02: Slapping is important, it elevates your game.
- 8:38SPEAKER_02: Have you ever seen any kid win the spelling bee?
- 8:41SPEAKER_02: Incredible.
- 8:43SPEAKER_02: Ice water in the veins, Kobe.
- 8:47SPEAKER_02: That kid's not gonna choke on camera.
- 8:49SPEAKER_02: He's been slapped on camera.
- 8:51SPEAKER_02: Of course he can spell canadal.
- 8:53SPEAKER_02: Canado.
- 8:54SPEAKER_02: Look at that face.
- 8:55SPEAKER_02: Nothing.
- 8:56SPEAKER_02: Nothing.
- 8:58SPEAKER_02: He's 12 years old.
- 9:00SPEAKER_02: Nothing.
- 9:01SPEAKER_02: This kid just won$30,000 cash.
- 9:04SPEAKER_02: Nothing.
- 9:07SPEAKER_02: Oh, where does that come from?
- 9:09SPEAKER_02: Look at his parents.
- 9:09SPEAKER_02: Look at this kid's parents.
- 9:12SPEAKER_02: This one that's national spelling.
- 9:16SPEAKER_02: Look at his brother.
- 9:17SPEAKER_02: Look at his brother.
- 9:18SPEAKER_02: His brother's like, the bar is way too high.
- 9:21SPEAKER_02: I should kill myself.
- 9:22SPEAKER_02: I should kill myself.
- 9:23SPEAKER_02: People are like, hey, where does Bobby Jindle come from?
- 9:25SPEAKER_02: That's where Bobby Jingle comes from.
- 9:26SPEAKER_02: That is an Indian sociopath.
- 9:29SPEAKER_02: You know nothing about our parents, and our parents know nothing about us.
- 9:32SPEAKER_02: Like you'd be like, Dad, what's your favorite color?
- 9:34SPEAKER_02: Stanford.
- 9:35SPEAKER_02: You're like, what?
- 9:36SPEAKER_02: No.
- 9:39SPEAKER_02: I want to know more about you.
- 9:40SPEAKER_02: Why do you want to know about me?
- 9:41SPEAKER_02: Get into Stanford.
- 9:42SPEAKER_02: You're like, ah.
- 9:43SPEAKER_02: And I think, I think it's just that like immigrants love secrets.
- 9:48SPEAKER_02: Right?
- 9:49SPEAKER_02: Like they love them.
- 9:50SPEAKER_02: They love bottling them up deep down inside of themselves and then just unleashing them on you 30 years later when it's no longer relevant.
- 9:56SPEAKER_02: So you'll be sitting there like, what?
- 9:57SPEAKER_02: Mom's a ninja, dad's a communist?
- 9:58SPEAKER_02: Why are you telling me this right now?
- 10:00SPEAKER_02: I feel like every conversation with my dad is like an M-night shyan movie.
- 10:05SPEAKER_02: Where it's just 90 minutes of buildup to no payoff.
- 10:08SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, I say any?
- 10:11SPEAKER_05: I never really understood.
- 10:12SPEAKER_05: You asked my dad what he did.
- 10:13SPEAKER_05: What do you do?
- 10:14SPEAKER_05: I look.
- 10:16SPEAKER_05: Where?
- 10:17SPEAKER_05: At my job.
- 10:21SPEAKER_05: What do you do?
- 10:22SPEAKER_05: Job-related work.
- 10:26SPEAKER_05: I never really understood what my dad did though.
- 10:28SPEAKER_05: I remember I was five years old, my dad was going to work, and I stopped him.
- 10:31SPEAKER_05: I go, Dad, Dad, where are you going?
- 10:33SPEAKER_05: He goes, Look.
- 10:34SPEAKER_05: I go, what do you do?
- 10:35SPEAKER_05: I work at a chicken plant.
- 10:38SPEAKER_05: And then he left.
- 10:40SPEAKER_05: You can't just tell a five-year-old that you work at a chicken plant and then walk out of the house.
- 10:46SPEAKER_05: I'm five years old.
- 10:47SPEAKER_05: I can't comprehend what a chicken plant is.
- 10:50SPEAKER_05: I know what a chicken is, and I know what a plant is.
- 10:54SPEAKER_05: For the next seven years, I told people that my dad planted chickens.
- 10:58SPEAKER_05: Look, I get it.
- 10:59SPEAKER_11: I need a therapist.
- 11:00SPEAKER_11: I get it.
- 11:02SPEAKER_11: 100%.
- 11:03SPEAKER_11: 100% need one.
- 11:05SPEAKER_11: But I'm Middle Eastern.
- 11:07SPEAKER_11: I don't think you were allowed to like you know what I mean?
- 11:10SPEAKER_11: Middle Eastern, you can't, you can't tell your dad.
- 11:14SPEAKER_11: Like, you know what I'm saying?
- 11:15SPEAKER_11: Like, you can't have feelings.
- 11:16SPEAKER_11: Your dad would be like, what?
- 11:17SPEAKER_11: You know what I mean?
- 11:18SPEAKER_11: And he let my dad Lebanese would be like, what?
- 11:20SPEAKER_11: Your feelings?
- 11:21SPEAKER_11: Like that kind of.
- 11:22SPEAKER_11: Because he doesn't he doesn't feel, you know what I mean?
- 11:25SPEAKER_11: Like he doesn't know.
- 11:26SPEAKER_11: He just looks at me like what?
- 11:27SPEAKER_11: Like, you know?
- 11:28SPEAKER_11: He was born in his.
- 11:29SPEAKER_11: Like he always had weird stories, you know, that would tell you that you didn't ask for these stories that were crazy he would share with you.
- 11:37SPEAKER_11: Not not you weren't asking at any point.
- 11:39SPEAKER_11: He just at any point.
- 11:41SPEAKER_11: One time he goes, Dave, you know, in Lebanon, when I lived there, I was walking down the street.
- 11:46SPEAKER_11: You know how I walk, right?
- 11:47SPEAKER_11: They always gotta explain normal shit to you that you know how to do.
- 11:51SPEAKER_11: You know how I walk, straight line.
- 11:53SPEAKER_11: You know, I walk.
- 11:54SPEAKER_11: So I keep walking.
- 11:55SPEAKER_11: Car pull up four guys, four guns.
- 11:58SPEAKER_11: They come out.
- 11:59SPEAKER_11: I have one stick, and we dealt with it.
- 12:03SPEAKER_11: Pass me the potatoes.
- 12:04SPEAKER_11: No, I'm not passing you the fucking potatoes.
- 12:07SPEAKER_11: What happened back there?
- 12:08SPEAKER_11: That's a crazy ass story.
- 12:10SPEAKER_11: I can't be like, I have feelings.
- 12:11SPEAKER_11: You know what I mean?
- 12:12SPEAKER_11: I can't be like, Dad, I have feelings.
- 12:13SPEAKER_11: Oh, you have feelings.
- 12:14SPEAKER_11: Nice man.
- 12:15SPEAKER_11: What?
- 12:15SPEAKER_11: You go to the mall, too many people, panic attack.
- 12:18SPEAKER_11: You can't.
- 12:19SPEAKER_01: But that's my dad.
- 12:20SPEAKER_01: That's my dad.
- 12:21SPEAKER_01: He's just like a real goofy ass dad.
- 12:23SPEAKER_01: You know?
- 12:24SPEAKER_01: Like he's so goofy that he voted for Trump.
- 12:27SPEAKER_01: That's who he.
- 12:29SPEAKER_01: And it was so crazy to me, you know, only because I had no idea that he was even a citizen of the country.
- 12:37SPEAKER_01: So but I've been hanging out with my dad a lot.
- 12:42SPEAKER_01: Uh, and I think it's because we're like trying to make up for lost time or whatever.
- 12:46SPEAKER_01: My parents aren't uh together.
- 12:47SPEAKER_01: Anybody else grow up in a single-parent household?
- 12:50SPEAKER_01: It was your fault.
- 12:52SPEAKER_01: And just kidding.
- 12:56SPEAKER_01: No, my parents aren't together.
- 12:58SPEAKER_01: My parents uh split up when I was like 12, and then when I was 15, I found out.
- 13:04SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 13:05SPEAKER_01: For a good while, I had no idea.
- 13:07SPEAKER_01: Just one day I went up to my mom, I was like, yo, where's dad been at?
- 13:11SPEAKER_01: And she looks at me like, oof, I knew I forgot something.
- 13:13SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
- 13:16SPEAKER_01: And that's because growing up, I have a sister, and neither of us knew that he was gone.
- 13:19SPEAKER_01: And that's because growing up, when he lived with us, he didn't hang out with us at all.
- 13:22SPEAKER_01: And he was gone all the time already.
- 13:24SPEAKER_01: So there was no real like emotional uh attachment to him.
- 13:27SPEAKER_01: So it's kind of like this.
- 13:28SPEAKER_01: It's kind of like, you know, when you're at a party and you're in a conversation with like two other people, and those two people like really engage in the conversation, and you're not really contributing, so you kind of just slowly just like walk out the conversation and then start a new family.
- 13:42SPEAKER_01: You ever do that?
- 13:42SPEAKER_01: That's wild.
- 13:44SPEAKER_05: If I went to India, there's over 200 languages in India.
- 13:47SPEAKER_05: I don't know any of them at all.
- 13:49SPEAKER_05: I know like a couple of greetings, but I don't know enough to get me in or out of trouble.
- 13:54SPEAKER_05: But I know what they all sound like.
- 13:56SPEAKER_05: And if I was stuck in India and I needed some help, I would just fake it.
- 13:59SPEAKER_05: They would never know.
- 14:01SPEAKER_05: I could be stuck in India in a market, I'd be like, they won't know.
- 14:09SPEAKER_05: They'll be like, oh my god, he's very angry.
- 14:11SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
- 14:13SPEAKER_05: I don't know what dialect that one is, but this man is very angry.
- 14:17SPEAKER_05: He's most angry.
- 14:19SPEAKER_05: He's very cross.
- 14:21SPEAKER_05: So cross.
- 14:23SPEAKER_05: That's what any people do.
- 14:24SPEAKER_05: We don't want that bad energy in us.
- 14:25SPEAKER_05: We take it and throw it out of our heads.
- 14:27SPEAKER_05: We don't we don't get it out of my head and into my car.
- 14:39SPEAKER_05: Same thing with any language you can fake, and I'm going to Hong Kong in a couple weeks.
- 14:43SPEAKER_05: If I get stuck there, fuck it.
- 14:44SPEAKER_05: I don't speak Cantonese, but I know what it sounds like, I'll just act angry.
- 14:51SPEAKER_05: I don't know what language that man is speaking.
- 14:56SPEAKER_05: But whatever the case is very mint.
- 14:59SPEAKER_05: So mint, I've never seen somebody so mint in my life.
- 15:03SPEAKER_03: I did the tonight show.
- 15:05SPEAKER_03: A lot of people always ask me, why'd you wear that flag on your chest when you did the tonight show?
- 15:09SPEAKER_03: Because I wanted other Filipino kids that wanted to be a comic be inspired when they saw me that night.
- 15:14SPEAKER_03: If they saw me that night, they would be like, yo, I can do that too.
- 15:19SPEAKER_03: That's the only reason why I wore it that night.
- 15:22SPEAKER_03: Actually, there is, actually, there is one other reason why I wore it that night.
- 15:26SPEAKER_03: Because the night after I taped the tonight show, the day after, there was a journeyman fighter, a Filipino journeyman fighter by the name of Manny Pacquiao.
- 15:35SPEAKER_03: He was fighting Antonio Barrera.
- 15:37SPEAKER_03: This guy was knocking everybody out.
- 15:39SPEAKER_03: There was no way Manny could have won that fight.
- 15:42SPEAKER_03: There was no way.
- 15:42SPEAKER_03: If you would have bet the house on Manny that night, he'd still be spending that money today.
- 15:47SPEAKER_03: He wasn't supposed to win.
- 15:48SPEAKER_03: And the whole world watched.
- 15:50SPEAKER_03: And I couldn't wait to watch.
- 15:51SPEAKER_03: I was like, yes, finally.
- 15:53SPEAKER_03: There's gonna be a Filipino at the top of this game.
- 15:56SPEAKER_03: Getting ready to represent the Filipinos.
- 15:58SPEAKER_03: I couldn't wait.
- 15:59SPEAKER_03: Everyone was watching that on pay-per-view.
- 16:00SPEAKER_03: Hundreds of millions of people watched that.
- 16:03SPEAKER_03: And then he won.
- 16:05SPEAKER_03: He fucking won.
- 16:12SPEAKER_03: And I remember just watching it, like, oh my god, he won.
- 16:16SPEAKER_03: It was amazing.
- 16:19SPEAKER_03: Because I knew that was the day that hundreds of millions of people were gonna hear the thickest Filipino accent ever.
- 16:28SPEAKER_03: Like, it was so fucking thick.
- 16:30SPEAKER_03: It was the thickest Filipino accent.
- 16:34SPEAKER_03: And I was so happy.
- 16:35SPEAKER_03: I was like, that's my fucking accent right there.
- 16:39SPEAKER_03: I remember that interview like it was yesterday.
- 16:41SPEAKER_03: They're like, so many.
- 16:42SPEAKER_03: How did you prepare to find Antonio Barrera?
- 16:44SPEAKER_03: And he's like, well uh, you know, you know, hit bot that I go like that.
- 16:56SPEAKER_03: Go like that.
- 17:01SPEAKER_03: You know him, Jesus Christ.
- 17:08SPEAKER_03: I remember HBO Sports gave him an interpreter.
- 17:12SPEAKER_03: That's the truth.
- 17:13SPEAKER_03: Look at that, look back.
- 17:14SPEAKER_03: They gave him an interpreter.
- 17:15SPEAKER_03: And remember when Manny Packy was done talking, they were like, Thank you so much, Manny.
- 17:19SPEAKER_03: And then they went to the interpreter and went, What did he say?
- 17:21SPEAKER_03: And the interpreter's like, He's speaking English.
- 17:26SPEAKER_03: You don't understand what the fuck he's saying, eh?
- 17:28SPEAKER_03: Everything he's saying, I'm saying too.
- 17:29SPEAKER_03: You don't understand that?
- 17:31SPEAKER_03: You don't understand Jesus Christ.