0:05 What's the What's the first racist thing you ever did in your life? How do you even remember? Man. I remembered it. I remember mine, too. Say mine. Go ahead, dude. On honestly, one of the earliest memories and I mentioned this before, uh, is just acknowledging and understanding that my mom had a problem with a certain racist stuff. So, I would use it as a joke against her to troll her. So, any any time I wanted to just kind of be like a troll or something like that, I would I'd be like, "Oh, yeah, well, I'm going to bring home a black girlfriend." Cuz I knew it would trigger her. But I didn't I didn't have any care in the world. I just knew that that would like annoy her. Oh, right. It like those words don't even mean nothing to you. What What was her reaction? What did you say that? Would Would she go, "Ah!" AND SHE'D FALL. SHE GRABS THE SHE GRABS THE CLOTHING
0:56 RACK, TAKES IT DOWN. I GO BACK TO VIETNAM, MAN. THERE'S NO BLACK PEOPLE THERE. SHE TAKES THE KNIFE OUT. OH, NO BLOW, MAN. She would She would literally in Vietnamese, she would say like, "I'll cut your dick off." What How do you say it? How do you say that? Tao cat con may nha. Tao cat con may nha. Tao cat con may. Cat Cat is cut. Con is dick. May is yours. Damn, she would really do that, too. Tao cat con may. Don't do that, man. So, I can't think of my first one. I I remember when I was in like fourth third and fourth grade, kids are learning how to like say curse words, they're learning how to like >> worst. be bad kids. And I remember kids would always make fun of me for being
1:46 Asian, obviously, right? So, then you kind of learn it and you go And at the time, it sucks cuz you have no You don't know what to do about it. >> Yeah. So, then eventually, you learn how to be like, "Well, why don't you go back to Mexico, Manuel? You know, like you like you know you you eventually lose it and then you have to clap back. You like, oh, why don't you get the beans? How about that, pal? You know? You eventually hit your breaking point and then you have to say something like You see. Dude. >> Okay, Jose, whatever. You know, want to eat a taco later? You know, it's like you're learning how to be racist a little bit through like insulting each other. I remember Like I remember in high school, too, like we would say like everybody was free game. Like if you if you got called a certain thing, you could ████ if they were Armenian or black or Mexican,
2:37 you could light them up whatever cuz that was how we kind of had fun, you know? That's like how idiot guys bond. Yeah. And it wasn't until you clap back where they go, ah, okay, this guy's Right, right, cuz then they could do a more Yeah, exactly. Now you've accessed the second level. Every day it was like, oh, Wukong, why don't you open your eyes or whatever? And then the next Yeah, you would just like you would just keep at It's like you're walking past Dick's Last Resort. Oh, they'll they'll have like sometimes they'll have jokes ready to go. Yeah, right. They'd be like, oh, what did you eat for dinner last night? You went to Petco, you know? He'd say ████ You're like, whatever, dude, ████ you. Was your dad on parole or something? He would say ████ like that. Like that's how that's how it was, bro. Like everything was free game. It was if they were black, you'd always say something about them going to jail or their mom was like in prison or something. Like that was just It was just what we
3:28 did, bro. >> That's what we said when the LA riots happened and all the like Tongans and Samoans, we were like, ████ you guys all have gang gear now. Cuz like, you know, their parents were looting. Oh, ████ And then and you go over and they have it. Yeah. Yeah. I remember I was an accidental racist for like two years straight. I was like in second or third grade. >> Before your purposeful racist? >> Yeah. Because um I didn't know okay like back like I went half of my school was black back then in my elementary school. In Gardena? Yeah. And then so everyone used the N-word and then so like they called me that we call each What grade are you in? It's like second or third grade. >> They're saying the N-word in second >> It was in the music too. Like when you listen and you repeat lyrics of the song cuz it was it was gangster
4:18 >> In N.W.A.? Yeah like all of it like so like basically >> Gardena? And then there were nursery rhymes with that word. Have you heard the a fight a fight a and a white the had a gun so the white had a run. You never said that ████ You heard that? I've never heard that. >> So that's a nursery rhyme? You trying to put him to sleep? Nursery rhyme that You heard that one? I've heard don't tell me about that one before. That's crazy. It was his debut single. Nursery rhyme >> that really famous one that everybody was singing it. It's a ████ kid rhyme like you don't you don't remember >> Yankee Doodle or whatever. >> Yeah like we would sing all these like there was another one THAT WAS LIKE HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS ONE? The doodle dude. Have you heard of ████ 1988 your mama try to escape she hit the pole
5:09 her titty rolled? Yeah yeah yeah. Oh yeah yeah I sing that. Never heard that either. Damn man that's crazy. I didn't know what it meant I didn't know what it meant. >> like catchy words. Yeah I'm on I'm in like those the snack lady like during recess and then like you would go up and wait in line and then she would buy her ████ right? So I was singing the song with my friends and then LIKE SHE GOES "JOSEPH WHAT DID YOU SAY?" AND I WAS like a fight? A gun? Like I don't know. >> You English things were Yeah and I was like what did I say what did I say? And then she goes "No no you don't say that." And I was like okay I won't talk about guns anymore. But I'll say the N-word cuz I didn't know that was a bad word. >> Yeah yeah yeah. And then, so she like she goes, "You got to go over to the back of the line." And I'm like, "Fine." And then, so like I'm waiting
5:59 I'm I'm I'm with my friend like And I whine. Can you believe this? Back in line. And then, we're talking and ████ right? And I'm like, "Hey my my Hey my Can you believe this s███?" You know, like And then, SHE'S LIKE, "JOSEPH, TOLD YOU STOP SAYING THAT." JOSEPH I DIDN'T SAY GUN. Bad word. Imagine this little tiny third grade job. He's like, "Yo, man, these teacher be tripping." This ████ don't listen. No, like I'm not even playing, dude. Like everyone spoke like that. Like the parents, everybody. >> I'm just playing some handball trying to get a dollar. Parents? I went to a school where non-black parents would say it. My My friends' parents were gang members. Of what ethnicity?
6:49 Black and Mexican. Oh. Oh. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> like Yeah, I remember that. So, like you hear it all the time. So, you think in context, if you didn't know what that word meant, you would think it means friend. Yeah. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. You think it means Oh, that's what like black people call each other as friends. Yes. And then, everyone says it. I say it. I just feel like no one's telling me you can't say it until the late the She was a Japanese like snack place. Oh, she wasn't even black? >> No. And then, so that's why she was trying to teach me. She goes And then, she thought I knew what the word was. So, that's why she kept going, "Joseph, stop saying that." And I'm like, "Oh, I probably shouldn't be talking about fighting. That's what it is, right?" That was the first one. The second was, "Oh, my mom told me like guns are bad and I can't have guns, so it's probably guns." I didn't even know that it And then, he's like, "Wait, was my
7:39 predicate before the subject or something?" Oh, the preposition. >> down. And she goes, "Do you know why you got pushed to the back of the line?" And I'm like, "Yeah, I said a bad like song." >> CUZ YOU'RE DIRTY ████ WOULDN'T THAT BE A SICK ASS TWIST? THAT TWIST WOULD BE SO FUNNY. DO YOU KNOW why you got I don't know. Cuz you're a dirty ████ ████ that's why. >> would have started crying, dude. And then she just drops it on him one at a time. And then so he's just going nuts. THEY'RE GOING CRAZY. CLASSIC SPELL SO SHE WAS LIKE, "HOMIE." And I was like, "F███, I am in deep s███." And I seriously don't know what word I'm saying. So she was like, "What word did you say?" And I'm like, "Gun! We're fighting white people! I don't
8:30 know, you know." >> Oh, she's making you repeat it? >> Yeah. Yeah, because she couldn't say it. So it was just a back and forth of respect. Got it. Got it. Got it. And do you remember back then no one said N-word. There was They don't say like that. They just say the word. >> right. I don't remember hearing that at all, yeah. They say it, right? And then so she was like, "No, do you know what that word means?" And I was like, "Friends." Cuz that's what you say when you're friends. And she goes, "No." She goes, "That means >> So you say when you're homies. That's a bad word. She goes, "That's a bad word." >> YOU DIRTY ASS ████ SHE'S LIKE, "THAT'S WHAT YOU SAY WHEN YOU'RE BEST FRIENDS." I told what I just said. No, you didn't actually get in trouble. You just had a little bit of a correction. She told me what it really meant and it blew my mind. I was like, "Why are people calling each other slave?" How did she Oh, so she said it meant slave?
9:21 >> Yeah. She She She says it it means like black slaves. >> You weren't like, "How come you don't get mad at other people who say it?" >> That's what I I was mad at. >> was like, "Because you're Japanese a profession." I didn't know. Like I was like, "YOU MUST NOT BE A perfect person. This is is not for you." The other kids singing with me. She doesn't need them to be a bad actor. Only I got in trouble. She didn't get mad at the other kids. She didn't get mad at anybody else that said it, just me. So, that's why I was like, "Did I say gun? What did I say?" Because they're not getting in trouble. Did you ask her why? She said, "Cuz you're the dirty Japanese." You're the dirty Japanese. Basically, when she said it meant it meant black slave. I was like, "Well, they're black." I was I'm not black. >> it together. Yeah. Okay. >> But then it still didn't make any sense to me at the time. Yeah. I mean, it
10:13 doesn't make sense to people now. Kids weren't mad at me. So, like no And you go to their house and then sometimes the parents would laugh and I didn't know why. >> That would look pretty funny. So, they're probably like, "Look at this Chinese kid talking like us, you know?" And then I'm like >> Dude, I love how like probably pivotal this like Joe origin story actually is. It's like this moment goes "Then I'm going to learn everything ABOUT THE JAPAN. AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME. YOU CAN'T SAY MUSASHI ANYMORE." I'M NO LONGER JOE. I am Musashi. Call me Masato. I'm Nigero now. What? What did you say? What? What did you say, dude? What Japanese name? You trying to say the role, right? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nigiri is what you're trying to say.
11:06 Do my voice. Do my voice. Dude, that's so funny that she like like reprimanded you but didn't fully explain it. She probably THOUGHT I KNEW. >> SHE PROBABLY THOUGHT I KNEW WHAT IT meant and I was saying it as a bad boy. Ah, man. And I think there's a lot I mean like there's a lot of English words I didn't know what it meant, but I thought I knew what it meant and I'm just using it. And then I'm just like And you never use it again after that? I used it way more. Especially that you knew that it was bad? Cuz now cuz now he was say he was calling his friends friends before. Now he's like, "Haha, I'mma call you slave." Oh, ████ You know what? They they called me is N-word ease.
11:56 Oh, what you say that again? Yeah, I remember that. N-word ease like Chinese but the with the N-word. >> Well, at the time I was in community college, that's what black people were calling the Asians then. And that was like 2000s. I'm like, "Why you calling me that?" It was almost like we were on our way to like a nice bridge and it just ████ collapsed underneath us somewhere. It's up to us to rebuild it. It's up to It's up to Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker to bring it back. Start us off, Anthony.
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