0:00 So she would lock me in a room and then it'll be any random article that could be like two to 300 words. Like like imagine like this much text. And then when she comes and takes the newspaper away, I have to write the whole thing verbatim so that I can memorize sentence structure. >> But it won't mean anything, dude. I know. Is there a rule that you had growing up where you're like, this is something that happens in my family that you later realized, okay, that's not normal. That's actually weird. >> Yeah, those are probably I bet Bart has nothing but those stories. >> Bart's rules. I'm thinking. Do Really you got to think? >> Well, cuz like I'm thinking I'm trying to separate the Chinese from the Lillian rules. Cuz there's Cuz there's typical Chinese rules that I feel like pretty common
0:50 where like when you sit at the dinner table, the eldest eats first. So if the food looks delicious, but grandma grandpa didn't serve themselves yet, then the grandkids have nowhere that they shouldn't be touching the food. That's normal. Taking shoes off is normal. Red envelopes Happy Chinese New Year's normal. Um But I guess the the to the to the degree that my mom took it is is weird. Where like my mom almost wants it like So in the military, when you have like a officer or like a general come into wherever you're working, you immediately go like stand up at attention. And you go, attention on deck. So everyone knows, right? Like they're and they're ready to salute or whatever. And that's how my mom wants to be treated like she's ████ Kim Jong-un.
1:41 The empress game. Live for 10,000 years. >> Yeah, like if my grandma came in, she'd be like great dictator. She'd be like, why are What the ████ why are your friends whatever? And I'm like, well, I don't do that in at my other friends. I was like, well, we're Chinese. And you go to other Chinese people's houses it's not like that. >> Yeah, they just do normal. Oh, hi Mrs. Chan. And that suffices. You don't have to ████ stand at attention. I think for me it was mostly religious. So like uh Saturday morning like I couldn't do a lot of Friday night sleepovers because Saturday we had to go to church. But then like let's say Saturday morning cartoons I ████ missed out on. That was such a big deal for everybody cuz all the best shows were Saturday morning like >> Spider-Man. >> Yeah, X-Men, Dragon Ball. I mean all that stuff, right? So like that's when kids on Monday got together
2:33 and they're like, oh, this is what happened with X-Men. And I got to pretend like I knew. Good for you. And then I I would just be like, yeah, Jubilee was really strong, huh? Jubilee was hot again, huh, boys? And they're like, what? Yeah, and then the Sentinels came and it was crazy. Did you have to do worship? You know, family worship? Like get together as a family and >> Like Yeah, like anytime your family gathers, they you have to like go to another room, crack out the Bible, and then do a sermon. Nah. [clears throat] Every time the family's together? >> Yeah, if all the family's together. Not like not like your immediate I mean like if you're at a family gathering. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, cuz my uncle was a pastor. >> Yeah. Because my uncle was a pastor when I when I was with relatives, it was like you got to follow this cuz you got to be the embodiment of the church when you're with the with that ████ So like yeah, I ████
3:24 hated doing that. So you can't just be family for a second. You got to make it all religious and ████ >> You can, but then at at some point in the night you'll always have to stop everything, go into a room like gather like we are now, and then uh Especially Friday night. >> will read a Bible verse. Uh someone will do special music. You sing songs. And then whoever the oldest is gives some kind of a sermon. It's like so >> Cuz cuz Sabbath is from Friday sundown >> that. >> uh Saturday sundown. So when we're just looking at the ████ sun going down, it's like as soon as it goes down, video games. And then we could play video games. Could we still do that? Like even my family now still does that. If we're gathered for Christmas, we do all the Christmas stuff, have fun, whatever. At some point we're all going to gather in the living room. One of my uncles are going to be like We but we all realize today is for
4:16 Jesus. We just want to make sure everybody knows that. >> Yeah. We have nice presents. It's good, but for the Lord is why we're here. And every time I had friends or like I dated someone and I was like, ████ this is the part where I'm just like, why can't we be like a regular Christian? Like I go to other Christians and and they don't do this ████ you know? >> religion stuff does make a lot of funny rules. >> Yeah. One weird rule that I I guess it's it's normal for kids to have to show their talent when like family's over. >> Oh, yeah. But the way that I have to do it so I guess it's weird now thinking back. Cuz you know the how like if I listen to a song whatever and then play it, I haven't gotten that much better since I was a kid. My ability's sort of the same. >> Oh, wow. You just got hella good fast. Well, yeah, but like it's it's like the So my whole family knows that I do that.
5:07 So if I'm if I'm like with with all the family as soon as I get there, I have to go up and go to family and go, is there any song you want to hear? Like I just have to ask them what they want. And they they say, oh, I want My Way whatever. [snorts] Okay, and then I have to go play it. Can you do that Gangnam Style? >> that's the rule is I have to go up to people or if they're a new person that like oh, over we don't really know him. I'm DJ. >> Yeah, and I have to go play it. One of the weird rules that I thought of now that we that I had for Saturdays, this is I think it started in fifth or sixth grade. You know when you first start learning how to write essays and stuff? I ████ sucked ass at writing essays. And then so my mom was like, okay, this is what we're going to do. Like the the model the model writing in this world is
5:58 probably the newspaper cuz it's for everybody. So she would lock me in a room and then it'll be any random article that could be like two to 300 words. Like like imagine like this much text. And I just have to stare at it and study it. And then when she comes and takes the newspaper away, I have to write the whole thing verbatim. Like just by memory. >> What? That's it? What good does that do? >> So that I can memorize sentence structure. >> But it won't mean anything, dude. I know. >> Crazy. >> I think that's what backfired where now like, you know, lyrics I have the hardest time memorizing lyrics because all words are just sounds to me. Oh my god, that makes so much sense. >> So it's reversed now. So like when Jill's like, wait, why would you why would you think that lyric would say that? >> Yeah. And I'm like cuz you're just
6:48 phonetically processing. >> Everything is just phonetics. Like I love you doesn't mean like someone has a feelings is I love you. You know, it's just Just to get through the task. >> the word connected to it. >> Yeah, that makes so much sense. >> And then so she it would suck cuz sometimes it would take the whole Saturday. So imagine we start at 8:00 at 8:00 in the morning, right? I'm like, ████ I'm like, okay, Mike Piazza caught the the final home run or whatever. And I'm trying to ████ like memorize whatever article that was. And I'm just and I go, okay, I got three words, four words, seven words. And I'm like, okay, I'm ready. And then she comes and takes the newspaper away and I just have just paper and then I have to write the whole thing verbatim. And then once she checks it, okay, now you can go to the front yard and play basketball. And it'll be like four it'll be 4:00 p.m. now. >> That sucks. That's torture. Did you ever
7:38 not get tortured? >> [laughter] >> No, wonder, Bart. What the hell, dude? >> And that's why that there's like moments where I'm ████ like humping the light pole >> [laughter] >> cuz I'm like, dude, I'm going to be here forever. Might as well ████ hump the light pole real quick. >> [laughter] >> That ████ sucks. That sucks. >> That's crazy, right? You're just repeating it verbatim on a paper? >> Verbatim. And I meanwhile I don't know what she's doing on the outside cuz she locks the door. So she's in the kitchen or or maybe like I was such a nuisance that she was like, this is a fine something. Yeah. >> Yeah, I have some peace finally. She's just chilling. Oh my god. >> keep him busy. >> [laughter] >> And you're hyper focused cuz you're kind of tarded. So you're just like ████ not even making a noise in there and she's like, oh, finally. God damn. That's like psychological warfare
8:28 though. Like that's a That's torturous. And then you can hear the doorbell, right? Ding dong. Can Bart come out and play? No, he's learning English. And [laughter] I'm like, I'm not learning English. I got to memorize You're like, I know English. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> No, he's he's manually xeroxing Mike Piazza articles. That's crazy. He's learning about the greatest catcher in Mets history, okay? Yeah. Yeah, mentally ████ xeroxing the whole thing. Meanwhile it's making you dumber. >> [laughter] >> You have no cognitive What is it? Comprehension? Yeah. Yeah, it's just killing comprehension. Yeah, I don't know why there's commas where there are or why they use those words like >> But that's how they taught a lot of kids back then. Like just memory. Like Like I learned multiplication, but I because I'm so reliant on the rhyme.
9:19 Like I go back and I when I forget the rhyme, I don't know the multiplication. Until I work it out, I just it's just so stupid. Like they have these quick methods of memory games. And then so you know it, but you don't actually know it. You don't know how to like work it out. Yeah. >> That was a s█████ one. >> That's probably one of the worst ones I've heard you say. It's pretty bad. >> Do you know about my mom taping my TV into? Yeah. That one was crazy. So my mom would have like I think she thought like I got So I was like what do they call latchkey kids? Mhm. So um Nicky was one. Yeah, so like after school I would get dropped off. And then so from like 3:00 to like six, it's just me by myself. Yeah. Yeah. And so, my mom thought the TV was distracting me. So, she got Remember those printer paper that would have holes on the side that you have to rip off? So, she had that from her work, and she would tape up the
10:10 TV, and then when she comes back home every day, she's just looking at it to see if I like peeled it off, or she'll like So, I would have different techniques. Originally, I would peel it off, and she would come back and see it, she'll whoop my ass. I'm like, "F███. Okay, I got to do a better job of that." And then I got really good at peeling. Then one day, she ████ pulled a fast one on me, she would touch the temperature, and then she's like, "Ah, you ████ It's hot." I'm like, "F██████ b████." So, I would just get better at lying, and then eventually, I got really good where I had this uh cardboard box laid out with fake homework and books. So, I could watch like Spider-Man and I would hide it underneath the couch. So, I could watch Spider-Man, and as soon as she comes back in, I just pull the uh the cardboard box out, and it looks like I'm doing a hell of homework. >> [laughter] >> And she'll come back, she goes, "Oh, okay, she's just working in the living room." Bart's designing rockets. I'm glad you
11:01 never stop trying to scheme, even with all the things [laughter] I know. You know what I mean? I know. You never quit. >> Like most kids would just be like, "I'm ████ This is it." >> I'm going to study. I'll just study the next three hours. >> No, Bart's like, "No, I'm not quitting. I'm going to scam this way." You know what's a weird a weird rule that like I thought actually affected me so negatively was that it was very taboo to talk about money in my house. So, like the first time I I remember we were talking in class, it was like second grade, and they were just talking about jobs and like uh pay and stuff like that for some reason. And then I went home and I asked my mom how much she makes, cuz I was like, "Oh, you're a registered nurse, like how much do you how much do you make? How much money do we have?" And she was like, "Never ask that again." Wow. >> made it really cold. >> Did you say uh "Oh, a little insecure are we?" >> [laughter] >> Oh, I guess uh not enough, huh? I guess
11:51 because it's I think she's thinking >> Did you ask why or not? Yeah, well, I think I think I know why. I think what she's trying to do is like um that's rude for me to ask person outside of our family. Or or it's it's rude for me to ask the wrong person how much do you make. That's kind of like a a like not good manners. But they never discussed it or But no, but but she was also saying for her and my dad, like I I have no business asking that. And I So, then I just never talked about money or investments or earning or any of that stuff with them my entire life, like until I moved out. But uh but then it just gave me a weird uh sense of value on money. Like if I ever had like 20 bucks, I wanted to spend it immediately. Like I had no uh there was no recourse for like losing money cuz I'm like, "Ah, it'll come back somehow, whatever." Like we just never discussed finances, yeah. Ever. >> Yeah, my parents couldn't wait to tell
12:42 me how broke they were. I mean, I I've got to know how broke they were, but they just I couldn't say it. >> I couldn't ask anything about like what does X-ray technician make >> Oh. They just don't want to answer it. >> I'm so glad to have the friend groups that we've had because we talk so openly about money. >> Is that not normal? No, it's definitely not. No, it's the opposite. Some married couples don't even know each other's finances cuz that that's extra private or something, and they don't even they don't I don't know they have open books to each other. >> The thing is about it though is that I've learned so much from like talking money with friends. Like I've learned so much. Um I feel bad for people who just restrict that. Like I was even like and this is a small example, but I was even recently like talking to some people I had just met, and they're like, "Oh, we just went to the Super Bowl." And I was like, "Oh, ████ how much does that run you?" And they're like, "Oh, we don't talk about money." I was like, "Whoa, that's like the first time I've heard that in like 15 years." Well, that's a
13:32 funny one. Cuz my friend group is like so open about that ████ but I was like, "Oh." Even Walter, like we don't hang with them all day, but he couldn't wait to be like, "Yo, I went into debt for those Super Bowl tickets." Yeah, but he's like, "I showed up day of, and I spent 3,500 each." And I'm like, "Let's ████ go, boy." That that actually helps me like know how much things cost. >> I think if you're spending, that's different, but I think the the reason is that a lot of people are asking as bait. Oh. Cuz like I've had friends like that, like ████ actors, they do that ████ >> if they can borrow money or something or No, they'll actors will be like they'll they'll be like, "How much did you like I've heard people do this to Smosh a lot." Like they'll someone got some guy was like, "How much did you get for that uh Google commercial?" And she'll be like, "Oh, I got this much, whatever, like 25K or whatever." And he'll be like, "That's way too low. I would have got double for that. I would have asked for double."
14:23 It's like it's a setup for them to like one-up you. It's never a sincere like, "Hey, let's talk about this so we can both help each other out." It's never that in uh at least like in some Hollywood circles. Like they're not talking money. They're not It's not a ████ let's let's win together. It's ████ let me win so that you feel not so proud of yourself. It's like That sucks. Yeah. >> A lot of people do that to me for music, too. They're like, "Oh, how much you get for that gig?" And I already ████ know that they're Okay, you're going to say Whatever I ████ say, you're going to say that double was the right amount, you know, like >> You never pressed them on it, like, "Oh, really? How do you get that? Like what do you say? Like and then if they start guarding it, I would press them harder and harder and harder. >> [laughter] >> No, they we just stopped ████ talking to guys like that. >> Oh. >> But that's kind of a blessing, right? It's like, "Oh, cool. I don't have to worry about you." Yeah, good riddance, but but that's the reason I think like people are stand-offish about it cuz at
15:13 some point in time, they were like bamboozled into saying and then they felt bad about how much they made. I think that's why they're like, "I don't want to ████ I don't want to talk about it, you know, like it's kind of like weird." Yeah, but I think we're the type of people that if we as soon as we realize the game is like that, then we would like bully them for doing that to us. Yeah, that's nice if they're outnumbered in the room like that. >> Yeah, it's the best. >> Yeah, but then for us, we genuinely want to help each other and share the the wealth, and it's like, "Oh, we made a big blunder on that. So, like this is how much I ████ up." And then it's like, "Yeah, don't do what we did." Or do what we did because it's worked out for me and my friends. >> I'll tell people how much I paid for my house. I'll tell people I like I just think it's it's like doesn't hurt anything to be transparent, but like you said, if people are sniping at you. >> Yeah, cuz I'm also not personally attached to it. To me, they're these they're more like tokens in a game.
16:03 So, it's more like, "Oh, how did you get all those tokens in Super Mario?" Oh yeah, you go here, then you go here, and then but then you don't go there cuz you'll lose whatever. It's more like that versus like it's not my self-worth or whatever, it's not attached to it. >> even think of it like that. >> But you know what's funny though, people will look at that and think they'll project that you're money-obsessed cuz all you do is talk about money, but it's the perception of like, "No, I'm so detached that I could talk about it." Like it's just points in the game. >> If you get up at 9:00 and you work till 5:00, I think you're money-obsessed. You know what I mean? Like I could I could argue that, too, cuz you're you're the one who's chasing that all the time. Like I'm just trying to find a loophole in this money-obsessed culture that we're in to not have to do that. Like that's the whole game, right? Right. Talking about money has probably led me to the most money. >> Exactly. And openly talking about money, like no ████ like actually talking
16:53 about money like in a real adult way. >> And it's also nice to know that people made the same mistakes you did cuz you're not like a like a you know, special idiot. You kind of have to, especially like in Anthony's field where like they're flying 10 guys from America to go like dance in China. >> Dance for Dubai guys. Right. So, like all of them have to be on the same page of what they're going to get because they like I've been on jobs where literally I was making way the ████ more than somebody, and it's just because they were cool with it. They just didn't know. So, they're just like, "Oh." And there's no reason that that person did infinitely more work than I did. And Anthony's like, "Wait, you didn't have to wear a poncho and get ████ on by a sultan in ████ Arabia?" >> [laughter] >> After doing the worm? It's funny because Anthony's so he's so public about what he paid for his house, and we still say cheaped out. Well, have you been there lately? >> [laughter] >> Tiles are curling cuz of the heat. >> Discount house.
17:43 >> are curling. The tiles are curling cuz of the heat on the patio. No, wait, those are those are Japanese pagoda tiles. They're supposed to look like that. They use Elmer's glue, I heard. >> [laughter] >> The funny thing is he's like the least cheapest out of all of us, and he gets the He needs to get the most premium ████ You got a brand new house. >> premium ████ dude. He has a ████ whole smart home. >> He has Govee lights every ████ where. I cheap out on the lights all the time. >> I don't even know what Govee lights are.
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