0:00 man, are we like all losing our Asian cards eventually? You know what I'm saying? >> Like, think about it like this. First of all, like, how much culture is lost with us being the first gen Asian-amean? We're no longer pure Asian. >> Yeah, we're already coming into it with a deficit. >> I'm already terrible at speaking Vietnamese. I don't speak Chinese at the household. my kid because I don't I'm marrying a Filipino and I'm the only one in this room by the way who married an Asian that's not even my regular Asian Chinese or Vietnamese type thing. Shots fired. All right, so you guys are ████ diluting our people by the way. Anyways, Gio's more Asian than me though. >> That is a statement. >> Why? She likes to bargain. >> She does like to bargain. >> Not more than you though. >> But >> we'll go into that later. Think about it like this though. All right. So, we barely speak our our languages at home with our parents, let alone we're not
0:50 going to be speaking it with our wives. And then our children are going to be half of that. Probably not going to be speaking both languages upward that we don't speak at home anyway. Who are they going to get married to? Because they're already all halves of something. They're not going to find the exact same half. So, that's going to go into the quarter dilution. And they're going to be second gen Asian-American, which is more American than first gen Asian-American cuz we actually still had the connection. We were still getting yelled at or or or spanked a certain way. >> I was thinking about this in Hawaii cuz that's the future of Asian-Americanism. >> Hawaiians. >> The state of Hawaii. >> Oh, then we good. >> Cuz like you know over there you're you're like you're you could be called Hawaiian if you're tied to like native Hawaiian ancestry. But if you're not and you're born there, like let's say because there's Japanese that were born there, raised there for like five
1:40 generations, don't speak any Japanese. They're pretty American, but they also don't identify with American cuz they're more like I grew up in Hawaii. I don't know anything about America. The the name for them is local. So I was like there might be another thing like recently the way meetup ████ like that, right? >> Oh, like almost like a new category is going to form like chucanos. They're technically not a pisa. >> Yeah. >> But then they're also they don't they're not fully American. They're like this in between. Cuz if you think about the idea of what Asian-American is, it's ████ weird. Cuz like back in Asia, no one feels like they have a Japanese person has no connection to a Pakistani. But in America, we're forced into one group. So that already is like, is that even a identity? I do think
2:31 probably Hawaii is the closest if we start drifting there because you know in our household we don't do Asian like on the no stuff >> but there's Asian essence. So when you guys come over I'm like hey did you say hi to Uncle Anthony? Uncle Joe, Uncle Nick. Like I still do that Asian theme, right? Like you pay respects to the elder that comes in. We take our shoes off. Like you don't talk when me and mom are talking. You don't just jump in. So there's like a very like Asian way of doing it even though I'm telling him these directions in English. And I feel like there's that same vibe in Hawaii because you know there's like the aunties or whatever. Oh ████ auntie coming like everyone like straighten up. So I feel like in Hawaii they have a very Asian culture without it being Asian. >> Yeah. >> And I feel like that's probably where we're headed. >> That's what I always say. When Tiff
3:22 always askked me if we have a baby, do you think our baby's going to look more Asian? >> I go probably. Asians are strong. >> And then she goes, >> I was like, what [laughter] the ████ was >> I'm like, what the ████ [laughter] >> bro? I was like, what the ████ Are you sad that our baby I was like, look, if we have a baby, they're not going to be full when you look at our baby, they're not going to look full Asian. You know that. They're going to look brown. They're going to look Hawaiian. >> Yeah, they're probably going to look Hawaiian. >> They're going to look Hawaiian. He looks Hawaiian. He just looks like a Chinese baby. He's getting a lot less Chinese. >> Yeah. But when he was a toddler, that that's a straight China man. They start off more Asian and they slowly get more. >> Right now, the entire Filipino side of my family, all of Nia's family calls her calls my daughter the Chinese princess.
4:12 [laughter] >> She's Mulan, dude. She's >> She looks more Chinese than Filipino right now. >> To her, she's Ching Chong up the wazoo. Like, it is so like >> wazoo. >> You know what I'm saying? like it's it's so you can't see anything other than the Chinese part and to me I'm like oh you okay [laughter] >> I mean >> cuz I'm around Chinese babies so I'm like sure this is a baby like in a little bit I'm going to start seeing the Filipino essence right and it might be when this this baby at 2 years old has bigger eyes than me I'm like oh yeah that's not my Chinese are you going to teach the second language to your kids >> I want um so we talked about this because like there's There's just so much going on, right? But we need things to and and at the end of the day, it's not authentic to be like, "You have to go learn Chinese." Well, I don't speak it at home, so what am I going to do? Cuz it's good for business. Like, that's
5:02 that's really tough in the beginning. But what you do need to know is you need to be able to you don't call her grandma, you call her Lola. You don't call her grandma, you call her Banoi. So like if you understand how to communicate at their level, anything that they're talking about, if they're talking about like in Vietnamese, I like to know how to say those things because you're communicating with them. So the basics of like where's the bathroom or can I have this milk or whatever. I'm I want you to learn that in the langu and I know how to speak that too. So I can communicate that if your grandma's here and then we're all, you know, but you're going to need to also do that in Tagalog. >> Yeah. >> And so do I. when you're doing that in Tagalog, right? And so does Nina when you're doing it in Vietnamese. Like we're all gonna all learn that together. >> Because my kid is probably gonna be calling my grandmother I mean my mother-in-law Abuela and then my mom na nai.
5:52 >> Yeah. >> That's [laughter] just that's how it is, right? >> Calls my mom na na. Yeah. >> So you just got to be okay that I've been learning though because like that's the thing about this which even started this whole conversation. And it's like all of my kids, all my friends kids are all like triple language style households in the beginning, which actually slows their ability in the beginning to comfortably speak, but they're processing three languages at the same time. So they are understanding you, but then when when suddenly you're asking them to repeat something in your language, but they maybe know it in something else. >> Yeah. >> And so they're shy because they're like, I kind of know what you mean, but like I didn't learn that version yet. So, so instead of thinking like, "How come you're so shy?" It's like, "No, ████ They're learning three languages, give them a minute and you're going to see an explosion of intelligence." >> That's the advantage we're going to be able to give our kids though, right? Is
6:43 like the ability to speak multiple languages when usually usually the standard was just two >> if it stays in practice in the household. >> It's on us though. It's on us to do >> is learning the Indian accent right now. [laughter] >> Four languages. >> How does it sound? [laughter] How does it >> It's not bad actually. >> What's the source material? What do you show him? A poo. >> It's going to help him honestly so much. >> Playing around with voices, different accents when you're a kid. >> Understanding how to do that or just like play with that and starting to learn things, whether it be like the phonetic nuances of other people's languages so that you can understand and relate with them more later when you're not mocking it, but you're actually respecting it to uh because when you learn somebody's language and then you pronounce something the right way and they're like, "That's amazing." You like that connection is so universal. And then on top of that, comedic timing >> like that that's gonna give so much
7:34 confidence. >> Indian accent as how old is he? 11. That's crazy. >> What are the uh Asian kind of things you guys are going to continue to like the cultural things that you will you're going to put them in lion dancing? >> Punishments >> like with with the hand. >> We got punishments at home. >> I'll let you borrow this dude. This is traditional right here. >> If we have a kid, I don't want to hit our kid. And I was like, I'm going to spank our kid. Not like crazy. >> Yeah. >> But like I'm going to spank our kids. >> Not child abuse. >> Not child abuse, but like when they step out of line, >> I'mma hang my kid upside down with a clothes hanger. >> I told I was like bar smacks tight on the butt. It's no big deal. >> We got Spanx at home. We got like squats at home. We got push-ups at home. What about What do you think? Is cold bath going too far? I do cold bath cuz one time I forgot what it was. He was complaining about how some how cold it was. I was like, "You want to feel cold?" I went [screaming]
8:26 I was like, "Now I want you to stay calm for 30 seconds." He's like, "What are you going to turn off?" I'm like, "You got to be calm." He's like this [snorts] little trial. >> And I'm like, "All right, you earned the hot water." >> That's ████ hilarious. >> That's sick, though. That's sick. >> I did say that same ████ I was like, "Look, I know that you don't, you know, you don't want me to hit the kid or anything like that, but like a boy's got to get spanked. >> Boy's got to get spanked." >> And then we had a girl, and then I was like, I I really I don't know. I don't know anything >> cuz you do have to parent them differently, right? Don't they say that? >> I think it's different. I think it's different. >> Like for boys, you I feel like for me, if you didn't spank me, I would have been a menace. I would have been a bad kid, I think. >> But boys are also boundaries pushers. So the boundaries have to push back. They have to. >> They got to smack you in the head >> a [laughter] little bit. Okay, I won't do that then. >> Girl, I'm don't know, dude. I don't know. I That's where I'm at. You
9:17 [laughter] know what I mean? >> Sorry. What about like the whole um hierarchy thing like you got to respect your elder and all that? Yeah. >> Yeah. Cuz I think we live in a society of pay to play. It's even if we don't exhibit that necessarily where like like mom's not allowed to eat until dad eats first. Even though that happens in that hierarchy rule in some places, we won't exhibit that at home, but you're going to need to learn it because you might need to respect it somewhere else. Oh, like if you're traveling >> or your friend's Asian and they have that in their household like at the end of the day it's about knowing things so that you can respect it even if we don't practice it like that that type of exposure I think is so important that like that's why I think with from the Asian sense we got lucky that we were had to be so disciplined a certain way
10:07 cuz then like even if we weren't told that like this is how you respect the world we were like this is how I'm supposed to do it in my world so I don't want to get in trouble and then we looked respectful everywhere else like the whole win Rome concept whereas some people they never had to and they're just going there and everyone's like, "Dude, this person is so ████ rude." >> But then we've been practicing win Rome every single day at home. >> Exactly. >> So it's like I >> Except for I don't know what happened to mainland Chinese, but they don't win in Rome at all. They need to just lock them up. [laughter] >> Send them back. When a whole tour bus of Chinese people came to the Japanese bath house, I thought a whole busload of Tasmanian devils came out. I heard a gaggle of geese ████ like loud as ████ I was like, is this how people feel like Americans are, >> bro? They might be winning and roaming it harder than the Romans. You know what
10:57 I'm saying? They're like, what do the Romans do? They come over and they conquer an entire area and that's it. This is now their space. What's funny is um like or what's crazy is like you don't realize how much they pick up and then so like you're just talking you know especially as they get older they're like absor absorbing everything. One time we were driving and then like this car was like this on the freeway. We're like oh ████ what's wrong with them? And then I hear from the backward tas like oh he must be Asian. [laughter] I'm like what the ████ I'm like did me and Gio say that part out loud? Son of a ████ You got to watch our conversations. [laughter] Bet you I'm going to pass that ████ down to my daughter. My ████ s█████ driving skills. >> I was like, "F███, [laughter] >> he must be Asian." >> I could say he must be Asian is crazy cuz he's in his in his head. He's like, "At least I'm half." >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, he's Chinese.
11:48 Remember, he's not anything else. >> That's what you you get both ways, dude. When he recognizes that he gets to use it to his convenience, cuz he's going to run into a period where it's it's uh it's against him, right? like his Mexican, you know, counterparts or maybe not his cousins, but like his friends might be like, "Hey, fool. You're like you're a little you're not like half Mexican." >> Yeah. Yeah. >> You're going to run into it. I ran into it for being Chinese Vietnamese and I look fully both, >> you know? Like imagine the guy who looks different. He's going to run into it. >> You see though, the world is so mixed now in his class. There's probably a third that's mixed kids. >> See, that's crazy. >> Crazy few categories. There's like a whole like if if you go to a school, a third of the kids are mixed, whether black, white, Hispanic, Asian, whatever, all all kinds. And I was just like, damn, I remember the one Hapa kid was like one. And then they're like, oh
12:40 ████ what is this albino like bear doing here? You know, but now there's like a third. Like he's he's nor he's going to be the new norm and everyone's going to be that's going to be all normal. >> That's kind of cool though. >> Beige kids coming up, guys. >> A lot of beige kids. >> That's good. >> It is. But that's that's going to also make like white and black look so much more white and >> Yeah. If you're pure white, pure black. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Whole pure black concept. If everybody starts mixing, which is natural. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Then if you're like white or black later, that's like crazy. >> Mix the pop >> in America. I mean, in America.
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