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Off The Record: What Comments Hurt the Most? (Ritesh Rajan)

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0:00 [Music] i have a really really great question and i'm glad both of you guys are here to answer this um i i yeah i know you guys can have good ones um this is this is my question i have for you guys what is the worst thing you've ever read about yourself on the internet where do i even begin bro like what is the thing that really affected you not worse as in like what the public would see is worse but for you personally about yourself that actually hits you because a lot of people you know they'll type whatever the ████ they want and sometimes they assume it's not even going to touch you but like some stuff actually does hurt you huh you go first that's a really good question something that's touched me in the world it's gonna sound this is gonna sound interesting i don't wanna say

0:51 interesting but i guess just it's it's not an answer that's probably heard a lot but i personally when people random people say ████ i don't give a ████ i don't give a ████ but what bothers me the most which like emotionally is when other indian people are like yo why aren't you in more ████ and that i'm like are they saying that to support or are they saying that as a disapproving indian fighter i i don't i think it's i don't think they mean harm by it i don't i don't think they ever mean harm hey how come you're not able you should do this and you should do that you should do this right and it's like not that they're angry but it's like yo dude come on like come on like represent us better and then my flip side what's going through my head is like have you watched the last thing 10 things that i've done oh yeah you know what i mean like what if they're not even watching it in the first place so the the thing that frustrates me a lot is when they're like oh we want more uh you know asian representation or

1:41 south asian representation specifically and i go well then are you supporting the artwork that i'm doing are you supporting the greater movement towards you know more asians but they're like you're not saying cheating yeah they're like how come you weren't saying they want you to just magically appear in all the things they're already currently watching yeah exactly and i'm like that's not how come you weren't kumar yeah and i'm like why aren't you the ████ you know president of the united stand i've been chatting with vice president kamala harris this entire goddamn ████ that's always confused me though so that that's the only time that it's really kind of emotionally yeah i'm like that hits you that hits me

2:32 like why like what does it makes you feel like ████ maybe i should be doing more so it's both right and also it's like people just don't see the other side of the table the auditions the ████ politics like i'm just looking at my email right now i have an 11-page audition on monday and like so i have to think about it and i have to read the script and then i got to memorize it right and memorize 11 pages yeah holy ████ and so it's prone to a lot of brain power but what i'm saying is like that's my job right and that's i'm going to do everything it's like a little kid like reacting when i have to do book reports dude come on bro you got an audition this weekend you how many pages was it was you got an audition yeah no it's a ████ uh it was a a sign of the stars oh there you go what's the sign of a star targeted

3:22 advertisement no no because yesterday i was instagram i was laying in bed on instagram right and on the explore page i was just looking at explore pixie and then there was an open casting call that said sponsored chinese dudes they need a taiwanese guy and i'm like oh oh ████ i have an audition for you in a long time so i click on it and then i'm like oh man i wish i had a actor friend that could help me and i'm like wait tesh is here tomorrow so i idea you dm me last night later you're an actor friend you have so many actors i was actually i'm very honored that he yeah so i damned and i'm like hey what do you think like what's the process like i know the auditioning process way different now you do a lot of self tapes all that kind of stuff so he helped me this morning and then i was just like dude all these things that are aligning i'm like i think it's a sign i should probably do it so i was like do it dude you'll finally be a part of the cast of genghis khan now that's cool

4:12 marco polo got canceled like 10 years ago dude i auditioned for marco polo somebody they had an indian character on the show went to an older guy but i remember auditioning it was one of my first auditions in l.a oh cool wow but yeah that that probably hurts me the most and then the one thing on like the business side that i'm always like is when you i send something in or i get feedback and they're just like yeah we don't i just i didn't get it like i just didn't i didn't get it i'm like yeah because the story is about an indian-american kid but you're telling this to like a jewish kid or something yeah and i'm like of course you didn't get it it has nothing to do with you you're supposed to oh but there's no curry yeah and i'm like you're supposed to empathize with me have you ever got an email back like tesh uh we were hoping a little bit of more magic carpet stuff but we didn't get it yet i didn't get it like i didn't get it there was no there was no lamp

5:04 uh there was no sand there was no indescribability i didn't really i didn't see any aunties with mid-drift so like i didn't like i was sick there was no song and dance there's no talking monkey i don't get it we had this action comedy script that we wrote where uh this guy he's like a disgruntled retired fighter at the end um he comes back and he's kind of like gets walked all over by his son walked all over by his ex-wife at the end he finally mans up right so the final scene for this guy he comes back and he goes in the house and his wife his ex-wife is getting game by all of these dudes big orgies steve wrote it yeah no but it's actually very heartfelt the gangbang is very so the x y everyone's in love with each other so the ex-wife um is getting game bang just like usual like you you'll see like dudes coming in all the time he's trying to have breakfast so it's a gang bang or

5:55 is it a train it's very different right it's an orgy it's an archer it's an orgy but he comes back and he wants to train he wants to take his life back so he fights them and there's all these dudes and he's beating the imaginary entertainment he sent this to the production company to see if we can get it funded the guy who's the guy that writes scripts you know that they'll write like is this like four quadrant or is this whatever roger ebert no no no no the guy yeah yeah yes like he's the guy there's someone who'll do like script analysis yeah he's the guy that goes okay this goes on the producer's table or this goes yeah like give it a so he gave it a great and he goes he's using all these ████ big ass nerdy ass geeky ass words and then so he's like oh i don't get it whatever i'm of course you know because you're a ████ geek and it's all like man now we got this genius script that we can't even shoot

6:46 but i know how you feel but it's that's what hurts me same thing same thing i can relate what can you do and this is a very asian thing nothing you do is good enough just nothing you do is good though yes you guys could have saw this it was genius tweed do you have a time that you remember that um it really it's not like a time it's just kind of like in general but it will be from people that don't really watch my content and they'll just see me and they'll say things like oh why don't you want to be your own race like why don't what right like but you're born in vietnam what are you doing you can't be anymore are you shang tsung just changing people right i'm like i'm vietnamese as ████ my content is vietnamese as ████ like i don't know where this is coming from but they see me they see that i have a boyfriend that's not vietnamese and they're like oh you want to be black

7:36 or you want to be this or you want to be i get that too because it's like you're going to like exactly so you want to be white right like every single pop-up i've done i've done vietnamese food yeah you know so it's just like everything that i've done it's just been vietnamese as ████ and they're crazy and your name's toy it's not toy nica but also how do you be more vietnamese what does that even mean we're having they want they want her to go hey mother everybody we're going to make the egg roll today and then they're like that seed that's that's what we want that's what they want they always want the version that's going to make them safe right and we represent i want to say a new age of asian americans who are pushing the boundaries of what is appropriate for our asian cultures so like being in the arts or you know being in the culinary arts or anything that's just outside of the box is frowned upon

8:27 exactly and so then you know also too the degenerate asians have never had representation and we are that safe space ████ ████ we're asian degenerate degenerate asians or yeah maybe maybe okay but then the rest of us come on right here but i'm here to bridge the gap i'm a dj you're asking if we ever had representation and agents not stuff not from a traditional talent point of view and i think it's because they're ashamed of us even asians i feel like don't ████ want us to represent yeah no but like that's crazy because then you could be like oh well i wanted to do a movie and in this movie i'm going to stick my dick in an apple pie and try to ████ it yeah that's representation that's pretty good and then everyone's like this ends up becoming one of the most iconic movies right right and so if you want to do a gangbang where this guy saves his

9:19 wife naked dudes was there any was there any dick technique did you have like a special he uses his dick like a pogo stick and like no he just beats up all these dudes it's a really good because he's tired of them ████ his wife and it's kind of like that one movie remember uh with the dude with the girl in a roller skates boogie nights yeah you know how that that guy i was just gonna i was wondering what movie you're gonna relate to the gang the naked guy he keeps catching his wife ████ and he's a he's he's a weak guy wait which way are you talking boogie nights no i know predator okay predator ████ terminator right oh my god no so so so you know in that scene he's a weakness joy luck club that's what it was joy luck club toilet it's shrek all right shut the ████ up today's video is

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11:51 right same concept he's eating ████ breakfast with his son and his wife is getting ████ in the other room all this stuff and at the end he's like i can't take this anymore and he beats the ████ out of all the dudes no but this is like in eastern promises except it's in the russian you've seen that movie the movie with the vigo morton yeah there's a there's a famous fight scene where they're in a russian bath house and everyone is naked and they just fight each other that's cool because they were like they fight they were like oh we can hit him what are the weapons it's a fist fight if i remember correctly yeah and towels a lot of towels being used the funny thing about those representation had a russian bathtub dude have you ever gotten in the face of dildo it hurts honestly they're pretty thick they're really thick i got hit by the giant uh with those ████ gummy worms you know what i'm talking about

12:41 it kind of resembles it i was whacking everybody with it you could probably kill somebody with that it ████ hurts does it hurt as bad as being told you're not vietnamese enough i'm not vietnamese enough well i guess if they're telling you that yeah yeah so how do you respond to that i don't i don't i just see it but i'm just like dang really but i know that it's from people that don't watch me so of course well see that's that's good that you see it that way which is totally correct like these aren't actual criticisms with any grounds exactly but have you neither of you guys have ever read something about yourself um kind of like jumping off on the representation thing where i felt like what the ████ is um yeah like you know asian americans or whatever they they they come at me and they're like dude you are a role model you got to represent asians this and this and i'm

13:31 like dude i talk about getting rim jobs on ████ camera how the ████ was i even a role model to begin with you're a hero and i'm like am i supposed to be the pillar of japanese america ████ no dude that's never who i was that's like well this is this goes the thing is like because we're minorities we have to represent the best of the best i don't want the burden but why is it like japanese prime minister how come when anthony does it you guys get most ████ because his son i like prime minister prime ribbister prime minister prime remus prime prime minister why my girlfriend should certain cultures [Laughter] oh ████ that's fire that's so dope it's

14:23 a good one this is the freak this is going on youtube right it's a free country it's normal bro you're making room jobs for men okay what i'm fighting for i'm like the new normal okay i'm not ashamed that i have a hidden agenda throughout all of this trombone that's my campaign 2022. [Laughter] just be careful make everything rusty again i'll vote for you but you know that's the thing it's like i'm here to do comedy bro like that's it ████ it like why do i gotta have to carry all of asia on my back and then be like and that and i i was a ████ i was a ████ dumbass to begin with i never was a great role model like in that sense right so then now you want me to ████ clean up and act a certain way i'm like did you even watch my content for the last 15 years i've been dumb on camera all of a sudden you want me to be pro premium proper like what it's weird i don't know it's just weird but that is the burden that minorities have is like

15:14 you're representing you represent millions of people yeah yeah because there's not enough representation this is when we're talking earlier definition of please focuses on a bengali indian family and that's a certain region like punjabi or gujarati or thermal right and so you have very specific things the food the culture the customs and it's not a monolith and we don't represent monoliths of our own culture we represent certain sectors and that's what's so frustrating is because a lot of people from other cultures get the opportunity to do their dumb stupid movie and they can then do a serious drama but if i do one or the other it's like no no they're stuck there yeah i'm like what are you talking about like jim carrey can be dumb and dumber and then he can go do you know a very serious role yeah this might be a little bit going off topic but isn't it weird how all of this right here is considered one culture in america this is all asian

16:05 america right right so it's like dude how this is billions of people back in asia with different cultures there's a lot of wars right between these cities and then they'll argue that look india is the only subcontinent okay so i don't know like its own thing you guys i don't know what you guys are first of all you were all part of india at one point india's india for sure the weirdest thing also is that most of the people who are saying these things like you said they don't watch all your ████ but they're also usually not from the same generation as you yeah so it's even bigger of a gap for them to fully understand where you're coming from because you also have to explain that like not everybody is criticizing you as your age well people will watch this and be like you guys aren't diverse enough and i'm like what are you talking about this indian man ████ chinese man and ████ singaporean we represent three billion people on this planet

16:55 will you now add another billion we're too diverse honestly or if we like to have fun and make fun of like anthony or anyone else right and everyone they're like oh you guys got to stop doing that but they're like dude this is our real friendship yeah so because of the generation gap i don't know if that's they don't people don't know they don't make friends like that anymore but you know like from our generation we're just ████ around having a good time and people don't understand that part of it well yeah nobody verbally roughhouses anymore yeah i remember roasted anthony and that's when i was like you're a part of us now you get it you get it you get it i don't know i probably said something no she said something about it she was like this ████ and it wasn't even like in the conversation like on the side hey you're a ████ cameras were off yeah i wasn't even rolling she was whispering this year she's like yeah off camera she's like ████ you anthony just under the table

17:46 ████ you [Laughter] napkin look at this gangbang script that's why toy is cool man that is why toy is cool i want to know more about this gangbang movie it's good it's a martial art movie can i be in it can i be in it oh hell yeah dude 30 seconds what's the martial art exactly second all right so basically uh like a traditional martial artist right he he you know he goes off to uh mma competition and he fights the world's greatest fighter which is like mcgregor or whoever and all he has to do is last 30 seconds so he could win money to save the rec center basically the budget all went to getting mcgregor on and the gang bank sees a lot of production the insurance for that is a lot right it's a hard one let's do it let's just

18:37 do it man you want to you want to be a part of it man let's do it i'm gonna send you the script yeah you have a finished script that's the feat man i can't wait for you to read this and go this is a masterpiece how many pages is it uh i feel like 85.90 oh it's a feature bro oh that's for real we have five features written it went nowhere and we have a actual like press press kit oh you have the epk ready to go we have it yeah i'll send it to you maybe your photos and all maybe you know yeah we did like a mock photo shoot what could look like throw it in your stack when you do a picture when i do my picture i'll be like oh so i have this idea so here's i'm not gonna pitch you in the movie but i'm gonna put you on one scene and tell me if you guys are in gangbang naked cockfight yep is there yes what am i well yeah how would you say i want the creators one of my favorite scenes is so this guy he's like a disgruntled uh so how the story goes is it's it's two leads right the main lead that's the trainer

19:27 he he knocked someone out and he killed them and he's so he feels so bad it's his backstory he decides to never ever fight again because his hands are too lethal brother i want you to paint this as specifically as possible does he kill him with one strike one strike one side of my head so the guy that um that has everything together in the ring of course has everything in shambles outside of the ring of course the symbolism horrible horrible relationship with this alcoholic yeah his kid calls him all these slurs that you really can't say on the show like this he's a cod player he's on xbox yeah you know he's all you need to say but there's this my favorite scene is there's a scene where he's having like cereal with his kid he's finally having a heart-to-heart and in the back you just hear oh harder harder and harder all right that wouldn't come because his ex-wife is having sex he's getting ████ bone because she's a nympho yeah

20:17 but it's a very it's like it's heartfelt mix with step brothers with a little bit of likes jojo rabbit stephen jojo i would watch that yeah i want to watch it all of these parts that you've mixed have you not put a single porno it's this mix of this because of this no no it's actually very deep it's a relationship so you never actually see the gang bang you see it okay so you see a highlight okay it's the oh it is i have some notes i have some notes i'll say give us one note and the main character that played by joe he is just one of those guys talking ████ at the bar right and then he's like what the ████ dude i'll get paid 10 million to get knocked out by this guy and of course some guys recording him on the side and then that's the clip that goes viral so the conor mcgregor of this world goes what the ████ there's a guy

21:08 that's talking ████ and he's trying to clean out his record so he actually goes and tries to find him to challenge him to a fight can he last 30 seconds and that's when this guy goes to a taekwondo school to learn how to fight and you see people kick apples off people's heads and then he and then people are like you're gonna die from this guy the guy who vowed to never fight ever again the guy who killed somebody yes but then they become good friends and then yeah yeah so it's heartfelt it's very heartfelt it's more about friendship yeah dude it's like a school of rock you know but with just gangbangs in it well i was gonna ask because i got totally distracted and forgot the whole character motivation is the mom a prostitute or an s she's horny she's just horny she just loves to ████ now she's free so she's free so she's ex ex-wife ████ liberated yeah yeah but then he's also a loser so he needs to go over there so to see to quickly and you guys obviously she's trying to ████ her

21:58 way back into finding the man that this guy used to be right like a superstar so i thought you should make her a sex worker because he's down and out and she's doing this to protect her family right so her motivation is also protected family first but from everyone outside is like yo you're being a ████ and what she's saying is no i'm fighting for my family uh to pay the bills that way the abilities are divisive right you get writing credit there you go just like that that's legit think i think it's a stronger character motivation yep then that way the husband and the wife can have a conflict of like i want i can make money and she's like but you're not yeah which then this is karate which is then forces them to be like i'm gonna go fight conor mcgregor you're a good script doctor yeah you got to make the emotional connection when can we expect this to be under production whenever he can get her funded by someone cool because everyone

22:48 hates us yep i would fund it myself but i put all my money in crypto and it went didn't go anywhere just started go fund me for the movie i put all my money in anti-indian cream just what did i call it unfair and disgruntled you

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