← back to the archive // episode file

Things Our Culture Invented

#fastfood#invented#meatballnoodle#mechanicalclock#blackexcellence
the transcript auto-captions · entered into evidence

0:00 [Music] And welcome back to another episode of the Careful Boys. Oh, this is this face tracking is going on. Oh, dude. It's having a hard time looking at your face. Yeah, cuz you got a black ass TV or some whatever that looks like. Black TV. I didn't know what it was. I was like, I just see a green. Whatever. This dude's actually struggling to struggle like hold on to a camera, bro. racist. There's another reason why. Who made Who made Canon, dude? That's crazy. Japanese people. You see it? Is it Japanese? I don't know. I think I think so. He just clicked me now. Oh, you clicked it on him. My pale ass. Oh, man. How come there's no African cameras? That's what I'm saying. But we actually did invent cameras. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you knew that. Yeah. Really? Why you lying, dude?

0:50 I'm not lying. Black. We created a lot of We created hot sauce. We created peanuts. Are you peanuts? I learned about George Washington Carver in elementary school. Okay. When I say when I when I Google who invented can Right. Right. You see I Google who invented Jerome. It says Louis Prince a French artist and inventor. But is he a black French guy? You could be a black Frenchman. Okay. Get him. I know a lot of black dudes that speak French. My goons are doing this for me. I don't have to say ████ I got goons. Google Google Le Perry. Google the origins of that name. Yeah. Yeah. Google Africa. The camera obscura from the Latin for dark room is a natural optical phenomenon precursor of the photographic camera. It projects an inverted image flipped left to right and upside down of a scene from another side

1:40 of the screen. Blah blah blah. The earliest documented explanation of this principle comes from Chinese philosopher. Oh. Oh. Mozy. So we invented this concept. But we don't have to claim everything. Chinese invented everything, but they just forgot how to make ████ Oh. And make it Well, everything's made in China, though. Rice. Rice comes from Africa. Are you lying? Mhm. That's a tough one. I think we're um I think a month off from Black Excellence Month, but then I got I got a list. Is Black Excellence Month different from Black History Month? I That's what I was trying to think about. Well, Black History Month already happened. I I think I like Black Excellence. It sounds better. It sounds better actually. It does sound dope. Wait, does that mean that there's two black months in the year? No, I thought I messed it up with like I said I was supposed to know. No,

2:32 he was he was being progressive is what he was. He was rebranding it. All right. The automatic gear shift. Oh, that was a black dude. What? From manual to automatic. Ah, that's a big one. We're all facteing cameras already, right? All right. Yeah, it was a a He got me. Call my bluff. He called my bluff. I I didn't think he was going to search it. A black guy. I thought he was going to let it be. You said a black guy created peanut. Dude, the the best one is the Super Soaker. Oh, right. No way. That was my childhood. That's the best one. A scientist. I wonder if kids still play with water guns. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, probably. Now they're like uh automatic. They're like machine guns and everything. You have a badass water gun. I can play five of them. Water guns are dope. Yeah, that was so much fun. It's the best. They're better now, dude. What

3:23 else did we play? I know there's more ████ Come on. Yeah. Help us out, brother. George Crumb, credited with popular light rising the potato chip. What? That's tight. Rising. So, that's not inventing. Black inventors have made significant contributions. The three light traffic signal. Yeah, I heard traffic lights. Automatic elevator doors. We did do that. We did. You don't know. You're just a great That's true. We did that. Clothes dryer. Yeah, we For real. Yeah, we was thinking about it in Africa. Man, would it be great if we could dry our clothes? Like if instead of just putting it in the sun, how about we put it in a machine? The folding ironing board. The one that goes to the wall. Yeah. I don't know about going it just folds. Yeah, it's like Oh, the bottom one. All All ironing boards fold. Yeah, cuz cuz of black folks. Cuz of black

4:13 people. Black people now. That's crazy. It's true. Refrigerated trucks. Oh, refrigerated trucks. Yep. Yeah. Dang, dude. Keeps your package cool. That's cool. Cuz I don't think Asians actually invent a lot of stuff, but they're like we're good at like taking it and like and upgrading it. Innovating. Oh, wait. No. Innovating. Improving. Improving. Okay. Asian cultures invented things like paper. Damn. That's ancient. That's solid. But Egypt did that with papyrus. Okay. The compass. That we need that. All right. Okay. All right. Gunpowder. I'll give you guys. Those are important things. Printing. No, this is it's so old that nobody cares anymore. Yeah. Yeah. It's like it's too old. Okay. So, basically such gangster ████ that nobody cares anymore. There's old civilization. It only shaped it only shaped modern

5:04 civilization now. Wait, Papyrus was first. I I don't know. That's Egyptian though. Is this according to Asians though? Ancient Chinese inventions. Uh silk. It's so It's so basic though. It's like saying kites. A pencil. What about kites? Kites. What about the abacus? That's Chinese. Yeah. Who the ████ abacus? Yeah. It's a manual calculator. Can't do cosine or tan or what about the seismograph? You can't write movies. Yeah, you can. You can. Hey, seismograph. What's that? I don't know what that is. That doesn't affect me. That doesn't affect me. I don't like it. The seismograph. I don't know what that is, dude. You know when an earthquake it goes like this about to have a earthquake. Whatever, dude. We're about to being boring. Next one. Can they Can they detect earthquakes? Alcohol. Yes. Chinese people can. Hey, Chinese people.

5:55 You get credit for that, though. No way. I feel like every culture got their own alcohol. Yeah. No one else got drunk before Chinese people. Yeah. Nobody ferments fruits. The toothbrush. Oh, okay. I'll give you all that. Really? Chinese people don't look like they invent the toothbrush. They invented it, but they stopped using it. That's what I'm saying. Chinese people invent ████ and they forget to use it. Yeah, whatever. Same for me. The mechanical clock. Mechanical clock. This digital days now though. Oh, before that it was just sand and a ████ This actually tie a site. Probably invented in China though. Chinese menthol. That's crazy. Mechanical clock with the gears and everything. And they're like, they're the first ones to make it like tick like that. That's what a nerd. That's crazy, man. That's pretty sick. They just tell time to sund dial. Damn. That's crazy. That's so crazy. It

6:45 didn't That is a lot of ████ though. Yeah. All those gears to work. Damn. But it's so basic that it's like It's stuff that we It's so old. It's so old that we take it like we we don't care cuz it was right here before. It's like air now. In 1994, Japan made the original PlayStation. Oh, okay. Shout out. I salute you, brother. Now that's what I'm talking about. Who's Japanese here? Guy who's hating on every Chinese. What do you think? He's like, it's not even that big of a deal. Damn. Chinese people invented toilet paper. Yeah. Really? You're welcome. I mean, they did invent paper. Yeah, I guess. But toilet paper. Chinese also invented the landmine. Oh, that's some sneaky Chinese ████ right there. What did the US invent? They'll kill you when you're not looking. Probably a lot. They ████ invented

7:35 umbrellas. Did we invent the atomic bomb? Who invented umbrellas? That's America. Some ████ ass ████ That's also German. Whoever invented the umbrella is a ████ That's crazy. Oh, I don't want the water on me. Yeah, Chinese. That's some ████ ass ████ dude. I don't have a comment for that one. Tougher, you know. I know. Every other every other warrior just walked out into the rain. I bet it was a problem when you had to walk everywhere. Yeah. Think about it. Yeah. You just getting soaked. Also, think about how often you have to use an umbrella over here or just in general. Not very often, right? You're not in the rain though, bro. But if you lived in the Amazon, you probably use it. I mean, if you live in huts. Yeah. Those just wet though. You don't you don't have a car. Best American inventions. Some of the best American inventions. Diabetes. Captain Crunch

8:26 Diabetes. Diabetes. ████ yeah. I was going to say the airplane. Oh yeah. The Wright brothers. Obesity. Obese fructose. The telephone. Yeah. Wokeness. Skittles. Uh internet. Blue hair. The light bulb. The personal computer. Oh, Tang. Those are pretty good. A big one, bro. Cuz it's for space. It was for space. And now look at them. Everybody makes uh dissolvable. Do you drink tank? No, I just I just know facts. Okay. Zipper. The zipper. White people created zippers. Yeah, whatever, dude. Uh, the radio. Letting women drive. That's a big one. Big up. Big up. Big up. The microwave onion. Uh, uh, onion oven. The motorcycle. Motorcycle. We invented that. That's my culture. That's my culture for sure. I don't know about the bicycle, but the motorcycle. Yeah, that's white culture. They get

9:16 that. What's the What's the big Asian country that uses mopeds? All of them. Oh, a lot. Oh, never mind. most time. Vietnam for sure. Yeah, Vietnam. Vietnam. China does, too. They're big on mopeds. Yeah, Taiwan does. Uh, yeah. Crazy. Hong Kong's got them. Um, we just love scooters, dude. Korea's got them. Love scooters. Anything that's cute, we like it. Yeah, good storage space. Bicycles are pretty hot out there. Yeah. Yeah. You think if there was a a society or a place that was just all scooters, do you think accidents would be as crazy? They're not as because scooters don't go fast enough where people are just constantly dying. Like the problem with what what we have out here is everybody's got entitlement cuz they think everybody follows rules. So everybody just drives like 80 m hour. 80 m hour. Yeah. So if you make one little accident, it's like people be dying flying out their cars and getting

10:06 splat on ████ streets and stuff. And in Asia the tolerance is different. Like over there people could ████ just like skid against each other's cars and it's like whatever. You know, they just bump into each other's ████ But here, if you have like one little scuff, what the ████ bro? Look at my new car, dude. But over there, all everyone's s███'s ████ up. So, everyone's just ████ sliding across each other. Everyone has streaks and everything. Like, they don't mind a little like ████ vendor bender, you know? Ah, what the hell, man? And they just just drive off. Just drive off. Yeah. They speak English over there. What the hell? They like our slang, dude. They like our catchphrases. It's also because like nobody follows the rules in some of those countries that everybody has to pay attention. The problem here is people don't pay attention cuz they think everybody's following the rules. They think Yeah. They just assume everybody's doing their best. But half the people are still not following the rules.

10:57 That's the problem with the driving. I feel like the more south you go in Asia, the more wild west it is really. And then the more north you go, the more it's like perfect. It has to be all all about the rules. And they don't like North Korea. Yeah, in Japan and there's a lot of rules there. That guy created the burrito. Yeah, he invented he invented the burrito. Kim, don't you don't you ████ question that. Yeah, they're called communist raps. All right. Communist raps. Hey, Joe has a theory about um he thinks Kim Jong-un actually watches JK News. Yep. Tell them your theory, Joe. So, back in the day, I mean, I think you could still do this on YouTube, but you can see uh what countries you got your views from. Yep. If you go into your uh analytics, and I remember we had a a one view from North

11:49 Korea. And I was like, "What the f███?" And there's only one person that would watch that. There's one person with the YouTube access. Probably one cuz he don't let he don't let them see ████ right? And he's our age. He is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. He just looks old cuz he has that dictator haircut. That is the haircut that makes stoic, you know. VPNs, did they exist back then? I don't think so. People worry. No, but then he he's not worried about a VPN, is he? No. No. People that could use VPN to be like, I'm in North Korea watching this. But yeah, I don't think people have VPN access to use North Korea IP addresses, though. Bro, if you use a a North Korea VPN, you probably wouldn't be able to surf the web. Yeah. Yeah, you Yeah, you probably won't be able to search anything. So restricted. Yeah. You think they got Netflix over there, bro? No, definitely not. You're not watching White Lotus over there. Right. Yeah. But

12:40 that's the theory. That makes sense, right? There's only one guy who's got access. Well, think about it. He's a millennial, right? He likes American content. He was a big fan of the NBA. We love Dennis Robin here. He probably likes AsianAmerican content. Yeah. He's probably not laughing like watching our ████ He speaks English and this is an explicitly communist. He pretends like he doesn't, but he speaks English. Communist. Is that what this is? Yeah. Damn. This podcast is funded by the CCP. Who's that? Um, the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese pizza kitchen. CCP. California Pizza Kitchen. I would love if we were sponsored by the CBK. I love CBK. I haven't I haven't eaten there in years. CVK is a gas. Do you

13:30 remember that? You like it? I like garbage pizza sometimes. You know what I mean? It's garbage pizza. I like it. CVK is not garbage. What, bro? It's pretty garbage. It's garbage. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's garbage, too. But like American fast food, I I I put that in that category. What's fast food like in uh in Asia? You can say it Asia. No. Uh Well, you're Vietnamese, right? Yep. Yeah. Okay. So, what's what's fast food like in Vietnam? Ball of noodle. Oh, really? Batball noodle. Like that. That's it. Meatball noodle. Meatball noodle. Meatball noodle. Yeah. Meatball noodle. You know, my people, my Vietnamese people, we we don't really like fast food like that. We're really What about in China? Fast food. Yeah. What about whatever you cher really? Whatever's crawling around. You see a hand, you just cut the hand and

14:21 you Whatever's crawling down. Japan probably goes hard with fast food. I love I feel like Asia has way more fast food than here because brands like franchises but then also the local fast food cuz everything is fast food cuz when you catch a lizard it's just right there fast. It's like food like food stands. Yeah. So they have they have food stands but they also have like all the chains like the McDonald's and whatever but it's has McDonald's. Yeah. But it's like their it's like No, not that was amazing. But what's what's good is they have they have ████ that we don't have. Okay. Like like they got like melon soda floats. They have like Dude, it's all exclusive to that region. Oh, like their McDonald's is exclusive to And it's all different. Like a shrimp burger. They

15:11 got sesame buns. And everybody said like if you go on YouTube, you could watch where like every country's McDonald's is and like their food is looks way better than our food. Wait, are you guys all first generation? Yeah. Yeah. Wait, what's that? That means first to be born. First to be born here for sure. Yeah. Well, we say second. So, do you guys go back to where your family's from? Back to work. Back to China. It was hard for you to say that. You couldn't even say that. You go back to where? It was very hard. Oh my god. I tried. Go back to It does hurt. You ever leave? You ever leave? Why don't you stay there? never leave and just don't come back. You don't want to go where you belong.

16:02 Oh my gosh. I'm going to go back. My mom lives out there right now. Oh, she does. Yeah. I haven't gone since lockdown, though. I want to go. Man, I missed the vending machines. Take me with you. I want to go to All right. For sure. It's a good time to go right now, too, cuz it's so cheap. Like, the conversion's crazy. Oh, really? That's why there's hella tourists and I I I heard that it's ruined because of that. But but isn't it bringing in money as usual? But I don't know. It's also bringing in like um crowd and Yeah. Just I don't know. More money, more problems. But everyone's just going to the major cities though. Like the fun places is outside. Yeah. Oh, outside. I mean, you get bored cuz to me all major cities are very similar. Like whether you go to London, New York, LA. Yeah. It's literally just shopping.

16:52 Okay. So, what where would you recommend to go to get outside of that like tourist track? Kyoto. Yeah. I mean, Kyoto is pretty cool even though it's a tourist uh city, but there's like small areas and like my mom will make a whole list out of it, but there's tourist places that locals go and then what they like to do there. Yeah. There's like TV shows where they'll they'll tell you a whole route of like let's say um it's like a ramen route or like a foodie tour. So like comedians do a lot of like uh like road shows and stuff with different themes. So it's like if you want to do hot springs then they'll do a hot spring route and then they'll show you like where to go, where to eat and then if you want to do like I don't know like different foods like if you want the best curry in town or the best seafood then you go to different regions. Can we can we Every ethnicity

17:42 is Korea like Can we bust the myth is can can you still go with if you have a tattoo to the hospital some places some places it has to be the what the hot side of the city if you're like you're talking about like Tokyo proper Shabuya area like you got to like go outside the city more but then uh if you're like out more in the country they don't they don't care. Wait to go to go to what? To a hotring. What is that? Cuz you have tattoos. Why did I say it like that? Like a bath house. What is that? for real for UK. Japan. Oh, it's coming out. They have these really cool U bath houses that are like it's like a castle. It's like a It's like Oh, have you watched Spirited Away? No, I haven't. Okay. Okay. So, it's like um it's like um a bed and breakfast where they feed you like all kinds of assass food. Yeah.

18:33 And then you stay there and then you just hang out with your family and then you go to the bath like five times a Dude, I would love to do that. It's relaxing. Yeah, but you're fully naked though with other dudes. I know. I I did it once. Bobby took me. Oh, you went to the K-pop though. He took me to some spot over ████ eighth. Was he trying to look at like uh Hold on. Wait. Uh eighth. Try to look at your penis the whole time. Yeah. What? Did he try to look at your penis the whole time? The He saw it. He was staring at it, huh? Was he trying to touch it? No, he trying to touch it. I killed him. Had me in that ████ bath house or whatever the hell that was. Yeah. So, spa. It's similar. That's called We Spa, but it's like it's like like it's like tucked away. Like you can't tell it's there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's But then you go inside and it's ████ huge, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. You guys been? We used to go regularly. I've never been. Yeah.

19:23 [Laughter]

// end of tape