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Family Painted the Tomb of Beloved Relative as a Jollibee Takeout Box

#jollibee#cremation#buried#ashes#tombstone
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0:00 thank you [Music] Joe actually sent this to me yesterday and I thought it was really interesting yeah oh we should have had this for lunch bro oh we're about to change lunch again so uh there's a tomb in the Philippines a tomb yeah like you know dead guys buried in it yeah but you'll see what you'll see but it's an interesting feature about it here's what it looks like oh ████ are those Jollibee here lies Jollibee Jones are those coffins what no it's a tomb so like the dead it's like uh so it's not a coffin but that's like where the person's buried underneath the mausoleum like I like that Jollibee do you think it's a bunch of just like fried chicken they throw in there too or what so so the the story is actually

0:53 pretty touching like I was like aha that's pretty funny and then I read it and I was like dude it's ████ dope So like um this Filipino family they never they lived in an area that was very far from Angelic B so they never even had it but the um the father would cook them they'd be like like fried chicken and they would just call it jelly beans oh we're having Jollibee they would do like a weekly thing and then like eventually like years and years later they actually were able to like travel to one and have it so it's like a memory in their family that Jollibee was like kind of a thing they would say and then it doesn't even stop there every single year they paint the tomb a different thing that's so nice like a different fast food thing not just a different thing that he liked or something kind of like a beer or something I don't know and then they have the cost M M's they did a Ferrari wow

1:43 I'm really excited super good right the Jollibee one was my favorite because I thought this dude worked at Jollibee you will never leave Jolly I know and then he's all like so you know how some people are so about that brand yeah it's like yo these are everything you know it's like Mexican gangsters with the Raiders merch like they love that stuff I was dying this jersey they probably get like a Raiders coffin and stuff you know wouldn't I wouldn't put it by the way for everybody in the Philippines I had Jollibee a week a week ago and the spicy fried chicken batter they got there it's super spicy is it more spicier than here is it a different one yeah yeah they can yeah I don't know if it's different I don't I don't go to Jollibee in America more perfected in the Philippines because they've been doing it longer and it's locally sourced all of them in like one Street in Manila so yeah it's probably the best ████ plus chicken ethics out there are probably

2:33 different so they taste better yeah ethics always makes food not as good I know it is Juicy out there that's why the Halal Guys here is not as good as the cart in New York yeah they got roaches and rats the same grease from the whole week yeah it makes food better but yeah they uh this is their tradition where they do things like this where they like always decorate the you know like you decorate grapes here yeah do you guys do anything special for anything I don't go to no graveyard dog ████ that ████ that's such a cool Flex honestly the only thing I feel like every single time you go there and you just like clear all like the Dead flowers or like the weeds and you just try to like make the place nice put something fresh there and that's really it you know I don't have any family members buried it's cremation mainly yeah oh most so did you scatter ashes in in Kuwait no my

3:24 grandma died in Japan and my mom was like so we had the ceremony somewhere somewhere and I was like that's cool and I'm like I don't know where she's at they have a cremation halls in Japan yeah everything's cremation in Japan because Taiwan is because Taiwan is only cremation only because uh there's the space is small but they have Halls where you can put the ash into like a hall so you can still go and pay respects they don't have a hall they have a family burial like box so like it'll be like a tombstone thing yeah like one thing yeah and then all of your ashes gets buried into that one so you just use one plot and then they write all your names into that one thing yeah he has to burn stuff that's tight that's like they do that The Cremation one day it's like a scam a little bit because because you gotta buy

4:16 the space in The Cremation thing and then how much do they charge and they forgot yeah I know but they'll go like to 200 000 and you're not gonna be like no you go okay Joe oh yeah yeah yeah somebody your family died you're not gonna be like a good haul you know yeah that's why that's why you gotta I know this sounds weird but you buy it early when they're like not dead already you like invest in it early oh yeah yeah that's it's just part of the industry it's a weird thing like but like you know when like uh an old family member already has a spot you can already start paying for the spot next to it oh in order to like minimize that like one-time fee and then it's weird like that don't you buy it for 50 years when you buy a spot I don't remember it's like a 50-year wow ownership uh you could just if I die

5:07 just throw me back into the East you just want that yeah but sometimes it's nice the family and friends together to that's why to go to you know it's nice to come together and then you can always get a tombstone you know what I mean and put it somewhere you guys all want to be buried no hell no I'm gonna be a global human being what does that mean global I belong I belong everywhere so like it just dusts my ashes in Japan Hawaii La Vegas at the circus circus and uh one strip club at the buffet the worst one there's probably a lot of Ashes there already a lot of great memories there man Circus Circus is Amazing [Laughter] Joe is everywhere just slipping through the filter just put me on a dollar bill I'll ████ circulate you know hey

5:58 that's true that's easy I don't I don't know because um I think just my family in general there's no um one city or one thing they've always been moving and mobile right so like most of their lives in Japan and then the other half in America but then like they go back and forth but also they travel to different cities and in my my uh closest relatives they also travel like and moved in different parts different states so we don't really have like one city where I have Generations you're a little Japanese Gypsy Nomads pretty much I think uh I don't know if I want to be buried but I know that my family would because of Christianity and they believe that like when God comes you're gonna come out of your grave so if you're not in your grave you just I'm not gonna pop out of a urn yes so I don't know I think they would want

6:49 me to so I think I would do it for that reason um Roy Rose Hills you're gonna stay local I would like Billy Joe's Roseville is kind of tight yeah that's nice easy ease up there but most of my family's buried in Forest lot the like the the two one yeah because you're Filipino man you're closer to the valley that's why yeah that's what it is Filipinos go to Forza all the time I don't know you guys you guys want to do that whole ceremonial ████ like that getting the the people coming to your funeral and ████ I just want to be forgotten personally but I think my family would and if I made a decision that they would be more saddened later I would ████ probably become a ghost I'd rather be stuck as a memory on YouTube and in the digital world and then um just be forgotten real quick like move on that's how that's what happens just put me on Instagram be like

7:40 R.I.P and then ████ move on to jacking off to ████ only only fans or something that's your dying wish you wanted one to jack off right after um people remember me and to have a great time at my phone what if what if like let's say but then that's if you died now like what if you had kids right and and the grandkids and they wanted something to visit that's that's the part where I think it's cool when the whole family's together um like because in that way like it could become a theme for the family like we visit my grandpa on like my birthday Chinese New Year and stuff like that yeah and it's always cool so he's buried in Rose Hills and it's always cool to go there and then there's already flowers there I mean oh cool Auntie stopped by whoever already stopped by you know we just add our flowers to their flag that makes sense that's that's a cool tradition give birth to like a new tradition yeah yeah and then the visit all the joombies I'm gonna make all over

8:31 the world mix yeah I said Joe that you guys do where you guys visit the grave of like your relatives or anything like that there's no tradition just you go whenever you you can go we just go on like important dates so birthdays uh New Years oh you guys you go more than one time a year because in Taiwan there's um the tunes oh yeah we're supposed to go and clean

9:21 it it was tight I want doomsday before Wednesday you see like people go there and they spend because like you're really trying to respect their Elders or whatever so you you clean it people bring a picnic and they spend the whole day there that's cool and then you get Tombstone Pizza [Applause] really it's uh maybe it's because the kids always complain but whenever we visit our grandfather uh grandparents they're in Hawaii but every single time you go to visit them there's just all these mosquitoes so like oh yeah everybody just knows it's like when you get bit up it's like oh you visited Grandpa and that's just the thing so many mosquitoes you don't want to be buried I think I want to be cremated but at the at the same time it's like I it's more like also wanting to be with your family if I had to make a decision for myself as a human being selfishly without any other context I'd probably

10:12 just want to be cremated but if it's like my family's here or my grandparents or my parents are it's like same thing it's like just put me there my grandma's cremated and buried oh so my grandpa so so my uh my family always have so my grandma my dad's side she passed away young like before I was even born so she's always been an urn because her ass got cremated already and then so she was just passed around from whatever the family when the family immigrated here she's just spending all these six to six living rooms and then when my grandpa passed away they the family wanted the grandma and grandpa to be together so they just put it in the car yeah I've seen that too yeah so so the tombstone has two names on it that's cool and they're together but then one is a live person the other one's powder yeah and it's like inside the tombstone with them yeah

11:02 that's kind of cool I think it's nice if there's one place like that and two places where the family is there so family visit but also in a like a little sand jar you could have it in your house and be like this is Grandma in my room you can do the sand the sand mixing ceremony oh ████ but you do it with ashes yeah together forever that's just weird you just take each other's grandparents and you're like let's bring the families together and mix their ashes oh yeah that's true marriage in a matcha smoothie and a little bit of Vagisil this this is Joe's grandma [Music]

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