0:00 So, you know what? They're also taking half time. Yeah. They're taking [laughter] They're taking half time at the right time. I was mostly excited. >> They winning the game and then they're like, "You know what? I never been happy." >> [laughter] >> Or they're happy now. Yeah. Yeah. How come you don't see a lot of Asian homeless people? What the Well, they're good at hiding, I think. I I'll tell you why. Because our population super low. And two, we're shamed into taking care of people even though you don't want to. >> Wow. That's a very The second one is very real, yeah. We have a lot of couch surfing ass loser uncles. So, it's a guilt-driven family unit. >> It's It's kind of true. It's kind of true. Like that There are like legitimate like understandings that when
0:50 parents have kids, speaking for Asians, when parents have kids, those kids will take care of you in the like in the future. You're I'm taking care of you now, you take care of me later. And it's just like known. So, it's easier to make sure that like even parents that maybe lose their jobs or get divorced or whatever, you still have a certain type of connection or have a responsibility to take care of them and house them even fully. It's just known. I thought it was a combination that we already started off homeless. >> [laughter] >> Cuz you know a lot of Asians >> Good point, too. >> You know a lot of Asians are container people, right? So, they're He's like a Van Damme movie. >> Cuz they're already generated, right? They already come out homeless and they're like, "Oh, I'm here." And then so it's Well, everything's already up. >> So, yeah. So, if you're already on the bottom, we didn't fall to where we are.
1:41 It wasn't like like four generations of white people and they end up going to trailer trash and they're like, "F███, I'm ████ depressed. I don't know. I used to be royalty back in the day and now I'm ████ ████ my ████ sisters and cousins and s███." Like we don't We >> No, Napoleon. >> Dude, shots at poor whites, dude. Shots fired. We We came >> we came in >> They were never royalty. We came in ████ [clears throat] already homeless. I think that's one. >> Yeah. The other one, I don't think Asians have feelings and I think that works in our favor. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, but if we don't have feelings, how come we're taking care of people? Responsibility. They have feelings, they just ignore them. Feelings is a second generational thing, right? >> Emotions get in the way of duty sometimes. >> Cuz I don't think we even like feel sorry for ourselves just yet. We don't even know what like Ask me Like our parents' generation and and their parents, the whole concept of like I'm depressed. They're like, "What the hell
2:32 you talking about? What the That is true, yeah. >> They're just like, "Go shut up and make food, man. What the hell?" >> [laughter] >> Actually, sadly so true. >> And then so because of that they just they work their way up faster and then they look back. When they have time to rest, so you know what? They're also taking half time. >> back then. They're taking They're taking half time at the right time. I was mostly sad, man. >> winning the game and then they're like, "You know what? I never been happy." >> [laughter] >> Or they're happy now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, this is happening, dude. This is >> They won first, right? [laughter] First is like I think >> Dad, what was your life like? Oh, sad all the time. So we just have a lot of old, sad, depressed people? >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I did work. I did work. That's a conversation, dude.
3:22 I did work all day. >> [laughter] >> Dude, I used to actually do that too as a kid and ask my dad like, "What do you do for fun?" He's like, "Fun? Ha." >> [laughter] >> AND I'LL BE LIKE FUN FUN {question mark} I don't know if it's like a sitcom but like that's that's really it is. >> It's like that was my fun. >> It's actually hard for my parents and my aunts, uncles, and stuff for to go on vacation and have fun. It's a very weird concept. >> probably think it more as like I need to have a vacation so my kids could see the world. It's more obligation versus let's go to relax. >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. >> There's a lot of shame I think it's shame driven cuz like if you think about how someone becomes homeless, it's because people don't take care of them. Like they don't look out for them. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't happen out of overnight. It's like >> Yeah, yeah. You have a neglected kid that probably is a ████ little ████ who's a piece of ████ right? And then they grow up and then like and
4:13 then like they're hella neglected cuz their parents are on drugs all day. And then like in most cases, it's like people get there because they've burnt so many ████ bridges to the point where they can't they can't couch surf anymore, right? They can't hold down a job. They can't do a lot of ████ Yes, there's times when people are just down and out, but in most cases if they're down and out, they don't have a community, they don't have family, nobody's taking care of them, too. That's also because no one feels obligated to back them up. Whereas Asians have so much ████ shame. >> On shame, yeah. >> They're like Well, I'm not going to go to vacation cuz I got to take care of my son. Yeah. >> But there are alcoholics and ████ wife beaters and kid beaters, but they just stay at together. This might be kind of dark, but I think isn't isn't it pretty high in Asians like suicide rate? Yeah. So it's like that might be the alternative. >> So that's the half time part. They got to make a decision.
5:03 >> of being like I'm going to ████ be homeless, they'd be like I'm just going to kill myself. >> Yeah. I could cuz because it's a shame driven society. Cuz you look at like Japan, right? Sorry, I don't mean to point at you, but I'm sorry I did it. >> Me? Oh, that forest. >> What forest? Yeah, like there's a like The forest. >> But it's I think that's so ingrained in the culture of Korea. >> beat us, though. Actually, no, no, no, but but but before >> competing who's the bigger suicide. We also got to think about it like if we go really far back, then it's it's also a a point of honor at one point. Like, you know, like seppuku and stuff even for Japanese people wasn't like a this sacrificial. It was a chance to restore honor to your life, your name, or your family. >> Or the next life? Or your family or your just your name or your life or >> up, it's kind of like sorry, everyone. Let me excuse myself. So, like, I don't know about other Sorry everyone, let me
5:53 excuse myself. What [laughter] about um other Asians? This was on me. Dude. There's also a a a way where um it's not quite suicide, but it's like su- it's like bailing out out of nowhere. So, there's people that can help you disappear in Japan where you're like, "Oh, man, I ████ up. Like, I ████ up with work. I ████ up with my life everything." So, they might like leave a deposit for their family and just ghost. And then they're just gone. Like witness protection program? Yeah, but just for guys that just they're done. And then they just want to like opt out. Opt out. >> a new identity and everything? >> Yeah, and they just run. >> New identity? So, like running they'll run but for different reasons, right? Where like it's like maybe they'll Some people would run cuz they're like, "Oh, I I don't want to ████ have this kid and I want to ████ all these other b██████." But then like also the Asian
6:43 There's also the Asian shame running. So, they they have those experiences so they leave a ton of money Not a ton. Sometimes they don't leave any. Like 3 grand maybe. Isn't that just a regular experience? Doesn't that just happen all over the world? >> note. Yeah, but it's like not exclusively Japanese. >> No, no, no, I'm saying but it's motivated by a different reason. Like I'm saying that they still have the normal ████ of like, "Oh, I'm running out of selfishness because I just want to ████ other girls." There There's people that just want to run from the responsibilities of whatever, right? But it's like the guys that just do this in every country. No, no, but the Every culture got their own. So, so let me put it to you this way. There's a whole culture of overworking till you die, right? So, someone works so ████ much cuz he's doing 20-hour shifts and then he doesn't tell anybody and he just ████ dies. So, it's kind of along the lines of that where
7:34 >> [laughter] >> he doesn't want to do that to suicide so he just gets a a new identity and runs. Anthony did not understand that mode. Did you get it? No, I think I I I understand what you're saying. I think it's just so nuanced and then the second you get super nuanced, I'm like, I feel like there's that in every country somewhere. But what my point was with the seppuku is the idea that like the shame of homelessness is probably so dishonorable that like there's a there's an honor to just offing yourself and then relieving your family of those issues. I know there's still issues afterwards if things aren't taken care of or the ducks aren't lined up. Yeah, you know what I mean? But I like I I I assume that cuz even even in like my dad, right? When I talked I'm like, "Do you want to be buried or do you want to be cremated?" You know what he says? And it's so depressing, but it's so overly logical and me and my sister have to like
8:25 understand this. He's like, "Neither. Just donate my body to hospital or whatever. They let them do whatever. >> [laughter] >> No trouble for anybody." >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it is. No trouble for anybody. >> They don't want to be a burden to other people. >> It's I'm like, "So so us as an Asian American That's the thing though. Like we're we're growing up with this whole emotional just like, "But we need to have a ceremony. We need closure. We need a somewhere we can visit you in the future and do blah blah blah, bring our children." He's like, "Too much work. You got to pay for ████ rent at the funeral like Just let no ceremony. Just let it be over. You guys move on." >> That's what I'm saying. They don't got feelings. That's why. You have a good dad, dude. I don't know. I think that is the feelings. I think the feelings is I don't want you guys to blow money on this whole thing because we're not rich like that. I think that's more practical
9:15 than feelings. No, I think that's a feeling of wanting the best That's a expression of wanting the best for you. >> It's a ████ feeling. >> [laughter] >> I I guess I guess it comes down to the idea also >> he's not saying celebrate me. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> He's saying like Too much work. Or Or when my dad gets older >> [laughter] >> It's too hard. Too hard to come back to. My dad says he says if I can't take care of myself, I don't want to be taken care of. I'd rather kill myself. And I'm like, that's dark as ████ You don't say that. I understand that though. I understand that too. Emotional child though, you go like I don't want you to say I'd rather kill myself. You just don't want to hear those words. He probably didn't say it right. He he says it very descriptively. I'd rather kill myself. English. He said the method too. Lost in translation. He writes it out. KILL MYSELF. [laughter] A DIFFERENT WAY
10:05 of saying that is don't let me suffer. I don't want to suffer. Like end my suffering. I get it but that's pretending like every Asian parent is an articulate human being in your language, right? >> But that being said, I get it because he doesn't want you to worry. Sure. That's the whole point. So it's the same thing with homelessness. If you were to become homeless, then like people you would assume people would be worried about you. Therefore, the alternative if it's just end, maybe loss of worry right now short time versus like worried forever. Like constantly be like he's still on the street. What are you going to do? Always thinking about like your solutions and stuff. That makes sense. One of the reasons why there's not that many Asian homeless here too is I think for a lot of Asians that come here, America's easy mode. It's playing the game on easy mode. >> are really good at what? Budgeting. Scamming. Oh, sorry. >> They can live they can really make sure
10:56 they live on very little. >> here compared to Asia, it is pretty crazy. So I think they come here like what the ████ It's pretty hard to fail. An 8-hour work day for them is like that's That's nothing. >> [laughter] >> So when they come here, they're like I was WORKING ████ 14 HOUR. I'M JUST GETTING WARMED UP. Three meal a day? That's the whole month. What the hell? >> [laughter] >> THAT'S THAT IS TRUE. YEAH, like the countries they came especially if it's like, you know, a war-torn country or you know, yeah. Like Vietnam when they all got here. ████ was probably Dude, it's not even just Vietnam when they all got here. It's also Vietnam then they had to go be in refugee camps in Mongolia or Malaysia or something like that for like 18 months. And like there there it was barter and trade. So, my dad would have to go cut down trees and take the wood back and build people's houses and ████ >> Sick. What a good trade, though. >> and then it's like 12 brothers and
11:46 sisters in an apartment. But they're like there's the AC unit. There's no rain coming through. What the hell? >> [laughter] >> Don't even have to clean it. Hey Joe, wave it. That's True. I didn't even think about that where >> Don't even need to clean. >> Water's clear. >> Yeah. Like they didn't even have a refrigerator and ████ That's crazy. >> Yeah. It's different. This is easy mode. >> My grandma said like they had a outhouse. And if she was scared every time they would go to take a ████ because a snake might bite her in the ass. So, she's like the fact that there's like a a room with multiple bathrooms in a house is ████ crazy. >> Dude, well how do you explain like Japanese immigrants that came here during the '80s? They didn't come from a third world country. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they still were able to >> it's easy mode. If they're Imagine the two corporate structures.
12:37 It's like >> They They work like 12 hours a day. >> Japan, after work, if your boss wants you to drink, you got to go drink. >> Here they could just do fusion jazz afterwards. >> [laughter] >> The Casio pea ████ ████ yeah, dude. >> Fusion jazz. >> [laughter] >> I think you're right. Okay, it's the it's the work ethic that they're used to. Yeah. But you know what? Um where there are a lot of Asian homeless is Hawaii. And I think I think it's a population thing, but I think you nailed it. It's the work ethic and culture thing. >> [laughter] >> Bro, it's guys from Japan trying to fit in. They're just fishermen. They're like They're actually rich. >> Yeah. You know how they look like cholos or they look like whatever's cool. >> at the beach, and then this like couple pulls up, right? Little Asian couple. Junky ass pickup truck. They sit down, grandma and grandpa. And then uh grandpa pulls out a ████
13:29 joint and I I'm like I never see like 70-plus year-old Asians ████ so cool just smoking a J chilling at the beach and ████ I bet they're like look at this nerd. >> I know, right? >> [laughter] >> I'm like you don't see this in California but in Hawaii like you you just see that ████ Here everybody. >> [laughter] >> In his board shorts. >> [laughter] >> Ichiban dork. Number one. But I think the more Americanized we become we're going to see more. >> we are too. Yeah, I think the next I think next generation, yeah. Cuz we don't know what hard mode is. We think this is hard mode. We think yeah. For sure. >> Or we think any or the generation thinks anything that doesn't go their way is hard mode. Yeah.
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