0:00 [Music] welcome back to another off the record with the careful boys today we got tesh with us hey and we're gonna do a whole session of ask an indian man so it's because you know what's crazy is like i've been around indian culture i have indian friends whatever but i never did like a deep dive of like asking things that i was always curious about because off camera we were talking about um you know punjabi and seat culture and stuff like that and i was like wait i've heard of punjabi like punjabi mc and i was like is that another way to say indian or is that like a cultured ethnic group in india yeah it's an ethnic group it would be like saying oh you know i'm a it's not as specific but like i'm a new yorker and you're you know from california oh but we speak different languages we have different cultures we have different
0:51 food angelino certain different certain customs are slightly different would it be almost like latin america like you have the different like panama guatemala whatever and they're like latin but they yes and no because you know they they all speak spanish so like punjabi is different from tamil where i'm from which is south india like is it like china where there's cantonese mandarin yeah like punjabi and tamil are completely different like i can't understand punjabi at all wow but like punjabi is similar to hindi hindi is the not you know the national language of india so everyone speaks hindi like everyone speaks mandarin they're supposed they're supposed to do you speak candy no i don't so like for example like my dad doesn't speak hindi my mom does oh and so when they watch bollywood movies we'll have to put we put subtitles on obviously so they're just speaking that's the english is their common language well tumble they both
1:42 speak double oh so the subtitles are they wouldn't read in them my dad would probably now prefer to read in english that's pretty funny what's like the most i guess dominant or or biggest like culture group so you got uh uh hindi you got tamo you got yeah punjab you have yeah i would say i don't i don't know probably punjabi southeast you know south indian tamil the central maharashtrian that's like central which one's the the dad beats the sun's ass yeah the dad beats the sun all every oh what about the sun beats to that brown culture hindi speaking or even spanish speaking if you're brown like your chat is probably because growing up my best friend was indian but i think it was also like we were so young you don't really dive into like knowing that there's differences
2:32 yeah of course yeah i just know i go there when he's in trouble his dad does wear uh like a head wrap of some sort so he's probably see he's probably see his dad beats his ass and i know in in the backyard her mom i mean his mom has a ton of like lavender peppermint like a ton of herbs that's all i remember and i just remember if we run through the backyard we're going to come out smelling funny top three childhood i mean it's better i mean i mean smelling like lavender is not so bad that's pretty fired yeah it's pretty good people pay money for that but like you know like sikhism is actually it's a religion that's not uh like you can be seek and be you know white oh so there's no contact where it's like that's mainly in india well i would say the concentration of people who practice sikhism are punjabi oh and and the mom and the grandma wore the
3:23 traditional clothes where the the six-pack showing but the sister wearing regular clothes the auntie midriff a muffin available i'm trying to explain it like western trip there's a there's a halter top i'm the wrong person are you familiar no this is fun this is like a lenga which is an indian skirt but maybe they're wearing like something called several gummies which is like a full outfit are you familiar with cerritos and artesia yeah okay so the the mom and the grandma shops in artesia yeah it makes sense i'm pioneer yeah so the sisters shop at the mall because okay so those it's like yeah it would be like your mom going to
4:14 chinatown to buy her club yeah yeah yeah and then you hitting up macy's yeah down the street but they're over at sonachandi yeah like what is that all about is that it's just because they can get traditional clothing there probably for a price and they obviously can haggle oh you know the haggling is it's hard to figure out is it like every indian community anywhere in the world is haggling unknown like you can haggle yeah you can haggle what are some no haggle stuff yeah yeah there is no situation oh really if you go to other than like a restaurant where there's like prices on the menu like you know you don't see a price indian patients haggle with your dad when after they get like a procedure you know my dad haggles with the insurance company but uh yeah so you know indian indian culture is very diverse you know even with definition please
5:05 um which if you haven't seen on netflix it's very good it's out now right now watch it that's the movie definition please 100 on rotten tomatoes on netflix in the united states canada uk new zealand new zealand and australia australia let's go so i have another question too um i don't know if this is indian related but what's your skincare routine i feel like indian people have immaculate skin yeah skincare routine so i'm gonna get yelled at by everyone i wash my face with saint ives which every single person that is either like a dermatologist or an esthetician is like don't use don't use it what's wrong with that so that means that it says that you just like say that's facebook is it the apricot one yeah the apricot what's wrong with that we use curology they say that the walnut shells are too abrasive well look at them we can't argue with results come on dude you have
5:55 the best skin i've ever seen thank you i just uh one of my buddies stayed over he brought over a face wash i don't know what company it's from i've been using that because he left it in my shower is it lubriderm sounds like a brand new that's like that's like i thought that was lotion thanks hearing you left it in my shop mine now maybe also an executive producer on the movie oh what up that's what i do i wash my face all right there's no secret it's just oh i got a question uh indian question genetics uh sunblock oh yeah sunblock that's a big indian question number five all right so uh uh sri lanka that island right is that considered india too or sri lanka used to be part of india uh used to be called salon and then they changed their name sri lanka because i think independence or whatever yeah
6:45 reflects and then they became independent um but they are now an independent country but to answer your question he used to be part of india as was pakistan so like that's nationalism right but then like what about ethnically so ethnically they have i think the two biggest groups there and you know internet can look this up but it's probably like sinhalese which is like people from sri lanka and then and then people uh who are thermal which are people from my city oh because south india yeah it's like south india so it's like a larger area within the groups of indian oh they're like these other guys are late all the time that group is called all india indian standard time indian state and standard time whatever acronym you want to place on it dude if you want an indian person to say oh my party show is at 8 00 pm you tell an indian person 6
7:36 30 oh 6 30 6 30. hour and a half hour and a half at least an hour holy ████ yeah bro what are you doing people doing when they're late what are they really doing are they right having sex there's a billion of us in la is there any beefs between indians and bangladeshians social beefs like little things i'm sure they're i'm sure there are but like yeah that i'm not privy to another country i believe that was part of india before the partition yeah because i think i don't know because i always like hear little things like yeah i'm sure there's always like you know cultural rivalries i'm sure as there is in regions of china of course like what you know like people are like which who's cooking is better sejuan or cantonese yeah like you have ████ like that right i'm sure yeah like so like north indian food and south indian food are very different right so
8:27 like north indian food is probably what most people are familiar with naan chicken tikka chana masala like a dog paneer so all of that food is very punjab great it's all punjabi food that's why a lot of people you know know punjabi culture yeah what about mango chutney yeah but that's like basic that's like me saying chili oil oh so everyone like everyone does it right but like everyone have their version okay right right like everyone have don't be regional versions but like south indian food what i grew up with was like uh dishes like dosa which is a lentil and uh rice crepe savory crepe is that the it comes in like little cups kind of and then no so you're probably thinking of sambar which is served with dosa idiot oh you cups oh you're thinking of honey pouring yeah yeah where it's like a little yeah those are rice wafer they poke a hole very good it's a little potato and they put spiced water in it i'm sorry right i ████ up
9:18 so panipuri's like spiced tamarind water whatever yeah that's whatever that is and so that it means the vessel the cracker the wheat cracker and then pani means water in hindi yo it's funny my girlfriend um grew up in the uk right so she's like man i'm so homesick right now can we get some indian food yeah yeah yeah dude it was so funny i was watching a cooking show on netflix and it was in the uk and it's like families that cook against each other and they were like okay so today you're going to make your favorite dish from home right and i'm like oh cool we're going to get like a french dish an italian dish spotted everyone made ████ indiana every single family meeting did it look good and i was like what the ████ is today's video is brought to you by audible alright so 2022 is a new year
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12:44 you know like indians were persecuted by the british you know they took over india i see you know what i mean so they're much more intertwined it's super complicated obviously i'm american so i can't speak as like a british indian but try though it's ████ up i'm gonna just go ahead and say we can all agree it was all ████ up from my understanding though is like you know on the west coast right like if you if you think about japanese americans here being like six generations in or whatever right out in uh the uk it's even longer than that indians been living out there for like a long long long time a long time also it's like much closer if they're like hey i'm gonna get out of india let me go to the uk just because it's shorter chances are there's more community there's uh you know just maybe i have a relative there like whatever the reason oh but it's so cold i don't know my parents moved to new york oh that's true that's true do
13:35 you feel like upset when you go to indian restaurant and the cooks are mexican no not at all yeah we don't either no then i know it's legit dude mexicans make the best worldwide worldwide everywhere you go most well-rounded you know what you want to know a funny thing if you go on a cruise and you look at all the cooks they're all like filipino indian or asian or east asian the majority of them are great indian chefs yeah so like and they won't serve the indian food but if you go and ask them for it if you ask them for it excuse me they'll get excited and they'll be like oh yeah we'll make something for you because you're there for a week right or two so you just like befriend one of the couple of people and be like yo hook me up a little bit of food like just hook me up with the best indian food you guys got and they'll do it next carnival cruise bro because dude a lot of people a lot of people don't realize this but people who come in with
14:25 dietary restrictions so like oh i'm vegan or i'll like i'll eat kosher or like though instead of saying oh we have kosher food they'll just be like oh we just made you something vegetarian right was indian food nine times out of ten honestly as far as like this is what people don't understand and i wish people in america understood this and there's like ob or american beef i like beef yeah american food me too duh they don't know how to cook vegetables beer yeah that's true that's true like steamed broccoli that's ████ like if you talk this is what i would say like just put in a pot asian cuisine knows how to cook vegetables i could be vegetarian if i made chinese indian cuisine like some of my favorite food is indo-chinese food which they is very popular in india really yeah they basically take uh chinese cooking techniques and use like indian spices also it's like southeast asian style yeah yeah like malaysia yeah malaysia
15:15 it's also like malaysian food is very because they get a lot of the influence yeah yeah yeah yeah the sauces and the breads and the cooking techniques and it's like i love banana leaf at the ████ grove is there even a proper indian fast food chain no not out here at least because you're thinking about jollibee weren't you filipino what's the equivalent like yoshinoya you have panda express they need one it they just shoot out samosas at you it's like kfc no they have like the street vendors right so like like right like so if like you want samosas you go to the street vendor you want what we call what about in america but they should make a franchise like like curry kid or something you know but it's never it's her here's the issue here's the issue curry kids this is what i don't understand like maybe you relate to this is like when you go to people i'll never get this you go to like a thai restaurant you're like no not spicy i'm like get
16:06 out yeah so if someone came to me and they were like hey i want chicken tikka but like not spicy i'm like get out because it's not the i'm like that's not the dish it's hard to make spicy like it has to be spicy spicy though get out dude get up cause sometimes man you get diarrhea man yeah no i'm not saying like light it on fire but nine times out of ten i mean indian cooking because it's so spicy spice and like yeah yeah and like labor intensive i mean i guess in the fast food setting it could work but indian people won't go there right so it won't be authentic yeah oh that makes sense like the restaurants i go to the least are indian restaurants and i feel like that happens with a lot of india it won't have the fubu effect like i don't know you guys go to eight like you know asian restaurants i like one out here um it's called banu one of my favorite ones but they have a cool little bodega next
16:57 to it too but did you guys grow up with authentic you know the authentic i wouldn't know what authentic is of my culture yeah yeah yeah i lived in a japanese neighborhood and so like but would you have japanese food at home every day home cooked my mom couldn't ████ cook for ████ so i love the restaurant so like we had indian food single day and you want to try other ████ it's not even that it's because it can't beat you you can't beat home food like you can't beat it and like all of our friends we all operate the same and like we'll go to indian restaurants together and be like yeah it's whatever yeah interesting have you had indian food in the uk because it blew my mind it's i'm like why can't they do this in america no but i've had indian food in india oh yeah and it's it's great it's yeah oh yeah it's different it's different and it's excellent it's ████ excellent it's also like a fraction of the price i'm like that
17:47 makes it even taste i spent like five dollars damn all this food like for all of us to go eat like kings i could spend literally 20 bucks and it would be more than anything we've ever seen like if we went to like small hole in the walls what's the best indian street cart food um like in l.a i mean or in india like what what's that you can't eat it like i can't eat it because then i'm going to have dysentery like when you see like andrew zimmerman will go down like these these youtubers who go to these food carts all those guys grow up there or you know there's like those those famous white guys right there they like live in china or live in thailand or live in india so like they're okay drinking the water like i can't go have pony pory if i go have pony pory i'm gonna die like i'll have diarrhea for three and a half weeks yeah because you have to see them boil the water or cook the food
18:37 right you have to like watch so like even if they're like hey i want a samosa from street vendor they'll have 100 samosas sitting in a pretty triangle right and they'll be like flies on it right and like ████ like that you have to be like no you need to make me a fresh one i need to see you make it and then they're just like this ████ guy and even then you're like is it a risk because like the potatoes have been just sitting out there i've eaten a lot of food like that and i'm fine but the last time i got ████ up was at a marriott eating mexican food in mexico in america not in america not like i would get donuts from a guy that has a ████ donut basket he opens up and flies fly out and i'm all like i'm eating that ████ you kind of got to pick your poison like one time i had a chicken shawarma sandwich and it was literally an auntie squatting on the floor like she had her sari hiked up and she was like stirring the pot and i looked over at my cousin and i'm like dude are you sure this is gonna be okay and he's like yeah it'll be fine and then i saw the
19:27 one dude like pull a baguette out of like a ████ the back of a rickshaw and i was like i don't know if i should eat that and then he had this sauce and he just put it all over the baguette and i was like yeah i think i'll eat it and you were good and i was fine and ironically dude i was the only person on that trip because my whole family's there that didn't get sick you didn't have diarrhea i didn't have diarrhea once that trip did you did you gloat over here the rest of your family was like oh you're ████ weak ass when you guys choose restaurants out there how do you know which ones are like in the clear and which ones are like i don't know no if you go to any nicer restaurant the service is always really really great like india that's the one thing like if you go to a a hotel it'll be excellent it's completely different like you'll be at a five-star hotel and then across the street will be a slum
20:17 i like that i want to go there oh i have a question is uh is there something that dictates whether or not like the ladies have the red dot or not like if they're married or it's just this it's a cultural significant thing they're they're all religious significant they're all religious you don't have to be religious now it can be both fashion cultural and religion do guys do it too uh they they don't they won't wear it in the traditional sense but like for example like uh if they go to temple and then come back they'll have the powder on isn't it it's i don't know what it is what about the red dot thing i see like my friend's ground yeah that's just a sticker oh that's not that's not religious yeah for her if your grandmother is wearing it she's probably wearing it for religious uh significance it'd be the equivalent of anyone just like wearing a cross on their neck what if gwen stefani wears it what does that mean no that's just appropriate [Laughter]
21:07 but she did date an indian guy i had the bass player the bass player was in here yeah does it count they're not married anymore right she's married to what's i don't know i'm asking for my white girlfriend because i mean she's like she's like yo i have enough japanese coming me i think i'm pretty much japanese that's how she phrased it yeah she was like i'm filming so i'm like so i'm like one percent yeah you know what at this point at this point you can wear anything yeah you could do whatever that's fine you can you can do that anyway yeah what type of japanese traditions does she want to instill in her life she was thinking about ritual suicide so that's the first one harikari yeah harry carries what's the difference between hari kaharikari and seppuku for the same thing yeah ask him some japanese ████ uh that's the literal translation i mean it's like cutting the gut like uh yeah they mean two different things but they're the same thing
21:57 basically so one's the ritual one's the physical actual that's just the yeah it's a real trend yeah which is the more harakiri it's just hara is like gut kitty is like cutting yeah and then you know the art of killing yourself basically that's the whole judo and jiu jitsu sometimes are used interchangeably in japan but then in the us you think of brazilian jiu jitsu and judo as olympic sport so then but it's the same thing in japan japanese jiu jitsu and judo are the same thing if you write it out jiu jitsu so jitsu just means technique technique dough is way i learned that from naruto oh really i knew that karate karate dough karate jitsu yeah it just means one is technique and focuses on like more of the logical step by step and then the other one is more like the the the spiritual encompassing yeah yeah
22:47 basically i get it what's your favorite indian martial art there's only there's one where is it called dawson all the internet is going to smash me on do you guys remember that uh those two guys that traveled the world and tried tried different martial arts yeah they go to india for the sword fighting so that that's part of it and so it's like based on a lot of animal movements but the the idea is that that martial art in conjunction with yoga made its way to the shaolin temple yeah whoa that's how legend has it and then the shaolin kung fu was born from that they ripped off indian people and so like as of course when you know white people showed up they make everything illegal yeah and so that culture kind of disappeared
23:38 in buddhist and buddhist folklore the shaolin temple was never like a combative place it was just there's just a name it's just like saying like uh like eagle rock order just the name of the place and then there was a mysterious indian man that came and taught them how to exercise yeah and the exercise was the martial martial art and then they started practicing it so much that it became synonymous with that tempo and you know that shaolin kung fu made its way to okinawa and then karate original name was called chinese hands and then the wu-tang clan came and came to my house to do a music video and then they dumped ████ all over the streets so as you can see this has all come full circle sharing of cultures forever bro method man for life
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