0:00 [Music] The undeniable similarities between Jackson Wang and Kang Wang. >> Both light-kinned and skinny. Yep. I see it. >> I don't look like him. >> Yeah, you do. >> Really? >> To Mel Gibson, you guys are the same. >> Mel Gibson. >> Yeah, that's true. That story you told earlier when you were 18, the first time you went to third base, that sound like that could be some Jackson Wink. >> Build up those cheeks. >> Yeah. Yeah, dude. That's some pop star stuff for sure. >> He also failed to mention that during that time they had just won that competition that he was at. So that's like a major hack.
0:50 >> Superstar points, huh? >> And this competition was like huge. >> The biggest one they would say. You want to know how much of a pimp can Ken is? >> No. >> Do you remember her name? >> No. >> Wow. >> Drop the mic right there. >> Wow. >> That's messed up. >> I didn't know you were such a cool guy. >> So, you never even saw her after that? >> Mm-m. >> Damn. >> You're a pimp, dude. >> See, >> I think that would eat at me subconsciously. >> Why? >> I don't know. I would feel like >> like what would happen if I we kept talking? I don't think >> I would feel bad. That is that's I'm saying it from my point of view of who I am. I'll be like, "Oh, dude, I'd feel really uncomfortable." >> And can't believe you put a penis in your mouth. >> That's fun to say. >> And
1:42 what was what was one of the main things your dad would like like kind of annoy you like to do? Would he be like, "Andy, take the trash out." Like what stuff would he like hound you about? >> Make me go on dry cleaner deliveries. >> Oh, I don't need to deliver. >> Oh, you guys delivered like drop it off at the customers and stuff. >> No, not customers. So, like there would be like different um >> there would be like other cleaners, right? Other cleaner businesses that don't have the machines. We would have the machines. So, they would just like take in customers clothes and we would go pick it up >> and then we would clean it and then we would drop them off. >> How many would you do this? >> So we had maybe like two or three that we would drive around >> per day. >> Mhm. Every day that >> Damn. >> Wow. >> So you had to like drive a van and ████ >> The worst would be like like I mentioned
2:33 that time where I was playing at Western Arcade, the arcade that was always in our contract and then or nickel nickel when >> nickel nickel >> but then you'd be like wanting to like get some momentum or play a game and they'd be like an we go delivery. >> Oh man. >> ████ >> Right. or you're watching a TV show or you're taking a nap or whatever. And a lot of times it was just uh he could have use the carpool lane. That's the whole point. >> And then al obviously it's like I'm trying I'm a little kid trying to carry this big old bag of clothes, you know? So it's like it's just and it's like hot. There's no AC in the car. >> All that. >> That's why you're so cool now. >> I would have bought you five 3D printers. >> That's a lot of 3D printers. >> That's 15D. Quick maps. >> That's why you're like I feel like
3:24 you're ████ living your best life now. >> For real. >> Like you pay your dues and now you just get to ████ kick it and just be hot. >> I know, dude. We're ████ traveling the world. >> Debuting the new Scion and ████ >> Damn, dude. >> With all kinds of random people. >> Mhm. >> Wow. I don't know if that bit flies well. And >> take bring condiment. >> We're just saying like you could if you wanted to. Yeah, >> that's all we're saying. >> It the bit worked because it's not true. >> Mhm. >> Uh-oh. >> I unfortunately think the bit also works because I really don't like that one.
4:21 Mhm. >> Hand me my water bottle, dude. >> Mhm. >> Can you hand me my water bottle? >> I think it's pretty excuse me. >> I think it makes you look pretty good. >> And go to libery with me. >> He's practicing his ████ bars and ████ [Laughter] No, I almost spilled my food. >> Did your dad ever have jokes? >> Yeah, with his friends. >> He never had like a thing with you like that he would just like kind of mess around about. >> No. >> Damn. The whole time. >> Damn. >> Just serious dude? >> Yeah. >> He never roasted you and ████ >> It was crazy to watch him >> have fun. >> Like the head of a dinner table and say some ████ and people are like laughing. >> What? And me sitting there being like,
5:12 >> "Who are you?" >> Cuz I wouldn't fully understand Vietnamese as deep. >> And I'm just like, >> "What? >> What is this?" >> And then we go home and like it was just ████ the dungeon miserable. >> Damn. >> Why do you think I had such a like dark energy like that? You think I was just stressed out? >> Maybe. Maybe I was actually just like not really impressive to him. Bro, >> what about now? Are you impressed? Like when you're on TV and all are you >> now? Everything is good. >> Did you impress him now? >> That's also Yeah, I think I think now he's like I don't I don't know about impressed. I think the bar is low. I'm not going to lie. It's not like he lived, you know, this crazy life and like made a lot of money or anything like that either. >> So, I think like the bar is pretty low. Like the fact that I come by, I pay bills. I like give them money from time
6:03 to time. I always pay for the food when we I take them out to eat. Um I am doing interesting things that are like like where their friends kids will talk about me or some ████ So their their friends will end up saying stuff. So they have to be like oh wow like >> whatever he's doing is transcending like some sort of you know realm of like direct connection. So I think I think that they're like really really cool with me now. But I mean it took a ████ lot of work to get there, >> right? You had to win a lot of shows, dude. You had to be on a lot of shows. >> Damn, that was a lot. >> Damn, dude. >> You think you got to pass that on to your kid or No. Or you think you'd be like try to do the opposite of that? >> Well, his kid will be half Filipino, so you don't got to worry about that. >> Yeah, >> he's going to be cool. >> Hell talented out the womb? >> Yep. >> That was going to be ████ break
6:54 dancing and studying for a medical exam. >> Yeah. >> Be a part-time nurse for fun, you know? >> Mhm. Would you say that like you and Mike's dads have a similar pace of like sat like child satisfaction or is his dad more prouder of him like sooner? I think I mean I think it's similar but I think his dad probably was more proud sooner because Mike was doing more things to be proud of sooner than me. like, you know, he was on ABCDC season 1 and then I don't know if I'm allowed to like specifically talk about this, but like he was able to help his dad's business when he needed it >> financially. >> Yeah. >> Like at a at a really crucial moment. >> That's pretty That's huge. >> Like really step in. Like me, I I didn't like help do anything with the business.
7:44 I just was like giving money when I could. >> Yeah. But the cool the crazy thing is both of you guys got into UCI, which is like really huge for Asians at the time. Well, my sister got into UCLA and my all my she the high bar. >> Columbia, Dartmouth, Stanford, Harvard, USC. >> Every single one of my cousins was like >> like Ivy League. >> Damn. A smart family, bro. >> Damn, dude. >> For my mom and her friends, UC was like graduating high school. >> No way. >> That's like a 2.0. Yeah, it's like, "Oh, you got into like Berkeley or whatever." It's like, >> okay, >> like a default >> like maybe maybe for your masters you can go to a Columbia or something. >> My mom didn't give a ████ >> My dad was just glad I graduated high school. >> Yeah, mine too. >> Yeah, >> my dad dropped out. >> My mom was just glad I wasn't in jail
8:34 and I was turning my life around. >> Mhm. >> Damn, bro. >> My dad just was happy. >> My brother was a mechanic and then he he decided to put himself back in school and became a doctor. >> Wow. >> I mean, not not a doc. Not a uh I mean like a get a doctorate doctorate in like ████ >> some kind of science >> changing oil. >> If I told my mom I wanted to be any like blue blue collar job, I might as well told her I'm going to be homeless. >> That's funny. >> She would take it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. If I'm like, "Oh, I want to be electrician." And she's like, "What the ████ >> Going back to Taiwan." >> You know what I realized though? I thought it was like an Asian thing, but I think it's more of a class thing because like the more um people that I meet that didn't grow up poor or like their family didn't go grow up poor in Asia, they don't have the same story
9:24 about like you need to be a doctor, you need to do this ████ It's completely different. >> They're allowed to be artists. They're allowed to do whatever. They could choose these things. It's just most people coming here >> are coming here to run away from like some situation and make their life better. M. >> So that's why they're like, "Don't ████ waste this s███." >> Well, >> where like if they come from privilege, it's like >> it's different cuz they already go to university. They already think western, >> but not like white western, but it's more like >> they're of that. >> Yeah. They know the path already. >> Yeah. They're like, "If you're into art, are you going to be a art dealer?" Fine. They understand the whole world where I'm like, "Oh, yeah. That's completely Yeah. That's a different world, man." I feel like the fallacy is breaking a little bit now in the modern day where like people are starting to see that going to like a really great college can be the worst decision you make. >> Yeah. Especially walking with a crazy ass loan and then with the with the
10:15 major you can't even apply. >> Yeah. It's and it's mainly down to the major choice. Like it obviously if you're going to STEM fields you're fine. But then like people that pick these ████ like scam majors that's I feel terrible for them taking on that much debt and then you can't get a job at all. But you know the next generation like the Gen Z and younger, they don't have the same gripe as we do about parents forcing professions and all that. >> Like it's a completely different world. >> Yeah. >> They have way more options where the stereotype and it was majority true like I remember a lot of like our peers were like you got to be engineer, doctor, lawyer. >> Mhm. >> That was your only choices. >> That's what I tell Taeka. you ginger. >> He's like, "Do I have to go to college?" I'm like, "No." I'm like, "If you know what you want to do out of high school and you're 100% passionate about it, go do it." But if you don't know what you
11:06 want to do, I was like, "Then >> then you should go to college and keep expanding your mind. >> College is expensive though if you think about it. >> Hell yeah. >> For what you get." >> I think I'm an advocate for community college. >> I think that is the best ████ >> Like if you don't know what to do, that's perfect, dude. Back when I was in community college, it was like $14 a unit. >> I think UCI was perfect because it's like >> I guess the point is enough of a college experience where you're still like living on campus. >> So, you have to submit to a culture of college life. >> Cuz the things that I was learning or the most important things that I learned was outside of the classroom for sure. Yeah. >> Whether like from a conceptual point of view, like the first time living on your own, therefore you have to like >> have roommates and know how to coexist with other humans that you didn't go.
11:56 >> Laundry ████ thrown on the floor cuz other person wasn't going to wait for you. >> Or the responsibility. >> You're like, "What the ████ Who did this?" >> Your parents don't wake you up to uh to go to school. You have to be responsible to go show up to class. Yeah. >> And then of course like you know all the other things like drinking, party, ████ whatever. >> Yeah. getting a >> But that was that was perfect for you in the sense that like UCI's dance community is like no other place on earth. >> I didn't know I was getting a crash course of like the most gangster >> prestigious version of our community. >> I just thought like this is what college is like. This is crazy. >> When you guys went to college, um did you kind of choose did you do go like I might go here, I might go there and then visit the school and then do all that ████ No, >> I did. >> Oh, you did? Oh, dude. I didn't even get
12:47 into Liiera. [Laughter] >> Damn. You see how hard cuz he knows. >> So, like it's the pipeline. >> He's got to pay. >> Yeah. It's the pipeline university for 7th Day Adventists. >> Basically, that's the the main 7th Day Adventist University. >> Uh, Linda is >> No, that's even better. But, uh, >> but Linda is more like our ████ Harvard. >> Lassier is closer cuz it's like just in Riverside. So almost everybody from like if you go to SD high school, you'll get in there no problem. >> So I didn't know that you couldn't get in. That's why I'm laughing because like >> it's like if you pay money, >> I thought you could get in. >> Yeah. >> But everyone wanted to go to either PUC or Linda. >> Yeah. Yeah. It was more adventurous. >> Those are the two like >> is that like the um >> it's like the Stanford and Harvard of where >> of like Isuza Pacific like that? >> Yeah. Yeah, it would be. Yeah. Yeah. Last year university. Yeah. No, it's
13:38 like the elac of >> Oh, the elac >> and we went to Elac. >> It's still a huge school with like uh with like its own church and its own like Yeah. It has a lot of stuff in there. >> But all of I remember though all of our friends that were like not doing so hot, they went to >> That's where they all end up. That's your default basically. If you can't get into the Cal States or the UC's, >> you just go hass then. I remember I got into San Francisco State and then I just was like >> too expensive. >> Oh, damn. >> I stayed back. >> And and I wanted to ████ Tiff kept me back too. Like I want to stay with her. >> Oh, if I go to San Francisco, that's ████ probably going to be done. >> Was it the tuition is too expensive or the the other other stuff. >> My dad was like ████ for what? To get your ████ G to be to be gay, bro. >> Yeah. Is that what >> Do you know what the cost would have
14:28 been? Well, I remember it was like it was like 35 to like 4,000 per semester or something like that. Per like quarter or something. >> 4,000 per quarter. >> Something like that. Yeah, it was it was something like that. And then you have to do living expenses and all that. So, just like all that stuff. >> Yeah. It just added up. So, I was like, ████ I might as well just stay here at PCC. >> I went to PCC for for a couple years. >> PCC? >> Yeah, that's where I went. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. >> I did a community college. >> Yeah. PC is a nice school. >> I'm glad I did it. >> Yeah. It's a great school, too, >> cuz I had to figure some ████ out for myself, too. You know, >> I went to Cypress, >> bro. Cypress actually is a really great community college. Yeah, >> Cypress College. >> Yeah, >> it's actually very good. >> Yeah, >> I went to Certo's College, too. And Cypress College is like 10 times better. >> I applied for financial aid, so I never paid for it, but it was also like,
15:18 >> dude, financial aid at at at freaking uh community college felt like you're cool. It's like cool. You could have used it to fund their racket to >> buy rims, dude. >> Dude, that's one thing I I regret. >> Kicker subwoofers. >> Forget it. >> Some tens. You know what I'm saying? >> I need to actually challenge myself and try it out for stuff like real >> try it out. >> No, like you know, now that I know the whole system like >> in high school it's like I would have probably tried. Oh, that's really apply yourself, huh? >> Yeah. And then see what school I could have got into and then like I actually like education is what I found out too ████ late. >> Oh yeah, bro. >> I found out like I want to say second year of community college that I liked
16:10 learning ████ at school. >> Yeah. >> Cuz up until then everything was like >> I'm just going to hack my way through this. ████ this. I rather sell drugs or something stupid. Same. >> And then Even the way I approached um college was so like let me get the max for bare minimum effort. So it was always like remember we used to go to trade tech and one of the things we did was we would go on rate my professor and be like oh this is a easy class. Everyone says easy easy A, right? So then you you sign up for that class cuz it's easy A. So I'm like I got a I got a 4.0 maintained it for over a year because I hacked the system not cuz I went to a difficult class. >> You like money balled it. >> Exactly. Yeah. >> And I still didn't know how to like read like you know what I mean like >> how did you look at rate my professor? Was that like hieroglyphics? You were
17:00 >> cuz there were like one word sentences >> read sentences you know but I get my name after a paragraph. >> I always forgot that E. >> E too >> dude rate my professor was >> it was so sick right >> cuz that would literally make the difference if you got a ████ A or a C in a class. >> Honestly for real teachers thought of that site. >> They were on rate my poo. >> Rate my student. They won't rate my student. >> One of them I was stubborn about. I was like, "Man, ████ this ████ I'll get a in your class. I got a C. I'm I'm listening to rate my professor 100% from now on." >> Cuz the professors would really make your life ████ hard. >> Cuz I would read the comments. One of them was like, um, so it was for a class called OKAM. It's like a really, really hard class. >> So hard. >> And, uh, it's so hard that a lot of schools if you get a 85, they'll give you an A >> just across the board cuz it's just so ████ hard. Wow.
17:50 >> And then uh they'll be like, "This this teacher's a ████ ████ If you get a 85, she'll still give you a B, whatever." And mo and most of the time, even if you got a you know how like when you have a weighted GPA, >> like let's say if you have uh 90, >> it's uh it's a a minus and it's a huge difference whether if it's like a um what is it called? If you get a or a minus cuz a you add four to the average, right? A minus then you add I don't know 3.7 to it. So it brings it down or whatever. And then a lot of the community college teachers, they know you're trying to go where your next step is. So even if you got a 90 or 91, they won't give you a A minus. They're like, "F███ it. I'll just give them a A cuz I just want them like I want to like send these guys along." They'll be like, "She's a ████ She's like to the ████ nickel and dime to the whatever." And I'm like, "Man, ████ this. I'll ████ get an A in her class." is impossible.
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