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What Crime is Each Asian Most Likely to Commit?

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0:00 What about Vietnamese? Everything. Everything? Gambling den. >> What's the most likely? Extortion. >> Robbery. Selling drugs. Every crime you could think of. >> They're the crime lords. We are going to talk about the most likely crime that these specific Asians would commit. >> Yay! Racist video, let's go. And it's Asian Americans, okay? Yeah. All right. What is the most likely crime a Chinese person would commit, Joe? Fraud. Yeah, like credit card fraud or something. Is that about Chinese-American, right? >> Yeah, Chinese-American. >> Tax evasion. That was going to be mine, dude. Come on, man. Oh, yeah, you can't repeat other people's. You could have it. Oh, we're we got to like go in a circle? Yeah. I could just tell you what we did. We sold like uh I don't know what

0:50 they're called, like unregistered cigarettes. Um drugs. Counterfeit? Counterfeit stuff. >> Unregistered cigarettes? Where are you getting the um cartons from? >> I don't know, but our dialo would give us these ████ cartons, I guess, without a certain stamp on it, and we would go like go out to go out to your high schools and sell them. Sell some loosies. >> And then it was and then and uh ████ what was the price? >> the price on it? How much of a savings would that be for a consumer like me? So, I forgot. It was maybe like I don't know, 20 bucks for a carton and and then and then we could just uh we could come back. I forgot what they wanted us to come back with, but everything else we can keep. So, everything is just up to you what whatever you want to charge. Wow. >> Yeah. You just have to pay this back. Damn, dude, that's dope. I was going to say smuggling. Smuggling? Oh, that's interesting. Especially if you have an import-export

1:40 business. >> I would love to be able to provide data for this, but every AI that I looked up would refuse to do that. Really? Yeah, because it says it's harmful to pair crimes with ethnicities. ChatGPT is wrong, dude. But I think you guys are right. I think fraud. I would agree with fraud. >> How How COVID harvester? What is a COVID harvester though? You just make lots of petri dishes full of COVID and stuff and you can harvest >> Harvester? Well, yeah, that's popular here in California now. What the ████ I don't know. All right, what do you think for Filipinos? What do you think their most their most likely crime to commit in their lifetime? Uh, illegal chicken fighting. In America? Yeah, a lot of Filipinos keep those roosters and they fight them in Hawaii. Civic SI stealing. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there was a quite a bit of that back in the day. I don't know if they're stealing cars now. I haven't

2:30 heard of that anymore. Having too many girlfriends at work. Oh. So, that would be like yeah, yeah. Yeah, what what what do you call that? Play a play a playboy scam. Yeah, just pimping too hard, dude. Pimping too hard, yeah. Medical fraud. Sadly. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's a that's actual stereotype. >> Yeah, in their industry, right? They probably know the ins and outs >> What I'm not happy about it. Huh? Like hospice fraud. Oh, senior abuse might be one. That's what it is, yeah. That that's that's the racket which I which I don't like cuz I have family in that in that they have own hospices and they deal with that, too. They deal with like uh They steal time and ████ or what? >> No, they deal with like they'll buy um like one of my cousins buys hospices that go corrupt. Like he just buys them out. >> Oh, to save them. Yeah. He'll just buy it because because the clientele's there. It's just you know, like um

3:21 it's not going to last running that way. So, he'll just buy them out. >> him to clean it up. Yeah, and then he'll restaff it and then do it right. >> What's the scam? So, there's a lot of them. One of them is the most popular one is because you're you're taking care of such an old person you can convince them to sign over lots of properties and you could you can ████ with their inheritance. You can like you could uh And that's why a lot of times these things get litigated for many years because it's like the kids have to argue, "No, she didn't want to leave all the ████ to the caregiver." >> Yeah, like >> why would she give it to you? >> Yeah, but then there's no way to like it's hard to prove because a lot of the time um some of these families were putting their loved ones in hospice are very out of their lives. They're not coming to visit. The reality is that they're just not ████ there. So they can get to take advantage of Yeah, so if you suddenly come around going no, she was going to leave that mansion to us.

4:12 It's like really? You haven't even had one visit. So the it's a very like I guess like an emotional scam. >> It's a perfect racket. Yeah, because you're you're also taking advantage of you know, the trust that the family has that you're taking care of them, but also you're exploiting the shadiness that they also have internally. So you're like kind of a leech in many directions, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> I know I know another Filipino crime. Vegetable deficiency. Yeah, I just got my take my dad in then. Cuff my dad right now. Just rice and hot dog everyday. That's bad, yeah. It's too much sodium. What a combo. Yeah. Oh yeah, and also for the care home thing that there's also the a popular one where they just don't do ████ They just collect money and they don't actually take care of them. Yeah, that's another one. Yeah, my aunt my aunt was kind of going

5:02 through that, too. Really? Uh yeah, but she got plenty of vegetables. All right, what do you think about Koreans? What what what Asian American Korean crime are they committing? Crypto crypto scams, dude. Crypto scam? >> Crypto rug pulls. Yeah, Korean American ones I would say is church embezzlement. Church Church scams, religious scams, like fake pastor that makes a lot of money and then runs away. Like that's always like the stereotype, yeah. And bang all the ████ church honeys, too. Or or create cults, too. Cults. They're really into cults. >> Yeah. Yeah, they they have a kind of like a thing for that, huh? Like an aptitude. Like they're good at it. >> Really good at it. They're good at creating cults, they're good at creating churches, they're good at embezzling churches, telling fake stories, all that stuff. What else? Anything else you want to add?

5:53 How much do you think is because like yeah, they could be good at starting, maintaining, and um and I guess like upkeeping cults, but like how what's the percentage of that the Korean people that are falling victim to it are susceptible? Like is that guy really that good or are the people equally as lost? Like a you know what I mean? >> it's the opposite of that. I think it's like damn, Mr. Park makes that much? I'mma start my cult now. So they they spread more. So they're all in the cult just to gather intel and start their own? I've seen so many like Korean churches split and become another church. Like this church like this pastor left this one, left this one, left this one, left this one. And they all came from like Bethel Presbyterian or something. It's like Zankou Chicken.

6:43 Okay, what about Japanese? What's some Japanese American crimes? Not doing things perfect. Imperfection. Like wrinkled origami or something. What would like what's an example of a Japanese American crime that that's happened? Would it be white collar stuff? >> In Hawaii, it's um gambling. Gambling? Cuz they like gambling a lot, but then like they'll have gambling dens, but they don't have a place to go. So they get those raided and caught. Oh, I got a good one for Japanese people. Illegal fishing, dude. Oh, yeah. Like illegal tuna tuna fishing? >> At Redondo Beach or something. Yeah, killing too many baby seals, dude. Too much seal clubbing. In America? Remember we did a story about how the guy killed like a thousand turtles? And he was Japanese or something.

7:35 It's personal. Yeah, dude. >> Under billing. Under billing? Yeah. So they get they hook you up? >> charge that much. Straight to jail. Musashi, I saw you like work here until like midnight last night. How come you didn't charge any overtime? No, I'm not supposed to do it. Yeah. Not supposed to. That's true. Overworking is a crime. Is there ████ labor laws. They don't follow any labor laws. Oh, is there a stereotype about Japanese people and check-cashing places? Cashing? No. I thought I knew an unusually high amount of Japanese people that were in that business. Of check-cashing. Yeah, of check-cashing. Yeah. And it was a Japanese guy in Hawaii that had several of them here in in LA or back in LA he had a bunch of them. And I was like, is this a Japanese business? The way that like the Patels have motels? Well, I know the mob um

8:25 does a lot of real estate in the US. The mob? The Japanese Yakuza? The Yakuza's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They And then they they'll buy like whole areas up and then they'll kind of ████ it up to um like get they'll bring like homeless in and whatever and then like more people will move out cuz the neighborhood's getting bad and then they know it's like a high-income area it will eventually. Cuz they did some they did that to some spots in Hawaii, too. And then once they're gone, boom, they make it beautiful and really good and then they make a ████ ton of money. Wow. It's a good racket. What do you think um this would be weird. An Indian American, what kind of crime would he commit? >> Oh, dude, scamming, dude. >> An Indian American, though? American? Taking Taking white uh software engineer jobs. Indian American? I think anything under the sun, dude. Yeah? You think

9:15 they're pretty uh they they commit a lot of crime? S- Give me one off the top. He's like, oh, yeah. Oh, not not not Indian American. I was thinking more Indian. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is just like a freaking Cerritos guy. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, a Cerritos guy? That is kind of hard, huh? I always have this image of Indian Americans being like straight and narrow. >> Me, too. I can't think of a crime. >> But then when I think of like Indian immigrant, I'm like, oh, they could do anything. Like Yeah. Like they'll they'll be down to do anything. Indian I can't think of an Indian American stereotypical like likely crime they would do. Instead of they're just like honest, hard working and ████ and like Bro, yeah, did we find the freaking perfect Asian? I think the only crime would be if they paid full price. The only thing I could think of is like immigration scam. Oh, duh. Totally

10:07 forgot about that. But even I I believe those being done by like India Indians and not like Indian Americans are just ████ becoming doctors and lawyers and ████ >> Cuz every like uh blue collar contract worker I've ever met, they did say not Indian American, but Indians are the hardest to work with because when they haggle, it doesn't even it's not even reasonable. It doesn't make sense. >> not like, oh, is it like 10, 20% off the top? It's like oh, can you take like 60% off? They're like, what the ████ That was my experience working at the Verizon and I would show the map of coverage where like the cell coverage is in 2001. So I'd be like, okay, you can see here where the red dots, that's your coverage and they'll haggle for more coverage. And they're like, what about here? What about when I go to the moon?

10:58 Will there be coverage on the moon? I was like, I can't make more towers. We don't got satellites there, dude. Someone has to construct these towers. What do you want me to do? Like give me the materials, I'll do it myself. Then I will need three phones. I was like, you can't haggle with the coverage, yeah. Oh, you know what? If you're going to say it like it is a gray one, but for Indian American, you could say the CDL illegally obtained truck driver license. All right. >> That's kind of gray cuz that's more Indian Indian. But close enough. I mean, a lot of Asians do this, but they indentured servants, their their family members by sponsoring them and then just being like you're working for free Yeah. until you pay it off. Yeah, Filipinos do that, but you you can't pay it off. I heard that's how the motels actually came into play. It all started from the Indian truck driving industry. So, they started putting motels where those

11:49 routes are and then that's why there's those random Indian restaurants like in the middle of nowhere. Wow. >> like kind of like a ecosystem that became. >> We asked Ishaan, he's that the dude who owns his family owns that cigar lounge. Indian family. I straight up asked him, "Is that a real thing?" And he said, "Yeah, it is. They have whole conventions." The Patels, the motel guys. Oh, wow. That's the exact thing that You guys thought I was making it up. >> Yeah, I thought he was making it up. The thing that thing we talked about is 100% real. They have a actual like family-run basically like a syndicate of remote-located motels and they like gather for these like meetings to like get more of them. It's pretty funny genius. Motel Patels. And then and then he even said, "Yeah, I think they're all Patels." Man, I miss Maybe I should go to one of those seminars. Yeah. We'll blend right in. I'll blend right in. Okay, what do

12:39 you think about Mongs? Well, I know that they were in drug smuggling because during the Vietnam War, the way that they got heroin and everything into the states is the CIA would use Mong communities in the mountains to grow and smuggle it to Thailand. Oh, wow. I think the only crime they do here is shoot each other during New Year's. Mong New Year's. That's it. That's Asian American. They're guilty of uppercutting. They're They're guilty of Mong on Mong crime during during New Year's. Shooting Clint Eastwood, dude. >> Yeah, that's what you said. You think You think it's a shooting elderly old white guys that are mean to Mongs, you know. Until they had they had their breaking point and they had to take him out. That's their crime. They're just shooting each other all day. >> I don't know nothing about my I think

13:29 the only crime I can think of was like bad haircuts probably. Do they have bad haircuts stereotypically? Only in Gran Torino. That's our reference point. Gran Torino. >> My reference point for that would be um the Kinjas, the two the two dudes, you know, twins, the twin brothers, the Lower brothers. And one of them has hell of nice uh locks. And the other one just has hell of nice long straight hair. Like they get when they grow their hair long, the dudes, that ████ looks Take it back, Bart. Take it back right now. >> Fine, I'll take it back then. I don't know but I don't know about the Gran Torino ones. That those are Minneapolis ones so they could be a lot different than Yeah, those are like ████ up. >> I'm thinking of the Bay Area ones. The ones that dance. Yeah, there's a lot of uh B-boys too but I think they would be guilty of the uh likely crime I think would just be assault. Not with a deadly weapon but just

14:19 regular uh plain assault. >> Assault on family. Yeah. Domestic abuse at a festival. Uh what about Vietnamese? Everything. Everything? Gambling then. >> What's the most likely? Extortion, robbery, nail tech, all the stuff Will Pepper told us. Nail tech, insurance fraud. >> That's true. Extortion did happen there as well. Selling drugs. Every crime you could think of. >> They're the crime lords, huh? >> Marriage marriage fraud. Tax evasion. It's like everything Chinese do but better. Oh, they do it better than Chinese? >> So Viets are top dogs in that? >> No, but bolder, I mean. Oh, bolder. Yeah, Chinese I feel like is organized and safe and they go, "I don't want attention." And then right now, you know, they're working with the cartels with grow ops

15:11 and all that. Yeah. >> I heard. They got They're giving them fentanyl and ████ dude. They're like partnering cuz Chinese like, "I'll do your accounting and funnel your money and I can do the laundry for you." And then the cartels are "All right, ese. Or you're going to do the growing and then you can just do it here and then like you can I'm not going to ████ you up and ████ A lot of fentanyl is made in China, too. I'll bring you fentanyl for you. And then they're like, thanks, ese. Dude, that's going to be some crazy collaboration. >> Dude, that's that might be the collab of the year. That might be We can't stop that. Chinese and Mexican fent Well, just China with the cartels, dude. How are we going to stop that? That's unstoppable. >> That's a that's a ████ one-two combination. >> bricks. Yeah, honestly. That's We need to recruit them to be on our team. All right, what about Cambodians? Genocide. Genocide? >> Being sexy, dude. Being hot. >> Yeah, being sexy. We had this one

16:01 Cambodian dude Saying the N-word. Say the N-word freely. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And all the black people are cool with it. >> Yeah. That's not fair for us. But we're the ones reporting. Yeah. Uh hello. What do you have to say? Like to report a crime. And why can't I say >> Why can't I say it? Wait, genocide? >> Pol Pot. But they're guilty That's not how it works. A Cambodian American from Long Beach is guilty of that. >> No, they're guilty of donut monopoly. Uh donut monopoly's good. Yeah. >> Cornering the market. >> You got to break that up. Turn them into Yum Yums and then Winchell's. Because you got quiet. Now we will have our closing statement by Nick Dunn. Um out of all the Cambodians I know, I would know a couple Cambodians, and one of them is very good looking. You know You know Paramount. So the crime is

16:51 beauty. Yeah. Beauty. Beauty is the biggest crime of all. Hear him. The sexy ████ dude. The blue belt? Yeah, yeah. Oh, he's a dime piece. >> piece. I thought he was Filipino. No, he's Cambodian. Oh, does that make it even worse? Cuz now he can say the N-word, too? I know. That's not And he it looks like he can get away with it. He could, honestly. Yeah.

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