0:00 Don't get your ears pierced. It's like why? Just just it's just bad for you. Like why? There's no reason. I know, but I but I should get circumcised at 13. Oh, very good. Very good. [Music] Welcome back to another episode of Careful Boys. We got a lot of Chinese people here today. >> Hey-o, you guys are outnumbered. It's a takeover, guys. >> My question to you guys is, you know, like you've uh grown up with a lot of Chinese things in your culture and uh some of them you still do and others you don't. What are the things that are even for you just too Chinese? >> Like Hall's cough flakes? Nah, that's not Those are good. I just had those. That's a core memory. You just had Hall's cough flakes? >> Yeah. You just had them?
0:51 Like 2 weeks ago. >> That was like the only candy I could eat as a kid. Why? You have a sensitive stomach? No, I my stomach is actually really strong. You look like someone who would have a sensitive stomach. >> You got a sensitive tummy? >> I honestly do. Wait, what's the characteristic >> You seem like someone who like who who like when you try to give them food like you you don't say anything but then your mom goes, "Oh, he can't have those." You know what I mean? With the type? You think I got You think I got Crohn's? You think I'm gluten I think you deserve to have Crohn's. When I was a kid I I called them strawberry firecrackers cuz I didn't know what like a Hall's cough flake was but it looked like the It looks like the uh looks like the Watusis. Yeah. It does look like a firecracker. And the inside looks like dried strawberry. Mhm. It's actually a hawberry, dude. I didn't even
1:41 know that. >> Yeah, hawthorn. >> Too Chinese. One of the snacks I don't like is pineapple cake. Really? It's dry. There It's really dry but there are other >> Moon cakes are a little funny. Yeah. I actually like moon >> So many weird things in moon cakes these days, though. I like moon cake more than pineapple cake but pineapple cake is dry. Even though even though it's from Taiwan? >> There are a few good ones but there are a lot of s█████ ones. >> That's the pride and joy of Taiwan, though. And you don't like it? I'd rather have a Twinkie. This ████ is so ████ dried. >> But you like stinky tofu? You wouldn't rather have a Twinkie than stinky tofu? >> Stinky tofu is bomb. Wow. >> You like those? >> Yeah, I think they're bomb, dude. >> Really? You like stinky tofu? I wouldn't say I like it. I would eat it. >> Are you aware that it smells like ████ There's a lot of things that Chinese people grow up with that people think is
2:31 weird or smells funny that I don't like we're just used to it. >> the key is to when you're born around ████ you can't smell it. Yeah, that's true. Like do you think blue cheese smells like ████ Hell yeah, ████ garbage. >> Yeah, it smells feet It smells feetsy to me. >> eat it? HELL NO. I DON'T like it. Really? You don't like You don't like Parmesan? For real? Oh, but you know what, though? It's the European one is so strong. Like the American one is lightweight. It's not that bad. I could do American Parmesan and stuff. When we went to France, I was like the markets there I was like, "What the ████ It smells like toe crust." Yeah, it smells like everyone's feet is out. It's so bad. You ever smell pecorino romano? That smells bad, too. Dude, but then athlete's cheese
3:21 I don't judge. I mean I mean I am judging but for them it's like, "Damn, this ████ is ████ fire." And I'm like, "That's what they smell when they smell natto." So what about what about the let's get into the uh home remedies? Are those too Chinese for you at this point? >> Like coins on your ████ >> Yeah, or or which ones do you still keep? I still use the oil, the tiger oil. >> red one? >> The tiger balm? Tiger balm and the oil. The green one? The red cap? Red one. There's a red one, yeah. I just had a headache and I used it on the temple of my uh temples and then my like right under my temples of my eyes. I don't know where I was going with that. Oh, my head feels way better. Because my eyes hurt. >> Place it on temple of my >> I got any Chinese ████ in my house. >> Yeah, not anymore. >> have any of it? >> Mom's house. >> Like the one thing I'm thinking if if I should stock up on some Chinese ████ that actually works really good, there's this black syrup like a natural cough
4:13 syrup. It's probably way better than like >> Oh, is it the super thick plum? >> Super thick one. That one is way better, I think um if you're trying to go the whole like organic route compared to what the Westerns use. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> gosh, I haven't seen that in ages. Now that I'm thinking about it, I should get that. Ninjom Pei Pa Koa I haven't seen that in so long. >> Oh, you speak Mandarin? But that ████ cuz it's like ████ like Whole Foods or whatever, right? >> you say that properly? Uh where does this I got to read the Chinese. I can't even read >> Oh, yeah? All right, read Oh, you can't read these? >> know it. That says river. The third one, it says river. Loquat and honey. Ooh. Yeah, Chinese people love loquat. I love loquat. I thought it was plum. >> This works for you this works better than like Robitussin for like coughs and
5:05 congestion? Well, I don't think nothing works as good as like super crazy pharmaceuticals but if you're trying to be like let's not put crazy chemicals in and you want just a mild version, this actually worked really good as a kid. >> What's a honey extract? That's a good question. >> know. But I don't think they know, either. >> I would get this. Interesting. Out of all of the different other remedies that your mom has like bestowed upon you, like you know, the wasp, the seahorse, all that ████ you don't keep any of that in your He only keeps newt. Why do you make that face? It's Chinese stuff. >> What what wasp and what are you talking about? >> You never go to the herb Chinese herb shop? >> Butterflies, you never had that >> Yeah, like you had like they would go You know when you go to those Chinese acupuncturists >> Hop Fung? >> Yeah, all the jars. All the jars. And you have ████ seahorse, wasps, centipede, ████ all that ████ and they crush it all up. Then you got to make a soup out of it and drink it to help with their like allergies or ADD or
5:55 whatever. >> Yeah, I didn't I didn't ever do that. >> Oh, you never had to do any of that? >> No. So you didn't know that you eat seahorse you get stronger? No. Well, how out of >> It cures your ADHD. scale of 1 to 10 Out of the scale of 1 to 10, how Chinese did you grow up? 10 being like straight from the China. >> Did you have wooden furniture? At my grandparents' house, yes. It's pretty I think I would say like eight. Seven or eight out of 10. >> I think I'm a four. Maybe a three or four. And then Bart's 11. At least At least 11. >> 13. How Chinese is that? >> being left at the Buddhist temple, like they're leaving you there, that's very Chinese, I feel like. >> One thing I did start implementing cuz I do like some of the Chinese stuff. One thing I started implementing is for
6:45 Thanksgiving, Jill's mom was with us. And then you know, they come and like they come and take your order. Like, "Oh, what would you like to drink?" Like Ty just jumped the gun. "Oh, can I get a Sprite, please?" And I'm like, "I'm going to shut the ████ up. Let grandma order." Go around in a circle cuz I don't want him to have like this me me me me me. You know, like, "I got to take care of my needs first." I'm like, "No, your needs is the least important in this in this place." That's really cool. So like going going to manners, like what are some manners that are like too Chinese that you don't even need to follow them? Cuz that cuz that I feel like is universal. Where like, "Yeah, that's nice that you can you wait for the elderly to like do their thing." >> It is universal and then or like women. Like you know, like like the idea of like, "Oh, you you can't see the the stairs from the front door" type ████ You don't even Like feng shui stuff? >> Yeah, feng shui stuff. Like stuff like that.
7:35 >> My So when I was when I had my baby, Chinese people are very very superstitious. There's all this ████ you can't do because it's going to affect you, you're a bad person, whatever. So my mom when I had my baby, she was like, "You can't shower for 60 or you can't wash your hair for 60 days. It's bad for the baby." I'm like, "What the hell? I'm not doing that." So how long did you last? I wasn't I showered at the hospital. 60 days? >> You don't want to listen to your mom? >> wash your hair and then like um cuz I was so excited for sushi, right? I love sushi. And she was like, "No, you can't have raw stuff for like a year." I'm like, "Hell no." Wait, after the baby's After the baby cuz you're still breastfeeding or >> You can't have sushi because it will corrupt your breast milk. Mhm. >> That's the first thing we Postmated. >> Yeah. I bet. >> Jill was still at the hospital. I Postmated ████ Sugarfish to her cuz she couldn't have had sushi for like the
8:26 whole time we were pregnant. Damn. >> While I was pregnant, it would be like, "Oh, no, you can't lift like anything." You know, like any can't You could barely touch anything. Everyone has to do everything for you. But then >> That's kind of a cool rule. Hell no. You want to keep moving when you're pregnant. I was literally still weightlifting while I was pregnant and I think that would have given my grandma a heart attack if she knew that. Oh, that's so true. But you're so much healthier when you do that. You have to keep moving. I see. But grandma's like, "You need to bind your feet, girl." >> Seriously. You need to put these rings on your neck. It's not even Chinese. Just random crap. Most Chinese rules I got rid of. Cuz it's just ████ full of ████ Do you wear shoes in your house, Bart? Do I wear shoes in my house? So the shoes thing is majority of the time shoes off before you come in the house. Okay.
9:17 But there's also like convenience time. So if I left my keys in the house, I'm running back in with my shoes. Right. Yeah. Or if like I'm putting it together outfit, then I'll wear the shoes to see if it looks good and then I'll it'll be inside the house. It also helps that your entire house is not carpet like the '90s houses. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's Oh, in Chinese houses that doesn't matter what you have. No, yeah. Have tile all across your house. >> Take your shoes off. >> And you take I don't know if you guys have this but it'd be like you take your shoes off then you have house slippers. Cuz if you don't have house slippers, you're going to ████ catch a cold from the floor or whatever. >> Yep, yeah, yeah, that's that's true. Catch a cold from the floor. >> Never caught a cold from the ████ floor. Yeah, you have. >> Wow, is that the reason why? And then you can't like air dry your because you're going to catch a cold, too. Like a head cold. >> My mom always says that to to my wife cuz your hair's all wet. She's like, "You're going to catch a cold." >> My mom tells me catch a cold from
10:07 everything and I'm like, "Why are we so ████ weak that we catch cold from everything?" >> Yeah. Or in the fan, right? I heard that you don't No air. Yeah, none of that. It has to be hot all the time. >> from AC, catch a cold from wet hair, catch a cold from ████ like wearing a silk jacket like everything. For sure. >> But everything you'll catch a cold. >> You know what I don't understand? Is like Asians do well in school, right? They they learn math, science, all this ████ Here it comes. But why the ████ do they not take what they learn from biology and then they still use medieval magic? Yeah. But they want you to be a doctor. They don't want to be a doctor. They want you to grow up to be the doctor. So you can buy the saber-tooth ████ tusk that they need to be healthy. Got it. And you know what the problem is? for that. >> what the problem is? You could become
10:57 the doctor, right? You become the doctor and then when you start like seeing your parents they'll be like, "Ah, you don't know anything. You're just my ████ kid." >> Oh my god, yeah, dude. Hey, Look, I literally went to Harvard, dude. What the ████ I don't really talk to I talk to my dad every couple of months and then it was his birthday in November so I called him. The whole time he just was lecturing me about Chinese medicine and it was literally after all the ████ we talked about on this show about all the Chinese medicine stuff and he's like, "Yeah, you know, I've been doing a ton of research on the the the Chinese medicine and the western stuff. Like they don't know anything like, you know, blah blah blah." And he's just talking about he's like, "You got to stop and he was reiterating all the stuff that he said to me as a kid." Right. "No more cold stuff. You can't be eating that. You can't You got to You can't eat the hot foods. You got to You got to stay away from the cold foods." I was like, "Well, what the ████ am I supposed to eat then?" Cuz that's ████ half and half. Like And he's like, "Ah, you can't be eating any of that ████ dude." He's
11:48 like, "Nah, nah." So what did that leave you with? I can't eat anything. I literally can't eat anything. >> Did your You you tell me? Your mom said the same thing about drinking cold water? Oh, yeah. I mean, no Asian parent or grandparent is okay with cold water. That's why they don't have ice water. or hot. So is that just for water, not for like cold desserts that are liquid based? >> eat desserts. They don't eat desserts? >> think they really eat desserts. I mean, I guess there are Asian desserts that are less sweet than that. >> Dude, this makes so much sense because when Chinese people order drinks they they ask for no ice and I always thought it's because they wanted more money. No. Like like there's more drink and then they're like, "I don't want you to cheat me with all this ice in this s███." There's something about like digestion or so. That's racist, I think. Yeah. The digestion thing. Yeah. Is that Is that a real thing though? >> It's probably some truth to it.
12:39 >> Who knows? Depends who you That's ████ Come on, man. Believe a little bit. My mom would be like, "Oh, like you can't eat this because your stomach's whatever." And I ████ learned in like western science class your ████ the hydrochloric acid in your ████ GI is so strong you could probably eat a rock and it'll melt it. I'm like, "It'll ████ melt a rock and you tell me you can't handle an ice cube?" But the cold water makes it cool colder, okay? It's not going to make it as effective and then it's not going to work. >> I was literally coughing just 2 weeks ago, right? And I was talking to this It was an Asian person. I don't It wasn't a family member but I was coughing and she was like, "Are you okay?" I was like, "Yeah, I'm fine." She's like, "Do you need water?" I was like, "Oh, I have water right here." She's like, "Is it cold?" I was like, "Yeah." She's like, "Mhm." Yeah. She's like, "Good luck." She started doing her prayers for you. My mom didn't even want me to have a black car. What? People can't see you.
13:31 I'm like, "What the hell? I got lights on when I'm ████ and driving at night." What do you mean people can't see me? You need red. You need red car. >> Were you allowed to have black cars? They didn't They didn't I never asked for a black car. I always had a white car. I got what I got. Common Chinese thing? I don't know. I think that's Bart's mom. Maybe. >> But like I'm sure I I that's something I could definitely hear another Chinese lady say. >> I wouldn't be surprised if someone said that. >> Cuz after a while they kind of just start making things up so you just stop doing whatever they want you to not to do, right? Like don't don't have don't get your ears pierced. Yeah. It's like, "Why?" Just just It's just bad for you. Like why?" There's no reason. There's no reason. They just don't want you to have I know, but I but I should get circumcised at 13. Oh, very good. Very good. And I remember I was growing my hair out like this, right? Everyone was growing
14:21 their hair out like that. >> Devon Sawa? Yeah, then my my my dad's like, "Oh, you don't want your hair to grow out like that because you don't want to get in a fight. People could like grab your hair." See, that's logical. >> then >> That's That's what he said. >> But then I started getting into fights cuz why you getting into fights? I'm I thought the whole purpose of having short hair is that when you get into fights no one can grab your hair. >> With the heart. You had You had You had this hair? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like this hair. Oh, yeah. Classic, dude. >> That was so classic. With the flip? >> to get us a picture of that hair. >> That's true. I mean, if you were fighting guys Wait, you literally had that hair? Yeah, didn't everybody have that hair? Like in fifth grade? >> a pretty common Asian haircut. >> I couldn't do that with my hair. >> I couldn't do it either. >> I was straight bulked up. >> Everyone had that and then and then it went to the fade and then everyone started having fades after. Yeah. But then what happened where you ended up with bangs and no other hair in the back? I think by that time my dad just gave up. He didn't give a ████ >> You just had bangs and a bald head? Yeah, you remember that? >> Oh, no. Like you know when you have a Why would I remember that?
15:11 >> fade and then like you have bangs and then you would like slick it back or whatever. Is that Ken on the left? Dude. They don't have a picture of that cuz it was horrible. But yeah, it was like uh Oh, man. It's It's kind of like this. Shadows on that hair. Holy ████ >> blend right there.
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