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Off The Record: Sorry Ladies, Dante Basco is Married Now

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0:00 [Music] welcome back to a highly segregated episode team China careful [Applause] boys Whites Whites and we're Filipino stop biting stop Filipino town stop Town Filipino town you stop stop it you go down white people we buy your real estate guys how about a big welcome back for Dante I'm back you going down brown guys now my wife I'm good I'm China we good we good you're one of us yeah I don't know she's o [Laughter] girl we cool we love China still we're still cool exactly exactly know that

0:52 we're all still down so besides the fact that somehow you again look younger than last time you were here another thing that's different is this guy is now a married man wow congrats married married men in the house can we get or married people in the house can we get you're basically you're basically kind of how how did you know she was the one um what a nice question musical chairs times up you know what I'm saying for real times up settle no no I think it just it was a lot of things I don't know you guys met her before I like we met before Co and then Co happened that was kind of like a one of those make or break moments you know what I'm saying like we're going to spend 24 hours together for like a two years and we're going to stare at each other and either we're going to not be together it's like this is it let's go

1:42 that's so dope but it was good I mean there a lot of good things you know we're both filmmakers and artists we're like walking the same direction and she's also I don't know she puts up with my my ████ so that's cool dang she's great she's great she beautiful yeah she's beautiful she's she's old world she's from the old world though what that mean old world you know immigrant girl women from another country not just China or Europe or all world you know all world like like you come home and she takes off your shoes well definitely no shoes you mean oh yeah she break her feet put them in tiny ass she takes take World old world you know old world where it's like we're Asian we eat certain food but then the Asians from the old country eat other food that's even heavy deeper cut food we're like oh what the hell she eat doggy not doggy but you're like what spice is this oh you're craving some extra crazy let's go

2:32 to monre park right now I guess we got to go and get into some stuff I thought you meant like you see a cockroach like e she like what do you mean E I like it but I'm saying it's not just old old girl would know Dante I know old world girl like Eastern block girls from like Bulgaria girls from like Hungary like it's like a whole we we get soft in America Americans we're soft on mainly that table soft we very soft we all are soft here cuz we ain't really been yeah y'all can't eat floor roaches floor roaches even try you don't eat bucks hey I I did get one who gagged on ████ tofu buddy that's stinky tofu I didn't gag on it you did gagging is a compliment to the chef white table plus one like a ████ he took it like a ████ I did get married in China and I did eat some bugs yeah how come we got married in China

3:22 bees I eat some bees what that tastes like deep fried uh it was fried deep fried it was definitely crunchy I had them deep fried it was pretty good I was like I'm not in but no in the sweet it was yeah it was it was seasoned yeah did y'all have eating bugs I've done the chocolate cover crickets a couple times any did crickets once too cricket sounds kind of dope it's a thing in the south is it a thing in the South mhm I got it on road trips when I was a kid going to South Carolina a Gateway bug though they said I like that it Rhymes bugs protein bugs are like the future of what's going to go on for all of us well that's what the WF wants the W who world world economic Forum dude you eat the bugs and you will be happy and ████ are you serious yes you're starting out with dog food getting dogs on the on

4:12 protein dog foods eating protein bugs like crickets and roaches and ████ testing that out because it's easier to farm bugs obviously to farm cows and chickens and all kind stuff crazy takes we don't know what it's going to taste like you may not have a choice we may not have a choice have a choice choice I mean would you rather eat bug protein or just be a vegetarian bug prote bug protein for a I just guy I oh no it's a bean burger who gives a ████ Bean Burg bean burger no I need gains dude you need gains be you going bugs or a vegetarian beating ████ carrots all day and ████ my entire brand is about my game yeah right I've seen some guys on Instagram that are that are vegan guys that are I don't take steroids lying they're lying lying

5:04 well they're ████ eating celery Sho up steroid plant protein plant protein yeah it's cool that's real a lot of metals but imagine bug protein I know that bug protein they're going to you know they'll rename it something else that they'll Rebrand it they have to yeah they will no one's going to eat won be called Bug protein be something else it probably tastes good there's cultures that eat bugs for hundreds of years that's like it's part of their thing yeah how was getting married in China it was dope we went to a place called Di and it's like on this Lake and it was like kind of like they call it when we were there the the the local were calling do doia really yeah it was like the Tulum of of China Wow Instagram ████ there taking Instagram a lot of Instagram stuff like but they don't have Instagram out there they have a thing called uh red book red book you know about that I don't know about it in English yeah they' be putting everything

5:55 on like doen and like WeChat and stuff like that or we we what what city is is Dolly in it's in the unan province and we had this really beautiful thing so my my wife is an actress from China she's like oer she's kind of the first oer celebrity in China back when she was in college she won China Got Talent and so she did a bunch of movies in China before she came her to film school so she had been home in 10 years so when they found out she was going home cuz we're going to do like a small little ceremony cuz her parents couldn't get out of China so we were just going to bring my parents to China do a small ceremony but then her friends that were like oh we're coming out next you know like all these people were flying to this like our little like wedding her friend who owns these hotels and architect for all these dope hotels he gave us the hotels and like free hotels what she somebody over there up yeah and then she all of a sudden these

6:46 like Chinese celebrities were flying in like dude's coming this one dude came in that's like with security and like in a robe I was like who's this dude had like a diamond necklace like a yeah had like a leopard was it B Baker no I don't know his name but he was like a reality show star that she was been R forever and directors other actors and then people were like I live stream the wedding cuz we're like my family wasn't there a lot of them one one of my brothers and so like let's just live stream it and then but it was like a I was in a Chinese soap op right cuz everybody's like speaking Chinese but like I don't know what's going on and they're crying cuz they haven't seen each other in so long and they start talking and there's a guy which I didn't know what was going on and my my wife was like I told the guy don't do this thing I'm like what was that guy doing talking the whole time he goes it's a custom that there's a guy that's narrating the whole

7:37 wedding like like like a commentator play bypl yeah cuz he's man I don't what he's going in for the kiss yeah no she's like and there she is she walks out she's walking down she looks at her father oh that's how they do she's so emotional I'm like that's what that guy was doing the whole time she's like yeah and I kept looking at the guy like shut up but he kep tell but that's the that's one of job that's how they like to enjoy purpose there that's yeah that's how they like I thought can we bring that I can get an extra job likeo I can go and narrate your wedding for you that's kind ofrs on that I heard your back is well that's a rumor I don't know if that's I heard I heard it everyone's saying that I don't know if that's true or not I heard it are you saying that here but like when the Camas are off you might no I really don't know we'll dedicate a whole episode to getting that out of them we don't know I don't know but I can do another I can have a side gig where I just come and narrate people's weddings hell yeah dude I didn't even know that was a thing but

8:28 it's weird I think it' be weird to in English right it'd be weird but at the same time if you got paid like that's cool it's cool it probably doesn't hit right in English or if you have someone play an acoustic guitar in the back or music but my guy I'm like what's he saying cuz when I was watching it over I was like what he saying he's like oh she looks at her father and she he's she's very emotional he's like he's like commentating he's articulating it beautifully right he's not just saying gu he's like being poetic he's being poetic it up yeah is he rhyming and ████ I don't know if he's rhyming he better if he did sty rapper a second when I was try to how y'all's Mandarin y'all 100% 50% I'm only conditional to my mandar my mandar is probably like at a second third grade level but you get around yeah I get around I get around your English is the same so I know like random vocabulary so I could like exist like I'll know how to ask for the bathroom or like things to order off the

9:18 restaurant menu you know what I mean but when you're immersed in it yeah when I'm there when I'm there for like 3 months and it's like all vernacular within my industry things like in the dance the like left hand right hand step count oh that's easy you understand how to say that stuff but like in the streets you ain't having so heavy conversations no ████ no I'm avoiding that M of mystery but we have Google translate now and we was having heavy conversations with people we like emotional I mean we're drunk it was a wedding so you know wedding we're all in the mode it doesn't get you in trouble because of the inaccuracies I don't know well when you're drunk you're flu at anything we I mean me every landed we got to a point drunk as hell like we're brothers Brothers Brothers it's probably better in writing too when you see that so just for everybody who doesn't know like let's rewind back what was the point that you and her first

10:09 started digging each other like how did that start uh we met each other at a house party In The Hills which is pretty cool and then but then I didn't see for like a year who made the first move uh or who showed interest she proposed to you I heard no no a year later a year later I ran to her again at at a at a at a rooftop bar in LA harriets and she had then became single and then I was single too so then I slid I slid into the DMs I slid into the DMS okay which DM which DM Instagram cuz what happened this place the club was like they posted a picture of me and my brother and then I looked on their page and they posted a picture of her and we had talked at the club so I was like I oh yo hey and then you know then took her it was it was like just a chill kind of cool recording but uh okay yeah oh you know similar you know we were in same

11:00 industry we like kind of same kind of concept going on yeah you like hey we met last night hey you didn't answer hey I'm hey chill Coury chill Coury mess me back please wrong with you we talked at the bar what's crazy is we got married a bunch of wrong with you three times we got married we got three time we got married three actually there's four marriages that happened and we still have one more in my hometown Pittsburgh California because we did like what you know one was going to be in China but before went to China we like we can't leave it China so we went to the courthouse first and we did like a little small Courthouse thing in Beverly Hills and then we did and then we had a big wedding in Palm Springs two months ago oh co um but at the third wedding CU we kept you know you get married like now it's like whatever we're just doing a show the third wedding she just came out with the DMs like that was her vows she like I'm going to bring youall back

11:51 to how this house started that's dope and she broke she just it was not not verbatim it verbatim oh God printed out so it's your actual voice like no no she was like saying Dante and I what I was like hey we met whatever the like this is not good this is not going well she gave the time stamps too yeah when you guys met like at what point did she really get a sense of like who you are like in the world never never no no no she didn't really I mean I don't know I mean she doesn't I think later on she got I remember we were at dinner one time with uh with with Porter and um in West from uh from Wong Fu you know and we were kiing it and talking we had dinner and she was making a joke she was like you know I came all the way from China to marry like a Filipino guy

12:42 that's and then Wes is like no you came all way from China you married the Filipino out west Shout Out West good look at West wingman West wingman West what's up cuz that's one of the things that must be so weird to like you know like when did she realize she's with this National Treasure n get out of here get out here international treasure wi we how you communicate that no I don't I don't know none of that that none of that stuff was there anything in the DMS where you're like that I that's cringey ████ what yeah hell yeah well first of all he's like you watch cartoons no no the first thing was like I was like you seem like a cool chick like we should know each other you know what I'm saying and that's like a regular thing say she like chick and I was like oh ████ chick like she took that like offensive I was like

13:32 no no no no no chick I mean my bad like like woman my bad we eat chick uh I mean it's an American colloquialism like chick I don't think is is it derogatory chick no no or maybe she took it literally you're calling me a a baby chicken L foul yeah chicken head she not from the Arab like chicken head you know what I'm say you saying I'm Tasty yeah that's come with that but it wasn't that bad then it would kind of kind of you know pretty easy going like hey like you haven't responded to me in 14 hours I saw you like your friends post like what the ████ going on like that's the crazy thing about a lot of us all of our relationships especially that they start on the last whatever 10 15 years our whole relationships are on texts and emails and Facebook within one area like think about you can go if you can go back to your grandparents days and you can see their whole relationship on their Facebook timeline ruins theth

14:23 ruins the legend cuz yeah we don't know ruin ruins the legend CU we can seezy so it's crazy do you just erase all that stuff that is crazy there's a paper trail of your relationship huh cuz you and Tim you guys got to have your guys stuff has been me and Nikki I mean Nikki yeah you call her Tiff don't get him in trouble talk about my ex dude you and Nikki you guys are all on you guys are mostly on public like the whole thing our whole thing was that we knew each other in real life thankfully so it wasn't digital whatsoever it was you guys had context before the whole digital she's the bread winner of the family that part all the money I don't even make money lately I've been seen her on the Poker Tour situation she's killing it paying all the bills yeah paying every single bill with all poker money yeah funding him being able to come back here hang with boys yeah I lose money

15:13 coming here have you been playing poker too a lot ████ no I don't play poker no that's probably my best game is it that's your best at like if I really want to make some money oh I actually we went up to Vegas me and my brother's like you know one of boys like yo let's just do a Bast part like I'm not do no bachelor party like whatever let's just go to Vegas and and golf and do a tournament and me and my brothers we did a tournament a one day tournament we all moneyed shot like three brothers we at the final table they're like what is going and we set us all three four and five that's ████ the rest of the table was like no we're going to chop this cuz every time they look at us like one of these brothers we can't go against all three of these brothers every time I go in like yeah no way yeah they're like let's chop let's chop that's smart telepathic ass Brothers yeah it was by 150 people and like you're like three brothers final T like what

16:04 happened like good weekend it never happens like that yeah that's a dope weekend when some person gets knocked out the first round totally just walking around now totally we have poker not here we had poker not here back in the day yeah back in the day we sto doing fun stuff here I know what happened actually we I connected with you guys really I with Joe for the first time at a poker table like a Morango or something at Morango we were like I mean we had met before but we like hey we had sat down at the same table and that's when we really started bullshitting and being like look come hang out and Joe Joe was Joe was a good poker player yeah yeah he's lot upwards in flection I heard that Jo all right was a good B player I remember I I did come here little impulsive I did come here and did I did well I came here yeah you like playing with I kind of clean up and they were like this ████ during his poker days he would disappear for like 48 hours and he' be and he would show

16:54 back up in the same clothes I'm like oh ████ into something like he gets into something was with my guy from that night the porotic uh oh that guy yeah about the other day you were talking about him embezzling funds I didn't find out about that later on this is the reason he lost money to Dante Dante has his money we traced your money we traced your funds we put it all together but you know what that was a long ass time ago if you think about that what year was that might have even been 10 years ago I don't know I know could be probably 10 probably 10 if we it was during poker time where we played poker here yeah it's got to be 10 years ago CU it was 10 cuz you was here then you guys left and then you just came back well we had it the whole time but we started shooting all our stuff over there but we've always kept this place but if we played

17:44 here that means I didn't even have my gym yet yeah before pre gym yeah it's always so it's got to be 10 years we have roulette now craps you guys what is going on there we have a pool table on the wall we started carrying again awesome boes yeah we made it nice for you thanks for coming back I love it I love it you got a grandfather clock oh yeah that's an interesting story who's in that Grandpa who is that uh that's Bart that's that's baby Bart this grandfather clock is commemorative of a moment when he was a child that he was hiding from his dad who was chasing him for ditching school he ran into an Ethan Allen hid inside of a clock cuz he was whooping my ass in the parking lot you know uh cuz you're probably semi familiar with citos yeah he know at South and Gridley around there on uh but going this way more on on South Street there was this Plaza um there was a

18:35 supermarket there my dad was whooping my ass in that parking lot and then I ran into Ethan Allen that used to be it's not there anymore um and so it's like very fond memories of that it's literally traa Asian boy doll inside the traa in the room I see that I see that yeah sit in that clock back in the day I was little I was like maybe like 10 or something didn't you like beg the lady not to R you out or something yeah he's like I was I ran in and she could tell I like crying all frantic and ████ and then she was like what's going on and I was like oh there's like a scary man chasing me she oh do you want me to call the cops oh no no no don't call the cops it was my dad it's my dad I didn't tell her it was my dad I was just like in my mind I'm like my dad don't I can't ████ rat him out he just whoop my ass I like that she trusted the 10-year-old kid she's like I won't call the crazy girl chasing a kid got good

19:26 she took his word for it she did end up calling the cops and then uh but my dad was gone and then uh so the cop gave me a ride home and and then this is when my grandparents my mom's side was over from Taiwan and I remember my grandpa seeing like a cop car pull up in front of the house and they see me get out from the back seat like I just remember seeing the the look on my grandpa's face like what the ████ is going on and I was like oh the cop gave me a ride home because long story so how much ass are we talking about we're talking like so I was ditching and I was walking into that supermarket and it was one of my favorite supermarkets it was one of those where like you know those like old school Asian supermarkets where just random exactly what Market you're talking about there's like you could buy T-shirts or you could buy pagers or you could buy it's just like a bunch of

20:16 random ████ so I just like walk around in there he said errow or pagers people watching like what the ████ yeah yeah exactly I was just walking and then all of a sudden I feel myself get lifted off the floor and I land on my back and just ████ like fists just coming fist that's fist to a 10-year-old F I run that little bit not a regular 10y old had to run he's a strong guy Bart had those TS when he's 10 you did school just to go to supermarket I'm mared kids are coming is what degree of beating is acceptable in America in America it's got to be left hand only left hand only your week we open hand yeah well you can do do Tiger Claw I grew up getting spanked I grew up getting spanked when we were at me too we were four brothers but now now people

21:06 are like if you like spank a kid people think yeah you're it's like attempted murder like yeah like you're going the kid's going to take you to jail yeah yeah well I wonder who's going to complain about it if [Laughter] [Music] a [Music]

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