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Off The Record: How Do You Measure Up Against Height & Weight Averages?

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0:00 But the irony is that a country that's so that's so like inclusive of feelings will look at that Japanese person go go back to your damn country [Laughter] we don't got enough Teriyaki for all you don't like that one he was like [Laughter] [Music] welcome back to another episode of careful boys today we got Nick and clean over there we got Anthony and Regular Joe and then we have Cool Joe right here let's go okay we were just talking a little bit before the cameras rolling about how we measured up to our averages so like if I were to look up the average Filipino height that would be five one so then I'm I stand at around five seven five eight so yeah because we're like saying

0:51 like oh we're short we're tall and I'm like no you gotta go based on your ethnicity yeah yeah yeah yeah because you can't you can't if I I'll always be sure if I measure up to like Kenyans or something yeah what's the average Japanese Kenyans instead of like black people I was just trying to find the tallest black people Arcadia's the tallest no I feel like West Africans might be the tallest because like in the Olympics aren't they like the best uh long like runners or whatever or like sprinting the average the average Kenyan man height is five seven well I'm a Kenyan average that's the same average as Japanese men oh five seven Japanese Kenyan same thing you know what um when I was in northern China there were so so many tall people I was like yo this short Chinese thing that might

1:42 be a southern China and that's what I am dude I'm Southern Chinese that's right so I'm a small small boy I saw that thank you Colleen thank you what do you think the average Japanese guy weighs the average Japanese guy weighs 130 pounds dang how'd you know that because that's what I used to be and [Music] people stay there longer though you know because this I had to work for this come on baby American diet yes definitely the American diet yeah that's that's the difference too we're talking even when you're saying the Filipino men's height average is five one you're talking about like the Philippines you know what I mean like what about like Filipino I mean I'm I'm just one generation away so I don't think I would have evolved that fast but I think it's like American diet American diet is a big thing because even our bodies are so different because

2:36 um our portions are way bigger and we grew up on the milk mustache era you know that's true yeah we grew up on a lot of weird food pyramid conspiracies a lot of protein in America though you know what I've noticed from like traveling outside the states is that like when I'm here I feel like I get huge servings huge portions right and I feel like I have to eat a lot just to even get full and then I go overseas and they serve me like this little ass portion I'm like I'm gonna get full off of this ████ yeah and then I surprisingly I get full and I don't understand like the quality maybe yeah maybe that's what I'm saying because it's just like I don't understand how that even that's how I felt in Japan really I was eating so much but I wasn't gaining any weight but you're also walking a ton out there too no oh that I think that's a big part yeah Americans we're really good at

3:26 sitting all day boys you got to make an effort because this whole goddamn show yeah that's true I get such little steps on me yeah JK's the unhealthiest part of my life how tall are you jump uh six two damn way above average uh African-American mil Heights five nine really yeah I didn't think five nine because he's not the American average five eleven American average height just enjoy I think those are the ones that want to say I'm like six foot yeah they're like pushing it but but if you're five eleven if I was 5 11 I'm like I'm six one dude I'm telling everyone that five nine is the average American male height yeah five nine is the average American really okay cool what about the way Asians are bringing that down though you know what what do you think the weight is the average weight for American American man is probably 200 200 a 185 what dude

4:17 185 185. um it is oh wait hold on average it keeps freaking giving me other uh they're giving you kilos oh those bastards Americans giving kilos yeah right 197. I was close oh damn it's 200. you know why five nine at 29. yeah there's a lot of fat ████ here there's a lot of fat ████ you know what shocked me what the biggest shocker to me was the average American female is 5'4 at 170. yeah that means the average is obese five four at 170. yeah they all got heavies you think it's all in their boobs hey man why you gotta say it like that dude we're speaking code dog yeah yeah yeah yeah you know we had actual codes for

5:07 like me and my cousin yeah we had codes for boobs and ass what did you so like the the codes was uh if you're talking about a girl's boobs you would say uh Talent oh she got a lot of time and then if you're talking about a girl's bottom you know the pee looks almost like a violence to be like oh she got a lot of potential so if she has both silly cats go for it well you're just like what the ████ is wrong with her potential that is some saggy potential [Laughter] codes that that I had with my friends made things worse yeah 100 it's like ours was when we were kids it was uh or in high school we said credit and debit because you know debit was the butt

5:59 [Laughter] I'm thinking like man those Asian nerds are so into finance and then by the time we got to uh to college and you know like you don't see someone for a long time and then uh by the time you're in college you go oh dude see what's her name dude she got really skinny like to not say that out loud we would say oh she got back into drugs you made it worse that is legit if someone gained weight we would say oh she's off drugs dude I do I need someone I lost a lot of weight from drugs that's why that's why we said that we would go oh she looks like she got back into drugs some drugs make you more fat yeah that's true yeah average Chinese male Heights five six good old school oh good job what do you what are you Nick I think they're pretty tall he's average 4 11. that's ████ up dude

6:50 five eleven thank you no I'm uh five seven without shoes five eight I like this I like how you know if you're below six feet you really have to you have to you gotta fight for ████ everything you've got I'm trying to fight for everything okay what's your height hacks um hi hacks yeah um when I'm sitting next to Colleen my chair is all the way up I was like hey make sure you slouch yeah and I'm like hey I'm so much taller than you Colleen and I talked with the people hey you know what though we have long torsos so we're usually tall stat of sitting down because that's that's where people get surprised when they see Asians because they're like oh wow like you're like normal height and then when we stand up and then they stand out they're like oh wait actually you're not my Height's in my femurs we've talked about shut up Anthony shut up Anthony

7:40 you ever see someone like sitting on a chair and like you think their height is gonna change and it just stays the same needed yeah yeah [Laughter] yeah that's so funny that stat is crazy to me about the height and weight like what's the average weight of Americans average American weight all Americans like yeah is half of America just fat obese and or what is like the average death age in America versus like uh that's good I guess Japan fan of American 77 years oh it's not bad it's pretty

8:33 good Japan is 84. almost a decade almost a decade yes so would you want to live that long though like if you're healthy yeah if it's a good 84 because dude you see some 70 year olds that who are really good shape or even 60 year olds yes I would I'd be okay with skipping my scene that might be fun I don't want to live long enough to forget who my kids are yeah and I don't want to be like a problem for my children yeah yeah I don't want to be liability yeah I want to be a comedy show for my kids yeah comedy and problems can be different things too yeah I want to ████ on myself while I cuss them out that's fine it's the average what or what's the average for white women for white women all across the globe no death now are we talking are we

9:25 talking blondes brunette because that matters we're talking credit debit yeah off drugs white for like female lifespan four for height I guess height and lifespan height and lifespan let's see average height for a blonde American woman five four and I guess lifespan is kind of all over the place but for America it would be like 79 years okay 80 wait this one says 80 years wow long life yeah way to go keep it up keep it up is there like a uh a googleable weight average by Nations like obesity by Nations well it's probably the United States top dogs

10:16 yeah you know what it's probably top three UK is up there probably right oh you want to see like who weighs the most America it's Polynesia polynita for sure usually Polynesia is the top yeah it's by population right oh true just the the stats and the data the fattest country is I think Samoa because you were saying that a lot of the the food that they can get out in Samoa and all those places are mostly like processed long shelf life stuff right I yeah all the island ones in the same way in life because they're not eating how their ancestors did where it's just like raw fish and coconuts coconuts yeah bro like in L.A we have we're so spoiled in all the food choices that we get but once you go

11:07 outside and like certain parts of California or even like the Midwest you realize everything that's available is all fast food it's all Subways and Chick-fil-A so in the chart in the top chart of like obesity like the first 13 are all like eyelid Nations like French Polynesia um yeah American Samoans this is just harder to get but then 14 once it stops being island nations is America let's go baby but then if you think about it population wise yeah yeah yeah those 13 Nations still doesn't add up to like even a speck of American population right so that means out of 300 million that's a lot of fat folks yeah yeah right when you look at just America because that's um in U.S it's 36 percent

11:57 of us is obese I didn't realize how fat America was because like you know when I we've all traveled right but like other people's perception of America is different from us going out right so like I don't notice how big people are until people come here and go damn there's a lot of fat people here you know what's interesting from like overseas oh ████ fat though yeah yeah but you know what's crazy we got TV shows for it right that number that's just men if you switch it to female then America becomes number 30. number 30. yeah so there's Le so there's more obese men than female maybe because of like a beauty standard more obese but then yeah but it could be that too but also the once you put it to a female then what takes place before

12:47 America is like uh the Emirates like Kuwait Qatar Jordan Saudi Arabia Bermuda Egypt uh United area maybe because they don't go out because aren't aren't they just supposed to stay out in the house all day yeah like culturally yeah there's like it's more less it's like less they can't show their body off anyway yeah maybe they don't even know yeah they ain't got different they got different standards yeah it's it must be so different that too yeah maybe it's a standard maybe it's like hey is your wife movies yes [Laughter] yeah whatever you want get out yes yes very obvious yes please leave

13:37 it's like that too it could be because I think like it's where it's hard to just walk like in America you have to make an effort to walk unless you like live in New York you gotta go to the park and ████ walk or you're gonna walk around your block but then like everything's not built in a way to just walk every day what country do you think has the least percentage of obese women obese women women yeah Vietnam whoa damn wow really oh yeah is it Vietnam oh ████ yeah it is 2.7 because I was just thinking about a country that had the skinniest people that I've seen what how did you know because it well guys and girls there he's the census they're pretty skinny wow wow what do you think what do you

14:27 think's next stop from Vietnam you'll probably get this one right too it's the next step one ████ Cambodia or some ████ I was gonna say Cambodia or Philippines no Philippine no not Philippines fat yeah they like the Jollibee no they're not they're like um I think their diets are just like a Thai nope Japan yeah okay Japan because they walk a lot and they they do a lot of fat shaming there it's pretty funny they'll roast you dude if you're just fat they'll just like strangers would just be like hey what's up fat ████ and that slang in English that's the only English they know only Japanese only Japanese and it's a perfectly

15:21 they're so polite about it yeah like being fat is pretty rare out there right so like so like you're either a sumo wrestler or like or you're playing a villain in the movie it's like really rare yeah so then when my mom was here she said that like it was so funny because there was so many fat people right yeah and then so when I was a kid she like she thinks just being fat is so funny so they'll be a guy like you know sometimes like out here we got it's excessive bro like it's so big that dude's got like the ████ scooters and ████ so she'll if she finds one she starts blasting up and pointing at him and she goes honey look look look right and then I'm there as a kid like embarrassed as ████ and I'm like oh don't point and

16:11 then she goes oh he can't speak Japanese and I'm like yeah but you're so obvious you're pointing yeah yeah he knows why you're pointing I mean we enable that ████ though right it's like if you're too fat then yeah you get a scooter and a handicap sign to park closer so you can walk less I think that's the difference too is it not only like if you think about being from Japan three percent of people are obese and then you come to a place where it's one in three yeah there's no fat people and there's a point of Pride about it yeah that's the part that'll really trip you out yeah like not only that not only are the numbers high but like they're owning it yeah especially when it to their their eyes it's like this is seen as unhealthy and unfavorable and then yeah you see people patterns and you're healthy here yeah yeah I don't know man that's body positivity right in a in a country that obviously is a big yeah which is like a funny way of dealing with it you know

17:01 just change the acceptance exactly but leave the death rates the same right yeah all the heart problems are still fine yeah nobody wants to see all that stuff no no nothing behind it you know yeah it's it's really interesting I feel like we're more feelings-based country oh yeah very we're very big in our feelings I feel fat but someone's gonna punch you in the face but the irony is that a country that's so that's so like inclusive of feelings will look at that Japanese person go go back to your damn country laughing at me you twig yeah yeah yeah I'll sit on you we don't got enough Teriyaki for all you Joe didn't like that one he was like that's a hurt the feeling so you gotta bring up teriyaki

17:52 yeah really not enough and then after Japan it's Korea five percent yeah I would imagine I heard China's obesity problem is rising because they had a um they never had a middle class and now they do they're like they have money to spend so a lot of them are just pounding food can I say something about about Asian people in the states in L.A do we have to prepare for this in any way okay whenever I this is the point I'm gonna bring up anytime I go to like a nice restaurant and I see a ton of Asian people in there I go this is gonna be a good restaurant because I know a lot of Asian people are just such Foodies and I think in China is probably the same thing they're such Foodies that they get like food obsessed and we kind of are too you know like Americans are very food obsessed but yeah I mean I think with with wealth comes like more food options

18:44 because my grandma was telling me um in her generation they ate different things meaning like she's like the younger kids they like a lot of protein she's like when we were growing up there wasn't that like red meat was expensive sure yeah it was like luxury yeah she goes back then they used to eat whale like once a week because weekly it was cheaper to get whale than cow whale Wednesdays yeah my aunt was like when I was growing up a lot of us ate whale not working branding yeah and I'm like why yeah like cow meat was so expensive because if you think about it there's no there's no fields for like the cows and then the cows are foreign you got to have them shipped over and all imported yeah yeah for them so that's why and then they're like now all everyone's eating beef

19:35 she's like that was this is a new thing like we're not with any beef a lot and then she's like uh we probably didn't eat meat every day either she's like a lot of vegetarian stuff so then now like he's like you got beef bowls you got hamburgers you got hot dogs she goes you have more Western Foods yeah you know what's interesting too and this is not you know not to overlook this very specific detail but uh what you get for your money out here if you're poor you can still be so fat off of how poor you are there's definitely something wrong with our nutrition because like most countries poor correlates with skinny yeah but here we have like the fattest homeless people in the world how the ████ does that happen well like bro you walk into 7-Eleven which is the greatest store of all time in the world and you walk in and you see the food the the fresh food they have like a taquito

20:26 is like what like 300 calories each you get three of those things four for a dollar come on dude yeah that's not bad that's enough calories for you to last your day Loki 7-Eleven wings or bomb 7-Eleven is the greatest store of all time dude I don't wanna do they still have a whole pizza for eight bucks six bucks isn't it oh goodness depending on what time of night you're there yeah bro you get the whole the whole thing should we go to 7-Eleven for lunch all right oh my God but dude that's that's really that's a really interesting thing is the fact that like like I was saying you go to other countries you could probably eat the same amount that would fill you up but you you're definitely better for McDonald's you get you get two McChickens for like ████ three bucks three bucks each of those are 400 calories you could just be eating honestly you could probably just be homeless eating nothing but Mission Food

21:16 like free food and you'll probably still be fat like refried beans and ████ just whatever they're giving you because like the the quality of food out here well we don't have that many restrictions like what Japan and Europe and they they don't like there's certain food colorings and chemicals and things there's so much more additives I think they care about their people it's not even that it's just like it's easy it's I think it's just people see an opportunity to make money yeah if we get mass-produced chicken nuggets at this Factory and sell it for a fraction of the price and sell it in bulk and makes a delicious but that's the thing is like when you're you're a consumer you're like oh I can get so much more value for this bag of dino nuggets for five bucks we probably just need a redefined value you hear about that uh genetically like uh made freaking meat that the fda's oh

22:08 yeah yeah yeah the lab meat yeah they just need to do that but it's like got some weird chemicals in it that make people burn fat and then it's ooh diet meat yeah once they could find a way to tap into that it's over but I don't think they will just the fact that you can eat exotic animals that are made in a lab is pretty crazy too it's so weird and not feel bad about it because it's just a simulation miss me with that about it you know that thank you

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