0:00 Hey, do you notice that like when you're hanging out with your Korean friends that they're the only Asian group that pulls you into the direction of having to code switch just to like either like fit in or be more cohesive in that environment? >> Dude, number one, I don't even know if it's code switch. I I think I just believe I'm Korean around them. Yeah. I feel like it's like a like hitch. You know when they're just like subliminally doing subconscious things and next thing you know, you're saying exactly what they want you to say. >> Yeah. >> That ████ happens to me all the time. Um number one, my last name is Lee and they cannot get it through their mind that like there's other human beings in the world that aren't Korean that spell their last name l e e. Right? They'll always say, "Oh, like you don't speak Korean?" I'm like, "Oh, it's cuz I'm not Korean." "You're not Korean? But your last name's Lee." I'm like, "I know, I know. But I'm >> He's trying to convince you you're last >> Yeah, I'm Chinese Vietnamese. No, no, but it's spelled like l e e. And I'm like, I understand that, but
0:51 >> Korean guys were smart. What kind of dumbass thing is that to say? You didn't know ████ Chinese guys were Lee, too? I thought Lee's Bruce Lee. Like that's Chinese. The most famous ████ in the world. >> I get it. >> Dumbass Koreans are in Kinjaz, dude. Shut the ████ up. >> I feel like Koreans got this tunnel vision though where they're like, "Who's a Bruce Lee? I don't even know the most of the world the most famous guy." >> I know Daniel Lee. I know Jonathan Lee, Daniel Lee, Eunice Lee. >> I know a pastor named Bruce Lee, but he's not a Chinese. >> just growing up around so many Koreans that I had to learn Korean phrases to speak to all the Korean ajummas and stuff like that that would talk to me and refuse to believe I wasn't Korean. >> That's the crazy thing where it's built into the culture cuz I feel like in
1:42 every like if I go hang out with a bunch of Japanese, a bunch of Filipino, or whatever, right? If I go there, I'm not incentivized to code switch. But like the difference between me being with my Korean friends or family or even a restaurant, the the between thank you versus comes OUT OF HERE. OH MY GOD, THERE'S A LOT OF ████ THAT COMES OUT OF THERE. COME TOMORROW, come again. I'll give you free food. But if I say thank you in Japanese or or Tagalog at a restaurant or at a family the the ████ reward isn't that crazy. It's just like, "Oh, he's a cute." Like if you say, "Oh, she she I like to my mom." She's like, "Oh, that's a cute." You know, she speaks Chinese. It's not like zero to like 100. >> No, yeah, true. >> Like the minute you could adopt a little bit of Korean-ness, they go ████ crazy. >> Koreans keep a lot more of their culture
2:34 though than like if you have a group of Filipinos, most of the time they're probably just American. >> Yeah. >> I feel like out of all the Asians though, they're the ones that love their culture. >> it very well. >> fight for it like especially American Koreans. Like I feel like Koreans are Koreans like, "What the ████ You guys are crazy." But Korean-Americans, they're like more Korean than the Koreans. >> Which is which is also why it's like it's cool. And I think when you're like young, you're like, "Man, dude, they like really they're about that s███." Cuz half the time you're growing up, you're like, "Man, I could be less Chinese right now." Like, "S███, man." It's dope for sure, but it's also annoying. >> It's annoying, yeah. >> Well, it's annoying when you're on the outside is what I'm saying. You know, like Well, yeah, cuz you're not a ████ dork. Cuz you know what the other the other thing is even Koreans code switch.
3:26 You know what I mean? Like like a regular a regular ass Korean homie could be just chilling right here. And we're speaking all normal, whatever. And the minute like another Korean homie comes in, instead of introducing, "Oh, yeah, this is like Peter, whatever." He's like, "Oh, this is my young." And then all of a sudden he's speaking Konglish when this ████ never spoke Konglish once. Now it's like every other one cuz you know what I'm talking about or you know what I'm saying? I'll go to the motor go to the Yeah, we're going to go to the Nevada Korea AND YOU'RE LIKE, "WHAT? WHY IS IT 50% Korean all of a sudden when it used to be 100% English?" >> They be cold to each other. I really respect that they like most Korean guys can speak Korean. Most Filipino guys don't know where Filipino town is. >> Or most Japanese guys, their grandpas can't even speak Japanese. >> Yeah, yeah, that's true. The thing is I
4:16 had a lot of Korean friends, too, but whenever I was there, they will not ████ let me forget that I'm Japanese. Like everything is like, "Oh, this is a you know, this is a Korean invention and the Japanese will steal it." >> But they didn't have accents, but they that's what their ████ dads and uncles always told them and I'm all like, "Okay, what the ████ you know? Like it it's I'm like, is this how white guys feel around black people? Like constantly telling them about slavery and s███?" It's like, "You know, in the 19 42 and the Japanese was a Albert Korea, you know, they what you what they did they stopped the Koreans and then they took all the rice." And I'm all like, "Bro, I'm seven. Like I don't ████ care." >> Even when you go to Korea, like if you do any of their tours or like museums, they can't wait to tell you. They're like, "Oh, this is a samur- Japanese a samurai sword sword from a Korean
5:08 design." >> And then and then I don't If you have a Korean homie, you know that they're always going to ████ tell you about the Korean submarine ship that's a ████ turtle-shaped. Did any of your homies tell you? >> What? >> Oh, Japanese navy, they try to conquer us, but they were sleeping on our tur- our turtle submarine and we killed them. And then you're just like, "What the ████ Like what kind of what kind of casual conversation is that? Chill, bro." It's It's like I don't even ████ I just want to chill. >> It's the pride, bro. The >> "You want to come over to my house with a Super Mario Brothers?" And I'm like, "F███ yeah, I do." And then like we're playing the games and then they're like, "Hey, you a Korean pear?" So, this is a Korean pear. It's different. Like, this is way better than a Japanese pear. And I'm all like, It tastes like a ████ Asian pear.
5:58 >> Yeah. >> Like, I don't know the difference. Goes, "Yeah, but this one's a Korean special. It's a better than yours." And I'm like, "Dude, you just invited me to ████ one-up me on everything?" What Dude, they'll do some f█████-up ████ Like, one would be like, uh when we play war, like, I'm on my own team. Or like, me and ████ like, Brandon is like, the only two ████ Japs that have to fight Koreans. And Brandon over here is like, fifth-generation Japanese. So, he's >> Fifth-generation, damn. >> He's just American. >> Yeah, dude. >> Like, his family went to concentration camps in America. Like, he's like, "Hey, man, we had no hand in the ████ Korean War. Like, we didn't colonize Korea." He goes, "I don't care. You're Japanese." And then so, we're like, ████ shooting each other. It's always like, there's like, five, seven of them. Like, we're just like, two guys. Just >> we lose. >> And I'm like, "SEE, KOREA WINS AGAIN!
6:48 YEAH!" AND I'M ALL LIKE, "YEAH, CUZ THERE'S LIKE, five of you guys. ████ you guys." >> Did you ever You ever get the tur- the Korean turtle submarine stories? >> I didn't get the Korean turtle submarine stories. I got the Korean dance stories. That's for damn sure. >> Dance stories? >> Oh, like, which teams were the best or whatever? >> I think I just falling in love with dance, and especially breaking during the era Korea was dominating. >> Oh, yeah, Korea was the Yeah. >> So, it was just And then like, my two closest friends at the time were Mike and Victor. Korean dudes. Just so, we were heavy just constantly watching a Korea number one. >> But, do they need to ████ lecture you? >> And dude, but they Korea was dominating during that time. So, it was it was like the you know, >> Cuz my whole life >> That's what I'm saying. I was it's so cool. I code-switched because it was so cool. >> We're just like, having dinner at my friend's family. He's like, "You see, is
7:38 a Korea is a so healthy with all the vegetable. We have a kimchi, radish, all this." It's always It's always a seminar about it. Everything's a seminar every single time. He says this. Oh, and I'm like, "Oh, can I get like a a bigger water cup? I'm really really thirsty." Oh, no. It's a Korean. It's a family. We got a bigger water jug and we'll share. I'm like, "Or you just tell me you don't have a big cup." And that's cool, too. But they got to like everything's got to be a lesson. >> My My favorite though are the are the like use that opportunity not only to showcase culture, but to also ████ slam dunk on yours cuz it's like it's like you know, this is like a Korean, you know, shabu-shabu but it or like a Korean barbecue, but a Japanese steal and call it a yakitori. But like uh And then and then he'll be like, "Not like a Chinese. You know, Chinese they have a skewer, but it's it's not good.
8:29 It's cheap." And it's like, "Damn, bro. Like it's hilarious, but why the ████ you got to smash on other guys?" >> When it comes to like LA at least for or like California or America in general, are there as many Chinese or Japanese restaurant owners serving Korean food as there are Korean serving Chinese and Japanese food? I've never seen a >> Koreans be serving everything. >> There's Korean owned Japanese or Chinese restaurants. >> There's Korean owned pho places. >> Like a Soobin's mom, BRO. SOOBIN'S MOM. YEAH, that's right. But it's not the other way around is like who's winning in that? >> how you know if a Korean's cool cuz they don't code switch and they don't make you like Soobin doesn't make me feel like I need to code >> Oh, dude. Yeah. >> You know what I mean? >> Well, you know what the thing is though? Like I feel like straight up I'm going to go to a Korean pho spot because like
9:19 if I want pho, it's right there. I ain't tripping. Like I'm going to eat that pho. I'm not so crazy about it, but I feel like if a Korean looks at like a Vietnamese owned Korean restaurant, they're going to be like, "Why don't we eat the Korean one?" >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> him. Yeah. They'll judge him. They'll judge it for sure. Yeah. >> They're going to judge him, man. >> What? >> my god, dude. >> Stupid. That was so ████ funny. >> dude. >> You laughed. You got it. You laughed, all right? >> That was a good one. That was a good one. >> weird experiences with like Korean grandmas and ████ Like one my my buddies were having a sleepover and then they're like, "You can't sleep over." And I was like, "Why?" Cuz they're like, "You're Japanese and my grandma doesn't want you to." So I was like, "What the f███?" So I told my mom and she's like, "Yeah, we did bad things." So I was like, "Bad things?" She goes, "Yeah, there was a war." And I was like,
10:10 "Okay, well, what the ████ does it have to do with me?" Like I want to go to the sleepover, but anyways >> Dude, honestly, you think about like we can all think dark thoughts. Just imagine like >> I was like nine, bro. >> She might have good reason, you know what I'm saying? >> She's like, "I'mma slay your throw motherfucker." >> Or like or like the things that might have happened to her when she was your age. >> But I was eight or nine. Like I was a child. >> She's like, "I was a child, too, Joseph." >> Yeah, I don't know. But then I've also had good experiences because a lot of those Korean grandmas and and grandpas, they could speak Japanese. Like I don't know the his like I didn't know that it was cuz >> Cuz they were spies? >> No, there it was a Japanese colony cuz it was an elective in college. But I didn't know. I didn't I didn't ████ know. So like I'm a ████ kid.
11:00 Like so you go to this house, they're like speaking Japanese to you and I'm like, "Man, Koreans are so like bi-trilingual, man. They're polyglots over here. They could speak so many languages." And then like I didn't know. Like I'm a I'm a child, right? But there's some that were ████ cool as ████ They They didn't They didn't let the war like be the you know, why I ████ hate this child. So they'll speak Japanese to me. And then there's other ones that were like, "No Japs in this home." You know? >> Dang, dude. That sucks, man. I'm going to miss you both the Japanese and Koreans when your birth rate wipes you both out. >> But I'll tell you what, we'll still keep the food around in your honor. >> You guys could have just been having sex with each other, fixed both your problems. >> That's true. >> Instead of beefing it.
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