0:00 I thought you just supposed to go like hey I'm Dappa daa hey SEC your hand we're pretty much brothers oh my [Music] God welcome to a tricultural episode of careful boys today we have over here in the Taiwan side we got Barton Helen ni and then over here on the Japanese side oh my bad on the Africa side Ria and Joe and then over here on the esteemed lovely a Filipino side we have the jollybee side yeah Jollibee Jones himself and we have Melissa Bonos hello she the CL B sounds Filipino Banu that's what I'm saying yeah why is
0:50 she saying she not she has denial issues is the thing so Banu also sounds Indian so it's the Indian Corner Banu you know what Banu is it's a it's an Indian restaurant in Pasadena or Glendora or S Gabriel s Gabriel yeah so Melissa and Helen are probably like the oldest friends that I've ever like brought on here I've known like age wise they're your oldest friends we're like elderly friends I'm 60 years old yeah I've known them in a really long time over 20 I didn't know that maybe not over 20 no no not over 20 not over 20 but are are yall three friends or individually they're yeah yeah yeah they they're they they are friends oh they're friends too cuz they and they grew up in the in the 626 in the SUV oh Aria so good yeah they to Arc High that's why we didn't know you
1:41 so you're Taiwanese then nope wrong again I don't think you guys are going to be able to guess what she is it's pretty hard oh she's not Filipino she to be honest she's not Filipino yeah but you just keep calling her Filipino I've called her Filipino the rest of the world too so it's are you more than one why'd you call her a Bano that's that is her last name are you Burmese no I think your uh hos is Burmese I was like was that a hint I think your part Vietnamese and Chinese 50% right wow close are you l oan no but you're close you're getting warmer how how's your geography Cambodian even yes Cambodian and ties Cambodian Chinese Cambodian Chinese wow I know it was a southern region man
2:32 dude Africans sure know Asia it's not fair my brother ever since I've known her I've always just said she's filipo cuz I think it's funny and then sometimes I legitimately forget she's not but Filipinos ask me every day hey are you Filipino Filipino in that accent always especially at least once cuz you when you were working at Cheesecake Factory you probably got a lot of people saying that to you there huh all the time like can I get the discount cuz even though I heard it in my mind I still already filed you as Filipino I know cuz he introduced her even right now yeah but if I didn't say nothing you would just like first impression she'd have Filipino Vibes for sure yeah it's already like filed you guys look like your cousins that's what I'm saying and then me and Ria look like brothers yeah oh for sure I don't know why people in the comments seem to think that we just
3:23 we look like each other I can't really see his face right now but but from earlier yes you Filipino a lot I feel like that's the default Asian like when they're go when they go I don't know what kind of Asian you are I think you're Filipino I definitely don't think he's Filipino actually I I would get uh people ask me if I was like Hawaii or like Simone a lot I always thought it was funny though cuz I was like yeah if I was like a six-year-old Simone like soing big I'm so little it's like there's no way I would be Samo I would I would guess some sort of Polynesian that's what I would have guess that's true CU you tell right away that Helen was time like you did you feel a kinship feel connection some sort of Chinese variance Chinese variant probably some sort of like a Chinese like Chinese V Co 2 three Chinese Co
4:16 some sort of variance in there but they you guys both were born here in mon park right right at the same Hospital what's the hospital the one in Atlantic Garfield Hospital where every other Asian true weren't born there that's where they make them no but I got but we grew up in mon park I got hella uh hella relatives that died there oh but we were born there so we canceled it out it's a circle of one they took the place of the people that actually your relatives reincarnated oh ████ okay hello good to see you hi Grandpa you've been naughty yeah drag it off too much Bart e what you're did you guys graduate high school 07 07 both from arcade High School mhm what did you think of arcade
5:06 high school when you were in high school or like growing up didn't you say I recall you saying something a long time ago that arcade is not really sgv well that's how that's how that's how not sgv it is when I was in high school I didn't even know about Arcadia High School that's our problem yeah cuz if you're in the sgv it's like monre Park Al San Gabriel rosem me so like Arcadia wasn't even on my radar until after I graduated high school you've never been to the mall but but by that time I already thought I was like in Beverly Hills or something that's true when I got to that side of the town I'm like what is this Sherman Oaks I just knew it as Santa Anita mall yeah like it was like I thought it was Santa Anita City no it's
5:57 it Arcadia I didn't know what Arcadia cuz that part of town as like somewhere else yeah it feels like another world yeah Pasadena San Marino Arcadia doesn't feel like the rest of uh SGP during our high school days at least I was like that was my idea of 6 to D and then I had to then I was like oh okay like what you think this bottom side she's like what is this boil Heights I only threw my friends slowly started meeting people from neighboring cities down here you guys never traveled down here for like dim some of course all the good food's here well what you guys think it was down here I knew it was thinking about you guys have the problem what you think I think it's more like we didn't know people at least I didn't know people from like high schools from like that's what I'm saying
6:47 I think there's a border Y and I think the border is San Gabriel and alhamra that's the border so when you go above that you mean like for the class system basically oh samito is nice like if you see their High School it looks like better than a lot of universities it's amazing and then you go down I think Arcadia would probably be like the broke ones of the rich guys but it's still like pretty up there wait which one's the broke ones Arcadia Arcadia is the broke one wait compared to what compared to San Marino Pasadena well I don't know about yeah I'm like I don't know about some parts of Pasad oh yeah that's true which parts which parts which parts north of 210 what kind of establishments do you you see like KFCs and stuff or no actually I don't really go want to I know in San Marino there's
7:38 only single family homes like they don't allow for part zoning part their zoning really so they got that like that's why it's so quiet there's no Industrial Area commercial areas it's a really boring I think s Rino has the most dense area of millionaires and above more than Beverly Hills more than um I believe it because there's only single family yeah they don't have Apartments yeah well now you live in downtown I do yeah and then are you in Fullerton where you at now yeah I'm in Bria do you guys ever want to come back and live in Arcadia again no my parents are there it's good enough yeah I'm like I'm practically in Arcadia half the time anyway oh like I'm either house sitting or I'm just there so like I still have the bedroom what brought you guys to where you guys ended up at like what made you
8:28 guys want to leave Arcadia Paradise Sher Oaks Sher Oak Sherman Oaks County what made you guys want to leave uh I mean before now I work from home like all the time but before I was like commuting to Hollywood or like now my office is in Beverly Hills like that would be so it's just closer is the close thing yeah and also I didn't want to live at my mom's house you it's kind of like that age where you move out you can bite her out and she can move no I so I I mean naturally moved out and downtown was the right place what about you I went to school C State Fullerton so I moved out for college and I just never came back you just like the area she loveson it's fine she's been in the same house you guys ever been to downtown flon once you
9:19 go you just end up wanting to live there um I haven't been there in Forever OC kind of it's north vies just barely like I'm like a the border so I can just say I'm part of OC but then OC people wouldn't claim me either they'd be like oh sh you're all the way like North you know you're basically La you know what I think it's kind of like you know how they go oh Rolling Heights and Diamond bars sgv but it's not really cuz I feel like them diamonda laa um laab Fullerton all them all I think that's kind of like one thing too the 57 people the 57 folks 57 wait big ass houses and it's quiet height I think it ends at like Elman or something Orange County what do you Roland Heights is considered Orange
10:09 County County it's technically LA County still but if you go South La Habra is considered Orange County which is just below everyone outside of Southern California is just not going to get better pull up a map where where you where did you grow up where did you grow up I grew up in Arizona Phoenix Arizona okay what brings you here film yeah basically film basically yeah that's everybody wait you were from you lived in Phoenix actual Phoenix yeah oh wow that's actual Phoenix so cool you guys ever been have you ever been yeah like the weirdest thing is when it's hot during the summer and and it's like 2 in the morning and it's like still 100° outside yeah I just remember it being really blazing hot yeah especially if we go to during the summer it's it's pretty prettyy don't tires melt there they uh I mean I've never seen it in person but
10:59 I've seen I've seen pictures and stuff on the internet where that stuff and that's real I think it can be I think there's times in the year where like it'll get up to 120 easy and it gets like super hot but we we kind of learned to live with it but you that feels like home to you honestly when you see a melted trash can I'm home correspond to how cold it is around your body honestly is like when you live there you don't after you've been there for a while you don't realize how hot it is and then like when I went back for Christmas last year I was like holy ████ dude this is hotas yeah dude Christmas it was hot dude it doesn't get cold during winter uh no it does it just it gets colder later than most places oh damn that sucks cuz the Santa at the mall still has to look like Santa he can't have like a mesh tank Santa on vacation what's crazy though is like people just expect it to be hot year
11:49 like just year round but it actually gets really cold too like during at night and stuff like that no I don't believe you yeah right you got hot snow like 100 cold no I would say like it it's like I think the cold there is pretty bad like to the point where cuz the air is dry too so the cold dry like really chaps your skin and like it hurts okay but what's cold like degrees give me degrees uh it'll get down in like the 40s okay that's cool that's pretty cool cuz it's like real desert so how do you all know Ryan yeah how do you guys know each other the funniest thing is that I was performing at their High School I think you guys were still students yeah that team that I told you that I used to talk crap about and that they sucked right after I joined them we performed at their school and then they were like they had us in a holding room they were like you guys are going to chill here till the show that was our dance studio yeah but it's like
12:40 the Arcadia High School dance team's like studio and we're just chilling there they had portraits on the wall of like all the dancers in this like Arcadia dance team and then one of them was like look at this girl's dorky smile and it was her and I didn't I was just like I gathered everyone hey look at this chick smile and she was just in the room no she was no she wasn't in the room we were I was just like look at this dork and she's like her like face and then like after the show she came up to me oh you guys are so good and I was like you're that ████ weird ass picture and she was like what do you mean and then after that we uh we started teaching class like in O in around OC and then they came down to like take it and then we just started hanging out after that and then decades later we're still friends yeah that's cool you guys are both dancers we she was saying we're retired and N your
13:30 dancer retired you never retire from Dancing Yeah I mean you can always you can always come back always come back yeah you can always have your big comeback yeah save the re did you remember it differently from your perspective cuz that's that's kind of where my memory is like how it's stored I just remember your dorky photo on the wall thanks and the fact that her name was Melissa Bono so I was like her name is Melissa bathroom that's sick you just look for the one Filipino yeah and I thought she was Filipino on top of that yeah no that's how I remember it unfortunately yeah but they were there throughout like so throughout six-step and then joining Quest and starting all that they were always there they were like always like the supportive like homies that were throughout everything that I've been through like they were around yeah yeah it was the coolest we super supportive
14:20 how did you guys meet that we went to high school together we you guys friends in high school or no yeah I hope so yeah tell the truth yeah um I mean we were in the same Dance Company like it wasn't dance dance company but um so we were performing that night and all the people other performers were like in our dance studio waiting go up and so I just remember after we were done dancing we came back and then there was laughter in the corner and then that was kind of like I was like what's going on here and then a lot of other people then I I forget if it was then or after but a lot of um you this I'm getting confused now what happened I'm getting confused with when
15:10 I went so I went to UC Irvine and that was when you guys were on ABDC and all like people in my class were like oh my God like do you watch ABDC and like if they found out I knew you guys like oh my God and they want to know like what are they like and like oh like but you already friends with them at this point yeah she's like I was just Ryan yeah exactly it was always like that um and like oh dietrix is so cute and like all this stuff and I'm like okay you want me to like introduce you or something but you know those guys are gay right all if they only knew yeah but then that but that was like 2008 n that was 09 yeah which which I had like went to UCI for like a tiny minute and then I dropped out for ABDC I I was walking on campus and I'm like Ryan what are you doing here I to tell
16:02 oh you guys saw each other on campus I didn't know he was going to school there I was just like walking towards a student center and I was like what are you doing here yeah you were the only person I knew what do you mean you didn't know Anthony or any of those guys not the same time as me yeah oh yeah they graduated yeah but that I I don't know why I forgot to tell you that I was going there that's so fun did you apply to any other schools what in Maj no just just Irvine I don't know I just always wanted to go oh you always want to go to Irvine that was a dream school for you it was for me yeah you made it happen but it was I was only copying other Asians because like all I remember is that when I was in high school all the other Asians it was their dream school and then like none of them got in so I was like that's hilarious I would like to try well and then you got it and then you're like nah I'm good yeah I was like it's kind of boring I'm going to go dance on T you the marathon yeah it was
16:54 this marathon thing everyone does still can't believe you did that I got in I was like there's too many agents here it was dream school they worked so hard they didn't get it you just threw it away no I had to work extra hard though I had to do a lot of community college in order to like earn my credits back to get in there but you threw it all away to dance on TV threw it all away to dance on TV you traded it I oh that's nice no one's ever put it that way traded it yeah yeah but it was it was a fun experience he dumped it into trash and he says I don't need this I'm going to follow my dreams dude no I felt pretty bad about it cuz it was like I only have one I one semester left oh really you did three years I didn't know that I you have one I have one okay you made it sound like you only went one semester no I didn't I went more than one but I I have one left yeah can you go back and finish it I think you'd have
17:46 to start over wouldn't you I can't cuz it's not it's no longer my dream that's hilarious would you want to finish it or no I don't think so what about it for like 60 or something it's so boring hey but Stephen Spielberg did it it was boring for me already at the time because I was just so much older than everybody at that point and I I didn't have that like college bug that all these kids did when it's like first time away from Mom and Dad and they're all like super hype and I was just like you don't want to join a fraternity right now yeah that' be so cool can you just do it as I want a pledge that seems fun I'll be I'll be getting ████ pizza and cups for everybody pizza and cups yeah cuz you know is that what you do when you pledge yeah you you have to Stuffle Pizza in a cup in a record amount of time I thought you get kicked in the nuts and ████ yeah no I I'm just
18:36 assuming they're like hey go get me pizza and some cups and stuff you sp with the pal did neither of you guys join a a sority no I was an authority wow did you have to get cups and pizza no did you get hit in the nuts I got showered in presents and Gifts is this there's no hazing kind is this it's a pentalenic one what does that mean like Pentecostal it's like it's like the white Sor isn't that the one they ha the most not UCI oh really wow then again UCI is like all the like sority and frat buildings were like UCI buildings like there was no frat R really oh so it's like on campus property yeah they have strict rules oh yes dang it's not like USC they would
19:26 give you gifts I've been to USC um yeah like a real it's a real F it's like a Hoover isn't it I went to a party there once it's wild yeah there's always like red cups on the lawn what's with you in the cup the beer that was your shorty experience it was all positive yeah wow and it was or they're not allowed to tell they have a secret oh that's why no but then I would watch like all the fraternities or like my friends and like other like the Asian sority get hazed the ancient shorties would get hazed yeah and it's it's it's pretty sad some of the things that they would do like what spill I'm like I know like at least the guys like when they're about to get initiated they go on this like not scavenger hunt but like a whole
20:16 journey and they have to like drink all this like random ████ that's like mixed in the blender and then like a blender and then like run up and down a hill and then they go to like different stops to like check off off a task there that is very sad compared to you received presents yeah I truly just that was it that's really sad how did you choose the white sorority over the Asian one um presents maybe well they have like they have a week where you go to like each of the sororities and you get to like meet people and see how you feel about it um there was no crazy scene have you seen all the Clips online where they opened the door and like yeah and they do like the dances and stuff there was none of that and they look like goblins like coming out of a cave and they're just
21:06 like um no but so then I was like oh these are people I connected with and that I like and everything that they you know represented so that's what I went with was yours like a professional one or like a business one no no hers was a magga one was a MAG one Jo a MAG story that's tight if I did it was my way back they like before before magga exist way 2009 it was The Apprentice what were the presents was it a magga hat no I'm like trying to think it was like imagine she so old they called her yesterday they're like hey did you see how it all turned out isn't that crazy I told you they're early adopters dude what a crazy ass present that would be
21:57 that would be crazy I'm I'm like I'm like could it happen though like cuz you like you pay your fees towards like the the Nationwide sority so the whole so I don't know if she's actually oh you don't know you may have been funding this campaign yeah I mean not anymore I'm not paying ████ towards them now don't you pay do like don't you still pay sories like well after you're out of it no or don't you just sell muffins on the street or whatever like Girl Scouts no it's only while you're in it oh interesting cuz I remember people like like why the ████ would I keep paying though cuz I thought I was like for networking you know don't don't like the alumni give back to the new people and the whole point you join like skull and bones or whatever it's like is that so you can get connected to someone
22:47 that's like 70 and they plug you in and the business maybe only frats do that they do but it's not like at the I don't know it's not like that anymore where it's like hey a buddy of mine or like I went to with this person right that connection isn't as strong nowadays no I thought you just supposed to go like hey I'm Dappa da your hand we're pretty much brothers oh my God it's supposed to be be CEO somewhere maybe that only happens in movies you don't you guys don't get like brandings and stuff like oh that's the the freaking oh God no that's a Florida step team be crazy why do you think I'm like covered up
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