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Uncle Roger Can't Be Cancelled; Asian Food Criticism

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0:04 you know the stuffing the chicken that is the better version of Thanksgiving though news flash Asians eat chicken too [Laughter] [Music] all right we got a little bit of news from our friend Uncle Roger Uncle Roger Roger so um he he got a little bit of heat from particularly some certain groups of people for something he said about what kinds of people food well what's new exactly he's always saying funny controversial ████ listen to this right here and this is you know this happened a little while ago but I just want to see what you guys think of it okay Southeast Asian country called good food you know yeah with the one fruit from Laos but I love loves countries yeah don't talk ████ don't talk ████ like ████ version of Thai food

0:55 I know I don't look it but I am that line version why are you laughing let's start with you let's start with Chuckles over there because uh he even already ████ put us this gets canceled suit like you already know there's some things you just don't say dude like why would you say that's just literally an uh not classy disc but it's funny because of how unclassy it is but isn't it I thought the joke is because he Uncle Roger like his character is a old Asian Uncle yeah and a lot of old Asian uncles have stupid racist beliefs right so he's making up yeah that's the joke the joke is that's what we would hear from a person like this yeah and they'll believe it yeah they'll be like oh everybody knows that you know Thai

1:46 food's the best yeah it'll say something stupid like everybody knows that Filipino food is just copying Mexican exactly yeah it's like what Steve says about Filipino food that he loads his plate up it just puts it in the ████ trash you're like that's a joke well this guy says on with that you're like oh that's but also I'm Steve's audience yeah this is reaching people that they're not his audience they just want to be but to be fair Uncle Roger s████ on pretty much everybody though everyone gets it he s████ on the whites he he has so many videos of him just watching white people cook and he destroys them yeah dude he destroyed because to be fair though the way they make some fried rice it's like what the ████ are you doing what is

2:37 there like food preference for white people you know how black people you got like chicken Asian people you die we were going on every food I'm gonna say is gonna not gonna be your typical like hamburger hot dog yeah you like casserole I feel like the only thing [Laughter] meatloaf tableside oh we love table sides apple pie fruit salad yeah you know what's crazy is everything that you just named I'm like that sounds disgusting yeah you're like meh tarragon chicken salad Boston Market Boston Market when I think of white people food I think of Thanksgiving yeah yams see I don't know how

3:27 you know the stuffing the chicken that is the better version of Thanksgiving though news flash Asians eat chicken too but is it deep fried technically Koreans got really good fried chicken every all Asians got their own version of fried chicken though and we stole it from black people and that's okay right but I think Fried Chicken in general is just like it's it's worldwide dude everyone's got their own chicken dish you know I mean every country different kinds of fried chicken except white people yeah white people don't even know how to fry well well actually the Colonel Sanders as well Colonel Sanders yeah or Cajun white they're spicy whites Cajun white interesting you look did you like so

4:20 um it's fair to say a whole lot of La ocean people were pissed about this I think it's touchy because there's that whole Thai Laos like what do you call it um rivalry and their food is similar but they want to differentiate themselves like all the countries that are really similar they probably are the biggest like Rivals and then they don't like to be like we're not like anything like them you know it seems like it would be difficult to to try to um like if you had a la Ocean Restaurant out here and someone's like oh what's the food like you don't want to say it's like Thai food you don't want to say that but a lot of laotians open up Thai restaurants though because people don't know what love ocean food is I've never had a low ocean food before it's simpler to Thai food it's similar it's good yeah yeah that's an example but when I had low ocean food I had it in Nashville and

5:12 there's a huge lotion uh community in Nashville and those dudes are they got country accents and everything but they're it's so like country infused that it's probably not even like what laution food traditional so it was a typical meal I honestly don't know the names it's just a bunch of meats that were really good I don't I can't even compare it so the I guess closest comparison would be Thai food yeah yeah like that's don't say that I know but don't say that yeah that's what it would be though but you guys are all saying but they're not I don't think it's bad to compare it and say that it's like typhoon top 10 loud dishes you must try Okay popular food sticky rice is a staple throughout the country minced meat salad AKA larb okay salad uh Steve fish baguette Pate wet noodles crispy rice salad Lao sausages hold on

6:03 did these start in Lowe's and then Southeast Asian dude right it's like they're the same so they speak the languages are similar right the only reason why there's two borders is because of the French there's no yeah tell them don't tell them that but they were a kingdom of Champa don't tell them it was the kingdom of Champa I think it was the the or the Siam area it's they were all like very I mean dude borders are man-made right so like it's it's kind of like people will be like oh Japanese and Korean food is so different and I'm all like nah dude Korean food is like Japanese food but with more flavor with sesame oil and kimchi it's like the same ingredients yeah yeah this is again according to Google food from Thailand is typically uh or has typically more curry has a heavier base of Curry and much richer in flavor due to the coconut milk base and much of its

6:53 cuisine loud food uses more lime and tends to lean on the saltier side and makes heavy use of padek which is made of fermented freshwater fish oh that's probably like the hawk the Chinese I mean the Cambodian one you know what was a trip when I first tried a lot of Cambodian food because it looks like Vietnamese food yeah so you have an imagination of what it's gonna taste like because if you if you if you tried Vietnamese food first that's what's in your head but then you eat it and you're like oh what the heck this is not what I thought it would taste like but all of that area I don't think it's mainstream I think that's the thing is like the southeast Asia area people only know Vietnamese and Vietnam Thai they don't know anything else yeah Thai food's so popular here it's kind of a go-to to compare lots of Asian food to Thai food because that's what you eat a lot of you know why there's a lot of Thai restaurants too it's um a lot of it

7:44 is government sponsored so the Thai government that's their uh tourism marketing strategy so if you're a Thai family and you're like yo I want to start a business in America the government will uh help you subsidize with the yeah with the loan and a menu and you can they'll help you branding and all that so then because they're like if people get hooked on Thai food they're going to want to visit Thailand oh okay that's interesting yeah you know what like not to speak for the ocean people like um but I understand comparing it is saying that it's a ████ version of it acceptable that's ████ up man but it was so it was so clearly a character-based joke that like I get it but I'm also not loud like if he said if you replace that with Filipino like I mean still I'm not like from the

8:34 Philippines technically so I I still can't be I think it's because they don't got representation so then that's there's like something I think it's a down punch still like in in that form right it's like imagine if you're Kazakh and then like Borat is the only way people know what Kazakhstan is which is why they're upset about it but but the whole borating in Kazakhstan joke for the people that do understand the humor is that he's he's creating a Kazakhstan that Americans think is Kazakhstan because Americans are idiots he's making fun of Americans ignorance he's looking for the world view of like Kazakhstan at the end of the day still don't like it that much right so it's kind of like yeah yeah they're still there's they still pay for the joke that's true I think that's where yeah satire is difficult I think the representation thing is a huge point right it's like if we send if he's like talking ████ on like Chinese food like how many people

9:25 are really going to get mad there's so many ████ Chinese everything everywhere but then the second like a country that doesn't have as much like familiar when we're sitting here like what is lost food you know what I mean it already doesn't have a representation this becomes like a popularized representation you know he's so like definitely I'm convinced he's uncancelable man that dude he told us a line hardcore every time I mean even when he was here remember he did the joke about like let's get the world pedal pedals of the world and then Greta Thunder together to discuss but then that's his thing like so he ended up saying like guys like Asian people talk ████ about other Asians so much yeah that's the basis for the character of Uncle Roger is that he's gonna ████ on other Asians and that part

10:16 you gotta admit which is why it's still at the end it's it's kind of funny but the punch down is that one of other black people exactly yeah but the punch down is that we don't tend to make fun of the oceans because it's not enough that's a deep cut you know what I mean there's a deep cut we don't really make fun of that honestly because it's but also too like do you think because it's kind of an inside deep joke there is a population of people that listens to that and be like oh that's ████ that's the problem because I don't think people know enough about it to have a Counterpoint they're just like oh what do you know about lotions I heard it's a ████ version of Thailand you know what I mean that might be the only thing they ever heard yeah that's what's funny about it I just don't understand taking a character seriously yeah exactly it's a ████ character some people don't believe it's a character sometimes yeah but I can understand that if no one's ever watched this show before and they saw this guy then I can see like that just means that

11:08 Uncle Roger is very convinced but you've hung out with him like when he's not Uncle Roger he's worse now but when you watch Uncle Roger too the first time I saw his videos I just thought he was kind of clean a lot of the times and then the more you watch his stuff you're like oh he's kind of pretty raunchy like he is he's actually a lot more uh I don't say offensive but like yeah he he talks a lot more ████ than you would especially on stage yeah he's dark he's he's very dark yeah like it's crazy yeah I mean if this guy pissed off the actual like Chinese government to where they banned his videos on their platforms and he's still okay and he's still doubling down on that too isn't he I think he's not afraid of any other country honestly that would be the one that you don't want to piss off right John Cena bro is submitting you know when people get mad it actually does the opposite yeah and he gets more publicity he does yeah

11:59 because he's not really saying anything that's cancelable like enough and he's not doing anything that's justifies being canceled yeah but he's toning the line to the point where he's telling the line and he's saying he's gonna get canceled in the joke right yeah exactly he says like oh what I said is ████ up in a different way without saying what he said was ████ up you know so I don't really know if it's doing what the people that don't like them I think he's gonna be fine and I think like he that's what he wants man that reaction and honestly like he does give a good point where like people do honestly like Asians to talk a lot of ████ about it he's not being a true Asian Uncle if he's not talking ████ about all other Asian countries and everybody gets it yeah he does it to everybody and if it makes any loudest and people feel better I've never

12:49 Googled about Lao Shin food until today yeah so now we know thanks to Uncle Roger to learn yeah who's good man Colleen thinks he's absolutely right though that's what she said earlier [Music]

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