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0:00 so you guys have no shot at having a conversation tell me a paragraph and I'll try to decipher it you she's asking me a question this guy's [Music] good welcome to a very special episode of careful boys today we have with us the [Applause] outcasts yay thank you for joining us this is very special because neither of them actually lives in La they actually came here from two different places you came from New York and Florida East Side very so why did you come all the way to the West Coast I asked them to come you they came because you hold on no no you guys came to travel too right yeah we we're doing like a few other takes and but you think you think they came for

0:51 this ████ wrong with you dude yeah it's like an excuse to like see each other cuz we're always like remotely but isn't it closer to Mee and North Carolina for you too yeah but then it's like here there's so many Asian like stuff like oh my God monary Park alone like Monetary Park Monetary Park how do you say it mon monter you don't even say the te noticed that there's a bunch of Asian food here cool so please please individually introduce yourselves to our audience hi I'm paji hi Podi hi paji hi hi hi I'm Yas or Yas yeah if my parents

1:43 call me Yas but uh the American way is Yas yes yes so as I understand it you guys are both from maau so what like what uh caught me or like what caught my attention with what maau you huh keep going Manda this Manda no no cuz uh they would do funny content and then both of them would be doing crazy cantones I don't understand cantones my dad's canes but I don't really understand it but I get the expressions and then so you guys would hit it like super accurately and I'm like what the ████ and then i' find out neither of you are Chinese right I'm like you could speak Cantonese like wow crazy like crazy so a shame yeah and I was like what the ████ that crazy you

2:33 fun you don't sound like that you don't sound like that you're right I need to sleep yeah no how dare you say true things yeah cuz uh we were born and raised in maau you know like um there's a lot of Filipinos actually in maau uh as domestic helpers like what are your guys's like ethnic backgrounds and how do you guys meet so I'm U my M my dad's Filipino and my mom's Brazilian and my mom is Filipino and my dad is Sri Lankan Sri Lankan that's Co and we actually you're Filipino together yes yes we have one whole yes and we met in kindergarten and we were in kindergarten yes in a Chinese school cuz um our parents are like we don't know canones someone has to translate this so go to the public school it was also

3:24 cheaper and do you also speak you speak other languages as well uh Portuguese yeah that's second language there so but oh Portugese the second language it was the colony of Portugal okay I'm ignorant cuz I'm an American okay great and I don't know anything about the world except for America especially but it's everywhere not a lot of people know about why you know have no accent that question would come how this happen because most of my friends that grew up in Asia and ████ like they still sound or why are you able to choose the accent yeah you you don't sound we have the accent we just don't show it yeah it depends on who we're talking to they have the accent sometimes they answer they understand more like speak to them that accent my Filipino Mom like talking accent but um

4:14 also yeah like we were growing up actually we had no idea about accents until like when we were seven or eight oh you didn't even know you had accents at all but I think like someone told me like yo your your dad's Indian accent is pretty funny and I'm like Indian accent and then that's like literally like hit me I'm like oh my God at home we have broken English and I'm like oh I got like more like insecure about it and stuff but then like we we watch um yeah there's a lot of Western shows like we we grew up with like also West song yeah and friends would go on on Sunday Ross Rachel Chandler that's why you sound like that Chandler they have that accent grew up in like a Chinese public school when did you get the time to learn English and then when was it

5:05 even like you used so yeah when we get home we grew up in well at home we speak English with like broken kind of like English with an accent cuz both our parents mother language is not English so they had to learn English to speak oh so that was their like that's their common language yes but kind of like broken English with an accent so we would be watching a lot of movies and back DVDs and vcds right we just like keep watching them we know lines of White Chicks you know it's like we just like recting watching white chick and then yeah it was funny that's sorry but yeah so uh people like in America would say well your action is pretty good for for Asia is very good but we because we grew up like following the American or UK pop culture we get UK stuff too like you know those

5:57 like School curriculum is like UK so we don't say hallway we say Corridor oh yeah or we don't say couch we say sofa you say color with a u huh oh my God people in America would tell tell you what do you call glasses you call them specks no no no they say rubbish you say petrol you say petrol G what do you call cigarettes what do you call cigarettes cigarettes oh okay in the UK they're called oh yeah the f word yeah fantastic you know what you know what a cash register is in their language what a till oh that's right you call that a till guess not yeah no not everything in teach them one more teach them one more yeah go on teach it's a teachable moment yeah teach them about the UK oh when at the end of a sentence when they like

6:48 want to emphasize something they go in it in it okay we're not that UK like you say BR do they also go the tingle BL just only the stereotypes that's it well you guys speak better English than a lot of people in monarchy Park which is cool that's true monarchy Park yeah we only found out like when we got to America there's some places like they don't even speak English like in areas right I was like yeah but we're going to do something about that oh my God just kidding when did we're working on it don't worry no yeah was it a a decision that you both made like when we grow up we're going to go to America together no did you sound like that when you said it too not we actually moved here separately too oh different times yeah different

7:39 times on on our on our own kind of oh so you split up and you came back together yeah and then on her story post she posted one day like and she was in New Jersey and I was like what the freak you're in New Jersey I'm an hour away and so that's kind of how we reconnected oh and what brought you to these like respective places what was it that about New York that you wanted to live there well we tell a lot oh wow separately yeah separately we're actually both Americans now oh got that [Music] passport do you get to keep your maau land one too maau you illegal immigrants when you're born there you sound like my classmates like you you like come through the tunnel like okay but um you

8:29 you when you're born in maau you don't get residency it's not like Birthright there yeah you're what they go Chinese only is that right macanese only not even Chinese it's called macines that's cool what's a macines look like mac when you buy enough McNuggets you get a card Chinese yeah it's like I never even heard of that word macines officially what they called it officially for the locals macines is Chinese and Portuguese mix M technically we're not macarones because Chinese Portuguese mix right I mean we still we're still born and raised there Chinese Portugese so they there's like half like are they like like what like P like what well none of us has been to maau except for you right but like that's just yeah like you said Chinese Vegas do I look like I work at the casino there you look like you could be the mob boss or like security

9:21 you know for security like looks really dope dope tell me about it later after I hear the story imagine like Vegas but quiet in cre oh we'll do a epod I think we make more than Vegas all chines you got all the biggest gamblers too yeah yeah they just come one night and then Gamble and go back home cuz if you're going to go all the way to maau and not gamble people go to Vegas for other things but maau because it's illegal to gamble in China so they just everyone com toble and then government pay taxes I mean sorry casinos pay taxes and then so like the citizens there they get and the alcohol there are actually free you don't have a tip you don't got a tip what do you mean it's cuz you know like when you go to Las Vegas you have top man it's not really free that's true yeah it's not really free but in maau it's actually free but you know the the waitress they're like aunties like they're not like cuz I

10:11 remember having a friend from like America like the waitresses here are like not attractive and I'm like are they supposed to be and then you go to the casino here and you're like oh my God oh my God oh yeah because there's no tip incentive huh is that why you don't characters here incentive you didn't tell us about that well first of of all I didn't even realize it I don't pay attention to those things Ryan so when you fell in love and ended up in New York you went first um a few months before you right okay yeah did that pressure her dude to like get things moving we were actually not connected at that time so she didn't know I moved to the US really can you tell us about the falling out you had in elementary school it was in college actually it was in college falling out uh well it's not well cuz I started partying a lot and like she does really like oh you're the studious one I am I'm

11:02 The Good The Good the goody good girl and and so like yeah we kind of like have different friends different life you started traveling too yeah she went Europe traveling Oh Wow Wow on like work study or something no it's kind of just like a gap year okay you're the partyer yeah right I know secret partyer but and then backpack partyer backpack partyer and then we came back we met like a few times and then yeah on our own we we moved yeah we just like kind of that's so cool that they had a falling out that they're International that they became closer because of it yeah okay it's almost like they went off and they became their own people but then they came back because at the end of the day they're Soul lovers yeah I mean there's no one else that we could like uh switch over to cantones in English and like yeah yeah yeah uh and we would know

11:52 what we're like what we mean do you feel Chinese on the inside because of all the Cantonese I mean me me personally more so but ites it doesn't really show in my face so if I go in a room full of Chinese like then I would maybe feel like uh not Chinese but um your thoughts and the way you live and what do you feel like in this room Outcast very good very good plug thanks thanks oh no yeah but um but like sometimes I would look into like traditional Chinese but this is a ways of like fixing how I feel how I eat sometimes I do that you know yeah I remember in school cuz there's international schools in maau and I would be friends with a lot of the kids in you have a lot more Foreigner friends yeah so like after school I would just run over there and hang out with them and so yeah I would I would feel like a

12:42 little bit more Filipino cuz I would hang out a lot of Filipinos outside and yeah and you're like always with the I'm I'm mostly with the local Chinese friends yeah yeah yeah do you think your final form will be when uh when you're aunties and you'll be one day all I'll walk past you and you'll be on squatting chopping a fish on the ground and then and then that becomes like you finally evolve into your full cantones or serving free alcohol by a blackjack table baby well we went to a restaurant this morning and we were just like they didn't serve hot tea where's the hot tea what I know it was Hong Kong maau like restaurant but there was no hot tea it's called HK maau beastro where is that oh that's a new one I opened up it I haven't heard of that wow they give you a lemon ice tea first it used to be

13:33 very Cantonese here it used to be yeah that restaurant we're speaking cantones everywhere like they didn't even care that we were speaking Cantonese no they don't care they're like so this is our home not y'all that's what I felt that's how it felt really you speak our language yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah wait when we grew up here it was mostly uh Cantonese and like Vietnamese and now there's a lot of um like Northern Chinese Mainland Chinese all theese speakers go they're they're just extinct no I think I also think they're slightly more East but then they also all the kids had to go to learn Mandarin as well so I think like uh people who are much more native and culturally cantones they had to learn Mandarin in order to like pick up stuff here

14:23 Mandarin is like the more the bigger Chinese it's the more spoken one before we uh made our like podcast and stuff about cantones we were we who's going to watch this nobody speaks we chose the wrong Chinese to like Mandarin we only you know it's like your pronunciation is good with that too yeah I bet you can learn it that's such a it's a look it's so interesting to see you say stuff like that yeah I mean we did Lear let ████ your mom what really she said speak a little bit of Chinese and she said ████ your mom that was like the first standard canes conversation yeah exactly that's why glm you know so you can't understand Mandarin uh you can't understand canes at all right a little bit so my dad be cantones and so like I could understand a little bit

15:14 and through some context clues I can kind of get what he's talking about but then like um if people are having a full-blown conversation so you guys have no shot at having a conversation if it's one way like tell me a like tell me a paragraph and I'll try to decipher it uh huh she says like what what you say you she's asking me a question this guy's good say say one more time if I have to guess and it's super random it sounds like porridge or movie right got got that uh do you think Jo ho like Jo is Joe I thought it

16:06 was I should no you said Joe you said Joe in a kones accent for my my govern name is Fatima but like she they would say fa f f yes me me yes me can you say can you say something to them I supposed to see who knows oh man I only know bad wordsand Mand Mandarin oh Mandarin okay casual Mandarin Mandarin like perfectly how about this like turtles and she's like Ninja Turtles turtles Right Turtles cool why you have to pick something so weird oh I don't know I just said anything that's like Elementary

16:56 Mandarin that's like Elementary Canton is all I like can pick up on to you know Kon was my first language are you K uh ju in terms of like my parents uh were born in Vietnam but like my family like all my Chinese family like speaks canones and Mandarin but canes is my first language but then nobody spoke canes in my reason why can is my first language is cuz my parents could afford to feed me here so they shipped me off to Hawaii to live my grand an and there's a lot of cantones and she only spoke Cantonese so at like 4 years old I only learned Cantonese but then when I call back home only my D to speak to me and they speak Vietnamese in the home so when I came back I had to relearn Vietnamese in English and then is it common for for someone to know both very well can a mandarin well cuz they teach Mandarin in maau like like we had oh they learned that Mandarin yeah yeah yeah it's like the

17:47 alphabets of that's like Taiwanese like uh phonetics oh really I thought it would be like um no we don't we don't acknowledge that here here that's crazy we didn't even acknowledge taiese phonetics no but our our our classmates would no man just off the bat because like their families would be in China and then so when they visit I see okay cool dang that's dope that seems very hard to like know both of them they know so many languages over there it's an international City we actually learned simplified Chinese like at in school because we would have the books from CH characters the characters China China China yeah and so we would know both isn't it common though like in maau and Hong Kong the people know multiple languages like like they know a little English Engish what made you guys want to start a channel together and start social media and all that stuff yeah yeah yeah

18:38 yeah well should we start that in the next video if we're at that point yeah we're at that next point in the next video

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