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Off The Record: Ryan Hasegawa's Japanese Family & His Favorite Hobbies

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0:00 [Music] and welcome back to careful boys and today we've got ryan hasagawa in the city how's it going how's it going is that how people are supposed to say your name i guess never had anyone say it like no actually i take that back so when i was in japan like i went to a sushi restaurant like like a fan sushi fancy sushi restaurant and then they saw like my because then they're obviously like serving like a bunch like tourists and stuff like that as it's like because it's fancy and people want to go when they're in japan so then they're like looking down the list and stuff and then they see my name and i'm like like i'm here for hacienda she's like oh i see like her face like brightens up then she starts like bouncing like oh no how do i break it down i don't know what japanese because she starts like rattling off like you should have been like yeah just a good old noise how did your grandpa say your last name um

0:54 he said it kind of white to be honest because i explained how he's kind of like a like an asian giant john wayne your grandpa's a like an asian john wayne yeah why are you dressed the way you do yeah pretty much it's because i'm like i want to be a cowboy no because like he really liked america so he just like watched a bunch of like john wayne movies and ████ like that so he kind of talked like you know he kind of had like a little bit of a draw like sometimes and it was it was funny because i was like i ladies and gentlemen and he could speak japanese too was he born here yeah he was born in japan no he was born here but he spent most of like a good chunk of his childhood in japan kind of like back and forth yeah so he was like i'm like me and vegas yeah no except not where was he during the war during the war he was actually close enough to when

1:46 to free up his hiroshima and nagasaki he was in japan during world war ii whoa when the bomb went off i was on the wrong side no he was like i think he was a kid so he was like close enough to where the bomb went off that he got like free medical service like free health care did he get ████ radiating no he was like lucky that he was far enough away but then they just like kind of drew a line of like everybody in this general area that could have gotten ████ up by the bomb like you get you know free medical like you know health care that's like the hurricane katrina people whose houses didn't crumble but they did some hookups yeah yeah that's exactly like that except like replace hurricane with nuclear bombs yeah yeah yeah man-made yeah i forgot the part of hurricane katrina people melted it why did your grandpa go back and forth from the u.s there's a lot of family stuff there's just a lot of families like your grandpa's so your great-grandparents came here first yeah

2:37 yeah for work or whatever yeah i don't know exactly what the story was i think he was born in like oklahoma or nebraska or something like that it was kind of weird yes it was yeah so he was like born in a very weird spot but then he was like back and forth and eventually he settled in california um just because his or his his wife my grandmother was like nah we gotta pick a place we gotta ████ stop moving around and he's like john wayne california your grandma's born here too uh i don't know about her actually i gotta double check on that um i think she was though yeah but um yeah they've we've my family's been in the in the country for a long last time so what are your fourth generation it depends on what side of the family but yeah third or fourth generation depending on who you are you always choose the men oh okay yeah i think if that's the case i think it's like yeah i think i'm like third generation or something they came here to teach judo to make sushi they came all the way over here to make sushi and tell my grandfather flip anything other than like the finger does your grandpa get offended like if

3:28 he was a stand-up comedian thing in japan and someone made a bomb joke about the i don't know i never i never pushed that i never shut up i never pushed that i wonder like how soon after did japanese stand-up comedians start making jokes about them when it's accepted i don't know anything about like japanese stand-up is there a japanese phrase for too soon probably just let's go what is the phrase i'll just like shake their head and like oh my god no is there a big stand-up comedy scene in japan yeah that's the first question of comics in japan for sure but like traditional like one mic stool type of ████ i don't think it's i feel like it's a lot on tv though right because i feel like a lot of the comedians that i see at least are like get on tv shows like variety shows and stuff like that that's true it's like like tara's house castle dude there's an old art form there's an old art form called that i mean it just translates to like

4:19 like laughing but then it's it's it's like a it's a comedy show it's a legit comedy show they do sketches they do commentary they do uh like it's i don't know if it's improv but that's the best way i can explain it like they do games and stuff um but i've like silent library yeah yeah yeah that's that's hella japanese but like i've never seen a stand-up comedian but also i wouldn't go because i can't understand the complex adult ████ oh yeah but i've been to uh shows and performances where they do uh comedy shows like that like it'll be like a um a variety show that's what it is yeah that's kind of like what they televised though i was gonna say like i feel like that's what they put on that's kind of like who he is like a variety guy like look at this whoa that explains the traditional one is more like um there's a format to it and it's like

5:10 life and then the the the one that we see on tv is like a modern variety show that probably took a lot of influence from like the 60s in america like that kind of prank shows that the japanese do are so oh those are ████ great david was showing us one on his podcast where they they kept pranking the same guy over and over again and he'd just be walking and he walks onto like one specific tile and he just drops into hot water and they do that to him like seven different times he was walking onto a stage like in front of a performance right when he walks in right bro some ████ joke reward he falls right into the hot water and then immediately right after he falls in the hot water there's two guys in the back pushing out a bucket of ice and he knows the protocol as soon as he falls in the ice the hot water he jumps into the ice and he's just like cool himself off but

6:00 the best one is they think they're done with the show he gets into the tour bus he sits in the back seat and as soon as he sits he flips backwards into a ████ like a bowl of hot water bro and he just once again the guys with the bucket ice come out and they kept doing it with this poor guy i wish i wish we weren't so ████ that we couldn't enjoy it you know what i mean it's so funny like if we as a nation we call that bullying in the u.s yeah if you try to shoot that here be bullying there'll be a ████ activist saying you know cancer someone's going to say is that guy like a volunteer or is he part of the show respect to the als ████ patience yeah yeah like the ice bucket challenge people yeah yeah i feel like everyone else has better comedy shows than the us like the ████ that has better comedy the uk

6:51 whatever because they don't yeah i think cause we have like a puritan like so cause everybody thinks twice before they really we are yeah we're a puritan society we're very anti-sex nobody shoots from the hip with like comedy out here they're just like they do and then someone shoots back yeah people are scared yeah people are scared snipers people are scared to push the boundaries versus like stuff like that's ████ tight man i just think it's con convoluted though sometimes like i feel like it's so complex that someone doesn't want to spend the time to like develop like a false wall in all the tour buses to like you know trick someone into getting it on i feel like it takes a very specific dedicated group of people to be like that's what we're gonna get that's also very japanese we're gonna dump the entire ████ budget under this trap door mechanism and that's gonna be ████ sick yeah yeah we do have jackass here yeah we have jackass yeah but instead of regular comedy it's just those are jackasses it's like not

7:43 but they only do that once a year and ████ you know now they do they used to do it they used to do it seasonally yeah yeah they used to do it seasonally now they're just old can you believe they're still ████ each other up at 50. this is the last one like they're legit like they keep saying that they keep saying that no but this one i think that uh giant knoxville got a concussion on this one that his doctor's like you cannot do or you're gonna die he gets a concussion every move yeah well this is what he got enough of a concussion that they're gonna make him stop or something like that like it's crazy that dude those dudes are old but i'm gonna go watch that movie though i'm gonna watch seen that japanese prank show one where they have to get an mri scan and then when they get in the stretcher they go inside and at the other side there's a grandma and she's like ████ one inch away from your face and you're just eskimo kissing her that's pretty funny okay i want to know who that ground was and you can't laugh you got to just stay still yeah there was one silent library i saw where

8:33 it was like it was it like when they picked a card and it said gums or something like that oh yeah an old man and ernesto hoost yeah he's like one of the he's like the one of the goat kickboxers of all time of all time big black dutch i think he's dutch yeah dutch dude and he just yeah he's with a bunch of these tiny little japanese dudes in the library and there's this old man that comes out he puts out his teeth and he starts sucking in this dude's ear and the whole time and he's just trying to hold it together but it's like one of the best things ever they bring all these fighters on like the most hardcore bob sapp like these type of dudes and they'll bring them into the silliest environments that's great they love that ████ have you seen the one where they had to go around this this tube and someone farted in it you know they had to put gossip like the oxygen masks on yeah i've seen that one on jackass yeah oh

9:25 yeah i think stevo like yaks so it's like he's like in the thing so it's adding to the to the experience dude remember that jackass where one of their buddies had a ████ run on the treadmill and they had the sweat bag and nephew had a drink to that ████ bro dude that one that one's the one that got me the closest to you yeah that was true i was like what about when that guy ate a piece of ████ do you guys remember that one it was three six mafia have you seen that that was in the movie which one it was like a piece of like cow ████ or something oh three six mafia's there the ████ chip thing yeah and he eats it and i was like i can't do this anymore i can't watch it i can't do it i'm glad this conversation came from talking about your grandparents he would he would approve nagasaki it's like can you believe all the people who fought for our freedoms during world war ii if they saw what humans are doing

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11:57 price of three go to babel b-a-b-b-e-l dot com slash off the record to get six months for the price of three months ryan i have a question for you sure who's your favorite japanese person my favorite japanese male and female go i don't know a whole lot japanese american or japanese japanese you heard what i said dude japanese japanese i give it both i gotta say japanese twice like they're not japanese japanese yeah people emphasize you're next joe i should be called twice removed and he should be called three times removed japanese yeah i mean the more generations you get in america just the more the more white you get the banana strengthens with like they have to be real people are counting people like ryu fictional japanese counselors do you consider pikachu japanese that's what

12:47 i'm saying yeah but he's not a person pikapi but he's japanese is ash is a person like a shiba inu is a japanese yeah he said person i think are you are you okay with either japanese things yes japanese entities japanese i like matcha a lot japanese characters what's your favorite japanese phrase it's kind of like the most american japanese guy here yeah no that's funny everyone always brings it up they're just like oh we got a japanese guy i'm like don't that's not that's a question then that pertains to only you would you rather have the best gun on in the planet or the best camera in the world oh that's a good question probably the best camera in the world because like because you're still shooting someone's going to jack you for it though because you ain't got no gun yeah i guess but if i got a gun then i can't take a picture of it right after

13:37 the guy gives him the camera he goes now give me the camera those are the biggest passions guns and cameras so cameras over guns for you well yeah because i can make mo i can make a lot more money with that you could you could make a lot of money now but then i have to be on the run all the time like i don't want to be like stressing out about a life of crime all the time if you get a sick ass gun you also get a sick ass road car and a holster so but i just have to constantly be driving it okay fine you also get a driver oh you're the driver no stop questioning the logistics i don't want to run for the rest of my life like i'm not running and driving but what if you're running for the law not from or the law what am i because you're you're because you're a cop or something you know you're running for the law you know this is for the law it's like a jog-a-thon it sounds like a police charity it's a police jock-a-thon it's for a west coast like he wants you to donate

14:28 he's just stopping at your house running in place you're running uh to catch a bad guy because you're a cop okay i'll i'll uh i'll meet you in the middle again i'll give you a sniper that the scope is the best camera in the world stupid what your car is hella wack but every time every time you shoot every time you shoot you take a picture yeah but you'll pull a shirt so i have evidence yeah every time you shoot you take a gorgeous photo of the victim yeah and before they died to classical music that's a black mirror episode before they die that's the trade-off yeah is that okay that would actually be so helpful in shooting because when you're shooting long distance right the reason why you have a spotter is after you you pull the trigger the things shake so much you're off site so you don't know where you're looking at but if you could actually

15:18 take a picture at the moment you pulled the trigger what the sight picture looks like dude i think you just invented something you're welcome because then you you gotta be like this if you're spotter hit yeah hit two degrees to the right spend enough time with each other you guys start making out i know and they're not even spotting it is there does that happen do they get romantically marines marines is something else man [Laughter] just ████ it a bunch of times they finish each other's sentences it's not really i think they're finishing is that syndrome instead of them being like this side to side [Applause] literally on top of me because the recoil broke so when i shoot to stabilize oh ████ oh yeah oh i just busted oh ████ dude that's ████ crazy

16:09 right dude [Laughter] oh ████ so then recoil machine gun baby you're really gonna have a hard time exactly for stability you have to like go inside oh yeah you gotta link up you gotta be one you gotta be one shooter that's right plugging in it's like kayaks right when you get in the kayak the bigger guy has to be in the back the smaller person has to be in the front so as a smaller person i'll be in the front the bigger guy gives me stability on top of me and you have to leak but then why does the middle guy have to take it from both sides it's just it's just protocol bro how many people does everybody ride kayaks that way well he's a connecting course he's the connecting audience he's the conductor so are we gonna get a girl on the show or not [Laughter]

17:01 what's the deal bro i heard there's a girl coming soon yeah to a theater near you she's just gonna enable all of them how come girls will do jokes like that really oh yeah there's this there's a sniper do military girls make jokes like that i don't think so not really yeah they don't guys in the room are like yeah and yeah then what happens next man i love this joke that's so funny ████ yeah can you say it a little bit slower next time yes i gotta put on my army hat for that one dude looks like you're fishing here talking about military we talked about japanese prank shows and we talked about your japanese heritage so i think we're covering all your don't forget photography yeah my two my only two passions is guns and guns and cameras

17:51 but none of you guys have like a like a iconic japanese person who is your favorite japanese kid i like him mikey dude that guy's insane i will say no yeah that's cool as ████ he's a japanese director and his filmography is ████ insane he's done ████ like ████ um like uh uh audition with it's like this horror movie where this it's it's known for this like super brutal torture scene where like this chick like basically like tortures this guy to death and like cuts like things off of his feet and stuff like that so insane ████ like that and then he also directs family movies like what kind of family movies like there's shrek three [Laughter]

18:41 ryan have you seen this movie called happiness of the korres kurotakis or kurosawas it's this like family that inherits this like uh motel and then they're gonna start running this motel but people keep dying inside their motel so they have to keep hiding the bodies and then it's but it's done as like a family comedy off that sounds hilarious that sounds pretty funny so it's like a little bit of horror when people die and the ghost come back to haunt them but they're also like like like slapstick kind of like trying to like hide the feet underneath the japanese we can have bernie's yeah it's funny though like so that's that's his filmography so that's that's a good choice what was his name again uh takeshi yeah mikey got two eyes m-i-i-k-e yeah so that dudes that dude's got like if i if i work on that many kinds of films by the end of my career i'll be a very happy man what if he go what if he goes is he alive i think so yeah dude he's old though i want to hire you but you

19:31 have to give up guns for the rest of your life oh no i probably wrong he's american dude he's like don't take my ████ guns from me you wouldn't you would say no i make my own movement try to give him guns the rest of my life what a weird uh like a request for someone who gains nothing but it's your dream career though yeah but i'll shoot another film that's cool yeah what a class this guy's demanding i don't like guns but i like you yeah but like i wouldn't even be guns would be nowhere near him he just wants me as a person to give up he just wants to hurt me you don't keep a gun on set if dave chappelle said like i could live with him and then he'll like take me under his wing uh-huh and i have to give up guns i'll say ████ you let's do it oh you don't think about the you know you live with him and you give up your family part you'll never see your family again what if he asks you to be vegan for the

20:21 rest of your life that'd be tough rest of my life you have to give up red meat you have to go vegan or you're not allowed to get like a fade anymore [Laughter] you gotta feed opposite you gotta go you have to drive a smart car for the rest of your life never would have been hair salon yeah but vegan though vegan's tough i'll tell you i think i'll do it yeah yeah interesting wow just not the family part but like everything else is everything else is like professional right it's like it's not like a uh deal breaker it's like i could do anything change i can't believe you like comedy more than guns what's wrong with you he's the goat though get to learn from him what if he's like a really bad teacher yeah what if he's like a great athlete but a horrible coach what if he's like what if he's like you got to put this bumper sticker on your truck for 30 years and it says marines are gay

21:12 [Laughter] think most of those jokes i've heard from marie [Music] you

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