0:00 You ever like look at your your son, right? Your son, you look at the way your son grows up. Yeah. Then if he complains about something, you like just get a quick flashback. You ever get that feeling? Uh you kick him in the face? No, not really. Cuz uh my son's got nothing to complain about the way I parent. [Music] And welcome back to a very Chinese episode of the careful boys. What do you mean very Chinese? Every episode is pretty ch No, not you guys started. Well, we got Joe Wong with us, y'all. It's a Chinese takeover. It's almost half. 34% Chinese. No, all you guys are Chinese. And then you got 33%. Oh, I'm
0:50 outnumbered. Oh. Oh. Yeah. We're here to get you, Joe. We're here to get you. China. So, wait a minute. How did you get 30% 33%? Just the genetics. It's the bloodline in my family. I did the ancestry. Oh, the 23. Uh, yeah. You can't believe it though because they're out of business. 22 in me. In her nose. That's the Chinese nose. My nose is the Chinese part. It's a very Chinese nose. I thought it was a forehead. How can How can I tell the Chinese nose? You going to tell? Yeah. Just Yeah. Just look. Yeah. She has like She kind of has single eyelid. Nah. Yeah. A little bit. No, you you have double eyelids. I have double Well, she has Chinese nose and Chinese eyes. Yeah. No, I I have double eyelids, too. But her nose says nihow. And mine says,
1:46 he's been in Texas for too long. Yeah, exactly. Eight years in Houston, bro. Yeah. Eight years he was so stupid. Don't mess with Texas. Just kidding. Aggressive noses. Look, uh, a lot of Chinese noses are wider. Well, you know, there there's the exception to the rule. Oh, okay. I'm the exception to the rule. The 34.3%. Joe thinks her forehead is the most Chinese thing about her. Definitely a Chinese forehead. But wait a minute. Cuz I'm a big forehead. Mine is this mine or yours? Hers cuz I have like a five head. That's what Joe thinks. Joea thinks that about Colleen. Have you seen the pictures of the old school concubines and the empresses? They're They got a 10 head. What What is a ten head? It's like this. So like you you
2:36 just Yeah, it's a little taller. Old paintings. Oh no. I think that that might be just receding hairline. Do you think they shaved it back then? And cuz that was the style men did. Oh, yes. Yeah, they shaved like half of it, right? Yeah. All the Well, I thought that was because that's like I'm a ████ to the Ming dynasty or something. So then they they cut it and they did that haircut cuz that's like you have to be loyal to them. Yeah, that was her style. Yeah. Wait a minute. What did is it Oh, that's the the pigtail thing. Ching, right? That's what they did. Yes. Yeah. Do you accept my 30% Chinese? Do you believe it or uh do you believe it? Do you accept it? What's the difference there? I I totally believe it. But why do what do you mean by accepting it? What? Why do you believe it? He believes
3:27 it. He just denies you. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah. I I don't accept you. Okay. Okay. Okay. Good. We don't either. We don't either. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, you know who uh looks like they can be part Asian, but they're full white is some like Finnish and Swedish people. Like some of the people there have no double eyelid lids and they look like they're like part Asian, part white. It makes sense. You know, they're probably from from Russia who used to be ruled by the Mongols. I also have And also the really the really East Russians. Well, they're straight up Asian. Oh, yeah. The Kazaks. Yeah. Oh, well. Yeah. Oh, Central Asians now. Did you believe that? But the thing is, so there are a lot of Asians in Russia. Yeah. Yeah. But then when you Russia's a lot of Russians in Asia. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Exactly. But when you watch their like government uh like events or their
4:19 military parades, you don't see a lot of Asians. Yeah. But when you when you go to the front, it's all the Asians and minorities fighting in Ukraine. Ukraine. Yeah. They're to me they're the they're the horse Asians. Oh, I see what this is. Yeah, because uh they Yeah, they ride horses and they have long central planes. Mhm. Yep. They're and then they're Yeah, they're long central planes. Talk about geography or or or body structure. No, like they got long torsos. They got long torsos. You know, there's different Asian Yeah. You like like there's like jungle Asian. Okay. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. That's like
5:11 Yeah. On time Asian and then on time Asians are Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Okay. Well, depends on what kind of Chinese. Oh, yeah. like Taiwanese on kind of on time maybe 5 minutes late with a little give and then like northern Chinese and then off time Asians are like southern Filipinos are off by an hour but then like Thai maybe 30 minutes you know so it's it's yeah interesting time zone now I see what you're saying the point means like what do you the term is called the the steps or something yeah the yeah Yeah. As the steps, the Mongolians, the the stands. Yeah. Yeah. They're always when people think of Asians, they're always forgotten. Yeah. Cuz I think they're more like Russians with an Asian face. Yeah. But maybe
6:03 they're also smaller in numbers. You know, there's only a couple population. Yeah. Yeah. Which area of China did you grow up in? Uh northeast part of China. What city? Oh, yeah. That's that's the best best part of China. the New England of China. Yeah. But New England of China, but uh I think sensitivity wise, it's a little bit more similar to Texas, you know. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. I mean, stereotype wise. So, you guys feel like you could be your own country? Yeah. Well, we could be our own country. That's where theQing dynasty started. Allowed to say that. No, but that's the way Are you guys Manurians? Yeah, exactly. That's where theQing dynasty started. Yeah. It's always people fighting in horses and archery, that kind of thing. Yeah, horse Asians there too. That is a stereotype for Dongbe. Like they they
6:53 all just fight all the time. But it's a stereotype. But on the other hand, when I was uh I used to walk on the streets in Beijing, uh all the bouncers will say hi to me. You know, I was like, okay, he's from northeast, you know. A lot of them are bouncers. Is Beijing considered northeast, too? Uh it's more just north. Yeah. Yeah. What's what's a city in northeast? What what city are you from? Oh, uh Changdu. No, that's Souththeast. Northeast. I'm I came from really small town. This in general, Dongway's economy is really behind and my town is the second poorest in the province. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. We always laugh at poorest. But that's why you need to bring coal to your school. That's so poor. Yeah. So, what was it like growing up there?
7:44 grow up there. It was uh it's kind of fun. You know, when you're little, you have no idea if you're poor or not. You know, you just have fun. I just remember I went to my neighbor's house and that kid, they they have no electricity. It was totally dark at night and it was no no heat. The kid was eating a raw potato at the time. I was like, "Wow." I was jealous of him. I said, "Wow, this guy was, you know, he can do whatever he wants. His parents doesn't doesn't say anything." I was like, "Oh." At the time, I had no idea that we're poor. I was, "Oh, okay." That's how everybody looks. You're like, "He's such a rebel. He could eat a raw potato in the dark." Yeah. In the dark. Cold. This guy's a badass. Yeah. Yeah. That's
8:34 Did you have like the normal stuff in America like a refrigerator, a stove and all that? Oh, a stove. They have um not a refrigerator. Yeah. But what kind of stove? Like a gas or like you had to put coal in it? Oh, yeah. Coal. Uh we call those barbecues. Yeah. What? That's like camping. Call those barbecues. We we kind of barbecue the whole family there. Basically, we lived very different lives. Yeah. Yeah. But it's uh I don't people don't it's very rare to see those things now. But back in the day, you basically have a stove here in the kitchen. There's a wall, but on the other side is the bedroom. And the heat from the stove actually goes through Oh. into the bedroom. Yeah, the bedroom.
9:24 Yeah. You have I don't even know. It's called Kong. Uh what what I don't even know the English translation of it. It's made made of bricks and cement and the heat goes under it. Uh it's kind of like a platform thing and the the whole family can sleep on on that platform. Then this and it's all warm too. Yeah, it's very warm. Yeah. What up guys? Come join our Patreon because there's hundreds of videos dating all the way back to 2019. That's right. If you click on the link down below, you can join our Patreon, join us on the Discord, come chat with us directly, have a fun conversation, and this will help support the channel's growth and new ideas, and also tap into our closer community by joining our Discord and get the opportunity to suggest video ideas like the ones you've seen. Thank you guys. Join our Patreon.
10:14 Help us out. Thanks. See you guys there. Say hi to me. Did you have electricity? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we always had electricity. Uh yeah, but this cuz I was born in the 70s then. Oh, okay. There's Did you guys have to boil your water? Oh yeah, we used to boil water all the time to take a bath. Yeah, to take a bath. Yeah. Oh wow. Yeah. To drink to everything, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. When you have electricity, is it like uh like one light bulb for the whole house or how does like like how much what what do you use for the electricity for? Oh, yeah. Just light bulb mostly light bulbs. We have, you know, of course rice cooker, you know, the high pressure rice cooker, you know, that's but those are scary though because I remember when I was a kid, the the high pressure cooker sometimes and if you didn't operate right, there's there's a heavy weight on
11:06 that thing, you know, sometimes just goes to the ceiling, right? Yeah. Okay. It's almost like the autoclave in America. They don't know what the autoclave is. That sounds familiar. Yeah, it was like uh mostly in hospitals and Oh, you have to clean instruments, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. They they have high pressure heat, you know. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Pressure cookers you have to like Exactly. release the pressure. Yeah. when I picture your childhood, I um so I sometimes I don't follow these Chinese Instagrams, but it keeps popping up where it's like old school Chinese music and then like he's in like a convenience store and he's like making candy or like something else and then there's this other guy. He's he's on a bed like what you like your brick thing and it's what
11:57 and then he opens it up and then like he finds ingredients and he's making like food and stuff. Do you know Do you know what I'm talking about? Is it like Visuals of China or something? No. I don't know the name or No, it's like it's almost like a a a skit, but it's like a play where he's like eating food and he's like running out of this I don't know like let's say he's running out of like um like rice or something and he goes, "Man, what am I going to do?" And he'll go in the backyard and make like a whole meal and then like it's really cool, but it it looks like it's like 1970s China. Oh, yeah. And then there's two guys that do it. One guy has a convenience store and then like um another guy is just in his bedroom and then it's like the bedroom one is like a it's like a clay house with like made out of bricks and
12:48 it's all old. Oh yeah. Yeah. That that's the type of house you I grew up in. Yeah. Yeah. And then all of the technologies like he has a well like the well man that well is scary in the winter. So that's what I picture your like yeah childhood to be. Yeah cuz all the water is frozen. You have to go climb up the the icy little slope to get water. Man, I was like it's cold. Yeah. This is Yeah. But then you know we we survived. This is so scary. How did you get to school? Oh I I walked you walked half an hour. Um I just remember You're like you're like I walked 10 miles. Yeah. That's what my dad would say all the time. Yeah. Yeah. your parents. Yeah, I had the snow just sometimes just like to the waist, you know. It's just still kiwaga. Holy ████ Oh, yeah. That that
13:39 was pretty tough. Yeah. But then when I was uh in high school, we start to have like buses to uh drive kids to school, but sometimes the bus broke down. They just just sent a truck. So, we all was on on a truck bed and that was it was so windy. It was really cold. So basically, you have to wrap your head with a scarf. If if you have a tiny crack in their scarf, your ear just totally red and swollen. Man, that was uh those are good times. When you grow up in LA, you don't really know what cold is. And when I was in Beijing during January, I was so shocked how cold it was. And like I remember seeing um the guys that work security and the door. M. So, like we would get
14:31 in after a party like at 6:00 a.m. They're standing at the door. We will wake up in the afternoon, they're at the door, we go out to party again, we come back, same guy. And I'm like, when does he sleep and take breaks and he's just standing outside the whole time? And I was like, that is crazy. You guys just learn how to live in that cold normal. Oh, yeah. But that cold. I remember it was so cold that uh a lot of the stores and businesses there, they had the refrigerator. You know, like when you have a cold storage, they have those long plastic things that you have to walk through. And I I saw that and I was like, "What the heck is this?" Like, you need to get through that to get into the building. That's still like that. Oh, yeah. I was like, "Wow." Yeah. Um, Beijing is not the coldest
15:23 place in China at all. Really? Yeah. No, cuz my hometown is like at least 20° colder. Oh, sure. Than Beijing. Yeah, cuz that was already cold to me. I was like, "What the heck?" Yeah, cuz when I was in Beijing, I'm not even I don't I don't feel jealous about all the emperors in the past. If you visit the Forbidden City, I see how the emperors live. Man, there's like big crack in the dwarves. How do you survive the winter there? I just Oh wow. Like the wind just could just blow right in. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Just Oh, man. It's a I guess you guys get used to the cold, I guess. You ever body acclimates? You ever like look at your your son, right? Your son, you look at the way your son grows up. Yeah. And if he complains about something, you like just get a quick flashback. You ever get that feeling? Uh you kick him in the face? No, not really. Cuz uh my son's
16:14 got nothing to complain about the way I parent. Is your is your hometown like still like that or is it uh completely modernized? Yeah, it's very modernized. I went back there like years later. All the schools are, you know, it's very nice. And China modernized so fast. So you saw the whole like from dirt poor country, no running water to like skyscrapers. Exactly. Yeah, man. That's just astounding. stunning because uh I used to see even like woman with a a baby on her back and then she's just you know planting the rice one by one just squatting there in the hot sun. It was oh my god it was miserable life but now it's like you
17:05 know skyscrapers everywhere. Oh no. Yeah. The speed of China's modernization it's like if you were to like watch a time lapse of America for like 50 50 years that's like China in 10 years. Wow. That's how quickly they they just got they got skyscrapers built so fast that they didn't have people to move into them. There's so many cities of just emptiness that they poured like millions or billions of dollars into it and it's like, "Okay, well, we did that too fast." Mhm. Yeah. But not just that. Also, the highspeed rail, this the longest uh highspeed rail and fastest. They just made the fastest one now. They have a high-speed rail that goes 640 mph, which is faster than some commercial jets. That's a plane. Holy ████ What the ████ Where does that go? I think it's between Shanghai and Beijing. And how long is that? Like
17:57 30 seconds. Yeah. That's crazy. 600 miles an hour. You're so comfortable in the twink. It's so nice. Yeah. You go to the train station in Boston, New York, and I'm like, "Oh, Jesus. This is so run down everything." But you go to a train station in China, it was it's kind of like the airports here. It's just very That's what trips me out because we go to like when I travel to countries that are supposed to be poorer than America. They live better. Like everything feels new and clean and more and higher technology. And then I come back to LA, I'm like, we're supposed to California's like just beat Japan in economy right now. And it feels like so dirty and ████ up here. It was cuz their tax money like goes to like the people. Yeah. And then this goes to all the It goes to the Newsomes. Yeah. Yeah. I see.
18:47 Ours goes to some people. Some people. I love that system. I love it. My favorite. Yeah. That's what blows my mind. I'm like, we just beat Joan raffle. Yeah.
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