0:00 we know the casting director that did the uh Gran Torino that's about Hmong people that was a whole group that brought us out that was our first JK gig wow so the monk Community has given a lot of a lot of love to JK yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and we want to give it back [Music] what oh today's episode is going to be about his son it's all about Hmong people long people do we know about h-m-o-n-g I'll be back you guys talk okay but I think he knows the most though I think he died because he actually lived in a Hmong Village in Thailand huh their culture was almost eradicated that's what I do know I actually don't
0:50 know very much who knows the least because that'll be fun to tell them about me dude so I think it's me bro my only knowledge among people was the movie Gran Torino uh that's I don't know if that's the best source that's a great film you know I just that's my only reference among people I know during like their new years they like to ████ throw it down all the time oh dude yeah there's always like these like videos of like in like Stockton and Modesto where they're just scrapping everywhere yeah in NorCal there's a huge diaspora of them uh there was definitely like a very large Hmong genocide with their like entire culture was nearly eradicated really yeah so let's start with that let's start with how do we know like Hmong people here in California I only know because the twins on kinjas are Hmong people can I just stick up for the audience who maybe doesn't know what the ████ among is for
1:41 a sec yes what's a monk that's the thing yeah let's start there so long is spelled h-m-o-n-g and and from what I the very little that I understand they're not even like part they're not like uh Bound by our country right like they there are people that can be spread across different Asian countries but originally are they like they're like in indigenous group in China right yes originally okay this is what Hmong people have told me is like in the movie Mulan the bad guys that's their ancestors when they lost the war they ran away to Southeast Asia to hide out in the Hills because the Chinese knew um the Emperor or whatever was trying to genocide that oh okay that is their history right I don't know what the actual like ancestral accounts are of them but but they are not of the
2:32 people of Southeast Asia so they are undocumented folks that live in the mountains of Cambodia right Vietnam Thailand all that yeah and in my I'm getting some pictures here have you heard people speaking monk yeah and what does it sound like because it sound like closer to any of the other Asian languages I don't know how to describe it because I only hear it when a villain an impact on the kids just get drunk and then when they have to yell at each other they speak in Hmong and that's one like it's tight though yeah so the Twins and kinjas are both hmong and they're and they're B boys that are from uh up north yeah from sac and in Sac they got whole mung b-boy Crews and they're dope yeah they're dope they're just really good they're just uh yeah they're just like some of the top Crews up there says among people are an
3:22 indigenous group in the East and Southeast Asia in China among People are classified as a subgroup of male people the modern among reside mainly in Southwest China uh and countries in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam Laos Thailand and Myanmar so do you think you'd be able to tell like who looks more Hmong than like someone that's not it just depends on what I'm comparing to if you're like one of these people is hmong and then the other person's like Japanese yeah I can if you're the other person's Korean yeah if the other person you know what I mean but if it's just generic southeast Asia and you don't tell me one of them is Hmong I'm gonna guess one of the other Southeast Asians by by population density yeah yeah yeah I know they got common last names like you know how Vietnamese has to win they have like I think it's like Vang or like song or like or like there's like common ones they got like cha I think that's
4:12 one but um I didn't know any Hmong people in the states it later on in Life After College when we started traveling for JK and they were booking Us in different areas because they don't live in most of them they don't live in major cities okay most the Hmong people they live in like farm towns in the country like Fresno I know there's a huge population out in Minneapolis I know there's one out like in Detroit um Michigan um out out in the South uh and I don't know why but I read up a little bit and so during the Vietnam war um Hmong people actually helped the U.S government because they're like they lived out in the hills and they were also I guess getting discriminated against by the Viet Cong so the Hmong
5:03 folks worked with are like Rangers our army rangers and helped us find um Pathways to attack the Vietcong another one is I think during the Cambodian genocide they were targeted uh from Pol Pot screw so there's a with that Refugee of Vietnamese and and cambodians or whatever Hmong groups came along with because they were on the side of the U.S soldiers and with that I think they were dispersed around the U.S but I didn't know they were in like California until way later on where I'm like oh there's a huge community in Fresno yeah what do you know about them Ryan um the only thing I ever knew was uh was
5:54 that they were very similar to another group I remembered I I before I knew anyone that was Mom I knew somebody that was Cham what is that it's like um it's like the Vietnamese version of mom where like they are an indigenous group that was you know uh in some way persecuted so they had to spread out and they ended up in like all different parts of the world and uh I remembered that there was this girl that I had met with Chum and um she was like beautiful but then her friends are like don't even try she's Chapman I was like the what why what is that oh it's just a stick to her own stick to her yeah because there's so few of them that she has to marry another guy who's charm whoa she was dope and then after that when I had learned uh Hmong I always like most people will mistake it for Mongolian yeah because they'll just hear it and go oh Mom oh it's Mongolian I think it's like an
6:44 abbreviation and then someone was telling me like uh oh yo you ever seen the Mong B boys and I was like Mong B boys and then that's when uh we learned about air steps and like these all like Hmong b-boy Crews up North and then someone was like yeah they're like the uh they said they're like the indigenous Asians of like Asia I was like oh that's interesting and then that's when I learned it was very similar to Chan I remember hearing what Korean was with for the first time and I was like man you just making ████ up trying to be special because in my little like I was like there's only Chinese and Japanese and all the Korean just ████ making ████ up and then I remember hearing mung again I'm like man there's only Korean Chinese you're just making up manga be special and then I found out they're like a real thing I was pretty good
7:34 you can also here at like an earlier time too that like Hmong dudes were like tough like there were like a lot of mung gangs like very similar to like Long Beach and like some more yeah yeah yeah they were very like uh you know because they're they're uh you know when you when you get spread out from another country the same way that a lot of the Vietnamese immigrants were in some towns like you end up having to be very protective of yourselves and yeah everyone's ████ with you you live in a low-income neighborhood you know and and a lot of them ended up being like what you said like you've seen Gran Torino yeah and you know that that's my only that's the first time I heard about Hmong people because I even asked villain like Bill from his crew back in the day I'm like yo if you didn't start dancing would you have like your life would have been very different on he's like yeah it wouldn't have been it probably would have been a lot more difficult so none of us knows much about the monks none of us we have we have hella uh
8:25 Hmong fans though yeah because after um you know we started getting called to these different schools and stuff like remember when me you and David did that show out in Minneapolis I think yeah or yeah Minnesota right yeah yeah it is Minneapolis that whole group was a mom Club those 300 something kids that came out wow there was only a handful of like Chinese kids but that that was the Hmong Community out there yeah and then um I know about them because the church we went to we they had a they had a whole connection with Thailand and they were um they sponsored like this like this aids clinic where it was a a lot of um girls that were sold into trafficking and then when they were caught with STDs
9:17 and AIDS and stuff like that their brothels would just throw them away oh and then so our church had like this uh like it was like a program yeah it was like they lived there it was Christian all this stuff okay yeah yeah and you know how those SDA communities really deep into Health right yeah so everyone becomes doctors and so there was like a medical thing to to give and then they taught us about where these girls come from so it was like a whole thing we're gonna go build churches in their Community yeah and then so we went from Bangkok all the way to the border of Burma into a Hmong Village and these are the photos you lived in the Hmong Village we lived in the Hmong Village with Hmong people and you just could look at it yeah and then I'll I'll take these pictures and and show them um you guys could do a
10:07 slideshow oh my hey Eddie what the Yeah so I mean we were part of the church freaking guy I don't know they sponsored the trip so we went out there to bring like money you guys will see him I'm sure super down the screen but yeah that was the that was the story of Uncle drugs he was a heroin addict or opiumatic he lived in the back of the pastor's house and uh the way they made money was they had a they had an opium dude ████ joke and and they were teaching us like this is the only way these guys can make money there's no there's no school so that's why uh our church was building a church and building buildings for them to get educated and then um running water that they just built a well recently yeah and then so we lived in there every single day and then they're like this is how they live how do you rate the Hmong seesaws are
10:58 they pretty good pretty efficient these little kids were monkeys all of them are Mom kids kids are so cute they're ████ cute Bro Look at Joan these pictures of Joe are all and then so what they were teaching us is that like the way they find these girls is recruiters will come into these Villages and be like they know they're poor so they'll be like hey uh is your son or daughter looking for work and then they would basically get their daughters and say we could take them to the city yeah and then they can work do they know what that means no they pull a Switcheroo on them these dude these villagers are ████ so sweet they have no idea and the thing is um there's there's there's child soldiers from the Burmese border and um a militia group like a terrorist group from Burma heard that there was a
11:49 missionary group and they came into the village and there were guys my age at that time yeah 13 14 with just massive guns that were bigger than them strapped to their arms like in the back of pickup so they came in the village leader and the pastor they all got together and then they came with the agreement but during that time they told all of us to just stay in the house and wait so we're just like peeking out and I was like this is ████ nuts and then after that um you know it was it was just a wild experience right because like you don't know what is what is really like happening what's good what's bad but they told us about the economy there is the only way that these guys can make money in these Villages is because they're not documented citizens of Thailand uh they're basically these drug traffickers come and say build these
12:39 opium fields and then and then when it's harvest time they just sell it to them these guys don't know he they think they're growing papaya like they don't know and then one of the guys we call them Uncle drugs but he just smoked opium every ████ day damn yeah and and he I'm in a photo with them he's that dark dude like that's awful drugs yeah Uncle drugs and then their their religion is witchcraft like they do a lot of Ceremonies and things like that and I guess like the church was trying to help them educate build an economy have some type of stability so they can remove their dependency on drugs and selling off their daughters wow because the daughters they would say like they don't know that that's what's happening what they what they're told by these recruiters is yeah you can go because this does happen where where they're
13:29 like hey uh I'ma send my kid to the city they're gonna get educated they're gonna go to school or they're gonna go work and then bring money back to the Village right it happens all the time but then these con artists will bring the girls and then the girls will never come back because they'll be like all drugged up and ashamed of what they're doing so then when we heard that ████ they're like dude this is some crazy ████ they didn't insulate us like even though we were church kids they're like this is the ████ reality wow they just gave it to you straight yeah dude they gave us they told us everything we met all the it's it started with this I think I forgot I'm kind of confused of the timeline I was 14 but it's I remember we saw the whole process of where these girls come from and where they ended up and we met them face to face it was sad as ████ yeah like factory farming like you saw
14:21 the cow being slaughtered huh like you saw you you said you saw the whole process you saw the end part where the chicks are getting taken to hotels and ████ oh well that's rampant in Thailand there's like sex tourism just you see miners holding hands with adults walking around like old old guys it's normal yeah it's out in the public yeah but and then that's funny because the way they have their taxis they have these back of the pickup trucks with rails and then and then these these seats in the back yeah so we would yeah we would be there so me and my buddy Eddie we would hang on the bars and every time we saw a guy with a hooker we would just be like this the whole time ████ you ████ you ████ you you know they're missionaries we're just on the we're just a truck we know this story we're all mad right so every every guy we see that's like 50
15:11 years old with the four Justice holding hands ████ you I'm Christian ████ we're like spitting at them we're just like ████ you ████ you we only eat fish Latter-Day Saints ████ you yeah literally and we're all smoking cigarettes too because out there you could be like 18. I mean you don't have to be 18 to buy cigarettes so we're just out there like ████ smoking cigarettes like flicking at them spitting at people ████ you ████ you and then we're going there building churches how many years after that did you ████ a hooker oh man wait it just probably was you know me what's the timeline by the way it was in America I know probably like in my 20s you just know he's 14 years old so the ████ you became you're the f█████ you're the guy getting ████ me ████ me ████ me that's what it
16:01 came from yeah yeah it was it was fun for me um as long as you've known villain in Impact like did you have did they ever mention anything that they have to do that's different because their mom um I can't believe you know people named building an impact and they're not on American Gladiators [Laughter] b-boy name they're among names like fuses I know that they have I think it's either their sister or their cousin that's like a shaman whoa sick yeah so like uh that means that there are times where they'll say like this is a funny thing because uh during the pandemic I was like starting to go fishing a lot more but hey let's go
16:51 fishing they're like oh we can't go fishing during this time but why can't you go fishing during times because all of my sisters are Shaman and uh uh she saw an omen that uh yeah for like three years or whatever nobody in our family can go fishing because if you do something bad's gonna happen to you and something bad did happen to like their uncle or something who actually went fishing during that time and didn't heed the warning wow three years is also a giant window it's a huge win though and the next thousand days a lot Anything Could Happen yeah like he probably ████ a hooker and just got AIDS or something and then died at the fishing hole yeah and like it's probably fishing what they during that period they did official and they love fishing the second that period finished they ████ went fishing like crazy and then he got hurt we get a lot of messages for some reason I've noticed about people asking like when are you gonna get like among dude on the show I
17:42 don't know no among dude I don't know I only know them yeah okay same I know guy but he's he's all uh in the east coast they're very rare that's why like they're not saying that's a deep cut like most people wouldn't even really know what that is in L.A it's hard yeah I remember it's a deep cut I've heard of it before but I didn't know what it was yeah it's like part of uh it's very rare that you would anyone would kind of like really know yeah I don't even think I met my first Hmong person until it was maybe college or out of state or something oh yeah okay you know Cedric he brought us out he's he's in his community the we know the casting director that did the uh Gran Torino that's about Hmong people yeah so so yeah that that was a whole group that brought us out that was our first JK gig wow and it was a it was a it was a mock producer yeah so the monk Community has
18:34 given a lot of a lot of love to JK yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and we want to give it back we love that you guys ████ chain we love it let's go foreign
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