0:05 Welcome back to JK News. Careful boys, we got Will Pepper with us today. We're going to do another super fast lightning round quick brain video. So, be really sharp. Okay? People love these. >> these? I know. They were so mad that when you said Filipino, you didn't say nurse. I know. But then But then you know what it is though is like a lot of people aren't accustomed to the fact that your first thought is usually not the most common one. Like that's boring to say that obviously, right? Yeah, you'd rather just say bad chef. Listen, I was right. >> I like the bad chef one. We try and go to like what we think is This is like Family Feud. Should we just try and say the most common thing? >> Yeah, you know what you could do? Try to be correct because I don't think I think this time is going to be hard. Okay. >> Okay. So, what we're going to do now is you're going to name I'm going to name an ethnicity and you tell me what you think the most common first name is for that ethnicity if they were American.
0:55 Oh. >> Korean American. What is the most common first name in the >> Eugene Modapaca. Are you ready? Korean American so >> We're going to We're going to start We're going to start with Chinese American. Kevin. Kevin? Stanley. Stanley? Your ████ friend. Okay? John. John? Andrew. Andrew? Uh Bart. Bart? What the Sorry, I was just Are you out of your mind? All right. >> fast. I didn't have more time to I met one Bart in my life. What's the What's the answer? The answer, the most common um Chinese American first name for And this is always for men, okay? David. For Chinese guys? Oh, it's all biblical. Everything that David, Andrew, and Peter. Oh, so many Chinese. >> Didn't I say Andrew? Did I say Andrew? I think I said Andrew. >> Oh, wow, you did. >> Yeah. There you go, Anthony with one point.
1:45 >> Because it's like oh, A first letter. Oh, I mean America. A Andrew. All right, Ant's got one point. Okay. >> You should get half cuz it was second. >> The next one is >> up one. We start a new one. Start a new one. Okay, so that don't count? >> It doesn't count. All right, that don't Bart. All right, we'll we'll scratch that one off. Okay, it's all right. Let me lock in. Okay, Stanley. It's hard to think fast though. >> Okay, Stanley. All right, really quick. 3 2 1 Korean-American first name. Peter. John. Matthew. Jonathan. I said Oh, you did? Steven, okay. I do like John though. John's good. The most common Korean-American >> Michael. first name is actually David. That also makes That makes a lot of sense. >> went with another biblical name. David. For Korean, you almost have to go biblical. Okay, that's what I'm saying.
2:35 That's what I'm saying. >> Okay, now I'm getting in the game. >> Well, Michael, John. Okay, cool cool cool cool. Star. All right. This next one is a could be a little bit difficult. >> I will answer first. Okay, we'll make we'll make we'll go first. All right, this one is Japanese-American first name. Atsuko. Who even says Atsuko? That's a girl's name, bro. Sorry, for guys, for guys. Donny. Donny. That's That's good. All right. Travis. Travis. David. David, okay. Brian. Brian. Joel. Joel. There's no Joel Japanese. Let's consult with the Japanese You said Brian? >> I said Brian. >> How did you know Brian? It's right It's actually No, but how did you What did you mean What made you think There's a lot of ████ Brians that are There's too many Brians. >> Brian Hashimoto, Brian Nakanodo.
3:26 Nakanodo. ████ Can I change my answer? Ryan. Ryan, I was going to say Ryan now. I know actually a lot of Ryans. Japanese Oh, Hasegawa, okay. Are there a lot of Ryans? Ryan, think about it. >> I'm going to change it to Ryan. You just said the same Ryan, yeah. So, the most common Japanese-American first name, as of now, >> David. is actually Ken. Oh, that does make sense. Why does that make sense? >> It does make sense. I do know a bunch of Japanese names. >> And dude Like Ken Watanabe. Yeah, exactly. That's not fair cuz that's not an English name. >> right? You just take off the Yeah. >> an English name? No, well maybe >> in Street Fighter. >> His name's Ken. Maybe that's why cuz it's also a Japanese name. So maybe it was easier just to just to say that. >> it's like >> Cuz you could use it for both. Yeah. So you're saying Kenna You you're saying in
4:17 Japan it's just Ken? Yeah. It's not Kenji or something? That's another name. Is there Joel? Oh, so in Japan if someone's named Kenji you don't call them Ken for short? No. There's two names. >> be like calling him another name, huh? Yeah. Kenji-san. My brothers are Kenny, he's a Kenneth and a Kenny and we call him Ken. >> What's his birth certificate name? Kenneth. Kenneth. Yeah. Oh. Kenneth. Kenneth. >> Super white sounding. Yeah. Not as white sounding as Atsuko. It was right there. Not as white sounding as David Duke. All right. David's Korean. Jeez, man. Hey, that's a David. >> If you guys don't know who that is, look him up. Google him. Google him. >> Steve's mentor. Yeah. Anthony Lee Anthony Lee's favorite philosopher. All right. We're going to do Filipino-American now, okay? Oh, that's
5:07 so hard. >> Take a second I got this. I got this. I got this. I got it. I got it. I got it. I'm not going to I'm not going to I got it. I got it. I got it. >> Got to use the logic now that you've heard the other >> I know five of them. And just try to think of the most common Filipino-American first I got it. I got it. All right, Anthony. James. John RJ. Mikey. Dang, somebody got it right. Who do you think it is? >> Me. Anthony. You think you all think you got your own one? >> Yeah, I do. >> RJ. You don't have any other >> J The J stands for James. You don't have more faith hearing anyone else's answer? You still think you're the right one? Okay. The most common Filipino American name first name for men is Mike. Oh my god. >> Damn, really? >> Yeah, Mike, Mikey, Michael. You did? >> He did, yeah. I know one guy.
5:57 >> RJ RJ's good though. I don't know no Mike Filipinos. >> There's That's not true. I don't believe that. I don't believe that. Mike is very common. >> Because they also go Christian names Michael. >> names Michael. >> That's why I said James. Michael in every language though, bro. >> Which one did you say? Benjamin. Benjamin? I know five of them. >> I know I know two I know five. But Benjamin? They go by Benjamin the whole My father-in-law and all of his brothers were all named Benjamin. What the ████ He got like a He got like a freaking George Foreman kind of family? The dad was Benjamin Limo Snero and then he named all of his sons Benjamin. Wow. Yeah. So they had to figure out nicknames for each other. That is pretty easy. All right, we're going to go with Thai. I got zero points. >> This one's going to be pretty hard. Thai? Okay. Can we do multiple choice? Give me a sec. Give me a sec. Give me a sec. Okay. Uh this is for Thai American
6:47 first >> No ████ Thai names. >> No, it's I wouldn't be able to get this one. But if you by some weird freak chance can guess this All right, I got it. >> Okay. Uh Thai American Steve. Timothy. That's all I got. That's all I got. It's all I got. All right, Bart. Archie. Archie? All right, Joe. Russell. Okay. ████ Andy. Andy? Oh, that's good. Uh Justin. Justin, okay. So the most common first name for Thai Americans is Somchai. That's not even English. >> I know, but that's in in terms of like Thai people living in America. Assimilate, guys. Somchai. >> They're still naming their their boy Somchai. Okay, Somchai. I don't know no Somchais either, man. >> Okay, this is one that somebody's going to get this one right, okay? We're going to go Vietnamese. Okay. Somebody is
7:38 definitely going to get this right. Is it going to be you or is it going to be one of the obvious two? I'm not very good at this game right now. >> ████ all right. Most common first name among Vietnamese Americans. Let's start with Joe. And but but not a Vietnamese name. Well, that's the thing. You never know. It's whatever they name >> statistically what has happened. >> these Vietnamese American people are named by their >> Can I give two names? It doesn't have to be an English name. It could be anything. Yeah, can we give two or three names? I got two names. Okay. You want to give you Okay. I got I'm taking David and Tony. You got it. Give me your Give me your first choice and your second choice. If you're right, we'll get half a point. >> Oh, wow. >> David is first choice, Tony is second. >> David one, Tony second. Okay, Bart. Uh Dale is the first choice. And second one is
8:28 uh Danny. Dale and Danny? They're brothers. No way is Dale. All right, Steve. This is a Hail Mary. All right. To the into the end zone. >> Okay, let's hear it. I'm going Guy. Oh, okay. Okay. >> Guy on this one. All right. And then you have no second second choice? >> better not lose. You're both in the mix. >> would be Peter. Peter. Okay. Oh, Peter's good. >> Peter's good. My second is Peter. All right. Let's go uh let's go Anthony. That's tough, man. If I'm going to go with like English sounding, I'm also going to say Tony. But I could see so many like like um Asian American Vietnamese American, maybe like Pho.
9:18 Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like a P H U C. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pho me, man. Yeah. Or like or like Lam, like L A M. >> Oh, yeah. >> Oh, okay. It's like maybe maybe some but there's so many Vietnamese names. So, I'll just I'll stick with I'll make it easy. I'll just say Tony. I really like that one. ████ good. You're taking his? To Well, I had that I forgot That's your first choice. >> Yeah, that's my that's my number one. >> You're one cuz he's he said it first. It was my second choice. Oh, so it's his second. David and Tony, okay. Two choices. He said I can't. I think Tony first. Lam? I'm going I'm going to say ████ just for fun because everybody says ████ Okay. Deshawn. Deshawn. D E Deshawn. >> DeMarcus. All right, what do you think, Will? First choice, Kevin. Oh, damn, that's hella good. Oh, that's
10:09 a good one. Kevin is really Kevin Kevin wins, right? I think that Yeah. That beats guy, I think. It has to be like ████ Wayne. Wayne? Because win but people just change to Wayne. Oh, damn. >> Will won that one. He had the most time. Guy had 20 minutes. I was waiting. All right. None of you guys got it. Oh, what? You get you get one more chance. You get one more chance. None of you guys got it. >> Can you give us a one clue? One more extra clue? >> It's not You there wouldn't be a non-Vietnamese person named this, I don't think. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, it's not it's not like a Michael or a Judah. It's it's a Actually, is a Vietnamese sounding name. So, it's not going to be like Chester or something. No, it won't be Chester. Okay. Okay. All right, think about it for a second. Think Oh.
11:00 Think about your answer. What's it going to be? It's not Quoc. That's Q U O C. But is that really common? Uh yeah, that Quoc is really common. Guacamole? What's What's Vi- Real quick, what's Vietnamese currency? Biggest hint. We We all We know There's no way we each don't know a guy named this. For real? >> Jimmy. You're going with Jimmy? I just told you it's not a Uh We've all We've each met a guy with this name. Viet. Okay, Viet. Oh, yeah. Trong. Trong, okay. Steve. I'm going Victor. It's not a It's not an Anglo name. Victor or whatever. Okay. Okay. Okay. Some ████ like that. Some ████ like that. Who said Victor? Victor. All right, Bart. Ben. Oh. Okay, Ben. All right. Well, that is
11:50 a good one. I wing. Wing? >> Yeah, wing. Oh man, you guys are so ████ close. No, he's still going to get it, but it's close. That means V. Vo. What do you mean Vo? All right, here. You want a chance? You want a chance to dethrone him? He was the closest. You base it on what he said. Ben was the closest? Ben. He said Ben or Min? You said Min? Win. Win? He said Win already. Pick a different one. Gin. Gin? Oh. Oh. Oh. Lin. Lin? Vinatello. Can I change mine to Vinatello? All right. Somebody got it right. No way. Yeah. It's not you. He's all like, "Really me? Vinatello?"
12:42 Let me lock it. Vinatello. Bart at the award ceremony, he he stands up and he kisses Geo's chick right now. All right. You got the closest. Bart, who do you think got it right? I think I think Ant got it. You know it's not you. I think maybe on that side. I think Ant got it. All right. Well, well, because you don't think it's Chin? So, it must be this side? It's not you. It's not Chin. I think it's this side. I don't know. I was just rhyming cuz I don't know. ████ know. All right, the number one Vietnamese American first name is Min. Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. M I N H. Who said Min? Oh, yeah. He said it, yeah. >> I do know ████ Min. You We've all met Min. >> Yeah, I think I've met like
13:32 >> mortgage rate. I have an uncle named Min. Yeah, me too. I know three Mins, I think. All right. Good job. Good job. All right. Now that we're going to get pretty hard, okay? Zero points. It's been hard. So Ant's got two. We're going to go with We're going to go with Indian. Okay. This is the most popular Indian first name in America. Jesus. Take a second. Get your racism out of the way. I can't. >> and Steve Green. I I I I I I'm going Khalif. Oh, okay. I don't know if that's an Indian name. >> Yeah, I don't either. I don't either. And I'm not feeling great about it. >> It's close. It's close. You're thinking of Khalif Boyd. Yeah, exactly. Close enough. All right. Joe?
14:23 Ritesh. Ritesh. Ritesh. Uh Bart? I feel like it does rhyme with the esh. That's the name. Uh Like Nemesh. Gupta. I think it rhymes with It rhymes with Nesh. Gupta. I think it rhymes with Nesh. Gupta. What the hell? No, cuz my One of my childhood best friend's name is Ganesh. So Ganesh and Ritesh, it's got to rhyme with esh. But that was like But Gupta doesn't rhyme. >> No. Gupta. What was the name of your Indian neighbor that you had? Ram. But I don't know if it's short for anything. >> Oh, Ram's a good guess. >> Ramifications. Yeah. All right, Anthony. Uh I don't even know if this is a guy. Akonsh? No.
15:13 Arvin. Let's go with Arvin. Arvin. Okay. Um Prajeet. Prajeet. >> Yeah. Prajeet's good. Okay. So >> Why do we none of us say like John? Have Um We're going for it. You guys want a second chance? If you want a second chance Anthony's the closest. I did. Yeah. Arvin. Closest is So like by letter? Probably by sound. By letter and by sound. >> Okay. Okay. Arvin. Oh, that one. Arjun. Arjun. Okay. Or did I not say it right? Arvin. Alvin. Alvin. Alvin. >> All right, Anthony, what's your second guess? Alvin sounds like Arvin. Arpin. Arpin. Okay. All right, Steve.
16:07 He's like Archan. Aladdin. I mean that is close. All right, Bart. Arjit. Arjit. Okay. Will gets another point. It's Arjun. Oh! How do you ████ know this ████ dude? Damn. Okay. I get an assist. I get an assist. Is it cuz of Friends? Arjun. I know one guy. Arjun is a popular I have heard that a couple of times. Damn, I knew I was close. I didn't know what it sounded like though. Now it's An- An- Will both have two points. We're going to have to do a tiebreaker. Uh let's go All right, this is just going to be the last one to to break the tie. British. Okay, we're going to do British. >> Okay. I Number one. And this isn't So this isn't British American anymore. This is just British. Brit- In Britain. Okay, ready? Anthony. Uh ████ You want a hint? Benedict. Benedict.
16:58 Okay. I get to play? Mohammed. Okay. Oh, he's right. I see. I see. I was going to say Nigel, but Mohammed ruined it. It's probably Mohammed. You would say Mohammed as well? I'm going to go Nigel. You guys can pick the same stuff if you want. Nigel? Okay. Cheshire. What do you think? It's a city name. Chester is a pretty good. I don't know. Simon. Simon, all right. But it's like continental breakfast. >> Number number one the number one British name by far by a hefty margin is actually Mohammed. Damn. I heard that. I thought it was babies though. >> Damn, you won. You won in Ireland. But that's the number one name in the world. Yeah, but there's so many >> Can we take that name out just for the fact that it's number one in the world?
17:49 >> Okay. But what about for whites? >> Okay, yeah. I have one for whites too. You want to do it? All right, white American. Think about it for a second. Wait, white white American or British? White American. White American. Oh, ████ >> There is a stat for that. So, white American. White American. Most common? Most common white American name and there's actually three. Oh, I think Joseph is one. >> Okay, you say Joseph? All right, Anthony. Ooh, I might Ooh, I might go Michael. Michael, okay. I would have taken that, but I'm going David on this one. David, okay. Dustin. That's good. No, that's good. In San Diego. In San Diego for sure. All right, what do you think, Will? Is this like of all time though? Of right now. As of 2024 is where the the um Oh,
18:40 2024? That's like Jasper or something. Yeah, right now everybody's like my kid's name is Everest. >> Enzo's a popular one. It's like Aiden's like a popular >> It's how many it's how many how many of this name is in existence basically in 2024. Also, they could be boomers. >> This isn't like the most named baby. It's how many are in existence. Also, my nephew's name So, young to old. All across the board, yeah. You want to change? Yeah, Joseph is top. >> Joseph still? Yeah, I might well I'll just go to straight to John. John, okay. I'm still in Michael. Still in Michael? Okay. It's a good call. Still with Dustin still? What about Muhammad? Uh Joe Hamed Jack Okay. Uh But Jack is a John. Christian Christian, okay. You know what I mean? >> Yeah. Who said John? All right, it's John. Yeah.
19:30 But it's also Robert and James. >> Oh, wow. >> all ████ biblical ████ >> James Makes sense. I thought it'd be Joseph cuz it's regular old Joe. Yeah. And Joe's just short for John, buddy. You're just like a lesser John. Joe is short for John? That's not true. You read a book, dude. Joe
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