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  • And by the way, it's like, I hate talking about this, but it's happening outside.

  • They're killing black people outside, they're killing Asians, they're killing white people in movies like Iron Man and I hate that.

  • And my cousin's so stupid.

  • She's like, "You know what? Don't worry, Ron, we're safe, we're not Chinese, we're Filipino."

  • I'm like, "Are you crazy? Do you think the racist know the difference between Chinese and Filipino?"

  • Do you know the difference between Chinese and Filipino to a racist? It's a difference between a Honda Civic and a tinted Honda Civic.

  • One's a little darker but more stylish.

  • Filipinos we're not even full Asian.

  • The government didn't know we were, they just put us in an Asian category.

  • We're actually a mix.

  • We're half Asian and half Latino.

  • When my parents came to Canada, they had to fill out a form for the government to choose what race they were.

  • They had to checkmark white, Black, Latino, Asian, and Middle Eastern.

  • We checkmarked Asian and then Latino, have two lines drawn to one, and then write Filipino.

  • Those two are half Asian and half Latino.

  • See what happened was back in the day in the 1500's, Spain went to the Philippines made love to everybody and then left us.

  • It's like, "Where's your dad? - "On those boats?"

  • "Where are they going?" - "To the Caribbean."

  • "Why?" - "To make Cubans now."

  • That joke never works in Miami by the way.

  • And my parents taught me English.

  • It was kind of weird because they had the Filipino accent.

  • So I grew up with an accent, you know, how messed up that was.

  • I had a Filipino accent growing up, but I wasn't born in the Philippines.

  • I didn't know how to speak Filipino either.

  • I just had a Filipino accent as a kid.

  • The teachers like, "So where are you from?"

  • "Canada."

  • "Are you sure?" -"Positive."

  • "You can't speak any Filipino." - "Not at all."

  • This kid is a North Korean spy for sure.

  • I remember the report card read: "Ron has a problem pronouncing his Fs and Ps and Vs and Bs.

  • He pronounces friends as PRIENDS."

  • My dad's like, "Why do you pronounce friends as "PRIENDS"? Who taught that to you? You have a "PREAKING" problem. You know that?"

  • I'm big for a Filipino, too.

  • My dad's not even 5 ft tall.

  • He keeps looking at me like I'm a monster.

  • "Look how big you are. Look at my creation. Like Prankenstein."

  • They love seafood.

  • They love fish.

  • Tilapia.

  • Red Snapper.

  • My dad's favorite fish is called milkfish.

  • It's from the Philippines.

  • There's a million bones in the fish and he can't get enough of it.

  • Here's my dad every Sunday morning.

  • "Number one fish from the Philippines milkfish. Number one."

  • "Call the doctor."

  • The cats look at him like...

  • "Call two doctors."

  • We have delicacy-- any Filipinos here make some noise?

  • Ok.

  • You're not following me out here.

  • No, you, no just say you are.

  • Anyways, make me feel comfortable.

  • We have delicacies in our community.

  • Every culture is a delicacy which means it's gross.

  • That's why they call it a delicacy.

  • You have to be delicate to the situation.

  • That's like having an ugly child.

  • You can't call the child ugly.

  • You have to call it smart.

  • You know, he's a genius.

  • He'll be fine.

  • Look away.

  • Filipino is this one delicacy called balut.

  • Oh, you guys know this?

  • Do you have Filipinos in your basement? What's going on here?

  • If you don't know, it's a duck embryo.

  • Relax.

  • I'm not selling them to you after the show.

  • I'll sign your ballot.

  • To explain the first week is the embryo, the yoke, the fourth week is the bird.

  • It's right smack dab in the middle.

  • I don't know why Filipinos eat this.

  • We couldn't wait for the process to end.

  • "Can you pull the plug now, I'm hungry over here."

  • I saw this in that TV show Fear Factor.

  • Remember that Joe Rogan show?

  • This guy wouldn't eat balut for $50,000.

  • My dad was like, "That's full of crap. I have two in my pocket, right now. 50,000 very easy."

  • My dad used to sell these baluts to the Filipino community in Toronto back in the eighties.

  • When I was six years old, I was a prankster.

  • What I would do, take a cook balut come home, bring it to school, put it under a tree, take the balut halfway out to make it look like it fell from the nest.

  • I know I was a messed up kid.

  • I went to therapy for this.

  • But anyways, and the kids would gather, "Oh my god."

  • "There's a baby bird that fell from the tree. That's so sad."

  • I walk in, "How much did you pay me to eat it?"

  • I made 100 dollars at 6 years old. I was a diabolical genius.

  • The principal called my dad, "Mr. Josol, your son's eating dead birds falling from trees."

  • "Are you stupid? - "No, Dad. That was a scam. I made $100 one balut."

  • "Okay, I take you, bring it to school, and you can do it again. You're a genius. Look at my creation."

  • Thank you so much for watching.

And by the way, it's like, I hate talking about this, but it's happening outside.

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