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  • But it doesn't matter where you grow up.

  • Parents always tell their kids the same things.

  • Parents always say, "Finish your food, because there are starving children in Africa."

  • How come parents never say the other way around?

  • "Don't finish your food, because there are fat kids in America."

  • Another thing parents tell their kids--I heard this guy telling his son,

  • "Don't tell lies, or your nose will grow longer."

  • I'm like, wow, that guy just taought his kid not to lie by lying to him.

  • That's some Inception shit.

  • And parents say these things, they think their kids will just believe it.

  • But kids these days are not that innocent.

  • For example, the other day, my 5-year-old niece asked her dad, "Where do babies come from?"

  • And her dad just said, "Babies come from Heaven."

  • But my 5-year-old niece, she goes and Googles this stuff,

  • and then she sends me this text message: "OMG... My dad is a moron.

  • "He doesn't even know about sex. That means he's not my real dad."

  • I got the message, I'm like, "Oh, no, should I tell her the truth?"

  • And then I thought -- you know what, I'm not her dad. It's not my job to teach her these things.

  • In fact, my job is to be a comedian, so I just texted back,

  • "Yes, you're adopted."

  • And then she had to Google that.

  • But I also had awkward situations growing up.

  • When I was 15 years old, my friend gave me condoms, just as a prank.

  • But I put the condoms aside because I was only 15.

  • And we Chinese guys, we don't hit puberty until we're 29.

  • But at 15 years old, me and my friends were learning karate from my friend Mike.

  • Mike was a black belt in Karate.

  • The rest of us learning from him were beginner yellow belt.

  • Because it was an informal class, we didn't have the colors in between.

  • So those karate sessions were kinda like a Wiz khalifa rap song.

  • Black and yellow, black and yellow.

  • So I was learning karate, but my mom can be over-protective.

  • So I didn't tell my mom I was doing karate.

  • And then one day my mom, she finds the condoms.

  • So my mom came up to me and said, "Boy, I found your protection.... Have you been doing it?"

  • Now, I didn't know she was talking about condoms. I thought she found my groin protector for karate.

  • So I said, "Yes, Mom... I do it after school every day."

  • "Oh, Mom, you should come and watch."

  • "I can show you some of my moves."

  • My mom's like, "What? You're too young to do stuff like this."

  • "I'm not too young... Mike has been doing it since he was ten years old."

  • "And he had to pay to do it."

  • "I get to do it for free."

  • My mom is shocked. She's like, "Who's your partner?"

  • "I don't have a regular partner."

  • "We swap partners."

  • Now my mom's really freaking out. "How many girls have you done this with?"

  • "What girls?"

  • "I do it with guys."

  • "Most of them are yellow, but one of them is black."

But it doesn't matter where you grow up.

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