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  • Yeah, excited to be here, ah man.

  • Let me ask you guys something real quick.

  • You know like when you're outside and the sun is like super bright, you don't have your sunglasses on, you kinda gotta squint a little?

  • Yeah, I don't.

  • It's great, cause when people wanna throw sand in my eyes, I'm just like, the percentages are lower.

  • Like a stupid cocky guy, you know?

  • Lot of things bother me, you could Google this one after.

  • In Taiwan, we speak Mandarin, okay?

  • The word that describes a male in Mandarin is xiao niao.

  • In direct translation, little bird.

  • Little bird?

  • You could've named it anything.

  • I don't know, maybe a regular-sized bird.

  • Or an ostrich, or like an eagle, caw caw, whatever, you know?

  • Other people don't gotta know the size of the bird.

  • Let them find out.

  • I just wanna let you guys know, I'm a regular-sized bird.

  • You guys are like, whatever, little bird, it's the worst.

  • Five and a quarter.

  • No, but I grew up in an Asian family and they give you really good saving habits.

  • Like I've been trying to save money, but in really embarrassing ways.

  • Like when I go grocery shopping, I don't buy trash bags.

  • I just try to double bag everything.

  • Yes, miss, please double bag my bananas and separate them into individual bags, please.

  • Sir, would you like a receipt in the bag?

  • Yes, please, and a new bag, and double bag that, too.

  • I need all of it, seriously.

  • I think I get it from my grandma.

  • My grandma's so thrifty.

  • She's so thrifty.

  • Like when I was a kid, we never had leftover food because she believes whatever she freezes in her industrial-sized freezer will never expire.

  • I'm like, grandma, this toast, it's expired.

  • She's like, okay, I'll freeze it for later.

  • We got toast from the 1940s.

  • Her freezer is like a museum for old food, except we eat the stuff in the museum, and it's delicious.

  • She's a great cook.

  • But this is how thrifty she was.

  • This is a real thing.

  • I was a kid, and I was eating noodles at one time, and I found a cockroach on it, ew, right?

  • Yeah, that's another thing.

  • She never admits there's roaches at her house, but she's got bug spray, and she sprays it like it's Febreeze.

  • It's okay now, Jason.

  • No, it's not, grandma.

  • Everybody's gonna die in the house now, except the roaches.

  • So I was eating noodles, and I was a kid, and I didn't want it anymore because it's got a roach on it.

  • This is what she did.

  • She walked over, looked at the bowl.

  • This is what she did.

  • Where?

  • Where's the cockroach, Jason?

  • I yell at her for you.

  • I was like, it's on grandpa's face now.

  • You not see it?

  • Right there, half dead, half alive.

  • I'll just have that toast on the 1940, thank you.

  • Okay, I didn't throw you some noodles, but later.

  • That's the worst.

  • I got my ass beat a lot when I was a kid.

  • I did, by my parents, but they would always try to justify it and try to make me the bad guy.

  • Like, they'll tell me all the time, we beat you because we love you.

  • Like, try to make me feel guilty for not appreciate the beatings.

  • Like, you know what's the worst?

  • The worst is that you can't tell mom somebody beat you up after school when she's the one doing it.

  • And you can't tell daddy either because he's just waiting to be tagged in.

  • You can't tell the teachers, but first of all, they beat you too.

  • And if you tell the teachers that your parents beat you, they're just gonna be like, oh, that's great that your parents is involved in your academics.

  • It's the worst thing.

  • But all the kids get the same thing.

  • It's just a matter of what tools they use to beat you.

  • Like, a lot of Asian parents, their tools is whatever they're wearing on their feet that they just, fast.

  • You know what I mean?

  • Did you see that?

  • No, you didn't, because it's too fast.

  • Boom, long range.

  • It's versatile.

  • But all the kids get the same thing.

  • Like, there's one time I was showing my cousin, there's like bruises on my butt.

  • And yeah, and then he took off his shirt and there's just big bruises and big marks.

  • And I start to feel really sad because I'm like, oh my God, his mom loves him more.

  • He got jealous, you know?

  • So I ask him, and what did you do exactly?

  • But all the kids get the same thing.

  • But what really sucks is that you can't fight back either because you're too small, right?

  • But this one time I got super excited.

  • My dad's car got towed, right?

  • And I went out to him, he super stopped, but I went out to him and I was like, hey dad, remember when you took my toy car away?

  • Well, now you know how it feels, sucker.

  • You can't just leave them anywhere you want to, remember?

  • Definitely gonna tell mom, screw you.

  • And then I ran as fast as I could.

  • But mid-run and dawned on me, I still gotta go home to get my ass beat because my home is really his home.

  • But that's how I got to America.

  • That is really how I got to America because they're just like, we're too tired of beating you, we're gonna send you to a military school.

  • I'm like, no, not military school.

  • But then I loved it, I ended up loving it because on the first day I found out, teachers don't beat you here.

  • It's the best.

  • Compared to home, it was like a resort.

  • Like my parents still didn't know.

  • They're like, you're gonna eat there and sleep there, Jason.

  • I'm like, oh my God, it's all inclusive.

  • The worst they do to you is make you do pushups.

  • So your punishment is to get healthy.

  • You're talking too much, now get healthy.

  • Oh my God, this is amazing.

  • I'm gonna get buff, go home, beat my dad's ass.

  • All right guys, thank you so much.

  • My name is Jason Chan, give it up.

Yeah, excited to be here, ah man.

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