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What's going on guys?
We got a big announcement here on this channel.
We're going to be launching the 50-50 show soon.
We are going to be talking about current events, Asian culture,
sneakers, basketball, all the things that you guys love from
our channel, except just in a different format.
But first, here's a podcast about us.
Basically today, we don't have a topic-based list.
Or maybe we do, but the topic is the Fung Bros perspective.
Oh, and we got a list about it.
We have some explaining to do.
I think some people are kind of confused about our background,
where our perspective comes from, how we're able to make so
many different videos.
Ten things you need to know about the Fung Bros that inform
our perspective.
These things will help you understand where we're coming
from.
It may not explain everything, but we're going to try.
Because we've been saying a lot of a lot lately, particularly
obviously on Asian issues.
A lot of a lot.
Whoo.
Okay, David.
Start with number one.
We grew up in a very educated family, but we weren't spoiled
nor would I say that we grew up with a lot of money and we were
definitely raised in a more blue-collar town.
Basically, our family, both our parents had graduate degrees.
Dad had a PhD.
Our mom had a JD.
Educated in America.
But we were raised in a town that was more blue-collar in
terms of, I guess like socioeconomic level or educational
level.
So basically, your family stands out sort of like a sore thumb,
even though you think, yeah, it's like your family's just
misaligned with the city that you grow up in.
Our neighborhood, a lot of people in our neighborhood growing
up, probably their parents didn't even go to college.
And I would say even whether they were white, black, or Asian,
actually, it just wasn't the most educated area.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with that.
It's just everybody was hard-working.
Basically, we grew up with this nerdy academic Chinese family
in sort of like a jock, urban-ish part of town.
Now, I wouldn't say that it was hood, but there was definitely
some hood elements.
No, there was people who left the hood who moved to Kenton.
And they kind of brought the hood with them.
There was some hood stuff that happened.
I'll tell you this.
There are very particular apartment complexes where there's
graffiti and everything like that.
It feels like the hood.
Usually, educated parents like this would not raise their kids
in a place that end up having, you know, some obviously some
drug addiction, drug violence, all this stuff.
You know, a lot of like professional sports players come
out of here.
So I think it's just like, like you said, our family background
just did not align with the environment.
And that causes for a lot of perspective.
And it actually makes you kind of funny.
Yeah, it actually makes you funny because I'll tell you why.
Everything your parents teach you at home does not necessarily
vibe with what other kids' parents teach you, other kids'
values, and even sometimes the teachers at your own school
are so like blue-collar centric.
They can't even help you dream of like whatever your coach to
think of it at home.
Well, you know, when our family's expectations, which,
you know, coming from where we come from, I feel like we're
a little bit maybe, you know,
overestimated, but their expectations were that we kind
of go to like really good schools or Ivy League schools,
but nobody from our area goes to Ivy League schools.
Like it's just hard, you know, like even the valedictorians
or the high school counselors.
They don't even understand how to get there.
So they're just like hoping you get to community college or
like the state school.
Anyways, there's nothing wrong with that.
I'm just saying like that was kind of the misalignment that
I think that when you kind of grow up in
very blue-collar and some people are even more like maybe
lower middle class and stuff like that.
You, you want to be down with the flow
because the flow is the flow.
Like if you're in a certain type of high school that you
don't align with, you don't get to come in and be like
everybody adapts to you.
You have to adapt to the current flow.
I'm going to change the rules and bring my values to this
school.
You guys do not value academics enough.
Well, let me tell you, shut up.
Our sister ended up going to Stanford and she really didn't
fit in with the vibe
in Kent, right?
So she kind of
more
did her own thing, kept herself.
Obviously, you know, if she had really adapted to the
Kent culture, probably she, honestly, she probably wouldn't
have went to Stanford.
But
for me and you, we more tried to adapt and we tried to get in
with it.
And that was a great segue to point number two is pretty much
even though we grew up around mostly non-Asians, we didn't
play the cut.
We were very involved.
We were out there.
We were trying to get with the flow and be popular kids of the
flow.
We're involved in varsity sports, a lot of clubs.
I think well-known, but maybe not like
beloved, but definitely well-known kids.
First of all, there's different schools within a school
district with like slightly different dynamics.
By the way, there's schools with more Asians, more schools
with less Asians.
We went to a school that particularly had very little
Asians and of the Asians that were there,
practically no like, I guess, East Asians.
It was mostly like Chinese and Vietnamese and like Filipinos.
There wasn't that many Chinese people, at least when I was
there.
No, no, no.
No, there wasn't.
There wasn't.
My year a little bit more,
just not that many though.
In my graduating class of 450 people,
there were seven Chinese people
and maybe 10 East Asians total.
Yeah.
Out of 450.
Not a lot.
That's crazy.
We didn't grow up around our own kind.
We all did running start.
Yeah, we all, we all went to college in high school.
Basically, it's like we didn't grow up around our own kind or
people from an even similar socioeconomic level.
And we were really trying to be cool
at school.
So we're trying to kind of, in a way, appeal
to all these people who were unlike us.
Not that that was the only thing.
I mean, I think we thought all that stuff was cool too,
you know,
dressing cool, playing ball, everything.
But definitely there was kind of like,
yo, I'm trying to be cool.
Well, we tried hard to fit in.
Yeah, without you.
I think some people would go,
well, that was very foolish of you to try to fit in when you
were from this type of family to try to fit into
that flow.
That was very foolish.
And maybe to some extent people still think we're foolish.
At the end of the day,
things don't make or break you that young,
but they definitely affect, they have an impact.
Like some people go to schools
where everybody's family is like their family.
And then some people go to schools where it's half-half
and some people go to schools like us,
where almost nobody at the school
has a similar background to your family.
Even the other Asians didn't necessarily come from a similar
background.
We were managed to make some pretty good Asian friends,
but their family backgrounds were even better.
To wrap this point up is I think being in an environment
was oftentimes more like a battleground than a playground
growing up,
where we weren't just around our own kind.
We weren't super, super comfortable and we were out
there trying to make it happen,
trying to adapt to the environment,
whether or not we should have,
but we tried and that's what we did.
And like we said,
everybody has different reactions to it when they don't
align with like an immediate environment.
I do think it made us stronger though, overall, like for sure.
For sure, and in a form of perspective too,
because a lot of people, they go through that process
once they hit like 18, 20, maybe 23,
when they're entering their corporate profession.
We're going through that at 12, 13.
Let me tell you this,
dude, from what I hear, a lot of the SoCal Asians that grow
up in Asian areas out here,
they learn that when they go to like go to school in Boston
or something.
Then they get, you know, hit with the American brick.
Like, hey man, this is what it's really like.
Anyways, point number three, Seattle is one of the most,
if not the most educated cities in America,
but it's a small place.
Just to give you an example, growing up in Seattle,
we had the Sonics, we had the Mariners,
we had the Seahawks, but really the big celeb at that time
that everybody knew the name of was Bill Gates.
Yeah, and that's like almost even amongst
the non-academically focused people,
Bill Gates was still the name because he was the richest man
in the world.
I'll say this, obviously because we had this very academic
centric family,
we did have access to the Seattle infrastructure.
So on weekends, we get taken to the Science Center.
We get taken to the Asian Art Museum,
all these different exhibits,
you know, variety of theater shows that were available
because you're still close enough to Seattle.
You can just drive in for a show.
Yeah, you don't necessarily driving in when you're young
to go hang out
because it's not like we went to church in Seattle
or anything like that.
But I'm saying that
there, it was really a weird
push and pull because your local environment is like
everybody's trying to play for the Seahawks
or the Sonics growing up.
And then on the weekends, you're gonna go see like a talk
by like a professor.
Yeah.
You're gonna see the new exhibit at the Science Center.
That's gonna talk about like physics and like the universe
and stuff.
Or you're gonna go see an opera or you're gonna go see a
Chinese opera or like a one of those Chinese like circus acts.
Yeah, I gotta tell you,
I gotta add this funny anecdote though.
For one of my birthdays in sixth grade,
I don't know if you remember this.
I had a bunch of the guys over from, you know,
from the school and we were having a sleepover,
you know, mixed.
There's Richie there and some other people.
And then one of the presents that dad got me
was Stephen Hawkins book.
For my birthday.
Oh, yeah.
And not that I didn't like Stephen Hawkins at the time,
but I would say definitely to open that present in front of
everybody like it was supposed to be lit.
I don't know.
I felt like a really weird feeling where I was like really
embarrassed that dad did that.
I appreciate it now.
You wanted like a N64.
I wanted some shoes or something,
but I think dad thought it was gonna be dope to have me open
that in front of
my friends because that's what he valued.
And at that time, of course, being a kid,
I'm just trying to be cool dad.
You're gonna be opening this book of Stephen Hawkins.
That was crazy.
But I don't think any of the other kids
probably got that for their birthday.
No, no, but like I said, I appreciate it now,
but that was like anyways, that's like a funny little
story.
All right, guys, basically what we're saying is culture in
Seattle is pretty different than culture in other places.
Okay, it's definitely more similar to I don't think it
starts to change to be like this kind of like
to me what I call like a middle America culture until about
Federal Way.
Kent just Kent starts to change too.
But you know what I mean?
Like Seattle has a very strong tractor beam of like yo,
if you're smart with computers, you could be rich.
I mean Bellevue has the highest density of millionaires in
the world
or at least in America.
That's crazy.
And a lot of stock option millionaires there.
Yeah,
and just
it's just different man.
It's really different.
So that's why I that's why we wanted to tell you how
educated Seattle was because that colored our perspective
and colored the values and you know, some of the things that
we did point number four.
We grew up deeply influenced by the culture of New York,
particularly New York hip-hop and basketball culture.
I don't think we need to talk too much about this because I
feel like this one's a little bit more obvious for people,
but we love New York and we always love New York rather
literally,
you know, Lower East Side.
Yeah, Chinatown.
We love and if you guys know about I think it's funny
because I'm
basically South Seattle is kind of like
at least with the more closer you get to Seattle.
It's very like Nas.
Yeah.
Yeah, the South South side,
you know why it's like Nas more than like Chief Keef.
It's definitely more Nas than Chief Keef.
Because you have this street element,
right?
Which Nas is very street,
but Nas is also a poet and he's very much about reading books.
Yeah,
it's very like Nas most deaf.
Nas most deaf were really big in Seattle.
Retro open mic is essentially like no, it's a lot of that
revolutionary slam poetry.
Obviously if you guys know about slam poetry guys,
usually if you're a slam poet,
your favorite rapper is Nas.
Yeah, probably right.
Even the point before where we're saying it's so educated.
It still seeps in to the culture in the urban parts of
Seattle where people are a little bit more conscious.
Conscious.
You know who's like that?
That's from
really close to where we're from Jamal Crawford.
Yeah,
and you know who else is from Seattle
is Angela Rye.
Yeah, the political
journalist pundit.
She and they're all from South Seattle.
Yeah,
around the Seward Park area.
So it's like South Seattle.
We're from South Side.
I know there's the South End.
We're not from the South End.
We're from the South Side.
Anyway,
but yeah,
I mean,
I think basically there's just a if New York hip-hop fit
really well into Seattle at that time.
It's not so much like trap rap.
It wasn't really Atlanta rap.
It really wasn't even LA rap.
Of course it being West Coast.
There was a lot of pock being played but
I would say
pock and Nas and Jay-Z.
There was like
maybe a little more pock,
but it was close.
People just like lyrical stuff.
They like lyrics.
And they sort of like,
you know,
if you know Nas,
he picks a lot of rainy sounding beats.
His beats sound very like gravelly.
I mean,
I'm not a minimalistic DJ,
you know,
premier type.
Guys,
I'm not saying Macklemore represents all of Seattle,
but the fact that Macklemore came from Seattle does mean
something.
Macklemore is still really lyrical.
Very lyrical and
kind of cheesy,
but spoken word.
Yeah,
he's very poetic,
you know,
like I said,
you got to give Macklemore that.
I would say the biggest Seattle,
South Seattle icons in terms of like the urban hip-hop
culture,
Brandon Roy,
Nate Robinson,
Jamal,
IT now.
IT's from Tacoma,
but yeah,
that still counts.
Zach LaVine is from North Seattle,
but people don't really rep Zach like that.
Anyways,
but he does play in the crossover league.
He does.
He's one of the greatest dunkers ever.
I'll give him that.
Point number five that kind of informs our opinion is that
we used to be really angry,
angrier,
and more bitter about the position
of average Asian guys in America.
And although
there's always still things to talk about and issues there,
things are getting better,
but I feel like we've
toned down some of the anger.
Which some people I think might be surprised
that we said that because lately we've just been like
making some videos complaining,
not really complaining,
identifying the issues guys.
I feel like we're not angry about it.
The tone is different.
It's way more
looking at it just from a technical.
How long are you gonna be angry for?
Like,
that's my question to a lot of people is that,
of course,
it's totally fine.
Basically,
we should rewind that.
Basically to say this,
I think if you're not
super tall or super good-looking or super rich,
and you're like an Asian guy in America,
the odds are people are gonna rank
your Dragon Ball Z power levels
pretty low.
I would just say that the average Asian guy
in the West
the average Asian guy
probably gets ranked
pretty low on the depth chart.
Yeah.
Unfairly,
like literally
regardless.
No, it's like a fact now.
Of their like built-in skills and talents and thoughts and abilities
just straight off the
rip,
they're like socially ranked
kind of low.
Yeah.
And what I would say is that we knew that early on.
We kind of learned that we felt that
we were
on the message boards
reading blogs about this long before Reddit really popped off as like the
scene to do that in
and then I would say like
we've been talking about these issues for a long time.
And for me personally,
I'm just a little bit less angry not because I have everything in my life
that I want but just because I'm like,
yo, we got to just go out and attack things and do things because
I'm like
not as caught up
at this point in my life in
oh my gosh,
this is what happens.
You mean Asian guys get ranked lower than other guys like that's not new to
me.
That's just a fact.
I've accepted it.
So what do we do from here?
And we're not talking about the really chiseled beautiful,
you know,
sharp nose Asian guys that some of them obviously exist.
And yeah,
I do think they get underrated and I always tell people it's like an
exchange machine.
What you know different people are getting different exchange rates on
their efforts.
Yeah,
what's your exchange rate?
What can you do except pump more dollars in?
What's your machine like?
Is your machine working properly?
Is your change machine giving you
the full amount one for one or is it kind of janky?
It's kind of giving you like
well,
obviously I can see why some guys could be discouraged if they put in
a dollar bill,
right?
And some guys get five quarters back
and then you feel like you're getting two quarters and like two dimes
back
70 cents.
You're getting 70 cents on a dollar.
They're getting a dollar 25 on a dollar in terms,
you know of exchange rate
guys discouraging.
Yeah,
it is discouraging,
but I don't think the guy should stop trying.
I don't think that they should
give up.
I think the reason why we wanted to share that point is because I
basically wanted to let you guys know that we've been there.
We've been on the bitter boards,
if you want to call them the angry Asian man,
we've kind of been there.
I'm not saying that I still don't feel it.
It's just that I'm
I'm there in a different space now.
As you should be.
Yeah,
as we all should be.
I think that
it's really easy to stay in that like brooding
period,
but at the end of the day your life actually only changes not when you
accumulate more knowledge
or a more profound understanding of your problems,
but actually
you as you attack them as you take action.
So that's what I we want from all the makeover videos and all those things
as encourage guys to relentlessly take action
action instead of relentlessly accumulating a better understanding of
the problems.
David,
are you active on the activeness?
Basically everything in life guys is a balance between attack and analyze.
I do think Asians in general,
not just the average Asian guy in the West
could use a lot more attack.
Number six
as Asian as we are and we're very proud to be Asian and we're very much into
Asian history,
culture,
food,
the movement all happened,
but we're not that much into like Asian pop things.
It being Asian pop music,
gaming,
anime,
like we keep up with kind of all of it on like a base level.
I feel like
but we're not like deep in it.
Right?
That's fair.
We're not.
I don't think that's a mystery.
I don't think people are like shocked.
I watched Attack on Titan.
The one movie.
Yeah,
but it's a show.
No,
I'm aware.
Hey,
but yeah,
no,
I feel like,
you know,
it's important to understand what's going on the general view,
but we're I don't spend time.
I know enough to get very surface-level anime memes,
but if we were going to like into the anime meme
Instagrams.
Yeah,
a lot of that stuff would go over my head.
the memes about anime that pop up on the mainstream Asian Instagram meme pages.
I kind of understand but the deeper ones.
I don't and I think it's funny because we had this one friend this one time.
It was she was a girl and who she was like,
hey guys,
you guys aren't really Asian and I was like,
what do you mean?
We're not Asian.
Look at us like we talk about Asian food all the time.
We're very proud.
Like what do you mean?
She's like,
no,
you guys aren't into like gaming and all that stuff.
You know the typical Asian stuff.
So I think it's interesting and I'm not to like downplay that kind of stuff
because I know that a lot of our friends are into it too.
But like I think it's just interesting that we're more into like probably the
food culture history aspect of it all and the globalization and the economics
behind it than we are necessarily into the pop culture.
You're talking about yeah,
sort of like the teenage pop culture of Asia and I still like Boba though.
I just think that if you really look at Asian culture in depth,
there's so many different levels in the pop culture that emerged in the past
20 years.
It's just one narrow slice of Asian culture.
Yeah,
and I'm not I like BTS.
I'm glad BTS.
I really liked the fact they were able to speak at the UN Garner that type
of platform,
but I'm not learning K-pop choreo routines.
What?
Just in the same way.
I'd ever learned J Chow choreo routine.
So it's not like a Chinese versus Korean thing.
Like I don't like pop music in general.
But yeah,
I mean,
I think real quick just to wrap up this point because I don't think we need
to explain too much.
But like why is that different?
How does that shape our perspective that we're kind of more interested into
the larger part the thousand-year-old Asian culture rather than diving so
deeply and being caught up in like the last 20.
Well,
first of all,
I think the people who actually really understand Asian culture.
If you had to pick one or the other for sure,
all the other stuff is more deeper.
Yeah.
No,
the history.
I mean,
we're talking about hundreds to thousands of years.
I mean,
we're talking about products that were created in the last 15 20 years in
the pop world.
We're talking about philosophies that have lasted the test of time and
well,
it later.
Let's just say 2,000 years versus 20 years.
I mean,
I guess last word on Asian pop culture that I'm not particularly deep in
whether it be anime gaming or pop music.
It's like I think it all is part of the wave.
I think generally it's all good number seven.
I wanted to say share this point is that we never hit our identity of being
Chinese and we do believe that Chinese are often misrepresented in a kind of
larger sense.
So I feel like one of our goals of our channel is not that we are not
actually we don't have friends of other Asian races.
We actually are very well-versed.
I would say in other Asian cultures,
but particularly there's kind of this mission that we have to kind of help
explain where Chinese are at right now.
Yeah,
I think it's a unique responsibility that only would fall on people who are
Chinese have a passion for it.
And I think that of all the Asians in America Chinese are probably the most
misunderstood.
Yeah,
because it's the oldest it's the oldest Asian.
It's the oldest country actually in the world right now.
That's still a unbroken civilization and the first Asians that came over to
America like Egyptians would be up there.
But guess what Egyptians they ain't Egyptians anymore like from they ain't
the Pharaoh Egyptians,
right?
So basically Chinese are sort of like this very esoteric group of people that
a lot of people really struggle to understand.
I think even Chinese Americans don't understand it is complicated.
It's really complicated.
There's 56 different languages within it and actually genetically Chinese
people are mixed with a lot of different things.
they're not all like what people would say mostly hot.
They're mostly hot but they're mixed with a lot of different stuff depending
on what region you know,
you're I mean China's a big place with a lot and it's grown over the years.
So not as cut and dry as being like an Asian from a small country.
I think they're complicated in their own way,
but it's pretty much like that's the narrative and that's it.
You know what it is for Chinese.
It's like they can't even agree on what language to speak.
I mean,
it's a lot easier to kind of have a one set narrative for for example,
like maybe Koreans and Vietnamese people who you know,
their populations range,
you know less than 50 million worldwide,
but then I'm obviously with Chinese which such a big huge planet of their
own 1.35 billion.
I mean 1.4 if you count the diaspora people from around the world easily
right and it's just like that's just a crazy amount of people with a crazy
amount of history and and diversity.
I mean,
it's like India.
If you look at India,
the reason India has had some,
you know problems running infrastructure is because they're all super
different from each other and some of them don't even speak the same
language.
and I would say like I think it struck us because I think so many Chinese
kids growing Chinese people over the years when we were growing up a lot
of Chinese kids want to be Japanese wanted to be Japanese wanted to be
Korean or wanted to be white.
Yeah,
or in the South and in the South and you know,
it's more urban wanted to be Filipino.
Yeah.
I mean they wanted to be everything but Chinese.
Let's say that yeah,
and this is you guys have to understand this is out of time.
I think it's like different if you're growing up in Australia right now
and you're 15,
you're probably really happy or Chinese.
I'm just saying like there was a time in the US.
I would say a stretch of about 25 30 years where it was viewed as so uncool
to be Chinese.
Yeah.
No,
you know how many Chinese people would just tell us like,
oh,
yeah,
I'm just Asian.
I'm like which Asian,
you know,
or like even if they are Chinese,
they're like,
oh,
yeah,
they don't want to they don't want to say which Chinese they are.
Oh,
yeah,
my family's from the South where in the South like,
you know,
it's like I think just that there's that those people themselves they
didn't fully understand how to use it and or how to be proud and I think
one of our missions is to this large group of people who maybe don't
understand themselves that much and I'm not saying I'm an expert by all
means.
We're not experts.
I'm definitely not an expert,
but I do think that we're trying to figure out a way that Chinese people
can be proud without being ridiculous about it with being fair to everybody
else with just representing ourselves just more fully.
I just think that one of the goals of our channel has always been to be
well-balanced Asian guys to show all different Asian cultures,
you know,
not represent them in ourselves personally,
but put them on camera.
Give them a shot.
Give some give them some shine,
but to also build up some more kind of like soft power imagery of the
Chinese culture.
Yeah,
and I'm not talking about anything geopolitical or anything related to any
sort of just simply people just don't organization like yes,
just as simple as that.
It's like what I'm not going to like my cousin.
Our cousins are growing up over there.
Yeah,
like we have cousins growing up in China Hong Kong China other parts of Asia
to like I don't want people to feel that way.
I theoretically if you made me analyze the reasons why they feel that way I
could break them down for you.
Yeah,
I get it.
But somebody's got to just show some highlights them at least some middle
ground things kind of show the Chinese people can be nice people too.
Yeah,
and I get it.
I get it.
Chinese people when you meet them anecdotally in your everyday life unless
you meet like kind of like certain ones that are I guess more less common.
They're not going to necessarily be like the incredibly like smiley people.
They could be but I'm just saying basically I'm not saying basically to
wrap up this point is that we're not saying that there's not reasons for
those questions for those debates and those stereotypes stereotypes come from
somewhere,
but I do think just as we do for Asians in general we like to do,
you know,
even especially for Chinese is to just show the other side and show that we're
more than those stereotype number eight.
We figured out early on that the world was tribal and even though it's changing
a bit now it is still like that.
Basically this kind of understanding that people kind of like things that are
similar to them.
That's not a crazy thought.
I think everybody should know that that's kind of true on a macro level.
I think your micro to mid situation like we always talking about where like
boats or like fishes in the ocean and you are in control of to some extent how
big or small or powerful or how your Jeep or how your GPS runs as a boat,
but then there's also a tide and a gravitational pull from the currents and
the moon,
you know that you as a fish slash vessel in the ocean have no control over all
you have is the control over how strong you are.
Yes,
and that's what it means to be trapped.
People are tied to a tribe.
Here's the thing.
You don't get a fully pick what type of vessel you were born or what type of
fish you were born.
Why is it that any Asian YouTuber that's out there?
The majority of their fans are Asian.
Why is that because that's like literally that's a fact for like 95% of
Asian YouTubers.
Well,
obviously I would say the only YouTubers that kind of have the benefit of
multiple multiple heavy demographics are the white YouTubers.
Yeah,
and that's why you see so many Asians or Latinos or even African Americans dye
their hair blonde and wear blue contacts because at the end of the day if you
just look at it,
let's remove all this sort of like social justice aspects out of it.
If you want to appeal to the largest amount of demographic pools having
blonde hair and blue eyes is still probably the logical move even if you're
Asian or even if you're yeah,
if even if you're not white.
Yeah,
it still helps just affect those attributes to look to have white features.
Yeah,
as far as the world being tribal,
it's unfortunate.
I think you look in 2019 right now and you see that on full display.
I mean,
you just take a look at polling numbers across America.
It's it's inland versus coastal.
It's this side versus that side like I could just know what someone's race
gender and where they're born in America right now in with like 75% accuracy
roughly predict which way they're leaning on a vote.
Yeah.
Yeah,
and I want to say it's just about race and looks though because different
tribes they can it can be by socioeconomic and city.
For example in SF.
I think it's a little bit less based on being Asian.
I think it's more about being from the tech world tech world,
you know,
obviously Andrew Yang's all of his followers are not Asian.
In fact,
his biggest supporters are not Asian.
So it's more about his meaning what he's doing for people.
People are able to overlook even in England which for the longest time was
a homogenous society.
They really segregated themselves based on which type of British accent you
had.
Oh,
do you speak the Queen's English?
Do you speak Cockney?
Do you have a Birmingham ham accent or whatever?
Do you know what I mean?
Like humans like to separate people into quadrants and then rank them into
a hierarchy time.
I always said like anytime.
There's more than like six of a person.
They're going to start separating themselves somehow you ever seen a group
of like 10 friends and like they still have a ranking amongst that 10 friends.
They have the girl the guy who's usually in the middle of the group and then
you know,
there's the guy who generally is always caught on the outside of the picture
and it's just funny.
Anyways,
it's like a sorority or a frat.
I mean they have there's hierarchy.
but uh,
but I just think that that's just the way the world is not that I want it to
be that way and not that it should be that way but on a macro level now,
I'm not saying in the mid and the micro things might not be different though
because it depends on your own individual situation who's around you what
neighborhood you're living in what part of that what age you are if you're
really young guess what tribes don't mean as much dude living in different
parts of Vancouver could feel like you're living in two different countries.
Oh,
yeah different parts of LA number nine is that we generally care more about
impact and meaning of a video more than income.
So it's not that we don't value money.
Of course,
you know,
everybody likes money.
We like making money but it just doesn't take priority over kind of the type
of videos that we want to make for example,
we've rarely ever hopped on trends.
We've never did like the mukbang thing.
We never did like parodies really like maybe one or two parodies never really
got into the reaction game.
These are things that you do when you're essentially trying to make money off
YouTube and I think making money off YouTube is like the number two thing for
us.
But number one is like what do we want?
you're referring to like the SEO games SEO games.
We don't play that and that's nothing wrong.
I do Google keyword.
We have tons of friends that play those games that they're just like,
hey,
it's like a formula you to do this tag it like this.
You got to do whatever your friends want.
Literally,
you stack like seven things on the formula together.
You have a formula cake,
but guess what?
Guess what?
Everybody the fun Bros Channel I would say lacks formula or the formula
is just a lot different.
I should say that there's not a lot of internet gaming like in terms of
gaming not gaming video games like gaming the system.
No,
we don't we don't get in the system.
It's hard man.
You know,
we just want to make the content.
It's funny because after all this time David almost eight years in the game
of YouTube,
we're still kind of like making the content that we just want to make so in
a way as as I feel like as impersonal as our channel can be called because
we don't talk about ourselves.
You can see that topic wise.
We just want to talk about the things that we want to talk about whether it's
an Asian issue video one video and then the next video is a food video and
the next one's a burger video.
The next one's about Streetwear.
It's like it's very inconsistent,
but it's interesting.
That's how I say our channel is,
you know,
obviously you look back and you could say,
oh man,
I wish I would have did it that way did it that way.
Hey man,
if it came if we made it,
you know,
obviously there's a few vids.
I wish I could take back or like I don't I don't really grade the journey
of the last eight years making professionally making videos online like
a 10 out of 10,
you know,
hey man,
who's to say the future couldn't be 10 out of 10 though or at least striving
for that not every video.
I want to say we've tried our hardest to be meaningful in but if even if
you watch the little grocery store videos,
you know,
we try to tie in a little deep takeaway at the end.
We never did the cinnamon challenge.
We never did.
Ice bucket challenge.
By the way,
we do donate a lot of stuff whether that's like,
oh close it.
I got some microfinance accounts for you know,
third world entrepreneurs.
I got we donate a ton of stuff to Goodwill.
Oh,
yeah,
we'll throw up stickers all around you,
you know,
New York,
Alhambra.
I'm supporting Indiegogos and Kickstarters man.
We go fund means when people have a because everybody's going everybody's
going through it,
you know,
on some level or another,
you know,
relative to their own spectrum,
but absolutely.
I mean,
you know,
we were we were one thing and we were raised pretty deep in the church.
I'll tell you this.
I'm not fully,
you know,
I don't want to get into that too much.
They coach you a lot on being caring.
Yes,
they receive a lot of heavy coaching on caring for your media community,
your family,
your friends,
and even rings that extend out from on the tree stump,
you know,
Pluto,
you still got to enter the Sun still got to care about Pluto,
even though Pluto is so many rings removed from the Sun.
Now,
is that even fully effective as I'll tell you this one thing?
I've realized is after meeting a lot of really,
you know,
and there's different types of rich people after meeting some really rich
successful people.
Not every really successful person at least in this game that I've met like
entertainment.
That's the Sun cares about Pluto.
You mean they don't care.
That's just a ball of ice.
They don't necessarily care about the little people not more than they have
to know.
No,
I think a lot of people there's just different coaching that everybody
receives.
I mean look at our channel.
It's like a it's like partially like a community chain.
Like I don't want to say we've just worked with so many different people
and we've tried to put so many people on and giving them a shot to be on
camera when a lot of other people don't want to like don't even imagine that
there's talent like there's always we're bringing our friends into videos
that really have no aspirations of being a YouTuber,
right?
Even our friends who are trying and it's not working out for them.
Yeah,
just help,
you know,
and it's not I don't want to say it's just out of like obviously,
I think we're going to get good content out of it too.
So obviously that still helps,
you know,
David point number 10.
So David,
what's one last thing you want people to know about the phone bros that
might help them understand us better.
I think the easiest way to put it is that the past eight years professionally
doing YouTube just been our search for the truth.
It's not that we had it figured out eight years ago and it's not that we
haven't figured out now.
There was just a lot more soul-searching than we ever let on and there was
a lot more really in-depth discussions.
And I think now in 2019 moving forward until let me tell you this.
Whoa,
I think and you cannot predict the future.
You think David thinks until the day I stop doing this.
Whoa,
whether that's when I die or at a previous prior date,
it's going to change.
Basically that wraps it up for our top 10 list of things that you need to
know about the phone bros to kind of understand why we make the videos that
we do 2019 season to change.
A lot of things are moving guys.
Say no more guys.
We're going to wrap up the podcast here.
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Hopefully it helped you guys understand us better.
You might still have some other burning questions.
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