EPISODE 143: Dynasty Boys

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hey good morning hi chris hi chris hi

good evening good morning oh morning and

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how you guys doing i'm fine i'm fine

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uh and uh i'm james karahat and this is

nice nice to meet you all i've seen some

of your stand up man good stuff

did you understand it yeah yeah i

understand

thank you thank you very good

yes ma'am very good

so we'll officially start the

the the podcast chris um what we do is

since

i i we have major lag because of the

philippine internet connection

so what we do when we we do the

introduction i will say welcome

and then uh james will say two

uh then uh each one of them will

complete the set and then you'll be the

one to end with

episode 143. yeah

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to 15 minutes and uh introduce

chris to our audience so that uh

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because uh we usually don't record right

away

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uh bloody true

british english

you know chris uh they usually

ask us ask us to

uh curse them no why yeah

yeah do you say bad words chris

yeah oh what oh my god

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for example christmas chris would you

mind cursing on ben tilador

oh sure uh in tagalog or

whatever whatever man whatever matters

all right um

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you're the first one yes

from the 143 episodes you're the first

oh wow all right honors no i'm just

we're just kidding we're just kidding

just kidding

and also james is not he that's really

how he speaks in english

so please don't think that he is trying

to poke one of the english language

that's that's how he really speaks in

english like ours

so this is

we have live chat on youtube

so you can check that okay

see chris we don't have chemistry when

we're talking in english

it's like we're jumping up the boat

143 episodes no no chemistry that's

the secret of our show

male 1 chemistry

oh very nice

don't go chasing waterfalls

is it 6am yeah yeah it's 6 00 a.m um

but i get up at 3 30 so i've been up for

two hours so

nice nice just like just like the people

from cavite

from the woman's neighborhood they don't

actually sleep at

all because of too much meth oh then

yeah yes yes woman has been up for two

days

yes because at night the pusher and the

user

they met

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okay

that's the best job this show is very

stupid

actually this that i think chris is now

finally realizing the mistake

that he made by approaching us not at

all this is going to be fun

why did you approach

we are no we'll start we'll start the

show so that we can ask him all of the

questions i'll do it

all right

okay so all right just like

uh valentin soria here

which is our director in the background

is uh commenting also in youtube

valentin says hi chris message me

if you need help oh my god

yes it is isn't

it isn't it

okay let's go let's go okay

look please cool

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welcome to

episode episode 143

yeah all right

this is a very special episode 143

because with us is a uh

filipino american writer and director

chris soriano please kiss rihanna please

say hi to everyone

thank you so much good morning and good

evening

oh my god where is my beer

your dictionary find go find your

dictionary james

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yes i do okay good so chris approached

us to help him

with this uh with this movie uh coming

out the dynasty boys

chris can you uh tell us about the movie

first before we

divulge into

sure the dynasty boys is about a

a filipino lead actor that's growing up

in america

and he's surrounded by racism and hate

crimes because of the coronavirus

and so they try to figure out how to

survive and a lot of crazy things happen

but in the end he promotes peace

nice so this is a filipino leader

yep oh yeah okay cinema

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can you please let's watch the trailer

oh great this is you

this is you you're also the star yeah

yeah

they're not gonna stop bullying us

blacks don't like us

hey where you from covey looking ass the

mexicans don't like us

you in the wrong place at the wrong time

so what are we gonna do

you really think we can take these guys

out you know we're gonna be the most

hated people on the clock

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at 13 i was almost killed by

neighborhood gangs

i grew up in a rough area where you

always had to fight to

survive and there was more going on

between the mexican

black and asian gangs that react that i

lived

i created into this film to show the

world

at risk and asian americans like me come

from

as a writer and director of dynasty boys

i wanted to create a film

to show the struggle of these young

asian americans

and how try to stand up against the

gangs that bully them every

day in the film a big warps out

which eventually leads these gangs to

try to work together

to find peace with everything happening

in the world

today peace and harder to find

asians are getting bullied with the

coronavirus

black people are fighting against

extreme racism

and the country just seems more and more

divided every day

from bullying to racism

so that is it the movie trailer

is the movie already finished

uh no the movie's not finished yet but

we're still

shooting it despite this pandemic and

it's been really challenging but we

should be done

by november this year

why don't you have a face mask in the

movie

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they're being a little rebellious with

no masks but pretty soon

so the movie is loosely based on

uh true events or how

how to are the how to is the story

in your movie when it comes to the gang

war

did the filipino americans and the

asians really come together

or so the the movie is a fiction but

it's based on what's happening today

with this virus and these protests and

also uh the racism that's affecting

everyone

uh it's a unique story that i just tried

to um

at the end of the day put a moral lesson

that you know racism and any form of you

know

disrespect on any culture is not a good

thing and so i kind of want our

characters to show that

yeah what's the what's this current

status of racism in the u.s is it

is it worsening than ever before

yeah for some reason and you know it's

getting um you know pretty bad

um you know just the other day i

remember even going to the gas station

and this has happened to multiple people

where you know i'll be pumping gas and

you know whether it's uh a different

race they'll see me and

these are younger people saying you know

make sure you wear your mask you know

when you're around them you know and

them meaning you know

around who you know so uh i was born in

san diego i'm a proud filipino american

my mom's from you know pampanga my dad's

from manila

uh i have no coronavirus and so you know

i'm like what's going on you know

oh the the so the the virus has turned

into a race

race issue now it's not even uh

a government issue it's just simply

race issue is that correct yes yes

that's correct

uh you know if you if you look asian you

look filipino

they'll think you have coronavirus for

some reason some people i'm not saying

all people

yeah yeah but we've seen some some

newscasters filipino newscasters being

shouted at by

by passive bias you know just saying

that

they carry their the carriers of the

virus and also

it's it's pretty it's pretty tough there

you know being asian in the us

right now yeah but you know it's a

different time

so but how tight is the filipino

community compared to other communities

in the us when it comes to this

do filipinos come together when there's

too much racism

um going on in the us right now

yes at first you know the filipino

community is more like you know don't

worry about it

it's just a small thing you know it'll

go over but then you know when when more

hate crimes are happening i think you

know

in la a filipino lady or asian it was

punch in the face

uh by you know random people you know

you got the old lady in new york who set

on fire so

i think they kind of categorize

filipinos as like you know they're just

asian you know so you know yeah

yeah i think that's one of the parts

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we pretty much look like every asian

person in in asia like some of us look

like korean

chinese mexican so yeah yeah we're

the easy target also when it comes to

these

but you know as as as uh as a filipino

american have you visited the

philippines

before have you been yes yes i i visited

um you know

uh pampanga as well as uh cavite like i

remember going to these places at 13

and and just really enjoying it my

mother took me there and i had a very

good time

yeah so it's been a long time since

it's been a while you know i hope to

visit soon uh you know i hear a lot of

uh interesting things are happening and

you know i want to check it out

yeah yeah did we take it away again

how about yourself okay you know my my

action plan tonight

is just to uh leave every five minutes

so this is uh the fifth minute so i'll

just leave again

and then you just continue your

conversation chris has it always been

this way

or did it became worse since donald

trump became president

oh great question um i feel like it's

it's uh

been worse since the coronavirus hit

that's when you know

uh that people that never experience

racism all of a sudden there's a target

you know and it's just one of those

things where you could be an innocent

bystander until somebody you know says

hey go back to your country

and you're like okay you know where do i

go

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wait uh uh i'm just uh gonna check

myself i'm still here actually

there is chris uh you you talked about

uh a little bit on your trailer that you

were

um

can you tell us more about that

your experience sure

uh yeah yeah you know at 13 i was just

walking to the grocery store here

and you know a group of gangsters you

know picked me up you know they said hey

you want to hang out with us and then i

said

sure you know i'm the only child growing

up you know i wanted

friends i wanted to you know older

brothers you know somebody that really

look out for me

and i didn't know that night was going

to change my life

they take me to a park they surround me

and they said hey if you want to hang

out with us you got to fight this guy

and i said you know i don't want to

fight nobody and i just came here to

hang out

and then pretty soon they just kicked me

out my feet i fell down

and then all 10 people just beat me up

and then after that they said you know

welcome to the family and then i was

like man you know just

in in an instant my life changed and i

at 13 i became a gangster i didn't even

know you know i know anything about

gangs

and so you know that that moral lesson

and the war

between different races and how we have

to protect our own and

you know it just it was a weird way to

grow up and so

my mother homeschooled me to protect me

from all that

and and that's kind of how i live my

life

are they white oh yeah no no

um mexican filipinos and you know

different races but

uh mostly mexican filipino

so is it it's yeah no no i i saw that

you opened your mouth

so you continue it

uh i think that that's the 30-second

massacre

the the one that uh chris

christoriano telling to us uh

yeah they're going to beat you and then

after that they welcome you as a member

do you have their the the hero

are you familiar with kira pursuant

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yeah it happens when you join a gang

it's either

uh you get beaten up or you have sex

with them

this usually happens if you're a girl

who wants to join a guy

oh wow gotcha yeah and then chris said

you can have somebody here

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i got beat up because it's a very famous

celebrity

what's your anime

one of the memorable one was uh me being

told to fight a group of people

and um i knew that i was not gonna win

you know i'm not bruce lee but

i would you know i had to go and fight

and i got beat up

and that was the end so i didn't win

but i guess courage is moving despite

knowing you're going to get beat up

so chris what's what's the name of your

gang

oh i i'm not allowed to say it you know

just because you know they're

still out there they're still active and

you know i don't want to you know

rekindle any loss was it was it was it

hard for you to leave the gang

do they make it hard for you to lead the

gang uh i never really left and that's

the crazy part you know because

you know you just some things happen to

you so you just kind of go about your

way and

they do their thing you do your thing

and you know i

i'm a proud you know jesus follower so i

just you know

jesus is my gang now i follow god

nice so jesus young member that is a

very controversial

statement

i think this initiation right there is

you the hand sign of yours

there you go this is the initiation wow

what what would you say if jesus christ

had a

gun i think the hand sign of jesus is

like this

no

how deep were you in the gun culture uh

what what was one of the worst things

you have done

as a gang member sure um nothing too

worse just fights you know at 13

that's where they they mold you they try

to shape you and build you

so you know if you're a young kid and

you're not an active you know you're

just a soldier so

that's as far as i got you know nothing

crazy no killings no stabbings

you know um once again i was just picked

up and you know

i'm sure they do this to a lot of other

kids so some make it up the ranks and

some don't

how did did any of your gang members

actually approach you when they saw that

you're making a movie about gangs they

were like hey chris remember me

yeah yeah it was like you know hey man

you know uh that's awesome you know so

it's like all right you know

and you go about your way you're like i

hope that's it oh they are

they are supportive they don't support

them

they bug you and they say that is am i

playing anyone in the

in the movie or or is there a character

based on me is

any of their your gang friends ask you

that oh yeah no

no they just kind of you know tell them

oh you're the guy who gets shot in the

back

[Laughter]

yeah no no no nothing like that nothing

like that

okay are you still friends with i know

some of your former gang members

uh i just kind of keep my distance you

know i lived my life and you know

i'm on a different path so you know i

respect them and

i go about my way you know i don't cause

any trouble and i just try to promote

positivity

yeah yeah so you so you don't you don't

reminisce with old

gang members like you know you know back

the time that we used to beat an old

people yeah that was a good time yeah

yeah no reminiscing for me do you have

any do you have

any attires

or a gang member yeah

yeah you wear certain you know clothes

and colors but you know

um when you you don't involve yourself

you don't wear the colors and you just

wear normal clothes so

when it comes to making movies chris is

this the first movie you're making

in writing yes yes this is the first one

you know i put you know all my efforts

everything you saw in that trailer was

all done for free

you know from actors here in la that you

know

we're not having any jobs because of the

covid affect all of hollywood so

you know i pretty much got these actors

together and i said

you know if we're not gonna do anything

during this coronavirus

you know we're not gonna have any

opportunities and so you know i went up

to every single one i said let's make

this

movie because we're not doing anything

and the biggest

fear was you know we might get

coronavirus and i said no no we'll take

proper precautions you know

we'll wear our mask and we have to we'll

keep our distance i'll make sure the

angle of the camera is farther away so

we can get closer so

yeah that's pretty much how it all

happened

filipino american you know i just want

to ask about being filipino american

writer writer director were there any

influences from the homeland like from

the philippines any actors or directors

that you

that that you were inspired by or that

you

try to you know watch and

absolutely um mchale red you know i saw

his stuff

dead kids i even reached out to him you

know for inspiration i said you know i

really appreciate your work

i emailed his father uh another

filmmaker you know that's where he

learned his skills right i mean maybe

they passed

it down they helped each other and um

his father connected me

with mikhail and you know it was just a

random email i sent and i said wow this

is the beauty

of connecting with you know fellow

filipinos that have so much talent you

know we're here to help each other

and so they're he was very nice both of

them were very nice

yeah speaking of positivity among the

filipino communities

what other what other traits that

uh the filipino communities in the us

uh how how how do they show

their support with each

for each other so we usually do a top

five uh filipino traits on how they

support each other can you can you give

us

some sure

can you back up me can you back me up

here

wait wait chris i'll just uh i'll just

check my uh

notes here so yeah that's it

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in america right yeah in america

yeah um well the the filipinos here i

feel

um the way they bring each other in is

through collaboration

so um like for instance jessica sanchez

is a good friend

uh of me and my girlfriend and you know

she's uh

been like very collaborative on this

film and so

she'll say you know hey i support you is

there anything i can do to help

you know just that reaching out and that

humbleness

is um you know i know there's some among

filipinos and stuff like that but

um i think there's also a lot of artists

that are very humble

and so um that's one of them another way

uh filipino americans help each other

here

is um they look at the art that you're

doing

and how it could benefit someone else

with a bigger larger audience

and that's leverage they'll try to

leverage and help each other that way so

those are some of the few uh i could

think of at the top of my head

and also they're just very giving but

the the the

filipino like the people like in

philippines

the way they help i've seen is just

super humble

super like for instance when we were

filming this film

we had um you know we did it all for

free you know so

uh the local filipino um bakeries and

the the food shops donated us so much

food so we can eat you know show pow and

our break or

you know this wasn't gourmet you know

you know any food it was it was like the

best filipino home meal we can have

while we were acting and while we were

trying so it was really nice we even had

like topsy look long slog

uh you know everything we wanted man

nice nice

i'm waiting for anyone to jump in but

i guess this is me this is me no one

wants to back me up

anyway chris you told uh you told a

while ago that

uh aside from

the mayama filipino

are there any negative traits of

uh filipinos there that um

make it hard for each uh for your

for the other phil arms to live

in the us like what we used to call crab

mentality is

is it rampant there uh

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yeah that's the end of the question

so negative experiences that american

filipinos give

um i think you know mentality chris are

you familiar with crab mentality

yes i believe the crab mentality is they

don't want to help

people that come here is that is that it

there's no

they sit down they're trying to pull you

down because they're

they aren't happy to see

another person to be successful

especially

a filipino like them well i've i've

heard stories you know in my life i just

haven't experienced

you know these type of people i i've met

people that say yeah

you know i want to pull you down but you

know that that's you know with with

any race you know i feel like that's

just a it depends who your circle is

so um if there is any negative traits

let me think um

maybe it's a like competition like i

know some other filipino filmmakers out

here

that you know but it's friendly um you

know they'll tell me straight up like

i'm you know you better watch out for my

film because i'm going to blow you out

of the water man

you know that type of stuff so um it's

more in your face

like more of a healthy competition like

what you said not really

uh

like negatives yeah

experience bad mouthing but yeah yeah

yeah

i've experienced bad math in like your

if i could curse on here i'll be the

first one but

your film looks like [ __ ] you should

have done this or you should have done

that and i'm like all right man

you know we'll see how do you handle

that um

i don't know i have a saying that i

learned from the my military friends

which is

don't talk about it be about it so and

you know i don't talk i just create

you know it's a really good yeah that's

a good that's pretty good uh extra

trade quickly yeah any more questions

here

no i'm i'm curious now like chris

what was the last filipino movie you

you've watched or

you've seen it could be a recent one or

it could be

what was that uh bird shot and dead kids

and birdshot yeah all in netflix

yeah yeah i know have you have you seen

a star

star cinema movie have you watched it's

criticism

[Laughter]

uh no no i haven't seen those i should i

remember

i used to you should watch some filipino

comedy movies from then

from the 80s and 90s all right all right

make some recommendations you know i'm

gonna watch um

uh someone is uh asking for press one

here because

they want me to ask question to you

press one press one for no

no

did you eat uh yes i just have coffee

and oatmeal in the morning

thank you so that was it

that was it that's bad that's not

[Laughter]

you still live it your parents they used

to live with your parents

oh no no i um you know i'm here in l.a

so i'm pursuing my dreams so

yeah are you married or uh

are you single oh i i have a girlfriend

i proposed her to become my wife so

she's my fiance if that's what you would

yeah wow

how did you enter how did you enter

making movies

did you understand the question yeah

yeah i entered in the

movies um uh i i'm a big fan of quentin

tarantino and he says you know you don't

really

have to know too much to get into the

movie industry

you just have to know what you want and

so when i heard that interview

i said wow and he said you know when he

started he was working at a video store

you know just just renting out videos

and he became one of the greatest

directors because he had a vision

and so when i heard that i said i'm

moving to l.a i'm going to pursue this

dream

um i think i know my strengths and one

of my strengths is being

resourceful finding people and finding a

way where there's a good win-win

and so i moved here to la with no

nothing

no camera even not knowing what a lens

is from this

but i knew the vision and so that's what

i communicated to my camera guy to my

actors

to everything and so that's how i got

into filming

is your crew and your actors are all

filipino

oh uh no they're they're diverse we have

filipinos we have mexicans black people

like

every every race

it's nice that you mentioned quentin

tarantino because he is

he he he loves filipino movies actually

he's a big fan

oh wow what a blessing so so for you to

be inspired by him

and him being inspired by filipino

creators and directors

actually it's like a full circle right

there so it's it's so nice to see that

but you know again as a director you

know when you write stuff

is there any filipino actor that you

want to

work with who would that be like

oh man um you know we're still trying to

cast

the the mother in this film and um

you know no no no no can play the matter

mother no no

mother volano can you play the mother

sure

sure why not that's bloody true

because i also have boobs

[Laughter]

no i'm sorry sorry for cutting you chris

go ahead please

oh yeah no no uh you know and you know i

really saw

um you know chris aquino or someone like

that playing the mom

of the character you know and uh it's

kind of weird you know acting in it

while also directing it um and one of

the very reasons why

you know i even did that was because

number one we can save a lot of money

that way we don't have to pay another

actor

and number two filipino american we

don't see

too much in the cinema and and number

three i you know

i could really portray the story since

i've kind of lived it and i felt like

that'll save so much time in the

learning curve so i have to find

a mom that could look like she could be

my mom in the film

so you so you you think that it's chris

aquino and then you can fit that

or yes i don't look like being bigger

i'm thinking something that looks more

chinese but but filipina you know

so i don't know because people think

sometimes you know i look chinese i mean

apparently all these people that

sometimes throw racist comments when i'm

pumping gas i think i'm trying you know

whatever

so but you know i respect every race yes

yeah chris uh let's go back to your

movie and the

issue of racism because this is the

first time that we'll be going to

talk about racism here in in the podcast

because

um um i i saw in the trailer that

uh there are different kinds of races

and uh different gangs per race

so do you think there is a hierarchy of

race in the u.s and

how the filipino race is in that

hierarchy if there is

any hierarchy yes i'm assuming that the

the first one in the in the list is the

the whites the caucasians yes and then

after that uh what do you think which

race comes

second oh wow

yes i feel you know um sometimes when i

grew up i used to think that

man there there's a hierarchy of race

you know white people

and then minorities that's all that's

all it was you know we're all equal and

then you know

but then you know as i got older you

know i i went to college i started being

educated

um and to see uh a hierarchy

depends upon the person so for instance

me now

um i know a bunch of white people that

are are not doing anything with their

lives you know they're they're

you know trying to you know whether it's

they're doing drugs or they're just

you know living in whatever life i also

know a lot of white people that are you

know have a lot of businesses and

they're

doing well so to look at white people

and say

categorize them all as you know that's

the hierarchy i don't do that now

um now i just say you know the hierarchy

it like shifts every day it's like a

stock market to me

um and what i see is sometimes there's

asians that are

higher than whites or whites that are

higher than asians you know um

in america it's so diverse that you can

see a guy pull up an alexis a white guy

but then a chinese person pull up in a

lamborghini next to that white guy

and then a black person pulls up in a

mercedes suv you're like who here has

money i never really know

so sorry to answer the question filipino

eating lumpia

anymore to answer the question

okay so it's okay because uh the

impression from

the philippines is that that's why i

asked that question is because

our impression is that there's racism

that's why

yes yes and i want to know from you

on how do you determine if there if a

person is racist do you do you see

it from outside are there any top five

qualifications

if there is if a person is racist uh

uh let me let's say uh if the person is

wearing a white hoodie that is uh

if you make jokes about race during the

u.s are you considered to be a racist

because here in the philippines we make

jokes about races every time

just for the heck of it yeah you see

that's a great question both

questions that you said what are

qualifications of a racist as well as if

you make a joke

are you a racist i think you know with

stand-up comedy what even some of you do

is such a beautiful thing because in

america we appreciate also the

freedom of speech so you know if you're

gonna say a joke

and it's a joke i mean take it for what

it is it's a joke i don't

you know i think a racist is determined

by their actions

as well as their words um and so you

know

that's my answer to that

[Laughter]

you know what i'm scanning my uh my

instagram because

one person message us you we usually

um label it as an essay

if there is a if there's a rant

when it comes to our one of our episodes

if we are

going to we if we are borderline

offensive or we have offended

anyone so there is one message here

there was this one time

yeah one time that it came from a person

living in the us also um and i can't

find it anywhere what is what is the

name of that no no

um i mean basically go go

yeah because you want me to explain uh

no no i'm i'm i'm searching i i want it

to be

verbatim verbatim

and racism at colorism

la luna james

so um can you teach us

what is colorism and what is racism and

what

is the difference between those because

we want to be a better person

we don't want to be a racist in each of

episodes that we have

and we don't want to be labeled as

something that

is not that it's not us

[Laughter]

do you know what i'm saying right i just

think the

obvious or the simple thing is when you

talk about people with different colors

you know like oh that guy's dark you

know they'll never be as good as the

light-skinned people

i think you could go into that territory

but like if you're talking more so of

like you know

all i know filipinos just love i don't

know

lumpia you know that would be you know

racist because that's not true right

not all filipinos like lumpia i mean you

know whatever so

when you generalize a certain race

you're going into racism territory when

you talk about color

you know all you know whatever you're

darker this and this and that

you know you get into that so so if you

generalize

that that is where you become labeled as

a racist or a colorist

is that a word colorist

colorist

in terms of editing when i come oh yeah

i've never been i've never been called

or

nobody's ever said hey are you

colorizing that person uh but

you know i'm sure it might exist yeah

yeah because um i think did you

understand the message because he is uh

ranting or is complaining about me

um always uh teasing no no about his

scholar

so not only you are so black even people

from saudi james

let's just focus on

after that conversation i messaged that

person then

uh i said uh after this message please

loot me

a a bunch of nights

[Laughter]

no i think i think you know you can call

it whatever it could be racism

color calories your races but the root

the root of all of this is hate so if if

what you do is

is because of hate then it could be

categorized as

as racism or or

anything like that but in our case since

we're friends you know when we joke

about

things like this there's no hate when we

joke about

uh you know no no or you so

it comes out as a joke really he could

have told us

that db when the issue came up

you could have told us that no no james

didn't sleep for two days because

i was deriving from fossil fuels

being comedians

um

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it depends you know it depends if they

you know you know your friends more than

anyone

so it may offend them if you say

something that they're too touchy about

so

uh to me it's i i just avoid those kind

of jokes with any race

um maybe when i was 14 15 yeah i'll talk

about race all day but

the older i get the more you know i

guess knowledgeable i get that you know

some people are going to be really

offended

but the friends that i know that don't

care i'll race it up all day you know

just joking

all right yeah see because because chris

uh you know

there is uh i think filipinos

here in the philippines don't understand

yet the ra

racism fully they don't fully understand

it yet because

um there is a there is also an instance

here that one of

an influencer um said

the n-word oh right right

but he was he was just uttering

a lyrics from a song ah

okay so but but he was

already being cancelled on twitter

because of that

incident so from that

example do you think it

is right it is it was justified that he

was cancelled because of that

incident i i feel that if somebody is

going to say that that word

uh you know and offend someone i mean if

you're

black i guess you have you know the

approval to say it but i know even a lot

of black people

that don't even say that you know they

just they just you know it depends upon

the person

quentin tarantino writes that stuff in

his scripts all the time you know

like there's like 300 n words in the

script sometimes you know

um so uh i just it depends on the motive

is it fair that he was cancelled i mean

some people think it's fair some people

think it's not i wouldn't

i mean i don't even know man that's a

tough one because if i say

it's not fair people are going to be

like oh chris if people if i say it's

fair people are going to be like man is

this chris guy racist so

i don't know i just that's a tough

question

so so even if it's in a song so

and yeah i mean there have been times

you know

when i was a kid you know i hear rap of

course

you're rapping along the songs you don't

know what's right um so

i mean uh yeah that's a tough one man

yeah so for for you if you

if there is uh a lyrics that says the

n-word

you will skip that one personally

oh man for me uh you know

it's it's a tough one i mean i've

listened to it i've had you know i've

heard

heard it you know who hasn't you know

came across a line in the surrounding

world

i think that's when you just put on the

air conditioning in your car and then

you you sing along to it by yourself you

know

when it is not in the crowd or by riding

the bus

or in the train exactly exactly

because sometimes you do you grab music

sometimes you feel the music also when

you know you feel you know you feel what

he's talking about

and just rap with it and then you just

sometimes you

break it out but when someone calls you

out then i guess that's the time you

stop but you know when you do it in the

privacy of

your own home and just enjoying the

music i guess there's nothing wrong with

that

right like because sorry chris go ahead

no no i'm just gonna say like for

instance in that movie um

with jackie chan and chris tucker and

you know rush hour and he goes you know

what's up my man

and then pretty soon they get in the

fight you know i mean

what makes that fair for jackie chan to

even say that

and nobody's saying cancel culture on

him oh because it was

in the context of comedy oh so you know

a guy

saying it on his own in a song i guess

that so there's boundaries i guess i'm

still learning the rules you know

yeah but yeah actually you're

already in the u.s and you're still

learning the rules

how about we in the philippines

we still do not fully understand the

rules yet

we may never understand it we may never

understand it and i'm really

curious and i'm really i really want to

know and i really want to learn

um if there is a line what is the line

between racism and um

and and uh which is acceptable or not

so it it i can't

wrap my head around it oh my god

when we watch dynasty boys ah yeah there

you go

amen amen i think that's i think that's

that's what

we all need to to uh do that's why i

think that's the reason why we're all

here meeting

you know yeah talking to chris is

because we

actually need this kind of movie in

philippine

in the philippines screen you know we

need for people to understand

the concept of racism how it's affecting

everyone

and and how it's also visible in our

country

so obviously this is going to be one one

nice

entertaining an informative movie for

all of us

yeah especially here in the philippines

chris how do okay no no uh chris

uh after you you finished this movie

yes my goal you know right now we're

seeing the

just me being here in hollywood we're

seeing a new industry change

where movies aren't going straight to

the theaters and so they're going

straight to video on demand so you can

watch it um you know i pray that

when we're done we could immediately

take it straight to distribution

on video on demand whether it be amazon

prime

or you know netflix so i want to take it

straight there

so that i don't have to wait a year to

get it

into the theaters and to you know my

goal is just to get this all over the

world as fast as we can uh

forget the red carpet forget all this

picture taken let's just give the people

the movie so we can move

make the next move you know

yeah gb no no why are your questions

leading to ending the program

it's like you want to end the program no

no no no no no no no no no no

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go back to chris again and i will really

want to talk about racism

yeah let's have a question

yes

that's a um great great uh perspective

because

when you go to jail not that you know

i've went to jail

but you know i know people in jail and

when you go there

you assimilate to your kind as a

survival

you know i don't know what it's like in

the philippines but in america you just

have different races

the the black americans the mexican

americans the asian americans

uh asian americans and pacific islanders

they stick together

in there the mexicans they stick

together and the black people stick

together

so you know it's very rare you'll see

you know somebody cross over

so is race a factor when joining a gang

i would say most often times yes it's a

factor for survival it's

i mean even when you look at the history

of how some of these asian gangs formed

they did it because they were being

bullied by other people and they just

needed a band together because you know

they realized they're they're stronger

together

chris how do how did you discuss

the topic of racism in your how deep

did you discuss your topic of racism in

your

movie um and what

what do you expect the audience would

feel

after they see your movie what are the

lessons

are you expecting for them to learn uh

one of the main lessons

is that uh an individual is

um not responsible for the group that

they represent

you know that's sometimes what we see

like we'll see like a

oh you know let's just for example a

white lady saying something about

filipinos you know

and then we get offended and we say man

all white people are like that

you know i'm trying to show unique

perspective that sometimes

that individual doesn't represent the

whole group so

how how deep are we going we're we're

tackling

you know how does someone experience

racism for the first time

you see these group of kids innocent

they're living life covered hits

and all of a sudden people are hitting

them all these hate crimes and

racial slurs so what you'll see is a a

different character from beginning to

end

and a tragic thing that happens um a

hate crime you know somebody dies

and then where does revenge come in so

you'll see you know street culture

you'll see

racism you'll see filipino culture

you'll see even

there's a scene um and i won't ruin it

i'll end it here where

even the chinese guy and our main

character filipino guy

you know he's like man that's you know

we have chopal

and the chinese guy's like man we have

bao you stole that from us and then you

know even they're

debating over a simple piece of show pal

right who made it first so

simple things like that

are you portraying a filipino in the

movie chris

a filipino american who's even

struggling to speak tagalog

and his mom is telling why don't you

learn and you know the cultural things

there you know

is is very powerful uh just because i

feel like a lot of

uh filipino americans including myself

we don't speak tagalog you know and i'm

i'm doing everything i can to learn

because i really believe i must learn

the language i want to

you know chris um

from the way you answer

is already kicking in no no uh seriously

i think from the way you answer chris

this is just a short synthesis

for everyone to pander about no um

the way chris answers is that he doesn't

directly answer

our question no

no and this is a good thing because uh

our question to tell you honestly is

directed to a stereotype

but you are answering in a more personal

way that you

that that every individual

every person is unique no

and you are not directly uh

um pointing the race of that person

so that's what i think uh from from the

perspective of your movie

uh that like what you said a while ago

that uh

every person is unique yes and that it

depends

is that correct chris yes

that's right thank you thank you james

james

you sound like a congressman

right is it bloody true

i love it okay i rest my gate

[Laughter]

chris we've been asking you so many

questions about racism and how it is in

in in the us

do you have any questions for us you

know it's been a long time since you've

been in the philippines

of some myths that you want to be

clarified

how long has it been chris since you

know last minute oh i was 13 i'm 31 now

so a long time and um i i you know

i have a lot i mean one of my questions

is um

it's more so statements and questions

like i want

i feel like i hear a lot of um filipinos

that tell me you know oh in the

philippines you know there's a

divide between you know filipino

americans going there

um and because they're not you know

they're not the true filipinos they

don't speak tagalog

you know and um amboy you know like

there's a show off

and stuff and i want to learn is that

true and like why is that

the how come we're going there showing

off right we should be going there

humbly we're all equal and so i'm trying

to understand that dynamic

so um what is the perspective of like a

filipino american

going to the philippines with the locals

is it you know welcome or is it more

like ah this guy what's he doing here go

back to america where

you know you abandoned us or something

you know like that type of perspective

i don't i don't really think that

happens it only becomes a big issue when

it comes to basketball

oh okay yeah yeah because

because philippine basketball it came to

a point where we tend to naturalize

uh foreigners even even black americans

because

you know what they're really good in

basketball we tend to naturalize them as

filipino citizens

so they can play for the philippine team

and it really becomes a big issue here

in the philippines

because a lot of local filipino talents

don't get the stage time they deserve

so so only when it comes to basketball

i believe women because women has a

basketball court on this house

but also we have this thing called the

pinoy pride which is

so big here in the philippines even if

you are already

just uh a drop of blood filipino

we will celebrate you yes we will

celebrate you know

even your most mundane successes

yeah even if you your nanny is just a

filipino and you're

a full-blooded white guy and your nanny

is a filipino we will celebrate your

success

and then for such celebration we will

teach you how to

drink uh on the street like the tageta

guy

hey chris uh there's a question there's

a question here in the

the comment section uh because recently

there is a

there is a um an issue

with cultural appropriation on filipino

community uh with regards to the

new york restaurant the barcada

restaurant did you hear about that

um four white guys

um started up a restaurant started up a

restaurant and they named it

barcada which means friends in filipino

so then the phil um

uh ranted about it on the internet

and called it uh inappropriate and uh

calling it out as cultural

inappropriation

because um putting up a barcada a

filipino language on your

using a filipino language in your

restaurant without any hint

of a filipino

traits on your menu or your staff

it's just cultural inappropriation can

can you tell us briefly what is your

uh reaction about that um

you know first off i can respect that

the person was upset

you know saying hey man these are white

people using our name

um similarly i can also hear the stories

of the people in the streets

where you know a lot of um whether

they're gangsters or anybody like that

are saying hey man these hollywood

directors man that they're taking our

stories and they're making money off of

our stories

so you know i think people will always

have their opinions on this type of

thing

but also i mean i'm seeing it as you

know you're seeing these

white people what they are creating a

restaurant

promoting the filipino brand i mean

promoting the name

as long as there's you know authentic

filipino food there as long as there's

some sort of

effort to give back to filipinos giving

them jobs

doing a good win-win instead of just

taking away from us

slapping the name and not even you know

if i went in there there ain't no

filipino was working there

and if i went in there and the guy

doesn't even care about the filipino

culture

then of course i'd be offended so i i'd

have to do more research

on on what he's doing uh but i would you

know have a detective eye

to make sure that you know is he ripping

off our brand and something like that

fair enough yeah i think there was

nothing filipino about that restaurant

just the name right oh man yeah

that would be a problem in my opinion

just because i feel like that's

that that could you know offend you know

some people like come on

right i mean you rip the name off it

hints to the philippines and you can't

even give us the respect

to give us a job or something that has

to deal with us or a win-win

i'm probably gonna side well i'm gonna

find that lady we're gonna we're gonna

find that guy

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you know everyone from what chris

said i think i finally

understood where that

sentiment is coming from i think i i

will side with

chris here with regards to the cultural

inappropriation i

i can see the side of that phil um

granted

about that uh kind of uh cultural

inappropriation on using the barca the

term

anyway let's go back to the topic again

operation

i really want to learn more about the

races is it are you easily offended

are you easily offended i would say uh

it i mean if i said yes you know

whatever

i i just feel like uh if somebody would

offend me would have to hit my personal

values

like if they you know talked about i

don't know god or jesus i just pray for

everybody so

i don't know i don't get offended and i

take things with a grain of salt so if

somebody gonna talk smack i'm like oh

maybe he's having a bad day

because i need to be positive to

continue to create and build

if i let that affect me it affects all

my work and i don't like that

okay because i want to play a game here

the name of the game

that's just no no no this is just

alive this is no longer james this mr

james beam

on how we can tackle uh

racism in uh in a light manner

especially for on the filipino directed

racism directed to the filipinos

so let's play a game on rape the racist

let's let's let's uh

named ray the racist

this is just basically we will just

you rate the racism from one

from zero to five if uh it's a racist

term

then you rate it as five and then if

it's not

that racist you raise you rate is it

as zero so we will

throw in racial filipino slurs is it is

it okay chris if we play this game just

uh

light uh perspective on uh racism

towards filipinos

sure um if we throw in some

um words james i just want to clarify

that these are words or phrases that

james

uses all the time so actually

all the time so this is actually if

james is racist

[Laughter]

and actually james is testing that uh

words to siri and siri answered racist

[Laughter]

please stop james you're drunk again

you're on the comment section you can

you can uh

you can um

uh suggest words that are stereotypes of

the filipinos and uh

chris will let us know if that

phrase is uh racist you can also

contribute chris

if there are terms that are really

offensive to filipino americans there

yeah because there are a lot of terms

here yeah we just want to know

yeah movement go ahead i mean we just

want to be educated about some terms

because there are a lot of terms that

are used there that we don't hear you

just uh we just want to

uh we just want to know what are

the phrases that phil elms

um get offended about

yes so so we can use them to filipino

american basketball players

i'm just kidding

if for example for example i'm walking

by you and i saw

i saw a filipino and then i will yell at

hey go eat some balut

is that uh how would you rate that uh

racial uh

that phrase five

five that is a racist term if how about

philippines but in the philippines but

in the philippines if someone says

not to a filipino he will actually buy

baloo

exactly

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offensive to filipino americans

because it's very hard to find balloons

you know it's like

why why do you put the balloon in my

head

where am i going to find balloon now now

i'm craving for balut

oh [ __ ] you racist

[Laughter]

so chris that will be offensive if that

is

if that phrase came from a non-filipino

uh 100 percent if that came from

uh a philippine also

then if it if it came from a filipino

then you know you you

you know it would just it would depend

on the context i mean a filipino

who had a ballot in his hand

[Laughter]

he got for you

aaron said here in the comment if

someone will shout hey eat balut

and that's a balut bender

you're good that's perfect that's good

business

chris what's the most filipinos in l.a

what's the most common derogatory word

they use on filipinos

slam i

actually not much i've heard that before

it was something called a flip

you know it was like slang for filipino

or something but now they don't even use

that they just

the most derogatory word is calling us

another race that's other than filipino

like

stereotype chinese or something just

like what jobber trying a senior on the

comments said chris

this is common to me when i was in the

u.s

they call me chinese even though i'm a

filipino this did you experience this

also

absolutely yes i experienced that all

the time

yeah how about if i walk to you

and i saw a filipino and then i say hey

you have a small

penis what is a rate what's

the rating of that that's also a a five

a definitely that's awesome unless that

if you're also

unless the person was shouting this to

you

is your ex-girlfriend then there's a

slight

and that's zero to that rgb

rgb the bender of the ballot

how about this uh hey filipino

can you sing and dance for me five

that's also a five so because teach

rodriguez here in the comment

how about kung pakan tahin or pasayowin

pinoy abroad because

is we are a performer so even if it's a

compliment it's still

a racist uh slur

yes i i would say so because uh you know

what if the person doesn't sing at all

and you know you're saying hey you can

sing

hey filipino

come yes box with me like money pacquiao

live again these seem like

so danny

[Laughter]

you see you see this is a this is an

eye-opening experience for all of us

so um every filipinos that are

listening that are based here in the

philippines that are natives here

will understand what what is

racism is so if you are

basically if you are generalizing

generalizing

that means you are a racist

[Music]

actually and if you are not

i'm looking at looking at a person

the uniqueness of that person then you

are a racist

valentine's areas are really good

questions are racial microaggressions

worse than blatant racial slurs

wow that is uh that's a google question

that is our director by the way uh

yeah chris um the first part of it was

explaining um

i i think a person that's not educated

is a dangerous thing because they

continue to keep doing it

versus a blatant racial slur which is

obviously probably caused from

aggression or some sort of

uh frustration so i would say yes

and agree that the first um the primary

is is yes

is worse than than someone just saying

something out of anger because

um i don't know when you're not aware of

the problem that you keep doing you just

keep doing it

what what's the what's the worst

offensive

uh phrase that you encounter someone

said to you

um or someone said to you if in terms of

uh racism

you know just chinese guy or [ __ ]

or something like that i mean but no

one's ever been like hey you [ __ ]

they've kind of just like in a

conversation you know chinks or you know

and i'm like oh man like why you

generalizing me is that man i'm filipino

so

uh you know it's just uh i just hope it

doesn't get to a point where it gets

worse but

you know with everything happening in

the country here in america it's getting

worse

oh yeah because i heard one of the

comedians said

i i think it's bilber that

um racism

um usually comes from a very subtle

uh way it's not that kind of aggression

usually it's it's very quiet it's really

it's very

it's uh it's just a conversation between

two people and

not like what i demonstrated a while ago

that you

that someone is calling you out so you

usually racism comes from

um just a normal conversation

so um here are some of the

um questions here uh are you offended if

they call you jungle asian

i'm not offended easily so you know i

just will go that guy's having a bad day

so no i'm not offended but it could be

offensive yes definitely to a lot of

people

how how about this from fade long boy

pacific islander

[Music]

i would say that those are people

because i even me you know i took a a

test

before when i was young you know like

sat nine tests like all these like

school test scholastic tests and the

first question is what do you identify

yourself

as it's like asian pacific islander

before i don't even remember

pacific islander was a choice it was

just asian then they had pacific

islander and i'm like uh

asian pacific islander which one is it

obviously i pick pacific islander when

that shows up so

um i think it's just more specificity

like people are being a bit more

specific with what they are and that's a

good thing

how about this uh jobert chris how about

this sorry man we don't deserve rice

here

how would you rate that we don't serve

we don't serve you sorry we don't

deserve we saw

you don't serve rice here

it would depend if uh you know i'd give

that a zero or a five because if the

person was like hey you know you guys

got rice that i can get with my food

and if he goes hey we got no rice here

that's not racist but if i walk into the

store

and immediately he goes hey man we got

no rice here that's racist

nothing

sir chris yeah

i didn't want to order adobo and then

don't get any rice with it

akisama gaming sir chris have you tried

being called a [ __ ]

in your workplace ooh uh never been

called it a beautiful

workplace uh so yeah no never been

called it

no no uh you were opening your mouth

again he was just breathing

are you eating with my mouth because

there's a lot of blood in my

uh inside my nose

is that is that a stereotype uh if if

someone a white asian oh your nose is

bleeding because of the english

oh uh

i mean i've i've never heard that one

but if they mean in an offensive way yes

it would

it would be racist usually

usually if that's uh like what gb said a

while ago

if it comes from hate even if it's not a

stereotype

it will be it will be racist

yes i agree that a hundred percent yes

yeah do you have any more questions for

chris

is donald trump essential i mean if he

loses in

november do you think things up when it

comes to racism would improve

wow that's uh that's a very interesting

question woman

just your personal view man you're just

asking yes

if you loses uh would racism improve um

i think right now we're seeing uh

a really i mean the cause of this influx

of racism

on asians is is mostly happening from

this coronavirus right

uh when when um uh 911 was

was hit uh attacked here in the united

states

uh you know of course any um person from

the middle east

would would receive some sort of racial

hate here too to a point where even if

you got on a plane next to somebody from

the middle east you'd be like oh man you

know

just because of the the lack of

information and

learning just because you're you know

and i think right now a lot of these

different cultures like all right you

know

who came here from wuhan or you know

they're asking all these questions you

know

um and you know it's it's it's it's a

it's a virus that's spread so

if we have biden or if you have someone

else i think we'll still have a racism

problem

um you i'm not for or against trump i'm

just saying that you know racism is such

a

a strong thing that's developing and

snowballing

yeah where do you think it is rooted

from

i think it's rooted from fear as well as

also

ignorance and lack of uh wanting to

learn more

right yeah because yeah because wayne

look ban

here is asking sir chris just want to

know if you heard someone being racist

what do you do

do you educate them about it or

something else

uh great question if somebody's being

racist

it depends what i'm doing in the

situation so

if it's a situation where i can talk to

that person yes obviously i would say

i wouldn't say hey don't say that i

would say something like

i'd ask him why they said that and i try

to understand why

and when i get to the core reason that's

where i could give my feedback and input

to hopefully change his mind

but if you want to keep if he wants to

keep his ways i'll i'll let them

continue to do what they do

at least i did my effort and also chris

um how is the filipino community

affected by the black lives matter

uh movement um it's it's i've seen it

two ways

i've seen you know the support go in

and you know we want to help them so

that you know there is no

more racial attacks on black people and

less black people can be killed

and i've also seen filipinos like i want

to help but then you know you see a

bunch of attacks on asians and they're

like oh

well we'll back off right now you know

it's like we were helping we're fighting

alongside them

and then i'm we're seeing all these

attacks now on on

asians so they're you know some people

are even being upset like you know so

it's

it's going three different ways if you

will

um world's amazing videos asking

the question

uh i think world's amazing videos uh

came in late because

chris chris soriano is a director

uh writer and um um

producer of dynasty boy i'm producer

also

yes uh of dynasty boys which is a new

film that is going to be shown in the

philippines and the name

in the u.s in the near future and this

tackles about racism among filipino

americans

anyway uh we have a lot of questions

here i told you chris

filipinos are very uh interested

about racism here and also this is a

question

how could racism be a positive thing

um i think the only if there is a

positive thing about racism

it shows that there's a problem and and

a lack of understanding and leadership

amongst the masses of people because you

know

if if this continues to snowball you

have to look at what's leadership

doing to help educate people about this

tough issue

so that's probably the only positive

thing i could see out of it

because it's such a negative thing you

know you can't really

see a benefit in someone saying go eat

below it like it's kind of hard

yeah um chris there is a comment here

um mugging expert racism

expert big lassie chris

we just want to get the point of view

yeah absolutely chris

if we ever get into trouble because of

racism we're just gonna quote you chris

it's okay he said it's okay to say

perfect blame it on me

um

um

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[Laughter]

chris was asking how we accept uh

filipino americans when they visit the

philippines do we accept

do we you know give them the same

hospitality or for me

i think we accept them with open arms i

think

yes actually we do you know and unless

uh

the only time we have a problem with

films is that when when our crash in the

neighborhood

is actually calling falling in love with

the philan

and that's the only time we that's the

only time we're like ah

you go back to your country

[Laughter]

but filipinos actually we are generally

from my experience

from from from my family you know some

of my family

uh are in the u.s also and they're mixed

now

and uh and then they come and visit and

then we actually

show them the philippines you know

because it's it's not every

like they don't get to visit all the

time so i think that's the reason why

when you come home your your family will

be excited to show you around

and then the people around in the

neighborhood will actually invite you to

drink and sing with them

oh wow things you will experience no no

no real hate really no hate when when

filipino americans

i think the only problem is that when

when the problem is that when there are

some titans that will be

you know visiting the us for for a short

period of time

like six months they come come back home

and then they start they start comparing

life

in the in the us and the philippines you

know like oh in the u.s it's not like

this huh

oh my god you know no

no it's there's no traffic it's

something like that's that's when it's

really painful to the ears when they

start

oh the filipinos are not disciplined

like that oh yes

something like that yes you know but but

that's the only thing we are you

familiar with that chris

do you do you have p do you know people

who do that fellow filipinos

yes uh yeah fellow filipinos that

compare

you know yeah they usually compare the

us to the philippines

especially when they're here yeah yeah

i've

you know family friends you know

definitely i'll hear them compare all

the time from fashion

to the malls to everything to traffic um

yeah and that's why i'm trying to

understand more the dynamic

if like filipino americans go there

because i've even met you know uh

uh filipinos that have come here uh and

you know they're like man you know um

you know they're not really including me

into everything like i remember a guy

from high school

um he came here from the philippines and

he's like yeah you know

um they're treating me they're calling

me fob they're they're not hanging out

with me because you know

and then i always looked at that and met

i would be like damn you speak two

languages i don't even speak tagalog

i mean you shouldn't listen to anybody

calling you a fob or anything like that

that's just rude on their part so

anyways yeah i think james is a it's a

case to race basis we don't

have to generalize that all filipino

americans are like that

yeah but i think the the root of

why uh philippe filipinos in the

philippines

view the philanths as mayabang

is because of their being uh

straightforward filipinos he

here being uh uh hate being

straightforward and being

because we tend to be so timid and shy

and expressing ourselves

and since phil phil arms are uh um

very used to the american culture

direct uh they view it as mayabang

they view it as something so i think

that it's just uh

ignore again an ignorance and uh

misinformation on the part of the

filipinos because

um personally i don't i don't view it as

mayaba it will just be a mayabang if it

will come from the places where

again i will not continue that sentence

because it

because it will be a controversial

cheers anyway anyway chris

um i'm just curious why why did you

choose school pals to

promote your field because i i really

want to bond and learn more

uh and immerse myself with you know my

fellow filipinos and

you know if i were to get on you know

abs-cb uncovered us they did a segment

on us

i was so thankful but i think the the

community

is where it matters like hearing you

guys reminds me of hanging out with my

cousins

and you know we're just talking and you

know i love that and i want more

experiences like that and

like i told you hopefully when we meet

again um i'll be fluent tagalog so that

i could put in my work and you know

really learn the culture and and you

know i really enjoy this that's why

yeah chris i i saw in your tailor that

uh you need support for your film

do you still need support um yes

everything we made on our trailer was

for free

so um support meaning uh if anybody

wants to share it

uh tag a friend that could help um i

we're launching this film on something

called uh kickstarter which is a

crowdfunding platform

so if anybody wants to donate and

support our cause we could appreciate

that too

so um dynastyvoice.com if anybody wants

to share it all the information's there

so guys if you want to support

dynastyboys.com just go to dynasty

um i just said diagnostic

is that if you want to support the movie

dynasty voice go to www dot

dynastyboys.com and all the instructions

are there

right chris yes

and we'll make sure about the link

on our spotify episode 143 so

just scroll onto the the description of

this

episode and it will be there and also on

the coolpod space we'll make sure that

we promote

we help promote your movie uh chris

thank you you are actually

a good example to all filipinos not just

in the us in the philippines how you

deal with racism

how you act on racism how you

research first before you react is

something that we should

all learn and and practice because

it's easy to jump into the bandwagon of

hate

and and all these kinds of culture and

we

sometimes forget to think first then

and research before we actually conclude

and say our opinion about certain things

so so

uh we're really really happy that we get

to talk to you about racism

and everything that's happening right

now in the community thank you so much

fine words i appreciate that and i

appreciate this

what are what are the other ways that

the filipinos can support their film

chris aside from sharing it

um you know how about financially oh

yeah sure that'd be nice if anybody you

know wants to donate they can

uh you know but um i think that the goal

is

um if you have uh ideas for scenes or

anything like that you know

we're definitely could include it in the

film or find a way if you have a voice

of you know

this is how i feel um this would help us

us filipinos

uh you know the film is so powerful and

it impacts so much lives and i don't

think a lot of people

really look at the power of a movie and

so

if i can do anything to help filipino

americans or even filipinos in the

philippines with

what it means to be filipino this is the

time to do it

what what's the name of your project in

kickstarter

um we're gonna launch that on august 20

or september 9th or 7th so

all the information will be on the

website right now the kickstarter is

still being created

uh and we're getting ready to push it

out soon in like two to three weeks

okay any other any other podcast that

you

emailed uh if

ever they are on our same network we can

hook you up

oh sure i mean i i called you guys and i

think one other one here

so you know i don't really have a

particular

you know i i just send out two emails so

if you have any recommendations i'd love

to be on any other show

so we are the only one that you emailed

in the philippines

yeah i saw uh uh

i saw your stand-up you know it was

really good um i love steady

so um good job man i thought it was

really funny

especially your delivery and uh i mean

just the way you deliver your punch

lines i mean

i'm a big fan of comedy um so uh respect

oh thank you so much we're all comedians

here uh

james no no set up comedians we'll

invite you to our show august 29th

about moment how about mum

no no no we have a we have a show on the

29th august

i i don't know how early that that will

be in

in l.a but we'll send you a link so that

you get to enjoy the filipino stand-up

comedy scene also

oh perfect you know you get to know more

tagalog there because we'll be doing

tagalog sets

so let us know when you have the date

when the movie is coming out and if you

have more details about the movie

uh dynasty boy please let us know we'll

help

spread the news about this we we will

support this show

it says a lot about you know your your

advocacy also

as a filipino american so thank you

yeah of course chris we will hook you up

with our with other podcasts in our

podcast network right directval

uh can you can you uh

um ask other yeah yep

directval just answered the app so uh

yes um

first time let's give just give direct

value your

email address and then um we'll hook you

up with our

other podcast in our podcast network and

also other comedians that would want

also to discuss it with you

thank you very much chris for choosing

us

for launching for uh promoting your film

i think this film will be a bigger

a a big help for all

our fair arms and als mostly the

filipinos here in the philippines

uh who wants to understand more

of what racism is about

well said thank you you see the po you

see that pause

that was chris i think that's an

audition

i think that's an audition real for for

the movie

it wasn't like it's not james edition

you see a lot of characters on uh james

right

yeah let us know if james

can be part of the movie and we'll be

the ones to shoot him in the face even

if it's not on the screen

how many how many sequences are left on

your film

oh man we have like about an average

film around 160 scenes so we still have

to shoot quite a bit especially

you know it slows us down with the

coronavirus um and nobody's filming but

we're still filming so

you know i hope we don't get cited or

anything like that but we're still going

to keep going

you know yeah good luck on that chris

thank you and uh i hope you can

launch it uh this year and

[Music]

we will support it as yeah

keep us posted uh i i'm the one who has

who is answering on your email i'll be

answering

uh if you email us

uh keep us posted and we'll if you want

us to promote it

on our fb page just tell it to me

just emailing thank you so much yes

there is a press one here press one

paramount message

this is a very important message peace

so listen to no

no chris uh just uh

always remember japan just always play

at night

[Laughter]

hope you enjoy the experience here

how about uh

any message for chris no i really hope

you finish your

movie by november man so it would be

good to uplift the filipino image in

america

i think it would be good for everyone

yeah

angie so much let's see we're all

excited now to watch this movie chris

and just do keep us informed and

the cool parts will show their love and

support for sure everyone watching right

now

on youtube and the cool parts listening

on the podcast

you don't know how how much the cool

past community supports one another

so that will definitely be be

towards the dynasty boys as well so

so thank you culpas will be looking

forward to watch this

we'll start the watch party for sure

chris if you want to uh have uh

if you are if you want to have a

tagalog subtitle on it to your

uh to your uh to your film i'm not the

guy

[Laughter]

definitely i think we should have a

tagalog subtitle on that yes

i like that um

if you want to know about the podcast in

the podcast network

asia just go to podcast

podcastnetwork.asia and browse

the podcast there and uh

just choose which podcast do you want to

appear in and uh we'll make it happen

for you

i promise you thank you uh just uh email

me or

just email me your choices and we will

uh

ask directval to arrange it for you

and of course good luck again to your

film and

uh as gb what as gb said

the culpa's uh community is very tight

and

is very uh it's very tight

supportive support they are

tight

any last words for our for all the the

listeners that will listen

[Laughter]

my last words are yes i hope to make you

proud you know um

uh all my brothers so well you already

have men you already have men so

thank you thank you appreciate it

thank you very much chris uh when we

where if we when whenever we say goodbye

chris

we mentioned the place where we live and

just like james who is in

pasay

from los angeles

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thank you so much chris thank you chris

i appreciate it

it's a great experience

we can do another episode soon when the

movie is coming out and then we'll do it

in

tagalog oh we can help you practice

i love it do it all right

thank you chris thank you thank you

and also if you can you can also invite

one of your

uh

uh you can also invite one of your uh

actors to join our podcast just doctors

to join perfect maybe a mexican or a

black gangster you know be fun

we are always open

for everything okay

when you have more information about

when it's going to be shown

we can do that okay just let us know

you can you can also add us on facebook

because we we usually don't

uh check our emails it's

it was just a lucky incident that i

refreshed my

gmail so i saw your email

but uh it's good to have you here chris

thank you

thank you thank you so much yes you guys

take care

yeah keep in touch please thank you

always be safe with the

with with the shoot and all right all

right and

chris always remember john lloyd john

lloyd said

the people in the comments here are

requesting for an

after party i i will only do it if we

will all speak in

english still just just to keep up with

the theme i'm already sure i'm already

pumped up

yes even the comment section will

speak in english yes we we won't do it

if anyone speaks in tagalog no we will

not

yeah if someone speaks in tagalog we

ended the live stream right now

we can watch this wow james well

those are strong words mr karate

what's up sabaidi said no

known survived no chris survived

it's the other way around the other way

most behaved award goes to no no

that's what she said that's what she

said

do you have any idea how much he still

needs

what any idea how much money he still

needs to finish the movie

ah it would be launched on kickstarter

right i'm gonna ask mother lily to that

question he's saying he's saying that

the

actors are doing it for free so i

don't think they need any money

hi guys i want to know your uh your uh

feedback oh when you said pete buck

there was a pizza

yes absolutely right bloody hell

what you're talking about racism to

being racist

that's the show to die did we did we

answer all your questions about racism

will that we if if someone

will listen to our episode

will they change their perspective yes

actually actually actually james uh

joe rogan is shaking to this episode yes

because because we guested the film in

the whole pulse show we already are

uh racist experts so you can ask

us anything i think i i want to know the

opinion of direct ball direct ball can

you join us here

and uh because you are this is about to

sleep i think he was about to sleep man

because this is the first time that you

asked

a legit question in the comment section

he actually asks

questions you just you just don't tweet

it