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Speaker 3: I'm right, Chan, we got so much to talk about tonight.
Speaker 3: Elon is sliding into your DNS annual wombs. RFK Junior
Speaker 3: is on the asshole spectrum and I watched golf, so
Speaker 3: you don't have to. You're welcome. But fus, let's check
Speaker 3: in with the best cabinet ever in another installment of
Speaker 3: The Worst Wing, Why not a bunch of Let's start
Speaker 3: with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Seen here greeting
Speaker 3: a supporter. So always good to meet a fan. But
Speaker 3: RFK is known for his controversial health ideas like drinking
Speaker 3: raw milk and adding roadkill to the food pyramid. But
Speaker 3: the conspiracy theory that he's most known for is that
Speaker 3: vaccines cause autism. He's basically a health expert, the same
Speaker 3: way Katy Perry is a rocket scientist.
Speaker 4: You never know how much love is inside of you,
Speaker 4: how loved you are, until the day you launch.
Speaker 3: I have a teenage dream that she shut the fuck up.
Speaker 3: So unsurprisingly, RFK Junior brought his anti vax policies to
Speaker 3: the administration, and yesterday he gave a speech about autism
Speaker 3: and people are pissed.
Speaker 5: Comments from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That are
Speaker 5: raising eyebrows. During his first news conference as the nation's
Speaker 5: top health officially addressed rising autism rates while calling the
Speaker 5: disease preventable. RFK Junior's bleak description of people living with
Speaker 5: autism causing outrage.
Speaker 6: Autism destroys families. These are kids who will never pay taxes.
Speaker 3: Wait that that's what you're gonna meet with like that,
Speaker 3: that's the big tragedy for you. These poor kids will
Speaker 3: never know the joy of attaxing our schedule. K to
Speaker 3: our ten forty eight It's not even accurate. I mean,
Speaker 3: autistic people do pay taxes. Are you thinking of art
Speaker 3: history majors? But I mean, please give us more of
Speaker 3: your expert opinions about what autistic people can and can't do.
Speaker 6: They'll never hold a job, I'll never play bas they'll
Speaker 6: never write a poem. I'll never go out on a date.
Speaker 3: What do you mean they don't date? I mean, does
Speaker 3: the candy compound not have Netflix, Okay, because David took
Speaker 3: Abby on a fucking safari to Africa, And yeah, I
Speaker 3: could kanna be a little more open minded about dating blondes, sure,
Speaker 3: but couldn't we all? I mean, everything this guy said
Speaker 3: is ridiculous. Autistic kids will never write poems. Well, who
Speaker 3: wants kids to write more poems? That's something we should
Speaker 3: be prevented. So there's no wonder why people are pissed
Speaker 3: at him. Most autistic people can do all that stuff,
Speaker 3: and even the ones who can are still human beings
Speaker 3: who even made RFK the judge of what makes life
Speaker 3: worth living. I'm sorry they'll never know the joy of
Speaker 3: planting bear caucuses in Central Park or holding eighty five
Speaker 3: percent of the words mucus in their throats. But whatever,
Speaker 3: this is a huge project he's taking on. I mean,
Speaker 3: what lem spend the next two decades trying to figure
Speaker 3: it out?
Speaker 6: By September, we will know what has caused you epidemic,
Speaker 6: and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures.
Speaker 3: So you think you're gonna have a pretty good idea, huh,
Speaker 3: we will not buy a September By September. Wow, I
Speaker 3: was quick and very specific. I mean, I ordered a
Speaker 3: couch that isn't going to come by that, But good
Speaker 3: to know. When I'm watching the Wicked sequel this fall,
Speaker 3: I can focus on the plot instead of wondering what
Speaker 3: causes autism? I mean, why are you even pretending to
Speaker 3: study it? We all know you're gonna blame vaccines. Okay,
Speaker 3: this whole thing is more rigged than a golf championship
Speaker 3: at MA Lago. I mean, just look at who we
Speaker 3: hired to do the research.
Speaker 5: Kennedy has tapped it, previously discredited vaccine skeptic David Geier
Speaker 5: as a senior data analyst.
Speaker 7: Geyer was previously fined ten thousand dollars by the Maryland
Speaker 7: Board of Physicians for practicing medicine without a license.
Speaker 3: You know, when commercial will say nine doctors agreed, this
Speaker 3: is the tenth doctor. I mean, this guy looks like
Speaker 3: the reason second opinions were invented. But enough of our RFK.
Speaker 3: Let's move on to Elon Musk, living proof that autistic
Speaker 3: people can do anything, including including destroy the government, and
Speaker 3: as far as his dating life goes, Elon isn't lacking
Speaker 3: there either.
Speaker 8: According to The Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk followed cryptocurrency
Speaker 8: influencer Tiffany Fong on x and began liking and replying
Speaker 8: to her tweets. Around November of last year, Musk sent
Speaker 8: her a direct message asking if she was interested in
Speaker 8: having his child. According to people familiar with the matter,
Speaker 8: the two had never met in person.
Speaker 3: Elon, can you just be a normal person and send
Speaker 3: a dig pic? All right? This is why you should
Speaker 3: switch the settings on your DMS to follow us who
Speaker 3: don't want to impregnate me? Only, I mean, you haven't
Speaker 3: met this person. You're already trying to raw doja, Like
Speaker 3: I have to walk up the courage to put the
Speaker 3: moves on my own wife, all right, Like, hey, if
Speaker 3: you're not doing anything later, maybe you could lie, like
Speaker 3: I don't know, like kiss or whatever. Now, never mind
Speaker 3: is stupid, but let's not think about Elon spum and
Speaker 3: get back to actual government stuff, specifically the Pentagon, where
Speaker 3: Pete Hegseth Defense Secretary and guy whose tattoos are somehow
Speaker 3: embarrassed by him just scored another victory in his war
Speaker 3: on thinking.
Speaker 4: The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs has been ordered
Speaker 4: to purge its library of books related to diversity equity
Speaker 4: and inclusion, along with some topics related to race and gender.
Speaker 4: The Naval Academy Library tossed out nearly four hundred books,
Speaker 4: including titles on feminism, civil rights history, and the Holocaust.
Speaker 4: Speaking of at the Naval Academy, Hitler's Mind comp made
Speaker 4: the cut and is still available to read.
Speaker 1: That's where you.
Speaker 3: Draw the line, like, yeah, I don't want one of
Speaker 3: those woke social justice books. I'm looking for more of
Speaker 3: a beach read. Do you have mine camps. This type
Speaker 3: of censorship is outrageous and un American, and this has
Speaker 3: got to be the most disgusting thing Pete Hegseth has
Speaker 3: ever done.
Speaker 8: If peg Seth would have a bagel with cream cheese,
Speaker 8: he would drop it with land upside down, the cream
Speaker 8: cheese on the floor and he would pick it up.
Speaker 9: I'm like, wait, is there any hair on their collar?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 8: It was so gross and he would just pop it
Speaker 8: into his mouth.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I think we just found the cause of autism.
Speaker 3: This this, this is the worst thing I've ever heard
Speaker 3: us Defense secretary do. And I'm including Vietnam. I know
Speaker 3: he's caught in everything bagel, but you're supposed to draw
Speaker 3: a line somewhere. Okay, Anyway, this whole Antida I think
Speaker 3: is gallic control. They're pulling books about minorities, our schools,
Speaker 3: scrubbing stories about women and gay people from websites. And
Speaker 3: Disney came and put out a new Snow White without
Speaker 3: people trying to port her. And that's just the beginning.
Speaker 3: To take advantage of the shift in the culture war,
Speaker 3: the White House has just launched its own streaming service.
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Speaker 10: because watching the originals will soon be considered domestic terrorism.
Speaker 11: When we come back, we'll find about sports that don't
Speaker 11: go away.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to a daily show. I think I speak
Speaker 3: to everyone when I say politics, drools, and sports rules.
Speaker 3: For full recap of the biggest stories in the world
Speaker 3: of jocks and straps, we turn to Sports War.
Speaker 12: You're ready for better.
Speaker 2: It's time for brought to Bamble.
Speaker 1: To set the stop market. What's up, Bolax.
Speaker 7: I'm Bronnie Shann and I'm Michael Costa. This is Sports War,
Speaker 7: the show where we are legally not allowed to agree
Speaker 7: with the each other. For example, if I say UFC
Speaker 7: needs to be more violent.
Speaker 3: Oh well, then I say fighters need to sell a
Speaker 3: differences peacefully with a licensed therapist.
Speaker 7: Yeah well, I'd like to introduce you to my two therapists,
Speaker 7: Sigmund Freud and Carl Young.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well, I should go to therapy. Here's how
Speaker 3: I'm obsessed with your mom?
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, man, exactly, you need to explore those feelings
Speaker 7: with a licensed medical profession I'll send you some names.
Speaker 1: Hey, let's talk golf.
Speaker 7: Okay, short game, amateur, handicap, ball washer.
Speaker 1: These aren't just Ronnie's nicknames.
Speaker 7: They're golf terms, and this week was a historic one
Speaker 7: on the links.
Speaker 4: Tonight, Rory McElroy is now one of only six golfers
Speaker 4: to win all four major golf championships, winning the Masters
Speaker 4: for the first time.
Speaker 7: The kid who grew up in Northern Ireland overcome with
Speaker 7: emotion winning his first Green jacket eleven years after winning
Speaker 7: his last major championship.
Speaker 1: Wow, congrats to Roy McElroy.
Speaker 7: It took him eleven years to get an green blazer,
Speaker 7: and as someone currently serving a twenty year band from
Speaker 7: the men's warehouse, I can totally relate.
Speaker 3: This is totally different, you idiot. Rory was trying to
Speaker 3: accomplish one of the hottest things in all the sports.
Speaker 3: You just took a dump in a fitting room.
Speaker 7: Well, but they guaranteed I was gonna like the way
Speaker 7: I looked, and breaking a verbal contract has consequences.
Speaker 1: The point is I'm happy for Roy McElroy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well I'm not. Okay. I don't want to
Speaker 3: seem happy. Everyone knows that Irish people had the best
Speaker 3: when the depressed. Haven't you ever read James Joyce.
Speaker 1: Hell, no, I'm a Frank McCort man.
Speaker 3: Well he's Irish American dumb ass.
Speaker 1: Check your stats.
Speaker 7: Bro McCourt was raised in the slums of Limerick, and
Speaker 7: he spoke to the soul of Irish suffering like no
Speaker 7: man sins. William Butler yeats dumbass, which brings to our
Speaker 7: eyes Irish eyes. Bet of the Night, What will make
Speaker 7: Roy McElroy cry in public?
Speaker 3: Next?
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Speaker 7: The only thing you're really addicted to is having a
Speaker 7: good time.
Speaker 3: And moving on the NBA Playoffs Stots Saturday. But if
Speaker 3: you're a little girl with a big imagination like Costa,
Speaker 3: you also have a reason to be excited. Move over.
Speaker 1: Ken Lebron James is a first male athlete to be
Speaker 1: part of the new Kenbassador line of Barbie dolls.
Speaker 9: Look at Him.
Speaker 7: The message on the back of the box says, a
Speaker 7: true MVP our Lebron James Ken Ambassador's doll represents resilience,
Speaker 7: hope and pride for the city of Akron.
Speaker 3: This is the dumbest toy ever. I hope it comes
Speaker 3: with a Bronny James doll that you're forced to play
Speaker 3: with even though it sucks wrong.
Speaker 7: Wrong again, boy Toy, I happen to love Lebarbie. He
Speaker 7: has every he has what every little girl wants in
Speaker 7: a doll pride for the city of Akron. Now they
Speaker 7: can play until their heart's content with a middle aged
Speaker 7: man dressed like a fourteen year old. No notes, they
Speaker 7: should expand this to other NBA legends like Dennis Rodman,
Speaker 7: the Worm, the first in Barbie history with a pierceable scrotum,
Speaker 7: or my favorite, my favorite from the childhood Wilt Chamberlain.
Speaker 7: There are hundreds of different Barbies and he can have
Speaker 7: sex with all.
Speaker 3: Of them, which brings us to extremely random endorsement deal
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Speaker 1: Now, look, let's go to the diamond.
Speaker 7: Baseball's a sport where you have to know your signs right, curveball,
Speaker 7: pitching change. I'll take four beers, no tip, But this
Speaker 7: week Bryce Harper took that to the next level. Philadelphia
Speaker 7: Philly slugger Bryce Harper is about to take another swing
Speaker 7: at fatherhood, and.
Speaker 1: He got creative with the babies.
Speaker 3: Baby's gender reveal during last night's game.
Speaker 4: Harper ashwort stop Trey Turner to hand him either a
Speaker 4: blue or a pink bat before he went up to
Speaker 4: head as a gender reveal. He found out right before
Speaker 4: I stepped up to the plate.
Speaker 3: He'll be having a baby.
Speaker 2: Boy.
Speaker 1: This is awesome.
Speaker 7: Baseball needs more medical tests revealed during games. I want
Speaker 7: to see a runner slide into home and the Empire
Speaker 7: yells you are safe from Tay Sachs disease.
Speaker 3: Pasta, you're out of your mind, all right, this is
Speaker 3: ruining the game. You can't be doing gender reveals at
Speaker 3: the plate. Gender reveals are supposed to be for a
Speaker 3: close group of loved ones that you're hoping to injure
Speaker 3: with explosives.
Speaker 7: Ronnie, I got your agenda revealed bat right here.
Speaker 1: Surprise it's brown.
Speaker 7: Since you're a piece of shit, well, Pasta.
Speaker 3: For those of us who've had sex, this is a disaster,
Speaker 3: all right. Baseball is the thing you think about when
Speaker 3: you're not trying to get someone pregnant. Get your family
Speaker 3: planning out of my sports. Okay, can we please see
Speaker 3: a baseball story that has nothing to do with sex?
Speaker 13: The Baltimore Orioles double, a affiliate to Chesapeake Basucks, to
Speaker 13: unveil alternative team identity to help them gain traction with
Speaker 13: new audiences. That included the new alternative name, the Oyster Catchers,
Speaker 13: along with a brand new logo. This logo, which at
Speaker 13: least to many, seems to depict a baseball glove catching
Speaker 13: an oyster, others interpreted a bit differently. The team took
Speaker 13: the criticisms to hearts, deleting their own announcement within minutes,
Speaker 13: but later they unveiled a new new logo showing a
Speaker 13: bird holding of bats.
Speaker 3: God damn it, I'm never going to be able to
Speaker 3: slop an oyster a baseball glove ever again. And that's
Speaker 3: the only way I like them.
Speaker 7: What are you talking about, Ronnie? The oyster logo is great.
Speaker 7: If anything, the new logo is the one that's perverted.
Speaker 7: That bird is clearly flying away with some guys severed penis,
Speaker 7: and you know what, that poor guy, but those lucky
Speaker 7: baby birds, what a lunch.
Speaker 3: This whole thing just confirms my belief that baseball team
Speaker 3: should get rid of logos entirely. Okay, if they're not
Speaker 3: sexualizing oysters, they're pissing off Native Americans. Every team should
Speaker 3: just name themselves after the city, like a Philadelphia Phillies,
Speaker 3: the Boston bostonese, the Cleveland Cleveland's, the Detroit Detroit Titties.
Speaker 3: Nothing sexual.
Speaker 7: Okay, I disagree, ron All team names should be sexual,
Speaker 7: but educational sex ed in this country is a joke.
Speaker 7: But if the Philadelphia Philippian Tubes play the Cleveland Steamers, well,
Speaker 7: now we're learning. Which brings us to our four caret
Speaker 7: Diamond bet of the week. What baseball mascot will Ronnie have.
Speaker 1: A wet dream about? Tonight?
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Speaker 1: All right, that's it for sports war.
Speaker 7: Join us next time when we debate what act of
Speaker 7: war Jean morant Well should mine for his next celebration.
Speaker 3: It's gotta be hitting a nuclear button. Man, you gotta
Speaker 3: hit that button. Welcome back to the Daily Show. Hey,
Speaker 3: my guest tonight is a trailblazing Hollywood icon who has
Speaker 3: written a new book called the World of Nancy Kwan,
Speaker 3: a memoir by Hollywood's Asian superstar. Please give a very
Speaker 3: big welcome to the one and only legendary Nancy Quad.
Speaker 3: Thanks for coming, Thanks for coming. That's a quad.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for coming on the show. Everyone. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: the Hollywood legend.
Speaker 9: Are you doing, I'm doing five? How are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm okay, I'm okay. Yeah. So you were born in
Speaker 3: Hong Kong. Yes, So what's it? Hi? What's scaring the
Speaker 3: white people?
Speaker 14: Now?
Speaker 3: We probably uh, Malaysia. Yeah, yeah, we we We were
Speaker 3: discussing how great it is to be in the west
Speaker 3: and uh yeah, she So you started in Hong Kong,
Speaker 3: born in Hong Kong, you moved them from there. That's
Speaker 3: kind of where you started acting. And you didn't even
Speaker 3: you didn't even start at one India.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 9: No, I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was
Speaker 9: going to the Royal Ballet, very serious about being a
Speaker 9: ballet dancer. I was back in Hong Kong for summer
Speaker 9: holidays and they were testing making screen tests for some
Speaker 9: of my favorite Chinese actresses for the World of Susi
Speaker 9: Wong in Hong Kong. So I went up to the
Speaker 9: studio to watch my favorite actress at work. And I
Speaker 9: was standing there and some somebody says to me, you
Speaker 9: want to do a screen test? I said, no, I'm
Speaker 9: a I'm a I'm a ballet answer. I'm nothing to
Speaker 9: do with it. I'm just here watching my favorite actresses.
Speaker 9: He said, why don't you do a screen test? So, well,
Speaker 9: what's that? So just sit in the chair. So I said, okay.
Speaker 9: So I sat in the chair and he asked me
Speaker 9: questions how old I am? And every time he asked
Speaker 9: me something, I burst out laughing like an idiot. I
Speaker 9: mean I laughed whole way through. And then when I
Speaker 9: got home, I said to my father I don't know,
Speaker 9: but this guy wanted to be a screen test and
Speaker 9: I just skilled all the way. He said, well, I'll
Speaker 9: never mind, you're a ballet answer, forget it. A few
Speaker 9: weeks later, I get it. My father gets a letter
Speaker 9: from Ray Starck, the producer of the World of.
Speaker 14: Story, you know, one of those like a piece of paper, yes, yes,
Speaker 14: and a contract.
Speaker 9: They said, well, you go like to go to Hollywood
Speaker 9: for six months and I even get paid for it.
Speaker 9: I said, I've also been a student, so I've never
Speaker 9: been paid. I said, oh, I would love it. I
Speaker 9: would love it. I've never been to America. And that's
Speaker 9: how I started, right.
Speaker 3: And so that was in Hong Kong. You went to
Speaker 3: go see your favorite actress and then you end up
Speaker 3: replacing her on the movie.
Speaker 9: Well, no, that was much later.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's how I got this job. I was okay,
Speaker 3: but standing around as a bathlet and like you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: and then that was your first time in America, right,
Speaker 3: And then you started doing movies in America.
Speaker 9: Well, first time I came to the sixties where so
Speaker 9: the studio system, yes, was just phasing out.
Speaker 3: Right, So this was this was Hollywood in the sixties
Speaker 3: in America, yes, right, And what kind of drugs were
Speaker 3: they doing back then?
Speaker 9: What were you doing?
Speaker 3: What was I doing? Oh, I don't do don't do drugs.
Speaker 9: And I don't do drugs.
Speaker 3: Okay, good, okay, cool, tell me in Cantonese what drugs? Okay?
Speaker 3: So this is this is a sixties. This is like
Speaker 3: Golden Age, you know, once upon a time in Hollywood,
Speaker 3: like that period of movies, and you were there right
Speaker 3: in the middle of it.
Speaker 9: It was yeah, no, the studio system was phasing out
Speaker 9: and independent films were coming in. Really that was an exciting,
Speaker 9: very exciting time, okay.
Speaker 3: And sounds like sounds like what's happening right now too.
Speaker 3: But I guess history repeats. But so yeah, okay, yes,
Speaker 3: that's repeat the studio systems staying out and then.
Speaker 9: And independent films are coming in and so I mean
Speaker 9: I was just caught in that. But Race Start had
Speaker 9: me under contract, so I did quite a few films,
Speaker 9: you know, for seven years actually, yes, under contract and
Speaker 9: different films. And at that time, you know, with Asian actors.
Speaker 9: Before then, Asian actors did not get the good roles,
Speaker 9: really the roles.
Speaker 3: That could I guess history career. I guess history really
Speaker 3: does repeat itself, because that's still the case.
Speaker 9: So we are no, no, no, no, it's much better now,
Speaker 9: it's getting better. And hopefully to my agent, man, all right,
Speaker 9: I will and this and these.
Speaker 3: You are mixing with kind of Hollywood icons.
Speaker 9: At this time, right, that's why, that's why.
Speaker 3: I think you will hang of Dean Martin.
Speaker 9: Yes, and mister gn Ford, I worked with quite a
Speaker 9: few of them. Mister Bruce Lee, of course, my good friend,
Speaker 9: your friend, mister Bruce also came from Hong Kong. And
Speaker 9: Bruce went to LaSalle, which is a Catholic school, and
Speaker 9: I went to Marinor which is kind of a Catholic school,
Speaker 9: a convent. But Bruce used to hang around manor just
Speaker 9: to look at the girls.
Speaker 3: Okay, maybe we shouldn't be talking about that power.
Speaker 9: Of char King of Hong Kong at one time. Bruce
Speaker 9: he was king.
Speaker 3: Oh yes he was, and yeah, yeah, what was he like?
Speaker 3: Was he a cool guy?
Speaker 9: Very cool, very nice, good friend. And he was the
Speaker 9: one who told me, he said, actually I worked with
Speaker 9: him on the Wrecking Crew with Dean Martin and Sharon
Speaker 9: Tate and we had Sharon Tate and I had a
Speaker 9: fight scene Marshall Arts. So Bruce was calling to show
Speaker 9: us what to do. And that's how I met him.
Speaker 9: And when I got to know him, Bruce said to me,
Speaker 9: you know, Nancy, I'm going back to Hong Kong to
Speaker 9: become a big martial arts star. That's what I'm going
Speaker 9: to do. And I believed him. Yeah, I mean, he
Speaker 9: was so determined and he had such energy and conviction
Speaker 9: that he was the best. And he was and he
Speaker 9: introduced martial arts, you know, and so.
Speaker 3: He wanted to go back because of a lack of
Speaker 3: opportunities in America time. But did you also feel that way?
Speaker 9: Well, I was in the contract, so I was lucky.
Speaker 9: I was One time Ray Stock put me in a
Speaker 9: film where I played an English girl with English parents.
Speaker 9: So all the actors in England were completing and said
Speaker 9: what what what what is this Chinese girl or the
Speaker 9: Asian playing an English girl? And I did. The film
Speaker 9: got reviews, good reveals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you remember what film?
Speaker 9: It was, The Wild Affairs.
Speaker 3: This is this is why I was so excited to
Speaker 3: have you on, because you're one of the rare persons
Speaker 3: in Hollywood and in the world who actually has this
Speaker 3: perspective on Hollywood, because you've been there for quite a
Speaker 3: while now and you've seen many different errors.
Speaker 1: A long while, yeah, a long while.
Speaker 3: And you've seen you know, I guess you did you
Speaker 3: have you recognized any patents appearing in terms.
Speaker 1: Of the business.
Speaker 9: I know with Asian actors, and I have a lot
Speaker 9: of good Asian friends who are actors, very good actors
Speaker 9: that never got a chance to really show their talent.
Speaker 3: And I'm trying my best, all right.
Speaker 9: Keep trying, keep trying.
Speaker 1: Okay, she meant that.
Speaker 3: That's a nice thing, you guys. You guys read it
Speaker 3: like she was talking shit. She was saying, keep going.
Speaker 3: It was it was encouraging, Okay, anyway, but what the
Speaker 3: patterns are because Okay, here's the thing, like I think,
Speaker 3: I think, like we're all in twenty twenty five? Now,
Speaker 3: is it twenty twenty five? Benny?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 9: No, no, twenty five?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, But whatever year we're in, why in a
Speaker 3: period where we keep thinking of the past, we kind
Speaker 3: of romanticize the past in terms of films, you know,
Speaker 3: we're like, oh, you know, this era of films kind
Speaker 3: of sucks. The nineties was when the peak of Hollywood,
Speaker 3: you know, and then we go back to the eighties
Speaker 3: was when things were cool, and we keep thinking that way.
Speaker 3: I mean, you are one of the few people actually
Speaker 3: live through it all. Is it true that we live
Speaker 3: in the worst era right now? Is it? Has it
Speaker 3: always been the case that we always look back with
Speaker 3: roast tinder glasses?
Speaker 9: I think you're right both both so we suck.
Speaker 3: And we also don't suck.
Speaker 9: Yes, that's right, exactly right?
Speaker 3: Yes, So what sucks about? Now?
Speaker 9: Have you seen the films?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean have I have? I seen them? I mean
Speaker 3: some of them? So, but what do you mean? I
Speaker 3: don't you don't want to talk about anyone, but like,
Speaker 3: what is like, what do you think is your main problem? Right? Now,
Speaker 3: if you have to say, in general.
Speaker 9: Think its main problem. I think audience have changed, you know,
Speaker 9: the thought I mean in the old days. Okay, I
Speaker 9: mean my days in the sixties.
Speaker 14: It's me.
Speaker 3: No, it's a comedy show. You got uma, we got
Speaker 3: the No.
Speaker 9: I mean my favorite director is David Lean, who did
Speaker 9: great films Bridged on the River, Kwai, Lawns of Arabia.
Speaker 9: They don't do that kind of films anymore, they really, yeah,
Speaker 9: And I wish they would come back to that, and
Speaker 9: maybe they will, because everything goes around. That's life, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Sure the cylindrical but but is that I don't put
Speaker 3: on spot but like, do you think there's a reason
Speaker 3: you could point to why that's the case that they
Speaker 3: don't make it like that anymore.
Speaker 9: No, it's not a reason. I think it's just a phase.
Speaker 9: Maybe one day we'll go back to it.
Speaker 3: But now it's just or what do we need to
Speaker 3: do to get back to that? Do we need people
Speaker 3: put on their phones? Or what is it?
Speaker 1: What? What?
Speaker 3: What do you finish?
Speaker 9: I knew, okay, they're trying their best films and films
Speaker 9: are not I mean, television is taken over and you know,
Speaker 9: people don't go to movies in a movie house anymore.
Speaker 9: They don't, you know, So that's another reason.
Speaker 3: It's their problem. That's them, that's a that's a them problem.
Speaker 3: But okay, and then you said, you said, that's kind
Speaker 3: of like the problem, like you said, that's why we're
Speaker 3: not good? Why are we? Why are we in a
Speaker 3: good error?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 3: Because yeah, because you said, you know what, currently, it's
Speaker 3: both what era we were in an era that's bad
Speaker 3: and it's also good.
Speaker 9: I think it was. I mean, it was this two
Speaker 9: show pass and how do you know, maybe it's some
Speaker 9: great directors producers will come up with some great ideas
Speaker 9: and we'll start again another kind on another level.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, let me put it this way then, because
Speaker 3: we romanticize the past. What sucked about the past, So
Speaker 3: let's get let's get on the record. You know that
Speaker 3: what was bad about it? What was bad about the
Speaker 3: era that you were coming through? You know what did
Speaker 3: you not like about it?
Speaker 1: Film?
Speaker 9: I don't think it was bad.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's perfect?
Speaker 9: Okay, great, Yeah, No, it wasn't perfect. Okay, but I
Speaker 9: thought they did very interesting films during my time anyway,
Speaker 9: and I got a chance to play none Asian roles.
Speaker 9: I mean I played an American Indian in the Western,
Speaker 9: you know, and I paid the English girls, I said,
Speaker 9: or a circus performer with no nationality. So at least
Speaker 9: I had a chance to do that. Unfortunately, for Asian actors,
Speaker 9: they're not there yet. You know, I wish you would.
Speaker 9: We would have more Asian directors, writers produce us is
Speaker 9: writing for Asians, making films for Asians with great roles
Speaker 9: for them to play. There's so many talented Asian actors
Speaker 9: out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure, my little time. Yeah yeah, and
Speaker 3: sorry I cut you off a little bit. You're kind
Speaker 3: of explaining the studio system was ending and when you were,
Speaker 3: so what does that mean?
Speaker 9: Like what they didn't Actors were no longer under contract,
Speaker 9: they were, you know, getting their agents together, being handled
Speaker 9: by lawyers, making their own deals. So it was a
Speaker 9: whole big change in that time. And I don't know
Speaker 9: it's good for bad, but I think it's just another
Speaker 9: phase in life that we go through and hope, you know,
Speaker 9: maybe maybe things will come back again, better, better movies,
Speaker 9: more interesting movies.
Speaker 3: So the last thing I want to ask you was like,
Speaker 3: you're kind of you were born and raised in the
Speaker 3: East and you've been working and living in the West
Speaker 3: for a while now, much like myself. And do you
Speaker 3: do you have any do you have any comment on
Speaker 3: this current kind of civilizational clash between the East and
Speaker 3: West right now? Is there? Like? What is your perspective
Speaker 3: on this thing?
Speaker 9: I think there will always be political clashes. That's what
Speaker 9: makes the world interesting.
Speaker 3: And okay, well then we are in a very interesting
Speaker 3: period there because ship is going.
Speaker 9: Down right now, and you know, you never know what
Speaker 9: comes up.
Speaker 3: So oh okay, so that's you're saying there's a civil
Speaker 3: lining to this end of civilization.
Speaker 9: I didn't say it was the end of civilization or
Speaker 9: silver lining. I just think it's going through changes.
Speaker 3: Okay, like life.
Speaker 9: Okay, you're going through changes, aren't you.
Speaker 3: I am? Yes, I am, I'm what kind of I
Speaker 3: think my voice is breaking out? All right? So what
Speaker 3: are you smoking?
Speaker 9: And what kind of drugs?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you in Cantonese after yeah, goment, So what
Speaker 3: is your pospon on this East West thing?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: As is anything can speak to anything that the America
Speaker 3: continues to misunderstand about the East or vice versa.
Speaker 9: You know, I think it will always be so I mean,
Speaker 9: I really even the like you talk about it East.
Speaker 9: You know, you come from Malaysia. I come from Hong Kong,
Speaker 9: and there's Thailand, and there's all these sealtheast Asian countries.
Speaker 9: We're not not not everyone gets on all the time,
Speaker 9: they don't get along, but we learn to live with
Speaker 9: each other. And I think it's like the West. I mean,
Speaker 9: we have to. We will go through phases and political
Speaker 9: things bad or good, but we learn from it, hopefully,
Speaker 9: and from those lessons, you know, something good will come
Speaker 9: out of it. I hope. I mean, I like to
Speaker 9: look at the good side of things. I really am
Speaker 9: not a negative person.
Speaker 3: So okay, I think you might be in the wrong
Speaker 3: error then, because this is.
Speaker 14: So I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so I was really hoping for uh you're
Speaker 3: saying that this is you've seen it go up and
Speaker 3: down in that we'll come back and we'll be friends
Speaker 3: again in way Okay, Okay, I hope you are right.
Speaker 2: I hope.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 9: I mean I like to think of the positive.
Speaker 3: So yeah, okay. I gotta say thank you so much
Speaker 3: for Quan. I think you're the best. Thank you for
Speaker 3: representing ancient people in Hollywood. Thank you for making the
Speaker 3: films that you made, and thanks for coming on the show,
Speaker 3: and thanks for representing all of us with dignity in class.
Speaker 3: Real appreciate being.
Speaker 1: Don't twice silo.
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