 This is something that's going to sit in our history books forever and how do you want to be remembered and how do you want to Remember how you reacted during this? Maybe generation lit. It's gonna become generation grit What's going on everybody fun bros here David and Andrew? What up? We are in the car right now maintaining some social distancing We have been receiving a lot of DMS calls emails from different people asking us to speak out about the current corona virus situation in America The quarantining and and how it pertains to Asians Obviously a lot of things like on social media discrimination Going on against Asian people and just the comment sections of every YouTube video that are talking about being Asian or Chinese are going crazy Right now, and we just wanted to give our thoughts on it Yeah what we wanted to do is share personal stories on how it's affected us and affected our business and Also some advice that might be helpful. That was a burp by the way I think a lot of people just saw me go like that Got the news and kind take this through the got the news and kind take this through the burp totally burp I smell it 100% it was a burp I really wanted to let my thoughts develop and I'm glad that I did start with number one The number one point that I have personally taken away is to cherish your family Cherish time with your parents I mean this is a time that if you happen to be quarantined with your parents, you know Staying at home and really do stay at home and obviously trying not to put them at risk By going out there and stuff like that I think that when you're younger all you want to do is be that Apple that rolls as far away as possible from the tree To go develop on your own and that's human and that's actually not even wrong But and times like this especially when you get older all you want to do is be close to your parents Especially when it's a situation like this where older people are In more danger. Yeah now is not the time to be thinking about like oh my life's not lit or all I'm bored or like Oh, I'm trying to get do this on social media. I mean there's some I can't have the endorphin release that I'm used to I get corona. I get corona at the end of the day. I'm not gonna let it stop me from party Trust me, you're gonna want to cherish time with your parents right now Hey, but what are some things that people can do with their parents? Obviously if you are with them you can you can watch movies you can learn how to cook you can play a variety of different games You can learn your mother tongue better. I don't know who knows a bunch of different things take time to ask about your family background What was grandpa like? What was grandma like? What was the old world like get to know them? Yeah, get to know them and ask the questions You would always want to ask if if time was getting shorter. Hey man Like I know growing up with immigrant parents It wasn't always easy to kind of talk to them and get to know them personally and now that everybody's older You're kind of more more of a peer Of course, you're still their child, but you're an adult now So you can have adult conversations and I think that stuff has been really valuable and David What about point number two? Point number two is that this is going to have a huge impact on the economy and Especially people who work in the service or hospitality industry some people estimate that's anywhere from 18 to 25% of the economy Are people who work on hourly wages whether or not it's in no hotels or restaurants or any of those Interconnected industries that are directly within that that industries radius personally we know a lot of people who own small businesses own restaurants cafes bars and To be honest it does hurt to see them hurting because they either have to close down temporarily Some of them have closed permanently and so many others, you know that maybe will it will happen You know and and that's so sad to say Yeah, they say 20 to 30 percent of small businesses are gonna shut it forever Because only 70 percent had the cash reserves to be able to make it through this time and even though there are some Stimulus packages coming out. It's not gonna be able to reach all five hundred thousand small businesses impacted advice for people who Obviously are not in the situation where they can work from home. They're still making money. They still have things to do I mean I think the best thing that I can tell you is to find something productive to do in this time Pick up a book learn something pick up a hobby Some people lost their jobs and I feel for them because I know some people who did but the truth is right now I guess the bright on the bright side You could try to find something to do that you always wanted to do. Hey I mean, I gotta say personally it has affected our business and how we run our channel because Typically we'd probably be at a restaurant filming this video, but we can't go into restaurants So that's just a little inconvenience. I'm not saying we've really been heavily Super impacted the most, you know, so I don't really got a sob story for that But obviously I feel for all of our other friends who are small business owners had to lay off people and people who got laid off Right now, but I do want to give a shout out to all the professional health care workers who are out there risking their lives We are gonna be donating all the proceeds from this video to making sure that health care workers get anything that they need To continue to stay safe at their job So just to let you guys know all the proceeds from this video will be going to making sure that health care workers can continue To do their jobs and save everybody else's life point number three, Andrew This is probably the reason we made the video. There has been an uptick in anti-Asian discrimination Microaggressions and just flat-out racism and even in some cases hardcore violence. There's a lot of Stigma around looking Asian being Asian obviously some parts of the country more than others I'm not saying everywhere is the same different environments are different for sure can't make this stuff We are going to flash up just some of the news clips think first of all, it's terrible to hear second of all We already knew that Asians were always a target for a lot of things But I think that now it's really showing that a lot of frustrated people people who are probably not in a good position themselves Everybody's getting it whether it's verbal or physical abuse and harassment It's just it's really sad to see and I do think it's important to make people aware of it Do think that this brings up questions at three different levels guys We call a micro mid and a macro macro being more a big picture. I think out of micro level Asians need to support each other I think we need to increase our sociality radius in terms of being aware of our surroundings and Being aware of like how people in that certain surroundings may perceive us We already in this past two months have had people move away from us in the airport Yeah, we get a lot of side-eyed look and I think that's the most common one. Yeah on a mid level This is your immediate, you know, 30 to 50 people around you, you know, text each other Make sure support system so you guys can kind of share your experiences together Definitely have that conversation with people and I do think for a lot of Asians This might be their first time really experiencing harsh racism personally I think you've always heard about it, but maybe you've seen videos for people from other people situations And now you're kind of thinking oh, man, I never thought I would feel it I never thought like people were really like this, you know, Bobby hundreds had a great tweet about it saying This is the first time that a lot of his Asian friends who grew up in Southern, California experienced blatant racism or comments or things being yelled at them and he said, you know This was our benefit for a while and so Cal There's a certain situation that Asians are in there tend to have a little bit more I guess fluidity a little bit of an escape from that But now, you know, welcome to what some other people and from other environments have seen their whole lives And to be honest me and Andrew not being from so Cal I could tell you that I've seen it throughout my life So to be honest, I had a different reaction than people who might have been seeing it for the first time I'll just directly address one case the thing with the cans and that there was an elderly man that was being picked on I Saw that all the time growing up essentially stuff like that. I had stuff like that happen to me I had stuff like that happen to my mom. It's not right. It is wrong. It's undeserving. It's This is even before coronavirus. It's unfair. Yeah, I that brings us to the macro Basically, it is true that Asians in Western society typically have to take more of like the poodle to a Rotweiler role or a we are a target Amongst other people generally when people want an easy target, they tend to pick on Asians. That's for a number of reasons That's a whole nother video. There was a bowl of food and then there was different breeds of dogs I'm assuming that the poodles gonna get pushed out from getting that bowl of food That's the macro and one thing I want to caution against is first of all everything's wrong But I don't want to shift the macro too quick because I think that that's just not how a ship turns You don't take a cruise ship and hit a 90 degree angle on a cruise ship a cruise ship is the macro big picture Trust me guys seeing all that stuff makes My blood boil too. I don't like seeing that stuff. It makes me angry It makes me at a time for a moment. I was like, you know, we gotta go do something You know, like I don't know what that meant, but you just felt that way at the end of the day, you know racism and negativity Fighting that with more racism and negativity is actually not gonna help Looking on the bright side and I know that there's really not a lot of bright sides to it Is I guess that this is kind of one of those experiences that Asians are kind of experiencing altogether So I don't know if Asians are gonna be more united after this but that could be a byproduct and Unfortunately, sometimes it takes Crisis sees like this to kind of bring people together. I guess that's the silver lining to the only thing I could say is you guys this is time to be to come together as humanity things absolutely deserve to be noted But don't be overly reactive and especially let's not try to take the hard right turn on a cruise ship And I think that going on the offensive doesn't necessarily mean going on the offensive with negativity I think it means going on the offensive with positivity. You could still be proactive Without being reactive Somebody's attacking you and you're in the reactive mindset the first reaction is gonna be to be negative Right, but if you're being proactive about positivity, you can just shoot positivity and highlight things and say this and say that How about this? Here's a suggestion I don't know if you guys want to make content or put things out there But if you guys are gonna do something positive as Asians put it out there I think that's the kind of stuff that's gonna bridge cultures and bridge gap for example We're gonna be doing a video where we auction off all of our hype items It's gonna be hard to part with some of them But in the face of this situation where we're talking about supreme We are go and then we are gonna be donating the profits to a variety of different charities That help solve this issue in America whether it's getting n95 masks for healthcare workers or getting hand sanitizer Or just different free lunches to people who are obviously now kicked out of school So they can't get the governmental support system for lunch last point of the video is that this is a Monumental event in world history and it's gonna be on us to see how we react to this opportunity You could be on Netflix all day. You could be on tiktok all day or you could be Doing something edifying You know what I mean or split it and balance your time. It's on us to not only social distance But support each other that I don't want to be overly reflective Andrew because I know that we're still in the storm right so I don't want to look back and like analyze the storm like the storm Has passed we're in the storm. We're gonna be in the storm Uh-huh, but these are just some thoughts that I had and you remember when Kobe Bryant tragically passed to me It had such a big impact on the world if you look at it the last time somebody's death That really was I guess in the like top ten most famous people in the world and beloved people in the world at the time Was Princess Diana? 1997 biggie Tupac on down in 97 nipsey hustle pop smoke about 20 year span here the last thing that I've seen sort of rock America to its core 911 yeah, also 20 years ago give or take so I just think that these are just these events that are multi-generational There will be a long tail impact and I think that as humanity This is just like our time to really like, you know, we're gonna read and react and The key is you know, what adjustments are we gonna make and what are we gonna do on a day-to-day basis? I realized and it took me a while to get to this point that I want to have a positive impact on the way People are reacting to the stimulus. Yeah, I think that our generation is often called the most spoiled generation Have to have a lot of student loan debt. They think that we're spending all our time on the most vacations Most vacations most parties most festivals all these things like but really now is your time to show the world What you can do and how you can make a positive impact because this is something that's gonna sit in our history books forever And how do you want to be remembered and how do you want to remember how you reacted during this? The millennial generation is a very powerful generation. We are able bodies We're not the ones that are the first at risk So how are we going to make a positive impact? Maybe generation lit it's gonna become generation grit All I can do is be responsible for my life Tell the people around me, but Andrew we as a fun brother as a David Andrew We do have a responsibility to use our platform to say what we feel like It's gonna ultimately be the best for society and humanity on multiple levels They always say that a lot of different people and character and integrity is tested in tough times smooth seas cover up a lot of flaws and we are entering very choppy waters time You're riding a bike up a mountain and you hit a big ditch You got to pick a direction and you got to hunker down and you're gonna get out of that ditch And you're gonna continue on your journey back up the mountain some people You know if we don't have the right mindsets and we don't have the right Coaching we're gonna stay in the ditch or we're gonna stay in the ditch too long Or we're gonna inch out of the ditch or we're gonna call for help to get us out of the ditch But there are if we want to continue up that mountain. We're gonna have to dig deep and Power through that ditch and that's gonna take a lot of self-discipline a lot of teamwork a lot of putting certain things aside Now that you know what I mean for the moment and just working forward and we got this we got it I think we got it you guys. Thank you so much for watching that video on our thoughts on the corona virus I know a lot of people have been asking us to make this video We do have a platform and did feel that responsibility in the comment section below Number one make sure you let us know what you thought about each of our points and number two Please let us know any other thoughts that you had about corona virus in the quarantine period Because I know a lot of you guys out there are really smart and you guys have a lot of thoughts So go ahead Use it as a sounding board Leave a comment and let other people read it some of the best thoughts We might gather them together and do a follow-up video so everybody stay safe and stay clean out there. Peace