Pratica di Shadowing: Jimmy O. Yang's Best Dad Stories - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube
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Eventually I became a good Asian American and I went to school to get an economics degree.
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Eventually I became a good Asian American and I went to school to get an economics degree.
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Because that was the easiest degree that can still appease my Asian parents.
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But then after I graduated,
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I didn't want to do like econ or finance.
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So I went up to my dad,
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I was like, dad, I don't want to do any of this.
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I want to go try and do stand-up.
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And he's like, what's a stand-up?
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You mean like a talk show?
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I was like, yeah, sure,
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talk show, whatever you want to call it, okay?
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but I want to go pursue my dreams." And he was like,
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No. Pursuing your dreams is how you become homeless.
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I was like, No, no,
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dad, dad, things are different now.
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We're in America, okay?
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In America, we're supposed to do what we love.
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He was like, No. Everyone does what they hate for money and use the money to do what they love.
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That's that old school Chinese mentality, right?
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I don't know if you guys know this,
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but I came from an acting family.
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But it's not really like Angelina Jolie and Jon Voight.
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I guess I'll be Angelina Jolie in that equation.
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My dad is also an actor,
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but he started acting after I did.
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Because he was like, it's so easy, you can do it.
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I can.
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I'm like, that, fine.
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If you think my life's so easy,
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why don't you go to some open call auditions and you understand how hard it is,
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how much rejection I face every day at my job.
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He was like, okay.
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And he went to all these auditions and he started booking everything.
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It's a true story.
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He got on this show in China,
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in mainland China, called Little Daddy, Xiao Baba.
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Half a billion people watched that show.
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And he was like, oh, man, okay.
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It's like the Big Bang Theory of China, and Richard blew up.
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And he was like, this isn't easy.
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I don't know.
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My plan completely backfired.
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And my aunt in Shanghai,
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she watched the show, and she would call the house in L.A.,
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and she's like, congratulations, Richard.
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You're such a good actor.
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Did your son teach you how to act?
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And he's like, no, no, I'm a natural.
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Oh, that's very good.
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You and your son, same business.
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You know, you two are really funny.
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He's like, no, no, Jimmy's are not a funny.
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And I'm like, Dad, that's bullshit, okay?
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You got one good role,
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good for you, I'm happy for you.
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But you're not a real actor yet.
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Real actors, we gotta cry, we gotta laugh.
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Do you even know how to cry in front of camera?
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He was like, yes, I just think about how much you suck at ping pong.
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My dad's just from a different generation.
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He has like a weird beauty standard.
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Like for us, we just say things on very surface level.
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Just like, oh, this person's attractive, this person's not, right?
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My dad would get into the weeds.
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My dad would give you all the weird details.
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He'd be like, oh, she's beautiful.
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Very long arms.
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I'm like, what, are you recruiting for a linebacker?
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What are you talking about?
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I can never get a pulse on who he thinks is attractive or not, right?
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One time I'm like, Dad,
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oh, she's really good looking.
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And my dad was like,
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no. Her mouth's too close to her nose.
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She can't breathe, she can't breathe.
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I see some of you guys looking at your partner and it's like,
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is my nose too close?
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And that's exactly what an Asian parent does to you, you know?
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Make yourself conscious about shit you didn't know about.
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I was very nervous to introduce my girlfriend to my dad.
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Cause she's absolutely beautiful.
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But who knows if her wingspan is long enough for his life.
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I was so nervous, man.
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The first time I brought my girlfriend to my dad's house and to his credit,
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I want to give him credit.
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He actually didn't say anything crazy because for some reason,
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when an old Chinese person sees white people,
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they just started acting right.
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Like his posture changed and stood up right.
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And for some reason, he just came up with a British accent.
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Like me and my girlfriend walked in the house,
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he didn't say anything crazy,
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he just looked at us, he was like, oh.
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Presperous young couple.
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And my girlfriend was so confused,
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He's like, why does your dad sound like Helen Mirren?
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I grew up very stereotypically, man.
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I didn't play basketball or football.
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I grew up playing ping pong.
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Competitively.
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That was a serious national sport back home, man.
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You know, I didn't go to any like fun summer camp, space camp.
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My dad sent me to a ping pong training camp in Guangzhou, China.
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I almost died.
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It was 100 kids competing for one spot on the national team.
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It was basically Fortnite with ping pong paddles.
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We took that shit seriously though.
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My dad would take me to every practice,
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every tournament game, and he always tried to give me a pep talk before every game.
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But you know Asian parents, they're way too honest.
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So every pep talk just turned into an insult.
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Like he would come up to me and be like,
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Jimmy, Jimmy, You're going to play well, okay?
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Even though you're slow.
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Even though you're weak.
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And you suck.
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And then he would just walk away.
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I was very good at math.
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That's a big Asian stereotype.
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I think there's some truth to that.
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Not because of some weird genetic thing.
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Just because our parents care so much more about mathematics and academics.
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Right?
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You guys seen it?
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You guys seen those, like,
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Kumon Learning Centers and those strip malls, right?
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Right?
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Kumon Learning Centers, for you guys that don't know,
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are basically detention camps for young Asian children.
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You can tell that place is kind of fucked up by the look of its logo.
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Because it's supposed to be a smiley face,
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but it's not really smiling.
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It's just like, man.
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My parents were way too cheap to send me to Kumon.
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They got a different strategy.
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They never let me use a calculator until I turned 15
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so I can work on my brain function That's an old-school Chinese strategy,
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you know, so when I turned 15,
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it was a very special occasion It was basically my quinceanera My dad just gave me a TI 83 plus
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And he looked me in the eyes and he was like you're a woman now, okay?
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But when you're a kid,
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when your parents tell you you can't do something, what do you do?
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You rebel, right?
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So when I was 14 years old,
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I stole my brother's calculator,
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I stole Roy Rogers' calculator,
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and I locked myself in my room and I started rebelling.
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I started doing math homework.
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Other kids were like fucking around with like alcohol and drugs.
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I was fucking up some problems, you know?
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Locked myself in a room,
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I was just punching in numbers,
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I was like, oh man,
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this feels great, you know?
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It's so wrong, it's awesome.
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My dad was pissed.
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He was knocking on the other side of the door.
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He doesn't like locked doors in the house.
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And he was screaming.
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He was like, Jimmy, Jimmy,
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what are you doing inside?
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Come out right now.
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I know Yingdae using a calculator.
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Come out right now.
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I was so scared, I didn't know what to do.
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And he unlocked the door and he came in.
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I went into full panic mode,
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so I just threw away the calculator and I pulled out my pants.
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I was like, Dad, I was just jerking off.
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And he came in, and he looked at me,
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and then he looked at the math homework.
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And he was like, good,
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good, very good, very good, very good.
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You must not really like math.
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That's good.
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That's good.
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Keep it up.
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Because there's nothing,
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there's nothing that'll make your Asian father more proud than to see his son jerk off to his bath, Homer.
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See, I'm like first generation,
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but my parents, they're like negative nine generation,
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because they're so frickin' Chinese.
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Like, it's really hard for me to watch TV with my dad because he's trying to make me explain everything to him.
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And first of all, all Asian people,
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they don't watch TV, they judge the TV.
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This is like, I'm just sitting next to my dad on the couch,
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and he's wearing his, like,
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old Asian man costume, which is just a wife beater and tighty-whities.
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He's just sitting there, arms folded, judging the TV light.
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He just makes random noises around the house.
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Now whenever he sneezes, it's never just a sneeze.
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It's like a whole tsunami of sound waves that comes after.
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It's just like, achoo!
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Oh!
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Ay, shit!
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Oh!
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I'm like, what the fuck,
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Dad just have an orgasm?
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What was that?
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And he doesn't understand what I'm saying half the time.
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He's like, oh, there's an orgasm okay.
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Orgasm.
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Orgasm.
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And he tried to make me explain everything to him on TV.
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Do you understand how difficult it is to explain a rap music video to an old Chinese man?
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We're just sitting there and my dad was like,
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oh, Jimmy, Jimmy, what's it mean when he say, Lamborghini Murcio, what's that?
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And I'm like, Ted, he's bragging about his car.
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It's a Lamborghini Murcielago, very expensive car.
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You know what that is, right?
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And he's like, oh, okay, okay, yes, yes.
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That's when you know they have no idea what the fuck he just said.
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Like, okay, okay, yes, yes, a Lamborghini, okay.
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Jimmy, what does he mean when he say,
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your chick, she's so thirsty, or what the?
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And I was like, shit.
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Um...
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Dad, he's making fun of somebody's girlfriend, okay?
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Saying, like, she likes attention from other guys,
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and she likes to do sex stuff with them.
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You know, like blowjobs and such.
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And he was like, oh, okay, okay.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Blowjobs, okay.
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Jimmy, Jimmy, I'm thirsty, too, okay?
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So I was like, oh,
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God, no. No. Got lost in translation.
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It's disgusting.
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I love my dad, man.
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I love my dad.
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He's a great dad.
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He's a funny guy, you know?
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And we did a lot of father and son bonding growing up.
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Like, for example, I'm a big basketball fan.
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I love watching the NBA, you know?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Actually, I grew up a Los Angeles Clippers fan.
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Yeah.
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Because my dad was cheap, okay? because my dad was...
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Because the Lakers and the Clippers playing the same stadium,
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but the Clippers tickets were half price.
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So my dad's like, never pay full price.
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That wasn't even the most embarrassing part.
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The most embarrassing part was when we exited the stadium.
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When we exited Staples Center,
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there'll be hot dog street vendors out there, right?
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Latino brothers selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs for $5.
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I love those things.
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And my dad would go up and haggle with them.
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He would go and be like,
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okay, I give you $5 for two hot dogs.
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I'm like, dad, it's not buy one,
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get one free at Costco.
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Just give him 10 bucks.
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And he was like, shh, never pay full price.
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Okay, I'll give you $8 for two hot dogs, final offer.
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And the guy didn't care.
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He's like, no, it's $10.
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And then my dad, this is his strategy.
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He just announces in front of everyone.
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Make sure everyone hears him.
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He's like, okay.
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We walk away.
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We walk away.
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I'm like, Dad, I don't care.
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I don't think he cares if you walk away.
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Don't walk away, I'm hungry.
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He's like, Jimmy, it's better to be hungry than to pay full price.
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And then my mom comes up behind us with four hot dogs.
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And she was like, guess how much?
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Thank you, guys.
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In questa lezione, esploreremo alcune delle esperienze divertenti e significative condivise da Jimmy O. Yang riguardo alle aspettative familiari e alla ricerca dei propri sogni. Grazie a questo racconto, gli studenti avranno l'opportunità di praticare la loro comprensione dell'inglese parlato, migliorare la pronuncia e ampliare il vocabolario. La narrazione del video offre un ritmo accessibile, ideale per esercitarsi con il shadow speech e affinare le tecniche di shadowspeak.
Vocabolario e Frasi Chiave
- Economics degree - Laurea in economia
- Pursuing your dreams - Seguire i propri sogni
- Talk show - Programma di approfondimento
- Open call auditions - Audizioni aperte
- Rejection - Rifiuto
- Actor - Attore
- Viewership - Numero di spettatori
- Natural - Naturale
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