0:00 Okay, what are some things that different Asians do that they believe leave them cursed? >> Like superstitious-wise? >> Yes. Bad grades. >> I'll share with you guys some These are some of the ones that are like it's more like folklore classified, but these are the ones that are like for different ones like for Filipino, Chinese, Vietnamese, whatever. And then let me know if you have any others that you grew up knowing. So there's a Filipino one called sukob. >> Sukob? >> Sukob. >> Hey, we have to be cultured. You have to say at the same time. >> Sukob. Peter, you didn't >> Peter, you didn't say it either. >> I did. >> Oh, okay. Okay. Go. Go. Go. I'm ready to start. >> So he he has to lead it. It's sukob. >> Sukob. >> And it's a superstition that warns that if you get married in the same year as >> Oh, I know that one. >> about that? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. >> Can you say cuz I don't know it? >> No, we're going to move ON NOW. >> [laughter]
0:50 >> SUKOB. >> YEAH. >> [laughter] >> NO, YOU'RE SUKOB, DUDE. >> IT'S SO IT'S YOU can't get married in the same year as your sibling. >> Oh, okay. >> Or you can't get married in the same year that you had a funeral for someone in your family. >> That makes sense. I think Chinese people probably do that one. >> Chinese people do that one, too? >> I think so. >> Damn, man. They're going to ruin your whole wedding if they die unexpectedly? >> Well, you just can't have the funeral. >> Well, Chinese people are like very scared of death. So you know like all the hotels, they don't even have the fourth level. >> Super superstitious. >> Because like four in Chinese is si and sounds way too close to si, which is death. >> Japanese, too? >> So yeah, no, there's no hotel, no building that has a fourth level. It goes three and then five. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah, and hospitals. And we skip and we skip 13. >> In America, yeah. >> Yeah, there's no 13th
1:40 >> There's no 13th floor. >> And then so this is a phrase. It's called tabi tabi po. >> Tabi tabi po. >> Bro. >> I I didn't know we're going to keep doing All right. Okay. My bad. My bad. >> Everybody was on the same One more time, Ryan. Sorry. >> Tabi tabi po. >> And that's what you say It's like It's like what you say when you're passing someone and you say excuse me, but you have to say that when you're walking through abandoned areas as a way to like tell the spirits >> Get all the spirits away. >> To tell the spirits like, "Oh, excuse me. I'm going to pass through." >> You know what I usually just >> They don't have like a malicious feeling of your presence. >> What happens if you don't say it? >> Uh misfortune is upon you. >> You know what I usually >> it disrespectful. >> a usually do for this type type of situation? >> I usually just fart as loud as I can. [laughter] >> Make the ghosts laugh. >> Or them away. They're >> I I'm I'm the spirit. >> Cuz I think [clears throat] ghosts don't like farts either. >> You You think you're going cross-dimensional frequency like into
2:32 the Have you smelled my farts? >> Yeah. >> This fart >> goes to the 10th dimension. >> Okay. >> So I just fart and I just know everyone's gone. >> creates a new spirit. >> It takes [laughter] over the place. >> It's a defensive spirit. >> It's like his his patronus. >> Yeah. Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. >> For for Chinese This was for These are some Hong Kong ones, all right? So I guess like improper funeral rites >> Can you say say say what it is in Chinese so we can repeat you? >> Uh this one doesn't have a thing. It will in a second if you just >> [laughter] >> Improper funeral rites or neglecting the dead, disrespecting elders can cause it as well. Um or curses can be bought and placed on other people >> Hell yeah. >> in a practice called da siu yan. >> What da siu yan? >> First of all, >> everybody said that one wrong, okay?
3:22 >> Yeah, I don't even know what >> way that was right. >> the party. >> Can we put that one up so I can see what it is? >> Is there Chinese word for >> Cuz it's Chinese I I might might be able to read it. >> It looks like this. >> Da Okay, that's the English. Oh. da siu yan >> da siu yan >> But that's a man. >> Oh, say it again. Can you say it? >> da siu yan That just like hit small children more people. >> Hit small people. >> Wait, that says yan. You spell yan y a n in the phonetic English? >> Uh no, they ████ that up. It should be r e n. >> r e n >> Oh. That's why I was like, what? >> Is this the ritual of beating the what? You have to take like they take a a small paper cutout of your enemy and they beat it with a shoe while casting spells. >> like a voodoo? >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, voodoo. >> Why does it have to be a shoe? >> That's why they do that's why chanclas are still a thing. It's passed down through Chinese people. You got
4:12 >> It's prob- It's honestly probably because it's the lowest part of your body. So, it's like it has the most diss. You know, versus hitting with a hat. >> The foot highly disrespected. Like like Thai culture, if you like kick a guy in the face, no, no, big no, no. >> Like even as a kid, you know, my when I would organize my like uh like clothes chest whatever the ████ it's called. >> Closet? >> No, like the the one with drawers. My mom wouldn't allow me to put my below the waist clothes with the above the waist clothes. >> Oh. >> She goes, you have to keep those separate. So, sweaters, t-shirts, whatever on top, wife beaters on top, and then underwear, socks, whatever cuz that's like almost like not kosher. And you put the unkosher so the the shoe would be like the ultimate like like this. >> Dang, okay. >> She's like, Bart, don't put your shoes with your shirts.
5:03 >> [laughter] >> That's basically what you're saying to us right now. >> Apparently, that service that service to beat the paper thing of your enemy is $7 in Hong Kong. And and old old ladies do it. Seven Hong Kong dollars is like one to buy the service of an old lady with a shoe beating the paper of your enemy. >> Why is it an old lady? >> I don't know. [laughter] That's the one that's the spell caster maybe. Uh so, is here's an interesting one for um this is more on how to reverse a curse and this is Vietnamese. Apparently, to reverse bad luck, you must eat hot vit lon. >> Hot vit lon What the ████ dude? >> Yeah, bro. >> Dude, you made everyone that's ████ >> I'm waiting for that ████ I'm waiting for that ████ thing. >> That's what I'm saying, hey, dude. >> I'm just glad I'm not >> You know what this is? It's this stuff. >> Is that a Vietnamese birthday cake? >> It's balut.
5:54 >> It is balut. They You eat balut to take off curses? >> Wait, that's how you say balut in Vietnamese? >> [clears throat] >> Vit vit is like a duck, but like hot hot vit long or something like that. I don't know. >> Hold on, vit is like a duck vit is like a duck. >> [laughter] >> Say the whole thing. Say the whole thing. >> I don't know how to read Vietnamese like that, BUT BECAUSE [laughter] >> IT'S ENGLISH. >> CUZ LIKE IN THE south in the south we would say like like yut, right? >> Wait, what's yut? >> This is yut. >> There's no yuts in there. >> I know, fool. That's why. >> I can read Vietnamese. Hot vit long. >> Yeah, that's exactly it. >> Wait, so that's yut? >> it's hot hot. >> What is the triangle? Like I've always wondered like >> Like what's the tone on the triangle? >> I don't honestly know Vietnamese accents
6:45 that well. >> Cuz the Chinese at all. >> They didn't teach me how to read. I just I just speak like a southern kid. >> Oh, really? >> Yeah, like a ████ kid. >> Okay, does this help? Hot like in hot dog. >> Oh, hot vit like in vitamin. >> Huh? So hot hot vit long >> long >> Oh, but is that are they saying that in >> That can't be right. That can't >> They say that British though it's like it's like vit in vitamin. You know what I mean? Is it vitamin or vitamin? >> Yeah, maybe it's British hot vit long. >> [laughter] >> hot dog >> vit vit long >> So apparently if you eat one of these, you reverse the curse, but it So it's fertilized duck egg, and but you have to make sure you eat an odd number of them. >> So you're saying you get cursed in China, some old lady's beating your ass, you got to fly to Vietnam to eat three of these eggs? >> Yeah, you got to eat three of them uh
7:35 because if you do an even number, it's it reverses twice. Cuz each one reverses >> It brings it back. >> Yeah, so 2 4 6 8 it's freaking coming back. >> That is true though because if you just eat two bullets, you're just eating balls, you know? You're just eating balls. >> That's odd. >> Yeah. >> That's okay. >> But what if >> What if you're hungry? >> But what if you're so it's gross and then you only eat half? >> Of one? >> Yeah. Does that mean you got to eat the >> Then it only reverses halfway. >> Oh. >> Duh. >> Or you [laughter] could eat 9/10 and be okay. >> You sure? >> Yeah, I think so. >> But you still have a lingering 1/10 though. >> Yeah, but you didn't finish it, right? >> But you don't have to eat the shell. >> When this says vit like in vitamin, is that what they're trying to say? Or are they saying that's vit? >> It's not vit, it's vit. Vit. >> Yeah, but >> Man, ████ this food. This one even know. >> That's bad. >> How long? >> They shouldn't have used vitamin as a
8:25 example. >> That doesn't make sense, right? >> That's why he says it's British. >> Yeah, that's what I think. >> It's a British uh >> You think can't you press a ████ button that like says it? >> It doesn't No, because Vietnamese people don't deserve that, I think. >> Nope. >> They don't have it yet. >> The um are there Japanese There's a lot of Japanese but the basic ones for Japan are >> Yeah, but nobody believes it. >> The Ring, The Grudge. >> Yeah, they said well they just think all this s███'s ████ >> [laughter] >> Really? >> Yeah. >> It What about the thing where like if someone I guess this is so basic but it says if someone died harboring a deep resentment, jealousy, or suffering, their spirit can't rest. That's like the most >> They're like Europeans where they kind of just go to church for fun. They don't really believe that ████ >> Uh that's why they don't bother to put out the Shinto fire when it's burning. >> They're like, "We'll just build a new one."
9:16 They're like, "That was just for fun." >> Yeah, it's all like for looks and it's for the vibe, you know? Like >> You're saying Japanese people don't believe anything? >> Nope. They're atheists. >> What about the the masks and stuff? >> They Okay. >> For the demons? >> They get married >> Is that just a tourism trap? >> churches and they're not even ████ They're like the best cosplayers in the world. [laughter] Like they they just did like they're not even Christians. >> We cosplay them. That's what cosplay is. >> Is there any like traditions where like >> There is Okay, so there's some, right? So, like like like putting salt on the ████ door so like doorway so the spirits don't come in and >> What exactly is a curse in Japan? Like how what's happening to you when you're cursed? >> I know what a curse is. They got a cursed marks for it and stuff like that. And they got things like they put like the cubit and nine tails in you and stuff and you're like it's a demon in you, you know what I'm saying?
10:06 >> So, what happens to your life? It's just you got to share the chakra in order to harness it. And then you could become like one with it and become a jinchuriki. >> He's just talking about what the hentai is. >> I think you're talking about an anime. >> I think he just watched Naruto last night. >> Okay. [laughter] >> There probably are, but I grew up Christian as ████ and they think that's just devil ████ So, we didn't get to do any of it. >> like in the sumo matches? There's like hella like >> Those are rituals, but they're not curses. They're cleansing rituals. >> Isn't it very just demon base so you protect like your building, you protect your house. You It's like It's like the torii gates or like having like the the scripture the protecting seals on like your house or your doorway in order to make sure that like certain demons can come in and >> the salts and then you have cleansing rituals. That's why before you go to the ████ temple and ████ there's that water and you just ████ don't you purification. You're constantly
10:57 purifying yourself. >> So, that's why like cuz in Japanese media, right? The way they make movies, everything, they're so good at expressing hauntings, demons, curses, and all this stuff. They don't generally even believe in that stuff. >> It's not the It's like It's like watching medieval knights and wizards and ████ So, you're just like that's a old world with like remember when >> entertaining to them. >> Yeah, like Americans don't believe that Gandalf is real. Uh but that's their culture. >> [laughter] >> But Gandalf >> Gandalf's our culture. >> I thought that's like a British thing. >> But it's white. It's European. This the same ████ right? >> Getting off his wife, I think that's fair, yeah. >> Yeah. >> But that's that's that's the lens. It's it's like remember the ancient people used to believe this ████ Some people still do, but it's they're the minority. It's not it's not everyone believes that ████
11:47 >> I feel like out of the Asians, maybe the most superstitious still might be Chinese. Even though they're still cos playing, but the but the amount that they adhere to it, like like don't Chinese people also like they clean out your house like the Chinese New Year time or something like >> Or how much red they wear. >> cleanings and stuff. I think what happened with China is like communism took away all the religion. So they just like maxed the ████ out of the superstition instead. >> Oh. >> I mean? Cuz you you're not allowed to do religion. So they're like we only have superstition left. So they're like ████ let's just go crazy with this. >> Shen Yun's bringing it back though. >> [laughter] >> Uh is for for Chinese, like what does it mean when you're cursed? What do they believe is happening to them when they're cursed? >> Uh your life is going to suck. You're not going to be rich and you're going to like >> So just bad things are going to everything negative is just going to happen to you? >> Yeah, like you won't have children.
12:38 You're not going to find love. You're not going to have money. You're not going to have good health. >> Yeah, you're going to get fired from your job, like Everything is like prosperity >> Prosperity, yeah. >> is bad. Any like so relationship, finance, all that stuff, career, it's all all of it's going to be bad. >> Did your mom ever feel like she was cursed at any point? >> ████ yeah. >> [laughter] >> I think that's why she gets her fortune, right? Like every year. >> She's always like trying to like see if if she's still in the ████ bear MARKET OR SOMETHING. >> [laughter] >> IT'S LIKE [clears throat] WHEN THE ████ IS THIS BITCOIN cycle going to ever go back? >> [laughter] >> Let us know in the comments below whatever your ethnicity is, even if it's none of the ones we named. Let us know your culture's curses, how to reverse them, and how to reverse reverse them, depending on what some of those processes are. >> reverse it.
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