(dramatic electronic music)
- Dude, forget fish tank and fish bowl
Let's talk about sea monkeys, dude.
What are those, dude?
- They're nothing.
- What?
- Are you talking about those sea monkeys
that like we used to buy as kids?
- And you could throw them in water
and they're like swimming around?
- They're not real.
- What are they?
- What do you mean?
- Dude, what is a sea monkey?
- They're like, just like a, like-
- Bacteria or something?
- Isn't it?
I thought they were just like nothing, like breadcrumbs.
- No.
- [Female host] They are a type of brine shrimp.
- Oh, they're a brine shrimp, okay.
Yo, the first time I learned about sea monkeys though,
like it was from, so I used to collect comic books
when I was a kid, like, you know, like Marvel
or DC Comic Books, and in the back
they would have advertisements.
And there would always be advertisements for sea monkeys.
Like, grow your own sea monkeys, and I hadn't been
in like an English speaking world for a long time.
- [Tablo] Mmm hmm.
- Like, you know I had just moved there, from Korea.
- [Tablo] Right.
- So, I thought they were real like things.
- Dude, but listen, they come out of a packet.
- No but I thought they were actually
- Oh, like monkeys, like sea monkeys?
- Sea monkeys, because the advertisement had drawings
of like a, like a monkey
- [Tablo] Yeah.
- Swimming, like a tiny monkey swimming.
- With like a mermaid's body?
- And mind you, this is at the back of a comic book.
- [Tablo] Mmm.
- So I'm, my brain is like, at the end of the comic,
I am like, my brain is ready for anything.
- [Tablo] Right.
- Right, like there's like magical beings and like aliens
and stuff, so I'm like, oh, this is so awesome.
And I somehow finally got my hands on a packet,
put it in the water, and I was so devastated
when I realized they weren't real things.
(dramatic music)
(mechanical beep)
(cacophony of voices)
- It was all a lie.
Guys, it was all a lie.
(indistinct )
- But they are real things.
- Well not real monkeys.
- Right
- Like not tiny monkeys (dramatic music)
and it depressed me
- [Female Host] You bought sea monkeys?
- Yeah
- [Female Host] This is so random, but according
to the wikipedia page for the guy
who invented sea monkeys, like the product
was specifically racist against Korean people.
- What?
- What
- [Female Co-Host] Yeah, I'm reading it right now
- Wait, the guy was racist
- [Female Host] The guy was, he literally,
his name is Harold von Brauhut,
and he's from Memphis Tennessee,
and he's like, he made like a bunch of iconic
like gag stuff, like X-Ray google,
like he invented the X-Ray goggles,
and amazing sea monkeys and all that stuff,
and he literally did a interview in 1988
saying like basically like I don't like
all the Korean shop-owners in Seattle.
- Oh yeah, he's wikipedia page just has like
- Fu (beep) you
- Wikipedia is just personal life,
business activities, racial views (laughing)
- Dude, and what's, oh wow.
1988 was when I went to Canada, so
- [Female Host] And you bought his products
- I had no idea.
Oh my God
- Okay, so sea monkeys, we're not endorsing it.
You come at us with the sea monkey advertisement,
that's the one advertisement we're saying no to.
- Well, here's the thing.
I'm not surprised, I was like disappointed
- [Tablo] Yeah false advertising
- I was like disappointed in what I got, right
because this guy was clearly racist.
[Female Co-Host] Clearly (laughing)
- Towards me
- [Female Co-Host] (laughing)
- Okay
- Exactly
- So, so what's his name?
- [Female Host] Harold von Brauhut
- OK, well (beep) you Harold
- Dude,
- [Female Host] Wow
- Harold, I'm so disappointed.
- So he was calling me a monkey
- Dude, dude we almost endorsed
- Dude
- [Tablo] Dude
- I'm so mad right now
- [Female Co-Host] So specific
- It's so specific
- It's not even like Asians
- [Tablo] Yeah
- It's just Koreans
- [Female Host] Yeah
- Probably he was probably even more specific
he was probably just, he was probably,
he said it in 88, right
- [Female Co-Host] He said that kid Daniel Lee
that I saw flying in from Korean
- Yeah, he was probably like I hate Korean,
like little Korean kids that buy our
wholesome American super hero comic books
and read like the advertisments and buy it thinking
that its really tiny monkeys; you idiot.
- [Female Host] Daniel (laughing)
- Yeah, Daniel Lee
- [Female Host] Who wanted to be Bruce
- Living in Burnaby, Vancouver; you suck
- [Female Host] (laughing)
- [Tablo] It's really disappointing
- Everyone else is okay, but you, I hate
- Dude we gave him money, just so that you know
- Yeah, we did. God
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