- Yeah, I got punched, man.
So this happened maybe six days ago on a Friday.
- Uh-huh.
I was just walking home from lunch.
It was 3:00 PM.
And then this guy on a bike,
is he saw me
and he just hopped off his bike and just threw the bag
on the flyer and came in really aggressively.
At first I thought he wanted a picture,
(Nigel and Evelyn laugh)
- You know, he sound like,
"Oh, it's a... "
- "Oh my, God! Uncle Roger!"
(Nigel mimicking punches)
(Evelyn laughs)
- "Hey, you want a selfie?"
(Nigel mimicking punches)
(Nigel and Evelyn laugh)
- So he's just, he's just started coming at me.
I just started punching me.
I was like,
"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!"
I was just blocking his shots
because I was just so
- Shocked.
- confused.
- Yeah.
"What, what are we doing? Who the fuck are you?"
"Why are you punching me, man?"
And then he said,
"You know what you did? You know what you fucking did?"
That's all, that's all he said.
- Yeah.
- He kept saying, "You know what you did."
And, I, I don't know what I did, you know.
- Yeah.
- And I just kept blocking,
I think one of his punches connected
with my lip, lower lip here.
- Uh-huh.
- You, you can't see a bruise-y anymore.
It wasn't that bad to begin with.
It just started bleeding a bit.
So I was like, I just kept backing away
and blocking his stuff as best I can.
He kept saying,
"You know what you did, you know what you did,"
and then he punched me for a while.
And then once he saw there are two witnesses,
two other people around,
and I, I told them to call the police help.
I, I just yelled out, "Call the police help."
And then he'd noticed, oh shit, that other people around,
so he just cycled away after that.
- So you told me this right after it happened,
- Yeah.
- It was on the road to your house,
- Yeah, on my street.
- On your street.
And you went home, you called the police
and then you, you texted me.
- Uh-huh.
- And I called you.
And what you said was like, there were people around
but they didn't like, do anything.
- They didn't. They were just staring but,
- And I got so upset by that.
- Well, one, just by the fact that they were there,
I was very thankful already because the guy left.
- Because they were there.
The, the, the aggress, the aggressor left
because they were there.
Okay, shit. Without witnesses around,
- Yeah.
I don't even recognize because I can't remember,
like police asked me for a description,
I can't remember anything.
I remember the, his ethnicity.
He is around my height.
The thing is, he was around my height and my weight,
and I, I knew that because instinctually, I wasn't afraid
because there wasn't a weight class difference.
So I... it's, it's a big (indistinct) guy coming
after you, then you will be like fucking scared by.
- Yeah.
- I was a little bit scared,
but more confused and shocked and scared.
So, I knew like he was a bit on the slim side as well.
So like, thankfully, even though one
of his punches connected, it wasn't that bad.
But that's all I remember.
I remember he was wearing a white t-shirt with a print on it
and that's it really.
I don't even remember the color of his bicycle.
I remember what direction he went in, but in hindsight,
I should have stopped the two witnesses and be like,
"Hey, don't... guys, don't leave yet.
I need you to, you know,"
- Big statements.
- Yeah. But you know, this is the first time
something like that happen,
and I was just in a bit of a shock.
- Yeah.
- So I dunno, I just wanted to get home as fast as I can.
- Yeah
I think they saw that I was okay. I was still standing.
I didn't fall to the ground or anything.
I was bleeding a bit, but only when I open my mouth
you can see that I was bleeding.
So they probably thought that I was fine,
so they just kinda...
one of them was on a scooter,
with the other one's on a bike.
So they just, the both witnesses
kinda just went their own ways.
- See, I mean, that's still upsetting to me,
because it's like, say you see something,
and then you decide not to do anything.
Okay, fine. But then after the aggressor leaves,
why wouldn't you come up and be like,
"Hey, dude, are you okay?"
Like, "Are you okay?"
You know, "Can I call the police?"
- Yeah. That would have been nice actually.
- Yeah.
That's so upsetting,
- Yeah.
- that they didn't do anything.
(Nigel sighs)
- It's really upsetting.
And it's like, some people say
that it's as bad or even worse
if you're witness to something and you don't intervene.
And the thing is, okay, I understand.
Maybe it's a situation, if it's scary
and you don't want to risk getting, you know, hurt yourself.
Fine,
but it's so obvious when somebody is being assaulted, right?
And you should step in.
Yeah. It just upsets me because it's like,
when it's come to hate crimes
- Uh-huh.
- against Asians during this pandemic, nobody stepped in.
- Yeah. Why? Why?
Are we, do we, they just assuming we can fight?
- Well, that's the thing.
And also, like if you're,
- I can't fight, man.
I didn't, I didn't even think
punching bag was a thing you could do,
I was just trying to block, block, block
right away, you know.
(Nigel softly laughs)
- But that's also the thing,
If you're attacking an Asian person because of racism,
why weren't you stop and think
and be like the most obvious stereotype,
which is all of us know Kung Fu.
(Nigel laughs)
Like, what it... why wouldn't you think that
in that case, you know?
- Yeah.
- Scaring them away that way.
- Yeah. Well, I don't know, man.
About the whole getting punched...
I was coming back from the dentist, you know?
So I'm going to do Invisalign.
So throughout the whole punching process,
he already connected.
I was like,
"Fuck, I made them with my teeth chipped again.
Fuck this shit."
First a volleyball, now a fist?
(Evelyn holds laugh)
You know, I want to do Invisalign.
Don't ruin it.
Don't. Stop it. Stop it!
- That was the first thing that Nigel said to me by the way.
He was like,
"Yeah, as I was getting punched,
like I just came from the dentist and I was like, 'Ah, fuck.
What if he ruined my teeth?'"
Then I was like,
"Nigel."
- My teeth are very important.
- "Nigel."
- You said that,
and then you said this, and then you talked
about your reaction for when the police came to your house.
- Oh, yes! I called the police.
They took a statement over the phone,
- Uh-huh.
- that is sent out two police officers
as well to come to my place.
And they didn't take our shoes off.
- They didn't take their shoes off.
- And I was like, "What was the protocol here?"
Can you tell two police officers to take their shoes off?
I was like, kind of gesturing at the power of shoes.
I was, I was flexing my socks at them like,
"Hey, hey, hey, you see,
you see this, see, see the no shoes? Hey."
And they still didn't get the hint.
- And then you said to me,
it was almost worse than being assaulted.
(Nigel laughs)
- (indistinct) I, I was assaulted once,
don't assault me again by not taking our shoes off.
(Evelyn laughs)
- Just come in.
- Oh my, God.
And then one of them recognized you?
- Yeah, they, they, they have seen the Uncle Roger videos.
(Evelyn bursts into laughter)
And it's so funny too because he got so excited,
one of the (indistinct) said,
"Oh my, oh my, God, that's you, that's you?"
And then she remembered where she was,
and what she was there to do.
(Nigel laughs)
"Oh, that's you? That, that, that's you?
So do you remember anything about this guy?"
(Evelyn bursts into laughter)
- But also, like, if there's anyone who's going
to get attacked for being Asian,
it's the most Asian man on the internet, Uncle Roger.
- That guy might have even seen my videos.
That's the sad part.
- So you got attacked,
- by a fan, by a potential fan.
If I'm wearing my orange pole, he would have been,
"Uncle Roger! Ey!"
But I wasn't, so got punched.
- Or, or he, he wasn't a fan, and he's like,
"You know what you did, you know what you did!"
"Don't insult Jamie Oliver!"
- "I love chili jam."
(Nigel and Evelyn laugh)
- But he kept saying,
"Yeah, I know what I did."
And it's like the whole coronavirus day,
Or does he think I'm someone else?
Did he think I was someone else or,
- Which makes it even more racist, but
- Yeah.
(Nigel chuckles)
- Like racist upon racist.
- I don't think it was targeted
- Yeah.
- because if it were targeted,
he would have come better prepared,
you know covering his face, wearing gloves,
so he doesn't leave DNA on my face.
They took a... they had a DNA test.
- Are, are you serious?
- Yeah, so the two police officers came.
So we, we talked a bit about the whole incident,
and then one of them say,
"Let's do a DNA test."
"Have you washed your face?"
And I'm like, yeah, twice a day. I can be cleansed.
(Evelyn bursts into laughter)
- Seriously, and I thought,
"Oh, that's not what she meant, that's not what she meant."
- I follow a Korean skincare routine,
- Have I washed my face?
- 10 steps,
- Yeah.
- have you heard of that?
- I have a toner and a serum.
Please. "Have I washed my face."
Come on.
- I'm Asian. Hello.
- Yeah.
"Have I washed my face?"
(Evelyn continues laughing)
Why don't you ask me dumb questions that...
"Do you eat rice?"
Huh.
"Do you want to use chopsticks?"
(Nigel and Evelyn laugh)
And then I thought,
"Oh, that's not what she meant."
- Oh my, God. Nigel.
- "That's not what she meant."
- Like I have concealer on.
I have an eye, I just need my eye mask today.
Have I washed my face? How insulting can you be.
- I just ordered this box from YesStyle.
(Nigel and Evelyn laugh)
This police officer just came in,
and kept her shoes on, insulted my skincare routine,
this is a hate crime all over again.
Two hate crimes in a day.
- That's so funny.
- But,
- Okay.
- but I realized, oh, that's not what she meant.
- That's not what she meant.
- It's not what she meant.
- She meant have I washed my face since the incident,
so she can take a DNA swab.
(Evelyn laughs)
- Oh, yes. That's the more likely rationale
behind her asking that question.
And then they had to take a photo for evidence, right?
(Evelyn astoundingly gasps)
And then she said, she said, at first she was like,
"Oh, I really like your stuff and I would ask for a selfie,
but that's not very professional."
Like yeah, duh, you don't say, you don't say.
- With your broken lip,
- Yeah.
- with your like beaten up phase.
- Yeah.
- This is me and Uncle Roger, right after he got assaulted.
- Yey!
(Nigel and Evelyn laugh)