Crazy. Rich. And finally seen.
Today, Explained
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4.3 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Johnny, congratulations. It's the final borders video from your Hong Kong series, |
| 0:04.8 | Day. Yeah, no, it's up. It's up. It's up. And we get to talk about another member of your |
| 0:10.0 | family's experience with their toothbrush from GetQuip.com slash explained. So exciting. |
| 0:15.0 | Who's it going to be? Drumroll. Oliver. Oliver. It's a two-year-old. |
| 0:19.0 | Brushing teeth with him was a nightmare. When I unsheathed the... |
| 0:23.4 | Johnny, I'm going to stop you right there. We'll save it for the middle of the show. |
| 0:26.0 | Yes, okay. Okay. So, oh, she... nice, nice. Storytelling. |
| 0:41.0 | Right. We've been dating for over a year now and I think it's about time people met my beautiful |
| 0:45.2 | girlfriend. What about us taking an adventure? Like Queens? Singapore. Collins wedding. When |
| 0:52.5 | Stephanie Foo saw the trailer for Crazy Rich Asians, the first thing she noticed was that laugh. |
| 0:57.1 | I really should have told me that you're like the principal humanitian. That's ridiculous. |
| 1:00.8 | Much more of a hurry. The way that Constance Blue laughed, it's like a little bit of an ostentatious |
| 1:08.0 | laugh because it wasn't like meek or behind a hand or anything like that. I mean, I was going to |
| 1:14.7 | see it anyway. Of course, I was going to see it because it's all Asians. But like that laugh was |
| 1:19.6 | a small signal to me that maybe it was not going to be just a useless collection of stereotypes. |
| 1:26.7 | Stephanie's a reporter who works been on this American life in Snap Judgment and she wrote an essay |
| 1:31.6 | about Crazy Rich Asians for Vox. The movie comes out today but Stephanie got to see it a little |
| 1:36.3 | early. And 10 minutes in, there was a joke on screen where these people are googling who Rachel |
| 1:47.3 | Choo is played by Constance Blue. She's the main character of the film. And somebody texts another |
| 1:53.6 | person, wow, so many Rachel Choo is lah, which is |
| 1:58.0 | English or Singlish, I guess. It's Singaporean pigeon English. And then the other person responds back |
| 2:04.8 | to the film which is basically Oive in Singlish. And I just started bawling. |
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