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Amerika became a country in 1776

and that was part of the separation between the British and the U.S.

But I have a Native American in me, like Cherokee Indian.

So I'm like 25% Cherokee Indian, which those are the people that have been in the area we call the United States before the foreigners came along.

So, but on my father's side, it's a German heritage, so I'm like a German, Cherokee, Native American, Cherokee, Lithuanian, Latvian, so those are like parts of Russia.

So Russian, Native American, German, so it's a pretty big mix.

Kuya Steven, how old are you?

55.

Oh, you look 40 lang.

Oh, thank you.

Well, when I shave, I kind of look probably 30.

I'm worried about your sugat.

I'm worried about your wound.

Well, yeah, it's like it's been that way for a while.

But that came from a DVT, it's like a thrombosis.

So now it's a blood clot condition from a protein deficiency.

My name is Darius.

Kuya Darius, it's Kuya Steven.

How are you, sir?

Very well.

And meet my nephew, it's August.

Kuya August, it's Kuya Steven.

Nice to meet you, sir.

And my name is, do you remember my name, kuya?

No, it's Cedric.

What?

Cedric?

No, Ram.

Ram, oh, Ram, okay.

Nice to meet you again, sir.

Okay, Ram.

Rambo.

Rambo.

Ram, that's like the sheeps and the rams, right?

It's a biblical deal.

The lamb and the ram.

You need to take a rest, many rest.

Right.

And sleep more.

You know, it's taking me like five minutes to let me roll now.

Where?

Get my ID here, Western Union.

Western Union?

Yeah, it's like right here.

Ah, okay.

We need to go there and get your ID?

Yeah, I'd like to get it real quick.

Okay.

Do you understand, Kuya Darius?

Yes, sir.

Yeah, it's just, it's right here next.

It's probably no parking.

Yeah, you can park, park it out.

Baka may Western daw.

Yung ID daw niya, kukunin natin.

Maybe at McDonald's?

Yeah, park at McDonald's and I can walk across.

It's just right here.

It's, uh, malayo?

Ah, no, there.

Lapit lang.

It's right there.

Yes, I see.

Why your ID's there?

Why you put it there?

Well, it's just like one form of ID.

Because that's like, uh, you know, some of them they like, like things like that.

I go with you?

If you'd like.

Yeah.

We stay here outside.

Okay.

Hello, how are you?

Hey, yeah, I'd like, uh, one of you guys.

I'll take that.

But, uh, in our house, uh, no one can smoke there, uh.

Okay, but you can smoke maybe on the, on the farm.

Farm.

Kuya August, you can talk to Kuya Steven.

Yeah, I talked to him.

He has two kids, two little boys.

So they look like the mother, not him, unfortunately.

You ever do any, uh, missionary work for the church or go to a different country?

Um, it's, uh, how can I say this?

It's like a mission to me.

Like I'm doing because I'm happy and for our, for our good.

I'm happy to meet you and I'm happy that I can bring you home.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, I love to meet new people, nice people, people that believe in God and things like that.

It's like, yeah, that's an important thing for me.

I love money.

Do you love money?

It's nuts.

Do you love nuts?

Do you want more?

Are you pure American?

Well, a little bit more than that because, all right, America was, became a country in 1776.

And that was part of the separation between the British and the US.

But I have a Native American in me, like Cherokee Indian.

So I'm like 25% Cherokee Indian, which those are the people that have been in the area we

call like the United States before, before the foreigners came along.

So, but my father's side's a German heritage.

So, so I'm like a German, Cherokee, Native American, Cherokee, Lithuanian, Latvian.

So, so those are like parts of Russia.

So Russian, Native American, German.

So it's a pretty big mix, you know, different places around the world.

And, you know, I've been like really blessed, you know,

got to visit other countries and meet lots of, you know, really beautiful people.

Around the world, you know, most people, America's a little bit different, you know, we're like very,

I would say like too advanced, you know, they don't have

things like they have here, like street markets, things like that.

Some of the street markets, I don't know if you've ever been,

or if you've ever been to Divisoria and stuff like that.

Yeah, so I don't travel much here, but I did.

So Marquee Mall over here, it's like an immigration, a place for immigration,

get your immigration card.

So I met a German guy, he lived in Bulacan.

And so, you know, and I used to go to his place.

He was in a place called Malice.

And then he took me down to Manila one time,

I went to Divisoria, the malls, and I went to like the Chinese quarter,

and saw the churches and things, it's like, you know, beautiful.

I didn't really, I spent one day there and that was it.

But yeah, I like it, you know, I like the

America, it's, you know, we have like kind of the same format.

It's like nothing is outside, it's all like, most everything's inside, air-conditioned.

You know, they have a McDonald's next to, you know, this place and this place.

We call them strip centers.

It's like, so, but, you know, it's really nice to go to other countries

and you see like these people on the streets, you know,

selling fruits and vegetables and things.

It's just like, it's not something that you see

not something that you see,

you know, in America right now.

It's just, everything's kind of just modernized.

Everybody has a car and everybody has, you know,

a nice place to stay and things like that, air-conditioning.

So, you know, you learn to appreciate it.

That's why, you know, when I come here, I spend a lot of money to help people.

Like, yeah.

I can see your, Kuya Steven, maybe you need to, you take a nap muna and then later we can, you know.

Yes, yes, yes.

You're, I think you're, you're tired because I can see it to your, to your eyes.

It's okay, you can take a nap.

Thank you, yeah.

You lay down your head, here.

Okay.

Back since, you know, my girlfriend passed away, it's just like, you know, I'll stay crunchy.

Kuya Steven, you told me that you're a writer, right?

Yes.

How many books did you do?

I, you know, I, like I said, I was, okay, I grew up as a visual or a graphic artist.

So I was very talented as a young child.

I do like drawings, illustrations.

And, you know, my mother was very good.

She took me to like different things, you know, I learned like ceramics, pottery.

I learned many different art forms.

And then, you know, when I, later on, I went to an institute for the arts,

which was one of the top schools.

And it was out of Kansas City, it was an arts institute.

And so, but it was, you know, expensive.

And, you know, I didn't really know what I was going to do with the art.

I didn't really have like a passion.

Like, you know, some artists, some people they know, you know, it's just like they do

certain things.

And so my father said, hey, you know, why don't you, because my father used to work

like markets, like the assorted stuff, and he would sell everything.

He was like a merchandiser.

So he worked like as a store manager for like an SM or something.

So, you know, he knew like all the factories and places.

And so he would get the items that were, they call it regulars, imperfects, stuff they

couldn't sell because of the quality.

And you can buy them cheap and take it to like a, what they call a flea market or, you

know, open market and sell it.

So he says, hey, why don't you, you know, you can print, you know, graphics on shirts

and I can sell them.

We can do a business together.

So, you know, that's what I, you know, I went to school for like half a year.

And then I went back and like started a business with my father doing the, you know, life

takes you in different directions.

And so, you know, that, you know, led me to go to Israel because, you know, I didn't

know, like my father's side is Jewish and my mother's side is Christian.

And I really didn't know what the Jewish side meant.

So I figured if I go to Israel, you know, maybe it'll help me, you know, decide.

And so, you know, that's when I met, you know, my ex-wife and, you know, I still have a

daughter in Israel.

And, you know, I'm just like, you know, one of those curious people and I'm not afraid

to, you know, pack up and go to a different country or do something.

It's like, you know, everybody else in the family is like a lot different.

You know, they like, you know, want to stay in the same city, you know, don't want to

like, you know, travel or do anything like that.

So I was kind of like considered like the black sheep in the family.

But, you know, it's not because I did anything illegal.

It's just because, you know, they really didn't understand, you know, sometimes situations

don't work out.

Like, you know, my first divorce, it's like, you know, I had a business and obligation

to my father's retirement, you know, and she wanted to take the child back to her

country and, you know, with her mother.

And so, you know, things didn't work out.

But, you know, I was blessed.

You know, she's like a beautiful girl.

She does modeling.

She got a full scholarship in mechanical engineering, you know, and she works for

Intel, which is, you know, a tech company in Israel.

It's like, you know, really smart, creative, beautiful, brilliant girl.

And, you know, some of my other family members are a little frustrated that, you know, she

was so successful and, you know, and they, you know, they spend a lot of money on some

of their kids' education.

And this happens in America.

It's like, you know, they tell the kids, you have to go to university, you have to

go to university.

And they don't know why.

You know, they're just like kids, you know, they just want to have fun.

And so, you know, they pay a lot of money to get them into university and then they,

you know, maybe they don't make high marks, you know, and then they...

And it becomes a lot of, like, pressure and stress.

See, that's what the really great thing about the Philippines is, like, the acceptance.

At any age, you can go back and live with your family, you know, and I've seen it here.

It's like, you know, you might have, you know, the brother, the kid, the grandma, everybody,

you know, like, you know, 10, 12 different people living in, like, a small apartment.

And it's like, you know, and they're just like, oh, okay, you know, anytime, come back,

you know, we'd love to have you.

Okay, well, yeah, Netflix is...

Well, that was with the, kind of, the co-writer I was with at the time.

And so, he was connected through them.

So, my ex-wife, so she originally started off, you know, she grew up, like, in a small town in

China, in the biggest city there, like, called Wuhan.

And so, she wrote poetry, you know, first, and then she got accepted into, you know,

she wanted to do, like, film and stuff like that.

So, she wanted to be a screenwriter.

So, she got accepted into the Beijing Theater Academy, which, you know, it was a very big

honor, you know, out of the billions of people in China, in Beijing, they only accept five

people from the country in this program.

So, she was accepted in that program, and she graduated, you know, with a master's in

film and writing.

Then she came to the U.S., and she got a scholarship to attend, you know, American

University in Washington, and that's, like, another prestigious school, that's, like,

you know, for politicians' kids, you know, they all go to these, like, schools like Yale,

Harvard, things like that.

And so, you know, we met, I was with some, you know, friends of mine, some Asian friends,

we went out to Los Angeles, and she was there, you know, she had just graduated and went

out to California to start working on movies.

And we met, and, you know, we kind of, like, fell in love, and so, you know, I ended up

moving to California and started working with her, you know, in the writer capacity,

because, you know, her English wasn't really perfect, and so, you know, when you write,

you know, a movie, it's like, you know, if I was going to write a screenplay here, I

would need to know, you know, the slang in Tagalog, you know, things like that.

Do you have, do you have, did you write that already play in?

Okay, no.

So, yeah, that'd be, like, called IMDB, it's, like, an internet movie database, it has,

like, you know, the history of, like, you know, all the projects that you work on,

things like you've completed, whatever.

So, you know, I was at the point, the guy I was working with, we had the, we had funding

from Netflix, but that's when, like, COVID came around, and so we couldn't, they stopped,

you know, all financing, because they couldn't, they couldn't do any filming, because, you

know, you film a movie, you can't have the actors wearing a mask and things like that,

and nobody knew, you know, how serious COVID was, and so, you know, I knew that America

was, like, you know, very cautious and scared, and they shut, you know, many things got

closed, but, you know, I knew other countries, like the Philippines, you could come here,

you know, you could still work.

So that's why, you know, so our project got pretty much, you know, set aside, and I said,

look, you know, I can't do anything right now, so I want to go to the Philippines, and,

you know, he said, okay, you know, just like, you know, whenever things pass over, we'll

continue the project again.

So in the meantime, you know, I just, you know, I wrote three, you know, two different

projects here, and then my experience with my, you know, the girl.

I have, you know, a lot that's saved on the computer with my Chinese ex-wife, she has,

like, a lot of the records in California, so Los Angeles.

So when you have a computer here, you can open your, what did you write?

Right, yeah, so, I mean, she has, she has everything, you know, on file on her computers,

and I have them.

Same in the iCloud, like that?

Yeah, but there's also, you know, see, when you write a project, you do protect it from,

like, you know, somebody using it, you register it, and that's, like, with, there's two

places that you'd be, like, the Writer's Guild or the Library of Congress, so, like,

the biggest one is, like, the Library of Congress.

So, like, every creative thing or every patent, you know, anything of importance goes to the

Library of Congress, so you'll see, like, you know, inventions, movie scripts, you

know, anything, they're on file there.

And so, and that protects people, so if there's ever somebody comes and does something

similar and, you know, makes money off the project, you can come back and you can say,

look, you know, I registered this, and then, you know, the judges and the, you know, attorneys

figure out if it's similar enough that you, like, plagiarize, you know, you, like, are

using their, you know, ideas or something like that to make money.

And so, and yeah, that's, like, so in the movie industry, it's, like, you know, the

WGA is, like, the Writer's Guild, and so you'll register, there's a West Coast Division

and an East Coast, so the one covers, like, kind of New York, the other one covers, like,

Los Angeles, like, side, and, you know, you do those two things to kind of protect your

intellectual copyright, your intellectual, you know, assets, so as my experience online

which, you know, I got on, like, a date in Asia, there's a lot of scammers, and there's

a lot of, you know, ladyboys, you know, pretending to be, like, you know, real females, and it

gave me, like, a lot of ideas, and so, you know, I wrote a movie based on that, and the

movie's called Western Union, which is actually kind of interesting, so, yeah, so, and it

had, like, two meanings because, you know, the Western Union's, like, a place where you

get a remittance, and it was, like, in the Philippines, like, two people, like, meet

each other at Western Union, like, hey, wow, like, you know, and they didn't really know

anything about their private lives, but their private lives are scammers, right, and that's

what, you know, one of them's, like, a Westerner saying, hey, I can get you a green card to

come to the States, you know, there's a lot of girls that pay a lot of money, you know,

wanting to get a green card to go, you know, visit the States, and then there's, you know,

a lot of, you know, guys that get scammed by the girls saying, oh, you know, my auntie,

she needs medical help in the province, can you send me money, and things like that,

and so, you know, it turned out to be kind of like this kind of cute love story based on

two scammers, and they're trying to, you know, they're trying to keep doing what they're doing

on the computers, but not let their, you know, them know, but at the same time online,

they're trying to scam each other, so it's like kind of a, so, and then, you know,

then another one's, like, the other one's, like, wanted to go to GMA and work on a, like, a

novella, like a TV series, like a long, and that's why I needed to talk with them.

Now, the gangster one evolved around, you know, the situation with my ex, and that was, like,

you know, kind of the dark side of the Philippines, you know, like the, you know,

methamphetamine, the shabu trade, and, you know, the syndicates, the triads, and stuff like that,

so, you know, those are, like, kind of, like, the three projects.