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[whirring]

[Chen] Early in the
morning on a Friday,

you'd turn on the TV
or the news there...

[reporter] The biggest bank collapse
since the 2008 financial crisis,

and it shut down today.

[woman] This is clearly an
example of something breaking.

We can assume that there's
serious contagion here.

[Chen] Over the weekend, negative
sentiment spread all over.

[reporter] What prevents runs on a whole
bunch more banks next week? Unclear.

It's never great

when you're having full-on meetings
with regulators on a Sunday morning.

What are we doing to prepare?
Do we have enough liquidity?

[Krause] We had to make sure
our customers trusted us,

and there was a concern it
could spread to other banks.

[reporter] The entire banking
industry is feeling the impact.

[Ng] There's no way America
can do without regional banks.

We have the capital.

We have the earnings that allow
us to connect, to interact,

to build relationships.

We specialize to be that financial
bridge between East and West.

We help the unbanked immigrants.

You know, help them
to reach further.

We have a purpose and we can
make a difference to the world.

[narrator] Immigrants have always
played a vital role in American history,

but today, many are
still considered foreign.

Fifty years ago, Chinese
Americans were denied loans.

In response, eight brave individuals
from Chinatown took action,

forever changing the
trajectory of the community.

You know, we're seeing
the hillside behind us.

[car horn honking]

The bicycle has the
right of way, dude.

It's always astounding to see the
vast distances that people travel

to live a new life,

to take advantage of
economic opportunities,

or to just find work.

Chinese started coming to the Americas
beginning in the 16th and 17th century.

There were two Chinese
who lived in L.A.

Both were house servants for white
families who had moved into the area.

Los Angeles itself was
really the Wild West.

So in 1870, it's
about 5000 people.

That's it.

And of that 5000, there
are around 200 Chinese.

In October of 1871,
there is some gunfire,

and within minutes this kind of call
went out throughout the city of:

"They're killing whites
wholesale in Chinatown."

You know, "We all
have to go down."

Population of 5000,
10% participated

in the Chinatown massacre and
in this riot, targeting Chinese.

[narrator] After the
railroad is constructed,

a huge influx of white labor
arrives from the East Coast.

And when you add the unemployed Chinese,
suddenly there are not enough jobs.

This is what ignites the period
called the "Driving Out,"

where Chinese are literally driven out
of communities throughout the West.

So all of this is sort of gradually
leading up to the Exclusion Act of 1882.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
starts to set in motion certain things.

First of all, it
really again just takes

what's sort of free-floating racism and
discrimination and actually legalizes it.

You know, makes
it a national law.

It's really a matter of digging
deep and looking and understanding

what the real role of
Chinese in our community was,

even though there was still a lack of
respect in terms of its long-term future

as a part of America.

And by the '50s, many felt positively
about being able to buy their own land.

There had been restrictive
covenants that prevented Chinese

from moving into many
places, like my own family.

I grew up a block away
from skid row in San Diego.

Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the
Chinese were not able to buy property.

And in order for us to be able
to be a cohesive community,

we needed to have home ownership
to get out of the ghetto areas.

In those days, money was
hard for these families.

Christmas was not
filled with gifts.

Children did not get
toys in those days.

I think that the average Chinese
American just want a roof over their head

and food to eat, and
family and friends to love.

Money is just the tool
that helps you get there.

Hi, I'm Ben Lee, retired
LAPD supervisor detective.

I was in the LAPD
from 1976 to 2009.

I spent 12 years working in
the Chinese American community

in the city of Los Angeles.

And we're right in the middle
of Chinatown right now.

You know, before we had legal banking,
back then, there was no banks.

It was very difficult to get and borrow
money and use it to help your family.

A lot of the money lenders were
not the best people in town.

They were in it for the
money and the interest.

Why do we need to go to them
when we can just go to the bank?

And that's what made it so nice.

[narrator] Mainstream banks couldn't
serve the growing Chinatown community,

so F. Chow Chan and seven others
founded East West Federal Savings.

But first, they
needed an architect.

[Leong] My father, he
was a great collector.

When he passed away,
I had boxes and boxes

and boxes of pictures and documents
and papers all scrambled up together.

It took me five years
to go through it.

My father was
Gilbert Lester Leong

and he was the first
Chinese American architect

in Southern California,

and he designed many buildings
for the Chinese community.

[Yang] So right now, we're
looking at papers and documents

concerning the building of
the East West Bank branch

in L.A. Chinatown.

So we're here, we're
looking at photographs.

We're looking at renderings.

We're looking at promotional flyers
that was being created at the time

to promote the opening of
East West Federal Bank.

I think that he took that
trust very seriously,

to try to build them the best
building that he could build them.

The idea of a savings and loan
is not new to Chinese people.

[Leong] He built it for his
community to grow and prosper.

We have grown and
it has been good.

[Yang] I think it's important that we
look back at Chinese American history

because we are losing
history every single moment.

One of the best ways to keep
the memory and the history alive

is for us to keep these precious
documents here for long-term preservation,

so that anybody that has any
interest to do research work

can come to the Huntington.

[narrator] Long before F.
Chow Chan opened a bank,

he was serving cakes at
the iconic Phoenix Bakery.

Okay. Basically, this is
where everything happens.

All these people like this
gentleman here, Edgar,

is basically assembling cakes.

Okay, as you can see...

what makes our products
different from everybody else

is they're very, very soft.

It's basically our sponge
cake, if you wanna touch it.

Basically, you know, I had
to standardize everything.

And then, when I did that, I
changed everything into percentages.

I started...

you know, just mixing and things
didn't come out the way I wanted it to.

When you turn 12, you
ended up here on weekends.

No ifs, ands or buts. [laughs]

I don't worry about the legacy.

I just worry about, you know,
like, if I can get the product out

that people are satisfied
with, that's mainly my concern.

Legacy doesn't pay the bills.

Gabby. Gabby.

I changed his diapers,
are you kidding?

I'm older than he is.

Where did he go?

No respect.

Growing up, he was
busy a lot of the time,

and he was so diverse in
what he was interested in.

It was just not just the bakery.

It was about what needed to
be brought to the community

and how he could better not
only himself and his family,

but give opportunities
to other people.

So yeah, it's quite a legacy.

[narrator] In 1973, East West opens its
headquarters in Los Angeles, Chinatown,

with the sole purpose of providing
banking for the unbanked.

In those very early days,
Chinatown was still so small.

And again, you have this kind
of altruistic group of people.

Yes, it's a bank, but people
have this kind of vision of:

How are we gonna
help the community?

It's very much about those
personal relationships,

family relationships,
that idea of:

These are people you see
on the street every day,

and now people can finally
start to buy homes.

And that's why
this is so unique,

this phenomenon of opening
these Chinese American banks

and what it does
for the community.

[Ceppi] Kellogg, my
older big brother...

took leadership
of his generation.

That's what he did.

[Wang] Kellogg was part-time
president until 1983.

His interest was working
with the brokers,

start branching.

So one by one, it grows so fast.

At that time, most
of the directors,

they are all 80 years old.

So they all wanted
to sell the bank.

[narrator] As the needs
of Chinatown evolved,

East West was primed
for a new direction.

[Ng] My mom was a tailor and my
dad started driving a school bus.

For a person like my
mom who worked all day,

and meantime have to
cook for six kids,

and somehow she found
a way to manage it.

Someone said, "Oh, Dominic,
you work too hard."

I said, "Wait till you see my mom."
It's a completely different level.

If anything I learned from her is more
like obligation and responsibility.

You know, when people
hire you to do the job,

you do the best you can.

My parents felt very
strongly that America,

land of the free, land
of the opportunities.

"Dominic, you should go to
where your brother was."

I didn't particularly want to go to Texas.
I didn't know anything about Houston.

However, I just thought that
that was the right thing to do.

[Ellen Ng] He came over to
Houston, Texas to go to college.

That's when I met Dominic.

I was a freshman
and he was a senior.

He called me up and asked me to
hear him sing in the church choir

at the Neiman Center on campus.

I underestimated the challenges
of adapting to a new environment

and a new culture.

Very quickly, I realized that
the only way for me to bridge

and to connect
myself was my music.

When I start playing Jimmy
Buffett, they all can relate to it.

John Denver, Jim Croce,
you know, Cat Stevens,

and suddenly, everybody
starts talking to me.

The first six, nine months living
in America for the first time

was quite difficult.

It was six to nine months
of watching Johnny Carson.

I didn't find anything funny
while everybody's laughing at it.

Between watching Mary Tyler Moore or
Archie Bunker in All in the Family

or reading the
Houston Chronicle,

one day, suddenly, lightning
struck and I could relate

to people's conversation in
the cafeteria, in the dorm,

and I felt a lot of
confidence in engaging.

For me to actually get
hired by Deloitte & Touche,

it was almost like a miracle.

They hardly hired
any Asian Americans.

On top of that,

that was the job to secure my
residency in the United States.

So it was a big deal.

And that's why the job became...

such a pressure cooker.

Because for me, I couldn't fail.

[narrator] There is rich
and then there's crazy rich.

Being the latter,

The Nursalims changed the life of a
30-year-old Deloitte & Touche auditor.

They basically wanted
to buy a small bank

in L.A. called
United Pacific Bank.

Through my introduction,
the husband and wife,

Mr. and Mrs. Nursalim,
offered me a job.

I was actually only
like 31, 32 years old.

And I'd never really
worked in a bank before,

even though I knew a lot about
banking through accounting firms.

Why did you at that time
think that I could do the job

when I personally didn't
think that I could?

[laughs] Yeah, I think,
Dominic, you know, at that time

when we were doing the
acquisition of the banks,

we asked Deloitte to
be our consultants.

We felt that you were a highly
passionate and professional person.

So we think that you are really
the right person, you know.

So we have belief in you.

So you are dedicated,
you are trustworthy.

Everything is in you.

It just happened that
you were the person

appointed by the auditor to help
us for the acquisition of UPB.

And an opportunity
came at that time,

and I think we made the
right choice anyway.

[all laugh]

It's proven, I think, what's happening
today. It's proven it's the right choice.

Right timing and right person.

[narrator] Under Dominic's
leadership, the next era for East West

begins new goals and challenges.

[Ng] I never worked
inside a bank.

I thought I would work maybe
anywhere from two to four years.

That never happened. You
know, the rest is history.

I love what the founders
have done for East West

because they had
such a great mission:

helping Asian immigrants

who had no access of banking
or financial service.

But I thought I could add some more
to it as something that I was good at.

At Deloitte & Touche, 90% of my
clients were mainstream clients.

My name is Elise Buik, and
I'm the president and CEO

of United Way of
Greater Los Angeles.

Dominic Ng has played a huge
role in our transformation

as we celebrate our
centennial of a hundred years.

[Ng] It was a very interesting dialogue
that I had with one of the board members.

He shared with me, said, "We have no
representation from Asian Americans."

[narrator] Dominic
joined the board in 1996,

beginning a lifetime of service to
the United Way of Greater Los Angeles.

Dominic questioned everything.
You know, a fresh young leader.

The status quo, it
needs to be examined.

It needs to be held up.

What are the trends? What
does the community need?

How can we have
a greater impact?

Dominic as a leader said,
"You know, we can do better.

We have to focus on
the building blocks

of how we help to get
people out of poverty."

[Ng] I thought I was
doing the right thing,

and if I wanted to demonstrate that
an Asian American can actually...

have a seat at the table,

in something important and
can be a good advocate,

why not now?

[narrator] Just a few miles
from the East West headquarters

lies another Chinese
American success story

that has found a
seat at the table.

[Ng] We just got your signature
dish. Mandarin Orange Chicken.

So tell me about this.

Is this an American dish, or
is this really a Chinese dish?

- This is a Chinese dish.
- Chinese?

It is. Well, you know,
it's an American favorite.

Everybody like orange chicken.

[Ng] You know, I always
think that East West Bank,

you know, we're the bridge
between East and West.

But I look at your
orange chicken,

that's really the bridge
between East and West too,

because it's really one of the
most favorite dish in America.

East West Bank and Panda
both started in 1973.

Can you reflect on it?

Well, it's been a
wonderful ride for me.

Everything we did, going from
Panda Inn and to Panda Express.

Opening stores...

I was just really focused on,

first of all, surviving.

You'd never really think
about how many stores.

This is like an American dream.

You know, my dad's...

- My dad was the chef, right, you know?
- Mm-hmm.

And he was trained in Shanghai,
so that's all he knows.

- And it's really a lot of hard work.
- I know.

And I really appreciated my
experience working with him.

It wasn't easy and
many sleepless nights.

But one customer at a time.
One customer at a time.

[Ng] When I took you guys to
that United Way gala dinner,

and I remember, Peggy, you
were sitting behind me.

I was driving, and you tapped
on my shoulder and said:

"That million dollars you
asked for, we're gonna do it."

Tell me about exactly
how you guys decided

that this is the
right thing to do.

We want to support the
community in any way we can...

especially, Dominic, you asked.

[laughing]

[Ng] I was so pleased
that you would step up,

and then really helped
my campaign in a big way,

because with your contribution,

the L.A. Times immediately
wrote an article

about Asian Americans
supporting everybody.

In many ways, you are always
ahead. A step or two ahead.

One of our values
is about giving.

And whenever you're given
an opportunity to step up,

I think that to a certain extent,
particularly Asian Americans,

and have not been as engaged and
active in the past, it's important.

[reporter] U.S.
banks at one point

have lost over $100 billion in
stock market value in just two days,

and there are fears now that
this could spread beyond banking

to other parts of the economy.

[Ng] How do we alleviate
fear among our customers?

Because the customers can only
react to the newspaper articles.

They can only react
to the stock market.

If our stock's coming down,

they say, "There must be
something wrong." Right?

Give it back! Give
me back my money!

[Krause] Mary Poppins brought the little
kid she was taking care of to the bank.

He was so proud he was
gonna put in his 2 cents.

He changed his mind
at the last minute,

and the teller was trying
to talk him out of it.

There's something wrong. The bank
won't give someone their money.

[Krause] And that started a run.

And give me mine too.

[Krause] That's really what
happened at Silicon Valley Bank.

They had this risk that they were so
concentrated with a few customers,

they had that
perception of risk.

So when people got
nervous, it was all over.

[Oh] It was an open secret
that everybody knew about,

but just no one
cared until that day.

Right? And then all of a
sudden, everybody cared.

We need to have the meeting because
this is a very unprecedented situation.

There's no policy or procedure
that we can be able to follow.

It is very hard to react when
there's no sign or no indication.

So this is the challenge.

[Ng] Over 20 years ago,

East West Bank was established
to serve the Chinese community.

Back then, we put our confidence and trust
in people who could not obtain credit

from the mainstream banks.

In turn, these customers
put their confidence in us

to expand our services as
their financial needs changed.

[narrator] Keeping up meant
expanding beyond the Asian community

and building new relationships
with mainstream clients.

[McMorrow] You know, I
learned in that business

that everything is
about the relationships

and the trust you
build with people,

and it didn't really
matter as much

what your balance sheet or your
income statement looked like.

It really mattered whether
you could trust that person

with the bank's money.

We need a bank where the
top management of the bank

is really involved in the
decision-making process,

because our deals are complicated
and they move very quickly,

and we have a comfort level

that East West Bank
is that kind of bank.

Dominic, right away, we
just struck up a friendship

and a trust in each other that,

you know, went beyond what we were
doing at our companies at the time.

[Ng] Kennedy Wilson,

it is very, very important
to actually bring in a client

that's definitely recognized as one of
the significant businesses from the West.

And I think it really helped
solidify our, you know, mission

of being that bridge
between East and West.

This is Pokey. And he's
a cute, loving dog.

This is Barney, and
he lives the longest.

He is very timid compared
to the other dogs,

so everyone has a
different personality.

So I moved to L.A. and have
been living here since 1981.

And my first job is Texaco
as a staff accountant.

And then I went to work for
KPMG, the accounting firm.

When I joined the bank, you
know, it's a very small bank.

You know, the bank had
very high growth potential.

And that's the reason why I liked
the bank and the business model.

Good afternoon, everyone. It's
great to see you all here.

When Dominic joined,

because his vision is to
convert to a commercial bank

and to really take the
bank to the next level...

His vision is to be the financial
bridge between East and West,

and to really capture, at the
time, the tremendous growth

of the Asian American
population in California,

as well as the growth in China.

[narrator] Despite Asia's growing
economy, trouble was looming.

[Ng] In 1997, suddenly, the
Asian market just crashed.

Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia,

Philippines,
Thailand, Indonesia...

all took a big beating.

[narrator] Like everyone else,

the Nursalims faced challenges
during the Asian financial crisis.

[Gouw] Sometimes, you know,
when a crisis happens,

we tend to think of a way, you
know, how to overcome the crisis.

And if there's an opportunity,
you know, it's even better.

So our shareholders
at the time says that,

"Okay, we need to sell East
West Bank for $238 million,

and you've got one
month to do it."

[Ng] We looked into
different options.

Finally, I came up
with a solution.

If I were selling East West Bank

to institutional investors
down on Wall Street,

and if none of them
invest more than 9.9%,

then, in fact, there was
no change of ownership.

And then we can just have the
same name, same organization,

same employees
doing the same work,

and move forward
to a new chapter.

It took us two weeks
to raise $238 million

while we have the
ownership change,

but we're running the bank
exactly like we were doing before,

and it's just now, it's
owned by many investors.

The next year, we
took it public.

Listed on Nasdaq, and
then the rest is history.

[opening bell ringing]

[narrator] One of East
West's early initiatives

was to showcase Chinese
contemporary art

using creativity
to bridge culture.

[Ng] The Nursalim families

have always been big promoters
of contemporary Asian arts,

and they felt that,
being so successful,

they have an obligation
to give back.

[in Mandarin]

[Ng in English] A painting looks like
Chinese calligraphy, but in fact,

it was as Western
as you can get.

Put it all together,

it's something that...
I call it a masterpiece.

[narrator] Xu Bing was just one of
many Chinese contemporary artists

capturing the
attention of the West.

China has possibly the oldest
continuous tradition of art

in the entire world.

But, as we know,
things were isolated,

- artists were shut off.
- [indistinct chatter]

[Deitch] Starting in the '80s,

a small group of very ambitious
Chinese contemporary artists

began exploring the
international art discourse.

And these artists really shaped the
contemporary Chinese art dialogue,

and the first in a long time

to be Chinese artists but
also international artists.

I'm a big believer in art as
an international language.

I would consider Dominic

the most important patron of Chinese
contemporary art in America by far.

[narrator] With East West
diversifying its cultural portfolio,

the bank found a partner
in its own backyard.

[Kwan] Mommy. Uh-huh.

Is everything okay with
Kalista? Yeah. [laughs]

[in Cantonese]

[in English] Yeah.
She's very hungry.

Then she's... She
needs a little nap.

I'm at the rink right now.
I've got a quick interview.

I should be back in about
an hour. Okay? Thank you.

[in Cantonese]

[in English] Okay. Bye-bye.

[announcer]
Representing the USA,

- Michelle Kwan.
- [audience cheering, clapping]

[car lock chirps]

- Hey! Good. You too.
- Michelle, how are you? Good to see you.

[Kwan] Hi! Wait. Ice
is ready. Let's go.

- [audience cheering]
- [commentator] It's not just a legacy,

but an example that she has provided
so many of the young skaters.

- Dominic. How are you?
- Hey. Good to see you.

- Good to see you too.
- Hey, look at all these.

- [laughs]
- It brings back great memories for me.

You know, my family, my
parents, my brother, sisters,

my nephew and nieces, my kids,

we all watched every one
of your competitions.

"Here comes the new
superstar of America."

[audience cheering]

[commentator] Well, in
basketball, there is MJ.

In figure skating, there's MK.

Michelle Kwan.

- [Kwan] My father, you can see...
- [Ng] Of course.

His credential right there.

It says "coach and choreographer."
He was not a choreographer.

But at certain parts of my career,
my parents couldn't afford a coach.

- It's really an immigrant story.
- Yep.

My parents immigrated in
their early 20s with nothing,

worked his way up from a busboy,
to owning a Chinese restaurant,

to giving us opportunities
to skate and dream.

[commercial narrator] Michelle Kwan
appreciates that, as good as she is,

she can always be better.

At East West Bank,

we share that same philosophy,

pursuing excellence
in everything we do.

East West Bank, one of the
nation's best performing banks,

and Michelle Kwan's bank.

Wouldn't it be nice to have Michelle
Kwan to be our spokesperson?

Because we looked
at it and said,

"You're the most decorated ice
skater in the history of the world.

And on top of that,

Asian American, immigrant
story of your parents,

and who knows better
about East and West

than you, who
personify, you know,

this East and West in
pursuit of your excellence?"

[Kwan] Winning or losing,
it wasn't about that.

It was about the journey of getting on
the ice every day and doing what I love.

All I had to do was
look at a little skater

with the excitement to
get back on the ice,

and it reminded me,

"Okay, that's how I started and
that's how I'm gonna continue."

[commentator] Seven-time
U.S. champion, Michelle Kwan.

[audience cheering]

[narrator] Shortly after this
interview, Michelle Kwan was confirmed

as the United States
Ambassador to Belize.

[rock music playing]

Sometimes, bridges
are built over ice.

Other times, bridges are
composed with a rock star.

I have to thank you, because
you are the sole person

that is completely responsible
for me having a solo career.

Oh, my gosh. Thank you.

As you will recall, you called me up one
day right after Katrina had happened,

and you said, "We have to do
something to help these people."

I said, "What do you wanna do?"

He said, "Well, I know
the mayor of Cerritos,

and I'm certain I could get

the Cerritos Center for
the Performing Arts.

If you can get the talent,

- we can do a benefit show."
- Mm-hmm.

[Felder] All the money that
comes in from this event tonight,

every dollar from every ticket sale
will go to the American Red Cross

and will go directly to
the victims of Katrina.

[playing rock music]

I had to put together
my first solo band

- and rehearse to play that show.
- [Ng] Uh-huh.

And I was a little nervous,
to tell you the truth.

I mean, I've walked out
and played on stages

for 120,000 people
with the Eagles,

but this was just me, you know, and
it was just a wonderful experience.

And after that, we've become
great friends for all these years.

- When was that? 2005, I think?
- [Ng] Yep, yep.

[Felder] So that was
almost 20 years ago

- that that was happening.
- [Ng] Yes.

I represented the United
States to an ABAC meeting

that Biden appointed me to do.

And so I was in Vietnam. We
had four days of meetings.

It started 8:00 in the morning
till about 5:00 to 6:00.

After that, they always put out
this incredible gala dinner.

First night,

traditional Vietnamese
and Chinese music.

And then they transitioned and start
playing these pop tunes from Taiwan.

- [Felder] Wow.
- Suddenly,

"Hotel California"...

- [laughing] Is that right?
- In Chinese classical music.

- That's what they did.
- I would've loved to have heard that.

- How exciting!
- I was just like, "Are you kidding me?"

I mean, here in Vietnam.

I'm gonna need to make
sure to find a way

to get you involved with ABAC and
then to play "Hotel California",

because I know all of those 20
countries' representatives, they all...

Whenever "Hotel California"
is being played, they love it.

[laughing] I would
love to do that.

[reporter] There was a big change
today in the banking industry.

First Citizens Bank purchased
much of Silicon Valley Bank,

which collapsed earlier this month
and rattled banks around the world.

[Elam] Minority
banks are important

because of the role that
they play in communities.

These are banks that
were born out of racism.

Now, a question that I commonly get
asked is, "Do they still matter today?"

[reporter] Something was
gonna break in the economy.

Right? And this is what broke.

[Ng] At a good time, you
think, "This is great,"

In a bad time,
"This is terrible."

One decides to make a run
and take their deposit out,

everybody else follows.

[Elam] People started asking
the question, "Is my money safe?

And is my money safe at a small bank,
a regional bank, a community bank?"

[Oh] The thought was,
"Okay, larger banks

are the only ones that
are gonna be saved."

That kind of knee-jerk reaction
or fear-driven reaction,

you know, certainly a hit to
the overall faith in the system.

I think the negative outcome from that
was something that was very concerning.

[James] The National Bankers Association
is also celebrating its 95th year,

and we were so thrilled to have
East West Bank join our association.

The NBA is dedicated to
eliminating the racial wealth gap,

so it was so meaningful and
symbolic for East West Bank to join.

[Kiyota] East West Bank started nearly
50 years ago right here in Los Angeles.

And the reason why our founders
put the charter together

was because Asian Americans
could not get bank accounts

from mainstream banks, because
of racism and discrimination.

But the irony is that the founders,
the Asian American founders,

needed friends in the Italian
community, their neighbors,

to get the federal government's
authorization for a charter.

Banking is so powerful.

When you really understand
how America works,

a banking relationship is critical
to every important decision

- that you make in your life.
- [inaudible dialogue]

[James] Whether you buy a home,
buy a car, start a business,

banking is so key
to all of that.

And to make sure that people of
color and disadvantaged people

have access to
credit and capital

is really to give them
access to the American Dream.

But I couldn't do it without a partner
like you, without a friend like you,

and without a friend
like East West Bank.

[narrator] The last major bank
crisis occurred over 15 years ago,

imposed similar problems
for regional banks.

During 2008, and also
the early part of 2009,

I had a lot of sleepless nights.

[reporter 1] We're
down over 16%.

[reporter 2] The Dow, at the
same time, has fallen about 18%.

The financial crisis in 2008, I never
saw it coming with that kind of velocity.

[reporter 3] It was the worst day on
Wall Street since the crash of 1987.

I knew something bad was gonna happen,
but I had no idea it would get so bad.

[reporter 4] This could be the
most serious recession in decades.

[Krause] It was the
most scariest time.

You know, every bank, if they're honest
with themselves, they were scared.

If you're a bank, you're like a
store. Your inventory is cash.

But banks can run out of cash.

[reporter 5] They started
lining up before dawn here

to get into IndyMac Bank
as soon as the doors open,

so they could get
their money out.

[Oh] I think, before that point in time,
I think there was a lot of discussion

that the credit crisis was
really only subprime mortgages.

It wouldn't impact other
banks, banks such as ourselves.

We spent a lot of time really
focusing on the liquidity

and making people comfortable.

We had plenty of equity.
We had plenty of capital.

When there first were kind of signs
that things weren't going so good

and before bank
stocks collapsed,

Dominic said, "We're gonna
raise a bunch of money,

so whatever happens, it's okay."

I felt pretty confident that I could
get through this challenging time.

Trust is a big factor.

Had our customers not trusted
in East West management,

not trusted in our branch staff,

they would all pull
their money out.

[Krause] We were fortunate to actually
come out of the Great Recession

stronger than we went into it.

Our largest rival
at the time failed.

They did run out of cash.

The FDIC shut them down.

The FDIC would always sell the banks,
too, usually to a very large bank.

In this case, they
let us buy it.

We knew that this
would be something

that is such a major
transformative event

by, you know, like, combining

two out of the three largest
Chinese American banks, you know,

that combination will
dominate the market by far.

[Ng] East West did
not have branches

in New York, Georgia,
Massachusetts.

And we are now picking
up those branches.

In addition to that,

United Commercial Bank had
a subsidiary bank in China,

and we end up taking over.

[Oh] The U.S. is a country
with many, many banks.

There's thousands
of banks out there.

You know, the scale and the size
does matter as far as the reach.

So we actually benefit enormously
from the global financial crisis.

[narrator] Seizing
on the moment,

East West would almost
double their assets,

allowing the bank to
explore new opportunities.

Those new industries
included clean energy,

professional sports,
and entertainment.

[Ng] Studios from China
were coming to Hollywood

looking into co-production,
collaboration.

[Pozil] One of my specialized
areas is entertainment.

It's an area that he
wanted to be into,

and even though he didn't have,

you know, a team already doing
this, per se, he already knew it.

Two years later, we really
started to make strong headway

lending to TV and film
companies in China,

financing their TV shows,
financing their movies.

And things just really, really
took off for us at that point.

[Ng] I told Bennett, we need to
really focus into using our knowledge,

expertise, and connection
with the Chinese studios.

I think it worked out very well.

Our unique value proposition was valued
by most of the studios in Hollywood.

On the TV side, you
know, like Tyler Perry,

Orange Is the New Black.

I remember when we first
got into the film business,

there were Oscar-nominated films
such as Silver Linings Playbook,

Django Unchained,

Crazy Rich Asians,

and also A24's movie Everything
Everywhere All at Once.

That business had been
growing very nicely for us.

[narrator] Another initiative
on East West's expansion

was clean energy and a partnership
with a forward-thinking factory.

[Girardot] BYD is actually
a multifaceted company.

We call ourselves the global
leader in electrification.

BYD stands for
"Build Your Dreams,"

and we believe that that's
really what our company is about,

is building dreams.

So we're the largest manufacturer
of electric vehicles in the world.

- [Alvarez] Hey, sir.
- [Lin] How are you, sir?

- Good, good. Everything good?
- [man] Everything's good.

- [Alvarez] Good job.
- [Lin] Thank you. Appreciate it.

Happy Friday.

[Girardot] People talk about, like,
cultural bridges and financial bridges

between the East and the West.

Where the rubber meets the road is,
you know, in a factory like this,

where you see African American and
the Latino and the Chinese workers

all together on
the same project,

and with a single
orientation to get it done.

That's the real bridge, is the
bridge between our cultures,

and this company
embodies that spirit

more than any place else
you'll find on Earth.

- [Lin] Yousef.
- [Alvarez] How are you?

[Lin] Happy Friday.

[Alvarez] When I started here, I
didn't have any kind of experience

with manufacturing or anything.

Based on kind of being
a second-chance company,

and I think that they
just went out on a limb

and gave me an opportunity here.

So I started doing, just as a technician,
doing the bond on the floors, you know,

and just regular
installation on the bus.

- After about six months, I became a lead.
- [indistinct chatter]

[Alvarez] And then very
shortly after that,

they had told me that they
wanted me to be a supervisor.

Very shortly after that, they
offered me the manager position.

So it's been very good here.
They've been very good to me.

[Girardot] It's interesting
to me that in the 1840s,

when they were building this
railroad across the country,

that the bulk of the
workers were Chinese.

And now here we are, you know,
150, almost 200 years later,

and we have this Chinese company

that's building the future of, you
know, transit in the United States.

[Lin]

There's so many different people, so
many different backgrounds here, right?

We have Chinese, Mexican,
Black, white, everything.

We have a slogan here, right? "One
team BYD," and we all are one.

[Lin]

[narrator] Furthering its
presence in mainstream America,

East West signed one of the most
famous brands in Los Angeles.

[announcer] Tonight's tip-off is
brought to you by East West Bank.

[Ng] I think sport
transcends race.

Everybody gets along.

Everybody gets excited.

And they don't care whether
they're Black or white,

as long as you win,

everybody cheers.

[Buss] What I love about sports is
that it brings everybody together.

We've just seen this massive growth
since the advent of social media.

And of the over 300 million
Laker fans on social media,

70% are from the
Asia-Pacific region.

Kobe Bryant was, you
know, a visionary.

He could see things.

[crowd chanting]
Kobe! Kobe! Kobe!

[Buss] And he knew that
by visiting overseas

and going particularly to
the Asia-Pacific region

and connecting with
the fans there,

that really laid a groundwork for
people to become Kobe Bryant fans,

which then translated to
them becoming Laker fans.

He created a worldwide fanbase

that continues on
with the Lakers.

I wanna congratulate
everybody here

- on a very good turnout.
- [woman] I want your baby!

- [laughter]
- Um, we couldn't have asked for more.

You know, we just
continue to grow

and raise awareness for
eradicating homelessness.

[Buss] When we started working
together with East West Bank,

our goals were so similar

and our styles were very similar

in terms of what our priorities
are with our business,

and through things like sports or
the arts, you break down barriers.

[narrator] While East West was
breaking down cultural barriers,

the Asian American community
would suffer a setback in 2016.

- [audience clapping, laughing]
- Yeah.

It's okay. It's okay.

Thanks, guys. Thanks a lot.

If anybody's upset about that joke,
just tweet about it on your phone

that was also made
by these kids, okay?

[audience laughing]

[Janet Yang] I was
part of this protest

against the jokes made
about Asians by Chris Rock

when he was the
host of the Oscars.

That year was 2016.

It was the year when the meme
"Oscars so white" came into being.

So it struck us as being
even more devastating

when those Asian jokes appeared.

How come there's
no Oscar for them

very hard-working,
little yellow people

- with tiny dongs?
- [audience laughing]

And it just was like a stab
to our stomachs, you know?

And I started calling
everybody I knew

who was potentially an
Academy member that was Asian,

and we started collecting names,
and names, and more names.

And we found, indeed, there were
over a hundred Asian Academy members.

And that alone was
surprising to me.

So that was literally
the spontaneous beginning

of a feeling of we should be
a community unto ourselves.

I think understanding racism,

understanding stereotypes,
understanding unconscious bias,

that's a long process, and
the Academy took it on,

but it doesn't mean we, overnight,
you know, learned our lessons.

Right after that,

Janet Yang organized a group of our
Asian and Asian American members

and came to meet with
the Academy leadership.

We were in the Academy board
room. I remember it well.

People bared their souls.

They said, "We've lived with these
kinds of caricatures and stereotypes

our whole lives.

We want to be in dialogue with
the leadership of the Academy,

and we want you to understand

what you represent to our
world and to our community,

and we wanna help
you do it better."

And so that began a
fantastic collaboration.

Now East West Bank sponsors

what I think is the most popular
gallery in the entire museum,

which is the Oscars Experience.

And then he became a trustee
of the Academy Museum

and a very active member.

And, to me, finding
these win-win situations

is just the best in the world.

[narrator] Shortly
after this interview,

Janet Yang was elected
president of the Academy,

making this a first
for Asian Americans.

As Asian Americans
gained visibility,

now was the time to gain
prominence in the mainstream.

[Bing Chen] We started with media
because we can't be what we can't see.

In 2018, it had been 25 years

since there was an all-Asian
lead cast of a major studio film.

But luckily, one of our founding
members, director Jon M. Chu,

had this crazy film
called Crazy Rich Asians.

We ended up buying out theaters,

mass mobilizing tens of thousands
of Asian and non-Asian moviegoers

to the point where it became

the highest-rated rom-com
in more than a decade.

Since then, Gold
House's marketing arm

has supported more than a
hundred Asian-Pacific films

to mass cultural prominence.

I am paying attention.

[Bing Chen] When you
actually look at history,

we don't just
deserve to be seen.

We have been essential in leading
so much of the creative industry.

All this work can't just be
about how we're struggling

and where society
has done us poorly.

It has to be about where we're strong
and how we build that strength together.

[audience cheering, clapping]

[Yeoh] I've been fortunate to be
in this industry for over 40 years,

and blessed to have seen this, first
hand, how movies bring cultures together.

Not only do they provide us

with valuable insight
into each other's lives,

but representation in entertainment shapes
the global cultural landscape of today.

And the Oscar goes to...

Michelle Yeoh. Everything
Everywhere All at Once.

[Yeoh] This is a time for
empowerment. Things are changing.

We must continue to be relentless
for our fight for our place

through excellence in our work
and the support of our community.

[reporter] Why do you keep
calling this "the Chinese virus"?

There are reports of
dozens of incidents of bias

against Chinese Americans in this
country. Why do you keep using this?

- A lot of people say it's racist.
- Because it comes from China.

It's not racist at
all. No, not at all.

It comes from China.

Go back to whatever [bleep]
Asian country you belong in!

I would say that
from 2017 to today,

we are without a doubt a
bridge over troubled water.

We are talking about navigating
in rough seas, you know,

with the tariff, and
later on, pandemic,

and with the Trump
administration

constantly talking
about "the China virus."

and then there was anti-Asian hate that
was going on throughout the country.

[reporter 1] As reports of coronavirus
have spread across the U.S.,

so have incidents of
anti-Asian violence.

[reporter 2] The FBI
recently issued a warning

about a potential
spike in hate crimes.

You know, I'd love to think that
AAPI hate was just something new

or that came out of racism
from leaders during a pandemic,

but I can't say
that two blocks away

from where the largest lynching
in American history took place.

I think if we don't learn history,
we're doomed to repeat it.

[trolley bell rings]

[trolley rattling]

[Julian Ng] When I first
landed at Central Station,

it was really the
middle of the pandemic.

- It was 2021, early 2021.
- [indistinct chatter]

[Julian Ng] We had a lot
of issues with AAPI hate.

As a police department, we
started looking at our seniors

and how our seniors were
victimized in crime.

One of the things that we saw were
crimes just not in the streets,

but crime... financial
crimes, as well.

Why are Asians
such easy targets?

You know, is it the stigma of
Asians always having money?

They always carry money on them?

Why? Because you don't
trust banks, maybe.

Maybe it's a cultural thing.

How can we build that trust
between banks and our seniors?

[Chung] Self-Help is a 56-year-old
community-based organization

started right here in San
Francisco's Chinatown.

Seniors are sometimes not used
to the Western banking system.

You know, many of
them keep their cash

in their little rooms where
they live, or in their homes.

Very unsafe, right?

But when Social Security

and the Supplemental
Security Income system change

and force them to
have direct deposit,

then every one of them
will have a bank account.

[Julian Ng] SROs and other
landlords that are around,

they only accept cashier's
checks as payments.

So, what they have to do
is take that money out

and get a cashier's check
so they can pay their rent.

So, what we found out
that was happening was

they wouldn't get the
cashier's check from the bank

because it costs $10,

whereas they can just
take their money out

and then walk over and get into
another line at the post office

and wait there to get a
cashier's check for $5.

I think it's a big
cultural thing.

If I look at my parents,

I know my mom would walk ten
blocks to save one penny.

So now people know that they're gonna
get, like, $1000 or more in their pocket

when they get the cash out,

and then they have to walk several
blocks, right, to the post office,

and people watch them.

And then the anti-Asian
hate started too.

Unprovoked attacks were happening
to our most vulnerable seniors.

[in Chinese]

[Chung] Our captain of our
central police station asked me,

"What could the community do?"

So I took Julian and introduced him
to Travis at the East West Bank,

and really requested Travis

to see if the bank could
lower the money order fees

in order to save one
step for the elderly.

So if they come into the East
West Bank and get their money,

they buy one money order
and pay the landlord

without bringing out all the
cash and walk several blocks.

[in Chinese]

You know, East West Bank really
was our savior during the pandemic.

[Julian Ng] East West really took
to the idea and really ran with it.

You know, about two months
after that conversation,

they came back to me
and said, "Guess what.

We lowered our fees. Our fees
are $1.75 now for all seniors."

But not just locally.
Across the nation.

And now they're looking
at all the other banks,

and I'm looking at all the
other banks and saying,

"Okay, it's time to
follow their lead."

[narrator] Just an hour
north of San Francisco,

another leader in the
Asian American community

continues to fight
for inclusion.

[Low] I'm a fourth-generation
Californian,

speaking more Spanish than I do Chinese,
and yet I feel like a perpetual foreigner.

And as I learned more
about civic engagement,

about the history

of Asian Pacific Islanders in
California and the United States,

I quickly began to realize the
obligation that I had to the community.

And then one thing leads to
another, and then all of a sudden,

people are asking you to run for office,
and you never think of such a thing.

Here I am.

I understand the experiences
that many of us face,

not feeling like we are truly American,
and trying to find that sense of identity,

which then gets us back to
some of the cultural norms.

Keeping quiet, don't
stand out too much.

But again, in this era, in
this time that we're living in,

we need to help get outside
of our comfort zones

and realize that we are
interconnected in our shared success.

East West has a long
history of being involved

in uplifting the Asian
Pacific Islander community,

but being part of the
community at large.

Understanding the impact to small,
minority-owned businesses is critical,

and the lifeline for so
many of us in the community.

And that's where the
partnership and the realization

that there's an obligation beyond
just the bottom business line

and the model is to that of being
interconnected in the community.

[narrator] During the pandemic, we learned
a lot about ourselves and the world,

how we are similar and
how we are different.

Shanghai shut down.

Tonight, there's growing outrage
over the Chinese government's

increasingly harsh COVID restrictions
in the biggest city in China.

[Ng] During the pandemic...

every one of my branch staff had to
show up to work every single day.

So when the quarantine requirement
was mandated in Shanghai,

everybody had to stay home.

But there's got to be a few
people staying in the office 24/7.

So I have three young
men who volunteered.

[Yuan in Mandarin]

["In the Joy" by JJ Lin playing]

♪ Be they non-believer
We still keep the faith ♪

♪ We hold back tears
Smiles on our face... ♪

[Ng in English] They said,
"We can tough it out."

So they went to the office,
volunteered for four days.

But four days later,
the Shanghai government

decided to extend
the quarantine time.

And next thing happened,

seven days and then 14 days,

- and then one month.
- Good night.

[Yang in Mandarin]

♪ Raise a noise... ♪

[all laughing]

♪ In the joy, in the joy ♪

[Ng in English] Staying in office
without their family members

and not knowing when
they could come out.

[in Mandarin]

Hmm...

[Ng in English] It's one
thing about, "I know, 67 days.

I can count the days. I'm
down to the last ten."

It's another one, is that, "Hmm.
Would I ever get out?" Right?

[Yang in Mandarin]

[Yang laughs]

♪ You and I... ♪

[in English]

- Okay. I will give you...
- I love you.

Love you. I love you.

- I love you.
- You. I love you too.

I love you too.

I have a very good perspective
in terms of the difference

between American
culture and Chinese.

They're very different.

America:

individual rights first.

Democracy, freedom of speech.

And then I look at China,

society first,
individual second.

[printer whirring]

I'm not making judgment
here and there.

There's no right or wrong,
who's better than the other.

I just look at it as
a different culture.

It's a different philosophy.

[all in Mandarin]

[narrator] East West will always
serve the Asian American communities.

But as Chinatown
diversified, so did the bank.

East West Bank started 50 years ago for
the purpose of helping the unbanked.

Helping them to survive.

Helping them to hopefully transition
from poverty to middle class.

For the last almost
three decades now,

I decided that we
could do better.

Instead of just keep helping,

just to pull, to
transition to middle class,

I feel a bit more ambitious.

Why should East West Bank be pigeonholed
only to serve the Asian immigrants?

Why can't we be also
serving the mainstream?

Why can't we be supportive of
the African American community

and the Latino community?

By East West stepping up,

acting like we are part of
the community and we belong,

I do feel that it
makes a big difference.

[classical music
playing on speaker]

[woman on speaker] Welcome
to the East West Bancorp's

first quarter 2023
earnings conference call.

[analyst]

You know, we have always
had a very strict principle

in terms of we gotta
run our balance sheet

in a very prudent,
conservative way.

So if you can see, despite the
turmoil, well, we're down 2%.

When you looked at the anxiety
going on, you know, in the market,

news about, you know, "Regional banks,
are they all in trouble and whatnot?"

You know, we do need to make sure
that we demonstrate to our customers

that East West is the last
thing they need to worry about.

We've done it. And
so far, so good.

[Irving] My first experience with East
West was all the way back in 1980,

and spent my time
representing banks

and savings institutions,
typically community institutions.

Of all of the institutions,

East West has been the one that emerged
and thrived and succeeded and grew

in ways that would have
been hard to imagine.

[Ng] There's no way America
can do without regional banks.

Many of us have that
big bank's capability,

but do it in a much more intimate
way with their customers.

The difference is that
we're much smaller,

so we have a substantially better
ability to connect, to interact,

and also to build trust,
to build relationships.

[Irving] So what distinguishes
a bank? It's really two things.

One is: Does it have
special characteristics?

A special niche?

And two is execution.

It's the quality of
management and leadership,

the dedication of employees,

the commitment to customer
and client and client service.

East West has just done
an extraordinary job

over many, many, many years.

In many ways, the growth
and success of East West,

you know, follows the
growth and success

- of Chinese Americans, Asian Americans.
- [inaudible dialogue]

[Oh] The success that we've had,

and, you know, watching
the bank continue to grow

is something that has
been very valuable for me.

[Irving] When we ultimately have
succession in Dominic's role,

the person or people who
succeed won't be Dominic.

They'll be different.

But we fully expect
that when that happens,

they'll be people of great talent
and great care and commitment.

[inaudible dialogue]

[Irving] And again, Dominic
is not going anywhere.

He'll be watching very
closely, I'm very sure.

[anchor] In 2022, President Biden
appointed East West Bank's CEO, Dominic Ng

to chair the Asia-focused
Business Advisory Council.

But last week, a group
of House Republicans

decided to take it upon themselves
to write a letter to the FBI

demanding that Mr. Ng
be investigated

for potentially violating
the Espionage Act.

Their allegation is that this
prominent Chinese American businessman,

whose bank is all about
connecting the East and the West,

was secretly connected to China.

[Ng] I was initially kind of
shocked, and it was so ridiculous.

This is something completely brand-new
and kind of hits you in the core,

because it's not like I know
exactly how to deal with it.

[Dreier] I've known Dominic
Ng for nearly 30 years.

One of the things that brought us together
is our shared, passionate commitment

about enhancing the relationship

between China and the
United States of America.

We can't forget the critically
important tool of diplomacy,

which Dominic believes in,
and it's what he's doing

as the head of the Business
Advisory Council for APEC.

[Buik] It was just shocking
to me that that could happen

to the embodiment of
the American dream.

That's how I think of Dominic.

And a business leader who has built
up such a track record of success

and commitment to the
community and the nation.

If he can be attacked
this way, anybody can.

[anchor] Democratic Congresswoman
Judy Chu and several other members

of the Congressional Asian
Pacific American Caucus

responded by publishing
their own statement.

[Chu] It was important
for us to speak out.

One of those Congress members

that was on that letter accused
me of being a spy for China.

It made the stereotype that no
matter how long we've been here,

we Asian Americans are
foreigners in our own land.

This is just more BS
from the right wing.

I mean, they have no clue
what they're talking about.

The far right was looking
to attack the president,

and so they picked on Dominic.

[narrator] One community
that knows all too well

about having your
loyalty questioned

is the Japanese Americans.

[Fujioka] At the Japanese
American National Museum,

our mission is to preserve the
stories of the Japanese community,

but more importantly,
to share those stories

to hopefully ensure that
what happened in 1942

never happens to
another community.

East West Bank spent years
helping the unbanked.

In fact, the whole purpose of
why East West Bank was founded

was to tackle against racism against
Asian Americans and immigrants.

It's kind of ironic.

Fifty years later, we ended up having
me dealing with the same old thing

that's why the bank
started to begin with.

We're in 2023 and this
nonsense continues.

To attack a man of his honor and
integrity is both sad and outrageous.

It's incumbent on all of us,

regardless of race, color,
creed, politics, to stand up.

Asian Americans in the past and even
today, we're not being treated equal.

I know it's not fair,
but we do the best we can

to prove ourselves that
we belong to this country.

[insects trilling]

[narrator] Over the last 50 years,
East West has connected businesses

and people from
around the world,

but its roots will
always be in America.

And on a farm in New Jersey, there
is an artist on a similar path.

[Deitch] Cai Guo-Qiang is
a very profound artist.

There are many
aspects to his work.

First, I would say I admire
his entrepreneurial spirit

and he does remarkable things.

He's like a builder,
someone who conceives

of a giant real estate development where
there was nothing and makes it happen,

or an inventor who has an idea

and creates an
extraordinary innovation.

And seeing that someone like Dominic
Ng can relate a lot to Cai Guo-Qiang.

There's something in
common with their ambition

and their ability to
achieve big things.

[Guo-Qiang in Mandarin]

[woman in English] He
will do it like this...

[in Mandarin]

[in English] Okay?

- [woman] Everyone ready?
- [man] Yeah.

[Guo-Qiang in Mandarin]

[in English] Money to me, originally,
was to help my community get the respect

so that we would not be
discriminated against.

[Garcetti] Money is about
the level of freedom we have.

And when people don't have money,
it's their lack of freedom.

Money means opportunity to be able
to do what I want to do in my life.

The ice skating dream.

[Guo-Qiang in Mandarin]

[Ng in English] Money is a tool.

It can help people advance
self-interest or pursue public good.

Our founders at East West Bank used money
to help immigrants overcome prejudice.

I want to empower
everyone to reach further,

to walk across that bridge
that connects us all.

["In the Joy" by JJ Lin playing]

♪ Be they non-believer
We still keep the faith ♪

♪ We hold back tears
Smiles on our face ♪

♪ I can clearly see it
We are all the same ♪

♪ We all need love When
we're healing pain ♪

♪ Differences keep us distanced
though We really oughta let 'em go ♪

♪ We can multiply If
we become united ♪

♪ Love's in full supply
So let's just reach some ♪

♪ Satisfaction has arrived ♪

♪ Come together, you and I ♪

♪ Feel connection,
raise a noise ♪

♪ All enamored in the joy ♪

♪ In the joy ♪

♪ You and I ♪

♪ You and I, yeah ♪

♪ You and I ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ We become achievers
When we keep the pace ♪

♪ We weather storms And
make 'em brighter days ♪

♪ I can clearly see it
We are all the same ♪

♪ We can't hold grudges
Toward a single aim ♪

♪ When you're down and
out I'm with you though ♪

♪ A pick me up when
things are low ♪

♪ If we multiply each side ♪

♪ We can simply be
going together now ♪

♪ Let's just fly through
blue skies And feel some ♪

♪ Satisfaction has arrived ♪

♪ Come together, you and I ♪

♪ Feel connection,
raise a noise ♪

♪ All enamored in the joy ♪

♪ In the joy ♪

♪ You and I ♪

♪ You and I, yeah ♪

♪ You and I ♪

♪ You ready? ♪

♪ When we do it May we
do it for the joy, joy? ♪

♪ When we do it Can we
do it for the joy? ♪

♪ When we do it May we
do it for the joy, joy? ♪

♪ Can we do it for the joy? ♪

♪ Satisfaction has arrived ♪

♪ Come together, you and I ♪

♪ Feel connection,
raise a noise ♪

♪ Raise a noise ♪

♪ All enamored in the joy ♪

♪ In the joy ♪