China’s TOTAL COLLAPSE Mega Projects FAIL Across Country - Episode #269
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Yeah, welcome. It's episode 269. Trying to get the energy up, you know? Yeah, you know. Our energy is up. We're trying to get your energy up. Correct. Welcome to the China Show. Not me projecting at all. No.

No, this is a big one. It's huge. The real China show, guys. Can I be honest about something? We forgot to make one of those freaking... Coming up. Coming up. Because this show is nuts. If there was a show that needed that, it's this episode. Yeah. It's crazy. It is. So go out there. Share this out on your socials if you can right now. At the very least, can you please give us a thumbs up? Yeah. Please. We'd love that. Get this on people's feeds. They need to see this one.

We were just talking about in the green room, which we had right before this. That's why we're all amped up. Yep. We had the green room right before this. You can get that on Patreon, but at the lowest tier. And we were talking on the green room about how we went on the news feed today. Yeah. And it was 100% positive news about China. 100%. And we're like, how is this so in opposition to what we're about to cover? Can you imagine...

Going onto the news feed and seeing 100% positive news about America. Dude, only imagine that. Yeah, that'd be interesting. There's nothing bad about Trump. There's nothing bad about the economy. There's nothing bad about anything. No, homeless, illegal, and this and that. Just only good stuff. It's like everything's working out. Yes. That's what the news is about China right now. It's kind of insane. Anyway, guys, it's time for us to saunter right into it with what's new because we've got a lot to cover and it's all good.

Well, all good and interesting. We're starting out with Roberts, as per usual. Yes, Chinese Roberts, as they call them. You guys have seen the robotics industry. Yes. They also have robotic cars, right? You can play this. Okay, okay, all right. The problem with these is that they're self-driving, and they're for package delivery. Yes. All right.

They drive around, but their autonomous systems are awful. Yes. They are causing car accidents. They're driving through pedestrian crosswalks. They drive through red lights. They drive through red lights. Yeah. They're very, very bad. And the thing is, we actually found that clip.

With the audio restored because as you know if you've been watching the kind of the robotics industry in China They all have the same kind of sentient personality very very lewd very lewd and aggressive Wow

Okay, well, calm down. Very aggressive, isn't it? And the thing is, he got mad because he was trying to get through the crosswalk there and everyone's getting in his way. I think it should be the other way around. I mean, China is such a chaotic place on the roads. It's just insane to me that they would allow these self-driving vehicles on the roads of China. Yes.

I want to ask you as a human, don't you think the humans should be rising up? They're running away. Did you see that? Yeah. They're running away from the Roberts. Yeah. Don't in the Roberts are getting mad at the humans. Don't you think it should be the other way? I played that clip that we, that we show. Oh yeah, of course. We got the Roberts clip. They're fighting humans. Humans are not fighting them. It's time to rise up against our like, you know, metal overlords or whatever. Yes. So, uh, look here guys on the 19th of June, um,

pretty awful thing happened. This building burned down and killed people and then it was immediately demolished overnight. That's so sus.

Yeah, because that's not normal, okay? So a building caught fire. Yeah. Okay, of course there were deaths involved, which is awful. Kids, yeah, kids. Yeah. But, okay, part of the building collapsed, but they came in and demolished it overnight. Yes. Like what? Like, right? Like, actually, as it was smoldering. Yeah, it's really suspect, right? Like, why would you do that? Why would you just come and, you know? Well, I can tell you why. Why? Why?

I can give you my opinion, I can give you what was pulled off the internet. Like, the Chinese internet got censored about this topic. Look, it's the same night and they bring the excavators in. It's still on fire. Yeah, you can see it's still smoldering. They're like, "Let's just tear this whole thing down." So what happened is locals speculate that the fire was actually set on purpose. So people didn't want to move out of this building. Remember in China you can't own land. Yeah. Right, so the government has to reclaim land.

They actually hire thugs and cops to go in there. Turns into these great battles. It's nuts. Yeah. Speculation is that people didn't want to move out of this building.

building. Well, they never do because here's the thing. If you happen to be in a building that's on land that the local government wants to reclaim to sell to a developer. Yeah. If you hold out longer, they will pay you more usually. Yes. Right. So they'll hold out for as long as possible. Some people actually just don't want to move. Yeah. Because that's where they've been living. Especially in China where your old home and your where your residence permit is, is tied exactly to where you're from.

Now don't get this wrong, people do not own land in China. That's not their land, okay? But the building that's on the land belongs to them. Okay, because when you buy a house in China or you buy an apartment, you own those bricks. Right. But it's like this concrete box in the sky. You don't own the land. But you can't get your house moved until your lease is up. That's why they offer them, okay, listen, we'll pay you X amount of money to move out so we can demolish it, right? Right.

But most people, they hold out because first of all, they don't want to move. Second of all, if they hold out longer, they can get paid more. So like you said, thugs are usually hired to intimidate. I'll pause it here. Yeah.

Yeah. Usually they hire thugs to intimidate, like you say. Okay. And they'll come in there, a big crowd of them, and they're like, get out of here. Sometimes when people go out to like buy food at the market, they'll come and demolish the house. They'll wait until like they're out. Yeah. When they're out of the house. They do all these sneaky things and they have over, you know, a long period of time. But setting fire to a building is another way to get rid of it. Yes. So the people online are like, they're probably setting this building on fire to force the people out. Yeah.

Set the building on fire. People die in the building. Then they go, oh, shit. That's blowing up into a bad story. We set this building on fire because they wouldn't evacuate because we want to tear it down. The government said we have to tear it down. Remember in China, if the government says something, you have to do it. Then the people online go,

Wait a minute. So they're probably actually just trying to... Within hours of this fire, they're demolishing it in the middle of the night. Yeah. I mean, they need to demolish a building, right? Remember, they tasked whoever these thugs are...

this low-level government people have said like get those people out of here no matter what okay so they're like well what how do we get rid of them i know let's just set it on fire and then they'll run out of there so they set it on fire they don't care about the people and they're like good the people are out now let's just get rid of the building and then we're done we get our payment you know so why is and again to tie this back to what we're just saying we open the show yeah the idea that where where is this news story

Yeah, where is it? Why are two random YouTubers on livestream right now talking about this? Yes, this is like eight days ago. This is not a long time ago. Yeah, I just pulled up an article about like why China is cool now. Is it? Is it? It's not cool, dude. It's hot. Only during winter. It's hot. Guys, give this a thumbs up. We want to get this on feeds because this is important. These kind of stories are important for people to see. Sure.

So anyway, forced demolition is still a big issue in China. And it's honestly one of the only ways that local governments can bring their GDP up. Yes. Because they kick the people off the land where they've leased. Or if they're part of a farming collective, you're supposed to have a certain amount of land to be able to farm.

Whatever the case, there are people on there, they get them off, then they sell that land. Well, the lease, because you can't sell it. It belongs to the government. They lease that land to real estate developers. Real estate developers then say, we're building a new high rise. Come here, everybody. Put down your investment money. And they get all the money before they've even broken ground. Yep.

Because people think they speculate, right? They're like, I'm going to buy this apartment. It'll be worth five times more in a couple of years. True, true. And that's how it goes. So the local governments make money by leasing land to real estate developments. And that's why you see these crazy situations where they demolish buildings before they're finished. Because if a real estate developer runs out of money and they can't finish or whatever, the government's like, well, guess what? We're just going to demolish that stuff and then we can lease the land again to a different developer. Yes. And bring in more money. It's like rinse and repeat. I have to address something in chat right now. Yeah.

So many people right now. And I want you guys in chat right now. Tell me yes or no. Did you get a notification for this? Because a lot of people just pulling in live right now because they did not get a notification and they just happened to remember that we start at five o'clock. Yeah. Right. Interesting.

Just want to know, did you guys get a notification or not? Because I'll tell you what, I'm not playing into this whole like we need to just only cover predetermined headlines by mainstream media. Sure. We're here to show you actually what's happening in China. It's very important. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, here we've got a train derailment. You know, this is interesting. And it went over a highway and blocked the roads. But I love this one. Okay. So again, I didn't.

Why? I'm just pulling this poll. Stop paying attention. Because I'm pulling this poll. Okay, pull the poll. Looking about half and half. Interesting. Okay. Very interesting. It is interesting. Well, help us. Give us a thumbs up and we'll continue. So look at the date. Okay, this happened, what, four days ago? Mm-hmm. And this happened in Yunnan. Yep. Just take a look at the road. Yunnan County. Yeah. So again...

We just want to show you this whole idea of tofu dregs in China. I like how you just brushed past a train derailment. I mean, it is. Oh, a train derailment, bye. It's fine. You love trains. I don't. I mean. You freaking love trains. You know who loves trains? China loves the Ohio train derailment. Remember that one time? Yes. That one time that train derailed and there was like a chemical spill and no one died? Yeah. They love that. Yeah, they still talk about that.

But it happens every day in China. Seriously. Anyway, yeah. So we're talking about tofu dregs again today. For those of you who don't know what that is, you know what tofu is. It's that soft, firm...

flavorless rubbish that your your healthy girlfriend tries to make you eat come on tofu's good i'm just can't be good well no you know it'll be bad you know the type i'm talking about yes you're talking about like western you know like that white white like the brick like jello yeah that thing if you like eat it it's like what is this you want to hear the worst thing in the world i don't mean to get get off track here but we are a vegetarian for a little while growing up my parents just doing some fat like weight loss fat or something yeah

My mom used to take an aluminum tray, aluminum as you might say. Yes, the correct way. You know, like a cooking, like a baking tray? Sure. Take a brick of that shit. Yeah, tofu. Chop it up, right? The real jiggly kind. Yeah, I know. Not the firm kind. I like the firmer kind. Sure. The real jiggly kind and pour barbecue sauce on it and put it in the oven and then take it out and that's what we ate for dinner. Yeah.

Saddest couple years of my entire life. I mean, it sounds all right. It was vile. At least it had barbecue sauce on it because, you know, a lot of people eat it with nothing. Oh, do they? Yeah. Interesting. But yeah, anyway, the whole point, it's the dregs of tofu, the bits that come off and they're soft and rubbish. And so that's the terminology that's used when it comes to construction. What are we even looking at here?

Well, you'll see in a minute. Construction in China that just falls apart. It looks like it's made out of the dregs of tofu. Yeah, like the bottom of the barrel. Yeah. So let's take a quick look over here at the road. Keep an eye on the road up there. Okay. Whoa! It's like Tony Hawk's pro car. Yeah, I know. The car just went for a nice little leap into the air. Did a nose grind. No, this isn't like the road from heat expanding or something. This is a sinkhole that opened up. And he is super lucky. Look at the size of that hole. Woo!

So the hole, like, basically you can see it there, right? The hole opened up as his car drove over, and that's why he hit it like that and went flying. Well, they don't do proper land surveys in China as well. So you're talking about tofu drag. It's also not planning. They don't plan. Oh, dude, also the pipes breaking under the water, I mean, under the road, and the water just erodes it away, all that kind of stuff. Remember, these roads are new. Like, this is an underdeveloped area of Yunnan that was recently developed, right? This is all new stuff. Yeah, and this was just a couple days ago, you know? Yeah.

They say China gets stuff built quickly, and it does, but it's built poorly. You know when you rush something? You know, like if you had to suddenly rush your work or finish your homework in five minutes, you'll just write rubbish, you know? That's kind of what's going on. Just write rubbish on a piece of paper. Yeah, you just write whatever, and then you make an excuse that your dog ate it or whatever. Yes. Have you ever done that? No, because I never had a dog. Oh, all right.

Has that excuse ever worked? Probably. I think dogs chew stuff up, right? Yeah, but then you should bring evidence. I think, you know, if you're smart about it, you will put some flavoring on your paper and get your dog to chew it a bit, and then you bring back some remnants. Oh, you're saying if you have a dog, you can actually manufacture the evidence. Yeah, you go through all this effort. You could have actually just done the homework. But I mean, I'm just saying that's something I would have done. But you've got to have evidence. You've got to have evidence. Yeah. Anyway, let's see what's going on here.

You know these massive solar panel fields that China keeps bragging about everywhere? Yeah, they cover the mountains, right? Huge, vast swaths. Last time we talked about it, and unfortunately when they do that, they deforest the whole area or whatever kind of plants are there. Think about it. If you stick solar panels into the ground, you have to clear the ground a bit. You put them in and they cover. They now put shade over wherever something was. Correct. Can't grow, right? And generate heat.

I mean, there's also this, you know, like you don't live under power lines. Yeah. Okay. You have issues where there's like electrical fields going on and stuff. It's not good for that part of the environment. Let's just put it that way. So what you get is you get a lot of erosion, soil erosion, because, you know, the plant life all gets destroyed or whatever. And so this is the result. We had these workers putting up these solar panels. It was in northwestern China. Yeah. In a very dry place, right? Got some rain and then look what happens. Yeah.

Yeah. They were trying to build one of those solar forest things, basically. You're replacing greenery with these massive pillars for these solar fields. You know why? To get a drone shot to say, look, China's leading the world in solar energy. Again, glazing articles I see every day about China's got this and that and this and that and this and that for the leader of green technology and solar. Yes. Enough's enough. Show the truth of what's actually happening there. Yeah, agreed. This is hilarious. Yeah.

Yeah, we have to throw in a little bit of fun. We've got to have a little bit of humor. So, okay, let's set this up. There was a little earthquake. Well, actually, not that little. It was, what, 4.3? Yeah, it was small. Small, small. But, I mean, in China, when there's an earthquake, you better run because the buildings aren't made to withstand them. You know what they should have? What? They should have, like, a...

a richter amplifier for china yes because a four earthquake in china in taiwan people wouldn't even like pay attention to it because everything's built well yeah in china if you have a four earthquake everything falls apart and everyone dies now uh again we love this idea to point this out that people are always filming their living rooms in china and their dining rooms so strange everyone's got cameras everywhere it's weird it's just the way it is though

So they're sitting and having like a nice meal and let's see what happens. There's an earthquake. There's a rumble there. This kid, he's not happy about this earthquake. No. He wants his food. His dad's like, let's get out of here. The place is going to come down. Take cover. Take cover. He's like, no, I want some of that too. He runs off with it. His dad's like, put that back. I'm getting out of here. He's like, no. This guy. He's like, yes. That's hilarious.

I like the appreciation for food. It makes me want to appreciate food. You can tell he appreciates food. Yeah, for sure.

You may know this Shanghai Pearl Tower TV. Yes. Whatever it is, this Pearl TV Tower thing. Yes. If you've ever been to Shanghai, it is an iconic part of the skyline over there. I want to ask you personally, what do you think of this? Before I answer, I would like to poll the audience. Okay. Do you like this tower? I don't because I don't want to put an opinion.

Because I've had an opinion since like 2002 or whatever when this was built. I want to pull the live audience right now. And actually, tell us in the comments too if you're watching this in post. I actually want to see. I want to see if I'm right. I want to see if I'm vindicated by the populace. Yeah. But this is like one of the most, probably not just Shanghai, probably one of the most iconic buildings in the world. Yeah.

I mean, everybody will recognize it. And if you ever go to Shanghai, you go to the Bund there, you know, it's got a very beautiful skyline. Yeah, when you can see it. Yeah, when it's not covered in smog. China would have you believe that there is no more smog. Yes, it's interesting. In fact, they'll actually have American comedians...

Yes, tell you that it's clear skies. While they sit in front of pollution. Correct. In the video where they say it's clear. You know, when I did my quest for the best... Not quest, what am I saying? When I did the Stay Awesome China documentary. I don't know if you guys have seen that. It is free on the Serpent's Day channel. Where I went to all the biggest cities in China. The first tier cities to find and interview interesting people. It was great. I really enjoyed doing it. And it showed some of the best, most interesting people in China. That's a good one. When we went to Shanghai...

In order to get our establishing shots and drone shots and stuff like that, we actually had to go back to Shanghai because we went to Shanghai and it was so bad that every shot we got of the bun and everything was just polluted and gross.

So then we went back again. Guess what? Still polluted and gross. The third time lucky. We actually had to get a hold of somebody who was there and be like, what is the weather like? They're like, oh, it's pretty good these days. We're like, okay, we're coming tomorrow. We had to do that in our other documentaries as well. Yeah, our producers actually had to fly back. They had to go back to Qingdao. Yeah, had to go fly back to Qingdao to get a good shot. Because it was too polluted. So, I mean, guys, I know that's standard for TV, but in China it's more so. Yeah. Because you can't just turn up and expect a good day. All right, we're at 1,000 votes. I'm going to pull the plug.

72% of people say no. They do not like the Pearl Tower. 27% say yes. I think it looks like shit. It's pretty bad looking. It looks like...

I don't know what you want to say about that. No, no, no. I'm not going to say anything bad. I'm saying it looks like a child designed it. It's like, oh, I like big buildings. Like a Soviet child, you know? Yeah, like a Soviet because it's like Sputnik. Yeah, it's like a Soviet child. It's a Soviet. Who made this? Yeah, exactly. Who designed it? I'm going to pull it up. Yeah, find out. Either way, the reason we're talking about it is if you've ever been there, they've got like an observation deck.

Okay? You can walk around. It's got glass floors. Interesting. Who is it made by? It was Chinese design. Oh, wow. What a surprise. What are you trying to say? Oh, because it's got that communist flair, doesn't it? Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. Exactly that. Let's rewind a little bit. Look at this. So it's hard to see in the footage, but that glass shattered. And the guy who's...

speaking, the guy who filmed this, he said...

Just now I was walking there and I heard a loud bang and the floor shattered. Okay. That is scary. On the observation deck. Yeah. On the observation deck. Cause I've got these glass doors. Macau's got a cool one. Yeah. What the? Yo, don't show that yet. Go back. I want to see that glass shatter. Don't show that. I'm not supposed to show that. It's hidden. That's secret. Oh, it's secret. See this? This is shattered. Imagine you're standing on top of this observation deck in one of the most, probably the most important building in China. Yeah.

And it shatters when you stand on it. Yeah, it's a bit worrying. Is that what you want to experience? Again, I just want to tell you that the way China's news operates and the way censorship works is you won't hear about this.

You know, if to take any big landmark, if something happened in the Empire State Building or Statue of Liberty or whatever, so rock fall around Mount Rushmore that put people in danger, anything, it would make international news. Riddle me this. Empire State Building. Yeah. It's got that big observation deck up there. Let's pretend it has some glass stuff.

That shatters. Would that not be on front page news? Yeah. Where is this on the news? Nowhere, because it gets censored. And you know what's interesting about this clip is he didn't show the second part, but the guy called in to complain while he was there. He tried to call in to say, listen, you know, this glass shattered. And the helpline said, oh, it's already been taken care of.

But has it? That's the whole point is that if you were to try and even ask about it, it's like nothing to see here. You know what I mean? Oh, so he made the call while it was broken? Yeah. Oh, I thought they had sent someone to fix it. No. Interesting. Yeah. So they're like, don't worry about it. Yeah, don't worry about it. It's already been fixed. So, you know, that's the thing. It gets swept under the rug. You don't hear about it. And that's how China works. That's why you only see positive stuff coming out of China, because the negative stuff gets blocked.

So this is... Can you pause that real quick? Sure. This is what we call shill broth. Yes. It is an undetermined pink liquid full of carcasses. Yes. And we had shown it previously. We came to the... Well, you guys helped us, the audience. The people that go and know that China is committing genocide...

They know that China is an authoritarian dictatorship that's trying to destroy their country. They know they've hacked their infrastructure. They know that they're like an adversary, but still go and only do positive propaganda for them, for YouTube or whatever. We say that they've taken a sip of the shill broth, and it warps their mind. Yeah, this is what they're drinking.

You found, and I don't know how you found this, unseen shill broth footage with someone in the shill broth. Because we've shown the pool. Yes. I didn't know people went in it. This is when you're a full-blown addict. Yeah, you've got to go in the shill broth. You've got to wait around. What do you think this YouTuber here that's drinking the shill broth, what do you think he is? What lengths is he going to shill for China? What is he saying? What kind of stuff? He's going to go to Chongqing. He's going to do the 22nd floor thing. He's going to be doing that like...

Oh my days. Yeah. It's gotta be worse than that. If you're all the way deep. Oh, he's going Xinjiang genocide denial. There's definitely, we should make a tier list at some point of like levels of shilling. Cause like, there's like low level shillings. Like, Oh look, they have a waterfall in Guizhou.

But then you go all the way to genocide. Yes. Next month, we're going to see a lot coming up because they paid. You know, the Chinese paid trip, by the way, it's pretty well known now. China's reached out to influencers. Yeah, I think Bloomberg or Reuters is one of them. China's reached out to many different influencers, people we know as well, and sent emails saying that they're going to pay. We got invited to them. Yeah. Right? Yeah, I'm pretty sure we got one in one of our email boxes as well. The same as everyone else got. Oh, we're going to go to these different cities. You're going to be able to...

You're going to interface with mega influencers in China. We're going to take you to BYD to see the latest cars. We're going to take you here. You're going to go to Shenzhen. You're going to go to this. There's a whole list of cities they're going to go to. So you can just imagine the swath of nonsense we're going to see. We've got to do tier lists. It's going to be fun. We'll have some sort of Shilllympics. Yes. The Shillbrothlympics. Brought to you by Shillbroth. Shillbroth, yes. The official sponsor of the Shilllympics.

Yes, Olympics. Here we go. So gross. I can't wait because now, because of the article and because we talked about it, if you do that trip, you are like painted for the rest of your life with I was a Chinese government propagandist. Yes. Forever. It's going to be fun. It's hilarious. We're going to have like a podium, you know, there's a gold medalist and that kind of thing. Oh, it's going to be really fun. Can't wait. All right. Anyway, guys, you know what time it is? Yes. Bollard. Bollard. Bollard.

Well, report you know. Pause. Okay. Pause right there. Right here? Yeah, I just want to look at this. We gotta look at it. Oh, we gotta look at it. Okay.

Bollard Report. Bollard Report. See these things right here? You can pause it there. See these things in the bottom? Those are called bollards. If you're new here, China set these up. You'll wonder why they're in every clip we show. Dude, yesterday again, and I hate to bring this up, I don't want to bring the mood down, but yesterday again, there was a horrific attack again outside of a middle school, and the dude in an SUV ran over, killed seven children, and I don't know, a couple of adults too.

On purpose. It's outrageous. Yes, the vehicular manslaughter right now, they're doing mass domestic terrorism by running over children in cars in China. Now, of course, we're not going to show you that. I'm not going to include the footage. It's horrific, especially if you're a father or a mother or your parent, I should say. It's not something you want to even think about. But in China, it's very common, and there's a reason why they have to put these bollards up everywhere. Those are not for decoration. That's to try and stop...

you know, these mass vehicular homicides. And again, I don't want people to think it's some sort of unsafe driving techniques. People are murdering people on purpose. It's on purpose. Children. It's always outside of schools. If it was like some unsafe thing, it would be like everywhere. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. But it's their go for schools. They go for the kids because that's it's part of the Chinese societal psyche is, you know, if you want to hurt society, you go after the children. So Bollard Report is our way of bringing that stuff to your attention without having to show it to address a problem. But at the same time, show how crazy it's gotten with China's like national effort to put bollards everywhere. Yes, because they're everywhere. They're everywhere. So I want to make this a bit interactive.

This one's pretty interesting. Okay, see what's happening here? You've got this big truck barreling down. You've got this little three-wheeled. It's like these, what would you even call that? It's like a tuk-tuk. Yeah, like an electric tuk-tuk. Like an electric tuk-tuk, but it's smaller. Like in India, right? Yeah, Indian tuk-tuks, they call them auto rickshaws. Auto rickshaw. It's like an auto rickshaw. Yeah, but it's smaller and less cool. I don't know. Tuk-tuks are kind of cool. Yeah. I've been in the back of an Indian tuk-tuk a couple times. Yeah, did you have a good time?

They could certainly get some damn suspension. And they're all like these annoying little two-stroke, very smelly... Anyway, it's interesting. This looks like it's going to be a disaster. Well, let's find out because we have a little poll. Pause it on the poll. Yes. What do you think is going to happen? You have A, small vehicle gets smashed. B, narrow miss. C, suboptimal prime. And D, manhole cover explodes.

Okay, so I'm putting the pull up. Yeah, it could be any one of these, and we'd like to know what you think. So, small vehicle gets smashed is A. I didn't put them in the poll, so it's just A, B, C, D. So, look at this key here. Small vehicle gets smashed. B is narrow mess. C is suboptimal prime. And D is manhole cover explodes. Now, all of these are very, very likely. Yes. Because we've seen every one of these things happen. Correct. In fact, one of these things on this menu, on this poll, that...

didn't happen in this clip does happen in another clip then i included it as well oh okay so you guys don't get disappointed yeah yeah for sure um so we're gonna vote here we're gonna see what happens here because there's a lot of things that can happen now you guys are voting with your experience uh most people are voting for d uh at 49 right now that manhole cover explodes and that's simply because so many manhole cover do you remember we showed a clip where an entire like mile long road yes every and it shot up and we had a physicist

do the math and it was like what was it like it was insane the velocity of a kilometer yeah it was like crazy yeah yeah the entire like sewer exploded down that massive road yeah that was crazy i remember that it was nuts yeah okay the poll clear winner is d manhole cover explodes uh a got 13 percent the lowest okay b got 24 sorry and c got the lowest okay well let's let's see let's see i'm pulling the poll okay let's have a look

He is the winner. I'm going to get us out of here so we can leave it up clearly for everybody to see. Suboptimal Prime. It's Suboptimal Prime. The truck turned into a transformer. It was the worst transformer ever. Yeah, I agree. What's his power? To disassemble himself? I don't know. I mean, because what he's doing is, let's have a closer look at that. It's a truck carrying a truck disguised as another truck.

Truck face. It's actually, yeah. He's wearing truck face. Yeah, exactly. It's a truck carrying a truck trailer. It's the truck trailer carrying the exact same truck trailer carrying a smaller truck trailer on top of another truck trailer. Does that make sense? Something along those lines. Don't worry, nobody was hurt even though it looks bad.

I like how some of you guessed C knowing that you had no idea what that means. That's fantastic You guys are the real so this is you everybody knows transformers will know Optimus Prime is like the leader of the good guys So this is sub optimal prime. He's the leader of nothing He's terrible yeah, it was pretty funny at least he stopped yeah, I

So I felt bad. So I wanted to include some exploding manhole covers. Just imagine you're just walking. Hang on, is there someone near there? Yes, it's very close. Look, okay, there's a person. I just want to make sure. Watch these manhole covers. See, they're closed right in the beginning. Pause it right in the beginning. See, they're closed. It's hard to see them, right? Yeah, yeah. There's a guy on the left. Okay, so he's going past. He just goes past. Okay, and then a car goes the other way. Boom, but watch the aftermath.

The shit just rains. Dude, if you were standing there, you'd be covered in fecal matter. It's disgusting. You really, really would. Now the streets are, though. Yeah. Oh, what's going on here? Relax, guys. So remember I said there's clips, right? Remember there's near miss. There's gets hits. There's manhole covers. I want to show everything. Okay. Let's see. That looks like it's going to end badly.

he's fine i would never show you that no we would never show you the best that's why i was a little worried because i didn't see that part of this this media pack i was like what are you showing everything is covered so there is a clip where someone gets hit oh okay well i mean not that one that guy is the luckiest person he better just make a huge life change he is a freaking ninja yeah he is how did he avoid turning into a watermelon

I have no idea because I've seen plenty of watermelons. That's not cool. No. Last clip here. Remember, this is multiple choice. Okay. So what's happening here? Great power comes great responsibility. This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man. Followered.

Hey, look. Yeah, of course we can. By the way, props to him. I like it. I want to celebrate him. He's a hero. I mean, he sees this truck tire, random truck tire rolling down the hill. It's cool. Okay. And if he didn't come and stop it. Who knows what would have happened. You know. I'm Spider-Man. BAM. Bollocks.

You know what? Seriously, though, if that had carried on into the intersection, a car could have hit it and it could have killed someone. So like seriously, props to that guy. He picked up the bike. He did the right thing. Props to him. Again, just to remind you how ridiculous the bollard situation has gotten in China, as you can see in our bollard report intro slash outro, look how many bollards are there. It's nuts. It's like a national project.

This is outside of a school. And outside of schools specifically, we're seeing massive bollards being put up. And it's, I mean, if that's not indicative of a big problem in society, I don't know what is. That's a good point. Okay, beyond the Great Firewall. It's where we take you inside the Chinese internet, translate what they might not want you to see.

I didn't give you a little report. Have you finished the tattoo? One character left. So a character is a word in China, a Chinese character, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she's saying one character left, right? And he's... Right? But... Right? He's wanting her to tattoo something else. So he's a bit confused. Yeah, let's take a look. He goes, what do you mean one word? And he shows the picture. It's a picture of some art.

The joke here, so you can understand. Yeah, his lock screen was on. His lock screen said, I am a tired dog. Yes. So she was actually tattooing his lock screen and the last character being dog. Yeah, yeah, take a look. That's what he wanted was the actual picture. That's some Chinese humor for you. This is not humor. This is odd.

unreal yes this is reported in June 18th in Luoyang in Henan couple days ago the gayest pond you've ever seen appeared isn't it yeah I mean it's about right isn't it isn't it pride month

It is. And China was just getting on board. Yeah. So let's take a look. China hates, hates gay people and hates gay stuff. Absolutely. So, yeah. They're not on your team. In Luoyang, Henan, the pink water body appeared in Matuan village causing villagers to worry about groundwater. Do you know what the reply was? From the party secretary? Party secretary? Read it.

The test results of villagers drinking water are normal. Oh, it's fine. It's totally fine. Does that look fine? It's just Pepto-Bismol. Doesn't it look fine? Does that look fine? So they tested that and they're like, no, it's okay. So I want to read through what this guy says. He goes, protect the environment, eh? Stop harassing me. They're harassing him because he reported it. Yes. Oh, well.

He's in trouble for reporting it. Yeah, just fix the problem. He's talking to the government. He goes, stop harassing me. Stop trying to find me. Stop looking for me, right? Hunting him down. Just fix the problem. Agreed. Because in China, they don't fix problems.

problems. No, they don't. They hurt the people. No, they don't fix problems. They hide problems. Yes. That's it. Because if nobody sees it, it's not a problem, right? Ignorance is bliss. And I make this point over and over again. If you live in a neighborhood and some bad crimes happen in your neighborhood and you hear about it, then you think you're in an unsafe neighborhood. Yes. If you never hear about it, you think you're in the safest neighborhood in the world. Yes. That's a really good point. That's exactly what's going on. Good point.

So what's going on here? This is going around the Chinese internet. Okay, all right. A brawl broke out. And again, there's no blood or anything like this, so YouTube can chill out. But a brawl happened where they kind of busted into a bathroom. And there's a guy in a stall that's like, what the hell is the commotion? Let's take a look. These guys are going crazy. They're beating each other up. Okay, they're having a little spat. Yeah, the guy's like, let me see what's going on. They bust in.

That guy's just sitting there on the toilet as these guys are having a little fight. Blinded by rage. This guy's like, um, um. Oh, he sees the camera and he's like, I think I'll pull my pants up. Thought that was a good one. All right, guys, we have a VIP show on Monday. We wanted to show you what you missed and we got a big announcement. So let's take a quick look. What did you miss? He called the landlord next door, Miss Zhang, an elderly woman with sharp eyes that seemed to miss nothing. Has Li Lu been home? Xiao Xue asked.

Miss Zheng's voice was cautious. "No, she hasn't come back in days. I thought maybe she was visiting family, but she never said a word." Wow. Oh, he made contact! Oh! One again! The witch's laugh is damn scary. Oh dude, I would be spraying that guy all the time. I'd be sneaking, go like a... That was the last time Fu saw her. Oh shit, sorry.

That is the wrong one. Okay, so pause it real quick. Okay. That's coming, that's coming.

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So we all know Tina, right? Tina, who's got engines in her faggotry. Yeah. You know, she likes to sing about it. So she's got a new hit singles just dropped. We thought you'd like to listen. Can I explain what she does? Sure. She has a factory. Well,

Well, which is pronounced... Is that a factory? It's more like a warehouse. Okay, can you just let me give her the benefit of the doubt? A factory is usually you produce something. Yes. A place where you dump a bunch of old, like, crate engines, basically, is not a factory. It's a warehouse. It's a junkyard. Yeah.

Yes, and the way she pronounces factory is very dubious, as you kind of tried to imitate there. We're not trying to say anything else, by the way. No. She says it like a different word, and it's quite humorous. Yes. It's humorous that she's trying to sell you engines. Yeah. She's trying to sell you engines from crashed cars. Correct. From China. Yes. Like that you are somehow going to be a customer of this. Isn't it weird that people send their crashed car engines to China to then get sold back to them?

If you need any engine, please you can find me

It's too loud!

Wow, that was rough! Very bad. And you know what? I didn't know what song she was singing until like right at the end and I recognized it. It's like a Taiwanese song, isn't it? Yeah.

It's pretty bad. Anyway, so that's Tina's trash, guys. We'll be bringing more of her hit singles to you in the future because she's got a lot. Oh, yeah. You know what's really interesting is she uses a lot of face filters and body filters because every single one of her videos she looks different. She does. Like she's either taller or shorter or fatter or thinner or her face is this shape or that shape. It's interesting to see each time what she's morphed into. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Anyway, time, guys, for Soft Power Hour. This is the main part of the show. And this is where we tell you how China's trying to change your mind through various means. Now, I think by now, most people have actually seen footage of this massive bridge collapse. Now, the reason why we're calling this Soft Power Hour is that this particular bridge, as well as many bridges in Guizhou, have been used as a way to project soft power on the world.

Look at China's amazing engineering feats. They managed to build these fantastic, pristine highways and bridges over these canyons and through these mountains. How amazing. And everyone's like, whoa. These are the soft power, I should say powerhouse of China, are these massive bridge projects they keep promoting. And then high-speed rail. They love this idea of building the longest bridge or the widest bridge or the fattest bridge or the thinnest bridge or the heaviest bridge or the lightest bridge.

or the bluest bridge. And it's got to have an EST at the end of it. And then they can be like, yes, you know, bridge with the most LEDs on it. Shout out Bianca Belair. All right, go ahead. Okay. Yeah. So this one didn't work out so well.

As you can see, this is a nightmare. This is an actual nightmare. This was a huge mega project. One thing that you might not be aware of is that cars went down with the bridge. Now you can actually see up there. Can you see that little white dot? Yes. That's a car, multiple cars. I don't know because they haven't released an official account as far as I can see. But if you look in the footage, cars went down with this. And this is the most scary thing in the world because you know, when you're driving on a highway,

In China, you're driving on this bridge. You can't even tell you're on a bridge because you've got those rails on the side. So you're just driving along, right? You're just like, oh, everything's fine. Suddenly the ground disappears underneath you, right? It's terrifying. And yeah, you can see, look, there's a car down there. Can you see like way down there? And look, there's some cars up there as well. And if you've seen how high this is, I mean, there's no way anyone can survive from that height.

Not even... Can you just play it? We got so much interesting footage. Yeah, sorry, I will. I just wanted to point out the cars because everybody focuses on this truck that's hanging over the edge and this guy who quite literally just... Look at this. Yeah. Look how far away. See how long the segment is that fell down. China megaproject. Yeah.

And this is one where they brag. This is the exact bridge that they brag about, these kind. You know, like, when we went through Guizhou, we went over a very impressive bridge. Do you remember? I do. It's kind of scary thinking about that. Well, I'm thinking about this. I drove through Guizhou multiple times, and I specifically drove through Guizhou right when they opened up their highways. This is, like, 2014, right? Look at that guy. He's hanging out in the truck. Look at that. He's being held on by the weight of his trailer.

The entire horse is over the edge. I was going over these with no one on the road because they were new. Yeah. And I was impressed. Of course. It's impressive if you see a brand new highway. Yeah, it's brand new highways. These big bridges going through mountains and areas that were very underdeveloped. It's like pretty impressive, right? Then you have to start learning about China's tofu drag construction. You have to learn about the corruption in the construction industry.

You have to start learning that the CCP mandates something, but things are built to such poor quality to rush a time limit on a project. And things are built for visual appeal rather than real usage, right? And that's oftentimes why you'll see Chinese propaganda look so much more impressive than a Western country because things in Western countries are built to safety standards and not necessarily meant to look nice. Yeah, they can be boring, but they're sturdy. They work, right?

yeah no one's saying well look at that beautiful german bridge but that german bridge is gonna be made very well right that's right so you're in a situation here where china is building these things at lightning speed and the country is coming apart at the seams we talked about this phenomena called the concrete expiring

There is a time limit on a lot of these projects, and I'll tell you why. They're building a lot of this stuff with suboptimal concrete. Well, it's not just that, okay? When you build something like this, of course, you have to build it to last, and you have to think about all the unlikely situations that could arise. An earthquake, a landslide, a torrential downpour, all that kind of thing.

When they build these, they build them and they're just crossing their fingers and they're like, let's hope none of these things actually happen. Let's hope we don't have a flood. Let's hope we don't have an earthquake. Let's hope we don't have this because as long as none of these natural things occur, it'll still look nice and still work. Yeah, because... Because corners are cut. No, for sure. But in China uses the alibi that, oh, it was a natural disaster or something. Yeah.

Everything is being affected by this. The mildest of rains flood entire cities. You can't blame that all the time. It's because your drains are fake, as we covered in the last episode. But look at something that's built in Japan or something where they have frequent earthquakes and frequent floods. Taiwan is a great example. Typhoons.

That doesn't fall down. No. Because, again, it's built properly. It's built once. It costs more and it takes longer. But when it's built, it's built and it lasts. Yes. Just like we showed before when we had that other bridge collapse not that long ago, remember? And we showed bridges in London from like the 1700 and something that are still in use today. And in New York, that's from the 1800s, you know, still in use today, still fine. It's because...

It took a long time to build and it was done right. In China, things are put up fast and they're not done right and corners are cut all the time. It's supposed to work. It's not like the designs are bad. It's not like the engineers did a bad job when it came to designing it. It's when it's built, they're like, you know what? It's going to cost us time and money to actually put in a proper foundation, so let's not. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's what ends up happening. It's not only with this bridge. It's with many bridges that we've shown you on the show. Yes. And buildings and so on.

Yeah, so to go back to the concrete thing, we've noticed a lot of stuff built about 15 to 20 years ago is now falling down. Yes. This, I believe, was even more recent than that. This is more recent, too. I can attribute some logic to this. If you're in a city like Shenzhen or Guangzhou or Beijing or Shanghai, you guys probably, even if you're new to China, you know Beijing and Shanghai, right? Yeah. These places are going to get the cream of the crop stuff, right? Yeah.

place like Guizhou, historically the poorest province in China. Yeah. Yes. It gets some love lavished on it because like all of China, according to Xi Jinping needs to be caught up and no poverty and all this kind of stuff they come up with. Right. But at the end of the day, they still, okay. Yeah. They get a bridge, but it's going to be a hell of a lot less high quality than a bridge. You're going to get in Beijing. Yeah. Right. They don't care about the poor people there. No, they don't. So really you have to look at things like, where is this? How much corruption is in the Chinese government? And, uh,

what kind of substandard materials are they using? And if there is some sort of freedom, if there was freedom of speech, right? This is why you should never take your freedom of speech and freedom of investigation. - And investigative journalism. - Why this is so important is we'll never know. We'll never know. There will be an internal audit.

for the Chinese government, and then maybe some administrative person will get punished or something. We won't know why. And the things will continue operating like this. Things will continue to fall down forever. Yeah. Because China doesn't fix its problems. It just hides them. Just hides them. Absolutely. You know, looking at this footage, you can see the genesis of this entire kind of collapses. They've got some kind of construction thing up at the top there. You see it's like man-made stuff.

And I guarantee you that they did something bad up there which caused the entire thing to fall down. Because you see, it starts with that man-made stuff up there. Yes. And then the soil gives way. So they probably eroded it away, did a bunch of junk. Pink snoot. I'm just reading the chat here. This would be global news if it happened in the USA. No shit. No shit. I'm sorry, but anywhere in the world... You're correct. If two... This is like, what, a four-lane highway. So both sides...

collapsed and people died. A major infrastructure project. Yeah. Look at that. Can you see the segment that's lost there? And you saw their cars down there. You don't know how many cars. You could have had 10 cars in there. You could have had 20. You could have had more than that. We don't know how many cars were actually on that stretch. Obviously, there were vehicles traveling. That truck is so lucky that

He is just the luckiest man alive. And again, he better go, I don't know, become a Buddhist or something now. Go into the mountains and just be like, thank whoever saved him. Because, you know, I would. You know what I mean? I'd go on a pilgrimage. I would just go on a pilgrimage. I don't care. I'll just... You find your religion. I'll find who it is that saved me and thank them. Okay. But, you know, look at that. That's absolutely terrifying. But cars went over the edge forever.

If it happened anywhere else in the world, it would be CNN. It would be top of the news. It would be Sky News. It would be everything. And it would be pushed. The BBC won. It would be pushed. Yeah, it would. Look at the crumbling infrastructure of the West's decline. Corruption. Corruption. Need to be held to account. And they'd figure out every last person that was involved. And they would be...

There would be investigative journalism. There'd be a paper trail. People would be finding out who did it, how it happened. Yes. All kinds of like dinners. Yeah. Greased palms. Yes. They'd make a Netflix documentary about it. Oh, yeah, they would. Don't you think? Absolutely, they would. People go nuts about these like, I don't know, they're like,

What is it like? Those like serial killers or something. They make documentaries on Netflix and like all these people watch them and like romanticize this bullshit criminals, right? Sure, sure. But then China goes through this kind of mass murder stuff every day. Yeah. Like right now with the stabbings of vehicular manslaughter stuff. Where's the Netflix documentary about that? You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. No one gives a shit. No, they don't care. Either no one gives a shit or China is so successful at harassing people from talking about it and stopping the discourse around it.

that that news just doesn't get out. That's right. And that's basically what's happening here. And it's awful because it diminishes the value of life in China. Does that make sense? It does. It does.

You know, it's as if they don't care. And I have this argument with a lot of people is, you know, whenever I post something about something bad happening in China, let's say there's a mass vehicular homicide outside of a kindergarten in China. Somebody will be like, oh, what about mass shootings in America? It's like, do you worship America that much that you think that America's problems are more important than China?

Do you think that the children in China, they are not worth considering? Apparently. Only American children are worth talking about. You think that the problem that needs to be solved is America's problem, not China's one. It's like you're worshipping America and completely sweeping aside the problems of China as if they don't matter. Yeah. You know, because I happen to care about the children in China. Yeah.

I happen to have a daughter who's half Chinese. I happen to have Chinese family. I happen to have lived there for 14 years. I care about the people of China. And to see it always swept under the rug as if it's not a problem makes me mad. I mean, you got to keep in mind, a lot of these efforts are for you to stop talking about it. So those are deflection. It's deflection. They don't want you to talk about it. Yeah, exactly. Because they don't want the problem solved. They would rather focus on America or somewhere else. By the way, this is a separate bridge. This is a different one just to show you how this works. This is common. You can see how...

Poor the foundations are under those bridge pillars, by the way. If you take a look. But just back to my point, it annoys me to no end that people think that American problems are the only ones worth looking at and that Chinese problems should be swept aside because Chinese people don't matter. Because America's always bad. AVP, bro. Oh, you're right. It is. This has become a massive issue. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah.

All over Guizhou, so this province, right? And all over, honestly, China at this point. Yeah, you would think last week we were showing you floods. Yes. Okay, and people for some reason don't seem to care about floods. But I'll tell you what. We'll make you care. It has not slowed down. This footage is from like three days ago. Yes. These are malls. Yeah. There's entire buildings full of water now. Yeah.

Entire roads have become massive torrential rivers. Yeah. Look at this. Absolute people. That's an underground parking garage. The cars are self-parking. Latest technology in China. You know, cars will park themselves in the underground. They will. Parking lot. Look at that. Where is the coverage on this? Guys, can you give this video a thumbs up? Just get some eyes on this. Yeah, we'd love that. It's very important. Please. Thank you. Yeah. Look at this stuff. Yeah. And again, where's the coverage? These whole cities are underwater right now. Yep.

These cities are not getting that much rain.

They're not. This is the messed up thing. Yes. If you want to look at it, because people will say like, oh, do you remember the Hurricane Katrina or something? Go and look at the rainfall comparisons. Yes. Go and look at the data. You will be shocked at how much damage China suffers with such little rainfall. Yeah, we have a light drizzle. We covered it. Why? We covered it. Why? Yeah. The drains are, they don't lead anywhere. Yeah. Right? The corrupt officials literally get drain grates put on the ground with no hole. Look at this. This entire gas station. Now that's...

that's some imagery yeah i mean it actually ended up falling i think it two days ago two days ago fell into the uh yeah it fell into the actual river over there yeah old gas station oh there it goes oh there she goes yeah it's going down i was looking at a still image for a second oh there's there she goes there goes your whole big stuff falls so slowly yeah it's a whole mess you know

Again, having witnessed this myself in Shenzhen, you know, one time I was in a bus, in a public bus, you know, driving along and it started raining and the water came up and it actually covered cars on the side of the road, like to their roof. And the bus had to stop. We all had to get out and wait. It was way steep water. I had to wait. The bus couldn't continue anymore because it actually came and started leaking into the bus. You know why that happened, right? Why?

why well it's just retribution for being a bus wanker it's probably i used to travel on the bus a lot in china i'll tell you what it was pretty crazy yes yeah yeah this is getting out of control and again this is not just in one province i started by telling you about guizhou but it's all over china at this look at this uh some of the aftermath here having to dig through the streets now that's you know by the time they get this stuff cleaned up it happens again yeah have you noticed yes

I mean, it takes months, maybe years to clean up this damage from the floods, right? But it comes back every year, every single year in China. Every single year. Yeah.

Particularly bad this year, and I do blame a lot of this on the crumbling new infrastructure. I know that sounds crazy, but the stuff that was built in the 80s and 90s is much better in China than the stuff right now. Yes. Not to say it's good. It's definitely bad quality stuff. Yeah, but it's much better. The stuff that they're demolishing now from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, because they are currently demolishing that generation of building. Yeah.

That stuff is better than the stuff they're currently putting up, like that bridge we just saw. Yeah. Right. Well, again, it's all about speed. It's about getting it out there. You've got to put up the facade. You've got to impress people. You've got to look like you're really achieving something. Yes. And when you disagree, you say, no, I want to live in my building that was only built 25 years ago. They say, no, we're bulldozing it. I'm going to set it on fire and then bulldoze it overnight. China has that with cars as well, which really annoyed me. Yeah.

You know, if your car is 12 years old, it has to be scrapped. It's mandatory. Yeah. This is a very interesting insight into Chinese society. Yeah. So what do you have? Yeah, government and society. Because look, you've got, let's look at this picture. Yeah. This is during the floods. You got water everywhere. You got a couple of old people walking here in the water. And in the background, there are some policemen overseeing people repairing a road. Yes. I guess like putting mud in a puddle.

You know, take a look. They're just looking and this old man falls down, you can see him above us, with the old woman and she's shouting to the police like, can you help? Right? He's struggling. He's a very, very old man. Take a look at the police over there. Both of them are looking. They look. They're watching. Okay. Now, if you were a policeman and you saw someone's in help, like an old man fell over, can't get up, he's in a puddle. He's maybe going to drown. What do you do? You rush in there.

You just look and then you turn away. You literally ignore them. You just ignore them. Yeah. Look back and, yeah, yep. Ignore them again. You can see she's shouting over there for help. No one's coming to help. We verified this is real footage, by the way. This is so indicative of China. Yeah. Of modern China. I mean, look, the cops are now even just walking away while she's struggling to get him back on his feet. Yeah. What is the opposite of protect and serve, though?

ignore to harass and punish yeah i guess something but they're just ignoring yeah to ignore and uh yeah to ignore and self-serve yes pick up the bike pick up the bike oh look dude fell down again this poor old guy you know what i mean pick up the bike means do the right thing and these cops are not doing the right thing no they're not it's it's it's really kind of painful to watch because you know the guy really needs help and these guys these cops are right there

See, look at them turning around. They're like looking and they're like, whatever. Pick up the old man. This is when you do see that. Yeah, exactly. Take a look. This is when you see them actually doing something. This is what matters. I mean, you say that, but what are they doing?

They're raking a hole. They're raking a manhole cover. No, they're making propaganda. See the guys taking the photos? Because that's what's important. It's not helping people, but pretending that you are. That's China's whole thing about the facade. It's all about the image. It's about face. So you'll get these cops, and they're like, what are they doing? That's what I was going to say. They're trying to make propaganda for the government to say, look, the police don't just help people.

Yeah. They fix roads. They clean up. Are they raking a manhole? They could have come up with a better task to fake. Like help someone across the road? Yeah, we have lots of footage of that. Fake helping old people and they redo the shot over and over again. They're raking and they get in there. You don't rake a manhole cover, guys. You know what would have been amazing is if that manhole cover blew up. That would have been incredible. With the shit flying everywhere. Yes, that would have been incredible. Come on.

Yeah, I mean, we've got the same imagery here, really. There's shit surrounding the manhole cover. These cops are shit. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I'm so sorry, but this is just absolutely ridiculous. Like, oh, we're raking that manhole cover? Good. Let's get that shot. Imagine showing this to an American police officer and be like, look at what Chinese cops, their responsibilities are. Yeah, it's insane. Guys, um...

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And let's take a look. You can't make this up. You just can't make this up. Take a look closely what's going on here. What are they doing? Are they harassing the tree? Are they there to prune it? Leave that tree alone. Hey, teacher! Leave the tree alone. What is he doing? What is he actually doing? He's stapling leaves to it.

to it i think in this point they're just twisting it around you know there's like wire or something look at that well they're attaching leaves to it so that is a new brand new clip where they're doing this false greening as it's called is it not so poetic about what we just talked about like cutting corners for the image and and doing propaganda for the image rather than actually dealing with the problem so you've got a problem right your trees just are simply dead like they're sick of breathing that air yeah so then you know they're like well

- Merman. - Exactly. So what are they gonna do, right? They're like something, there's a reason why they're doing this. Either a government official's coming into town or they're about to be inspected or they're trying to sell homes in that apartment block or something. They're like, we've gotta make it green. - Percentage wise, it's a government inspector's coming into town. - Yes, probably. So they don't want to make it look like they've been failing at their greenery projects or their greening projects 'cause there's stipulations you have to plant so many trees.

So what do they do? They put fake leaves on the trees. You can't make this up. You just can't make it up. Fake leaves, people. And guess what? This is not the first time. Okay, I've covered this on my channel before. We've covered it on The China Show. But here's a clip of them stapling fake leaves onto a tree. With a staple gun. Yeah, with a staple gun.

Okay, same deal. You've got, I mean, that's... Those are fake maple leaves on a not maple tree, by the way. Just trying to actually hear. Actually. He's stapling them directly into the tree trunk, the tree branches. It's just like... Like, what are you doing, dude? It's just not cool. You're hurting the tree. Okay, but this is kind of common. All right. I'd like you to pay attention to what you're looking at here.

What can you see behind the... You know, this looks like camouflage or something. It does. But it's not. It's there to make it look from the sky like there's ground cover. Oh. But can you tell me what you see behind the ground cover? I see painted rocks. Painted rocks. Green painted rocks. Painted rocks. Now, okay.

Can you, for a minute, just think about why someone would paint rocks green? I can, because I live in China for 10 years. No.

A government inspector is going to helicopter over and he's going to go, wow, this area that we completely destroyed for all this time and turned all the surrounding villages into cancer villages because of all the factory runoff. We've managed to re-green this. Because China is the green technology leader of the world, right? Check any headline, BBC, CNN.

Fox, CNN, whatever. You open up a headline, it's like China's green tech, something about China's green technology, right? So they go, we got to make this country green. Well, instead of actually doing anything in real life, they paint things green. They paint it.

And now here's the thing. There's something called hydro seeding. Okay. And this is like if you've got a barren piece of land. Let's say you want to grow a lawn. Okay. So you've got just like dirt there. You spray this liquid on, which is green. So it looks like paint. Okay. But inside of it, it's got all the nutrients that you need and it's got seeds and stuff. Okay. That's hydro seeding. Okay. That's a legitimate thing that you do. Okay. And you can do that on a piece of barren land. You do not...

do that on rocks because nothing grows on rocks, bare rocks. - Lichens do. - Just in case somebody's trying to, in the comment gonna say like, oh, it's hydro seeding. That is not hydro seeding. That is painting rocks, okay? - So a CCP official can say you did a good job. - Yeah, you cannot put a seed on a rock and expect it to grow. You cannot put a seed with like fertilizer on a rock, on a bare rock cliff face like that and expect it to grow. - Painted rocks is wild. - It's painted rocks. - Those aren't lichens. - No, exactly.

How about this, though? I know this. Just putting sod down on concrete. See, they usually do this for when either a CCPS official comes in or down or they're trying to sell a new development property for grift. As you can see, this doesn't work.

When you've got these new development, you know, they want to sell a building. Like, they have a building. Like we say, they've demolished and they've forcefully, like, set on fire the people so they run away. They demolish it and they're quickly building this new thing. I'm laughing at that. That's just so absurd. I know. But it's true. And they want people to come in and buy. It has to look good, right? It's got to have landscaping. So they just throw...

sod down on, they're like, oh, sod it. They're like, oh, sod off, no, sod on. Yes, they just throw it on top of concrete. And then it dies immediately. It looks just dumb, dude. Look at that. It dies immediately. Does that look like it makes sense? Grow the F up. Yeah.

What are you doing? Be real. Be a real place. I know. Stop this. This is dumb. To put sod directly on top of concrete like this is stupid. I know, China. This is my appeal to you. I know you're feeding us great content here, but I'd rather have no content. You stop being so ridiculous. Yes. Stop hurting the environment. Look at this. This is literally sod being put down on top of like concrete gravel. It's dumb.

That cannot grow. So how long is it gonna last like a week a couple days? Maybe that's what it ends up looking like after a day or so. Yeah, look at this like this person is Putting the saw looks like shit from the beginning. I know look and now here okay you say oh, it's a bit of dirt But it's a top of tarp Yes, if it on tarp it's so dumb okay, and I'll hear again and

The bushes are dead or whatever. It's winter. So you want to make them look green because you're making a sale or you've got an inspector coming. Let's just spray the trees green. Again, guys, this isn't hydro seeding. You're not trying to plant something in the ground. You're just taking a tree and painting it green. It's the worst possible shade. Yeah, it doesn't look very natural, does it? It looks like our green screen. It does. You would know if you joined us in the green room. Patreon.com slash JTV podcast. Exactly.

Again, this is just China, the land of shortcuts and facades. It's brilliant, but so sad. It's incredibly sad. It's also very counter to nature. I know you've got a bit of a green thumb. You like doing gardening and stuff like that, right? I'm a bit of an environmentalist. Yeah.

I'm not overtly. I'm not like an eco-terrorist. No, no, no. I'm kind of a... I'm more of an animal rights kind of guy. You're more of an environmentalist. Yes. I would agree. Yeah. We talk like we come together. Yeah, somewhere. Yeah. This is bad. It's just bad.

I think putting grass saw directly on concrete is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. I agree. One thing I think that China would love to do, because you see what they're doing here, right? Yeah, yeah. If they could paint the sky blue, because China is so dang polluted, they would do it. Would they not? Absolutely, they would. Maybe if they put like a very fine shade net up there and they'd... You know what I mean? I think they should just put a giant Chinese tarp up there. Yeah.

That one with the red and blue and that thing. If you know, you know. China's covered in tarp. Yes. Because there's all these like shit construction projects. Yeah, they always see that stuff. Yeah. Put that up in the sky. It could be like a new texture for the sky. Maybe if you get a powerful enough projector, you can just project clouds and a blue sky onto the smog. I think we've given them...

Brilliant idea. Dude, you know those drone shows with the lights they have all the time? Just make them in the shape of clouds or whatever. You could, but honestly, I think your projector idea is more realistic. Yeah, definitely. Project the image of a blue sky. Yeah. How different is it to this? Yeah, now, what I'm showing you here is a bit more...

Some footage from one of my old videos over here. But basically, they do this when, like if you've got a mining company or something, right? And they destroy an area. They always do. Yeah, they always do. And then the government's like, well, we're going to come and inspect to make sure you haven't made too much of an environmental impact. So then they just throw this stuff down.

You know what I mean? It's like this all the time. It's always connected to the local governments. The local governments know what's going on. They're like, look. And so do the officials. Yeah. They're like bigwigs coming in from Beijing to come and do an inspection. So guys put the green tarp or whatever this is, put the camouflage over the barren rock.

and painted green underneath. Isn't it ridiculous when you... Just look at that. This is clown world. Yeah, it is. Now let's go a little further back in history. Okay. So I wanted to show you that this stuff's been going on in China for the longest time. Right. So this is like 2007. So we're talking way back. I mean, I was already in China at this point. So it's not, you know, for me, it's not that long ago. I remember when this happened. Right.

Guys decided that they're going to paint this mountainside because, you know, they quarried it out and messed it up and they're going to have a local government come in.

I bring so much attention to it. No, mom, I do. Exactly. You're covered in chocolate and there's a big dent in the cake she just made. No. Yeah. But okay. My favorite thing about all of this is that you think like, okay, what are the, how did they paint this? They literally went out and they used like oil paint. Yeah.

Oh, I forgot about this. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I got a couple more pictures coming up here just so you remember. Like I said, this is going on. They have different, you know, look, a mountain gets a makeover with green paint, you know? That's incredible. I love how far they, because you'd maybe do like five feet of it and you'd go, holy shit, this is bringing so much attention. Yeah, yeah, but they're like, let's carry on. And it's literally oil paint that they used. Yeah.

You had a guy who, oh yeah, this is again a mining quarry and they were going to have an inspection. So they painted all the rocks green to make it look like that they hadn't made a big impact. Oh my gosh. I mean, they got caught out though. But this though, dude, this is just dumb. I love that. Yeah, it's just...

I'm never going to get over the fact that they did that. And they did it to varying degrees. Of course, they've become more and more sophisticated nowadays. That's so stupid. I'm sorry. It's neon green. That's amazing. It's so stupid. What are you doing, dude? Yeah. Amazing. Amazing. This guy, by the way, he wanted to make the feng shui better for the mountain. Because you see, that's natural over there. The fact that you've got those cliffs. Yeah. He wanted to make the feng shui better, so he painted it green.

It's so horrible. And again, I like how far he went with it. Yes. He's like, I'm just going all the way in. I've screwed up this much. May as well just keep on going. So just so you know,

You see some of this stuff is old, but the stuff that we showed you with the leaves being stapled onto the trees is brand new. Brand new. Yeah. This was like this week. The greening thing is still happening. Oh, they do it all the time. So it hasn't stopped. It's just changed. The methodology has changed. They've updated it.

Like staple guns and wire. Yes. This is the way. No more oil paints. Yeah, exactly. No more oil paint to paint a whole mountainside. Actually, I would not. I'm sure they're still doing that somewhere. Oh, yeah, but they're probably using like a better way to camouflage it, you know? They paint it better. They get actual artists to come in. Wow, that's amazing. Did he sign off on that? I think he did. Oh, excellent.

So that brings that part of the show over, and it's worldview time where we talk about everything in the world, specifically with regards to China. And what's this? There's a couple things I want to go over here. China is purging its entire military, and I think people need to understand how this works. The most powerful entity in China is its military. The generals are corrupt beyond your wildest dreams. Sure.

And that's a big problem for the central leadership because they need to be in direct control of said military. Yes. They've always been technically connected, but the military has always kind of been right on the show. They can do whatever they want, right? Xi Jinping doesn't like that. Nope. And we can see actual evidence of this. He keeps just purging the shit out of the PLA. Yeah. It just keeps getting purged and purged and purged. Well, the entire military, really. Well, I mean, it's a threat to his power. It is. So another top Chinese general...

This was an admirable. Miao Hua, a senior admirable. An admirable? An admiral. I thought you said admirable. Admiral. You said admirable. Admiral. But you did say admirable. Well, guess what? He was an admirable admiral. Okay. He was. Yeah. One of the top. Yes. Miao Hua, an admirable admiral. Okay. From the People's Liberation Army. Was he admirable or are you just making that up? I've thrown that in there. Okay. I feel like...

Yeah. He's in the PLA. I'm painting my words green. Okay, right, right, yeah. From the PLA Navy. Was a director in political work department of the Central Military Commission, making him responsible for ideology and loyalty within the armed forces. So this guy is like, everyone has to be loyal, right? Xi Jinping's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're only loyal to me. Yes. I am starting to think we're going to see some sort of Mount Rushmore thing.

equivalent of what America has, but with Xi Jinping's face on it soon. Yeah, I mean, you've got that stupid Mao Zedong, like Beethoven-looking statue thing. We're going to see that with the current leader. Yes. I'm telling you. Yeah, it's happening. He is one of the highest-ranking CMC officials to be purged since the 1960s. This was a big deal. Right. This is getting everyone concerned that China's internal politics are out of control.

really just kind of like a train running down the rails with no brakes. Yeah.

Well, I mean, that's what happens when you get somebody with too much power. Yes. Just an article to read through there. This was kind of interesting. So China has these fishing platforms? Well, they call them fishing. Oh, they call them fish farms, right? Fish farms. Yes. And there are these platforms in the ocean, and Korea is starting to go, wait a minute. With all this stuff they're doing in the South China Sea, with all this land reclamation they're doing in militarization of these islands in the South China Sea, and also the Philippines, right?

why wouldn't they be using these for other purposes? Of course, they're going to be there for like listening stations, espionage. You know how like you have to have like some sort of like proof or whatever? You don't need proof. After what we've seen China doing. Remember in the beginning of the South China Sea, they set up a little bamboo platform or whatever and said this is just for fishermen to be able to stop and rest. And then they built it into a full-on militarized island with airstrips and missile launchers and radars.

So why would they not do the same here? So I'll just read this blurb. In recent years, China's towed a decommissioned offshore oil drilling rig and two giant octagonal steel cages into the sea between China and South Korea, saying that the structures were used as deep sea fish farms in shared waters.

The South Koreans now fear that there are more than that and they could be used to expand China's military influence 110%. That's what they're there for. You should have been picked up on this a long time ago. You should have stopped it. You should have been like, nah, get them out of here. It's almost a guarantee. Oh yeah, for sure. Just an interesting read. Yeah, for sure. But that leaves us.

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that so stay awesome we'll catch you next time but for the rest of you let's get right into it k-pop classics happy four-day friday awaiting approval never will be approved why do so many chinese factory owners withhold worker pay because they want money and they don't want to spend money they know they can get away with it due to local protection or is it just planned

It is... It's a bit of everything, man. It's corruption. It's corrupt. Like, the money is either not there, or they just... Think about this. If you have money and you're earning interest on it or whatever in your bank, you probably hold on to it for as long as possible before getting rid of some of it. You know? Stuff like that. K-pop Classics also says, we all know, but the baby milk scandal from two decades ago, has there any been any large-scale scandals, or did they just cover them up better? There's lots of scandals. Oh, yeah. I mean, there was that massive vaccine scandal. Mm-hmm.

COVID was a scandal. There's a lot of scandals. Queenie, thank you very much. Rob says, Port of Dandong. Oh, yeah. Port of Dandong. By the way, you know, there's a new... I don't know if it's really a scandal, but you know that... I don't even know what it's called. What's it called? Pop Mart? Yeah. Selling these figurines. It's a Chinese thing, yeah. It's really like taking over...

It's taken over China, but apparently the market fell fell out of it. People lost a lot of money or so really? Yeah. I didn't follow them I just saw a headline I could be wrong. I

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Have you ever tried to sing that at karaoke? It's freaking repetitive. It's also impossible. You can't hit those notes. No, but it's possible to sing it. It's just very repetitive. Is it? Tell me what the lyrics are. Welcome to the jungle. We got some fun and games. We're going to live like an animal. Welcome to the jungle. Won't you come? I'm going to watch you bleed. Yeah, but trust me, it's very repetitive.

I wouldn't say it's a repetitive song. I disagree. Bring up the lyrics. I mean, it's a song. Yeah, but it's like super repetitive. It's just an interesting take. I'm not disagreeing with you. I just don't... I don't... Welcome to the jungle. It's a jungle. Welcome to the jungle. Welcome to the jungle. We take it day by day. We're gonna... It's all different. Each verse is different. Yeah, I guess because it just sounds... Each verse sounds... That's what songs are. Yes, but...

It just, it's very repetitive. If you try to sing it when you're drunk and it's karaoke time, you'll think it's one of the most repetitive songs ever. Okay. At least everybody I used to sing it with thought. I wouldn't sing it because I can't hit those notes. I'm not a terrible singer, but I definitely can't hit those notes. I'm not going to pretend I could hit those notes either. Oh, okay. When you're drunk, it doesn't matter. Oh, it doesn't. You're right. You just like adjust. For sure. You just adjust the octave. You know what I always used to sing was The Darkness. I believe in a thing called love, so I'm talking shit. That's the highest song ever in the history of the world. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

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95 was it? Maybe 95, 97. Good year. Yeah. That was when there was that whole battle between Blur and Oasis and they were like... When they both pretended like they were the new Beatles and they're not even close. That's offensive. I know. I remember that being the discourse of the day. Yeah. And I was like, well, I mean, I kind of like Wonderwall. Yeah. I mean, like, I know a couple songs. Yeah. All right. Yeah. They're pretty good. I mean, it'd be awesome to see them live. Yeah. Good band. Yeah. Aren't they mad dicks? I don't know. Mm-hmm.

I don't know anything about them. I don't know anything about any band members. Like, not one. I know, like, music, but if you ask me, like, oh, what the... Violent fans. Yeah, I mean, I...

The Violent Femmes. Yeah, that drummer, you know, he can eat a hamburger. I don't know. No, I'm the same with actors when they name drop actors all the time. I don't know who you're talking about. Yeah, I don't know anything. Stargate404 says, been seeing videos of China claiming they created the world's first... Worst first. My misspeak is probably true. World's first thorium reactor based on discarded U.S. research.

The capabilities of their new jets and military drone delivery plane. I just roll my eyes. Yep, it's nonsense. I do keep seeing those headlines. I do want to look into it. We do have an expose segment about waste. Yes, the whole idea that they're burning waste energy. It's rubbish. It's nonsense. It's lame. I spoke to a geologist about this. We've got a big segment coming up. It's about time to put an end to that because I'm sick and tired of the propaganda.

They're really putting it out there at a pace we can't even keep up with. It's getting out of control. Yeah, but we'll always be there to debunk it because it's ridiculous.

You know what's great? I blame China and actually say thank you to China because it forces me to talk to experts in fields that I had no idea about to try and figure it out. And I've now become knowledgeable about stuff I had no idea about before, which is great. Dragonella says, I am unspeakably hyped for the Shilllympics. Oh, Shilllympics is going to be great. Can't wait. What is it going to be? Well, it's going to be...

Dude, it's going to be fun because you know the kind of people that do those kind of trips. Tier list Olympics is going to be so watchable. Oh, yeah. So watchable. We can even have like panel of judges, you know, like our audience. Yes, yes. I like it like a bracket. Yes. You like a bracket? Yeah, yeah. It's going to be good. I love this idea. I love it.

Hey, did Bill Maher, Bill Mayer, right? That's that guy that news guy, right? This is from Ole Christensen. Did Bill Mayer use the Roberts clip a few weeks ago? Love and support from Denmark. Oh, if he did, that would be really cool. Let me know. Yeah, I don't know. I don't watch any of that stuff. How do you even watch that stuff?

I see clips of these late night shows and stuff always turn up on social media. But where do you actually watch it? You don't have cable. I have cable. I watch cable TV. You don't watch cable TV. That's why you only watch the same three shows on streaming services over and over again. Yeah, that's right. I'm saying you don't like new things. No, I don't. But I've always wondered where it originates from. From TV, where people consume music.

I remember it's terrestrial TV. Old people like me. Yeah, you know, terrestrial, you had an aerial. Yeah. I've told a lot of stories about that. Yeah, I didn't have shit growing up. Could pick up a couple channels. Yeah, interesting. Well, okay, now I know. So it's on cable TV. So you actually need a cable that goes to your house for it? Apparently it's on HBO. HBO Max, too. Oh, cool. The world's most famous HBO show host.

okay yes hbo it's on hbo yeah i was thinking about late night shows are on cable usually right yeah yeah are you seriously asking how cable works i mean i understand how it works but like is it still i feel like it's not like that anymore no but when i say cable i mean network tv right so it's not cable it's like on youtube tv or you know those kind of things direct tv you know that kind of thing a truckception from john

Truxception, yes. It is Truxception. Suboptimal prime. MC Meister says, I guess suboptimal prime because I didn't expect that vehicle to be built right. One shall stand, one shall fall apart. Excellent. The matrix of leadership has been passed on. Chinese Matroska truck. Yes, it is. It's like that. Yeah.

uh james bond says new autobot sound clip please pig bay pen charge thank you oh okay uh chris says now that china's economy is in shambles do you think the u.s shows mercy on tariffs i have a sneaking suspicion that things will get worse for china let's not even talk about that i was gonna actually just go off and i'm not gonna because it just doesn't belong here no we gotta wait we gotta yeah we got we gotta formulate a proper response to that i also gotta calm down yeah i gotta calm down yeah

uh oh because i want to do it like from a knowledgeable perspective and not from an emotional perspective correct ollie ollie oxenfree ollie ollie oxenfree says that subway wonder man little brother e-bike tire man e-bike tire man yes do i look like a subway wonder man man he's cool he put himself in danger to you know save others and i can respect the bike yeah he did he's a hero he's a hero the engaged view that river is fabulous

Paul Sinkin says, I got paid today. So could I please have a lick my white neck with a lovely middle-aged Chinese woman and her welcoming smile? By the way, have I got something for you next week? Because I was putting together, and it'll be next week, a whole slapaganda that features her. Oh, she's back. I shouldn't say I can't wait. Come and lick my white neck. I don't want to see that. She's back. And you're going to love it. Can you give me a gist? What's the theme?

It's got to do with... Slopaganda? It's a slopaganda. It's got to do with, like, dogs. Okay. Something to do with dogs. Dog meat? No, just dogs. I think there's a dog meat element. There might be. Okay. But something to do with dogs, and she's loving it. That doesn't sound very good. You'll see. Okay. Stay tuned. Oh, boy. Another fab show. Thank you. Fabian Lux says, married. Married? I'm just trying to read these numbers. What is...

married 13 6 today it's her birthday same show same love oh oh okay excellent congratulations happy birthday yeah happy birthday um ivan says after the hose episode this week uh which do which do you prefer chinese or japanese ghost stories starfish hitler please i mean i don't really know many chinese ghost stories to be sure yeah gui shisha gui jumping around yeah i don't know uh

What did he want? Which soundbite? Sorry. Starfish Hitler. That's right. I don't know. I would prefer Japanese horror stories. I'll be honest with you. No, I'm not a horror guy either. But like when it comes to like horror films, very few horror like films were successful. You know what I mean? Other than Hollywood ones. You had Hollywood ones.

And then a couple of British ones, but they're normally cheesy and camp. And then you had like The Ring. Remember The Ring and those? And the Japanese horror movies are the only other ones that kind of gave Hollywood a run for their money back in the day. Maybe there's a couple of Korean ones that are pretty good. For sure. So I'd say definitely Japanese. I can't think of a Chinese horror movie. Can you? No. Just about any Chinese movie is a horror movie to me, though.

You know what I mean? Because when you turn it on, it's just like... Moving on. Kuala Lumpur 3 says, rising gang surge in China. Is it possible that Chinese ox is behind all this? I think Noja 2 is a horror movie. So do I. It's like, I'm scared of watching that. Oh my gosh. It can be nightmares. Did they push that? And I wanted to include it in the show. Maybe we'll do it next time. But they've got a promotion for some or other summer games or something. You know how China's always...

promoting some or other games, you know? And they're using Noja too as their promotional material. And it makes me want to vomit violently. It sucks. It looks shit. Makes me want to chunder, you know? Chunder. Yeah, you know what I mean? Chuck up. Whatever you want to say. Pull me chunder. Okay. Okay. Yeah, sorry. What's next? Somehow I tried to turn a Dream Theater into a song. No, it didn't work. Chunder. No. Can I get an angry train man? You certainly can.

John S. says, you guys talked to WDW Pro? Who's that? Not sure. I was really surprised when him or one of his panel mentioned you the other night because they usually talk about Disney and stuff. I have absolutely no idea what that is. WD... I don't know what that is. I know what WD-40 is.

I do as well. Yes. Shout out WD-40. Yeah, exactly. Doc Slothington. Imagine how ominous a large Chamateau gang would be. Doc, what do we have? Yeah, Monday, Monday, you'll see. It's not a hypothetical. No, you're going to see. Stalking towards you, doing their finger thing as they approach. That would be horrifying. Oh, wow. Yeah, I would run. Run. Yes. Felesify says, do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? I do. Yeah.

Ellens Jacobson says, happy Friday, gents. Thank you. No, thank you. You know what? I never knew what that song was because... Katy Perry. I know it is, but my girlfriend in China had that as her ringtone. Mm-hmm.

And it would only play that first line before she answered. Do you ever feel. Yeah, so like, what is this plastic bag garbage? She keeps answering the phone before the actual song comes in. And I hadn't heard the whole song. Yeah, I wasn't too familiar with it either. Yeah, it's one of those weird songs that when we were in China, we missed out on. Yes, we missed a whole decade of music. Yeah, so it was so annoying. And I really hated the beginning of that song because I didn't know what song it was. And later I heard it, I'm like, oh, it's actually not a bad song.

Yeah. Chris says, with all these bridges and buildings collapsing, I can't imagine how frightening it will be in the future. Their cities will be disaster. That's the problem. Throw any kind of mild natural disaster and a lot of these structures cannot handle it. They just can't hold up. For sure. Andrew Thorson is very catchy, isn't he?

Kyle, we need an album of Tina's greatest hits. John says, three to five years ago, every few months, I heard about another glass bridge collapsing. Would you think that the Chinese people would stop walking on those after, say, the first two? You know, it's unfortunate, but I've gotten to a point where I feel uneasy if there's something Chinese made and if it's a structure. Yeah.

I don't really want to be on it, having lived in China for so long. Because normally you don't think about these things. Yes. Okay, if you're walking on London Bridge or something, you're like, this thing's been standing here for a long time. It's not going to collapse. But in China, it looks beautiful. It looks big. It looks well made, but it's not. You've got to watch out. I feel uneasy, even when I shouldn't. I know what you mean.

Guys, please explain, this is from Chris, why other YouTubers, YouTube and other social media sites allow Chinese propaganda while marginalizes anyone who disagrees. This drives me crazy. And also, sometimes they're being taken advantage of because China has one of the biggest internet bot armies. And, you know, they've got a government...

what do you even call it, like a segment of the government that's just there to influence. They might have people in these companies. Yeah. So, I mean, they'll have people that have infiltrated companies, but they also have people that know how to manipulate SEO, search engine optimization. They put a lot of money into making sure that the content they want to be served is served. So they take advantage of capitalism in order to do that. It's working. Yeah. And they also have these bot armies that attack

flag mass flag report they'll report our videos for being whatever weird stuff so that it gets blocked that kind of thing so they take advantage and they use underhanded tactics is really all you need to know yeah kathy lynn thank you very much eric westereheim thank you very much hunter one says painting the trees is like taking the peels yeah it is where is that yes yes they're green too yes they're green pills they are aren't they yeah

Gwyneth Isaacs says, China is the Truman Show in real life. It's horrid. Haunter1 says, Mountain Makeover sounds like a reality TV show. It does, doesn't it? Next on Mountain Makeover. Give me the rock intro. Oh yeah, where is it? Do you ever feel like you're mountain when you look out the windows looking shabby? That's where we come in. Welcome to Mountain Makeover. It's a reality show.

Sounds good. It's on HGTV. Yeah, and everyone's just like... Yeah, no one watches, obviously. It's just spraying mountains. Exactly. Paramore Parks, thank you very much. Ural Septim. It's the year 2099. Ecoterra Simul conquered Earth. It's like the new Final Fantasy game, I guess. Marcin Johansson says, which is better, painting cliffs green or enlisting men to pee on frogs? I'm going to say probably this.

Well, Uncle Brat says, does the CCP understand that the West is not agreeable? WorldEater359 says, I sing and scream dance Gavin Dance for karaoke. Oh, is that your choice? Gavin Dance. Dance Gavin Dance. That's a band. Dr. P, have you looked into how the CCP is buying American secondary military art schools?

I have not. Can I get a Simi Masen? That's coming. You were supposed to make that today, but it's coming. Oh, yeah, you're right. I'm sorry about that. What is a military art school? I don't know. I'll have to look into it. That sounds weird. Thanks for the tip. You paint art of military stuff? I'll look into it.

I know you get like a military band. Maybe it's that. I don't know. Pig Bay from Llama. Just imagining a bunch of guys in like camouflage painting like pictures. This is a military art school. And they're like, yes, sir. Draw that still life. Yes, sir. Yes, Apple. That Apple's not red enough. Get down and give me 20. It's like, sir. Yes, sir. You know, I knew you were going to go out. Military art school. What the hell? Sorry.

We'll check it out. Okay. It better be that. It's not going to be that. It better be that. You know it's not going to be that.

Gwyneth Isaac says YouTube won't let me thumbs up. That sucks. Reload. What the heck? Vitrium GTS says I was at Yellowstone and despite the signs and warnings, I saw some tourists in the water with bare feet laughing. Mainland stereotype confirmed. Sad. Well, I mean, they can't read the signs, right? Robert Sanquis, I know Matt hates it, but it's been a while for me catching you guys live. So all I want from my milestone, 17 months, is a pig pay. I'll let you have it. Makes me irritated.

Robert Sanquist, thank you very much. Get good. John S. Winston. Yeah. Speaking of ringtones, mine for my wife is Black Magic Woman. Oh, okay. Look at my avatar. Is that because...

It's hard to see. Yeah, I can't tell. It's too small. If that puzzles you. Well, thanks. I didn't know you could change your ringtone based on the person calling you. That's interesting. I know you could back in the day. I just didn't know you could do that now. I'm pretty sure you can do it now. Yeah, probably. People have kind of given up on ringtones. That's what I was thinking, yeah.

Remember the early days of Nokia and stuff? You sit in a restaurant and people are like trying their different ringtones. It'd be so annoying. I never had a cell phone, but like my friends had those Nokias and we would always like just play with ringtones all day. It was the funnest thing ever. And then you got polyphonic ringtones. Yes. And people used to pay for ringtones. Yes. They'd have like an ad and you'd like type one, five, two, nine or whatever for, you

And then Crazy Frog became a ringtone that you could pay for. Was that the first one? No, there were others. Oh, was there? Before that, with the polyphonic ringtones, you could pay for it. It was crazy. I thought Crazy Frog was the first real song ringtone. No, there were plenty. I used to have Rammstein as my ringtone. Engel, where it whistles in the beginning. I don't know that song, but I know Rammstein. You know...

you know, whistles and then it gets really hard. So if you answer it in time, it just sounds like a harmless whistle. Oh, so you have to like pick it up in time. Yeah. Like forces you. Yeah, exactly. Nice. I can't remember what I used to have. Anti CCP poo bear. Probably something. I probably had something lame, like final fantasy. You know, it's really, really weird. Just remembered. Cause I used to do it. And there was this, um, yes, I had chrono crosses. So there was this like, um, sort of middle-aged, like older middle-aged woman was one of my clients. Um,

And I went to go fix her computer or whatever. And she heard my ringtone. It was Rammstein, you know. And she was like, I love that. Can you do that on my phone? I set her phone up with Rammstein. It was the weirdest thing ever. Like an old lady? Yeah. I mean, she was probably like 48, 50, somewhere around there. Old enough to be weird. It was bizarre. And this was like way back in the day. So this is like probably 2001 or something. Interesting. She loved Rammstein.

After hearing it on my phone as a ringtone, it was bizarre. You know what I mean? I was like 21 or whatever back then. By the way, I didn't mean... Pink Snoot, I know Chrono Cross isn't lame. I didn't mean... Chrono Cross, I meant me picking maybe like a video game song as my ringtone is a little lame. I'm allowed to be bullied a little bit. It's totally fine. Bully me. Bully me. No need to bully. That's cool. Yeah, of course, I think it's cool. I did it. Right.

Right? Yeah. Just saying. I'm trying to be like... I don't want to get picked on. All right? I'm so lame, guys. Yeah. Anti-CCP Pooh Bear says...

love the materials on ADV China Reddit. Oh, cool. Love tossing some laughter and the pro CCP go mad at me. Oh, are they on there? We don't really look at that subreddit. Yeah, not lately, but yeah, they're all over Reddit. Reddit belongs to China more or less these days. Does it? Yeah. Can I have a barbecue massage? You certainly can. Let's take a look. Plus Vapor, Eric Weissstrom, thank you very much. DJ, or DI, thank you very much.

Koala 1203, can I get a mouse slap followed by some piss eggs? I'll tell you what, you're gonna get a mouse slap anyway. Where is it? And I guess I'll give you a piss egg. Why not? Military academies. Spellcheck. It was military academies, not art. Oh man, military art class, come on. Like, why can't there be such a thing? Dude! You can only paint guns. Yeah, exactly. It'd be funny.

Gwyneth Isaacs, now we have thumbs up. Whatever, YouTube, we know you. PB says, are all those really self-driving? Or is the guy inside trying to drive by peeking through a tiny little cutout in the cabin? I'm pretty sure this is... That'd be pretty funny. Yeah, where is it? Yes, younger and beautiful. Whoa, where did we go? There we are. HB Wolverine says, 714...

H-B-O-C I guess that's probably your zip code I mean area code Awesome shows Thanks for keeping everyone informed of the real China Really highlights what a shitshow everything That this UCB touches it really is Can I get a don't trust China We don't have that

Oh, yeah, we don't. No. We should. Yeah, we can find that. Should we do that with the shouting lady? Yes. Sorry about the sound bites, guys. We seem to be lagging behind today a little bit on all our little bits and pieces. Well, we had a lot to do. Yeah.

A shouting lady and China is asshole. Yeah, that's it. One of the coolest guys ever. Great. Very cool looking guy too. A real rad guy. But Hong Kong's like that. Yeah, it is. Think about the 90s Hong Kong films like Chai and Fat and stuff. Excellent stuff. Sure. Some of the best stuff ever. Some of my favorite movies. Like peak cinema is like 90s Hong Kong. It's amazing. Yeah.

Jonah Finn says, Viva Frey and Robert Barnes do a show Sunday, 6 p.m. EST. Okay. Viva Daily on Locals and Rumble and Here. Okay. Okay. Locals is that alt platform, right? Yeah, that's right. Okay. Hmm.

Robert is a big fan. Is he? Yeah, gotta watch out for those Chinese Roberts. Name drops you frequently reach out and hook up. Well, hopefully it's something agreeable to what we've... I'm not familiar. We appreciate everybody who watches our stuff, and that's cool. It's good to hear. Kyle says, hope you guys have a nice weekend.

Oh, wow, that's good. Yeah, I hope you have a nice weekend too. Nice. And Rusty Shackleford says, great. Wow, there's a lot of jaunty love today. Great.

Well, thank you guys. Appreciate it. Everyone keeps talking about this Barnes. Barnes mentions the China show. Big fan. Okay, we'll have to look. We'll take a look. Thank you for letting us know. And a big shout out to them, I guess. Yeah. For liking the show. We appreciate that. Guys. Hopefully it's not some horrible thing that we disagree with. But you know, even if it is...

We appreciate all y'all. Yes, we appreciate every single one of you guys. Thank you so much for watching, guys. Have a fantastic weekend. Stay awesome. You know the drill. And I'm not going to cut myself off this time. Let's do it. Five, four, three.