You're About to See China Collapse - In Fact, it's Already Begun - Episode #260
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Welcome, one and all, to episode 260 of The China Show, The Real China Show. You know, the 260, episode 260, we've come a long way. Yes. We also need to shout out whatever area code 260 is. That is Fort Wayne, Indiana. Excellent. Well, you know.

It's just the way it goes. Guys, China's falling apart. We're not joking about this. We've got some good stuff for you today. I wouldn't say it's good. Well, I mean, good content. I didn't mean China falling apart is good. It's terrible. It's terrifying. Also, the things you're going to see are not good.

We do have quite a bit of humor in here to pepper in. Yes. Because if we don't, it's going to be a dour one. Don't worry. It's going to be a good show, guys. Let's get started. Let's just saunter right into it with what's new. And what is new today? Let's get this volume up there. We've got a lot of stuff going on. Now, quickly, let's take a look at some typical street food. Really, really kind of cool. This is the kind of thing you can expect. One of the good things about China. Yeah. Except for the gutter oil. Yeah, for sure. Stay away from that. Let's see.

It's so... Pause that real quick. Yeah. I like how that...

clip makes you feel like something else is gonna happen, doesn't it? It doesn't seem like something bad's gonna happen. It's like, how quick is this guy good at pouring his stew? But no, it's just a woman dropping her stew. That's what's new in China. We bring you the highest quality content. Sorry, I just advanced it a little bit. Another little clip that's been going around, kind of fun. We like to put these funny clips in the beginning, and we got a couple of them to get through, so let's do it. Okay. Oh, no. Oh, no.

It's smashed. Oh, no. Turns out to be a love story. Yes. Okay, what's happening here? So mahjong is China's version of poker, really. It's like poker and dominoes mixed together. And what's going on here is people love to smoke. Well, Chinese men smoke a lot. So what, 70% of Chinese men smokers? Yep. At least the last stat that I looked at. They like to smoke while they play mahjong and gamble.

Yeah. The problem is a lot of women do not like this because some women do not smoke, although that rate is going up a lot. You know what's the strangest thing in the world is that in China right now, young women are starting to smoke more and men are starting to smoke less. It's trading. Yeah. Because I don't think you see that elsewhere. No. It's very, very interesting. Cigarettes we're talking to, not just vapes. No, of course, cigarettes. Mostly cigarettes. This is kind of an interesting thing because...

This is obviously a bit of a joke, but she set up like a fishbowl on her head with a pipe so she doesn't have to smoke the smoke. The other woman's got a tissue in her. Yeah, it's in her nose. Yeah, just kind of fun. But yeah, Mahjong's crazy. Oh, I don't know. This guy's trying to block this, dude. He just...

Oh, no, no. You just paused it. Yeah, that's really funny. Hang on, hang on. Okay, something's going on here. What is this? Well, I'll let the audience guess. What do you think is happening here, guys? Yeah, just put it in the chat. Lads and ladies, you let me know. We got a goldar. We got like a spray-painted golden woman laying on the ground. Well, she's crawling on a red carpet. Yes. What do you think the reason for that could be? What do you think this woman...

is doing. Yeah. Take some guesses. While you do that, I wanted to talk about mahjong. You know, you often hear about stories of people dying playing mahjong. Yeah, they get addicted to it. Yeah, it's not just that. They sit there for so long without moving. They atrophy. Yeah, and then when they stand up, they get like, what is a blood clot? Yeah, DVT. What is that called? Yeah, deep vein thrombosis. Thrombosis. It's not even a joke. Yes. It happens often. We got her wheelchair broke humiliation fetish. She dropped some coins.

Lost her contact. Lost her diamond. Okay, let's just play it. Public shaming. You're all wrong. You're all wrong. Yes. Surprise, guys. It's none of those things. Let's do a quick pan. Come on, give me a pan. Give us a Peter. Give us a Peter pan. Here we go.

It's Mal. Surprise Mal. She was, you know, worshipping Mal. Imagine crawling around like for a dead dictator, murderous dictator statue. Jerky man. But just a statue of it. My favorite thing is that it's a guy that murdered tens of millions of your own people that you lived through. Yes. And you're like, I need to worship this guy. I freaking love that he murdered my family. Yeah. It's like the most bizarre, sad,

Stockholm Syndrome bullshit. It still baffles me. It's very crazy. Well, this is also kind of crazy. The Roman Empire actually ended up invading.

You know she stole that from a mall. She stole that from a freaking mall, dude. You know, because you can rent those in the malls in China, just like you can here. You can rent things for kids to ride around on. So she obviously got on it and just rode out. Took it to the streets. Yes. Which I love. I also kind of love this guy and his ridiculous hairstyle. Last time he did like a Coke bottle with Mentos in it. Yeah. He's upgraded to a full ass axe. Yes.

It's amazing. These hairstyles are getting out of control. So this is, remember we talked about Pick Up the Bike? Yes. Pick Up the Bike is a phenomenon if you've been around the show for a long time. You'll know that we play this footage in the background of us. We're in a Chinese city. And in this particular clip, there's a bicycle that's obstructing the sidewalk and the road. And the road. It like fell over. And we polled our audience. We said, would you pick up the bike? Because the right thing to do is you pick up the bike.

Only 60% of our audience, which is a majority, would pick up the bike. 40% said they wouldn't. So we wanted to make sure that we could shift the public psyche and that you should do the right thing. Yeah, do the right thing. So pick up the bike now, when we say it means do the right thing. Yes. This guy is the opposite of that. Yeah, let's see. Ha ha!

Bro, he's missing a leg. And I think now I know why. Yeah, he's pissed off at motorbikes or scooters. Maybe that's how he missed his leg up, right? Yeah, and he also has a model hair. Yes. Okay. Speaking of irresponsible, this was in Anhui, correct? This is part of the nose cone of one of the rockets that they shoot up into space. Because, you know, the Chinese Space Agency doesn't care. Yeah.

Okay, just to show you once again, this is part of a rocket that they shot off into space as per usual. And it landed in the middle of a road on a blind corner. Can you tell me why this happens? Because they don't care.

You know, when they shoot their stuff into space, China, you know, you can just take a look at NASA. When they do it, or any other country, when they shoot something up into space, they're very careful to make sure of the trajectory of whatever falls back down, like the first stage and the second stage. It's calculated so it falls down in the sea or in an uninhabited area, like a desert or something. In China, they don't want to bother with all that calculation. It takes time, you know, and also you have to time it. It has to be at a certain, when the Earth's at a certain angle and all this stuff.

they don't care. They just want to get it up. So they shoot it and they're like, well, it doesn't matter if it falls on some peasants anyway. That's what I was about to say. It's really about, it's about that cost savings and laziness. Number two is inability. Inability. Yeah. It's the lack of human, the care for human life and compassion. Um,

Remember, and I've told this story a lot of times, but I was in the car with a CCP official, so a Chinese government official, and he was ripping around on these country roads, these rural roads, and there were these poor villagers, basically, carrying their rice and crops and stuff on the road, walking. There's no sidewalk, right? Yeah. Because China's not set up well outside of the main cities. Correct. And he was ripping around and almost hitting them, and actually kind of spooking them to fall off the road, basically. Yeah.

And I was like, what's going on? He said, it doesn't matter if I run into one of these people, their lives are worthless. I'm in the government. It doesn't matter what I do. Just a bragging piece of shit is what he was. And he thought that was cool. Yeah. Yeah. Again, the reason why this is important, it's like, ha ha, there's a rocket on the road, but...

What if there was a family driving their car around the corner when it landed? Well, we've shown footage of a rocket landing on villages. Yes. You know, leaking horrific fuel. Yes. It does happen. Yeah. And this was their lucky that it was just the nose cone. Well, I mean, even that would have killed someone if it landed on the car. Oh, for sure. Or if the guy come around the corner really fast. Yeah. And hit it at high speed, you know?

If she was coming around the mountain when she comes, she'd be done. Now, time for some slopaganda, guys. Quick one here. Let's take a look. This matches my shirt. Yeah, it does. Look at China's new innovation. Yeah. The plane-helicopter hybrid. It's got millions of views. Yes, it's got millions of views. Pretty advanced, isn't it? Incredible, isn't it? Pretty cool. So I'm going to pause it there for a second. Yeah. This...

This Twitter channel slash account called How Things Work put this out. China's latest innovation, the plane-helicopter hybrid, just as you said. Yeah. Isn't it amazing how China innovates? Yeah. I just, I want to, am I kind of squinting here? Mm-hmm. It's weird. There's a, looks like a Japanese flag on there. It is. It's the Japanese flag.

Defense Force thingy. Emblem. Yeah, this is not a copy of an Osprey. This is an Osprey. It is. From America. Taking off in Japan. It's not a copy. It's literally an Osprey. Not in China. Yes. Luckily, it got a community note that says, It's a Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey. Operated by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.

And as we all know, there it is, you know, made its first flight like 1980 or 1981 or something. It's been in development far before that. This is not a Chinese innovation. It is an American military plane helicopter thing. I love that it's so far removed from reality, this post. Yes. On this huge influential account with millions of followers. Yes. It got millions of views.

And it's so far removed from reality that not only was it not China, it was a Japanese air defense force. Yes. It was an American military craft and it wasn't even a counterfeit copy. Yeah. Like you could say innovation if they copied something maybe, right? No. It literally has nothing to do with China. It was just an American plane. In Japan. Yes. Yes.

So look at this. This is the channel that shared it out. How Things Work, the official How Things Work page, including tech, AI, and loads more. Also, all the best news and viral content from around the globe. And it has 2.2 million followers. I mean, what the hell? I can't stand this misinformation because there's a bunch of idiots out there who just scroll past to now think that China invented the Osprey and it's China's innovation. Can I say something? Sure. At How Things Work.

Delete the post. Delete the post now. It's incredibly embarrassing. If you're running an influential account with this much push and sway...

delete this post because it serves as Chinese military propaganda. Now, I don't know where you're from, but you probably shouldn't be posting Chinese military propaganda, especially when it's a blatant lie and it's wrong. You've been corrected and you've not made a response about it. Delete the post. Do the right thing. Don't be a piece of shit. That's okay. I mean, here's another post of theirs.

How things work. Did you post that to them? No, but I'm going to. I'm going to. Yeah, exactly. I made this particular one. China's latest invention, fresh baked apple pie. It may as well be that, you know? It might as well. May as well. I'm sorry, but like, you know, if you're going to put that out, you're going to put an osprey there and say it's China's latest innovation. That is quite, that's a very good analogy. Yeah, seriously, guys. I'm tired of this. Just,

China's stupid, like, blatant out there bullshit propaganda that you see specifically on Twitter these days, but of course, TikTok mainly, to be honest. TikTok and Twitter. TikTok, Twitter, any form of social media, to be honest.

It's really getting me annoyed. Let's not be unfair. There are platforms that are way worse than others. Oh, yes. Twitter and TikTok are like the Mac daddy. Yeah, they are. Of Chinese propaganda right now. Absolutely. Okay, let's move on. Delete the post. Yeah, delete the post. That's such bullshit. That's a huge account. Don't do that. That's wrong. I agree. So we've got some more funny clips here. Yes, we do.

I mean, I get it. If you're desperate, you're stuck somewhere and you just have to get somewhere. Bollard. Oh, Bollard Report! Bollard Report! Bollard. Bollard Report is up next.

is that China's putting up bollards, which are these parking... What are they called? Parking pillars? Cones, as we said? Sweers? Yeah. No, posts. Posts. Yes. Parking posts. Yes. And they do that to stop these rash of mass murders that are happening, right? China... There was another one. Yeah. Another one last week. You know, here's the thing. I can't share it on the show. I have shared it on Twitter, and I don't like to share these things, and I share them censored, or I give a warning. But there was another mass attack, and again, it was outside of an elementary school. And what happens is...

When things go bad for people in China, in China's society, especially now with the economic downturn, people have mental breaks. And the only way that they can take out their frustration is to go and kill children, school children. And I mean, it happens with the stabby stab uncles that go and stab kindergartners. And it happens with these people ramming their cars into students when school's out. Yes. And it's awful. And there was another big one that happened last week. I'm not going to post it here.

But that's why when I saw this particular clip, because this particular clip was, can you believe this was propaganda? I was hoping you would start by saying that this was propaganda. Someone posted out to say, look how much China cares about its school students, how safe they are. And it shows like them unveiling these railings here. In a major city. Yeah.

You don't get this elsewhere. No, no. But the whole thing is it was propaganda. Look how safe it is. It's not look how safe it is. Look how desperate the situation is that they have to do this to prevent students from being run over by crazies. I mean, the best way to say this is that's a weird flex, bro. Yeah. You're bragging that you need to have accordion guards everywhere.

to prevent grown men from murdering hundreds of children with their cars. Yes. Because that's what they keep doing. Like, all the time. I'd like you to take a note, by the way. Let's look at exactly what's going on here. It's just... Okay.

Okay. So what you've got is take a look at the guys that are pulling out. It's just a fence. It's a fence on wheels. You've probably seen these if you go. I think they import them because I've seen these exact things here in like Chinatowns and stuff. Yeah. Why are they always? They always import these things. I don't know. That's why they're there. I guess they're cheap. Kind of like a baller.

Yeah. Some accordion bollard. Exactly. I even saw those things in South Africa as well, those kind of fences. Anyway, but you can see the guy on the far side over there, he's got one of those big sticks to stop stabbers. You know, it's got like a thing. It looks like it's for cattle or something like that, like a dog catcher would carry. So you've got those guys. They're there for a reason, to stop the people that want to come stab children. That's right. They're dragging that out, but you can also see...

Other guards, see there's ones with reflective vests and so on. They're there only for the entrance, I mean, for when the kids go out of school. And that's to stop attacks against children. That's why. That's the reason. So what are you bragging about? So there they go. They line up. They're like all ready. They open another automatic door.

gate there allow the children to come across there make sure no cars are going to ram into them make sure no stabby stab guys come along you know what the text i don't want to dwell but the subtext of that shouldn't be look at how china safe china is it should be like aren't you glad that in your country children don't get run over by the hundreds by grown men in their cars yeah it should be yeah so just i think because what it was is like a big fu like middle finger like look we don't have school shooting type thing you know they always do that yeah

They don't. They've got school stabbings and they've got mass vehicular homicides. Correct. Look, every country has its problems. But you can't pretend just because another country has a problem that your country doesn't. And then brag about the thing that you have to do to stop that problem. Exactly. Very weird. Very weird. This is just, you know...

Self-driving cars are a menace. Can I ask you a question? Yes. Would you be able to fall asleep in this situation? No. I would quite literally piss myself. I would never, ever. I know self-driving is fairly okay in some circumstances. I don't care. I just don't care. No. Okay? That's why we have bollards. They're ripping at like 80 miles an hour. Yeah, they're just going there sleeping. That's scary, dude. That's scary. Yeah. This is also why we have bollards in China.

Okay, there's a couple of things about this clip. Okay, so obviously they want this guy to stop. He's probably hit something or he's done something, you know, he doesn't care. He's just driving with the cops on the EV. Yeah. What a surprise. You can tell by the green plate. Yes. Blue plates are gas. There is something about this EV that really irks me though. Never mind that he's trying to drive people over. Look at those front lights. That is literally the logo.

For the Falcons, the NFL team. It looks like a freaking eagle or something. It's the Falcons, dude. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. It's the ugliest headlight I've ever seen. Look at this. Tell me it's not a reverse Falcons logo. Atlanta Falcons. Is it? It is. It's the Atlanta Falcons. What the hell? I mean, come on. That's like...

Dude, China's got some of the worst. I don't know how they get these influencers glazing China's stuff. It looks like shit. That's ridiculous. You know, they have a way around that. It's like a fridge with a bird on it. It is, but you know they have a way around that, right? Because they've got some cars that look really good, like that blue Xiaomi one, because it's a copy of a Porsche Taycan. It looks like a Porsche Taycan.

Because they took a car that actually looks good and copied it. And everyone's like, look at these good-looking Chinese cars. And it's because, well, because it's not a Chinese car. It's a copy of a Porsche. It looks like a Pontiac Aztec with a bird on it. It does. It does. You took the most regarded car, copied it, and put a falcon on it. It's the dumbest-looking headlight ever. We should probably talk about what's happening. Yeah, I guess.

We can't get over how dumb the car looks. Yeah, I mean, there's a bullet. You see, it's a bullet report. There's a bullet right there. And that's what those are there for, to stop people running people over. Chinese people in China are frustrated to keep running people over. Yeah. This one, at least, they don't get hurt. Yeah, no, they escaped in there. I guess when they escaped, it made like a... It went...

Yeah, exactly. Like a sick hawk. This is also why we have bollards right outside the police station. Yo, what's up? Okay. That's another reason we have bollards. Now this, this clip caught me off guard and this is, you know, from last month, the end of last month. Yeah.

Now, what do you think is going to happen? I mean, you know, it looks like there's going to be some kind of accident, maybe something weird is going to happen, something's going to fall on the road. What do you think is going to happen? Let's find out. Okay. I don't want to give it away. I saw it. This one I did see. Okay.

Random wrong way delivery driver on an elevated road. What is he doing? Well, you know, he has to go pick up his... Dropped his delivery stuff. He's picking his things up. He's going backwards on a highway exit. And then he's like, whoa! He picked it up and drove it into the other car. Yeah. I mean, this... I feel bad for him. He probably got confused. You know, we saw that self-driving clip. This is why it's not safe in China. Because...

Self-driving is predicated on the idea that things are predictable. Yeah.

that there's not going to be a random vehicle coming the wrong way in your lane. Yes. You know, that there's not going to be a truck stopped in the fast lane on the highway. Yeah. That there's not going to be debris or something random or, you know, a hole in the road or something. And in China, you just can't predict these things. It's very unpredictable. So that's what makes me worry. Give us a thumbs up if you don't like what you just saw and you don't want that in your country. Sure. Give us a thumbs up. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Now this. You got two cops. These are bike cops. Yeah, having a chat. Having a chat. They're going to meet a popper. Oh, we get to talk about poppers. There is a popper. Oh, and there's a popper. What a popper is. And I think you slowed it down, yeah? No, I didn't. You did, you did, you did. Did I? Yeah, you zoomed it in and slowed it down. I hope I did. When I put together the media pack, I noticed you had done that. Okay, cool. So we're looking at this, and maybe you couldn't see clearly, but you have two police officers pulling away from a stoplight. Yeah.

And what you're going to see on the left is something called a popper. And a popper is somebody that does not follow any sort of traffic rules. They pop out from nowhere. I'm surprised he actually tried to stop and slid out, though. Normally they just go. Yeah, so we've been in situations where we'll be going 100 kilometers an hour, and someone will literally pop out from the side of the road every single time we rode. Like if you rode more than an hour, you'd always see that at least once. And they do it like...

Fast, but then slow at the same time. I don't know how to explain it. They'll pop out fast and then they go real slow. So you're going this way. Someone will come out from the side of the road and go straight through your lane, perpendicular, like literally cutting up while you're going 100. And they don't care because they believe in something called Yuan Fen, which means fate. It means if it's their time, it's their time. So they don't look. They don't wear a helmet.

It's dangerous. There's going to be a lot of accidents. Yeah, exactly. I actually caught that on camera. Yeah. Where I had an accident. A drunk dude did that. Yeah. Now, the thing is, look at this. I'd like to find out how he's going to explain himself out of this situation.

Yeah, I mean, that's kind of... You know what I'm saying? Yeah, poor popper. Good on the cops for hopefully arresting him. It wouldn't be The China Show if we didn't show you an explosion, so let's do that one more time. Is this an EV? Yeah, one of those mini ones. One of those mini EVs. Wow! Yeah. Meow! Meow!

Yeah, that's quite the burn. That was an intense one, eh? Yeah. You're sure that was an EV? It could have been. It looked like one of those little three-wheeled ones. You know those mini ones? It probably had a propane tank or something. Yeah, that's possible. Because they carry those around very haphazardly. Yeah.

It's quite the spectacular explosion. Wow. That was a big one. I got a bigger one. Now that's a popper. Yeah. Guys, we have kind of a running PSA here. Oh, yeah. Never mind this. Just a quick little distraction for a second. Oh, what happened to the other half of it? I don't know. That's what I got from you. Ignore that clip then. Ignore it. You didn't see it. Yeah. This is a PSA.

lithium-ion batteries, especially in cheaper Chinese e-bikes, are a huge hazard. This is a Chinese e-bike. Yeah, this is a Chinese e-bike. And I cannot tell you just how dangerous this is. In fact, it's always good to just see these videos because it reminds you. Because you're cruising around, you're thinking it's fine because everything's fine until it's not. Yes.

Just the violence of the fires that come out of electric vehicles is insane. It is. Especially lithium-ion vehicles. And I know there's all these very pro-EV people. We're not anti-EV. There's pro, like very EV zealots, I should call them, will just ignore situations like this and be like, if you look at the statistics, it doesn't matter. I understand the statistics. I get that, right? But that doesn't mean you don't examine EVs.

bad quality EVs coming from China because they certainly seem to have a lot more incidents than anything else. Yes. Right. Oh yeah. And I mean, you could try to put those, as you can see, put those fires out all you want. They won't go out. You know, he's throwing water on it. Like you're not going to put out that EV fire. It's going to have to melt to the ground. It burns until it's done. And that's it.

Chinese, cheap, EV batteries, not good. Yeah, exactly. And they come through all the time. They manage to find ways to make it into your market, even if there are safety standards. For sure. EV became Flareon. Yeah, I suppose so. What I'm saying is like, if you've bought any kind of a Chinese scooter or electric powered vehicle, don't keep it in your house.

Like, you know, sometimes people buy like one of those wide-arm scooters and they'll charge it in the house and put it under the stairs or something. Please keep it outside. At the very least, keep it in your garage. Yes, I agree. Just because. And it's just a PSA.

Because you know what? You think it doesn't happen, but when you look into it and you read about it, people lose their lives. People lose their entire homes because they bought like a Chinese hoverboard or something. I looked that way for a second. Yeah. And I look over and I just can't see anything. I mean, yeah. This is from a single scooter. One e-bike, like a shitty little e-bike. Yeah, exactly. Imagine the damage from a proper big SUV. Yeah. Right? Yeah, for sure. But I mean, think about if you had this e-bike in your house.

Yes, well said. So what's going on here? Let's see. All right. That's why you wear a seatbelt in the back too. Yes, always wear a seatbelt. That's pretty funny though. That's a fun one. This poor driver, it's like an Uber type driver in China. Yeah, the milk tea got everywhere. Yeah. Just everywhere. But by the way, pause this real quick. Yeah. This is serious. This is the main topic. And it's very serious. Yeah. You guys saw the thumbnail. Concrete's expiring. Yeah.

We're positing a theory, but we're also going to back it up with evidence. Yes. Our theory is that China has built almost everything in this big boom in the last 20, 30 years. Yes. It's built everything out of concrete, and that's true. Yeah, concrete and rebar. We've seen evidence now personally, with our own eyes, with our own hands. Yeah.

We've chipped away at it. We've seen that it's crumbling. We've also seen that it's being mixed with the wrong kind of sand, which probably is salt. Like sea sand, which might have salt, which causes accelerated corrosion in the rebar. And we're now seeing something that you notice, this great phenomenon. And I don't mean great as in good, great as in large. This huge phenomenon of buildings and bridges...

and houses and everything made with this concrete in the past 30 years falling down at an accelerated rate more than stuff that was built 40 or 50 years ago. Yeah. There's definitely a segment of growth, like explosive growth in China where a lot of shortcuts were taken. They just wanted to pump infrastructure out there, wanted to build houses really quick for profit, and they used substandard materials. And the chickens are coming home to roost. They are. They are.

And we posit that China will go through an absolute boom of things falling down. And it is actually currently going through it now. And that's why we keep showing you these things that are falling apart all the time is because it's accelerating now. Yeah, because now it's just kind of hit the sell by date. I think that's the best way to put it. That's what we came up with. We're going to prove it to you because of what's just recently happened. And this is a massive bridge in Beijing that's just collapsed this week.

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Okay. So I found exactly the one we're talking about here. Yeah, it's in the Xunyi District in Beijing. Yeah. So this is in Beijing. You know, this is the capital. Kind of looks like the KKK Bridge. What the heck, bro? Reign it in. Well, I mean, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Anyway, this is the bridge. So we thought, let's see what it actually looks like during normal, everyday, you know, driving conditions. Whistle.

Having a bit of a seizure there. Exactly. Yeah, this is the... Yeah, let's take a look. Yeah, this is the bridge, the same one. Okay, and this week, look what happened. That's insane. So, I mean, you saw what it looked like. Just a normal bridge. You're just driving over a normal bridge. Everything seems fine. And then this happens. Mm-hmm.

It's terrifying. This particular bridge, the official report coming out is that cables that were running underneath the bridge caught fire. What kind of a fire causes an entire bridge to collapse though? I mean, I think it probably contributed to it, right? But I like how that's the convenient excuse, right? Yeah. Is that, oh, the fire just burned the whole freaking bridge down. Yeah. Which is insane.

Yeah, I mean, but for it to fail that easily is... It's kind of terrifying. You don't want to be in a position where your whole country is sitting on stuff primarily built around this time. Yeah. Just ready to expire at this point. Yeah. Right. Because you're going to find out this bridge isn't very old. We'll be explaining that in a minute. Just wanted to show you a couple more angles of this collapsing. Now, of course, traffic was stopped, you know, after this thing collapsed.

Again, they're reporting that there are no casualties, but it's impossible to know with the Chinese government because if you take a look here, okay, I'm going to pause it. You can see in the distance over there, you can see that there are some trucks and some cars that have been stopped on the bridge. So how do you know that there weren't cars going over when it collapsed?

How would you know unless you saw it on video? Yeah, exactly. You wouldn't know, right? No. This person's on the bridge right now filming it, right? Yeah. So there are people on the bridge. There are cars on the entrance to the bridge there. Just impossible to know. What do we got here?

This is the official report that came out on the day it happened. And Xinhua News Agency Beijing said, the reporter learned from the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission on the 23rd that at 7.07 on the 23rd, a fire broke out on the Chaobai River Bridge in Xunyi District, Beijing. Part of the bridge was damaged. To ensure safety, the road was closed in both directions at the scene.

You know, I'm sorry, but the way this is worded, it sounds like, oh, you know, part of the bridge was damaged. The bridge collapsed, okay? It literally collapsed. Huge sections of the bridge fell into the river. The whole thing fell apart. And who knows? I mean, again, we don't know the actual casualties. I mean, he does change the properties of metal, right? Yeah, of course. The strength of metal. It makes a lot of sense, but...

The whole bridge collapsing on you? Yeah, it's kind of crazy. Well, here's some fun facts. I like your Joker. Is that a Joker Man font? Closest I could find. Oh, okay. So the Chow Bai River Bridge fun facts. All right. Somebody said block the view, put the panels up. Remember when they did that? Yes, exactly. In the flood. Okay. Built in 1999. I don't know about you guys, but I remember 1999 pretty well. It wasn't that long ago.

No, I mean, like I said on our Xiaobanhou the other day, I mean, 10 is probably the best year of all time. Yeah. I mean, it was again renovated in 2007 and shocker, renovated and updated and also reinforced in 2015. Yes. So the last time this bridge was fixed up and reinforced was what, 10 years ago? Yeah. It's a bridge. It's a bridge. It shouldn't fail within 10 years. Yeah. All right. I have some other fun facts.

That I thought we'd just go through. Since we're talking about... This is, by the way, remember, this is in Beijing. Yeah. This is not some far-flung small city in the middle of nowhere. It's the capital. It's where all of the government's money is lavished. Yes. Is on the capital. This UK Menai Suspension Bridge, fun fact, built in 1818. All right? I know that's when the construction started. I'm pulling up my notes here. It's completed in... 1826 was finished. When it was finished. I mean, that's a long time ago. Yeah. Look at it.

It's still there today. Yeah. And it has bluer sky because the bridge is responsible for that. Yes, yes. Just saying. Yes. What else have we got here? The U.S. Brooklyn Bridge, fun fact, built in 1869. I think it was completed in 1881. Yeah, yeah. That's when they started construction. Beautiful sky. That is before anyone in this current world was born. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

My great-grandfather. Born in 1869. All right, this has been around longer than humans. He's zombying around. Like current humans, I should say. Yes, current humans. That's true. There is no one in this world that remembers this time. This is before history. And I've been over this bridge multiple times. Me too. And it's a great... It's a great bridge. It's probably one of the best bridges. But yeah, seriously, it has not fallen down. Yeah, this was not built 10 years ago, and it's still there. No. It's like...

Hundred odd years ago. How about this bridge? Classic. Yeah, so the full house bridge. The full house bridge. That's what it's actually officially known as. Yeah. It was built in 1933. Okay. You think there's still some people around from 1933? No. Yeah. Really? Bro, are you okay? I'm fine, of course, but barely. Barely clinging on to life over there. My grandma was born in 1933. Okay.

She's rolling. All right. So there's still some people around. Yeah. My grandfather died relatively recently. He was born in the 20s. That's crazy. He died a few months ago. That's insane. Yeah.

Yeah, so there's still some people around that remember when this was inaugurated. They were like, the Full House Bridge is now complete. Yeah, so that's what they said at 33, actually. Exactly. It's on the plaque. It's on the plaque there, yes. I think, what is it, Bob Saget actually showed up. Yeah, he did. He was there to cut the ribbon. You know, fun fact, another fun fact about the Full House Bridge is apparently they paint it all year round.

By the time they reach the one side and finish, they have to start again. Isn't that wild? Yeah. It's insane because it's just a constant painting exercise. It is true, isn't it? Yeah, but that's how you keep it maintained and it doesn't fail after 10 years. It's still around since 1933 when Bob Saget cut the ribbon. I can't believe he was around back then. Yeah, I know. Gone too soon. Yes, absolutely. Now, back to China. China.

This particular, was this in Høbe? Yes. Let me pull up some notes here. This is very important. So this is in Høbe. April 23rd, right? Yes, April 23rd. This footage was taken. In Høbe, you saw the trucks and stuff going over this bridge. This guy...

is able to chip the concrete off with a little stone. So he saw this, right, before a lot of the media was removed of this bridge collapse. And what I assume happened is that he saw this bridge collapse

and said, hey, I'm actually quite close, right? This happened. I mean, that bridge collapse did happen in Hebei, basically. Yeah, it happened on the 23rd. On the 23rd. Same day as this. So he probably rushes out, goes and says, let me go check my local bridge. Whoops. Well, lo and behold, it turns out it just completely disintegrates. Well, this is what happens, okay? When rebar starts to corrode, it expands. And then it actually pops off like the concrete that's surrounding it.

and you get to see the exposed rebar like this. That's when you know something's wrong, because the rebar shouldn't be corroding, you know, and splitting and rotting away. And of course, you know, like the concrete is so loose, you can just knock it off. This is the bridge that those trucks and stuff are driving over. See, that's a support pillar for the bridge. Yeah.

That's insane. Yeah. And you can see... Oh, this is in Hubei. I'm sorry. Sorry, Hubei, not Hebei. Hubei. Yeah. Easy to confuse the two. You know, one's a river, one's a lake. You got an ooh?

And he got an uh. Exactly. You sometimes mix up the ooh and the uh. So I'll just read this. On April 23rd in Huanggang Hubei, it was discovered that the steel bars of the load-bearing columns of the bridge at Fenghuang Guangshui section of the Houwu Expressway were corroded and exposed, and the cement was granular and would fall off if hit with a stone. And there were vehicles driving on the bridge.

It's not, I mean... You know, I wish we put this in here. Do you remember that one collapse where the cars were just literally at night driving off the cliff? They were driving off the cliff. Yeah.

This is not unique. This is not new, but it does look like it's happening very often the past two years or so. We've noticed a huge increase. Well, I'm pretty sure, again, in our audience, there are going to be people that are in engineering, structural engineering, or who work in construction or something. We always get people chiming in that are in that field. And they would understand this better than us. Yeah.

My understanding is when you see that level of corrosion and it's starting to crack and fall apart, that's not going to last very long. And it's probably a good sign that you should be replacing that. I just want to give some... But you can't because it's already part of a bridge. That's my problem. You'd have to rebuild the whole thing. Basic math here, right? Every town or city that's near a body of water in China, a village, is going to have a bridge. They're all relatively the same age now. Yeah.

And I say relatively. I'm talking there's not one that's 400 years old and then one that's 10 years old. They're all relatively... They're all within the last 30 years, basically. So you're looking at a situation where multiple people have gone out and started chipping away at their bridges. What's the final outcome here? Yeah. Are you going to go, if you're the CCP, and go reinforce every single one of these bridges to save lives? No.

Or are you going to do a massive media cover-up so that nobody can talk about bridges anymore and quite literally probably ban the word bridge for being able to be typed in Chinese? It's possible. They did that with multiple things now, right? They brought candle and all that kind of stuff. You know, there have been some horrific bridge collapses in China's recent history. Collapses that have just fallen down on top of traffic.

fallen down with trucks on top. You can see the pictures online, but these days they're very good at quashing any discussion, like you say, and news about this, but it's not just bridges. It's pretty much everything here. What we have is we have some, um, guys up here at the, on the building. Now this is how air conditioners are mounted on buildings. This will give you this. If you are, uh, afraid of heights, you're not going to like this one. No.

So what they're doing is they're just testing this little ledge, which the air conditioning unit has placed on just by tapping it with a hammer. And look at the edge here. This is the build. Yeah. Now, can you see you can see all the way down there? Yeah.

I mean, that must be 20 stories. Believe it or not, you get deaths from things falling off buildings in China. Yes. And it's common enough that there are warning signs everywhere for it. You know what it usually is? The building cladding will come up and you say, oh, it looks thin. It's just like kind of floating away. No, it kills people. Yeah, of course. But it's not just building cladding. I mean, people drop things and that kind of thing. For sure. But I mean, look at the size of this building.

concrete slab that he's just removed from the ledge. He's literally Jenga-ing himself. You know what I mean? Like it's the worst game of Jenga I've ever seen. What do you win? Take a look. That was ready to fall off. Now, if there was some kind of wind or a slight seismic event, you know, anything but just weather would cause it to fall off and possibly kill someone. Is it safe to say the building is made of that material? Yes, of course. And

That's one of these ledges. Let's go back a little bit in this clip and see if it's possible to see more. I don't know. I haven't looked at it close enough. Let's just get past this part.

Yes, if you look down, you can see another air conditioning unit directly down. So it's going to be for however many stories on this building. And usually this kind of building, I'd say, have about 32 to 34 floors thereabouts. You know what I mean? Yeah. So you're going to have tons of these things. They're all going to be in the same condition. They're all going to be cracked. They're all going to be ready to fall apart. And, I mean, that's just part of the building that's exposed, right? I'd like you to note that he's...

He's being held up by this like, I don't know, flimsy looking rope knot. I don't know. There's something about that that just gives me the heebie-jeebies. You know what I mean? Everything about this. It's just like, dude, it's not very good safety. And these poor guys, I mean, they're absolute heroes. These guys that go out here. I don't know how they do it, you know? But I mean, what they're doing here, what they're doing here is they're saving lives. Okay. These guys.

By removing those loose bits of concrete, they're saving lives. Oh, for sure. But it just bothers me that this happens at such a large scale in China. And we're looking, again, we're potentially looking at thousands of buildings that are going to come down if this isn't rectified in some bizarre way. I mean, what do you do? Spray it with glue? Like, this is not much you can do.

Yes, and again, it would have to be up to the structural engineers, and people actually understand this better in our audience. But I would think that you'd have to do major renovation to these bridges and probably prop it up with a temporary pillar, rebuild some of the support pillars that are showing all this corrosion and so on. But there's so much of it around the entire country. It's going to be impossible to keep an eye on every single bridge and every single thing, right? It's got to be. And there's another thing I want to ask.

People have been reaching out recently. They've been saying, I have pulled up all of my social media and I am so tired of how much promotional material there is for China right now, about how China's winning the trade war and China already won and how China is this or that. Living in the future. Living in the future. And I see all these spectacular cityscapes.

Do you now see what it's made of? Can you in good conscience, I'm sorry, be telling me that China's already won what? Yeah. Being built of tofu. Yeah. This is a disaster. It's happening. I shouldn't say waiting to happen. It's already happening. Yeah. I mean, here's the thing.

All you need to do is put some Christmas lights on this. Yes. And take a drone shot at night and say China's living in the future. And all of a sudden it's Chongqing at night. Yeah. And it's the city of the future and you get massive multimillionaire influencers wandering around talking about how this is the most insane thing they've ever seen. Yeah, on the 22nd floor. Yeah. It's the ground floor. Yeah.

It's not going to be the 22nd floor for very long. It's about to be ground level. It'll be really, really ground level. And I'll tell you what, you won't be able to say, oh my. Yeah, where is that freaking thing? This will be you. Oh my days, Jack.

You'll be chocolatoing on the ground. Yeah, you'll be covered in rubble. But it's... Okay. Yeah, sorry. China is the land of shortcuts and facades, okay? And facade being the key word here. Because when you go to the major cities, they will have set up

these very specific tourist areas. I'll just pause it on one of these. One of these shedding seasons. Yes, the shedding season in China. They set up these facades and they'll have a main street

And it looks nice and they'll keep it nice, but you just need to go beyond it. Literally one street over sometimes. Yeah. And you'll see what it's really made of. And unfortunately, you can build something that looks impressive, but if you take shortcuts, it's going to collapse. I mean, how is it that a bridge that was renovated 10 years ago suddenly collapses by itself because of a cable fire in the capital city? Just like that. You know, that's not normal. Anyway.

Time for us to move on, guys. It's time for Soft Power Hour. The main segment. Yes. So Soft Power Hour, of course, is where we tell you how China's trying to change your mind through soft power, and they're trying to do it through robots. Quite literally. One of their biggest pushes right now is through robotics. Yes, robotics, humanoid robots. It's so prolific that you were telling me that even on your kids' radio thing that she listens to, it has nothing to do with China. Yeah. Part of it.

Part of the segment they brought up was China's robotics. Yes. Trying to teach kids about this. And it's crazy because it's permeated every piece of American news, podcasts. I hear comedy podcasts about China's robots all the time now. I'm like, bro, this is everywhere, right? So clearly it's propaganda. Before we continue here, I just want to splash a little bit of cold water on everybody here. The humanoid robot idea is nothing new.

Yeah. Boston Dynamics is definitely ahead of the game when it comes to humanoid robots. They've got some impressive humanoid robots, and they have had for like over a decade now. You can look it up, and they can do incredible things, and they can run and walk and do backflips and do all their jumps and do parkour. This big humanoid robot, go do push-ups, do whatever. The Azimo robot from Honda in Japan, that thing has been able to play football and run around and do all these things.

like 15 years ago yes all right yeah it's nothing new it's something that's been done and it's been done well yeah china's coming along now and making toys okay it's basically remote control toys they are remote control toys they are toys but they're trying to make it out as if there's some kind of big revolution in humanoid robotics but it's not it's like trying to reinvent the wheel but you make it square yeah like and broken it's like yeah

It's true. So, I mean, just to put that out there. Anyway, funny clip here behind us, which we're going to take a look at, of these self-driving delivery vehicles now.

They're trying to work on the road. They got a big pipe over here, okay? And they don't want these stupid self-driving vehicles running over their pipes. They're trying to stop them, but it's just like they're a menace. It's so persistent. This is Robert dystopia. It really is. These Roberts are taking over. Yeah. And they're just effing everything up. They really are. It's very funny, though. Yeah. This poor guy, he's so frustrated because he keeps finding ways around. It's like, okay, okay.

well screw you I'll go this way are you calculating this guy's getting a workout for sure here it comes again what are you gonna do damn Robert yes but okay especially we've seen these these models are the ones you see a lot these Unitree G1 or the U1 or something they have bad mouths on them I'll tell you what they should have never taught him to talk no but here we've got a a very cool live show and they're putting them putting these robots out there to impress people let's see let's see how it goes I'll get us out of there for a second

They're so foul. They are foul robots. It's these particular ones. Welcome to the world's first half marathon held for humanoid robots in Beijing. So this was the... Play that again, actually, because this was the marathon that China was pushing on all outlets.

This is on every news source. Yes. China holds the first, and they big this up, the first half marathon for robot competitors. Yeah. So now, like, I actually like this kind of thing because it reminds me of that, like, Red Bull thing where they fly off the water, you know, on stupid handmade planes. You know that thing? Exactly. And no one ever goes anywhere. And it's actually, you'll see it's similar. But, yeah.

Beijing has this half marathon, but they thought because they're pushing this huge humanoid robot propaganda. In the initiative for robotics from the top, the budget. Yeah. So they're like, okay, what we're going to do is we'll have our normal half marathon, but we'll also let robots compete in this half marathon so we can impress the world. But here's the part that they don't mention that you don't really see. Your robot's supposed to run the half marathon. Now, if you could build a robot to run a half marathon, that is impressive.

What they don't tell you is that the competitors were allowed to change batteries and repair the robots along the way. Yes. So there's no point then. There's no point. Number two, it's not what you think because if you watch the propaganda, I'm not going to spoil it too much, but if you watch the propaganda about this, it makes it look like it was some futuristic, almost dystopianly amazing achievement. Yeah, it was like all these robots doing all this cool stuff.

Thankfully, we've managed to get some footage of the actual half marathon. So let's show you what actually happened, okay? We're going to show you the real thing. Let's take a look. Actually, we could probably stand here. They didn't want to share this. No. And they're not happy this footage got out. No. This is the marathon. This is such an analogy for modern China under the CCP. Yeah.

That doesn't count. Come on. Yeah. What is this thing? They got run over. Yeah. What even is that? I don't know. It didn't work, though. That's creepy. Yeah. And again, it doesn't work. Yep. This is a great marathon. Yep. He's yawned.

Yeah, so, okay, the thing is, I believe it was 21 humanoid robot companies. What? It's the Special Robot Olympics. It is. And 21 companies entered. I think three robots completed. I think three out of the 21. But with battery changes and repairs. No, but that's like, okay, it falls over. You pick it back up. You fix it. You put a new fresh battery in. It goes another five feet. It falls over. Right.

That type of thing. But when you look at the propaganda, they make it out like it's something really special. Look how slow that's moving. Okay, I just wanted to show you like the kind of thing. It's like a high press event. Yeah, take a look. Through its embodied brain, the robot can achieve real-time environmental perception and analysis. The robots that they all showed had a person with a remote control controlling it. It's a remote control toy.

Why is this impressive? It's not using its embodied brain. It doesn't have an embodied brain. It has some sensors so it doesn't bump into things and someone with a remote control. Yeah, some of them don't. Not all of them have remote control, but they have a camera on them that shows them where to go. It's not some embodied brain. No, that's what I'm saying is it was hyped out to be something that it wasn't. Yeah.

It's a fun event. They shouldn't have, like, tried to pretend it's something it's not. It's basically like a soapbox derby for Boy Scouts. Yes, that's what it is. That's what this was. Yeah. But it wasn't. This was a government-sponsored, top-tier event.

Put on by companies, not hobbyists. These are not like, I'm going to enter. No. It's like you have your 10-year-old son. He's like, go on, son. Enter our little robot we put together. It's not that. No. It was top-funded, CCP-funded companies with grants from the top government. Yes, it's CCP companies, like I say, doing this. So, yeah, anyway, that's how that robot marathon went.

So when you see the Swish stuff coming out about like, oh, look at this amazing marathon, just know that it was actually just a complete cluster F. Yeah, it was a cluster F.

Alright. Oh, guess what? Shabano, this is what you missed! If you didn't watch us on Monday. Today's kind of like if an entire episode, and you guys should be hyped for this, an entire episode was vote clips. Something like that. Pretty much. Oh, yes. It's a blind person massage. Just hopping on the cast leg. I remember going in school to one of those and then they let you ride the ostrich around. I'm just wondering how he's breathing right now. Yeah, wait a minute! Chain-shape King Kong.

Yes, change shape King Kong. Like police brutality, all this kind of stuff, right? Where are people sharing this when people bring up police brutality or ACAB? Yeah, exactly. Where's these clips? It is the greatest ammunition you could ever use against CCP apologists of all time. Yes.

Okay, so that's Shaban Ho. Now, for you guys out there who don't know, that's our VIP show. I got a sneeze, so you take over. Okay. We have a Monday show. That wasn't a sneeze. No, it was a close one. That was the worst sneeze I've ever heard in my life. You know when you just manage to catch it on time? Probably one of the most unsatisfying feelings in the world. You've got to let a sneeze out. Too late. Too late. Anyway.

It's our VIP show on Mondays. It's fantastic. Our last one was really funny. You told South African stories from your childhood growing up. Yeah, but we also showed the most ridiculous Chinese-like clips. You know, remember when I said it's the stuff we can't show on YouTube on The China Show? It was truly that. Well, this is the thumbnail from it, right? China's Insanity Pro Max video.

WTF is even happening? Dude, by the way, you know, I'm so sick and tired of this Pro Max nonsense, okay? Because, you know, Apple came up with that, like an iPhone Pro and then a Pro Max. Every Chinese product now is the Pro Max.

It is. We were looking at those. Some car, right? Yeah, we were looking at these cars because, you know, in Australia right now, the Australian, what is it even called? I can't remember. ACC? L something. Oh, that. Yeah, yeah. It's like the Australian advertising board or whatever, you know, like fair advertising. They're suing a Chinese car company, SAIC. SAIC. S-A-I-C. SAIC. SAIC.

SAC. Is it SAKE? SAKE. F-SAKE. Yeah, F-SAKE. Okay, so there's a Chinese company, SAKE, that we know. We've driven some of their cars in China. They're not great. But they've been selling in Australia these pickup trucks. And they've been saying how amazing these pickup trucks are, right? Off-road, they could do all this stuff. But they've been rusting. And people have bought, like, a car. By the way, a car rusting in Australia? Yeah.

They don't have snow or salt on the roads like we have to do it. Yeah. So anyway, there's been like 5,000 complaints of these things rusting apart. Within years. Yeah. Between 2018 and 2024 or something. Not like from the 80s. No. And in their adverts, they're like, oh, it's rugged and you could drive it everywhere, but it's all like false advertising because they're just rusty pieces of junk, basically. Yeah.

Anyway, the reason I'm even saying this is they've got like the LDV, whatever it is, T60 Pro. Then they've got T60 Pro Max. I mean, come on. It's a car. Now you're calling it a Pro Max. Can you come up with your own terminology, China? That's why we named it this. Yes. That's why we called it what? The F Pro Max? Truly an insane episode. Yeah. I'll just put it to you this way. Mm-hmm.

If you ever want a clip, and there's many clips in the show, but if you want a clip that you can take and show people why the CCP is bad, you'll quite literally see the Chinese government and their police forces beating up disabled people. Yes. And we covered it.

Yes, we did. Because if you can see in the thumbnail there, they've got riot shields and there's a person on a wheelchair there. Oh, it's more than one person. They actually beat up paraplegic people with like, you know, amputees. They knock them off their prosthetic legs. They knock their legs out. It's the stupidest, most vile, insane thing you've ever seen. Because they don't want people to look at disabled people. Yeah. This is China. Yeah. And it's a great poetic way to show how bad it is. Yeah.

Anyway, that was our last episode, but we've also had a bunch of other episodes recently. Dangerous stuff people are eating is medicine. Very hilarious slash kind of messed up one. Sure. We had trying to assess delivery driver core videos. They're trying to make heroes out of the delivery drivers right now, and they're kind of weird.

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It's fun. We hope to see you there. It's always a good time. So if you have the means, we understand it's a big ask. But if you have the means, please join us. And if you do go, decide to do the top tier, you get to watch live and we have interactive games. We handwrite Chinese names for winners. Yeah. You could vote on the next topic. There's a lot of incentives. You know, I was thinking, you know the splash screen we got here? Yeah. It's all Buryat. Buryat. You know, this is something we filmed ourselves. You know, well...

Maybe our cameraman filmed it for us. We were in the scene. Yeah, but this is in Inner Mongolia. It was a very interesting experience. If you're interested in this kind of stuff, we made some documentaries and this was just part of it. I just wanted to give some context because we're always showing this dude. He was really a very interesting guy. He was. Yeah. We shouldn't give it away. No, we're not. You should watch the show. Yeah. And that's us on motorcycles herding camels in Inner Mongolia. And it was not set up.

No, no, it's very interesting. Anyway, worldview. This is an interesting stat that I think everybody should probably pay attention to. China jails most writers in the world for the sixth year in a row. Xi's government was also one of the biggest exporters of propaganda content. Oh, no. According to reporters without borders, by the way. Oh, without borders. Guys, do you know what that means? That means that the reporters don't have people living in their house anymore.

See, I thought they just were lacking two by fours. Because reporters without borders means they're independent because they don't have any dependents living in their houses. There's no one in there. You know, room and board. That's obviously a timeout from the independent. The independent needs to get an independent fact checker or like a spell checker. Yeah.

Not to make fun of the independent. I'm going to make fun of them because that's a real amateur slip. I'm also going to make fun of them. Reporters without borders, seriously? It's not like we have it. It's a boarding school. It's not like we have it. It's left up in this particular episode. Yeah, everybody does it. It's okay. We forgive you. Should I rank second to last on the groups? I like how we're laughing right now.

Second to last on the global annual freedom index. We're not laughing about this. It's terrible. Behind only North Korea. So only North Korea is worse than China. That's kind of staggering because we have Turkmenistan. We got Iran. We got some very oppressive nations out there.

And somehow China's only surpassed North Korean freedom. Yes. Why do you guys, not you guys, you guys out there that are watching Chinese propaganda... China's living in the future. Buying this.

You know why they're buying it? It's because they can only see what the Chinese government allows out of the country. They can only see the top-level propaganda. That's why shows like ours and others similar to ours are so important because we have to show you the counterbalance to what's out there. China's propaganda machine is slick and they have an iron grip on the internet, the Chinese intranet, really. They don't allow anything out.

And if somebody posts something bad they see on the road, they will get disappeared. They will get dealt with. The post will be deleted. You don't get to see the bad stuff. No. You know? You don't. Like that guy who posted the bridge with the rebar, that post's gone. You can't find it anymore on the Chinese internet. It's gone. And he's probably gone too. Yes. That's not an exaggeration. Yeah. I want to show some pictures. Sure. It's very important. And it just gives you good perspective, right? I want you guys to look at this map, okay? Yeah.

All right. Let's take a look. And I think it's very important to look at this is, and the 2024 report is concluded now. This is why it's coming out now, right? Yeah.

This is the global picture. These are writers jailed globally in 2024. What is the darkest red country do you see there? Well, China. China, right? China had the most journalists, or not just journalists, writers, and we'll get into what that means later. Yes. Writers jailed in 2024, and it's only gotten worse. For sure. It only gets worse. I do want you to look to the left there at a beautiful swath of white. Mm-hmm.

That is, no journalists or writers in America were jailed. Did have a couple of our European friends. Oh, yeah, like the UK is getting pretty bad with that. The UK and Germany, nowhere near the level of China. No, but the UK is getting pretty bad with like arresting people for social media posts and stuff. Yeah, so shout out to the white country.

Don't you dare. Don't you dare. Shout out to the countries that are not... Depicted in white. Even that. No, no, you're good here. Shout out to the countries that are not red on this map. And that's good to say. And that's good to say. Because you're not communist. Yes, exactly. Definitely. Better dead than red. Look at the countries, though. Look at the countries that are doing this, the greatest offenders. You've got Russia up there. It's all authoritarian states that are doing this, pretty much. Yeah.

Anyway, let's look at this. Let's look at this in detail. Because this is very important. Number one, and always get some perspective. You don't jail writers unless you are a paranoid dictatorship. Yes. China is streets ahead the rest of the world in arresting people that talk. 118. Wait till you see what this means. Because you think this is someone writing a book, right? Yeah. It's not. Okay. These people are going to jail...

Not for just writing books. Look at Asia had the most. Asia and the Middle East in general, but China is really almost the only figure there. Look at this. What is the top category of people that were jailed?

Online commentator. These are people writing comments on the internet. Yes. This is not someone that wrote some manifesto about how the government needs to be overthrown in dictators. It's not a journalist. No. It's someone who left a comment on a video. Journalist was number two. The number one is freaking online commenters are going to jail. Yes. For stating their opinion. Not for threats. For stating their opinions. Yeah. Right. Right.

Do you want to live in a world like that? I don't think so. China is not the model for this. You can say, oh, China's got it all figured out because you're consuming the propaganda they're putting out there. China is a mess. It has buildings that are falling down. It has an oppressive, horrible media climate. Yes. Terrible. Absolutely. So I just wanted to stay on top of that so you guys understand. Just this year, 118 people.

uh, writers were jailed and 155 writers are at risk. Oh, and there's far more. I mean, this is just what they managed to figure out by the way. Now we all know that this current, um, trade tariff debacle is still going on. Yeah. And of course we're not seeing an end to it because there's a, a situation where you got basically two hardheaded, uh,

um sides that just don't want to back down yeah and you know i don't see it being resolved because that'll mean one side is caved we got one side saying they've already talked we got the other side there's no way that anyone's talk chinese like uh spokesperson actually today said no there has been no calls between uh xi and trump that's that's a lie right they went out and said it honestly

They like to lie a lot. Yeah. Trying to lie is their favorite thing. Yeah. So you never know who's telling the truth in this situation. But you've got a bad situation. The whole world's suffering because of it. China specifically, though, is suffering a lot harder. If this was some sort of sick sport, China is losing by leaps and bounds here. Absolutely. And I'm sorry to say this, but, you know...

Here living in America, so far, almost no change. Yes, prices will go up. Yes, you're not going to be able to buy your cheap Timu thing or your Amazon cheap thing. Good. Yeah. And look, it's going to be uncomfortable and a hard time for everyone.

Around the entire world. Not going to joke, but it's far worse for the people of China. Yes. And specifically the manufacturing industry. So looking at some of these, Chinese factories slow production and send workers home as U.S. tariffs bite. These factories are suffering. We actually have some specifics, and I'd like to read a couple of these. Workers at Dehong Electrical Products in Dongguan, Guangdong, gave workers one month leave on minimum wage.

and said the factory was under significant near-term pressure as clients suspend orders, right? We have plastic molding factories that are going under. We have endoscopy kit places, right? Yeah. That make things for the U.S. market that said they could use the rest of April to find new jobs and provided them access to a headhunting agency. Wow. We have Yangguan Technology in Dongguan

They had to cancel all their weekend work, right? They had a man in Zhejiang said the toy factory he worked at sold mostly to the U.S. is forcing management to give workers two weeks off. What do you think that means? Yeah, they're not getting back. Chinese electronic supply chains. We have...

all kinds of factories in this article that are under serious pressure right now, uh, as they can't fulfill orders. And remember guys, China's not set up to combat this. You can read all the articles you want. And I've been seeing so many op-eds right now coming out of big publications, uh,

And they're saying like China's holding all the cars. China's got this all figured out. I can tell you just from video evidence, from factory people. I can also tell you that I was looking at a lot of the op-eds and most of them are written by Chinese people. A lot of them. So, I mean, take that as you will. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Look into it, I guess. But...

You have these factories that run the Chinese economy. Yes. These don't run the American economy. Factories don't run the American economy. America is a rich, developed country that uses primarily the services industry, right? And other things, higher level economic factors.

China is a manufacturing economy that needs to make cheap stuff. And when you cut the cheap stuff off from its biggest customer, what do you think happens? There's no massive calculations you need to make in your head. It's very simple to understand. This is going to devastate China. People seem to...

really not understandable. They look at China from a Western lens. Yeah. Because you see a lot of, especially through the propaganda, you see a lot of sophistication. You see a lot of money in China. You think that it's the same. A lot of people actually, you know, Americans have this, especially the people looking at Xiaohongshu, a little red book, sorry, red note.

When they look at this, they think that in China people are wealthier and people actually have a better standard of life and all this kind of thing. But that's just not true. There was actually a campaign on Red Note. I think we talked about this. But if you were a Chinese person living in America, right, and you posted like, I make a lot of money here in America, Red Note would remove your post at the behest of the Chinese government. Yeah.

you had to say, no, you're poor in America. If you're a Chinese person, you say, oh, I'm poor here in China. They'll remove your post if you're poor in China. Only if you're rich in China, they'll allow your post. But that's the point I'm trying to make here is that

So you think that these people are rich and sophisticated in China and they're out there buying stuff like you do in America because America is all about consumption and it's to a fault. People just buy crap all the time and it's for some... I don't even understand. It's just... It's kind of like eating. It's retail therapy. It's just like, oh...

I didn't get a package today from Amazon, so that means I'm just not fulfilled. You know what I mean? People are buying, buying, buying, buying. They're looking for excuses to replace things all the time. And that's American culture. Good or bad, take it as you will. In China, that's not happening. So when the American market stops buying all the Amazon goodies and the Timu and the whatever cheap stuff from China,

That stuff sits there. Then they think, OK, well, we could sell it to the domestic market in China. But the people in China aren't buying that stuff. They'd have no need for that stuff because they've got some real cheap stuff that they can buy anyway. They've already got it and they're very frugal and they don't want to just keep buying stuff.

And they don't. And if you've met Chinese people, you'll know they're very good at saving. They're incredibly frugal. They'll always find a way to get the biggest discount. They won't buy anything unless they're getting a good deal, that type of thing. So you don't have this like wanton spending culture that you do in America. So America is easy to sell to. China is very difficult to sell to. And so these factories cannot get rid of their stock. No. Because no one's going to buy it in China, you know? No.

Anyway, what's this street view you've got over here? It's just one of the factories that was mentioned. I believe this is Dong. But this is a whole factory district in Dongwon, just so you get an idea of what one looks like. You know, interesting story. I drove into probably this exact area. Yeah, you did. You did. I wanted to find out where the YouTube play buttons were made. Because it was kind of a weird situation.

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Because what happened was when they sent it to my friend in Hong Kong, the shipping label remained intact. Because I don't know how they do it, but when they send it overseas, I don't think it shows the factory it was made in. Right. But it had the shipping label and it told me it was from whatever Golden Lion, whatever it was, you know, factory in Dongguan. And it still had it in Chinese. So, you know, I can read Chinese. I figured it out. And I was like, well, I have a video on my channel about this. Let me hop in my car.

And let me drive there. I'm going to check it out. So I drove all the way there and I tried to gain entry and I didn't, you know, and I wrote a note to say, thanks for sending me my thing, you know? And so I wanted to try and give it to the person because it had a person's name from the factory. Oh, okay.

and I gave it to the security guard, but they wouldn't let me in. But it was like an end-of-world-looking kind of scenario. Yes, I remember. It was, you know, it's depressing because you stop there and you've got, obviously it was like end of work or lunchtime and just like,

of factory workers just coming, walking out there and they were just like all worn out and bad and tettie sad looking and it was like, well, you know, this is where all your stuff comes from and it's not very nice. It's not. The reality is not something you want to see. No. Right. No. Yeah.

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Listen to the NPR Politics Podcast only from NPR, wherever you get your podcasts. I don't know why my voice got deeper towards that. Because you want to sound like every other advert. Anyway, I think it's good. It's just like, you know, part of your complete breakfast kind of thing. You know, it's good to have different perspectives. It's good to balance out your view and see from all sides. Absolutely. There's no harm in that. Yep. Anyway, guys, it's time for Yum Cha. And for those of you who don't know, Yum Cha is our...

and answer segment where, again, we answer your questions and you question our answers. That's right. So let's get right into it. It's Friday, by the way, guys. Thank goodness it's Friday. What a week this has been. I am so glad this week's coming to an end. I don't know about all you guys. I certainly am as well. I got some nice cold beers chilling in the fridge waiting. Yeah, just cannot wait. Me too. Yeah.

So anyway, loosen the tie and let's get to it. Dubstep Kid says, thanks guys, much love. Remember Dubstep? I do. Skrillex? Yes. AIDS Skrillex. Yes. What was that again? That was part of that whole culture war thing. Oh yeah, AIDS Skrillex. Yeah, and call the cuck or something. Something like that. Those were the times. Yeah, those were the times, man. Gabriel, glad we're out of that. Glad there's none of that anymore. No.

Glad that's all done. Yeah, yeah. Anyway. Gabriel Keen says, China, we don't need the U.S. We'll win the trade war. China five minutes later. We'll drop tariffs on U.S.-made semiconductors, but...

We can totally make everything ourselves, Lamau. That's it. You know, they have just dropped a bunch of tariffs on... Yes, of course, silently, because they can't admit defeat. But they've dropped tariffs on, what was it, some medical supplies and some chemicals that they need, obviously. It's very telling. Yes. He wanted to just David. Oh, it's been a while. I know.

This is China after the tariffs. That means hurts so bad. Yeah, I get really annoyed at this tariffs thing because it's all this macho BS. Especially with China, it's about mianzi. It's about face. It's about face.

Your people are suffering and you're willing to throw them under the bus because of face? Because you want to be the... It's not America's economy that needs this. It's China's economy. So you're sacrificing your own people's well-being in response to this tariff. How about you make a deal? Yeah. But you can't because you're too proud, China. You're just too proud. I mean, it goes both ways.

for some things but again you're right it's the Chinese people that are going to suffer the most it doesn't have to be like this that's the point they've broken the rules for how long now it's time for some comeuppance I'm sorry to say you think what you want about Trump but it's time for some comeuppance for China it's just time

Yeah, no matter what the means to that end, I agree with you because they've been cheating the global system for too long. We need a restructure. They've been doing this de minimis, taking advantage of that, taking advantage of like free postage by claiming they're like a developing country while having a space program. I'm sorry, China. Guess what? We can buy from anywhere.

We don't need this. We don't need our trillions of dollars of IP stolen anymore. That's enough. That's enough. Yeah, I mean, I like the idea of some manufacturing coming back. Me too. And if that works out, that'll be a great thing. Yes. It will be a great thing. Blaze says, whenever China beats their chest about their planes, they hear this. Would you intercept me? I'd intercept me. Habitual line crosser shout out.

Okay. Interesting. It's probably some sort of influencer about planes. The Hindenburg. That sounded like a football match thing to me. Oh. Interceptors or whatever. Don't you intercept the ball or something?

Yeah, it sounded more like you intercept the plane, bro. Probably. Yeah, who knows? Hindenburg says you guys should look into Sora AI possibly be... What do you mean? You mean Sara AI? Yeah, where is it? Yes, younger and beautiful. Sora AI possibly being used by China to generate propaganda about the tariffs. On the creations page, you can see loads of it. Oh, okay. We'll look at actual Sora AI. Actually, we'll look at that.

Let me just... There's so much misinformation and disinformation right now, guys. It's very... That's why it's important to take a look at all sides of the political spectrum and try to stay away from the extremes if possible. For sure. See it all. Yeah. Take a look at everything and, you know, so you can have a balanced view. But man, this propaganda that's going out right now is horrendous. Yeah, true.

Raphael G says, woohoo, first ever Super Chat. Can I get a hello, Raphael and Pig Bay? Oh, you certainly can. Hello, Raphael. Who is your favorite Ninja Turtle?

Michelangelo he's the orange one right yeah the party dude cool pizza cowabunga I like that guy I don't know and Donatello he's my second I think okay because he's smart definitely Leonardo Leonardo he's the leader you know does he have a staff no Donatello has a staff Leonardo's got the two katanas

I think I picked the two that had the lamest weapons because they're like underdogs. Okay. Dude, I'm sorry to say, but a staff is not the lamest. It's probably the best. It's got the most reach. Someone's coming at you with a sword and you've got a long-ass pole. Donk.

If you donk him, what have you missed? You're stabbed. Have you ever run into a pole at high speed? I have not. Have you? It can be just as bad. Are you a pole runner? No. No, but there is a haze runner. It's been a while since we've seen him. Where is he? There he is. You'll follow me, okay? Okay.

We have not sped up Pig Bay. You guys are a bunch of conspiracy theorists. Why would we speed up Pig Bay? This is like when people... I thought I wasn't going to do it anymore. Here we go. Anthony Sainz says, guys, as always, good to be here. Thank you. And can I have an angry train rider? You certainly can. Let's do it. Peter! You suck!

Dylan says, Serpent's Day, thou speaks the truth. He also wanted that, but we just played it. I'm pretty sure that the guys in Vest don't care about the kids. If one would be stabbed, they would just stand there and look on. Well, I don't know. It's kind of unfair. Yeah, who knows? Who knows? But look...

In all fairness, I've seen a lot of situations where people are being stabbed in China and nobody helps. Yes. I mean, unfortunately. And that is a downside of our job. Yeah. It's because I'm constantly on the Chinese internet trying to get, you know, content for the show. I see... Daily, I see multiple murders. And that's just because, I don't know, there's...

There just isn't that filter. No. You know, on the Western internet, if you try to post someone being murdered on like, I don't know, Facebook or something, it gets censored. Yeah. It gets removed. Yeah. It gets age restricted. In China, like WeChat, where you get a lot of the stuff, you're on WeChat groups and stuff. People just post like horrific things all day. And it's kind of annoying. Yeah. You know, I don't like to see all this horrible stuff, but yeah. No. So...

Here we go. We have owned 110. Gotta give it to China. They can backwards engineer anything badly and never go back. They will arrest you. You're spot on, boys. Anyhoodze says, I just get cold. Uh-oh, norovirus. Oh, wrong one. Oh, no. I just get cold.

Just working out. Just norovirus. My stomach is so irritated. So I wake up at five o'clock here in Taiwan, throw up and I look like shill broth. Anyway, but all I think is hao chi, hao chi. Clam man soundbite. Okay, here it comes. Imagine you have norovirus and you're puking all day. And you're thinking of clams. Thinking of clam man. Oh.

Dude. You know, I've said it before, but there was a big norovirus breakout at the Shenzhen University when I was studying there. Thankfully, I didn't get it, but pretty much everyone else did. It was in the canteens. I had norovirus once, and it's truly, truly awful. It's bad. You don't want to get it. No. Very contagious, too. Donkey Punch Prime says, watched your Cautionary Tale video from the other day. Truly sad and aggravating.

Yeah, I'm glad that it got reposted on our Clips channel. And it's something we did in the show probably about two years ago. Yeah, it was one of our earlier episodes. Yeah, and it is. It's the...

It is the biggest cautionary tale if you're going to decide to have a relationship in China. Yeah. Average Joe, thank you for the generous donation. You can find that on China Fact Chasers, by the way. Yes. Winston, it seems like I love you. Long time. Stay classy, China. Thank you so much. You too. Chris says, guys, as the Chinese economy shuts down, the U.S. is agreeing with Southeast Asian nations to isolate China. Will Vietnam become the new world's factory? Spoiler alert, it already is. Hmm.

Yeah. Vietnam is already the world's factory. We went there for investigative journalism. We rode motorcycles through northern Vietnam where all the factories are. And yeah, it's a boom. It reminded us of what China was like when we first got to China. Yes. I will say this. One thing that needs to be done, I think this current administration is trying to do something about this.

Because they're trying to stop Vietnam from being a hub for Chinese manufacturers to basically wash their goods into Vietnam. So they're sent from Vietnam and there's no tariffs put on them. Yeah, we saw the ships coming into port, big containers being offloaded from Chinese factories. They take it, they put it in a warehouse there, they stitch on a label that says made in Vietnam and then send it off. So if you're confused about the whole like...

Vietnam tariff thing and why that needs to be discussed. I understand why the Trump administration would be doing this because China's been using them as a loophole this entire time. So they have to come to the table and they have to say, we're going to stop washing Chinese goods, basically, and then sending them abroad to avoid tariffs. Once they agree to that, I think Vietnam's got a very bright future. Yeah. Excellent. We can see through all the pollution. Man, that was bad. Northern Vietnam. Wow. It's China level bad. Yeah.

We've got some footage that'll blow your mind. Yes. Remember that football match? Oh, my gosh. The saddest football match you'll ever see. I think we should probably play that next week. Sure. We've got to show people the football match. I don't mind. Want to feel like you've time traveled? This is from...

Potoskis. Start the China 20 minutes late and then rewind to the beginning and pray that the Chads who host the China show read this. And we did! Yeah, we run it! We Chads! Thank you. We Chad-ing out of this one. You're the Chad. Anthony Saint says, Hey guys, it's been long enough. We need an ABP anthem. Oh, yeah, here it comes. Adam Khan. Happy Pig Bay Friday. Oh, yes.

Excellent. All right. Damon says West Taiwan has the worst building standards. Yeah, it's insane. And I mean, you saw what happened when they do things abroad as well. Things collapse. We showed that to you with the Thailand building collapse and the train station and all this other stuff that falls apart all the time. Yes. Mike Stewart, Clam Man Prophecy.

Clam Man prophecy again? What? Get out of here. Yeah, it's done. He's done. He's gone. Josh Stuckberry. Cheap things come at a cost. I think it's becoming harder for people to deny the consequences of China's poor quality products and working conditions. You're right. Well said. Well said. By the way, I was taking a look at some of the recalls of goods earlier today. I didn't include it in the show, but...

I went through the list and it's all these products from China that are busy being like, you know, America has like a standards and they when they put recalls of products, little electric cars and stuff that you sell for kids at Walmart are being recalled because they're a fire hazard. Yeah. You know, yeah. All little stuff you buy on Amazon is like toys are being recalled because they've got choking hazards and stuff, which, you know, they don't meeting federal standards, but they get sold, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Stargate. Stargate.

404 says, you mentioned China's people's ability to suffer. Yes. Greatly forward, zero COVID, unemployment, food crisis. When will things change? I want to hope, but it's hard. Yeah, I mean, like the chukwu is like a thing. I think there's this very...

beautiful feeling and sentiment that we want China, and a lot of people have this, want China to change and become a free country. Rise up against the CCP. Rise up against CCP. And it's just unfortunate. We are always, we're not black pill, but we're never going to tell you that that's going to happen because it probably won't. We would love that to happen, but yeah, we know that the Chinese government will suppress people to the point of...

letting them starve to death like they did in the past. It's the same government that allowed tens of millions of people to starve to death. Same piece of paper, the same constitution, the same ideology. The same people that rolled the tanks on the students in tournament schools. It's the same government. Why would they not? They're doing it now in many different ways. It's the same party. It's not like in America where you've at least got Republicans and Democrats. And they reform and morph. And they change. And you've got checks and balances. No, it's the same people. Yeah, very true.

Magistrate General is praying for the Chinese people that the dams are not expiring. That's worrying, isn't it? Yeah. And that is a problem too. It is. It is. Anyway, Vanessa says, every time I comment on videos pointing out propaganda, my comment gets deleted. That's not good. Hopefully it's not on ours. John Diamond, collapsing bridges and buildings are a metaphor for the CCP itself collapsing in the next few years. By the way, the PLA built their military equipment almost as well as bridges. I do see the CCP potentially...

potentially suffering defeat if there's some sort of military conflict. If there's a military conflict, yeah. That's where I think things would go south for them. Look, the corruption is so big in the military that, you know...

Who knows what will happen. For sure. Don Diamond, thank you very much. Chippy Wee says, may we have a proper spelling of Shackalotto? Guess what? You spelled it correctly. Yes, you did. Let's do it again. Oh my day, Shackalotto. I'm completing an earnings report and I need a word to describe the gravity of the situation. That's good, Chippy. I like that. Yeah, that's fine. I say that way too often in my daily life and I've said it in front of people that don't watch the show. Yes, they don't know. And I stop myself. I'm like, why did I just... They don't know. They must think I'm crazy. Yeah, they must.

Randy Forge, thank you very much for sending memberships. John Diamond, thank you for sending memberships. Awesome. Mike Stewart says, the robot sound effects, you guys make me cry every single time. I literally, it's my favorite thing we've done in 2025. The robot sound effects, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. It's like, whatever it is. Cantonese, by the way, we were talking about this the other day. Both of our wives are Cantonese, right? And it's like the best language for complaining. It's amazing. It's like, if you wanted to complain, there is no better language in the world than Cantonese. Yes. Because all the, ah, and,

on all that stuff afterwards it's just the best it's the best yeah i love cantonese it's so good such a fun sounding language yes but it does sound like everyone's arguing all the time it does even when they're just having a normal decent conversation it sounds like they're about to to resort to fisticuffs no joke they're just having fun best movies ever are 90s hong kong movies

I love them. Like late 80s, like early 90s, all the way up to about 95 thereabouts. Yes. Yeah. Agreed. So, so good. Uh,

Stargate, 404 says, you talked about China's jab didn't work. Well, it didn't work as well. Yes. And death after zero COVID. Some people say that China's population went from 600 to 800 million to 300 to 500 million. Get out of here. Get out of here, this nonsense. He's fine. You're fine. I'm just saying like, stop. It's nonsense. It's nonsense.

Okay. Somebody is trying to spread. I don't get it. I'm going to make a freaking video about this. I'm tired. Yeah, make that video. Okay. Because you know what? Like when urban legends get legs, sometimes they run. It's like the whole, oh, you can see the gray wall from space. It's not true.

Just because... You can now with satellites, but... Just because we are anti-CCP doesn't mean we're gonna... Doesn't mean we're just gonna make shit up. You can't just make shit up. That's... By the way, that...

part of it. Well, you're going to make a video about it. So I'm not going to spoil it, but it's not true. It's not true. Okay. Not even remotely true. They do lie about the population. I'll get into it. I will do it. It is less than what they say, but there's no way. It's not 300. They didn't lose a billion people. No. That's insane. It's rubbish. That's actually insane. And I can't believe people are listening to this. Yeah. Me neither. I'm sorry. I mean, it's

For some people, maybe it's like this nice fantasy and they're like, yeah, I wish it was like that. So let me believe it. It's not true. I wish everyone the best. Winston will agree with me. Yeah. We wish everyone the best, especially if they're fighting for freedom and the truth for China. Yes. 100%. We're behind it. But don't make shit up. Don't make shit up. Everything that we do, we back up with footage, pictures, or at least a decade of experience. Yeah.

thinking about things we don't make wild ass claims like that no that's just insane yeah don't lie yes please follow the truth as much as possible yes we are not a sensationalist podcast to sit here and talk about how china is going to collapse and all this kind of stuff because at the end of the day we can give you footage and evidence of things and attributes that are failing in china

Like the buildings. We're never going to tell you the CCP is going to go away tomorrow because it just lost a billion people. Yeah, that's nonsense. That's insane. So, yeah, sorry to overreact. Sorry. It's like you have no idea how much we've been bombarded with this particular question about the population suddenly drastically falling down like that because it's not true. Yeah. Guaranteed. Yes. Guaranteed is rubbish. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway.

I like that this cap can attach to this thing. Yeah. I'm sorry I got so mad about it. We both get mad about this $300 million. You're trying to tell me!

That China has less people than America. Get out of here. Come on. I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm making a video. Yeah, you're making a video. I'm sorry. Better come out this weekend. I will release it this weekend. Make it this weekend. That's so preposterous. Yes, it is. Right? Where is that? I'm sorry. Yeah. Oh, wrong one. Sorry. It's preposterous. It's preposterous, dude. That's just insane. Yes. Anyway. Continue. Continue.

USA... What? Is it the same question? No. Okay, good. I just want to get into it. Okay. Okay. I gotta read it. Okay, what is it? It's a joke. Okay. John says, USA, let trans into women's sports. Okay. China says, let transformers into people sports.

Because of the marathon. Yes, yeah, Transformers. Also, we want you to know that the translation for Transformers in Chinese is... And let me preface this by saying Santa Claus is called Christmas Old Man. That's funny. Yes.

Frankenstein is called Science Strange Man. Yes. Kind of funny. Yes. Ridiculously verbatim. What is Transformers? Changing King Kong. Changing shape. Yes. Changing shape King Kong. Changing shape King Kong. Changing shape King Kong. I mean, it's kind of amazing. Change shape King Kong. Yes. It's not a hairy ape. It's a robot.

Why do you call it that? Yes. Why did you? You have like Zootopia, right? There's no way you're going to get a, you know, Zootopia, the movie? Yes. There's no way you're going to get a word that sounds like Zootopia. So I get it. They call it Crazy Animal Town. That's kind of what it is, right? Crazy Animal Town. Sure.

Change shape King Kong. Bro, it's a metal. It's a piece of metal. No, it's not King Kong. It's not a gorilla climbing a building. It's like, change shape, King Kong. Do it now. Do it now. And he's like... Yeah, we're going to have to do that. I'll put something together. Someone please make an animation of King Kong changing into a Transformers saying... Well, we already got one in our ad today. Didn't you see that? We did. We did. We did.

Yeah, change shape King Kong. Anyway, it's good to you. I forgot. Thank you for that. Yeah, we're done. We already have the animation. Yeah, we got it. We got it. Adam Wofford, I think high school kids in my robotics class can do better. One kid built a walking spider he programmed and it did better. That's the crazy thing. He's big company. He's getting millions of dollars from the government in China. Well, again, you know what this is? This is another one of those like shared bike things. It's another one of those EV...

subsidy type situations where they build absolute crap, just put out whatever and reap the rewards of all these subsidies and actually just produce junk. Yeah. Throw away junk because they are. Most of those robots are literally just remote control toys. Yeah. And they're rubbish. True. They're rubbish. And why are you reinventing the wheel? This has been done. It's done over and over again. Stop playing with toys. Put away your toys. I'm sorry to say, but like, again, it's a useless technology. Yeah, it's not useful. Yeah.

You know, robots exist already. They've got tracks on them and they can lift things up. And I mean, like in the car factory, they've got the robotic arms, you know, and the police always send in those bear cubs or whatever they're called, you know, those things to go and like shoot criminals or, you know, throw tear gas or whatever. These things exist. Yes. A humanoid robot is not going to be very useful. No, no.

Anthony says, so did you mean an RC robot? Yes, they are. Vanessa said, my boys had robots with remote controls like these ones 20 years ago. Did the same thing. Yep.

Doc Slothington says, that half marathon went from Black Mirror to crack at Stampede. Yes. Stargate says, IP infringement is one reason for tariffs, but there's no way the CCP will ever allow foreigners to sue. How will tariffs end? Will they lie about changing IP law? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Where are we here? They will. They'll say, oh, don't worry, we're going to do it. But then they won't. You think so? Yeah, that's what they always do. They said they will crack down on IP theft, and they never did.

Yeah, yeah. I guess we're going to see a repeat of that. That makes sense. Sorry, here. Some Josh thing says, I feel like my household could spend a month researching and put a robot that's more functional. Yeah. I'm still sick. I need to take the pills. It's from Zihong. That's his Chinese name. Yes, absolutely. Zihong, here you go. Take the pills, Zihong.

Vanessa says, we do have a lot of salt in the air from the ocean. Well, Queensland, Australia does. Yeah, that's a good point. But the other cars aren't rusting, right? No, that's the thing. Good point. Applied cryogenics is too bad that all the old habits were given up during the People's Revolution. You still have folks defecating on public trains and sidewalks. Stargate's 404.

Things seem to be getting bad. People eating, vids of people eating food from bins, 25% post-grad employment rate. Where's it headed? What's your thoughts on the long term? It's far worse than they'll ever let you know. Yeah. It's going to be rough.

We're keeping in touch with a lot of people in China. They'll let us know how bad it gets. But, you know, we can only hope for the best because here's the thing. Here at The China Show, we want the best for the people of China. I mean, that's what we do this for at the end of the day. Obviously, we want everybody to see what the real China is. We want to lift the veil on all the propaganda. But we care about the people of China. And honestly, the best thing for the people of China is for this tyrannical government that runs the place to get...

smacked in line because they're not going to go away but they should be like bent you got to bend them in the right way to help the people rather than use them like fuel that's right yeah uh dragonella says who built the bridges before humans give deets there's a conspiracy in the chat that bridges came before people actually because we're dropping some dates there oh yeah you know what dragonella put those questions away those are very sensitive you don't know because like none of us were alive we don't know if there were actually people back then that built it

Or if there were just bridges all along. Yeah, exactly. Could have been. I mean, there were like land bridges. This is true. You know, that went away.

Why are you guys talking about Mid Kong? I don't know. We're talking about Mid Kong, you know? Mid Kong. Black Myth. Mid Kong, yes. Black Mid. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Wu Liao Kong. Yes, exactly. Muzzy Skeleton says, all these influencers went to see the city of the future, the city on top of a city when they go to China. I just want to see some appreciation for the Port of Dandong. Oh, yeah. Me too. Why are they going there? Yeah, go to the Port of Dandong.

Yes, we will. Even if you're a shill, we'll show it. Yeah, we need some footage from the port of Dandong. If you guys find yourself, you have to be in China. I don't recommend it, but if you have to be there, please go to the port of Dandong. Take some footage for us. Sure. John S., I remember that video. Wasn't it on ADV? Yes. Some guard let you in to walk around. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we did air it on ADV. Did we? I think it was Serpens today. You went to Serpens today, but we aired a segment on ADV. Oh, we probably did.

FKD says, all my homies hate Skrillex. Oh, yes. K-San, AIDS Skrillex or regular Skrillex? Just both, I guess. Have a great weekend. Thank you, you too. Mike, it's been a while. Mike, where have you been, my cuter? Hey, guys, it's been forever. Love the show. Glad I was able to catch it today. Hope all is well with you and yours. Thanks, Mike. And you too. We miss you. Where have you been? Thanks for joining us today. Schmitty says, I run a small Etsy shop for flight sim gear. Cool.

Cool. Like articulating arms for track IR. Recently, I started having to buy US parts and filament. It's working. Oh, good. Good. It's like the emperor. Good. Exactly. Unlimited power. That's great. Excellent. Proud of you. Yeah. Cinderblocks for Tire says, if you read this super chat, you acknowledge...

The NPR is state-sponsored propaganda. There we go. You know, a podcast is a podcast and everyone deserves to see everything from all sides. Do they not? Well, that's why I said it's good to see everything from different perspectives, even if you don't believe in it

Also, if a sponsor is willing to put their name behind us, that's a good thing. If you put yourself into echo chambers, things get real bad real quick. It does. Absolutely. We listen to everything from all sides, and that's how we were. That's why we've done Ground News. That's why we've done 5-Minute News. It's better to get multiple perspectives out there. Yeah. I mean, honestly, because we personally do differ quite a bit when it comes to politics and our...

our beliefs, we do differ. But that's the thing. We can put that... Maybe not in the way you think. Yeah, we'll put that stuff aside because, you know, at the end of the day, people can have a different belief to you and it doesn't really matter, right? 100%. As long as you like the person. Sci-Fi Wasabi says, I'm just happy YouTube isn't shoving anymore Teemu ads in my face. What a wonderful song. Yes. What a wonderful song. How come I've never heard one? I want to ask the audience.

Are you still getting Teemu ads on our videos? Because that was rampant. It was every video. People were sending messages. They're like, I can't believe you guys are talking about how bad Teemu is, but you run Teemu ads. I'm like, bro, I don't get to control that. No, we don't get to control that. You think I'm going to do that? Yeah. Go ahead.

Megatron S says, since they aren't buying Boeing anymore, are they going with Boeing? Boeing? Well, you know, China has its own homegrown plane, which, by the way, has foreign engines and foreign parts from America. And it's basically just, it's like Lego. You buy all the bits and pieces and put it together and say you made something. Yes. Hovic Arnian says, keep it up, guys. Love all your content. Thank you. Treasure Bloke says, cement falling 22 stories. Great.

Crushing the Chocolata. Okay. Oh, yeah, because it's the 22nd floor, dude. Yes. I'll do that. Oh, my dad's Chocolata. Devin Seals. I just want American-made pants that last longer than seven months for work. Bring back the local clothesmakers. I actually have a friend that started a homegrown American-made jeans company. That's good. And he did well, and I'm proud of him.

I mean, that makes sense because genes come from America. Yeah, but I mean, like everything moved, right? Yeah. So to do everything, hiring local Americans, stitching them here, making them here, it was awesome. That's a good thing. John S., I'm saying my point is, people, it's possible. Yeah. It's possible. It's possible. Yeah. John S., to me, the biggest insult is that China is or was considered a developing nation under the Kyoto Protocols and Paris Accords. The official line crosser does political military stuff with China.

Facts on ships and planes. Oh, okay. So I was right. Some influencer about that. Right. Ed Maul. Thank you very much. Wise Seeker says, thank you for filtering the true horrors for us. You're welcome. Some Josh thing. I was just supposed to be working out at PT tonight, but I just get cold instead. It's Daisy. I just get cold. Just working out. Hope you feel better. Yes. Stargate 404 reminds me of HBO's Chernobyl. Great show, by the way. Did you watch that? No. That's fantastic. Oh,

I thought it was good. Yeah. Scientist plans to tell the truth to the West. He's told, you are proposing embarrassing a country obsessed with not being embarrassed. Risked Chernobyl 2 to save face. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, for sure. A lot of parallels. Soviet Union, China. Same thing. Doc Southington says, three or is it six? Everyone have a good weekend, everyone. That's an inside joke from Xiaoban Ho. Exactly. You'll know if you go to patreon.com slash adbpodcast. Yes. Yeah. Thanks. And you have a good weekend too.

Potato Radio. While the factory's closing makes sense, are some of these videos like the Log Girl videos? Well, the fake Log Girl videos. You mean what would be the point of faking a bridge falling down? No, I think he's talking about the factory stuff. Oh. There's no reason for that. I don't see the point. The Log Girl videos, if you don't know...

There was this trend to show pretty women carrying heavy logs in the woods or whatever in China. It was all fake. They were hollow logs. And it was just, as per usual, shortcuts and facades. It was popular, so they just kept doing it. True. Anyone who believed that, by the way, in the first place is a bit of a moron.

You are true. You know, the big heavy logs that you need like a truck to carry or something. I mean, each one of those logs was supposed to be what, 500 to 1,000 pounds or something? Yeah, something ridiculous. Like nobody could pick that up. Not even like the strongest strongman, but some like skinny. Not even Hulk Hogan. Yeah, exactly. Some skinny woman is going to lift it up and carry it around on her back. I don't think so. Yes.

That's cool. I know this is a bit late, but Norway is striking down on China after they were caught posting propaganda videos on Svalbard. Yes. Go Norway. Let's go. That's good. Let's freaking go. Yeah. I love Norway.

uh lockwiz finally caught you guys live i demand two clams only if you give me one ham wait what two clams for one ham that's that's the going right okay well that's one clam and i'll give you a you gotta understand okay i know that's not what you asked for but sometimes it doesn't i prefer it you know it doesn't come out right i don't like watching clam man sucks this is vicky joe remember he like made an apology video to me i do that's funny i do

Spanky Jones says, what a beautiful Friday. Why, I haven't heard this before. Love the show. Has helped me inform others. I like salty, but yeah, thank you. Has helped me inform others about the truth of modern totalitarianism. John Diamond says, oh, and you just said it's so good. I did.

Wow, so good. He loves that. It's been a while. Stargate 404. Even if factories become fully automated, having them in the US, not China, is vital. We lost many manufacturing skills we can't afford to lose completely. 100% agree. Mando Prez. Winston mentioned that his health improved after he moved to the US. Which of China's regions did you visit do you think were the healthiest? Mongolia? Give me a haze runner. Probably people in the south, to be honest.

What do you mean? So when I lived up north, there was way more overweight people. There was way more people that habitually drank. And down south, people were in much better shape. They have... Much more active lifestyle. Yeah, for sure. You know, like there's a lot more walking and you're sweating all the time in the heat. But there's a lot more walking. There's a lot more of that dancing in the park stuff going on. But the air is better. Yes. Right? It's just...

But it's not good. It's got horrible air a lot of the time. Come on, don't run all the factories. Bro, you did not live up to it. I know, I know. It's apocalyptic. I understand. I've been there and I know it. Definitely it's better. I'm just saying it's not exactly healthy. Sure, sure. One thing that was very interesting is when I left China, because my hair was starting to get thin, right? It's starting to get bald. I left China, my hair grew back. That's pretty crazy. You did not do one of those like...

No, I mean like power, power. Yeah. But power to anyone who wants to do it. That's fine. I'm just saying like, that was quite a weird thing. I honestly thought that it's like, I just accepted it. I guess I'm just going to go bald or whatever. It wasn't that bad, but it was getting there. And I was like, I'm just going to go bald. I came out of China and it went away. Yeah. It reversed. Yeah. So obviously it was the food and the, the air I was breathing and just everything. It's,

It's just the lifestyle. It is. It is. Yeah. Amanda O'Brien, as Winston mentioned, I just literally read that. No effing name says we'll try and invade Taiwan before they age out. Yes, definitely. I think they will. I think I would say within the next, well, experts, I should say experts are saying within the next three years or so. Probably. It's hopefully not. Hopefully not. Hopefully not.

Apply cryogenics. Movie idea. The four olds didn't really expire. They were just sleeping. They clawed their way up out of the earth like lumbering elder gods owning bad guys. That's cool. I like that. Joyful music finale at Tiananmen Square. That sounds good. Dragon Ellis says, love the special robotics. More Roberts, please. Yeah, for sure. We will. Congratulations on the sponsors. Thank you. You're a big guy. Please, rude Cantonese robot must be a soundbite. Yeah, I think we can do that.

I want that so bad. Didn't we say we were going to do that? Yeah, I guess we will. I'll put it actually in the next week's notes. Okay. If you actually copy it properly. What's wrong with me? No idea. Okay. There you go.

Koala 1203, every tofu drug infrastructure in this episode is literally the embodiment of the foundation of the People's Republic of China in a nutshell. Strong on the surface, but weak to the core. Yeah. Well said. Yeah, that's actually a good analogy, yeah. John S., can't see the Great Wall from space, but you can see a certain North country. Had to edit that post. North Korea? I don't know. L-E-

Thank you very much. CRM King, did you guys see that the Trump Tesla stuff, that the Chinese electric cars are on the rise here in Europe? It was on the news here in the Netherlands. They said customers don't care about Made in China. They absolutely care. They will. Look at Russia. Russia is a country that doesn't have a ton of disposable income. It's a relatively poor country. They've been thrust, like Chinese cars have been thrust on them, and the majority of people are very pissed off. They're not happy with the quality.

You know, here's the thing, though. If you were to be buying the top, like BYDs or whatever, like the most, the flagship models of Chinese EVs, they'll be acceptable. Yes. If you're buying the mid-tier to low-tier, they're junk. They're absolute, you know, like go buy Power Wheels from Walmart and it's better. You know what I'm saying? I mean, obviously that's nonsense, but...

They're bad. They're very, very bad. The top ones will be okay for a while, but they will not last anywhere near what you're used to. And the quality is not nearly as good. Things will start to break that you don't expect will break. That type of thing. Yes. Matt Peters. Love to see you guys promoting NPR. Best non-biased major news source for me, for sure. Mark says, whenever I hear someone saying in China living in 2050, are they talking about the age of the rusty reboot?

Yes. Like in the post-apocalyptic world. Yes, yes. Jess Blake, thank you very much. Rich Rafferty says, habitual line crosser, so this YouTuber, tells geopolitics using American planes and country landscapes green screen with his eyes coming out of the map. He's a very, he's an active military member in the US Army also. That's cool. Check him out. Okay. Stargate 404, you see Serbian protests after the train station collapsed?

CCP messed up. Can't censor outside China. Hope it's a wake-up call for corrupt politicians taking CCP money. Me too. Yep.

Edgy, are you seeing China Thorium reactor videos again? Here we go again. We'll report back on it again. Yes, yes, yes. The secret vault. No more China AA batteries filled with sand. Yes. Chippy Wee, Squitson, I was online dating a log girl. You were online dating a log girl? I guess so. Well, I know that didn't work out then. Yes, yes, yes.

Mick says, Winston and Matt, how safe is it for Chinese people to travel to China from Canada and the US to visit family right now? It's safe, depending on the person. Yeah, I mean, like, again, you don't want to get caught up in, like, political fodder if something kicks off. Yeah, I mean, the thing is, depends on who they have relationships with in Canada. Yes, I will. Here's the deal. I will never, with good conscience, be able to recommend anyone go to China right now. But if you have to...

Keep your head down. Avoid conflict. Just remember this particular story. Remember the two kids went to China to visit their sick grandma. They always get you with a sick grandma. That's how they do it every single time. They sometimes make the grandma sick to get you there. So they went to go visit their sick grandma, and then they weren't allowed to leave. And you know why? It's because their father was like a corrupt official or something that ran away, or he owed money or something. And they actually, like these two innocent kids,

who went to go visit their grandma got stuck in China, got an exit ban so they couldn't leave. They were not detained. They were allowed to move around in China, but they couldn't leave to go back to America. And they were US citizens as well. So just remember that. If

If you've got anyone that's attached to anything that the Chinese government wants leverage over, you're going to be in trouble. True, true. Just remember. 69 Jones Rugby says, make a 90-second video of robot marathon falls or several robot fails. Don't tell us what to do. That sounds good, though. That sounds fun. Yeah. Good idea. John S. Sorry, that reference was a country, a reference to the country north of South Korea. You can write North Korea? Write North Korea all day. Why are you censoring North Korea? Yeah, exactly. Just write North Korea, bro.

It's Chaoxian. Yes, Chaoxian in Chinese. I've seen many videos about how clearly it can be recognized by being dark at night. Yes, that's very, very true. You know, when I first learned Chinese, I just called it like Nanhangguo. Yes, yes. Beihangguo, sorry. Beihangguo and Nanhangguo. Very, very, very wrong. I know it's very wrong. I'm just saying that's what I call it, but it's Chaoxian in Hangguo. Chaoxian, yeah.

Mr. Me says, first time I had a guy behind me drop his bike, helped him get his BMW out of a rain ditch. No, not no tip, big sad. Okay. We shouldn't be doing it for a tip. No. You should pick up the bike for the good of picking up the bike. Exactly. Do the right thing, guys. We really loved having you today. It was a good show. Yeah. And we will see you on Monday where we are covering a very saucy topic.

I'm not going to give away too much. Go to patreon.com slash ADV podcast if you want to support us and see that show there. It's our secret show. Yeah. Check it out. Hey, thanks a lot, guys, for joining us for this very important conversation. Hope you learned something. Let's keep up the fight. Keep lifting the veil of the propaganda. Stay awesome. And yeah, you'll see videos from both of us this weekend. Yes. I think you guys have strong-armed me into making one. Yes. Has to happen. This is too... That's not control.

Anyway, stay awesome, and I'm not going to cut myself off this time. Let's do it. Five, four, three, two.