CCPs Worst Nightmare Unfolding - China’s Destruction Month - Episode #251
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Welcome everybody to episode 251 of the China show, the real China show, the genuine echter, top of the pops China show. What's echter? Not echter. Echter. It means like the real. So you got to spit a little bit. It's very different to saying echter. Oh, I know what that means because you taught me. Yes. Anyway. That sounds bad. Anyway, it's 251. Episode 251. You know what Erika that is? Let me guess. It's your favorite state.

These days? Big fan. I don't know why I'm saying that. But I'm fine with you guys. Southwestern Alabama. Excellent. So let us know in the chat or in the comments if you're watching from there. Yeah. There we go. It's really cool. Yes, we have quite the show for you today, guys. We can't wait to get right into it. So let's do that, shall we? It's explosive. We're going to get into it with what's new. Okay, and this is where we talk about what's new specifically with regards to China. And, well...

What is happening here? There is a woman in a

polluted ass field and she is interesting wording you used there it's an ass field um it's a gross polluted field and she's dancing on stream on live stream on on doyen i think we've all seen something along these lines in real life it's kind of annoying but she's she's kind of being like ironic about it by like dancing poorly she went out to the middle of nowhere literally to do it but there just happens to be a train station there so everyone's watching her correct

So you can see the pollution, by the way. Isn't that horrible? I'm going to pause it quickly. What do you think is going to happen? I think that she is going to... I don't want to give it away. I just want to show it. You just want to show it? Yeah. I just want to give it away. Maybe our audience can guess. Because I already know what happened.

Okay, yeah. Maybe our audience can guess. Yeah. I mean, you're there. You've gone into the middle of nowhere. You're in a field. You're doing a stupid TikTok dance. In a country where everyone does that shit, right? Everyone. This is not like a rare endeavor. Yes. Right? This isn't like nobody's heard of this before. Well, let's see what happens. All right? Maybe we can look at her live stream. Yeah, let's see it from her stream's perspective. What do you think? Yeah. Yeah.

Look at that sky. Sky don't lie, dude. Should have sky don't lied that. Should have. Guess that's her car over there. Yeah, she probably drove out there. Yeah. This dancing stuff is kind of cringe. It's not, it's just cringe. Just stop. What dance is that, by the way? Like a chicken dance? I don't know, dude. You know what I mean? Like it's just insane. It's, come on, just stop.

I didn't know that went on that long. Me neither. Otherwise, it wouldn't have paused. Oh, there we go. Here's the street. So the cops show up.

She said this area, they told her this area is like a sensitive, protected area. Sensitive, top secret. Bao Mi means protect secrets. So you're exposing sensitive secrets here. Yeah, like you're live streaming at like Area 51, basically. Do you not just think it's an excuse for them to say stop this nonsense? Yes, yes.

I feel like they needed a reason to shut her down, right? China's a free country, right? Yeah, but oh no, this is a... I like what she says, though. She's like, what, is this farmer's state secret? Yeah.

Yeah. It just makes sense. Yeah. Like, I don't support her spaz dancing in the dirt. It's so stupid. Yeah. But I do support the fact that she at least... See, here's the deal. If you walk around doing this in the middle of a city in China, you're fine, right? Everyone else is doing it. It's ridiculous. It's dystopia. Yeah. But then she actually has the decency to go drive her car out into the middle of nowhere. Yes. Where no one's around, apparently. I mean, maybe distantly from the train station. You get a little show. Yeah. Yeah.

And then she still gets in trouble. Yeah, the police actually come out there, tell her that she's exposing state secrets. It's pretty wild. This is North Korea. Yes. It's like techno-fascist North Korea. Yeah.

Okay, I found this. I showed it to you earlier and I had this question to you. What do you think is happening here? Hold on, should we poll then? Yes. Let's do a poll. We'll do a poll. I'll pause it just as this woman's getting in the car.

I mean, you say woman. Okay, this person. Okay. So what is happening here? What would the poll be? I wrote, is it robot or woman? Oh, that. Okay. Because we know we're going to be talking about robots later. Yeah, we will. Not today. Oh, sorry. Later episodes. Yes, yes. We have a big robot scandal. Expose scandal. Yes, it's going to be fun. John is not happy about that. Is this a woman or a robot? What do you guys think? Go ahead and vote. We'll have a little vote here. I'm just curious. Okay.

I'll get it up to like 500 votes. Okay. You can play a little bit more. Okay, I'll play a little more. I don't know how long this goes, but... That's it. Okay. This woman filming is laughing. Okay, so we'll just... Let's end the poll. Okay. The poll is a clear winner for the woman. It's because I gave it away. You did, but it could be a woman robot. It's not. This is the result of traditional Chinese medicine.

Okay. Do explain. I at first thought that maybe someone was being kidnapped. Okay. Yeah, I mean, like, you just, like, you know, you just throw a bag over their head and, you know, or something nefarious like that. Yeah. No, this is actually outside the hospital. Okay. And here you have an elderly woman. Okay. And she is afraid of the wind. Okay.

She's afraid. Yeah, she's pa feng. Yes, she's afraid of the wind. You literally translated it. She is afraid of the wind. And this is true in traditional Chinese medicine. You know, I've heard a lot that people are like, the wind will go into your body. Yes, through your belly button. Yeah, and it will make you sick.

I want you to make sure the audience doesn't think that that is a rare belief. No, it's very common. It's the most common. It's kind of like, you know, when you're dying of heat in southern Guangdong and you try to turn on the air conditioning, they'll turn it off and be like, no, that wind is going to go into my body and make me sick. I'm not even joking.

How many times did that happen? That wind's going to blow and your dong's going to go on, dude. Exactly. I'll tell you what. But anyway, the whole point is, of course, there's obviously some truth behind this. And what I'm saying is that probably in ancient times, people realized when you're sick, you shouldn't be out in the cold with a cold wind. Yeah, like if you're dying. Like an icy, you know, don't be exposed to the elements. Sure, like while you're sick. Yeah.

But then they made up this thing that it's the wind that goes into you. So she's afraid of the wind. That's why she got covered in plastic. She's afraid of the big bad wind. Yeah, literally it goes through your belly button and the wind goes in your belly. And I had people explain that to me in China with a dead face, like dead serious, as if it's pure fact. Yeah. It's just like ruchi and all that stuff. You're just like, oh, if you eat spicy food, then it's going to make your chi hot and you're going to get pimples.

It's like, no, maybe just because you're eating bad, have a bad diet, you'll get pimples. Maybe it's because you suck. Maybe. Anyway, I just thought that was kind of hilarious. This is traditional Chinese medicine as well. Some more traditional Chinese medicine. Yeah. My favorite. What is he doing? Is he gardening? He's digging ass. I'll tell you what. He's digging for a butt. What's at the end of the tunnel there? I don't know. He's digging deep. But I love his, look at his face. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. He's like a mad scientist and he laughs at the end. Yes. I slowed it down here. I wanted to point something out. Sure. So this guy, look at the implement, like the tool he's using. It's like a small shovel. It's a little spade. Yeah.

And it's a little David Spade. And it's got a weird handle on the top. But look at the back. He's got multiple tools here. Yeah, like he's got bigger... I'll pause. He's got like a prong, you know, like a little... A trident if it only had two instead of three prongs. What do you even call that? I do want to ask the audience, please like this stream if you don't want this to happen to you. I would really appreciate it. And consider sharing this out, by the way, right now on your socials if you click the little share button. It really helps us. Yeah, that'd be awesome. Thank you. Look at these tools. There is a...

Do you see that stick on the pillow? Yes, what is that? It's like a toilet paper covered rod. There's a bag of magic next to it. See that magic satchel? Yes, I'm actually kind of confused about that one. It's probably like... Yeah, sprinkle something on there and then smacks you with that thing. Yeah, yeah. Hits you on the head with that pillow thing. I don't know. Dude, this is violent. Yes, it's... I mean, that can't be good for you, dude. No kidding. There's a woman next. Okay.

It looks violent, but it's bullshit. This is like bullshit marketing. So he's like a miracle doctor. He's got all those CCP-like certifications. Yeah, there's cloth. Look at all of them. Look at them. They're everywhere. She's fine now. He just went like this. Yeah, he's like, and then she's like, what is that? Control or whatever, you know? And then she's like, oh, I feel great. Oh, fine.

I mean, okay. Oh, man. Look at her. She's ready to take on the world. I like the guys in the background. Me too. They're like trolling. Look at them. They're laughing their asses off. Just look what's happened to her. Yeah, look at her stupid performance. Oh, well. This guy definitely got like, he's definitely paying people to put this out there on social media and be like, you can get fixed with it. Yeah, exactly.

This is funny. I mostly put this on for the headline. Okay. Snow joke. Snow joke. Okay. Chinese attraction apologizes for winter wonderland made of cotton and bed sheets. So in Chengdu, it doesn't snow often, right? Uh,

but it's very damp and cloudy and very polluted, right? So they can get away with having the whole like no blue sky. It might appear to snow. Yes, yes. Now what they did was they set up something called a winter wonderland and you had to buy a ticket, right?

So you'd want to go there and they want to attract DOE and people like TikTokers to go do viral videos and edit them nice and everything. So they set it up to look like some sort of, you know, Santa's grotto, you know, Santa's village and put snow everywhere. What they did was they just dismantled old blankets and pillows and then sprinkled the cotton, but they didn't even have that much.

Yeah, it's pretty sparse. There's just a little. And the people got so mad. I mean, come on. This is just low effort. You know what I mean? It's amazing, though. It's pretty funny. That's great. Yeah, I mean... I just love that. Look at that. They got like a Taobao snowman. And they're like, we have three pillows. Yeah, let's spread them out. You know, let's use them correctly. Oh, that's silly. All right, Slopaganda time, guys. This is my favorite part of the show. Okay, now we're going to be revisiting...

Flat cap McDonald's. Okay. A couple of weeks ago, we showed you this propaganda. Now, this particular person is a Chinese propagandist. He works for Chinese state media. For the propaganda department. Yeah, he actually is. And when I say he's a propagandist, he is. He works for Chinese state media. That's not a label. No.

They have created a podcast for him. Or CGTN. And he interviews other shills and Russian influence agents and stuff. CGTN is directly under the control of China's propaganda department. Yes. So just to put that in context, he is a professional propagandist.

And one of his jobs is to go on... He's American, though. Yes. That's a little caveat. Yeah, exactly. He goes on Twitter and just posts absolute garbage all the time. Because they tell him to. Remember, we looked at this closely and proved that it was absolutely a fake, made-up video. But he was like, it's real. Go see it for yourself. He kept doubling down. And I'd like to say thank you to our show,

He actually finally removed it because first he got a community note that said, this is factually not real. Right. Okay. Which is true. You can see the video. It's not real. But he kept doubling down. This is real. This is China. You have to see it. But here you can see the post is now unavailable because I shared it, obviously.

Because it's too good not to share. And now it's gone. And that's great. He deleted it. I want to put this out there. He did not make this post. I don't care what some douche on the internet posted. This is the Chinese propaganda department getting their amplifiers, as they're called, and in this case, their employee, to go out there and say, look, this American said this place is real. This is great. And he has to put it out. This is not like a choice. Yeah. So I just wanted to point out that he is a propaganda mill guy.

Yes. That's all he does. And you can take a look. Like there's from April in 2023, then October in 2023, he makes the exact same post. And it's always anti-America, pro-CCP propaganda. Exactly. He says U.S. homeless population, 580,000 people. Chinese homeless population, zero. Zero.

Okay. There's at least 3 million. And then he ramps up the numbers to 600,000. But here's the thing. So that's in 2023. We'll address this specific post later. Okay. And here's 2024, January. You may have not noticed, but it changed, guys. The screen changed. So it's the same picture, the same thing, slightly different wording. But, you know, obviously he has his, you know, his handler who says, you must post this. Yeah.

And he posts the same thing over and over and over again. Same picture, same BS. Anti-America, pro-China. So now it's this, like January and February, and then it keeps going. This is May and August. The same thing. Do you see what I mean? It's like you are a propagandist. You must put out the same propaganda again and again and again.

Yeah, exactly. Oh, throw up the homeless one. Throw up the homeownership one. Throw up the whatever, America economy bad one. Daddy Shee said that we have to talk about America economy bad. Yeah. So I just wanted to point out that he literally just pumps out

Again, this kind of stuff. And you can see May of 2023, July of 20, like every second month, it's like, oh, America has homeless people. China provides free homes for homeless people. That's a lie, by the way. Yeah, exactly. It's a place where they're committing genocide. That's cool. Then it's February of 24, May of 24.

So it's like every other couple of months, he posts the exact same thing again and again. April and then May, right? It's like keeps going, keeps going. It's just like a non-stop. Why do these people not... Why don't they have... October, November, like once a month. Why do these people not have foreign agent registration like Farah? I don't understand. They should. I don't get it. You know, here's the thing. Say you are legitimately a person on Twitter and you want to make a point. Right. You're like...

I think that there's a problem with homelessness in America and I think China does it better. You make a point, right? Right, right. Surely you wouldn't go and like post the exact same thing again and again and again. You would because you have a CCP agent. No, I'm saying if you're a normal person. Yeah, if you're a normal person, yeah. You wouldn't post the same thing and then try to like word it slightly different but put the same picture and the same thing. It doesn't make sense. This is because this is his job. Yeah.

This is how China takes advantage of social media, by the way. How is he not a foreign agent? I don't understand. He's American. Yeah, he's American. Anyway, like I said, he posts this thing about Chinese people having 90% home ownership, which, by the way, is a lie. Zero people can own homes in China. You can lease your apartment, not the land, just your apartment for 70 years. Zero home ownership in China.

A lot of people have long-term leases, though. No land, either. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I just wanted to show you. It goes on and on. So here, I sped it up a little bit just so you can see. Oh, wow. It's just the same crap over and over. Uh-oh. But he made a mistake with that one. You know, I showed you the one that had to be removed. That removed.

Oh, hello there. I didn't see you. Yes. I just also wanted to point out that it's not the first time he's posted fake garbage. Yeah. Remember he posted this thing? This picture. Yes, this picture about like, oh, China's great new renewable energy. And we looked at this on the show and we're like, dude, this is like Windows 95. He posted it as real. Yes, he posted it as real, as usual. It's 16-bit graphics. Yeah, remember I added, just for effect, I added some fries and a burger for him.

And a couple of lens flares. I like the lens flares. Yeah, the lens flares, it suits that image, don't you think? Anyway, because of the last time he got called out, he had to actually delete it. He's made Xi Jinping look bad, and Xi Jinping's not happy. Uh-oh. All right? Even though they made him post it. Yeah. Oh, my God.

They did this to him? Yeah. Oh no. Bro. I know. This is what happens. They make you do something. They make you do something and then punish you for it because it didn't work out. I know. You'll always be at the short end of the stick. Imagine this. You literally give up your dignity to be a propagandist for the Chinese government. And this was your reward. This is what you get. You get humiliated on TV.

They literally dressed him up like Divine. Okay? Uh, anyway, I got... It's not over yet. Did you just call him a drag queen? A CCP drag queen, I guess. There's nothing wrong with that. No, no, no. Now look at me. Wasted away to practically nothing. Imagine having to do that for your job. Exiled and practically starving. So this is on state media. This is state media, dude. It's on the CGTN website.

Imagine accepting this job and you're like, well, there's lines I won't cross. Yeah, there's certain lines I won't cross. Not him, apparently. You don't have a choice. What are you working for, an authoritarian dictatorship? Are you going to say no to Daddy Xi? Are you going to say no to Kim Jong-un? You know what I mean? No, you won't. You won't. So not only did Xi Jinping make him dress up, you know, like divine...

He's also forcing him to join Hippo Hubbies, the new CCP app. Is that like Hippo Hub? It's like Hippo Hub, but it's kind of like the Tinder version. Oh, it's like singles. Let's take a quick look. So he wasn't happy. What's that guy's name again? Yeah.

Oh, no. Yeah. No. So now his punishment is that has to be his avatar. Oh, so it's like he's been marked. Yeah. I gotcha. You know, he should know not to embarrass Xi Jinping like that again by posting such fake garbage propaganda. That sucks.

I wouldn't be posting fake propaganda. That sucks. Yeah. Yeah, you're going to get in trouble. I mean, is he that dumb that when he sees a fake, like blatantly fake thing, that he still goes ahead and posts it and says it's great? He will lose his job if he doesn't. That's true. He's not doing this for fun.

And we can prove this. I mean, all the other amplifiers and actual CCP diplomats and stuff, they turn this out first, and then he has to go and repost it, basically. But act like it's his post. Yeah, exactly. What a stupid job. What a stupid thing to do. And you look like a bellend. What a pillock.

I'm sorry, but like... I'm so sorry, but I don't think... I'm pissed off that he does so much anti-America propaganda. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. I don't think that he had this...

idea in his mind when he started his job that he would look like this you absolute pillock he is a i mean dude what a plunker sorry but imagine going back and you he's all in his like dress shirt or whatever yeah sitting down for the interview and he goes yes i think his ccp wife or something got a job for him or something like that's what happened yeah

And you sit down for the interview and they're like, well, we're going to bridge the gap. We have the bridge podcast on CGTN. It's a beautiful way to share culture between America and China and this kind of stuff. And he's like, oh, this is good stuff. Yeah. Fast forward five years. And they dress him up like divine.

And parade him around like an absolute laughingstock. Dude, this is the most unflattering outfit for this particular man. I actually kind of feel bad. Yeah, me too. I honestly think that you get to a point when you've sold your soul, you can still maybe hold on to your dignity a bit, but he's lost that now too. This is so bad. Please click like on the stream if you enjoyed that, by the way. In a weird way. Please, it'll really help us.

Hey, we don't need to see this anymore. Are you sure? No, I don't want to look at this. Are you sure? I'm going to throw up, dude. I actually genuinely feel bad that he had to turn this on and look at it. You know, like, it's like someone in the office is like, hey, is this you? Dude, like, if you do work with him, ask him. Hey, is this... I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Yeah. I think he's...

Didn't Elon Musk tweet this guy out? Yeah. What's going on? What's happening? I don't know, dude. I'm just kind of confused about this whole timeline. I'm sorry. Yeah, me too. I'm just kind of confused right now. Like, what...

What? Yes, I know. I know. I know. All right, guys. This is a big one. Share this out now. Meat and potatoes. This is a big one. Okay. It has been insane. Okay. What you're seeing behind us right now, just a couple of clips over the last month of fires that have broken out in China. But we thought we'd break it down for you. Because it's not house fires. Yes. So these are some of the areas that have burned this month. Let's see here what they are. Yeah.

Okay, so we're gonna start with the Blue Star power plant in Shaoxing in Zhejiang. Guys, all those other places, we're gonna show you a map later, but they've all been burning this month. So we thought, you know, here we've got definitive dates. This is the 16th of February. This is wild. This is a power plant. A major power plant. Okay. And again, can we remind people what's going on with the power plants in China?

They're all just getting destroyed. They've approved two new power plants a week. A week. Two new coal power plants. Yeah, coal. Coal power plants, despite signing the world's carbon agreements. Sure. Two new power plants per week. Yeah. Per week. But, do you know what you gotta do when you have a power plant? When you're deceiving the world about your carbon emissions? What? You have to pay your workers. Yes, you do have to pay your workers, otherwise this happens. This happens. Don't you think?

Riddle me this. Mm-hmm. That if American workers set a major power plant on fire and destroyed the whole thing, causing tens of millions of dollars in damage. Yeah. Tens of millions per plant. Mm-hmm.

That would make big news. Yeah, you would think so. Was this on the news? Nope. Why not? Because it's censored. You're not supposed to see this. This is what we call ruination. This is translated into English. It means ruination. It's been going around the Chinese internet. It's the idea that people are destroying things on purpose, particularly industry, manufacturing, and technology.

energy. Yes, we've seen this a lot this month. That's why we called it China's Destruction Month. It's the most we've seen. It's absolutely insane. So we have a couple of examples and I just wanted to show you that it's a daily thing. All those other ones you saw before, that's all from February. Now this, the 16th, we had a second big fire on the 16th over here in Shanghai. This is the Shanghai Good Day Logistics.

And what they do is they're obviously a logistics company. So they work as warehouse and distribution for big companies.

Brands like Haier. Specifically Haier, which is one of China's biggest brands. Yeah. Can you explain what Haier does? All kinds of stuff, like anything home-related. Air conditioners, refrigerators, smart home appliances. That's the one with the little ice cream boys in it, right? Yes. It's kind of a lame logo. Let's be honest, it's kind of lame. It looks like a 70s anime. Yeah, it looks like some real bad old cartoon. But yeah, ubiquitous across China. If you've got an air conditioner, if you've got a refrigerator...

probably going to be higher. Yes. You know? This is what happens when you don't pay your employees. When we tell you China's economy is in shambles right now, it's not based on some random economic data. It is based on the fact that people are revolting across the entire country, particularly in the manufacturing hub areas. Correct. Because we've seen...

Some of these are 100% confirmed that it's disgruntled wage earners that have not been paid in months that have set it on fire. Some of them are just suspicious. Yes. Insurance fraud. Yes. Insurance fraud, that kind of thing. But there's one thing that seems to be in common with all of these. It's always factories. Yes. Or it's something to do with like power plants or, you know, that type of thing. It's not just some dude's random house. No. You know, you get that too. No, but it's very important to point out. Yeah.

Again, in these manufacturing areas. One thing that I've noticed right now as I read through some expert opinions about what's happening in China's economy, it's been wildly overvalued. Yes. And as more scrutiny comes down, more audits and things like that come and hone in on this stuff, we see more of this kind of stuff happen. And I think that's probably insurance fraud types

stuff but then you get the reports out when we're like we we immediately our gut assumes it's that and we we hear oh nope they found the guy that did it yeah he he ganged everyone together they're like we're literally poor we haven't paid us in six months yeah we're gonna set this place on fire well this is a Chongqing warehouse um

You know, 22nd floor. Here we go again. Yeah, this is the 22nd floor. I wonder if a train went into that building and caused it to catch fire. This was a disgruntled wage situation. And this warehouse completely burned to the ground in the Jiangbei district of Chongqing. I mean, who knows specifically what goods were inside? Yeah. You know?

This obviously is another major, huge fire, complete total loss. And this was, yeah, confirmed disgruntled workers, not paid, unpaid workers. The economy in China...

China, when they make these top-down policies right now, like they get their spokespeople to go, we will not tolerate a lack of foreign investment. That's a quote. Yes. We will not tolerate lack of foreign investment. I also want you to notice that one in Chongqing was on the 17th. The previous one on the 16th. This one's on the 18th. Every day. Every single day. This is another power company. This is an electric power company that's burning over here. So...

Yeah, I mean, you can see the wording on the building itself when it was closed. When you see the map of these incidences, it'll make a lot of sense. Yeah, it'll make a lot of sense, Steve. It's kind of like piecing. You know, like when they have those pictures of all those red lines and they're like, whoa, connecting the dots. Yes, exactly. You can connect the dots. Yeah, yeah, you'll be able to do it. This is another huge... This is a huge downtown in the middle of this urban area. Again...

Where's the news? If you had a massive power plant on fire or a power company burned to the ground in the middle of Chicago or something, I'm sure you would have heard about it. Where is the news coverage on this in China and abroad? Yeah. Where is it? Yeah, where is it? This is huge. It's nuts. You know why? Why? Because people don't want to get in the way of investing in China right now.

It's all the groundwork's been laid and all the important people are on top of it. All the right people are controlling this situation. I'm not even trying to sound like one of those conspiracy dudes. All that groundwork has been laid and nobody wants that disrupted right now. Correct. The top leadership said we cannot allow that to be disrupted. We need people, all the stock bros to invest. Yes. All the crypto bros and stuff got to come here. And why? Well, because the economy sucks. It's done. It's literally collapsing. Yeah.

It's pretty insane. So he's fanning the flames. He's fanning the flames. Is that part of the punishment? This is quite an interesting shot. There you can see the company name on top, which says they're the Dien Li, you know, like co-LTD or whatever. So the power company, basically. But that's quite an interesting shot, isn't it? With the flames behind it. By the way, if you're wondering why it's hard to find our videos...

Why do you think? Why do you think our videos aren't hitting your feed right now? Yeah. Do you think perhaps there's some people that don't want you to see this? By the way, next day in Fujian, we had a gas station and then another fire in Fujian. This is a factory burned down in Fujian. Get us out of there for a second. This is every single day. Every day. Every freaking day. It's pretty insane. The fact that you can see it's daylight.

After day, after day. Here's a couple of other just random things that happened. All on sequential days, right? Yeah, I mean, this is just all during this month. This month, yeah. So fun. Yeah. You know, we could spend all day going through every incident by itself. Yeah, but we wanted to cover the intentional factory destruction. Yes. Yep.

Yeah, so here's a map. Let's have a look at this real quick. I'll get us out of here for a second. I love your MS Paint map, by the way. I think that made it much more approachable. You think it's approachable to use MS Paint? It's not MS Paint. Yeah, okay, same thing. It was Apple preview window. Same deal. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It's like to get us out of there. Okay. Don't cover up the map. All right. Let's look at this. So these are the confirmed places of the fires that we just showed. Not all of them because there were quite a few fires. We didn't know the exact location. I don't care about fires. This is the factory. This is the factory and power plants. Okay. Only. So let's have a look at this.

It's very interesting. On the left, what you're going to see is China's new industrial area. So that's Chongqing and around Chengdu. So you're talking about these ones up here. Yes. Those are important to pay attention to because those are where they're trying to move industry away from the rich coasts. Right. However, China's rich coasts still maintain a ton of economic control. In fact, the majority of economic control. They're trying to diversify. Now, what's important about this is... So, up here. Yes. China's...

And you do what you do with what you want with this information. But China's elite are right here on this coast over here. Yeah. In China's competition to said elite are over there in the inland. Sure. Exactly in that area, right? In fact, the faction that was going up against the current leadership in Xi Jinping is all on the east coast, right? Yeah. Right there.

Now, this area is where the bulk of China's manufacturing is. If you get a shoelace, if you get a bra wire, if you get a freaking button, it's in Zhejiang. It's in the peripheries of Fujian and Jiangxi and these type areas, right? In fact, yeah, I was going to say, I got reminded, you know that last place we showed, what was it, Putian? Yes. Isn't that where they make all the counterfeit sneakers? I feel like it's...

I remember something about the leadership, they're being incredibly corrupt and like it doesn't matter who brings a lawsuit against them for like counterfeit, they lose. So in Putian, where you saw that fire, they are making the majority of the world's counterfeit shoes. And I'm not talking about like counterfeit like...

like low end stuff. They make like, like the nice stuff, right? So you get fake Nikes and Nikes and Converse and stuff. It's not like Walmart stuff, right? And they make good fakes. They make good fakes. And this place has gotten so wealthy, this city. And actually it's, it's right. Uh, let me point to it here. It's right there. Is that the one? Yeah. Okay. Um,

They got so wealthy from this because they couldn't compete with these cities up here, like Wenzhou and Shanghai. These areas are known for being the old hat of Chinese manufacturing. Been around since the 80s, right? Yeah. You know, after economic opening. Down here in Fujian, Fujian got kind of ripped off because they're in the same area, but their local governments could never compete and get these contracts for this manufacturing. Yeah.

So what they started doing in Fujian, they became rogue. A lot of crime, a lot of criminals and stuff. And what they did was make fake factors. And Putian, that specific place, is known for these counterfeit shoes. What you said was correct. The local government has so much power there, so much power and control that they have fought off every lawsuit that has come from abroad. And the central government can do nothing about it. That's how corrupt this place is. Yeah, it makes sense. It's wild. I remember something about that. It's like a haven of...

criminals. A sandworm. Oh, by the way, if you missed out on Monday's show, this was so much fun. Can we just show them quickly? Here we go. Drink. I'm sorry, but that's just disgusting.

Come on! Dude! Someone took a bit of the pink food! I mean... Okay, that's normal. No, it's not. That's not normal. Frickin' gross. Oh, it's brown! It's brown, yeah, man. That's what a rotten egg looks like. I mean, your body's gonna reject this, right? It's gonna reject it.

Oh my god! Okay, I'm getting that off the screen. I'm sorry. Dude, what the hell?

That was one of our most fun episodes of Xiaobanhou we've ever done. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. That thing you see on the right is a real thing that we show. It's a real thing we show. What's called a wild lion's head? Yes. So we wanted to go through and find stuff. You know, people are like, oh, China has some weird foods. We wanted to supersede anyone that's ever made that claim because we have already eaten the craziest foods in China. Sure. Cow shat hot pot and all that stuff. Stuff people don't even know about. Yep. We found stuff that we didn't even know.

Exactly. And it's horrible, but it's also interesting. Yeah, it's super interesting. We also showed like normal stuff that's just unknown. Yeah, like weird fruits and things. Like it's only specific to that little geographical area and there's not even any English name for it. Yeah, so it's not just about gross stuff. It was about like just interesting. Yeah, like tiny bananas inside of like. Yeah, interesting weird things leading from like just kind of interesting all the way to like horrendous. Yeah, we did a tier list. Yeah. So we started at tier one and we ended up at tier five. Tier five made me fall out of my chair.

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claim that China has zero homeless population. That is such a... And then uses some Getty Images stock photo as proof. It's a lowly regarded claim. Yeah. It's a lowly regarded claim. It's stupid. China has a lot of homeless people. We've seen them with our own eyes. Well, it's... I filmed them with my own eyes and my own camera. In 2015, the Chinese government declared there was at least 2.5 million. Homeless people. You know what that means. Yeah.

That means there's a lot more. Yes. In 2015, if they're being that honest. And it's worse now. Yeah. Despite some efforts from 2015 and maybe about 2021, 2020, 2021, things got markedly better according to them. According to them. Yes. Now we still saw shit tons of footage come out of that not being true. Now Chinese people are saying it's much worse. In fact, it's getting so bad that we'll show you what they're doing. Oh, we'll show you some. Um,

You know, it kind of annoys me because you'll see all these 22nd floor people going around saying, I mean, by the way, that's anti-homeless. That's what I was going to get into. Yeah, exactly. Those 22nd floor guys go around on these like paid for tours in these big shiny cities and say, China doesn't have a homeless problem. I can't see any homeless people. Oh, my shakalata. Yeah, exactly. You know? Yeah. And it's because in those areas, the police round them up and take them away. They sweep them away like trash so you can't see them.

Yes. So it's not that they don't exist. It's not a permanent solution, by the way. Yeah. They come back. Yeah, of course they come back. But it's like, it's not permanent. I mean, it's not that there aren't homeless people. It's just you can't see them in those Potemkin villages you're going to. You know what's silly, though, is you can still see them there. Yeah, you still can. That's what's nuts. We actually, we've shown this before, like the best, richest area of one of China's richest cities, China.

they had this Western guy go out and live stream about how there's no homeless people because even the Chinese government drank their own broth. Yeah, exactly. And we call it shill broth. It's kind of like drinking the Kool-Aid.

So China drank their own broth and he kept, homeless people kept creeping up in the videos. And he'd be like, oh, look at that. We've got to show that again sometime. Anyway, you know how China knee jerk reacts to stuff when there's an issue, right? So what they did is back in the day in Guangzhou, they built this kind of hostile architecture. They just put up a new one under the bridge because there's homeless situations out of control right now.

It's actually really been cropping up. And specifically, what's interesting... This is in Shenzhen, by the way, over here. I recognize this. I've been to this area. Yeah. This ties into an episode we did on Xiaoban Hong the other day, where the government has been promoting people to live... Can you pause it there? Yeah. To live in places like this. This is called a wangba, which is an internet bar. Internet cafe. So people in China are having a really hard time buying food and the unemployment is

20-30% now right for youth unemployment so they don't have jobs anymore sure so they're encouraging them to live on like these very cheap internet bars yes because what they do is they build this and then people can just get addicted to their screens and play games all day and live there for very cheap right yes so they're like well it gets them off the street right

And so they've been promoting these videos across Chinese social media. We did a whole video on that. It's called China Promoting Sloth Behavior. Yes. And it used to be something they were hiding, and now they're promoting it as a way to satiate the public. Yeah, to placate the unsatisfied people. They've been given this idea that there's this amazing dream and that China is getting more and more prosperous, but in reality, that's not the case. So what they have to do is keep those people on digital opium. Yeah. And they keep them silent, right? Yeah.

keep you should see some of these videos these people have a phone and a computer and two screens up here and they have a game and they're watching a movie they're chatting and they're also farming gold to earn an income on a game it's pure dystopia and they act like it's normal yeah that it's some nice glamorous lifestyle yeah unfortunately as a byproduct of this and this is the follow-up to our episode if you want to check that out definitely check our patreon it's very interesting

There's a follow-up. These internet cafe or internet bars have been filling up and now the homeless people can't even go inside. Yeah, they're sleeping on the street outside. It's getting so bad they're making skits about not being able to afford the 10 or 15 RMB to go sleep in there. Yeah, it's true. And so they're sleeping on the outside of these internet bars because they're attracted to that idea because of the Doe-ian videos, because of the TikTok videos, but they're filled up. Is that guy taking a leak? I think he is. This is, by the way, in...

Nanjing's nicest subway station. Yeah. You always see that about the... Oh, look, America sucks because they're old subway, but look at China. It's literally just homeless people everywhere pissing. Yeah. I mean, they'll get cleaned out in the day. Sure, but not quite. I mean, China still has this. China still has areas like this. Of course they do. We've seen it with our own eyes. Literally. And before we show this clip...

It just kind of makes me a bit mad when you constantly see people glazing China saying how amazing it is. Look how great it is. Glazing China has become my biggest frickin nightmare because they do it with no evidence. Yeah. And now in this post-truth world we live in, it's OK to do things with no evidence. Yeah. We can show you. But we're just CIA, USAID propagandists. Correct. With no. But they have no evidence of that is my point. Yeah. We can show you evidence.

We are independent. We do everything completely independently out of the passion of our hearts. And then we get accused of this kind of stuff with no evidence. Yeah, it sucks because it hurts the Chinese people the most. It does. We care about the country. We care about China. And when you try to pretend that there is no poverty or there are no homeless people and that China has already made it and is already ahead of everyone else, what?

What are you doing to the poor people that are struggling? Because that's absolutely not true. Now you've just dismissed their problems as if they don't exist. Correct. You know? And that's the thing. That's the problem I have with like flat cap McDonald's and these shills that work for the Chinese government. They go out there and do this and act like these people don't exist. And when you see them... Yeah, when it says zero homeless people, come on. And you can vouch for me here. When you see how they act towards Chinese people, because they've been given all this power in China...

when you see how they act in private to Chinese people, the attitude they have and the way they belittle them, then it makes so much sense. It does make sense. They don't care. They glaze the Chinese government, but they don't like the Chinese people. No, they hate them. Right. You know, they treat them as like subhuman. Yes. By the way, this is a clip that's also gone a little bit viral because it shows, I'd like you to pay attention. This is a factory worker getting her food at the, you know, canteen, tantinas, you know. Rice porridge there. Vegetables.

But you can see how she's got rings under her eyes, just how tired she is. People are working extra, extra, extra, extra shifts because the government's mandating that they fill up the manufacturing deficit that's happening right now. People are moving supply chains away from China. Maybe do a video called ABC Anything But China that's happening with supply chains right now. Number two, they are working just to pay the bills now because they have to send the money back to their village. People are struggling, man. It's bad. It's real bad.

Yeah. So, you know, it's such a disservice to the people of China to pretend, like I said, that China's there already. Yeah. You know? Well, you fake it until you make it, right? Yeah, it's that kind of thing. Except it's on the downtrend. It is. It's trying to recoup is what they're doing.

And just like we showed you with all the fires, a huge portion of those fires have been set by disgruntled people that haven't been paid their wages. Those are just the ones that got out. Yeah, exactly. Can you imagine how much this is happening right now? We got reports, and we told you this a little while ago, but just to refresh your memory, the entire police department of a major city, of an area of a major city that we know, somebody reported to us, actually multiple people now have reported to us, they haven't been paid in like six months now. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah, it's no good.

That's a government job. Yeah. Again, we've been getting reports that food prices are going up like crazy. And I, you know how I can corroborate this? How many videos in the past year came out about how cheap China's food is?

When they put these videos out, especially by the amplifiers and stuff, look at how little I spend, you know? And remember, I did that video where I'm like, bullshit. Yeah, exactly. I proved the video wrong, and then I showed how cheap stuff in America is in comparison. Yeah. And people are, they've lost their mind. They just couldn't believe it. They don't want to believe it. Yeah.

So what you're seeing here are grab hags as we call them, but it's kind of become a necessity again when there's a special, when there's a discount on something like there are on these, I believe they're manta or something. You're going to get these crazy hordes of people trying to grab them because you know what? Life's getting more and more expensive.

They'll jump on any situation where there's something at discount because they have to. And it's reminding people right now, as somebody we know personally told us the other day, it's reminding them of the writing on the wall that happened when people started starving. Yes. You know, back in the day. Yeah. Even though it doesn't look like that, like as buildings and stuff nowadays, the feeling on the ground of how little their dollar is, how little they can stretch their dollar now, it's

feeling like things are dire. This over here is just next level.

So what's happening here is, you know, when you go to do offerings, usually around Chinese New Year and so on, you do offerings for health and wealth and that type of thing. They're trying to bring the wealth into the QR codes of their digital payment systems. Yes. They're literally trying to get the gods, the Chinese gods and their ancestors to pay them through QR code. Yeah. To give wealth and, you know, prosperity to their QR. This is dumb. Can you pause that? That's so dumb. That's...

Literally dystopia. That's not how things work, by the way. We know this. I'm pretty sure God's not going to be like, this magic smoke's going to make a deposit. No shit. But don't you think things have to get pretty desperate to want to do something like this? Yes. You know what I mean? I think they're pretty bad. Like what? 30% youth unemployment rate. Potentially they've cut off the facts now. We don't know. Yeah. You're going to go and ask for wisps of smoke to give you some RMB.

be you're gonna it's just like when I see stuff like this I just have to face palm I'm sorry it's the dumbest shit it's so stupid I'm so sorry because like you know I I like Chinese tradition the traditional stuff it's fascinating there's a long history behind it

It's been corrupted to the point where it's no longer about religion and tradition. It's just about money. It's just money worship. You're going there to burn incense, not to give respect to your ancestors or anything, but to try and get money.

You know what the irony is? The magic smoke. You know what the irony is? What? They go and burn like fake iPhones and burn fake money to get their ancestor stuff. Now they're trying to get that smoke back. Yeah. You're right. It is. You're supposed to let the incense go up, dude. Yeah, exactly. It's supposed to go... Can you explain incense? Yeah, I mean... It's supposed to go up. Exactly. That's the thing. You get...

And it's quite interesting because people burn offerings to their ancestors. You see them on the side of the road. I've made videos about it. You can go to shops in China and buy a paper representation of a house, of a sexy woman, of a car, of a cell phone, of an iPad, of a pager, of anything.

And then you burn it and then your ancestor in heaven is supposed to be able to get this. Because the smoke goes up. Yeah, the smoke goes up and then it will magically appear and they'll be like, yeah, I'm the coolest guy in heaven because I got a bling phone and a mistress and a car. Suck it back. It's like, give me, hey, grandpa, remember that time I gave you all those prostitutes? You know, I burned all those paper prostitutes. Come on, man, you owe me a favor. I need some money. Hey, I need that iPhone 4 I gave you in 2009. It's fine.

pretty much what's happening here suck the smoke it's so silly it's crazy though yeah this is something i have not seen it's the opposite of what you usually see yeah and isn't it such a weird anthropomorphic not anthropomorphic what are you saying anthropological way to look at things yes we've never seen it get so bad where people are trying to get the wealth to come back to their phone yeah you know what i mean yeah it's true wow anyway pretty wild it's quite a corruption of tradition there i'd say i'm not a fan you know

F in the chat, guys. F in the chat for the sucking the smoke back from the gods. Now, just a quick little tofu drag we wanted to throw in here because it's relevant. It was from about a week ago. This has also happened in February. Random...

sort of window balcony area collapsed. You know what's wild? That looks exactly like somewhere I lived, and it's in the same province. Yeah. Yeah, it is interesting. The cladding came off the building I lived in, and there was styrofoam. Yeah, here you can see it in the day. Six-floor walk up in the industrial area, bro. Yeah, exactly. That's what's going on. That's not what you want. Who would know about that? Yeah, you know, good old Mario, you know, in the chemical plant zone wherever. Yes.

That's not what you want, I assure. Are you sure, though? Can you play that? What? Do you mean this? This is definitely what you want, I assure. He's wrong, Neodentic Man. Yeah, Neodentic Man. What would Rick say about this, do you think? Oh, Rick, you'd be like... Wow, so good. He likes that? Yeah, of course he does. Nice building quality.

Yeah. I mean, there has to have been some kind of a gas explosion in there or something. Like a cooking incident. Can I say something? What? I lived in this building. Literally like the Yimoyang. The same. Exactly. Exactly. No differences. And this happened to my room, but not from an accident.

I walked into my house, right? In the winter. Okay. There was snow blowing in and I walked into my bedroom and the whole wall was gone. Right? Okay. And I was like, what's going on? There was a note in broken glass all over my bed, which was right next to the window.

And the note said in Chinese, sorry, we forgot to tell you we're replacing all the windows. And so they had picked mine while I was gone at work. I came back and I literally had to have a sleeping bag on my floor while snow blew in. And there was birds in there in the morning. That's hilarious. It looked exactly like this. Makes sense. Makes sense. It was kind of fun. Yeah, I'd say. My friend came over and camped. Indoor camping. Indoor camping. Yeah. And we got to smoke cigarettes inside. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Interesting. Again, not what you want supporting your building. These are the support pillars down in the underground parking. I like how the rebar is bent and the concrete just comes apart by hand. Yes. Some people are challenging my bird thing because we've said there's no birds in China. I was in Inner Mongolia. There were some birds in Inner Mongolia. Exactly. Pretty sure you don't want your concrete to just be able to crumble. That is chalk. Let's chalk it up to tofu drag here. I agree. Pretty rough.

It says, why do you think China's having a real estate meltdown right now?

down right now. I mean, think about how crappy this is. You've just spent your entire fortune, your entire family's life. Not just you. Yeah, your entire extended family to buy an apartment in this building. When I say buy, you lease it. It doesn't actually belong to you. You're leasing this apartment. You're just trying to move in and then you find out downstairs that the entire support system is made out of tofu dreg. Correct. How can you feel happy that you're up on the 16th floor or whatever? At least you're not on the 22nd floor, Maish.

Exactly. But then you would think you're on the ground floor. Then you would think you're on the ground floor. Because you will when it collapses. When it collapses. You may think this is the 22nd floor, but it's actually the ground floor. Yes. If you're doing China show videos, you're on borrowed time, guys. Yes, that's right. You're going to be on the ground floor real soon. Correct. Correct.

This is a great article I came across this morning. Oh, what does that say? By Matthew Tai? Oh, whoa, no way. Check it out. Yeah, Chocolato. Oh, my Chocolato. I wrote an article for The Hill. I want you guys to go check it out. And I want you guys to share it around if you can. Because this is going to blow the lid off of what's currently happening to us and other anti-CCP YouTubers. Yes.

It is about how we took the data from six videos and then six videos after something happened. And I don't want to give it away. I want you guys to read it. It's a short read. You don't have to invest time into it. You can just flip through it very quickly. Let's just say it has something to do with the fact that

Google removed results and YouTube videos for the Chinese government. Yeah. It might be tied to something that's happening to us right now. I think it is. Anyway, please take a look. The link is in the description. We'd love for you to read the article so that we can hear what you think about it in our upcoming shows or whatever. Nice. Thank you very much. It's in the description. Yeah. Please share it around. Great article. Thank you very much. Well written. Thank you.

Time for Beyond the Great Firewall, and this one is fantastic. Oh, it's a good one. It's a good one. If you guys like schadenfreude, if you guys like revenge stories, it doesn't get better than this. You're going to be cheering for our Chinese bro so hard. This guy rules. So let's set up the story over here.

In China, you get these shifu, kind of everything all in one. They're locksmiths, they're handymen, plumbers, everything all in one, basically. Down at the little wujingdian, which means the five metal shop. So a handyman, okay? This guy is a locksmith, but he'll do everything else. Like if you bring him in, you can also say like, oh, can you also... He's a master. Yeah, you can say, can you adjust my faucet? It's leaking. And while you're here, can you fix the light bulb or whatever? And he'll do all that stuff. Yes. So this...

- I need the methodology. I didn't know that.

State secret. State secret.

So now she's going to try to get help with another door. Yeah, exactly. Notice the mahjong tiles, by the way. This is not... In China, if you play mahjong, you are considered low class or untrustworthy. By the way, not a casual player. Somebody that has it permanently set up is a gambler. Yeah, I guess so, yes. So anyway, the thing is...

She's gotten back into her apartment, so he's done the job, right? Yes. Now she's got another door that she needs him to sort out because it's not closing properly or whatever. Let's continue. This gets better. Can you help me check it again? You can't close it, right? Okay, I'll try. This gets real good. No, sis. We always open the wrong door.

She's trying to get him to take a dollar instead of six bucks. So, I mean, the thing is he said he will do all of this for 50 RMB. Right, which is so cheap. It's like six bucks. Yeah, 50 RMB in China will get you a meal. Yeah.

It's getting tough now. Yeah. But like just a rubbish meal. Yeah. A shit meal. A shit meal. Yeah. You can go to McDonald's. Yeah. Have a McDonald's meal. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe not a full one though. No, but you just get like a whatever. Yeah. It's not a lot of money is what we're trying to say. And to think that he's gone all the way there and all that. And now she's trying to bargain him down. To a dollar. Yeah. She's trying to say, no, like it's holiday time or whatever. Let's go for less. Let's see what happens. Let's see what happens.

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So, let's explain that last part real quick. Just pause it. We don't have to play it again. No, no, I won't. Just the part where he lures... She forces the 10 army, the $1.30 on him. And she's like, oh. Yes, he tried to add on. I love that she's already been... She's hostage now, right? Yes.

She doesn't try to pay the full price. You'd think you'd be like, all right, I'll give you the 50. Yeah. No, she only tries to add on 20. Yeah, exactly. She still tries to rip him off. Yeah, so I mean, like, he's done all this work and he's like, okay, let's test the key. This is such a... Give him a thumbs up if you like this video, if you like him. It's awesome. We love this guy. So gets her out, like, we're going to test your key and then he chucks it in and closes the door again.

I won't open it for you. Yeah, exactly. I won't open it for you. Yeah. Call someone else. And she's like, I'll add another $2. 75. I love how she still tries to rip them off. Yeah. Still. Dude, 50 RMB is not a lot of money. Nothing. Yeah. You,

piece of shit. I know, for a guy to come all the way out there, fix two of your doors, well, like, get you in your apartment and then, like, fix another one of your problems. What a, that's a wanker of an old lady. Oh, yeah, totally. That's lost generation. I hate that attitude, lost generation stuff. Yeah, you do come across him quite a lot, but that's pretty funny, but he also stole one of her mahjong tiles. Which, that mahjong tile says Fox High. Yes. What?

wealth yes wealth so he's like i'm rich yes that's one of the best videos i've seen in a long time me too i loved it this this guy's attitude's great yes so you guys may have seen uh some go ahead i may have seen this going around right pause it real quick oh maybe this viral clip going around about somebody using a magnet and a zip tie yeah trying to open someone's door right i guess some british guy or australian guy or something

Yeah, one of those random accent boys. One of those accent boys. Like an accent boy, just a random Australian, British, doesn't matter. They just got a weird accent, don't they? Hey, my shakalada. I don't know. I have a tech deck. I don't know what's going on here. Yeah, exactly. So you may have seen that going around. It had like hundreds of millions of views. Yeah. The point is...

People were talking about how crazy this is. And what you have to understand is that's actually not crazy at all in China. This is such a common problem of breaking into people's hotel rooms or their apartments. They have burglar bars on all the windows. And people get so... It's one of the most pervasive things. I saw in all those 22nd floor videos. Everyone's like, why does everyone have these bars on their windows? It's because of theft. Theft is crazy in China, right? Yeah.

Try to explain that away. You know, the, the spoiled first world is that go to China would always be like, Oh, what's going on? China is so safe. And then they're like, but why are there bars in the window? I said, do you have bars in your window back home? Yeah, I know I do. Cause I'm from South Africa. You got bars in your house. Yes. Not just outside there inside too. I have a bar to mix old fashioned. Yeah. Not those kind of, but we got like bar burglar bars inside, outside, you know? Yeah. Why don't you? I mean, I have kind of a makeshift one. Okay. Yeah. It's not very nice. Anyway, the point is, uh,

That's just huge. It's huge. They'll gas people's rooms. They drug people. It's absolutely crazy, right? Yeah. So they actually put out these PSAs very often. You can just play it super quick. Okay. But basically what to do when this happens in your hotel room. And so she's spazzing out, obviously, right? Yeah. She's freaking out. So she has like a protocol here of what she does. And this is something I saw mirrored dozens of times. You grab coat hangers. Mm-hmm. And then you make like some sort of makeshift like...

contraption, which actually keeps it so that they can't open it, no matter what tools they have to do it.

Oh, I see. It's a very rudimentary thing, but there's a standard protocol for it that they teach people about. They actually have step-by-step instructions on websites and on videos. Yes. And then what they do is, it's funny, there's actually a sign there that's, you know, stop drug use and crimes or call this number or whatever. Yeah. And she calls the downstairs and she goes, I'm in blah, blah, blah room. Yeah. And they go, sorry, the security guard's busy right now. We'll get back to you later.

So she's getting broken into right now. Yeah. But it's crazy. Like even the cops in China that put this out, there's this tool that these thieves use. There's this little ball. What it does, it keeps the door slightly ajar. So when you think that you've shut your door, it actually won't connect the lock. Oh, I see. So this is such a big problem that police departments put this out on TV. Yeah, so you think your door is shut, but it's actually not. And the criminal can get in and run off.

Well, that's okay because don't forget they're always security guards. It was this, this Norman Ferris says it was the security guard trying to break into her room. That's why he wasn't there. Makes sense. But they do have security guards at the gates and they're very good at stopping intruders getting in and out just like they are. Yes. With this particular. At the gates is a great band, by the way. Oh, it is. Cool. Go ahead. Um,

Um, so that, yeah. So the security guards are supposed to stop you, but even if you're a thief, potentially like this guy on the scooter, he's just a delivery dude. I'm just, I said potentially, cause I'm showing you an, an action thing. Yeah. They just get away anyway. Yeah, exactly. And you know what actually usually happens? The criminals, they just pay the security guards and the security guards literally tell them when people are at home.

Dude, worst thing happened. A good friend of mine who's teaching English and he's from America, from Nebraska, and he came to Shenzhen and he was very professional. He

He started to teach, you know, private lessons to children. And he got this whole group together with all the mothers and stuff. And he would give them their report cards. And he did a very professional job. And he actually focused on the Koreans that were living in China. So that entire group all hired him. And he worked his ass off, like, you know, working weekends because he really wanted to save up to pay off his student debt. Yeah, that's what we usually do when we teach abroad. Yeah. So he's busy, you know.

working his arse off day in, day out. He saves up all this cash, kept it in his house. Oh. Okay? And he thought he was smart. He like hid it in his shoes and stuff, whatever. Like he did that. And some guys climbed up through the window. I don't know how they got wind of this, but they got wind of they must have money or that foreigners were living there. They found every single... He lost like something like 80,000 RMB. Oh my God.

They took it all. 12 grand. Yeah. They took it all, put it in a backpack. That was literally like a year of his work or something, you know? Put it in his backpack. They went down the elevators. It's all on camera. You see them in a backpack down, get out of there. Nothing. All done. It was devastating. That sucks. Yeah. Can we make Oh My Chocolato a soundbite? We should. That's such a good one. Yeah. Please make a note of that. What is it time for? I said it came up. It's time for what? I think it's Bollard Report. Oh. Report.

What do we got? Oh, we got one of these. I'll get us out of here. So bollards are these things that they're putting up to stop people from murdering everyone because people are driving around trying to kill everyone. Here's a bollard right here. That's what they look like. They're putting them everywhere. Yes. Right? Unfortunately, they're spending all that state money. And by the way, just for all you dictator worshippers out there because you think that dictatorships get shit done.

What they do is they put a million bollards everywhere, but they don't fix the roads. So have a look at this road. Okay, I'll have to rewind a little bit. I love the bollard report intro. Okay, I'll get us out of here. Yeah, here it comes. Bollard. Bollard. Okay. Yeah, that guy made it. He made it. He's probably the only one. This one's like, no, ouch.

That's gotta suck. I mean, look at that fricking road, the bollard road. I love the random bollard. Yeah. The random bollard. There's two. Yeah. Okay. What do we got? Oh, they made it. They made it. Did they make it? Oh, something ain't right. Nope. They didn't make it. Hmm. Almost. Almost.

It's pretty irresponsible to not even have a sign up there to say, watch out for the... They don't give a shit about the people there. True. Probably happy if they die. Yeah, yeah. They don't need to worry about them. Yeah. Is he going to make it? This guy does. How about this one?

Nope. Bam. This sucks. Yeah, dude. Like as a, as a motorcycle rider, this sucks. This makes me angry. Oh, here's another bollard report. There's no bollard. I just thought it was too funny. Yeah. She went backwards through the boom gate. Okay. So she, she went in the wrong area. That's for cars, not for the bikes. I think she realized the error of her ways though. Yes. Oh my shakalada. So what's she going to do? She's like, I'll do it properly this time.

Like an explosion. He has fireworks, yeah. Off you go. Nice. That's funny. Well, that's the bullet report. It was. What do you got, Worldview? Oh, yeah, Worldview. This is where we talk about everything specifically in the world, specifically with regards to China. Oh, what's this again? Get this pesky article out of here. It's an amazing article that I read this morning. Just reminding you, if you've just tuned in, I wrote an article for The Hill. So please go check it out. It's in the description.

You'll love it and you'll share it. You'll follow me, okay? Yeah. Can we get that? Yeah, yeah, we can get that. We'll get that before we do this. Where is it? Here. You'll follow me, okay? You'll follow me to share that article. Yeah, that'd be great. So do you remember we covered this a long time ago? Yeah. And this is a great follow-up. I love... Call me like a Freakonomics guy or like one of those John Stossel skeptics guys about like the efficiency of some of these projects, right? Yeah.

But China came up with this intelligent farming thing. And we showed you guys a bunch of clips of these propaganda things they did. And a farmer can dial in to his crops on his phone. Yeah, it's such nonsense. And so they don't have to be on the farm. And it helps with their aging. Because farmers are old in China. They don't make any money. So they'll be able to go, oh, with my 5G AI expertise. Yeah, where even is it? AI!

And my big data center. I can zoom in on my crops with my 8K camera. Mm-hmm. And then I can know, oh, I'll push this button. This will water them. Yeah. It's such drivel nonsense. The farmers in China are starving. Yeah. They don't have this technology. They don't even have an ox. They don't even have an ox. What they do... Mm-hmm.

is they picked token Potemkin Farms to unveil these smart projects. I mean, just look at this. Remember the tractor? Yeah, the stupid hydrogen-powered AI self-guided tractor. Guys, over here, this is what you're seeing here, is what happens when you have a 1970s sci-fi movie and they need to make a computer look interesting. Yes.

They just put lights that blink. This is the modern equivalent of this, right? Literally, you've got a stock footage of grass, a random drone shot of grass,

cotton fields or something stupid data that means nothing no it's just literally let's make this look busy and interesting let's make it look complicated correct it's a mug's eyeful it's a mug's eyeful so what i wanted to show you is the fruits of this because we showed you they were unveiling the propaganda of look at how like in the the propagandas the shows were run a while ago look at look at americans they don't even get taken care of by their government but china china china takes care of everyone yeah do you want to see what happens when they unveil the potemkin camera farms yeah let's take a look

I mean, what's going on here? How many are there? A lot. I can't even count them. So this is what happens in corruption. They get $10 million and they go, your area is going to get the grant. Film it. But they don't send the correct memo. They're not like, each town should get two or whatever. They go, here's all of them.

And they go, are you sure we're supposed to put all these up? One camera next to each crop? One camera next to each crop? Are you sure about that? I mean, it's like a forest of cameras for what? It's when you start to look up to one party states, this is what you get. You don't get real results. You get lies and you get propaganda. Yeah, this is incredibly inefficient. I mean, you've got just a forest of camera poles. They're basically growing cameras.

I mean, you have to supply power to them. Okay. So you're wasting all this energy. You have to run all the cabling. I mean, it's just like, it's disastrous. The area where you should be growing crops, you now have cameras. Let's be fair. None of these are hooked up to anything. You are true. This is literally who they are. You are true. This is absolute garbage. Look at this. This is such bullshit. It is. And this is what we're dealing with right now. When you hear people glazing China...

What they're talking about, they're buying into shit like this, and it just makes us feel like we're in a psych ward. Because we're like, you're glazing the country that does that? Yeah. You're high. Exactly. This is good. This is good. This is good U.S. government. Yeah, you know, like, there are a lot of things and a lot of choices that the American government's made recently, which I disagree with.

But they're, of course, things that I do disagree with. And I mean, that's the whole... I mean, you do agree with it. I mean, I do agree with it. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I do agree. This is one of them. You know, here's the thing. Here on The China Show, we criticize the Chinese government. Okay? We criticize their propaganda. We criticize what they do to the people. We criticize the shills and the soulless morons and useful idiots that work for the Chinese government.

That's what we do because we disagree with it because we actually love China. We love the Chinese people. And we don't want to see, number one, the Chinese people have the boot heel on their necks. And number two, we don't want to see the Chinese government steamroll the rest of the world, destroy the environment. With lies. Yeah. Lie about how much pollution they're putting out and how they're outfishing the seas and how they're actually destroying businesses around the world by using underhanded tactics and censoring everyone. So, you know, we're against that. And...

That's the attitude we have towards all government and leadership. We're not shy to criticize where we see issues. No, but we are also not shy to point out this was a small win, a big win, and a sea of bad. And that's what I'm saying. If the Chinese government was actually doing something good...

We pointed out. We pointed out. Yeah. You know? So here's something that the current American government's done that's very good. Change the State Department website sparks fiery rebuke from Beijing over Taiwanese independence. On the State Department website about Taiwan, right, they removed the line that says, we don't support Taiwanese independence, which is pretty wild. Yeah.

Pretty, pretty wild. That's great. Unless, of course, it's because they just want to say, because Taiwan's always been a part of China. They didn't write that. I'm just joking. So this is good. Just want to say congratulations. One good, awesome thing. One good, awesome thing. There have been some good things out of the American government, specifically with regards to South Africa. I like the things that the American government's done to help some, you know, downtrodden minorities. Yeah, exactly. But when it comes to this, yeah, it's a good thing. Anyway.

Continue. Let's do it. Just a couple more things here. We have a really good article. Definitely check this out. I'll read a quick excerpt from it. Please do. This is about everyone's glazing China's army all the time about how freaking amazing it is and how they're all ready to catch up to the U.S. and America's doomed. Yeah.

China is not ready for war, according to a contentious report from the U.S. think tank, which claims the main motivation for the ruling Communist Party's expansive push for military modernization is to retain its grip on power, not fight an overseas foe. And that's something we've been saying for, what, 10 years now? Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.

The PLA, this is a quote, the PLA remains fundamentally focused on upholding the CCP rule rather than preparing for war, wrote Timothy Heath, a longtime China expert with RAND. China's military modernization gains are designed first and foremost to bolster the appeal and credibility of CCP rule, making war unlikely. Do you know how I agree with that? How? Those cameras. Yeah. Is that not the perfect? Yeah, exactly. They're like, oh, we've got AI 5G farming. Meanwhile, you've just put a bunch of cameras in a field and called it a day. Yes.

Then I see that happening in military corruption in China, which is rife. Rife. How effective would those stupid cameras be? Even if they did work, how would you be like, okay, that one tree over there? I mean, what are you going to look at it and say like, hmm, yeah, it looks like the fruit's growing a bit.

Just walk in the field, dude. Just take a cursory glance. You know what I mean? The devil's advocate argument is be like, come on, see milk. Are you kidding me? Their efforts are going to put in the PLA is a lot different than they're going to put into some propaganda about cameras on farm, on the farm. However, yes, but no, because the Chinese government's corruption in the military is next level. It is. It's insane. Right. So I wouldn't be surprised if they were not up to snuff. Correct. Yeah.

what's this this is a psa psa um if you're seeing how people are making all these travel shield videos if you're traveling to china keep in mind thieves are everywhere yeah just some recent footage of what pickpocketing looks like so you can be aware of it just in case you're there so who's pickpocketing who uh keep an eye on the scooter um with the white bag hanging down there and let's see the guy oh i see he's wearing my hello kitty helmet yeah he is pink helmet guy just grabs the phone out of the pocket there done

Slick. He turns, he goes in the, he like, he walks in that direction and he's like, nah, I'm gonna go in the other direction. Yeah. And they won't catch him. He's got a mask on. No. Here's another thing. This guy's following this, these ladies. They walk up the stairs into this business establishment. Yep. He walks in and he actually has an accomplice. They usually do. Yeah. He goes and takes her stuff. Yeah.

successfully right as she goes to those uh the door turns around and his wife is there to take him away on the scooter yeah makes sense uh classic and common way i've stopped pickpockets in china before me too yeah i actually got chased to the knife my first i remember yeah we've got the stories you've probably heard them by now you don't hear them again uh

Looks like scooters and e-bikes are a common theme. Well, that's why they actually banned motorcycles in some of the big cities. One of the big reasons. So he just grabs it out the coat pocket. And you know what?

It's difficult to know because they use tweezers. Yeah, oftentimes. And this is relevant to anywhere you go where this could be a problem, by the way, not just China. Like those clips might as well be in some other areas. Yeah, they could be. Anyway, guys, it is time for a yumcha. That is our Q&A segment. It's a Friday. I hope everybody's had a reasonable week. Yes. And is looking forward to the weekend. So it's time to loosen the tie. If you're not watching us, you know...

or on the weekend, we bid you farewell. Stay awesome. Please consider joining us on our patreon.com slash jdvpodcast. We'd love that. I swear you're going to love it. It's the best time of the week. It's going to be great. It's fun. Yeah. Monday is going to be quite different. It's going to be a different one. It's going to be interesting. Mm-hmm.

Anyway, let's get straight to the Q&A. Charles Womack says, have you guys heard about eating bitterness in China? Yes, Chou Kuo. We've talked about it a lot. We have. Apparently, I made a video called China's New Cuisine, Eating Bitterness. Oh, really? Apparently, she is encouraging everyone to eat more bitterness. Where can I find some bitterness? I'm hungry. Go get a bitter melon. Get a bitter melon. Yeah. Bitter melon. Kugua. Get a kugua.

I withdraw that.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Every other opposition to the ANC won't get you anywhere. When the ANC, which is communist, runs the country and rigs all the elections and all that kind of stuff, what are you going to do? Yes. What are you going to do? Apparently we had a lot of bots today in the chat. We've seen a huge uptick in bots as part of an information warfare effort. Makes sense. I believe in China right now. So...

Don't pay attention to them. Yeah. And thank you for not being a bot. Yeah, thank you for being real. Yeah. We love the real ones. I just wanted to have a quick word with everybody out there, okay? A stern, stern word. All right. Don't bring the mood down. I'm bringing it down, okay? It's a stern word. Thank you very much to everybody who's been very cordial with me over the past couple of days, especially on X, Twitter. You know, I've made a couple of posts there recently.

just of my opinion about what's going on in a geopolitical scale. And although many people disagree with what I say, I wanted to say thank you to all the very civilized people who said things along the lines of, listen, I respect you, but I disagree with this. That's nice. And that's the way to deal with things. That's our audience. And I'm all for constructive criticism.

I'm very open-minded and I'm always willing to be proved wrong. It doesn't happen very often, unfortunately. But, you know, the occasional times where I have been proven, I wouldn't say wrong, but maybe slightly less right. Corrected, yeah. You know what I mean? I accept it. So I love that about our audience. I love the fact that even if we disagree on some very fundamental things, that we can still maintain a cordial sort of...

I agree. I love that about you guys. Yeah, exactly. You guys absolutely rule. Probably the most reasonable and moderate audience I've seen on the internet. Correct. I'm not even joking. Yeah. When I go and watch chats of other creators, it's a cesspool. I just, yeah, there's no... Not all of them. I really don't like it when things get out of hand. Yes. But what I will say is that when I watch your chat, when I watch CMI comments and stuff with the reasonable people that are real and not bots from China...

some of the most well thought out followers in the world. Thank you for being such an incredible audience. And regardless of what happens in the future and the way things go, you can always count on us to continue to be who we are. Yes. And to continue to stay the course. And I will say this, just like we'll fight for you and the truth. Yeah. We hope that you guys will stick up for us too. Yes. So thank you for having our backs as well.

Mr. Keyes says, 41 months as a member of JIO. What's up with the North Face? You mean like the jacket? I don't know. What is a North Face anyway? It's when you look up. You give me South Face right now? There's this one Christian kid at my school and he had a jacket that said the North Faith and it had a cross instead of the... His mom made him wear it. It wasn't his choice. Okay, it's not his choice. No.

It was weird to see counterfeit religious items. You know what I mean? It wasn't like some ripoff thing. That's the thing about America. They have those counterfeit religious songs. Oh, yeah. Mormon ones. Because they can't listen to secular music or whatever. Yeah, so they take a pop song and make it about the faith. There was a time for about a half a year

That I was obsessed with Mormon parody songs. Because it's such a weird mycopasm. I love it. They're funny. They're super funny. They're hilarious. Shout out to our Mormons. But they're fun. Yeah. And wholesome. Yes. Wholesome. Just funny. Shout out to our Mormons. Yes. Turd Ferguson, The Moon. Oh, yeah. I haven't heard The Moon in a while. Yeah, where is it? Haunter One. Yeah. Something about the Monkey King. I don't know. It's freaking. Oh, here we are.

Oh, Flatcap gets my vote for next year's Monkey King. Yeah, dude. No, what's it? Nathan. He's already done that, right? Yeah, yes. Nathan is the key there. Mythical Nomad, thank you for the memberships. Dragonella says, the Hippo Hub verse is growing. There's no way Flatcap won't get multiple hubbies if he keeps slaying like that. Fellow shills mason huffing at that. Oh, yes. Yes.

Oh, yeah. Here he goes. It's like Dustin Hoffman, Mason Huffman. Yeah, it's so funny. Dude, yeah, Hippo Hub has the Hippo Hubby section. It's interesting that it's growing. You know Hypnospace, right? Yes. It's that game from 2019 where it's like a fake internet iOS thing. Such a good game. Yeah, or OS. And it's got its own lore and background. I feel like Hippo Hub's going to become that. Yes, it will. You've created a very bizarre thing. It's interesting, yeah.

I feel like all, all HIPAA or all, uh, shills will end up on the hub. I think so. I think it's their one, like defining factor. It's something that brings them all together after they sip the broth. Yes. Yeah. Uh,

my Thai Chinese chef who didn't like a few of my coworkers because he said they're Fujinese. I never knew why, but now it makes sense. Haha. From world leader. Yeah. Now you get it. Chippy Wee. This guy once bought some Gucci shoes in China. The soul fell off the next day in the rain. Shout out to flat cap looking quite svelte in that costume. Just the most unflattering costume for that dude. I'm sorry. Poor guy.

It does suck. That's bad. I don't wish any bad on anybody, but I'm going to poke fun at when you're, when, I mean, it's kind of like, well, if it isn't, he kind of screws himself up with that flat cap. Yeah. The consequences of my own actions. I'm shilling for an authoritarian dictatorship that may punish me by dressing me up like a drag queen. I may or may not. That may not happen. I just wonder what they're going to make him do next. Well, he won't make a mistake next time. Yeah, yeah, exactly. He's been whipped into line, you know? Yes, yes, yes. Uh,

Oh, sorry. Dragonel says, oh, my enchilada compliment on hippo hubbies. Yeah. Oh, my enchilada. Yes. I thought it was oh, my shakalada. Yeah. It's the same thing. It's whatever you want. It can be whatever you want it to be. Yeah. Nick Brash says, shills are foreign mercs in global info wars. You know what? Yeah.

You are right. You are true. That's a very accurate description. You just got the handsome and true stamp from the China show. Wear it with pride. Yes, wear it with pride. Wear it with pride. What was that guy's name again? Galloway. George Galloway. Oh, no. Oh, no. To be the cat. That guy. Yes.

Oh, my Chacalado. Yeah. John Diamond says, you guys talked in the past about a horrible situation with distant water fishing fleets. It's getting even worse. Yes. We'd love you to see, do an episode on IUU fishing. On what? What's that? International fishing. Okay. I have two...

Pretty big videos on my channel. One of them is like how China is killing us all. Yeah. And the other one is, I can't remember. I think he's referring to those. If you, yeah, if you, if you want to look, I've covered it pretty extensively, but yes, it just gets worse. You know, it does. It does. Time is flying. Sorry. See milk long pig. Ah, yes.

It's just one of the biggest and one of the first fast food joints to open in China. Yeah. Western fast food joints. Correct. You're true. Also from Kerele. Sorry. It looks like they're farming CCTV cameras. No, you. Yeah, exactly. We're the Neon!

Anthony Sainz says, come on, guys. How can you see the new camera crop? How do you expect to propagate and make more camera? That's how they grow. We need ABP stuff. Oh, okay, yeah. Where's ABP? Here it is. I'll tell you what. I'm not going to say a thing, but I'll tell you what. Yeah, me too. I'll tell you what, boy. Yeah, I certainly didn't vote for the ABP, but they won. What do you mean? Yeah, let's just move on.

Haunter1 says, old tech with blue LEDs, the mug's eye full. Yes. Moon, please. You got a moon. Yeah, you know, that was part of our shop on home, things we hate. I really hate blue LEDs. Oh, yeah, because of that whole thing. Yeah, that makes sense. All the cheapest garbage, I slapped a blue LED to try to give it class. Yes.

to the tune of Baby Got Back from some Josh thing. I like big bollards and I cannot lie. You other woman can't deny. On the 22nd floor with an 8D view and all the shills you get irritate. Close enough, lol. Yes, that's very good. That's very good. I like that one, yeah. Good job. That's some epic lore, Josh. That was fantastic. Yep. Doc Slothington says, a gentle remark.

reminder to have a good weekend and prayers for dragonella to quickly recover from the plague oh yeah she got the plague so yeah absolutely get better soon we don't like to see you sick no what do they say in the in the community prayer pause is that what they say i think so yeah that's the thing right so when you pause for prayer you pause we we pause yes for the prayer that's what i meant yes jennifer marco says do you think china's military is as corrupt as russia's i yes absolutely

100%. Positively think so. If not more. Yes. H. Preciado says, $1 not even enough for a shit meal in Mexico right now. Inflation, eh? That sucks. Yep. Great Pontarch says, disagreement is part of the human experience. We love you goons either way. Exactly. And Winston and I, as we said before, we both have, in domestic politics...

We have differing viewpoints. Yeah. We disagree with each other all the time. Does that mean, and when I say that, I mean American politics. Does that mean we're not best friends? Absolutely not. I think it would be boring if we just agreed with each other because then it would just be an echo chamber of nonsense. It would. You know? It would. It was. It's good that, you know, I can prove you wrong all the time. It makes me feel better about myself. Nice. Just kidding, obviously. Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. YouTuber says do we have the clip with Richard from England? I don't know why we don't have that. We should why have we not made that? Let's put it in I think it's time to refresh the sound bites. You know, we have quite a few we haven't done Let's throw it sort of underused one on there. Yeah, okay an underused one. It's preposterous. There we go. It's preposterous

Oh, it is. Mark says nothing, but he gave us some money. Thank you very much. Thank you. Tentacle Bucket. Winton and Mott, you are true. The glazing of authoritarianism by Westerners is preposterous. You know what? Yeah. You get the you are true and handsome rubber stamp of approval. What can I...

You are. Great. Oh, yes. Yeah. There we go. That's good, too. I like that. Yeah. Alsterm Care, what watches do you have on, guys? I'm sorry. I'm going boring today. I got my Arabic Seiko 5. I have my Seiko Arnie 1984 Legitimate. You should have asked me last week. I had a cool watch on last week. I was wearing a... Moon watch? Moon swatch? Oh, how dare you?

What is it called? Moon Swatch. No, what is the brand? Moon Phase. It's like Christopher Ward. Christopher Ward Moon Phase. It's a nice watch. I was wearing that last week and you didn't ask me then. Maybe they weren't paying attention to watches last week. He always writes about watches. Oh, okay. James Bond says, too busy at work to watch. Have a great show. Starfish Hitler, please. We've got to wear a cooler watch next time. Oh, yeah, I can. Hitler! Hitler!

This is just like kind of my favorite watch, even though I prefer mechanical watches because this is an Anadigi. Yeah, this is like beater watch. They beat the shit out of it all the time. Yeah, but I just, I always loved the look of this watch. I think it's fantastic. It's like a really cool thing. And it's iconic and it's real. It's not one of those modern day takes on an old thing. It's a real one. Yes. Stemming on Rizness says, will the CCP stop the P...

What? I don't know. Pieda moms who exploit their kids on camera for money, the major problem they seem to have with child abuse and exploitation. Oh, yeah. I don't know. Oh, I see. They're writing a word. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I'm sorry. I didn't pick up on that. I don't know. I hope so. Yeah. Adam Khan says, cheers, please play Pig Bay. Oh, yes. Ah! Ah!

How many big bays? You never have too many big bays. Chippy Wisk says, do you know, Chippy Wisk, we say your name often? Because it rhymes with stuff. We say that in the office. You're like a go-to word. Yeah, it's true. Chippy Wisk, an old fan of the show. I was wondering who would like to be the cat. Thanks. Oh, well, Galloway. Do we have to? Now would you like me to be the cat? It's done. Bachelor Survival.

Thank you very much. Ginger snaps, quick story on your favorite worst time traveling that wasn't on camera or has it been talked about too much? You need to go to patron.com slash ADV podcast. We did a whole episode called worst travel stories. We didn't talk about on YouTube. Yeah, we did actually do that. Yeah. You want to go check it out?

Broken Cypher says, Hello, I'm a trans woman who's been living in Taiwan for five years. I'm happy to call Taiwan my home. Worried about Musk's conflict of interest and how it may affect my safety. Inflation's rough. Have a beer on me. I wouldn't worry too much if you're in Taiwan. Very tolerant place. Very welcoming people. I'd say you're probably one of the best places in the world for that.

Absolutely. Taiwan is great for just everybody. Yes. Wonderful place. It is. Love Taiwan. But I think, you know, legitimately the way things are going, got to watch out, you know. Yeah, for sure. Don't want China to invade. Yeah. Oh, from that perspective, yeah, but I think the writing will be on the wall. Yeah. I do think you'll get a warning ahead of time. So thank you for the beer. Appreciate it. Paul Sankin's box, since she gave us NT, we'll use the NT to buy Taiwan beer.

Oh, that sounds good. I'm boxed. Box, please. I just did. Okay. Now it won't bother me anymore. We had a very, very, very generous donation. I just wanted to shout out to Folesify with the cheers. Thank you very, very much. We appreciate that more than you would know. Definitely, especially right now. If you read the article, you'll understand them. You'll understand them a little better. Please share it out. Yeah. And read it yourself. Excellent. We'll see you on Monday.

Thank you. I just wanted to say again, thank you to our audience for being so fantastic and taking part of this very important conversation we have every week. Honestly, have a fantastic weekend. We can't wait to see you next week. Stay awesome. And don't dress up in Peking opera makeup and all that if you look like Flat Cat McDonald's. I believe that was Chengdu Opera. Oh, was it? Yeah.

You sure? Yeah. I don't mean to say it doesn't really matter. Okay, let's go. I'm not going to cut myself off this time.