China Unable to Cope with Tariffs - Burning Factories Down Instead - Episode #262
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Welcome everybody to episode 262 of The China Show, The Real China Show. 262 is the area code for? Wisconsin! Well, part of Wisconsin. Okay. So shout out if you're in the chat or down below in the comments, let us know if you're watching from there. Big props to you.

Yeah, I heard about cheese from there. Is it good? It is, yeah. Do you ever eat cheese curds? Eating your curds and whey? No, no. Oh, yeah, I have heard of cheese curds. I think I gave them to you before. That's a Wisconsin thing. They kind of squeak when you eat them. Yeah, I like them. They're mad good, actually. Yeah, they're very good. I'll get some after the show. Oh, nice. Fantastic. Anyway, we've got to get into the show because it's quite the show today. Of course, we're going to saunter into it with what's new.

where we talk about everything that's new, specifically with regards to China. It's equal to what's old.

What's happening here? This is what happens when they're going to bulldoze your house in China because you don't own the land and you don't own your house. You don't own anything in China. Yeah, I'll take it back. So it's very important to understand that when you say, I don't want you to bulldoze my land, the CCP will send in something called Chengguan and they'll send in police officers. And what they'll do is they'll say, all right, you got whatever, a day to leave. You say, no, this is my home.

They're like, no, we're going to build a government building here. We're going to build a highway through here. We're going to build whatever. You say no, they physically remove you and throw you in jail. Now, there's a little bit of disinformation that goes around because you've seen those classic pictures of what are called nail houses. You'll see those stories about, oh, a couple in China didn't want to sell their house, so they built a highway around it. And it makes you think like people actually have...

Rights. You know, rights. And they actually can, like, have rights to those lands. But it's actually not true. There's a reason why you don't see any new stories about this. That was something that happened in the past. And it was due to rural farm collectives.

Because in China, nobody's allowed to own the land. The government owns all land, but rural farm collectives can own land as well, at least to some degree. And it was people that were part of those rural farm collectives that refused to sell their or refused to move out of their parcels.

And that's why they stayed. But that's gone now. They've written that out of law. You can't do that anymore. So you'll never see that again. More entertaining is when the villagers will get huge hordes of fireworks and actually battle like bulldozers. Yes. It's pretty epic. We've actually done a whole episode. Yeah, we have. Anyway, let's continue. This we thought was quite hilarious. And hilarious because we've been in this exact situation before. Like a hundred times. Yeah. What's that?

What's happening? Well, what's happening here is this guy's tired of getting stuck in traffic because you've got people coming the wrong way on the other side, blocking traffic. He's obviously just had it. He's had it with the stop and go. He's completely stuck all the time. He's like, okay, that's it. I'm just going to go off the road and go around this. I'm going to figure out what's going on here. I think we've all had that fantasy. Yeah. You're stuck in traffic. You're like, what's holding this up? Yeah. Let me get to the front of this. Yes. Let's just figure it out. I'm getting off the road here.

This is the way. Yes. And he's just, all right. Turn it down. Maybe this music's... Oh, it's maybe copyrighted. He's like, oh, look, it's just a pile of dirt. I think, look, other people have gone over it already. Yeah.

But you see how people have doubled up on that side as well? Oh, I see. Yeah, they've blocked. So there's only one lane now. Yeah, and you see up ahead, they'd also double... Look, they've all come in this lane as well. Yeah, so no one can go the right direction. It's just... Yeah, now he can't even go in his own lane if he wanted to because the cars are all coming on that side. So he's like, okay, round two. Kind of based. Yeah. Kind of based. Usually I don't like when people break the rules because it causes these problems, but the people that broke the rules caused this problem. Mm-hmm.

We used to on motorcycle we were on motorcycles so we could do this in China We could go around by getting off the road. Yeah, everyone else is through. Yeah Yeah, look at out. Yeah, he's had it. You know you you get angry, right? Yeah, I mean just take a look at all the cars though in his lane man I think you really broke something there. He's mad. Yeah. Yeah, he's just like that's enough Yeah, I found the end of it, but I guess now he can't get back on because there's a huge Ridge. Oh, yeah, I

So he's looking for an opportunity to get back on. Oh man, we've got such a good companion to this. Did you put the sleeping one in? I think it's later. Okay, later. Yeah, we got such a brilliant companion to this video. We'll show you guys, hopefully later in the episode. Look, he finally found a place where he can get back on over here. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Off he goes. Freedom! Freedom. You know, these things could be avoided. What on earth is happening here? I want you to tell me.

Can you try and explain? It's qigong, or it's basically when older middle-aged people get together in the park to do exercises, they usually follow a trend. Oh, hang on. Don't look. No, we don't want to lose. Don't look. So they follow a trend, and you'll usually get like a leader who's like a master, and he will tell the others, like, look, this is a very good exercise to do, and then everybody follows him. And I sometimes think they just make things up.

I think almost every time. They're just like, if you bend in this way, it's going to improve your chi or whatever. Well, that's how you get the ball punchers, dude. There's a whole mystical Chinese martial art of punching yourself in the balls, not other people. Yes, yourself. And so they go like this. They put on these robes and they go, and they smack themselves in the balls. And they actually have masters and people will go and pay and live with the master to learn ball smacking. Yeah.

Then it progresses into ball swinging where they actually tie weights and people to balls and then they swing them. It's ridiculous. I don't get it. I did a whole video on it. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Anyway, this is just one of those things. But now the next thing might be a shocker. But when you buy street food in China, you got to know where this stuff is prepared, all right? You just got to know. So you can see this is a muddy tile floor. Okay, it's pretty gross. What's worse...

The guy is preparing. This looks like it could be a restaurant, by the way. He's got an apron on. There was a bit of a missed opportunity back there when I said ball smack. Oh, yes. Sorry. I'll just... Okay, go ahead. Continue. So anyway, this guy is cleaning the pork on the floor, but that's not the worst part. The worst part is it's actually in the bathroom next to the urinals. Yeah, the urinals. And it's so wet. Oh, I guess it's his...

Well, port is... You know, like he's using water to clean. It looks like actually it's... You know what he's doing? What? I can tell. What? He's putting the hose into intestines. Oh, to wash out all that. To wash them out. So that's actually shit coming out of there. It makes sense. But again, like when you look at the... Sorry. What is it that...

You know, the link between those two videos. Yeah, exactly. I'm sorry, but like this floor is pretty disgusting. Obviously, there's a lot of foot traffic in and out of this, and maybe it's raining or it's a muddy puddle or it's the garbage that he's washing. Or it's the shit coming out of the intestines. It's entirely possible, but you know, that's where your food in your restaurant or slash street food is being prepared, just so you know. Oftentimes, yes. Yes, obviously not all the time. Okay. Okay.

Maybe we should quickly talk about this. This recently, an interviewer went around to different sort of high schools in China. On Little Red Book. Yeah, Little Red Book. You know that one? The one, what's it? Red Note. The happy fun app where you're sharing cat stories and linking the two cultures of China and America together. Yeah, so they went to a bunch of middle schools, high schools, sorry, and asked these high school students, who do you think is China's biggest enemy right now?

Why are you asking kids that anyway? Yeah. Can you imagine going to an American school and being like, who's your biggest enemy right now? Yeah, to like kids. Yeah. Anyway, here are the answers. China's biggest enemy is definitely the U.S., you know, the United States of America.

Nice. This is on Little Red Book, by the way. This is what everybody gets to watch over here because, you know, they can. Before this is ever taken out of context, by the way, they're using the word 敌人 in Chinese, which literally means enemy. This isn't opponent.

Yes, this isn't like who's... Or current economic adversary. No, it's enemy. As in, you know... Wartime. Wartime enemy. Like the person that you kill on the other side. Like it's the Germans versus the UK. You know, in World War II. That type of thing. Who's the enemy? Yeah, it's America. Oh, that guy. That guy broke the train of thought. He's an outlier, yeah. He said Japan. That was the old enemy. Yeah, I have to say...

I'm getting a little sick and tired of this. I cannot stand this because I don't believe that you should treat people as your enemy unless they actually are. Like if they were attacking you and dropping bombs on your cities and stuff, yeah, they're your enemy. But let's face it. I don't teach my kid to hate Chinese people or to hate China because...

China's not I don't believe China's is well an enemy although their government definitely is acting like well Yeah, but how long do we have to sit here and take this where they're in your face? Teaching their kids teaching their entire nation that the United States is their enemy, but we treat them like friends When does it get to the point where they keep calling you an enemy where you actually turn around and call them an enemy back? When does that start happening?

It's not a good thing. It shouldn't happen. No, but I mean, when does the compassion stop? There always has to be compassion because that's what good guys do. When you act like the enemy, you do enemy things. And when you're the good guy, you don't act like an enemy. I know. You be the good guy. The people are not the enemy. These kids are certainly not the enemy. But that is certainly what the Chinese government is teaching them, right?

But right now, those kids think that American people are the enemy. They think America is the enemy. They're being taught that. And the entire nation... Yeah, in school. The entire nation thinks that. Wake up. Like, it's not... This is not about retaliation. This is about how to look at China. Mm.

From reality, right? China thinks you're the enemy. Chinese state media is now telling everyone in the world that they are the victim and that they're so oppressed and everyone's trying to bully them and everything. And all they want to do is cooperate and be friends. And they're not teaching their own people that. No, they're not teaching their own people to cooperate and be friends. No. They're teaching their own people to be nasty. They're prepping them. To attack, to hate. They're prepping them for wartime scenario. Yeah.

So according to Chinese high school students, and of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg. We've shown previously we showed the little middle school students and younger all being taught that America is the enemy. And, you know, remember those songs they're singing? Guys, China thinks America is the enemy. Every level of society now in China has been taught to hate America and to hate the people of the US. So you've got to wake up and you've got to realize that they think you're the enemy, whether you think they're the enemy or not.

Basically. Anyway, you know who's really an enemy? This guy. This manager. Yeah. Okay. So for those of you who may be listening to this for some odd reason and not watching, and I don't understand why you do that, there's a cubicle and it has an air conditioner. You know, one of those heat pump type air conditioners where you've got the unit outside that's got the condenser and the compressor. And then inside, of course, you've got the nice cool blowing breeze part of it, right? Yeah.

Now, the way this works, for those of you who don't know how air conditioning works, is it transfers the cool air out of this outside in using the gas exchange. And it basically takes the heat from inside the cubicle and transfers it out. So if you go near to that little condenser compressor thing, it's blowing really hot air. So it's actually making the surrounding area hot.

If anyone's ever walked past one of those things, wonder why it's blowing all this hot air. It's how energy works. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I'm oversimplifying it. Our audience isn't that dumb. There's a reason why I'm saying this, though, is because this is, you'll see, this is inside a factory floor where apparently, according to the people there, it was 40 degrees C.

which is what? 104 degrees Fahrenheit. 104 degrees Fahrenheit. So the people on the assembly line, you can see they've got standing fans, you know, those like useless standing fans trying to keep them cool while they're dying of heat, while their manager gets to sit in his little ice cubicle blowing hot air and making them all hotter. I think that's actually a poetic, it's a poetic analogy to how China runs, is that the government's

coddles and protects CCP officials that get to do everything and own everything and break every rule while everyone else is subject to these archaic and stifling laws. Yes, like the general populace. The Communist Party's laws. I mean, look at these poor people. They're sitting there working on an assembly line and in this oppressive heat, dying of heat stroke basically, and this annoying manager gets to sit in his little crew box.

Now if that's not a reason to like revolt, I don't know what is. You know, we have a lot of proof that this is potentially leading to that. But then burning these factories down. Yes, exactly. Okay. Play this uninterrupted. Okay, uninterrupted. We're just going to play it. Okay.

If you don't sleep, you'll snore when I fall asleep. You'll play like this, right?

I'd react in the same way. That would scare the shit out of you. Absolutely. Oh, it's time for COVID memories. It's a little segment that we have where we remind people that COVID was just around the corner, you know, in the past. Yeah. And in China, what they did was to stop the spread.

was to weld the people into their homes where they eventually some of them starved to death. Starved and burned to death. Yeah, burned to death. Sorry, I forgot that. Because they couldn't escape. Yeah. Just a good COVID memory. Just to always remind you where COVID came from and what China did in response to it. The most inhumane things in modern times. Traumatized the entire population of China.

And did these terrible things. But for some reason, people have now forgotten because Fauci or something. Yeah, or because the Chinese government made it kind of illegal to even talk about COVID anymore. Yeah. Because they want to pretend like it didn't happen. Yeah. So we just wanted to remind people this is what China got up to. Welding people in their own apartments. Anyone who ever thinks that China has a free society has to remember that.

What about this? Yeah, what about this? It's some sort of competition for like accounting. That is insane. It is actually insane skill, but it's also like... Can you pause it? Can you imagine that...

Your friend goes, I play basketball. Your other friend goes, I'm actually more of a swimmer. Your other friend goes, you know what? I'm not into sports, but I play chess. Your other friend goes, I'm wicked good on the calculator. Yeah. Yo, time me. And then they have a competition. Yeah. I mean, that's impressive either way. I got to say. It's kind of like, you know, when someone does a Rubik's Cube in like a few seconds or a split second or whatever. It's always very impressive. Not a skill I ever care to attain, but very impressive. Very, very impressive.

That is wild. Okay, what's going on here? So this guy, this is him watching security footage back. Yes. Okay, so this Chinese guy goes to the gym and he goes to report it to the security because he wants to review the security footage for... Because something went wrong. To explain what's about to happen, right? So he's watching himself. Right. He says, you don't need to pause it. Bro, I was just here doing stretches and then this girl, I don't know if WTF is wrong with her.

I don't even know who she is. She just came over and lifted up my legs and took me away. There's two ankles. I mean... Can we see it again? Yeah, that's actually really funny. Okay, all right. That's actually really funny. I'm sorry. What was he doing? You know what he was just trying to do though? What, just try to stretch? No, he was... What do you do in the gym?

And this woman, I don't know what's wrong with her. I don't even know her. But she came over and hugged my leg. And pushed me away.

I love the second angle. Yeah, I know. Can you imagine like, you're like, what's going on here? It's so good. Yeah. Look at this. This dude. Yeah. He's trying to get his food delivered, but he can't go down. He's working on a building. Yes. Tofu drag construction. So he used the crane to actually put his food on a hook. Yeah, on a piece of reed. Oh!

Oh, I fell? Oh, he dropped it. Oh, well. Oh, didn't we just have this? We got a replay? Is that just a reminder? Don't forget not to live in China. Okay. That's your reminder today. Anyway, time for a word, guys. Absolutely. From our really, really cool partner here.

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And thank you once again to AG1 for sponsoring this video. What do we got going on here? This guy definitely drinks his AG1. This guy, this come out guy. He stops his ball. Pretty impressive. That's very impressive. He's like, whatever. This is where we talk about how China is trying to change your mind specifically through propaganda, etc. And of course, we have to start out with good old Da Huo Peng Wang. Yes. And let's see what's going on. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Sick funk you got going on there. Oh, yeah. But first, buses. Whoa! All right, hold on. What's going on here? Buses. Okay. You know, it's very interesting how things seem to always happen in groups in China. And I mentioned this last week, but you see a bunch of things going wrong, and it always seems to be like, I don't know, this week,

Fire hydrants are all going to be broken. Next week, you know, I don't know, electricity fires are going to be high. We had buses, strangely enough, just catching fire around China. Bit of a tight public. Oh, yeah. Sorry about that. Sorry, it's just when you hit. You know when you hit something twice. Yeah, hit it twice, yeah. So what we're looking over here is April 30th, okay, just at the end of last month in Nanjing, we got this bus. That is loud. I'm sorry, that is super loud. Let me try to turn that down.

Okay Yeah, I know I know it's loud Now it would be kind of strange. It was just I mean it would be normal if it just be one bus catching on fire and Yeah, they do catch on fire This is something that happens fairly often in China You got EV buses catch on fire not only just the EV ones the normal ones do because they get they get really Abused I think it's the right word

If you've ever lived in southern China, you know those buses, they're running 24/7. It's very hot and humid. And they're running the AC all the time and they're just non-stop in that heat and of course, fires break out. Anyway, so this is the Nanjing bus and then a day or two later... Let's see if we can get past over here.

As far as I know, there were no... I actually have PTSD about those horns. Yeah, from the noise. Yeah, okay. Sorry, take a look at all the people walking down the side of the road. This is May 1st in Yunnan. Okay, so far away from Nanjing. You're like, why are all these people walking on the side of the road? What's going on here? You know? Is it a marathon? No, just their bus caught fire. Walking on the highway marathon. Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? Yes. No, no, their bus caught fire. So, yeah.

Just saying it's...

that bus fires seem to be all close. So there were a couple of others, but, you know, for the sake of brevity, I decided we'd cut to the chase. I promise we'll get to the factory stuff because that's all intentional and that's like kind of end of days for country type of behavior. Yes. Buses are not. We wanted to catch you up on this. I also wanted to tell you about buses for a second. Sure. They are terrifying in China. A lot of people carry puke bags with them because they drive absolutely insane. But those specific air horns, and I think I've told this story before, but...

Everyone was asleep on the bus and the windows were open instead of using the AC. It was dead of summer. It was so freaking hot. And I was just sitting there already car sick as hell. Yeah. And I'm sitting there, it's weaving around traffic and stuff. And it laid on that emergency air horn. Yeah. Which is normal, by the way. Which is normal. All of them have this. And it was so loud. It actually hurt. Like, you know when your ear hurts? It actually hurt my ear, right? Yeah. And I look around.

And everyone is still sleeping. It was like jarring to where you feel it in your body. Yeah. And your heart like jumps out of your chest. Yes, it's a crazy air horn. Yes, and I looked over at my wife and she was still asleep. And I go, what is wrong with you? And no one woke up. You have to build up a tolerance for this stuff apparently. But yeah, it's... If you have...

sensitivity to noises, China's not the place for you. Anyway, now let's get on to the actual factory things. This is the main topic of today's episode. We've seen another rash of factory fires, but it's kind of crazy. Let's take a quick look. So May 2nd, a couple of days ago. Yes. In Haining in Zhejiang.

This Xinjiang, sorry, Tianjiang industrial zone caught fire. And what is... It's a big industrial zone. Yeah. Can you just read off some of the products that are made in this area? So first of all, just quickly. Yes. This was most likely intentional. Yes. Due to either wage disputes. Yes, wage. Here's the thing. Lots of people have not been paid wages recently. And that's because of the economic downturn with the tariffs. A lot of product can't be shipped out anymore. So the bosses are trying to delay payment because they want to have cash flow. So they're not paying their staff.

So before we get into that real quick, I just want people to have some mental perspective. If a factory was arsoned on purpose in the US or wherever you're from, do you not think it would make major news? It would. We're about to show you a lot of intentional destruction, anarchic behavior from Chinese people that are fed up because thousands, if not millions of people right now in China are not getting paid. That's right. The tariffs are hurting super hard.

And the Chinese government is already facing serious economic downturn. In fact, there's a huge bank scandal right now. It started last year. Anyway, this particular industrial zone is massive. So this was set on fire from what people are saying. And they're saying that this was probably intentional. LED tubes, fixtures, halogen bulbs, decorative bulbs, fluorescent lamps, paddle boards, etc.

Gym mats, yoga mats. I don't know why I just emphasized that. Yoga mats? Yeah, it's because it's your specialty. You love yoga. I'm very flexible. Yeah, exactly. Rubber metal dampers. Knitting specialty yarns and different colored yarns. Wow. Petrochemicals, biomedicines, new energy and new materials. What we're trying to get at here is...

Xinjiang makes everything. Yes. Inside this industrial zone, yeah, they make pretty much everything. What else? They make flat, like they're a big producer of all the fabric that's used to make flags, like international flags and Chinese flags. Banner fabric, display fabric, backlight fabric, PVC. PVC.

Textiles, all that kind of stuff. Tarps. And this particular area is known for its leather industry. It's actually the biggest leather industry in China. Yeah. It's up in flames, potentially. Textile fabrics, lamination stuff, synthetic leather, like PU leather. Yeah. You know, that fake stuff you get, like it's like imitation leather or whatever. Yes, exactly. And then advertising materials. So like this kind of stuff is potentially up in flames here.

Yeah. Xinjiang Industrial Zone and Zhejiang in general, this whole province, is one of China's biggest manufacturing hubs. Yeah. It's also one of the wealthiest areas. So if they're not getting paid, there's a big problem. Yeah. You're not going to see stories coming from the interior. No. Same day in Nanning in Guangxi. Yeah.

Okay, what happened here in this Pinglu Industrial Park? It was a plastic packaging factory. Yes. So this is crazy. This is what's making all the stuff that comes in packages. Yeah, exactly. So what happened here was the guy, some worker got hurt. This is according to netizens. He got injured on the job. He's been pulled, by the way. Yeah, as they all do.

And you'll see why. We're actually going to show you like in real time how this stuff gets pulled shortly. So this guy got a workplace injury, which is very common in China because, you know, workplace safety is never adhered to ever. In fact, I used to do work at a hospital in Shajing in Shenzhen, which specialized in hand injuries.

This whole big hospital. It was like a hand hospital. Yeah, it was a hand hospital just for hands. And that's because there were many factories in that area and people would get like their fingers or their hands mangled or their fingers cut off or whatever because they're working with machinery. You took me there. I remember we looked outside and the people lined up outside the hospital all had masks.

mangled hands i was like what that they're sitting in the street yeah i know and i used to work inside the hospital and the horrors the horrors that i've seen i saw it on the street there's something about a mangled hand because you can relate it's very relatable everyone's got a hand yeah exactly when you're like hands shouldn't be in that position not all of us have ears yeah exactly but you don't see your ears but you see your hand every day every and you use it so much yeah right

So anyway, look, when it comes to workplace injuries, unfortunately, um, there's very little importance placed on the workers in China. And so they get workplace injuries. This guy was injured at work at this factory. The boss refused to pay him compensation, you know, for his injury. So he set the place on fire. Yeah. Remember in China, your life is only worth something if you are a CCP official or if you are incredibly rich. Yeah. Um,

If you are not just a blue-collar worker, anyone else... Pretty much anyone. In Chinese, it's called laobaixing. Yes. Laobaixing means old 100 names. Yes. And what that actually means is just the average person. Laobaixing, the average person in China, suffers so immensely. Yeah. It's at the hands of the Chinese government and at the hands of their tyrants, like these factory directors. Correct. So, yeah, he set this place on fire.

In this industrial park as well in Nanning. Exactly. Costing millions and millions of dollars worth of damage just because the boss was too cheap to pay like a couple hundred dollars for his thing. Okay. This is on May 3rd in Jinan, Shandong. We have another factory fire. And what is made here? So this area makes industrial trucks, steel products, tons of steel parts, CNC machines, pet food machines. And what that means is like pet food, like the machinery used to make pet food.

Yeah, so it'll be... Not like an auto feeder. Yeah, no, not an auto feeder. So it'll cut the little cubes or whatever. You put the, I don't know, feed in there, whatever you'd call it, and it chops it up and compresses it, yeah? Actually, also the snack food machinery. Can you pause it there? I just want to...

I'm trying to wrap my head around this. Yeah. You have now shown me three major industrial parks of China. Yeah. That doesn't, this just doesn't just affect China. Like, Oh, let's say you just tuned in. You're like, Oh, China's a far away place. Yeah. This is the plate, the places and the industrial parks that make your stuff. That's right. Making your stuff. And in fact, one of these was a big American partnership thing. Yeah. Um,

It's just crazy for me to wrap my head around the idea that I'm watching huge industrial zones go up in flames on purpose and nobody on the news or anywhere is talking about this. Yeah, I mean, just the amount of arson. And I'm sorry, but if you had even one McDonald's or something burned down, like something in a neighborhood, it would make the news. Times that by 10,000. Yeah. And we're not talking about a McDonald's. We're talking about a place that is making everything.

for the world. Yeah, you know, this is real footage. This is not AI manipulated. This is no green screen. There's nothing like... This is real footage that Chinese people are filming and getting out of China. This is the real deal. This is happening all over China. These different places we've just named...

are literally across the entire map. So again, it's not a concentrated area where there's an incident happening. It's not like the LA riots that only happened in LA. Sure. This is countrywide. The factories are being set on fire and burning down. Yeah, and it's not like, oh, oops, we had a little accident. No, this is major damage. We need to take this down. That's like that kind of thing.

Exactly. Absolutely insane. So huge. Jinan is massive industrial. We've both been there. Very huge industrial area. I had a friend who lives there. Very uncomfortable city. And I'll tell you why. Shandong is, Qingdao is right next, fairly close to it. And that's on the coast and it's got four seasons. It's mild weather and everything. And Jinan, even though it's in Northern China, it's bitter cold in the winter and freaking hot in the summer. It's so hot. Yeah. So what have we got next on the list?

Next, we got on May 6th, there's a baisa in Guangxi. Yes. All the way down south. May 6th, yeah. So, yeah. Again, this is a supply depot that caught fire. So not a factory, but a supply depot. So this is where all the supplies go and get picked up. So if you need to go...

If you need to go get your aluminum pipes and you need to get your building materials, that type of thing, you'll go here. So this is, you know, another big arson and it's a huge thing to burn down because everybody's going there to get their building materials or whatever they need. Yeah, and most likely this is aluminum production. Yeah. Because...

Weisse in Guangxi is known for being one of China's biggest aluminum production hubs, not just in the ore mines, which they do have, but also in the final production as well. So that probably was related to aluminum production. Yeah, in some way or the other. But there you can see all the material shops where people go pick up this and that and the next thing for their construction projects or whatever is happening. Or it gets shipped out. The fact that every week we have something to show you with this, it's like...

I mean, why is this not ringing alarm bells globally? Like it's unrest in China right now, but everyone somehow seems to think that China's got everything on lockdown and like everything's figured out and it's living in the future or something. And the people are revolting. Yeah. It's nuts. Yeah. You know who's really revolting is the government. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

From that perspective, yes. Okay. I agree with you. So now here you've got something that happened yesterday. An oil tanker in Henan on fire in the road. And I mean, that's probably just an accident, but it's another big thing. I'm pretty sure if an oil tanker... Well, it was fire-related. Yeah, exactly. If an oil tanker exploded on the streets of...

or something, you'd know about it. We would. Yeah. It's pretty big. It's a pretty big deal, right? Again, economically and for the future of the world is not a big deal, but it was fire-related. Yeah, you know. I just threw it in there. Here's the thing, though. You're about to see why this stuff is so insidious in a minute. The most important clip of this entire show is about to come up. Yeah.

And you'll also see why you don't hear about these things most of the time. And in a way, it's directly connected to us. It's directly connected to what we do. Yeah. Because they're trying to prevent this kind of stuff getting out to people like us. Yeah. We'll put it online and show people what's really happening. For the benefit of the Chinese people, they're trying to get their voices out just like your woman you're about to see. Yep. Will explain a lot, won't he? Yes, he will.

Give us a thumbs up, by the way, on the video if you're enjoying the stream. If you want to support us, it helps get it to more people's eyes. Yeah. Click like. It's free. Yeah, exactly. Don't click like for what you're seeing. No. Click like for the whole show experience. Yes, exactly.

Should have said click like on maybe one of the funny clips. Probably, but it's fine. Not flaming records. You say like if you've got a fiery spirit. If you've got a fire in your heart and you want to release the fire. Yeah, exactly. Burn the like button, please. Hopefully this video spreads like wildfire. That was terrible. Sorry. I apologize. That's actually, yeah. I apologize for making a bad joke. It's fine. No one died in this incident, so it's okay. Okay. Yeah.

It's going on pretty long, isn't it? It is. It's really interesting how long this is going on. I guess that's what happens when you set fire to oil. Yeah, we could speed it up. It's possible. It is possible. We do have the technology. But it's okay, because it's now beyond the grapevine. Ah, here we are. Now is the important clip. Pay attention to this one. Okay, so I think we should just play this without stopping and without commenting. And we'll explain it, yeah. Should we get ourselves out of here? Yeah, yeah, play it first. Okay, watch this, guys. Super important. This is very important. What?

I've already entered the house, I'll see how many people are in control I'm a warm-hearted citizen Look at the fire that's so big And then? After I got here, I was the first to call the police Did you see that? It's a big fire. I'll record a video first

See how big the fire is. Then I called 911. The fireman asked me to take a video and send it to him. Because the fire was too big. Then I came and someone told me not to take a video. Then I said the fire was under control.

How can we control the fire? And they asked me which village I was in. I was a warm-hearted citizen. I just hit this 19. I just hit a 19. The fire was so big. They even told me that the fire was controlled. They even told me that the personnel had gone. They even asked me which village I was in. They were still questioning which village I was in. Oh my god. The fire was so big. They didn't let me hit 19. They were worried about being punished. They even asked me which village I was in. Oh my god. The fire was so big. They were worried about the sand on their heads.

Okay, I'll go back. So we don't... Yeah, you don't have to... I'll get to the part. I'll get to the part, yeah. Okay.

Okay. So this is very interesting and important to explain. So what happened here is this woman found a fire, right? She obviously wanted to report it. Well, she saw this massive fire, yeah. I'm just translating directly in Chinese. Anyway, she finds this big fire and she calls 119, which is the emergency department. Yeah, that's the fire department. Yeah. So the firefighters are like, oh, crap, like send me your location. Send me a video. And we'll be there.

So she does this, but there is a guy there, which I'll explain to you what he most likely is. We've come to the conclusion. Yeah, the ones that are blurred out here, by the way, because she'd get into trouble if she showed who it was. Yes.

She's flabbergasted when they tell her to stop filming, that everything's already been taken care of. The firefighters are already dealing with this currently. Yeah, but there's no firefighters there. There's no firefighters there. And then started to ask her, tried to ID her. Yeah, what village are you from? You know, where are you from? To try to find out how to find her later and punish her later. Because what's happening here is...

She is not supposed to be filming any sort of disaster. She should not be reporting that there's a fire. Not even just filming reporting. You can't report. She can't do the right thing and call the police or the fire department. Because what that does is it gets the CCP officials of the town or the city in trouble. Because in China, if you have a disaster, you get punished for it. You actually get fined. Yes. Your local village...

So, you know, you've got your local governments, right? It's all part of the central government. It's the same government, but it's like a branch, right? So there, in the village, you've got your CCP officials who are in charge of that village. If your village has a natural disaster of some kind or some kind of a disaster like a fire, you get a fine from the central government. They will actually penalize you. We may tend to look bad. Yeah, because you allowed a disaster or something. So what they try to do is suppress any kind of disaster. Okay.

And I mean, you can understand how bad this gets. If there's a flood, if people die because of disease, if there's anything that happens, they don't allow the news to get out because that means they will get into trouble with the central government. And therefore, the problem is never rectified. That's how you get villages where every man, woman, and child has cancer because of pollution and runoff from said factory. People can't do anything about it because if they bring it up with the government, which they are legally allowed to do, they get shut down and punished in silence. So she is going to get...

punished for reporting a fire which could spread and kill people. Yeah, and I mean burned our whole village down. And that's the thing. You don't just leave a big fire like that burning because it's out in the rural areas, you know. The wind picks up or anything, it's going to just keep going, wipe out farms. Yeah, so the focus is not

oh, wow, the CCP fines villages and towns and cities for having disasters. The focus is the outcome of that. It's the product of that. Censorship of people trying to do the right thing. Right. So you end up in a situation where China burns down. China has all these horrific problems. They get swept under the rug and then they get rid of the people that try to bring it to people's attention. And this can be seen perfectly in a social credit system.

Social credit system in China punishing people for doing behaviors that the government doesn't like right they remove your social credit points And then you can't send your kids to school and things like that right insane stuff like literal black mirror Why do you think any? Videos coming out of China and I'm talking Xia Hong Shu and of course YouTube if you've got a foreigner or any Chinese person or whatever within China posting onto social media what about platform tick-tock why do you think it's all positive and

Why do you think you don't see any criticism of the Chinese government coming out of China? Because of this. Because you're not allowed to. And the people that tried to do it get stopped, censored, and disappeared. Correct. So like what we're saying with the social credit system, you are technically in the constitution in China allowed to petition the central government in Beijing. Technically in the constitution, you're allowed to say, I have this grievance, go to the hall of the people. That's a communist government, right? Copy the Soviet Union. Exactly.

But the Chinese government hates when people do that. Yeah. And they actually want to get rid of people that do that because you're not allowed to have any dissent in China. Yeah. So what they do is the local governments will actually take away your social credit points if you go to Beijing to petition a problem. So even though it's in the constitution that you can do that, you actually legally get into trouble in China if you do it.

Yeah, well, just like we showed you, what was it last week where they just pull out the... You're allowed to have your grievances, but no, they'll go and pull out these big tarps to block you so people can't see you. They just censor you. And just like this, they censor the disasters. They do not allow news...

of these fires or so on to get out. And you know what? They will just remove it off social media. Yeah. Like if people post this stuff, it gets removed and the people get punished. Yeah. I was going to say the thing that people don't focus on is the aftermath because you don't get to see a follow-up after this. Nope. And if you do, it's not going to be a follow-up about this. It'll be a long time later. And then the woman or whoever is dealing with the situation will be like, oh, anyway, so, because she'll be, she'll get visited by the police. The police will say, don't ever do something like this again. Yes. Let her off with,

some sort of punishment, or you'll never hear from her again in all her social media. Depends on how viral it goes. Depends on how big it is. So this is kind of a great little window into why you don't see that much anything negative about China, really, because you can't. You can't do it.

Yeah, that's why we're one of the very few sources that can openly criticize the Chinese government because we don't live in China anymore. That's one of the main reasons why we had to leave China is so that we could openly criticize the Chinese government because living in China, you're not allowed to criticize the government or society at all. You can't say one bad thing. Nope, absolutely not. If it's not positive and glowing and glazing, then it's not allowed. It's not.

Anybody that's giving big ups and props to the Chinese government, show them this segment. It's as simple as that. Do you want this in your country? Yep. I don't think so. No, definitely not. So we have a bonus fire, by the way. Happy Valley theme park in Shanghai, Huanlegu. You've been to Huanlegu, right? I mean, I went to the one in Shenzhen a few times. It's like a theme park. It's got water slides and...

you know roller coasters and also this can be quite dangerous well it's made of very poor material I mean there have been deaths in some of these yeah we did a whole thing we did yeah remember anyway let's move on on our patron yes so this happened on May the 3rd

Random fire, you know, one of the attractions or part of the... It's like Disneyland. Let's say you're walking in Disneyland and, I don't know, the House of Snow White or something catches fire. Yeah. You know? I'm sure, you know. Something like that. I mean, I'm saying this happens. Yeah, of course it happens, yeah. China does tend to have quite a few more of these things happening all the time. Correct, correct. Yeah.

That was your bonus fire? Yeah, that's a bonus fire. Just thought I'd throw that in there. Look, there were many more fires, but it's getting a bit much, and I'm worried about people getting fire fatigue. Yeah, seriously. Yeah, you know? Yeah.

Maybe they thought it was part of the fireworks or something. Maybe. There was that one. Oh, yes. The whole place went up and people thought it was part of the presentation. We'll show that. Okay, how about we show that as a bonus next time? Because I promise you guys, next week's not going to be a bunch of fires. Because even if there are more fires, we'll mention them, but we won't show them all. Because we've got to focus on other things. Yes, we've got a lot of things to focus on.

Alright, we get the idea. Yeah, I know. We get the idea. We do. We do. Is this like repeating itself? I think so. That's enough. No, look, it's spreading now. Oh, it's spreading. It's getting bigger. We're watching the fire get bigger. Yeah. You know, so that's what you do. Yeah. Okay, what's this? Let's just watch what happens. Okay, well, you can see a scooter rammed into her leg, right? Yes. A delivery bike, yeah. It's like, oh man, that's gonna hurt. And it hurts. It's like, oh, sorry about that. Sorry about your cough over there.

I'm not talking about the cow. That's a one, two. I call this double kill. Double kill? Because you got the... Can you play that all together? Okay, I will. I'm so... No, it's not your fault. Just I want to see that. No more of this Shanghai fire. I don't want to see this ever again. Yeah, we're done with this Shanghai. Get out of here. Happy Valley Fire. It's not very happy. I'm tired of it. I am fatigued of this clip. Me too. It's too long. Here we go. Okay. One. Oh, no. Is your shin okay? Okay.

How about your knee? You good? Like, oh, that's got to hurt. How about this? That is uppercut. It's kind of brutal. You know what it is? The scooter goes like... Scooter uppercut. Pause that. You know what that needs? What? I think it might be related to Roberts. You think so? Yeah, it should have. You know, if we had audio. Okay, yeah. I'll... Watch it. It's like...

I'll try to pause it. Pause it there. And you know what? Yeah, okay. I'll find it, of course. It might have AI in it, like AI Roberts. Yes, and it's getting revenge. And it's getting revenge. I bet if we tracked down the audio, it probably would have that in there. You're probably right. They all seem to say the same thing. They do. Slap of Gander time, guys. You know what?

We forgot to mention, but May Day holidays kicked off last week. This is huge in China. There's one unfortunate thing about holidays in China is that they aren't really staggered. And by that, I mean...

You know, people only get time off when the government says you get time off. So you're kind of used to in the Western country, you build up your weeks of holiday with your company. Right. So you'll be like, OK, maybe you get two weeks a year or something and you can work out your vacation and then you apply for leave at your company. And they're like, OK, you can go for your family holiday in June or whatever. You figure it out. Right. Right.

But in China, it doesn't work that way because, you know, it's brutal. People have to work like crazy all the time. You're stuck in a job. The competition is so high. If you even try to take a luxury of a week off sometime, somebody else will take your job. That's how it is. So everyone works, and it's only when there's a national holiday where companies are forced to not stay open. There's a billion people there. Yeah. But then that's when people go on holiday. So they all go at the same time. Want to see what a billion people looks like? Well, pretty much because, you know, this was –

This is right near, I've been through this specific choke point a couple of times. Only a million times. Yeah, a million, million times. But, you know, let's all go on a holiday. That sounds like a great idea. That's just nuts. This is something we saw over and over again. This is Dharmeshah. We've both been there many times.

On the second, yeah. Like, why would you want to go? You know, I've got a video where I went to that beach and I had to use my passport to get onto the beach. I had to go through an x-ray machine and put my whatever I had through an x-ray machine. Socialist utopia, dude. Yeah, and you have to, by the way, you have to make an appointment online to go to the beach. And they still let that many people. How exactly? How many? I mean, the fact that these people all made appointments to go to the beach is kind of a crazy idea, isn't it? I mean,

I'm sorry. Yeah, we don't need that. No, I'll turn it down. That's the Great Wall, you know, the usual type thing. We've shown this area before where everyone goes to do the ghost. Look at that. Okay.

Look at that. Is that a great idea? I love that. Let's go on a holiday. How about we get out of the city? Let's go to the sand dunes. I heard about this beautiful place. You can stand on a sand dune and take a photo. It's all picturesque. Can we say what that is? That's a line. Yeah. Right? Those are the people waiting to get in. Yes. Because you see there's a place, the ticket office is there. You have to also pay to go in there, by the way. Look at that nonsense. Then you get on this camel.

These poor camels are worked to death. Which have traffic lights because there's just too many of them, okay? It's like this, what was that, Xihu? That was Hangzhou, yeah. Okay, yeah, Westlake. I mean, what's the point of going on holiday if you're just going to be a sardine? You know what I mean? Yeah. We all know Hongya Dong, and of course that's Beijing, Forbidden City. Dude, this is insane. Yeah.

But it's just what we saw all the time in China, to be honest. Of course. But these holidays, it's a bad idea to let everyone off at the same time. There just isn't enough. Look at that. That's the bund. Look at the amount of people. You know, it's a nightmare. It's a nightmare to travel. And bad things happen, by the way. Yeah, I mean, people get trampled. Yeah, it does happen. I'm surprised there are not more trampling incidents, to be honest. Yeah. Because if you just look at the sheer amount of people that are everywhere...

Yeah, that's the same clip. Sorry for the repeat. I got from two different compilations here. Gotcha.

There's Damesha again on a different day. Wow, look at that. I mean, that's just my nightmare. Yeah. We've put up with it, but I hated that part. I've got footage of myself in those crowds, remember? Yeah, it was like little dots. Yeah, it's like, what the heck? It's awful, and I hope you don't like personal space. Yeah. Because that's not something that you're going to have. You will be touched. Oh, yes. You get used to body odor. You get used to people touching and bumping. Oh, remember that's Xijie in Yangshuo. Yeah.

Yeah, we took a picture on the bridge. We've been actually almost every place they've shown here. Every single place they've shown, we've been. Yeah, every single place so far. There's not one, except for that camel place. I haven't been there. I rode camels, but not there. Yeah, not there. I haven't been to the... There's that camel hill again. Camel hill. Yeah. Look at that.

I mean, that's just wild. It's a nightmare. What's the point? What are you doing there? You're not going to get that nice scenic photo. So you know what's funny? These videos, the Chinese government hates these. So they used to remove them and they're actually using them now as propaganda because right now...

They're really worried that people think that nobody has money. So they're like, look, look at all the people. They're spending so much money by traveling all around China. It costs nothing to go to these places. No.

And they're doing it domestically. They're not doing expensive abroad trips, right? They're doing it on a dime. Yeah. It's very cheap to travel within China. Yeah, number two, there's a billion people there. So even if they were amidst a Great Depression, those tourist areas would be packed like sardines no matter what. Absolutely. I mean, it's like...

It's just, I can tell you right now, during the financial crisis of 2008 in America, everybody has hit hard. Do you think people weren't in Disneyland? Of course they were. Do you think the Times Square was completely empty? No. Of course not. Yeah, that's how it goes. Anyway, I thought I'd show you some of the holiday activities you can get up to when you go on holiday. Okay? So you can have some fun. For instance, you can pretend to kill Japanese people. Fun for the whole family. Yeah.

This is an actual event. Yeah, you get to do this. At theme parks. Yeah, family gathering. Let's go kill the Japanese people. This is an actual event. Yes. It's like a roller coaster and then the kid gets off the ride and his dad's like, Whoa, wasn't that fun? Yeah. You want to do it again? We did it. Let's do it again. Let's storm the castle. You know what I mean? Here with your replica gun. Okay, number two. You can pretend to be Japanese people.

And then get called a traitor and be harassed and shamed and have the cops called on you and get kicked out of parks. That's right. You're not allowed to cosplay as a Japanese person. Wait a minute. This isn't even Japanese cosplay. It looks like some sort of video game. It looks like Genshin Impact or something. Which is Chinese, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. I mean, look, these women are dressing up as like, I don't know, video game characters or anime characters. One of the two. Yeah.

Chat might know. Who knows? This does look... I mean, these are sort of traditional... Sure. These are traditional Japanese kimono-type styles, but with pink hair and stuff come on. You're telling me it's not from some other... It could be from anything. There's Chinese cartoons that look like that. Yeah. There's Chinese video games like Genshin Impact that look like that. Yeah, exactly. I mean, listen, I understand that...

You know, China doesn't like Japan. I understand they've got a big hangover from the war. I understand there were a lot of atrocities. But that doesn't... This doesn't translate to that. Do you know what I mean? If someone was dressed up as an imperial Japanese soldier with a katana... And said, like, death to China. I would understand. But it's kind of like, you know, you wouldn't stop someone dressing in lederhosen just because, you know... No, dressing like a beer woman. Yeah, exactly, like a breast woman or something. Because, like...

Yeah, but you wouldn't stop them, right? You wouldn't stop them because if they were wearing like a Nazi SS uniform and walking in the middle of...

I don't know like Israel or something you'd be like no no no no but if someone's in lederhosen with drinking a beer or something in New York yeah you wouldn't be like no no I'm calling the cops it doesn't make it doesn't make sense and this part does over here makes even less sense okay see this this police guy is telling them to get out of here it's like you guys get out of this park not allowed to be here get out of here because of what they're wearing okay

And I mean, again, you would think if it was like some kind of traditional Japanese thing, like related to the war, maybe.

But look at what they're dressed in. Yeah, for sure. That's not even a Japanese outfit. It's like some fantasy nurse. I don't even know what it is. Yeah, yeah, good point. What is that? It's like a fantasy nun nurse. It looks like Genshin Impact. I keep saying that. I've never played it. Actually, I did. I did for a little bit. Right. But it reminds me of the stuff you'd see in these kind of schlock Chinese apps or games or, you know. I don't mean to discredit the game. I wasn't a huge fan.

No. Or the cartoon, Chinese cartoons and stuff. It's the kind of stuff you see. But imagine you're living in such a crap sort of controlled society that you cannot pretend to be your favorite video game character to go take pictures in the park with your friends. No.

You can't play dress-up. You can't put a Timu nurse outfit on a blue wig. No, with blue hair, yes. Because the freaking cops are going to get cold on you, and they're going to come and tell you to get out of there. Because you look Japanese to them. Yes, and you will be harassed, because they don't know the difference between Japanese traditional clothing and whatever that is. And Timu nurse frocks. Yeah, what do you think that is, a combat nurse? I don't know. I have no idea. You know what I think is, they're going to have some sort of like,

What is that? Pentacle or whatever below them? Like ley lines or whatever? And then spin around or something? Do a magical girl transformation? Who knows? Either way, not very nice. No. It sucks. It's stifling.

Especially since these are not, like I said, traditional Japanese outfits at all. It's nothing like Japan, does it? No, it's because it's inspired by Japanese anime styles, I guess, is why they don't like it. I guess. Then you better get rid of all of Chinese games and all of Chinese cartoons because they're all knockoff, looking knockoffs of Japanese stuff. 100%. There's number three, you can enjoy the weather...

At China's beautiful scenic spots, they also have beautiful weather. I don't know why that didn't come through in there. Okay. Okay. So let's take a look. What's going on? Yeah. This is... What are you showing me? I'm showing you the weather. What?

What? That's just the weather. What are you talking about? It says here. What are you trying to show me? No, I mean, if you look at the commentary, it's pretty funny. The commentary is basically saying like, you know, you see all these videos, like you're going to see beautiful women and beautiful fairies in these scenic spots, right? This is what you get. Yeah, but all you're going to get is... Yeah, well, that's the whole point. Floods and wind. Yeah, you're just going to get mud and whatnot, you know. You're not going to see all these beautiful fairies that you see on social media. Yeah.

This is what you see. Yeah. I mean, that looks pretty dangerous to me. China's drain is real bad. Oh, yeah. You can eat a dirt bun at two balls, you know? Yeah. Poor guy.

Yeah, you get to experience this. So these are some of the fun holiday activities you get to enjoy. The sandstorm is wild, dude. Yeah, for sure. I've seen a lot of those up north. That's not real. That was not real. Neither is this, though. We didn't make this, by the way. No, no. Those sandstorms are very real. They are. They used to hit my city sometimes. So this is what happens when you go stand in that, like, hill of people, is occasionally you'll get hit by this, and it'll ruin your... Dude, the sand gets in your eyes. It gets everywhere. It's irritating. Sand in your ears. Yeah.

Do not like sandstorms. Of course. Okay, but now this is another fun thing we uncovered. There is a company that specializes in making fake Mount Fuji mountains. Made. And I'm not joking. A tourist destination. Mm-hmm.

To look like Mount Fuji. And I'm putting that, the biggest, I wish my fingers were bigger. Yeah, for air quotes. The biggest air quotes you've ever seen in your entire life. Yeah. Mount frickin' Fuji. Let's take a look. What they did was, in a residential area, bulldozed an area. Yeah. Right next to shitty apartment buildings. Mm-hmm. And took a little, and made a mound. They made a mound. Yes. Put grass on it, and made a paper mache painted looking top. Yes. And made it. Spurt out.

Fake red smoke. Yeah. I mean, here you can actually see the sort of before and after. I like how they just destroyed someone's crop spot. Yeah, like right next to the residential area. I mean, it looks like they didn't even remove the crops. They just put crap on top. They just took dirt and like, oh, screw your crops. This is tourism in China is Timu Mount Fuji. Yes.

No, we have Mount Fuji at home. Yeah, exactly. Look, they've got this beautiful picture of like a horse with like a little body of water. It's a mound of dirt. Like you said, with paper mache on top. Do they know what a mountain is? I mean, look at this. They've got a little house, like a fake house where you can sit inside with a window that overlooks it. Yeah. They actually have two of them.

Bro, it's a mound. People are paying to go there. It's like, oh, look, let me run to China. Reality in China is so unimportant. You got to understand this with the face filters they use. Everything about China is so fake now. Yes.

It's so unimportant now that it's more important that you can just go there and use your Huawei phone to take a photo and make it kind of look interesting. Yeah, and they use filters and stuff. Reality doesn't matter. When you go there and you're like wicked disappointed and you're like, this is the dumbest shit I've ever seen in my life. That doesn't matter. Nobody thinks like that. No.

By the way, look at the scale of it, because if you look at these two above me here, look at the guy standing there. Don't say Down syndrome, Mount Fuji. It's not. It's not. That's rude. Yeah, exactly. Look at the guy. Look at how big he is compared to the mountains. See over there? Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. Because they're actually tiny. But they don't care. No. Because it's all about that photo and the perspective. Yes. Oh, you get to walk with a horse.

Do you not love the officials checking out their creation? They are. They always walk on the road, hands behind their back, sometimes smoking cigarettes. Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes. I like how you get to queue up. They've got this one white horse, by the way, which you can see over here. It kind of spoils it when you've got those soulless apartments in the background there and a concrete wall. That was my point. It's literally right outside the apartment blocks. Yeah.

Yeah, and they're like, oh amazing. Anyway, just thought we'd share that with you Yeah, it's time for what you missed on Monday dot org That's like the worst computer graphics

They're boiling coke zero. Yes, why? Why? Look at him just chilling on his phone. I like that he's not passed out anymore. Alright, what's going on here? Oh, dude! Bro, I know a lot of music. I don't know this. I've shown this to you before. Have you? I have. Is this some dumb goth thing? Nope. Oh.

So that is Xiaobo. What did we do this Monday? We did the closest calls, China's closest calls and Insane Near Misses. We also played an interactive game where I had to pick seven random music videos from my childhood that I loved. And then you had to pick seven from your teen years. But you only picked six and I picked seven. It's whatever.

I picked seven, but one of them was a bonus for the audience. Oh, right, right, right. Yes, that's true. So we had to guess each other's with only three seconds of footage. Yes. That was a pretty fun game. We sprinkled that throughout China's closest calls and nearest misses, stuff we can't show on YouTube. And that's what we do on Xiaobanhao. We do cover topics that we can't show on the main show because they're either too dicey or they're...

We won't get into too many details. Yeah, exactly. My point is that if you go to patreon.com slash ADV podcast and you decide to support our work, if you like what we do here and you support us there, you get a whole nother show every single Monday. There's 148 episodes now. Yeah. Right? Some of the other stuff we've done very recently, we'd like to show you what we've covered recently. We did China's remote control pervs, Paz. That was very interesting. A new live streaming industry in China is taking off really crazily in China right now where people...

pay to use remote control cars with cameras on them to do things. To harass women. To harass, but there's six levels. I did tears of the insanity that it goes to because it gets out of control. Absolutely. So that was a really fun one. Very kind of unnerving as well. Uh,

We also did China's sus delivery driver core videos. You'll see a lot of videos coming out of China with delivery drivers and they're trying to turn them into these heroes and martyrs. Very interesting. Oh yeah. Uh, we did Chinese food, but it was actually a Chinese medicine episode where they ate, where they eat crazy stuff. Like wild lion's head, you know, that type of thing. Uh,

We got arrested at Whataburger. Enough said. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Enough said. And then we did China's Insanity Pro Max. WTF is even happening. If you were to sign up just for one episode, it would be this one because you can take the clip that you see on the left out of here where, and I kid you not,

Chinese police beat up disabled people who are begging. People without limbs and people on wheelchairs. They throw them off their wheelchairs. They beat them with riot shields. Not because they were fighting back, because they were singing in public to try to earn some money. It's wild. Do it for that, because you can use that as ammo against the CCP. Yeah, because we couldn't show that on the main show. It's just that YouTube would punish us too much.

Yes.

And of course, you get to choose the next topic and all that sort of stuff. And be part of the Q&A. If you get the Shaban Ho half-price sale, you get to watch it directly after it goes live. We then publish it. After we finish the live. And you get access to every episode. Every single one. It's not just the future ones. Exactly. Highly recommend if you do want to support our work, do it this way. Because you get something for it. Yeah. We'd love to see you there. If you have the means, of course. Anyway, back to the show. Because it's not over yet.

It is not. Because it's time for Worldview! So we talk about everything in the world, specifically with regards to China. We've got very important stuff to talk about this week, actually. But first we have to talk about this absolute insanity that's happening right now because of the India-Pakistan conflict. Yeah, before we get into it, I just want to ask you, like, what's a crazy thing to happen? Kind of blindsided everyone. Obviously a lot of tensions between Pakistan and India for so long now. Yeah.

But it's so crazy to see it heat up so quickly. And this is the first time we're seeing a post-truth war. Does that make sense? Where the access to AI and fake media tools and everything that exists now means that we get to see two belligerents in a war using

using information warfare on social media against each other and it's playing out insanely. But China's involved. I feel like China's doing a lot of this. You know, China has supplied India with fighter jets and surface-to-air missiles and certain...

Weapons of war, which China, of course, has never been able to test in a real combat situation. So China is salivating at this opportunity and they love that their weapons are going to be tested so that they can work out the bugs and see what's effective, what's not.

And one thing is there have been these wild claims from Chinese propagandists. I've been seeing it from Chinese propagandists that loads of Indian fighter jets have been shot down. Yes. I've been seeing daily. They're like, oh, six fighter jets, seven fighter jets, 10 fighter jets. It came out like a whirlwind. But there's no proof. No. There's no official amount of any planes being shot down. We have no horse in this race. Exactly. Exactly.

I mean, just by the law of averages, I'm pretty sure some planes have been shot down because there was like an attack, you know, a surgical strike against certain terrorist areas apparently in Pakistan. And of course, you're probably going to lose some jets and some planes, but no one knows if any planes were lost because there's no evidence yet. There's lots of like pictures of...

Like I don't know eject your seats and stuff, but then it turns out that's from another conflict from years ago It's what I said about this post. Yeah truth war you're seeing both sides gonna go wild. Yeah either way because You know China

is so like happy to have their weapons tested the chinese propagandists are going out there and saying look at the chinese jets were so great they shut down all these like french-made jets french yeah they are the rafale you know beautiful yeah exactly the french you know

Yeah, French made. Yeah, exactly. You could cosplay as a French made jet next time in the park in China and then get kicked out for being Japanese. Is that non-credible defense? I think they would probably turn a jet into a French made. Yes. Anyway, I'll just read this to you. It says Chinese netizens have created videos mocking Indians after a Chinese made J-10 of the Pakistani army reportedly shot down to Indian military aircraft. Again, this is not confirmed. All right.

The upper left video is the original song. The others use the same song. So they made this. We're not going to play it because this is that same team that made... Literally only make racist India. Yeah, they make racist India. They put on brown face and then they pretend to do Bollywood stuff. And...

The last time we played their stuff on our show, they hit us with copyright claims, you know? So we're not going to play their video, but it's tasteless. And they have broken, you know, those stupid styrofoam airplanes that you can throw in the park for your kids. They took those and like broke them up and stuck them on their heads and stuff. They only have one joke and the joke is racism.

Yes, that's their joke. Yeah, great joke. And then they've been putting out all this AI stuff with those stupid songs saying like, oh, India just bought a jet, bought some jets from France or whatever, and they got shot down by our Chinese jets type thing. It looks like if you look at the Chinese propaganda, including this, which there can be tantamount to propaganda if I'm totally honest. This is propaganda. Yeah.

If you look at the Chinese amplifier state response, so the amplifiers of the state, the state doesn't want to say they have any stake in this stuff. So they get amplifiers to do it. So you'll see it on social media. You'll see it on these propaganda accounts that you follow on Twitter. And you'll watch what they do. And their performance looks like it's almost like they're cheering on Pakistan. But actually what they're doing is what you said before,

It's they're cheering on Chinese weapons systems because they get to watch them succeed. And that's why they have a huge stake in making sure that people think that all of these weapons shot down all these planes successfully. Yeah, exactly. And you're going to see China really invested in this, I think. I think they're going to be a huge backer.

of disinformation in the war. And it doesn't matter what side it's going to be on. It could be India, it could be Pakistan. It's about what benefits China. So if their J-10s get shut down, which very likely, I mean, that's the thing. Nothing has been confirmed. And so we've also heard, I've also heard that two Chinese J-10s were shut down in,

by their own defense systems. I've heard that too. So nobody knows yet and we cannot confirm anything yet. But of course, the Chinese propagandists are jumping on the fact that Chinese weapons have successfully shut down French planes. And doing it in the most racist way possible. Yeah, now...

Here's how bad it gets. I've seen many accounts, not just, of course, on Twitter, but on Douyin, TikTok, all these other things. Yeah, a lot of TikToks. This is first perspective. Pakistan used J-10 fighter jets to shoot down India's French Rafale. How do you even say that? Rafale? I should know. I like fighter jets, but I don't know how to say that. Rafale. Rafale. Rafale fighter jets. Rafale.

uh three have been shot down see now it's claiming three have been shot down by j10 that's a big claim right and then they show this footage and you're like yeah and i'm like ah dude come on yeah because i i happen to be quite a big fan of digital combat simulator which is better than this this is um i believe from the game armor 3 it's video game footage right yeah obviously i mean i shouldn't say obviously

A lot of people fell for this. A lot of people fell for this. That's a big problem. That's not the only... There were also nighttime shots of these planes getting shut down. All video game footage. Armor 3, I believe. And it makes sense. Yeah, because China uses Armor 3 to train... A video game? Yeah, to train its...

This is Chinese state media. They use Arma 3, a video game. It's very popular in China. It's a massive sandbox military game. And it's the kind of thing where you can join your friends online. You can be part of a little squad. You can ride vehicles. You can use all different kinds of weapons of war. And they actually use that to train their soldiers.

Somebody's got to tell these guys that video games aren't real life. This is not an ad, by the way. We don't play Arma 3. No, I've never played it. It looks like fun, though, I'll be honest. It's the kind of thing I probably would enjoy.

But anyway, they trained the Chinese military on this. So it would make sense that they would use that game engine to make propaganda, to make up these these fake videos. But it turns out that I've I got new exclusive footage. No, that shows Chinese advanced fighter ships shut down. They're not going to like this. No, take a look. Dude, that's all of China's new planes. Yeah, look at that. Oh, man.

Wow. I'm seeing some... Yeah, it's no good. Look at them all. Look at them. Every one of China's new fighter jets. They're all shut down. They're all gone. Wow, isn't that crazy? I guess...

I guess we're not going to go to war after all. Yeah, shut them all down. Anyway, of course, I just took footage from someone who recorded DCS, Digital Combat Simulator, and put it in. I'm doing what they did. Yes. The thing is they're tricking everyone, and it makes me mad that people, because I guess people just doom scroll, and they see what kind of looks semi-realistic, and they're like, oh, wow, look, Chinese jets just shot down French jets.

Post-truth war, post-truth world. Yeah. That's what we're in. So, I mean, just exercise common sense. When you see these videos going out there, you have to verify. And it's very difficult to do in this day and age because China has very successfully manipulated many websites and Google search results. It's getting out of control. And what's their source? Yeah. Oh, I know what their source is. Here it is. My source is that I made it the f*** up.

And unfortunately, as funny as that is, it's getting... We haven't covered this yet. We'll probably put something together. But we are... We're getting shocked at China's source washing. Oh, yeah. Where they're creating just...

An untold amount of official sources that are manipulating official data and official reasoning. They create fake studies and fake websites, which then official get linked to like your Google search results. It'll say like, oh, Chinese people earn like a million dollars a month or something. And it'll be like, wait, what? And then you look and then the source is like a Chinese website that's fake. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyway, we got to get into this. This is very important. You wanted to read something. Super, super important. This is Stanford Reviews. It came out of Stanford University. This is crazy. And I just want to stick with me a little bit. Sure. If you're an audio listener, you're going to be very happy. Okay. If you're not an audio listener, you're just going to have to bear with us. No, I mean, this is super important. No, it is incredibly important. And this is something that both of us have been aware of for the longest time.

And even before you get into this, I would like to quickly tell my Confucius Institute story, if you don't mind, because it's related. Back in 2016, the first time I visited America, I came to do a road trip and I was invited by somebody in the journalism department of the University of Arizona in Tucson to go to a speech.

And it was all about conquering Southern China, which we just released. It was our TV show. Yeah, it's one of our documentaries, TV documentaries. So I bought some clips of the show. I came to talk about my experience in China, what it was like to film there and so on. And the Confucius Institute caught wind of this. That's an arm of the Chinese government, by the way, United Front. Yeah, so I walk into this room and there were, I mean, there weren't a lot of people and maybe 30, 40 people in the room there to watch my speech.

including some Chinese people. Then the Confucius Institute turned up and they walked into the room. As soon as they walked into the room, some of the Chinese people that were sitting in the front row got up and left. And I thought, that's a little weird. I haven't even started yet, you know? And then they introduced themselves as, oh, we're with the Confucius Institute because there was like an auntie, you know, like a 40 something year old auntie. The rest are students, right? There's an auntie and like an entourage of the Confucius Institute students, I guess.

and they went and sat in the back there. So I start my presentation, I show a few clips, I'm starting to talk about things. And I remember specifically the woman, you know, the 40 something year old woman is taking notes the whole time while I'm doing this, this presentation. And at one point, I was showing a clip about a very rough road. Remember those really bad dirt roads that we went over where it's just like destroyed potholes, all this kind of thing. And I was

Trying to talk about the challenges of navigating rural China because of the bad roads. And she stood up and interrupted my speech and said, that's not true. Now China has put all new roads everywhere. So she tried to hijack my speech, tried to change the narrative, tried to accuse me of being a liar while I'm showing footage. In America, by the way. Yes, in America, in the University of Tucson. University of Arizona, sorry, in Tucson.

I've got footage on the screen that was recorded the year before, because this is now 2016, from 2015 when we filmed it. I'm showing and talking about my experiences, but Xi, on behalf of the Chinese government, was there to make sure that nobody heard the truth about China. In universities in America. In America. And that's when I got to see how bad it was. I didn't realize.

Okay, this is 2016. Things have changed since then. But the infiltration of the Chinese government into universities and schools in America is insane. And they've been doing it... You say things have changed. It got worse. Yeah, it did. It did. Way worse. It did get worse. Way worse. So...

Not only did they scare the students that were coming to watch my presentation away, because those Chinese students, I guess, that left were probably worried about being associated with me talking about China without permission or something, you know.

So they left so that they didn't get into trouble. So they really are coercing students and intimidating students, but at the same time also trying to force official Chinese narratives within the universities and schools. So I just wanted to, before you started with this, share my own experience with that. Anyway, let's go. So it has progressively gotten much worse. Sure. And you'll see why. Mm-hmm.

This summer, a CCP agent impersonated a Stanford student. So Stanford is an American university. Under the alias Charles Chen, he approached several students through social media. Anna, this is an alias for her to protect her safety, a Stanford student conducting sensitive research on China, began receiving unexpected messages from Charles Chen. At first, Charles' outreach seemed benign. He asked about networking opportunities, but soon his messages took a strange turn.

Charles inquired whether Anna spoke Mandarin, then grew increasingly persistent and personal. He sent videos of Americans who had gained fame in China, encouraged Anna to visit Beijing, and offered to cover her travel expenses.

He would send screenshots of a bank account balance to prove he could buy the plane tickets. Alarmingly, he referenced details about her that Anna had never disclosed to him. He advised her to enter China for only 24 to 144 hours, short enough, he said, to avoid visa scrutiny by authorities, and urged her to communicate exclusively via the Chinese version of WeChat, a platform heavily monitored by the CCP.

When Charles commented on one of her social media posts asking her to delete screenshots of their conversations, she knew that this was serious. Under the guidance of experts familiar with espionage tactics, Anna contacted authorities. Their investigation revealed that Charles Chen had no affiliation with Stanford. Instead, he had posed as a Stanford student for years, slightly altering his name and persona online, targeting multiple students, nearly all of them researching China-related topics.

According to experts on China who assisted Anna, Charles Chen was likely an agent of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, MSS. It's kind of like China's CIA. Yep. Tasked with identifying sympathetic Stanford students and gathering intelligence.

This March, Stanford's president, Dr. Jonathan Levin, received a letter from the Select Committee on the CCP. That's an American organization that warns people about the CCP. Good organization. Very good. Detailing the security risks China poses to STEM research. For years, concerns about the Chinese espionage have quietly persisted at Stanford. Throughout our investigation, professors, students, and researchers readily recounted their experiences of Chinese spying, yet they declined to speak publicly.

One student who had experienced espionage firsthand was too fearful to recount their story, even via encrypted messaging. The risk is too high, they explained. Transnational repression, $64 million in Chinese funding, and allegations of racial profiling have contributed to the pervasive culture of silence at Stanford and beyond. In this pervasive silence, it was this pervasive silence that has compelled us to write. After

After interviewing multiple anonymous Stanford faculty, students, and China experts, we can confirm that the CCP is orchestrating a widespread intelligence gathering campaign at Stanford. In short, there are Chinese spies at Stanford. In fact, there is a law created in, I'll paraphrase, in 2017 called China's National Intelligence Law. So this is after your speech. This is how it got, it ramped up then, in 2017. So it was already bad when you were there. Yeah.

It mandates that all Chinese citizens support and cooperate with state intelligence work regardless of location. So literally, if you're a Chinese citizen and you're studying at an American university, the CCP, if they tell you, go steal this information, you have to by law. Yeah, by law. Break the law in America or you will be punished and your family will be punished back in China. Yeah, it's a law.

Any organization or citizen shall support, assist, and cooperate with state intelligence work in accordance with the law and keep secrets of national intelligence work from becoming known to the public. These laws leave Chinese students no option but to accept demands of the CCP. Students engaged in sensitive scientific research, especially in fields like AI and robotics, are most often targeted. One Chinese national at Stanford spoke to us on this very issue under the conditions of anonymity. Many Chinese nationals have handlers.

The CCP want to know everything that's going on at Stanford. This is a very normal thing. They just relay the information that they have. Another Stanford student shared an incident involving their professor's encounter with suspected Chinese espionage. According to the student, a professor recounted needing to schedule a meeting with a Chinese student. When the student declined, citing a mysterious reason, the professor asked why. The student replied, you know why.

The professor continued to inquire, only to receive cryptic responses. I cannot tell you that. Finally, the professor revealed that the student admitted to meeting a CCP handler.

The Chinese government spends a lot of time collecting data on its overseas students, and it has a pretty good understanding of who is doing what and if someone is working in an area of interest like frontier technology. And I'll tell you why this is important. There's something called Made in China 2025. Yeah. Basically, Xi Jinping has declared that China has to be the world leader in every frontier technology by the end of 2025.

And when they have to do something, they have to do it. So they will put every single last bit of effort into making sure that happens. And the number one way to do that, to get ahead in frontier technology, is not to make new research papers or to actually do real research in R&D. It's to steal intellectual property, steal research. And they want everything from these students. If you steal all that stuff, you can go repurpose it and become the leader and cost cut, drive everyone out of the market back in China, right? Correct. Let me just finish this real quick.

The case of the Stanford, sorry. If students have access to things the government would like access to, it's relatively easy to reach out to an individual. They use carrot and sticks. If you turn over information, you may get a reward. If you don't, there is a punishment.

Makes sense. They would lose their reputation. For sure. This is Stanford that put this out, by the way, so this is great. Yeah.

Claims of racial profiling have the potential to derail investigations, leading to strong institutional pushback against investigating these issues. Therefore, it is Stanford's policy of investigative authorities to maintain privacy, choosing instead to cancel student visas without public notice. So they do do something about it. It makes sense. China has always known that playing the race card is a big...

big Trump card. They did it during COVID. Yeah, it's like stop Asian hate. It's like if you say, hey, listen, you know, COVID looks like it's coming from Wuhan. No, you're racist. Stop Asian hate. And they'll attack you. Yeah. And I mean, we know it's a problem in universities. Yes. Because how do you not racially profile when the Chinese government has a law that every Chinese citizen must...

obey them and must act on their behalf as a spy. How do you not say like, well, we better keep an eye on the Chinese students then? It's not that the student, it's not their fault. You can't look at it like that. You have to look at it from the perspective of this is the law of China. And if people, if those students want to go home and they don't want their parents to get arrested, then they have to capitulate. It's not their fault. But you can't just say, oh, this is too sensitive. We can't do anything about it.

Right. Because this is going to make you need to acknowledge the problem. You need to find a way to deal with the problem without shying away from the problem because you're worried about being called racist. Those same accusations of racial profiling were used to disband the China initiative in 2022, a project designed to prevent Chinese espionage. Mm hmm.

Think about how heated it got during that COVID thing. They got rid of a freaking government institution in America to stop Chinese espionage because they were worried about being racist. Stupid. Stop being worried about that. Asian American Congresswoman Michelle Steele, in an exclusive interview with The Review, labeled claims of racial profiling a deliberate effort to prevent Beijing's profile and harassment of their students from coming to light. Literally, when I did my video about where COVID came from,

They made campaigns against us and sent all kinds of trolls and things to say that we are racist because we said this is where it probably came from. And if you brought it up at all, then all of a sudden it became a race issue, which had nothing to do with this. Nothing. Reality. Yeah, they set up websites. They did everything to try and shut us down, call us racist. They

tried to really mess with us you know drawing an anonymous testimony from faculty students and china specialty specialists our investigation confirms that the ccp runs an extensive intelligence gathering network at stanford the existential question is straightforward how should we respond first and foremost the status quo of branding those who discuss the issue as racist must end

We wrote this article not to advance a policy position, but to highlight a silenced reality. Sound policy depends on evidence, not repression. The nation that develops superior technologies will gain a critical military edge over its adversaries. China cannot be that nation. Working together, U.S. universities and the federal government need to take serious steps to defend the integrity of our nation's mission-critical research. The future of freedom depends on it.

Absolutely. Go check out the article down below. It's linked. I think you'll probably see more universities come out with this kind of stuff. Well, I mean, every single university has been infiltrated by the CCP. For sure. Every single one. And not just university. Any kind of learning institution. And it matters less if you have a freaking liberal arts degree or something where you're learning music or something, right? But it matters when you have...

high-level, you know, potentially children of CCP officials and stuff in high-level research positions that have to, have to, by law, send every bit of sensitive research, even under oath if they're here in America, back to China. And that's just the reality of the situation. It's an uncomfortable reality, but it's real, right? Absolutely. Reality.

I'm sorry to say I hate this stupid quote or whatever, but reality, the truth doesn't care about your feelings or whatever. And that's very true in this scenario. So articles down below, go check it out. Yeah, very important article. I didn't read the whole thing. Yeah, very important article.

What else do we have in our worldview? Just a couple of things here. Okay. So some proof of the tariff response, right? China is really reeling. That's why you're seeing factories go down. That's why you're seeing a bunch of protests break out, people throwing away their livelihoods and freedom because they aren't getting paid. They lost their jobs. Manufacturing is disappearing. Are they making inventories into a race issue too? Yes.

Anyway, Marisky, now the shipping company. We used to see these shipping containers all the time, especially in the ports in Guangdong. I don't know, maybe in the port of Dandong. Oh, yeah, it's very possible. Port of Dandong. In the port of Dandong, probably see some shipping getting lost. Didn't the port of Dandong fail? I think as like a mega project, but I think it still operates. Oh, does it? I think at least nominally. Mm-hmm.

We'd love to have someone go and check it out for us. Sure. Anyway, there's a lot of drop in trade, which is happening because of the tariffs, right? Yes. And that is something you can see. It's not just news articles. Because what's happening right now is China's running a counter-propaganda campaign. I shouldn't say counter-propaganda. Propaganda campaign. Yes. Against American reality. And the American reality being like, hey, the shipping's going down. The tariffs are hitting, blah, blah, blah. China says, no, this doesn't affect us. We won't bend a knee. Yes. You know, this...

we don't care about this at all. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. Okay. Um, all right. You got the, just the, the articles down below, right? I do. Yeah. Okay. Uh,

Interesting meeting, I believe, shows kind of a big weakness on both China and Russia's part right now. Having these high-level meetings between leaders in lieu of trying to repair relations with America, Xi Jinping was already trying to court Europe, but the priority here is to solidify this fake bond that it has with Russia. Because I think both governments right now are looking down on

They're looking at a very grim future, China with a manufacturing economy that's losing its biggest client, right? And Russia having to deal with its own situation in Europe. So I feel like they're courting each other out of pure necessity. And I think these kind of like last minute looking meetings that really show that. You know what? I just can't stop looking at how skinny those soldiers are. They really need to eat a sandwich.

I'm sorry, but like, what's going on here? Isn't that like, this is a military parade. Wouldn't you get your like beefiest, most handsome guys to stand? You got a world leader coming in. True. What's going on there? Russia. Feed your troops. Feed your troops. What's going on here? Wow. Seriously. Russian troops.

That's alarming. I know, it's really bad. Anyway, they are going to, American leadership is going to meet Chinese leadership in Switzerland. I believe America chose Switzerland as the place to meet. Geneva, they're going to meet, Trump has said something, alluded to something like bringing the tariffs and settling at 80%.

I wouldn't count on anything. Who knows? I especially wouldn't count on China publicly saying anything, period. Because they've already, and this is a key feature here, they've already silently exempted 25%. You know how they hit America with 127% tariff? Yes, yeah.

25% of those goods have been exempted and they didn't say a word. Because it means that they buckled. Yeah. They buckled. They blinked. And they had to exempt these things because they need these products so bad. Yeah. And I suspect you're going to see that kind of stuff happen rather than making a big show about it and trying to be like, no, we didn't buckle at all. No. That's what you're going to see. Yeah. Yeah.

It's kind of interesting. Anything else or is that that? I believe that is... That's that. That's that. Okay. Well, guys, it's time for Yamcha. And for those of you who don't know what Yamcha is, it's our Q&A section where we answer your questions and you question our answers. It's Friday after all, so it's time to relax

Time to loosen the tie. If you've got a nice cold beverage, crack it open if you haven't already. Get up on that 22nd floor. Crack open it. What are you going to do? Oh, my. Oh, my. Exactly. So anyway, for those of you who are watching live and on the weekend, we'll continue. But if you're not, stay awesome. And, you know, because we cut the whole Q&A segment out on Monday. So anyway, let's get started. Yes. I'm sorry.

This is a lot of funny comments. Okay, cool. K-pop classics say, happy 4-a-die Friday. Have you done a piece on CCP officials who hate the USA for their work, but they love the USA for personal goals? We did. Yes. A while back. When did we do that, like, Sima Nan thing? That was flawed. That was at ADV China. I think it was. Yeah.

Yeah, we did a whole video about that. There's this stupid Chinese firebrand who is a propagandist and he hates America. He gets on Chinese state media and says how much he hates America. But his whole family lives in America and he comes to America all the time. But the funniest part is where he came to America and then he went up one of those elevators. And you know what it says? Escalators. Escalators, sorry. It says, mind your head. He didn't mind his head and his head got pinched in there. He got stuck in there and he had to like...

Because like he was good. He was one of the top propagandists in China. Yeah. And he was like, America sucks. Like the evil, you know, imperialist, hegemonic, this and that and the next thing. But then there's like pictures of himself in the American hospital because he got his head stuck. Everyone's like, what? And he bought houses in America. Yeah, yeah, of course. And his whole family lives there. And so everyone's like, hang on a second. You say you hate America so much. What are you doing in America in a hospital buying houses? What's wrong with you? It's pretty funny. Yeah, he legit got stuck in an escalator and he loves America.

Yeah, we did a big thing about that on ADVChina. It's hilarious. You'll see the biggest America haters, if they have to deal with America and they're part of the Chinese government, they freaking love the US. Yeah, of course. They love it. Yeah, they do. They do everything they can to get their money out. Yeah, he probably got his head stuck on purpose so that he could stay longer. Yeah. Because he probably had to leave or something, go back to China. He's like, no, stick my head there. Like, mind your head, sure. You'll find a huge chunk of CCP officials if they...

If they retire or they finish their post or whatever, if they can get their money out and leave China, they do. I mean, all of them do anyway, send their family to America or Canada or whatever, and they funnel their ill-gotten gains to go buy up real estate and drive the prices up for everyone. Yeah. That's what they do. Chester Myers, thank you very much. El Dunarino, happy Friday. Thank you, you too.

BITW Matt says, shout out from the 262. Keep up the great work, gentlemen. It's got to feel so good to get your area code shouted out. Yeah. Can't wait for mine. I don't know if mine will ever turn up. You guys have three-digit ones in South Africa? I have no idea. I can't remember. You don't remember your old numbers? Old zip codes. We don't call it that. It's not a zip code. It's an area code. Oh, area code, yeah. Area code is for your phone number. Okay, yeah. Yeah, I think we do. We've been doing this for a long time now. Yeah, you know, I don't pay attention to those things. I'm not Rain Man.

Everyone knows their area code because they know their phone number. Right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, Black Wiz. You got to be a Rayman to remember your own number. Well, he knows every like, you know, zip code. He doesn't know shit because he's a fake autist. No, it's based on a real guy. Yeah, but the movie is not. Yeah, I'm talking about the real guy. Oh, the real one. Yeah. He actually could like, you know, you name any, he'll give you every like address and zip code in the entire country. He was a fauntist.

What's that? F-A-U-X. Oh, right, right. Yes, in the movie. Yeah, that was very bad. Stay off those jokes. Give me a soundbite. I'll give you a soundbite. I'll give you a Roberts. I deserve that. Yes, you do. Blockwiz says, love the show, guys. Been tuning in for about a year now. Finally gets to catch you guys live from time to time. How come I've never heard of you before? Oh, yes. Where is this?

What a wonderful song. How come I've never heard it before? He's the best out of all of them, I reckon. I don't know. I mean, he's one of the best. He's up there. Yeah. Wangan Dreamer finally made it for the beginning of the show. Cool. YouTube unsubscribed me once again. It's kind of a common occurrence, isn't it? Can I please have a pig bay? You certainly can. No, it's not here. Sorry. Hide it? No. No, of course not.

But it's a happy coincidence, I'll tell you that much. WorldEater359 says, you'll follow me and like the stream, okay? Or you want to lick? I'll just do this one. You'll follow me, okay? No, we can do a lick. You want to do that? Or you can come and lick my white neck. What a weird segment. That was from Chinese propaganda. Yeah. Oh, man, that felt me. I was so uncomfortable when that granny was reading those like,

You know, those glistening between my thighs. Don't even want to think about that. Sexy. Do you want to watch like a 60-year-old CCP official? She's a CCP member. Yeah.

And she did propaganda where they had to read poems. Yeah. Some of them did like, I love China. It's good. Yeah. Some people are like, come and lick my white neck. Yeah. And then she went, Oh, stop. I don't want to know about it. Are you afraid of my sexuality? Yeah. It was like, Whoa, dude. Yeah. We don't need to ever revisit that segment. Stop. Let's move on, please.

Making me feel sick over here. It's like, yeah, it's like the breast milk thing all over again. Oh, you have to go to patreon.com. We want to hear about people drinking breast milk. Yes. People, not babies. Yeah. Yeah. Let's move on, please. Yeah.

Euthanasia says... Youth in Asia. Not like that. Youth in Asia? Not Euthanasia. Youth, like a young person in Asia? Yes. Okay. All right. It says, I appreciate you guys. That is all. Thank you. That's all. Yeah, exactly. That is... Before you get confused, that is from Enter the Ninja or whatever. What's that movie? Miami Connection. Miami Connection. Best random name. Best random movie ever. Great. If you haven't seen it, you got to see it. It's the stupidest, like, 80s, real 80s movie that's just funny. There's a Korean guy...

Yeah. No, he's the main character. Yes. He goes, I am not afraid of you at all. And then he goes, he interrupts the other guy and goes, at all. He does it again. It's too good. A friend. A friend. Yeah. Anyway. Vio Erickson, thank you very much. Potoskis says, my family's Orthodox Christian. I want to say, bless your new Pope, Lai. Thank you very much. Appreciate that, ortho bro slash ortho friend. That's cool. A lot of respect for the Orthodox.

Uh, low. I side note, I'm home with the flu. Can I get a raging Roberts? Oh, you better believe it. There you go. I love that. It's great. Great soundbite. Uh, for you says greetings from Norway.

Greetings. Greetings. Love Norway. Can I ask, what's the deal with children's books in English or Spanish printed in China? As a father, I find it very hard to find non-PRC books. Yeah, you know what's wild? Yeah, can we not get them printed in better places? Yeah. Didn't used to be like that. That's a relatively new phenomenon. Yeah.

And I wonder if that's going to change. It's got to change. It's just cost. It's down to cost. It's much cheaper to get things printed in China. And I was very disappointed because, you know, when I was a kid, I had that graphic novel of The Hobbit. Remember I told you about it? Yeah. And I really liked it. So I thought, I want to get that again because I obviously don't have my original one anymore. Who knows where it is? So I went to like a Barnes & Noble and they had it there and I bought it. And then when I got home, I looked, it's like printed in China. Yeah. And it is worse quality. Yeah.

It's like I remember the original. It would be. And I'm like, why? Why? In America, I'm buying this thing that's not made and now it's printed in China. I'm like, come on, guys. You can't escape it because things got so cheap to outsource it to China was the thing to do. You end up with something that's inferior. You do most of the time. Yeah. But you pay a lot less. Yeah. So it's enticing to companies that want to turn a profit. It is. Yeah.

And yeah, hopefully that changes. Yes, I hope so. Ministry of Dinosaurs says, do you think China is going to get in on the India-Pakistan action? Already has. Yeah, they have. They're supplying the weapons. And they're an ally to Pakistan, so remember that. They are supplying a lot of the weapons. This is a sandbox for them. Yep. They don't actually care about Pakistan, by the way. No, they don't. No. It's like some sort of opportunity for them. It's always like that. China will never be your friend. Yep.

Or with that compromise targeting Taiwan. No, I mean, it won't be direct. They'll just profit off of it. Yeah, they're selling, apparently, Pakistan's has ordered a bunch of their new fighter jets, their J-35s or whatever. Interesting if they all fail. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see. We'll find out. We'll never know the truth. No, that's the problem. It's so difficult to get the truth.

Koala 1203 says, shout out to Dragonilla with her newly uploaded video. Definitely a video Chubbs, Hoes, and subscribers should check out. Yeah, go check it out. It's a good video. It was. Marcos Lopez, Mr. Chill, says, Marcos from Yonkers, New York, can afford to act softly because he has the resources to support it. Everyone else must appear tough because that's all they have.

Theo Duncan says, can I get a hot cup of chocolate? Yeah, of course. Here you go. Oh, my dad's chocolate. You know what? Answer bats. What are your thoughts on people who say foreign words with an accent even though they don't speak the language? Or it's like mozzarella. I hate when people do that. Oh, my God. Me too. Me too. It's like they come back from... They come back from...

I don't know, like Barcelona and they're like, oh my gosh, I had such a good time in Barcelona. You know, Barcelona. Oh,

I have a little bit of a pet peeve with white guys here in America that they've been to Hawaii once, so they lived in Hawaii, and they have to say mahalo. I know, it's like if you're that person, it's okay, but when you go overboard, it's a bit much. You know what I mean? Like with everything, like mahalo or whatever it is. I like it in Hawaii. Aloha, you know? In Hawaii, that's fine. Sure, but you're not there anymore. Not in Pennsylvania. You're here in Pennsylvania. Don't be doing that stuff. You know what I mean? Yeah.

It's like if you're not a Californian, you don't get to go schwa or whatever. You don't get to do that. Just stop. Anyway, I got a bit of a pet peeve with that. But you know what I really don't like? Those foreigners in China that think they know a little bit of Chinese and they really go all in on the tones. But it's like wrong. Yeah, it's wrong. Like, yeah, he's schwa nihao. And they like really get in. They like change their entire accent. Jin.

Yeah, that kind of thing. They don't really dig into it. And you're like, dude, you're like a clown. Nobody around you appreciates that. Chinese people aren't appreciating that. We're not appreciating that. Shut up. You're not an expert. None of us are. Yes.

You know, anyway. I love those. There's some shot in front of those that, you know, in like Jersey and New York, you get the Italian-Americans. I grew up in a super Italian-American area. And you get some of those guys that take it way too seriously, like Italian pride and all this stuff. Exactly. And they're like,

capicola ham you know they'll say no you don't understand it's called gabagool gabagool and it's like I don't think it is and then because they stick with that their whole life and they're like you don't even know it's gabagool I grew up in an Italian family and then finally because of social media now people can like reply and Italians are like literally no one says that no one it's not you made that up that's fake as hell I love that kind of vindication yeah it's good

I like turtles. Thank you very much. Sweet. Turtles are cool. That's cool. Lil Pei Pei says, I show speed recently did a China tour. Do you guys have a podcast on that one as well? No, bazillions of people cover that. Love your work, Serpents of Day. Thank you. Vanessa said, good day, good morning, everyone. This is my recharge for my pen. I hope it ends up in the pen. You can send it into the ether. It'll go in there. It might be over there somewhere.

Yes. Thanks for all your hard work. Bar One Studios says, stop mocking the Qigong. We didn't mock the Qigong. Oh, those people are mocking the Qigong. Yeah, exactly. Yes. What the heck? I don't know what you're talking about. I'm sorry. Okay. Snowman, thank you very much. Vanessa says, happy Mother's Day to all the mums for tomorrow. Yes, happy Mother's Day to all the mums.

uh platy thank you very much professor rightonium happy mother's day to all the zoes out there okay um boycott china says holiday it would be it would be so nice holiday celebrate something like that you know madonna song so nice pretty good song yeah um david h says holiday lemmings oh yeah holiday lemmings that's like the christmas one this reminds me of the line to feed the monkeys says hunter one oh okay

which one uh the so-called yeah some of the kong where they're like feeding poor guy just eating trash all day random grease snacks and you know like wasabi peas or whatever yeah guy yes uh jay's habibi says uh china truly seems like an autistic person's waking nightmare how do you stand the stress of overcrowding do noise canceling headphones work i'm

Not really. Just don't go out. You know, the problem is I tried the noise-canceling earphones, and it's too uncomfortable to sleep with them on. I can't do it. It's like it digs into your head or whatever. It's maddening because you think you can get away. Like in life, we think you get home, you can shut off from the world, you can get away from your busy life on the outside. But in China, you can't. You get home, you get into your apartment, and there's someone knocking a hammer somewhere in the building. There's someone making a noise that reverberates through this window.

construction down on the streets, 6 a.m. in the morning, someone starting to jackhammer their apartment. You can't get away from the noise. And it actually almost drove me batty. Yeah. Vanessa says, 10K watching but only 1.5K likes. Come on, people. That would be nice. John S. says, UK, you can't say mean things about other people or we'll arrest you. CCP, you can't dress like other people or we'll arrest you. Also, no pictures of Poop Bear. I know it's a joke, but those two are not the same.

Those two are not the same. Yeah. UK is dealing with a bit of a freedom of speech issue for sure, but... Oh, they got to fix that. I promise you it is not losing your entire life to the CCP when they actually disappear you and put your entire family under house arrest for the rest of their life because you said that you wanted to get paid. Yeah. Sure. These two things are not the same. Although, it is a slippery slope. Yeah, and can't defend either one. No. Nelson Johnson...

Where do they use the restroom? Oh, you mean in those crowds? Yeah, I can tell you one thing. That's something you do not want to be a part of because...

The public toilets that are there, first of all, they don't have toilet paper because they can't. But you can just imagine the wait times. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Qualitopo3, can you tell us, can you tell that the bring your kids to the anti-Japanese theme park is definitely not historical at all when you see the reenactor holding a PRC's five-star red flag in a World War II setting? Yes, you're correct. It would have been the nationalist flag. It would have, yeah.

It's always very inaccurate, and they kind of wash history to pretend like it was the Communist Party. Yes. WorldEater359 says, my friend Anakin didn't like Sand 2. Yes, thank you for picking up on my reference. I snuck it in there, but no one picked it up on it. Koala1203 says, You're the only person that enjoyed the prequels, that's why. No one knows them as well. I think the prequels are 10% as good as the episode 4, 5, and 6. Good. However, I still think they're good movies. Oh, okay. All right.

I think it's kind of like lame to hate on the prequels too much. You think so? Yeah, especially now. Like if you go back and watch them, it's not bad. They're not bad movies. That's not true because I did. Because I recently tried to watch them and no, they're pretty terrible. I don't think they're bad movies. They're not great Star Wars movies, but I don't think they're bad movies. Especially episode three is really good. That's a great film. I don't know if I got that far.

yeah that's true episode three is excellent oh really it's excellent it's how darth vader becomes darth vader yeah anakin becomes darth vader so yeah you know anyway yeah exception over here i hate sand uh quality 12.3 says mount fuji more like mound fuji i know it's like can you it's just kind of ridiculous that they made that yes just don't do it yes

Retired squad, thank you very much. John Diamond says, please do a review of Chinese cell phones, like Aokitel, Redmi, Ulefone. What the heck are you talking about? You might actually find, if you go to the Serpents at 8 channel, I did a bunch. You know, I actually bought Chinese phones. Like, I did buy a Redmi. Yeah, you did a whole thing. I did a Redmi. I did a base-level Oppo and stuff. I mean, it's a bit out of date now. Those are like...

circa 2016 or something 17 but i did buy them and i tested mine i was very much into those phones back then trying to figure out like how good they were and stuff so you can take a look sure uh dragonella says shout out to my new favorite teletubby prop mount fugly yeah it did look like the teletubbies land yeah didn't it yeah why did i not see that yeah i didn't see it either

Probably because I never really was into Taylor Tavis. Yeah, but you've seen it. Yeah, it's true. I've never seen it. Yeah. Monty's sketch, yeah, I feel like it'd be the, instead of the baby in the sun, it'd be like Xi Jinping's face. Yeah, it would. Mao. Yeah, exactly. Mao is in the sun. Probably Mao, yeah, with those like rays, those like communist rays. Yes, exactly. Exactly.

Like Jabba the Hutt lording over everybody. Yeah, exactly. Monty Sketch says, watching China in the 90s episode, it gave me an idea of looking at Google Earth historical imagery places in China. I saw some interesting changes. Yeah, that's really fun to do. Adam Kahn, happy Friday. Will this pig bay get through? Pig Bay Friday? Oh, it certainly will because he doesn't have his pants on. It's great.

at the new mission of the big that's happy oh yes world eater 359 we only have 3.5k likes and 10k of us here what the you're right please give us a like that'd be nice richard g says china needs to make more planes in their factories okay yeah yeah you know yeah yeah what you know you know the song in my back a tree yeah that's right

John Diamond says, as a PS. Oh, by the way, I got more songs from her. Yes, she has released some horrible stuff. Yeah, maybe we'll include one next week. I think so. Yeah. Good idea.

As a PS, I don't advocate anyone using a Chinese phone. Oh, so this is a... Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Of course. Unless you know how to hack it and install a different operating system, which is what I've done. They're all good sources to learn how. Good idea. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you just basically don't want spyware. You don't want the Chinese government spying on you, which, you know, even if it's good hardware, they still have their backdoor, especially if it's running Harmony OS or whatever.

chippy weiss trying to get me oh but i'm gonna read it anyway okay he says amanda hug and kiss has some great china footage okay i need amanda hug and kiss exactly the reason that one doesn't work is you're not gonna say that in either context you know what i mean yeah you know what i mean for sure like i'm i'm not a gay dude so i'm not gonna say i need a man to hug and kiss i'm also not gonna say i need amanda hug and kiss yeah i don't know her yeah i don't need her no for sure you know yeah

It was a good try, though. You're supposed to hit me with a projection. Oh. I set it right up for you. Yeah, you're right. I'm not very sharp today. I don't know why. That's all right. That's all right. Yeah. Drake says a Uyghur man in Sweden. I don't know why I'm not laughing. No, no, no. A Uyghur man in... What? I'm trying to get serious here. Okay, get serious. A Uyghur man in Sweden was recently deported as a CCP spy, so it's not just Han Chinese. Of course, think about this. A lot of the...

that go and do these crackdowns on behalf of the CCP are Uyghur police, right? They go and take out their own people. There are evil people across every walk of life. Also, don't forget that if you're a Uyghur, the Chinese government's going to have a lot of sway over you because they probably have your family detained and will force you to do things on their behalf. Correct. Bingo blango. It doesn't matter...

At the end of the day, because everyone is susceptible to CCP pressure. If you've got any ties to China, you're in trouble. Any family, even if it's remote family, they will lean on them in order to convince you to do something. It's like a mafia. Yeah. Anyway, somebody fought back. Rand just says, no, he wasn't. His nationality was not released and he was deported for spying on Uyghurs. Well, you know what? I haven't read the story yet. I'll have a look at it later. Maybe he was a Uyghur spying on Uyghurs. That's how he got in.

another dude. What? Was he disguised as another dude? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Uh,

MAGA since 1492 says Taiwan is not less good than Formosa. Reactor Corps has just got back from my first trip to China. Wasn't prepared for the disregard of secondhand smoke. That is... Might as well be firsthand smoke. Yeah. Yeah. Children smoking openly when with that comes constantly hawking loogies everywhere. I'll super chat more. You know that hawking loogies thing happens whether they smoke or not. And that's...

A lot of it has to do with just, yeah, the whole belief in traditional medicine and like cleansing your body or something. But I think also pollution plays a heavy role in that. When you get a lot of pollution, you do tend to build up a lot of phlegm. Yeah. Cole, that's haven't caught a stream of yours in a while, wanted to pitch in earlier. Thank you for the genuine journalism. Hey, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Ziggle.

Says it's pronounced Ziggle. Okay. Adam Khan, or maybe it's Ziggy-lay. Ziggy-lay, yes, exactly. Adam Khan, Pig Bay. It's a question, not really. Oh, it's too bad. On to one, says China needs us to buy more than we need to buy. As I said...

China needs our stuff. There's things that we need to sell. They need to buy from America. We don't need superfluous Teemu garbage. Well, at the end of the day, certain technologies that they just haven't stolen yet, that's really the key. Certain things that they don't know how to make yet. But we're constantly allowing China to get away with stealing. All the military hardware China has is just a copy and it's from theft.

Everything that they have is the result of theft or technology transfer, which, you know, they've done in a kind of coercive way. If a company wants to set up like VW sets up a factory in China, well, you have to have a 51% partner with China. Mm-hmm.

You have to transfer your technology over or you can't have your factory, you know? Oh. Yeah, they steal. It's unfortunate. It's really annoying. It's true. I just wish they would have been called up on it because, you know, the third fighter jet you've now stolen from America, surely they should be like, okay, that's not all right. Yeah. You know? Good point. Anyway.

reactor course has visited as a follow-up visited for two months unfortunately my father-in-law passed rip papa jiang oh that sucks ceremonies are a bit overwhelming and over the top lots of superstitions thoughts it's like its own industry actually we did a whole adv series on that a couple few episodes now about funerals go check it out adv china it's very interesting because although like religion and stuff was wiped out certain traditions have survived and there's some very awkward and strange but fascinating uh traditions true

Doc Sloth and Old Doc back again to say have a good weekend and all happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there and no snacks for Monday's show. Good point. Thank you, Doc, for reminding us. Monday's show on patreon.com slash ADV podcast is going to be not... Tapeworm Village. You don't want to be eating snacks. No. Yes. It's following a man's journey across China as he ate the most horrific things possible. Yeah. It also teaches you about the local culture. Traditional foods that are just not something you should probably be eating. No. No.

Whoa, dude, it's me. Thank you very much. Chippy Wee says, terrible week. Box ghosted me. Tractor moves to number one. Oh, well, the box is around. Nothing would bother me anymore. Looks like you can't bother her anymore. Get out of here, Chippy. Don't bother Box. Exactly. Whoa, dude, it's me says, I woke up today with Pig Bay stuck in my head. That's funny. You don't need to play. No, of course not. Makes me irritated.

Yeah, don't lose track of the pen next time. Because we've got a monopoly on 3K today. I feel like you stole it. There's a pen-spiracy over here. No, I didn't steal it. It might be over there somewhere. There was a 3-spiracy, a 6-spiracy, if you're on Patreon, you'll know, and now there's a pen-spiracy. Exactly. Tentacle Bucket says, Winston, a fellow cyberpunk enjoyer. Yes. Have you heard of the game Metal Eden?

Unfortunately, it got delayed, but it should be out. The summer demo was great. No, I haven't actually. I've got to check it out. Thanks for letting me know. And he says, Matt, Expedition 33 is a great RPG. I just downloaded that yesterday. You told me about it. Yeah, because it's in JRPG style, which I love. Yeah. Can't wait to try it. I had a quick play for about 20 minutes. Looks great. It's got Shadowheart's voice in it, so I'm sold. That's all you needed, right? Yep. At all. Yep.

reactor core i tried picking up a bollard it was actually heavy oh yeah but it would definitely go flying if it i like how one of our yeah is uh our viewers went to china picked up a bollard confirmed it's heavy but it will fly yes exactly thank you for that good job on the ground research exactly yeah you know we we're bringing back the bollard report but you know this week we had covet memories so we might stagger code memories and bollard reports you know it

on the ground reporting is really important and it's important that you never end up on the 22nd floor. Yes, exactly. Cause you might say something like, Oh, you might say, Oh my dad's check. I thought I would. Uh, I went to Jen, Jenna, Fujo and saw it. Uh, never saw homeless, just occasionally occasional wandering vendors selling sandwich Biden. Oh, you're setting me up for that. Paul Sinkins has another great show chaps. Uh,

Can I have some lovely box clips? Cheers. Oh, man. Box is very popular today. I'll give you a box. Nothing would bother me anymore. Decker says, does China care about the new Pope? Oh, absolutely. Positively. They've been trying to basically gather, gain control over the Vatican and the Catholic Church, especially how it operates within China. A lot of... I won't get into it now. I do want to do a piece on this. Yeah, you should. Yeah.

Queenie, you guys rock. Thank you. You too. Tentacle Bucket says, happy weekend to my two favorite Onger warmers. Yes, excellent. Onger warm. WorldEater359, my first job was at Walden Books. Closing it was cheaper than for us to rip the cover off books to refund than to return the whole book to the warehouse. So I guess it's cheaper to make it in China. Makes sense. Yeah. Intramental Studios. Hey, guys, I've been watching since 2018. I listen to your podcast while working on my indie game, Insectoid Descent. Shout out to Hong Kong.

you mean the secret vaults can we get Xiaoban Ho for YouTube members oh yeah they get one free per month thank you for reminding me Philip glad to catch you live play something old school not often played

Is that me going? That's a rare one. He has been alive. I'm a leprechaun, my dear. Alan J. Mackey, 20 years as a broker. First time I've seen export containers out of China been examined by Export Customs. I-E-E-P-A is working, but they don't want you to know. Good stuff. Yeah. Examining. That's good. About time. 31 months, soon three years as a member. Excellent. Also, you like...

Also, you have like four anti-PigPay tokens. You keep forgetting. I have them in my pen, but I don't have the pen. Yeah, it's somewhere. You don't need the pen. This is not the pen you're looking for. Yes. Sorry, I'm missing the... S. Runny says, have you seen the movie Ricky O? That rings a bell. Ricky O, the story of Ricky. Li Wang in Chinese. That rings a bell. Yeah.

Is it a Hong Kong movie? I think so. I feel like I've seen it. I have to look into it. Sorry. I just pulled it up on Google. I've not seen it. Less Pen, More Pig Bay from Richard G. Exactly. Okay, we'll do another one. We've got to rein it in a little bit. Not now. Not yet. We haven't reached fatigue.

Oh, we haven't? No, not by a long shot. We'll see you in the next Super Chat. Okay, what's the next Super Chat? Ministry of Dinosaurs says, so much for bricks, what a pig bay. Okay, well, we've just had one. And then Ben Swallow says, forgive me, Seamilk Winston, give me a pig bay. Okay, I'll give you one. There you go. I'll put them both together into one. China is West Formosa from magazines 1492. Gail Strom says, my head cannon is...

My headcanon is one day you'll hear Pig and Bay out of context and it'll activate your MK Ultra Assassin skills and you'll go blank. Exactly. Lovely. Haunter1 says, Seamilk has three pens. Winston takes one. How many pens does...

Three milk, Javi. Three spirits over here. Yeah, exactly. Happy Friday. Can I get a hong? You certainly can. I'll give you a second. Hong, hong, hong. To hell with you. Excellent. We'll see you guys on Monday where we take you through the tapeworm village. Yes. It's going to be unbelievable.

It'd be very interesting. Anyway, thank you guys for joining us today for this very important conversation because, again, we like to lift the veil of Chinese propaganda. It's really hitting us hard and fast right now. Everywhere you look, doesn't matter if it's social media, mainstream media, Google has been infiltrated, everything. China is really manipulating or trying their best to manipulate the narrative as to what's going on. So we hope we've managed to show you a little bit of truth.

and giving you some food for thought. Hope you have a fantastic weekend. Stay safe, stay awesome. And yeah, I guess I'm going to not cut myself off this time. So five, four, three.